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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
III PAYS TO DO RIGHT.

A few days ago the Denver news
papers contained a story about a wom-
an, once a famous beauty, who had
been found in a hovel in Denver in a
starving condition. When the police
removed her to the county hospital,
she begged to be let alone because she
could procure no cocaine in the hos
pital.
1t was the old story. When she
was a young girl she was a Kentucky
belle. She was a lineal descendant Of
Daniel Boone. She married a wealthy
banker and removed to San Francisco.
He died and she went to Denver. There
she turned aside from the straight and
narrow path and little by little, a step
at a time, began the downward way.
She became the mistress of a noted
gambler, but as soon as her beauty
was gone Which came inevitably, he
cast her off, and the descent to the bot
tom of degradation was then rapid.
When the officers found 1ner, she was
clothed only in a dirty night gown,
having pawned everything else she had
to buy morphine and cocaine. Her
friends had all deserted her and she
was suffering intensely from hunger.
The Denver newspapers said it would
be only a short time until death would
end her sufferings.
There is an Old Book which says.
the soul that sinneth, it shall die"
1t is a lesson as old as humanity itself,
but it seems that many men and wonn-
en- will never learn it. There are
thousands who deliberately choose the
wrong course-go the wrong way.
1t pays to do what is right. 1t pays
to be honorable in business. 1t pays
to be open and honest in politics. 1t
pays to be square and fair in all the
walks of life 1t pays to be decent
and virtuous in ones private life. And
the man or woman who isn't so will
suffer for it. The broad way always
looks the easiest and pleasantest at
the start. but the end, which is eternal
destruction, is inevitable. The Den
Yer woman who is closing her career
was petted and praised at the begin
ming of her downward course and
while her beauty lasted, but she came
to the end There is no escape from
the results of such a life.
1t pays to do right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
THE NEW GAS RATE.

| In considering the proposed new
| franchise for the Excelsior Coke &
Gas company. the chief point for diff
ference of opinion is likely to come
on the question of rates. The gas
| company offers to make a rate of
$1.35 per 1000 feet, and to give a 10
cent rebate per thousand to those who
bring their money to the gas Office and
pay their bills within ten days after
they become due.
Aside from the rate question, there
probably will not be a great deal of
trouble in arranging an ordinance sat
isfactory to both the city and the
company.
But the council should not for a
moment lose sight of the proposition
that the question of rates is the big
question.
What the city ought to have is a
rate of $1.oO for fuel gas and $1.15
for illuminating gas. The company
can afford to make and sell gas at
that rate, If the city gives it permits
sion to continue those rates for thirty
years.
The gas company will say that the
800 and $1.15 rate is too low. Per-
haps the company can't make as big
profits Just now as IL has been MAX
ing, but IT will be able to charge those
same rates for the next thirty years.
Thirty years is a long time for any
franchise to run. It is an extraordi-
nary concession to grant such a long
franchise under any conditions, and
the city should demand an adequate
return.
The best posted municipal authori-
ties oppose all manner of long term
franchises, of which this proposed
thirty-year franchise is one. The
thirty-year provision was injected into
the state law by the corporations. AS
originally drawn. the law provided for
a maximum of twenty years for all
franchises. The corporation lawyers
changed it to thirty years. All the
municipal corporations are anxious to
get their franchises renewed at once
for thirty years. for fear this very soft
snap will not last.
There is no hurry about this fran
chise, either. The gas company is
evidently trying to stampede the coun-
ell. The gentlemen of the council
should take their time to it, and stand
firm for terms favora BILE to the city. |
The city has the gas company, at its
mercy, even though the gas company |
may win temporary victories in the !
courts. Sooner or later, the city can |
bring the gas company to terms. and
there is no hurry. The city has wait |
ed so long now that it can wait a few /
years longer if necessary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
A VEGETARIAN VIEW OF THE
STRIk f
THE

If the packing house strike last
long enough to result in a prohibitive
price of meat and force the people to
a vegetarian diet. at least during the
summer months. it will not be an IN
mixed evil. From this point of view it
can hardly last long enough. At this
season of the year. and especially in
a season of such abundance, there is
no danger of a shortage of the food
supply With plenty of fresh veg
etables. fruit, melons, berries, eggs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press
Maybe a hammock appeals to a girl 50
much because it is open work.
1t is very comforting to imagine you
are happy when you know you aren't
There is one good thing about swearing
Off; the oftener you do it the oftener you
can swear on again.
Most people are so busy trying to get
ahead of some friend that they overlook
the enemy who is getting ahead of them
It's funny that a woman never has to
consult a clarivoyant to learn if her hus-
band is working in the office nights
when he says he is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

With $4,000 packing house en-
ployes on strike. and thousands of
members of allied trades unions about
TO Join them; with 10000 cotton mill
operatives preparing to go out on
Monday, the conditions may become
much like those prevailing in 1892.
The Homestead strike is said to have
elected Mr.. Cleveland. Is it hoped
that Parker can be elected under sim
liar circumstances?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
AT THE WORLDS FAIR.

Subscribers TO the State Journal
visiting the Worlds Fair may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
g any address in st. Louis at the rate
Of thirty cents a month. The last
edition of tho State Journal reaches
s. Louis the following morning. The
paper can be sent care of the Kansas
Building, ~ desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
A COLD WORLD
Indigestion.

With its companions. heart burn, fiatu-
lenee, torpidity of the liver. constipation.
ache and other nervous symptoms, sal
low skin, foul tongue, offensive breath
and a legion of other ailments, is at
once the most widespread and destruc-
tive malady among the American people.
The Herbine treatmen will cure all these
troubles. SOC bottle. Sold by Rowley &
Snow and W. S. Miller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may nave
the paper mailed regularly each Day
90 any address at the rate OF thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out OF town
the State Journal Will be to you Ike
n daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

ural manner, and the reader at ones
becomes intimately acquainted WIFE
them. The story is strong in all the
elements necessary to worthy fiction
and is told with a high degree OF lit
erary skill. THE Promoters" is bound
to become popular, not only for It's
unique and interesting plot, but be-
cause of the excellence of its literary
qualities. 1t is well illustrated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

Washington Post: The DingIey sche-
dulles place a tariff of two cents a
pound on beef. The beef trust never
troubles itself over anything smaller
than a nickel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

MIR. d. ]. Kelley who at present is re-
siding in Europe is not expected to re-
turn in time to make any speeches in
the interest of Mr.. Folks candidacy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

Mr. Folk announces his intention of
driving the boodlers from Missouri.
Probably the threat does not extend to
the two who are on the ticket with
~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

Indiana is usually for sale in a po-
litical contest and the Democrats ex-
pect to have the price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

1t is limited that David B. Hill may
go to sleep again while Mcclellan is
being nominated for governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

a removal of the duty on beef might
have tendency to relieve the public
from the worst effects Of the packing
house strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

Judge Parker's mission appears to be
TO dispel the popular notion that Demo
Gratis shy at water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

ProhlnftIcnists are claiming Indiana
for tho Republicans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

The result OF the election cannot be
fully determined until 1t Is known how
DR.. Parkhurst viii vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

The Davis family is prepared to
eatch West Virginia coming or going.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

More than 5000 copies of Mrs. F1orenc'
Morse Kingsley's novel, The Singulal
Miss Smith, were sold on a single dal
last week, and the publishers have pu
the book to press for the fourth time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

The new volume OF short stories just
finished by Rudyard Kipling will be pub
lished by Doubleday. Page e. Co. in the
autumn under the title, ''Traffics and Dis
coveries." This is the first volume of the
kind Kipling has collected since The
Days Work" 1t contains one long story,
The Army of a Dream, hitherto un-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

'Present-Day Japan" by A. n. Camp
bell Davidson, which J. B. Lippincott Co
have published, is notable for Its coptouS
from photographs, original
dra wings and reproductions of native pic
lures. 1t has frontispiece in colors OF
THE Kara Mon, or Chinese Gate of the
Temple of Ieyasu."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

The manufacturing task of printing and
binding the forthcoming exposition num-
Der of The Worlds Work has proved to
be so much greater than the publishers
expected that it has been found neces-
sary to postpone publication to Friday,
August s. by which time it is expected
that all the orders will be completed and
the supply exhausted. This number con-
tains considerably over 200 pictures and
between $50 and 400 pages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

Charles Wagner will write his impress
sions of America" after the visit which no
is to pay as sightseer and lecturer to the
United States during October and Novem-
Der next. What the author of THE SIM
pie Life" will have to say of our preside err
tial election hysteria will be vastly inter-
esting. President Roosevelts expressed
admiration of Mr.. Wagner may give him
opportunities for a central view of the
excitement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

The latest volumes of the Newnes thin
paper series imported by Messrs. Charles
of Walter Savage Landor: ''Wor dD-
worth's Poems.'' selected by William
Knight; 1.-The Poems of z. B. Browning,
in two volumes: THE Ingoldsby Lee
gends:" Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague
Year" These excellently printed volumes
of pocket size sell at $1.25 each in limp
leather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

The August number OF Harper's Maya
zine is a notable fiction number. Besides
THE Marriage of William Ashe," there
are ten short stories, by Elizabeth Stuari
Phelps, Robert w. Chambers, Margare
Deland, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Alice
Brown, Elizabeth Jordan, James Edmund
Dunning, A Russell Weeks, Mrs. Charles
Terry Collins and Edwina Stanton Bah
cock.
The colored American., 1904-10-15
FINE TAILORING.

[ make a specially of Suits
Made-tO-Order, and a perfect fit
guaranteed; the prices ranging
from $1,000 up. Army and navy
work a speciality. Dry and wet
cleaning of all kinds. Dyeing,
securing and repairing. Cloth
ing called for and delivered.
Mail and express orders prompt
ly attended to.
A. 81. COOPER, Prop, 925 18th
ST., n. W., Phone, Main 1859. If.
The colored American., 1904-10-15

la5i4s d.Il D l.lIHi.i III. HIhlllalia il..I. ll b
I never given any proof of fitness for
the Office he seeks, and is at an age
wnen ne should be seeking to retire
from the active dutiSs of life, instead
OF seeking to take them up.
If the candidates of the Democratic
party are weak, the platform is. if
possible, worse. 1t is cowardly, eva
sive, ambiguous The money question
is still living Issue, and it's failure to
mention it together with the wobbling
Of Parker and Davis, and the dexterity
and indecision with which they have
managed to side-step every vital issue
assure the. Republican party of the
largest plurality in the electoral col
lege in the history OF the Republic
The Democratic party is as much
welded to Free Silver, and Free Trade
as at any other period in its history
At the present time the Democratic
South is having spasms about the Ne
gro. 1t feels that it is all right to
give the ballot to the communist, or an
archist, who hasn't been in this coun-
try long enough to know on what
street he lives, but all wrong to give it
to the Negro, who has been here nearly
300 years. The leading Democratic
politicians of the South-Tillman, Wat
terson. Senators Morgan, Carmack,
and Blackburn, and the rest of the
crew are unequivocally in favor of re-
peaiing the XIII, XIV, and XIV Amend
ments. They know this would be a
very hard thing to do, but still they
favor it.
The Negro should vote solidly
against Parker and Davis, because the
presumption is that they are with their
party on this question. The Republi-
can party is not only opposed to the re
appeal of the amendments, but in favor
of curtaiing the Congressional, and
ELECTORAL representation of every State
that unconstitutionalIy disfranchises.
The Democratic party offers the Ne
gro no ray of hope. 1t has always op-
posed and wronged him. 1t has been
| opposed to his holding office, exercis-
| ing the rights of suffrage, and enjoy
| ing civil rights. 1t was in favor of
his perpetual ensIavement, and oppos-
ed to his acquiring an education,
property, and homes. The strong
holds of Judge Lynch are in the heavy
Democratic centers. Every Democrat
ic Southern State is proud Of it's sepa-
rate car and waiting room laws.
In this campaign, the Negro who
loves his country, his race, and the
| Constitution, will vote for Roosevelt
and Fairbanks.
ALBERT s. WHITE
Louisville, KY.
The colored American., 1904-10-15
tAs Grand onntnin Of tn nited rdn of JpeB B,fornns

leading Society organized
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paid sOooi death ben
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of
The
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week. whil
in l. O.
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training young dvelopne~t
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10
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il dfomF of
joining and dues according the following
The colored American., 1904-10-15


cause it deserves to win.
Its promises have been redeemed, its
hands are clean. and its household is
in order. Prosperity blesses the land
Labor is proftably employed and the
returns of capital ample and satisfac-
tory.
The Republicans of the Nation pre-
sent for the suffrage of the American
people a superb, robust and well bal
anced ticket-a ticket representing
the best character. brains, and achieve
ments of the Republic. President
Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Chas.
w. Fairbanks, are no new and untried
men. They have won their spurs in
that fierce light that beats around the
throne and the verdict OF their coun
trymen is well done, thou good and
faithful servants
These nominees stand upon plat
form, every plank of which is solid to
the core. 1t gives forth no uncertain
sound; it is free from evasion, ambi
guilty, jugglery, trickery. 1t says what
it means and means what it says. 1t
neither repudiates, nor omits any prin
ciples for which it contended four
yearsagO, or at any other time. In
tn, campaign as in all others, the Re
publican party stands for the Constitu-
ton, the Union, the Flag, and the peo-
pie. There is not the fraction of a
reason to justify voting Roosevelt out
and Parker in. The Republican party
has not done anything that merits
such punishment; the Democrats moth
ing that entities them to such reward.
In 1886 the Republican hosts pro-
claimed the lamented Mckinley the
advance agent of prosperity" Upon
this declaration he was elected by a
triumphant plurality. Upon assuming
the reins of government he was con-
fronted by 100000 workingmen in
idleness, bankrupt railroads closed fac
tories, poverty, and business failures
on all ,sides-the result of the Free
Trade Wilson Bill, and Of President
Cleveland's administration. Under the
operation of the Dingley Bill and Re
publican policies, prosperity returned
to the land and has continued down TO
the present day When the good, and
great Mckinley fell by the bullet OF
the foul assassin, one of the first acts
of his successor, President Roosevelt,
was to declare that during his term of
office, he would walk in the footsteps
of his predecessor. He has done so,
and it can be truthfully said that no
other administration has been marked
by more brilliant craftsmanship, or
greater achievements in diplomacy.
What is the caliber of the ticket and
platform the Democrats offer for the
endorsement of the people?
Judge Alton 3. Parker is totally
without experience of any kind that
would qualify him for Chief Executive
of this nation The only position he
has ever held has been judicial, and
even as a Judge, he has not risen above
mediocrity. He was not put up for
what he had done, but because be had
The colored American., 1904-10-15

REeALfA-The members OF the Foun
tains and Rosebuds Of the organization
wear no expensive regalia The rega-
liza Of the organizst ton IS simple and It's
cost win be in the easy reach of all
costing from 10 cents to S. The same
is made by thu organization in what IS
known as the Eegalia Department
TIE So gIReS 5kEK-In March, 1888,
there was granted by the Legislature Of
The colored American., 1904-10-15
Roosevelt and Fairbanks

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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-03-17
Owe NOPE DANGAR.

1t has long been dangerous to kiss,
and now they say it is dangerous to
shake hands. At least M. Crouzel, a
chemist of Bordeaux, France, says so,
land he has studied the matter until he
thinks he knows. M. Crouzel thinks he
has discovered that the human hand
is largely occupied in sowing the seeds
of all sorts of diseases. The hand, he
says, is not only the most dirty, but the
most dangerous portion of our anatomy,
and he follows this up with the ap-
palling declaration that it contains on
the average S3.450,00O hacilli. Hence, he
argues, people should never shake
hands. 1t appears that a distinction is
to be made, and that all men need not
be treated alike in this matter. You
must not shake hands with a physician,
surgeon, hairdresser or butcher, espe-
cially a pork butcher. Workers in metal
are much less dangerous, because the
minute metallic particles form, under
the influence OF the warmth Of the
hand, an antiseptic oxide
There is, we believe, such a thing as
antiseptic kissing, if kissers can wait
and take the trouble to kiss antiseptic-
ally. So, also, it is possible to have an
tiseptic handshaking 1t is possible to
protect yourself, if you must shake
hands, by using soap and nail
brush for five minutes, plunging your
hand in a warm alkaline solution, rims
ing it with sterilized water, drying it on
sterllized rough towel, and finally
washing it again in solution Of alco-
hol and ether
Isn't life becoming interesting?
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-03-17

! He-"I don't see why you shouldn't
believe that you are the only girl I
ever loved" She-"Why; did all the
other girls believe it?"-Judge.
Mamma, what is an epidemic?" An
| epidemic, my child, is--er-soniething
everybody has, Then, mamma. is a
nose an epidemic? = New Orleans
Time Democrat.
what can I do for my little boy?"
asked mamma, so that he won't want
to eat between meals?' Have the
meals flicker together replied the
greedy young man,-Glasgow Evening
Times.
Tell me-" she said, after she had
, accepted him, Am / really your first
and only love?" "Well--er--no. dear,
replied the drug clerk, but you are
something just as good. philadelphia
, Press.
Il played poker with doctor last
nigth. but Ill never do 1t again.
why not?"
AFTER the game he presented me with
a bill for $500 each time had called
him. Boston Herald
This roast beef is badly burned, :"
said the waiter to his employer. ITS
useless to cause trouble by trying to
serve it." Take It over to that bridal
couple by the window" said the res
taurant proprietor. "They win never
know the difference Chicago Daily
News.
II must congratulate you on the noble
Indignation with which you expressed
yourself against the Mormons." Yes"
answered Senator Sorghum. II feel
perfectly easy in my conscience about
going after the Mormons. They don't
represent any big financial interests
that are liable to get back at me. =
Washington Star.
"But what makes you think your son
has any talent in this liner" asked the
artist to whom Uncle Bill from the
Crossroads had appealed.
wal" replied Uncle Bill, thought
| fully, Il don't know much about these
things myself, but Henry drawed COW
in Hank Browns rattle last month and
watch this week. Cincinnati Times
Star.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-03-17
THE NELSON OF JAPAN.
Admiral Togo, the Man on Whom So
Much Depends--Graduate Of British
Naval School

Admiral Togo. the Man on Whom So
Much Depends--Graduate Of British
Naval School,
More perhaps is heard and known in
this country of the army Of Japan than
of her sister service; but without her
navy she would not, and could not, be
the center of the worlds interest as she
is to-day. Admiral Togo the man in
chief command at sea of her splendid
fleet, is likely to be one Of the foremost
figures of our time; for on him will de-
volve, in all probability, as prodigious a
responsibility as fell to the lot of Nell
son in our own national history. 1t is
his destiny to WELD one of the finest
one of the most formidable Instruments
ever forged. In her navy Japan has
created, in less than 10 years, as per-
feet and as tremendous a. fighting
machine as any OH the globe. AT this
perilous crisis In her fortunes she has
chosen to place the working of this
machine in the hands of Admiral Togo
"a choice, we may be sure that has
been made with the utmost delibera-
ton, and after complete survey of all
the possibilities Of the situation. Japan
feels this a matter II which there
must be no mistake, and the unanimous
approval of the nation expressed OH his
appointment to the chief command
shows that he is regarded as the right
man in theright place.
Admiral Togo is now about 50 years of
age He is not of princely or noble
birth, but is simple gentleman, a
Samurai of the great Satsuma clan as
so many of his fellow officers are. His
senior in rank, Admiral Ito (not to be
confused with his namesake, Marquis
Ito) who was In chief command of the
navy during the Chino-Japanese war,
and is now chief of the naval head
quarters staff in Toxic, is also Satuma
Samural, and formerly the whole Japa-
nese fleet was Differed and manned by
the Satsums, in, the same way that the
Japanese army was drawn from the
Chosu clan. Nowadays, neither navy
nor army is entirely given to these, the