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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
QUAKER REFLEcTIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Capital believes in a golden rule of It's
own.
A ton of coal is a good election bet this
year.
The crank has many a turning point in
his life.
When you borrow trouble there is usual
~ the devil to pay
Some men with liberal views allow their
liberality to end there
Some men shrink from their duty until
there is nothing left of them.
Say what you will of the fair weather
friend, he doesn't borrow umbrellas.
Even the waiter who doesn't play the
races is on the lookout for the tipster.
Many an impecunious sutton wins a
girls hand only to find that he can't keep
her in gloves.
The man who doesn't believe in hiding
his light under a bushel may use it to
hide his faults under.
When woman is both pretty and clever
she knows she is pretty, but is clever
enough not to show it.
Hoak-"Why do they cali those fellows
in the banks tellers?" .Joax-"Oh, ] sup
pose it's because money talks"
No, Maude. dear; the man who was born
with silver spoon in his mouth is not
generally the one who eats with his knife.
Wigg-'.That fellow is as thin as a rail.
and yet all the girls are in love with him.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
JOHN MITCHELL M1NER.

One thing which the present great
coal strike has brought out has been
that John Mitchell, miner. is one of the
great men of the country. He is great
as a leader and great as a man of char
acter. He is great in that he places
honor above everything. One thing
which he has always urged upon the
miners is that they should carry out
their contracts-that they should never
strike when their representatives have
signed an agreement that they will
work a certain time.
John Mitchell is only 80 years old
He is self educated. Much of his brief
life has been spent underneath the
ground digging coal. Yet this young
man, who has not yet reached his
prime. is called upon to meet the presi-
dent of the United States and to treat
with a body of lti-millionaires. and
the fairness of his propositions and the
dignity of his bearing have won for him
the confidence and the good will of the
nation.
This miner is a poor man. His family
occupies half of a little house at Spring
Valley. Ill 1t is stated that the coal
barons with whom he has to deal in the
interest of the 100000 men who have
chosen him as their chief. have offered
him more than his present salary would
amount to in a lifetime to desert the
miners and enter the employ of the
companies, but all such offers have been
absolutely refused by him. He believes
in being absolutely true to his trust.
No labor leader has ever before been
able to cope with the anthracite coal
barons of Pennsylvania. The struggle
just ending has been a desperate one.
but John Mitchell is coming out of il
with the respect of the entire nation. AS
much cannot be said of the millionaires
who have been lined up against him
with their unlimited wealth.
Mitchell is the Roosevelt of the
miners. He bears the same relation to
the men who work under the ground
that President Roosevelt bears to the
whole nation. He has attained this
proud distinction long before he has
reached the prime of life and it has not
apparently Spoiled" him. 1t is quite
likely that the country will hear from
John Mitchell long before the present
labor troubles have been settled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
JAYHAWKER JOTs

ing cattle sheds?
Sharp's creek farmers dug their potatoes
before they rotted in the ground.
Out at Oakley they are still dragging
shotguns into the wagons, mVzzle end for
ward.
The Rock Island is offering $3.50 per day
for section hands in Decatur county with
A Kingman county. man with two thresh-
ers has added $500 to his bank account
this season.
Ness county cucumber vines are still
grinding out would be pickles, regardless
of Jack Frost.
Wichita has progidy in the person of
a girl who knows she cannot sing ard
doesn't attempt it.
Rye is coming up in Thomas county.
Here in Topeka the trust has also raised
the price on bourbon.
Chanute seems to be on the boom. One
tank line company has just shipped in
fifteen miles of pipe.
News was SO scarce in Wellington one
day this week that a reporter offered two
boys quarter to start a dog fight.
Two Shawnee county candidates are so
hopeful of victory now that the day after
the election will seem horrid nightmare
to them.
The latest established lodge at Water
Vile is the Grant Oaks. This was prob
ably necessitated by the price of coal.
A Dickinson county poultry fancier
pays on an avsrag eY$ IS for his fowls They
laid MIN $50 worth of eggs this summer.
A Topeka man who is undergoing the
experience of getting settled in a new
home says there's an end to all things
save moving
A Richmond woman advertises a lost
laprobe. yellow Withtscarlet flowers That
combination should be strong enough to
come home by itself
A Norcatur hunter was much surprised
when he reached home to find that the
fourteen ducks he Killed at one shot We're
not ducks but avocets.
If a Franklin county paper had waited
few days longer it woald have been ufI-
necessary to have published a doleful tale
of wood being scarce
8 Coafsfs so igfassfn sumner county that
certain citizens found no trouble in get
ting away with five wagon loads of Vest
ern Union telegraph poles.
? A Cloud count farmer points with rpi5e
to a pig that can walk up a stepladder
The animals Kindergarten lessons were
taken climbing out of its pen.
Speaking of the exhibit of illustrated bar
fixtures by the Shawnee county Indepen-
dents they now say it isn't fair to judge
a frame by the pictures they contain
a Ness county rattlesnake Stunning on the
school house steps struck twice at two
little girls. valuable dog following be-
hind caught the blows and quickly died
Marshall countyefarmers have been conf
PEELED to cease picking apples on account
of a barrel famine There is no scarcity
for the product of the rye crop, how
ever
An Arkansas City item failed to state
how the five tranps would all manage to
keep warm with the one overcoat they
had stolen. Probably pawn it and buy a
quart
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
SCARCITY OF HORSES.

The western horse is either degener-
ating or he is becoming strangely scarce
This is indicated by the fact that in
spite of the efforts of Chief Wilmarth
of the fire department. no horses have
yet been found suitable for hauling the
new aerial truck which is expected to
arrive in Topeka within a few days.
Many horses have been offered to the
department, but none have been W to
the required standard. Twice a repre-
sentative cf the department has gone to
distant parts OF the state in search of
horses, or to investigate horses which
were reported to be just the kind re-
quired. These trips have been barren OF
results.
A few days ago horse buyer from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
THAT LICENSE ORDINANCE.

What has become of that new city
license ordinance. which was supposed
to be calculated to increase the reve-
nues of the city by hundreds of dollars
every month";? iM
S. A. Swendson is chairman of the
committee to which the matter of IL
censes belongs. The ways and means
committee also has had a finger in the
deal. 1t is doubtful just where the re-
sponsibility for the pigeon holing of the
ordinance belongs, but there is no doubt
that for some mysterious reason the
whole question was suddenly sidetraclS-
ed some months ago. and has not been
heard of since.
1t was at one time decided that a Ii
cense fee of 81 should be charged
plumbers for permits to excavate in the
streets. The city attorney was instruct
ed to draw up an ordinance covering
the point, but he has refused to have
anything to do with the matter, on the
ground that the questions involved are
legislative and not legal, and that the
council must do its own lawmaking. So
that question has apparently been
dumped on the scrap heap along with
the rest of the proposed license ordi-
nance.
The license question seems to be the
great overwhelming problem which
councilmen are always fussing about
but never solve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
ENTER FOOTBALL RoorER.

With wild howl. the football rooter
has returned and entered upon his ca
reer of devastation. He has brought
with him all the modern implements Of
warfare; the megaphone. unison yells,
rapid fire songs and base drums.
Football rooters are very much like
baseball rooters. except that a football
rooter has usually reached the incur
able stage. 1t takes two baseball root
ers to make as much noise as one foot
ball rooter.
When a boy or girl goes to college,
it is possible for them to elect to study
Greek, or trigonometry or French, but
the course in roofing is compulsory.
For that reason. we usually find that
expert rooters infest an institution of
learning. Roofing is as contagious
among students as smallpox.
Usually a rooter only makes a spec
tacle of himself. but sometimes he also
makes a spectacle of his college. There
is in the state OF Kansas a university
whose students are famed as rooters.
They usually have more rooters and
noisier rooters than any other institu-
ton. Their favorite yell, which they
give on every public occasion with great
gusto, is this:
''Rickety rackety ROOT Rickety rack
ETY. roo Rock chalk, jayhawk. who in
the - are your"
Decency in roofing is not considered
necessary by the rooters of this univer-
sity We place the responsibility with
the rooters. not with the university. If
the rooters are really proud of this
choice bit of profanity. why did they
not all unite in yelling it just as their
new chancellor concluded his inaugural
address?
1t might also be we'll for college root
ers to eliminate race prejudice from
their roofing Because a colored man
happens to be the star player on an OPP
posing team is no excuse for the wild
howl of xiii the Niger" AS far as
could be observed. there was no demand
made by rooters to Kill the Swedes'' in
the recent game played in this city.
Negroes are supposed to have equal
rights with white men in Kansas, and
anyone who does not believe this is at lib
erty to emigrate to Louisiana or some
other foreign country.
The above remarks are no reflection
on the big crowd of rooters which ac-
companied the football team from
Lindsborg this week. A more respect
able, decent. and enthusiastic crowd of
students never visited Topeka.
Football roofing is a good thing, but
it has its limits. It can easily degener-
ate INTO a contemplate display Of al
legged "smartness'' which ought to be
suppressed by the police.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchlson GIobe. ]

From the AtchlSOn GlODe-J
The man who makes love to two wo-
men, doesn't love enc.
There are some good things every
man should be willing to do for
nothing.
What has become of the old fash
toned person who expressed surprise by
saying Gee whiz"?
We don't believe there is any sound
in the world worse than that of a child
crying in the streets at night.
The greatest problems of life will
never be settled, because the people are
too often sentimental, instead of honest.
There is some lsope for the wicked;
may be this coal strike will result in
compelling the devil to shut down his
furnaces.
When a certain event comes to d
married woman. meme of the other wo-
men believe her when she says she is
glad of It.
There are lots OF people in the world
who never live long enough to overtake
the nice vacation they intend to take
next year"
An AtchisonS man is so masterful that
he runs his own home, and attempts to
run the homes of all his widowed kin
What the women demand of invention
and genius is a photograph SO Hfelike
that when a man carries his wife's
around with him he will be afraid to
misbehave.
Watch the man who has nothing to
do he has d harder time than the man
who works. He is always loafing
around stores and offices, and people
are always grumbling because he is in
the way.
The people are bowling low to a wo-
man who will heat a house of five rooms
this winter with a little old wood stove.
Her husband wears the clothes she picks
out. and no one doubts that she can
do it.
If you read the telegraph you will not
wonder why so many ST Louis council
men fell The world is full of men who
are above reproach because they have
never been offered $4,000 for their votes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

the teeth. Then chew it for a quarter of
an hour twice a day. The exercise of the
facial muscles will create a good circuIa-
ton of blood, and clear and healthy skin
will be the result
Most people use a rag for this form of
exercise but good, hard, india rubber will
last longer.
Now that D. W. Kent. the 1. o. o.
F. grand secretary who absconded with
$500. has patched the differences be-
turn to Topeka and sign just as many
law and order petitions as he ever did.
At a wedding not long ago "Then You'll
Remember Me-" This happened just before
the ceremony. 1t happens that part OF the
song is something like this, when other
lips and other hearts their tales of love
will tell, Then you'll remember me-" Prob
ably no one thought of the words
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Incidence of the Strike.
Memphis Journal.

memphis journal
The coal strike is likely to have some
far-reaching effects on the future fuel
supply of this country. 1t will probably
lead to a relatively. if not absolutely,
less consumption of anthracite coal
Many manufacturing enterprises that
are now driven to use soft coal will
adapt their furnaces to it and continue
to use it. Many householders now fore
ed to use the cheaper fuel win probably
never go back to hard coal. In the
northwest the strike has been a boon
and a boom to the Ignite mines which
are now hundreds of cars behind their
orders. The strike has aroused public
interest in all sorts of new fuels and
has stimulated inventors to provide
them. A French inventor has brought
forward a process for solilifying pc
troleum which may make the Texas oil
fields compete with anthracite in SUD-
plying a clean and economical fuel. In
vestigations are being made into the
extent of American peat beds and
methods of making the peat available
AS makeshifts and perhaps as some
thing else, the public is now advised to
soak terra Gotta bricks in kerosene and
get breakfast by applying a match. An
other form of using kerosene is to sat
urate a tin can filled with ashes. put it
in the stove and pun out a broiled steak.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
SIGN OF PROSPERITY.

There is nothing which speaks more
emphatically for the prosperous times
than the passenger business which the
railroads of Kansas are doing. If any
one doubts. let him get aboard one of
the through trains on the main lines of
the roads. If he secures a seat and
without transgressing the laws of pro-
priety, hold it for a hundred miles out
of Topeka, he is fortunate.
Analysed, it is difficult to get at any
more exact reason than that there Is
generally good feeling throughout the
west. It so reaches out and takes peo-
pie by the feelings that now as never
are they tempted to leave their homes
for a short visit. or if they live outside
of the state, their transportation prob
ably leads to Kansas-some station in
the rich valleys or on prairies as fertile
as ever the hand of Providence
smoothed out.
To the traveller there is everything to
suggest prosperity and invite immigra-
ton. The season has been so favorable
to the growth of vegetation that a look
over the country just as autumn's frosts
are tinting the leaves shows a multi
plicity of beautiful colors. The pastures
are still luxuriant, there having been no
such scarcity of rainfall this fall as is
the case oftcntimes. All this is a good
thing There is something to it In it
is found the reason for so much travel.
It will mark an epoch in the develop
ment of the country. Real estate has
gone 10 in price and the times are the
best that have been known.
1t is a good scheme to think about
these things and suggest them to the
first knocker you meet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
TOPEKA HAS ROOM TO SPREAD

The statistics compiled from the last
census shows some startling comparis-
ons as to the acres Of cities and their
population.
The population of Topeka is given as
33.6oS and the area of the city as 4.2@O
acres. This makes the population of
about eight people to each acre. Tie
population of Hoboken. N. J., is given
as 59,S64. and the area of the city as TO
acres. This makes the population 81
people to the acre The population of
Newark is given as 246.O7O and the area
of the city S.05S acres, making the popu-
lation about 30 people to the acre. To-
peka has 102 acres for public parks, Ho-
boken 3 acres and Newark 10 acres.
The census shows that there is room
enough for each citizen in Topeka to
swing his arms and breath but how
about Hoboken?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.]

IF,rom the New York Press.]
The early burglar catches the police.
Pidgeon-toed women aren't as lucky as
when they are bow-legged-
A company who could insure a man
against poor relations would coin more
money than the government mint.
The average man who spends $500 in fix
ing over his furnace and kitchen range to
save $50 in his coal bill thinks he is a
genius
A woman's idea of the greatest wrong
her husband can do her is for him to hear
some scandal about neighbor and forget
to tell her.
Wonder who it is a woman expects to
hide herself from when she puts on the
kind of night gown you san see through?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

A curious instance of government by
Injunction" is reported from New Or
leans. The Transfers union is render
ed unable to declare a strike which it
wants to do as the result of an applica-
ton by a member, who claims to be its
president, to the courts. for a writ of
injunction to prevent the filing of the
office. The court granted the injunction
restraining the Transfers union from
holding a meeting until the question of
the presidency was decided. AS it could
not hold a meeting the union could not
vote for a strike. Hence the strike is
held up by a union mans appeal to gov
eminent by injunction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

found who in the position of President
Roosevelt would have taken the course
which he took in an effort to end the
anthracite strike. By interfering in the
trouble he stood a good chance of in
curing the emnity of one or the other
and possibly both of the contending
parties, and if he failed, it could hardly
be without some loss of the publics
confidence in his ability to carry out
his Undertakings. He took all these
chances without hesitation and won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
vagg-"Yes: he's cupid's beau and mar

wagg-''Yes: he's Cupid's beau and mar
row.
1t doesn't seem SO remarkable that
diamond will cut glass when you consider
that it viii even make an impression on
womans heart.
TITS a poor rule that won't work both
ways" says the Manayunk Philosopher
Some people who marry at their leisure
repent in haste.
To air our knowledge we're inclined,
And though our talk be gusty,
TITS well to air it. for we find
That knowledge groweth musty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

The earnings of the United States
Steel corporation for the September
quarter surpass those of the correspond
ing quarter of last year by about S.
0O0 900, or Is per cent. This is partly
accounted for by higher prices. Prices
of iron and steel products now range
from 10 to so per cent above the prices
of year ago, but the demand is ap-
parently just as eager, indicating con-
tinued great prosperity in this branch
of business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

Minneapolis Tribune:
Does the spirit of cOmmercialism rule
the age entirely? Not always. Witness
DR. Adolf Lorenz, the specialist from
Austria, who came to this country for
$150,000 fee to cure the deformity of one
ofrthe Armour children. His work in
the rich mans family done and his fee
earned, performing similar operations
upon a whole host of poor children with
out fee or reward. Is DR.. Lorenz be-
nevolent above the average of his pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

Attorney General Knox is quoted as
saying he knows the anthracite trust
exists, but it was formed in such way
as to be beyond the reach of the law.
1t appears that they always are so
formed What is needed is a law ar
ranged like the colored mans coon trap,
to catch them coming and going.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

The striking miners have not only
won victory over the coal barons but
they have won at the same time a place
in the public esteem hitherto unattained
by any body of men under like circum-
stances. And for all this John Mitchell
appears to be almost wholly responsible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

Mr. Shaw has again resorted to the
method inaugurated by Grover Cleve-
lands first secretary of the treasury, for
the purpose of reducing the surplus by
offering to purchase government bonds
In doing this Mr.. Shaw will incidentally
give an impetus to business which is
already moving at a somewhat rapid
rafa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

In the twelve cities of the major
leagues g, 1887 $50 spectators saw the pro-
fessional baseball games of the past
season, This number does not include
those who looked through the cracks
Il, the fence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

Before closing up the agreement for
arbitration Mr.. Baer should be required
TO furnish proof that his partner, the
Divine Ruler. is satisfied with the ar
aangement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

When the coal barons made the bluff
about mining coal if they had sufficient
protection. it is plain that they did not
expect Governor Stone to call it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18
ANTIDOTE FOR THE ADDEB,s
POISON

The sure antidote for the poison Of the
adder OF intoxica ton must be found for
Christian first and last and ALI the fi7-,a Il,
the blood of Jesus Cnrist.-Rcv. or. Frank
De Witt Talmage. Presbyterian. CHICAGO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

If the coal barons were once brought
before a jury, that body might possibly
overlook any slight technicalities of law
intervening between the conspirators
and the penitentiarY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

Amy gentlemen possessing q. S. "a.
per cent bond of 1925 can realize
premium of nearly 3s cents on the dol
lar by turning the same in to Secretary
shaw's Office before Monday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

The Sultan of Bacolod wants war.
Poor sultani
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

Chicago News: Bailey of Kansas
looks like a chubby child of destiny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

The many plans evolved during the
strike, for lodging the effect of coal
shortage. can now be laid aside for flu
f1Ire 1850
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

Here's another rule: "For those who
cannot get plenty of exercise here is q
little hint which may be useful in regard
TO a good complexion said famous So
ciety beauty recently. Take a nice clean
piece Of india rubber and place it between.