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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

Dutch boy walking up one side and
down another. swinging large wooden
rattle. which made noise like that of
a small boy running rapidly by pa1ing
fence with a stick in his hand. The
young Dutchman was pushing every
button and ringing every bell he passed
He did not hesitate a moment for the
location, pushing his thumb or ringers
under window. behind a blind or into
a doorway, facility which could only
be required by long experience.
We tried TO find out what was the
vocation of this young man. but were
not absolutely sure that we learned.
Many readers who have been in Hol-
land may know. We We're told that he
was chimney sweep and was letting
people who needed him. and those who
did not, know that he was in the neigh
borhood. but we saw nobody rush out
and demand his services.
1t was news to us to learn that one
of the great industries of Amsterdam
is diamond cutting: here most OF the
diamonds which we don't wear are pol
ished into shape for those who wish to
dazzle the ewes of their friends by the
reflections from the stones and from
their pocketbooks F. p NJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07
JAYHAWKER lots.

fall. ''' 9''O''''-S - sO'u a. : a 'iiuse TINS
Chanute and Arkansas City are the
latest victims of the BARRIERS trust
A Cherryvale barber throws in a face
and neck shave with each Is cent hair
cut.
One of the best corn crops IN woodson
county was planted early and ploughed
but once.
A passenger automobile line is being
seriously considered between Great Bend
and Smith Center
An lola girl climbed a tree for q. peach
OF emerald hue, she fell and broke her
arm IN two. boo, hoo.
An Edna man started on a chicken hunt
two months ago and failed to return. His
friends fear foul play.
Erie has a daily paper. It's an afternoon
production, three columns in size with a
promise of enlargement
Chanute's swell society women are
wearing rubber gloves and rubber hos
ieFy. The men viii adopt rubber necks.
Some people have queer ideas of court
ship. The Dunkards opened their annual
lovefeast at Ottawa with a foot washing.
A rusty tack stepped on three years ago
circuit of his foot and popped out at the
ankle.
A big swarm of bees took possession of
a Concordia grocery. The proprietors say
it was the liveliest days business Of the
season.
A Yates Center high school girl thinks
the football players look Just too lovely
for anything as they skim across the fry
ing pam
Mcpherson claims to have passed the
swaddling clothes stage, but six-pound
sweet potatoes are still being raised on
the town site,
This sounds like a Missouri item, but
it's from a st. Marys paper: IAN Alma
man by. the name of More has opened a
saloon in the first house south of the
river. He is said to be getting consider
able trade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07
OUR Al TRADE.

The August summary of internal COM
merce, including eight months ending
with August. as prepared by the de-
partment of commerce and labor
through it's bureau of statistics. brings
to light certain facts relating to domes-
tic trade in different parts of the coun-
try. which. on the whole. indicate nor
NAL conditions for this. the transitional
month of the calendar year.
The beginning of the new commercial
year in the grain movement was mark
ed by some unusual features, among
which We're extraordinary lightness of
receipts compared with last year; a de-
mand of the northwestern milling cen
tiers for winter wheat. on account of
shortness in the supply of spring wheat,
even to the extent of checking the move
ment of southwestern grain to the gulf
for export: the practical suspension of
the grain-exporting trade on the Pacific
coast, owing to the requirements of flour
milling and to the wide difference be-
tween prices of Pacific coast grain N
England and the price at which pro-
ducers held their product; the exception
al demand of China and Japan for the
flour output of the far northwest facili-
tated no doubt by the cut of oriental
steamship lines from SIS to So per ton
in ocean freights.
Live stock receipts at five markets in
August were 2,742,599 head of all kinds,
compared with 1858, O05 head in 1902 and
2.743,375 head in 1901. OF this years to-
tai Chicago took somewhat less than
half, Kansas City a sixth. and Omaha,
st. Louis, and ST. Joseph nearly a mil
lion head. Although August arrivals. ex-
ceeded those of the two earlier years, the
lead for eight months is still with 1901,
when 81 S19. $50 head of stock were mar
keted at these markets. In 1902 the
quota was 1884, 133 head, and this year
90, 4S9, 306 head.
AT the North Atlantic seaboard. the
receipts of grain at the four ports of
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore, for August, 1902. were &c, 933. :
Os5 bushels and at the two gulf ports of
New Orleans and Galveston. 5,773,o59
bushels At the six ports combined. &C..
706.144 bushels were received. counting
Galveston shipments as equal to re-
ceipts. For August, 1903, the four At
lantic ports received Is, 55s, 1897 bushels of
grain, and the gulf ports 1899, 400 BUSH
els. The six ports combined received TO-
4J8,5S7 bushels. For the eight months
ending with August. 1902, the four At
lantic ports received 1872, 469, 474 bushels,
anG the two gulf ports 1929, 492 bushels,
making a grand total of 149. PCS, $3.50 bush
els for the six ports. For the CORES
ponding eight months in 1908, the four
ports received 15S, ,276 bushels, and
the two gulf ports 37,702.62s bushels,
making a total for the six ports of 1885,
700, 902 bushels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

verse. the hole she made in the waters
of time when she went through was so
small: one wonders jf in itself her soul
and her life were of real account in the
world, If any single soul, however great,
is great enough to make any percept-
ible addition to the worlds weight and
spiritual substance. We seem to- be
leaves in the wind, fertilizing Gods
garden. Through all the ages millions
and millions of Sweet Alices have been
lying underneath the stone. Hearts
have been broken so many times since
the end of the first seventh day that
their number is as the sands of the sea.
To what end? Why all this suffering
Why all this hardship. why this agon-
izing struggle for individuality, this
fearful battle with oblivion, this an
guish at the thought of humiliation.
and then at the end of it all-the grave.
the crumbling headstone. and-wi1en a
generation or two has passed. utter
nothing in this world. Why? Eyes
once that were bright and flesh that
glowed with health, and brains that
teamed with life and souls that famed
with the passion of hope and faith
what are thay? Each year the fields
are sweet with fair flowers, and some
flowers are fairer than their neighbors
and stand in their glory as signs of
Gods infinite perfection. And in a day
these flowers are hay-dead. brown.
wilted. ugly. Why? Is the plan of
things too large for our finite minds?
Shall we some dav know the secret of
life and the reason for living. even as
we are known of Him who created us
after His image? VIII the riddle of the
the larger language of eternal silence?
Perhaps so; but until then we will beat
our bodies against the restraining bars
Of our cage, sand flutter our clipped
wings vainly trying to fly to those
realms of thought and those heights of
Divine knowledge to which we may
only look with vaarnine-S ,,n1ifterahla
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Glob,

LFrom the Atehison Globel
Don't say ''if'' more than once a day
if you want people to think we'll of
you.
We often wonder if by this time the
S. r. o. sign hasn't been put up in
hell.
The trouble with some people is that
them.
There is young girl in Atchison who
has such perfect teeth that they look
false.
If one could have a choice. it would
be better to be a .drunkard's dog than
to be his wife.
So far. an Atchison girl has worn
everything stuck in lrer hair except a
hand-painted rolling pin
People are becoming accustomed to
girls as bill collectors. and stand them
off as readily as they do men.
Il occasionally have good luck: the
worst old bore in town is mad at me,
and won't speak Drake Watson.
A woman going to a Sunday school
going to a club meeting carries a suit
case.
The novels may say to the contrary,
but. as matter of fact, there never was
a proposal that was a surprise party.
Nothing more thoroughly arouses the
war-horse in man than for his wife
to invite a guest whom he does not like
to eat at his table
An Atchison man who has two daugh-
tiers who are in love. is very anxious
for them to marry and have troubles,
SO that they may show signs of sense.
When a wife asks her husband the
spelling of a word, and he gives a de-
cision, she Immediately makes a dive
for the dictionary; she really has no
confidence in him.
There is really nothing that can kill a
budding romance. A girl in Leaven-
worth is engaged to marry a young
man who boards at her house. and her
duties include the washing of all his
clothes from his socks up.
An Atchison man who received a let
ter this morning written on the new
style of writing paper, thought he was
unfolding a tape measure Only women
use it, the men being more conservative
in adopting fad.
Matthias Rush. a merchant of Pana,
ILL.,, shot and killed himself yesterday
because his wife insisted upon going to
church, thus enabling her to go more
than ever in future. and receive more
attention than ever because she has
a husband in hell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

The monetary situation is vastly bet
ter than a year ago according to the
view of Henry Clews & Co, whose FL
nancial Review in its latest issue says:
Liquidation has immensely relieved
the banks, speculative demands are
practically nil loans are decreasing,
reserves are larger than a year ago the
banks are generally in strong condition,
funds are ample TO move the crops the
supply of money is about 1924, 900, 900
larger than last year and bankers con-
tinue conservative in granting credits
to all classes of borrowers; consequent
~ the much feared monetary crisis
which was expected this autumn is now
an exceedingly remote possibility. Sec
rotary Shaw is entitled to much credit
In this connection for his vigorous and
resourceful action in counteracting gov
eminent operations in the money mar
a1et. and it is now quite likely that be-
fore many months are gone money will
be plentiful at lower rates. Gold i'm
ports cannot be far distant owing to
the increasing supply of commercial
bills and to the fact that Europe will
be necessarily large buyer of our food
products. The curative process is prob
ably more complete in the money mar
ket than in the stock market, and before
long the anomalous condition of money
commanding better returns than seeuri-
ties will disappear"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

"De only race problem whar come
fum,' said Brother Dickey, sis in desc
trifiin' niggers keepin' ten yards ahead
er de sheriff. Atlanta Constitution.
You've kept the audience waiting,
Miss F'ootlights.'
''Oh, let them wait, I've had to wait
long enough for a chance to keep them
waitingi"-Puck
NO. said little Saphead, mo woman
ever made a fool of me-
what was it?'' asked Miss Pert
Houston Post.
DO you enjoy going to the theater?'
Very much,'' answered Mr.. Cumrox.
THE only thing that worries me in con-
nection with the drama is the task of
finding something I really enjoy suffi-
GENTLY high priced to suit mother and
the girls. '-WashingtOn Star.
Passerby-Well. well! Have you been
getting a licking. little man?
Little Man-You called de turn,
stranger. Foist de Jones kid he licked
me, den ma licked me fer fghtin den
wen pa came home he licked me fer
losin' to de Jones kidl-Boston Post.
That good intentions never de-
We haven't any doubt.
Perhaps that is the reason why
They're seldom carried out.
Philadelphia Press.
you love your country. don't you?"
said the sincere statesman.
Certainly" answered Senator Sor-
ghum, but I'm not losing my head and
taking chances on suffering the pangS
of unrequited Affection Washington
Star.
Given the Grecian bend,
The pannier and the hustle.
The kangaroo's walk
The silken skirt rustic:
We've nothing half so sad
In fashions freakish tide
AS the get-there-if- it-takes-a
OF the college girls stride.
Chicago Record Herald.
81 like a man." she remarked. who
says exactly what he thinks
About somebody else, of course"
suggested her chum.-Chicago Post
The editor died hopeless
Didn't believe in Judgment Day,
Fer he made 'em write
On his tombstone white.
I'VE are here. and here to Stay!'
Atlanta Constitution.
A postal card sent from Bilville to one
of the absent brethren reads: Dear Jim
-Nuthin' but good news to tell you. Your
crap paid off the mortgage. your brother
got 1900 out of the railroad fer runnin.
over his leg Amt Providence providin 90
The Inspector-But madam, this
ought to pay duty
The NOvice-Well. you see, I'm so in
experienced in these matters. Can't you
tell me how to get it through PUCK
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07
rRE KANSAS PRINTER GIRL.

TWm. Allen White, in Emporia Gazette
A dozen years ago pretty, brown
eyed printer girl worked in the office
of the FL Dorado Republican. She
was bright and intelligent and hard
working. as most printer girls are. and
she had extraordinarily pretty eyes
the kind you remember. She was an
ambitious girl and had aspirations.
and at noon hours and after work she
used to sit around and talk with the
other printers and the young cub
rustling locals about the things you
read of in books. She was a mighty
good girl, take her day in and day
out And she was a pretty girl in the
bargain. which makes it more remark
able. It always seems easy for a
plain girl to be good. She doesn't
have to do anything else. but when a
pretty girl is good and obliging and
kind and hard working to boot. it is
something we'll worth remembering.
Well this pretty printer girl married.
as pretty girls will do. and moved out
west. And then gradually she faded
out of the minds of those who knew
her and she was as one that was not.
One day last month in Idaho, away
out in forsaken little town. hundred
miles from the railroad, where there
are four saloons and one store. a log
town with a single half-used street
like a yermiform appendix in its noun
tains, this affiant saw a handsome little
boy. overalled. just ragged enough to
be a real boy. just dirty enough to
make you love him. And he had the
most remarkable brown eyes-the kind
you remember having seen somewhere,
the fine frank kind that look at you
without blinking yet without being
sad for healthy boys eyes, They were
the same kind of eyes that the Kansas
printer girl wore-a trifie dressy for
work eyes. but still good, clear eyes
Inquiry brought out the fact that the
boy was her boy and that she had died
the dav he was born. She died at the
Meadows. The Meadows is on the stage
road. a miserable little place, dirty,
wicked, unseemly. And the printer girl
lies out in the desolate little graveyard,
under the desert grass. forgotten.
lapsed into the great ocean of the
worlds spent energy. AS the little boy
ran bashfully away down the street
happy. healthful. contented. one could
not keep from wondering if the printer
girls Immortality was in him: If
through those eyes that look out on the
world as those did years ago. some of
the other soul is also living behind
those ewes
What has become of the aspirations
and ideals of the printer girl? Were
they wasted? Or have they been saved
for the good of the world. Her soul
| was such little mite in the big uni
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
from the New York Press.l

LFrOm the New York Press.l
A widow and her fun are soon
started.
To tell anything about woman's fig
ure it is of no account to use ones
The thing that interests a woman
most about joke is trying to see the
point
A mans stomach has lot more to do
with reforming him than his con-
science.
The wonderful thing about a woman
making love to man is that when she
is doing it she acts as il he were.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

Geographically considered, the fail
ure statistics for nine months exhibit
some striking comparisons with last
year, says r. G. Dun & Co. A consider
able numerical decrease occurred in
New England, but defaulted liabilities
were 80 per cent larger, the principal
increase being S3,SOOO0o in Massa-
cbusetts, while Maine and Rhode Is
land also cor tributed to the heavier
mortality On the other hand. notable
improvement was shown by Connecti-
cut and New Hampshire Similarly as
to the three middle states, a moderate
decrease in number of failures was at
tended by an expansion of about S5-
0.000. or almost 20 per cent in the
amount of liabilities. Losses in New
Jersey more than doubled. and in New
York rose $4,700. 900, while decrease
of $1.300,OOO in Pennsylvania was the
only Offset. At the south there was a
distinctly better showing, both as to
number and amount, and this is espe-
cially significant in view of the fact
that one large failure made an increase
of over $1,000, 600 in the losses of Ala
bama alone. This was more than neil
tralized by the smaller liabilities in
Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina
and Georgia. each of which showed an
Improvement of more than a million
dollars compared with the insolvencies
In 1902. Eight states in this section re-
ported fewer failures and twelve states
smaller liabilities than last year. While
p decrease of about five per cent in
number is seen in the three southwest
ern states, here was an increase in la
bilities, due entirely to the heavy trad
Ing failures in Texas: both Missouri
and Arkansas showing a lower NOR
taIity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

Reports of travelling men who cover
Kansas indicate that prosperity has
never been so marked and so general in
the state as it is now. Fear of damage
to the corn crop is past and continue
ton of existing business conditions and
even improvement may be confidently
looked forward to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

It appears now that it has been ar
ranged for Russia to remain in Man
churia- Japan's objections have been
removed by the cars permission to her
to establish foothold in Korea. nice
way, truly, OF settling a controversy at
the expense of Others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

Among the October weddings an
'nounced is that of Mr.. Thomas Collier
Plat and Mrs. Lillian T. Janeway, both
of New York. Friends of the Young
people are ready to wish them long
and happy married life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

Three ceremonies were performed be-
fore Princess Alice of Battenburg was
considered properly married. Maybe
an arrangement of that sort in this
country would prevent so many di-
vorces; that is If a divorce were re-
CURED for each ceremony.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

Media has opened up her American
campaign by trying to pick a quarrel
with the newspaper reporters She is
old enough to know better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

Uncle Sans postal business for the
last year was larger than ever before in
the history of the department. No bet
ter measure of the country's progress
could be found.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

An electric car on a German road has
just scored a record of 125 miles an
hour. Business for the life insurance
companies ought to begin to pick up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

The Orient road seems to have stirred
up FL Dorado. The town is to have an
electric light and ice plant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

There are hardly enough tramps left
in the country to make jokes about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

The organs are reported to have been
greatly annoyed at their daughters
matrimonial alliance. They ought to be
thankful that she didn't marry a duke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

The Mau~its House was visited espe-
cialIy to see the greatest Rembrandt
painting in the world. People are
known to come to The Hague with this
one object in view. The subject is The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

NO" said little Saphead, mo woman
ever made a fool of me-
What was it?' asked Miss Pert
Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

OF course the greatest American IN
terest in The Hague is its relation to
arbitration and the possible seat OF a
Court of Universal Peace.
has given a million and a half dollars
to erect palace of justice here for all
nations. Architects have just now been
invited to submit plans from which
design will be selected.
Minister Bowen gave me some new
ideas about the Venezuelan case and
arbitration and war. I afterwards
stance of what he told me. He said
Yes, in your own paper" and If l would
tone it down and avoid anything
that might appear egotistic-
This is the substance of what pick
ed up from him and one of his frlends
and may be read or skipped by those
pursuing this narrative as 1t is some
timely for the Associated Press is now
day by day reporting what is going on
in this connection Herbert W. Bowen,
United States minister to Venezuela, is
at The Hague representing Venezuela
and as one of the commissioners ap-
pointed on the part OF the United
States by President Roosevelt, to meet
with those from other countries hold
ing claims of the various nations
against Venezuela.
The reference of these matters to an
International Peace Commission. or
Court. instead of to the arbitrament OF
war is regarded as one of the most i'm
Elements between nations at variance,
by a council of Cancellation and arbi-
tration, instead of appeal to arms.
The friendly action of the United
States to oV ert war between Venezuela
and world powers, and bitterness and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

DO you enjoy going to the theater?"
Very much" answered Mr. Cumrox.
1.-The only thing that worries me in con-
nection with the drama is the task of
finding something I really enjoy suffi-
GENTLY high priced to suit mother and
the girls. Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-07

The Inspector-But. madam, this
ought to pay duty.
The Novice-Well. you see. I'm so in
experienced in these matters. Can't you
tell me how to get it through PUCK
The Florence daily tribune., 1903-01-08
Rio Grande Excursion.

Annual convention National Live
Stock Association, Kansas City. Mo. i,
Jan. l3 to l6, 1903. One fare plus 50
for round trip. Selling dates Jan. II
and 12, 1908. Continuous passage
each direction by depositing ticket
with joint agent and payment of %
cents return limit may be extended TO
leave Kansas City up 70 and including
Jan. 81, 1908
One way second class Colonist
rates ot points in the northwest. Feb
ruary April 1903. Commencing Feb.
ruary 10Th, continuing daily and in
cluding April Both, 1903. To Butte.
Anaconda and Helena, Montana $50;
to Spokane, Washington. including
o. X. n. branch lines s22. so; to all
points on Great Northern west of
Weneteher via Huntington and Spot
ane S25 50 to Portland. Ore. Taco
ma and Seattle via Portland s25. 90
to Southern Pacific Main and branch
line points s25 0O Portland to Ash
land inclusive via Portland $40 90 and
TO other points in Idaho. Montana
and Oregon from SEQ to $24. 80 contin-
uous passage.