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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
ALCOHOL AND DISEASE.
IFrom Youths Companion.l

From Youths COmpa niOn.1
A man was recently brought into one
of the public hospitals of d large city
suffering from bruise. He had fallen
backward across a narrow obstruction
of some kind, and upon exa minatiOn it
was found that he had fra ctured one of
the bones of The spine. The back was
not what is commonly called broken,
but one Of the bones was cracked in
such a way that unless an operation
was performed and the pressure of the
fragment upon the spinal cord relieved
paralysis and probably collapse would
follow.
The operation, though comparatively
rare is not excessively difficult and the
mans chance for recovery would have
been at least an even one; but when the
surgeons ordered him to be prepared
for the operation, it was noticed that he
bore marks OF being addicted to drink.
The operation was Immediately aban-
doned, and the man died within week.
To the casual reader it might seem a
case of professional heartlessness. But
the doctor knew-from sufficient expeT-
fence in just such caseS-how pOwerlesS
the man would be, worn out as he was
by Indulgence, to Withstand the shock
of an operation. And since cases of a
similar sort are of frequent occurrence
in all our large public and private hos
pitfalls, it is worth While to inquire into
the cause of such a state of affairs. and
to draw from it a lesson and perhaps a
moral.
The downward course of a person who
becomes enSlaVed to stimulants follows
a natural law. Beginning with a suffi-
cient quantity of alcohol to produce a
contain pleasurable sensation, he finds
himself quite as a matter of course,
gradually increasing his daily allow
ance.
Alcohol stimulates the various organs
of the body to increased work. BY this
increase of exercise the organ grows.
and the larger organ makes larger de-
mands. These demands the tippler in
terprets as a call for more alcohol, and
so the round is continued.
Under excessive stimulation the sub
stance of the body begins to change its
character. Food which can not be used
is stored up in the form of fat. Watery
instead of solid substances appear
Eventually the organs themselves
change their appearance and begin tc
break down and decay. Then comes a
crisis-through accident or some acute
disturbance-and the unfortunatae vic
tim is unable to call on nature to help
him against the shock-and death fol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
HIGH PRICED DWELLINGS.
Henry C1ews Will Build 5 100000
Hotel Near Fifth Avenue.

New York, Jan. 23.-Joseph c. Hoag-
land of Brooklyn has bought from E
w Bliss the remOdelled four story
dwelling, No. q West Fifty-first street
for about $3.50, 900.
His son Raymond Hoagland, has
bought from Mrs. Albert Young. for
about $3.50 OOO, the five story marble
front American basement dwelling.
Architects Harding & Gooch OF No
25S Broadway, are preparing plans for
the s.. 600. 900 apartment hotel which
Banker Henry Clews purposes to put
up on the site of his present residence,
No. 9 West Thirty-fourth street, which
Joins the Henry Hilton house, just west
of the Manhattan club.
Mr.. CIews was one of those who
strongly opposed a street railway in
Thirty-fourth street.
After the railway people won he de-
cided to give up his dwelling there and
put up a hotel On the site
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
1MPRo WE'D LOCAL OPTION.
[From the Minneapolis JournaI.I

lFrOm the minneapolis journal.
Massachusetts has a very effective
and sensible local option law, which has
wrought some very excellent results.
After the repeal of the prohibitOry law
in 1874, a local option law was passed
which did not work satisfactorily, and,
in 1881, the present law was passed,
which requires the people to vote an
nually on the issue of liquor licenses,
the Australian ballot always having the
question printed at the bottom: Shall
license for the sale of liquor be issued
for the ensuing year," which each
voter must answer. The secretary of
the Massachusetts total abstinence So
ciety has prepared a report on the fif-
teen years operation of the law which
shows a steady gain of the no vote
and a steady decline of the yes" vote
in the cities, so that the no vote out
side of the cities, is so large that the
cities could not offset il, and, even in
the cities, the mo" vote has gained.
Even the prohibitionists are becoming
satisfied with the effect of this law
The vote on the issue of licenses is also
a steadily increasing proportion OF the
total vote. The interest of the people
in this question is shown by the fact
that the people have to vote every year
on the subject. The anti-HcenSa people
are kept on their metal and are ready
each year for the license campaign to
go to the polls and put a veto on open
saloons.
Under the law it is left optional with
the selectnen whether they Will issue IL
censeS even if the yes vote wins, put
they cannot open the saloons by license
if the people vote no 1t is said that
Boston gets 81, O0O, 000 more year from
liquor licenses, while in the country
towns the chances for the saloon men
are diminishing steadily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
OFFICIALS AND THE SCHOOL
HUND

Developments which have recently
come to lightin connection with the man
ner in which negotiations for the sale
of school district and county bonds to
the school fund commission have been
carried on, indicate the necessity for
some reform along that line. The ques-
ton seems a proper one for legislative
action.
1t appears that sales of bonds to the
school fund commission have been con-
Quoted through agents so frequently
as to almost establish this method as
a custom, and large sums of the peo-
pies money have in this way found
their way into the pockets of persons
who had no moral right thereto. The
school fund commissioners are paid by
the state to transact the states bust
ness, and county commissioners are
paid by their respective counties to
transact the county business These
officials should be compelled by law to
do the business for which they are
elected, and if they cannot get together
on a sale of bonds without the interven-
ton of outside parties. and the pay
ment of a commission, they should be
turned out of office for incompetency.
and somebody else should be appointed
in their places. This is business. 1t is
what any business man would do, ana
it is what the state should do
Shawnee county has had a taste of
the present method of doing business.
The school fund commission and the
county commissioners, though only sep
arated by a few blocks and connected
by telephone, could not, or did not.
conduct deal for the sale of the court
house bonds without the Intervention of
a third party who got a handsome
rake-off out of the transaction.
In all these cases, it matters not
which party pays the commission, it
comes out of the taxpayers, and the
taxpayers interests are what it is the
duty of the school fund commission.
the county commissioners and the leg
islature to protect. While the legisla-
ture is looking after big game like rail-
roads, insurance companies, banks and
loan companies, it should not overlook
leaks like that in connection with the
investment of the school fund.
If per cent bonds are issued, per
cent is what the school fund should re-
ceive. If there is any accrued interest
at the time of the sale, it should either
go to the school fund, or back to the
people who are responsible for its pay
ment. Nobody is justly entitled to a
cent out of any investment of school
funds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
THE NEW BowERY.

lFrom Harper's Weekly
The Bowery, since the construction of
the elevated road along that thorough
fare, has steadily changed from a stroll
lers resort, or what the Germans call
a tinbel-tangeI, into a business street,
from which prosperous merchants may
branch out to Broadway or to one of
the half dozen thriving cross streets
that cut New York into so many bust
ness sections. Five Points-where
strangers once burst not venture at
nlght-oWing to the prevalence of mis-
sion houses, prOtectorieS and a big
bare factory building, has assumed an
austere aspect, but little lghtened by
the presence of tiny plot of grass,
misnamed Paradise park.
SO it has come that within the last
two years new Bowery," with the
same dime museums, cheap theaters,
shooting galleries and cent dram
houses, has made it's appearance in
what would once have been called the
upper" west side, running upward
along Eighth avenue from Abingdon
square to the Grand Circle, where. the
Italian statue of Columbus marks the
entrance to Central park. On the adj
joining Seventh avenue, within more
restricted limits, has appeared the new
Ghetto" with all the familiar sights
of the old Baxter and Bayard streets
combined.
This last region, running out from the
edge of the Tenderloin district above
Twenty eighth street up to Forty-sec-
ond street, with the rear of the Metro
pohtan Opera House marking a partial
oasis, has become the battle ground
where two of the. downtrodden races of
the WOrld-the Polish Jews and the ne
groes-are now lighting for supremacy,
with the odds all in favor of the more
humble, the more dogged, the longer
lived race.
Here are to be seen, in the darkest
and most malodorous of cellars and
Easements, the dealers in old clothes
and cast-off shoes, as many as fifty
"pullers-in,' and quaint signs in Yid-
dish, German and English that once
made Baxter street street to be avoid
, ed by all but athletes and artists. Above
the Jews, in the same houses, amid
scenes of indescribable squalor and
tawdry finery, dwell the negroes, living
their light-hearted lives of pleasure, con
fusion, music and noise, and fierce
fights that make them a terror to white
neighbors and landlords alike.
How these people make both ends
meet is a mystery to all who behold
them. for while but few seem to be en-
ployed in any profitable work, sleep
ing by day and carousing by night, they
are all made to pay the most exorbitant
of rents-the price for single unfurnish-
dollars month. The only solution of
the apparent mystery is that both ends,
so-called, are not met, but are suffered
to remain the opposite extremes the
Lord has made them, despite the
cIamors of duns and landlords. and the
evictiOns which sooner or later are
bound to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
INDIA MAIL FUMIGATED.
Extra Precaution Against the Bubon-
ic Plague Taken at Quarantine.

New York. jan 23.-The White Star
steamer Teutonic, which arrived from
Liverpool yesterday afternoon, came
into the harbor with bulwarks. railing
and rigging enameled with ice and an
arctic coating stretching over the entire
length of her long black hull Around
her bows was a casing of icy armor,
and from her masts came the glisten
of salt spray. flung high by wintry gales
to freeze wherever it fell
Her voyage had been rough by angry
seas, and there was nothing in her po-
lar aspect which seemed any way rele-
want to the tropical plague But Health
Officer Doty has been made aware of
the bubonic scourge that is now raging
in India and alert to prevent its ap-
pearance here, he ordered that the In
dian mail brought by the Teutonic be
thoroughly fumigated before it was
allowed to go to the postoffice. And in
obedience to his mandate the oriental
mail was transferred to the quarantine
disinfecting boat, James w adsworth,
where it was thoroughly fumigated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
A DEPRAvED BRITISHER.
Sir Robert Peel Writes a Book About
His Amours.

New York. Jan. pa cable from
London says;
Young Sir Robert Peel has written
and q respectable London firm has pu b.
lished undoubtedly the most eXtraordi-
nary book of the year. 1t is written in
the first person and purports to give the
career about London town and on the
English turf of young man of for
tune. social position, good looks and
good manners-otherwise, young Peel
himself
1t is simply and solely one successive
list of criminal intrigues with peasant
girls on the hero's estate, and with wo-
men of his own household. with ladies
of fashion, with comic opera singers.
together with list of frauds on the
English turf, of dealings with money
lenders and with sharpers at cards in
the fashionable clubs.
The author makes the most promi-
nent male character popular at all the
leading clubs, races courses, drawing
rooms of London and coverts of great
country houses; yet a card sharp a
suave SWindler at Newmarket and the
royal enclosure at Ascot, a brute at
home, a preuxs chevaller of women
away from home.
This portrait is likewise easily rec
ognized by every one in London.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
P1LFERINa PUBLIC SERVANTS.

There has been complaint when
every new administration comes into
power that much of the state house
furniture has been stolen" by the
previous administration. Chairs. tables,
desks, carpets, rugs. lounges and ev
cry movable thing seems 20 disappear
and offices and committee rooms have
to be refitted and refurnished. This
thieving is not confined to any politi-
cal party.
1t seems that depraved human nature
is about the same whether stamped
Republican or Populist. Cupidity is not
restrained by political platforms and
a desire for the property of others is
not necessarily coordinate with a de-
sire for the elevation of the race. The
man who wants to free his fellow.
creature from wage slavery is just
as apt to carry off $40 Persian rug un-
der his arm as the man who believes
that his fellow creatures ought to work
for SO cents a day, if his employer can
make them do So
Only one measure for the regulation
or prevention of theft by patriots sent
to Topeka as servants of the people
suggests itself; and that is that every
article be stamped with Property of
the State of Kansas" in plain letters.
ana every person found in possession
OF an article so stamped be arrested.
tired and convicted of petit or grand
larceny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
JOHN F. HOBBS.

newspaper man, fought against the saw
age tribes in North Australia and final
~, in 1889, was given 8 government
commission TO investigate the workings
of a new labor law in the New Hebride5
islands. The natives of that group were
imported 10 work the sugar plantations
of Australia, and careless contractors III
returning the natives would leave them
on the wrong islands, often setting
them down among tribes who were their
deadly enemies and who promptly killed
and alto them, for they were all canni-
balls The new law demanded that the
natives be returned to the islands from
which they were taken.
The little vessel in which Colonel
Hobbs sailed was wrecked off the Ilika
islands. Some of the crew escaped in
boats, others were drowned, but Hobbs,
clad in his pyjamas and wearing a cork
life preserver, was picked up by the
man eating Ilikas. His white skin saved
him from being served up on toast, but
for some time he was kept a captive.
His journalistic genius, however, helped
him to gain the favor of some of the
natives, and he was treated with kind
ness. Soon after this the Ilikas were
threatened by larger tribe who sent
word that they proposed to arrive some
fine day in the near future and wipe up
the earth with every Ilika in sight.
Here Colonel Hobbs came to the front.
He showed the native chiefs few tricks
of war about which they had never
dreamed. He taught them how to use
spear at short range, as he had seen the
Australian savages use them, and when
the enemy did come he managed to get
them into a ravine where he had his
forces ambushed. In the unpleasantness
which ensued the Ilikas killed great
numbers of their enemies and put the
rest to flight.
Colonel Hobbs was at once made q
war chief for life and became right
hand man of the old. king.
A year or two after this the I1ikas
won another big battle, and in the sub
sequent celebration the king consumed
so much roast pig stuffed with bananas.
cocoa wine and other dainties that he
died. After the departed monarch had
been laid with his fathers a big pow
WOW was held for the purpose of elect
ing a successor. 1t happened that the
civil chiefs and the fighting chiefs could
not agree on a man, and a civil war
was threatened. when one of them sug-
gested that the messenger from the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
CHEAT ROCKEFELLER.
Students Get Free Tuition at His Uni
versity Who Don't Mean
to Preach.

Chicago,Jan. 23.-The theological cen
sus at the University of Chicago has
been taken and it brings to light facts
that are of much general interest OF
all the students enrolled in the divinity
school of the university, 200 have re-
sponded to the order of the faculty.
They have sent in slips on which the
doctrines to which they adhere are
given.
ling, to say the least, especially to the
professors and lecturers of the divinity
department 1t is shown that of these
200 men only 14S say they are Baptists
and intend some day to preach the gos-
pei according to the tenets and beliefs
of the theologicians who built up the
great Baptist denomination.
When the votes had been counted and
the result become known, the universe
ty officers naturally asked without de-
lay: Where do the others stand? The
others are men of various beliefs In
fact, these beliefs are wide apart. Fur
thermore, they are not all Christian.
either. and some that are professediy
Christian would not be so called by
the Baptist clergy or the intelligent lai-
ty. either.
The result of the census shows among
others, one Jewish student, one Unitar-
ian, one Roman Catholic, five Seventh
Day Adventists and one Independent
Liberal.
Then there are others. too. whose
theology is not quite as much at var
lance with the tablished Baptist theo-
ries- There are Presbyterians, Metho-
dists, ngregatiOnaliSts, Disciples of
Christ and others. But all these men
study free of any charge in the divinity
school of the University of Chicago.
Besides having free tuition throughout
their entire seminary course, they re-
ceive free room rent in the dormitOries
of the university.
Every cent which they receive. how
ever, is paid by devoted Baptists, who
support the divinity school, In return
for this they expect to have ministers
of the gospel furnished them from this
source
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

great white spirit, as they had come
to regard Hobbs, be chosen their ou-
rnalea. The other chief enthusiastically
Endorsed this proposition. and, as Hobbs
was willing, he was crowned, with sol
emn ceremony and much feasting. His
rule has been q wise one, for he has per-
suaded the IIikas to give up caunibal-
ism and has kept out foreigners.
Each year Oumalea Hobbs takes six
months vacation, and on his visit to
New York last fall met Miss Ella Col
lin, whose father is tailor. She is a
bright and pretty young woman, and
Hobbs won her after short courtship.
He will take his bride back to his island
kingdom, after short tour through the
south, and she will become natalie, or
queen, of the Ilika islands, with 40, 600
dusky subjects to do her will.
9. J. BowDEN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
HOW TOO SEE ENGLAND.

(fTOn the Pn1!adelphla Americana
So many take the trip and see nothing
but sights" These are well enough in
their way and place. but they are not
England. any more than a mans features
are himself. Guide books are necessarily
limited. a. rule. to the task of deScrib-
ing the beads on a string and not the
string itself If they attempted this they
would run the risk of being considered as
dry as school histories. Yet without
some understanding of the circumSt ances
which created the sights the fun
charm and value of travel are missed.
This is not a very profound remark. but
mind all that goes to the complete enjoy
ment of the scene or the place he visits.
Most of us resolve to read up ever 50
much history and poetry and descriptive
when do-if we dove find the spell
has vanished. This brings up the subject
of guide-book talk, which divides itself
into two sorts, the large and the small.
there being a comparative small supply of
the large and too large a stock of the
small To the well-trained eye every
of some historic event every stone in ita
hoary cathedralS record of heroic deed
or heroic devotion in life-blood. The
sightseer sees no more than the hum
Prof. Goodwin Smith puts it in his little
hood (unwOrthily entitled "A Trip to
England. but which should have been
view of England, for it is by far the
most informing and expanding insight
into the old country ever crammed into SC
small compass; published by The Mac
ful in visiting country to have not only
guide to places and routes, but a frame
work for observations and recollectionS.
! Otherwise the effect produced on the
produced by a whirl of successive sights
| on the retina of the eve. This is Darticu-
| larly the case when the objects of interest
are of so many different kinds as they are
! in England"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
1NFLUENCE OF LOVE.
[From the New York Ledger. ]

IFrom the New York Ledger
Beyond all question. it is the unalter-
bile constitution of nature that there
is efficacy-divine. unspeakable efficacy
in love. The exhibition of kindness
has the power to bring even the ira
tional animal into subsection Show
kindness to a dog, and he will remem-
Der it; he will be gratful he will infal-
libby return love for love- Show kind
ness to a lion, and you can lead him by
the name; you can thrust your head
into his mouth; you can melt the I'M
tanned ferocity of his heart into an af-
lection stronger than death And if this
blessed influence should extend itself
over the earth, a moral garden of Eden
would exist in every land; instead OF
the thorn and brier, would spring up the
fir tree and the myrtle; the desert would
blossom, and the solitary place be made
glad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

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