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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
KANSAS CITY WANTED TO BE
IN KANSAS
(From the Kansas City Tfmes)

81
The recently forwarded plan of Ed c.
Little, who is private secretary to Gov
ernor Leedy of Kansas, to slice half a
mile the western edge of Missouri
and paste it onto Kansas with the aid
of a government resurvey, has resur-
rected an interesting bit of ancient his
tory Of the time when Kansas City was
SO anxious to get into Kansas that she
wanted seven times as big a change
made as Mr.. Little asks.
II is Mr.. L1ttle'S contention that the
dividing line of the two states was
drawn from the Missouri river north of
Kansas City and thence straight south.
Since the original survey was made of
the line the river north of Kansas City
has so shifted it's course that land
formerly half a. mile east of the river is
now in the bottom of it and the river
bed half a mile west has been made into
farm land. Mr.. Little holds that the
line should have shifted with the river.
Rev. Father Dalton of the Annuncia-
ton church was in Kansas City and
Wen remembers the attempt made by
her citizens in 1875 to have a strip
three and one-half miles in width ia
ken from Missouri and given to Kansas
and talked to a Times reporter about
it last evening.
The attempt was made in 1875.
There was in Kansas City at the
time home for Confederate orphans.
The land for this home had been decided
to the state by Mrs. tombstone Lykins
and the state was to support the insti-
tuition. For some reason the Missouri
legislature sent an investigation COM
mittee here and upon its report that
the home was worthless, ordered it
closed and the property decided back to
Mrs. Lykins.
In other ways was Kansas City
sighted by the Missouri legislature in
the matter of patronage, and it was as
a measure of retaliation that the citi-
zens began the agitation of a plan to
make it a part of Kansas.
A resolution was passed by the city
council asking the Kansas legislature
OF prominent citizens went to Topeka
and presented the petition, but nothing
was ever done with it. Then the Kan
sas congressman took the matter I'D
and undertook to get a resurVey of the
boundary line, which would have
thrown three and one-half miles of
Jackson county into Kansas This
and more. for her eastern limit then was
Woodland avenue.
Kansas was booming at the time and
the IDEA was that since st. Louis SEEM
ed to have the pull at Jefferson City,
Kansas City had rather be first in Kan
Sas, as she believed she could be, than
be second in Missouri. The efforts at
Washington proved futile, too, and aft
er a year of agitation, the matter was
Missouri legislature and state into
wholesome recognition of Kansas City
and her greatness.
rather Dalton, who is cOnVersant
With the history of the west, says the
boundary line was eSta bliShed on the
cornerstone at the southwest corner of
the state, with which Kansas has moth
Missouri river can have no effect upon
it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
ENGLAND WON'T LET GO.
Belmont Says English Moneysd Men
Will Never Consent to Bimetallism.

New York, July 19.-Perry Belmont, who
returned from Europe on Saturday, in
carefully prepared interview which he
gave out for publication today, had this
to say the money question:
I'm regard to the present attitude of
Europe toward international bimetallisn,
there are advocates of it in France, En-
gland and Germany as there was year
ago. but the advocacy has not increased
in volume or intensity. Neither France
nor Germany will unite with US in plac>
ing gold and silver on a parity unless
England leads the way. The continued
increase in gold production, the surplus
last year and this year of British incomes
over expenditures, the continued suprem-
acy of England in commerce and of Lon
don an international money market
have the effect of persuading parliament
that the present coinage, currency and
financial system is good, even though
there is distress in India. Re-
duction of taxation with an enlargement
of its basis there may be, if peace con-
tinues. but probably not modification OF
coinage or currency laws, long ex
listing British industrial prosperity en-
dures.
THE Mckinley administration is ac-
lively endeavoring, as the Republican
platform of 1896 requires, to promote the
free coinage of silver by international
agreement. Its ambassadors and special
commissioners working in concert,
under the law enacted by the last con-
gress, which Cleveland approved. The
question of dates to be adopted
is kept in allegiance. There is
every prospect of an international con-
ference to be held within a short time,
and probably to assemble in Paris.
European bimetaIlists believe that if,
in the failure of international bimetallism,
we shall open our minis to silver on the
ratio of 16 to 1 and subsequently Europe
opens her on the ratio of 151a, then all our
gold will leave us, as it did in 1884, and
only token silver coins would remain"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
CHILDREN UNsPoILED.

R'rom the New Orleans Times-Demo-
craft
It is hardly safe to make fOndness for
all children a positive test of virtue.
Every one has not philoprogenitivenes
so largely developed as to want to kiss
even little faces that are dirty, or to
pat little heads that are unkempt. Stun
children, indeed, appeal rather to pity
than affection. Those sharp faces so
unyouthfulIy wise, those shril1 voices
which are raised to prove their owners
ample acquaintance with what is
known as bad language" give sad evil
dence that such little ones have been
defrauded of their birthright of inno-
cence. Yet though the hardship of
their condition may be keenly felt, and
steps taken to ameliorate it, the fas-
tidious person, however kind his nature,
is not inclined to take them to his
bosom until they have been subjected
to a cleansing process.
At the same time it is safe to say that
no one whose heart is in the right place
dislikes children, or can remain I'M
moved a t the idea of any cruelty being
practiced upon them. The artists and
SculptOrs who reproduce childhood fifty
are sure of a sympathetic audience.
There is endless charm in such sub
jects-the grace of the rounded limbs
before self consciousness has come to
make them stiff and awkward, the
careless ease of posture, the exquisite
texture of the skin, and the artless way
in which those soft features betray the
passing emotion of the moment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
FOOT-BINDING CRUSADE.
Ancient Custom in China to Be Abol-
ished-ResuIt of Rebellion.

Tacoma, Wash, July 19.-An agitation,
now spreading like wild fire in China,
threatens to wipe out the ancient habit
of binding the feet of the female popu-
lation in order to keep them unnaturally
small. The literary and highly educated
Chinese are leading the agitation, and in
one prefecture, that of Shooting, Kuang
Tung province, the inhabitants of eighty
villages have been induced to allow the
feet of the rising female generation to
have natural size. Heretofore Chinese
girls with large feet could not marry re-
specially, but the leaders of the anti
foot-binding societies have pledged them
selves to allow women with naturally
large feet to marry their sons and to en-
deavor to make the small foot a badge of
disrespect.
This will give the girls with large feet
chance to marry into the wealthest fam
lilies in the empire. At present the reverse
is the case, and mothers have been taught
that if their daughters had natural feet
they could not marry well. The crusade
against small feet in women had its origin
in a rebellion in TAPPING, when the rebels
killed all the women who had bound feet,
while those with natural feet escaped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
SOUTH DAKOTA'S STANDING
Farmers Have Liquidated $4,000,
900 of Debts the Past Four Years.

Sioux Falls, S. D., July 19.-The various
loan agents of Sioux Falls all agree that
the last four years have been years of
said that $50, 900, 600 would just about COW
the aggregate of the debt Hquidated
in that time. When the hard times struck
South Dakota, four years ago, people
stopped going into debt because they
could find no one of whom to borrow. Then
came an era of close economy, followed
by a superhuman effort to get out of debt.
good, and for the last year have sold for
a good price. The creamery industry has
brought into the state So, 000, 600 year, and
live stock $25, 900, 900.
Loan agents here are unable to loan one
half the amount they are willing to place,
even at reduced rates of interest. Mark
Russell whose company has 1900 loans in
are paying up in full at maturity of the
loans, and most of the rest are making
partial payments. Figures from several
counties show that where one mortgage
has been recorded five have have been
paid.
1t is estimated that in 1897 the product
from the South Dakota farms, including
the live stock and creamery industries,
will aggregate 500, 900 900. This distributed
among $50, 600 people is enough to give a
comfortable living and, in addition, to
make a great inroad on their indebted
ness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
WALLED UP CAT.
Lived for Five Years in the Hole
Family Mfystif1ed by It's Cries.

Wilmington, Del, July 19.-Ex-Mayor
E. G. Shortledge today released from a
wall in his home a cat which has lived
within the wall since 1892.
In that year the ex-mayor erected
an annex to his home, it's wall being
put up hurriedly. For five years Mr.
Shortledge and his family have heard
cat cries in the house, but until today
were unable to locate them. About a
year ago the cries of the cat became so
frequent and annoying that, as a test,
the ex-mayor killed the family cat be-
lieving that it was largely responsible
for the mysterious cries. This, how
ever, did not solve the mystery, and,
after a great deal of deep study over
the matter the ex-mayor decided a few
days ago that the cries came from one
of the walls in the annex.
Today he sent for George w. Dorsey,
Jr., who, with a chisel and a Ratchet
opened the wall. AS soon as Mr.. Dor
Sey had chiSeled a hole large enough a
cat jumped out. EX-Mayor Shortledge
Immediately recognized it as a kitten
that disappeared from his household at
the time the annex was built.
The cat, he says, has not grown an
inch, although its appearance shows
that it has lived we'll during it's long
confinement. Mr.. Shortledge, who is a
physician, will present the cat to the
Natural Historical society as a curios-
itV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
Free Attendant Service, Grand Cen
trail Station, New York.

The system of uniformed attendants.
established by the New York Central,
at Grand Central Station, New York
City, last spring, has grown as popu-
lar with the travelling public as the IA
nous Empire State Express. 1t sup
plies a long felt want, and is especially
appreciated by strangers and ladies
travelling alone. The corps of red-cap-
ped attendants has recently been great
ly increased, and they are now found
in every part of Grand Central Station;
al the entrances to the Waiting-ro
ready to assist you from your carriage,
and show you to the train; and at the
platforms of all arriving trains, pre-
pared to carry your luggage, summon
a carriage, or direct you to the elevated
or surface lines of railway that radiate
from Grand Central Station to all parts
of the city. This service is absolutely
free. No tips are necessary. The at
tendants are active and intelligent, po-
lite and we'll posted; they speak several
languages, and are walking encyclope-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
PASSING OF THE COTTONWOOD


(E'rOm the NOrtOnVi1le News
Near the front end of the fifties and
earlier, when the white man began to
dispute with the Indian, the buffalo and
the coyote for possession of the fertile
plains of Kansas, the planting of the
cottonwood marked the first step to-
ward civilization of the upland prai-
ries. Every farm had it's row of cot
tonwOodS along the highway and num-
erOus groves testified to the favor in
which the tree was held. Only a twfg
was the beginning of what soon be-
come a giant in form. The cottonwood's
rapid growth was its redeeming fea-
ture. Something that would stay the
force of the continuous prairie Zeph-
yrs was the prize, and that something
was the cottonwood. But other quail
ties it had few. So the second thought
was broader and farther reaching.
Trees in possession of more than one
commendable quality were planted.
ing the plate of affection in the hearts
of the Kansas people. Then the plant
ing of the cottonwood ceased, and soon,
as other trees encroached upon it's hith-
erto undisputed domain, the king of the
prairie was dethroned. Its fateful his
tory was short, it's downfall rapid. But
few cOttonwoods remain to tell the
story of their reign. The elm, the ma
pie, and the ash have come and will
stay. Our home is theirs. Yet the
dear, old cottonwood, with it's lack of
cause it gave shade when there was no
other. 1t sheltered us from the scorch-
ing sun of early hardships and will be
kindly remembered even after the last
tree gives place to those that stand in
higher favor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
MAKING OF PHYsIoGNoMy.
(From Munsey's Magazine.)

(FrOm MunSey'S Magazine.)
eff you don't want the world to know
that you have done thing, don't do it,"
was the sage observation of an ancient
philosopher.
The advice has a renewed force now.
when women are becoming more and
more emancipated, and are taking up
the pursuits and occupations and even
the sports and pleasures that used to be
considered mems especial preroSatives.
Whether wonBen'S faces are more mo-
bile and more ready to receive an i'm
print, or whether women are less given
to self-restraint. and so express more of
their inner feelings IS not definitely I'M
derstoOd; but the fact remains that on
nearly every feminine face is indelibly
stamped some impress of her favorite
pursuit of amusement.
The bicycle face is well known, with
its tightly drawn muscles, reSolute, tense
expression, and an underlying air of
resignation, as if it We're saying:
If death whirls around the next cor
ner will meet it with fortitude''
The long distance lens of the golf
eye is also growing common, but the
card face is comparatively new. The
more experienced Sherlock HolneSes of
society claim that they can detect the
difference between the whist face and
the countenance nodded by progressive
euchre, but the card face in general is
recognizable by the veriest tyro.
There are women who have thrown
themselves into card playing so fever
ishly, with such intense excitement that
it is no longer a diversion, but serious
task.
Whether they play for money or
points, or for some trumpery prize
which they would not admit to their
drawing room except as an evidence of
their skill at the game, the result is the
same. The strain on their nerves is
expressed by closely drawn brows and
an eye eager and watchful for an OPP
ponent's plays and misplays, while
themselves in ugly lines about the
mouth. This description applies, of
course, to the worst victims of the craze
but the same symptoms, in a more or
less modified form, are appearing on
the faces of not a few of societys maids
and nnatrOnS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
GOOD BIBLE READINe DOES.

(Rose Field in Chicago Evening Post-)
The local chroniclers are justified in
pronounclng DR.. Lyman Abbotts re-
marks before the educational associa-
ton at Milwaukee a remarkable ad-
dress" DR.. Abbott took the strong
forced on the public schools, and the
remarkable" feature of the address
was that he, objected to a compulsory
Bible because the reading in the schools
was in danger of becoming perfuncto-
ry. In view of DR.. Abbott's able lee
lures to his Plymouth congregation we
had reared that he might pronounce
against the Bible on the score of its un-
relia bility, and we are gratified by this
exhlbltlon or restraint and prudence.
For our part, we believe in Bible read
ings in the schools for the literary adj
Vantages to be derived therefrom, if for
no other reason. There are not a few
men of middle age today who will
frankly declare that much of their in
tereSt IN the Bible as a marvellous lit
erary composition was stimulated by
the constant reading Of chapters in the
schools of their childhood, and these
same men, who may forget tomorrow
what they read today, will retain dur
ing their lives the words that sank into
the receptive minds of childhood and
the definite idea of good literature that
was impressed day after day. 1t is true
that everything in the matter of educa-
ton to child is more or less perfume
tory, but certain quantity is sure to
stick, and the continual reading of good
literature may be likened to the exper-
fence of the sower who went forth TO
SOW and found that some of the seed
fell on good ground. We do not believe
that perfunctory reading is worse than
no reading at all, and we do believe
that the knowledge often picked up by
Bible reading in the schools is the
stimulus to later reflection and study.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
COLO. EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
Mrs. Sue M. Hall Enlightens the East
Upon Its Workings


Washington, July 19--President Thomas
of the District of Columbia Woman's Suf-
frage association has received a. letter
from Mrs. Sue NJ. Hall, president of the
Denver Civic Federation, on the effect of
womans vote, and refuting statements
made in eastern papers regarding the eff
fects of equal suffrage in Colorado. Mrs.
Halls letter states that women do use
the ballot, and that the conservative ex-
ercise of the ballot is seldom neglected
by them" She discusses at length the
charge that the votes of good women are
offset by those of the demi-mOnde. She
says these women would not vote at all
except that under the management of the
gang they are compelled to register and
vote. That should not be used an ar
gument against universal suffrage; that
the present methods of carrying elections
I'VE, as women, hope to overcome by
eliminating partisanship from local af-
fairs
Continuing, she says that the Civic Fed
Grafton, which is composed entirely of
women, called to their assistance all men
and women desiring good government, and
nominated and elected a non-partisan
municipal ticket in April, notwithstand-
ing the corporations, the liberal element
and the political machine were combined
against them. Let me say that while
we, who have had practical experience of
the working of universal suffrage in the
that it is a panacea for all ills, we have
demonstrated that all the arguments
against it are invalid, and we hope and
believe that the future will show women
to be true and loyal to right, they have
been in the past"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
THE WORM WILL TURN.

From the Ell Dorado News.
Said an old lady the other day as she
brushed a tear of indignation from her
eye:
Il get so riled up whenever I go to
buy anything, that 1 have a nervous
headache all the next day. Let me tell
you some of the experiences have had
this morning; and every woman will
tell you that she has had the same,
scores and scores of times. 1 went to a
grocery to buy some berries; I asked
the smiling clerk behind the counter if
he had good berries, and he said they
had: %, yes, ma'am, excellent berries,
indeed and he showed me two or three
boxes of wilted and mouldy things. I
told him that I wanted good berries,
with an emphasis on the good; and then
haired woman, that those widowed
berries were first rate.
II went to a butcher shop next, and
asked for Is cents worth of sirloin
steak. The butcher slapped a slice of
meat on the scale. and wrapped it up;
gave him quarter, and he handed me
back cents. I told him 1 had asked
for Is cents worth of meat and not 20
cents worth Oh, yes, he said, he knew
that, but he didn't like to cut the piece.
told him to hand over my quarter and
he did Butchers are doing that trick
every day of their lives and the women
should put stop to it.
''Then went to drug store and
asked for a bottle of DR.. Ciinker' s
Balsam of Crab Apples, which is my
favorite remedy; and the druggist went
TO a shelf and got a bottle with a white
label and began to wrap it up; now ev-
erybody knows that DIR. C1inkerss Balls
am has a yellow label on the bottle, and
so I cried: That is not DR.. C1inker' s
Balsami' oh, no. said the druggist,
with that sweet but false smile, this is
something that we put up ourselves,
and it is infinitely superior to Clinker's-
L want Clinker's or nothing 1 Shrek
ed and f1ounced out of that drug store.
Next I went to a shoe store to get a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
BAD AS GOLD BRICKS.
100 Unsuspecting Ohio Hayseeds
Taken in by Sharpers.

Defiance, O., July 19.-Fully 100 farmers
have discovered that they have been swin-
died by couple of strangers. The farm
ers were collected at the Wabash depot,
where they had just received and paid
cash for $7oO worth of groceries. The or
ders were taken two weeks ago, when the
farmers signed an agreement to take the
groceries on the promise of the strangers
to take all the butter and eggs the farm
ers had on delivery day at good prices.
After the farmers had settled for their
groceries at exorbitant prices the swind-
lers refused to take their produce at any
price, and this so incensed the victims
that for a time it looked as though the
strangers might be roughly dealt with.
Realizing their danger they fed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19
MILLINERS UP IN ARMS.
Massachusetts Law Against Wearing
Feathers Causes a Protest.

Boston, July 19.-The law against selling
birds, their bodies or feathers, which was
passed by the last legislature was today
officially communicated to the milliners
and dealers in birds throughout the COM
rnonwealth.
Senator Roe of Worcester is the father
of the new law and United States sena-
tition in answer to which the act was
drawn. The petition purported to be
signed by thirty-five undomesticated birds.
and is ingenious plea that mo one
shall wear our feathers, so that no one
shall kill US to get them
The millinery trade is up in arms over
the enactment. What the result is to be
will depend on the extent to which en-
forcement is carried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19

pointed postmistress at Court1andt, Va.
The selection ends long contest in which
Miss Tyler came here and presented her
claims in person to Postmaster General
Gary and Fourth Assistant Bristow.
During the Tyler administration the
president, in the course of a trip, picked
up child in his arms and remarked:
That's a bright little boy
That boy is the present postmaster gen.
eral, who, after the advisers of the adj
ministration in state patronage had failed
to reach an agreement today settled the
postoffice case for himself.
The office pays $3.50 per annum. Miss Ty-
Ter succeeds Eugene c. Barrett.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-19

Kirwin Independent: The silliest
twaddle of the age is that this is a
christian nation" just as though it
had become so lately. when the facts
are that it is not near as christian as it
used to be, years ago. Statistics show
that murders, robberies, suicides and
ALL sorts of crimes have been increas-
ing for some years at an alarming rate.
Nations are divided into civilized,
heather and savage. Christianity is an
individual matter. In order to be chris
tan we must be Christ-like. If nations
were Christ-like they would not be con-
tinually preparing engines and projec-
tiles with which to destroy one another.