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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-04-18
More Disturbances in Russia

More DISTURBANCES IN RUSSIA
Dispatches from many points in Rus
STA tell of renewed disturbances among
the peasant and urban population.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-04-18

The fifteenth German Geographen-
tag will be held at Dantzig on June
1916.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-04-18
Erennh Claims Settled

It was reported from Paris. France,
that Turkey had settled the French
claims by an agreement to pay indem-
nifty and to purchase arms in France.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-04-18
MAYOR DUNE CALLS BARROW
Mine Workers Counsel Has Charge OF
CHICAGO Traction Utilization.

Chicago, ILL., Mayor Dunno took the
first step in the direction of shaping
his municipal ownership campaign by
placing Clarence s. Darrow in charge
Of all traction litigation. Mr.. barrow
was counsel for the United Mine Work
ers before the arbitration board APP
pointed by President Roosevelt.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-04-18

are in shirt whist style, but fun at the
shoulders. ana finished with straight
cuffs
The quantity Of material required for
the medium size Is four yards twenty
one, three and Eye ighth yards twenty
seven or two and ones Ghth yards f0r
t7lonE inches Wide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
ANOTHER REFoRAf NEEDED

The country is now finding out how
some of the big insurance companies
have been manipulated in the interest
of their officers and directors. There
are doubtless many insurance compan-
les that are honestly managed. but the
result of the investigation has made
the public suspicious of all insurance
companies alike. In the long run the
disclosures viii be beneficial, for they
viii put a stop to this insurance graft
ing and the people will see that the
insurance business honestly managed
is good thing.
Isn't it about time that something
more drastic was also done to put a
stop to the mismanagement of our
banks? Reform is needed in banking
as well as in insurance. Only a COM
paratively small number of banks are
probably operated dishonesty but the
encouragement of this small per cent
makes the public suspicious of banks
in general.
A few months ago the country was
startled by the collapse of a big Mil
waukee bank and the disclosure that
its chief officer had robbed it of inn
mense sums for speculative purposes
man who had been president of the
Z American BANKERS ASSOCIATION and
who was regarded as a financial pillar.
Some time later came the crash of the
First National of Topeka, with the dis
4 closure that the chief stakeholder had
/ borrowed s1,3OO,0OO of its deposits
Then came the discovery that a high
! ly respected" banker of Peoria, IlIf-
nois, has been committing forgery and
embezzlement for years, his pecula-
lions reaching hundreds of thousands
I of dollars. And last week occurred
the crash of the Enterprise National
/ in Pennsylvania, followed by the sui
eide of the cashier, caused by loaning
/ large sums Of state funds to politicians
on bad security
What causes this sort Of criminal
/ ity? Isn't it the fact that too fire.
quently those who are responsible for
the looting escape with only a light
punishment, or no punishment at all ?
Sometimes severe punishment is melted
out to the guilty, but not always. For
instance, what has been done toward
lferreting out and furnishing those who
were responsible for the failure of the
First National of Topeka?
Banks are a necessity, and when
honestly managed they are profitable
both for their managers and patrons.
But it really looks as though the sys-
tenn needs reformation so that the ex-
aminations will keep dishonest bank
ers from stealing or misusing their
patrons money, and when dishonesty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
Opportunity is the milk. action the
cream.
But the more a woman says the less
d man remembers.
Blessed is the peacemaker to the I'M
der dog in the scrap.
An advertiser with sand interests the
customer with rocks.
Everything comes to him who lets
the other fellow do the waiting.
It's up to a bachelor to avoid sew
ing bees if he doesn't want to get
stung.
1t sometimes happens that a cook
book is the cause and a divorce the
effect.
After six months of married life a
woman usually expresses her love for
her husband C. o. d.
It's a case of disappointment for the
gossips if man goes wrong and there
is no woman in the case.
A diplomatic girl is one who can in
form a slow young man that it is time
to say good night" without telling
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Inasmueh as this is the open season
for ducks Mrs. Duck of LeavenwOrth
has filed a suit for divorce.
Up at Salem in Jewell county some
people asesrt that they found an apple
growing on a box elder tree. Mighty
strange things happen in Kansas.
The Wellsville Globe tells of a pump
kin weighing 112 pounds grown this
year in Franklin county. It's immedi-
ate ancestor was a pumpkin that con-
tanned only seven seeds.
Prosperity note from Joe Wright:
Occasionally we hear of some Smith
county farmer putting a heating and
lighting plant in his farm residence,
extending to all his feed lots and out
buildings. And the farm produced the
money to do it.
Charley Starr, who is a short grass
editor. and who incidentally has repre-
scented Scott county in the legislature
for a number of terms. has just sold
five quarter sections of Scott county
land for S10,500. He bought the land
for almost nothing a few years ago.
In speaking OF the Islander suit c. H.
Young of AtchiSOn has brought against
B. P Waggener in Jackson county,
No, because Mr.. Waggener accused
Young of not only running a gambling
house but also of using a marked deck
to fleece his victims, Frank farrell sug-
gests that the reason why the suit was
brought in Missouri instead of in Atch-
isOn, where both parties live, may be
because the use of marked cards is
common in Missouri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A river can't be damned with faint
praise.
It takes more than hot air to put in
a heating plant
1t isn't the successful artist who
draws conclusions.
The woman who uses rouge doesn't
paint for arts sake.
No man is so dull that he can't
make bore of himself.
Don't take any stock in the fellow
who is a laughing stock.
The average woman regards a man s
conversation as fiat unless he hatters.
The fellow who swears off for a
month doesn't cause the devil any anx-
iety.
Every cloud has silver lining,
which is more than can be said Of
every pocket.
A campaign lie is a good bit like
telling a girl she is the only one you
ever loved
The patron of the burlesque show
may not be prodigal son. but he
seems to have 4 fondness for the fatted
calf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28

Former Congressman JOY, OF Mis-
souri,, tells a good story concerning ex-
President Cleveland. During his first
administration, President Cleveland
made an extensive tour of the west and
northwest, the people, regardless OF
political Affiliations, vieing with each
other in their demonstrations of ad-
Tniratfon for the man and respect for
the Office. On a very blustery day in
st. Louis, after reviewing the first divi-
sion of an immense parade, Mr.. Cleve-
land was invited into the hotel to par
take of a little stimulant, and cheer
fully accepted, saying; "Under the
circumstances I will be glad to have
an opportunity to relieve the chill"
'sStep from the balcony right
through this window" said Hon. David
Francis, chairman of the committee
of arrangements; and the president did
SO, accompanied by several other dis
tinguished guests. On a long table in
the parlor about a dozen glasses of
/ liquor were already poured out, with
water on the side. Where President
Cleveland stood there were two glasses,
and he asked why he had been doubly
supplied
lone is for your secretary, Col. La
mont" said Mr.. Francis.
! "Oh, very we'll" said Mr.. Cleveland
with a broad grin, as he poured the
| contents of both glasses into one, aou-
| ing:
| Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l


Do you take pleasure in Catching
people at things? It's a mean trick.
Do you ever do a creditable thing
and then spoil it all by a fool blum
der?
The title of a new. coon song is, Il
Don't Know Where I'm Going, but I'm
on Ny Way" Are you not in the
same fix?
Hear the pattering on the steps.
That's the white shoes going up to the
attic to join the roller skates, the golf
set and the hoop skirt.
Most Missourians have small feet.
The next time you meet John Meadow
look at his feet. He is a big man, but
his feet are unusually small.
An Atchison girl who married away
from home and who was supposed to
be the wife of a distinguished surgeon,
has turned out to be the wife of a vet
Urinary surgeon.
There is no greater fallacy than
that with which a man excuses his
| follv in buying trash for his children,
thinking that oh, well, they viii take
care of him in his old age.
Two men run store in Atchison.
The pastor of one of them sits around
the store a good deal, and the other
partnership is likely because of the
pastors loafing around the place.
A certain formerly of Atchison young
1 man, now in the west, is to have a
/ good joke" played on him. In his
family there has always been a lot of
talk about "kin visits" and three of
his kir=his father, sister and brother
ARE arranging to visit him.
When there is a spoony young cou-
DIe around the depot, the word is passed
/ around and every one walks past them
/ to laugh. But when a spoony old cou-
I ME is there, how much the people do
| think of themi This morning an elder
/ " man and his wife were waiting for a
train, and every one around the depot
| wanted to hug mother" for being so
nice to father" She was stout,
/ pIeasant-faced woman and insisted that
lhe should lie down and be comfortab bic
IN fine wraps. dress suit cases and
valfses that she piled up for him to
lean against. Finally he consented. Ut
lferlv unconscious of spectators. Moth
err learned over him, and taking his
i face between her hands, kissed him.
He turned over and soon was sound
! asleep, while she sat near him and was
an interested looker-on in what was
going on around the depot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
The Readv Anafenr Acfor-

Eugene Cowles saved two women
bathers from drowning last month
in Lake Memphremagog In making
this rescue, Mr.. Cowles bruised his arm
1t struck a rock as he dived in.
Pointing to the bruise the other day,
the actor said:
when I got that bruise, I felt like
a young Chicagoan named Littledale,
who played with me in amateur theat-
ricals in my early youth.
"LittledaIe, in one of our shows, had
to leap into a river in order to escape
from a wild beast.
1.-THE stage was so arranged that the
river was invisible Littledale was to
leap and disappear, striking a soft
mattress in the wings, and at the same
time a rock was to be dropped in a
tub of water to create a splash.
but, though the leap worked all
right in rehearsal, on the night of ac-
tual performance it went wrong. There
was neither mattress nor tub then.
When poor Littledale jumped, he fell
eight feet and landed on an oaken
floor with a crash loud enough to wake
the dead, and there was no splashing
water to drown the crash, by JOvei
1.-THE audience, expecting to hear a
splash, and hearing instead the thun-
derous impact of Littledale's bones on
the oak, set up a litter. But the he
roic Littledale, equal to the occasion,
silenced them.
q 'Heavensl' he shouted from below,
the waters frozen Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

'Kicked-on-the-Jaw' is the name
given an Indian at the Carlisle Indian
school, but as he plays on the baseball
ana not the football team 1t is more
likely that he kicked on the umpire.
Very likely Mr.. Bryan can get up
quite a subscription list for the Com
moner while he is in Asia. The heather
over there won't know any better.
Did you ever helD towards winning
a victory? Did you ever contribute any
thing towards a campaign" demanded
an irate individual who question Deacon
Twogood's Republicanism. mot direct
~. answered the deacon. "but 1 have
paid several big life insurance prem
iums."
A dispatch announces that Mrs.
Marshall Field win remain several days
in New York to do some shopping"
Very likely Mrs. Field doesn't wish to
take up the time OfMarsh and his clerks
by shopping in that Chicago store. She
VIII buy there instead Of shop
The ST. Louis Republic rises to in
quire, win Cuba forget her debt to the
United States?" IF she does we can just
send her bin on the first of the month.
At Cumberland wis. they are dig
ging for gold. Banker Bigelow struck
gold in Wisconsin but he didn't dig for
it. He is doing his digging now.
The Capital notes that the state house
did not close this week for the North
Topeka state faaovbgkqd( Y II
Topeka street fair, according to custom.
The reason probably was that Hill VIII
son is out of town and there was no
body else to circulate the petition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
Reducinr SaIaries.

They-that indefnab1e tribe of anony-
mity-are telling an excellent story on a.
Wall street banker not associated with
either the City National or First Nation
al institution of high finance. He occu-
pies a conspicuous pew in a fashionable
these Is years has been s.. (Io, no, mol
not poker: contribution plate) How that
word limit does annoy. Last Sunday
some keen-eyed observers were astounded
when he put in a $50 note. The news
spread like wildfire, or scandal and Gre
afed much speculation. Everything was
explained next day. The banker went
down to his office on Monday morning
and reduced the salaries Of his clerks 10
per cent. IN time Of plenty we should
prepare for famine is his watch phrase.
and he lives up to It.. His $50 note was to
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
Pavine fhe Parson.

There was wedding party III East
Washington the other evening at which
the bridegroom is said to have queer
ed'' himself, to the modification of his
new wife and her relatives. The mar
riage ceremony was performed in the
parlors Of the minister, as the young
man declared he was averse to public
displays in such matters. After the
preacher has pronounced the twain hus-
band and wife the bridegroom handed
him a IS bill and then remained in an
attitude of waiting.
Come on, David said the new wife
impatientIy, as the young man contin-
ued to follow the minister about the
apartment. What in the world are you
waiting for?"
Waiting for my change of course, -
was the reply.
How much did you hand the preach
err" asked the wife.
Five dollars"
'Then there Will be no change" re-
piled the wife. Five dollars is little
enough for marriage fee
Il don't think So" rejoined the new
husband. give long green's is too much
Of a fee to pay a preacher for saying a
few words and wishing you a happy
life and prosperity. But then I don't
know anything about such things. You
see, this is the first time I was ever
married. Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28

Newspaper headlines announce that
the campaign of W. R. Hearst as the
municipal ownership candidate for
mayor of New York is the most spec
tacular event ever witnessed in the
politics of the city This may easily
be believed, but the most important
feature Of the New York campaign,
and one in which the country at large
is considerably interested, is the can
didacy of W. T. Jerome, who is run
ming along, with a characteristic show
Of independence, to test the desire of
the New York public for law enforce
ment The election or defeat of Je-
rome, under circumstances which COM
bine no party strength with his can
didacy. and which clearly test the
question of law enforcement or law
abandonment as applied to New York
City will produce results that viii be
felt throughout the eountry.-Ottawa
Herald,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28

The most expert SHOTS are unable to
explain why they shut one eye or the
other, or neither. There was q Boston
man who shot so well with his right
eye closed that people wondered, be-
cause he fred from the right shoulder.
He had a left-shouldered gun made,
but could not accustom himself to its
use. How do you manage it?" he
was asked by Gus Stahfro OF the Mount
Kathahdin range. well, you see, my
right eye was shot out ten years ago
and / have a glass one in its place.
What's the good of keeping it open
when I fire. It might get jolted out
N. 7. Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
KANSAS c0MMENT
BENT MURDOCKs WONDER.

BENT MURDOCK'S WONDER.
We would rather own Henry Allen 8
Ottawa Herald than hold a life GER
tificate of election to the lower house
Of congress. We would rather own
Charles SCOTS lola Register than be
presented with a certificate Of cleo
ton to the lower house of congress to
the end of time. And the question
occurs to US, why are these editors SO
anxious to go to washington? What
is there in it, or what sort of a mi
crobe is it that gets into their gizzards
that causes them to be anxious to
forsake home, friends, business, repu-
tation, character, happiness, every
thing, for a dinky little Office at the
government capital? Congressman are
so thick in Washington that the dogs
won't even bark at them-or do any
thing else to them=for that matter.
FL Dorado Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
Newspaper Enterprise.

endeavOr OF the press to furnish news
quickly. Some wonderful examples
have been furnished in recent events
but none can excel a recent SCOOP
landed by the Freedom (Ia.) Courier.
It is elf-explanatory:
We came pretty near getting SCOOP
ed on an item this week. but, if it were
not for the fact that we always have
our weather eye open, we would have
been left in the cold Just as we go to
press Oscar Sanborn is having three
fingers cut OF by 4 thrashing machine.
A doctor has been sent for. Details in
next issue. EXCHANGE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

LFrom the New York Press
Monotony is so unattractive that it
is hard work even to be bad all the
time.
Every woman takes it as a great
compliment to herself to have her
daughter engaged.
girl has more ways of making a
man try to kiss her than she has rea-
sons why he shouldn't.
When a woman hasn't any other
reason for nagging a man she can dc
it because she feels it is her duty to
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
Cross Old Woman

Sir Edward Monsoon, the veteran
English diplomat who recently visited
America, served under Lord Lyons in
Washington during Lincoln's admin
istration, and has many interesting
stories of Lincoln to relate.
"a distinguished old woman" he
said, "once called on Lincoln and
rallied and stormed over some fancied
wrong that she had suffered at the
governments hands.
mr.. Lincoln listened to her politely,
he talked to her in the kindly way he
talked to everyone, and then, after
she was gone, he turned to me and
said:
Little Edith heard the other day
that neighbor had shot his dog be-
cause it had grown old and cross. She
studied the matter out awhile, and
then she looked up into her mother
face and said:
Mamma, when do you think papa
will shoot Aunt Martha p Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
HUMOR or THE Day

Consoling Friend-There! there! Don't
grieve so; tears can not bring her PACK
Widower-I know it. That is why
They met at party on. Tuesday, went
to the theater on Wednesday and the Iol-
lowing Sunday he proposed,
'I love you" he declared. win you
4 will she replied. But didn't ie take
you a long time to make up your minor
Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. syllie-AIy husband takes a deep
Mrs. OIdar-You surprise me.
Mrs. SyIlie-Weu, it was surprise to
me. But I heard him telling Jack Rown-
der last night that it was a good thing
to study your hand before you draw
Cleveland Leader.
Helm going to kiss you.
He-Good idea. Maybe your pretty sis
ter win come to help ou--Philadelphia
Ledger.
Mr.. Lobbey-senator, we feel that this
bill should pass. We hope you viii lend il
Senator Crook-Lend it, How much in
terest do you expect to nay on a loan
of that sort?-Philadelphia Ledger.
Jaok-Yes, had little balance in the
bank, but I became engaged two months
TonlEAhI love makes the world sc
round
Jack-Yes but didn't think it would go
round so fast as to cause me to lose my
balance.-Brooklyn Life.
Mrs KnicIer-Was it fashionable we'd
ding?
Mrs. Bocker-Yes, indeed; the bride was
attended by a divorce Of honor.-NeW
York Sun.
do you think the new janitor has a
vocabulary that is sufficiently warm2'
''WelL I should say he had. He used to
run q school for talking parrots '-Cleve-
| land Plain Dealer
"Chawley's hahd up.''
whats the trouble2'
why, he wefuses to do the only thing
/ in the world he could do.
what is it?''
BE a dwessmaker's model''-San Fran
| cisco Call
BIillicent-It doesn't seem quite right for
those men to court that young widow so
soon after her husbands death.
/ Hortense-But this is exceptional
case. Everybody is saying that black is
unbecoming to her.-Pnnch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28
HALL OF FAME.

1t is highly questionable whether this
hall of fame viii not be detrimental to
American thought. Literary orthodoxies
has no place in the poets corner in
Westminster Abbey. But the man who
secures no tablet of marble or bronze
often secures the fieshy tablets of hu-
man hearts. So may it be wien many a
hero whose name shall receive no com
memoration in New Yorks hall of
fame-Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28

THE PLEASURE OF RESTING
I am something like the year is;
know that I'm old and gray
am chilly every morning,
And I daWdle down the way
In the evenings; but at noontline
feel ike the old world feels;
Full of Injun summer giadness
] could yell and crack my heeisi
Oh. the yellow centered daisies,
How they dip and sway and nod!
And the slnWard slopes brocaQed
With their robes o. goldenrod,
And the forest ways all carpeted
With yellow, green and goidlt
Oh, the pleasure Of the resting
When the year and one grows old
Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28

THREE KINDS or COURAGE.
There's the courage that nerves you in
starting to climb
The mount of Success rising sheer,
And when you've slipped back, there's the
courage sublime
That keeps you from shedding a tear,
These two kinds Of courage, give you
my word,
Are worthy of tribute-but then,
You'll not reach the summit unless you We
the third
The courage of try-it-again
Roy Farrell Greene in Success Maya
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-28

The State Journal IS a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report OF that great news Or
GaniEation for exclusive evening pupA-
cation IN Topeka.
The State Journal receives for exclusive
publication the leased wire report OF ths
Publishers Press for the edition Tor sun
day morning.
The news is received in the state Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
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HARD TO BEAT.

To the uniformed outsider, however,
1t looks as If James Hazen Hyde would
be sorely put to it to make his testi-
mony before the insurance investigating
committee as interesting as that of
Messrs. Mccall and McCurdy.-
aDOlis News