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The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
TANGLED BOOKKEEPING.

mayor NeH or Kansas City has re-
Gently been informed by an expert
accountant whom he employed to ex-
anime the city's books, that the city
is losing S125,o00 year through it's
defective system of bookkeeping,
Perhaps it would be a good plan
to have an expert accountant examine
the books of Topeka and see how
much we are losing through the pres
ent methods. If Kansas City is losing
S125,00O, it is safe to say that Topeka
might be losing about $4,000. The
State Journal does not pretend to be
able to say where this leakage occurs,
or who is responsible. But there is
reason to believe that if it exists at
Kansas City, it also exists here
The system of bookkeeping en-
ployed in Topeka is undoubtedly un-
satisfactory. 1t does not enable the
mayor, city council or anybody else to
arrive at an accurate or satisfactory
understanding of the true condition of
the city finances. It requires an ex-
pert and several days time to really
reach any conclusions about the
actual state of the exchequer. Efforts
have been made by the council from
time to time to patch this thing up.
Various resolutions have been passed;
the city clerk has been required to
make certain elaborate monthly re-
ports of doubtful value to anybody;
the city officials have been required to
make out highly ornamental estimates
on their future expenses which were
never worth the paper they were
written on in practical results; other
beautiful financial patches have been
applied to the city's bookkeeping sys-
tenn, and it stands today for exactly
hot fc
patched up system of bookkeeping,
which ought to be relegated to the
museum of ancient history.
without any special reflection on
any city officials, it must be admitted
that very often men are placed in po-
sitions requiring clerical and financial
ability of the highest order who would
do very well in some positions, but
who are utterly at sea in the presence
of city transactions involving the re-
ceipt and expenditure of hundreds of
thousands of dollars a year. They do
the best they can, but they don't un-
derstand the work which they are
called upon to perform. They simply
get into the rut established by their
predecessor. and stay there as closely
as possible for fear of making a mis-
step. Hence it is that the present
bookkeeping system of Topeka, while
it may have been entirely adequate
for the city's needs twenty or thirty
years ago. has not improved or kept
pace with the city's needs, is now out
grown. and should be discarded.
The National Municipal league,
acting under the encouragement and
advice of the United States census
bureau, has laid out the general plans
for a perfect system of municipal
bookkeeping. How would it do for
the city council of Topeka to have a
committee of such men as S. T. Howe,
VIM. Green and w. S. Bergundthal,
all of whom are familiar with account
ing, investigate the existing situation,
and present to the city a new plan
for municipal bookkeeping to replace
the present methods?
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
JAYHAwKER JOTs.

PooI rooms billiard halls and bowling
alleys are prohibited at La crosse.
Salina raises her batting average tri-
fie by producing a three foot carrot.
lola is too busy to patronize the Rest
Room and the place has been closed.
The rainy day fund of Topeka woman
reached SIS. when 1t went INTO ram
coat.
A Pratt woman has paid $500 to her hus-
band for a divorce, which was proDapIy
good business deal.
A WaKeeney church is paying on It's IN
debtedness by giving dances
A Seneca man now 90 years old has been
quit smoking New Years day.
Sam Moon, a Topeka jointist, Is Ian
gushing in Jail, not for being full him
self, but for "eclipsing others.
An Athol girl has Joined the Dowie set
Element at zion City. From her youth she
has been an admirer of whiskers-
The letter that you are expecting that
didn't come was probably In the roppeo
mail sack at Formosa, December s.
The munching of peanuts at the Fort
Scott opera house has become SO unlVer-
sal that delicate stage situations are
eclipsed.
The SaIina police occasionally overlook
a cycle rider on the sidewalk, but when
it comes to a full grown horse, a heavy
winfield church ladies are to give a shin
gle social. AS the programme is unan-
nounced, the men folks are In doubt about
attending.
The Leavenworth girl who swallowed
a so cent piece evidently never thought
how much more she would have enjoyed
swallowing 50 cents worth or chocolate
drops.
A Highland girl hopes to make enough
money by Christmas to buy herself plain
getting a tidy sum for not being late at
breakfast.
A lost purse at Larned containing s12
hasn't been restored yet The advertise
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

cost Of living in the executive residence
it is Increasing the compensation of
the governor contrary to the constitu-
ton. In reality if the states does not
make up this extra cost it is virtually
decreasing the governors compensation
by compelling him to pay the expense
of keeping up the states property.
The Capital seems to have reversed
the rulings of some of the courts in
reaching its verdict, but that, of course,
is a small matter. It may even find 1t
necessary to overrule and reverse the
Kansas supreme court, for the supreme
court will probably be governed by the
real facts in the case and not by those
manufactured by the Capital.
The Capital is, of course only acting
as the mouthpiece of its friend, State
Treasurer Kelly, in the matter. Mr..
Kelly did not approve Governor Bailey's
investigation of the state treasury and
the disclosure of the fact that there
have been large shortages in the treas
ury since Mr.. Kelly's connection with
it, Kelly thought to divert attention
from his own shortcomings and crimes
by accusing Governor Bailey of mis-
using his maintenance fund, although
Kelly had been paying the governors
warrants without objection for a year
only when he wanted to re-
taliate ana divert attention from him
self that he discovered" that Governor
Bailey was misusing his maintenance
fund And the Topeka Capital. which
has always defended Kelly as a thief,
is now doing it's best to besmirch Gov
ernor Bailey. an honest man.
1t would be very unfortunate for
Governor-elect Hoch if Mr.. Kelly and
the Capital had the deciding of this
case. Mr.. Hoch is a comparatively
poor man. His salary will be two thou
sand dollars greater than Governor
Bafley's has been, but if he is not al
lowed any maintenance appropriation
II VIII eat up the extra two thousand
and he will have to draw on the income
OF the Marion Record to help out, pro-
v1ding his expenses are the same as
Governor Bailey's have been. In other
words, Governor Hoch will give his SER
vices to the state and will not even get
all of his expenses back as compensa-
ton.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
EFrom the Atchison Globe ]

EFrom the Atchison Globe.1
When a boy is good to his mother he
can beat his sister at it.
When our turn comes we hope to hold
out as long as Port Arthur.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who got the mitten?
Farmers speak of the "off'' and near
horse. Do you know which is which2
Somehow we feel in our bones that it
is going to be awful quiet after Christ
mas.
Occasionally a man thinks he is grant
ing a favor when he is only returning one.
Kansas City firms are sending booze
things!
If you haven't much sense. and a lot of
us haven't, talk as little as possible. and
go slow.
Every man is mean enough to wonder
what a preacher does when he is alone in
New York.
ory that ones conversation sounds like
ancient history.
After a CRATE is burned out it is cast
aside, but a man must continue to use
the same old stomach
Somehow. the world never has time to
be sympathetic with the woman who
faints at dresSmaker'S.
An Atchison man who lately quit smok-
ing said today: I'm like Port Arthur: 1
haven't fallen yet"
When a man steps on a wQman's dress
and she does not resent it, it is a sign she
is interested in him.
They are rubbing it in, A late fad is to
make fancy stockings to hold the presents
you intend to make your friends.
Every time the average man puts new
chair or a picture in his office, his wife
thinks she ought to have 1t for the house.
Charley Crawford, who has been under
the weather for a week, managed to get
on top of 1t today and come down town.
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who made floating island and a
marble cake when she expected company
for supper?
When a poor but respectable young girl
is offered champagne by a rich young
man she should throw it in his face, ac-
cording to the Autographs of coming
show
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
OAMPBELL-Is FRIGHTENED.

The Washington Post, after COM
menting on Congressman Phil Camp
BELLS 14.000 plurality this year, quotes
him as follows:
'I am not pessirnist, but it occurs
to me that the growth of the Socialist
party, as evidenced by the Debs vote
in the last election, is enough to make
thoughtful people apprehensive of an
evil that menaees the country and its
institutions. 1t is the bounden duty of
the good men of both the great parties
and of patriots who are not partiSans
to make war on the socialistic propa-
ganda- The pulpit is powerful agency
on the side of conservatism, and it owes
it to it's own sacred calling to help de-
stroy this noxious and un-American
movement. Churchmen Of all creeds
should fight it, for socialism is the foe
of religion and of religious tenets and
practices. Because as yet the evil is
in its incipiency is no reason for ignor-
ing It; unless crushed early it will grow
and become tester in our national ex-
istence."
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
ToPEKA,s IDLE THEATER.

Public sentiment in Topeka demands
reform in the matter of theatrical
amusements for the theater-going
public.
People who seek amusement of this
nature have no recourse but to attend
theatrical performances in the Craw-
ford theater. a building which is
known to be unsafe and a menace to
the lives of those who happen to be
within it's walls.
At the same time the Grand opera
house, one of the best and safest of
theaters. is kept closed by the Craw-
ford management.
BY the expenditure of what may be
termed a nominal sum, the Grand
opera house could be repaired. the
heating plant improved, and the house
opened to the public. 1t is no more
than fair to the people who pay their
money for amusement of this kind
that they should have it furnished to
them under the most favorable cir
cumstances possible.
1t is a source of much regret to local
patrons of the theater that upon the
occasion when a production Of merit is
secured for Topeka that it is produced
in the Crawford theater, upon stage
so inadequate to the needs and demands
of the play and the public that but
portion of the scenic equipment may be
used.
The stage of the Grand theater Is
large enough to adequately accommo-
date the largest productions ever taken
on the road. The Grand theater has
solid brick wall between the stage and
the auditorium of the building which
with the equipment consisting of an
asbestos curtain would make it impos-
sible for fire to communicate from the
stage to the portion of the building oc-
cupied by the audience.
1t is a well known fact that the par
tition between the stage and the audi
torium of the Crawford t11eater is in
no wise the protection to the public
that it should be.
The Topeka public has clamored for
reforms in vain for a long time. It
would seem that the only method to be
employed to secure the needed reforms
will be for the public to stay away
from the theater. AS 1t is many people
in Topeka never enter the Crawford
it, and still others would stay away
If encouraged to do so. The State Jour
nal is satisfied that public sentiment
in Topeka is practically unanimous on
the theatrical situation in this city.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

clans in England and France on the
value of alcohol as a drug and its
dangers as a beverage, and there is
now on record a voluminouS mass or
testimony on the question, which is not
only of the highest scientific character,
but also free from the prejudice which
stultifies most of the prohibition liter
ature. These conclusions may be
summed up thus: In certain bodily
conditions, and when carefully admin
istered, alcohol is a valuable drug, but
at present it is used much too freely,
and consequently with harmful re-
suits. Its use as daily beverage in
any form is pronounced to be danger
Gus, physically and morally. 1t was
found that the death rate even among
moderate drinkers of the first class is
much larger than among total abstain
ers. This finding was reached from
statistics covering $4,000 lives in a
period of sixty-one years.
Now when cold blooded insurance
companies take this attitude, isn't it
about time that the fellows who can
take it or let it alone should drop it?
Society has right in this matter So
ciety pays its good hard earned taxes
to educate every man; to keep him
protected against fire and flood, to
give him sidewalks to walk on and all
sorts of comforts and luxuries. Now
society certainly has a right to ex-
pect that the man for whom it has
done so much will give back to civili-
zation as much az he gets, and GER
tainly society also has a right to say
that the man whom it educates shall
not take a poison that will shorten
his days, and make him less able to be
a wage Garner.
This whisky question is a common
sense question. There is no senti
ment about it.
Do you notice that President Roose-
welt is in favor of prohibition in the
Indian territory? He is a pretty SEN
sible man. He is not a crank, and has
come to his belief after considering
all the other ways of handling the
liquor question.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
WHISKY AND THINGS.
CFrom the Emporia Gazette.

From the EmpOr1a Gazette.
The Gazette is greatly abused for
sailing into whisky, and cleaning out
whisky drinkers. When the Gazette
refers to saloons and joints as poison
shops. the fellows around town who
like the editor of this paper by spells,
are apt to refer to him as an old pro-
hibition crank. Yet actuaries of lead
ing life insurance companies declare
that Investigations prove that drinking
men are such hazardous risks that a
new form policy should be adopted gov
erning their case. In thirty-six years
the deaths number 57,9S1 drinkers, as
against 1896 abstainers of men be-
tween the ages of 20 and 10 years
The conclusion of the actuaries is that
teetotaIers as a class live from 20 to
SO per cent longer than moderate
drinkers as a class. There has been
during the last year an unusual
amount of discussion by leading physf-
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
QUAKER REFLECTIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record.l


Always tidy-the ocean.
Self-praise won't get you a job.
Has a lot of good points-a paper of
pins.
No man is a bore who is willing to lend
money.
The letter b changes the ills that flesh
is heir to, to bills.
The oculist rejoices in the man who has
an eye for business.
The motto of the milkman is: ITO the
pure all things are pure
The coal man gives his coal a weigh,
and he eventually charges for it.
Misplaced confidence is not always the
result of being iabsent-minded-
When man comes to a definite con-
cllIsion he doesn't always stop there.
It's a good plan to forgive your enemies
before they get back at you.
Favors are generally loaned, and some
times at a high rate of interest
Some fellows regard every other man as
an opportunity to be made the most of.
In spite of the fact that it is a born
traveller, the postage stamp is always get
ting stuck.
Blobbs-'I hate to sit in a game with a
hot-headed poker player. Slobbs-'Thats
better than one with cold feet"
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

There are now So forest reserves,
created by presidential proclamations
under the act of March 8. 1891. en-
bracing 62.763,494 acres. This is an
increase over last year of 4os,529
acres. Nine additional forest reserves
have been established; the Crow Creek
forest reserve in Wyoming, has been
abolished; four have been somewhat
reduced in area and two have been
enlarged; while two-the Santa Ynez
forest reserve and the Pine Mountain
and Zaca Lake forest reserve. in the
state of Califorina-have been con-
solidated into one. under the name of
the Santa Barbara forest reserve. In
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

Under modern methods much of
the india rubber used in shoes, gar
ments and otherwise may now be re-
covered and by certain processes made
fit for further use, and the extent to
which this is now being done is indi-
Gated by the fact that the importations
of "old and scrap rubber fit only for
remanufacture. which amounted in
1894 to less than two million pounds,
were in the fiscal year 1904 over 20
million pounds.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

October 81. 1903, on authorized ma
tional bank capital of S766, ,367,Oe5,
there was on deposit with the treas
urer of the United States in trust as
security for circulation, United States
bonds to the amount of $3S2, ,726,SSo,
a fraction less than so per cent. of the
amount which might have been de-
posted. and on the security of which
there were outstanding circulating
notes TO the amount of $3S0,65O,S21.
In other words. national bank circu-
lation was less than half the amount
which might have been issued on
bonds deposited to the maximum
that is, the banks paid-in capital
stock.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

Last year was a great year for trade
in Japan-the greatest year yet, statis-
ticians say The exports aggregated a
value of S142,S0O.OO0. and the imports
$155. .652 900. Asia's purchases from
the island empire came to SCI, $50, 900,
Europe's to SS4.510,ooO, this country's
to S43,237.OOO. Japans purchases
from China came to S21, ,Se6,OOO, from
India (mostly rice) $3S,0s0,O00, from
Great Britain $24,O97.0O0, from
France $S.7S2. 900. from Germany $S,-
O94.0OO, and from the United States
$21.61S,o0O The total expectation was
larger by s15.232.OOO than in 1902,
and the importation by $23,SoO,o0o.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

Washington Post: Obviously the
president has a distinct and definite
purpose in failing to touch, in his mes
sage to congress. the most important
economic question of the day-the
tariff. His very silence emphasizes its
Importance. When, in his opinion, the
oppOrtune moment arrives-whether
early or late-it is not to be doubted
that he will speak with full enlighten-
ment and with the force of conviction.
He is not given to the evasion of re-
sponsibilities. If in this case a press
ing duty is deferred, it is evidently
with the wise intention of weighing
carefully all arguments for and against
revision before he acts.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
Merchant Police

IFrom the New York Press.1
The train that your relatives take to
visit you always on time.
Women would subtract even more years
from their age than they do except that
it would make them infants.
When a womans husband has made
money in the stock market she keeps 81
as secret as if she were a brass band
1t makes girl awful nervous when she
thinks man is proposing to her to fnd
he is telling her of his enga agement to an.
other.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

ment only says: Finder leave and receive
reward" 1t should say leave and receive
$13 reward.
The last football game at Stafford was
unusually tame, only two players being
shoulder blade broken, and the other four
ribs torn loose.
Out in Trego county a farmer has
moved every other row of teeth from his
threshing machine and is using it as
corn shelter. In human beings case a
row or two added would be a great con-
Venience.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

the latter case, an additional area, con-
sisting of private lands lying between
the two reserves, was also included.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

Whether or not Mrs. Chadwick be
convicted and punished. there should
be no hesitation about shutting up the
large number of bankers and capital
lists who loaned her money. The i'm
beetle asylum would be the proper
place for them
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

There were only sixty-two defective
ballots in the New York city election
this year, though Parker ran about
$4,000 votes behind Herrick in that
city. In 1901 over 1O.O ballots were
turned in as "defectiVe"
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10
Cured PARALYSIS.

W. s. Bailey, p. o. True, Texas, writes,
MY wife had been suffering FIVE years
persuaded to use Ballard's Snow I.inirnen1
which cured her all right. 1 have aIst
used 1t for old sores, frostbites and sl[in
ernptions. 1t does the work" 25c. SOC. 81 %
Sold by Rowley s. Snow and w. s. IiiicS
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

Hartford Post: Western legislators
propose to stop football by prohibiting
IT by law. From the results of pro-
hibitory legislation in Maine and
Kansas 1t might be wise to make the
playing of football compulsory as a
means to stopping it.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

Now that the Port Arthur fleet is
disposed of Admiral Togo probably
feels that he can take care of the
Baltic fleet when it arrives.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

If Mrs. Chadwick had established a
few libraries, perhaps Mr.. Carnegie
would have stood by her in the hour
of trouble.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

Mrs. Chadwick appears to have con-
Quoted her financial operations on the
endless chain plan.
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

''The Curse of Drink" is playing the
Minnesota theatrical circuit. Is this
''Ten Nights in a Barroom" under an
other name?
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

The question in Mrs. Chadwick s
case is not. where did she get it, but
what did she do with it
The Topeka state journal., 1904-12-10

VIII congressman never learn that
civil service has come to stay?
The St. Louis Republic., 1904-09-16
DELAGoA RAN BRILLIANT RACE.
Mig spFinter Picked In HI Po1nda
and walked In With Handicap.

Chicago. Sept. I5.-Delagoa, with III
pounds UP. at To IN the betting. won
the Fleetwood Handicap by two lengths
from Floral King at Hawthorne to-day.
Big Ben was third, a short neck behind
Floral King. Delsgoa was much the best
and won eased up. NcGee went TO the
post favorite at to 2. The stake was
worth -s5J 10 the winner
Weather clear and cool track good Sum-
mary:
First race five furlonsr-Gracs Elliott, is
sTtassr ..conS s..aish ss10Ta Taas Bes is;
,NicoD. u 10 l. third. Time. La IS. Long.
Princess Zulu. Aarum Scarur. Dart. Massacre.
Bessie Vasey. Leona Lee and Margaret H also
ran. Yuga pulled up
second rae.. niIe-Arab. Ios sMcBride,, - to
second. Tromp-use. Zoe tAorTisonp. Is 10 /.
third Time. i:ii- St Blue. chocxayo;s. Ala
monde. L!zzarco. Ida Leib. Saliyate. Arr1orer
Third race, nile and seventy yards-DsIvay.
q tSicoD. to ), won: Port Royal. IL ,Henryl.
laird. R Z Tine Tine. is ~ Sir T Hugh rsn, - a.
Fourth race six furlongs. Fleetwood Eandi-
esp.pe@Lasoa. @ II ~ ,AusSehea,; : to l. WOE: :
McGee, Kurtzulan. Mamie Hodge and Ansn.aa
Fifth race rile-woodIavu Belle Ics ,NicoD
TO s. won; Charlie Miller. los IHarr.s,, II 10
!: second: cypEienne. Is tAubuchcnJ; Il TO E.
Gold Banner and Watermelon ran
Sixth race. mile and sixteenih-atiantico. 10.
ds srsds,a TO Z second. sweet Tone. 100 - sAgsg-
chcnJ. 10 TO /. third. Time. I:5a. Paramount.
JAsa,a Noila. Louisville and Duti.ul also rsI-
I>onde III ,Tronieri. TO > won, Bowling
Ridge. les CSicoD. TO second: AlcoI. lio
Mbs2n Foren,ie 70 II mn. Miehaei Byrats. DescGt
and Dcwupar.ck alss IAN