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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
SKETCH OF soUsA.
TFrom the Cleveland Plaindea

[From the Cleveland Plaindealer.1
John Philip Sousa, creator of the
greatest marches of our time, a com
poser of the most brilliantly successful
opera of American birth and the con-
ductor of an unriValed band that needs
no other comment: is one of the most
striking examples of what an American
boy can accomplish with talent, de-
termination and sincerity of purpose in
his equipment.
He was born in the nations capital
city, Washington in 1854, of Spanish
father and German mother. His early
musical training was of the best, for he
attracted attention as a viOlinist when
very young. At the age of IS he be-
came an orchestra leader, where unuS-
uaI ability in this direction was demon
strated. At 26 he was appointed under
the Hayes administration director of the
United States Marine band, which posi-
ton he filed with great credit and hon
or for II years, during which time the
national band was developed into one of
the best drilled bands in existence. It
drew world wide attention to- Mr.. Sousa
as a conductor of unprecedented, if not
unequaled, ability.
Mr. SOusa remained with the Marine
band until he received an offer to take
up the baton of the present unparalleled
organization August l. 1892. As a COM
poser Mr.. SOusa is unusually prolific
and popular He is known as the
March King" as widely as Strauss is
known as the waltz King" and he is
one of the very few American cOmpos-
ers whose works are generally played
in Europe. Altogether, Sousa has COM
posed over 200 musical works including
a great number of marches, songs, over
lures and six operas, ending with lei
Captain" a success of huge dimensions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
ADOPTS SEDAN CHAIRS.
New York Swells Import a TRAVELLING
Fad From London.

New York, May 26.-While New York
is trying to accustom itself to the
novelty of the horseIess carriage there
has been imported from London a de-
mand for the sedan chair as a vehicle
of fashionable travel. One firm is busy
in the manufacture of these relics which
of recent years have proved useful only
as ornaments or on the stage
The new chairs are not to be decor
ated as of old with paintings or gilded
mOuldings. but the colors popular for
the decoration of ordinary vehicles will
be used. They will be painted black
dark green, blue or maroon, with light
yellow, green and red for trimmings
The chairs will be very light, and the
promoters of the scheme are said to
expect their profit from the use of the
vehicles for evening parties, dinners or
other gatherings where the distance to
be Travelled is not great. Other
passengers will not be carried. and
the interior of the chairs will in this
way be kept perfectly clean, and wraps
or dresses of light color are not likely
to be SOiled
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
ROBBED OF MILLIONS.
New York Taxpayers Swindled by the
Capitol Job.

Albany, May 26.-New York's state
capitol building has cost more money
than any other structure in America,
and it is by no means finished Yet.
The people of the state have thus far
been taxed the stupendOus sum of $22,-
250,0 600 for the mere building. Its main
tenance is quite another item, costing
upward of $780, 600 a year.
This building, with its pOrticos, oc-
cupies an area of three acres. The ma
tional capitol building at Washington
covers an area of four acres and cost
only $13, 900 900.
Governor Black has announced his
intention of pushing the work on the
capitol and of haying it finished before
the term of his office expires. The gov
ernor is an able man and one who gen
orally carries out his plans, but the
New York people who have seen what
it is possible not to do in the matter of
the state house smile with pity when
they fancy Mr.. Black or any other
governor turning over the building to
the people in a completed condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
THE IDEAL sCHooLHoUsE.

Mrs. H. Whitman in the May Atlantic. ]
To begin with, the entrances of a
school house should be made as inviting
as those of a home. If there be a yard,
no matter how small, it should have,
first of all, evergreen trees in it,or some
bit of LEAKAGE which, winter and sum-
mer, would bring a message from the
woods; it should have flowers, in their
season; and vines should be planted
wherever possible. Within the school
every color should be agreeable and
harmonious with all the rest. Ceiling,
floor, woodwork. walls, are so to be
treated as to make a rational and beau
tiful whole. In entrance halls, for ex-
ample, where no studying is done, fine
pleasing red or cheerful yellow is an
excellent choice; in bright sunny rooms
a dull green is at once the most agreea-
BILE color to the eye, and perfect as
background for such objects as casts or
photographs. In a room where there is
no sunlight a soft yellow will be found
of admira BILE use. The ceilings should
be uniformly of an ivory white tint,
which will by reflection conserve light,
and will be refined and in key with all
other colors. The treatment of wood is
a study in itself. Briefly and for prac-
teal use wood can be treated in two
legitimate ways: either it can be paint
ed with relation to the wall cOlors, or
it can be stained to anticipate the re-
suits of time upon wood surfaces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
PROTECTION OR REVENUE,
WHICHP

If in outlining the views of the SEN
ate committee on the tariff question in
his Introductory speech yesterday, Sen
ator Aldrich had been able to say that
those views are shared by the house
and the president, it would have gone
far toward removing the uncertainty as
to the final outcome. which pervades
business circles and doubtless to some
extent retards the revival of industry.
On the other hand the fact that it is
impossible for the country to forecast
the sort of tariff measure which will
finally be passed, is not without its
uses. Attempts have already been made
to forestau congressional action to the
extent that a deficit in the treasury
would almost certainly follow the en-
actment of the bill as passed by the
house But as the houses action was
not final, there yet remains an Opportu-
nifty to in some degree remedy this state
of things That is what Senator Aid
rich says the senate proposes to do.
In the course of his speech yesterday
the senator called attention to a phase
of the tariff question which has usually
been overlooked, in the following Ian
guage:
THE legitimate result of a protect
i've policy is to give the American mar
ket to American producers. w men Ills
becomes an accomplished fact the reVe-
nue. growing out of protective duties
disappears. 1t must be evident, there
fore, that we must look for other sour
ceS of revenue.
This is a truth so apparent that it
seems strange that it should not have
attracted the attention of President
Mckinley in 1890 and Mr.. Dingley in
1896. No tariff duty can be thoroughly
protective unless it be prohibitive, and
when it becomes prohibitive, revenue
from that source must necessarily stop.
The American people cannot have the
penny and the cake.
1t is impossible to so arrange matters
that American manufacturers shall sell
all their products at home and Ameri-
can consumers shall absorb all the pro
ducts of home manufacturers and at
the same time enable the government
to collect a tax from foreigners on the
same class of goods. Foreign manufac-
turers will not send their wares here
unless they can sell them, and they
cannot sell them if the market be al
ready stocked with the same class of
goods at a lower price.
The Mckinley tariff law, undisturbed
might have resulted in an era of I'M
equaled prosperity, but hardly anyone
will seriously contend that it would not
have led to a deficit in the govern
ment revenues if it had remained an
other year on the statute books. The
senate committee seems inclined to
profit by that experience and make
provision for more reliable sources of
revenue. It is for this reason, as Sen
ator AIdrich explains, that a tax has
been placed on tea and an increase
made in the beer and tobacco schedule
of the internal list by the senate com
mittee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
WOMAN RIDES ASTRIDE.
New Workers See Equestrianism to
Which They Are Not Accustomed.

New York, May 26.-Riders and driv-
ers on the Riverside drive and the
roads above Seventh avenue and on the
bride paths and carriage drives in Cen
trail park see at least one new freak
every Sunday. There were two the
other Sunday-one in the park and an
other on the Riverside drive. The park
freak was the newest new woman, Who
not content with borrowing her broth
er's cravat, derby hat and waistcoat
went so far as to appear on the car
riage drive astride of magnificent, big
chestnut horse.
The eQuestrienne wore a divided skirt
drawn close around the top of her pa
tent leather riding boots and she SEEM
ed to thoroughly enjoy the attention her
strange manner of riding and her equal
ly strange costume attracted. Her cos
tune was the brightest of Scotch plaids
and she wore a regulation white hunt
ing stock, secured with a horsy pin. Her
black derby was jauntiIy set. A black
jacket was the only garment distinctly
feminine. None of the mounted police
men in the park knew the rider, nor
did any of the old road habitues, who
stared at her in amazement.
HOrseless hansons attracted atten-
ton on the Riverside drive. They had
black and yellow bodies and small
pneumatic tired wheels, not much larg-
er than those of a bicycle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
LILLIAN RUSSELL.
[Rose Field in the Chicago Evening
Post 7

| IRose Field in the Chicago Evening
POst.l
From all reports we are constrained
! TO believe that Miss Lillian Russell is
preparing to become what the presiding
genius of the society columns calls
lovely June bride" or at the most,
fair October bride (which is very much
the same thing. We are very glad that
MISS Russell is making arrangements to
secure divorce from Johnny Chatter
ton, Tor their relations have been singu-
larry lnharmoniOus and the marriage
bond has been an unhappy impeachment
TO other enterprises OF great personal
interest Some ladies are born to mar
~ early ana often, and we have always
I believed that Miss Russell is one of this
| kind We do not know whose wife
MISS russell is going to be in the resur-
rectlon, but we have very good scrip
tural authority that that difficulty will
pc Admirably adjusted, and with no
hard feelings on the part of anybody.
IL IS not our purpose to pry into the
Iadys private affairs or to speculate as
to the coming happy man, but we do
sincerely nope that she is going to be
napplly married and comfortably set
tea, TOT We can call to mind no woman
VINO deserves the more to have success
crown her efforts, unless perchance it
is Nine CarrenO. In measure we
nave endeavored to commend that di-
dactic and useful lesson which we learn
ed in our childhood, which begins in
this wise:
# at first you don't succeed
Try, try again.
How many of US, having tried once
and failed, find our lives embittered, our
natures soured and our fondest hopes
crushed. Not SO Miss Russell whose
pertinacity and defiance of the knocks
of fate supply a parallel to the Bruce's
spider. As for Johnny Chatterton, we
have nothing to say. though, like per-
rect gentleman, he sails away and leaves
ms lovely wife to work out their saliva
ton in her old, accustomed way. Alto
gether II seems to us a felicitOus terTni-
nation of what has proved a serious
mistake, and we experience real pleas
ure IN seeing Miss Russell emerge again
from the matrimonial bonds with her
confidence in man mistaken and her
hopes for the future unclouded. Such a
woman is bound to succeed. Every man
may fool her a part of the time; some
men may fool her all the time, but all
men cannot fool her all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
"a HANDFUL OF DIRT MAY BE HOUSE,
Full OF SHAME.'' CLEAN HOUSE WITH
SAPOL|O

ant student to the conclusion that the
American continent is an indivisible
whole and that nothing there can es
cape its influence. The only part which
seems to have resisted the law of at
traction is Canada, and there, curiously
enough, it is Britishers who have strug-
gled with a sort of vague feeling that
beyond the seas there was a power to
stretch out helping hand, but in my
opinion this question will be solved
exactly as the Cuban question will be,
sooner or later.
Il fix no time, for human action can
not be calculated with the exactitude
one would use in the solution of some
mathematical problem, but this much
is certain-Cuba will gravitate infal-
libby to the United States. Whatever
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
POWER OF A CHEERFUL MIND.
TFrom Myron Reeds SermOn.1

From MyrOn Reeds SermOn-I
I think 1 can understand that one has
troubles which he does not tell to
policeman, nor indeed to anybody. He
sits down and nurses his troubles to
keep them warm. He does not think
of anything but his own particular and
personal backache. He is very selfish
and miserable. And there breaks upon
him friend who seems to have life and
heart and energy and the whole race
of things is changed. I do not know
the name of the power. 1t is subtle.
power to upIift. A friend of mine fell
and broke his leg. He tainted and was
carried home and the nearest doctor
called in When he came out of his
faint and took a look at the the doctor,
he said:
Has it come to this?''
The doctor was a skillful physician
and surgeon, but for some bad reason
he had cultivated a melancholy, hope
less look that killed his patients 1t
was the look that prOphesied death
He never had a victim that was not
very low, and he whispered a good
deal.
In New Orleans had the dangue.
sort of acclimating fever. 1t is com
monty called break bone" You feel
as if a freight train had run onto to
you and stopped. I sent for DR. Hol-
comb and he came cheerfully and in
uuired if I had ever read SwedenbOrg's
works. We fell into a discussion as to
the doctrine of correspondence. He
moved my mind off the subject of my
private pain and on to the subject OF
compensation. It is my recollection
that he did not give me anything but
a change of thought. Possibly he turn
ed the pillow over cool side UP. He
jolted me out of the rut 1 was in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
pEoPLE YoU HEAR o..

It is said Mr.. Mckinley was so beset
with office seekers during his recent
Philadelphia trip that he will make no
more trips without guarantee Oh Iii
munity from such besetment.
It is declared positively that Mr. De
Doe, the new Republican senate .I Sa
Kentucky, joined the A. 2. A. just pc,
fore leaving Frankfort for the national
capital having been initiated by Sapp,
state president of the order.
Sir John Lubbock, banker. scientist,
| essayist member of parliament and pos
| SCISSOR OF no end of honorable degrees
| and titles. is a profoundly religious man
| and devotes one day in the week to
| work for his fellow creatures. There is
| scarcely a Sunday afternoon or evening
| when he cannot be found lectur1ng TO
the poorest classes in London
| While King George of Greece was
stayfng at the Park hotel a Weisbaden
| he noticed a window pane upon which
| his father, the king of Denmark, had
| cut his name with a diamond. King
| George took off his own diamond ring
and engraved his name below his faith
| ers A few hours afterWard the car
| saw the window, and Immediately cut
his name. Then came the Kaiser, VINO
| added his name to those of the other
| royalties.
DR.. David Starr Jordan, president of
Stanford university, San Francisco, has,
with a number of prominent men of
that city, succeeded in raising the funds
necessary to establish a geological gar
den in San Francisco.
Olga NethersOle carries two bicycles
of American make with her on her
travels and will take them to England
when she sails next week. The fair ac-
tress is a deVOtee of the wheel and
rides every pleasant day, generally ac-
companied by her companion, Miss
Fields.
General Benjamin Prentiss, the hero
of Shiloh" who refused to accept any
postmastership at Bethany, Mo, po-
sitiOn which he has filled for many
years, is said to be in meager circum-
stances. He was at one time one OF the
wealthiest men in Illinois.
The late sugar king, Theodore Have
meyer, who was also consul general at
New York for Austria during the last 20
years, found a very peculiar method for
handling the impecuntOus Austrian no
blemen who frequently came to him for
financial assistance. He used to put
them to work in the re1neries making
sugar barrels.
The shah of Persia has a weakness
for cucumbers, which are a great lux
ury in the east. On one occasion a large
dishful had been placed before him, and
the eXpectant courtierS were looking
forward to a good feast when their
master had finished. One by one, how
ever, the vegeta bles disappeared, and
after his majesty had demolished over
a dozen he quietly proceeded to place
the remainder in his pockets, and then
left the table.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
BLIND HELEN KELLAR.
Will Probably Be in Charge Of the
New York Library for the Blind.

Will Probably Be in Charge of the
New York Library for the Blind.
New York. May 26-Architects have
been notified that the time has arrived
for them to send in plans for the New
York public library building, which is
to be one of the finest structures of its
kind in the world.
The most interesting announcement
IN connection with the new library is
that Helen KeIIar, the blind girl, who
IS also deaf, and yet has a splendid edu-
cation, may be the librarian in charge
of the library for the blind. Several
appointment. Much has been said and
written about Helen Kellar, because
she is such an extraordinary person.
Miss Kelar is II years old at the pres
ent time. When Is months old she lost
all the sense but that of touch the re-
suit of disease. When about Z years
old Helen was sent to the Perkins
school for the blind in Boston. Miss
Sullivan took her in hand and has been
her constant companion ever since, and
has developed the remarkable genius
that drew poems from Edmund Clar-
ence Stedman and Richard Watson
Glider.
ton by placing a forefnger on the lips
and a thumb on the chin of a person
speaking. She learned to make the
same motions with her mouth and now
articulates distinctly, not only in the
English language, but in many others
as we'll, for she is an accomplished lin
guist She uses q typewriter with IA
examination for Radcliffe, the woman's
annex to Harvard, that the young men
frequently stumble over. And she
made all answers in ordinary writing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

the government in Washington may be,
it Will always have an eye on CUBA,
and Cuba will always have an eye on
the United States.
1T is absolutely impossible that
Spain, or Europe either, can prevent
what is almost a natural law, and
sooner or later, whether it be this year
or next does not affect the question IN
the least-the inevitable result will be
that Cuba will come under the sway OF
American influence. And it will be Tor
the welfare of all concerned.
One way to- build UP Topeka is to
stand up for Kansas and insure in the
Kansas Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany F. D. Courtney, General Agent.
The best of all pills are Beecham's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

The Santa Fe is making arrange
ments to celebrate the founding of the
road in connection with the FAN Festi-
val in Topeka Such a celebration
properly belongs to Atchison.-Atchison
Globe.
Atchison is invited to come over and
help celebrate. The celebration belongs
to Topeka because the general offices,
shops and headquarters OF the road are
here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

when we are the greatest nation we
will stop talking about it. No great ma
ton brags of its greatness. Senator
Hoar. when we are the greatest ma
fion.' indeed! What are we now if not
the greatest nation. Senator Hoar
ought to go and live in Central Amer
lea and get an opportunity to appreci-
ate his country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

There seems to be a demand that one
of our battleships be sent to Cuba.
That's right. 1t could sink itself right
across the mouth of the harbor of Ha-
vana and in that way no doubt make
itself very troublesome
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

Governor Leedy says he doesn't want
to be governor next time" He isn't
likely to be. Kansas doesn't permit any
governor to sit on her back more than
once. Kansas doesn't think much of
governors anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

It will be noticed that John Wanna
maker never becomes so disheartened
that he fails to take a page advertise
ment in the New York and Philadelphia
papers; and the bargain counter is still
ffronoad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

W. D. Hurst has just died of starva-
ton in Sumner county. which about
week ago sent a car load of corn to
famine stricken India" The corn isn't
getting to India, either
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

Somebody has asked what is the dom
inant spirit Of Kansas. The answer is:
The restless seeking out of wrong for
the purpose of Fighting it. The true
Kansan gets more enjoyment out of
this than a miser out of his gold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

Poet Laureate Austin has written
Jubilee ode referring to the queen in
which he says, Long may she Iinger,"
Finger is hardly a pleasing word. But
these poet laureatea get worse and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

Fort Scott has closed every Joint and
now has started a revival. This effort
of Fort Scott to rival Topeka may well
be viewed with alarm. But we don't
believe she can keep it up six weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

Before this textbook commission goes
any further, we want to know if it is
going to have Mary Had a Little
Lamb in its readers. If it isn't an in
dignant public will turn it down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

Bjorklund is the name of the Saliva
ton Army captain at Abilene. It would
be interesting to know who sowed all
those is" over the Swedish language
centuries ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
MAY-1897.
Weathar Indications.

Washington. May 26.-For Kansas:
Showers this afternoon and tonight and
cooler southerly shifting to westerly
winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

A paper at Eureka is said to be the
only one in Kansas that prints Tai
IMAGES sermons. You can't fool all of
the people all of the time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

There are just COS students enrolled
at the state university. This is 900
more than there were in the first grad
uating class. Kansas young men con-
tinue to acquire knowledge in spite of
the present obstacles to acquiring
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

There ought to be a curfew for dogs
All dogs running loose on the business
streets of Topeka between the hourse of
midnight and the following midnight
should be arrested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

John A. Logan Jr's only regret
seems to be that the limited extent of
his bosom did not permit him to wear
any more medals and badges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

Cecil Rhodes can never be a great
politician. He has just coined a bril-
liant epigran. THE worlds gems have
made its geographical Politicians never
say smart things like that.