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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
WHAT sHOULD HOCH 10?

When the Sam Lappin incident oc-
CURED thirty years ago, only eighteen
thousand dollars was involved. 1t was
not known at first that the state treas
urer was involved in any dishonest
proceedings. It was simply known
that some bad bonds had been unload
ed on the state school fund. and the
state treasurer was merely censured
for not requiring the person to whom
the money was paid to betidentihed-
AS soon as these facts were known
to Governor Osborn he Immediately
demanded and received the resignation
of the state treasurer. Sam Lappin.
John Francis was forthwith appointed
to take charge of the treasury. 1t was
governor first received information of
the trouble before he had a new man
in the treasurer's Office.
That is the precedent for what Gov
ernor Hoch should do now. Half million
dollars of the states money has been
caught in bank failure where it was
illegally deposited. It is known that
two hundred thousand dollars more is
on deposit illegally in banks outside of
Topeka. A vast amount of the states
money will be tied up for months and
possibly lost in the end.
The state auditor is not issuing war
rants for fear State Treasurer Kelly
will cash them out of the permanent
school fund or other funds which the
constitution says shall not be diminish
ed or impaired.
Isn't it about time Governor Hoch
was demanding the resignation of KEEL
ly and putting man in the treasurer's
Office who will maintain the funds of
the state that are still available?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
THE CzAR,s PLIGHT.

The Russian government seems to be
In almost as much trouble as State
Treasurer Kelly. And the careers of
the two have not been dissimilar.
The car and his advisers have been
making promises to the people for years
which they have broken as fast as
made. The government has obeyed no
moral-laws when it's convenience was
better suited by breaking them, and it
made statutory laws to suit itself.
The result has been trouble. When it
has not been in one place it has been
in another. st. Petersburg, and War
saw, and LODI, and Odessa have broken
out one after another The result will
be one of these days that the car will
find himself without a throne under
him.
T. T. Kelly has been promising for
three years that he would clear up his
record. 1t has been impossible for
him to do so, and instead of doing so,
he has gone deeper and deeper into
crime. When he went into the state
treasury, he had only his Miami
county record behind him, so far as
is known. He promised to clear up
that record as soon as he was elect
ed state treasurer, but he didn't do
it. Then shortages were found in the
state treasury which Kelly could not
explain. Last summer occurred the
Comanehe county bond transaction,
when Kelly took $4,000 of the
states money to take up personal
note of A. A. GODDARD to enable him
to finance the bond deal, a plain case
of embezzlen1ent
| Now comes the climax of all: Kelly
is found to have arranged matters so
that his bondsman. c. ]. Devlin, could
borrow more than half million dol
lars of the states money, and he also
has about 100000 on deposit in
banks outside of Topeka, a clear vio-
lation of the law.
How long will those in authority
permit this sort OF thing to continue !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
.AYHAWKER JOTS

The Winfield chautauqua assembly
is reported to have made good"
financially this year.
Editor Dodge of the Beloit Gazette
is another country newspaper man on
easy street. He has just sold a farm
for $4,000.
The Minneapolis and Kingman base
ball teams, who played twenty innings
in a to 4 game at Kfngman the other
day, certainly earned their salaries.
The World tells of Lawrence
woman who, when her husband gets
cross, brings out a photograph and
sets it to take records. That settles
him.
S. c. Culp, Mitchell county farmer,
has a private electric plant on his
farm near Scottsville. and he has his
house and barn lighted with cleo
tricity.
Republic county was recently struck
by a sudden dry spell, and as con-
sequence the sheriff has in his possess
sion $40 quarts of beer, "a gallons of
whisky, other drinks in proportion, be-
sides a good assortment of bars, mir
rors and ice boxes.
A deadbeat at Scandal went into a
restaurant, got his dinner, and started
eff without paying for it. But as he
was getting into buggy his hat blew
off, and the man who caught 1t refused
to give it up until he had paid his
bill. That's one way.
Bert Walker confesses that he fire.
quently gets daft in talking about
love, poor cooking, fancy work and
kindred subjects, but he claims he is
now keeping still on the subject
nearest to hirn-chiggers. This is q
subject that clings close to any one.
The Erie Record cites numerous in
stances of threshing machine returns
in Neosho county, and none of them
shows less than % bushels of wheat
per acre, while some go as high as 35.
One man estimates that the average
Weld of Neosho county will be 80
bushels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
THAT ssTRUsT FUND

T. T. Kelly asserts that the $547, 900
of state money which he deposited in
the First National bank was a trust
fund, and that he is therefore a pre-
ferred creditor and should get his
money ahead of the other depositOrs.
When did this become trust fund :?
Was it a trust fund year ago when
Kelly drew a check for $62,5O0 against
it when he advanced $123,00O to A. A.
GODDARD to finance the notorious Com
anche county bond deal2
Checks cannot be drawn against a
trust fund. When Mr.. Kelly wished to
take up Mr.. Godard's note in the In
terstate National bank of Kansas City,
Kansas, when Mr.. GODDARD did not have
the money to pay it when it came due
at the end of three days, Kelly issued a
check for S62,5O on the First Nation
al bank and one for a similar amount
on the Central National bank.
If that deposit in the First National
bank had been a trust fund. Kelly
could not have checked against it.
When did it become a trust fund?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
Hercules Cement.

Hampton l.. Carson, attorney gem
eral of Pennsylvania, sat on the piazza
of Delaware Water Gap hotel, talk
ing about very resourceful and alert
lawyer.
His ready wit never fails him.
Mr. Carson said. HE is like the fakir
who was selling Hercules cement.
This fakir stood on a village street
corner with half a dozen women
about him. He was recounting elo-
quently his cement's virtues and at
the same time he was demonstrating
these virtues with actual experiment.
He took up a plate, broke it in half,
cemented the two pieces with the
Hercules and then suspended from
the mended plate. ten pound
weight.
'Look-a-here,' he said There is
no cement like the Hercules. 1t is
always ready, it needs no heating, and
it is as strong as steel. To this plate,
for instance, I have just hung a ten
pound weight. I will now remove the
weight and substitute a twenty-five
pound one. The cement, you see,
holds firm. 1 now increase the weight
to thirty pounds, and
Crash! The plate broke. The lit
tie audience smiled.
But the fakir, not at all perturbed,
went right on:
"'And you will observe, ladies, that
the plate now breaks with ease, thus
giving us an opportunity to cement
the edges more firmly together when
ever it is desirable to do So "-Ex-
change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
Didn't Help His Case.

Pat was ordinarily a good sort of a
citizen, but occasionally he would
stray from the straight and narrow
path, and during these diversions
along the broader way where the
water wagon rarely ran, he found en-
thusing ingredients that stirred his
soul into strenuosity.
One day he became unusually am
bilious and in the melee that followed
one peacemaker went over the tree
tops and another just escaped having
his autograph beautifully and senti-
mentally carved on a snow white
tombstone.
Consequently Pat got a personally
conducted tour in a patrol wagon, and
upon being hailed into court was tried
and convicted of attempting to de-
prive two worthy citizens of the right
of franchise at all future elections.
Prisoner at bar. stand up or
dered the judge when the finding of
the jury had been announced.
"All roight, yez honor" said Pat,
assuming perpendicular position.
prisoner at the bar continued
the judge, "have you anything to say
why the sentence of the court should
not be passed upon your"
mo, yez honor" was the startling
reply, but it's mesilf that hopes yez
hearrut will be as soft as yez head
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
COLLEGE FARMING.


Ia Kansas newspaper is authority for
the statement that some of the young men
VINO are arriving at the harvest fields
come IN patent leather shoes, shirt waists
and peg-top trossers.l
Mine eyes have seen the glory Of the col
He's working down in Kansas with
dress suit. understand,
And his pa tent leather dancing pumps
and peg-top pants are grand:
The hands are marching on.
have seen him in the college with his
bullying high, white brow;
nave heard him give the college cheer
sizz boomi and likewise "wowfs
is working now:
The hands are marching on.
He has left his Greek and Latin for the
harvest fields of toll:
And he'll stand out in the sunlight and
he'll roast and fry and boil,
And his face will get streaked and striped
with grimy Kansas soil;
The hands are marching on.
And Cholly carries with him in his suit
case, SO they say,
a shirt with stf1ened bosom and sons
socks both rich and gay,
And a lot of other toys and things to
make rich array;
The hands are marching on.
And likewise he has with him in his hand
some dress suit case.
Some fine complexion lotions for to use
upon his face
And doubtless on his nightrobes there are
ruffIes trimmed with lace:
The hands are marching on.
They fear the yellow freckle and the
And want a silk umbrella over every toll
ing man,
And BY and BY each one will want q cool
The hands are marching on.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
\ STATUTE.

'If any person shall advise, aid, or In
any manner participate in such act
Iloaning, depositing or converting state
funds to any personal use1 every per-
son so offending shall be deemed guilty
of an embezzlement of so much of said
moneys, or other property as aforesaid,
as shall be thus converted, used, in
vested, loaned. deposited, or paid out
as aforesaid. "-Section 1854, General
Statutes of 1901.
If the s547, 900 of state funds that
were in the defunct First National bank
was trust fund and not an ordinary
deposit, the officers of the bank had
no right to loan it to c. ]. Devlin.
If they loaned it to Mr.. Devlin know
ing that it was a trust fund belonging
to the state, they certainly violated the
statute quoted above.
Mr. Kelly certainly knew the condi-
ton of the First National bank. He
most assuredly knew that the state
funds which he had on deposit there
were being loaned.
Now then, Mr. Kelly and the officers
of the bank, was this trust fund, or
was this money deposited in the bank
contrary to law?
Either way, it looks very much like a
case of plain ernbezzlement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
SECRETARY ROOT.

The appointment of Elihu Root to
be secretary of state by President
Roosevelt comes as something of a
surprise. It was generally supposed
until day or two before the appoint
ment was made that Secretary Taft
would be transferred to the state de-
partment, which is the head of the
cabinet, but this supposition seems to
have been incorrect. Perhaps the
president has other plans ahead for
Judge Taft. There may be a vacancy
at the head of the supreme bench in
the not distant future.
Mr.. Root. the new secretary of state,
is recognized as a strong man. It was
Root who built up the war department
after the Spanish -American war.
When President Mckinley picked him
up, an unknown lawyer in New York
unknown so far as statecraft is con-
cerned--everybody wondered what a
lawyer who knew nothing about mill
tary affairs could do as secretary of
war. But Secretary Root made good.
He developed great executive ability
member of the cabinet. Mckinley
leaned upon Root and trusted his
Judgment perhaps more than that of
any other cabinet official, and when
Mr.. Roosevelt succeeded to the presi-
deney he quickly recognized the
strength of the secretary of war.
Since Mr. Root retired from the cab
met a few months ago he has been en-
gagged in the practice Of law in New
York and has been employed in some
very important cases. His law prac-
tice is worth to him financially many
times what his salary as member of
the cabinet will be. But President
Roosevelt has a faculty of persuading
men OF ability to give up large salaries
to serve their country, and so, at the
call of the president, Mr.. Root will re-
turn to the cabinet, this time to take
his place at its head in charge of the
state portfolio. His success as diplo-
mat will occasion far less surprise than
did his success in the war department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
LITTLE BREEcHEs.

don't go much on religion,
never amt had no show:
But I've got middlin' tight grip, sir,
On the handful o. things know.
don't pan OUT on the proDhets
And free will and that sort OF thing
But 1 b'lieve in God and the angels,
Ever since one night last spring.
I come into town with some turnips.
And my little Gabe come along
No four-year-Old in the country
;, Could beat him for pretty and strong
Peart and clipper and sassy.
Always ready to swear and fight
And I larnt him to chaw terbacker
Just to keep his milk teeth white
The snow came down like a blanket
As passed by Taggart's store;
l went in for a jug OF molasses
And left the team at the door.
They scared at something and started
1 heard one little squall,
And hell-to-split over the prairie
Went team, Little Brooches, and all.
Hell-to-spnt over the prairie,
1 was almost froze with skeer:
But we rousted up some torches.
And sarched for 'em Tar and near.
AT last we struck bosses and wagon,
Showed under soft white mound.
Upset., dead beat-but of Little Gabe
No hide nor hair was found.
And here all hope soured on me
OF my fellow critters aid
TEST noPpeu down on my marrow bones,
Crotch deep in the snow and prayed.
By this, the torches were played out.
And me and IrruI Parr
Went off for some wood to a shee2fold
That he said was somewha thar.
We found it at last and a little shed
Where they shut up the lambs at night
We looked in and seen them huddled thar
So warm and sleepy and white;
And there sot Little BreecheS and chirped
AS peart ever you see.
I<want chaw of terba cker
And that's what's the matter with me. "
How did he git thar? Angels.
He could never have walked in that
Storm
They just scooDed down and toted him
To whar it was safe and warm
And | think that saving a little child,
And fotching him to his own
Is derned sight better business
Than loafing around The Throne.
JOHN HAY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.7

IFrom the Atchison Globe.
1t is one sign of the most shiftless
folks if the roof leaks.
So much that is supposed to look
coquettish really looks untidy.
There are not many people whose
visits are as interesting as a continued
story in ten cent magazine.
Some farmers say a young team of
mules. attached to a buggy, can go as
far in a day as an automobile.
The housekeepers in Atchison are
the neatest in the world. Then what
keeps the flies from starving to death
Notice to the chiggers: If you want
a quiet place where you are out of
reach, get under fat woman's corset.
If it isn't the fire bell that rings
when you are alone in the house and
in the bathtub, it is the door bell or
telephone.
If a, woman, in making up a bed,
finds a thin emaciated bedbug, it
doesn't make her SO mad as if the bed
bug is plump. and fat
People are always regretting that
they didn't have the sense then that
they have "now," little realizing that
they haven't much now"
They tell of an Atchison man who
bought a lot for $500, and sold it later
to his kin for 5000. To his kin, mind
you. not to a mere strangerl
A new kind of salad has been in
TrOduCeQ IN AlCDlSOn WHICH IS SO Tlcn
and highly seasoned 1T makes the eater
dream they are holding his funeral in
a pouring rain.
Everyone demands that his friends
memory should be poor enough to for
get his wrong doing, and good enough
to remember what allied him when he
saw him last.
A pretty girl works in an Atchison
Office, and the old man said to her to-
day: 1.-THE only objection We have to
you is that you attract flies" IChart:
She's so sweet.
They tell of an Atchison girl named
Louise who is kept so busy that she
has never had time to change her
name to Iuleen, Luella, or Lucille.
Her friends are complaining about it.
Added to his other labors. man at
| this season finds in his daily mail a
| bulky letter from his wife or daughter
| telling of the good time they are hav-
| ing, and which must be read, or he
will be caught in falsehood when
| they return.
| When trouble comes to a man, he
decides that hereafter when his intui-
tions talk to him, he will lay aside
everything else while he listens. It
very seldom happens that trouble
| reaches a man of which he had not
been warned.
| Every man becomes extra hungry on
| Sunday. Yesterday a man put up this
written notice in his kitchen: 'rI will
wait until O'Clock for dinner but nc
longer. At that hour, IL dinner is not
ready, a strike will begin, with rioting
| features
| Some of the bills of fare given in
| the newspapers must be of the greatest
assistance to housekeepers. In bill
of fare lately printed in a big city daily
we find this suggestion: Tea hot OF
| cold 1t must be great help to 8
woman to learn that she can serve tes
either hot or cold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Is it possible that the approaching ad-
vent of Mr.. Lawson into Kansas had
anything to do with our frenzied I'M
ance?
Perhaps the war party that wants the
war to go on lives in Odessa, and it is
seeing to it that the war does go on
The red peril is. what troubles the
czar just now, instead of the yellow
ourselves on Tuesday, with an occa-
sional green one mixed in.
'Tis," asserted one boy. 'Tain't, !"
yelled the other. And the passing finan-
cier, who caught only the last word,
shuddered as he considered that even
the children on the street were talking
about his kind of money.
at is a fascinating occupation to
search the language for palindromes.
says a pi1i1ologist. Anybody who viii
apply early can have all the fascination
that is coming to US from that source.
Here's a pointer for the jointists: Why
don't they enjoin the officers from pros
ecuting them? That is what the beef
trust magnates propose to do.
The fly in the ointment for the aver
age boy at present is having to wash
his feet at night after going barefooted'
The Brooklyn ball team denies that
it plays ball on Sundays. There are 9TH
ers: They only try to.
This talk about State Treasurer Kelly
being a preferred creditor really belongs
in the joke column.
Might not Mr.. Rockefeller be referred
to as 1.-The man behind the dough-?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06

The late Mary A. Livermore liked to tell
a story of a Young friend of hers in Mel
rose, for she believed that in this story lay
a lesson for husbands.
Mrs Iivernore's friend was passing a
month alone, her mate having been sum-
moned to Europe on a business matter
And YOU are very lonely without your
husband now?'' the elder said to the
younger woman one morning.
"A little lonely" was the qualified an
swer.
But surely" said Mrs. Livermore, ''you
miss your husband very much now he is
away?''
The other laughed rather bitterly.
ooh no. she said. AT breakfast I
lust stand his newspaper up in front of
his plate, and half the time 1 forget he
isn't there"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
Cleaned Him Out.

They were exchanging the gossip of
the mining camps of Nevada.
Did you hear" said the fellow with
the diamond scarf pin in his sweater,
how they did up Sullivan over in
Kawich?"
Really"
Yep. Sullivan's saloon at Kawich is
busted fiatter than the bank of Gold
field You haven't been over to Kawich,
have you? It's IS miles out in the Wild
erness, and water. when there is any in
camp, is worth its weight In radiurn
Well, fellow went into Sullivan's the
other day with seven friends, and just
out of pure cussedness they all ordered
water."-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


Cigarettes do not affect the brain-for
obvious reasons
But few men are able to hear the
whispered call of duty.
People who live in the same square
don't always move in the same circle
Pretty women probably wouldn't marry
homely men If they were not asked.
The charitable man is kind to the weak
and the wise man is courteous to the
strong.
Never censure people because they hap
pen to be rich. They may be just as re-
spectacle as you are
Some girls grow up and become happy
wives and mothers and some others be
come lady novelists.
woman gives him good dinner-with
little fiaftery on the side.
1t is a criminal offense to stuff ballot
box, but there Is no law prohibiting the
stuffing Of contribution box
A fellow is seldom tight-chested when
he gets tight
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KANSAS COMAENT
PERHAPS.

While it wasn't intended that way.
the appointment of Silas Porter, of
Wyandotte county, to the supreme
bench. was about the best thing that
could have happened to Henry Allen, in
reference to Second district congression-
al matters 1t removes Aliens most
dangerous rival a man who could have
had the big Wyandotte delegation for
the asking. 1t is even being limited that
Hoch and Allen have kissed and made
up.-Atchison Globe
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NEVER BLAMEs WHISKY.

A man will blame his wife for inter
protests against his drinking whisky;
he will fight his mother rather than
whisky; he will forfeit every hope of
life to stand by whisky; but he never
falls out with whisky. It can kick him
and throw him in the gutter. He will
pick himself up, limp to a hydrant and
use water for cleansing purposes only,
but he never blames his troubles to
whisky.-Lawrence World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06

burn has been secretary of agriculture
twenty-five years on aSturday last We
claim this event should call for a
greater celebration than the Fourth of
July. Coburn has been one of the
most valuable men Kansas ever had,
and certainly it's most valuable office
HOLDER
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THE RIGHT KIND.

Gov. Folk is going to stop betting at
the race tracks in Missouri. He will not
stop to inquire whether the law is good
or bad. He will demand its enforce
nent. Folk is made of the right kind
of stuff.-Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
A STATESMAN.

People who contend that the car of
Russia is no statesman don't know
what they are talking about He has
just appointed his cousin to- be president
of the council of national defence, one
of the latest jobs in the realm.-Os-
borne Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06
EROM OTHER PENS
CUNNING FOR PEACE.

Plans for the Carnegie peace palace
at The Hague go merrily forward, but
at the same time the Krupps have or
ders for big guns to be delivered at
the rate of three hundred a month for
the next two years and more. They
are probably for the use of prospective
international arbitrators.-New York
Commercial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-06

It is said that an eastern railroad
has refused to issue passes to mem
bers Of congress who favor rate legis-
lation. Still you haven't heard of Sen
ator Steve Elkins and his compatriots
either walking or digging up the coin
of the realm.