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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IRON the CnlCaSo NeWS.i
An inch of smile is better than yard
of froWn.
It is better to be an also-ran than a left
at-the-post.
Most of a mans blunders are due to his
self-conceit
Hairless men should confne their state
ments to bald facts.
The strawberry bottom comes high
but we must have it.
A good reputation is a valuable posses
sion-but you can't mortgage it.
Unless a man is a good listener he
should stay out of the matrimonial game
There are two sides to every question:
but marriage is often a one-sided affair.
Some people never change their minds
because they are like the man who owned
but one shirt.
When a girl boasts that a young man IS
crazy to marry her, her chances are the
victim is somewhat daffy.
To the young lady who is figuring on
marrying a man for the purpose of max
ing him better: Better not
When some people look around for a.
use the wrong end of the telescope.
It is better for a young man to be given
the icy mitt than to marry the girl and
be kept in hot water all the rest Of his
days.
Every time a widow hears of a man who
has been disappointed in love she makes
it her business to get him away from the
crowd and sympathize with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
G0ESTOHIGHEST COURT
Tony Kersch Joint Case VIII Be Heard
in Washington.

Tony Kersch, the Topeka jointists.
will get his name on the records of the
supreme court of the United States. His
attorneys, G. c. Clemens and c. A. Ma
gaw, today appealed his case from the
state supreme court, which rendered a
decision against him.
The Kersch case started in the Tope-
ka police court w T. Reed, a secret
service man working under Chief Stahl
got the evidence against him, and he
was arrested by Frank PARCELS ION
view" No written complaint was ever
fled against him. and his attorneys
contended that he was therefore illegal
" arrested. The district court held
that since Kersch had waived the for
mality of a written complaint, he had
no means Of redress. and the state SUI
preme court sustained the district court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18

tributing each year more largely to the
commercial requirements OF the United
States, especially IN those articles and
classes OF articles not produced in this
country, or at least not produced in
sufficient quantities to supply the de-
mands of manufacturers or others in
whose industries or business enter
prises they are required. Imports Of
merchandise into the United States
from Mexico have grown from s4,S46,S6
in 1874 to $43.63 275 in 1904. the value OF
merchandise imported from Mexico in
1904 being. therefore. ten times as great
as in 1874 or 80 years earlier. On the
other hand. exports from the United
states to Mexico have grown from So
ss6, S39 in 1874 to s45.s44. 720 in 1904, the
exports to Mexico in 1904 being thus
about eight times as great as in 1874.
The above figures of trade between
the United. States and Mexico are ia
ken from the official reports of the Uni
ted States government, and. show the
imports into the United States from
Mexico and the exports from the Uni
ted States to that country An examt-
nation Of the statistics of Mexico, how
ever, shows that IN 1908, the latest
available year, 81 per cent Of the eX-
ports of merchandise from that country
were. sent to the United States and SO
per cent of the imports of merchandise
We're from the United States. Compar-
ing these conditions with earlier years
it will be seen that in 1874 the ex-
ports of merchandise to the United
states from Mexico formed but SO per
cent of the total of Mexican exports,
and the imports from the United States
formed . per cent of the total of Next
can imports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
IAYHAWKEI7 LOTs.

The Clay Center carpenters union
have built themselves a lodge.
The family skeleton viii be trotted
out in sixty divorce suits at Leaven-
worth.
A Highland man of 60 years had the
second days sickness of his life last
week
The "stear range peddler has been
around is the way the Clyde victims ex-
press it.
To remove the gloom of John Q.
Royce's departure Phillipsburg will put
in an electric light plant.
An Abilene woman put out fire with
rare coolness." It is also thought that
a few buckets of water aided.
With every new moon for the past
quarter out at Wa-Keeney Dick Owens
nine boys have had the measles.
The old fashioned man that burns the
rusty nail TO ward off evil consequences,
after stepping on it, lives at Larned.
A runaway Wellington delivery horse
made scrambled eggs for 20 dozen peo-
pie providing they only took one each.
The Concordia man that wore the first
straw hat of the season appeared on the
streets the following day in a fur over
coat.
Owing to the fact that Mr. Moon of
Howard was caught shining through
the postoffice window, he is now under
a total eclipse.
A Clyde father of many children
thought it a stork when he fired, but
the rifle ball brought down a sand hill
crane six feet from tip to tip.
Its not the price that makes the
hat" says a Clay Center milliner. Cor
rect, it's the elaborate trimmer from
Chicago on a few weeks outing.
Just to show how they spend the
hours at Wa-Keeney prominent citi-
zen counted 10 robins in the backyard
at one time and seven on the fence.
While at church the other night a
Chanute man was summoned to the door
by an unfeeling minion of the law who
announced that he had been sued for a
divorce
A Fairport teacher has saved enough
money to visit the home of her parents
in Ireland. She does not expect to find
'the castle they lived in but rather a
sod cabin"
The First Chance" saloon was raided
at Great Bend and the proprietor sent
to Jail The more the jointist broods
over the matter the more he thinks it
his last chance"
A Topeka man stays at home Sunday
forenoons and cares for the baby while
his wife goes to church. In the after
noon the operation is reversed, he going
to the ball game.
The new Russell depot agent marked
the train time on a bulletin board out
side. But it didn't go. Tourists walk
boldly to the window and enquire,
''Iow's No. and is over 40 minutes
late"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
tide WITH NrIavrco

Commercial Mexico in 19O5' is the IL
tie Of a monograph Just issued by the
department Of commerce and labor
through its bureau of statistics. It's
object as indicated by the title. IS to
present commercial conditions in Mex
leo at the present time, the producinp
and consuming power Of that country.
the sections Of the world from which
1t now draws its imports and to which
it sends its exports. the classes Of ar
ticles in which its demands are increas-
ing or decreasing, and the classes Of
products which it is supplying to vari-
Gus parts of the world. and especially
TO the United States.
Commerce between Mexico and the
United States has grown in recent
years with great rapidity, and large
sums Of American capital have been in
vested in various business enterprises
in Mexico, including agriculture, min
ing, transportation, and manufactures,
while on the other hand Mexico is con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
JUDGE CLARK IS HERE.
Speaker Pro Tenn Says People Think
State Needs Refinery.

Judge AnseI R. Clark, Of Sterling,
Rice county, speaker pro tenn of the last
house of representative, was in Topeka
today. He said he had Just come up
to look around
1T is the first time I have been back
since the legislature adjourned said
Judge Clark Il am not here looking
after anybody's political boom. don t
know of anybody down in my county
who wants a job. AS a matter Of tact
there are not many jobs which are much
good anyway"
Judge Clark was asked whether he
would be a candidate for the legislature
again. I never asked my people for an
Office of this kind" said he, land I
don't expect to. begin asking now, but /
suppose if they seem to want me to
come back again, I will come 1 can
get along without coming back, how
ever"
Judge Clark stated that the sentiment
of the people of his county was still
generally favorable to the idea that the
state needs an oil refinery. Judge
Clark himself has never been very en-
thusiastic about the refinery, but voted
for it because his people wanted him
to.
1.-THE Standard Oil company has not
sent any Of its advertising literature
down into my county yet, said Judge
Clark. But I do not believe that
thoughtful people are deceived by such
articles. They know why the Standard
is sending them out, and they pass judg-
ment upon them accordingly"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
BOSTON CLUB SOLD.
z. V. Dunn Buys American Team
From soden and Conant.

Boston, Mass. April 1S.-Frank v.
Dunn, a hacker of theatrical enterprises
in Boston, New York and Philadelphia,
closed a deal late Monday and posted
forfeit of $1,000, which will give him
full possession Of the Boston National
league club and South End park on No
vember 1 next. over $500, 900 is involved
in the transaction.
The agreement was drawn up by At
torney w. A. Baker Of so State street,
with Messrs. Soden and Conant present,
also Mr.. Dunn. Mr.. Dunn was ready to
take the club at once, but the owners
said they had made coBtracts they could
not get away from, and were satisfied
to turn over the whole plant next fall.
Mr.. Dunn said that he came here rep
resenting a New York syndicate. but,
finding the deal could not be closed this
year, he decided to make the deal for
himself and some Boston friends.
President Soden and Director Conant
said they were tired of baseball, Mr..
Conant being 70 and Soden 81, while Mr..
Billings has been out of the club since
last season. Mr.. Dunn is a native of
Boston, AZ years Of age and is not even
a baseball fan, simply looking at the
move from a speculative point. He will
have as business man Harry Farren
manager of a local theater. and for his
baseball manager Niah Murray. an old
league player and umpire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18

And what do they mean by it?''
THAT the whole boiling of them can
go to Texas and come back again.
I'D give a hundred dollars, Mrs
AIcGlory, if I could rattle off the French
language the way yees do
"Au fat. comment, diable, monsieur
qui est my dear, which means that
yees might give a million and it would
do you no good. Your tongue ism
hung right to learn the language"
We'll thin, I'll stick to me own Ian
guage and do the best I can wild it. As
for the gossip, Mrs. McGlory, 1t is Mrs.
Muldoon-she that came over from
Cork wild wees in the same Storage
who is saying that yees are no lady
And why am 1 no lady, might 1
ask?''
do yees remember when -yees had a
little blowout here last year,"
There's the common clay Of it again,
Mrs. Finnegan. had an at home here
last year, and "a recherche affair it was,
and here YOU and the rest of DinnisOn's
tinants are speaking of it as a blow
QUIT Mon dieu eclat!'
'sWell, thin, it was an at home and
tits said that yer company got away
wild a who ole key of beer.
stAnd what's that to do wild my not
being a Iady2 If me company pre-
ferred beer to champagne twas not
ssBut I was coming to the kicking
Mrs. McGlory. The way Mrs. Null
doom tells it, yees all drank siven bot
ties apiece, and the same is not paid
for to this day When yees all got to
feelin' good We challenged Mrs. john
son to a high kicking match, and be-
cause she kicked the highest We pull
ed most of the hair out of her head.
Ye might explain it to me, me dear,
widout usin' too many of them French
words"
Thin I'm saying this-that there
never was a bigger lie told, and that
III punch Mrs. Muldoon's head before
the week is out. It is true that there
was high kicking. There always is
whin a few real ladies get together.
They do it for exercise. We know. It
is also true that Mrs Johnson beat
me on the high kick. her foot strik-
ing the kerosene lamp suspended
from the ceiling and bringing it down,
but so far from pulling her hair and
having a row. I Datted her on the
back and PRESENTED her a milk pitcher
as first prize All the other ladies will
bear me witness. Oh. nous. verrons,
ne sont duel"
And does that mean that it gives
wees a pain, Mrs. McGlory ?"
Its just that and nothing else, but
I'm expressing meself in the language
of a lady It's a lie made of whole
cloth, Mrs. Finnegans and Mrs. Mul-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
OUAKER REFLECTIONS.

From the PnllaQelpflla ftecOEQi
Some women are unable to play on
any instrument except the ear-drum.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady
unless the fair lady happened to be a
widow.
A boarding house patron who
doesn't complain is either satisfied or
subdued.
A woman writes a letter because
she either has something to say or
nothing else to do.
Scribbler says he can't COM
pose a poem unless he is smoking.
Wagg-"Tsn't there some scheme we
can get up to make him stop smoking ?''
Dat dog of mine won't eat sausages,' -
remarked the German. "Sure, any dog
will at sausa ges if the wurst comes to
the wurst, answered the Irishman.
Sillicus-"Don't you wish you could
see as far into the future as into the
past?'' Cynicus-"O I don't know. It
would probably be just as unsatisfac-
f0rV''
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MRS. aIcGLoRx's TALKS.
She Never Forgets That She Is Lady
AfcGIOry.

81 thought it was yees, Mrs. F1nnegaIls
by the way yees knocked said Mrs.
GIcGlory, as she opened the door to her
neighbor the other afternoon Come
in for chat. I suppose there must be
a fresh crop of gossip floating through
Dinnison's Tiniment, by this time"
"Oh, just a word now and thin, ye
know, but nothing to hurt. There are
women who can't keep their tongues
from clacking."
'Weu, thank hiven, that I was born
a lady and don't know the meaning OF
gossip, except I hear it from others 1
could live IN this tiniment for tin years
and niver say a word about person IN
it. Yees have known me going on siven
years, Mrs. Finnegan, and did yees
ever hear me as much as say that half
the women around US are washing their
faces with yellow bar soap?"
Surely but I niver did
"A lady, Mrs. Finnegan, is-a lady.
She's a. lady from the day she's born
till the day she dies, and you can niyer
beat it out of her. She may become re-
duced to opening CLAIMS at the fish
market, but she opens EN- like a lady
instead of a parvenew.
And what might a parvenew be, Mrs.
McGlory2"
Its a person of common clay me
friend, the same as yees are. That's
nothing whatever against yees, as I
hope ye'u understand. Yees was born
that way and can't help it. Not that
it interests me at all, but it's well
enough for even a lady to know who
her enemies is. Bon voyage, as the
French saw
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
5RAILRoAD ASSESSORS BUSY.
They Begin Work in Office of Auditor
Wells.

Today the state board of railroad
assessors is in session at the Office of
State Auditor Wells. Those present
were Wells, Burrow, Kelly and Cole
man. Lieutenant Governor Hanna is
absent from the state and will not re-
turn until next week. For the present,
the board is hearing the statements Of
the tax commissioners and land agents
of the various railroads. There are
railroad men about the state house
sufficient to constitute a tolerably
good sized convention. The Burling
ton, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island,
Santa Fe, and Union Pacific are all
represented.
It is expected that none of the re-
suits of the work of the railroad board
will be announced until Mr.. Hanna re-
turns to Topeka and joins with the
rest of the board in the final figures
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Gently deceased: .sHe never knowed any
An Atchison man was recently asked by
ms WlIe 70 whip a man But L can't do
Il the husband replied; hes too big.
You whip his Wife,
A man goes without adornment. why
IS ne so m1serly?" the neighbOrs ask. He
puts on an adOrnmert. How can he ever
afford it?'' they scream.
If people don't love YOU. it really does
not matter much A certain Atchison man
IS generally despised, but he seems to get
along about as we'll as anybody.
They say a set Of Atchison children are
complaining Of their fathers age, and Of
ms being a burden, and unreasonable and
IN the way, and he IS only S.
You know how Vidover breads to tell
his children when he rnarries againi Well
an Atchisop widoWer has a son 8 years
old, and IS afraid to tell him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
HooH MAKES A DISCOVERY.
Finds He Is a Stakeholder in an Oil
Refinery.

Gov. Hoch has discovered that he is a
stakeholder in an oil refinery. The news
came to the governor in the form of an
advertisement inserted in the newspapers
by an oil company near Chanute which
has recently decided to increase its cap
itaI and build a refinery. Governor Hoch
was q. stakeholder in the oil company, and
now that it has enlarged its field of bust
ness. he is stockholder in the refinery.
Gov. Hoch says:
This IS little oil company in which
I have been interested for several years.
I didn't know it until I saw the stock
advertised that it was planning to go
into the refining business. The stockhold-
ers held a meeting on April Il, which I
did not attend, at which this refinery
proposition was agreed upon.
The company proposes to issue about
$4,000 worth of stock and build a re-
finery with a capacity of go barrels a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.I
When a man wants to humiliate a boy
he calls him Bub.
There is too much fault finding. If we
do too much Of it. we are ashamed of it
We hope Togo will win, because st will
take less time to praise Togo than Ro-
jestvensky.
The millennium viii never be a complete
success until umbrellas find their way
home Ike cats.
If you want practice in learning to be-
come a good conversationalist, learn to
stand off a book agent.
There are two sides to every question:
and the men on both sides are bigoted.
unreasonable, selfish and foolish
After you have done your best it doesu, t
follow that those who sat down to the Ia
bic are going to be pleased
When rich man does not compel his
children to learn to work, the state should
step IN and take them away from him
A Missourian today paid an ELOQUENT tri-
butte to prominent Atchison man. re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-18
MAY SUE STANDARD.
Coleman Would Bring Suit for ViO-
Iating Discrimination Law.

Attorney General Coleman may in
stitute suit against the Standard Oil
company under the anti discrimina-
ton law. He stated today that if he
could obtain the necessary evidence
from EmpCria to sustain the charge
that the Standard is at that point I'M
derselling the products of the Web
ster independent -af1nery. he would be
willing to bring the action in the
name of the state.
1t has been charged that the Stand
ard Oil company is making price at
wholesale to Emporia merchants of 9
cents gallon, while the rate at To-
peka and other points similarly stu
ated is 1917 cents.
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labor excel those of other countries, is
not that the explanation OF larger pro-
ductfon in proportion to the number OF
consumers and of the consequent high
standard Of living, rather than protec-
ton against the competition Of those
who have not the same means and ca
pacity for producing? Standard of Iiv-
ing does not depend upon rate of wages,
but the buying capacity of earnings an
artificial basis" making both wages
and prices high renders comparisons
deIusive. The argument that protec-
ton is necessary to the maintenance or
a high standard of living is decidedly
Vulnera bic.
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REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press


A girl that is engaged is like a boat car
rying topsails in gale.
Maybe it's the way a widow seems to be-
lieve IN you that makes you believe in
her.
There is something about a circus that
carries a man back so far he almost for
gets he is married.
A nan could have just as much fun
drinking soda water if it were against the
law and sermons were preached against it
1t takes a woman to jam into an inch OF
space on a street car seat and then look
to insult her.
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The general business outlook is proro-
Using, says Henry Clews in the Finan-
ciai Review. Bank cIearings show an
unusually large volume of business. The
total cIeaIings at all cities in the Uni
ted States for the month Of April aggre-
gated about sz.7SS 900. 900, an increase of
over so per cent above the same month
year ago. This shows a most extra
ordinary recovery in business; although
speculation. which is more active. es-
pecially in real estate, does not account
Tor so large gain. A considerable nor
ton of the increase was due to the
numerous important financial opera
tions in various parts of the country:
SO perhaps railroad earnings are more
reliable index of actual recovery. For
the last four or five weeks railroad
earnings have been increasing at the
rate OF from z to IL per cent, whereas
IN FEBRUARY we had a series of declines
Varying from . to Z per cent. Judging
by the reports of railroad managers
earnings are likely to show encourap-
ms gains fer some weeks to come. since
an the roads seem TO be taxed to their
fullest capacity for freight. while mas
senger earnings are also being cores
pondingly swelled- The progress Of bus
tness viii, of course be largely inf7u-
enced by crop conditions. This spring
has opened very favorabIy indeed for
farming operations. and reports regard
ing winter wheat are to the effect that
the crop is unusually fine and in much
better condition than a year ago. April
condition was reported at 81 against rs
a year ago. Tt is somewhat significant
that our great harvesting implement
companies are placing unusually LARGE
orders for raw materials in preDara+ion
for the anticipated demand for farm
machinery. Another satisfactory fea-
tnre is the increase in value of our do
nestle exports, chiefly dut to cotton
exports. Our imports continue 1arge
rendering it useless for the present 10
expect any Improvement in our trade
balance unless it should come in the
unrecorded item Of security shipments
which latter are growing under the in
creased confidence in Americans
abroad. As for the improved state ri
the iron trade, that is too familiar ia
require mention.
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LOCAL MENTION.

At the meeting Of the Topeka Preshy-
terry held at Lawrence this week the
following were elected delegates to the
general assembly to be held this spring.
at Lake Winona, Ind. Ministerial dele
gates, Rev. 5. A Aults Oakland, Rev.
D. H Gregg; alternates, Rev. II. r. S.
Jarvis, Clay Center, and Rev W G..
Banker, Lawrence; lay commissioners.
Louis Mayo, I.eavenworth. Charles
Gregg, Topeka. third. alternates, L d.
Refer, Oskaloosa, and J. ". Priddy,
Topeka second.
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OIL PRICES DROP.
Reduced Five Cents a Barrel on High
Grade Petroleum.

Independence, Kan, April 1s.-The
price Of western oil was reduced five
cents a barrel today, to CT cents for
high grade and five cents less a barrel
for each half degree under 30 degrees
gravity. This makes the price of fuel
oil in Kansas d cents barrel.
It is the general opinion of the oil
men in this district that the price of
high grade oil will go to 30 cents a,
barrel unless drilling is suspended. It
is estimated that the western field is
now capable of producing $4,000 barrels
a day, while there is a market for only
5000 barrels.