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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
GI.oBE SIGHTS.


LFrom the Atchison Globe.
You can't spend any time hating
people If You want to go forward.
When a man asks for a pat on the
back. you feel like giving him a kick.
This is the season when life is
worth living because Jonathan apples
are ripe.
An Atchison man looks so much
like cat that his friends call him
akittie" behind his back.
When an old man is silly, his women
folks seem to feel worse about it than
when young man in the family is
Say to the average woman that her
clothes are pretty and she will ex-
claim: Goodness / have not a stitch
to my back
1t would be interesting to know if
any who have Gone Before were ever
able to do anything with the Teehni-
cality when before the recording
angel.
Speaking of ingratitude: An Atch-
ison woman supports her husband bv
doing Office work down town and his
favorite joke is the way she sharpens
a pencil.
This is the bluff an Atchison family
has run for several years. The family
came to town and set up housekeeping
with very little furniture. They kept
saying they were not sure of remain
ing and have not unpacked their
household goods except a few little old
things that were unpacked as soon as
the family came to town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
JAYHA WKER .JOES

A Kingman man is advertising for
five geese which strayed from his
home.
The Downs Times tells of a hen up
there that lays three eggs a day and it
half way expects us to believe the
story.
Father Beck. who is usually a
pretty good judge, opines that Alice
Roosevelt needs spanking, but it is
doubtful if he would undertake the
job.
And now the cruel suggestion is be-
ing made that if. as a State Journal
correspondent stated, there are six
joints in Marion, there is work for
Governor Hoch at home also.
The Methodists at Oskaloosa are
putting down a cement walk in front
OF their church and anyone who will
put up the price can have his or her
name moulded in block-to be
walked on.
It's an i'll rain that washes nobody
any good. During rain storm near
kngman the other day the wind blew
fifty bushels of apples from an or
chard and they were washed out into
the highway. The owner invited all
who came along to help themselves.
The New York Mail has discovered
that Kansas poetesss with the poet
Solomon's proverbs into trubaiyat, a la
Omar Khayyam. 1T takes Kansas .
says the Mail. ito butt into a brand
new poetical proposition"
An Atchison young man went to see
Peggy from Paris" in Kansas City
in the chorus happened to kick her
slipper off into the audience where he
caught it. But he forgot all about
Cinderella and hurled it back at her.
A Lawrence negro was complaining
that his wife kept asking him for
money eft iG a
chen quatah. 1t is money, money,
all the time he said. What does she
do with all the money!" asked an in
nocent bystander. Don't know was
yit.''
Osborne Farmer: Crawford Bros
this week started a steam pillow on a
100 acre field. This is something new
for Osborne county. In fact. this is
the first time in the history of the
county, so far as we know, that a
traction engine has been used to draw
the plows in the preparation of land
for wheat Charlie Hook drives the en-
CINE which draws two four gang disc
plows, turning from Is to 20 acres a
day. That is going some, and if every
thing is as satisfactory as the way in
which the steam Dlows work, it is
likely more, of our big wheat farmers
motive power for blowing next year
Pioneer "reminiscences from the
Jewell Republican: Aunt Sallie Thack-
| ston and her son c. H. sold their farm
! in Calvin township this week. The
Thackstons came to Jewell county in
the early seventies and their big dug.
out with a spring of water in one cor
ner, became the rallying place for the
religious life of the community; and
many revival meeting aud devo-
tional service were held within its
walls. Aunt Sally says she greatly en-
1oyed those meetings, but that there
was one incident that took her atten-
| ton from the service. Just before the
close of the meeting one day SONS
slight movement drew her eyes to the
roof, and there on one of the poles
was a big rattlesnake. Aunt SALLY
says she couldn't be real certain
whether that meeting closed with a
benedictionS or NOT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES


Bent Murdoch read that somebody
was stopping at the Sigma Alpha
Epsilon House in Lawrence. and he
Immediately guessed that it was one of
these taverns that are run on the
European PLAN OF course. It's a
Greek restaurant.
Most of the rope clotheslines in To-
peka are missing since the wild west
show inspired the youth of the city
with desire to lasso everything in
sight.
The reports from the Cuban election
read like a story of a Democratic pri-
mary in Kansas City.
It may be hard for you to believe
it. but the last four days have been
fall by the almanac.
What we would like to know is, who
is feeding that $500 heifer calf while
Mr.. Bryan is away from his farm
Now if some enterprising magazine
will get some bear to tell how it feels
to be hunted by a president, we will
have both sides of the story and will
be able to judge accordingly.
Considering some of the paintings
that are hanging around on the walls,
you would hardly suppose Italy could
be schocked by such a little thing as
an earthquake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

a matter that was referred to in an
article recently printed in these
columns. DR.. Munson says: "a fort
night ago L ran into an hnmense old
dog wolf which must have weighed
150 or 100 pounds. I had only three
dogs with me, as the rest of the pack
was off after a Jack rabbit. The dogs,
all fine fighters, started for the wolf,
and he whipped them in one, two,
three order, in less time than it takes
me to tell it. One he threw over a
cut bank, crushed in the chest of an
other. and gashed the third dogs
throat. / do not think that he could
have done up three 100 pound wolf
hounds as easily. though these dogs of
mine are all good fighters and savage
brutes, and one was an S5 pound stag
hound. Forest and Stream.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
HOW ABOuT THIS?

In considering this question of the
use of money in political campaigns it
should be remembered that a few
years ago the president of the sugar
trust, technicallysk known as the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company. testified
in Washington before a committee of
congress that he gave a like amount
to each campaign COMMITTEES of the
two great parties. with the idea, in
ferentiaIly, that the interests of his
company would be protected whether
the Republican or Democratic candi-
date should be elected. 1t has not
been brought out in the present inves-
tigation of the life insurance business
whether those who gave so literally
to the Republicans were equally gen
erous to the Democrats, and perhaps
it would be well for the investigators
to produce light ON this branch of the
subject. 1t would doubtless interest
the public and help to clear the att
mosphere.- Bulletin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Some jokers are as artless as their
jokes are pointless.
Lots of people suddenly become deaf
when duty calls.
Wise is the man who declines to take
his troubles seriously.
1t takes a lot of will power to enable
a man to save himself from himself.
When there is a right way and a
wrong way the average man goes
wrong.
No. Cordelia, a photographer isn't
necessarily a robber because he takes
things
It's the wise boy who is considerate
of today and doesn't worry about to-
morrow.
A woman never fails to boast of her
intuition every. time she makes
good guess.
While a mans will may be law. in
the case of married man the law is
seldom enforced
He who believes that seeing is be-
lieving is the one gold brick promoters
like TO do business with
It's a good thing the child doesn't
Lnovv that he is father to the man. or
doubtless things would take turn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
A REPLY WELL PUT.

Up bossbuster organ whose. editor
has not the courage or the honesty to
place right above party, takes issue
with the Concordia Blade for quot
ing from the State Journal 1t says:
1.-The Concordia Blade approvingly
quotes the Topeka State journal
where it says: When some boss pus-
ters fall out, honest men get their
dues. Possibly this may be true, but
why should a Republican paper quote
politics from the Journal that meyer
hesitates to say bad things about the
Republican party and the states pup
lie officials
And here is the Blades well-put re-
ply:
"Sinply because the Blade, being an
honest newspaper, as well as Re-
publican newspaper, has the courage
to tell or quote the truth and to stand
up for honesty and decency and de-
if it may reflect on a Republican or
the Republican party. Some neWspa-
pers are so partisan that they VIII
cover up wrong doing within their
party. That is the extreme of dis
honesty and the paper becomes as bad
as the man who does the wrong"
incidentally it might be remarked
that no newspaper in Kansas has ever
supported Theodore Roosevelt more
vigorously than has the State Journal.
No newspaper in Kansas has exceeded
the State Journal in endorsing that
which was good in the state officers.
nor been more vigorous in denouncing
that which was bad. It has been less
| than year since this same little boss
| buster sheet was denouncing Repub-
Hcan governor of the state with all the
vituperation of which 1t was capable
and that most unjustIy, while it sup
ported a thief and a gang of grafters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
Tom Taggart Indignantly denies

Tom Taggart indignantly denies that
he took any insurance campaign con-
tributions. OF course not. Chairman
Taggart OF the Democratic national
committee. and Tom Taggart, proprie-
tor OF the French Lick Springs gam
bling resort, are entirely different per-
sons, and they should not be confound
ed Chairman Taggart wouldn't 90
such naughty thing as to acceps a
campaign contribution from a wicked
insurance company
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
IF YOU ARE WISE

II you are wise. these blessings
You will ask for. day by day:
A 5000, clean heart in body pure,
And to Go Gods will alway;
A conscience clear, and a mind sincere
To work, and always try
10 garner wealth in the form of health;
To be honored ere you die.
IT'S right to seek for honor
In fair and honest ways:
God surely loves to bless one
At the closing of his days:
BUT honor, true, let me whisper you,
Lies not in boarding pelf
1t lies in deeds that spring from seeds
By being good yourself
Benjamin Keech in Rams Horn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

a state anthem. west Virginia Hills .
The Gazette suggests that Kansas might
get even by filchfng that old hymn,
What Shall the Harvest Be?'' from the
hymn book, but the Boston Transcript
moves to make it. "Oh. Where Are the
Reapers ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

Here's a real Joke: Tom Tageart,
chairman Of the Democratic national
committee, is a policy holder in the
New York Life. Some of the money
he paid in to the company was. there
fore, given as a contribution to the Re-
publican national committee to defeat
Taggart's efforts to elect Parker. Now
Taggart feels as though he had been
robbed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

The mikado is reported to have re-
ceived forty protests against ratifying
the peace treaty, and Joe Bristow, who
knows, says the president receives more
than that just over the appointment of
an ordinary Kansas postmaster. Which
shows that the Toxic revolution isn't
so many, after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

Andrew Hamilton. to whom the
New York Life gave a one hundred
thousand dollar check, cables home
from Paris that it really was not used
to corrupt the New York legislature,
but he carefully remains in Europe
where the investigating committee
cannot make him tell under oath just
what it was for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

In opening the Ohio state campaign
Vice President Fairbanks said: "A Re
publican congress Will readjust tariff
schedules whenever readjustment is es-
sential to preserve the integrity of the
system" Does this mean the System
Mr.. Lawson has been telling about?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

Mr.. Rockefeller's prediction about
hard times was made before the Baku
oil industry was destroyed. Immediate
~ after that catastrophe Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's view Of the future became more
roseate as the price of oil went up, un-
til he saw no danger of q panic what
over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

NJ Witte is now telling Europe how he
brought about a change of sentiment in
America and how our sympathies began
to flow towards Russia just as soon as
ne got off the boat. Had you felt your
sympathies doing anything like that?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
HAPPY DIXIE.

Ten million bales of cotton at ten
cents per pound will fetch into the
south a little over five hundred million
dollars during the next few months.
And we have made quite a bit of other
things on the side Our friends in
other parts can therefore expect TO
find us doing business at the same old
stand for at least another season.
Columbia State.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

President Roosevelt has an article
In one of this months magazines on
hunting bears. Now il he will write
one on hunting grafters, a subject
with which he is also familiar, it will
be read with interest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
FROM BARRY WOODS.

Now the politicians are full Of a story
to the effect that Tom Kelly will bring
out four candidates for governor against
Hoch, with the intention of throwing all
the votes to one certain candidate when
the time arrives. It's good story and
it may be true, but it will never work.
The talk will keep up with a good deal
of vigor, and Hoch will get little
nervous, probably, but at the last the
counties will begin coming in, endors-
ing Hoch's administration and instruct
ing for Hoch. The opposition will fade
and try to forget that it ever was
WELLINGTON News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

Mr.. James j. Hill doesn't believe in
the Panama canal. This is not sur
prising in view of the fact that the
canal will probably reduce Mr.. Hills
railway rates somewhat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

GiRrd owns its electric light plant
and watreworks. Last month the
income from the electric light plant was
sufficient to pay the expenses of run
ming both, so the income from the wa
terworks was profit to the city. That
isn't so bad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
MoRE p1IRIIe oWNERsHIP.

Secretary Barnes of the State Hor-
ticultufal society advocates the aboli-
ton of private burial grounds and the
public ownership of all cemeteries It
would at least verify the old maxim
that "an men areseQual after death"
by doing away with the potter'ss field.
osborne County News. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
FATHER BEcKs POSITION.

Whether it is TO be a lock or sea
level canal, is the question that is
now agitating the canal authorities.
AS we never expect to ride through it,
the Recorder has no choice in the
matter, except if locks will prevent
grating and lot of fellows stealing
everything that is loose, then we are
in favor of that kind.-Holton Re-
eorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
IEpOM OTHER PENS
TO WASHINGTON,

Never mind, the president and Mr.
Taft will be back pretty soon and then
Washington can quit yawning and
wondering whether it is Sunday or not
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
LIKE COLEMAN,

Remember, the beef trust is always
ready for trial. until the arrival of
the day set for the trial.-Kansas City
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
Hanly's
Governor

Governor Hanly's statement, y
says the Kansas City Star, explains
why he ousted David E. Sherrick, the
state auditor, but it sheds no. light on
now the people of Indiana CHANGED
to elect him." Perhaps he resigned
in escrow, after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

There is said to have been complete
harmony in recent Populist convention
In Nebraska. Must have been only one
delegate there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
THE SECRET.

Oceans tides were strange 70 me
always tried to learn
The secrets of their movements and
The reason why they'd turn
Saw r1aidens, romping, gay,
In costumes seant-I saw the tides
All blush and turn away!
Milwaukee Sentinel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

Missouri has more old soldier pension
ers than any other western state. They
ought to be able to do something tow
ards suppressing those Quantrell reun-
ions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
NOTICE THE CREDIT.

Ex-Governor Bailey will pay the bill
he owes the state for groceries pur-
use while governor. Gov
ernor Bailey has always had the APP
pearance of a man who wanted to do
the square thing.-Lawrence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

If the law against railroad passes
should inadvertently be enforced
every politician in the state would be
in the market for a newspaper SO he
could get passes like Governor Hoch
does his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

The people of Norway have been
such ardent advocates of arbitration
that they have been ready to fight for
it. Now they have really put it into
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
AtCORRECT OPINION

The State journal was the only
daily to reach us while the mails were
tied up by the high water, and any
way. the State Journal is the best
daily published in the state.-Wood-
ston Echo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
OF COuRSE.

Governor Pennypacker says, that re-
formers in politics are a disturbing ele-
ment. In Pennsylvania, as elsewh ere,
there are politicians whose choicest
ideal is simply to be let alone.-New
York Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
RRAny,S DOuRT

A corporation should contribute to
a political fund precisely like an indi-
vidual. The contribution should be
open and above board and should be
for good government. We doubt,
however, If an Insurance company has
any right to. be the judge of what
benefits its policy holders in a polit-
ical way.-Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
The GRAY Wolr a Fighter.

From a private letter written by DIR.
Edward L. Munson, of Fort Assina
boine, Mont, we are permitted to
quote a sentence or two which gives a
notion of the power of the gray wolf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

The Pittsburg Gazette remarks that
West Virginia is one ahead of fore
handed Kansas in that It not only has
an ofieial state flower. but 1t also has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
Unfortunate.

A certain merchant of Baltimore, who
is well known for his Dhilanthropic
Trishman. formerly in his employ, who
made a touching appeal for financial
assistance. Said he:
II trust, sor, that yell find it convent.
ent to help a poor man whose mouse an
everything in it was burned down last
week, sor.''
The merchant, although he gives with
a free hand, exercises considerable eau
ton In his philanthropy, so he asked:
| Have you any paper or certificates to
show that you have lost everything by
fire, as you say
The Irishrrlan scratched his head as if
tewjldered Finally he replied;
II did have certificate to that erect,
sor signed before notary; but unfort-
1,nateIy. sor. it was burned up with the
rest of me effects."-Harpers Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
A Joke on the Doctor.

A Baltimore physician says that re-
Gently he boarded a Charles street car
that was sadly overcrowed. He soon OBJ
served a big German sprawled over an
area SUFFICIENT to seat two persons at
least, while just in front of him stood
poor, wan woman hanging to strap.
Indignant at this exhibition OF selfish
ness on the part of the German, the
physician tapped him on the shoulder
saying:
HSee here. Why don't you move lit
tie. so that this tired woman may have
a seat?"
For a moment the German looked
dazed. Then a broad smile spread over
his counferance as he answered:
SAY. dots a joke on you. all right!
Dots my vifei ''-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

The beef trust itself is even becoming
suspicious that it isn't as innocent as
It at first supposed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

The rule in Chicago is to retire straw
hats on September 1. In Kansas it isn't
safe to do that until Thanksgiving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
HIS COMBINATION.

The American millionaire is apt to
combine the ethics of the alligator
with the creed of a member of the z.
NJ. G. A.-London Speaker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

President Mccall says he is not a mil
lionaire. Maybe he thought he was
talking to the tax assessor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

Now that japan has got through
Furnishing Russia. Finland is thinking
of doing little stunt in the same line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26

Tom johnson has been nominated fol
mayor of Cleveland for the third time
and the third times the charm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
lip IN THE AIR

New York capitalists are preparing
to erect a hotel forty-two stories high
Some of the New York hotels already
charge rates about that high.-Hous-
ton Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
GOOD ADVICE.

IF you want the greatest and best
daily in Kansas, get the Topeka State
Journal.-Smith Center Messenger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
IRON -I,EAyENWORTH.

Governor Hoch is said to favor a
dry platform" We fear it won't
prove safe insuIator from the bolt
that is destined to strike out of the
altering clouds next year.-Leaven-
!. orth Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-26
INAuDIRLE

The once merry laugh of Depew, the
peach has become the smallest, still
est voice in the United States.-New
York Press.