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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Chicago Chronicle: Although the cam
paign seems finally to have opened, there
Is no reason why the American voter
should not pursue the even tenor of his
way, without haste, and especially with
out undue excitement 1t will do no
man, and especially no woman, any good
TO get the idea that the safety of the
country rests solely upon his or her
shoulders 1t is more than 10 to l that
the Lord instead of singing you out for
such mission designed you for the less
arduous. but equally respectable, bust
ness of earning a living for yourself and
family. Therefore go ahead and dig po-
tatoes or serape them or sell them or eat
them. according to your walk in life, and
leave spasms, dithyrambs and alcoholic
LIQUORS to the spellbinders- Your turn
VIII come on November and it is bet
ter for your physical and moral health
that you bring to the exercise of your
functions as an elector a clear brain.
clean hands and an unperturbed liver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08
CARELESS PUBLIC OFFICERS.

| Perhaps when the Judgment day
comes men who have held public Office
municipal, county. or city or state po-
sitions, will remember some of their
official shortcomings.
In the state house every department
which receives reports from county OH
GERS is at all times confronted with the
fact that men do not compiete the re-
ports which they are required by law
to make to the superior Office.
While the general tenor and contents
Of such reports may be correct, yet
there IS always more or less detail which
is omitted. The treasurer. auditor and
secretary Of state are constantly re-
turning documents to have them cor
rected or filled in as to important par
ticulars. The chief trouble in the office
of the secretary of state is the failure
on the part of notaries, in certifying
documents, to attach their Official seals.
all parties concerned.
The auditor furnishes blank forms for
reports, but he is always writing letters
for additional information because the
author of the document fails to comply
with its provisions. The state treas
urer frequently is compelled to RENAL
statements from county treasurers for
correction.
The bank commissioner sends out
blanks for statements. Some of the
banks respond promptly. but the COM
missioner spends much time writing,
begging and threatening bankers for
their official reports. In all cases where
these statements are delayed for APP
parently unnecessary reasons there is
always something wrong with them, and
the bank commissioner is compelled to
spend more time Strengthening out the
banker and his methods.
The most. punished man in the state
house is the state superintendent. It
might be imagined that school teachers
would be more prompt and methodicaI,
but the present state superintendent
wrote twenty letters to one county SUI
perintendent to obtain a little inforna-
ton about the county schools. This was
last year. but the information has not
yet been obtained
In a statistical statement published by
the State Journal yesterdays number of
counties have neglected, through their
county superintendent. to furnish the
state superintendent with information
which by law he is required to publish.
1t is this way in every class of public
business details are omitted and the
innocent person is punished with the
odium of the failure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08
PASSING OF THE PRAIRIE DOG

The day of the prairie dog is passing.
In a few years that picturesque little
animal will be known only in picture
books and in musty collections of stuffed
animals. He will soon wave a farewell
to the prairie and take his place by the
side of the buffalo who lives only in
the memory OF the old frontiersmen.
Every person who has lived in the west
will be sorry when the prairie dog fam
lily has passed in it's final checks There
is not a man now living who was raised
in the west who, in his boyhood days,
did not try to make a household pet of
the prairie dog, and to these men the
passing of the little animal is the re-
moval of a boyhood playmate Their
villages have afforded amusement for
many a western boy who would take
more pleasure in them than an eastern
boy would in the finest geological gar
den, and the prairie dog town with it's
dogs, owls and rattlesnakes was a ZOO
logical garden not to be passed with
glance.
The agricultural department has de-
cided that the dogs kill the grass and
ruin good grazing land, consequently
that department has put it's chemists to
work and they have discovered a poison
which is put up in such tempting shape
that Wei AS6 utdlc0 anu dL OlDST times
peaceful prairie dog families viii fight
for the first bite. The determination of
the prairie dog has been ordered and he
must 60 The hole that knew him once
will know him no more. People who have
watched from the car windows for the
dog towns will join with the boys in
their wish that the dogs be spared, but
as there is no one to pay the dog tax
the hand of the prairie dog catcher will
not be stayed, and he will be fed Off
cial poison until he takes up his resi-
dence in the happy hunting ground with
the wild Indian and the buffalo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08
THE SALOON AND THE CENSUS

Those who advocate that the saloon
and free whisky invite population and
produce a growth they maintain is dis
couraged by the prohibitory law will
fight shy of the Nebraska statistics i1st
in evidence from the bureau of census
returns
Omaha, that wicked city where the
saloon is rampant and the barkeepers
prominent factors in politics, shows the
most astonishing falling Off in number
OF inhabitants from 1880 to 1900. Ten
years ago the official enumeratnrs for
the government gave her 140,0 900 people.
today the same authority but lO2 600.
Look. too, toward Lincoln, the capital
Of our neighboring state, where the
license to sell liquors is most readily
acquired, and where the saloon out
numbers by far even the joints in To-
peka- Lincoln's official figures for 1890
were 55.154 and for 1900 are only 40. 169.
If Mr.. Stahl will now close up the
Joints and we can retain and steadily
Increase our population, driving King
Lon Townsend and his cohorts across
the Nebraska line-a gain to our saloon
ridden sister state now sadly depleted in
population, and no great loss to our
selves-how happy we shall be.
As they say in racing, and other sport
ing circles, it viii indeed be "a horse on
9SebEaska.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

New York is the only one of the great
cities which is reported to have in
creased more rapidly in population than
during the preceding decade. and this
report only recalles the beliefin scientiflc
circles ten years ago that the census OF
1890 understated its population. 1t is
very easy, in a great city with a large
floating population and a still larger
population of recent immigrants in over
crowded tenements, to omit from the
rolls thousands who should be counted,
and New York probably suffered in that
way in 1890. 1t is not, however, so easy
to account for the over enumeration
which seems to have taken place in
Omaha in $780, Even if all the transients
were counted and the hotel records
copied for months back, it is difficult to
understand how the enumerators in 1890
found 14O,O people where today there
are only 100000. The people of Omaha
were not sensible of a decline in popula-
ton, the Omaha Bee of August q an
ticipating that the new census would
show an increase of over twenty thou
sand. The new figures, however, must
be accepted as accurate, for no census
bureau would report that a city had lost
forty thousand people unless it was pre-
pared to support its statement The peo-
pie OF Omaha probably wish that the
preceding census had not given them
such an exalted pre-eminence in the
matter of rapid growth, $50 per cent
from 1880 to 1890. Their actual gain in
twenty years-from 10000 to 102. 000-is
something to boast of, but the reported
loss of forty thousand in one decade will
compel real estate men to explain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News

[F'rom the Chicago News.1
A stingy quaker maketh close friend
He who lacks time to make also lacks
time to mend.
An industrious man and a cabbage
manage to get AHEAD.
When a man is compelled to pawn his
watch it changes hands.
/ When society throws people overheard
they are not in the swim.
It's always easy to interest a man in a
good money making scheme.
Give eheerfully with one hand and you
will gather abundantly with two.
The contents of the jewelers. safe may
be his stepping stones to fortune
Some of the unhappiest people on earth
have more money than they know what
to do with
The most comfortable way woman
can eat her bread is to induce some man
to earn it for her.
A politicians idea of public need is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

After the votes are counted in No
vember we may be able to form an opin-
ion regarding what the people of Ken
lucky think of the Goebel murder. And
after all, perhaps the opinion of the
people will be of greater value than that
of the jury or the court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08
CENSUS RETURNS.

TFrom the New York Outlook
The census reports given out last week
fully establish our generalization that
the population of our cities has Increased
less rapidly during the past decade than
during the decade preceding. The re-
turns for the principal cities thus far
published are as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The failure of a savings and loan as
Eociation at McKeesport, Pa. involving
the probable loss of the deposits Of LOO
working people, is but another of those
oft repeated arguments in favor of pos
tai savings banks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The American Federation of Labor is
said to have been promised place, in
Mr. Bryan's cabinet to be filled by Pres
ident Samuel Gompers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Ex-senator Cannon of Utah who
walked out with Teller at St. Louis in
1896, has announced his entire conversion
to Democracy. e-s c s s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Mr.. Bryan is willing to accept the re-
sponsibility for the ratification of the
treaty with Spain. but draws the line at
that loat crop story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Chicago Record: The Republicans do
not particularly care how often Chair
man Jones carries New York. but when
Croker talks of carrying it they begin to
get interested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

1t should be remembered that Mr..
Bryan is a very busy man, and prob
ably felt that he could not afford to
lose any time by refraining entirely
from talking politics at Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The concert of the powers at Pelxin re
sembles more than anything else that o
a Kazoo band.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The kaiser seems determined that
Count Won Waldersee shall not be de-
prived of job while he is journeying to
China.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

VIII the Democrats of New York be as
considerate for Sulzer as the Republi-
cans were for Woodruff?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The business of .-potting'' Filipfnos
shows no signs of abatement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Wigg-''You used to detest that girl.
and now you are in love with her. /
remember you once said that she didn't
know enough to comein out of the rain" "
Wagg-"And still insist that she IS
little duck
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Chief of Detectives-"Have you found
that missing 12-year-old girl?" Detec-
tive Sleuthpup-tNo, I'm completely
baff1ed. I've been to every ice cream sa-
loon and soda water fountain in the
city"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Tommy-"Pop, what is muscular
Christianity" Tommy Pop Muscular
Christianity, my son. is the kind that
prompts a man to walk to church and
put the dime in the collection plate.
Then he feels that he is ten cents ahead
of the game"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Brown-Did you notice what a black
eye Smith had?
rule never to notice such things.-Boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The other Democratic leaders in New
York appear to have made arrange
ments to get along without Hill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The inebriated Individual was indig-
nant This is rather cool treatment.
So I'm tagged, eh?" he demanded.
That's it," replied the bartender, sort
of a cold wave"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Scranton, Pa, has jumped into the
zoe, 900 class of cities since 1890.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

A woman who signs herself Heart
to-Heart,'' wants to know how a wife
can tell when her husband is pleased.
When he doesn't grumble, of course
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

What was the cause of the latest
quarrel between Mr.. and Mrs. Bickers ~
Mrs Bickers caught her husband
lying on one of her sofa cushions -
Harper's Bazaar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

When a man complains of monotony,
it is an indication that he is growing
tired of being good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Blobbs-"How did you enjoy yourself
at the prohibition banquet last night?"
Slobbs-"Not at all. Every time there
was a toast, instead of drinking we ate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

When girl arrives on a visit, and
the man of the house goes out of town
for his vacation at the same time, it is
something more than coincidence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

when a man wears the necktie his
wife buys" says the Manayunk Philos-
opher, ''he is either very much in love
with her, or else he just doesn't care"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Cobble-I wish could stop playing
poker.
Stone-Why don't you swear off?
Cobble-I do. But every single time I
swear on I begin to Win--Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

F'riend-All you need is patience
Young Doctor-Yes, if you spell it in
the way spell it.-Syracuse Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.1
Do men ever die in big town who
were converted at the age Of twelve2'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

When the door bell rings, every wo-
man in the house steps to the nearest
looking glass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The more people there are killed in {
melodrama, the more the press agen
claims that it is full of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Do men ever die in a big town who
We're converted at the age of twelve?'
When the door bell rings, every wo-
man in the house steps to the nearest
looking glass
When a man complains of monotony,
it is an indication that he is growing
tired of being good.
A woman who signs herself Heart
to-Heart," wants to know how wife
can tell when her husband is pleased
When he doesn't grumble, of course
When a girl arrives on visit, and
the man of the house goes out of town
for his vacation at the same time, 1t is
something more than coincidence.
An Atchison girl is trying the faith
cure on a wart on her cheek, and if it
cures, over fifty people stand ready to
become converted to the faith cure
theory
When you come down to breakfast
these mornings, don't assume that you
slept in the oven while the rest of the
to use blankets.
When school teacher comes back
from her summer vacation, she looks
taught two weeks, she begins to look
ten years older than when she went
away.
Speaking of old fashioned things:
What has become of the awkward man
heard a terrible rip? Did he stop to
thank the rainy day skirt girl before
passing away?
There is a good deal said about the
Importance of grasping ones opportuni
ties, but about the only one ever offered
to a man is to buy something his neigh
Dor has to sell. and which he does not
want
Go out driving in the evening, and on
almost every porch you will see the man
of the house. There should be an in
vestigation of the charge that men
spend their evenings down town, en-
gagged in questionable enjoyment In
Atchison, the men spend their evenings
on the front porches-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
1t doesn't take a burglar to break in
to song.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

An old bachelor says that man is
sometimes ensnared by the same kind
of extravagant dressing in a woman that
he kicks about after marriage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Some men are so perverse as to di
just the day after a bargain sale IL
mourning goods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

A man invariably feels like kicking
himself when he discovers that he has
been rude to a. blessing in disguise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

An Atchison girl is trying the faith
cure on wart on her cheek, and if it
cures, over fifty people stand ready to
become converted to the faith cure
theory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The apple that is made into cider full
realizes the power of the press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

There are some striking pen-pictures of
Chinese life in 1.-The Attache at Peking,'
by A. B. Freeman Witford who was at one
time secretary to the British embassy to
China Mr.. Freeman Mitford's book con-
sists of series of letters describing Tallu,
Tien Tsin, Tung Chow, Shanghai, Picking
and Canton, and it is full of shrewd OBJ
servation and study of Chinese manners
and customs. The author had a keen
eye for odd and amusing incidents, many
of which make very lively and entertain
ing reading. The Macmillan company will
publish the book early in September.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

"Arril's Sowing the title of Miss Ger
trude Halls new novel (McClure, Philips
& Coz, is taken from Browning's Pippa
Passes:"
you'll love me yet and can tarry
Your loves protracted growing,
June reared the bunch of flowers you
carry
From seeds of Aprirs sowing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

To say that a new broom sweeps cles
is rather a sweeping assertion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

A girl may have diamonds set in hel
teeth and still not be a brilliant con-
versationalist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

something that will enable him to feed
at the public trough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record
1t doesn't take a burglar to break in
to song.
Looking at other people work makes
some people tired.
Straws show which way the wind
blows. So does hay fever.
The only difference between a ply
stefan and doctor is in the bill.
To say that a new broom sweeps clean
is rather a sweeping assertion.
The apple that is made into cider fully
realizes the power of the press.
The average man never gets religion
until he has had about everything else.
Hoax-"They say she is a finished
musician" Joax-"Finished? Is she
dead?"
A girl may have diamonds set in her
teeth and still not be brilliant con-
versatiOnalist.
Some men are so perverse as to die
just the day after a bargain sale in
mourning goods.
The more people there are killed in a
- 10. q q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The average man never gets religio
until he has had about everything else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

The only difference between a phi
stefan and a doctor is in the bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Looking at other people work make
some people tired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Straws show which way the win
blows. So does hay fever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Edwin Markham's Second Book of
Poems," which will be issued from the
press of Mcclure, Phillips & Co.. early in
October, will contain several poems not
before publlsned; me note OF hopefu,ness
quite in contrast to the pessmism which
some critics read into The Man With
the Hoe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

Hoax-"They say she is finishes
musician Joax-"Finished? Is sh
dead?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

When you come down to breakfast
these mornings, don't assume that you
slept in the oven while the rest of the
family slept in rooms so cool they had
to use blankets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

1.-The Kings Deputy by H. A. Hink-
life at the Vice Regal court in Dublin to-
wards the close of the eighteenth century,
will soon be published by A. c. McClurg
& Co, Chicago. Including the Duke of
Rutland and Mr.. Grattan many real per-
sonages figure in the tale and the picture
of the times is realistic and truthful. The
dramatis personae are nearly all of them
brave and gallant men, ready to draw
sword or pistol on the slightest provoca-
ton, and women more lovely, witty and
beautiful than should be looked for any
where but in Ireland. The story is I'M
usually full of incident and adventure,
and the readers attention is not allowed
to flag for moment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08

There is a good deal said about the
Importance of grasping ones opportuni-
ties, but about the only one ever offered
to a man is to buy something his neigh
Dor has to sell. and which he does not
wa Mt
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-05-26

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