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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
OPPORTUNITY.

One searched the town and country
through
n winters snow and summers heat,
NOT was there any path but knew
Inc pacing of his weary feet.
he watched throughout the lingering night
Win lamp well trimmed and door ajar
ana nSIened, lest same football light
should hint the freakish god afar.
Inc god came not. But there was one
no reck not of the fitting days,
nor any thoughts of deeds undone
disturbed the tenor of his ways
he tolled not sought no goodly prize;
u en- as he slept the god came there
ana poured before his dream dinmed eyes
his store of treasure, rich and fair
F. O'NeiH Gallagher in London Daily
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

The Capricornian. a weekly journal
of rty-eight pages published at
Rockhampton, Australia, in a recent
issue devotes long article to Kan
sas. BOLD as the statement appears. >,
it says. cit may be made with every
confidence in ability to demonstrate
the truthfulness of it, that in no part
of the civilized world has human prog
ress been So marked within the last
quarter of a century as in the state of
Kansas, one of the United States of
America. With rejoicing it is to be
noted, moreover. that this development
has been due. not to vast deposits of
mineral wealth, but to climatic condi-
lions, the cultivable character of the
soil, and the enterprise and determinal-
ton of the people by whom the coun-
try has been occupied" The article
is founded largely on Secretary Co
burns last biennial report, and it
speaks in great praise of his work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
BY THE GATE.

In robe of lace and satin.
With sash of palest blue.
With a picture hat and roses
Roses red and wet with dew;
In the freshness of the morning
/ have often seen her wall.
Drumming with her dainty fingers
On the pillar by the gate. ,-,-o~,.
And in white and crowned with olosSO'AA9
BY the gate she stood one day.
And she held her sweetest roses
That her hands could bear aNays
From that cool and fragrant saroen
Where the sunlight kissed the lawn
Fragrant with the breath OF heaVen-
On that happy bridal morn.
Still it seems / see her standlnS'
Sweet of form and fair OF race:
Weeds have overgrown the garden
That her presence used to grace
BY the gate which is forsaken'
Clings the ivy to the wall,
|, And the roses there are fading
Those she loved the best of all
-Pearson's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press.I
A man could save a great deal OF
money, the way he does old shoes. if
it was no use to him.
Generally you can tell the people
who dos't own yachts by all the yacht
ing clothes they wear.
The nice thing about lot of womes
is that you can't marry them because
they are already,
If a girl smiles at everything you say
as if it was clever, that's the time to
suspect she thinks you are fool.
The only time a girl is willing to ad-
nit she hasn't the smallest feet in the
family is when her grandmother offers
to give her pair of her silk stockings
if they Will ut her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
MOTHERS LETTER.

My friend. how long has it been
since you wrote to mother2 Several
weeks, hasn't it? Do you ever stop to
think how much uneasiness your
neglect is causing her? Do you know
she listens every time she hears the
whistle and wonders if that train is
bringing a letter from you? OF course
you think of her every day in the old
home going about her humble duties,
but that doesn't do her any good. She
frets and wonders If you are well. She
is afraid something has happened to
you. If you could see the look of sat
isfactfon that spreads over her face
when She has finished reading a letter
from you, you would write every day.
Mother would rather have one letter
from you than forty presents from
some one else. She has lots of peculiar
ideas about you that other people
haven't, and you mustn't Judge her by
them. Mothers greatest grief in this
world is the thought that she is for
gotten by her children. Better turn
over a new leaf and write to her every
week. The world is always charitable
to the boy who is good to his mother.
Osborne Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
KANSAS CONNENT
WHAT KELLY DID.

It's good thing to have a newspa-
per man in the cabinet" at Topeka,
so that we can get the latest news.
John Royce says: ED Hoch delivers
an address before the Lincoln, Neb-,
Chautauqua in August, for which they
pay him 5000. How many Kansas
fellows are getting that price for
speeches.? Not many, but Tom Kelly
has beaten that record all to smash.
He got over a half a million for his
friend Devlin while Hoch was prepar-
ing this $500 address.-Beloit Gazette.
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and elders, saying, l have sinned in that
1 have. betrayed the innocent blood
went and hanged Observation-Disclosures
1855.
Judas was money-mad. He desired
riches more than anything else. His
was the spirit of commercialism that is
rampant today-the spirit that is will
ing to do anything to get money.
Judas probably was not so bad, COM
paratively, as most people today are
inclined to regard him. His action in
betraying his Master with a kiss was
most despicable, but it seems likely that
he did not realize the consequences of
his act. He believed that the chief
priests would be unable to harm any
one as powerful as he knew Jesus to
be, and he thought he might as we'll
graft a little. His was the graft spirit
When he learned the consequences of
his act his remorse was so great that
he returned his graft to those who had
paid it to him, and then he committed
suicide.
Following the conclusion of Miss
Tarbell's character sketch of John D.
Rockefeller in the August number of
McClure's Magazine, there is published
a quotation from Ruskin's Grown of
Wild Olives concerning Judas. It has
no connection with the story of Rookie
feller-and yet it has. Here is
what Ruskin says:
we do great injustice to Iscariot in
thinking him wicked above all common
wickedness. He was only a common
money-lover, and, like all money-lovers,
didn't understand Christ. He didn't
want Him to be killed. He was horror
struck when he found that Christ would
be killed; threw his money away in
stantly, and hanged himself. How
many Of our present money-seekers,
hang themselves, whoever was killed
But Judas was a common selfish, mud
dle-headed, pilfering fellow. He
didn't understand Christ; yet believed
in Him much more than most of us dc;
had seen Him do mira cles thought He
was quite strong enough to shift for
Himself. and he, Judas, might as well
make his own little byperquisites out of
the affair. Now. that is the
He doesn't hate Christ, but
doesn't care for ILLNESSES no good in
that benevolent business; makes his
own little job out of it at all events
come what will. And thus, out of every
mass of men, you have a certain num-
| Der of bag-men. whose main OBJ
| ject is to make money. And they dc
make it-make it in all sorts of unfair
ways, chiefly by the weight and force
of money itself, or what is called the
| power of capital. That is the
! modern Judas way of carrying the
bag and bearing what is put there
in =" ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
KELLY, FOR INSTANCE.

It is getting to be the custom for
every man who gets kicked out of the
seventeenth story window of a sky
scraper for swiping funds to shout as
he passes down to the hard pavement.
CT resignl' Some people are sadly
handicapped in life because they do
not know when to quit, but the man
who resigns after he has been pried
loose with a crowbar is obviously not
one of these. Some men never can
take a hint. but only an obstinate man
will insist on remaining after they
have cut off his salary.-Chicago
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

Secretary Martin, of the State Histori-
cal society, is having prepared a his
tory of each governors administration.
assigning each administration to some
personal friend of the governor. If Sec
rotary Martin desires to have the truth
told, why did he not assign the task to
somebody who was dissatisfied with the
administration? For instance, why did he
not give Bent Murdoch blanket instruc-
tons to cover all the administrations for
the past thirty years?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
CONGRESSMAN CaIdarhead

Congressman Calderhead seems to
have an idea that he will have no OPP
position for denomination in the Fifth
district next year. Mr.. Calderhead ap-
parently knows about as much about
the political situation in the Fifth dis
trict as he does about finance from a
practical standpoint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

The Abilene Reflector complains
that the only official patronage Dick
1nson county had under the last admin
istration was an elevator boy, and I'M
der the present one it has only the
state house guide and a member of the
governors staff. The Reflector evil
IDENTIFY doesn't count it's United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
AFRAID OF FRESH AIR.

Some people come to Colorado ex-
pecting the climate to grow a new
lung, put action into their sluggish
heart, take the bow out of their legs,
grow hair on their bald head, remove
freckles, oil up their joints and reduce
their age 80 per cent, and then sleep
at night with the windows down and
a rag stuffed in the keyhole for fear
the climate will get at them.-Rocky
Mountain News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

The strike of the New York icemen
at time when it may cause the death
of invalids and little children who need
ice, will take its place as one of the
champion pieces of iniquity alongside
the strike of the Chicago milkmen
when invalids and little children need
ed milk. It's the innocent and HELPLESS
who suffer most from these senseless
strikes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

Another way of encouraging the vio-
lation of law is to give instructions to
the police to close a joint, instead of
ordering its proprietor arrested and
punished as the law provides. Might
as well try to stop burglary by order
ing the police to tell a burglar to stop
after he has broken into a lot of houses,
and letting it go at that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

Warden Jewett says he isn't at all
sore over the appointment of Haskell.
OF course not. Those bumps resem-
bling boils about the size of a teacup,
which Mr.. Jewett is carrying around
with him, are entirely destitute of feel
ing Sl1rei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

Tom Lawson said in his Ottawa
speech that he would pay back to the
people the money he had taken from
them. This is to inform him that we
have not yet received our remittance
from him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

The dispatches say that battle be-
tween the Japs and Russians has been
fought at Daline, and that the Japs
were victorious. The latter statement
is superfuous and should have been
eliminated to save cable tolls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the state Journal
away during the summer may haN Q
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate of thirty
cents month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State Journal will be TO you like
daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

China is learning In addition to
starting a boycott on us. she is now
so unreasonable as to insist on having
something to say as to what disposition
shall be made with some of her terri
tory in the division of spoils in the
Far East
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
NO APPEAL THERE.

IF Senator Burton ever gets an
other trial." says the St. Louis Globe
Democrat, ut will not be by the peo-
pie of Kansas True enough. The
people of Kansas have given him a
fair trial, have convicted him and
have sentenced him. From their judg-
ment he can secure no appeal.-Leay-
enworth Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
I.EGITIMACY OF THE LAW.

1t is a legal publication, the Law
Register of Chicago, which doubts
whether in the legitimate practice Of
the law any such incomes are or can
be earned, as are attributed to lawyers
like Elihu Root and James B. Dill.
Opinion outside of the profession is
generally to the effect that the ques-
fion admits of no doubt Whatsoever
Springfield Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
JAPAN WON'T WORRY.

Minister White says Japan's peace
terms must be moderated to be &C
copied by Russia. Since it apparently
makes little difference to Japan wheth-
er Russia accepts her peace terms or
has them forced on her without ac-
ceptance. the advice of the minister
will probably not travel far.-Ottawa
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
FRON OTHER PENS
GOT THE FACTS.

Curtis, the Chicago correspondent,
saw Coburn while in Kanass and in
cidentally acquired a lot of ideas about
the progress, prosperity and future of
the Sunfiower state. In this instance
the Chicago man got at the facts
Chicago Live Stock World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

Perhaps Governor Hoch can give
Tom McNeal a few preliminary point
ers about how it feels to be cremated.
At least. he is being beautifully roasted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
WILL WAIT AWHILE.

Russia has decided to allow those
Kniaz Potemkine mutineers, who have
been several times executed in the dis
patches. to go free until she can catch
them Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

-CleVeldDQ
In too many cases a sanguine disposl-
ton is merely-a disposition TO ignore
probabilities.-Puck.
The Nurse-What are you thinking about
so seriously, Johnny? 49,,
Johnny-Thinking up excuses ior oeii'e
Tie Nurse-In what way are you going
to be naughty?
enough; the excuses are the things that
come hard.-Cleveland Leader.
you have travelled mooch, Louey?
Il hat. 1 vas in Venice, vonce. In ven
ice, Fritz, der middle of der streedt vas all
Great bologna. Dot vas bad place for
a man NIT shay
Ven der sidewalk got too small how
could he dake der middle of der streeat
vidoudt getting drowned?''-Chicago News
Grayce-Miss McPrim tells me that she
has made arrangements to lecture Tor
George.Do you mean that she is going
on the lyceum platform, or is about to
be married?-Pittsburg Post
>Clarissa-of course I love you. Clarence.
Haven't I just danced eight dances with
Clarence-I don't see any proof in that.
Clarissa-But you would # you only
knew how you dance.-Stray stories.
Friend-You have been engaged for the
last two years and can well a1oro TO
marry Why don't you do it?
Mr. Kissen (gloomily)-I am waiting for
her pet dog to die.-Answers.
why don't you make some ringing
speeches against the trusts?'
Nothing to GAIN answered Senator
meant EN- and the trusts ght."-Wash-
ington Star.
Cora-Lucy says she will only have i
n hOJ1Se
NoraNThat accounts for her always
being without one.-Jester.
Mrs. McBluff-I thought you might IT
least have put a dollar in the collection
| plate at church today.
Mr. McBluff-What was the use? There
wasn't anybody looking when the plate
came to me.-Philadelphia Press
What disseminated, dissatisfied look
! Mrs. Fullerton hasi"
''Well, what could you expect? She has
husband who gets her everything she
wants. Town Topics
Poor old Henpeck leads a dogs life
| with his Wife
~Weii. why on earth don't he apply for
He says he wanted to, but she wouldn't
| let him. ''-Philadelphia Ledger.
yes, this is the right season for the
Russian and japanese plenipotentiaries to
meet" observed Mrs. Conn.
What do you know about it?' demand
ed her lord and master.
This is canning time, and they can
preserve the peace"
Later Mr.. Conn said he had a good ex-
| cuse for drinking.-Portland Telegram.
.'I hyah you is gone into business" said
| Miss Miami Brown
'sYassindeed answered Mr.. Erastus
| Pinkley, Use raisin chickens an sellin'
| 'em."
whats de matter? Is you los yoh
| appetite ?''-W Washington Star.
Smith-Was that your rich uncle that
| died?
Brown-No; that was my brothers rich
uncle. He left him everything he owned.
Buffalo Enquirer.
| Col. Touch rang the bell of Senator Mil
yun's brownstone fort on Goldbrick ave-
nue.. 1.-The senator is not receiving today
| said the butler.
win you kindly inquire if he is Civ
ing?" said Touch blandly as the door
| swung to savagely.-Judge.
Pat-Oi thought Mccarthy was on TIL
| water wagon!
Mike-He was. but he went on strike
yesterday out av sympathy wild himself
| Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
For My Lady.

Electric baths are as essential (to
a woman of fashion, as-soap; the
pedicure should be as honored as the
hairdresser; face steaming is next to
goodness, and to be massaged is some
times better than going to church
There is no more vanity in having
ones face made up than in having
ones bust shaped by the corsetiere.-
London Boudoir.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

Anyway Warden Jewett can go out
of the penitentiary with the conscious
ness of having made an excellent rec
ord as an official. and one that will
make his successor do well to equal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
Russia HAS PLENTY.

In case of war between Norway and
Sweden it is probable that Russia will
cheerfully maintain the strictest neu-
trality.-Rocheste Post-ExpreSs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
SPREADING THE LIGHT.

Railway employees in Poland propose
to announce the names of the stations
in the Polish language. the same as is
done in this Washington
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
A DIFFERENCE IN METHOD.

Some men buy burglars tools when
they want to rob a bank. Others have
themselves elected directors, and then
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
FULL LEASED NIRE REPORT
Oh THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
teiegraPh report of that great news or
cation in Topeka
The news Is received in the State Jour
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

The man who made the most fuss
about the cold last winter is now roar
ing loudest because it's hot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

Billy Morgan, who is now doing
"Trip has got to the point of writing
art letters from Venice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
HOW IT WILL WORK.

I have given other people so much
good advice. that some day I am going
to follow some of it and make a fool
of myself.-Bert Walker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
A GREAT JOB.

Tom Lawson declares that he is go
ing to put John D. Rockefeller into the
hands of a receiver. 1t will be great
graft for the man who does the receiv-
ing.=Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
OVERHEAD AND UNDERGROUND
THE NEW IOWA IDEA.

An Iowa man, being sued for breach
of promise, pleads that he was asleep
when he proposed to the fair plaintiff.
A novel and rather ungallant version
of loves sweet dream.-Baltimore
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
SWEDEN AND NORWAY.

The Swedish foreign minister would
have the world understand that
Sweden is not seeking fight, and
have NORWAY understand that neither
is it running from one.-Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
HUMOR OF THE Day

What gives that funny man, across
The street so strange galtf
s'He takes those crooked steps DecduSS
Cleveland Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
Seeing by Telephone.

How well you're looking this morn
ingI" says the facetious man in tele-
phonic greeting to his friend a hundred
miles away. Mr.. ]. B. Fowler, of Port
land, Oregon, has taken the nub out of
this joke by inventing an apparatus by
which images displayed before lens at
one end of a telephone wire are project
ed upon a screen at the other end. Mr..
Fowler invites his visitors to talk with
his daughter. They place the telephone
transmitter to the ear, apply the eye to
an aperture in the telephone box, and
see the young woman in miniature
speaking 5000 feet away. Mr.. Fowler
is preparing now to show a train in mo-
ton in his invention. He has no doubt
of it's commercial practicability, and de-
clares that within a few years it will
be in operation throughout the country
For some it may be boon. For others
it will be a curse. Who has not tele-
phoned when he wanted to avoid a
facet o-face interview? What will frisky
husbands detained at the office say
to a machine that shows to suspicious
wives the chips that pass in the night
Mr. Fowler may not be a public bene-
factor after all-s'With the Procession
Everybody's Magazine for August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
A MARYLAND IDEA.

The governor of Kansas is opposed
to the use of champagne in the chris
tening of the battleship named for the
state He suggested water, but the
proper liquid for the occasion seems
to be corn juice.-Baltimore Amer
lean.
OVERHEAD AND UNDERGROUND.
Philadelphia proposes to make a
fight against the overhead trolley,
which is looked upon as almost as bad
as the city's system of underground
polftics-Washingto Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
Choosing a Hat.

The following advice is given by a
well-known fashionable milliner:
Il have one rule for most women. I
match the hat to the hair The result
is always good. Of course, if the
woman is old, with white hair, it is
not so satisfactory. But the woman
with brown hair should wear a brown
hat and the woman with red hair
should wear a hat in dark red tones.
and so on. If you are going to buy a
hat match your hair
THE second best thing is to match
the hat to the eyes. The woman with
big brown eyes should wear q big brown
hat The girl with saucer blue eyes
can wear a blue hat, and the girl with
hazel eyes ought to cultivate hats that
are hazel and light brown and yellow
brown.
ssThat is a splendid rule for any wo-
man to remember Match the hat to
the hair or the eyes. It is sure to be a
success. Wa shington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

Friend-You have been engaged for tbs
last two years and can well afford to
marry. Why don't you do it?
Mr.. Kissem (gloomily)-I am waiting for
her pet dog to die.-Answers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
A SATURDAY SERMON

Then Judas which had betrayed him,
when he saw that he was condemned re
pented himself and brought again the
thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests
and elders, saying, 1 have sinned in that
L have betrayed the innocent blood
silver in the temple, and departed. and
went and hanged Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

Cora-Lucy says she will only have
servant in the house who is worse looking
than herself.
Nora-That accounts for her always
being without one.-Jester.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

''Why don't you make some ringing
speeches against the trusts?"
Nothing to gain" answered Senator
Sorghum. THE public wouldn't believe
meant EN- and the trusts might."-Wash-
ington Star.