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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
TYPES OF COLLEGE MEN.

When a real, genuine college man,
of the quiet unostentatious kind, who
never filings the information broadcast
about what happened when he was
at the university" speaks of college
sentiment, he means something which
it would do we'll for young men to
whom the college doors swing open
for the first time in September, to
consider thoughtfully and seriously.
The worst curse which university
education has brought, is the produc-
ton of types" That fact cannot be
gotten away from. 1t may be of the
bulldog and peg-top trouser kind. it
may be of the sissy class, it may be
of the snob order. it may be of the
kind who hin themselves too much
gentlemen to work after they have
once been wrapped up in a sheepskin.
No matter where one goes, these types
car be ound. Not only are their
own dispositions warped but they cast
cold water o the enthusiasm which
fathers and mothers entertain in the
direction of a college education for
their sons.
But there is another side. Find
the man with genuine college senti-
nent in his soul, which finds expires
sion in decency, upright living, gentle
manly conduct, fo~rbearance, consid-
Grafton. and your idea of the value of
a college training will heap UP before
your eyes in surprising quantity and
quality.
When Mrs. John Jacob Astor said
that a man must be college bred in
order to be a gentleman. probably she
did not mean her statement to be con-
strued as the world construed it.
What was meant was that a man
should be a gentleman because of his
college training, and not that he is a
gentleman because he is college rain
ed. 1t is dangerous to use such a
phrase as that expressed by Mrs. AS
tor. 1t is one of those things that
must be said in many words and not
in epigrammatical form
But the real point involved is sim
ply a suggestion to the man who be-
gins his college career within the next
three weeks or month. The four years
which he spends within the walls of
his alma mater should give him tone,
temperament, judgment and consider
alton. And the last word is the great
est of all these. His education should
give him perspective of things; it
should show him beauty in and cause
for living; it should make a real gen.
uine man. not ashamed to be sad If
things are sad. or to be joyful if the
skies are clear. And the way to OBJ
tain these things is to be honest to
ones self while in college, to be ones
very best self all the time. to not let
the new ideas which come every day,
take ones soul and mind away from
ones self into an abnormal atmos-
phere, which will make of one a
type rather than a cal human gentle
man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
POINTED
[From the CHICAGO News.I

IFrom the Chicago NeWS-1
Consistency is a much-imitated Jewel.
Never judge a "a by h jury that
acquits him.
Happy is the man who doesn't worry
because he isn't happy.
Fire may be a good servant-if the
stock is overinsured.
Any fool may talk. but it takes a
wise guy to get listened to.
The world is too busy to hand the
chronic grumbler what he deserves.
One-half the world knows how the
other half lives, but it doesn't care.
Ask a man to describe a gentleman
and he will invariably describe him
self.
The engineer OF a train of thought
should know how to handle the throttle
properly.
There should be a high tariff on all
unlaundered linen brought into a pres
idential campaign.
The first time a mar is nominated for
a back township office he thinks it is
up to him to ave the country from
ruin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
FASHIONS RULE REVERSED

In fashions equestrienne the usual
rule seems to be reversed and eastward
the course of the cross saddle takes it's
way. Western women in their adoption
of the cross mount are not following
the lead of the east as they do in most
fashionable fads for riding astride is
as yet almost wholly confined to towns
west of the Mississippi. 1t arose at
western and mountain resorts and few
eastern women have adopted it for gem
eral use. At Lake Geneva, Lake For
est and other fashionable Chicago re-
sorts h women stick to their side sad
dies and at Newport. Narragansett
Pier and in the Westchester and Long
Island country districts where the
smart New York. Philadelphia and
Boston people spend their summers few
equestriennes astride are seen. 1t is
said that not more than one in twenty
New York women who ride in Central
Park in the season use the cross saddle
and even the women of the hunting set
to whom the safety of the new mount
might be expected to itself
ride to hounds in the old~-fashioned
way.
However the Topeka society girls
who have taken up the new fad need
not be discouraged on account of the
hesitation of the more conservative
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

The eureka girl who scalded her
arms while canning fruit will stick to
the hammock hereafter.
Burlington is overrun with poison
ivy this summer, and a number of the
citizens are all puffed up over it.
The official census of Cottonwood
Falls shows 11S dogs. but the noise
at night indicates a thousand on the
townSite.
Thirty years ago it was nip and
tuck as to whether watermelons or
grasshoppers were the more plentiful
at Seneca.
The grape king of Barber county
estimates his this years crop at five
tons. Nam of the clusters weigh
over a pound each.
In a fruit orchard at Medicine
Lodge the Ben Davis apples do not
bear. That should not be a source
of much grief, however
An Atchison man gave out a $50
gold piece for a dollar while market
ing. AS it was a gift from his
mother, he priced it very highly.
Speaking of economy, two Wamego
young ladies made a weeks visit to
the Worlds fair at a total expense of
S22 each. This did not include a trip
along the Pike.
Emporia is trying to get the Santa
Fe engineers to quit whistling while
on eFtownsite. If the engines could
be stopped it would seem a satisfac-
tory compromise
Twenty-four bottles of beer were
publicly destroyed in Horton this
week by order of the court. This was
the first execution of the kind in the
history of the town.
An Ottawa citizen favors the taxa
ton of cats. He declares owners of
felines should pay the same as dogs.
And many who are compelled TO
listen to nightly serenades agree with
him
A Wellington man was a trihe sur
priSed to wake up and find a cent?
pede for a bedfellow. He says he
knows now how Cyrus Leland would
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
THE VOTE.

The news columns of the newspapers
of Kansas indicate that there will be a
tremendous number of Independent
voters in the coming election-voters
who will not regard party loyalty above
the best interests of their state and of
their country. This movement is con-
fined to no one party. There are Demo-
Gratis who will vote for Republican
nominees and Republicans who Will
vote for Democratic nominees, and Pop
ulists who Will vote for both Republic
cans and Democrats.
This is as it should be. There are
men who decry independence in poll
tics. and who try to force voters int
line by the cry of party loyalty, and
vote a straight ballot, but it shows a
healthy condition of affairs when men
begin to place country above party. 1t
is commendable when men will choose
an honest nan on the opposition icket
in preference to a CRATER on their own.
That is the hope for good government
in Kansas today. The dominant party,
the Republican, has put up a state
ticket with a number of good men on it
excellent men. There are also on the
ticket men who are not so good-men
who were placed there by what is
Known as the Burton element in Kan
sas politics. 1t is for the voters to say
if these men shall have the endorse
of a reelection.
One of the most important issues in
the coming election in Kansas is, shall
the Burton standard of official honor
and integrity be longer continued as
the Kansas standard? Is the man who
is placed in a public office entitled to
,,Sa +bat ofica for 0erS00aI gain and
graft, even at the expense of h pub
lie?
The voters of Kansas can have what
the majority want. If they are in ia
of endorsing the Burton dea of Of
fetal integrity they can do so by vot-
for the candidates who act along
those lines.
The State Journal will do it's best to
place the facts before the voters. They
car do the rest. The paper that prints
the truth for it's readers discharges its
duty. The rest of h responsibility
with the voter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
An Old D

To the Editor of the State Journal.
Having read in your paper about a
coin owned by W. H. Harris, I decided
to write o of a paper, though not
quite so old as the coin, that has been
owned by my family for a hundred and
four years. The paper has been read
a great deal by relatives and friends,
but is remarkably well preserved. 1t
was published January 4, 1900, at King
ston Ulster county N. Y, by Samue
Freer & Son, and it is in mourning for
George Washington. 1t gives all par
ticulars of the entombment of Washing
ton, and gives John Adams speech of
sympathy and also his speech to the
house of representatives. The latest
news from Bonaparte. Berthier, and his
royal highneSs, the Archduke Charles,
is given. 1 send you a poem on the
death of General Washington, which 1
copy just as it is printed in this paper,
it may be of interest to some.
M. H. RUSSELL.
Rudder, Virginia
ION the Death of Gen. Washington. By
a Young Lady.1
What mean the solemn dirge that strikes
What means those mournful sounds-why
shines the tear?
Why toll the awful knell OF fate?
All! why those signs that do my fancy
Sate!
Those mourning badges fill my soul with
Tears.
Harkl Yonder rueful noisel It's done!-
it's done!
The silent tomb invades our Washington!
Must virtues exalted, yield their breath?
Must bright perfection find relief in death?
Must mortal greatness fall?-a glorious
nanci
What. then, is riches. honor and true
fame?
The august chief, the father and the
The generous patriot-let the muse COM
Columbia's glory and Mount vernon's
There lies enshrin'd with numbers at
his side.
Then let the sigh respondent from the
breast
Heave in rich numbers!-let the glowing
zest,
OF tears refulgent beam with graceful
love;
And the sable mourning our affection
prove.
Weep-kindred m~ortals-weep! No more
you'll find
A man so just, so pure. so firm in mind:
Rejoicing angels, hail the heavenly sage!
Celestial spirits greet the wonder of the
age!
day, Jan. 4, 1900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

east to abandon the side mount New
York, which usually sets the fashion
for the rest of the country is well
known to get it's ideas from across the
big pond and as word comes from Eng
land hat the aristocracy of that coun-
try is beginning to look with favor
upon the woman VINO rides astride,
fashionable New Workers will doubtless
soon follow suit. The Princess Victoria
is said to have recently adopted the
cross saddle with the full approval of
her mother, Queen. Alexandra,
and although the side saddle is still
used by the majority of English women
who ride it's days are undoubtedly
numbered since a popular young prin-
cess of the reigning mouse has aban-
doned it. The cross saddle movement"
is certainly marching on and it is pre-
dicted that in a few years 1t will be
so firmly established that no side sad
dies will be made.
There is some diversity Of opinion,
however, on the question of the hygiene
of riding astride. Most authorities de-
clare that cross saddle riding is more
healthful, easier and more comfortable
as well as safer than the old fashioned
way but one New York physician of
prominence stated in a publish$d inter
view a few years ago that the natural
way for women to ride was sideways
nj hat the reason they had always
done so was a physical one. ITO put it
bluntly," he was quoted, "women's legs
are not formed for the cross addle
mount and when one proclaims that
she rides more easily and comfortably
astride than sideways she admits that
she is no Venus"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Don't rush the growler in dog days.
The thermometer shouldn't get stuck
up.
A bad habit sticketh closer than a
porous plaster.
You naturally urn pale when you
kick the bucket.
A man isn't necessarily leveI-headed
because he is bald.
The girl who paints is not always as
pretty as a picture.
Sowing wild oats is calculated to
make a fellow look seedy.
Lots of stingy people keep every
think except their promises.
The prudish girl is always looking for
something to shock her.
1t is easier TO put a hero up on a Pc
destal than to keep him there.
1t makes a fellow look sheepish to
have the wool pulled over his eyes.
A mans greatest inspiration is the
knowledge that he needs the money.
Some people would rathe be right
than be president, because it's easier.
No, Maude, dear; the steeple-climber
is not necessarily a high churchman.
A fellow may have more money thai
brains and still be financially embar-
raised.
The fluent talker is a chap
Who has a lot to say,
Yet ne who has the gift of CAB
May give himself away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.J

Dragging is saying out loud what
you really think about yourself.
A man could wear very good clothes
If his family didn't have to have so
much better ones.
A queer thing about a temper is
how often you can lose it and yet
have it on hand for h next time.
Women go to summer resorts to
the way men make love
there with the way their husbands
don't at home.
There is an extraordinary similarity
between making love after marriage
and paying for something on the in
Stallment plan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
Avn THE WORLDS FAIR.

Subscribers to the State Journal
visiting the Worlds Fair may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address In st. Louis at the rate
Of thirty cents n month. The last
edition of the State Journal reaches
ST. Louis the following morning. The
paper can be sent care OF the Kansa
building, IL desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

The absurdity of many OF the items in
river and harbor appropriations is call
ed to mind by evidence offered in the
water case hearing at Wichita in which
II IS shown that congress in the past
has appropriated $4,000 for improve
ment Of the Arkansas river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
HONE NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
way during the sumD1e may ha'o
the paper mailed regularly eacn uAS
to any address al the rate OF tnlrty
cents a month. Address as
often as desired. While out OF town
b State journal will be to you Like
a daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Der vite folks uf Cheorgia hat
perhaps been reading oop IN Der
Rise und Fall off der Roman Empire
a pleasandt york uf fiction vot tells
apoudt Nero und his great torchlight
procession. Dey say dot der reason
dey use nigeros in Cheorgia ISIS Pc
Gauss Christians ISIS so scurse dere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

feel to discover a boss buster cuddled
under the same quilt.
The pedagogues in the Kiowa coun-
ty Normal are almost all girls this
year. There isn't enough of the mas
culine gender to act as janitors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Ever since the war began Russia
has been anxious to unite her Baltic
and her Asiatic fleets. If she will send
the Baltic fleet forward now, Admiral
Togo will see that they become
uuffad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

A preacher is reported to have col
lected $45,0OO at Old Orchard last
Sunday. He ought to be able to get
a good job with Mr.. Cortelyou or Mr..
Taggart.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

The National Business league has
placed itself behind a movement to Sc
cure a constitutional amendment MAX
ing the presidential term six years. If
the members really are business men, as
the name of the organization implies,
it seems strange that they fail to re-
alize how fruitless any attempt to
change the constitution of the United
States is almost certain to be. The days
for amending the organic law have
passed probably never to return. The
country has grown too big. Nothing
but a war is likely to bring a change.
The terms of surrender offered to
the Russians in Port Arthur by the
Japanese cannot be criticised on the
ground of l~iberality. The offer to
allow General Stoessel and his army
to retire with the honors of war and
join Kuropatkin in the north is an
unusual one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Missouri Democrats appear to be
doing their best to make good the
Globe-Democrat's standing prediction
the state will go Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Contrary to custom. the advance in
the price of wheat this yea has come
at a time when it helps the producer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Washington Post: The political
party that claims the credit for $1.O9
wheat will probably blame its op-
ponent for high-priced bread.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

1t is now less than three months
until election. and no excitement has
yet been generated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

To stump or not to stump. That is
the question now uppermost in the
mind of Candidate Parker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Every day that Port Arthur contin-
ues to hold out increases the magazine
possibilities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

The car is determined to save one
of his generals. He has recalled
S~takeIberg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Japanese tactics on land and sea
have been the same: Divide the en-
emy's forces and keep them divided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Uncle Henry Davis has commenced
to write letters. This is a proceeding
fraught with dangerous consequence
in politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

The amount Of wheat bought and
sold in Chicago recently is not indie
alive Of a shortage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

The presidents campaign address
to the voters will be made in writing
at Oyster Bay early in September.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Der Ka-zar uf Roosha ISIS mighty
proud uf hiss son, but uf der Chabs
on Gaming hiss way he ISIS liaple
to see der time ven he would like to
swap his heir fer a flying masheen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

knew a boss IF a Iifery stable vot
vent poker busded efery Saddertay
night. Der poker parlor ISIS der besd
buster in egziztence. I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

The Chicago News points out the cry
ing need Of an automatic strike set
tier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Gus Gobblesteinhauser sayss i'd ISIS a
to yell 'soo-ey' ad a pig. Gus
callss hiss pig a sewer" chust pecaus
he pours slop in id.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Der Republican split-of known as
der Boss Busters should oben k
parlors all ofer der state. We
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Stubs might hat afoided Citing oop
fife dousand to1lars to der Lawrence
Y. NJ. c. A. But he would atfertise,
und pehold der results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
GINGHAM DOG AND CALICO CAT.

The gingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on the table sat;
Twas half-past twelve, and what do you
think?
Neither OF them had slept a wink!
And the old Dutch clock and Chinese
plate
Seemed to know as sure as fate,
There was going to be an awful spat.
q wasn't tnere-I simply state
What was told to me by the Chinese
plate-)
The gingham dog went "bow-wow-wow!''
And the calico cat replied meow"
And the air was streaked for an hour
or so
With fragments of Bingham and calico,
While the old Dutch clock in the Chin
ney place
Up with its hands before its face,
For it always dreaded a family row.
Now. mind. I'm simply telling YOU
What the old Dutch clock declares
is true.)
The Chinese plate looked very blue
And walled; ooh, dear! what shall we
do2'
But the gingham dog and the calico cat
And utilized every tooth and claw
In the awfullest way you ever saw
And. Oh! how the Bingham and calico
newt
q don't think that I exaggerate-
/ got my news from the Chinese
plate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Dere ISIS Won Disadvantage uf being
oop nit politicks- Der peoples
ged onto your benk ~aggoundt. Uf he
a keeped oudt uf politickS w. r.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Next morning where the two had sat
They found no trace of the dog or cati
And some folks think unto this day
That burglars stole that pair away;
But the truth about the cat and pup
Is that they ate each other up
Now. what do you really think of that?
THE old Dutch clock it told me so.
And that is how 1 came to know.)
-Eugen Field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Der chicken dey had down by der
foundry lasd Sunday vas bedder
den oosual. I dond pellet id vas der
same chicken vot has peen working
before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Der Stats Millishy ISIS composed Ut
mighty lucky fellers. Dey vas aspect
ed to soIger, vile uf Won uf us 'solgers"
We ISIS liaple to get by der boss canned,
yet. Solgering by a citizen ISIS a capital
I1ffeDS-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Der Observation-Disclosures Union
ISIS framing oop a rule vot makes id
unconstituo-oo-tional fer a nonunion
COP to pinch a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

K. A. N.
7 hat noticed on der collar
IF der Kansas soldier man
A boneh uf metal letters
Vot ISIS spelling KAN.
Now dondt id seem a pidy
For to hang id on dem so?
A bedder lot uf fellers
You Will nefer- want to know.
Berhaps der bunch hat all been KAN-ned
But id occurs to me
Dey'r a. fin e-und-dandy product
For a KANning facto-ree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

mo" says Looie Gritzenjammer. es
he shifded der Ionch besket py der od-
der arm. mo, 1 vas not going to hat a
picnic. Id ISIS der %chiggers und black
ants vot will hat der picnic, und l will
hat a swelter-feSt, yet"