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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
.HYH< WKER JOTS

Cawker City complains because no
more people can move there for want Of
houses for them to live in.
The Concordia public library, which
has been built up by the women's clubs
of the town, has moved into a new
building, all of its own.
The Salina Journal has put in another
linotype and now the people of Sanila
will wear out their dictionaries some
more trying to find out what "etaoinoin"
means.
The president of the Ottawa board of
education had to come into court and
pay a license for keeping dog without
paying his dog tax. That's the way to
do it" to quote Mr.. Punch.
A long-haired person rushed into a
and pumping himself into the chair
said. Il want a hair CUT (Which one
shall cut?'' asked the obliging tonsor-
ial artist.
Conner Davies Nconfesses that he
tramped around SO much trying to see
it ali the day the circus was in Concor-
dia that he had to walk on blisters the
next day. Probably on the end of his
wooden leg.
circus man asked Dick Warner. the
Missouri Pacific agent at Concordia,
what would be the rate to haul the cir
Gus to Beioit. Upon being told that it
would be $500 the circus man had a wa
gon drive up and unload 600 half dollars
on TO the agent
A black cat went into the ottawa
Herald office the other day and refused
to go out, but the Office force couldn't
remember whether it meant good or bad
luck. Bets were even whether bag of
peaches would be brought in or the
press would break down.
Crooked Creek item by Ellis Garten:
A. ]. Elliott untangled himself from
| Crooked creek the til end of last week
and came up to the county seat. Alex
| lives on that famous stream that is SO
crooked that those who try to meander
it often meet themselves coming back.
The Howard band is preparing to do
more execution. It has just shipped
back to the horn factory four of the
main noise-makers for rebuilding. Some
ofthe instruments the band possesses have
| been in use for 90 years. The tuba has
never been disabled in all that time,
notwithstanding the great amount of
hot air that has been pumped through
it.
Troubles in a country newspaper Of
fee as told by the Kiowa Signal: Some
| body took advantage of our absence
Wednesday, while we followed the East
! Lynne parade down town, and deposit
| ted a huge watermelon at our kitchen
door. Now it is a we'll known fact that
we do not allow our children to eat wa
termelon. Either it was someone who has
8 stand in with the doctor, or else, may
be it was some one that had been to the
| country after the farmers were in bed,
and got more than they dare take home.
Anyhow, we had troubles untold, be-
/ tween the children teasing to go to the
show and crying to eat the melon and
| then crying because they had eaten it,
soap, the cat having hydrophobia from
/ eating too many rats anu the office dog
| having shed a big crop of fieaS we are
not in the best hunOr these days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
THE PARALLEL.

It seems that there are other in
stances in which the case of Auditor
Sherrick of Indiana paralleled that of
Treasurer Kelly of Kansas besides
those that the State journal has al
ready mentioned.
If worse came to worst, Kelly ex-
pected certain persons connected with
the railroads to help him out when he
got in a tight place, on the theory
that the railroads-some of them
could not afford to let him be deposed.
1t is reported that railroad interests
really were responsible for Kelly Civ
| ing a new bond under the new deposit
tory law; that Senator Henley, of Law
renee, who is the chief signer on the
bond, was Unidentified by some of the
railroad interests.
Now for the PARALLEL: In a recent
speech reviewing the Sherrick Incl
dent, Governor Hanly of Indiana said
that just before he removed Sherrick
| information came to him that the
money to make good Sherrick's short
age could be raised, but only on con-
dition that the defalcation be kept
secret and that Sherrick be retained in
office.
| upon inquiry" continued Governor
Hanly, 81 learned that some of the
men who were to furnish the money
were the representatives of large rail-
way interests in the state; that Mr.
Sherrick and his friends were depend
ing upon them and that their assist
ance depended upon his retention in
Office. 1 could make no such bargain
as that"
Sherrick's friends claimed that he
had only been doing what was a com.
mon practice among Indiana officials
of all classes. Governor Hanly de.
MES this. He says that some. other
officials may be guilty of loaning pub,
lie funds in their keeping as did Sher.
rick, but if satisfactory proof of tina
fact be established said the gov
ernor, 81 pledge you here and nov
that such officers will have successor
within thirty days after the inforna
ton comes to me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
WHERE GRAE-r rs GREAT

How envious it must make the
small grafters of other states to learn
of the disclosures by the big New York
insurance companies giving intirna-
tons of the vast sums that have been
used to influence legislation in the
Empire state, What a great oppor-
tunity was there affor Ted the gentle
manly legislator with a sandbag to
hold up the big corporations. Listen,
for instance. to this from the WASH
ington Post:
THE Post is informed by reliable
correspondent who has knowledge of
Equitable affairs that this company
has for years maintained q fund called
protection fund which has been used
to prevent inimical legislation at AL
bany. He adds that he has no doubt
that the 100000 for which Senator
Depew was responsible was money
placed in his hands for political pur-
poses, with a view to protecting the
Equitable from improper legislation
The protection fund was created spe-
officially for that purpose. Can there
be any doubt that the other insurance
companies in New York We're COM
PEELED to protect themselves against
legislative grafters in the same way 2?
How the Missouri CRATER who con-
sidered himself lucky to get a thousand
dollar bill once or twice in two years
and the Kansas CRATER who has to ht
content with a few dollars or few
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES


The new $50 bill liz said to be inartistic,
but there is a great sufficieney of art
about it to satisfy most of us. If you
don't like the ones you get, send them
around this way.
What does the washington Post mean
by intimating that dressmakers are
very liable to make mistakes in making
out their bills because their business is
to make false figures?
Still If we abolish the railroad pass
we may have a hard time getting any
body to run for the legislature.
In few months more Governor Doug
lass of Massachusetts, will go back to
paying space rates for his advertising
instead of getting it sent free in the
dispatches.
There won't be any escaping on tech
nicalities from indictments brought by
the recording angel
The man who was getting in a hurry
to buy his winters supply of coal a
week ago isn't nearly as anxious about
it today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
QUAKER RESTRICTIONS.

TFron the Philadelphia Record.1
Even parasols have fashionable
shade.
The forger finds it easy TO write a
wrong.
The hustler has no time to tell his
troubles.
It's the egotist who makes eyes at
the girls.
Time may be money. but it's poor
bank account.
Even when a man is sick you can
know him well.
A light heart never goes with a
dark brown taste.
In connecting a lemonade the lemon
feels that it is the main squeeze
The fellow who INDUCES in dry re-
marks isn't always limiting for drinks.
When a rich man talks about hard
times il merely shows that he is get
ting used to prosperity.
It is hard to serve two masters, but
the sailor will tell you that some
schooners are four-masters-
Most married men are welded to
art but they don't find it out till the
honeymoon begins to bump the
bumps.
Perhaps you never had the pleasure
of meeting the best man that ever
lived Adolphus, but If you marry
widow you are sure to hear of him
frequently.
sillicus-"old Gotrox murders the
English language, and yet no one
thinks anything of it." Cynicus-
ssVeH. when money talks nobody
makes fun OF its grammar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.l

lfrOm the AIcnlSOn GLOBE.
To most people man is worth
what he will let loose of.
The trouble is that when a man is
born again, he has the same old kin.
A great many times we take a
shadow for sword hanging over our
heads.
It is the easiest thing in the world
for a man to write a love letter to his
wife: just enclose a check.
When you apply for job, you say
you will do your work in a first class
manner; but can you give security?
Children soon learn that pas pa
thence doesn't last any longer than it
takes the last guest to get out of the
house.
Perhaps the reason there are no
good cats is that when woman
gathers up the kittens, and decides
which to save, she always selects the
prettiest.
'I am greatly in need of men," an
Atchison employer said today, land
to add to my other troubles, a great
deal of my time is taken up by worth
less Job hunters who think they are
all right"
In a certain school there is a GER
tain lazy boy who is always late, and
who never has his lessons. One day
the teacher said to him: Suppose
you were driving a team of horses
and one of the horses was very lazy,
while the other was always anxious
to go. What would you do?" The
boy replied: Hold in the fresh one.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
REFLBCrIoNs ar a BACHELOR
IFrom the Philadelphia Press

IFrom the Philadelphia Press.
The real fun about being right is
proving the other fellow is wrong.
The weather has a, lot to do with a
mans spirits and his liver with his
morals.
A way to make children take baths
would be to tell them it was not good
for them.
Engaged people are happy because
they forget how to think straight UNI
til they are married.
You can never make a man who has
won some money gambling on pure
chance believe that his brains did not
have a lot to do with it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
A sATuRDAY SERMON.

The way of the transgressor is hard
Proverbs 13:15.
This is an old, old truth. as old as
the human race. Very likely Solomon
borrowed it from some sage who lived
away back in the morning of history
for millions had realized it long be-
fore Solomon's day. Today its truth
is the same as ever, as thousands
know to their sorrow, and it will con-
tinue to be true as long as sin rules
in the lives of men.
Up in Chicago q once prominent
and respected business man, one who
has always held his head high and
who had his own and his neighbors
respect, is a nervous wreck. Why
Because he transgressed the moral
law and the legal statutes in his bust
ness. He conspired to accept rebates
from railroad companies. His plea
was that it was a common practice:
that his company had to do it to COM
pete with the other big packing COM
panies. He partially complied with
the law by withdrawing from the beef
combine when enjoined by the courts,
but he and his company continued
the rebate business. A time came
when an outraged people demanded
that the vioIators of law be pun
ished; a grand jury indicted the vice
president of the Schwartzschild &
Sulzberger company with three of his
fellow officers On the rebate PROPOSE
ton. He knew he was guilty of the
crime and that he could not escape
conviction. He was criminal. His
guilt weighed on his mind until he
suffered nervous collapse. That is the
heavy part of his punishment.
There are seventeen others of these
alleged criminal packers besides the
four who have pleaded guilty and
have been fined. Some of them are
millionaires. They are accused of vio-
lating not only the law against re-
bates but also the antitrust law, and
there is every prospect of their con-
viction. They will scarcely escape
with fine, for fine would not mean
much to them. A small portion of
their iIl-gotten gains squeezed from
the public, would pay the fine, but
they cannot make the rest of the
country serve their jail sentences for
them; neither will their millions ward
off the opprobrium attaching to GRIM
inaIs. Their severest punishment will
come from their own consciences and
from the knowledge that they have
lost the respect of their fellow men.
Some transgressors may continue
long in their sins without meeting
their punishment, but they are bound
to come to the end some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
Babu Omciaidom.

An amusing story of Babu officialdom
comes from Alden. An officer in charge
of a post in the hinterland had, in adj
dition to his military duties, to look af-
ter the dispatch of the mails. One day
he learned that he had incurred a repTi-
mand at the postofrice, and that an en-
try to that effect had been made against
his name. He treated the matter light
ly, and inquired whether the reprimand
involved fine or imprisonment or both
He was then informed that by this mis-
placed levity he had incurred a second
reprimand Further inquiry disclosed
that his original offense lay in sealing
the mail bags improperly. He had not
been provided with an official seal, and
in lieu thereof he had stamped the wax
with a large uniform button. As this
gave the impress of a crown and the
royal arms he no do1bt considered it
a rather happy nakeshift. but the Hin
d,1 official at the other end was OF a
different opinion with the dire results
above mentioned.-London Truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

hundreds at most. would revel in hold
ing up few big corporations:
For the difference between the new
York CRATER who holds up an lnsuf-
ance company for $4,000 and the
Kansas CRATER who compels county
official to pay anywhere from ten to a
hundred dollars to get his salary in
creased, is one of degree and not Of
kind. The New York CRATER simply
has the greater opportunity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

would, of course, be important If true,
but it isn't true A high regard for
truth compels the State Journal to say
that at one time Senator Longs name
was Isaac c. Long, but 4in some way the
firstand second names became transposed.
Had it not been for that fact crop OF
Isaaes would now be growing in the
stalwart Republican families of the
Seventh district instead Of 50 many
Chosters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
QUATRAINs FROM TILE SPANISH.

y OAAFNAANS FROM THE SPANISH
First think and then speak;
And after that still
Think on what you've said.
If twas good or i'll.
Rise up If you fall.
But ere going incline
And look where you fell
And place, there sign
A sign on the forehead
Bear ali that draw breath
Inscribed as with fire.
Saying: Sentenced to Death"
know not that which have,
With what I lack It's the same:
But always l wait for something,
That know not how to name
Myself 1 wished to avenge
On those who make me grieve,
And my conscience said to me:
Then thine own bosom eleave''
New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

Great Britain can afford to pay some
OF Japan's war expenses The results
of the recent conflict have relieved the
British OF any further fear that Russia
may be aggressive on the Turkestan
frontier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

We have not yet recognized the in
dependence of Norway. but if Norway
establishes a republic perhaps she will
have a brand Of independence with
which we will be sufficiently acauaint-
ed to recognize on sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
KANSAS COMMENT
UNJUST TAXATION.

The most important issue before the
+ people of Kansas is that of ~taxation.
| The present tax law was made to suit
the state when it was in knee pants
| our railroad system was then very
small and it was generally conceded
that Kansas could only be an agricul-
tural state.
Since then, thousands of miles of
steam and electric railroads have been
built, and We have coal and zinc
mines, oil and gas wells, and large
with gas and electric light plants, wa
terworks and telephones; also stock
yards. packing houses, and factories. of
| all kinds.
pated condition of affairs, the old tax
law is faulty and the burden of taxa
ton IS not evenly distributed. Real
estate is paying about four-dfths,
while it has been and is the custom to
allow factories, banks, and other in
dustries consisting mainly of personal
property to make just such returns to
the assessor as they think fit, without
any regard to the law. After years of
custom. the corporations have begun
to claim it as right.
The personal property returns in
Kansas are farce, and there is no
real attempt to obey the law. In Clay
Center, few months ago, a respecta-
bic gentleman, with others. petitioned
a grand jury for the purpose of clos
ing the saloons. The saloon keepers
had this good citizen indicted for MAX
ing a false return of his personal
property to the assessor and fed from
the state to keep out of the peniten-
tiary, and, of course, the suits against
the saloons were quashed and later
the citizen returned.
This was called a Compromise. -
We had a grand jury in Leavenworth
recently and earnest efforts were made
by some of our best citizens to prevent
| it from doing anything for fear it
would question One
| of our most prominent attorneys said
that if the grand jury took up the tax
question, the penitentiary at Lansing
would not be large enough to hold the
tax dodgers. He said: "Of course,
will have to go, but 1 viii have some
of the best church members in the city
for company. ''-Leavenworth Post.
| A "DEFENSE.'
| A lot of fuss is being made over the
money spent by Hoch, while on his
junketing trip to christen the battle-
ship Kansas The state gave the gov
he blowed the state for $270 extra.
What's the use of making so much
fuss about such small amount of
money PEI Dorado Republican.
SCARCELY.
However, just because the announces
nent was made on the same day that
| Ex-Governor Bailey was to pay back
the 81, 600 grocery bill and Kelly was to
pay back the $4,000 bond premium. it
should not be taken that there is po-
litical alliance between these two men
Not anyway, on Bailey's part.-Salina
Journal.
A COLLISION WORTH SEEING.
How we wish that Tom Kelly could
come up against Governor HanIy for a
few short hoursi How quickly his angel
cake would collapse into the heaviest
kind of dough. He has all the barney
of his race ready at his tongue end, and
can talk for hours without giving
mouth to a single sincere sentiment
| His latest TRADE Alevelled against Hocf
and Stubbs is, under the circumstances
| the irnpudent ttitterance of a hardened
| in2rate-BelOit Call
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

The Indianapolis News very truthfully
remarks that the good fellow is quite
likely to make a bad officer, and the
Chicago Tribune gets the eye- af the
chair to explain that it doesn't follow
that the bad fellow is likely to be a good
officer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

Senator Elkins has announced that
he will introduce a bill of his own for
the regulation of railways, but you
don't notice the railway magnates
worrying any about the EIkins bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

wouldn't it be interesting to know
how many more big corporations be-
sides the Equitable paid Senator Depew
$4,000 a year for legal services?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

II the Massachusetts governorship
really did cost Governor Douglass
$4,000, he paid a pretty stir rate for
the advertising, considering that it
lasts only a year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

The old rumor of a plot to assassin
ate King Peter of servia is again on
It's travels. This rumor started out
early in the spring, but 1t seems to
have been sidetraclked on the wires to
allow important limited events to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

The Kansas City Globe suggests
that partnership between Tom Kelly
and Sherrick of Indiana would
flourish in opuienee-" Kelly doesn't
need partner, at least not as long as
he is dealing with a governor that he
can bluff and an attorney general who
won't do anything against him under
any circumstances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

How mad it must make the Demos
cratic policy holders Of the New York
Life to find out that a lot of their
money went to defeat their own presi-
Dental caudidate!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

The Baltimore Sun thinks that il
the mikado riles those Jap jingoes
much more he. may lose his job in the
next election. The Sun forgets that
the mikado controls not only the cen
trail committee, but also the election
boards
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

Representative DeArmond intends to
make a fight for the leadership of the
house minority. It takes mighty slim
excuse to provoke some men to fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
NO SURE THING.

The war on bureaucratic incompe-
tency goes on at Washington, the presi-
dent leading the fight. Office holding,
fortunately, IS not a sinecure under the
present administration. = New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

Very likely the weather bureau will
keep US wavering between the alpaca
coat and the fur overcoat for the next
six weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

If other people do not worry about the
tarin any more than do the farmers of
Kansas it will never be much Of a po-
Iitical issue again except with the poll
ficfans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

BY the way. was the name of one
William Penn among those $4,000 dead
men who were stricken from the Penn
svIvania election rolls?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

It Is noticeable that the fact thai
President Mccall is a Democrat didn't
keep him from picking the winner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

A few years ago there was nothing
opprobrious attaching to the word
graft" Now it is nearly synonymous
with stealing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
ANOTHER EXCUSE.

George F. Baer says there will be no
anthracite strike next year. He must
know of something else that can be
used as an excuse to advance prices
Chicago Record Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

I Summer has evidently concluded to be
IN no hurry about leaving US after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
WHAT HE SEES.

A Russian editor named Kharopeid-
anskarovitch declares he sees another
war coming. No telling just what a
chap with name like that will See
New York Telegram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23

Mr.. Rockefeller showed up the price
of gasoline and Immediately denied that
he saw hard times ahead-from his
standpoint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
OUGHT 10 BE CHANGED,

We shall really have to change his
name to Pierpants Morgan since he
has brought 125 new suits of clothes
home with him.---Chicago Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-23
FAMIIIAR CRY.

Russia acts like a man who had
pocketed the proceeds of a jackpot and
was trying to convince the crowd that
he was hardly even with the game
Minneapolis Journal