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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
THE TUNE IS OUR OWN.
A Few Remarks Concerning Our
Patriotic Songs.

Many Americans in visiting England
have been surprised and fiattered when
British military band has played the
air of America and the English crowd
has risen to its feet and doffed its hats
Similarly. English visitors to this coun-
try have got up and bowed as to a COM
plment when an American band has
olared the same tune. It has taken
time in each case to convince the hearer
that God Save the King and Amer
lea" have the same air. OF course, the
BTlton has become indignant over the
theft of national air, forgetting that
the colonies, with their allegiance to a
British king. had a claim to the melody
and on their revolt could fairly set their
own new words to it.
The charge of theft and of musical
poverty IN America has inspired a pat
riotic association in little Rhode Island
to offer gold medal to anybody who
shall compose new and "a better" air
to DR.. Smiths inspiring words. Rhode
Island denies that Great Britain is nu-
steal and affirms that our own country
tWhose coon songs as played by Sousa's
band have captured king and queen and
become the burden of every Whistling
neWSboy, coSter and clubman in Lon
dom has degree of musical talent and
culture which even Germany cannot
rival Therefore it is impatient under
the charge of stealing the most Vener-
ated of British melodies.
1t is vain, however, to hope for a poD-
ular accordance of new tune for
America" The present air has been
sung on too many glorious and signifi-
cant occasions to the words of our
heart-filling hymn to be surrendered to
the British When we were forced to
break loose from that oppressive moth
er we retained the common law, the
language, the absurd system of weights
and measures and whatever seemed to
our sires to be desirable. We retained
Yankee Doodle" and the air of f.Ameri-
ca, putting our own words to each.
More than a century and quarter has
endeared to us these tunes. and we shall
keep them. When General Sherman
visited Ireland he found that the mel
ody of Marching Through Georgia" be-
longed to an old Irish song but it has
been hallOwed to US by the camp fires
of thousands of Grand Army posts and
is ours beyond surrender.
Cultured musicians have complained
of the quality of our national airs, which
include America Hail Columbia, -
The Star Spangled Banner" "COlum-
bia, the Gem of the Ocean. (Which sug-
gests that Columbia is an isle) and sew
eral war songs Still, they have not
been able to produce a melody of such
conspicuous merit as to win instant
popular admiration. 1t may be assoeia-
ton alone which endears America" to
US, but there is no escape from the fact
that we all love it and are stirred by
it, and we shall cling to it in spite of
any complaints from the unnatural
mother country which undertook to
spank us without provocation AID lost
us in nsequence.-Philadelph Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
OLD AFRICAN GOLD HINES.
Evidence of Extensive Operations Car
ried on Many Years Ago.

Rhodesia, or British Zambesia, ranks
among the chief gold bearing countries
Of the world. The ancients mined and
carried away enormous quantities of
tific mining systems of the present day
their operations will be greatly sur
passed. In the recently published work
on THE Ancient Ruins Of Rhodesia. "
the authors, Messrs. Hall and Neal. en-
deaVor to discover who the ancients
were and whittier the gold went.
Perhaps Rhodesia was the ancient
land of Ophir, the land of the myster-
ious King Solomons mines, but the
theory is strongly cOnbatted by some
investigators. The ancient gold work
ings are the basis of modern workings
For every ten SCARE miles of Rhodesia
there was one ancient mine-that is
there are -seventy-five thousand old
holes, which means that a stupendous
wealth was dug out of the earth be-
fore the days of Cecil Rhodes. Much of
this wealth must have gone to the north
and east; it was probably wrought in
TO the crown of the Queen of Sheba and
filed the Golfers of solomon
The ancient smelling furnaces are
still easy to recognize. They are sunk
into the floor The furnace blowpipes
are made of the finest granite powder
cement, and the nozzles of the blow
pipes are covered with splashes of gold.
The Innings of the holes are covered
with specls of gold. When the first
lining became worn by the heat, a
fresh lining of cement of an excellent
quality, which has outlasted tire. was
smeared round on top of the old lining.
One can take an old lining, slit off the
layers with a knife, and find gold
splashes in abundance
Apparently the ancients wasted gold
lavishly. Gold has been found in large
quantities in the form of pellets as
large as buckshot in the vicinity of the
furnaces, and also thrown away on the
debris heaps outside of the old build
ings.
The tools of the ancient workers
which have so far been discovered in
cIude small soapstone hammer and
furnishing stones of water-worn rock,
to which gold still adheres. There are
evidences that the ancients carried on
an extensive industry in the manufac-
ture of gold ornaments and utensils.
Thirty-five thousand dollars worth Of
gold ornaments have been taken in the
last five years from the ruins of
MatabeleIand alone.-Y Youths Com
panion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
GROWING DISORDER.
Official Reports Indicate That Dis
turbances Are Increasing.

Paris. March 23.-It is said at the for
eign Office here that recent official re-
ports show there is a growing state of
disorder in South China, particularly
along SShe border of French Indo-China.
chiefly dSIe to the operations of bands of
Chinese brigands- Although the French
authorities Nave not yet taken definite
action the officials here confirm the re-
ports from Shanghai to the effect that a
continuance of the disorder Will un-
doubtedly led to the sending of French
troops across the border to suppress the
brigands and insure protection Of
French interests.
The foreign office has no advices re-
garding the published report that the
French commander at Tien Tsin has
demanded S1.500.000 compensation and
new barracks before he will evacuate
the arsenal there. 1t is said that such a
request would necessarily be made
through the French minister at Pekin,
who has not asked for authority to
make representations on the subject to
the Chinese government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
scHwAB's HOME COMING.

THE return fo Ar,,arfra of the head If
~. ss+li l,-.t,,...- 81. -, -
Noi1a7u9 - ieASiiSu 10 oy 1ll9
hartford Post ~ the following breezy
style
Schvab's bacIxf So sound the 1oud
tfn1brel DER Fuvnf's dark sea An the
New York paDers TODAY have narina
and staring headlines about schwab's
return. about how he looked as he
walked down the Rangulanl Yesterday.
and about what he said and didn't saw
10 the bright Young men with noteb0olxs
who interviewed him
And So Schwab,s backt And the sDe-
cfal DISPATCHES with which the New
York veiIov,s and sometimes the whites
have been RECALLING ms from tin1s tn Tine
and which have Described how scbx,.ab
was esfi1ivantinr throueh the eefefe
fnonarchfes of the old World distribut-
inc dollars wherever he went and sa,fs
fnr fhe natives fo throw ais ~ ,.-orfIe,.
and asr7i~ariou are now in The r1ast
tense ror erbv-ab,s bacl,r hnd 49,
fzafine- inst i,,,,,,orso F4e fsue tbe 49,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
THE GENERAL STAFF.
Wifey Gets Valuable Information on
New Order of Things.

George. what is this I've been read
ing about the control of the army being
placed in the hands of a general staff.
What is a general staff. George
"A general staff, my dear, is a bunch
of gold lace and brass buttons that
poses around a library table and pulls
the wires that keep the soldiers NOV
ing
THANK you. George. You are always
so lucid l suppose the general staff
runs the army instead Of bothering the
generals in the field to do it2"
That's about right, my dear They
stay there in Washington and keep in
touch with the best restaurants and the
pRymaster and the social gatherings,
and relieve the fighting generals of all
the responsibility"
How nice that is! And it's something
new, too, isn't it2 I don't remember
reading that Alexander was eyer helped
in that way, or Hannibal, or julius Gaze
sar, or Napoleon But, of course, they
were SO old-fashioned and rash.
Just think how much slower the world 5
fighting would have been If the general
staff had been consulted every time Ma
poleon wanted to make a move. There
wasn't any telegraph then, you know,
and SO the general would have had to
send courier to Paris to ask if the
staff would approve of his advancing
the right center, or Withdrawing the LETT
wing, or making a concerted night at
/ tack all along the line How different
things would have turned out. dear"
You are quite right my love. The
general staff would have cut short a
good many of Maps pet surprises, and
I rather think history would have to be
rewritten"
Yes, dear. And just think how funny
it would be if one of our commanding
generals, just as he was going into bat
tie, should suddenly discover that the
telegraph wires were out of order and
the wireless machines in the repair shop.
How would he know whether to ad-
vance or retreat until he heard from
homer
THAT would be very funny. my love;
very funny"
Thank you, George. It seems funny
to me. But I guess it seems funnier
to US than it would be to thes command
ing officer"
'Ive no doubt you are quite right,
my dear. cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe


If a person is very energetic, every
one who huddles over a fire to get warm
looks lazy to him.
When we see a girl wearing a waist
buttOned down the back we long to ask
her. How did you get into it,"
Three couples living in this vicinity
are accused of running away. People
hope they win keep running; good rid
dance
In a small town people cannot become
accustomed to paying for either music
or advertising. They think both should
be free.
You are busy fooling others, others
are busy fooling you. It's all waste
of time. A straightforward course
would be better for everybody.
Right down on the dead. now. don't
you think there ought to be three or
four people taken out and hanged for
secretly and maliciously doing you dirt
They are telling of a woman who at
tended a late amateur performance, and
laughed out loud. The parents of the
performers were very indignant, but the
others couldn't blame her.
There is a defeat that comes through
confidence. Ever realize the mis-
take of Understanding the strength of
an enemy? He IS not a make believe,
but a real force to be reckoned with.
There has been a good deal of mystery
over the death of E. P. Burdick, in Buff
Ao4ps 4 ne mystery Gun easily DC SOANtu.
Let some spiritualist summon Burdick s
spirit from the spirit world, and have it
tell the story Of the murder This would
not cost to exceed a dollar, and would
settle all controversy.
Atchison people have been hearing Of
a woman several years whose husband
does not understand her. Lately.
judging from the way he is acting,
there is a suspicion that the wife does
not understand her husband, either.
of
wife will catch each other. and there
viii be a fierce row.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
QUAKER REFLECrIoNs

lFrom the Philadelphia Record
Hard work is the best sort of physi-
cal culture.
The chronic borrower is usually out on
a strike
After man is married he begins to
lose his conceit.
Spring is shorter than it used to be,
and so is the spring poet
Some judges indulge in epigrams and
others in long sentences.
The man who is everybody's friend is
generally his own worst enemy.
It's the black sheep of the family
that often masquerades as spring lamb.
Don't judge people by their clothes
unless you see the family wash out on
the line.
Many a man has gone to the bad
through his efforts to be regarded as a
good fellow.
Falling in love- says the Cynical
Bachelor, is often the result Of a vivid
Imagination
Sillicus-sMy doctor tells me I am
suffering from brain fag." Cynicus-
What subtle fatteryi'
The fellow who sits down and waits
for his rich relations to die must con-
slider that they are worth their wait in
gold.
wigg-.Her cheeks are like twin
roses" Wagg-.But remember that a
rosy cheek by any other name would
cost as much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
A MALES APPETITE.
Fourteen Seals Taken from Thirty
Foot " Killer"

whales appetite is phenomenal
His chief diet consists of iellyhsh- lie
has simply to open his mouth and paq@
ale along Ieisurely in order to take III
iellvfish by the wagon load. Such Is
the method adopted by the whalebone
whale The s-serm whale, on the con-
trary. ca ptures huge squids weighing
often several tons Like his brother the
whalebOne whale he must be constantly
on the lockout for food; otherwise he
would starve. As many as fourteen
seals have been taken from a thirty-foot
killer" Other fishes of enormous aD-
petite are not uncommon The blueflsii,
for example thrive on sardines and othe1
small fish. Assuming that one bluefish
eats ten small fish a day. it has been
figured that it requires 10000 million
sardines to feed the 900 million bluefish
On our coasts every summer Most
curious Of all eaters is the HYDRA
strange creature that can be turned in
side out without impairing its appetite
or its power to eat.-DetrOit Free Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
AN OLB,TIME ALMANAC.
Within Its Faded Pages Are Found
Mary Quaint Observations.

A rare. possession in the line of pub
locations is a torn and faded volume
owned by Mrs. P. ". Williams OF this
city. It is described on the title page
as The New England AlInanack; and
Gentleman's and Lady's Diary for the
Year of Our Lord Christ. 177S-Circu-
lated for the Meridian of New London,
in Lat. Al Deg. Is Min North" The key
to the forecast of the days of each
month is furnished from a crude draw
ing of The Anatomy OF Mans Body, as
Govern'd by the Twelve CONSULTATIONS. =
The various months are preceded by a
timely verse of poetry, and scattered
through the weather tables are notes
indicating the anniversaries of import
ant events, poetic quotations and aphor-
lsms. Timely warnings as to probable
weather conditions are given at various
periods For instance, between the 6th
and the 9Th of August, the farmer is
advised TO Make money while you
may, for a mighty storm IS coming. ..
In the space devoted to this month is
this admonition: ''Would you keep we'll
this month, beware of cold, raw fruit
and evening air" In the November
table it is stated: Many things are
frozen, all things are cold. the young
ladies excepted" This uncharita Bile OBJ
servation is set down in the December
page, The dame that's old, now feels
the cold, which makes her scOld-" In
the February chronicle is found this
warning: "Monopolizers, take care, lest
you are dragged to the bar"
Included in the interesting contents
are a poetic narrative entitled The
Neglected Maids Lamenta ton a num-
Der of precepts, a list of the Friends
Yearly Meetings in New England a
treatise on How to Get Riches, Dis
lance Of the Principal Towns in New
England From New London, With the
Most Noted Houses of Entertainment
on Road A Table of Interest at 6 Per
Cent" "A Poem on That Worthy Com
mander-in-Chief of the Army of the
United States-By a Friend to His
Country" and "A Receipt for Picking
Beef and Pork
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
LOCAL MENTION.


The county commissioners this morn
ing awarded the contract for furnishing
the clothing. required by law, for the
insane admitted to the state insane asy-
lums. The August company was given
the contract for supplying the male pa
tients at $3.50 each and Crosby Broth
ers was given the contract for supply
ing the female patients at s15.S5 each.
County Commissioner Silas Rain is
confined to his home with severe at
tack of grip.
Postmaster Guthrie today announced
the appointment of Joseph S. Reedy of
North Topeka as rural route mail
carrier for Route No. 4. Reedy is fixing
up his bond and will go to work in a
few days.
Home council No. a. Triple Tie. has
moved from its former quarters at Ill
East Seventh street to 119 West Sixth
street It's meetings viii continue on
Tuesday evening as usual
w. r. c. No. "a and Post No. 81. G. A.
R, had a house warming in their new
hall last Saturday night A lunch was
served for a large gathering of menu
bers and friends.
The Members of the W r. c. No. "a
with a few invited guests gave a pleas
ant surprise party for Mrs. S J. Penny
at her home at 929 Kansas avenue last
Friday. The occasion was Mrs. Penny's
birthday. Those present were Col and
Mrs. Penny. Mr. and Mrs. Lidzy, Mrs.
fotl-noIEs MIS- 4 retro MIS- NIOiI1SOQ.
Mrs. Mccormick Mrs. Adds. Mrs.
Wetherby Mrs. Simmons. Mrs Candy.
Mrs. BedeH Mrs Perkins Mrs. Dis
brow and Mr. and Mrs. Burris.
Mrs. VIM. Ahern, of Milwaukee, ar
rived in Topeka Saturday to visit her
sister, Mrs. VIM. J. Nuzum. on Topeka
avenue.
Senator Hays 3 White Of Mankatc.
and Senator Fremont Leidy, Of Butler
county, are in Topeka today looking up
the possibilities Of an appointment upon
the board of railroad commissioners.
White leaves tonight for home. while
Leidy VIII stay over until tomorrow.
The Reds" who are trying to make a
better showing than the Blues in the
mem beFShip contest of the Y. NJ c. A.
gave an entertainment Saturday even
ing at the association rooms Music ana
games and refreshments furnished the
amusement. A public reading was made
of the bumps on several young men $
heads by a professional phrenologist
which furnished no little amusement.
/ The Reds now have six red lights in
/ the electric sign at the association head
quarters while the Blues have only
four. showing the ratio of work done
/ by each in the contest.
The first Of the annual joint debates
/ between the Gamma Sigma and Wash.
burn college literary societies viii oc
cur a ttfe Washburn college chapel
this evening. The question is. Re
solved, That strikes on the whole, are
beneficial" A. C. Quart. J. Dadismar
and C. d Cunningham, Of the w e.
L. S. uphold the Affirmative: A. J. BOi-
linger T. Atkinson and J. Clark the
negative
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BAoHELoR

IFrom the New York Press.
Conscience is the reflector of the liver.
Women go flirting in the same spirit
men go fishing.
A man likes to call on female intel
lect but to live with female intelligence.
Once there was a pretty woman who
did not know it. but she was in pic
ture book.
A woman viii never believe a man is
suffering grief unless he buries his face
in his hands
Women who smoke seem to get as
much pleasure out of it as they do try
ing to balance their check books.
The man who wouldn't try to kiss a
pretty girl in the dark wouldn't know
enough to pretend If was an accident.
It makes a man mad to hear the dis
agreeable things that are said about
his friends; it makes a woman mad not
to.
It's funny. but when a woman loves a
man she wants him not only to tell her
that he loves her, but that he knows by
his great love that she loves him.
A woman would like to have a man
kiss her more if he didn't smoke; but if
he didn't smoke she would be afraid it
was because some other woman object
ed to il,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
He Used Morgan,a Name.

London. March 28.-The first meeting
of the creditors in the bankruptcy case
Of Count Maurice De Bosdarie, who was
connected with the recent forgeries of
]. Pierpont Morgan's signature on bills
purporting to have been given in pay
nent for the purchases of brie-a-brac.
was held today The petitioning creditor
is Sir Alfred Hickman former president
of the Byron Iron Trade association,
holder Of one OF the forged bills fer Sal
500 drawn by De Eosaarie apparently
with Mr.. Morgan's acceptance, which
was presented for payment at a Lon
don bank early in February and which
Mr. Morgan repudiated. Claims aggre-
eating $3.50. 600 were presented. The as
sets discovera BILE amounted to s., 325. De
Bosdarie disappeared when the forgeries
were discovered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
NO WOMAN's BUILDING.
Some Reasons Why There VIII Be
None at st. Louis.

1t is GOOD news that comes out of the
east to the effect that there is to be no
woman's building at the St. Louis fair;
The more women call attention 10 the
great advances woman has made dur
ing this century" the more evident are
all the points in which she has not adj
vanced. AS long as women cry aloud
for recognition as women it IS rldlcu~
lousy illogical for them to demand rec
ognition as individuals
To erect q 'woman's building" is to
raise a monument to the weaker sex
It is to acknowledge that women are Of
a different order from men, to affirm
the theory that what each woman has
accomplished is not to be judged by It
self as an achievement. but to be re-
garded as interesting or remarkable be-
cause it was done by a woman.
AS DR.. johnson said of wOman's rea-
soning:
1T is like a dog walking on its hind
legs. We do not expect it to be done
well. but we are surprised that it Is done
at alp
Woman's work is today an integral
part of the worlds work. The picture
painted by a woman is hung on a line
with that of her brother The songs
written bv women appear on the same
programme as those written by men.
The woman lawyer argues motion and
the woman doctor diagnoses case and
the woman mathematician estimates
her ratios with no thought or need OF
the preface. Il am woman The Wo-
men who work ask for no allowances
because they are women They are will
ing to stand or fall just as their work is
good or i'll,
Rice-thatched huts from Siam and
gflded minarets from Turkey. pagoda
and MOSQUE and 'dobe dwellings and
bungaIow-all these may we'll find space
at the gathering of nations. But the tile
that is set or the mosaic that is fitted
nv the womans hand ought to go to the
making of the whole without the stamp
hoo fernina fecit." Just as her daily
work is done without challenge of com
harrison with that of men.-Chicago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

able. The purchase Of a seat in the
United States senate is by no means
unknown.
There is no good reason why we
should not give the power of alecting
senators directly into the hands of the
voters We never have done it. and We
are chary about overhauling or adding
to the constitution. 1t is a grand old
document that has stood the test o.
more than a century and has brought
US from an infant nation into one OF
commanding Importance. When looked
ait in that light we should be careful
ia taking chances. But the proposition
to elect senators by a popular vote Is
not new enc. 1t has been under more
or less constant discussion for years.
-Four separate times has the house in
Vited the senate TO Join with it in pro-
posing an amendment providing for the
popular choice. and each time has the
senate refused to concur.
1t is apparent that the senate viii not
a way Of forcing it, TWO-thirds of the
states in unison can demand that a con-
VentiOn shall be called for the purpose.
and twenty states have already done SO.
But ten more are needed. 1t seems to
be quite possible and even probable thas
the ten viii be found.
1t is to be hoped that they will be.
Senators should be elected just as are
governors. Let the people have their
way in the matter. In that event we
shall hear no more of purchased legis-
latures.