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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
WAS LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.

What the cities of Kansas want is
control of their own police organiza-
tiOns. If Topeka had home rule the
present situation there would not be so
threatening If Ieavenworth had
home rule there would not be the con-
slant unrest and dissatisfaction with
the police commissioners. Every city
as capable OF controlling ITS own ponce
and if this right and liberty be taken
away, then endless trouble and cOmpH-
cation follow. The political scheming,
the extravaganza and bOOdling, the alb
SOlute lack of public principles in the
boards appointed by the state admins
tration for partisan ends, aggraVate the
discomfort.
Governor Leedy shut his eyes to the
light of the experience of his predeces-
sors, closed his ears to all protests and
warnings. and appointed the metrOpOli-
tan boards, against his own better judg
ment, when he had it absolutely in his
option to refuse to appoint them. He
went further. and when the bill for re-
pealing the metropolitan law was in a
fair way to pass he threw the weight OF
his influence and defeated the bill
The power of appointing a few more
partisan officials, the privilege of dis
tributing a few more plums, was a
temptation too strong for him to resist
and he set himself to peTpetuate the
mischief and yielded to the wrong.
IncaIculable Odium and hostility have
already been aroused against Leedy's
adminiStra ton in consequence. There
is an unbrol1en succession of scandals,
an ever increasing flood of indignation.
The situation and the sentiment are diff
ferent in each city, but in all there is
resentment against L4eedy's policy and
against the metropolitan system. The
pent-up rage of one section of TOpeka's
population is coming forth in a violent
explosion. Other cities are ready to rise
in revolt. The metropolitan system has
become intOlerab BILE.
The wise and polite thing for the
governor now to do is to retrace his
steps as far as possible, and in order to
prevent the mischief from assuming
gigantic proportions, stop the principal
source of it.
Let the people of each city choose
and control their own police board. Let
the metropolitan boards be abolished
LeavenWOrth Times.
People have often heard of the man
who was looking for trouble. The man
is Gov Leedy. He had it within his
power to avoid all the pickering and
fussing about police boards by putting
the responsibility of local government
on the cities themselves. The humor-
Gus aspects of the situation are numer-
Gus. The man who insists on picking
up red hot poker when no one com
pels him to, may be entitled to the SYM
patty of the spectators, but he seldom
sets it. Gov. Leedy ought to have let
the anti-metropolitan police law pass
and then he might have spent his sum
mer in peace and quiet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11

zenship as to commit the grievous error
of threatening unfaithful public officers
with the rope and lamp-pOst- Exasper-
alton such as this can only mean that
the community is profoundly stirred by
the wrongs which it has suffered, and
still suffers, from the captains of disor-
der in corporate monopoly and from the
official lords of misrule who have been
put in places of power by the Votes of
needless citizens. The bad conditions
which prevail can be cured, and must
be cured, by the people-wisely and
earnestly determined to arrive at better
things by harmonious action along lines
of good citizenship.
Wise counsel must prevail over fool
fsh counsel in the directory Of the cor
poration and in the meeting of the labor
union. The turning point has been
reached, and the citizens of Chicago de-
cline to go further on the pathway to
chaos. They have voiced their protest
against the Old policy of doing things
wickedly by their revolt against the at
tempted brigandage of the outrageous
Humphrey bills Those measures fix
the high-water mark of corporate
greed. They have served a good pur-
pose in causing this community to
shake off its lethargy and to realize
zen if they are not kept within bounds.
Militant, good citizenship must replace
the old, comfortable theory that every
thing is all right and that nothing can
harm Chicago. Chicago has been harm
ed; it has received a serious hurt Re
form must come in the consciences of
the rich, in the leadership of organized
labor, in the ranks of corrupt and ineffi-
cient public officers.
Good citizenship in Chicago is in the
majority, and is unconquerable if it will
stand together, and act together, I'M
selishly for the public welfare 1t must
cease to divide namely on lines of ma
tiOnal craftsmanship in dealing with local
affairs. Stupidity of this sort, under
existing circumstances, is a crime
against the community. The city can
be saved from its sickness only by the
reformation of its politics, its rulers, its
greedy rich men, its unwise labor lead
ers and any so-calIed reformers who
act from motives less unselfsh than the
good of the entire community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
VANDERBILT TO SAIL.
Goes to Europe on the Same Steamer
With Bishop Potter.

New York, May 1.-THE Cunard line
steamship Lucania, Captain Mckay,
had the names of a number of we'll
known persons on her large passenger
pool yesterday. Among those who sail
ed on the CUnarder were Mr.. and Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Miss Gladys
NJ. Vanderbilt
Mr.. Vanderbilt declined to speak of
his plans abroad. He stood on the up
per deck of the vessel and waved adieus
to a party on the pier, of which Dr.
Chauncey NJ Depew was the principal
figure. DR.. Depew said later that the
length of Mr.. Vanderbilt's stay abroad
would depend on his health, and how he
enjoyed himself.
Bishop Henry c. Potter and his niece
Miss Bertha Potter, were also passen-
gers on the Lucania. The bishop. when
seen, declined to discuss the criticisms
on his recent speech before the Church
Association for the Advancement of the
Interests of Labor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
PARTIsANsH1P WORKS EVIL.

The Chicago Record says: In his ser
mon at Central Music hall last Sunday
morning the Rev. DR.. Hills gave ex-
preston to dangers which are to be ap-
pretended from certain phases of Chi
Cages municipal life. His courageous
words are worthy of serious considera-
tion by all the citizens
Tt is undeniable that a retrograde
movement has set in and is progressing
so far as concerns the business life of
Chicago. It is true that local capital
is leaving this city to find investment
elsewhere, and that foreign capital no
longer is seeking investment within its
boundaries with the former confidence
which marked the community's years
of unprecedented growth. Industries
languish and labor seeks employment.
While these influences are due, in large
measure. to the general depression
which has affected the whole country
for half a decade. the fact remains that
acute local influences have added a Sc
we're accent to the city's ills. Many of
these were pointed out by DR.. Hills in
eloquent words to the members of his
congregation. The greed of the rich, on
the one hand. and the often nI-advised
counsels of labor leaders on the other.
have combined 70 cripple industry
through the tyranny of mOnOpolies and
the frequently excessive demands of or
ganized workingmen. The anarchy of
the monopoIist and of the riotous strik-
er has frightened away capital Dis
honest assessors, official blackmaiIers,
a corrupt city council and inefficient
municipal gOvernment-these have done
their share in working decentralization
and loss. This wretched state of affairs
has become so bad that earnest men
seeking reform, and desiring to win
Improvement by serious cOunsels, have
80 far lost the perspective of good citi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
TORTURED BY THIRST.
In Only Four Chicago Schools is
There Water to Drink.

Chicago, May 1.-IndignatiOn is a
mild term to describe the feelings OF
Chicago parents toward the board of
education. It's failure to furnish the
school children with drinking water is
even denounced as criminal neglect"
The board has made a show for months
of doing something. Apparently it is
not nearer action for the relief of the
pupils of the public schools than when
it began, and it rests under the suspic-
ion of having made a bluff to deceive
the people.
Chicago has more than 300 schools,
and only four have drinking water
There are filters at the Greeley, Mar
boiling apparatus at the John Quincy
Adams building. These are plants put
in by manufacturers to be tested. There
are PIG. 900 pupils enrolled and except in
the four buildings named there is not a
drop of any kind of water to drink or to
wash hands with. Thursdays heat
filled the schools with suffering and
parents freely denounced the waterless
condition of the buildings as an out
rage. They pointed out that children
are as unreasonable as animals and
cannot control their appetites as well as
older persons. Many of them increase
their thirst by the use of gum candy
popcorn, etc. They permit their minds
to dwell upon the lack of water and
thus aggravate their discomfort until
in many cases it becomes keen enough
to be an agony.
President Halle of the board of edu-
cation declares it should act promptly
to relieve the distress of the pupils He
says it would be money we'll spent if
the use OF filters at a cost of $50. 600 for
three years saved but one life He has
convened special sessions and called up
the water question at regular meeting
but has never been able to get the
board to even approach agreement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
GAVE oF pIscoNrENT.

The cloak rooms of the house of rep
resentatiVeS are come to be known as
the 'caVe of discOntent.' Their atmos-
phere has strange influence over
statesmen. A complete change comes
over members of the house when they
pass through the arched doors and dis
appear from the hall. a sort of inuoX-
icatiOn seems to take possession of
them. Things that they agree to on the
floor of the house, or which they permit
tense antagonism. Men of docile dis
position becomes defiant. and timid men
brave. Many of them talk brave, like
prize fighters in training. The most
daring propositions are made. They Ut
ter declarations of independence withas
ever shown by an Irish-American So
clety freeing ireland by resolution. They
even enter into cOnSpiraCieS to OVerturn
all constituted authority and to legis-
late without limit. Party ties become
loose obligations to party are forgotten,
and every man becomes 4 leader along
some line. The strongest and most eX-
IRENE ideas are freely expressed and as
freely applauded, until it seems as if
they would do and dare anything.
When they get up, one by one, and
pass into the hall Of the house again,
il seems as if something startling were
bound to happen. But each man in
stantly becomes himself again on en-
tering into the open daylight of the
house. The change is as sudden and
complete as that which comes over him
on entering the cloak room. A cloud,
moment after emerging from the cave
of discomfort, but the defiant attitude
melts rapidly away, and is succeeded
by restless sort of indeciSiOn, and then,
as he settles into his seat, calm do
cility comes over him and the spell is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11

fifty other newspapers from various sec
lions of the country their enthusiasm
would undoubtedly diminish. The secret
of this is to be found in the syndicate
methods. Suppose the syndicate mana
ger pays $500 for a good short story by
a writer of established reputation If that
story can be sold to 100 different news
papers at s. apiece the syndicate comes
in for a handsome profit and each news
paper is gamer in as much as publishing
simultaneously and covering divergent
territory they have all the advantages
that could possibly result from direct
dealings with the author. This method
rebounds to the advancement Of the au>
thor, too, as it makes him known to a
clientele that he could reach in no other
way. If his writings have about them
that indefnable something that hits the
popular fancy he acquires an assured
place among the writers of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
SYNDICATE FEATuREs.
(From the Philadelphia camp

of blanket Sunday newspapers to
know how much of the stuff of which
they are made is supplied by these liter
airy commissioner. a Sunday sensa-
tional announces in faring headlines that
it has secured-at a stated expense rang
ing from $1,000 up to the limit of the
managing editors nerve and Imagination
the sole and exclusive right to publish
some celebrated novel about which the
world is busily talking. HabituaI read
ers of the paper take this to be an unex-
ampled stroke of enterprise and point to
it as an evidence of the assiduity with
which modern journalism serves its de
voices. But if they could see as news
paper men do see the same announcement
with reference to the same work in about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
WOMEN AND CIGARETTES.
IN. Y. Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.l

N L cor. 9llLSDQFS OlSpdlC4.1
Once again the cry is raised that Gig
arctic smoking is on the increase among
women in this city. This time it is a
Broadway tobaccOnist, who has Occu-
pied the same uptown stand for more
than 20 years, who advances the Opin-
ion as based on his experience. He says
that the establishment which marked
wOman's rare visits 20 years ago has
given away to efforts to encourage the
trade, shown in the frequent calls, many
in an hour, now made for cigarettes by
members of the gentler sex. Dealers,
he explains, divide women cigarette
smokers into two classes-thOse of the
highest social positions and those with
none at all, few, if any, customers COM
ing from the ranks between. He advO-
Gates the practice as likely to diminish
Indigestion and dyspepsia, but thinks
women will never smoke in public in
this country. Many of the most fash
ionable women have their cigarettes
made to order with silt tips and mono
grams or crests, while jewelers. testify
to the increase of the habit as shown in
the increased demand for women's Gig
arctic cases, which are thinner than
those made for men, and more elaborate
in design and OrnamentatiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
DULL BOYS NOT ALL DULL.
[From the washington Post.l

LF'rom the Washington Post.l
The magician Bancroft, in a press
banquet address, told a pretty story
Boys" said the teacher, addressing
the entire school, I want to see how
far your general powers of observation
on trivial subjects go. For instance,
you have all seen thousands of flies
Now, 1 want each one of you to tell
me his impression of q fly" Beyond
the fact that a fly was a fly and had
two wings, not one of the school could
say anything further. At the first
mention of the subject the dull boy was
all agloW. He held up his hand and
snapped his fingers. He realized his
superiority. 1t was his day. He told
Of the fly from a general and analyti
cal standpoint, it's interior and exterior
construction, its habits, its food, its
generation and its prOpensities. The
rest of the school sat astOntshed. The
boy went on and launched into a gen
eral description Of bugs and insects he
had caught in the woods. From that
day his teacher encouraged his pc
cultar aptitude, and troubled him no
more with the rules of grammar and
arithmetic She went into the woods
with him and helped in his studies Of
nature. She brought the attention of
school trustees to his case, and, to make
4. long story short, he was sent to
Europe for study. In Leipsic he was
made moderator of the Natural Con-
serVatory of Science. He held for a
time an important position in the
Smithsonian al Washington, D. G.. and
he is now in Paris, one of the leading
entomologists of the world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
SILVER CERTIFICATES.
Chicago Tellers Anxious to See the
DisIiked Currency Retired

Chicago, May 11.-Chicago bank tellers
have declared against the silver certif-
icates and say they must go. Many of
them have written personal letters to
Lyman J. Gage, secretary of the treas
ury, in which they have asked for the
Withdrawal of the disliked currency. 1t
is not because the general run of bank
tellerS object to the work of art on the
front of the bank notes that pressure is
being brought to bear upon the treasury
department to secure their recall, but
because the new notes have many cOun-
terfeits, and those engaged in making
the queer have found them easy
Marks" it is asserted. Ever since the
silver certificates came into general cir
culation bank tellers have had trouble
with the spurious bills. Hardly a day
passes that a false IS, SO, or $40 silver
certificate is not showed under the tel
ler'S nose in the big down town banks
and after a careful scrutiny it is sent
back to the owner with the simple word
counterfeit"
I'VE noticed the silver certificates
We're being counterfeited a short time
after they came into circulation" said
an officer of the National bank of the
Republic yesterday. We are making
no efforts to secure their recall, but we
would be pleased to hear that they had
been taken out of circulation. They are
easily counterfeited, due to the fact
that the lines are closely drawn and
they do not appear fresh and new for
any length of time like the old notes"
Assistant Cashier Frank E. Brown of
the First National bank said that the
tellers there would be glad to hear of
the recall of the silver notes.
They are afraid they will get stuck
with the cOunterfeits, he added. Where
they handle large sums of money and
there are many of these silver certin-
Gates they are extremely careful. The
design has too much detail, it takes
more ink to print it than the old notes,
judging from its appearance, and it
gets old quickly, making it easier to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
CONCERNING PRAYER.
CRev. James NJ. Wilton, in the May
Forum.

CRev. James NJ. Wilton, in the May
Forum.l
The question which some still think it
worth while to ask, WHY does loving
to petition for their supply?' both re-
veaIs the fundamental Tniscunception
and brings into contrast the fundamen-
tai truth in regard to the Whble sub
iect Dr. Edward Card has noted, as a
strange survival of the pagan mode Of
thought among Christians, that some of
them still conceive OF prayer as an at
tempt to get God to do man : will, rath-
er than as an aspiration to get Gods
will done by men. Jesus has expressly
cautioned US not to think that either
He prays or we pray for the purpose of
informing God about our needs or in
ducing Him to supply them. What end,
then. is served by peutiOnary prayer for
the things God knows we need, and that
He wills to bestOw? Surely no thinker
is unaware that verbal expression has
much to do with both clearnesS of
thought and the concentration of atten-
ton and will. 1t is reason enough for
engaging in petitionary prayer, that the
confession in words of our wants to
God enables and pledges US in a clearer
consciousness to work out more TeVer-
entity and patiently the Divine cOndi-
tious of their supply Thus it is that
through prayer the individual viii
strives toward unity with the Universal
will. To impute TO the leaders Or relig-
iOus thought today the crude, primitive
fancy of bending the Divine will into
line with the human is unworthy of any
who profess to keep abreast of the
worlds advancing intelligence. The true
function of prayer is to lift the will of
man into line with the will of God This
it does by its effect in clarifying moral
insight, deepening reVerent convictions
or responsibility, and defeating self
more thoroughly to Divine ends which
sooner or more fully than men devote
themselves to their fulflment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
OWNERS OF NEW YORK.
(UHY-ov71 tho RTaur Vor.Ir TIara In \


Twenty individuals and estates own
nearly IS per cent of the real estate in
the city of New York; with perhaps $50
others this score owns SO per cent, and
the remaining half of the metropolis of
the Western Hemisphere is in the hands
of a few of the 1000, 900 persons who live
here and pay rent.
The figures upon which the Herald bases
this statement have been compiled with
infinite care from tax receipts and other
reliable sources of information, the ia
bic printed herewith being subsequently
submitted for revision to real estate eX-
perts having intimate knowledge of the
great estates. If any fault can be found
with the estimates it is that they are too
Lowry % per cent in most of the cases
cited-but this is erring on the right side.
The assessed valuation for real estate
in this city for 1897 will be in the neigh
borhood of 81, 900, O00 000-the figures have
not yet been revised-and of this sum
1852. 900, 900, or 17.6 per cent, is represented
by the holdings of a score of owners dis
tributed in this Way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
BRADLEY MARTINS THERE.
They Attend the Opening of Mr.
Grau's London Opera Season.

London, May 1.-THE spring season
of French and Italian grand opera
opened last evening at Covent Garden
with the most fattering prospects.
Mr.. Grau and the new management
will have the same brilliant array Of
eciat under the direction of the late Sir
Augustus Harris. In the crowded au-
dience We're many of the best known
members of the aristocracy of London,
among them the Duke and Duchess of
Fife the Marquis and MarchiOness of
Londonderry, the Earl and Countess of
Cadagon and Lady Charles Beresford.
Lady Randolph Churchill, Baron and
Lady RothschiId and Mr.. and Mrs.
Bradley Martin, with other well known
Americans.
Faust was admirably performed,
with Mime. Emma Games as Marguer-
a f1attering reception.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11

Total 20 holders ........... S59z, OuOOUO
1t will be borne in mind, of course that
the totals given above are entirely eX-
elusive of all personal property and of all
real estate not included within the bound
aries of the present city of New York
The element OF strength remarked in
real property on Manhattan Island in the
annexed districts during the recent panic,
where land values everywhere else in the
country We're suffering a great decline, is
explained in a great degree by the fact
that property here is distributed among
a very small number of persons, all of
whom are so wealthy that. temporary
stringency in the money market and
even a prolonged period of distress in
mercantile circles, causes them no incon~
Nenience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
CANADIAN COLD STORAGE.
Government Arrange to Pre-
serve Shipments.

Montreal, May 11-At a meeting Of
the select committee on agriculture at
Ottawa, Prof. Robertson, Dominion
dairy commissioner, made some i'm
portant statements regarding the ar
engagements made by the minister of
agriculture in reference to cold storage.
He announced that there will be cold
storage accommodation on II steam
ships from Montreal this summer. and
besides this there viii be fortnightIy
shipments from Quebec, St. John. and
Halifax, and monthly from Charlotte
town, with railway cold storage cars,
making direct connections.
A cold storage inspector will be ap-
men will be sent to England to watch
the openings for Canadian produce in
the English market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11

Burlington Independent: The libel
suit against the Topeka Journal is one
of the things that turned out very thin
against that paper. Libel suits as a
rule are very expensive things to the
party that commences them. In this
case the paper was being prosecuted
for telling the truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11

PERSONALITIES gentleman who an
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relief by using One Minute Cough Cure
a speedy and harmless remedy for
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field, 632 Kansas ave.