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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-01-22
Pneumonia ana LaorIppe.

Coughs cured quickly by Foley's
Honey and Tar. Refuse substitutes.
Sold BY Shanahan s. Mitchell. DIV
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-01-22
EOLEYSHOSEYITAR

~ s4ffdress sefes ssres - eptsaas
For sale at Peoples Drug Store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
MUNICIPAL ExrRAvAeANoE.

1t is not long step from extravaganza
management of municipal affairs to cor
rupt manipulation of the city's money.
Extravaganza usually proceeds from fin
ancial log-rolling among members of the
city council. and is inspired largely by
selfish political motives. Corruption is
only slightly different form of selfish
ness. There is not much difference be-
tween the councilman who steals the
city's money and puts it in his pocket,
and the one who votes away coin from
the city treasury in exchange for votes
and influence.
There has. fortunately. been very lit
tie out and out corruption in the mani
agement Of the city affairs of Topeka,
but it must be confessed that at times
the city council has been guilty of gross
and objectionable extravaganza. A
councilman wants some expensive pub
lie improvement in his ward, and by the
aid of his brother councilmen who also
want something. he is able to saddle
the expense onto the public treasury.
Salary-raising is a favorite way to tap
the till and the employment of useless
officials and workmen is another. 1t is
all perfectly Legitimate" of course, be-
CAUSE tueI0 IS no INV 10 SelO d COuAC41-
man to Jail because of his act.
The city is about to take advantage
of an extraordinary law enacted by the
special session Of the legislature and
clear up all its past evidences of ex-
travagance, aggregating $4,000. by
means of a bond issue. The future
generation will be made to pay for the
political follies of the past. It rests
with the present council, and it's sue
cessors, to avoid repetition of the ex-
travagances which have been practiced.
The law expressly forbids the city coun-
ell from allowing any bills when there
is not money on hand to pay them. Let
this law be strictly enforced. Now is
the time to start in with a new deal.
Money should not be transferred from
one fund to another to make both ends
meet. It is robbing Peter to pay Paul,
and is contrary to law. None of these
things can be done if a single member
of the council has the courage to fight
the custom. The laws should be en-
forced absolutely. and unless they are
enforced, the guilty officials should be
made to answer to their constituents
at the next succeeding election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
Old Joke Came True.

all llncon sciously the other day was one
Of the actors in a joke that has been told
by the minstrel men for years salo a
drug clerk IA girl came in and she
wanted a dose OF castor oil, but she want
ed 1t SO disguised that it wouldn't pc OF
fensive to the taste. Have glass of So
5a water on me while you're waiting, |
said. I mixed a dose of oil with the syrup
and she didn't seem to know the dlIIeT-
ence as she drank it without murmur.
Other customers came IN and I waited on
them Finally she became impatient ana N {,
I said You drank it in that glass OF SODA
water She turned sort Of green about the
giIls and gasped: I didn't want II Tor my ny,
Wen. you could have knocked me down
with a feather. In an instant the old min
sfrei Joke came back to me, and realized
that I had played it myself all uncon-
sciousiy. offered my apologies, but an
Of castor oii'-Philadeiphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

Some conception OF what is at stake
an the New York election in the way OF
money to be handled by the successful
party can be attained from the Sollow-
ing figures: The ANIMAL revenue of the
city of New York is S136, 715,214. This
is s15.0 900 more than the annual reve-
nue. of the empire of Japan. 1t is three
times the annual revenue of the Neither
lands. It Is one-fifth as large as the
annual revenue Of the United States.
The municipal debt Of New York is
1851, s79, 1858. being more. than half az
large as the national debt of the United
States. The territory of Arizona, which
is clamoring for admission to the Union,
has an assessed value Of $50, 900, 600. The
annual revenue of New York city from
taxes alone is $77, 632 $685..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
REFLEoTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

Giggly girls make weepy wives.
woman means what she says till she
says it.
Save your pennies and the stock mar
ket will not take care of your pounds.
A man never gets too old to thrill at the
memory of some one certain garter.
Some people could be happy only in jail
if the law said they must not go there.
The social status of more people than
realize it is established by their family
wash.
There is more pride in having the other
fellow wrong than in being right your
self.
When a woman looks wen in mourning
for her husband it is a. sign she is likely
to get another one
It's funny how when the office seeks
the man it has to climb up on its own
shoulders to find him.
A man doesn't have to be bad to be in
teresting to women; it is sufficient for
them to think he is.
The average person likes to go to
Europe SO as to get back and be able to
breg about it.
Some men are born fools. some achieve
foolishness and some have foolishness
married upon them.
The oftener a woman gets married
the surer she is that her first husband
was not the kind she wanted, but bet
ter kind than those after him.
The woman who has the most talked
about clothes line in town can stand
a good deal of unhapPiness without get
ting discouraged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
THE AUTOMATIC GUN,

The editor of Recreation has opened
a war on the new automatic guns
which are just now being introduced
In an editorial in the November num-
Der he saws:
Several patents have recently been
issued for automatic shot guns. and
am Informed that the Winchester Arms
Co, of New Haven, Conn, is building
machinery to make such q gun An
other gun house has already brought
out one, and it is now being advertised
and sold
1t would seem that reasonab BILE men.
no matter how eagerly they may seek
the mighty dollar, should be satisfied
with the weapons already on the mar
ket for destroying American birds and
wild animals.
We have repeating rifles, repeating
shot guns, double barrel and single
barrel shot guns by the million, and
with these the birds and the wild ami
mails have been reduced to pitiable
remnants of their once great numbers:
but now. as If not satisfied with the
slaughter which has been and is being
carried on, these big gun houses are
putting out still more murderous en-
glnes of destruction. for market hunt
ers and pot hunters
This announcement should arouse
| the Indignation of every decent sports
man and every nature lover on the
continent, and L appeal to all such to
write at once to the Winchester Arms
Co, protesting in the strongest and
most vigorous language possible
against the making and putting on the
/ market of an automatic gun.
The repeating rife has been an i'm
portant factor in wiping out the big
game of this country. The pump gun,
so called, has proven little short of a
national calamity. An automatic shot
gun would be a disgrace to the nation,
and its introduction should be proffb-
TIED by law This may not be, but the
sale of any such weapon to decent men,
can be prevented by the creation of a
proper public sentiment.
/ l appeal to all readers of Recreation
| to write at once to the company men
| toned. stating that they will never buy
or use an automatic gun; that they will
discourage its use by others in every
legitimate way; and that they win not
| associate with any man who may use
! such a weapon.
Win every woman who loves the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
IAYHAWKER lots.

Jewell City has new bank-of coal.
Three Eh1ngham potatoes tip the
scales at four pounds.
BLUE Jay" suppers and coon hunts
are the latest Ottawa fads.
At a poultry pie church dinner at
Salina the public made the chickens
fly.
A Franklin county farmer has up to
date marketed 5000 pounds of honey
this season.
Now isn't this just like Kansas? A
frost is wanted in Kansas to kill the
grasShoppers.
Grape vines in a Pratt citizens ard
have furnished the third crop this sea-
son, fully ripened.
The Clay Center court house has been
adorned with two large oleanders by an
''admiring friend
A pet coyote signed it's death war
rant at Emporia by eating six of its
masters chickens
A Buffalo farmer has secured a win
ter's supply of honey from two hives of
wild bees in his attic.
The Holton mayor has issued a
proclamation declaring Halloween non
sense must close at midnight.
The financial furry of Tuesday
caused q short run on the Bolton
banks, but it quickly blew over.
Kingman county leads the procession
with a n1ush and milk social. The
mush of course was made from new
corn.
Two Cimarron school boys were
caught playing seven up with a bottle
of whisky between thenl-drink or
smell.
Everest is unable to find ground for
| a cemetery nearer than four miles
The council will take up this grave
subject.
A Gray county ranch man has passed
the $50 foot mark in search of water.
A downward career is not always a
soft snap.
It has been twenty years since the
Whiting fire. yet the citizens still hope
to some day catch the fellow who
startad it.
A Burden lad who started out some
weeks ago to do the "Huckleberry
Finn" act has sneaked home to the
PARENTAL roof.
! A Hiawatha woman has been granted
a license to preach. How that must
tickle the husbands who get curtain
lectures at home.
A Pratt county farmer found a fine
silver watch in his wheat bin which he
thinks will about pay for the sack or
two Of grain taken.
The Catholic church at Effingham
has reduced its debt $1,000 in the past
fortnight How long it took to accumu-
late is not stated.
Future generations will rise up and
called a soldier citizen blessed. He
has invented a scheme to unload corn
without the use of the shovel.
Play must be of a strenuous nature at
the Humbarger school house in Saline
county. A 13-year-old girl is "enjoy-
ing" a vacation with a broken arm.
Scholars of district No. SIS, Ellsworth
county. have planted roses, honeysuckle
trumpet vine and other climbers around
the school house, a bed of hardy flow
ers, lilac. and a number of trees.
The enthusiastic reception given Gov
ernor Bailey at Usage City will not
have a tendency to change Ed Hoch's
plans for sticking to the state printer
ship contest rather than running for
| goVernor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
RED HAIRS INNING.
But the White Horse Seems to Have
Been Forgotten.

A happy inspiration was that which
prompted the prize committee for the
carnival bal masque to encourage com
petition among the women and girls IN
Kansas City with red hair. In the first
place. to the educated eye, there is
nothing lovelier than red hair, and. in
the next place, the sort of red hair that.
grows in Kansas City is especially fine
and gorgeous. Its rich pigment is alb
sorbed from the golden sunlight, which
is practically perpetual in this latitude.
and it rivals the richest coloring of
which Titan has left any EXAMPLES.
MatronS and nlaidenS appear every
day on the streets of Kansas City with
the sort of splendid, FURNISHED ha1r
that causes Il man with an artistic eve
| to turn around and take the SECOND
| look, to which he is entitled by the
law of the road laid down by the much
beloved DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
To see a collection of these resDlendent
polls together vying with each other in
generous rivalry will be feature of
the bal masque which no discriminating
person will be able to regard with in
di&erance.
There is Astounding cause for felicia
ton over the progress made by the
world up to the advanced point where
red hair is no longer accounted DOS.
session to deprecate and to rebel
4 against That sentiment belonged to
a dark and benighted period interven-
ing between the glorious efflorescence
of Venetian art and the revival OF
aeSthet1clSm IN these latter GAYS. II IS
a hopeful token of the appreciation of
real beauty that the popular actresses
of the tragic and emotional drama wear
red hair, which is associated with
many Of the imperishable romances of
history.
The roseate blondes who may desire
to compete for the prize at the carnival
bal masque may choose between a
number of interesting presentations
Lucretia Borgia, Mary Stuart, Queen
/ Elizabeth, etc. Helen of Troy must
have had red hair to have made such
stir in the world, and even Cleopatra,
for all her African nativity. has been
embellished by tradition with that ac-
cessory to her other destinations On
an occasion such as the bal masque
there should be no grotesque association
between red hair and white horses, even
in the form of a counterfeit present
ment" though hobbyhOrses often make
their way to the arena floor at the
carnival parties in Convention Han.
The prize committee of the carnlVai
bal masque is worthy of the most gen
ferrous enconliums for devising a scheme
by which it will be able to add thor
oughly fascinating and artistic feature
to the festive event of next FTiuay
might and at the same time extend en-
couragement to a by-product in Kansas
City whose Importance and value nave
never before been fully appreciated -
Kansas City Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
Elijah III.

with Apologies to Mr.. Abou Ben Adhem. I
Anon the moon awoke one night
Elijah Third in cold and sweatty fright.
For in a darkened corner of the room
Half hidden In the deep and shadowy
The devil scrubbed in big black book.
His face alight with real Mephisto look
What. writest thou?' the prophet, stam-
mering, said,
And answered: ''The names of those
Who think with fibs to win their last re-
His great success had made Elijah bold.
E 6uI such poser he had ne.er Deen toll q;
Sa I f GHattered ne And ia Is mine tn ere
You bet it is Beelzebub replied,
Right here upon well-thumbed page be-
A lot of others who conspired with ease
To make big crowds believe the moon s
Fudge" said the prophet .let me see.
You can't with goblin tales play hob with
me-
But on the page he read, a bit dismayed.
From Peregrinus to himself displayed
"Oh, well, you might, at least he said,
put me a little higher toward the head
You know L leave tomorrow for New
The devil wrote and vanished.
Several week unroll d
Before the shepherd back into his west
Again returned. And as he dreaming lay,
Recouping the fatigues of one long, heavy
day
In Zion. the devil reappeared, this time
bedight
In crimson robes and floods of rosy light
What, you again. Elijah, waking, cried,
Il thought I'd cashiered you when last
you tried
That song and dance about the waiting
horde.
told you then I'd work to do abroad
That's why I'm here again, logged in my
To show that your name now leads all
Town Topics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

Big men make mistakes. 50
What has become of the old fashioned
girl who went through the streets car
rying golf sticks2
Emmett Qdaho) Index, that Eve wasn't
a man hater."
We seem to have elected to the Uni
ted States senate lot of old men, child
ish enough to fall in love.
If we had all married our first lovers,
the only difference is that we would
have been grandparents sooner.
1t is getting so that people are having
some respect for the devil because he
doesn't claim to be an Elijah.
There are two sides to Halloween: OF
the side to take off gates, and of the age
to grumbIe and complain to the police
about it.
Notice is served on a certain man tha+
that peculiar look in his wife's eye when
she smiles so sweetly at him, means Re
venge.
We would hate to be a milkman and
have to devote our ability as an ac-
countant to keeping track of some wo-
mans milk tickets.
The metropolitan papers give so much
for a dime a week that an Atchison
man has subscribed for several news
papers, instead of ordering coal
A rabbit living near town. awoke one
Sunday morning. and found snow on the
ground. WELL he said, Il must be
moving. This is my busy day."
They are playing progressive card
games, giving progressive lunches, pro-
gressive buggy rides. etc. Therefore,
there will be. no surprise at learning
that the game of progressive husband
is to be played in Atchison shortly.
Everybody abuses young man with
money for riotous living, but nine out
of ten would be equally weak If they
were in the young mans position The
young man who inherits money, and
doesn't inherit balance wheel. is to be
pitied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
THOUGHTS ON RALLowEEN

Chain the front gate; turn the bull
dog loose in the front yard: put a load
of salt pork in the shotgun and prepare
TO spend tonight on guard duty for it
will be Halloween. Tomorrow all the
Sunday papers in the land will groan
with their burdens of lurid ink setting
forth how the happy people. who have
nothing else to do spent the evening
pursuing elusive apples with opened
mouths as they floated in tubs of water,
or did endless other things in celebration
of the meaningless holiday.
TOdays papers scatter broadcast the
quoted interviews with minions of the
law in reference to what they will do to
the small boys they catch tonight on
marauding expeditions. These warnings,
of course, are not expected to scare more
than once. How the small boy will
stealthily approach the crossing plates,
and. having looked warily in the four
directions, will jerk them ruthlessly
from the place where they have repos-
ed for IL long months and cast them in
the gutter with a noisy clang.
And then how he will run; run with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
CAR FAMINE CONDENSATION.

The car famine about which so much
has been said since the wheat crop be-
gan to move is not entirely an unmiti
gated evil. To be sure it is pretty hard
on the GARNER who has more grain than
he knows what to do with, neither to
be able to sell it nor to keep it without
piling it on the ground, but there is a
bright side to the difficulty If one will
only look for it.
The bright side is that the car famine
prevents the market from being gIutted
and the price demoralized. If the grain
dealers could get all the cars they wish
the wheat would be rushed to market
in such tremendous quantities that the
price would go down. AS it is the wheat
can be marketed only as fast as the
railroads can haul it, and while a great
quantity is going to the great wheat
centers daily, the price remains steady,
Then, too, if it were possible the
wheat would nearly all be shipped out
Of the state, and Kansas mills might be
left without sufficient supply to keep
them running the year through Now
it looks as though much of this years
crop will last over until the next har-
vest. It is better for the state that all
the wheat possible be milled at home in
stead of sent abroad for grinding. 1t
affords employment for more people in
Kansas
This is cold consolation for the farm
er who is compelled to pile his wheat on
the ground because he can get no cars
in which to ship it, and watch 1t deter
iorate day by day when the weather is
damp. But for the farmer who Is pre-
pared to shelter his wheat properly the
car famine is a sort of blessing in
disrI1iSe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

the morbid fear that a copper in sew
en-league- boots is close upon him and
he will hide and hide until the beating
in his heart is less noisy If he have
company the beating will run quiet
sooner, but, if he be alone. it is a ghast-
ly business. Next year he will be drawer
and viii do more damage unless the
male parent gets in some preventive
measures. For actual preventive work
the male parent has the city policeman
beaten by several laps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

birds write and protest, in the name of
decency and of humanity, against the
making and selling of any such weapon ?
Here is a chance to strike a telling
blow for the protection of our birds,
and I trust no friend Of the birds or
the wild animals will let the opportun-
ity pass, no matter how busy he or she
may be. When you write this COM
pany send me a copy of your letter,
in order that I may print as many
such protests as Dossible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

Minneapolis Journal: The runs on
banks in st. Louis. La. Crosse and else
where show that the public has become
very suspicious and is ready to be
thrown into a panic by the slightest
Islander concerning a bank. The cause
81 this. however. is not to be found in
Hhe condition of the banks. which are,
as rule. stronger today than ever, but
In the tremendous deceits practiced
upon the public by some OF our great
est fnanciers. After the revelations
3hat have lately come from Wall street
of the utter lack of consideration of
national welfare on the part of the
captains of industry. it would be
strange indeed if the public were not
lacking in confidence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

In Rhode Island it is not necessary
For the rival candidates for governor
b travel about the state. With a meg
&phone they can make themselves
Heard by almost the entire Dopulation-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

Tuesday, November 8, will be polit-
Rcally a busy day in several of the
most important states of the union
Governors are to be elected in Ohio.
Iowa, Rhode Island, Maryland. Massa-
chusetts, Kentucky, Louisiana. and
Mississip0i. New York and New Jer-
sey are to vote on legislative tickets,
but the municipal contest in Greater
New York overshadows all else in that
state. In some Of these states the cleo
lions may have important bearings on
the presidential campaign of next year,
and in two. Ohio and Maryland, the
senatorial issue is the one on which
public interest Is centered. In Mary
land the legislature to be chosen will
elect a successor to McComas. In Iowa
Governor Cummins is a candidate for
reelection. In Kentucky Governor
Beczham is running for third term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

ALBANY Tines-Union: Don't blame
ehs railroad employees for insisting that
abwer freight rates will create lower
wages. Perhaps the railroads have
Rsught the men to believe it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

Even the Democratic st. Louis Post
dispatch comedies that if it be discov-
Ared that President Roosevelt has the
hight kind of enemies the people may
%encIude to continue him in Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

Colonel Bryan has endured another
martyrdom. The minions of the ad-
ministration refused to let him stand
on the postoffice steps at Toledo while
making a speech A $500 a year federal
official is bigger man than Golden
Rule Jones in a matter of that kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

ers to. He might have once on a time
but after he went to Lyons he worked
the shells only for the amusement of
himself and others. He belonged to
the Methodist church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31

Der oder night a Teller vent to blaze
we're he had no busyment, und ven der
policemans scrape der gore off uf his
seIuf und he vas APPLE to take notiss,
he look like burglar hat went trough
him mitout der combination. Vich vas
chust anoder argoomendt in fafor uf not
budding in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-31
LOW ONE.WAY Settlers RATES
TO THE NORTHWEST AND
CALIFORNIA.

From September Is until November
80, 1903, the Burlington makes very
low one-way colonist rates to Califor
MIA, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana. The reduction is from 25 to 40
per cent. from the regular rates.