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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17

Moeller Manfg. Co.
Mercantile Agencies Re-
port.
Perkins Single Ma
chine Mfg. Co.
Prophylactic Mfg. Co.
Rubber Roy Roofing Co.
Stiiweil. Brice and Co.
Sadier Bros. and Co.
Snowflake Washing
Powder Co.
Star detective Agency.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-17

Statement OF receipts and expenditures Of the
indianapolis Water Company from April 1, 1902
April I. 1908:
Capital stock $500 coo 90
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
AN EXCELLENT PLAN.

It has been proposed to Washburn
college that the school in the future en-
ploy a regular business manager of
athletics and that the management be
taken out of student hands. This plan
is pursued at the Kansas university with
satisfaction. The manager is employed
and paid by the school. He has his
whole time to devote to the work and
has the advantage of past experience in
figuring upon the expenses of his foot
ball and baseball teams.
To considerable extent Topeka bust
ness men contribute to the support OF
COLES athletics at Washburn. They
feel a natural hesitancy about giving up
their money to a strange young man
with each succeeding season, a hesi-
fancy which could be overcome If they
knew it was to be spent by man Of
maturer years who was devoting his en-
tire attention to the athletic business Of
faife. Washburn IS feeling the effects
of student management, which. from
whatever cause. has not been successful
in the past. The unfortunate manage
ment has lost considerable of the con-
fidence of the former supporters OF the
colleges athletic enterprises. It can
be regained but only by furnishing as
surance that all the money that is re-
ceived by the school is to be properly
handled. The most certain way of ac-
complishing this will be for the school
to name and keep competent man fl
charge of the athletic management.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17

of common line bA visiting customers, it
was sure to be Rorum Snoram Grand
Hlorum, japanese Jincum, "a Rodus
Sidibus, or some other outlandish COM
bination of which he had large voca-
bulary.
"A Gloire de Dion rose with him was
Glory to John. When I took him to
task for these FRANKS he would say:
Sure, begorry, I grows plants: don't
grow names, and if did know the right
names and give it to them spalpeens
straight they would be none the wiser
II was once asked for sweet jureen
by 8 coiered .gemmen.' He said he
wanted it fur his 'ginney.' I found out
after some investigation he wanted
rose geranium. An exquisite little lady
customer called for a maiden prayer
fern. She said it was very rare plant,
a friend of hers had the only one she
had ever seen: later discovered it was
an adiantum or maidenhair fern she
wished to see.
"a tall. awkward-looking countryman
came into my greenhouse one day and
after looking around for an hour or more
his attention was conferred on a peculiar
looking specimen which seemed to ex-
cite his curiosity. Calling to me, he said
I say, stranger. what in the dickens is
that thar thinz?' That Is q bryophyl-
lum calycinum.' said I, and q very un-
usual plant Well replied he, I never
seed anything like it before. but that
are just what I thought it wor. Chi
cago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
HOW OLD "a ANN ?

How old is Ann? It is simple prop
osition. The whole country is now
working on it, and women's clubs prom
Use to take it up. Here is the problem:
Mary is "a years old. Mary is twice
as Old as Ann was when Mary was as
old as Ann is now. How old is Ann?
Simple. isn't it? Just as easy as roll
ing off a log. Of course. you will say
Ann is - Then YOU will think 1t over
awhile and discover that Ann Is 16.
Then you will kick yourself for your
stupidity and confess that the girls are
the same age. A moment later a great
light will dawn and you will see clearly
that Ann is 49, But before you go to
bed your mind will still be full of I'M
eertainties. and you will proceed to
work out the problem by algebra The
result of that effort will be that you
will find that Ann is 1857 years old.
And then you go to guessing.
The problem first came up at Har-
ward. Football practice was suspend
ed while it was being worked out. Then
the New York papers took it up. To-
day the papers are crowded with solu-
tions, all different. From New York
the fever spread. Even Philadelphia
awolxe, while in Chicago it has gone so
far that the Tribune has a long edf-
torfal on the subject. It's plain prop
osition. Read it over carefully
How old is Ann2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17

marvelously divisible the elractory
nerves are infinitely more sensitive.
Much has yet to be Investigated with
regard to the differentiation or the
points in these nerves SO that they may
discriminate with such apparently MI
raculous accuracy yet even the results
in the scent of dogs show how mar
velousIy fine is their discriminating
power. Our sense of SMELL unless IN
the trained chemist. is not even SO
acute as that of the semi-savage The
aboriginies of Peru can. in the darkest
night and In the thickest WOODS. dis
tinguish respectively a white man, a
negro and one of their own race Dy the
smell. Much we have gained by e1y11lza-
tein: but not without some loss to our
bodily energies and senses. Mans re-
Operative power after an injury is in
the inverse ratio. to his social advance
ment. Similarly he seems to become less
acute and delicate in the sense of smell
as he fares better and lives more COM
fortably. The faithful dog puts him to
shame.-London Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
STANDS UP ron PENNY.

The following is taken from the edi-
toriaI columns of the Indianapolis SEN
tinel:
A music teacher in Kansas college
has recently published a statement
which, If startling in its expression, is
nevertheless true in its meaning He
says that a large proportion of the
Gospel Hymns are immoral He has
taken twenty-five of these popular
pieces of church music. and in these he
finds seventeen polkas, six waltzes and
two two-steps. And all of them are
good specimens of their kind.
1t is customary at the present time to
take any statement emanating from the
Sunf1ower state, cum grano Sails
They are apt to exaggerate little out
there. whether talking of the corn crop,
the temperance question or the national
monetary system. We are therefore
glad to concede in this instance not
only that the professor Is right, but
that he has not said half enough. For
there is surely no music so abominably
vicious as the cheap clap-trap of these
so-caIled religious ditties.
Moody and Sankey did great deal
of good in their day. They were great
evangelists, and they helped thousands
of souls to realization of the beauties
of the higher life. But their music was
without question execrable. And the
words not much better in many cases.
There was, of course. a reason, and a
good one for the substitution of new
hymns for old. The old church tunes
were as a rule slow and somewhat
lugubrious. We find Watts often more
mournful than jubilant, and it was the
happy kind of tunes that were needed.
And so the Sankey airs were born.
And now many a child grows up
knowing only these a-ra-ra-boon-de-
ay tunes as church music. The rag
time ditties of the vaudeville and min
streI stage are not half 50 poorly exc
cuted the topical songs of the
mother-was-a-lady variety come near
er being in the same class. The words
we have not spoken of-but they usual
1y fit the tunes. And the taste of the
child who is brought up on this kind
of stuff is almost irretrievably vitiated.
Grown to mans estate, he viii show
preference for coon songs and the kind
of ballads which are rendered while the
stereopticon is throwing highly-colored
pictures of dying soldiers and parting
sweethearts on the screen. This is in
evitable.
Surely there are hymns of the noble,
inspiring type upon which the youthful
taste can be trained. There is more
real religion in Rock of Ages and
Lead Kindly Light and 1.-The Church's
One Foundation" than in whole vol
umes of gospel hymns" And SO much
more music and poetry and feeling!
Many of the Moody and Sankey tunes
are used by the pianists in cheap dance
halls, and they are more in place there
than in our churches and Sunday
schools. A movement for good church
music would be movement for better
music of all varieties, and the noblest
of the arts would be co-partner with
the church in the gain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

'sNecktie and apron socials'' are stll
in vogue at Sterling.
Goats claims to have two of the pref
test "skulemarms'' in western Kansas.
An lola small boy has been arrested
for stealing tin cans. This will tickle
the dogs.
Abilene claims to be the only town in
Kansas where THE Iceman'' has a gen.
tie voice.
It seems natural that Mr.. Hugg. of
Howard, should be in the business CT
pressing ladies' cloaks
Dynamiters are destroying the game
fish in Kingnan county faster than the
foods can bring them in.
The best duck hunters at Preston are
two preachers. They are also said to be
death on acknowledged chickens.
The Lindsborg football team has had
its pictures taken. AS a bunch of ath-
letes, the photos should be we'll deyeI-
oped.
The body of David Nation is to be re-
moved from Medicine Lodge to rest be-
side that of his first wife at Holden.
Mo.
A drunken man in a fight at Leav-
enworth got his face pounded. A punch
in the mouth is generally relished by a
tippler.
Kiowa jointists promptly closed their
doors at the first order of the mayor
Topeka should import some of that
stripe.
A big healthy tramp was very much
offended at a Preston woman because
she refused him a cup of hot coffee with
a handout of breakfast food.
A shipment of ferrets was made from
Elk Falls to Kentucky. On the same
day a shipment arrived at Elk Falls
from Kentucky. But 1t wasn't ferrets. It
was spirits.
A Lyndon Young man going to an
other town for employment carries a
letter guaranteeing him to have been
raised without the cigarette habit, corn
fed and hand spanked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
LESSON FoR THE BOYS.

The following from the pen of Ed
Howe of the ,Atchison Globe should be
read by every boy in Kansas:
Twenty-Five years ago. there lived in
Atchison a young man named Dave
Barton He belonged to a good family.
and his father was well-to-do. He had
good opportunities, and it was said that
he would become a noted man.
But he made his mistake of leaning
on his parents. He seemed to think that
it was not necessary for him to work
and loitered around, discussing b.s sub
iects. Finally. because his father did
nothing for him, he became embittered.
and left home. He was soon compelled
to return, as he would not work. From
this start, Dave Barton became the
most worthless citizen Atchison ever
turned out. He is a loafer and drunk
ard. and has been chased out of town
many times, only to slip back when the
police are not watching. He ruined not
only his own life, but his fathers and
his mothers. People who have known
him many years, dread to see him ap-
proach. He is a disgrace to humanity
He has not one Tedeeming quality al
though he has had every chance to be-
come a useful and worthy man.
There lived in Atchison at the same
time a young man named Ben Winchell,
a modest clerk in a railroad office. He
denended on himself: he did not ex-
pect his father to support him in idle
ness. Ben Winehen was not only indus
trious. but a gentleman. He was not
conceited, but modestly. quietly. effici-
emily did his work. Ben WincheIl is
JoT1f and general
manager of the Rock Island interests
in the west. with a salary of $4,000 a
wear 1t is said of him that his promo
ton within the past ten years has oeen
more rapid than that of any other rail-
road man in the country. with possibly
two exceptions.
Ben WinchelPs old acquaintance
point to him with pride. Dave Barton's
old acquaintance point to him with dis
gust. Ben Winchell has worked naro,
but not too hard. He has found time
to improve himself: to become man
among men. He has found time to be-
come popular socially. In coming to the
front, he has not ruined his health by
hard work. 1t is not necessary for
man to ruin his health by hard WORK
in order to gain fame and fortune.
Who can doubt that Ben WincneTl has
lived an easier life than Dave Barton?
Who can doubt that Ben WincheIFs sue
cess has been easier than Dave Bar
tons failure? AS Dave Barton tosses
about in his foul and neglected bed, who
can doubt that he is a wretched man
And who can doubt that Dave Barton
might have become a useful and
worthy man, had he followed the simple
rules followed by Ben Winchell; indus
trys gentility. fairness?
Ben Winehelrs employer. when he
lived in Atchison. was John E. UT MI.
WinchelI told the writer of this not long
ago that he regarded Mr. UT as the
snlartest man he ever knew. Mr.. Win
chell has not, therefore. achieved $50, COZ
year by great genius, but by following
few simple rules; he tried to pc a
gentleman; he tried to be a good work
man; he tried to understand his BUSH
ness; he tried to be a good citizen. He
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe-l


A noted writer says: TT is not death
to die" Wed. like to bet that it is.
If there is no joy. back of it, don't try
to smile. A rsickly smile is a terrible
thing.
THAT man." said a citizen today, speak
ing of an enemy, would kill you when
he wasn't mad
If you insist upon being a worm dom
be surprised if people go out of their
way to plant foot on you.
Have you any sense? Look yourself over
carefully and be candid: have you not
grave reason at least to feel suspicious?
Show us a letter from a girl in which
she doesn't tell anything new she is get
ting, and we can point to a case of UNI
happiness.
We have observed that the most worth
less man in the community is the most
careful man in the community in taking
care of his wife.
When people look over programme. for
an amateur concert they are as surprised
to see a new name as to see a. change on
a hotel bill of fare
After a mans friends have listened to
his troubles certain length of time they
expect him to do something to get out of
them or quit taking about them
It is never sale when a woman is COM
planning of the way her husband treats
her, to remind her of the days when she
was afraid some other girl would get him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
TF'rom the philadelphia Record.l

TFrom the-Philadelphia Record.1
Many a bluff has been called by a better
one.
The chestnut burr viii soon have its fall
opening.
A girl of Is thinks that every boy she
meets is her affinity.
When it comes to an uphill fight the
rolling stone isn't there.
Is it possible for a. man to be on his
uppers and still be well heeed?
The pen is mightier than the sword,
even when it comes to cutting remarks
A man can pocket his PRIDE but what is
a woman to do who has no pockets?
Every man at some time in his life has
told some woman that he wasn't worthy
of her.
The baseball player is often put out OF
the game for kicking, but it isn't that
way with the football player.
Borriwell-"The most elsa greeable peo-
pie in the world sre pawnbrokers." Hard
uppe--'And yet we can always manage
to put % with them. =
IN olden- times the heroine
That creature of surprises
Would loudly Shrek and cry for help,
But now she advertises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lFrom the Chicago News.l
Divorce pulls the feathers from the
wings of love.
Although macaroni is hollow it is
said to be a solid food.
Some men seem to believe that money
was only made to make.
Some men waste dollars worth Of
time trying to save 5 cents.
Fortunate is the man who can give
a good bank account of himself.
If woman hesitates it must be ow-
ing to an imDediment in her speech.
The question of precedence in this
country is merely question of hustle.
A politician thinks he is entitled to as
many kinds of opinions as he may need
in his business.
Even an amateur organist can play a
wedding. march that is entirely salts
factory to the girl in the case.
Remorse is like a wooden leg; it helps
man on his way, but he can see
where he'd be happier without it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
FARNewoRTH NOT ALoNE.


Much indignation IS manifested at the
seeming negligence of certain city Off
Gals in protecting the vendors of So
called "embalmed milk" It has gone
so far that petition is to be presented
to the city council next Monday night
asking for the dismissal of City Food
Inspector j. P. Farnsworth.
This paper does not seek to defend
]. P. Farnsworth IF it should appear
that he has been negligent to such an
extent as IS claimed. it is for the best
interests of the city that he should be
displaced by a more efficient man. But
there is one thing which is certain. if
Farnsworth is guilty of offenses suff1-
cient to warrant his dismissal. the city
physician. w. D. Storrs, is doubly
guilty.
The city ordinances place the food in
spector to great extent under the con-
troll of the city physician Especially
is this true in the management of the
diaries, and the inspection of the milk
supply. About year ago Mr.. Farms
worth had little difficulty with c. E.
Judd, who was then city physician, and
tried his best to get the milk fhspec-
ton out from under DR.. Judd's con-
troll. He failed. because the ordinances
plainly provide that his work as milk
inspector is all done under the cuid-
ance of the city physician. Since then
Farnsworth has been inclined to be
very submissive to the city physician.
and has willingly shared with the city
physician the responsibility of the po-
sition.
City Physician Storrs is not only
equally responsible with Food Inspector
Farnsworth for the alleged neglect of
the pure milk law, but he must also
answer for his amazing disregard of
other city ordinances. He has failed to
make reports as required by law. He
neglected the typhoid fever epidemic
until put to shame by the efforts of the
state board of health to protect Topeka
from the disease. He has scorned pub
lie opinion and encouraged the spread
of epidenics by secreting all possible
information about the existence of
contagion in Topeka. He has drawn his
salary regularly and unbIushingly. but
has made little effort to earn it. One
of the greatest plumbers made by
Mayor Bergundthal was the appoint
ment Of Storrs.
If Food Inspector Farnsworth must
go. there Is not the least doubt in the
minds OF those who thoroughly under
stand the situation that the clean up.
to be made effective must include the
present city physician.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

IErOm the New YORK PreSS.I
There is nothing in the world so clever
as the way a widow can blush over
things she once didn't
A woman's handkerchief is useful for
most anything except the. one thing it is
supposed to be for.
Some people swell with Importance so
a woman kisses them they can make
her believe that she almost did not let
them do it.
Same people swell with Importance so
naturally that 1t is hard to believe they
won't, burst through the coffin when
they are dead.
No matter how badly a woman got
fooled on her own hero that she mar
ried, she is always ready to help her
daughter to get taken in the same way.
A woman never gets too old to think it
is dangerous for her to travel alone for
fear men might speak to her.
The nice thing about q red headed girl
is that she never pretends it changed to
that color after she was II years old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
Wonderful Sense of Smell.

How infinitely minute must be the
particles that emanate from the Object
which the dog is tracking? Yet matter
is extremely Invisible. The tenth part
of a grain of musk will continue for
years to fill a. room with its odoriferous
particles. and at the end of that time
will not be appreciably diminished III
weight by the finest balance. A cubic
inch of air rising from the flame OF =
Bunsen burner has been found TO con-
tain no fewer than 489 600 900 dust par
ticles A drop of blood which might De
suspended from the point of a needle
contains about a million Of red fiatrened
corpuscles. Still. though matter is 50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
Her Conundrum.

Something had annoyed him and he
had given expression to his annoyance
IN vigorous language. This it was sug-
gested to her a brilliant conundrum.
She asked him if he would try to guess
it.
Sure he replied. '.Shoot ahead"
What is one great difference between
man and a woman?" she inquired.
He looked at her in surprise.
4 could mention several he said
81 don't think I can possibly miss the
answer if you'll give me time. I'll be-
gin with some of the most notable
and
Never mind" she interrupted hasti-
ly. I'm tell you the answer
But 1 want to guess it, he urged.
81 don't want you to try" she in
sisted. You're going to be wrong-I
know you're going to be wrong. There
are SO many answers that it wouldn't
be fair. I didn't stop to think"
'.It isn't necessary to think over such
an easy one" he retorted. Now you
have in mind one great difference be-
tween a man and a woman and you
want me To-
mo, 1 DON'T she walled, for she re-
allied that this was altogether too fine
a. chance to give man who delighted
in both sarcasm and humor II want
to tell you myself. You'd just take a
delight in guessing some difference that
I don't mean at all.
but it would be a real one.'' he
urged: nothing fanciful about it at
all. Why. there are four or five that
come to mind
"wiIl you let me tell your" she inter
rupted plaintiveiy.
Go ahead
"A woman's life is largely devoted to
darning and a mans to da- No.
won't tell you, either, because I don't
want to swear even little Bit
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
NIcKELRA7E. : !: ! :.
RsNcsgakC NEa9oi StkeasRR I I'm,

Three Express Trains East every day in the year.
Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars on all
Trains. Trans Continen entail Tourist Cars leave
Chicago Tri-Weski.- on Tuesd avs and Saturdays
at ESQ p m, on Wednesdays at 1895 ..
Chicago to Boston without change. Modern Din
ing Cars serving meals on individual club plan.
ranging in price FROM 35c to 81 90: also service
o la carte. Direct line TO Fort Wayne. Findiay.
Cleveland, Eris. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse,
Binghamton. Scranton. New York City, Boston
and all points East Rates always the lowest.
Colored porters in uniform in attendance on All
Coach Passengers. II you conternplate q trip
East. call On any convenient Tfoket AGENT. or
address JOHN Y. CALLAHAN. Gent AGENT
113 Adams ST.. Chicago. N.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17

John Alexander Dowie, who has in
vaded New York with an army of 5000
followers Is said to be worth S22, 900, 900
The estimated cost of the crusade which
he has undertaken is $3.50, 900. re
landed In this country" remarks
the Boston Globe. "a few years agu
fresh from an Australian prison. and
with less than 800 in his pocket. How
he has acquired so much wealth since
then he himself only knows. But the
financial world seems to have pecom,
firmly convinced of his immense wealth
and none among his numerous critics
accuse him of being a financial pre-.
tender. 1t is the followers of Dowfe thai
have made him rich man. He came to
Chicago with no visible assets. has
founded the Zion City CORPORATION.
makes everything subject to his order,
and is a most consummate tax dodger
But he owns a $4,000 horne, a $4,000
printing establishment, has founded
schools, homes for working girls, juve-
nile institutions for children, bakeries
farms and all kinds of arrangements for
the comfort and prosperity of his dis
siples." The Zion City industries are