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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
Maybe It was O'Bnlenstein.

There must have been bit of Irish
in Billenstein, despite his name.
Billenstein. called "Bill'' for. short.
was years ago a guide in the City hall,
and every party he escorted through
the big marble building enjoyed his re-
marks as much as they did seeing the
wonders OF the structure.
once he was dilating on the hanging
stairway in the southwest corner of
the building.
1T is the only one Of the kind in
the world he said, "and we have four
of them
Bin did not see anything funny in
the remark. and wondered why the
people grinned.
Another time a young lady, who had
reached as high an altitude as the
clock, asked him:
DO people often fall off this tow
er?"
NO, miss" was the grave reply,
Bin wouldn't admit that anything
could equal his beloved city hall in
size. beauty or anything else. He is
dead now, but many will remember his
quaintness.--Phi Telegraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The fleetness of fame is suggested
by the fact that some resolutions of
the Arkansas City Commercial club
got into the newspapers signed, y.
Mack Low president" and nobody
suspected that it was meant for the
former boss Of the Kansas Democracy.
This is the time of year when the
friend who always carefully closed
the door when it was SO in the shade,
makes it point to leave it wide open.
You will notice that the rains are
saving the wheat already, having COM
meneed just as soon as the corn crop
had been finished. The rain has to
work overtime at saving things.
There is some curiosity as to where
Mr.. Togo has been 1oahng ever since
he whipped Rojestvensky, if he is now
just getting home.
How would this do for a subject for
a debate by the country lyceums:
Resolved, That the methods of Mr..
Devlin are better than those Of Mr..
McCurdy.''
Football isn't getting all the atten-
ton. The moth ball is coming in for
it's share.
In 1870 it was a fad to wear two
watches, but some people were just
Missouri Pacific trains are nowadays
Not content with making meat OF
our bodily necessities, the beef trust
has now attacked our sOles by show
ing UP the price of hides and leather
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
KANSAS COGMENT


Air. Murdoch should remember the
fate Of one Cyrus Leland, who loaded
himself up with too many fights at one
time and went to his political DOOM
Concordia Daily Kansan. You mean his
political resurrection and rehabilita-
ton. FirstIx. CYRUS Leland is 81 MEM
Der of the legislature Secondly. Hoch
has appointed every political friend he
has in the state to an Office. Thirdly,
your Uncle Cyrus is holding down
the Devlin receivership at a salary of
ten thousand dollars a year Politicians
come and politicians go, but ~ our
Uncle Cyrus goes on and on forever.
No man seems to have the power to
doom his political death.-ElDorado
Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
PA HE PAYS THE PREMIUM.

wish my pa was one of these
insurance presidents, for then
Ma wouldn't ever have to tease
For money for new clos agen;
We'd have a Dallus built somewhere
And I'd eat candy by the pound,
And we'd have lots of servants there
To always follow as around,
And ma she'd never have to get
Down on her knees to scrub the floor
Or wash or cook the meals or fret
Or keep on drudgin' any more.
II pa was president of one
OI these insurance companies
Wed get our coal brought by the ton
and never haft to nearly freeze
Because the pile was getIin' low
And ma would never need to make
Pas pants fit me no more, you know,
And we would live on pie and cake;
But ma she's gettin' old and bent
And ali run down and kind of GUM,
For some one else is president
And pa he pays the premium.
IL pa was president I'd be
The manager and let them pay
A nice fat salary to me
For dom nothin every day;
I'd buy a di'mun ring fer ma
! And travel in privut car
And never be afraid that pa
Might bounce me If / went too fars
] And when we ct we'd always spread
/ Reel butter on our bread, and then
/ We wouldn't ever haft to dread
! To see the landlord come agen-
| If pa could have a job like that
Ma says she wouldn't shed tear
/ Or haft to wear her last years hat.
And it would be like heaven here
! Wed light the gas at o'clock
And mebby let it burn all night,
! And everybody in the block
Would talk behind our backs for spite
! But ma she's gettin' gray and bent
And thinks the worst is yet to come,
/ For some one else is president
/ And pa he pays the premium.
S. z. Kiser in the Chicago Record Her
! aid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Chancellor Strong of the Kansas uni
versity gives the students some sound adj
vice; He says among other things; do
not waste your fathers substance. Most
of the students who come to this univer-
sty come from homes where self-deniai is
necessary and they are here only because
of the sacrifices their fathers and mothers
have made in order that their children
may receive that which is highest and
best. They are here this morning fresh
from the last look into the eyes of parents
who are willing to sacrifice everything for
them, and under such circumstances, any
student who will waste his fathers sub
stance is worthy of nothing but contempt.
He is certainly out of place in the UniYer-
sity Of Kansas '-I4indsbOrg News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
ALREADY CONDEMNED.

The salaries of the heads of the banks
of England and Germany together
amount to only $4,000 the salary of the
Bank of France president not being as
certainabIe. If anything further were
needed to show the utterly indefensible
nature of such life insurance salaries as
have been uncovered by the present in
Vestigation. this fact would meet the
requirement amply. But nothing more
was needed. These salaries already
stood condemned by public opinion as
an unmitigated steaL-SpTingfel Re-
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.l

A woman drops a lot of stitches
when she is mending her age.
Girls dream they have curly hair
the way men do that they are John
D. Rockefeller.
People jeer at women who kiss dogs,
but it is much better for that kind
than to try to raise children.
When a man can enjoy three square
meals a day it is mighty hard to make
him believe that the country is going
to the dogs.
A woman is so mistrustful that
when she Is travelling she never feels
sure the train will stop when it gets
to the end Of the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

The efforts to get Stubs and Curtis
to commit themselves on the sena-
torial question has thus far been I'M
awaiting. We are unable to discern
why either of them should be serious
ly considered.-Norton Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
KANSAS EXPERIENCES.

An Iowa man has sued a banker
for damages who induced him to start
a newspaper in a town where there
were already two good papers. The
new paper struggled on for q while
and then passed to the great beyond,
taking with it all the money invested
in it. Kansas newspaper men know
all about these bank publications, -
and they are hoping that the Iowa
man RECEIVERS big damage s.-Salina
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Mr.. CunliGe The young man who
stole that 100000 at Pittsburg. Will
soon realize that robbing an express
company is an entirely different propo-
sition from helping an express company
to rob the public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

money or of#the scientific son who could
not properly do his work without max
ing money-and a great deal of it. The
records of the two men are continuous
and complement each other. Neither Of
been without the other. and both de-
serve grateful Christian
Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
MUCH lie SINE FEELING.

Inc PRESIDENT anticipates Out HUG
while the coming of the time when
Americans, without abating their con-
victions Of the righteousness of the
Union cause, win look back upon the
valor and devotion of the soldiers of
Grant and Lee with much the same
feeling that makes Englishmen of to-
day equally proud of the fiery charges
Of the Cavaliers and of the steady cour-
age of the Cromwe1lians.-Bos Tran
script.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

You viii notice that those three New
Workers did not try to shoot one an
other in the streets until Bat AIasterson
had left town and come to Kansas on a
visit Bat used to be something of an
expert in shooting UP a town himself.
when he got started.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

The anti-saIoon element is making
things warm for Governor Herrick in
Ohio. But as the saloon Democrats
are rallying to his support. Governor
Herrick isn't worrying as much as one
might suppose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

The wireless telegraph station ia
Washington accidentally overheard a
wireless message that was being sent
by the West Virginia, eleven hundred
miles away, to another vessel. Seems
to have been a sort of long distance
eaves-dropping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
A SPLENDID CROP.

One of the biggest crops Kansas
has this year is not mentioned by Sec
rotary Coburn in his report. It is that
of new students in schools, colleges
and universities. The cause of edu-
cation moves steadily onward.-Par-
sons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Among the suggestions which have
followed the protest against calling him
s'Kfng Corn" because that title Is un-
American, Kentucky thinks Kernel
would be the proper designation
Therefore he will be Kernel Corn in
Kentucky hereafter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

1T was to be expected. of course, that
some railroad magnates and the ship
pers who are favored at their hands
should shout unfair" because they
were not allowed to run a convention
which the great body of shippers who
do not get rebates called for their own
interests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Another difference between the
methods Of McCurdy and those of Gun
life. who robbed an express company.
IS that the express company got its
money back. while there is no hope for
the policy holders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
ALRAUGHs VIEW.

The joints are doing business in Topeka
in the same old way. They are closed in
IEingman just as they have been for
years. Governor Hoch deserves neither
credit for the one condition nor condem-
nation for the Other.-Kingman Leader
Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Some one says that the Seventh dis
trict win not ask much from the next
Republican state convention. There is
a suspicion that some one" doesn't
know. The Seventh has never yet
shown any alarming signs of bashful-
NOSE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
FRON OTHER PENS
WHERE OH. wHERE2

Surely a life insurance company
couldn't do business with a Kansas leg
islature. If the Kansas legislature is
not above suspicion then where shall
we find virtue in the raw state?-G.hi-
cagO News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

1t is said that DIR. Conan Doyle is
trying to ind a way to resurrect Sher-
lock Holmes again. Why doesn't he
have ar. Holmes investigate the rnys-
terry Of his own death and discover that
he did not die after ane
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

pendent shippers who insisted on
standing by President Roosevelt and in
their own interests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Switzerland is experimenting in its
army to find the effect of drinking on
craftsmanship. Inasmuch as the bibu-
ious individual generally sees two
nnoons-or other objects-it would
look as though this fact ought to en-
able him to be more successful than
the sober man, having two marks to
-Ilnot at.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

one Of the fine tributes to that con
vention called in Chicago to back up
President Roosevelt's railroad regula-
ton views, was the Kansas City Jour
NAILS roast of it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Unless you have the beauty of Venus.
the hide of rhinoceros, the constitutfoa
Of a horse. the diplomacy of a Maehfa-
velli and unbounded influence and frapu-
deuce, put out of your mind the tnouFfa
OF adopting the already miserably overs
crowded stage as a career.-An Actress III
The World and His Wife (Loudon).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
THE EAGLE,S sUCCESsOR-

The American eagle has fallen
from his high estate; his tail feathers
have been plucked; he's a sorry or
the national bird but he has had to
give way to the stork.-Kansas City
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Not being allowed to pack con-
veution in opposition to the very pur-
nose for which it was called, the rebate
receiving shippers very naturally took
ts,eir aoIl rags and declared they
wouldn't play with the naughty indie
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Every citfzeH owes duty to his
government. bat mighty few owe a
$50, geo duty ike Alice Roosevelt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

The State Journal is member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fui1 day
telegraph report Of that great news Or
lanization for exclusive evening p1oH-
cation % Topeka.
Tire State Journal receives fer exclusive
guplica ton the leased wire report Of ne
publishers Press for the edition for sun
day moruins
The news is received IN tire state Jour
mai building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

A lot of the saloons I'm Kansas City,
Kansas, forget TO close last Sunday, as
they had intended. You see the aver
age saloon keeper doesn't know very
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
Mr.. JEROME.

That the country is pulling for
Jerome is significant of the non
partisan quality of the peoples real
political morality-the impartiality of
the genuine political conscience.
Whether Jerome is Democrat or a
Republican counts for nothing.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Russia is revolving again. Russia is
becoming more expert fn the revolution
business than even the South American
republics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

The president has ordered that all
official news shall be given first to
press associations, not TO special cor
respondents. But this particular bit
of official news came first from a spe-
cial respondent.-New York Even
ing Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

The president evidently believes in
publicity for corporations but not for
cablne ts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

They are barking back to the New
York city campaign of 1886 for data
from which to size up the outlook OF
the present one. In that n1emora bic
contest Abraham Hewitt got 80, $50
votes, Henry George s. 10 votes, and
Theodore Roosevelt 60,455 votes How
ever, that was in the era of hard times
and municipal soup houses. bably
this state of. things accounted in large
measure for the heavy vote polled for
Henry George on the anti-poverty tick
et.-Boston Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

A Chicago minister has been dis
missed for being too good. It should
be explained. however that the thing
he was too good at was pool
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Mr.. Devlin indicates that the re-
ceivers report is better than he ex-
pected- Didn't Mr.. Deviin wreck
things as badly as he supposed he did?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
PANAMA CANAL

It is so easy to construct a sea level
Panama canal on paper that a great
many of US intelligent Americans fail
to comprehend why the engineers
who are studying the problem on the
ground find so much difficulty about
t-PhiIadeIphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Dey hat set g bad pecedent in Paris.
Dew charged Elliott Fitch Sheppard
s4-i20 fer running Offer a kid. Der beo-
Tle in dis country fss mighty bad abouds
minaicing der Pareesians, und der fairsd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
GAGS FOR THE CABINET.

The Presidents desire to Silence idle
gossip and incomplete reports con-
corning what goes on within the pri-
vacy of the cabinet room, when he
summons his secretaries to confer on
the executive business of the govern
ment, viii evoke more sympathy than
the text of the order in which he
makes known his wishes. The latter
will strike most persons as far too
sweeping and as of a character such
as is not usually addressed to men of
affairs who are deemed worthy to ad-
minister the details of governmental
machinery.-P Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
WHERE2

AS Charles F. Murphy says he has
no interest in contracts. the question
Where did he get it," becomes of
increasing. concern.-New York Trt-
/ bune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

This chilly weather viii undoubtedly
suggest 10 the coal trust the advisa-
bnity of giving the price another
boost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

my alleehed friends says Gus Cob
bIesteinhauser, goes oudt duck snood-
ing, und come back und braE aloud
how many dey kill, but der nearesd to
a duck vich 1 hat see vas canvass
back ham,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Dere ISIS someding aloud dis veddeF
vich make der aferacb man kvit look
ing ad der female hosiery display IN
der sdore window, und pegin taking n0-
tbs uf der ofercoadt egzibbit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Moral: Id ISIS safer to run choine
a permit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Id iss rumored dot Teeumsah hat
made a bid fer der streed show vOt hat
peen located py North Topeka. Among
der advantages atfertised by Tecumseh,
iss blenty uf oben space fer der beloOn
Ioonatic to light on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
DER POLITICIANS.

Dey ISIS coming to der trysting-blaees
Von-py-eacll, und by der bonch;
Egspectancy on efery face
TJnd each Won Tnita bunch
Dot he's der greyhound uf der chase
IJnd sure to shara der lunch.
HANS ZUPP.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Der attentions uf der R0oshan Ka-
Ear ISIS respectfully United to der Ka-
talpy tree IF Kansas. Dere ISIS synlp-
toms uf someding bidding in hiss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

A perfesser in der NoobrasIly Ooni-
varsity wants some condemnated muir
6erers to volunteerily permit him to I'M
bottom dem like a valise ind essamine
DER interior workings. He iss sired ut
cutting oop stiffs, und can sleeb
nights fer longing fer a life vo1. Listen
und see IF you can hear a lot uf dem
holIering, "Blease. AIisder, take me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

neighborhood. und he may hat to climb
somevere before long. AS der Ka-
talpy ISIS a fasd growing tree, We rec
cornendt him to blant a foo uf dem In
hiss back yard. IF he prefer taking
to der brush, We had blenty Ut dot, und
viii send him SAMPLES on affiliations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

ting We know dey viii be selling DER
surplus kids to fasd DIFFERS for brac-
tica work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29
A sFRm0N FOR TO-DAY.

If man die. shall he live again2-Jol
14-1A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-29

Football isn't getting all the atten
tioh. The moth ball is coming in TO
its share.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-06-28
RUSSIANS DELIBERATELY
SANK BRITISH STEAMER
Removed Mails and Provisions from
lkohona and Then Fired On Her
Until She Went Down. ~
BY Associated Press.

Singapore, June 27.-The captain of
the British India Steam Navigation
company's steamer Ikohona, which was
sunk by the RUSSIAN cruiser rereK GA
June 5, fifteen miles north OF Hong
Kong. and the crew landed here Sat
urday night by the Dutch steamer
Perlack, says:
THE Terek sent an officer to the
Ikohona, who declared that my vessel
must be destroyed because she was
carrying contraband. | went on board
the Terek and protested strongly,
but vainly. Ny officers acd crew were
transferred to the Terek and after an
unsuccessful attempt TO dynamite the
Ikohena the Russians fired on her for
two hours and sank her. They had
previously removed quantity OF pro
visions and the mails besides all my
papers"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-06-28
WtSTvILLE
Special to The Journal.


Westville, June 27.-There is a pro-
tracted meeting on at the Congresa-
tional church.
Mr.. c. D. Frink, of Prosperity, Fla,
was In town Monday. ~ 49,.
Hon. H. z. Hickman returned last
night from Bombay.
Mrs. A. D. Browneif of this place is
sick, but improving some.
The Westville and Darlington rail-
road is being rapidly built, and there
are several miles of track laid. The
log train of the Sanford Lumber Co.
brings in logs daily over the new
road.
Hon. John Neei NJ. NJ. Owens and
several others attended the Masonic
burial of the late A. ". Vaughn, at
Mount IdaAehurch last Sunday.
Mr.. j. M. Brigham, o. the firm OF
Brigham Bros, returned this morning
from Florala, where he went several
days ago on business
Mr.. Wickersham, from DeFuniak
Springs, is in town today.
Mrs. Stella Brett, wife of Hon. w. H.
Brett, Jr, came in on the mail train
last night to see her mother, Mrs.
ellis.
Mr. A. D. Crews left here this morn
ing for the east side OF the river on
official business.
Mr.. E. NJ. Jewel, of Prosperity, Fla,
was in town today.
Mrs. II. E. Hickman left here last
night for DeFuniak Springs to see heI
sick sister, Mrs. Chas Cox.
Mr.. S. w. Tikon, naval stores man
of Bankers, Fla, passed through here
this morning en- route 10 his home
Several people here anticipate go
ing to Pensacola. on the 18TH 4
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-06-28
TERSELY TOLD.

Mrs. Max Edelstein and son, Gus, OF
New Orleans are visiting with Mr..
and Mrs. n Weiland, No. IL North
Spring street.
Magnolia Temple, No. 4, Rathbone
Sisters, will have a public installation
OF its new officers Friday night, June
30, in the hall of the Knights of Pyth-
ias. and invitations have been sent
out TO this effect. The exercises will
commence al S o'clock and will be
very interesting.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McRae and child
ren accompanied by Mrs. Robert G.
French. of F7orala, passed through the
city yesterday en- route to g. point up
the Choctawhatchie, where they will
spend some time. Mr.. McRae Is inter
ested in the turpentine industry in
that section. as weH as in FlOrafa
where he also publishes the Florala
News. 2
c. VI. Chandlee of Gulfport was in
Pensacola yesterday being on his way
70 DeFuniak, where he will be welded
tonight 10 Miss Linda Parish, most