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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

smythe.
President Roosevelt will not indulge
IN handshaking at Topeka lie knows
the boys are all right in *sat neck of
the woods without the paw act.-Par-
sons Herald.
Bent Murdoch, the authority on fancy
foodstuffs, says: "The more experience
we have with predigested health foods
the more sympathy we have for our old
CRASHED friend, ACKNOWLEDGMENT
A nine year old boy preacher from
Ohio, is now at Salina conducting
meeting at the u. B. church. He says
I have been in the ministry six years
and expect to make it my life work .
Feathered millinery is bar between
woman and heaven, according to a
Boston preacher. She who signs for
them on her Sunday hat.-Hutchinson
News.
The people of Neodesha sneaked a big
piece of fly paper across the street after
dark and the first seven men who walk
ed onto it were nominated for city Off
ces. 1t was THE Only Way .7-Inde-
pendence Reporter.
VIII White, who knows all about
boys, says. When a boy puts on his
first pair of trousers he thinks What a
foolish young thing L was yesterday! =
Something of the same feeling accom-
panies him through the remainder of
his life
Eugene Ware would make very
good judge, no doubt, but he also
makes a very good judge of pensions.
Good men for federal judges are pIen-
ty, but satisfactory pension commits
sioners are scarce as hens teeth.-Cha-
mute Sun.
As we understand it the merger Of
street railway interests in Topeka will
not do away with the time honored
custom which the Topeka cars now
have of pulling away from the rail-
road depot just as the passenger
trains are coming in.-Ottawa Herald.
Ed Howe says: by the way how
much better it would have been had the
Burdicks been divorced! Presumably
they had been reading the New York
Americans preacher symposium show
ing the disgrace of divorce, so that
murder resulted, instead of q quiet sep
aration."
After Supper" the little Cherryvale
daily. took to the cold bier Tuesday
night and is now no more. 1t was af-
4 ter supper but there was no free lunch
! with the bier. Its little insidesl were
empty and there was nothing on its
plate so it was meat that it should
I it.-Independence Reporter.
The Salina Journal which has been
4 having trouble with its gasoline en-
CINE, speaks of the contrary thing as
follows: THE men will pat it. talk
nice to it. rub its fur the right way
/ feed 1t sugar, sc0ld it, kick it, hammer
4 it. and one day a very wicked EN-
ploye scussed' it, but it stood still''
Bent Murdoch tells a story of a town
/ girl who was visiting in the country
/ She soon became familiar with cows
pigs, chickens. etc. and knew where
butter and ham and eggs, came from
One day a piece of comb honey was
placed on the table. Il see" the town
girl remarked, coyly, that you keeI
q bee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
oId-Tinae omcial salaries.

Evening wisconsin:
The fathers of the republic would
have had little sympathy with the de-
nand for inflated official salaries which
is so often heard at the present time.
1t was a notion of many of the best
men in the good old times that the
honor of public Office was an offset for
slender pecuniary compensation. They
did not want official salaries to be set
So high as to tempt men of mercenary
instints to seek public positions for pri-
vate gain.
Following is the text of a salary act
which was passed by the legislature of
the state of Franklin. The state of
Franklin has had no place on the map
for more than a HUNDRED years, and it
may be worth while to explain that 1t
was the first commonwealth erected
west of the Alleghanies. Part of the
territory which it included is now with
in the boundaries of North Carolina;
the rest constitutes the state of TenneS-
see. The state Of Franklin was organ
lied in 1885 by hardy settlers who claim
ed that they were neglected by the
government Of North Carolina, and with
John Sewer as governor. it had a
stormy existence Of something more
than three years. Here is the act:
Be it enacted by the general assem-
bly, Of the state of Franklin, and it IS
hereby enacted by the authority of the
same, that from the 1st day of January,
1888, the salaries of the officers of this
commonwealth be as follows, to-wit:
His excellency the governor, per an
mum, 1000 deer skins.
His honor the chief justice. 500 deer
skins.
The secretary of his excellency the
governor. 500 raccoon skins
The treasurer Of the state, 450 raccoon
skins.
Each county clerk, 800 beaver skins.
Clerk of the house of commons, 200
raccoon skins
Member of the assembly per diem.
three raccoon skins
Justices fee for signing a warrant,
one muskrat skin.
Constable, for serving a warrant, one
mink skin
Enacted into a law the 18th day of
October. 1887. under the great seal Of
the state.
As the state of Franklin went out of
existence on March 1, 1888, this salary
act was in force for only two months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28
Ordinance Rate
"a ke. offered

The rate schedule makes no r7rovis-
ions for cheap rate for washing the
streets of the city. If the new schedule
is adopted. the city will have to strug-
gle along in the future as 1t has in the
past with dirty streets. The only way
to clean streets effectively is with wa
ter and now the city can use only
very limited quantity The officers of
the water company say that it is inn
possible to allow the city to use as
much water as it wants without put
ting in new pump. and this it does
not propose to do, and consequently
makes no low rate for the service.
There is one rate proposition made
which looks like a tempting bait The
hydrant rental is reduced from 1896
and $50 a year to $40 a year There IS
a hook concealed in the bait, and To-
peka should beware. If Topeka accepts
the $40 rate, it must also rennuuish that
provision Of the franchise which says
that all MIGRANTS over 300 in number
SHAH not cost the city q cent, except
the cost Of putting them in. While the
city would apparently make a saving
of S2,679 in its hydrant rentals it would
really be losing money in the end, for
there are now 800 MIGRANTS in use, and
all hydrants put in in the future will
be without any cost whatever to the
city, for rentals.
.. Proposals concerning a new fran
ehise- This is really the most danger
Gus part of the proposed Concessions
of the water company. Space forblds
/ but a mere mention Of some of these
dangers.
The company offers to build extern
sions to the dry districts whenever
the council may direct; and then it in
I serts toward the end Of its proposition.
a little proviso that the revenue from
the extension must be equal to 5 per
cent Of the cost of the extension. 1t is
easy to see that this is equivalent to
leaving it to the company to decide
when to build the extension.
1t is also required that the city pay
up the South Topeka hydrant rental
claim. involving about $1,000. This is
a claim Of doubtful validity which Is
still pending in the courts.
The proposal further says: This
offer is made with the understanding
that amendments satisfactory to US
shall be made to ordinance No. 400 I'M
der which the company is now operat-
ing amending all ambiguous
clauses This IS undoubtedly intend
ed to refer more especially to the
question of the validity Of the franchise.
This is the great point of ambiguity in
the ordinance. and the proposals speci-
fy that the amendments shall be sat
Iisfactory to III" and us" IS the Topeka
water company. If the franchise pro
visions are to be handed over to the
water company to be doctored up. it is
not difficult to imagine that all am
biguity'' win be cleared. and when the
smoke of battle is cleared away, the
company will be discovered with a per-
petual franchise in its possession, and
the city of Topeka at its mercy for all
time to come
The proposition looks like clever
ruse to induce the voters to decide in
favor Of giving the water company a
new lease of life by defeating the pro-
position at the coming election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28
FROM aPHYLLIs ISLE

Yellow beauty of the sand,
Every new tide sends it streaming
And / welcome It. as. bounded
Through the thickets of the sea,
It comes. delicately rounded
Climbing up the banks to me
I remember, where the thunder
OF the surges rolls affair."
Where you see yon circling wonder
OF white sea-guIls on the Bar,
Rose the fairest of fair islands.
With its fretted miles of coast,
Whispering coyes, and breezy highlands
Chanting what my soul loved most.
Down the white keys unsteady
Ran the fingers of the tide.
And the woodland inmost alley
Caught the echoes and replied.
All the island-far and lonely,
Until Phyllis made it smile
Chanting Phyllis, and her only;
Hence L called it Phyllis Isle
Named it Phyllis, and the amber
Shining waters. evermore,
As they ran in SIOrt to Chamber
Up the pebbles on the shore,
And the wild sea-gulls. careening
On the forelands, saw it 60,
And the hemloclzs. long and leaning,
Sighed it to the waves below.
But the Death-Kfng rode dividing
His black squadrons for assault,
And the clangor of their riding
Reach the high and heavenly vault.
And the awful thunder rumbled
Through the blackness of the shore,
Till the promontolies crumbled
And the island was no more.
Nothing Of those days remaining
IN the corridors of mind.
Save the passionate complaining
OF the wave and of the wind
Save a voice remote and yearning
From the holloWs of the sea,
AS the waste of sand returning
Brings my islanl home to me-
James Herbert Morse in the April At
lanuc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


Deaf mutes viii not answer as ser
wants.
Whisky and the police get a lot of
men into trouble.
Blind people seem to have a monopoly
of love at first sight
A stylish coat on a mans back en-
ables him to put on a bold front.
When some people tell the truth it is
only for the purpose of creating trou-
BILE.
The man who puts a so collar on = 10
cent dog may mean well but he'll never
be the works in get-rich-quick
scheme.
A lady writer says that kiss on the
forehead denotes reverence. She might
have added that kiss on the ear de
notes that the girl in the case lodged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28
NEWS OF THE WEEk.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.


Movement urging Grover Cleveland
to beeomei Democratic presidential can
didate in 1904 started
Woman at Fdskedale. Mass, kills her
four children with an ak. cuts her
/ throat and sets fire to house.
DR.. Samuel J. Kennedy, accused of
killing Dolly Reynolds at New York
IN 1885, freed by court after three trials.
conviction and death sentence
! SurigaO, Mindanao island. which
/ Philippine ladrones captured on Sun
day, relieved; American officials and
foreigners found safe in barricaded
building.
La soufriere volcano. St Vincent is
land. again in eruption; Kingston de-
clared by scientists in no danger
Report of anthracite coal strike com
/ mission made public, makes many sug-
gestions for remedying situation.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick, imprisoned
/ IN England since 1889 for alleged muir
der Of her husband. will be released in
July. 1904; sentence viii have been
served.
San Domingo city captured by rebels
under General Peppin after battle dur
ing which citizens were killed in streets.
United States cruiser Atlanta ordered
there.
Maj. Gen. Sir Hector Macdonald.
} British military commander of Cevlon
island. en- route there from London to
face court martial, commits suicide in
Paris, was hero of Afghan war Ma
juba hill, and Suakim.
H. A. Griswold, Manson, Ia, shot to
death on Los Angeles-Pacifc electric
car by three robbers; three other pas
/ sengers wounded.
Temporary injunction is issued by
Judge Kohlsaat at Chicago in the fed
eral court against Indiana coal men,
/ to restrain their com bination.
President Castro of Venezuela places
I his resignation in hands Of congress at
Caracas but later withdrsws it.
The Burdick inquest at Buffalo ends
with no clue to the murderer.
/ The Mississippi river is still rising
! at New Orleans but levees are consid-
4 cred safe.
DR.. Parkhurst of New York scores
! Gen. Funston's methods of capturing
! AguinaldO as deceitful and treacherous.
The governments Irish land bin is
1 introduced in the house of commons.
The Empress of Germany is thrown
from her horse and breaks her arm.
LOCAL SUMMARY.
J. c. Lowe granted a new trial on
the charge of wife murder in the dis
trict court
/ Governor Bailey and Cyrus Leland re
turn from their Washington trip.
officers of Kansas Mutual cited be-
fore Judge Hook for contempt. The
( contempt charges afterward dismissed.
Deputy County Treasurer w S. Eb-
erie sustains serious bruises in 4 coils
ion between his bicycle and IN electric
car on West Sixth street.
The Union Political league of Iaborfng
men organize to take a hand in city
politics.
Flour City Iron company of Minneap-
oils penalized $3.50 for failure 10 com
plete stairways in the state house on
time.
The Topeka Water company make a
proposition for water rates in case the
franchise is renewed.
Topeka Choral union gives a rendition
of the "Prodigal Son" in the Auditor
iun.
Kansas Commercial interests organ
ize to become q political factor.
Rev. Charles NJ Sheldon's barn is de-
str0yed by fire.
S. I Hale says ". A. Harris Will be
the next governor of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28
Germany's Poor Investment.

BunalO News.
1t matters very little what is paid
any of the creditors of Venezuela at
the moment. All Will be paid In full
in time But the investment of Ger
many in practices that are detested by
all other countries is the very worst
that could be made. It is not to be
forgotten by other nations that Ger
many declines to stick to its agreement
even when it gains nothing but trif1e
Of time by breach of it.
Bad character in the individual is
unfortunate enough, but is not to be
compared with bad faith on the part
of the government of a great nation.
Everywhere in the world the German
VIII be quickly made subject to hostile
discrimination for half a dozen rea-
sons. not the least of them being that
none can forecast the action of the
German government if disagreement
should arise. Mr.. Bowen. representing
Venezuela says he is content with the
exhibition of Germany if Germany is
content with herself The feeling com
mon among the other governments in
interest is one of irritation that so
small a thing should reveal so ungen-
erous a nature
If the manner of Germany in this
case is persisted in for any period of
length it must seriously affect German
trade abroad. and it is certain that
any idea of gaining popularity in
South America must be abandoned for
many years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

Newark News: Sharon Springs, Kas..
has provided twelve saddle horses for
the president ana is scurrying around to
borrow a Dutch Reformed clergyman
And yet some caTping people have been
Saying that Kansas is Visionary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

Minneapolis Journal: The meat pack
ing business OF the country is now con
centrated in two concerns, for the pur-
pose. evidently. OF merging the two into
one management Then the producer
viii have just one purchaser and the
consumer but one market in which he
can buy How nicei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

Tables presenting the imports and ex-
ports OF the principal countries show
tha- the United States was in 1902 the
largest exporter Of domestic merchan-
disc. while in 1870 her exports were ex-
ceeded by three Countries France, Ger
many and the United Kingdom In
favorable balance of trade" or excess
OF exports over imports. the United
States also holds hhrst rank among the
nations. her excess of exports over i'm
ports being not only greater than that
of any other country, but actually more
in 1901. than the total excess of exports
over imports Of all other countries
whose exports exceeded imports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

IL David r.. Francis. president Of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition com
pauy. should succeed in securing the
Democratic nomination for the presi-
dent troublesome precedent might be-
come established. Every city having a
presidential candidate is liable to want
10 inaugurate his boom by holding a
--.----a La--
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

Washington Post: The oId-fashioned
Republican editor who believes that the
tariff IS not a tax. but if it is. it is
paid by the foreigners. is having some
difficulty in explaining the necessity Of
the Cuban reciprocity treaty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

If Chicago people need any further
reason for electing Carter Harrison
again. there is the fact that the Chron-
Sole is opposing him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

and Topeka succeeds in getting
cleaner city, as she is apt to do, in tive
years I will be there I won't run my
school under such a city government as
we have here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

When The war revenue taxes were
repealed experts Of the treasury and in
congress estimated that 1t would re-
duce the annual revenues by at least
&l5.000.o00. Now, eight months after
the repeal, it is found the revenues have
only fallen off s2s,0O0,0oo as compared
with the corresponding period of last
year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

Probably there viii be enough fool
ed" people at Great Bend april End to
have justified holding the convention
on the First
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28
Department Of Commerce.

Buffalo News
1t IS one of the anomalies of political
arrangements in this country that we
have but just organized. or rather ere
ated a department of commerce OF
c. binet rank. Every other country
with no more than a small proportion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

Marconi was born in Bologna We
should think he would take to linkless
sausage as. readily as to wireless teleg-
sanhv.=Calena Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

Buffalo has been compared to Sodom
and Gomorrah. This is not SO bad. 9th
or towns have been so classified. But
now that it is declared to be worse than
Newport it seems to have reached the
limit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

Train wrecks in the southwest have
taken on a special feature. Oil is used
Tor fuel in that region, and the train
always catches FIRE and cremates the
ia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

You can now go on the street with
out being solicited to register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

The capture Of Holland by the Dutch
may be succeeded by the Democrats
taking the Democratic party
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

Tables furnished by the treasury bu-
reau Of statistics show that the total
international commerce of the world
now aggregates about p billions Of dol
iafs Of which about 10 billions is ex-
ports and IL billions imports. The fact
mat al exports eventually become i'm
ports and that all imports NUT have
peen originally exports suggests that
tne value of the worlds imports should
not materially differ from the figures of
exports but the fact that the cost of
transportation and other charges are in
many cases added to the value of the
export when 1t is measured as an i'm
port explains. ia part at least, the fact
that the aggregate figures of national
imports exceed those Of exports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

According to the reports of the gov
eminent bureau of statistics. the ag-
Fregate price Of necessary articles OF
daily consumption has increased from
1855 in July, 1897 to 100 256 on January
p. 1908 The figures are obtained by a
aNed system of compilation based on
the New York quotations of a great va
rieiy Of articles of food. clothing and
household supplies and are considered
trustworthy index of the relative cost
or living from time to time According
to t1is The cost of living has increasea
nearly 90 per cent. since 1897, which was
me lowest point reached since 1888 on
me other hand. the present cost is hut
Ntils more than it was in 1888. when
me index figures We're %. SOP
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-28

The latest interpretations Of the FL
kins act are that railroads must cur
tail the list of passes This recalls the
letter written BY Bill Nye to the late
W. F. White, who was the general pas
senger agent OF the Santa Fe in 1887
when the interstate commerce law
follows.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-25
The American Husband.

The American husband has never had any doubt, in his own mind, as 70 his pre-eminence as husband when brought into comparison with the husbands of other nationalities. It has remained for club of Chicago women to put the question to an interesting test. The members invited a Turk, a Japanese, a Chinaman to attend one of their cub ses- sions, and enlighten them on this par dcular subject. The Turk freely ad- mttted that the husbands of his nation were undisputed autocrats in the do- mestic precincts. The man from Japan told them that the mother-in-law was a ruling power where he came from, and the Chinaman explained that Chinese wives must be obedient to both husband and mother-in-law. Whereupon the rat ing of the American husband at once went up several notches.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-25
rawneu,s Resolution.

Washington, Jan. 24---Representative Tawney of Minnesota, a Republican member of the Ways and Means Com mlttee, today introduced joint resolu- ton for the appointment of joint com mittee of the two houses. six Senators and eleven Senators-elect to the Fffty-eighth Congress to inquire during the coming recess of Congress into the present con- ditions of domestic and foreign produc- ton and the necessity flor any modiflca- ton of the duty on any or all dutiable articles; whether any reduction thereof can be made consistent with reasonable protection to American industry and la bor; by what means. and in what mon ner, the foreign trade of the United States can be promoted and extended; whether or not the tariff system known as the maximum and minimum tarif, possesses for the productive industries, business interests and foreign trade, and people of the United States. advantages superior to our present tariff system.