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

Today Topeka welcomes two classes
of guests. We have with US the men
to whom the people Of Kansas entrust
their surplus cash, and the bright wo-
men who compose the supreme camp OF
the Royal Neighbors of America.
The latter comes from all parts of the
country, and for that reason they are
the guests of Kansas as well as of To-
peka. They represent q great organiz-
alton, one that stands high among the
people of Kansas.
The bankers have been here before.
Two years ago they met in Topeka and
a good many of them stayed with US
for ten days after their meeting was
over. For their entertainment Topeka
trotted out the greatest flood in the
states history, but as some of them
did not appreciate the entertainment,
no encore will be attempted.
The bankers of Kansas are a splendid
class of men. That is why Kansas
commits to their keeping something
over a hundred million dollars Of its
loose change. AS a rule they are con-
servative and careful. and failures
among Kansas banks are exceedingly
rare. AS a rule they are also pros
porous class. OF course banking cannot
be such a lucrative business as running
a Kansas farm. and not very many
years ago Kansas bankers were going
out of that business to engage in farm
ing. In fact. most Kansas bankers own
a farm or two or three on the side out
of which they make their fortunes,
while they operate their banks for their
health.
Topeka hopes that both her guests
from other states and those from over
Kansas viii enjoy themselves while here
50 that they win want to come again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
JAYHAWKER JOTy

Wellington claims to be using from
5000 to 5000 boxes Of strawberries a day
now.
Reports from the wheat belt indicate
that the chinch bug has entirely given
way to the Hessian fly.
Reno county believes it will have up
wards of five hundred thousand bushels
of apples this year. Think what lot
of apple pies that will makel
By running it under the title, Her
Column, By Herself" Del Valentine lets
on like the woman's column in the Clay
Center Times is not written by a certain
crusty old bachelor.
The people in the Republican Valley
are having more trouble keeping their
bridges over the river. The Republican
is determined to run around and leave
the bridges over dry land.
The young woman who runs the Louis
vile Tyre serves notice that she uses
her love letters that are written only
on one side for copy paper along with
all others except those of a confidential
business nature.
A Jewell City girl has become so
proficient in china painting that Editor
Palmer says when she paints a straw
berry in the bottom of a dish it is 50
natural that when the baby sees it he
is just bound to have it.
Now that King Peter has been warned
to step down from the throne of Servia,
why don [ the seventh district tTOt out
its candidate again? The last time there
was a vacancy the ''rightful heir to the
Servian throne" lived out in Ford coun-
ty.
The strength of the country has been
considerably augmented of late'' re-
marks the editor of the Jewell RepubIi-
can, who is accustomed to nothing
stronger than the odor from the tab
bling mixture. by the return Of the
onion breath
An Atchison family is imposing on its
cat Some time ago the cat was given
family of young squirrels to raise,
which she did, and now she has been
persuaded to adopt an orphaned baby
coon. And she is caring for it just as
well as any stepmOther possibly could.
At Mankato one of the high school
graduates proved conclusively in a
commencement grafton that Mans des-
tiny is determined by his environment, -
while another proved just as conclusive
ly that Mans destiny is not determined
by his environment"
Maybe this will hold Mr.. Gibson for
awhile. The art critic of the Clay Cen
ter Times says: The old soldiers have
a good suit for damages against Charles
Dana Gibson for the horrible caricature
of an old soldier in last weeks Golfers S.
The picture is such as to make one
shudder. If ii is the best Gibson can
do he had better call off while he has
still some vestige of his old time repu-
tation left"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

to the schedules on file with the inter-
state commerce commission, the
Santa FEES rates from Trinidad, Colo-'
and Gallup, N NJ. on coal to Deming'
N. NJ, was $4.05 per ton. the distances
from the two points being about equal
But the Caledonia Coal company,
which shipped from Gallup, discovered
that the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany, which shipped from Trinidad,
was receiving an alleged rebate of
's1.15 a ton. When confronted with
the proof of this, the Santa Fe off,
Gals explained that this was the orig
inal value of the coal, which the rail-
road collected at its destination, in adj
dition to $3.50. the freight rate, and
which it turned back to the coal COM
pany.
If a government commission had
been making the rates, does not Mr.
Peck think this arrangement would
have been in force from Gallup as well
as from Trinidad?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
QUAKER REFLECTIONS
rFrom the PhIladelnhia Record

from the Philadelphia Record
Man proposes and woman supposes
but they both pose.
AS much depends upon the sales in
business as in yachting.
It's a trying time for a woman when
she goes to her dressmaker.
All the worlds a stage. and it's pref
ty much a continuous knowledge.
Many a man who wouldn't buy pig
in poke is a victim of love at first
sight.
What we consider family pride in our
selves we are too .1rone to regard as
anobbishness in others.
A yard of hose is three feet. in spite
of the fact that we only have two feet
for stockings.
'wigg-'sYou can't tell how poor a man
is from the way Es dresses" Wugg-
mo; nor how rich he is from the way
his wife dresses
Blobbs-"He's the most disagree
able man know" That's
right. Nobody agrees with hinn-not
even the things he eats
NelI-''T know Of at least one man
who could truthfuIiy say his wife was
the only woman he ever loved" Belle
His manner" Nell Adam"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
ostracize the Corruptors.

Corrupt councilmen are deserving Of
denunciation and contempt, bosses and
their machinery are proper objects Of
wrath. but moral and social condemna-
ton has little effect upon them so long
as they are held in place. The power
that holds them in place has been in
trenched in wealth and responsibility,
and if they are to be got rid of for
any length of time that power must be
routed. The ostracism of public opin-
ion should not be confined TO school
children and directed against the slaves
and minions of corruption, but the
awakened moral sense of the commun-
ity should visit its penalties upon those
who are really responsible, those who
devise schemes of plumber and furnish
the means for executing them. who cor
rupt legislatures and councils and de-
bauch public administration as an in
cident of their business. Make this
disreputable like petty thieving and
swindling, and it will cease as piracy
and brigandage disappear with ad-
vancing civilization.-New York Jour-
nal of Commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. l


You are probably Just as mean as
you think the other fellow.
The jokers are finding that Rojest-
venslzy is all insky, and that Nebo-
gator didn't.
A good many things that are called
divine bear some significantly human
ear-marks.
Corruption and strife defeated Rus
STA, and it defeated Spain. And they
viii defeat YOU if you are guilty.
As a man grows older, he accumu-
lates more matches than he uses and
his pockets are always full of them.
It is easy for a woman to be po-
lite; all she has to do is to smile, but
man has to smile and raise his hat.
An Atchison man has made two
trips lately without his wife, and
Atchison men are becoming mighty
indignant
Parents are hard on their children,
when the children are young. and
when the parents are old, the children
are hard on the parents.
This railroad rate question seems
to be too much for everybody. Even
the graduates steer clear of it in their
commencement papers.
The only thing natural about Glib
sons latest sketch, entitled "A Young
Attorney Arguing His First Important
Case" are the girls round shoulders.
"All the fools are not in Kansas.
them" said 8 reporter to a man who
was abusing Illinois. mo" he re-
piled. ''the state isn't big enough to
hold them"
People snub some committees. and
refuse to buy tickets; but there are
other committees that hypnotic the
people, and make them buy whether
they want to or not.
Il have been afraid of nearly every
thing else, but in one respect, I am a
stronger character than the car: {
have never been afraid of a bomb. .
Drake Watson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
THE PRIZE MEAN MAN.

There is no use looking any further
for the meanest man. He has been
found at Lincoln. Neb., his name is
Joseph Scholtz and he is a wealthy
grocer. He invested in an expensive
automobile Saturday, and, after a few
hours OF instruction under a chauffeur.
he began to operate the machine on
his own account. His first trip was to
take his aged father to the county poor
farm, where he gave over the old gen
tleman to the superintendent to be-
come a county charge. The county
commissioners were apprised of the
incident and will take steps to compel
the younger SchoItz to take his father
away and support him in his own
home.-Concordia Empire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
C.ostIy I.iving Bal COMM.

Every day in New York there is
some fresh aggravation to natrimony
cropping un in places affected by
bachelors. 1t costs 10 cents more to
be rubbed with alcohol than it did
six weeks ago. Manicuring is 81 in
stead of rs cents. For years the
standard charge OF the Turkish bath,
chiropodist, and barber shop has been
so cents. 1t is now IS cents all over
the city. Cocktails in bath cafes were
formerly two for a quarter. They are
now Is cents straight. Same way
with cigars. Drug stores are charging
men more for toilet articles. The tailor
who used to press a suit for so cents
now asks rs and 35 cents instead of
quarter for pressing trousers. Charges
for laundry work have gone up 20 per
cent. In small expenditures alone 1t
costs the man who has to look out for
himself Sc a week more to live now
than it did six months ago.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

Kansas, although youngster. is
writing up a lot of all kinds of s'airly"
history. so we butt in. An old codger
who went to Wichita in 1871. ana has
resided there since, and who TANKS he
is one of the main spokes in the Wob-
bly, Wichita windmill, arrived there on
stage coach from Newton, one June
afternoon; and no sooner had thew
struck the north end of Main street
than the passengers heard heart=rend-
ing screams, which seemed to come
from some female woman in dire dis
tress. The coach stopped the passen-
found that one Of Wichita's foremost
women fellow citizens had started to
crawl under her house to recover her
baby, that had suddenly disappeared.
But the mother, who had on hoops, got
stuck. She couldn't back out couldn't
md her baby. but she could scream;
and she did. One passenger wanted to
hitch the horses to her and drag her
out, hoops and all. Another passenger
suggested digging her out, while a third
proposed that they turn the house over,
which was quickly done-there were IA
men and two women in the crowd.
When the mother got to her feet and
discovered that her home was a total
wreck, she raised the war-whoop on
the whole gang of passengers. After
a short consultation it was decided to
pay for the house-it was one of the
best in town-the hat was passed and
when the money was turned over
SIP. Soto the mother she smilingly
said she thought it would pay the dam
age to her ruined home" At this par
ticular moment it was discovered that
the baby was asleep on a buffalo robe
in the shade of a wagon box and had
not been under the house at all. And
this Wichita baby" who many years
ago married a Wichita 'plute," now
goes shopping in an auto: and the
swish of her silk petticoats can be
heard half a block away.-EI Dorado
Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IRON the Chicago News.l

From the Chicago News.1
The wise man and the FOOLS money
are soon united.
A woman of 80 never laughs unless
she means it.
Few women realize how handsome
other women really are.
A man is seldom as bad as he thinks
his wife thinks he is.
Beware of the man who has a mania
for telling hard-luck stories.
Job was a patient man, but he has no
record as a successful fisherman.
If love were really blind, age would
have fewer terrors for the fair sex.
Famines may come and famines may
go, but there is no danger Of water
famine in Wall street.
Irate Customer-"See here, waiter;
this stuff isn't fit for a pig to eat Wait
er-''Very well. sir; what viii you have
that is?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

The theatrical syndicate has at last so
far succeeded in interrupting Mrs.
Fis6e's tour in the west as to close ev-
cry theater in Salt Lake City to her.
But this high-handed conduct seems
likely in the end to illustrate once more
the Latin proverb, borrowed from the
Greek, concerning the madness with
which Jupiter aff1icts those whom he
wishes to destroy. Mrs. Fiske took the
opportunity to deliver an address in
which she said some plain and salutary
things about the arrogant monopoly
which is trying to control the Ameri-
can stage. This combination not only
books routes and controls most of the
first-eIass houses in the principal cities,
but it has also gained a voice in the
management OF the second lass houses.
Nor can the stock companies offer an
opportunity to actors who have not
submitted to the trust, for they are
held in bondage by the ownership of
desirable plays which the trust retains
after the first production has been
made. Mrs. Fiske rightly says that if
the American people realized all the
evils of this monopoly they would soon
put an end to it. But they are learn
ing very rapidly.-Providenc Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
THE STRAITS or CORFA-


The placid waters greet the SIN
In calm at early dawn
They hide the sailors, every one
Who down to death has zone
The fury of the tempests cease
And waves and men have found release
The silver gulls at leisure fly
Above the EN- raid waste,
The smoke has vanished from the sIzv
All nature seems in haste
10 blot from sight what men have raarred
4he ships and men, SO battle Scared
In coral caves the dead shall rest.
Each warrior shall lie
with seaWeed tangled on his breast
" lille ages shall pass by.
And none OF all his kin that were
May ever know his sepulcher.
The placid waters gently flow
Beneath the silver moon,
The little winds that pipe and blow
Begin to sigh and Groom
lullaby for those who sleep
Within the cradle Of the deep.
Chicago Chronicle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
Like a Rich FooI.

1.-THE surest way for a nation to in
vite disaster is to be opulent. agrees
sive and unarmed." SO said the presi-
dent in Brooklyn, and laughter and
applause were properly bracketed af-
ter the phrase.
"Opulent, aggressive and unarmed"-
it is the picture Of fat man going out
on the highway wearing a massive gold
watch chain and seals, and behaving
with an insolence that is positive
challenge to ragged but sinewy knights
OF the road to fall upon and despoil
him.
Disaster comes to such a man as in
vitations TO dinner come to other men.
The country is indebted to the president
for condensing a humorous but pointed
parable into a sentence.-New York Ev-
ening Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
JOURNAL ENTRIES

II the weather bureau has no particu-
lar object in view in doing otherwise.
will it please put the brakes on the
wind the next time it tries that 22-mile
an hour gait, as it did Monday.
Whitelaw Reid has just called on
King Edward officially. If King Ed de-
sires to stand in with the new Ameri-
can ambassador he had better sub
scribe for the New York Tribune at the
earliest possible moment, and pay cash
in advance.
Mary Shaw, the actress, tells an ac-
tors charitable association in New
York that the best thing it can do
would be to provide clothes for ac-
tresses. Some of them do seem a little
shy on wearing apparel sometimes,
that's a fact!
Maybe you think you are busy. but
you ought to see the Seventh Street
Sluggers. They had played two games
of ball before 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing.
Love may be blind, but he usually
manages to pick out the prettiest girl,
just the same.
June days thus far are not rare by
any means-they are overdone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.

LFrom the New York Press.
Church is not SO bad as 1t Is preach
ed up to be.
A man never tells on a friend and a
woman never fails to.
If a woman likes another's hat 1t is
a sign she hates her own.
A man could almost stop loving q
real angel If he thought she might
have corus.
A girl never knows whether she
likes the first Strawberries of the sea
son with thick cream best, or & secret
Irritation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
WHEREIN He DIFFERS.

Charles J. Bonaparte has always been
an independent in politics, with Re
publican leanings. He voted for Grover
Cleveland in 1884, thus keeping up the
opposition to Blaine which Theodore
Roosevelt and H. c. Lodge, two other
mugwumps dropped as soon as Blaine
got the nomination for president at Chi
cago. after eight years of effort. Mr..
Bonaparte has never been an Office
seeker and would never have been con-
sidered eligible for the cabinet by any
other Republican president except
oosevelt.-Hartford Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
BIG AND LITTLE THIEVES.

There are men in Sing Sing who are
serving long sentences for thefts of a
few dollars. Yet one candidate has
been released from that institution at
ter serving three years for stealing a
quarter of a million Incidentally he
committed perjury and forgery. BY
these tokens the Milwaukee bank pres
ident who stole 100000 or more will
be sent to jail for nearly week
RrcklYn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each Gay
90 any address at the rate Of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State journal will be to you like
q daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

one can learn something every day.
Now that it is past, the information is
given out that the proper way to dis
play flags on Memorial Day is at half
mast until noon. and after that at full
mast. Do you suppose you can re-
member that till next year?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
PARTIsANIsM -ANp PRINcIPLE.

Partisanism as an issue in municipal
politics or business is not beneficial IN
less it is balanced on the principle Of
duty to the city, There will be par
ties in American politics as long as
democratic laws and usages prevail and
party integrity must be a factor in To-
cal electoral contests. The aim should
be, therefore, to adjust the parties to
the nonpartisan principle.-St. Louis
Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

Eyes. I've just returned from a two
months visit in the east the Port
land young lady was saying; land on!
I had such a lovely time! Those east
erners are so different from US,
though
what points did you visit?'' in
ouired the newcomer in Oregon. do
hope you saw dear old Boston"
"Bostont" the Portland girl ejacu-
lated; 81 should say not. I was in
tana.''-Portland Oregonian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
A NEW REASON.

A sudden increase in sobriety among
Russian workrnen is embarrassing the
Russian government because It is ma
terially reducing the income derived
from the tax on alcohol. That is also
why the WOrkmen are going sober
Minneapolis Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

Governor HanIy of Indiana has not
only declared against the railroad
pass for his Individual use, but he has
served notice on his appointees and
other officials not to use them. Gov
ernor Hanly seems determined to cut
out all the joys Of ohice-holding in
Indiana.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

What is the matter with the Kan
sas statesmen that they are so silent
on the Panama supply question, re-
vision of tariff and regulation of rail-
road rates? The people of Kansas ex-
pect them to help the good work
along, but they all seem to be keep
ing still, mighty still.-Courtland Reg
lister.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
HOW - sTARTEp.

The word tip originated in old cof-
a brass box with a slit in it. Engraved
upon it usually were the letter IT. /
p" an abbreviation of the words TO
Insure Promptness.' Customers as they
departed dropped coins in the box FOR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
UNCLE sAM Isl READY.

The job Of digging a canal on the
isthmus has always been known to be
a big one. Uncle Sam is ready to tackle
the difficulties and to dispose of fresh
ones if they arise.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
no THErR soRRoW.

Governor Hoch occasionally trains a
loud sounding gun on the ranks of the
Joint gentlemen, and those booze dis
though they believed the gun was
loaded to the muzzIe. They may find
that it is.-Paola Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
THE RIGHT IDEA

II the car could absorb the Roose-
welt idea that a navy is to be used to
preserve the peace instead OF to seek
trouble with he would be better off,
New York Commercial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
WHAT DID IT!

It occurs to us that it is no wonder
that the Russian fleet went to the bot
tom in defeat, when the men who
served the guns had to stop every lit
tie while and emit their stirring battle
cry Remember the Suvaborosliasissoi
sYiethanavitchl"- Daylight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

Now that Senator Burton's trial has
been postponed till September, it is
reasonably certain that he will still be
out of the Ironton Jail on the Fourth
Of July, if any town wishes to engage
his services for that date. The Abb
1ene statesman can make the eagle
scream all right, all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

Some people are already fearful for
our Pacific coast. since the Japs won
in the great sea fight. There would
have been cause for still greater fear
had the Russians been successful.
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N JuNE.

Co blow
Your dough
For a new straw hat;
It's due today,
Be ye sure of that.
Don't scold.
The old
One will never do:
The style, they say.
Must be odd and new.
So blow
Your dough
For q. brand new lid;
You know, you jay,
That it must be did.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06
EROM OTHER PENS
WOULD YOU WANT one?

Mr.. Carnegie has presented King Ed
ward with a diplodocus. The king has
no particular need of a diplodocus in
his business, but with Mr. Carnegie it
was like his wealth-he does not want
to die with a diplodocus on his hands,
PHILADELPHIA Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-06

Now General Miles has a sure
enough, up-and-a-coming boom for
governor of Massachusetts,, providing
Governor Douglas cannot be per
suaded to run again. 1t is no hot air
rrODOsitfon