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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04

are simply mistaken as to the season.
Any farmer will tell you that"
Indeed 1t seems that I have a liv-
ing encyclopedia for a wife. Perhaps
ing of corn and potatoes. Did that Won
derful father of yours sow wheat in
January"
Mrs. Bowser had nothing to say in
reply, and, after walking up and down
for a while Mr.. Bowser started for his
hat and overcoat.
Are you going out?" she called.
Yes. madam, I am going out. I have
been told by my own wife that I am
a jackass. It may be true but I would
like to have the unbiased opinion of 9TH
ers before / believe it. AS I may be
gone a couple of hours or so, you needn't
sit up for me"
1t would have been useless for her to
try to detain him. He had made sugar
in May and June, and he proposed to
bring back evidence to overwhelm her
He did not have to go far to get his first
answer. He met d pedestrian between
his house and the corner, and he halted
him to say:
MY dear sir. did you ever live in the
country2''
"An my life till year ago." was the
reply.
Did you ever make maple sugar?'
Thousands of pounds"
What time of the year2"
February and March. of course. I'll
\ bet the sap was running to beat the
band today You didn't think anybody
/ tried to make sugar in July. did your
Mr. BOwser didn't call the man an
idiot. though he felt like It. He turned
/ the corner and applied to the butcher
for information.
Maple sugar?'' repeated the man of
steaks and bones. why, I have gath
cred and boiled more barrels of sap
/ than you've got hairs on your head
WAS it in May or June?"
of course not. No one EXCEPT a fool
would try to make sugar in those
months. You might make buttermillS
out of your sap. but you couldn't make
sugar. Have you been buying a farm 80
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04

ereign.' This was written on March 10,
1881. Washington knew that nearly
half of the people were monarchists. or
if not, were devoid of any sympathy
with democracy, and he was well aware
that this class would have powerful
representation in the convention.
He was not mistaken. After long
wrangles between Republicans and To-
ries. between slave owners and mer-
chants and between bankers and farm~
ers, a compromise was made and sub
mitted to the iegisia tors of the thirteen
colonies. That wrung
from the necessities of the peo3le'-lS
our present constitution. In the hum
dreds of letters which Washington
wrote to the leading men in various
parts of the country, he repeatedly adj
vanced one argument why the reluctant
states should accept the constitution.
will read extracts from three of his let
ters written during those trying days
when the people We're debating whether
or not to form union. at the cost or
an unpopular constitution
In October. 1887. Washington adj
dressed the following to Henry Knox
Is there not a constitutional door open
for alteration and amendments Is II
not likely that real defects will be a.
readily discovered after as before trial?
Will not OR successors be ready to
apply the remedy as ourselves. if occa-
sion should demand it? To think 9TH
erwise will. in my Judgment. be ascrlb-
ing more of love of country, more wis
dom and more virtue to ourselves than
l think We deserve
ON November 10. 1897 Washington
wrote as follows to Bushrod Washing
ton: The people (for it is with them to
judge) can as they will have the adj
vantage of experience on their side. de
eide with as much propriety on the
alterations and amendments which are
necessary, as ourselves. 1 do not think
we are more inspired. have more Wis
DOM or possess more virtue than those
who viii come after us. And a month
later he wrote to Edmond Randolph and
said: There are some things in the
constitution, I viii readily acknowledge.
which never did. and l am persuaded
never will obtain my apprObation.'
1T seems. jenkins. that Washington
was the original traitor to the eonsti~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04

ct can't dispute your statement, for It
is undoubtedly true said the doctor.
81 have seen many Gases in my practice
of dyspepsia and other diseases of the
stomach cured by that Discovery Of DR..
Pierce. It seems to assist in the diges-
ton and assimilation of the food in the
stomach, and not only that but It builds
up the general health by enriching the
blood and stimulating the liver into
healthy action. Nervous feelings of de-
spondency and the blues are done away
with because the nerves are fed on rich
pure blood and they no longer cry out
for their proper food. No manor wom-
an can be strong OF feel happy who Is
suffering from indigestion, because when
the stomach is diseased there's q dimi-
mutton of the red corpuscles of the blood
this is why one don't sleep well, ia
languid, nervous and irritable.D
Tie Worlds Dispensary Medical As
ISOLATION, of Buffalo, N. Y, the propria-
tors and manufacturers of DR.. Pieces
Golden Medical Discovery, are willing to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04
THE LEG DE A MAMMOTH
Has Been Set Up in the New York
Museum.

The greatest leg in existence, that Of
d prehistoric imperial mammoth, has
been set up in the Hall of Fossil Yer
tebrates in the American Museum Of
Natural History. The eminently proper
tag attached to the exhibit describes it
as a fore limb" and gives its length
from shoulder blade to foot as eleven
feet three inches.
The great fossil was found in the
Llano EstacadO or Staked Plains of
northern Texas by Mr.. Albert Stewart
of the American museum expedition of
1899. At the same time the great skull
and tusks of the animal, recently placed
on exhibition, also were discovered.
The specimen exceeds in length the
foreleg Of Jumbo's skeleton by one foot
and three inches. and the great masso-
don skeleton in the same hall by four
feet six inches. Great care was exer-
cised in its mounting. and copies of it
have been made in plaster and wood.
The great foot which was once Il part
of the giant fOreleg was declared by one
of the museum attendants to have I'M
doubtedly been the largest that ever ex-
isted.-NeW York Mail and Express.
The only possible way to overconns
the worries of life. the anxieties as to
the future. is to learn to trust God. II
God is our father and friend, the future
can have no terrors.-Rev. DR. Han.
Universalist. New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04

tuition. according to your understanding
OF the word"
Col Monroe ceased and looked over
his glasses at Judge Sawyer.
Have I proved my case?' he asked.
4 must take time to think the mat
ter over" said Judge Sawyer. L pre-
sumo these extracts are from anthem
ticated letters?'
sUnduestionably. The originals still
exist
'I'll bet they're fcrgeries." declared
Postmaster jenkins. They don't sound
a bit like George Washington. PITTS
burg Gazette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04

~wen?" queried the man. as he came
to "a halt.
DO you know anything about maple
sugar?"
by George. but that's funny It
wasn't over an hour ago that I had a
dispute with my wife over maple sugar.
She said it was made in February and
March, and I said it was made in May
and June
That's exactly my case. and know
I'm right. Have you looked up any
authorities2"
I have. and am now on my way
home"
TO prove to your wife that you are
right, of course2"
mo, sir. To prove to my wife that
didn't know what I was talking
about. and you'd better do the same"
But I say"
so do l.
What do you mean2''
Say, old man, we are two asses, and
let's 90 way back and sit down.
Mr.. Bowser found Mrs. Bowser still
reading and the cat still purring when
he softly entered the house. He went
to the sitting room and sat down with
out a word. and it was five minutes be-
fore Mrs. Bowser quietly asked:
We'll, did you find out about it2''
About what2"
The maple sugar season."
What have I got to do with the
maple sugar season p
Why you contended that maple
sugar"
I contended nothing. I know moth
ing of maple sugar. If you feel that
your mind is going, why don't you
send for a doctor to find out what's
wrongs Copy right, 1903, by c. B.
Lewis.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04

What Do you mean to say Wa
didn't use to make sugar in May and
June2"
1T wasn't possible. You are simply
mistaken about the time. The season
is from about the Goth of February to
warm, the season is shortened"
Then I am a lunatic and a fool, am
I?''
mo, of course not. AS said. you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04

The future has never saved any man
If he is saved at all. it was in the pres
ent-now. We have no lease on the fu-
ture: no. It is dangerous to trust the
souls salvation to the deceative future
Today the Saviour calls: not tomorrow
or some time in the future. but now
Rev. J. F. Blair. Baptist Brooklyn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-04

SEND TO DR.. r. y. PIERCE. Bufalo.
NJ T.. for a FREE copy of the r Peobie's
Common Sense Medical -4dviSey.T For
PAPER coye5ed cory enclose II one-cenf
stamps TO coz'e1- mailing only. Cloth
bound, q stamps.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
Books and Authors
CONGRESSIONAL LITERATURE

The speeches of Senator Morgan on the
Panama canal treaty occupy, 12S pages OF
the Congressional Record. They do not
add to the intellectual lustre of that re-
markable publication, which contains SO
much printed drivel and bad English II
can hardly be expected by Morgan that
anybody but himself will read his greatest
intellectual effort. notable only because
through 1t he succeeded in forcing an ex-
ira session of the senate. The publication
of Morgan's vast compilation at the pub
lie expense, suggests the frequent advant-
age which Is taken by members of senate
and house of the facilities furnished by
the Record for getting into print at pub.
llc expense. Such facilities are provided
by no other government on the face of the
earth. II senator or member OF the
house wants whole book included in his
speech, In It goes. Henry Georges entire
Progress and Poverty" has been so in
cluded. Morgan had the full text Of the
constitution of the United States of Co
no doubt, he could have had the late Pro-
fessor John Fiske's 1.-THE Discovery OF
America" G vols.) or Hezekiah Butter
worth's "South America" included, had
he secured rights from the publishers
The makers of much of our congressional
literature have abused their privileges.
Such work as Morgan has done is moi
even OF encyclopedia use. 1t is not want
ed by the public If man has some
thing to say which throws light upon 3
topic In which the public. is interested
and says 1t we'll and within proper limits
nobody will object; but there is very
strong objection to the making of the Rec.
ord a real nuisance. -.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
A JOKE ON THE ARCHBISHOP
New York Times.

Archbishop Ireland, who dearly enjoys
q joke, became the object of one in the
dining car en- route from Chicago to New
York not long ago. On the train was
lady with her percocious little daughter,
who was not more than 4 years of age.
The mother of the child was well known
to the archbishop, and it so happened
that as they went into the dining car
they were seated at the same table. The
churchman is always genial and kindly
and not at all a man to inspire fear, GER
tainly not in a little child. The mother of
the latter, having evidently forgotten
something which demanded her return to
the parlor car, she admonished her off
spring to be good little girl and to sit
very still while she was gone. During the
absence of the mother, however, the child
who was evidently very hungry, proceeded
to devour olives and sugar quite to the
horror Of the good archbishop. who had
ideas about children's diet as we'll as
about more profound subjects.
Don't eat any more until your mother
comes back, my little girl,' kindly
prompted the great dignitary of the
church.
Now, see here!" was Miss Precocity's
reply, as she slowed another olive in each
cheek until her small mouth was distended
so that she could scarcely speak, don
you get gay; for If you get gay, my
motherll do you up!"
A spontaneous shout of laughter was
the greeting from all sides and the arch
bishops was the merriest of all.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
Interesting Wheat Experiments.

Experiments in Colorado and Wyoming
point to the development of a species of
hard wheat that will yield bountifully in
the arid regions. In 1896 a Coloradoan,
Mr. Robert Gauss, planted some improved
Fife wheat and left it. to take care of it
self. The harvest gave barely enough
wheat for seed the next year. The crop
from this seed was much better, and each
year since the grain has gained in pro-
ductiveness. In 1902 Fred Bond, state en-
gineer,s of Wyoming, planted half pint
of this acclimatized seed near Cheyenne
at an altitude of $3.50 feet, and another
alf-pint at Buffalo, altitude, 4,7O0 feet.
The first lot threshed 91s pints and the
second 211k pints. No water was arti-
ficiaIly given to either plantation, and the
rainfall at Cheyenne was only 63s, and
at Buffalo 400 inches. If experiments
on larger scale are equally successful
Mr.. Gauss, as the Geographic Magazine
says, has reclaimed nearly 400, 900 square
miles of land. The whole arid and semi
arid west will eagerly await further ex-
periments.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
Pass the Comstock Bill.

+ Having eliminated a number of unsatis-
factory bills relating to the board Of con-
troll, the legislature finds itself left with
one that Is eminently sound. The Com
stock bill provides for the removal of the
university and the normal schools from
the authority of the board Of control. The
distinction between these institutions and
those left to the board is elemental. Prac-
tically all of those members of the legis-
lature who have desired to withdraw
other institutions from the board are
agreed that the university and the normal
schools are not properly within its sphere.
The board itself is anxious to get rid Of
the university and would probably shed
no tears over the withdrawal Of the nor
NAL schools.
Putting aside the votes that may be In
fluenced against this measure because Of
disappointment over the failure Of 9TH
ers, it Is hard to see why it should not be-
come law. Every argument that the
supporters of other measures have made
as to why the Owatonna and Faribault
schools should be taken away from the
board Of control applies to the withdrawal
of the normal schools and the university
and the latter have strong argument:
peculiar to themselves.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
HICKS GETS 'EM, EITHER WAY

~
Bixby in Nebraska State Journal
From Hicks almanac for this year we
giean the important copyrighted fact that
a Mercury period is central in July, or
will be, from the very inception OF the
month until it is more than a third gone.
The entire month is divided into five
storm periods, regular" and reaction
ary," so adroitly scheduled that whatever
happens, except it be a frost. the noted
St..FLouis fakir can say told you. .so.''
Hes admits that several days during the
month will be uncomfortabiy warm, but
are not given. II at any time between
the last day of June and the first day of
August you feel like taking an excursion
to Skaguay, remember you were warned
Of just such condition by the Rev Irl
r. F4icks. Seriously, If he were to lump
off the entire year into one great wealth
err period, it would be fully as intelligible
and just as accurate as the rot contained
in his almanac.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
THE NEW COMMANDMENT


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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02

The salary of Minneapolis mayor is
$4,000 a year. The Minneapolis Journal
thinks the mayors salary ought to be in
creased to $4,000, and it argues that the
right kind of man would earn that
amount. Probably he would If he could
get a chance. But wouldn't the bigger
salary only increase the 1nducement for
the wrong sort of man to reach out for
the office?-Sioux City Journal.
Is that a good reason why the office
should not command a decent salary?
Salaries in business life are not regulated
that way. The employer who would keep
salaries down for fear he would get some
poor men would probably not get any
other kind He would fix the salary at
what the service to be rendered was worth
and get some one who could earn it. 1t
is really very different in municipal mat
ters when municipal business is con-
Quoted on business principles. But T h e
Jour n a was not contending that the
salary of the mayor Of Minneapolis should
be $4,000 as that office is now consti-
tuted and limited by charter provisions.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
THE SULTAN's AUTO

The Westminster Gazette tells the following
story, whose author is consul resident at Tan
egier:
z The French government presented a fine auto.
mobile to the sultan and sent over an expcrt
chauffeur to run it. for him. The potentate was
Charmed by the new means of covering the
ground. and it looked as though horses and state
carriages would 20 to the stable for good
But one day when the sultan was spinning
along road the machinery got out of order and
the carriage escaped from the chaufreurs control,
Then tire exploded and the steering gear re.
fused to- work. The machine ran away.
The sultan called upon it to stop, but It re.
fused to obey. Then tue machine struck a rock
and both the sultan and the chauffeur were
launched into space, while the automobile turned
over with the wheels still spinning.
The sultan was not badly hurt; but he limped
back to town. and sent the royal blacksmith
out with the royal siedge hammer to smash Che
royal auto to smithereens.
Then he forbade by edict,~ an order, q
ukase, law, proclamation, and bull that
any OF his subjects should ever import or use al
automobile
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
A Woodchuck Insurance Bill.

BY graphing hook methods Senator
sHiler Horton. of st. Paul, yesterday pulled
through the state senate his retaliatory
life insurance bill. This measure, de-
signed for the benefit Of one or two Min
-nesota companies, is construed on the
YOU can't play in-m back yard" plan.
The bill Is aimed at Massachusetts,, but
will scatter well enough to hit anything
from Maine to California, It is surpris-
ing that the debate on so important a
measure was so limited -,
AS might be expected from Senator
Horizons strenuous work for the bill, it
has a special applica tion that has a wood
chuck odor. A St.. Paul insurance COM
papy which was formerly an assessment
company but is now on an old-line basis.
: or on an approach to it, desires, it ap-
pears, to do business in Massachusetts.
It is barred out Of, that state, however,
because the authorities refuse to agree
with the company in looking upon liens on
its policies as assets. The result is that
the company is unable to meet the Massa-
chusetts requirements as to the propor-
tion of assets.
The Horton bill, if it should, 'unfor-
tunately, become a law, would either force
the Minnesota company into Massa-
chusetts or else force the Massachusetts,
companies out Of Minnesota. It is both
reciprocal and retaliatory. Its principle
Is that II Misnesota companies are good
enough for Minnesota, they are good
enough for other states; and, conversely,
that If the companies of other states are
good enough for those states, they are
good enough for Minnesota.
If Massachusetts, or any other state were
really singing out Minnesota, life fnsur-
ance companies for unjust treatment,
| there might be some merit in such a
measure as the Horton BILL But the Mas
| sachusetts insurance law was in exist
ence before the particular Minnesota COM
pany was and is general law designed
| to protect the people Of Massachusetts,
Because the legislature of Minnesota
chose to charter a company that holds
that policy liens are assets, whereas Mas
sachusetts holds to the contrary, Is not
the slightest cause for retaliatory legisla-
! ton by Minnesota.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
A LITERARY GEM.
MINNEAPOLIS Tribune

Weary Of life because Of disappointment
IN love and fearing a slow and torturous
death from consumption, Mis- Ruth Zeie-
Ter, 1900, Twentieth avenue N, young
school teacher, pretty and accomplished,
brought about her own death by hurting
herself 1ntoaa stream in Southern Califor-
mia, where she had gone to visit with
friends. -, r. s--.e 3. 1881 .-.F
The subject of her love is said to be a
prominent young man in Minneapolis
whose name cannot be learned, and from
whom she is said to have received a letter
Monday. that sent her into a spell of
gloom which opened a path for her
through the flower gardens where the
birds were singing to the waters of Camp
bell creek, near Saratoga Santa Clara
county, in which she drowned her sorrow
and her brilliant future on earth.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
WHEN JUNGLE JOE" LISTENS
Washington Post.


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opportunity
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down in with sufficient make gymnasium
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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02

Minneapolis had thes honor of entertain
ing the legislature at dinner last evening,
and the legislators had the privilege of
hearing President Northrop. It isn't ev-
cry day that Minneapolis can be host to
such an important body Of men and it
isn't every day that state Legislature
can listen to man as well worth hearing
as the president Of our university. The
emphasis laid upon things educationa.
moral and spiritual, which, his speech sc
strongly presented, deserves more often
repetition than it gets in these strenuous
days of the essentially material, !,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
he Nonpareil Man.
Casually Observed.

Casually Observed. ss
of at If
the ST. Louis aldermen
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automobile
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machine a
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to
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The eoudo a in
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sion that prehistoric
Finally sides submit the dispute
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had translated giants Holy Writ might
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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
GRANTS TRUNK
Chicago News

General Grant always yielded in sort
of whimsical way to his wife's domina-
ton of himself and his affairs. The fam
ily' ran the household as it pleased, with
out much reference to General Grant s
predictions. Once at the railway sta
ton in Galena he called the attention Of
Ia friend to a truck load of trunks, ready
for shipment east. aDo you see that
pile?' he asked. That is the Grant bag
away on top? That's mine. I"
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02

generous, In proportion to population,
than ours, it is difficult to figure out that
taxes are lower in Canada than in the
United States, though it is well known
that In western Canada the direct taxes
are lower. Somebody has to pay the in
terest on that debt and supply the funds
for appropriations. We strongly suspect
that it is the Canadian consumer Of
tariff taxed goods.