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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
WHITTIER cRITIoIsED.
Julian Hawthorne's New Bool

Julian Hawthorne's New Book.)
The bitter sectional feeling which
prompted a part of Whittier's verse. and
the passionate conviction which guided
his pen, though they may have helped the
cause, injured the artist, and hindeFed his
artistic development. Uneducated, mar
row and prejudiced. his headlong zeal was
in harmony with those fiery times. when
men wished TO act rather than to reflect.
To Whittier the southern Shareholders
were opponents to civilization, and every
slave was the embodiment of an outrage
done to human nature. His epithets were
severe, and his denunciations stern. The
epoch having passed, the verse of which
it was the occasion must cease to be
judged by other than literary standards;
and according to these standards, it's val
is, for the most part comparatively
small.
But when his true genius is in the as
cendant, Whittier is a simple, charming.
original poet. There is nothing studied
or labored in his productions, he seems to
write without effort from the depths of a
tranquil. reverent, beauty loving spirit.
His verse reflects the thoughts. habits
and aspirations of plain, strong, whole
some race, a race capable of herosm and
isticaHy and almost exclusively American
in his theme; and he reaches the heart of
the people as a poet of higher culture
might fail to do. Sincerity, charity. he
roism and the spirit of human brotherhood
breathe through his best verse; he
strengthens US for our daily trials. and
defines and elevates our pleasures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
PARTS IN THE MIDDLE.
An Ohio School Teacher objects tt
Boys Hair Paintings.

Bellaire, March 15.-The privilege of
parting ones hair as one deems best is
liable to break up a school at Hartford
City, a little town on the Ohio south of
here. Last fall the board of education
of that town employed Miss Jennie
young and pretty woman of advanced
ideas and polished college education.
Weekly she has given lectures to her
pupils on various subjects of interest.
Her last lecture dwelt on personal
adornment cleanliness and neatness
proper methods of cOmbing the hair.
She denounced the habit of young men
and boys parting their hair in the mid
die and was particularly severe in de-
nouncing femininity in boys.
The boys paid strict attention to it.
so much SO that one of the older ones
called a meeting. 1t was then decided
with his hair parted in the middle, I'M
der penalty of a. thraShing for anyone
who failed. When the boys came to
school each had his hair parted in the
middle as carefully as possible, many
indeed, having parted it who had not
combed it before in months.
The teacher thought she would get
even with them for this little diversion
so she went out into the hallway and
called the boys out one at a time and
made them part their hair on one side
This work was kept up for the whole
outfit.
At first few people in town cared
how their sons parted thir hair. Now
however. many believe that Miss Nader
has infringed upon the personal liber-
ties of the great American citizen They
have consequently told their boys to
part their hair as they pleased, conSe-
Quently Miss Nader was surprised to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
MINNIE MADDERN FISK.
TFrom the Boston Transcript

From the Boston Transcript
Minnie Madden Fiske is like Duse
in one thing certainly; she does not like
personalities about herself. The New
York interviewers can get her to talk
about Tess but not about Mrs. Fiske
and her humOrs and whims. To one
she rejoiced in the success of Julia
Marlowe and Modjeska and said Jan
auScheck is one of the great race OF ac-
tresses who can play great roles. Mrs.
Fiske was asked if the play of Tess"
has been cut down. Her answer show
ed the quality of mind of this wonder
full artist:
mo, the play has not been cut down
materially but the action has been
quickened. You know, a play is like
music You can almost beat time to 1t
with d baton. A certain act must have
a certain tempo and perhaps the next
one must have entirely different
movement. Some of the scenes are
pitched in a different key from others.
Even the voices change, being higher
in one scene than in another. 1t is
most interesting thing. So is the whole
science of stage managing.
The great question of the reality of
emotion on the stage came up, and
Mrs. Fiske was asked if she "shed real
tearS?" Her answer was an interpre
tation of her attitude towards her art:
course, is done when the emotions are
actually felt. Oh, yes; 1 know that the
thing has been endlessly discussed, but
that is my opinion. This reality of
emotion, however, is simply an inspir-
alton which does not come at will and
cannot be depended upon. hence art
must be brought to the rescue. Such
you act a play, or the fortieth night.
One can never tell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
WHEELING GONE CRAZY.
rFrom the chicago Tribune.1

[From the Chicago Tribune-1
The bill introduced in the legislature
at Springfield providing that in all long
time bicycle contests a rest of at least
six hours must follow every twelve
hours of racing should eliminate the
Objectionable feature from the endur-
ance tests that have been falsely term
ed six day races. The public wants
no more exhibitions like that recently
held at Tattersall's, and bicycle riders
should be protected from the tempta-
ton to match their endurance against
the flight of time.
Mr.. Shanahan'S measure imposes
heavy fine or Imprisonment for every
violation, and, in order to be more eff
fective, includes in it's provisions ANY
person, persons or corporation, who
race track, park or road, be they pub
lie or private, to any one for the pur-
pose of conducting a bicycle race not
in accordance with the section of the
act" 1t is we'll to make this law as
sweeping and drastic as possible,sO that
there may be no lOOphole for evasion.
There is not a redeeming feature In
these six day races as they have been
held on which to hang a defense. They
are simply public efforts on the part of
the riders to defy the rules of nature to
the extreme limit of human endurance
The race or speed element is q baga-
teIle. The riders are lured on to the
attempt by the hope of winning a fin
ancia1 prize. The entries usually are
numerous. But the race farce is soon
played out and as the weaker men drop
out one by one as each reaches the last
stage of physical exhaustion, the few
made of sterner stuff or who are more
callous to their suffering continue to
plod along, sustained by drugs and
other stimulants. The spectacle is
still fresh in the public mind of that
procession of weary wheelmen, enact
ated, stupefed in some cases. with
senses partly duIled by frequent po-
at ct n1 inc n a al l.
though every revolution was attended
by an anguish that made the humane
spectators shudder in Sympathy.
If individual Wheelmen choose to
waste their strength and vitality in
such reckless, wholesale expenditures
there may be no way to stop them, but
at least the law ought to prevent the
performance taking place in public
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15

one of the very worst reporters known
to modern Journalism.
We do not believe there are ten men
in the country who will consider Mr..
Ingalls, opinion worth the paper it will
take to print it partly because he has
no technical knowledge and partly be-
cause he has ceased to be a novelty.
Mr.. Ingalls, could not be philosophic, if
he tried, for he is too narrow in his
views, too prejudiced and too vitriolic:
If the newspaper that employs Mr.. IN
gals wishes a really calm, dispassion-
ate and philosophical opinion, untaint-
ed by professionalism, it should make
overtures to President Eliot of Harvard
or DR.. Patton of Princeton, or President
Dwight of Yale.
Come TO think of it we must withdraw
DR. Dwight's name, for Yale has al
ready declared it's allegiance to Mr..
Corbett, and DR.. Dwight would be han
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
ANNA EVA FAY'S son.
John Fay Elopes With the Bride of
His Choice

st. Louis, March 15.-John T. Fay, a
son of Anna Eva Fay, was married to
Miss Eva Dean of 1922 Lafayette ave-
nue.. this city, last Wednesday at ORAL
lon, Ill.
The wedding was in the nature of an
elOpement. Young Fay, who is not yet
20 years old, and his bride figured in
ters hotel during the time his mother
was playing an engagement here. An
ma Eva was importuned to give her con-
sent to the marriage, but she refused
and further informed her son that if
he persisted in his attention to Miss
Dean, he would be disinherited
Fay brought his bride to ST Louis
Thursday and they stopped at the Bel
videre hotel. Friday they paid their bill
and left, presumably to join the mother
Fay in Arkansas, where she is at pres
ent giving seances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
ALeER,s ARBITRARY ACr.

When the money which congress ap-
propriated for paying the sugar bounty
was withheld by one of Mr.. Cleveland's
appointees a great howl went up all
over the country. Many Republican
papers were especially severe in their
criticisms of the notification of con-
gressional action. What is to be said
now of the action of Secretary of War
Alger, whose first official act has been
to hold up the appropriation for the
making of a harbor at San Pedro, Cal?
The reason offered for Withholding
payment of the sugar bounty was at
least a commendable one, since it was
alleged in extenuation that it was I'M
constitutional and a misuse of public
funds.
The San Pedro appropriation is
great swindle, because no amount of
money could ever make a harbor at
that point, and if the money were held
back on that score General Alger might
at least have the silent Endorsement of
those people conversant with the facts
But no such reason for his action is
offered. 1t is merely stated that SEN
ator Frye requested that this course
be pursued and the thing was DONE
The result is that a suspicion has found
whole proceeding is in the interest of c.
p. Huntington, the Southern Pacific
railroad magnate, whose road has a
terminus at Santa Monica, a rival
claimant before congress for the appro-
priation, and one with just as little
title to government aid. Neither place
has any more claims to be called
harbor than is possessed by an I'M
broken stretch of shore line.
General Alger can postpone the ex-
penditure of the money indefinitely.
: Huntington's object doubtless is to Sc
cure in the next congress reversal of
the action of the last, locating the har-
Dor at San Pedro.
The circumstance is already causing
the circulation of ugly rumors about
large contributions by Huntington and
his partners to the Hanna campaign
fund and it isbinsinuated in some quar-
tiers that the Southern Pacific interests
will now claim their reward. Color is
given to this view of the matter by the
statement that when Senator Frye
called on the secretary of war in regard
to the matter he was accompanied by
this man Huntington.
If the money is to be wasted anyway,
which it would be if expended either
at San Pedro OF Santa Monica, perhaps
it might be as well to let Huntington
have the benefit, but the affair has a
bad look and then there is the action of
congress
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
KANSAS ONCE MORE.
Senator Edwin Taylor in the North Amer
rican Review)

Senator Edwin Taylor in the North Amer
rican Review.)
The story of western Kansas is one of
the saddeSt in history unconnected with
war East and west have suffered to-
gether there, but not equally. for while
westerner has lost his all. And let the
eastern investor seeking for an object on
which to vent his wrath look not at his
felloW-Victim but at the distinguished
spectators of the eastern cities, and their
able and INSCRIPTIONS lieutenants in the
west. who put up the job. Every one of
those deserted farms is mortgaged. and
so likewise are the abandoned stores and
dwellings. Why should they not be2 Your
those people the wife of Potiphar pur-
sued Joseph. soliciting opportunity to
place a. loan their property. He got
his commissions; he was looking out for
commissions. not for you. But you are
not blameless it was incumbent upon you
TO know where your money was going.
If you embarked it in a financial craft
built lines that insured sinking, don't
blame the sailors at the bottom of the
sea; blame yourself those who coun-
seled you that the thing was safe. Then,
again. the whole country is bonded. The
bonds are largely worthless. What value.
think you, is there in SchoolhouSe bonds
when the people are gone. or bridge bonds
where there is no travel. bonds on rail-
roads with ab&ndonded tracks, One coun-
ty has declared itself bankrupt. Others
are sure to follow. 1t is time that the
facts in the case be plainly and buntIv
attaches to the western farmer for what
he could not help be shifted to the Shout
ders of the eastern financier and his local
representatives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
THoREAU IN MARCH.
[From Thoreau's Early Spring in Ma
SachuSettS1

SachuSetts.l
When the fosts come out of the
ground there is a corresponding thaw-
ing of the man. The earth is now half
re. These March winds, which make
the woods roar and fill the world with
life and hustle, appear to wake up the
trees out of their winter sleep and ex-
cite the sap to flow. I have no doubt
hasten the eVapOra ton of the snow and
water. The railroad men have now
their hands full. 1 hear and see blue
birds come with warm wind The sand
is flowing in the deep cut. I am affect
ed by the sight of the moist red sand
or subsoil under the edge of the sandy
bank under the pitch pines The rail
road is perhaps our pleasantest and
widest road. 1t only makes deep cuts
into and through the hills. On it are no
houses nor pOSt-traVellerS. The travel
on it does not disturb me. The woods
are left to hang over it.ThOugh straight
ing all its raw edges. Even the labor
ers on it are not like other laborers. Its
houses, if any, are shanties, and its
ruins the ruins of shanties, shells where
the race that built the railroad dwelt;
and the bones they gnawed lie about.
l am cheered by the sound of running
water now down the wooden troughs
each side of the cut. This road breaks
the surface of the earth. Here is the
dryest walking in wet weather. and the
easiest in snowy.
when L hear the telegraph harp I
think I must read Greek poets. This
sound is like a brighter color, or blue
or green, where all was dull white or
black. 1t prophesies finer senses,
finer life, golden age. 1t is the poe
try of the railroad. The heroic and pc
etc thoughts which the Irish laborers
had at their toll has now got expression
that which has made the world mad so
long. Or is it the gods expressing their
delight at this invention 2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
wAGNERIAN OPERA.
On. Y. Correspondence Pittsburg Di
match

L. correspondence
patch.)
The first night of German opera here
was a success, beyond doubt. The au-
dience was large, critical, but enthusi-
astic. But what does this mean?. Long
before the last of die Walkure'' scores
of men and women were tramping down
the aisles towards the door, while the
others were making haSty. grabs for
their hats and wraps
1t was diSgraceful scramble, moth
ing less. OF course, the majority of the
Germans may have come from Brooklyn
or perhaps were commuters; but what
ever the reason, it was a slight and a
blemiSh upon an otherwise perfect even
ing.
1t is rarely a metropolitan audience
leaves in such unSeemly haste, and such
a thing has never before happened in
the Metropolitan Opera House. A fash
iOnable audience will sit out bore in
tears and silence, but never decamp be-
fore the curtain lowers. But last night
was delightful, if such light adjective
may be applied to Wagner. Perhaps it
was the oVerpowering weight and mag
nitude of the production that made peO-
pie rush for fresh air 1t is only a fair
guess that even in a. WagneTian audi
ence, only one out of 20 perfectly enters
into the spirit of the great composer.
OF the other 10, 10 simply like him"
while the remaining nine cordially hate
the hideOuS diSOrdered aggregation of
noises.
These nine go because it is fashiona-
BILE, or because somebody wants them
to go. They with the Brooklynites,
who don't know, and the commuters,
who don't care, are responsible for the
scene of last night AS one of the nine
out of 20 said to a blushing young wO-
man in the foyer, where he had hastily
dragged her:
II don't know a thing about Wagner
except that he wrote a wedding march
deuced hard to keep step to, didn't he,
dear?" And dear said, ''H-u-s-s-s-sh."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15

[From the Atchison Globel
Hard work is the easiest way of kill
ing time.
Any man able to eat pie need not wor-
ry about his health.
Lent is a sort of a Kelley treatment
for the dissipation of women.
More national problems are settled in
shoe shops than in congress.
The surest test of a woman's intelli-
gence is her attitude toward "her
church,
We have noticed that the small man
in fight talks most of having God ON
his side, because he's right.
You have probably observed that
has the same ambition
Clothes are like horses; if you want
something good, you must pay a fancy
price, even if times are hard
In speaking of the ills that flesh is
heir to, old flesh and young flesh do not
belong to the same category
When a man has a good horse it is
surprising how unrea sonable he is
when you want to trade him out of it.
Young people may think they are in
love. but when a woman falls in love
with her Is year old daughter, that is
love.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
DIED IN AFRICA.
Death of Sister of Miss Anna White
the Missionary.

A letter has been received in Topeka
from Anna White of Kingman, Kan,
who is well known in Topeka, from Bar
raka, Africa, where she is working as a
missionary.
The letter tells the story of the death
of Miss Whites sister, who was also a
missionary, from hecunaturic fever. She
says:
Our enemy, death, never seemed SO
terrible to me before. l can, with eyes
of faith, see sister as she came out TO
meet me when I returned to AFRICA;
she will come out to meet me again, put
she'll wear no trace of pain The mousse
was full the remainder of that day with
weeping natives, as the news was car
ried farther they continued TO come
from all towns around; all OF them, as
they screa med after their fashion,
speaking of what sister had done for
them. The king of the. tribe came to me
early next morning and said he feared
we would have sister buried at the cape,
but said, If you want to do so, we can't
agree: she belongs to US. Her heart
lived here and she must be here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
Rheumatism Cured in a Day.

Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in to 3 days
It's action upon the system is remark
able and mysterious. 1t removes at
once the cause and the disease imme-
diateiy disappears. The first dose great
ly benefits. T. F. Anthony, ex-poSt-
master of Promise City, Iowa, says: Il
bought one bottle of Mystic Cure for
Rheuma tism, and two doses OF it did
me more good than any medicine I ever
took Sold by Swift & Holiday, drug
gists, 523 Kansas avenue, Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
eek Rays

Lent shows people how hard it is to be
good even for season.-Atchison Cham
pion.
Notwithstanding assertions to the con-
trary Kentucky is taking water just now
Newton Republican.
Mr. Plat and Mr.. Hanna both want to
be appointed on the finance committee of
the senate. COrbett and Fitz can take
lessons.-Hutchinson News.
The Grecian war is not interesting at
this distance. But if you lived in Canea
where you could the big warships
poking their guns at you your fever would
be too high for enjoyment-Wichita
Eagle.
There are islands. and islands, but the
Hollands of Kansas are not surrounded
by water.-Ottawa Republican.
It is said that death and taxation are
two things from which there is no es-
cape. Yet fifteen hundred dogs in Wichita
succeeded last year in evading a tax
Wichita Beacon.
A Mexican died recently who had evil
dence to show that he was 154 years old.
He could remember when Patti made her
first farewell tour.-Hutchinson News.
Paralysis must have struck Weyler' 9
stenographers; he hasn't had great VIC
tory for week.-Ottawa Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
To colonize Germans in Mexico.

Tampico, Mex. March 15.-F. H. Ma
gel. a wealthy German publisher of the
United States, is now in Mexico for the
purpose of completing arrangements
with the government for the COLOMBIA
ton of large tract of rich land south
of here near the gulf coast. He will
bring several thousand German colon
lists from the United States and the
Fatherland<
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15

California Limited leaves Topeka
Thursdays and Sundays, :33 a m,
via Santa Fe Route. "a hours to Cali
fornia. Vestibuled Pullman sleepers.
buffet smoker and dining car through.
California Express, with Pullman pail
Abs p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
INGALLS, AND PRIZE FIGHTING.
Crosse Field in Chicago Postl

Rose Field in Chicago Post.)
Our gifted fellow citizen, John J. In
gals, announces that he is going out
TO Carson City to see the fight, viewing
1t from an unprofesional and rather
philosophic point of view"
His real reason, however, is that a
newspaper, with more money than
horse sense, has hired him to report it
and Mr.. Ingalls, is thrifty, even If he is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
Weather Indications.

Chicago, March 15.-For Kansas: Part
~ cloudy tonight with rain in extreme
east portion; Tuesday generally fair,
variable winds.
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see all. the members of her school ap-
pear with hair parted in the middle
by the express order of their parents.
The teacher is greatly incensed and in
sists that she will run her school as she
deems best
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15

to- read some of the essays of the late
George William Curtis. their bearing
and manners would be improved and
the occasional acts of rowdyism that
now occur in colleges would altogether
cease.
AT a recent meeting of the profession
al wOmen'S league in New York, Mrs.
Emma Sheridan Fry said: II asked a
friend of NINE who is the happiest wo-
man know-how she managed it, and
she said: Good looks! good dressing! and
hirtingr And when 1 inquired about
the flirting, she explained: A woman
may or may not f1irt with her husband
before she marries him That is as
she chooses. But to f1irt with her huS-
band after she marries him, is the sac
red duty of every woman"
Prince Carl of Bavaria is a practicing
physician in Munich. His cousin, Prince
Louis Ferdinand. has recently set up for
himself as a gynecologist in Nordhaus-
en-, and has hung out a Single an
nouncing his office hours from IL 80 to
II 30 Prince Louis is an uncle of the
King of Spain and a nephew of the
Prince Regent of Bavaria
Col Richard Malcolm Johnston. the
novelist of Georgia dialect, is bereaved
by the death of his wife, Frances Mans
Held johnston, in her 68th year. They
were married when she was 10 and Mr..
Johnston p, and their golden wedding,
not three years ago. was celebrated by
a public reception at the Lyceum thea
ter in Baltimore. where both have resid-
ed since soon after the war.
Mr.. Gladstone having been sounded
as to whether he would be willing to
accept a peerage from the crown in
honor of the diamond celebration of her
majesty, has replied in the negative,
declaring that he prefers to remain a
commoner TO the end of his life and to
be known until the day of his death by
the name under which he has served
his country for more than 60 years. He
was already in parliament and minor
member of the government prior to the
accession of Queen Victoria to the
throne