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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23
Women of All Ages,
Attention!

NINE. III. YALE, Queen of Beauty.
who has lectured in all of the prominent
cities of the world before vast audiences,
and has been pronounced by all news
papers to be the most perfect woman in
form and feature now living, speaks to
the women of the world and confesses to
them that the secret. of her beauty lies
in perfect health-and the secret of her
health lies in the use of her own rem
edies. Among them - Fruitcura - her
great and wonderful tonic for curing all
female ailments and building up the
system. Fruitcura restores all weak
organs to perfect health. 1t cures the
many complaints of women that only
women know of. 1t restores the vitality,
makes the eyes bright, the step elastic,
and brings the bloom of health to the
faded cheek. 1t renews the nerve tone
and makes the flesh firm, hard and vel
vety. In fact its use is the royal road to
perfect health and beautiful woman
hood 1t cures their complaints and
nervous troubles of any nature and re-
wives the vitality which is lacking in all
such cases for women of all ages A
discovery by woman to cure women.
Price. 81 per bottle; for So. At drug,
gists or by mail
NINE, NJ. YALE, health and beauty specialist,
Yale Temple OF Beauty. 146 State-sEs Chicago. J
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23
MAN BY THE NAME OF FOX.
A Well Defined Feeling That Hughes is
Preferred to Him.

Well Defined Feeling That Hughes is
Preferred to Him.
Says the Downs Times, (Rep): There
is a pretty well defined feeling-and it
is not confined to any one particular Sec
ton of the state, either-that Kansans
have a kick coming over the man whom
Governor Morrill, saw fit to appoint to
the position of adjutant general.
While he may be all right, and may
possess every qualification necessary to
the proper discharge of the duties of
that office, it is a matter of universal re-
greet to the majority Of the Repu blicans
of the state that Colonel Hughes
did not get the position. He came
as near having the unanimous
support of his party as any man
ever did, or probably ever will have for
an appointive office; and in view of the
stand he took at Topeka, and the sound
sense and determination he exhibited at
a time When many men would not have
had the courage of their convictions, it
seems that his appointment would have
been peculiarly fitting one.
The ''man by the name of Fox" as the
STATE JOURNAL alludes to the new ap-
pointee, will prove far more satisfactory
to the majority of Kansas Republicans
who would rather have seen known
worth recognized in the appointment OF
Colonel Hughes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23
SYRACUSE, Kan, Feb. %.


To the Editor of the STATE JOURNAL:
As humble citizen, who desires the
best things for our state and people. let
me sincerely thank you for your honora-
BILE efforts in behalf of good government
and temperance The whisky traffic is
only evil continually, and they who ex-
tend and defend it, are in some measure
party to its crimes. Keep on in this
course. Very truly, W. B. DENTON.
WINFIELD. Kans, Feb. %, 1894.
New neck bands put on your shirts at
TOPEKA STEAM LAUNDRY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23
NEW SPRING STYLES.
FASHIONS IN SKIRTS, BLOUSES AND
DRESS MATERIAL.
a Movement Toward Draped Skirts-The
Full Vest Front-Russian Blouses and
Observation-Disclosures Black Woolens
That Cost More Than Silk.
Especial Correspondence

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-It is a matter
for sincere congratulation to know that
there is to be quite movement toward
dralJed skirts in spring dresses. The
godet and organ plated skirts will still
be fashionable for the whole sea-
son, but they are better adapted for
street wear than for home, and so many
Of the newest and prettiest home dresses
are made with more or less drapery.
This often takes the form of panels in
the skirt, with the dress material slight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23
Wherever used, never abused-Dr
Prices Baking Powder.


Nine. Care, businesslike French
woman, is the private secretary of Colo
mel Waring. New York's street cleaning
commissioner. Nine. Care speaks and
writes fuently English. French and Ger
man and has some knowledge of Italian.
She laughingly denied recently the re-
port that delicately perfumed letters
ever issued from the commissioner Of
fee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

Celery tea has been speciality at
some of the afternoon teas of the season,
alternating with clam broth, served
with white of egg and bouillon and
chocolate each of which owed it's pi-
quancy of favor to dash of sherry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

Miss Mary E. Mcdowell, head of the
University of Chicago settlement at the
stockyards, is a trained Kindergarten
and was for some time connected with
Hull House, where she gained expert
ence for her present work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

The title of Sarah Bernhardt's next
play will be g. rnoathful 1t is called
''Tragoldalbuss ana is from the pen of
Augu!to Vacq1A5<l scn-ia-law of tho
late Victor Hu,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

Governor Hughes of Arizona recon-
mended in his message to the state leg
islature that law be passed 80 extend
suffrage to women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

Natural violets depending in water
fall bouquets from their sable muffs
were the finishing costume touches of the
six bridesmaids at a recent wedding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

Miss Mary Bartelme, young lawyer
active in suffrage work, is secretary Of
T the new social club recently formed in
connection with DR.. Thomas church.
Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

Boston clubwomen have voted to sub
scribe 5000, 900 for the purpose of build
ing and furnishing clubhouse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

hrs Lilly Lord Tiff has been reap
pointed as a member of the board OF
school examiners in Buffalo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

As true as the needle to the pole in its
splendid work-Dr Prices Baking Pow
der
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

Mrs. C. L Griffin, a lady 80 years old,
who lives at 908 West Eighth street, is
the last woman to register. Her number
is 1857 l have been voting ever since I
long as I am able intend to exercise the
privilege" She is one of class of wo-
men the politicians are afraid Of
One of the Ralston Meal Books
Given with every $1.0O worth of bread
bought at the
French Bakery.
SO Kansas ave
The only place you can get it in the
city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23

Wherever used Dr. Prices Baking
Powder lightens labor as we'll as it light
ems fOod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-23


Mrs. Arthur Capper entertained tn ,
Duplicate whist club this afternoon.
Mrs. B. T. Lewis is entertaining her
guest, Mrs. Cross, who has just returned
from Mexico.
Mrs. Belle Small and Miss Lollie Lewis
have returned froIn short trip to Den
yer.
Miss Ollie O'Brien entertained the
Douze whist CLUB this afternoon.
Miss Glenna Cross will entertain al
cards Monday night complimentary to
Miss Lollie Lewis of Little Rock.
Mr. John C. Frey will go to Honolulu
soon.
Miss Lucia Connolly of Rock Island
will return home Monday afternoon.
Mrs. A. s. johnson will entertain at
luncheon at 1870 Monday for her guest
Miss Pierce of Lafayette. Ind. and Miss
Name Atchison of Leavenworth.
Mrs FL. A Cone and Miss Barteaux OF
Lawrence went to Kansas City Thursday
TO see Keene.
Miss Constance ingalls,, who has beer
she guest of Miss Morrill, this week, viii
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-24
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EDMUND S. DURMEMT.

In my opinion local and general
misgovernment, so far as concerns
public morality and order, is due
oftener to a failure to enforce the
laws we have than to the want of
appropriate laws.
While it is true that in many in
stances a prudent discrimination in
the enforcement of an existing law
a partial or total failure to enforce
will result in immediate good to the
community, in the end, in my opin-
ion, the result is bad. If we tolerate
it that a law may be enforced or
not, as the executive thinks best, we
do away with law and create feel
ing of disregard for the law, which
will in the end prove destructive to
all lawful government.
1 know that it is claimed that pub
lie sentiment justifies the executive
in his failure to enforce the law.
But such public sentiment should
not be tolerated. Public sentiment
may properly determine whether a
law shall be enacted or repealed, but
it should have no right in determin-
ing whether a law should be enforced.
The existence of such political or
CARNATIONS as Tammany and their
control Of municipal affairs is due
almost entirely to the fact that pub
lie sentiment permits the executive
to use his discretion in the enforce
ment of laws regulating the sale OF
Intoxicating liquors and prohibiting
gambling and prostitution.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-24

shared in the fruits Of the enterprise,
and it is not likely that man of
his great flnanciering ability would
give more than passing thought to
the Individual sufferers from his
magnificent frauds.
Menage is one Of the modern.school
of philosophers who measure the
Nervousness of an offense in the in
verse ratio of its magnitude. He
and his fellows of that school would
condemn to prison and infany the
green goods man or the short-change
artist, whose winnings are confined
to the limits of few hundreds, and
yet they hold, in substance, that the
man who, by the same methods and
on larger and more pretentious
scale of misrepresentation, appro-
pirates a million is in a legitimate
business. This view is all too COM
mon at this day, but should the
versatile promoter of guarantee loan
schemes return to the scene of his
speculative enterprises in the Mill
City he will find few to take the
same charitable view Of his proceed
ings that he does. This is not so be-
cause the people of Minneapolis are
more moral than those of other To-
calities, but because most of them
are personal sufferers through Me-
nage's rascality.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-24
MAGNANIMOUs MENACE.

Louis F. Menage, from the forti-
fications Of a well-preserved incog-
nito in foreign lands, has signified
his willingness to return to Mime
apolis under certain specified condi-
tons. To begin with, he magnani-
mously forgives the victims of his
speculations and assures the hun
dreds of trusting men and women
whose all he has taken that he has
nothing in particular against them.
Indeed, he goes to the extent of say
ing that he does not blame them. 1t
is true he clearly feels that he was
the aggrieved party, and that if they
had skirmished around and doubled
their contributions to his various
schemes he could have tided over
the panic and come out with
whole skin. He does not indicate
with sufficient clearness whether or
not, in the event of a successful out
some, the contributors would have
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-24

unlimited coinage of silver at a
ratio of Is to 1. The disquieting
and disturbing effect of this action
will be vastly more disastrous than
could have been the measure pro-
posed by Senator Jones, even if the
fears of it's opponents proved reali-
ties. The opposition to it was not
to it's two weak features, making the
New York price the basis of value
and issuing certificates for the
standard dollars that might be de-
posted in the treasury. The opposi-
ton, that resulted in filibustering
is based upon the determination that
silver shall not be used as money.
That this is not the desire of the
great mass of the people of this
country we are firmly convinced.
While they do not consent to the
loot1ng of the treasury proposed by
the advocates of free coinage at the
ratio of 16 to /, they still do believe
that silver is money metal capable
OF being utilized in the commerce OF
the country. The method proposed
by Senator Jones, aside from the two
Objectionable features mentioned.
provides the only safe way and
the only just way for the utiliza-
ton of silver in our coinage.
1t rests upon the fair assumption
that the denial of the use of silver
In our coinage necessarily depreci-
ates its value, and if it were given
access to the minis, thus increasing
the demand, in a manner which
would prevent the producers of it
from getting a fictitious value. the
metal would, under the operation of
these two sources of demand. the
arts and the mint, obtain a COM
mercial value which would warrant
readjustment of ratios and free
coinage.
The silver bullion representing the
dlfference between the market and
the coin value would remain in the
treasury, to be used in making
up IN the new coinage the diff
ference between the value of the
com IN use and that to be coined
under the readjustment,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-24
HON. O. O. CULLEN.
Ex-President of the City Counc

Ex-President of the City Council.
Government is essentially prac-
teal matter. The best constructed
theories frequently meet destruction
upon the rocks of impracticability
Assuming that it were desirable that
all laws should be enforced literally,
an attempt to do so would merely
prove how often such a thing is alb
solutely impossible.
There are, of course, some laws
about the enforcement of which no
difficulty arises. There are many
others whose enforcement is con-
stantly and necessarily modified by
circumstances. Frequently these
circumstances could never have been
foreseen by the legislators; and even
when they might be anticipated, it
would not be possible for the enact
ment to contain ineligible details
of the various exceptional cases.
The use of discretion is therefore
forced upon the executive. Indeed, it
is, perhaps, his most valuable quail
ity. 1t would be the height of folly
for the nation or the city to elect as
executive man who would pretend
to enforce the laws without discrim-
ination of any sort. In the first
place, he could not possibly accom-
plish his task. In the second place,
he would be thrown, willingly or I'M
willingly, upon his own resources,
and the absence of sound discretion,
that quality, would speedily be rec
ognized as fault far outweighing
the presence of mere honesty and
good intentions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-24
GROUND by THE TWO MoN0s.

Between the upper milestone of gold
recommendation and the neither stone
of silver recommendation the cur
rency of the country bids fair to be
ground into impalpable dust. When
the proposition was made to stop the
purchase of silver and give breath
ing spell for consideration of some
sane remedy, the silver monometal-
lists filibustered against the bill.
Fortunately the session of congress
was too long to permit their triumph.
Now, when the silver extremists
have given way to the moderate and
perfectly fair proposition Of Senator
Jones, the gold monometallists, who
were so bitter in their denunciatiOn
Of the silver filibusters, take their
turn at it and defeat the measure.
Where this play of antagOnist1c
forces, relatively small when COM
pared with the great mass between
them, will end, the good Lord only
knows. The unfortunate result of
this action of the ultra gold men
will be the adoption of Senator VOL
colts proposition by the senate, de-
claring it to be the sense of that
body that there should be free and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-24

In the minds Of many people laws
to resolve, with the Missouri legis-
lature, that women should not wear
big hats at the theater, and presto,
every lovely head will forthwith be
reverently uncovered. Men are but
children of larger growth" and
does not every. boys debating society
now decide whether Europe should
or should not intervene in the Orient
al war?
AS a mater of uncomfortable fact,
laws are but roughly drawn, awk-
ward attempts to convey the trend
of public sentiment. They contra
dict one another; they are, many
times, hopelessly obscure; in no few
cases they sacrifice a great benefit
to secure small one; and not seldom
are they impossible Of execution by
any mortal power.
We are cautioned against reveal
ing these open secrets, because it
may impair respect for the law.
overturning the entire fabric of civ
ilization and society.
Justice, however, not law. is the
palladium of liberty and of progress.
Divine, eternal justice is worthy of
all reverence, and well deserved the
worship of the most enlightened city
of the mighty past. Law is but a
feeble, human imitation, and is en-
titled to no generation except where
in it mirrors it's sacred eXemplar
So far from it's being desirable that
the law itself, Independent of justice,
should be worshiped by a free peo-
pie, it must not be forgotten that al
most every crime was once allowed
by law, and many were expressly
enacted. The sole reason for hold
ing law itself in reverence is eX-
pedience-never a permanent rea-
son, frequently an insufficient one.
One of the best evidences of mod
ern progress is that the world is
learning to distinguish law from
justice, and to transfer it's allie
glance from the former to the lat
ter. The grand monarch" is aptly
portrayed by Thackeray as consist
ing exclusively of crown, scepter and
royal robes. In his day he was ac-
copied as the king Of earthly kings,
and the source of all justice because
the source of all law. We are nova
days forced to accept our law from
human sources, but we can detect its
fallibility, and kings are mere sur
vival.
The task of harmonizing law with
justice rests primarily upon the
lawmaker. When he fails in his
duty, who else can take his place
but the executive-for the judicial
authorities must always be con-
cerned with the injustice Of the past,
not that Of the present.
A mechanical executive, to liter
ally enforce perfected laws, is q
favorite dream Of the philanthropic
philosopher. The impossibility of
realizing this Don QuiXote of Re
form is cogently displayed in the
observations of the following citi-
zens, whose studies or experience
augment their able arguments. On
the other hand, it is made clear that
discretion is not irresponsiblity, and
that wise discretion has nothing in
common with criminal maladminis-
tration.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-24
THE MANIA FOR REGULATING.

THE MANIA FOR REGULATING.
Much, if not the greater part, of
the legislation attempted by law
making bodies, in our congress, state
legislatures and city councils, is OF
the kind which grows out Of the
insane idea that only a very
small percentage Of the people
know enough to go in when it
rains, and that laws should be
passed for the protection of some
body or something. How many Of
the bills now under consideration
by the various legislatures apologize
for their worthlessness under the
title GA bill for an act to better pro-
tect the public" ETC., etc.? There is
scarcely an industry in the realm of
business enterprise but at one time
or another is made the victim of the
cupidity or stupidity of legislators
There is never session Of the legis-
lature of any state but there are
repeated attempts to establish the
theory that all men are fools, as
we'll as liars, and that the only way
to make life safe and endura BILE is to
surround all men with restrictive
and sumptuary laws which shall
govern theirmo Of eating, drinking,
and often thinking. Anything that
carries with it the idea of inspect
ing something is at once accepted
by these self-constituted guardians
of the public as divinely inspired.
They affect to believe that men,
like children, are ever on the alert
to discover some new and more
pleasing form Of self-destruction
and that the only way to prevent
the premature determination of the
human race is by the authoritative
formula BE it enacted
If these self-esteemed philanthro-
pists only knew it, the public is
quite as able to protect itself as it
is to vote fools into office. A very
large proportion of the human fam
lily knows exactly what it wants and
when it gets enough OF it. Men
possess certain inalienable rights Of
which they. cannot be deprived, even
by legislative acts, and when the
feeble insects who compose in a
large measure the state and national
legislatures pass acts in any way
contravening the divine right to live
in the pursuit of happiness. there
is a forum near at hand, prompt to
hear and prompt to act, which never
fails to accord to the citizen all his
rights and privileges.
1t is the enactment of such silly
and useless measures as the baking
powder bills, the oleomargarine bills,
the patent medicine bills and kim
dred imbecilities, that engenders and
develops that contempt for the law
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-24
PROMISE VS.. PERFORMANCE.

The utter futility of any attempt
to readjust the scale Of compensa-
ton of city and county officials by
the present legislature is already
painfully manifest, at least SO far as
the Ramsey county delegation is
concerned The simple statement
that any one office in Ramsey coun-
ty yields a net revenue of $25, 900 a
year is sufficient to create an in
slant and unanimous demand for
corrective legislation, but when it
can be demonstrated that there are
two Offices in the county which
yield nearly, if not quite, that sum
each, there will be no question as to
the public sentiment on the subject.
Fully SO per cent of the voting and
taX-paying population of the county
would unite in demanding legislation
to abolish such a system. Yet when
a bill was introduced in the house
for this purpose it was killed before
it ever reached the committee of the
whole.
On the other hand, bills to extend
the terms of one or more of the pres
ent officials at the present extrava-
CANT rate of compensation are receiv-
ing a respectful hearing at the hands
Of the house.
1t is this open contempt of the
wishes of the people, this palpable
pandering to the ward politicians
and professional off1ceholders, which
has done so much to break down
party lines in local elections and
lead the people into the municipal
reform leagues and other kindred
organizations for self-preservation
For years the Republican organiza-
ton of this county and city has been
conducting it's campaigns on the the
DRY that the local Democracy was a
Tammany Hall in miniature, and the
promise has always been freely
made that if the Republicans were
given a lease of power they would at
once proceed to correct the evils of
the old system In the spring of 1892
the people took the party of prom
Use at it's word, and elected a Re-
publican mayor. Thereupon imme-
diately followed two years of the
worst government st. Paul ever
enjoyed" and at the end of that
time the people returned the gov
eminent Of the city to the Demo-
Gratis. Last fall we were visited with
another reform wave and another
Republican victory. Republicans
were elected to the legislature from
districts where no Republican had
ever before been successful. They
went into a legislature in which
Democrats were in ten-to-one min
ority, and up to the present time
they have not taken a single step in
the direction of the retrenchment
which they so vehemently promised
on the hustings. On the contrary,
as previously stated, they have pro-
posed still further burdens for the
backs of the taxpayers, still softer
snaps for the professional office
holders.
1t remains for the Democracy, and,
if not for the Democracy, Why then
for the municipal league or some
other citizens organization to take
up the fight for a reduction of eX-
penses, with it's corresponding re-
duction of taxes.