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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

boys be restrained from practicing in his
neighborhood.
An Ottawa drayman who tipped over
dozen cans Of cream didn't cry over split
milk But he did do most excellent
job of "cussing''
The Sells circus paid of at Fort Scott
the other day. Not all of the $4,000 was
carried out of the town. The Joints did a
hourishing business.
Lovers of the hot tamale will be dis
mayed to learn that feast Of such ma
ture at Ottawa was followed by case
OF ptomaine poisoning.
If by chance some Topeka iolntist should
be convicted he could easily get free
transportation to the Worlds Fair along
with other Kansas curtos
A Pomona man had bunch of nineteen
PIGS stolen from pen under his window.
The regret Of the owner should be thar
the pen was not taken also.
Detroit man who failed one dry year
to raise a wheat crop. hiked out to South
America. Now he has a paying coffee
plantation and a bank account
The mills of Justice must grind exceed
ingly fast at Leavenworth. Seventy-one
divorce cases are set for one day and for
ty-one criminal cases for another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.

lFrom the Atchson Globe1
Unfortunately the people who say
disasreeable things do most of the talk
ing.
The camera is a great commoner. A
81 dress looks just as good as a $40 one.
in a picture.
When a mans second wife uses a
quilt or a hymn book that belonged to
his first wife. there is Great Indigna-
ton.
1t a mans ancestors handed him
down a few silver dollars honestly
earned. he doesn't care who got the
teapots.
IL you can't reach it, you're not much
good. The intermediate position doesn't
amount to anything.
We have noticed this popularity of
patchwork quilts: All of them seem
to have been made by some woman of
80 who didn't wear glasses.
There is only one known advantage
in boarding over living at home: If a
man boards, it is not treason for him to
say so when he is dissa tisfied.
After girl who works down town all
week. gets over the notion that it is
wicked to sew on buttons and crochet
on Sunday, she begins to enjoy life
more.
Is the apple or the cook to blame?
Apple pies these days look as if there
were number of hard tumors under
the crust Indicating that the apple is
still in uncooked Jumps.
The old man has his troubles 'I
told my son the other day. said a citi-
zen this morning, that if he lived at
home after he reached his 21st birthday.
he would have to pay his board. 1t
upon to do but I felt it was for his
own good -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26
PAYS TO BE DECENT.

There is a forcible temperance lee
ture contained in a notice recently
posted by the Western Electric COM
pany of Chicago in its offices. factories
and shipping departments. This is a
concern that employs about 1900 men,
and it wants good hands. The notice
reads
playing the races and all other
forms OF gambling, immoral conduct.
and the excessive use of cigarettes
greatly impair ones usefulness. The
best business houses in the city do not
desire the services of those who prac-
tice any of these things. Notice is
hereby given that any employee so
abusing himself is subject to dis
missal'
Temperance does not necessarily
mean only abstinence from drunken
ness. This firm does not even mention
drunkenness as one of the things from
which its employees must abstain. evil
IDENTIFY taking it for granted that that
is known as matter of course, but it
puts the ban on what are generally
considered as lesser vices than drink
ing.
The commercial world is realizing
that it pays to be decent and to have
good morals. The young man who is
the possessor of good habits, other
things being equal, has a great ad-
vantage over those who think it does not
matter. It is said that the Illinois Cen
trail railway company the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy company, and
some Of the big department stores of
Chicago have followed the example Of
the Western Electric company, and
have lately published notices similar in
import to that quoted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26
SILLY ISLANDER OF TOPEKA.

AS If Topeka did not have enough of
trouble as a result of the recent dis
astrous flood. the New York World has
put af1oat the following story, which
was reprinted by a Milwaukee paper
and is clipped from 1t:
Few cities in the United States live
in such constant danger of fire and
flood as Topeka. with its 10000 inhabi-
tants. The houses are nearly all built
of wood and are so closely grouped that
fire spreads quickly. There is scarce
~ brick building in the entire city.
On the main business street are few
white sandstone structures. but nearly
everyresidence is of frame construction.
Ordinarily the Kaw river, which runs
through Topeka. is a shallow stream
and in times of drouth it almost dries
up. The river is very broad at Topeka,
but there is never any considerable
depth except in rainy seasons. It takes
but a day or two of heavy rain to
make the Kaw a current. sweeping
over the banks and spreading for miles.
Topeka is built along the river on
ground elevated about seven or eight
feet above the mean level of the water.
The s2,5O0,0O0 state capitol. on the high
est point in town. is not many feet
dDONG the HlBn water NE IMAM
street is from eight to perhaps twenty
feet above the ordinary height of the
river. Many of the finest residences in
the town are in North Topeka, on low
ground.
Grain warehouses, packing houses
and -four mills line the shore of the
Kaw. The mill owners have more than
once been compelled to move the grain
from their warehouses to save it from
eood-
LESS than a year ago the Kaw
flooded Topeka. The packing houses
and warehouses were inundated and
large forces of men were kept busy for
days pumping out the water. The city
park was under several days, and the
residents Of North Topeka who did not
leave their homes had to live in the
upper stories and travel by boat"
AS a matter of fact. there isn't a
frame building in the business part of
town. Topeka holds the record of
almost the whole world for her immu-
nifty from destroying fires. The mag
nifcent work of her fire department as
well as her broad streets and her fire.
proof buildings contribute to her pro-
lection. Topeka wasn't hooded a year
ago; the state capitol building is as
safe from inundation as is Pixies Peak,
and the only true statement in this
malicious story is that the town has
40. 900 population
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

The Emporia light plant has a coal
famine.
Cherryvale is one of the few Kansas
towns that have houses to rent.
Jack-o- lanterns will be the halloween
fad in Lyon county. A big pumpkin crop
is reported.
81 per day offer for farm hands proves
no temptation for Salina loafers to desert
their favorite street corners.
Ottawa is short on automobiles, but two
dozen rubbers tipped chairs have been re-
ceived for the Carnegie library.
The Wichita Beacon speaks of fight in
front of a saloon. In Topeka the reporter
would say "in front of a drug store
Chanute merchants voted unanimously
not to unionize their stores. The clerks
had asked it. also for a $50 closing hour.
Franklin county man received 800 for
raising an acre of onions. With tears in
his eyes, he confesses that he earned the
amount
Mr.. Pepper of Arkansas City is red hot
So much SO, is Mr.. Pepper. that he has
rushed into court asking that the band
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

but the city has given It permission TO
do that. 1t may enter upon nice new
strip of pavement. which the. property
owners laid, thinking TO give themselves
the advantages of a handsome boule-
ward, lay single or double track in
this pavement without even saying
thank you. But that is just what the
city bargained for. Apparently. nobody
has grounds for objection because the
city railway is clearly within the rights
which the city has bestowed upon it.
OF course. it is possible for indignant
property owners to enjoin the company
from removing from one street, and en-
join it from getting onto another. but It
would be an unpleasant thing to do, and
rather unsatisfactory. too. because the
chances are that the courts would say
that the city council went into this thing
with it's eyes open, and that there is no
reason for interfering with the contract.
But there probably Will be some law
suits.
From the standpoint Of the city rail-
way. there is really nothing for the peo-
pie 10 get mad about. The company is
making its proposed changes for the
benefit of the public-and itself. 1t
hopes to get more fares simply by CIV
ing better accommodations. And no one
has a right to oppose what is for the
general welfare That is tho way the
city railway looks at it.
The trouble is all with the granting
of franchises. 1t seems that when IL
men get together and try to agree on
franchise. there is always an exhition
of how not to give away the city's priv
ileges. There may have been, sometime,
a good franchise granted, which pro-
tected the municipality at all points, but
it didn't happen in Topeka. The city
railway franchise is rather better than
the average; but it has its weak points.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News1

IFrom the Chicago News
It's a wise college student who goes
TO bed early and avoids the rush.
1t is human nature for one man to
ask another how he feeIs-also not to
care.
Wnen girl throws an old beau over
ne is Iorciply reminded that youth Will
have its fling
Some men who believe in the division
of labor let their wives do all the work
and they do the rest.
The man who ridicules the ancestors
of other people evidently considers
himself the fruit of a special creation
Many man can see where his wife
would have made a good railway sec
ton boss but for the accident of sex
No wonder the iceman rolls in wealth
when one considers how much ice it
requires to make a glass of lemonade
at a summer resort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHELoF
LFrom the New YORK Press

tFrom the New York Press
A woman can take a heap more in
terest in her husband if she finds that
other women do. too.
Rich uncles have helped many a man
10 amount to something by being some
body else's rich uncle.
When man is down in the world
even those. who are still further down
want to see him come lower yet.
Wnen there are married women
around you could put an icicle down a
WIDOWS back and she wouldn't shfver
lust as soon as a man moves back
10 Town ne begins to kick to his wife
against the things he complafned he
didn't have when he was in the coun-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26
Tuning Up the Ear of European
Concert

New York Press:
So far there is no strong prospect that
the original European programme of
non-interference in the Balkans will
give way to an engagement of the old
band for another concert by request of
Austria Hungary. The attempt 10 pre-
vent the United States from doing a SER
vice to humanity in the case of Spain
and Cuba was made on the initiative of
Vienna, and again the function of the
hyphenated empire as a protector of
butchers is being performed In the
present case the Intervention is proposed
by Austria with the active assent of
Russia. All the signers of the treaty Of
Berlin are asked to approve a Russo
Austrian occupation of Macedonia as a
preventive of war between Turkey and
Bulgaria.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

Chicago has finally gotten around to
it. An ordinance prohibiting the sale
or use of the death dealing toy pistol
on the Fourth of July will be taken up
and will probably be passed next Mon
day night by the city council. This
will give the storekeepers ample warn
ing not to place dangerous fireworks in
stock for next season. Chicago may
be a wicked CITY in some ways, but it
certainly has commendable ideas on
the subject of the protection of her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

A stranger in town would think from
the large stack of empty pop cases
usually standing at the terminus Of the
Vinewood park line that Topeka has a
large and prosperous beer garden
somewhere in the Suburbs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

Topeka is getting to be quite a center
for paper railroads-almost equal to
Guthrie. Ok We now have a paper
railroad to Kansas City and another to
Manhattan. to say nothing of the very
thin tissue paper one to Auburn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

The poor policeman is certainly up
against 1t. He can't testify as to what
he saw when he went to pull a joint,
and he can't go into a joint except to
pull It without danger Of losing his
fob No wonder the joints remain un-
ulucked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

The young woman who had been oc-
cupyfnS the attention of the piano for
the previous ten minutes suddenly
stopped and turned around II beg
your pardon. professor she said. "for
playing Hiawatha' SO long. 1 didn't
notice what I was DOING There Is
no apology NEEDED, my dear" replied
her elderly instructor. benignanfly,
You were playing II 50 l didn't recox-
nize it.'-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

Denver Post: A Judge in Topeka has
sent two coal trust magnates to Jail for
contemot The trust world will stand
aghast with Indignation at this IN
heard Of presumption on the part of a
nnera court Judge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

The price which Miss May Goelet is
to nay for her duke has not yet been
announced, but the London papers pub
lish with satisfaction the news that
Miss May is the possessor of a little
matter OF five millions or so in her own
right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

While Judge z. T. Hazen would not
be likely to turn down an appointment
as United States district judge to sue
coed W. c. Hook. he might also be
willing to see a little boomlet coming
his way for justice OF the state supreme
courf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

The Topeka BARRIERS union has or
dained that it will cost 10 cents to be
shaved after the first of October. IN
fortunately it will not be practicable
for the consumer to lay in a winters
supply of shaves, as he did of coal
when the coal operators announced the
September / advance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

The city railway officials say there
l.; nothing in the rumor that they in
tend to ask for the use of the Audi
forum for car sheds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

King Edward Is finding that cabinet
making isn't such snap after ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

What is the world coming to when a
Tennessee sheriff arrests three members
Of a mob which was trying to hang a
ueRro2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

The anthracite coal men are fran
tical1y taking steps to prevent over
production. The people are not worry
ing any about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

Secretary Moody says hazing at An
napolis must stop. Hasn't the govern
ment said the same thing before?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

Editor Bryan of Nebraska has writ
ten a letter to the Democrats of Indi-
ana advising them not to spend any
money in the impending political cam
paign. He has doubtless been ruminat-
ing upon the folly of his own younger
days and sees where he could have
saved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

The poor Kansas coal barons were
still managing to keep the gaunt wolf
hunger from their doors at last ac-
counts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

washburn has put on her seven
league boots and is making rapid prog
ress. The next thing is to pay for the
boote
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

The Topeka Natural Gas company is
living very low. Have Chris Hoffman
and John d. Rockefeller had adisagree-
ment2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

The iron workers seem to have an
unusual capacity for starting trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

Germany must have strange kind OF
antitrust laws il they really break VI
trusts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

In our assignment of seats in the din
ing room. we were pleased to be placed
AT the chief officers table and opposite
United States Senator Maillard Of Ne
brasba fellow passenger I had al
WAYS understood that my friends who
had been abroad and related among
their experiences that 1--WE sat at the
"a ptain's table" were accorded rare
and special privileges. I wondered how
thew were always put next to the COM
mander of one of these great ships with
a small city in his charge. 1t is now
n1ain that the distinction is somewhat
thinIv coated. Our captains table was
of sufficient length to accommodate
thirty-six people.
The seat of honor next to CAPTAIN
Richter was accorded to Mrs. Herbert
w. Bowen; by her side her husband.
the well known minister to Venezuela.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-26

We were gone from New York city
exactly five weeks, made all our con-
nections, lost no baggage nor time, Wis
tied London, Scotland, Holland, Ger
many. Switzerland. and Paris. We re-
ceived our moneys worth. and know
that thirty-f1ve days of our lives were
never so fully and profitably filled. The
schedule. practically mapped out the
evening before we left home. gave us:
Six DAYS on the ocean.
A week in London.
Three days in Scotland.
A day at The Hague.
A day between Rotterdam and Am
sterdam.
A day going up the picturesque por-
ton of the Rhine.
Three days in Switzerland.
A week in Paris.
Another six days on the ocean re-
turning
There was little trouble in securing
passage east bound as the high season,
that of heaviest travel for going oven .
had passed with the end of July, but
we were with the crowd in desiring to
return the middle of September 1 Sc
cured at the prevailing higher rate a
good state room on the ship sailing from
Cherbourg France. September 9Th.
Though this reservation was made a
month ahead in the largest ship afloar.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
DOCTOR LEARNED
The Power of Pure Blood.

Sometimes a physician who has exhausted
medical skill on his own case finds that he
has to look to pure food to cure him by
its simple and homely yet natural and
scientific principles.
A we'll known physician and surgeon Of
Crowley, La, has spent a great many
years in this profession. "The services OF
my lifetime" he says, have been to try
to better mankind; to help them preserve
health when in possession of IL and to help
them to regain IL when lost. So It is with
great pleasure 1 recall my first Introduction
to Grape-Nuts. l had never Investigated
the food until l came to use IT in my own
case. l had suffered all that a man can
suffer from dyspepsia, had tried to heal
myself and had had the services of many
other prominent physicians. Then I
clutehed at Grape-Nuts as a drowning man
clutches at a straw and TO my great as
constituent and qualification 1 found that l
had discovered something besides a broken
reed to lean upon, for the food began to
recuperate me Immediately and It has now
entirely cured me to such an extent that
have returned to my old habit of eating
everything that l desire and can do so
without distress.
"And have not only found a good friend
in sickness. but a most delicious dish as
we'll. II is the most nutritious article OF
diet I have ever found and / notice its
splendid effects more particularly at night
time, for a saucer Of Grape-N Nuts and milk
Is always followed by a most refreshing
sleep and perfect awakening. Ny only re,
greet is that l was SO slow to look into the
scientific merits Of this wonderful food
Name furnished BY Postum CO.. Battle
Creek. Aish
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

ment to section 2s OF the bill. relating TO
personal property. permitting debts to be
deducted from credits In the listing of
property. II was identical In enect with
section q Of chapter-lxxvii Of the statutes
and dealt principally with store accounts.
Jones Of OtOe offered an amendment to
change debts TO non-interest bearing
open accounts" to be, deducted from the
aggregate.
Sears Of Burt denounced this project as
class legislation.
Nelson then amended Hogrefe's amend
ment to make It all bona hde debts.
Hogrefe accepted this amendment. Jones
also accepted the amendment and with
drew his. The Hogrefe amendment as
changed by Nelson was then defeated.
Rouse OF Hall at IL o'clock moved that
the committee arise and report the rev
enue bill for passage,
Defeat for Franchise Corporations.
At this time Burgess of Lancaster sprung
the anticipated amendment to let the street
railways, gas, water works and electric
companies in under section &c. having their
gross earnings taxed as franchise, as in the
case of the telephone, telegraph, express
and pipe line companies.
This precipitated a spirited fight. Bur
CESS. Gilbert Of Douglas and Spurlock of
Cass spoke for the amendment, while
Thompson OF Merrick, Kennedy OF Douglas,
Douglas of Rock and Sears Of Burt lined
up against it, and the proposition was de-
feated by a vote of 66 to 20.
The vote on roll call was:,