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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
JAPAN MUST FIGHT.

War between Japan and Russia. from
the most logical standpoint. is newt
able The disposition of the two ma
lions at the present time is directly
opposite. It is to Russia's interest to
procrastinate for the opportunity to
strengthen her navy and get the friend
ship of China that she may be able to
cope with Japan. 1t is to the interest
of japan. however. to press the issue
of war, gaining thereby the advantages
of Russia's present handicaps.
Russia at the present time, with a
navy far inferior to that of Japan. and
with the handicap of a stomach full of
indigestible Manchuria. can not be ex-
pected to crave war. but to put 1t off
until she can rid herself of the present
handicaps.
If Russia and Japan should become
deeply involved in war, China would
step in and get revenge ON Russia for
the part she played in the Manchuria
affair. So it is obvious that Russia will
put off this war as long as possible.
On the other hand it is clear to the
Japanese that they must go to war
with Russia sooner or later, and the
best time to fight is now, gaining there
by the advantage of Russia's handicaps
It is Russia's scheme, as history
plainly shows. to extend her dorninions
southwark, get possession of Korea, the
center of the Orient and which has the
strongest ports in the world. and which
with her present possession of Man
churia, would give her complete con-
troll of the Japan sea. making her the
predominant power of the Orient
Japan plainly sees the scheme and re-
alizas that it is a case of life or death
with her. and she will either make
Russia give bonds to forever abandon
her intentions of possessing Korea OF
war will result.
If Russia gets control of Korea Japan
will be isolated and reduced to a power
of the fourth class and can only sit
there in her isolation and submit to
the dictations of Russia In view of
this fact Japan will press the issue of
war until Russia gives bonds to forever
abandon her intention to occupy
Korea which Russia cannot do as
Korea is an absolute requisite to her
before she can predominant the Orient
So with Russia pushing southwark
with the avowed intention of gobbline
up Korea, with the ultimate and I'M
alternate result, which would be the
reducing of Japan to a mere nation
of the fourth class, conspicuously clear
to Japan, and Korea an absolute nee
essity to The accomplishment of Rus
STA unaltsrable plans, it is clear that
sooner or later, Japan and Russia must
go to war.
Koreas attitude toward the beIlig-
Grants will depend upon the political
CLIQUE in power
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
WE ALL DO IT.

us the pedestrian in hurry?"
s.T4e seems to be very much So"
.sAnd will he turn the corner with
whew2''
VERY likely. Let us watch
"Ahi he is off his feet and cIawfng
the air. Now he strikes the pavement
with a thud Do you think he is in
jured for life?"
ssOh. no; it's simply little Jar. Now
he is up again and brushing off the
snow, and wondering if anybody saw
him fall"
but seei He looks back at the SPOT
where he struck. Why does he do
that2"
ssFor the reason that we all do-to
see whether he went down and hit the
fiagstones or they jumped up and his
HMM. Quad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press.l
Some men are so tactful they smoke
the cigars their wives buy them for
presents.
Women tell Jokes the way children
play button, button, who has got the
button-to see if anybody can find it.
woman likes to be suspicious Of
her husband so she can feel happy
when he convinces her she oughtn't to
be.
A financier is a man who handles
other peoples money for them and lets
them stand the losses if they lose and
takes the profits if they win.
The meanest thing that can happen
to a woman is when her new gown
comes home to have it storm all day so
she can't nut it on and call on every
woman she knows who hasn't got a
new one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
FOR CANNON SHOOTERS.
The Celebrators Are Liable for Dam
ages for Injuries

The supreme court today laid down
this comnendable doctrine in a suit
brought from Wyandotte county:
Where an injury is inflicted by the
discharge of a toy cannon negligently
the street of city, the party discharg-
Ing it will not be relieved from liability
for his carelessness merely bec%1se he
did not intend to shoot the person who
was injured"
The particular case grew out of a
Fourth of July celebration in Kansas
City in which Arthur Combs shot AL
fred D. Thompson in the leg with a toy
cannon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

A correspondent of a Boston paper
says that the rush of the flames across
the Iroquois stage would have been i'm
possible if the scenery, both cloth and
wood, had been painted with a strong
solution of phosphate of ammonia be-
fore the application of the color. He
further says that even lace curtains SO
treated can be touched with a torch
without being lighted or causing any
further combustion, except to the part
exposed to the flame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

On account of a statement made to
the press some time ago on behalf of
Senator Dietrich, to the effect that he
did not wish to take advantage of any
technicaIftY and wished the case tried
on its merits. in order that he might
be fully indicated, General Gown, his
attorney, has given out a statement
of his reasons for demurring to the
indictments. In effect it is that owing
to the fact that the court itself would
insist on an adjudication OF the dues-
ton whether or not Dietrich was a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Thomas H. Gahagan, aged 70 years, died
this morning at o clock of pneumonia,
at his home at 1893 Spruce street. The
funeral will be held Sunday at 1920
O clock from the house. The remains will
be sent to Wamego for burial.
Viola Samms, aged "a died at $3.50
O clock Friday night at her home at 303
East Eighth street of consumption. The
funeral will be held at .. m. Sunday
from the First Baptist church tabernacle
at Tenth and Jackson street.
John Ahlstrom, aged As, died this morn
ing at his home at POI Klein street. The
funeral will be held from the house at 2
p. m. Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

district. such thing was entirely un-
looked fort
The attention of the esteemed Cap
ital and Kansa% City Journal is called
to this matter. Machine methods are
abominable! The machine should be
smashed. Down with the nachinei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

1t appears that such safety appliances
as the Iroauojs theater had We're not
available. Evidence at the inquest
shows that there was a stand pipe on
the stage but that the coil of hose,
without which it was useless, was in the
front end OF the house and that there
was nobody whose business it was to
connect the two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

NiSVS SOtt1lltC44CS 1tC IL d. H., corner
Third and Quincy streets.
Second Church of Christ, Scientist.
10S West Ninth street. Services Sun
day II a. m. Subject, Sacrament. y
Sunday school at II m Wednesday
evening meeting at 8 O'Clock. Reading
room at same number, open from 1 to
5 p. m. every afternoon except Sunday.
The First Methodist Episcopal church,
corner Sixth avenue and Harrison
street. J. r. Mcfarland, D. D., pastor
Public worship with sermon by the
pastor II a. m. Preaching by the pas
tor at 7:30 p. m. Subject, Liars" be-
ing the fifth in series on Character
Photographs from the Book of Pro-
verbs Special music, orchestra, and
| singing by Miss Riddle of Washburn
college. Meeting Of official board on
Monday evening.
First Unitarian church. Services at
eleven o'clock, conducted by the min
| lister. Rev. Abram Wyman. Sermon
subject, Natural Supernaturalisnl. -
Sunday school at ten O'Clock. Subject.
1.-THE Sermon on the Mount" Religious
study class at 1915 Young Peoples
Religious Union at O'Clock Subject,
Salvation by Character, Mr.. Robert
S. Pierce. leader.
additional Church Notices on Page 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

Newark News: Senator Burton is
busy swinging Kansas toward the Han
ma boom. Senator Burton declines to
tackle anything that doesn't eonyulse
the nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
VOLCANO IN KENTUCKY.
Smoke Is Issuing from Sugar
Loaf Mountain.

Louisville, KY, Jan. "a special to the
Times from Owningsville says:
A volcano on Sugar Loaf mountain In
Rowan county is assuming alarming FRO
portions. There are i've assures on the
side of the mountain from which smoke
pours in considerable volume. accom-
panied by a deem rlubling noise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

The state assayer of Maine reports
that he has analysed during the past
year seven hundred and fifty-two sam
pies of liquor If he had been operat-
ing in Topeka probably he would not
have survived to make the report.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

Indianapolis Journal The people of
the United States had to pay for $4,000
quinine pills for the senators during
the last year. That is 555 pills and a
fraction for each senator. The drug
habit appears to have the upper house
bv the throat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
FOR THE CITY PARK.
City Council Proposes to Widen Crane
Street,

At a meeting of the streets and walks
committee held Friday afternoon it was
decided that the report would be in ia
vor of widening Crane street south of the
city park.
This is the measure advocated by the
park commissioners and is one of the
preliminary steps toward improving the
city park.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

Senator Dietrich of Nebraska took
no chances on proving himself innocent
of the charge of bribery. He slipped
out of the difficulty on a technieality.
A technicality is often as servieeable as
an aIfbf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

Coincident with the announcement
that Carnegie had given away $4,000
coo during the past year, came another
that the Steel Trust had made possible
a saving of $12, 100000 annually by re-
df1cine wages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

King Menelik has sent President
Roosevelt a pair of elephant tusks.
Does he think the G. O-gP. animal needs
another pair?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
ROCK ISLAND BUYS.
Secures Fourteen Acres of Land at
Tucumcari.

Tucumcari. N. NJ, Jan. st is an
nounced here that the Rock Island has
just closed a deal with A D. Golden
burg of this city whereby the railroad
company has become the owner of four
teen acres of land at this point to be
used for the erection of terminal build
ings. The price paid for the land was
$125 per acre.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

The country wherein is located the
headquarters of the worlds great peace
tribunal and where the site of the peace
palace has been located, has just de-
cided to spend 81, 10000 for new Krupp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
GOV. BAILEY TO SPEAK.
VIII Address Republican Edl-
tors of Missouri at st. Joe.

St. Joseph, Mo, Jan. s.-The Repub-
lican editors of Missouri are to meet
here on the 18th and 18th. The assoc
citation will be addressed by Governor
W. j. Bailey of Kansas and Governor
Mickey of Nebraska
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

The excitement about danger from
fire will soon die out like the prosecu-
ton of the coal barons. Americans
haven't time to dwell long on any one
subject
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

There were 1o4 lynchings and 123 legal
executions last year. Both records are
disgraeefuI to a nation calling itself
Christian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

Nobody so far as known has applied
for space at the st. Louis Worlds fair
for the purpose of exhibiting a wreck
less railroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
TREATY RATlFIED.

Pekin, Jan. e.-The Chinese emperor
has ratified the American. and Japa-
nese treaties of commerce with China.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
FIFTY LOST.

Port Townsend. Jan. s.-Probably 50
lives lost in sinking steamer Claliam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
CHURCH NOTES.

Reverend DuValt from Garden City
r. s., win preach at the First African
Baptist church Sunday morning. Ser
vices commence at IL a. M, corner
Third and Quincy streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

additional church Notices on Page q,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-13
oouNoIL sHouLp REoEDE.

IN THE INTEREST Of the enforce
/ ment of an excellent law by a spIeE-
did officer. the council. at its meeting
tonight. can hardly afford not to recede
from the position it has taken VITA
reterence TO a horse and vehicle for
the city sealer of weights and meas
ures- TO properly perform his duty it
has become necessary for the seaIer 20
have horse-drawn vehicle capa BILE of
carrying the instruments he uses for
testing scales and for seeing that meas
ures comply with the requirements of
the law An appropriation of $500 is
all that is necessary for this purpose.
AT the last meeting of the council a
report, signed by MessFs. Wood ana
Black, which recommended that the
sealer be furnished with a specified
number Of car tickets and gave him
permission to hire a horse and wagon
occasionally. was adopted. This report
was vetoed by Mayor Morris. ana very
properly so. The sealer Mr.. Richards.
has been doing hrst-cIass work in pro-
tecting the public from short weight
and short measure thieves. He is en-
titled 10 all the help the council can
sive him.
Some of our Republican friends i'm
the council have a habit of straining
at guats and swallowing cameIs. They
win cheerfully vote money Tor expert
ments of various sorts. they think
nothing Of wasting thousands of dol
lars for work from which the city de
Tives little benefit, but when, for a few
dollars, they can make it possible for
au officer to treble his efficiency they
baik. The action taken by the mem
beers ou the Richards matter was
picayunish i'm the extreme.
Unless the mayors veto is sustained
tonight and his recommendation that
suitable equipage be purchased for
the sealer is adopted Fl viii be per
feetiy fair for the voters to infer that
the council doesn't care whether they
are robbed or not
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-13
COST OF COLORADO STRIKE.

THE TREMENDOUS MONEY cost of
i the Colorado labor troubles. aside
from the lives that have been lost.
makes the conflict. or series of con-
ficts. memorable in the history of
labor and capital strife in this couu-
try An iteIHized statement published
che other day puts the total loss at
S23036.0l0. OF this great sum S17. 400 p
goo has been lost i'm wages. That is,
as is usually the case IN such troubles,
the men VINO can least afford to- bear
the burden are the men who are called
upon to- bear &C.
Ia the plaIished statement no ac-
count is taken of the losses to BUSH
ness meE ia she districts involved in
the strike. These losses are surely
worthy of consideration. When mer-
chants find their sales suddenly cut
OF, when there is no market for their
wares, the loss to them is keenly felt
Further hundreds of thousands Of
dollars worth of accounts. perfectly
good under normal conditions, have
become absolutely worthless.
attempt 10 nix the blame for the
troubles. Undoubtedly a large share
OF it may properly be placed at the
doors of the mine owners themselves.
IL VIII be remembered that, at the last
session Of the legislature, an effort was
made 60 pass an eisht-hoHr law. A
majority OF the members Of the legis-
lature were pledged I'm advance OF their
election Co vote for such a measure
Nevertheless. it failed TO pass. Why?
Because the mine owners fought it
vigorously, viciously, and, some say,
corruptly for it was freely charged
that several legislators were bribed to
vote against the BILL
The present strife has been going
ON for more than a year. tt having
been praeipita-ed by the effort of the
Western Federation of Miners TO CONF
pei the mine owners To- do what the
legislature had refused 70 compel them
ID do. The miners are saying that the
owners sowed the wind and that the
reaping of the whrlwind is the Iogi-
cal sequence. BE that as il may. how
ever. the anarchy that prevails now
iu certain sections of Colorado must
DE ruthiessly crushed. After peace has
been restored st win be time enough
10 fix the responsibility.
Both sides have been 20 blame, both
sides have committed outrages Of an
absolutely ineEcusable character. But
the only thing To do now is to use
every possible and reasonable method
OF restoring order and returning Colo
RADIO to her rightful place among the
first three or four mining states Of
the nation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-13
A NEEDED REFORM.

4 n INVESTIGATION that has been
4 in progress ira New York City for
several months shows that a consider
able proportion Of the street cleaners
there have pulmonary troubles The
prevalence of ailments of this charac-
ter among the men is attributed TO the
street dust they inhale. The theory is
considered by physicians who have
locked into the matter thoroughly
reasonable one They say. and every
body knows, that nothing is so harm
ful in its effects on the system as street
dust.
The street cleaners follow i'm the wake
OF the street sWeepers, great machines
that stir up clouds of dust as they
sweep the dirt and refuse into piles to
be shOveled into carts and taken away.
Every ordinary disease germ known TO
medical science is contained in that
dust. In il are found the tuberculosis
bacillus, typhoid and scarlet fever
germs, pneumonia microbes-every-
thing, i'm short, that makes trouble
when it gets a footing JIM the body. 1t
is quite natural for the street cleaners
10 have more than their share of bodily
ailments
We don't know what proportion of
the street cleaners of salt Lake are
afflicted with tuberculosis or how, often
they are stricken with disease ia other
forms. 1t is quite probable, however,
that they stand I'm proportionately the
same position as Iaborers I'm their line
in New York. They. tee. follow in the
dust of sweeping machines; they, too,
iuhale the disease breeding bacillt.
Neither can they hope to escape, for a
very long period, from incubation.
The remedy that has been suggested
I'm New York City is the adjustment
OF the sweeping machine, at least as
'far as comparatively dry sweeping is
concerned. The streets there are
sprinkled before they are swept. as is
the case here. but there, as here, the
spTinkIing is not thorough enough to
prevent dust clouds. AS a substitute
IL is proposed 20 flush the streets, prac-
tically TO wash them, i'm the paved dis
tricts, running a rubber squeegee
wagon over them afterward.
1t is claimed that this method would
be infinitely less menacing 20 the lives
OF the cleaners and others. and also less
expensive. Some change must surely
be inaugurated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-13
Famous Speeches at Conventions

several other voices among the dele
gates echoed and re-eeh0ed the cry OF
Garfield, Garfield" In concluding MS
address, he said II do not present
him as better Republican or rs a bet
ter man than thousands Of others we
honor bat i present him for your de-
liberate consideration. nominate
John Sherman OF Ohio" Those who de-
sire TO be critical point 10 this as a
very cold way OF presenting the name
Of q faVorite candidate. but lJ is proper
to say that nothing specific has ever
been produced to show that General
Carried did not act with perfect good
faith toward Senator Sherman In that
convention
Daniel Dougherty's speech nominal
ing General Winfield Scott Hancock for
the presidency in the Democratic ma
tionaI convention in Cincinnati in 1880
was also one of the notable pieces of
platform oratOry. The speech did not
last more than five minutes, but it
compressed a great deal of meat in
very few lines Of space. and brought
forth a beautiful sentence by which
Hancock was denOminated as the
superb" DOugherty in the ardor OF
his speech. cried out. with him as
our chieftian. the bloody banner Of the
Republicans win fail from their paislsd
grasp"
The speech Of Daniel II. Hastings Of
Pennsylvania. nominating John Sher-
man at another and later convention,
is also pointed out as a model of what
these things should be. Hastings also
made a hit in the Chicago convention
Of 1896 when he presented the name
of Matthew Stanley Quay as the choice
Of the Pennsylvania delegates for the
presidency. On that occasion, Senator
Plat of New. York, through Chauncey
N. DepeW, nominated Governor Nor
ton, of New York as the choice of the
Empire state delegates for the presi-
dency. This was a compliment to both
Quay and Morton, as well as unique
and delicate way of showing how the
notable leaders Of the party held the
delegates of their state in hand. Hast
ings spoke only for three or four min
utes. but with great vigOr and ERECT.
His last sentence may be quoted as a
specimen of how to cOndense a great
deal of thought into a few words. 1t
was when he said, speaking of Quay
His mental end0Wments, broad
minded craftsmanship, ripe experience,
marvellous sagacity, Enassuming mod
esty. hnightly courage and true Ameri-
canism are uneEcelled. Nominate him
and he viii elect himself. Detroit
Free Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-13

iDruhcE EoEL-l
Maybe Marye had a hard browed
ram as black as any crow, and every
where that Mayre went the ram was
sure 90 go.
1t went with her to Zion church one
peaceful Sabbath day, and Marye
thought It would behave iu q religious
way.
She wisely cOunseled it en- route, and
begged it TO be good. and rammy
shook his whiskerettes as If 10 say he
would (n0D,
a deacon met them at the door. and
said it would be q sin TO see a wicked
beast at church, but rammy butted ini
The deacon got pleEus punch that
stretched him On the floor, and the
subsequent proceedings interested him
no more.
The congregation rubbernecked with
widely staring eyes, the superstluQus
thinking twas the devil in disguise.
A sister from ner seat aTOse-she
fain would hence depart-but got a
chug behind her back that almost
broke her heart.
II viii expel the sinful brute." cried
Brother pettigreW, bat Boz bis midst the
rammy's brow was buried b. d. q.
A choir man threw prayer stool %
crush the Warlike ram. and landed it
with Vig0r on poor Marye's diaphragm.
The preacher said that Kindness
would subdue wild beasts and birds,
ana moved toward the waiting pet with
Soft endearing words
Then came dull and sickening thud.
The pastor. where was he3 Go ask the
sister I'M whose lap, he Dit unsrace-
fully.
Then sent they for the butcher boy.
who slew the aged ram. and fixed its
meat pith chemicals. and sold il foT
spring lamb