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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

No gypsies are allowed on the town
site of Annapolis.
Iuka has a one-legged bootlegger-
or did have. He's in the Pratt jail
now.
The flood at Cottonwood Falls has
proven vigorous enough to wash out
the Town Row.
A Horton restaurant serves home
made strawberry shortcake and por-
terhouse steaks.
Mcpherson has had its first open air
band concert. There was a large
crowd present and quite a blow out
A new lawn mower has been pur-
chased for the Medicine Lodge Gene
terry Who will run it is not known.
A Lincoln grandmother has six
grandchildren and one great grand
child among the common school grad
yates this year.
The oldest settler of Doniphan
county reached there in May, SIS.
Cyrus Leland. the best known citizen,
was not far behind him.
A Newton man has purchased so
many Strawberries this spring at such
high prices that he is beginning to
have a seedy appearance.
A Clay Center woman Will go
through life with one less toe than her
neighbors. Proving around in the
dark she sprung a steel rat trap.
Neodesha is all agog at the rumor
that the Missouri Pacific is to erect a
new depot. But there is a vast differ
ence between the starting of a rumor
and the starting of a depot.
This is the way the Horton Com
mercial editor sizes up the prohibition
situation in his town: 1.-THE closing
up of the saloons while pleasing the
long nosed meddlesome fraternity,
hasn't cut the use of boozerine down
a solitary drink In fact it has in
creased its consumption"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
HE DID cur REAL ICE.
[From the Wichita Eagle. J


Incidentally, recently the Eagle sup
piled Topekas editorial contingent
with a sufficient number of pioneer
episodes to constitute an historical
epoch or two about which they
seemed entirely ignorant. Out of a
desire for revenge for this unwelcome
favor the combine alluded to. on every
possible occasion since have been
ironically creditng US with knowing
everything. and with having taken
hand in all that ever happened in or
to Kansas. While it is true that only
the more prominent of leaders figure
in history, it is also true. that the real
factors. the men whose personal i'm
press nodded and gave character to
the state, in being largely ignored by
the self-constituted directors of things
during such formative period, were, of
course, later on, wholly forgotten.
Jim Lane had his adherents, Doc.
Robinson his confreres, and Chef
Thomas his coadjutors, who were all
flesh and blood entities. Topeka didn't
bob up out of the ground, like
mushroom, in a single night, nor yet
fun panoplied and full of benzine.
fresh from the hands of Jove. The
spirit inspiring its life did not assume
the form, or evidence the energy of a
twister, nor did the placing of its
foundation stones cause an earth
quake. Topeka simply, and naturally,
from a little, inferior, struggling in
terror village, largely constructed of
sla BIS and sod, and subsisting on
sorghum, in conformity with the law
of the survival of the fttest, and I'M
der the supervising hand of Omnipo-
tence, irresistibIy developed into a
Holy City of political preachers too
pious to need prayer, of editors too
erudite to educate, of bosses too eter-
nally bent on busting, and of count
less drug stores with everything on
tap save. medicine. No mere mortal
agency should be accredited with a
potency equal to having essayed any
an all around brilliant and phenome-
nal triumph or moral grandeur, of such
innate virtue and overshadowing
bumptiousness as are boosted by To-
peka. The editor of the Eagle, there
fore, with much contrition and in So
Letting forgiveness. renounces all his
former assumptions of ever having
cut any ice in or around Topeka, save
the thin margin cut by him on the
brink of the river at the foot of Har-
risOn street, near Pappan's ferry, in
aiding old John Brown and his OK
team to make their last crossing of
4 the KaW.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
OUAKER REFLECTIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.l
There's a b in every bonnet.
A safe robbery isn't always as safe as
it sounds
Fish are found in schools, and yet they
often play hockey.
The baseball twirler should keep keyed
up to the proper pitch.
The ability to win a 100-yard dash does
not always run in families
The reformer is generally up on politics
but down on politicians,
If money talks it's a good thing it does
not use the Russian language.
You can see right through lots Of peo-
pie who don't believe in glass houses.
When a man marries his stenosrapher
he can at least dictate to her
No. Maude, dear; it isn't the blowing Of
the wind that makes the navy blue
It is characteristic Of the human race
that the men and women are generally
running after each other.
Wigg-"Are the Bjoneses very. sociabie
people?'' Wagg-'-Weli. the last time
was there they taught me new game OF
solitaire"
You say your wife suffers from short
ness of BREATH" remarked the doctor.
Yes said the husband Of the invalid.
She wears tight corsets and pants when
she overexerts-I-er-I mean she can I
get her breath
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

From the ATcnlSOn GIODe.I
The average man is very fond of his
wife's pretty girl kin.
At their parties the men drink too much
and the women eat too much
A good many people are on to you and
you do not know it,
When a brides mother goes to visit her,
his folks say that he must have married
the whole family.
The way in which most people seem to
enjoy home is in planning additions to
be made another year
Which is worse; A man who belongs
to too many lodges, or a woman who DC
longs to too many clubs.
If it didn't advertise the day before, It
doesn't do an excursion steamboat any
good to whistle at O'Clock in the even
ing.
When Lysander John Appleton goes out
calling with his wife. he gets in a whole
lot of thinking his wife does all the talk
ing.
The Missouri language is worth study
ing. There is the word "ornery- No
other word Will exactly describe some peO-
pie.
It takes an awful small pimple on the
face of an eligible man to draw out a boil
size sympathy from the young women.
An Atchisoa couple have been engaged
so long that their marriage will attract
no more attention than the average we'd
ding anniversary.
It is said that since a certain girl got
her engagement ring, her heart futters
so lively it keeps the front trimmings Of
her dress jumping
Here is a kin problem A man is sick
and homeless, and poor Which should in
herit the care OF him: his married son or
his married daughter?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
CALL FOE HARVEST HANDS.

The annual call for help viii soon go
up from the Kansas wheat belt-for
help to save the crop. the farmers
will send forth a cry for twenty thou
sand or more harvest hands
This call is becoming familiar to the
people of the west. It is looked for reg
ularly each year when June rolls
around. 1t would require a big short
age in the wheat crop to entirely elm
mate this call, and Kansas has no such
shortage nowadays.
1t is a matter of great wonder to the
east that Kansas should ask for an
immense army of men every summer
simply to aid in the harvest of a single
crop. Last year Director Gerow' OF
the Kansas State Free Employment
bureau. sent forth a call for $4,000 har-
vest hands to go into the wheat belt,
and even more than that number were
needed. Many farmers in the newer
parts of the wheat belt did not realize
their need until harvest was upon
them, and then it was too late for them
to secure hands.
This year the call for help will not be
so great. Some of those who came last
year stin remain, and the crop will not
be so large in the sparsely settled reg
ions of the state, but 1t is probable that
at least twenty thousand men viii be
needed by the farmers of central and
western Kansas to harvest the wheat
crop of 1904.
The reason for this great demand for
outside labor is that one man can SOW
as much wheat as several can harvest.
The wheat farmer begins blowing for
his next years crop as soon as the old
crop is off the fields-in July if there is
sufficient moisture. He has until Sep
TENDER or October to get his blowing
done Seeding is speedily accomplish
ed. and the farmer mas ample time for
that. And then the wheat farmer has
nothing more to do with his crop until
harvest time comes, but harvest calls
for action. In the short space of from
ten to twenty days he must cut and get
into shape to resist the weather all OF
the crop that he had months to pillow
for and sow. If it is not promptly done
his former labor and the fruits of his
land go for naught. He must get 1t
done quickly. At the same time all of
his neighbors are in the same fix. In
the big wheat counties nearly every
man. even the merchants in the towns,
are engaged in wheat raising. The town
people who own farms hire their plow-
ing ana sowing uOAS III eiiS ASAii Gu
consequently they must hire their har-
vesting done in the summer. Every man
who works on a farm not only has
all the work he can do himself, but he
must have outside help. This condition
prevails to a greater or less extent over
perhaps thirty counties. The call for
outside harvest hands is the result.
Last year was the first that the east
paid much attention to the call for help
from Kansas. OF course many wild
rumors were circulated of alleged eX-
travagant offers made by Kansas FAR
mers for harvest hands, and all sorts
of incompetentsr came west to go into
the harvest fields. Many of them were
of course dissatisfied, but those who
had the grit to stay with the hard work
came out the better for it in the end
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
THE sENu-CENTENNIAL.

[From the Chicago Record-Herald.I
For fear there may be some doubling
denizen of some PARKWAY corner of the
Union who is still asking the question
whats the matter with Kansas" the
Sunfower state is celebrating this week
the fiftfeth anniversary of her recogni-
ton as a territory of the United States.
To this semi-centennial Kansas has
invited thousands of citizens of other
states to witness the evidences Of her
wonderful growth in all that makes a
commonwealth great and prosperous
She has arranged a gala week to dem
onstrate to the world that she has been
raising something besides grasshoppers,
cyclones and Populists.
st. Louis has invited the people of all
nations to celebrate with her the one
hundredth anniversary of the purchase
of the Louisiana territory. 1t is true
that Kansas was a part of that terri
tory. but so wonderful has been her in
dustrial and social progress that 1t was
deemed fitting to arrange a celebration
all her own to mark in special way
the position the state has reached
among the commemorative of the
Union.
At the ripe age of so Kansas can
look back with pIlde anu SdtloAe'S LIN
over history full of strenuous strug-
gle and strife. Politically she has been
the theater of many spectacular con-
ficts, and her soil has been prolific in
picturesque personalities. But Kansas
has prospered materially and socially,
in spite of her conflicts over slavery
and her propagation of Populism. until
her territority is now one of the gar
den spots of the republic. Her wheat
crop in 1900 equaled 8.S per cent of the
entire wheat crop of the world. Soon
will come from her great wheat fields
the Macedonian cry for help to harvest
the crops upon her fertile acres. Kan
sas is rich. robust and strong There is
nothing the matter with Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago NeWs.J
If a man makes no enemies he has
but few friends.
A wife is the only extravagant habit
some men have.
Expert testimony depends upon who
employs the expert
His satanic majesty doesn't waste
any Of his time on the hypocrite.
A marriage license gives man a L.
gal right to lie to one woman.
A wife should not attempt to soften
a hard-hearted husband by soaking
him.
Publishers want original matter. but
they draw the line at that brand Of
spelling.
There Is no faith equal to that of the
m All who advertises for the return OF
Z lost 'lT1a bs la
After a young mans mustache be-
comes heavier than his eyebrows his
knowledge of the world begins to de-
crease
So many queer things have happened
that a man expects his wife to believe
lot OF tnings that never did happen,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04


In a wholesale store on FIlbert street
there is a salesman who firmly believes
that it is possible to sec through the
telephone, and under the circumstances
he is hardly to be blamed. The tele-
phone in the store in question Is loca-
ted on the first floor near big plate
glass window which looks out on Fill
bert street The salesman heard the
bell ting-a-ling the other day, and.
taking the receiver on the hook. found
that @ friend had casually called him
up to inquire about an appointment.
When the conversation Jagged the
friend said:
BY the way. Tom. have you a seeo-
graph on your 'phone?'
No" replied Tom. What the dick
ems is the seeograph2"
Well" responded his friend. its
late discovery and We just had IL put
in the other day. I'm not talking over
the office phone now, but I see it's on
this phone"
What is it?' inquired Tom.
Just a little appliance by which you
see the fellow you're talking to, that's
ALL 90 Suppose you try II. Hold some
, thing up in front of the phone and see
IL can tell you what it is"
Tom held I'D Il letter which he took
from his pocket and the voice at the
other end of the phone immediately
told him what IT was. A wallet and =
handkerchief were next in order. and
in each case Tom was told correctly
what they We're Finally Tom went to
the back Of the store. and, getting a
broom. held it up before the phone.
Maybe you can tell me what this
is?" he shouted.
Certainly I can" replied the voice
/ ITS a broom. Great invention. isn't
it? Goodby-" And Tom has never ais
covered that his friend was talking
over phone in the second story front
room Of building directly across Fiji
bert street, and that ne was in plain
view OF the man at the other end OF
the phone the entire time.-Phiiadel-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

with the corresponding date last year.
and the total commercial losses were
not only smaller than any preceding
month this year, but less than in any
month since last September consid-
ering the one abnormally large dry
goods disaster, the showing is most
favorable, and there is reason to be-
lieve that the worst point as to COM
mercial losses has been passed with
out any serious disarrangement of
trade conditions. Reimbursement was
inevitable, but the conservatism OF
many traders prevented the severe in
dustriaI collapse that might have fol-
lowed the period of depression
through which the nations business
has passed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

How much pleasure the flower parade
gave people who can not afford ex-
penditures for pleasure may never be
known, but everyone who saw the pa
rade and who saw the crowds that
watched it, saw on the faces of many
the indication of the pleasure they were
enjoying.
In one float was a woman who enjoy
ed that outing and the ride along the
crOwd-lined streets more than any
president ever did riding down Penn
syIvania avenue.
She was all logged up. She was hot.
The wind blew her hair out of curl and
the Earring of the float did not allow
her a very upright and even appear
ance. Her face was rosy-rOsy red-but
she beamed and bowed at those along
the line of march who knew her
Then, when it was all over, she went
home and after getting supper and
front porch. the neighbors gathered
around her and she told them all about
The neighbors were glad she had such
a good time: She was glad she was on
the float. She couldn't have bought
that much fun for hundred dollars
and she can't buy fun in hundred dob
lar lots
On Harrison street, mixed in with
handsome carriages and automobiles
and spirited carriage teams and fash
ionable turnouts filled with society folk,
was a milk wagon and an old gray
horse. The milk man and his family
occupied the milk wagon, along with
the milk cans and all the milk he has
sold this year would not have bought
that rniIkTnan and his family the pleas
ure they had in watching the hover
parade-for it takes every cent the milk
man makes tofeed and ciothe his fam
ily He isn't stingy. not a bit Of it. But
he has had hard luck He lost some
COWS and some horses He IS in debt,
but he's getting out. He can not al
ford to buy pleasure for his family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

Total arrivals of live stock during
April at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha.
st. Louis and st. Joseph exceeded two
and one-half million-2,569 .672 head.
In April, 1908, there were 2.461. 1868
head. and 2.1S9.6S4 head in April,
1902. Pasturing conditions at the
close of the month were good gener-
ally, and the country's capacity to
hold its stock for favorable marketing
was reported to be ample. These five
markets have thus far in 1904 re-
ceived 11.414,3S5 head of stock. In
1903 the total was 10.O65,76 head, or
nearly million and a half less, while
1O,22O,642 head were reported in 1902
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

The supreme court of the United
States by a vote of to 4 has decided
that American citizens residing in the
Philippines, as well as the O.0OO 600 ma
tive inhabitants of the islands, are not
entitled to the right of trial by jury.
The case in which the decision was rem
dered was the appeal of two American
citizens, editors of a Manila paper,
charged with libeIing a native official,
and who were convicted after having
been denied a jury trial The supreme
court in this, as in other cases relating
to the islands. has decided that the
constitution is not in force there, but
this case is more significant than any
of its predecessors, because of the fact
that a heretofore supposed inalienable
right to every American citizen is by
the courts opinion denied to two such
citizens simply because they happen to
be in the Philippines and not in a state
or territory of the. United states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

According to reports from the
branch offices of r. C. Dun & CO.
throughout the United States, com
mercial failures in the United States
during the month of May were 997 in
number and s9S17.99s in amount of
defauIted liabilities, which compares
with 943 bankruptcies involving $l2.-
s14.2o6 in the corresponding month
last year. Manufacturing failures
numbered 245 with debts of s3,5O9.-
Ss4. against 2I7 year ago for So
403,615. Trading suspensions num-
bered TT with liabilities of s5,214,-
499. compared with 665 failures for
s6.645,447 in May, 1903. other com
mercial defaults were 35 in number
and s1.093,615 in amount, against 81
suspensions last year in this class for
S2,265,144. In addition to these strict
ly mercantile insolvencies. eight banks
were forced to close with liabilities of
S3.2SS.07s, compared with only three
defaults for s112,5S6 a year ago.
Although the banking exhibit is I'M
usually bad, in every other respect the
liabilities compare most favorably
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

Grain receipts at nine primary sea-
ports of the United States for the last
four months were S1.754,979 bushels,
including -four reduced to bushels. A
year ago the corresponding total was
125, sOe,692 bushels. showing a de-
crease of 44,O54,713 bushels, or 1872
per cent. During the month of April
16,342,580 bushels were received,
compared with 2S,S0O.O11 bushels for
April, 1903
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

The New York World relates the
following incident in the career of
the late Matthew Stanley Quay: Once
when state convention met he was
unable to leave his room His lieu
tenants as a matter of form read the
platform to him before its adoption.
When they asked his opinion he thick
~ mumbled that a plank should be
added pledging the party to submit a
constitutional amendment for prohi-
bition. The idea seemed ludicrous,
but Quay knew his own mind. He re-
covered sufficiently to go down to the
convention hall and force the plank
through. The amendment was sub
Initted at a special election, the Quay
machine got 100000 from the brew
ers and liquor dealers to work against
Il, the proposition was defeated by
$4,000 majority, and the Prohibition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

0oelSr here aas SIZED me fp- 80 %
Mslcl Z cIait1cd was excessive Tor a a. 81
q elei9ta cInofhrs says L. White Of
SS7tc ueiiss Cal At the Ital he prafsCd
rs meolca' ski land medicine I asked
1lln II II vas not Cha mfcrIai-1.s colo
Lh9lcFa fnd y-arrhnea Remedy he rsad
IS had good reason to believe II vvas
anu 1e Ecuid rot say under oath that If
vas not NO doctor could use a befter
remedy than this in case Of riS1ia-rs
Esloronsj II never fails. Sold by eli df1Irs-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
REFLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR.

= ~ NIE7 NV J yTN ITCsE.T
clouds come by. O
Inc hand that FITS the dresses is the
hand that shapes the world
Farming isn't what the dfrertions Ten
you TO DO IN the agricultural columns
When woman finds a man she can't
natter she Immediately has respect fnr
him. SO she never respects any at an
You can tell a lot more about a syirl.z
leeas On any question BY the shirt waists
she reads N~'--
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State Journal will be to you like
q daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
Ar THE WORLDS FAIR.

Subscribers of the State Journal
visiting the Worlds Fair may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address in st. Louis at the rate
of 80 cents month. The last edition
of the State Journal reaches st. Louis
the following morning. The paper
can be sent care of the Kansas build
ing, If desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04
masses %

Washington Post: It is stated that
there is urgent necessity for increas-
ing the secret service staff. Probably
going to send some extra men out to
find the department of commerce in
spectors who are investigating the
laaf fr11sf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

Now II the bandits who are holding
Mr.. Perdicaris would only put to sea
Uncle Sans war ships at Tangier could
do some business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

CIeveland's estimate of Parker prob
ably can be measured by the fact that
he once offered the judge the position
of second assistant postmaster general.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

fame in the first place. he afterwards
went back to the Philippines without
them and captured AguinaIdos and Kan
sas went crazy over the event at the
time. Don't forget that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

The movement to make Judge Par
ler the Democratic presidential nom
inee started with the Democratic
masses-not with the pOliticians.-In-
dianapolis Sentinel.
When did Dave Hill become ''the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

If Tascott has been killed for the
last time, let US now turn our atten-
ton to making some disposition of
Pat Grove
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-04

It is reported that the oxygen treat
nent Is being administered to the Par
ker boom by DE. Hill and his associates.