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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-05-06
BRILLIANT GENERAL DEAD.
Count Won waldcrsce, Chief of General
staff of German Army.

staff of German Army.
In the death of Count Won Valdez
see at Hanover. Prussia. the German
empire loses a brilliant diplomstist. a
tsctician equal to Won Moltke and an
army officer who possessed dash and
energy second to no general Germany
ever had. Gen. Count Alfred Heinrich
Carl Ludwig Won waldersee was chief
Of the general staff OF the German
army. He was born In Potsdam in
1882, and remained a hne, strong,
beautiful man even In his advanced
years. He was the only subject. not
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-05-06
Close.

~ thought you said he was close
rela tive of yours
"He is"
why. rs l understand it, you are
only third cousins"
~ know II. but he's one OF the clos
est chaps you ever saw"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-05-06

"One Touch of Nature"
For time Is like fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by
tn hand.
And with his arms outstretched. rs he
would fly,
Grnsps In the conner; welcome ever
smiles,
And farewell goes out signing. o, let
not virtue seek
Remuneration for the thing 1t was;
For beauty. wit.
High birth. vigor OF bone, desert in ser
vice,
Love. friendship. charity, are subjects all
To enyious and cnlumniatlng time
One touch Of nature makes the whole
world kin
That all. with one consent praise new
born gauds.
Though they are made and nodded of
things past.
And give to dust that Is little gilt
More laud than gilt o'erdusted.
William Shakespeare.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-05-06

It's the fresh man who is apt to get
in pickle.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-05-06

We don't believe in mad dogs in sum
mer: and you bet you cant fool us ON
mad dogs In winter.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-05-06
Old
FAvORlTES
Rosnlie. the prairle Flower.
~~O~~~N0%N~~>

Resale, the Prairie Flower.
On the distant prairie where the heather
wild
In its qliet beauty lived and smiled,
Stands little cottage, aud creeping
vine
Loves around its porch to Irvine.
In that peaceful dwelling was lovely
child,
With her blue eyes beaming soft and
mild,
And the waving ringlets Of her haxsn
hair,
Floating in the summer air.
CHORUS.
Fair MS lily. joyous and free,
Light of the prairie home was she,
Ey'ry one who knew her felt the magic
power
or Rosalie. the prairie flower.
On that distant prairie when the days
were long,
Tripping like n fairy, sweet her song,
With the sunny blossoms and the birds
at play,
Beautiful and bright as they.
When the twilight shadows gathered In
the west,
And tho voice of nature sunk 10 rest,
Like cherub kneeling seemed the lovely
child,
With her gentle eyes 80 mild
CHORUS.
Fair as lily, joyous and free,
Light OF that prairie home was she.
Ev'ry one who knew her felt the gentle
power
or Resale. the prairie flower
But the summer faded and the chilly
blast
Ger that happy cottage swept at last;
When the autumn birds woke the dewy
morn,
Little prairie flower was gone!
For the angels whispered softly In her
ear,
Child. thy Father calls thee; stay not
here"
And they gently bore her. robed in spot
less white.
To their blissful home OF light
CHORUS.
Though we shall never look on her more,
Gone with the love and JOY she bore,
Far away she's blooming, In fadsless
bower
i.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-05-06
CHORUS.

Though we shall never look on her more,
Gone with the love and JOY she bore,
Far away she's blooming, In a fadsless
bower.
Sweet Rosalie, the prairie flower.
--George y. Root
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
MR.. RRIsroW,s TRIUMPH.

Has anyone heard recently of the en-
emies of Joseph L. Bristow attempting
to secure his removal from his present
official position as fourth assis tant
postmaster general?
There was a time when the story
that Mr.. Bristow was to lose his official
head because of high official Influences
against him, used to come west from
Washington with great regularity. 1t
came to the point where Bristow's
friends looked for them not farther
than three months apart at the most.
But not a single story of this kind has
been sent out from Washington now
for several months-not since it was
first known that Mr.. Bristow had been
detailed by the president to investi-
gate the postofice department.
Mr.. Bristow has a way about him
which makes enemies for him of GER
tain classes of people. He refuses to
cover up official wrong-doing when he
finds 1t, and this brings upon him the
condemnation of the wrong-doers and
their friends. When he was investigat
ing the Cuban postoffice matters Mr..
Bristow did not hesitate to tell in his
official capacity what he had discover
ed concerning Rathbone and Medley,
Notwithstanding the fact that they
had a warm friend in Senator Marcus
A. Hanna.
Later Mr.. Bristow sent an inspector
down into West Virginia to find out
something concerning the private char
acter of a man who had been recon-
mended for an important postoffice APP
pointment by West Virginia senator.
nd he
promptly announced that Bristow had
to go-but Bristow is still there.
Again Mr.. Bristow round it necessary
to tell a few facts about Perry Heath,
who. in addition to being a close friend
of Senator Hanna. is secretary of the
Republican national committee. This
alone required great official courage.
let alone the other opposition which
Mr. Bristow had aroused, but the facts
were forthcoming.
In many other instances Mr.. Bristow
has not hesitated to go against power
full influences, both while Mr.. Mckinley
was still president and after the ac-
cession of Mr.. Roosevelt to the White
House, and all these influences worked
to undermine him. They have ceased
now, however, SO far as President
Roosevelt is concerned. The president
has made it clear that he has unbound
ed faith in the Kansas man, and it is
pretty sure that Mr.. Bristow will not
have to retire from the administration
under fire.
Probably no other subordinate govern
ment official ever came so prominently
before the eyes of the nation as has this
Kansas official He is today the big
gest man in the postoffice department,
not even excepting it's chief All of
which teaches that it pays for public
official to do his duty honestly and fear
lessly. no matter what obstacles lie in
his nafh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
JAYHAWKER Jors.

Sunshine lectures at night are fad with
La Cygne people.
Enporia seems to have prohibition trou-
bles as well as Topeka.
1t costs Hutchinson cycle riders 81 TO
spin along on the sidewalks.
A La Cygne citizen with one modest
home possesses three large barns.
To the builders of his new home an In
dependence man donated each a large
New Years turkey.
Shrewd Atchison farmers loaded their
ing them to market.
The sheridan-Allen libed suit has been
dismissed. but the Bowersock-Allen con-
test is still on the docket
Wichita has a colored healer whose Of
flee is the street corner and his purga-
tives water from the town pump.
x,8 One potato was the admission at a
Wichita church social, and many of the
guests complained of being cheated.
The rafting craze at Lawrence has
reached the point where football and
Quantrelis bones are forgotten topics.
Neosho county is to buy trained blood
hounds to track horse thieves. That is
municipal ownership with a vengeance
The Greenwood county youth who had
his arm broken at whipercraoker will 90
after this.
that citizens from five counties were in
his store the other day at the same time
doing trading.
A wichita farmer took a drink with a
tall man and short one after he had
sold his hogs. His wife did the rest
when he reached home.
After being snow white for a dozen
years the hair and whiskers of a Centrop-
oils man are turning coal black. Testi-
monials may be looked for.
A young lady of Enterprise gave a
smart youth who swore in her presence a
severe drubbing. The equal suffrage laws
are evidently not dead letter In that
town.
A Eureka man relates of a pugilistic
battle between one of his chickens and a
rabbit. Bunny stood on its hind legs and
boxed vigorously, but was knocked out in
the fifth by a solar plexus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02

Omaha Bee: If the report of the i'm
pending acquisition of the Chicago &
Alton railroad by the -Schiff
syndicate and the ultimate assimila-
ton of the Alton with the Union Pa
cifc system proves true, Kansas City
will become a way station and Chicago
the terminus of the transcontinental
line, while Omaha will not fare very
much better than Kansas City SO far
as overland traffic is concerned. It is
doubtful even whether the ambitious
Hartman syndicate will be content
with Chicago as the Union Pacific
terminus any great length of time. It
is almost a foregCne conclusion that it
viii sooner or later manage to obtain
control of some line from Chicago
that has it's terminus in New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
THE IRoQUoIs CALAMITY.

Could all the railway accidents in the
United States for a whole year be con-
solidated into one great accident, the
loss of life among the railway passen-
gers would only be half what it was
Wednesday in the frightful catastrophe
at Chicago's newest and finest theater,
the Iroquois.
This comparison gives one an idea of
the appalling magnitude of the calam-
ity. It almost passes belief that with
in ten or fifteen terrible minutes, the
life could be crushed, burned and
smothered out of more than 500 hui
man beings. Even the frightful rec
ords of the Bloody Angle and Bala-
klava are surpassed by this wholesale
slaughter in a modern playhouse in
the midst of every facility known to
man for the prevention of just such
disasters.
Usually the loss of life by accidents
of this character is attended by ire
mendous loss OF property as well. At
the Iroquois 1t was different The
Monster of Disaster claimed its re-
ward in blood. The comparatively in
significant sum of a thousand score of
dollars will restore the beautiful the
alter. Nothing can bring back the dead
or soothe tie grief in the stricken
homes. Nothing that mortals can do
will atone for the tra gedy. It makes a
mockery of mans boastful efforts to
battle the elements of nature It shows
US how frail are our best devised de-
lenses against danger.
AS an illustration of the frightful,
irresistible. uncomfortable power of
nature. the Iroquois disaster reminds
us of the thrilling days of last June,
when the overlooking waters rose high
er and higher and brought terror and
distress and suffering and death to 3lr
own locality. Since that awful period,
Topeka knows better how to appreci-
ate the dire power of nature unrestrain-
ed. And we know better how to SYM
pathize with Chicago in its days of
mourning.
The best of US find 1t hard to point
any obvious lessons in this disaster.
The architects say of the Iroquois: TT
was our best work. The electricians
say: Everything was as safe as mod
ern skill can make it, The fire-fght-
ers say: eve did all that could be done
with the best appliances" Until human
beings are so constituted that they do
not become crazed at the sight of dan
ger, danger will continue to magnify
itself. 1t is a difficult problem to re-
construct mankind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atchison Globe

IRON the AIcnlSOn GLOBE
When man dresses up. he hates to
return to his old clothes.
One of the joys of life is to reform
every morning, and backslide at night
Our idea of a good advertiser is one
who coraeS to the scratch after Christ
mas.
Ira Barth's mother has promised him
that when he is % years old, he may
have a shotgun.
The great trouble with a woman who
has business ability, is that she neg
lects to curl her hair.
The present year is becoming so fee
BILE that the newspapers should begin
printing hourly bulletins.
In telling your side of a quarrel you
are giving the other side a chance to
be heard. Better keep still.
After a man has married. he thinks
that saying Yes when his wife asks
him, is telling her that he loves her
It is almost as hard to get men to
talk of coming changes in their bust
ness as about their approaching we'd
dings.
Be good to your neighbors: they
know all about your family skeleton,
and can tell some entertaining stories
about it.
Of her husband. One day the husband
said to her: You hate me. Why do
you suppose other women admire me ?"
Talk about your little old widow who
has landed a second husband: they
tell of a woman out west who has had
four husbands, and of a fifth man will
ing to be her devoted slave.
Are you under a doctors carer" an
Atchison sick man was asked. mo"
he replied, Il am trying the neigh
bors'' That is what half the sick peo-
pie do: try the suggestions of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02

for the wharf. but before reaching
there the two struggling men fall into
the water. The henchman raises his
revolver to shoot Sir DeVere, who is
struggling alone in the water. not be-
ing able to swim. Lord Darby, being
good swimmer. swims ashore but De
We're is at the mercy of the waves.
Lady We're DeVere raises her revolver
and with deliberate aim shoots the
henchman in the pistol hand before he
can shoot Sir DeVere. A small boat
put out from the patrol boat rascues
DeVere, and all turns out well. In this
scene $500 gallons of real water are
used to float the pilot boat
That was about all we could get out
or that A-sheet stand. and then we
began on another. It was the picture
of lot of ballet girls, an elephant.
donkey, a summer garden, several men
in evening dress. ladies in evening at
tire, and two men with daggers and a
bulldog That was corker. but we
pounded out a lot of stuff about Lady
We're DeVere taking the part of a
dancing girl in a fiesta in India to pre-
vent the plotters from killing her
brother in the second act
OF course Miss Geraldine Imogene De
Soufrere is one of the best dancers on
received medals and diplomas for her
dancing and singing from the Italian
cons eFostO Of Dsaneing and Music she
the state of Alabama in a dancing and
singing contest at Madison Square Gar
den. New York. She easily carried off the
Richard x. Fox gold medal. This medal,
worth $2.2e0. will be exhibited in front OF
the opera house the night of the perform
ance of The Fate of a Wonan's Wht1p , -
We had a lot of trouble in describing
Geraldine, for we didn't know whether
she would be short or tall, light or dark
thin or fat SO we wrote q combin alton set
of notices that could be used for a come
dienne of any size, color or nationality
BY the time we had the press notices
for that half car load of Autographs done
the man was getting scared for fear that
the Geraldine he would employ at 3l4 a
week might be little short on the sing
ing and dancing end of the notices but az
he only played one night in town 1t
didn't matter. I don't know hoWz he ever
came out, except that I do know that he
played in Cincinnati later and that the
Enquirer and other papers printed those
notices along with the press notices of
W. H. Crane, James K. Hackett, Richard
Mansfield. Mrs. Fisk, Henrietta Cross
man, Eugene Blair and others.
Since then dog show men, Punch and
Judy shows. proprietors of Wild Man from
Borneo outfits, Egyptian dancing girls
prise. Beethoven concert companies and
grand opera managers have found out
that if they come to me they can get
any kind of press notices needed on short
notice. I am out of the business. I have
too much to answer for already.
ANANIAS FISHER
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
sKA STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING JANUARY 2I1eo4

at the sudden increase of calls that
come pouring in simultaneously a few
minutes later. In like manner the du-
ties of the lawyer, physician, preach
er and teacher are more exacting at
one time than at another, and all such
members of society sigh for more
uniform distribution of the demands
upon their time and strength.
From this universal law the post
man is not exempt Not only is he OBJ
Hged to make his rounds in all kinds
of weather, but his burdens vary great
ly. Sometimes he has little besides
letter mail to deliver. Sometimes he
carries load of papers and periodicals
that would fill pedler's pack His
busiest season, though. is during and
before the holidays. Practically all of
the greetings that go in the form of
cards and an enormous proportion of
the gifts which are bestowed at this
time of year are sent by mail. Much
of this class of merchandise is sent to
the purchaser at his home by the de-
livery wagons of the establishments at
which he procures it. Thousands of
parcels are carried by the buyers them
selves in public conveyances. The re-
sources of the express companies, in
town and out of town, are taxed to the
utmost in the same service. Yet the
postman, with his coadjutcr inside the
office from which he issues, ranks first
among the helpers of Santa Claus as
well as being one of the godmothers
for the New Year. For the prompt
ness and patience. the intelligence and
zeal, with which he meets his RESPONSE
bilities he should have a unanimous
vote of thanks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
A SOLDIERS LIFE.
Field Marshal Wolseley's Book Con-
tains q Stirring Story.

sains stirring story.
The Scribner's have put out "The
Story of Soldiers Life" by Field
Marshal Viscount Wolseley. It appears
in two volumes. with photogravure
portraits and plans
This soldiers life story, told by him.
self, is not only a work of much his
toric value. but stirring tale as well,
a piece Of martial autobiography of
very genuine interest. 1t is the sort of
book, IN word. that interests a man
because he is a man, wholly apart
from whether he is, also, student or
a lover of history.
Lord Wolseley was field-marshal be-
cause he was first a solier: he won his
promotions by fighting for them. Once.
during the great mutiny, wearied in
battle, he slept soundly over night
among the dead on the field It was he
who led the advance in Colin Camp
belts relief of Lucknow. 1t was he
who storned the Taku forts in the
Chinese war of 1860. He put down the
Rfel rebellion after a march of BOO
miles through the Canadian wilderness.
He conducted the As1antee war.
The event of his career most interest
ing to Americans, perhaps. was his
command Of the British division sent to
Canada to watch US during our civil
war, and his expedition to the Con-
federacy. He describes this very fully
in his memoirs, including his visit to
General Lee and Stonewan Jackson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
Fer many
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago NewsJ

lFrom the Chicago News-1
Little white lies live long and prosper.
The world will forgive a man almost
anything except failure.
Schemers get into Office when honest
men fail to do their duty.
It is impossible to patch up a reputa-
ton so the patches won't show.
A woman's idea of a compliment Is to
name her baby after a rich relation.
If a man who falls in love at sight is
wise he will take second look before
proposing.
Sometimes the breaking of an engage
ment enables the parties to live happily
ever after.
There are two sides to every story
The victory you win means defeat for
the other fellow.
No, Cordelia. don't pine away If the
young man asks you to return the en-
gagement ring; spruce up and go after
another one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
MECHANISM OF MR.. sTUBBs.

There are two or three things about
Mr. Stubs of Lawrence that the peo-
pie are overlooking and the chief
among them is the fact that Mr.. Stubs
Is really not Mr.. Stubs who was a
member Of the last legislature but a
new man robed in the gaTb of the
Stubs of old but with the soul of Bur-
ton animating his every movement and
his smallest public action.
Though one of the advocates of the
most reckless extravaganza in the leg
islature last winter he has now be-
come a champion of legislative econ
omy and the apostle of financial re-
form. How like the soul of his inspira-
ton is the regenerated Mr.. Stubs.
That Mr.. Stubs is under the abso-
lutte and complete dominat ton of SEN
ator Burton is not at all strange, for
It has not been long since Senator
Burton was the president of 1.-The New
Jerusalem" which is supposed to reap
untold shekeIs from worlds fair Wis
itors. There were some unpleasant
rumors concerning his action as an
officer of the organization, chief among
them being his effort to use a private
letter of President Roosevelt to adver-
tise the concern. and it became neces-
sary for Mr.. Burton to step aside. In
casting around for a successor his eye
fell upon Mr.. Stubs. who gleefu1ly
grasped the helm and took charge of
the ship. Naturally Mr.. Stubs is IN
der obligations to Mr.. Burton, and it is
the most natural thing in the world
that he should become the champion
of the somewhat scared senior senator
from Kansas
When MT. Stubs bent all his ener-
gies to induce E. w. Hoch to enter the
race for governor he was simply obey
ing his master and paying part of his
debt It would have been fatal to Mr..
Hoeh's cause to have it known that
Burton was it's chief champion and Mr..
Stubs makes an excellent mouthpiece.
Now it is necessary to the interests of
Mr. Burton that Morton Albaugh
should be dethroned as chairman of the
Republican state central committee.
Mr.. Burton can not be candidate
himself but what excellent timber is to
be found in the rejuvenated Mr.. Stubs.
president Of the New Jerusalem. It
may even be necessary, to satisfy the
senior senator and some Of his faithful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02

For the u months ending June 80 last
according to the official report of the
interstate commerce commission, the
total number of persons killed in this
country by railroad accidents was g.
554, and 45,977 were more or less in
jured. This is an increase of more
. than rs per cent over the fatalities of
the previous year, In which 2,819 were
killed and SO, 500 were injured. The rec
ord of the current year is in a fair way
to show another increase as great as
that cited above.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02
a FAITHFUL SERVANT.

In every trade and profession activi-
ty oscillates between wide extremes. AT
certain hours of the day the street
cars, restaurants and barber shops are
crowded, while at others they are all
most deserted. The merchants have
their dull and busy seasons. If one
stands near the switchboard of a tele-
phone exchange just before 10 o'clock
in the morning he viii be astonished
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02

ueutenants like Tom Kelly, to have a
candidate for governor. If it must be
why not have Stubs of LaSSrence ac-
cept the honor? There has been talk
that Mr. Stubs will decline but there
is little danger of that so long as New
Jerusalem is a fact.
Therefore deal gently with Mr.
Stubs. He may do some strange
things, but before he is condemned look
behind the curtain and see the mecha-
nism that moves him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02

Recently various citizens, companies,
railroads and public officials of ST.
Louis have been receiving SUMS of
money ito square an old account from
some person who signs himself "Scrup-
u1ous Conscience" More than $1,000
have already been received in small
sums by different people and the money
IS still coming. The citys boedIing
aldermen appear to be beyond sus-
picion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-02

Isn't it about time for some con-
gresham to seize upon the many re-
auctions Of wages as an excuse for
educating an increase in tariff duties
We have always been told that wages
OF the American working1nan are kept
up by the tariff.