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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
POPULAR GOVERNMENT AND
THE RO&EEA

EMr. ]. 3. Bishop in the June Forum
If we want honest government hon
est men must combine and work to get
it They must do this not in one cleo
ton, but in every election. The bosses
have taken possession of our nominat-
ing system, and through it have estab-
Hshed their despotisms, because of the
neglect of the duties of citizenship by
the great mass of the people. These
despOtisns will continue just as long
as this neg ect continues. Railing at
them, feeling ashamed of them, getting
respondent about the future of popular
government because of them, will not
disturb them a particle. If we are too
busy, or too Indifferent, or too lazy,
or too unpatriotic to attend to the bus
mess of government ourselves, the bos-
ses will attend to it for us in their own
way, and be mighty glad of the oppor-
tUnity. The responsibility for it and
the sha me of it rest not upon them, but
upon US. When the budren becomes in
tolera bic, there will be an uprising of
the people in their might and majesty
and the bosses, together with their svs-
tenn, will be swept away. When this
upheaval will come. no man can say;
but one would think that it must be at
hand 1t may be that an inscruta able
Providence is subjecting US to a period
of boss despOtism in order that we NAV
perceive the advantage of popular gov
eminent and may exert ourselves suf-
hc1ently to bring about its restoration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
WHY CARP IS UNPOPULAR.
Letter in Chicago Pos

To the Editor: Another word about
the German carp, please, in addition to
those of John T. Bramhau in your is
sue of the 2Sth inst.
One reason why German carp are not
reltshed by American people is that
they are not put upon the market in
proper condition.
The German carp is the hog of the
fish family. He thriveS in the muddy
streams, it is true. So do catfish. We
do not refuse to eat pork, nor chickens,
and of all the filthy eaters the latter
are the worst.
Carp are not sold in Germany from
the ponds and streams in which they
have been raised. Fish dealers have
boxes located in places where there are
boxes are so arranged that the water
must pass through them. The carp are
placed in these fish boxes and fed upon
bread and other clean, wholesome food
end after they have been in these fresh
water reservoirs about four weeks they
are ready for the market The change
in the flesh is remarka bic.
Instead of being soft it becomes solid.
They work off all the muddy taste. They
become a delightful fish for the table
Then, in preparing for the table, there
is much simpler way than suggested
in Mr.. Bra mhalPs letter
Try this method: The carp should be
skinned, placed in salt water over night
the n seWed up in a cloSe-fitting piece
of cheese cloth, and boiled with proper
seas ming until soft, in water to which
about pint of vinegar has been added
The cloth prevents the fish from fall
ing apart while cooking. Ser a with
cream, egg, and parsley sauce and you
viii find delicious dish.
The carp is not the sluggish fish eth
er represented. as the writer well
knows. Give the carp his just dues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
CARNEGIES ON A CRUISE.
Two Nephews of the Pittsburg Man
ufacturer Among Pacific Islands

Vancouver, July 8.-Advices from Ha-
wall say that Messrs. T. NJ and G. A
Carnegie. Of Pittsburg, nephews of the
steel manufacturer, have arrived in
Honolulu. They expect to remain in
Honolulu a short time, and then go to
New Zealand, where they will secure a
schooner for an extended cruise among
the South Sea Islands.
This is our first trip to the islands"
said Mr.. T. NJ. Carnegie, land we like
first appearances so well that the
chances are that we will remain over
three weeks Then We will go to the
South Sea Islands, where we will char
ter sailing craft, secure a good pilot
and cruise among the islands. We have
no special object in view except hunt
seen most of the civilized portion of the
globe, and would like to see some of the
unciViliZed.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
THE TARIFF BILL UP TO DATE

The long struggle in the United States
senate over the tariff bill is ended. AL
though less than half the senators voted
for it, it had a majority of 10 on the
final vote. 1t will now go to the house
and probably to a conference commit
tee
The bill as passed is hardly less differ
ent from the house bill, than it is from
the one reported by the senate finance
committee. Many important changes
have been made since the measure was
first reported.
When it came from the committee il
contained a provision for a tax of 10
cents pound on tea and an addition Of
A cents a barrel to the internal revenue
tax on beer Both of these features
have been struck from the bill.
AS a partial substitute for this loss Of
certain revenue there has been placed
in the bill a clause taxing bonds and
stocks. Not only is the revenue from
this form of taxation problematical but
it will almost certainly be compelled to
run the gauntlet of the courts just as
the income tax did.
Even if the bond tax shall stand it is
generally conceded that the bill as pass
ed by the senate will fail short of meet
ing the requirements of the govern
ment. On this point, there is likely to
be trouble in the conference committee.
1t is almost necessary for the future
success of the party in power that there
should be no deficiency. Nobody appre-
cfates this fact more than do Speaker
Reed and Mr.. DingIey, both of whom
are prospective candidates for the pres
tdency.
The senate from a business standpoint
clearly made a mistake when it eIirni-
mated the addition to the beer tax from
the committees bill The revenue
which would have been derived from
this source has been estimated at ST.
100000 1t would have been paid by
those best able to afford 1.-THE brewers
and the dealers. The beer glasses
would have remained the same in size
and the price would have continued at
five cents.
No explanation has been offered for
the abandonment of the beer tax and
the public must draw its own conclu-
sions. The most plausible inference is
that the politicians were afraid of the
influence of the brewing interests.
If when the tariff bill is finally pass
ed, it shall prove inadequate it will be
remembered that congress had it in its
power to legislate differently 1t be-
hooves the tariff managers to make no
mistakes. The people have been wait
ing so long for the promised return of
prosperity that they will not be found
an humor to accept any excuses OF ex-
plantations of possible failures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
MILL IN THE SKY.
Kansas City Capitalists Putting in a
Plant in Colorado $4,000 Feet
Above the Sea- ,-

Denver, July S.-J. r. Stoller, presi-
dent of the Live Stock Exchange OF
Kansas City and one of the leading
cattle commission men of the west, left
Yesterday for home: There is nothing
small about the Kansas City man.
when he becomes convinced that safe
investment is in sight, and the net re-
suit OF his trips to the mountains is a
$1o0,oOO concentrating plant and a smell
ter of eight ten stacks to be erected
in Denver or at Idaho Springs.
The plant Will be ready for operation
on the 18th of the present month. When
the plans for the sTnelter are completed
the buildings will be erected with the
same celebrity The concentrating plant
IS located II miles west of Idaho
Springs, near the head of Fail River
canon. 1t is proposed to operate with
the aid OF water. as the company has
control of the old Central City ditch
which was built in 1860, for the pur-
pose of supplying water for Central
City and Black Hawk.
The company owns five mining claims
IN the region of the mill, development
work having been carried forward upon
all OF the claims until ore can be taken
from half dozen shafts. The mill has
a capacity of $50 tons of ore a day, and
even If no other part of the district
contributes ore to the mill it is eStirnat-
ed that a sufficient amount can be pro-
duced from the mines of the company
to keep the plant in operation.
The mill site is about 49, 900 feet above
sea, level, and the roads are exceeding
ly steep and rough, making the erection
of a mill a necessity if the district is to
be developed. The ore runs high in
gold, and many assays and small ship
made no mistake in putting it's cash in
to the concentrating plant. The Alice
mine, which was recently sold for $3.50
600 to Chicago parties, is in the region.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
a PARADISE FOR TEACHERS.

LF'rom the North American Review.1
The Hawaiian public school system is
esS- ntially American. 1t employs Amer
lean textbooks almost exclusively,
which, of course, include for the higher
grades the cream of English classics.
| The only exceptions are Hawaiian ge-
ography and history. More than one
third of the teachers in all schools, pub
lie and Independent, are American. It
is no slight testimony to the efficiency
OF this system that Ha waiian and part
Hawaiian teachers come next in num-
Der to American, and form but little
under one-third of the entire teaching
staff. This is a happy result of the pol
icy of training teachers at home, as
these are acquainted from the first with
the peculiar difficulties of conducting a
Schoo oil of mixed races. For many years
home-trained teachers had to do their
best TO earn certificates by working up
the furnished Sylla bus of periodical
examinations out rev WITHIN the past
few years there has been esta bhShed at
Honolulu a normal school with a prac-
tice-School attached. From this insti-
tuition a constant supply of scientifca1-
1y trained teachers is assured, which, it
is hoped, will soon OVertake, or, at least,
approach the demand. An admira bic
feature of the system is the virtually
permanent tenure of the teachers Office.
Teachers are employed dur .ng the year.
Schools are in session, even in remote
country districts, for 40 weeks of the 81
Once employed. teachers are privileged
TO remain in the service until they re-
S gn CT are removed for cause. Remov-
ais are rare. Within a few years past
a splendid esprit de corps has develop
ed among the teachers They have
formed associations in the different is
lands for mutual Improvement in the
profession, and they hold a national
summer school with the same purpose
each year in Honolulu. Eminent edu-
Gators from the United States are in
duced to become the principal lecturers
before the summer schools. The in
spector general, who is chief executive
officer under the board of school COM
missioners, is in nothing more jealous
than in stimulating the teachers to eff
fort in this line of mutual Improvement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
TEXAN STEER RAN AMUCK.
Drove the Workmen From a Shop and
Then Tossed an Aged Man Into
thu Air

Trenton, July S.-A wild Texas steer
created havoc on South Broad street
late yesterday afternoon. The animal
Ieaped into the canal and, swimming
to the yard of the Trenton Iron works,
walked into the machine shop, and
mixed up with the workmen so lively
that he soon had the shop entirely to-
himself. The steer made his way to the
Hamilton avenue gate and got there
Just as Richard Foster, 60 years of age
was passing.
In the twinl1Iing of an eye he had
roster on his horns, and tossed him in
TO the airline man was rendered sense
less by the fall, and he was seriously in
jured. Miss Lottie Burchell saw the
man in the air, and, thinking that it was
her father, tainted in the street.
Once more the steer jumped into the
canal, and finally he was lassOed and
shot But he did not die easy A half
dozen bullets were planted in him and
his throat cut, but for all that he man
aged to Chamber out of the water and
charge the crowd a well-aimed shot
from the revolver of a policeman finally
laid the animal low
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
HE GETS HIS CALAMITY.
Tent of the Preacher Who Prayed
for Disaster is Wrecked by
q Wiudstoru

Manchester, O., July S.-Rev. John
Hall. the sensational Mennonite preach
er, who is said to have prayed for some
calamity to visit this place to frighten
people into seeking salvation, had his
prayers answered last night in an I'M
expected way.
A small windstorm struck his tent
while services were in progress, level
ing it to the ground and rending it in
twain. There was d wild panic in a
moment and a desperate struggle to get
out of the wreck by the hundreds of
people in attendance. No one was seri-
Ously injured. DR.. Jonas Watkins had
his shoulder badly bruised by the fall
ing tent pole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
PEKIN SEES A LOCOMOTIVE.
The Railroad Between Tientsin and
the Capital Is Nearly Completsd

Tacoma, Wash, July S.-Advices from
China say that the emperor has just
sanctioned the arrangement made with
the Belgian syndicate for building the
railroad between Rankow and Pekin.
The railroad from Tientsin to Pekin is
nearing completion and last month Pc
kin saw its first locomotive
Construction will begin in August up
on the Manchurian railroad the Chin
csc branch of the trans Siberian rail-
road, which promises to have a very i'm
portant effect in developing China. The
belief is growing that the Russians will
select Port Arthur as the terminus of
the line. Surveys for other proposed
lines are in progress. a large amount
of material for these rs.ds will be
bought in America.
Two steamers are now loading rail-
road ties and timber on Puget Sound for
Chinese ports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08

D. r. Anthony writes very little for the
Leavenworth Times. The man who
makes the editorial page of The Times is
J. W. Myers.
Professor Gaines closed his work as in
structor of the Usage county institute at
Burlingame Friday, and Immediately re-
turned home to be ready to begin work
there.
Del Valentine has returned to work at
Clay Center. He is on crutches, but is
recovering steadily.
T. A Scotes several years ago spent a
Sunday in Jail in Ness City. He was
chairman of the board of county commits
sioners of Stevens county, and was sent
to Jail for refusing to canvass a lot of
fraudulent votes cast at a county seat
election.
]. V. Eskridge of Emporia, has an en-
tfrely new kick. He says that Kansas has
entirely too much sky. Some of it ought
to be pulled down.
Ewing Herbert, the brilliant Kansas
orator and editor, will deliver a lecture
at Howard, July 10, on "A Mothers Boy"
Ed Hoch has his weakness. He likes
red headed girls and boasts of it. Lots of
a
all.
Mrs. Lease wears such a big hat this
year that she was compelled to take it off
and carry it in front of her like a brass
drum when she entered Pullman car at
Kansas City one evening last week
chris Hoffman, who gave the Normal
college at Enterprise a donation of IS, O00
is a socialist. He pays higher wages to
those who work for him than any man in
Kansas operating a similar class of la
Dor.
=
Mrs. Lease made her first political
speech in 1888. The Union Labor party
had ticket in the fed and she advocat-
ed it,frst at the home and the Preside and
afterwards on the stump. She made her
maiden appearance one rainy night in
Wichita She stepped in hall, where a
meeting was in progress, to get out of the
wet and a neighbor who had heard her
tai at the h. and the f.: called upon her
to speak Instantly there was a demand
all over the house and, trembling and
pale, she was led to the platform where
out of the fullness of her heart her
mouth spake. 1t was a great night for
the Lease family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
CASTE AMONG oo1oEED Fo1K
TFrom Golfers Weeklv.1

IFrom Golfers Weekly.l
Like all other classes that have been
obliged to work themselves up from low
estate, the American coIored people
have tendency to divide into cIiques
which distrust and hate one another. In
the city of Washington. where the coll
ored element is large and where mem
bers OF IL have more government posi-
lions than any where else in the union,
there is at present a persistent effort by
the blacks to- displace mulattoes and
Afro-Americans of still lighter color
from places in the schools and other
public buildings. The complaint is that
while the nghter-coloFed people are
largely in the minority they have far
the larger proportion of well-paid posi-
lions. The natural reply is that as a
rule the mulattOeS, quadroonS, etc, are
better educated, quicker of perception
and more adaptive than their darker
skinned brethren, but the explanation is
not satisfactory; the blacks, like any
other Americans who have gone into
practical politics, insist that the spOils
should be divided among classes and
sub CLASSES according to the proportion
of voters in each. Behind all this there
is much social feeling and prejudice:
many of the persons of mixed blood
know who their white ancestors were
and are proud of them and pose some
what as aristocrats among the people
with whom American custom has claS-
sed them The full blacks resent this
bitterly and speak contemptuously of
what they call the upstairs" This
sort of thing is not new among the col
Ored people on this side of the ocean:
the feeling underlying it has been at
the bottom of half the revolutions of
the Island of Hayti. Still, as it ex-
lists, colOred people of all hues should be
able to understand the class feeling of
the whites and the color line" it has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
EATING EGGS WHEN ANGRY.
From the st. Louis RepubIic.)

l.
Never eat eggs while you are an
cry said L. E. Stewart of Boston.
my attention was first called to this
strange fact by the tragic and sudden
ton several years ago. l accepted her
husbands invitation to dine with them.
Just as we We're going in to dinner
servant did something which caused the
lady to fly into a terrible rage. She
had been irritable from some minor
complaint for several days and her hus-
band Gained her ruff1ed feelings suffi-
GENTLY for the dinner to be eaten in
good temper. L noticed that she ate
an unusually large amount Of soft
scrambled eggs. Fifteen minutes after
we left the dining room she was a
corpse. A few months later 1 visited
a brother in Connecticut and one of his
sons died under similar circumstances.
Before breakfast one morning the boy,
who was about Is years old had a
fight with a neighbours boy. Before his
anger had subsidized my nephew was
called to breakfast: He ate four soft
boiled eggs. Had I known as much
vented it. In less than a half hour
after breakfast the boy died with ex-
actly the same symptoms that were
present when my friends wife died.
ter
1T wasn't long after this before a
Beacon Hill friend of mine expired sud
denly after a meal. The doctors, as
usual, were divided in opinion on the
cause of the death. Some of them con-
tended that it was heart failure, what
ever that is, and others are still holding
out that it was apoplexy. Inquiry by
me developed the fact that my friend
was very angry when he sat down at
table and that he ate five eggs. With
these developments searched no fur
Their for the cause of his death. He
was angry, he ate eggs and he died.
If these are not links in the chain of
cause and effect the human intellect is
incapable of logical thinking"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
MAY HOLD BACK WHEAT.
Ken lucky Farmers Discuss Means of
Securing Better Prices.

Lexington, KY, July 8.-A meeting of
farmers was held here today to take
steps toward holding back the present
wheat crop from the market until better
prices can be realized. Millers are Of
fering 60 cents for new wheat, which the
farmers say is not a paying price.
Squire J. c. Hayes of Woo6iford county
was made chairman, and, owing to the
small number in attendance, it was re-
solved to hold another meeting here
July r. to- which farmers all over the
state would be invited.
Kentucky will produce this year about
Is, DOC, 600 bushels of wheat, nearly all
of which will be sold to Kentucky mill
erS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
lex" RAYS

A tramp calling upon a lady the other
gay Tor dinner, she offered to give it 10
him If he would saw some wood in the
yard, to which he replied that he would
be glad to Oblige her, but being a ken
tomaniac, was afraid he would steal the
saw.-Russell Record.
The death of the coffin trust gives rise
20 grave considerations of certain mat
tiers shrouded in mystery-Norton
Champion.
We are not greatly concerned about
the strike of the coal men. The men
with whom we want to keep on good
terms right now, are the ice men,
Wichita Eagle.
1t is a very hard matter for q chris
tian to be out in the yard on SUNDAY
looking at the flowers and refrain from
pulling few OF the weeds from the bed
which spring up now almost nightly
Arkansas City Traveller
The tea. drinkers are at the bottom of
our trouble with Japan. There are
dregs at the bottom of their cups.-win-
field Courier.
1t is all right, proper and appropriate
20 celebrate the birthday of the conn
Try, and to do it in good style but this
tntng OF Keeping it up for three DAYS
will demoraIize the best country on
earth.-Lawrence Journal
One of our big rifled guns on Long
Island hit the target four times out of
four miles. Practice like this is better
than 5fng0 ta1k.-Parsons Sun.
You cannot tell by a mans talk to-
day what he was doing yesterday
Atchison Champion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
Your Boy " ont Live q Month.

So Mr.. Gilman Brown of "a Mill
street, South Gardner, Mass. was told
by the doctors. His son had lung trou-
Bile, following typhoid malaria, and he
spent 1915 with doctors, Who finally
gave him up, saying: Your boy won't
live month" He tried DR.. Kings New
Discovery and "a few bottles restored
him to health and enabled him to 20
to work a perfectly we'll man. He saws
he owes his present good health to use
of DR.. Kings New Discovery, and
knows it o be the best in the world for
lung trouble. Trial bottles free at J. x
Jones drug store, Fifth street and Kan
SaS avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
AMERICAN PArRIor1eM
William Dean Howells, In Harper
MagaZinA for LILLY

LWlIlam Dean Howells, In Harpers
Magazine for July.1
Our patriotism is not of the earlier
passion and tenderness which the day
of small things inspired. These would
be out of keeping with our enormous
prosperity, our irresistible power But
the modern AmericanisTn is essentially
patient and tolerant. 1t no longer af-
firms that we have found the only way
or the best way, but that the way to
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-
ness IS for us the way that our fathers
set out upon hundred years ago. We
nave really more faith in the republic
than they had, for we have found that
it works, and they could merely believe
that it would work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
WANT TO KEEP YOUNGERS,
Minnesota Knows Good Thing
When She Sees It

Mortified, Mimi, July S.-There is
considerable opposition here to the pro-
posed pardoning of Cole and Jim
Younger, now serving life sentences in
Saltwater penitentiary for murder. A
petition containing several hundred
names asking the board of pardons not
to consider their case favorably will be
forwarded to Saltwater in a few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08
Seating Company Fails.

Grand Rapids. Mich, July s.-The
Grand Rap DIS Seating company fled
mortgages for $40 600 today The com
pany is a new one making a specialty
of seats for opera houses and churches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-08

Last summer one of our grand-chil-
dren was sick with severe bowel trou-
BE" says Mrs. z. G. Gregory, of Fred
efickStown, Mo. "Our doctors rene
dies had failed. then we tried Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, which gave very speedy re-
lief" For sale by all druggists.