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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14
MRS. NATIONS BRUTAL SPEECH

Mrs. Nation has done many foolish
things in New York, but the greatest
mistake she made was to attack Pres
ident Mckinley in one of her lectures
at COney Island. According to the New
York papers this is what she said:
bill Mckinley deserves to die. He is
the friend of the brewer and the drink
ing man. 1 have no care for him. He
deserves just what he got"
The same authority then gives the
following account Of what happened:
She had hardly uttered this senti-
ment than she was greeted with jeers
and Kisses. Many of the audience arose
to protest Indignant comments We're
heard all over the auditorium. Several
of the audience advanced to the plat
form with menacing gestures The
thousand people who were present We're
unanimous in their expression of con-
tempt. Mrs. Nations manager, seeing
the situation, tried to induce the Wo-
man to leave the stage
Julius Harharr, OF Newark, n j.,
proposed three cheers for the president
and the assemblage gave them with a.
will. Mrs. Nation became furious
d" You hell houndsr she cried You
snakes. you can jeer and boot as you
likel'
Her manager at this time insisted
that Mrs. Nation beat a retreat lie
got her away from Coney Island with
out any further scene Mrs NaIlon
had announced that she had made her
last appearance in Coney Island. She
had forgotten that she must appear
this morning to answer a charge OF
malicious mischief"
Mrs. Nation has a wonderful faculty
for creating a disturbance but she will
probably remember this experience
above all others It is extremely i'll
advised and brutal for a person to
speak harshly Of any one whose life is
trembling in the balance. The deep
sympathy is universal when the OBJ
ject is a man who has been elevated to
the highest place in the nation, and
who has been faithful to every trust
And it is surprising that Mrs. Nation
escaped with so little trouble after her
inhuman TRADE against the suffering
president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14
LIGHT ON SERVANT QUESTION

While the Servant Girls Union is still
in its incipiency, and before it is ire
vocably launched on the uncertain sea
Of trades-unionisrn, the waters of which
are now more than usually troubled,
perhaps it would be well for its mem
bers. and those Of the Housewives I'm
ion also to study the system prevailing
in Norway and see if some lessons can
not be learned therefrom which will be
at once suggestive and mutually adj
vantageous, according to the Baltimore
News. We have no means of knowing
it for fact, but it would seem that the
portentous sounds attending the birth Of
these two rival organizations had pene-
trated even to that far distant land,
and moved philosopher travelling
there to hasten to the rescue with a
compromise plan, which at least prom
ises better than the threatened war to
the knife and knife to the hilt' between
two inter dependent classes.
Mr. W +. Curtis writes to the Chi
cago Record Herald that the servant
girl problem has been solved in Nor
way to the satisfaction Of all concern
ed" That seems a big statement Some
Housewives win regard it as equivalent
to a declaration that the millennium
has already arrived in that favored
Land, and viii. therefore, be inclined 20
accept it with a very large allowance
Of salt If at all. But after the plan in
operation in Norway has been fully ex-
planned, one is less inclined to question
Mr. Curtis veracity and more ready, to
lend a willing, even a hopeful, ear to
the tale he unfolds-
In each Of the large cities. says Mr.
Curtis. there is a central employment
bureau under the direction of the mum
icipaI government. where families in
want OF servants set forth their needs.
stating in writing what is required and
the wages they are willing to pay
Changes are made only twice each year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

Is France reforming after all? The
returns of the recent French census are
found to be not nearly SO disheartening
as they at first appeared While the
increase in population in the last ten
years has been very small, when the
comparison is drawn by fve-year per
1ods il appears that the increase in the
last five years was 412,364, as against
49, 19 during the first five years of the
decade This difference points to a. re-
1noval Of some of the obstacles which
hitherto have impeded the national
growth and made France almost a sta
tlonary nation. Perhaps the French
men have at last themselves taken
Emile lola seriously.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14
ouAKER REFLEcTIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
Some men make a business Of loaf
ing
Unpleasant remarks are by no means
remarkable
some men are like razors-too sharp
for their own good
The nautical crank now begins TO
tax through his yachting cap
The fact that one good turn deserves
another is what keeps things gong
Nell-"She isn't even afraid of mice.
Fzal4e-..I always said she was a cat
Automobiling may be dangerous. but
1T doesn't seem to be as much SO as
walking
Observation-Disclosures they We're married
she used to sit all over him BugSlns-
Won by a lap, eh2'
Vigg-ssThe average run of people
have very little sympathy for each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press.1
Women make the love-matches and
men light them and burn them up
Some people seem to take out policies
in religion because it is cheap insur-
ance.
Poetry can win a woman's love, but
it takes good old prose to hold 1t after
it is won.
If the way to a mans heart is
through his stomach. the way to his
head is through his pocket
Good butter cakes and coffee will do
more toward making happy homes than
all the magazine articles and sermons
that have been turned out on the sub
ject put together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

other" Wagg-. NONSENSE Haven't you
ever noticed how folks always cry at
A wedding"
Hoax-eWhat an effeminate young
man Saphedde is Joax--.' Y es. every
time he gets in a crowded street car All
the men who have seats lnstlnct1Vely
hide behind newspapers
Sillicus-"Do you believe that alb
sence makes the heart grow fonder2
Cynicus-'s Not where a woman is con-
cerned. With her I should say that
presents make the heart grow fopder.
He never had felt Dan CuDid's heart,
The eallow youth who said
He'd rather nurse a broken heart
Than mend a broken head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

.-o,o.,o +be vo1eano the lava, the lava
~ 49, r4-1 oS-if7ee seek meat and fer
49, ~. ,-,e1+. me root creates the
80 49, '.' r-,,e The rose springs from
~ ~ y go, The labor of the abyss is
repeated in the brain of the genus
-. ~ = rb,a,.ro ana reality in the poem
LIZ = d--l-1ass beneath the earth,
w ne t;ra1ire~ life on its SURFACED
without the darkness there would pe
no life. The vegetation of imagery
and expression is rooted in mystery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

If the lobster join the dodo, as Cape
Cod fishermen are fearing, the Atlantic
seabOard Will stin have the crawfish
for a substitute. GOurmets say the
flavor of the crawfish is delightful and
ne is not so foolish as the lobster is
for ne cannot be caught till ne is full
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

Thomas Bracket Reed says the time
has arrived to protect presidents from
close contact with large crowds. Reed
analysed "AIo'bs'' for a pictorial weekly
not long after Carrots assassination
Reed never forgets that he presided
over congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

~ .atelv befen a railroad Iaborer.'' writes
mr. Keuett of Williford. Ark. His
foot was badly crushed, but Buclden's
Arnica Salve quickly cured him. It's
sironlv wonderful for Burns, Boils. Piles
end an skin eruptions- It's the world
80 80 r1-ion healer Cure guaranteed. Z5c-
sid bv A. j. Arnold & Son, 81 North
Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

Senator Burton thinks Oklahoma
ought to be admitted to statehood and
the Indian Territory tackled on later
But the Territory objects to getting a
seat at the table after the pie is all
zone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14
victor Hugo on Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, like Aeschylus, is prod
ipal with the unfathomab1e. The un-
fathomable is the inexhaustible. The
more profound the thought the more
vital the expression Out of blackness
comes color. The life of the abyss IS
hidden; the central fire produces the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

Boston Traveller: It appears that the
stories Of Admiral SIMPSONS mental
collapse were false. The liar is waxing
TIT in this controversy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

What is Boston coming to- John L
Sullivan made the Hub eminent in pug
slism. but Mr.. Lawson and the yachts
men cannot get a toe-hold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

Jessie Morrison does not want to 80
back to Lansing again, Who doesH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

New Jersey may well stagger under
its load. As the home OF trusts and
spawning ground for anarchists, it IS
hampered by two undesirable children
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

The national game viii be saved and
aais trip worth making if Croker can
make Andy Freeman let go OF the
Giants when he gets home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

If France succeeds in finding the sui
hans pocket. some men will advise their
wives to adopt boomers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

Superstition may have been forgotten
but Friday, September IL, was an an&-
Sous day the length and breadth Of this
nn-a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

Didn't South America have revolu-
zion or something going on last week?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

The flowers are the proof Of the
depths.-North American Review
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

Love and gambling are .adroitly mixed
in new novel soon to be issued from from
York The title of the book is Franks:
Duellist" and the author is Ambrose
Pratt Primarily it is a story Of adven-
lures and the period is that of Napoleon 5
contemplated invasion of England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-14

me title 81 CorEy7s now famous novel,
Fiona Cordyefff,'' means Thomas the
Proud Foma being the Russian form OF
the English name Thomas. and GOrdyeen
signifying proud. Foma Gordyeeff was
firsts published as a seriel in the Russian
monthly magazine Zhizn in 1899. It was
begun in the February number and ran ran
is published by Scribner's, New York.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01
WILL LOSE PENSION
Peculiar Crusade Started
Against Women.
BETTER MORALS FIGHT
Agents From Washington Are
Shadowing Widows.

Considerable of sensation is liable to
be soon developed in this section Of Kan
sas, and special agents of the pension de-
partmeut are now at work on some COM
plants that have been made from a
Wichita source. Who the author of these
complaints is could not be ascertained,
but who ever did it is causing no end Of
trouble It is limited that who ever made
the complaints is backed by an organiza-
lion of good women connected with the
old soldier organization of the Civil war.
The law, it appears, is, that whenever
a pensioned widow Of a deceased soldier
is proved to be not what she ought 10
be, she loses her pension. If complaint
IS made that she lives in adultery, the
department promptly sends out special
agents to shadow her and to ascertain
whatever legitimate information they can
against her. This, Of course, is a delicate
matter to agents. but being the servants
of the government, they can have no
alternative but TO obey.
Lately, for some reason. an active cru
SADIE is being made against women sus-
pected of this crime, and, as stated, some
sensational developments are threatened.
One woman. living not far from Wichita,
is especially in severe straits. and report
has already been made in her case that
viii undoubtedly lose her an unusually
good pension. Her case is a very peculiar
and interesting one. but the special agents
from Washington who presented the re
port against her will not allow any OF
the details to be published at this time.
y prominent old soldier is involved-one
known far and wide throughout southern
Kansas. He also draws pension, but it
viii not be disturbed. as there is no law
or rule of the pension office prescribing
a moral code for men. This is probably
not quite just. but it is the old rule
of discrimination and uncharitableness
against women.
a reporter for the Eagle yesterday made
inquiries among leading active workers
in the aid societies of old soldiers to
ascertain what combination of women is
behind this new crusade. but he was un-
able to find out any definite information
on the subject
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01
ROBBED THE MAILS
Gaudy Necktie Got Pecore
Into Deep trouble.
NOW IN GUTHRIE JAIL
Before the Commissioner He
Plead Guilty,

Postofice Inspector r. n c. Hossford
returned from Oklahoma yesterday.
where he has been engaged for some time
ia an effort to run to earth a. criminal.
or combination of criminals. who has
been robbing the mails Ia Potts4w y atomic
county for d year or more. 1Ir IIoss-
ford s mission was successful, for he Sc
cured after a tiresome and complicated
search, the principal in the persistent
robbery in the person Of Elmer Recore.
driver of a star route mail wagon be-
tween Box and Avasa, in Pottawatomie
county Pecora was brought before the
United States commissioner at Guthrie
yesterday and plead guilty. but 10 ac-
ton was taken IN furnishing him until
the grand jury has an opportunity 10
return an Indictment
Pecore, who is 10 years old, can neither
read nor write and in robbing the mail.
which he did practically every dav. ne
had TO open great many packages IN
necessarily, not being able to even i'm
agine what was in them before breaking
them open Once broken, the packages
had To be destroyed, and Pecore USUALLY
burned them in certain groves and
tangles Of brush along the line where he
thought nobody would see them. But
he was seen, and 10y men who gathered
UP scraps of the burned packages.
To get the dead wood" on Pecore. a
pair Of CANDY gloves and a flaming red
hectic We're wrapped up and put in the
mail. After Pecore reached the end Of
his route he dressed up TO startie the
denizens of the hamlet, wearing the
fancy gloves and the red necktie. They
were his undoing, and he was immedi-
atelN uahhed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01
COMPANY is FORMED
To Manufacture Broom Corn Harves-
ter in Wichita.


A company has been organized in VVieh-
ita to manufacture the Henry Poole
broom corn harvester. More than hair
the stock has been subscribed and the
company will at once build one machine
which. it is estimated. VIII cost about
5000. This win be to thoroughly demon
strate the utility and the value of the
machine. The principle upon which it
works has already been demonstrated TO
Doe correct. and it now remains to put
the body on the soul. so to speak. some
time ago machine was built at SaIina.
but the workmanship was Inferior and
while it proved the principle was good
some Of the parts were weak and broke
under the strain. In the new machine
an the defects VIII be remedfed and there
is no question bunt what it viii be sue
cess.
The value and character Of the broom
corn crop and the conditions surrounding
It's harvesting is not well understood The
crop of the United States averages about
10000 tons annually, and could be grown
on 3oaQo} acres of land, though nearly
double that amount of land is used be-
cause of poor cultivation it can be read
lily seen that Kansas could produce sew
cral times the amount that Is consumed
annually ia the United St&tes. It is said
by those who have Knowledge the
broom corn industry tina. if broom corn
Cs''j De ieid down e or sea- Ort towns
that an export trade could be created
that would take more than double what
the United States consumes.
The present modes of harvesting ara
very laborious and expensive, all being
done by hand except the seeding It re- /
guires thirty experienced hands to do the ,
work of this machine and teams to haul
the brush to the stationary seeder.
While this machine viii so into the
Geld ike amy other harvester. take the
crop as it finds it. cut and seed it ready
for the drying sheds. The crop is now. I
10y hand, tabled. cut, then gathered up.
loaded i'm wagons. hauled TO the seeder (
and dumped on the ground. then taken
as required placed On the sorting table +
and then sorted and seeded and placed (
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01

in the drying sheds. This necessitates
the hauling of the brush with the seed
attached. while the seed is as heavy
as the brush and worthless if cut in
prime condition.
This machine combines the cutter and
seeder on a portable machine. with ons
driver, four osrters and two teams. 1t
viii cut two rows of corn and harvest
seed about ten acres per day or about
three tons Of brush, doing the work
which would require thirty men 10 do,
and with 4 cheaper class of labor and at
a time when il is almost impossible 20 get
hands in the harvest field because Of the
maturity of other crops which must be
cared for. This machine viii save the
wages and board Of twenty-five hands
and so cents a day on the pay of the
five men employed on the machine. 1t
VIII also harvest the crop in a shorter
time. thus making it possible TO save
a crop in prime condition. II is not IN
frequently the case that a grower has
been compelled to take a largely reduced
price for his crop. which he could not
harvest while in good condition for want
of help
It is the purpose Of tbs company 10
cooperate with the Kansas and Okla
loma producers and produce all the brush
mat is required in the United States and
all that we can find sale for abroad.
monopolizing this industry. It
las been predicted by Roseboom, the
broom corn king. that
when there was enough Of these ma
hines built to cut the entire crop, the
state Of Illinois could not afford TO grow
room corn for the reason that Kansas
;onld produce il for one-half or less than
[ could be grown there. 1t can be read
" seen that a company controlling the
)room corn industry would have it in
heir power TO locate the principal broom
.orn factories OF the United States. which
low employ 1890 to 15,eo0 persons.
This means much to Wichita. as Wich- T.
IA is recognized as the southwest dis /
riEuriug ueiut
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01

those Of five years standing at the rate
in the period from July to December
1902 only 1890 markes were paid out for
the support OF unemployed members. the
amount increased to 1900 marks between
January and july. 1901. other hgues
show that since last April the officials Of
the union have received applications for
work from 3.2s5 unemployed members. FOR
only 4-0 Of whom employment was OBJ
tanned. OF the remainder some have sup
ported themselves by borrowing money.
others have pawned their possessions
while others have been compelled 20 beg.
The state of the workmcn who are not
mmbers OF any trade union is described
as being infinitely worse, as il might nat
1rally De expected TO be.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01
NO OFFENSIVE PARTlsANsHlP
New President Not Very Friendly to
Active Politicians.

Washington. Nov. Set has been hint
ed that the president would soon issue an
order, or warning, to oficeholders that
they must abstain from active control Of
partisan politics. thus following the ex-
ample of Tyler. Hayes and Cleveland. 1t
is extremely unlikely that this will be
done at least in the same way that for
mer presidents have done it. That is not
Mr.. Roosevelt's manner Of handling such
a subject. He has already served per-
sonal notice on his appointees. who have
visited the White House, that they were
not TO let politics enter Into their adj
ministration in any way, and that they
were not to use the prestige of their Of
fees to run party affairs; and only a DAY
or two ago he had rather pithy messages
sent to certain officeholders in the west,
including Colorado, reminding them that
it was the presidents desire that they di-
vorce their political and their official char
acters entirely. This was equivalent to
notifying them that if they refused to
do what the president thought right. he
would try TO find officers whose views on
ethical questions were more in accord
with his own.
Among the cases lately brought TO his
attention. that of Virginia shows IN some
respects the most glaring contempt for
the proprieties. The Virginia Republican
state executive committee. with thirteen
members. contains ten federal officehold-
ers. Its chairman is Park Agnew. coll
lecto rof internal revenue at Alexandria;
its secretary, Asa Rogers. collector of in
ternal revenue at Richmond; its assist
ant secretary. z. p. Mclean, deputy col
lector of internal revenue at Alexandria;
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01
CONDITION IN GERMANY.
Statistics Of the Kolnische VoIszeitung
Are Interestino

A good deal has been printed lately
about the condition of the unemployed
working classes in Berlin. Some sug-
gestive details on the same subject are
furnished by the Kolnische Volkszeitung.
Investigations made in one dag among 80
applicants for work disclosed the fact
that during the year 100 OF the men. mem
bers OF the union OF workers in metal.
had been out of employment for an av-
erage period Of nineteen weeks. and that
before their dismissal most Of them had
had their wages seriously reduced. Saw
ings had been merely sufficient 10 provide
for the immediate needs of their families.
The burden Of bread winners has now
fallen upon their wives. who have be-
taken themselves TO needleWork or fac
tories. Members OF the union Of one
years standing receive relief at the rate
OF six marks per week for the first seven
weeks after loss of employment. and
Of ten marks per week Figures sup
piled by the union show that. whereas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01

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