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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
MEAN SUGGESTIONS.

The State Journal can't see why
Norway should pay 100000 year for
a king when Kansas gets along with a
governor at $1,000 per, and suggests
that a king could do no better. Some
countries have mighty poor kings
Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

If Congressman calderhead is de-
Tending the railroads with the idea in
mind that the railroads will hand him
a seat in the United States senate on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
GOOD SUGGESTION.

A very original Atchison man has
suggested that we trade the Philippines
for Ireland and raise our own police
men.-Leavenwort Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

A New York employer has gone on
record against race suicide by offering
a substantial reward to his employees
who increase the size of their families.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

In the chorus that is demanding that
President Roosevelt stand for another
term, the voices of Messrs. Shaw, For
aker, Fairbanks and various others are
not audible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Mr.. Bryan will start on his tour
around the world from Chicago, and the
Chicago News expresses the hope that
he will be more successful in his trip
than he was the time he started from
Chicago to Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

You can't say that it's all over but
the shouting in Japan, for according. to
the cable reports there isn't going to be
any shouting-at least not over peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

The pessimist can see a new danger
ahead. He sees the day coming when we
will not only be run down by motor
cars, but when reckless airship drivers
and their passengers will drop on US
now and then
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Now that President Roosevelt has
settled the eastern war, perhaps he can
tackle the railroad rate question in an
extra session of congress after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

What will Komura do now with those
so trunks that he brought over to take
the indemnity home in?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
STILL AFTERs HENRY JIM.

After all the liberties that Henry
James has taken with the English
language, he has no right to call news
paper editors black.-Memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

1t seems funny to turn back and Sc
the predictions everybody made whel
the war broke out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
HOW TO GET THERE.

Aspiration, Inspiration, desperation,
Observation-Disclosures Insurance
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

The nobility of all other countries has
capitulated to the American girl: Why
shouldn't the sultan of Sulu do SO also?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Japan cannot be blamed if it charges
war prices for boarding those Russian
prisoners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

No earthquake has yet hit Chicago
and that town has about concluded tina
it is too big to be Jared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

The last survivor of the Russo-Jap-
anese war will be dying at the rate of
eight or ten a year in about so years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Perhaps the honorable Nfikado's illus
trious ancestors and honorable virtue
work only in battles and have nothing
to do with making peace contracts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Japan is as magnanimous after the
war as she is in caring for the enemy's
wounded after a battle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Ernest Depew, a California, messenger
boy. has been sent to jail for stealing
nine dollars. .AnOtlaeR member of the
Depew family is still atalarge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

The real end of all North Pole expedi-
fioHs is a more or less brilliant rescue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Evidently Mr.. Statistician Holmes
would prefer absent treatment by the
grand jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
COULD. LOAN 1T OUT.

Cupa IS struggling along with a sur
plus of $22, 100000 in the treasury
something entirely new in the history
OF Cuba, and an impossibility under
Spanish rule. If Tom Kelly held office
over there it wouldn't take him very
long to put them on the bum, and he
is not a Spaniard, either.-Troy Chief
%
THE CENTRAL BRANCH TRACK.
A few days ago the Atchison Globe
made fun of the statement that a piece
of rail four feet long was gone out OF
the Central Branch track between
Downs and Lenora. A train employe
or the road called later at that office
to say that he had seen pieces of rail
seven feet long gone out of the track
and that every trip he and his asso-
clates are compelled to block up the
track in order to get their train along
He says he can prove his statements
bp superintendent Russell. He says
coldly and deliberately, that at one
place, piece of rail eighteen inches
long was gone out of the track for a
week, and that every day during thai
time he got his train over the break
by blocking it UP with ties. He further
says that he has laid off rather thar
work on the road under present con-
ditions, and that he has so told the
superintendent in applying for a lay
on. Out at Logan the other nigh
Doc. Gillian took Governor Hocr
down to the right of way and showed
him the alleged track The governor
expressed his establishment and init
mated that something had to be done
But he will find himself up against z
board of railroad" railroad commits.
sioners. who won't do thing bu
play to the galleries.-Beloit Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
New Petroleum Deposits in Asia.

Europe as we'll as America is inter-
ested in the discovery and exploitation
of new petroleum deposits and at
present Mesopotamia is the country
to which attention is being directed.
There have been discovered in the
province of Bagdad, near the Tigris
and north of Samarna, a number of
rich springs, while on the Euphrates
near Hit similar springs also have
been found.
n On account of the brigands this
district does not afford good oppor-
tunity for prospecting and develop
ment, but in the Kerkuk district the
future for such activity is much more
promising, and not only petroleum,
but also coal, is found, the former
being used for lighting by the natives,
while the coal has been tried on the
Tigris steamships. proving, however,
too bituminous. There is every evil
dence that the petroleum deposits are
extensive and will repay ample work
ing, but it is believed that the COM
pletion of the Bagdad railway and in
creased shipping facilities on the
Tigris must be provided before they
can be turned to practical account
Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
SHOW BILLS VS.. NBWsPAPERs

And what do you think of this 1?
Eugene Wood in the September num-
Der of McClure's Magazine, writes:
"Only the other day the man that in
all this country knows better than
anybody else how a circus should be
advertised said that it didn't pay any
longer to put UP show bills; the money
was better invested in newspaper adj
vertising. Dosage County Chronicle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
No Excuse at-AII.

THAT said Thomas F. Ryan. re-
organizer of the Equitable Life, was
a poor excuse"
Mr.. Ryan was discussing Wall
street deal wherein a f1nancier had
roughly handled a railroad man. The
financier had come forth with an ex-
cuse for his conduct, and it was this
excuse which Mr. Ryan was condemn
ing.
IA poor excuse he repeated. by
no means a sufficient excuse in the
eyes of the railroad man.
THAT railroad man feels, 1 suppose,
like another misused man whom, I
once saw in a restaurant.
1.-THE man I refer to was about to
seat himself and order luncheon when
the chair was pulled from under him,
and down he Topped to the floor, shak-
ing the very building
9'He rose and rushed at the fellow
who had so misused him. This per-
son, though, was not all ashamed. He
said with a calm, self-righteous air:
"'You were going to sit down on
my hat Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
HUMOR OF THE DAY

rs the zemstvo congress doing real
work."
4 don't know about the rest of the del
egates, but the man who calls the roll is. y
Washington Star. :
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

well, weilr' exclaimed the man who
was reading the scientific notes, some
that shuts up
"Huh!' snorted the other, Somebody
else ought to invent a box party that
would do the same thing Occasionally
Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

The man who can fill fountain pen
without getting ink all over his fingers
and the woman who can keep a watch
running so that it won't lose more than a
minute in a month ought to have some
wonderful children, if they should ever
make their minds I'D to get married.
Somerville Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Mrs Geehaw-This man Posse seems to
be a public spirited fellow.
Mrs. Giddap-How'S that, Mirandy?
Mrs. Geehaw-Why, every time anybody
duz anything I notice he drops his work
an goes right after Charlottesville Cour-
Ter Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

''It is stated that raw onions have a
tendency to keep people cool in hot
weather"
They certainly tend to produce cool
ness between friends."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

'Heayensi Ny wife would worry if she
knew! She's always afraid 7 IL carry some
of these conta gious diseases home to the
children. "-C1eveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

''Nuritch is forever making the most dis
gusting incendiary speeches"
You surprise mel don't understand. -
Hes continually Dragging that he's got
money to burn. ''-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Tell me- said the fresh young caller,
producing a cigarette, does smoking go
here?'
Yes" replied Miss Bright. promptly.
land so do the kers."-Philadelph
Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

Our friends. the Joneses, having taken
country cottage for week ends, become
enthusiastic gardeners.
Mrs. JonesSwhat a lot of potatoes we
shall have, Jack. I've been counting the
flowers, and if"
Mr.. Jones-Do the potatoes come where
the blossoms is then?
Mrs. Jones-Of course they do. Jack
Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

| Now, Children said the Sunday school
| teacher, II want some one to tell me what
happened to the loaves and fishes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

81 shook hands with Bilkins this morn
ing. He doesn't seem well. What's the
matter with him?'
think it's ouf11Ii
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05

"They say you're making plenty money
in the stock market
Yes; 1 never lose anything
"Ahi You get straight tips. eh!''
mo; I sell them. Detroit Free Press.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07
BETTER THAN SELLING GREEN
GOODS.

The sharper who f1eeces the unsus-
pecting, whether in thel case of SELL
ing green goods or some more modern
device, is always equal to the emer-
gency. The gentry who live without
work are fertile in inventions to rob
the man who does work of the result
of his toll. We have been apt to think
that the sharpeSt of these fellows lived
in New York, but Southern cities are
rivalling the metropolis in tricks and
frauds as we'll as in sky-scrapers and
factories, as is seen in the following
novel manner in which an Atlanta
sharper skinned" citizen of Union
county, as related by the Monroe Jour-
nal:
Mr. j. Massey Terrell, of Monroe,
went on the excursion to Atlanta and
lost his silver watch in rather an odd
way While walking about taking in
1.-THE sights he was approached by
man who claimed to be detective and
said he had Instructions to arrest
everybody who was walking about do
ing nothing, as it was against the va
grancy laws. Mr.. Terrell took the
fellows assertions in good faith and
told him he was no Vagrant, but was
a visitor to the city from Monroe and
expected to go back home at once.
The man said that was all right but
he would have to show it in court,
and il he couldn't give $40 bond
for his appearance he would have
to go to Jail till next morning. Mr..
Terrell said that he did not have that
much money! with him but that he
could put up his watch as security.
This was agreeable and the detective
took the watch and told Mr.. Terrell
to be sure and report. That was the
last seen of either the man or the
watch Mr.. Terrell reported to police
headquarters and found that no such
officer was on duty"
The average reader will say to him.
self that Mr.. Terrell was easy to take
in but are there not many sensible
men who have been parted with their
wealth by less transparent rascality?
After awhile if the sharpers get much
sharper, the average man will have no
certainty of not being f1eeced unless
he stays at home all the time, and
even then the clock and other slick
tongued vendors will be able to swim
die many men. Barnum was not far
wrong when he said 1.-The American
people love to be humbugged."
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Portsmouth. whom he had invited to

Portsmouth. whom he had invited to
meet him, Mr.. White said:
II belong to the ever-increasing
number of statesmen who recognize
the vast power of the newspaper press
in general and of the American branch
of it in particular. l am qualified,
therefore, to guage Alright the value
OF the services you have rendered to
the cause of peace and humanity in
presenting to the world the various
stages of evolution through which
the peace negotiations passed before
they attained the wished-for result.
If Mr. Whites diplomatic victory
gives him enough influence to bring
about the abolition of all censorship
of the press in Russia, he will do as
much for his country as Jefferson did
for America when he compelled the
repeal of the alien and sedltlon law
upon his election to the presidency in
1900.
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that we are in the midst of a perfect
carnival of extravaganza.

that we are in the midst of a perfect
carnival of extravaganza.
\ Natural Trust.
"While We are talking about
trusts continued the Congressman,
"let me say that Providence has given
the Southern cotton farmer the benefit
of a natural trust if he wiz only use
the opportunity offered him. Only
about two millions of bales of cotton
can be raised outside of the South.
The british manufacturers, aided by
their government, l think, have spent
tn Cusands of dollars trying to raise
cotton in Africa, but little has come
of their efforts; and today our cotton
farmers of the South are masters of
the situation if they will only use the
power a gracious God has put in their
hands. They can raise ten million
bales and get ten or twelve cents a
pound for it. or they can raise fifteen
million bales and get five cents q
pound for it. They have the land.
What per cent of North Carolina do
you suppose is under cultivation? Only
about rs per cent. I examined the
figures prepared by the Census Office,
showing the per cent of cleared land III
each State. Here they are:
South Carolina, cleared lands, 20.9
per cent.
North Carolina, cleared lands, rs s
per cent.
Georgia, cleared lands, PSI per cent.
Alabama, cleared lands, 26.2 per
cent.
Mississippi, cleared lands. 25.6 per
cent.
Texas, cleared lands 1T per cent.
Arkansas, cleared lands 20.5 per
cent.
Continued ON Page Six.)
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is THERE NO REMEDY?

The tobacco crop was short last
year, according to the testimony OF
the president of the Tobacco Board
of Trade of Danville. 1t is very short
this year. AS a result, tobacco ought
to be high, whereas it is SO low that
tobacco farmers in Eastern North
Carolina are seriously thinking of
abandoning their barns and tobacco
investment and returning to cotton. Is
there no remedy for the rapacity of
the trust?
Some years ago when the trust pur-
sued these tactics, the farmers organ
ized and Numbered their protests. and
by the power of public opinion Sc
cured slight increase. They ought
not to quietly submit.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07

This wonderful '' Prescription imbues
the entire nervous system with natural,
healthy vitality; gives elastic vigor to
the delicate organism specially concerned
in motherhood and makes the coming
of baby entirely free from danger and
almost free from pain.
cI wish to state that have used Doctor
Pierce's Favorite Prescription with very good
results writes Mrs Katie NJ Annis. OF Hud-
son. New Hampshire. "Had been in poor
health for over four years and had been
some of your Favorite Prescription and it
has carried me easily through my last two
confnements. We are now blessed with Two
healthy children. and | am sure your med1-
cine has done me more good than all the
other treatment have ever received"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07

There are many folks who are dis
appointed because Japan did not make
Russia pay the big indemnity or lick
the bear again. OF that number is the
venerable Senator Pettus, of Alabama,
who thinks the Japs did not suffici-
emily humiliate the Russians. He
wanted to see the Japs rub it in" on
the Car and has little patience with
what he calls their ''so-called mag
nanimity."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07
MORNING TONIC.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes. }

/ always believed in life rather than
in books. l suppose every day of
earth, with it's hundred thousand
deaths and something more of births,
with its loves and hates, its triumphs
and defeats, it's pangs and blisseS, has
more of humanity in it than all the
books that were ever written put to-
gether. l believe the flowers growing
at this moment send up more fra
GRANGE to heaven than was ever eX-
hailed from all the essences ever dis
titled.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07

Fasso's reply to a friend who sug
gested that he should take venge-
ance on man who had injured him,
ought to be generally approved.
Fasso replied: 81 do not wish to de-
prive him of either his goods. his hon
or or his life. / only wish to deprive
him of his i'll will"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07

James Buchanan never married.
James Buchanan Duke wishes he had
followed the example of his illustrious
name-sake. Some men ought to fol-
low the course of the old negro who
said "a bachelor l was born and a
bachelor l intend to represent myself
at the court of heaven
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07
Will Satisfy the Public,

StateSVIIIe Landmark.
If the two Buncombe magistrates
who have arraigned each other for
contempt can manage to get them
selves in Jail the public will probably
be satisfied.
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MIR. wITrE AND THE PRESS.

Mr.. White recognizes the influence
and power of the American press, for
addressing the correspondents at
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07

g r a n d e s &
agencies
which enlight-
ened Science
has discovered
to relieve
motherhood
from excessive
suffering is the
" Favorite
Prescription "
devised by DR..
r. V. Pierce,
chief consult
ing physician
of the InvalidS'
Hotel and
Surgical Insti-'
tute, of Buff
IL Az W
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BAD HEADACHES gen.

DAU IEADhNhiAS gen
orally arise from bad Stom-
achs. Foul breath. bitter
taste, coated tongue, sour
eructations or belching OF
gas. are common symptoms
though not all present in
every case. To cure. take
small doses. only one or two
each day. of old DIR: Pierce,.s
Pleasant Pellets, the Origs-
MS, first put up by him over
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07
The Song of the Cradle.

Bye. bye! Hope rises high
There's a sweet little era
die hung up in the sky:
A dear little life that Is
coming to bless;
Two soft chubby hands
that will pat and caress:
"a pure little soul wing
ing down from above;
A darling to care for, a
baby to love.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-07

nal Little Liver pills, first put up Oy MIN over
40 years ago One or two laxative. three or
four cathartic.
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Continued ON Page Six.)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-03

Walla Walla. Oct 3.-Mrs. Casanna
Stubblefield, widow of the late Joseph
l.. Stubblefield, founder of the Stub
blefield home of Walla Walla, died at
her residence, 429 Park street. Mon
day of cancer of the stomach, aged
sc years.
The death of Mrs. Stubblefield will
probably end the litigation over the
fortune left by her husband, which
was bequeathed to found home in
Walla Walla for INDECENT widows and
orphans
Mrs. Stubblefield was the second
wife of the late Joseph Stubblefield,
and was born in Kentucky December
3, 1919. She came west in 1872 and
settled in Walla Walla county.
She was married to Mr.. Stubblefield
in 1871. Her maiden name was Cas-
anna Mcclure, and she is survived
by brother, residing in Walla walla.
The funeral occurred this morning at
10 o'clock from the residence, Rev.
Robert j. Reid, pastor of the Will
bur Memorial church, officiating.