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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
KANSAS rs sMILING.

The appearance of the first crop buile-
tin issued by the state department of
agriculture was anxiously awaited by
the whole state, farmer, speculator and
citizen in ordinary. The earlier reports
by mere observers that not a drilI-row
was missing from Topeka to Edwards
county; that the farmers in the short
grass country were beginning to worry
about harvest hands and that Oklahoma,
through Dennis Flynn, desired to lease
half Of southern Kansas wherein to store
its wheat crop were indicative of an ex-
eellent prospect. Everybody told every
body else that wheat was in condition
never SO good before. But they really
did not believe each other fully and
without any equivocation or mental res
ervation whatsoever until the state re-
port said so.
There is reason for the faith that is
pinned upon the crop bulletin that comes
from the agricultural department of the
state of Kansas. It is accurate and
painstaking in preparation. The depart
ment has correspondents in every town
ship in the state and to them is due cred
it for the faithful work they do upon it.
Give all this to Secretary Coburn to COM
pile and there is nothing left to wonder
about.
1t is estimated that the acreage sown
with winter wheat is Z. per cent greater
than that sown for the immense crop Of
1900, when 426S.704 acres gave the big
yield of $685., 44s bushels valued at ST.
624.O96.S5. The 1900 acreage was half
million less than the year previous, with
double the crop resulting for the greatest
crop ever gathered. Now with increased
acreage and a rating of 998 by Sec1e-
tary Coburn and los by the national gov
ernment report on present average con-
ditiOn, compared with the average of So
accorded last spring, the estimate that
the next crop viii go over one hundred
million bushels is within reason. The dis
crepency between the government rat
ing and Secretary Coburns rating on
present conditions is the conservatism
of being on the spot and is a. propitious
omen. Hessian fly and the chinch Bug
are most to be dreaded now. The fly has
not been doing a great deal of business
according to the initial report and no
one is sorry. It is thought that soil
conditions cannot be harmed and from now
out bettors will be laying their wagers
on how far over the hundred million
mark the yield will go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
CALLS FOR ATTENTION.

The papers are giving preferred posi-
ton to the dispatches announcing the
intention of President Mckinley to visit
FL Paso, Tex, and there, over the inter
national boundary between the United
States and Mexico. clasp the hand of
Diaz. president of the Mexican republic
This is a proper and significant way in
which the heads of the two great Amer
lean republics should greet one another.
1t should stand for the best Of relations.
But before this little ceremony takes
place down on the Rio Grande, Uncle
Sam should see to it that his authority
is honored in Mexico. It is a rule of in
ternational law that citizens Of one state
sojourning within the borders OF another
are subject to the laws of that nation,
provided such laws are in accord with
those of civilized nations generally.
Otherwise. the self-respect of the coun-
try whose subjects may have been
wronged. should be sufficient for that
nation demanding redress.
Apropos Of this the case of one Ed
ward King should be investigated by the
United States. King was a brakeman on
the Mexican Central railroad. He was
a member of a crew in charge Of train
which some time last year. it is sup
posed, ran over and killed a Mexican.
A most unreasonable and vicious law
of Mexico requires that in cases of this
kind, no matter what the circumstances
of the accident all the crew shall be inn
prisoned. Accordingly. King and his
comrades were compelled to go to prison
five months ago and in all that time no
trial has been given them.
A few weeks ago. however, he was re-
leased on parole and at once went to
washington where the claims of him
self and fifty other Americans unjustly
imprisoned were presented. He has
promises that unless he is given a fair
trial on the date already promised, April
10. the United States government will
take a hand.
1t is unfortunate that these wrongs
have not been brought to the notice of
Uncle Sam heretofore The influx Of
American railroad men to Mexico has
been very great of late years. the ma
tives not being competent to fill such
positions. Instead. they swarm along
the railroads making themselves a spe-
cial target for passing trains and at
tempting in numerous ways to make
trouble for the American trainmen. The
characteristics of the Indians have not
been entirely effaced from the Mexi-
cans. Those sullen and oppressive traits
still crop out on small provoeation. The
case OF King and others should be fol-
lowed up by the United States and if
necessary proper apology or retribution
should be demanded of Mexico
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
REIGN o. THE FRAUD.

Barnum, the circus king, must have
known what he was talking about when
he said that people like to be hum
bugged. That fact IS pretty well exem-
plifed in Kansas right now by two men
who call themselves Divine Healers."
Both have claimed to be Schlatter, the
shoemaker, who startled Denver by his
won 1erful cures III 1895 and one boldly
adVertises that he is Schlatter's bores
were found in New Mexico long after ne
had left Denver. His physical strength
had given away and he had died in the
desert. There is no doubt Of this, but
there is a man in Topeka who says
Sohlatter has returned in his own per-
son. A few years ago the resurrected
Schlatter called himself Mclean. but
that was before his resurrection.
These "healers" DOME like each other
Each loudly proclaims that the other is
a fraud. They both appeal to the same
class and it is natural that they resent
the invasion Of the field which unfortun-
ately is much too large Neither claims
to be Christ, but neither viii deny that
he IS.
This is what 'schlatter-' says about
himself:
''Since began healing in Denver L
have cured 1000. 900 people. I have raised
seven people from the dead three in
Chicago and four in London. In New
York three years ago Richard Croker
gave me $1,000 for curing hum of heart
disease. while Tammany made me a
present of $4,000. This money 7 gave
to the New York poor. Andrew Carne-
gle offered me $1,000. 900 to found a hos
pital. could not accept it because Car
negle wanted it named after himself.
Hetty Green, after cured her of lung
trouble. offered me SO 900 900 if I would
marry her. The New York World offer
ed me 81 100000 if would walk on water
and advertise their paper. I refused ii.
The New York Journal wanted to give
me $4,000 600 for telling how healed the
sick. / refused it also" He also adds
that he was buried in the Colorado
mountains forty days and nights
Il IS strange that such people find suf-
fcient encouragement to justify them in
continuing their avocation Of deception
but they do. They range from one end
Of the country to another and perhaps
some day they viii both retire with all
the money they need
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
APPOINT coMPETENr CLERKS.

The voters of the city Of Topeka
should learn a lesson from the last cleo
ton. and that is they should see to it
that clerks are appointed on the election
board who can do the work as it should
be done. According to the returns, that
is the tally sheets which were opened in
the council chamber, it was found that
several of the sheets were in such shape
that it was impossible to tell what the
marks on the sheet meant.
Judges and clerks Of election are ap-
pointed by the commissioner Of elections
on the recommendation of the chairmen
Of the committees of the different po-
ntical parties. The chairmen never
think Of the qualifications Of the man
they recommend; they pick out the men
in their party who are looking for a job.
The Office OF judge and clerk Of election
is considered a part of the spoils of
party. And it is this manner of doing
business which has caused all the trou-
BILE and expense Of the contest case be-
tween Mr.. Hughes and Mr. Parker If
the tally sheets had been properly kept
This contest would not have come up, or,
if it did come up. it would not have been
in the shape that it is now in No one in
the city viii be satisfied until the bal
lots are counted and counted by compet-
emit men.
1t is claimed by the partisans that the
judges and clerks should be named be-
cause Of work done for the party. and it
may be admitted that the judges should
be political appointments. but there is
not a citizen in Topeka who is not dis
gusted with the appointment Of the
clerks Of elections by the chairmen of
the different parties without any regard
to their qualifications for the Office
In the future the people should read
over the names of the men appointed ay
the commissioner of elections and if
they know that any Of the men named
are not fit for the place they should at
once make complaint to the commits
sioner and if he l. a good man. and he
is supposed to be. he will see that the
clerks are competent or will name men
who are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
A aREAT LITTLE MAN.

Frederick Palmer. the war covrespon-
dent Of Golfers Weekly, says of General
Funston:
All that Funston has won has been
by the sheerest hard work from the
first he had more or less OF a false repu-
tation at home, where the people thought
that he was a bowling daredevil OF a
Kansan who swan rivers under fire.
Upon his return to the Philippines af-
ter going home with the Kansas regi-
ment, he was given the great district
around San Isidro. which had already
been occupied by our troops. The work
Of reconstruction was not to his taste.
He found it all the more irksome when
sharp fighting was still going on in
other parts Of the archipelago. It was
then, SO far as the army is concerned,
that he laid the ghost Of his reputation
as a mere swimmer of rivers, by learn
ing Tagalog, studying native manners
and customs and making the big prov
inces of Neova Ecija, Principe and
Nueva Viscaya. with the small force at
his command, among the most peaceful
in the island.
The natives came to call him 'the little
night horse" because of his activity. He
organized a fine native intelligence
bureau and score of scouts mounted
on native ponies which he laughingly
called his household cavalry" When
ever the intelligence department brought
news that a band of natives with rifles
We're gathering in a certain place, Funs-
ton with his scouts would sweep down
on them. In short, his assignment to
San Isidro showed how impossible it is
to down an energetic man. His provinces
Joined those in which Aguinaldo had his
headquarters. When one day he captured
letters showing exactly where Aguinaldo
was il General Macarthur was willing
it was certain that either Aguinaldo
would be taken or Funston would die
in the attempt The prestige of his great
reputation among the natives was the
talisman which made the ex-insurgents
who accompanied him loyal TO him He
is a great little man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
KANsAs HuNrER,s PARApIsE

Kansas has had many grievances this
spring to complain Of in the form o.
varying winds and miserable weather
and to the majority Of the citizens. this
has been a source Of unlimited annoy
ances in the way of rheumatic pains,
coughs and colds
But again there is another class of
hardy adventures to whom the wild
gales and alternate days Of warmth and
cold brought only joy To the man be-
hind the gun the present spring has been
in the nature of a paradise for it
brought ducks. geese and brants, thous-
ands Of them, to the streams, and marsh
es Of Kansas.
Not for years has the fight of wild
fowl been so large. In fact the mallard
fingered near the cornfeld and along
the sources of the smaller streams the
greater portion of the winter But with
the first warm breath of spring forecast
ing an unlocking Of the ice bound lakes
of the far north, came from high in the
air the honk honk of the great Canada.
the largest goose that flies, accompanied
by the softer squawk of the speckled
brother and thousands Of ducks Of every
tribe.
The procession of wild fowl had start
ed for the feeding ground along the Red
river of the North and the wild rice
ponds OF Minnesota and tributary re-
gions
But from the gulf to the Canadian
line is a long route to travel without rest
and food even for an air fowl that goes
20 and so miles an hour. And Kansas IS
a middle ground whose marshes and
smaller ponds have come to be favOrite
resting place for the birds so much
sought after by hunters. And from ear
" morn until the sight on the pump gun
was made invisible by darkness the
crack of the cartridge has been heard.
Nor has it been confined to the expensive
outfits of hammerless weapons, decoy
ducks and smokeless powder. The small
boy has been in the game with his OLD
muslxet that would kick the youth across
a corn shock row at every discharge, but
the bloody nose or bruised shoulder was
generally healed by the sight of three
or four birds foundering around on the
water with broken wings or floating
away dead
Most marvellous tales have been sert
in from the hunting grounds of the
amount of geese or ducks killed on one
hunt of day. a week or at one shot.
One story of two hunters. who are
known to be reliable, relates of the kill
ing of 500 ducks and 100 geese in two
weeks stay at the marshes Of Barton
county and other accounts are report
ed equally as thrilling Confused by
heavy storm one March night hundreds
of the birds few over every town in
Kansas where electric lights existed and
were bowled over by scores by pot hunt
ers. Two bedazed fowls even broke into
a mans kitchen through the window.
The variable weather, first a warm per-
iod then a cold one has kept the game
on a see-saw. now north. now south and
Kansas nimrods have profted thereby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

Emporia is having many spring open
ings-by housebreakers.
There are sinners enough in Caldwell
to make two revivals at the same time
a success.
The street white wings brigade of
Clifton is composed of a mule and
farm harrow.
The Seneca epicure who lives on birds
eggs is anxiously awaiting the nesting
of the sparrows.
The baseball season opened i'll Topeka
today and the careful housewife must
look out for flies.
The gubernatorial mansion question
no longer perches uneasily on Governor
StanJey's front doorstep.
It costs Holton crap shooters SIS to be
caught shaking the bones even if it
is in a private barn loft
One of the best wood choppers in Os-
borne county is Grandpa Rushing, 81
years old and spry as a cricket.
AT Yates Center competition IS so
brisk that real estate men lock up their
customers while they go to dinner.
Spring blowing has started Thousands
of crows TO fiocking into Phillips county,
where there have been none all winter.
do joints pay?" shrielxs a lecturer at
wellington. They paid Wiehita S83. 600
in the last three years and cid it cheer
fully
The Preston Plain Dealer claims never
to have missed an issue or paid out
dollar for labor during it's eleven years
existence.
A Woodson county church is embe'l-
ished with an altar cross, two brass
vases and two offertory bags direct from
England.
McPherson's streets are in such a mis-
cradle sloppy condition that local COM
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pany is seriously talking OF organiziEg
A packet boat line.
Thanks to the charity Of a Pottawat-
oInie county woman the new church at
Flush can sound The glad tidings with
a 1,600-pound $500 bell.
Young Hare, who has the bubonic
plague at Ann Arbor. is not Of the Tel
gian ancestry, but is a plain citizen Of
Pawnee Station, Kansas
W. I. Brown has beaten his sword in
to a ploughshare and will turn up the
ground for several thousand trees on a
quarter section in Kingman county.
A Chapman citizen graci0usly pub
fishes this card iii local paper: II wish
to thank those who assisted me in keep
ing ny roof from blowing OF today
The Liars club Of Clyde consists of
seven members. But of course they
don't claim to have all the eligible per-
sons of the town in their association
Az Adams man placed 1000 eggs in an
incubator three weeks ago and 51C little
chicks are Ieeping around as a result.
Any old flock of hens could beat that
average.
stored in a crib in Kingman county in
1895 have at last been lured from cover
by the high prevailing prices. The ears
are as bright and firm as when picked
six years ago.
Topeka is now talking of getting up
semi centennial for 1911. 1t is believed
that by that time the nlayoralty contest
viii be settled and that Topeka will have
a little time to devote to the work of the
observation-disclosures Journal.
Manhattan is perhaps the easiest
town in Kansas for a fakir to work
Suckers simply smothered a vender of
cheap jewelry with So bills the other
night until he was compelled to leave
the opera house for a breath of fresh
air. P. She is still seeking fresh air.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
HOW We GROW.

Topeka people are looking with pleas
ure upon the indications OF progression
for the city. One of the best marks
of the prosperous condition of Topeka is
the fact that now it is practically inn
possible to rent a store room, in even
the most undesirable locations in the
city. while two years ago many could
be found.
Topeka has reached that stage where
for future development the erection Of
store and office buildings is absolutely
demanded The location of new in
dustries of various kinds in this city
has gradually filed up all the vacant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
er get away from home.


Some men think their wives are jeal-
Gus when they are only disguised
If you become a kicker it is now said
that you have Joined the anvil chorus
When a man borrows money from a
woman, and pays it back, that settles
it: he is honest.
We still insist that the funniest thing
in the world is a woman carrying a grip
on the street.
To the man who uses his office teIe-
phone to call up a woman his wife
hasn't heard Of: Whoa!
A woman is always jealous in the
same old way. and a man tries to lie
out of it in the same old way
If you have anything good to eat
there is always some one present to SIG
gest that it be passed around
You can't do anything with foolish
woman: the more you argue with her.
the more determined she is to have her
way"
Why do a certain Atchison man and
woman keep putting off their marriage?
The woman will never grow younger.
There is a great deal of amusement in
Atchfson because The ugliest man in
town is flirting with the ugliest woman
in town
1t is getting to be so that If a woman
makes her husbands shirts, she must
keep it a secret to keep her picture cut
of the paper.
It makes no difference how we'll regu-
lated a house is, you will find nearly
everything that is missing in the top bu-
reau drawer
A man is always scared to death OF a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
POINTED PARAeRAPHs
IFrom the Chicago News-l

LFro1n the Chicago News.l
Bad is only good when worse happens
Dyspepsia may be the punishment Of
guilty stomach.
Every man is sometimes what aie
Should be at all times
Money talks and it speaks the only
universal language.
It takes a strong mar. to raise money
when he needs It most.
What the miser has is OF 10 more Use
to him than what he has not.
F1irts change their opinions every day
with the exception Of the opinions they
have Of themselves. ---s
Every time a fool sees a aaow-worrn he
wants to turn in a fire alarm.
Girls, If you can't marry the man you
you.
Pawnbrokers are. the pioneers Of pro-
gress: they are always ready to make
an advance
When a man changes his mind the
other fellow is apt to get the worst OF the
bargain.
Mankind is divided into two great
classes those who have more dinner
than appetite and those who have more
appetite than dinner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Tie chronic bachelor has a single aim
in life.
TIE self-made man never apologies
for himself.
Even seven days talk may be a
weak argument.
In the case of bad cigars it is better
to give than to receive.
Wigwag-Is that a paying investm ut
of yours? Sappehead-Yes that's the
trouble. I've been paying assessments
ever since went into it.
There was a man in our town
And he was wondrous wise.
He never called a fellow down
Who larger was in sizel
Some signs Of spring are now at hand
Ye poet writeth sonnets,
And all ye females in ye land
Make clamor for new bonnets-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

1t showed se hours without stopping.
in Colorado this week. Kansas cannot
equal that record on snow. but when it
comes to rain she is right in the front
of the procession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

When it rains on Easter rain may be
confidently expected on each of the fol-
lowing seven Sundays. but when Easter
is sair 1t rains on all the week days
following for seven weeks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

The Ottawa Herald thinks Parker peo-
pie grew jubilant too early over the To-
pel1a mayoralty question. Growing ju-
bilant is all right, but where the Parker
people made their mistake was in not
watching the early returns instead of
the EARLIER iubilancy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

Congress refused to make an appropri-
alton for the Pan-Ameriean exposition
at Buffalo and the management viii set
even by keeping the show open on Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

President Castro, Of Venezuela, who
receives a salary of $4,000 per annum
and has managed to save $1,000 900 in
two years. might be able to give some
pointers, even to Dick Croker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

It is unlikely that England win ever
agree to a canal treaty that does not by
express terms yield to her a slice OF
American territory in Alaska. To this,
those close to Mr.. Mckinley assert. he
viii never consent. This being the sit
uation. we may as well go ahead and dig
the ditch without saying anything 10
anybody. or else drop the subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

The principle Of "an the traffic will
bear is to be applied in fixing TIE in
demnity to be paid by China. The ques-
tion is not how much ought she pay.
but how much can she pay?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

Montana has finally appropriated that
$4,000 bribery fund and apportioned it
among the schools Of the state. This is
about all Montana got out Of the soma
torial election
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

Perhaps The reason that the president
did not want Governor Allen Of Porto
Rico to resign was that there ara no
more defeated senators or congressman
left with whom to fill the place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

TIE Carnegie company is sued by a
man who claims $50, GOO for alleged
infringements on a patent held by him.
Why didn't he present his bill to Mr.
Carnegie in person and get his money2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

Some people are beginning to grumble
already because they didn't buy prop
erty in Topeka when it was cheaper
than it is now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

sOn Wednesday, March 49," says the
Hoxie Sentinel. "A. J. Brooks set thir-
teen hens on thirteen eggs each in thir-
teen boxes and when he reported the
facts to this office it was Just thirteen
days from the time they We're set. that
he had not seen hide, feather, nor shell
Of the whole outht-snoMed nnder.n