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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
THE PLANT OF GOMEZ.

1t is quite apparent from the inter-
view which Jose Miguel Gomez turned
loose in New York upon his arrival
from Cuba, where he had been the
Liberal candidate for president of the
Cuban republic, that Mr.. Gomez thinks
his beloved country is going to the
dogs. He cannot be blamed for hold
ing such a view just now. It is not at
all uncommon for things to look nigh
ty blue for ones beloved country just
after one has been defeated for the
job of running the country.
Mr. Gomez's little talk sounds IA
miliar. Defeated candidates in Ameri-
ca have been talking that way for
years. There is just one thing lack
ing, however, in the interview of the
late Cuban candidate: He should have
prefaced his remarks by saying, II
want you to understand that there are
no sore spots on me" With that in it
the interview would sound as natural
as life.
It is not at all impossible that there
is more or less of truth in Gomez's
statements. Boiled down, his charges
are that President Palma is something
of a tyrant. All Spanish-Americans
are more or less tyrannical 1t is in the
blood. And it is necessary for the good
of the people Mexico would not to-
day be as great a republic as it IS had
not President Diaz been something of
a tyrant To be sure Diaz has been
an exceptionally good tyrant. He has
had the interests of his country at
heart, but his rule has been absolute.
Most of the people of Mexico do not
know anything about an election un-
til it is all over and the result is an
nounced. For more than twenty years
Diaz has ruled Mexico, and he is now
looking for man who shall succeed
him.
In the same way President Palma
has made good" in Cuba, according to
the best information that has come to
this country. He has very likely been
something of a tyrant, but Cuba has
advanced wonderfully durfn. his ad-
ministration. It is doubtful if Gomez
would have done better-or as well.
Gomez, controlled by the hot blood
of the Spaniard would doubtless start
a revolution against Palma did he not
know that the United States, under the
Platt amendment, would step in and
stop any such proceeding. That is why
the outs" in Cuba do not approve the
Platt amendment. But on the other
hand, If tyranny becomes oppressive.
the United States will doubtless see
that it is stopped. so that the Plat
amendment is likely to work both
Ways
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
NIB. sTURRs, TAX

There can be no doubt now that
Mr. w. r. Stubs is a candidate for
United states senator. Mr.. Stubs did
not positively say so in his interview
in the State Journal. but he came
nearer doing so than he came a year
ago to saying that he would be a can
didate for speaker of the house.
In fact, Mr.. Stubs. statement con-
corning his senatorial candidacy. sounds
remarkably ike his statements last
year about his candidacy for the
speakership. He VIII be a candidate
provided he can be elected without a
general scramble. Last year he did
not even admit that much concerning
the sDeakershiD.
1t is, of course. evident that there
is bound to be a general scramble
for the senatorshfn. There will be a
lot of starters in the race. and several
Of them win be very determined and
have considerable backing.
Mr.. Stubs has the correct idea with
reference to the nomination of the
Republican candidate for United States
senator. If done by the same conven-
ton that dominates q state ticket it
would doubtless result in numerous
trades. to the detriment of the state
ticket, and it would give the politicians
a chance to name a senator that might
not to the peoples choice. And the
only recourse the people would have
to defeat such a candidate would be to
defeat the legislative candidates
pledged to him.
If, on the other hand, the senatorial
candidate could be named by a conven-
ton selected on the senatorial issue
alone and complicated with no other
offices, held between the election and
the meeting of the legislature, it would
come as near getting at the real will
of the people as is possible without a
change in the federal constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
HUMOR OF THE DIP

How asked the first political pirate,
will be able to get aboard the. ship
of state2 The reform element has gained
Wait" said the wise old henehman.
until the next convention. Then Wei
slip little plank into the platform thath
''Ahl'' commented the other pirate. sort
of political gang-planl. ehY'-Judge-
CIerk-Now this, ma'am is the most pop
ular book of the day. Everybody is read
Mrs. Nuritch-I don't want nothin' that
everybody reads. Show me somethin'
more exclusive.-Philadelphi Ledger
Il need more money said the hying-
''But 1 Thought the machine was finish
ed replied the capitalist.
1T is, but I've got to hire a man to fly
it. Do you think I want to get killed?-
Cleveland Plain Dealer
''Subbubs looks pretty bad. doesn't he2'
Yes, he says those new women made
New women? Why should female SUI
fragists affect him that"
You misunderstood me. mean the
new cooks that are coming and going at
his house Philadelphia Public Ledger.
You say -scribbler got $4,000 for just
one joke? How was that?"
He told Miss Gottapile he loved her for
herself alone-"-Judge.
Teacher-A coal dealer has ten tons of
coal which he sells at five dollars a ton
How much does he get for it?
Scholar-About sixty-five dollars.
Teacher-Thats wrong
Scholar-Yes m; but all coal dealers 90
it.-Judge.
1T is a fact, my friend" said the man
who was fond of moralizing, that we can
really accomplish nothing until the crook
ed has been made straight"
'.Of course. when you make that state
ment,' interrupted the Dibulous person
you except eorkscrews. ''-Philadelphia
Press.
The venerable college president had been
invited to address the Bachelor Girls club,
numbering a hundred or more. I see
now" he said, looking around at the Iair
young faces and sparkling eyes before
him. that Mr. Rockefeller is right when
he says the country is still full of oppor-
tunities for our young men. chicago
Tribune.
DO YOU think that grating can be
certainly. answered Senator sorgh-
UNI You can stop it If you choose. The
grea test trouble is in getting an advan-
tagoous start. Washington Star.
The inexperienced One OK Atlantic lin
er, second day out)-By Georgel But the
sea certainly gives fellow a great APP
The Experienced One-Not gives, my boy
merely lends.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05

THE LAND OF PRETTY SOON"
know Of land where the streets are
paved
With the things we meant to achieve.
It is walled with the money we meant e
And the pleasures for which we grieve.
The kind words spoken. the promises bro
ken,
And many a coveted boon
Are slowed away there in that land some
where
The land of Pretty Soon"
/ There are uncut jewels of possible fame
Lying about IN the dust,
And many a noble and lofty aim
Covered with mold and rust.
And, oh. this place. while It seems SO near,
is farther away than the moon,
Though our purpose is fair, yet we never
get there
The land Of Pretty Soon
1t is farther at noon than it is at dawn,
Farther at night than at noon
On, let US beware of that land down
there
The land Of Pretty Soon
The Kings own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
Pointed I.ARAGRAPHs.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
True love says nothing and swaps
kisses
swened head indicates a con
tracted heart.
It is easier for most people to DE
poor than honest.
A knot viii not come united il it
would rather knot than not.
Give a woman a chance to show off
and she will make good.
Some men make friends and some
others make them tired.
Pride holds a few people UP and
throws a good many down.
No, Alonzo, a man of grit doesn't
necessarily have sandy complexion.
Speaking of unnatural mothers,
what's the matter with the incubator?
Many a woman leads a dogs life
by holding the other end of the string.
A man who insists on having every
thing his own way will have trouble
thrust upon him.
Enjoy life today. The joys of yes
terday are past and those due tomor-
row may fail to arrive
When a man presents a woman with
an enga cement ring it is equivalent to
a declaration of war.
It takes the state legislature to
change a mans name. but any justice
of the peace can change woman's-
A man may as we'll tell the truth
when he comes home at , a. m, for
his wife won't believe him anyway.
II doesn't take the average man
long to tell all he really knows, but he
never gets through telling what he
thinks he knows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Life isn't worth living, unless you
make it so.
There's many a slip in a literary
career-n4any rejection slip.
You don't have to depend on the ele-
vator man to run you down.
In a walking match the fellow who
comes out ahead also comes out a-foot.
The theatrical manager, as well as
the racing man, wants run for his
money.
The woman may be the better half,
but it's generally the man who does the
betting.
The banana skin can give the worm
cards and spades at turning when it is
trodden upon.
The only time some people get busy
is when they are meddling with other
peoples business.
Some people are bound to attract at
tentiOn, even if they have to wear
squeaby shoes to do it.
The restaurant man now realizes that
a sparrow in the hand is worth two
reed birds in the bush.
The lazy man might take few les
sons from the gas meter. It works over
time without complaining.
Nellie actually kissed my hand"
Belle-"What did you do2" Melt
told him it was entirely out Of place. -
Wigg-'I wonder if socity woman
really finds a husband useful Wagg-
'Oh. yes, when she wants to make the
other men Jealous"
When the average girl practices the
scales she might save the 9iano and
substitute a weighing machine once in
a while.
BIobbs- 'Higwag gets ali his mali
at the club, doesn't he2f Slobbs-
Yes: his wife even sends him her at
home cards tn ere.
Mrs. Buggins Cooking up from her
paper) THE original bearded lady is
dead" Mr.. Buggins- Graciousl He
must have been a pretty old man."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
As TO s.nAAIAGEs .,

Some of the railroad officials testified
in the cattle rate cases in Chicago a
few days ago that they paid very little
damages on dressed beef shipments
except on what was damaged in wreck
ed cars. Now, however, officers. of the
Schwarzschild & -Sulzberger Packing
company go on the witness stand, and
show their books which prove that the
railroads have been paying them
damages to the amount of s25O on
every car of dressed beef and one dol
lar on every car of cattle shipped, no
matter whether any damages occurred
or not
These damages were really rebates
and nothing more. The railroad Off
Gals We're. of course, right in saying
that they paid no damages except in
case of wrecks. The damages" We're
not damages. But if they had been
asked about rebates they would have
had to lie about it or else confess.
Possibly they would have lodged by
concluding that damages" were really
damages after all.
There continue to be tricks in all
trades apparently, and we are just
finding out some Of those OF the beef
trust and railroad trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Go

LFrom the Atchison Globe.
Some people think anything is a
Sroast" that isn't a compliment.
Here's a test: If you can't tie your
own shoe strings you are Too Fat
When a boy is behaving himself.
what a contempt he has for a boy VIII o
is mott
It is said there is an exception to
every rule, but don't hope you will be
one to the rule of old age.
When a man is going on a little trip,
how much trouble he can make around
a railroad ticket office!
A bigamist is never free from worry
until he finds himself behind the bars.
A rolling stone gathers no moss-but
mossbacks are not attractive anyway.
The farmer never writes when he can go
you think
I've been running all my life,' said
an AtchiSOn man today, land have Just
discovered that no one was chasing
me-"
An Atchison woman has three
daughters named Opal. Ruby and Gar
net, and they are known as the Pre-
cious Stones
I've done such mean thing" said
an AtchIson man today. that I'm even
ashamed to mention it long enough to
say that I'm ashamed
There isn't anything a man can do
that gives him the feeling of self-satis-
IactlOn woman enterta1nS when she
has gotten the baby to sleep.
When some girls come home from
a visit it is in order that they may get
new clothes ready for going again.
Father shouldn't get the idea into his
head that Daughter comes home to see
him.
There are two "refreshment" jokes
One is found in the society columns of
| the neWspa pers where a square of cake
and a spoonful of soft ice cream are
called elaborate refreshments, and
the other is when the average lodge
serves a banquet"
Here is a story an Atchison woman
tells on herself. She says when she
was a young girl her parents who
we're poor but ambitious. sent her
away to boarding school, and wishing
her to be able to hold a fine position
in the world. they had her take extras
Music. French and German. One day
when the girl was hammering on her
music lesson, which she had not prac-
ticed at all, her music teacher said
MY dear. is your father a rich man2''
mo" said the girl, "he is very poor.
Then said the music teacher, you
| really ought to give up taking music
/ lessons and the girls musical educa-
ton ended right there The woman
says her French and German lessons
ended in the same way One day her
teacher said: II never heard anyone
pronounce foreign words as badly as
you do. You could study forever, and
never be able to talk English, = and the
/ girl brought her studies of foreign lam
! guages to a close at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
AYHA WKER JOTS

Gypsum Advocate: The junior edi-
tor of this moral guide got up real
early last Saturday morning to play
tennis with some young ladies' and
while playing, severely sprained his
ankle. Since then he has been navf-
eating with the aid of a crutch. He
was unused to early rising and we
think it will not occur again.
A Muscotah mule was struck by
lightning recently and some of the
but its kicking apparatus is still work
ing. It is not recorded what hap
pened to the lightning.
Mcpherson is taking very little in
terest in the joint-clOsing movement
that IS sweeping over the state. The
Republican says there is not a joint in
Mcpherson and has not been for
years.
Some philosophy from Deacon Pal
mer of the Jewell Republican: There
is one beverage everybody should
drink moderately of every day. That
Is the red wine of hope. A
man has more courtesy than he really
needs when he stops and waits to let
drunken man talk to him. 1t
IS no compliment to an ornery man
that he can marry a good woman.
Good women have no sense when it
comes to getting married.
The last legislature made it the duty
of every township treasurer to publish.
IN some paper In general circulation in
the county, a detailed statement of the
receipts. expenses and Indebtedness OF
the several townships for the last pre-
ceding year, ending with the annual
settlement made in October.
Jewell Republican: A government
surveyor doing some work in Kansas.
has trouble making farmers take pay
for his meals and lodgings. The gov
eminent requires him to show a re-
ceipt for all the money he expends,
and when he explains this to the farm
ers and asks them to sign, they hand
him back his money, with the rlx
that he may be all right but they are
not signing papers for strangers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
An Adrertlsing Dodge.

Claiming Pollock. now the press
representative of Shubert Brothers, as
we'll as the author of 1.-THE Pit " 1.-THE
Little Grey Lady I'm the Bishops
Carriage" and several other plays has
probably originated more good stories
for the years he has been in the bust
ness, than any other one man. One
Of his best was done about q year ago.
when Lillian Russell was rehea rising
for her starring tour in Lady
Teazle." He had a chorus girl dis
charged from the company on the
grounds that she was not sufficiently
pretty to be in the chorus, taking care.
Of course, to choose one of undenia be
beauty, and one whose pictures the
newspapers would be glad to print.
Then he had the girl to bring suit to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05

The story of the defeat at Ports
mouth heartrending as it is to loyal
Nippon, is also the story of the pass
ing of the elder statesmen from the
council chamber of our state, and in
this it is a story of comfort. What is
the significance of the destruction, in
Kobe, of the statue of Marquis Ito
Hirobumf2s One wonders that this
Marquis Ito, statesman known much
better abroad than at home, failed to
see, ten years ago, when he won all
the plaudits of the west always re
markable for its ignorance of the east)
and none at home, that he was one of
the men of yesterday, that with us a
new day called for a race of men Of
itself. If the report of the meddling
by elder statesmen with the peace
negotiations at Portsmouth be correct,
he certainly did not see. But, You
will say If Marquis Ito and the rest
of the elder statesmen are figures of
yesterday. how comes it that his ma
jesty the emperor so frequently acts
upon the advice of these statesmen?
Is not your emperor the greatest of
the great in your country? To that
we answer. With all his sacredness
and wisdom, it must be admitted that
his majesty the emperor of Nippon is
still human.=From "Japan's Elder
Statesmen and the Peace" by Adachi
Kinnosuke, in tie American Monthly
Review of Reviews for October
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
Astonished the General.

Major W. ". Burke of Mexico is in
the city for a few days. Many resi-
dents Of the san Francisco of forty
years ago viii remember the major
who made the Typographical and by
biographical survey of Goat island in
1868, when Colonel S. NJ. Mansfield
was chief engineer, with General Alex
ander in charge of the work. The ma
jor had finished the topogra phicaI
work and was on the hydrographicai
survey when the little boat on which
he was working with a crew of five
men was blown to sea. Five days lat
er, hollow-eyed, emaciated and ex-
hausted they worked the little boat
back into port. Major Burke went at
once to headquarters and, salutfne
General Alexander. said: Reported
for duty, sir
DUTY. Why. d-n it, man. YOU are
dead. and the general showed him 3
copy of the Chronicle of the day be-
fore which told of the loss of the boat
and crew and gave the major a highly
complimentary obituary.-San Franz
cisco Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Governor HOch has evidently. con
Guided to show the Wyandotte county
officials that il is the prerogative of q
governor alone to say what law is a
farce.
It's & brave inventor who VIII ride
in his own airshiD.
There is no doubt that grating can
be stoDped-that is, if the CRATER
chooses to do so.
The interest in baseball is waning
just now. but the highban continues
as popular as ever in some circles.
It's a mighty honest coal dealer
whose eyesight is good enough to de-
tect 1s70o from 1000 in the figures on
his scales
OF course it was necessary to run the
electric fans at the meeting of the Mid
winter Exposition association yester-
day afternoon.
If Sam Garrard's petition to the To-
peka council is needed you must eth
er muzzle your bees or herd them out
of Mr.. Garrard's grape patch.
If the publication of the house and
senate journals in fair-sized volumes Is
to be stopped, some Topeka families
viii have to go back to using the fam
lily bible and Websters Unabridged for
small children to sit on in lieu of a
high chair.
One of the sororities in the Kansas
City, Kas., high school is called the
Eta Pi sorority. If it were a frater-
nifty instead, each of its members could
Eta Pi apiece and not half try.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR

tFrom the New York Press
Women can cry at a funeral almost
as much as they do at a wedding.
Maybe a girls fingers get mixed ur
with mans in the dark because She
can't see whether they are or not.
A woman always thinks she is hav.
ing a good time when it is something
her husband doesnt her to do.
While man growls over his hunt
for his winter f1annels he can at least
thank his stars that the family picnic
season is over.
The man who has to pay taxes on
what he owns grumbles more than the
one who doesn't own anything ON
which to pay them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
A New Anecdotc of Whites.

That NJ. Witte has a sense of humor
is again made evident in a story con-
corning him. It appears that, while
arranging to propose a toast at a din
ner given in his honor before leaving
America, it was suggested that he pro-
pose the health of the president, and
his host the health of the car. rs
that customary in this country?" he
asked. "Can one propose the presi-
dent without including the people p
Being assured that such was indeed
the American habit, he said: ct IS
very strange. In our country no one
would dare propose the car without
linking with his majesty the Russian
people. I suppose he added reflect
lively and with the suggestion of a
twinkle in his eyes, 1T is the differ
erencee between a republic and a mon
archy. Harper Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
a TEAIAGAaaT CRApEE- soNG.

A TEMAGA8ET CRADLE SONG.
Hush. my little brown skinned baby of the
VOC
When you grow to manhood maybe you'll
be good.
Hush! the naked bear will find you,
In his naked arms he'll bind you,
And he'll bear you of and blind you in
the wood.
Hush, my little brown skinned baby of
the lakes.
At the. death of day the naked bear
awakes, Z
Now the tired eyes are closing,
And the dusky head is DOING
While the naked bear is nosing in the
brakes.
See the mother bird is going to her nest,
While Gitche lights still glowing in the
west.
Through the trees the stars are peeping
Where the twilight shades are creeping,
And my brown skinned baby's sleeping on
my breast.
-Cy Warman in the New York Sun.