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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

dav or two ago Topeka had the
honor of entertaining a man who has
done the work of Ralph Connor's
great hero, the sky pilot, and much
more. DR.. T. c. nif, who was in
Topeka this week, on his wedding day
thirty-five years ago took his bride
and started for a little mining camp
in the northwest. He was the first
"sky pilot in western Montana,
Idaho or eastern Washington. With
the hardest kind of work he won his
way to the hearts of the rough men
of that region and started a. church.
Since then his work has taken him up
and down the Rocky mountain re-
gion. Much of what has been done
in overcoming the influence of Nor
monism in Utah is due to him. A
divinity school in Denver stands as a
monument to him, besides countless
churches in the great Transmissouri
region.
Now after thirty-five years of the
hardest kind of work Dr. Tiff is as
active as ever. During that time at
least seven great states have been
carved out of the territory to which
he carried the gospel. Civilization
has conquered this great wilderness
and it has become a rich region, and
DR.. Tiff and men like him-the sky
pilots-have had much to do in
bringing order and law to this great
empire. How quickly it has been ac-
complished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
Made the PEARSON Nervous.

The Rev. Walter S. Ewing, a clergy
man from Boston, believes that the
wild and Woolly west still exists in all
It's pristine glory in spots. He has just
reached this city after travelling
through the southwest, and is enthusi-
asttc over the proposition that that
portion of the country is a good place
for a quiet-loving minister of the gos-
pei to keep away from.
Why they carry guns and knives
and all sorts of Weapons in some of
those places in Texas and New Mex
leo" said Mr.. Ewing to a reporter
yesterday. 'In New Mexico it is
against the law to carry a revolver, but
those boys don't mind the law. They
glory in breaking it. And out in the
cattle country they still shoot people.
stopped at a Texas ranch some sixty
miles from FL Paso, and do you know
that some OF the boys outside shot a
Mexican while we were eating break
fast! Nothing was thought of it. It
appeared that the Mexican was rather
unpopular anyway. and the boys were
glad he was shot. The man who did
the killing was given some money by
the ranch owner and told to go away
a couple of weeks, or until the thing
blew over. When people carry knives
in their boots. as have seen them do,
it is time that we got over the idea
that there was no real west any more.
It looks wild to me down there. and
am glad to get up here where folks
look quet, anyway" Mr.. Ewing says
he is going to get back to Boston as
soon as possible.-Seattle Post-InteIli-
Eencer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
JAYHA WKER JOTS

The announcement is daily expected
that the Ottawa Chautauqua has Sc
cured Admiral Togo for date this
summer.
Salina is building a north and south
railroad again this summer. When
things get dull in Salina the newspa-
pers there build a north and south
railroad.
The Lawrence Journal, published at
the Athens of Kansas, speaks of Min
neapolis, Kan, as down" And Min
neapOl1s isn't more than a thousand
feet higher than Lawrence either.
Some lola saloon keepers who are
temporarily abiding in the Allen coun-
" Jail have had electric fans installed
to make their stay in that summer. re-
sort no pleasant.
Some of the Osborne county officials
are happy. The census gives the coun-
ty a population of 1920, a gain ofabout
a thousand in two years. Passing the
1900 mark adds a hundred dollars A.
year to the salaries of some of the coun-
ty officials.
The city officials at Parsons are ma
triotic and on Flag Day they deco
rated the city building with the flags
that were used during the 9. A. r.
encampment. The one that got on the
city Jail had 'WelcomeF on it
c. D. Walker of Atchison. who has a
new automobile, invited Ed Howe to
take an eighteen-mile trip into the
country. Mr.. Howe accepted with the
understanding that Walker would get
the permission of the farmers to use the
road. He refused to have trouble with
the farmers.
The Leona Hustler tells one: Ac-
cording to the report of our young
Mr.. Swanson. there is a new kind If
game called lemons played at
Highland. The game is to catch the
prettiest girl in the bunch and then
squeezer. That makes the other girls
look sour.
Since Secretary Taft announced the
policy of buying Panama canal sup
plies in the world markets where the
best material can be secured for the
least money, every brick town in Kan
sas has had hopes of selling the gov
eminent that bill of seven million
! brick for the canal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
NfORLEY VS.. HoCH.

Governor Hoch is also taken to task
for his expressions regarding newspaper
reading by the Chicago Record Herald.
It calls attention to the fact that there
are both newspapers and books which
ought not to be read, which we will
all leave out OF the subject by common
consent, and it also brings up the opin-
ion of no less an authority than Mr..
John Morley in opposition to that of
the governor. It says:
THE governor Of Kansas regards
the newspaper reading habit as one
of the worst that a man can possibly
acquire. He, says Governor Hoch, who
does much newspaper reading cannot
do justice to a book TO save his life
Therefore, he thinks. one should scan
papers for home and local news and
read books with a dictionary and en-
cyclOpedia beside one.
Now. there are newspapers and
newspapers as there are books and
books. Discrimination is necessary
with reference to the latter quite as
much as in regard to the former. There
are newspapers that cannot even be
scanned without danger of elemental
ization and Decentralization. and there
are books that Governor Hoch would
not advise anyone to read, even with
out the honor a dictionary and encvclo-
pedia would reflect upon them. But
assuming that the Kansas counselor
and guide had these proper uualiRca-
tons in mind, it viii interest him to
know that John Morley, a man who
assuredly has earned the right to speak
in the name of culture and literature.
and who is very anxious that men
should know how to read books cor
| rectly, has a totally different idea as
to the value Of newspaper reading.
Some time ago, in dedicating a pub
/ lie library in an English city. Mr..
| Morley suggested the utilization and
fostering Of newspaper reading as one
of the most grateful duties of the en-
I lightened librarian. He had no fear
that the newspaper would displace the
book; on the contrary he pointed out
how the newspaper might be made to
lead to and enhance the value of the
book
1T is the modern newspaper. accord
ing to MI. Morley that should be read
with dictionary. atlas and encyclo-
pedia at ones side. Careful reading
with the desire to learn and under
stand Of well-edited newspaper. with
patience to follow up references to IN.
familiar names, places and events
means liberal education in our dav
when the world has become so ssnan
that an occurrence in Picking or Fee nj
Pretoria is reported almost simuItane
ousiy with an interesting item of home
or~loeal news To appreciate the sig
nihcance of an International incident
for example, it is often necessary +,
obtain considerable knowledge of geo.
graphical. historical. political and in
dustr1al history. The newspapers sun
ply this to some extent, but Mr.. MorIe,
pointed out how much an efficient II
brarian could do to supplement thei
work by directing the reader to tn,
right reference books and other source
Of information.
Which is the sounder idea? Wi
- Governor Hoch maintain that ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

need. in the following: The Rock
Island now has two general managers
d. z. Cain. of of the Santa Fe. and
F. 0. Melcher. of the Choctaw. It is
10 be hoped that the combined wit and
wisdom of these two gentlemen Will
establish a time schedule which will
have some sembIance of being followed
over the system. The way Rock Island
trains have been running for the past
three years has been exasDerating to
their own men. the travelling public
and also the people who depend on the
road for mail. Here's hoping that
there IS to be some Improvement"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
A REFUGE m DISTRESS.

A fellows father knows a lot
OF Office work and such.
But when It comes to things like what
A boy wants, he amt much.
For when it comes to cuts and warts
Or stone bruise on your toes,
A fellows father don't know. but
A fellows mother knows
A fellows father, he looks wise
And says. .tA-hemt A-hem!
But when it comes to cakes and pieSs
What does he know of thern2
He knows the price Of wheat and rye
ana corn and oats. It s true
But if you got the leg ache, Why
He don't know what to do.
And if you burned your back the time
That you went in to swim,
And want some stuff to heal it. why
You never 10 to him
Because he doesn't know q thing
About such things as those
But you just bet, and don't forget,
A fellows mother knows.
And if your nose is sunburned. till
It's all peeled off, and you
Go to him for some healin' stun.
He don't know what to do.
He's just as helpless as can be,
But when a fellow goes
And asks his mother, why, you See
A fellows mother knows.
A fellows father knows a lot.
But It amt any use.
So If a fellows really got
The leg ache or a bruise,
Or II there's anything he wants
He gets right up and goes
And asks his mother for, you see,
A fellows mother knows.
j. w Foley in New York Times.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
IRON the Atchison Globe. ]

From the Atchison Globe.l
Really, away down in your heart,
do you enjoy a picnic?
Suggested as a title for coon song:
a. Al Couldn't See Nothing to Laugh
There is one thing that everybody
should be too good to do: Wrangle
over the telephone.
People are talking about woman
who gave up one man to get another
and didn't get him.
A baby has to overcome a whole
lot Of its faults before it has its
fathers heart done UP in a bundle and
tied
Why not hold that peace conference
at the Athletic club, San Francisco,
where so many disputes have been
settled?
Some poet once asked what is so
rare as a day in June? But don't you
think the trouble is the days are too
we'll done?
You often hear it said of a man:
HE does the best he can" AS mat
ter of fact, do you ever do your best?
Very few men do.
If you are the kind to tell your
friends things for their own good, you
can make up your mind to one thing:
you are unpopular
What have become of the old fash
toned children who turned round and
round until they became drunk
and fell over on the grass?
Here is as good a way to find out
if a woman is giving party as to ask
Doc Morrison: If she buys tomatoes,
and wants every one to match.
There are seven in an Atchison
family including four growing boys,
and when peas are in season, their
mother shells them as her fancy work.
We don't see why women want to
go on vacations: We should think
that when their literary societies dis
hand for the summer, that would be
vacation enough.
At a meeting of the Lancaster Lit
erarv society it was decided that it
would be pIeasanter to be awakened
bv a fire engine at the door than by
the. crying of baby left on the door
step.
A mean man writes: 'I will agree
TO take care Of any neighbor's bird
while away on a. vacation If L am
eiven the care of some other neigh
Sor's can. and some other neighbor' S
dog. at the same time, and some one
viii lend me a shotgun
Town children do not help their
parents much as a rule, but children
| IN the country work from a very
| early age. It is related that an old
fashioned farmer once said to his son:
ssYoI4 were an expense to me until you
were seven years old"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Togo reports that it took just
thirty-seven minutes for him to fight
the battle of the Sea of Japan, but
Russia isn't anxious for him to try to
lower the record.
Henry James is making a great
fuss about the American literary
quainted with the clear and classic
English used by Colonel Major Jeltz.
The report has been turned loose
that some periwak feathers in the
crown of the Prince of Wales are
worth $4,000, and the agricultural
editor of the Star suggests that it
would be well for the farmers wives
to get a few settings of periwak eggs.
There is an extraordinary good use
to which fshpoles can be put these
days. Just wrap some rags around
the upper end, saturate them with
kerosene, apply a match, and run a
crematory of your own among the
worm webs in your elm trees.
There is a demand that Governor
Hoch shall cut the punch bowl out of
the silver service for the battleship
Kansas. Just why is not apparent
Punching is an important part Of
fighting any boy knows fhat-so why
should not a punch bowl be appro-
pirate for those who expect to engage
in naval fights?
New York is having a lot of trouble
over her subway getting wet on the
inside. New York ought to have built
the subway so that 1t could have been
turned wrong side out and hung out
on the clothes line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
ATCH1sON IS ITCHY"

A scare headline in last nights To-
peka Journal reads, Can This Be
True?'' Here are some of the fol-
lowing lines: Records Show There
Is Real Brewery in Atchison." Gown
ers Admit It In An Appeal" In the
body of the accompanying article Gov
ernor Hoch is asked to please take
notice. 1t all has reference to the ap-
peal to the supreme court in the
Reneer case. One would think from
the fuss Topeka papers are making,
that it is the only brewery in Kansas,
when, as a matter of fact, there is an
other and probably two in Leaven-
worth. Topeka pays tribute to st.
Louis, Kansas City. and Milwaukee
breweries. -Atehison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
Con1bine fhe Two.

An elderly spinster on the west side
of the city and the bachelor mail car
rier who had been delivering mail
over the same route for several years
are the principals in the following bit
of repartee. The elderly spinster has
been looking for the letter which up
to date has failed to put in an ap-
pearance. Each morning she meets
the bachelor .postman and inquiries for
her letter. The other morning in a
bantering way, he remarked to her:
if I have to write it myself" DO"
she replied. I'D be glad to receive
it" ''What shall I write p asked the
bachelor, "a business or love letter."
well. if you mean business solemn
ly answered the sDinster write a love
letter"-Detroit Free Press.
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Politeness OF Irish Peasantry.

A friend sends me the following de-
lightful bit, cut from some paper: cit
is we'll known that the Irish peasant
Ono doubt from a sense of politeness)
will seldom disagree with a tourist,
but likes to give an answer which he
thinks will be agreeable to the ques-
toner. Last summer a gentleman
from Liverpool, while out for a sail on
Carlingford Tough, was caught in a
gale. Knowing the danger, Pat made
for the shore. Why are you going
in said the visitor: there's not much
wind?' NO replied the boatman,
but, sure. what there is av it is
mighty powerful. An angler tells
how, when in quest of fish, he asked a
small barelegged boy If there were
any fish in a certain river. There is,
yer honor What sort of fish p
There do be trous and eels, yer honor.
ANY salmon?' There do be an odd
one ANY thermom eters?' Them
does be there, too, yer honor; but they
comes uD Iather in the season. R.
B. Marston, in Fishing Gazette.
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SOME PLAIN TALK.

Former President Cleveland in his let
ter accepting the Equitable trusteeship
improves the occasion to inculcate some
precepts of righteousness which are
very timely. He speaks with unusual di-
rectness and force, but in entire keep
ing with the position of moral authority
he occupies, when he urges that We
must retain our old habit of looking at
the appropriation to personal use Of pro-
perty and interests held in trust in the
same light as other forms of stealing.
This is plain talk, but is fully merited,
and the plain people whose hearts are
troubled by revelations of the astonish-
ing growth of the spirit of mammon will
respond with hearty a1nen.-Pittsburg
Gazette.
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To Insure Delivery.

The gTay-coated official Of Uncle Sam
who delivers letters in the black belt
of the South side stopped in the drug
store to dodge the sudden deIuge. While
sorting over a handful of letters he
turned to the druggist, and throwing a
yellow envelope on the counter asked:
What do you think of that?" The
letter bore a Kentucky postmark and
was addressed to a resident of Dearborn
street whose name was neither Wash
ington nor Johnson. The interesting
part of the superscription was a scra WI
ed note in the lower left-hand corner:
IF not thare trf county jale.' '-Chicago
RecOrd-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
KzMSA.S COANENT
THE DANCER OF n.

Those state officers, part of them
members of the board Of railroad as
SCISSORS, who with their families are
now on a Junketing trip to the Pacific
coast in a private car, free Of cost of
course, may be getting something for
nothing, but directly or indirectly the
public have it to pay for. The danger
is that when the public pay for such
things it is apt to cost much more
than when paid direct.-Osage County
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

THE SWEET GIRL GRADTJAT7,.
The sweet girl graduate appears
Upon the scene in June
And reads her essay in your ears;
It is a priceless boon
70 rid the world Of all her jars.
For SO she tells you earnestly,
Beyond the Alps lies Italy"
Or, Might brings out the stars
she rights all wrong with utmost ease,
The girl in gown Of white:
The labor troubles. il you please,
She solves with keen delight,
Explains about the planet Mars
And tells the world right lucidly
Beyond the Alps lies italy
Or Might brings out the stars
Chicago Chronicle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
rFrom the New York Press.

Marry for money; repent in penury.
Hoaz-"Did you ever see the flying
fsh?" Joax-''No, but I've seen trout
fly"
kittens get their eyes opened a few
days after they are born; people when
they are married.
The only queerer thing than the
way women are dressed is the way
they sometimes aren't.
A mans idea of getting rested from
the strain of business is to sit UP all
night playing cards, smoking and
drinking.
Riding in an automobile makes a
woman think of the way she would
look if her husband was president Of
the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
COMNfnNcEMENT.

IN our humble judgment It IS un-
fortunate that the word commence
ment' ever got stuck on school grad
uating ceremonies. The idea intended
by it is that the close of the school is
the commencement of life, but as the
lawyers say, the word is incompetent.
irrelevant and misleading" It ism t
the commencement or beginning of
anything. It's a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
PRoPERLY NAMED.

Down at Minneapolis, Kanass, a
Jack rabbit club" was organized for
the purpose of dispensing liquid re-
freshments to members in violation of
the law. 1t was properly named, for
nobody runs as quickly as a liquor dis
penser in Kansas when law enforce
ment becomes active Lawrence
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

And now Chicago is thinking of
striking a blow at personal liberty by
passing an ordinance providing that
automobile licenses shall be given only
TO total abstainers. Thinking of it,
mind you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

You viii notice that it was St. Louis
and not Kansas City that busted the
lid of Sunday. Kansas City rather
likes the nd-since it is so close to kan
sas City, Kansas. where saloons are al
ways omen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20
NE FIRsT EssENTTAIl.

G. n. larger Of the Abilene Re-
fector has been appointed to the
chair of journalism at the state uni
versity The first thing we want
Harger to teach the rising young
journalists is to do up their single
wraps SO that a ccId-chise and mallet
ara not necessary to open the papers.
Osborne Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

Governor Folks idea is that a law
is something that is to be obeyed,' says
the Chicago News Which it not en-
tirely correct. Governor Folks idea is
that the law Is something to be en-
forced. The idea OF obedience he is in
sitting into the saloon keepers and
boodlers
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate OF thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State Journal viii be to you like
8 daily letter from home.
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IS HE DODGING?

Tom Lawson announces that he is
broke. Well, he may be, but there is
a faint suspicion in the minds of those
who are next, that Thomas is trying to
dodge that request for five thousand
dollars which Governor Hoch is dele
gated to make of him for the Topeka
7. NJ. c. A. building.-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

1t is absolutely certain that no one
besides Governor Folk is sitting on the
lid in St Louis. The moment the gov
ernor went over into Tennessee to spend
Sunday the lid at st. Louis opened with
pressure of three hundred pounds to
the square inch from the inside.
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ANOTHER POINT.

The farmers have this advantage
over the city chaps. they are never
forced to. worry over the rumor that
the city is about to buy the gas plant,
nor do they get Up at nights wonder
ing when the town will get an electric
car. 1ine.--Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

Fake! Fake!" yelled a Chicago
crowd the other day But it was only
calling for a speech from the assistant
states attorney who is conducting the
grand jury investigation. That's his
name
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POLITICAL NOTE.

Another indication crops out that
Theodore Roosevelt and Tom Watson
are trying to get together. They are
both buying homes in Virginia-Macon
Telegraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

NJ. Witte says he will not act as a
peace commissioned because the Japs
are inferior to the Russians, and he
does not care to talk with them NJ.
Witte must be a great humorist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-20

The public's sympathy with sympa-
thetic strikes is completely exhausted
and it viii take some time to accumu-
late new supply. People who are
anticipating going on a sympathetic
strike viii do well to bear this in
mind
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CoNGREssMAN ~ WAsHINGTON.

According to the lieutenant governor OF
Illinois. "a congressman in Washington
is like a boy with q torn shirt and half
a pair of suspenders looking through
a small knothole at a ball game. Yes.
and then the policeman in the shape OF
his constituency will come along about
the ninth inning, when the score is tie,
three men on bases, the heaviest hitter
of the home team at the bat-at the
most interesting part of the programme
and tell the aforesaid little boy to
Move on!'' So fling away ambition
Boston Herald.