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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28

Mr.. A p. Meyers of Americas, Lyon
county, Kansas, an employee of the CEN
sus Office. has been promoted to a sub
chiefship of a division. He has some
fifty clerks under his supervision, and
his salary is 81 200 a year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28

Mr.. N. H LOOMS of Topeka is regis
tered at the Ebbitt hotel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28

Mr. ]. H Mccall is among the latest
Kansas arrivals in the national city
L. WILLIAM THAVIS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26
THE LION AND THE BEAR.

The Chinese matter is still pressing
and disturbing. While British n
Russians armed and in battle array
facing each other. and signs are omi-
nous, still the overt act Of war may be
averted. If England shall get at war
with the great Russian power, it will
have to spend money faster and have
armies much greater in size than ever
the African army proved TO be. 1t will
not be lighting a mere handful of
the brave Beers. but it will be
face to face in a war with : power
that can put 10000. 900 OF men in
the field If necessary. From Lon
don on the 18th came a dispatch repre-
senting the outlook more hopeful. and
that the pending clash between the
Lion and the Bear may be averted By
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26

an agreement &c withdraw both armies
from the ground hat arouses so much
OF a~ntagonfsm. According to inter-
views given out by English officials war
will hardly come. 1t Il however, a fact
that English and Russians at Tien Tsin
are within fifty yards of each other.
with armed guards on 10Th sides
It must rather rile the British when
they think over the actual conditions
up to now in the east. They are afraid
of troubles at any time in India and
now they are confronted with their old
enemy in arms in the east. They can
not have their own way among the
Orientals for the Bear stands in the
way full of growl and showing his hun
cry teeth. The Philadelphia Times
takes this view OF Britain's humiliation.
1t says:
This IL swift retribution for the
South African outrage. If Great Bri-
tain had kept out Of hat unjustifable
war, her legitimate commercial inter-
ests would not now be endangered and
Russia would not have dared TO defy
her. AS it is. her hands are tied, and
the English actually are looking to little
Japan to hold the Russian bear in
check"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26
CONTEMPORARY VERSES ON WAR
AND POLL

There has been a great deal of verse
produced within the last two years
upon the wars raging in Africa and
the Philippines. The most Of it was
poor stuff. nj but little with n
marks of genuine inspiration. One of
the best is the tribute to the Beers by
William Watson. o a great poet but
sonnet in the London Daily News as
follows:
They have s~triven as noblest English
men did use
To strive for freedom: and no Briton
he
Who to such valor in a desperate field
A knightly salutation can refuse"
Mr.. Ernest Crosby. in Life, has some
stanzas on "Our Foreign Policy" 1t s
in ten-line stanZas. 1t may not be poe
ty. but it is amusing. We give the in
troductory and the first stanz only.
and Mr.. Mckinley might read it all
to his cabinet with benefit:
THE president advancing to the foot
lights from the center of a chorus Of
cabinet ministers and senators):
we lOIu lIeiH we u hldhc
them a nation
And free them in time
That we looked upon forced annexa-
AS aggression and crime
When We lured them by every assur-
ance
To fight by our side,
And fattered their pluck and endur.
ance,
The fact is
Chorus (smiling):
Why, the fact is. we lied!'"
Kipling published some very heated.
even savage poems against the Beers.
He showed so much of unreasonable
hatred and SO burned with a cruel de-
sire to. destroy, that he alineated many
of his tempered and juster countrymen
and repealed man, Americans. We
know M educated gentleman who re-
fused to read his Seven Seas" after
reading his perfervid and s%alt-petre
verses on the Beers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26

a food. hat IL Mr.. Bryan had been
elected and the last congress had been
controlled by democrats hat any thing
approaching a billion and a half con
gress could possibly have occurred.
There is great trouble ahead for this
government has very recklessIy gone to
the firing line OF popular Indignation.
The full dinner pail" died early in the
campaign OF 1900. and will not be heard
OF again in a decade in country.
1t is possibly a Fictitious prosperity af-
ter all. AT any rate It is prosperity
with a threatening condition of vast
extravaganza in every thing, in every
way possible, in all kinds OF govern
ment-nationaI. state, municipal-and
with huge results. The New York
World writing Of 1.-The optimism of
prosperity" has this:
Take the example, the ~appropria-
tons of this past congress. They mean
expenditures during the next fiscal year
of $3.50, O00, 900. And. as Senator Cock
reil. of Missouri, pointed out, this sum
is actually greater than our national
expenditures during the last and most
expensive ear of our civil war. For,
while the nominal sum spent then
81. 297 900, 000-was greater, it must be
remembered that the greenback was
our only currency at that time, and the
greenback was then worth less than
fifty cents on the dollar.
OF the $3.50. 000, 900 no less han e
half-a sum two-thirds as great as the
expenses of carrying on the civil war
in the year 1S65-is going for war pur-
poses: the big army. the big navy, the
big pension roll. And in 1865 we had
more than a million men in the field
and about 1000 vessels in the navy,
blOckading the southern coasts"
1t is rather curious to know how far
the politicians have drifted away from
| the old landmarks, and how easily
blinded the people a become. They
are not complaining but coniding.
While North Carolina as it estimated
must pay nearly S20,0 900 900 to the bill
| lion and a half dollar extravaganza of
the Mckinley gang. it cannot expend
more than $780, 900 for all state ex-
| penSeS
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26

David B.. Hill made an address to a
Catholic banquet in New York on the
18th instant. His speech was the prin-
cipal one of the evening. He felicitated
his Irish auditors on genuine republic
can government, and said it was the
best in the world. He had no reference
to McKinley's kind. but to the genuine-
Jeffersonian stamp. and thought Il a
happy circumstance that SO many
1rishmen lived in a republic. He criti-
cised the conduct Of the administration,
rejected it's policy. and expressed
warm sympathy for the Beers. He was
astonished at the supineness and in
difference of the government while lit
tie republics are destroyed. And he is
o alone. A very bad record has the
Mckinley crowd.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26

One hanging by a mob "a occurred
in North Carolina this wear and be-
cause OF the same Internal offence
against a white woman of virtue. The
last Newton Enterprise lin the west)
reports this:
Mr.. Walter Whitener of Mountain
Creek brought to Jail Monday a negro
named Will Morrison. who attempted to
commit an assault on Mrs. Luther Kill
liam near Denver last Saturday even
dark, when the negro came up and took
hold Of her. She struggled and cream
ed until a near neighbor heard her
cries and came to her assistance before
the brute was able to overcome the
frightened woman On approach of
help the negro escaped TO the woods"
The pulpits may plead, n courts
may thunder, the press may damn, the
north may let rivers OF tears u over
the lynching of negroes. but so long as
the baseSt meanest of the negro race
continue their damning assault upon
the white women Judge Lynch will
ride and "the jury in the woods will de-
eide" The white men of the south are
resolved to stamp out the devei1ish
crimes at every cost. Many lynchings
in the south have been reported in 1901,
and nearly all because of criminal as
saults on pure white women.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26
4 Great Engfneeriup Work.

The new Nile dam at Assuan, accord
ing to Sir John Arid. the builder, will
now be hurried to completion. as all
the huge granite blocks required for IL
have been quarried and are ready to be
placed in position Some 5000 men
are employed on il. nearly all natives.
The dam will have $50 openings. zach
e feet high and 7 feet wide. CONTROL A
by steel sluices. AT high Nile the water
will be allowed to run through, but
when water is about TO become scarce
the openings will be closed and the
dam will Will fill. The water can then
be let out as required bv the corps. the
regulative dam at Assint. 300 miles far
Their north. helping it's distribution
where wanted All will be ready before
the Nile food OF 1903. The use OF the
dam will greatly widen the cultiYabIe
area of Egypt and will give that coun-
try What other countries lack~ GER
tainty in b matter of the water re-
qutred to produce crops. Rains are
sometimes scanty. India and Russia,
for example. suffer from famines due
to deficient rains. But Egypt will be
certain Of water without rains. A large
increase of her cotton crop Is antic-
pated.-Baltsmore Sun.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26

The Tsar OF Russia Is in great dan
ger. IL is believed. from assassination.
The poorest man in that despotism has
a better chance for life than a reignins
Tsar.
II IL pleasant to learn that the COM
ing Charleston Exposition will not be
crippled or retarded because of failing
to receive help from the congress. The
South Carolinians are resolved ITO
work out their own" commercial sal
walton" like self-reiiant people.
Enlistments for the army in the Phil
pin do not rush IL is reported. In
two months but $3.50 men enlisted In
spite OF extraordinary efforts That
war Is not popular. At that rate the
enlistments will not be completed in a
year to come.
The jacksonville tFia-) Times-Union
says that IL the British kill General
Dewet 1t would put a stain upon Eng
lands honor" It would be a damning
sin and an outrage against civilization.
Henri watterson struck a snag when
be tilted against the Georgian Graves
IN a SOIlIONSlSy ofSA 49,
colin offered the south. Watterson nus
produce his authorities or Graves will
down him.
Gen. Botha declines Gen. Kitchener
proposition of surrender. walk into
my parlor said the spider to the NY.
Respectfully declined with thanks.
Now let Kitchener try Gen. De Wet
but with equal forces.
In Pennsylvania the belief is that
compulsory isolation and registration
of consumptives will be resorted to. 1t
is a most dreadful disease, and 1t p
pears now that victims must be SUBJ
iected to quarantine as in diphtheria
and scarlet fever and smallpox.
= The burial of ex-President Harrison
at Indianapolis was memorable and
impressive. The people among whom
he LIVED knew him n honored him.
He was a very decided Christian-a
Presbyterian.
Mr.. Henry Frank delivered a lee
ture in New York on the 18th, on the
Crime Against Cuba" He cali
ed upon Cubans to take. up arms #
they are betrayed. and said, Il pray
Cuba will revolt. We quote:
Three years ago emblazoned upon
the banners of America, was the bat
tle-cry of freedom-'down with Span
ish tyranny; up with Cuban liberty"
And now what does America-splen-
did, courageou liberty-loving and po-
tent America-propose to do to bring
hope and happiness to the hearts of a
once unfortunate people? What will
America do?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26

And tremendous impetus was given the
drift during the closing session OF the
last congress, by the legislation IN
respect OF the Philioptnes and the
army.
AS to the Philippines. Mr.. McKin-
ley's national pocket legislature not
only endorsed his u~surDation up to this
time. but gave him every encourage
ment to violate the constitution more
h~agrantiy in the future. In the matter
or the army bill. ngreS placed In his
hands a pat ronage hat viii enable
him to rally immense and most dan
gerous support TO an imperial po!isy.
These are signs n ~portents. These
are clear indications Of a strong party
favorable to a complete overthrow OF
the great constitution makers Of the
eighteenth century. There is fortu-
nateiy a vigorous. brave. earnest, faith
full minority that VIII stand by the
odd ship of state" to the. however
stormy the seas and tempest-tost the
vessel. In it are the treasured hopes
OF a liberty and agovernment of the
people to quote Lincoln's famous
stolen saying. Free institutions
be ensured and liberty TO
each citizen must be guaranteed in
this land of the free and home
of the brave 1t will not do to make
any ~surrenders or to carve out any
new departures that in the least
degree will bring disaster and decay
and perdition upon our land. Stand by
the union and the constitution.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26
STAND TO TIE UNION AND THE
CONSTITUTION.

The prophetic earnings of President
Hadley, of Yale University. are natur-
ally attracting consideration among
readers who study the trend in this
country and keep we'll up in historic
records. He thinks that in a quarter of
a century there will be an emperor in
Washington unless the public CON
science" can be stimulated and puri-
fled n elevated. He is not at the head
of the procession by a great deal in
such an apprehension. Able men all over
the present American Union are watch
Ing PASSING events with anxious eyes
and fears of the future. They are not
one party. While thousands of the
ablest men in the democratic party are
on the watch-tower scanning the dark
ening political heavens that portends
tempeStS and disaster to free institu-
tons ON these shores. there are score
of the ableSt men who deserted the
democratic party in 1896. at a very
crucial time. who see lowering skies
and impending storms ahead. Men
like Cleveland, Carlisle. Olney, Whit
ney and others are of this number.
Many of the best appointed and wisest
republicans who have provisions of com
ing disaster are speaking out. Hoar,
the late able ex-President Harrison,
are to be included in this statement.
OF course. there are those who pooh
pooh all fears and ridicule all prophecy
of impending wrath and uin In all
ages this class has been pronounced
and confident. In the Noachlc flood
the multitude ridiculed and scorned the
old ship-builder and all his warnings.
1t has been so ever since. But there is
a drift. a discount. a change,a decay
that promises something unknown as
yet in American history.
Our unique system or governmen is
built upon h virtue-mark the word
and the intelligence Of the people.
With ignorance denominating and cor
ruption widespread there can be no per-
maneancy, no safety. no chance real
ly for enlightened and homes. and just
government. The men chosen will cor
respond with the preponderating char
acter of the electorate. DR.. Hadley
is an able thinker and teacher and as
he throws his lens over the political
skies already tempestous. he sees be-
hind 1t all the roaring foods and the
anarchic multitude.
Mckinley is mainly responsible for il
all. If he had died five years ago there
would have been no such unfavora-
BILE and unfortunate conditions as now
threaten h a n life of a free
republican government. The Richmond
Dispatch is right in saying:
The drift Is already under way. 1t
started when Mr. Mckinley usurped
power to deal with III newly acquired
territory according to his own fancy.
and congress failed to say him nay.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26
Taxes In Porto Rico.

The Philadelphia Press denies that
the Porto Ricans are justified in COM
planning of the taxes imposed upon
them since the United States took con-
troll of the government. Says The
Press
The taxes raised in Porto Rice by
the Spanish government for the fiscal
year beginning in 1898 amounted to 81
446, 952. The taxes provided for under
the new Porto Rican law will produce
a revenue OF 81. 900, 600. That Will be a
saving in the way Of taxation 81 81
$40. 952 annually to the people of Porto
Rico under American rule as compared
with Spanish. OF the taxes raised by
Spain SLATE. 045 went to sustain the
army and navy. But not a dollar Is -
be raised for any such purpose under
American rule.
Under Spanish rule S49S. sol was
raised TO meet the expenses Of the min
isterio de ultramar,' a department CrcN
ated in Madrid to deal only with ques-
.a,ing to the Spanish colonies.
That half million dollars. like the other
million and a half raised for the army
and navy, was a tax on Porte Rico for
which the people OF the island received
nothing in return. The Spanish de-
voted S23.S23 Of the large amount they
raised in taxes for public instruction.
But under the act Of the Porto Rico leg
islature $500, $50. or more than one-quar-
ter of the entire amoun raised, Is for
the public schools"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26
APancak.


his wife is visiting her parents. with I
with whom she win-rcmain . week.
longer. This narrative Is about the
who stayed at home.
His name Is not Smith. but he mai
De called Smith. He and his wife. who
live on the East Side. intended 20 take
their vacation together. but some Of
MS ousinss complications defeated this.
she went alone and he and a friend
nao planned a two weeks outing in
canada upon her return. L was to be
a nshing and hunting trip and they
We're TO rough II. doing their own cook
ing.
The next morning after Smiths utfe
iett he arose late. It was after the ho-
Tel breakfast hour. This fact
ed an idea, which he at oncs proceeded
20 execute. He would prepare his own
and thereby get some point
ers in cooking which would be OF value
during their outing. In five minutes he
was on his way to the groyery arouryo
n corner. whistling mer-iIy. A cer
tain brand OF battercake -four On h
shelf caught his eye. Ah-batter cakes,
Mixed instantly. baked quickly. delic-
Gus and heaithful." sa.d the directions.
That QUIZ be the very thing for
their outing. He bought two packages.
A short time later Smith was standing
over a hot gridiron at home. lie had
on Mrs. Smiths apron. his face was
radiant and his mouth watering. In his
hand he held q crock naR fun OF love
" batter mixed as per directions The
pup sat on a chair and at him
with interest. Smith poured three
small gobs Of batter on the griddie and
stood, cake-turner in hand. waiting for
them to bake.
whe nhe proceeded to invert the hrst
one he crowded IL into a lump and In
trying to straighten ii out mutilated
the other two. They began to look like
scrambled eggs and instead or threSs
cakes he presently a a
ing ball OF petrifed batter. UndiSmay-
ed smith eterminad to give his com
posite griddle cake bail TO the pup and
try again. He placed the batter crock
on the table and set the battercake ball
before the pup. which turned UP Its
Mise in a disguised and walkel
away suSpiciously. '
Smith took offense at this. and SELF
ing the b~I flung 1t at the pup. His
arm struck the crock and over IL went
on the ffoor. The crock broke n that
portion of the batter that didn't splat-
ter over the kitchen oilcloth ~splached
over Smiths feet. The only satisfaction
he got out of the transaction was mat
the batter-cake pellet rue the pup
and sent il bowling k a good fellow
into a corner.
Poor Smith got into another pair OF
shoes, locked UP the house and went
down town. That night when he came
home he found the batter distributed
pretty evenly through the house over
the carpet and upholstery from h
kitchen to the parlor. The pup Rad
done il with it's little feet Smith has
given up his camping trip.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26
ROCKEFELLER AND CARNEGIE.

John Rockefeller and Andrew Car
| negie are very rich men and thereby
very important men in our land now.
Rockefeller made sS,0O0,000 in one day.
Mr.. Carnegie, the most generous of
Scotsmen, gave away $4,000. 600 in n
day to his employees. What a contrast.
Which would a big hearted man pre-
fer to be. These two men how SO vast
ly wealthy, were born poor boys and
have become under our institutions
and laws two of the mightiest in wealth
the world has ever heard of. 1t is said
that RockefeIler's income is $40
a minute In a year and fifteen
days his company distributed $50, 000,-
900 among the stockholders. Both are
credited with being very generous
givers. One statement is that each has
given away about s25. 600. 900 to public
institutions. But Carnegie has give
more h that. One is said to be a
sceptic, an agnostic. and the other a
Christian. Which one answers to each
classification? Carnegie has just be-
gun to give, he says. He declares that
he does not mean to die rich. He has
just made an extraordinary gift to
New York city. 1t is to give 8 800, 900
for the purpose of establishing sixty
five ranch libraries. The New York
Tribune says:
The figures are large, but they stand
for only a portion of the great work
upon which Nj. Carnegie embarked
some years ago. and to which. as he
has lately declared, he means to de-
vote the remaining years of his life.
| When all his plans have been carried
out. vast as, they may be. the statistican
will have no difficulty in making a table
of them. The deeper significance of
those plans. however. has already got
beyond measurement"
1t is row said that Mr.. Carnegie will
have to live UP to an annual distribu-
ton of $50, 900, 900 a year to live up TO his
| gospel of health. He has declared h
the man who dies rich dies d~isgraced."
The New York Herald credits him with
having $500, 600. 900. He has thus far
given away but $50, 900, OOO-a great sum
truly-according to the Herald's figur-
ing. That is far more thar any other
man has given save the rich Hebrew N
<auSG Id LiO uiSu q lew years dSO,-
but name not recalled just now. The
Herald publishes a list of his benefac-
tons and they would fill th~ree-fourths
of a Messenger column. Here is the
Herald's bookkeeping:
Steel company $3.50, 000, 900
Steel company bonds........ 100, GOO, 900
British war 10000, 600
Other investments ......-..... 40. 900. 900
Total fortune .........-....S3 $500, 600, e0G
Income from steel securities $40. 000, 900
Income from other sources. 5000, 900
Total income annually. SIS, 600, 900
Disbursements of l 1000. 600 a
month in Il, 900, 900
Personal expenses yearly. 5000, 900
Mr.. Carnegie is now -siXty-ffve years
old. His expectation of life, if the cal
culations of life Insurance companies
are to be trusted. is about ten years.
In order. therefore. to avoid the dis
grace" of dying with what he would
probably consider wealth. he must give
away at least $50. 600, 900 a year for the
next ten years. which would reduce his
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-26
Some Childish Humor.

Here are some specimens of childish
humor from the Chicago News: ION.
mammal" exclaimed ~4-year-olf Fossie.
as h observed the moon in its secon
quarter, come and look at the noon:
half OF II Is pushed into the sky and
the other half is sticking out" Tom
my, aged 5, had been busy whiting,
and managed to raise a blister on his
hand which caused a slight break in
the skin Running 10 his mother. he
showed ii to her. and said: Mamma.
I guess I'm beginning to wear out "
Did they sing Any pretty songs at
Sunday schooi?" asked a mother of her
little 4-year-old daughter upon her re-
turf home. Only one" resplied the
little miss 1T was something about
Greenland ice cream curtains" Papa
well, Willie. have you been a good
boy today?" Small Wiliie--Did you
ask mamma % 'Why should / ask her?
Don't you know whether you have been
good or not?" Yes. but mamma
idea OF goodness differs from mine. and
/ don't want to go back or anything
she says"