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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24
THE rNrERURBAN RAILWAY.

A prominent citizen remarked the
other day that the city of Topeka
would derive more actual benefit from
one or two electric interurban railways
centering here than from a trunk line
of transcontinental railway. 1t is
doubtless true that interurban electric
lines are of great value, and Topeka
should give every possible encourage
ment to the proposed line to Manhat-
tan, and the other proposed line to
Auburn, Dover. and southwestern To-
calities.
By means of the electric road, with a
fare of a cent a mile and a speed of a
mile a minute, the farmer is brought
into close touch with the city and
many of the objections to farm life are
removed. On the other hand, some of
the advantages of country life are
placed at the disposal of the city resi-
dent. The farmer can come to town
regardless of the bad condition of the
roads. He does not need to make an
all-day trip of 1t. In the time which
it now takes to travel out to Oakland.
he would be able to ride nearly all the
way from Manhattan on the inter-
urban. The hired man and the farmer
boy will take their girls to town to the
tHedteF III the evening, OF can pdtfOh-
ize the great entertainments at the
Auditorium. At the same time the in
terurban brings in from the country
resi- produce, makes "embalming
fluid" unnecessary to preserve the
sweetness of milk served to city pa
! irons. and gives the city man and his
family an easy way to get into the
ountry for d restful outing or half
days picnic.
Realizing all these advantages, it is
still important that the city council in
granting to the proposed Manhattan
line a 3O-year franchise should exercise
great care. Thirty years is a long time,
and while it may seem a hardship to
make strict provisions in the franchise
now, the time will come when the city
will not regret it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some races are ridden and some are
rowed.
The football hero will soon mount
his pedestal.
The finger of scorn often has we'd
ding ring on it.
A woman's stationery doesn't always
indicate her station.
Even the man with an iron will real
ICES that mis- heirs may break it,
A critic is a person who tells other
people how to do things he can't do
himself
A dumb waiter can't talk, but
neither, for that matter, can speaking
tube.
A philosopher is often a man who
DISCUSSES his dyspepsia with the cloak
of wisdom.
Cast your bread upon the waters and
you will realize how many people are
out for the dough.
When you hear man say that the
time is ripe for reform he rally means
that it's rotten
Mrs. MEggins-"Mrs. Henpeckke
says her husband talks in his sleep
Mrs Buggins-"Poor man! 1 suppose
that's the only chance he ever gets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24
JAYHAwKER Jors.

The Trego gold well has sprung a
teak.
The Muscotah Record has celebrated
its twentieth birthday.
The beauty of these autumn days at
Howard is offset by burning leaves.
An Efingham pig is the proud pos
SCISSOR of eight feet. two for each leg.
A Hiawatha June bride has made an
October announcement of the wedding
A Goats man who is a disbeliever in
banks had $50 stolen from trunk the
other day.
Not paid for want of funds" Now
IT'S Annie Diggs and Jerry Simpsons
turn to laugh.
Delphos will walk in the straight and
narrow way hereafter on blocks and
blocks of new brick pavement.
A little Leavenworth terrier has a
record of killing "a rats in "a minutes.
That's going a Lou Dillon gait
A Marion county hen has grown gray
at the age of fourteen. Up until this
year her feathers were coal black.
An Elk Falls woman has raised a
49-pound pumpkin. What a jolly Hal
loween jaek-o'-lantern that will make.
A Sabetha man advertises twenty diff
ferent kinds of home made sausages
My, what a busy life his wife must
lead.
The idea of an Atchison man to build
great corn Indian to guard our In
dian corn at the Worlds fair seems APP
propriate.
The Erie jail has a cosmopolitan lot
of prisoners. One is a Mexican, two
are negroes=an three others thieYish
Americans
The Jewell City postoffice is the loaf
! ing, gossiping resort for the sweet six
teen crowd. Probably because they find
their mails there
Section men working near Kiowa I'M
I = <olr NJ i'm
mediately turned in their time, kept the
money and fed.
A Waverly farmer has sold a ton of
white clover honey from his hives this
season. That beats raising pumpkins
and parsnips all hollow.
A LeavenMerth man came home the
| other night and beat his wife into g
divorce humor. He had been out with
Jack Frost taking wee nip.
Twice within the past month the
books of the Lima school, in Elk coun-
ty. have been carried out at night and
burned by some unknown vandaI
In open court at Arkansas City a
prisoner was fined four bottles of beer
for the crime of clipping off a dogs
tail and mailing the caudal appendage
to the CANNES owner.
Fifty Greeks are employed in thu
strenuous work of Quarrying stone ir
Butler county which recalls that they
are simply following the doctrines OF
one of their patron saints. Hercules.
A full blood African prince will at
tend a Winfield school this winter. His
wardrobe of a pleasant smile and sew
eral ostrich feathers is superseded BY
several suits Of civilized clothing.
Two-thirds of Lyndon's population are
lamenting because they failed to attend
the Presbyterian church Sunday night
An insane man suddenly appeared il
the pulpit. preached a brief sermon
dashed the Bible to the floor and raised
Ned generally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24
Passing of the billboard.

There can be no doubt that newspa-
uer advertising is rapidly increasing its
lead over the billboard in the favor OF
the advertiser The public has again
and again expressed its opposition to
fine billboard. and with city after city
passing laws abolishing the unsightly
Disbursements. the bill board is in
fair way to become thing of the past.
As the newspaper grows in favor, ths
billboard diminishes. and who will deny
that the newspaper of today Is far
greater factor in the publicity field than
ii was even year ago? AS advertisins
grows more out of It's infancy and out OF
its experimental state. the up-to-date
periodicals are looked upon as the prop
er mediums through which to reach the
publie.-From NewspaperdoM.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24
THE 1850 TRoTTER NExrp

September witnessed the arrival of
two two-minute trotters. Mid-October
finds Lou Dillon and Major Delmar out
of their brief co-regency in the trotting
world and Cresceus, the 9-year-old king,
restored to his own. says the New York
World
Except for his brief month in second
place, Cresceus has been at the top
since August /, 1901. 1t is announced
that his record breaking performance
of Monday, when he did his mile in
1:597z at Wichita, was practically his
farewell to the track. He goes into re-
tirement with the proud record of hav-
ing led the way toward that 1:50 mark
which becomes the goal of the trotters
now that the 1900" has lost it's interro-
cation point. 1t is by no means the
least feature of the Cresceus perform
ance that no wind shield figured in it,
Three and a half seconds now sepa-
rate the trottinE from the pacing rec
ord. From the 1854 Of Dan Patch,
the champion PAGER, to the 1877 3-5 of
Alan-a-DaIe, the worlds champion run
ner is more considerable chasrn. To
make the / so line the trotter must
break over what was a good running
mark years ago. 1t took a century to
reach the two-minute trotter Prof
Brewer, of Yale university, says fifty
years more will produce the so cham
pion. and that the limit will then have
been attained. 1t is on record that the
professor predicted twenty-five years
ago the arrival of the two-nainute trot-
ter in the first decade of the present
century
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

Abiding to American commercial
expansion U. S. Treasurer Roberts in
addressing the American Bankers as
sociation at San Francisco this week
said: But we invade the old world
with our manufactures by reason of the
skill and energy of American labor and
the methods devised by American
genius. We run electric roads beside
the Pyramids; we furnish harvesters
for Russia; we build bridges in the Sou
dan and in Burmah: send locomotives
to farthest Manchuria. help Germany to
load coal, sell shoes to Austria, scatter
sewing machines everywhere, and our
watches keep time on the Danube, the
Nile and the Orinoco. Our high wages
have not yet checked our invasion of
the markets of Europe and Asia. IN
ereasing home consumption affects to
some degree the exports of our mer-
chandise. for we ship only what our
own people do not use, but the more we
make the more we shall SELL"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Erom az Atchison Globe. !


Every one classes his friends as so many
sheep and goats.
Potato salad. when spilled on the side
walk, doesn't look very we'll
A college student eats more in the foot
ball season than two section hands.
When man emphasizes that he is go
ing to tell the truth it is we'll to verify
his statements.
A woman likes to taste OF everything on
the table when she is a guest, chiefly to
"see how it is made
What has become of the old fashioned
man who used to whittle and litter the
sidewalk with shavingS?
a bridegroom. compared with the. chest
Of silver and the cut glass, makes
mighty poor showing at a wedding
What contempt idle mans woman
folks have for himi We should think this
would shame him into doing something.
Some one should write a true love
love who do not know anything about It.
Somehow, we admire boy of u all the
more if he has no more use for Il parlor
than he would have for powder puff.
Atchison must be very dull socially:
The Globe has never yet reported a case
of nervous prOStration due to too mucn
society doings.
When a woman gives a series of parties
she has to invite girls of 16 TO every one,
or women of 60 will get mad. thinking
that she has punched them together as
old folks
You often hear it said that employees
will do more for bosses who are not eter-
nally lacking them up. Nothing in it
loaf every time they have opportunity.
Ezra Miller of Fort Wayne, aged -, ran
off, and before he would return forced
his mother to sign bill of rights Some
how it would have Disguised the old fash
toned mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
From the New York Press.l

from the New York Press.J
It's funny how sorry an old maid can
feel for an old bachelor
Chorus girls are very frank aDoue
showing YOU their reasons for going on
the stage.
The girl who Wants to go on the stage
has about as much reason for IL as tne
young man who wants to go INTO pom
tics.
Once there was man VINO never
vent around giving his friends tip on
a good thing. but it WAS because 1t
really was good
When a. man says he is worried over
his business his wife seems to think it
wouldn't be that way If he took her ad-
went out in the evening
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

One cubic foot of standard gold is
worth $S26,S4O. $1,000 of new gold coin
weighs 53.75 Troy ounces. The diameter
of the SO piece is 21-2O of an inch. The
stock Of gold in the country is esti-
mated at $1.277, So, 651. and if no allow
ance be made for abrasion, will weigh
2.35S9 tons avoirdupois. Reduced to a
solid mass it would contain 3,934.2 cubic
feet. and would fill a vault that meas
ured 1875 feet on all sides If coined
into eagles, and placed edge to edge. it
would make a line 2.116.S4 miles long.
If placed on board freight cars. with
Is tons in each car. it would require 147
cars. With an estimated population of
S0,SS1,e0O, this stock of gold gives a per
capita of $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

Certainly canning factory would be
a nice thing for the city, but while it is
under discussion it is as well to re-
member that a very large part of the
fresh fruit and vegetables consumed in
Topeka are shipped from other states.
If we are to have a canning factory it
Is as well to see that there is some
+l,frrr r.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

a great satisfaction to the public. but
is in itself preventive of fraud In
deed. it seems that the only loophole for
corruption left by the machine is the
possibility of bribing voters to stay
away from the polls. and this is some
thing that could only be reached by
COMPULSORY voting law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

The story comes from Berlin that
Emperor William sank into his hips
in a bog during his recent deer stalking
expedition. The foresters in attendance
pulled him out of the mire. and he con-
tinued to hunt. Later the emperor gave
orders that sixty pioneers be sent to
drain the morass and afterwards fill it
up with earth. This illustrates one of
the advantages of being an emperor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

It is reported that the railroads of the
country are preparing to lay off $4,000
men. The recent general advance in
wages will count for little with those
unfortunates who find themselves out of
jobs. 1t is pretty hard for a city, a
county, a state or a labor union to get
ahead of a CORPORATION.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

Patronage is the bane of political
life" says Mayor Carter Harrison of
Chicago. IF expenses could be kept
down, I would not be sorry if the
bridge tenders were placed on the civil
service lists. The old idea that patron
age is political strength is defunct The
fewer jobs I have to give out the bet
ter satisfied I am. For every man I
make glad by giving him a job three
men are made sore. so where does the
gain come in?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

It is noted that since friends of the
automobile and bicycle began to de-
clare that the horse must 60 some of
him have been going faster than ever
before known
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

Complaint is made by church workers
that citizens of the United States spend
$40 per capita for whisky and only 20
cents for mission. The missionaries
must go to making whisky if they
would get their share.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

Washington Post: Kansas City. Mo-,
is protesting against being confused
with Kansas City, Kan. where they
have Doodle scandal The world is slow
to learn that Kansas City lives off of but
not in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for exclusive afternoon publica.
ton in Topeka.
The news is received in the State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose. busy throughout the entire day
complete copy of the night report is also
received
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

Ever since we paid s2O,OOoOoO for the
Philippines, other nations have consid-
cred US easy. Colombia appears to be
no exception.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

Political parties are generally consid-
cred a necessity in this country, but
Mexico is prospecting fairly without
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

If Canada determine to shake off the
control of Great Britain and set up in
the nation business for herself, she
probably would receive much assist
ance in one way and another from this
side of the line
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

1t looks as though the fear that Ohio
will go Democratic has reached Mon
tana.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

When Canada comes into the union
the United States will be bounded on
the north by the aurora borealis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

Struggling Poet (gloomily)-"All my
verses have been sent. back" Wife
We'll 1 wouldn't worry, dear. They
pay so little when they accept them
that it does not matter much. New
York Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

Liquor drinking in the camp was APP
parently reduced to a minimum and
drunkenness was not tolerated. The
best soldier is one who keeps a level
head. Colonel Hoisington, on one occa-
sion. cut the chevrons from the sleeves
of a sergeant and sent him from the
camp, a rare case of intoxication in the
regiment. 49, ,.,t. .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24


The presence of General Grant lent
especial interest TO the occasion. Tns
first impression of him is his remark
able likeness to his father. whether the
observer had ever seen General u. S.
Grant in person or only by picture.
General Fred Grant is "a years of age,
but looks older He is pleasingly kind
and courteous His ways are demo-
cratic. He was one of the first to call
upon Governor Bailey. and when the lat
ter returned the call the event was one
of delightful informality.
General Grants tent was exceedingly
plain: canvas, a cot. a table. a few
chairs, little stove. trunk. II have
so great respect for Kansas" said he,
that I am a teetotaler. I learned years
ago that it was best to avoid liquor, 50
don't use it on the reservation in
Kansas or elsewhere. Some years ago,
when 1 left my active life so long led III
the field. going from daily riding In the
saddle into the diplomatic service, I
found nothing was so important as diet
and care in drinking. When President
Harrison kindly named me as minister
in the ranks. who had served the gov
eminent longer than he had the school
/ master, OF my fortune in being named
as minister to a foreign country. You
will make a great preacher said he.
My commission said I was minister ex-
traordinary, but 1 really thought I was
an extraordinary minister"
The general explained to Governor
Bailey the problem of the following day.
General Grant was to be in command of
5000 troops. 1000 cavalry and 5000 In
fantry. The enemy was imaginary.
! The wagon train was two miles long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

At the encampment are many boys OF
the Twentieth Kansas. A mere list Of
them would be long. Captain Cole of
Washburn college is one OF them. He
is adjutant of Colonel Metcalf's regH-
ment and conducts the guard mounts
and other duties of his position like
regular. Lieutenant Doster, now of the
regular army, is there and one of the
educated soldiers of whom Topeka and
Kansas are pro11d.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-24

If Judge Johnston OF the supreme
court gave you the military salute this
morning when you met him, don't Won
der at 1t. He simply can't help it.
spending two days at Camp Sanger.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1903-05-28
CALLED IT A BATTLE SONG.
10 May Have Been an save MarIa," ID az
the Painter Couldn't
Thank So.

Guests at musical parties are not com
monty expected to be especially attentive.
They may talk to any extent, dependent
largely on the amiability of their hostess.
But the conduct OF u foreign painter ia New
York surprised his hostess the other night.
1t also surprised the guests at this enter.
iainment given in HE honor. lie was seat
ed in the front row, and was the most con,
spieuous person in the room next 10 the
popular contralto, who had just begun to
Sing. Before she had finished the first verse
the guest Of honor arose, walked to his
hostess, said goodnight, and prepared TO
leave, relates the New York Sun.
But YOU won't go now in the midst Of
her song said the hostess. 1T 10 an Ave
Maria. 1t would embarrass her terribly"
BY this time all eyes were turned on the
painter, but he seemed q lite Indifferent.
"She may call it an Ave Maria, he
said. II should say it was a battle song"
With that comment the painter left the
house. He has not been allowed to enter &c
again.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1903-05-28
clos. Coli. In po.r War.

Fantastic escapes from death were
by no means uncommon features of
;he Boer war. There was exhibited
some time ago in the museum of the
Royal United Service insti:ntion one
OF Queen Victoria's chocolate boxes,
in the lid of which is still deeply inn
bed,.ed n Mauser bullet. TO that
same collection there has just been
added an even more remarkable relic.
This is a silver cigarette-holder case,
which was struck by bullet at a
distance of 1900 yards while il was
In the pocket of captain OF the
Imperial Yeomanry. The curious
part about II is that the officer was
not aware until afterward that he
had been struck, although the bullet
also pierced the sovereign purse and
cigarette case which lac was carry
ing in tie same posket. London
News.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1903-05-28
AUTOMOBILE EYE DISEASE.
Fast Riding without Goggles Re
suIts In Most Distressing
Affection.

Few people yet realize the risks to
which unprotected eyes are subjected
by fast riding in automobiles. 1t is
generally supposed that goggles are
worn 10 exclude particles of grit, which
would irritate. but not seriously in
iure. the eye. Prof. A. Edward Davis
calls attention, however, to another
and a more important reason for care
fully shielding these organs when NOV
ing rapidly in an open vehicle, says
the New York Tribune.
One OF the most common diseases Of
the eye is conjunctivitis, or infiamma-
ton of the coniunctiva, which is the
mucusmembrane lining the lids, socket
and ball of the eye. When infiamma-
tion sets i'm the blood vessels of this
membrane become badly congested,
and much time. patience and self-re-
straint are needed to insure recovery.
One form Of the disorder. SAYS DR..
Davis. is produced by the conclusion
of the air combined with the chilling
effect of the wind. He indicates symp-
toms by which IL differs from other
varieties. The inflammation is deeper
seated, reaching the eyeball rather
than the lid, and the discharge is more
watery than in the ordinary type.
Owing TO the fact that conjunctivitis
fingers vexatiously, and returns on
slight provocation, riding In automU-
should be prohibited unless close-fit-
ting goggles are worn. The safegua rd
should be adopted, too, before any
trouble appears. 1t is easier TO per-
suade men than women TO use them,
but both sexes are subject to the dis
ease. The preservation of their eye
sight is presumably as important to
one as TO the other.
The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1903-05-28
"They waited" and "snw.v

Warrens Corners. n. V, April GOTH
wait and see-you re better now. OF course,
bat the cure won't last"
TINS was what the doctors said To Mr.
A. h. Smith, of this Iiace. These doctors
had been treating him for years, and he got
no better. They thought that nothing could
permanently cure him. He says:
My kidneys seemed TO be so large that
there wasn't room for them, and at times
it seemed as If ten thousand needles were
running through them. l could not sleep
on my left side for years, the pain was 80
great in that position had to get up many
times TO urinate, and my urine was some
times clear and white "a spring water, and
again it would be high colored and would
stain my linen. The pain across my back was
awful. was ravenously hungry all the time.
After | had taken Dodd's Kidney Pills
for four DAYS my kidneys panied me so bad
l could hardly sit down. On the morning
of the fifth day | felt some better, and the
improvement continued til was complete
ly cured.
AZ this was months ago. and am still
feeling splendid. ] know that my cure Was
permanent and genuine"