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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
KANSAS PARAGRAPHS

Ira Land of Paola comes pretty near
being a piece of the 'auld sod"
If Usage county were four horse team
it could have 8. 1913 dogs under the wagon
according to the assessor.
Fifty widows live in Augusta, and the
social whirl is so fast it will soon be nee
essary to put on the brakes.
While banks all over the country are
going out of business a new one is to
start up in Paola this month.
The Haddam Clipper has got past the
period OF choice, and will take chick
ems, "young or DID," on subscription.
With 1913 307 acres planted in corn in
Usage county, it doesn't look as if there
should be any starving there this year.
Miss Eva Roadly, who has been doing
work on the Lawrence Gazette, has been
given a position on the Kansas City
Times
The Haddam Clipper has decided not
to have any more editorials. The editor
may have less fun, but he'll get into less
trouble.
Some Atchison doctors who operated
on man for appendicitis couldn't find
the vermiform appendix, but they had
the fun of cutting,
"White Lilies" is the name of ball
ball players is usually neither to toll nor
spin the title is good one
The Quenemo man who opened up a
checker emporium has found out that
playing checkers doesn't buy bread and
has gone back to his trade.
A LaCygne man who probably hasn't
been more than fifty miles from home,
says if a man can't be happy in Linn
county, he can't be happy anywhere.
There were just eight votes in the
Populist primary at LaCygne to elect
delegates to the county convention. so
there wern't enough who didn't get in
the delegation to make a ripple of dis
content
Dighton Herald: The Lane county
young man, who recently went to New
York aud tried TO get into the "Four
Hundred" was rejected on the ground
that he ale pie with a knife, drank coffee
from a saucer, and rested his elbows on
the table.
Dighton Herald: The ease with which
the average Kansas statesman slides from
his lofty position of saving the state to
the ordinary concerns Of life is amply IL
Illustrated in the case of Billy Glenn of
! Greeley, who is clerk of the school dis
trict, and Frank Grimes of Wichita, who
is very popular base ball umpire.
Miami Republican: A Mahanoy City,
Pa, chicken few into church and laid
an egg on one of the seats. A louisville
young lady found the egg and took it
| home, used it in baking d cake, and thus
started fund for the building of a new
/ Methodist Episcopal church in that place,
which fund is growing to large proper
tons Where is the Paola hen who will
volunteer to start such a movement here?
|
Many receipts as published still call
for cream of-tartar and soda, the old
fashioned way of raising. Modern cook
ing and expert cooks do not sanction
this old way. In all such receipts the
Royal Baking powder should be substi-
| nted Without fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
Wonderful Growth.

The boast of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than all other Topeka daiIies
combined, only proves the meagerness of its
local circulation as compared with that of the
STATE Jot RNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation is far
and away ahead of the combined circulation OF
all the other Topeka daiIes.
The circulation of the Topeka Daily STATE
JOURNAL in the towns near by and tributary to
Topeka is very large, as the evening trains IN
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL,
giving its readers the first and latest Associated
Press and state news of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
Ma You Ever

Try Electric Bitters as a remedy Cor your
troubles? If not, get bottle now and
get relief. This medicine has been found
to be peculiarly adapted to the relief
and cure of all female complaints, ex-
erting a wonderful direct influence in
giving strength and tone 70 the organA
If you have loss of appetite, constipa-
ton, headache, fainting spells, or are
nervous, sleepless, excitable, melancholy,
or troubled with dizzy spells, Electric
Bitters is the medicine you need Health
and strength are guaranteed By its use.
Large bottles only 80 cents at J. z.
Jones' drug store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

JUDGE CULVER of Emporia in his sta
tistics of the Christian population of
Leavenworth did serious injustice to
that city and to large proportion of its
population. He said that only 1000 peo-
pie were members of the Protestant
churches there. He did not give US the
membership of the Catholic churches.
which is very large. The Catholics are
a part of the Christian population, and it
is not Christian-like to exclude them. In
many great reforms the Catholic church
is as much in the forefront as others, and
the Catholic church in this country is
noted for its powerful temperance socie.
ties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
DOG COULDN' SAVE HIM.
A Shepherd Dog Tries to Rescue His Mas
ter and Dies With Him.

WHEELING, W. Va, Aug. 8 -Yesterday
James Settle, sixteen years old, having
lost sleep the night before, lay down on
the railroad baltimore & Ohio) at curve
near Point Mills, east of here, when the
train rounded the curve too near to be
stopped. His shepherd dog tugged at
him, trying faithfully to pull him of.
The train rushed on, killing both the boy
and his heroic dog.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

BEFORE doing anything more against
Wichita and the other bad towns, Cover
nor Morrill, ought to investigate that shop
ale" business in Topeka. It sounds sus-
piciously like the old ''hop tea" fraud.
Topeka is bound to be hypocrite, but it
won't do to let her go to that length
Emporia Republican.
Don't be too quick. The shop ale" man
will be along your way pretty soon, and
there will be big advertisement in the
Republican about it. Hop ale is all right
-ao far
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

EVERY county in Mississippi has
elected free coinage delegates to the
state Democratic convention The gold
bug candidate for governor, seeing that
defeat was certain, withdrew from the
race just in time to avoid being beaten in
his own county. Mississippi will send
free silver United States senator mp to
Washington. This is the way the "free
silver craze is dying out"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

THE people of Shawnee county will
have. an opportunity this year to know
just what the maintenance of the state
university is costing them. If Ievies for
other expenses of the state were made
thus separately it is more than probable
that some of them would be dispensed
with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
non,t Re Pa1tv.

1t is ridiculous to arrest little boys for
playing craps, when gambling is going
on in private houses and clubs all the
time among men. 1t looks petty and
silly. Let the boys alone, or else arrest
the men. If the police haven't the cour-
age to arrest citizens for playing poker,
they might have the grace not to poster
the small boys playing craps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

The Newton Republican is one of the
most enjoyable papers that comes to this
Office. 1t has no editorials Editorials
in Kansas-are mainly full of bitter
ness, vainglory and personal abuse, and
could be easily dispensed with by the
generality of readers Custom seems to.
require their presence for a few years
longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

The cheapest and best installment
house in the city. Where you can buy
watches, CLOCKS, jewelry, rugs, curtains
dinner. tea and toilet sets, lamps and
household specialties. Remember have
no agents but sell goods only out of the
store where l can save you agents COM
mission. 1 buy my goods direct from
the factory and sell them on easy paw
ments as cheap as you can buy them of
any store in the city for cash. Give me
a call. E. W. HUGHES.
1917 East Fifth St. opposite PosLotlca
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

TOPEKA society will have to get
hustle on it. There is a swell in Leaven-
worth who has brake and four horses.
We must do something to keep up. Let
the Topeka club purchase a tally-ho.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

THE two boys recently sent to the re-
form school from Leavenworth, whose
father is in the penitentiary, are exam
pies not only of the results of heredity
but of environment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
To Raise Usage County Coal.

It is reported that the Usage county
coal operators are trying to form a COM
bination to increase the price of coal %
cents a ton. An attempt of this kind was
made last year, but the Burlingame
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

THE lists are about to be made up, and
if there is any town in the United States
in which Murderer Holmes has not lived
at some time it should speak up at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

THE business pulse of Topeka will
soon respond to the increase of time and
men at the Santa Fe shops. Aside from
its pecuniary advantage to the city, the
people will rejoice to see the road get
ting on it's feet again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

AFTER denouncing Governor Altgeld
roundly. the Illinois Legislature adjourn
ed before the governor had chance to
get back at them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

CHICAGO. Aug. 3-For Kansas: Fair.
except probably showers today or to-
night in extreme southeast portion;
cooler in northern portion tonight; Sun
day fair; winds becoming west
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.

By its sworn detailed statement Of circulation
for the first half of the year 1895, it is shown to
have a circulation, during the first six months
as stated Of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

sentences till saw he would have made
q success in our profession. He was a
born Photographer. In drol1 and rev.
erently humorous style he went over the
various excuses Christians give for not
being at church. First were the bad
roads, and the roads, he admitted, were
very bad this rainy summer, but they
were never too bad for hauling ties.
Getting out railroad ties is a big bust
ness in the Wilderness. He told in turn
of those who are too tired on Sunday
morning, those who are ashamed of
their clothes and those who want to
spend Sunday with their families, Civ
ing the last a particularly sharp slap for
hypocrisy. The sermon had the greatest
of all merits-it was eminently fitting
to the time and place, especially in it's
application to the habits of the people
The general public retired while the
communion was partaken of, and then
came the interesting event of the day.
Through all the grove were generous
spreads on logs and on seats lifted from
the wagons of fried chicken, boiled
eggs, beef and ham, prepared fruits of
many kinds and fruit pies and cake
galore. One fact struck me as odd Even
when one was eating some one would
come up and invite him to eat else
where, and then the dialogue ran like
this:
"Come and eat with u.s.
''Thank you, am quite we'll provid-
ed for -
"Well, come over anyhow and take
a piece of cake with us, or ''My wife
has some cherry pie she'd like to have
you taste. =" And many, having eaten a
regular dinner in one squad, went
around and tasted cake and pie at sew
eral other places suppose it is old
pleasant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

Kansas City and return. Santa Fe
route Sunday, August 4th, fare $100.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
Where BumbIebees KneeI.

Where Bumblebees KneeI.
Two-thirds of Spottsylvania county is
of land so wretchedly poor that all ia
miliar western SMILES fail to describe
it. 1 might say it is so poor that the
bumblebees have to kneel down to get
at the white clover; that the worst
tracts are fenced to keep cattle from
straying on them and starving to death,
and that the sand is too poor to sprout
a pea till it is soaked, and the clay
SO very white and cheesy that it gives
the stranger sore eyes, and yet the
Ohio valley man would not realize
how poor the land is. New ground
will bring to1erable crops, as crops go
in this country, without a fertilizer.
After that a man must put into the soil
whatever he expects to get out of it.
GuanO and bone permanently improve
the land, but chemical fertilizers merely
force it to give mp its plant elements and
finally make it so Thirsty ''that the
crops burn up. Some old plantations
have recently been renewed on this plan :
The land is first heavily fertiized, then
sowed in rye and other green stuff and
the whole crop plowed under. Then it
will produce & or 20 bushels of corn per
acre. The account stands thus: Fee sim
pie of the land, So per acre; fertilizers,
So; seed and labor, $3.50 investment
and then a year before one can begin to
farm. Even the best land has to be fall
lowed every third year.
At my request a Mr.. Crozier showed
me some bills for rations. The employee
got habitable dwelling "a log cabin)
and garden rent free, pasture for one
COW and monthly rations as follows 4:
Ten pounds of salt pork, so herrings,
one gallon black strap molasses, one
bushel cornmeal, one-quarter pound tea
and one-haf pound coffee, or, in lieu Of
both, one pound of coffee. He also re-
ceived half dollar a day for his work.
but some colored men work as low as %
cents and those rations and very many
at 80 cents. A very strong and appar-
emily active 16-year-old boy told me
he had worked till the beginning of
harvest for % cents a day and board,
but had since received so and was to re-
ceive 30 for the rest of the year after
harvest ]. II. BEADLE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

l.
every introduction followed by the state
ment that "this is our northern friend
who has been looking over the battle-
fields" and there was many an invita-
ton to take dinner with the introduced
or to call at his house if convenient. I
observed, however, that the young fell
lows never let their interest in the con-
versatiOn relax their watch on the
roads, and whenever a young lady rode
in unattended there was a dash to help
her alight and hitch her horse. Though
many started, the final dash was gen
orally limited to two, and from the sly
smiles exchanged I gathered that the
everlasting rivalry for the smiles Of a
particular fair one was going on here as
lively as in the cities, In the midst of
a statement that "the farmer catches it
both ways in this money business one
man suddenly stopped and scratched out
a bullet which showed in the soil It
had struck something and been partially
fattened, but an old veteran was called
and promptly pronounced, "That is a
rebel bullet, " and proved it by the groov-
ing and indentation where buckshot had
been bound in the cartridge with the
ball
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
A Quaint Sermon.

The little church was soon filled with
the women and girls, and the men stood
at the door and windows. The Sunday
school consisted of general free talk,
as the manner of the Baptists is, and
great deal of singing. Before entering
on his sermon the preacher INDUCED in
some caustic criticism of the new tunes
applied to the old songs and insisted on
the congregation all joining in and try
ing some of the old tunes. They tried it
twice, and, regret to add, made a
rasping failure both times, which the
preacher said almost set his teeth on
edge. The subject of lis sermon was
that meeting of the disciples when
Thomas was not present and SO failed to
sea the Lold. and he had not spoken five
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03

Many receipts as published still call
for cream of-tartar and soda, the old
fashioned way of raising. Modern cook
ing and expert cooks do not sanction
this old way. In all such receipts the
Royal Baking powder should be subsLi-
uted without fall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-03
In Wartime.

After dinner there was more relaxa-
tiOn. The young people paired and rode
off, and the men, instead of grouping
at the windows to listen, grouped under
the trees to talk And their talk was
racy of the soil and full of information.
One told how he tried to escape from
Hooker army, was captured and spent
five weeks in the old capitol prison. An
other had been in various Federal pris
ons 10 months before they could decide
whether he was a spy, a bushwhacker
OR a regular Confederate soldier. Final
~ he got the benefit of the doubt, was
exchanged and Sin time to git into sew
era1 mighty good fights, 1 tell you, sab. -
There are very few old soldiers indeed.
Nearly all who talk of the war were
children in 1875, and was surprised
at the singular freedom with which they
spoke of the different views held.
I was greatly interested in the talk Of
a Mr.. Wharton who lives at Whites
crossing, on the narrow gauge, and in it
I found some explanation of the great
discrepancy between the list Of missing
and that of those captured by the Con-
federates. He told me how men fell ev
erywhere in the woods but slightly
wounded and slipped off at night.
GAS the battle lines shifted this way
and that said he, mothers house
was twice between the lines, but finally
it was away northeast of the Federals,
and then it was filed with men not
hurt bad enough to worry. One of these
fellows staid up stairs for three weeks
and kept me on the watch to see who
was coming, and by and by they made
up quite little squad and got citizens
clothes-for they had plenty of money
and struck out northwest, saying they
would not go back to the army. I was
10 years old, and while we sat in the
cellar we coald hear the cannon balls
whistling loud and clear as they went
back and forward on the north side of
the place. By and by bullets whistled
near, and now and then a cannon shot
would take bite out of tho stable or
roof of the house with a crash that made
US all cringe, but none of us was hurt.
Here is a buckle I plowed up just south
Of the Charlottesville field 1t was
an ordinary buckle of the Federal sol
dier's belt, with the big .. S., but had
indented in rude letters the words, "W
II. Smith, Brooklyn, n. Y
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-16
A DoUBLE-AcT1oN RULE.

One Of the propositions of the Repub-
iican minority in the House of Repre-
sentatiYes during the financial debate
has been that more revenue is needed.
and therefore the rates Of duty on GER
tain articles which are lowered in the
Wilson bill should be raised again,
That is to say, their contention Is that
a high tariff viii bring high revenues.
How does that comport with their
theory that the lowering of duties will
cause d flooding Of imports? If i'm
ports come in like flood, will not
that cause a rising of the tide of
revenue from duties? If the effect OF a
high tariff is to keep out foreign manu-
features, how can excessive duties
raise the sum of the revenue?
There is another discrepancy which
our Republican Legislators seem to
have overlooked in their theory. When
the Mckinley bill was under discus
sion, there was a surplus of revenue
and high duties on imports we're adj
Yocated as a means of reducing the
revenue. How is it possible now to
raise the revenue in 1895, by the pro-
CESS oSSh w ISNuSt Illt IeHtuue III
1890? It seems that the effect Of in
,creasing the duties in eleven out of
the thirteen schedules of the Mckinley
law. was to reduce the revenue to the
tune Of nearly S4O,OOO,OO0 Now they
propose to raise the revenue by the
force which lowered it five years ago.
These contradictions in argument
are strongly suggestive of the logic OF
our morning contemporary. and pro-
baby are the effects of Republican in
fiuence on the brain.
1t does not matter, McKinleyism is
dead and even the large Republican
majority of the next Congress cannot
resurrect it. Besides, the probability
is that the revenues will be all right
as the Wilson law has time to operate,
and there will be no lack from that
quarter when the returns are counted
up,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-16

is a complete reform in our national
system of finance. That cannot be
accomplished by any scheme that aims
at the further eXaltation of gold and
the disuse of silver. The two money
metals will have 70 be utilized to their
fullest extent Unlimited coinage Of
silver as well as gold will bring into use
scarcely sufficient redemption money
for the necessities of the nation Pa
per money will still have to be largely
issued, but it must be backed by q
sufficient support of coin, meaning
gold and silver money, legal tender
for all cash purposes. on parity.
AS a step towards that if the Jones
proposition, even as it has been amend
ed by the Senate committee, could be
passed ana made into law. the full
goal would very soon be reached, and
there would be no trouble about the
meaning OF coin in any of the obli-
cations of the government. There is
a bare possibility of such an event
but that is all 1t looks very much as
| if this Congress would expire without
| relieving the country from the f1nan-
cial trouble which stares it in the face.
It win in that event be not only dead
but damned by the people.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-16
a REAL TINPLATE FACTORY.

1t is announced that the Illinois
Steel company win soon start a genu-
inc tin plate factory in connection
with their works. The factory Is to
be of large proportions and is an en-
couraging sign for two reasons.
First. it is an indication that there
are tin ores enough produced in the
United States to warrant the establish
ment by intelligent, practical men, of
an extensive business for the utiliza-
ton OF the metal Second, that tin
plate can be manufactured in this
country without the exorbitant tariff
by way Of protection, which was a
short time ago pronounced essential
to the industry.
The Mckinley tariff, which did 50
much duty in the protection tin plate
argument, has been cut down one half,
And yet there are business men ready
to enter into the manufacture of tin
plate under the reduced tariff. This,
too, is to be a genuine tin plate MANI
factory. Not "a little side show like
some of those ephemeral institutions
which sprung up-and went down. IN
der the artificial stimulus of McKin-
leyism.
The starting up of new industries
and the revival OF old and languish-
ing concerns show that the prognogti-
cations Of Industrial ruin, INDUCED in
by protecttontsts. we're simply political
gues5Worh. When the country has
had fair trial of the existing tariff
it viii be found that the hue and cry
against tariff reform vas partisan en-
t1rely.
A return to the monstrosities Of Nc
hinley1sm will scarcely be attempted,
and if it should be will utterly fail, in
the light of experience and the benefits
of the change that has come. Besides,
the Republican majority Will have
enough of the currency question to en-
gage their attention without attempt
ing any further to tinker the tariff. u"