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The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Divorce while You Wait.

Detroit Journal:
The constitution says that full faith
and credit shall be given in each state
to the judicial proceedings of every
other state A judicial proceeding in
South Dakota declared that Charles
Andrews was divorced from his Wife
Andrews was q Massachusetts man,
who had gone to South Dakota as one
of the endless procession of divorce
seekers. with no bona fide intent to
make the state his home The laws OF
that state, however, affirm that resi-
dence there for six months constitutes
divorce. Andrews father willed prop
erty to the wife of my son, Charles
S. Andrews" Andrews married again
after the Dakota divorce. The Massa-
chusetts court decided that, as he had
not acquired a legal dOmicile in South
Dakota, the property so devised went
to the woman he first married
The supreme court of the United
States row sustains this decision.
while holding at the same time that
the federal constitution is not in any
way involved. Justice White said. IN
rendering the decision Of the court, that
as Andrews had taken UP six months
residence in South Dakota for the sole
purpose of securing a divorce the tenn
porary change OF residence did not
amount to a change of domicile nor to
change of citizenship. Hence the courts
of South Dakota were without iurisdic-
ton. Andrews being STILL as before his
visit to South Dakota, q citizen OF Mas
sachusetts.
A Sioux Falls. S. D.. telegram. ad-
vances the opinion that the decision will
not affect regularly granted Dakota
divorces. Andrews, this authority says
did not maintain more than pretense
of residence in South Dakota: had he
stayed there throughout the six months
as if he intended to stay there perman-
emily the decision Of divorce would have
held. This is not the plain reading Of
the abstract of the supreme courts
opinion. however.
It is notorious that scores of divorces
are obtained on six months hotel resi-
dence in South Dakota towns. and di
vorce is granted in spite Of the knowl-
edge that the divorced person will take
the next train to his home in another
state. The courts of South Dakota wink
at the mockery because the legislature.
for the gain of the hotels and boarding
houses. has passed laws that all but
compel the judges to be party to the
fiction that a really legal domicile can
be made out Of what is not a domicile at
all in point Of open and notorious fact.
But in any event we cannot see where
the United States supreme court had
any voice in the matter. except to de-
clare that Massa chusetts should give
credit to the findings of South Dakota S
regularly constituted authority. The
fact of dissenting opinions indicates
that the point was debated by the jus
tees The full text of the decision is
needed for a right understanding of It's
effect on divorces in Dakota while you
wat.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31
porNrED PARAeRAPRs.

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Beware of barkIess dogs and silent
men
No ore is pfouder of his job than the
self-nade man.
The real hero doesn't need a brass
band to herald his coming.
It is difficult to Judge a woman by the
things she doesn't say.
Some people borrow trouble for the
purpose of giving it to others
A man isn't necessarily proud Of a
cold in his head because he blows about
it.
A diplomat is a man who can pocket
an insult in haste and get even at less-
ure.
Talkative people seldom say much,
but 50 long as they think they do they
are happy
For every man who IS willing to lift
you wiz find a dozen Wiling to stand
by and grunt.
What a different world this would be
If eourtship were a training school for
what comes after.
Marriage may be failure or it may
not be. In either case there Is q. lot Of
indisputable evidence to the contrary.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31
I'VE JOINED THE IRON aRAYs.

1t seems SO strange a few short years
Can change a mortal so.
Some tracing out of hopes and fears
A little JOY and woe
Since I was at my mothers knee
count the time in days:
'I1s but a dream-and yet you see
I've Joined the Iron Grays.
And many who were boys with me.
Are marching in the ranks;
And some are standing in the front,
And some are on the hanks.
Old Time, you know, is SO precise,
He never lags nor stays;
So, just to keep him company,
I've joined the Iron Grays.
On ev'ry hand: They come! They come!
These veterans of earth;
From country fields and cities hum,
From want and toll and mtrth-
like these thoughtful visaged men,
1 like their earnest ways;
I'd love to be q boy-but then
I've Joined the Iron Grays.
I've Joined the IRON Grays for life.
look for no reprieVe;
And though the service brings me strife,
It will not do to grieve.
Some things there are which, though We
dare.
We do them in amaze;
So scarcely conscious how, or where.
I've joined the Iron Grays.
Topeka, Kan. A. WOODWARD.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe
How many people are familiar with
Ananiass
An Atchison man calls the ends Of
beefsteak boy tenderloin."
mans invitations to his house don't
go, unless accompanied by his wifes
cazd-
1t doesn't cost a cent to be a gentle
man. but it may cost you your life to
be fool.
Was there ever a man who could not
be successfully sued for breach Of
2romsse2
It is one sign Of approaching age when
you can see where you have blundered
We wish we knew a wooden legged
man well enough TO ask ii he takes his
leg off when he goes to bed
Bible text for the girl who spends all
her time in front of the mirror, and all
her money on lotions: Can the leopard
change his spots2
On a Monday morning a joke has to
be twice as funny to make man smile,
and an annoyance hos to be only hait
sized to make him swear.
Hold on to your handkercbiefs. The
women have found that they can make
an apron OUT of two, a corset cover out
of one, and a laundry bag out OF three,
but that only mems handkerehisfs can
be used.
An Atchison woman explains Why she
is an old maid to the satisfaction of
every one: she has so much consiaera-
ton for her friends that she decided not
to marr2 and stick them for wedding
4or-ocdr7fG
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31
watterson and Lincoln.

brooklyn times.
The dinner of the Confederate Vet
eran Camp of New York at the Wal
durf-Astoria, in Manhattan, Monday
evening. was q notable affair." in many
respects. and must have been an oc-
casion of the most intense interest to
the grizzled survivors of the gallant
hosts that followed the stars and bars
in the civil war There were many
notable speeches, and one Of the speak
ers. Charles Francis Adams, made the
excellent suggestion that a statue OF
Robert +. Lee should be raised by
private subscription and erected with
the consent of congress in Arlington
cemetery. the old home of the confed-
crate leader. The chief speech of the
evening. however. took the shape Of
high and appreciative tribute to Abra-
ham Lincoln. by Col. Henry Watterson,
of Louisville The eloquent Ken
tuckian spoke warmly and earnestly
in praise of Lincoln, but there was one
passage in his speech which may chai-
lenge CRITICISM. II Lincoln had lived.
said Col. WatterSon. there would
have been no era Of reconstruction, With
its repressiye agencies and oppressive
legislation If Lincoln had lived there
would have been wanting to the ex
tremism of the time the bloody cue Of
his taking off to mount the steeds and
spur the hanks of vengeance. For Lin
coin entertained, with respect to the re-
Mobilization Of the Union, the single
wish that the southern states-to use
his homely phraseology-' should come
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

at the present rate Of entry. 80. 900, 600
acres will be absorbed during the pres
ent year. If the desert land law, and
the Communication clause of the home
stead law, should be repealed today.
the filings already made would result
in an actual fund OF 10000. 900.
Twenty million dollars says
prominent irrigation official Of the
geological survey, els enough money
for this reclamation fund for the next
ten years. It is ample. Moreover the
repeal of these miserable laws would
by no means cut off receipts from land
sales. This would still amount to over
81 900 900 a year. But it would be bet
ter that the revenue from land sales
should entirely cease at once than that
the land should all be grabbed before
the government can take any action
in the matter"
The American people, under these
laws, are selling their birthright for a
mess of pottage. That the remaining
public lands Of the west should be held
In trust by the government for the use
of future settlers and men and women
who want homes. has been the demand
of the great majority of the people of
the country for a decade. Every at
tempt to secure the cession Of this land
to the states has been overwhelmingly
rejected, and yet the spoliation of this
inheritance is going on now. surely and
swiftly, with almost no realization by
the country Of what Is being done. They
are slipping from the nations grasp
and the people viii suddenly wake up
to the fact that they have been squan,
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31
The Fuel Question.

Detroit Free Press:
There seems to be nothing that the
government or the public can do about
IT, Even the heaven sent genius who
was to give us a cheap substitute for
coal in the hour of our need has not
appeared. We shall undoubtedly man
1ge to get through the winter without
freezing but all of us may be pardon
ed if we express some little anxiety a S
70 the future Are so 600 600 persons to
be subjected to all this annoyance and
expense and discomfort and worry every
time the anthracite coal trust and the
anthracite labor trust disa gree? That
is the great fuel question now before
the American people.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

The Monroe doctrine about which
so much has been said and written was
set forth by President Monroe in
message to congress as follows: with
the existing colonies and dependencies
of any European power we have not
interfered and shall not interfere. But
with governments who have declared
their independence and maintained it.
and whose independence we have. on
great consideration and on just prin-
oiples, acknowledged, we could not
view any interposition for the purpose
of depressing them or controlling in
any other manner their destiny by any
European power in any other light
than as the manifestation of an un-
friendly disposition toward the United
States" is Venezuela being op-
Dressed
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

Milwaukee Journal: There was a time
when the publication of the wage scale
of any low wage country was sufficient
to prove that we are open to an inva-
sion Of cheap foreign goods. That won't
work now. People have come to under
stand that day wages is not a measure
of cost. The results Of labor must be
reckoned with the wage. No matter
how nigh the wage may be. it is cheap
labor if it produces greater values in
the product. more and better goods
Skill and energy are paid for with profit
in high wages The mere fact that a
glass worker in Austria gets but a dol
lar a day while one in this country gets
five. does not prove that Austrian Labor
is cheap labor. 1t may, on the other
hand. be very costly labor The wase
scale has very little to do with the
actual cost of labor compared with
product In this completer sense. there
is no country in the civilized world
where labor is so cheap as here
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

A cablegram from Honolulu Informs
Us that in consequence of the removal
Of the duty on coal. shippers of that
article viii save $4,000 on "a cargoes
which are now en- route for that port.
lt Is not clear whether it is the con-
signor or the consignee that stands to
save the $4,000, either of whom might
be regarded as the shipper, but it is
made evident that the consumer de-
Nives no benefit
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

1t is barely possible that In attaching
an omnibus statehood amendment to
the appropriation bills. Senator Quay
was guarding against a possible veto
Of the original bill for the admission of
the territories.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

Additional and extended complications
Of the Venezuela matter are liable to
seriously muss I'D the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition situation. The mana
gers might do well to appeal to the di-
plomats to prevent a crisis until after
the fair
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

"a general mixup over Venezuela
which would include England. Germany
and italy on one side and the United
States, France, Belgium, Holland and
Norway on the other would afford en-
tertainment il not enjoyment FOR the
peace loving car.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

Probably the safest thing to do was
to blame the engineer for the New4Jer-
sey wreck. as he is dead. At anytrate
that IS what the officials Of the road
l.---.. .l--n
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

The wisconsin, published at Nil
wauzee. declares that those who are
supporting the omnibus statehood bill
are doing so because it will embarrass
the administration. How will it?
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

The few people who were in Topeka
35 years ago during the stirring times
when Jim Lane, the grim chieftain Of
Kansas" was battling for the sena-
torial toga and won it, are likely to
have brought to their minds by the
present session Of the legislature, many
long stored away "reminiscences.
One of these that may be thought Of
is the trip Col. George w. Neale, now
custodian Of the state house, made in
the interests of Tom Carney, who was
in the fight for the election as United
states senator against Lane.
The Carney forces heard that a Ger
man representative from the short
grass country was headed toward To-
peka. Col. Neale was sent to meet
him and to win him over TO the Carney
forces. In those days the short grass
senators Travelled by stage. This par
ticular German sta atesman was like the
rest and when ne stepped from the
creaking, dusty stage at Junction City.
Col. Neale happened" to be there and
they went together to the hotel for din
nsr. Veale paid the bills and he and
the German got on famously together
They had good. friendly time in
Junction City before they started for
In due course of time Col. veale
broached the subject closest to his
heart, viz, where the German stood in
the senatorial fight.
Il am anti-Shim Lane man." said
the German.
Col veale was delighted There was
another vote for Tom Carney and
Neale would h-ing the German into
the Carney camp in Topeka with a
flourish of trumpets and lay another
vote ut Carney's feet.
Col Veale felt so good that he bought
the German cigars, edibles and bever-
ages and everything he wanted. He
treated him ike a king and he really
thought that German was the finest
Teuton rhe had ever met
They took up their journey to To-
peka. Col. Veale and the German and
they got on fsmously. Before starting
/ Col Veale sent q telegram to the Car
ney camp II Topeka that must have
gladdened the hearts Of the forces.
AS they neared Topeka Col. Veale
thought he would like to again hear
those pleasant words of the German $,
that he was an anti-Jim Lane man.
They seemed 50 sweet to him. soft
ened bv the brogue of the foreigner.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

It begins to look as though the allies
had separated from the South Ameri-
can chunk a larger morsel than they
can successfully masticate.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

Representative Nations bin providing
FOR a court Of conciIiation may have
been prompted by the situation as re-
CARDS the boss busters" and the ma
chlne.I
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

Most Of US think more OF ourselves
than we are really worth, but not so
Mrs. Nation. At lola the people fought
to hear her and the opera house doors
had to be locked to keep the building
from going down in a crush.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

The Venezuela affair already has
served one useful purpose. 1t has taught
the kaiser and the remainder of the
world that German gunners can't shoot.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

A Franklin county prodiga1 son makes
the mistake of returning home when
pOrterhouse is worth 25 cents per pound.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31


Master of political destinies am Il
Jobs, pay and power on my decis-
ion wait.
Copeland's halls I walk, 1 pene-
trate.
Schemes and plots occult, and passing
by
Senate and house and caucus. soon
or late
7 hold the fate of every candidatei
If campaigning. wait; If mending
fences, stop before
I go away 1t is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me 1 nom
And elect, over every foe
Save death, but they who doubt or
hesitate.
Condemned to failure and defeat
must CO.
Seek me in vain and uselessly imploTe.
I answer not. and work for them no
more.
-Ananias Fisher.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

Washington Post: We have no pa
thence whatever with those persons who
intimate that the new. senator from
Kansas is not a great man. Did he not
aeleat Jerry simpson for oongress2
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

Quay continues to occupy nearly the
entire senatorial road with his omnibus.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

Now is a good time for the advocate
Of a railroad down the isthmus into
South America to do little talking.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-01-31

He brought up the subject and by
maneuvering got to the place where the
representative from the short grass
grass country would repeat the state
ment.
"Yaas. I vas an anti-Shim Lane
man. said the German. But I vas
instructed to vote for Shin Lane and
will vote fer Shin Lane for senator
until hades is frozen over"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-10-16

The train was ON windy pass i'm thc
Rockies There were I'm the car a few
miners two cowboys, woman, who
looked III, gpd man clothed I'm vcry
British tW"ods. lie was evidently used
10 rOughng il and sat beside the open
window Indifferent to the cold air that
swirlcd into the car.
Behind him sat the woman, SILVER
ing Across the aisle was large
boncd wcstcrncr He did not seem -
mind the wind himself but he gave 4
kind, soicitous glance toward the wu-
man.
After an hour of shiycring She leaned
forward ana asked the man in front of
her 10 close the window. He paid no
attention 10 her request, except that he
looked straight ahead aud said. al
dressing himself 10 the world at large,
"Amcricaus seem TO be IA weak lot
Then the tall man across the aisle
rose slowly Ills head came just under
the bell cord. He reached across the
tweed suit pushed the owner of (
rather wdoly into the corner of the
seat, laid hold of the window catch
with his big thumb and finger and sent
the window down with a slam.
IL guess we amt SO very weak, parc-
ncr," he said
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-10-16
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

An electric pickppckct alarm BIS
been invented by "A man in Manchcs-
ter, England.
The experiments Of Muller prove that
If microbes be placpl In n gun barrel
the wound made by "a bullet fred from
it would be infected by the microbes.
Commercial phosphorus Is satisfar-
torily made by missing the finely pow
dcrcd phosphate material with carbon
ana sand I'm tho electric furnace and
then, when heated distilling the phos-
phOrus from the mass and collecting
II under water.
Such common substances Hs sugar,
glucose and chalk having been found
TO absorb sunlight all day ana to give
It off I'm rays during the night, the dis
covcry Of some means for rendering
these rays useful I'm Illuminating
houses at night with little expense
seems a possibility OF the near future.
The thorium atom, universally be
licvcd since its discovery by BcrZcliu'
thrcc-martcrs of century ago to b.
single aad indyisiblc particle Of
matter, now appears aS the progcnitor
of five new substances, even more elc-
mental than itself evolved by success
s,ve o&1 spontaneous changes within
ita substance
The scientific reason for the popping
OF corn has been investigated by Pro
fcssor Kragmer of Philadelphia, who
finds that the endosperm Is more or
less translucent and horny ana its cells
contain closely arranged polygonal
starch grains having "a central rarcicd
urra The degree of the expansion OF
these cells depends upon the relative
amount of water ana air in the grain.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-10-16

An Easy and simple Way of securing
Health mud Good Looks.

Exercise b much more necessary 10
human life than most women think.
Healthy stimulation IL an absolute
need; without IL the body VIII rust
nnd fan 10 bits. The baby that never
crccps about or kicks or exercises az
all either wastes into q tiny midget OF
bones and wrinkles or else takes on
pounds Of unhealthy fat and becomes
soft and short brcathrd and without
vitality
The brain that never calls upon IT.
self for work must become dull ami
stupid, ana IL Is the same way with
the muscles Of tho body. They are
filed with blood vessels that should
be up and doing The blood has scY-
eral purposes. and Ona is lo carry away
much Of the waste fluids Of the body
The lungs are a sort Of refinery, ana
the blood is a disulli1g agent II the
blood becomes thick and unhealthy and
sluggish the body does not keen Its
youthful state Eye grow dull; lips
lose their rcdncss; the complexion is
sallow and unloyaly
II is an easy and simple matter 10
make exercise a habit-iust like the
habit Of putting ont thc lights at night
and wondering II burglars will show
mp before morning.
4 most excellent scheme Is 10 take
long, slow full broaths whenever YOU
have a chauce-whcu you arc whiting
for car, when you are walking, when
you are going 10 sleep, when you have
just awakcnca.
such habits are valuable. most valu-
able, but because they don't cost any
thing and are a little trouble lots Of
women fancy there is nothing In such
practices. NOnscEsc, LCol, at the ath-
lctic men that train. They are the
hcalthicst, strongest, finest looking
creatures I'm cXistcuc'.
Go thou and do likewise on n little
scalc.-Chicago Rccord-licrald.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-10-16
The one Above.

| especially remember Emile de Gil
rardm, editor spoutcr, intrigucr-thc
Grand Emile" who boastcd that he
invented and presented 10 the French
people new idea every day. This
futile activity of his always seemed to
me best expressed In the American
slmilc, BUSY ns "A bee in Il tar barrel
There was. indeed, one thing TO his
credit: lie had somehow inspired his
former wife, the gifted Dclphinc Gay,
with a belief I'm his greatness, and Il
pretty story was current illustrating
this. During the revolution of 1SlS
various men of note, calling on Mime.
Girardin. expressed alarm at the prog
rcss OF that most foolish of ovCrturns,
when she said, with an air of great
solcmuity and pointing upward, Gen
tlcmcn. there IS one above who watches
over France" CIl Y I'm ln-haut qui
vcillc sur Ia Franco All were great
" impressed 10y this evidence Of sub
lime faith until they discovered by the
context that IL was not the Almighty
I'm whom she put her trust, but the
great Emile, whose study was just
above her parlor.-Andrew ID. White in
Century.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-10-16
Grccn rIncnrnIc Lnicc.

The juice of the green pineapple Is
accredited iu Java. I've Philippines and
throuuh""t The far east generally with
being a mood poison OF a most dead y
nature. Leulta mentions il as tie
substance with which The Aalays ICi-
son their crecscs and daggcrs AMI as
the Finger nail' poison formerly n
use among aboriginal Jayancsc women
almost universally These women cJl-
tIvatcd q nail ON each hand to long,
sharp point, and the least scratch from
one of these was certain death.