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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13
KANSAS PARAGRAPRS

Ex-Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee
will lecture IN Emporia April %.
The national meeting of the A. Fl. I.
A will be held at Parsons this fail.
Emporia has set hot pace for other
Kansas towns by giving poster show"
An Emporia girl who had the skill to
land eighteen fish couldn't take one of
them off the hook.
The Atchison Globe wonders if there
are any formerly of Kansas men regis
tered with ST. Peter.
The young trees in Parsons are begin
ming to show their green. in spite of the
cold nights and the town COW.
Clay Center has a population of $500
and two newspapers, while Abilene has
5000 population with six newspapers.
There is to be a sunbonnet sale at Bur
lington next week, but it is too late. The
sun has already made thousands of freck-
les.
The opera house at Burlington was Of
fered at sheriff's sale, but there was only
one man courageous enough to even
make bid
Culture has done so much for Inde-
pendence that when colored boy killed
dog there the other day it was called
an assassination.
The advertisement 81 am now prepar-
ed to buy your fat horses" is what makes
Westmoreland people examine their
steak carefully every morning.
A Burlington man offered his wife ST.
00O and their residence if she would let
him get divorce, and she took him up
so quickly that it almost made him jeal-
GUS.
At double wedding of some country
people at Atchison the young men were
SO embarrassed they kept their hats on
during the ceremony and Rugged each
other after it was over.
When a hearse from Ottawa attempted
to drive into Baldwin recently the people
drove it out This is the first intimation
which has been given that the town
wasn't ready for burial.
Hutchinson boasts the best sign painter
In the state but it is a hundred to one
shot he can't paint an ice cream sign the
young men can see at ten feet or that the
girls can't read at forty rods.
The lily pond at Emporia is going to
be drained and converted into corn
field 40 when the normal girls want to
take off their stockings and wade here
after they will have to do it in the river
without any excuse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13
cunt in the

actually receives the latter amount in the
form Of weekly salary. Many space
men, however, average more than that.
Among them are Townsend and Riggs
Of The Sun, and Brown of The Herald
When Julian Ralph, Andrew E. Wat
rous and David Battle were on space,
they averaged over 500 a week, but
these men are either doing literary spe-
cial work or are upon salaries just now.
Subeditors and copy" readers on the
morning papers average from $50 to $50
a week. The average in the large offices
is $40 for a copy reader. On the after
noon papers the average is about SO
less. BENZ. NoRTHRoP.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13
KANSAS GOSPEL TRUTHS

A-A-' N-'~A0 - L. Il l. ~ ~
The Kansas State Sunday school as
sociation will meet at Salina May T.
A great camp meeting will be held
near Derry, in Greenwood county, early
in July
An Epworth League has been organ
lied in Bateman with a membership of
nearly sixty.
The Sunday school association of
Pottawatomie county will meet at Louis
vile next week.
There were twenty-five accessions to
the Baptist church at Sedan during a re-
vival just closed.
The Rev. E. G. Wheeler is travelling
over the Santa Fe system holding SER
vices in a chapel car.
The next county Sunday school con-
vention in Jefferson county will be held
in Oskaloosa in June
Rev J. A Bright has been assisting
Rev ]. W. Kimmel in a series of meet
ings in Leavenworth the past week.
A Eureka minister preached in the
opera house recently on "What Eureka
Needs" and was greeted by packed
house
DR.. W. A Spencer, of Philadelphia. is
authority for the statement that one
hundred Methodist church buildings
have been sold under mortgage in Kan
sas during the past two years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13
INKANsAs SCHOOL ROOMS.

Baldwin's public schools will close
next week for the year.
The public schools of Caney will close
on the 10th with elaborate exercises.
The Kansas Academy of Language
and Literature will meet in Emporia next
week.
Winfield is to have big spelling con-
test to be participated in by all classes
of citizens.
The Alumni association of the Ghetto
pa high school held their first annual
meeting April 8.
The Neodesha high school prints a
paper called "The Student" which is
published by Arthur Street
A B. Head, superintendent of the
Burton high school, will lecture on
Human Facts, Factors and Fancies'' at
Barclay April II.
The faculty and students of the county
high school at Abilene have organized
loan fund to help worthy students
through school. 1t is to be raised by en-
tertainments and loaned to students on
their personal notes.
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No Change to Chicago.

The through service offered the travel
ing public by the Union Pacific system
and Chicago & Alton R. r is unsur-
passed. The Perfect Passenger serv-
ice'' of the C. & A. with the we'll known
excellence of the service of the Union
Pacific assures the travelling public that
they "are in it when they patronize this
popular joint line from Denver to Chi
cago and intermediate points. Pullman
Palace sleeping cars, dining cars and
free reclining chair cars without change.
For all information call at 525 Kansas
avenue. A. NJ. FULLER,
CITY Agent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

SINCE preponderance of public senti-
ment is necessary to the enforcement of
law, it must be that decent. respectable,
law abiding people are in a minority in
Atchison. Leavenworth and Wichita
How do the people of those cities like
their reputation?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

IF the prohibltory law cannot be en-
forced where public sentiment is against
it, we are forced to conclude that in
Atchison, Leavsnworth and Wichita a
majority of the people favor saloons.
But how did Governor Morrill, arrive at
this view of the matterf Did not a ma
jority of the people of these cities vote
for him last fall? And was he not the
candidate of the party that passed the
prohibitory law and has sustained it for
fifteen years?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13
KANSAS ORCHARD zEPHYRs.

II IN AS OitLH ARD ZEPH rs.
Kansas will furnish her own fruit this
year.
Fruit prospects are considered excel
lent in Cowley county.
The blackberry crop will be unusually
large in Chautauqua county.
In Barton county all kinds of fruit
will be abundant, even peaches.
Out in Finney county the fruit is re-
ported to be all right except peaches.
The peach crop in Woodson county
promises to be the heaviest for many
years.
Many new orchards are being set out
in Barber county, besides large amount
of smaller fruits.
Wilson county will have a big peach
crop. and the plum trees are already
laden with blossoms.
Twenty-Five per cent of the peach
buds are believed to have survived the
winter in Marshall county.
In Doniphan county small fruits have
been badly injured by the dry weather
and high winds, but the apples and
grapes are said to be in good condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

AFTER all, ST. John would have been
happier today If he had reformed that
boy, and allowed the world to take care
of itseIf-Atchison Globe.
What chance has St john or anybody
else to reform boy in state filed with
saloons and every form of vice? Atchi-
son. for instance. would be nice place
to bring up a boy in, wouldn't it? St
John has directed his efforts to bringing
about conditions under which there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

IF the friends of the proposed bridge
on Kansas avenue want the proposition
to carry this time, they will do we'll to
present it in such shape that no suspicion
of a steal attaches to it Failure to do
this on previous occasions has caused the
defeat of more than one scheme for OBJ
tanning q new bridge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

EASTERN gentlemen who have jour
neyed into the west recently, even as far
as Chicago, seem surprised at the senti-
ment in favor of silver which they find
existing everywhere. There will be fur
Their surprises for them when the nation
al conventions assemble next year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

SOME people seem to find amusement
In the assertion of Governor Morrill, that
the prohibitory law is violated only in
Atchison, Leavenworth and Wichita.
OF course the governor only referred to
cities of the first class. He cannot be in
Ignorance of the fact that the law is
wholly ignored in scores of smaller
towns in the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13
WELL PAID EDITORS.
Charles A. Dana Gets a Salary of
$4,000 Year.
OTHERS WHO RECEIVE BIG SALARIES.

Reick of the Herald, CarvalhO OF the
World, Lord OF the sun and NichOI-
son of the Tribune.
NEW YORK, April 8.-Charles A.
Dana, editor of the New York Sun, if
the word of those who ought to know
what they are talking about is to be re-
lied upon, is the best paid journalist in
America, if not in the world. It is said
that he receives a salary of $50, 900
year. If this be true, he pays a hand
some part of this out of his own pocket,
as he'is one of the large owners in The
Sun corporation, although he does not
own a controlling interest in the stock
This great salary may possibly &C.
count for his often expressed objection
to exchanging his desk for a post Of
honor in the public service. It will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13
FOUNDRY RESCUE PARTY
An Old Santa Fe Engineer LostHis Way in
the Mountains.

SAN Antonio, N. H., April ia res
cue party has just arrived bringing in
Colonel Dodds, aged So years, who has
been lost in the mountains three days
Colonel Dodds lost his way in going
from Ascuro mountains to Hansonburg
where he has mining property. He was
unconscious when found, but will prob
ably recover.
Colonel Dodds is we'll known through
out the southwest. having been for thir-
ty wears connected with the Santa Fe
railroad as a civil engineer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

OF the many evils which existed IN
der Populist rule there is one from
which the state has not been redeemed"
nor ia it likely to be under this admins
tration. and that is the saloon. Was not
the saloon included in the plan of ''re-
demption?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

might be no need of reformation" of
the young. If he had possessed the CO.
operation of the public officials he might
have succeeded He got the law, but
those who have followed him in Office
have refused to attempt its enforce
ment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

GERMANY is carrying retaliatory tariff
legislation still further by levying an
import duty on American -four. She will
hardly make the excuse that this is done
for the purpose of excluding it because
of danger to German health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13
Union Pacife Route.
WHAT You WANT

Is the through car service offered be-
tween Denver and Chicago via the Union
Pacific and Chicago & Alton r. R., which
is unexcelled by any other line. Magni-
ficent Pullman sleepers, dining cars and
chair cars, run through daily without
change, Denver to Chicago via Kansas
CITY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

Glass is the most perfectly elastic sub
stance in existence. A glass plate kept
under pressure in bent condition for
Eve and twenty years will return to its
exact original form. Steel comes next.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

TIE change in the affairs of Judge
Horton probably removes him as fac
tor in the next senatorial fight No one,
perhaps, will view it with more compla-
cency than John James Ingalls, will do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13
$1,000 For the Round Trip

To Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueb-
10. via the Great Rock Island Route
Tickets on sale Monday, April 10th only
One way only $1,000.
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CHICAGO, April 13.-For Kansas: Fair
and warmer tonight and Sunday; south
erly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

Look out for the Shakers Concert Co
at Crawford opera house Monday night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

On ocean, lake and river, the great
steamers are invariably supplied with
DR.. Prices Baking Powder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

One of the best orators of Maine at the
Swedish Flambeau benefit. 18th.
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20
Diamond Fascination.

81 have often wondered, said jewel
er, cat the fascination brilliant big dia-
mond possesses for some people. l don t
know how to account for it, but the com
mandment that refers to covetousness is
broken every second Of the day in front of
my window. And the erring ones are not
mostly women either, as is generally sup
posed, but men-some in the sere and yell
low epoch of age-stand before that Win
dow and gaze upon my poor display of
gems with straining, bulging eyes Last
week sold q diamond that weighed lit
tie over five carats. Previous to the sale
had it in the window for a few weeks. A
certain old couple used to come regularly
every day and gaze for an hour at a time
at the gem. 1t was a straw colored dia-
nond, but very flashy. The old couple
would invariably turn and keep their eyes
on the stone as long rs they were in sight
and seemed reluctant to leave. The next
day after had sold the gem the old cou-
pie appeared as usual, and the look of dis
appointment on their faces was keen and
lingering. They scrutinized every corner
Of the window in a vain search, and when
they failed to discover their favorite moved
slowly and sadly away. "-Philadelphia
Record.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20
He Took the Case.

Somebody-pcrhaps it was Postmaster
Willett-told good story about Campbell
Darlington the other day. Darlington, it
seems, had a client who was almost abso-
lutely sure of going to the penitentiary
The facts were dead against him. But the
lawyer talked with him awhile, impressed
upon him the narrowness of his chances
for acquittal and finally asked him this
question:
Would you rather plead guilty and take
the sentence which the court will impose,
or would you prefer to go upon the stand
and give your own version to the jury?"
"Nyther," said the man coolly.
Darlington looked at the accused with
astonishment. My friend,'' said he,
amy man who can stand here and say
'nyther' when the shadow of the peniten-
tiary is upon him gets my services for
nothing. You will be acquitted yet
The result proved the prediction. Car
rington went in, fought the case, and the
man was acquitted. d.-Washington Post.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20
February.

Why February has 2S days is explained
in the legends of the past. Melusine, a
French publication, devotes one column to
this curious subject. One is of an old
woman, who, tending her flock, ridiculed
the month of February because he had
dealt SO leniently with her and her sheep.
Then February felt insultcd, and made
leap year, and borrowed a cold day from
March, and froze her and her flock. There
is Norman legend which makes it out
that February had originally as many
days as the other months, but February
was confirmed gambler and lost at
domino 3 day both to January and ~
March. Strange to say, there is an old
story of Egypt, wherein the god of Febru-
ary plays forfeits with the moon and loses
certain DAYS
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20
Stupid Superstition,

In Somerset the peasantry have no
doubt as to the play of malefcent influ-
ences. The pig that falls i'll and dies was
"overlooked." A murrain 'atllicts a farm
er's cattle, and off he goes to the white
witch" " that is. to the old witch finder, to
learn who has Overlooked his things"
and to ascertain the best antidote, "be
cause they there farriers can't do no good. p"
A child pines away with some mysterious,
wasting sickness, which the Tipperary
peasants, as shown in the recent falsely
called "witch burning" case, believe to be
the work of fairies in substituting u
"changeling, but which the Somerset
woman refers to the action of witch who
has cast her fatal glance upon the victim.
Often she gives up not only hope but
all effort to save the child; the consequent
neglect, of course, hastens the expected re-
suit, and then it is: ooh, know'd very
well he wouldn't never get no better.
'Tidn' no good for to strive vor to go ag' in
it," This is no fancy, no isolated case, but
here in the last decade of the nineteenth
century one of the commonest of everyday
facts
While in England the belief is mostly
confined to rural districts in more back
ward countries, as Spain and Italy, it
fiourishes in the large towns. In Naples
the appearance of person having the i'll
repute of jettatore is the signal for a
general stampede and Mr.. Elworthy
amusingly relates the fright which he un-
Willingly gave second hand bookseller in
Venice when asking about a copy of Val
lettos "Cicalata sui Fascino" On hear
ing the last words Of the title "the man
actually turned and bolted into his inner
room, leaving the customer in full possess
sion of his entire stock" Pic Mono was
believed to have the jettatura, and the
faithful, when seeking his blessing, pro-
tcctively pointed two fingers at him.
Academy.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20

The report Of Bank Examiner Whitten
relative to the Granite State Provident
Association and the comments thereon con-
tsined in the ringing communication of
Gov. Cleaves to the new bank examiner,
Hon +. f.. Timberlake, both Of which are
to be found in other columns of this issue,
should, and we believe will, be read by
Maine investors with a great deal
of care The whole affair affords a
striking illustration of the fact, to
which Maine people have had their atten-
tion forcibly called in the past, that
Maine investors will do better to seek
home Investments with which they are
acquainted than those out of the State
and with which they are not acquainted,
however glittering the promises of the
latter may be
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20
Prices Two Centuries Ago.

The question of prices in the first quar-
ter of the seventeenth century is full of in
tcrest to every one, and it is satisfactory to
find that food was not as fabulously cheap
in the days of our forcfathers as we are
often led TO believe. Mary Verney writes
to Ralph at Blois complaining bitterly of
the dearness of provisions in London.
Beef is fourpence, veal and mutton
eightpence, while Pen Verney reckons
s shillings a week too much for her
diet, which is afterward fixed at 46
Ii year. Twelve pounds year seems
great deal for willful little Betty, aged 13,
to spend on her dress, but country bred as
she was she declines, Mary writes, to wear
anything but silk. The sum of $50 claim
ed by Nancy Denton, who was spoiled
child and rich mans daughter, is far more
appropriate to her position. In fact, the
fees earned by physicians in those days
were far in excess of what we should give
now, in spite of the exceeding simplicity
not to say remarkable unpleasantness-
of their pharmacopea and treatment.
DR.. Theodore Mayence, the fashionable
doctor, left $4,000 equivalent to over
$500, 000) behind him, and Sir Ralph is
miserable because he cannot afford to pay
DR.. Denton the $50 which is the ordinary
fee for confinement. A Venetian mirror
costs $40, portrait by Nandyke $50. A
maids wages come to 93, but the pair of
"trimcd gloves" with which it is tho
fashion to reward any extra services on her
part, comes to 81 5s.-an absurdly dispro-
portionatc payment. The price of Sir Ed
mund's Covent Garden house is e100, and
many horses fetch as much, while G200 Il
year is the usual price for n boys board
and teaching in good French family
Longman's S Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20
Nickel Magazine.

The leading article in tho Nickel MagA-
zine for September is contributed by Paul
Egrcmont who writes on THE Supreme
Court of the United States Fine por-
traits of the present justices and of JUS
ticc Jackson who recently died, accompany
the article. Ernest n. Bagg writes inter
estipgy Of 1.-THE Natural Bridge of Vir-
ginia." Six handsome reproductions of
modern paintings are also given, and an
interesting article by Mildred Aldrich on
Striking Novelties in the Play house. ;"
Russell Pub. Co., 81 Summer St, Boston,
Mass
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20
follow his refusal to submit the case to

follow his refusal to submit the case to
Congress.
The President ought to understand that
the underlying cause Of acute disorder is
general impression that he will stub
bJrnly refuse to yield in any respect to the
will of the people as expressed by
Congress; that Congress will be en-
tirely within It's right and even
its duty in refusing to permit one
man to dictate to Lawmakers chosen by
the whole people and that thus 1t will
not be found possible to pass any ade
qnate measure Of relief. 1t is not the
prospect of one more borrowing that
creates anxiety, but the prospect that
another, and then another may follow
because of stubborn resistance to measures
which would stop borrowing and raise
adequate revenue When business men
look into all the contingencies which
short crops or possible reaction in indus
tries or difficulties about wages. may in
volve within the next eighteen months II
the will Of the people is thrust aside and
all measures of reliet are prevented, they
do not enjoy the prospect that, in every
form of trial, their industries, their bust
ness and their wages may depend upon
| two or three international bankers.
| The President alone has power to stop
this anxiety He can cali the people S
representatives. together, that they may
1 propose a remedy. But that would prob
ably not be necessary to allay all serious
apprehensions, if the President would
give the country formal notice that he
would rely upon the patriotism and good
scnsc Of the people to enable the treasury
to get on without further borrowing until
| Congress meets, that If borrowing should
be necessary he would offer bonds directly
to popular bids, and that he should deem
it his duty to approve such revenue meas
urcs as a Congress fresh from the people
might see iit to pass.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20
An Old Irish Tune.

"The Girl Left Behind Me- is an Irish
tune, known to have been in existence in
1870. The author of the words is IN
known, though claims have been made for
several Irish and English poets. For over
100 years it has been the parting tune of
the British army and navy and is played
whenever a regiment is leaving town
where it has been stationed or man-of-
war is weighing anchor to sail from a
port.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-20
Moman's Progress

for September contains the following
Mrs Virginia Durant Young" with
portrait) The Oak Centre Mystery. /"
They Never Go Out on Strike" mo
table Revolutionary Women" Among
the Clubs, q Political Equality /" Pro
grcss of Woman Suffrage in the District
Of Columbia" why Women Should
Have the Ballot, No. l." Florence A.
Burlcigh; Why Women Should Have the
Ballot No. ,, Kate Morris; can Out
growth of the College Settlement of Phila-
dclphta," and the Juvenile Annex -
(Woman's Progress CO., 1909 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, Pa.)