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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30
ABOUT CITY FINANCES.

Most people, when they see the ex-
preston "city finances in the newspa-
pers, shy to the other side of the page
and read something else. City finance is
not very fascinating or romantic sub
ject of contemplation. 1t is too much
like breaking rock to attract the at
tention of great throngs of excited peo-
pie.
Therefore the announcement made
this week that Samuel T. Howe, coun-
Gilman from the Fifth ward, had de-
vised and drawn up a scheme for
complete revision of the present method
of handling the citys money has not.
perhaps, created the interest which
such an announcement really warrants.
People are always nightly interested
when the declaration is made that the
city is dead broke and obliged to Dor
row from the banks to pay it's running
expenses. But when somebody, after
lot of hard work and profound study,
presents a plan by which such a con-
dition can be avoided, that's a matter
of no public concern. AS a matter of
fact. the man who can study out and
perfect such a plan exercises more
real leadership and control over the
vital affairs of The city than nine-tenths
of the men who occupy the job of
mayor
Samuel T. Howe's plan is not very
complicated, but it is based on a COM
mon sense way of doing business. It
throws around the city's cash a few of
the projections which any business
concern insists upon in it's own Of
fairs. Instead of going it blind" each
year, the city will require from each
department a careful estimate on the
expenditures for the year. These esti-
I mates will be inspected by a commit
tee on appropriations, and If they ag-
gregate a larger sum than the estima-
ted income of the city. they will be cut
down. If they do not equal the proba-
BILE receipts, the committee will create
/ contingent fund, which the council
can draw on for emergencies. The
| amount in the contingent fund will rep
4 resent just what the council has on
hand to blow In for some of the
! crazy political maneuvers which it not
| infrequently underta kes. 1t knows be
forehand exactly the limit on this
game and the tendency will be to keer
within the limit
To give backbone to this reform is
the city charter act with its clear and
explicit provision that the city must
not issue warrants for money which ii
does not have on hand at the time
This is the law, and every councilman
is armed with it as a wea pom against
extravaganza. 1t should be enforced
to the letter.
For five years or more the city has
been getting deeper and deeper into
debt for its current expenses. The
last legislature authorizes US to issue
bonds and pay off all we owed for out.
standing current expense warrants
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GRABBING FOR $4,000.

The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill which came up in the house of rep
resentatives yesterday carries an item
of $145,000 for mileage of congressman
on account of the special session. Only
one member of the committee on ap-
preparation is opposed to a proposition
which the Chicago Tribune character
ICES as being ''as indefensible as was the
salary grab of 1873, which provoked
popular Indignation and cost many rep
resentatives their seats.'
At the20cents per mile rate the extra
allowance would range from $40 to ST.
500-the latter to members living in the
extreme northwest-while prince Gu
pid,'' the delegate from Hawaii would
get $2,315.
The law authorizes the payment to
congressman of actual travelling ex-
penses from their homes to the seat of
government and return by the most d1-
rect road usually Travelled, once for
each session" The law is source of
profit to many congressman who travel
on passes and yet draw the same mile
age allowances as If they had had to
pay their way. Technically, the spec
ial session called to consider Cuban leg
islation, which met in November, is
distinct from the regular session, which
began in December. One is the first
and the other the second session of the
y-eighth congress. But the two
ran together. There was no time for
a congressman living at Alexandria or
at Baltimore to get home after one
ended before the other began.
Yet. says the Tribune, 1t is proposed
to pay $145,000 as constructive mile
age" for there were no actual travel
ing expenses" The appropriation can
be made under the law, but it will be
illegitimate. 1t will be an offensive
grab, averaging about $500 per con-
gresham. All who vote for it will vote
to pay out of the government treasury
money to which they are not morally
entitled. They run great danger of be-
ing confronted with that vote in nomi-
mating conventions and at the polls.
They should remember the salary grab
of 1873. 1t was lawful, but it was in
expedient, because it was legislation by
which congressman put money in their
own pockets. In popular estimation
that is q grave offense.
Commenting on the proposed grab
the New York Herald says:
1.-The average charge for passengers
on the railways of the United States is
but a fraction more than two cents a
mile. 1t is baG enough for members
of congress to grant themselves ten
times that amount without attempting
to exact double the sum in 'construc-
tive mileage for fictitious journeys. II
1903 a total export to that country of
over millions. Agricultural imple-
ments have grown from s1,692,597 to
| So, 636 145: copper and manufactures
thereof. from s79O.724 to 81. 3s4.272. and
naval stores from S2s1.616 to $432. 1872
Iron and steel. which in the fiscal year
1901 amounted to $1.636.s94, was in the
fiscal year 1903 $1,19s. 1873; and flour
which in the fiscal year 1901 was ST.
| 261. 122. was in 1903, $1,02S. $50.
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gether and drove them up to the same
political feed trough. There are some
things Governor Bailey has to be
thankful for.
A headline in the Wichita Beacon
reads, Curtis going up the river Nile
What's the matter with Salt river?
Times are so hard at Chanute that
a cOlored gentleman was compelled to
sell his best trousers to pay q gas bill
The neighbors CT a sick Pratt coun-
ty man turned ou1 and hauled his wheat
to town the day the 1';arket was right.
Something over 1000 Emporia citizens
have Joined the church, promised to
drop the Town Row and fuss no mora.
After consulting the late Mr.. ]. R.
Burton, Richard Blue pompously an
nounces that Governor Bailey is beat
en-.
An Inman pair of mules brought $500.
There seems no further excuse for
poking fun at the meek and lowly
donkey
Arkansas City girls have organized
a club to promote natrimony. They
will probably use the club on the dila-
tory bachelors.
The latest returns from Leayenworth,
Atchison, Ellis and Kingman indicate
that Governor Bailey is still in the
race, thank you.
So many diamond engagement rings
have appeared lately in st. Marys that
the Ivy are WGdI1iiS SlSCA SOS6ACS ~
protect their eyesight.
Manager Stubs says he doesn't want
anything, but he acts like man that
would enjoy dangling Governor Ball
ey's scalp at his belt.
The city Cooler at Hazleton which
has been a sleeping place for tramps
for twenty years has at last been torn
down and hauled away
An Elk county citizen received a let
ter from his sister IN Pennsylvania
this week. She declared that she did
not die so years ago as the family rec
ords show.
Jumbo" the famous old rooster at
the Kickapoo Indian school near Hor-
ton, is dead. Jumbo's special stunt was
to crow curfew promptly at $3.50 and
continue until the lights were out.
In the last funny papers Tige says
to Buster Brown: "Old man, you're
going too fast gait for me; If you
don't reform I'll have to quit you"
Does this remind you of any of the
newspaper organs of the late Mr.. J. R.
Burton?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1


Don't you hate to have a little dog bark
at you?
People who visit the cemetery good
deal gossip about the monuments.
When a man and wife disagree, which
is the government and which IS the rev.
olutionist?
Those riding in carriages are not as
happy and comfortable as those on foot
think they are
Sat least can not be pointed out as
having made a loveless marriage" said
an old maid today
This world has been so hot for J. l.
Bair during the last few months OF MS
life that he probably found hell chilly
A hair restorative is advertised that
will make hair grow in one night One
that will make hair grow in a year is
hope enough.
We are not interested in the revolution
in Santo Domingo, never having liked
Richard Harding Davis SOLDIERS of For
tune anyway.
At the Lancaster Literary tonight this
question will be discussed: Resolved,
That Love is one thing; and Matrirnany
another"
When we hear that a baby keeps its
mouth open like a little bird, we strip off
the poeticaI sentiment and wonder if 1t
is going to have good sense
In Atchison there are two young people,
brother and a sister. The sister is as
idle as the brother, but only the brother
is abused for idleness.
Be polite. Before you tell what you
really think about Lysander John Apple
ton, ask the question: is any. one pres
ent related to Lysander John Appleton?
Atchison people expect a great deal II
the Missouri Pacific shops are located
get the shops, I am going to have my
washing and ironing done out.
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In this way she keeps herself fresh
until 2 or o'clock in the morning,
when she finally goes to bed to find rest
after the fashion of ordinary n1ortelS.
Usually she rises about o'clock and
before her toilet is finished begins to
receive dressmakers and milliners, for
when there are rehearsals at the thea
ter the morning is the only time she
has free to do all her studying and
writing, to see her friends and to make
all her business arrangements
Even at luncheon time. which is about
IL O'Clock, these duties are not finished
Usually there are several guests pres
ent and BeFnhardt, presiding at the
head of the table in a high backed
Gothic chair with the air OF a tragic
queen, receives friends and business
people throughout the meal These
take their places at the back of their
hostess and sometimes there are as
many as twelve seated i'll a semicircle
behind her chair. With a dreSSmaker
she plans a new theater costume. with
playwright discusses a new drama,
to stage aSpirant gives practical adj
vice, etc Some are her friends. anX-
iOus to have a few minutes chat with
their favorite actress.
At o'clock she must be at the the
alter to begin rehearsals. which con-
tinue until or Z o'clock. and as the
evening performance begins at there
is seldom time for her to return home
for dinner. Therefore it Is usually
brought to her from q restaurant near
Dy anu Is served upon a small JaDle IN
her dressing room. Occasionally, when
that has not been available, La Grande
Sarah has dined kneeling on the floor
with her plate on chair in front Of
her.
Naturally, the role she is playing Or
the tour for which she is preparing
must change to some extent the usual
routine of the day. When she was re-
hearsing for Hamlet" she put on as
soon as she arrived at the theater a
simplif1ed form of the costume and
walked about the stage and thaater as
much as possible so as to aecustom
herself to male attire. Between and
6 o'clock there was an hours lesson in
fencing upon the stage, which neces-
sarily made the afternoon work much
more fatiguing.
On another occasion, just before
travelling in the United States. she
wished to practice speaking English.
but the only hour she could take the
lesson was at o'clock in the morning.
Nevertheless, a teacher was found will
| ing to go to the actress house at that
hour. and after the evenings perform
ance, while she was preparing for bed.
Bernhard fndustriously polished up
her English.-New York Tribune.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Josie Webb and husband to J. DeBar,
$466, part northeast quarter, 32-11-16.
Q. Cain. assignee, to ]. T. Murphy,
1000, part northeast quarter, 2-12-16
T. P. Bradley ct al to ]. Badrur, 81
716, part southwest quarter, 7-1014.
Cheshire Provident Institution to ].
F. Murphy, $1,000, part northeast quar-
ter, 2-12-16.
T. Parkinson ct al to VIM. Dettmer.
81, 200 lot 219-221- 223-225 Lafayette ave-
nue.. Parkdale addition.
]. D. Corbet and wife to J. J. Foley
and wife, Sc, 500. part northeast quarter
and part northwest quarter 5-13-17.
E. G. Bowen and husband to Edith
D. Bowen, 81. 000 lots $50 south half 35s.
Van Buren, street.
J. Thomas and wife to T, L. Boggs,
81 900, lots 7s1 and 50 Topeka avenue,
Ladies' addition, also lots 5-7-9-11-13
and Is. Twenty-second street, Ladies'
addition.
]. Thomas and wife to F. L. Boggs,
81, lot II on Twenty-second street, La
dies addition.
c. Dyson ct al to d. K. Longshore,
Sc, $50, pit. n. e. u 2-12-16.
o. A Anderson and wife to NJ L.
Eastman. 81. 500. lot AGA Van Buren, St,
Huntoons add.
A. G. Sechrest and wife to J. c.
Sechrest, $500. pit n. W. Il 21-13-17-
R V. Dyson ct al by c. Dyson, to D.
K Longshore. s., 100, pit n. e. Il 2-12-16.
D. Marsh. guardian to J. W. Galiker
500, lots 1857 and SO Union avenue.
Steele's add
T. E. Babcock to D. J. Tamblyn ct al,
81, ESQ, s. W. 4 of n. W. Y 17-11-16.
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GOVERNOR BAILEY.

Governor Bailey's announcement
printed in todays paper is the outcome
of one of the most unjust and unfair
personal attacks made upon a Kansas
executive.
Governor Bailey has been charged
with injuring the welfare of the state
and its citizens, in the face of a con-
seientious and careful performance of
his duties So unmerited have been the
thrusts that they have amounted to
persecution. He has been charged with
evils that have resulted from the per
Torrance of a treasurer who has dis
graced Miami county and who is respon-
sible for the increased valuation of
property to the extent of thirty millions
without touching the large railroad in
terests.
He has been charged with mistakes
committed by another branch Of the
government the legislature, and with
the very mistakes which he warned the
| legislature against.
Close political friends of Senator
Burton have used their utmost endeav-
ors to stir up the present movement
against Bailey, knowing that one of the
chief beneficiaries would be the senator
himself, who has since been exposed by
an Indictment. The governor has suf-
fered more than the average executive
by the enmity of former political allies
who turned against him when office
and patronage were denied, some times
simply because only one man can re-
ceive appointment and be pleased, while
a score or more must go away without
a commission. and engendered with
feelings of disappointment, and often
anger and resentment most unjust.
Prominent papers. official organs,
some of them. which were against the
governor before his nomination. have
since continued to misrepresent him
and carried the poison into the homes,
particularly the rural homes. of the
state. Time is too short to detail a
long list of the unjust, unwarranted
and untrue accusations which have
been brought against a governor who
is one of the most upright, conscien-
tiOus and worthy men who has ever
filed the high Office which he has
graced.
The governors manly statement pub
lished on the first page of this issue is
characteristic of him. 1t is brave
cheerful, hopeful. kind. considerable
and generous.
Governor Bailey has year to serve
and this paper is not afraid that what
it has said in the past and says today
about Governor Galley will continue tc
be verified by his conduct.
The craze to attack him and punish
him for the shortcomings of others is
in the air like the Populist movement
of old. Time will change the tempera-
ment of the people and the conditions
surrounding them and it will give {
r personal vindication to Governor Bail
ey.
Greater love than this for his party
can no man show, than to sink hi.
, ambitions for its harmonious welfare
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

Fads may come and fads may go,
but hobby goes on forever
The handsomer a man is the less use
other men have for him.
There are a number of two-faced wo-
men outside the freak museums
Every man is introduced to a lot of
people who don't care to know him.
You can nearly always flatter man
by telling him he can't be hattered.
The feminine idea of a spendthrift is
another woman who lives beyond her
a1imonY.
If the uses of adversely are sweet
there ought to be more sugar-cured
hams on the stage.
Opportunity occasionally meets a
man half way. but she seldom comes
after him in an automobile.
One trouble with a great many people
who don't know good music from bad
is that they don't know it.
Even the urchin who attends Sunday
school regularly has some serious and
painful Misunderstanding with his
parents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30
JAYHAWKER JOTS-

Leavenworth has the measles.
Fall River will burn piped-in gas.
Tax fel vets have retired to their dens
in Franklin county.
Probably the most bitter postmaster
contest in Kansas is at LIE Roy.
A ST. Marys hired girl demands the
use of the piano daily for a half hour.
Hamlin boasts of a $3.50 monument.
These be prosperous times in Kansas.
The first jewsharp was heard in How
ard this week since the summer of 80
Onaga is setting up nights watching
for the graders of their proposed rail-
roa5-
Midwinter exposition is the japanese
fire stunt
A 6-year-old Brown county girl bakes
better cakes than her mother. the
neighbors say.
A package was received in Barber
county this week mailed a year ago
at Girard, Illinois.
pleads not guilty of shifting with his
fists Mrs. VBriSki.
A dog collar is suggested for a Sa-
betha man who runs around nights
and bowls too much.
Concordia is to have pontoon bridge
of boats. which guarantees to rock
every passenger seasick.
Mr. Hawk is to deliver a lecture at
Cawker City. The chickens will retire
to roost early that night.
If you want to see a first-class Kill
kenny cat fight. drop in on the Holton
convention next Tuesday.
The Sabetha electric light plant went
wrong Thursday night and prayer
meetings were adjourned.
Pink eye" is prevalent among the
pupils of three Barton county schools.
In the other black eyes prevail.
A little Hiawatha boy played hockey
from home to the roller Skating rink
and returned with a broken wrist.
A Lawrence gambler rather than face
the court saioped OUT in the cold, cold
world leaving a S5e0 bond behind.
The Dickinson county convention
yoked Mr.. Burton and Mr.. Hoch to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30
HOW SHE TAKES HER REST
Sarah Bernhardt Preserves Her
Youth BY Taking Daylight Mans.

Few people Know what a busy life
the famous actress Bernhard leads,
and in what a peculiar manner she
takes her rest. She never remains in
bed for more than five or six hours,
but at any time during the day she
has a few moments to spare she lies
down for little nap. She falls asleep
the instant her head touches the pill
low, and gets up feeling quite refresh
ed after a rest of only ten or even five
minutes. Often while driving in her
carriage from her hotel to the theater
she sleeps, and sometimes has to be
awakened by the coachman on her
arrival
If the interval between the acts is
sufficiently long she lies down imme-
diately after leaving the stage and be-
fore dressing for the next act. Many a
time she has been known to snatch a
nap while standing in the wings wait
ing for her signal to go on the stage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30

The Philadelphia Bulletin handles the
subject of the proposed mileage grab
in the following vigorous manner
There is no use in mincing words over
the matter. The technicality which is
put forward as a basis for paying con-
gressmen liberal allowance for jour-
neys which they did not take is an inn
pudent pretence. The session of con-
gress since the legislators We're first
called together in November has been
a continuous one to all intents and pur-
poses. There was no possible oppor-
tunity for members to go to their
homes between the extra and regular
sessions. the first of which ended the
moment the other began. and the coun-
try perfectly understands that fact-to
say nothing of the current conviction
that members of the house and senate,
when they do travel, usually employ
railroad passes which do not cost them
a cent. If congress votes itself the
extra mileage its action will be as in
famous as that of the legislators who
joined In the historic salary grab" and
It win invite the unqualified eondemna-
ton OF every honest man In the United
States"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-30
LOCAL MENTION.

Fred George pleaded guilty in the
city court this morning to the charge
of stealing a coat from Kemper &
Paxton's store He was fined So and
costs, amounting to $12.
At the Y. NJ c. A. rooms Sunday aft
ernoon at 4 o'clock Evangelist J. NJ.
Neff of Mobile, Ala, win make an ad-
dress. II. J. Andrews will give a vocal
solo and other music will be furnished
by the Y. N. c. A. quartet.
There will be an open meeting under
the auspices of the Curtis Republican
club of the Fifth ward next Monday
evening. February I, 1904, at Chiles'
hall, corner Twelfth and Washington
streets. Speeches will be made by all
candidates for county offices. s. T.
Howe will preside.
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copper and its manufactures, and naval
stores. In iron and steel there has
been a slight reduction, and in flour a
considerable reduction. Raw cotton, OF
which our expectations to Russia in the
fiscal year 1901 were less than 21s mil
lion dollars. showed in the fiscal year
they feel that they should have com
pensation for the extra month spent in
Washington they should frankly con-
tend for that, instead of resorting to
this scandalous subterfuge."
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press.l
A woman is never very old when she
will admit it.
One and one make one at the mar
rage altar, and one from one makes two
in the divorce court.
There is nothing a woman won't do for
a man who has told her friends that she
looks distinguished.
A woman who thinks she has eyes like
stars always believes she would be in
great danger from men if she weren't so
good.
When a mother has a son who cries
when he can't go to Sunday school she
ought to know enough to keep the pantry
where she stores the preserves locked.
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Exports from the United States to
Russia in the year just ended aggre-
gated practically 90 million dollars.
This is more than double the amount
of our exports to Russia in 1901. the
year in which duties were advanced
upon merchandise from the United
States entering Russia, and is also
double the average for many years pre-
ceding that date. Imports from Russia
have also greatly increased since that
time In 1903 they were $40. 907. 315,
against 1928. s74 in 1901. Thus the
total commerce between the United
States and Russia in the calendar year
1903 exceeds 90 million dollars, and is
double that of 1901, the year in which
such alarm was felt with reference to
our commerce with Russia. and is
three times as great as in 1893. The
chief growth in our exports to Russia,
in the two years in question. has been
in cotton. agricultural implements,
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Hartford Courant: When before. if
ever. have two senators of the United
States been indicted by grand juries in
a single minter2 Mr.. Dietrich had no
trouble in showing TO the court that he
had not taken his senatorial oath at the
time he made his business arrange
nents with the Nebraska postmaster,
and the court promptly delivered him
cut of the hands of his enemies. Mr..
Burton of Kansas tells the public that
he did not take the Rialto Grain & Sc
curities eompany's $500 as a senator
but as a lawyer. 1t was not a bride. he
says, but merely a fee for professional
services