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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

day Review, and it ran two years. or
until Miss Otis was glad to let it die.
In the meantime other pecuniary re-
verses came to her, and now she began
seriously to think of the stage as a
means of livelihood. Her first profess
sional appearance was in the ''Crust Of
Society" She scored moderate hit in
the character she essayed. Since then
she has figured in a number of produc-
tions, and by hard and serious devotion
to her work she has gradually attained
her present position as star.
AS for Charles Howard Johnson, has
name is household word wherever Pc
riodicals such as Life, Truth. etc., cir
culate. He was reared on the Kansas
frontier, studied art for little while
in Cincinnati, and about six years ago
landed in New York with small hand
bag which contained little more than
change of linen. He was then unknown
and penniless, but he carried under his
jacket brave heart and be set to work
with vim and vigor Within year he
had things about his own way. There
was a ready market for all he produced
with his brush or pencil. His atelier,
furnished with exquisite taste, became
the resort Of New York's bohemia on
Sunday afternoons. Mr.. johnson excels
in color illustration. By many good
judges it is thought no other artist can
approach him in this line. He eyinces
a great imagination, and some of his
work has a certain witching poetry
about it not found in the work of any
other man on this side of the Atlantic.
Johnson's temperament is essentially
romantic. He cannot bear restraint of
any kind. He is widower and the IA
Their of winsome daughter about
years old named Gladys.
That Mr. johnson is desperately in
love with his fiancee the present writ
er has heard him in all reverence
avow. If the union between Miss Otis
and Mr.. johnson occurs, as now seems
likely, there is every reason to believe
that she will still remain on the stage
and that he will resume his profession
with accelerated zest.
PHILIP T. RANKIN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

IT seems strange that in this enlight-
ened age, and in progressive commu-
nifty like ours there should still be found
anyone DESTROYS of returning to that relic
of bygone age, poll tax, and yet SEN
ator Sterns has been requested to intro
duce a bill to restore it to the statute
books. No more Objectionable form of
taxation was ever devised, even if it were
equitably collected, which it never was
1t is we'll known that many persons,
though not exempt by age, never paid
any poll tax while we had the law and
much of the money collected under its
operation was never accounted for.
Many persons who should have been ex-
empt by reason of physical infrmities
were made to pay unless they had some
sort of pull. There surely cannot be
found in SO intelligent body of men as
the present legislature sufficient num-
Der to restore to the statute books SO in
iquitous measure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

Miss Blanche Stitch has not been able
to return from Paola, on account of the
serious illness of her mother.
Miss May McAdams spent Saturday
and Sunday with friends in Rossville.
Some of the Shakespeare students went
to Kansas City this afternoon to hear
Keene in Hamlet, the play on which the
class has spent the last four mouths.
Fifteen hundred copies of the contest
number of the Washburn Mid Continent
were sent out to the colleges of the state
Saturday night The managers have
offered a new mandolin to the agent
who sells the greatest number of copies
before Friday, z p m.
The contest number of the Mid Con :
tinent, containing the eight orations to be
delivered at the annual state oratorical
contest held at the Grand, Friday even
ing, Feb %, is now on sale at the city
bookstores.
The Gamma Sigma literary society en-
tertained the young ladies, Panthyguter-
ian, literary society at its rooms in
Science hall Friday evening.
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dining art. He commands the very beat
of psices and is thought to live very
we'll by his pen. How much he may
earn in a season no one knows. Prob
ably he does not know himself, for he
is an eccentric creature and seems to be
Indifferent to money to its full appre-
citation. Certainly he is not an arithme-
tician, and his social fnanoiering is Pc
culiar, almost grotesque It is said to
be very profitable to him, though not
to others. He manages it adroitly, how
ever, and his success is scintillating
He has no idea Of returning home. The
authors named are exceptions in their
earning capacity. Few can earn above
So, 500 annually at most by literature,
pure and simple, and 50, 900 exceeds the
average. And how hard they must toll
how very hardI Novelists and drama
fists have the best chance. Women can
we'll afford to write because they can
lean on marriage He who does q popu-
lar play is very lucky, but he cannot do
many such plays.
AS for the great majority Of those
who labor in the field of literature, their
earnings are pitifully small-not as
much as those of first class mechanic.
Of course the situation is different in
the realm of journalism, but even here
we are presented with the bright side
only. A few of the journalistic lights
in the large cities earn princely salaries
possibly dozen in New York and
four or five in this city, Chicago and
ST. Louisiana Bill Nye and M. Quad
&c. B. Lewis, who are specialists in
their lines, receive IS, 900 or SO, OOC
each year from the American Press
Association, but the average earnings
Of newspaper men in the cities named
are less than those of a clerk in frs
class hotel or cook in a popular res
taurant They will possibly exceed
those of policeman, but then the work
is much harder physically.
J. G. Soaring.
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A RECENT issue of the Albany Argus,
one of the leading Democratic papers of
the east, devotes nearly two columns of
space to a discussion of Associate Justice
Aliens circular letter, which he sent to
large number of eastern papers. In
closing it says: "The people of the
east are too prone to sneer at the finan-
cial sentiment of the south and west, and
to treat the arguments Of the prominent
men of the west as sophistries to be
laughed at and not az beliefs to be re-
specially considered. Now that the
senate is in the hands of the free silver
men, and the Populists, and the house
of representatives has SO many Popu-
lists, whether in name or in belief, in
that body, it behooves the business men
of the east to consider carefully the views
of this majority, because those views
may be forced upon u.s."
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assessment and taxation laws. A law
providing that all property shall be as
sessed at its actual value, doing away
with all exemption, and providing way
for determining what is the actual value
of property, is all that is necessary, and
law of that kind could be passed now
just as we'll az at any other time, if only
the legislature possessed disposition to
do So There can be but two motives
fox the appointment of this proposed
committee; one is to. postpone or wholly
evsde action on the matter, and another
is to provide jobs for the members of the
committee
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SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

The hotels are full of visiting Masons.
There are sixty women registered to
vote.
blizzard is predicted for Thursday
by Mr.. Hicks.
s. E Lux at 913 Tyler is the father Of
. new boy. He has four girls
The municipal league will meet to-
night at 7. E. Bowman's Office.
Bestor G. Brown is here from Chicago
to attend the Masonic grand lodge.
The police have been raiding again
Three places were raided last night
President Thurston of the Athletic
club, walks twenty blocks every morn
ing.
J. B. Larimer will read a paper before
the next meeting of the Ministerial
Union.
The senior class in the high school
will hold it's class day exercises next
month
Edith Carrill has sued her husband,
Cassius Carrill, for divorce. She alleges
cruelty.
The Knights of the Maccabees will
hold their state convention in Topeka
March 10.
Ten per cent of the personal tax war
rants in the hands of the sheriff have
D60n Collected
Four hundred Emporia students are
said to be coming to the state oratorical
contest Friday.
Austin Ridley, a colored man, died at
Twelfth and Washington streets and was
buried yesterday.
John Norton has sold Ode Cameron
Oakland, for $500.
Tho rraoidar< - <bo no,-Ioa ro,1r&r
Horticultural society has announced that
the peach buds are all right
Clerk Sharitt of the United States cir
J cult court, is again at his desk after a
three weeks visit in California.
Mrs. DR.. Menninger read a paper at
the Ninde Chautauqua Circle last night
on "Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress"
| Chief of Police Wilkerson says most of
the statements made in the petition filed
in the Pickett damage case are false.
Mrs. o. D. Skinner will entertain the
| good literature reading club at her home
on north Jackson street this evening.
A Newman, who was manager of the
Grand opera house the first of the sea-
son, is now DR.. Tracey's business agent
The orations to be delivered at the
state oratorical contest have already
been printed in the Washburn college
paper.
The county clerks are already being
notified that the work Of taking the rail-
road assessment for 1895 will commence
| next month.
State Senator Taylor says Mayor Har-
rison's address before the Ministerial
Union was one of the finest productions
he ever read.
sit is strange what names we have on
| Our reOiqt6r s0matiTnaa aai6 Clark
Wood of the National. "Now today we
have Reed, Root, Culifower, Green and
Maize"
Edward L. Cornell. who was adiutani
general of the Sanders army, which
stopped in Topeka last spring, has writ
ten play entitled "The Cripple Creek
Strike" He is now in Kansas City and
expects to bring out his play about the
first of March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19
FORD COUNTY NEEDS AID.
They Have q Car of Coal and Can't Pay
the Freight.


the Freight.
To the Editor of the STATE JOURNAL:
Can any thing be done to relieve the
distress among our farmers? A relief
committee was appointed here four
weeks ago to procure aid. The commit
tee have worked faithfully but on ac-
count of so much fred tape" nothing has
yet been received but a carload of coal
donated by a company at Rich Hill. Mo-,
with $50 freight charges which our peo-
pie are unable to pay.
During the last cold spell some of our
farmers had to burn up their fences and
strip their barns of boards to keep them
selves and little ones from freezing to
death.
In the name of God and humanity is
this "red tape" to go on and allow peo-
pie to starve aud freeze to death?
Mr. Fitzgerald our representative, has
been appealed to in this matter some
three weeks ago, but it seems as though
his hands are tied. We are needing and
needing it badly, coal, provisions and
clothing aud very shortly our farmers
must have seed and feed for their teams
in which to put in a spring crop.
CAPT II. SILLETT.
Bucklin. Kansas, February 10, 1895,
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AN INTERESTING COUPLE.
Miss Elita Proctor Otis and Charles How
ard johnson.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.-The latest re-
ports seem to confirm the rumors that
have been flying about for a month or
more respecting the engagement of Miss
Elita Proctor Otis and Mr.. Charles
Howard johnson. The wedding is an
nounced to take place some time in May.
Everybody in the dramatic and artistic
world is more or less interested in this
romantic event, which is a piquant
topic of discussion in the clubs just at
present. Miss Otis, who is the leading
lady in "Oliver Twist, " which recently
had a run in this city, is young wom-
an of remarkable magnetism and per-
sonal charm. She is tall, plump, with
wealth of fine blond hair, violet eyes
and rosy complexion. Born in the west
and belonging to prominent and
wealthy family, she made her debut in
society rather early in her teens. In
Cleveland, where she lived, her vivac-
ity and beauty made her reigning
belle for several seasons. At length she
came east and made her home in Brook
Ign, where she was welcomed in the
highest social circles
Miss Otis finally thought she would
start a weekly journal, and start it she
did. twas called the New York Satur-
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KANSAS PARAGRAPHa

Prof. Jelly of Reno county ought to be
favorite with every boy in his school.
There are thirty eight manageable
young ladies in Oswego with no takers
A Harper man, whose front name in
Lawn, in all probability halls from the
"ould sod"
Poverty parties with mispelled invita-
tions are still considered humorous at
Great Bend
A Fort Scott man who traded a horse
for forty head of steers thinks the horse
market is all right
The Parsons fire department has pur-
chased brand new wagon at cost of
$3.50 for the ''fire laddies"
One of the presents at Yates Center
wedding which broke the usual monoto-
ny of pickle dishes was "$1 in cash"
It is said that one of Fredonia's poor
recently applied to the relief committee
for "a veil with little dark spots on it"
There is some prospect of Westmore-
land being connected with the rest Of
the world by branch line of the Kansas
Central
The Woodson county Sunday school
| convention was not a success The best
results cannot be obtained unless there is
green grass
BAKER students want the snow clean0Q
off the sidewalk going to Media, so they
can reach 'the bridge" without having
to walk in the muddy road
One of Chester L Longs constituents,
who remembered the reputation of the
| Seventh district. gave HIM half dozen
pairs of socks for a wedding present.
Junction City has a lunch counter
which is "neat and tasty" That is the
trouble with most lunch counters-they
are so tasty you can't get rid of it
A $4,000 -four mill, with daily ca
pacity of 800 barrels, has been completed
in Enterprise, but it will not be operated
until after the next wheat crop is in.
| Napoleon Bonaparte Washington who
has more capacity for strife than both of
his namesakes is a colored celebrity who
| figures in Oswego police court circles.
search party that started out to find
a man who was reported lost in the biz
| zard discovered him at a neighbours Just
as he had finished his twelfth buckwhe
| cake.
Olesburg Newsletter: The home OF
Editor Moon of Randolph is made
brighter by the arrival of a little son.
The home should never lack light with
three sons and the big and little Moons.
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Couldn,t DO Without

To the Editor of the STATE JOURNAL:
have been without your valuable
paper for something over a week. When
your agent was here he aud l settled
l thought / would try the Star awhile:
but am tired of it already. l want the
JOURNAL again. He told me at the time
l would want the JOURNAL again. but |
thought not. Please send me the paper.
as the agent told me could send in and
get is any time, as he knew I would.
W. n. HOOKER.
Arkansas City. Kans.. Feb Is. 1891.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

WINFIELD Courier: Geo, T. ANTHONY
is an able mana great man. But even
one Of his greatness should have been
satisfied with twenty -ons years of Office
holding out of twenty seven years resi-
dsnce in the state. He was six wears
secretary of the state board OF agricul-
ture, eight years collector of internal
revenue, two years governor, two years
In the legislature and four years rail-
read commissioner. Now Governor
Morrill, gives him four years more. It
would seem that even his transcendent
ability would have been properly rscop-
nized long ago.
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ATcHIsoN Patriot Dem }: The 'sbrave"
Colonel J. w. F. Hughes, who saved the
Douglass house, has failed to reach the
goal OF his ambition-the adjutant gen.
eralship of Kansas. Governor Morrill,
has done the unexpected again, and Ap-
pointed one Sim NJ Fox, of Manhattan.
Who Fox is no one knows Even the
Grand Army is in ignorance of his char
acter, ability or antecedents. Col. Hughes
was the best endorsed man who ever an
piled for Republican office, but it didn't
count with the governor. The governor
seems bent on doing surprising things.
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FROM what is coming to lightin the
currency debate in the senate, it is ap-
parent thar even If there was an actual
necessity for the sale of the bonds, there
was no reason whatever for selling them
at so low rate. Offerings are being
made for them much In advance of the
price received by the government As
to the necessity Of the transaction, it is
clear that it never existed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

THE paper read before the Ministerial
union yesterday by Mayor Harrison
should commend itself to the Thoughtful
consideration of every friend of good
municipal government. It is not only
pointed and practical, but is of a high
order Of literary merit. Topeka has
reason to feel proud of her mayor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

Col J. W. F. HUGHES, famous for his
disobeying orders in the legislature
war" of 1898, is seeking the office of
adjutant general on the strength of his
medal from Ell Dorado.-Augusta Ga
zette.
You can't find Republican in Kansas,
unless he wants the office himself, but
says, let Hughes have the position.-EI
Dorado Times
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Russians Rush tor Ata.

The manner in which the distribution
of aid is carried on in Ellis county ia thus
described by the Hays City Free Press:
at was an amusing sight to watch the
mad rush for the aid coal on Monday.
Russians got 1t who have never bought a
pound of coal since they came to this
country, and even haven't a coal stove.
They got it and then traded it for some
thing else,e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

OLATHE Tribune: The Topeka JOUR
NAL is the finest edited Republican news
paper in the state. Its daily circulation
is nearly 10000 copies It's independence
makes it popular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

IT will be difficult for the ordinary tax
payer to see the necessity Of appointing
a committee to cit after adjournment of
the legislature, at q considerable extra
expense, for the purpose Of revising the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

THE advocates of gold bonds always
refer to the maintenance Of a parity be-
tween money metals as if there were a
Law compelling the treasury to maintain
such parity, but there isn't.
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Marvellous Results.

From letter written by Rev. ]. Gun
derman, of Dimondale, Mich, we are
permitted to make this extract: 81 have
no hesitation in recommending DR. Kings
New Discovery, as the results were al
most marvellous in the case of my wife.
While was pastor of the Baptist church
At Rives Janction. she was brought down
With Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe.
Terrible paroxysms of coughing would
last hours with little interruption and it
seemed as if she would not survive them
friend recommended DR.. Kings New
Discovery; it was quick in its work and
highly satisfactory in results" Trial
bottle 10 cents at ]. < Jones' Drug store
Regular size SOC and $500.
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Trading Made Easy

Nowadays trading IS so
easy, made SO here by the con-
venient, handy and economi-
cal methods employed.
You can come to the Store
and get about everything you
need without going out from
under the roof of the big house.
Isn't that making it easy for
you to trade here? You're
saved the annoyance of shop
ping around, which, you know
by experience, isn't pleasant,
especially when there's slush
or mud. Of course, if there
was anything to be gained by
this shopping around, we'd
have nothing more to say, for
then 'twould be a duty you
would owe to yourself. But
you know as we'll as we do
that, quality compared with
quality, prices are always the
lowest here.
It's handy for you to trade
here, in that you can find we
keep nearly all the various
kinds and qualities exhibited
before you, SO that you can
compare them side by side and
determine in the most intelli-
gent way which to select. Then,
too, you run no risk at all, for
if your judgment should be
wrong you can get your money
back or get the amount you
bought credited to your &C
count if the goods be returned
at once in a merchantable con-
dition. Tell US, is anything
fairer than that?
It's economical for you to
trade here. Why? Because the
small prices we mark upon our
goods will enable you to get
more for your money than you
can possibly get for it any
where else. You see, we buy
direct from the maker---we
alone stand between you. We
, have the outlet for large guam
titles of merchandise and the
makers know we pay cash for
our goods. We buy and sell
reliable goods and stand back
of every transaction. Where
else are you treated as liberal
ly as that? Do you know Of
store anywhere in the y. S.
that extends to you or will ex-
tend to you guarantees of pro-
lection as literally as we do
here? The protection thrown
around each purchase, let it be
ever SO simple or ever so large,
is a guarantee that the goods
and the prices are right.
Again. you've a big advan-
tage when you want to make
selections to have a variety of
patterns, colorings and quail
ties to pick over aggregating
as much, and often more, than
the combined stocks of all the
dry goods stores put together
in our city.
We are writing this to show
you why you should trade here
(if you're not already doing SOY.
We believe every reader OF
this is interested in making the
dollars he or she has to spend
60 as far as possible. We
don't believe that you would
knowingly pay a cent more for
an article than it is worth, and
we don't mean you shall. 1t
it right, it is a duty you owe to
yourself, to buy for as little as
you can any article your wants
demand. Did you ever hear Of
anyone trying to see how lit
tie they could get for their
money? No, but how much,
and that's why you should
come here and look for your
self before spending a cent fol-
anything.
Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co..
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CHICAGO, Feb 19.-Forecast for Kan
Sas: Fair tonight and Wednesday; west
srly winds.
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Take your supper with the Chancel
Chapter at Guild parlors, Wednesday
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DIR. Prices is the foremost baking pow
der in all the world, because it's abso-
lutely pure.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

Daily edition, delivered by carrier. 10
cents : week to any part Of Topeka O.
ruburhs, OF st the same price in any
Kansas tewn whore this paper has car
Eisr system.
By mail, three months .......S .so
By mail, one year ............ s.6o
Weekly Edition, per year ....... .o0
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Lovers of choice music will not fail to
attend the benefit concert to be rendered
to Miss Wallace at Library hall toniobt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19

DR.. Prices is the only baking powder
that will make fine pastry without short
ening. It's absolutely pure.
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WAGES OF BUSY PENS
MEAGER PAY OF OUR MOST FAMOUS
AUTHORS.

Starving While Following the Path of Lit
erature-Growth of Literature and Jour
na1ism-False Ideas-Work of Eowells
and James-Roses and the Thorns.
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Chancel Chapter of Grace cathedral
will give supper at Guild parlors.
Wednesday evening, February 90. at
6 o'clock. 25c