The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-16
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

IN HV1EL CURhlDOhS.
1.-THE hot weather has been sending
| the price of lemons skyward," remarked
a travelling man at the Throop, land it
| promises to reach a mark not often at
| tanned. The retailer is now paying
| $4-25 per box There has been a raise
| of 20 cents within two weeks, and an
addition of that much more is very
this section of the country come from
| California, the imported product not
getting this far west to any great ex-
tent. The California lemon is not as
finely favored nor as juicy as that from
Sicily, but there is a difference of from
rs cents to $1.50 per box. At this sea-
son of the year the lemon is in great de-
mand and there are few households
where lemonade is not made every day.
AT the soda fountains and ice cream
parlors lemon juice is in demand to
make the different drinks 1t is a
splendid thing to take at this season as
it tones up the stomach and counter
acts malarial tendencies. A little lemon
juice and water the first thing in the
morning will make you feel better all
day. 1t beats the tipplers' mornings
morning. for there is no reaction and it
cools the blood instead of heating it.
There is a little trick in buying lemons
with which many people are not IA
miliar. The large, fine looking lemons
are not the best to purchase unless they
are expected to keep for some time.
The smaller fruit, which has been
cured, has much more Juice and is of
finer flavor. I have noticed for some
years that the California lemon is i'm
proving both in the amount and flavor
OF the juice. This is due to the fact
that the growers in that country are
learning how to handle and cure their
crops. believe that with a few years
more of experience the California pro-
duct will equal the imported in every
respect"
ST have not been in ST. Louis for sew
mol oTfn
Louis travelling man, who was chatting
with a friend in the lobby of the
Throop, land have almost lost track
of the strike situation, but I am in
clined to believe that the matter has
been settled for keeps. If the Transit
company lives up to it's agreement, and
they say emphatically they will, the
men should let well enough alone. Ihe
strike has been a bitter lesson for both
sides, and I believe either would make
concessions before allowing the strike to
be repeated. However, if there is any
further disagreement over the construc-
ton of the articles of agreement
which have been virtually accepted, IL
would seem to any unprejudiced man
that arbitration is the proper remedy,
and that pending negotiations the rail
roads should run unmolested. 1t IS a
crime to tie up great public utility
and thereby discommode an entire COM
munity, to say nothing of the pecuniary
loss, and that, too, when no one gains
anything. If labor has rights, so has
capital, and the one must be respected |
much as the other Labor and cap
ital are mutually dependent and one is
worthless without the other. But in
all disputes capital has an immense
advantage and this fact should be rec
ognized by workingmen and taken into
consideration before they deliberately
take the bread from their mouths and
from those dependent upon them. for |
some comparatively trivial difference |
that could be adjusted by the exercise |
of ordinary common sense"
'"This is an old story of Ingersoll. but |
am going to tell it anyway" said one |
of a group of politicians who were talk |
ing in the National. 'Ingersoll was in |
terested in a criminal case which was |
being heard before a judge in a crimi- |
nal court who was not feeling well. He |
was out of sorts and made life a burden |
for the attorneys on both sides. snap
ping and growing at them like a sore
headed cur. The morning session wore
along with the judge getting crosser
and more peevish all the while. At
noon the court adjourned for dinner to
the great relief of everyone. After din
ner four or five lawyers were walking
leisurely back to the court house, In
gerSOll, who was one OF the group, be- |
ing on the street side of the walk. A
mule was hitched to a post by the walk
and as Ingersoll passed the mule put
back his ears and snapped Yicfously at
him. Quick as a flash Ingersoll turned
and looking at the mule said: Now
over?' You can imagine what a hit the
remark made with the attorneys who
had been hectored all the morning by
the judge"
VERY few people know that the
headquarters of the strongest branch of
the Mormon church is in Iowa." re-
marked a gentleman from DeS MoineS
who is visiting in Topeka. Joseph
Smith, the son of the Mormon prophet
of that name, is the president, and is in
Lamont, Iowa. The branch is called the
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of
the Latter Day Saints, and is entirely
distinct from that which has ever ad-
vocated polygamy, and it claims to be
Young went to Utah, at the head of the
Mormon church, after the death of the
first Joseph Smith. he declared that
Smith had had a revelation countenanc-
ing the practice of plural marriages.
Those of Smiths followers, however,
who now call themselves the 'reorgan-
lied church declare that their first
leader never had, nor claimed to have,
any such revelation, and that this story
was merely a fiction on the part of
Brigham Young to excuse to the people
certain practices that were never in
tended to be sanctioned by the religion
of the people, but which had been in
troduced by corrupt officials of the
church. The reorganized church, as
soon as Joseph Smiths son was of age,
chose him as it's leader, and broke away
from the rest of the denomination"
"Are you going out to Garfield park
this afternOoT1?" asked one festive
drummer Of the other as they sat in
front of the hotel and gave the 'ad
miring eye" to the passing females
Sure. You don't think I would miss
hearing Marshalls band, do you? It's
the whole thing in this mans town."
answered the other. Il consider it one
of the best bands in the world, except
ing Sousa's. I am not musician and
can't read a. note of music. but have a