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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
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The latest Cherryvale curio is an
egg within an egg. It is known as the
Inside Inn"
Weary of waiting for transportation
for eastern shipment hundreds Of
dozens of Sabetha eggs have gone to
/ the bad.
Douglass men are angry at the let
4 ting of a phone franchise. They can
no longer work OFF the old story of
being at lodge" on their wives.
Just to show himself a good fellow
a. lightning rod agent fitted up a Bar
ton county farmers barn free. But
wait until the next agent comes along
with the BILL WhooPee.
The skeleton of a. cat was unearthed
| in a Lawrence barber shop this week.
Evidently the tonsorial artists have
been playing pussy wants-a-corner"
between shaves.
The first meeting of the newly
elected Caldwell council was opened
with prayer by the mayor. At O1athc
his Satanic majesty seemed to be
present.
Coffeyville is trying to relegate their
own wooden awnings to the rear in
stead Of keeping. them to the front.
Two Industry citizens claiming the
same heifer are making fat picking for
the lawyer.
Some people have queer taste. A
Wyandotte county philosopher says
the best way to tell a good egg from a
bad one is to eat it.
Caldwell DIRECTORS to open air con-
certs console themselves with the
knowledge that it is cool enough to
keep windows and doors shut.
Greensburg is the home of an honest
man who drops into the corner
grocery. and brags about the good
garden his wife has made.
The Wathena canning factory, ex-
cept the peach department. is opening
up for business.
A Leavenworth man sent his snow
scraper to be sharpened on the same
/ load with the lawn mower.
All Of the White City lawns are
green.
California atmosphere failed to
soften Bent Murdock's political views.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
NATIONAL IRRIGATION

One of the first and greatest meas
ures OF President Roosevelt's admin
istration was the national irrigation
law by which millions of acres OF
public lands in the arid west will be
made extremely valuable and d large
population provided with comfortable
country homes. Already the irriga-
ton fund. which comes from the sale
of public lands, has reached many
millions of dollars, and a number of
gigantic irrigation projects are under
way in the Rocky mountaiR and Pa
cihc states.
It is just announced that a consid-
cradle tract Of land has been set aside
in Montana for irrigation development.
It will be placed under irrigation by
the government and then sold to set
tiers. The increased value of the land
will more than pay the cost of irriga-
ton works, and the money will be
used over again for other similar
projects.
As was stated in the State Journal a
few days ago, Kansas will share in
this movement, but on a different
basis from the absolutely arid states.
Instead of creating great storage
reservoirs in Kansas, the government
will spend money in experiments
which, if successful will make the
farmers of western Kansas independ
emit of any great irrigation projects.
The experiment is to test the prac-
ticability of pumping water from the
underhow for irrigation, and il it
proves a success private capital will
elaborate it.
The land which is brought directly
under irrigation by this means will
not be all that is affected by it, al
though irrigated land will be worth
from SIS to $3.50 an acre where it is
worth only five or ten dollars now.
Land that is not irrigated viii doubt
less share indirectly in the benefits, for
if a large area is irrigated there will
naturally be a considerable increase
in evaporation, and that, in turn, win
produce an increased rainfall on land
that is not irrigated as well as on
that which is irrigated.
This experiment is to be made in
the Arkansas valley in western Kan
sas. but its benefits will not be con-
fined to the Arkansas valley by any
means. Western Oklahoma and Ne
brasIa can also profit by it, as well as
every other locality where there is suf-
ficient underhow at a not too great
depth to irrigate with profit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
a DemocratIc piagnosis.

Ex-senator Lindsay, of Kentucky,
placid, good-humored, and philosoph-
ic, stood in the lobby of the New Will
lard and looked at the big bevy of
womankind with smile that showed
his interest in the assembly The
noted Kentuckian never seemed in
finer health or spirits. and as time
defyer he puts Osler, M. D, to shame.
Answering a question from a Post re-
porter, Mr.. Lindsay said:
"A good while ago 1 told you that
before the Democrats could get to-
gether as a party they would have to
think together At present there is
nothing to indicate such a condition
of intellectual harmony. In some
quarters we hear conservatism sound
ed as the slogan; in others the plea
is for a radical programme. Isn't
this a sign of irreconcilable differ
ences? How can men who believe in
the least amount of federal control
join hands with those who want the
government to regulate the whole
business of the country Washing
ton Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

War, then, is a great shaker up. and
particularly of the young. The Jap
anese soldiers upon their return home
will feel this spirit and some will
yield to it. There are opportunities in
Korea, in Manchuria and elsewhere in
that quarter of the world which the
more adventurous will want to i'm
prove, and viii improve MANY a
spirited young fellow, after this year
Of travel and observation, will find the
old life a little tame. and we shall see
him pitch his tent elsewhere And
wherever he goes he is likely to pros
per AS a man of capacity and grit
he has won his spurs, and those quail
ties lead to success in peace as well as
in War-Washingto Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
TWO IUCKY PAPERS.

It will be remembered-at least the
State Journal remembers it-that this
paper about a year ago was the victim
of a libel SUIT because of an item pub
lished in good faith about the arrest
in Chicago of a woman who claimed
to be Annie oakley, but who turned
out afterwards to be some one else.
The real Annie Oakley brought suit
against papers that published the item,
not in main for any real injured
feelings, but for the purpose of MAX
ing money out Of it.
These suits are still going on in
various parts of the country. It is
stated that over two hundred Of them
have been brought, so the State
Journal had plenty of company IN the
publication of the item. In fact no
damage suits were begun on account
of it until time had been given for the
story to travel through the length
and breadth of the country.
( Two of these cases have just been
| concluded in the federal court at
/ Charleston, S. G, where a jury speed
/ lily cleared two newspapers of any LA
bility in the matter. In reporting the
matter the Charleston Post says:
THE case was given to the jury at
about . O'Clock and a verdict for thz
defendants was returned within an
hour. It is understood that the jury
was unanimous upon the first ballot
for the defendants.
1T was established that the pub
/ locations were essentially true in their
references to another person, who was
arrested and convicted as stated ana
who claimed to be Annie Oakley. thu
famous rifle shot"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
PoTNTED PARAGRAPHs
TFrom the chicago News. ]

LFrom the Chicago News.I
All men are liars. more or less
mostly more.
If you would make your money last
you must earn it first.
This climate of ours isn't adapted
to the cultivation OF patience.
No woman can reform husband
blythe continuous lecture process.
It's an easy matter to get satisfae-
ton by going to law-if you are a
lawyer.
A woman can hold a baby in each
arm easier than she can hold her
tongue.
AS the inventors of strenuous games
it's queer the Romans overlooked
football
only girl who is sure of her COM
plexion will permit a young man to
kiss her on the cheek.
Marriages may be arranged in
heaven, but the grocer and butcher
expect their pay here on earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
They Need the Jobs.

The itch for office and the desire of
certain interests to be protected con-
stantly break out. Nebraska now has
a high salaried man to look after the
fish, another to look after the prairie
chickens. both of whom have numer-
Gus deputies, stenographers, clerks. and
SO forth. Missouri passed a law provfd-
ing for man to look after bees, and
pretty soon we will have q chicken
herder, a pig warden, a jackrabbit
guardian, a bumblebee superintendent
and perhaps, a polecat commissioner
Beatrice, Neb., Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
T1le Sion Citv View Id n.

The selling of wedding presents is.
perhaps, the outgrowth of people get
ting married. so often. No woman
wants little mementos of her early
|foolishness, or souvenirs of someone
that she is mad at, when she has mar
ried one or two men since, and she
sells her first presents while they are
new, expecting to make several jour
neys across the Land Of Honeymoon
1t is certainly no violation of the laws
of economics. but it must make a man
feel queer to have his bride go to bar
tering for the sale of her presents
Sioux City Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

difference does it make to him that
the Standard refined all Kansas oil at
a profit for five years and then sud
denly discovered that it cannot use
any that doesn't test thirty degrees,
although the oil now costs it much
less than formerly?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.I
Men never quit bad habits: they change
them.
A pretty girl hardly eser is as pretty
as she thanks the Lord for making her.
It's lucky for women they have no sense
Of humor else they couldn't wear the
clothes they do
What women particularly like abont
whist IS the can have such nice exciting
talks while the game is going on.
A woman can have a great deal OF en-
5oyment pretending to herself that her
married life Is as happy as she prefends
it to be to others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

A teacher in a western public school
was giving her class the first lesson in
subtraction ''lNow in order to sub
tract" she explained, things have to
always be of the same denomination.
For instance, we couldn't take three
apples from four pears nor six horses
from nine dogs
A hand went up in the back part of
the room.
ssTeacher,'' shouted small boy,
"can't you take four quarts of milk
from three COWS Harper,s Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
NOT MENTIONING WHO.

The revolution that was started in
Kansas last year will not stop until
there is a complete turning over.
That is what this restlessness means
The people want a change. want new
races and no amount of trading and
dlckering can prevent them having
their way. There never was such an
opportunity for new men in politics
as noW.-Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
OF COURSE NOT.

Attorney General Coleman says he
will proceed against the oil trust I'M
der the anti-discrimination law, if sup
piled with sufficient Evidence from En-
poria, where the trust is said to be try
ing to crush a competitor. OF course,
Mr.. Coleman would not think of going
to the trouble to find the evidence him
seIf.-Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
Maine Sets an Example.

It is not too late to take note of the
fact that the recent Maine Iegisla ture
abolished the fee system. root and
branch, and established salaries for all
state Offices wherein the fee system
had prevailed wholly or in part. The
change was also extended to the vari-
Gus county Offices and definite salaries
fixed for them. This reform has long
been needed. It is also to be noted
that the proper allotments were made
for travelling expense where neces-
sary, and so the excuse for using free
passes was done away with. It is esti-
mated that the extinction of the fee
system viii save the tax payers about
$4,000 a yeaF.-Springdeld Repub-
Ecan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
CONSENT.

Adjutant General Bell, who really
did excellent service in suppressing
mining troubles in Colorado last sum
mer and fall, but who has been unmer-
cifuly criticised by newspapers far
and near. is said to have been offered
the command of Venezuela army.
Castro sees the need of American help
now that Minister Bowen is about to
Ieave.-Lawrenee journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Tom Cordry is of the opinion that
Ralph Faxon was very negligent in
the matter of having that boy born in
Washington instead of Kansas, as he
can now never respond to the toast
kansas" at q Kansas day banquet
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
A DEMOCRATTC view.

Clay Center will present one Mr..
Williams as that towns candidate for
attorney general at the next Repub-
paper is moved by this to call atten-
ton to the fact that Clay Center was
the home of F. B. Dawes, A. A.
GODDARD and G. C. Coleman, who have
succeeded each other in that Office.
But that's all right. Let her keep on
till she furnishes a good one.-King-
man Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
NO PENALTY YET.

barrel. The leniency of Mr.. Rookie
Teller is looked to, however, not to inn
pose any actual cash penalty upon the
man who owns crude oil hereafter.-Ot-
taWa Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
Prol,ihition IA AIissonri-

Every bar in st. Louis was closed to-
day The lid was on" in reality, and
three or four saloon men who attempt
ed to open up were promptly arrested
and rearrested until they gave up in
despair. Leading downtown restaurants
whose PRINCIPAL business SUNDAYS is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
OMISSIONS or HISTORY.

your majesty said the visitor who
had been admitted to the presence of King
Croesus, may I ask you now you eccu-
mulated your first thousand collars
The plutocratic monarch eyed him
sharply.
YOU viii nad all the Information you
want about me- he replied. in the ten
cent magazines
Turning his back upon HIM. to signify
that the interview was at an end. he call
ed for his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Governor Hoch recently received a set
of books entitled Forty Thousand
Thoughts" and it is confidently expect
ed a new series of Thoughts We've
Been Thinking will soon appear in the
Marion Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

If Shs Missouri metropolis is to have
many more Of these dry Sundays East
st. Louis will be tempted to put w a
gate at the Illinois end of the bridge and
charge admission for tie first day of the
Week.-ChicaEo News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

After the departure of President Roose-
welt from Oklahoma a wolf was captured
there while ferociously singing: Il don't
care if you never come back.
Commercial Bulletin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
DIFFERENT DIET.

The birl was observed to be asleep. al
though the sun was high in the slsies.
Are you going to spoil the fable?'' ask
ed the friendly Squirrel. Get up and be
the early bird and catch the worm"
Not for mine" awned the lazy bird.
1T don't eat worms. I'm a vegetarian. -
Kennebec (AIe.) journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Now that he is simultaneously president
pro tempore, acting secretary of state and
head of the war department, Mr.. TAFT
should incorporate himself under the la VS.
of New Jersey. Hartford Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

One of the first things Mr.. Garfield
ought to do is to spot the oil trusts
travelling library and ask for the key
to the trunks, and not leave that duty
20 the grand jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

The records of the police court indi-
cate that there are some people in To-
peka who can doubtless sympathize
with Rojestvensky's surreptitious visit
to the coal yards of Indo-China
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

What do you think that man who is
now under investigation for graft ought
to be charged with2'
1T seems to me answered Senator sor~
ghu11s that he ought to pc saaTged with
criminal carelessnesss w asnington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Kansas proposes to build a canal to
transport her grain to the Gulf. If she
will only have her grain ready in time
the Kaw will go OF the rampage about
the middle of June and make an ordinary
canal look like a toy.-Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
Owe o. I.AWs6N.s TaouBLEs.

Mr. Lawson finds it difficult TO keep his
favorite characters in financial literature
from being driven out of the calcium light
by the officers of the Equitable Insurance
company washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Another important beef trust wit
ness is missing from Chicago The
population of Montreal is evidently
growing rapidly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Il Is announced that the wheat
crop in Kansas needs rain. With all
sorts OF weather passing in review
during April the turn for rain viii
undoubtedly be along pretty soon
Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

81 notice" said Squire Twogood to-
day, chat Bill DooIittle's breath seems
to have taken it for granted that the
new city administration is on the
damn order
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
THE STAY QUESTION AGAIN.

It will be difficult to convince Mrs
Chadwick that the corset should go. She
has Just secured a stay of execution that
she finds very becoming to her style of
beauty,-Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Although Mr.. Carnegie owns a
ducal castle OF his own in Scotland, he
seems to have good, sound American
ideas about adopting any worthless
dukes in the family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

England is getting ready to throw
some of her old battleships on the junk
heap and get new ones. She must have
heard about the battleship Kansas and
got scared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Although Fred Vandegrifts obitu-
airy and will have been frequently
published lately, he is likely to prove
a very lively corpse for several years
to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

If the car doesn't get around to
peace negotiations before long, he may
find an amendment tackled on to that
indemnity bill, and it win not be sub
ject to debate. either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

An Iowa editor thinks that Roosevelt
ought to take a rest. The Colorado
bears think the same thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

AS an evidence that Texas was in
earnest last week. it is stated that
there is a liberal supply of Theodore
Roosevelts among the newly named
Texas babies and a corresponding
falling off of Andrew Jaeksons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

The official newspaper Of Japan, the
Nichi Niehi, has given its opinion as
to what Admiral Togo viii do with the
Russian fleet. but as yet nothing has
been heard from its loathed conten-
porary, the Hooche Cooche.-Parsons
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Now we will hear once more just how
Caesar Young dias OF did not become
the late Caesar Young, depending on
whether the prosecution or the defense
is telling it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Now we have a pretty good idea
what the Russians are doing in
Kanranh bay. but we would like to
know what the III, is doing In it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
FROM OLD KENTUCKY.

A Vermont man fell into a brook of cold
water and became a rav1ng maniac. He
was probably an emigrant from Ken
tucky.-Brooklyn Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

A great deal of financial Indigestion
seems to have followed young Mr.
Iyde's celebrated dinner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

The explanation for the latest rise
in dressed beef seems to be coming by
freight, and it has evidently been left
On q sidetrack.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

the closed season for quail hunting but
it's the open season for house hunting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

'I see.' remarked Bill Doolittle to-
day, that the beef trust makes most
Of its profits on the by-products." 81
guess that's So said Squire Twogood.
''fer notice tibet it's the buy-products
Lhet cost me like samhiI.,,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21
INQUIRY FROnT wTCHTTA

A Kentucky man boasts that he can
make maple syrup from corn cobs, but
what on earth can a Kentuckian
want with maple syrup wichita
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VIA KANsAs 80 sAY.


It seems that Japan has accused
EoJestyens1y of stealing his base, and
the mikado has called upon France
Tor Judgment.-ParsOns sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Lawson says gas in New York at rs
cents beats diamond field. which con-
Arms the impression that some gas
companies would not be satisfied with a
proposition where all they would have
70 do would be to shovel out diamonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

An eastern editor thinks the Standard
Oil company has good case of libel.
Yes, just about as good as Tom Kelly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

London music publishers saw thew
viii issue 10 more popular songs until
proper. copyright laws are secured. This
ought to warrant a special session of
congress to repeal the American COPY
right laws as speedily as possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

It's a wise man who knows when to
lay off his fannels.
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Never mind. It will probably be
warm enough for you by August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

One Of its eccentricities is that the
boilermakers' strike has been thus far
q quiet affair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Mr. Stubs seems to think that he
can still paddle his own canoe in the
railroad contracting business, al
though the stubbs-Dolley political
partnership is recognized as one of the
great factors in Kansas statecraft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

Now why does Mr.. Garfield want to
ask such embarrassing questions of
the Standard Oil company? What
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-21

stranger-say, is it always as smoky as
it is this morning.
Citizen (stinly)-6ir. there is no smoke
at all here. What you see is fog.
Stranger-Excuse mel didn't know when
7 addressed you that you were the smoke
nspector.-Cieve1and Leader