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EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE.

SCRfNTON, Feb. 6.-An explosion OF
Eas az the Storrs shaft of the Lacka-
wanna Coal Company this morning in
9lreo several men. II Is reported that a
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-02

The wheat is ripe in Kansas, and a
Macedonian cry has gone up from the
Jayhawker state for % 900 harvesters,
says the Inter-Ocea From all over
the Union the response will come. and
from many walks of life Among the
first on the ground will be the college
boys.
These college boys go for various
reasons. "A chance to work from 4 a.
m. to 9 p. m. for 81 a day and found, -
as they put it, does not appeal to all
of them from a financial point of view.
Many of them. of course, need the
money to help pay for the next year at
college. But some go to restore physi-
cal vitality poured out over the mid
night oil. and others, with athletic am
billions, go to keep in training by hard
work.
A mixed lot they are-the pale stu
dent with glasses; the bulky football
man in lettered sweater; the brown
athlete who is no stranger to the sun.
Some of them may try to hitch up the
horses wrong end to; others may speak
of the cyclone cellar as the hurricane
excavation" doubtless some of them
carry revolvers to stand off the red
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in the lodge and out, and when he took
sick and it was known that his chances
were few the question on every lip in
town was "How's Young Jim?"
And then when he had fought the
best he could and could not conquer
and he died every one said, Poor
Young jim and went to work to give
him a funeral such as they thought he
deserved.
The lodge turned out in full regalia
with the brass band and formed the
guard of honor which accompanied the
casket to the grave. Everyone want
ed to pay respects to the boy and the
funeral procession was the longest the
town had ever known.
The minister's eulogy on Young Jim
was printed in the county papers in full
along with his picture-but no one had
thought of Old Jim.
He had witnessed it all and he be-
gan to understand. Then a few months
later when, with appropriate ceremon-
les, the lodge dedicated a handsome
monument, over the grave, to the
memory of Young Jinl-Old Jim realized
fully what he had missed in life and
ne began to live over again.
He spruced up, tended to business
and tried to follow in the footsteps of
Young Jim. The people noticed, ana
understood and when Old Jim had
proven himself they took him into full
membership as a worthy citizen of the
town
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

GF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
The leap year girl should have engag-
ing manners.
In a crowded car woman sometimes
gets a seat by deceit.
1t is always much easier to slip UP
stairs quietly than to slip down.
Love laughs at locksmiths because it's
so easy to pick a lock of hair.
When marriage is a failure it is not
necessarily a case of bankruptcy.
If we all waited for the other fellow
to begin there wouldn't be any fights
Many fellow who knows when to stop
doesn't take advantage of his knowledge.
The hacker of theatrical enterprise is
an angel, but he doesn't have to furnish
the wings.
Justice is tempered with more than
mercy when a boy is locked in the jam
closet for punishment.
The injured feelings of the plaintiff in
a breach of promise suit come high, but
she must have ;em.
The cynical bachelor doesn't see why
the month of May should be ny more
unlucky for marrying than the other
eleven
g-"Harduppe is such an impracti-
cal fellow. He is always up in the
Clouds" Wagg-"Maybe he's looking for
some of those silver Innings
Mrs. Buggins-"Fn be right down.
George. I'm Just putting on my, hat"
about give me time enough to run down
to the barber shop and get a shave and
a hair cut"
Blobbs-"How many fish did you catch
the other day?~ slobbs-a,."Thirteen. "
You bet your life it was. dropped my
corkscrew overheard anad had to go
home"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lFTom the Chicago News.1
Many a truthful woman travels under
false cOlOrs.
A little man imagines his contrariness
is will power.
A woman's idea of rich man is one
who has everything she wants.
No man enjoys kissing girl who has
her hair done up in curl papers.
Every year a woman's age contains
from Is to 20 months.
A man thinks long and speaks short; a
woman thinks short and speaks long.
Somehow a minister never hears a call
TO another church that pays a smaller
salary.
Many a man firmly believes that mar
rage is synonymous with Sherman's def
milton of war.
If there is anything a man detests more
than another it is a speaking portrait of
his wife's mother.
A dollar saved is a dollar made and
a dollar made is one that isn't invested
in a get-rich-quick scheme.
An old bachelor says that young ladies
who study law expect to lay down the
law to their husbands after they are
graduated
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religion.
A Howard man has gone with a
medicine show to play the banjo. and
left the wife to care for the chickens
and the garden.
Four of Cottonwood Falls jolliest
young men have gone to the World s
fair What they miss on 1.-The Pike"
won't be worth seeing.
Editor -Garten of Cimarron desires
to go to the legislature. This is a
chance for his constituency to return
favor for many kind notices of the
past.
About seventy tickets. have been
sold at Paola to harvest hands. This
is novelty. In most places ''the
boys ride without the formality of
paying fare.
Riding astride has become a fad
with Stafford women And why not2
They can use their brothers saddle and
save the price of one of the side kind
for a new gown.
They have queer hens at Cawker
City When Mrs. B. went out to
gather her eggs the other evening she
found in one of the nests a healthy
baby boy about a day old.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press1
Is a long love that has M cooling


1t is a long love that has no cooling.
A girl likes a romance even if she
knows it isn't genuine.
Even the best natured couple can fall
out when they are in a hammock to-
gether.
Self-control is when you can play cards
with women and make them think you
are enjoying it.
The cleverest thing is for a girl to pre-
tend she is afraid you will see her shoe
tops when she isn't.
When a man is playing peekaboo at a
girl it is a sign she can see it If her back
is turned to him.
A girl is not very well satisfied with
her own figure when she criticiseS some
other girls severely
1t makes a mother very proud to think
how much smarter her boy would be if
he weren't so good.
1t is taking an awful mean advantage
of girls helpiessneSS to hold her hands
and then not kiss her against her will.
A womans idea of the way to make a.
good bargain is when she wants to sell
a thing to pretend it isn't worth having,
and when she wants to buy it that she
couldn't live without it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-02
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

The water boys are the hardest
worked hands in the harvest fields of
Pratt.
Neosho county has 5,O22 pianos.
Just think of all of them turned loose
on "Hiawatha" at one time.
The Pratt band boys have ordered
snowy white uniforms, including cap2
and shoes of the same color.
The life of the Barton county rural
carrier is one continual round of de-
light. raspberries and new potatoes.
Harvest hands are offered $3.50 a
day in Barber county, yet the from
door to door" tramps are still in evil
dence.
Louisville man wore his overalls
to Paola wrong side before. He first
noticed it when he reached for his
pocketbook.
Members of the Christian congre-
cation of Smith Center have raised
money to send their pastor to the
Worlds fair for a fortnight. That's
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Financial Secretary-Chas. ]. O'Con-
nor.
| The articles of incorporation state
| that the object of the association is:
! To fnculcate, increase and crystalizs
the spirit of patriotism and the princi-
pie of public government; to entertain
and educate, without discrimination,
the children and the general public of
Chicago; to instruct and entertain the
children through the board of educa-
| ton, the superintendent and teachers;
to dignity all city and public entertain
ments; to end the indiscriminate beg
ging for public funds; to keep a reli-
able list of contributors and to give
them at all times a voice in the man
agement of the association.
Stock is divided into SIS shares and IL
non dividend bearing. The purpose is
to interest as many prominent citizens
as possible. Little effort to dispose of
the stock has been made as yet, but an
ample fund is already in hand for the
coming Independence day celebration.
The management of the association is
vested in a board of trustees of 225
members.
When the schools close for their
summer vacation in June each pupil
will be given framed copy of the De-
claration of independence. On the
morning of the Fourth there will be
open celebrations in the parks, play
grounds and vacant lots of the city. At
each place the children will be chaper-
oned and watched over by one police
man furnished by Chief O'Nefu. a fire
man furnished by Chief Musham. a
doctor furnished by Health Commits
sioner Reynolds, a teacher designated
by superintendent Cooley and one
members of the Illinois Naval reserves
in uniform.
There will be a liberal supply of
small fireworks for the little folk who
Will be taught how to use them with
safety to themselves and others. The
policeman on detail will see that the
terms of the ordinance are observed.
out for fires. The doctor will be on
hand with bandages and ointments.
The teachers will try to maintain de-
corum among the children and keen
them out of harms way. The naval
reserve will give the older lads instruc-
tions in the use of firearms. Fire
crackers will be furnished free.
In the afternoon there will be cor
certs in the parks by National Guard
bands, a grand promenade in Michigan
avenue and probably display of day
time Chinese fireworks. "A division of
naval reserves will be detailed on the
lake front with Springfield rifles to give
young men lessons in the use of the
guns.
In the evening there will be a sham
battle on the lake between the United
States boat Dorothea and another YES
sci which has been out of commission.
lights, together with naval n1aneuvers
will be ended by the blowing up of the
old ship with a torpedo. AS a climax
of the days festivities there will be a
display of fireworks at two or more
points in the city, so located that the
largest possible crowd may have the
benefit.-Chicago Times Herald
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skins. And the best of them will need
all their pluck and endurance to keep
up their end with the brawny, whis-
kered, horny handed sons of toll in
digenous to the western prairies.
For it takes able bodied men to
transform square miles of standing
wheat into bags of shining grain.
Moreover, it is a different thing
though not necessarily more difficult
than to buck the center, or run 100
yards in record time, or to bat out the
winning run--to work steadily and ev-
emily behind the moving machines or to
fork up the shining stalks to the
thrasher from sunrise to sunset.
The sun is hot and the south wind
blows warm out on these broad western
prairies. The morning hours are long
till the welcome dinner bell rings. In
the afternoon the sun appears to stand
still in the heavens, and Joshua's feat
seems nothing out of the ordinary.
Still. there are compensations which
should appeal to the college man. In
time the stiffness and soreness wear off.
There are the beauties of nature-sun-
rise and sunset, dew on a fresh born
world, miles upon miles of waving
wheat. There is honest thirst that
makes nectar of the gods out of cool
water from the well and fresh butter
milk from the dairy-house. There is
an appetite that plays havoc with the
farmers barrels of flour and beans and
potatoes, his slabs of bacon, and his
pans of milk. There is sleep the like
of which no city man ever knows.
These things bring other joys in their
train-peace of mind. pure blood. vigor-
Gus manhood, the consciousness of
mans work we'll done. And finally
comes pay day.
Is the college boy enough of a man
to do a mans part in this mans work?
T. B. Gerow. director of the Kansas
branch of the free employment bureau,
makes the first official announcement
on this much vexed question. Mr..
Gerow kept official tab on the college
boys in Kansas last year, and he knows.
Yes is his verdict, without qualifi-
cation of any kind The college boy
holds his own in the western wheat
fields
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-02

In an article in THE World Today
President William r. Harper. of the
Chicago university, presents some COM
parsons regarding the salaries paid
public school teachers in the various
large cities of the country, as well as in
the states at large. Boston leads the
list. paying its high school teachers
from S1.620 to 5000 annually, and
grammar school and elementary teach
ers from 1896 to $3.50. Chicago stands
next. high school salaries ranging from
$3.50 to 81 900. and graded schools from
$500 to $S25. In ST. Louis the salaries
are practically the same as in Chicago.
San Francisco pays from $500 to 1880
in its high schools. $3.50 to s747 in the
grades. In Philadelphia the average
salary paid to men in all the schools is
$1,4sz-70; to women $569.70.
Figures for entire states reveal
mucn lower level of wages. New York,
because of its cities. shows a higher
average than any other state, the
average salary for the entire state be-
ing s604-7s. In Minnesota the average
for men in the graded schools is $51S;
in the district schools. $780, women,
1881 in the grades and S279.72 in the
district schools. The highest average
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-02

If you happened into a small town
in south ern Kansas you might see a
white haired man. with his hair just
a little curly, nicely dressed, neat and
clean, with his head up, shoulders
back and chest thrown out stepping
briskly down street, looking satisfied
ly cheerful and speaking to everyone
he met
1t was a year ago that this same
man was Slovenly and i'll kept. His
hair was matted, his shoulders stoop-
ed and he spoke to no one when he
passed but shuff1ed along and the
world held nothing for him. He didn't
begin to live and to enjoy life until
after his son died.
It might seem strange, such a state
ment, at first, but it is true. The
father neglected his business and i'm
bibed of the flowing bowl too often.
looked after his fathers business and
the more the father dissipated until
he was a Sot-
Young Jim. that's what the towns
people called the boy in distinguishing
him from Old Jim, was bright and
smart and clean and he worked with
a will He finally took charge of his
fathers business altogether and he
made friends and customers and built
up the business even past the stage
of prosperity it enjoyed during the
best days of Old Jim's regime.
Young Jim tried the best he could,
and so did his mother. to reform Old
Jim but the mother, poor soul. gave
it up and one day she left both Jims
never to return. And even the flu
neral and the mourners had no effect
upon Old Jim but it was a blow. a
heavy blow, to Young Jim.
After that the people thought more
of the boy than ever and less than
ever of the father.
And so things went on for a fewyears,
only Old Jim grew worse and Young
Jim grew better.
Young Jim belonged to a lodge and
was an active worker. He was popular,
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| Desc young folks won TEX no advise;
Daih got SIGH hiflutin' wais,
N won TEX heed N wa'nin' tall
At wat dis oil black nanny saihs.
Now, Roxy Ann wus suddin' TUX
Wild pains all th'oo huh haid n yeah;
| toll huh Whut a ris1n WIS,
N dat she needn heV' no feah-
o., mammy'd git. huh hakseed out
| M put a poultic' on benin
Huh yeah, m den on top, a slice
o. nice fat pok o. bacon rim;
NJ wen huh yeah'd stat to run,
l d swab hit out wild unjin juice
But, low me, chile! hit want no use.
Miss Roxy Ann mus hev huh waih.
De wife folks doctah come out quick;
He poked a, long file in huh yeah.
N sa1hed she wus jes' powful sick,
De ambulance hit come on mex!
Pc Pc, Roxy. look Jes, lax a gos:,
But in she clum n sot, o co'se,
''Yo' maxi my wu'ds" toll 'em all,
Don nevah trus' no doctah man!
Dey'H spiramint! Els shos yo' bon
You've looked yo' last on Roxy Ann
Dey saih dey stretched huh out full
length,
De rattle gu'gled in huh th'oat
N Roxy tuned es wife es def!
De regular butchah kim dey saih-
Us glad de po' chile wus purfessed
M paih'ed to walk de shinin' waih-)
M den dey TUX sha'p inplimints
M gin to chislin' him huh yeah!
Dey ca'ved waih down hinto huh haid,
NJ whitfield on huh brain heah!
Dey would'n let no one gen in
Dat hospital to save yo' soul;
(OT Rowan howled m Wined all daih,
De win moaned down de chimbly hole.)
Well, Roxy Ann come home a copse!
Huh, uhi Young folks won nevah mini
or nanny cud a GU he'd huh yeah
Wild unjin juice n bacon-rin.
Sara Josephine Albright.
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TOPEKA AND LEAVENwoRTH.

Certain parsons OF the nnanclal
systems of Topeka and Leavenworth
made in the State Journal a few days
ago have stirred up a good deal of
comment Some have interpreted
them to mean that it is better for a
city to license the joints. Some have
taken just the opposite view. Some
have thought that all the city officers
in Topeka should be turned out, and
new lot hired who will spend less
money.
Everybody has a right to deduce his
own conclusions. The figures are
taken from the official records and
are reliable.
One thing is certain. Topeka is the
kind of a town which would not put
up with some of the things which are
tolerated in Leavenworth. Leaven-
worth is in many particulars too dead
/ to skin. 1t has the reputation of hav-
| ing the dirtiest streets of any town
in the state. 1t has more fights,
brawls and murders than any place
this side of Missouri. 1t is said to be
the least desirable town in the state as
place of residence, and not very
much better from a business stand
point. 1t has a very limited amount
of pavement, and it's sidewalks are not
much superior to those of Lawrence
and that is saying a good deal.
About the only thing which Leav-
enworth has which seems to be right
up on a par with Topeka is a nice Jail
and a first-class police force. 1t has
as many policemen as Topeka has,
and it keeps them all busy. No one
will deny that Leavenworth needs
twice as many policemen in proper
tiO0 its size a does TODeKa.
On the other hand. this great and
glorious American public school sys-
tenn seems to be little bit neglected
by Leavenworth. Indications are that
a few more public schools would not
hurt the young people of Leaven-
worth. Topeka may be subject to
criticism for putting marble Railways,
electric ventilators and thousand
dollar smokestacks on its public
schools; it may be trying to run
champagne school system on a beer
income, but it must be admitted that
an extravagant public school system is
the least Objectionable form of public
extravaganza there is.
There would not be a great clamor
of protest go up from Topeka if the
city council should cut down on the
expense of running the city govern
heIl, NOuiQ dnSDOQy get out an
injunction if the Topeka board of
education should try to economic a
little now and then for a change. But
there would be a riot, probably, if the
streets of the city We're allowed to go
dirty, or if the public schools were
given a downhill push, or if the fire
department should fade away from
neglect and non-support. That's just
the difference between Topeka and
LeavenwOrth.
Topeka is a more expensive town to
live in, perhaps, but it is worth the
difference. Topeka is clean, alive. |
progressive. Leavenworth is shabby, |
disorderly, and notorious for it's vice. |
1t may cost a little more to live in a |
good town, just as it costs a little more |
to live in a high-class hotel than it |
does in cheap-John shack infested |
with vermin. Nobody wants to see
Topeka go into the Leavenworth class. |
even if it does cost a little more to |
StaY as we are
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The close of the fiscal year demon
strates that the normal expenditures of
the government are nearly ten millions
less than the current revenues. The
receipts for the past IL months have
been $685., 61s,oS0. and the regular ex-
penditures S52s. $50, O70. The $50, 600. 900
paid for the Panama canal and the 81
900 loaned to the St. Louis EXPOSE
ton were extraordinary disbursements,
and to these the treasury deficit is
charged
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AT THE WORLDS FAIR.

Subscribers to the State Journal
visiting the Worlds Fair may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address In St. Louis at the rate
of thirty cents a month. The last
edition of the State journal reaches
St Louis the following morning. The
paper can be sent care of the Kansas
building, IL desired.
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salary paid to male teachers in Penn
sylvania is $719.S0 in Delaware county;
that county also pays the highest aver
age to women. $416sS; Pike county pays
the lowest to its women. an average OF
only $221.67. Fulton county crowds this
average hard. paying it's male teachers
only S226 IL
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President Francis, of the Worlds fair
says the management mas not neglect
ed publicity. but has devoted a great
deal of money, labor and care to the
work: but he adds. all of their efforts
are futile without the hearty co-opera-
ton of the press. President Francis
recognizes a truth that applies to every
other line of business as well as TO
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