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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

hattered by her appreciation Tn only
a logged sort OF an Individual"
wen, perhaps III have 8 try on my
own account" she SAID throwing nsE-
self into chair, "oniy you must give
what am to do2" 7 asked her.
You mustn't use long words which
don't know the meaning Of ana
which only confuse me, and you must
unbend q little and meet me on my own
ground. And you must=ssSs-gsear blue
tie even If you have got blue eyes, be-
cause like a red tie with 4 nice brown
skin. And If you come TO see me to
morrow III tell yo= If you've got the
right color
When I got home I looked in the
glass with a suden dislike for my blue
tie. I bought a scarlet one, feeling
sure she was right. I should never
have thought of it myself; but then
women understand these things SO
much better than men-she has such
taste. I shaved myself carefully next
day, critieising my sunburn ana Won
dering if she really meant had a nice
brown skin. The bright coIored tie.
so different from my usual sober tints,
raised me in my own estimation, and
I sailed forth with & feeling Of as
surance born of it.
It was still early, and found her IN
the study arranging some flowers. Ny
spirits were dashed by her reception Of
''You don't mean to say you really
walked through the town in that tie ?"
she asked.
yves, I did" I said, feeling worried.
'Dont you like it? 1 thought you told
me to get a red tie"
Eyes, but I never thought you would
for my telling" she returned. What
ever made you do that?'
Goodness knowsi" responded
Then I laughed awkwardly. 81 think
I can give you a reason, such as It Is
It has just dawned on me- I'm like all
the rest, suppose. I love youl'
"Oh,'' she said, with complacent
little smile, that was in the pro-
gramme I mapped out for you"
And you'll love me, too won't you p
I said, coming up to her and leaning
my hand on the back OF her chair as
I put the momentous question.
"Oh, not" she said. looking down
I'm not going to love you. That
wasn't in the programme at all"
Couldn't you include it." said, by
special desire?"
Whose desire?" she asked quickly.
Mine
81 don't believe" she said, tracing
a pattern on the tablecloth. that you
really do love me-
''I'lI try to prove" I said, "only you
must give me facilities
What do you call facilities2"
Well I said, putting my arm
around her waist, this would be one. ="
TT don't mind giving you that
one" she said hesitatingly-
Its quite sufficient I declared, "to
encourage me to take the rest. ''-Ssn
Francisco Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
HER QUEER TASTES.

johnson paints; he's fond OF sketchfng.
AraIn1uta Worships art
Araminta's mighty fetching;
1 adore her, for my part
As Tor johnson and his messing
seen his Pastoral OF SPRING.
No2 Well, really, it's distressing
don't like that sort of thing.
THOMPSON thinks his voice a wonder;
Araminta thinks so. too
cant imagine how in thunder
She can like it, Tenor Poohi
Well, its funny how the fellow
Got the notion he could sing.
just a Wretched squeak and below
L don't like that sort of thing.
Smithson is a deathless poet
Araminta says he is
sun, MS verses hardly show It.
Head some once, and-oh. gee Whiz!
Araminta's got more daffy
t-unatlcs upon her string,
Feeding her their gush and taffy.
1 don't like that sort of thing.
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.

LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Some people in time grow almost
famous for hearing of things that
never happened.
When two women reach forty each
thinks while looking at the other, my,
but you are looking old today"
The women pay too much attention
in their meetings to the evil in a mems
club, and not enough to the private
mail box
When a girl uses the word kid" in
referring to a girl Of her own age or a
young man, she ought to be taken
home and locked up.
If a man admits that he is wicked
enough to 60 to HE'LL he thinks in the
same instant that there must be a worse
place to send a lot Of others he knows.
When a father wants his boy whipped
within an inch of his life, he should send
him to college and get him initiated into
a college fraternity; in this way getting
the licking for the boy and the credit of
being a liberal and progressive man for
himself.
Whoever originated the notion that
the dry leaves should be gathered up
from a lawn, and burned2 Whoever had
such a distorted idea OF the beauty of
nature as to say that leaves on a lawn
are untidy? Why not get a serubbing
brush and scrub the gray moss off the
trees? The brown leaves on lawn are
part of the charms of autumn, and any
one who sweeps them up and burns
them spOils the scene.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

I once heard the late William c.
Whitney, who was fond Of passing
much Of his time in the Adirondacks
tell a story which, it is thought, has
erence to visit made to that pic
turesque region by Ralph Waldo
According to one of the guides, who
was an uneducated but humorous old
fellow, and who remembered the phil
osopIler. Emerson had enjoyed his
stay Immensely. Once some one asked
the guide, Familiarity known as Steve,
what sort of an impression the sage
Of Concord had made upon the natives.
Well sir obligingly responded the
guide. ''he was a gentleman, every inch
of him.; as fine chap as you'd want to
scholar, too; allus figgerin'. studyin
see: nice and pleasant. And he was
Scholar. too: allus figgerin' studyin'
and writin', though we did , alloy he gd
a-fishin' but I'm here to state befo' de
Lawd. sir. he was de all-iredest, home
Hest critter for his age dat ever
dropped down into desc woods. ''-Elx-
change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
\ Yarn About Mr.. Bryan.

II japanese newspapers were cor
10y informed, says a Yokohama
newspaper, W. J. Bryan, who by his
eloquence and his personality created
such a favorable impression in Tokyo.
WOULD have become the central figure
IN an affair calculated effectually to
mar his fair fame. On the occasion of
the Shinto ceremonial in JJyeno mark ia
celebrate the empires naval triumph
ADMIRAL Togo occupied War-stool
1shogD which had been used for q sim
llaf purpose centuries ago and had been
naeded down as an heirloom in the
Ogasawara family, that family alone
being authorized to officiate at the Ger
emony- It is alleged that Mr. Bryan
came up from Yokohama to attend the
fete and the idea occurred to him that
II IL would be agreeable to sit in a chair
OF such good omen No objection who
raised to his doing so, though the act
was not in the best taste.
"But-so the story runs-Mr Bryan
then signihed his desire to carry away
the shogi. To that the Japanese OBJ
jected, as the stool had a certain sane
t1ty in their eyes, and was moreover
q valued heirloom Of the Ogasawara
family. Mr.. Bryan then offered to pay
any price demanded for the article but
that did not at all facilitate the trans
action. The owners replied that the
stool was not for sale in any case. Ex-
aetly what then happened the tale does
not tell, but the reported sequel is that
Mr.. Bryan. The incident appears to
have produced a very bad impression
according to the newspapers reporting
it, but we believe the whole story to be
a fabrication with just the grain Of
truth which renders some rumors so
pernicious.
There was a chair in question, but it
was not the Ogasawara stool, nor any
stool having a sacrosanct character. It
was simply a common chair, one of
many ordinarily standing in the salon
of a restaurant at Uyeno. Admiral
Togo happened to occupy it during
some stage of the celebration, and Mr.
Bryan, attaching a value to the article
for the sake of that incident in it's his
tory, desired to become its possessor.
Possibly the restaurant folk who owned
the chair were glad to give it to the
distinguished American, but, however
that may be, the offer of money under
such circumstances loses all its often
sive character and becomes a proper
and comprehensive transaction. Chi
cage News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
CONCERNING LAND TRANSFERS

Every little while some one comes
forward with a complaint about the
method of transferring land titles in
vogue in this country. and in nearly ev-
cry session of the legislature bills are
introduced to change the laws govern
ing deeds.
It is undoubtedly a fact that the sys-
tenn of land transfers that we are using
is somewhat antiquated. It is of the
vintage of long ago. and it is entirely
out of style, but still we cling to it. It
results often times in clouded titles and
law suits, and when one buys a piece
of land it is necessary to hire a lawyer
to see that the title is good. And all the
while the list of transfers is constantly
increasing and it is becoming more and
more difficult to trace titles back to
their original source.
OF course this is a good thing for the
abstractors and the realty lawyers, but
it makes trouble for people who buy
land. If we have trouble now, only 80
to so years from the time the govern
ment first gave title to the land in east
ern Kansas. what viii be the troubles
of the next generation of landowners
Henry Honey, editor of the Mankato
Advocate, has been up in Canada and
ne LuA4hS the canadians nave a lar
better system of land transfers than
ours. He describes it as follows:
1T is very simple. Every purchaser
Of real estate gets his deed direct from
the Dominion government. Jones owns
a farm, which he sells to Smith In
stead of deciding the land to Smith and
furnishing an abstract showing every
transfer of the tract since it was pat
ented, Jones makes an assignment of
his deed to Smith at an extra expense
of 25 cents for notary fee. Smith sends
this assignment with Jones' old deed to
the provincial registrar, who causes a
new deed to be issued to Smith 7s~-+
from the Dominion government. When
Smith sells the land to Brown he does
the same thing. No chain Of transfers
to look up in buying a piece of land. ~
man has either a good title, a deed di-
rect from the government, or he has
nothing at all. No long and constantly
frightening abstract to paSs upon your
title; no flaw in your title; no suits to
quiet title A maximum of perfection
and security at q minimum cost No
matter from whom you buy a piece of
land, you get your deed direct from the
government"
While it might put the abstractors
out Of business and take the bread out
Of the mouths Of the real estate law
yers, It really looks as though this
would be an Improvement over our. sys-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The time of year is almost here
when the thin ice win make business
for the undertakers.
Everybody who believes the rail-
roads have been hauling coal at loss,
stand up Why is everybody
sitting down?
For some reason or other it is about
as difficult for US to worry about pro-
fessionalism and graft in college
athletics as it is to get excited about
some of the other "glaring evils Col
hers Weekly is trying to expose.
It must bother the insurance super
lntendents sometimes to remember
Just which things to forget.
The German scientist who said the
bite of a pretty girl is as dangerous as
the bite of a rattlesnake must have
been trying to help out the old topers
in the prohibition states. It will be a
lot pleasanter to be bitten by a pretty
girl than by a rattIesnake when they
want some snakebite remedy.
The way to do is to build the canal
on the level, of course.
Now that she has come over to visit
US for awhile. will Bernhard please
tell US whether she is "Sara" or
''Sarah %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
THE FREIGHT RATE HEARINGS.


THE FREIGHT RATE HEARINGS.
The average individual who has been
following the evidence brought out this
week before the Kansas board of rail-
road commissioners is somewhat misty
over what it all means, but he is pretty
certain that some railroads have been
giving rebates to favored localities and
individuals, and he is suspicious that
the practice is still in force.
It has been absolutely proven that at
least one man got a rebate of twenty
per cent on his coal rates at no very
ancient date, and there has been more
or less indefinite evidence that other
localities and individuals have been
taken care Of"
The naystifying part of the hearings
has been how the railroad experts
figure that the railroads have been
hauling coal at a loss, when others
figure that the roads have been MAX
ing enormous profits. In figuring on
these problems it seems that you first
determine on the answer you wish to
find and then you make your figures
to fit
The theory that the railroads have
been hauling coal at a loss in Kansas
is one that win not get very far. The
figures may show it, but the man who
pays the freight has his own ideas on
the subject. Coal can probably be
hauled as cheaply as any other pro-
duct. It requires no protection from
the weather. It can be hauled in open
cars. It is not perishable and does not
have to be rushed. The equipment in
which it is hauled is of the cheapest
kind. There is no reason why the rate
on coal should be high.
These rate hearings are a good
thing, even if they do leave the aver
age individual somewhat confused. In
the course of time he will become
educated so that he may understand
something about rates, and then he
will not wish to do the railroads harm
but he will insist on a square deal.
In the meantime he will continue to
be skepticaI on the proposition that
the railroads are hauling coal at
loss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
Boon to YYorkingInen.

In discussing cooperation in the
opening instalment of his new series,
Soldiers of the Common Good in
Everybody's, Charles Edward Russell
says.
Nothing ever devised has been of
such enormous benefit to the working
people of England. In certain ways
and up to a certain limit it has trans
formed life. Often it has made just
the difference between hope and de-
spair. Moreover, it has been of in
calculable social as well as industrial
significance. The store has been every
where a meeting-place where the
members came together, discussed
ways of Improvement, learned some
thing worth while, and felt for the
first time the democratic inspiration.
The great impulse of a common cause
and a high aim has been a boon to
minds and morals. It has inculcated
thrift it has tended to break down a
little the iron barriers of caste. it has
produced better homes, greater com
fort, and happier lives. After careful
and deliberate inspection of the home
life Of co-operators and of non-co-op-
orators in about the same circum-
stances, there is no shadow of doubt
left for me of the genuine blessing Of
cooperation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

Harry Lehr. who would have sue
ceeded as a dialect comedian on the
stage, narrated in Newport an English
servants description of a fashionable
dinner.
''The man is groom said Mr..
Lehr. "and on account of a strike
among the house servants he was
called indoors put into an indoor hv-
cry and hidden to help pass the plates
This is his story Of the dinner:
"fOh, it was grand. We stood in the
hall, me and the other gentlemen in
livery, and they flung open the folding
doors and out come the nompions, two
and two, arm and arm. wor quite
surprised at young marster. He come
out with a skinny old girl, almost old
enough to be his grandmother; and
there was Miss Mary a-lookin' so
beautiful, with flowers and feathers
and bits O. glass a-sparklin'. I never
made no mistakes, except giving one
old gentleman mustard wrong side,
and just a few OOPS of gravy down
unbeknown lady's back Denver
Times,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
PoINTED PARAGRAPHs.
rFrom the Chicago News.l

LFTOTn the Chicago NeWs.I
It isn't what you know, but what you
can make others believe you know that
counts.
Beware of the man who imagines he
owns the earth: he may try to unload
a portion of 1t on you.
True the world loves a quiet man, but
it gives a lot Of attention to the fell
low who gets up and howls.
When a man begins to get bald he
always keeps his hair cut short because
he realizes that he can't have it long
With men it's wine, women and song:
with women It's ice cream. men, grand
opera, chicken salad and more men
During courtship the happy couple
coast down the hill together After
marriage the poor man is compelled to
pull both the sled and woman up the
hill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
HVMOR or TIE DAY

* member OF the first Florodora sex
so glad to meet you. Tn the original
Gibson girl Courier-J ournal-
your son is something Of an athlete"
isn't he. Mr.. Oldsich?'
''Athletel Well you just ought to see
how he can run up bill Baltimore
American.
'Hoorah!' shouted the enthusiastic
last. New we're Just ike Rev York
HUH growled the touring Gotham
tie I guess you never heard Of Tam
many Portland Telegram.
Know anything about golf?"
q used to play Shiny.
'fThen all you'll have to learn % the
language. Houston Post.
What becomes of joke when it gets
too old for the almanac"
THE theatrical programme gets It,"
And from there it's but a step to tbs
musical comedy, eh?''-Philadelphia Bull
letin-
City Editor-Tou were there when the
and you didn't get a statement from
Reporter-It wasn't my fault. Her
fatty refused to make any statement
Chicago Tribune.
TInicker-I see they are trying the Eng
BockeTEYes: we may soon clasp feet
across the sea.-New York Sun.
IIicks-If it hadn't been for that fellow
Skinner I'd be hundred dollars richer
today.
take things philosophically.
FIielEs--I do. That's easy enough. but il
is hard to part with things philosophical
ly.-Philadelphia Catholic Standard.
THAT widow'n make fool Of him if he
doesn't watch OUT
she intends to marry him."
That's what mean. Houston Post
rs your husband up yet?" asked thu
early morning caller.
Il guess he isl replied the stern look
97rd like to say few words to him
I'D ike to say more than few. BE
hasn't come home et"-Philadeiphia
Press.
Customer-Is the boss in?
Clerk (albsently)-No-,but We have
Call.
When a man can't find his shears or
his pocket knife, or his other hat, or his
slippers, or his fountain PEN he can usu-
ally find fault, to beat the band--Somer-
vile Journal
Now. gentlemen said the lecturer
on commerce and manufactures, mention
one of the most important collateral
branches OF the oil business
Writing for the magazines" promptly
responded the student who keeps abrea st
Of the times.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Pa Twaddles-I can't see why that
young idiot who is calling on Molly has
not sense enough to 60 It's midnight.
Tommy Twaddles-'Tain.t his fault
He can't go-sister's settin' on HIM
Cleveland Leader.
II all the election manipuIators fnaict-
a~- Xr~rfr 81 to t.
the kangaroo" court at Sing Sing VIII
soon be corrupted.-Philadelph Public
Ledger.
7 wonder f she would accept me If
Il don't see why she shouldn't. She ac-
.epted me last ight.''-Cieveland Ieader
''Whatl" asked the TAN proved profes-
steel Industry
ssCarnegfe libraries promptly aneu-s-
ID the student from an interior village-
Chicago News.
Perhaps. after all. the best poljcv a.
never TO do anybody any harm 11r1as@
hereby you can do yourself some GOOD
Puck.
Car is in the bedroom
Hiding In the bedding;
Czarina in the attic
Deplores much her wedding.
Maids hid in the cellar
Hear the guns go s-pope' 1--.s-f
Indeed. forsooth. it looks as II
Something's going to drop.
-Bunalo Evening News
What do words mean after aus.,
nused the chronic objector- ssF4,,-.
.oat one OF our most important 7,--5--..
IONS enQ yer Us very nature shows A. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

What a pity the Comanche county
bond deal promoters had no Equitable
Life Assurance company to draw onl
Then it would not have been necessary
to take S12s.oO0 out Of the state treasury
and commit enbezzlement to finance
the deal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
LFron the New

LFTOm the new Z OK I -
It would be awful easy to be good
if nobody wanted you to.
If you walk up to a girl suddenly
she will always say don't just as if
you had done it.
A woman can always be comfortable
on a couch If she can get enough I'M
comfortable cushions on it.
You can generally tell whether a
girls fellow has kissed her lips by the
way she is afraid to look at his.
It takes heroisn to let your wife
run the family and then not lie about
how you do It 20 your friends down
town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25
no CALDERHEAD.

The Sun has always been an admir-
less he stands by the president in his
efforts to secure legislation that Will
correct the abuses in freight rates, re-
bates, etc, he should be defeated for
denomination. Kansas people are
overwhelmingly on the presidents
side in this fight for railroad legisla-
tion.-BIue Mound Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

Senator Burton has such suave and
convincing manner on the witness stand
that he seems to have almost convinced
himself that he never represented the
Rialto company before the postomice de-
partment as an attorney. as he said he
did when he was first indicted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

A dispatch has been sent out under
a Syracuse dateline stating that a wo-
man there has Just awakened from
ten months sleep. but it is suspected
that the item should be dated at Phil
edetDIfa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

tenn. We win not admit that the Ca
nueks have as good land or raise as
good wheat as Kansas does, but they
really seem to be ahead of us on their
method Of transferring land titles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

1t seems that the railroads. like the
life insurance companies, axe charitable
institutions. Here they are hauling coal
at a loss, according to the figures they
produce, and we have not even been
grateful to theml
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

Expert Lincoln says it takes more
cars to haul six hundred tons of cattle
than it does six hundred tons of coal.
Therefore the freight is the lower on the
cattle. What excellent argument that
fzf
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FLAsH % HUMOR.

One New York official speaks of the
"timidity and inexDerience" of Tam
MANY men at the polls; for even a
strenuous campaign has its flashes of
humor.-Philadelph Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

Homer Hoch, the son of his father
in concluding a column discussion Of
the rate regulation proposition in this
weeks Marion Record. throws out this
hint: mr. Congressman Mr. Senator,
tha procession is moving. Time to get
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

Strange" says the Chicago News.
s'that Burton Of Kansas hasn't thought
20 plead as an extenuatng circumstance
that he is a United States senator" He
set forth that when he went to the post
onice department to get Information for
bis get-rieh-auiek clients
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

Nine. Bernhardt says she has never
heard of Clyde Fitch as a playwright.
Perhaps Mrs. Humphrey Ward never
heard Of the celebrated Nick Carter as
an author either
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

The Kansas City Times compares the
United States senate to the house of
lords which leads NJ NJ. Beck to OBJ
serve that this is pretty rough on the
house of lords, but perhaps it deserves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

Senator Depew does not understand
why the newspapers ignore him now
adays He ought to take the fact for
granted and be thankful for it. without
anquiring too closely into the reasons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

young Roosevelt has great speed and
only lacks beef. SAYS a Harvard foot
ball expert. There are other men who
also lack beef, because they are made
up mostly Of pork.