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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15

so far as to publicly laud a great in
fideL As might be expected he left the
pulpit and established church of his
own. He created a sensation for a time
but if he ever caused any one to lead a
better life the fact has not been re-
ported. The other thought deeply along
religious lines and became more i'm
pressed all the time with the vastness
and sufhciency of the Christian religion.
He thought along religious lines nor
thought of the applause of the multi
tudes The former had his brief day
and is heard of no more the other is
charging his work and doing good on
every hand. The man who went in the
ways of the world and forgot his God
was DR.. Roberts, of Kansas City; the
man who walked with God and was
not ashamed was Chas. NJ. Sheldon, of
Topeka. It is not hard to draw a COM
parison between the two lives.
The story of the achievement of Pri-
Yates White and Trembly in swimming
the Rio Grande has been told and re
told all over the United States, but the
story Of how one of these heroes learn
ed the swimming art has just been told
by J. L. Brady. Here is the story:
Young Trembly learned to swim when
he was a mere lad down in Monticello
township, in Johnson. The way he came
to learn to swim was peculiar. His par
ents were strict about such things and
above all things they would not allow
him to swim on Sunday Once he was
down where Holiday is now located and
was on the railroad bridge. When
about the center of the bridge a train
came along. He made for the other
end of the bridge as fast as he could
and was in fair way to make it ahead
of the train when he missed a tie and
fell into Mill creek below. He could
not swim and 1t was Sunday, but there
was no time to discuss either, hence
he just commenced pulling for the
shore with all the power of desperation.
He made it safely and after sitting on
the bank for an hour, went home with
out saying anything about his escape,
This taste for water only called for
more and many times thereafter he
swan in Mill creek and in the Kaw.
Down that way whenever a boy will
risk swimming in the KaW he is re
garded as an expert and William Trem-
bly, SWAN in the kaW to the admiration
of all. 1t is doubtful if he enjoyed the
applause of the world after his feat at
the Rio Grande as well as he did the
applause of the small boys at Month
cello township as he swan in the Kaw.
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MAKE CITIES BETTER.
Programme Submitted to the
National Municipal
League.

Columbus Nov. 15.-The fifth annual
meeting of the National Municipal
League and the seventh national con-
ference for Good City Government
opened in this city today. over 200 del
egates are present including city Off
Gals from all the country. When the
melting was called to order this after
noon there was a gratifying number
present. The meeting was for the pur-
pose of discussing questions of vital
Importance to municipalities. The DOM
inant feature of the discussion will be
the municipal programme" the report
on which however will not be presented
until Friday afternoon. 1.-The pro-
gramme" will be offered as the report
OF special committee appointed at the
Louisville meeting two years ago.
The opening session of the League
convened at 2:30 o'clock when Samuel
L. Black, former mayor of Columbus
welcomed the delegates. The reports of
Secretary Woodruff and Durham were
read.
DR.. DeIos F. Wilcox of Michigan read
a paper on ''An examination of the pro-
posed municipal programme, which
was in part as follows:
There are three fundamental evils in
the government of our cities. The first
is economic, and consists in the waste
of public funds. The second is political
in the true sense. and consists in the in
adequacy of municipal service. The
third is moral and consists in the cor
rupt use of civic authority for the fur
therance of individual ends. The chief
Importance of this third evil lies in the
fact that it throws politics into disre-
pute and degrades civic ideals, thus
rendering corporations for the attain
ment of truly political ends WeIl-night
impossible.
THE causes of wastefulness in public
expenditures are ignorance, PARTISAN
ship, state interference, municipal ir-
responsibility and indefnitenesS of or
ganizatOn. The causes of inadequacy
of municipal service are indiViduaIiSm,
inadequacy of power and Undemocratic
organization. The causes of corruption
are greed, lack of civic integrity and
private control of public privileges. To
remove these causes Of evil the COM
mite on municipal programme prOpos-
eS a constitutional amendment and a
general municipal corporations act con
tanning the following measures:
Il. To remedy ignorance, official and
popular. Competitive examinations to
test fitness for appointment to office,
indefinite official tenure. elaborate fin
ancial accounts and reports, and a pub
lie roster of municiual employees
-. To remove craftsmanship The sep
aratiOn of municipal from national and
state elections, nomination by petition
and civil service reform. including the
prohibition of political assessments
''3. To lessen state interference The
establishment of the main outlines of
municipal government in the constitu-
ton. the limitation of special legislation
and the passage of a general municipal
corporations act
a To destroy municipal irreSpOnsi-
bility. The limitation of the cityS fin
ancial powers, the declaration of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15

ing to carry a lot of Wild ducks from a
commission house on lower Commercial
street to the retail houses at the upper
end of the street. As a joke, he picked
up an old shotgun, and putting on an
old hunting cap and coat, started up
street carrying seventy-fiVe maIaTds.
1t was the only exciting thing that
happened during the day. Men all
along the street supposed he had killed
them over at the lakes.
An artist has a painting on exhibit
ton in AtchisOn, and says that if he is
unable TO sell it at the price asked,
500, it viii be an evidence that Atchi-
son is not artistic. Who gave this fell
low authority TO judge the people Of
AtchisOn? He viii be unable to sell
his picture, for it is not first class. If
it was a. first class painting, he would
not be Offering it in Atchison, where
there is no demand for pictures. If he
is an artist, he should be willing to
place his work in competition with
first class artists in art centers- The
fact is, the fellow who is criticising
Atchison, and saying it is not artistic,
is not an artist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15
CUBAN CHICKENPOX. :"
Polk School Children Taken
Out Because of the
Disease

Several children have been taken out
of Polk school by their parents because
of the fear of the new disease known as
Cuban chicken pOx.
The fact that one of City Physician
Peers little girls was taken sick with
the disease Monday night after having
been at school Monday is responsible
for the fear on the part of the parents.
A son of DR.. Peers was taken sick with
the disease some time ago, and was out
of school for about three weeks. He re-
turned to school Monday, and While
his face still bears the marks of the
disease, he brought a certificate from
his father stating that he had passed
the contagious stage and could not give
the disease.
DR.. Peers says that it would be i'm
possible for cOntagiOn to result from
the visit of his little girl to school Mon
day, as she was not taken i'll until later
and the disease is not contagious at
first.
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KANSAS news.
Ex-Governor LeWelling Breaks
His Long Silence.
He Talks Freely About Political
Matters.
OF POPULISM.
Probability of Fusion on the
National Ticket.
News of Interest From All Over
Kansas.

Wichita, Nov. 15.-Ex-Governor Le-
yelling, who has been at work on his
farm very closely for the past three
months, still finds time to keep an eye
on political matters. In view of the fact
that there is talk of running Governor
Lewelling for congress. his views on
political questions will be read with in
terest. Speaking of the recent election,
Governor Lewelling said;
IF Bryan shall be the Democratic
nominee the Populists who voted for
him before would support him with en-
thusiasm and unanimity, but there may
be a clash as to the man for the second
place Then again, some leading Dem
ocrats among them Ex-Governor Stone
OF the national Democratic committee,
are quoted as saying there Will be no
fusion and no concessions to POpuliStS
as Sucn, but that we must get with the
Democratic band wagon and vote the
Democratic ticket without conditions.
1 don't know to what extent such senti-
ments prevail among Democratic lead
erS. But it is possible the POpulistS
may finally prefer to vote q third tick
ct, and in such an event there would be
little doubt of Republican success"
w nat IN your opinion, will be the
chief pIanks in the POpuliSt platform %
We'll they must bring living issues
to the front, possibly antitrust, anti
expansion and reaffirmatiOn of the
Omaha platform
But the Republicans will have an
antitrust PLATFORM"
so they will and the Democrats al
so, but the Republicans having been
in power must explain why nothing has
been done to protect the people from
the rapacity of the trusts"
do you believe the trusts can be
controlled by legisIation?''
probably not. We can destroy them
by taxation, but it is not the trust it
self that is harmful. but the abuse of
the power derived from organization.
TO be frank, it is my opinion that no
political party acting under our present
form of government will ever be able
to cope with the trusts. Relief may
come through a change in the methods
OF trade, but / can conceive of nothing
except some form of cooperation be-
tween producers and consumers. which
means some sort of socialism, though it
Will be called by some other name. as
certain other forms of socialism, life
insurance
why will be the Populist nominee
for gOVernOr?'
THAT is something which no fellah
can find out The woods is full of can
d1dateS, besides some on the Aries,
Breidenthal is talked of a good deal
Major Harvey. ex-Heutenant governor
mas a big following; so has Webb Nc
Nail King OF COWley is a possible can
dldate. Congressman Hudson is men
toned. Munger of Greenwood thinks
he has a cinch, and he has a bar which
has been Wrung out of the Munger
laundries, but it would be too bad to
spoil a good laundry man to make a
poor governor. But the convention is
do, and guessing is not always reli-
able.'
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ALWAYS CONTINUED.
Mysterious Actions of Attorneys in
JOINT Gases.

mysterious ActlOnS OF attorneys IN
JOINT Gases.
There are two cases on the docket of
the court of appeals which have been
there for the past year and a half. and
yet whenever they come up they are
continued by the consent of both par
ties" One is the case against Nick
Chiles and the other is the case against
Albert Johnson"
The Johnson case Is in reality the
case against D. K. Grimes, and grows
out of the trouble at Garfield park two
years ago when there was a small-sized
riot over the pulling Of some jOintists
out there.
In both of these cases convictions
We're secured in the district court, but
they We're appealed. The Chiles case
was continued as usual when it came
up at the present term of the appellate
court, but when the Grimes case was
called no one appeared on the part of
the state and it was ordered dismissed
A few minutes later Assistant Attorney
General West hurriedly entered the
court room, and asked to have the case
continued. The order of dismissal was
accordingly revoked and the case goes
over to another term.
State cases are under the direction of
the attorney general when they reach
a court of review, although the county
attorney prOSecuteS them These cases
were continued from term to term IN
der Attorney General BOyle's admin
istration the same as they have been
since.
1t is claimed that because the de-
PENDANTS have considerable influence
politically the officers do not care to
prosecute the cases against them, and
therefore ask to have them continued
responsibility for their prosecution off
on TO their Successors.
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From the Atchison GIobe.1
Every scheme that works is soon
overdone.
Atchison has a girl elevator boy, and
q woman cOachman.
1t is surprising how many preachers
neglect prayer meeting.
How near you can come to getting a
good thing, and not get it!
There is more fun in shooting wild
ducks than there is in eating them.
A woman is always ready to kiss her
husband goodbye, to get rid of him.
People are so anxious to see some
thing going on, that a dog fight at
tracts attention.
An Atchison man is one of the best
Biblical scholars in the west. But he
knows nothing else.
In every fight, you viii find the crowd
holding a little man, and big man
willing to quit
When a preacher says his people do
not Cooperate" he means that they
do not pay him his salary.
You often hear of men working for
glory" What is glory good fOr2 You
can't eat it. or sell it, or borrow money
on it, and all the people make fun of it:
except the man who thinks he has it
Blu Wherry had occasion this morn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15

Tt seems odd that Kansas farmers
still prefer to grow corn and wheat at
prevailing prices, to growing fruits and
vegetables, which pay so much better
in proportion to the amount of land
required and labor necessary to bestOw
upon their cultivation. While the state
has corn enough to supply a population
many times as large, the city markets
are filed with apples and celery from
Michigan, grapes from New York, and
Ohio, cabbage and saur kraut from
Wisconsin, potatoes from Colorado,
Utah and Minnesota and many other
things that could be produced here in
abundance. During the past summer
there was a scarcity of every kind of
small fruit in the Topeka market.
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MITCHELL GOES BACK.
lola Lieutenant Returns to Manila
With Gen. Funston.


lola, Nov. 15.-Lieutenant Burton J.
Mitchell, who acted as captain of Com
pany D. after the wounding of Captain
Watson, during the recent campaign
of the Twentieth Kansas in the Philip
pines, and who has been home on a
visit left Tuesday on his long journey
back to the island of LuzOn. This time
he will be attached to the personal staff
of General Funston. He left here at
noon, gathered up Funston's sword and
flag which have been on exhibition IN
Kansas City, and overlook the general
at Topeka whence they will continue
the journey together. Mrs. Funston ac-
companies them to San Francisco where
she viii remain until the war is over.
And so lola is again connected with
the TagaI rebellion and will have cause
to scan the cabIegrams to see that
harm has not come to her two repre-
SentatiVes.
Mr.. Mitchell received a bulky missive
from Washington which he fondly
hoped contained some $500 back pay.
He opened it to discover that it was a
request for his discharge papers, after
the receipt of which his pay would be
issued That means he will get it in
Manila
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LFrom the Chicago News.1
No woman is a heroine to her hired
girl.
The up-to-date man lies in advance
and the fisherman afterward.
Prejudice never recognizes itself when
it looks in a mirror.
The woman who weds a pugilist need
not hope TO have the last word.
Poverty often pinches the body and
wealth sometimes pinches the soul.
A cynic is a busybody who NEEDLES
in the affairs of other people and
neglects his own.
The amateur photographer never re-
quires the proof of a girls love after
he secures the negative.
If a small boy doesn't attempt to
smoke a cigar. thinking it is smart, he
is sure to tackle it out of curiosity.
When you see a man who is always
willing to let well enough alone you
see one who will never occupy any OF
the room at the top.
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SCOTTISH RITE MAsoNs.
They Are In Session In Wichita This
Week.

Wichita, Nov. 15.-The twenty-fourth
semi reunion of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite Masonic bodies.
for the Valley of Wichita, Orient of
Kansas. opened on Tuesday, to last
three days.
These Masonic bodies acknowledge
and yield allegiance to the supreme
council of the thirty-third degree. for
the southern jurisdiction of the United
States of America, the mother supreme
council of the world, whose grand east
is Charleston, in the state of South
Carolina, and whose active headquar-
ters are in Washington, D c.
During the three days of this week,
covering Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, including the evenings of
these days. the sublime lessons of Ma
sorry are being eXemphfied by eminent
MasOns of this and other states. A
most elaborate program has been ar
ranged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

F. w. FIeisher and wife to the Roches-
ter Cemetery association, $1,000, acres
in southwest 4 of 7-11-16.
. G. D. Myers and wife to Burlington
Savings bank, 81, lots 80 and Al, Norris
subdivision.
Helen E. Lindsay and husband to A. NJ.
Callahan, 81, part of lot rs Clay street.
NJ. c. Ryan to Mary Z. Head, s., 500,
part lots 236 and 23S Buchanan street
NJ, c. Ryan to Mary E. Head, $780, lot
St Western avenue.
Orlof Brown and wife to Mary A. Brown
Morris addition.
NJ. NJ. Hale ct al to Harriet NJ. Whit
comb S400 sheriff's deed, lot 401 and north
Z S99 Polk street. Stringham,s addition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15
More New Goods
JUST RECEIVED AT
VAN HOUTEN'S
WALL PAPER
and ART STORE
Picture Frames,
New Style MOuldingS,
and Art Goods.
Picture Frames made to order.
We give the Premium Stamps.
72O KANSAS AVENUE.
Telephone 72o.
TORPEDO EXPLODED.
Dangerous Playing For a Gordon
Street Boy.

Paul GamIowski. a youthful Russian
who lives with his parents on West
Gordon street in North Topeka, at
tempted to inject a railroad torpedo in
to the trunk of tree by the aid of
hammer Tuesday afternoon. AS a re-
suit of the experiment, he is in bed to-
day with hole in his forehead.
The torpedo resented tie driving
methods of the GamlOwsd propelled
hammer, and backed away from the
tree with startling velocity. Its back
ward fight continued only as far as
the young mans forehead, where
piece of metal imbedded itself It re-
quired the services of a physician to
first remove it and afterwaI ds sew up
the wound. It is not believed that the
bone of the skull was fractured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15
Big Deal in Cattle.

Kansas City, No, Nov 15.-W. H
Godair of Chicago and @. NJ. Casey Of
Clinton, No, president of the Kinney
Askew Cattle company today com
pleted a deal involving S125,OOO by
which GOdair becomes owner of the
"Cabar'' brand of cattle, numbering
eighty thousand head. Six thousand
have already been driven across the
country from New Mexico to the Bar
tow ranch near Middletown. Texas. The
remaining two thousand are to be de-
livered in the spring.
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The coming of spring should see in
augurated some definite and systematic
action by the city in the matter of
public parks. The intervening winter
will afford ample time for making plans
and getting everything in readiness for
the summer campaign
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15
SETTLING WOODS ESTATE.
Property of Insane millionaire Being
Disposed Of

Wichita, Kan, Nov. 15.-Judge Wall
is in Denver settling up the estate of
William Woods. the insane millionaire
The property consists mainly Of mines
and mining claims A portion OF the
property has been sold and Judge Wall
is turning the proceeds into securities.
Mr. Woods is in the insane asylum and
has been there for some time. He had
a great fight to obtain control of the
property. which was in the hands of
some eastern capitalists When at last
the suit was won, Woods was insane
and is now confined in the state insane
ASYLUM He has never been able to en-
joy his millions. There is said TO De
slight hope of his ultimate recovery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15
LISTEN FOR FIRE BELL.
1t VIII Ring When Stars Begin
to Shoot

Mayor Drew is taking quite an inter-
est in the meteroic shower and will
have the fire bell rung tonight when the
stars begin to shoot
Those wishing to witness the display
can listen for the bell and when it rings
it viii mean that the firing line has
reached Topeka. The shooting is eX-
pected to commence some time after
midnight.
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Broom Corn 82oo a Ton.

Amsterdam, n. Y, Nov. 1.-THE trust
that has purchased eighteen-twentieths
of all this years crop of broom corn in
the United States has agreed to make
the price of central Illinois broom corn
$500 per ton T. o. b. cars All other
grades of broom corn to follow in price
according to quality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15

The elections are over and all the
bosses, of both parties have been sus-
tained-Hanna in Ohio. German in
Maryland, Quay in Pennsylvania,
Croker in Greater New York, and Platt
in the state
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Maine is likely to be heard from Oc-
casionaIy even if Tom Reed has moved
out Her latest claim to notice is based
on the holding of funeral services by
4aInrohnna
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The formation of trusts and combines
continues. regardless of the money IA
mine in New York. But. there trusts
are composed mostly of water anyway.
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While Otis generals are chasing
AguinaIdo over the swamps of northern
Luzon the Filipinos are battering away
under the very walls of Manila
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15

The suppression by the war depart
ment of the report of the investigation
of the transport Tartar viii give Gen
eraI Miles another opportunity to use
his mitch fork
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The dispatches announcing the death
of Major John A. Logan, while leading
a charge on the Filipino trenches in
Luzon prove him to be a worthy son
of his illnstrious father
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Democrats are still finding crumbs
of comfort here and there. Two Of
their party were elected to the Iowa
legislature from Des NIoines.
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The scarcity of money in New York
may turn out to be a good thing, by
preventing speculation, from attaining
that momentum which usually pre-
cades q crash.
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The FHipinos should be able to lay
I'D something for rainy day, if they
continue to sell guns for $50 each to the
American officers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15

John Wannamaker says there has not
been an honest election in Philadelphia
for years. Well, who has accused the
Ouakers of honesty in elections?
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Things have become so quiet IN
France that somebody is trying to sur
up the Dreyfus case again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15

Carnegie is gradually nearing To-
nelza. He has offered $4,000 to the
public library of Sedalia on conditions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-15

Even the ballast brought down from
Cape Nome by the ships is said TO run
500 gold to the ton.
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Nothing has been heard from the
kissing bug for a long time. Possibly
they all followed HObson to Hong