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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
The Rainbow Patient.

The case of Mary Eisholz. the
three year-old girl on whose, skin have
appeared rainbow-hued markings
that change with the weather. has be-
Bellevue Hospital. The girl was re-
ported yesterday to have recovered, so
far as diagnosis could determine. No
could be found on her
skin, and she exhibited a vivacity
that belied her apparent malady.
1t was believed that the child was
suffering from pupura hemorrhag1ca,
a disease so rare that physicians are
puzzled to account for its cause. to FOL
low its course and to find cure for it,
The skin seems to oartake of the ma
ture of a chameleon. Colors offensive
to the eye, hues which delight the be-
holder, and tints that seem to have no
individuality. but blend in a hetero-
geneous mass, appear and disappear.
To the physicians it seems that the
skin of the patient is a barometer
as every variation in atmosphere pres
sure, every change in the density of
going of these colors, which heretofore,
in almost every other case. presaged
death.
Yet the little girl in Bellevue has
euchred fate. apparently. There is abb
solutely no trace of unusual hues on
her BODY Her skin is of the white
and-pink. combination. which spells
health and vigor.
There has not beeh sufficient time
for research to determine whether the
attack of rheumatism suffered by the
child two weeks ago was either
first or q contributory cause OF the
TRANCE malady which has attracted
the attention of physicians all over
the country.
Yesterday being cool. clear and
dry, there seems reason to believe that
if the patient really suffers from the
disease the atmospheric change ban
ished the ugly spots from her skin.
Usually the dis coloration reapears
whenever the sun shines.-N. z.
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
JAYHH WKER. JOT.S

Burlingame proposes to ask the leg
islature to permit the town to put in a
telephone system.
Out in Belleville when women are
seen talking over the back fence it is
regarded as a sure sign of spring.
Usage county has a Scandinavian
citizen who is said by a local paper to
be very intelligent in his native
tongue" 49, ~AAs-
L. C. Crimer, editor of the McPher-
son Opinion is a candidate for mayor.
The support of the press part of it at
least, is assured.
The Wellsville Globe tells. of a man
who husked 1913 bushels of corn in one
day and then was compelled to quit
because the field was finished
The Burlington Independent is no
more. The Burlington Democrat has
taken it's place. The. new owners are
making a straightout Democratic pa
per of it.
over at Leavenwortn. even drum
mers are not equal to making their
escape from the ICON" men. One of
them lost SIS to sharpers on an in
coming train last week.
The A. NJ. E. church of lola is re-
ceiving bids for a new church to re-
place the one they have on North
Buckeye street. The church is to be
modern in every respect and will be
"a by so feet in dimensions.
Instead of firing. weighty orations
at the audience and telling them how
to run the government and solve all
the vexing problems of the world the
graduating class of the Mcpherson
high school this year will give a play
entitled, 1.-THE Sweet Girl Graduate
Ottawa cats are leaders of fashion.
One big yellow cat named Bonnie
wears a small leather dog collar with a
silver nameplate. Another rather
woe-be-gone looking specimen of cat
dom, whose ears have been frozen has
had one ear pierced and wears a small
coquettish red bow tied through the
hole
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

IF all the railroads of the United
States had only Dracticed what Presi-
dent Baer of the Reading breaches, -
says the Washington Post, there
would have been no railroad problem,
no railroad commission-nationa or
state-no rebate, no rate bill. The
railroads. would have had friends and
champions everywhere, and enemies
and assailants nowhere. Mr. Baer
tells us that the only way the roads
can get traffic is to fix rates which will
enable the manufacturers, merchants.
and producers of every kind to sell
their products in the markets of the
world
But that is what the roads have
not done. They have juggled rates
and given rebates in order that some
producers might have access to the
markets OF the world. and have con-
trived that rival producers should be
shut out from the markets of the
world. Thus the roads were run on
the twofold plan of making million
aires and making paupers.
THAT is the way the roads were
operated for forty years. Nobody
could compete with the oil trust, or
the meat trust, or the steel trust, or
the whisky trust. or the tobacco trust,
or the coal trust. or any other trust
that the roads gave the advantages
and privileges of rebate. All over the
west and southwest are towns and VIII
lagos made busy marts by the rail-
roads, and there are in those sections.
also, towns and villages made somno-
lent by the railroads. It is only an
arbitrary fixing of rates advantageous
to one community and adverse to an
other, and the thing is done. A re-
bate of 10 cents on barrel of sugar,
5 cents on a barrel of salt. a trif1e on
a carload of household furnishings or
farm machinery. and thus a town is
frequently given a boom for the rea-
son that railroad officials own corner
lots within its limits.
Railroads are creations of law and
capital; the government furnishes the
law and the stockholders furnish the
capital. 1t is the office of the law to
require the roads to mete to every
customer the same treatment they ac-
cord to every other customer. If the
roads had held to this rule and never
deviated from it, the government
would have given them no more con-
Germ than the grand jury gives the
good citizen innocent of offense.
But the roads would not. They
violated the law, they outraged JUS
tice, and now the octopus-chasers are
after them. They have their own
greed and their own wrong to thank
for it, and unless they mend their
manners the discipline will be made
much more severe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
NoLONGER AFRAm.

The country is assured on the author
ity of Mr.. Henry Clews. banker and
broker, that Wall street is feeling bet
ter these days. The alarm created by
the activity of the president in the di-
rection of reform is subsfding as con-
gress approaches the close of the ses-
sion without much having been ac-
complished along the lines laid down
by Mr.. Roosevelt in his numerous mes
sages.
In the latest edition of the Financial
Review Mr.. Clews says:
Financial circles have at last
awakened to the fact that the presi-
dent has no destructive purposes
whatever in his reform movement. In
fact, he is proving much more conser-
vative than his enemies would have it
appear. He is not anxious for any
further legislation during this session;
and none could be accomplished for
the time is too short for intelligent and
thorough discussion. Such ideas as he
has for reform are in the line of pub
lie interest. They are not adverse to
the proper conduct of corporate in
terests, nor are they retroactive, as at
one time was feared. This under
standing, of course, removes ground
for apprehension regarding the presi-
dents intentions which existed in Wall
street. Congress, which has accom-
plished little legislation of value dur
ing the present session, will shortly ad.
journ, the balance of time being taken
up with appropriations and other rou-
tine business. The market WILL there
fore, now have a breathing spell from
legislative attacks, although it should
not be overlooked that we are enter.
ing into a period of active discussion
of topics which are sure to be more or
less unsettling. This can not be avoid
ed and is a disturbance that is likely
to grow in intensity as the time for
presidential nominations approaches"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
SOMETIMES.

{By Jerry ]. Cohan.)
Sometimes joyous, sometimes sad,
Sometimes melancholy.
Some times sorry; sometimes glad;
Sometimes loud and jolly;
Sometimes pious. then profane,
Sometimes cold and naughty
sometimes friendly, and again
sometimes chic and naughty.
Some times borrow, sometimes lend;
Sometimes cheat and squander,
Sometimes break things, sometimes mend,
Sometimes stop and wonder.
Sometimes coward, sometimes brave;
sometimes sweet and humble.
sometimes master, sometimes slave;
Sometimes trip and tumble.
Sometimes hearty, sometimes Ill;
Sometimes wise and witty.
Sometimes talky, sometimes still;
Sometimes prone to pity.
Sometimes cruel, sometimes weak;
Sometimes quite judicial
Sometimes pompous. sometimes meek,
Sometimes artificial.
Sometimes truthful, sometimes lie;
Sometimes jealous-greedy.
Sometimes cheeky, some times shy;
Some times careless-seedy.
Sometimes earnest, sometimes jest;
Sometimes act sincerely.
Sometimes slouchy, sometimes dressed;
sometimes sober, nearly.
At times when the sometimes spell
Crooked things or hazy,
Such times watch the sometimes we'll
More times when the lazy
Careless meantimes happenings show,
Threat nings some times, come times
When tight rein's needed. Col
All times, Oft times, sometimes.
Written for The Spot Light.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

assumed that a man will do nothing
against a business in which he has
share. 1t may be that those wealthy
gentlemen who make large donations
to schools. Libraries and churches are
actuated in part by similar motives
These donations are usually made in
the stocks and bonds of the concerns
from which they derive their incomes
thereby making the public a share
holder. 1t is not difficult to assume
that the portion of the public which is
directly benefited will lend little aid
and comfort to any movement which
has a tendency to lessen the income
derived from these securities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rom the Atchison Globe. l

From the Atchison Globe
What crazy thing people do under
the head of trading" 1t is usually
a good thing to be suspicious of man
who Is always trading" such men are
often unreliable.
People are often accused of being
charitable with the rich. Wouldn't
it be nearer the truth to say that peo-
pie always have a pronounced preju-
dice against the rich?
A mans wife's kin never expect his
children to amount to much because
they bear such resemblance to their
father, but If the children really do
turn out well, it doesn't help the faith
er's standing any.
A woman's dreams as she grows old
er dwindle from visions of marble
palaces. with spacious halls and pillar
ed porticoes, to a hope that she may
sometime occupy a house with a SUI
ficient number of closets.
Some men are shiftless, and thew
can't help It. One man will get out
and work, no difference what the
weather conditions. Another man will
loaf around home all day. II there is a
little rain or snow to afford an excuse
And the shiftless man says he is az
good as the man who works every dav
rain or shine. -
People find fault with you a xood
deal. Ever occur to you that son,a
things are applauded by the peonia
rather than criticised? If Won 90
quiet. and polite, and modest, and ho,,N
orable in your daily life, peopIe vi,
praise you, instead of ripping Won ~.
the back Most of the criticism -
people IS deserved. This is the onir-
ion OF man who has had a lot Of r.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

Mr.. wankle (v-ho is trying very hard to
be country gentleman)-ISook ere, Biles.
tell you the 'ounds were coming today??
Biles-Why, thenn's martens nestsl
The master told me to ave every 'oie
about the place stopped up-Punch.
The Setter Tin country store)-I see
by the papers tibet Rockyfeller's income is
The storekeeoer-Goshi 1t must keep
him on the jump maxim change!-Puck.
Husband-If a man steals-no matter
what it is-he will live to regret 1t.
Wife-During our courtship you used TO
Husband4Weii. you heard what said.
Chicago Daily News
wondering what creeDers to put on the
cottage. which do you think would be
The Gardener-well, sir, one of them
Virginias would cover it up quickest
Punch.
II could marry Miss TartIeigh If had a
mind, dent you know2 ~. ,,5a1l5 - ~,
'tThen, dear boy, why don't you try to
get one?'-Cleveland Plain dealer.
Mrs. slummer--My poor, woman. does
Mrs. Hogan-No, num- Sometimes
gets out of work.-Lfe.
when man makes a speech said the
suceinct person, "he ought to be able to
tell all he knows in ten minutes" 80.
Yes" answered Senator Sorghum, but
1t takes hours sometimes to conceal what
you don't know.'-Washington Star.
THAT man is positively dishonest" said
the protesting citizen.
isn't as culpable you think. He merely
lacks the high intelligence which enables a
man to exercise fine ethical discrimina-
ton. '-Washington Star.
Hes studying dentistry at a correspon-
dence school,
Father IN awkward way. should
think
gas the other day and then found he
didn't k-o-r how to remove the molar. So
he had to write to the school, and 1t was
three days before he could get rid of his
patient-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Confidential Fricnd-Old man. IL you had
your life to live over again, would you
make 1t different?
lars. Firstly. I'd be bigger scoundrel
Secondly I wouldn't take any other man
into my conhdence.''-Chicago Tribune.
"Grandpa. will you buy me automo-
mo. child; you are too young to run an
auto
mo. I'm not have been with Cousin
VIII in his auto and watched how he runs
it. and one day we ran over man, and
know just how it's done.
IT'S that Ursa Major?" inquired the
young lady visitor who was star gazing
with elderly gentleman
Her hostess, who heard her. called her
aside little later and cautioned her
Hes a colonel. my dear. she remarked.
ing him major!'-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

A bill has been introduced into the
New York legislature appropriating
$50 goo for the expense of holding con-
vention at Saratoga next October. the
purpose of which will be to concert
measures to combat effectively the trend
toward Capitalization of power In the
hands of the federal government. The
convention will discuss the problem of
securing uniform legislation by the
various states on the subjects of life
and fire insurance, divorce, labor, pub
lie utilities and interstate commerce.
Three delegates from each state in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
Shook Light saved Train.


In the spring of 1887, while was en-
gineer on the fast mail from Cleveland
to Pittsburg &C. and P. R. RI, the fol-
lowing incident occurred: 1t had been
raining steadily for three days and the
hilly regions of Wellsville, Ohio, had a
direct effect upon the hitherto small
streams and creeks in converting them
into raging torrents My train was due
at Wellsville at 1:23 a. m, and being
thirty-seven minutes late, I was run
ming at full speed, about hfty-hve
miles per hour. and knew the track to
be in good order and at this point free
from probable distractions of any kind.
My train was made up of four Pull
man cars, three mail cars, and bag
gage car, all the Pullman cars being
comfortably filed. We were approach
ing Wellsville when at a point about
one mile from stream known as yell
low Creek, just outside the city limits,
1 put my head out of the engine cab
window to look for signals, when to my
establishment there was a red lantern
swinging back and forth across the
track, just in front of the engine, but,
as it appeared to me, as high as the
smokestack. I frantically closed the
throttle, applied the brakes, and show
cred the rails with sand. which soon
brought the train to a standstill All
this time the mysterious light was
Swaying to and fro just in front and
above the engine. / stepped out onto
the track, Out Inere was no sign Oh Il
light of any kind, nor of any person.
but it would have been quite impossible
for any human being to have tagged
the train, as above explained.
/ walked ahead some 300 yards, and,
not seeing any signal lights at the APP
proach of the bridge, knew something
was wrong, and going a short distance
further I found that the bridge had
been swept away by the flooded stream,
which almost covered the track.
What explanation can be given for
this seemingly supernatural token,
which saved scores of passengers from
an untimely death and a watery grave?
Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

CFTom the New York Press.
Some people are too stingy to pay
storage on their souls.
Love in a cottage is all right, only
it's kind of hard on the cottage.
A man feels awfully foolish crossing
the street right after he has lodged a
car coming that wasn't there.
Every woman says what she doesn't
think about men. and every man
thinks what he doesn't say about
women.
Most men would be glad to go out
and give the baby away to somebody
If they thought their wives wouldn' t
be mad about it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

Consul Albert Halstead writes that
the English city of Birmingham is Sc
curing control of the street car sys-
TENS there. Early in January the mum
icipality instituted electric traction COW
ering so miles of trackage. The re-
ceipts for the first five days were $19,-
466 from a daily average of 10000 pas
manpers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

A movement has been started in Min
nesota to pension the school teachers of
that state and is being widely endorsed.
The idea appears to be. that warriors
against ignorance are entitled to con-
5ideration just the same as those who
light any other enemy of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
GOOD ENOUGH.

This legislature will give the peo-
pie an anti-pass law, freight rate leg
islation, a primary election law and a
new tax law. 1t is not necessary for
this legislature to pass all the freak
measures demanded by some newspa-
pers to be q good egislature.-Belle-
vile Telescope.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

'"There Is room for debate as to
whether the government or the pack
ers should pay for the inspection of
meat products" says the Milwaukee
wisconsin. But there is little room fox
debate as to where the money comes from
finally in either case. 1t is paid by the
consumers either in the way OF higher
prices or taxes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

In five states movements are in prog
ress looking toward the taxing of bach
elors. Single gentlemen have the con-
ISOLATION of knowing that the divorce
courts are still in operation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

Union are to be invited to attend, their
expenses being paid by the state of
New York. An outing at the expense
of the Empire state probably will ap
peal to a large number of people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

One of the senators, Mr. La Toilette,
ard all but one of the representatives
of Wisconsin are reported to be in favor
of tariff revision. The Rochester Union
and Advertiser hazards a guess that a
majority of the representatives of most
of the states would take the same posi-
ton if the Republican bosses would
keen their hands off
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

The state senate of Nebraska killed
the anti-Christian Science bill. The
bill would make it necessary for Chris
tan Science practitioners to obtain
physicians license. The doctors trust
does not always get things its own
Nrav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

New York newspapers insist with
great warmth that the south will lose
prestige when she sends such men as
Davis and vardaman to join Tillman
in the senate. This leads the Florida
Times-Union to inquire: please. can't
they do as well as Platt and Depew?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

1t has been recommended to those
who desire to do something toward the
observation of Lent that they refrain
from reading about the Thaw trial, but
the suggestion does not seem to meet
with much favor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

Half the railroad mileage in the
world is said to be in the United
States. No wonder the rate question is
such a big one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

After reading the testimony in the
Thaw trial 1t is not difficult to see why
Attorney Delmas asked the court to
adjourn for a sufficient time to permit
of the court room being aired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

Down in Texas 1t has been made a
misdemeanor to drink whisky out of a
bottle while riding on a railroad train
in the state. What would the Texans
have a man use: a bucket?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

About three hundred thousand new
pianos were manufactured in this
country last year. The photograph
still has a big job on hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

It may be more blessed to give than
to receive, but Mr.. Rockefeller seems
content to continue to take his mixed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

Some large employers of labor have
conceived and put into execution the
plan OF making their employees stock
holders in the business in order to
lessen the chance of strikes, it being
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

Somebody is knocking on the Fair
banks boom by reporting that the In
diana man is the choice of E. H. Harri-
man for president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

AS soon as the Pennsylvania legisla-
tors were deprived Of passes they dis
covered that two cents a mile is enough
to pay for fares.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

1t looks as though those who report
the peach crop killed have put 1t OH
little too long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

The people who remember the
Maine" appear to be growing FEWER IN
number year by year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

The weather Of the past ten days is
calculated to make people regret that
there are but % days in February.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
LET US BE THANKFUL.

The people should rejoice over the
fact that even if the legislature has
done no good. it has done no harm
Holton Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
ON THE SECOND ROUND.
JUN1PING QsI sToNE.

A few disgruntled newspapers here
and there are jumping on Robert Stone
for the conspicuous part he has been
taking in anti-railroad legislation the
past few weeks. If, people will judge
bob" Stone by the things he does and
the results he GETS they will have a
mighty good opinion of him. Stone is
one of the few men In this legislature
who are making od."-Lawrence
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
KEEPING BUSY.

In Washington the newspaper men
utilize their spare time in filling cabi-
net vacancies. In Boston they guess
on the next president of Tech
Springfield Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
DISCOVERED.

A wild, hairy man has been captured
in Mexico. We often wondered what
had become of the Populist party
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19
THE PRESIDENTIAL WAY.

If any boy should hit the president
with a SNOWFALL, probably the presi-
dent would throw one back-Boston
Globe.