Show It is a great relief to cot the news that tho horrors renortod at Topeka were mostly scares Instead of two hundred hun-dred and fifty people drowned there are but thirtyfour which is I bad enough In all conscience but seems lleht In comnarlnon Instead of tho whole of an important noctlon of the olty being swept away by fire but eight bulld U I incs were burned Instead of being a calamity of national proportions It Is a mere local distress It Is bad enough to be ouro and grievous Indeed but It Is almost n good na escaping a mighty sorrow to find that It is mostly untrue It must have been a terror though while it looked so dark communication cut oft and the rival forces of fire and water apparently having undisputed sway each in Itn domain But with the coming of the truth the public will feel more like congratulating Topeka than grievingwith It |