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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.I

From the ALcnlSOn IlODS-1
How proud people are of q. colored
man who really acconPllshes some
thing.
Many time a man finds himself
facing d casus beln and doesn't take
notice.
People now say: "Dr. Gutter will
commit an operation at the hospital
tomorrow"
investigate it closely, and you will
find that the successful men DO not
taken many chances.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton is
older than her husband, and we WOULD
like to know how much
The only human being in the world
whose obligations and duties are not
bound by the clock. is the mother
A woman who will let her husband
think he has fooled her. gets posses
sion of the best hand in the deal at
the start.
If there were chiggers in Bible days,
what a time Nebuchadnezzar must
have had with the itching On the IN
side of his stomach!
In Coolidge. two girls in the same
family married doctors. and now there
is a terrible time in that family deeld-
ing who is the greatest doctor IN the
world.
1t is a good idea for a man to sit
on his front porch evening" 81 80 SCI tii Of
town can see him there and learn
whose house it is
An Atchison woman had a, mechani-
cal piano player, but set 1t to one sac
when her husband gave her a new
grand piano. And that's where the
woman made mistake.
An Atchison man says he went to
the country yesterday. and saw a far-
nner harvesting with two camels draw
ing the harvester What do you say
allied the man who saw the strange
sight?
We have never been able to decide
what is the best thing to do with fools-
some times we think the best thing IS
to smash them over the head with
club; and then again we think the pest
thing is to temDorize with them
Health rules apply, usually, to old
DeoDIe whose stomachs are worn out.
of course young people should De
careful of their eating" but never
knew of a young person to be inter
ested in diet, health suggestions or
health resorts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
TOO MUCH FOR HIM.

Occasionally things come too strong
for a man who is willing to sacrifice
most anything for his home town. He
reaches limit where even his love for
MS nome town will not take him. Such
a condition has arisen at Eskridge
After the committee had succeeded in
securing Sen. Burton to make the
speech on July 4th, they began to cast
around for suitable man to make the
speech introducing him to the assem-
bled thousands. All thoughts at once
turned to the gifted and eloquent
Hershberger, the merchant. They at
once called on him and stated the
committees desire. ''I will do most
anything on earth. gentlemen, to make
this celebration a success, but III be
ID If I will introduce Burton"
The committee now advertise for bids
Enterprise.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the PhiIadelphia Record. ]

IFrom the Philadelphia Reeord.1
No man can preserve his dignity in
alcohol.
Love may level all things. If it's on
the level itself.
When women grow jealous the devil
proceeds to get busy.
The still. small voice of conscience
never seems to strain its vocal cords.
Nell-"Did she marry for money ?''
Belle-''NO, she merely invested in a
gold brick
A stitch in time may save nine, IL you
don't have to look Sor a needle in a
haystack
Some men impress Us as being such
hustlers that they never have time to
do any work.
The impecunious aristocrat can't sell
his coat of arms even to a secondhand
clothes dealer.
You can't convince the fellow who
has been making a night of it that joy
cometh in the morning.
Blobbs-"These twin sisters are both
bellies" Slobbs-''W Well they are GER
tainly ringers for each other"
Tommy what is pleasure %
Iommy'S Pleasure, my son. is in
dulging IN things we can't AFFORD
Wigwag-'sT fools are not. all dead. -
Skinnunl-" No, thank heaven A lot of
them haven't even been born
Wigg-"EIis trouble is that he has too
little confidence in himself" Wagg-
pie"
Muggins-"OId Busybody SAYS he be-
lieves in padding his own canoe" Bug
gins Nonsense. Old Busybody isn't
satisfied unless he is padding some
other fellows"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Who started this Fourth July fire
cracker business anyway?
When a digniaed man goes to a ball
game he ought to put his dignity on
ice.
A Topeka young man sits on a West
Side porch so much Of evenings that
passersby think he owns the place. And
he only has claim on the daughter
self
When a girl n1arries for money she is
apt to find that she has married a gold
brick.
The barber shops in St. Louis are
closed as we'll as the saloons. This is
supposed to be for the purpose of stop
ping the sale Of bayrum.
Having left it to the president. and
the president having decided the other
way, Mr.. Bowen is now leaving it to
himself and proving It.
It is high time the book agents were
Fostering US with some only authentic
and authorized history Of the Russo
Jap war"
If this degree business keeps up.
President Roosevelt will have to pile
his collection out in the back yard Of
the White House. like cordwood.
This is likely to be Japan's peace pro-
posal: Russia, dr.. to Japan: To one
plain. ordinary peace, enc billion
plunlzs. F'rills ordered hereafter win
come extra
What's the matter of Murat Halstead =
He certainly ought to have had a Life
of Togo" on the market long before
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
.JAYHAWKER JOTS

Perhaps Fred Dumont Snith thinks
the people will forget all aBSut it by
the time he returns from Europe
Looks as though we are going to get
through this harvest without the an
nual row between D. W. Blaine and T.
B. Gerow. What's the matter with
Blaine?
It is announced that the policy of the
Fort Scott Republican will remain the
same under the new management as it
has been under Editor Raney.
Since Dave Hanna has been building
that new house at Hill City he has had
time to buy and sell only about three
farms a day on an average.
The Concordia Blade commends the
wisdom of the MikadO in desiring to
see something more tangible than talk
before he pulls Oyama off Of the Rus
sians.
Governor Hoch is now anxiousIy
to learn if the lid he sent down there
fits. If it does his lid factory may be
kept running overtime for awhile.
An Ottawa man has just discovered
that his heart is on the right side. It
is frequently asserted that man S
heart is in the right place, but 1t is not
often that 1t gets on the right side.
Charlie Harger says that when Eureka
Lake gets in operation it win beat the
Blossom House out of sight as a. place
for conferences. That's right. Just
glance over the list of incorporators and
see.
A few weeks ago the office Of the
BellevilIe Freeman, which is in base
ment was flooded Recently when Tom
Charles went to pay his rent, instead
of accepting it the landlord reversed the
operation and made him a present of a
hundred dollars.
Seth Wells isn't at all backward about
showing where his sympathies lie in
the Second district fight. Here is the
way he speaks out in the Erie Record:
Here's hoping that Henry Allen will
lick the stuffin out Of Charley Scott in
the congressional fight in the Second
district"
The Abilene Reflector says that Link
Steffens is readable but not consistent .
because he tells few things about
Senator Hanna and praises Tom John
son. This. you understand, from a pa
per that can see nothing but the purest
virtue in a certain Kansas senator.
Jewell Republican: When a man
won't give his wife any money nor pay
the preacher nor contribute a. cent to
build up his town or country, some
people call him a hog, but that is a
slander-slander against the hog. The
hog does pay. He pays the doctor, the
reacher, the store keeper, builds a new
house for the wife. buys organs,
pianos buggies, and sends the children
away to school. Don't ever compare a
mean. stingy man to a hog again. They
are not a bit alike, and the injured
party in the comparison is the indiVid-
uaI who pays, not the one who doesn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.J
Time naturally flies in fy-time.
Art is the mirror in which Dame Ma
ture behoIds her faults.
You will never do much good unless
you begin by doing a little.
At the age of 40 the average man
has his conscience chloroformed.
Girls who eat onions during their
courtship are taking desperate
chances.
Perhaps a woman wears tight shoes
to enable her to forget her other miser-
les.
Surely the eagle stamped on an
American coin is emblematic of its
swift flight
There wouldn't be any hay to make
when the sun shines if it wasn't for an
occasional rain.
1t is usually what a man doesn't
know about a woman that induces him
to give the psrson a job.
Now is the 'O5 crop of college grad
yates prepared to hand the world in
formation on any subject
A woman may induce her husband
to give up a bad habit but he Is rea-
sonably sure to acquire a, worse one
in its place.
young man, don't fatter yourself
that YOU have made an impression
when a girl smiles at you. Perhaps
she is too well bred to laugh
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First Prize for Observation-Disclosures.

Francis wilson, the comedian, be-
lieves the most absent-ninded man lives
in New Rochelle. Last summer Mr..
Wilson's front door bell got out of or
der and refused to ring, and meeting 4
friend, an electrician, he asked him to
call and make the necessary repairs.
Meeting the man several days after
wards, he reminded him that the mat
ter had not been attended to and in
quired when he could find IT convenient
to look after it. The electrician indig-
nantly replied:
why, I called at your house the very
day you asked me. 1 rang your front
door bell, time and time again, and no
one paid the slightest attention to me"
success Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
A Strike Without a Grievance.

When asked the teamsters who
worked for Montgomery Ward & Co.
why they were on strike their universal
reply was, Because we were ordered
OUT At this I pressed them for fur
Their reasons-for the reasons that lay
deeper. If they knew they would not
tell save one, whose name I preserve
in my memory, knowing well that 1t
would be cruel to tell it.
I'VE did not want to strike" he said
1--WE can't afford to be out of work
There are the strike benefits, of course
but they are not wages. I never knew
there was a strike Of the garment work.
ers on until us truck drivers for Mont
gonery Ward & Co. was ordered out. .
The strike is sympathetic"
Sure! We amt got no grievances.
The firm was paying US a dollar and h
half over the union scale We never
had no trouble with 'ern to speak on.
I don't know about the others, but L
for one, never heard Of the garment
workers strike until We was told that
we had to walk OUT
'Jf you had it to do alone would
you walk out?"
You bet I wouldn't It's this way,
though-your union, right or wrong, but
always your union"
Men have been heard to say the same
thing about their country. It is dan
gerous doctrine.-Jean Cowgirl, in The
Reader Magazine for July.
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a NEWsPAPER OPINI0N

The Sabetha Republican wants to
know how The Tribune stands on the
recognition of G.. W. Hook. of Sa-
betha, as the representative from this
county on the congressional commit
tee. That's easy: We do not believe
that the convention which nominated
Mr. Curtis with the Nemaha deIega-
ton absent from that particular pow
WOW had any right to name a member
of the congressional committee for
this county. AS the supreme court and
state canvassing board on election re-
feused to recognize the "doings of the
show under the canvas in which the
Nemaha delegation participated, it
looks very much to The Tribune as if
Nemaha county has no place on the
congressional committee. That's only
our private opinion, however, publicly
expressed. Don't you think for a min
ute, or two minutes for that matter,
that we recognize Hook!-Seneca
Iribune.
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Sanitation Of CanaI zone

But what about the two great 18th
milan diseases, malaria and yellow
IeVer Practically every other dis
ease can be Obliterated by the supply
OF pure water and the sin1pIe
obedience to hygienfc rules: but
these are OF a different nature
ana demand more radical attacks
Ihey are both parasitic in nature. hofT,
before they invade man. must pass
through an intermediate host. and that
intermediate host is the mosouito:
stegoInyia for yellow fever, and ano-
pheles for malaria. One should no
longer douot the essentially important
Eole OF the mosquito Today all scien-
lists agree that to extermiuate the
mosquito is to destroy these diseases;
tnat no other means excepting this in
sect has been demonstrated as a car
rler OF either. Cling to old beliefs As
we may we can render the country
Tree from epidenics only by killing the
host. And it can be done here in Pan
anna It has been done in ISnaila on
the Suez canal. It has been done--to
pc sure, in more favorable circum-
stances and a smaller area--in Hav-
ana. We must do it. 1t will be an
eternal disgrace to our government
II we shirk our responsibility, for it is
as much part of our canal project
as is digging the ditch. We are not
4 commercial concern, cutting a high
way between two oceans merely for
profit If we are, better let out the
task by contract at once. But we are
a nation. the people OF that nation pay
the taxes that supply the money for
canal construction, and we should de-
mand that this sanitary scheme be an
integral part But it means work. To
take a strip of sand ten miles wide and
fifty long and to free it from mosqui-
toes means brains as we'll as kerosene,
and money to back the brains. It
means to clean the dirty towns all at
once by copcerted action-not bit by
bit. It means destruction of nasty
houses in Panama and Colon and the
filling in of Shiny pools which today
render futile so much of the effort of
disinfection. It means action as we
acted in Cuba, as Mexico acted at
Mazatlan. as Japan acts today. There
must be no short sighted policy or
broken promises about it. The en-
ployes must be protected at any cost.
DR.. Albert B. Hall, IN The Reader
Magazine for July.
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rocco call If, Emperor Wilhelm has
the whip hand in the. matter.
So France said she is willing to con-
fer, provided Germany VIII disclose
the matters to be conferred about
Germany sent its reply in a. little note
to France, Tuesday. The note is said
to have been friendly but firm" In
effect it proposed that the powers
should Just get together and confer
without talking over in advance the
matters to be conferred.
It is now stated that France will
yield and will go into the conference
and there the matter stands.
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REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Pressl

Either the man who runs an autono-
bile has a lot of money or he owes lot
The fun of pretending to like opera
more than vaudeville is that our friends
pretend to believe US.
It's queer how woman will believe
everything in a historical novel and
doubt an encyclopedia.
A nice thing about marrying; money
is everybody envies you SO much more
than you do yourself.
A girls idea of a romance isl a man
who wears a woman's ring on his finger
and looks sadly at it.
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KANSAS C0MAENT
HOW DO THEY MANAGE

HOW DO THEY MANAGER
We are in receipt of a letter from
the vice-president of the New York
Life Insurance company stating in the
most emphatic way that no OFFICER OF
that company receives a dollar for his
services, excent his salary which for
the ten principal officers range oniv
from $4,000 to 100000 per year, ag-
gregating for the ten officers the sum
$4,000 per annum. How they man
age to get along and keep the wolf
from the door on such meager salaries
of course we are unable to figure out.
Being Kansas newspaper man, we
have never had any experience in Iiv-
ing on 100000 or even $4,000 a year.
Recorder.
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A sURLIME FAITH.

Norwegian residents of the United
States have asked President Roosevelt
to recognize the new government of
their country. We don't pretend to
know anything about whether their
new government should be officially
the proper time comes, Roosevelt will
do the right thing about the matter
and he will do it in d manner that no
people or nation will take any excep-
ton to the action.-Council Grove Re
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28

1t is estimated that Topeka will
burn up $4,000 on the Fourth. and
the estimate seems very conservative
when one stops to think how much
every boy and many men spend on
that day. to say nothing of the girls.
How much do you suppose the whole
country spends?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
ALI THINGS COME RTgr-r.

ALL THINGS COME RIGHT.
All things come right, and be it soon or
All things come right at last to compen-
For al the petty heartaches Of today,
or all the little failures on our way
s al our seeming sorrows it appears
are Teally blessings in a mask OF tears
20 II success be tardy at our cali,
u IS 70 test our courage, that is all
ana n the end each heart Will seek its
Beside the one it always loved the best
me earliest Ens n hogr holds the brightest light
--Reynale Smith Pickering in The Reader
Magazine for July.
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ONE VIEW.

During the discussion of the liquor
and anti-liquor question in Kansas, the
other day. one of our German friends
remarked: We'll, I tell you how dot
pen. Goefernor Hoch, he bees all
recht; he gift der temperance people
vot dey want in talk, und leef de Wis
key people vat dey want in der bot
ties. Troy Chief.
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ZEE RoozE PEDnLER

4 booze peddler was in Effinghan1
last Thursday. You ought to follow
a booze Deddler around and see where
he gets his orders. He never calls
on the bankers or successful mer-
chants. Had they been patrons of the
booze houses when they started out
in business for themselves, they would
never have become bankers and lead
ing Effingham New Leaf
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HOME NEWS WHILE away.

Subscribers Of tho state Journal
away during the summer may haN Q
the paper mailed regularly each day
70 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
6 daily letter from home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28

The publication of The Russ. one
Of the big newspapers of St Peters
burg, has been suspended for a month.
That's the beauty of running a news
paper in st Petersburg you want
vacation. all you have to do is to print
something that the government doesn't
liz
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28

The long list Of Philadelphia officials
who are turning out to be boodIers
and grafters indicates that there is still
material for the Philadelphia minis
tiers to remember before the throne
Of grace. Their success in the cas-. of
Mayor Weaver ought to encourage
them to try it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28

The Chicago News thinks that both
France and Germany feel that The
Hague tribunal can have no other part
in the affair than that of an innocent
bystander. Which must mean that
The Hague tribunal is about to be
slugged with a brick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
SCORE FOR THE GUN.

There is no battIeship in the world
today that could have stood the Japan
csc iong-range gun fire in the Korean
strait. In the long duel between the
gun and the armor the gun is ahead
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
m THE MORNING.

ReEgalerly, every day.
When my poppa's gotten up
I can see him far away
Mixin' sumpin' in a cup;
I can hear him slappy-slap
With q knife against strap.
He Is such a funny sight
In the mirror on the shelf.
With his chin all blobby white
Maxim faces at himself
But I mustn't laugh. or he
Comes and rubs it OF on me!
Poppa says, when I'm groWed up
With some troubles an wife.
I can have a mixer-cup
An q shiny, crooked knife;
But he says must beEiu
Gettin' prickers on my chin.
Burgess johnson in Success Magazine.
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BOTH KINDS.

Having weighed carefully the ques-
ton of the relative merits of torpedo
boats and battleships, the Washington
experts are inclined to draw the prac-
teal lesson that we should build more
of both. kipds.-Chicago News.
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THE PROPER PLACE.

There is still time for Carnegie to
change his plans and provide for the
erection of the palace of peace at
Washington. It is safe to say that there
would be no trouble about securing a
site-Chicago Record-Herald.
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HAGGARD AND JAMES.

Rider Haggard visited US and re-
turned with a practical plan for re-
storing happiness to thousands of Eng
lands starving poor. Henry James fol-
lowed him and returned to complain
that his former countrymen couldn't
speak the Odious London dialect.-Los
Angeles Express.
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FROM OTHER PENS
THE GLASGOW MODEL.

AS soon as she can settle her labor
difficulties Chicago probably will re-
sumo modelling her affairs after Glas-
gov, instead of Warsaw Washington
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28

After Mr.. Morton's wings begin to
sprout. the president can issue an ap-
pendix or a postscript pointing out
the virtues he may have overlooked
IN his first letter.
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geon or an undertaken. No. this para
graph isn't written by an Irishman,
even If it does sound like it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28

The new mtsdemeanor ordinance
prohibits sharp points on barb wire
or ratings. Who is to specify the de-
gree which shall determine the divid-
ing line between sharpness and dull
uass7
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The car has named the parties who
will represent him in the big debate
IN Washington in August. The ques-
ton will be. Resolved, that the peace
terms proposed by Japan are reason
able" Russia will take the negative.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28

1t is peculiar how much attention
g public official will attract simply by
doing his sworn duty and enforcing the
laws. There is Mayor Weaver, for in
stance-and Governor Folk.
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DICK BLUE Is STILL HERE.

Norway is looking around in a great
worry after king. Her trouble is in
creased by the fact that the Equitable
has swallowed all the available Ameri-
can Enthusiastically Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-28
A CHANCE ZOE RENT

Bent Murdoch, who is always WANT
ing job; might apply for that of king
of Norway, now vacant. Failing in
that, he might get the appointment of
jack or ten spot or the tray in the
Norwegian deck.-Miami Republican.
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THE RESURRECTION.

The editor of the Smith County Mes
senger believes that the populist party
VIII live again. The editor of the
Messenger has evidently been attend
ing q Free Methodist revival meeting
and has taken things too literally
Lincoln Republican.