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i2 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVEZSTINGL DECEMBER 21, 1901. TCPEKA STATE JODUUL BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXVIII No. 303 tkhms np srHsrRlPTION. I)ailv edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to dtiy part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kansas town where the paper has a car rier system. Hv mail, one year ....13.60 Kv mail, three months !' Weekly edition, one ye?r.: .S....... M Saturday edition of daily one year 1.00 PFRMINEVT HOME. " Topeka State Journal building, 8 and v& Kansas aeiiue, coiner ui isuiu XEV YORK OFFICES; ' 311 Vanderbilt Bldg. Paul Block. Mgr. TFJ.EPHON'ES Business Office Bell ""phone 107 Iseporters Koom nen puuue o FULL LEASED "WI2.3 REPOST OF TES ASSOCIATED PRSSS, The State Journal is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day .-lirrHih reDort of that Kreat news or ganization for exclusive afternoon publi .ut l,in in Tnneka. The news is received in the State Jour nal building over wires for thts sole pur pose, busv through the entire day. A complete copy of th night report is also receivea. Chicago News-. In getting revenge on "VViUarn Allen White is Senator Piatt trying to live up to Mr. White's de scription of him? Detroit Free Ptcfs: Kansas was Sev eral decades ahead of Lord Rosebery in discovering the organize-a-new-party cure lor all political complaints. Perhaps Senator Hanna haa not en tirely given up the idea of running for president in 1904. He appears to be set ting a trap to catch the labor vote. There haa been a long hard struggle against the return of the boom, but Indications point strongly to another visit next year in spite of all efforts to keep it off. After journeying all over the world for the purpose of preparing himself for a place on the foreign relations com mittee. Senator Beveridge was over looked in the makeup: Secretary Gage asked the president for the head of Appraiser Wakeman and got it. Hereafter, perhaps, revenue officers will think twice before "'sassing" the head of the treasury department. i Potatoes are being Imported from Kurc.pe in large quantities but the fact doesn"t tend to lower the price to the consumer owing to the tariff of 25 cents a bushel which is collected. Grand Rapids Herald: Senator Piatt is threatening a libel suit for a maga zine article concerning him written by William Allen White. The article must have been too nearly true to be pleas ing. The Russians probably have heard ot Mr. J. J. Frey's projected railroad through Alaska. They are talking of building a bridge acrrws Bering Strait. They may regret sometime that they sold the country so cheap. A bill to grant the elective franchise to women is to be introduced into the Ohio legislature during its coming ses sion. It will be backed by a monster petition, to which over fifty thousand signatures have already been appended. Many of the signers are men. Mayor Johnson of Cleveland favors the move ment. " The attorneys of Admiral Sampson have submitted to Secretary Long an elaborate brief Intended to show that Sampson was in command and Schley was not. at the Santiago battle, but it will not alter the conviction 6f Dewey and about 75.000,000 other people tiiat Schley commanded the fleet and won the fight and is entitled to the credit and the prize money. There seems to be a fair chance for fighting in both ends of South America at the same time. While Argentina and Chile are squaring off at each other in the south, Colombia and Venezuela are constantly becoming more belligerent in their attitude toward each other. What appears to be needed in a "doctrine" that will preserve the peace among our southern neighbors as well as the one which protects them from European aggression. St. Louis appears to have become rec onciled to the existence of the Chicago drainage canal. The Star says: . . "Friends of a deep waterway between Chicago and New Orleans, via a ship canal, St. Louis and the Mississippi river, are getting a move on them, and it is probable the matter will be pre sented to congress between this and January 23. Sooner or later the water way will be an accomplished fact, and the sooner the channel is opened the better it will be for St. Louis." To Senator Hanna has been ascribed by many the credit for a large share of the prosperity prevailing throughout the country. He now appears in a new role. At the recent conference of representa tives of labor and capital he said: 'lf by resigning my seat in the United States senate I could bring to fruition the plans that we are now fostering to make strikes, lockouts and great labor disputes impossible. I would gladly do so." The attainment of the senator's desires as herein expressed would go far toward matting permanent the pros perity which he haa helped to bring about. MB. LELAND OF TOPEKA. Cyrus Leland, deposed pension agent, by the grace of President Roosevelt, and the insistence of Senator Burton, has announced his intention of remain ing In Topeka and making the capital city his future residence. He purchased a home here some months ago. This determination will be welcome news'to the citizens of Topeka, regard less of politics. The shrewd, kindly face and pleasing personality of Cyrus Leland has become a familiarity that would- Indeed " be missed with his passing-from Kansas avenue and Copeland county. . Doniphan county has long ir-een the home of this politician whose ambition has reached near to the. top rounds of the" ladder many times and again perch ed on the JoWer-rungs. His Interests are there; his house, his store, farm, field and orchard. But the little town of Troy haa grownismaller. its streets nar rower and Its scope for political gossip ensmalled since Mr. Leland .drifted out of its beaten paths a half score- of years ago Life would be dull indeed without a dozen "short grass"- statesmen gath ered around nightly to plot and counter plot like master- hands-at chess. Nor would the state house crowd be easy of access. Governors' could not be nomi nated in daily pastime, congressmen selected, nor United States attorney generals provided. After guiding the destinies of the Jayhawker ship of state for years, life would be tame indeed back beside the counter, weighing out a pound of butter or measuring off a yard of calico, by the light of a tallow dip. No, Mr. Leland will not go back to Troy. The darts of his enemies have pierced his armor deeply but not a sign of defeat nor a display of weakness has been shown. His "day in court" will come again. In the meantime Topeka welcomes Mr. Leland and his excellent family as a portion of its inheritance. St. Paul Globe: Poor old John Swin ton, dead at 70, once a force in the na tion, long since forgotten: warm of sympathy, brilliant of intellect and forcible in expression; deeply impressed with the wrongs of labor, he threw him self, his mind, energies and money into the conflict; established "John Swln ton's Paper" to denounce the wrongs and demand the rights of labor; sunk his last dollar in it, and went back into the ranks of brain workers, embittered with the experience, a common one, that comes to him who espouses a cause that receives but does not give; that is re sponsive with lips and lungs, but nerve ! of pocket. AN EXTRA SESSION. Sairey Gamp enjoyed a monopoly of the knowledge of the existence of her dear friend Mrs. Harris; so F. Dumont Smith alone seems to be aware of the demand for an extra session of the leg islature to pass bis pet measure, tha new tax bill. Extraordinary sessions, even when accompanied by popular uprisings, are not unmixed evils. Neither politicians nor statesmen seem to be using their railroad passes to eome to Topeka to demand that the legislature be called together forthwith. Indeed Governor Stanley is quoted as saying that only one person has broached the subject to him. It is not clear whether Senator. Smith is that one. When Kansas some years ago most wisely provided for biennial gatherings of the law makers it could not ; abso lutely prohibit a session following on the heels of the regular meeting only a twelfth month behind. The chances had to be taken on these special sessions. As a rule the commonwealth can get on without them. The state has lived for forty years without the new tax law and it may be able to exist with its present bank ac count, for a. few years longer until the new machinery for assessments is put in working order. Should the legisla ture come together for the single pur pose of passing Mr. Smith's bill, the state would be in more or less legisla tive suspense and uncertainty; tiere would be really no telling what double purposes were on the earth, under the earth, or over the earth to be attempted in the way of new laws on every con ceivable subject. It is not even certain that a special session would pass the iron clad tax bill: for with all the wisdom of the com mission backed by its industry and energy there are rumors that the meas ure lacks perfection. It Is said that it savors of the Spanish inquisition. It is also suggested that the placing of the assessments 'in the hands of one mr.n, a county assessor elected for four years, is open to objection; that this official would be an easy mark for the corpor ations who are accused of low assess ments and ways that are dark under the present law. AH things considered, there is no danger of an extra session. Governor Stanley will not call it. He has his ear sufficiently close to the ground to hear,, should such there be, any ominous rumblings demanding any such proclamation on his part. No opportunity will be giver, the Atchison Globe to say: "The Topeka boardinghouse keepers have demanded, and secured, an annual session of the legislature for three years, although the law convenes it only every odd year." WASHINGTON UNDEMOCRATIC. According to the statement of State Treasurer Grimes, Washington official life is not so democratic as one would expect to find in the capital of a popu lar government where the poorest boy in the land might rise to the highest office in the land. Mr. Grimes says a United States sena tor does not dare to introduce his pri vate secretary to his brother senators, no matter how bright and well-educated the private secretary may be. The fact that he is a clerk places him be neath the members of that supposedly august body. In many cases a senator's private secretary is no doubt his wisest and most valued adviser, but Washing ton caste places him beneath even the most wild and woolly senator in the capital. These things have come to the obser vation of Mr. Grimes since his friend. Senator Burton, offered him a place as his private secretary. Such a condition seems contrary to the American Idea as it is understood in Kansas. The idea that a man cannot be introduced to another, either socially or officially, if the man of lower rank is the intellectual equal of the other, does not set well with the average Kansan. Such a con dition savors too much of titled aristo cracy to suit the western idea. In defense of the custom it is urged that a senator could not deal with an other's private secretary but would want to deal directly with the other senator himself. If a senator is talking with his private secretary and another senator approaches, the private secre tary must immediately withdraw. It is urged that th two might want to talk in private and the presence of a third party of lower rank might hinder a free discussion, but thi3 sort of an ar gument will hardly go down with Kan sas people. . It is to be expected that rank would enter more or less into the social life of the national capital, where represen tatives of aristocratic monarchies wield more or less influence, but it hardly seems necessary that rank and caste should cut much figure in the business affairs of the nation. BURTONS' VICTORY, The political event of the week has been the defeat of Cyrus Leland for re appointment to the pension agency. In the naming of Metcalf, President Roosevelt has surprised even those who have been made most ready for aston ishment by his former surprises. This is the first victory of the senator over the president, and is the only satisfying triumph in the way of place emoluments which Senator Burton has yet scored. Burton haa won, too, in the face' of strong odds, using, however, not the most creditable weapons. The conquest is but another illustration of Ingalls famous remark that the purification of politics is an iridescent dream. The sweetest fluid which is now washed against Mr. Burton's palate, quaffed double-distilled from a full cup, is re venge, although it may yet leave a bad taste in his mouth, as it has in the mouths of some of his friends who mere ly sipped the beverage. McKinley had promised Leland at that quiet little talk on the White House lawn. He had recorded this in a letter to Secretary Hitchcock. Roosevelt had declared his intentions of following Mc Kinley's wishes where the latter were undisputed. Burton had recognized these conditions, and had apparently de termined to abide by them, asking only that Leland'a name be withheld until he could score a commission. Metcalf should not forget that ha owes his appointment quite as much to Leland's political courtesy to Burton as to the latter's recommendation. Now comes the ' Tracy turn-down. Then arrives the Foley fiasco. This was wormwood, because Foley had been ap pointed, but yet Burton could not give him the actual key, to the office. Rage and bitterness followed because Burton owed Foley, politically and- financially. "Has a great United States senator no power nor influence? A congressman can name a postmaster, but a senator from Kansas has not that authority." Thus11 he mused. "Ah! but there is mine arch enemy. Leland still without his ac tual commission. Let me think, and let the national committeeman help me think. Ah! ha!!" A colonel of the brave Twentieth Kansas is selected. Burton owes him nothing; he can cancel no debt with this appointment, but he will let the debts go and intoxicate himself for one night on revenge. No charges can be brought against Metcalf, and the president's admiration for the Twen tieth Kansas soldiery will make Burton invincible; sho.v his senatorial power do he but steel himself and make the end justify the means. He braced himself; he closed his eyes. Low was behind him, but he turned not his head nor lifted a lid. He was as deaf to him as to the old soldiers. He could see nothing except Dear Revenge, which an angry blind man can clearly witness when it is within his grasp. He got it. Is he happy? HE WON HIS PLACE. "For collector of customs, Patrick K. Garrett, Paso Del Norte, Texas," was the way the nomination by President Roosevelt was sent to the senate. "Pat" Garrett, the man who killed "Billy the Kid," Is the way he is spoken of in the country where his name has been a ter ror to outlaws for years New Mexico. Pat Garrett is a character. He bears the same relation to the territory of New Mexico and its advancement from the wild and woolly state to its civilized condition and Its claim upon statehood that immortal Samuel Houston bore to Texas in her strenuous times. It was Garrett and his unflinching courage that drove the first wedge that opened the way for the peaceful and safe set tlement of New Mexico. The wedge was a bullet. The bullet that laid low the youngest and most bloodthirsty outlaw of history, the man who killed for fun. "Billy the Kid" was 21 years old when he was killed. He had killed 21 men, one for each year of his life. As the natives of the territory say "he would have been a bad man if he had lived." He started his career when he was 16 years old. He was one of those non descripts that come under the list of human beings because of the absence of horns or claws. His ancestry was conglomerate. A short time before the "Kid" ended his career he was sen tenced by a judge of the New Mexico court to "hang by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead." That was noth ing to such a monstrosity as he. "You can go to , , , was the com ment of the outlaw to the judge and on the way to the jail he killed his escort of two sheriffs and resumed his bloody career without losing the thread of the record he was weaving. Then It was that "Pat" Garrett -ran for sheriff. His platform was the prom ise that he would kill "Billy the Kid." He was elected. The outlaw knew why. It meant that when the sheriff and the desperado met it was one life or the other. Either the sheriff would ruinii the promise of his platfora or the ban dit would cut another notch in the butt of his revolver. It was because the "Kid" would meet his "La Tosca" that tie lost his life, for. bandit that he was, he was led to his fate because he had a sweetheart. Garrett was in the house after dark where he knew that the out law would come to meet his senorita. The bandit entered with a butcher knife in one hand and a revolver in the other, suspiciously on the alert and ready to kill. "Who's here?" he asked and fell with a bullet through his head. Gar rett's aim was true. If one bullet did not immediately do the work it might have been a' life for a life. "Billy the Kid" never cut the twenty-second notch in the butt of his revolver. That is why President Roosevelt ap pointed Patrick F. Garrett to the posi tion of collector of customs. Garrett had a duty to perform. He had to "carry a message to Garcia." He asked no question. He made no call for , troops. He delivered the body of the outlaw to the authorities.. New Mexico was reclaimed. Before the appointment of Garrett was announced those who were fighting him charged him with being a gambler. The charges were made by Washington politicians. It seemed somewhat queer for there are so many "deals in Wash ington that are not political." The pres ident Is said to have questioned Gar rett as to the charge and he replied: "Yes, Mr. President, I am a gambler In the sense that I know the difference between a straight and a flush, and there is not a man In that section of the country who has energy enough to keep flies off In fly season who does not know that much, at least." Gambler or not, "Pat" Garrett must have well deserved the reward he re ceived. He will be instructed to collect the customs at Paso Del Norte and he will collect them, every cent. That's Garrett's way of carrying out instructions. BOOK SOTES. A book that will be appreciated by people with high musical sensibilities is "King Midas," by Upton Sinclair.- Both the hero and the heroine are possessed of musical souls, and in this they find their affinity. The story is of a young girl whose 'rich aunt haa educated her in Germany. Upon the completion of her musical education she is brought home and her ever-mercenary aunt en deavors to marry her to a multimillion aire, but while the rich man is willing and the girl yields to an engagement after a severe mental struggle, she breaks it before the wedding. A crip pled violinist who is wealthy but she does not know t Is thrown in her way, and while she cannot bear his appear ance at first, she eventually falls in love with him. The end of it all is sud denly tragic in the extreme. There are some strong descriptive passages in the book, but one cannot help feeling that the story in general might have been improved had it been edited with a vig orous use of the blue pencil. Neverthe less the author shows promise of rare ability along certain lines. The proposal scene shows the detail with which the author brings out his Ideas, and while it will doubtless appear to border on the sublime to some, to others It will seem to have overstepped the boundary and arrived in the vicinity of the ridicu lous : " 'Helen,' he said, 'I call you to a life that forgets all else but love. Precious girl, my soul cries out to me that I have a right to you, and that you were made tnat I might kneel before you. . And oh, dear heart, if only you could tell me that you might love me, that years of waiting might win you, it would be such happiness as I have never dared to dream. Tell me, Helen, tell me if it be true!" "And the girl lifted her face to him and he saw that all her soul had leaped into her eyes. Her bosom heaved, and she flung back her head and stretched wide her arms, and cried aloud. Oh, David, I do love you. "He clasped her in his arms and pressed her upon his bosom in an ecstasy of joy, and kissed the lips that had spoken the wonderful words. 'Tell me,' he exclaimed, 'you will, be mine? And she answered, 'Yours!' " Doubtless those who have had experi enee along the line of proposal-making could easily testify that this is the sort of proposal they meant to have made, but it is doubtful if there were ever very many such actually made. The testimony of those who have been through the experience indicates that about the time the maker of the pro posal gets ready to begin he forgets his lines and begins to stammer. The book is published by Funk & Wagnalls, of New York, and is illus trated by C. M. Relyea. A new text-book on elementary zo Ology by Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg, of Leland Stanford, Jr., university, has just been issued from the press of Henry Holt & Co., New York. Prof. Kellogg was formerly a Kansas bov, and after graduating from the state university in 1889 was assistant professor of ento mology in that institution until called to Stanford university. He is the au thor of several recent texts on biological science which are widely used. 'The College Student and His Prob lems" is the title of a volume by James H. Canfield. LL. D.. librarian of Colum bia university, which will be published by the Macmillan company. Dr. Can- field s long experience witn educational matters as secretary and as president of the National Lducatlonal association, as professor of history In the University of Kansas, chancellor of the University of Nebraska, president of the Ohio state university, and librarian of Co lumbia university, have given him a wider acquaintance with the actual life and needs of college students than has perhaps fallen to the lot of any other American. His book is short, admirably written, and full ot sound, wise and pithy advice on all pertinent topics of colleee lire, rrom tne cnoice or tne coi lege itself and the kinds of work and plav and social intercourse to De pur sued there to the ehcice of a career at its end. No young man can read it without receiving help and inspiration and without profound gratitude for such ivise and frank counsel. In a purely Imaginary country Marguer ite Brvant has cast her latest story "The Princess Cynthia." The characters are the people who constitute and are the court or iving uonstantine anu ius Bisier, "The-Princess Cynthia." The storv is of the love of Sir Palmedes. the oldest survivor of one of the noblest families of the realm. By an arrangement of her father. Princess Cynthia is the promised wife or Count Henry, tne crown prince of a neighboring realm. The ar rangement was made while the princess was very young, but she grew up, ac cepting the life outlined for her. She was, however, not by nature submissive, but was. on the contrary, the leading spirit in ail tne arrairs at court, no one oaring to attempt rot tnwaiL uer miguresi wish. A number of years previous to the time of the opening of the story Lord Dallas Arrancourt, the confidential advisor of the king, had been executed unjustly, as tne populace believed at the time. Sir Pal medes. with a. vouneer brother, were the only descendants of the family. King Constantine. feeling that reparation was due the family of Arrancourt. revived the position of equerry and appointed Sir Palmedes. His brother was given a high position in the army. From the time Sir Palmedes accidental ly met Princess Cynthia he conceived a strong and lasting love for her. The book is well written and the story of how Sir Palmedes loved, lost and was loved in return, but only when it was too late, is fascinating to an intense degree. The story is particularly bright and pleasing for the reason that it is beauti fully and smoothly told in a brilliant style of language. The illustrations are by Geo. R Havelka. The book is from the press of the Funk & Wagnalls company. New York. The author of "Helen's Babies." "Worst Bov in Town." etc.. has produced another delightful story for the young entitled "Some Boys' Doings." The story Intro duces us to a pioneer settlement in the far west. The boys . are a happy, easy going set, not very unlike those In the east The account of their escapades and harmletM fun-making is very suggestive of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn." Whoever has read any of John T-Is,hbertnr'sj -works, will know lust What o expect, and they will not be disappoint ed: clotn; ueoree w. jacous k v.o., rou. adelphia, are the publishers. ft .. .-. - THE 4 mm book:, ono wmm HIGH ART STATIONERS. Topeka's Greatest Sale of Books Holidays Thousands of volumes bearing upon every imaginable subject. 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In the end, of course, his only crown is love. In. "THE FICKLE WHEEL" (Henry Thew Stevenson) Cicely Coverdale and Dick Allen, of Queen Elizabeth's London, have a hard time to bring their love affair to a happy termination. A rope ladder helps on. Also, Cicely puts on her brother's clothes and fights a duel. A stern father outwitted. In "THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET" (Dr. James Ball Nay ler) Ross Douglass, scout, goes through the early Indian war, which included the famous Tippecanoe fight, and finds among the Indians a captive princess, who recom penses him for the fikle love he has left behind. A tale of historic adventure. In "CAPTAIN RAVENSHAW" (Robert Neilson Stephens) a ram pant swaggerer and swashbuckler but of the best of families is changed as in the twinkling of an eye by an unexpected love. A story of cavalier days in London. In "TRISTRAM OF BLENT" (Anthony Hope) thebero gives up, for love of the fair next inheritor, the estates upon his clam to which he believes a blot to He. 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