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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
LOWERING TREND OF PRICES

The annual summary of domestic
trade movements for 1908. as reported
by the department of commerce and
labor through it's bureau of statistics,
indicates that the distinctive feature of
the live stock trade at interior markets
was the lowering trend of prices com
pared with those of 1902. At the end
of 1902 hogs averaged $6.2s per hundred
pounds at Chicago, compared with $3.50
in 1908, in spite of a reduction in an
nual supply at five markets from 49,
763, 104 head in 1901, to 1864. 139 head in
1902 and 15,014,S11 head in 1903
Beef cattle prices fell from $6.75, the
annaul average of 1902, to $3.50 in 1908,
with receipts at four markets increas-
ing from 1924, 467 head in 1901 to T,710,-
$50 head in 1902 and S,326.0S8 head in
1908. The grand total of live stock re-
ceived at the five markets-Chicago.
Kansas City, Omaha, ST. Lotus and
ST. Joseph-was 32,9S3 SOL head in 1908,
in contrast with 32.67S, 2s6 head in 1902,
and 34,143,776 head in 1901. Provision
stocks of cut meats on December 81,
1908, were 147 OPS. e51 pounds against
IT'S. GIG, 100 pounds a year before at five
markets reporting.
Important among staple movements
at interior centers are wheat receipts
at eight markets. For the crop year
to january l, 1904, a total of ISL, 551. 2s5
bushels was reported, compared with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
GLOBE SIG hts.



In country town, the ambition of
every tough is to whip the town mar
shall.
boy has a perfect right to make all
the noise he wants?
Friday is an unlucky day. Charley
Styles birthday fell on Friday this
year. and he was 81 years old.
1t is said that an Atchison bride can
give her husband cards and spades
when it comes to ante-marriage love
affairs.
Subject for debate: Which is the
more huniliating, for a woman to live
an old maid or to marry man many
years her junior?
Heart-to-heart talks conducted by
women have a great deal to say about
your 1ode-star. Is it a cheese, or some
thing like your Little Mary?
In the rear of every bank, there is a
little private room. When a man
comes in timidly, and is taken into this
little room by the cashier, he probably
gets both barrels.
It is known to a certainty that the
dead can't come back. or Mrs. Jim
ago. and stopped her husbands scan
dalous proceedings. Nothing ever held
her away before.
When a man walks down the aisle,
and steps on flowers which little girls
scatter before him and his bride, we
claim that he must look like a fool,
though no one has ever looked at him
close enough to see.
A reporter walked into the union de-
pot today. looking for news. Every
thing quiet on the Potomac" said John
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
q METHoDs. NOT MEN. y

The boss buster papers are republish-
ing statement from Mr.. Hoch which
he heads, Methods, Not Men" In this
statement Mr.. Hoch says:
The present contest inside the Re-
publican party is a contest between
methods and not between men. 1t is
4mperSOnal. 1t relates to party man-
agement and to state politics, and not
to individuals. Candidates are mere
incidents. They are comparatively I'M
important"
From this one would infer that Mr..
a1och considers the character of can
didates is not an element in a cam
paign. This may explain some thinaz.
Very likely it explains why Mr. Hoch
in 1899 introduced a resolution in a
Marion county convention endorsing j.
r Burton for United States senator
mir. Hoeh knew Burton's character
then. Doubtless the proper methods
were used in electing Senator Burton,
barring one or two things, but the
methods did not keep Burton from dis
grazing Kansas. 1t was, in fact, a
boss buster uprising, such as Mr.. Hoeh is
now heading, which enabled Burton :
friends to secure control of the Iegis-
lature.
This statement may explain, too. why
MIR. HOch is against an honorable up-
right man like Governor Bailey, and
Tor an acknowledged forger and thief
for state treasurer. The proper methods,
perhaps, We're used in electing T. I.
Kelly state treasurer, but that did not
keep Kelly from defeating in the last
legislature the bill which would have
taken away from him the interest or
the states money in the banks and Civ
en- it to the state instead, amounting
at low estimate, to $4,000 a year.
Mr.. Hoch. however. says nothing
about what kind Of methods. and not
men, he is in favor of. The state would
like to know If he is in favor of tbs
jackson county in trying to make out
that 4s Is more than 7s. Or the meth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Tt is reported from Washington that
congress will vote to increase the sal
aries of rural mail carriers from 5000
3 year to $720. This is not so much of
an increase as the carriers have asked
for. but it is enough to encourage them
to keep on with their work in the hope
that they may ultimately receive bet
ter pay. The carriers desire that the
present salary of $500 a year should
prevail for the first year, that the sal
airy be s72o the second year, and there
after $3.50. When the salaries paid to
other government employees are consid-
cred, it cannot be said that the demand
OF the carriers is exorbitant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
SHELDON AND THE THEArER.


The following is an editorial In the
New York Dramatic Mirror:
Not a day goes by that does not see
some note in the press of sympathetic
relation or bitter antagonism as be-
tween representatives of one or anoth-
er religious sect and the theater. In
New York. where the Actors Church
alliance has headquarters, and where
there is growing an association between
players and church people of the more
liberal sects, as well as in other cities
where branches of the alliance thrive
and accomplish good through social
mingling of players and church mem
bers and mutual assistance, the ancient
antipathies seem to have been forgot
ten; but almost constantly there arises
something from other quarters relating
to liberal church persons that shows
the survival of narrowness with some
sectarians as to the theater, which
more and more strongly asserts it's
force and utility as great human in
stitution.
Perhaps the most striking token of
illiberality and bigotry that of late has
been shown was that of a Methodist
body in Chicago that refused proposal
ItidQC ny OIiC VI IFS tlSIlUCIS 10 pass Il
resolution of Christian sympathy with
the hundreds of families bereaved by
the Iroquois theater disaster. Those in
this Methodist body strong in doctrinal
theories-and weak in the Characters
tic taught by the Saviour, human sym
pathy-defeated the resolution on an
argument to the effect that to pass it
would indirectly amount to an indorse-
amusement!
There is a suggestion of >humor in
some of the things that have lately
come to light to illustrate the extremes
on the subject of church and theater,
or amusement and religion. A dispatch
the other day from Topeka, Kan, rela-
ted how the Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon.
author of the story, In His Steps,"
that created a unique sensation some
years ago, had surprised his congre-
cation. He appeared in his church and
proceeded to amaze and amuse his peo-
pie by acts of club-swinging and Jug
glery. 1t was said that he had been
practicing with clubs, balls and knives
for about a year, and wanted to i'm
press the value of this kind of exer-
else" He was said to have Swung
two clubs cleverly, and accomplished
a more difficult feat by keeping three
balls and butcher knife flying through
the air." OF course. this was 'seduca-
tional," in a sense, but would the Rev.
Mr.. Sheldon advise his flock. severally
or collectively. to visit one of the va
riety theaters, where such things are
done with greater cleverness than he
could hope to achieve in q years prac-
tice? Or would he forbid his followers
to visit such q theater, and. even better
theaters. where much more instructive
seen?
and dignifed and suggestive things are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

The Cleveland Leader calls attention
to the fact that Japan is the only i'm
portant country which has forced war
upon Russia since the days of Napoleon.
In all other conflicts involving the i'm
mense Muscovite empire, that power
has been the aggressor. The little
Asiatic islanders have ventured farther
than any other power in the last ninety
years. Turkey fought Russia three
times, within that period. but only be-
cause she could not help it. In the
Crimean war France and England act
ed together, and then only when Rus
sia's armies were largely occupied by
the Turks,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
SYMPATHY FOR JAPAN.

During the Boer war there was a
strong sentiment Of sympathy in this
country for Britons as well as for
Beers. When Spain was fighting the
United States there were those who
declared that the war was an outrage.
But in the present conflict between
Japan and Russia there is a unanimity
of sympathy for Japan in this country
which is most remarkable. Out Of
scores of people with whom you talk
every day. you will probably find it diff
ficult to find many who hope that Rus
STA will win
And this is in spite of the fact that
Russia has a shadow of claim to our
friendship. while Japan has never
given us even a pretext for national
gratitude. Russia claims that during
the civil war the north had it's moral
support. 1t was probably forced to
give such moral support by the at
titude of England: but at any rate. it
was string by which Russia expected
to hold American sympathy for her
hour of need.
Yet the people of America want to
see Japan win. They want to sec a
so-called Pagan empire triumph over a
so-called Christian empire. What
causes this seemingly strange attl-
tude?
Russia has probably brought Ameri-
can dislike down upon her by her own
actions. America likes liberty; Russia
is despotic in government. in religion,
and in commerce. America likes fair
play; Russia has swindled and brow
beaten it's way into the Orient, and has
cursed it's existence by the creation of
Siberian prisons. Russia has sacrificed
the good will of this country by its
radically un-American and vicious
characteristics.
Japan, on the other hand, is called the
America of the Orient" It seems to
possess ideas of liberty and progress
which ring true. While Pagan in name.
it has no government religion, and
Christianity is given fair chance to
prove its merit. 1t has manifested a
desire for modern civilization, and an
ability to absorb it, which is the marvel
of the twentieth century. The Japanese
are shrewd, brave and intelligent. and
unless crushed before the tremendous
power of the car. as the Beers were
crushed by the British, they will domi-
nate the Orient
America believes, and with good rea-
son, that Japans triumph means open
ports in China, and fair field for com
merce. 1t believes that Russian con-
troll means a severe blow to American
trade, which has been so rapidly ex-
panding in the Orient. During the past
ten years the growth of American trade
with Europe has been go per cent, while
with the Orient it has been 1877 per cent.
America wants to continue this COM
mercial conquest, and Russian suprem-
acy would block the way.
1t is not all sentiment, therefore,
which controls American sympathy for
Japan. 1t is a hard business PROPOSE
ton. America wants a market for it's
enormous products; Japan would give
such a market: Russia would not.
Therefore America hopes that the great
car who promotes peace on earth" by
means of warships and artillery will be
compelled to back rp' in his ambition
to Russianize the Chinese empire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Did you see the Autographs Of the
play Quincy Adams Sawyer" with the
picture of the one horse chaise and the
man in the said chaise and the said
man driving past the sign board in the
country village? Underneath the pic
ture was the statement that everyone
in the village wondered from whence he
came and Wither he was going.
Do you happen to know the village
gossip of Topeka? She who rides about
from house to house meddling with
everybody's business and paying mighty
little attention to her own? Perhaps
the one you know doesn't possess
chaise. Perhaps she uses the street cars
or walks, but whichever the means OF
transportation her visits amount to the
same.
If anyone moves into the neighbor-
hood she calls just as soon as the car
pets are laid and she begins to make
diligent inquiry into the past, present
and future of the family. To answer
her questions means to give a fuller
history than the census enumeratOr'S
and tax assessors combined demands re-
quire.
She wants to see if the carpet is new
or old, Brussels or ingram, and whether
the mahogany looking furniture is the
real wood or poplar stained. She finds
out just what the kitchen stove cost and
how much your fuel bill is. She finds
out whether you eat CLAIMS, crabs. lob
ster and oysters or whether you stick
to hominy, salt pork beans and boiled
potatoes. She finds out whether your
wife bakes bread or whether she buys
it and If she is in the room a minute
alone she will look for the price mark
on the back of the clock. You know one
of this species and is this resume one
bit exaggerated?
Then, when she has taken birds
eye view of the fortifications of your
home, she makes her escape and starts
upon her rounds to comment, elaborate
and give extended lectures at each
house where she stops on the things she
has seen at your home. AT each one of
these stops she makes a mental collec-
ton of all the gossip and things she can
that will be choice morselS to her I'M
der her tongue and she goes on to the
next stop.
1t will be week or two until she is
be telling you everything that she pick
ed up along the line and when she leaves
you will wonder just what stuff she will
imagine about you to tell to the rest
of the people on her route.
She never stopped at a house when
she was really wanted but always when
she was not wanted. If there is sick
ness she drops around to see If the sick
persons bed is a cheap affair or of
brass with canopy and If the sheets are
bleached or unbleached and who the
about the sickness, except to know
whether it is your back, your liver, your
rheumatism or what and whether the
physician is old school or homeopathic.
She was never an angel of mercy in
time of sickness and if there is tea for
the invalid she'll drink it all herself.
Detestabie, isn't she?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

DDS employed in Atchison county. when
nine Hoch men bolted the county COM
mittee meeting because they could not
dictate to the % Bailey men who
should be appointed on sub-commit-
tees. Or the action of the mutual
friends of him and Kelly in Miami
county in trying to organize a trump
county committee because they were
in the minority in the county
In each of these counties. and in
Leavenworth. bolts have been organ
lied to override the viii of the major
ity. Are these the kind of methods Mr.
Hoch approves of when he says that
methods. not men," ought to be con-
sidered?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

The war in the far east is the fifth
big conflict within the past decade. the
others having been:
1S94-War between JaNan and China.
1S97-War between Turkey and
Greece.
1S9S-War between the United States
and Spain.
1899-1902-War between Great Brit
ain and South African Republics.
Neither Improvement of fire arms nor
The Hague tribunal seems adequate to
the prevention of bloodshed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

At five points on the North Atlantic
seaboard 259. S5O,2s3 bushels Of grain
were received during 1903. OF this
amount Portland received 1878, 461
bushels, of which 3,477,925 bushels came
from American and $500. $3.50 bushels
from Canadian sources; Boston, 2,S14,-
664 bushels; New York, 125, O69. SOL BUSH
els; Philadelphia, 81, 1884, 7S bushels; and
Baltimore, 51.6s847s bushels. These
ports received 24O.725,1s3 bushels in
1912
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Dougherty, the depot master. Yes.
know" replied the reporter, but how
is it around the depot?-
The average persons idea of being
blunt is to tell disagreeable truths to .
friends face.
when I heer men tell how smart
they are, and how they predicted things
months in advance, 1 feel ashamed:
The only sensible thing l ever did,
was coaxed into; don't think 1t was
a good Drake Watson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BAoHELoI
From the New York Press.l

CFron the New York Press.l
Two poor lies don't make a good one.
There is a great deal of money to be
made by not specializing in stocks.
Somehow a girls lips never taste
right when she has been chewing gum.
Two is company, three is crowd, UNI
less one of them is a mother-in-law,
when it is a mob.
A woman would have more respect for
a mans cigar if she could heat her
crimping iron with It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13


L
Awake, o Hope, this frightful hourI
Fear strides about my snaky hair!
Great God! Give man almighty power
To stay the holocaust, and spare
The many who now long to fly
From the Iroquois, where they must die !
Horror and Fear possession take
OF the multitude, once blithe and gay,
Awakel awake! brave hearts, awakei
Let reason guide the perilOus way!
The frenzied crowd is crazed and white,
And each and all rage in one mass of
fright!
Alas! that such sudden doom
Should come, without knell, to man,
AS in the desert the simeon
O'ertakes Arab and his caravan
Aye! with the poets eye 1 see
Awe-stricken spirits hurried to eternity!
Who are to blame? At whose door, pray,
Lies all the suffering and the sin?
Not ours, the 1rOquOfs owners say!
Not mine! the mayor with flushed face
cries,
Not minel nor mine!-each one denies. f,
Can conscience be Gained at any cost7
Can guilty hearts feel right to know
That full six hundred lives were lost
Six hundred helpless ones laid low?
When the sin is theirs who failed in work
tbs theirs, who did their duty shirk!
The lesson such disasters teach
Is, do your duty lest you fall;
Your duty do before you preachl
Heaven cries to man-to one and all.
In duty's path wait honor. wealth and
fame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

The zap flzz" has made it's appear
ance in the New York beverage mar
ket and is said to be as popular among
consumers of that class of goods as
anything that has been invented in
that line in a number of years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Washington Post: 1t would certainly
seem desirable to have the recesses be-
tween sessions Of congress long enough
TO permit senators to go home, offer
their pleas, and arrange bonds for their
appearance for trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

''Vas ISIS der differment by-tween a
rich mans und a poor MANS" says Gus
rich mans steals something, i'd ISIS fee
nance or kleptolunicy; uf he iss drunk,
he ISIS indisposed; uf he is crazy. he ISIS
eck-senterick: und uf he bass der itch
yet id is not der itch. budt eck-seema.
IF der poor mans ISIS any uf desc, he
ISIS id. ind he candt hellup it,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

A goot way to seddle der choint kves-
dion would be to let a nig-gro bolice-
mans soak der chointists avile on der
coco init cIub-but der ehointist
would hat to be catched und tied good
und solid down before der arm uf der
law would hat der nerf to oberate-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

trow bricks pefore each oders face In
der oder, dey mosd always chenerally
trow mud pehind der back each py der
oder.
Dit you efer stob to tink vat awful
ness id would be uf der Shikishima
shouldt gedt der Petropavlovsk corner
ed oop ad Vladvostol1, und der Hatsuse
shouldt shood up Nikolaeif und der
Yashima und Asama und Asaki shouIdt
trow hat a deutzen buns into Akter-
mordarvlosk und spread ut all Offer der
map from Kisnef to Tsaritsyn; urd den
sposen der PER- Kochka und der PEREZ
sveit und der Pobieda vas to land on
der Asumwa near der city limits uf
Fujuyamam und shood ad 1t und miss
i'd und hit Talliewan or Yesso or Shit
koku or Kyoto er Kuishui er Hakodate
er-vell, wouldn't dot be might bad?
A man und vomans ofden parts
Pecaus der husband doesndt choos
To dell her she vas ''Kveen of HeartsS
Vile she goes looking like der docs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Probably England will regard the
present as an opportune time to
straighten UP the northern boundary of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Neutrality proclanations do not pre-
vent anybody from yelling when his
Ravortte side wins a victory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Admiral AlexieH broke the news gen.
thy to the ezar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Wonder uf der Rooshans Will efer ged
close ooo ernuff to der Chaps to led
dem pairfOrm der Jul Jitsu? Note Ut
explantionism: Jul Jitsu ISIS der Chapa-
neese sysdem verepy a liddle man ISIS
subbosed to tie knots in big man NIT
oudt gedding hiss own neck breaked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
Another Case of Rheumatism Cured
by Chaberiain's Pain Ralrn

The efficacy. Of Chamberlain Pain
pam ~ the relief of rheumatism IS being
Grigsby. Va. says that ChamberIair's
Pain Balm gave him permanent relief
from rheumatism in the back when
everything else failed, and he would not
be without it. For sale by all druggist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Dis iss der dime ven vonce again der
var correspondent init der vivid mag
inings geds in his york in un kills oof
more men und baddleshibs den e1er
took chips in der scrap
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for exclusive afternoon publ
cation IN Topeka.
The news is received in the State Jour
mai building over wires for this sole pur-
pose, busy throughout the entire day. A
complete copy of the night report is also
received
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
THOMAS GROVER PEACOCK.

Thomas Brewer Peacock, formerly one
of the best known poets of Kansas, has
been in seclusion a long time. Now he is
again wooing the muse and from his
home in Kansas City he gives forth the
following ode:
LET NO GUILTY MAN ESCAPE"
Hines on the eIroquois Theater Tragedy
by Thomas Brewer Peacock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Der oder day We vent init drugstore
into, und buyed two-bidts wort up Ut
pills und gated der druggisd Won dol
Ter. He seemed glad to get der dollar,
und filed it away. Und I say, We're
der change ISIS? Und he say, ASK
Otter Schmidt. He thinks dere vas been
a change pefore Monday"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Wy Id ISIS dot a Teller vot allows his
ny a mice chewing a celuloid collar in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13

Dis town ISIS becaming so full oop nit
graders dot der negst ting We will hear
aboudt will be a stock combany organ
ised fer der purpose uf selling der posd-
offs to visiting farmers.
Vas ISIS der differmendt between a
"evendt' in high sosiedy und Won in der
"bottoms?" Dondt you know? Wy, in
der lasd instance, der ladies frequendtly
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