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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The nursery is one sort of bawlrooro.
The hatterer usually practices on
himself.
Don't waste time on that doesn't be-
long to YOU.
A tooth that aches generally feels as
big as an acre.
It doesn't require a musical educa-
ton to play the races.
A chronic borrower is fond of
good, braeing weather.
A young man may be fat and still be
loose in his morals.
A man with govt is good adver-
tisement for boarding house.
A Mt. Airy boy wants to know If
dining car is chew-chew.
A cat can find its way home much
better than a borrowed umbrella.
The sea of matrimony some times
produces NAL de mer of the affections.
The henpecked man doesn't feel like
bird when his wife makes him quail.
The peacemalxer may be unable to
sew on a button, but he car patch up
a quarrel.
Mrs. Muggins-"Was your enter
tainment for charity successfully" Mrs.
Buggins-'Oh, very. We neatly paid
expenses"
Nell-"She carries her fad for sec
one-hand bargains to ridiculous ex-
treme." Belle" Yes, she's even going
to marry a widower."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03
THE EMERALD ISLE
by JOHN G. WHITTIER.1
Il,r.o,ao The Nam Xn,.lx Iradarnand ant


TFrom the New York independent
1.-THE first poem of Writers ever print
ed was THE Exile's Departure" which
appeared in Garrison's Free Press June s.
1926. The next was 1.-The Deity" publish
ed June 22 of the same year, and both
these are collected. The third appeared in
the Free Press August 3, 1885, and was
never. collected. He was IS years old when
these lines were written, and had not yet
the advantage of the academy, nor of
any liberty except that of the wise ola
doctor" whom he mentions in ''Snow-
Bound,' DR.. Elias Wold.-S. T. Pickard.l
Brightly figure thy shores upon historys
Where names dear to fame and to SCI
ence long known,
Like unsetting stars through the lapse Of
From the sea-girded isle of Hibernia
have shone:
Fair island! thy wales are embalmed in
Which. history telleth of ages gone by,
When Qssian,'s proud heroes strobe on
And oceans wave answered their loud
battle-cry
The wild vine is creeping,-the shamrock
It's foliage DER many dimly seen pile -
Where entombed on the fields OF their
The proud. peerless chiefs of the Elmer
aid Isle
And in far later years. with the purest
devotion,
20 the high cause of freedom full many
q son
Of the green shores of Erin. the Gem of
Fair evergreen laurels of glory has
The maFtyred o'Neal and the gallant F1tz-
on the bright list of glory forever shall
stand,
And fame circle Emmett. the eloquent her
Who Weakened the spirit and pride of
his land.
They are gone! they are gone! but their
memories that linger
On the shores where they perish no
wretch shall revile,
No slave of tyrant shall dare point the
finger
OF scorn at those sons of the Emerald
Isle.
Hibernia! tho tyrants may seek to degrade
Yet proud sons of science acknowledge
their birth
On thy sea-girded shores, whose high
genius has made thee
The Gem of the Ocean, the wonder of
Long. long, has the halo of glory sur
The memory of Brian, the pride of thy
shore;
And DER thy dim lakes and wide valleys
have sounded
The neart-touching strains of Corolan
o, soon may the banners Of freedom wave
DER. thee
Green island of Erin! may Liberty's
To the iuster of primitive ages restore
The Gem of the ocean.-the Emerald
ISlei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03
AN IMAGINARY ANTAGONIST

The reputation of the professors of
Chicago university as sensation makers
has reached to the farthest limits Of the
country Evidently Chicago is tired of
it for an editorial writer on the Chron-
icle discourses as follows on the latest
STARTER"
In proportion to their numbers and
the age of the institution professors of
the University of Chicago can articulate
more folly than the combined faculties
of all American colleges. Ieonoclasm is
the dearest vice of the newest seat of
learning.
Yesterday it was Shakespeare sent to
sit below the master of the Tank. This
morning Longfellow was cast out from
among the poets. and tomorrow we are
to fight with Germany. Prof. Albion w.
Small. who calls himself "sociologist,"
is certain of it. He has Just returned
from the domain of the kaiser and
knows the dread inevitable.
1t was prudent on DR.. Harper's part
officially to pronulgate an assurance
that the institution is not responsible for
articulations by its professors lacking
the seal of the senate. Otherwise the
university might be a synonym for bed
lam.
Prof Small is certain Germany is go
ing to fight US on what may be desig-
mated general principles; she is alarmed
at our advance and covets cur trade in
South America and the east.
A fundamental deficiency of common
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03
HORROR OF KILLING.

The killing of three brothers by the
state of New York Wednesday was a
complete and thorough success. The
three boys were shocked to death by
electricity at the Clinton prison and the
telegraph reports announced that there
was not one unforeseen accident to mar
the perfect and dignified execution of
the death penalty"
The dispatches tell with gruesome de-
tail how the boys appeared as they left
the death chamber, why the oldest was
killed first, how their physical condi-
ton was carefully noted by the prison
physician and of the ministrations of
the priest and how their bodies stiffen-
ed as the current of death shot through
their muscles.
1t is all so horrible and so awful that
it is a wonder that the people of New
York do not rise up and sweep from
existence the inhuman death chair and
every other contrivance of the state for
taking human life.
1t may be granted that the crime of
these three young men was brutal and
cowardly in the extreme but their muir
der with judicial sanction does not
bring back into life their aged uncle
whom they slaughtered: it does not
raise the standard of morality in the
community in which they lived nor does
it in any respect elevate civilization. It's
whole effect is demoralizing.
1T appears that even Governor Odell,
who might have prevented the execution
had some misgivings about it, for the
reports say: at is known that Cover
nor Odell would have welcomed any
plausible ground upon which to COM
mute the sentence. as he felt that little
good would result to the public mind
from the morbid interest attaching to
the triple execution"
Still the governor refused to prevent
the execution on the ground that it was
net the part of the executive to inter-
fere in the execution of the laws of the
state and it is true the trouble is rather
with the law than with Governor Odell.
The taking of human life as punish
ment for crime is based on revenge, and
revenge is the impulse of savages.
The electric chair and the gibbet have
no place IN America. They are a few
of the relies of barbarism that the civ
ilization of the twentieth century has
not yet eradicated but their day is
short. In few years even New York
will look back with horror and revul-
sion to the death chair-the instrument
of judicial murder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

The following from the Boston Tran
script will convey some idea of the
working of the Maine prohibitory law:
1.-The news which comes from Skowne-
gan, that Henry Washburn, one of the
best known and most popular hotel men
in the state of Maine. has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for four months
in jail, in addition to a fine of 5000 and
costs, is Of more than passing import
ance. 1t is likely to have widespread
influence all over the state of Maine
and it may even prove to be the enter
sag wedge which is eventually to split
the prohibitory law to the very center.
SO long as parties who sold alcoholic
liquors were punished simply by fine,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

The Dakota divorce has been sus-
tanned by the United States supreme
court. 1t has proclaimed the principle
that a divorce which is valid in the
state in which it was granted is valid
in every other state of the union. and
frees both parties to the suit from the
marriage tie absolutely and every
where. This decision overrules a good
many decisions of state courts. which
have recently undertaken to except de-
crees of divorce from the constitutional
provisions that full faith and credit
shall be givea in each state to the pub
lie acts, records and judicial proceed
ings of every other state"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

which was imposed in such way as to
make it tantameunt to a license fee,
these parties were content with the pro-
hibitory law; it was better for them, no
doubt, from a commercial point of
view, than local option would probably
be- But to be locked Up in the common
jail for four months is quite another
matter. 1t brings social disgrace upon
the convicted dealer and it deprives him
of his liberty. One of two things Is
bound to follow: Either fear of i'm
prisonment will put q stop to the Illegal
sale of liquors, or this heroic enforce
ment of the law will bring about its
repeal. There is nc reason to suppose
that the former alternative will happen.
hence there would appear to be no es-
cape form the other.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.l

IF'rom the Atchison Globe.1
There is something wrong with any
woman who will laugh at the jokes of a
drunken man.
In view of the St Louis exposition.
the Globe advises that Christmas cards
be sent to all st. Louis kin.
If you believe that other people are
interested in your troubles, try them on
a man who is counting his money.
1t is as impossible for some people to
look well dressed as it is for furniturs
to look dignif1ed on a movers wagon.
The man who talks loud to attract at
tentfon, probably accomplishes it; bat
it is not the right sort Of attention.
There is at least this good thing in
having school teacher around; man
never has to get up to look in the die
tionary.
The neighbors always notice after a
daughters wedding, that only one light
appears nights in the home she left;
economy.
The people are putting two and two
together. Let them beware that they
don't say that they make five or six,
instead of four.
Our idea of a bright man IS one who
remembers in time of accident the axe
and saw and hammer Gagged up In glas
on a railroad car.
One of the coming attractions at tie
Atchison theater is Ten Nights in a
Bar Room" We refuse to go unless 1t
has two Carrie Nations. One is no
longer interesting.
So tender and complete is the synpat-
thy a mother gives, that the children
imagine she has suffered all their troR-
bles; a fathers sympathy indicates that
he has read about them.
An idle man is nearly always a mis-
chievous man. Idle men never engage
in worthy public enterprises they sit
around, and dig pitfalls for busy men
who are incidentally trying to help the
town.
We have an idea that a great many
women will explain on Judgment day
that they could have more for the Lord
if their husbands had provided them
with better clothes to wear to church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

The anticipated change in the move
nents of iron and steel in the foreign
trade of the United States did not make
itself as apparent in the August record
as was expected by students of this
subject The figures of the August i'm
ports and exports of iron and steel just
presented by the department of COM
merce and labor, through it's bureau of
statistics, show that the imports of
iron and steel in August, 1903, were
LAO 100 in value. against 3.529,676 in
the preceding month-July-and against
$4,123,314 in August of last year. Thus
the falling off of imports of iron and
steel in August, compared with the pre-
ceding month, amounted to less than
100 thousand dollars, and compared
with August of last year amounted to
$682, 214.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

Although the internal revenue receipts
of the government fell off $41, 100000
lost year owing to reduction In taxa
ton, the total revenue gave a surplus
of 81 millions. Thirty millions of this
amount came from an increase in Gus
toms duties paid. 1t is evident that
there is room for a further pairing some-
where. If the tariff be too sacred to
touch then the only place where a re-
duction can be made is in the internal
revenue taxes. These are paid chiefly
by liquor and tobacco. 1t looks a.
though the government could afford to
wipe out the tobacco tax entirely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

cite product in 1902 amounted to $751;
O16,ss7, as against s110. 504 900 in 1901.
The average value of the marketed coal
sold during the year at the mines was
$3.50 per ton. the value in 1901 having
been s2.05. The output of hituminous
coal amounted in 1902 to s25s. 641, 064
tons. valued at $2s2, ia. s06. as against
225.s26,s4s tone. valued at 1926. 406, 44s, in
1901. The coal production of Colorado
increased 2.a14. 412 tons, or more than 40
per cent. over 1901.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

s52 aliens arrived at Ellis Island during
the month"; being an excess over the cor
responding month last year of 5,543. Oc-
tober opened with the arrival of S,O13 for
the first two days The LAND of the
free still has its attractions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

LFrom the New YORK Press.
The song of youth is the 6irge of old
age.
When a man marries for money he
generally earns all he gets.
The devil always has an open ear and
a word of advice for anybody's tale of
woe.
A man can split his sides laughing at
the joke of rich uncle that .go,,ld
make him sick abed if a poor relation
told 1t
A nice thing about having children is
that it keeps a mans wits sharpeYse5 tn
prevent them from discovering how
much he doesn't know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

For the first time in the history of
the United States the production of
coal has reached a total of over SOC, 000,-
600 tons. the actual showing being 3o0,-
s90,e5s tons. for last year, valued at
$373. 133. S43. The output of anthracite
amounted to 3e. $751; 10 tons, a decrease
of %. 37e ESQ tons. or almost 40 per cent
from 1901. This decrease was due en-
tsrely to the suspension of operations
by the strike in the anthracite region.
The value at the mines of the anthra-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

In reports on the production of lead
and zinc in the United States for the
year 1902. which have been prepared for
the geological survey. the total output of
lead for the entire country is placed at
100000 tons. and of zinc at 1885, 97 tons.
The lead production was about the same
as in 1901, but there was an increase of
about 10 per cent in zinc production.
In the matter of the lead the report
notes falling off in the production of
the Rocky mountains and an increase
in the Mississippi region. Colorado has
become an important producer of zinc
ore, the output for the year for that
state being 1924 tons valued at ST.
544 $685.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

Sir Thomas Upton is quoted as saying
that he would live in New York if it
were not for his business. OF course he
means by his business trying to cap
ture that cup
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

So the city is to be sued for not main
tanning a sufficient water pressure to
protect property from fire. But, why
not sue the water company?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

One of Mayor Lows strongest recon-
mendations is the fact that Tammany
is willing to go to the length of NOM
mating part of the opposition ticket
In it's effort to defeat him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

The Des Moines Capital calls attention
TO the large number of physicians being
nominated for the legislature. Perhaps
the statutes need doctoring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

Since the death of the Free Silver
party the price of the white metal has
been steadily advancing until it is now
worth approximately so cents an ounce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

It will be interesting to know what
David b. Hill and Richard Croker
think of the ticket put UP by Tam
many.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

Those Kentucky gentlemen who en-
deavored to carry home practices into
an Ohio town found that the Buckeyes
wouldn't stand still and be shot at.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

A Chicago firm has been enjoined
from paying it's debts. Instances like
that are calculated to reconcile a good
many people to the use of the injunc-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

The Colombian congress may give the
president a free hand to negotiate a
canal treaty, but how about the trans
continental railroads of the United
c+atas2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

Even the devil couldn't keep the Col
orado militia away from the Office or
the Victor Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

The fusionists couldn't convince the
Tammanyites that there is no politics
IN the approaching city election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

Mary MaeLane will go to Denver to
work on a newspaper. She may hnd
the devil in the Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

The fusionfsts appear to have forced
Tammany to nominate some mighty
good men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

Governor Taylor's dates in the Ken
lucky Republican campaign have not
vet been announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

Few articles show a more rapid
growth in exportation than do agricul-
tural implements, or a wider distribu-
ton. The total has grown from a lit
tie over a half million dollars in 1864
to over 81 millions in 1908, or nearly
forty times as much in 1908 as in 1864,
While manufactures of iron and steel.
in which the growth has been looked
upon as phenomenal, are only about
thirteen times as much in value of ex-
ports in 1a03 as in 1864. The distribu-
ton of American agricultural imple-
ments has also extended to nearly all
parts of the world. The bureau of sta
tisties export statement shows that
reapers and mowers were sent in 1902
to over fifty different countries. and
plows and eultivators to even a larger
list of countries and dependencies. The
sound of the American mower and
reaper is heard in British, French and
Portuguese Africa, in Egypt, in Euro
pean and Asiatic Turkey, in European
and Asiatic Russia, in Japan. in India,
in Australia, and in practically all of
the South American countries and all
of the countries of Europe while the
American pillow and cultivator go to
practically every country in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03
THAT ATHLETIC DEBT.

At last the Washburn football debt
of $500 has been paid off, and the new
season starts with clean record and
restored confidence in the integrity of
the business management of Washburn
athletics. 1t would have been a serious
and perhaps fatal blow to athletics at
the college to allow this legal obliga-
ton to stand. and there can be no eriti-
cism of the attitude of the athletic
board of the college in demanding that
every cent be paid before new ebliga-
tions were incurred
Now that the business part of the
affair is Strengthened up. Washburn
should bend it's energies to organize a
football team which will be a worthy
representative of the college and of
Topeka. for Topeka is interested in the
success of every home product.
1t is true that the team is handi-
capped by late start. and the un-
timely death of it's business manager.
Had Manager Dale lived, the chances
are that three or four men now at the
state university would be wearing the
blue. But in spite of this, Washburn
has splendid chance to make the year
1908 memorable in it's football history.
1t has as good or better a man for
coach than it has ever had. It has
some frst-class material. What is
needed most is hard practice. and lots
of il.
One other thing is needed. Half a
dozen big men at the medical college
are said to be unwilling to play because
of the luminosity engendered between
the schools before the consolidation
The team needs these men. Old quar-
rels do not interest the present genera
ton. There should be a united effort
to land Washburn colors at the top this
year. and Coach Kennedy says it can
be done if he can line up the best ma
terial in school. The game on Saturday
may result in defeat. but it is reason
able to expect great things from the
team few weeks later in the season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

Forty Smith Center dogs are legally en-
titled 10 howl at the moon without i5oSi1s
Interference. 1850
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

StOnS, with the II We're TOO numerous
to mention.
In the dry goods shops or stores were
to be found the plaids or tartans of
these different families. or clans, as they
were formerly called. In the 1ewelry
stores were the crests, which went with
the tartans like the tail with the hide.
OF course, as a matter of family pride
and out of ancestral respect, rather than
for any present feeling or intention to
eTnblazon any coat of arms on our To-
peka surrey, we patronized to some ex-
tent these caterers to old traditions and
brought a little family jewelry and
clothing home. The particular crest
purchased happened to be very neat
one representing hand and a dagger.
The family motto. we learned out of the
huge volume in the hands of one of the
jewelers., is DUN Spiro, Spero," and
means while I Breathe, l Hope" 1t
would not have been a bad motto for
Kansas in it's early struggles for exist
ence and a place in the Union.
John MacLennan was in the livery
business. OF course. I hired one of his
victorias, taking in the town before
introduced myself Later he seemed
to take a tally-ho ride into the country,
which we would have done except for
lack of time.
John was very proud of his establish
ment He had many horses. cabs, car
riages and coaches of all kinds. His
card red: "Caledonian Livery, as pat
ronized by her majesty the queen on
her last visit. Mr.. John MacLennan
begs respectfully to intimate that he has
taken a lease of the above well known
stables and hopes to be favored with a
share of public patronage" etc He
was a man, who was proud that he had
away from Great Britain, but in Lon
don several times.
When told him I was in the news
paper business he said he spent consid-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-03

uLL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-03-05
PIckINes FROM FICTION.

It's II great thing to be of some use
In the wofld.-"B rlnton Eliot"
If not Sure of the merit Of your ideas,
quote them as another .-'Myra of the
Pines"
The woraan who makes a doormat of
herself Will always be troddcn upon
"Fablcs For the Elite"
Those who have not been imposed
upon arc thief's equal, with thief's
discernment.-"Th Fool"
II a man is obliged to make fool of
himself, 1t is best he should afford
amusement to others while doing so.-
1.-THE Minority"
No man should ever try to be artlcss.
He is too clumsy. 1t is like trying to
Go miniature painting with Il white.
wash brush.-'The Riddle of Life"
When once woman has the folly
to plead for herself in that moment
she murders love, and every tear she
sheds thereafter becomes anotler clod
upon his grave" Margaret Tudor"
y woman is all heart and sentiment,
and while her fortress is a strong one,
yet she expects to be conquered, and
once she surrenders she loves no one
Iore than her conqueror.-"Buel
Hampton"