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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAIi, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1900.
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THEATRICAL NEWS
Xext Season in Topeka Promises
Exceeding Well.
Many of the Best Attractions
Are Already Booked,
WILSON AM) DANIELS.
The Two Favorite Comic Opera
Comedians Will Be Here.
"Uostonians" Dated, De Angelis
and "eilsen Possibilities.
The theatrical season of 1900-1901 In
Topeka is decidedly promising as it now
appears on the books of the Crawford
management. So far a greater number
of tractions have' been booked than
has been true at this time in any pas;
feasun in the history of the Crawford
theater. And the best part of it is the
fact that the present incomplete list in
cludes u number of the larger com-I-anies.
Manager Zehrung, who is asosciated
with Manager Crawford in the man
agement of the Lincoln theater, is now
in New York looking out for the houses
r.f the Crawford circuit. Hy the open
ing of the season in September it is ex
THREE
perted that the list far the Crawford
theat-r licit will be larger than that
of ar.y previous year.
It is quite probable that Topeka the
ater giit.-rs will, during the coming Sea
son, be so fortunate as to see a number
of the big comic operas. Francis Wil
son, Frank Daniels and the Bostonians
are already booked, and the prospects
of securing Jefferson De Angelis and
Alice Nellsen for the Topeka theater
are good. L)eAng-lis will visit the west
with a new opera, and Alice Neilsen
tind her company arep reparing for a
transcontinental tour, presenting "The
oFrtune Telller" as well as "The Sing
ing Girl." and posisbly a new opera.
Frank Daniels will be the tirst of the
comic opera comedians to visit Topeka.
He will be here early in the season with
"The Ameer," his latest opera which
lias proven a greater success tlun
itlur "The Wizard of the Nile" or "The
Idol's Eye." The diminutive comedian
has not been in Tpeka. since the sea
son before last, whe'.i he was seen in
"The Idol's Eye." Hi: appearance al
ways means a "capacity" audience.
Francis Wilson, who was seen for the
fust time in Topeka last season in
"Krniinie" will have a new opera next
tMiison. His latest opera "Cyrano da
Brgerac" did not prove the success
that was anticipated, and this fact was
responsible for the revival of "Erminie."
Mr. Wilson keeps several comic operas
ahead, and is consequently always sure
of a new vehicle when he wants it.
Jefferson De Angelis is "The Jolly
Musketeer" last seasim, and Alice Neil
sen in "The Fortune Teller" the season
bi fore, left such distinctly pleasant im
pivssions that the possibility of their
return is of much interest to theater
Hoeis. "The Bostonians" may be sure
of as appreciative an audience as saw
them in "The Serenade" when they visit
Topeka next season. "The Viceroy" will
I f the principal opera of their repertoire
during the coming year.
I. overs of the legitimate on the stage
will be interested In the announcement
that ilme. Aiodjeska will be seen in this
cttj next season in the sumptous revival
f "King Johu." which the Wagenhals
.-i Kemper eompanv are now preparing
for her. It will he Mme. Modjeska's
farewell tour, as after the season, it is
anrouneed, she will return to her home
in roland. Wagenhals & Kemper will
also bring the elaborate production of
"The Midsummer Night's Dream" in
which Kathryn Kidder and Louis James
vill appear in Topeka next season.
The present list of bookings promises
many farces to theater-goers during
the coming year. A number of these are
old acquaintances, such as "Why Smith
Left. Home." "My Friend from India,"
etc., but several new constructions will
also been seen here. Among these will
be Harry Corson Clarke's new piece
"What Did Tompkin Do?" The majori
ty of the Hoyt farces are to be revived
for next season, and will be seen in To
peka. Among some of the attractions al
ready booked are "The Belle of New
York," "Sherlock Holmes," "The Pris
oner of Zenda." "Zaza." "The Little
Minister." Whitney's "Quo Vadis" and
"The Sign of the Cross."
DELL A FOX'S SAD PLIGHT.
Was Once the Most Popular of Comic
Opera Soubrettes.
'A writ'er in a Chicago paper, speak
ing of the career of Delia Fox, who
was pronounced insane and sent to an
asylum a fuw days ago. says:
"Little Delia Fox and the little Delia
Fox curl were once at the heiaht of
their glory. That once was not such a
Very long time ago either not long as
it is reckoned chronologically in months !
and years, longer, however, if meas
ured as the gauge of a popularity which
has vacillated many times since then
to other ephemeral shrines.
"When little Delia Fox sang her
charming little songs in her charming
little roles in her charming little comic
operas, the queer little curl plastered
smoothly down in the middle -of har
forehead like the hair of the tiny girl
who was good when, she was good and
bad when she was horrid, she was al
ways sure of the heartiest of greetings
from the audiences in the theaters. She
shared renown with Lillian Russell and
with all the other queens and kings
who held their merry court In the cen
ter of the stage of opera bouffe. She
had " a little subservient populace of
her own and it praised her and laughed
at her and' coquetted with her and
winked its eyes back again in return
for the wink in her twinkling optics
and. clapped its hands in heartiest en
thusiasm at each little verse 'of her
catchy little songs.
"It is a very different little actress
who.lies ill and insane in an.asvlum at
Wave Crest, Long Island, from the
beaming, merry, exuberant Delia Fox
of 'Wang' and later memories. The
news of her breakdown chronicled from
New York tells the ending of a story
-of brilliant promise, of successful
achievement and of rapid decline, de
moralization and failure. Her stage
career is little more than a dozen years
old.
"The physicians hold out no possible
hope of her ultimate recovery. She
may get better for a time, but the prob
abilities suggest that the last call has
arrived for the once merry actress. Her
associates say she was good to travel
with aid easy to liw with, and mis
fortune laid its grewsome fingers on a
lively little woman when it touched the
head of Delia Fox of 'Wang' and 'The
COMIC OPERA STARS WHO
Little Trooner'
Delia Fox curl.'
-the Delia Fox of the
GOODWIN ON MORALITY.
Actor Says the Public is to Blame
For Suggestive Plays.
Mr. Nathaniel C. Goodwin, taking the
reception of "When We Were Twenty
One," as a basis, has been talking in San
Francisco about immorality on the stage.
In part he spoke as follows:
"The nioriality of the stage is a rather
ticklish subject for discussion or. dis
course. In all climes, in all countries,
and on all stages there have been ex
ploited more or less decency and inde
cencyit depends altogether on the point
of view and so the only real, vital ques
tion is, does the playwright take a view
of morality that is in accord with the
view held by his audience, or doesn't he?
"Which brings us to another point of
view. Is the playwright wrong in build
ing a 'nasty' play? Is the public wrong in
coming to see that play? And if both are
wrong or both rl;iit, what are we going
to do about It?
"If the little Irish woman who keeps a
fruit .stand at the corner of the street
funis that the small boys of the neighbor
hood like apples better than pears, she
usually gets double the slock of apples
and cuts down on the other fruit. Of
course, she could go about it in the other
wav and lay in twice as many pears as
apples, and when the fruit rotted because
she couldn't sell It and she didn't have
the money, people would say: "It's no
body's fault but hers.- Why didn't she
keep what people wanted?'
"Now. your playwright is the olid ap
ple woman, if he has some nice, clean
pears and he linds that a tart apple sells
twice as fast, he is going in for apples.
He's only giving the people what they
want.
"Now, vour playwright is the old ap
people. They want the nasty things or a
considerable portion of them do else they
would not crowd the theaters when they
know the nasty play has come to town.
All of us. more or less, like a shock. We
get in a rut of emotions once in a while,
and anything which takes us out of it
seems to give a certain amount of pleas
ure. If the shock comes to our morals,
all the worse for the morals, but why in
the mischief we blame the shock I can t
make out. It is not necessary for us to
take It if we don't want it. It isn t obli
gatory on us to see the nasty play any
more than we are compelled to drink oOO
glasses of whisky a day. but the public
goes to see the nasty play, merely because
it wants to see nastlness. And that s the
public's affairs and it isn't the actor's."
Urs. Davis' Generosity.
The generosity displayed by Jessie
Bartlett-Davis in offering to sing at the
Masonic Temple theater next week and
to donate the entire amount of her sal
ary for the week to the Actors' Home
fund is exciting commendatory remarks
from critics and writers everywhere,
says a Chicago exchange.Manager Mur
dock has frequently endeavored to se
cure the consent of Mrs. Davis for an
engagement at the Temple, but she has
steadily declined to go in vaudeville un
til the opportunity was offered her to
help the Actors' Home fund increase.
Then she accepted. It is arranged that
she will receive $1,000 for the week's en
gagement, all of which she will donate
to the worthy charity mentioned.
To "Wed a Coronet.
Jessie Mackaye coyly denies the soft
Impeachment, but her associates i:n the
De Wolf Hopper company insist that
she is to wed a coronet, says a New
York paper. Of course It isn't so. be
cause an actress never tells fibs about
herself. Miss Mackaye scored a hit in
London that rivaled the fancy that the
Englishmen took to the big comedian
w ho headed the company. She admits
that she has retired from the stage for
good . Report has it that- she rejected
proposals from the Duke of Manchester
and snubbed Lord Cavendish when he
evinced an inclination to transfer to her
the esteem he once professed for Edna
May. The identity of the titled person
who will espouse Miss Mackaye is a
deep secret.
Mrs. "Jack"Wilmerding on the Stage.
Among several society beauties who
will next season display themselves on
the local stage, says a New York ex
change, is Marie Allen Wilmerding, a
granddaughter of Commodore Vander
bilt, better known as "Mrs. Jack" Wil
merding, and a great friend of "Mrs.
Jack" Bloodgood, who appeared at the
Empire in- "The Conquerors." The two
Mrs. Jacks still retain connection with
prominent members of the 400, but to
improve a scanty purse both have turn
ed to the stage. Mrs. Wilmerding was
to have appeared last season in "The
Three Musketeers," but the part assign
ed to her being too trivial she refused it,
and instead began preparing herself for
her new profession by studying at a
well known school of acting, from which
she will graduate into the big Frohman
army next season.
Paderewski and His Hands.
How any great pianofore player keeps
his hands supple has often been a mat
ter for wonder, says Tit-Bits, but M.
Paderewski, the king of pianists.has re
vealed the whole secret. "The night be
fore I play I turn my hands over to my
valet, and he rubs my fingers until they
tingle," declares M. Paderewski. "Then
he takes one finger after the other and
turns and twists it in the palm of his
hand, always turning the one way. That
makes the fingers supple, and keeps the
knuckles in good working order. Last
he rubs the palm of each hand very
hard as hard as I can stand it. Just
before I go on the platform to play I
have a basin of hot water brought to
my dressing-room. In this I immerse
WILL VISIT TOPEKA NEXT SEASON.
my hands. Hot! I should say so; just
about as hot as it is possible for a man
to stand it." So this is the way it is
done.
Theatrical Notes.
Delia Fox is astonishing the doctors
by her quick recovery from a seemingly
hopeless becloudment of the intellect.
William Bramwell. for two vears
leading man with Eugenie Blair, hopes
to star next season.
J. K. Emmet intends to star in a
Transvaal play, entitled "The Out
post," in which he will impersonate a
Boer hero.
Sam Bernard may appear next season
in the Lederer production of "The Mes
senger Boy," or in the new farce which
John Mc-Nally is writing for Klaw &
Erlanger.
Walter Perkins, the discoverer of De
Souchet, is to tempt fortune again as
a star in a dramatization of Mary Wil
kins' novel, "Jerome, a Poor Gentle
man." Mascagni has composed a hymn in
honor of Admiral Dewey. He has be
gun another opera, to be called "Julius
Caesar," the libretto by Gabriele
d'Annunzio.
Blanche Walsh is now in Rome and
during her stay in that city will seek
an audience with the pope.
Klaw & Erlanger announce that "The
"Viceroy" will be the principal opera
in the repertoire of the Bostonians
next season.
Richard Buhler, who has made a hit
in "Quo Vadis," will play an import
ant role in "Ben Hur" next season.
"The Education of the Prince," the
new play in which Anna Held was to
appear next season, has proven to be
a failure in Paris.
Joseph Herbert has completed a mu
sical comedy to be called "The Mag
netic Girl." The rights to the piece
have been acquired by Alfred Aarons.
Rose Melville is to star again next
season in "Sis Hopkins." It has been
reported that a well known playwright
in New York is at work on a new play
for Miss Melville.
T. R. Thalberg and Gerald Gurnev
have completed a dramatization of
Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treas
ure Island," and will produce it at
Glasgow in June. .
Harriet Ford and Beatrice DeMille,
who wrote "The Greatest Thing in the
World" for Sarah Cowell LeMoyne,
have just sold a new play entitled "The
Awakening," to Julia Marlowe.
George H. Broadhurst has finished a
new farce, to be called "The House
that Jack Built." It will be produced
at the Madison Square theater, with
Thomas A. Wise and Annie Yeamans
in the chief roles.
A parrot will be conspicuous in
"Foxy Quiller." It will be trained to
repeat certain lines and will respond
to "cues." A French animal and bird
trainer in New York now has the par
rot in hand.
"What Happened to Jones" must
have startled the Australians. During
a single week in Sydney something like
$10,000 was take in. Charles Arnold,
the veteran German dialect comedian,
played the principal part.
"Sherlock Holmes," with William
Gillette in the star role, is doing well
in New York. It has been running for
eight months without a break or a
change in the cast.
David Belasco has Durchased "Nie
andra" from its author, Russell Vaun,
and Mrs. Carter will be seen in the
play in this country next season. This
is the play Mrs. James Brown Potter
was so anxious to secure.
"Quo Vadis" ended its London career
last Saturday night, and the backer
of the venture are said to have lost
money. Its close resemblance to "The
Mgn of the Cross" is said to have hurt
its drawing powers.
Louis. James will spend his summer
vacation at Long -Branch at his new
cottage, "Naboclish," which has just
been completed at a cost of $30,000. Mr.
James will be seen with Miss Kidder
next season in a grand scenic produc
tion of "A Mid-Summer Nighfs
Dream," appearing as "Bottom."
KathrynKidder sailed for Europe May
21. She returns in September to resume
her starring tour with Louis James in a
scenic production of "A Mid-Summer
Night's Dream," appearing as"Ilelena,"
a role made famous in this country by
Ada Rehan.
Maclyn Arbuckle's stellar debut in
Augustus Thomas' new play, "The Gen
tleman from Texas," will be made at
the Chestnut Street Opera House, Sep
tember 17 next.
The cast of "Ben Hur" this coming
season will include William S. Hart,
George Osborne, Richard Buhler, Fran
cis Kingdon, Harry Weaver, Robert
Mansfield, W. J. Kelley, J. M. F. Cook,
Adeline Adier, Mary Shaw, Mabel Bere
and Nellie Thorn.
Minnie Seligman is to be leading lady
of the new Greenwall stock company,
which is to replace the Castle Square
Opera company at the American thea
ter. New York, In the fall.
Sol Smith Russell will return to the
stage in November, producing at the
National theater, Washington, a new
piece written specially for him by Mar
tha Morton. "A Poor Relation" will
continue on the road headed, as last
season, by Frank Keenan, who stepped
into the breach upon Mr. Russell's col
lapse. Well denned rumors were current in
New York during the past week that
Corbett, the fighter, had bought an in
terest in "Sporting Life" and would play
Bob Hillard's old part the coming sea-
son. Corbett's renewed popularity and
the strength of the piece should make
success certain.
. Two new engagements have been
madetfor"The Adventures of Francois,"
viz., Herbert Gresham and a dog. Dr.
Mitchell's story gives prominence to the
hero's poodle. The poodle for Henry E.
Dixey's company was bought from a
trainer now appearing on the New York
Victoria roof, who will teach it the roie
in the play. .
Samuel F. Nixon, of the firm of Nixon
& Zimmerman, has sent Leander Rich
ardson a postal message, written at the
Summit House, Pike's Peak, 14,147 feet
above sea level, in which he writes: "I
am up here prospecting for a syndicate
theater, but the outlook is 'rocky.' All
the people are not 'on the level.' This
is a good place to dodge deadheads."
Hetty Green, the "richest woman in
New York," is preventing the rebuilding
of the Columbia theater in Chicago,
which lies west of her property. This
playhouse was destroyed by fire a few
months ago while Rogers Brothers were
playing there. Messrs. Nixon & Zim
merman have offered her in vain what'
they regard as a goodly sum for her
land.
William Peters, the light opera com
poser, is to bring action against Francis
Wilson to compel the production of an
opera called "Ba-Ba-Bum-Bum," the
book of which was written by J. Chee
ver Goodwin. Mr. Peters says Mr. Wil
son accepted the opera for production a
long time ago, but for various reasons
held off and put other compositions in
the foreground.
Among others who have been engaged
for the cast of "The Cadet Girl" are
Paula Edwards, Harry McDonough.who
made such a success in a female Irish
part in "Little Christopher," and last
season with Jeff de Angelis; Julius Ste
ger, last seen here in "The Man in the
Moon;" Virginia Earle, Toby Claudel,
W. P. Carlton, Thos. Q. Seabrooke, Dan
Daley, W. G. Stewart, the baritone of
the Castle Square Opera company, and
Helen Bertram.
BURLINGTON ROUTE.
New Through Train to Portland and
Puget Sound.
"The Burlington-Northern Pacific Bx
press," a new daily through train
from Grand Island for Northwest Ne
braska, Black Hills, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Washington, Tacoma, Seattle,
Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon, via
Billings, Montana the short line and
time saver to the Upper Northwest. To
Central Montana In 34 hours; to the
Puget Sound in 61 hours from the Mis
souri river. Through coaches and chair
cars, through tourist sleepers, through
dining car service and standard sleep
ers. This is the main traveled road Mis
souri river to the Northwest.
Number 15, Kansas City and St.
Joseph to Nebraska, Denver, Colorado,
Utah, Pacific Coast and the Northwest,
Montana, Washington, Oregon, via Lin
coln and Billings. Weekly California
excursions.
Number 23, "Nebraska-Colorado Ex
press," from Hastings for Nebraska,
Colorado, Utah, and Pacific Coast.
To the East: Chicago and St. Louis,
greatly improved trains in time and
equipment.
To the North: Best trains daily to
Omaha, St. Paul, Minneapolis and the
Lake region. J. C. BRAMHALL,
T. P. A., 823 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
L. W. WAKELEY,
Gen'l Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo.
HOWARD ELLIOTT,
Gen'l Manager, St. Joseph, Mo,
The choir boys of a certain Topeka
choir went on a strike last Sunday, and
the strike was most effectual.
Sunday morning before the services
the choir boys got into some kind of
mischief, and the choir master tried to
straighten out the difficulty. He hap
pened to choose a boy who had noth
ing to do with the mischief as the
ring leader. The rest of the boys re
sented it. They got together and
planned a strike.
The. boys took their places and the
services began. They arose and sang
very nicely. All went smooth. The
choir master's wife sings soprano in the
choir. The boys had decided to boy
cott her. When it came time for the
anthem, the piece de resistance of the
services, the boys started in strong
until the passage was reached where
the soprano had a prominent part. The
soprano started in strong but the boys
stoDned. Not one opened his mouth
and not a note was sung except by the
soprano. The soprano looked around to
see what was the matter, but kept on
singing. The boys stood still and
looked blank. The soprano kept brave
ly on to the end, and when she finished
and sat down the choir boys took their
seats. the strike had been com
menced, finished, and the boys won the
revenge they were alter.
It Is not the barber alone who can
talk. There is a baker on Kansas ave
nue who is gifted that way.
A clerk went into the bakery this
week and asked for ham and rolls for
lunch.
ses, certainly," the baker said . as
he put the rolls in a bag. "You will
like tnese buns, 1 know. They are
li'esh, warm; in fact, are extra nice.
They are good enough to eat alone. It
is quite customary for people to come
and get them fresh from the oven and
eat them without anything eise. You
care not for cold ham with hot bread,
suggestively.
"The rolls do look nice," she agreed
nut i preter ham also.
"To be sure, yes," he answered
Then confidentially, as he uncovered
denuded ham bone, "You see, I'm al
most out of ham. There isn't a slice
left. A big ham cuts to much better
advantage than a small one. but
thought this was large enough when I
ordered it. ,
"If you can get me a nickel's worth
it will be plenty," was the answer.
"Yes, yes, certainly," he agreed, as
he began cutting off small pieces and
placing them on the scales. "You
see, we alwars plan to have a ham
baked Saturday morning to last over
Monday noon, but today We are short.
I have one in baking now that is
partly smoked. Do you like partly
smoked ham?" he asked, as he turned
the bone over and began to scrape the
other side.
"I'm sure I don't know; I think not,"
was the uncertain reply.
"You don't," very much surprised.
"Why, they are considered very much
finer than those that are baked direct
from the brine. Now this one was
taken and cooked without smoking, and
it is not so good as the other kind." He
tapped the scales, but there was not
enough cut. so he began on the other
end of the bone.
"Now you take a ham that has been
half smoked with hickory chips," he
went on, "and you will find that it is
much sweeter and drier than a pickled
ham. Y'es, they are fine not that this
one isn't good," anxiously; "this is as
delicate as it can be without being
smoked. This was excentionally well
seasoned, and I know it will be satis
factory." He tapped the scales again, but still
the amount of ham was not sufficient
to weigh them down. A perplexed look
came over his face as his eyes went
from the scales to the cleaned bone
and back to the scales again. Then
he looked relieved, and smiled. He
reached over and placed on the scales
the weight which he had fonrotten.
The five cent weight wasn't enough.
He put on the ten cent weight. It was
still too light. When he put on an
other weight it made a good fifteen
cents worth.
"Surely, I know not what I do." he
said. "I scrape and scrape, till I think
I must add the bone, and all the time
I have no weights upon the scales. I
never did a thing like that before. Yes,
certainly, you have more ham than
rolls. A dozen buns are now what you
will take, not so?"
But she seized her lunch and es
caped. At one time the public school teachers
of Topeka used the plan of punishing
every offense by detaining the offender
an hour after school in the evening, so
it often happened that the rebellious
pupils received two and even three
hours to their debit during the day.
There was enrolled in the eighth grade
of one of the ward schools a dashing
young lady who had come to Topeka to
attend the high school but whose edu
cational qualifications had been deemed
insufficient for that institution. It was
a bitter dose of medicine for her to
leave to attend the grammar school in
company with younger boys and girls.
It made her considerable of a malcon
tont )Tri chf rHd not take anv especial
nains to strew her teacher's path with
roses. As a consequence her name ap
peared on the delinquent list with pain
ful regularity. One evening in the early
winter she was billed for a three hours'
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4! .
sit. Her teacher detained her for two !
hours and a half and then told her she
might go as. she seemed to have been
studying hard.
i can t go home alone now," she an- i
swered. "It's nearly dark and I am
afraid after dark. You have kept me
here and you will have to take me
home." -
The teacher was a young man not yet
out of his twenties and this under the
circumstances was not a pleasing situa
tion for him, but he could not leave the
timid young woman unprotected to find
her way- home. Not a word was said
until they reached the corner near the
girl s home. Then the young lady
broke the silence. "You may go back
now, for I mustn't let mama see you
with me. She doesn't allow me to keep
company with young men." The teacher
accepted the rebuke with good grace
but did not insist upon enforcing the
delinquent rule in the case of the young
lady after that.
The solicitors for a certain college
publication, induced the proprietor of a
Topeka dye works to place his adver
tisement In their paper. The dye man
was a German not thoroughly Ameri
canized and held very fixed and pro
nounced opinions about advertising in
anything that contained the "ad" of
another establishment of his - kind.
WThen he let the contract he asked if
they were doing business with any of
ms competitors, and was answered In
the negative, for he -was the first dye
man they had interviewed. Concluding
that dyemen were "easy" they went
from his place of business to another
dye shop and when the publication
came out it contained tne card of three
dyemen.
The trouble began when one of the
solicitors called on dyeman No. 1 to
collect. "Vot kind of a swindler are you
anyvay," said the German. "I look at
that business and righd avay furst ding
l see der name of dat man across der
vay. I helb.you in your pusiness and
you do mine dirt like dat. I pays nud
ings. Shust you git right out or I goes
vor der bollese." Neither argument nor
the displaying of the contract were of
any avail so the solicitor tried another
scheme. He found a friend that had
a suit that needed dyeing and had him
take it around to the shop. When the
work was complete the solicitor went
with his friend to obtain the suit. Then
another scene ensued which resulted in
the dyeman losing his temper but keep
ing the suit. The next step of the "ad"
rustler was to go to a justice and bring
suit. On the day for trial the German
appeared ready to face his accusers.
As the plaintiffs had a written contract
and the defendant had nothing to show,
it did not take long for the dispenser
of justice to make his decree. "Now,"
said the justice, "you must give them
the suit and also you have the costs
to pay."
"Cost to pay," said the German. "I
have nudings to pay." Yes," replied the
Justice, "you must pay the costs for
bringing the suit." "But I brings no
suit. Der is a misunderstanding. Dey
brings de suit. It i3 no suit of mine.
I have nudings to pay."
The justice then informed him of the
law concerning the matter. "Vail, I
tell you vot I does so not to make any
troubles, I pays half and dey pays
half," answered the dyeman. He was
informed that that would not suffice
and that he must pay it all.
When the man of colors finally con
cluded that he could not change the
color of the affair any he consented but
not without remarking that "dis Amer
ica is no free country.
CONGRESSIONAL EPIGRAMS.
Congressman Hamilton of Mfchigan.
"There is no doubt that the dust from
the wheels of some pepole's carriages is
more annoying than that of others."
"Human nature is about the same in its
fundamental outlines from a dollar a day
up."
Let us not be seir-rignteous because
we are hard up."
1 here is really no piety In being poor.
"To pull down and destroy enterprise
gives no man a days work except the
agitator and the demagogue."
Many. people mistaKe envy lor political
economy."
There, will probably never come a time
when the moral regeneration of mankind
can be accomplished by legislation."
A Diole class and tne commute or ways
and means have few points of . resem
blance." "The legislative oath of office actually
performs no supernatural function, con
fers no mantle of wisdom or prophecy.
although sme gentlemen seem to suspect
inn or tnemseives.
'The laborer never received higher
wages for shorter days than now: never
went home to a better home than the
American home: never was better fed and
better clothed than now, and never Had
more time and oDOortunity for reading
and mental development than now."
, "Neither can It De aemea mat every -thine-
in ' our -markets, from a oin to a
locomotive, from a pair of shoes to a suit
of clothes, has more of grace and is more
scientilically fitted to human needs tnan
ever before."
"If the law should undertake to keep
prices down for the benefit of buyers, it
ought to keep them up for the benefit of
j?ellers; and inasmuch as every citizen Is
, V. .. 111,,..,
a seller aa wen as a. uujti, nc ai.
in his own proper person the impossibility
of such a law."-
"God made men different here, and here
after we are -told the difference will be
still more marked."
"Dives and Lazarus left many descend
ants, and in the whirling years the rich
Vin-v.- Ue-terl and beeears have become
rich. Care can never be legislated out of
the world nor happiness be legislated into
the world. .
A Monster Devil Fish.
restrovine- Its victim, is a type of Con
stipation. The power of this malady Is
fir nn orcans. nerves, muscles and brain.
But Dr. King's New Life Pills are a safe
and certain cure. Best in the world for
Stomach. Liver, Kidneys and Bowels.
Only 25 cents at Waggoners' drug store,
Til Kansas avenue.-
Philadelphia and Return $30.00 via
Santa Fe Route.
Account ReDublican National conven
tion. Tickets on sale June 14-15-16, good
returning June 26. Choice of routes.
See T. L. King, agent, A. T. & S. F. for
particulars.
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J Tin and Slate Roofing, Metal
Skylights.
Contract work solicited in
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Hardware, Cutlery,
Gasoline Stoves
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Some specials in Hammocks
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A little farther to go up the
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TEL. 436.
We. Schick.
Topeka Tent and
Awning Co.
127, 129, 131 Kansas Ave.
Wagon and
Horse Covers,
Camping Tents,
Awnings.
Bed Springs
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718 Kansas Avenue.
Brighten
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Refinishing' will make it look like
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Work Guaranteed.
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105 West ioth. Telephone 516.
E. J. Gerdom & Son,
: 820 Kansas Ave.
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Sewing machines and Gasoline Stoves
repaired. Lawn mowers sharpened.
Rest and Health to Mother and Child
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