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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

Perhaps the man who has invented a
system Of biography by which messages
can travel both ways on one wire at the
same time. may yet evolve some plan by
which railroad trains may pass each
other on the same track
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

If the powers really desire harmonious
action in the Chinese matter they SHOULD
place the whole affair in the hands o.
Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

The transfer of another piece Of val
liable Kansas avenue property this week
should serve a warning to intending in
vestors that they must hurry II they
want to get in on the ground door.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

The sultan has concluded that it is not
necessary to open foreign mails, provid-
ed the typewriters are kept out Of the
country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

The Dowie faith has been given a
boom by the arrest of its founder
When a man like Dowie once gets into
the martyr role his success is assured
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

The Porto Rican emigrants to Hawaii
are going to a portion OF Uncle Sans
domain where the constitution has fol-
flowed the flag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

The first thing an organizer Of a new
trust or combine does is to announce
that ne has no intention OF bucking
against Mr.. Morgan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

Albany Times Union: A New Jersey
minister has launched a religious daily.
How can he hope to succeed where a
Kansas man failed?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

IL we buy the Panama canal route
VIE shall at least be in possession of q
beginning of an isthmian water route.
something that we are not likely to
gain in any other way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

The sultan no sooner escapes from
one trouble than he is into another, yet
ne never seems to get hurt He IS an
expert old dodger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

italy hasn't cut much Ice in China
but she seems disposed to take the lead
in jumping onto Turkey
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

Mr. Morgan may decide to buy Alsace
and Lorraine in the interest Of q per-
manent peace between France and Ger
many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

Colonel Roosevelt might do little
business down in West Virginia where
a bear has been devouring little chill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25


The worst misfortune Of a farmer, is
to have no sons.
After a man gets married. he expects
people to take him more seriously
1t is positively known that badness
is incurable. but men keep on trying
cures.
There is one good thing about fried
chicken: it is always carved ready to
be served.
AS a rule a mans relatives will let
him make almost any kind of a fool OF
himself without interference, until he
begins to give his money away
A new man who came to town lately.
says he doesn't amount to anything This
is a good sign: he is probably very
bright and competent man
A man VIII promise to do anything
next week. and when he IS smoking
good cigar after a good dinner. he
An Atchison woman is having 50
much trouble that she IS expecting
lot of visitors on almost every train:
the climax to every trouble Is usually
visitors.
It's an embarrassing custom: here
lately, when a girl gets married, the
names Of the men she was formerly en-
gagged to, are somehow worked into the
marriage notice.
Cat skins are worth fifty cents each
Why be annoyed with cats bowling
around at night2 Why not Well cat
hides are worth fifty cents each They
are used for making genuine seal skin
elOaks.
A woman was telling about her son
who had gone swimming in the river.
You must have been terribly worried,
said the caller Yes. it was terrible"
the mother replied. 4 was 50 worried
that 1 went to bed and slept all after
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

AS a rule a mans relatives viii let
him make almost any kind Of fool Of
himself without interference, until he
begins to give his money away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

There is one good thing about fried
chicken: it is always carved ready to
be served.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25
GLOBE SIGHTS

CF'rom the Atchison Globe1
The worst misfortune of a farmer, is
to have no sons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25
| pint Turpentine, Sc
j. X. JONES. 800 Kansas Ave.

which people look on the brightest and
best side of life.
It has been said that George Wash
ington never told a lie-but after a
man marries a widow what's the use?
Don't think for a minute that the
world owes you a living. young man.
It was here long before your time. and
is in a position to have you pinched
for not keeping OF the grass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

After man gets married. he expects
people to take him more seriously
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

A new man who came to town lately,
says he doesn't amount to anything. This
is a good sign: he is probably a very
bright and competent man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

1t is positively known that badness
is incurable. but men keep on trying
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

A man will promise to do anything
next week. and when he is smoking 3
good cigar after a good dinner. ht
win promise to do anything tomorrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

FFron the Chicago News.l
oney makes the slot machine go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

J. B. Lippincott company announces
a new edition Of o. R Palmer's Type
writing and Business Correspondence =
at the reduced price of ST. a low price
for a textbook of such excellence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

The beautiful color pictures in PA
troon Van Volkenberg.' one of the Bow
en-AIerrilI companys books We're made
by new process direct from the original
oil paintings by the celebrated New York
artist c. NJ RelEea-
Louis How, the young man who wrote
that very artistic and entertaining story,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25

An Atchison woman is having sc
much trouble that she is expecting g
lot of visitors on almost every train.
the climax to every trouble Is usually
visitors.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

posterous and impossible. But the
event proved that the little lbrigadier
knew exactly what he was about.
Frederick Funston always knows
exactly what be is about!
General Funston is not an acct.
dent. A man may become famous by
a lucky chance, but no man can be-
come great by accident. He must
have within himself the qualities Of
greatness or all the lucky chances 10
the world cannot lift him above the
common level. Frederick Funston
was born with keen intelligence, high
ambition, inhsxible purpose, tireless
energy, unbending will and kingly
courage. For fifteen years before the
supreme test came be had been IN.
consciously developing, in the hard
school Of arduous experience, the
qualities with which nature endowed
him. 1t is the simple concentration
Of these qualities upon the business
be had in hand that has made him the
foremost soldier lin the Philippines,
and has given him at thirty-six the
star OF q brigadier.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18
RULING ON DIVORCES.


st. Paul, Mimi, April MA Fargo,
N. D., special to the Globe says: As
q result Of the United States supreme
court decision, declaring invalid d.
vorces granted in this state in which
residence was not bona fide, there
has been a flood Of kilograms from
the east from those likely to be az
fected. They want to stfaighten out
the records so that their cases will
stand contest. 1t is q conceded fact
that, owing to the prevailing custom
of getting decree of divorce and
rushing homeward Immediately aft
erward, that less than ten per cent.
Of the divorces granted under the
former regulations here are valid II
contested. To add to their troubles,
a majority have remarked and the
decision of the court not only af-
fects their present status, but the
legitimacy of many children born
subsequently, to second marriages.
This makes the courts finding far
reaching and creates great anxiety.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18
Burton Cots Things,

The Washington correspondent Of
the Globe Democrat writes to that
paper;
: "The new senator from Kansas is
developing a get-there-Eli manner
which has already made him marked
man at the White House and the de-
partments. Not since the days OF
Preston B. Plumb has there been such
a strenuous representation Of the
wants Of Kansans. Apparently there
isn't anything in the way Of appoint.
ments too big or too little for Senator
Burton to tackle in behalf OF some
Kansan. While most other senators
went home or on travels following
the adjournment Of the extra session,
Burton Of Kansas remained and made
a daily. round OF the departments. II
was the general understanding that
few changes would occur, and that
nearly everything good was nailed
down by civil service. Senator Bur-
ton succeeded in hnding quite num-
Der Of places provided for in the legis-
lation Of the last congress or created
by emergencies Of various kinds. In
the Indian Territory and on the res.
ervatlons many temporary appoint
ments are being made. The Kansas
senator made 1t his business to inform
himself on oil there was In sight, and
then laid siege to cabinet officers, as.
sistant secretaries and commissioners
with Kansas peg for every hole he
could discover. The result Is that
no other state 10 securing so many
appointments as Kansas is."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18
At a recent dinner party in Atchi-

At a recent dinner party in Atchi-
son, a colored man who formerly
worked as passenger brakeman,
was employed to call out the differ.
ent spoons and forks to use. When
the oyster cocktails were served, the
colored man appeared at the pantry
door, and said in the voice be former.
ly used in calling out stations: Use
the small harpoon looking fork to the
right" When the biscuits were
brought in, the man said: EVERY
body look out now: use butter knife
directly IN front Of your plate; not on
the side. Don't put your dinner
knife in the butter plate" When the
escalloped fish came on. the brake.
man said "Here Is where the best
Of them usually fall down. Use the
silver affair in front Of your plate; it
is cross between "a fork and q spoon,
and looks like a scoop shovel with one
corner bent" And so on with the
different forks and spoons until the
end. 1t was good idea;. even the
men got through without trouble.
|-rGlobe.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

Topeka has a new graft. 1t is
worked by girls who are about to. be
married. When a girls engagement
Is announced she has her friends get
up "showers. Miss Jones sends out
invitations for a "china shower" for
bride.elect; Miss Smith gets up a
"rug shower" Miss Blank invites SO.
ciety to q Kitchen utensil shower, :"
and SO on until the girl who Is about
to take unto herself a husband has &C.
cumulated a complete outfit for her
home. The graft is not worked alone
among the girls friends; mere &C.
quaintances are invited to attend the
"showers" and often the unsuspect-
ing stranger within the gates is
caught in the meshes. The society
calendar in Topeka includes twenty
weddings, and the social columns Of
the local papers are given up to the
description Of .'showers. Ner.
chants advertise special sales for the
accommodation OF "shower" victims.
A groom-to-be started a movement
the other day for a "necktie and
shirt shower but his friends gave
him the CLASSY stare.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

A Washington dispatch says it has
been shown to President Mckinley
that be can on his trip through Kan
sss leave the Union Pacific at Law.
renee and 60 to Baldwin and Ottawa.
OF course, and he can also leave the
road here AID 90 via the Santa Fs to
Manchester and Barnard, or can take
the branch at Detroit and GO to En-
terprise where is located the German
Methodist college and the sx.joint
smashed by Mrs. Nation. There are
scads and scads Of things Mckinley
can do in Kansas II he will stay here
long enough.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

m new fish law says; ut shall
y unlawful for any person to catch
o. take from any lake, pond, river,
creek, stream or waters within or
bordering on the state, any fish by
any means, or In any manner except
with rod and line or set lins." It
will Be observed that this does away
With the "closed season." making 1t
lawful At any lime to fish with hook
and line. and sDlawial to fish in any
other way q any time. Somebody
IN Dickinson should have The nerve
to enforce y.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

President Mckinley may not now
intend to stop at Abilene but be will
when the time comes. II this town
with its U. s. senator. ito merry.go-
round factory, Its circus and its pro-
posed public library cant stop .
presidents train it might as we'll 60
out OF business.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

Washington, April 17.-Newspapers
already are sending their replies to
the circular letter sent out by the post
office department asking whether a
departmental rule that will absolute
ly stop all premium inducements for
subscriptions would be regarded as
injurious to legitimate newspapers
and periodicals. All except one Of
the responses already in warmly IA
vor such a rule, the exception being
a request for further information on
the subject.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18
Tho Nations Honor Roll

The annual report Of the commits
sioner Of pensions for 1900 informed
the country that there were then on
the pension rolls s9S,529 names, and
that the value Of the pension roll was
$lSl, 5S4,b44. In 9 few weeks anoth-
er report will be due, and it Is init.
mated that on account OF the addi-
tions to the roll growing out Of the
war With Spain and service in the
Philippines and China it may be
slightly increased, the losses and
gains Of pensioners on account Of the
war Of the rebellion about balancing.
Attention has been directed from
time to time to the fact that for sew.
eral years the pension roll has con,
tanned more names than were ever on
the pay.rolls Of the army oithe Union
at any one time until just after the
fighting was over, in 1865. But there
were OF Individual enlistments for
long or short terms Of some 100000
men, the record being much smaller
reduced to q three-year basis. The
fact that there are snearly a million
names on the rolls now, thirty.six
years after the last gun was fired, is
impressive, but when it is remembered
that the business Of paying pensions
on q large scale began In 1866, and
has cost something two billions and a
half Of dollars since that time, 1t is
not generally kept in mind that there
has been constant and increasing
dropping off Of pensioners from many
causes, chiefly from death, and on ex.
animation 1t turns out, according to
the figures reported, that in all the
government has paid pensions since
1852 to about 100000 different
claimants. There have been dropped
from the rolls, for various causes,
principally, however, that Of death,
since 1872, 642,64S pensioners. The
total accounted for here Is thus / $780,
l72. II the present roll were in.
creased by the number Of pending ap-
plications that roll would be at once
expanded to pretty nearly a million
and half OF pensioners.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18


junction City sportsmsn have
formed . club that should no initiated
oil over the state. The clubs prime
object 10 to enforce the game laws, 1t
aims to promote good fellowship
among sportsmen, to foster In the
minds Of the people 4 love Of nature
cad natures works, to encourage the
propagation Of game and game fishes,
asd the restocking Of game fields and
Public waters, also to protect the
cong, insectivorous and other inno-
osAt birds.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

Only brief summary OF Mr..
Cleveland'a two recent lectures on the
Venezuela Affair was given to the
public,-.the lectures having been
especially copyrighted for appearance
in the June and July numbers Of The
Century Magazine Few except
special students are aware Of the long
history Of the connection Of the
United States with the subject.
Among the interesting points brought
out 10 the lectures, and not reported,
may be mentioned Mr.. Clsvslsnd's
scathing remarks on the relation Of
the senate to treaties formulated BY
the executive branch Of the govern
ment.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

The institute law has been amended
so that an enrolment Of s. persons
will authorize the county superiu-
tendent to call for $50 from the state.
Before this amendment was made, the
enrolment required to obtain state
aid was fifty. The change will be
welcomed 10 the western part OF Kan
sas, where superintendent we're com.
PEELED to 60 on the streets to solicit
memberships among the businessmen.
House bill No. 2ll reduces the min
imum price at which school land may
be appraised from IS to 1925 per
acre.
The term Of service Of county ex-
aminers is made to begin in July, at
the time Of the quarterly meeting Of
the county commissioners.
In addition to the special county
high school laws named another was
enacted, authorizing Marion county,
by vote, to make the high schools
now in operation at Marion, Peabody,
Florence, Hlllsboro and Lost Springs,
county high schools The money
raised BY tax is to be divided equally
among the cities named, on condition
that prescribed standard Of efficiency
Is maintained.
The old law providing for the con-
solidation Of school districts provided
that when two or more adjoining
schools have less than five pupils
each, the county superintendent
should combine the pupils Of such
districts and provide for a term Of
school. A bill passed at the last ses-
sion Of the legislature provides that
adjacent districts, without regard to
school population, may by a majority
vote Of each district be consolidated.
When a notice Of the vote is sent to
the county superintendent it becomes
bis duty to consolidate the districts
and to call a meeting for the election
Of board. The board is authorized
to pay for the transportation Of pupils
living two or more miles from the
school, and provision Is made for the
Indebtedness, II there be any, OF each
district.
The law Of 1899 prohibits, under
penalties, any school board from buy
ing charts, maps, globes, etc., unless
apparatus had been approved by the
state textbook commission. The law
las now been amended, making it a
misdeneanor to sell charts, maps,
globes, etc., to school boards. Scien-
tiic apparatus for high schools Is ex-
cepted, and can be bought or sold in
the open market.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

Itisa great thing for a town to
have a press agent. Hiawaths re-
fused to, patronize bum concert
company and in the dispatches gets
credit for excessive morality. Abilene
has done the same thing many times
and took credit only for having COM
mon horse sense.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

New Hampshire Is making greater prepar-
ations than ever this year for the celebra-
tion Of "old home week" when the people Of
the state will gather at their old homes and
those who moved away will be coaxed to
come back and visit the home folks" The
events last year we're such success that
plans were enlarged for this years celebra.
tion Lawrence Journal.
Kansas ought to organize a new
home week" when eastern folks could
come out and visit US.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

Lincoln, Neb., April 17.-Specials to
the Journal from Orleans, Alma and
Republican City tell of a terrific wind
storm in that district at midnight
Monday night. At Orleans three
buildings were blown down, and one
each at Alma and Republican City.
Minor damage was done in many
towns on the southern line Of the
Burlington. Farming districts suf-
fered heavily from the wind and tor
rents of rain which followed 1t.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

Mckinley is going to Baldwin be-
cause it "will please the Kansas Meth
odists," Had Bryan been elected be
would have gone to Emporia to please
the Presbyteriaus. Upon such small
things does the glory Of towns de-
pend.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

The ABILENE REFLECTOR says that
''Smah as Lawrence 10 it rubber
neched ~ Mrs. Nation the same as
other less dignihsd towns" That's
what We did, and about a thousand Of
~ paid ten cents apiece for the priv
llegs Of rubbernecking. Lawrence
can 30 just as jay as any town when
she takes notion that way.-[Law.
rence Journal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

An exchange starts an article with
There Is only one thing worse than
Kansas obituary poetry" Wrong.
Nothing Is worse than Kansas obitu.
Ary poetry.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

When . woman editor at q Topeka
convention complained that her voice
iailsd her Mrs, Natio, yelled from the
audience, "Your corsets are too tight
-7let 'em out" For once she prob
ably told the truth.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

The Democratic editors will all
come out Of the woods when they hear
that there 10 to DO an excursion to
Texas at the close Of the Abilene
mAetinu.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18
A Minister Fslla from . so.so,a

York, Pa, April 17,--Rev. George
B. Reeser, pastor Of the Emanuel Re-
formed church at Hanover, yesterday
fell from the scaffold Of new church
which his congregation Is building
and died in half an hour.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18
Rescued the Crew Of Wrecked Steamer.

st. Johns, N. F., April 1.-THE
sealing steamer Greenland arrived
here yesterday morning, having res
cued 1914 members of the crew of the
sealing steamer Hope, which was
wrecked on Bryon island, in the Gulf
Of St. Lawrence. The Hope was
broken up by the furious gales, but
her cargo Of 5000 seals was saved.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18
Mrs. Nation to Conduct W. G. T. U. Institute.

Topeka, Kan, April 17.-Mrs. Carrie
Nation will go to Medicine Lodge Fri
day to conduct Tie regular spring in
stitute of the W. C.. 7. u, of which
she is the county, president. Mrs.
Nation will remain at Medicine Lodge
three days, during which time she
will endeavor to have some one else
selected as county president of the
association, as her time is so taken
up with her new work that it is al
most impossible for her to attend to
the affairs of the W. CT. U.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

Atchison Globe: Kansas has a
labor commissioner named johnson,
and his reports sound like a woman's
expense accounts, are about IS accur.
ate, and fully as valuable.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

Ed Fry seem to have missed emily
enc thing-getting in on Funston's
expedition.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-04-18

indianapolis has bad boys whipped
instead Of timing the PARENTS SEN
sibls move.