The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-01

Nations smashing added the Topeka
lawyer. Il lament such acts that give
Kansas undesirable notoriety. It seems
as though a portion of our citizens are
constantly advertising themselves to the
world by unusual conduct. When I was
n washington before. some two months
stories of the burning of a negro at Ieav-
enworth- Nevertheless, the prospects for
bright. There IS every promise of a big
wheat crop, and other indications of con-
tlnued good tines
Just while the skirmish is going on in
Kansas over the appointments to CONSUL
ships it may be well to say that these are
among the losing money kind of offices
W. A. Calderhead of Kansas is authority
turned TO Kansas from Washington a few
weeks ago, in discussing these appoint
ative he said: There are but few con-
sulate positions that pay. While the sal
aries Of most Of these Offices are fairly
good the general expenses are 50 great
that, in fact, it costs more to keep up
They are particularly considered appoint
ments of high honor An official repre-
Sentlhg tne Y IltSa 5iateS ABROAD IS al
most compelled. by virtue of his office.
to reciproeate the social favors of enter
This makes it almost impossible for one
70 save any salary For instance, the
salary of $4,000 a year. The department.
reports show that his expenses amount
to about $4,000 annually. OF course, the
amount expended over and above his sal
ary is paid by the consulate himself. The
counts reported, show a proporuonate ex-
pense over the salary they draw. Uncle
70 live IN with a salary, but no funds for
entertainment. SO It Is an office which
only rich men should seek to enjoy such
an expensive honor.
Nominally the pay of a member of the
senate or house is 5000 year. Senators
and repreSen entatiVeS in congress are on a
regard as great hardship, not because
senator's work harder than representa-
tives, but for the reason that the habits
soon acquired IN the senate are more ex-
1sive than those adopted by most
members of the other house But thrifty
members Of both houses may increase
their pay considerably by making shift
anees to members under the rules Far
western members-au mem bers, in fact
get 20 cents mile mileage once each ses-
sion IN many cases TINS adds about 800
a year to the pay of each member, as he
cents a mile fro travel, and most of them
pay only their incidental travel expenses.
over which they IrAVei. The average gain
in pay may be $500 from mileage Then
each session Some members sell their
seed allowances, others dispose of their
quotas OF dOcdLnenss 10 oener members or
to second hand dealers. ana 50 add to their
500 a month in clerical fees for every
member makes a sworn statement that he
amount allowed for such services said to
be required to enable him to serve his
tiny of this pay. roll which the
clerks are carried, and they. receive their
scrupulous member may add to his pay
something like s1,2o0 from such a source.
Now and then assertions have been made
that members require proteges in their
service to ''whack ups Z part of their pay
they occupy. Such instances are few. if
there are any at all: but the charge has
termined man might easily run his in
come up to $500, and if he was willing
coll .4~rf,+
end d Of the session with With Pretty Nearly SIZE
600 in his pocket or on his bank account.
s.The sign language, which was once
universal among all Indians. however diff
their doniiciles. is fast disappearing, re-
marked Mr.. George T. Harvey, connected
E1 Reno, o. T.. to the State Journal rep
resentatfve- THE older Indians are fa-
nailiar with this universal sign language
by which they are able to converse with
strange tribes, but the younger Indians
take less interest and acquire only meager
information regarding it. The Indian
schools in the vicinity of Ell Reno have
enDe and Arapahoe reservations mostly
north of the South Canadian river The
generally known as blanket Indians. but
their fathers and mothers are often very
non pro gressive, although they had schools
for the instT'Icfion- # NAV he San9evl1s+
peculiar that the Indian women are more
Conservative than their husbands, and
are responsible to greater extent for the
failure of their children to succeed after
receiving a good ducation- When the sons
come back with good clothes the women
the daughters are advised to go and live
with pale-faces if they wish to continue
wearing the clothes of white people,
A recent edition of the New York World
aTH9Se a6y Pa Ths article @ re freas 4
interestingly on many people of Kansas
who have been in the pubic eye from the
days of John Brown down to the recent
saloon crusade In part the World says:
Kansas has always been noted for its
eccentric characters and for its men and
women who, when sternly set upon what
John Brown was one of the first Kansas
enthusiasts, and his daring and firmnesS
history Of the nation He went to Kan
sas In 1855 in order to work and fight,
slavery in that terrloIy IN Ocober, 1889
at the head of seventeen white men and
Harper's Ferry and captured the arsenal
This famous raid was designed to be the
proposed to lead he was captured after
a desDerate fight. was tried for treason
eight hours William Clark QuantriH is
another name which must be forever as
sas IN 1857 He Joined John Brown in his
efforts to keep Kansas free. but became
federacy was formed he was commission
ed a captain, and he gathered under his
1862 to 1864 Quantril and his band made
life a terror for the abolitionists. John
j. lngdliS reached f>diSdS Sil0IllN dIlef
John Brown went there. He was a young
lawyer and, as he put it. saw the bound-
less prairies first without one shirt his
back and no money in his pocket He
was one of the most picturesque figures
in the United States senate when he rep
resented Kansas there He was a master
of satire and fearless in his use of that
deadly weapon. Subsidy POmerOy was
another Kansan of the early days who
had his peeuharities- William A. PETER
whose taWny name and long granger
whiskers have added not a little to the
gayety Of nations was another eccentric
Of Topeka and IS a Populist of the Popu-
lists John P. St John. who defeated
Blaine by securing 25. 600 votes in New
York as a Prohibitionist candidate for
president, is a. Kansas man His peculiar