The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-01
DIRECTORY Is HERE.
Sam Radges' Famous Book Makes Its
Appearance.

Sam Radges has redeemed his prom
Use. The new city directory made it's
appearance today.
1t is a book of 1872 pages, neatly print
ed. well arranged and securely bound.
It contains all the old features of
Radges' celebrated directories, and some
of the new ones. The new features
make it the most complete directory
that has been published for this city.
1t is the only directory that has ever
contained a photo of the publisher with
his hat on. 1t is labelled LAS Others
See U.s. and is his best likeness. For
company, cut of George w. Crane,
the man who had the printing of the
directory in charge, appears on the 9TH
er side of the page. The most con-
spicuous point of the latter photo is a
red necktie printed in ''true-to-nature"
style.
AS usual, Sam Radges has a word to
say within the limit of the first dozen
pages. He announces the directory as
an absolutely perfect mirror, quotes a
portion of Rudyard Kipling's The
White Mans Burden" to show his i'm
perialistic sentiments, and closes by
| saying:
And finally, we believe in Topeka, in
her resources, her DEVELOPMENT. her
progress,-in her wealth and independ-
reer and glorious future, when the
| capital of the richest, most advanced
| and prosperous state in the Union, she
| will be the brightest star in the galaxy
| of western cities. We believe this with
no mental reservation, because she is
! what her people and the people of the
! state have made her and will yet make
her. In their hands lies her future; and
| as they have been proud of and true
| to her from the days when the new
| born state, whose heart she is. was
l friT0 n
! baptized in the blood of freemen; when
! her lullaby was the boom of cannon
and the war-cry above her was The
! Union forever so will you be true and
| faithful to her to the end"
| For the third consecutive time, Cap
! tain Joseph G. Waters is the historian
of the book. Again under the caption
| of Topeka he has a combination of
| words and phrases and figures of
| speech that only his mind and his pen
| are capable of executing. The result is
! a glowing picture of the Kansas capt.
At the start Captain Waters declares
| that the motto of Topeka for the next
| hundred years should be Take step
| with the push or go out and hang your
| self" Then he goes on to sayi
I'VE open the door of the new CEN
fury and bid the whole world welcome.
If mankind will just leave their burglar
tools and counterfeiting kits at home,
they are invited to come. The flag is on
it's journey around the world. A hun
! The fires of freedom are being lighted
on all the island headlands. The min
! lister resident at Guam has written a
| friend here to come there and start a
saloon. He loves Topeka too we'll to
| give it up for government canteen.
Then hail. with me, all good citi-
zens, the coming century! Something
| in the next hundred years Topeka will
be such a city as the Tiber never saw.
It will be greater than Rome 1t will
, be an empire, where home is crowned,
- la in hoiT> OH ira
king.
And so we are for expansion in
everything that goes for the general
| good. AS we trace the flag in its jour-
new over the breast of wide seas, as we
hear of the glory of our Topeka boys,
| Montgomery, Vance, Ramsey, and a
! hundred others it would do me good to
name, now in the everglades of Luzon,
it is infectious. Topeka is part of tn
nation. And as my contract with the
proprietors of this directory includes
verse as we'll as prose. this history ends
as I started-for expansion, for prog
ress. for imperialism. with this humble
apostrOphe to Liberty, as she steps on
the gangplank of our battleship; as the
guns thunder that she is on board as
the great monster lifts anchor; as the
/ tunnels become volcanoes, and she starts
on her voyage. For Liberty. Topeka
and the nation are all in one boat.
20 Liberty shrined in they vesture OF
Steam out to where the pillows
Drive duty through danger waves
Are hit by the Prov and then scourged
by the screw!
The fogs lie to land and the reefs near
Where breakers prevail. and dumb
shadows we dread;
But out to the open, the flag to the
The sea at thy feet and the sky over
The ocean is free. if in wrath or in gleee;
And there lies the pathway untraveled
Cease hugging thy cable or grinding
thy chain!
'"No harm shall befall the proud ship on
it's breast,
Who voyage with thee that foul wrongs
And freedom be given a nethermost
world:
Then. pilot. stand firm at thy place at
the wheel;
The winds they may whistle through
cordage and sail
But to the sea, proud apostle OF
? Thy life is a charmed one from tenn
pest and gale!
Unbound like the sea to no human con-
; The nation should feel all the impulse
Then out to the sea, and from line to
The World is thy quest and its people
thy stateH'
: attack of Dyspepsia by dieting, or that
If will cure itself. Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure will cure it; it "digests what you
eat and restores the digestive organs
to health. Geo. w: Stansf1eld, w. H.
Wilson, A. J. Arnold & Son. "A. ]. Kane
e Co.