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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25
GENERAL HUGHES, oFFENsE.

Can these things be? Are the tales that
come floating westward along with the
Star of Empire, the Twentieth Century
Limited. and the recipients of Horace
Greeley's advice-are they true or are
they the imaginings of an evilly- disposed
press in the effete east? Listen to this
from the New York Sun:
"Of course no one can imagine on the
platform of a Kansas railway station a
woman in a blouse and stockings that
reveal the mold of her supporting limbs.
A flock of women so attired would
make reason totter-in prairie Kansas.
Such a sight the eyes of Adjutant Cen
eral j. W. F. Hughes, of that state.
rested on, but only for a brief moment
of startled consciousness, at the Allan
tic City station day or two ago. The
general, like his chief, Governor Hoch.
had never seen the domain of old Nep-
tune and hasn't seen it yet. He left
Philadelphia on the surf express with
the governor and staff of the Sunflower
state for day at the famouspresort and
its varied joys of sight and sensibiIity.
The fame of Atlantic City had spread
even to Painted Post and CaWker. A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25
JAYHk WKER .JOTS

Drillers are at work in Osborne
county to see what the county owns
| three thousand feet down towards
China.
Steam gang plows are now being
| used in the southeastern part of the
| state as well as out in the short grass
country.
It cost Leavenworth man hun
dred dollars to beat his wife. Why
not have law providing that the
money in such a case shall go to the
wife?
at Salina that a farmer there who has
fine watermelon patch is also the
owner of a good gun and has lately
laid IN supply of small shot.
The Republican river at Concordia
changes its bed so much, leaving the
bridges high and dry, that the farm
ers have built a ferry boat in order
to be sure of getting across. They can
move the ferry with the river bed.
In an article relative to negroes en-
gagged in business in the United States,
the New York Tribune recently con-
most notable of the negro farmers is
Junius G. Groves, of Edwardsville,
Kas. He is known as The Negro Po-
tato King His right to this title rests
on the fact that in 1903 he dug out of
the ground on his farm 72, $50 bushels
of potatoes. So far as reports show,
this was 1880 bushels more than
were produced by any other individual
grower in the world. Besides this he
bought from white growers and
shipped away twenty-five carloads of
potatoes, and brought in fourteen car
loads of North and South Dakota
fancy seed potatoes, which he sold to
growers in the Kaw valley, Oklahoma
and Indian Territories. He ships po-
tatoes and other farm produce to
nearly every part of the United States.
Mexico and Canada. In the busy sea-
son as many as fifty Iaborers are en-
pIoyed on his farm. Mr.. Groves is
practically full-blooded negro. He
was born slave in Kentucky. He
went to Kansas in 1879, in what was
known as the Kansas exodus of
southern colored people. When he
arrived in that state he had just 80
cents. He is worth now in the neigh
borhood of $4,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atohison GIobe.I

from the AJCI11SOIl dlOOS.l
There ought to be law whereby you
could put some people under bond to
keep away from you.
How are you?" a man said to Par
son Irvine today. "I feel as well as
an old man could. expect" the parson
replied. That's good sense. Half
the people who complain of not feel
ing well, probably complain because
they do not feel as fell as children.
1t is related that the mother of five
children in Atchison recently had an
Idle Moment, and that she gazed at
it in a panic, not knowing what to do
with it. BY the time she recognized
the fact that it was really hers to en-
joy, it had fed.
Running a locomotive must be
good deal like running a newspaper.
It's the same old thing the year in and
wear out. Same old loafers on the
platforms. Same old jokes at the
stations. Same old travelling men on
and off, who always have the same old
kicks to make. Same old country
along the line every day. We'd hate
to be a locomotive engineer.
A mans children do not realize that
their hard worked old father may have
had some romance in his life, which is
as interesting as the romance they are
building up for themselves, with the
help of their steadies. One Atchison
father when he gets alone with his
thoughts, has this kind of a past to
dream over. He ran away with girl
and married her, when he was twenty
wears old. When he was thirty he had
been a widower, buried three children,
and was married again. Was not that
pretty fast living for father?
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago Daily News.I

IFrom the Chicago Daily News.1
True love is founded on the rock of rev.
erence.
Men never realize the joys of labor until
pay day.
More corn grows in crooked rows than
in straight ones.
No, Alonzo, a man doesn't necessarily
work because he has job.
It's tough when man has to give up
good money for tough steak.
Eggs, like men, are often broke, but uu-
like men, they are never too fresh.
Boil the water-unless you prefer to be
an aquarium rather than cemetery
It's easy for the average man to be hon
est when he doesn't need the money,
mind reader has snap when he en-
counters two souls with but a single
thought.
Whoever thinks he knows 1t all evident
ly imagines there ism t much worth know
ing.
There is certain brand of charity that
will give man a crust and then steal his
coat.
Some women mourn the loss of q had
husband more than others do the loss az
a good one.
A woman will do without something she
needs in order to save money to purchases
something she doesn't want.
A sensible man never has any snare TINA
to attend to other peoples business unless
he is hired for that purpose.
1t takes a lot of philosophy to enable n
man to admire a woman after he discovers
that she has no earthly use for him.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS

IFrom the Philadelphia Record]
The marriage tie is too often slip
knot.
Low down misunderstanding in decolette
gowns.
It takes more than indelible ink to write
for posterity.
Seek and We shall find-especially if you
are looking for trouble.
You never strike man favorably II you
hit him below the belt.
To succeed in literature requires much
ability and many postage stamps.
Summing isn't as fashionable as it used
to be. In fact it has taken quite slump
Some women are so fond of change that
they never even wear the same complex
ion twice.
willie's Mamma-"Is James a nice boy
for you to play marbles within Willie
Sure I can beat him every time"
Blohbs-'I hear Harduppe has been
burned out. Did he save anything at all2'
SIobbs-"Nothing but the mortgage on the
house"
Nel1-"She's the most conscientious girl
know Believes, she won't even
take hint unless she's absolutely sure 1t
belongs to her.
Muggins-.'Why do you watch young
Bjones SO closely? Are you afraid he il
going to run off with your daughter"
Buggins-''No, I'm afraid he isn't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It is just as fatal to die of typhoid
as it is of yellow fever.
Some Kansas farmers have combined
to kill their own beeves. Just listen
now and hear the packing house COM
bine yell. ''Trust!''
There have been two cries at Ports
mouth this week and another is expect
ed Saturday. This is the busy time for
the crisis at Portsmouth.
Chairman Shonts says they are work
ing on the canal with loyalty and
zeal" A cargo of Missouri mules would
help some also.
Senator Elzins' implicit confidence in
the statements of the railroad magnates
that their conduct has been above re-
preach reminds one of Frank Crimes
child-like faith in Tom Kelly and Ralph
Burton.
AS the State Journal understands It,
Korea objects to being compelled to fur
nish the stakes unless she also has the
privilege of playing the game.
How woman rejoices over a so cent
article that is marked down to SO cents
from $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25
HUMOR OF THE Day

..But." persisted the bridegroom during
their little quarrel, you proni'seu "
"Maybe / did, replied the bride, but |
had nv fingers crossed. ''-Ph iladelphia
Ledger.
McFlub-Your wife seems to be quite In
dustrious.
Sleeth-You bet your life she is. She
busy from morning until night hunting up
odd jobs about the house for me TO DO
Philadelphia Press.
'But do you think, young man" said
Her Father, that you can anoro 10
.'Oh, yes, sirl'' responded the young man
cheerfully II have friend who is
preacher, and he'll do 1t cheap!'-Cleve-
land Leader.
First Millionaire-Do you regret your
tainted money?
Second ADMINISTRATORS; the second
generation will lose that faint. ana the
81 never thought said the conceited
lecturer, that my voice would MI that
hail."
NO. replied the candid mani thought
at one time it would empty it."-Philadel-
phia Ledger
.'Reing from the west, Mrs. Briggs, you
have never before heard the booming OF
the breakers, [ suppose?'
No, but being from the west l have
heard the breaking of the boomers-many
a time and oft!"-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25

| plunge in the combers, promenade
with fashions votarfes on the Board
walk and ciambake in sight of the
cleaning ocean had been promised the
distinguished fellow citizens of Carrie
Nation. General Hughes got no nearer
the sea than the odor of it, for an UNI
conventional group of fair ones at the
railway station, who had come to well
come their friends, covered him with
confusion. and he beat a retreat to
chaste Philadelphia, in some doubt
whether he had seen mermaids or real
flesh and blood
If this tale is true, ought not General
James Whiteside Frierson Hughes, K.
N. G., commander of the army and
navy of the state of Kansas, to be
eourt-martialed for deserving his chief
the governor of the state. in a time of
danger?
General Hughes has the reputation of
being a brave man. Is it possible that
he could have run away at the first in
timation of danger and chased breath
lessly back to Philadelphia? Those who
know General Hughes will be loath to
believe this caIumny. If he ran at all
those who know him believe he ran the
other way. Yet the Sun continues it's
nefarious tale as follows:
safe in old Topeka again, General
Hughes told the story to sympathetic
friends 1t was actually shocking he
said There were those women, more
than mile from water and wearing
those ridiculous clothes. Why, actual
ly. their stockings and their skirts did
not meet by several inches. I took
one look at them and caught the first
train back Governor Hoch and the
rest of the staff must have taken more
than one look. for we know the COVER
nor disported himself in the surf,
fguratively shook old Neptune by the
hand, and the inspector general also
stayed, and the admiral and the secre-
tary of public morals and the other
dignitaries on the imposing staff that
accompanies the governor of Kansas
when he travels If they were shock
ed by what they saw none of them
was so shocked as to run away or to
complain of the cause of the shock.
But Governor Hoch is an editor and a
tolerant person to the conventional
and the wicked. All the worlds a
stage to him, and all the men and
women merely subscribers-or they
take some paper. Shocks, by the way,
are conventional as well as Dress The
antics of Carrie Nation were more of
an offense to Atlantic City than the
chic bathing costumes of the women
were to General Hughes. The general
was little too far south on the Jer-
sey coast to get his moneys worth.
Ocean Grove was the resort to which
he should have been personally con-
Quoted. All seaboard New Jersey is
not wicked-some of it is simply
proper
If General Hughes really ran away
in the face of such danger, leaving
Governor Hoch to his fate, ought not
his conduct to be investigated? It is
possible, of course, that the general
was running for reinforcements. Per-
haps we should look thus charitably
upon his offense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25

messenger nointing with his finger to-
ward the bewildered gunner, added:
Nov let that man be shot"
Stupor succeeded the applause.
Then, in the midst of silence IKE
that of the tomb, the old man raised nus
voice. He said:
"a negligence has endangered this
ship. At this moment she is perhaps
lost. To be at sea is to face the enemy.
A vessel at open sea is an army Wnicn
gives battle The tempest conceals. but
does not absent itself. The whole sea
is an ambuscade. Death is the penalty
of any fault committed in the face or
the enemy No fault is reparapie.
Courage ought to be rewarded ana neg
ligence punished
These words fell one after the other,
slowly, solemnly, with a sort or mex
orable measure like the blows of an axe
upon an oak.-FTom "Ninety-Three,
by Victor Hugo.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHEuoR
IFrom the Sew YorL o.

GFrom the New York Press1
The one thing in the world that can't h.
compromised is a dislike for red hair,
There is hardly anything that worries .
woman more than to have nofhine III rr,-
ry about. ~
Somehow a widow always acts as If she
would know a great deal If she never
had been married.
1t costs a great deal to dress f5au1h
ter, but her father rarely ever has fo 1sa :,
any breach of promise suits for her.
Either a wife is unhappy because ha~
husband finds fault with the meals wt,s,
they aren't. Aes's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25
INDEMNITY.

Oars q. question dat rs hearin'
Nearly every whar I go.
/ feels like disaDpearin'
Mhar 1t can't be heard no mo-.
What ever you'S Gesirin'
In de summer or de frost
You's got to come inQuirin',
How much it gwinter cost?''
It's bread an meat an later
An place to lay yo' head.
1t Is pie fob folks OATS greater
An whose fame is proudly spread.
Oars hghtin' an oars taxes
For US mortals tempest tossed,
If you calls fob peace, dey axes
How much it gwinter cost?''
Washington Star
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Geronimo.

Only those who have visited Arizona
and spoken with the men owning ranch
eS and herding cattle in that vast terri
tory can fully realize the wisdom of
President Roosevelt's refusal to grant
freedom to Geronimo, the Apache chief.
Not many months ago on an Arizona
ranch some one mentioned the name OF
Geronimo, and I asked whether he
should not be set free. The question
came like a thunderbolt from a clear
sky, and the calm faces of the men
suddenly assumed a look of intense
hatred, and as woman caught the
question she ceased to sing and drew
her child nearer to her bosom There
was a moments silence, and then came
the answer, delivered in a tone I shall
never forget:
aReIease him; release him by all
means and give him one hour in Ari
iona. It is a crime to let that devil
die in his bed. That religion business
is a sham, because the old fiend will no
more change his heart than the leopard
will his spots. Let me tell you his last
crime around here" and then, while
cold chilIs were chasing each other up
and down our spinal columns we listen
ed with horror 10 the mans story. AT
a ranch two or three hundred miles
from here, Geronimo and some OF ms
warriors surprised the ranchmanS wife,
who was alone with her three little chill
dren. They f1endishly tortured that poor
mother to death in manner too horr1-
BILE to repeat Not content with this,
they seized the frightened, innocent
children and left each one impaled alive
on the hooks which were used for dry
ing beef. The father returned home in
the evening and found one little girl
still breathing. She lived long enough
to tell the story, and died in the arms
of the half-crazed man. Some of that
wonan's male relatives still live. Oh,
yes; give him his freedom by all means.
and send him to Arizona. "-Leslie's
Weekly.
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KANSAS CONAENT
AN. ADvERTIsING EXPERIMENT.

AN ADVERTISING EXPERIMENT.
A merchant who had two stores in
Two small towns tried an experiment.
He put bargain counter in each store
containing the same articles at the
same prices. In the newspapers, of one
village he advertised his special sale
counters. In the paper of the other
he did not In one month in the vii
iage where he did not advertise he
sold 1884 worth of goods. In the store
where he did advertise he sold the
same goods amounting to $1.724. In
commenting on the result of the ex-
pertinent the merchant says: People
who got the paper with the advertise
ment would pass by one store and
drive for miles to the other one, for
what they could have gotten at the
same price in my store at their doors,
Concordia Blade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25
The ReDeater.

IN discussing at a dinner the voting
fraud of Philadelphia, ]. G. Gordon. the
nayor,s counsel. told a story of re-
peater-
HE was an ignorant chap. this re-
peater,. said Judge Gordon. He had
the stoIid and unmoved look of an ami
NAL
when they arrested him, he asked
what crime lay at his door.
You are charged said the police
man, with having voted twice
Charged, am II muttered the pris-
oner. That's odd. I expected to be paid
for it, H-ESxchange.
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ANOTHER HoCH BOOM.

In his interview in the Cincinnati
Enquirer of last Sunday, John Seaton
boosts Governor Hoch for vice presi-
dent, although acknowledging that
Fairbanks is popular in the Sunfiower
state Captain Seaton was there visit
ing cousin who is sheriff of Hamil-
ton county, Ohio.-Atchison Globe.
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FROM OTHER PENS
THE NEWSPAPER MAN.

If the conductor of newspaper
knew every language, all science, all his
tory and all literature and possessed.
in addition, a thorough knowledge of
banking, commerce and manufacture
ing of every sort and were an adept
in law, medicine, theology, national,
state and municipal politics, and ma
t1onal and International economies, he
would be none too well educated for
the proper conduct of his business and
yet to his vast stores of knowledge he
would have to add certain quickness
and alertness and comprehensiveness
of mind to enable him to give attention
to all that might be occurring at each
moment in his purvieW in human af-
fairs. The journalist must deal with
such a vast variety of subjects, and he
must handle them on the spur of the
moment with so little opportunity for
immediate study that he must have Sc
cured and stored up his information
beforehand, or else he; will often be
placed at great disadvantage when he
is pronouncing upon immediate oc-
currences. A slip of memory or other
mistake at such a moment by jour-
nalist~may subject his newspaper to
ridicule or to q more serious acton for
damages. While the Judge on the bench
may be guilty of the grossest error of
official judgment, yet he is above criti-
cism, although he has had all the time
and opportunity desired to study the
case.-New Orleans Picayune.
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HORSE RACING AND GAMBLING.
There is no disputing the fact that
betting is the cause of horse racing
and that horse racing is not the cause
of betting. Thus. it becomes a gam
bling game pure and simple, and with
out the gambling 1t fails. 1t is I'M
necessary to recall the crimes that a
race meeting leaves in its trail, or to
say anything of the demoralizing ac-
compartments that are told in the rec
ords of the police, in broken fortunes,
in ruptured responsibility, and petty
embezzlements. 1t is a basic assump-
ton in this country that betting is
gambling and gambling is bad.-De-
troit Free Press.
NEW STUNT FOR TEDDY.
The kaiser. as we now know. can
talk the latest American slang. Presi-
| dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Co
lumbia university who has lately had
an audience with his majesty, says so.
Mr.. Roosevelt has a new task, if he is
to keep up with the kaiser. Can the
president say "Gee-whiz!'' in German ?
l-SDrinRfield Republican.
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Next year there will be four members
of the supreme court to be voted for
Regularly only Chief Justice Johnston
and Justice Burch would come up, for
reelection, but there have also been
two vacancies on the bench, one by res
ignation and one by death, which must
be filled at the first regular election.
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is any worse than it was for candi-
date for governor to go into Miami
county and help Tom Kelly get up a
runlp convention to send a bogus dele
cation to Wichita in return for. Kelly's
aiding the said candidate to get the
gubernatoriaI nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25

Kansas prohibits liquor selling and
Kansas soaks buy their booze over in
Missouri. Missouri prohibits gambling
on horse races, and Missouri gamblers
are coming over into Kansas to do their
Tace-track gambling. Dishonors are
about even
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25

The district court at Ottawa has
found considerable fault with the ques-
lions submitted at the teachers exarni-
nation. but the Ottawa Herald consid-
erately remarks that it does not detract
any from the standing of Superintend-
ent Dayhoff. It would be impossible
for his standing to be any worse than it
-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25

The Russians claim that the car has
checked peace. The trouble, so far as
the car is concerned, is that the Japs
hold the check and they are likely to
present it at the check room most any
day-if the indemnity is not forthcom-
ing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25

If w. Y. Morgan. who sails for home
from Europe today, tries to emulate
the example of that other member of
the Morgan family. ]. Pierpont, in
bringing home 125 suits of clothes, a lot
of Hutchinson tailors will go on the
warpath Immediately or sooner.
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NEW STUNT FOR TEDDY.
BLOODY CHAsM CLOSED.

The hundredth anniversary of the
battle of Trafalgar will be celebrated
in Great Britain and by Britons the
world over, on october 81. While
waiting for that glorious event to be
honored with due pomp and circum-
stance it is pleasant to reflect that the
old spite between England and France
is happily buried. The British officers
in Paris saluted Napoleon's tomb and
the French officers, on their return
visit to London, DOTTED their hats be-
fore the Nelson monument in Trafal-
gar square. They appear to have
shaken hands over the bloody
chasm.' London, Ont, Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-25

The department of agriculture asserts
that Johnson grass will grow even in
desert places, but what is really needed
by the bald-headed contingent is some
johnson hair.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the ratio of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While cat Of town
the State Journal will be to you like
q daily letter from home.
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A SERMON TO ALL.

One of the best lay sermons preached
for a long time was that delivered by
Magistrate Crane in New York the 9TH
er day, in which he is quoted as saying
that "any man who is not loyal to his
mother cannot have success in 1ife.''
There are undoubtedly exceptions to the
rule, but it is a good sermon to preach
at all tirnes.-Newburyp News.
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when the peace ENJOYS tire of ex-
changing courtesies, they might try the
effect of exchanging cash." suggests the
Washington Post. Baron Komura is
willing but M Witte is not.