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Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-22

Primaries May Z, Let honest Democrats show
that they stand With Joseph W. Folk in his fight
for honesty IN public Office, as against Tia" c"rrup-
t.oni,la who would sell out our states honor for a
cash stipulation.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-22

The "uacliinc" idea OF night mass conventions,
rather than straight primaries in daylight in jas,
per county, tells II tale without 'woody d"II' eX
p,",sions. The viii of the people was not consid
erred.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-22

one OF the faircst decisions that has com. To
light among county committees that were against
Folk, was that Of the Monroe county committee,
who, though strong for Reed, acted favorably on
Tho request Of the Folk supporters for a primary
This is fair.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-22

Let every true Democrat get out and vote ut the
primaries on May Z. The fellows who wlnt the Old
machine regeme retained are at work and Demo
Gratis must wake up.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-22

Morgan County Democracy will never declare
for corruption as against the principles OF honest
government. Let the decision he overwhelming
at Lhc primaries May Z.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-22

As a divorce dispenser Judge Hazen Of Kansas
caps the climax. u" recently granted five iii,
vorccs in twenty-five" minutes, and never cracked
Il smile.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-22

While Missouri is only sixth in the list Of states
with regard to population, the Missouri hen easily
ouidietanccs her sisters in all the other states IN
Union.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-22

prospcctors hav" contracted TO bore twenty OIL
wells near Benton, Cass County.
Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-22

Six counties last Saturday selected del"gat"s tt
the state nominating convention and SIX counti"s
Likewise declared for Folk. so it goes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
KANsANs AND TIE FLOOD.

One of the charges made against
Governor Bailey by the opponents of
his administration has been that he re-
fused to call an extra session of the
legislature last summer to vote aid
to sufferers from the flood in the Kaw
valley. The governor was generously
abused at the time for his action In
regard to state relief and his enemies
did not cease to make capital of it
wherever possible until his withdrawal
from the contest.
But time has indicated Governor
Bailey in this matter. In less than a
year Kansas has almost entirely recov-
cred from the effects of the disastrous
calamity of June, 1908, and has proven
the wisdom of the attitude of those who
said then that state aid was unneces-
sary. Except in the cities, travellers
through the state see no signs of the
flood which was at first thought to have
wrought a damage which years would
be required to repair. The villages and
farming districts have been completely
restored and except in a very few
places where lakes were formed and
land left permanently inundated the
farms have not decreased in value.
Farms which were under water in June
of last year have sold for SIS an acre
in Wabaunsee county and elsewhere
this spring.
Governor Bailey had the foresight and
judgment to see that while Kansas was
temporarily overwhelmed by the flood
it was not unequal to the emergency
An extra relief session of the legislature
there is no reason to believe would have
given any better satisfaction than the
regular session. 1t would have been
very expensive. even if the farcical ex-
| trayaganee OF the winter before had not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

been repeated; taxes would have been
increased and the only result would
have been another relief fund row such
as Kansas City and Topeka both ex-
perienced in the expenditure of the
money donated for the flood sufferers.
And the people who stood most in need
of help would not have been benefited,
Only the very poor, the people who had
the least to lose. would accept aid and
they were abundantly provided for by
the relief donations and by the immense
amount of work at good wages which
was one of the results OF flood The day
is past when Kansas farmers would ac-
cept individual or state aid. The state
is too prosperous, the people too indie
pendent and the experience of the past
year has proven it unnecessary. Kan
sas has within herself the resources to
recover from even SO serious a blow as
the Kaw valley flood and Governor
Bailey knew it. One Of the wisest acts
of his administration was sitting down
on the proposition for an extra session
of the legislature last summer and even
the people who were disposed to grum-
BILE at him at the time now admit it.
Time may vindicate him as surely in
other matters for which he has been I'M
Justly and unfairly abused.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
oUAKER REFLECTIONS.

fFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
He laughs best. whose laugh lasts
The chronic borrower is inclined to be
touchy about it.
The butcher may not be funny, and yet
he is regular cut-up-
The spring poet will soon be on deck to
give us that tired feeling.
One way to avoid being disappointed in
love is to marry for money.
Dazzling prospects seldom make man
blind to his own interests.
When a fellow is on his uppers 1t means
that he is pretty low down.
Lent is rather slow, in spite of the
fact that it makes a lot OF people fast
Some people make mountains out of
mole hills, and others just put up blun-
A woman generally gains her point ex-
cept when she tries to sharpen her pen
ell.
March may come in like a lamb. but
there is such a thing as wolf in sheep s
clothing.
Some people don't believe in putting, of
until tomorrow the foolish things they
can do today.
Bobby-ssDo you think there are dogs up
in heaven?'' Wfllie-sSure. Didn't you
ever hear of a Skye terrier?"
The Cynical Bachelor rises to remark
that man is never old enough to marry
until he is old enough to know better.
Tommy-'.Pop. what is meant by a po,
pull my son, is something that is gen
erally applied to legs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
Because Governor Bailey was defeat

Because Governor Bailey was defeat
ed at Republican primaries for renomi-
nation the State Journal has bolted the
nominations of Kelly, Wheatley and
Walker. Suppose the Republicans of
the state had put the State Journals
programme of month or SO ago
through. renominating the whole
ticket, including Kelly, Wheatley and
Walker, would it have bolted these
nominations ?-Topeka Capital.
This Kind of falsehood will deceive
no intelligent reader. The State Jour-
nal never had any programme which
included the nomination or renomina-
ton of Kelly at the late convention,
the previous one or any day between
the two. The attitude of this paper
toward Kelly has never for moment
changed, nor has it depended on any
issue involving Governor Bailey. 1t
has always been based on the evidence
of Kelly's guilt, the official findings on
record in the proceedings of the board
of county commissioners of Miami
county and of the more recent conduct
of Kelly as chairman of the board of
equalization-a most scandalous action,
that alone ought to defeat him in Mo-
vember. This paper has opposed
Walker because he is partial to the
railroads and unfair to the shippers.
We want men fair to both interests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
Low RATES.
The Santa Fee Win Make Low Rates
to the Southwest March 10.

Never before have such low rates been
made to Oklahoma. Texas and Pecos
Valley as will be made by the Sanfa
Fe March 10. When this series
CT excursions ends. rates will be ad-
vanced.
Rates to a few points are quoted. tn
show wide range of territory covered
ONLY $3.50 to Guthrie, Oklahoma civ
Shawnee and other points in the Terri,
tory. To Fort Worth. Austin, San An
tonic. Houston. Galveston and otrer
points in Texas. $500 one way. six M
round trip. Ell Paso. Demfng. etc
S26. so round trip. Corresponding reduc.
tions to Roswell, Carlsbad and other
points in Pecos Valley.
Splendid opportunity for the health
fortune or pleasure seeker to visit the
healthiest and wealthiest section of the
United States Descriptive pamphlets
for the asking. I'll be glad to talk or
correspond with you about your trip.
T. l. KING, c. P. & T. A,
Topeka, Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
ABOUT MR.. M'cUrcHEoN.
A Cartoonist Who Makes Books That
Sell.

Mr. John T. McCutcheon, in addition
to being one of the highest salaried car
toonists in the United States, and on
one of its greatest newspapers at that,
is a particularly active young man. He
has to draw a cartoon every day, and
besides that his illustrations are ap-
pearing in several magazines.
The Saturday Evening Post recently
contained a very clever article for
which he supplied pictures and text, a
forthcoming book of political stories
will be Illustrated by his drawings, and
when he has nothing else to do he can
watch the royalties come in on his own
book published last year. Cartoons
by McCutcheon" had the remarkable
sale of 10000 copies in 1903, which, for
a book of cartoons, is almost without
precedent. Books of fiction, of course.
run up ten times this figure, but Mr.:
McCutcheon's box was a collection OF
pictures only. A greater success is ex-
pected for his Bird Center Cartoons,
to be published this month by A c.
McClurg & Co, because this has a
thread of narrative connecting the diff
ferent pictures, and the same char
acters appear in each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
UTILIZATION OF FLOODED
T.ANDS

In view of the great agricultural
losses incident to the western foods
of last spring and possible losses from
the same cause this year, bulletin just
issued by the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college on the best methods of
utilizing flood damaged lands possesses
a national interest, says an editorial in
the New York Herald.
It is estimated that the floods of 1903
in the west covered territory of two
million acres and wiped out property
approximating $40. oOo,0O in value. But
the bulletin referred to shows how
lands which have been inundated may
be so treated that they can be general
ly utilized for cultivation in short
time.
While the crops on well drained
lands subjected to temporary over
flow, not exceeding three or four days,
are not usually destroyed. the lower
river bottoms when inundated suffer
the most serious loss of the humus in
the soil. and it is all important that
this should be restored. The Kansas
experiments show that drowned lands
should be treated by seeding them to
grass and well drained at once, while
in the case of washed lands, if toe
poor to start grasses, it is necessary
to build up the humus by fertilizers.
! When the annual flood ravages in
many of our most productive agricul-
tural districts are considered, the prob
lem of repairing the waste of the sol
and utilizing the land for crops to the
best advantage should engage the earn
est attention of all scientific and prac-
teal agriculturists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

The trust fad has finally struck the
dry goods trade with full force. Two
great wholesale houses. one in Chicago
and the other in New York. are to be
organized as one concern with a cap
ital of s10.75O,OO0. the new organization
to be known as the Henry Siegel cor
poration, and a similar company for
the department store business is also
to be established in Boston as a
branch Of the Chicago and New York
combination. They start out with the
usual Z per cent preferred stock, with
large promises of as great dividends
for the common stock. which is divided
IN the proportion of four and a quarter
millions of preferred and six and half
millions of common. This is the prin-
ciple adopted in the merging of indus
trials applied to merchandising.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

A Solomon cat has seven legs and two
tails.
The Anthony lecture course was a
failure financially.
It cost an Onaga man s12 to chum
an hour with John Barleycorn.
The hens are not doing all of the
scratching at Cimarron. The town has
an epidemic of itch.
over 400 pupils of school age have
eluded the hockey officer so far this
spring.
A Gas City man has sworn out a
warrant for neighbor charging him
with stealing his hams.
When Effingham pupils misbehave at
school and get padding as soon as
their parents find 1t out they get an
other.
A Cimarron man returning from d
drive declared that he saw an antelope.
But old timers say it was only full
grown jack rabbit.
An Abilene boy broke his leg in two
places while trying to throw another
boy down. The other youth didn't even
bust" a button off,
A Wyandotte woman is applying for
divorce because her husband keeps her
in hot water all the time. She takes in
washing to support the family.
An Usage City man who had his ankle
broken while out skylarking around
came home at midnight with doleful
tale to his wife of how the lodge goat
did it.
A Highland man has g, 900 bushels of
wheat stored in granaries that cost him
so cents per bushel. This week he de-
clined a 81 bushel offer which ne will
probably live to regret.
The college crowd of students in To-
peka for the state oratorical contest
were as meek as lambs. Not a bunch of
them could get I'D a yell loud enough
to be heard across the avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

When a farmer is in town. how he
brightens up at sight of a car of corni
Some people never admire a man until
after he has stolen something.
When boy washes his face, all he
gets for his pains is a suspicious scrutiny
of his neck and ears.
Both sides to the quarrel are now say
ing: There is such a thing as paying too
much for harmony"
When a woman dies there is always
some curiosity to how soon her kin
will begin wearing her things
Some people who find they can't afford
clOtheS-and- fine house-pride, get up as big
one over their ancestry.
Where do you put your shoes the last
thing at night? In the same place, and
are you a crank about them being there
Also a sign of age. Some people get so
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

Boston Transcript: The movement
just inaugurated by some women's So
eieties to observe throughout the coun-
try the birthdays of eminent women
might appropriately be made a general
one 1t is one of the first steps taken
toward the proper recognition of the
work done by women in forming and
making our country and UNFOLDING its
ideals. A well-known educator. a gem
tIeman and scholar, has recently been
ealing attention TO the inadequate rep
yesentation of women in the histories
used as textbooks in the public schools.
Whether the reason for this lies as is
claimed in the fact that men are the
authors Of the histories. or IS based on
2 deeper cause the fact is certainly
patent to every one that public recogni-
ton of women's worth and work on a
plane with that accorded to men, has
been scanty and meagre. The celebra-
ton of the birthday of eminent Ameri-
gan women might appropriately begin
n the schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

they can't sleep unless every piece of
wearing apparel is put in the same place
night after night.
What a hard time a man has to quit
the use Of tObaccol And what hard time
his son has to learn the use of it.
The man who has anything to do in this
world is sicker just before he gives up
than he is when at home fiat on his back
Prophet Joseph Smith of the Mormon
church says that for man to live with
but one wife Is as bad as to be an in
ndeL as polygamy was commanded by
God direct. If man has a wife, and she
objects to a second, or a third, she will
be destroyed. Now will the women be
good?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New YORK FreSS-I
A girls idea of interesting man is
one who is interested in her.
Envy goes with what you haven't got;
and vanity with what you have
Tt takes only loyalty to praise the sing
ing of the girl you are in love with; it
takes will power to believe your own
praise.
Anyway, old maids don't have to go
down stairs at 8 o'clock IN the morning to
let in a man who tried to open the front
door with a trunk key
It's funny how much more extravagant
it seems to take your own sister to a Is
cent lecture than an old school chum to
a champagne dinner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

At the North Atlantic seaboards 5
ports during the month of January,
1904, received 4.325, 1856 bushels of grain,
including flour reduced to bushels. Last
year FOR the corresponding month b.
103,631 bushels were received. OF the
total reported for January this year,
Portland was credited with 983, 4O1
bushels; Boston, 2,0s6. O99 bushels; New
York, 5,0S5,0S0 bushels; Philadelphia,
2,50S,467 bushels, and Baltimore, 1862, =
2SS bushels. In every case these re-
ceipts were lighter than in January,
1903
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
a California Farm for You.

Are YOU satisfied at home? Or do you
wish to better yourself? You should in
vestigate what the San Joaquin valley
of California has to offer hustlers. In
that great valley is grown nine-tenths
of the e. S. raisin crop, and millions of
gallons of wine are made yearly. You
can probably raise almost everything
there. Good farms at cheap prices. Low
rate colonist excursions in March and
April on the Santa Fe. Write for
pamphlets to T. L. KING, A, 7. & S.
f. Ry.. Topeka, Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That are
Attracting Attention.

1.-THE Fugitive" by Ezra s. Brudno.
lust published by Doubleday, Page &
Co. shows how the Jewish immigrant
becomes a useful American citizen. It
has the picturesque background of life
in the Russian pale. and then the scene
shifts to the New York Ghetto SuDse-
ouently the hero. who is an emanci-
pated Jew, takes his place among the
worlds workers. 1.-The Fugitive" in
terprets a new relation between the
Jew and the Gentle. and shows that
love is the leveler Of all creeds. Mr..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

Those congressman who have been
working the postal graft apparently
never supposed they would be found
out. They declare that they have done
nothing wrong, but at the same time
they are furious because of the pub
Lefty given to their transactions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

The prevailing rate of commission for
securing postofices in Nebraska ap-
pears to be Is per cent of the attached
salary. Testimony before the Dietrich
investigating committee is to the effect
that the senator tried to raise the rate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

The most embarrassing thing that
has happened in Holton lately was the
burning of the laundry. The boys lost
all of their collars and shirts and the
girls. we'll. they were inconvenience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

From a pecuniary standpoint John
Mitchell's advice to the miners to sub
init to a slight reduction in wages rath-
er than strike. probably is the best that
could be given them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

We are told that the Wichita con-
vention was run by the plain, common
people. But if you will go carefully
over the proceedings you will see that
Dick Blue either made nfne-tenths Of
the motions or seconded them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

st. Louis Post-Dispatch: High priced
paper is a greater evil than high priced
meat Must we forever shelter mon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
Py special leased barbed wire from
Wichita

March 12.-Der effect uf der resent
convention ISIS gradually wearing off
Scn.e If der sitisens vat vas scared
oudr uf tt wn by der disturbance Ven
stay, Eaf returned to DER homes. AID
a late fcur dis afternoon, doTnest an
ima.s such as dogs, chickens uni hodei
poroers vas seen mit-in dwo miles uf
der cids limmids.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

If the members of congress secure a
advance in salaries they may not fin
It necessary to sell postoffices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

In addition to the problem Of how to
make people stay married there now
looms up the one of preventing them
from contracting too many marriages
at the same time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

Grover Cleveland is about to be init
ated into the order of Free Masons. Pit
the poor goat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

No Won realisess der value uf truth
until dey ged oop agensd a proposition
like desc: IF a deutzen words uf truth
could be squeezed oud uf cerdain man
vat does bitzness near FIT and Kansas
afenoo, dere would be a change in der
cidy adminisdration-und any change
would be a penefid to fordy dousand
peoples.
Der greadest bunch uf fat girlss efer
cornered in Won house vas ad a resent
Y. w. c. A. contention. A noosbaper
ISIS responsibility fer der statement dot
der attendance vas two-dousand in
round figures.
Der appointments uf McCollum as
Chef uf Bolice vas wort lods uf money
to Donofan. Golf und all der oder ex-
cheefs. All dey needed to make der
public see DER true value as ossifers.
vas chusd goot, sdrong contrasdt-und
dey hat i'd
Lade Noos Special (Py Special wire
less Asassnated Press vire)
Vladivostok, March I'D ISIS ru-
moroffed dot ninedy sigs Chabanees
oysder boadski vas headed dis vaysko-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

Much Of the sympathy expressed for
Japan in the early part of the negotia-
tons appears to have been wasted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12
Life Guards.

The Life Guards are two regiments Of
cavalry forming part of the British
household troops They are gallant SOL
diers. and every loyal British heart is
proud of them. Not only the Kings
household, but yours, ours, everybody's
should have its life guards. The need
of them is especially great when the
greatest foes of life, diseases, find allies
in the very elements as colds, influenza,
catarrh. the grip, and pneumonia do in
the stormy month of March. The best
way that we know of to guard against
these diseases is to strengthen the sys-
tenn with HOODS SarsapariIIa-the
greatest of all life guards. It removes
the conditions in which these diseases
make their most successful attack. gives
vigor and tone to all the vital organs
and functions, and impartS genial
warmth to the blood Remember the
weaker the system the greater the ex-
posture to disease. Hoods Sarsaparilla
makes the system strong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

Hearst now has 10 delegates to the
other mans 0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

Seed planted by Mr.. Bristow appear
to have produced a heavy crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

One Of the strong arguments urged
IN favor Of Hearst is that he is no
orator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

II observation" sayss Gus Gobble-
steinhauser, dot der Wolf-Bergund-
thai McCollum- Redeem Magaw syndi-
cate ISIS making aranchemendts to difide
NIT der cidy.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-12

Abdul Hamnit, der ferociociocious
Turk, seems to hat cancelled hiss con-
dract init der Associated Press. He