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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24
BE IT Resolved

What dearth of organizations of a
certain class would there be if resolu-
tons were unlawful!
Organizations by the score would
pass out of existence from ennui if the
great American right to 'sbe-it-reso1v-
ed could not be practiced What would
..be spread upon the records" if the
whereases and therefores did not stand
out bold and strong upon its pages? The
secretary would read the minutes of the
last meeting by announcing the opening
and the adjournment.
The right of resolution is one that be-
longs to every American society and all
WELD it, so they seem to think, as
though it were a headsman's axe. BY
one resolution, passed perhaps by a
Lime Kiln club, a nightly politician is
forever squelched, because I'VE con-.
denim" appears in the document or,
great national administration has de-
feat staring it in the face and knows it
must be swept into the past, at the next
election, to make history. All this. so it
seems to the resolutionists, is to be ac-
complished by 1.-The unanimous adoption
of the resolution as read
The right of petition was questioned
by congress and it's champion, John
Quincy Adams. will live forever in
American history on account of the
gallant fight he made, unaided and
alone, demanding that the right be rec
ognized and extended to all classes.
But the right of resolution has needed
no "Old Man Eloquent to champion its
cause. 1t is like Topsy and 'jes
growed." Many an unknown DR. John
son of the present may gain his first To-
cal recognition from the east by the
flowing and learned language of the Pc
tition he draws to thank the ladies of
West Yonkers for the lovely coffee and
doughnuts so beautifully and bounti-
fully served at our last meeting" Like
the Ransome Guards, in Hoyt's "A
Milk White Flag" some organizations
have TO other tenet than that of re-
solving. If there be nothing on hand
calling for a resolution the meeting
must adjourn on account of lack of
business What pity the butcher,
the baker and the gas man can not be
paid in resolution script.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24
THE CLUB WOMAN.

The woman's club has progressed in
such rapid strides during the past ten
years that now it is one of the i'm
portant factors in the development of
the day in which we live.
1t is only a few years since it was
first dignifed by the title of club.
though it has been in existence for
nearly a half century. Its evolution
was simple; few neighbors gathered
together to drink afternoon tea, com
pare fancy work. and incidentally to
discuss their friends and the late books.
AS a second step they read aloud an
occasional book The third step was
the matured study club.
Clubs are not unmixed evils by any
means. The busy housewife may say
she cannot belong to clubs; that her
home and children require all of her
time. She soon discovers that at an
occasional club meeting she comes in
contact with the outside world, gains
a glimpse beyond the horizon of the
home. She can create a fresh atmos-
phere and new ideas in her home:
thus the mother, the home, the father
and the children are benefited.
The evil lies in belonging to too many
clubs There are mothers who belong
to six or seven clubs. One of these is
constantly attending club meetings,
committee meetings and all the other
meetings incidental to club work. She
becomes tagged out and irritable and
loses the benefits derived from mod
crate club work.
One meets all kinds of women in
clubdom: there is the woman who does
all Of the work without receiving any
of the glory, and on the other hand is
the woman who receives all of the glory
without doing any of the work There
is the woman who "presides. She is
well dressed, graceful and cultured.
She presides with ease and tact. She
is always on time with just the proper
thing to say and do in each emergency.
But where are her children2 In some
cases. now and then one," they are
running wild, annoying the neighbors
and getting into all kinds of mischief.
After all the woman's club is a prac-
teal institution, and Topeka has just
cause to be proud of her own. There
are nearly fifty study clubs in the city,
! though many of them do not belong to
the federation.
The travelling library, the greatest
work accomplished by Kansas club
women, was originated by a Topeka
woman. The library cases full of good
! books are sent to remote country dis
/ triets that have not the advantages OF
/ the towns. Cases of books and maya
zines are now being prepared to send
/ to the Kansas soldier in the far away
! Philippines.
Another branch of practical work
/ carried on by Topeka club women is
school room decoration. Under theil
direction school rooms all over the city
are rapidly being transformed int
things of real beauty: not bare, blanI
walls enclosing our children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24
DRAMATIC REBUKEs.

The extraordinary patronage ac-
corded the production of Ben Hur', in
New York city, coincident as it has
been with the suppression of Olga
Nethersole's "Sapho'' and the limited
stay of Mrs Langtry in 1.-THE Degen-
crates" suggests the possibility of a re-
action in metropolitan taste unfavor-
able to indecent plays and favorable. to
the religious drama and the cleaner
theatrical product
For the past five years New York has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24


Joan of the Sword Hand" by s. r.
Crockett, published by Dodd Mead &
Co, New York city, Through Kellam
Book & Stationery COP Price $3.50.
This is captivating romance Of the
fifteenth century.
Joan of the Sword Hand is charm
ing young princess, who is none the less
charming for her ability to defend her
self and her kingdom when the necessi-
ty arises Gas it does more than once) by
her dexterous use of the sword. Espe-
cially does this accomplishing Mt serve
her in good stead when, secretly, and in
disguise, she visits the court of the
royal sutton who has been chosen for
her. determined that unless her heart
sanctions it, the marriage shall never
take place. AS might be expected, the
adventurous princess, Joans falls in love
with some one else, and her adventures
thereafter are multiplied and most ex-
citing. This story is undoubtedly one
of Mr.. Crockett's best, and one which
holds the attention of the reader from
start to finish The book is nicely illus
trated, which adds much interest to
the romance, and makes one feel that
he is better acquainted with the char
acters.
"Outside the Radius" BY w. PETIT
Ridge, author of "A Son of the State
etc Price $1.25. Published by Dodd
Mead & Co. Outside the Radius. 'con-
tains some of the best stories il has
been our pleasure to review, it is a SER
les of stories, each one complete in it
self, yet connected. for all are center
ed in a certain small village-which.
though, "Outside the Radius. may be
easily identified by those who are ia
miliar with London and its environs.
The imaginary cnronicler of these ep-
isodes derives his knowledge from his
housekeeper, who in turn, is kept fully
informed by the ~charwoman. who
has the entree to most of the village
homes, and who makes good use of her
opportunities for acquiring interesting
bits of family history. These histories
lose nothing in the process of trans
mission and the result is the co1Iectioa
of picturesque and entertaining Incl
dents showing g keen insight into hui
man nature and rare feeling for To-
cal Color one or two OF these stories
are especially clever and show real
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Tom Plat would eat no fat andTeddy
would eat no lean. Anybody who read
the telegram announcing the defeat of
the mortgage tax bill in the New York
senate can supply the rest. Platt would
not let the bill pass unless the New
York Central was exempted. The gov
ernor declared he would not sign the
bill in that form and between the two
the platter of the people was licked
,Iaa N
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

A continuation of the investigation of
the Idaho mining riots seems to be use
less. The governor of the state has
cheerfully assumed all responsibility for
everything that was done in the name
of the law and the other side has been
punished already. Let the committee
pass sentence on the governor and end
the whole matter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Atchison securities are climbing up
at the rate of about one cent day: The
adjustments were quoted yesterday at
$40, the preferred at 20 and the com
mon at 251k This means money and
hnsiness for Topeka and Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Organized labor is no longer satisfied
with the opposition to injunettons which
is found only in political platforms The
president of the American Federation
has made a personal appeal on behalf
of that organization to the house com
mittee on judiciary to make a favorable
report on bill prohibiting the use Of
the Injunction to suppress strikes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Scarcely a day passes that the wires
40 not bring the announcement of the
death of some person who has gone to
California for his health. Why don't
the postal authorities get after the Cal
ifornians for using the mails for fraud
ulent purposes in circulating false and
misleading stories about their state as
a health resort?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Perhaps the haste displayed by the
senate in the passage of the conference
report on the Porto Rican bill was due
to desire to escape that threatened
speech by Senator Beveridge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

The machinist strike has a start that
bids fair to make it a second Homestead
affair. Those who believe that history
repeats itself will be on the lookout for
similar consequences.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

The Democrats have an advantage
over the Republicans this year. Both
parties have their candidates already
selected but the Democrats have their
platform already prepared for them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Topeka will welcome a new railroad
to the southeast but what she really
needs and should have is a road into
the northwest, say in the direction OF
Westmoreland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Speaker Reed has gone from Wash
ington but that his spirit still hovers
near was evidenced by the readiness
with which his successor counted a
quorum yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Foolish compliments are as unworthy
of notice as senseIess abuse.
We point with pride to the fact that
no one in Atchison has a room called
a boudoir.
The picture that should be turned
towards the wall. is the one you had
taken twenty years ago.
What has become of the old fashioned
man who went to nearly every public
gathering looking for a fight?
It is a question which takes longer:
for a woman to get ready to go to her
kind of entertainment, or a man to get
ready to come home from his.
The Lord Almighty never yet made
an ideal man like those to be found in
every novel you pick up. and girls
should stop searching for him.
When a room is too dark to be used
for a nursery, or to put plants in. the
women furnish it with any old thing
and call it their husbands den"
The average man of fifty hears so
few words of endearment, that if any
one speaks affectionately to him, he is
ready to follow the person off, like
dog.
His first wife and her first husband
look down upon an Atchison man and
wife from the bedroom walls. and yet
they say that no one is born without
nerves.
Lou Erhardt, of Atehison, had an ex-
perience that should be widely known.
He did not feel very WELL and conclud-
ed to take course of medicine, and
build himself up In little while, he
became seriously sick, and went to a
sanitarium where the patients were
starved He grew steadily worse, and
went to a sanitarium where the pa
tents were stuffed. Still he grew
worse, and fully expected to die: the
doctors said he had some disease with
a big name, and that while they might
be able to keep him alive a few months
he was a very sick man. Finally a
doctor with plain, plug, ordinary sense
told him to quit taking medicine. He
Immediately began to improve. and is
now better than he has been in years.
It is true story. and important.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

People who expect to attend the street
fair in May will be wanting to know
Just how wicked the midway will be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24


Even the. lazy mans wife often wor-
ships her idle.
A ring candidate-the girl who wants
to get married.
The most elastic thing in the world
is hope, for it springs eternal in the
human breast.
The department store of the future
may possibly have a matrimonial coun-
ter. but what about the exchange desk?
When a man gets up and gives his
seat to a woman in a crowded car she
too often regards 1t as a standing joke.
Hoax-"Have you got your night
key2'' Joax-''Yes; and speaking of
night keys, isn't it funny they are sell
dom used until morning.
Wigg-"Isn't is queer how Mrs. Guz-
zleton Keeps her looks? Everybody
knows how she drinks, and yet she is
well preserved Wagg-"So is a BRAN
died peach
BIobps-eBiones doesn't look like
man who had led a life of excitement,
does hep" Slobbs-'Why has hep"
Blobbs-'fWell, he's been married three
times"
Muggins-"'I can't for the life of me
see why Wigwag's wife should be the
envy of all his married friends. She
is certainly not prepossessing." Bug
gins-"But she's color blind. See? She
can't go shopping
De Tanque-"Guzz1er knows the ms
and outs of drinking" O'Soaque-
Howe" De Tanque-"Wen. he gets
soaked here at the club and then goes
to Turkish bath and gets soaked
again.
Our own success, of course, is due
To what we call our pluck:
But when a rival wins it, too,
We growl about his luck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

All the worlds a realistic stage and
many of the actors are compelled tC
step aside to let the trains go by.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

When a man is too proud to beg and
too honest to steal he goes out and
hunts some other man who is willing
to trust him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

sketches in prose is to be issued in a
few days, and the two books will con-
tain the best selections from Kansas
literature which have as yet been COM
piled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Nothing worries a girl more than to
discover that the man after her own
heart isn't after it at ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

It is not the height to which man i.
advanced that makes him giddy-it':
looking down with contempt on those
who helped him up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

The department store of the future
may possibly have matrimonial coun-
ter. but what about the exchange desk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Recordl
Even the. lazy mans wife often wor-
ships her idle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

When a man gets up and gives his
seat to a woman in a crowded car she
too often regards it as a standing joke
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

The most elastic thing in the world
is hope. for it springs eternal in the
human breast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

The Washington Post thinks that one
of the crying needs of the hour is the
public ownership of legislatures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

when all they hate is the awkwardness
of the hatterer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

A ring candidate-the girl who wants
to get married
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

What has become of the old fashioned
man who went to nearly every public
gathering looking for a fight?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

When a room is too dark to be used
for a nursery, or to put plants in, the
women furnish it with any old thing,
and call it their husbands "den.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

It is a question which takes longer:
for a woman to get ready to go to her
kind of entertainment, or a man to get
ready to come home from his.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

The average man of fifty hears so
few words of endearment, that if any
one speaks affectionately to him. he is
ready to follow the person off, like a
dog,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

The Lord Almighty never yet made
an ideal man like those to be found in
every novel you pick up. and girls
should stop searching for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

His first wife and her first husband
look down upon an Atchison man and
wife from the bedroom walls. and yet
they say that no one is born without
nerves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Hoax-eHave you got your night
key?" Joax-'fYes; and speaking of
night keys. isn't it funny they are sell
dom used until morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

The picture that should be turned
towards the wall. is. the one you had
taken twenty years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

BIobbs-'sBjones doesn't look like a
man who had led a life of excitement
does hep" Slobbs-''Why has hep
B1obbs-'sWell he's been married three
times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.l

II 4NIII tl4G n tViI4oUII 0iUDS.I
Foolish compliments are as unworthy
of notice as senseIess abuse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Wigg-"Isn't is queer how Mrs. Guz-
zleton keeps her looks? Everybody
knows how she drinks, and yet she is
we'll preserved" Wagg-'sSo is bran.
died peach"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

We point with pride to the fact that
no one in Atchison has a room called
a boudoir.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-24

Our own success, of course, is due
To what we call our pluck:
But when rival wins it, too,
We growl about his luck.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1900-04-07
ITEMS

Two new cases of bubonic plague
were reported at Sydney, On 8 w, |
on March 20th
The Chinese authorities admit
themselves unable to protect Ameri-
can missionaries in the interior of
China, and the United State are in a
quandart as to the best method of
aflording them relief.
The city council at Astoria, Or.
nave Offered a bounty of five cents
for every dead rat delivered to the
Chief of Police.
An effort is being made to settle
the fapo-s Carne&ie-Frick suit out
of court.
The Senate Committee on Naval
Affairs have reported to the Senate
the Pacific cable bill drafted by Sena-
tor Hale. which provides for a present
cable only to Honolulu.
| President Mckinley will visit San
Francisco in July to attend the launch
ing Of the Ohio. Governor Nash and
many otlar prominent Ohioans will
De present.
The Detroit has sailed from Hava-
aa to Greytown to look after Ameri-
AN interests there.
The Portuguese authorities have
dispatched force of infantry by
| special train from Lourenzo Marques
to reinforce their garrison on the
rransvaal border.
Famine in India is increasing. There
are now 4,810,0 persons employed
in relief work.
| 1t is likely that Captain Leary
| will be relieved Of his oubernatorial
luties at Guam on the 1st of July.
In the House it was unanimously
| agreed ON Mar. 10TH. ito take
lup the Senate bill providing a
L territorial form of government for
che Hawaiian Islands on April 3, and
take final vote on the amendment
IN Thursday, April ., at 4 T. IN.
! Five deaths recently occurred at
Adelaide, South Australia. from what
| IS supposed to be bubonic plague
| Maud S., Bonner's famous trotting
mare died recently and was given an
imposing funeral.
The 200th anniversary Of the open
ing Of the Academy of Science at
! Berlin was celebrated March 10.
Emperor. William delivered an ad-
lress.
The remains of Rev Thomas X.
Beecher were cremated at Buffalo.
In accordance with the often expires
5ed wish Of Beecher no ceremonies
whatever were held
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson
is preparing to experiment in
rubber culture ON q large scale on
the Hawaiian Islands.
1t is rumored that Russia intends
ITO ask Turkey for a coaling station
in the archipelago, either in Lemnos,
Imbros or Mytilene.
ARA gements are being made for
the Immediate establishment of a
naval alton at Pearl Harbor, Ha-
waiian Islands.
Bishop Hurst recently announced
that President Mckinley would at the
conclusion Of his services as d public
officer, accept the position of PROBES
sor of international Law in the
American University at Washington,
One death and two fresh cases Of
tplague were officially reported al
Sydney, Mar. 10.
Cecil Rhodes has sailed from Cape
Town to England.
There is no truth M the report
that Osman Pasha is dead He i.
5 lmerely sick.
The Silver Republican party vii
= hold a national convention at Kausa,
I City, July 4th next,
. The Canadian and Mexican Govern
ments have declared San Francisco
an infected port and win quarantine
T. all vessels coming from there.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1900-04-07
FOREIGN %EAM@

LADYsN1TH, March, 81 afternoon Seryice) has
the accidental covering
oer graves after the fight at Peters Hill Feb % revealed
thousands of soft-nose bullets.
Princess Christians hospital train arrived s morning
the first train the Coenso bridge The railroad is
open Glands Laagte where camp has been established
Dnkenbeng and Bggarsorp closely watched by the Brit
ish cavalry.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-01-18
COMFORT FOR ENGINEMEs.

SAINT. W Engines Equipped with inosn.
descent GLOBES.
A number OF engines on the Santa Fe
recently have been equipped with mean
descent electric lamps 10 enable en-
ginsers 10 examine and oil the locomo-
tiyes without the use OF the unreliable
torch.
The incandescent lamps are placed on
the engines at the places where the ma
chlnery must be continually examined
and oiled. On q number OF the engines
~ high ~ ffty OF the little lamps have
been placed. Their use enables an en-
gineer to examine his engine In about
one-halt the time required to do the
work with q torch.
On cold nights there Is considerable
physical suffering attached TO the carry
ing OF a torch for Ave or ten minutes
around an engine. With the electric
lights an oil can Is ell the engineer
needs to handle,
The incandsseent lights are attached
only to the engines that use the electric
headlight.
0Gicers OF the Santa Fe. say. however
that II Is not probable that the incsn
descent lamp will be used generally ever
on the engines that are to be equipped
with the electric headlight. The sTpens'
OF repairing broken globes on the it'll,
lamps Is too heavy to warrant their gen
eral adoption.