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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15
A GREAT MISTAKE.

Some people act as though they hold
first class unlimited tickets to the
Celestial City, which cannot be vitiated
by themselves nor annulled by the
issuing Office. Such fellows think the
preacher will pull them through
Minneapolis Better Way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

bod Casting sayss der streeds in
Bosting ISIS so crooked dot ven he try
to go oudt und get drink he meet his
seluf coming back NIT a Glove in hiss
mouth. Dot ISIS a old stale Won, efen
uf bod didn't say Id.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

1T is reported that Banker Dougher-
~ has been holding out ten dollars a
month from the wages of some of the
Peoria school ma'ams. The country
might forgive him for stealing a few
hundred thousand dollars, but this
school ma'am story is certainly an un-
pardonable crime. The school ma'am
IS entitled to every cent Of her wages
and more too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

The average man cattnot see why a lot
of college students should fight over
some wo-for-a-nickeI canes. The av-
erage man does not understand that
the cane is the excuse and not the OBJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

". r. Stubs says he will accept the
senatorship if he doesn't have to fight
for it. Now who in the world would
think of putting up fight when such
an eminent reformer as Walter Roscoe
Stubs will consent to run. lola
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

The railroads are now running
"oyster'' specials" out of Baltimore to
other cities. Tor some time the rail-
roads have also been running lobster
specials into Kansas City every time
Kansas City has held an alleged cele-
8.vaffon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15
NE REAL HERO.

The car is said to be determined
not to permit the name of Actor de
White to appear in large type on the
program. Still, the gallery knows who
rescued the maiden.-Chicag Record
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

After Mr.. Perkins had flashed that
letter on the committee showing how
he had been taught as a youth to be
good little boy how could anyone sus-
pect him of doing anything naughty?
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

The war on bureaucratic incOmpe-
tency goes on at Washington, the
president leading the fight. Office hold
ing, fortunately. is not a sinecure un-
der the present Observation-Disclosures
York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

even academic critics of the game who
knew nothing of it from practical ex-
perience."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Russia has had a bad train wreck
Russia is becoming civilized all right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Alice Roosevelt and z. H Hartman
are coming home from Japan on the
same boat. Tt win be a great disap-
pointment if the presidents daughter
fails to convert Mr.. Hartman to the
idea of federal regulation Of railroad
s.aitea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15
FR0M OTHER PENS

WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT
Really one must admit that the
burglars who are robbing wealthy law
yers these days have nice sense of dis
criminatiou.-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

A Baltimore man says the ideal in
come is $4,000 a year. Yes some OF
us could worry along quite comfortably
On that amount.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Apparently the only interest the
nolicyh elders have in an insurance
company. is to furnish the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Pat Grove could not be blamed if
he should feel fairly respectable after
he reads about the life insurance and
beef trust magnates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Kansas has it's ear to the ground
anxiousIy waiting to hear something
from Commissioner Garfield and Ac-
countant Morris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

The State Journal is g member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
1anization for exclusive evening publ
cation In Topeka.
The State Journal receives for exclusive
publication the leased wire report Of the
publishers Press for the edition Tor sun
gay morning
The news is received in the State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Hutchinson is nothing If not uD-to-
Date. 1t has already issued a city
directory for 1906"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

AS a get-rich-quick scheme, being
the relative of an Insurance president
beats anything else thus far invented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15
LIBERTY

A Topeka man has been arrested for
assaulting his mother-in-law. And yet
Gomez says that it is in Cuba where
liberty is dead.-Saline Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

If Mr.. Burbank wishes to do some
thing real useful why doesn't he prOpa-
gate the seed Of an ice plant that viii
raise crop Of ice when it is most
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Maybe Mr. WINS had his fingers
crossed when he accepted that New
iYork Republican mayoralty nOmina-
kfon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Chicago is having an ice famine. It
was evidently erdared for last July.
but the ice trust 1s9Iea to get in its
order early enough; hence the delay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

People who have never seen a sham
battle could view the real thing by
being around some time when there is
a Washburn cane rush.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Some French savants have decided
that kissing is an unpleasant CUSTOM .
This decision will be concurred in only
by the 6-year-old BOYS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

him until he chust had to become
pinched to secure more den too sticks
und fife head on der sefent' page. Now
hiss press achent ISIS working again,
ind he iss filed nit choy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Dockter Hogeboom, city physicem,.
sayss der green skim on der water ISIS
healthy. Negst on der program ISIS fer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

He want to make a gift of some
sort to Miss Passay. I wonder what
sort Of animal she'd prefer for a net ?
Shea PhiladeIphta Preas,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

some enderprising cuss to start a feek-
tory we're he can der green skim fer
health food. and bottle i'd fer a tifoid
antidote
UND I'D ISIS OOP TO NE.
Winter iss here!
Der sleet und snow,
Der frozen toe
A bonch uf voc.
ISIS near
choos a nice
Und torrid spot.
But hat not,
Already. got
Der price.
(Sad, aindt id
Yesterday 1 meet my oldt friendt, Gus
Gobblesteinhauser, fer der fairsd time in
a long time und I say, tfVot ISIS you hat
been yet doing dis morgen, Gus2" Und
he say: Hans. der cold vedder ISIS
Gaming, und I vas been buying my
winter buds, allreatty'' Und he show
me der inside uf der bundles he hat. He
had zwei quarts uf nice warm boos, Won
nice warm fieece-lined necktie, und Won
nice warm pair Ut winter shoe strings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Those Muses., whispered the Wis
itor to Olympus, don't seem to wear
any more clothes than the law allows -
well, no." replied Apollo, who was
showing the party through. You see.
the Muses. feel that they owe a great
debt to Indecency, although Tndeeencv
is a purely human creation. There
have been times, indeed, when Inde-
cency was all that kept the Muses.
alive. ''=Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

Mary, when that little child
Lay upon your heart at rest
DIG the th0rns, Maid mother, MILD
Pierce your breast?
Mary, when that little child
Softly kissed your cheek benign
Did you know, o Mary mild
Judas sign?
Mary, when that little child
Cooed and prattied at your knee,
Did you see with heartbeat Wild
Calvary2
Rose Trumbell, in McClure's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15
REFLECTIONS or A BACHEEoE
IFrom the New York Press.l

From the New York Pressl
We have opinions; other people, de-
lusions.
Most men would rather be married
than happy.
The way to make girl want to mar
ry a man is for there to be lots Of
reasons why she should not.
A girl is very much interested in a
man when she goes far out of her way
to prove to him that she is not
A, man is always proud over having
been dangerously sick, yet he gets mad
as thunder over the Doctors bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15

I'll, in McClure's Magazine.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
Not a. Radical Step.

Senator Laybourn 8 grand-jury bill
is not as radical measure as the public
had been led to expect. If adopted into
law, it will not abolish the grand jury,
but do away with the necessity Of an
expensive grand-jury session at each
term of court.
Any district judge who is welded to
the grand jury can call one at each
term. In case the Judge declines to
make the call, it can be required by a
vote of the county commissio or
by a petition signed by $50 electors.
In case Of any crying need for the
attendance Of a grand jury, there would
be no difficulty in getting it. The bill
really amounts to local option on the
grand-jury question, and in that form
it need not wake great alarm among
conservative people.
& IT is interesting to note that seven
teen other states have already the same
sort Of system in force, and seven 9TH
ers have to some extent done away
with the grand jury. A reform al.
ready effected in a majority Of the states
Of the union Is not radical or revolu.
tionary.
| There has been q popular impression
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
.FILlPlN0S SEE CITY =:
In COOKS TOUR STYLE

Passengers waiting at the union sta
ton yesterday afternoon were surprised
by an onrush Of ffty-fve Viscayans and
Tagalogs about $50 0 CLOCK. The Fill
pinos were on their way from St..
Louis and Chicago to Seattle, where
they will take the Minnesota to their
faraway island home. Having twenty
five minutes, they proceeded to "doD
Minneapolis. Rushing up First avenue
S they took a squirt at the Guaranty
building, shouting "bueno,''e and then,
expressed surprise at the various styles
Of architecture displayed in the fed
eral building. Turning at Fourth street
they went up Newspaper row to Nicol-
let, buying papers as souvenirs. Sud-
denly some one passed the word that
the train was going to pull out and they
ran back to the station waving their
papers. -.
The viscayans have picked up the
ways of civilization and dress after
the most approved Broadway styles.
They are most particular about the
cut of their clothes and their judg-
ment in cravats is said to be unim-
they prefer silk to satin and sealskin to
otter. The men wear little golf caps
perched on the sides of their head.
When asked what they would do with
their winter clothes and furs in the
tropics one Of the fathers said: "Ah,
your forget our museum to show the Gus
toms and manners Of the American
tribes - ~ .e, $3.50 -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
HERTIG WINS HANDILY
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE CHOSEN
r. ALDERMAN BY A CLEAR MA
JORITY OF 461.

Wendell Hertig received S16, votes
for alderman, of the fifth ward yester-
day. obtaining a plurality of 572 over.
Chris Purcell the democratic nominee,
and clear majority of 461 over all his
The. vote was ridiculously
light, there, being only LII votes cast,
while the ward is good for. more than
5000. Had the democrats realized
their opportunity they could have elect
ed their candidate, as the normal dem
ocratic vote is about 1000. Mr.. Her
tig' friends realized the danger at
noon, when they learned that only 400
votes had been cast. They went right
to work. .3zsss~s 1900
Purcell received. 244 votes; Harry
Mckee, the public-ownership candidate,
1O8; C. w. Swanson, 2, and one Webbe
one vote.
It is estimated that the election will
cost the city about $500.
Mr.. Hertig already has his work cut
out for him, President A. E.. Merrill,
in selecting the council committees, hav-
ing left assignments for the alder
man from the fifth ward who would
succeed David P. Jones. He becomes
chairman, of the important committee
on gas, which has general charge of
all street lighting and gas inspection,
and has places on the committees on
police, licenses, salaries and under
ground wires.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
DR.. Hall Against DR.. Ohage.

IF we understand Health Commission
err Halls position, it is that he will not
try to reduce the smoke nuisance in Min
neapolis until DR.. Ohage has proved that
he has eliminated it entirely in st. Paul.
We have nothing directly from DIR. Hall,
but this seems to be the trend OF his
interviews, criticisms and publications
Of pictures. It has not been learned
that he has done anything in
Minneapolis toward abating the
smoke nuisance, but he has photo
graphed some chimneys in st. Paul
to show what has not been done there.
If this is DR.. Hall IS mental attitude,
probably little or nothing can be ex-
pected Of him in the way Of law en-
forcement. The difference between him
and Ohage seems to be that the latter
is willing to work and if he cannot over
come the smoke nuisance entirely he will
overcome it in part. The st. Paul COM
missioner Of health has a record Of
achievements in office that almost any
neighboring health officer would be glad
to emulate if. he were imbued with the
Ohage spirit. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
Two Armies Contrasted.

When the news of the capitulation of
Port Arthur became known the Russian
soldiers looted a. store containing $500
bottles of vodka. There were terrible
orgies in the streets. Troops which
were sent to quell the riot Joined the
jewellers and military discipline abdl-
Gated.
This incident we'll illustrates the diff
ference between the Japanese and Rus
sian armies. The Jap is obedient to the
point of stoicism. The Russian IS a
half-tamed savage on whom military re-
straint sits lightly. The Jap goes to
his work with, eagerness, the Russian
returns from fight with no thought for
anything but the bottle. The Japanese
officer sets an example,; so does the
Russian, but very different one.
The morale of Kuropatkin g army
has, it is said, been nearly ruined by
recent reaction, while the Jap has taker
the life Of the trench and the hut al
evenly as he did the din Of battle
Every Jap is imbued with the idea thai
the mikado, to whom he inscribes di
vinity, looks to him to vindicate japan
in this war. If the Russian ever thinks
of his, home government at all, it mus
be with hatred for its Injustice ane
contempt for it's incapacity.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
Virtue is on Trial.

Leslie's Weekly has lately become
optimistic on the subject Of electing a
southern man president and pessimistic
on the possibility Of convicting mu-
nicipal grafters. One would think that
"a paper which can entertain hope Of
choosing gentleman from Dixie to the
chair of Lincoln cannot be hopeless OF
failing corrupt city officials.
But after going over the crusades in
Minneapolis, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Detroit,
st. Louis and Philadelphia, where NAL
feasance has been brought to light, 1T
entertains no confidence Of practical re-
suits. The crusade of Folk in Missouri,
it claims, has resulted in nothing except
that "the ring has been broken up
and the city freed from it's control. =
1t will occur to many that Leslie s
states most important exception and
one which takes a good deal Of !, the
gloom out of it's views of the future. To
break up the ring, to destroy its
power. to restore honest government
has always been the first anxiety of
reform movements. The punishment
of individuals who have been the cor
rupt agents Of a corrupt system has
been secondary. To break up the ring
and keep it broken up is the first essen
tial. =. -. ~
Last year was year of ring smash
ing. This year is a year of restoring
Last year vice was on trial. This year
virtue is on the defensive. Has II
the cohesive power, the patience and In
dustry to rebuild9 In Missouri are the
good people going to scatter and leave
Folk to fight the battle alone or arc
they going. to stand by himq In Min
neapolis, are the good citizens going tt
fly off the handle or are they going tx
STAY with Jones until he has had
chance to bring order out Of chaos9
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
CITY We US
TEMPTATION TO
STEAL IS GREAT
PECULIAR SITUATION OF THE
TEMPORARILY UNEMPLOYED. ..
Odd Jobs Are Scarce, the City Can't
Aid Them Unless They Are Sick and
if They Beg They Are Arrested
Free Employment Bureau Suggested
AS Remedy.

Charitable organizations and the po-
lice are confronted with an unusually
Puz5zllnag problem resulting from the
lack Of steady employment for the float
ing population.
An estimate by the heads of these or
CARNATIONS shows that there are at
least 29o young men in the city willing
find it absolutely impossible to Obtain
employment, that will pay them enough
to live comfortably. It is feared that
unless conditions change and work
opens up in this part of the state, many
Of them will be forced by circumstances
to resort to crime.
# they do not do this they must
ganization other than the city or take
to begging; If they accept the latter
as a remedy for their troubles, the DO
lice will take them up for vagrancy, and
a workhouse sentence will follow. =:
Until recently the police have been
ienient with the young men found ask
ing for aid on the streets. Now it is
ing two or three Of them face the charge
of vagrancy in police court. With
most of them it has been their first Of
tense and light sentence has followed.
The Associated Charities says that
it is doing all it can do, but that work
IS s. scarce G.? The poor department can
pied or sick. s.,..,~z, :,
Frank. Mcdonald, superintendent of
the. workhouse, and w B. Barton, SUI.
perintendent Of the poor, both think
that such problems could be solved to a
large extent by a fire city employment
/ bureau. There is plenty of work some.
where, they say, and such an institution
would have the means to find out where
Il Sc S{oh Oh Il
the only remedy for the idle young man
is to start out and look for it himself
They say he will find it if he keeps
walking, and that the country
folk will give them enough work tc
make their way to the busy, but less
The greatest trouble, according te
Superintendent Barton is, that when 8
young man once tastes city life, he viii
not leave it. He prefers to starve ii
the city rather than stand the quiet Of
the country with full stomach. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
MINNESOTANS in
|. OF P. PROTEST
DON'T WANT ISLAND ANNEXED
TO CUBA.
Judge Buck of Mankato and Z. A.
!, storms Of Minneapolis Participate in
81 Meeting at Which All Americans in
Isle Of Pines Ask the United States
Not to Expatriate Them.

Minnesotans in the Isle of Pines are
taking an active part in the agitation
there against the proposed annexing of
that island to the republic of Cuba.
Judge Daniel Buck Of Mankato, eX-
judge of the supreme court, and l.. E.
Storms Of Minneapolis were among the
former residents of this state who at
tended recent large meeting in. the
American hotel in Nueva Corona, at
which emphatic protest was made
against the ratification Of the Isle
of the report that Americans in the
island are satisfied with Cuban rule.
In: the petition, which was signed by
every American present and ON the
island, it was declared that the forci-
BILE annexation to the republic of Cuba
would virtually be selling the birth
right and property interests of more
than 1000 heads of families, represent
ing, at the smallest calculation, be-
tween 5000 and 1000 men, women and
children of our own people who are
directly interested and who have pur-
chased land, spent vast sums of money
in improvements and built homes here
under the definite assurances given them
by the terms of the Etreaty Of Paris'
and from various official sources, which
can and will be produced. These peo-
pie are all bona fide citizens Of the
United States. They have no desire
of. expartiating themselves, and now
appeal to their own government not to
be a party to any act or treaty that
will force repatriation upon them.
The petition continues:
Can the United States government at
ford to do this?
II SO, and the Independent, free born
American citizens silently submit to hav-
Ing themselves and their property inter-
ests traded away like SO many cattle or
swine for coaling station in Cuba (the
consideration for which was made and
accepted many months before the pres
ent treaty was drawn up) both acts would
be without precedent in the history of the
United States, or of its people, and quite
unlike our forefathers who attended the
Boston tea party, or who died at Bunker
HILL. .
1t is. further declared that neither
Cuba nor the Cubans want the Isle of
Pines, and are pressing their claims
| only to get as much money as possible
from the United States.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
The Public largely to Blame.

To the Editor Of The journal.
think there is a confused idea as to
the responsibility Of lumbermen for the
destruction Of forests. That the timber
lands belonging to the United States are
pelng, ana Tor many years have been, dis
posed OF IN a lavish manner Is the fault
OF congress for which the people as .
whole are responsible The lumbermen
having invested their capital in standing
timber have right to cut it, and thew
Will DO so Just as fast as they can find a
good market. There may be forest land
around the sources Of the principal rivers
that's better adapted for forestry than
for agriculture and which should be kept
In forest because it would help maintain
WaternoW and be for the public interest.
But we cannot expect individuals to hold
forest land for the benefit of the public.
II the public needs such land to be kept
in forest 1t should buy it and hold it for
that purpose the same as the states OF
New York and Pennsylvania are now
doing.
It is another thing in regard to burning
slashmgs tops and refuse left in logging.
Most lumbermen heretofore have been UNI
willing to make any sacrifice to burn their
slashings but now that the tops and
refuse are being piled and burned on the
Chippewa reservation under the so-called
Morris act of congress at an expense OF
not exceeding 25 cents per thousand fee!
Of: logs and in a manner satisfactory to all
parties, it may be hoped that the lumber
men in this state will approve of Law
requiring the piling and burning of a suf
ficient amount of the tops and refuse tc
prevent danger from fire to remaining
standing timber. In such case would
myself recommend that the state incur the
expense of burning a sufficient amount OF
present slashings to prevent danger from
fire to any valuable standing timber anc
for the needed protection Of settlers ant
villages. -, &C. G. Andrews,
:@ Chief (Forest) Fire Warden.