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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
THINGS HAVE CHANGED.

As an encouragement to those Dem
ocrats who are inclined to support the
Republican ticket but are hanging off
on account of the party's position on
the tariff, the St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat says editorially:
The tariff plank of the st. Louis con-
ventiOn said: I'VE are not pledged to
any particular schedules. The question
OF rates is a practical question, to be
governed by the conditions of the time
and of production These words are a
speech by Mckinley at Chicago at the
Observances of LincOln's birthday an
niversary five months ago. Both Nc
Kinley and the platform makers used
these words with the intention of head
ing off any notion that the Mckinley
law will be re-enacted if the Republi-
cans win. No Republican convention
or gathering OF any sort held this year
anywhere asked to have the Mckinley
law put back on the statute book. Not
one Republican out of one hundred
Mckinley law would be as vain as an
attempt would be to swing the world
calendar back to 1890
High tariff is a spook which Dem
ocratic politicians evoke to brighten
honest money Democrats from voting
the honest money ticket-the Republi-
can ticket. The Republicans do not
want a high tariff" but they want a
Wilson tariff is not that it is too low,
but that it is unequal and unprOduc-
tive. Some of its duties are too high.
Some Republicans want a moderate
tariff, one that will treat with reason
able fairness all Industries that need
protection, that will not give so much
to any Of them that trusts will be fOs-
tered, and that will furnish enough
revenue But the tariff is only a minor
issue this year. Very little will be heard
about it in the canvass. Moreover. no
change, good or bad. can be r1ade in
the Wilson act for several years. No
matter how large a majority the Re
publicans have in the house of 1879
the senate is likely to be in the
hands of the silverftes and thew Will
defeat any tariff legislation which may
be attempted. The money issue dwarfs
every other in 1896 as the slavery issue
did in 1S56-60, and men must drop
all smaller concerns now and take sides
on the dominant question as they did
then Honest money Democrats must
vote for the honest money candidate,
Mckinley, and when this question is
settled old issues and party divisions
can be restored.
If the GlObe-DemOcrat's construction
of the St Louis platform be correct
then that tariff plank does not differ
materially from the one adopted at
Chicago 1t is we'll understood that the
Republican platform adopted at St
Louis made the party go back on all
its previous record on the money cues
ton. It is also we'll understood that
the most recently attempted tariff leg
islation by the Republican majority in
congress (the Dingley bid was along
Democratic lines. But it has not here
tOfOre been understood that the plat
form makers at St. Louis had commit
idea as is indicated by the Globe-Dem-
Ocrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
GOLD GAMBLERs GET GAY.

New York brokers, many of them
with foreign names, are loud in their
talk of the honor of the flag" The
two worst hotbeds of secession during
the war were New York and Charleston
S. c. New York thought so much of
the "honor of the flag during the war
that Abraham Lincoln had to send an
army there to shoot down the blatant
traitorous mobs of foreigners in the
streets. New York never has been an
American city. IF it were governed by
martial law all the time it would be
better for the country. A list of the
names of the stock exchange gold gam
bIers who seized the American flag and
paraded about the hall shouting about
preserving the honor of the American
flag is published in a New York paper
and well up to the head of the list are
such American" names as Isador
Wormser. Heinrich Bloch. Heinrich
Zimmerman, Ernest Groesbeck, T. st.
Goar etc"
The New York Journals account of
the demonstration says:
while the parade was in progress
the air was filed with shouts of Down
with PopulismP' Down with Anar-
chyP' mo red flag in oursP' "Hurrah
for AcKinley!' Give US sound mon
cyl" There were very few of the brok-
ers, even the gray-haired ones, who
did not join heartily in the demonstra-
ton. Business was entirely suspended
during the time the ovation to the flag
was in progress. Little knots Of brok-
ers gathered in consultation here and
there on the floor. Democrats who had
joined in the parade, to the number Of
$50 or more, made haste to join the Nc
Kinley organization"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
THAT DIVORCE DECISION

A little furore has been stirred up
by the decision of the appellate court
at Fort Scott that it is said invali-
dates the divorces of the past 25 years.
The whole affair, however, is a temp
est in a teapot. Some decision of this
sort generally misconstrued and mis-
understood comes UP first in one state
and then in another and startles SEN
sational newspapers into foolish head
lines, a good deal like 'the baby in the
drive welT' story. The divorced cou-
pies themselves are not alarmed. Le-
gal decisions that are manifestIy fool
ish and unjust generally turn out to
be illegal as well. There is no cause
for alarm. The state will not be filed
with bigamists and illegitimate child
rem by this decision. Is it to be sup
posed that all the people who have been
divorced and married again in the last
25 years are to accept the dictum that
their relations have been unlawful?
What nonsense; and newspapers are
extremely foolish to pretend that there
is anything in such nonsense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
MORE PARK TALK.
A Somewhat Visionary Scheme to
Turn the Douthitt Tract Into One.

The people living in the vicinity of
the Douthitt tract are agitating the
question OF the purchase of the 16O
acre unbroken prairie west of Topeka
avenue and north of the fair grounds
for a park.
The question is still in an embryotic
condition, but it may develop soon into
a plan to be submitted to the city coun-
Gil There is only one thing that could
be done and that would be for the city
to purchase the ground. 1t is proba-
bic that a suggestion for the purchase
will be made to the city council; and
it is probable it will be rejected as the
city can't afford to buy it.
The tract would really make an eX-
celIent park, however. There is a little
stream running through it which if it
could be damned to make a lake would
be large enough for boating. It would
be necessary to plant trees because it
is entirely without timber. but with
the improvements which might be
made it would be one of the best Iocat-
ed and attractive parks in the west.
There are $50 acres in the field and it
has never been used for anything but
a COW pasture During the boom Mr..
Douthitt was offered an enormous price
for the property but he refused to ac-
cept it. Now, it is understood, that
the land could be purchased at a low
figure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
COMFORTABLE CAMPING
Some Timely Hints on ROughing
1t In the Woods.
A FEW TRICKS OF ROODCRAFT.
How to Build a W oodman's Range
That Will Cook as Well as a Kitch-
en- Stove.-The Campfire.

ooh, yes, we're going to start for the
woods in a couple Of weeks. "
You'll make the camp in the same
old place, eh?''
Certainly. It's the finest spot in the
neighberhood. -
How I envied that fellowl He was
going to live for three or four weeks in
a tent pitched near the shore Of one of
the prettiest little lakes in New Hamp-
shire. He was going to enjoy fine fish
ing, good boating and all the wild de-
lights Of roughing it. He was going to
smoke his evening pipe in cOngenial
company, seated around blazing camp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

COVER.
fire, and be lulled to sleep at night by
the soft soughing of the wind through
the branches of the big pines back Of
the tent. He was bound to have royal
good time of it, was sure, because he
knew exactly how to do it.
A few days ago met another friend,
and he enthusiastically told me that he,
too, was going to camp out for week
or two, and actually I almost pitied
him. Why? Because he had never had
any experience in the woods before, and
he was going with a party Of men who
were equally ignorant. I had been in
the same boat once, and confess that,
much as I enjoyed my later camping
trips, the memory of that first expert
ence is not altogether a pleasant one.
The charm of novelty, which is gener-
ally sufficient to cover many discOm-
forts, was not great enough to make me
wholly forget the price we paid for our
inexperience and the resulting mistakes.
No, the novice at camping does not
generally have a good time on his first
outing unless he has as a COmrade a
camper of experience. If he doesn't, he
must find out a lot OF things for himself
Woodcraft cannot be learned from books,
and how to camp comfortably is an ac-
cOmplishment that can only be acquired
by those who have the instinct of the
woods lover.
This need not discourage any amateur
camper. If I thought it would, I
shouldn't say a word about it. But the
man or boy who really loves the woods
is not one to be easily discouraged. Be
sides, these remarks apply to the genu-
inc camper, for there are camps and
camps. Some people think they are
camping out when they sleep in care
fully built log cabin furnished with
bearskin rugs, Mexican hammOcks.
rocking chairs, gas, hot water and the
like. Many of the big mountain hotels
have this sort of cabins located on adj
jacent lawns, and they are rented at
fancy prices to people who get their
meals in the hotel dining room and i'm
agine they are camping out.
But the real camper is he who leaves
railroads and civilization far behind
and has his outfit carted or bOated to
some remote spot where there is not
house in sight and where the wilderness
is undisturbed Then he may rough it
in the full sense of the term Let him
get ten miles from lemon" and he
will be at a safe distance.
The selection of the outfit is where
he will first be called upon to show
what he has learned by experience.
First comes the tent. A wall or mill
tary tent is undoubtedly the roomiest,
but some campers prefer a wedge or A
tent because it is of simpler construc-
ton and easier put up, but this is
matter of taste. In either case take
tent cover. This may be made of cheap
cotton duck, but of course light canvas
is better. The cover serves as an extra
roof to your canvas home and not only
makes it rainproof. but gives you cool
tent if the weather is warm. The cover
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
A CAMP RANGE.

and still another across the front Of
these. There you have a fireplace that
will be joy to your heart. When you
build up blaze in that, you will have
q fire before which you can sit without
fear of smoke or fame, for the solid back
wall prevents the wind from driving the
smoke directly toward the tent. The
heat is radiated in the right direction,
too, and on chilly nights this is very
com Portable.
The selection of a camp should be
made with care, for much of your COM
fort depends upon it. Don't stick up
your tent wherever you happen to drop
your outfit. Look over the location thor
Oughly first. OF course the camp must
be near water, but not too near. A
shaded knoll near a creek or the shore
of the lake is an ideal spot Just re-
membe that you will have some rainy
days and pitch your tent on high ground.
Dig a trench around it, too, with some
cutters to lead off the water that is sure
to fall. Take time enough in putting
up your tent to plant the poles firmly if
you don't want them to fall down with
the first storm.
Just bear that probable rainstorm in
mind, too, when you make your bed. If
you have a high wall tent you can
make, with a few forked stakes, a
springy mattress of poles that will keep
you few inches off the ground. Cover
the poles with fir boughs, and there you
will have a couch On which you can
defy storms and rheumatism. After you
have eamped for two or three seasons
and learned these and other tricks Of
woodcraft you will look forward with
longing to a pleasant and comfortable
outing in the woods, and, what is more,
you will be able to realize it too.
SFWEII FORD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

The Topeka State Journal. to be fair
should publish the names Of Demo-
cratic boilers, as it has the Republi-
can l1ickers.-Beloit Times.
1t is; we are printing columns of
news about Democrats who are join
ing the Mckinley column. Today you
will find a long list Of Democratic pa
pers that have gone over to Mckinley
good strong papers, too Whatever the
views the Journal holds does not pre-
vent it from printing the news and all
the news.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

Delphos Republican: Reading Repub-
licans out of the party, as Cy Leland
and his fugleman, Sol Miller of the Troy
Chief, are doing. is very apt to leave a
bad taste in the party nav about the
ides of November. The party has no
votes to spare. with the field combined
against it, as will be the case this fall,
and these wreckers better leave their
dung forks in the stables than use
them to pitch Republicans out of the
party enclosure. The Republican par
ty was formed and led to victory by
just such men as these marplots are
now squirting their YitroI at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
BLAINE JR. AN ATHLETE.
Political Discussion Develops Into g
FIGHT.

New York. July Thames G. Blaine,
now engaged in commercial pursuits in
this city, who dropped the Jr. after his
ilIustrious fathers death, was a pris-
oner in the Jefferson Market police
court yesterday morning.
Mr.. Blaine was riding in an uptown
car when he turned to a man next to
him and said he thought Mckinley
would have wall1Over The neighbor
was on the other side of the fence and
a heated argument developed. AS his
irate antagonist got off the car he told
Blaine to follow and he would punch
his face. A fight ensued, Blaine knocked
two of the other fellows teeth out and
punched him terribly. Blaine got off
with a SO fine, his victim not appear
ing against him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

The sold men say that our gold dol
lar is good for its face anywhere in Eu-
rope while our silver dollar is not. The
silver dollar, however, is good for 100
cents worth OF European exchange at
any bank in the country. What more
co you want ?-TOpeka Journal.
If the silver dollar is good for 100
cents anywhere in the country what
are you kicking acknowledgements Re
publican.
We want more of them. Doesn't the
editor of the Syracuse Republican?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

One of the questions propounded by
the gold men is: If 371z grains of sill
yer can be made worth a dollar why
cannot 371H grains of copper be made
worth a dollar A sufficient answer to
this is that an attempt to do so would
be unconstitutional. The advocates
of free coinage are not demanding an
experiment such as the coinage of cop
per would be but are asking for the
restoration of a money system that
operated successfully for a hundred
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

bags, so that they may be shou1dered if
necessary, 1GE yOu may have to carry
everything from the wagon for some
distance to reach your camp site. Do
not take sugar, coffee, tea, ETC., in paper
bags. Have instead a lot of tins with
tight fitting covers. You will see the
wisdom IN this after your outfit has
been once soaked by rain. Whatever else
you leave out don't forget that salt pork
and plenty Of it is a prime necessity in
the woods where fresh meat, unless you
are going into big game region, is not
to be had. For a satisfactory and easily
prepared meal let me recommend Boston
baked beans in cans Beans, hard tack
or pilot bread and coffee can be relied
upon to furnish many & meal on days
when the fish will not bite well or game
will be scarce.
Take at least one box, not too large.
though. You will need this for your re-
fTigerator. Oh, yes, refrigerator is not
an impossibility in the woods. It is cas-
lily made. Big a hole in shady place
where the earth is damp and sink your
box in it. Then, if the cover fits tightly,
you can cover it over lightly and milk,
eggs, meat, etc, will keep fresh almost
as long in it as in an icebox.
Now about the cooking fire. Only
the best Of campers can make fire that
can be successfully used to cook with.
The novice Invariably goes to work and
builds up q little pyramid of sticks from
which he gets more smoke than heat
In trying to cock he blisters his hands,
sears his eyebrows, melts the handles
and bottoms from his pots and pans and
burns his meat to a crisp on the outside
while the center is as raw as if it had
not been near she fire.
The old camper goes about it differ
emily. He first cuts down a tree-a
young elm or maple is best-and then
he makes two logs, hewed fat on two
sides, like railroad ties. These he puts
side by side on the ground, not exactly
parallel, but with an opening of about
a foot at the wide end. Between these
green logs he builds small but hot fire
of dry wood cut into short lengths. Aft
er the wood has burned up we'll he puts
on his pots and pans, resting them on
the fat surface of the logs. By driving
a forked stick at each end of his range
and placing a stout green pole across
the forks he has q crane, from which he
can swing his kettle. Cooking after this
fashion is almost as easy as using a
StONS' Il you are OA d LAKE SuOt6 WA0T6
there are plenty of good fat rocks you
can, with little ingenuity, build
small frebox that will be just as salts
factory.
The campfire, which adds cheerful
ness to the evenings, should be differ
ent affair altogether. About Is or 30
feet in front of your tent drive two
stout green posts at a slight incline
away from the tent. In trimming them
leave few of the branches four or five
inches on one side. Against these stakes
pile up more green logs SO that you have
a back wall three or four feet high. Lay
two more green logs on the ground in
front to form the sides of your fireplace
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
/. don't be so sickishly sloppy.

Lawrence World Rep) The Kansas
City Gazette wants to dispose of the
silver question by RELOCATING it to the
various congressional districts. How
would it be disposed of here in the Sec
ond district where we have a candidate
who is a national banker without a
platform? Unless something is done to
let the people know that Mr.. Harris
knows something on the financial ques-
ton. he is going to be short OF votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

Ness County News Rep0: The Troy
Chief, Cy Leland's mOuthpiece. is in
favor Of kicking out of the Republican
party all men who do not meekly bow
down to the Ickelheimer plank in the
St Louis platform. It might be policy
to do so, but it would most likely make
a big hole in the vote of Kansas, where
silver platforms have been adopted
without opposition for the last six
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
To Chicago, st. Louis and the East
Via "BurIington Route.n

The travelling public is sure to find
the best fast Vestibuled trains from the
Missouri river to the east via the Bur
lingtOn Route" Elaborate cOmpart-
ment sleepers, (same rate as standard
sleepers) free chair cars of luxurious
pattern to st. Louis; standard sleepers,
free chair cars and dining cars to Chi
cago.
Ask ticket agent for tickets via YES
tibuled Eli to Chicago. and via the YES
tibuled Limited to St. Louis.
L. w. WAKELEY,
General Passenger Agent
ST. Louis Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

Garnett Agitator: Last night Dick
Blue told a story of a Dutchman who
had money deposited in a bank. The
Dutchman said: Ven dot pank hat
money I don'd can't it. But if it hat no
money den want it right away, quick. -
Dicks mind probably reverted to some
of the depositors in the Linn county
bank which he and his pals wrecked
some time ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
SICKNESS is RIFE
Among the Police Force These Ho
Nights.

There is considerable sickness among
the members of the police force. and
the past few nights those on duty have
had to spread out over more territory.
Jailer Disbrow has very poor health.
and he usually loses about two-thirds
of the time when he is on for night
duty. Sergeant Tim Donovan has been
sick for three nights and one of the
force has had to act in his place.
Officer Long is sick, and during his
absence PatrOlman BAIL has been on
his beat. Frank PARCELS was sick q
few days ago. None of the sickness is
serious, but it cripples the force to a
considerable extent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

Free silver men will like this from
the New York Press: while the howl
ing hordes of free silver and anarchy
are on their way home from their Chi
cago riot and for the time are quiet,
the great chorus of Republicans singing
our campaign song, Mckinley and Pro
tection,' goes on growing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

There is not a dishonest hair on Sam
Peters devoted head. His whole pub
lie and private life stands a protest to
any such possible imputation. AS a
lawyer as judge on the bench, a a
congressman, in all the years in which
the people of south Kansas have known
him. intimately, no charge of crooked
ness or of slackness was ever lodged
against him.-Wichita Eagle.
Oh. don't be so sickishly sloppy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
To St Paul and Minneapolis Via"Bur-
HnCton RoUte''

Two splendid through trains each
day from Missouri river points to the
north via the old established Bur
ling Route and Sioux City line. Day
train has handsome observation vesti-
buled sleepers, free chair cars and
dining cars (north of Council Bluffs.
Night train has handsome sleepers to
Omaha, Council Bluffs and Sioux City,
and parlOr cars Sioux City north.
Consult ticket agent.
L. W. WAKELEY
General Passenger Agent,
st. Louis, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

The decision of W. r. Hearst, the
young California millionaire proprietor
of the New York Journal, to swing that
paper to the support of the Bryan tick
ca probably carries with it the San
Francisco Examiner, the leading daily
of the Pacific coast, as he owns that
paper also.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

Grover Cleveland is out for Mckinley.
If the president wished to get into the
Republican party it was hardly neces-
sary to wreck his own party and the
country to do so. He could have quiet
ly walked in without calling upon the
people to pay so big a price for the
show
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

should be stretched tightly over the
roof of the tent proper, 80 as to leave a
space of about q foot between it and the
canvas. A hood of similar material Will
make an excellent porch roof for your
front door and add much to the COM
forts Of tent life. All old campers ap-
preciate these simple additions, which
seldom come with a regular tent.
When you lay in your stock of pro
visions, do not have them packed in ono
big box that cannot be conveniently
transported Put them rather in potato
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

Shepherds say that the wool Of the
sheep furnishes an excellent indication
Of weather changes. When it is crisp
there will be no rain When it is limp
and feels very soft to the touch storm
is imminent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17

The flags to be hoisted at one time in
signaling at sea never exceed 4. It is
an interesting arithmeticaI fact that
with 10 various colored flags, and never
more than 4 at a time, no fewer than
70. 642 SIGNALS can be given.