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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-20
aUAKER REFLFcT1oNs-

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
happy medium-the jovial clairvoy-
ant.
Some people regard even favors with
suspicion.
A man with a fad is all right so long as
he keeps it to himself.
It is much better to scatter seeds of
kindness than to SOW wild oats.
1t is possible for seller of salt cellars
to sell cellarful of celery.
woman is never so lonely as when she
knows a secret and has no one to tell it
20.
It's as great a gift to listen to a funny
story as it is to tel one-and much more
popular gift.
Many fellow who has solemnly de-
clared at p that he would never marry
finds himself at 30 candidate for a
Blumle medal
Tommy-"Pop. what is a chaperone p
Tommy's Pop-"A chaperone, my son, is
an old lady who keeps her eye on the
chaps"
NO Maude dear; the state legislature
is not quartered at Norristown but at
harrisburg. That's another Institution you
are thinking Of.
Yes" remarked the loud-voiced man
with the diamond stud. I am out Of poll
tics for good All murmured the Sc
date little fellow in the corner, May 1
ask for whose good2''
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diseases are to be treated: 81 100000
from Mrs. Henrietta Webb for the
Webb Institute and Home for Shin
builders $3.50 600 from Robert c. Bill
lngs fer educational purposes. and 81
100000 from John Mckee for the care
and keeping of colored orphans. TIL
donations TO become effective on conn
Dlsance with certain defined conditions
include st00o0o00 to the general eduea-
tional board from John D. Rockefeller
s., 900 from Henry c. Prick for uni
versity purposes at Pittsburg, sS.O000 600
from John ID. Rockefeller on the con-
soiidat3oa Of the Rush medical college
with the University Of Chicago, and a
number OF lesser donations for Dhilan-
thropic purposes, while MI. Carnegie
continues his work of scattering libra
ries right and left in the vain endeavor
to ind a way of dying Door
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scene After the Doors Were Open at stansaelds.

Myers. He took up his position at
O'Clock Sunday night and was No. 1
when the numbers were given out. He
waited eleven hours for the first chance.
No. and No. took their places soon
after o'clock By midnight So men
We're in line on the sidewalk. They got
a large table and pack Of cards and be-
gan playing by the light of the are
lamps. The game lasted until morn
ing.
Men hurried to- the place loaded with
bedding and pillows and a dozen or
more rolled themselves in blankets and
quilts and dozed during the night Nc.
5 in line was a white haired man, at
least 60 years of age.who leaned against
a telegraph pole from midnight unit
morning.
This morning 315 numbers were given
out and by 2 o'clock number $50 mao
been called The door to the Stansneid
store was guarded by policeman. me
soda water fountain was turned on, the
apOthecary scales were unmoVed ana
everyone in the store was busy all day
with the holders Of the numbers Two
men were behind the seat chart and
two men We're constantly busy answer
ing the two telephones.
There was the usual amount OF COM
planning. One man went TO Major An
derson, at the Commercial club rooms.
and said that the best tickets had been
drawn from the chart by the ticket
sellers Major Anderson called up STAINS
field and told him of the complaint.
Stansheld was angry and he told An
derson that it was the same man who
told him that on Sunday Major Ander-
son had drawn all the best seats out OF
the chart Then Anderson was mad. 50
it went all day.
Membership tickets, good in exchange
for season tickets for the festival. have
been sold, and today these membership
tickets are being exchanged at STAINS
fields for the season tickets with the
series of seat checks for the four con-
certs Major Anderson said at , O'Clock
this afternoon that 2.11S tickets have
been sold in the city and over 400 sea.
son tickets have been sold to parties
outside of Topeka The Auditorium.
without any extra chairs. Will seat $500,
and about 1000 seats are still left. AT
least 300 extra chairs can be put IT..
as was done at the Nordica concert
HOlton leads the out-of-town list with
81 season tickets Marion has 80; En-
poria Normal college,-31; Concn Grove.
21 Manhattan. Il; Alma, s; Lindsborg,
2; Lawrence. Al; Beloit IS; Granville.
4; Ottawa. Is; Abilene. 10; Clay Center.
II; Salina. 20; Hutchinson, 6; Whiting.
8; Paola, 2; Clyde, ,; Osawkie, 2; Dodge
City, ,. Besides these there are many
calls for the single tickets for the
Nordica-De Reszke-Duss concert and
for this concert alone Lawrence has
asked for y more tickets.
The tickets for the Nordica-D De Reszl1e-
Duss and other single concerts in the ser
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LOCAL MENTION.

Visitors in To2elza today are J. NJ.
Miller of Council Grove, H. L. Woods of
wellington and E. Q. Gates of Fort
Scott.
Mrs. B. F. FIenniken and son Frank
left today for Colorado Springs for a
visit with her daughter. Mrs. P. P.
Harvey.
Mr.. ard Mrs ] NJ Nation are the
parents of a boy. born Saturday morn
ing. Mr. Nation is assistant state
auditor.
A license to marry has been granted
to William A. Adams Of Ottawa Kas-.
in the probate court at Kansas City
Saturda=-.
The men who are to take the moving
are expected to arrive here this week
The fire department benefit will take
place on April Is. and this evening the
council will b, asked to grant it the
use of the auditorium.
Mr. c. A. Musgrove. from Purcell. L
T.. recently IN the employ of the A. 7.
& s. T. at that point as night wire
chief, and now employed in the general
telegraph Office of Topeka. will leave
soon for Naples, Ill He viii bring back
bride. and the couple will make their
residence in Topeka.
The Washburn baseball team viii go
to Lawrence Wednesday to play the
first big game of the season It viii
meet Kansas university, and expects
to give the jayhawkers a close argu-
ment. K. L. has just returned from Ne
braska where it met a couple of scorch-
ing defeats at the hands of the corn
huskers.
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READY FOR WAR.
Trouble Brewing Among Paving
Contractors.

There is said to be trouble braNvis.s
between some of the paving contractors
which may burst forth this evening H.
a reckless cutting and slashing of bids
on the 40 blocks Of pavement to be
awarded BY the council to the lowest
bidders
One firm of topeka bidders is said 10
have declared war, and viii go into the
fight tonight for blood. II it wasn't for
this one firm all Of the principal bidders
on the brick work would be able to get
together in a combine, as they would
like 70 do.
Abe Fulford is planning to bid on
some of the grading this year. and J.
H. Maxwell win also try to get the
lions share Of this work as usual John
Richie, ]. D. Hanley. c. B. Ramsey
and H K. Winans are figuring on the
curbing and briclSworlz and Hanley
also may want piece OF the grading
as We'll Indications are that the old
anti-Ramsey fight may be resumed 1t
was this fight which a year ago re-
suited in cut in the cost of paving to
$l-l2 cents a square yard
There is a chance for an interesting
fight on the curbing contract A great
deal of Fort Scott sandstone curbing
viii be used. and several bidders are
said to be figuring on it. There is ne
iron curbing this year. It is said that
the high price Of iron has made it i'm
possible to manufacture iron curling at
a price which win enable it to compete
with the stone curbingS
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St Louis Post-Dispatch:
The moor strapholder might find con-
ISOLATION and encouragement IN an m
cident that occurred in New York the
other dav if he We're not too down
trodden and crushed in spirit TO ma
consolation or encoura cement In any
thing.
New York & Queens County Railway
company was fined 5000 because, after
having boarded a car marked to run
to a certain point. the conductor com
PEELED the passenger, after tray 3
half the distance, to get out ana take
the car ahead"
ant what does this incident signify
to the poor strapholder, whose long SUI
fering, as we'll as whose long sunerlnS
spirit has become notorious Nothlng;
vet. if an enlightened community can
and will fine a railroad company FOR
forcing a passenger to take the car
ahead" what is there to prevent any
other enlightened community from
7nfng a railway company which COM
pels a citizen to hold to strap instead
of furnishing him with seat?
Nothing perhaps. save this: that the
miserable strapholder has not spirit
enough to help himself. One might say
TO the great army OF "strappers as
Byron said to the degenerate Greeks.
Hereditary bondsmen. know We not
Who would be free themselves must
strike the blow?
But mol The strapholder has been
cowed and subdued by the corporations
until he is no longer imbued with the
snirit of rs which resisted the stamp
act which inspired their sires at Bunker
Hill and which founded the government
at Washington, which still lives. NO!
The s'strapper'' has ceased to be a scrap
per He has become mere animated
nickel, neither bright enough to shine
nor smooth enough to be rejected-Just
an ordinary fiVe-cent piece
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-20
GLoBE sIaHTs-

lErOm the Atkinson Globe.
After a man becomes old it seems TO him
on Friday that yesterday was Sunday
When men complain too much of mo-
nOtony look out for a cyclone to break it.
More trouble. The sazerac cocktail. a
particularly seductive drink, has struck
to
Of course the two Money Devils lately
married in Newport will be prolific breed
ers.
Those who never have cent have no
trouble in fair weather in proving that
they are philosophers.
About the only thing the average man
can find without assistance from his wife
is another woman
When a man reaches 60 years of age he
ought to be free to have opinions of his
own. but he isn't.
II it troubles you to pick up anything
from the floor and you are under 60. that
means that you are eating too much.
When man is about to be hanged and
concludes to join the church it must puzzle
him to decide which one.
When a man gays his wife more than
the usual attention they say it is sign
she is about to hear something on him.
1t is said of an Atchison man that he
actually likes his wife's kin and is never
satisfied unless he has them around him.
About all that you will inherit is poor
old kin to care for, so quit standing on the
shore watching for your ship to come in.
II hope said the father Of a house full
sicians will strike against playing for
dances after u o'clock
Constable Clora may get out writ
against the new retail merchants asSocia-
ton. If dead beats are refused credit his
collection business viii be ruined.
An Atchison man and wife of 50 have
taken a 5-year-Cld girl child to raise and
it is said that the woman's sisters are
up handsome and steal its foster mother
husband from her.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Why Negleot the EEL 2
Washington Post

Washington Post.
Some French gentleman. excited, no
doubt by the English phrase. He
drinks like a fish, has been experiment
ing with alcohol and shy animals, in
habiting both the water and the land.
We freely admit that many of our
metaphors are obscure, if not irratton-
al. and can readily understand that
He drinks like a fish" is one Of these
whereas a fish doesn't drink" at all.
NO more sense that a mule" is anoth-
er-whereas a mule, compared with
that noble animal. the horse. is an in
tellectual giant. of the first class No
wonder our French friend. since he was
interested in English idioms, resorted
to investigation on his own account.
It now appears that fish dosed with
alcohol viii swim merrily about in his
tank for few moments. then sink
helplessly to the bottom and look
silly" In this he bears close resem=
blance to a man. But Prof. Archant
did not stop at the fish. He went fur
tber. He found that dogs. will not re-
tain pure alcohol. They are evidently
not human. Dosed with a dilution,
they frisk about and then become
sleepy. The process of SOLDERING OF
consumes much valuable time. The
rabbit-thats miracle of wisdom. fortl-
tude, and fury-goes to sleep at once
He permits himself no undignified hill
arity, nor does he need dutch couf-
age" for the desperate enterprises tnat
attend his daily life. The kangaroo
wants to fight Immediately. He thinks
he is at a county fair with a reputa-
ton to sustain. The guinea pig simply
shuts his eyes and throws a fit- And
so on. The developments are highly
interesting, but we doubt whether our
Frenchman understands now, any
more than he did at the outset, what
drinks like a fish" means. We do not,
either
It is a great pity, though, that the
professor. while he was about 1t, dld
not try alcohol on an American bear.
If there be in all the world one animal
which likes whisky more than New
England fisherman does, that animal IS
the plain. simple black bear of our ma
tive land. If Prof. Archant will visit
the United States and get President
Roosevelt or some other mighty hunter
to Introduce him to a bear, he VIII ma
an animal at once conviVial and affec-
tionate. fit for highballs. fixes, and
mint iuleps and capable of slowing
them away, slug for slug, with the very
toughest topper in Kansas or Vermont
He will learn. moreover that the pear
drinks like a gentleman and carries ms
load with SURPRISING anna bility. In his
cups the bear does not go to sleep. or
want to fight or have fit. he Is 9oN-
ial. loving. perhaps a little too familiar
but never angry or contentious. he Is
in fact. the very prince of topers-a
model which man might profitably I'M
itate 49,.
We are sorry the professor didn't Try
it on a bear-or a busybody-
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GRlGGS TO COMPROMISE.
offers to Give Up Office If Made
Street Foreman.

Street Commissioner Griggs IS trying
to force Mayor Bergundthal to appoint
him as one of the foremen on the street
force or some other position under the
present administratio Mr.. Gr1ggs
thinks that he deserves some reward for
having come out for BergundthaF prior
to the election, despite the fact that he
was a Parker appointee.
In order to bring the necessary pres
sure to bear, Mr.. Griggs is intimating
that he will try to stay in his present
position for another year unless he gets
some minor job Griggs claims to have
a right to serve another year, on the
theory that all city officers are appoint
ed for a term of two years
The law is so plain on the subject,
however. that there is not much show
for Mr.. Griggs-
Mr. Griggs was appointed year ago
by Mayor Parker when Frank Snyder
resigned the position. The resignation
of Snyder created a vacancy in the Of
fee. and the city charter act says on
this point:
In case of a vacancy in any appointive
Office. the mayor by and with the con-
sent of the council shall I'LL such va
cancy for the unexpired term for which
his predecessor was appointed
Mr.. Griggs said this morning: Il
want to do what is right about this,
and if the law says I must give up.
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will do so. / don't want to do anything
Bergundthals friend, and will stand by
him, but I don't want him to think thar
I would refuse to accept minor place
under his administration. I am not
partment, and I think there might be
something else given to me instead
David Overmyer says have a right to
hold my office for another year. and the
city attorney told me practically the
same thing I viii simply stay in there
and 1 guess they cant throw me out.
1 won't make a move until they do.
Overmyer says, You just sit stin and
wait until they make a move That is
what L am going to do
City Attorney Spencer denies that he
told Mr.. Griggs that he had a right to
hold the office for another year
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WILL TAX THE CIRCUS.
Commissioners Decide Sells &
Downs Must Pay.

The board of county commissioners
has decided to levy a tax on the Sells
& Downs circus. which has been VIM
tering in Topeka.
The board will assess the circus as
personal property and this viii mean a
tax levied against the circus of 1000 or
more The circus owners will not take
kindly TO this tax. The county COM
rnissioners undoubtedly have the right
to tax the concern but It is not likely
that the owners will submit gracefully
and it may be that next winter the Sells
& Downs circus will winter somewhere
where the owners will not be taxed
Wichita made an effort to have the cir
Gus winter there.
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MUST HAVE FORGOTTEN.
Legislators We're to Commence Asy-
lum Investigation.


lum Investigation.
Today is the day set for the begin
ming of the investigation of the state
asylums by the committee appointed by
The legislature for that purpose, but
none of the members of the committee
had arrived in Topeka at noon. The
committee is made up of Senators F'ftz-
patrick of Sedan, Gabriel of Parsons,
and Representatives Hayden of Nema-
ha, Campbell of Meade and jerks of
Franklin. Representative Hayden is
chairman of the committee.
The senate members will name the
stenOgrapher to take down the evidence
in the investigation, and the house
members will select the sergeant-at-
arms. w. p. Mason. late chief clerk Of
the house, came to Topeka this morning
in response to letters from Hayden and
Campbell suggesting that he act as SER
geant-at-arms.
The committee will investigate the
general subject of brutality on the part
of attendants towards patients in the
asylums. The investigation grows out
of the alleged killing of Amos Maxwell,
patient in the Topeka insane hospital,
by two attendants The committee will
decide upon the manner of its procedure
after it meets.
The legislature authorized the COM
mittee to meet lin vacation" or after
the legislature adjourned, so that it
should have plenty of time to thorough
~ investigate conditions in the asylums.
The report of the committee will then
be made to the governor.
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Eradicate it, positively and absolute
ly, This statement is based on the
thousands of permanent cures these
medicines have wrought.
Ny daughter had scrofula, with eleven
sores on her neck and about her ears. Hoods
sarsaparilla was highly recommended and
she took it and was cured. She is now in
good health" AfRs. J. a. JONES. Parker
City. Ind
Hoods SarsapaFlHa promises to
cure and keeps the promise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-20
MONKEY HAS MOTHER LOVE

The animals in the New York Zoo
logical park in the Bronx. which are
most like folks just now are the long
armed mother baboon and her baby
Mother and child hold the center of
the stage in the primates' house and at
tract even a larger crowd to their cage
than the uncanny bats that eat. sleep
and fight with their heads hanging
down and their claws gripped to the
wires overhead.
A monkey is never more human than
when she has an unweaned baby. The
lOng-armed mother is proud of her
child, for she sits as close as she can
get to the front of the stage so that
all the visitors and the jealous, child
less race suicide monkeys across the
way can see her baby.
The infant has an excellent appetite
and after each nursing goes to sleep on
his mothers shoulder. The mother ba-
hOon's kisses are as humanlike as any
thing in the show and the baby hears
all the ''tOotsey- WOotSey' talk that is
good for him from the women in front
of the cage.
The mother hasn't lost interest in the
social doings and quarreis of the
primates house as the result of her do
nestle cares There was a fight the
other day between two noisy balloons
in the next cage Heads were out.
tenement-house fashion. all along the
line of cages The long-armed babOon
was sitting with her back to her quar-
relson1e neighbors when the row began
and the baby had just gone to sleep.
She uuWouDd the little fellow with
her left arm, gripped the bar in front
of her with her right hand and then
stood up very slowly and carefully.
faced about the other way and sat
down again where she could see the
The baby didn't even stir-New York
Sun.
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The Chicago Inter-Ocean has COM
piled an interesting table concerning
men and money and the disposition of
the latter in 1902 in the way of dona-
tions to public or to private institu-
tions. From the list it appears that 1862
men donated somewhat over $4,000 600
to schools, colleges. hospitals and or
phan asylums. The amounts promised
to like institutions during 1902 swell
the donations to s146 269. 600, and the
promises are to be counted among the
donations actually made. for they are
guaranteed upon the performance o.
conditions easily accomplished by the
benehciaries. The principal gifts OF
1902 included s14.0O0O00 from w S.
Stratton Tor homes for the poor: $4,000. =
coo from John d. Rockefeller for pri-
mary. intermediate and higher educa-
ton: $1,000. 900 from Mr.. and Mrs. H. d.
Mccormick for the establishment of a
memorial institute wherein infectious
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-20
MILLER is COMING.
Attorney General of Colorado to Talk
Over Irrigation Suit

Over Irrigation Suit
Nathan c. Miller. attorney. general of
Colorado, will be in Topeka in about
two weeks to talk over the Arkansas
river water litigation with Attorney
General Coleman with view to has
tening the case to a final adjudication.
Mr.. Miller was married on Saturday
and is now on his way to Washington
on his honeymoon to look up the case
in the United States supreme court
there and to confer with some Of the
government authorities. He will stop
in Topeka on his way back.
Governor Bailey has not yet decided
what he will do in regard to the case
The interests of the people of Kansas
will be safe-guarded," said the COVER
nor in speaking the matter, but l
have not vet investigated the subject
as fully as ! wish to-
AS in Kansas, new attorney general
was elected in Colorado in the last cleo
ton. In Colorado. too the governor
has dismissed Ex-Governor Charles >.
Thomas and Supreme Justice L. II.
Goddard, the two principal attorneys
engaged to help the Colorado attorney
general in the suit so that there will be
an entirely new set of attorneys in the
Colorado end of the suit.
The same thing may yet happen in
Kansas Ex-Attorney General GODDARD
SAYS he is not anxious to continue in
the case because the appropriation
made by the Kansas legislature is like
" to run out before all the evidence
can be taken and the Kansas attorneys
will be handicapped. e. F. Ware is now
commissioner of pensions. The third
Kansas attorney, S S. Ashbaugh of
Wichita, was up to see Governor
Bailey a few days ago
Colorado made All appropriation of
s25. 900 to fight the case, while the
Kansas appropria ton is but $4,000. The
next step in the case. if it is continued
win be to have a referee appointed by
the United States supreme court and
have evidence taken in the case. This,
the attorneys say, will require consider
able money. All the parties in the suit
are anxious to push it to its final end
ing as soon as possible. and this will be
the object of the visit of the Colorado
attorney general to Topeka.
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PoINqEp PARAeRAPHs.

7 TUT VIIV7 '-III717E-I -NV7F7I
When the hoseman of a fire company re-
tires he's eX-spurt
The successful stock raiser is the one
who laughs and grows fat
When public speaker pauses for a re-
ply It breaks him all up if he gets it.
When man is going to the dogs he
usually meets the dogs about half way.
Though the world may owe every man a
living. Only the persistent collector gets il.
Some wise men are not wise enough to
see that they can't answer all the f0ol
questions asked.
A new order of things is easily brought
about-proyided. you have telephone CON
nection with your grocer.