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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23

recent Abilene wedding drew a
column notice in the Reflector.
The Holton Sunf1ower is to bloom again.
A new editor will cultivate the plant.
Miss Ise. who leads in a newspaper con-
test at Downs, seems to cut some ice.
a duscotah man has purchased fifty
pigeons ana VIII start squad factory.
The Blue Rapids upper crust is dining
on rhuDarb pies these bilious spring days.
1t was a sorry day for the Concordia
Blade.
The zolathe Eastern Star will give "A
Trip Through Russia" All rightski; sail
A Burlington livery stable prominently
where you buy it,
Two. wild deer were seen this week in
item says wild"
The girls were shapely'' was the most
the Devils Auction
The first farmer up on the rural phone
line line out OF Taimage wakes the others so
that all may get afield early
The oil well at Burlingame is down over
eco feet. So far as the promoters know
the oil is the other side of China.
A Salina girl was in police court charged
with stealing a corset cover A search
warrant failed to find her guilty.
All the pretty girls in the salina schools
went out to visit the ice plant the other
day. How'd you like to be the ice man?
A once prominent Topeka fisherman has
given up the sport and his friends declare
sign.
Miss Cheatum is a milliner at Halstead.
Every husband thinks the constructors
of spring creations come under that
head.
The editor of the Usage City Free Press
freely admits that he eats pie with his
knife. But he gets out a good newspaper.
just the same.
There is a man in Anthony who lives on
$50 a year. His ability fnancier is
further shown by the fact that he raises
a garden and chickens.
Major Harvey's first name is Alexander.
It can be stated for those who desire to
know how big was Alexander, par that
the opponent of Mr.. Curtis weighs 2Jl
pounds. BITS t+i .~
The Leland pond at Troy gave up 1900
pounds of fish to the seiners- It's a
pretty safe proposition that when your
Uncle Cyrus throws out a net it doesn'
mean a water haul
A man of 45 years and a girl of Il who
have known each other three days will be
married at Winfield if the girls parents
will consent. Spring may be a trif1e back
ward down that way, but that's more
than can be said for the maidens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23
FARNIERs lave TIE CASH.

A Shawnee county farmer who
breezily floated into the city treasur-
er's office the other day and planked
down $4,000 in cash in exchange for
four $1,000 municipal Improvement
bonds, which he wanted to hold as an
investment is a sample of the finan-
cial condition of a good many other
farmers throughout the state. They
have more money than they can con-
veniently use in their business. They
are hunting for new fields of invest
ment.
This is the explanation of the tren-
endous bank deposits of the state. ex-
ceeding all previous records, and also
the hundred million mark. 1t is the
farmers money which is lying in the
bank waiting a good chance for in
vestment.
over in North Topeka are a couple
of the most prosperous banks in this
locality, and they do their business
largely with farmers. The merchants
on that side of the river of course
patronize them. but the money which
comes in and stays and serves as the
basis of the business is farmers
money.
Farm products are selling for big
prices. and this makes farm land
valuable. A Topeka man said the
other day: Twenty years ago I
bought a quarter section in Stafford
county for s12 an acre. It was con
sfdered a very high price. I held the
land fifteen years and sold it for SIS
an acre. I notice that within the past
week, this same quarter section has
been sold for s24 an acre. and was
bought BIZ a farmer who owned adj
jacent land. and he was looking for
enough so that he was looking for
new Investments
The big Kansas cash surplus has
been accommodating rapidly in the past
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
+ From the Atchison Globe.

LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
You can't s'do up" your rival by
lying about him.
The Kansas Worlds fair book is out.
It won't jar anybody off the perch.
Notice: Hereafter we intend to refer
to Frederick =DumOnt Smith as Fred.
Smith.
An Atchison woman trangresses the
bounds of custom by calling her COW,
not Daisy, but Pauline.
Go out to the woods these days. You
will find much to be thankful for; the
aio."
When a baby is very cross, if it
wasn't for the wonderful love and pat
fence of it's mother, it wouldn't belong
to anybody. e.
It is claimed that the Igorote colony
of Filipinos at St Louis. killed and
ate two dogs yesterday. How Mr.. and
Mrs. Weinerwurst. of Atchison, will
enjoy looking at this colony at the
fairl
A man who had been very drunk,
Weakened UP and saw an elephant in
his room. While he was trying to de-
wise a scheme to get rid of the ele-
plant the elephant backed out of the
kevhole.
So far. we have read that nineteen
different men were the hero" on the
battIeship Missouri. Still. one man
to have prevented the fool rapid firing,
would have been better TINT the nine
teen heroes.
An Atchison man dreamed for two
nights that he was about to marry a
certain girl. Believing in the super
stition that If the same dream occurs
three nights it will come true, he sat
up all night the third night
Recently Barney Self, in common
with others of the Hebrew faith. had
to live on unleavened bread during the
season of penitence. A Gentle being
curious to taste the bread. got some
from Self. and it was so good that he
called on Self to inquire who sold it,
being DESTROYS of buying some as a
daiicacV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23
DEVELOPMENT or THE WEST.


The average person has little con-
fception what the development of the
West really means. It seems like a
slow process to those who are not &C
customed to regarding it in its entire
ty, but in reality it is just the op-
oosite.
The development of Kansas stands
for the development of the entire
West. A half century ago there were
almost no settlers in Kansas. Now it
is one of the greatest states in the
Union.
The Commercial West. published at
Minneapolis, Mimi. in commenting on
western DEVELOPMENT, says:
AT the close of the civil war the
frontier of the country was in western
Iowa; today there is no frontier and we
are looking across the Pacific to the
farther west that is to engage the at
tention of our peop1e-the new COM
mercial land, just reached, that Col
umbus set out to discover about four
hundred years ago. The trade of Eu-
rope has been going to Asia by an east
route since Venice was the worlds
metropolis. This year will be historic
from the trade standpoint in that It
will mark the initial movement of
freight from Europe to Asia. by a west
route-across the Atlantic. across the
United States and off for China by Pa
cific ports.
1t is plainly transportation develop
ment that underIies the growth of the
prosperity of the west. And how great
this prosperity is What cares the own
er of fertile land in Minnesota, Dakota
or Kansas what the price of United
States Steel common stock fs . He NOV
read of its fluctuations in his daily pa
per-for he takes at least one, perhaps
four-and he may express pity for the
eastern investor. but as for himself he
realizes that his granary is filed, he
knows where his fifty to one hundred
hogs are grazing, he knows the mort
gage was paid long ago, and he sees
the cash surplus in the home bank,
and-he feels happy, is happy. This Is
no fancy picture. The western banks
are filed with money, the savings of
the farmer. Nebraska has recently
given out a compilation of bank sta
tistics. The total money on deposit in
that state is 1921, SIS, 600, and Nebraska
has only 1850 900 population, which
leaves the per capita deposit at nearly
800. This story Of prosperity can be
repeated for every state in the west
Minneapolis and st. Paul, a common
commercial city, roll up bank clearings
of one billion dollars year. SO rap
idly has development gone on that
Minnesota has a larger railroad mile
age than was in the United States fifty
five years ago.
Every day there is great business
going on. We're you to stand beside
the tracks OF the Union Pacific road
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
A mans viii is a sort of dead give
away.
It takes a wise woman to conceal
her rage.
No. Maud. dear; French clocks are
not all fast.
It's after a man is found out that
he begins to repent
It doesn't take a strong man to
break a $40 gold piece.
Some people never grow wiser with
out also becoming sadder-
There is often more true Christian
ity in silence than in sermon.
Some people expend a lot of energy
trying to find out things they don't
want TO know.
The man who boasts that he has
never made an enemy must be a
human jellyhsh.
Rlobbs-''I'm aIways betting it in
the neck Slobbs-''What is it now %
Blobbs-''A boil"
The bride who is looking for we'd
ding present has little use for the
laxative person with the gift of CAB.
Little Rolly=-TI've got brother"
Little Molly=-'fHuh. Boys are no good.
Little Polly-'sWell, they are handy to
blame things on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23
THE HuSKS Of
RETR0SPECTTIN.'

1t was the late Herbert Spencer who
said that TO play good game of bill
lizards was the mark of a gentleman
but that to play too good a game OF
life.
Spencer made the remark after los
ing a game of billiards For years one
of his pastimes was at the table IN
his favorite club and he played with
that care and precision which distin-
guishes the gentleman's playing fro 4
that of the shark" When Spencer
played his friendly opponents desired
that he win and have the satisfaction
he always felt over a completed string
Of buttons.
One afternoon Spencer met with n
young fellow at the club and engaged
in game of billiards. The young man
played with that dash and abandon
which marks the playing of the yOung-
er generations. He 1ambasted the balls
about the table, made three cushion
shots and showed the buttons over,
dozen or two at time, with -four
ish.
and the young mans completed string
was four times as long as the winning
end of Spencer's that the scientist
made the remark about playing.
A similar occurrence once took place
in Topeka. A business man was LOOK
ing for a young man to take a position
as one of his managers. A young man
heard Of the open position and came
10 topeka 10 see lne business lIldlA-
They spent the afternoon at the busl-
ness mans office talking over the ar
engagements. They talked over the pre-
Hminaries for couple Of hours and
had the arrangements completed all
but signing the articles Of agreement
Let's 60 down to the club and take
a little recreation and come back TO
the Office after supper and complete
the arrangements" said the business
man.
they went to the club and the bust
ness man proposed game OF billiards.
Il don't play a very good game said
the young man.
s.I'rn not much of a player but we can
try" said the business man.
They played the game and the young
man made about four scores to the
business mans one
When they had finished the business
man walked over to tie rack. put up
his cue. turned to the young man AMI
said: 7 don't think we need to talk
this business matter over any more. I
wouldn't have a man In my employ
who would lie about such a little thing
as a game Of billiards"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23
AL ZOE a DoLLAR.

In this age of inventions it is re-
markable how much a dollar VIII buy,
says William Allen White in the EN-
poria Gazette. The other night three
boys in this town started out to have
a good time; one had fifty. cents. anoth-
er had two quarters. and the third had
the promise of a job in an Emporia
store. The three young men bought
two bottles of beer, and some very bad
whisky. 1t made them drunk, extrav-
agaptly and unnecessarily drunk, and
they acted like pigs in a public place
and were reprimanded by the proprie-
tor. Being drunk they sassed back;
the boy who had lost his two quarters
wanted to fight, the boy who had spent
his half dollar was noisy and the boy
with the promise of a job was silly.
He couldn't see that the man who
had promised him a job was standing
near. So when he went around to get
his job, a few days later, he wondered
why it was not ready for him. 1t new
er will be ready for him.
With the dollar the three young men
have bought a lot of trouble. One of
them has bought hardship for his
mother and sisters; another has bought
shame to those who love him, and the
third has bought an opportunity to be-
come an idler and a loafer.
Whisky is a great thing. Men who
will fight for nothing else will stand
up for whisky, against their friends.
against their families, against their
own interests. The right to drink beer
and the right to burn your entrails out
with whisky is right so sacred that
for it man will sacrifice his friends,
his place in the town, and his family's
happiness and comfort.
The right to sit in an ill-smelling
room and put stuff in ones mouth
that makes him foolish and quarrel
some and mean as the devil is a right
so sacred. that when the community
steps in. on behalf of friends and fam
lily and industrial economy. the man
whose right is questioned will sit up
nights. work by day and put up jobs
on old friends and refuse to take good
advice from any one.
Now why ?-in heavens name, why
Whisky never was any mans friend.
1t never helped a man earn a dollar
or do a days work. It makes a weak
man weaker. and a strong man vici-
Gus. It wrecks a mans body and
skaters his mind. Every man and
woman in Emporia knows a man
whose life is ruined and whose chance
in life has been taken away from
him by whisky; the value of that man
unimpared by whisky would have
been worth thousands of dollars to
this community; it would have made
his wife happy and his daughters not
ashamed. Yet when you talk about
taking away his right to drink whfs-
ky, he RACES like a bu11. Not as he
claims because he has. any appetite
for it; he says he can take it or let it
alone. But he holds his right to
drink inalienable, and the right to sit
around and corrupt boys by swilling
them with beer inaIienable: and his
right to debauch them with smutty
stories fraliena hIe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23

The narrator might add further con-
corning many of the things herein writ
ten, All Of which I saw, and part Of
which was and, with an exception
as to the garniture OF fiction, he still
would be within the strong corral OF
truth He not only knows that the
Rainbow Chasers existed, he was one
of them. 81. AS for the plain,
they are still there, Wind-harried, mir
agy, sun-kissed. often sun blistered
and blizzard-swept. just as when the
Rainbow Chasers hunted over them SO
wildly for the pot of gold You may
see them yourself, II you viii, between
the one hundredth meridian and the
foot hills. The Arkansas, sleepy-eysd
in It's lullabied bed, still hides away
beneath its gray-white coverlet of
shifting sands ten months in the year,
then becomes a rampant terror, swol-
len and loud-voiced, when the melting
snow pounds at the mountain walls
with icy fingers and breaks through the
iron gateway Of the Grand Canon fn-
a breathleSs race across the gray
plains. And the pot of gold2 1t may
be there too at the end of the sinking
rainbow, as the Rainbow Chasers
thought. and some day other Rain
Chasers, more sane and with lava blood
cooled by experience, may dig it from
the black soil. We believed it was
there. in the Eighties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23

in the KanaDolis hills of northwest
Kansas you would see rushing by at
nearly the rate Of a mile a minute a
train of fifty carloads OF live stock
bound for Kansas City. and going
through without stops at small sta
tons. This goes on daily in the sea-
son OF shipment and It is great bust
ness Were you to stand in october
in the railroad yards of Minneapolis
on morning, you could count on the
side tracks thousand carloads of
wheat and half as many more of flax,
oats, barley. corn and rye that have
come in during the night from the
western prairies. collected by the rail-
roads and laid down at the doors of
the great flour mills. This is great
business Were you to stand at the
entrance of the Cascade tunnel in the
far away Cascade mountains you
would see coming from its mouth
during the twenty-four hours long
trafn-loads Of Washington shingles
going east and you would see going
into the mouth of this tunnel from
the east long train-1oads of Texas and
Alabama cotton going west to China.
This is business. great business. Look
at the ore trains of Colorado. and
Montana, and Minnesota It is all
great business and it is the west at
its daily work of supplying the coun-
try or the world with food and ma
terials in raw form
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23

lips, but 1t appears now that at the
time Of his death he had an almost
complete novel IN manuscript under
the title OF The Last HOPE which il
about TO be published seriaiiy.
Among the historical books Of the
season probably none has had a great
er popularity than Martin Hume's
THE Love Affairs of Mary Queen OF
Scots" McClure-Phillfps) but a
month ago imported a second edition
and are now importing third
Books on the Orient are in high
popularity today. The demand for
Clarence Ludlow Brownells book on
Japanese life. sThe Heart OF Japan
has been so great that the publish
ers, McClure-Phiuips. have put third
edition 20 press.
The anonymous little volume ex-
pressing the Chinaman's point OF
view. The Letters from a Chinese
Oficials' published by McClure-Phil-
lips, has now reached its third edition.
Rdarmaduke Pickthalrs story Of the
Orient, said the Fisherman" has
sprung into fmm ediate popularity. The
second edition Of it is being published
less than thirty days after the first
was off the press
McClure-Phillips announce their
regular monthly new edition of Stew
art Edward Whites THE Blazed
Trail This makes sixteen editions in
the sixteen months since IT was pub
lished- The same publishers also an
nounce another new edition of George
Madden Martins Emmy LOU" which
is almost as regular as THE Blazed
Trail in its return to the press
Thomas Nelson Page win assume
new literary form in the March Nc
Cures, changing his familiar role Of
fiction writer to that of student Of
affairs in discussion of 1.-The Negro"
as the southerners' problem. In his
opening paper he is to review the
days Of slavery, war and reconstruc-
ton in describing the old relations
between the white and black races in
the south
Miss Ellen Glasgow, the author OF
1.-THE Deliverance," has but one pet.
and that is an Irish terrier, named
Joy" He is named after the hero
Of her fine Civil war story, 1.-The Bat
tleground." Joy" it appears, has a
particular aversion to literary work OF
his mistress Whenever he finds her
engaged in writing he tugs at her
right arm. and becomes so mucfa
the room. Joy is one of the few
dogs who sent New Years greetings.
Miss Glasgow, who is spending the
winter in New York, received a postal
card on January 2 marked by the
paws of her pet. To the people of
Richmond, Va, Miss GlasgoWs home
city, Joy is a familiar figure. He
accompanies his mistress on her daily
walks. He bears animosity to but one
other dog and that, strange to say, is
his own brother.
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PoINTED PARAGRAPHs.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
All gold doesn't get a chance to gilt
ter.
More men would have money to burn
If they don't burn It.
Good Indians are tranquil and tran
quill Indians are dead
Any man who runs for office would
rather have a walkover-
Never judge the cook in the kitchen
by the cookbook in the library.
Most men would rather give good
advice away than use it themselves.
Boarding houses have driven many
bachelor to desperation and matri-
mony.
Misfortunes are said never to come
singly--especia among the mormons
Two many men seem to have for
gotten that their wives were once
their sweethearts.
OF course a lawyer doesn't know
everything, but he always thinks his
client thinks he does
During the courtship Is is a case
of suspense with the girl and a case
Of expense with the youth.
1t probably never occurs to a school
boy that he will grow uD some day
and know as little as his father.
Only a married man win deliberately
kiss a poor, little, hopeless girl baby.
A bachelor always takes some one
Of his size
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American fit for Topeka
Capital.
Sol How about your J. Ralph Burton
to whom you gave the best Office in the
power Of the state to bestow and whose
criminal record holds Kansas up to
shame over the entire union2 How
about holding up before the American
youth as IAN ideal American Tom
Kelly, branded over the state as II
thief, embezzler and forger, FIT for
state treasurer. For the sake of com
mon decency, Capper, do not speak Of
IAN ideal American" until some of the
stink has blown away from your spec
ial proteges!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23

Exports of manufactures from the
United States seem likely to make
their highest record in the fiscal year
which ends with the month of June,
1904. In the eight months ending with
February, for which the department of
commerce and labor through its
bureau of statistics, announces the
figures of exports of manufactures, the
total is 20 million dollars larger than in
the corresponding eight months OF the
fiscal year 1900, which was the record
year in exports of manufactures. For
the eight months endingwith February,
1904. the total expectation of manufac-
lures was S2SS, 400 924. against s2eS. 3d.
9f2 in the corresponding months of
1900 While conditions in the far east
are causing a considerable diminution
in the exports of cotton manufactures
from the United States, practically all
OF the other important exports show a
marked increase. and it seems not i'm
probable that the grand total for the
year will exceed that of the banner
year 1900, and certaiIly that the total
for 1904 viii compare favorably with
that greatest year in our exports of
manufactures and surpass that of any
other year. An analysis of the details
of exports shows an increase in nearly
all of the important articles other than
cotton goods as compared with last
year or earlier years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23

The last Democratic success in a
State contest in New York was in
1897, when Judge Parker was elected
chief Justice by a majority of 6O,s89,
following the presidential election of
1886, when Major Mckinley scored
the phenomenal lead of 26S,469. In
the three eubernatoriaI elections since
1S97-that is. in 1898. in 1900 and
1902. the Republican majority fell off
largely from the presidential vote of
1896 At the last election in 1902 pol
iucal parties resumed their normal
conditions, and Governor Odeu had
plurality Of only $500. winning by
a scratch.