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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23

that there can be no Cancellation or ar
bitration when a gun is pointed at the
head of employers and they are forced
to arbitrate whether they viii or not
There must. and viii. be Cancellation
and arbitration, and it is a fact that or
gained labor has always been as de-
sirous Of arbitrating disagreements as
such men as President Parry and many
other representatives of capital have
been of evading that method of adjust
ing disputes. 1t is true that strikes
have often been attended by brutal
crimes, for which members Of unions
have not been guiltless. There is no
palliation or excuse for such deeds The
unions vary from a very high to a posi-
lively low average of intelligence and
morality. But workngmen have clear
right 10 combine for prot action, and
a refusal to recognize their unions is a
species Of harmful folly that must be
abandoned.
Mr. Parry's declaration has been I'M
favorably received by the press of the
country with very few exceptions It
was an adroit mixture of truth and
error but its purpose is clearly percept-
ible-to create public sentiment hostile
to Cancellation and arbitration, adverse
to the only orderly and peaceful method
of settling disagreements between wage
workers and their employers"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
PoINTEp PARAeRAPHs

From the Chicago News.l
OF course 2ot-luck is the poker s
favorite brand.
Money talks-but generally through a
long distance phone
/ Money is pretty tight with the man
who has no loose change.
Marriage and divorce are represented
! by a hitch and a kick.
The majority of men who rob Peter
to pay Paul neglect to pay Paul.
It's simply impossible for an old
bachelor to buy satisfactory present
for a child.
The woman behind thS wasaboard is
often superior to the one in front Of the
piano.
Where the devil is so smart is that he
always let's the one he wants to con-
vince do the arguing.
Sweet things are usually sticky
That's why so many young men get
luck on pretty girls.
/ There are two varieties of the smart
woman One has a high forehead and
! the other hasn't.
/ If you want to see a funny picture
hunt UP a photograph of yourself talSet,
twenty or thirty years ago.
The man who starts out to look for
trouble viii have no trouble in bump
ing up against it before he gets very
far
But few things are impossible A man
never knows how high a fence he can
jump until he finds it necessary to make
the ATTEMPT
It's the man who visits nine saloons
in three blocks that wonders how a
community can support as many
churches as it does.
A woman can generally forgive her
husband loving some other woman if
she can twist it around to make it ap-
pear it wasn't her fault.
When a woman tries to figure out
/ what she has done with the monthly
allowance which her husband makes
her she seldom gets any further than
the dollar she lent him.
The first time girl hears a man
speak with admiration of her figure she
bushes with modification. the next
time she losses her head.
When a woman says a man is a good
husband she means one who will let his
wife make an idiot of herself rather
than be disagreeable about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
TAKING MOVING PICTURES.
Making Ready for the Firemeu's
Benefit

Moving pictures of fire stations No.
], and 4 are being taken this afternoon
by the Chicago photographer. Mr.. G..
Nash, who arrived in the city this
morning.
Tomorrow morning. pictures will be
made of headquarters The apparatus
from headquarters will eb shown as it
dashes out of the building. rounds the
corner. and goes into action in front
of the auditorium. The aerial truck
will be used in the game, and will draw
up in front of the building while the
hose company lays a line from the fire
plug. A stream will be carried up to
the top of the ladder. and thrown over
onto the roof of the auditorium
Out at station No 4 a picture was
made this afternoon of the men sitting
out in front of the station. Suddenly
an alarm is turned in, the men run to
their places. the doors swing open, and
the apparatus comes dashing out.
These pictures together with great
many others will be shown at the Audi
torium on the evening of April Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
LAURA EVANS HOME.
Topeka Actress Returns to Visit Hea
Parents.

Miss Laura Evans, a vaudeville ar
tiste who claims Topeka as her home,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w
r. Evans, in the Veale block. She has
just finished a ten months tour with "A
Wise Member" company, of which she
has been the leading woman for two
seasons and is here for a months rest,
the end of which she will go to Chicago
to make an engagement for next year.
She will not accept a summer position
but will spend the next four or i've
months in preparation for her next
years work During the season just
ended Miss Evans has played one-night
stands through British Columbia, along
the Pacific coast, in Arizona, New Mex
leo, Texas and louisiana She was in
the south during the recent floods and
for days Travelled on trains that seemed
to drift along through marshy lakes
with the tip-tops of 'Lookout-for-the-
cars signs just showing above the sur
face and trees buried to their boughs
in the slime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23

Miss Evans looks as little as possible
like the typical coon-shouter, although
coon songs are her forte and the froth-
lest comedy work has been hers since
she started on her stage career some five
years ago. Her face is of familiar
Madonna type. Her long, brown, wide
apart eyes are seriously beautiful and
she wears her hair parted smoothly and
brushed away from her fine forehead in
a way that further accentuates her
calm and beatific appearance. You
could easily ina CINE her clasping her
knees and raising her shoulders and roll
ing her eyes while she talked of her
ART and what the actress owes to the
'drammer" and how she loses herself
in the roles she assumes; but If you
suspected her of anything of that sort
ii would be evident that you didn't
know Laura Evans. What she does,
really, is to sit down comfortably with
out much attention to her pose and
talk easily and naturally about how
glad she IS to get home to mothers
cooking.
She disclaims any extravagant ambi-
tons in connection with her career.
DO you expect to go into light
opera ~ the reporter asked her.
10 no., Miss Evans replied. Il don t
care much about the stage The life is
aWfuliy hard, you know, and 10 be
glad TO leave it if 1 could OF course
it's what I've gone into, and l do it and
expect to keep at it just as you keep at
your work. doing the best that I can
for myself No. I don't expect to 90
with The Wise Member company next
season, but I haven't any plans and
won't know what I shall do until I 20
to Chicago next month
Miss Evans is a young girl, not more
than 49, She went on the stage from
Topeka without study or experience
with cheap repertoire company
five years ago. and has me-
with considerable success. She is a
younger sister of May Evans, the
Whist lpr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23

Should the wife have an allowance,
definite sum set apart out OF the 1alniiN
income for herself. or should she nave
IN ask her husband. as if II were char-
itv for money With which to BUY neI
bsfs gloves. ribbons and the thousand
and one needflll trifies2 Men are apt to
think that because women DO not 90
the work for which they 6the mem are
maid. they have no part in earning H.
and are sooner or later inclined to ask,
Where is the quarter / gave you yes
terday2"
Marriage is a partnership in a speclal
sense. in which the man is generally the
bread winner: but it by no means fol-
lows that the woman IS merely an ornd-
ment or a doll arrayed in pretty dresses
or house gowns IN the ideal home the
wife bears her share of the burdens that
must come, it would seem, to US ALL
She Iee2s the house more or less elaD-
oratelv. according to the circumstances.
If she has one servant or more, her
burdens take other forms than if she
did her own work. If she has chill
dren there is the responsibility OF ear
ing for them and training them. The
mother's influence upon her children for
good or evil IS very great. If there are
guests at the home the matter OF en-
tertainment largely deVolVes upon the
wife Her duties are multifariouS. and
to be a companion for her husband and
to be interested in the things in which
he is interested. All this is just as
much contribution to the household
h9r1iness and comfort as the money
the husband brings home every week.
In business matters the wife should be
treated like business partner; she
should have an allowance, and should
not have a false sentiment about asking
for it.-WOman's Home Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Merger Decision.


New York Press.
The opinions of the United states cir
cult court of appeals against the
Northern Securities company is not
final, of course. There Will be no last
determination of the legality or illegal
ity Of the great merger case until it is
passed on by the supreme court of the
United States The presumptive evi-
dence now becomes, however, that the
merger win be dissolved in the end.
Meanwhile the Northern Securities is
virtually put out of business by in
juction, and its stockholders are stop
ped from receiving dividends: in fact,
the company is ordered to return the
stock of the merged companies held by
it TO the stockholders of those com
panies.
But neither this decision nor a SINH
lar decision by the supreme court
would injure a single one of the prop
critics embraced in the merger or dam
age the interests of the stockholders of
the merged companies. If they are
good they are good. whether they are
owned by the individual stoekholder or
owned by a holding company whose
stock is owned by those shareholders.
The court decisions viii neither add
nor take away an ounce of actual val
ne of the properties which have been
tied together with the stock of the Sc
curities company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
HANNA's CHAMPIONSHIP OF
LABOR.

LABOR.
Senator Mark Hanna's championship
OF the rights Of organized labor before
the convention of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron. Steel and Tin
Workers at Columbus. entities him to
be classed with John Mitchell and
Samuel Gompers with the added merit
that apparently he is acting with no
other motive than a sense of right and
a love of justice and peace. His remarks
regarding Mr.. Parry, a man of his own
class, will find an echo in all quarters
Of the country and among all classes Of
people. Parry may like butting his head
against the stone wall of popular senti-
ment. but if he doesn't he is likely to
get little other satisfaction out of the
proceeding.
The Washington Post in discussing his
New Orleans speech says.
1T might have been possible by great
effort for Mr.. D. NJ Parry, president Of
the National Association Of Manufac-
tuners to have increased the amount of
indiscretion that he put into his ad-
dress before that body at New Orleans
last week 1t is certain however that
no man in position comparable to that
which Mr. Parry holds-no official head
of a great business association. repre-
senting billions of capital and closely
related to millions of worSingmen-has
ever been more indiscreet than he sue
ceeded in being on that occasion. For
example. what could have been more i'll
timed. more discordant with the hopes
and purposes of the wisest and best
men on both sides of the line of de-
narration between labor and capital
than Mr.. Parry's utterances when he
denounced Cancellation as myth
and arbitration as failure, holding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23

Of heads Of bureau or their trusted ex-
ecutants.
More than any other department OF
government the postal branch is d
problem Of business. and. unless it is
run on the most exact business princi
pies. abuses are quite sure to creep in.
With no anticipation of the conditions
which Dervaded the postal service at a
period when political life in this country
was somewhat cancerous in its conta
glon sufficient iaxIty of method to have
given rise to the Indictment made may
De uncovered. even though that indict~
ment should prove to be & wild imitation
OF truth. It is only by such occasional
stirring Of the pool that the angel III
public affairs can keep it pure and
wholesome So even sensa tionalism III
attack may prove to have its compensa-
ing value by keying vigilance to
finer and sharper note,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
THE HURRY HABIT.
A National Characteristic That Re
7tards Instead OF Assisting Progress.

If there is one lesson more than an
other that Americans, and especially
American women. need to learn. and al
once, it is to make haste slowly Hurry
is the most destructive of our national
habits 1t is the chief cause of our
national disease, nervous prostration,
and one of the principal allies Of the
undertaken Hurry and worry always
go together. In diferentiating between
haste and hurry a noted alienist cites
the numerous sQuIck-lunch restaurants
which have sprung. up during the last
decade in all American cities. The sign
itself. quick lunch or "a meal in
minute" is enough to set one to hurry
ing. The sight of the spry- walters
rushing about apparently half frantic
from having twice as much to do as
they should. the rafting of the dishes
the spectacle of his neighbor boiling
his food without sufficient chewing, the
very element of hurry that seems to be
in the atmosphere about one, all have
their effect upon the imDressiOnable
patron of the modern lightning express
restaurant. The consequence is imper-
feet mastication. dyspepsia and ner-
vous prostratiOn-
Hurry destroys thoroughness. The
person who hurries cannot have his
heart in his work. Thinking constantly
of what is to be done next, the task
Of the present is sighted by borrowing
unnecessarily from the future Para
doxically as it may sound, hurry Is the
subterfuge of the lazy. A man or wo-
man who is lazy at heart often hurriss
to make a pretense Of working and de-
tract attention from real idleness. Little
time is required to compute the results
achieved by the person who bustles
breathlessly about with nerves I'm
strung and putting everyone within
hearing in the same condition. Hurry
and haste are not Synonymous. A put
fing. blowing whistling tug hurries: an
ocean steamship makes haste A httle
less steam at the whistle and a little
more at the pistonrod would ada I'M
menseIy to the national heaith WIthoue
snoiling the speed of our progress
The Housekeeper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
Alleged Postof6ce Frauds.

Newark News:
Varied floating scandal has been in
the air for the last six monhs relating
to such loOseness of administration IN
the POstOffiice Department as has per
mitted good deal Of corruotion- bril-
berry and malversation of Office on the
part of minor officials. 1t IS easy to see
how in a business of such vast detail
and complication. these opportunities
might occur with any relaxation OF
Iynx-eyed supervision. 1t IS equally
plain. too that frivolous charges of this
sort might arise, set in motion by poll
teal intrigue or by the sleuths of jour
nalistic sensation Whether or not the
stories in question are gross exaggera-
ton or the OutgroWth of grave fact.
the department owes itself and to the
country to set the truth at rest This
will be done at once, as the results of an
investigation which has been proceeding
for the last three weeks at the hands Of
the Acting Postmaster General and his
Payne as a guide for further action.
The Star Route fraud and the sensa-
tional trials involving very prominent
personages about a quarter of a century
since are sufficiently fresh in memory
to give edge to such an inquiry. THAI
was the eliminating period of an al
most unexampled riot of corrupt poll
tics which had been fostering in the
body polite since the close of the Civil
War. Neither before nor since III
American history has there been sucn
a shameless exposition Of self-seeking
effrontery, disdaining even the mask Of
the hyDrocrite. as during that decade.
and the DOstoff1ce scandals were con
sistent with the spirit of the period.
The more healthful tone which has per
vaded the administrative and lawmak-
ing spheres since has cleared the ali
With the absence of the general con
dltions fertile in 4 rank outgroWth there
IS less reason to dread any specific plant
of evil involving personal lack of intes-
rity materialized in vivid Illustration.
But carelessness and over-confidencc
may sometimes permit minor frauds
and from this chance no moral status OF
current governmental mechanism is
ever free It is a sane and seIf-respect-
ing conscience in public life which leaps
quick to the suspicion and acts on it
The charges now being nooted and
are undergoing investigation involves
extravaganza and favoritism in letting
contracts. bribery of officials in appoint
ments and promotions, Iaxity of bust
ness methods as to projected rural de-
livery routes in the interest of private
individuals. ANY or all OF these are seri-
Gus enough if they should be establish
ed. The character of Postnas ter- Gen
eral Payne is well enough assured to
justify the belief that the lightning will
fail without mercy where guilt or even
Indifference can be proven on the part
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23

Marshall Field, OF Chicago. who has
just returned from trip to the Pacific
coast. is very enthusiastic about the
condition OF the country and the crop
outlook. He says: Conditions through
out the west point unerringly to contin-
uance of present prosperity. It's basis
Is sound. and an advance. if anything,
Is indicated. The conditions through
out the agricultural districts of the west
were never better at this season of the
year. On the coast there has been just
sufficient rain to make them almost
perfect. 1t is so also through Kansas
and other states Of the western agrieul-
tural belt. / returned to Chicago on
the Santa Fe system. and along that
line the prospects. based on the present
situation point to an almost unprece-
dented season of good crops. The sub
atantial indication of continued bust
ness growth on the Pacific coast is
found in the recent remarkable rainfall
i'm that section. If present conditions
throughout the western states fulfill
promises now shown, the yields of crops
this year will be almost Unprecedented.
That is the best assurance Of substan-
tiai and increased trade and prosper
ity"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23

The representative convention OF the
manufacturers of the country held III
New Orleans last week. went on record
as being unfavorable to a revision of
the tariff. a resolution was introduced
urging the national administration.
through the department of commerce
and labor. to prepare for general tariff
revision and it received some support
but the large majority of the members
of tha convention expressed opposition
to any such action. Hardly anything
else could be expected from such a body
of men. They win not surrender will
lingly a system of which they are the
chief benehciaries. 1t was also made
evident that the manufacturers who are
members of the association are for the
most part not friendly to a reciprocity
policy. the president of the association
saying as to this that our market of
SO.O000Oo people Of high Individual con-
suming power is in every reciprocity
proposal thrown into the scale against
the market of some country of far less
population and far less consuming ca .
paeity per Individual"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23

ties. white dark purple and pinkisn
purple. Family colors are a kind OF
livery among many of our flowers. All
the ranunculus or buttercup tribe but
two wear yellow. The wild daffodils are
yellow. the heaths are pink or purple,
with a sport of white. All the hawk
weeds are yellow. and two of our four
gentians are blue, while the others are
bluish-purple. Our companulas are all
blue or purple and the minis lilac-gray.
There are thirteen blue yeronicas, a.
against three Of white or pink, and of
the flowers of the ten hypericums all are
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
COURT HERE.
The April Term Opened This
Afternoon.

At o'clock this afternoon the April
term of the United States district court
was opened by Judge w. c. Hook The
grand jury of q members was sworn in
and instructed. Henry snider of Cedar
point, Chase county, is foreman.
An active prosecution of persons who
sell liquor to the Indians is to be car
ried on at this sitting of the grand jury.
In giving his formal instruction to the
grand jurors Judge Hook said:
The United States passed law pro
hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor
to Indians who have taken allotmen1s
which are still held in trust by the
government or to Indians who are still
under the charge of any department of
the government. 1t has become q reg
ular thing for persons coming into the
building in which this court is held to
find its corridors lined with Indians
who are under the influence of liquor.
1t has become one of the perennial
scandals of the state. / want you as
members of the grand jury to exercise
all possible diligence in finding out the
persons who violate this law Gentle
men. you may retire.
There are less than twenty-five cases
on the docket for the present term OF
court, the only one of large Importance
being the trial of the Martindale bank
failure case from Emporia. Most of the
minor importance.
jurors sworn in today: P. c. Minor.
jurors sworni n today p. c. Minor,
Booue: z. c. Bradley. Russell Springs
David Nichols. Hays City; Jeptha Mar
tin, Atchison: Joseph DIETRICH, Topeka
Z. p. Pendergrast, Abilene: Edmond K.
Farber, Hoxie: T. L. Folck, Junction
City; S. w. Beckey, Bavaria; Herman
Baalmann, AngeluS; A B. Cotton, Be
lott; August Holmes. Briggs; S. Meyer,
Ludell Alexander Sleff1e Norton W.
II. Caldwell, Topeka; H E. Wentworth.
Topeka: John E Baum. Philliasburg:
Robert Fleming, Stockdale: George
McCas1in. Topeka; Henry Snider. Cedar
Point.
Following is the list of petit jurors
who were sworn in today: Highland
F'itzWater, Seneca; Joseph Page, De-
troit; J. z. Hair. Baldwin; J. n. Akin
son. Ottawa; John Thomas Phillips
burg; " @. Hays. Zarah; Simon Fra
ger. HiaWatha. NJ. c. Harvey. Strong
City; J. L. Mccormick, Phillipsburg; NJ.
H Sickle, Baldwin; f. F. Buell.. ST.
Marys; F w. King. Wa Neeney: F. 3.
Denman. Osborne; p. c. Young Barnes
J. B. Simmons, Sharon Springs; J. C.
Cafford, Minneapolis; l. NJ. Bancroft,
Norton: a NJ. Hungerford, Mahaska ;
c. E Breasted. Logan; w. A. Morgan,
Cottonwood Falls John A. Morton. Os-
borne; II. 3. Nichols. Seneca; H. J.
Penney, Hays City; Lester Perry, Shar-
Johnson. Minneapolis; 3. J. NOrthrup,
Kansas City. Kas.
Ordinary household accidents have no
terrors when there's a bottle of Dr..
! Thomas Electric Oil in the medicine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23
REF1ECr1oNs OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press.
Newly acquired money talks very
loud
The only loyalty in the world that de-
fies all tests is mothers to her chill
dren.
Women don't mind church services as
much as men because their knees are so
much softer.
Il a man will write his wife's first
name all over sheet of paper and care
lessiy leave il where she can find it. it
viii take good many gossips to con-
vince her that be doesn't love her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-23

The latest report of the revenue bu-
reau shows "A decline inreceipts amount
ing to about s4o.0Oo,000 annually. The
result has been a check to the previous
but the government still is collecting
more than it pays out Has anybody
noticed any difference in his expenses
or the size of his bank account in con-
sequence Of this decline of forty mill
lions in the revenue receipts2