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The cartoonists had very hard
time in getting up anything to boom
the Chicago republican convention.
The most eminent among them were
at sea- Ralph Wilder depicted the
elephant dancing gaily, covered with
wreaths on which were written: New
Navy" Panama Canal Republic
of Cuba" Alaskan Boundary" and
Rural Free Delivery" What is there
in all that for the benefit of the toll
ing masses except the free rural de-
livery? And free rural delivery was
a populist measure forced through
congress by Tom Watson. Now the
republicans are claiming the glory.
<S$S>S%
ROsewater, in compliment paid to
the governor of Guam, unconsciOusly
gives the Chicago republican platform
an awful dig. He says: "The inn
preston prevails that the trust is a
product OF advanced industrialism, but
it seems to thrive spontaneously
among the semi-civilized just the
same The republican platform says
that combinations of capital are the
result of economic movement of the
age,p but Rosewater asserts that they
sthrive spontaneously among the
semi-civilized,' and are not the pred
uct OF advanced industrialism."
$SSS$&
ROSewater in his correspondence
from Chicago hit the bulls eye when
he said: THAT at best, the conven-
ton is merely to be big ratification
meeting" That was what it was
without doubt The managers, SO the
papers say, came to Chicago in the
private cars of the superintendent of
the railroads and fixed up a program.
Then the delegates ratified it. Tie
delegates had no more part in MAX
ing that program than the section
hand has in managing the financial
policy of the road whose track lie
helps to keep in order.
&SSSSS&
The speech of Speaker Cannon
upon taking his seat as chairman Of
the republican national convention
printed in the newspapers is not the
speech that he delivered, and Mr.. Can
non does not pretend it is He says
that he wrote out speech OF $500
words and tried to commit 1t to men,
DRY and couldn't, and that he would
not try to read speech, so he said
when he got up whatever came into
his head on the spur of the moment.
but the papers printed the written
speech. The mullet head voters will
know little and care less about the
whole matter.
&>>$$>>$
The only happy men in the west to-
day are the populists. The republic
cans are sorrowful over the fear that
they will lose the old Wall street cam
paign fund and that Il will 20 TO
Parker. The democrats are sorrow
full over the overthrow Of their idol
and now have no leader to follow. But
the popuIist looks out over his wav-
Ing fields OF grain and smiles serenely
because he will have the privilege Of
voting a populist ticket, all the can
didates on 10 being members Of his
own party. Why shouldn't he be
happyy
~>>S>S>e
Al Mober.y. Mo-. a crowd of demo-
Gratis assembled In front M n hofsi A..
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-07-14

One of our customers cut five acres OF Illinois
corn in less than ten hours.
Johnston Il Brown, Stillman Valley, Ill.
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In making calculations about who
wiz be nominated at Sc. Louis, don't
forget little Item OF news that was
published In The Independent last
winter. II was 10 the effect that the
estate OF Whitney. member of Gro
yer Cleveland's cabinet. owned con-
trolling interest In four of the great
republican dailies Of New York.
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Averaged nearly acres per day. Am salts
fed that the same men that 1t takes to operate
the high priced corn binders will do One-thlrd
more. and do 1t better with the Badger.
e. II. o. Bleness,. Monticello Wis.
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/ cut and shocked thirty-six shocks Of heavy
field Corn, ten hills square, in two hours.
G. II Bruce Vtnton la
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Corn blown down In every direction; put up
so shocks per day and not one-half as tired O.
when using common knife.
Lewellen s. Belden, LaGrange Ind.
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buy q farm. ranch or Lincoln home
write to or call on williams a Dlatf,
1905 o st., Lincoln. Neb.
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If You Raise Corn
You Will Be Interested
In Reading This Carefully

sl2s.oo requires two horses and three men work
ing under favorable conditions to put Eight
Acres into shock in one day, besides another
days work of man and team In picking up the
Broken-Od Corn. BY using Badgers, these same
three men will easily put from Nine to Fifteen
Acres In shock in one day.
THE BADGER Corn Harvester has BETTER
RECORD for SPEED, EASE and ECONOMY
than any other implement or machine for HAIR
vEsTING CoRN.-Do Not Forget This.
Read the Evidence
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POETIC POLITICS.

= In a humorous poem on the pops,
Bixby made the following pertinent
remarks:
Hurrah for the party that says to the
tough
And hardened old plute, You have
gathered enough!
Your holdings are mighty, your in
come immense;
Promote then, no more at the pub
lie expense,
For, by the white beard of the saints,
if you should,
Well soak you with taxes and make
you be good"
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20

swing around next to himself the tidbit
he wanted We are not told whether
this unique table was Miss Alice's in
vention or not.
The pleasantest picture in Alice He
gans life is that cabin in the Kentucky
woods. The girl had that happy child
hood which is the just heritage of ALL
but which, alas, falls to so few. Where
one does have it it gilds the whole after
life with joy.
Friends and acquaintance of Mrs.
Hogan Rice in Louisville have furnish
ed some pleasant new information in
regard to her and her only original Mrs.
Wigs. It is known, of course, that the
Louisville cabbage patch is real
locality; that Mrs. Wiggs herself is a
real parsonage whose actual name is
something else. The real Mrs Wigs
used to send her little girl to the He
gans and to one of their neighbors for
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sane pessimism and morbidness because
they are artistic. This optimism some
how makes us feel that maybe our own
troubles will cease in some pleasant
way.
The delightful optimism in Mrs.
Rice's stories is due no doubt to the au-
thor's own happy childhood and girl
hood. She must have brought with her
into the world what the. theosophists
would call a good karma. In the woods
little way out of Louisville was a log
cabin, built pioneer style, with an open
passageway through the center. dining
room on one side of it, living room on
the other. with great fireplaces for logs
1t was the Hegans' picnicking cabin.
The Hegans gathered up bits of old
TINY furniture and put them in the cab
in. which had wide porch around it.
The family and their friends had week
end parties in this cabin from spring
to autumn, and here Alice passed many
of the blithest hours she ever spent or
ever will spend. One of the features of
the cabin was the old fashioned water
bucket and gourd of the pioneers. An
other was round dining table with
raised revolving center. Upon this cen
ter were placed the food dishes, so that
when diner wanted anything he could
give the middle of the table d twirl and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20
ANTlcIGARETTE LEAGUE.

Steps are being taken to form a ma
tional league which shall have as its
object the starting of a crusade against
the cigarette habit The league will
cover the entire country and every wo-
man is asked to send her name to be
used in a mammoth petition to congress
asking it to prohibit the sale of ciga-
rettes to minors. A large number of
women have received postal cards ask
ing that they send their names with the
postal card received to the Anticiga-
rette league 1923 Chestnut street, Phil
adelphfa. Each one is also requested
to write a similar postal card to four of
her friends, so that the object of the
chain broken.
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making the youthful authors honey
moon all the more joyful.
What is the quality that makes Alice
Hegan's tales so widely read? No story
could be more unpretentious than they
are. being simply the ups and downs
of a quantity original and benevolent
mother and her children and friends
in the 'tpo' white trash" quarter of Lou
isville. The style in which the stories
are written is so unbookish that proba-
bly, many of the million people who
read Mrs. Wigs remarked:
What a simple story that is! Any
body could have written it"
1t sounds that way, doesn't it? Yet
if anybody thinks he or she can depict
a Mrs. Wigs let that person try it.
When the common people comment on
a writing with "Why, that's just what
would have said myself; I always
knew that; anybody could say it,
then we may know the author has
struck a great chord of human life. An
author can receive no higher compli-
ment.
The quality that makes everybody
read and like Mrs. Rice's stories is
their great Underf1owing current of
sympathy with all that lives. The ar
tificer in any field of work who possess
es that will be successful. Next to the
warm human sympathy of the pleasant
tales there is the vein of persistent, de-
termined optimism running through
them, and this delights all of US NOR
tails No matter how cold or hungry or
poverty stricken the Wiggses are, no
matter how much trouble they or their
friends are involved in, there is a gen.
orally good ending. Parted lovers are
happily reunited, troubles are satisfac-
torily settled, hungry stomachs are
filed. We all like that; we know we do
in spite of our pretending to admire in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20
WHICH OPINION WAS R,cHra

The visiting lady writes: A few DAYS
ago was staying at a home where the
boys and girls are growing up to man
hood and womanhood, and one of them
"a lad of ffteen-has the reputation at
home of being very lazy and disoblig-
ing boy, never willing to do anything he
is asked to do, at all events without a
great deal of grumbIing and growing.
and the mother larnents loudly that
Johnny doesn't seem to care to helm
anybody"
Now. some time ago I stayed with an
aunt of this same lazy boy, but from
her got a very different tale. "Such a
nice boy! Always willing to do any,
thing"
Very conflicting opinions aren't thew
And probably both true And why. do
you think? Well, will tell you what
noticed. At home the mother. who is
busy with the household cares of a big
family, usually orders Johnny to do
this or that, as the case may be. and
very often forgets when it is done to
thank him or give him any words of
praise. Naturally the rest of the fam
lily take their cue from her
Now, the aunt has a habit Of ALWAYS
heartily acknowledging any favor done
her and nice little way of making en-
couraging remarks that somehow
makes one feel anything done for her in
a pleasure
I dare say the boy himself couldn't
tell you why he treats them so differ
emily, but am sure you will agree with
me that it is probably due entirely to
the different treatment he receives from
Them
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the least to be dreaded, and through it
a great many dimes slip before the in
experienced housekeeper has secured
the knowledge which can stop it. The
proper place to acquire the knowledge
was at home under the mothers watch
full eye.
In a few old fashioned families the
girls are trained for housekeeping as
they are trained for society. They be-
gin at an early age to learn the secrets
which make home the dearest spot on
earth. They have little tasks set them
like busting or wiping dishes, and al
ways under supervision.
Even when servants are numerous
there is a certain part of the household
work which is always done by the la
dies of the family, and no woman is
considered competent to rule a staff of
servants until she has learned every de-
tail of housework.
Homework, like business, is properly
conducted only by means of well kept
books. The wife who does not know to
a penny the cost of living is not fulfill
ing her duty. An account book bal
anced at the end of the week is more
than check on extravaganza; it is an
aid to economy.
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came generally known some of Mrs.
Wigs children were nearly grown,
and no more did they like it. One or
two of the family became so belligerent
that the threat was even made of shoot
ing into some of the crowds of people
who came to stare at the Wiggses and
their house. They objected strenuously
to being put into a book" The gener-
osity of Mrs. Hogan Rice has, however,
compensated Mrs. Wigs herself in
substantial way for the fame which has
been thrust unWelcome upon that good
dame.
The day after the first theatrical
production of Mrs. Wigs in Louis
vile the actors in the play-two car
riage loads of t1em-drove to the He
gan home and begged the author to
take them in body to see the cabbage
patch, but she dared not brave the
wrath of the real Wiggses by SO doing
And Mrs. Rices own mother declares
she wishes Alice had never written a
book. She has scarcely seen her daugh-
ter for a year, for the public will not
let that daughter alone minute. But
this is fame.
ALICE w. MORTIMER.
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Er-aheml Those wishing to leave
the hall may do so.
For an inexpensive bit of effective
ness commend me to the coral chain
that is, if woman knows how to wear
it. Knotted nice and worn by a bru-
nette with a brown gown and a brown
toque, it is enough to make any man
propose. And you can get them for a
dollar.
Then take the matter of a pale tur-
quoise blue bead chain worn with a
pearl gray dress and a broad white err
mine hat trimmed with big rosettes of
blue to match. These are the little
things that count.
I am glad to see that furs are becom-
ing frivolous Cthe last part of that
wouldn't make a bad headline). I can't
bear staid things, as you may have
guessed; not even if they are servicea-
BILE, and there always was something
incongruous in a chunky fur boa
worn with a very dainty, frilly gown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20
FEVER PATIENTS CRAVE WATER

The cry of the fever patient is for
cold water, and in these days it is ra-
tionally met by satisfying to the full
the natural demand. It is. however, to
be noted that the thirst quenching pow
er of the God given drink does not de-
pend on the quantity consumed. but on
the length of time it is allowed to be
in contact with the membranes of the
mouth and throat. When intense thirst
obtains, the saliva is thick, occasioning
much of the discomfort. Half a wine
glassful of water used as mouth rinse
and gargle will give more lasting re-
lief than a pint if swallowed quickly;
hence the rule when dealing with inva-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20

Notice the gray fringe on the moleskin
section and the white ball fringe on the
little inner vest of ermine, also the new
pointed shape in the back. The muff
which goes with this is of plain mole
skin made with small holes for the
hands and gathered at the top Stole
and muf are lined with white satin.
There is nothing prettier for a brunette
than this combination of moleskin and
ermine
Also, if you want to be very smart
wear with your suit a crepe de chine
waist matching it. Nothing can be
smarter than these soft, pretty blouses
made of black. of brown, of blue or of
deep red and trimmed with dainty tuck
ed mousseline de sole and embroideries
of the same shade.
In boots this winter wear a plain kid
toe, cap and all, or for dressy wear
plain upper with the entire lower half
of patent leather. but don't be seen in
the boot that is all leather with a pat
ent leather toe cap. 1t is hopelessly out
of style.
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poetry (Humph! That is false allitera-
ton. but don't you careD and John
Jones, seeing that an all wise Provi-
dence intended him for a stockbroker,
wouldn't waste any time rhyming cat
and rat.
Then think how happy and prosper
Gus we all should be- No false starts,
no round pegs in square holes. no fami-
lies starving because their head was
under the unwarranted impression that
he was a genius. More than that as a
result. no bad paintings, no lame verse,
no inharmonious pussy music or, as
one of my friends puts it, mo cacaph-
ony in A cat"
All sublime harmony among men and
even among. women! Fancy what a
picture!
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sells by the hundred thousand. 1t is to
be recorded in passing that the deli
cate and unique compliment to Miss
Blanks coffee grounds bore timely fruit
in the addition occasionally of a hand
full of freshly ground coffee to the dregs
of the Blanks breakfast drink.
Miss Hogan and her friends became
more and more interested in the cab
bage patch folk, in their homely phi
losophy. their quaint sayings At last
one of these friends suggested that Miss
Alice make the cabbage. patch and its
people into story. The young lady
had been writing for publication to
some extent historical and other
sketches, so she was not altogether a
novice. The cabbage patch itself is,
strangely enough, less than half a mile
distant from the fashionable quarter
of Louisville. The suggestion to write
book about it and the Wiggses
struck Miss Hogan favorably. She
wrote her little tale, bubbling over with
good natured humor, and sent it to a
magazine. 1t is rare indeed that first
story is accepted by the first publisher
to whom it is sent. Miss Hogan had
this rare good fortune.
The book appeared, and the reading
world was delighted. There was. how
ever. just one family not pleased, and
that was the now immortal Wiggses
themselves. Their neighbors recognized
them; they recognized themselves in
the rollicking story. Tourists in Louis
vile and Louisviliians themselves who
knew not the cabbage patch thronged
thither in droves to identify and stare
at the house with two front doors and
roof made of old tin cans. like Klon-
dixie stovepipe. Mrs. Wigs herself was
often to be seen on the veranda as she
gazed across the railroad tracks or at
the great freight trains.
Mrs. Wigs became an object of espe-
cial interest, and she did not like it.
BY the time the merry little book be-
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Come to think of it, the luckiest peo-
pie are those who can't do much. I will
explain. If Henry Brown studies medi-
cine with success, is a natural born or
ator with strong inclinations toward
the bar Il mean the law BARI, and if, in
addition, he is a shining light in anna
teur theatricals and his friends swear
he ought to go on the stage-I am sorry
for Henry Brown; that's all. And if
Mary White writes articles and sells
them and makes drawings and sells
them and makes dresses as good as
Paris and fuses up hats that other girls
want to buy and goes on the stage and
isn't Kissed off and opens her mouth
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THE "NEW WOMAN" IN ABYS

There is a remarkable community in
Abyssinia where the women without
holding meetings or agitations of any
kind have emancipated themselves. All
the women work hard while the men
are idle, but by way of compensation
the house and all it contains belong to
the wife. At the least unkind word she
turns the husband out at night in storm
or rain, and he cannot come back until
he makes amends by the gift of a COW.
The wife considers it a duty to abuse
the husband, and if she were weak
enough to show any love for him in life
or grief at his death she would be
scorned by her tribe. The wife with
out any reason may strike her tent and
go, taking with her one-third of the
joint possessions. The husband, unless
he is travelling, may not live out of his
tent
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MISS CATHERINE SPENCE.
New York.

A great honor has come to Miss Cath
crime Spence (South Australia), the I'M
wearied advocate in the Australian COL
onies of the system of proportional rep
resentation in the form modified from
Mr.. Hare's. known as the Hare-Spence
system. Her scheme is now law as re-
CARDS Hobart, Tasmania. She was also
invited by the government of New
South Wales to visit Sydney in order to
explain her scheme, which she did be-
fore a great meeting of leading men
and the attorney general, Mr.. Wise, an
nounced his intention of bringing in a
bill to make Miss Spence's system a
law in New South Wales.
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lids is to give water frequently and in
small quantities, instructing the pa
tient not to gulp it suddenly, but to al
low it to remain in the mouth few
seconds. 1t would be incorrect to say
without verbal qualification that iced
waters are hurtful. They should never
be taken with meals or upon full
stomach unless the food is when eaten
quite hot Iced water taken with or
after cold meal viii deprive the local
blood of too much heat and may by
chilling cause a temporary arrest of the
gastric secretion. and this being often
repeated will develop gastric catarrh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20
COLONIAL uRNs

Colonial urns. of mahogany or other
rich wood, intended for holding silver
spoons. forks, etc, are being revived for
colonial dining rooms.
They make odd sideboard ornaments.
ones which cannot fail to attract at
tention. but are somewhat cumbersome
considered as to utility.
They are made with a removable TOP
piece, which comes off, revealing a Sc
ries of little cases. in which the silver is
slipped and kept intact. Each separate
article has an individual groove or
sheath.
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Indian chief-oh, I didn't mean that.
Let US take it perpendicularly:
Doctor-No good at making out bills.
Lawyer-Has too much regard for
facts.
Plumber-Too quick in movements.
Reporter-No Imagination.
Musician-Am bald.
Clerk
You see after each profession he has
to set down his limitations, and there
is nothing left but the line marked
clerk; so clerk he becomes.
"What Could the Poor Girl Dos"
In the same manner Mary Whites
sister Susan does her little list after
this fashion:
Artist-Have to label my pictures.
Singer-People run away.
Dressmaker-I cut out the same
sleeve four times in succession.
Dancer-Toe in with right foot.
Matrimony-
You see, there is only matrimony left,
and Susan, like sensible girl, gets
married.
Oh. me, oh. my. How beautifully
simplel
would like to stop right here, but
unfortunately it is expected of me that
I shall write a little more; so this is
where you get some paragraphs on
fashion