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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-22
Tile KEATH-J0NES COMPANY


We will offer to the trade Tor the next month
the following goods at cost, we want to make
a clean clearance OF Winter i'm order to
make room for Spring goods. So come at once
and inspect our stock, even IL you don't wish to
buy, for it is pleasure to show our customers
what startling values have I'm store for them
All Winter weights in Clothng--- Suits, Pants
and Overcoats, at actual cost. Also Capes, Jack
forts and Lap Robes, the same way. A big as
sortment of Knit Shirts at your price.
We have $50 pairs of Shoes to offer very cheap
and which are of the very best that is manufac-
tured. But, after breaking the boxes inremov-
ing from one store to the other have decided to
place them on the Bargain Counter and let them
go at great sacrifice. Qua entire line Of Shoes
will be knitted to the core, have entirely
too many.
Remember, these Prices are for the SPOT
CASH, and no charging will be listened to-
Come everybody and bring your purse, and we
will gixe you the cheapest and best merchandise
taht has EVER been offered YOU.
We have just received pretty lot Of Spring Goods as
Gnghams Nnsooks SwsseS Pq and lots of other syles
We have the largest and best selected stock of Ladies'
Collars that las ever been Shown this market
pretty line Of Mohair tailor madeSkis all leading shades
Also large assortment Of ac mrcer Sesn Pecos cheap
We hove the SWEETEST and nobbi line Spring Silks all upede SHADES
at once and take look and will be pleased with
prices pattern ard quality
LaCeS and Embroderes hsa h"sHg ;r that s @ have ave. ss. perfect
extensively cheapest money buy and feel assured that we
please the most astidous
The most uoda ine Of CRAVAS all Ascots Fourn=hand and
string es International aud United Shirts Collars the yey best
to be had and also Our fifty cent line cant be duplicated
>SGS>SSSHS 1<SSaS
the price and let Crangm be covered AV the best cents EACH
>S>SSSSS1SSSHSSg
We have several rolls CARPET we will close out at cost Also small
stock of Furniture that we will sell at COST
I||l HIlfII- JONES COnPIII,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
AS no DoG-EATING.

Are we barbarians or a civilized peo-
pie? Are we really so lacking in civiliza-
ton that Topeka, the capital city of the
Union, will allow such a barbarous
practice to continue as is said to take
place each twenty-four hours this week
at Vinewood Park?
It is quite possible that the Igorrotes
may be an interesting study from an
anthropological standpoint A great
many of US will take pleasure in going
to see them just as we go to see the
elephant in the circus. But when it
comes to putting them through their
PAGES as dog-eaterss incidentally fnf1ict-
ing torture upon dumb brutes, Tepeka's
civilization should be sufficient to put
a speedy stop to il.
The scene that is described as taking
place at Vinewood is not only disgust
ing, but it is brutalizing. There may
be some who enjoy it. If so, that very
fact should argue against it, 1t is GER
tainly unnecessary. It's a far cry from
Innes to the Igorrotes, and when if
takes in the slaughter and cooking of
CANNES it's little too far
Cut out the dog-eatingl
While this is not an advertisement we
must admit that the notoriety we are
thus giving the Igorrotes may result in
a larger attendance at the park. There
is much in the Igorrote exhibition that
is entertaining-but the dog slaughter
J ing pot-pie feature is nauaeating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
WHATsTHE MATTER wITHIoWA?

The state census of Iowa this year
shows that there has been a decrease
in the population of that state in the
last five years. According to the fed
|eral census of 1900 there were 2,231,-
$50 people living in Iowa, while this
year there are 2,216,068.
1t is thus apparent that Iowa has
not only not increased through immi-
grafton, but it has also failed to hold
the natural increase from birth, and it
has actually lost over 1900 people in
addition.
Mr.. Johnson Brigham. state librarian
of Iowa, advances the theory that this
condition is brought about by too
much prosperity in Iowa and too cheap
land elsewhere. This may seem para
doxical, but to a certain extent it is
probably true. Good times in Iowa
land. The rising generation has found
it too high to buy at home. when
cheaper land might be secured farther
west. Consequently many Iowa farm
ers have emigrated to Canada, the Da-
kotas, Kansas and Oklahoma.
The same condition exists to a large
extent in eastern Kansas. Land here
has been steadily advancing in price.
1t is still far cheaper than it is in
Iowa, Illinois and states further east
Farmers from those states are coming
in and buying Kansas farms, and the
Kansas farmers are pushing further
west and settling the western counties,
or going into Oklahoma. Consequent
ly western Kansas and Oklahoma are
increasing in population, while eastern
Kansas. aside from the gas belt, is
just about holding it's own.
This does not entirely explain the
change that has taken place in Iowa,
however. The cities, as a rule, are in
creasing in size, while the rural popula-
ton is falling off. This means that the
size of the farms must be increasing as
the population decreases. That ought
not to be so. The rural districts ought,
at least. to hold their own. If the farms
are worked as well as they can be pro-
fltably, one can see why the population
on them should not increase; but if an
ideal condition exists, the excess popu-
lation from the farms would flow to the
towns to build up factories and diverse
industries.
AS matter of fact the farms are not
worked as well as they might be- The
tendency ought to be towards smaller
farms and more intensive cultivation.
Instead Iowa seems to have been going
the other way.
OF course it is a good thing for the
country as a whole to have the popula-
ton spread out and fill up the vacant
spaces, and as Oklahoma. western Kan
sas, and the other available prairie land
becomes settled, the overflow will re-
claim the desert.
Oklahoma in the past fifteen years
has been a great drain on Kansas. In
fact, Kansas has furnished a large part
Of Okiahoma's population, but under
natural conditions the older states ought
at least to hold their own in rural pop
uIatlon, and only the excess ought to
emigrate to the cities and to newer
sections
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record.

rFroul the Philadelphia Record.l
Many a slow girl wears fast colors.
Every man has ancestors of some
sort.
A forbidding individual-an auction
eer.
Children and a lot of singers should
be seen and not heard.
An optimfst is a man who polishes up
the dark side of life
Clothes may not make the man, but
thew sort of classify him.
There is no similarity between a
whole knot and a knot hole.
The chiropodist may rise to the head
of his profession and still remain at the
foot.
Home is what we make it, and some
fellows never make it until about
a m.
A day dream may be the result of
idIeness. but it is better than night
mare
No. Maude, dear; when two Poles are
married it isn't necessarily wooden
wedding.
Nell-'.She is pretty. but there is
something manly about her. Belle
Yves; a lot of men"
A hanging committee might better
devote its attention to some artists
rather than to their pictures
Wfgg-'.B1ones and his wife seem to
he quite happy again. Have they patch
ed M their differences2" Wagg-.Yes;
the divorce went through without a
hftcA."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
JAYHk WKER JOTS

Mitchell county is to have the coun-
ty system of rural free delivery after
October 2.
The Manhattan Nationalist points
failure was because his credit was too
good
The dove of peace may not light at
Portsmouth, but if it doesn't the OF
tawa Herald thinks it will have the
time of it's life explaining why to a man
at Oyster Bay.
The initial number of Albert Reid's
new daily at Leavenworth, The Leav-
enworth Post, gives promise to the peo-
pie of Leavenworth of a readable after
noon paper as soon as the stereotyper
and the pressrnan get a little more
accustomed to their duties. The Post
will be valuable addition to Kansas
journalism.
Bent Murdoch: "Is this the Santa
Fe trail?' inquired Tate arrival of
an "airly" settler, as their buggy
bumped over a number of deep ruts
on the prairie. mo, this is not the
Santa trail. This trail was made by
the cattle stolen from the Indian Ter
rftory before, during and after the war,
by Kansas beef contractors, who drove
them along here on the way to Fort
Leavenworth to sell them to the gov
eminent who were these Kansas
beef contractors ?" Don't speak SO
loud. They are mostly all dead
hcllO! says the AlCnlSOn NIODe.
That's a funny word. We use it a
hundred times a day, and yet we never
think of where it came from. Hello
isn't as many people think, trans
posed warm exclamation used in heat
| ed discussions by hot headed people.
It's French. Way back in the eleventh
| century the word was born. The Nor
mans in England coined it. They had
great wolf hunts in Britain just after
they had conquered the country, and
while thew q I1c11 Of
course they had to yell. Had the Nor
mans spoken Anglo-Saxon, probably
when we used the telephone he would
say, tThuthwool,' corruption of the
wolf AS they spoke French, they
cried the French for the wolf. or lie
loup, pronounced 'luhloo.' The Anglo
Saxons picked up the word and it was
corrupted into hello Remember,
when you telephone the next time, that
you are giving the old Norman wolf
hunt cry, the wolf
Fred Trigg of the Salina Journal
who was reared in Anderson county
and knows all the surrounding coun-
try, says that there is a John Brown
spring near Trading Post in Linn
county. He says: More trouble has
been kicked up over the John Brown
spring than is necessary. AS d. matter
of fact, Governor Hoch is right in his
contention. There is a spring in Linn
county which is called, and has been
called for years John Browns spring.
The spring is located near Trading
Post, and there is no effort to make it
appear that John Brown ever owned
the spring. There is an old idea pre-
vailing in Linn county that John
Brown delighted to drink the water
from this spring. The name was given
to the spring on this account. The
spring is on the land. or near to it, of
Austin Hall, the only survivor of the
Marias DIES Cygnes massacre, and
stauch friend of Browns. John Brown
was often through that territory. He
was familiar figure around Trading
Post during the early border troubles,
and for twenty years John Browns
spring has been known in Linn
county,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
THE WHEAT CROP.

The figures concerning the winter
wheat crop which Mr.. Coburn has given
his o. k, although subject to amend
ment later on, will be taken as approx
imately accurate for the very reason
that Mr.. Coburn approves them. They
are somewhat less in a few counties
than had been anticipated, but thew
run over in others
Particularly gratifying is the big WELD
in the eastern part of the state. The
wheat acreage is comparatively small
in eastern Kansas because other crops
are more profitable as a rule But far
nners who believe in diversity raise
some wheat, as much or more than do
those in older states east of US, and
their returns this year are extremely
good.
1t is noticed, too, that the number of
million bushel counties is increasing.
This year there are thirty-four such
counties, and five others are close to the
million bushel line, while such counties
as Jewell, Cove, Lane, Kiowa and 9TH
ers really ought to be counted among
the wheat counties, for they produce big
crops.
The counties close to the Colorado line
in northwestern Kansas are gradually
coming into the wheat belt. Sherman
county this year produced more than
100000 bushels and Cheyenne came to
the front with 100000 of winter wheat
alone, and there is considerable spring
wheat grown in that region
In view of the fairly good prices that
prevail, and especially in view of the
extremely good quality of the grain,
Kansas can feel very well satisfied,
thank you, with the wheat crop of 1905.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. !

LFronn the Chicago News.1
A man seldom regrets the things he
doesn't say.
1t is easier to float rumor than it il
to sink the truth.
Instead of trying to kill two birds
with one stone use a shotgun.
No man need hope to reach heaven
by walking over his neighbors
It's useless to call the cat when Won
spill the milk of human windness
Good intentions may do for paving
material, but the streets get Just az
dirty.
Don't snub man because he is rich.
He may be as poor as you are some
day.
Convince a man against his will and
you'll have to convince him over again
tomorrow.
There are traces of greatness in ali
men, but the majority manage to kick
over the traces.
Some men lose their health while
acquiring wealth. then lose their
wealth trying to acquire health.
After witnessing the average rnili-
tary drama it is easy to believe that
war is what Sherman said it was.
Yes, the world may owe you a living.
but you will starve to death il YOU sit
down and wait for it to come around
and settle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFronn tn

TFrom the Atchison G1obe1
Most people have friends they are afraid
of.
There is a peace that costs more than a
fight.
Every man acknowledges faults that are
apparent.
How YOU blush for some of your old
opinionsl
Every man likes to learn, but no man
likes to be taught.
If YOU expect to get rich you must make
money during hard times.
The season will soon be here when you
can strike at fly and hit it.
The graphophone has voice indicating
that it had to be coaxed to sing.
A woman sometimes acts like an angel;
but she's woman, just the same.
The neighbors get mighty tired of a
woman who is subject to Mysteries.
As soon as some people know each other
well, they are ready for a quarrel
They are about even: the man takes in
the show, and the show takes in the man.
We would as soon pass funeral pro-
cession in the street as woman in
mourning.
To be a man is to be the worry of some
woman: to be woman is to be the worry
of some man.
When a new and pretty girl comes to
town, somehow we can't help feeling sorry
| for the old ones.
immodest on the clothes line than a mans
underclothes-
The longer woman knows a man tbs
less she cares about her personal appear
ance when with him.
There are only few certainties in the
world One of then, is the mother; yor
| can always depend on her.
How much pleasanter q clerk is befor,
/ he gets your money than when he hands
| you back your ehangei
After a man passes seventy, living mus
be good deal Ike waiting to go to {
| dentist to have tooth pulled.
Attention is called to an Atchison hus
| band who thinks his wife is innocent witt
every evidence against her. Give the raer
credit. Wives are not the only ones VIII,
Believe and Have Faith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
MAN AS A BACK NUMBER.

When it comes to sensational state
ments in psychology and sociology,
commend us to Chicago, where they
seem to discover more things which
are not SO than any other center of
the globe. One of its learned educa-
tors has just announced that man is a
back number. that women are increas-
ing in numbers and potentiality be-
yond men and that the males will soon
be driven back to the farms for a
chance to get living. He makes the
categorical statement that more girl
babies than boys are born and that
women have, according to returns in
the last two census years, leaped
from a trif1e less than four millions of
lions. Well, what of it?-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
A Good Word.

In the old south it was customary
for slaves who could neither read nor
write to ask some member of their
masters family to do their correspond
ence.
one morning Aunt Chloe approach
ed her Young miss and requested her
to write a love letter to Uncle Billy, an
aged sutton.
what shall say, Aunt Chloe?' the
young lady inquired
"D'lawl Miss Anniei write it jes lax
Won wus er writin' to one er your own
beaux; but I tink notwithstanding is er
mighty purity word Jes put dat IN
som ers.''-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
WHAT ELSE?

Addressing the Anti-Horse Thief as
ISOLATION meeting at Eudora the other
day, Tom Kelly said that the expert
now going over the books would find
nothing wrong with his administration
and the people ultimately would find
out that he had served them with fidel-
fty as treasurer. What else could Kelly
have been expected to say before such
an assemblage, If he mentioned the sub
ject at all ?-Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
An Anecdote of Dumas.

Dumas pere, who was proud of the
prices he received for his work, was once
boasting of the fact
ssRevond a doubt he remarked, 81
am the best paid of living men of let
tiers: 1 receive 80 sous line"
Indeed, monsieur?'' said a bystander,
sI have never worked for less than
< o1n nounds a line. What do you think
of that?''
You are joking" responded Dumas,
in irritation.
mot at all.'
For what do you receive such rates
For constructing railways" was the
answer-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
THE uNspoKm WORD.

There was a word for thee,
MY lips could not set free
in this confused sphere
That word I yet must speak,
However far I seek
That word thou yet must hearI
/, past the throb OF time.
Inc bounds of space must climb,
Since thou hast these outwon.
With fated errand fraught,
L, seeking thee, thou, sought,
We can not be undone
Thou. with no sensate ear.
My crying yet shall hear
w men Ilps of mine ar dust:
That word thou canst not miss.
1t IS because of this
In immortality I trust.
-Edith M. Thomas in September Smart
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The gossips of Wooster, Ohio. will
have enough material to whisper about
and gloat over for the next six months.
A boy can never see the sense of
taking nap in the daytime.
The corn crop reminds us of some
sinners-it needs saving every few
days.
The Kansas City reporters are busy
this time building electric line from
Kansas City to Topeka. They have got
as far as the franchise now.
Secretary Coburn's figures give Ora
OF wheat Dave Hanna ought to have
law passed requiring all crop esti-
mates to give Graham at least a million
bushels and sometimes more.
Must be the w. c. T. U. ladies have
scratched some of the joints off their
visiting list If the places they named
to the mayor are the only ones they
know about.
This mon possumus'' which is figur-
ing in the peace negotiations at Ports
mouth, ought to be popular in the
south. At least it sounds like some
thing which viii arouse the enthusiasm
of every Rastus in Dixie.
The other side of the Taggart case
can now tell what the captains tank
capacity is.
up so soon, so that he can give his at
tention to it, Walter Wellman may let
congress hold a special session after
all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.

Some people take a lot of satisfaction
out of never being satisfied with any
thing
1t is a great economy to smoke cigars
and feel the habit is so expensive YOU
can't afford to own ar automobile.
A girl is sure a man is going to pro-
pose to her when he doesn't like her
little brother, but gives him nickels to
prove it
When women say a girl is awful good
to her mother and has sweet DISPOSE
ton they. mean she has no chance to
get married.
A mothers ambition for her son is to
have him either be clergyman or
marry rich wife, and her dream Of
heaven to have him do both.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
IT sOuNDs GOOD.

1.-THE peace of Portsmouth"-it has
pleasant sound. as well as a taking
ALTERATION. May it not prove a will-o'-
the wisp, whether or not the ALTERATION
be spoiled by it's final contamination in
Washington Whichever city lends its
name to the pact, twill sound quite as
fine in history as any famous peace
made in the Old World.-Springfield Re-
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
STATE LIFE INSURANCE.

The governor of Florida recon-
mends that the state take up the life
insurance business. Such recommends
lions are likely to meet with increas-
ing popularity as public acquaintance
with the extraordinary extravaganza
of the private companies increases.
There is apparently nothing in the
constitution or laws of any of the
states, or of the United States, to pre-
vent a state from so extending its
functions of government, or even 60
ing so far as to establish a state mon
opo1y of the business by excluding pri-
vate mpanies.-Springf1el Repub-
lican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
TIMES CHANGES.

1t would have done Ben Butler good
if he could have lived to see the day
when New Orleans would welcome
federal control of yellow fever cpl
dernic with such enthusiasm that the
citizens themselves would raise by
popular subscription the money to pay
for it. Butler esta blished federal con-
troll of sanitation as of everything else
in New Orleans during the war He
was roundly abused for it, but he
proved the efficacy of cleanliness and
strict quarantine in preventing yellow
fever.-Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
THE DEADLY PARALLEL.

One time there was a young man on
the hill who got the confidence of a girl
to such an extent that he kissed her.
Afterwards he told it. The other uni
versity students socially ostracised him.
Cy Leland says that he made the deal
whereby Henry Allen and George Clark
divided the fees of the state printers
office. Cy Leland has violated the rules
of the political game as much as the
university student violated the rules of
the social game. There is no excuse for
his present talk.-Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
.WHY7

Secretary Burrow is said to be in
terested and has controlling influence
in number of banks. We have never
fully understood why a wealthy man
with his hands full of business would
want to go to Topeka and give his time
to measly s., 500 office. We have had
our suspicious, but we can say honestly
we do not understand it.-Holton Re
corder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23

Governor Hoch went in swinlrnin'
Sunday at Atlantic Cityl Has the gov
ernor forgotten his boyhood days when
that sort of thing meant a visit to the
woodshed, and its accompaniment of
pain and sorrow-unless he got his hair
dry and his shirt on right side out be-
fore he went home?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
HOME NEWS WHILE away.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
9hs paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the ratio of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often aS desired. While cat OF town
the State Journal will be to Sou like
q daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-23
KELI.Y,S NERVE.

Some of these days some clever man
will invent a remedy for weak nerves
called TomKellyitis. The recent ad-
dress he made in which he abused w.
r. Stubs was made in Stubs home
town, Eudora In the first place, few
men like Kelly would have the nerve to
make an address in public at ALL
Atchison Globe