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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
JAYHAWKER JoTS.

The Dewey jury at Norton seem pleased
that their hanging was only In efTlgy.
The fierce chicken war at Clay Center
has made politics a secondary considera-
ton.
A Japan sympathizer in Topeka has it
so bad that he refuses to buy white Rus
sian soaD-
The old brewery building at Hanover
win be remodeled and made into dwell
ing house.
Weary of paying $1.sO for imported po-
will raise their own hereafter.
The Fort Scott Monitor compromises
the the matter BY F making its candidate a1d for
For the first time in the memory of the
oldest mhabitant Dry Creek: near Sa-
lima, has been running all winter
The Methodists of Jewell City are of a
musical turn of mind as well as hustlers-
They have just installed a $50 piano.
The Hutchinson electric line is expect
ed to open up July sf along with I'm the
Fort Scott thief has been sent to the
penitentiary for stealing chickens, With
eggs as high as they are he will have
little sympathy.
Bent Murdoch says bass are biting
along the Walnut. When the FL Dorado
editor makes this statement it's time to
get down the fishing poles.
Ottawa doesn't have to look in the al
manac to tell that spring is here. The
croaking of frogs has been heard and
dOgtooth violetS are out
The divorce of a Topeka couple in
the district court this week brought in
evidence a large collection of hand paint
ed and burnt wood family jars
A Hutchinson man old enough to know
better tried to cut few fancy curves
at the roller skating rink The doctor
thinks he will be out in time to hang May
baskets.
The money question will be the para
mount issue with Kansas Democrats
again this year. This is shown by the
numerous hume counties that are going for
Hearst.
Is the state contest board going to de-
eide the First and Second district con-
or the evidence? That is what is interest
ing the voters.
1t takes the Katy passenger an hour
and thirty minutes to go the twenty
eight miles between Emporia and Burling-
ton. Isn't this an evidence that new rail-
road commissioners are needed?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
CORNICE MAY FALL OFF.
Workmen Now Trying to Prevent
Damage to State House.

The state house is not only liable to
lose the steps on the south and north,
by reason of the stone arches crumb-
ling but the cornice of the roof over
the north wing is liable to leave at
any moment in case of a high wind,
unless the workmen can tie it down
before the wind comes.
The copper cornice was tied to the
stoneWork by small rods which were
laid in green mortar. The rods have
rusted away and the cornice has
sprung out from the wall so that there
is a space of foot between the cor
nice and the walls of the north wing.
Workmen are now forcing the cornice
back and tieing it with new rods. If
the wind was to get under the cornice
off it would go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23

The effect of Justice Brewers con-
struction of the antitrust law as enl-
bodied in his opinion in the merger
case, according to the view of the ST.
Paul Dispatch, would be to put into
the law by judicial construction what
is sought to be put there by legislation
under the Foraker bill. The effect
would be to virtually defeat the anti
trust act because it would put upon
each person deeming himself aggrieved
by the restraint the onus of bringing
suit and the burden of proof of estab-
fishing that in his case the restraint
is unreasonable. Now the government
defends its law. Its duty is to see
it is not infringed. Then it would be
the affair of individuals as it is in or :
binary litigation involving personal
rights. The individual instead of the
United States would be the plaintiff;
the corporation the defendant. Nine
men out of ten would prefer to suo-
NIT rather than be involved in a suit
with a corporation. 1t would not be
the money lost of such suit only that
would deter, but the hostility of a cor
poration whose services were essential
to his business, and whose capacity
for injuring it was, if used, equal to
it's destruction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
PRAIRIE FIRE RACES.
Large Section OF Nebraska
Swept by Flames.

Kansas City. March pa special to
the Times from Loomis, Neb., says:
A prairie fire is raging through this
section of the state and already three
deaths are reported, while a number OF
farmers are missing. Houses and stock
running far toward 100000 have already
been lost and the fire continues with I'M
abated fury. August Olsen, an aged
farmer, is known to have been burned to
death and two of his hands are missing.
James Lewis and William Anderson,
ranchmen, are also dead. A number of
cowboys are reported missing from diff
ferent directions.
The flames are past all hope of con-
troll and are leaping across the prairie
al race horse speed, burning everything
in their path. The Burlington railroad
has sent a special train with fire fight
ers from Holdredge to assist the ranch
men in saving the small towns in the
path of the flames
From LOOMS to the Platte river, Is
miles, the whole country will undoubt-
eddy be swept clear by the fire. Fur
Their to the west, toward which the
blaze is sweeping, the prairie country
extends for nearly 200 miles.
There are no streams of note along
the route and the fire may sweep to the
bend of the Platte river in that direc-
ton.
Kearney, Neb, March PA prairie
fire ignited the Burlington railway
Platte river bridge today and partly de-
stroved if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
The true measure of success is eight
quarts to the peck.
Sometimes a man avoids a scrape by
letting his whiskers grow.
If you want a thing done well ask the
waiter to bring it rare
A man gets more invitations to pay
up than he gets to dinner.
Even the despised bill collector is
often invited to call again.
It isn't always compliment to tell
a girl that she's pretty as a picture.
Every time there's a wedding in a
village the liveryman loses a good GUS
toner.
Some women will believe any kind
of story if there is a scandal connected
with it.
Those who denounce money as a curse
are always anxious to have the curse
come home to roost-
A man keeps his wife in hot water
when she is forced to take in washing
in order to support him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
DINNER FOR 9 CENTS.
Queen Alexandra Eats With
Factory People.

London, March 24-The routine of
royalty was interestingly broken today
when Queen Alexandra paid an infor-
NAL visit to the Alexandra trust and
there enjoyed nine cent dinner
among the factory employees and chill
dren of the East End. The queen has
always taken keen interest in the in
stitution which was founded on her
plan to give the poor the cheapest pos
sible food without savoring of charity.
She arranged today her visit privately
with Sir Thomas Upton, who is the
principal contributor to the institution.
They drove up in closed carriages, ac-
companied by Princess Victoria, Earl
De Grey, treasurer of the household of
her majesty and Countess De Grey,
Miss Knobs and Sydney Groville, the
private secretary of the queen.
A rumor of the queens coming leak
ed out and the dining rooms were
packed. Among these present were
John d. Crimmins of New York, aud
Miss Crimmins. who had been let into
the secret. Like a factory girl who
had just preceded her, the queen went
to the desk and asked for eight din
ner tickets, rendering half crown.
She was told that they would be six
pence more, which Earl De Grey
promptly contributed.
Sir Thomas Upton conducted the
royal guest, who was simply dressed
in black. through the dining rooms.
The news of the identity OF this ex-
traordinarily young looking woman
soon spread and the children crowded
around her, curiously touching her
dress and looking up in her face.
Those who could not get near stood on
tables to catch a glimpse of their
queen. Soon the whole building rang
with the shrill cheers of the delighted
children and girls.
The queen saw two mites crying.
What is the matter?" she asked.
They had lost their dinner tickets.
Their grief was quickly turned to JOY
by the gift of a shilling from the royal
purse.
So thiclxly did the children, most of
them typical rag urchins of the East
end, crowd around the royal visitor
that one of the attendants tried TO
make passage way FOR her.
Don't bother" said the queen. II
did not come here to disturb them
After talking with several factory
employees who were in the midst of
their dinner which is served daily to
5000 or 1000 persons, the queen and her
party, accompanied by Sir Thomas,
went upstairs to the room where they
redeemed their meal tickets. For her
nine cents the queen had soup, lamb,
potatoes, large dish of plum pud-
ding, a glass of water and a mug of
coffee She seemed to enjoy it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
MARTIN Is IN TROUBLE.
Appropriation for His Book Not
Available Till July.

Secretary George w. Martin. of the
State Historical society, is having
trouble in using the appropriation for
the eighth volume of the historical
series.
The appropriation is not available
after July /. The volume must be pub
lished by that time, if the state print
er wants to get his pay from the APP
preparation made by the last legisla-
ture. The book will contain about 500
pages. To collect and edit the copy for
such a book is no small task. To be
published by July 1 the copy must be
in the hands of the printer weeks be-
fore. Secretary Martin is hard at work
getting the copy ready.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
wild Life Observation.

Good observers, are probably about as
rare as good roets Accurate seeing-an
eve that takes in the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth-how rare, indeed;
it isl So few persons know or can tell
exactly what they see: so few persons can
draw a right inference from an observed
fact; so few persons can keep from read
ing their own thoughts and preconcep-
tjons into what they see. Only a person
with the scientific habit of mind can be
trusted to report things as they are. Most
of ms in observing the wild life about us,
see more or less of the truth. We see
less when our minds are dull. or preoGcu-
1sied or blunted by want of interest. This
Is true of most country people. We see
more when we read the lives of the wild
creatures about US in the light of our hu-
man experiences and inpute to the birds
and beasts human motives and metno OBS,
nan or woman who sailies out into the
country to study nature. The tendency
to senfirnentalize nature has, in our time,
largely taken the place of the old ten
dencv to demonize and spiritize it. 1t IS
anthropomorphism In another FORM less
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
The Elusive Hare.

= my notion, there is a peculiar
charm about trailing a hare. In the
first place. there is a superb uncertain
ty about where you will locate the
beast, if it knows where it is itself.
You find fresh track, and if wise.
you follow it in what apparently is
the wrong direction, and then-well.
you Just keep on following. Somewhere
perhaps only a few yards to one side
or where you struck the track is the
other end, and. of course, a hare. You
acquire wisdom concerning this small
teehnicality later-possibIy hours later
but that does not of necessity spoil
the sport. 1t may be the track is first
found in briery thicket which ham
pers all the rising ground, marking the
edge of great swampy woodland. IT
IS easy-fn fact, almost too easy The
hare loves swampy woodland, so. of
course, he merely has skipped for a
trtfiing distance along the rim, as ii
were, of the depression, then gone
down and squatted under some handy
log, from which shelter you win bounce
him within five minutes. Theoretically
this is sound; practically, it is a hun
dred-to-one short on an utterly unre-
liable tip. Impulse prompts you 10
slant down toward the swamp at once.
TO jump him from somewhere prompt
ly knock him over and be done with
it. This will save useless pottering
over foolish tracks, and also some valu-
able tine.-Outing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
JUSTICE BREWER HOLDS THE
KEY


It is said that the policy of the gov
eminent in future prosecutions of the
trusts will be determined mainly by
the opinion of Justice Brewer. who
while supporting Justice Harlan and
the three other justices of the matori-
ty in declaring against the legality of
the Northern Securities company,
makes the reasona bleness or otherwise
of restraints on competition the real
test of legality. The mere fact that
there is restraint of trade does not
appear to Justice Brewer as sufficient
reason for stating that it is Illegal.
This restraint must be shown to be
unreasonable and against public
policy.
Judge Brewer suggests in his opin-
ion that there is a measure of re-
straint in mere partnership. Two men
combine to conduct the same business.
and competition between them is
thereby eliminated. Such restraint,
however, is not unreasonable or
against public policy. 1t is only when
restraint becomes incompatible with
the best interests of the public that
in the opinion of Justice Brewer. it
may be outlawed.
Commenting on the foregoing the
Minneapolis Journal says:
Justice Brewer holds the balance
of power. so to speak, on the supreme
bench. The attorney general, there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23

excuse less why its father should not
take it when it cries.
Some candidates bore the people too
much. We always vote for the candi-
dates who let's US alone.
The Globe is necessarily two raced;
it advises readers to raise poultry ana
garden. in the same issue.
The only time boy doesn't slam the
door is when he doesn't want his moth
er to know he is going out.
Probably one reason a woman out
lives her husband is that her children
never give her a chance to eat too
much.
After a man has put a seed in the
ground, and goneVef to hope. the
neighbours hen comes over. and begins
to scratch.
One of the wonders of the world Is
how the cook of the boarding house
cooks things without apparently ever
getting them warm.
An Atchison woman has had three
sisters to comfort in their troubles with
bad husbands, and her father used to
whip her mother. and still is not an
immune from love affairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
A Famous Society.

The closing decades of the last CEN
fury comprehend the palny period of
distinguished little society in London
which might have been described as a
club for the teachers and preachers of
their age, secular or religious Such
indeed, was the Metaphysical society
Its organizing spirit had perhaps been
James Knowles. If its most famous
member were found in w. E. Gladstone,
it's leading spirits, who took the most
active part in its discussions, were Car
dinal Manning and Richard Holt Hut
ton, the editor of The Spectator. James
Martineau, Matthew Arnold and VIII
liam George Ward (the erewhile math-
poet Browning, may sometimes have
been of the company, but the chief
figures were those already mentioned. In
his aerlier days Hutton, like so many
reflective men of his day. was the dis
ciple of F. D. Maurice; then among his
associates were J. NJ. Ludlow and
Thomas Hughes, the author of Tom
Browns Schooldays." Afterward, X. ii.
Hutton's mental master would have
been recognized by him in his brother
member of the Metaphysical society,
James Martineau. The great incidents
in its proceedings at this time were the
high speculative arguments, wherein
different sides were taken by teachers or
their generation so mutually opposed
and so individually distinguished as
Manning and Martineau; upon very
rare occasions. it may be, by Gladstone.
Browning and, 1 rather think, once or
twice by Tennyson himself The extra
ordinary magnetism exercised by Mar
tineau over his personal following was
perceptible in his manner with casual
acouaintances. AS such, it was realized
very many years ago by the present
writer when, as an exceedingly young
mar, fresh from college, he was con-
cerned in preparing some examination
Questions, in which his venerable SEN
iors. Maurice and Martineau, with one
or two more, were to have voice.
Chambers Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
POLICE COURT NOTES.

All the negroes arrested Sunday night
in the pOolroom under the Postoffice
drug store were discharged by Judge
Hamilton last evening The crowd was
charged with being found in a disor-
derby house." Since the district court
ruled that the term ''disorderly house"
did not apply to house of Ill fame, the
police have been using it promiscuously.
The defense made last evening was that
as the negroes We're not making any
particular noise or disturbing the peace
in any way, the resort could not be
called a disorderly house. Judge Ham
district court to define "disorderly
house"
Sol Wallace, a negro, and white wo-
man whose name was not learned. APP
piled for marriage license in probate
court this morning. The license was not
issued Judge Hayden says that both
the applicants looked like imbeciles TO
him, and although there is not a law
against the mixing of the races, there is
one against the marriage of idiots.
Snowdon Shaw, a young man whose
nome is near Wakarusa, is at Keiths
hospital with badly broken Jaw as the
result of an assault made on him YES
| terday evening by SpFague Chase Shaw
was standing near the corner of Sixth
and Kansas avenue when Chase ap-
preached and said something about
4
chance, and then struck the young man
just below the eye with piece of
brick, which he held in his hand. Shaw
fell to the pavement, and Chase was
preparing to strike him again when the
porter from a nearby barber shop
seized him and made him drop the
brick. Young Shaw is seriously injured
his cheekbone being crushed to such an
extent that it was necessary to re-
move fragments of bone before sewing
up the deep wound. Policeman Wood
ward was near at hand, and arrested
Chase at once. He made no statement
about the assault, and the police think
he mistOok Shaw for some one else
Shaw says that he does not know Chase
VIII Montgomery. colored. was fined
$l5 and costs amounting to $1S IS in
city court today for assaulting Richard
jackson, another negro. In a row over
a game of craps Montgomery drew a
gun on Jackson.
C. A Magaw, attorney for Cash Cur
us, says he will make things interesting
for those responsible for the splitting Of
the car load of beer taken from Curtis
storage house. He refuses to state what
VIII be done, or who will be sued for
damages. The replevin papers were
| served on McCollum yesterday. and
| Curtis has not as yet taken the kegs
and cases saved when the beer was
emu led.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
OF ACHIEVEMENT
How Inventive Americans Have
Increased Output

A young man who at 81 had been be-
fore the mast had worked in the chem
ical department of a mill and had lee
tured upon nitrous-oxid gas throughout
the country, patented the rotating
chamber for a pistol.
1t was not considered particularly val
liable until after his first company that
made it had failed, and fights in Texas
and with the Seminoles in Florida
proved its worth. The Mexican war
made a demand for it.
The same mechanic who did so much
for early AK making developed details
in revolver making. The American plan
of not hesitating at the cost of new APP
planes was never better shown than
in this big armOry. The owner was
probably the first man to suggest the
mining of harbors with torpedoes for de-
Tense, and he was the first to lay a sub
marine electric cable.
One day a young man from Vermont
came to his works.
What can you do?' asked the su-
perintendent.
I'm machinist. toolmaker and
diemaker. and L can play a horn in a
band" was the reply.
He went to work the next day A few
years later he multiplied by forty the
value of certain labor in another fac
tory, and by another invention saved the
company $4,000 on contracts already
made.
Later. with a sewing machine COM
pany, he forged shuttles from one piece
of bar steel and cut previous costs in
half. Since that time he has made
forgings by the use of drops weighing
as much as a ton dropping with dies
sometimes six feet upon iron, steel and
copper.
An example of his inventive genius is
the instance of his forging offhand, from
a single piece of copper, commutator
bars for electric dynamos, after the
electrician in charge had said that such
a scheme was mpossible.-World's
Wy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
SEES MORE GRAFT.
Congressman Robinson Attacks
Tahiti Mail Item.

Washington, March 24.-Considera-
ton of the postoffice appropriation bill
was resumed when the house met to-
day. Mr.. Robinson Qnd.) attacked the
appropriation of $4,000 for carrying
the mails from San Francisco to the
island of Tahiti and offered an amend
ment to strike it from the bill. He re-
ferred to previous appropriations and
said the item had been inserted by a
fine Italian hand undisclosed." No
one knew of his birth, he said, which
led him to believe this appropriation
has been sneaked through congress in
a cowardly manner
The island of Tahiti, he asserted,
stood like a pin head in the Pacific.
Mr.. Overstreet, chairman of the post
office committee, declared that the
trade of Tahiti and nearby islands
justified the appropriation. the United
States buying annually 100000 worth
of goods.
Mr.. Croner Qnd.) and Shirley (Ky)
supported the amendment. Mr.. Liver
nash (Cal) strongly opposed it, saying
that the United States Steamship COM
pany. company most liberal in the
employment of white laborers as
against Chinese should not be embar-
raised in an attempt to enlarge its
usefulness. The amendment. he said.
was a blow at the white sailors of the
Pacific.
Mr. Williams (Miss) offered an amend
ment to the postoffice appropriation bill
providing for a select committee to in
vestigate the postoffice department Mr..
Overstreet made a point of order against
it which. after warm debate, was sus-
tanned Mr.. Williams appealed from the
decision and the chair was sustained on
a vote by tellers-133 to SO.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, March AIN the senate
TODAY Mr. Gibson smoke in support of his
bill for the repeal of certain public land
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
ROOF STILL LEAKS.
Appears to Be Something Wrong
With Business Administration.

An example of somebody's very bad
management is on exhibition today at
the city hall, and the city is paying
the bill.
Water is leaking through the roof in
large quantities, tubs and buckets
have been placed around to catch the
downpour, and the plastering is thor
oughly soaked in large patches, and
will undoubtedly fall off. The city has
just finished spending a lot of money
to get all the plastering patched, and
the cracks plastered up. The question
is, why was not the roof fixed first?
1t is very poor economy to spend 800
for repairing plastering, when the roof
is allowed to remain in such bad con-
dition that the damage is Immediately
repeated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-23
WHERE SHALL HE GO?
Question About Insane at Hutchinson
ReformatorY.

The question of the procedure for Sc
curing the admission of an inmate of
the State reformatory, at Hutchinson,
to a state insane asylum has been
brought up by reason of an inmate of
the reformatory becoming insane.
There is a law providing for prison
ers in the State penitentiary to be
taken to the insane asyluns if they be-
come insane, but there is no law cover
ing a case of insanity in the reforma-
tory The decision Of the attorney gem
erals office is that the inmates of the
reforma tory who become insane must
be tried for their sanity in the probate
court of Reno county.