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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-11
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

The Kansas people who own Beau
mont oil stock are doing a good deal of
gushing about it.
It has been a long time coming, but
a violator of the fish law has at last
been arrested in Chase county.
On Overlook farmer lost II hogs last
week through their fondness for
young cookie burr greens.
Coffeyville having thrown all her
available supply of bricks at Cherry
vale and Independence, Will start up a
new plant
If the chrysanthemums of Wellington
do their blooming duty the city fedora
ton of womens clubs will give a flower
show this fall
The first rattlesnake bite story comes
from Republic county, which insures a
rush of fishermen to the Republican
river with the proper bait.
The King1nan boy who hitched him
self up with a calf is being congratu-
lated because the runaway resulted no
more seriously than in a broken arm.
By a rigid quarantine one Dickinson
county town kept out the smallpox, and
the other towns which have ten cases
wish they had been as wise as Solomon.
The modest Concordia man who ap-
piled to the council for a permit to pas
tUre his cows in the city park. will
probably be given a brass monument
therein instead.
"Budweiser Bits" place at Hickory
Flat, and Cedar Reds rendezvous
have been held up is the announcement.
with a Brete Harte tinge, that comes up
from Cherokee county.
A formerly of Sabetha murderer who
is something of a wag, writes home
from Lansing that he has a steady job
working in the coal mines, and his
clothes are furnished free.
A Dodge City nan gathered $3.50
worth of honey from twenty stands of
bees, which indicates that the short
grass people are no longer wasting their
sweetness on the desert air.
italian 1aborers peacefully at work at
lola were beaten with clubs, shot at and
chased from the town. Did foreign mis-
sionaries in China, which brought on a
great war, receive much worse treat
ment?
Barn swallows have appeared at Lake
View, says a correspondent in the Law
renee Journal. From the big fish
stories that have been floating around
there has evidently been other varieties
OF the bird.
According to time honored custom,
the committee of fifty announce that
Wellington is dry But the editor of
the Mail says more whisky is being sold
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a great many credulous purchasers.
There is nothing solid in the increased
value" Of hundreds of millions that
successful bull operations inject into
stocks Not dollars worth of actual,
tangible property is added to a. railroad
or factory by pushing its stock up any
number of points. 1t still has the same
material and the same capacity for
earning dividends And when the bears
depress stocks they do not impair the
properties for which these stocks stand
But they may in the process, cut
swath of ruin. The Post has frequently
expressed its belief that we shall never
again see in this country so devastating
a reverse as that of 1893 or its dreadful
predecessor of 1873. All the conditions
which rendered these troubles SO seri-
Gus and lasting have been substantially
reversed. Instead of being a debtor
we are a creditor nation, and that is a
fact of vast significance. 1t is in our
favor, too, that our exports are mainly
articles Of necessity. SO that our Gus
toners, if compelled by hard times to
dispense with luxuries, viii still take
our products. In all the elements of
enduring stability ours is the strongest
country on earth. We shall have
storms, but they will not be hurricanes.
Adverse winds will blow, but they will
not shrek in our ears for years, as they
did in the last two great panics.
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TWO KINDS OF REFoRMERs.

Fred Collier, who writes Echoes of the
Streets for the st Louis Clobe-Demo-
crat, makes an interesting comparison
of Mrs Nation and the Chicago woman
saloon reformer as follows;
The antithesis Of Carrie Nations way
of doing is that of a pretty Chicago Wo-
man. who is also a crusader against vlo-
lation of the law by the saloon. She is
described as not only sweet" in face
and temper, but stylish in gown and hat,
gentle in manner, soft in speech, refined
in diction, and altogether like the an
gels She reasons amiaLbly with the sa-
loon keeper, endeavoring to persuade
him to close his resort on Sundays and
at such hours of the night as the law
requires Her doYe-lilke accents are not
harsh and distasteful to him, and, in
fact, if he is a man of the slightest sus-
ceptibility he can not fail to be brought
to a melting mood by such an example
of soft, melodious womanhood-
All unite in saying how superior Is
such a woman to a glazing, terrifying,
shrieking destructionist like Mrs. Nation.
How much more WOmanly, how entirely
to be preferred. Has she closed any sa-
looms on Sunday or any other time? oh
no. But she is SO sweet. Sweetness ana
light are charming everywhere, in every
walk in life; there are men as well as
women who spread around them a sooth-
ing atmosphere; they are restful. Every
thing is restful " here they are, even the
days work which needs to be done
These other kind of people that seem
to be full of life and disturbance, whose
eyes are rather searching and faces ex-
pressive Of activity, who sometimes have
brusque ways and not always tempers
that suggest May mornings, are so des-
perately in earnest. They want things
done and are insistent about it if they
are not. How they do agitate everybody
around them and get them to work
twice as fast and three times as intelli-
gently and exhaust themselves when, if
they had been let alone, they wouldn't
have shed a drop Of perspiration or
grown unduly enthusiastic all day.
The world would be much different If
it were not for these rushing people
these Mark Hannas and Tom Johnsons
and Pierpont Morgans. It would be
quieter We wouldn't have much, but
what we had we could enjoy. It seems
q great mistake and misarrangement of
things, that the sweet. docile people 50
often get the $40 salaries and the other
kind the nil1ion-dollar salaries, when
everybody likes the sweet people the
best.
The gentle crusader in Chicago is 50
much the more popular than Carrie Ma
ton on account of her ladylike behavior.
but there seems to be no attention paid
to her.
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the leading article in Afnslee's for May.
The name of the author is not given.
but whoever he is, he knows his SUBJ
Ject we'll and handles it masterfully.
THE Men that Control our Railroads
by Earl D. Berry. is a readable and inn
portant study Of the eight men that
control the two hundred thousand miles
of railway in the United States.
Dining Rooms Of Am erican Homes,
double page Of illustrations, with de-
scriptions. in the May number Of the
Ledger Monthly; an article full Of sug-
gestions and of interest to all home
makers
An interesting editorial sketch of
General Funston appears in the Worlds
Work for May, giving the story Of the
life of this adventurous soldier Of for
tune and concluding as follows: Five
years ago he was unknown; today, at
the age of Sc. he is a brigadier general
in the United States army He has gone
through the horrors Of Death valley
he has lived through a long arctic
night; he has fought for a people whom
he thought oppressed; he has swum
rivers, driving savage enemies before
him; he has led bloody charges: and
last of all, he has captured the leader
of the Filipino insurrection. A man
who has done all these things is a man
who sets the blood tinRling and gives
wings to the Imagination
Mrs. M. Z. w. Sherwood contributes
to The Smart Set for May an apprecia-
ton of Edward VII. entitled 'Eneland's
Princely King" The article IS one that
the royal gentleman, if he is at all sus
ceptible to hattery will doubtless find
pleasure in reading. for Mrs. Sherwood
is plainly prejudiced in his favor.
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FOREIGN LABOR MENACE.

The recent troubles at lola in which
twenty-five Italians were chased from
the town, and some Of them more or
less hurt, is only another instance Of
history repeating itself.
According to reports, friction arose
between the foreman of the smelters
and cement plant, and the American la
borers. Accordingly the workmen were
discharged and for their places a score
of Italians were shipped in from Kansas
City. This of course created an ugly
feeling among the men who were let out,
and they decided to dispose of the for
eigners without ceremony. They did so;
surrounding the Italians in their camp
and marching them to the depot where
they We're put on board the cars and
sent back to Kansas City. From Kan
sas City the story comes that some of
the foreigners were so badly injured
that they had to be helped from the
train. In the same dispatch is the state
ment that the representative Of the Ital-
ian government threatens to make the
trouble an international affair.
Without any attempt at taking sides
be it said, that the operators of the lola
shelters and cement plant are seriously
in need of an infusion of common sense.
not to speak of a little keen tact or
judgment. Any person who has only
casually followed current events for the
last few years cannot fail to have noted
that as rule the worst results follow
the displacement Of American by foreign
labor, when there is a disagreement.
Years ago. a strike took place in certain
coal mines of Missouri In place of the
dissatisfied white miners. a train load of
negroes from Alabama was shipped in
and put to work This so enraged the
whites that it became necessary to call
out the state militia to preserve order
and finally the offensive colored men
were Withdrawn from the mines, This
same instance from the paraIleled al
most numberless times, substituting
often foreigners instead of negroes And
the wonder seems all the greater. when
it is observed how frequently foreign Ia
should show so little discretion in choos-
ing employees. As a severe reminder.
these same employers shrould be com
PEELED to stand for at least a part of the
damages that may result from any in
ternational complication
The Introduction of foreign labor in
such cases is almost certainly a har-
binger Of evil results. and if the opera
tors OF laboring Institutions do not real
ize it they should be reminded by being
held liable for a portion of any indem-
mites that may be demanded from the
United States by another government
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the joints Of James street. and it is said
that all day long men and women could
be seen carrying cans of beer and bot
ties back into Missouri from the Kan
sas side. Tt is further stated that one
saloon man, whose place had hardly
been paying expenses previously. found
$500 in his cash register at midnight,
and other joints did equally as rushing
a business.
Kansas people have been wont to
parade, with a good deal Of satisfac-
ton, the showing that Aissourians had
all of the vices as well as the saloons.
But somehow the shoe seems to have
gotten on the other foot. and hereafter
we must brag of our big steers, vast
wheat crops and handsome women.
That there are saloons in Kansas that
give aid and comfort to the enemy can
no longer be doubted, and to the shame
of every loyal man in the sunfiower
state it has been shown that Missouri
enforees her liquor laws better than
Kansas.
1t is unlawful to sell liquor in Mis-
souri, on Sunday, and the saloons were
closed so tight that even the old round
ers were unable to get a drink and
were compelled to come over to a pro-
hibftion state where the saloons were
running wide open and beer flowed as
freely as water
This is. indeed, a sad CON mentary
upon the manner in which cur laws are
supposed to be enforced Let us no
longer talk about rum-soaked Missouri
until our own skirts are free from filth
While we have been heaving bricks at
our sister state we seemed to have for
gotten that we were dwelling in a glass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-11
GLoBE SIGHTS

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
AS soon as a man is promoted to
fair job, his wife plans visiting tour
Look out for the young man of whom
it is said "All the girls are stuck on
him"
If a man is making a living, and not
int 'rfeIiug with your affairs, let him
alone
It is called cup of sorrow" but it
is the experience of most people that it
is measured il a tub
It is unfair: when a nan is old, and
doesn't want birthdays, they come
around twice as fast.
DO people avoid You because you are
disagreeable? And did you ever try to
overcome the habit?
It is well known that people do not
like to hear you brag about yourself;
but they accept it as an advertisement.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who inquired when you put or a
new suit OF clothes: Where was the
fire?'
One of the proudest times in a girls
life is when the doctor tells her she
must be careful with her voice, that it
is changing.
After a young man has gone half a
dozen places with a young woman he
has told her everything he knows that
is interesting.
From the time a man leads his bride
from the altar there is no more specu-
1ation or curiosity about him until his
will is opened
We have often longed to know if
Clara Morris. Patti and the rest of
them We're ever amateurs. and the
neighbors had to buy tickets.
When a brakeman has curly hair. his
associates call him Curly; but if he is
over six feet tall, however, they always
call him shorty"
When children see their father pull
out a handful of silver from his pocket
it is awfully hard for them to learn
that there is a limit where that came
FROM
Old married women have only one
way left them to be coy: to claim, when
holder neighbors admit finding them,
that they never saw a bedbug in all
their lives.
Don't go visiting until it gets warm
again. Nearly all the women had their
heating stoves taken down several days
ago. although their husbands told them
not to. and they will have to ask you
to sit in the kitchen
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THE THREATENED PANIC.
[From the washington Post.J

lF'rom the Washington Post.1
The president has done well in ad-
vising the people to prepare for inan-
cial disturbance. 1t is true, and it is
what ought to be borne constantly in
mind alike by business men and by
wage workers, that what we ought to
do now is to be prudent in our pros
perity-save while we can. and be
strong if the storms should come
storms win cone IN the future as surely
as they have come in the past. There
is no ground for the hope that any
country, however great its resources
and its skill in their utilization. can go
on continuously on such a tide of in
dustrial and commercial prosperity as
we have had for the last four years.
The record of our increase in export
trade and our accumulation OF wealth
has no parallel in the worlds history.
It is solid progress, substantial pros
perity. But there is no solidity in bill
lions of fictitious capitalization. and the
time must comet may be near at
hand-yvhen these great masses of fic-
ton viii be swept away, to the ruin of
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Atchison Globe: There is an order
known as the Independent Order of
Buffaloes'' Every time two members
meet they are expected to take a drink.
When a new member is initiated. or a
new lodge established, there is a big
drunk An order of this kind does
great harm. 1t encourag es intemper-
ance. idleness and vulgarity. Every
man who belongs thinks he must live
up to the reputation of the order; that
is, he can drink other men under the
table. and tell more filthy stories than
other men. If YOU must join an order,
join one that encourages temperance,
gentility and clean speech How the
world admires a gentleman Have an
ambition to become a gentleman. How
the world despises a man who is will
ing to reel along the streets. advertising
mis- weakness Don't encourage the
order Of Bunaloes. If you have in
1iuence among men. exert it in the right
direction Don't be a Buffalo. The no
ton is a silly one; it was invented by
q barkeeper.
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KANsAs cIrY sALooNs

A queer state of affairs was devel-
oped last Sunday by the closing of the
Kansas City saloons. Thirsty Mis-
sourians were compelled to come to pro-
hibition Kansas after their drinks, and
this they did in hocks. Kansas City.
kas., saloonkeepers were compelled to
hire extra barkeepers, and many OF
then ran out Of supplies before the
day was ended.
From early morning until late at
night the electric cars carried hundreds
bf passengers across the state line to
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Indianapolis News: Those political
economists that want this country to
raise everything that it needs, and
thereby save all the money that we
send abroad for imports, had better
tackle another proposition. We foster
and encourage industries and grant
special privileges to the men at the
head Of them and then these men turn
about, take their vacations abroad and
spend millions and millions in having a
good time. How does the countdy save
money by such processes?
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than ever before. and the city is getting
no benefit from it in fines
A colored porter on the Santa Fe the
other day at -Abbeyville looking on the
brake beams for tramps, sighted a.
plump young pullet And now before
the whistle hardly blows for a station
the boys are off looking under the cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-11

London. May 1.-THE Duke of Man
chester's affairs were again aired in
the bankruptcy court today. when the
accounts lodged disclosed total in
debtedness= or 81. 794 pounds. and assets
of 7,545 pounds. The liabilities include
5000 pounds in connection with theat-
ricaI speculation and 5000 pounds for
the promotion of a company.
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The first robbery committed upon any
member Of the presidential party took
place in Los Angeles. 1t is a principle
with Californians never to allow visitors
10 leave the state with any money. AS
those travelling with Mr.. Mckinley have
no occasion to spend any cash, the only
way to get it away from them is to
steal If
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-11
BOOK NOTES.

L. c. Page & Co announce for inme-
date publication Antonio" a tale of
colonial New York, by Jessie Van zile
Belden.
The Macmillans publish an attractive
and instructive book entitled Flowers
and Ferns in Their Haunts," by Mrs.
Mabel O. Wright.
Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. an
nounce for immediate publication
new novel by Justin Mccarthy, NJ. p,
entitled "Mononia, a Love Story of
1S4S.''
The Macmi1lans publish a valuable
book for the medical profession in the
Manual of Diseases of the Ear by
Thomas Barr, M. D., of Glasgow uni
yersity.
Messrs. Funk & Wagnalis, New York,
announce a forthcoming book by an
eminent Baptist clergyman, J. W.
Sarles, entitled Mans Peerless Des-
L. G. Page & Co announce for early
publication airline VALERIE" by Joseph
Hallworth, being a facsimile of manu-
script with pen sketches by the au-
thor
Mcclure Phillips & Co. have just is
sued Five Years of My Life" by AL
fred Dreyfus. including his Devils ISL
and diary and correspondence with his
wife.
Messrs. Houghton. AifHin & Co, have
just published Miss Pritchard's We'd
ding Trip" by Clara Louise Durham.
1t is a love story Astounding in humor
and wholesome sentiment
Frank T BuIlen's new book. "A Sack
of Shakings," has been published by
Mcclure, Phillips & Co. of New York.
In this volume the author Of THE
Cruise of the Cachelot" has included a
varied collection of sketches Of the
ocean life and nature.
'sWishmakers' Town is about to be
issued in a new edition by r. H. Rus
sell. This little volume of verse by
William Young, whose name is perhaps
best known as the dramatist of Ben
edition
much appreciation.
In a chapter on The HOuseless' in Sir
Walter Besant's East London" pub
lished by the Century company. the au-
thor gives his hearty approval to a plan
for housing London's poor in industrial
villages not more than twelve miles
from the city
4 new, small, cheap edition of an ex-
cellent work of reference called THE
Twentieth Century Cyclopedia Britain
MICA" is just issued in flexible cloth
Handy Manual" etc. to retail at the
popular price of % cents. Laird & Lee,
publishers, Chicago.
Among the announcements of the
spring we find a new publishing firm in
the field with a book by a new writer
Messrs. H. w. Fisher & Co, 1861
Chestnut street, Philadelphia. will pub
Ish volume on the mountain lakes of
Maine, entitled And the wilderness
Blossomed." by Almon Dexter The
work is largely devoted to the growth
and development of flower garden in
the woods of northern Maine, and the
authors experiences with various
plants and seeds are recounted with re-
freshing frankness.
Under the Redwoods" is the title of
the latest collection Of stories by Bret
Harte, which Messrs. Houghton, Miffiin &
Co. have published. No writer of stories
is more popular than Mr.. Harte, and in
his latest volume he takes for his char
acters the sailors. globe trotters. In
dams, vagabonds and Cinnamon whom
he has always made so interesting; and,
as old he pictures some charming
girls and women.
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The government telegraph in England
is showing an annual deficit of So. 5O0.
O00. The loss is attributed to granting
extensions of the service to an eager
public beyond the point warranted by
the revenue
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

rFrom the Chicago News.1
Proverbs are truisms on the half
shell.
A ripple of laughter is worth food
Of tears
A cure in time knocks the undertaken
out of many a dime.
The girl dressed in a crash suit isn't
A wise man never wastes his time
he wastes the other fellows.
Silence may be golden, but it never
succeeds in borrowing dollar
There is always room at the top-of
boiling pots for the scum to rise
Every house has its skeleton-and
some boarding houses have several
A drowning nan will catch at a straw
and 50 Will man who is thirsty
Never make money today that may
cause your arrest tom orrow for coun-
terfeiting.
silence gives consent as the young
man remarked when he asked deaf
and dumb girl for kiss
The loafer who spends only his time
in saloon is unable to convince the
proprietor that time is money
Mr.. Webster's experience with hotel
clerks probably induced his famous re-
mark about there always being room at
the top
"A man is known by the company he
keeps" says the proverb- OF course he
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Northern Pacific sold last summer at
S47 a share and last Thursday for $1,000.
There is a marked Improvement in
President McKinley's speeches since he
has ceased to be hampered in his utter
ances by the demands of the national
campaign committee.
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Down in Georgia this week a negro
shot at a white man and missed him.
The mob hanged him just the same,
probably on the theory that SO poor
marksman had no business living in
that section of the country.
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Mr. J. ]. Hill was around buying loco
motives during the Wall street stock
panic His interests were in the bands OF
j. Pierpont Morgan and he knew he
would come out all right.
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President Mckinley having visited a
GOLD mine in Arizona, it is now suggest
ed that he should visit sixteen silver
mines in order to maintain the estab-
lishad ratio.
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st. Louis ost-Dispatch: with the
price Phillips has put upon corn, many
of the agricultural districts in Chicago
win be tempted to increase the area Of
their corn planting"