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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

at least 20 frealish periodicals now in
the field that have seen the Light with
in the past year and which may never
live to see the light of another Just
what has caused this remarkable out
burst 1t is hard to say, but it seems to
be in some way indefinitely connected
with the new school Of art commonly
known IS the Beardsleyesqu from the
name of its leading English exponent.
Undoubtedly The Chap Book was the
pioneer of them all and is partly re-
sponsible for the rest. The considerable
and almost instant success of this queer
booklet probably had much to DO with
the freak train that has followed ia its
tracks Chicago gave us The Chap Book.
Its founder and editor is Herbert Stuart
Stone, a son of Melville T. Stone, the
manager Of the Associated Press But
the idea originated with Bliss Carman,
the poet, who has had much to do with
its subsequent production. Tt is now
in its fourth volume it may be said
to have carved out q niche for itself
which it may retain for some time I'M
less crowded ont by some Of its cOntem-
poraries which are even more fantastic
IN matter and illustration.
Then there is The Philistine. "a
Rer1Od1cal OF Protest is the subtitle,
and the announcement says that it is
printed every little while for the So
ciety Of the Philistines and published
by them monthly" I6 emanates from
East Aurora, N. Y. just where that is
the inhabitants Of West Aurora may
know, but I'm sure I don't I have
heard, though, that it IS located on
Cazenovia creek, and that ought to be
sufficient.
The Philistine is sufficiently unique
to please the most fantastic mind 1t is
a diminutive booklet, with covers Of
coarse, brown butchers paper, orna-
mented with old style type in red and
black ink The inside pages are Of
heavy, rough white paper, which is
rather expensive. The Society Of the
Philistines was originally a myth-at
least it was composed of Harry p. Ia
Der, @ young Buffalo newspaper writer
He conceived the idea Of giving din
ner in the name of the mythical society
to Stephen Crane, the meteoric young
writer who at "a is famous as the writ
or of ''The Red Badge Of Courage.
Well, q lot Of authors and artists were
invited and the dinner was given Then
Taber issued The Philistine, having Sc
cured as q financial hacker Ebert Hub
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13


WILL H. BRADLEY, By HIMSELF.
died even If the stories are not worth
reading, and if they are you get full
value for your money.
The BibelOt, published IN Portland
Me, by Thomas B. Mosher, has a dis
tinctive field and more than an excuse
for existing. In it are reprinted scraps
Of poetry and prose chosen from scarce
editions. Mr.. bIosher is an old newspa-
per man who has spent a lifetime col
lecting rare and curious books.
Whims, published in New York,
prints poetry of eccentric meter and
short sketches ia prose.
The Lotus has its origin IN Kansas
City. Tt is a most picturesque and ar
tistic production Of the printshop with
Beardsleyized cover in black and red.
The paper used is an imitation Of pareh-
ment. It prints poems and sketches by
undergraduates of colleges, and judging
from the March number its contributors
must suffer much from indigestion.
In Kansas City, alse, is published
Poster Lore, a journal Of enthusiasm
devoted to the appreciation Of modern
posters. lit is highly artistic. Then
there are The Lark and several others
published in various cities.
But the most unique Of all the freaks
is the latest in the field. Bradley, His
Book, it is called, and it is privately
printed in Springfield, Mass, for VIII
a. Bradley, the young artist who has
made such a great success in the new
school 1t is either an artistic delight or
an illustrated nightmare, just as you
happen to feel The type used is known
as the Jensen old style, with fabricated
initials Mr. Bradley viii do much of
the drawing, and the first number con
tains a unique picture of himself by
himself. The first issue bears an April
date.
Just what is to be the end of this
craze for the unusual in literature, as
we'll as art, it is interesting but useless
to speculate. To the conservative OBJ
server 1t looks as if the artists and writ
ers had gone mad and were running
wild IN untrodden and forbidden fields
Perhaps it is simply a wave of reform,
and we are all to be educated up to ik-
ing this sort OF thing
Doubtless the young men who are
printing these freak magazines hope to
get back some day the money which
they are now spending. If they do, they
viii deserve great credit for their cour-
age. SEwELL FoRD.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

The Philistine, still contributes stories
and sketches TO it.
The freak magazine seems to have no
particular habitat but Boston has been
the most prolific in @hese productions
thus far From the Hub come Miss Blue
Stocking, The Fly Leaf The Black
Cat and The Nickel Magazine, and
there may be others
Miss Blue Stocking is perhaps the
most extraordinary of the lot 1t is the
smallest, too, if there is any credit in
that, and many would say that there is.
Tt would fit nicely into an official en-
velope, and 2 cent stamp would carry
it through the mails at letter rates. 1t is
about the width Of a newspaper column
and half as long. Richard GOrham Badg-
er announces on one Of the back leaves
that he is the managing editor. The
name sounds imposing enough, and per
haps Mr.. Badger is one of the most
prominent lights Of the literary frma-
ment. If so, we who have not previous
~ heard of him must confess that we
are not up to the times
Miss Blue Stocking is in the first vol
uIne of its existence. It was started SO a
semimonthly-, but has just been changed
to monthly. Perhaps Mr.. Badger finds
that it is an expensive luxury to appear
in print oftener than once in 80 days
He had at least three advertisements in
the March number l spent fully a
quarter of an hour in carefully reading
that number, and when I had finished I
wondered what it was all about. Half
of the pamphlet was devoted to what
was probably meant for a burlesque of a
Maeterlincl1 drama. Tt probably pleased
Beacon Hill nightly. On the two mid
die pages was a poster picture by Ed
ward Penfeld. Tt represented q girl with
yellow hair reading a yellow covered
book and sitting in yellow chair sur
rounded by yellow white and black
cats.
The Fly Leaf, as the cover announces,
Is conducted by Walter Blackburn Harte
and is a pamphlet periodical Of tbs
century end, for curious persons and
book lovers. p Mr. Blackburn is a liter
airy authority Of some note. He was at
one time connected with The Arena and
also The New England Magazine. The
aims of his publication are high, and it
may have a mission. Perhaps there are
some people who viii come to yearn for
The Fly Leaf. Five numbers have been
issued.
The Black Cat and The Nickel Maya
zine do not make a speciality Of literary
monsTosities, as the others seem to do,
but publish short stories. Romance pub
lished in New York, and The Penny
Magazine, issued in Philadelphia, are
in the same field. They sell for 8 cents
a copy, SO you are not very badly swim
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13
ABOUT BOOKCASES.
What to Do When Space FOrbids
Real Library.
An Arrangement With Silk Panels for
Artistic Drawing Rooms.

In some artistic homes the difficulty
about having bookcases in the drawing
room has been solved by making them
of oak stained green, with broche silk
panels and green velvet top pieces, in
stead Of leather and reed blinds in place
Of glass. Many protest strongly against
glass and claim that it does not keep out
dust-it keeps it in. Moreover, glass
doors are not easily opened
To the indolent man is commended
the conversion of the bow window into
a dwarf bookcase. A few shelves fixed to
the wall will contain many books, and
on the upper shelf, prettily covered with
a strip Of good embroidery, a collection
Of pipes, tobacco jars, pens and ink can
be kept. A Zap attached to the top shelf,
and easily raised or lowered, could be
used as a writing desk and with the ad-
dition Of a luxurious reading chair the
cherries bow window would become
delightful ''cozy corner.
Medium sized Standardization Sc
1ected with a view to the accommoda-
ton Of books instead of china-afford,
with few alterations, admirable book
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13
PArLRoAD EARNINcs.

The Interstate commerce commission
has issued a preliminary report Of the
railway business Of the country for the
year ending June 80. 1895.
The number of miles of line repre-
scented in the statement IS 164. 529. 80.
The total gross earnings upon this
mileage during the year ending June
90, 1895. was $1,000. O22. s5s. of which $685.
465. 1872 were earned by the passenger
service INCLUDING mail and express).
and s6s3. O22. 98s were earned by the
freight service The operating ezpen-
ses for the year were s677, 667, 6s5. which.
being deducted from total gross earn
ings leaves an income from operation
Of 1925. 355. 2l8-
The decrease in the earnings of the
passenger service per mile Of line for
the year covered by this report, as
compared with the previous year, was
s177. The decrease in the previous
year, as compared with the year 1898,
was s159, making a decrease in the pas
senger earnings per mile Of line Of 1896
for the fiscal year OF 1895 as compared
with the fiscal year 1898.
The earnings of the freight service
for the fiscal year 1895 show an in
crease over the earnings Of the prev
ious year of s149 per mile Of line.
1t viii be seen from the foregoing fig
ures that while the railroads have SUI
fered along with every other business,
from the panic gotten UP by Mr.. Cleve-
land and the New York bankers, and
the subsequent repeal Of the Sherman
law. they have stin made a net profit
Of 1925. 355. 218. though the value of
their property has perhaps shrunk
many times that amount
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

In a little book recently issued called
The School of Politics" the author, Mr..
z. Hofer. a member Of the Oregon
legislature makes the rather startling
assertion that s'if the truth were known
in every instance it would be found
that the majority Of banking institu-
tions in cities of $4,000 to 100 600 popu-
lation that went to the wall in the
United States in the panic of 1894
were closely Connected with municipal
politics. OF the SO. 600 600 Of these rob
berries and defalcations ia 1893 and the
SIS. O00. 900 in 1894 it would be found that
they were the direct results OF the
bankers entering the field of machine
politics" This he explains. arises
from the spending of money freely,
the carrying Of spurious paper. the
floating of questionable loans on cor
poratons connected with the public
service, such as water bonds, street
car mortgages. gas stock and electric
light plants. By securing favorable
contracts through the political ere
atoms of bossism extensions are
planned and carried out that after
wards prove unremunerative and the
securities Of the entire concern are
weakened and thrown on the market
Perhaps he is not far from the truth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13
THE FREAK MAGAZINE.
An Interesting Development Of
Up-tO-Date Impression.
QUAINT ART. QUEER LITERATURE.
Fantastic Productions in Odd Typo
graphy That Flout the Convention
alities in Eccentric Verse and
Whimsical Prose ~ From
Beardsley to Bradley.

The day Of the freak magazine seems
to have arrived A perfect food of pub
locations, strange in form, weird as to
illustration and quaint Of type, is pour
ing out and almost engulfng the familiar
and more sober monthly literature to
which we have been accustomed. We
can hardly afford to call it a food
either That almost seems too dignifed.
An outbreak, an eruption, an epidemic,
would indicate it better.
Every bookstall bears evidence Of the
new fad 1t Is safe to say that there are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

cases tor the family or sitting room. In
the large deep drawers weekly papers
and account bOoks-dear to the heart Of
the ideal hOusewife-can be neatly kept,
while the quaint shape of most Of the
dreszers tampts one to lningle pictures
and plates with the books In the SPACE
underneath the placing of an old copper
jar for waste paper is suggested.
In the recess that one so often finds
near the fireplace q corner bookcase
may be fitted, ana it IS very decorative.
Almost every cultured woman has an
ideal room thrust away IN the back
ground Of her aspirations to which she
approaches as near as fortune and op-
portunity viii permit her. Some women
delight to have new furniture designed
for their particular apartment and ex-
elusive use. Others, again, go forth into
the lanes and byways in search of an
tique treasures that have already lived
many lives in many homes. To these
the Chippendale bookcase, with its dark
triangular shelves, appeals with pecul-
lar force.
Numbered among oddities in book
cases arc those made to match the books.
a remarkable instance is that of an
Englishman who had a strange fad in
books. He had them bound in colors,
which, according to his theories, suited
their characters. For instance, he had
all theological books bound in red, be-
cause of the blood shedding they had
caused; science in gold, since most of
it IS based on the discoveries of seekers
for the aurum potable; poetry in green,
to hint that 1t is man S spring Offering.
In order to carry out these fancies, he
had bookcases to mahogany for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13
FRITZ IN HARD LUCK.
Young Emmett Unable to Pay His
Fathers Funeral Expenses.

Fathers Funeral Expenses.
Albany. April 13.-Joseph X. Emmett
has played in many roles prominent
among which are Fritz in Ireland
Fritz in a AIadhouse.' etc, and it re-
mains for him to stage his latest his
trOnic character. Fritz in Hard Luck"
which was acted in this place before a
small but decidedly select audience. He
was forced to own up to a remarkable
degree OF bankruptcy as q consequence
of his failure to settle with the under
takers for the expenses attendant upon
the death and burial of his father. the
famous and old original Fritz
Marshall Tebutts Sons, undertakers
at S4 and SIS North Pearl street. this
city, recently applied for and received
a writ of attachment from the city
court on the proprties of J. X Emmett
who was scheduled to appear here un-
der the management of James S. Sui
hvan in Fritz in Love"
On the 18th of June. 1891. at the spe-
cial instance of the defendant, thesp plain
tiffs received the remains of the elder
they had arrived from the asylum in
which he died. They were conveyed to
the Albany Rural cemetery, where they
were inferred. The usual attendance
was bestowed, and money was paid out
for carriages hearses the usual fun
eral item The value of these services
was S66.44 When the bill was present
ed to Emmett, he promised TO pay 1t
shortly, and he repeated the promise
presentation Of the claim. with the
exception of the last, when he refused.
The amount now due the undertakers
is SSH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

During the last two years Of Cleve-
lands first term s5S.OOO.OOO more gold
came into the country than went out.
During the first two years of his pres
ent term s84. 600. 900 more gold went out
than came in. The last two years Of
Cleveland's first trem were the most
prosperous the country has known since
1873; the first half of his present term
the most disastrous Whether pros
perity causes gold to come in and ad-
versity drives it out, or not, one thing
is evident from the above facts and
that is that an expansion Of the money
volume is accompanied by prosperous
conditions and a contraction Of the
money volume is attended by hard
times. OF the first part Of this propo-
sition the country had an example in
1875; of the latter part we are receiv-
ing an Illustration now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

The apathy among Democratic aspir-
ants for the presidency is doubtless
due to uncertainty regarding the party
platform. If the party endorses the
gold standard then nobody wants it.
because success wiz be out Of the
question; If the party declares for free
silver then none Of those usually men
toned for the nomination can get it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

The oregon Republicans declare for
the use Of both gold and silver with
such restrictions as viii maintain a
parity Of values between the two met
ais. The restrictions are causing all
the trouble now. Remove all the re-
strictions and the parity will be estab-
Mshed and remain undisturbed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

It is unfortunate that the police com
missioners didn't think Of applying
their present plan Of closing the joints
when SO many burglaries were going
on. 1t would have been money in the
pockets of a number of citizens, had
the police notified the burglars to quit
business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

The arrest Of the diamond thief
seems uncaned for. He should have
been ordered by the police to stop
snatehing the sparklers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money If it
fails to cure. 25c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

If Governor Morrill, keeps UP his re-
cent average he can pardon about zoo
more convicts before his term expires
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

The free silver movement has passed
the stage of discussion. The people
are now organizing and voting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

The St. Louis Post Dispatch now uses
Popuist paper ia the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

Chicago. April 13-For Kansas. Fair
tonight and Tuesday; warmer in west
portion tonight; westerly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13
HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSION
April z and 81 and Nay 3, 1se6-The
Great Rocl, Island

Will sell tickets to points in Okla
homa. Texas. Arkansas. Missouri, Ari-
iona and Indian Territory. at one fare
plus 81 for the round trip. For tickets.
reservations and all information cali
on your nearest Rock Island agent.
~ d. FULLER City Pass. Agt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13
BREAKS ALL RECORDS.
The Topeka Daily State Journal now
has a circulation of
IO,078.

which is greater than that of any
daily or Sunday paper in Kansas
CIRCULATION STATEMENT FOR
MARCH, 1896.
The issues Of the Topeka Daily State
Journal from the first day Of March.
1896 to the 31st day Of March. 1886. in
elusive. have been as follows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

the theology. gilded walnut for the sci
ence, oak stained green for the poetry,
etc. One bookcase was a hodgepodge Of
colors, and the bindings were rainbow
hke-the books, he told, were of the
class called curious in catalogues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

LoLaI z {, 55U
Sunday; no issue
The total number of copies printed in
the month named above. 277650. d.
vided by rs. the number Of issues shows
the average to be 10678. This Is a cor
rect report Of the issues of the Topeka
Daily State Journal for the month of
March, 1896 as stated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-13

UaLu, q AlIIlluudIfe soap LutlLl ILsL,
and the society has grown to be a some
what genuine organization.
The matter printed in The Philistine
is composed largely Of whimsical sketch
es, much after the style Ct the prose
pastels which Mary E. Wilkins wrote
and for which she has never been for
given Weird poetry also finds a place
in the pages. Here is a sample. entitled
"a Bucoaneer Toast
To the 6end Of the seven seas.
To the print of the dead man IS thumb,
To a curse st death with dying breath,
Here's death In q draft Of ranl
Here's to HE'LL Toss st on in a quar-. lads;
Drink the health Of the devil and laugh lads;
Pledge the tale Of the wheat and the chat,
ladsl
Here's to HE'LL
Crane, wh5 was at one tine editor Of
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-04-09
TABLE LANDS or VENEZUELA.
Civilized Nnn Has Never visited III,
Uroud pIntcuus of the Interior.

tfNfI the NHW York sun.
Perhaps on, result Of the venezuela
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