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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
1ABoUcHERE's LIBEL SUITS.
[From the Chicago Record.l


Mr. Henry Labouchere, NJ. p, the
proprietor of Truth, complains that he
has spent $4,000 IN successful defend
ing vexatious actions for libel brought
against him, and really he is entitled
to the thanks of the English speaking
world for having exposed so many
abuses. ''Labby'' has been in the wars
again. A Mr.. Brooks brought an ac-
ton against him because he was de-
scribed in the pages of Truth as the
prince of begging letter writer's" Mr..
Brooks plan of campaign was to send
out letters wholesale, spending 95 a
week on postage, and the result shows
that the well-to-do are, in Carlyles
well known pharse, mostly fools"
When Mr.. Brooks had inundated the
Duke of Fife, for instance, with requests
for money, couched in pious phraseol-
ogy, and his grace had replied to the
effect that he had passed in the letters
to the Charity Organization society,
Mr.. Brooks responded that such an an
swer came i'll from one for whose wife's
brother and sister-in-law (he Duke
and Duchess of York; people were beg
ging all over the country. The amaZ-
ing thing about this case is that while
the Charity Organization society had
placed Mr. Brooks name on its eau
tionary card, Mr.. Balfour had awarded
him out of the civil list 1900 pounds
for his services to literature" The
jury stopped the case, and Mr.. Labou
chere is the gamer of another moral
victory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
socIErY,s 0JoHNsoN.n
(From the New York SUM-

Johnson. of course, will rule the car
riages that will bring Mrs. Bradley-M Mar
see to it that only those who have been
invited get past the door. This privilege
Grace church, who made himself so use
ful to society that without his aid no So
clal function was complete. He was all
PoWerIuI' as far as the outside details of
bapt1sms, weddings, funerals and recep-
tons were concerned, and he made it his
business 70 know the face OF every one in
society After Brown came johnson, the
first and he proved his geniuS on many
occasions. The number of people who
were recognized as being in society had
increased largely since Browns time but
Johnson knew them all. He was a silent
man, who took his pleasures in life SER
didn't detain him late he might be found
regularly every night eating a modest
supper in a well-known Sixth avenue oys-
ter house. He was always alone John
son was a discreet man. and the peopIe
who employed him valued his discretion.
When johnson died several years ago.
his son, who is now about 80 years old,
succeeded him. He had worked with his
father ever since he was old enough to
CAP and private carriage, so that from
the standpoint of outside man he
professionally the ''best people, and it
doesn't do to ignore him. If an entertain
Johnson's services neglects to engage him
he is apt to pay the penalty. There may
or some one who hasn't been invited may
get INTO the house. johnson guarantees
IHdl HelInef OF these mlS1OrtuneS will be-
fall any affair that he manages. Johnson
is more accurate than any elite directory.
He makes it his business to know whether
people are in town or not, and if they are
away he knows their addresses and when
they are coming back. The late Ward
McAlIlSter recognized the genius of the
Johnsons father and son, and among the
most cherished memories of the present
Johnson is the praise that came from the
social leader. While Johnson stands at
the door the dance may go on. and joy
may be unconfined, because every guest
knows that every other guest had been
properly urged to be present, and that
when the time to go arrives he may get
his carriage without trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
DECLINE OF THE CHIMNEY
(From the New York Ledger)

(Erom the New York Ledger.)
1t is scarcely possible to conceive of
manufacturing district without enormous
chimneys and great columns of black
Of the tail chimney is past. A large fac
tory in England has. it is said, discarded
defnite vacuum to be held upon all fires.
The results of recent experiments are
thus described: The products of com
huston and destructive distillation, which
result from the burning of coal and car
bonaceous matter, are collected, cooled,
Condensed and worked up. One of the
methods noted as attracting attention in
Germany consists in sucking the gases
of the furnaces away and allowing them
to pass through water in the form OF
small bubbles which removes the SCOT
and some of the products of combustion,
the gases being then led to gasometer,
from which they are drawn in process
of utilization A mandatory of this
kind it is urged, can easily extend pipes
in any direction. and draw the gases OF
combustion from other manufactures,
. the publication of the atmosphere thus
assured being another important result
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

We suppose that when Topeka moves
up into the First congressional district
she will ask the privilege of running
things It will be all right with Atch-
ison, possibly, but Doniphan county
doesn't go much on etiquette and gen
orally wants a hand in naming con-
gressional andidates.-Atchison Globe.
After the Populists get through
changing the whole face of the earth,
with their initiative and referendum,
their state ownership of this and that,
their abolition of the police boards, their
state dispensaries for selling liquor,
etc, etc, etc, it will take US all some
months to find out where we are at,
but we will try to worry along in the
same district as Atchison. We must
all remember that the Revolution"
with a big r" that everybody has
been prohesying for so years has begun
in Kansas, and we must all be prepared
to take things the best we can without
being too foolish and stubborn. We are
living in one of the epochs of the world.
When great social earthquakes come,
the best thing to do is to retain your
presence of mind and eat your meals
raG11Iar1V
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Topeka is making a great howl over
the removal of the pension Office from
Topeka to St. Louis. Topeka must get
by the boundary line of the capital city
of the state.-Newton Kansan.
One thing that hurts Kansas more
than anything else is that the Kansas
towns do not stand together for every
thing that helps Kansas. It is the
custom among Kansas editors to re-
joice over every injury that any other
Kansas town receives. Is this a case
of real hatred, or only a. sick liver? One
would hardly expect any Kansas man
to be pleased that Missouri is to get
some public institution away from
Kansas. Kansas towns, through their
papers, keep up a constant snarling at
each other. Sometimes it passes I'M
der the guise of wit; but it really looks
like sourness. The State Journal has
always endeavored to stand by Kansas
towns and it rejoices in the prosperity
of every one of them. When a single
Kansas town is hurt, all Kansas is
hurt. 1t is not the pension office mat
ter, particularly, that calls forth these
few thoughts, but a seeming general
tendency of Kansas papers to claw,
maui and disfgure other localities and
communities in their own state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
EDITORS BLUE PENCIL
Richard Watson Glider


A frequent criticism of editors is that
they injure literature by their censor
ship. 1t is true that a good deal of
the worlds best literature Gncluding
much of the literature well called sa-
cred), would not be accepted for a fam
lily magazine. Perhaps, however, a de-
Tense may be suggested by couple of
anecdotes. A brilliant and distinguish
ed foreign author was once complaining
to an American of the prudishness of
the American public. The American
answered that he thought that prudish-
ness might, perhaps, justly be charged
upon the American public; but he
added, that in view of certain recent
developments in literary circles in Lon
don, and the present condition of French
fiction and the French stage, he did
not know that prudishness was too
high a price for Americans to pay for
being, on the whole, the decentest peo-
pie on the face of the GLOBE Per-
haps there was the note of exaggera-
ton in this retort, but I am inclined
to think that there is more truth than
exaggeratiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
ENGLISH EYES IN CHICAGO.
fFrom the Chicago rimes-Herald.1

lFrom the Chicago TimeS-Herald-1
G. w. Stevens, who last fall visited
America in the interests of London
newspaper, has written book of his
impressions in this country. Its title is
The Land of the Dollar. In the course
of a review of the book a writer in a
London paper says:
But Chicago of all cities-dirty, splend-
i'd. sordid, savage, conglomerate Chi
cago-appeared most strange to Mr..
Stevens Where in all the world can
words be found for this miracle of par
adox and incongruity?" The gigantic
buildings seemed to him almost aw-
full. You have awakened, like CULVER,
in land of giants-a land where the
very houses are instinct with almost
ferocious energy and force" The jost-
ling of gorgeous splendor and sordid
squalOr astound our traveller. Never
was better found vessel spoiled for a
ha perth of tar" The parks and boule-
wards, the great university endowed
with half a million sterling a year
think of it, depressed Oxford and Cam
bridge''-out of the spoils of the Stand
ard Oil trust, the grand lake, spark
ling under the sun by day or black be-
meath a fretwork of stars by night" the
miles of unkempt slum and wilder
ness''-an combine to make a vivid pic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

The new STATE JOURNAL home Is
one of the neatest and most unique
buildings In the state model
newspaper structure. Its fast web
press and its Iinotypes are on the
the ground floor, behind plate glass,
affOrding a never ceasing attraction
to the passerby on the sidewalk.
The public can see and time the
printed papers and know that over
ten thousand are issued daily
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
ALGER WINS HIS SUIT.
Gets Judgment for 100000 Which
He Dropped in Speculation.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Feb. 13.-Judge
]. D. Clark in the United States court,
in the case of Russell A. Alger vs. the
estate of John F. Anderson, to recover
money paid for property paid in Frank
lin county, this state, decided in favor
of the complainant. Alger, and ordered
the defendant to repay to said Alger
the entire amount paid by him on said
purchase, with interest from date of
payment. The amount involved is
So. 900 with interest for seven years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Ed Harrington, one of our best free sill
yer boys, came to town Wednesday, his
cheeks aglow with roSeate verdure of the
orchard and meadow, and stated that the
calamity forces of his neighborhood are
up and coming to capture the enemy.
That last Saturday night fine, large boy
was born to Grant Bunch and wife, and
on Tuesday another of the same sex ar
rived at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Harrington. All parties are well and do
ing fnely.-PleaSanto News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

The American Newspaper Directory
each year gives the TOPEKA DAILY
STATE JOURNAL guaranteed cir.
cuIation. The directory for 1896
guarantees that the circulation
was larger than that of any other
Topeka daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Now Building - double front, three
floors, prominent corner - erected
for the exclusive use of the pubIica-
ton and business of the STATE
JOURNAL newspaper-no job office
or side issues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

The STATE JOURNAL has forty-
three regular route carriers In To-
peka and suburbs. These carriers
alone are paid over $40, 900 a year
for circulating the paper in this
community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

A few months ago Mr.. Byron Every
of Woodstock, Mich, was badly afflicted
with rheumatism. His right leg was
swollen the full length, causing him
great suffering. He was advised to try
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The first
bottle of it helped him considerably and
the second bottle effected a cure. The
25 and so cent sizes are for sale by
druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

The boys and girls from school who
congregate in our hallway during the noon
hour to engage in osculatory ceremonies
are given notice that this thing must
stop. The noise rattles our printers and
passersby are likely to make unfavora BILE
comment.-Sabetha Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
Rev. U. M. Kinkaid Dead.

New York, Feb. 13-The Rev. U. M.
Kinkaid secretary of the Congrega-
tional Home Missionary society, died
of anemia at his home in Brooklyn to-
daY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Santa Fe Route the Home Road.
Special train Sunday, Feb. 14th, from
Strong City for Salina-Grand Lodge
Leaves Topeka 1905 noon. One fare for
round trip
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Paper enlarged from six column quarto
to seven column quarto.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Frank Co1er's beaming countenance and
smiling face, graces our community. once
more Glad to see you old Slade, how's
that black-eyed school-mar m, eh?-Nor-
catur Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

If some NortonvilIe parents knew how
badly, their big boys and girls behave in
church, they would certainly spank them,
and put them to bed with the rest of the
babies.-Nortonville News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Reached daily average for the year
1896 of Io,z6o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Four Linotype machlnes installed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

A number of people who went down to
the depot on Sunday afternoon to watch
the arrival of the train, We're disappointd,
as No. was two hours late. Not to be
outdone, they went down to the stock
yards, where several car loads of cattle
were being put board. They were
much amused.-Garden City Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

A certain old duffer of this vicinity were
he and his clan located in some commune
ties, say down in old Kentucky, would be
presented with new suit and a free pass
out of the neighborhood astride a three
cOrnered rail.-Seneca Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

The sign of a cheap person is the on
who waits till Valentine day to get even
-Chanute Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

There are no secrets about
the STATE JOURNALS
circulation. A detailed
statement, signed and
sworn to, is issued annu-
ally, showing the circu-
latiOn for each day in
the year. The statement
is sent to directories and
furnished advertisers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Miss Alexander and Miss MolIie Very
made US a pleasant call last Friday and
left two ladies' pictures subscription,
and our better half went through our
jeans before the two ladies got out OF
sight.-BurnS Citizen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

There is one crop in the short grass
country that never fails and that is the
egg crop.-Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

An anti-theater hat bill has been intro
duced in the state senate. bill to pun
ish every man who goes out between acts
to get a brick in his hat is also in order
Ottawa Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

The Missouri state senate has passed {
bill to make hangingS private affairs Thi:
will be resented by the people of Missouri
who have always looked on hangings a:
great social events.-Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

In the fifteen months last past
these are some of the results that
have been reached:
Made a showing - sworn detailed
statement-Of circulation exceeding
that of any other Topeka daiIys
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
sEX RAYS

tory at the state penitentiary is entirely
too suggestive, and isn't right treatment
for the Observation-Disclosures journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13
EDITORS GET CONFIDENTIAL.

B. F. Stokes she1led his corn Tuesday
and Pete Hohl, who had the job, exper-
fenced considerable difficulty, because
many of the ears were too big to go in
the hopper, and he had to shell them by
hand.-Prescott Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Tt is a matter for sorrow the moderr
naval vessel is not built to float. She II
such a beautiful lighting machine.-Leav
enworth Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

Appomatox battlefield has been sold fc
a sheep farm. But the souls of Grant an
Lee still go marching on.-Salina Journa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

For i'll effects from over-eating-
ANS PILLS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

It is rumored that at the famous Brad
lev-Martin ball several real foreign noble
men appeared disguised gentlemen
Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-13

On the subject of birds and flowers, the
Kansas editors are wofully deficient You
never see any reference to Kansas birds
and Kansas flowers in Kansas newspa-
pers.-Wichita Eagle.
-
A woman is always willing to take her
big hat off at the theater provided the hat
is now a new one and she has her hair
com Arkansas City Traveller.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-06-23

For some time previous to the day
upon which the great earthquake OF
August, 1857, occurred great swarms
Of crabs OF an unknown variety were
seen in the Bay OF Payta, Chile. They
all appeared to be greatly excited and
were literally climbing over each other
in their efforts to escope an impend-
ing calamity How they knew that the
earthquake was collecting It's strength
to desolate the coast is more than
any man can say. but that they knew
something unusual was. about TO hap
pen there Is no doubt whatever. That
there were miHons OF them may be
inferred from the report OF DR.. Forbes
who says that ten days after the
earthquake the dead crabs were thrown
upon the beach in a wall-llne three
90 four feet wide along the whole eX'
tent OF the bay ST Louis Republic
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-06-23
ADMITS THE FAor

The always amusing Lincoln Journal
oecupies column in making an adj
mission that the tarff is a tax. But il
insists that the importer pays il. Then
il howls because Cleveland issued
see 900, 900 Of bonds, which the
country must pay. Now, what's the
use of being economical in government
expenditures, and what's the use Of
mourning because Grover Cleveland
increased the national debt II we can
pay the running expenses OF the gov
srnment and the debt by taxing the for
eignerG? This is the question that the
Lincoln Journal must answer. IL need
not imagioe that II can tuck it's head
under the high tariff sands aud thus
screen its ungainlY boiy from sight
II the foreigner pays Il, why not pile
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-06-23
ASSESSMENTS
OF RAil.cs.,5 in Oklahoma Valuations
Show DccrcetC

The valuation OF railway property in
in Oklahoma for 1897. which was fxt d
in March by the territorial board OF
railway assessors, shows quite a
marked reduction in some particulars
over the valuation OF 1896 The figures
arc as follows;
Main lines, per mile-Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe railway, Arkansas
City division, 5000; Kiowa divi-
sion, s. 500; Chicago Rock Is
land & Pacific railway, Cald
we'll extension $1,000: Beaver county
spur, $4,000; choctaw. Oklahoma &
Golf, 81. 900; Hutchison & Southern
81 600: all side track, 81 600
The Arkansas City division wa'
raised $500 a mile over lsp6 and kiow'
dision reduced $500 mile. The com
pauy's reason Tor demanding reduc
ton was that the Kiowa division was
not paying expenses. The Hutchisor
n Southern was reduced 81 900 a mil'
for the same reason.
Other valuations remain the same a.
in 1895, as follows. Locomotives, 50 600
passenger cars, SO, coo; mail, baggage
and express, s! ,sOO cAbooses, $500
horse cars, sl75; cattle cars, sl75, plat
form cars, si6o; coal cars $50; han'
cars, SIP; Pullman palace cars, $1,000
telegraph lines $40 mile, $40 for eael
additional wire.
The valuations fixed at the first o
two meetings held in 1895 we're some
what higher that the recent valuation
being as follows:
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail
way, Arkansas City division, $500
Kiowa division, Sc 900; Cedar Rapids
Rock Island & Pacific railway, Gale
well extension, IS, 500; Choctaw, Okla
homa Il Gulf, 81, 500; Hutchinson
Southern. So, 900.
The rail ways contested the matte
In court and won their cases on tn
ground that railways we're taxed urde
a special law which was exceeded /
the increase.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-06-23

sISoE Judge Bradley discharged the
representatives OF the sugar trust for
senatorial contempt in refus ng to dis
close certain information supposed TO
implieate certain speculative inclined
senators, every little jaek-And-j jump in
the country wall be trying to gain g
little notoriety by forcing himself in
contempt OF this once august bat now
deeaylng tribunal.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-06-23
BUFFALO" JONES SERENE.
Intends to Stock Northern Pacific Is
land With Wild Animals.

Buffalo ones," the noted buffalo
herder, has new scheme, which
caused him TO leave here on six
months expedition to eastern Alaska.
He says he has two objects n view
one is to discover, il possible, an over
land route from the Canadian Pacific
railroad TO the Yukon river, so as to
avoid the tedious freighting OF goods
to the rich gold fields Of Alaska over
the snow. capped mountains, the other,
and principal object, is to capture Wild
animals to stock an island in the north
Pacif, ocean on the Alaskan coast
1t is Jones intention to reach the
barren region beyond the Great Save
lake and drive in herd OF the almost
extinct race OF muskox. lie took ten
shepherd ccgs aud two bloodhounds
with him. The shepherd dogs will be
used for driving the muskoXen and
the boodbodnds for trailing them
should they escape during the night,
as well as fer trailing other auim GALS.
lie is backed by company OF men in
terested in stocHiog an island with all
kinds OF fur and meat bearing animals
and especially with those animals tn at
are likely TO lecome extinct. Jones
will be Joined by an expert COW
pun eher at Omaha and will go direct
to Winnipeg, Man, then TO Edmon
ton. via Calgary, Alberta. Here h,
will be joined by others
The MARTY will % frQm fhara wi !
will be conveyed by dog sledges to th'
/ barren lands. Jones fer year pos
sessed the only herd OF buffalo and ht
says he made many profitable sales.