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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15


they need. as a rule. And 1t is the
place of intelligentiy helpful charity to
set them upright. give them enough to
alleviate conditions for the present
until they can become entirely self
sustaining. OF course there are other
classes, but the first mentioned are par
ticularly important to reach because if
helped the-- are to become active par
Elephants IN society. And so this is
the one of the great benefits to accrue
from having the thing done in a way
according to thought and outline.
With this charitable bureau can be
brought into cooperation the labors OF
Police Matron Thorpe and the Saliva
ton Army, besides whatever other
agencies have been struggling in an
unorganized way to cover this field of
need,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
SYSTEMATIC CHARITY.

When the Topeka ministers, business
men, and others interested in the mat
ter took up the proposition a few DAYS
ago of establishing a means of doing
charitable work throughout the city in
a methodical way they started a move
ment which should have. and it is alto
gether probable will get the support of
the people in general Heretofore there
has been no systematic way of dealing
with the delinquent and defective class
es, Notwithstanding the plain fact, ex-
hibited more plainly from time to time.
that such was needed
The scheme which it has been pro-
posed to place on foot, looks to the es-
adjustment Of a permanent charities
association. deriving it's support and CO.
operation from the churches of all sects
and denominations, lodges and other
societies or individuals who have --ade
1t their business or who will give them
selves even in the smallest way to help
ing these two needful classes. In charge
Of the business of this association il
is expected that a secretary shall be
placed in charge Right there is where
the organization should take extreme
care: in its selection Of this person to
handle its affairs. He should have made
study of sociological matters and be
sides possessing experience in meeting
and dealing with humanity generally.
should have specific training in hand
ling the poorer classes, and Gisoriminat-
ing in the bestowal of assistance be-
tween those who really need and those
who are trying to work" the world.
Topeka has had the reputation of be-
ing town upon which the man with a
graft" could Sly his art with highly
rcmunerative results. And IT is not
only the duty of character to guard
against the encouragement of such i'm
positions. but positively to give only to
the really deserving. Not so many peo-
pie, compared with the thousands that
are here. must be given continuous
support outside of their own efforts: it
is only a temporary bracing up that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

from the AtcnlSOn GiODc.
Some people would rather have man
silly than cross
Your friends are probably all right but
haven't you some pretty tough aequaint-
ances?
We suppose the dressmaker never lived
who could make brides dresses without
getting off her old joke every time she
fitted them on
An old man is unlucky because, with
age he forgets when he spills the salt,
whether to throw some over the right or
left shoulder to restore MS usual luck.
Some people pretend that they do not
believe in advertising. People advertise
with every breath they draw. The only
difference is that some are better adver-
tisers than others.
The movement to give money for Chris
mas presents, is spreading One of the
principal advantages of this plan is that
people will know the value of their 2 IT'S
and make their own gifts correspond
An Atchison man who has gone to the
devil says that. before going, he had
tremendous itching to travel that way 1t
was the worst itching he ever experienced,
except the itch he is experiencing now to
get back.
Last fall an Atchison girl returned from
the east with new wrap that was so
horribly ugly that there was general pro-
test, and she hid it. The silence of last
summer ernboldened her, however, and
she is wearing 1t again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

3ectation was the fact that there We're
good many High Foreheads in twon at
that time. prominent club women from
all over the state, who were here for the
October meeting of the city federation.
Although the weather was all that
could be desired and there was no
counter attraction to account for it only
a pitiful handful of people awaited
themselves of the opportunity to show
an appreciation of the unselfish efforts
of Mr.. Edward Wilder and the other
earnest workers who have made the art
exhibit at the city library one of the
most creditable of our local institutions.
No doubt a good many Topeka people
stayed away because it wasn't perfectly
convenient for them to go that night
and they knew they could see the things
at any time, and this excuse might be
accepted from Mere Man, who isn't sup
posed to have aesthetic inclinations any
way and whose spirit as everyone
knows is not attuned to the Higher
Life, but how about all those advanced
club women and the local literati? Make
no mistake. they are always among
those present" at the dry goods open
ings.
Now the dry goods and millinery
CPNAAAAAsoS AC perfectly i164bAAilclhC OOjNNto
for womens energies and no attempt
should be made to distract their atten-
ton from hats and gowns but, really,
in consideration of the two Incidents
just related isn't it rather absurd for
women to pretend to be so superior to
men in their tastes and aspirations? 1t
is probably true that if it were not for
women the new novels ana essays of
the New Thought school would gather
dust on the book store shelves instead
of running through half dozen editions
in as many months and no one Will
deny that the encyclopedias would be
in an almost continuous state of in
noouous desuetude if nobody copied
their club papers" from them, but are
these services in the cause of Art more
than those of the men who earn the
money that pays for the books, and who
good humoredly allow the women of the
family to buy the pictures and tapes
tries and the pottery which they proud
ly display in their homes as proof of
their artistic tastes and their xltellect-
ual supericrity2 George AIDE says that
the only real literary men are those who
make living by it and that comes very
near the truth of all art in America
where it is the tolerance of the averag e
man and the temporary fad of that
idle child of fancy" the average Wo-
man of the better classes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

President Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers has sent out a circular order
ing a reduction of the assessments upon
union miners now employed by oae-half
and expresses the hope that all occa-
sior for assessments will De past in
short time. The money now collected is
being paid to support the 10000 men still
idle, 1900 being still on a strike be-
cause of differences over the signing Of
a contract with some of the independent
operators. The strike on this account,
of $500 employees of G. w. Markle & CO.
is ended, all but thirteen of the men
being taken back without signing con-
tracts, and those excluded being cared
for by the labor union
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
QUAKER REFLECTIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t doesn't pay to grant favors to a mar
with a bad memory.
In her search for the ideal man girl
often overlooks a lot of real ones.
Life is a game of give and take, il
which most of us try to do the taking
It's all right for a woman to manage
her husband if she doesn't let him know
it.
It takes more than a coat of paint to
make an old woman look as good as new.
If We could see ourselves as others see
us, some of US might wish we were blind.
You can't always tell what kind of cigar
a man smokes from those he gives away.
The failure to remove a price mark
from a present has caused a lot of heart
burnings.
When everybody agrees that girl is
Just too sweet for anything she is apt
to cloy.
A man was overheard to remark yestor-
day that if he had money enough to buy
an automobile he would buy something
else.
Magazine Editor-"We don't want any
dialect stories" Author-"This isn't a
dialect story. It's story of society, in
which the people talk up-to-date slang
Nell-"He told me I was the only girl
he ever loved Beile-"And he expected
you to believe it?" NelI-''Of course. And
he really did act like a beginner, to get
off that old chestnut"
He-..Let's get married on Friday She
-"Oh. George, Friday, you know, is"
He-"Yes, I know it's unlucky: but then
if our marriage doesn't turn out well, we
shall always have something to blame it
on -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
LONG LIVE THE aHomE PAPER

A Kansas man who went east a short
time ago told an eastern newspaper
man that rural mail delivery is playing
havoc with the circulation of weekly
newspapers in the west: that the west
ern farmer will not be content with
news a week old when he can get it
fresh every day in the daily which the
rural mail carrier will bring to the
door of the farm house every morning
THE weekly and semi-weekly news
papers are now too slow for the farm
ers, said this man. Under the system
of rural delivery the farmer can take
daily newspaper. and when he re-
turns home from his fields at night can
keep in touch with the outside world
almost as completely as his city broth
err The farmer who takes weekly
newspaper these days is regarded as
mossback. 1t was Commodore Wander
bilt, / think, who stated that no man
who had not gathered from the days
newspaper the gist of the events of
the day before, before he finished that
days duties, could hope to succeed
in his time If that was true then, how
much truer is it now? The farmers of
Kansas are beginning to see what the
old merchant saw many years ago.
In the old days the weekly newspa-
per went to the rural postoffice and af-
ter it had lain there two or three DAYS
and the postmaster and all of his loaf
ing friends had read it. the owner
would at last call for it. The news
would be gray-headed by the time it
was scanned by the subscriber. But he
perhaps knew that it would be pretty
old when he got it anyhow, and he
thought d few more days of age would
not hurt much Now the rural mail
carrier takes the daily to his door every
day and he gets the news of the world
at night. No purchaser of farm pro-
duce can come along with fresh in
formation about a shortage of grain in
some remote quarter of the globe and
take advantage of the ignorant tiller of
the soil. But the weekly which used to
be such a power for good or evil is
thing of the past. In a short while il
will be as much out of date as the
stage coach of a hundred years ago,
and cannot live under the new system
any more than the old stage coach can
exist in competition against the steam
engine"
While there is great deal of truth
in these statements it is not the coun-
! try weekly that is doomed-that is, the
country weekly which properly fulfills
its mission. 1t is the city weekly which
has heretofore been giving the farmer
his knowledge of Geographic events,
that will go into decay. The city daily
can never take the place of the country
weekly which gives the farmer his To-
cal news. It is true that rural free
delivery has taken the city daily into
thousands of farm homes. and it is
quite probable that the farmer who
does not subscribe for one or more
dailies will be more exceptional than
the city dweIer who Goes not read the
dailies.
But the daily will never supersede the
"old home paper the country weekly.
It may interfere with the patent in
Sides feature but the country paper
which faithfully chronicles the happen
ings of it's town and county will never
be crowded out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
An English Author Wrote:

mo shade, no shine, no fruit, no
flowers, no leaves-November" Many
Americans would add no freedom from
catarrh which is SO aggravated during
this month that it becomes constantly
troublesome. There is abundant proof
that catarrh is a constitutional disease
1t is related to scrofula and consump-
ton, being one of the wasting diseases
Hoods Sarsa parilla has shown that
what is capable of eradicating scrofula.
completely cures catarrh and taken in
time prevents consumption. We cannot
see how any sufferer can put off taking
this medicine, in view of the widely pub
listed record of it's radical ard p@rua-
nent cures 1t is undoubtedly America s
Greatest Medicine for Americas Great
eSt Dfsea se-Catarrh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

glance at the preliminary estimate
of the average yield per acre for va
rious crops. as computed by the de-
partment of agriculture, says the Wor-
cester Spy, is sufficient to show one
most excellent reason why prosperous
conditions are assured for another year.
The average yield Of corn was 26S bush
els, which is more than three bushels
above the ten year average. As the
corn acreage was very large the amount
of this grain now in store is enormous.
Potatoes are supposed to have yielded
about e5.4 bushels. almost 20 bushels
above the ten year average. the quality
being placed above 80 per cent. Six of
the leading sweet potato producing
states report crops above the ten year
average, though five report yields some
what below the ten year average. With
the exception of 1898 the past season 5
yield of hay was the largest ever re-
ported by the department of agriculture.
1t being Isl tons per acre, the ten year
average being L29 tons. Considering in
connection with these estimates that
the wheat crop was fair and that the
yield in nearly all other crops was ex-
cellent. it is clear that there is ample
supply Of staple articles Of food.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
coRPoRArroN NERvE.

Necessity knows no law. and therefore
obeys none. Corporations. however,
know all the law, and often have about
the same rule of obedience that necessity
does. This were sometime a paradox, +"
but Topeka has grown so accustomed to
it that it is cutie matter of course.
The Vinewood railway has given about
as nice an illustration of this custom of
brazen corporate indifference to the laws
of the city and opinions of the city Off
Gals as one could wish to see. In the
face Of the evident law in the case, and
the plain ruling of the city attorney, it
persisted in paving tits right of way at
the expense of the city of Topeka, thus
saving for its personal exchequer a large
sum of. money. 1t fguratively snapped
its fingers in the face of the commands
of the street commissioner. and only
when it saw an Injunction suit looming
up on the horizon of the city hall did it
condescend to cease w-7at it had sub
stantially admitted to be its Illegal
acts.
The vinewood railway company is no
worse than many other corpora tons.
Probably it is not nearly so bold and
bad as some. But it took advantage of
its manifest pull" with the city council
ed a private citizen in Jail within an
ao-r.
The city granted the Vinewood line a
franchise to build through the streets of
the city. It was not contemplated that
the company would assume that it had
the right to appropriate to it's own use
the paving material which it tore up
from some of the principal streets. and
nothing was said in the franchise to
prevent such an act. The superstition
was that the Vinewood line would obey
the city ordinance which says that a
street railway must pave its own right
of way on paved streets. Instead of do
ing this. the company proceeded to use
tire material from the streets which it
had torn up to pave it's right of way
The only way to account for the bold
game of the Vinewood line is that it is
relying now, as it has relied in the past
on strong majority in the city council
to pull it through. Very likely, the
council will be importuned to grant to
the Vinewood line the right to appro-
pirate to its own use all the paving ma
terial it needs, and if the council is as
easily led by the corporation attorneys
now as it has been, the road will get
everything it wants.
Instead of giving the railway COM
pany its right of way free the city
council should have obtained a valu-
able consideration. The city of ST
Louis has recently unearthed the biggest
scandal in its history over a street rail-
way franchise. Thousands of dollars
were paid for franchise. but in the
St. Louis case this money was paid into
a corruption fund for members of the
council.
Topeka is happily free from this sus-
picion-but why should valuable fran
chises be given away. Topeka has been
worked.
The whip of a semi-political railway
corporation is a powerful weapon. It's
driving power is sometimes as manifest
in a city council as it is in a state
legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

A ST. Louis citizen has issued a cir
cular calling upon his fellows to boom
the city. He asks them to induce the
newspapers to cease printing the news
about municipal boodling, bribery and
rascality, because it blackens the repu-
tation of and keeps people away from
the city. The Post-Dispateh refers to
the circular in this way: THE city is
injured by municipal rascality, not by
the publication of the facts about it
and of the efforts to punish the rascals
and get rid of corruption. st. Louis IS
not more corrupt than many other
cities, but the exposure of corruption
here with the punishment of the ras-
calls places this city in shining contrast
with other cities where corruption
fiourishes unchecked by the newspapers
or the courts. Nothing would please the
municipal rascals more, or do a greater
injury to St. Louis than this suppression
of the facts of municipal rascality. BY
all means let st. Louisans and St Louis
newspap ers boom st. Louis and say all
the good things possible about the city
One of the best things that can be SAID
is that in st. Louis news of rascality is
published and rascals are punished"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

TFrom the Chicago News.
It takes a tailor to size a man up.
When a man comes after dinner he
comes before elmer.
Almost any caller is a bore if he comes
at the wrong time
Country preachers are usually long on
sermons and short on salary.
The richer man is the harder he tries
to make people believe he is poor.
Eventually the meek may inherit the
earth-when Mr.. Morgan gets through
with it.
A pawnbroker says it takes a man of
nerve to soak his umbrella when it is
raining.
Two of the most bitter things in life
are being Tilted by girl and dose of
quinine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

The coal barons can't frighten any
body by threatening the public with
higher prices for anthracite if the arbi-
traitors find in favor of the miners. The
public is accustomed TO paying any old
price that the operators choose to make
regardless of reason or justice. 1t will
be some satisfac tion to know that a por
tions of these exactions is reaching those
who are entitled to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

from the New YORK Press-
Jealousy shows no mercy even to itself
You can be a married man many times,
but bachelor only once
A mans clothes are shaped to him; a
woman is shaped to her clothes.
Butter would not melt in the mouths Of
some people and I've would not scorch the
mouths of others.
man is known by the company he
keeps, and the company he keeps is
known by the breakfast he can't eat the
morning after.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

Wall street appears to be bent on
proving to the country that no amount
of elasticity that can be injected into
the currency will make any difference
The street is just as panicky as it was
before Secretary Shaw helped it out to
the extent of some thirty millions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

The new election law of Massachu-
sets is said to be disliked by both man
ufacturers and workmen. 1t provides
that no establishment shall be opened
on election day until two hours after the
polls have been opened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

At the meeting of the Society of
Daughters of the Confederacy at New
Orleans this week. a member from
Kentucky made the proud boast that
Uncle Toms Cabin" and Marching
Through Georgia" had been banished
from the Blue Grass state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
JOIN THE CROWD.

The New Northwest is increasing
from immigration. by 100000 people
yearly. This region offers a field for
farmers, stock raisers. miners, lumber
men, millers. fruit growers, and all
classes of labor The Cody Wyoming
extension into the Big Horn Region of
fers as plendid opening for the live
stock and wool business and for farm
ing by irrigation.
The industrial expansion that is now
the basis of wealth in the East will be
repeated in the Northwest. Give some
thought toward home in Nebraska or
Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana.
Northeastern Wyoming Northern
Idaho. Washington, the Puget Sound
and Columbia River region
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

The demand for houses for residence
and business uses has grown so great
in Topeka that lot owner has only TO
turn I'D a few shovelfuls of dirt to at
tract a swarm of would-be tenants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

The old saw about the turning of the
worm has been illustrated in an I'M
usual way in Kansas City where pa
tent killed his doctor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

Chicago Post: Wages go up to meet
the cost of living, and the cost OF living
goes up to meet the new wages 1t
looks like a continuous performance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
For a Pad Cold.

If you have a bad cold you need good
relia HE medicine like Chamberlafn's cough
Remedy to loosen and relieve it. and to al
Law the Irritation and Inflammation of the
throat and lungs. For sale by all drug
cfSfS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

Denmark can keep her old islands.
We have plenty of others some of
which are not proving unmixed bless
ings.-CleveIand Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

softest berth is held by the guard in
the treasurer's office who gets SIS
month for sleeping in front of the mon
ey vault.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

Now that ping pong is on the wan,
the magazines are printing expert opin
ions on How to play it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15

A Topeka property owner who is
alarmed at the special taxes for brick
paving in front of his home, SAYS ne
expects to be bankrupt when he joins
the great majority and has to bear his
share of the tax for the gold pavement
in the streets of the New Jerusalem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
NORTHWEST TRAIN TO TAKE

THE Burlington Northern Pacific Ex-
press" is the only through train into the
Northwest territory in connection with
the Northern Pacific Railroad. Through
coaches, chair cars (seats free). through
tourist sleeDers over this short line and
time saver to the Northwest Connect
ing train from Denver to Alliance in
connection with this great through
train. You can reach the Northwest
either via Kansas City, st. Joseph or
Denver. by the Burlingfon Rnnte