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The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
rnpEKA,s nLAD HAND.

In a very short time several state so
cieties will meet in Topeka This occurs
every year at this season. but it is pos
sible that Topeka shows too little atten-
ton to the visitors within her gates on
these occasions.
OF course Topeka cannot meet every
delegation with a brass band and BAN
quet all the visitors, but there are cour-
tesies which can be extended without
great expense or much trouble, and they
should not be overlooked.
The Commercial club is the proper or
ganization to look after this important
matter, and II is not too early for the
club to begin to think about some form
of welcome for the visitors. The Kansas
state Board of Agriculture the various
live stock associations, the State Teach
ers' association and the Kansas Editor
ial association will all be here within
the next month.
Let Topeka at least extend the well
coming hand to the visitors and help
to make them feel at home while they
are here
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
THE BATTLE WITH JOINTS.

Some of the leaders of the Auditorium
temperance rally have since expressed
qualification over the moral effect it
would have. Time and again has been
demonstrated the fact that moral eff
feet is only a bubble in this fight.
Moral effect is no more of a weapon
here than moral support to help to Sc
cure convictions.
The plan of procedure is impressive
because it is businesslike- But the fact
remains that its ultimate success de-
pends on a preliminary victory. Pri-
marily, then, success depends upon the
conviction of just two jointists. Unless
Topeka confesses itself absolutely i'm
potent two convictions can be secured.
There are no two ways about it now
that the battle is on Topeka confronts
it's opportunity 1t is the last stand.
There is no mincing matters on that
score.
Nothing succeeds until it is tried. To
confess defeat before the battle is fought
is poor soldering. Justice may be de-
layed, but there is always a day of
reckoning.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
frances Viper KiIler.

IF'rom the London Express.1
England is not the only country where
strange offices are still kept up, for in
France today there is man who holds
the honorable post of official viper killer
of Haute-Loire.
His name is Courtol and his record is
unrivaled. His robe of Office is made of
900 Of his venonous victims skins. Con-
sidering his undoubted talents. his rates
of remuneration are remarkably low. He
gets 21kd. for every viper he kills, and
his average works out at 1900 a year.
This means that his income from the
practice of his profession works out 20
about Els per annum.
His best average for a tWelvemonth.
SO far. according to official record, is a
modest trial of 2.502 slain reptiles.
This eminent practitioner allows that
his profession is not "all lavender" for
when at rest the viper assumes the col
or of the ground or rocks of the locality
it inhabits, becoming blush black upon
basaltic rocks and a reddish hue upon
vUiCefiiC syurIae.
Besides before he takes his daily
Siesta. the artful viper chooses his
he'd" that is to say, ne seeks ground of
q SoiSsI- -@-----se 80 esE-as'-.t
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

The commerce Of Al countries other
than the United States is pictured in the
opening tables Of a volume being pre-
pared by the treasury bureau of statis-
tics OF this number. IS countries shuv-
an excess Of exports over imports, and
29 show an excess of imports over ex-
ports The principal countries which
show an excess of exports over imports
are Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile.
Australia, India. Egypt. Spain, Austria
Hungary, and Russia A study Of the
detailed figures in this group of favor ed
countries whose exports exceed their
imports. ana a comparison of their ex-
port trade with that of the United
States alone furnishes a striking evil
dence Of the phenomenal prosperity of
our own country. No one of the Is coun-
tries whose exports exceed imports,
shows a favorable balance of trade an
preaching that enjoyed by the United
States, and a compilation Of the excess
Of exports in the entire group of II
countries having such excess gives a
grand total Of only s414. $4,000, in the
latest attainable year, as against an ex-
cess of s5f4. 542. .131 in favor of the United
States alone in the fiscal year 1900
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago NeWs-1
A man of means isn't necessarily a mean
man
Yearning for riches is the mother OF dis
content.
Necessity may bring a man into court,
but it knows no law
1t is folly to draw a bill on a blind man
payable at sight
A mans character is often shown by
what he considers laughable.
Digger Indians seldom smile, tits said.
They must be grave Diggers-
A married man says that he was always
fond of tongue-and he likes it still
An Irish politician says that half the
lies told about him are not true
Probably you never saw ghosts walk,
but you may have heard the dead march.
When man forgets to ask his wife if
she needs any money it is sign the
honeymoon is on the wane-
A ship is probably called she because the
rigging costs so much and it always keeps
a man on the lookout
A western man, speaking of a cyclone,
said 1T would have bis oWn his house away
had there not been such a heavy mort
gage on it.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
OUT WITH OBSOLETE LAWS.

The laws of Kansas have been changed
and changed ana changed again and
new laws have been enacted until il is
impossible to tell what they are-even
the courts cannot tell, and be sure they
are correct. There is not an officer.
city, township. county or state, who has
served one year but knows that the laws
OF Kansas need thorough revision and
need 1t greatly. The meeting of the mu-
nicipal league, which was held in this
city last week, shows the need of a con-
stitutional convention plainly. and be-
side the municipal league almost all Of
the different county officers have organ
ICED. with view 10 influence legisla-
ton in order that # may be improved
5ss-z~ ssisz,l zii.sist AMI sia- ir.-
ss1eoziat- ana . -f--st laws IL our stst-
ate books have caused all these on1cers
e organize in order to do what they
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
APA1R OF KANSAS sPEcrAcLEs

GFrom the New York Press]
In the course of his remarks the
other evening before a congregation in
this city the Rev. In-Eis-Steps Sheldon
of Kansas gave a description Of his glad
boyhood days, which he called Grand
fathers night on the old farm As
soon as the summer sun disappeared
behind the red barn on Saturday after
noon grandfather knocked off work
The children gathered in the old parIor
The hired man came up from the fields
and the hired girl dropped everything in
the kitchen. All met together for an
hour Of prayer and praise. At 10 they
went happily to bed. In the morning
there was another hour of worship. and
then all drove to the morning service.
There were four Sabbath services, in
cluding a prayer meeting and Sunday
school, interspersed with cold meals
The. speaker looked back longingIy to
these blissful seasons, contrasting the
day then with a modern Sunday in the
wicked east, which he described, telling
how the dry goods store clerks waited
on customers till midnight Saturday
night and We're then obliged to stay
till a m. folding garments, SO that
they were too tired to 90 to church the
next morning.
OF course, we have no such real Illus
tration as this fanciful picture Imag-
Inc clerks submitting to a schedule hold
ing them to the counter till o'clock
in the morningi And yet it was the
spot or color needed for the oratoricaI
contrast. As to "Grandfather's Satur-
day night on the old farm it may be
just as we'll that we have none of them
now, even on the vast and houndless
prairie. Our young folks could not
stand the strain nowadays They would
vurt t111141Itissz4iet1 ttv iiIry
TO pay up for it Grandfather had the
sheldon generation in better training
tss-ss : L sa.,e- seff- ~ -lflchil6ress- Anz
after all, the world may be as weii on
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
SOME WAYS OF BR'ER FOX.
(Fron the Hartford Times1

IFrom the Hartford Times.1
I was once half jokingly assured by
an old fox-hunter that the red fox never
ran; that he was blown along by the
wind, and just used his legs to guide
himself with, and after observing
good many foxes. I confess 1 know of
no active verb which adequately de-
EcribeS their movements Even a grey
hound is a clumsy, numbering animal
when compared with a fox. Not that
a greyhound cannot cover the ground
faster, but there is a certain lightness
of foot in the wild creature which is
not even suggested by any dog, unless
1t be a well-bred and well-trained col
lie A puff of reddish smoke or a loose
ball of tawny fur blown along close to-
but not quite touching the ground, would
suggest the movement of red fox as
nearly as anything can think of.
Our early education concerning this
animal usually begins with some nur-
sery rhyme, in which 'Reynard" fig
ures as a poultry thief. In my OWL
case, remember, / was taught that
"A fox went out one winters night"
and that after an interesting series Of
adventures in which he stole the gray
goose and awakened the farmers wife
he finally got back to his den. where
HE and his wife ate the gray. goose up.
And the little ones picked the bones
In this. as in many other nursery
rhymes. there is as much truth as nom
sense. for no one can say that the fox
gets his information concerning the
poultry yard at second hand. He stud
les the habits of the inmates perhaps
more carefully than the farmer does.
Particularly does he give attention to
their bad habits If some silly little
uucKiing is IUnu OF surayIng on, the Iox
knows it. and he won't forget that
ducl<ling- If some old fool of a hen
thinks it smart to roost outside in a
tree instead of G.oing into the coop, the
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
ouAKER REFLECTIoNs.
LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Christmas odors are in the air.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Christmas odors are in the air.
The question of the hOur-''what time
is it?"
The man who is his own best friend has
few others.
At Christmas even the humblest may
have a family tree
The greatest favorites are not the peo-
pie who are always asking favors
When a woman drops a remark it is
natural that her speech should be broken
silliGus4,srhey Gus say ne .1.s j. quite % ntgTs
rather light"
people are now more interested in Christ
mas presents
Policemen are called coppers, but surely
not because, like a bad penny. they al
ways turn up.
wigg-"There is one class of men that
whisky never inJures- WaSg- anu thst
is?'' Wagg-'"The men who leave it
alone.''
1.-The people who tell you that marriage
is a failure says the Manayunk Ehiloso-
pher, have never exerted themselves to
make it success"
The Joyous time now draweth nigh,
The time of turkey, pudding, pie;
Nor do we dream of after ills,
OF squills and pills and Christmas bills!
Tornrny-.sPop. what is a breach of
the peace2' Tomniy's Pop-''Wen, my
son. when your mother. takes piece OF
my old trousers and makes theH1 over Tor
you she makes breeches of the piece. Now
run away and play"
The fellow who commits a crime
But, like his crime. when doing time
He also is committed.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
eoop NATUREp UNCLE SAM.

There are few countries in the world
where the inhabitants are as patient ana
as sooi natured ss they are in the
United States As an evidence OF the
fact Si&to Lopez, the agent of the Fill
pino -unta, is liv,..g in New YORK at 4
swell nCteI and Is being treated as wei
as any man can be who pays his bills.
Sixto is writing a book, in which he
will set forth his reasons why we are
murderers and destroyers OF domestic
happiness and a few other things. He
will publish the book in an American
publishing house. and will have it sold
or given away throughout the entire
country. The book viii set forth the
Filipino side Of the question in fun.
Can any one imagine Sixto Lopez sit
ting in Madrid writing a book against
the Spanish while the islands were in
their hands? What a beautiful oil paint
ing it would be If Oorn Paul could be
pictured from life in a hotel in London
writing pamphlets asusing the Queen.
the English people and their South Afri-
can policy. What would happen if a
Cnlnese Boxer should attempt to locate
in Berlin and advertise his presence
while he wrote an account in defense of
the murder of the German minister? In
none Of these cases would the offender
last long. but in America. every thing
gees, because we are good natured 1t
might Improve the opinion of foreign
nations concerning US if Uncle sam
would stir things up occasionally. and it
seems that this is one Of the occasions
s.st aacls s2-@l u
Sixto Lopez should be made take his
zen and paper ard 60 home. or at least
get out or the country ssrsicl. .ass 5.ss.i<.,
to abuse.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
No one pretends that the Democratic

No one pretends that the Democratic
party draws political corruption funds
from any of the great monopolies which
are enriched by the favoritism of con-
gressional legislation. The Democratic
party is free from any such reproach.-
Philadelphia Record.
This may be due to the fact that the
monopolies have no faith in the ability
of the Democratic party to do for them
anything which its leaders might prom
ise- The Democrats are noted for not
agreeing among themselves on any pub
lie question long enough to accomplish
anything when the opportunity is Of
fered- After battling for years for an op-
portunity TO enact "a tariff for revenue
only" when it came the party failed ut
ferly.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
Ballad of the Trailing skirt.

met a girl the other day.
A girl with golden tresses.
Who wore the most bewftching air
And daintiest of dresses.
/ gazed at her with kindling eye
And admiration utter
Until ! saw her silken skirt
Was trailing in the gutterl
what senSeiess style Is this2" I thought
What new sartorfal passion2
And who on earth stands sponsor for
The idiotic fashion,"
I've asked a dozen maids or more,
A tailor and his cutter.
But no one knows why skirts are made
To drag along the gutter.
What lovely woman wills to do
She does without reason:
To interfere is waste of time,
To criticise is treason.
Mans only province is to work
To earn his bread and butter
And buy her all the skirts she wants
To trail along the gutter.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

Chicago Chronicle: Let the Santa Fe
telegraphers appeal to Senator Hanna
for his intervention and aid. 1t will be
remembered that he was very active in
inducing the coal operators to accede to
the demands of the miners. Undoubted-
" he win be as energetic in behalf OF
the telegraphers. for, of course, his at
titude VIII not be influenced in the
slightest degree by the fact that the
election is over.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

A prairie fire which occurred in the
city Of Chicago this week called out not
only the farmers and firemen of the
neighborhoOd but the policemen as well.
The system of plOwing fire guards. in
vogue in Kansas'before the country was
settled up is commended to the city by
the lakes as a very effective means of
,,,ofactior,
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

A guerilla war; in which the gueril-
las go about the country in squads OF
$500 as they are doing in South Africa
IS well calculated to cause uneasiness in
the mind of the British public.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

Perhaps Mr.. Hanna will not be wa
ling to take the bad with the good, and
assume the responsibility for the re-
markable impetus which the holdup in
dustry has received. lately.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

t Mr. Hanna shall succeed in pushing
his ship subsidy bill through congress.
1t will have a tendency to help along his
infant boom for the presidency. In pol
itics as well as in other matters nothing
succeeds like success.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

If the opponents of the ship subsidy
bill can delay its passage until the re-
turns are in from the entire country, it
viii be a bold member who viii vote for
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

II the Beers win few more victories
like those Of the past few days, some
people may be found who viii be glad
enough to talk it over with Dom Paul.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

without systems that tend to make a
man sereneIy confident of his ability TO
do things on earth the way Christ
would have done them.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

The children will be glad if it is found
that Mr.. Hanna has allowed a liberal
share OF the prevailing prosperity TO
reach Mr.. Santa Claus.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
Bv the Cabman's Watch.

from sssss. r. v ss-s-.-- -rsr-5-..-..yrs
Blinks-I hear the cabmen are going to
strike for shorter hours.
Nfinl1s (who sometimes rides}-Why.
goodness m their hours are not over forty
minutes long now.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

How shocked the seekers after the
north pole viii be if on reaching it they
find Andree's balloon impaled thereon.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.

GLOBE SIGHTS.
LF'rom the Atchison Globe.l
How. often people say. 'I don't care"
when they do care.
August are now refusing to stay shut
A man may be in love with his. wife.
but it is a kind of love that no longer
worries him.
Descriptions of heaven in the, Bible
sound a great deal like g1rIs descrlp-
ton OF a party that pleased her
It is terrible easy for a woman who
ent, to md one that costs $3.50 that does
just as we'll"
Some peoples idea of the. beginning
and end of duty toward kin, is to frame
their pictures in big gold frames, and hang
them in the parlor.
Every woman attempts more Christ,
mas work that she can accomplish, and
neglects a lot OF useful work that would
be of great use to those around her
tt is related of an Atchison expressman
that he recently undertook to remove
to North Atehison, and broke seventeen
of them on the way
Nothing suits a woman quite SO well as
to hear of a freShly-made W1oOWer dying
OF grief: it makes her feel that at least
and that at least one man realized what q
Jewel woman is
Procrastination is the great American
sin An Atch1son man confesses that for
seven years he has been intending every
day to buy a new knife, his old one be-
ing dull, broken and dirty. but he Will
probably carry the old knife the rest of
his life.
The most familiar sound in every house
is the pounding of beeksteak. At a GER
tain Atchison house, when the steak
pounding begins the family dog rushes
to the kitchen door, to get his share: he
knows the sound well as other mem
bers of the family.
An Atchison woman who lies awake
nights wondering how the expenses Of
her household are going to be met week
after week and month after month. is ad-
ding to her own wretchedneSs and to the
discomfort of her family by insisting upon
scraping together little Christmas pres
ents for the members of the family and
for friends who viii be surprised to re-
ceive them from her. knowing her dnan-
cia1 condition. The presents will be silly
and useless and will attract unfavorable
comment from the recipients Would 1t
not be better for her to write kind little
notes to those she cares for, letting them
know she thinks of them and cares for
them? Christmas giving is all right for
those who can afford it. For those who
can not, Christmas, is a bug-bear which
a little common sense could easily drive
aWaV
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

The last Christmas of the century
should be made memorable in the mat
ter of good deeds done.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

Descriptions of heaven in the Bible
sound a great deal like a girls descrtp-
ton of party that pleased her
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

It is terrible easy for a woman who
starts out to buy her husband 50 pres
ent, to md one that costs $3.50 that does
just we'll"
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

Doors that refused to stay open last
August are now refusing to stay shut
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

Some peoples idea of the beginning
and end of duty toward kin, is to frame
their pictures III big gold frames, and hang
them in the parlor.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

A man may be in love with his wife.
but it is a kind of love that no longer
worries him.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

Boer stock is again on the rise.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

LF'rom the Atchison Globe.l
How often people say. 81 don't care,'
when they do care.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

EVERY woman attempts more Christi
work that she can accomplish, and
neglects a lot of useful work that would
be of great use to those around her
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

It is related of an Atchison expressmar
that he recently undertook to remove
eighteen household articles from South
to North Atchison and broke seventeen
of them on the way.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

Nothing suits a woman quite SO well as
to hear of a freshly made widower dying
OF grief: it makes her feel that at least
one of her sex was properly appreciated,
and that at least one man realized what q
Jewel woman is.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

Procrastination is the great American
sin. An Atchison man confesSes that for
seven years he has been intending every
day to buy new knife, his old one be-
ing dull, broken and dirty, but he will
probably carry the old knife the rest of
his life.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-12-15

The most familiar sound in every house
is the pounding of beeksteak. At a Ger
tain Atchison house, when the steak
to the Kitchen door, to get his share: he
knows the sound as well as other mem
bers of the family.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1900-12-13
W | rth s : % ere.

Sopeta, 8as., Ii. Oea. = Gin
8reu85ug gegen oas 2aiter, NIT anoeren
Worten eine rsgelrehte Wirtbsbebe
miro bier in Den nG4Iten Sdaen beqonz
nen peroen. @s lit bsretts Elm ssonos
bon $4,000 our 8erfolgunq Der @trz
t6c dufgebrd6t por0en. Die 8eamten
Der r@ut 8iirger" gtiIpcidtion erflGz
ren, lutun nOtbig Die Surme auf
100000 brin9en gu tonnen. Gs ift elm
Spe3ial &ommittee erndnnt iporoen,
bds bic Our9fiibrung observation-disclosures
@eietes er3tpingen ioa. gbtparb gBil<
Der, S4asmeiltsr Der Santa SSe GiIen<
ba6u, itebt an oer-SpiBe bes, &ommit=
tees.
Reue etettrti9e 8dAnlintt
Columbus. g., 13. Des. = Oa
Scioto @alIep Sractton Co., tpelhe 3ur
@rbauung elmer elettrlI1en 8abn bon
Columbus na1 GbilIicotbs gebilbei
tpures, bat ibr 9lttien : aapttal bon
100000 auf 100000 erbobt. 3,
Mabler bon Gleoelanb, O., tpurbe gum
prGiio.nten Der @eiealaaft setpdblt. $,
9l. @perett. Prdiioent Der tonIolibirteu
Strabenbubnseieui4dft in Glepelant
unb oeri6ieoene dnoere &apitaliften,
tpelfe bereits bier ldngere eleftriIht
8abnlinieu apilheu psrI4iebensr
Stdotem oes Stdutes beiiben. ioGeu
audi oisies ltnternebmeu in 9anOen ba'
ben.
9as offtatetle 8otum bon
Nen gort.
glep gort. 13. Deg. Oos Of,
fi5ieue 8otum fir Die peri9ieoeneu
Observation-Disclosures. oas an
6. 9lopsmber i'm Staate Netp Oort abs
geaeben fpurbe, lit folgenoes: Mc&in.
lep (Seep.) 821, ,992, 8rpan (0eu)
673, 1856, MalIouep (SosialzMrbetter)
1852, @oouep (probibitioniiD 22,'
043, Oebs (Spaialz0emotraD 1850
Mc9tnlep's YluralitGt betrdgt iomi,
143, SOS. Die Bluralitdt oss republi,
fani1hen 9ouperneurs 9anoiodter
Ooea betrGst III, ,126.
DeIt 8irgtnien's 8otum
gharleiton. 90. @u.. 13. Sea
Ser offi8iellen 3d9luug 8ufOlse bat in
Der guosmberpabl Wm. Wc8tnleg
119,821 unb Dm. S. 8rpau 98.8O7
Stimmen erbaiten. Wc&inlep's plu'
ralitdt bstrGat fomit 21.014.