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The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Neg. corn is beginning to come into
the market as a regular thing up IN
the corn belt.
A golden eagle was captured near
COurtland a few days ago 1t meas
ured seven feet from tip to tip of its
wings.
Belleville people are getting fash
ionable. Seven of them have been
operated on for appendicitis in the
past month.
A party of twenty-five Russians re-
Gently passed through COncOrdia on
their way from Michigan to Hastings,
Neb., to work in the sugar beet fields.
Russians will get down on their knees
to do the work, and Americans won't.
That's the difference.
Billy Deford, of ottawa. who con-
Quoted the defense in the first trial OF
Cal Heck in Topeka, continues to come
to the front in New York. He is now
conducting suit before the New Y ork
state gas commission to bring down
gas rates in New York city.
Jim Lewis prints this story in the
Kinsley Graphic, but he tries to lay 1t
on to somebody else: An editor print
ed an item which stated that the man
who was hugging the hired girl had
better stop it or his name would be
published" In a few days twenty-five
citizens paid up their subscriptions and
told the editor to pay no attention to
foolish stories going around.
Erie Record: S. e. Beach, one Of
the early settlers of Neosho county,
was down from Chanute Tuesday pay
ing his taxes. Mr.. Beach brought with
him and presented to the county as an
historical keepsake a commission is
sued to him by Governor ThOs. Caney
naming him Ont. Beach, special
county commissioner of Neosho coun-
tv (unorganized). The instrument IS
-7o at To the I'd Q1V
of November. A. D. 1867, and IS coun-
fersigned by w. w. H. Lawrence, sec
retarv of state. The commission is
neatly framed and now adorns the
walls of the county commissioners
room in the court house.
Some history by Bent Murdoch: A
Kansas 'tenderfOot" says during the
winter of 1858-'59 Topeka, which was
then a concrete and cottonwood board
town, lived on Missouri bacon, corn
bread dried apples and beans. we
know better. An Ohio old codger by
the name of Clippinger, harvested
big crop of buckwheat on the Gown
farm. few miles west of that town,
in the fall of 1853. A Topeka big boy
helped load so bushels OF 1t on
wagon the night before. The next
morning he strung three yokes of bulls
onto the wagon. drove to Lawrence
that day, had the buckwheat ground
into flour that night, and the next
night he was home; and all that win
ter Topeka had buckwheat cakes,
homemade butter and black-strap
molasses to go along with the bacon
beans and dried apples; and Wnen
ssthe boys one dark night cut bee
tree on John Wards farm, adjoin-
ing Topeka on the west, they had
buckwheat cakes and honey Yum
yum. yum. and they We're both the
real thing. Alleged .'airly' Kansas
settlers should stop lying about 'what
baDpened" in Kansas fifty or sixty
years ago until the actual "airly set
tiers are all dead, which may be
quite a spell hence.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
COURTS AND CONSTITUTIONS.

COURTS AND CONSTITUTIONS.
Colonel Thomas Benton Murdoch,
the sage Of Walnut valley. who often
gets of some good things. raises a
question over which other people have
pondered more or less. Here it is:
''KVilI some technical court judge be
50 kind as to point out a clause in the
Kansas constitution, or a law on the
Kansas statutes that authorizes, eTn-
powers or permits a judge or a court
to declare a legislative enactment un-
constitutional? We would like to take
couple OF chairs and sit down and
read it,
OF course it is doubtless as clear as
Missouri river water to the courts and
lawyers, but it is difficult for an ordi-
mary plug individual to understand
how a court, to use a Copeland county
idiom, gets any chips in the game
concerning the constitutionality OF a
law that has been legally passed by a
legislative body.
A legislature usually considers the
constitution in passing its laws, and as
a body it tries to make them consti-
tutional. But it not infreQuently hap
pens that If the law is very important,
and especially if it is intended to
regulate some corporation, a court
steps in and decides that it is "uncon-
stitutionaI.
Is not court intended to construe
the laws passed by the representatives
Of the people and to deal out justice
IN accordance with them? When it
assumes the right to review legislation
and decide whether or not it is proper,
is it not encroaching on the legisla-
tive department of the government?
OF course it is the custom of courts
to pass on these questions, but would
it be SO if the precedent were wiped
out? Would it not be considered as
an unwarranted assumption of power
on the part of the judiciary to say
what kind of laws the legislative de-
partment of the government should or
should not pass, if some court had not
set the precedent in the dim and
misty paste
A legislature usually passes laws
that the majority of the people de-
sire, as in the case of the oil refinery
last winter. Why shouldn't the peO-
pie have what they want? Is it the
province of the courts to step in and
say they shall not have it?
OF course the lawyers, in their
great wisdom, are presumably right in
playing horse with the work of the
legislatures, but it is a matter that is
not exactly clear to the plain citizen
m, font
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
HUMOR OF TIE 0AY

Didn't lou discriminate in favor OF
that trust2" asked the indignant quer-
NO. sir" answered the ever-ready
railway man. we had TO throw UP our
hands and give rebates to keep that trust
from discriminating against us.''-YVash-
ington Star
F'riend-Who is that man you always
have with you when you go out for a
ride2
AutomobiIist-He's my claim agent
find IT saves time and money to refer the
matter to him for immediate settlement
whenever I run over anybody.-Chisago
Tribune.
Tess-Hasn't she finished that love sto-
~ yet2
Jesa-No, she reads very carefully and
scrupulously, you know.
Tess-Does she2
Jess-Oh, awfully: why she even reads
all the descriptions Of sunsets and all
that.-Philadelphia Press.
Tramp--Please, mum, I've lost me job
an need nOurishment-
I4ady-FFhat was your job
Tramp-Please, mum, I was Workin' for
Farmer Brown as a scarecrow.-St. Louis
Post-Dfspa1ch.
Communication long VIII 10 take the
village hose company to get hcre1
Natiye-YVa-al they usually gifts around
a leetle artsr the insurance adjuster does
Puck.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

Shortly after the civil war Senator
Vance was lecturing in Boston. Eel
low citizens" he began, you are my
fellow citizens. We all belong to this
great country. We of the south want
ed to leave you, but you would not let
US go, and now we are with you to
stay. I belong to you. You belong to
me-"
voice in the rear of the hall called:
Aren't you the man who said one
Southerner could whip ten Yankees
with a cornsta1k?''
Instantly Vance replied: Eyes. my
friend. I am the man. I said that one
Seutherner could whip ten Yankees
with a cornstalk. believed it then and
I believe it now. The trouble was that
the Yankees didn't want to be whinned
that way.''-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

IT KNEW EVERYTHING.
If knew everything I fear
Ny life would be bore
1 could not wait and speculate
and ponder any more.
I'd find my answers ready-made;
I'd know them in advance,
And life would be too dull for me
Without the charm of chance.
could not read a story then
Through which the villain still
RurSues her, while she thWartS his guile
With many a precious thrill
/ know its ending from the start
The same as women do.
Who, when they read a book. proceed
TO scan 1t wrong end to.
In wooing I should know just what
Her answer was to be;
IWouid seem, alasl as tedious as
A twice told tale to me.
1 could not wonder If shed say.
Yes, yours through veal or WoeP'
Or with sigh inform me, Il
VIII be your sister, though"
# knew everything-but pshaw!
don't, so what's the good
OF thinking so? But this I know,
I wouldn't if Z could.
1 much prefer to live along,
Pleased puzzled, and perplexed.
Mid hope and doubt to guess about
What's going to happen next.
Nixon Waterman in Life.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

Edward had just returned from for
eign service, and his brow was trou-
bled.
Il gave you that parrot as a birth
day present, did I not, Amelia ?" he
asked.
yes; but surely, Teddy. you are not
going to speak of your tokens as if
1T was young and speechless. at the
time.
Yes'-with increasing wonder
''and it has never been out of this par
lor"
There are no other young ladies in
this house?"
NO; there are not"
"Then. why-why, when I k-kissed
your photograph in yonder album
while waiting for you, did that wretch
ed bird initiate your voice and say:
Don't do that Herbert; please ,don'ti''
-Bystander.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
Dr.. Bull Needed the MONEY.

When DR.. Bull, the now famous spe-
cialist, began the practice of medicine
as young man, he numbered among
his first patients a certain Mr.. Darlie
of Woonsocket, r. I. For a time the
young physician treated his patient
successfully for a very painful tumor
on the neck.
One day the doctor called to inquire
after his patients progress. Although
assured that the latter was enjoying
health he had never known before, he
at once assumed an air of the greatest
ton.
But said the astonished con-
valescent in broadest Scotch, "dinna
ye tell me yourself an operation was
ma necessary I'm feelin' better than
l. ha'e twa year gone an wha' dye
want to cut me moo fur p
The physician hesitated a moment,
then resumed, embarrassedly: "WeH,
you see. my good man, I need the
"Oh, +" said the patient. much re-
lieved. fif it's the siller ye're after. a.
right was afeared ye war over
anxious for the experience. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
No. Knnsas C,itv E,ntireIr.

A middle aged man, very much ''un-
der the influence" touched one the
red capped attendants at the union de-
pot on the arm yesterday morning and
said:
SHAY, frien', when en- ketch a
train fer DenVer?'
You're in Denver now" said the at
tendant.
'.zat so? I thought zis wus Kanz
CITY, came from the man with the
load. in a way that showed he was
perplexed. Then as he turned to go,
he added:
''I cotton zat train at Chicago. Won
der when we pashed Kanz City?'
''I'll bet that fellow won't know
how he got here when he comes out of
it," said the attendant, as the ine-
briated traveller tackled towards the
door.-Denver Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.


TFron the New York Press.l
Half a days work is worse fun than
none.
1t would be easier to be honest if it
We're just as profitable.
It's queer that when a girl has
sunny hair she seldom has that kind
of disposition.
A contrary woman could make her
self more so if she weren't too contrary
to do it.
SiIlicus-"Why do sou insist upon shak-
ing hands with every man you meete'
Cxnfcus---rThat only leaves him one hand
with which to pick my pocket
One thing a man can always bet on
With certainty of winning is that mis-
gas bill is going to be bigger than he
expects It to be.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
KANSAS c0AAENT


MURDOCH ON THE SENATE.
May split the Republican party? Not
BY countless rows of apple trees. A
dozen senators, appointed as Il commit
tee to juggle a bill for the better regu-
la6on or control Of the railways" has
failed to agree. Wen. what OF il? That
IS just what the committee was appoint
ed for. And it is now announced that
this failure to get together may split
the Republican party" LoEdamighty.
should the entire senate be called hence,
before Sunday It would not be missed;
and when this country gets astraddJe CT
the neck os the Unitad States senate,
which it is getting ready tc do. those ol0
eodgers viii get into line and do the
peoples bidding so quickly that it viii
make their heads swim. They are most
" all big towards, If they are mostly
bought, owned ana raid for That gang
of oil rOosters can't split anything.-El
Dorado Republican.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

fFrom the Chicago News.1
A blunt man usually has a sharp
tongue
Courage and caution make a splendid
working team.
Some men merely select the lesser of
two evils as a sample
Every dog has his day and the Wa1ch
dog also has his night
It is true that the average man would
be satisfied with enough-but he never
gets it.
sympathy is all right in its way, but it
is poor substitute for beefsteak.
Love your neighbor as yourself, but do
not forget to lock your back door at
night.
It isn't always advisable for a man with
a sandy complexion to engage in the su-
gar business.
If you ever get acquainted with your
self the chances are you won't find your
company SO agreeable.
Did it ever occur to you that a woman
doesn't consider a nefghbor's baby half
as important as she pretends to?
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The Capital says, -'Burton's duty is
clear" What difference does that
make to Burton?
That demonstration against Turkey
in the Bosporus won't be the only one.
There viii be q demonstration against
turkey all over this country next
Thursday, and it will simply eat tur-
key up.
The Edison company evidently needs
a proof reader. 1t is carrying around
a sign saying Edison light don't
flicker" Who said 1t do?
The Capitals dispatches from the
Chapman meetings at Newark are evil
IDENTIFY delayed in transmission" In
one column of this mornings Capital
is a story announcing a meeting for
tomorrow night which was really
held last Friday night, and adjoining
it is another dispatch written after the
meeting. The latter appeared in the
State Journal Saturday.
Tt is very plain that if Senator Bur
ton should accidentally retain his seat
by the grace of the United States su-
preme court, Attorney Robb will never
be confirmed for some higher job by
the vote of the senator from Abilene.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
QUAKER REFLECTIoNs.

From the Rnlladeip1lla ENeCOAu-i
Charity is often kept in the family
In Russia the way OF the transgressor
is czared.
The ehesty individual is not necessarily
broad-rninded
In a poker game giving the glad hand
is never intentional
Anticipation is the pleasure we get from
things that don't exist
4 prude is generally young girl who
knows entirely too much.
You can't always preserve a reputation
by marking it: Handle with care.
The telephone girl has no fear of deaf
ness Just because she has constant ring
ing in her ears.
Wigg=' sHarduppe is always going
broke Wagg-''WeI, I notice he isn't
shattering any traditions
A man often loses his money through a
hole in his pocket, but woman has to
have a hole in her stocking
ll-s'ATrs. Henpeclxke says she does
exactly as she pleases. Belie-''So does
her husband" Nell-''v 'vVhat?'' Belle
Exactly as she pIeases."
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

The Prussian ministry of railways has
placed at every important railway CEN
ter throughout the kingdom a magnifi-
Gently built and appointed car for the
transport OF sick persons. These cars
have been specially fitted up from plans
supplied by sanitary authorities. Spring
beds and every medical device for the
alienation of. suffering during transit
have been utilized. There are ice safes,
gas stoves for cooking. rooms for at
tendants and ingenious devices for muf-
fling the sound caused by the motion OF
the train. 1t is not intended to make
these carriages pay: they have been in
stituted chiefly on the ground of human
fty.-Technical World Magazine.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
A WoRD FoR HOcH.


Just what grievance that Ewing Her
bert has against Governor Hoch we
don't know but presume it's along lines
and upon the par with Bent Murdock's s
reasons. At any rate his writings smack
strongly of sour grapes His main con-
tention is that the governor turned his
back upon his friends and appointed
enemies to office. This is a pretty thin
excuse to give. He loses all sight of
the fact that it was most conlmenda Bile
upon the part of Hoch to put petty feel
ing behind him in making his selections
to office. He doesn't seem to think that
the governor had a right to salbserve
to the will of the people He finds no
fault with the selections which is evil
dent that he is willing to concede him
self that Hoeh's head was pretty level
after all. Il SINNERS down to this propo-
sition: Ewing has a kick simply be-
cause Hoch failed to see through his
monocle and is too small in his own
makeup to arise above personal opinion
and confess that perhaps he is in the
wrong and not Hoch.-Stafford Repub
lican.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

It was not Mr.. Graham's s fault that
his vacation began late in the season,
but that it was his misfortune was
proved more than once, says the
Sketch. He spent his holiday in
seaport village which has for some
years grown in popularity as a sum
mer resort.
He packed . great haste, and found
on his arrival that certain necessa rv
articles had been left behind. He
therefore walked to the shop known as
Browns Emporium" and expressed
a desire to see their stock of combs
With uplifted nose and leisureIy step
the young woman in charge produced
two articles, one bright blue and the
other deep red. The material was
doubtful
We've got these two said the
young woman, indifferently, 'but we
don't have much call for summer nov
elites as late in the season as this, when
the hotel is getting ready to close"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

The football season will soon be
over and then Will come the annual
clamor for reforms in the game with
the number Of casualties and so forth.
Did you ever stop to think that there
is not an athletic contest of any kind
in which there are not accidents and
iniuries9 Right here in Topeka there
have been more serious injuries on
the baseball diamond than on the foot
ball checkerboard. Tt is the price that
must be paid for supremacy and it is
the same in life as in athletics The
man who succeeds is the one who can
take the hard knocks without a
r-r4r.ra74r
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

The poisoning of W. z. Thomas, Of
Leavenworth, a close business associ-
ate of c. J. Devlin, is another mark by
which to measure the extent of the
DeVlin wreck. Reports are in conflict
as to whether Thomas was poisoned by
accident or by his own design, but he
ness brought on by the wreck of his
fortunes in the failure of Devlin and
was in a state of mind where suicide
might have been likely. It is agreed
that Devlin meant no harm to any
one. He expected to pay out. But he
used other peoples money in the graft
fication of his passion to do big things
in finance, and one day fate called the
turn. And no man does well enough
to be excused on the score of what he
means. who daily tempts fate with the
fortunes and happiness of other people
as we'll as his own.-Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

cerned. but which is pretty hard on
the west It makes the west pay part Of
the most OF freight shipped to the east.
Therefore the West gets the worst of
the bargain both going and coming If
the making of rates were in the hands
of a disinterested commission these dis
ordinations would be done away with
Insofar as the general welfare Of the en-
tire country would permit.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
FRON OTHER PENS
COLLEGE BRUTAIITIEs

when hazing and brutal prize fght-
ing must be put down they will be put
down. If all parents opposed to the
violence and barbarity of drunken
rowdies will make their protests eff
fective by withdra wing their sons from
any institution that to1erates the des-
perate and deadly schemes of finding
fun. the authorities of the different
universities and colleges win soon put
an end to it.-Galveston News.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

E. r. Hoag. a Jewell county stock
man. proposes to become a trust all
81 himself THAT is, he wiz raise cat
81. fatten them with his own corn,
convert them into beef. and sell them
y, the consumer. all by himself. He
t,.a bean raising and feeding cattle for
,r..srtv-ave years. and last week he
--.,g1,f a slaughter yard and meat
-,.-l-ef in Jewell city. He has two
-,,rsfred head Of Young beef cattle
l-at he proposes to kill and sell by
~ Mound instead Of on the hoof,
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
PROSPERITY IN KANSAS.

increased eight millions in the past
year. with the reports from bumper
wheat and corn crops still to come in.
There doesn't seem to be anything the
matter with Kansas; not for the pres
ent, anyway. Only three state banks
have failed in three years Two of
these bankers are in the penitentiary
and the third is a fugitive from justice.
This makes the Kansas farmer feel a
than in olden times, when the value of
a dollar depended upon the honesty
of the bank official.-Southwes
Banker.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

Shawnee county has a few of the
best macadam roads in the country.
1t should be the duty of some one to
see that they are kept in repair and
not allowed to disintegrate.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

The trial of Heck for the brutal as
sauit on w. F. Kuntz for the purpose
Of robbery ought to be a warning to
young men who are hunting for meth
DDS Of making easy money"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

The labor question promises to
cause the lawmakers as much trouble
as Goes the tariff, owing to our recent
territorial extensions. While there is
a ceaseless clamor against the admis-
sion Of Chinese laborers in the United
States, the people Of Hawaii declare
that the exclusion Of the Oriental from
their territory is working a great hard
ship in the sugar interests. Perhaps
some Hancock win say that the labor
issue IS a. local one
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
NO REPREsENTATTON.

Now when nine out of ten Kansas
men desire to back the president in his
effort to force a square deal out Of the
railroads, the state hasn't a man in tile
United states senate to voice her senti-
ments.-Jewen ReDublica1
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

The Cuban fruit is beginning to
turn and viii soon be ready to pluck.
Uncle sam is not likely to exhibit
much patience toward the revolution
ary element of the island. The con-
ditions down there appear to be grow
ing daily more disturbed.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

our neighbOrs in the Canadian
northwest are sparing no effort to at
tract to their territory settlers from
the United States. One of the latest
Inducements offered is state owned
lelenhones.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

The fact that every railroad operat-
ing in Kansas is short OF freight cars
indicates that the great transportation
companies have not kept pace with
The development of the great west.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

In the diplomatic game which is
now being played in the south of
Europe. the sultan holds some good
cards. He can take the Suez canal
away from England if he should see
ht TO do so. by revoking her charter.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

Bradstreets table Of bank clearings
for the last week tells a remarkable
story Of business activity. Every city
reporting shows heavy gain. with the
exception of Topeka and Richmond,
va. The average increase for the en-
tire country is 2O.5.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

Kansas usually has a part in every
spectacular current news feature. but
Up TO date no Kansas man had a hand
in the prison mutiny at Jefferson Citv.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

A statistician has figured up that
there have been 165 accidents, sixty
seven of them fatal among the Alpine
mountain climbers this year. That is
away ahead of the football record; yet
we hear no demand for the ameliora-
ton Of mountain climbing. Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

angels fell into innocuous desuetude as
soon as some thoughtful soul re
marked that nobody ever disputed the
masculinity of the devil.-New York
Evening Telegram.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27

A long drawn out fight in congress
SIS promised, between those who favor
q lock canal and those who want a
Cea level waterway across the isthmus.
Nothing could suit the transcon-
tinental railways better since the
question of location has been settled.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-27
A NATURAL RFSULT.

When a Kansas senator is willing to
sell himself to a little fraudulent outfit
in st. Louis for $500 a month. it isn't
hard to understand how the gigantic
railroad combines are able to control
the United States senate.-Jewen Re-
publican.