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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
THE Law AND ORDER VICTORY

The result of the Republican city pri-
mary was so decisive that it surprised
even the law and order supporters
themselves. The people who have labor
ed under the delusion that the people
of Topeka want saloons ought now to
admit their error.
The election was the first that has
been held in Topeka in which the issue
was wet and dry" and nothing else.
1t was admitted that so far as the in
dividual merit of the candidates was
concerned they were nearly or entirely
equal and there was not weak spot
in the character OF either which was
open to attack. 1t was therefore rather
a question of issues than Of men.
Mr.. Lewis manfully says today that
the result is conclusive proof that the
people of Topeka are in favor of abso-
lutte prohibition and this fact ought now
to be recognized. The people of Topeka
are emphaucalIy opposed to saloons and
they will elect people who are pledged
to enforce the law.
Mr.. Bersundthal has been a splendid
champion of the law and order forces
Himself a business man of recognized
business ability he has also been a con-
sistent believer in the enforcement OF
the prohibitory liquor laws and has had
the courage of his convictions. He does
not believe in temporizing with law
breakers and knows that a partnership
with crime is not necessary to the sue
cess of a municipality. Probably the rec
ignition OF these facts is in a large
measure responsible for the very large
vote cast. The people had confidence in
the law and order candidate.
While Mr.. BergundthaI has reason to
be proud of the magnificent showing
made by the women of the city he has
also the satisfaction of knowing that he
is the choice of majority of the men
who voted at the primary and this
should set at rest the oft repeated state
ment that the men in topeka viii sup
port any man who is pledged to hcens-
ing joints or saloons.
While the result of the primary is
overwhelming it must not be forgotten
that the battle is not yet entirely won.
There viii be a city election in a little
more than two weeks at which the con-
test viii be fought over and if the OPP
ponents of law and order can catch the
people mapping they might yet win a
victory. It is therefore necessary for
the people to register. Every woman
and every man who voted for Mr.. Ber-
gundthal for the Republican nomination
as mayor of Topeka should register.
The time is short and see that this inn
portant duty is not neglected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
GLOBE SIGHTS

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
How completely a man is all in when
the mourners return from his funeraII
When woman has a poor servant
girl she is pretty apt to say, Wen, the
girl is wiling.
The weather is always good for some
thing when it isn't good for concerts,
it's good for ducks
sky Scraper' is the pet name given
an Atchison girl who threatens to be
taller than her father.
If this weather lasts much longer,
people will be seeing in the day time
the horrible things children see in the
dark.
When the girls in family are left
old maids on their parents hands, the
mother has a hard time trying to look
reconciled.
An Atehison mother refuses to let
her daughter visit in LeaVenworth for
fear she will marry one of those names
down there.
They are telling what a sweet little
woman she IS, preparatory to adding that
her husband ought to treat her better.
Can you guess?
We hope our friends viii come out
boldly and say we are stubborn, in
stead of sugar coating it by saying we
have mind of our own.
A number of years ago. it was con-
Sldered the complimentary thing to a
guest to have floating island for sup
per. When did you taste floating
island last2
IF ever I get the best of it." a man
said today, 7 will give it back. I
couldn't be comfortable with the best
of it: / have had the worst of it so
long that I take to it naturally"
How soon after an article has been
borrowed is it proper to go over with
an excuse demanding its return? This
is so serious a problem that all the
literary societies are invited to act
upon it.
Some people, when they hear the
telephone ring. rush over as if expect
ing to hear that they have fallen heir
to q million dollars. But wiser people
walk over YEARLY. with the Same Old
Story look in their eyes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12

it with pencil or stylus. Now he has
to be an expert typewriter as well as
telegrapher, receiving news matter by
ear and typewriting it at the same
time. Moreover. he must know and
have literally at his fingers ends about
1000 combinations and signs of what
is called the Phillips code. The mas
terry and practice Of this code are said
to be very wearing on operators. 1t
consists of words and signs which con-
stitute a language by themselves, and
which are absolutely unintelligible to
any but experts An example viii give
an idea of what it is like. This is the
way a message is sent on the wire.
IT potus, ks, wi KIN to Kevy his itn
to 40 sign agm d Pip qsu-
Written out in full, as the receiver
translates it on the typewriter, this
jargOn Of letters conveys the follow
ing information:
''The president of the United States.
it is said, viii communicate to King
Edward VII his intention to at once
sign the agreement on the Philippine
question"
When it is remembered that there are
about 1000 of these arbitrary signs to be
memorfzed and that they must be trans
lated and written out on the instant, It
will be seen that it requires high de-
gree of mental alerEneSS. In the Phil
lips code nearly every letter in the
alphabet is employed singly to denote
some combination of words, and words
are used TO represent phrases mus
"hag' means "in consequence of,
''kaw'' means adjourned sine die" and
''ckx" means committed suicide" Here
are the first sentences of a press dis
patch as it was received over the wire.
It was sent from Chicago. Leaving out
the date line it runs: a DISK Fl at Oc
tsm my rekd [ sto oqd bi OK ofc Smith
Bros on Sta str. T origin Fl is unl1n.
wv is dqd bi OK ofc Obrien Oily bak (
offs q Ir floor. 7 fias WI shootg k en-
trance q alley es t awng hr ws in fias.
T Fl dpm trn an er, was cid to thr sto
on Madison str es Wn engs arvd fias
VIZ mkg cd hedwa. d rear PIT bldg es
smoke was isng I'm all prts bldg
The operator takes this off by ear and
typeWrites it out as follows:
"A disastrous fire at 2 o'clock this
morning nearly wrecked the store Oc-
cupied by Smith Bros, on State street
The origin of the fire is unknown. It
was first discovered by Officer O'Brien
directly back of the Office on the lower
floor. The flames were shooting out of
the entrance on the alley and the avn
ing here was IN flames. The fire depart
ment through an error was called to
their store on Madison street, and when
the engines arrived the flames We're max
ing good Roadway in the rear part of
the building and smoke was issuing
from all parts of the building"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12

Of mischievous and useless laws shows
no sign of abating. The number OF
these laws actually enacted is. Of course,
infinitesimal when compared with the
number of freak bills proposed All Of
these legislative bodies contain mem
bers whose antics tend to bring the leg
IsIative machinery into contempt Every
newspaper reader win recall numerous
cases in point.
The Pennsylvania legislature seems to
contain more than its fair proportion of
hagnant Offenders. The late unlamentea
anti-cartoon bill is not forgotten and
only the other day a Keystone state
scion who had read the feremiads of
President Eliot of Harvard and Presi-
dent Roosevelt announced a plan to pre-
vent race suicide by granting
bounty on babies. to be paid by the
state
A still later exhibition of folly is pre-
scented at Harrisburg by a legislator who
gravely proposes a scheme for making
voting at elections compulsory
OF course it is the duty of every citizen
to vote but just how under the consti-
tuition he can be compelled to perform
that duty against his win is by no
means clear. Many a voter proclaims
that his conscience viii not permit him
to support a certain candidate or even
a whole ticket What then? How Ions
would a court tolerate the contention
that man can be forced to violate the
dictates Of his conscience in such
matter? Such a measure as proposed
is just as silly as any in the long cata-
logue of freak bills. but it bears
certain stamp Of plausibility which APP
peals to many who are blind to its in
herent absurdity. 1t is easy to intro
duce and not impossible to pass such
bills. in which case they serve merely
to clog the statute books and befog the
public
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12

knights of the razor say the new barber
law means.
Alfalfa hay fed to hogs is a good
cholera cure. says New Cambria
farmer.
A Topeka woman was asked what
her husband was giving up during Lent,
and she sadly replied. Not cent more
than usual"
For man that has been mangled as
often by the band wagon as his enemies
report Cyrus Leland seems remark
ably vigorous.
Cow creek which runs through a
couple Of townships north of Hutchin-
son, is rising rapidly from melting
snow at headwaters."
Robins and bIuebirds around Topeka
DOTTED their ear mufTs and sweaters for
the first time Wednesday. The Their
mometer registered So
It took an Ottawa boy a half hour to
lead stubborn burro two blocks. Even
a woman on dress parade with a new
Easter gown could beat that time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Newton small boys make trouble
jumping passing trains.
An EmDoria hunter went after ducks
and brought twenty-five canvas back.
With the spring freshets on Leaver~
worth water mas to be washed down
with whisky for a chaser.
A lie Roy small boy is laid up in bed
with an injured leg Too much leap
freq" declared the physician
The prairie crocuses have croaked.
they came too early. is the latest agrl-
cultural report from Cheyenne county.
1t is announced with great seriousness
from Ottawa that. the $4,000 Rookie
teller college donation viii be accepted.
A carload of fine walnut logs was
shipped this week from Gridley The
map shows Gridley to be in treeless
Kansas.
SLAVES IS cents and hair cuts an occa-
sional luxury That's what Ottawa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12

S25 handkerchief. exquisitely worked, for
the cause for which it was to be sold
was one dear to her heart. Mrs. ROose-
welt had little interest in the Dallas ba-
Ear. no more than IN the other 1e9 calls
made upon her the same day. and she
could not reasonably be expected to give
anything costly. Had she followed the
precedent set by Mrs. Davis and paid
S25 for each handkerchief her bin for
that week alone would have been $1,000.
Had she been more economical ana
spent only IS for each the bin would
have been $1,000, a trif1e more than the
president earns per week. The most
general request made Of the president
is for photographs and engravngs of
himself, ready framed for hanging in
club rooms and Libraries It is the rule
rather than the exception that these let
ters contain special instructions as to
the quality of the picture. the frame.
etc The least Of such gifts would cost
the President SO or SIS, and as there are
scores Of these alone every week. to saw
nothing Of the usual demands for hand
kerchiefs, pincushions, scraps for ouiIfs
and dozens of other things the annoV-
ance Of the proceeding is almost as great
as the financial phase Of it.-Memnhis
Scimitar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Did a Woman Kill Burdick P

Did a Woman Kill Burdick
Brooklyn Times:
1t is both interesting and instructive
to students of criminology to note thu
changes and variations upon the central
thought Of positive evidence" so far
deducted in the Burdick murder mys-
terry. The first move of an experienced
detective after examining the tangible
evidences of crime of this sort is to
reach as quickly as possible theory OF
cause. If it can be discovered just why
Burdick was murdered. it will not be
very difficult to say who committed the
deed The Buffalo sleuths, knowing
Burdick to have been a ladies' man
and hearing that there were several
mysterious females in the vicinity of mis-
house on the bloody night, suspected ii
was woman who killed him" Maybe
IL was, although It hardly seems pos
sible that an able-bodied mans skull
could or would be battered into pulp by
a golf club welded by any woman ac-
quaintance Of Burdick. IT is assumed
the murderous blows were struck after
fears. A woman fired by jealousy might
attack a man with a golf club, but to
make a blow efficacious she must stand
several feet away and such a blow
would not be very difficult to dodge. AT
first the police believed there had been
struggle. Now they hold the belief
that the victim was killed while he
SLEPT
AhCcAtff AAAAC tAG 4ldHi6S OIL many women
have been openly used as possible muir.
cerers- More clues OF suspicious females
wandering about the vicinity Of the Bur
dick house have reached the ears of the
police than they could investigate, il
they were to work it out on that line
all summer Every petticoat which
sWlshed past that tragic street on that
ln-omened night now assumes a sinister
importance in the eyes of whoever no.
ticed it. And yet no object strong
enough to have spurred such crime
has been proven Burdick knew man :
women, but it IS not apparent yet that
he had quarrel serious enough with
any woman strong or determined enough
to have given rise to cold-bloOded mur~
der IN brutal and CHASTITY form. Such
condition may have existed but il
stlll remains to be demonstrated
From a distance. nevertheless, it seems
more possible that the crime was
brought about from motives of jealousy.
Kill for money and then go off and leave
refuse them money, because a woman
ton to destroy the hen which laws the
cause of women.
Men 90 become so eaten by jealousy
that they murder. It seems certain that
was a woman IN the case. 1t is posi-
BILE the woman was the cause Of the
jealousy, the jealousy was the cause OF
the murderous determination in some
other mans mind, and that determine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
THEY HAD THINGS mixed.

It was almost shutdown when I arrived
al a mountaineer's cabin high up on the
Tennessee side of the Cumberland noun
tain, and l found the man seated On q log
a the gate and his wife smoking her pipe
on the doorstep. I asked him If could
find lodgings for the night, and ne shook
his head and replied in doubtful tones:
II don't slSassly believe yo' kin stranger
''How far is it to the next cabin?''
Bout a mile, l reckon, but I amt be-
levin they could take yo in"
"And the next after thatg
Two miles mo, but they'd hev to pass
yo' on. I'd really like to take yo' in, but
l amt skassly seem how it kin be done.
at kin be done stranger, if he'll give up
his sotness called the woman.
But yoi must give up 'o'rs fust.' he
saw that there was a family dispute Of
some sort on. but hesitated to ask any
questions. After a minute or two, however
the woman rose slowly up and came down
to the gate and explained
stranger. Tom yere got up this mawn,
in and said that the whale swallowed
and I'm sticlzin' right to it, replied the
And / said it was Moses. and I'm stick
in right to that Tom he's sot. and j m
sot. and 50 We ys sot rlgnf yeIe an gay 70
see which would outset the other IN sot-
ness. If Tom will say the whale sval-
lowed Moses III hev supper ready in ten
Il never kin do It," replied Tom. 1T
was D3nl, and yo've only got to say 50
fur us to take the stranger in.
But see here. / put in, 1T was neither
DanI nor Moses. You are both mistaken -
ssNho was it, then2" they asked IN cho-
@why. Tonahr
'.Yo' don't mean it. gasped the husband.
Listen to that" whispered the wife,
TT was Jonah. and all the Bibles in the
land viii tell voG so. Danl was cast to
the lions and Moses was hidden away in
the bulrushes when he was baby"
ssDog-gone my cats, old woman, but he's
dead right and we are two fullest ex-
claimed the man. Shake, stranger. and
va come right in and own the cabin fur
fhe. next var. OF co'se it was joiner, and
if our sotnes shad driv 70 on I'd hev ailus
hin hopin' that both of US would hev
bit bit by woodchucks and gulped down by
b'arsi'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
OCEAN CABLES.

More than 10000 nautical miles of
cable have been laid in the bed of the
Pacific ocean already.
Within a year this viii be increased to
5000 miles.
II VIII then be possible to send mes
sages almost completely around the
earth by wire over two different routes.
A message sent westward from New
York can then be received in New York
again from London 10 minutes later,
having been transmitted across the
American continent through the depths
of the Pacific, over Australia or the
Orient, across India, the Indian ocean.
the Mediterranean, around Spain, under
the Atlantic to England and thence by
Atlantic cable back to New York.
The cost of Pacific cables that win be
laid by the end of the present year will
be about s20,000,000.
There viii be two separate and COM
plete cables. one all British and the
other alfAmerican.
The laying of these great stretches of
wire involves engineering achievements
Of a high order. A 3.24O mile span, such
as the one between Vancouver, B. c.,
and flaming Island, would have been
an impossible thing a few years ago.
Rather more than so years ago the
first submarine cable for commercial use
was laid ira the Straits of Dover. Since
then 100000 miles of cable have been laid
at a cost of S25100O,000.
Great as this sum is, it is said to pay
a good profit
Great Britain has an au-British line
encirciing the globe. Its Pacific cable
subsidized by Canada, Australia and
Great Britain at a ratio of 80, 80 and Is
per cent. respectively. was completed a
few months ago
The cable route of this globe encir-
cling line is. From Vancouver to Fan
ming Island to Fiji, 2,093 miles; Fiji to
Norfolk Island. 901 miles Norfolk ISL
and to Brisbane. Queensland, s34 miles.
and to New Zealand. 537 miles.
In the stretch of 3.240 nautical miles
equal to 1000 statute miles-a thousand
tons of copper were used. In places this
cable was sunk 5000 feet below the
surface Parts of the cable weighed p
tons to the mile.
The all-American line is being built
without government assistance by the
Commercial Pacific Gable company, of
which Clarence II. Maclay and George
Cray are the active heads.
The great enterprise was started by
cyrus w. Field. but to the late John w.
Mackay much of the credit must be
given for its early contamination.
That part Of the line running from
san Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands, PAP nautical miles, is COM
pleted. This section cost 81. 500. 900. From
Honolulu the line will run to Manila.
$500 miles, touching en- route Guam and
Midway Island From Manila the line
VIII be laid to Shanghai.
The cable rate to Honolulu is so cents
word, and this win be cut to IS cents
fin a couple Of years. The rate to China
win be 81 a word
These are the rates given out at pres
ent by the cable companies. 1t is by
no means impossible. however. that the
competition afforded by wireless teleg-
raphy win before long force the cable
rates down to a much lower figure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12

ton was the cause of a cold calculating
murder by some one strong in arm and
strong in hate.
This theory is based solely upon the
possibilities of the matter. but seems
are apparently working on basis of
possibilities also. 1t may have been a
woman who killed Burdick. 1t may yet
be proven that it was a woman. But
evidence has not been produced, so far,
weighty enough for the basis of a log
zeal suspicion. There surely was a wO-
man in the case. but was it not a man
who did the dirty work?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
Coming Young Lives Into Money.

8dillIlVIG oull-
Child labor has tendency to pau
perize adult labor. and it is the begin
ming of a generation of men and women
dwarfed in mind, enfeebled in body and
corrupted in morals, who enjoy the priv
i1ege of citizens and are unfit for their
exercise. Such an element in the popu-
lation is an ever-present peril to the
state and society and the state should
take effective means to prevent the pro-
pagatiOn of such a population by taking
care that the fathers and mothers OF
the next generation shall be protected
from sacrifice by the greed of gain. The
modern Herods who slaughtered the in
nocents are not confined to any particu-
lar locality or section They are to be
found in the north and south and in the
east and west. Nor is it the employers
of labor alone who are guilty There are
thousands Of parents who are. not only
willing, but anxious, to coin the lives of
their little ones into money so that they
themselves can live a life of idleness.
It IS not unlikely that there are many
who think they are doing u good deed in
giving children employment and enab-
ling them to make a living. But it IS
noteworthy that as a rule those portions
Of the country where neither women nor
children are employed in factories and
mills are far more prosperous and their
people more intelligent than in those
cenrers of industry where women and
children are the breadwinners-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
JGrSGp0ritla
and Pills

Eradicate it, positively and absolute
ly, This statement is based on the
thousands Of permanent cures these
medicines have wrought.
Ny daughter had scrofula. with eleven
sores on her neck and about her ears. Hoods
sarsaparilla was highly recommended and
she took it and was cured She is now in
good health" MRS. ]. H. JONES. Parker
City. Ind.
Hoods SarsaparIiia promises 60
cure and keeps the PROMISE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
PRESIDENT AND BEGGARs
How the Little Incident at Dallas
Texas, Was Overdone.

The notoriety gained by the Dallas Ia
dies through their bazar and Mrs.
RooseveIt's cotton handkerchief is not of
an envia1be sort in itself. but it has
brought out a lot of statistics from a
capable newspaper man, showing that if
Mrs Roosevelt were to answer all re-
quests for nonatiOns in a substantial
way the president would soon be i'm
poverished. On the very day Mrs.
Roosevelt sent the famous Dallas hand
kerchief to the ladies clamoring for
something handsome to rattle off, there
came to her 1873 similar requests all of
which were granted. Mrs. Davis sent a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12

The spring land rush is beginning,
and the Minneapolis Journal sees signs
that this viii be the greatest. retail year
the land movement has witnessed, and
10y the same token the year of the great
est actual movement Of settlers. The
spectators are now dealing for the
most part with persons who. if they
purchase, will probably be actual occu-
PANTS OF the land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12

The amount of last years corn in
the hands Of the farmers is greater than
Tor years at this season and Kansas has
more than her average share of it. The
situation is due largely to the fact that
the railroads are either unable or un-
willing to furnish cars to haul the crop
TO market Buyers and sellers are anx-
ious to come together but find it inn
rsosefhIn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-12
FREAK LEaIsLArroN

lFrom the Cleveland Plain Dealer1
The several state legislatures whose
again serve TO emphasize the truth that
we are governed toe much" The flood