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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
IAYHAWKER Jors

The F'ormosa. Dry Weather club
doesn't use water or even advocate it.
Every Ottawa household has a gun
loaded for an exceedingly active peep
ing Tom
The Fairbanks toboggan presidential
slide seems to have been well creased
at Hutchinson.
Owing to the high price of fruit. OF
ta-wa people are INDUCING in mock
lemon pies these days.
TheCherokee county peachcrop is said to
be large enough to offset any little
shortage in the potato hills.
A Wichita woman has a real octopus,
the kind Funston ate. which she caught
while fishing at Catalina Islands.
It took three Marshall county men an
hour to worry down and land a 35-
pound catfish from the Little Blue.
Stenographer Nellie Smart of Fort
Scott. true to her name, has been pro-
NOTED to higher and better position
With corn prices going higher hoe
cake will be in the angel food class
along the Central Branch this winter
From the Hutchinson returns it
would seem that Teddy had put the
Indiana senator in a well and pulled
the ladder Up.
dissatisfied old bachelor of La
Crosse after sizing up some Mormon
elders decided his lot was not such an
unhappy one after all
independence citizens continue to
light matches to find the gas leak. The
last victim hopes to get his family out
of the hospital in time for Christmas
reunion
That Minnesota man that ordered
SIS, 900 in bills burned could have had
much more fun for his money by in
vesting the amount in Kansas corn and
igniting the cobs.
A bicycle rider peacefully gliding
along on a Coffeyville sidewalk was
run into by a baby buggy and his ma
chine smashed. And just to carry the
story out the judge fined the cycler 81
and costs
House phones enable you to make
enga gements," was a simple announce
ment in an Ellsworth paper. But the
company was flooded the next day with
rush orders from men with marriage
able daughters.
Lightning struck a colored man on
the head at Marysville and glancing
from his skull spintered sapling.
When the darlxey revived he anxiously
enquired to be shown the man who hit
him with ak.
A lady member of the Wyandotte
Shakespeare club is suing her husband
for a divorce OF course her petition
viii begin: BLOW blow, thou winter
winds. thou art not half so unkind as
mans ingratitude."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
LONDON REPORTERS HATS.

They must be a queer lot, these Lon
doners, if the following which appeared
as a dispatch from the English capital
is a criterion:
Fleet street has been enjoying a quiet
smile over the predicament of the I'M
fortunate members of the staff Of a
daily paper whom a recent ukase from
the powers that be compels to appear
on duty duly clothed in silk hats and
black frOck coats.
As the paper in question has built up
a reputation for hustling. the reporters
are obliged to live up to this reputation.
Their misery, chasing news in the stiff
ing London streets with the thermom-
eter soaring centuryWard can be i'm
agined better than described.
The reason for this order is said to be
that one of the staff recently had oc-
casion TO go to the government offices
to interview some minister or private
secretary The lordly doorkeeper who
stands guard against the intrusion of
common mortals, judging from the re-
porter's appearance. in straw hat and
alpaca coat, that he was some vulgar
person. treated his request that his card
be sent in with disdain. When the Incl
dent was reported back to the news
paper Office the editor complained to the
minister. The latter, after making in
Vestigation, replied to the editor, up
holding the action of the dOOrkeeper.
who had been decided by appearances.
Hence the general order requiring ev-
cry member of the staff to appear
dressed as gentleman"
How would Just a common American
news hunter look in a silk tile and
frock coat2 It is horrible to think of.
A reporter who had been working up
the Jack Winters gold burglary story in
san Francisco would do well cumming
round the bay. under the wharves and
through the tunnel in a high hat. The
reporters who have been following the
big steel strike would have been liable
to get news from the strikers if they
paraded in silk hats and frock coats,
maybe. What a tremendous roar
would roll over the country if a reporter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
PARKs We MUsT EVE.

It is charitable to suppose that the
members OF the city council and City
Attorney Spencer were simply careless
and not wiIfuly bad last Wednesday
night when by their sin Of omission
they failed to provide for the main
tenance Of city parks during the COM
ing year.
However, the effect was all the same
on the parks. If the council was care
less, it was as iniquitous a piece Of
care1essness as it would have been for
a switchman to misset a switch and
wreck a train. The public park sys-
tenn, which the people of the city have
been trying hard to build up. had q
narrow escape from utter neglect dur
ing the next twelve months And the
danger is not vet past, but has simply
been temporarily averted by the action
of Mayor Hughes in refusing to sign
the tax levy ordinance
The council is to be given an oppor-
tunity to repair the wrong which it
sought to work on the city. A special
meeting viii be called, and the tax levy
ordinance again considered.
1t is very likely that the counciln en-.
or at least a. part Of them, honestly be-
lieved that the city parks should be
taken care of out of the general inn
provement fund, as was done last year
under the advice of the gentleman who
was then city attorney. These council
men did not take the pains to investi-
gate the situation. Had they done SO.
they would have discovered that in all
probability there viii be hardly any
surplus this year in the general i'm
provement fund. after the 1901 deficit Is
cleared up, and the big pavement bills
paid There would likely be no money
at all left for park purposes
Moreover. what right has the city
attorney to declare that enactments of
the legislature, or enactments of the
council. are unconstitutional? Is not
that the province of the courts2 If the
park commissioner law is invalid. and
is working a hardship on anyone, there
viii not be any lack of some public
spirited" citizen to take the case up to
the supreme court and find out
whether or not the law is constitu-
tional
Topeka wants its public parks main
tanned. A good many thousand dollars
have already been spent in the work.
The levy for park purposes is not for
any one park, but is for all the parks
of the city. These are the City park
Cages park. Chesney park, Huntoon
park Holiday park, and a number of
smaller parks. Five thousand dollars
a year is not too much to spend in
maintenance. If the park commission
ers find that this is not quite enough,
they shuold be given more out of the
general Improvement fund, provided
there should De any surplus in that
fund.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
a DEFENDER oF WOODS.

Topeka has a man with courage
enough to defend James r. Woods, the
man who appropriated all the land
along the Lawton townsite. This means
a great deal. for no man has been more
universally condemned and when
man flies in the face Of popular senti-
ment it is evident that his courage is
of no usual order.
The State Journal has received the
defense of Mr.. Woods from w. II. Cald-
well, who has had much experience in
government land affairs, having been
register OF the Wa-Keeney land office
for many years.
Mr.. CaldweITs adroit defense is as
follows:
.sWoods-Hog: I cannot understand
just why these have become hyphena-
ted Mr.. Woods has done just the
thing that Miss Beals would have done
had she drawn No. 1 instead of No. 2
If not why does she not now let No 3
in on the half mile string she has en-
tered just one quarter Of a mile south
of the LaWton toWnSite2 If IaWtOn be
comes the city the boomers say it Will
Miss Beals claim is only one quarter
of a mile from the southern boundary
of the city. and Woods claim Will very
early go out Of sight in the press for
room for more additions.
Now, If all this entimental bullaba-
loo means anything. why not give Miss
Beals a little benefit in that line Why
should she SO eagerly get herself into
the category of swine by levying upon
another string of a mile of the city
boundary Why does she not give a
little dado heightening to her grand
stand play by yielding up some of her
frontage to No 3 and others?
It's all bosh and cheap sentiment to
take on fits over the action of Woods.
He is strictly in the law in making his
entry as he did. and, if he makes it his
homestead and obeys the homestead
law, he can stay there in spite of h.
and n. W. 1 want to ask you, reader, if
you had been lucky No. /, would you
have given me a chance to enter one
half mile, or One-fOurth mile, or even
SO feet along the townsite2 In other
words.-even though 1 We're a girl in
stead of a man.-if you are so generous.
why don't you move back on your pres
ent ranch and give me slice of your
front yards2 Please do it, just to see
how quick these same folks who are
making such a howl about Woods win
call you a fooll
TN say to YOU right now that had
been lucky No. I, Miss Beals. the same
as any man. would have met with
the same disappoin tment that has con
fronted her. Why don't you howl about
and condemn the hogs who have. in
numberless cases, seized upon mile
strips along water courses, all over
Kansas, and thus prevented men and
women hOmesteaders from enjoying the
greatest necessity in our state? Mind
you, say necessity, while Woods mere
~ keeps Miss Beals and others away
from first cuts of luxury You would
have done precisely what Woods has
done, so shut off your yawp.
wv. H. CALDWELL"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17

at Washington was denied admittance
to some high officials den just because
he did not wear a silk hat.
The news from London recalls a.
story on Julian Ralph, the noted CORE
spondent He visited Minneapolis. or
some other city in the north. and regis
tered at his hotel IN the evening. He
was sitting in the lobby when a dapper
dressed youth with four by nine mus
tache. kid gloves, a stiff hat. creased
trousers, a cane and the rest of the cos
tune that go with such specifications,
stepped up to Mr.. Ralph. Jaw. Mr..
Ralph said the young man. Il am a
journalist and I would like to talk with
you a short time. You might be able
to give me some interesting news"
Haven't thing said Ralph as he
resumed his newspaper and disappeared
from view. The journalist left dis
appointed.
In less than half an hour a young
man rushed into the hotel and up to the
clerk rs that fellow Ralph here?" he
asked of the clerk ana was directed to
the man he wanted
The young mans hat was soft, his
clothes We're neat enough but not
creased, his hair was mussed, he wore
no gloves and his hands were just a
triae grimy and showed the evidence of
work His shoes were every day calf
skin and exhibited signs of having been
used good deal that day. He was just
a common plug on a local staff.
I'm a reporter said the young man
to Ralph, and I would like mighty we'll
to get about q half column interview
out of you"
We'll I'm looking for just a COM
mon every day reporter" said Ralph,
sit down" The plug reporter got his
half column interview and more.
What would happen if one of the
Fleet street journalists in a silk hat
and frock coat was to try for a half a
column from Ralph?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17

is one Of the editors who not only know
a good story but can write one. Amos
judd" Mr.. Mitchelrs first long story,
met with immediate and unqualified
success. His charm Is a simple one
that of perfect naturalness; and his
characters bear in action and speech
the stamp Of modernness. They are in
every respect real people OF today, and
are the kind of real people that we
would like to meet. The new serial
story by Mr.. Mitchell which began IN
the August Scribner's is a charming eN-
ample of his work. 1t is entitled .eThe
Pines OF LOry," and it is bright.
vivacious, and natural as anything that
he mas ever written The plot is a Pc
culiar one and the situations uncOnVen-
tiOnaL Amos judd by the way, is
to be brought out during the fan in a
new edition by the Scribners, fully illus
trated by A. J. Keller. The edition viii
be uniform with the dainty edition Of
Thomas Nelson Pages "Old Gentlemen
of the Black Stock" illustrated by
Christy, published last year.
James Walter smith. in the August
Literary Era, says:
But although these few weeks Of high
summer usually pass without any par
ticular literary event. it occasionally
happens that a publisher will choose
just this opportunity of launching
something to make a little stir This
year Mrs Craigie and Mr.. George
Moore come at the psychological mo-
ment- The former has gone back TO
her earlier lighter m amer. Meredith
rather than Disraeli is her master this
time. One need not be displeased on
that account. and vet THE Serious
Wooing" is too slight a piece Of work
to follow up SO important an achieve
ment as Robert Orange" Mrs.
Craigie is desperately up-to-date. Her
story is full of yesterdays events. We
meet her heroine first on the day Of
the opening of parliament by the king
February 14). Before Lent. which be-
gam less than week later, the daz-
zling creature has taken up with a
socialist. lost her husband. suffered
through what seems like a long period
of nervous collapse, and married again.
No such frivolity is charged bic against
Mr.. Moore. if he is amusing. IL is not
because of any lack OF seriousness
The sublimity of his mission Expresses
him He reveis in what ne calls "tne
moral idea All the same some OF
his readers viii insist that Mr.. Moore
and the young person We're better
kept apart. Sister Teresa" the Sec
ond part of Evelyn lines" conducts
Mr. MoOre's heroine into the peace OF
toward his published books IS not the
least entertaining thing bout him Eve
lyn Innes" has been rewritten as COM
pletely as though the MS. had never
left the study. Apparently Mr.. Moore
cannot bring himself to make the great
renunciation for the sake Of Ireland and
the Irish Revival His long-threatened
migration to Dublin is still postponed.
The AnglO-SaxO is effete, one cannot
even write literature in his language
says Mr.. Moore. Certainly Mr.. Moore's
own English style is rather to seek.
The publishers are Henry T. Coates,
Philadelphia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

lfFOm the CnlcaSO NeWSj
The bunko mans income is a tax on
credulity.
There are a lot of unsafe bridges on
the road to prosperity.
Wish for pluck instead of luck, then
go to work and success is yours
What jolly world this would be if
the poets could only eat their poemsl
When one calls another liar it may
result in a job for the undertaken
The dog with the handsomest collar
doesn't always put up the gamest fight
The heartless father of a pretty
daughter calls his front steps a toe
path.
Musicians should be strictly temper
ate; if otherwise they may get into the
habit of stopping at every bar.
If the head of the house is a. prohibit
ZIONIST it is sometin es easy to account
for the skeleton in the family closet.
The farmer believes the results will
justify the ends when he packs the
small fruit in the middle of the barrel
and the large at either extremity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
MR.. E. MONT REILEY, BOOMER

The Roosevelt sentiment is spreading
in the west Already the people are
awake to the Importance Of the presi-
Dental election nearly four years
hence and it is evident that the people
of the west cherish a strong Roose-
welt sentiment. These early booms all
ways start in motion a lot of little men
who are forgotten when the actual
campaign begins For instance there
is Mr.. E. Mont Reilly. chairman of the
Roosevelt 1904 Club No. T.; E Mont.
chief deputy county assessor Of the
county of Jackson. state of Missouri
z. Mont. Reilly, taken altogether.
While in Topeka the other day Mr..
Reilly told US that his club was not only
the first in the field. but that he was a
close personal friend of Roosevelt, and
that he was seeing to the organization
Of other clubs in Missouri. He said
they would branch out and invite Kan
sas to come in very soon also. that he
was in correspondence with the fellows
in Topeka directing the getting up of
a club herei Won't somebody have to
muzzle this young man2 If Major An
derson only knew how this young man
was tallxingi Wonder if he wouldn't
eye of the pension agency and hum
"Old Shady once more2
Kansas did not start Teddy's prema-
ture boom. Riissouri's Kansas town
did it with the help Of Mr.. F.. Mont
Reilly. chief deputy county assessor Of
the county Of Jackson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

GF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
Physical culture is only another name
for hard work
Naturally it makes a fellow feel
cheap to give himself away.
The hand that rocks the cradle is
seldom the hand that wins the jackpot.
No, Maude. dear; it doesn't require
palrnist to tell what is in poker
hand
No matter how bad music may be. 1t
never cones out at the small end of the
horn.
A man may own a watch that is a
good timekeeper, and yet he may not
have a good time
He-"9alf the trouble in the world IS
caused by women She--And the
other half by men"
When a girl has two men in love
with her at the same time she feels
that Cleopatra wasn't quite in her
class.
Some fellows are such hustlers that
they are not satisfied to get there with
both feet. They kick because they are
not centipedes-
Nel1-"7e makes an ideal husband =
Belle-''Yess he seemed to realize from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
rE1LINa zee OLD sroRY.

The reunions Of civil war veterans
being held over the country this sea
son cannot fail to be especially interest
ing. The fact that the United states
is trying to quen an insurreetion in the
Philippines. that the British-Boer con-
test stili drags on after two years, that
there are international discussions in
China and Central America, none OF
these can obliterate from the minds Of
the ex-union soldiers the memory of
forty years ago. The brow-beaten
North, forced to take a stand for its
rights, had been drawn into a conflict
lasting four years. The Impending
crisis" predicted by Helper had been
reached. -Four decades ago last April
the first shot Of the rebellion was fired
against Fort Sumter and by August of
that year the armies of the two sections
had measured strength. Stil it was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
GLOBE SIGHTS
TFrom the Atchison Globe.l


O, society, what crimes are COM
mitted in thy namei
Ever remark how many different
kinds of dogs there are2
The older girl gets. the larger. the
per cent of teeth in the kiss she gives
The newest song is, Have Made
You Angry, Darling?" but we don't
hear any married people singing it to
each other.
If a man says he is going Fifth
street, and goes Fourth, it gives birth
to a suspicion that he is leading a
Double Life
Be sure and invite all your kin to
your wedding, or they will account for
their absence by telling that they
don't approve"
Universal comment made on an out
oftown man who is to marry an Atchi
son girl: Why doesn't she get a hand
organ to go with it?
The more shrieks of agony a news
paper reporter puts in his accounts of
a gasoline stove accident the better it
suits dealers in gas stoves.
This IS the way age comes on: You
short time have to ask what month it
is. and, in a few more days, the day of
the week.
How long does it take indignation to
die2 The women of certain neigh
borhood are still roaring about a GER
tain mans neglect of his sick wife
three years ago.
Have you noticed that there is more
peace floating around this summer
This is due to the scarcity of tomatoes.
As there were no tomatoes to serve,
the men folks didn't get cross because
their wives insisted upon serving them
with yellow stuff poured over them
An Atchison man who has been mar
ried twenty years, is more in love with
his wife than a young fellow usually is
who is counting his first sweetheart
He says that, naturally, he was cut out
for a bad husband, and his wife man
aged him. Women have a great deal
to do with It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
TO CERES.

o. heaven-borni
What wilt thou sight in fields afar,
When comes apace a rosy morn
To md thee reaching for a starr
When thou art perched
Where men. to guide the ship Of state,
Her honor unbeSmirched,
Do toll and daily congregate.
High on yon dome
Thou'It see a land thro' purple haze
A land Of heart and home,
OF golden hopes Of sapphire days.
Lot King Corn mods
His taWny head to smile to thine.
o. daughter thou of godsi
A prince kneels, vassal at thy shrine
on school, on church
A lark hits welcome. merry. ShrilIs
Or. on home ridge-pole perch
he sits his .'Howdy -do" to trill.
What though the South
His fiery breath about us swept
Nor famine. no. nor drOuth
Hath long our strength in bondage kept
Above the crowd
Thy marts and fields thou canst explore
OF golden grains and fruits IN store.
And witt thou say
'sFair Kansas here I'm proud to reignF
If thou canst. Ceres. stay
Thy people are at ease again
ELLIS HEADLEY CUSTER
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
BOOK NOTES.

The Cornhil Booklet (Alfred Bartlett.
on Cornhill, Boston, is growing in pop
ular favor very fast. The August num-
Der opens with a fine bit of thought by
Edwin Osgood Grover entitled The
City of Our Ideals" The main portion
of the book, devoted to selections from
Sir Thomas OVerbury's Characters
is gracefully introduced BY Oscar Fay
Adams.
Henry Watterson, in writing for his
paper, the Louisville Courier-J Ournal,
long review of "a Sailors Log" Rear
Admiral Evans autobiography, has this
to say. THE Appletons builded wiser
than they knew in reaching out after
this admira bic autobiography, and they
made a veritable contribution to the
patriotic spirit of the time in its publ
cation. No American boy can read it
without wishing at once to serve his
country, if not to run away to sea. NO
thoughtful American man can read It
without many serious yet inspiring re-
Elections: for this southern lad who had
the sturdy wisdom to stick to his colors
to elect the substance as against the
shadow at a moment when the bfavest
the truest, and the Oldest were in doubt
what to dO-and who in every situation
knew so well how to put his best foot
forward and to perform his duty, pre-
sents us a picture of our common man
hood and race, equally exhilarattng~ and
encouraging to both; simple Amerl-
cam upright and downright, and equal
to every demand of public and private
station; the fit professional descendant
OF Paul Jones and Isaac Hull or Perry
and Decatur; the fit colleague of Dewey
and Sampson and Schley; all honor to
him and them, to the service they have
frnnortalized, and to the flag they have
embla zoned under all skies from one
end Of the earth to the other, back and
forth across the muititudinous seas!
It is said that Mr.. f. F. Benson's new
novel. 'gThe Luck of the Walls is ex-
pected to rival the popularity of 'Dodo"
although the author has entered an en-
tireIy different field. His new depart
IRE in fiction is reported to snow
remarkable development of his power
to arrest attention and hold interest
Published by =. Appleton & Co., New
York
seThe Woman's Book OF Sports" by J.
Par1nly Paret, is a practical guide for
amateur sportsyvonaen. Golf, lawn ten
mis- sailing. swimming, bicycling, and
Ia sket ball have each their chapters,
and each game is treated from the ele-
rnentary standpoint, the first rudiments
of skill IN all being explained in a sim
Die and direct manner 1t IS thoroughly
Illustrated with half-tone reproductions
AL ful1-page size, with large hgures) of
instantaneous photographs showing the
correct and incorrect methods In the
different sports. D. Appleton and Com
pany are the publishers
Mr.. J. A Mitcfell.the editor of Life"