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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23
WoN,T &c pRIVEN.

The situation in the contest for mayor
is undergoing a rapid change. There is
a rebellion in the ranks Of the consist
emit law and order advocates and it is
not surprising that there should be. The
people who believe in clean men and
clean government are not all to be hood
winked by the title law and order
adopted by a few as a battle cry with
which to place one of the most pro-
nounced resubmissionists in the city
in the important office of mayor.
If the SO called law and order organic
ations, in their secret sessions, had en-
dorsed a man for mayor who had been
a consistent law and order advocate the
people would have been ready to endorse
their selection but when they put up
man of the character of Col Hughes and
tell the people they must support him it
is not surprising that there should be a
rebellion
The excuse made for the non-endorse-
ment of James S. Warner is that he
would make no promises. What kind Of
an executive Of the city wo;lId the man
be who had tied himself UP with prom
ises to every one who demanded them2
If the people have no confidence in an
Individual they should not make him
mayor and his promises do not make
him a safe man. Men must be judged
by their acts. It is not always the man
who prates the loudest of his virtues
that is the safest man to trust.
The law and order organizations can
not hope TO retain their influence when
they persist in their determination to
force such man as Colonel Hughes
upon the city. He has not scrupled to
rent his building for use as a joint but
he now promises with vocifei Gus demon
stration that he viii permi. no one else
to do the same The efforts of the or
ganization must lose their force when
it champions such man and the fact
that he has promised to spill the last
drop Of his blood does not mitigate
the offense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23

carried off S,I64 persons. Il broke out
after having almost entirely disappear
ed for ten years; but the health officers
had become negligent during that time
and as result the epidemic was a sur
prise.
In Kansas now the greatest number of
cases Of smallpox are to be found in the
mining towns Of the southeastern eoun-
ties where the population is thick and
sanitation poor. These examples go to
prove that 1t is almost impossible to
make regulations too stringent for
stamping out the disease. Sanitation and
isolation are cardinal rules IN the treat
ment of infectious diseases and should
be observed. Their neglect, however, Is
probably due more to the common peo-
pie than the physicians. Failure to re-
port cases promptly has resulted in
whole communities being placed under
quarantine.
Even some municipal officers have
shown such stupidity that instead ofiso-
lating patients Immediately they pass
ed them on to the adjoining community
as though the sooner rid Of them the
better the duties of their office We're per-
formed. To any reasonable person this
cannot appeal as the Humanitarian and
straightforward way of dealing with a
question. After a case of any contag-
ious disease has been discovered. re-
moval from contact with other people
should be the first step. Then such rules
may be made as shall be best suited to
the recovery of the patient and the pre-
vention of new cases developing.
Smallpox has been known as a terri
bic scourge since the sixth century when
it swept over southern Europe. It's first
appearance in the United States was in
1919 In every great epidemic. the death
list has been appalling. In 1927 three
and half millions of Mc,Sicans died
during an epidemic, and untold numbers
of American Indians have persisted from
it. If in the future we are TO profit from
the past, the rule should be for ply
sicians and laymen to CO. operate in
stamping out this contagion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23
TALK TT TO DEATH.

There is something terrible in the
threat to talk a bill to death. People
who have never attended a session Of
the legislature may not realize the full
meaning of the threat; if they did there
would be a new law upon our statute
books and the penalty for the violation
of the law would be death, and not death
subject to an amendment by the GOV
ernor- a bill has never been talked
to death in the legislature of Kansas
because the members of the Kansas leg
islature are immunes-they have been
talked to so much by themselves that
it would be impossible to talk anything
TO death in the legislature. The more
talk there is the better the legislators
seem to thrive. This applies to the old
members who are used to it and the
young members who know no better.
But there is sufficient talking in the
Kansas legislature to give one an idea
Of the horrible tortures a bill and the
other members must suffer in the ordeal
of talking a bill to death.
A bill that deserves the death caused
by talking must have done something
against all mankind that can not be
atoned by burning at the stake or on the
rack. A bill that is so vicious as to
suffer that death is not fit for publica-
ton or for dissemination IN the best
families-it must be a dirty. vile bill;
an atroeious bill; one aimed at our very
salvation. Nothing short Of q bin of
this kind could cause the excruciating
death caused by talking OF a senator
who is talking against life. AS has been
said no bill has been talked TO death in
the legislator of Kansas; that is, not
Intentionally. But many a bill has been
injured by the too free use Of the tongue
by a too fluent speaker in the legislature.
There are men in the legislature but
happily they are not numerous. who have
a flow Of lack of thought They are af-
f1icted with the pressure of wind on
the lungs and brain and are laboring
under the impression that it is an in
spiration that should be given to their
fellow members. They never lose an
opportunity to speak their blown
minds, and they never get a bill through
that is worth two cents to their con-
stituents or to any one else. This is the
kind Of men who talk not only bills to
death, but their fellow members as well.
They are the kind OF men who respect
no one and who should be squelehed by
a special act of their long suffering fell
low members
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23
WITH THE STATE DA1LIEs.

The warning from the east to be on
the lookout for strange 81, 600 bills will
not go unreeded in Ottawa. Hereafter
thousand dollar bills that don't look
right will be held up for identification
at this ofice.-Ottawa Herald.
Jerry Simpson says that Mrs Nation,
who lives in the town of Medicine
neighbors to be insane. Jerry ought to
know. He has been in the sensational
business himSelf.-Salina Journal.
AS soon as Governor Stanley affixed
his signature, Representative Steve
Caves prairie dog bill will become a
law. The house has coneurred in the
senate amendment placing gophers on
the death list along with the prairie
dogs.-Wichita Beacon.
A Cherryvale woman was much
annoyed by a small dog which followed
her about town to her home. and she
wondered at it until. after taking down
her hair and putting her rat" away,
she emerged, and the dog no longer fol-
lowed her. 1t was a rat terrier.-Iola
Register.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester
went through Abilene Monday noon in
A private car attached to the Union Pa
They neglected to get off and introduce
themselves and did not seem aware OF
the fact that they owed the town a lit
tie courtesy Abilene Reflector.
Min Van Denberg wants to know if
there is any difference between an old
codger and an old soak There are
plenty Of old codgers who are not old
soaks, while there are but few old soaks
who are not old dodgers About the
incest men in town are old dodgers.
They are the salt of the earth.-El Do
RADIO Republican.
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sufficiently to appear in a handsome
wrap that the late lamented" brought
over from Paris at a cost Of $500.
The sparks fairly flew from an Ottawa
hotel clerks diamond when a travelling
man registered himself and dog and
paid for two rooms in advance.
An enthusiastic Atchison reform or
mashed a photographer case merely
because it contained the picture of a
goo-goo-eyed girl arrayed in an ex-
tremely decollete gown.
All sorts of offers are being made the
owner of the Peabody dog which loafs
on the front porch and whachs its tail
on the door whenever a tramp or an I'M
welcome caller approaches.
Members Of the Hutchinson CONNER
ciaI club were so busy discussing the
temperance crusade that they forgot to
attend a called meeting and now they
blame Mrs Nation for the loss Of a can
ming factory.
When school teachers are pensioned off
high on the roll of honor should appear
name of the Republic county young wo-
man who has driven IA miles daily to
her duties for the past three years
without once being tardy-
They can't get license for saloons
In Kansas, so the laws declare,
But they seem to have license for
Most any other thing out there.
Chicago Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23
SMALLPOX LESSONS.

The smallpox situation in Kansas is
not very encouraging. Within the last
two years the disease has gained foot
hold and now it is so well established
that physicians have fears as to the re-
suits before it can be conquered. The
increase in the number OF cases has
been remarkable a. the January report
Of DR.. w. B. Swan, secretary Of the
state board of health. will show.
During that month ia cases appeared
and out of that number there were six
deaths. These figures are far greater
than those of any previous time; for
during the entire year of 1899 only 466
cases were reported. These figures are
significant of what may be the. conse-
quence should repressive measures be
neglected. Eternal vigilance is the
price Of liberty is no less applicable in
sanitation and public health than poll
tics. This is particularly true in cases
Of such contagious as SMALLPOX, cholera
and yellow fever. Years ago when the
fever plague swept the south. the price
which these stricken cities paid then was
sufficiently great to remind them of
their lack Of attention to the public
health
In 1885 at Montreal. Canada. small
pox developed into an epidemic which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.l
The less some men know the more
they tell
The politician with a pull is strictly
in the push.
The average woman is a conundrum
that keeps men guessing
Ignorance occasionally Lorrows gar
ments and poses as wisdom.
Women never discuss anything at a
club meeting; they just talk.
There is some excuse for the man
who honestly admits that he is lazy
A scientist has discovered that house
cleaning is caused by a microbe-
The failure Of one man is often the
beginning Of another mans success.
A gentleman doesn't forget his man
ners the moment he enters his own door.
when the chronic bore doesn't feel
well it is apt to be lingering illness
A man who understands women is
willing to admit that he doesn't under
stand them.
A girls idea Of masculine revenge is
for her best beau to elope with her
chaperon-
Don't think that a man is ready to
take the advice of every fool he meets
just because he takes youzs-
One of the differences between men
and women is that men have to die in
order to become angels-so says wo-
man writer.
If an heiress promises to be a sister
to an impecunious sutton he has no kick
coming if he shares equally with her
under the old mans will.
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through the eonnivance or Incompetence
Of officers
The consequence has been that the
people who have howIed about the lax
ity OF the enforcement OF the prohibitory
law in Kansas for 20 years don't ike
Mrs. Nation. In one short month she
accomplished more than they did in 20
years and it is natural tina they should
be ready to criticize her methods and
denounce her Mrs. Nation believes in
doing things and they believe In talking
about them
Mrs Nations methods undoubtedly
lack the warrant Of law. She has done
things in an unconventional way and
her crusade has stirred the people of
Kansas to a realization Of the true con-
dition Of affairs as they have not been
reused for 20 years. 1t is easy enough
for any one to say that there f. a joint
in a certain place but when some one
goes in and smashes the joint they know
it is there. That is why the people have
risen in a hundred communities in kan
sas and closed the joints
The statement is frequently made by
the long distance law enforcement talk
ers that Mrs. Nation is crazy. Whether
or not she is insane has not been deter
mined by any court and until it is deter
mined judgment Will be reserved
But leaving this question in allegiance
1t must be admitted that Mrs. Nation
has accomplished more than all the
judges. lawyers and all the temperance.
mass meetings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23

LF'rom the Atchison Globe.1
You can't tell how long road is until
you have Travelled it.
The victorious rooster always invites
trouble when he crows.
Every thief causes a lot of honest men
to be suspected unjustly.
A man is not really sick unless a. doc
tor calls to see him twice day
When people say they can give good
references" it usually means they have
no money.
There are a half dozen ways of doing
everything, but there is always one
way better than any of the others.
When the rainy day saved for finally
comes, man finds that it is a. deluge
whereas he only saved for shower
Men do not begin to save money until
they have married, and women do not
begin till they have given up all hope of
marrying
We do not see how any man can feel
any ambition after he has once seen all
his household goods piled on a transfer
wagon to be moved
When a guest leaves a house, he can't
complain if he reaches the front gate
before the gossip about him begins In
most cases it begins before the guest
steps OIL the pOTCI.
No man needs a teacher to tell him it
is wrong to cut off his own toe. Like
wise, every mans own selfishnesS should
teach him the wrong of intemperance,
Of dishonesty, of idleness, of falsehood-
Three men have been shot in Kansas
City in the past month by women who
love them. 1t is growing more impOr-
tant every day that a man search a wo-
man for concealed weapons before he
tells her he is fond of her.
Parents should be very careful how
they treat their daughters. A Kansas
City woman yesterday mildly reproved
her daughter of is because the girl
didn't sweep under the bed The girl
took poison. In southern Kansas last
week, a girl hung herself because her
mother made her wash the dishes, and in
a Nebraska town recently, a girl jumped
into the well because her heartless
mother had asked her to dust the parlor.
Parents should learn to treat the prin-
cesses in their care with more delicacy,
and not ask Too Much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23
KANSAS OFFERS NO APOLOGY.

What is the matter with Kansas?a
is daily query from the east, and ore
that is easily explained. The citizens
have only this to urge in their extenu-
alton for the strenuous scenes of late.
that they have crown weary of the cant
and hypocrisy of pretended enforcement
of laws By officers sworn to execute
them.
For years the hsbition law has been
practically a dead letter on the statute
books, and day by day the salovns have
become a little holder and emerged a.
little further out or the back alleys and
nearer the business centers OF the towns.
The jug, the tin cup and the boot
logger have gwen away to finely
equipped barrooms with French plate
mirrors, mint juleps and lavish fixtures.
The clinlk of glasses, the FOSTERING song
or the drunken brawl comes floating out
through open windows and transoms.
where formerly peace and sobriety
reigned.
In the capital city Of the state nearly
as fine saloons have been openly in OPP
Grafton as existed in Kansas City, where
such places are legalized-
In many towns license, under the
guise of monthly fines. have been col
lected and jointists did thriving bust
ness IN open DOiQneSS, uuQlSIuTDeQ- his
has been no secret. Officers were cog
infant that whisky was being sold in de-
fiance of the law Jointists taken into
court were liberated on one pretext and
another faster than the officers could
arrest them. Such a farce and a laughs
ing stock had this particular law be-
come that law abiding citizens hung
their heads in shame while the jointist
paraded his business with a chip on his
shoulder and what are you going to
do about it?" air. Is it any wonder
then when the cry came ITO arms. to
arms" that it was needed with a mighty
rush Of long subdued wrath2 The vol
cano had been seething and bubbling for
years. and only needed the touch of a
woman's hand to burst forth and sweep
all before it.
Kansas has no apology to offer for its
outbreak a long suffering public simp
" cast off the burdens which their serv-
ants had refused to do for them.
The citizens Of the state having
cleaned house will proceed to again raise
the best steers and the largest wheat
and corn crops in her history.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23

interesting story of a singer who finds
her soul through love. A young girl
studies to become an opera singer. having
been suddenly deprived Of all other means
of support. She becomes highly skilled
in the technique of singing. but she sings
without moving her hearers. Her heart
has not been awakened. though she has
meantime been loved with patient loyal
devotion by a. splendid fellow, who goes
regularly year after year to Paris to offer
himself, but without success After a few
and when the girl learns OF it she appre-
ciates his loyalty and awakes to passion
ate love for him. The characters are we'll
bred Americans. capable. clever and at
tractive. The hero Is a high-mlnded fell
low and thorough gentleman. the hero
inc is an ambitious and delightfully."- self
reliant girl Published by Houghton. Nif-
lin company. kellam Book and Station
cry company.
A third revised edition Of the standard
whist Catechism, by Mary Levick. Is
in preparation by the Lippincott press
DIR. Jaekson's volume is the first ade-
quate biography OF Huldreich ZWinEli. the
reformer of German Switzerland, IN the
English language. Although the s.rc-
formed churches generally give credit
of their foundation 70 John Calvin, their
real founder was ZWingli. who died about
ten years after his work began in Geneva.
Up to the present time. however the
wider fame to which Zwingli is entitled
has not been accorded him by English
scholars. This volume IS the fifth OF this
kellam Book and Stationery company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23

.AAe u - 4 = =,
BUST TIL windows. pane and SASH:
An wreck en- as you d oughter!
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The roads along Mud creek. Marion
county, are almost impossible
..Giggling is the fence between girl
hood and womanhood," says the Pea
body News.
one stamp was sold on the two rural
routes out of Soldier the first day of es
tablishment.
The Horton band will give street con-
certs this summer-if the collections are
large enough
Just as things We're beginning to come
his way an Ottawa druggist has been
compelled to assign.
Everybody is urgently invited to at
tend a coming ball at Thayer. The size
Of the hall is not stated
The bank failure at La Cygne may
not upset the depositors but they will be
apt to lose their balance.
An Indian maiden was buried In tree
on the Horton reserva ton VIII the next
fruit yield be sQuaw apples2
The Leavenworth policeman who ran
down and captured a fleeing bicycle thief
will be promoted to the fire department.
It doesn't necessarily follow that be-
cause a La Crosse barber shop is styled
the Bison that Buffalo hair cuts will
be given
An IS year old girl of Douglas county
apologies for never having taken
sleigh ride on the ground that she is OPP
posed to palmistry.
Owing to the inclemency of the wealth
er the merry milk maids of Salina
have postponed their operetta until the
merry month of June.
With a new phone system. a Carrie
Nation club and prospects of the Oriert
line shops, Lost Springs cup of happi-
ness is filed to overlooking.
Weary of inhaling smoke fumes from
the clothes of the small boy pupils, Cher
ryvale teachers have inaugurated a cru
sade against the cigarette.
A Fort Scott widow has recovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23
wHAr o. nfRs. NAr1oN ?

Mrs. Carrie Nation is sale in Jail.
There il little Indication that she will
foon set out for no one cares to become
arr surety when the conditions are that
ihe VIII smash no more joints. So
long as there are joints in Kansas the
pnly safe means for their preservation
s to keep Mrs Nation in Jail.
Mrs Nations course toward the joints
has been harsh. She did not enter into
long distance talking match at a mass
meeting 40 howl about officers not doing
heir duty She went out and smashed
ihe places which were allowed to run
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-23
BOOK NOTES.

Though based on a rather improbable
foundation, Miss Adeline SeFgeants new
novel. "Daunay's Tower, deserves 70
be welcomed as a piece of fiction above
One dark and stormy night Jane At
4 t = % ~ fol,r T)a11naxr's queer dwelling
place in Cumberland from Dr. LeShulete
hands. q newborn baby, Win an he et.si
teen years the father made no sign OF
affaction for his child, though he PAID al
mere to examine the little Annabel at ire
Quent intervals. Great was tne coz eeL
nation when John Daunay appeared on
the scene and bluntly demanded OF his
daughter that she should express ne, nsr
willingness to marry her cousin, JOceiyn'
Daunay. This, while, as II were, bind
folded the girl refused to do AS mat
ter of fact there was in her heart an al
feetion for DR. I.echnere. whose forty
seven years sat lightly upon him. which
conraged. Poor Leehmere, though he Sc
eretly worshiped Annabel. had a black
mark against him and therefore snrank az
from INDUCING his heart At the, expense 81
honor How Annabel reached to happi-
ness at last. after treading thorny paths;
Is not for us to tell. Daunay rover
B not ol h B FI aRs Co through
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Among the February publications IS Ida
NJ Tarbel1s Napoleon and Josephine a
new and revised edition OF her "Napo-
10000 copies The same elaborate illus
frations are preserved in the forthcoming
edition. which has been supplemental and
enlarged through sympathetic sketch
Of Josephine Writing of Miss Tarbells
vvark al this time recalls her very COM
piate Life OF Lincoln which is brought
out in two volumes Interest in Lincoln
Is reviying and this intimate review of
him man should commend itself TO
many readers
Within q week Mcclure. Phillips & Co
will publish THE Encyclopedias of Eth
cuette.'' compiled by Emily Holt which
is said to cover the entire subject Of what
to do, what to say what to write and
what to wear The volume viii be well
illustrated and is claimed TO be the most
complete book Of the kind ever published.
IN her new romance The Turn Of the
Road Miss Rockingham tells a very
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cuIe upon the lawmakers OF the state Of
Kansas as well as the voters The
editor Of Harper's Weekly. sitting IN his
sumpruous office in Franklin Square,
knows little or nothing of the conditions
in Kansas. and his advice that high
license is what S needed is only in keep
ing with the rest of his misstatements
and observations
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The ground hogs reputation is gone
forever. Last year. the day on which he
IS supposed to appear was perfectly
cloudiess and was followed by several
weeks of abominable weather. The cor
responding day this year passed without
anording a glimpse of the sun and the
weather. so far. has been about the same
as il was last February.