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The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14
THE RIsE OF oK-LA-Ho-MA.

On the flowing Hoo-kla- -Hat-Chie
Lived a little wild Apache
IN the tepee where he first observed the
He had skin about the color
OF well done Yankee cruller,
And his hair was blaeker than the shades
Of night
With his little bow and arrows
He would hunt the wrens- and sparrowsi
Ans would chase the bounding rabbit Ger
the plain.
And with prairie dogs ana gophers
And the other furry loafers,
With his weapon he was always raising
Cain.
The astroIogers and sages
OF the village, men of ages,
That entitled their predictions to respect,
Prophesied the varmint scarer
Would become q holy terror
If with bloody war he ever should connect
But his buekslkin eolored father
With the stars. for he had other aims in
Sight
And the KID was sent to college
To acquire some paleface knowledge
And become shining oratoric light.
Oft his daddy told the sages
AS he read TO them the pages
OF the letters Ok-ia-ho-ma to him writ,
That when he had graduated
He would not be simply rated
Just as Some" but he would be the total
with his wondrous oratory
He would wreathe his name In glory.
He would hold the gathered masses with
MS tongue
And from Montezuma's palace
To Aurora Borealis,
They would hear his praises rapturoualy
sung.
And his proud old dads prediction
Proved to be no hot-air fiction.
For it wasn't such a massive bunch Of
moons
Ere the gifted Ok-la-ho-ma
Waltzed away with a diploma
Graduated full of knoWledge-and Of
2runes.
And the band it sure surpasses
How his voice does hold the masses
As upon the street his eloquence he spills
Bout an herb the medic sages
OF his tribe have used for ages
Now made up in DIR. Quaxer's Magic Pills.
James Barton Adams in Denver Post
The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14

ness and find cut the best methods OF
handling it for the farmer that the
United States department of agriculture
has taken it up. There are many things
to be learned about it. There is no
doubt but what it can be made a
source Of great profit to the western
farmer. The department OF agriculture
of Canada has developed dairying in
that country until the butter exports
from Canada to England amount to
many millions of dollars annually.
Wisconsin and New York are now the
great dairying states of the nation,
largely because their agricultural de-
partments have paid special interest to
them. But there is no reason why Kan
sas should stay far behind. 1t already
has the greatest creamery company III
the world, a concern whose field reaches
from Topeka to Pueblo. It is great
cattle state, its climate is well adapted
to dairying, and feed of all kinds for
cattle can be produced for as little. or
perhaps less, than anywhere else in the
country.
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WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE.

No one can votee at the election to be
held on April in the city of Topeka
except those who have registered since
January l. 1903.
The registration books close ten days
prior to the election which viii be
March q. at 10 o'clock p. m
Between now and the closing of the
books there are therefore only eleven
days upon which the Office of the reg
istration commissioner, otherwise known
as the commissioner OF elections, will
be open.
If the registration Is as heavy as it
was in the mayor campaign two years
ago d6.01O it will be necessary to reg
lister an average Of more than 600
voters every day.
The above facts are very common
place. but are nevertheless of the ut
most Importance If the law and order
candidate for mayor, Mr.. w S. Ber-
gundthal. is to be elected mayor; if the
joints Of Topeka are to be closed for the
next two years; if the good work done
in the primaries Is not to be entirely
lost, the fight must be kept UP until
after the election on April z.
First, register Then vote That is
the way to make Topeka a clean town.
4L IS the only way
Tonight the Democrats viii nominate
a candidate for mayor. They win try
to select some man of good business
standing, as Albert Parker is. He will
be friendly to the licensed saloon policy
as Albert Parker is. Publicly. the
Democrats viii apparently give up all
hope of success as they did two years
ago. But they viii work up their reg
istration quietly and quickly. and when
it is too late to register any more, they
viii throw off the mask. and start in the
campaign with a violence which viii
astonish the people who think that the
primary has settled everything The
only way to meet such tactics is to irli-
tate them.
The commissioner of elections has
made arrangements to establish regis
tration booths at two or three places in
each ward OF the city during the com
ing week. Women voters, who dislike
to come to the down town office of the
commissioner to register. should watch
the newspapers. and find out when the
booth nearest them in their ward win
be open. Then go there and register.
With such an arrangement for the ae-
commodation of voters, there is no rea-
son why the missing 1900 registration
should not be promptly made up. and
another bulwark built to protect the
law and order candidate from defeat.
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shall be loved of my Father, and I will
love him. and will manifest myself to
him. Judas saith unto him (not Isca-
riot). Lord how is it that Thou wilt
manifest thYself unto US. and not unto
the World2' Jesus answered and said
unto him. If a man love me he will
keep my words. and my Father will love
him, and we viii come unto him and
make our abode with him ="
Remember that some of the greatest
minds the world has known have sat
down before the Bible in positive un-
belief, more impressed by the seeming
difficulties and Inconsistencies than by
its message to men, and in spite of their
expectations have risen from its perusai
melted through and through by IT'S
sweet story Of divine love and goodness.
They that turn many to Righteousness
shall shine as the stars forever and
forever" We are enjoined to give the
gospel to every creature. NJ A. S.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14
oUAKER REFLECrIoNg.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record-1
The long lost son is generally short.
Is BlumIe interested in a baby car
riage trust?
Few artists are too lazy to draw their
salaries.
You can't keen your friends and give
them away too
If YOU would travel the road to sue
cess keep out of the ruts.
Even a love match may flicker out
before the winds of adversely
Conscience is something that troubles
US after we have been found out.
When an actor breaks down from ov-
erstudy he has to rely on his under
study.
The ties of wedIock are the kind a
man has to wear because his wife buys
them.
There are only four letters in love,
and many man wishes they had been
burned.
The fellow who tells you disagreeable
things about your neighbors win tell
your neighbors the same things about
you
when woman wishes to retire from
the world says the Manayunk PhilosO-
pher, "she enters a nunnery. All a
man has to do is to marry a famous
woman"
Scribbler-"Have you any difficulty in
remembering the verses you writer"
wler-''So; they generally come
back to me: that is. when I inclose re-
turn postage"
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THR sPRINa FEvER

There is no antidote. no remedy and
no preventive for spring fever. 1t slips
In with the first warm day and is check
ed only by change of weather. If the
boxeider bugs continue day after day to
crawl out Of the cracks and into the
sunshine then the fever time is here
the soul Of man is too FRAGILE to resist
the call OF nature and the early st.u of
the Sabbath dawn sees him slipping
quietly out Of the back yard gate with a
paper Of lunch in one pocket and can
Of bait in another. The Sunday paper
is elutched in his hand while a magazine
finds concealment elsewhere about his
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The trouble with the Lewis crowd at
the primary this week was that the or
ganization did not have a Chet Thomas.
If the primary had been held in the
days of Thomas and he had been
Lewis supporter the votes would have
had to be the other way There was
time that Thomas was the power in To-
cal politics. He came west a Democrat
but in Topeka he was a Republican
Because there are more Republicans
here than Democrats - he explained in an
swer to a question as to his change of
heart One time, during an election,
report came to Thomas that the Second
ward was going for the opposing candi-
date. Thomas called one of his chief
lieutenants. "Go down in the Second
ward" he said, they are not voting
right down there" That command was
sufficient and the tide was turned in IA
vor of the candidate whom Thomas was
supporting. The people didn't vote right
for Lewis but there was no Ghet Thom-
as to tell them so.
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Modern Fiction.
Old Lump Jawed Cattle Days.
d. IIIfad Ll.a,.a- Z nj 6


Where the lump jaw came from no
body knew The editor over at Red
Dog thought that his rival. the editor
of the Dusty Gulch Bazoo. brought 1t
grip. lump jaw, ennui, SPAWN and corns
were popular. The editor of the Razoo
denied the charges and denounced the
Red Dog editor as a contemplate cur
in the next issue of the Dusty Gulch
Contemplate cur was not in the lexi-
con of words which were the cause for
a shooting and it was not until the Ba-
zoo editor called the Red Dog publisher
a plain, unvarnished liar that the mat
ter was settled. Then the funeral of the
editor from Dusty Gulch was held and
the Bazoo was combined with the Red
Dog Barker.
The combining of the two papers had
much to do with the Punishment Of the
unfriendly feeling that had always e1-
listed between the town people Of Red
Dog and the citizens of the Dusty Gulch
community ever since the day that
Wyoming Wallace OF Dusty Gulch had
handed Tuscon Charley of Red Dog a
black bottle filled with tomato catsuo,
spiked with caDsicum, which Iuscon
Charley supposed was pure bourbon ana
which he put to his lips and almost
drained before he knew the difference.
OF course wyoming Wallace's funeral
would have been held the next day l.
TuScOn Charley had been quick enough.
But the hammer Of his Colt caught III
the loose folds of his hunting shirt; and
it was his funeral which called for u
salvo of revolver shots the next day.
and it was his pony. saddle and bride
that the probate judge had to sell to pay
the funeral expenses
That a Dusty Gulch man would make
a Red Dog man drink catsuD and then
shoot him besides was more than Red
Dog could stand and for years the
citizens of the two towns had looked for
each other over every rise and had
saluted each other with well directed
shots The country between Red Dog
and Dusty Gulch was mighty un-
healthy for several years. because of the
stray bullets.
Tt was unhealthy until the lump jaw
came to the country and the long
horns had their jaws swelled up bigger
than bundle of steer hides ready for
shiDnent.
But with the consolidation Of the two
pa apers came the passing of the enmity.
and when the mayor of Red Dog sent
case of canned tomatoes over to the
mayor Of Dusty Gulch and the mayor
at the Gulch sent back a case of the
hest whisky there was in the camp, the
trouble ended. The old lump-jawed cat
tie days marked the new era in the
Black Jack region.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.l

IF'rom the Atchison Globe.1
A skunk is never really powerful until
you kick It.
Those who love you: Have you any
other proof than their word?
When a woman is tough. she can
make man ashamed of himself.
An Atchison person is going away for
a rest who cannot possibly be tired.
We hope the harp playing in heaven
viii not sound anything like the graph
ophone.
We should think the last place on
earth to get married would be on your
death bed.
Some people are like a river: the only
way they can attract attention is by
going on a rampage.
If a girl has d long head. she will
postpone the marriage Indefinitely rath-
er than go to live with his folks.
A love affair that is proper and sensi-
BILE isn't very entertaining, either to the
parties concerned, or TO the gossips.
An Atchison woman has a way of
looking cross. well" her husband says
to her, get the club out Of your face
AS soon as man gets richf his wife
begins to hire a girl to do the cooking,
and he doesn't fare as well as when they
were poor.
to be a sign of a poetic temperament,
and those of their neighbors to denote
biliousness.
Which is harder on the nerves: to
see some annoying accident befall a wo-
man who doesn't swear, or to one who
can swear, and does2
1t is told of an Atchison woman that
it takes her so long to make a dress
that every garment she finishes is two
years old in style when completed.
St. Joe is to have a saloon which will
pay a rent of $4,000 a. year. The most
dangerous saloon is the fine one Lots
Of young jays think they are in good
society if they patronize a fine saloon.
Here is a chance to worry: they say
that Helen Gould is overworked, and
must have a long rest. Miss Gould rises
every morning at o'clock and devotes
two hours of every day to charity work.
It is slowly killing her.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14
Po1NTEp PARAeRAPHs.

Lffom the 1HicdBO NeWSl
Never draw sight draft on a blind
man.
Too many quarrels are picked before
they are ripe.
You can't convince a brunette that all
is fair in love.
Prejudice roosts on a perch from
which facts are barred.
Men never know as much about any
thing as women know about dress.
It's safter TO learn from your enemies
than it is to instruct your friends
There may be lot of credit due a
mans wife, but she usually demands
cash.
Women forget a lot of things they
never would forgive if they remembered
them.
IT was SO cold in Chicago recently
that a pickpocket who happened to
touch a SO gold piece Immediately
froze to it.
There's nothing like leather-with the
possible exception Of q Welsh rarebit.
Every mans house IS his castle until
he makes an assisnment-then it's his
Wife's.
The smoker who has good cigar and
nothing to light it with knows what
matchless misery really is
There has been a great deal of alice
in-Wonderland" literature current late
ly relative to thermometers.
Had Diogenes visited this country
while on his famous still hunt some get
rich-quick promoter would have swfped
his lantern.
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Declaring His Intent.

Tacoma Ledger:
James Jeffries has agreed to mees
James ]. Corbett in the ring. The fact
IS not of considerabl importance. One
Of these men doubtless is the physical
superior of the other. but which is the
one there is not the slightest reason foA
caring. If, after the manner of the his
Vorical felines. the pair could fight eacn
other to tatters. abating themselves as
have occasion to encourage the meeting.
The saddening truth is that there is not
the slightest confidence in either of them
and there can be no assurance that they
are not even now planning a joint raid
upon the public purse. without the
slightest notion to doing each other an
injury. The bitter hatred they are pro-
Tossing for each other is probably the
creation of the press agent
However. it would be well to take the
word Of Jeffries this time. He declares
that if he meets Corbett in the ring he
will kill him if ne can. Here is a dec
laration of intent Sometimes men are
killed in the ring, but invariably there
has been lack of punishment because
there mas been nc Showing of intent or
Of malice. Jeffrias has declared the in
tent and shows the malice There only
remains to him the pleasing duty of
carrying out his plans. and if there Is
justice in the land the hangman with
do most of the rest. provided the plans
work. While it would be more pleasing
to have these bruisers removed from
sight and hearing in some other less
shocking fashion there will be no
mourning if they elect to go out in
fashion that viii give specta tors the
worth of the price of admission.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14
SEVERE ATTACK OF GRIP
Cured by One Bottle of ChamberIain's
Cough Remedy.

when had an attack of grip last win
ter (the second one) actually cured my
Cough Remedy SAYS Frank ". Perry.
editor Of the Enterprise Shortsviile N Y
This is the honest truth. I at times kept
from coughing myself to pieces by taking
a teaspoonful Of this remedy and when the
coughing spell would come on at night I
would take a dose and 1t seemed that in
off and I would go to sleep perfectly free
from cough and its accompanying pains.
To say that the remedy acted as a most
agreeable surprise is putting it mildly
had idea that it would or could knock
out the grip. simply because I had never
tried il for such a purpose. but it did ard
it seemed with the second attack Of cough
ing the remedy caused it to not only be Of
less duration, but the pains were far less
severe, and I had not used the contents of
one bottle before Mr. Grip had bid mo
adieu." For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
a Revolt Againat FootbaII.

"A ~@~f~Ak "A = se~AA4Se = ~~eA@--~-'
Pittsburg Dispatch:
A new subject is thrown into the neiu
of controversy by the open declaration
Of Prof Hollis of Harvard against the
Yale Harvard football match. and MS
proposition that Harvard shall withdraw
from it, Prof. Hollis seems to be swayed
by the older theory Of colleges as lnstl-
tutions for intellectual development,
with physical proWess a secondary con
sideration. The attachment to that
ancient ideal develops an irrepressloie
conflict with the present practice OF
making the most impressive and popular
collegiate functions the test Of bodily
strength and avoirdupois-
1t is a fOregone conclusion that Prof.
Hollis proposition Will be contested as
stubbornly as an advance of rival
team on the gridiron. In view of the
eNtremities of such a contest the Dis
patch's compromise may become a ne
cessity. This is an age of specialization.
Why not differentiate as to the func-
ton Of colleges2 Let those which exist
for the purpose of mental training
eschew their physical competitions ana
let those which regard the football
arena as the chief end of the under o
graduate man devote their entire atten-
ton to that art. This exclusive apDhca-
ton to the purpose would probably pro-
duce more complete triumphs in each
line,
The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14
An ImPoRTANT ELECTION.

The election to be held in Topeka on
April is one of the most important 10
the welfare of the city which has ever
been held.
Besides the question Of mayor, which
so far has absorbed and monoDolized
attention. the historic question of city
ownership Of waterworlxs win come up
for final settlement
Do the people Of Topeka want to own
the waterworlzs2
on April that question will be an
swered once for all. If the clamor in
favor of city ownership is not a gigantic
popular bluff, the proposition to vote
bonds to buy the plant will carry. If
it is defeated, there may never be an
other chance offered
It has seemed from the beginning Of
the city ownership agitation that there
is an overwhelming sentiment in this
city in favor of the 1%oposition. It is
generally conceded that the city would
be able to save as much by owning its
waterworks as it has saved by owning
its electric light plant. Topeka has
cheaper electric lights than any other
city of its size in the United States hav.
ing private electric lighting of the
streets. There is no reason why it
should not turn into its own treasury
the forty or fifty thousand dollars a
year which the waterworlxs plant is said
to be earning for its present owners.
The only argument which has been ad-
vanced against the plan to buy the
waterworks is that the price Cs620,000)
is too high. This is a matter upon
which opinions differ. 1t is a big dnan-
cial deal; good deal bigger and more
complicated than nine-tenths of the peo-
pie Of Topeka are capable of fully com
pretending. The remaining one-tenth
would probably have to spend a good
many weeks or months in study to get
at the bottom Of the transaction. The
ordinary citizen and voter will have TO
be guided largely by the opinion of
those who are expert in such matters,
who have studied into the question, and
are known to be working for the best
interests of the whole community.
We believe that the majority of those
competent to advise in regard to the
transaction are satisfied that the price
is not too high They have figured
carefully. and think that the investment
Of s620,000 viii, if properly administered,
earn s. 10 or possibly 20 per cent. be
sides enabling the city to reduce rates
and ultimately give greatly improved
service Inc only feature winch stands
as a menace is the danger of political
administration Of what should be a
strictly business institution. They be-
lieve in regard to this that if the cleo
trio light plant can be run prohtably
by the city, the waterworks plant can
also be made a good investment. They
say that the plant is really worth much
more than 100000 when its franchise is
assured.
The fact that the water company can
offer to reduce rates 20 per cent, TO
agree to extend mains at the rate OF
two to five miles a year, and make other
concessions, is very good evidence that
as operated at present, the water plant
is a big money maker.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14

A comparison of the wheat receipts
at eight winter wheat and spring wheat
markets for three seasons to the end of
January shows that this year the re-
Caipts were considerably In excess Of
either of the two preceding seasons,
the total being 1S9,661 sos bushels. com
pared with 174,4s3,76s bushels to the
end of January. 1902, and 1904, ,2ss
bushels to the end of January, 1901
Trunk line shipments of grain Of all
kinds from Chicago for the first FIVE
weeks of 1903 amounted to 1887 600
bushels in 1902 and 12,194.0oo bushels
ln IlnI.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-03-14
TO Encourage Big Families.

BuftalO Express.
President Roosevelt's warning about
the small American family has evil
IDENTIFY sunk deep into the heart of one
man and perhaps has touched his mind.
though on the latter point we are not
quite so sure This Individual is a
member of the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture and 1t is for that reason he is get
ting his name into the newspapers. To
be sure, he has an idea, he might call
it an inspiration; but if it We're not for
his position as a legislator that idea
might never have been heard Of Rep
resentative Blumle, like President
Roosevelt, wants to do something to
conserve the American nation. and like
the president he thinks the large fam
lily is just the way to go about it. So
he has introduced in the Pennsylvania
house bill which makes these provi-
siOns:
That any lawfully married woman
who is the mother OF six children shall
receive $40 in money and a gold medal.
Any lawfully married woman who is
the mother of nine children, shall re-
ceive $50 in money and gold medal.
Any lawfully married woman who is
the mother of twelve children shall re-
ceive $25 in money and a gold medal.
Any lawfully married woman who is
the mother of fifteen children shall re-
ceive $50 in money and gold medal
That every seventh son or daughter
of any lawfully married husband or
Wlle VINO small De porn WltlIl the COM
monwealth of Pennsylvania shall be
educated by and at the expense Of the
said commonwealth in any school,
academy or college so desired by said
son or daughter: provided, however,
that the cost OF such education shall in
no instance exceed the sum of $500.
That on the first day of July in each
and every year warrant shall be
drawn by the auditor general on the
state treasurer for all such moneys as
aforesaid and for gold medals, like
wise the amount expended for educa-
ton as above provided, and the said
payments or premiums shall be for
warded to the respective parties en-
titled thereto by the state treasurer
We fear Mr.. BIumle would be dis
appointed with the results to be had
through this measure if it did become a
law II he is to encourage large fam
lies by monetary rewards it is alto
gether likely that the women who are
to be the mothers of these large fam
lilies will want more than SO for six, $50
for nine, S25 for twelve and $50 for If
teen. It is not what would be called
good pay. And as for the medals. does
Mr Blumle expect to have annual ex-
hibitions of prize winners, or parades
at the county fairs2