North Topeka News from Topeka, Kansas • 2

1 NORTH TOPEKA NEWS. the City Park, well back from the street. rut SOIMMHQ In It. mitted, but the very evident spirit of favoritism shown, is arousing public indignation in the matter. Let our public officials be above suspicion, and should they fall let them be punished equal to the humblest citizen.

KANSAS NEWS COMPANY, Publishers. EUGENE L. SMITH, Manager. 0 83S North' Kansas Avenue. TOPEKA, KANSAS.

Entered (or Transmission as Second Class Matter. Adjutant Genebal Allen announces that he will begin the reorganization of the Kansas National Guard shortly. When he begins his work in that line, he should establish a code of rules governing enlistment so strict that thbse who gain admission to the ranks of the new K. N. will be physically able to take the field at once, in case they are needed to assist in another war, which we all trust may never happen again, without any delay except to recruit it to war strength.

Had the National Guard of all the States been physically able to have gone into the field at once or within a few days after President Mo-Kinleys proclamation calling for troops, the Cuban compaign would have been ended before the rainy season set in, and many of our brave boys saved from the ravages of yellow fever and malaria. Let the past be a ous in that. Nothing in past history is more evident than that the least expected results haye come from national convulsions. Man proposes, but that another power disposes lias come to have a world wide recognition. It is the unexpected that happens.

There need be no fear as to the ability of this nation to meet these new responsibilities. The Anglo Saxon race grows with the emergencies that present themselves. When new questions arise it is ready to solye them. Such is its history. Exactly the opposite is true, espec tally of the Spanish branch of the Latin race.

Since the discovery of America, it has failed to profit by its opportunities. When the new America poured its wealth into its treasury, and gave it commercial power, it drove from the realm the trading Jews. It followed this by banishing the Moris-coes. One composed the heart of the commercial interests of the nation. The other was the bone and muscle of its industrial interests.

Nothing was left but bigotry and a ludicrous sense of honor. The contrast between the two nations is remarkable. What Spain for three hundred years has failed to do, providence has turned over to this young giant nation. President McKinley may or may not yet be aware of what lies before him. If he is not it is pretty safe to believe that the logic of events will intervene in due time to make the way clear.

When you paint put money in it, not too much, but enough. Tfour bouse will be brighter and better for it. The best are legitimate reasons why it is not. No efforts have been made to improve it. Like Topsy, it neyer was made.

It simply growed. Perhaps a more serious obstacle consists in its surroundings. Smoky Row has been wedded to the City Park and common decency requires a divorce. Smoky Row should be made to take up her duds and go. It should be fumigated and rebuilt.

There has been an effort made to locate proposed auditorium in the City Park. There are good reasons for it, or there would be, if the Park were what it ought to be. Of course the Auditorium would help to improve the Park, but to locate it there for that purpose, would be like marrying a man to reform him. It is not the way to begin. Improve the Park as it should be improved, and it would bring more than the Auditorium.

Some years ago, Edward Wilder made some valuable suggestions as to the improvement of the Park. He would extend it up the river as far as possible, even beyond the Rock Island tracks, under which walks and drives may be built. A wall of stone should be built from the new bridge up to or beyond the Rock Island road with stone steps at intervals leading down to the water, where fine boating may be provided. The parapet of such a wall would afford a beautiful walk always cool, and affording an entrancing view of river and rural scenery, and the whole would be, in a small way, similar to many such resorts in the old world. Of course the entire ground should be improved to correspond.

All this is not what is, but it is what may be. Such improvements add to the value of every lot of ground, of every building, and of all property in the city. It increases trade, brings travel and adds to the comfort and health and enjoyment of every citizen. The New York World prints it Rico, U. S.

A. Gen. Shafteb, with his 305 pounds of avoirdupolse made history at Santiago de Cuba as appalling to Spain as he must be to his horse when he mounts him. paint undoubtedly is Aluminum Mixed Paint. Of the three best known men of the world for the past fifty years Gladstone, Bismarck and the Pope, the Pope is to be the last one to leave the scene of action.

HEALTHY NORTH TOPEKA. Those who have been opposing the sewer system assure us that North Topeka is the healthiest part of the city. We are glad to know this. We are sure there is good brawn and brain in the First Ward even in the proposed sewer district. It is pleasant to feel assured that one can defy disease and even death, sewer or no sewer.

The old life insurance and even the fraternal societies rejoice in the fact, if it is a fact. We are in hearty accord with those who would defend the good name of North Topeka. The First Ward is not a death trap, and we can thrash the first man who says it is. But in life death is in the midst of us. Sometimes one does not know just as much as he thinks he does.

A good many years ago, before the miserable little town of Boston was well sewered, a good citizen of that town, discovered on his lot valuable mineral water. It was supposed to have curative properties because it did not smell good and was disagreeable to the taste. And so he sold a good deal of it as medicine, and made a lot of money, and for aught we know some of his descendants are now bloated bondholders living on Commonwealth avenue. Afterward, when they came to put in sewers, it was fonud that this well of mineral water tapped an underground drain, a natural drain that was taking off a great part of the worst filth of the city. And yet Fort Hill was'eonsidered the healthiest part of the city.

There is apparently much good well water in North Topeka. It is well known that there is much that tastes and smells like that Boston mineral water. It is known that sinking a driven well two feet or four feet, or that removing it twenty feet will give a different water. It may be better or it may be worse. But whether North Topeka is healthy argues very little as to the need of a sewer.

If it is unhealthy, a sewer system will improve it. If it is healthy it is no argument against it. The sewer system is needed on general principles. It is one of the most common of improvements universally recognized as a neeessity in thickly settled communities like ours. Our busi: ness interests require it.

Our domestic wants demand it. And if even unhealthy conditions do not, they will surely demand it at an early day. A sewer system in such a community is one of the common necessities of life. We are behind the age without it. The man who opposes such public improvements should go back to the use of tallow candles and light them with a flint and a piece of steel.

He does not belong to this age. Made with pure linseed oil, Russell has a new paper called Der West Kansas Bote. This has been the best season Western Kansas has ever had for the launching of a paper like that. I Andrae Tribune mi diQ(l Thebe is always a vacant column or two in the country weeklies for any letter one of the boys from the front may write home. Any news from the army is good news.

free from poisonous chemicals, and bound to give satisfaction. Sold at the popular price of $1.25 Per Gallon. Call and see colors. A. J.

Arnold Son, 821 Kansas North. The most costly act of vandalism recorded in history was the blowing up of the Maine to the Spanish nation. In all probability had it not been for this wanton piece of diabolical dis-tructiveness the two nations would have escaped this war. Spain loses her navy, and with its loss drops to the level of Chili and Portugal in the naval world, with no better chance than they to rise. With the loss of her colonies, which for two centuries past have filled her coffers with gold, she falls from her rank among the first-class nations of the world, having no power to help her friends or harm her foes, she is no longer a factor in diplomatic circles, and the ambassadors now at her court will be replaced by ministers.

Poor old Spain! Truly all is lost but honor, and that, even, has had a hard shaking up. A less desire for gold and more for the cause of humanity, more education, and less bigotry, less tyrany and cruelty, would have averted this terrible disaster to this once proud nation. Spain will now experience some of the humiliation that she has loved to heap upon the nations and people conquered by her in years past, and she may thank her patron saints that she has been defeated by a nation more just and honorable than she has ever shown herself to be. Surely the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. ABOUT THE AUDITORIUM.

BICYCLES. Abe Steinbebgeb, editor of the Western World, at Girard, runs his birth, marriage and death locals under one general head: Hatched, Matched and Dispatched. 1 We have the best $5u Bicycle In the 9 city. Come In and see them. We also have wheels Job Printing.

The patriotism toward Uncle Sam that permeates all through the proclamation of the mayor of Yauco, Porto Rico, augurs well for the future of the new little territory. For $27.00, This office has the most notable printing plant In the Slate. We especially solicit the work of the Teinpeianee Christian people. GUARANTEED. We Have BIOYOLE REPAIRING, A good many have overlooked the fact that the moment Colonel William Jennings Bryan secured his commission and started for the front, Spain sued for peace.

Girard Herald. Topeka has been talking Auditorium. It has been mostly talk, and some subscriptions. The Auditorium will be built sometime. Where to put it has been the question, Building sites cost money in Topeka.

In some places they are given away for such purposes. The city owns ground enough for it, and in appropriating the coal-hole fund it was provided that it should be built in the City Park. To this there is much up-town speculative opposition. The acknowledged need of the Auditorium is to accommodate large conventions made up mostly of out-of-town people. already have halls large enough to accommodate any meeting of Topeka people that may need a hall.

The claim is made emphatic that the Auditorium is needed for outside residents rather than for Topeka citizens. This admitted and it follows that such Auditorium should be located where it will best accommodate such outside persons who come as delegates or attendants upon great state conventions. Five Job Presses, over Three Hundred Fonts Job Type, over One Hundred Type Borders, endless amount of Type Ornaments. Ten Thousand Cuts, so we can illustrate everything, hundreds of horses, hundreds of humorous and miscellaneous without end, a variety greater than all the other offices in the State combined. Nothing like it in the west.

Single Wheels and Tandems 9 for Rent. i ft i TOPEKA CYCLE Our Prices are Low. We can make them so because of our superior facilities in the way of machinery and mateeial. 11 West 8th Street. The Journal insists on making a war governor out of Leedy, but has not yet been specific as to just what his excellency had to do with bringing the war to a successful close, Kingman Our Work is Good.

For tlie same reason that our prices are low, and because none hut competent workmen are employed. Tribune Bicycles. Assistance Given. A FAT SHEEP VIEW OF THE PHILIPPINES. $50.00 and upwards.

In the light of subsequent events the prophetic judgment of President McKinley and congress in refusing to recognize the independence of Cuba is very evident to all, now, even to the yellowest of yellow journals. In preparing copy. Printers who can neither spell nor write respectable English will botch vour work and make it ridiculous. The cheap printers do this. Good work is the cheapest The Moral of it is Take your printing to tlie Kimball Printing; 83S North Kansas Avenue.

1 Fob the first time in the history of the world, two entire fleets have been destroyed in battle with the loss of but one life on the side of the victor. Thus does the United States furnish the most marvelous page in all naval history. Sacramento Bee. A world wide reputation for fine workmanship and easy running qualities. The nomination of Will I.

Stuart, of Doniphan county, for judge on the Republican ticket in Doniphan-Brown-Neraaha district, removes from the field Ed. McKeevers most formidable opponent for the speakership of the Kansas House of Representatives this coming winter. WIPE IT OUT Smoky Row should be wiped out. The good name of Topeka demands it. The material interests of North Topeka demand it.

It is a thoroughly useless excrescence in the very heart of the city. It is the centre of crime and an abomination along the great thoroughfare of the city. It is doubtful if its like is tolerated so publicly in any other city in the country. Usually, such seats of iniquity, if tolerated at all, are permitted only in some back alley, or on some obscure streets. But in Topeka, there is no way in which a person living in the First Ward, certainly a ward as important as aDy, can reach the public buildings of the State and county without passing directly through this infamous Smoky Row.

Because we have grown familiar with this state of things, we fail to recognize the perpetual insult its continuance is to every respectable person in the First Ward, and to every one else who wishes to visit the North side. There is no excuse for the existence of Smoky Row. Every moral consideration demands its abolition. More than this, it is a menace to the trade interests, to the manufacturing prospects, to the social being, and to the religious wellfare of all North Topeka by separating it as with a band of contagion from other portions of the city. No portion of North Topeka can escape entirely the infamous reputation that Smoky Row deservedly receives.

And yet Smoky Row is no part of North Topeka. It lies wholly south of the river and is a part of other wards. But so long as it exists the North Side cannot escape the stigma it inflicts upon the good name of the First Ward. We ask of the city council the wiping out of Smoky Row. A more effectual enforcement of the law may do it.

If not, still more drastic measures should be employed. HANDSOME CATALOGUE ILLUSTRATING OUR FULL LINE OF TWENTY-THREE MODELS MAILED FREE. The Black Manufacturing ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA. One day the cable told that the boy king of Spain was sick with the measles, and the next day that the queen regent had written a note to President McKinley suing for peace. Poor woman, who can blame her? A boy sick with the measles is enough on ones hands this warm weather without having a war.

PATRIOTIC This paper will not attempt to die. tate a national policy. It will leave the presidedt at liberty to do some things just as he pleases. It recognizes the fact that there is not a great and leading newspaper in all Kansas, and it will make no attempt to make itself an exception. Most newspapers, especially those fathered by beginner are given to boasting of the power of the press, and each one believes itself to be a big part of that power.

The appreciation of his own importance is common alike to the graduate from the ink-keg and the university. There is a remarkable similarity of value in the editorial of the ordinary provincial newspaper and the usual college essay. Macaulay compares the latter to a prize sheep at the county fair. The one is good to make tallow candles, the other good to light them. Just now the newspapers of the country are telling President McKinley what to do, or what not to do with the Philippine Islands.

Some of them, the very enterprising ones, are sending their reporters into the highways and hedges, raking in the opinions of all sorts and conditions of men. Such a symposium is perhaps like the prize sheep at the county fair. In the face of this it may be useful for Major President McKinley to know that this paper has an intuitive conviction that the United States should maintain its control over all the territory that falls into its hands. This is not a war of conquest. The war waB not begun to secure a square rod of new territory.

It is a war for humanity, and to assist an oppressed people struggling for freedom. If the demand this had been conceded, the idea of expansion would have been unknown. Conquered territory has come to us as a mere incident. We had not thought of it. We were not prepared for it.

It drops down upon us like ripened fruit, as we move along. Then we see that the humane princi-dle, that was the inspiring motive of the war, is bound up with every foot of territory so conquered. We cannot consistently let go if we would. To retain these islands, in some way, is the destiny of the nation. This is plain enough now to the thinking man, and will be plainer yet with passing time.

It may be that no one foresaw all this. But there was nothing marvel- A hall to accommodate the citizens of Topeka should be as near the central part of the city as possible. The nearer the city railwas transfer station the better it would be. To accommodate outside visitors it should be located nearest possible to railway passenger stations. The City Park is not the most central part of the city.

To accommodate the largest number of, city residents it would not be the most eligible location. To accommodate a great number of visitors coming in on railway trains, and wishing to leave by the same means at a late hour in the evening, after an evening session, an Auditorium in the City Park would offer the best facilities. The City Park is between the Union Pacific and Rock Island stations less than two blocks from the latter. As to these two roads no other location could compare with it. Delegates could remain in a convention in the Auditorium thus located, almost up to the minute of departure of the trains, and then make connections.

Arriving by trains on these roads they would land almost at the door of the hall, or in case of the Union Pacific, only have the bridge to cross. As for the Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific such a location would be nearer than the State house. The same condition holds as to hotel accommodation. Only two hotels are nearer the State house than the City Park. The Chesterfield is two blocks away.

The Throop and the Dutton four blocks further, on the south, with the Adams House and the Union Pacific Hotel, across the bridge four blocks distant. All these are substantial reasons why the Auditorum should be located in the City Park. They are based on the very fundamental reasons why an Auditorium is needed, that is, to accommodate large assemblies of persons not residents of Topeka. But there are some other reasons. Halls for public speaking and for conventions should be located where the noise of traffic and travel will not cause continual interruption.

Hamilton Hall is on a side street, and still, the noise on Quincy street often makes it impossible for one in the west end of the room to hear a word that is said from the platform. The Auditorium should be built in Who can not be soldiers nor hospital nurses must display their patriotism in some other way, 1 Heres Their Opportunity. i The Kingman had a representative on the Oregon during the destruction of Cerveras fleet off Santiago. He is Wm. Foley, a son af John C.

Foley, formerly editor of the Kingman Courier. Foley, in a letter claims that the Oregon did the most effective fighting of any of the American fleet in that memorable battle, and according to the press reports we think he is right. North Topeka has for some time needed a paper devoted exclusively to her Interests the Interests of North Topeka against the world. Dont hang back and let all the good things and big Improvements go south of the river. Be patriotic and let Country Road The North Topeka News i Has no terror for a Search-Light.

Gives a powerful light that will not blow nor jar cfut. Burns kerosene and carries oil for 12 hours. Be a welcome visitor In your homes each Saturday and a public enuncla-tor of the many bargains oh your counters, and we will act as your For sale by all dealers or THE BRIDGEPORT BRASS CO. BRIDGEPORT, CONN. The United States is not a warlike nation, never has been, nor never will be, and only consents to war when driven to it to protect her vital interests, but we wiU wager that in the future should any nation wipe her feet on us as Spain has done for years past, that when the crucial test comes, it will not find us without powder for our warships or defences for our coast cities.

i Dynamite Gun Vesuvius Send (or Booklet X. THE CITY PARK. The City Park is in the very heart of the city. It lies midway between two important railway stations. The main thoroughfare of the city, along which run electric cars bounds it on one end, and the Kansas river extends along the entire northern front, with the magnificent new bridge at the eastern end.

It can be made, and it should be made, one of the most beautiful resorts in the city. It is now nothing of the kind. For years the city has been grading it up, as opportunity offered, and considerable additions have been made by encroaching upon the river. Still more of this should be and will be done. At present the park is not popular.

There That will knock great holes In the old worn-out belief that what Is good enough for today onght to be good enough for tomorrow and next year. The subscription price of the NEWS Is only 50 cents a year In advance. Advertising rates reasonable. Dont delay longer. Kansas News Pubs.

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