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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. SATURDAY

ing from current literature that it would
be of inestimable value to a commun-
ity.
Aside from the direct result which
would come through the broadening of
intelligence. there would be influence of
genuine social advantages. Especially
is this applicable to the country COM
munities where the opportunities of peo-
pie assembling is more difficult than in
the towns and cities There the infiu-
ence of the neighborhood center, if it is
ever to come into operation again. viii
bring out the very best element of men
who are to participate in national mat
tiers. 1t is needed more there than else
where and should be placed there.
But wherever there Is to be a re-
establishment of the neighborhood gath
erings which our forefathers knew, let
it be undertaken with a view to includ-
ing all classes. 1t is thus that tenden-
cies toward castles will be rooted out
and the United States will need have no
fear of being anything other than re-
DI1hlic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

lFTom the Atcn1Son GloDe.I
Here's good advice to give every
woman: Don't overdo your crying.
Take care, or you also may become
nothing more in life than warning.
Oftentimes you think you receive a
wireless message when none was sent.
Saturday is the first of March. Have
you paid for your Christmas presents
yet?
Most people can write a better hand
than they do. This is an age of care
lessness.
We will admit that whenever we see
a very thin piece of ice we long to see
if we can skate over it.
After one woman has convinced a
man that she would die for him, he
begins to look vaguely around to see if
there are any more.
You think you are Indifferent to a
dog. Could you sit five minutes and
resist request a dog is making with
his eyes for drink of water:
When a mans wife dies, he has an
uneasy feeling that from the looks of
the neighborS, he is not rising to the
occasion in the demonstrations of his
grief.
The explanation of a young mans
downfall in Atchison is given by his
friends as follows: He was his
mothers pet, and never in his fathers
confidence"
Mrs. Roosevelt is Alice Roosevelt's
the same everywhere Don't you sup
pose it sometimes clouds up and rains
in the White House?
We will be able to stand it all pa
tiently, and with degree of patriot
ism, until the neighbours girl begins to
pound out Die Wacht Am Rhein" on
the piano. That will be Too Much.
The girls are doing better. Formerly
their hair looked like the tail of a dray
horse tied up to keep it out of the mud,
but they have practiced till now it
looks like the tail of a high-priced trot-
ter.
There are different ways of doing pen
ance in Lent: Mrs. LySander John APP
pleton always devotes the six weeks to
giving dinners for her kin, and becom-
ing very chummy with them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

can't be one of the really successful
men If you start out to be a moderate
drinker.
What does a young man lose by not
drinking spirits?
In the first place 1t is necessary to
cultivate the taste in the beginning.
Why cultivate it at all?
In the second place. admitting all the
usual Sophistry about moderate drink
ing, whisky means the loss of time. loss
OF money, loss of clear mental thought.
There is boasting, lying, vacillation,
procrastinat ton, self-delusion in every
glass of spirits.
How many millions of men-on their
dying bed-have wished fervently and
mournfully that they had never tasted
spirits?
Did any dying man ever regret a tenn
perate life2
Has whisky no work to do2 Yes, it has
an important work. It is the policeman,
the executioner among human beings. 1t
wipes out the unfit and softens the pain
OF their destruction. 1t wipes out fami-
lies untitled to survive 1t ShortenS tie
harmful career of the Spendthrift and of
the man squandering inherited money
1t has its place in medicine, along with
strychnine, arsenic and the other poiS-
ons. 1t has no place in the constitution,
the daily life, the social pleasures of q
normal, self-respecting young man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

When we compare the relative num-
her of divorces in the United States and
other countries, it becomes at once ap-
parent that the marriage tie is much
more loosely regarded here than in most
civilized-and some Observation-Disclosures
For instance. according to a statement
recently published in ST. Louis medi-
cal journal. the divorce rate in Canada
to 1 to $1,000 marriages; in Germany,
TO 1900; in France. 1 to Is, 500; in Eng
land, to II, 500. Now let US turn to this
country. In the United States at large,
the proportion is 1 to 185, or sixty times
as many in England, and more than
800 times as many as in Canada But
this is nothing, compared with the sta
tistics of some sections of the United
States. For instance in Massachusetts
the rate is to ISIS: in Rhode Island. L
TO So; while in Los Angeles. as we have
shown, the proportion last year was at
the extraordinary rate of more than one
divorce to every five marriages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
WHAT WHISKY DOES.

One of the strongest editorials on the
drink evil appeared in a recent issue of
the New York Journal under a half
page cartoon by Davenport showing the
ruin caused by intemperance.
The New York Journal is Democratic
in politics and the lecture can not be
attributed to any desire to make po-
litical capital.
The following is from the Journal edi-
torial:
Strong drink is the curse of millions
in our modern civilization.
There is throughout society what may
be called a whisky level" This level
exists in every great city and in every
small village. There are men classed
whatever they may profess to believe,
they are and they know they are the
pariahs of the community.
Look at the picture above. 1t is not
exaggerated: far from 1T. One cot in
the alcoholic ward of a big hospital will
present to you more of horror than can
be found in all the details of this power
full cartoon.
But this is not written with the
thought that it's readers will ever share
the fate of those who embark on that
sea of death.
The important thing in the world is to
prevent men from falling into error
that work is much more useful than the
retaining of those who have gone too
far.
The conquering armies are armies of
drinking men usually-but their leaders
are sober temperate men, If you want
to be one of the ordinary crowd, no
worse and no better than others, drink
spirits moderately" as whiSky's
friends put it. But remember that there
is no such thing as drinking whisky
moderately"
Immoderate drinking makes you a
brute; it classes you among those in the
picture; so-called moderate whisky
drinking takes the edge off your ability.
1t discounts your mental activity. You
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
RUNcoING THE PUBLIC.

Probably in no other way is the pub
lie buncoed to the extent that it is at
the theater box Office, unless it is in the
bucket shops.
The average person who buys any
thing knows what he is getting, or there
is behind it guarantee of good fa1th
upon which the purchaser relies for re-
ceiving his moneys worth If he is de-
frauded once then there is no longer
guarantee. Mr. James Neill the actor,
who was not here at the head of his
company in Barbara F'rietchie,'' may
remember that. He left the company to
come here without him, and with no
other excuse than business in another
city To be sure it made little diff
ference whether Mr.. Neill played or not,
but he announced that he would be
here and he asked the people to con-
tribute one dollar and fifty cents apiece
if they sat on the first floor to see him
and his company. In the first place
that was an injustice, or at least one
third of that price was. Then, more
over, charging such prices, Mr. Ne1H
owed the public the best he had and
all that he gave elsewhere for less
money. He owed the public the benefit
OF his acting. While the play went on
very well, the parts were probably just
as well handled, and he was not missed,
still he might have had the straight
forwardness and fairness to have had
an announcement made excusing his
absence. He might have at least apol-
ogized by proxy. Instead he attempted
to fool the public. To the discredit of
fdr. Neill's ability let it be said that
many who saw him here a year ago
did not give the part he was supposed
to take and which was assumed by his
understudy, thought enough to discover
that it was not Mr.. Neill who was mas
Querading as Captain Trumbul."
The only point is this: The public
may like to be humbugged. as great
Snowman once said, but another and
greater man also remarked that it was
impossible to fool all the public all the
tine. Perhaps Mr.. Neill viii bill his
ccn,rany to appear in Topeka again
Perhaps he will be with il next tire
Perhaps the people will again pay adj
vanced prices to see whether he is there
or not. Just a little curtain speech ex-
planning the situation would have made
everything all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

the state expended in trying to exter-
inmate the voracious little beasts" ac-
cording to this Ohio valley pessimist,
but without success
Now, really, if the article in question
didn't assume such a serious tone 1t
would be laughable. Draw a line north
and south through the state and mark
of sixty-eight counties, and we find the
prairie dog district runs up to, our
most tlnickly populated counties, and
includes the banner wheat and corn
territory of the state. In the district
named such counties as Sumner, the
banner wheat county of the world. Sa-
line. Mcpherson, Reno. Clay, Butler,
Harvey, Dickinson, etc, are included
In most of these counties men are vot-
ing at the ballot box who have been
born and raised in the territory men
toned and who have never seen
prairie dog or even heard one bark
The gentleman from Cincinnati has his
wires as we'll as his figures crossed He
should some sunny June day lay aside
the tripod, strike the office for passes,
and come west and get acquainted with
Kansas. Then let him take a spin out
through this imaginary prairie dog
desert" Let him board a Union Pa
cific, Rock Island or Santa F'e train
that passes through miles and miles OF
waving wheat, alfalfa and corn with
out a Village" in sight. Nothing but
fields of grain and rich prairie grass as
far as the eye can reach. And Incl
dentally he might get glimpse of a
"Populist," whom he imagines has
claws and breathes fire and birthstone.
but who, on the contrary, is a good citi-
zen and heighbor. And then let him
go home and make the amende honor
able.
Kansas has grown so strong and SEN
sible that she really is no longer
touchy on these little filings from east
ern papers, but we can't help bristling
up occasionally out of habit. The air is
so charged with aggressive ozone that
it creates a pugnacious feeling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
auAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A discharged office boy breads the
fire.
Fame is often a bubble that comes
from putting.
Our closest friends are sometimes the
ones we can't borrow FROM
The motto of some people seems to be:
Be sure you are right and then do the
other thing.
When Fortune knocks at our door we
are too often over at our neighbours
telling hardluck stories.
Hoax-'I paid so cents to hear lee
ture last night" Joax-"What was it
about?" Hoax-.Free speech"
Wigg-"Great strides have been made
in the canning business recently" Wagg
Yes, even beer comes in cans"
Mrs. Muggins-'Mrs. Talkalot be-
lieves everything she hears" Mrs. Bug
gins-'Yes, and a lot she doesn't hear"
Nell-'She went abroad to complete
her education, but she doesn't show any
evidence of it, Belle-''M Maybe the GUS
tom house inspectors confiscated it"
Blobbs-"What are you carrying a
gun for2' Slobbs-'.I'm going house
hunting Blobbs-"That's a pretty
poor joke" Slobbs-"No joke about it.
You don't know what these real estate
agents might do to you if they catch
you unarmed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
GOOD WORK
Done Daily IN Topeka. Many Cit
izens Tell of Il.

Nearly every reader has heard of
Doan's Kidney Pills. Their good work
in Topeka still continues. and our citi-
zens are constantly adding endorsement
by public testimony. No better proof
of merit can be had than the experience
Of friends and neighbors- Read this
case:
Mr.. ]. A. Brown, of 801 Morris avenue,
employed at the Star Grocery store,
says: My first attack of kidney COM
plant was felt across the small of my
back. 1 paid little attention to the dull
aching pains at first, but they kept get
ting worse, bothering me mostly in the
morning. When working about the
barn sudden sharp twinge caught me
across my loins and almost threw me
to the ground. The pain was so acute
that / could hardly get to the house.
Seeing Doan's Kidney Pills highly rec
commended I procured box at Rowley
& Shows drug store. Before finishing
it the pain in my back disappeared and
there has been no recurrence
For sale by all dealers Price so cents.
Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo, n. Y. sole
agents for the United -tates-
Remember the name-DoanS-and
take no substitute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
MORE EASTERN IGNORANCE.

Kansas is in dire distress again, ac-
cording to an editorial writer in the
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune After
wildly describing for half column the
suffering and blighting effects caused
by grasshoppers and Populists to the
state, he proceeds to picture the woes
caused the farmer and ranchman by
the ravages of the prairie dog.
over sixty-eight counties has this
little pest spread with astonishing ra-
pidity, continues this gifted" writer,
and a million and a quarter of farm
ing acres are entirely useless, and in
many counties the damage is made
complete Thousands of dollars has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago New.

From the Chicago NewS.l
A bur hangs on longer than a straw
berry.
Usually a girl isn't afraid of an arm
ed man.
The more a spinster sees of men the
better she likes cats.
A man who is fond of cabbage is near
ly always cigar smoker.
Nine times out of ten when a man
does get justice he doesn't like it.
Effects of a big feast are almost as
bad as effects of big drunk.
Unprofessional people give advice, but
professional people sell it.
One convincing proof of good citizen
ship is the prompt payment of your
bills.
Time steals on without fear of arrest.
but the man who steals often has to
serve time.
A man feels lonesome when he is in
the company of people who never make
mistakes.
Our idea of a leve1-headed man is one
who can be brought around to our way
of thinking.
The men who give up their seats to
women in street cars have a long stand
ing grievance.
The people who insist that marriage
is a failure are usually the ones who
have never had a chance to try it.
ut is impossible to keep good man
down." sighed the whale, as Jonah pick
ed up his hat and departed.
The average woman has no desire to
enter a room unless she happens to see
a mo Admittance" sign on the door.
Fire worship is supposed to be ex-
tinct, yet when the mercury fiirts with
the zero mark it's popularity seems to
break out afresh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

TFrom the New York Press.l
Idealists plan things; plain men do
them
There are any number of ways to get
worse; the only way to get better is to
do st
The right kind of man doesn't wait for
an Invita- ton to kiss girl; he waits for
a chance.
You don't have to look at a girl to
know if she is pretty. look at the men
woh are looking at her.
Six weeks after the first of every jan
uary the biggest cast-on collection IN
the country is made Up of discarded
New Years resolution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

Verplanck Colvin in note to the New
York Sun calls attention to the fact
that in the state library at Albany is
the gift of Frederick the Great, of Prus-
STA, to George Washington-a beautiful
sword with the well-known inscription:
From the Oldest Soldier to the Great
est Soldier" But for the visit of Prince
Henry this might have been overlooked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

The big universities appear to have an
unlimited supply of degrees. They seem
ready to bestow one on almost anybody
of note. There is a probability that the
bestowal of a degree will soon cease to
be regarded as an especial honor. 1t is
becoming very common Prince Henry
Is next in line at Harvard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

The four greatest men today, says
Henry Labouchere, are Marconi, Ront-
gen, Edison and Carnegie. Celebrated
statesmen and distinguished soll'ers
generally do more harm than good. The
foremost benefactors of the race have
heen those who fought against abuse.
superstition, ignorance, or disease, or
have discovered the means of adding to
the resources of mankind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

Tax dodgers are doing more to build
up a sentiment in favor of an income
tax than any other class of persons.
Honest people, who pay on what they
have, grow weary seeing their weather.
nelghbors escaping their just share of
the public burden.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
TO FIGHT AT FIT. ERIE.
Three Good Matches Announced by
the Management.

Buffalo, N. Y, Feb. 2S-Manager Her
mann, of the International Athletic club
of Fort Erie, has announced three inn
portant matches. Frank Erne and Cur
ley Supplies of Buffalo have signed ar
ticles to meet at the club house across
the river on March II for the light
weight championship. Two weeks later
Martin Duffy of Chicago and Joe Cans
of Baltimore are scheduled for a rs
round bout, the winner of this fight to
meet the winner of the Supplies Erne
match on the first or second Monday of
May.
Arrangements have been practically
completed for 25-round bout between
Terry McGovern and Kid Broad.
A certain members of the legal pro-
fession, whose name is omitted for rea-
sons which will appear obvious, was
asked some years ago by a young negro
to defend him on the charge of murder.
''How much money have you got %
asked the lawyer.
None, sab"
ANY friend or relative who'll raise
some for you
None" despairingly replied the
negro. Use got nobody ter cum t me
aid" q.
''Humphr' muttered the attorney
"Say you don't want a lawyer. You
want a minister. ''-Philadelphia Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

Prince Henry will travel more than
5000 miles on his tour, covering an area
OF Uncle Sans domain almost equal to
the width and length of the entire Ger
man empire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

Just when we were preparing to begin
to. get ready to do something about IN
isthmian canal the Panama people ge-
together and decide that they don't
know whether they want to sell or not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

Prince Henry will miss one of Amer1-
cas- noted institutions if he fails to see
Mrs. Nation and her Ratchet in action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

If Prince Henry viii only refrain from
publishing his impressions of America
and the Americans-that is, his real I'M
pressions-we can survive the rest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

TfIlman and McLaurin have been let
off with seolding and all is forgiven
South Carolina has been once more re-
stored to the Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

Tillman and McLaurin have been cen
sured for violating the rules of the SEN
ate, but nothing was said about those
of the Marquis of Queensberry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun Gay
telegraph report of that great news 81
Ranizatiou for exclusive afternoon pup.a-
ca ton in Topeka
The news is received in the State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose, busy through the entire day a
complete copy OF the night report Is also
received.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

An exchange notes that Philadelphia
was asleep when the prince passed
through; but when was the Quaker city
not asleep?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

We like the prince over here. but it
doesn't follow that Germany will be
permitted to do any gouging in the
matter of the Chinese indemnity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

While Prince Henry is with us Mr..
wu Ting Fang appears to be lost
sight of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

Now, perhaps Tillman will be permit
ted to associate with the prince.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-08
As Paris Sees 1t.

On Saturday, May 10, Monroe
City will vote on proposition
to issue bonds to the amount of
SIS, 900 for a municipal electric
light plant. We are glad to
see our neighbor at last waking
up and preparing to make an
effort to keep up with the coun-
ty seat. 1t encourages us to
believe that in the course of
time she will abandon her wind
mills and reach the waterworks
stage of municipal felicity.
Then she can sell herfire engine
to Shelbina and at last point
with pride to the fact that
there are others besides Paris.
The proposition should receive
every vote in the town.-Paris
Appeal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-08
Equine TrackeOtOmY,

DR.. John Dawson performed
nice piece of surgical work We'd
nesday, on a horse for Mark
Hoblett, near Huntington. The
horse was bitten on the point
of the muzzle by snake and
his head and throat swelled un-
till it was feared he would
choke to death. The doctor
was sent for and it did not take
him but few moments to open
the wind pipe and insert a tube.
Thursday the animal was doing
nicely.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-08

door, but the spark had reach
ed the key. A fash
A second later, when the sol.
diers entered, they saw a sight
that frightened even them, used
10 fearful sights as they were.
A dead man, bound and gagged
lay upon the floor. His face
was green with terror, his hair
snow white and his eyes red:
staring and protrudirg.
On the floor was the black
mark where the fuse had burn.
ed. and in one corner was a
powder keg-empty.--N. Y.
Weekly.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-08
Whoopin0 COtthh.

A woman who has had experience with this
disease, tells how to prevent any dangerous
consequences from ~ sne says our three
our baby boy being only three months olds,
and owing to our giving them Chamberlains
ness and came out in much better health than
other chillren parents did not use this remedy
Our oldestlittle girl would call Justify for cough
springyille, Ala. This Remedy is for sale by
Wood q Umstattd.