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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Bjornstjerne Bjornsen is spoken of in
connection with the Norwegian
presidency.
The Ottawa assembly people have a
serious charge to face: They have start
ed Tom Lawson on the lecture platform.
Why didn't young Mr.. Hyde think of
giving a million or two to colleges and
charging it up to the Equitable policy
holders for advertising?
Another DON'T: Don't take other
peoples money and loan it to your
self.
It is a noteworthy fact also that the
Kansas City union depot was not even
flag station on the schedule of the
Death Valley Special.
The Kniaz Potemkine incident has ap-
parently been closed before anybody
found out how to pronounce it.
It's the stray bullet that always finds
the mark.
Do you happen to know what King
Eds last name is?
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AN EASTERN VIEW.

The press of the entire country is
making editorial comments on the over
throw of the state oil refinery project
by the Kansas supreme court. Probably
one of the sanest editorials on the sub
ject is the following from the New York
Evening Post:
mo one will blame Governor Hoch of
Kansas, for expressing his keen disap-
pointment at the judicial wrecking of
the plans for a state Oil refinery to fight
the Standard Oil. He will even have
sympathy when he says that if he had
been the Supreme Court things would
have turned out very differently. If it
is not constitutional, he says with feel
ing, it ought to be- The country at
large will have to stif1e it's regret at not
seeing the outcome of the great cam
paign in which the octopus was to be
starved to death. One of the mistakes
of the trainers of the law now set aside
was that they dwelt too much on its
oil refinery features, and too little on
its penitentiary features. This was seen
from the very first, however, to be one
of the essential weaknesses of the
scheme. In order to be legal, the work
of refining oil had to be done by con-
victs. Thus, as fast as the output of oil
increased, the demand would inevitably
arise for more prisoners. 1t would never
have been possible to expel the trust
entirely except by melting an epidemic
of crime or else putting a large num-
Der of innocent men in durance. This
thought may provide little consolation
for Kansas in these hours of bitterness. -
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Very Earnest omceseeker.

Very soon after the inauguration of
Governor Seward of New York, Viyus
w. Smith, the Wing leader of Onon-
daga county, wrote an earnest letter
to Thurlow Weed requesting him to use
all OF his influence with the governor
TO have a certain man appointed In
dian agent for the Onondaga Indians.
Now ThurIow Weed knew the man
to be trOuble-maker, quarreison1e,
vindictive, party machine disturber;
and Governor Seward also had an I'M
favorable impression of him. AS the
result of a conference, at the sugges-
tlon OF Lne governor, letter was writ
ten by Mr.. Weed, asking that someone
else be named for the place. This
brought Vivus w. Smith to Albany, as
had been anticipated, and he took Mr..
Weed to task for questioning his in
dorsement, or delaying the appoint
ment, and finally Mr.. Weed said, sub
StantiaIly:
''Of course if you insist upon it, this
appointment will have to be made, but
you must know that he is a trouble
maker
Nobody knows that so well as I
do" was the answer.
Then give me some reason which
may give to the governor, for making
this Objectionable appointment"
Il don't want to give any reason,
other than my individual Endorsement
and urgent recommendation"
But. it seems to me that you ought
to be willing to give the governor
some good reason with which to an
swer the storm of criticisms which
must follow the appointment"
well. that's just what I don't want
to do. L don't want anybody to know
why I made this recommendation
'Well, then, tell me, and I will tell
the governor, and it will go no fur
Their"
well, Weed, you know that there
are two parties among the Onondagas
the Christians and the pagans. Now
my man is known to be little inclined
| toward the Christians. The pagans
have heard this, and they have agreed
among themselves to kill him or any
other agent that sides with the Chris
tan faction. Now my man wants to
go, and his friends want him to go. and
his enemies want him to go, and if he
goes he will probably make no more
| trouble for us, and besides"
"He won't be appointed" interrupt
| ed Thurlow Weed; and he wasn't
Vivus Smith afterward said that he
was joking with Mr.. Weed. but that
he was bound to do his best for the
man who wanted the appointment
Los Angeles Times.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.J

IFrom the New York Press
About the only time children tell
the truth is when you don't want them
to to visitors
A girl thinks a man is nadly in love
with her if he says her baby sister has
a sweet disposition.
A man has to have q, big income to
have any of it left to spend on himself
after he gets married.
When man is old enough really to
know something he is too old for it to
be OF any use to him.
A woman acts as proud over having
a family physician as a man over own
ing one share of stock in some trust
When a man sees a woman wearing
white stockings he can't help feeling
there are worse things than being
blind.
When a woman sees anybody IN q
railroad car reading letter across the
aisle 1t makes her awful nervous not
to be in this seat behind him.
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Shakespeare in the west.

n. c. Goodwin was narrating the
adventures of Hamlet company that
had toured the remotest parts of the
west.
Manager Smith, who also played
first gravedigger," said Mr.. Goodwin,
was in despair in a certain Arizona
town, for his company was booked for
a two weeks engagement, and the
disheartening indifference. They
yawned in the soliloquy. and in the
mad scene many of them went off to
sleep.
Smith would have changed the bill.
but no other play had been rehearsed,
and there was neither costumes nor
scenery for any other play. So Ham
let had to continue, though Smith
would have given anything for the
power to stir the audience UP a bit.
zone night he stirred them up I'M
Intentionally. He put on, by accident,
two vests. When he took off. in the
gravedigging scene, first the one vest
and then the other. the people were
the house. and there was an outburst
of applause-the first applause of the
engagement.
'fSmith was pleased and proud. He
saw now what the people liked. and he
resolved to give it to them in full
scene. he wore twelve vests, and,
standing in front of the grave. he re-
moved them one by one. Roars of
mirth shook the house; it was the
proudest moment of Smiths life; he
felt that he had been the company's
salvation.
"As he removed the ninth vest, he
looked round. and at once his self-cen-
ceit fell 60 per cent. He had thought
they were laughing at him alone. but
there behind him was the second
gravedigger, putting on the vests as
fast as he took them LOS An
geles Times.
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NO USE


What's the use o. kiclxin
When the air is soft an warm,
An the sky is blue above you
Without a hint O. storm?
When the waves are softly singin'
AS they sparkle in the light;
What's the use o. kickin'
Cause the fish
don't
The fun of goin' fishin'
Is to find a good excuse
To sit and watch the ripples
When the line Is hangin' loose.
To feel the breezes BLOWN
An feel such calm delight
That you never think of kickin'
Cause the fish
don't
bite.
There's manr an ambition
Which is but fruitless quest.
But this world is full of sunshine
An of beauty an of rest.
An we've had the fun of Twin.
Though we amt successful quite,
An there amt no use o kicKin
Cause the fish
don't
bite7
Washington Star.
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He Wants to Know.

If Grover Cleveland really took his
Equitable job just SO the public would
think the new management all right
he wants to know it. Some men might
have the idea that the duty of trus-
tee was to draw his salary and not
know too much, but Grover never was
built that way. He wants to know all
about everything that is going on and
If he can't find out he is liable to call
up the word factory to have some new
and ponderous words turned out to
order so he may express himself prop
erly-Chicago News
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ert state, yet it has large area of fine
forests. and as soon as its water supply
is developed, its productiveness will as
tonish the country. But for the present
the people of Arizona who are not in
terested in the spoils of office are con-
tent to remain territory. And If the
politicians would have to go in with
New Mexico, giving New Mexico
chance to run the state government,
they, too, are content to wait awhile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

No matter how much they may hate
the joints, the law loving people can
not sanction such actions as the blow
ing up of the lola saloons. One kind of
law breaking is just as bad as another
in principle-the difference is only in
degree. But looking at it from another
standpoint. if liquor cranks are allowed
to pick out certain laws that they can
violate with impunity, why should not
anti-liquor cxanks be allowed to pick
out other laws and violate them? The
point is that lAFlessness breeds more
IaWlessness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

to see you looking SO well, Mr.. Mayor.
Why. only yesterday Mrs. Roosevelt
a9d l were talking about you, and she
said she would never be satisfied until
she saw you in the White House."
Mayor Mcclellan smiled his eyes
twinkled. and he was about to make
reply, when President Roosevelt hur-
riedly added: ''See you in the White
House as our guest. you know; only as
our uest.'-Kansas City Journal.
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THE HERITAGE,

He toiled and InoiIed
To win the fight:
He worked by day,
He worked by night
Was loved by none
He was unkind.
Ten million plunks
He left behind.
He worked and smiled,
Light hearted, gay:
Was friend to all
Who passed his way.
This heritage
He left behind:
God bless the man!
He was so kind"
III. s. X. in the New York Sun.
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After all. Kansas has not lost much
in its fight against the oil trust by the
turning down of the state refinery
proposition by the supreme court. That
measure has already accomplished the
end to which it was directed: the en-
listment of independent capital in the
raining business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

Walter Scott the Second, he of Death
Valley fame and not Scott the Scot, is
a disappointment. From the advance
notices we had hoped that he might
be a living sure-enough copy of The
Virginian. Instead he seems to be
only a notoriety-loving, Dragging
spend-thrift, lacking the kingIy quail
ties which made The Virginfan a
member of real nobility. No stretch
of the imagination could identify The
Virginian. with all his faults, with the
man who acted as "Scotty" did in
Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

A dead man drew big salary from
the Equitable. So did our Jocose friend,
Chauncey Depew, but this does not
mean that there is any special connec-
ton between the two, although perhaps
the dead man rendered just about as
much legitimate service as did the dis
tinguished joker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

Mr.. Jerome told the people at Ottawa
that Senator Lodge is about as broad
rs the edge Of a knife blade.' If he had
not specified Senator Lodge, it might
have been suspected that he was talk
ing about some Kansas officials.
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As White House .Gnest. ;,

President Roosevelt and Mayor Nc
Clellan met in Brooklyn on the recent
occasion of the dedication of the Cen
eraI Siocum statue. According to re-
ports which had been current for a
long time the president and the mayor
had unkindly feelings for each other,
but this seemed to be disproved by the
cordiality of their greeting. The presi-
dent shook the mayors hand and his
face fairly beamed as he said: "Glad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

'Cottontails can now be seen in most
any part of town except on Commercial
street." says the Emporia Gazette in
commenting on the scarcity of dogs
there. For several weeks prior to the
last election cottontail could also be
seen almost daily on Commercial street.
and report says. occasionally jack rab-
bit in the handsome building on Mer-
chants street Immediately north of the
postoffice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

Perhaps after disposing of Russia,
little japan will get around to thrash
the sultan for numbering Christians, a
Job all the Christian nations have care
fully avoided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

incidentally we might inquire if you
have heard of any thefts or public
scandals on the part of those who
stood by Governor Bailey during the
late boss buster uprising?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address at the rate of thirty
cents 3 month. Address changed AS
often. ~ desired. While out OF town
the State journal win Be TO you like
. daily LETTER from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

Next time the Ottawa Chautauqua
will save Mr.. Lawson's voice by pass
ing motion giving him leave to print
before he starts in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

Tom Lawson is said to consider him
self a presidential possibility. Mr..
Lawson is original in thateas well as in
other respects.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

If some other officials had one-half the
nerve Of Tom Kelly, things would speed
lily get into better shape in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

King Edward VII sent a wreath of
orchids to the funeral of John Hay, a
tribute of royalty to a plain American
pifizeu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

By the way, has anyone heard from
Oyama since the First National bank
took the center of the stage?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

Less than a year ago Governor Bal
ley was accused of prosecuting" Tom
Kelly. Who is prosecuting Kelly now?
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The Financial Ladder.

The reputation held by Mr.. Cobb.
of Candy, for making the closest bar
gains of any man in the region was
sustained during the summer by his
dealings with several of his neighbors
from the city.
"Mr. Cobb" said one of these neigh
bors, whose orchard was in need of
pruning, 1.-The man says he must have
longer ladder than mine, for when
he's finished the orchard 1 want him
to trim that scraggly elm just this side
of the apple trees. Have you a ladder
could hire %
"Um-m, we'll. s'pose hev." said
Mr.. Cobb. grudgingly, as he turned
hiss lean face half away from his Wis
itor's gaze 1--WE got one, but it's
kind of loose Tinted toward the top
I'm not ca1Iatin' to put any repairs
onto it, for I don't ever go clear'n to
the top myself. I'm willing to let We
take it, but I shall hev to charge ye
thutty cents, I guess, on account of
the resk of your mans breakin'
through the top rungs, he being so
much heftier anyway than I am, and
along of not intendin' to have it hired
out, asa rule" Youths Companion.
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SHAKING HANDS.

Last Sunday the preacher at one of
the town churches urged the congre-
cation to remain five minutes and
shake hands and get acquainted. The
hand shaking scheme is an right,
ought to be INDUCED in more than it
usually is, and yet once in while a
man gets enough of it. The Better
Way man once had a man come. in on
him filed with that which made Mil
waukee famous. We had our visit
out, and like good friends shook hands
at parting; that is, it proved finally to
be a parting, but it was long drawn
out-as the fellow said who lost his
last tooth several years before. Our
bibulous friend would rise unsteadily
wave majestically backward and for
ward, then grasp this good right hand
and say, "Mizzher johnson, we're
Alright. Be good t. me-" and move
toward the door. Then he would give
us the same for an encore. Then he
would repeat the encore, and give us
a dial signo and a de capo, and every
time he would take our little brown
hand in his and shake it like a can
didate. At every recurrence we
babe him a hearty goodbye, but he
fingered like young man on the front
porch at midnight on Sunday We
are now in practice. Shake!-Minne-
apolis Better Way.
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KANSAS COlAAENT
SMASHING RoCKEFELLER.


The declaration of Tom Lawson that
he viii bankrupt John D. Rockefeller
before he dies does not seem quite so
improbable In Kansas today as il would
have done two weeks ago. The last
fortnight has witnessed the collapse of
the fortune of c. J. Devlin, who was
commonly designated the John D.
Rockefeller of Kansas" and whose fin
ancial standing was considered as good
as that of the great Standard Oil mag
nate, except of course on a somewhat
smaller scale. Nor is Deylin's case by
any means the first instance where a
man of reputed great wealth has proven
to be really bankrupt, when compelled
to undergo the strain of strong finan-
ciai pressure. The country is full of
men who possess large holdings, enjoy
good credit, and owe more than they
VIII ever be able to pay. In all the
commercial centers are supposed in
vincible Napoleons of finance who real
ly quake with terror at every sign of
financial furry and whose regular
nightmare is a dream of the bankruptcy
court.-Ottawa Republic.
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Senator Mitchell is satisfied that the
jury was biased" says a news item.
Same way with Burton.
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In the meantime where is Account
ant MorrisP
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

The microbes seem to be able to
work down in Panama all right. Why
not set them to work on the canal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

Have you followed I4awson's advice
and sold all your stocks?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13
LIKE THE JAPS.

Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia is
said to be keeping his next step a Sc
cret. He is very much like the Jap
anese who proceed to "a certain
place" and then tell later what they
did. A wise general never tells of his
plans-only of the Notwithstanding
tOu News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-13

If Webb MoNali, for inEtance. were
governor now -.
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Why cannot Kelly resign Gin
escrow" again?
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IT HELPS SOME.

Japan's readiness to continue the
war. if peace is impossible, however
CALLING to Russia, is a big factor in the
peace ossibilities.-Albany Argus.
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vINpICATED roo OFTEN.

Charley Finch, of the Lawrence
Gazette, has always been a friend of
Tom Kelly. But how quiet the Law
renee Gazette is, now that Kelly is in
trouble again, We wonder that Kelly's
friends do not say: 1--WE are tired
standing by man who is always dis
gracing u.s." Kelly reminds US of an
old story: A man named Bill was al
ways getting in trouble. But" he
would say to his friends, afterwards,
ct was indicated. Wicked men said
cruel things about me, but I was vim
dicated." After this had happened
seven or eight times, an old fellow
said: .'Bill, quit you right here. You
have been INDICATED oftener than be-
comes an honest man. "-Atchison
Globe.
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Discretion Prevailed.

Before the beginning of his ministry,
the Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, bishop
of Louisiana, had been an experienced
and trained soldier, a graduate of the
military academy at West Point, class
of 1927 He was a physical giant, and
always in good condition, because he
never neglected the athletic duties
which are necessary for the continuance
of physical superiority.
While travelling over his diocese he
was obliged, on one occasion. to stop
at a tavern near the Mississippi river
The proprietor told him that all of the
beds had been engaged for steamboat
men who would arrive that night. The
bishop replied that he would sleep until
they came, and was soon snoring away
for dear life. Several hours had elapsed
when he was awakened, and out of the
darkness came these words: "I say,
stranger, this is my bunk. You must
get out of 1t or fight"
The soIdier-bishop was instantly
awake and alert, and he replied: BE
fore you strike in the dark. feel of my
arm: and now feel of my shoulder; and
now feel of my chest"
The newcomer did as requested, and
then said, as he walked aay: 81 rather
think, stranger, that you can have this
bed."-Los Angeles Times.
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WOULD GET RID OF HIM.

The suggestion of Tom Lawson for
king of Norway ought to have the in
dorsement of 1.-THE system. Atlanta
Constitution.
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ONE CASE.

A few years ago the employees of the
Ridenour- Baker wholesale grocery
house were called upon to stike because
of some minor grievance of an individ-
ual, but one man refused, saying that
he had been with the firm for many
years, that he was well paid and we'll
treated and perfectly satisfied. The in
cidents is recalled by a clause in the will
of Mrs. Baker, who died the other day,
and was buried in Lawrence. To the
wife and two daughters of this faithful
ernploye were bequeathed each $500. Yet
there are people who say that loyalty
to an employer does not pay, that un-
less man looks out for himself, he will
not be looked out for by any one else
Lawrence Journal.
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BRADY's VIEW.

The i'll concealed criticism of the SUI
preme court by Governor Hoch was the
most depiorable piece of political fool
ishness Kansas has seen in long time.
The governor of the state is the head
and front of the law and for him to
criticise the supreme court was the
hight of effrontery. Governor Hoch is
clearly of too narrow limitations. It is
a great pity for no man in Kansas ever
had such chanee.-Lawrenee World.
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LONG ON PEACE.

With his present supply of battle
ships Uncle Sam is not sounding the
loud below for war, but he can butt
in ahead of anybody when peace is the
game.-St. Louis Republic.
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EpOM OTHER PENS
EVIDENT.

When a dead man can draw $4,000
salary from the Equitable you can
easily see how a live mans wages
ought to be 500, 000.-Exchange
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CARNEGIE'S CHANCE.

If Mr.. Carnegie will kindly loar
Russia the cash to pay her indemnit,
obligations he will have a most glori
Gus chance to die poor.-Philadelph
Inquirer.