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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
OLD TIME ROSES.


They have blossomed. the low. struggling
That ran In the old garden bed;
They are dearer to me than all others,
Those old fashioned roses, deep red.
They recall the bright days of my child
And Joys that viii come nevermore,
For 1 gathered each June the sweet bios
SONS
That grew by the brown farmhouse door.
And my mother still sits In the doorway,
And smiles on her rude, noisy band,
AS the roses half blown and half shat
tered
We snatch from the bush for her hand.
As 1 come UP the path from the school
house.
And pause at the threshold again,
With a cluster of rosebuds beside her,
She sits at her sewing. as then.
Oh, the roses bloom on in the garden,
They fill with their perfume the air,
And the buds from the brown farmhouse
Are dainty and faultlessly fair.
But the children have grown, and are
scattered.
And father and mother no more
In their easy chairs sit by the window,
Or rest in the wide open door.
They are gone, and 1 muse in the twi-
light
On joys that will CONS nevermore,
While I tenderly pluck the old roses
For mother, who smiles as of yore.
e. A. Kimban in pebbles From the
Shore
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
.LAYHA WKER .JOTS

Did you buy any land at Peru with
the idea that a state oil refinery would
be located there?
Just think of this: A man had the
nerve to deliver political address at
Yates Center the other day.
Walter Johnson calls attention to the
fact that it was really dynamite and
not gas that made lola famous.
A rural mail carrier up in jackson
county is planning to buy an automo-
bile in which to make his route.
The regents of the State Agricultural
college propose to experiment in max
ing oiled roads at Manhattan and at
Hutchinson.
It is said that the explosion of the
smallest f1recrackerS nowadays will
make an lola jointist jump and take
to the timber.
The marshal at Peru has closed all
the joints and may have thereby got
there is no use for marshal now.
The Hutchinson Bee is buzzing no
more. 1t is now the Hutchinson In
dependent, having become the daily
edition of Sheridan Ploughe's weekly
paper.
Beloit Call: 1t is thought that Tom
Kelly's resignation in escrow is also
tied up in the defunct Topeka bank
and is not available for use at the
present time.
A Marion lady who reads the State
Journal says that since the busted
condition OF the state treasury has
been discoN cred she can see why Tom
Kelly is called a boss buster.
North central Kansas has Chautau-
qua assemblies to burn now. Clay Cen
ter, Beloit and Cawker City are all
competing with one another. Concor-
dia, Belleville, Jewell City, Minneapo-
lis and Mankato ought to get into the
assembly game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Did it ever occur to you that there
are a good many people whose con-
sciences are not in good working
order?
A southern Kansas man lost his
hand in a machine the other day, but
it wasn't a political machine. He was
certainly no politician. The only times
they bank too heavily on two pair
when the other fellow has something
better.
The State Journal inadvertently
made a mistake recently which ii
degrees have been given John D.
Rockefeller. This does Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter an injustice. AS a matter of fact
Miss Tarbell has been giving John D.
about 240 degrees Fahrenheit in the
shade for some time.
New Bowen-Loonis proverb: You
can't touch asphalt without getting
black.
That chuckle you heard yesterday
came from a farmer up near Bailey
vile, wher a round-faced, good-na-
tured farmer is blowing corn, undis-
turbed by bank failures and the short
age in the state treasury.
Thursday came within twenty-four
hours of being Friday the 18th, but
that's enough to save us.
A central Kansas farmer in doctor
ing his horse gave it poultry medicine
by mistake. Now the horse has
scratched up the whole pasture and is
showing signs of trying to set.
To anxious inquirer: No, under the
new game law you do not need a
license to shoot craps any more than
formerly. Neither do you need a IL
cense for any Copeland county game
provided you have the chips.
When a certain Topeka woman was
a little girl her grandmother, who was
old and infirn, lived with her family.
One day some visitors, called in the
absence of her mother. and asked the
little girl about the grandmother's
health. "Oh, grandma is pretty we'll
thank you she said, "but she is get
ting very old and Internal"
notwithstanding that choice collec-
ton of thirty-seven hats which Dave
Hanna took home with him last spring,
he came to Topeka this week wearing
a Hill City straw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.
Might makes right, but doesn't al
ways hold it.
If you want to enjoy the society of
people, never become intimate with
them.
In recent musicale at Concordia
Miss Few was on the programme four
times.
Rich men are hated, and this is the
reason: We poor people are in the
majority.
We would like to belong to a wom-
ans club just long enough to help
break it up.
If woman really loves her hus-
band, his lodge night is more sacred
from interference than prayer meeting
night.
There never lived woman who
didn't think she had a perfect right
to interrupt her husband when he is
reading his paper.
We have heard of coreless apples,
wireless biography and spineless
cactus, but the read demand is for a
crackless firecracker.
An Atchison woman is so disagree
able, vindictive and active, that a man
said TODAY: 81 would hit her as quick
as I would hit a man."
If you want to become popular with
young mothers, brag on the looks OF
their children; if you want to become
popular with elderly women, brag on
their SlaW.
All the respectable kin in a family
should get together and decide upon
which worthless kin to hang, and then
go about it. This would solve a lot OF
| trouble, and outsiders would have no
disposition to interfere.
| Short love story: John Wicher OF
Chicago was forced to marry Annie
Drug He promptly left her, and re-
fused to support her. The wife took
her baby to Wicher's boarding house
and left it on his bed. Wicher picked
it up and threw it in the river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
KANSAS C0MAENT
DON'T INTERFERE

II you see young negro running for,
the bridge. do not stop him. The po-
lice nave worthless negro on the rock
pile and want him to leave town, Andy
Hayes the chain gang guard, is to give
him a chance to run. When he starts
out Hayes is to shoot q few times in
the air and holler, but he is to be care
fm not to overtake the negro. Cy Smith
is to hit the negro with No. 2 as he
passes the toll Office, and Sam Christian
at the other end of the bridge is to
take g poke at him with cane as he
passes into Missouri. The public is re-
quested to kindly refrain from interior
ing with the programme
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.l

A woman's gown never tells the truth,
a bathing suit seldom lies about her
figure.
woman's idea of modesty is letting
you see more of her than her clothes
pretend you can.
A woman's idea of a great sorrow is
having a husband who won't admit
that there is anything in his past to
confess
A girl can dance seventeen miles in
a night with high heeled slippers on
and it would kill her to walk two blocks
to a prayer meeting.
A man can lose a lot of money in
the stock market, and he may get some
of it back; what he drops on becoming
engaged is gone forever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Science has got to the point where it
can photograph bullets in their flight.
However, such pictures will probably
not become common, as a man is too
busy elsewhere to stop to take their
photos when bullets begin to fly in his
direction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
AAae paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address at the rate of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
so4sSn as desired. While out OF town
El2e State Journal win be to you Ike
b daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Jerome, LaFollette and Lawson ought
TO come to Kansas some time when we
haven't so much frenzied finance and
official crime close at home. We were
toe busy with other matters to pay
much attention to them last week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

1t really looks as though Miss Tar
bell and DR.. GLADDEN. ought to get a
commission from the colleges that re-
ceive million dollar gifts from Mr..
Rockefeller, inasmuch as they are I'M
doubtedly responsible for stirring John
D. up to the point of making the gifts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

/ Let us arise and sing the doxology:
Games ]. Van Allen, a northumberland
of the Newport variety, has decided to
move to England for good, because, he
says. America is not a fit place for gen.
klemen and ladies to live i'm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

OF course Kelly isn't worrying any
about the state losing anything because
he deposited more than a half million
dollars in a bank which has failed. If
the state stands to lose perhaps Kelly
can find some kind but mysterious "a.
r. Brown" to make good the shortage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

William E. Curtis is getting called
down for mistakes which he made in his
correspondence about Texas and Okla
homa. It is to be hoped Mr.. Curtis got
his facts about Kansas correct Kansas
desires only facts published. and not
Misrepresentation and fakes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

The country would laugh very loudly
at the joke if Mr.. Depew should be
compelled to pay back that $4,000 a year
he has been drawing from the Equita-
BILE. 1t would be the greatest joke
Ehauncey ever had a hand in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

You will notice that while some of
those most intimately connected with
she frenzied finance that has recently
been rampant in Kansas suffered from
nervous collapse. Tom Kelly did not
! k5is nerve is still doing business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Aren't you glad you are not "under
italian skies" Just now? The mercury
along the banks of the Tiber has gone
up to 113. You haven't heard of any
such stunts on the banks of the Kaw,
have you?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

The bankers colony at Fort Leaven-
worth must smile when they read the
declaration of Deputy Comptroller Kane
that it is all right for the director of a
bank to borrow all its deposits. At the
same time they doubtless wish the gov
eminent had found it out before send
srp-- them ND.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
EpON OTHER PENS
A cALIFoRNIA VIEW

Kansas appears to own a convenient
supreme court. such as is boosted by
other and more western states, and as
a result the law permitting a bond is
sue for a proposed new refinery that
would have given to the Standard Oil
company real opposition in that state
has been declared unconstitutional
Los Angeles Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

An exchange suggests that that Ore
gon grand jury ought to be engaged per-
1nanently by the government. Kansas
might give jury of that kind employ
naent for awhile
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

The Chicago News thinks that Kan
sas statesmen knew the state oil refin-
cry law was unconstitutional when they
enacted it, but they did not think they
would ever have such another glorious
opportunity to hand the dear people
luminous chunk of gold plated bunk -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Tom Kelly says he will have no trou-
Ole in securing new bond. Sure not,
but what about the quality of the bond Z?
OF course he will have no trouble in
securing a bond, for doubtless Mr.. Dew
lin will go on his bond for half million
again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Yale certainly ought to give Mr..
Rockefeller a handsome bunch of de-
grees in return for that million dollars.
Degrees are cheap. you know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
BETTER STILL.
While

While the Russian and Japanese
peace commissioners will not be per-
mitted to see our army and navy ma
neuvers, possibly, if they are good,
they may see the annual football game
between West Point and Annapolis
next fall.-Detroit Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

It might be more evenly matched-and
then if there must be a fight, why not
let the fighters change off once in a
while
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

The suggestion of the Washington
Star that we boil the fireworks to kill
the tetanus germs comes little late.
Otherwise it is all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Portland, Me. has bid in for the
peace conference, probably on the theory
that Russia and Japan could then ce-
nent their friendship with the Portland
article.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

e is complained that society is "slow''
IN Newport this season. Still it might
be considered slow in Newport and
mighty swift anywhere else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Everything, even the tornado" says
the Houston Post, grows larger in
Texas than elsewhere" Wen concede
! the tornado.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
A PROPHECY

Mother Symptoms prophecy was long
held to be a remarkable forecast, but
it is now pointed out that Nahum
some thousands of years ago outdid
her in his vision of the modern auto
mobile. In Nahum, ii:4, appear these
words: 1.-THE chariots shall rage in the
streets; they shall jostle one against
another in the broad ways; they shall
seem like torches; they shall run like
the lightnings. "-Providence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
rAInlT NoT STRoNG ENouGH.

The Chicago University authorities
are somewhat disappointed at the
slimness of the faint that fell into
the university's treasury at last COM
mencement season.-Richmond Times
Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
ONE THING LACKING.

We've got the horseless carriase,
The wireless telegram;
We're got the smokeless powder.
Likewise the homeless ham;
We've got the seedless apple,
Tasteless cod liver oil.
Woodless and coal-less ranges,
To bake and fry and boil.
And many smell-less, noiseless
Production and device
But here's the iceman's monthly bill
Oh, fora neltless icel
Ed Mott in the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

The New York Mail thinks that swap
ping a war between Russia and Japan
for one between France and Germany
would be mighty poor trade for the
rest Of the world. Oh, we don't know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

IF Japan wishes a really hot time she
might try taking. Port Arthur, Tex,
now, while the mercury is soaring
among the treetops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Those people who claim to be able to
eiongate short people are suspected of
sIongating the truth-they have stretch
ed it, you know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

If Mr.. Rockefeller doesn't like it, why
hoesn't he take a few millions and buy
81 the magazines outright?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

This lola crank, Mervin, whom a big
posse is hunting, is said to have fifty
pounds OF dynamite in his possession
Better look for him with a telescope.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
AN ENDLESS CHAM.

Sort of an endless chain Operation
down there at Topeka. Devltn signs
Tom Kelly's bond: Kelly deposits half
a million of state funds in Mr. Devlin's
bank; Mr.. Devlin borrows every dollar
of it firnself.-Western ADVOCATE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
JUST LIKE KELLY.

The Equitable grafters who are
making restitution wish to have it dis
tinctly understood that they are not
repentant.-NewY York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Here's another similarity: Both Kell,
and Burton refuse to resign their off.
cial jobs. but propose to hang OF
until
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
Her Idea of Equinoctial.

About twenty-seven years ago the late
James G. Blaine was invited to dine in
a certain city in eastern Maine where
he happened to be on business. His
host had recently married a second wife
more noted for her beauty and wealth
than for intelligence. 1t was near the
middle of March and a storm was COM
ing on, which, the husband remarked,
would probably be the equinoctial gale.
What do you mean by that? Is it
the same as the line gale?' she asked.
The husband replied in the affirmative
and in reply to further questions, told
her that it was usual to expect a storm
twice year, when the sun crossed the
equinox.
THAT day at dinner said Mr.. Blaine,
81 remarked upon the severity of the
storm, and my hostess, with an engag-
ing smile, replied: Yes, Mr.. Blaine, isn't
it singular that we always have such a
fearful storm whenever the sun crosses
the Penobscot" Before could frame a
reply, my host in a tone of mild sur
prise exclaimed: You don't mean the
Penobscot, DEAR and she at once said:
oh. no; how stupid of me! meant the
Androscoggin. Boston Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

You don't hear as much about Esopus
hs swimming resort as you did a year
go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
LONG ON PROMISES, ANYWAY.

Two science teachers of Colorado al
lege that they have discovered meth
ed of Cartilage extension" by which
an individual can permanently add
from two to five inches to his stature.
Not so many centuries ago men who
made such an announcement would
have been prosecuted for impiety;
nowadays they will be bothered only
by applications from those who have a
longing to be elongated and by post
Office fraud orders if they are proved
to have stretched the truth.-Boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
THE GAME LAW.

The nomrods will now have to march tc
the county clerks Office and put up thei1
little old dollar. Just think of paying q
dollar for the privilege of shooting q
jack ribbit or catching a mud cat
Yates Center News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
WHY IS TT?

Everybody comedies that the farmer
is the most independent man on earth,
yet the tremendous growth Of the cities
proves pretty conclusively that no
great proportion of US yearn for that
kind of independence. On the contrary,
the farm boy comes to the city, but the
city boy does not go to the country
except for a vacation. If it were not
for immigrants who prefer an agricul-
tural life American farms would be
desolate within a generation or two
Chicago Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

Russia is one of these countries
where they make news but do not
print it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
A KANSAS HERO.

George Poehl, fireman of the Grand
Island, performed one of the most he
roic deeds last Monday, ever known in
railroad service. As the freight on
which he was firing came round a curve
he and the engineer saw a baby on the
track ahead. The engineer reversed the
engine, and Poehl climbed over the en-
gine while it was running fifteen or
twenty miles an hour, and caught the
child and threy it to one side. Poehl fell
and had an arm and leg cut off but may
live. His first words after the accident
were: eff that child lives I'm satisfied"
-Belleville Freeman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
The Admiral and the Dog.

The late Gen. H. V. Boynton dis
liked dogs. He said one day in Wash
ington:
IT know a lady who always receives
her callers with a yapping, swapping
spaniel, pampered and spoiled, on the
sofa beside her. An old admiral, a
friend of mine, visited her one after
noon. and the spaniel took a dislike to
him. 1t began to bark and growl and
show its teeth. and it leaped down
from its velvet cushion on the sofa,
and began to make little feints and
springs at the adniral's legs.
HE, as he talked, held his cane in
his hand, and kept the tail of his eye
on the internal little beast. Its growls
and yappings redoubled, and its fe1nt-
like springs at his legs increased. For
anxiety and rage he could hardly fol-
low the thread of the talk. He took a
firm grip on his cane.
1.-The lady said calmly:
Don't be afraid, admiral. My lit
tie dog never bites any one
"And even as she spoke the nasty
brute nipped the admirals ankle,
tearing the stocking and drawing
blood.
HE swung his cane, and gave the
dog a rap on the skull that rolled it,
half-unconscious, into a corner.
Don't you be afraid, either,
madam he said. L never strike little
dogs Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
Johnny.

Johnny, you come right here and
stay in the housed" commanded a fond
North End mother, to her hope and joy.
II amt doin' nawthin', only sittin' on
the stoop. Honest ma, OATS ALL
well, the rest of the boys will be
passing soon and will be on their way
to the river swimming
81 wouldn't go near the river, ma, be-
cause I can't swim,' and Johnny
winked at himself.
Johnny's mother went on with her
household duties and soon forgot about
the absence of her boy.
Meanwhile Johnny had Joined the
gang and was soon yelling like Co
manche Indian in the altogether upon
the banks of the "swimmin' hole
When he returned he sat in the sun
on the front stoop and entered the
house when he thought his hair was
dry. His mother, however. noticed the
unusual cleanliness of his face for that
time of day, dug her hand in his hair,
found it damp, and it was the old man. s
razor strop for Johnny. And he got it.
Albany Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
GOOD ADVICE.

Don't wink at the pretty girl in the
dark You are fooling away your time
You may know what you are doing, but
no one else does. 1t Is the same way
with a stock of goods: If you have any
thing for sale, don't shut yourself up
with the stuff and pull down the shades;
open the door wide, get up into the col
lar, get into the newspapers and let
folks know what you have for sale and
how much you will take for it. Don't
be afraid of selling short, there are a
lot more where yours came from. Hustle
'ern out shove 'em out make somebody
happy, and then turn around and do 1t
ali over again. Nothing like turning
the stock. Advertising is the topper
that gets under the stock and turns 1t
over lust as easy. Try it.-Salina Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
NATURALLY.

It has come to the pass that when
the admiralty hears of the sinking of
a British ship it Immediately sends a
bill to st. Petersburg Minneapolis
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14
STILL LYING?

Mr.. Morton says he wants to know
the truth. Haven't any of those fell
lows told it yet?-Boston Herald.