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The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
Kitchen Knfves.

A variety OF knives is an absolute neces-
sity by no means always to be found even
in very well appointed kitchens Quite
different sorts OF blades are required for
the trimming OF fllets, outlets, etc. pr for
peeling vegetables, while for slicints Gu
cumbers, for instance a small knife is
best which has d blade 50 constructed that
it determines the thickness of the slice
fun set of working knives should be at
hand for every cook, of whom the best
work can scarcely, in fairness, be asked,
if perfection in utensils be not provided
Exchange.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
Crossing shallow Water.

To enable ships to cross harbor bars
when the water is not high enough to
clear them pair Of pontoons are rigged
on opposite sides of the ship, with ca
bIes running under its keel, and air
pumps to increase their buoyancy by
LGscharging the water from tanks,
W ben the cables are wound up on shafts
to lift the ship
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
HIS FAvORlTE SONG.

Miss Katherine Huntington Sings ssLOuisI-
ana Lou' For President Mckinley.
Lou, Lou, I love you
Yes, 1 do; that's true.
Don I sigh, don't cry.
III meet you in the morning.
Lou, Lou, love you
Yes, I do that's true.
Lou-We-e -e-si- ana,
LOu-we- e-e-si- a ana,
Lou We-e-e-si- -a-a ana Lou.
This is the chorus of the song which
President Mckinley most likes to hear.
The chief executive has not as yet indi-
Gated whether it is the sentiment of the
words or the air to which they are sung
or both. 1t is hinted that the singer has
something to do with it, for he was first
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SITUATE oNs wANTE0-FR EE.
AND OTHER

Are you in need of work? If so, you
are at liberty to use these columns for
assistance in that direction. While this
notice appears the State Journal VIII
publish free on Saturday, Monday ana
Tuesday, for Topeka OF Kansas people
all notices of Situations Wanted not 10
exceed five lines, or thirty-five words IN
length, provided that all advertisements
of that nature are handed in previous to
10 o'clock Saturday morning; also on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday all ad-
vertising of this class handed IN py IL
o clock Wednesday morning
No advertisements of this nature to be
started except on Saturdays and We'd
nesdays. No obligation is incurred on the
part of the advertiser. No worthy ana
needy man or woman need hesitate TO
take advantage of this offer. No one in
business or having employment IS eX-
lpected to take advantage of it. but all
others are invited to avail themselves
freely.
The Topeka State Journal guarantees
every day it is printed. to give local
circulation by far more than all other
Danies combined. This makes this pa
per the cheapest. as well as the best.
daily medium in Topeka, the classlhed ad-
vertisements below costing but
Five Cents a Line
or 20 cents line for a week; 50 cents by
the month
Average circulation for first six months
of 1897,
1854.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

THE STATE JOURNAL
for years has been one of
these papers.
From the records COM
piled for the first 6 months
ending July 31st, 1897, the
editor of the American
Newspaper Directory fur
nishes the following state
ment to PRINTER INK" for
July %, 1897:
"The Topeka, Kansas.
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(First published in the Topeka State
Journal October 18th, 1879
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.sALEsMEN WANTED

w NANTED-Salesmen for our new yell
low low Lree-stoae 2eacn' 2' {nree weeks
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AGENTS WANTED

= CFNTsOOufck men 10 I-isit SfC,-e-. 81;
"A aChine for printing Signs in 10 cOlOrs
on fences, bridges rOcks-any rough sur
face. Are Co.. 26 Arc St. Racine. wis.
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FUEL AND FEED.

T FAVE your orders for COAL, Flour.
AF'eed and Seeds with Van Slyck, 500
W. 10th.
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The American Newspaper
Directory is TO newspaper
Calculations what DUN and
Brads treet's are to mercan-
tile ratings. 1t is the recCg-
nized authority among adver.
tisers.
This work is now in tho
twenty ninth year OF Ets
publication
For years it has guaran-
teed with a standing offer of
$4,000 for proof that its
statements of certain news
paper circulatiOns were not
correct.
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daily paper in Topeka, or
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STATE JOURNAL is cred-

tied with the largest cir
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cuIation accorded to any
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in Shawnee County, or in
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sortment of old and new varieties.
Quality best and prices right New helps
for our agents. Experience unnecessary
= wrence Nursery Company, Lawrence.
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NJ ANTED-Watches to clean 75c.cIoclzs
= soc: mainsprings, 75c; crystals 1Oc
Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work
guaranteed. Money loaned on valuables,
If hard up, see Uncle Sam. 512 Kan Ave
" ANFED-Your household goods to
PACK move or store. Merchants
Transfer s. Storage co. Tel. 1sS.
sam & SKINNER
123 East Sixth st.
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MONEY.

NJ ONEY TO LOAN on farms or city
W property at reasonable rates.
w M. FORBES 116 w. 9Th Ave.
The advocate., 1897-04-07

boards Of trade, the stock exchanges,
and all the Republican politicians and
newspapers of influence, together with
the most influential among the wealthy
Democrats of the country-sll in sym
pathy with the railway people who are
demanding an unreasonable thing, some
thing that the people cannot safely grant.
The ADVOCATE wants to say for itself
that it has no i'll feeling toward the rail
ways nor toward their stockholders or
officers. We would build and not de-
destroy. Transportation is the hand
maid Of production. The people cannot
get on without efficient means Of distrib-
uting their surplus productions. We
take pride in the efficiency of the
American railway system in contrast
with those Of European nations. We
would perfect the system, not cripple it
or dwarf it. Hence we speak without
prejudice in denouncing this proposed
legislation as unreasonable and danger
GUS. No pooling bill must be allowed to
pass, The peoples interests must be
protected. Congress alone has the right
to determine this whole railway question.
II Congress may authorize the railway
companies to fix rates, Congress surely
may do the fixing itself. Congress is
authorized by the constitution Of the
United States to regulate commerce
among the several States, and no other
body, tribunal or power has such author
ity. And Congress is not authorized to
delegate any of it's legislative powers.
This question is vital, and there must
be no surrender of the peoples rights.
The Senator or Congressman who fails
in this critical hour will deserve the exc
crations Of an outraged constituency.
The advocate., 1897-04-07

circulating medium convertible intosuc
money without loss" In 1892 the party
declared: "We recommend that the pro-
hibitory 10 per cent. tax on State bank
issues be repealed"
The platform OF 1896 sets out by refer
ring to the past record Of the party and
approving it: "We, the Democrats Of
the United States, in National conven-
tion assembled, do reaffirm our alle-
glance to those great essential principles
Of justice and liberty upon which our
institutions are founded, and which the
Democratic party has maintained from
Jefferson's time to our own," ETC.; and
there is not a word or sentence in the
whole platform that excepts any of the
old party doctrines.
AS to the ADVOCATES attempting to
"create dissension," it is doing nothing
Of the kind. 1t is simply going ahead,
advocating it's party principles and mind
ing its own business.
The advocate., 1897-04-07
IF RAILROADS MAY POOL WHY NOT
FARMERS?

In another article attention is called to
thep demand Of railroad companies for
the enactment of law authorizing them
to pool the entire carrying trade of the
country, and the suggestion is presented
that farmers have as good right to pool
their business.
And why not? Here is a country with
upward Of rs million people, of whom
about 35 million live on farms. OF the
entire working force, farmers in actual
practice constitute nearly one-half. The
value of their farms in 1890 was upward
Of II billion dollars, and the value of
their personal property was half as much
more. The total number of persons over
10 years Of age engaged in all gainful oc-
cupations was 22,735,661, of whom not
more than l million were in the railroad
carrying business, while nearly six times
that many were engaged in agriculture.
And these farmers are producing
grain, vegetables, live stock, wool, meat,
fruit, butter, eggs and other articles,
furnishing to the railroads most Of their
business in carrying from and to the
farms. The ADVOCATE insists that if
any class of people ought to be permitted
to pool their earnings in order to estab-
lish and maintain uniform and remuner-
ative rates, that class is made up Of
farmers.
What q nice thing it would be, too, for
the farmers, if they would organize sort
of trust, Controlling and regulating the
prices at which they would sell their
produce, with the government, It's Con-
gress, it's courts and it's armies behind
them to enforce the rules Of the combi-
nation.
The advocate., 1897-04-07

The Toledo Blade says "the farmers,
especially those living near the Canadian
border, have reason to be pleased with
the Dingley tariff bill. It restores the
Mckinley duty on nearly all their prod
ucta, including wool, hay, potatoes, but.
tor, cheese, barley, apples and hops"
An investigation made by committee
Of the United States Senate about six
years ego showed that the benefit de-
rived by farmers on the northern border
from duties on agricultural products was
not worth reporting.
The advocate., 1897-04-07
THE ADVOCATE IS THE OFFICIAL STATE
PAPER.


By unanimous vote Of the State Exec
utive Council, the ADVOCATE has been
declared the official State paper to pub
lish laws, notices, proposals, proclama-
tions, decisions Of the Supreme and
Appellate courts, and such other matter
as is by law required to be published in
such paper.
This week we print the first of the
laws for which copy has been furnished.
They will be followed from week to week
by others until all of the laws Of the late
session are published except such as
have already been published by the Mail
and Breeze, our predecessor.
We ask attention to two features Of
these law publications:
First-The matter Of the laws, as the
reader will see, is not all well punctu-
ated, but the printer must "follow copy"
Second-To give the matter neat ap-
pesrance in print, we have used l2.to-pica
leads between the lines. Nothing will
be charged for the space occupied by
these leads.
The advocate., 1897-04-07

clals say that the hard times have set
everybody trying to get a job under the
government. The first week Of the pres
ent administration $4,000 applications for
Office were received at the Postofiice De-
partment alone; the second week 25, 700,
the third week 45,623. The largest pro-
portion from any State was from Kansas.
The advocate., 1897-04-07
PARTY DOCTRINES AS TO COIN REDEMP-

Last weeks issue Of the Ottawa Times,
edited by our old friend, the Hon. P. P,
Elder, referring to what the ADVOCATE
had said on the subject Of redeeming
legal tender paper money in coin, says:
The editor Of the Times claims to be one of
the founders of the Populist party, and has
been familiar with the old Greenback theories
on money, and always has understood the
money theory to be gold and silver and not
treasury notes, all interchangeable with each
other, which means the same as redeemable,
and we still believe that while full legal ten.
der National paper money is not made valuS-
BILE by redemption, we also believe that it is
not repugnant to our ideas Of money to have
the paper money rsdesmable in coin. Nor do
we believe or understand that the Democratic
party rs defined at the Chicago convention be-
lieves in the doctrine Of State banks Of issue.
That Is no part OF the doctrine Of modern De-
mocEacy, and the ADVOCATE knows ii. There
Is nothing In the Democratic creed rs put
forth at the Chicago convention but every
Populist can agree to without o single qualif-
create dissension in the ranks or creeds Of
these two political elements forebodes moth
ing but harm In the ranks OF these combined
political elements.
If the Times will refer to the Green
back National platform for the years
1876, 1880, 1884 and 1883, it will see that
that party, during the whole period Of
it's existence, demanded the issue and
use Of full legal tender paper money by
the government OF the United States,
and never favored or approved its re-
demption in coin. 1t insisted that such
paper money was good money, full and
complete money, equal to gold and silver
coin. And that is the Populist doctrine
now.
AS to the Democrat psrty's position on
this subject, it was always hard money
party. Going back only to 1880, we find
the third plank Of it's National platform
begins in these words: "Home rule;
honest money consisting of
gold and silver, and paper convertible
into coin on demand" In the 1884 plat
form this paragraph occurs: "We be-
lieve in honest money, the gold and
silver coinage of the constitution, and q
The advocate., 1897-04-07

WANTED-A Few Coop AGENTS, to
make a personal house-to- house canvass
for subscribers to the ADVOCATE. One
to each Congressional district is enough.
Men or women Of intelligence and char
scter can make good wages for one year
at the terms we are prepared to offer to
suitable persons. None need apply who
are not we'll known at this office or who
do not produce good recommendation
as to special fitness for this class Of work.
The advocate., 1897-04-07

The complaint Of cattle shipper that
he is charged 81 more for carload
from Cowley county to Lecompton than
to Kansas City, is evidence of a discrim-
nation that even a railroad attc rney
would not justify. A maximum freight
law would prohibit such injustice. Kan
Isas City is further from Cowley county
by about forty miles than is Lecompton.
The advocate., 1897-04-07

JUSTICE FIELD, who has been on the
bench Of the Supreme court Of the
United States longer than any other of
the members Of that tribunal, is soon to
retire, This will afford the opportunity
Of a lifetime job to some aspiring lawyer.
The advocate., 1897-04-07

The late agreement among the Western
railway companies provides for arrang-
ing and distributing joint tariffs and
making satisfactory division of joint tar
ifs and rates between the companies
parties thereto over the lines of which
such joint traffic moves. 1t also pro-
vides for the publishing of such joint
tariffs, clsssifcations and rules for trans
portation OF joint traffic, without inter
fere ence, however, with the individual
freedom Of any line to make rates for
handlIng it's own local and competitive
traffic
The advocate., 1897-04-07

A WASHINGTON dispatch Of April 8
says the clerks in the Postofllce Depart
ment will have to write more than 5000
letters to notify as many ambitious
American citizens that their applications
Cor Office have been received, The Off
The advocate., 1897-04-07

AS SHOWING the force Of prejudice
against new things, the Philadelphia
papers are publishing petition that was
presented to the authorities Of that city
sixty years ago against the use Of gas.
The advocate., 1897-04-07

The Arizona Legislature has passed
bill which grants exemption from taxa
tion for ten years to sugar beet factories
and to lands upon which sugar beets are
grown,
The advocate., 1897-04-07

IT 10 reported at Boston, Mass, that
Richard Olney, late Secretary Of State,
will soon resppesr as a railroad lawyer
at the State House.
The advocate., 1897-04-07
THE FORAKER POOLING BILL MUST BE
DEFEATED.

tor Foraker Of Ohio to authorize the
railroad companies Of the United States
to establish and maintain rates is one of
the most important measures before
Congress, and it will require a for
midable opposition to defeat it's passage.
No action of Congress which is at all
probable in the near future would be
fraught with such evil tendency and
such pernicious consequences as the en-
actment Of this bill or any other bill of
like import. 1t would be the beginning
of a combination that would grow
stronger from year to year, because it
would act in conjunction with other
powerful business agencies to control
the politics Of the country and in that
way secure and retain such legislation as
would inure to their interests and main
tain their supremacy.
1t is reported by the Associated Press
that this bill is to be pushed
with all possible vigor, and the reasons
assigned by Senator Foraker for this
effort forecast q coming together in sup
port of the measure Of all the most pow
erful elements in our business and
commercial classes. He says the recent
decision of the Supreme court in declar-
ing the Western freight association ille
gal has rendered prompt legislation
necessary 81 am convinced" he says,
"that real prosperity cannot be brought
about or made permanent until there
has been legislation on this subject Not
only is it imperative that there should be
a stability Of freight rates so that bust
ness men can know what they will be
called upon to pay for the shipment Of
goods, but it is also imperative that the
railroads should be assured protection
from ruinous rate wars and from the
present uncertainty which will prevent
them from placing orders for new mate
rial for the maintenance Of their present
systems or for their extension. The
question of whether there is to be pros
perity or depression in a great many
lines of business is, therefore, dependent
upon the action of Congress in regard to
this matter"
This brings the prosperity" question
into the discussion. Senator Foraker is
o recognized Republican leader. He
halls from Ohio, the Presidents home,
and may be presumed to reflect the
views Of the administration. Prosperity |
was promised through tariff legislation.
Though the passage Of a Republican
tariff bill has been assured ever since the |
election OF Mr.. Mckinley was announced,
is still not in sight, and no
body is brave enough to believe it will
come through increased taxation when
1t does come With failure in sight, now
comes this Republican spokesman sssur-
ing the country that unless we have
quick resort to railway pooling we can
have no prosperity.
The country is in danger and public
are imperiled by this threatened
legislation. A capitalization Of u billion
dollars goes to Congress and demands
law authorizing lts representatives.
few railway mansgers--to fix and main
tain such schedules Of tolls as they shall
regard as reasonable and rsmunerstive
for all the passenger and freight traffic
Of this crrant nnnntrr And hnhina Ahnr,.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-21

seriously. therefore. what Is to be done7
The country people go on clamoring that
they are denied all media of exchange
and are IN n corcSon little better than
one OF barter and thoughtful men are
beginning 10 admit that something must
be done to satisfy these people We do
not mean 10 say that the proposition
has grown to proportions that hold out
promise of carly reform. BY no means.
All we mean to say is that tho cause Is
growing. and that the advocates Of State
banks have no reason TO despair.
The amount Of prejudice and ignorance
that exists in the public mind upon this
subject g. absolutely astounding. One
friend OF The Times asked us recently !;
we really proposed 10 make banking free.
so that anybody might set up a bank In
the bacxwoods. and put out his worth
less notes upon the public. We did not tell
our friend that in our opinion the true
theory Of the case was to permit this. and
leave the matter to the laws Of business
for its correction. We told him (what IS
the facO that all we asked was that
Congress should repeal the act taxing the
Issues OF State banks 10 per cent. Vir-
ginia, we said. required her banks before
the war to back their circulation with
deposit Of State bonds. and. no doubt,
II she were permitted TO have banks OF
Issue again. she would again require the
same thing. But we wanted hun, as we
want all others. TO understand that all
We ask Is that tbs tax on the issues OF
state banks shall be repealed; that each
State. instead OF Congress. may prescribe
how bank currency shall be secured. In
his way the resources Of each community
can be utilized by that community, and
each community can then have such con-
Veniences for transactlrv its business as
will enable 1t 10 get along.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-21

Training Under Care of Ltpop OF the UNI
rersity-The seasons schedule
BLACKSBURG, VA, Feb. @.-Special.-
with the approach Of spring the V. =. J.
student mind lightly turns to thoughts
Of baseball. Practices are being held Ia
all parts OK the college grounds by the
forty applicants for the team, ana tue
PROSPECTS of our having good nine TINS
year are very encouraging. Mr.. J. j.
Lipop. OF the University OF Virginia mas
been secured as trainer. and has been
here several days busily engaged III lie
work of organization.
The schedule Of games has not been COM
plcted. but as &c stands now is as follows.
April 10th. Allegheny Institute at Blacks
burg; April 10Th. Roanoke College, az
Blacksbufg, April 22d, Randolph-Macon
Academy. at Bedford city, April -.
Bellevue High School. at Lynchburg;
April 9th. Allegheny Institute. az Roam
oke: April 2sth. McCabe's School, az
Blacksburg; April 18th, King College, at
Bristol: April 30th, University OF Ten
nessoe. at Knoxville; May LIST. University
Of Tennessee. at Knoxville; May eth,
open: May sth. open; May 18th, Roanoke
College, at salem; May 18th. V. NJ. l., az
Roanoke; May 22d. open; May 18th, open.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-21
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 81. 1897.


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Hall.
jefferson Lodge. I. o. OF. odd Fellows
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