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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

[F'rom the New York Press.1
Time is a bonfire, because it is money
The man who never has sinned never
was a man.
We educate children; we teach dogs;
and the dogs learn.
Either girls prink before they pray or
they pray after they prink.
Some young women have soul yearn-
ings worse than the stomach ache
Little babies are a sure cure for lots
of queer things that women have.
It is easier to be afraid to say you
are afraid of woman than it is not to
be afraid of her.
The man who thinks he knows it all
is bad enough, but the woman who
thinks he does, too, is worse.
man can be devoted to a woman
without loving her; he cannot love her
without being devoted to her.
The first time you quarrel with a
woman you are mad with yourself for
doing it; afterward you are mad with
her for doing 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
the Phfladelphia Record. I

IFrom the Philadelphia Record-1
The Lenten jokelet is on the wing.
It's rain or shine with the bootblack.
Hosiery covereth a multitude of shins.
A laugh on the face is worth two in
the sleeve.
A man can't starve as long as he has
a bank roll.
doesn't worry a secret society man
to have the grip.
Times must be pretty hard when q
man can't collect his thoughts.
When musician gets a good idea he
wants to N AXE note of it.
1t naturally follows that when a nose
is broke it hasn't got a scent.
Taking everything into consideration
the suspension bridge is without a
pier.
It goes without saying that the fell
low who travels on his face has a hard
cheek.
The beauty of checks and women are
judged from the same standpoint-face
and figure.
You can't get blood from a stone .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25
CANDIDATES IMPORTANT.

Topeka, a city with a powerful Re
publican majority. has Democratic
zation over the state feels a disposal
to act up, let it turn to Topeka for a
lesson.-Ottawa Herald.
The Republican party over the state,
and all other parties for that matter,
can well afford to turn to Topeka for
a lesson in this instance.
The election of Mr.. Parker for mayor
was not a question of politics, it was
a business proposition, pure and simple
At the spring primaries ]. w. F.
Hughes and James Warner were can
didates for the Republican nomination
for mayor of the city of Topeka Mr..
Warner was generally recognized as a
first-class business man, who would
give the city a careful and economical
administration. On the other hand, MIR.
Hughes was considered too much of a
dreamer and theorist to successfully
conduct the affairs of the city. Another
element also entered into the consider
alton of the struggle. Enemies of Mr..
Warner charged that his campaign was
in the interests of the liquor element,
and with his election would come open
saloons. Mr.. Hughes, although an anti
prohibitionist, forced himself as the
candidate of the prohibitionists on the
Republican ticket, under whose admin
istration 1ointists were to be driven
from the townsite.
The hypocrisy of Hughes position dis
gusted hundreds of voters. Others were
afraid of him from a business stand
point and SO a usual big Republican
majority became almost tie.
The Democrats selected for their
standard bearer in the campaign Mr..
Albert Parker. a large taxpayer and
conservative man of deeds rather than
words. A fierce campaign followed in
which the majority of the merchants
and taxpayers favored Mr.. Parker. Many
of the women of the city misled by
Hughes protestations favored Mr..
Hughes, fearing the views of Mr.. Par
ker, who never touches liquor. After
the votes were counted 1T was seen that
the contest was a close one and the
returning board declared Mr.. Hughes
elected on technicalities which decision
was later reversed by the supreme court
and Mr. Parker seated.
The financial condition of the city
shows that the Republican business
men of Topeka acted wisely in laying
aside partisan prejudice and voting for
Mr.. Parker
The municipalities would be the gain
er if all political parties would more
often follow the example of Topeka Re
publicans in the mayoralty case in
question
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

known as the Western Reciprocity
league. The aim of the association will
be to foster national commerce. The
officers are: Governor Stanley, presi-
dent; A. B. Hulit, secretary; p /. Bone
brake, treasurer; executive committee,
c. B. Hoffman, F. G. Maegley, and
James Butler.
w. A. White is spending a vacation
at Colorado Springs, resting.
w. j. Bailey announces his candidacy
for governor.
AT the annual meeting of the Y NJ
G. A the following officers are chosen:
8. S. OFT, president; Warren NJ Crosby
vice president; Jesse Shaw, treasurer;
Henry B. Lautz, recording secretary
George Lerrigo, general secretary.
The tickets to the Kansas Day club
banquet are entirely exhausted.
J. G. Gregory and Mrs. Gregory are
acquitted in the Shawnee district court
on the charge of a violation of the pro-
hibitory law. The case was the first
brought by Assistant Attorney General
A. L Redden.
The following officers are elected for
the ensuing year for the Kansas State
Grocers' association, at the third annual
convention, held here this week
Thomas NJ. Hanley. Topeka, president;
James w. Tapp. Wichita, first vice
president; ]. N. Dolley Maple Hin. sec
ond vice president; Joseph F. Nicely.
Osawatomie, third vice president; Ralph
Bidwell, Lewis, fourth vice president:
Charles s. Kaffer, Atchison recordfnz-
secretary; Charles =. Adams Topeka
general secretary; F. E Marsh. Man
haitian, treasurer; John Erbacher. St.
Marys, chairman of legislative COM
mittee; w. +. Weber. Topeka, Treasurer
of legislative committee: John Perkins.
Atchison. chairman of executive com
mittee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25
REFORMING THE INDIANS.

In a circular letter to agents, Com
missioner of Indian Affairs Jones has
in a manner revoked the order against
the members of that race, wearing foot
ball hair and bedaubing their features
with paint. BY doing this there has
been a show of wisdom which is not
likely to result deleteriously to civiliza-
tion.
The fact that this levity on the part
of the government indicates, since prin-
cipally the old bucks are affected by it,
that it is the younger generation of
Reds toward whom efforts for improve
ment are mainly directed. After scores of
years of passing a wild careless exist
ence it is no easy task to redeem race
and bring them to the point where they
relinquish entirely their customs for
those of civilization. 1t is all right for
missionaries to go among them and
bring them into a better way of living.
To show them by exchanging their
clothing for such clothing as will en-
able them to use not one but two hands
in the struggle for existence is as noble
a work as can be conceived. But all
those betterments must be evolved in
their own sure way. Let it come about
through the process which constant
mingling among civilized whites will
produce. Then the Indian will be taught
utility and usefulness.
The principal object aimed at by
those who brought into enactment a
rule forbidding the use of such embel-
lishments as paint and long hair no
doubt, was to secure the best results
from the $27, 900 which Uncle Sam
expends annually for the education and
permanent civilization of Indian youth.
And that point is understood to be in
force in connection with the instruc-
tons which have been issued by Com
missioner Jones, that those in charge of
Indians on the reservations shall see to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25
GOOD NEWS.
Many Topeka Readers Have Heard 1t,
and Profited Thereby.

Good news travels fast and the
thousands of bad back sufferers in To-
peka are glad to learn that prompt re-
lief is within their reach. Many a lame,
weak and aching back is bad no more
thanks to Doan's Kidney Pills. Our citi-
zens are telling the good news of their
experience with the little conqueror of
kidney ills. Here is an example worth
reading:
Mr.. George Henley of 1015 Taylor
street says: For two years or more
had slight kidney disorder which at
times was quite annoying. There was
not much backache but the kidney Sc
cretions were disordered. too frequent
in action and at times accompanied by
pain. 1 dropped into Rowley & Shows
drug store and procured box of Doans
Kidney Pills. Its use quickly cured me
and left no unpleasant after effects. I
am glad to recommend such a reliable
remedy to others
For sale by all dealers. Price 90 cents.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y, sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's and
take no substitute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25
HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED.

It is almost impossible to pick UP a
Kansas newspaper nowadays without
seeing an item that John Jones has
just purchased a quarter section eight
miles north of town for $4,000. This Is
double what the same land was offered
for three years ago.
Kansas real estate, especially Kansas
farms, have been advancing rapidly in
value during the past two or three
years, and the advance is more marked
at present than it has been at any pre-
vious time. A few years ago a large
per cent. of the farms in Kansas were
held by eastern mortgage companies
which had secured them by foreclosing
mortgages. The companies secured the
land at much less than the real value of
the land in many instances. but at the
same time they were anxious to dis
pose of it. People mortgaged their land
and when the hard times came on they
were unable to meet the mortgages.
The result was that the land was sold
by the sheriff. Purchasers were few
and as a usual thing the property was
bid in by the CON pany holding the
mortgage and the former owner became
a tenant.
But with good crops came a change.
The first crop enabled people to get out
of debt to a large extent. The second
enabled them to begin to buy back the
farms they had lost. The mortgage
companies, frightened by the fact that
there had been no demand for the land
during the hard times, were willing to
sell for what the land had cost them.
In the fall succeeding the big wheat crop
of 1900 it was no unusual thing to see
items like this in the Kansas country
threshed his wheat He got enough to
pay for the land on which it was
raised"
Farmers who knew the real value of
the land bought it up as fast as they
were able. but the price did not ad-
vance much for time, because the loan
companies were willing to let go Of
their holdings for low price They did
not believe many of the stories of big
Kansas crops. About year ago, how
ever, mo st of the land held by loan
companies had been bought up by
residents. even in many of the western
counties. Then farms for sale were no
longer a drug on the market, but there
was a demand for them. Now when
there is a farm for sale at low figur e
it is quickly taken up. The demand
is far greater than the supply. The
big crops of the past two years have
given the farmers an abundance of
money which they are anxious to invest
in more land In that way competition
has sprung UP, and the price of land
has advanced rapidly and is still ad-
Vancing.
Land that was offered for sale at s25
an acre few years ago and could not
be sold even at that price, cannot be
touched now for $50. Western Kansas
land on which the owners would not
pay taxes five years ago is now worth
from IS to SIS an acre.
It's a good thing for Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

it that every possible effort shall be
made to prevent them from resuming
the customs of life of their savage an
cestors. But in the case of the "blan-
ket'' tribes it would be approaching the
impossible to try to enforce fully such
an order. The best way is to bring into
the proposition the moral suasion idea.
for the sake only of the coming genera
tions- If it must be, let the old buck
wear paint, hair to the braiding length
and the toga symbolicaI of PALMER days
for him; but for the good of those who
are to come in later let it be limited
to that class alone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

says the Manayunk Philosopher, .'but If
it's a good one you can get money omit
Hook-"Do you believe there's luck
in horseshoes?" Nye-''Yes, if they
happen to be on the horse that goes
under the wire first"
$50 you want to marry my daugh-
ter?" said the wealthy parent. What
are your prOspects?" Good" replied
the nervy sutton, IF you consent"
You advertise an up-to-date board
ing house, said Alec Smart THAT
means meals on time, eh?" No" re-
let my boarders get behind"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

Because Mrs. Nation llmped as she
walked when she was last in Topeka,
some one guessed that she dropped a
hatchet on her toe. The story has now
reached Philadelphia. in the following
form in the Times:
Topeka, Kas., Jan. 19.-Mrs. Carrie
Nation, while ffourishing a large
hatchet which she received yesterday
as a present from an eastern manufac-
turing firm, dropped it, and the keen
edge of the instrument severed the large
zoe of her right foot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25
Held His Son over Red Hot Stove.

Rochester, N Y. Jan. 25.-George
Johnston, a farmer of Wallace. was
brought to the Monroe county peniten-
tiary under strong guard this morning
after a narrow escape from 1ynching
at the hands of his neighbors Johnston
enraged at his 10-year-old boy crying
held the boy over red-hot stove until
he was fatally burned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

No man is so blind as he who will
not see. In spite of the broad, fiat and
emphatic denial of Mayor Parker of
all the Mole st. Wichita. stories, the
Capital continues to publish elaborate
"corroborations" by its Sedgwick coun-
ty fake artists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

President Roosevelt is said to be anx-
ious to get at the bottom of the rail-
road problems of the country. 1t would
be a good plan to start right. Offer a
prize for the best answer to the ques-
ton: Is there anything the interstate
commerce commission can do without
going contrary to Iaw?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

where he is bonded by any of the sure
ty companies of the country They will
not furnish bonds for a gambler, and
if they find that he later becomes one
they withdraw their guarantees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

At last accounts Judge Thomson was
still holding the fort while Mr. Robert
Heller is doing nothing but fondling his
judges commission which is signed by
Governor Stanley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

Judge WelIhouse says the peach buds
are not killed. Edwin Snyder says they
are If this were in the olden times
the question could only be finally ad-
iusted by a resort to the code.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

A little opposition is often a good
thing Topeka's appearance will in
crease one hundred per cent with
buried telephone wires
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

That earthquake was d good thing.
1t is run ored that it shook off a large
number OF the barnacles which have
long troubled the city of Leavenworth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

St Louis man having suffered de-
feat in an election for office in a beney-
olent society, shot himself. He had evil
IDENTIFY never heard of Littlefeld Crum' s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

King Alfonso is to be crowned on May
IL Here is a chance for President
Roosevelt to honor Admiral Schley. And
besides the Spaniard would doubtless
be glad to get better acquainted with
the hero of Santiago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

Some people have been unkind enough
10 say that Dave Lehay of Wichita IS
writing specials to the morning paper
about Mayor Albert Parker. This is
certainly false, for Dawes fakes are not
hbelous, and besides. they have some
merit and originality
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

A ST. Louis millionaire was murdered
the other day while taking a bath. This
should be a warning to anyone tempt
ed to take a bath.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

1t is claimed that the proposed cream
cry trust has fallen through. A cream
cry trust can not be universal so long
as farmers are permitted to keep cows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

1t is announced that ]. r. Burton will
not be present at the Kansas Day ban
quet. Does the senator from Kansas
wish to evade a host of disappointed
office seekers with broken promise
autograph albums.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

When a newspaper uses a four
column head on a Wichita story, 1t is
pretty good evidence that it is yellow
very yellow"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

Councilman Warner may find himself
once more in the race for councilman,
in spite of his screams.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

1t seems rather wicked to retire ex-
Chief Stahl to his farm with such drouth
prospects for crops ahead. But doubt
less Mr.. Stahl has discovered that there
ere other ways of making money than
Through the medium of water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

The twenty counts for. selling liquor
which Judge Redden had against ]. c.
Gregory were probably correct, except
for the fact that Judge Redden started
to count at the wrong place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

The Midwinter exposition is a mag
nificent success. 1t shows what can b'
done by a little push and energy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

The Municipal league meeting, just
closed at Wichita, failed to pass a
resolution making the sending of fake
kilograms a death penalty. But of
course Wichita would see that her chief
industry was not encroached upon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

The city officers who said they in
tended to resign as soon as Mayor
Parker requested them to do SO were
evidently laboring under an hallucina-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

II Prince Henry does Justice to all tn
good things at the proposed banquet'
he will have to acquire an excellent ap
petite en- route
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

Marconi studies to please When
Miss Holman asked him to excuse her
from marrying him he consented
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

Has this a familiar sound-Miss ElleI
Stone, the missionary, is about to b'
ransoned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

Mayor Parker will know enough to
keep away from Wichita in the future
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-05
THE BACHELORS CREED.

Article IL believe that liberty and
the unquestioned privileges of the
latchkey constitute the only true hap
piness.
Article Il believe that marriage is
often a failure because most men don I
understand women.
Article 81 believe that I am the
only man who does thoroughly under
stand women.
Article Al believe that hatpins and
wells are danger and an aggravation
to man and should therefore be sup
pressed.
Article 81 believe that all mothers
with grown I'D daughters are highly
dangerous TO the youthful bachelor, but
the daughters themselves are pretty.
innocent little darlings
Article 6.-I believe that all women
are Jealous OF one another and that
therefore one must not praise q girl
even 20 her sister
Article IL believe that laudladies
are q much maHgned race. but lan6la-
dies cats are the very mischief
Article ST. believe that babies are
the most terrifying OF created things
and 50 much alike that their own moth
ers wouldn't know them with their
clothes or
Article 81 believe that stolen kisses
are the sweetest-yeI another induce
ment 10 remain bachelor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-05
4 Girl Without Tact.

What do you think of the girl who
was guilty of the following: 1t was at
a dinner table. The men had been talk
ms about rich girls-certain heiresses
they knew-and the chaperon remarked
archly, We'll, thank goodness. Jack
didn't marry me for my money!"
Whereupon the girl, who had TO make
her wits do instead of a fortune land
she didn't have any too much of those).
spoke up bitterly: "Oh, yes. But you
belonged to a different agei"
Horrible and CHASTITY silence. The
worst of it was that it wasn't merited
at all as the ohaperon had a right to
consider herself still in the ranks of
young and pretty matrons
The girl didn't mean it? Oh. no.
Well. the chaperon won't mean to leave
her out Of her next dinner party. but
that is what viii happen just the same.
Then there was another one. She was
a newspaper woman. and she wrote a
book: not that she cared for writing
books. but she wanted to steer herself
by this means into society. She had
come TO the conclusion that life wasn't
worth living without chance 10 throw
her witticisms around among the elect
After she had struggled for admission
for 4 couple Of months a married vo-
man took pity on her and stood sponsor.
Then what 90 you suppose happened ,
Miss Newspaper Woman worked to
such good advantage that she soon
gained for herself a circle of admirers
but she included in that circle the man
of all others in whom her patroness
was az that time interested. Her fall
was sudden and speedy I don't sup
pose she ever knew really why. Which
shows you that while woman may
succeed IN Park row by pure strenu-
BUSINESS, there are other places where
that quality puts her at a decided dis
~. N Il
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-05

Some one told Alice Serber. the eld-
est. that she could learn to make neck
ties and partly pay for her instruction
by the work she did while she was
learning. An advertisement appeared
for learners on neckties. Alice applied
and was set to work for nothing. hav-
ing to pay considerable tuition money
besides. Five weeks she remained in
this place. which was conducted by a
woman. Miss Alice found she might 90
on forever. giving her work for nothing
and getting 10 actual insight into the
art of necktie making. This plan was
the regular game OF the employer the
girl discovered, to get the work Of
green girls. at the same time keeping
from them the really essential knowl-
edge Of the trade.
That is the way il goes sometimes IN
this country said Miss Alice And
there was q tinge Of bitterness in her
tone Foreigners come over here and
have no friends. INSCRIPTIONS people
impose or them and try 20 get their
work Tor nothing and get al the money
they have away from them That IS
how ue found it. I think It's often the
case with green ones
Five weeks % getting her eyes open
and her eyefeeth cut. and Alice left that
shop and tried for work ia ether neck
tie factories
~Oh. the flights OF stairs 7 had to
cIiubt~ she said. Day after day
went from early morning III afternoon. /
ana never gave II Up once I was cot
every day for four weeks looking fo-
vork and couid not md g. When
came home disappointed and tired. ny
mother gave me sympathy and kept
me from giving say. Al nigh; used