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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
MORE AMERICAN THAN KANSAS
[From the New York SUM-

North Carolina is one of the oldest
states with respect to settlement, haV
ing been first colonized in 1897 1t is
one OF the thirteen original states, and
by reason of it's extensive SeacOast and
good ports has always been easily ac-
ceSsible to immigrants. Yet in the
whole United States there is not one
of the 40 which has a smaller foreign
born population than North Carolina,
and this peculiar distinction it has retain
ed for good deal more than a century.
BY the federal census of 1880 there were
1900, 900 native born inhabitants of
North Carolina and only 300 born out
of the state. North Cardinals per-
centage, in fact, is so much lower than
pears almost insignificant. North Da-
kota, at the top of the list, has so per
cent foreign born population; Mime
sofa, IS; Wisconsin, A; Rhode Island,
A; New York. 35; Connecticut, 80; New
Jersey, %; Illinois. %; New Hampshire,
%; Ohio, Il; Maryland, 10; Indiana, 7,
and Louisiana, 4. North Cardinals
percentage is one-fifth of 1 per cent,
and it has at no time been much
This fact being undisputed, the ques-
ton naturally arises. what is the cause?
Some say that it is due to the fact
that North Carolina is a state practi-
cally without cities, and that as the
foreign born population of every state
is to be found chiefly in the large cities,
the case is easily explained. but such
an explanation, unfortunately, does not
cover the case. North Carolina has
one city, Wilmington, with a popula-
ton in excess of 10000, and Raleigh,
Charlotte and Asheville have more than
TO- 900 population each. Moreover, it
is not always large cities that count
in the United tSateS for foreign born
population. The state of Iowa, for in
stance, with only one city in excess
of $4,000 inhabitants, contains 20 per
cent of foreign born population. North
Dakota too which was at the head of
the list of states in respect to foreign
born population by the last census, did
not at that time have a city with pop
uIation as large as Asheville, N. G.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
GOULD GOES STUNNING.
Young Howard Sees the Dark Side of
st. Louis.

st. Louis, Feb. 25-Young Howard
Gould of Gotham's swagger set laid
aside his fastidious taste Monday night
and with party of convivial spirits ex-
plored st. Louis after dark.
Under the protecting wing of Detec-
tive Mccarthy, the young millionaire
and his party made their sally. Ieav-
ing the Planters they trailed down
through the Bad Lands and TamaIe
Town, encountering sights as cosmopol-
itan as any in gay New York. Then
the jolly group invaded Dope Alley,
traversing it's intricate labyrinths and
mysteries from one end to the other.
They did not see the Dope Alley of 9TH
er days when saturnalian revel nightly
held sway, but they witnessed enough
epicurean tastes.
Leaving the alley, the sightseers visi-
ted many of the down town cheap lodg-
ing houses and saw the side lights, as
presented in the charitable missions.
They next pushed into the envirOns of
the Central district police station and
witnessed part OF the nocturnal recep-
ton there.
After that function was gone through
with the detective piloted his charges
TO the city dispensary, after an object
lesson on the sufferingS of humanity.
They witnessed DR.. G. L. Kearney per-
form an operation on the dislocated
shoulder of an unfortunate.
The men of luxury and ease viewed
calmly these scenes from the seamy
side of life and got back to their hotel
IN the wee sma hours of Tuesday.
Mr.. Gould left the city early Tuesday,
ana an effort was made to keep the de-
tails of his expedition sub rosa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
ADVERTISING THAT PAID.

(From the Chicago Times Herald.)
Houston is Galveston's greatest rival in
comm cree There is much jealousy be-
tween the two Texas cities. A few weeks
after Galveston had made her big splurge,
getting her name in all the big pa pers,
the Texas Editorial association met in
Houston Theater parties, banquets, ex-
cursions and the like were given the
country editors for more than a week
Finally the day for departure came.
George w. Cleveland, wholesale mer-
chant and cotton factor in the city, con-
cluded that he would give the visitors a
farewell lunch Notices were sent to the
on hand at his establishment at noon on
the day of their departure. They were
there. a magnificent lunch was spread
on the fourth floor of the building. AS
the editors came downstairs they were
handed sealed envelope by a clerk sta
toned at the entrance. 1t was an order
for half-column advertisement for the
monthly. There was no fixed price, Mr..
Cleveland leaving that for the newspaper
men to do. The dailies got the years
contract just the same the weeklies.
Well, it came near taking the breath
away from some of the editors, but a
happier crowd never left a store. For
more than year afterward the Texas
papers teemed with praises of the Cleve-
land establishment. Two years later I
met Mr.. Cleveland in Washington. I ask
ed him if the advertisements had paid
him Paid mel he exclaimed ''I don't
know about that But somehow I receiv-
ed for commission sale 20 900 more bales
of cotton that year than 1 had ever done
before; and my grocery sales in the ag-
ord by more than 100000. Paid me? Say,
let's take q drink"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
FOUR NIGHTS OF OPERA.
The Andrews Opera Company to be
Here Next Week.

Success is the word for the comic opera
season which Topeka people will enjoy
next week. Four nights of opera and aft
ernoon matinee will be given next week.
The people who enjoy opera have re-
sponded to this opportunity to hear fav-
orite comic operas and the question of
ton books for the five performances have
been prepared and will be sold.
The Andrews Opera company will begin
their engagement at the Grand Monday
evening with Flotow's beautiful opera,
Martha" Tuesday evening the ''Mika-
do will be presented and at the matinee
Wednesday afternoon ''Pinafore' will be
sung. Wednesday evening Fra Diavolo''
is the opera and Thursday evening PR
ateS of Penzance.'
The sale of Communication tickets has
reached a point where a good house for
all performances is assured.
The sale of these books will be closed
tonight. and will be closed before if the
200 Communication books are all sold.
Those who buy single performance tick
cts can reserve seats at the drug store
Friday morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
OTHERS WILL HELP.
Opposition to Pension Agencies Being
Abolished Not Confined to
Kansas

The people of Kansas will receive I'M
limited support in their fight to pre-
vent the pension agency from being
taken away from the state in accord
ance with the orders of Secretary
Francis of the Cleveland administra-
ton.
The following Washington dispatch
with reference to the matter is taken
from the New York Mail and Express:
1.-The moment he takes his seat great
pressure will be brought to bear upon
President Mckinley to revoke the order
of President Cleveland, recently is
in various states. While Republican
representatives from all the states di-
rectly concerned in the order were
more or less angry over this order, 1T
remained for southern Republicans.
particularly those from Kentucky and
Tennessee, to go into caucus and devise
ways and means to defeat its purpose.
"A paper on this subject has been
presented by Walter P. Brownlow,
congressman elect from the First dis
trict of Tennessee and national COM
mitteeman from that state. The paper
severely criticises President Cleveland
for abolishing the offices, and Secretary
Francis for recommending their abol-
ishment.
Mr.. Brown1ow has dated it March 5,
and proposes to mail it on the day of
the inauguration, so the paper will be
among the first, if not the first, that the
new president will receive"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
HoWELLs ON MARX TWAIN.
[From Harper's Weekly.l

lErOm Harper'S WeekIy.I
There are two kinds of fiction that I
like almost equally well: real novel
and pure romance; and I jOyfully
accept the Connecticut Yankee as one
of the greatest rOmances ever imagin-
ed 1 believe I shall always like it
best of Mark TWain'S stories until he
writes the real novel which he has
given US the right to expect of him. 1t
is a mighty stroke of poetry, an erect
of the happiest daring in its conception,
worked out with bold and unsparing
fidelity. If you suppose that a Yankee
of our day from East Hartford magi-
caHy finds himself in the Britain of
Arthur's time you have the ground of
mex haustible contrasts and of almost
invariable triumphs for our century
and our civilization; but the author has
the true historical sense and he does
not Judge the past by the present, or
rather he does not condemn it. He
condemns the barbarism of the past
only as it is continued in the present;
and I suppose it is this which made the
book such an offense to the English.
Their dron anachronism of king, no
bles and commons was mirrOred in all
it's grotesQueness in this fable of Ar
thurs land; but if it had not been for
their fierce rejection of the picture, one
might have thought that the author
had been dealing with mere specter,
and bearing on altogether too hard in
his ridicule of the divine right of mon
archy and aristOcracy. The Outburst
against him, however, was sufficient
witness that there was still vitality in
the superstition and so much honor
for it that a republican must not be
suffered to laugh at it. In fact, the
story might seem to rebuke the inc
quality and iniquity of our own status,
too; and if it is ever to become man
ual of democracy in our schools, as
some have hoped, the text must be
carefully guarded with notes explain
ing that our system, with its privileges,
its monopolies and its injunctions, IS
of quite another nature from that of
Britain in either the sixth or the nine
teenth century. What it can safely do
for young readers, whose hands it may
fall into, is to teach them a just alb
horrence of the ugliness and foulness
of the past, which was beautiful and
glorious only in the instincts of hui
mainly, feeble and perverted and baf-
fled as they mostly were, but still es-
sentially the same in all ages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
HORSE TRADING PARSON.
Preacher Brown Tells His People
How He Paid Of 1900 Debt.

Gainesville, Ca, Feb. 25.-The Rev.
George w Brown of White county
made a curious revelation to his con-
gregation today.
Complaints have been made that he
was paying more attention to horse
trading than to preaching.
He felt called upon to give an expla-
nation in his sermon today to the effect
that although he confined himself to
preaching, he had sunk 81, 500 in debt.
He said he had a dream to the effect
that if he would go into horse trading
he would remove the debt. He borrow
ed $500 from friend, and inside of six
months was out of debt. He suggested
that it was mighty good business. 1t
had helped him and it would help them
out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
SUNDAY SCHOOL SOLDIERS.
(From the Philadelphia: American.l

(Erom the Philadelphia American-)
The evil genius of militarisn1 which we
all join in deploring when we talk of the
armed rivals in Europe, might be trusted
to find scope enough for its nischeivous
work among as without the aid of GER
tain churches. In the City of Brotherly
Love the other night there was grand
muster of boys brigades under the pres
idency of Ex-Governor Pattison, who oc-
casionally occupies the Methodist pulpit.
the purpose being Ito demonstrate their
proficiency in military tactics and their
training in Bible lessons" which astutely
framed programme does not necessarily
include the spirit of the New Testament
teaching. There has never yet been any
lack of militant patriotism in the Ameri-
can people when the need arose, and the
country is not in immediate danger OF
foreign invasion by other than illiterate
immigrants from the Orient. If it were
we do not quite perceive the strategical
value of turning Sunday schools into
mtlnic battlefields for mild-hearted lads
to play at soldiers in. More evident is the
tendency of this half-and-haf worldly
Christian fad to undo the good gotten in
church and school Boy-soldiering breeds
new vanities and encourages the old, it
makes dudes of weaklngS and UNDER
mines the wholesome respect once felt for
simple manliness without fuss and feath>
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
GoLD1rEs ASSUME TOO MUCH.

Notwithstanding the result of the last
election and the assertion which is now
frequently made that it was an en-
dorsement of the gold standard, the
current number of the Bankers Maya
zine is largely given up to an attack on
the theory of bimeta1lism and its sup
porters. If the battle has been fought
and won it seems like folly to keep up
the firing.
The fact is that the continuous fusi-
lade which is kept up in so-called sound
money quarters is done for the purpose
of causing the incoming administration
to abandon the position which the sue
cessful party took al ST. Louis. This
position was clearly in favor of the dou-
BILE monetary standard and the party
pledged itself to use its utmost endeav-
Ors to bring about bimetallism. Had it
done otherwise it could not have car
ried the country.
Many forsook the party as it was;
not because they doubted it's sincerity
or believed that it would not carry out
its pledge in regard to an international
agreement, but because they doubted
the probability of such a scheme
Many thousands of bimetallists re-
manned true to the party because they
had implicit confidence not only in the
honesty of its intentions, but also in it's
ability to carry them to a successful
termination. 1t is these who will re-
sent any weakening or departure from
the plain promise made in the st. Louis
platform.
The Mckinley administration nor the
Republican congress cannot afford to
break faith with them. No specious
words of contributors to the Bankers
Magazine or advocates of sound mon
ey' anywhere can obliterate that rec
ord. 1t carried the country.
Although there is a Republican ma
jority in the present house of represen-
tatives, the question of taking some ac-
ton looking to the calling of an interna-
tiOnal conference has been held in abey-
ance on one pretext and another until
the session is so nearly ended that 1t is
almost certain that nothing will be
done now. But there is to be an extra
session called for the 18th of March and
the Republican biInetallists will then
have right to demand some action and
no doubt they will do so. If it is not
| forthcoming. many congressman may
find it difficult to get back in two years
from now.
Information derived from European
| sources indicates that Senator VOL
colts mission, undertaken for the pur-
pose of sounding the powers on the
subject of a conference has met with
little or no encouragement. Foreign
governments seem to feel that this
question of the coinage of silver is a
| matter which concerns US more than
| anybody else and if we want to consult
| them about it, it is our business to pre-
pare the feast and invite them to it. If
| this be done and they don't come or an
| agreement cannot be reached. that will
settle the matter of international BIZ
metallism and the people will know
what to depend upon. There is nothing
! SO dangerous as trif1ing with them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
EELS STOP THE WATER.
The Water Pipe Had to be Cut Open
to Remove the Obstruction.

New York, Feb. 25.-Hydraulic cells
are now in season. At No. 405 First ave-
nue., where Mrs. Borg lives, the water
pipes refused to work. Plumbers failed
to locate the trouble. and though a
man from the board of public works
opened the fire main, not a pipe in the
house would run enough to tone down
a glass of Jersey apple jack.
Finally the hydrant was torn out and
the cellar flooded. Then it was diScov-
cred that an eel, more than two feet
long, had plugged the service pipe con-
Meeting the house with the street main.
The eel was dead, and the pipe had to
be cut open to remove it.
Recently a large number of eels have
been found in the water pipes in various
parts of the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
ENDOWMENT CELEBRATION
Friends of the Colorado College Hold
Meeting and Hear Addresses.

Colorado Springs, Col, Feb. 25.-The
three days celebration of the compile
ton of the Pearsons' endowment fund
at Colorado college began yesterday,
with appropriate religious services.
A mass meeting for praise and thanks
giving was attended by nearly 1000
people. Chancellor Mcdowell of the
Denver university delivered the adj
dress, his subject being THE Sons and
Daughters of Colorado" This afternoon
a conference upon Higher Education
was held at the college chapel, many
prominent educators taking part. Last
night there was citizens mass meet
ing, at which President George A. Gates
of Iowa college delivered an address.
The endowment fund amounts to
$2o0, 900, of which $50. 600 was given by
DIR. d. K. Pearsons of Chicago on con-
dition that $150o00 be given by other
friends of the college
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

The new STATE JOURNAL home Is
one of the neatest and most unique
buildings In the state model
newspaper structure. Its fast web
press and its EinotyPes are on the
the ground floor, behind plate glass,
affcrding a never ceasIng attraction
to the passerby ON the sidewalk.
The public can see and time the
printed papers and know that over
ten Thousand are issued daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
The Ideal Panacea

James L Francis, alderman, Chicago,
says. I regard DR.. Kirg's New Dis
covery as an ideal paHacea for coughs,
colds and lung complaints, having used
it in my family fer the past five years
to the exclusion of physicians prescrip-
tons or other preparations"
Rev. John BergUs, Keokuk Ia,
writes: ''I have been a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church for so
years or more, and have never found
anything so beneficial or that gave me
such speedy relief as DR.. Kings New
Discovery" Try this ideal cough rem
edy now. Trial bottles free at J. K
Jones drug store. Fifth street and
Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
LITTLE RaopY,s FLAG.
fFrom the Proviaence Journa1. J

The body of the flag of the state of
Rhode Island is rich blue. with an an
Choir in the center. the effect of all be-
ing heightened by a display of thirteen
gilt stars, Z representing the original
states. In Revolutionary days the flag
OF the commonwealth. like those of the
other New England states. was white.
Up in the left hand corner were the thir-
teen stars in q field of blue. An anchor
adorned the center of the state colors. 1t
is now proposed to go back to the ancient
flag and the general assembly will be
asked to make the change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

New Building - double front, three
for the exclusive use of the pubIica-
tEon and business of the STATE
JOURNAL. newspaPer-no job office
or side issues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25
Major McKinley's Cigars.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Major McKin-
ley smokes three-for-a-quarter cigars.
His private secretary has just written
to a Washington cigar dealer conveying
the thanks of the president-elect for
box of his favorite brand" The dea-
Ter says that Ma or Mckinley smoked
this brand of cigars during all his II
years in congress, and used not less
than 80, 900 of them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

[From the Atchison G1obe.1
Too much goodness is as monoton-
Gus as too much wickedneSS.
A baby in buggy is good thing,
but no man likes to push it along.
A funeral at a house attracts people
who never go there at any other time.
The best blood in every family is
usually monopolized by the 16-year-old
daughter.
In the hands of a real clever woman,
a dried prune can be made to taste as
good as an orange
A man is willing to admit that he is
foolish, but he hates to have other peo-
pie throw it up to him
There is only one part of a man that
feels better on Monday than it felt on
Saturday, and that is his corns.
BY o'clock every day people have
made so many plumbers that they long
for tomorrow that they may start all
over again.
A 1oafer will stand around and give
his ideas about a piece of work unso-
ncited, but would refuse the job of
bossing it for pay.
We would all enjoy ourselves hearing
people talk if they talked in the right
way No man enjoys hearing another
say: when do you intend to pay
me?"
Every man has a lot of stuff he can't
sell.
All that makes an Atchison woman
unpopular is her Heaven-is-m my home
voice.
People rush around on Monday as
though they were ashamed of having
been idle on Sunday.
Very few men are as confident in
making assertions in their wives pres
ence as when they are absent.
Whenever two women get together,
and there is a man in an adjoining
room, they soon begin to whisper.
There is one great advantage in be-
ing rich: rich man can tell the same
anecdote a dozen times before his
listeners get that weary look.
E. E. Turner of Compton, Mo-, writes
US that after suffering from piles for
seventeen years, he completely cured
them by using three boxes of Dewitt s
Witch Hazel Salve. It cures eczema and
| severe skin diseases. G. w. Stansfield,
| 632 Kansas avenue.
prowsiness is dispelled by BEECHAMs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

The American Newspaper Directory
each year gives the TOPEKA DAILY
STATE JOURNAL guaranteed cir
cuIatiOn. The directory for 1896
guarantees that the circulation
was larger than that of any other
Topeka daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

California Limited leaves Topeka
via Santa Fe Route 81 hours to Cali
fornia Vestibuled Pullman s1eepers,
buffet smoker and dining car through.
California Express, with Pullman pal
ace and tourist sleepers leaves daily at
ABS D. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

If you have ever seen a child in the
agony of Group, you can appreciate the
gratitude of mothers who know that
One Minute Cough Cure relieves their
little ones quickly as it is admins
tered Many homes in this city are
never without it. G. w. Stansfield, 622
Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

The STATE JOURNAL has forty.
peka and suburbs. These carriers
aIene are paid over 10000 a year
for circulating the paper In this
community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

Reached daily average for the year
1896 of Io,zoo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

There are no secrets about
the STATE JOURNALS
circulation. A detailed
statement, signed and
sworn to, is issued annu.
ally, showing the circu-
Iation for each day in
the year. The statement
is sent to directories and
furnished advertisers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

In the fifteen months last past
these are some of the results that
have been reached:
Made a showing sworn detailed
statement-of circulation exceeding
that of any other Topeka daiIys
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

Paper enlarged from six celGn Gu2T1o
TO seven column quarto.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

-Four Linotype machines Installed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

In the hands of a real clever woman,
a dried prune can be made to taste as
good as an orange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-25

E. E. Turner of Compton, Mo-, writes
US that after suffering from piles for
seventeen years, he completely cured
Witch Hazel Salve It cures eczema and
severe skin diseases. G. w. Stansfield,
632 Kansas avenue.