The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-28

a long article referring to the Kansas
America. Which is evidence enough
that you can do well outside of New
York, if you really care to get along.
There are Il few Goulds, Vanderbilts,
Mrrgans, etc. in New York. and mil
lions of men and women who have
made lamenta5le failures. You could
not hire me to live in New York. al
though 1 may say in passing that no
one has tried.
is the best paper published here The
Sun was recently the subject of a
magazine article also. 1 visited the
Sun office this morning In front,
bust of Chas. A. Dana who made the
paper famous; upstairs, about the
dirtiest and worst arranged newspaper
office have ever seen Some OF these
days there will be fire in the Sun
office, and fifty or sixty of the bright
est newspaperrnen in America Will do
we'll if they get out with their lives.
The reporters and printers work side
by side. and the printing office towel
joke would apply to the entire estab-
, lishment. The printing office towel
joke no longer applies to the country
printing offices; it is now applicable
only to the office of the New York
Sun. Every nan on the Sun is smart,
but q crank I imagine that the re-
pOTIoES use I dlfSTdpn peWI1ltIS.
. stead of the nc dern makes. am not
certain as TO this. but il is fact that
the printers use MoQotypes instead of
LinOtypes- Every other newspaper
Office in the country uses Linotypes.
so of course the Sun uses Monotypes.
OF the Monotype I need only say that
the Lawrence Gazette uses it. The
worst typess.ting in the world is done
on the Lawrence Gazette.
" 1,--
of widest circulation are not news
papers; they print a few screams in
large type. and usually in red ink, aud
that is about ALL But the New York
Sun is a newspaper, and is we'll writ
ten Therefor it is not very popular
in this queer community. where the
ma jority of the people seem to want
Screams in red. and Protests in blue.
Last night bought a certain news
paper, the editor of which is said to
receive fifty thousand dollars-a year.
1t prints a daily scream on the edi-
toral page as well as on the first page.
and its editorial scream of yesterday
was about snow shoyelers starving to
death with city warrants in their
pockets. In other words, the city does
not pay its employees as promptly as
it should: it seems that if you work
/ for the city of New York, and are dis
! charged at 2 p. NJ, you do not get your
money until an hour or two later.
the best dry goods advertising, al
though it doesn't print the general
news. New Workers do not seem to
i want the general news: what do they
care for news fifty miles from the city !?
The real New Yorker is known as a
"cit" (eitizer.l and New York and its
suburbs comprise this world. No
doubt the New Workers laugh at me.
All right; they haven't any the best of
me: I laugh at them The visit of
a bie circus to AtehisOn doesn't at
tract more odd characters to town
than you NAV see in New York in a
half hours walk in any part of the
| city. While walking on lower Broad
4 selling jewe1ry A crowd surrounded
him, and the fakir talked exactly as
street fakirS talk in Atchison. He
/ said he intended swallowing an army
musket presently, after which ne
would give away a twenty dollar gold
piece 1 didn't remain in the crowd TO
| see how II came out, but I know:
1 he didn't swallow the army musket,
and he didn't give away a twenty dol
| lar gold piece He talked, and talked,
precisely as Muck Raker does when
! he promises to produce his proofs.
Seven out of ten people in New York
believe that the way to get rich is to
sense know that the way to get along
! is NOT to fool anybody: that if you
hope to get along in this world, you
must be reliable. and deliver the goods.
The reliable, capable man makes pro-
gress. whereas the unreliable man is
| forever being compelled to go back
and make fresh start
| This has ben wet, disagreeable
day, with a dr=zzling rain falling, and
a lot OF hens walking around In q