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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-04-01
Responsibility Disciaimcd.

This Office is not rcsr,hsillc Ia:
he excessive prices which arc said
to have bcen paid for warrant hooks.
Ne demand has ever been made to This,
department. so far rs | know. for the
warrant books. and no complaint
against tho alleged prices charged for
them has ever been filed here.
III superintendent are so negligent
OF ,.iiy as 10 permit their boards To he
iiaposed on bv the makers of thea>
warrant books they would contribute
lo.the efficiency Of the service by send.
Ing in their designations"
DR.. Snnthall. who was in the Office.
said today that the hoard would make
roper uitcrance on the subject in due
time.
j, In connection with the matter or
school registers, the following is
taken from the Official department"
OF the Virginia School Journal. March,
1905:
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-04-01
fgsles,on's Charge stits Up
State Board.
Oh CL AIMS ALL RE- p oNsibIllTY
Secretary of Board Wakes Sarcastic
and Says Negligent Superintendent
Should Resign Register Was OF
ficihIly Adopted.
Especial Ia IN. Daily press

tolhciil l" tho Daily l'rr.S.l
RICHMOND. VA. March ai.-"Thc
warrant books for the district school
boards have never been prepared nor
furnished from This department since
It's foundation M ia this time"
Secretary Frank u. HrenI. nf the
State board of education. today madr
use nf Inc language quoted. in refer.
ring To the charges made in the printed
announcement Of John -. EgGlostou,
.lr.. OF Prince Edward county. contain
ed in Il recent issue of HE Daily
Press. MIR. EgslcstDn made HE direct
charge HAT The state was, paying more
for school supplies than they were
worth.
Mr.. Brent continues: There is no
law which requires ills department
10 furnish these things for The district
school boards, as they are used in pay.
ing out funds under the cuutru uf lie
district school boards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
A DIFFERENCE.

One of the charges against Super
intendent Newton of the Winfield
asylum is that he purchased a horse
and buggy from himself for the insti-
tuition, when the statutes say that no
person connected with an institution
shall be interested in any of its con-
tracts. So far as the State Journal
knows. there is no charge that Super
intendent Newton proflted unduly by
the purchase, or that the state was
overcharged, but in order to make it
appear straight the purchase was ap-
parently made from a relative OF Su-
perintendent Newton.
This was, of course, wrong, and the
statute against such transactions
should be enforced. But how about
a secretary of state, acting as chair
man of the state school fund COM
mission, having entrusted to him the
investment of the state funds in the
interest of the school children of
Kansas-how about this official buy
ing $4,000 worth of Smith Center
bonds from himself, clipping off more
than $4,000 worth of coupons as
profit to himself in the transaction,
and keeping the children of Kansas
out of that much?
The statutes prohibit those respon-
sfble for some other trust funds from
purchasing securities in which they
have any personal interest, but until
within the last two or three years no
one thought of Kansas ever having a
state official who would stoop to such
an action.
The difference between the action of
superintendent Newton and that of
Secretary of State Burrow is that the
former was not dishonest in itself, but
was not in accordance with the law;
the other did not happen to be pro-
orable in itself and would not have
been committed by any man having a
due regard for his trust. Newton is
to be dismissed in disgrace. but Bur-
row is defended and honored.
The standard of the present admin
istration is one that takes the position:
Beware of taking liberties with a
horse and buggy. If you do you are
fired or go to the penitentiary. You
can do what you please with the
money in the state treasury, take out
$4,000 unlawfully, steal school fund
coupons loan the states money to
bond brokers to unload questionable
securities upon the state, illegally de-
post the states money to the amount
of over half a million dollars and risk
it's loss by bank failure; do any of
these things, and all the governor will
insist upon will be that you give new
bond not to do 1t any more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
THE ORDEAL OF SMILEY.

The New York Sun looks across the
two thousand miles or less between it
and the Jail out in Rush county, and
philosophers concerning the difference
in the point of view from within the
jail and that on the outside. Here is
what it says:
at all depends upon the point of
view. When E. ]. Smiley looks out
from his cell in the toy Jail at La
Crosse, Kan, and sees a group of
farmers munching their lunches and
scrutinizing him with the Joy that is
unconfined he regards himself as a
martyr, but the farmers look upon
Smiley as lost soul. They think that
the punishment fits his crime, whereas
Smiley believes that the jails would
be full if the farmers had been secre-
taries of grain dealers associations
and had had his opportunities. AS
secretary of such an organization
Smiley formed a pool among the mill
ers of Bison, little wheat station in
the vicinity of La Crosse. That was
three years ago. His undertaking
would have been legitimate business if
an antitrust law had not been put
upon statute books of Kansas. Pools
are as old as the Ark, and their name
is legion. But Smileys pool got him
into trouble. Among the farmers he
was regarded as worse than a high
wayman or a horse thief. He was ar
rested and put on trial. In court after
court Smiley was convicted. and there
was no escape for him. The governor
| turned a deaf ear to an appeal for
pardon. western governor would
rather commit any crime in the calen-
dar than show leniency to a violator
of an antitrust law. So the first VIC
tim had to do time He surrendered
to Sheriff Purcell of Rush county and
was promptly locked up in the little
tin-roofed Jail with other malefactors
Not even the sheriff dared to give him
any privileges: the full penalty, with
all that it implied. for the likes OF
Smiley.
Smiley became a public curiosity
The La Crosse Jail is on a simple plan
You can look through it from any side
and the few tenants are within the
range of vision from any point. Rush
county came to see the villain in dur
ance vile-the man who was like
Rockefeller, the man who was the too
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
TRIALS OF THE WEATHER MAN.

TRIALS OF THE WEATHER MAN.
In the winter when the snowf1akes circle
softly to the ground.
And the wind about the easement whistles
with an eer1e sound,
Then we draw our chairs up closer to the
fireside's rudy cheer
And mnrmur: How I wish that summer
time were herei''
In the summer when the mercury is
mounting to the too,
In leaps and bounds colossal like it never
meant to stop.
We wave our fans about US and we mop
our heated brow
And think of how we would enjoy a slice
of winter now.
And when it's raining pitchforks and the
ground is soaking wet.
were longing for dry weather and a
chance outdoors to get;
But when the dust begins to rise and it's
dry as it can. be.
We think how very pleasant little rain
would be.
So no matter what the weather. its faults
alone we see.
Things are not run as they should!r and
this weather don't suit me!''
And the weather man leans back with q
long drawn weary sigh:
I simply can not please them, and it
amt no use to try
Burton, Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
BTJRTON,s REPUTATTON.

The value of a good reputation is
strikingly illustrated just at present in
the case of Senator Burton and the
Chickasaw school warrants.
The story is published in the press
that there is something fraudulent
about some school warrants issued in
the Chickasaw nation, and it is also
stated that $4,000 of them have been
found bearing Senator Buttons en-
dorsement. Nothing whatever is known
of the details in the matter, or how
Burton's name came to be endorsed on
them, but the mere fact that his name
is connected with them leads nine
tenths of the people who know anything
about Burton to believe that there is
something crooked in the matter.
If the endorsement were that of Pres
ident Roosevelt, or Governor Hoch, or
Chancellor Strong or Governor Folk, or
any other man with a reputation for
honesty, few people would jump at the
conclusion that the endorsements meant
anything dishonest, but the mere fact
that Burton's name is attached to the
warrants is enough to make people be-
lieve that they are dishonest.
Solomon was right when he said, "a
good name is rather to be chosen than
great riches"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

of Wall street. Every day the visiting
farmers made public holiday, a pic
mic, of Smiley, bringing their lunches
and their women folk. I'm going over
to take look at that trust feIler,' was
the usual announcement when a Wis
itor tied his horse to hitching post or
threw out the weight. As the first man
in the United States who has suffered
imprisonment for violating an anti
trust law Smiley is greatly priced in
Kansas, and the farmers are proud of
him, although he is horrible ex-
ample. But the reprobate feels no
shame. Like all martyrs, he is prob
ably proud of his martyrdom. So both
parties to the celebrated case are sat
isfed. We suspect that the gloating
farmers are secretly ashamed of their
daily persecution of the victim, from
a sense that in his place they would
probably have done the thing which
caught him in the meshes of the law.
Every man who drives a hard bargain
and takes advantage Of the necessities
of the other fellow-and what horny
handed agricuIturist does MOTIFS as
wicked as Smiley
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IRON the Chicago News.l


Umbrellas seldom come home to roost.
1t is more blessed to receive than to ask
in vain.
bachelor lawyer isn't necessarily a
failure IN court cases
Once in while the greatest truth is told
by the biggest liar.
The lion is considered the king of beasts
by all except the lioness-
It takes lot of cold cash to make an
impression on marble heart.
Noble birth is one thing and a nice,
soft political berth IS quite another.
It's difficult for a millionaire to stand
on his dignity while sitting on a jury.
youth always wishes he was older and
a woman always wishes she was younger
Some folks are so reversed in their man
ners that they don't appear to have any
at all.
A mans idea of an evil communication
is a written statement from his wife's
dressmaser.
sarily an idle man who spends him time
at matineeS.
A man never amounts to much until
some nice girl takes pity on him and leads
him to the matrimonial altar.
Though the photographer may make a
specialty of mega tives, he seldom Sa US no
when asked to take something.
The ancients believed that kissing a
rretty girl was n sure cure for headache.
After all there's nothing like the old fash
toned remedies
When a man thinks he lis a genius he
allows his hair to grow long, and when a
woman things she has mission she cuts
her hair of short.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Success is game of hide and seek
It doesn't take much inventive genius to
make q biunder.
Many a friendship has been severed bv
asking for a candid opinion.
Mans inhumanity to man. is often only
the result of Indigestion.
The professional swindler is always Ioolx-
ing for a victim who Is well to do
The poet laureate of England writes for
royalty, but the lesser poets prefer royaI-
ties.
Hard work offers small odds. hut is rem
orally sure winner. Genius is a hundred
to one shot.
As soon as a man has losing streak
his wife begins to lecture him about the
sin of gambling.
Siilicus-.Its a good scheme, when You
lose your temper. to count 100 before Won
speak, Cynicus-''If the other fellow iS
bigger than you are it's a good scheme r.,
count 10000" ~
No .. I don't look a bit like mamma.
said little Gladys. They say / have pana;s
eyes and Uncle Georges temper and lin.
Gle Henrys mouth. l s'pose some dax, IiiI
nave grandpa's whiskers.'
Hoax-"I know something that will r.
move grease spots from the clothes SO ths,-
viii never come back" Joax-"sThersS
ought to be a fortune in it. What fa ~ 3s5
Hoax-A @air Of SCISSORS
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison Globe J
The facts are. good many husbands
are heDpecked.
Every one wants to always be able to
work, but not to always have to-
If you don't like certain persons, how
you hate to hear their money rattle.
The first six hours after a girl is en-
gagged she acts much like a man who is
intoxicated.
Here is one sign that you are talking too
much: When your listener tries to pull
away from you.
Every time you hear of n henpecked hus-
band. you hear of a woman who is bru-
tally beaten by her husband.
Spring chicken never gets so cheap that
the husband of a woman who is a poor
cook can afford to buy it.
Suppose you were sent out into the
woods to chop wood at dollar a day?
How much would you~chop?
If a woman is the needed kind of
helpneet for her husband, she has to do
all her fighting in convincing him that ev-
cry defeat isn't a Waterloo.
OF course we all feel sorry for the man
with ornery kin, but he does not bore us
to, death talking about them, the way the
man with ar:stocratic kin does.
1t is all right for a sweet sensitive
terribly uncomfortable getting along with
any of them outside of books.
Oh, we'll, if you are suffering from I'M
requited love. take consolation in the fact
that years hence you will think it a
minor grief compared with losing your
teeth.
When woman has but one child she
doesn't see that it is spoiled to death and
Is apt to talk great deal of the folly of
having many children that their par
ents cant raise them right"
It was said of newly engaged Atchi-
son girl that she wondered why she was
so happy, and sat down to ponder it out
Then she discovered that 1t was really
nothing, and she wasn't so happy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
.AYHAWKER .WTy

Council Grove makes a bid for fame
as the home of a girl who is teaching at
Valdez, Alaska, for 500 month
The Kansas City Star refers to W. J.
Buchan as wv. Z" Billy Morgan
would better copyrisRt thoss initials Of
his.
AS another sign OF progress It IS noted
that the celluloid collar was entirely abb
sent from the Neosfo county Institute
this year.
Frank Burkdall of Usage county
found a bee tree recently out of which
he secured 1870 pounds of honey, besides
what went to waste.
Cloud county has one of the best jails
in northern Kansas, but it has only two
residents at present, and both of those
expect to emigrate shortly.
w H Hoyet, Barber county farmer,
reports two thousand bushels of apples
on his farm this year, which is fairly
good for a shortgrass farm.
Prosperity seems to be working over
time down in Usage county where the
Salt Creek correspondent of the Lyndon
Herald reports q pigs in one litter.
E. J. Smiley's vacation in Rush
county will come to a close next Mon
day when his term of imprisonment for
violating the antitrust law will end.
Wilson Henry, farmer living near
Lyndon, claims to have a pumpkin vine
that measured So feet and eight inches
long at last ICpOILSs dl1O W dS Stlll SlOW~
ing rapidly.
The new style of horseback riding for
ladies' has struck Winfield apparently.
The Courier relates that a bunch of IN
dams were there the other day and
one young Squaw rode astride.
Del Valentine has got rich enough to
build q model newspaper office for
the Clay Center Times. It is to be
hoped that it won't turn out like so
many of the model farms do.
Pottawatomie county is stamping it's
warrants mot paid for want of funds
for the first time in thirty years, and
the Westmoreland Signal is wondering
how it happens. No treasurer up there
has been depositing money contrary to
law in a defunct bank.
Cimarron Jacksonian: Phil Miller, up
to last Monday noon, had caught be-
tween 8 and 9 bushels of grasshoppers
off of ten acres of alfalfa. He says he
cannot see that the number is dinin-
ishing any, except that it takes little
longer now to catch a bushel than it did
when he first began
The flies in Fort Scott had regular
picnic the other day. A drayman in
unloading a barrel of molasses allowed
it to slip and it broke, and all but two
gallons of the contents ran over the
sidewalk and gutter. 1t remained there
for a day and then the fire department
had to get out and flush things.
Marion claims a citizen who. as a
boy, went to school ten years and grad
uated from the high school without be-
ing absent or tardy once. Then he
| went to work on a farm and worked
| for eight years without so much as los
| ing an hour. Now he is one of the
| county's prosperous farmers. but he has
evidently missed lot of fun.
Out at Bird City dog on a farm
killed a tweIve-pound turkey. The small
boy who accompanied the dog thought
! it was a shame to let so much meat go
| to waste, so he proceeded to roast it.
| The place he chose for his fire was be-
| tween two lay stacks, and it required
about a hundred dollars worth of hay
and machinery before the fowl was
| done
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES
BUT WHO IS IT ON?
Said Governor Hoch:
THE law is a joke

said Governor Hoch:
THE Law is a joke
To count up the peoples TIM
Kelly thought so. too
SO he loaned out a few.
And that's where the joke comes in.
Ella Harris Knight.
Burton. Kan.
When there is rainy weather 1t is
mighty dangerous for persons who can
not swim to try to cross Kansas ave-
nue.: They might fall in one of the num-
erous lakes ana drown.
r. E. Grimes and Frank e. Grimes
each signed Kelly's bond for 5000. Why
didn't F. Grimes and F. Ellick Grimes
also sign for the same amount?
man may make a pretty figure now
and then in his business, but his wife
is apt to make more of 'em if she is a
dressmaker.
Speculation is about even today
to resign or allow him to serve his term
out.
When a man cleans up a lot of money
in a deal it certainly ought not to be
tainted.
Governor Hoch seems to have accept
ed Kelly's bond with resignation in
stead of accepting his resignation with
his bond.
Wichita no longer allows meat to be
sold on Sunday, but beer-well. beer is
different.
Typhoid fever has appeared again, so
you would better keep on boiling the
water. Or, if it is too thick, try frying
it and season a little.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.1
One way to be clever is not to think you
are too ALFRED clever.
A man feels cheaper about swearing off
than for being locked up in a police sta
ton for not doing It.
A woman would rather not be rich and
have people think she gas than to be rich
and have them think she wasn't.
A woman is never so afraid of catching
cold in the wet when she has on low
shoes and openwork stockings as a man is
in rubber boots.
When a man goes out without an UNI
brella and gets caught in a rain he acts
as if he ought to be allowed to sue the
government for having a weather bureau.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

Since we have learned that some of
those Philadelphia grafters sold saw
dust to the city for seventy cents a
bushel we can realize more the sig
nificance of what they mean when
they say it pays to saw wood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
KANSAS C0MMENT
CLASSIFYING BURROw.

Joel r. Rurrow finally admits that he
is just as bad as Kelly. Well, confess
Burrow has anything of that ethereal
nature in his composition. Many people
in the state have classed him with Kelly
right along and it must be satisfac-
ton for them to know that they have
made no mistake in their diagnosis
BelOit Call
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
a ,sArDEN,s MUSINGS.

I sit in silence and ponder
OF the past days, SWIFT ana oIise'
And wonder If the future
Holds as much of pleasing light
For the pleasant days of gfrlhooo
VIII soon-so soon-be Ger,
And the many cares of woman
Come knocking at my door
win wou1anhood's years bring to me
joys as bright, and love as true,
Home and friends as sweet and pleasant
AS the ones my girlhood knew
All in vain nv many questions!
No one can the secret tell.
In the strength of Christ move onWaro'
Trusting Him, all will be wen..s..A r.
Ella. Harris Knight
Burton. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

The fuss over the high price which
the stationers tried to charge the state
for lead pencils and ink, and the lack
of any comment from the state Of
ficials on the robbery of the state
school fund, reminds one of straining
at gnat and swallowing a camel.
Better not do either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

Perhaps this is only an advertising
dodge on the part of the publisher of
"Fads and Fancies.'' At any rate it is
getting a big lot of free advertising.
He might probably extend his limit
of $50 on the edition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

Colonel Bryan says "the woods are
full of Democrats" But that doesn't
help any unless the colonel can per-
suade them to come out of the tall
timber and rally around the polls
along early in the month of Novem-
Der in leap years,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

IT is easy to see why Governor
Mickey of Nebraska is popular in that
state. He not only knows how to fix
the fences on his farm as well as his
political fences, but he has also just
won a championship in pitching horse
shoes
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF TILE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
sway during the sumTner may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate of thirty
cents month. Address changed as
often as desired. While cat Of town
Slle State journal Will be TO you Ike
a daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

OF course Governor Hoch is right in
refusing to allow the state to be de-
frauded in buying its mucilage and
pens, but a little indignation over the
theft of thousands of dollars from the
state school fund would also be in
order
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
WILL HE DO TT

Is it possible that Tom Kelly is to win
out again? Kelly defeated Bailey and
nominated Hoch. He laughed at Bailey
when the ex-governor accused him of
defalcation, and he was smart enough,
with the aid of the Topeka Capital, to
turn the tide against Bailey. WIN he
be able to do it with Hoch? 1t begins
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

Emperor William has asked the
consent of the car of Russia for a
prince of the house of Hohenzollern to
ascend the throne of Norway. Just as
though Bill Hohenzollern and Nick
Romanoff are running things in Nor
Wayi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

In commenting on Senator Hen1ey's
signing KeIly's bond for $250.00O the
Lawrence Journal says mot every
town in Kansas has citizens who could
do this No. and no other town in
Kansas has citizens who would do it.
Topeka has none since Mr.. Devlin
went broke
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28
THnSE WHO REFUSED,

Mr.. Roosevelt will not have to pay for
his copy of "Fads and Fancies" and Mr..
Cleveland refused to take one at any price.
On the whole, those gentlemen who re-
fused to be held up seem to have suffered
least disagreeable consequences. as was to
be expected.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-28

The beef trust ought not to bother
either Governor Hoch or Tom Kelly.
Both are getting enough roasts in the
newspapers to last them for years.