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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
EFFECT OF REDUCED FREIGHT
RATES

The recent conference held at Austin,
Texas, by representatives of Kansas,
Texas and Oklahoma for the purpose of
discussing alleged discrimination in
freight rates has given rise to much
discussion of railroad rates in general.
One gentleman is speaking of this mat
ter says:
We found corn selling in Beaumont,
Texas, which is in the lumber belt as
high as 55 cents per bushel. We also
found that lumber which ordinarily
costs about s22 per thousand in Kansas
and Oklahoma, retailing there at Sc If
the railroads would give US the same
treatment in our shipments to the gulf
that they give Indiana, which is about
the same distance from the Atlantic.
that Kansas is from the gulf. we would
save at least so per cent on all the lum-
Der we use and commodities of like
character and receive almost 100 per
cent more for our corn
May not this be a little too sanguine
a view of the matter? What assurance
is there that the man in Texas would
not be able to buy his corn at a price
below So cents exactly corresponding
with the reduction in freight charges?
In other words is it not possible that if
the rate on corn were reduced 10 cents
consumer would come down to As cents
instead of the Kansas farmers receiving
the difference?
The consumer is usually charged for
any commodity about what it costs the
local dealer plus a fair profit, the profit
being regulated by competition. If this
view of the matter should be found to
be the correct one a reduction of
freight rates would necessarily operate
in the same manner on lumber shipped
north and the Kansas farmer would be
able to buy his lumber cheaper by the
difference in freight rates. These re-
suits would make it worth the while of
Texas and Kansas to make an effort to
secure reduced rates, but is it not too
much to expect that both the producer
and the consumer of the same commo-
dity would be benefited?
Corn in Kansas is now worth say 20
cents 1t sells in Beaumont for SIS
cents. The difference, 30 cents repre-
sents freight charges and profit. De-
duct 10 cents from the freight charges
and is it reasonable to suppose that the
Texas consumer will donate any of it
to the Kansas producer? Is it not
more likely that he will buy his corn
for 45 cents. when it is considered that
the producer of an article cannot con-
troll the price of it when he is compelled
to sell it?
on the other hand, lumber which is
worth Sc per thousand in Texas sells
for $22 in Kansas; the difference, $16,
represents freight and profit. Take
from this Sc, as a reduction in freight
charges and is it not probable that the
Kansas man will buy this same lumber
for SIG per thousand While the Texas
producer continues to receive his same
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conclusions warranted by the history
of such transactions in the past.
The actual benefits to be derived
therefore from lower freight rates
would seem to be that the Kansan
could buy lumber cheaper and the
Texan could buy corn cheaper and
there would be no increase in the price
paid to the producer of either commodi-
ty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
PARENTS ASKED FOR MENUS.

[From the Kansas City Journal
Parents of school children in Kansas
City might consider it rather an imper-
tinent question if the superintendent of
the schools should address to them a
letter telling them what should be pro
Vided their children for breakfast How
ever, the superintendent of the San
Francisco schools last year became
cOnvinled that the bill of fare of school
children, particularly the breakfast.
needed revision. In order to ascertain
definite information, he asked the girls
attending the high school and the
higher grammar school grades to give
him bill of fare of the morning meal.
They did SO and it was. as a rule cof-
fee and rolls He believed it to lie
clearly within the province of school
work to send the mother of each child
a suggestion as to the proper kind of
food for children, to the end that the
children will be better nOurished and
their advancement rendered easier and
more rapid. The replies he received
convinced him that not more than one
child in ten had the kind of food that
good mental work required.
To estimate this situation correctly,
San Francisco people, excepting the
working people, eat a light breakfast,
take a lunch at noon, and dinner, which
is the chief meal, is eaten at six in the
afternoon.
"A child grows physically according
to the food, exercise and rest taken
said superintendent J. NJ. Greenwood
yesterday, when asked what effect the
child's food has on his Tecitations. If
the nOurishment be deficient in quality
and quantity, growth is retarded and
health impaired. 1t is the fuction of
the school to supervise. as far as posi-
BILE the study and rest periods of the
child while at school, but it has gen
orally been held that what food the
child shall or shall not eat is to be de-
termined by the parents, or the physi-
rafea fIoo obi &c iolr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

Thoughtful, no one wishes to tread that
path over again. 1t had extremely un-
pleasant places in it.
Today is no more sa tisfe-ctory to a
child than it is to you. He lives in his
weeping over the fact that his kite had
lodged in a tree top. He felt as badly
as Napoleon fattened to earth at St
Helena. Little troubles are not little to
him. They dim the sun.
Anyone who has come safely through
cutting teeth, WhoOping cough and meas
les, and also avoided hip disease, curva-
ture of the spine and a. broken neck will
not be likely to take these risks over
again. No one in a right mind wishes to
chance childhood once more. 1t m2-y do
for once. The child has q terrible gaunt-
let run.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
Col H c. Rizer Made Defendant

Colonel H. c. Rizer who formerly
lived in this city but moved away sew
eral years ago, is made the defendant
in a suit to recover $4,000, filed in the
district court yesterday afternoon. The
suit is brought by Henry Aff1enbach
and is on a judgment rendered against
the Topeka Commercial Security com
pany for an amount in the neighbor-
hood of So 000 Colonel Rizer is made
a party to the suit for the reason that
he was a stakeholder in the defunct
company and owned stock to the
amount of $4,000. 1t is said in the pc
tition that he has property in this city
sufficient to cover the judgment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
AValuable Preaoription.

Editor Morrison of Worthington, Ind,
Sun" writes: You have a valuable pre-
scription in Electric Bitters and I can
cheerfuly recommend it for sonstipa-
ton and sick headache, and as a gen
eral system tonic it has no equal" Mrs
Annie Stehle, 1925 Cottage Grove ave-
nue., Chicago, was all run down, could
not eat nor digest food. had a back
ache which never left her and felt tired
and weary, but six bottles of Electric
Bitters restored her health and re-
newed her strength. Prices 80 cents
and 81. Get a bottle at J. K. Jones
drug store. Fifth street and Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
IS CHILDHOOD HAPPYq

CFrom Myron Reeds Sunday Sermon)
We are so constructed that what was
pleasant in the past is wildly remember
ed-what was painful drops out.
The hard fact is that the past is as a
whole something are we'll rid of.
Who desires to live over again childhood?
We remembered we laughed, but with an
effort we can rememb Der that We cried. AS
. rule children are hopeful; 50 are men
and women. A happy childhood is not
by any means a matter OF course.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
DRIFT-WooD.

clarence Urmy, in Lippincott's.)
What other fuel can so make the fire of
Memory glow
AS listening to forgotten songs we sang
long, long ago?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
TWO HOTELS BURN. -.
The Schmidt and the Mineral Springs
Park of Milwaukee Destroyed
by Fire.

Milwaukee, April 29-Fire destroyed
the Schmidt Hotel. a four-story. building
morning. When the guests were awsl-
ened the fire had spread from the first
to the second story and escape by the
StairWayS was cut off Firemen rescued
all the inmates, fifteen in number. Some
of the women were unconscious when
found by the hremen.
About two hours later the fire depart
ment was called to Mineral Spring Park
Hotel popular resort near the River
side park. The hotel was completely de-
stroyed.
Among the greatest medical discov-
cries of the century was Ayers Sarsa-
parilla.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
Z. of L. Declare War.

Washington, April 29-The general
executive board of the Knights of La
Dor today formally declared war against
the Federation of Labor on account Of
the action of the National Brewery
workers union, an affiliated body of the
American Federation of Labor, which
is accused of endeavoring to wrong the
members of the Rochester Brewery
Workers local assembly of the
Knights of Labor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

sunday. no issue.
Grand total of copies printed during the
three months, 917.670.
The grand total when divided by =,
which is the actual number of days of
issue, shows that the average number of
complete copies printed per issue was
Il S17.
This is a correct report for the three
months of 1897 and is made for the pGT-
pose of being placed on file and securing
an accurate and exact circulation rating.
fCfnrnad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

Paris is said to be ashamed of its own
vileness and is going to reform. Moth
ing but birthstone will reform much of
the French capitaI-Abilene Reflector.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

In this country the hard times have
prevented many a man from marriage
and in Persia the hard times have
caused the shah to reduce his line of
wives to 63.-Newton Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

California Express, every day in the
year via the Santa Fe Route, with
Pullman Palace and Tourist Sleepers,
leaves Topeka at 4:35 p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
sEX RAYS"

The base ball season has now opened
and we won't hear so much about air
ships.-HutchinsOn News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

The airship should be indicted for
murder 1t has killed the annual story
of the sea experimentation Cham
MON.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

The Greek knee is not in suppliance
bent, but in etreat.-Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
Ma..eMN4<a3SS,.e4a,>1
Editor and Pro

Edltor ana FrOprletoF.
Sworn to and subscribed before me. this
Tth day of April. 1897.
A. A. MAJORS,
(SeaL) Notary Public.
Ny Commission expires April 4th, 1898.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

Shirts. collars and cuffs Numbered
TO look like new by Peerless Steam
Laundry. 112 and ia West Sth. St
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29
Daily Average 1877

The issues of the Topeka Daily State
Journal, of Topeka Kansas, for three
months from January 1st 1897. to March
31st. 1897, inclusive. actual number of COM
plete copies printed, have been as stated
below:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

One good thing about Decoration day
this year is that it falls on Sunday, and
we shall not be obliged to discuss the
question as to whether there should be
q base ball game and some bicycle
races.-OttaMa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29


and we won't hear so much about air
ships.-HutchinsOn News.
Paris is said to be ashamed of its own
vfleness and is going to reform. Moth
ing but birthstone will reform much of
the French capital. Abilene Reflector.
In this country the hard times have
prevented many man from marriage
and in Persia, the hard times have
caused the shah to reduce his line of
wives to 63.-Newton Republican
The Greek knee is not in suppliance
bent, but in retreat--Wichita Eagle.
One good thing about Decoration day
this year is that it falls on Sunday, and
we shall not be obliged to discuss the
question as to whether there should be
a base ball game and some bicycle
races.-Ottawa Herald.
The bursting bud is more welcome
than the bursting bank.-Abilene
Chronicle.
To some of US it is still an unsolved
mystery that the young man who
adorns the advertisements of those that
make bicycle suits and golf equipments
must always appear in the act of light
ing a briar pipe.-Parsons Sun
Kansas City won two base ball games
in succession. Those who have made
careful study of the game are inclined
to believe that in a hundred years or
so Kansas City may learn to play ball
Ottawa Herald.
The strangest thing about the war in
Europe is the fact that no Kansas man
has yet got to the front in connection
with it.-Emporia Republican.
Private Life must be a queerly in
habited place. Every public man who
does anything wrong is sent there. It
is a sort of political Siberia.-Lawrence
World.
-
The airship should be indicted for
murder 1t has killed the annual story
of the sea serpent.=Atchison Cham
piOn.
Shirts collars and cuffs Numbered
TO look like new by Peerless Steam
Laundry. 112 and ia West Sth- St
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Private Life must be a queerly in
habited place. Every public man who
does anything wrong is sent there. It
is a sort Of political Siberia.-Lawrence
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

The strangest thing about the war in
Europe is the fact that no Kansas man
has yet got to the front in connection
with it.-EmpOria Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

The bursting bud is more welcome
than the bursting bank.-Abilene
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

To some of US it is still an unsOlved
mystery that the young man who
adorns the advertisements of those that
make bicycle suits and golf equipments
must always appear in the act of light
ing a briar pipe.-Parsons Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-29

Kansas City won two base ball games
in succession. Those who have made
careful study of the game are inclined
to believe that in a hundred years or
so Kansas City may learn to play ball.
Ottawa Herald.
The herald., 1897-10-14
It was moved and seconded that the

It was moved and seconded that the
women of the places where the parlia-
ment meets during the year be asked
to furnish entertainment, consisting Of
lodging and breakfast, to the officers.
accredited delegates and readers of
papers. Carried.
A motion was carried to the effect that
the executive committee be instructed
to draw on the treasury for their trav-
cling expenses.
A recess of fifteen minutes was then
taken to allow new members to present
their fees
The rest of the morning session was
given over to an interesting and val
liable paper on milk as a Food" by
Mrs. A. ]. McClatchie, who explained
the composition and food value Of
milk, offered suggestions as to the Sc
lection of milk supply, and how to prop
erly care for it; how, again. to modify
it for the needs Of child; and above all,
how to free milk from all living germs.
Promptly at 2 o'clock Mrs. Galpin
called the afternoon session to order
and Mrs. Sara B. Hickman of Santa Bar
bara was introduced and read an able
and thoughtful paper on "The Missior,
of Music" Mrs. Hickman holds that
there are few souls so dead that music
cannot benefit them, and that the music
that is, good music, is capable Of de-
veloping and broadening character and
uplifting humanity more than any of
| the other arts.
| Mrs. Hickman feels that everybody is
capable of Understanding and appre-
ciating music if they will but work for
| that end intelligeptly, and she places
| the piano first among the ins struments
number of incidents and anecdotes
were given by way of illustra ton, and
the whole paper. although full of prac-
| teal suggestion, was poetic in thought,
ard in presentation was scholarly At
the close of the paper Mrs. Peet, Mrs.
Loughhead Mrs. Variel and Mrs
Mitchell all spoke, corroborating differ
ent points made in the paper, and the
latter, by request, sang Coming
| Through the Rye"
Miss Edith White Of Pasadent read
! the other paper of the afternoon, and
| her subject was the mission of Art"
She took that branch of art which is
represented by painting and spoke of its
reason for being, its importance and its
relation to the other arts; of artists and
| the necessary qualifications for great
ness; she referred to the relative value
Of still life, nude, portrait, landscape,
etc.; of schools Of painting and their
great exponents. She touched on the
history of art, and stated that it's mis-
sion was to convey great messages
from the artist to humanity.
Miss Ada M. Laughlin, who led the
discussion, read minute paper in
which she spoke, among other things
of the freedom and scope of modern art
and its possibilities in developing the
mind; Mrs. Lu Wheat also took part in
the discussiorA as did Mrs. Chaplin, who
advocated using the money that is spent
The herald., 1897-10-14
BARrLEY's BoNDsMEN
Object to Putting Money in omaha's
Treasury

OMAHA, Oct 13-The trial of the case
wherein the State is making an effort
to collect a half million dollars from the
bondsmen of the defaulting Treasurer.
Joseph BARLEY, has consumed three
weeks and it promises to continue an
other month. A singular feature of tha
case is the multiplicity of defenses the
bondsmen will make. The testimony by
which Mrs. John Fitzgerald, who quail
fed for 800, 900 on the bonds. hopes to
escape liability, declares that the bond
was sent to her day after her husband
died and. that she was insane at the time.
She has no recollection of having signed
the instrument The bondsmen assert
that If Mrs. Fitzgerald's signature Is
not legal, then the whole bond is Illegal.
The herald., 1897-10-14
IT'S BEEN TRIED
But Somehow It Never Succeeded
Verv Well

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. 13.-The Kansas
contingent of the Social Democracy
promulgated by E. v. Debs, has laid a
plan to carry the schools and colleges Of
this State. The State club organized
here is only the beginning of a crusade
which it's promoters expect will sweep
through all the State schools and COL
leges of Kansas. Back of the scheme
are some of the Populist leaders of the
State and most active in the work Of
organization are appointees of Chief
Justice Foster Of the Kansas Supreme
Court.
The plan as outlined today is to en-
ploy teachers in the various State edm-
cational institutions to arouse SYM
pathy with the Debs idea and then to
organize clubs of the Social Democracy
among the students so that when they
go out into the world as teachers or in
other callings they will be fitted to in
culcate the new doctrine.
The herald., 1897-10-14
SCHOOL SANITATION
The Subject of an Investigation by
Councilman Nickel

Councilman Nickel and Health Of
ficer Powers made an examinations into
the sanitary condition Of the East Side
schools yesterday morning, spending
several hours in their visits. Particular
attention was paid to the matter of VEN
tilation and to the source of the water
supply for drinking purposes In regard
to the ventilation of the buildings they
found the schools well cared for, al
though some of the apparatus for VEN
tilating the buildings which was put int o
some of the newer of the schools was
found to work in an unsa tisfactor
manner On the whole they found that
the sanitary condition of the places for
study 10 be all that could be desired
What few matters they found that r@ ed
attention can soon be remedied
The herald., 1897-10-14

Yesterday, a fire in the territory de-
pending upon that hydrant for its sup
ply of water for fire protection might
have resulted in confagration in when
thousands of dollars worth of property
would have been lost. Shortly after
noon the policeman who patrols the beat
upon which the hydrant is located re-
ported to Assistant Chief Of Fire De-
partment Smith that large wooden
plug had been driven into the outlet
pipe of the hydrant and the cap then
placed in position. Smith at once COM
municated with the water company and
learned that the plug had been placed
there by one of it's employees. The rea-
son given for it was that the hydrant
had leaked and the street department
had requested the company to stop the
leak. The plug had been driven into
the hydrant to stop the flow of water
but the fire department had not been
notified Had there been a fire in the
neighborhood the engine which would
have used the hydrant would have been
attached to it before the presence of tn:
wooden plug could have been discov-
cred. The horses would have been de-
tached from the engines before the
connection was made. 1t would have been
necessary to have uncoupled the engine
and pull it to another hydrant before
water could have been secured, and that
would consume valuable time and mi CHI
have caused the fire to get beyond. con-
tro,
Assistant Chief Smith stated that tha
is just what happened one night al
Second. and Olive streets. and the re-
suit was that what would have been ar
Insignificant blaze was a serious fire. He
will make an investigation to ascertain
how many other hydrants have been
similarly plugged.
The herald., 1897-10-14
RETALIATION
Chile Proposes to Pass a Tariff
Bill

NEW YORK, Oct. ia dispatch to
the Herald from Valparaiso, Chill, says:
The Senate Immediately after assem-
bling began the consideration Of the
budget. When this work is finished the
Senate will take up bill which has been
introduced, providing for a retaliatory
tariff against the United States The
bill provides for increased duties on i'm
ports and great number Of articles will
be affected if the bill becomes law.
The frauds said to have been discov-
cred by the government in building the
dry dock at Talcuahuano will amount,
according to the Radical press to 1,OOO,-
900 pesos. Representatives of the gov
ernment are investigating the matter
Large discoveries of sulphur, sulphate
and copper have been reported from the
vicinity of Guatacondo, in the province
of Tarapaca.