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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

was growing wobbly politically and
predicted that he would turn up a
Folk man in 1908.
Nothing is more unlikely. rms Is
an off year and the present is the
season for an exchange of compile
ments by political leaders of opposing
parties. The Chautauquas are in fun
blast and the celebrities are out in
force. A sort of truce exists. Mr..
Bryan can praise Mr.. Roosevelt with
out fear of consequences Mr. Root
as the new secretary of state can be
rated at his full value by the most
extreme of Democratic papers Gov
ernor Hoch can say that the country
would be safe with Governor Folk in
the White House. But three years
hence we shall probably see these
men, and others, lining up as in the
past, the Republicans on one side and
the Democrats on the other.
Some people fear that a big smash
for both of the old parties approaches.
Governor La Toilette is quoted as pre-
dieting it. The reasons given are not
convincing. We shall probably wit
ness in 1908 a repetition of some of
the features of 1896, 1900 and last
year. There will be Democrats sup
porting the Republican candidate and
Republicans supporting the Demo-
cratic candidate. But detection will
not become epidemic on either side,
and the end of the contest will wit
ness the survival of both of the old
parties. Each will continue to do
business at the old stand''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
JAYHA WKER WTS

1t was a Fort Scott butcher who,
after purchasing three hogs from some
colored boys recently, discovered that
he had paid for his own hogs.
Some of the Kansas towns are just
now running in tramps and utilizing
them to cut the weeds along the
streets and in the vacant lots, which
is an exceedingly good idea.
Some of Leavenworth's population
seem to have been moving up to Atch-
ison. The city assessor in the latter
place has found Mike Tamaso efSli and
Caspar Sniezenski among the people
there.
An Emporia man went home from
Topeka and said that he counted no
less than twenty open saloons here.
Was his counter working overtime or
did he look in places that the Topeka
police know not of?
Not long ago a carload of eggs was
shipped from California to New York.
You may wonder why this is recorded
among Kansas items. The reason is
that they were the product of Kansas
hens. They were shipped from Kan
sas to California several months ago
and put in cold storage there to await
a rise in the market. The rise came
in New York and the eggs were hur-
ried across the continent. There were
400 cases, and they brought 80 cents
a dozen.
A woman in northeastern Kansas
was drawing water from cistern
when she heard something fall in the
water with plung-g-g-you know
the sound Hastily putting her hand
to her belt where she usually carried
her watch she discovered it was not
there. Calling her husband, the two
set to work to pump the cistern dry.
Just as the water was nearly all out
| the woman went into the house and
found the watch peacefully ticking
away in the bureau drawer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
w e

Naughty Russia, horrid Russia,
How devoutly we desDise
All your sinful deeds and painful
And the way you tyrannize!
> OWE are strangers to injustice
WE are perfect, that we own
All is beauty, all is duty
Poverty is quite unknown.)
Naughty Russia. horrid Russia,
You're too worthless to endure
When your peevish dukes and thievish
Sit around and rob the poor!
owe have honest legislators
Never prone to money lusts:
WE are fondled, WE are coddled
By the philanthropic trusts)
Naughty Russia, horrid Russia,
wrecked and stranded in the ditch
BY the very Sumptuary
Sins and vices of the richI
(WE have many men of fortune,
But their wealth is quite joke,
For they use it mot abuse it,
Simple, upright, honest folkD
Naughty Russia, horrid Russia,
For the things you don't and do,
Learn our ample good example
Honestly, we pity you'll
Wallace Irwin in New York Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Glol

IF'rom the Atchison Globe
We never could see any fun in tick
ling a mules heels.
An Atchison man always walks like
rooster entering strange yard.
We wish we We're a field of corn in
Kansas, and could get just what we
need and when we need it most.
An Atchison woman has the steadiest
steady OF anybody. He has been go
ing" with her for IA years.
erything old fashioned except the en-
gagged girl who is piecing a patchwork
quilt.
There is a difference between a san
itarium and a sanatorium and we hope
you will always keep so well you will
never find out what it is
In one Atchison neighborhood there
are two adjoining houses, where there
are ten guests all of whom are related
to the women Of the houses.
If a mother is very busy. half an
hour after her children dress them
selves they are still going around with
their waists unbuttoned in the back
The worst thing about it is that the
man she married, and the woman he
married, were selected after both had
looked around, and looked, and
looked.
it reminds us of a picnic. Why not
hold the revival in church? WHY not
eat picnic lunches in the dining room
at home?
A girl said to her father lately: ''Ev-
er hear the story of the bed?' The
father said he hadn't. You lie there.
the girl replied. But before the father
saw it." he thought he had been called
liar, and whipped his child.
Ever know there is such a disease as
Monday morning fever?" Liverymen
say it is a complaint common to horses
and is due to over-driving on Sunday.
| Human beings also have a Monday
! complaint which lasts all day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
IrTTLE HEAD.

When the early beam OF morning,
Speeding over fields and streams
With its golden touch awakes me
From the misty land of dreams :
Half a-doze and half beholdinEs
I can see a baby's head.
Just above the snowy covers
OF the little cradle-bed
Little head above the covers.
Frightened by the morning glow,
Time and tide may swing between Us
As the summers ebb and flow,
waking dreams and plans may enter
To disturb that little head,
Just above the snowy covers
OF our baby's cradIe-bed.
Little head above the covers.
Though the seasons come and pass.
And your childhood fade and vanish
Like a sunbeam from the grass.
All the years shall remember
That reposing baby head.
Just above the snowy covers
OF this little cradle-bed.
Albert Bigelow Paine in Pearson's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
What T,inlI,erger VIII Do.

Owing to the fact that the restaurant
went out of business the first of the
week, the editor and staff are patching
that the other reasons-and yesterday
a rural subscriber brought us in piece
of limburger cheese, saying that if we
didn't care to eat it we could use it to
drive away ants. Will it drive away
ants? Will it, Verify, I say unto you,
it will drive dogs out of a lanyard; it
will drive buzzards away from a car
cass; it will drive a herd of buffalo
through a burning forest and a mule
through a barbed wire fence: it will
drive man crazy If compelled to stay
within 20 feet of its polluted presence;
indeed, it will drive away ants-and un-
cles. too. and mothers and fathers,
brothers, sisters, and grandmothers.
even to the seventh generation; still
there are some who claim to like linn
burger.-Freewater Orr Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]


Laws delay is the lawyers meat
Some people mistake patience for sense.
Most men who pay as they go are very
slow travellers.
Gossip and ice cream spoons open many
feminine mouths
No man with a torpid liver can be sue
ceSsful optin1ist.
It sometimes happens that a man lies
when he smiles and says nothing.
4 woman in politics is about orna-
mental as diamond in a mud puddle.
There would be no such thing a ST.
lent tomb if women had their way.
It's easier for wise man to act foolish
than it is for foolish man to act wise.
If all donkeys had long ears 1t would be
necessary to change the style of mascu-
line headgear.
Most people are satisfied with what they
have. it's what they haven't that causes
their dissatisfaction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
TAKE OFF YOUR CROWN.

What possible comfort in life can be
enjoyed by rulers like the car or the
sultan or even the German emperor,
who must always be haunted by the
knowledge that sssassins are ON the
watch to murder them at the first
favorable opportunity? Their situa-
ton is to be compared with that of a.
man who should live in the second
story of a powder magazine, conscious
that lunatics or fanatics We're eager to
explode it, No wealth nor power nor
exalted station can possibly compen-
safe for such a haunting dread. The
lot of a peasant is happier.-Chicago
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

The First National Bank of Topeka
was the first national bank in the state
of Kansas to fail in six years. And it's
failure was not caused by hard times
or commercial stringency except in
the case of a single Individual, which
IS a pretty good record for Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
Purifying Water by Copper surphate

ny NORPCA
In the Country Calendar for August
Henry Beach Needham tells how to
invoke the help of the department of
agriculture in Kidding country water
supplies of aIgae. water plants which
produce an unpleasant taste:
Suppose an owner of country
place, which is dependent upon a fresh
water pond for its water supply, finds
that his drinking water is contami-
mated, that the taste and odor are
such as to render the water unfit for
use. There is no reason why he
should not treat the supply, by the
successful copper sulphate method,
provided he is properly careful. When
the nature of the polluting organism
is definitely determined. and the aver
age temperature of the water OBJ
served, then the necessary formula
can be decided upon. First, of course,
the pond must be plotted, the depth
found, and the capacity computed.
The department of agriculture will
willingly furnish data for this pur-
pose, together with blanks upon which
to submit details as to communicating
organisms and water temperature, to
any applicant. Once the proper soIu-
ton is determined upon, the actual
work of publication is most simple.
In the following directions the depart
ment outlines the most practicable
method OF introducing the copper sui
plate into a water supply:
Place the required number OF
pounds of copper sulphate in a coarse
bag-gunny-sack or some equally
loose mesh-and, attaching this to the
stern of a rowboat near the surface
of the water, row slowly back and
forth over the reservoir, on each trip
keeping the boat within ten or twenty
feet of the previous path. In this
manner about a hundred pounds OF
copper sulphate can be distributed in
one hour. By increasing the number
of boats, and, in the case of deep res
ervoirs. hanging two or three bags te
each boat, the treatment of even a
large reservoir may be accomplished
in from four to six hours. 1t is neces-
sary, of course, to reduce as much as
possible the time required for apply
ing the copper, so that for immense
supplies, with a capacity of several
billion gallons, it would probably be
desirable to use a launch, carrying
long projecting spars to which could
be attached bags containing several
hundred pounds of copper suIphate.
/ The substitution of wire netting
for the gunny-sack allows a more
rapid solution of the sulphate, and the
time required for the introduction of
the salt may thus be considerably re-
duced. 1t is best to select as warm a
day for treatment as circumstances
will permit "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of tIls STATE Journal
away during the summer may haV g
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate of thirty
cents u month. Address changed as
often as desired. While cat of town
the State journal will be to you like
p daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
KANSAS COANENT
NAME sOUNDs FAMILIAR.

The Council Grove Republican
wants TO know if the Senator Henley
Who signs Mr.. Kel1y's bond Tor $3.50
GOO is the same man thot SO many
people were crying about a few years
ago when the trust ruined HIM and
compelled him to sell his wire mill at
laWI ence. The name is the same,
and if he is the same man he must
have saved little out of the wreck.
- Oskaloosa Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

The Chicago News thinks that the
suggestion that John D. Rockefeller
run for Office ought to be enough to
inject new life into the Popuiist party
when the suggestion reaches Kansas.
But as the Democrats have swallowed
the Populist party. while the rank and
file have largely escaped into the ranks
of the Republicans, it is difficult to
tell what the effect of such d resuscita-
ton would be. except on Judge Babb
and Joe Wright.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
EvERYoNE RuT KELLY.

Topeka has a mystery: a man who
writes letters to people and says, you
are hereby warned to leave town at
once or stand the consequences. Your
record is known Every man warned,
except Tom Kelly, has promptly disap-
peared. Kelly is not only able to
stand bluff, but he can beat a good
hand with a pair of deuces. Henry
H Fast, publisher of e German news
paper, received a warning letter, and
promptly disappeared. - Atchison
Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

Hamlin Garland wished to be locked
uD in a penitentiary cell for half an
hour in order to get color" for a
story. He was left in three hours be-
fore the warden thought of him again.
Mr. Garland should not make a fuss
though. Many a man has been locked
up more than six times as long as
he wished
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
HEALING A LITTLE.

Senator Mitchell of Oregon, has
been sentenced to Jail. while Senator
Burton, of Kansas, is enjoying a per-
manent vacation from official duties.
Mr.. Ridgway, publisher of Every
body's Magazine, is expected to note
recent developments as evidence that
the foulest sore on the body polite
is at least beginning to heal around
the edges.-Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

Secretary Root has gone on a vaca-
ton trip to Labrador. Those Phila-
delphia grafters whom he advised
Mayor Weaver to prosecute probably
don't care if he does go to Halifax.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
tFron1 the New York Press.l

r rOuI tIIC INV I u \ 7 co7-4
Either a mother worries because her
daughter has beaux or hasn't
IT'S funny how short girls wear just a
long stockings as the tail ones.
One way to find out what you don't
know about a woman is to marry her.
A man never gets through supporting
his children, and generally he has to help
out on his grandchildren
A woman's idea of fortune teliers is to
keep on going to them till she strikes one
that she knows tells her the truth oecause
il is what she wants to hear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

M. Witte was very prompt in his
denial that the peace conference might
last only a week. NJ. White knows a
good thing when he is appointed to it
with 5000 a day expense money, and
he isn't going to terminate it in a
hurry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

picture should have a place there" Is
it possible that we must go to the
trouble to explain that this picture was
one of several thousand in the collec-
ton of the State Historical Society.
where it had been placed by virtue of
Mrs. Nations having been a more or
less historical character in Kansas at
one fime2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

IT is suggested that Mr.. Rockefeller
ought to run for mayor of Cleveland
against Tom Johnson. Don't people
imagine Mr.. Rockefeller has troubles
enough of his own?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
THE SICK MAN.

1t is now stated on the best author
ity that the sultan of Turkey has sang
froid. That settles it for the sultan.
If he has the genuine gray-eyed yell
low blooded sang-froid no turban
proved Arab doctor can cure him.
Salina Union
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
THAT WAS ENoIGH.

The majority of the voters in the
big Seventh believe there was enough
in the Garden City matter of itself to
cause Governor Hoch to accept the
escrow resignation of Treasurer Kelly.
The windup of the present admins
tration will probably show that our
present governor. was only so in name
Garden City Imprint
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
MARQUIS Ito chante,

Marquls ITO chanted poem to
American visitors in Japan. and the
Washington Star suggests that "if Mr..
Eugene Ware had not deserted Wash
ington, this country might reciprocate
before the departure of Baron Ko-
mura." And Mr.. Ware would do a
good job of it. too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

Senator Platt isn't the only United
States senator who would live his life
differently if he had chance. We can
think of at least two who will vote
with the United States Express sena-
tor on that proposition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

Governor Douglass needn't be so
scared. There's a governor over in
Missouri that stands in greater danger
of being struck by presidential light
ming than any Massa chusetts man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

Hamlin Garland was not locked up
on account of any of his literary
works, Notwithstanding any insinua-
tons that may come from any of his
envious contemporaries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
BOMBS AND ULT1MATUMs.

1t is said that after the sultan es-
capped that explosion he went driving
along bowling affably to his subjects
just as if the throwing of a bomb at
him was no more serious than the
throwing of an u1timatum at him.
Indianapolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

Chicagos new chief of police is do
ing a fine job at the start. A chief of
police is like race horse, however: he
should not be judged by his start but
by his finish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

In commenting on the beginning of
its new chief of police, a Chicago pa
per says that every chief starts out all
right. Then why not keep a lot of
chiefs on hand-a complete assortment
as it were-and keep them busy start
ing. With a new chief starting every
thirty days Chicago ought to become
approximately respectable in the
course of a decade or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

If Mayor Dunno orders his new
chief of police to suppress crime Jim
mediately" in Chicago will the word
mean the same as it does in connec-
ton with immediate municipal
own ershiD3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
KELLY,s OPINION.

Toms Kelly's opinion of Governor
Hoch, while apparently not of the
best, will hardly reflect on the gov
ernor's character or standing. What
Tom Kelly thinks of any man doesn't
count.-Concordia Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
NO DIsAGREEMENT THERE,

Tom Platt will have no trouble in
getting the American people to agree
not been well spent "-Independence
Reporter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
JUST A THEORY.

General Horace Porter expresses his
satisfaction at getting back at the land
where it is a disgrace to be idle and
where it is dignified to labor" But
he mustn't hit people like that if he
is going actively into politics.-Boston
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

Although the mercury may be some
hotter in Death Valley, you will notice
that Scotty cuts more ice in that place
than he does on Broadway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

Instead of being stamped mot paid
for want of funds" Johann Hoch came
very near being hanged for want of
funds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
4 SHOW on FORCE.

England and Germany are making
powerful naval maneuvers to show
how peaceful they are.-New York
Commercial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
NOT THE GOLD CURE.

Young Mr.. Hyde has resigned an
other vice presidency, and it is be-
lieved that a little more radical treat
ment like this will cure him entirely of
the vice presidential habit.-Indian-
apolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
THE POLE.

Tomorrow the Roosevelt sails for the
real Big Stick. Success to Peary!-
New York Commercial. =.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

New Orleans isn't attracting any
great number of people either as a
health resort or summer resort this
season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
THE VANDERBILT SENATOR.

The Vanderbilts ought to yield to
public opinion and send another man
to represent them in the senate in De-
pew's place.-Chicag Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

'.The destruction of a picture of
Carrie Nation in the state house at To-
peka," says the Washington Post, "is
less surprising than the fact that her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
RECIPROCITY.

A competent observer who has just
made a tour of New England reports
steady growth in the agitation for re-
vision of the tariff and reciprocal trea-
ties. The convention called by agricuI-
tural and industrial organizations of
the west to meet in Chicago next month
will voice the sentiment of that section
in favor of reciprocity and call upon
congress to act.-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
PROMISING.

We observe from their pictures that
the noses of several other members of
the insurance investigating committee
are retrousse. This, at least, is prom
ising.-New York Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
FROM OTHER PENS
EYEGLASSES

Modern society threatens to become
divided into two classes, grafters and
grand jurors.-Washingt Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
INHFRITS IT.

If there is anything to heredity. Sec
rotary Root will have no trouble in
solving the world problems which con-
front him. His father was a professor
of mathematics Chicago Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
An REPRESENTATIONS.

Jimmy Hyde's salary was raised to
$780, 900 because of what his father
did, In the circumstances this seems
to have been about as reasonable an
explanation as could have been made
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
THE OLD AND T.

THE OLD AND THE NEW.
Cradles are now being rocked by lit
tie electric batteries. Years ago moth
er's slipper used to feel as though it
were run by electricity.-Minneap
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

You lost your money in Wall street did
you?''
81 wouldn't say I lost it," answered the
precise though unWorIdly man. The word
lost implies a remote possibility of its be-
ing found again. Wa hington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04

SOMETHING TO CHAFF ABOUT.
The news of ru in the wheat will be
a mild shock to the farmers who long
ago finished harvesting.-New York
Commercial Appeal.