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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
PARKER SHOWS WISDOM.
Refuses to Make Political Addresses
While Holding a Judicial Position.

Washington. Feb. 17.-Judge Alton b.
Parker of New York. who is attracting
attention all over the country as a Dem
ocTatic presidential possibility, has writ
ten a letter to Representative Moon OF
Tennessee giving his reasons for refus-
ing to accept the many invitations ex-
tended him to deliver addresses of a po-
litica1 character.
During the past few weeks Judge Par
ker has been invited by several legisla-
lures in the southern states, Democrat
ic and commercial clubs, to speak before
them. In the south especially where the
mention of his name as the Democratic
nominee for the presidency is regarded
with much favor, there is a desire to see
and hear the man who IS by many con-
sidered the coming Democratic Moses
In this letter Judge Parker declines
an invitation to address the Democrats
of Chattanooga. In view of the judic-
ial position which he holds, Judge Par
ker says, it would be indicate and i'm
proper for him to appear before the
public and advance his own interests.
Those Democrats in congress who heard
Of Judge Parker's letter applauded
heartily the decision.
So far the only invitation that he has
accepted is one to address the bar asso-
citation of Georgia. This meeting, how
ever, is not of a political character.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17

Those persons who believe in the col
lecting of a license from saloons. as well
as those who do not, may be interested
in @ proposition which has its origin "a
Los Angeles. The saloons of Los An
geles pay the city in licenses S120. 600
per annum, and this revenue is regarded
there as indispensable. To abolish the
saloons would mean a deficit OF s120. 600
in the citys finances, and to avoid this
Mrs. Jane B. Mason has submitted the
following petition to the city council:
al thereby petition your honorable
body to enact an ordinance abolishing
the saloons in this city and to provide
for the deficit i'm taxes. I further petit
ti0n that your honorable body enact
such ordinances placing direct tax
upon churches, church societies. affili-
ated organizations and church members
i'm the following manner, so that the tax
may be fairly distributed and work no
hardship on any individual or organiza-
lions
"salaried ministers of the gospel 10
per cent of their annual salaries. SAL
aired officials of the Y. NJ c. A. 10 per
cent. Of their annual salaries: salaried
officials of the Antf-Saloon league. 10
per cent. Of their annual salaries; Pencil
nan, salvation Army, y M. c. A., Y W.
G.. A., and similar organizations 10 per
cert. OF their gross annual receipts: sal
aried officials OF any and all church or
CARNATIONS or societies and affiliated or
similar societies, 10 per cent of their
annual salaries; every church member
~ every church of Los Angeles city. as
shown by the membership rolls OF the
various churches. 81 per annum
Lhese estimations Of the rate OF tax
etlon nave been made roughly from sta
t@1es at hand. respectfully submit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
THIS is FUNNY.
A Queer Case of Where the Corrector
Was Corrected.


]. w. F. Hughes served several terms
in the city council and of the twelve
members of that body. most of whom
served with Col. Hughes and know him
best only one is actively in favor of him
for mayor This one is S. A. SwendsOn
of Hughes own ward.-Topeka State
Journal
OF the twelve members of the council
SWendson is the only one, except Weber.
who served with Hughes. The Journals
anti-Hughes liar has begun his campaign
early this seasOn..TopelSa Daily Capital
The above vicious correction of the
State Journals item must have been
dictated by Col. J. w. f. Hughes him
memory for facts. While Mr.. Hughes
was serving in the city council as mem
Der from the Sixth ward and later as
presiding officer, the following gentle
men who are now members of the cOun-
ell were associated with him: S. A.
Swendson. W. s. Sergundthal Joseph
Griley, ". T. Weber, H. S. Nichols, ana
George Neil The other members of the
council were Dave Myers, NJ. Snattingel .
w S. CLANCY. Jas. S. Warner James A.
Troutman and S. c. Miller. 1t is inter
esting to observe that of the latter list
TrOutman and Miller are the only ones
who are supporting Hughes.
There is one correction which should
be made in the State Journals item to
which the morning Hughes organ takes
exception. It was stated that H. s.
Nichols was supposed to be favorable
to Lewis. Instead. it can be stated pos
itively that Mr.. Nichols is in favor of
BergundthaI and is doing all in his
power to aid Bergundthal in the Fifth
ward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
Lawmaking By Paroxysm.

New York Evening Post.
In repeating the tricky anthracite
duty and enacting a rebate of duties on
all kinds of coal for one year congress
unfortunate tendency which has been
growing strong of late. We mean the
tendency to legislate piecemeal and
Historically. The coal duties were
stricken off soectacularly and, as San
Juan Hill was carried. by a popular up
rising rather than by deliberately rea-
sOned tactics. A general cutlery seems
to be necessary before congress will
bulge. The whole country has to re-
and move on Washington before con-
gressional inertia can be overcome.
Then congress falls into a paroxysn of
activity. such as it displayed yester-
day and even the senate can leave off
airing its vocabulary and pass a bill
without debate.
The method is not one we think. to
add to the dignity of congress. 1t places
the national legislature too much in the
privilege until the mob appears at tile
window and then suddenly doing what
IT had said could not be done. The
respect Of the people for legislators
whom they have periodically to hold
up' in order to compel them to an act
of Justice cannot be greatly heightened
in the process. Legislation framed IN
fear and written into law under duress
is not a very exalted form of the art OF
scient representatives anticipating the
popular wish and providing far in adj
vance for public emergency. we do not
IKE to find timOrOus souls who wait for
a hurricane of Indignation to show them
which way to bend their supple joints.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
OLIVER Raves.
breaches a Vulgar Sermon to
Close His Engagement.
Calls Dancing a Hugging Bee
Set to Music

Evangelist French Oliver closed his
revival services last night in North
Topeka with the most sensational ser
mon he has yet preached. Part of it
IS entirely unfit for print and can not
be given but a point viii be stretched
and enough will be given to show how
vulgar and Incorporate Mr.. Oliver can
He took for his text the 18th verse of
the 9th chapter of the epistle of st.
raul to the Galatians. His talk was
directed against the dance and he said.
Some people offer very silly excuses
Tor dancing Heathens danced but the
children of God never INDUCED in it.
1t IS not ehrOnicled in the biblical his
tory There is only one church today
which recognizes the dance as a part Of
the divine service. that is the Mormon
church A church founded on
polygamy Men and women do not en-
JOY dancing by themselves, but must
have the mingling of the sexes The
dance OF the Goth century is nothing
more than a hugging bee set to music.
Why does a girl enjoy dance2 1t is
only having a mans arm around her.
Snaggled tooth mothers say. j send my
girl TO learn to dance to be graceful
Nothing can surpass the natural grace
It does not need the help of pole cat
or a dancing master.
i have sister who has never been
on ball room floor and 1 thank God
that she has never been so contami-
mated. If your daughter has the COM
mon modesty of a yearling calf the put
ting of a mans arm around her makes
her blush You never see Womanly
modesty on a ball room floor.
suppose that some Of you men should
come home and find your wife and me
IN the position taken at the dance. The
next news heard of Oliver would be
that he mad got a load of buckshot from
a man in the north end. That would
have tickled the newspapers who don
like me in this town
1T is impossible for two people to
mingle on a ball room floor and to go
away from there with prayer meeting
feelings. As long as that hydra headed
monster raises its head and God allows
it TO run and I have breath to talk
against it 1 am going to do so.
The majority of the men who attend
dances are libertines and the dirtiest
drabs this side of perdition. The dance
is the gristmill that is filling up the
brothels Of this country. 1 take my
stand against an institution which ruins
the life of one girl The dance furnishes
twO-thirds of the fallen women of this
country each year. The sweller the re-
ceptiOn. the nearer naked they are. In
some of them there IS not enough clothes
in the crowd to flag a hand-car. If God
had intended for women to go about III
society that way he would have put
hair or feathers there.
1t is not human nature to stand
against the excitement caused by the
dance and the liquor furnished there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17

that $3.50 he promised to pay when he
got his car loaded.
AIarysville says baseball is warming
up" Snow balling would seem more
appropriate just now.
Wellington viii have to return to coal
oil and tallOw dips unless the council
reduces electric light prices
Marysville is dfsconsolate because
there IS no dance billed for Washing
tons birthday, Sunday. February p.
The Harper nre department gave a
ghost dance the other night. No doubt
they were pleased to see the ghost walk.
one school in Phillips county has
closed until the violets bloom again.
Lack of fuel IS the cause.
One meek and lowly Gray county eiti-
zen is known as Bill Gamble, the tall
Sycamore OF the Crooked Creek coun-
try"
A quarrel in a crap game caused one
Sterling youngster TO get a severe beat
ing and three others to leave their hap
by homes.
His Ching DOM girls are irish, Indian
and African, while his porter IS a
Hrenchman. q
A Leavenworth merchant has been
compelled to fire" a too important en-
ploye- A clerk may think himself big
gun and stiil get discharged.
Candidates for Chester I. Longs seat
in congress are thick as leaves in Vol
ombrosia. All the Seventh district seems
a stage and every politician wants to be
a property holder.
Topeka is to have an indoor circus
next week with % actors But how in
significant they viii feel when they
learn that the legislative show has twice
as many assistant doorkeepers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
NORDICA COMING BACK.
viii Be at Auditorium in May
With De Reszke.

Nine. Lillian Nordica and Edouard
DeReszke, the tenor. VIII be at the
Auditorium Wednesday night, May IS,
with the Metropolitan orchestra under
Duss, the famous leader.
The concert will be under the aus
pieces of the Topeka Choral society and
viii be the third night of the May must
cal festival. Major Z. j. Anderson
closed the contract this afternoon with
S. Kronberg, who is conducting the
tours Of the famous singers and the or
chestra.
The orchestra numbers 20 pieces and
comes from the Metropolitan opera
house, New York. J. S. Duss. the con-
ductor, is probably more celebrated
now than Thomas or Strauss. Nine
Nordica and DeReszke, who with the
orchestra will make the tour under the
management of Mr.. Kronberg, are two
Of the highest salaried singers in the
world and the concert will be the
greatest musical event ever given in
Kansas The two singers receive not
less than $500 each for every concert
chestra is the highest salaried musical
organization in the cOuE try
The May musical festival which in
cludes the Theodore Thomas orchestra
will be from May II to Is and this fea-
ture will add particular interest TO the
weeks of music. Nine. NOrdfca will be
heard in solos. with the accompaniment
played by the orchestra, and lseReszke
viii have several solo numbers. The
two viii be heard in a duet or two in
addition to the solos.
A concert win be given in Memphis
May IL, at Kansas City May II and
then the Topeka concert. From here
the singers and musicians Will go to
Omaha, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Mil
waukee, Detroit and other large cities.
They viii I'LL no other Kansas engage
nents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
MAY GO TOO FAR.
Feature Of Anti Coercion Bill Which
Causes Objection.

A feature of the anti-coerciOn bill has
lust been discovered which would work
in a bad manner if it should become a
law, and it has been recommended for
passage in both houses. It was intro
duced by Senator Codding in the senate
and by Representative Husey in the
house.
The main provision of the bill is to
prevent employers from coercing en-
pIoyes into refraining from becoming
members of labor organizations, or from
using any influence in this direction. 1t
is generally agreed that this provision is
all right but tackled on to the end of It
is another which prohibits employers
from imposing upon employees any con-
dition whatsoever. or the surrender in
writing or by parole or the abandon
ment. or any agreement to abandon,
any lawful right or privilege Of citizen
ship. political or social. moral or re-
liEious."
This provision, it is asserted would
shut cut housewives from keeping their
servant girls from staying out late at
sisting that their employees shall not geS
drunk or swear or do similar things It
is especially Objectionable to railroad
companies, which prohibit their en-
ployes from drinking or frequenting sa-
looms and from smoking while on duty.
The bill makes a violation of these
provisions by employers misdemeanor
and subjects them to a fine Of not less
than $50 or Imprisonment for not less
than 80 days for violating it, Just think
Of a housewife having to pay a fine of
$40 for requiring her hired girl to re-
frain from swearing before the children:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
PERNELL WINS.
He Has Legal Title to Kansas
Avenue Building.

Judge Hazen sustained a demurrer 70
the evidence for the plaintiff, Mrs Clara
Louise Thayer. in the suit against Fred
PernelI for possession of the building at
713 Kansas avenue in the district court
this morning and the case closed in favor
Of Pernell-
Mrs. Thayer sued for the deed to the
building given by Mrs. Eliza Chrisman
during her life to be set aside for the rea-
son that after her death the executors
had given a deed to the property to Mrs
Thaver's mother, Mrs. Lucinda Espy- In
sustaining the demurrer to the evidence
Judge Hazen decided that the deed Of the
executors did not carry with it the title
to the property and that the previous deed
gave Pernel the title TO the property and
building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
THE KITCHEN KINGDOM.
Wise Words from an Authority on
This Department. of the Home.

Mrs Elizabeth o. Hitler. principal Of
the Chicago domestic science training
school and one of the leading authOri-
ties of the country on domestic science.
says in the February Housekeeper. for
which magazine she writes exclusively.
that the kitchen should be made one OF
She most attractive rooms in every
The finish of the woodwork in the
kitchen should be without ledge or or
namentation to catch dust or dirt. Walls
may be tiled or sealed with hardwood,
painted, covered with washable paper.
or calcimined, if necessary. twice or
mere a year, at small cost, and kept
sweet and clean. The color is worthy
of notices also. a soft shade of green
being most restful to the eyes. at
tractive, and therefore more prefer
able
Floors may be tiled or hardwood oiled.
finished with a quarter round at juno
ton Of floor and mop boards. thus clos
ing up all cracks and crevices where
vermin may lodge and become an in
tolerabIe pest. Or. if floor is old and
cannot be kept clean without great
waste of time and labor. it may be Gov
cred with linoleum. which may be Sc
lected in harmony with tinting of walls
and shades. This is easily kept clean
and IS not quite SO hard to stand ana
walk uDon as either tiled or hardwood
floors The use of carpet in the kitchen
cannot be defended
Washable white sash curtains should
be slipped on small brass rods and fas-
tened securely to the window sash that
they may rise with the window, thus
preventing them from falling out when
raising windows. They give to the
kitchen a neat and airy appearance, as
well as shutting out view from passers-
by. Tables should be hardwood. or. Il
old and unsightly. may be covered with
white oiloloth. which may save its cost
in time and labor in a very short time
This. however, necessitates the use of
several hardwood boards, and asbestos
mats. on which to set hot vessels used
in cooking and in cutting and preparing
GOOD.
The sink should be of soapstone, por-
celain-Iined- Whatever the material. 1t
should not be enclosed Exposed plumb
ing, with all pipes painted white. is the
only plumbing to be considered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
NEW STORY OF RAID.
Dispatches Say There Were Two
Women Raiders With Youngers.

Minneapolis, Mimi. Feb. 1.-THE re-
turn of Cole Younger to Missouri has
evoked a new. picturesque but improba-
bic version of the bank robbery at
Mortified, MINI, il September. 1876,
which resulted in the capture of the
Younger brothers. According to rural
Dumas, whose romance IS telegraDhed
from Carthage. Mo- the Mortified raid
ers were accompanied by two women
disguised as men, They escaped in COM
pany with Jesse and Frank James
This fact is said to have been revealed
by George Plain, a Missouri farmer, who
married one OF the women. He found
the retired robberette a tender devo-
the retired rObberette "a tender. deVO-
declared the straightforward Mr.. Plain,
was Sallie Starr. a handsome girl Of In
dian descent. She was equally graceful
in q Mexican saddle or a Virginia reel,
equally expert with her black eyes or
her revolver She was accompanied in
the raid by her cousin, Belle Starr, pref
tier and milder Belle couldn't hit
barn" but she could ride very well and
she was a splendid nurse" The young
ladies' We're then engaged" to the
AIessrs. James Sallie Starr died as the
lamented Mrs. Plain year ago Her
sister is still living, unwedded in the
Indian Territory.
AT Mortified, Mrs Plain told her hus-
band she and Belle held the horses Of
the James Brothers while the men went
into the bank. After the party had
withdrawing from Mortified, Jesse,
Frank and their hancees left the other
travellers and retired unobtrusively into
Wisconsin. Thence they went by rail to
Chicago, where they no longer feared
arrest
Eut if this revised version is true, ac-
cepted history is false. There must
have been ten raiders. not eight.
The eight raiders enbalmed by tradi
ton We're all accounted for. Bill Chad
well Of Minnesota and Charles Pitts
the gentleman from Texas-were care
lessIy destroyed by DR. Wheeler at
Mortified. Cleu Miller, who accompa-
MED the Younger brothers on their retreat
was killed near Madelia in the swamp
where Cole, Jim and Bob Younger were
made prisoners. Two horsenen were
never seen again after they rode briskly
away from Northfield.
These last two raiders were. presum-
ably, Jesse and Frank James. Who they
actually were could never be learned
from the Younger brothers Cole Young
er still keeps his secret faithfully.
One object the outlaws had in going
to Minnesota was to kill Major Samuel
Hardwick. of Liberty, Mo. who had
worked with the officers to capture the
James boys. Fearing for his life he had
fed to Minnesota.
city Ticket Office. Union Pacific
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
TO ELOPE WITH WAITER.
Caught by Hotel Detective and Lover
Lost His Job.

New York. Feb IA 17-year-old girl
guest of the Hotel Majestic is weeping
because her attempt to elope with one
of the walters was frustrated. and her
lover is looking for another job
The girl disappeared from the hotel
last night. and her parents learned that
her trunk had been ordered sent to Il
house on Seventh street. The hotel de-
tective went in search of her and found
her on a street car. He persuaded hei
that he was a friend Of her lover ana
that he would take her to meet him He
took her back to the hotel, where she
went into Mysteries, and the waiter was
promptly discharged
The girl. it is said, declared she would
rather marry the waiter than go back
to a boarding school,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
HOW TO GET MONEY.
That Is the Question Concerning That
Club House.

At a meeting of the committees from
the different clubs of the city which was
held at the Commercial club rooms last
night for the purpose of discussing the
proposition of a building for all of the
clubs in the city, the following clubs
were represented: The Commercial
club, the Federal ton of clubs, the Y. NJ.
c. A. and the Y. ". c. A.
The business transacted last night
consisted of a discussion of plans for
raising the necessary money and the
appointment of subcommittee of two
from each club whose duty it will be to
devise some plan whereby the proposed
building may be erected and the required
money secured. These committees will
report to the meeting which is to be
held in the Commercial club rooms next
Tuesday night.
Major r j. Anderson presided over
last nights meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
LET'S GO To-
HOBART'S
The CUT-RATE
DRUG STORE
Wampole's Cod Liver Oil .75c
Stearn's Wine of Cod Liver
Oll .-----.-- .-.-...- 1888 DC
Hobart s Wine of Cod Liver
Oil-pint bottle. ........ 6Oc

One customer says of Hobart's Wine
Of Cod Liver Oil: have been using
your Wine of Cod Liver Oil, and want
to say that I think it is the best medi-
cine for Grip. Coughs and Colds, or any
Lung Trouble. that I have ever used.
For the past seven years have had the
grip, lasting me generally through the
winter. It LETT me each year in very
weak and debilitated condition. This
winter I took Hobart's Wine of Cod
Liver Oil and it did wonders for me. It
entirely cured my Cold and Grip. It
gave me a splendid appetite and now
feel better than I have for ten years. L
consider HObart's Wine Of Cod Liver
Oil wonderful medicine, and can rec
ommend i to all. I have never found
any medicine to equal it.
(Signed) JOHN ELLIOTT.
Dated Feb. 9. 1903. s15 Topeka ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-17
President Roosevelts Demoeracy.

New York World
President Roosevelt does not carry
his ideas of democratic equality quite
50 far as Thomas Jefferson did. He re-
spects all the conventions of official so
c1ety IN public. but in his private and
personal relations he is a pretty thor
olghgoing democrat. He often goes to
shake the griny hand of an engine
driver who has carried him safely on
railway journey. He is "hail fellow
the cowboys and the Rough Riders.
And just now he has in Washington as
his guest his old Maine woods guide.
with his wife and some friends, who
have all taken luncheon with the presi-
dent and Mrs Roosevelt in the White
House
1t is safe to say that none of our
mushroom aristocracy, and very few
even Of the older growth, would be
thus friendly and familiar with their
the independent native guide of the
Adirondacks or the Maine woods is at
heart as thorough a gentleman, in the
real meaning of that word and is Ger
tainly much better company than one
half Of the vapid men folk who help to
make up what is called society"
Yet Mr.. Roosevelt could boast, if he
were weak enough, of fine old "Knick-
erbocker blood" and though not rich
in the modern meaning of this word he
has always lived in an atmosphere Of
wealth, refinement and culture.
That he still believes. in respect to
sterling worth unadorned with either
wealth or book-learning OF social
graces. that "a mans a man for a
that" and that though occupying the
highest station in the land, he has the
courage of his likings and the fortitude
of his friendships. is a trait of his char
acter which explains something of that
popularity which the politicians do
not understand and which even his
mistakes do not seriously impair. A
very few Americans may dearly love
a lord" The great mass of them love
and admire a true democrat like Lin
coin, Grant, Mckinley and Roosevelt