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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
Bringing the Dead to Life.

A variety of methods of restoring life
in those apparently dead from drown
ing, asphyxiation, etc., have been advo-
Gated, but with Indifferent success.
More than year ago the celebrated DR..
de Baum declared that eff person dies
simply for want of breath there is no
good reason why he should not live
again if the proper means for restoring
life are resorted to- - Upon chance pre-
senting itself De Baum proceeded to
prove the truth of his assertion. A child,
apparently dead from drowning, was
brought to him with the statement that
it had been dead about Is minutes. He
Immediately passed small rubber tube
through its Dostrils, and closing the
mouth tightly proceeded to force air into
the lungs. After the lungs had been
fully inflated he released the pressure
from the mouth and found, as he had
expected, that the elasticity of the chest
muscles caused an immediate contrac-
ton of the lungs. This contraction
formed natural respiration, but artifi-
cial inspiration was kept up for nearly
an hour, at the end of which time the
breathing was perfect and the child s
life saved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

The gold pirates and the administra-
ton are becoming alarmed lest the meth
DDS which they have pressed will force
the country to silver basis. When rob-
berry is the object strange community
of interest sometimes developes ITSELF
Ansnt these propositions it will be no
ticed that Senator Hill has become Mr..
CIeveland's right hand man and sup
ports his every proposition. In an effort
to assist his chief the New York senator
has introduced q resolution in the United
States senate which provides that if the
time shall arrive when there shall be q
disparity between gold and silver coin,
then the bonds which are issued as coin
bonds shall be redeemable in gold Mr..
Hill has been posing as a quasi friend of
silver for some time. 1t is fortunate that
he has thrown of the mask before he
had an opportunity of working the peo-
als any great harm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
az ISSUE OF TREASURY NOTES.


Referring to that provision of the law
which requires that the treasury notes,
when redeemed shall be re-issued, the
Pittsburg Dispatch prints the following
sensible editorial:
"The law says that the notes shall not
be cancelled but shall be re-issued.'
What does that language mean under
common sense construction? There is no
requirement to re- issue at once. Is the
obligation to reissue so urgent that dur
ing the long years when, by reason of a
treasury surplus, the notes could not
be otherwise paid out. it was the duty of
the treasury to make a free distribution
of themf If so, the president was subject
to impeachment long ago, for he neg
lected to reissue the notes, and kept
them in the treasury as q surplus during
his entire first term.
"PlainIy there is no such requirement
But what is the essential difference be-
tween taking the notes from the treas
ury and giving them to persons who
have no claim on them, and taking them
from the fund to which they belong and
giving them to a fund to which they do
not belong? The plain, business-like
construction of the law is that the notes
shall be held as a part of the
fund to which they belong, to be
re-issued as required in the oLer-
alton of that fund. They are the
proceeds of loans authorized only to
maintain specie payments, and, by the
limitation of the law authorizing bonds
only for that purpose, they are sacred to
that fund The violation of the law is in
taking them from that fund and issuing
them to pay the deficiency caused by the
appropriations of congress.
There have been $16J, 100000 of legal
tenders redeemed under the present adj
ministration. So long as those redeemed
legal tenders are paid out again to meet
the appropriations of congress, it is plain
that the operation can go on indefinitely,
and the same legal tender can be used
to draw out its face value in gold ten
times over. But if that $160,O00.000 of
legal tenders were shut up in the reserve
fund to stay there until taken out by ex-
changing gold for them, the shrinkage
of the paper circulation would have
checked the Withdrawals of gold before
this.
"Even now, if it were known that
every dollar of legal tenders redeemed
could not go out of the treasury until an
other dollar of gold is put in to take its
place. the distrust of silver payments
that causes the drain on the gold reserve
would disappear at once"
Attention is here call-d to the fact that
as indicated by Tom Reed, deficit in
the revenue is the trouble and the bonds
have not been sold for the purpose of
maintaining the gold reserve at all but to
pay the expenses of the government
The president and his secretary of the
treasury have simply been trying to de-
ceive the people and have made poor
| job of it. When the revenues become
sufficient to pay expenses. if they ever
do, they can stop the Withdrawals of
gold if they choose to do So Will they
do it? 1t is not likely that they will IN
til the bond fiends are satiated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
THE FIN DE Steele RIDER.

anyway. And this particular pair have
this in their favor-they can do this
particular work so well that the public
approves, while the manufacturers by
whom they are employed are enabled to
furnish work to 100 persons the year
round to carry out the mechanical proc
ess of making and shipping valentines
The Artist and the Rhymist.
These men are Messrs. Howard and
Rigney. Their employers for the public
are the Mclaughlin Bros, at whose
factory in Williamsburg. N. Y, every
comic valentine in the land is made.
Over there in their great storehouse the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
SILVER LAKE CELEBRATES
The G. A. r. and WOman's Relief Corps
Entertainments There.

Despite the flying snow and chilling
winds, the grand entertainment Satur-
day night which had been previously ar
ranged for at Silver Lake by the old
soldiers, went on. The G. A R hall was
filled to overlooking with old, battle
SCARED soldiers, their wives, daughters
and sons and the loyal citizens of the
town and vicinity. Col D. F. Wyatt of
Topeka was present The programme
was good one. and with Commander
81. G. Miller as master of ceremonies aud
Miss Jennie VanOrsdal as organist. there
could be no failure. The Sons of Veter-
ans, in command of Captain Hoover,
gave an exhibition in the latest tactics Of
military drill.
The old soldiers gave many pathetic
"reminiscences of their prison experience
and their younger people entertained
with their declarations, orations and
songs, with now and then violin music
dispensed by two of the Sons of Veter-
ia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

A MINORITY of the house committee on
elections at Washington has reported ad-
versely on a proposition to allow the
federal court judges to determine con-
tested congressional election cases. The
point is made that it is taking q constitu-
tional prerogatlve from a body of 356
men who come up directly from the peo-
pie and bestowing it on one man who is
not responsible to anybody. The rapidly
waning confidence in the courts is also
cited as a strong reason against the
change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
Money For Valentines.

d 1lD0Id1 dIuOuS Gu0
ical workers of several So, 900 sinecures
Money For Valentines.
Really we are a nation of reckless
spendthrifts. We are a ''dead broke''
crowd, and will be poorer this 14th Of
February than we have been for nearly
a generation. The unpaid tax bill keeps
US awake O. nights, the coal pile goes on
dwindling, and the gas man threatens
to cut off the light but nevertheless we
are going to elbow i'm nice even
$3.50. 900 on comic valentines.
And this is not all There is $50, 900
more to be added, this being the amount
we spend for sentimental valentines
This last $50, 900, however, is justi-
fable expenditure, inasmuch as the SEN
timental valentine is real love mes
sage. in keeping with the character Of
the day. But who are they who pervert
the day to sending messages of malice,
envy, jealousy and hatred? They are Of
two classes-those who know no better
and those who might know better. They
mostly consist of the irrepressible small
boy and those respectable people who
are best described as small minded. The
boy we blame not The comic valentine
AS W Hill a CCAG WOIG III III S46S N00
him gloat over It'll Its broad satire is to
him a liberal education. For a week be-
fore Valentine day all his pennies pass
over the counter Of the nearest shop in
exchange for the textbooks that show
him his schoolteacher, his fathers
typewriter, his sisters beau in way
that delights his youthful imagination.
How he would like to send just one of
these to his schoolteacheri But when
the envelope is all addxessed-no, mol
lie is filed with awe; he dare not.
It isn't the small boy, therefore, who
works the very mischief with these at
tempts at satire. It is the small minded
adult. He is the one who by means of
one of these caricatures sows discord
and discomfort among his friends, slugs
them from behind and after all usual
~ most Injuries himself. To people
whose sensi bilities are refined, even a
little, these penny dreadfuls, coming as
they do from some unseen enemy, are
often source of real agony. A clever
philosopher has computed that these
$4,000, 900 valentines inflict an average
of six minutes of anguish upon each re-
cipient, making in the aggregate 2, $780,
900 hours, or 270 years, of sorrow each
Valentine day But there is more of the
pathetic than the comic in this bit of
pleasantly.
These remarks, however, are in no.
wise directed against the two conscien-
tious men-one an artist, the other
rhymster-whose concerted effort pro-
duces every comic valentine in this
country. These two men are sort of
valentine trust; but, like actors and
novelists, they simply give the public
what it demands. Now, the American
public in loud voice demands %, 0O0,-
600 comic valentines every year. Why
should not these two gentlemen supply
what the public wants? Some one must
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

THE Navajoe Indians are said to be
In great distress. Their wool crop is
poor and they raised no crops last year.
The government is urged to come to
their rescue. Nothing is said about the
millions OF white people who are in a
similar condition. Such things are al
ways paternalisrn when applied to hon.
est, hard working white citizens The
country is also informed that work on
their irrigation bitches, which the gov
eminent has been prosecuting, has been
temporarily suspended, but will be re-
sumed in the spring. Has anybody heard
of the governments constructing any
system of irrigation in western Kansas
or Nebraska?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

The Union Pacific and the Central Pa
cifc railroads have each offered to nav
the government the full amount of their
debt less the accrued interest. This
would amount to $61.OOO,O0O. The gov
eminent so far has shown no disposition
TO accept the offer but rather seems dis
posed to pay off the first mortgage bonds.
This would make its lein prior one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

SENATOR SrERNE's bill creating "city
court" seems a step in the right direc-
ton. 1t will not only do away with a
large number of useless officials who
live of the public, but will have a tend
ency to prevent a large amount of un-
necessary litigation. 1t ought to pass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
Especial Correspondence

New YORK, Feb. T. Every year
when ST. Valentines day swings round,
and the birds begin to couple, there is
enough money spent in this country for
comic valentines to run town. The
circulation Of these penny dreadfuls
averages about 20, 900, 900, or more than
two for every family in the Union.
Penny by penny the expenditure is piled
up to $3.50, 000-enough to pay the SAL
aries Of New York city's mayor, comp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

TIE Hawaiian government has hitherto
stood we'll among civilized nations If
1t should make the mistake of inf1icting
capital punishment upon any of it's re-
bellious citizens it will lose much of that
respect which it has enjoyed up to this
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
A Monument of Bankruptcy.

The great tower at Wembley park.
which is intended to be much higher
than the Eiffel tower, promises to be-
come a monument of bankruptcy. The
company has spent $500, 900, and the
first platform has not yet been reached
A further advance of $3.50, 600 has been
authorized to carry it 155 feet higher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

30, 600, 600 comics are evolved, printed.
packed and shipped away. Mr.. How
ard draws the pictures, and Mr.. Rig
ney writes the jingles. No outside art
lists or rhymsters are necessary. They do
it all They are constantly on the look
out for new fads, new hobbies. new fol-
lies as subjects for brush and pen. They
produce about so new valentines each
year, but the factory also prints many
of the old ones in addition-some 400
all together. In order to be made popu-
lar and saleable much discretion must
be used in the selection of the subject,
and new valentine is settled upon only
after several earnest consultations. The
subject must be one that will be appre-
ciated not alone in one city or state, but
all over the country. For instance, a
valentine inquiring, "Where did you
get it?' would have good sale in New
York state. where the workings of the
Lexow committee were read and under
stood, but in other states it would be
fiat and meaningless.
Twenty five of the so new subjects
which our friends Howard and Rigney
evolved this year treat of different as
poets and views of the woman cyclist
and of the much caricatured young lady
who makes her living on the typewriter.
The extent to which the woman bicy-
clist has been caricatured is simply
wearisome, and the artist and rhymster
themselves are heartily tired of her OF
course, having been so popular during
the past year, she offers fair sport for
the caricaturist, who in his turn only
represents the playful public. Hence
this poor female cyclist is scored la
valentine because she can't ride, sneer-
ed at because she is homely or too old
and reproved for wearing boomers. If
the women bieyclists withstand the
sight of themselves in these valentines,
they are proof against all further pub
lie protest.
1t Actually Increases In Extent.
I am assured by experts that the
comic valentine disease, instead of grow
ing less prevalent every year, as many
of US imagine is actually growing more
contagious every year. AS has been
limited, even the hard times do not re-
duce the sale of that 25, 900, 900, and
misguided people too poor to pay the
grocer and the butcher expend their pen
MES on caricatures which they believe
will hit their neighbors Gin the right
spot. -
The comic valentine disease is large
ly confined to the west. South of Wash
ington and east of New Haven the comic
valentine has only small sale. No
valentines are imported, and, as for San
Francisco, she is always just one year
behind the time, for valentines being
dirt cheap and overland freight being
high the penny dreadfuls for the far
west are shipped on sailing vessel by
way of the Horn and are six months en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
Easy Payments.

Standard sewing machines, dinner, tea
and toilet sets; watches, clocks, jewelry,
rugs, lace curtains, chenille curtains,
stand covers and lamps. A nice line of
goods Just received. Come in and get
my prices and terms, az I have no
agents Will save you money and
guarantee perfect satisfaction. E. w.
Hughes, 218 East Fifth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

A LARGE body of people in Governor
McKinley's state seem to be in "a bad
fix as the Navajoe Indiana In fact
they are on the verge of starvation. But
Of course the government can't do any,
thing for them; that would be paternaI-
Ism. Ohio has often helped her neigh
bors in time of need. 1t is a good time
for Kansas to return the compliment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
AID REACHES COLBY.
A Carload of Provisions and Clothing Dill
tributed Among the Needy.

A Carload of Provisions and Clothing Dis
tributed Among the Needy.
COLBY, Kan, Feb 12-The Dunkard
church Of LaPlace and vicinity in Platt
county, ILL, donated one car load of corn,
-four and boxes of clothing, sent it to De-
catur to the Shellenbarger mill, had the
corn ground into meal and put into loo
pound sacks and re-shipped to Colby,
Kan, for the poor and destitute.
There were BAT SACKS of the meal -four,
boxes of the clothing and some
good hams Rev. Bingaman, of
La Place, Ill, came with the car. Peo-
pie came from all parts of the country
aud the goods were distributed among
$50 families, and representing 1,1S7 par
ents and children in all. There are 1914
voters in the county, and it was strictly
seen that none but. the worthy received a
donation. All say it was put in the right
places. This is one of the most satisfac-
tory distributions ever made in this part
of the west
In addition to the above donation
$45.16 was furnished to buy seed for dis
tribution among the needy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
COMIC VALENTINES.
GRADUAL INCREASE IN THIS FORM
OF SATIRE.

One Artist ana One Rhymster Supply Ma
teriaI For the Only Factory In the Coun-
try-Annuaa Output Twenty-Five Million.
Bicyclists the Latest Target.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
Weather Indications

CHICAGO. Feb. 12-Forecast for Kan
sas: Local SHOWS in eastern portion to-
day; fair and cold tonight and Wednes-
day; northwest winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
CostIv aIanaurera.

It is computed that the spring and
mics cost annually over $40. 900, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

Clearing sale prices Qast week. at Fun
mans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

This week only. Fine footwear al
clearing sale prices, Furman's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

Largest variety of valentines at
Kellam'a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

112 and ia West 9Th. Peerless steaI
Laundry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

Comics. lace, satin valentines.
KollauaSz
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

Peerless Steam Laundry Peerless
Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

Valentines and valentines at
Kellama
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12
Kellam's.

See the valentines in Kellams window
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

Get your valentine at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

Comics, lace, satin valentines.
Kellamia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

tro1ler, auditor, the board of aldermen
and police Justices with plenty left for
liberal distribution among the polit-
ical workers of several So, 900 sinecures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

Valentines and valentines at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12

Bargains this week at Furman's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-12


Bargains this week at Furman's.
Cheapest valentines in town at
Kellam's.
Largest variety of valentines at
Kellam's.
112 and ia West 9Th. Peerless Steam
Laundry.
Comics, lace, satin valentines
Kellam'a
Clearing sale prices Qast week. at Fur
mans.
Comics. lace, satin valentines.
Kellam'G
Get your valentine at
Kellam's.
Caa tho vaIontinaa in Kaliama vviodou
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-01-25
NO sAMoAN AUTHORIZATIONS.

A question has been raised by the APP
pearance OF the Sundry civil appropra-
tion bill whether the admins ira ton is
not attempting 10 carry into effect Pres
ident Cleveland's recommendation that
the United States recede from Is part i'm
the tripartte protectOrate over Samoa
by RETAINING from asking congress To
appropriate any money TO deiray our
share OF the expense.
Last years sundry civil contained an
item under the head OF the department
OF state for carrying ont the samoan
agreement. but from this years bill the
clause is consp,cuous} missing. Chair
man Savers says that uo request has
been received from the department OF
state for any flads for the purpose OF the
prOtectOrate.
Secretary Gresham has several times
suggested that the United States recede
from any participation in the govern
ment Of Samoa and his views were made
the subject of strong paragraph in the
presidents last message. In accordance
with these views the administration has
for some time neglected To station a war
ship at the islands, although it was a
feature Of the agreement that ships
should be kept at Apia, and it was un-
derstood that the three nations would
alternately be represented.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-01-25

The house ways and means committee
has decided TO report To the house Mr..
Wilson's bill % remove the oue-tenth of
! cent pound ditierential on sugar i'm
ported from countries giving ar export
bounty, which has elected protests from
Germany. Austria and other nations and
the repeal of which was recommended bv
the president. No action was taken on
the bill 10 increase the tax on beer as
the subcommittee having ic in charge
had not met
Chairman Wilson took the lead I'm ad-
vocating the sugar bill, urging the argu-
mentS which have been advanced by
Secretary Gresham that the ditferentlal
violates the most favored nation clause
in treaties with Germany, Austria and
certain other foreign nations. The re-
publicans opposed the bill. Mr. Reed
had some sarcastic remarks To ma Ike
about the inSntliciency of the revenue
provided by the new tariff and said that
it would be folly o make changes which
might decrease the income OF the gov
eminent. Mr.. Hopkins, of Illinois, held
that the export bounties granted by Ger
many and her neighbOrs so affected the
sugar business that an Offset was neces-
sary in our tariff. No formal vote was
taken and the names We're not recorded.