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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-03

that was a matter Mr.. Burow did not
explain
An of this is ancient history. The point
now is that Smith Center is this week
issuing some more bonds, $4,000 OF re-
funding bonds According to the ordi-
nance as published in the Pioneer, Mr.
Burrows personal organ, this issue
bears six per cent per annum, two per
cent more than the state of Kansas Will
get out of the issue Mr.. Burrow unload
ed on the state school fund, even if the
latter runs to maturity.
This new series of bonds viii run full
twenty years. The ones Mr.. Burrow
sold the state through himself as school
fund commissioner run from two years
and half to nineteen years.
Now the question arises if Smith Cen
ter bonds running from two and a half
to nineteen years were such bargain
for the state at four per cent a year
ago. why must the city of Smith Cen
ter pay six per cent on $4,000 of new
bonds now? Are the mayor and council
of Smith Center a set of ninnies to is
sue bonds which will make their city
pay such a great amount of excess in
terest?
At four per cent this issue of $4,000,
running twenty years. would bear 3d.
500 in interest. At six per cent, the rate
at which the bonds are issued, the city
will have to pay s2o,4 400 in interest.
If the bonds are such a bargain at
four per cent, why is the city council
issuing them at six per cent? Does Mr.
Burrow expect to buy them from his
home town and again make several
thousand dollars on the deal?
OF course the State Journal dislikes
to believe that the secretary of state
and chairman Of the state school fund
commission would deliberately bunco
the sacred fund which is entrusted to
his care, along with Superintendent
Dayhoff and Attorney General Coleman.
It seems difficult to imagine that a
man whose most intimate political and
personal associates are those eminent
purists, State Treasurer Thomas T.
Kelly and United States Senator J. R.
Burton, would Intentionally use his
office as a member of the school fund
commission to make a couple of thou
sand dollars or so off of a fund devoted
to the school children of his state, but
there are Some things about that Smith
Center deal that are almost as difficult
for the State Journal to understand as
that Comanche county bond deal, in
which 1923, 600 of the states money was
used to finance a deal in unloading on
to the same sacred school fund some
bonds, the originals of which were the
greatest outrage that could be perpetra-
ted on the innocent people of Comanche
county.
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oUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFroyn the Philadelphia Record
The oculist is always looking for q
fellow with an eye for business.
It's generally the old mossback who
is fond of asserting that rolhn8
stone gathers no moss
Speak king of dyspepsia the kitchen
is at the bottom of 1t, although Il
may not be in the basement
There is no suffering like that OF
the woman who feels that she would
never live to tell the tale.
It doesn't pay to waste any sym
pathy on the fellow who always wish es
he had it to do over again.
Wlgwag='So you claim to be the
head Of the house. en- ?" NeWlyWed-
YES, you know we can't afford a
cook.
knowledge may be power. but all
the knowledge in the world wouldn't
run a power boat without electricity,
gasoline or naphtha.
The man who is born great doesn't
manage to get rid of his greatness as
quickly as the one who has had great
ness thrust upon him.
Many a fellow Is financially embar-
raised when he can't think UP a good
excuse for turning down a friend
who wants to make a touch.
Sillicus--'fWhat is the best way in
when they. become fnseparable 2" Cyni-
cus---Let 'em get married"
81 couldn't sell that Chinaman any
Of your salve," remarked the assistant
in the drug store. Shy not?" de-
manded the druggist. Because" eZ-
planned the assistant "an he would
say Wag; Me no savvy.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Frorn the Atchison al,

IRON the Atchison Globe.
No woman can manage q. pathetic
look when her hat is on crooked.
Those we like are svelI informed ,,
ana those we dislike are ''gossipers' s
An Atchison man quit drinking ice
water without the slightest diflcultv:
but he can't quit smoking.
In town of this size 'lowery beds
OF ease means that one has the wash
ing, ironing and sweeping done
In human effort, fishing stands out
prominently, as giving the least results
as compared with the time and work
involved.
ious to sympathize with the under dog,
will have to switch to the Russian
side.
Il am spending these evenings in
my gymnasium" said a man today
who devotes his evenings to vege-
table garden.
Any man who works around a mill
can tell you what he weighs today
and what ne weighed yesterday. Men
working around a mill do all their
loafing on the scales.
When a woman sells milk she usual
" gets her money for it. An Atchi-
son woman has sold milk steadily for
twelve years and has only lost two
bills One was for $3.50 and the other
for $1.0O.
Various statesmen adopt various
methods to discover how their various
policies are accepted by the people.
There is one rule that always works:
Half the people will be on one side,
and the other half on the other side.
ct regret" reads the card an Atchi-
son woman hands out to those who
tell her their troubles, that my heart
cannot ache for you, as it is engaged
to ache for others ten weeks in ad-
vance. Along about the middle Of
September see an open date when
I can arrange a little aching for you
If that will help you any.
When a woman has q baby in her
arms, she looks prettier than at any
other time. To go further: a woman
is prettier when she has young babies
than at any other time. It is told OF
an Atehison woman that she Irleo
beauty doctors in vain, and found no
iv1Trovawent- hut that after her baby
came. she became positively pretty
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Their Good Intentions.

From Five Years in a Persian
Town" One day a traveller came to a
well. where he dismounted, fastened his
animal to a pin and satisfied his thirst.
AS he returned to his animal it occurred
to him that it would be a "savab' ,
work of merit) to leave the pin behind
for other travellers who might wish to
tether their beasts. The next to arrive
was a man on foot. who. being very
thirsty and in a hurry, fell over the
pin. This man threw the pin down the
well, so as to prevent anyone else from
having similar accident. A learned
man II the district was asked which
of the two did the 'savab." He an
swered. Both, for their intentions were
equally Eoodr'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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HUMOR OF TIE Day

Mother-WiIlie. you must stop asking
your father questions. Don't you see they
wiilie--.No'n; it ain't my questions that
annoy him. It's the answers he can't
give that make him mad.-PhilRdeIphia
Il, Patience-win says roses are two dol
Patrice-That won't hurt his pocketbook
any He only throws bouquets at himself
-Honkers Statesman.
Remsen--Is that card club you ana vo,,r
we Joined progressive bridge clubf
Ders Weekly.
Heavy Trsgedian-Hurry with my order.
/ am used TO people serving me In a hur-
,waiter-I don't doubt 1t, but / am ne
sherif.-Boston Post.
Meandering Milze-What's dat hear
ABOUT you taking bath2
thoughtful Terence-Daf's what I'm sro
in to do. I'm goin' ter try reduce ~
acreage at least % Der eent.-New Orleans
A1n1es-Democrat
Miss Wtllin-This is so sudden-but don't
go ana tell people that when you proposed
Just jumped at you.
Litewaite las he holds her on his knee,-
NO II tell them you sat on me real hard
Mhen first 1 asked you to marry me
Womsn's Home Companion.
Excited Gentleman-Its ali through your
Wretched paper.
Editor (who Is used to it9-What'e the
matter now2
Excited Gentlemsn-You stated the day
| before yesterday that a thief had enteTed
my room, broke open my desk, and
stolen a sum of money, but that for
tunateiy he had overlooked the gold watch
which usually lies in the bottom drawer
EoiIor-Well. 1 believe the facts are
stated correctly
Excited Gentleman - They're correct
enough. But what is the result? That in
famous man came again last night and
carried OF the watch!-ChicagO Journal.
sne-He looks as # he had been disap-
He-He. was. He never dreamed that
her mother would come to live with
them.-4onkers Statesman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-03
JAYHA WKER JOTS

An Emporia piano player is referred
to as having a pile driver touch and a
photograph ear
There is a suspicion that Ed Howe
is getting the automobile fever. He
has a good deal to say on the subject
A Belleville man found thirteen
rusty knives under a pile of boards
supposed to have been stolen from
some hardware store. This was I'M
lucky for the store.
A Hutchinson man wants to pave
the streets of that town with cotton
wood blocks. In a town like Hutch
inson it wouldn't take long to raise a
vigorous young grove from that sort of
a pavement.
The assistant pressman Of the Atch-
ison Globe, who went through the
campaign in China with the American
troops, says he would rather fight a
Missourian than Jap. Kansas knows
something about fighting Missourians.
How is this for an absolutely true
story2 The other day Carbonate had
a hailstorm and people in Overlook,
ten miles away, heard the noise the
hailstones made on the window panes.
You see, Overlook was listening over
the telephone
In the 'stories of Old Tines in the
Atehison Globe, it is stated that
Arthur NJ Claflin was secretary of the
Sumner Town company in 1858 and is
now living IN foellLld. Inc latter state
ment is erroneous, as Mr. Claflin died
a year or two ago, one of the wealth
lest men in central Kansas.
H. V. Scholes. of Hiawatha. has a
copy of 1.-The Volunteer" a four-page
paper that was published at Camp
/ Union, Charlestown. Mo, January 81.
1862. by the Tenth Iowa volunteers. A.
b Scholes, who was in the Eleventh
Kansas, secured the paper hot from
the press and it has been kept in the
family in good preservation.
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no THE CzAR.

why boasteth thou myself, you tyrant,
that thou canst do mischief9-Psalm s.. ]
Behold how thine armies are scattered,
and thy ships are sunk in the sea-
And the tongues Of those that have nat
Are silent. are silent to thee.
ana the waters are red with the blood that
Because of thy vanity.
Behold where thy glory is sulIled,
AND thy soldiers are flung to the deeps.
me earth with thy graves has been gull
And thine empire shudders and weeps.
and the arm Of the Lord has smitten thy
guard
And the Russian valor sleeps.
Behold how thy tyranny endeth,
ana thy slaves from their slOth awake:
How the wrath Of thy God descendeth
ana maketh thy throne to shake,
free
Or the Lord their chains will break.
Behold how thine armies are scattered,
ana thy sword Is covered with rust
Thine armor is broken and battered,
Thy banners are trailed in the dust,
And thy shattered fleet is the cup OF de-
feat
That now to thy mouth is thrust.
Chicago Chronicle.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

It is generally acknowledged that
marriage is a lottery, yet love letters
inYeigling a man into it are allowed to
pass freely through the mails in spite
of the anti-lottery laws.
Anyway. Mrs. May Belleville Brown
doesn't spell it Mae
In noting that a rapid coin counter
has been invented, the Washington
Post say a rapid coin distributor would
be more to the point. Yet would it?
What is needed around here is a rapid
coin collector. We can distribute them
fast enough as it is-after we get 'em.
Admiral Dewey must have a rabbits
foot. He was quoted as saying that
RojestvenSxy would win, but he con-
cluded to deny it before the battle was
pulled off. See what a fix he would
have been in if he had let the interview
stand!
There are also other people besides
Paul Morton who would like to give up
an So, 600 job for one paying $50, 900. Not
very many though: Come to think of it,
not very many have an $4,000 job to
give up.
What will the unknown hero get out
of it2" asks an exchange. Why, a
grateful people will set aside a Me-
mortal day in his honor on which to go
to baseball games.
That smile you have seen playing
about for the last day or two belongs
on the face of the ice man. Thought
you might like to know.
A Kansas City paper tells the public
in its information department that Seth
Wells is attorney. general of Kansas.
In view of some of the actions-or in
actions-of the attorney general, it is
expected that Mr.. Wells win demand a
vigorous retraction.
It is expected that the nervine manu-
facturers will be after a testimonial
from Togo now.
We are anxiously awaiting the ar
rival Of our exchange copy of the Toxic
Nichi Nichi. We want to know II Mrs.
Togo made him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-03
W1,ere PeopIe I've Long.

There is q limited area in Mexico
where the climate, water and general
conditions seem to be wonderfully Ia
vorabIe to length of life.
IT saw said a creditable eyewitness,
'sin this neighborhood five generations
in one house; the eldest male was sald
10 he 100 years old. There are some
fifty people whose lives have spanned a
century. They are a pastoral people OF
Spanish and Aztec blood, ana Tor gen
erations have intermarried with one
another. Their constitutions are in
consequence not particularly robust
and none exceed feet inches IN
height"
cut off from the rest of the world,
these people seem to have no conception
of what is going on elsewhere, and are
quite ignorant of the ways Of the world.
Their life is in the strictest sense on
primitive and simple lines. and no doubt
this freedom from all the hustle and
pressure of civilization conduces to their
remarkable longevity.-New Orleans
Times-DenocraE
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Panama Lecture.

A good example of conciseness in a
lecture is the discourse on the Panama
canal delivered recently in a Vermont
town The lecturer was drummer
and he had been holding forth at the
hotel on Panama and the tropics to
such an extent that the managers of a
church festival hit on the brilliant idea
Of asking him to tell the church folk
about the canal.
The drummer accepted--he could not
help it--and this is his lecture on the
Panama canal:
"As came into this church noticed
a ditch in the street, evidently for va
ter pipes or something. Just imagine
that ditch 200 times as wide, 200 times
as deep and Al miles long. And there
YOU are. Good night. '-Boston Record
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Absent-AIInded.

A writer whose mind was occupied
with a knotty problem left the Lotos
club in New York to drive through Cen
trail park in the hope that the open air
would clear the cobwebs from ms
brain.
.sTptown.'' he said to the cabby.
The driver headed northward for four
miles, until he reached the Harlem rlV-
er. Then he thought It time TO make
ssF9eg nardon. SIR he said to his fare,
"Vyhat street do you want?"
ssWhat streets have your" asked the
writer absently -Everybody's Maya
zine for June.
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How Not to Have Typhoid.

=
Typhoid fever is an unnecessary evil,
it is like bad government; civic indif-
ference is responsible for one as for the
other. In the June hcCIure's, Samuel
Hopkins Adams has forcibly proven
that the thousands OF lives and millions
OF dollars annually sacrificed to this
disease are the cost of our unprogres-
slVenesS in matters of public health. If
your town doesn't guard you properly,
Mr.. Adams has this to say Of what may
be done by every citizen; LAS a matter
of individual warning there is little to
say. Find out where your water comes
from, and, unless the community guards
the general health by furnishing a pure
drinking supply, guard your own by
boiling the water. Don't allow open
vaults or sewage accessible to flies to
exist near where you live. There's a
board of health in your town: if it is
worthless, there's a law regarding
nuisanceS that isn't. Go to your doctor
promptly, ION suspicion" if you have
any reason to suppose that you have
contracted the disease. It is no ailment
to parley with. If you know of a case
that the attending physician has re-
ported privately but not to the health
department, report it yourself He
won't like that. but it will be good for
him. You pay taxes to get good water
the best preventiveS against typhoid is
the ''pernicious municipal activity"
which sees that it gets what it pays
for. After all, the question as to
whether your city chooses to have ty-
phoid fever at great expense like Cleve-
land and Chicago. or to avoid it at less
expense, like LOrain and Lawrence. is
largely a matter of intelligent working
citizenship. Samuel Hopkins Adams
in McClure's.
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THE ANTI1PAss BILL.

Governor Hoch announces that
the prohibition of passes to public
officials coupled with a reasonable re-
duction in railroad passenger rates
would meet with his hearty approval
He seems to forget that this was ex-
actly what the Pringle bill proposed
to do, but that it not only failed to re-
ceive any support from the governors
administration, but was actually
smothered and killed by those claim
ing to represent and speak for him.
Kingman Leader Courier.
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A SHOT AT SHAWNEE.

Shawnee county only has a candi-
date at this time for the Office of at
torney. general state auditor and state
printer. But then it is early in the
game, and Shawnee has plenty of
time to bring out candidates for the
remaining places to be Allied next year.
-Salina Journal.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
TBrom the New York Press.I

[F7rom the New York Press.
Everybody has 3 laundering to teach
others what he doesn't know himself.
It's awful nice Of a girl to treat q
man so well that she won't even mar
~ him.
There is absolutely no satisfaction
in doing something smart IL there is
nobody for you to brag to about it.
The average mans idea of joke is
something over which he splits his
side when he is planning It and nobody
cracks a smile when he does it.
The way to make your wife have
confidence in you IS to tell her that
the other woman rs rather pretty exc
cept for her hair. eyes, mouth, teeth.
nose, complexion and figure.
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little something about such things my
self and a business man who wouldn't
buy where he could get things cheapest
would certainly go broke. Our people
are not very enthusiastic about protect
ing the Steel trust. We have a sort of
idea out our way that a billion dollar
concern ought to be able to take care of
itself The fact of the matter is that
the people of Kansas believe some of
these tariff schedules ought to be low
ara1
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VIC MIJRDOcK's Room.

Victor Murdoch will return from
California with a new tangled halo
about his brow and a presidential
boom in his wake. The world loves a
hero, and the congressman might have
talked irrigation, finance and tariff
till he was blind and not made him
self so solid with his constituents in
the new Eighth district as he has done
by this one exhibition of physical
coura ge.--Kin grnan Leader-Courier.
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GOOD EXCUSE.

It is related that DR.. Boyle was once
a witness in Topeka, and was asked
to remain about the court room after
he had been on the stand. 'I wish
you to excuse me, judge he said adj
dressing the court. Il am a physician
over at Atchison and have a number
of patients who I am afraid will get
well on me if I remain away too
long" He was excused.-Atchisou
Globe
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TRIALs On pIPLoMACY.

Former Ambassador Choate will have
just begun to recover from the excess
of British farewell hospitality when he
will have to face q series of dinners in
this town in honor of his return. Di-
plomacy calls for a castiron constltu-
tion.-New York Evening Sun.
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In LEAVENWoRTH.

Leavenworth was probably the only
town in the state where the mayor
failed to issue a Memorial day procla-
nation. The mayor no doubt thought
that if a request was made for the
business houses to be closed during
memorial services, some of the saloon
keepers might feel patriotic enough to
close their doors also.-Marion Rec
ord
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uFR REAL WORRY.

The loss of s225 in cash and $500
worth of diamonds by a burglary viii
probably not worry Mary Ellen Lease
as much as having her old Kansas
friends know that she has got on such
good terms with the plutes.-Washing-
TIN Post
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There may be something doing over
IN Jefferson county one of these davr
oskaloosa wants the county to b1,iI5
new jail, and Valley Falls has stem
pea IN with an offer to build the IAN
and sheriff's residence for the county
anu 10 donate the site for a court house.
IT Ihe county seat viii be located there
instead Of at OskaIoosa.
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MRs LEASES DUTY.

AS a true socialist, Mrs. Lease ought
to have invited her burglars to help
themselves. For, of course, it was the
tyranny Of society which drove them
to the annexation of her cash and fam
lily silyer.-New York sun.
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The real mystery is how Paul Nor
Ton can bring himself to boss little
road that he can walk all over in a day.
when he has been accustomed to run
ming a system that reaches from Chi
cago to the Pacific, with over eight
thousand miles of track.
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KANSAS cOMMENT
HARGER.s vERsH-ATIIIrY.

Charles Moreau Harger has given
further proof (if any were needed)
OF his fitness to occupy the chair OF
Journalism at the state university: he
has composed a poem on Decoration
day which has real tears in it.-Atchi-
son Globe.
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HE VS. ~ AMATEUR.

New York the other day attracted no
attention. When it come to genuine
piracy there are thousands of New
Workers who have him beaten to death.
Wilmington Journal.
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A NEW IDEA.

And we have the further assurance
from Secretary Shaw that, should the
receipts increase and the expenditures
decrease, the deficit will diminish in
like proportion a contingency that we
had not thought of.-Detroit Tribune.
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The Private Car and Rebates.

Calculations as to the effect of car
mileage on beef prices to the consumer
are all bosh,'' says Charles E. Russell
III his detailed consideration of Gar
fields Report on the Beef Trust. in
Everybody's June instalIment of The
Greatest Trust in the World 'Wheth-
er the profit on car mileage is four
cents a hundred pounds or four mills a
million tons is not worth moments
thought. The real point, over which
this report skates with airy ease, is
that the privately owned car in the
dressed beef trade is merely a disguise
for illegal railroad rebates, that it was
designed for that purpose and none 9TH
er, that it is and was merely way
to cover lawbreaking, and that the
bealSing of the law at which it connived
enabled the trust to be formed. COM
petitors to be crushed, and the people
to be robbed. The private refrigerator
car meant SIS rebate on every carload
of beef shipped from Chicago to New
York The houses in the combination
got that rebate; their competitors did
not get it, and that ended the competi-
tors. If we are to have government re-
ports we might as well have them tell
the TRUTH