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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.

IFrom the Chicago News.]
A man seldom realizes how much he
can't do until he tries
Tombstone epitaDhs should be classed
as grave literature.
Too many second class politicians are
drawing first class salaries.
Everything a millionaire says goes-if
he doesn't say automobile"
Barring pawHbrokers, few men take
too much interest in their business.
Misfortunes usually come in pairs, but
the first one came in an apple.
Raised letters are for the benefit of
the blind. but raised checks are not.
For Job lot of New Years resoIu-
lions at cut rates, apply to any of your
neighbors.
It's a cold day for the plumber when
the mercury refuses to take the thirty
second degree.
Trouble, instead of brewing so much,
Should do a little baking, washing or
scrubbing occasionally.
This is the proper season to forgive
your enemies If you have no enemies,
forgive a few of your friends.
A successful man is one who succeeds
in making his neighbors think as much
OF him as he thinks of himself.
AS it isn't generally known that a
good many people are silent because of
their lack of knowledge. it might be
just as we'll for You TO remain silent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
ROCKEFEBLER'S CLUB.
Living Rooms Planned for 800 Mem
bers of sundaY-School Glass.

The club house John =. Rockefeller,
jr.. is to build for his sunday school
class of the Fifth Avenue Baptis'
church win cost $3.50, 600.
The young millionaire was busy with
real estate brokers yesterday. He has
in view two CT three desirable sites not
block from the corner of Fifth avenue
and FOrty-sixth street. but the property
will not be purchased until Mr.. Rookie
Teller has consulted further with tbs
leaders of the club. which Is composed
of his Sunday school class members
Contracts win probably be signed
The building viii cost about 100000
and $4,000 viii be paid for the site
The buildings Will be designed to carry
out several ideas which Mr.. Rockefeller
has developed from his experiment with
the present club house at IL West
Forty fifth street
The Forthwith street house is a four
story and basement brown stone dwei-
ling on a single lot. It abuts the
church. which stands on the south side
of FOrty-sixth street. The house has
become TOO small for the requirements
of the club and the new club house viii
be similar In many respects to the i'm
posing new homes of the yale and AaI-
ward clubs.
Mr.. Rockefeller desires especially to
develop the home features. In the pres
ent uuartes the club occupies two floors.
which two upper floors are divided into
living apartments and rented to mem
/ bers. Single rooms are rented al - q
week. Double rooms. each occupied by
two members. are rented at $3.50 a week
A score OF his cluBmen are thus housed.
The club membership has increased
rapidly of late. It is now 400 Nh
Rockefeller intends to have rooms for
800 members. The present house has
been too small to offer dining room IA
cilities. but there viii be complete
cuisine and restaurant features in the
new house. The club dues are nominal
/ 50 a year. According to present plans.
the dues viii remain unchanged. and
4 living accommodations viii be supplied
/ to members at less than cost.
Membershi31in, the club cannot be OBJ
/ tanned until the applicant has attended
/ the Sunday school for six months. New
! members are freely welcomed to the
class, but they are scrutinized carefully
/ before they are admitted to club mem
/ bershi9- Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rookie
teller. jr.. and Mrs John D Rockefeller
are frequent guests at the club house
They are particularly eager to develop
further the home features which hay
borne such good results in the present
small house.-NeW York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
GLOBE sIaHTS

From the AICn1SOQ &lOD6-j
If you want TO bssa shining mark. cult
vate a spirit of fairness instead Of learning
to play piano.
When a boy owns a stray dog he says
he picked it up on the streets a few days
after the dog show left town.
Wien man says that he never has
cold every one wonders what his motive
can be in telling tfsaS kind Of a lie
An Atchison Tna4I@swlo has climbed
away up the ladder is about to lose shis
head through looking down at woman.
An Atchison woman keeps a scrap book
of her prescriptions ana the notices Of her
sickness taken from the papers.
We have noticed that new things are
constantly discovered that threaten to
'srevolutonize the world, but they never
do.
The real need Of the times according to
the princess in every family is some meth
cd by which the learning capacities OF
fathers may be doubled.
w. P. WasgeneF has quit smoking and
taken to eating peanuts We have quit
smoking twenty times and we assure Mr..
Waggener that there is nothing in eating
peanuts
I'VE have in this country a good many
ninety day farmers. They work thirty
days in planting their corn, thirty days IN
tending it and thirty days in gathering it.
The rest of the year they loaf-'-Gn
keithline
Here is the latest war cloud: When
Sousas band played God Save the King
to an audience in London yesterday. ev-
eryhody stood up. He followed With The
Star Spangled Banner, and every one sat
down. The very ideal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
A WEIRD, NEW Malay.

Some strange diseases which anciently
possessed culture areas in Europe. from
time to time generating epidemics to
NOV down population, have been ex-
tirpated by the improved sanitation
which has accompanied the progress Of
civilization, says an editorial writer in
an eastern exchange. That every prog
ress of civilization has, however. Gre
ated new risks by the spread of COM
merce to every part of the world. so
that the diseases. as well as the prod
ucts of every locality are liable to
transmission along the currents OF
trade. HenceA continual vigilance IS
necessary to prevent the introduction
into the western world of such Oriental
diseases as the cholera and the plague
At the present time an outbreak of true
Asiatic plague is reported at Mazatlan
on the west coast of Mexico. but the
vigorous efforts taken by the authorL
ties viii probably prevent its spread.
Diseases of african origin have not as
yet figured among the risks attending
international commerce. but as that
continent is opened to trade, it may in
clude some new types Of pestilenee
among the products it can supply. and
one such has already attained proper
send out a scientific commission to
study it.
The facts obtained by the commission
show that weird disease, known as
the sleeping sickness, first made it's ap-
pearance in Uganda and British East
Africa only a few years ago, but it has
already killed between 10000 and 10000
people and is still raging. A person at
faclxa1 nv fhe disease baco4,7es et11rlid
and listless and eventually passes into
a state of como ended by death. The
disease is slow in its course. its duration
ranging from one month to six It is
invariably fatal. but the members of
the commission believe that they have
found the germ which occasions it and
that they can suggest means for con-
trolling its spread. In view of the ter
rible mortality caused by the disease.
amounting to a depopulation of areas
over which It has passed. the British
governments anxiety lest it get to
Egypt or India is abundantly justified.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
VALUE OF COMMERCIAL CLUB.

On last Wednesday evening occurred
the annual meeting of the Topeka Com
mercial club, the business mems or
ganization of the town. At that meet
ing was noted the addition of twenty
seven new members as an immediate
result of a campaign for the extension
of the organizations membership in
augurated at the previous monthly
meeting The ease with which the de-
sign Of the club to enlarge is being
carried out is one of the most hopeful
signs for its future usefulness.
What the club really needs most is
more members, and the suspension Of
the rules in an endeavor to secure them
is one of the best assurances of sim
certify in its invitation to outsiders to
come under its shelter. An unfortunate
impression has tinetured the minds Of
numerous Topeka merchants that the
Commercial club is an exclusive organi-
zation. devoted only to the business
man whose advertisements cover this
pages of the newspapers. Nothing far.
Their from the real feeling of the club
could be. Tt is the most democratic
as we'll as the most useful to the class
Of persons who number its enrolment.
If there have been any elements of
weakness In the Commercial club they
have resulted from this lack of num-
bers, which its efficient membership
committee is engaged in correcting
Any move for the betterment of the
town behind which safe majority OF
the business interests are lined up car
not result otherwise than successfully.
For months the shippers of the town
have been discussing the need of a
TRANSFORMATION bureau of some sort.
Their hope of securing it lies in creating
an effective organization of commercial
interests. With club of five hundred
members the control of freight rates
would lie in the hands of the Topeka
shippers instead of with the railroad
companies. With that membership the
club could maintain quarters where Wis
I itors whose money. influence or good
will were desirable for the town could
be entertained. and there would be a
place where rest from business worries
could be secured in quiet reading or
recreation. These are two of the things
to be thought Of during the coming
year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
JAYHAwKER Jors
rie chickens are plentiful in Potta-

Prairie chickens are plentiful in Potta-
watomie county
Two ex-bootleggers" are doing time
i'll the Miltonvale jail
Eudora is to have a new school build
ing with hot air and folding doors.
It's Newton's boast that not a street
beggar has been around this winter.
Fort SCOTS plant is that the electric
lights are not turned on soon enough.
A Coffey county Bryan adherent is
seriously i'll from celebrating his golden
wedding.
A Wabaunsee fuel dealer has no coal
to haul. but he is saving wood to beat
the band
These are healthy days in Allen coun-
ty. The undertakers spend their time
playing solitaire.
The largest stone bridge in the state
is being erected across the Walnut at
Arkansas City
age meat a Butler county farmer fed
his finger in the grinder.
The hospital list at Douglass bids fair
to be swelled soon. Small boys are
jumping on and off passing trains.
The boast Of a Salina woman is THAI
four hours from the time she sets the
sponge loaf Of bread is on the table.
= An Indian 50 drunk he could not give
his mama was docl-eted at the LeaVen-
worth police station as John Barleycoln.
Trying to make two horses pull a four
horse load UP hill was why a Bourbon
county man appeared in the court room
A Chase county farmer lost a pair OF
boots en- route home from town. His
wife saw that he made tracks back after
tl1e-l-
The only confederate army associa-
ton in the state is at Wichita. March
ing Through Georgia is not the Off
cial hymn.
The Union Pacific isn't hauling as
the ponds in that vicinity are filing the
company's ice houses.
A Franklin county wife had her hus-
band fined $50 and costs for failure to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

support. That would have bought at
least ton of coal and q rib roast.
A new paper has started in Phillips
county, issuing every two weeks. But
the optimistic editor is already dream
ing OF leased wires and daily editions.
last Tuesday and refuses to awaken.
Now that baking, washing and ironing
days are over the curtain VIII probably
raise
Two nights in succession the Emporia
Gazette's money TIL was raided. The
burglars evidently suspected the editor
was treasurer Of the Kansas Day BAN
Quet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

under a bushel or in any other way,
plainly told them that it would be a
mistake to elect the dysphoniously
named Mormon. The moral of all this
is that if you don't play with the fire
you won't be burned. If you want
President Roosevelt's advice look out
for something positive. The president
isn't impolitely dipping into other peo-
pies affairs. but when he is asked to
dip he dips. He takes an old fashioned
two-quart dipper and makes things
foam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY.

An eastern paper, the Pittsburg
Telegraph, makes a good point
in discussing the evidences of prosperi-
ty in America. It finds in the condition
Of the railroads the greatest indication
of healthy commercial conditions.
The changed situation is discussed in
the following manner:
One of the indictions of the general
prosperity of the country is the solven-
cy of the railroads. When transDorta-
ton companies are going into receivers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

The bin offered in the house, which
is designed to punish husband or wife
for abandonment If it becomes a law
probably viii have a tendency to make
those who flee from the marriage yoke
harder to catch. Children are the real
sufferers from the unhappy circum-
stances which the bill is designed to
correct Perhaps it would be better to
make the imprisonment feature in
clude labor at some remunerative en-
ployment. the proceeds to go to the
support Of the forsaken members of the
family
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
pislocated Her shoulder.

Mrs. Johanna Soderhoim of Fergus Falls
Mimi fell and dislocated her shoulder. She
had a surgeon get it back in place as soor
as possible but it was quite sore anc
paired her very much. Her son men.
TONED that he had seen Chamberlain
Pain Balm advertised for sprains and sore
ness. and she asked him to buy her boz
lie of it. which he did It quickly relieved
her and enabled her to sleep, which she
had not done for several days. The son
was much pleased with the relief it gave
his mother and ne has since recommended
il to many others. For sale BY all drug
~fefa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

Washington Post: A railroad corpo-
ration sought to organize the Tennessee
legislature and fell down upon the cleo
ton of the speaker and was compelled
10 sidetrack its ambition. 1t is so much
easier to permit the other fellow to or
ganize legislative body and then cap
ture his organization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
The WAY TO GO.

Take Burlington trains at St Louis,
Kansas City, st. Joseph. Omaha, Den
yer or Chicago. With its close connec-
tions the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific roads, and with its through
train service the Burlington offers more
to the settler than any other line or
combination of lines into the North
west.
The "Burlington-Nort Pacific
Express" is the great daily train with
through chair cars, coaches and through
tourist sleepers. This is the only
through train into the Northwest joint
ly with the Northern Pacific road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
LOW COLOAIST RATES 70 THE
NORTHWEST AND CALIFORNIA.

From February IS until April 80, the
Burlington makes greatly reduced one
way rates for settlers going to Cali
fornia Montana. Big Horn Basin,
Idaho, Washington. Oregon, Puget
Sound County and British Columbia.
Generally speaking, the reduction is
from 25 to 20 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

The Cuban reciprocity treaty IS said
to have been arranged satisfactorily to
the beet sugar men and everybody else
EXCEPT the Democrats. Nobody expect
ed the latter to be pleased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

Minneapolis journal: 1t now appears
that President Roosevelt did not gra-
.tuitously advise Utah against electing
Reed SmoOt to the United States senate.
Representatives of both Mormon and
Gentle factions called on the president
to ask his opinion of the wisdom of
electing smoot and the president, who
doesn't believe in eoncealing his light
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

of both of them, and both of them vii
go back to Lawrence some day and live
quietly in that village after the glamoE
of their public lives has ceased to be q
source of enjoyment, If it ever is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

One of the commendabIe measures
brought before the legislature already
is the bill establishing the Torrens
system Of land titles. Illinois has tried
it and found it all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

In view of the amount of mileage col
lected by the delegate from Hawaii it
might be well to arrange for him to
perform his congressional duties by
able
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

People who know Pension Commits
siOner Ware personally can understand
easily why he could not tolerate a man
who would write anonymous letters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

The bill prohibiting the giving and re-
ceiving of railroad passes has not yet
made its regular biennial appearance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

The beef trust has been selling coal
90 the poor at cost in some localities,
but nobody has heard Of the coal trusts
selling beef at cost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

Minneapolis Tribune: The scientific
agitation of the irrigation question in
the last few years has gone far to rally
in support of it all the industrial. com
mercial and transportation interests
that stand to gain by the filing OF
great desert tracts with a dense popu-
lation of thriving farmers. This will
give the railroads new freight to haul
manufacturers new sources of raw ma
terials. and new markets for finished
goods. and traders new goods to han
die and make a profit on both ways.
The addition of thousands of square
miles OF arabic land to the producing
area Of the country means new distrib-
uting cities and expansion of the old.
and more business for all the secon-
day trades and industries that thrive
on the primary foundation of agricul-
ture
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

The trust problem looks easy when
viewed through the glasses Of Judge
VIM. NJ Springer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

1t looks as though 1t might become
necessary to elect Carten Harrison to
some other office in order to pry him
loose from the MAYORS chair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

One more suggestion for Andrew Car
negie. Write poetry and pay for its
publication and thus avoid dying rich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

Mr.. Jones of Norton who has intro
duced 2 bill forbidding the marriage of
relatives apparently does not recognize
the common descent from Adam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

Dispatch: A Kansas police
judge has fined a preacher who roast
ed" the court 500. No police judge
wants to be roasted before his allotted
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

A franchise has been. granted to
Chicago capitalist for a new motor
street car system that is to charge 2iz
cent fares. or 81 for 40 rides The sys-
tenn is to be operated in the town of
Harvey and viii offer something new
in the way of low fares as well as the
motor by which it is operated The
trolley is to be displaced by the hydro
carbon car, or gasoline motor. each car
60 be independent of every other and to
rely upon its own power. Great speed
and easy regulation are claimed for
the new aprang ement, besides, great
economy in the use of force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

The guilty party in the matter Of
bringing about a coal famine might be
found by the "uri. iri. ickery. an" pro
cess.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

assistant. He was asked by some one
1rerI- confidential and said, well you
see van has become rather rusty and
they sent me up to buInish up his
work" Forever afterward he was
known as The Burnisher," but ne Is
not doing any Furnishing just now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17

assistant. tie was dskeu Dg aH,ilS -
what he was going to do. He became
very confidential and said, Wei, you
see Van has become rather rusty ana
they sent me up to bufnlsh up ms
known as The Burnisher, but he IS
not doing any Furnishing just now.
Old Kicker Swayze is out of office.
A good many people are relshlng tiie
fact Swayze went wrong Win ms
good Judgment and said too much But
this can be said in his favor; during
the four years that he was IN the cOun-
tv clerks office he never refused TO
write a letter for old colored people
who could not write, never refused 10
hunt up a mistake in taxes Il II only
amounted to three cents and was al
ways ready to do extra WoEk OIL an an
kinds to accommodate the public. he
was always courteous in transactlng
his official duties and he was one OF the
most competent men that has ever peen
in the office
Virginia justice of the peace has
laid down the rule that man VINO
has been called a liar has a right TO
answer with a blow provided ne pc
not a liar. According to this ruling II
two men called each other liars ana
neither one was liar both could strike
back have a regular Denny brook skull
/ breaking time and 1t would all De &C
cording to law.
A Chicago authority says that up
wards of 400 of the divorces procured
/ in that city during the last year were
caused by bad cooking. Perhaps It
would be well for Carnegie to stock ms
libraries with cook books and endow
a few cooking schools
Mckee Rankin and Nance omen are
playing "Oltver- Twist" in a San Fran
I cisco ,theater at high prices. These
same people played bill Sykes and
pel1a seven or eight years ago at the
/ Grand opera house. They were with
out dates for a few days and tried the
bill at 10 20 and 80 cents They are
4 PLAYING in Frisco at dollar prices and
packing the house night after night at
ter a successful six months tour of
Australia. Many people who saw them
in Topeka thought the production was
poor because of the price Plays and
actors should not be judged by the ad-
mittance fee
Bert Williams. the tall. black and
funny man of Williams and Walker,
! has a head on his shoulders. He is
making money. but he is not spending it
for flash and loud fronts. Williams used
to 1--we - Lawrence and shine shoes at
five cents a shine before he began
shining forth as a negro star on the
stage at $500 per week. He is keeping
his residence in Lawrence and last suns
uer he built a nice house there and
paid for It,. He IS improving the mouse
from time to time. spending just enough
money on himself and Mrs. Williams
to make life comfortable. and like Joe
jefferson. Richard Mansfield and a few
others he is sailing the rest of his
money away for the future. General
Wilder S. Metcaf. United States pen
sion agent. visited Williams behind the
scenes the night of IN Dahomey'' a.
the Grand Metcalf also came from
Lawrence, and like Williams he was un-
discovered and sold -atce Of ground
now and then until the war began and
he went to the Philippines. Williams
and Metcalf CONGRATULATED each other
on their success. and Lawrence Is proud
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
MAIN TRAVELLED ROAD,

One makes no mistake in calling for
tickets over the Burlington with Its 5000
miles OF main Travelled trunk lines lead j.
ing to practically all the great cities and
diverging points of the West
Describe to us your proposed trip and
let us advise you the least cost and send
you free reading matter.
L. J. BRICKER, LW. wAKELRY.
!. T. A.. s23 Main St. Gent Fass'r Agent
Kansas City. Mo. St Louis. No
?. c. SHARON,
S. W. p. A. s23 Main St.
Kansas City. Mo.