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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

So far nothing has appeared in the
testimony to show that the Taggarts
ever rode in an automobile or on the
water wagon.
That trouble between Norway and
Sweden really ought to have bell tied
to it so that we can keep track of it.
The boozers ought to be satisfied:
Governor Hoch saved quart of good
champagne.
Nobody has ever accused Uncle Rus
sell Sage of parting with 1900 good
hard dollars for a copy of "Fads and
Fancies.''
A Chicago professor comes forward
with the declaration that women are
responsible for the barbarity of the
world. OF course. Nearly all bar
barians had mothers.
Did the Prophet Isaiah have refer
ence to Philadelphia when he said "the
crooked places shall be made
straight"
Governor Hoch took both a bottle
of wine and a bottle of water east with
him. The water was used in christen-
ing the kansas" Now Bill Doolittle
is anxious to know what became of
the wine.
The pipe of peace that is being
smoked at Portsmouth is a cigarette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IRON the Atchison Globe


Next to man learning to dance,
the most awkward sight in the world
is woman learning to swim.
A man who does not care what you
have been in the past does not care
what you will be in the future.
Limp around with rheumatism, and
people will say to you: .'I'lI bet Won
didn't have it as bad as I did,
There never was a man who did not
occasionally manufacture a groan to
excite the sympathy of his friends.
When we think of the ease with
which we deceive others, we should
think of the ease with which others
may deceive us.
Most people prefer green corn on
meet man who prefers it in the
knock-down state.
1t is said charity begins at home
As a matter of fact, there is a good
deal of complaint because charity does
not begin at home.
anything" when he runs an errand
for you, be as polite as he is, and in
sist on giving him nickel.
One of the disagreeable things OF
| life is to meet men and women who
have not succeeded very well, and who
insist on making explanations.
If the Lord and the Devil should
run for office, hundreds of idle men
would collect on the street corners
and quarrel as to which was the bet
ter candidate.
81 have never seen game of golf, "
an Atchison crank said today. az be-
lieve L will tie myself, and watch a
game; I would probably kill the
players if I stood around loose
In a certain Atchison family the
mother has always chopped the wood
The other day the father attempted tc
chop a little, and one of the children
said: Mamma, 1 should think yor
would be ashamed to let papa do that
hard work"
An Atchison woman asked hel
preacher how to get her husband int
the church. by being a little les
Jealous yourself" he replied. sc
have never known a case where 1
wife's over zeal attracted her hus
band"
A preacher to be popular has t.
admire plain and pretty babies alike
and an Atchison preacher who i
fussy about being truthful, has thi
way of handling the plain babies: H
says if you take the little red squirm
ing baby from its proud mother, hol,
it out at some distance from you, an,
looking at it smilingly, say in a heart,
tone, well, this is a baby tn
. mother will be perfectly satisfied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
Street Singer Punished.

The London public has generously de-
cided to dignity the noisier type of pro-
fessional mendicants by the title of
singer" and still more generously has
decided to put up with their recitations
and even to pay them moneys for de-
livering them. We are glad to see that
this is not the case in Glasgow. The
inhabitants of that city have just risen
in protest against an individual who
gave out the following stanza: 1.-The
scene it was a peaceful one. The chill
dren at play. The 1arks above with
songs of love, Joined in the harmony.
The foul assassin then appeared, And
stopped the joyous fun, And in another
moment He his hellish work was DONE
The lines, we believe, were topical,
and referred to a tragedy that had taken
place in the town. Twenty-one days
imprisonment was what the singer re-
ceived, and nobody can say that it was
too much. We have quoted the song
in full as an instance of how the street
singer turns naturally to gloom. A roll
licking comic song would be less painful,
but the street musician rarely rollicks.
What he likes is a slow, mournful bal
between the lines, so that he can stop
and look around for coppers-in both
senses of the word. A drunken man,
singing the latest song with real gusto,
is gathered in by the police before the
end of the second bar. A professional
beggar is allowed to massacre any
hymn he pleases, choosing his own
time.-London Chronicle.
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Deceit of Children.

How best to combat the Unborn ten
dency to deceit in children is discussed
in an amusing article in the French
Revue.
An entertaining story is related. A
little boy took some money from a
table. His father witnessed the theft
and, thinking to awaken the child's
conscience, pretended that he believed
the nurse was guilty, and feigned to
send for the police, being confident
that an innocent persons danger
would bring the child to confess. I'm
mediately afterward someone knocked
at the house door, and the parents
chagrin may be imagined when the
child was heard calling to his sister,
Hurry up; be quick. Here are the
policemen come to arrest nurse. What
funl''
Here is pretty example of chiId's
astuteness and perverted moral sense,
cruelty held to be an embryo hysteric
of the Hedda Gabler type. Walking
with her aunt in a friends garden, a
little girl dropped and broke a Dor
rowed doll. ooh, they will sco1d me
when we go back said the child.
mot at ALL" she was assured; 'T will
tell them that it was an accident, and
say it was not your fault
Whereupon the child returned
quickly to the house, and was sitting
with her friends when her aunt ap-
peared at the door of the room. "Oh,
you can come in" cried the child
they won't scold you. I've told them
that it was an accident, and that you
did not break the doll on purpose."-
London Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
WHAT DID sTUBBs MEAN?

There is considerable curiosity over
the state just now to know what w.
r. Stubs meant when he said, eff
am treated fairly Mr.. Kelly will be
treated fairly in this treasury investi-
CATION 1t sounds very peculiar, to
say the least. Mr. Stubs has usually
been credited with disposition to
speak plainly. About the time of the
Wichita convention he was lauded to
the skies for his frankness. 1t was
pointed out that Stubs never beats
about the bush, but says just what he
means.
If Mr.. Stubs said just what he
meant, are we to understand that he
is holding the treasury investigation
over Kelly's head to make Kelly
treat him fairly? The lola Record
makes a few pertinent remarks along
this line in the following:
'In a statement given out by w. R.
Stubs in Topeka the other day he
says: I have not been treated fair
ly by Mr.. Kelly. If Mr.. Kelly and his
friends will give square deal I will
be square with them. That is all
ask, a square deal. They have been
fighting me, and without cause. If I
am treated fairly Mr.. Kelly will be
treated fairly in the treasury investi-
cation and in every other way
THAT the statement was carefully
prepared is shown by the fact that
every paper contained the same story.
The reading is exactly alike in all the
newspapers, and Mr.. Stubs surely
expected that his words should go
for exactly what they meant.
From the statement it seems that
the $4,000 appropriated by the state
last winter for the examination of
the state treasury is to be used to
make Tom Kelly and his friends
give Stubs a square deal Mr..
Stubs does not wait for Governor
Hoch to say what treatment his ex-
aminers will give to Mr.. Kelly, but
presumes to speak for the governor
The whole question of what the ex-
animation is to disclose, or rather
what the officials are to disclose of
what it really shows, is conditioned
upon whether Tom Kelly gives Stubbs
a square DEAL
But above all, Stubs must be
treated right When he takes his pen
in hand to indite a few lines telling the
Reformers what to do they are to
take no offenSe. The mere fact he
presumes to instruct them on subjects
about which he is about as familiar
as the town clock does not change
the essential character of what they
are to do. They must treat Stubbs
right they must give him a square
DEAL and then the states official ex-
aminers are to use their influence to
protect his friends. If am treated
fairly Mr.. Kelly will be treated fairly
in the treasury investigation and in
every other way Mr.. Stubs says
confidently.
What does Mr.. Stubs mean by
treating Kelly and his friends fairly
in the treasury investigation? Are
facts to be suppressed, a whitewash
report made, and the whole $4,000
wasted in compelling Kelly and his
friends to deal fairly with the Douglas
county statesman? Surely such a
pure reformer as Mr.. Stubs doesn t
wish the people of the state to believe
that he will use the power given the
governor to compel a party faction
to do his bidding. Mr.. Stubs is great
and powerful, but he isn't beyond the
reach of public ODiniOn''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
1t Worked Both Ways.

When some of the newspapers were
printing funny stories about William
Loeb, private secretary to President
Roosevelt. during the last campaign,
alleging that he was the champion
blametaker in America" because he
was always so willing to assume re-
sponsibility for anything that went
wrong at the White House, Mr.. Loeb
laughed with the very men who wrote
the yarns.
But, one day his patience was taxed.
The presidents train had been delayed
seven hours between Philadelphia and
New York while he was going to
oyster Bay. Next morning one of the
New York dailies had these flaming
headlines: president Train Water
bound=Loeb Not to Blame"
''See here, boys" said the secretary,
next morning. at Oyster Bay. that's
going too far
Very WE'LL said the reporter who
had written the story, "I'll correct it
tomorrow and say you were to blame"
Success Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
TO EDITH,s VEIL.

Dainty, delicious, filn1y thing,
draw it from its hiding place;
About it fingers still a trace
Of faint and sweet perfume.
/ hold it in my eager hands,
My stolen treasurei-Loving theft
And of cold honesty bereft.
l, smiling, wait my doom!
The Wind was holder far than I:
He tore it from her waving hair,
And as caught it high in air,
She blushed at his caress.
just here-it touched her dainty nose,
And here-it brushed against her lips;
On wondrous web, that dared eclipse
Aught of her loveIinessi
What precious secrets have you hid?
What answers yelled from lovers eyes?
II we could tear off all disguise
From Life. as from her facet
III thank the Wind. who was so bold;
III summon all my tender art,
Deep in her eyes to read her heart:
Ye godsi but give me gracei
Frances Irwin in New York Times.
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Punished for Silence.

The war department authorities
have decided that officers who fail to
acknowledge official communications
and habitually ignore inquiries sent to
them from the war department and
other military sources of command
shall be brought up with round turn.
Some time ago three artillery officers
stationed in New York harbor made no
pretence of replying to communica-
lions sent them from Washington. In
two instances the inquiries were based
on complaints made of failure to dis
charge financial obligations, with the
result that the officers were threatened
with trial by court-martial, were Off
cially rebuked, and one of them was
forced to resign as the alternative of
facing a military court The trouble
has gone on despite the publicity
which attended the departments
treatment of these cases and the
known attitude of military authorities
in such matters. Officers continue to
ignore official communications, and it
has been decided that hereafter mill
tary discipline will be enforced in this
regard. For this reason Captain Fred
erick w. Cole of the quartermaster's
department, on duty at Fort Moultrie,
S. c., will be tried by court-martial,
the charges being that he ignored Off
cial communications. Captain Cole is
one of the junior officers of his grade.
having been appointed in 1891 from
Massachusetts,, his native state, after
having served in the war with Spain as
volunteer quartermaster.- York
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
A Morse Legend.

According to a recent work on Nor
way, the scantiness of the soil in that
country is explained by some of the
country people as follows: At the crea-
ton of the world the angels whose duty
it was to scatter the soil forgot Nor
way Seeing this, the guardian angel
of the land made complaints to the Gre
ator. What was to be done2 Impossible
to restart the whole of the creation for
the sake of Norway. Come, my little
angels" said he look carefully and
perhaps you may still find a little
earth" The conscience-stricken angels
swept the floor of heaven and the little
dust they found they gathered in their
draperies and scattered over the Nor
wegian rocks.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New YORK Press.l

[F'rom the New York Press.
You can make people believe you
have a very fine judgment by. always
asking theirs.
It's a smart baby that knows enough
to save UP all its cries till the middle Of
the night.
No woman ever reads anybody's will
in a newspaper without hoping her
name got in somehow
An awful easy way to get girl to
marry you is to have her mother tell
her she ought not to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

stock yards have reduced the revenues
of the stock yards company about $1,000
a week, and the stock yards company
wished to keep these big earnings By
giving the packing companies some of
the new stock it will bring them into
the stock yards trust and make the
combine ironclad.
It's a wonder this stroke of finance
has never been thought of before!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

ago. Mr.. Takasugi is a Methodist, and
not benishted heather, and was at
that time attending DePauw university
He spent part of one summer up in
Jefferson county with DR.. G. w. Davis,
now of Ottawa. who was also In De-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

AS soon as the corn crop gets a lit
tie further along we will be perfectly
willing for some one to come along
and swat summer sufficiently to crack
its backbone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

The Kansas City Star publishes an
interview with resident of that town
wondering how Mr.. Devlin slipped out
of the state and sailed for Europe
without the Kansas City or Topeka
papers finding out about it. It was
the Kansas City papers that were
asleep. The State Journal published
all the news in connection with the
matter, but the Kansas City papers
evidently did not find st out even then.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE away.

Subscribers Of the STATE Journal
the paper mailed regularly each day
70 any address at the rate of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While cat Of town
the State Journal will be to you like
daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

The world and it's family will not
need to go hungry just because the
northern railroads have a strike that
interferes with the shipment of wheat.
Kansas can furnish enough flour to
feed the hungry for a good while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

What New Orleans needs is a man
who can invent some new disease that
will remove the mosquito into the
hence in a manner harmless to man
kind, as Prof. Snow has done with the
chinch bug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

The newspapers seem to have beaten
Town Topics to Senator Depew and
told all about him before the publisher
of "Fads and Fancies'' had time to
collect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

Now Mrs. Nation would have simply
dee-lighted in smashing a bottle of
champagne over the prov of the
kansas"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

Although we have become head
quarters for peace, it is just as we'll to
keep good strong navy on hand for
use in case of emergency. That's
what we need the Kansas for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

Mr.. Rockefeller is still able to pay
for his meal ticket. The Standard de-
clared another dividend yesterday,
which makes thirty dollars a share de-
clared thus far this year. against s2s
UP to this time last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

In the new marriage ceremony the
bride promises to keep" instead of
TO "obey." This ceremony ought to
be extremely popular with impecuni-
GUS men who are marry wealthy
brides.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

The sparring of the peace commits
sioners ought to be especially enter
tanning to the great number of David
Harums in New England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

When President Castro desired a
certain decision from the Venezuelan
supreme court he got it. Governor
Hoch should get Castro's recipe for
training supreme courts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

AS yet Mr.. Rockefeller has not form
ed college trust to run out all insti-
tutions that are operating in opposition
to the University of Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

Secretaries Root and Shaw might ar
range for prohibitive tariff on the
importation of presidential booms
from the Philippines while Secretary
Taft is away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
WE'RE GLAD OF IT.

NJ. witte paid diplomatic and
graceful compliment to the civilized
nations of the earth when he said:
Russia has little resemblance to
other countries. Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

Do you suppose the Standard Oil
company made that extra dollar a
share of dividends off of Kansas oil?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

It is to be hoped that NJ. Witte will
not find it necessary to regret to re-
port" that he cannot agree on peace
terms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

OF course Kansas breaks into the
peace conference. Mr.. Takasugi. one
of the Japanese representatives at
Portsmouth. Travelled over Kansas lee
turing on ''Yeddo. the Land Of the
Rising Sum-" fifteen or twenty years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

If Taft's presidential boom gets to
be as big as he is the other candidates
might as well keep out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
.FIND THE WOMAN /"

Chicago professors have been notably
conspicuous of late for the absence of
their pernicious activity in talking, but
one of them comes forward to redeem
the windy city's professional reputation
by declaring that women are response
bic for the barbarity of the world
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

Still, Russia may have to take her
choice between a humiliating peace
and a humiliatins war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

If yellow fever only killed the
skeeter instead of making him danger
Gus to others the world might be
happier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

It is quite likely Baron Komura will
spread a coating of sugar on the peace
pill if that will make it any easier for
the Russians to swallow.
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SOMETIMES.

T. I. Kelly says he would like to
know what became of the money he
subscribed to the last campaign fund.
It has been noticed all along that
Treasurer Kelly is sometimes as
scrupulous about where his money
goes as he is about the sources from
which it comes-Leavenwort Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
AN OPINION.

The Topeka board of education has
passed a resolution declaring that
when a lady teacher marries her place
shall be declared vacant. Such a reso-
luton is unconstitutional as being in
restraint of trade, and besides, how is
the woman to support her husband If
she is charged.-Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16

Considering the work that is being
put on it, Portsmouth ought to put up
q mighty good brand of peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
BUT THEY DO.

The congress of industrial workers
has refused to admit lawyers on the
ground that they do not work Evil
IDENTIFY the members of this congress
have never been worked by lawyer.
baltimore Sum-
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KANSAS COMMENT
IMMEDIATELY.

We note that people who claim there
IS no death do their full share towards
populating the cemeteries.-Concord
Kansan. There is no death. There
are no dead. Every death is a resur-
rection. If there is a Christ and if he
said anything, while on earth, he said
to Mary at the tomb of Lazarus:
'Whosoever 1iveth and believeth in me
shall never die.''-Bent Murdoch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
FRON OTHER PENS
BIG GAME.

The mountain lions are overrunning
Yellowstone Park. Well, the presi-
dent cannot be everywhere at once.
There are some wild beasts in gov
eminent and business circles that have
to be attended to.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
NOT DRAGON sLAYERs.

that neither the mikado nor the car
is a Saint George-Houston Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
UNNECESSARY STATEMENT.

The oil used in New Orleans to kill
Off the mosquitoes that are spreading
yellow fever was not, as might have
been believed, due to the generosity
of the Standard Oil company.-Iola
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
A QUERY.

Is Bent Murdoch growing more toll
Grant, or what was the matter with
him the other day when he was con-
tent to refer to the governor merely
as a sheep ?"-Iola Register.
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THEY'LL DO THE DRILLING.

Chief Engineer Stevens says he will
devote his first attention to the mos
quitoes when he lands on the isthmus;
does he expect to drill them to dig
the canal?-Houston Chronicle.