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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

KELLY AND HIS VAULT.

State Treasurer Kelly gives as his
excuse for depositing more than half
million dollars of the state funds in a
single bank=where incidentally it
could be borrowed by Kelly's chief
hacker and bondsman-thatt the lock
on his vault was not safe.
Still, it is quite apparent that the
lock on the vault was far safer than
Kelly himself. If Kelly had put the
money in the vault. as he is required
to do by law, the state today would
not have been out a half million dol
lars and more.
OF course that plan would have
kept Mr.. Devlin out of the use of the
states money, and incidentally Mr..
Kelly would have received no rake-off
on state funds, which he is supposed
to have received.
Kelly's excuse about his vault lock
is exceedingly fiimsy Inside that vault
is a large safe such as banks have to
keep their funds in, which alone is
great protection. Then there is the
vault door, the one that Kelly claims
is out of order. Outside of this is a
steel cage which must be unlocked or
broken into before access can be
gained to the outer door of the vault.
This cage would not be much pro-
lection in ITSELF but the state pays
5000 a year for a guard who stays in
the main room of the treasury at
night to guard the states treasure
This guard is appointed by State
Treasurer Kelly. The state also keeps
the treasury brilliantly lighted with
electric lights all the time.
The main room of the treasury is
provided with heavy doors and the
windows are barred. Outside of this,
in the state house corridors, are two
night watchmen, appointed by the ex-
ecutive council. in whose selection the
state treasurer has a voice.
This is the protection the state
would have had for it's money, even
if the one lock on the outer door of
the vault is faulty, as Kelly claims.
Kelly is provided with a contingent
fund to pay for incidentals that come
up around his office. The executive
council also has a contingent fund of
$500 a year to pay for incidental re-
pairs around the state house. Just
what excuse Kelly has for not having
the lock fixed, if it really was not safe,
is not apparent.
Perhaps this is zone of those things
that you cannot explain as Kelly
once wrote to the county treasurer of
Bourbon county.
Incidentally it has developed that
Kelly has kept only a very small
amount of money in the treasury. The
state has been paying a guard SIS
month for guarding it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
The Clash of East and west.

That struggle between the remain
ing nations of the far east and Europe.
long delayed yet always certain, has
come at last. In it Russia stands for
the typical agrressor and marauder of
Europe, While Japan is the self-consti-
tuted champion and defender of the in
atienable and self-evident rights of
the governments upon the Asiatic coasts
or the Pacific. To state the case in 9TH
er words, Japan is defending the indie
pendence and territorial integrity of her
nelgnpor as necessary to the ultimate
protection of her own. The real ques-
tlon at issue Is as broad as can be sta
TED. 1t involves the life of those ma
lions OF The far east, and all of the mi
nor issues, some of which are suggest
ed herein, which combine to form genu-
Inc, untrammeled national existence.
ana they are being fought to a finish,
to changeless decision. Should Russia
win, Eastern Asia will, in no long
stretch of time, lose all form and sem
blance of Independent, self-governing
life, will be dealt with as Africa and
Southern Asia have been. The cormor-
wrangle, perhaps fight, over the plum
der. and China, Japan, and Corea, dis
membered, will sink into nameless col
Onies.
But Russia cannot win so long as
Japan continues to exist. In that clus-
ter of islands is to be seen, what has
never before been recorded in history,
nearly SO millions of people, SO perfectly
united as to be fused by the fires of
patriotism into single Individual, de-
termined to die or to live as free ma
ton, and fighting as only such a mass
of humanity, SO inspired, can fight for
such an end. They cannot be beaten,
and no lover of humanity and freedom
ought to desire it. Fortunately the end
seems near, and all indication point to
Japanese success. Even those who were
confident, either DESTROYS or otherwise,
of the humiliation and probable exter-
mination of Japan, concede the question,
and busy themselves with conjectures
of the probable terms of peace which
Russia may be able to secure.-Chester
Holcombe in the July Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
A UNIVERSAL LOVE SONG,

- IN LLLAkS<211 LIZ v II s1%I4N
Within a rose-cIad cottage
Beside a southern sea.
A mother sat assigning
And her song came to me
Upon the scented south wind
The seagull SCARED above,
While to her fair haired baby
She sang this song of love:
love you when you're laughing,
love you when you weep;
love you when you're waking
And 1 love you when you sleep.
You don't know how 1 love you,
How you do adore,
And every day, you dove, you,
1 love you more and more.
Within a wind-bIown wigwam
BY Lake Temagami,
A mother sat a-singing
Unto her babe one day
The wild deer bounded by her.
The wild hawk scared above.
While to her brown-skinned baby
She sang this song of love:
ct love you when you're laughing,
/ love you when you weep,
love you when you're waking,
And love you when you sleep.
You don't know how love you,
How you I do adore.
And every day, you dove, you,
/ love you more and more"
CIV Warrnau
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
KANSAS COMMENT
FROM JOE wRIGHr.

The Topeka and Kansas City dailies
nave concluded to LET one William A.
heeder nave another Republican nom
NATION lI1s for congress In this district
Ihey have served notice on him, how
ever, that in 1908 he will have to look
probably hold his Job until the people
learn enough about politics to cut loose
from the Democratic party of Grover
ana his supporter, one Bryan of Ne
praska, and nominate a new man with
the record of the Democratic party for
the past IA years there is practically no
opposition TO the Republican party just
at this writing.-Smith Center Messen-
ger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
LITTLE roafNrY,s PoLIrENEss.

Little Tommy was polite
And always knew his place;
He never yelled or whistled while
His pa was saying grace.
He said Excuse me" when he pushed
His sister down the stairs.
And begged his mothers pardon when
He added to her cares.
When visitors got ready to
Depart he always rose;
He never used his napkin when
He wished to wipe his nose.
And If he dumped the baby from
The hammock or upset
Its carriage he would hasten to
Express sincere regret.
He bought a cannon cracker which
Was big and red and round,
And blew his brother up and tore
deep hole in the ground
He saw the fragments float away
And sadly sighed and then
Politely called: EXCUSE me, please
1t won't occur again"
Chicago Record Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Because a lock on a vault was out of
order, State Treasurer Kelly deposited
more than half million dollars of the
states funds in a single bank, at least
this is the excuse he gives. Incidentally
this bank was where his chief bonds
man could borrow all the deposits-and
the bank broke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
A Delicate Job.

George c. Boldt, the noted hotel man,
said in an address to an audience of
hotel clerks:
There is no calling in the world that
requires such delicacy, such diplomacy
as yours. The perfect hotel clerk, snil
ing and urbane behind the open regis
ter, with one glance reads the character
of the stranger guest, and in one we'll
constructed, telling sentence points out,
on his hotels behalf, just those advan-
tages which will appeal best to the
strangers heart.
But, of course said Mr.. Boldt, snnil-
ing, there are no perfect hotel clerks.
We can only try, in our imperfect hu
man way, to read our guests, and some
times, naturally, we make mistakes, like
Blank.
BLANK was the excellent clerk of an
excellent hotel. There entered one day.
an elderly farmer. The man wore ex
pensive cloths, but Blank knew him
for a farmer at a glance. What are
a farmers tastes? What appeals most
to a farmer?' he asked himself hurried
ly And then he said:
We can give you all the home COM
forts here, sir
1.-THE farmer laid down the pen with
which he had been entering his name,
and said in disappointed voice:
"'I want more'n that when come to
a York hotel, young man. I kin git the
home comforts at home Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

united action for its determination. but
still it fourished. Then somebody dis
covered that it made first class feed
for cattle. The farmers began to let
it grow undisturbed. Since then it has
not only ceased to spread, but it is al
most impossible to find it in the state
at all in considerable quantities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
ERON OTHER PENS
WHAT IS NEEDED.

The Glasgow exponent of municipal
ownership of street railroads says that
it is necessary to have honest men to
operate the system. This seems to
have thrown some gloom on the en-
thusiasm in Chicago
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Americans are apt to think that Ad-
rniraI Togo's salary is small because it
IS only $1,000 year. The average Japa-
nese laborer. however. gets only about
three cents a day. Comparatively, Ad-
niraI Togo receives q high salary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

The comptroller of the currency
does not believe that the First Nation
al bank made loans to Mr.. Devlin or
any Of his companies in excess of 10
per cent of the banks capital, but that
the excess occurred because Mr.. Dew
lin was security for other people,
which is not absolutely prohibited by
law, but is considered unwise. If this
IS true, Mr.. Devlin must have gone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Some fear is expressed that if Secre-
tary Taft steps on some of the smaller
Of the Philippine islands with his $50
pounds avoirdupois while he is over
there, they may sink with him and the
United States will lose lot of terri
forv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

IErom the chicago NeWS.J
Lazy men are always harping on the
luck Of fools.
The patch is apt to come off in a
patched-up quarrel.
Before taking certain steps consult a
dancing master
A small boys idea of the board of
health is six meals daily.
Plenty used to mean enough before
trusts got to hogging things
A man with dreamy eyes usually has
that kind of bank balance.
Love in cottage is almost as vision
ary as wealth in an air castle.
All young men fall in love. but most
of them manage to climb out again.
1t isn't the amount of religion a
church member has that counts SO much
as the amount he uses in his daily bus
mess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

John F. Wallace evidently believes
he was as justifable in using a $685.
600 government job as a stepping stone
to one paying $4,000, as Paul Morton
was in using an $4,000 cabinet job in
making the same sort of a step. Per-
haps the difference is that Wallace
didn't throw up a $4,000 job in the
drst place to enter the government
rorxztca
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

end to that sort of talk. Both were
singled out and prosecuted solely be-
cause they had violated the law and
brought disgrace upon the high offices
they ncc1lnied
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
ARE VALUABLE NOW.

BibliophiIes all over the country are
when they let a first edition of John
Hays pike County Ballads go by
for only sixty cents. The vagaries of
the book auction room are beyond all
understandings Bedford Stand
ard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

It is pretty difficult to see why a
bank should be permitted to loan
practically all of its deposits any way
let alone loaning them all to one man.
including more than a half million
dollars of illegal deposits or a trust
f,,ud -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
THE PI1ILMAN COMPANY.

In a test case the state board of rail-
road commissioners has decided that
the Pullman Palace Car company is not
a common carrier and hence the board
can exercise no control over it. 1t would
seem that some law ought to apply and
regulate the actions and rates of this
company, but if there be none, then
there is not the ightest doubt about
one duty of the net session of the leg
Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Boss Durham was finally compelled to
resign as superintendent of insurance of
Pennsylvania. When will T. T. Kelly
do as much for the.people of Kansas as
state treasurer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
A DRAINING CARD.

Summer resorts should get in early
bids for the peace conference 1t will
be a great drawing card-much better
than a sea serpent or fresh country
vegetables" New York Commercial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

The Washington Post can take off its
hat to itself. As long ago as the Fourth
of July it nominated Eliilu Root for sec
rotary of state, and two days later the
president seconded the nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Theologians have always been puz-
zled as to the birthplace of Gains wife,
but it is now evident that she was
Philadeiphian. At least the account
SAYS she came from the Land of Nod.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

No sooner is a use found for a pest
than it ceases to be ''pestful." A few
years ago the farmers of northwestern
Kansas were frightened over the in
roads of the Russian thistle. They
were afraid it would overrun their
farms, A law was passed providing for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Among other things the Chicago pack
ers are becoming expert in packing their
grips for Canada or Europe whenever
grand jury meets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
HOME NEWS WHILE away.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
che paper mailed regularly each day
60 any address at the rate of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While ont OF town
She State Journal Will be to you like
. daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
WHEN TAFT GOES UP.

Some other metaphor will have to
be found. It would be highly disre-
taking to hold down the United States
supreme court lid.-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
A RooTER FOR ROOT.

Leslies Weekly declares that Elihu
Root is a presidential possibility for
1908, as the only representative of the
east, as against Fairbanks, Taft, Shaw
and a number of other western posi-
bilities. Elihu Root while in the cabi-
net, was considered a presidential pos
sibflity and ranked second only to
President Mckinley in the shaping of
the national policy at the beginning of
The public have not lost sight of him
during his retirement, and, we believe,
would respond to his nomination in
hearty manner.-Haverhill, Mass, Ga
zette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

"A consular report is entitled, what
to Send to Siberia?" That is a matter
concerning which the car hasi1o doubts.
All he wants is just to catch 'em.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

The Russian peace ENJOYS are doubt
less glad that the peace conference was
not called to meet at Odessa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
STILL At IT.

Our late minister to Venezuela,
Herbert w. Bowen, continues to make
grave charges against his predecessor,
Francis B. Loomis, now first assistant
secretary of state. He thinks there is
not sufficient whitewash in Washing
ton to clear the secretary.-Los
Angeles Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

It may be hard to find an unprejudic-
ed jury to try the beef trust magnates.
Nearly everybody has been held up by
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

If it is true that Germany and France
have agreed to settle the Morocco trou-
bic peaceably. it probably means a case
OF half and half.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

No Mercy.-When the fool killer came
to the man who rocks the boat he was
determined to mete out severe punish
ment.
Are you going to kill him?" asked the
friend
mo. replied the fool killer, that
would be too lenient. am going to make
him marry a modern club woman, so he
will be doomed to rock the baby when she
goes out. Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

IT'S getting to be pretty hard mat.
ter to find anybody who voted for Ton
Kelly last fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
HOW ABOUT BLACK DIAM
VOICE CIJLTURF

Out in Kansas the other day a sing
ing teacher was arrested and fined So
for disturbing the peace. They haven't
learned to call it voice culture out
Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Perhaps it would be easier for Nor
way to get a king if Norway had al
sight-hour law for public officials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
NO DANGER THERE.

While Vic Murdoch is attempting to
dodge that Carnegie hero medal for say
ing the lives of two women in California
he can console himself with the assur-
ance he is in no danger of being caught
and tied and decorated with the medal
which the Emperor of Germany is Of
fering to any one who becomes the
mother of three pair of twins.-Parsons
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

" this degree business keeps up tn
notables will be those who have no de
Krees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
HEARD IT BEFORE.

The name of Governor Hoch's new
private secretary is SmfthLjust plain
John Smith. That ought not to be diff
cult to remember and it seems that we
have heard it before.-Concordia Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
A Bath House.

sNThe late Gen. Lew Wallace" said
a novelist, "often used to claim that, in
the art of book-making, to get a work
published well was quite as difficult as
to write it we'll
'sHe claimed that good writers were
poor in the worlds goods because they
neglected the publishing side of their
vocation. Such neglect was foolish on
their part 1t indicated bad judgment.
Tt reminded him, Gen. Wallace told
me one day, of the bath house keeper
of Ocean View.
sThis bath house keeper knew the
working side of his business beauti-
fully. No one, with a glance, could
Judge a mans or woman's size, and
hand out a perfectly fitting bathing
suit. as we'll as he. No one kept his
bath house cleaner, supplied better
towels. or furnished such elaborate
shower baths. So far, so good. But,
like the average novelist. this man fell
short on certain other things, and thus
the effect of all his honest work mis-
carried.
'sHe was continually making the
most foolish and inexplicable breaks,
continually losing patronage.
For instance, young woman
wanted bath house one morning, and
he told her she would have to wait
awhile, as all the houses were oc-
cupied. Then he came from his little
Office. peeped through knothoIe in a
nearby bath house. and said:
1T will only be a moment, though,
miss. This lady in here is almost
dressed Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Some of them would more properly be
called courts of injustice sometimes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

BY the way. where is Kelly's ''resig.
patton in escrow?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
KANSAS CAPITAL.

Since Kansas became a part of the
United States she has had six capitals
-Pawnee. Shawnee Mission, Lecompton,
Lawrence, Leavenworth and Topeka
Leavenworth was the capital only for
a few days while one governor made
his headquarters there. Topeka has
twice been the capital city.-El Dorado
Republican. eH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

'secretary Root sounds extremely
natural.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
SAVE us FROM GRAFT.

God save the nation from graft 1t
semes to be the besetting sin of the
age, and, like some insidious disease, is
injecting men in all stations of life and
in all departments of trade and gov
Tim es-Dispatch.
HOW ABOUT BLACK DIAMONDS?
The diamond trust has made an adj
vance of rs per cent on the price of
diamonds, and the downtrodden mil
lionaires will suffer severely the COM
ing fall and winter-LouiSville Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
The Nation Guards Him.

An Englishman, at lunch in a New
York club, told a story that should be
inspiriting to Americans, especially to
such Americans as think their country
is going to the dogs.
81 was in Washington" he said. "I
was walking down a very level, straight.
hot street Suddenly, 1 heard a number
of scattered hurrahs, and from every di-
rection men and boys, laughing and cry
ing out excitedly, hurried toward me.
q What the matter?. said to a well
dressed man of middle age.
He indicated an approaching figure
a graceful sturdy figure. that drew near
with the swinging stride of an athlete
in trim.
our president he said President
Roosevelt
7 was amazed to see the head of your
great country unescorted, and 1 ex-
claimed:
But where is his guard?
my informant touched himself on the
breast, and pointed from one to anoth-
er of the cheering crowd.
Here he said, and there, and
there Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

You people in America have no an
cestors.''
"Oh, yes, we have,'' answered the man
whose daughter is engaged to a duke;
the best that money can buy."-Wash-
ington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
A NEW ONE.

Out in western Kansas there is a
Dutch hotel keeper. He runs a good
hotel but he doesn't like to have any
one kicking on things. A certain travel
ing man stayed there about a week and
found fault with everything so that
when he left the Dutch hotelkeeper
was exhausted. do you know this
Jack -" he said to another travel
ing man. Vel, If he never comes back
again, it will be blenty soon enough
Clay Center Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Gladys-Yes, Dick is going to marry the
one with auburn hair. He says he's got
the pick of the family.
ESmeralda-Well, when he becomes bet
ter acquainted with her disposition he'll
find he's got the hammer and tongs of the
family, MISUNDERSTANDING Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Miss Giggles-Mr Cooley took me to
see the first performance of your play,
and / enjoyed it so much
De Riter-Delighted to hear you say so.
Miss Giggles-Yes, we had a two-pourd
box of fine bonbons between us.-Phila-
delphia. Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

Quizzy-Wonder why it is that every
body smiles when the minister announces
that collection will now be taken?
Wyse-It is impossible to say unless
thinks he is putting in dime instead of
the penny which he hides SO carefully be-
tween his thumb and f1nger.-Boston
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