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The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
oLEoMARGARINE.

[From the New York TribuneJ
Here is an echo from the days when
it was not reckoned unlawful to sell
oleomargarine as butter:
I'VE no longer have the same profit
able way of dispOsing of our waste
products that we had g. few years ago. -
said a fur dealer the other day. He
looked retrospective and trif1e regret
full, as he continued: There was al
ways a ready market then for every
particle of the fat scrapings from the
different skins. Who took them? Why
the oleomargarine manufacturers, to be
sure. They would send wagons up to
my place every day and carry away
several barrels of the fat and grease
which have to be taken off the under
side of the heavy pelts. Skunks, opos-
sums, all kinds of animals contributed.
1t all went into butter. But that is
over with now. Since the new law has
been in operation that branch of busi-
ness has been dead. People could eat
skunk and opossum grease, you know,
so long as it was called butter. but if
the dealers are obliged to come out
frankly with a description of its real
character their customers object
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
INeALLs, sHARP ToNeuE
[From the washington Post.l

IFrOm the Washington Post.
Half a dozen Missourians, including
one or two members of congress, were
discussing ex-senator John J. ingalls,
of Kansas in the lobby at Willard's
yesterday. One of them remarked
that the ex-senator's sharp reply to the
Kansas bishop was a type of his best
efforts in the line of scathing sarcasm.
1T was that disposition to stick pins
into people that first brought ingalls,
into prominence and was ultimately re-
sponsible for his failure in public life,
said one of the party. Il remember an
instance of the kind which came to my
notice years ago, when ingalls, and
were both practicing law in AtchisOn.
There was a judge on the bench by the
name of Hubbard, whom Ingalls, took
delight in nagging on all occasions.
Hubbard had a way OF nodding his
head slowly back and forth when list
ening to an argument. Young attor-
neys who were not onto the judges
curves frequently miStOok this move
ment for acquiescence in the points of
their argument One day Tom F'enlon
who was then a young practitioner,
had a motion to make before Hubbard.
a motion which it was clearly the duty
of the court to grant. He got up and
was stating his reasons with consider
able detail when he notice Hubbard'S 8
apparent mods of approval Concluding
it was a mere waste of judicial time
to say anything more. he sat down. But
to his surprise, Hubbard oVerruled his
motion.
Turning to ingalls,. who sat near, he
remarked: Why, 1 am surprised at
that; I thought the judge certainly in
tended to grant my motion. He evil
IDENTIFY fails to see the point involved
g What made you think he would
grant it?' asked ingalls,.
Why, he was noddipg his head at
me all the time
ingalls, faced around toward the
window, and holding his hand up, said;
DO you feel that gentle breeze COM
ing through there?'
'9FenIon said yes, and looked interro-
CATION points at Ingalls,, who continued,
We'll, light as that breeze is. it sways
Hubbard's head back and forth. That's
all there is to his nodding.'
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
CIRCULATION GROWTH.

The State Journal has been under the
present management for over eleven
years and it's daily circulation in that
time has increased from 500 to over IL 600
year.
The State Journal receives the full day
leased-Wire Associated Press report, is a
member of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association, has four 1inotypes
fast Web Perfecting press, etc.
The State Journal has larger circula-
fion than any other daily paper published
IN the great state OF Kansas. It requires
fOrty-three (43) carriers Exclusive of
neWSbOys) to circulate the paper in To-
pelxa and suburbs
Don Z advertise in the State Journal IN
less you feel confident that its daily cir
culatiOn exceeds II, 600. Any evidence ap-
Parently to contrary viii be cheerfulIy re-
ceived and proof produced to convince
the most skeptica1 that we do not claim
anything about our circulation for which
we cannot vOuch.
In 1896 the State Journal erected for its
exclusive use as permanent home. a
handsome double front pressed brick
building of three floors. The location IS
one of the most eligible business sites in
avenue and Eighth street The building
Is one OF the most complete neWSpa per
structures in the west and has many uni
que featueres-among these are construc-
lnotypes are seen in operation behind
plate glass facing Kansas avenue and
also through a large glass window from
The fast Web Perfecting printing press
is placed at the middle of the north
ground floor, behind Is feet of plate glass
complete view from the sidewalk of the
wonderful printing machine turning out
complete eight page papers, printed, fold
ed and counted at the rate of between two
cony offers a similar view from the IN
size Of the building.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

NETO1n In0 ACcnlSOn GlODGJ
Prosperity kills more people than ad-
versity.
=
Anybody can ride in a hack at an
election or a funeral.
The smaller the town, the more the
editors abuse each other.
When an egg is boiled just right, 1t
is clearly the result of an accident
After man is married, he finds it
harder work to be a wit when with Wo-
men than he found it before.
BY the time a man has learned
enough sense to go to bed early, his
wife begins to sit up late for her son.
i
If a woman cooks to please her hus-
band, his wedding suit is so tight be-
fore the year is up, that he can't get IN
to it.
What has become of the old fashioned
man who thought that finding fault
with the weather was equivalent to
finding fault with the Lord?
There are some women who are strict
ly truthful on every occasion except
when telling how many blocks are IN
Quilt their grandmother made.
A man wastes a lot of time every day
talking foolishness, and in listening to
foolishness as it is talked by other men.
No wonder his business suffers.
When the hired girl goes to her
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
THE Law AND THE GOVERNOR.

Mr.. G. C. Clemens of this city, as the
result of training and long practice as
an attorney, has been able to construct
what appears on the surface to be a
very able defense of the systematic vio-
lation of the prOhibitory law now GO
ing on in various parts of the state.
Examined critically. however. it must,
like every defense of wrong, fall to pieces
of its own weight.
His chief line of argument in defense
of Gov. Leedy's apparent neglect to
make his best efforts to enforce this
law, is that he is engaged in more i'm
portant business. To be more explicit,
he argues that the governor is engaged
among other great works in an effort to
secure fair and equitable treatment of
the people on the part of the railroads.
Allowing to railroad legislation all the
Importance which can be claimed for it.
suppose that the governor should sue
ceed in securing just such legislation as
he desires and he should appoint a
board of commissioners to enforce that
law. Let us suppose then that this
board appointed by the governor should
enter into some sort of a compromise
arrangement by which the railroads
were permitted to violate the law.
Would he be justified in allowing such
conditions to continue? Would Mr..
Clemens or anybody else think it proper
that when such violations of the law
had become matter of public repute,
that he should sit down and wait for
somebody to gather proof of such vio-
Iation and present it to him before he
would feel justified in taking any act
ion? Does anybody believe that Gov.
Leedy would do this?
The mora T1a1SibIa view that fba
governor would be among the first to
know that matters were not going for
ward in accordance with law and that
he would remove that board and ap-
point another one without waiting for
a suggestion to do so.
The fugitive slave law, which he re-
fers to, was a bad law, but it was not
its nom enforcement which led to it's
final abrOgation, but rather the enforce
ment of it.
When a man becomes governor of
Kansas. it IS presumed that he knows
in a general way what laws are on the
statute books, and if he is not willing 10
use his best endeavors for the enforce
ment of each and every one of them.
he should not accept the office He has
no right to neglect one for the sake of
another which he may deem of more
importance.
Mr.. Clemene' reference to the
churches has nothing to do with the
case. The churches did not elect the
present governor.
1t is almost certain that if he had an
nounced his intention of allowing the
prohibitOry law to take care of itself
and devoting his energies to what he
conceived to be the more important
matter of securing new laws instead of
enforcing old ones, that he would not
be the governor today.
To say that the churches are not do
ing what they ought to do, in no way
excuses any public official for not do
ing what he is paid to do.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

have frightened our streets and given
recompense for the lack of uniforms in
daily wear upon our side of the sea.
They, however, were at least harmoni-
ious in intent, if not always in execu-
riOn; while the tints in the ties of the
spring seem plainly chosen to quarrel
with each other and with every hue
in the apparel of him that wears them.
The young painters newly come from
Paris are saying that ii is becoming the
fashion there to work in the low tones
and that the impressionist riot in radi-
ance is abating. Perchance the mode
of the moment in ties is but the token
of a similar reaction.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
SHE THAT WORKS EASILY, WORKS
SUCCESSFULLY" CLEAN HOUSE WITH
SAPOLIO

home in the country on visit, and re-
turns with a goose egg for every one
hired girl the children like.
What a fool man is to be tricky or
dishonest He is always caught at II,
and always punished. If men had bet
ter sense none of them would be dis
honest. No man ever made dishonesty
or unfairness pay.
i
The only difference between being in
swell society and out of it, is that in
one case you hear gossip in a well fur
nfshed room, and that in the other case
the same gossip is told over the back
fence.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Pugh went sadly away, forgetting for
the moment that he is also an ex-repre-
sentative, and is, therefore, entitled to
the courtesy he sought.
Whistler is said to have lately turned
his versatile genius to a branch of art
which is novel one for him. 1t is the
designing of a book cover for Charles
Whibley's Book of Scoundrels." The
principal motive of the design is a gal
lows with the letters of the title around
it, and the deaths head and cross bones
below it. The drawing is said to be a
marvel of delicacy and refined line
work.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
sLOT MACHINES no 60.
Judge Culver of st Joseph Decides
That the Devices Are Illegal

ST. Joseph, Mo, April 9.-In the crimi-
nal court late yesterday Judge Culver
decided that the slot machines were gam
bling devices and that those who useo
them were guilty of permitting gam
bling devices on their premises. The pun
ishment is a heavy fine or imprisonment
in the county Jail. go
The test cases carry with them the fate
of several hundred slot machines ana the
police commissioners have a1reaoy an
Ilounced that the will close every one IN
the city under the decision
The cases will be taken to the IA hahsaS S
Citv court of apepals, but that viii nor
interfere with the work Of the police COM
nissioners who have ordered all the sloI
machines taken out
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
&c Raisad our Pay 20 Oents 3 Day.

washington April 9-Secretary Long for
+be first time today decided his right of
christening a naval vessel when he be-
slowed upon torpedo boat, NO. 3 now
l0nildfne at the Union Iron Works, Jne
name Of sSThe Footen This is to perpe~
tuate the memory of one Of the fighting
naval commanders of the civil war Ad-
rniraI Foote was the father of total abb
stinence of liquor in the navy YARD ana
of him the sailors sang: He raised our
pay ten cents day..
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Atlanta Constitution: A Kansas
bishop who recently criticised John J.
ingalls, probably wishes he hadn't.
John J. lost no time in impaling the
bishop on the point of his gifted pen.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Ex-Mayor William r. Grace of New
York, his wife and son Joseph, have re-
Gently set aside 5000, 900 to establish a
training school for girls.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

The fact is noted that, with Madame
Hirsch's 81, 800, 000 the total amount OF
the Hirsch charities is $14, 300, 900.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
PEOPLE you HEAR OF.

King Oscar of Sweden is said to be an
ardent student of the higher branches
of mathematics.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Bishop F. D. Huntington EpiscopaD
of Syracuse has confirmed %, 900 persons
during the 27 years of his episcopate.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
SAID ABOUT BOOKS.

IF'rOTn the Chicago NeWs.I
Tt is related that Charles Reade once
gave a recipe for writing novels to
young novelist now well known. 1t ran:
Make 'em laugh; make EN- cry; make
'em watt
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
Ma.11MMAes@3S,.,.e..4
Editor and Pro

Editor and Proprietor
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
9TH day of April 1887.
A. A. MAJORS,
ISeal.) Notary Public
My commission expires April 4th. 1898.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Mrs. Raymond, the mother of the
president of Vassar college, has given
the foreign missionary society of the
Epiphany Baptist church, New York.
81, 900 for the education of heather wo-
men.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

King Oscar of Sweden is said to be an
ardent student of the higher branches
of mathematics.
The fact is noted that, with Madame
Hirsch's 81, 800, 900. the total amount Of
the Hirsch charities is s14,SoO0OO.
Bishop F. D. Huntington (EpiscopaD
of Syracuse has confirmed %, 900 persons
during the 27 years of his episcopate.
Ex-Mayor William r. Grace of New
York, his wife and son Joseph, have re-
Gently set aside 5000, 900 to establish
training school for girls.
Mrs. Raymond, the mother of the
president of Vassar college, has given
the foreign missionary society of the
Epiphany Baptist church. New York,
81, 900 for the education of heather wo-
men.
Ricciotti GaribaIdi, who, according to
reports from Rome, has organized three
regiments of volunteers for service in
the Greek army in Crete, is the eldest
son of the Italian patriot, Guiseppi
GaribaIdi.
Sir William George Venab1es Vernon
Harcourt, M p, liberal leader in the
house of commons, has been fined ten
shillings and costs for allowing his
chimney to catch fire through not hay-
ing been cleaned.
Mrs. Custer, the widow of General
Custer, is willing to go to the seat of
war, if there is TO be real war in Crete.
1t is thought her Indian experiences as
a campaigner's wife will warrant her
undertaking war correspondence from
woman's point of view.
The public administration was about
to divide the estate OF the late Joseph
McCullagh of the St. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat, when a flood Of claims was re-
ceived. It seems that he was one of 20
children, nine sons and IL daughters,
most of whom remain in Ireland
When Congressman Bailey of Texas
was invited to the informal White
House dinner given to the ways and
means committee, he felt called on to
explain that his refusal to accept was
due solely to the fact that he had never
donned dress suit, and he did not pro-
pose to change his habits.
Mr.. Rusl1in spends several hours a
day gardening in a little green culti-
waited place in the middle of a nut wood
which in spring is full of dahodils and
cherry blossoms. Here the professor ad-
nlits other toll but his own, and is as
proud of his garden as of the great
books which bear his name on the title
page.
Ex-senator Pugh attempted to enter
the house of representatives last week,
but the doorkeeper refused to let him
do so, inasmuch as the house recently
adopted a rule debarring ex-senators
from the privilege Of the floor. Mr..
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Arlo Bates quotes the following from
one of Marie CorelIi's novels: Slowly
lowering his hands, he dipped them in
the shining bowl, rinsing them over
and over again in the clear, cold ele-
ment which sparkled in its polished
receptacle like an opal against fire" !"
Mr.. Bates comments that the Bible
finds it possible to say all that is nee
essary of this in the words: "Pilate
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Andrew Lang is out with a pro-
nouncement upon Victorian literature.
He says that Browning ard Tennyson
are the glories of the Victorian age.
Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and
Charlotte Bronte are put in the front
rank the last two somewhat doubt
fully. and Charles Reade and Anthony
Trollope in the second. Lytton, Troll
lope, Reade and Kingsley are said to
be lacking the touch of Immortality.
Living authors Mr.. Lang declines to
discuss.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
Daily Average 1877

The issues of the Topeka Daily State
Journal, of Topeka, Kansas. for three
months from January 1st, 1897, to March
31st 1897, inclusive, actual number of COM
plete copies printed, have been as stated
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Ricciotti Garibaldi, who, according to
reports from Rome, has organized three
regiments of volunteers for service in
the Greek army in Crete, is the eldest
son of the Italian patriot, Guiseppi
GaribaIdi
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09
GLOBE sTGHTs.

From the Atchison G1obe)
Prosperity kills more people than ad-
YerSitY.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.
Circulation Statement, First Quarter. 1897.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Ex-senator Pugh attempted to enter
the house of representa- last week,
but the doorkeeper refused to let him
do so, inasmuch as the house recently
adopted a rule debarring ex-senators
from the privilege of the floor. Mr..
The Topeka state journal., 1897-04-09

Sir William George Venables Vernon
Harcourt NJ. P, liberal leader in the
house of commons, has been fined ten
shillings and costs for allowing his
chimney to catch fire through not hav-
ing been cleaned.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-14
POLITICS

The Hopkinsville Banner is another
republican paper to go up the spout
since the election. 1t is well.
a Knoxville candidate for postmas-
ter forwarded petition to Washing
ton weighing II pounds and containing
over 10000 names.
Secretary of the Navy Long, in an
interview. points out some of the good
features of the civil service laws, and
expresses the hope that the present
system will not be impaired by action
of Congress.
The Richmond Register contains a
picture of Commonwealth Attorney
Crutcher, of Jessamiue, who is being
urged" TO run for Congress, but advis-
es that he let Gov. McCreary redeem
the district first.
The resignation of Z. +. Wood as
principal of Williamsburg Institute.
has been accepted. He will probably
become assistant secretary OF state
January /. Secretary Guffey is said TO
have Congressional designs.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-14

Monte Fox, has bought 100 cattle
from farmers around Perryville, pay
ing as high as ~ cents for some OF
them. a Cincinnati Southern train
killed five ewes and buck for Mr..
f. =. Faulconer. They were OF the
Shropshire breed and the ewes cost $40
each, and he paid $50 for the ram
Harrodsburg Democrat
a good crowd came to court yester-
day Notwithstanding the bad weather.
There were about 200 cattle on hand
and good portion of them changed
hands. The following private sales
were made: +. u. Woods To Charles
Orman 20 9j0-pound cattle at Bic; Jesse
c. Lynn sold n OF same at $40 To $50:
Lyon & Allen sold S00-pounders at
1924 and bought a bunch of $50 pound
ers at 3ic; George w. Jones sold 10 j..
G. Lynn bunch of calves at SO, to
Clay Arnold 30 750-pouud cattle at $40
and TO w. II. johnson some yearlings
at Bic: Dan Holman sold ) butcher cat
tie to McCarlcy X Lawson at 2tc. Swine
broad n Sharp sold tn Fox y Rice four
mules az SOL. - and bought two at $40.
Theodore Powell sold - 1901 ound
hops M $50
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-14
FARM AND TRADE,

No. fresh cows for sale. +. +. Bish-
OPP.
William Beck sold TO a. NJ. Pence 80
fat hogs at &c.
Jarvis Bros. sold to James Dalton a
COW and calf for $40.
John f. Madden has refused slo,OoO
for his good horse, Plaudltt.
James Harris sold to j. c. johnson,
of Boyle, some heifers at 2ic.
At noon yesterday December wheat
was selling in Chicago at sl.O5.
w. T. Beck sold 10 y. NJ. Pence 100
barrels of corn in the field at $50
Carroll Reid has his string of flyers
at New Orleans and is doing good work
there.
The Chicago horse show, John ~.
Logan manager. wound up with loss
of S3l 200.
Cuban buyers are arranging to snip
from Is, 900 to 10000 cattle month
from Texas.
F.P. Bishop bought lot OF hogs in
the West End at 2ic to pc and some
butcher cattle at PC TO &c.
The George Cogar Hemp Company
bought of John Harris $4,000 pounds OF
old hemp at $3.50 per cwt.-Advocate.
f. y. futile sold TO j. {. Lynn two
yearling cattle which weighed l,SIO
pounds at BIC and l,il0 pound COW at
D.. 80,
Alta sale OF Shorthorn cattle held by
w. Z. HARVARD, at Bunceton, Mo-, 20
females averaged sl47 and % bulls av-
eraged sl05
McIntyre IL McClintock, Millers-
burg. sold - Beard & Caruthers, Lex
ington, five mules weighing LOO lbs,
for S6OO.-Paris Kentuckian.
Mr.. VIM. Gooch, of the Dix River
section, has hog which weighs $40
pounds and which he hoped TO put L.
600 pounds on before killing time.
LYON g. Allen bought Ii l,33l-round
cattle at 4.O5 the other day. They sold
in Cincinnati last week 1. carloads OF
hogs at 2t TO pc and some butcher stun
at 2 TO 2tc.
December wheat advanced nearly DC.
on the Chicago market, selling as high
as 81. 90 and closing at sl.07, its highest
point since 1891. The advance was due
chiefly TO the shorts being forced TO
cover by the Letter bull movement.
John +. Madden has sold his great
Hanover-Lady Reel colt, Hamburg, for
$50. 200. William Lakeland made the
trade for him, but it is believed that
either James Il. Keene or ex-Secretary
Whitney is the real purchaser. Ham
burg cost Madden l,200 last year and
he had won S3S, 80 with him.
/ All the small operators in the wheat
market are standing by To watch the
struggle between Armour and the Lett
ers. Armour has sold large quantity
of wheat, estimated at from I,OOO,OOO u
10000, 600 bushels, for December deliv'
cry at So cents, and is fighting to get
il. with the market closing Saturday
at $l.04t.
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RELIGIOUS.

There will be communion services at
Walnut Flat church Sunday morning.
Rev. PeytOn Crockett, a Nashville
preacher, was arrested for whipping h 8
wife.
The Second Christian church at
Richmond was d ,dicated Sunday by
Rev. w. f. Smith.
Rev. Gillian, of Humphrey, Casey
county, is holding a prOtracted meet
ing at Kingsville, which had resulted
in dozen conversions at last reports
Elder Joseph Severance's meeting at
Brodhead resulted in no confessions.
but the members were greatly awaken
ed and the church was left in much
more prosperous condition.
Elder Robert l.. Cave, of Lexington,
was TO have preached at the Christian
church Sunday, but illness of his wife
prevented his coming and Elder J. T.
Sharrard preached instead.
AS usual he Is out for the stuff Rev
Fred Order. pastor of the Methodist
church at Barbourville and member al
the Legislature from Casey and Russell
counties, resigned his pastorate Sun
day because OF non-payment of salary
after severely rebuking his congrega
ticn therefor.