The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-31
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

Duy supplies II they are not the KIM
who do not mind expense" remarked
gentleman at the Oxford. During the
past few months there has been an ad-
vance in nearly all Photographic sup
plies and those who have the amateur
Photographic fad will have to pay out
more money. Chemicals have advanced
about 20 per cent and the price OF plates
has gone up about the same amount.
The greatest advance has been MADE on
paper and is result of the control Oh
the entire output of the best imported
German paper by one firm, the Eastman
Kodak company, which has obtained an
option on all the imported German pa
per for five years. They have advanced
the price about 60 per cent and Will make
a large amount of money out OF the
transaction unless some ingenious
American manages to invent a process
whereby paper equally as good or peter
can be made in this country. Domestlc
paper can be purchased at a cost far De-
low that charged for the imported pro
duct. but the best photographers do not
use it as they can not obtain as good re-
suits with the American paper Ihe am
ateur photographers should organize at
once and join an antitrust or ant1-mon-
opoly party They might carry the mat
ter in politics and threaten to take pic
lures of legislators who refused to pass
laws reducing the cost of supplies Any
reputable congressman would prefer to
vote for a law crushing the corporation
guilty of raising the price on photo
graphic supplies to having his picture
taken by the average camera fend, eS-
pecially if he was given to understand
that the picture would be pasted in pub
lie places and printed in the neWSpa-
pers. Amateur photographers should
consider this matter for the cost of ev
erything used in the practice of the art
has been increased except the price OF
gold.''
''It is not very considerate of your
FEELINGS a
National, who was talking with few
friends, but L want to tell you or a
drink I had the other day in st. Louis.
l know it's CALLING to talk of such things
as mixed drinks to a man who lives or
travels in Kansas, where the only thlng
obtainable is beer or poor whisky. but
the memory of that drink is still fresh
in my mind and, as can tell you now 10
concoct it, you will forgive me for re-
calling the pleasant memory. This drink
is perfect symposium and man can
drink several without creating a desire
to arrest policeman or to hunt up an
old enemy and forgive him with a voice
full of tears. 1t is not calculated to
make a man do cakewalks, will not
cause a bad taste in the mouth the next
morning, will not cause a man to leave
his happy home and is not vile destroy
er of domestic happiness. On the con-
trary, it prompts peace and tranquility
because it's propensities are cooling. The
decoction is: A muddled lime in long
glass; a half spoonful of sugar, jig
ger of dry gin, the whole strained
through cracked ice and crested with
cherries. You had better write that down
because if you go into bar and try to
tell the barkeeper what you want he will
make a gin whisky which is not the
thing at all. I have got out of the way
drinking much since have been travel
ing in Kansas on account of the poor
quality of liquor and the trouble that is
necessary to secure 1t, but when L go
into the house, which is usually every
fhr-oo he 10 n a a -
run around to a good bar and sample a
really good decoction. This drink that
have explained to you is the best have
found for years and it impressed me so
favorably that, before leaving St. Louis
/ purchased some lines and a little gin
and if you fellows care to step up to my
room will try and demonstrate how it
is done. Boy, bring pitcher of ice, one
of ice water and some sugar up to my
room, and be quick about it"
at did business down in Mexico for
several years., said a gentleman at the
Copeland, and during that time 1 fire.
quently heard of a young woman called
Santa Theresa. In fact.I saw her several
times in different portions of the states
of Chihuahua and Sonora She was
worshipped by great many Mexicans
as being of divine origin and made that
claim herself. She was rather a fasci-
mating woman, though not handsome or
we'll dressed, her chief beauty being in
her eyes and her pleasing manner. She
had wonderful powers of healing, proba-
bly, due to strong personal magnetism
and a knowledge of medicine as she fire.
Quently used herbs in making her cures.
She was perfectly inoffensive, simply go
ing about among the poor ignorant class
and helping those who were sick or in
trouble and she did great deal of good
The Mexican government, however, be-
lieving that she was at the bottom of
various uprisings, finally set price on
her head and she was obliged to leave
Z 1a 4 o1,u f,rsh x,,.
healing but those who were able gave
her money and presents and it is stated
that she buried a fortune in the noun
tains before she was forced to go to New
Mexico to save her life l have heard
nothing concerning her for several years,
but l read in a paper, today that she
was in southern California and still had
the same power to heal the sick The
article also stated that she had married
after remaining single until a short time
ago, which consider a peculiar proceed
ing for saint. l suppose her husband
will obtain the secret of the hidden for
tune and will get it and leave her. That
would be the usual Mexican way of do
ing"
"a great many people have forgotten
the great Louisiana State Lottery that
did such an enormous business in New
Orleans a few years ago." said gentle
man at the Fifth Avenue, who had re-
Gently returned from trip to the south,
but the lottery is still running although
il does not do the business it once did
which is due to the exclusion of lottery
matter from the mails. When the Louis
lana legiSla ture passed the law prohibit
ing the lottery the concern moved to
Honduras where the business is still be-
ing carried on. Once a month a steamer
owned by the company, comes into New
Orleans and brings the results of the
drawings. The steamer is a beauty and
it's arrival is an event in New Orleans
for a great many people there continue
to purchase lottery tickets although the
business is carried ON much the same as
the liquor business is handled III Kansas.
If a person desires to buy lottery ticket
in any of the southern towns, almost any
one can give the information as to where
the tickets can be purchased. / met an
old gentleman in New Orleans, called |
General who made a very good living
by selling tickets for the Honduras lot