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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
oUAKRR REFLECrIoNs.

From the Philadelphia Record.]
The oftener Cupid hits the mark the
more Mrs he makes.
In the matter of advice it is well to
shake before taking
All men may be born equal but they
don't stay that way long
An intellectual feast depends largely
upon the mental digestion
Don't waste your time. You viii need
it all before You die
Giving the devil his due proves that
there is always the devil to pay.
The fellow who is perfectly satisfied
with himself is not always perfect
man may have a large following
simply because he doesn't pay his bills.
Some men work for a living and
others get married with the same end In
view.
The man who says he feels a friendly
interest in our affairs is a good bit Of a
nuisance.
self pity" says the Cynical Bachelor
lis the greatest comfort of married men.
They always look sorry for them
selves
Love levels all things" so they say;
But now, upon my soul,
I find the same old bills to pay
For gas, and rent and coal
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe. l


People who have had both, say we'd
ding in house is worse than death.
We wish that we We're still of that
age when we could settle all old scores
by mailing a valentine
When a girl has a chafng dish. her
father is the last man Of her acaualnt-
ance who gets to taste the cooking she
does in it.
When a man is called to the telephone
by a woman's voice. he is meek if he
doesn't
year. 1t is the most disaGreeable and
most troubled month, and should be the
shortest
When a woman is particularly good
cook, there is alwavs some one to say:
We'll, she ought to be; she has every
thing to do with"
An Atehison girl who viii be married
next Saturday has already received
eleven salad sets as presents. with two
more days to hear from.
We suppose that when new shade
appears at the gates of the next world
bearing an odor Of camphor, the angels
at once exclaim that his folks must be
very old fashioned
When a literary club is formed OF
girls. those who hold out longest against
turning it into a card club with young
men invited, are the ones who viii be
old maids
A man was aned in Kansas City yes
terday for striking woman. There IS
only one thing to do when you gel IN
trouble with woman, said the judge,
and that is to run
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
LAYHAWRER Lors

Prospecting for oil at Emporia is only
awaiting the city's financial assent.
CottontaiI rabbits sell readily on the
Phillipsburg markets at two for a
quarter
According to report there are too
ma ~ Great Bend boys working hard
to avoid work.
An Effingham man is selling a sus-
pender that he warrants viii not pull
off the buttons.
Smith Center has neither hacks nor
street cars to meet the train and tho
travelling public complain.
The newspaper boys who failed to
get the county printing are indulgirg
in their annual pointed remarks.
Thus early in the season book agents
are finding pastures green" among YER
dant Barber county school teachers.
Wearied of their nightly yowlings,
many Abilene citizens are setting steel
traps for dogs with favorable results.
-Four acres of WatermelOns is one of
the summer amusements forecasted to
his boys by a Barton county farmer
According TO a local paper a Hanover
man will have a public sail this month.
That should enable him to raise the
wind.
A Good.and woman seeks divorce be-
cause her husband licked" her and her
pet poodle rather than the stamps for
her letters
Medicine Lodge talks Of changing
their water ditch plant to a standpipe.
Being higher turtles and tadpoles would
be seen more seldom in the tea kettles
and coffee pots.
A Parsons drunk found a soft spot
in the alley to sleep off his Jag" The
city scavenger unaware of his presence
in She twilight dumped q load of trash
over him. In the morning when dug
out he was fairly sober and ready for a
h
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
SUNDAY THEATERs IN TOPEKA

If l. NJ. Crawford who controls the
destinies of both theaters in Topeka and
a score of others in various parts Of thu
west. expects to make Sunday theat-
ricals popular in Topeka he has taken
the wrong course.
Win Sunday theatrical performances
become popular with such plays as THE
Conviet's Daughter" and Tracy the
Outlaw" as the Sunday night attrac-
tons? Perhaps so with a few, the few
who would pack the gallery at 10 cents
a head to see anything spieed with u
eoDious dash of blood and thunder.
There may be some sorce in the argU-
ment that there are many people who
have no other time for recreation like
the theater except Sunday, but if that
is true what an insult it is to their in
telligenee to serve plays like these for
their delectation.
It is doubtful if Sunday theatrical
performances. no matter how good the
attraction, will become popular with the
majority of the people Manager Craw-
ford places on his large list of patrons.
But certain 1t is that cheap, sordId
dramas will not win the majority to the
Sunday theater plan.
Is Manager Crawford afraid to risk
losing money by playing some high
priced production such as Stuart Rob
son, Jefferson de Angels or Frank
Daniels on Sunday? Or do they refuse
to appear on that day?
Stage people do object to Sunday per
formances. Some for religious reasons
and others because they would like one
day Of rest in seven. Circuses do not
play on Sundays The management Is
humane enough to give the men and
women. and even the animals. one day
of rest. 1t costs circus more to lie Idle
one day than it does any two theatrical
companies. no matter how large. The
theaters are looked upon as more aes-
thehc than cireuses. THE Convict's
Daughter and Tracy the Outlaw
would be bad enough on any day bua
in this case the better the day tn.
better the deed" does not apply.
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guard seems to have already arrived at
that pass 1t is obvious that the state
of Connecticut would be in a far better
position to deal with the lawlessness at
Waterbury if it had abolished its Ma
uonal Guard long ago and substituted
for it force Of say a thousand picked.
paid, professional soldiers. constantly on
duty; force called a state coastabu-
larry or something Of that sort, but
practically a state regular army. Some
such development is sure to follow a
final demonstration of the Worthlessness
of the National Guard in any state.
Those who see in the spreading lawless-
ness of the time a tendency toward an
increase Of freedom in this country are
mistaken The tendency is really toward
despotism. Those who demonstrate
their unfftness for self government
merely invite some man or class. strong
enough for the task. to take hold and
govern them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
SENATOR M'm1ILAN's FAME.

Senator Harry Mcmillan of Ottawa
county is famous. The source of his
fame may not sound we'll but there is
no denying that the genial little Kan
sas legislator has made himself much
talked about This is the way the New
York Press helps along his cause;
Well to the fore in the ranks of this
winters many legislative benefactors is
Mcmillan of the Kansas senate, whose
name shall ring down the lobbies Of
fame as the author of the bill just pass
ed making it TnisdemeauOr Ito eat
snakes. lizards or other reptiles as a
part of any public exhibition" We look
upon this as one of the most praise
worthy measures of any of the numer-
/ Gus so-cailed freak" bills coming to
our attention for many years. The eat
ing of snakes and other reptiles in the
secrecy of our homes and in the seclu-
sion of cafes is an evil the extent of
which is little realized by those who are
not addicted to the demoralizing habit.
Laws cannot reach the domestic form
Of this depraXity but the Kansas legis-
latOr earns the general gratitude by his
courageous inslstence that the dissOlute
reptile eaters shall not faunt their hid
eous cult in public.
Reflection upon this admirable reform
suggests further deterrents of repulsive
gastronomic practices. Legislation is
imperatively demanded to check the de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
often an apology is worse than the
offense.
In Boston rubber factory is called
an incuisitive plant
The success of one man is sometimes
due to the failure Of many.
No self-respecting baby ever INDUCES
in sO-called baby talk.
Many a man works overtime in trying
to convince himself that he is honest.
Give advice to others If you viii, but
take an occasional dose Of it yourself.
The man who is in love with himself
innagines that all the world loves lover.
The greatest trouble with the average
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have him the cash at 10 o'clock, and he
wanted to be able to tell them he did
not need it. He added that ne should
regret to be placed under such obliga-
tions to my enemies. Queer situation.
wasn't it? Odd that he should have
selected just that moment for his in
timation. But it was an emergency,
There was no time for deliberation.
had to think quick. The roll call would
begin in fifteen minutes at the farthest.
The margin was desperately close and
the result to me of incalculable, immeas-
urable consequence. You remember
Stockton's story of The Lady or the
Tiger Do you suppose the editor got
his 500 from me? Or from the other
fellows? Do you suppose he voted for
me or for Horton? Do you suppose that
he had really bought new type and
press? What would you have done if
you had been in my place? What could
have made me think of this droll incl
dent in connection with this rasDing
editorial2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
rHE WAGE ooNFEREN0E.


Topeka is now the storm center of
the railway wage battle Of the country.
For e year or two this wage battle has
been a sort OF continuous performance,
with an especially aggressive conflict
wherever the labor leaders were con
centrating their efforts. At various
times the storm center has been at Chi
cage New York, st. Louis. Omaha and
st. Paul Just now it is Topeka. The
head officers Of the national orgsniza-
ton Of railway conductors and rail-
way trainmen are here. The head Off
GERS Of the same organizations on the
entire Santa Fe system are here. Back
ing these men are fifty delegates rep
resenting the rank and file of the or
ganization on all the lines owned or
controlled by the Santa Fe. 1t is a
formidable array of shrewd and ag-
gressive labor leaders.
Against this strong and intellectual
body of railway men is arrayed the op-
Grating department of the Santa Fe
represented by the third vice presi-
dent. three general managers and two
general superintendents, all men of
splendid business intellects, and as
good as can be found in the world for
the positions which they occupy
The contention is well defined and
clear cut The unions demand a gen
eral increase OF 20 per cent in their
present wages. They make no threats
of strike, but the officials know that
the courteous plea for one-fifth more
pay is a glove to cover the iron hand
Of a labor combination which can at a
few hours notice tie up the Santa Fe
trains from Chicago to San Francisco.
The day of the bowling mobs of strilz
ers, wild-eyed anarchistic labor lead
ers and bombastic threats and demands
is past The labor union today has
learned by experience The confer
ence" has replaced the menaeing de
mand" The ballot box has supplanted
the violent mass meeting. The labor
ing men go after things in a business
like way. and they have tremendous
power to enforce their position.
1t may be an unpleasant thing for the
railways to face but the fact remains
that when a labor organization backed
by plenty of boarded money and bound
together by ties as strong as the bonds
Of patriotic allegiance makes a demand,
it Will get what it wants or wreck the
combination of capitalists who Oppose
it. The only thing which is stronger
than labor unions is public sentiment.
Just now public sentiment is with the
unions But if the unions abuse their
power. as the trusts" have done. pub.
lie sentiment will turn against them
and there will be as strong a demand
for anti-labor union legislation as there
is for antitrust legislation.
Even now the railway corporations are
beginning to vince under the constantly
growing demands which labor organi-
cations make. Facts and figures are
coming to light which show that this
constant increase in pay can not go on
indefinitely without seriously Gripping
the Industrial supremacy Of this
country.
Therefore it would be we'll for the spirit
I Of compromise to enter into the stub
born battle which is now in progress il
this city and bring about a settlement
of the conflict which VIII be fair and
just to all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

If Mr.. Cortelyou shall be installed in
the new cabinet position recently estab-
hshed, he is not likely to lack employ
ment The new department OF commerce
ana labor VIII include a bureau of cor
porations. a bureau Of labor. the light
house board, the lighthouse establish
ment the steamboat inspection service.
the bureau Of standards. the coast and
Eeodetie survey. the commissioner gem
eral Of Immigration, the commissioners
CT Immigration, the bureau Of immigra-
tion and the immigration service at
large. the bureau Of statistics of the
treasury department. the bureau Of nav
igatioh the shipping commissioner, the
bureau of foreign commerce, now in the
department Of states the census bureau
and the fish commission.
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a VALENTINE.



See these wee vielets. purple and tender.
Shrini-lng and delicate trembling and
sweet
Even the north wind in pity has spared
them,
Saving their sweetness TO lay at thy feet
List to the message 50 faithfully given
Whisper it Ger and Ger, murnur it more
and more,
Touch her lips tenderly-violets blue!
Oh, for a kiss from those sweet lips CT
crimson.
One loving glance from her dear eyes Of
blue
And Heaven itself VII have then smiled
vioIets-vioIeta! tender and truel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

Immediately after the speech, which
was delivered in the afternoon. Mr.. In
gals was driven to the North Topeka
depot of the Santa Fe to take the train
for his home A reporter secured a seat
in the carriage with Mr. Ingalls, who did
not know that he was q reporter. On
the way to the station Mr.. ingalls, said
There is one thing about these meet
ings 1 do not like and that is the re-
porters They sit there and take down
Everything you say and sometimes they
get it wrong. I know they do not in
tend to. Then a speaker has to be care
full what he says. There are thousand
little things that should not be printed
until the speaker has an opportunity to
correct the manuscript. It is all right
at big, formal affairs but at a place like
this the reporters ought to be kept out"
And the very next morning another re-
porter, not the one who heard Mr. In
gals say this, used AS in place of by
much to the discontinue of the speaker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

Governor BUdd's mention of Mr..
Hearst as a candidate for the presi-
dency probably was intended as a feel
er- I'm the present disoraanized state
of The Democratic party, the suggestion
is not likely to stir up any great amount
of enthusiasm. Yet the Democracy
might do much worse than nominate the
enterprising young editor. A race be-
tween him and Roosevelt would have a
tendency to cause the trusts to take to
the woods
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reformer is that he begins work too far
away from home.
A widow has nothing but words OF
praise for her late husband, but it's diff
ferent with a sleepy wife.
You have doubtless observed that the
average man puts in so much time
preaching he has little time for prac-
tice.
Many a mans financial embarrass-
ment may be attributed to the fact that
he spent a lot eff money in trying to get
something for nothing.
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Senator ingalls, was known to the edi-
tors and reporters as man who was
Indifferent to any criticism of his per-
sonal appearance or any fun that might
man who would hunt up the editor of
paper which had nisQuoted him and in
form the editor of the grievous slight
upon him.
That he was uncOncerned as to what
was said Of his appearance a quotation
from the speech he made at Garfield
park, in Topeka. Labor Day, September
3, 1895. proves. He said: Il have
never boosted much, fellow citizens. of
my pulchritude. In fact / have often
said that I supposed / was the only man
who had been at all prominent in the
affairs of Kansas to whom q carica ture
did no injustice at all: to whom. in fact,
it was rather complimentary"
In this same speech, which was one of
the most witty ever made by ingalls,,
he was misquoted by the reporter of a
morning paper The report of the be-
ginning of his speech read as follows:
In view, ladies and gentlemen, of some
recently published utterances in this
city. it may perhaps not be inappro
pirate for me to say that I am not an
4 intruder upon this platform, nor am I
present on this occasion as an unbidden
guest. I was, in the telegraDhic an
to as a man whose career is one of the
most mournful and melancholy of our
time
! What Mr. ingalls, said in the last SEN
/ tence was referred to by a man" but
the reporter got the word "as" in place
of by" which changed the entire
meaning While ingalls, would refer
+ humOrously to his physical appearance
jocular manner; therefore the reporter
who made the blunder had a long SEES
sion with the editor after Mr.. ingalls,
visit to the editorial sanctum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
eooD 81. vALRNTINE.


by BIancne IFenn0r HeaE6-J
Half a century away.
When the grandmammas were young.
What devices quaint and gay
Passed the bellies and beaux amonzI
Bleeding hearts and mating birds
Tokens fresh from Cupid's shrine.
Stately rhymes and tender words.
Brought by good Saint Valentinei
Ci7nid. ia This day Of ours.
Has exchanged the old conceits
For a bunch Of dollhouse flowers
Or a box Of chocolate sweets:
But as absolute his sway
As It was, o CT heart and tongue,
Half a century away
When the grandI1ammas were younRl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

Hartford Courant: Our only living
ex-president has only himself to blame
ST those who don't like him put a con-
Etruction on his letter to the Cincinnati
newspaper man that won't please him.
lie has been asked point-blank whether
he wants the Democratic nomination
next year. he has taken notice of the
impairment question. and-having the
chance to say "No"-he hasn't said it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

Russell Sage thinks there is no coca
sion TO bother about the trusts yet. He
would wait until their teeth and claws
grow out so they are easily discovered.
Other persons might feel the same way
# they had attained the age of Uncle
Russell ana possessed as much ready
cash and eonvertible securities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press-I

Handsome is as photography does.
One sachet doesn't make a corsage-
A thin wire carries the electric power
to run great machinery. and a mite of a
woman PLAYS with the men of her fam
ily as if they were doll papers.
The inside Of some stockings is built
in such a way that more can bulge
through the open work than ought to be
there altogether
After a wife has sent her husband
back to see if he closed the front door.
she wants him to go back again and see
if he forgot to put the key in his pocket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

"A new use for the photograph has
been found in teaching foreign lang
uages. If French, for example. is the
language under study. native of
France who speaks French correctly
talks into the photograph and the rec
orc is sent to the pupil, who with the
aid Of photograph of his own. hears
the correctly spoken French and tries
to reproduce it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

Washington Post. Some day there
2uay be a. permanent organization of the
gentlemen who have been slated in the
newspapers as the successor to Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bristow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

The legislature is doing much to give
Kansas an unenviable reputation
among her neighbors. 1t follows the de-
feat of a woman suffrage bill by enter
tanning one for the restoration of capital
nunishnenf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

a bill has been introduced making it
a misdemeanor to point gun at a
person There was a time here in the
west when an offense Of this kind was
punished with death. unless the pointer
pulled the trigger first
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

1t is predicted that Mr.. Cortelyou viii
be placed at the head of the new depart
ment of commerce. What's the matter
with Iowa2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

A Cloud county rabbit running away
from a dog jumped in a well and the
hound followed. A man came along in
time 10 rescue both and have fry for
suUner
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one Atchison man is in $500 and an
other ST. 900 on busted" St Louis in
vestment concern. The wind seems tenn
pered TO the shorn lamb everywhere
save in the stock market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

Senator Hanna says he introduced the
bill to pension former slaves. by request.
why doesn't somebody request him to
Withdraw it2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

In connection with all these recent
gatherings of Democrats there appears
no mention of the name of David Ben
nett Hill Yet Mr.. Hin is a Democrat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

AT an Emingham spelling match the
word "paraphernalia" was the Stun
bling block
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

Senator Harris now has the endorse
ment for canal commissioner OF about
all Kansas, with the exception of Gov
ernor Bailey and Senator-elect Long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

The advertising which Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter has been given recently, free of
charge. would have been considered of
immense value by ambitious actor peo-