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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atehison q

IFrom the AtchiSon Globel
Just because talk is cheap, is no rea-
son why anyone should use a lot of it.
We regret that Uncle Sam has no or
ders out barring perfumed letters from
the mails.
When man leaves town, or dies, the
first thing his wife does is to invite all
her kin to the house.
When man says he can't afford it,
he has done better in life than most
men if be has a wife and daughters
who agree with him.
When a man who is rather worthless
turns up after an absence, he is pretty
sure to tell his friends that he has been
engaged in mining scheme.
You know how your neighbours hus-
band acts when she is out of town; well.
that is the way your husband will be-
have when you are Gone Forever.
When a man gives as his excuse for
not going to church that Sunday is his
only time to be with his family, don't
remind him that his family is usually at
church.
When q woman entertains with an
afternoon card party, it is inelegant to
call her function a "eard party" the
latest is to say she entertained with a
card fight
man began paying attention to a Wo-
man. He was madly in love with her,
but she kept him dangling on, and Moth
ing was decided on. He is still paying
her attention but has grown to have
that feeling toward her that a son has
for a mother.
An Atehison man married a Spirited
woman and they fused a good deal.
Finally she exasDerated him SO that he
started to strike her, but before the
blow reached her, she grabbed china
Vashbowl filed with dirty water. and
dashed it at him. The bowl broke all
over him, and the woman says. HE
never tempted me again"
Old timers recall that when an Indian
and his squaw walking arm in arm in
the early days, she trailed behind carry
ing the burden. a strange sight in Hol-
ton this week was an Indian and his
squaw walking arm in arm. After this,
the old timer will not be surprised to
learn any time Of the squaws' Federated
club OF Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
bAwsoN,s CAMPAIGN.

According to the Boston Journal, if
Thomas w. Lawson doesn't get proxies
enough from the polieyholders to
overturn most of the big insurance
companies of the country, it won't be
on account of any lack Of effort on his
part.
1t is estimated that Mr.. Lawson has
already spent about one hundred
thousand dollars in this campaign for
proxies His idea, as advertised, is
to have the policyholders send their
proxies to him and he viii tabulate
them and turn them over to a com
mfttee of business men and repre-
sentative men from the leading profess
tsions, who are expected to vote them
in way to bring about the retirement
Of those insurance officials who have
been guilty of dishonesty or malfeas-
Ianee in office.
To secure these proxies Mr.. lawson
has a special suite of Offices where he
has a force Of seventy-nine persons at
work. OF this office force, twelve
are opening incoming mail all the
time, thirty-six are folding documents
to be sent out, seventeen are address,
ing envelopes, and fourteen are tabu-
lating the proxies as the mails bring
them in. Up to November 1 about
/ 1870 proxies had been received.
over three million pieces or mail
have been sent out. at an expense for
postage alone of $4,000. To do the
printing required. Lawson leased an
entire printing plant and three
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the chicago News. ]


Styles make many a handsome wo-
man look otherwise.
Man wants it easy here below
and wants it soon and long.
Most men get less than they deserve
in the way of kicks.
When the cat is away it's up to the
mouse trap to get busy
Successful men believe in luck,
backed up by their own efforts.
1t takes a born diplomat to dis
guise the interest he feels in himself.
Fortunate is the man whose con
science is his guide rather than his
goad.
A wise man let's his wife have her
own way-otherwise she would have
it, anyway,
Some society people prune their
genealogical trees by cutting their
poor relations.
Most men find it easier to get in
debt than to get out, but some are
unable to get in at all,
A man will trust his wife with the
care of his children, but not with the
care of his prize chickens.
You can't tell what 3 nan knows
Until YOU hear him say things. Silence
doesn't always Indicate wisdom.
His satanic majesty probably
doesn't think it necessary to waste
any time on the man who loves his
enemies.
Life is not so bad for the man wko
Itieanders down the path leading to
eternity hand in hand with q syIapa-
thetsc Woma1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
SHE'S A WINNER.

Shess jest a straight lallapaloosa-
= 1a1ry-it's Mamie I mean.
L haven't met nobody who's a
Circumstance long wild my queen
Most any old time she's a winner,
BUT Jest give de grille her chance;
L Ieel Ike / hardly dast chin her
When NAMES fixed up fer de dance
Her pomperdors golden an puffy;
Her closes is all poor, I don't fink:
Tier skirts kinder clingin' an fluffy.
her shirt waist an ribbons all pink
she wears elbow gloves an a necklis;
Deres eep-on-yer- mitt'' in her glance
am got der sand ter be recklis
When NAMES fixed up fer de dance.
White shoes an an inch O. silk stoclzirl,
FefIune on her handkerchief, too
Jest hear all de odder girls knockin'!
You bet it's de best de kin do.
l tell you it's all up wild Willie,
fall in a sort of a trance;
Most any wise guy I'd git silly
When NAMES fixed UP fer de dance.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

Lieutenant Commander A. P. NibIacl5
OF the United States navy is stationed
at Honolulu in command of the Iroouois
and seems to be a sort of pooh-bah
there. He has been called upon to per
form all manner of civil military and
naval duties. So much so that in re-
cent letter to the secretary of the treas
urY he signed his title in full as follows:
Lieutenant commander, United States
navy, commanding United States steam
snip 1foquois, recruiting officer, captain
of the yard, head of department of con
stFuetion, head of department of euuip-
ment,head of department of ordinance.
head of department of steam engineer
ing, head of department of yards and
docks, inspector of lights and buoys of
the Hawaiian Islands, inspector of imrni-
grafton for outlying Islands. insnector
of customs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
THAT SCHOOL FUND BUSINESS.

The strange fact that the state
school fund commissioners turned
down the purchase of a large amount
of desirable bonds for the state school
fund for want of funds during two
months the past aummer, although it
had between 100000 and 100000 on
hand. according to the records. is some
thing that needs explanation.
Another strange fact for considera-
ton in this connection is that while
the states general revenue fund was
entirely depleted by reason of T. T.
Kelly's illegal depositing more than
half a million dollars of state money
in the First National bank, Kelly con
tinued to lpay warrants on the genera
revenue fund, getting the money from
some unknown source.
1t is somewhat difficult for the aver
age individual to avoid the idea that
the school fund commissioners obIig-
ingly turned down those good invest
ments in order that Kelly might use
the school fund to pay current expense
warrants and thus keep from refUs-
ing payment on them when he should
have had the funds on hand to pay
them, which the statutes say shall be
prima facie evidence of embezzlement.
If there is any other explanation
than this for the strange action of the
school fund commissioners in claiming
to have mo funds with which to buy
those very desirable bonds when they
really had all the way from S334,O0O to
$4,000. they should lose no time in
telling the people of the state why they
did it.
Among the bonds thus rejected were
$4,000 of Wyandotte school district
5 per cent bonds; nearly $4,000 of
miscellaneous bonds, most of them
bearing per cent ar better, and s145,-
600 of Hutchinson Improvement bonds
| bearing 5 per cent.
Is it possible that Mr.. Coleman, the
attorney general who is charged with
the enforcement of the law, and
Messrs. Dayhof and Burrow. the three
men who are the trustees of the state
school fund, would deliberately keep
the children of the state out of the in
come on this large amount just to ac-
commodate their friend Kelly and not
make it necessary for him to give the
state any prima faeie evidence of en-
bezzlement or call on his bondsmen to
l help him out?
What say you, Messrs. Coleman
DayhOff and Burrow?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
JANA WKER J0TS

An Atehison county man picked some
Strawberries in his patch the other day.
Hutchinson has started a Booster
club to get $4,000 people for Hutchin
son in three years,
G. F. Davis, Who lives near Burling-
ton, killed a pelican recently that meas
ured eight feet from tip to tip of its
wings, and its bill was a foot long.
Charley Finch is laughing at Albert
Reid because Albert made a cartoon of
a COW with man milking her from the
left side. Finch thinks it's a horse on
Reid, but it was really a left-handed
COW.
Tom Ellis put fresh string on the
Burlingame Chronicle Tyre the other day
and ground this out: and now the an
nual Joke is on about the man who
eusses in putting up the stoves and pipe
and other autumn muses."
The Salina council wished to buy
some new oil coats for the Salina fire.
men and it got prices from Kansas
City on them. It found that the city
could save a dollar on each coat by
buying them at home rather than in
Kansas City.
An honest man walked into the office
of the Independence Reporter the other
day. A lost purse had been advertised
and he had found it. It had a consid-
cradle amount os money in it. yet the
man refused to receive reward or even
to tell anything about himself
One of the smartest dogs il Concordia,
according to the Blade, is ''Nubbins, .
who belongs to everybody down town.
Nubbins makes all the trains and if
the hackmen forget to take him he goes
down alone. He likes to ride on the
cabs, however, and never misses
chance. Another strange thing Is. that
Nubbins knows when a train is due
and you can't keep him away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
KANSAS CoMMENT
cALDERHEAD.

some references IN ire cor1iner election
Of United States senator. The writer
of the Topeka, letter, like others of the
Topeka wise men, seems to take it for
granted that Mr.. Calderhead's nominal
ton and reelection to congress is a
foregone conclusion. But it should be
understood that this is not the sure
thing some people consider it. It would
require every effort to defeat. Mr.. Cald-
erhead for the nomination. The vot-
ers of the Fifth district are not so deep
~ in love with him as to take every
thing for granted. Any one of a dozen
men who have been mentioned can beat
him easily if they viii come out openly
and frankly on the right side of the
railroad question, which Mr. Calderhead
is lodging Minneapolis Messenger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
QuAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record. I
Temper is not always an indication
of temperament.
Jack Frost never seems to get warmed
up to his work,
When a man is tired of the world the
world soon recipFoeates.
It isn't our friends who tell secrets,
it's our friends friends.
Does the yacht builder believe in large
sails and small profts2
A fellow seldom laughs and grows fat
when the laugh is on him.
Success is often a monument con-
structed of other peoples failures.
A man may be on his uppers and still
be the sole support of his family.
When people make goo-goo eyes at
temptation the devil begins to sit up
and notice things.
It's a poor poker player who can't at
least win the sympathy Of the other fell
lows in the game.
De Tanuue-"Guzzler says he doesn't
like rye, but he manages to drink a lot
of it." O'Soaque-"Goes against the
grain, eh?''
tsWell, Tommy, are you very good to
your little sister?'' asked the friend Of
the family. Sure replied Tommy. Il
eat all the candy, cause 1t makes her
sick"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
TODAY,s ELECTIONS.

Probably never before was there
such a good prospect for the rebuke of
corruption in high places as there is
in most of the various elections which
are being held today. Divorced large
ly from national and partisan issues,
the question comes squarely before
the people on the issue of graft and
anti=graft, and there win be no sur
prise il the grafters are pretty gen
orally overthrow.
In Philadelphia there is a titanic
struggle between the corrupt gang
which has been in control of munich
pal affairs for years-part of the old
Quay machine-and the Citizens
ticket led by Mayor Weaver. who was
induced to quit the gang and be-
come the head of the municipal re-
form. movement. The same fight ex-
tends over Pennsylvania, where a
number of state officers. including
treasurer. are to be elected. The
scandals in connection with the Penn
sYlvania treasury are worse than
those in Kansas, because the state is
older and there is more money in the
treasury.
The anti-graft issue comes directly
before the people of New York in the
person of William Travers, Jerome,
who is running as an Independent can
didate for reelection as district at
torney on platform promising to
punish the grafters. and there is now
little doubt of Jerome's election, not
withstanding that he is on no regular
ticket In the mayoralty fight the
anti-grafters are lighting Tammany.
but as their forces are divided between
Hearst on the municipal ownership
ticket, and WINS on the Republican
ticket, Mayor Mcclellan may be re-
elected, although Hearst has an excel
lent show.
In the state campaign in Ohio there
is a strong fight on Governor Herrick
because of his personal character. and
some of his public acts in favoring the
saloons and Boss Cox of Cincinnati.
But partisan politics has a strong
bearing there, of course, and -Herrick
viii probably be reelected, although
thousands of voters on both sides Will
break over party lines
Corruption does not enter into the
state election in Massa chusetts today,
and the issues are more nearly ma
tional and partisan, but in little Rhode
Island the question of reform in the
state government is paramount.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

canoe approached too closely It would
sheer off, but the girl held her way and
the barks were not ten feet apart Wnen
they took the long leap.
An hour later Pillsbury Smith openeQ
his eyes. He was in his bed in the hotel.
How do you feel2'' asked the doctor
Say did I save her life2a was asked.
mo; you Ounce She swan to the bank
with you and afterward saved both ca
noes
ia Jove, doetor-ba Jeve.'-lCopy-
right 1895, by Mcclure, Phillips & Col
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

presses have been running twelve
hours a day on his work. The pub
lication of two sets of bulletins alone
cost $4,000.
Lawson is apparently spending all
of this money as one of his moves in
the game to do up" his enemies in
the insurance companies But he. is
rich and can AFFORD it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

lot OF good Republicans in Ohio
who are opposed to Governor Herriek
are only casting half vote against
him today by neglecting to vote for his
Democratic opponent. as well as refus-
ing to vote for Herrick himself The
Democratic saloonkeepers are making
no such mistake, however. They are
not only. refusing to vote for their own
candidate. but they are voting for Her
rick as early and often as possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
A SUGGFSTTON.

While Governor Hoch is appointing
assistant attorneys he might appoint
one for Copeland county to see if he
couldn't stop the law violations of one
Tom Kelly. The regular state official
in the attorneys office doesn't seem to
be able to enforce the law against
Kelly for treasury grafting,-Onaga
Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
FRON OTHER PENS
A PROTEST.

The overworked correspondent who is
doing the Roosevelt tour says, in
putting in the little dash of Roswell
pathos. that the president ''murmur-
ed" to Mrs. Roosevelt that he could
hardly bear to leave the old home of
his mother. Has any one else an
imagination sufficiently strong to pie
ture Mr.. Roosevelt as ''murmuring? p
Savannah News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


from the New YORK Press,
1t wouldn't be any fun at all to be
lazy II there was no work to do.
A woman has brains to be able. With
out any, to do SO much more than men.
A woman thinks she is slender when
she can get in her waist without a but
tonhook
It is awful easy 60 marry a girl when
she has fooled you into thinking YOU
are doing it.
If you forget to be affeetionafe with
a woman she VIII be mad with you SO
you VIII have to kiss her to mas e up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
LuCKY MCURDY.

The salaries Of the heads Of the
banks of England and Germany COM
bined amount to $4,000. The salary of
the head of the Mutual Life is $150,000,
to say nothing of the salaries of the
rest of the HdcCurdy family. And
McCurdy is provided with an actuary
to do his moving for charlottesville
Courier Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

When a Topeka newspaper reporter
approached State Treasurer Kelly to
inquire the circumstances of his hav-
ing paid back the 50, state deposit
tory bond money Kelly showed a
good deal of spleen. It hurt the state
treasurer to put it back perhaps, but
there is the compensation of having
done one good, honest deed to which
Tom Kelly may point with pride in
after years, should he desire.-LeaE-
enworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

The real test would come if Mr.
Roosevelt should take a trip through
the south during a presidential cam
paign and see if the south felt the
same way about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
WITTE'S NEW TASK.

Count Witte has new task and per-
haps even a sterner one at home than
he had at Portsmouth. He has this
time not Japanese. but Russians, to
convince-not diplomats under the
pressure for peace, but aggrieved
workingmen, under the influence of
leaders who may not be always wise
Columbia Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
TROUBLE AHEAD.

Two million women are going to ask
congress to unseat Senator Reed
Smoot It is the part of wisdom for
him to resign without further ado.
What chance can one mans eloquence
have against 100000 feminine tongues.
and probably all of them going at
once? Congress will be stunned into
acquiescenee.- Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
BLOWING HOT AND COLD.

People who declared the great sun
spot caused the hot weather are now
positive that it is responsible for the
cold. There's nothing like changing
ones views to meet existing condi-
tions.=Portland Advertiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
Geography as She Is Taught.


Little Rob was the prize geographer
Of his class; that is, he could locate
cities and bound countries with great
glibness. He could draw the most re-
alistie maps, printing in the rivers.
mountain ranges and cities from
memory. Rob considered geograp ply
purely in the light of a game. in which
he always beat, but he never asso-
ciated it with the great world about
him Rivers, to him, were no more
than black, wiggly lines; cities were
diets, and states were blOts. New
York was green, Pennsylvania was
red, and California was yellow OF
course Rob had never Travelled. He
was born in canon near the country
school he attended. one day the
teacher made the discovery Of Rob's
IDEA OF geography through the follow
ing incident After vainly inouiring
OF several of the children where Brit
ish Columbia is located, she called on
Rob, who, as usual, was waving his
hand excitedly, wild with the enthu-
siasm of pent-up knowledge
ut is on page sixty-eight," he de-
cIared.
After the roar had subsidized. the
teacher explained that that was only a
picture of British Columbia. Then She
asked Rob to bound British Column bia.
Cant, teacher; it IS all over the
pa ge."-Success
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
TOuGH AZ sHAW.

Some of the cabinet officers have al
ready broken away from the presidents
order of the closed mouth Attempts
to make Secretary Shaw keep silent in
three or four languages obviously con-
travene the constitutional prohibition
of cruel and unusual Dunishments.-
Hartford Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

Eastern papers are having a lot of
Gun with the suggestion Of "a be
vvl,islzered Kansas Populist'i that
president Roosevelt is a pretty good
sort OF PopuIist himself. If those
eastern editors could just see the
classic and smoothly-shaven features
~ that s'bewhiskered Populist," .Sena-
Tor Hanna Of Clay Center, they might
arDerienee something Of a shock. And
vhen they learned that he is also the
cashier Of a big bank, the mayor Of
- town, a railroad promoter, and one
Il tae leading capitalists Of central
r.1e. to say nothing Of being the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
THE ISSUES

Municipal ownership of public utili-
ties and private ownership of public
men are both issues in the New York
ampaign.-Newark Advertiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

New York plasterers demand six
dollars a day and that it be paid to
them as salary" and not as wages"
Othere people are not so anxious what
1t is called. Just so they get it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

Tt is going to keep the builders of the
Panama canal mighty busy if they think
up any new mistakes to make. The
French used up about all of the mis-
takes when they were at work on It,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
CRUEL.

Cabinet officers have been instructed
by the president not to talk to repor-
tiers. And there are four presidential
aspirants in the cabinet fairly burst
ing to tell the public the things they
are doing Cruelty could not so to
greater length.-Milwaukee News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

The state Journal IS a member os the
Associated Press and receives the fui cay
telegraph report OF that great news , Or
ganiHatfSe for exulusiVe evening PeDN-
cation IN Topeka.
The state journal receives for exclusive
pubnca ton the leased wire report 0t tne
Publishers Press for the edition Tor suii-
day morning.
The news is received in the state Jour
nal building ever wires for this sole pnF=
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

Railroad magnates say this rate
regulation movement e is Commercial
anarchy" but you dent notice that
they are trying to dispose Of their
railroad stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07

The Chicago Tribune says: "ChicagO
Is the nerve center of the country"
yep. At least Chicago has more nerve
than most any other part of the
country