The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-31

when anything in the nature of a per-
quisite is aflOat, but it can not be
charged that the same newspaper
writer is not possessed of q keen abil-
ity to distinguish among mems mo-
tives. The beauty Of the present offer
ing is that the sergeants- alarms don't
want anything.
General Wood was in Topeka Thurs
day and Friday the following coupler
followed him from Chicago:
So good is Wood at fencing
At taking and at sending.
That Teddyu doubles see him when
His fences may need mending-
Albert Reid has made a distinct hit
with his cartoon in the current isue OF
Push, but the critics are still willing to
bet that Reid couldn't draw a gun OF
any kind if it was at a rattle and he
held all the numbers.
The revival meeting at the First Pres
byterian church viii be continued for
another week. under the direction Ct
DR.. and Mrs. Vinton.
Mrs ". R. Moore died January %
at her home in Kansas City, Mo. She
was formerly a resident Of Topeka.
Her husband and two children, Harry
and Helen. survive her
There are men connected with the law
making department Of the state at the
present session who remember the day
Boston Corbett adjourned things with
a sixshOOter. They should read Tom Nc
Meals sketch in the January Push.
Mrs. Clark Stewart, secretary of the
Morris Pratt Institute association at
4 Whitewater, Wisconsin, is in Topeka.
The Morris Pratt Institute is the. only
T splrltualist college in the United States
The Topeka W. r. G. will serve their
usual pension day dinner next week.
Being in command of a army depart
ment must be pleasant recreation.
4 W nile in Topeka General Funston de-
4 scTibed his life in Denver and the de-
/ partment of Colorado as follows: Il
+ like it very much. I have eleven army
+ posts, with about $500 troops under my
command, and it is not difficult to look
after them. Each post must be inspect
ed once a year. This does not take long.
! / spend the rest of the time at Denver.
i / have had several fine hunting trips in
/ the mountains and plains but the big
gest game [ have got so far is a deer"
The following from the Burlingame
f Chronicle proves that "a kindred feeling
makes US wonderous kind Charlie
Storms is now employed regularly as an
/ attendant at the Topeka state hospital
for the insane, thanks to the friendship
of Judge J. H. Burke. When Charlie
returned from service in the Philippines
he, like so many others, was broken in
health. He wanted employment, but
was not fit for manual labor, so he went
to Judge Burke, just like many another
Burlingame boy has done and the judge
wrote him a we'll worded letter of rec
concentration to T. G. Riddle. superin-
tendent of the hospital DR. Biddle was
himself an officer in the late war With
Spain and he honored the judges let
ter"
For the first time in the history of
Kansas or indeed of the whole country,
q carload Of butter has been shipped by
fast express to San Francisco. Twenty
four thousand pounds of best creamery
butter was sent by passenger train Fri
, day noon to San Francisco, shipped by
the Continental Creamery company OF
this city. The Wells-FaTgO express has
charge Of the shipment and will make
swift connections and will put the ia
nous Kansas product into that city in
asout so hours Next Monday California
] people win be eating Topeka butter
: from this car. The charges on the car
VIII exceed one thousand dollars.
Like dew drops before the rising sur
or the Arabs in the night time, ths
: pages in the senate disappear when they
hear a motion to adjourn carried. The
state house has many interesting hooks
and corners that need to be investigated
by the pages and the session has moi
n advanced far enough yet for them Il
! have satisfa ctoriIy completed their re
searches. For the most part the page:
stay around as long as their house il
at work, although occasions have ariseI
when they were conspicuous only fol
. their absence. One of the assistant ser
= geants at arms has assumed the dut.
: of herding the pages and keeping then
properly distributed a bout the room. Blu
usually a number of senators about VIII
4 want errands run, it is likely to be al
a accident if any of them are at hand Il
y the habits of life of the legislature pag
2 there IS striking resemblance to tn
messenger boy.