People's voice., 1900-12-27

MemOeTS or JleatGlcal companies
buy their Christmas presents wherever
they happen to be a few days before
Christmas. The members of the
1.-TWO Married Men" company bought
their Christmas presents 10 yelling
ton Friday.
Eagle: Estimated by their OVID
testimony that West Point az
gregatiOn Of favored youths constitute
pretty tough crowd. Ostensibly
being educated as gentlemen and
trained to command, they are simply
tough to brutality. Boarded, bedded,
salarled and educated by the govern
ment, which undertakes to take care
Of them for life, their idea Of fun is
cruelty, Of courage brute force. The
people Of the country at large hearth
ly endorse the proposed investigation
by congress. There is no fear that
all the facts will not be brought out,
involve whom they may.
Church creeds and customs are un
dergning rapid changes. Tue Praye
meetings will soon be thing of the
past in some churches. The pastors
OF the Kansas City Christian churches
adopted resolution at a meeting
yesterday, declaring it to be their
sense that the mid!Week prayer meet
ing, as it is conducted in a majority
of Protestant churches, has OutliVed
its usefulness, and appointed a COM
mittee to prepare and report a pro-
gramme for such meetings which
shall be more modern in its character
and better calculated to meet the
needs of present day church people.
The question as to whether there
shall be created the position of state
pension agent to look after the pen
sion interests of the Kansas soldiers
Is now up to the old soldiers them
selves. They can have it if they want
it. Governor Stanley is willing to
Incorporate such recommendation
in his message providing the soldiers
want it, and the legislature would un-
dOubtedly pass such a measure. But
the old soldiers themselves have not
manifested any interest 10 the mat
ter, and unless they come forward
with some sort Of a demonstration in
favor Of such legislation, they are
liable not to get it. 1t is matter in
which only they are interested, and
If they do not urge the thing the
chances are that outsiders will not
lose any sleep pushing it along.
War has broken out between the
society bloOdS Uf North and South To-
peka. South Topeka is the big town
and contains the most blOOds. They
m0nOpOlize all the swell society girls
on their side and have moved on the
choice girls on the North side. This
6aS aroused the North side boys and
they have organized to keep the
South siders off their reservation after
sundOwn. During the past two weeks
scraps have taken place almost
nightly. Every time a South slider
shows up on the North side a gang
gets after him and chaSes him back.
Some Of them refuse to 90 and then
fight enSues in which the South
siders get the worst Of it, and finally
are persuaded to return to their own
side Of the river and take their
bruises with them. A few nights ago
one South slider eluded the North side
crowd and reached his girls home,
The gang went in, took him by the
collar, hauled him out and escorted
him to the bridge, with instructions
to shinny on his own side. The South
siders have appealed to the police for
protection. Unless the trouble is
patched up soon there will be an
exodus of society girls and their fam
lilies from the North to the South
side, for the girls are standing by the
South side boys.
The frequency Of bank robberies in
Oklahoma in the last four months
caused uneasineSS among the owners
OF a small bank in country town.
They were advised to replace their
square safe with a screw safe, upon
the theory that they would have bet
Ter protection against crackSmen and
that surety companies would be will
Ing to give them a lower rate of bur-
glar insurance. A letter to one of the
strong surety companies Of the Uni
ted States brought the following
reply, which contains information
not generally known to the public:
I'VE are not accustomed to discrimi-
nate in the determination Of our rates
between styles Of safes where the
safes are the product Of any of the
standard makers and are Of their best
grade and are Of modern construction.
After a careful study OF the safe
question we are Of the opinion that
the safes of any one of the standard
makes will compare very favorably
with a similar grade Of safe of any
other Of the standard makes. One
person might have a prediction
for a certain style OF safe.
whereas another would have for
adifferent style, both of which would
atforda certain amount of protection
and that is all. As the cost price is
Increased, the security furnished is
cOrrespOndingly increased, but the
fact still remains that there is not a
safe on the market today and proba-
bly, never will be that is absolutely
burglar proof, provided that the right
methods Of attack are employed. We
think we'll Of the best work of the
square door safe makers and we think
equally we'll Of the best screw door
safes. We do not care for automatics,
but prefer to have the time.locks
work 10 connection with proper COM
binatiOn locks actuated bv ''built In
or cut off" spindles. We have no
hesitancy in saying that for four own
part we consider burglar proof safe