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The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
TORNADOEs, FREAKs.

After every great tornado numerous
stories are told of strange freaks of
the elements. A detailed story of a
big storm is always interesting for this
reason. Twenty or thirty years ago
when people first became intimate
enough with these peculiar whirling
storms to describe them, the general
public refused to believe many of the
stories that were told. For instance,
before the nature of a tornado was
known it was difficult for the average
person to see how the wind could
blow the water out of a deep well.
Yet it has been done repeatedly.
1t is true that some OF these stories
seemed rather fshy. and it is quite
probable that some have been exag-
gerated. Many people refuse now to
believe that a cyclone viii pick the
feathers from a chicken without in
juring the fowl that it will bend glass
without breaking it, or drive a straw
through a two-inch plank, yet in
stances of freaks like these have been
well authenticated.
Now a scientist, r. Park Lewis,
whose address is asa Franklin street,
Buffalo, N. Y, desires to collect ac-
GuEalG udld IGgdIO4AiB EAlGSC p1CAlOHl@
ena in order to make a study of the
physical characteristics of the tornado.
Mr.. Lewis says that he would be glad
to hear from parties who have per-
sonaI knowledge of such phenomena.
In a letter to the press Mr.. Lewis
says:
I'm the dispatches concerning the
recent tornado in Oklahoma mention
is made of the occurrence of some re-
markable phenomena which cannot be
explained by our accepted physical
laws. Among these is the statement
that all of the corpses in the track OF
/ the storm were found to be without
! shoes. In some instances the hair
was taken from the head without in
/ juring the scaln beneath Similar
storms have been reported with like
curious phenomena, such as the re-
movaI of the feathers from one~haIf
| of a chicken, leaving the bird other
wise uninjured; driving of a piece OF
straw several inches into the trunk OF
/ a tree without breaking the straw, etc
''As such manifestations serve as the
basis for the study of an unknown
element in physics it would be OF
great value If as many authenticated
instances of this character could be
| accumulated as possible"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
HE CAuGHT ~

She was my childish faneyss oueens
felt she was my fate.
Although she was past seventeen
And was only eight.
I said that I would marry her,
They laughed and made their jeerss
Because they thought she might prefer
One OF maturer years.
But, disappearing of their glee,
With confidence sublime
I said If she would wait for me
I would eaten up in time.
With purpose plainly to deride
They chuckled and they croweds
Whereat then indignant cried,
Just wait until I've growed."
It seemed they tried to take slight
Advantage of my youth;
But time, indeed, has proved me right,
I only spoke the truth.
For, while I must confess I do
Not wish to make her mines
Today I am just thirty-tWo-
She's only tWenty=nine.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IRON the Chicago News.l

LFrom the Chicago News
Discretion is sometimes the worst
part of valor.
Men love to be admired as much as
women love to be loved.
A woman never likes her husband
to be chummy with a bachelor.
The money of the self-made person
is apt to talk regardless of grammar
Many a man has been turned down
While waiting for something to turn up.
An ounce of fiattery goes farther
with a. woman than a pound of sym
pathy.
Give to others the best you have
and something better viii come back
to you.
It is surprising how soon people be-
gin to practice economy after they. go
broke.
A bachelor farmer says that the
quickest way to remove weeds is to
propose to a widow
Prosperity has ruined more men
than adversity-bu that kind of ruin
is so much more delightful
That man never lived who can re-
peat the ten commandments while re-
moving a porous plaster from his
anatomy.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Iron the AtchigOn .eIobe.1

L
After taking a look in the glass
when he first gets up in the morning.
it is wonderful that a man has the
courage to go on with the day
The Russians have failed to stand
the test of war. When it comes to
sustaining your reputation, you may
be few chips shy yourself.
A country girls idea of a real reck-
less time is to go down to the railroad
track, and wave her handkerchief at
the passengers as the train goes by.
We make our parents so much
trouble that it becomes in time a mat
ter beyond our Imagination to think of
them as ever having been young and
frivolous.
Here is a problem for the Lancas-
ter Literary society: When a baby
comes, has its twelve-year-old sister
any other reason for being on earth
than to take care of it?
Ever notice that when a lost article
is finally found, that you have been
looking too far away? It is the same
with your opportunities. They are
close about you and at home.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
JAYHAWKER Jors.

Parsons needn't be so fussy because
it isn't a. county seat town. Neither is
Kansas City, Mo.
Seven out Of town detectives were ad-
yertising themselves in Emporia the
first of the week. hunting for clues to
the train Wreckers.
At Stockton there is a company which
manufactures fence posts out of ce-
ment. They are supposed to last so long
that everybody will forget when they
were made before they wear ont.
Harry Bone is skylarking around
Somewhere in the east. At least some
Of his friends are receiving souvenir
postal cards from Mount Vernon with
his name signed to them. And this, too,
just as the Ashland baseball team
ought to be getting down to business
Did you ever see a real live tornado
and have an opportunity to watch it
from a safe distance? Andy White, the
well know Atehison county Republican,
saw the one that passed through Atchi-
son county Saturday evening and he
writes an extremely interesting de-
scription of it in the Globe. He says:
"Emmet and I were in the field, and
saw it for nearly an hour before it got
here. We thought It was as far away
to the southwest as Topeka. When We
first noticed it a streak of black cloud
would shoot down to the earth a few
seconds, and then shoot up again. Then
another would shoot down, a little to
one sue oL W1eAe tne otHeL aa4 DeSn.
At one time saw two down at the
same time, and they did not seem to be
a mile apart The streaks coming down
to the ground did not look larger than
a big cable when I first saw them.
Above, clouds could be seen gathering
from the north and south at the top of
what appeared like a. big WhiTlwind.
When the twister got this side of the
Delaware it came to the ground again,
the point looking a little larger than a
six-inch stove pipe, and grew larger
toward US, and we pulled out for our
neighbor's to the north, to get out of
its track, but by the time it reached
the section where we had been, it lifted
and came down in smaller circles. It
came to the ground again less than a
mile east and northeast of US, taking
buildings, trees (some of them pulled
out by the roots), and everything in its
PATH
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
DOINGs AT DECATUR.

The schoolmam is quite a bronco
If the editor is able to read this
you may hear from US again.
Clyde says he is going to go down to
the little cottage south of the river.
don't think it was Cecil that got
the mitten over the wire the night of
the basket supper, because had the
receiver down and heard it all.
Cecil says he never wrote a letter to
any girl, but does not deny sending
something in a sealed envelope, but
does not like to tell what it was.
Who is the last beau in the neigh
borhood of % or %, wearing a black
hat. a pair of overshoes and a sportive
overcoat? We would like to know.
A week ago Sunday Willie stopped
a good while at the crossroads, gave
her something. and then saw Mr..
Bradley coming, so he went on home
ward
If you do not like~to make Cecil
blush do not expose hirn quite so pub
licly hereafter, and do not publish
everything he has been doing. From
what the schoolmarm told, you would
not have thought of so much coming
to pass in such a short time between
him and her.@Decatur Correspond
ence of OberIiu Herald
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was
criticising wife worship-the oId-fash-
ioned, unreasoning, blind admiration
that woman paid to her husband in the
past, regarding him as the handsomest.
bravest. Wisest and most learned of
men.
Mrs. Gladstone she said, worship
ed her husband in this way, but then
she had some reason. Even in her case,
though, the good lady's exaggerated
wife worship would sometimes make
her appear ridiculous.
Thus she was staying once at a
country house, and on a certain even
ing, having finished dressing before her
husband, she descended to the drawing
room alone. In the drawing room three
or four gentlemen were discussing the
misfortunes of Ireland. One of them,
as she entered, said:
I can't imagine what will be the
fate of poor old Erin, but there's One
above who knows
Yes said Mrs. Gladstone, com
placently. He viii be down in a min
ute. He is upstairs brushing his
hair"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
THEsE JOBBERs' RATES


There seems to be something mys-
terious about this contention between
the Missouri river jobbeTs and those of
interior points over certain commodity
freight rates, which came up before the
state board of railroad commissioners
this week. The interior Jobbers allege
that Missouri river points have an ad-
vantage in freight rates because of dis
criminations on certain commodities,
and they appealed to the railroads to
abolish these special rates. The job
bers at Kansas City and along the east
ern Kansas border naturally objected to
the abolition of the rates. The railroads
succeeded in having the dispute referred
to the railroad board. and now it is in
timated that neither side wants the
matter aired.
Freight rates seem to be fearfulIy and
wonderfully made. It is hard for the
average layman to discover any system
about them, and he is led to suspect
that there is no such a thing as system.
One of the arguments put forth by
the Missouri river jobbers for the con-
&inuance Of their rate is that If it is
abolished people in western Kansas
win have to pay more for their provis-
ions. This looks like good argument.
But if it is true, and If it is also true
that interior jobbers are so discrimina-
ted against that they cannot sell goods
in that territory, why should not the
Iatter's rates be sufficiently lowered to
allow them to compete with the Jobbers
along the Missouri river.
What is wanted is fair field and no
favors except those which come natur-
ally from location. and location works
both ways.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

EFrom the Philadelphia Record
Lots of people would be glad to gel
rid of their experience for less than
they paid for it.
Many a fellow feels that he is one
man in 1000. but the other e99 don,i
seem to care a rap.
Wigg-' ''saphedde is the moss
credulous fellow I know WaggN
s'Yes; I think he actually believes ir
himself
Hoax-'sGood intentions should bs
covered with asbestos Joax-
'fWhy?" Hoax=.sYou know hell /.
paved with them
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

paragraph. he could not decipher. He
struggled with the sentence quite at a
standstiI. several minutes. The city
editor called him to make haste. he
turned to an expert shorthand writer
on his left and said:
q can you read this sentence hersF
For the life OF me, ] can't.
THE expert studied the sentence
then shook his head.
+" No. he said, I can't read It. just
at that
80 the young man put in great ap-
plause.' and the next morning, when
he read the speech in the paper, he
found, to his horror, that he had made
his section run:
I win detain you but a few min
utes longer, my friends. Great ap-
plause. -
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
ShorfI1and,s Perfls.

Senator Berry of Arkansas was talk
ing about shorthand He praised it
highly. Then he said:
THE best shorthand writer Z ever
knew worked for the state of Arkansas
during my terms as governor.
This young man told me one day
some stories Of the difficulties Of short
hand
He said that when he was 1s he
worked for an important newspaper.
He was a beginner at shorthand then.
He often found it difficult to read his
own notes
We'll he reported, one night, a. half
hours installment of a great orators
speech. It was well on toward mid
night when he got back to the ONCE.
and he sat down at typewriter to
transcribe his notes in Iong-hand as
quickly as possible. He worked away
steadily. Then he stopped.
"One sentence. in the middle of a long
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
Lad Ouifa Enonell.

A very subdued-looking boy of
about II years of age, with long
scratch on his nose and an air of gen
eraI detection, went to the master of
one of the board schools and handed
him a note from his mother before
taking his seat and becoming deeply
absorbed in a. book.
The note read as follows:
tATr. BroWn-P1ease excuse James
for not being present yesterday. He
played trooant, but you don't need to
thrash him for it. as the boy he played
trooant with an him fell out, an the
boy fought him, an a man they throo
the driver of a cart they hung on to
thrashed him also. Then his father
thrashed him, an I had to give him
another one for being impoodent to
me for telling his father, so you need
not thrash him until next time. He
thinks he better keep in school in
future. .'-Tit-Bits
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES.

There is a reported shortage of the
hop crop. Somebody ought to be hired
to chase the toads.
A west side girl asks if a cuspidor Is
used to catch the new spit ball This is
referred to the baseball editor.
"a company is judged by the men it
keeps. remarks a eorn-fed philosopher,
but this isn't always true. The Santa
Fe didn't keep Nudge, for instance, but
that wasn't its fault.
The White Sox let go Of the bottom
round after all. and are now making
very satisfactory progress towards the
top, thank you.
A good many people will be surprised
to learn that the Hugoton baseball team
has won eighteen games straight It
was not supposed that there were
enough people in Stevens county to
make up a baseball team.
The local board OF strategy. seems to
be doing fairly well when the White Sox
play at home so that the cable is not
cut between the board and the team.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
THE HEN INDUSTRY.

Some of the country editors, now
the poultry business. A Mankato
paper has figured out that the hen
that lays the egg is the mother and
the one that matches the chicken is
merely the nurse. A Paola paper has
found man that hatched 225 chick
ems at one settin' from 200 eggs in an
incubator Now we should like to
have that Mankato editor tell who
was mother to that extra Is chickens.
hutchinson Gazette
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
When the Financfer scored.

The late Baron de Hirsch, the Jewish
f1nancier, was dining at a German no
bleman's house in company with a. Ger
tain prince, who made no secret of his
venomous antipathy to the Jews.
Courtesy proved no barrier to the out
flow of his spleen.
Remarking upon tour he had made
in Turkey, he said he had been favora-
bly, impressed with two of it's customs !:
ssAll Jews and dogs that are caught
are Immediately killed"
The baron, with smiling sang-froid,
Immediately relieved the scandalized
CONSERVATION of the other guests with a
bland rejoinder:
How fortunate you and I don't live
therer'-M. A. P.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
Reasons for bankruptcy.

The petitioner in the court OF bank
ruptcy was a young man of aristocratie
BIRTH a He had inherited fortune of
81. 100000 at the age of %. Now, at 26.
he was a bankrupt.
How did you come to run through
your money at this rate?' asked the
judge.
"A love of food ruined me, sir" the
bankrupt answered. 7 gave the best
and costliest dinners America has ever
seen One of my dinners-a dinner of
10 covers-cost $4,000"
Foolish young man." answered the
judge.
This judge at the end of the session
talked about the strange reasons for
the bankruptcy that some bankrupts
would give.
a bachelor of 3d. he said. appeared
before me owing something like S75,0 900
for gambling debts, s2o0 600 for wine.
s.. 500 to his tailor, SIS. 600 to the jeweler,
s.. ZOO to his haberdasher and s1100 to
his florist. When he was asked the
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

''When in doubt" said Senator Ba-
con. I'VE should initiate the example
of the astute weather prophet. This
prophet walked into his inner Office one
day and said to his junior clerk:
Z" Well, how are the indications for
tomorrow
:" Mighty uncertain. sir the junior
answered. I hardly know what kind
of a representation to make out
Oh said the chief, Just make it
fine weather, with local rain. Then, If
it is fine, we are all right, and if it
storms, that will be one of the local
rains of our prophecy
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
THE NFANTs- roo

Western Union messenger boys struck
yesterday because a nonunion driver
delivered a load of coal at the West
ern Union building Are the bottle
babies of Chicago sure the nipples they
use are union made e?-Chicago Rec
ord-HeraId.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
KipIing and Fame.

''Rudyard Kipling visited my apart
ment once" said a New York publish
er He sat in that chair there. He
was in the height of his fame at the
time. 1t was before the outburst of
the Winston Churchill historical novel
and the Conan Doyle detective story.
This brusque, jerxy young man was
probably, just then, the most brilliant
star in the literary armament.
He talked beautifully. On his depar-
ture I escorted him down on the .eleva-
tor to the ground floor Then, when
I got into the elevator again to go back
to my rooms, couldn't resist saying
to the elevator man:
+" Did you notice that short, thiek-set
gentleman in spectaeles who came
down with me?'
!" Not particular. Why?' the man
asked.
g That answered. was Rudyard
Kipling.'
man exclaimed. 'Rudyard Kipling, the
great African explorer? p "
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

What your UncleJoe Cannon. Senator
Foraker, Secretary Taft Vice President
Fairbanks, and several other gentlemen
would most appreciate from President
Roosevelt would be an autograph copy
OF his determination not to accept an
nther term
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
SURE NOT.

The Chicago woman who is to have
$500 a month altmony. even if she
marries again, will probably not have
to advertise in any of the matrimonial
journals for the purpose of finding
new affinity.-Chicago Reeord-He
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
ENDTEss FxPENSE.

Nothing makes a man feel so down
hearted" observed the cigar store
philosopher. sfas TO come home from
paying the last coal bill of the winter
and find his wife looking over a pile of
summer resort literature. ."-Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

ing in the Lone Star state recently, a
movement has been started to compel
every man to leave his gun at home
in the future. All law-abiding citizens
win go armed. if necessary. to see that
the laW Is obeYed.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

The Epworth league cabinet meet
ings occur on Tuesday nights, but a
month ago a meeting was held on
Monday. night. and last week the
young fellows whose duty it is to
call and take the girls home missed
the night and went to the place of
meeting, sat around awhile and said
but little, then awkwardly departed
without asking the family any ques-
tions.-Pratt Union.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

I am not much Of . snortine au-
thority. but am onto the records well
enough to know that Old 5ohn Barley
corn has never been downed in a
wrestling match with d business man.
Osborne Farmer.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
TIE GOLDEN RI1r.E..

NAAAl . = III In H 7JALl-ls
If the worlds a wilderness.
Go, build houses in it!
VIII it help your loneliness
On the winds to din it?
Raise a hut. however slight;
Weeds and brambles smother
And to roof and meal invite
Some forlOrneE brother
Lucy -Iarcom.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
speaker Reed and the Barber.

Years ago Tom Reed, then speaker
of the house of representatives, went
into a barber shop in Washington to
be shaved. After the darky barber
had scraped his chin he began to cast
about for further work or for chance
to sell hair tonics.
t'Hair purity thin, suh," he said.
lingering the two or three stray locks
that fringed Mr.. Reeds bald pate;
''been that way long, sub ?"
sfI was born that way" replied
Reed. "Afterward I enjoyed q brief
period of hirsute efiorescence, but it
did not endure"
The barber gasped and said no
more. Later some one told him he
had shaved the speaker. ''Speakah!' 70
he exclaimed. Don I know dat?
should say he was a speakah, sure
'nuff!"-Philadelphi Record.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

"The crying need is for an expense
less vacation" says the Washington
Post in an inspired moment. The most
e1penseless vacation that has thus far
been invented is to spend it in the i'm
medIate neighborhood Of your daslz-
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

The trolley is crowding out the steam
car in southern California and the
Southern Pacific has just abandoned
25 suburban trains running out of Los
angeles. The hope of the railroads in
suburban service is the gasoline car
just invented by the Union Pacific.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

The Florida railroad commission is
classifying the railroads of that state,
and it will shortly establish a system
Of tariff in that state on the basis Of
the earnings of the roads.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

It naturally pains Japan to observe
the lack of enthusiasm which England
rnanifests over the chance that it may
have to take a hand. From that de-
fensive alliance it was expected that
England would be aching to mix in,
but its aches are wholly in the OPP
posite Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
PROVED ITNTRuE.

The late Herbert Croker's state
ment that he won 5000 at the Kansas
City races, is not credited by the police.
Nobody is allowed to win that much
money in Kansas City, it seems.-St.
Joseph News-Press.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
FROM OTHER PENS.
~ oUTsTpE oUERY.

Some Kansas newspapers are charg-
ing the enemies of Governor Hoch
with inducing him to enforce the pro-
hfbitory law. What would he have
done had he followed the advice of his
friends Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
MONEY WELL SPENT.

Stin a deficit of $4,000, 600 or so
caused by rural free delivery is a good
deal easier for the country to tolerate
than some other deficits it has been
called on to face. Here at least it gets
something for its money.-Indianap-
oils News.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
NOT NEEDED IN KANSAS.

Crab grass is rampant this year in
Georgia, boil weeviI is advancing from
Texas and the Hessian fly has invaded
Nebraska. Call out the militia!-
Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

THAT sigh Of relief you heard came
from the railway magnates when they
were positively assured that President
Roosevelt really would not stand for
reelection
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

The Emporia Republican is fghting
william Allen White and a recent issue
belittles him to the full extent OF the
editors power. 1t is one of the ironies
Of fate that the opposite page of the
paper carried a plate advertisement of
Icclures Magazine, praising Mr.
MVhifa.s ability.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

Here is another joke: Vernon Rose,
chief Of police in Kansas City, Mo, has
ordered his policemen not to give any
information to reporters. The police of
kansas City usually get their informa-
tton from the newspapers.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

Iowa is having more foods this
spring. 1t was the Iowa idea that all
the water in existence went past there
two years ago, and she is wondering
where this comes from now.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19

Banker Bigelow had probably fre-
quently advised patrons of his bank
against speculating or gambling.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-19
THOSE PA SSES

Mayor Dunno has severed official
relations with the kingdom of Graft.
and handed its representatives their
assports.-Chicag Tribune.