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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
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linery had been banished forever. But
they were not. There is law on the
Ohio statute books against the use of
profanity. The Fosdick law is there.
too, but the big hat still fiaunts its tan
talizing feathers in the parquet circle,
and it is needless to add that the man
who swears at the theater hat is not i'm
prisoned. sH
The Ohio law does not forbid the
wearing of hats altogether, but discrim-
mates against the wearing of big hats
and leaves to the reluctant managers the
task of drawing the line. There were
few spasmodic efforts to enforce the stat
ute, but theaters are run on business
principles, and the managers Of them
dislike to offend their patrons as much
as men in other lines of business do. So
the law has become a dead letter.
Sometimes the efforts to prohibit the
theater hat have resulted in curious
complications. In indianapolis, for in
stance, where such an attempt was
made, woman who had been forced to
remove her hat retaliated by refusing to
allow man who wanted to go out be-
tween the acts to pass her. She insisted
that he was interfering with her COM
fort as much as her hat interfered with
that of the man behind her. She was
woman Of determination, too, and the
man had to go thirsty until the end of
the performance.
In st. Louis man who found him
self seated behind monstrous creation
of the milliner's art became SO exasper-
ated in his futile attempts to see what
was taking place on the stage that he
decided to wreak a vicarious revenge.
So he put on his tall silk hat and ignor-
ed the protests of the women behind
him. He was arrested, fined and canon
lied as a martyr to mems rights.
A New York man who tried the same
experience was far more successful He
had paid 81. so for seat in Broadway
theater, when a woman with exaggerat-
ed headgear took the seat in front of
him, completely shutting off his view of
the stage. His polite request that the
offending hat be removed was met by an
angry refusal from the wearer. The
Gothamite, however, was a diplomat.
Carefully folding his ulster, he placed 1t
in his seat, and then, putting on his
high silk hat, he sat down. Of course,
those in the rear were highly indignant
at once and began to shout:
''Take oft that hatl Take it off!
The woman with the big hat, think
| ing that the shouts were meant for her,
turned red and finally surrendered. Then
the diplomat bowed low to the lndlg-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
MINERS WILL GO FREE.
Cases Against Leadville Strikers are
Ordered Dismissed

Denver, Feb. 4.-The state supreme
court has ordered that a peremptory
writ of prohibition issue commanding
the district court of Lake county to dis
miss the case against the officers of the
Leadville Miners union, indicted for
murder upon a nOlle prOSequi.
Judge overs of Leadville who is ac-
cused of being too friendly to the strik-
ers, had refused to grant a change of
venue, or to call in another judge, or to
try the case against the officers of the
union, and then when the district at
torney entered a nOlle pros the judge
refused to accept it and announced the
trial must go on Immediately. By the
action of the supreme court he is pro-
hibited from proceeding with the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
ON TICKET SCALPlNG.
Commercial Club Holds a Spe-
cial Meeting Last Night.
Considers Anti-Scalping Bill
Now Before Congress.
Resolutions Asking Kansas Congress
men to Vote for the Measure

There was a special meeting of the
Topeka Commercial club last night for
the purpose of endorsing the bill in
congress to prevent ticket scalping.
Major T. ]. Anderson of the Rock Is
land and w. c. Garvey of the Santa Fe
were present to explain the provisions
of the bill and why ticket scalping
should be stopped.
Major Anderson said the railroads are
handicapped in giving accommodations
to the travelling public because they
have to arrange the tickets to prevent
them falling into the hands of scalpers-
He said the railroads would grant ma ny
more concessions were it not for the
scalpers.
Mr. Garvey said that many worthless
tickets We're sold by brokers and that
not week passed that some poor peo-
pie were not put off a Topeka who had
bought worthless tickets of Kansas City
scalperS.
Edward Wilder said that the ticket
Scalping business was essentially dis
honest. 1T not only debaucheS the
man who deals in the ticket but the
person who buys. A man who FORCES
anOther'S name in any other business,
said Mr.. Wilder, lis arrested but the
ticket scalper who does practically the
same thing escapes. 1t seems to me
that the moral side of this question
would justify this club in taking ac-
ton"
f. H Crosby inquired why ii was
that brokers often go into the regular
ticket office of the road and buy
ticket and sell it again for 81 less than
the traveller could buy it.
Major Anderson said it was because
some of the railroads foster the brokers
and were in collision with them.
Samuel T. Howe said that every one
should be interested in the bill because
it will prevent a business that is not
legitimate.
Mr.. Howe then introduced the follow
ing resolution which on motion of E. H.
Crosby was adopted:
Resolved, BY the Topeka Commercial
club that we favor the passage by con-
gress of what is known as the anti
scalping bill and we earnestly express
the hope that all members of the Kan
sas delegation in congress will give it
their hearty support"
The resolution was telegraphed to
Congressman Charles Curtis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
SINGLETAX ARGUMENT.
Letter to a Senator Braddock Against
MORTGAGE Tax Bill

r. T. Snediker, president of the State
Single Tax league has written a letter
to State Senator T. ]. BraddOck in re-
gard to the bill to tax notes, mortgages
and other evidences of indebtedness.
Some parts of his letter are given be-
low and present the single tax argu-
ment against such a measure:
Hartford Kan, Feb. 2, '97.
T. J. Braddocle, Topeka, Kan:
My Dear Senator:-From the state
Journal" 1 learn that the senate has
passed bill to tax mortgages bonds.
notes and any other form of debt. There
are a few hundred of us in this locality.
who wish your honorable BODY OF OF
such law. Is it the object of the bill
to encourage the production and ex-
change of wealth? Will the bill make
it easier for men to do business? Are
pieces of paper representing transfer of
property or are debts of any kind,
wealth to be taxed? If SO, is this not as
Governor Pingree states double taxa
ton, making it harder for men to be
accommodated? Is it not a fact, that
men who loan wealth of any kind on
deferred payment, add the tax, plus
profit, to the detriment of the consum-
mer? Is that the object of this-tax-
every thing-in-sight-b
Is it not a fact-self evident-to any
thinking man, that, if all public reVe-
nue. were raised by tax on wealth pro-
duced by labor, it would follow, that all
goods would be harder to get; while if
would be much harder to obtain for
spectators could then hold land for
higher rent, as it would cost the holder
no tax. And conversely: If all wealth
produced by labor were free of all taxes
and restrictions, things that supply hui
man wants, would be cheaper, much
easier to get. While if all public reve-
nue. We're raised by a tax on land values
alone, land-the source of all wealth
would be easier to get; as it would then
cost the Spectator as much to hold land
idle. as others paid for using like valu-
able land.
Again, it has been demonstrated by
every state that has tried 1.-THE more
you have endeavored to tax wealth and
| evidences of wealth. the less wealth
there is to tax. It only reaches the few
| honest men and widows and orphans.
| There is no justice or equity in taxing
personal property pnder our present
law, and your bill makes it worse.
1 have been Populist for 20 years /;
we elected you, for the purpose of MAX
ing it easier for US to live, not harder.
| Respectfully,
r. T. SNEDIKER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
A NEW VIEW OF SIBERIA.
DR.. Benjamin Howard Disagrees With
KEENAN, and other Travellers.

DR.. Benz amin Howard Disagrees With
KEENAN, and other Travellers.
Siberia is all right, and its convicts
are more comfortable and happier than
the inmates of many western prisons,
according to DR.. Benjamin Howard, the
noted authority on penology, who is
equally at home in either England or
America. DR.. Howard has just returned
from Siberia and says he knows what he
is talking about He is an M. R. @. S.
of London, an F. r. O. S. of Edinburgh
and is authorized to write other initials
after his name as proof of his erudi-
ton.
We have been told by SO many writ
ers, in so many ponderous books, in SO
many startling treatises and with such
sensational and horrifying details what
a terrible place Siberia is. and how I'M
comfortable life is made for the convicts
who were sent there by the officers of
the czar, that it is at least novelty to
find some one who tells different story.
DR.. Howard made his visit to Siberia
expressly for the purpose of studying the
convict system. From Moscow and St.
Petersburg he went into Siberia, he al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

an unofficial character. Mighty metro
politan newspapers have Numbered and
stormed away in their editorial columns
and printed long articles of denuncia-
ton against big hats, while the machine
humorists have from time immemorial
regarded the theater hat as so much
stock in trade and good for so cent
joke about three times year.
But it has all been a waste Of effort
Social philosophers have pointed out to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

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 It's 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, 1897-02-04
THE GREATEST IN KANSAS.

The abIest daily journal that comes
to our table is the State Journal, pub
1ished at Topeka. For general news it
is fully equal to any of the Kansas
City dailies, and for Kansas state news
it is far superior. 1t is the greatest
daily and weekly published in Kansas.
and no man in our state who wishes to
keep posted on the daily events in the
whole world and the doings of his own
state should be without the Journal
Blue Mound Searchlight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
TOUGH ON COLORADO.
"Only Unimportant Districts of Amer
lea Have Given Votes to Women"

London, Feb. 4.-The woman's par
hamentary franchise passed its second
reading by vote of 22S to 157. The de-
bate was conducted in jocular spirit.
Mr.. Labourchere (radicaD and Sir VIM.
Vernon Harcourt, the liberal leader in
the house. were the principal opponents
to the measure
The latter pointed out there were l.,
1000 more women than men in Great
Britain and he added the ultimate re-
suit of the adoption of the principle
would be a fundamental change in the
parliamentary constitution, and such a
result ought to be introduced on the re-
sponsibility of a responsible govern
ment.
Charles w. Radcliffe Cooke conserva-
tive) referred to the repeal of woman's
suffrage in Wyoming and Washington.
He said only the most remote and I'M
important districts or America had
given votes to women. The voting up
on the bill was of a mixed character
the minority opposing the measure in
Guiding Mr. George N. Curzon, secreta-
~ for the foreign office; Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain, secretary of state for the
colonies. and other members of the gov
eminent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

health Every woman should realize ths
supreme importance of healthy vlgor auc
strength of the organs distinctly feminine
Unless a woman is willing to be that least
envied of her sex, a cuild1ess woman, shs
cannot afford to neglect this feature of hei
health.
The best known and most successful med
icine for the cure of all diseases and weak
nesses of the female reproductive organs Ii
DIR. Pierce's FavoTite Prescription Hun
dreds of homes that for years remained
childless ring with childish laughter a.
a result of the beneficial effects of the " Fa
vorite Prescription" It is the preparation
of an eminent and skillful specialist, Dr.
by Dr. Pierce in his daily practice in the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, N. Y, the greatest institution OF
the kind in the world. It has relieved thou
sands of women from suffering and pain ane
prepared thousands for the successful per
Torrance of the duties of maternity.
w. r. Malcolm. of Knobe1. Clay County, Ar
kansas. writes Since last wrote you we havl
had a baby girl born to NY wife took YOU
Golden Medical Discovery and also your IA
period and until confinement. and she had
trouble to mention. stouter, heartier chilS
was born Our child will be year OF
age the sth inst. aud she has not been sick 8
day. Has not had so much as the collie It Is &
fact, sir. and we have not had to be up with hei
often as twice at night since her birth My
wife had not even fever for the two or three
days after the child was born, although the
attending physician told US that such would be
the case Our neighbors remarked to tina
they thought my wife the stoutest lftkLe woman
they ever knew We think our coed health dus
to the use of your family medicines,
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure consti
patton. Constipation is the cause of many
diseases. Cure the cause and you cure the
disease One Pellet" is a gentle 1axa
tive, and two mild cathartic. Druggists
sell them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

There are no secrets about
the STATE JOURNALS
circulation. A detailed
statement, signed and
sworn to, is issued annu-
ally, showing the circu-
IatiOn for each day in
the year. The statement
is sent to directories and
furnished advertisers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

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, 1897-02-04

A subscriber at Clay Center writes to
suggest that a farmers corn crop is
a part of his income. IT, therefore, he
reasons, it is unconstitutional to tax
incomes, it is unconstitutional to tax
the farmers corn. He desires that
there should be a test case on the mat
ter and takes this method of calling at
tentiOn to if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

women that they
were showing q
selfish and incon-
siderate spirit
when they dis
regarded t b @
rights of others
in this manner.
The philosophers
have done this in
all seriousness,
forgetting that
6 when Low ~
woman stoops to
folly she is not
to be cured either
by logic or rea-
son. "Men seem
to think - said a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
HOW WE GREW.

In 1855 the circulation was. 500
January I, 1891, were printed 3,125
Daily average for year 1884,. 1880
Daily average for year 1902. 5000
Daily average for year 1893. Gals
Daily average for year 1904. SAILS
Daily average for year 1885,. e,217
Daily average for year 1896. . 10, 769
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

The STATE JOURNAL has forty
three regular route carriers In To-
peka and suburbs. These carriers
alone are paid over $40, 900 q year
for circulating the paper in this
community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

New Building = double front, three
floors, prominent corner = erected
for the exclusive use of the publica-
ton and business of the STATE
JOURNAL newspaper-no job office
or side issues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
sure way to Collect Taxes.

The Dutch have an original way of
collecting their taxes. If, after due no.
tice has been given, the money is not
sent, the authorities place one or two
hungry militiamen in the house, to be
lodged until the amount of the tax is
maid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
Weather Indications

Chicago, Feb. 4.-For Kansas: Snow
this afternoon; clearing and colder to-
night; Friday, fair, brisk northerly
winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

A torpid liver means a bad complex
ion, bad breath, indigestion and fire.
quent headaches. To avoid such COM
panions take DeWitt's Little Early Ris-
ers, the famous little pills. G. W. STAINS
field, 632 Kan. Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

There are more wrecks in the Baltic
sea than in any other place in the world.
The average is one wreck day through
out the year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

What has become of all the fervid
sentiment in favor of freeing Cuba? It
swept over the country like a hurri-
press nor people seem to have anything
to say on the subject nowadays.-Wel-
lington Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

If that bill regulating BARRIERS should
pass it is hoped that it will not prohibit
a man from shaving himself, or letting
his wife cut his hair.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

Mrs Leases attack on the Bradley
Martin ball is more to be feared than
the threatened dynamite. A Kansas
cylone beats any agency as leveler.-
Salina Journal!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

nant audience, removed his own hat,
hung his ulster over the back of his
chair and sat down to an undisturbed
enjoyment of the play.
Besides the numerous attempts to leg
islate the theater hat out of existence
there have been numerous crusades of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

Kansas and President-elect Mckinley
were born on the same day of the
month. But how they have drifted
apart!-Emporia Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

Queen Lii had her picture taken at
Washington. She will leave one for
Grover.-Abilene Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
The happiea

-. Inc AApP1cl
=. moment in a wo
mans life is wher
- she feels for the
. first time the cling
. ing caress of hei
own baby's fin.
gers. How many
thousands of women
Miss this greatest, wo-
Il anliest happiness,
nd live out dreary,
} 4 b el c S s, 1ovelesi
ives, because of Ill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
eek RAYS

The milk men were happy yesterday.
The pumps had all thaWed out.-NeW-
ton Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

Reached a daily average for the year
1896 of Io,76o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

"Atchison will fight the DEVIL is the
prominent head lines in a Kansas City
morning paper. Atchison is always in
some kind of a family row.-Ottawa
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

Paper enlarged from six column quarto
to seven column quarto.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

-Four Linotype machines installed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

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 daily:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

A Leavenworth divorce court has be-
come so proficient that two minutes is
all the time required to turn out the
severed tie and legal certificate thereto
Arkansas City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

Broken edge collars made smooth b.
Peerless Steam Laundry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

1t is stretching it a point to try to
make saint and martyr out of the dis
solute King Charles of England and it
was hardly to be expected the sensa-
ton would come from Philadelphia
TyeaVeOW0rfb Standard
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-11
Russia's Future.

All that Russia requires is farsight-
ed, heroic C2ar who, cOmprehending the
needs of today, as Peter the Great did
those Of 200 years ago, shall complete
the work begun by him, commit Russia
irrevoCably to occidcntalism and liberal
ism and thus earn for her the sympathy
and respect instead of the jealousy and
dread of other nations. Should such q
cZar arise it would be wisdom on the
part Of Europe to allow Russia to graft
fy her two legitimate ambitions, i'll the
pursuit Of which she has hitherto been
thwarted, especially by Great Britain.
These ambitions are: (D To complete
the subjugation Of the barbarous Tar
tars by anncXing Turkey to her domin-
ions, and (2) to possess ice free ports for
the development Of a navy and of mer-
chant shipping. While as despotic, she
ought to be thwaTtod in every way, as
liberal, she ought to enjoy all the rights
of liberal nations and be permitted to
have her own way in Turkey and China
just as England has had hers in Egypt
and India. a liberal Russia, with her
long cherished ambitions once satisfied,
would be not only the peace keeper Of
Europe, but also one of its most potent
Civilizing influences, equalling, perhaps
surpassing-so gifted is her people-the
other nations in culture, humanity and
righteousness But whether Russia is
to be blessed with a liberal czar or not
there is no reason to fear her supremacy.
If she remain coarsely dcspotic, it can
not last; if she become liberal, it can be
only blessing. Forum.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-11-11
THAT OLD STONE HOUSE.

IN old stone house, with its mosses gray,
Where played in childhood, gay and free,
And dreamed many happy hours away,
Is to me a bright, sweet memory.
II stood near a creek whose blithesome song
With dreamy music filled all the air,
As IL rolled and danced and gamboled along
Through the meadows with blooming clover
fair,
It commanded n view more wide and grand
OF orchard and field and wood and stream
Than any farmstead in the land
That borrows paught from boyish dream.
And the voices of bees and frogs and birds,
All blending in strange, glad harmony
With the gentle lowing Of the browsing herds,
Thrill me still as a lingering melody.
And the faces of those who made it home,
With smiles Of affection so tender and true,
I cherish most fondly wherever I roam
AS the fairest sight that ever ] knew.
Oh, that old stone house, so mossy and gray,
With all that it was and once enshrined,
Has cheered for me oft lifes rugged way
As l called its vanished charms to mind.
"A. 8. Brendle in Good Housekeeping.