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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
ODELL FOR 1 ,O0O-TON CANAL
Governor Will Begin Work on His
Message Early Next Week.

New York Nov. 17.-Governor Odell
remained in town last night. but he re-
fused to discuss any of his plans, other
than that he would not return to New
burg until tomorrow night.
He said all his views on legislation
would be given in his message to the
legislature, on which he will begin work
early next week, on his return TO Al
ba3y
Governor OdelI intimated that much
of what he would have to say would be
about the canals. and that he would be
in favor Of 1.000-ton waterway.
Senator Platt refused to discuss the
political outlook last night. He said his
candidacy for United States senator was
forced upon him. and that he really did
not want the office, but if the members
of the legislature insisted he supposed
he would have to let his name be used
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
THE sPEAKERsHIP

The Boston Journal is authority for
the statement that Mr.. Littlefeld, of
Maine, will not be a candidate for the
speakership and says that the support
Of the New England members of the
house will be given to Cannon. DaIzen
or Grosvenor with the chances in favor
of the first named
In discussing the chances of Mr. Can
non the Journal says;
There can be no doubt that the nros-
poets of Mr.. Cannon have materially
improved as result of the congress
sional elections. In the first place. he
represents the middle west which holds
a commanding Influence in Republican
national politics. In the second place
he belongs to a state which made n
most brilliant record. As Senator Cui-
lom points out, there will be II Rapub-
hcan representatives from Illinois in
the Fifty-eighth congress, while thers
are now only y. In other words. Mr.
Cannon's state is now one of the
mightiest Republican commemorative
in the whole Union.
Mr.. Cannon has had remarkably
long and distinguished career in Wa~h-
ington. It began away back in The
FOrty-thirds congress, in 1873 and only
once in these so wears has Mr. Cannon
failed of reelection.
In his political convictions Mr. Can
non is Republican of Republicans He
is a prOtectionist, a sound money man,
a believer in a vigorous foreign policy.
An effort has been made TO show that
he is an extremist in his tariff views
But he is no more pronounced on this
point than our New England ReDubli-
cans. He is not identified with any
'monopolies." He has none of the
weaknesses that would attach to d
Pennsylvania candidate. or even 10 Gen.
Grosvenor of Ohio. He looks at thu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
Hoods TdrS0pGriLiG
and Pills

Eradicate it, positively and absolute
ly, This statement is based on the
thousands of permanent cures these
medicines have wrought.
My daughter had scrofula, with eleven
sores on her neck and about her ears. Hoods
Sarsaparilla was highly recommended and
she took it and was cured. She is now in
good health MRS. J. H. JONES, Parker
City, Ind.
Hoods SarsaParIlla promises to
cure and keeps tho promise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
PICTURES SOLD CHEAP.
Aged English Painter Is Compelled to
Part With His Best Works.

Octogenarian. royal academedician and
painter of Biblical subjects which once
had great vogue, has been sold out this
week and is left penniless. The money
realized by the auction sale is barely
enough to satisfy his creditors.
His famous picture, The Flight Into
Egypt" for which he once refused $20,-
000 fell under the hammer for 81 $50
1t is considered a scandal that the royal
academy, an extremely wealthy institu-
ton and one which enjoys many Valu-
able privileges, should permit one of it's
most respected members overtaken by
misfortune in his old age through no
fault of his own, to be subjected to this
indignity of a public sale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.


After q man reaches a certain age his
face looks dirty when it is not.
This story that people get SO deep in
love they can't get out, is all talk
That reward for a man in heaven: will
his wife get it If he doesn't get there?
When the men want to humiliate man
they start story that his wife whips
him.
The first thing the average man does af-
ter making a mistake is to look around
for someone to blame. ~ seif
dictionary in the house: it comes in handy
in settling bets and often serves instead
of a high chair. 4E.z
It is the usual experience of life. that
the cook who makes the best pancakes is
the one who doesn't make enough
No man can claim to be great unless he
receives at least ten calendars by mail,
This is what culture does for some peo-
pie: those who claim to have it call
Ing hash by the new name of chop suey.
There is one good thing about dying: We
don't have to lie and smirk, and say just
before leaving what good time we have
had.
The next world could be made hell for
any man by simply changing him into a
woman and heaven for any woman by
making her into man.
cynic is a man who hasn't had his
curiosity excited since the days when he
was young and his mother used to bring
packages from town with her
An Atchison man had some words in
Latin printed in his wife's wedding ring
and, before they had been married two
years, both had forgotten what they stood
for.
The woman folks in an Atehson family
wanted their new home named Idylewld,
or the Oaks or something like that. hut
the man of the house. who is sore on hav-
ing company. has named it Callnomore.
Women just naturally look the bright
side. If they find they were criminaly
careless in putting away their winter cloak
last spring and that the moth got them,
they decide that they were old-fashioned.
a hex headed aarAr0 any
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

on the rocks of adversely and sometimes
because of the absence of rocks
The average woman can't crack a joke.
but she can easily break a man.
1t is often hard to distinguish the diff
ference between a peacemalzer and pussy
body.
There is a good bit of similarity between
lazy man and his theories They won
work.
The chorus girl doesn't think so much
of .elevating the stage as she does OF Gle
waiting her skirts.
Blobbs-"it always takes two TO make a
quarrel between married couple" Slobbs
es, wife and a mother-in-iaw-
Sillicus-''I have proposed to her y times,
and each time she has refused me- Gym
icus-"D Don't do it again Remember that
ID is the unlucky number, and the next
time she might accept you"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
Washington and National Elections

washington Post.
There was a time, long time. and it
is not yet two decades in the past, when
a national election, either for a house of
representatives, or for both house and
and sometimes sad consequences to his
city. Election day was then a day of
gloom in the departments and in the
homes of thousands of department en-
ployes Even an off-year election, like
that which occurred yesterday. might
cut the cord that held many an employe
IN his place. presidential election in
those days was wholesome menace 1t
might occasion sweep of the depart
ments, bringing calamity to thousands Of
homes. depressing real estate values, and
demoraliZing business generally.
Whatever the practical politician may
think OF the merit of system as embodied
in the civil service act Of 1852 and yari-
Gus executive orders however his spirit
may yearn for the return of the spOils
that came in with Andrew Jackson and
the department employees and all other
residents of Washington. with possibly
the new system They know that 1t IS
better for them. better for the public ser
vice and, therefore, better for the coun-
try than the old way The place-holder
is no longer the slave of the boss. Con-
gressmen may come in or go out, but the
man or woman who is doing the work Of
the government in department. and do
ing it faithfully, stay. This substi-
tlltes a wholesome interest in politics on
the part of public servants for the saV-
ish apprehension of the old time. Our
merchants and business men generally
an exodus of thousands of their patrons
whose pockets have been so depleted by
campaign assessments that they COM
PEELED to leave unpaid bills behind them.
Houses and lots of discharged clerks are
not thrown upon the market, and ruin
wrought by the consequent slump in real
estate. For those and other good rea-
sons. all based on common sense and
sound business principles, both official
and unofficial Washington believe in the
merit system.
There is another change in the rela-
tons of this capital to national cleo
tion that has been brought about by other
means than legislation Our citizens no
longer apprehend danger from the intro
ductiOn of new men into legislative or
executive authority. The seVen-by-nine
statesman who tried to gain favor with
his constituents by abuse of the niggard-
illness toward Washington has ceased 10
be either very numerous much respect
ed. Practically all Americans are proud Of
the nations capital. And its interests
are exclusively in the hands of con-
gress. the sentiment of the people of all
the states will dictate the course of con-
gress in the control of these interests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

The school statistics of Pennsylvania
for the school year ending June :, 1902,
show that the 29,631 schools in the state
cost a total of $23.O27. 679. OF this the
state paid s5,550,000, the rest being pro-
vided for by local taxation. In the year
there was a decrease in the total num-
Der Of male teachers of 500. and an in
crease in the number of female teachers
of 1,2O5. The average salary of the male
teachers is $44. 80 per month. and of the
females $33.7S The army of pupils in
the state is put at 1163, 500, and the esti-
mated value of school property in the
state at $50 DOC. 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Where Prosperity Halls From.

Wner6 prosperity hans FROM
Hartford Courant
Those cheerful philosophers who feel
so sure that prosperity is going to con-
tlnue because the prices of stocks are
so well maintained in Wall street will
do well to look a little farther than the
lower end of Manhattan Island when
taking their observations.
1t is a fact which many persons seem
to forget that all the material wealth
comes out of the ground. The pathetic
stories from the large cities connected
with the fresh air aids have told more
than once of little children who had
never seen. green grass and who had no
idea of the open country until given
these outings. There are grown-up
people of abundant wealth who are
equally ignorant of what the country
is in its relation to general business in
terests. They assume that when stocks
go up ten points the country is richer
thereby and that when a great syndi-
cate takes $50, 000, 900 worth of property
and capitalizes it at $780, 900 600 this pa
per performance has creat ted $3.50 900 900
of new wealth.
They buy and sell and go specializing
through life on this sort of assumption
and do not stop to think that it is only
as the iron and coal are dug up and as
the sunshine and the rain bring the
grain to the harvest that anything is
added to what already is. If we should
find at the end of the season that the
early droughts and the later floods that
have been SO prevalent have resulted in
serious Gripping of the crops, if in
vestigation demonstrates that we have
consumed more than we have produced,
then no amount of booming can keep
prices up. AS yet it is early to determ-
inc as to this. We have an immense
agricultural territory and the flood de-
stroying everything in one valley may
bring needed moisture to thousands of
square miles of other fields and prove
vastly more beneficial than injurious. 1t
is the destructive flood we hear of rath-
er than the fructifying showers.
But meanwhile it is well to bear in
mind that while spectators can grow
rich in their big deals and the world
can watch with wonder their great
achievements still they are not produce
ers. Somebody else gives up what they
get, and it is the unnoticed producer
who furnishes the tangible material ele-
ments of prosperity. Even legitimate
buying and selling, what goes under the
general names of trade and keeps so
many people busy, adds nothing to
what already is. When two men trad
horses there are still only those two
horses al the end of the trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


Any girl who induces a young man to
propose bcgS the question.
When man gets full it is;a good time to
take his bust measure.
If man amounts to anything he doesn't
have to boast of his ancestors.
Truth lies at the bottom of a well but
the angler never goes there to fish.
1t makes a woman heartsicl- every time
she has to cut a valuable piece of lace
When a locomotive goes off on a loot
the engineer is generally carried home in
a cab.
All men may be born equal, but the av-
erage man imagines he was born little
more So
What nice old world this would be if
every body were as polite political can
didatesi
Justice is SO busy holding her scales that
she hasn't time to give some people what
is coming to them.
If you recommend man for a position
it's doughnuts TO fudge you will be blamed
all the rest of your life if he happens to go
WTOr0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
HITS ENGLISH BREAKFAST.
Trust Monopoly Has Deprived the
Briton of His Bacon and Eggs.

London, Nov 17.-Bacon at breakfast is
elemental an institution in England as
the monarchy. Britishers are now ccnl-
PEELED to forego their favorite food owing
to the operations of the American trust
which is steadily sending the price above
what the average man can afford to pay.
AlDhOnse paudet attributed tho stOlisiitN
of TIE British character to the 5yspeptic
effects of he perennial bacon ard eggs for
realkfast. Nevert heless the race is w,add-
ed TO the dish and grumbIe loudly because
1t is placed beyond reach. Bacon is p per
cent dearer than it year ago and
the price is rising every month This is
really the form in which American coE:s-
perition is most bitterly resented. as it
strikes home in every household and pro-
voked animOsity everywhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
DETERMINED TO BATTLE.
Russian Princess Will Enjoy Seq
Bathing Throughout the Winter.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 27.-Princess Obo-
lenski. handsome 40, belong to the
wealthiest Boyar (highest aristocracy)
family and a kinswoman of the car. has
rented a large hotel at Zoppot, bathing
resort on the Baltic sea and intends to
keep it open all winter so she may have
sea baths three times a day. When the
Baltic is frozen she means to battle in a
covered pool where the water will be kept
at a temperature just above the freezing
point. She believes sh has discovered the
secret of perpetual youth, but the doctors
say she will soon tire of that severe
regime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

IFrom the Philadelphia RecordJ
Reform is often but the off-shoot of re-
morse
Frankness sometimes wins more friends
than f1attery.
The fellow who is on his uppers is not
the one who is v ell heeled
Lots of people get round shoudered from
patting themselves on the back
Beauty is only skin deep, and a lot of
people are pretty thin-skinned at that
When mans first baby begins to talk
his bump Of ina gination expands.
Many happy home has been wrecked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
HIS NOSE WAS ON FIRE.
Extraordinary Scene Witnessed on
One of the Paris Boulevards.

Paris. Nov. 17.-Leon Colefroy, hav-
ing lost his nose. got a, surgeon to re-
place it with a celluloid imitation
nose took fire. Code
While he was lighting a cigarette on
the boulevard the other evening his
nose took fire. Godefroy jumped about
in pain and was carried to a drug store
through Mortified crowd. where the
extraordinary confiagration, which had
involved his mustacke- beard, eyelashes
and eyebrows and had injured his eyes,
was extinguished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.I

IT IUIII IIIe 1NtW IOIh IItsS-J
BY a woman's arms shall ye know the
rest of her.
A woman can't be too careful about
what parts of her are stout.
Falling in love doesn't make as much
trouble for the average man falling out
again.
If a girl were stone blind she wouldn't
want all those frills and fussy things that
nobody ever sees but herself.
So feline is a woman that she can't bear
to have anybody except her children look
like their father without raging jealousy.
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Transterring solo to the ooast.

New York. Nov. 1.-THE sub treas
ury made a telegraphic transfer of
$4,000 gold to San Francisco today
making a total of s. .000, 600 sent to the
Pacific coast since last Thursday
Bankers with Pacific coast commissions
say that the transfer of gold to San
Francisco is the result of an active de-
mand there for crop moving and sifs1i-
lar purposes. A transfer of s40O. 900 10
New Orleans was made by the sub
treasury for local banks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

Pittsburg Dispatch: Both sides in the
Cuban reciprocity fight are assembling
for the contest at Washington and it is
to be determined anew whether Roose-
welt or Oxnard is the head of the Re-
publican party. At the last session it
seemed to be Oxnard; but in the late
elections the people seemed to entertain
q different conviction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

tariff from the standpoint of the aver
age American citizen. His interest in
connection with it is the interest of pat
riOtism and of common sense.
He embodies better than anybody else
the ideas now dominant in Republican
Lea dar.shir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

A resolution has been offered in the
convention of the American Federation
of Labor at New Orleans having for it's
purpose the abolition of the fine as
punishment for wrong doing. thus in the
language of the originator, Putting
rich and poor on an equal footing The
idea embodied in the resolution appears
to be that a fine is but a slight hardship
to wealthy man who does not need the
money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

]. Pierpont Morgan wants to ferret
out and punish" men who spread false
reports to break the markets" Some
body must have been giving Mr.. Nor
gan the worst of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
Death of CYRUS Nevkirk.

Sedalia. Mo. Nov 17-Cyrus New
kirk. aged 81 years. for many years
president of the First National bank Of
Sedalia, which failed in 1894, is 2cad at
Los Angeles, Cal, of Heart disease
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
ScrofuLa
It is commonly inherited.

II IS commonly lnheFIted.
Few are entirely free from it.
Pale, weak, puny children are
afflicted with it in nine cases out of
ten, and many adults suffer from it.
Common indications are punches in
the neck, assesses, cutaneous erup-
tons, infamed eyelids, sore ears,
ricketts,, catarrh, wasting, and general
debility.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

The city of Trenton has made a street
car company pay $4,000 for franchise
on one street, with the fare limited to
cents. Pingree may be dead but his
idea is thriving
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
BIRTHDAY FETES JAPAN
General Anniversaries for the Boys
and Girls.

Japan is the land of topsy-turvy, and So
perhaps. it is only to be expected that ir-
1ividual birthdays-wi the execution Of
that of the emFeror-are not taken any no.
tice Of, but sort of general birthday OF
everybody altogether is celebrated VITA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
Low Sleeping Car Rates.

To St. Paul and Minneapolis. The Chi
cago Great Western railway has three
tourist sleeping cars per week to ST.
Paul and Minnea polls. Rate for double
berth only $50. For particulars in
uuire Of any Chicago Great Western
agent. or J. P. Elmer, G. P. A, Chicago.
Illinois.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
SHOCK STOPPED CLOCKS,

Salt Lake, Utah, Nov. 1.-two dis
tinct shocks of earthquake were felt in
this city shortly before l o'clock TO-DAY,
Clocks were stopped in various parts of
the city, but no serious damage is re-
ported
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

Tod SIoan's sister has married banjo
player. It might have been to her ad-
vantage if she had chosen a successful
poker player instead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

Ed Howe lines up with the very few
persons who have shown disposition
to write fairly, justly and truthfully of
abe Chinese in California
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

1t may yet become necessary to annex
Canada in order to settle the Alaskan
boundary dispute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

. The Socialists polled about 5000 votes
in Wisconsin at the recent election. The
great gains which they have made all
over the country indicate that they will
be not farther off than third in the race
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

The irrigation legislation Of the pres
ent congress is now being given the
credit for the Republican landslide in
the west. Then there is such thing as
gratitude in politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
Octopus Makes More MONEY.

New York, Nov 1.-THE STANDARD
Oil company has declared a quarterly
dividend OF SO a share. The Dividend
for the same quarter last year was So.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

The more the subject of an isthmian
canal is agitated the more apparent be-
comes the reason for the big railroads
wanting to own U. S. senators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17
Had Snow and Frost.

Wellington. Kan. Nov. 17.-There was
a heavy frost here last night and the
Santa Fe reports a heavy snow at
Nardin o. T., south of here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

The miners are mining, and that's jus,
what they should be doing. And the OPP
orators are thinking, and that's what
they should have been doing some time
ago.-Knoxville Sentinel.
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Even Guthrie and Oklahoma City ar
to have union railroad stations. Is Their
no hope for Topeka?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

The Milwaukee Journal solemnly
warns the Republicans that If they
don't fix the tariff it will fix them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-17

Admiral Beresford thinks England ana
the United States could lick the rest of
the world. Doubtless: buL as the rest of
the world is mindin@ its own business.
what's the use?-Norfolk Virginian-
Pilot
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with Satin Skin Cream 1t beats him;
keeps old faces young; 25c. At Model.
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Archbishop Riordan WIN R,eturr

London. Nov. 1.-THE steamer Celtic.
which is to sail from Liverpool Nover1-
Der 10 for New York. win have among
San Francisco
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DR.. Lowry, homeopathic: hours IL a.
m. to II a. m. and to D. m.