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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
FoRrUNArE coNv1ors.
IFrom the New York Journal.

From the New York Journal
The strike of the convicts at the San
quentin state prison, in California, IS
ill-advised from every point of view.
There are u or 10 hundred prisoners
in this institution, and over half of them
have not only refused to work. but have
emphasized their refusal by disorderly
conduct, threatening to develop at the
first opportunity into actual violence.
The warden, who is q well meaning
man. slow TO anger except when pOl1ti-
cal opponents criticise his management
has been irritated to the point of lock-
ing up about seven hundred strikers on
bread and water, and statiOning guards
in the corridors, with instructions to
shoot any face that appears at a wick
ct
It would serve these men right if they
should be turned out OF their cOmfOrta-
Bile quarters and forbidden ever TO show
their faces at San Quentin again. They
have good, steady situations, plenty of
work. excellent food and substantial
shelter. They have the privileges of re-
lgiOn, with liberal educational advant-
ages and cOngenial society. Creditors
do not disturb them; they have no rent
to pay, and they never have to scheme
to prOpitiate the butcher. They have
every opportunity to lead a life of idyl-
lie TRANQUILITY of serene meditation
there are a few little Inconvenience,
which is lucky for them, for if their
condition were absolutely perfect the
rush for cells at San Quentin would en-
danger their positions Their chief dis
advantage is the fact that they are not
completely at liberty. But, then, who
is? Is the East Side clothing worker.
grinding IS hours day for food that a
San Quentin convict would throw in
the face of his keeper if he dared to Of
fer it to him? The prisoner of poverty
can go no further from his task than
the prisoner of the law can go from his,
and the prisoner of the law has twice
as much time to himself as the prisoner
of poverty has, and much better quart
ers to enjoy it in.
Certainly the convicts at San Quentin
have liberty of thought and express
sion that would be envied by the work
ers at Pullman, for instance. If a band
of Pullman workers had engaged in
such demonstrations as have marked
the strike at San Quentin, the troops
would have been called out the first
day.
It is much to be feared that the turb-
ulence of the prison strikers may lead
to a lockout. If Warden Hale should
turn out the whole crowd to tramp for
lOrnly upon the highroad, haunted ever
by visions of the stern farmer and his
anthropophagous dog, would the strik-
ers have anybody but themselves to
blame?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
PARTIES ARE BORN NOT MADE

1t may now be said that the cam
paign of 1900 has begun The meeting
of the provisional committee of the sill
yer Republicans in Chicago and the
raising of a 100000 campaign fund
among the silver mine owners, entities
that political element to be ranked as
first in the field. They have started in
time to afford abundant opportunity
for being rent into fnnumerable fac
tons before the period for holding a
national nominating convention ar
rives.
The silver Republicans seem to labor
under the same delusion that usually
affects those who advocate great
changes or reforms, and that is that
successful political reforms and re-
form parties are made. when in fact,
they are born. They spring into life
from events unheralded and unfore-
seen.
The alliance of political forces which
supported Mr.. Bryan last year was not
prearranged or built up. It burst sud
denly upon the country, given the
breath of life by that gentleman's Chi
cago speech and subsequent nominal
ton. An alliance had been talked of
but no agreement was in sight because
the parties interested could not unite
upon a candidate mutually satisfactO-
ry. When Mr.. Bryan made his famous
speech all elements friendly to silver
said: That is the man.
After years of building up, the party
started in opposition to human slavery
could not command a majority of the
votes Of the country in 1860, and Mr.
Lincoln was elected solely because of
divisions in the opposition. The next
important effort to build up a reform
party was in 1872, and it failed because
not called into being by any public
event calculated to command the at
tention of the masses.
The people are not aroused to the
extent necessary to the overthrowing
of a system or a party by educational
methods or organization, but by events.
The Republican party had a majority
in the country from the hour that Fort
Sumter was fired on. The certainty
of Mr.. CIeveland's election in 1892 dated
from the Homestead strike.
If the Republican party is to be dis
lodged in 1900, the events which viii
lead up to it are yet to occur. Cam
pafgn literature. speeches and organi-
cation will not do it. So-called organi-
cation not infrequently becomes disor-
erauiza+ion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
VETERANS PASSING AWAY.

LFrom the st. Paul Dispatch
Nearly two-thirds of those who
fought in the civil war have already
passed away. OF the $500 600 men
called into the service of the nation,
only a few more than 600 remain.
BY 1910 these will be reduced to a bat
talon of 34O and, five years later, not
one will be alive.
The last soldier of the revolution,
Daniel F. Brakeman, died on April 5,
1869, at Freedom, Cattaraugus county,
N. Y. He was 100 years old. Only thir-
ty years ago. a man lived who bore
arms when CORVALLIS surrendered, and
he stayed with US long enough to hear
the news of Appomattox.
We are paying $40 100000 a year to
nearly a million pensioners, and on this
account we have paid since the war be-
gan more than two billions of dollars.
To keep eleven states in this Union cost
US more than eight billion dollars. or
three billions more than the total
wealth of those eleven states in 1860.
The war cost the north the lives of
$50 0OO men, which number is close to
the strength of the Grand Army of the
Republic today. Those of the soldiers
of the north, who have died since the
war, outnumber the million survivors
by more than 100000. If every veteran
were to decorate the grave of a. com
rade who died since they fought Shout
der to shoulder, there would still be
237 600 unStrewn graves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
AN EDICr AGAINST RICE.

IFrom the Cleveland Plaindealer.l
One of the Pennsylvania railroads
has gruff and grum superintendent.
Possibly he is a bachelor; still more
possibly he is a soured and vengeful
benedict. Anyway, he has issued an
order prohibiting the throwing of rice
on the railway premises. Just what he
sees in this harmless custom it would
be difficult to imagine. Undoubtedly
he is ignorant of the fact that it has
beautiful pagan origin, and very likely
he doesn't care. He says rice mustn't
be thrown on the railway premises, and
he evidently means that his edict shall
be respected But what are we to think
of a, hard hearted official like this? A
man of such strong caliber may be ex-
pected to call old shoes a nuisance, to
snatch white satin ribbons from trunk
handles and to even conhscate bridal
bouquets At a time when marriage is
so decidedly on the wane as a popular
rite it isn't nice at all for this rude su-
perintendent to intrude his tyrannical
ukase against one of it's most harmless
features. A few flirts of q broom would
free his old premises from the polluting
grain. Why should he illuminate
against it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
MONEY ON HIS WOUNDS.
The Blood Stained Bank Notes an
italian Soldier Brought Home.

London, June 9.-The Italian news
papers are telling curious stories about
the adventures of the soldiers who have
just returned from captivity in Abys-
sinia. A private in a line regiment,
upon his arrival at Naples, was found
to be in possession of bank notes of the
value of 10000 lire. The presumption
being that so much wealth was not OBJ
tanned honestly, the man was placed
under arrest and was tried by court
martial.
He declared that the notes were given
to him by the Abyssinians after the
battle of Abba Carina, in which he was
desperately wounded They had been
looted from the regimental pay chests.
The Abyssinians, not knowing what to
do with them, simply retained them as
curioSitieS and mementoS of the war
The soldier told the natives that the
notes, which bore allegorical pictures
of Italy, were portraits of saints, and
had been blessed by the pope in order
that they might be used to cure the
wounds of the faithful. Thereupon,
out of pity. the Abyssinians bound the
captives' wounds with the bank notes
and never thought of taking them back.
AS most of the notes were stained with
blood the court martial believed the
story, acquitted the prisoner and made
no order for the disposal Of the notes,
which, probably, the man will be al
lowed to keep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
TOPEKA % YEARS AGO TODAY.

The following news items are related
in the Commonwealth of June 9, 1922
The Missouri Pacific run a special
train to St. Louis to accommodate del
egates to the Sangerfest.
Santa Fe opened to Wichita and
Hutchinson. M. L. Sargent was local
agent in Topeka
r. H c. Searle was city clerk.
IN F. Handy says the Common
wealth '-has completed sowing his wild
oats and returned to Topeka to live
State Democratic convention conven-
ed at Representative hall.
T. j. Anderson, r. B. WEIGH, and Col.
VeaIe were appointed marshals for the
Fourth of July parade.
Professor Worral was preparing plans
for laying out the Washburn college
grounds
Governor Harvey went to Boston.
r. NJ. Wright, now a prominent Re
publican of Ford county, was q delegate
to the state Democratic convention.
The following reassuring announce
ment appeared in the Commonwealth:
''All parties missing COWS this morning
will find them at Lindsey and Thomas
stables Fifth and Jackson.
w. H Rossington represented the
Leavenworth Commercial at the state
Democratic convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
TESLA SURE OF SUCCESS.
Says He Will Be Able to Telegraph
Without Wires

New York, June 9.-Nikola Tesla's an
nouncement that he will be able to tele-
graph messages to any part of the world
without using wires, making the earth
serve as a conductor, has stirred up gen
eral interest. Scientists are discussing it
and so are laymen. Some of the latter ex-
press a fear that messages would be more
apt to get mixed and crossed than under
the present system. 1t is suggested that
important messages from Chicago to
London, for instance. might be detected
and wind up in Johannesburg.
One of the three wonderful discoveries
Tesla has SO nearly perfected that he will
soon be ready to put them to a practical
test. is a machine which will set the
whole earth in vibration. These vibra-
lions, set to the measures of an inter-
national code, may be read at any
part of the earth, thus making possible
communication, without wires, between
any place and its antipode.
And last, though by no means least, he
fully believes he will be able to transmit
electrical power from place to place with
out the use of wires.
Il have so improved my machine he
says, that able to transmit signals
through the earth for a distance of
twenty miles. I am now at work on an
other, which will not be hampered or af-
fected by any distance, even though it
be half around the globe"
Tesla bases his idea of telegraphing
through the earth on the possibility that
if the electric-static condition of the
earth could be disturbed in one place
the disturbance would be felt all over
the earth, and if this disturbance was
created by machine any similar machine
al any other point should be susceptible
to the disturbance. What then, he ar
CUES. is necessary other than to have
each degree of disturbance accord with
the code signal, regulate the disturbance
SO as to send any message you wish. and
al all other places similar machines to
have the message recorded.
This idea first occurred to Tesla when
he was putting up a telephone system in
Buda-Pesth. Two miles away was a
Morse telegraph cable, and on the tele-
phone wire every message that went over
the cable could be heard, although the
telephone wire and the cable were ground
ed. The communication was by induc-
ton.
Tesla does not disclose the character of
the machine he will use, but it is sur
missed his electric osciIlators, by which
he claims to be able to produce so O0O, 900
vibrations a second, will be brought into
play.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
CHANGE IN POSTMASTERs.
Democrat Officials at Fort Scott and
Wichita Must Go.

Washington. June "a report made
by a postoffice inspector causes the be-
lief that changes will be made at Fort
Scott and Wichita; this by way of i'm
proving the service The fight is now
being made for the two places. Senator
Baker is disposed to allow the defeated
Republican candidates for congress to
make recommendations for postmaster
in their various districts. This being
the case Jack Harris will select the
Fort Scott postmaster and Chester I.
Lonk will select the Wichita pOstmas-
ter.
Wichita, June 9.-Chester L Long has
Endorsed Mute Bridgenan for postmas-
ter at this place. He has a very strong
local Endorsement, and at the request of
the state committee, last campaign,
withdrew from the county ticket in the
interest of harmony. The withdrawal
was accompanied with the promise
that he should be made postmaster.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
CUTTING DOWN THE FLAG
[From the Chlcago Tribune.l


In 1862 the first American flag was
cut down in Illinois by secessionists.
The owner of the flag wrote to Cover
nor Yates about it. The reply of the
governor has just been given out for
publication. Following is a transcript
of the letter:
ment, Springfield, July Is 1862.-John
w BosWOrth Oskaloosa, IIL-Dear Sir:
I have just received yours of the 10th
of July in which you say that the pole
from which fioate1 the Stars and Stripes
on the Fourth of July was cut down by
SecessiOnists and that a a picnic which
you are to have it is threatened that
the flag shall be taken down, and you
ask me whether you would be justified
in defending the flag with f1rearms2
1 am astonished at this question. AS
much so as if you were to ask me
whether you would have a right to de-
fend your property against robbers or
your life against murderers.
You ask me what you shall do? I re-
ply do not raise the American flag
merely to provoke your secession neigh
whenever you raise it on your own soil
or on public property of the state or
county, or at any public celebration
from honest love to that flag and patri-
otto devotion to the country which it
symbOlizes, and any traitor dares to lay
his unhallowed hand upon it to tear it
down, then, 1 say, shoot him down as
you would a dog, and I VIII pardon you
for the offense.
RICHARD YATES,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09

August 1. Happily, the publishers do
not stipulate that the story shall be of
high quality: the only object is to get
out something with Mrs. Burnett's
name attached to it and depend on the
name to pull it through. Mrs. Burnett
is much interested in the projected race
and promises to do her best to eclipse
the American record for fast time, now
held by F. Marion Crawford. We be-
lieve that the record for rapid poetic
composition is held by a Chicago wo-
man, who thinks nothing of writing
three or four poems before breakfast,
and they are considered very good pO-
devoid of the strength and vigor that
come with a full stomach. hundred
years ago when literature was q slow
and Iaborious occur alton, stories were
written according to the presence of in
SEPARATION and not by the job. Gray is
supposed to have puttered over the
ssElegy'' for twenty years before he was
content to pronounce it finished now
there are a. dozen poets in America who
would agree to toss off score of elegieS
a month at SO per elegy. This charm
ing age of steam and electricity has
wrought such wonders that poets and
story writer's are not reqRired or ex-
that they shall supply GER
tain number of words at
certain time For this reason
there is a brisk literary competition
between stenOgraphers and linotype ar
lists who have distinct advantage over
Mrs Burnett who is compelled to rely
on the painful toll of the pen. We hope
that Mrs Burnett's unusual eXertions
will not induce writer's paralysis, and
that the lady will take plenty of neces-
sary exercise. Our best writers can
not be too careful of their muscles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
GOTHAM WHITE WHALES.
New York Aquarium Has Two Stars
From the st. Lawrence River.

New York.June 9-Two white whales
viii prove the joint stars at the aquar-
ium until some new attraction is
brought in. These large fish were put
in the big center tank today. The
whales were caught in the Gulf Of St
Lawrence. They are in fine condition,
apparently. They came packed in
seaweed in two big boxes. 1t required
q derrick and fourteen men to lift them
into the big pool The head of the
family is cream color, ten and a half
feet long. The mate is darker, a drab
color, with brown spots, and is nine
and a half feet long.
The seaweed in which the whales
were packed in their journey here was
kept dampened and the breathing holes
of the whales were kept constantly wet.
They were hauled in wagons many
miles to a railroad station and then
shipped by express. The whales were
handled much the same as any other
perishable freight. As soon as they
arrived in Weehawken the big boxes
were carefully bundled into an express
van and driven to the aquarium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
BRAMBLE'S ENGINE UNSOLD
Inventor Still Working at a TeIe-
graph Key.

Washington, June 9.-The inventors of
the country were considerably stirred up
a few months ago by report. which was
widely circulated, to the effect that a
telegraph operator in Minnesota named
Grant Bramble had been paid Sc, 00e 900 by
an English syndicate for a new design of
rotary engine which he has perfected.
This story went the rounds of the press
and the amount of money said to have
been received by Bramble grew apace.
AS a matter of fact, Bramble still is
working at a telegraph key for $50 a
month, although it is true that he did APP
ply for and received a patent on a rotary
engine. The story about the English
syndicate was a myth, for after an in
vestigation into the merits of the engine
it was found that it was hardly practt.
cable and was very costly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
SPEAKING OF MAPLE SUGAR.


Speaking of maple sugar brings to
mind the fact that there is no product
of the farm concerning which there is
greater ignorance on the part of con-
Suners than maple sugar and syrup. 1t
seems to be almost the universal opin-
ion that maple syrup to be genuine
must be dark in color and of d thick,
this matter, and I am convinced that
dealers in large towns and cities are
largely responsible for this. Maple
syrup is one of the easiest things to
doctor" For instance, a gallon of
strictly pure, Hght-colOred maple syrup
is received and foreign substances, as
cane sugar or glucose, are added and
three gallons made, and all are brand
ed pure maple syrup
Some years ago stepped into a gro
Gerry store in the city of Denver and in
CURED if they had any genuine maple
syrup. oh, yes''-and I was shown
cans branded pure Vermont maple
syrup" 1 asked the grocer if he would
kindly let me taste a sample He did
gan TO smell mice" and asked if I was
a manufacturer of the article. I said
Yes, and [ ship it every spring to your
city" Seeing he was fairly caught he
said: 1.-The fact is, I cannot fool you
see. This syrup of ours was probably
made in Chicago"
Last spring sent a gallon by request
to a pastor of a church in Brooklyn, who
in his boyhood days used to live on
farm in Chenango county, and knew
what real maple syrup was. We sent
him a gallon of early make, of light
amber shade, and at once received word
that the syrup was entirely ahead of
any he had ever seen, and that it was
an utter inpossibility to procure such in
q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
ASK FOR THE
HOUSE FOR REID.
American Envoy to Have Aristocratic
Neighborhood During His
Stay in London.

London, June e.-Ogden Mills has Sc
cured the Earl of Lonsda1e's London resi-
dence. Nos II and Is Carlton House Ter
race, which was hired by the British gov
eminent for the use of Ii Hung Chang
during his months visit in August last.
for the use of Whitelaw Reid during the
laster's stay in England.
Lord Lonsdale's house contains a wealth
of art treasures, said to be equal to that
of any other house in London.
Mr.. Reid will have for his neighbors
among others, Lord and Lady William
Beresford, the Earl of Caledon, Mrs
John W. Mackey, the Dowager Countess
of Pembroke, Earl Brownlow, the Ger
man Ambassador. William Waldorf Aston
and the Duke of Grafton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
BOYS IN A PILLORY.
Investigation Into the Waukesha In
dustrial School Promises to
Develop Abuses.

Milwaukee, June 9.-The coming inves-
tigation of the Waukesha industrial
school promises to develop a state of
things hard to believe.
Many stories are told of the brutal
treatment to which the boys are subject
ed. The pillory was popular chastise-
ment. This was the placing of a heavy
barrel over the boys shoulder Boys in
the pillory were dieted and restricted to
one slice of bread and one glass of water
a day. Another disciplinary measure was
the dungeon.
Governor Scofeld is harsh1y criticised
for his arrogance toward persons who
called these abuses to his knowledge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
SOUTH SEA INSECTS.
California Man With Eastern Com.
panions, Going After Bugs.

Oakland, Cal, June 9.-First in be-
half of an eastern syndicate and then
in the interest of science, c. NJ Harris
will embark in a chartered brig for the
South Sea islands within a few days
there to collect strange insects and
preserve them for transportation here
Harris, with three companions. now
on their way from New York city, will
face dangers and hardships without
end in their search for rare bugs and
unheard of forms of minute animal
life. He is ably assisted and seems to
have plenty of money with which to
carry out his pans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
eek RAys.n

Scientists say that a man cannot live
long if he drinks beer and rides a wheel.
This will cause many a poor fellow to
give up his wheeL-Lawrence Journal.
There are more poets in Lawrence
than in any other town in Kansas, but
the newspapers there absolutely refuse
to publish any Of the products except
at double advertising rates.-Hutchin-
son News.
Every woman will insist that her
hair is naturally curly, even with the
curling iron in her hand and the
burned places on her forehead in plain
view.-Arkansas City Traveller.
Every teacher is responsible for the
future good or evil work of some man
or woman.-Atchison Champion.
President Barrfos has declared him
self dictator of Guatemala BY that
we suppose he has the handling of the
postof1ce patronage of his county
Hutchinson News.
If you must get into a mob. get right
at its head and rage. Don't lOiter back
as a bystander and merely look on.
That is certain death.-Wichita- Eagle.
The Spanish papers and the Ameri-
can papers have a bond of sympathy.
respondents are wholly unreliable
Lawrence Journal.
Arkansas City has Hveryrnan whose
wife rides a bicycle tt is one of the
anomalies of life.-Arkansas City Trav-
eler.
Somebody proposes to pension all I'M
married women of 40. Goodness, there
aren't anyI-Ottawa Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
Telegraph Assessment Increased.

The state board of railroad assessors
has fixed the valuation of telegraph
wires at $50 per mile for the first wire
and $12 for each additional wire. The
valuation fixed by the Republican
board was $50 for the first wire and SO
for each additional wire.