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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
RELIEF FOR ATILLIONAIREs.

What a sigh of relief and gratitude
Mr.. Rockefeller must have drawn
when he learned that those Congrega-
tional ministers in Boston had con-
Guided to let him give them 100000!
Think how broken up he would have
been if they had insisted on their
first determination and refused to take
his money!
If the habit of refusing donations
from the downtrodden milnonaires
ever becomes epidemic, what a
calamity it will be! Mr. Carnegie, for
instance, would be disgraced by being
compelled to die rich. Whenever a
millionaire wishes to give away some
of his money, the objects of the bene-
faction would require an affidavit stat
ing that it was earned by the sweat
of his brow-if it becomes a habit of
benefactees to refuse all gifts except
those that were honorably attained by
the givers.
There IS a serious question as to the
propriety of institutions founded on
moral principles receiving extravagant
gifts from men like Mr.. Rockefeller.
1t is the general impression that Mr..
Rockefeller gained his wealth by
means not at all creditable, if indeed
they were not absolutely contrary to
law. Therefore the recipient Of any of
his wealth would be better than the
man who receives stolen property
only in degree.
On the other hand. there are those
who will consider such a view as
straintng a point. From another view
point it seems all right to accept such
gifts, with the distinct understanding
that such acceptance does not carry
with it an endorsement of the means
by which the giver accumulated his
wealth. This seems to be the view Of
the Congregational ministers in the
Boston case.
While it is likely that there win be
an abundance of institutions that viii
do as they have in the past-take all
they can get and no questions asked
the world has got good enough evil
IDENTIFY that there will be some institu-
tions that viii look to the source OF
the gift before accepting it. It is not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
LAYRAWKER lots.

when did the waste-baslzet origin
ate?' asks the New York Press. At the
same time the spring poets began their
output. 1c
salina must have paved streets and
a paid fire department, declares the
journal. Salinas trouble reservoir is
evidently getting low.
Salina Journal: Perhaps it was stip-
u1ated by Mr.. Rockefeller that a part
of that one hundred thousand was to be
used in missionary effort in Kansas.
Independence Times: There is just
this difference between Kansas and
Missouri. Missouri has ito be shown, -
while Kansas stands ready at all times
ITO do the showing
The Gazette of Lawrence has figured
it out. Those two cannon planted in
the park at Sterling are for the pur-
pose Of knocking Castro's fleet out
when 1t sails UP the Arkansas.
The Globe of Atchison isn't naming
anybody but 1t calls attention to the
fact that late practice in politics is
to forgive your enemy, and jump the
friend who does not tear his shirt"
Lawrence Journal: May II is to be
observed in Kansas as Prohibition
day" at the request of the State Tenn
perance union. It was generally sup
posed that every day was prohibition
day in Kansas.
Salina Journal: Speaker Stubs asked
state bank examiner, assuring him that
he would 'be the biggest man in the
state" if he would decline the appoint
ment. Royce took the view of the case
evidently that, as between being the
biggest man in the state and the big
gest chump in the state, he would hold
the Office.
Atchison Globe: The suburban gro
ceries springing up all over town
threaten a time honored custom: that of
borrowing. A woman cannot run to a
neighbours for a. cup of sugar when she
can buy it at the grocery at the corner.
The situation is one to view with alarm.
The woman who borrowed had an op-
portunity to see her neighbours kitch-
en-, never granted under the law Of
tradition to the caller at the front door.
She saw how her neighbor mixed up
cake or made a pie, and absorbed
knowledge Of the way the neighbor did
it. In addition to the sugar, she got
material for conversation that could be
served over and over, dozens Of times
to her family and friends. Borrowing
is the sole society Of the busy. With
no longer an excuse to borrow, how is
a woman to act as censor on her neigh
boris affairs2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
A Mixed I'd Case.

It was in the court of a justice Of the
court in the north woods OF Michigan,
and the case being tried was about a
yearling calf. The plaintiff claimed to
have sold the calf for six dollars. but re-
ceived only half his pay. The defendant
claimed to have paid all the money down
at once. The plaintiff swore that the sale
took place on Friday, the 18th of August
The defendant swore it was on Tuesday,
the Sd Of September
One witness remembered distinctly that
1t was on Saturday, September 18th, and
another was as positive that it was on
Wednesday, July 1S. Each sWOre in the
most positive manner, and backed It up
by relating circumstances, and His Hon
or finally got it through his head that
there was something queer about the
swearing. He hunted up a last year cal
endar, and after looking at it a few min
utes he announced:
You fellers want to let up a little. Not
one of you has got your days or dates
right within a week. What are you tryin
to git at anyway?
Your Honor. we want the truth in this
matter" said the attorney for the plain
You bet we do, Your Honor" added
wall, I guess we can do that purity
quick AS I size things up everybody has
do the same. I shall throw the case out
Of court and divide the costs"
The attorneys objected, and the plaintiff
but the justice stood by his ruling and adj
journed court. Later on met him and
asked;
Judge, what do you suppose allied all
those men to swear as they did? Some of
them certainly must have been lying"
wall, dunno" he replied with owlish
sOlemnity. You see, every one Of EN-
had been drinking hard cider before he
went on the stand, and I guess they did
not know what they was swearin' to-
Yes, that may be it."
Because. you see," he went on, wag-
ging his head several times and grabbing
hold of the fence to steady himself 4
drank my cider afore looked for that
calendar, and I'm tellin you that I prob
ably lied worse than all of EN- put to-
gether!'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

he is doing so-he will probably rec
ognize the Kelly Burrow faction just
as he does other factions in Kansas
politics.
Senator Haskell is said to be a good
man and a capable man personally.
It is possible that Governor Hoeh may
appoint him to some position, al
though it is doubtful if Senator Has
kell or anyone else will make a better
warden of the penftentiary than the
present incumbent. But if Governor
Hoeh selects Senator Haskell for any
official position it will probably be be-
cause he believes Haskell would make
a good official and not to 'pacify''
anybody. To use appointments for
pacideation purposes would be to
play politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.I

IFIOW IHe OHIcago NsWs.I
Beef is going down daily-in restau-
rants.
He who has no friends doesn't have
to lend them money.
All is thought to be fair in love, war
and horse trade.
Any woman can throw a stone at a
hen-but what's the use?
Many fellow fishes all day and
catches nothing but visionary snakes.
A man who courts and runs away
may be hauled into court another day.
A man doesn't like to go to bed with
the chickens, yet he always wants to
roost high.
A woman is always anxious to let her
husband have his own way-providing
it's the same as her way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

Here is another difference between
President Roosevelt and some other
people: Congressman Reeder recently
told about it to a Topeka man. ''That
man Roosevelt is a mighty broad
man." said Mr.. Reeder. HE likes to
have his own way just as well as any
body. but he doesn't suIk If he doesn't
get it He generally fights for his
way but If he doesn't get it he goes
right along and does the best he can
anyway There's no sulking about
him" Mr.. Reeder was speaking of
the reported differences between the
president and the United States senate.
That's how Roosevelt is different from
Kansas politicians
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

The statement is made that J. r.
Burrow did not want John Q. Royce
appointed bank commissioner because
Burrow is the owner Of a string of
banks and he did not want Royce to be
in a position to find out his affairs. If
AIr. Burrow is conducting his banks ae-
eording to law why should he fear to
have Mr.. Royce or anybody else know
about them?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

The important announcement is
made that William Jennings Bryan
has subscribed for Tom Watson's
magazine. Now an anxious public
Will breathlessly wait to learn if the
name of the gentleman from Georgia
has been added to the subscription
list Of the Commoner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

Lawrence Gazette: Caldwell. kan, is
getting new postoh1ce furniture, and on
The strength Of it the town is claiming
a boom. Time was when nothing less
than ten train loads Of cattle at one
shipment a hundred Iocoed cowboys,
and the town all shot to pieces was re-
garded as a boom in Caldwell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
ouAKER REFLECTIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record. ]

Digestion isn't so much a matter of
choice as of chews.
When a man narries for money he is
never permitted to forget it.
It's all right to hope for the best, but
it's better to work for it.
There is quite a difference between be-
1ieving and Tnake-beIieving.
Most people fatter themselves that they
can't be spoiled by dattery-
More poetry has been written about the
weather than it really deserves.
Blobbs-'tTm broke and glad of it"
Slobbs-"Glad of it?" Blobbs-s'Yes; Bor-
rowel just struck me for s. and didn't
have it. J"
Hoax-''D Auber, the artist, ought to
make good duck hunter" Joax-
..Prithee why2'' Hoax-''He generally gets
his canvas back
On predigested food he dimes,
Hi appetite he whets
Wits finest brands of predrunk wines,
And presmoked cigarettes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

The Hutchinson News states that
me affairs of the Hutchinson reforma-
tory are in prosperous condition
and points with pride to the fact that
the enrolment" in the institution
has now reached 400. How is that as
a cause for pride?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

Using space in the newspapers has
reached Clay Center, where George w.
Hanna, a brother of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Hanna, uses nearly half a page
In the opposition newspaper to set
Forth his claims in the mayoralty race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

D. r. Anthony, who is running for
reelection as mayor of Leavenworth
and at the same time is managing
the Leavenworth Times. says: "The
man who has the responsibilities of
managing a daily paper on his hands
and consents to run for Office deserves
70 be beaten on general principles."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

BY the way is Dave Blaine so busy
digging that North Pole and Gulf of
Mexico canal that he has had no time
TO figure up the shortage Of harvest
hands in Kansas this year?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

tt is a noticeable fact that the
Thoughts We've Been Thinking
have disappeared from the columns Of
the Marion Record since the office
seekers have been leading Governor
Hoch such a strenuous life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

An anonymous boss buster says that
Governor Hoch 'was elected governor
by our counsel, aid and sympathy"
Thus is another idol shattered. The
people of Kansas thought they elected
Hoch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

Mrs. Chadwick viii write her auto-
biography while she is serving that ten
years in prison, and the Los Angeles
Express suggests as a title for the
work. "How I Buncoed the Banker;
or Easy Marks I Have Met"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

likely that the custom viii become
sufficiently prevalent however, to keep
any millionaire from getting rid OF all
the surplus wealth he may happen to
desire to give away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
california $500 via Santa Re.

During March and April tickets viii
be sold to Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, and other
points in California and the Northwest.
Through tourist car service at slight
additional cost Free chair cars ali
the way and only three nights out to
the above points
Santa E7e all the way.
Write for literature-free for the
asking. Address T. L. KIM, c. p.
& 7. A.. Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

Conner Davies has been so busy
glecting d new city government in
EOncordIa that he has had to lay Gov
lrnor Hoch's senatorial boom aside
Cor a short time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

If Prof. Vincent had only known it,
what a magnificent example Of a
psychological wave the recent trust
busting episode in Kansas oneredI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

In the drawing Of seats in the United
States senate for the coming congress.
che senior senator from Kansas seems
10 have drawn his in the cloak room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

Here is one thing against the Japs:
They keep the Russians changing
generals so often that the rest of the
world has to work overtime learning
10 spell their names.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

The postod1ce department has order
I'd the mail boxes painted green. Is
Ehis a bid for the Irish vote?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

prairies are afre with indignation
Ever the Royce appointment?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

Ladies, If you want a refined and bril-
liant complexion, free from blemishes, use
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. Brings
red lips. bright eyes and a cream-like
complexion. a5c- Tea or Tablets. Gatltn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

Mes city has a Dew Drop Inn club,
emo The boys Of that town dew so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01

Excursion to Kansas City, Santa Fe
Sunday. April 2. Round trip $125.
Tickets at Rowley & Shows and Santa
Fe depot. Train leaves $3.50 a. m.
Everybody invited.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

there Is convalescent home for children. It contains thirty-fve beds. twenty of which are filled by con- have been treated at the Post-Gradu- ate. A novel institution Is maintain ed by St. Johns Guild in the shape of a floating hospital operated in connec- ton with home on dry land at New Dorp on Staten Island. One of the largest institutions of all has been es- tablished at Coney Island in the midst of all the varied attractions of Luna Park and Dreamland.
 Perhaps, however, the most inter esting attempt to give healthy sur roundings to the children of the poor Is the work of the Speedwell Society at Morristown. Here the babies-for they are nothing more-are not cared for In any one institution, but are placed in various homes in the vicinity. The society Is directly connected with the Post-Graduate School, one of the faculty being at its head, and the chill dren are visited regularly by physi- clans and nurses from the hospital
 Morristown has been found a peculiar ly advantageous place for this work as the large wealthy colony has brought with 1t a numerous train of dependents. Most of these are quite willing to add to their incomes the money they receive for caring for their young charges, and in the great ma jority of cases they have been found well able 10 fulfil their part of the contract. -::-.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

poor and partly as a means of con
 veying instruction to the physicians and students who attend the clinics. In addition to these practical demon- strations of treatment of children's Ill.,
 ness, which, at this season of the year especially, form such a large part of the family physicians practice, wards are also thrown open to the students and an opportunity given them to see the actual progress of the many cases.
 The hospitals of New York. how ever. cannot begin to take care of all the suffering children of the tene- ments. In the search for a breath of air and some relief from the stifling atmosphere of the crowded living room, the roofs and fire-escapes are called into play and 1t is hardly an exaggeration to say that a hot night sees half of the population of New York's poorer quarters sleeping out of doors. So intense is the suffering caused by sultry night that the com monest precautions for safety are ne
 glected. Recently mother took her young child out on the fire-escape and there the two fell asleep, careless of the rules of the fire department
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

place upon the table. Beer is cheap 2n enormous amount is put into a tin pail for ten cents-it is cool and al- ways be had at @ minutes notice. Milk Is neither so cool nor so cheap. and few tenement apartments are provid- ed with refrigerators in which to keep it. So the whole family drinks the beer and is thankful for 1t and the ba- bies are stricken with gastro- enteritis and wilt within forty eight hours.
 When the mother is finally aroused to the seriousness of the situation, she carries her child to the hospital dispensary. Bellevue and the Post Graduate are both situated in the heart of the great tenement district lying east of Third Avenue and be- tween Fourteenth and Thirty-fourth streets. but most of these cases come to the Post Graduate rather than to Bellevue, the big municipal institution
 The babies wards of the Post-Gradu- ate, with their fifty-eig beds for sick children and twenty-eight for little cripples, are perhaps the best equipped in the city. but their greatest value lies in their connection with the school, of which the hospital Is but a necessary adjunct. Medicine is now taught in the laboratory, so to speak mot by the thoretical leetures-and the children carried to the dispensary are treated by the faculty of the school, partly as work of charity among the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

which are explicit in their insistence that the fire escapes shall at all times be Kept clear. In the course of the night the child slipped from the moth CTS arms and fell to the ground, three stories below. Tn some remarkable way. instead of being crushed to death the baby escaped with a broken thigh.
 Many are reluctant to take advan- tage of the medical care freely Of fered on all sides. but there Is also A class of professional malignerers against whom physicians have to be continually on their guard. A mild and after all very natural form of this imposition is reluctance to take a convalescent child out of the hospi- tai. Not infrequently the parents reach the conclusion that the baby is well off where he is and pay no atten- ton to the notice that he Is recovered and ready to return home.
 While a hospital is the best place for those seriously i'll, it is not a good place for convalescent children Of late years quite a number of institu- tions, half-homes and half-hospitals have been established in the vicinity of New York and these country places are utilized to their full capacity dur ing the summer. At Sea Cliff on Long Island, for example, over looking Hampstead Harbor and the Sound.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

buttered side. He is also an organizer. and In that line he can teach the Beck ham machine a trick or two. Never did politics make such bed-fellows as Blackburn and MeCreary. Never were there two men less a like. Blackburn is impulsive; .McCreary Is calculating. Blackburn says more than he thinks, McCreary thinks. more than he says. Blackburn Is eloquent; McCreary is crafty. Blackburn depends on the fn- spiration of the moment; McCreary re- lies on the delibeEations of yesterday.
 They have been rivals for yeGrs, and there was, no love lost between them. Both are from the bluegrass and both were in the Confederate army. Black burn got to Congress while McCreary was in the State Legislature, and Black burn entered the United States Senate the day McCreary became a member of Congress. Blackburn got political honors by leaps and bounds; McCreary gained place by slow degrees. Had they joined forces in 1875 they would have been invincible and might have taken the political supremacy from Beck and Carlisle.
 Different as they are, and antagonis- tic as they have been, their own safety has made them allies at last, and 1t is a strong team. If Blackburn beats them this year he will be every man himself for years to come in the old Common- wealth of Kentucky.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
GERMANS AND AMERICANS.
WaEewOrkers Here Are Better Fixed i'm
 Almost Every Respect,

bTOOhiyH EdBIe.
 The German notion that they are a little the best and most fortunate peo- pie on earth, which comes out occa- sionally in their international rela- tlons. must receive a severe shock from report published by Professor Som bart of Breslau. Professor Sombart has been investigating the conditions of American workmen and he compares them with those of Germans in a Ger man magazine. to the manifest advant- age of Americans. The point of com parison which will most surprise many Americans Is the report that even in New York the workmen are~better and more cheaply housed than the Germans. He finds that the average American workman's family lives in five rooms, while the German family has two, and that the American pays a less propor- tion of his wages for his five rooms than the German pays for his two. He points out that rents in America are relatively low even when one considers the money value" while the American wages are two or three times higher
 Clothing Is not much dearer in Amer ica, and shoe wear Is cheaper The American workman's family has more rooms, they. are more comfortable and better furnished An American work mans family spends $1l5 a year for
 
 Carlsruhe and Nuremburg spend from s32 to $54. As the clothing costs but little more in this country, this added expenditure indicates a scale of com fort or. al least, of show, in dressing which the German working family does not reach. The quality and cost of liv- ing of American workmen. he reports, as "something similar to our wealthier bourgeois class" The American work men eat more meat. sugar. fruit, cere- als, pies and buildings than the Ger man But the German workman spends far more for the consumption of alco- hoI than does the American. The aver age American workman's family spends $I24O for alcoholic drinks, while the parallel family in Nuremburg spends $39, and in Carlsruhe $54. This latter sum Is 2.5 per cent of the Germans in- come, while he spends only 126 per cent for food. At the same time the beer costs only half as much in Ger many, so this observer estimates that the South German workman drinks from six to ten times more beer" than his brother in this country. while in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

clearing week. and the Summer stocks getting lower the prices
 will notice by the items mentioned below that determined price than half the former price, and in many instances less