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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
Earned His Pay.

The late NANNY Friends thus de-
scribed one phase of the laws mystic
rious workings:
1.-THE counsel for the defense told
me this story long. after the case was
forgotten. A man was on trial for
murder in a small western city. Tes-
timony of the most incOntrOvertible
and damaging sort was piling up
against the accused. Despairingly the
prisoners counsel made his closing
speech; in growing misery he listened
while the prosecution ruthlessly rent
asunder his fragile fabric of defense
and while the judge summed up
strongly against his client.
LAS the jury fled out, the verdict
of murder in the first degree seemed
stamped on their faces. The prison
er's counsel managed to whisper to
the foreman in passing:
- Five hundred dollars if you make
it ''manslaughter"
"For two interminable hours the
Jury remained closeted. At last they
filed in, and the foreman g1ibly hand
ed up the desired 'manslaughter' YER
at tell your exclaimed the fore
man. later, as he pocketed the de-
lenses $500, I had a lot of trouble
earning that cash. The other eleven
all held out for acquittal, and it was a
couple of hours before I could talk
them around to s'manslaughter. . -
A. P. Terhune, in Lippincott's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.



After a woman puts on glasses she
should stop looking for four leaf clovers.
It is every business mans discovery that
those who are good pay do mighty little
buying.
When there is sickness in the family, how
slow man walks when he is nearing
home.
A boy would be willing to have a whip
ping twice as hard if the other boys did
not find It out.
Somehow a mixture of summer and win
ter clothes always look like a team COM
posed Of q horse and a mule.
We hnd that we would be living the sim
pie life all right, were it not for the piano
pplaying of the neighbors.
It is not the cigarette that makes young
men worthless, but the bad habits that 20
hand in hand with it.
A black cloud these days IS supposed to
remind every one Of his greatest mean
ness. What is yours2
II feel" said q girl at the depot today.
whose lover was going away, "just like a
mourning dove sounds"
Some way a kitchen apron loses its home
like look when it is worn BY a woman
serving q church dinner in a hall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
IAYRAWKER JClTs.

Salinas big show opens next Mon.
day. Salina expects to entertain a
big portion of Kansas during the
week.
Chanute man is just home from
the new Nevada gold fields. He says
the cheapest thing out there is money
but you can't eat that.
The Parsons baseball team is called
the Preachers. It must not be sup
posed, however. that they are mem
bers of the South Kansas Methodist
conference.
Has D. w. Blaine got lost in the
Pratt county wheat fields? His esti-
mate that $4,000 men are needed to
save the wheat crop has been over
due for four weeks.
Tom Cordry makes this observation:
There is one thing that can be said
When he was robbed of his pocket
book he did not make any statement
to the effect that he had lost all save
honor
The western part of the state will
evidently show a good increase in
taker in Ellinwood reports that town
as having S73 people, gain of 105
over last year. Ness City now has SIS,
a gain of 81 over last year.
The Globe claims that a little
AtchisOn girl is rushing the season be-
cause she came down town bare
footed on May IL Times must be
changing. Twenty years ago the boy
who didn't go barefooted by April 1
was a SISSY"
Why not designate Kansas City,
Kas., as Kaw City? It would be very
appropriate inasmuch as it lies on
both sides of the Kaw. It would not
be q great change from the present
name, but it would distinguish it from
the Missouri Kansas City.
There are now so many rural mail
carriers in Usage county that they
have formed a county association.
Usage is another county that has re-
Gently been covered by the county
system. Beginning with May Is, ~
men are employed as rural mail car
riers in Usage county, and Uncle Sam
pays them over $4,000 year in
salaries.
If the sweet girl graduates of the
Jewell high school don't take viii
Palmer, of the Republican, down a
peg or two it will not be because he
does not deserve it, for he is certainly
a mean thing. Here is what he print
ed last week; I'VE saw one of the
seniors down in the pasture this week
Dracticing her Grafton on the town
herd If your COW is shTin king on her
milk these days, you viii know where
the trouble is
The fact that q person who accepts
newspaper by taking it from the
postof1ce must pay for it. is again
emphasized by the district court of
Barton county. A newspaper pub
Usher down there sued a man named
Grandy on subscription. Grandy had
been taking the paper from the post
Office right along, but when the pub
Usher asked him to pay for it he re-
/ fused. Suit was brought and CRANKY
! had to pay up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES.

To many inquirers: Mr.. May Belle
vile Brown is a mighty good sort OF a
fellow who doctors peoples eyes and
ears as a specially. About the only
thing against him is that he wears
side-whiskers like DR.. Edwin Locke.
.'Your statement is the reverse of
true" said one man to another today.
If he had not been so polite he could
have said the same thing in fewer
words by remarking, You're a liar
The Indianapolis News says Chicago
is aIlriot 1t is therefore different
from Kansas, which is oilright; or
Cyrus Townsend Brady, who is all
write; or Miss Tarbell, who is oilWrite;
or-but you can think of the rest
yourself.
DR.. Snow has carefully examined
the debris and gives it as his official
opinion that the storm which struck
Lawrence the other day was a real
tornado. This settles an important
question.
Ever notice. says J. Leeford Brady
as he looks over the distance he has
not gone in the congressional race,
chow fast a Shetland pony will travel
and not get anywhere? There are a
good many men like that in this
world"
The State Journal is pleased to note
that Vic Murdoch knows how to swim
as well as to distribute congressional
garden seeds.
If this thing keeps up the insurance
companies will put the job of in
nocent bystander in Chicago in the
extra hazardous class.
It is stated that the car favors the
Poles, but if he could see how they
make some of Topeka's streets look
he certainly wouldn't;
If Nan Patterson reverts to her old
ways, those people who have been in
sisting that she is a prosecuted saint
viii have to admit that her halo is on
a little bit crooked.
A Topeka enthusiast spurned the
suggestion that he would some time
tire of his automobile, but when the
tire went down on him twelve miles
from home the other day. he realized
there was something in the tire sug-
gestion after all.
That quarterly dividend of nine dol
lars a share which the Standard Oil
company has just declared, ought to
cause those true and tried trust
busters, w. S. Fitzpatrick and Fred
Dumont Smith, to hold conference
with themselves to see if something
cannot be done about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

A correspondent of a contemporary,
who has been searching for the most
monotonous method of earning a liv-
ing, decides in favor Of that of crack
ing eggs. ''I met a man who said he
was a biscuit manufacturer on q
large scale, and was rather inclined
to boast about the number of eggs
continental eggs-which his firm
bought in the course of a year. Now,
it seems that to avoid calamity five
eggs are broken into bowl at a time
before being added to the common
stock. There are men, he told me,
who do nothing else but crack eggs.
They become so expert that a man
can dispose of 1000 an hour, or TO-
600 a day."-Tit-Bfts-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rFrom the New York Press.l

IRON LIe new 7
Generally you can tell when a girls hair
is red by the way her family calls 1t
golden.
Suburban life is an awful good training
for the next world in case you 20 to the
wrong place.
Either. people think you get on because
you have brains or because you get on
you have brains.
When a man gets old enough to think he
doesn't know Il all he has a son young
enough to think he does.
when a man has paid all his family bills
and has a dollar and a quarter left over
he feels as if he had inherited a gold
mine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
AZ Anecdote ID Josenh Jenerson.


Jefferson liked to tell the following
story upon himself. He was, of course,
from his professional position, well
known personally to thousands of men
whom he did not know He was con-
stantly meeting strangers who always
remembered him. and the fact that
they had met him, but whom he
did not always remember. He was
very sensitive upon this Subject,
and was greatly distressed when
which he ought not to have forgotten.
One day, coming down in the elevator
from the top story of the Mills build
ing in Wall street, New York, he
noticed stout, compact little man
who entered the car at the next floor,
who looked at him for a moment, evil
IDENTIFY waiting for recognition, and
then held out his hand and said, "How
do you do, Mr.. Jefferson ~ The actor,
of course, responded in his usual,
cordial, hearty way, and replied
WHY Whyl Whyi How do you
do? When did you come to town, and
how long are you going to be here %
The stranger said: But live here,
Mr. Jefferson, and you don't know
who I ami"
i know your face perfectly, of course,
but I can't place you. I see many
faces, and I'm apt to get confused in
my study of physiognomy." The little,
stout, compact stranger smiled as he
turned his cigar over in his mouth,
and said. I'm General Granti'
Jefferson always declared that he
got out at the next landing and walked
down three fights of stairs to the
street. for fear he would make him
self additionally conspicuous by asking
the gentleman if he had ever been in
Washington. or if he was a veteran of
the late Wari-Laurenc Hutton. in
Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Two racing automobile runabouts
have just left Chicago for Council
Bluffs on their way to the Portland
fair. They are fitted with pontoons,
dredges, suction pumps, propellers. sloop
rigs, oars and life preservers and ex-
pect to get there in three days. They
will, if the current keeps up Iowa is
damp this spring and D. Ward King
good roads GOSPEL hasn't penetrated far
enough into the interior to spoil nayi-
cation as yet.-Council Bluffs Nonpareh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
BAD NEWS FOR BOSTON.

Discouraging news from California
that higher prices for beans are in pros
pect. The Bean Trust asserts that the
visible supply is very short, and that
there are on the coast at least fifty
thousand sacks of damaged beans.
While the explanations of the shortage
are plausible, it would seem to be in
cumbent upon the Massachusetts dele
cation, as soen the the affairs of the non
existent Beef Trust have been suffi-
GENTLY probed, to dematd a govern
mental OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Trans
cript-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

at home-and many do-are compelled
to go to a fre-trap, in which a play Of
any size cannot be adequately staged,
or else stay away from plays altogeth-
er. This is the way the Crawford man
agement treats the people Of Topeka
and those from over the state who ike
to attend a good play when they come
to the capital city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
THE sToCK RUsINEss.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. who
once located Kansas in the "semi-arid
belt'' is taking a trip through the state
telling the farmers how to farm. In
cidentally he advised the Kansas farm
eT to go more into the stock business. +"
Just as though with their bank stock,
oil and gas stock and railroad stock
they didn't have about all the stock
they could pick up.-Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
GOT OFF CHEAP.

Taking options on st. Louis women
is an expensive business. A Pittsburg
man who tried it has just had verdict
returned against him for approximately
fourteen thousand dollars, and his op-
ton lasted only six months at that. No
telling what it would have cost him had
he married her.-Carthage Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Mr.. James Jeffries has retired from
the ring. Mr.. Jeffries is to be com
mended. All professors Of the manly
art" of pugilism should retire from the
ring. There is a growing demand for
section hands the country over and a
growing demand that the ring and its
followers should be put out of business
for good.-Dallas Times-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

IT heard story the other day
about an advance agent said Maclyn
Arbuckle of Henry w. Savage's "The
County Chairman company, (which
proves the audacity of some of these
gentlemen. This agent was operating
in a small town in the interior of a
western state. and the following dia-
logue took place.
" What style of piece is your shown
questioned the local manager.
Farce comedy replied the pub
icity promoter.
How many people do you carry p
'' Seventy
1.-THE manager was astonished, and
the report was circulated all around
the village, coming in the course Of
time to the ears of the hotel keeper.
When the advance agent went to
make arrangements for his people he
found the tavern in a chaotic state.
Lumber was being pulled out of rooms
that had long been unused. and the
landlord was running distractedly up
and down stairs.
d" 4 hear you carry seventy people
said he. BY putin some in the
kitchen and movin' the melodeon out
Of the settin' room I can take care
Of forty. The rest of 'em we can put
away over the drug store and down at
Mis- Ricketts,. Seventy people! That's
a whole lot of show folks
g Don't worry, my friend said the
agent we do carry seventy people,
but fifty of them are painted on the
back drop" Harper Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

swear they viii; he praised Folk: he de-
graft; and he delivered a glow
ing tribute to the Cross of Calvary.
What is the Republican politics in that
which the Republic objects to?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
THE RIGHT THING.

Another Kansas town that elected a
wet" mayor. has been struck by a
temperance wave. and all saloons have
been ordered closed. All communities
at some time or another come to a
realization of the desirability of deem
cy and sobriety.-Lawrence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
WE'LL SLOW YOU.

If the management of the Topeka
baseball team had devoted as much at
tention to the signing Of its players as
1t did to getting a name for the club,
there might be some hopes of the
White Sox finishing above last place
Troy Chief.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

The manager of the Armour car
lines admitted to the senate commit
tee that his company had a monopoly
of the fruit transportation business of
certain portions of the west and south,
with very much of an air of what
are you going to do about it?"-
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
KANSAS COMMENT.
BUSHES REAsONs.

An Indian agent who has been under
investigation by the government has re-
Business, is an opportune excuse for
many things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Mr.. Ripley evidently wants Mr.
Morton to know that there is a vacant
chair at the Santa Fe table awaiting
his repentant return.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
ii AInrriage a DEE?

Sometimes it seems as though the
antidivorce enthusiasts were not as
scientific in their methods as they
should be. The great, Astounding
cause of divorce is, of course, mar
thing to investigate. First, then, is
marriage a germ disease? We have
considered this question a long time,
getting no further with it, but the
Scientific investigators win be able to
ten us. And if it is a germ disease
they can catch the germ, and the
germ once caught, they can get Gull
lures and compose antitoxins which
will strip this common and serious
complaint of most of its terrors. And,
of course, once we get marriage I'M
der control we shall be in q position
to regulate divorce with a precision
absolutely scientific, if there is any
divorce left to regulate.-Harper s
Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

It is stated that five thousand cyclone
caves have been dug in Oklahoma in
the last ten days. That ought to be
sufficient to drive the cyclone belt to
some other locality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Mr. Hyde says he will not resign from
the presidency of the Equitable because
it would leave a cloud upon his name.
Tt is barely possible that the fact that
to do so would pry him loose from a
100000 salary may also have something
to do with it-IOla Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

That Warsaw anarchist who was
Killed by his own bomb was certainly
'ihoist on his own petard" all right,
but two Of the cars detectives were
F'hoist' with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
THIS MAN KNOWS.

A magazine writer wants to know
the four sweetest words in the Eng
lish language. Enclosed please ind
check" is d quartette that is hard to
beat when addressed to a newspaper
handspring Hill New Era.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

King Edward has typewriter made
of ivory and mahogany. In spite of
that the fluffy blonde continues to be
rather popular in this country.-Wichita
Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Robert J. Wynne is home from Lon
don for a few days, but he has not
indicated any desire to go to Omaha,
although Miss May Wood would very
smuch like to see him there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

OF course the beef trust has nothing
st wishes to hide, but as we under
stand it, the trust objects to having
government officials ask them about
what they are not hiding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

A professor of a Georgia. university
thinks that some scientists could make
himself mighty popular with the head
Of the house, by proving that the man
who beats a carpet or rug is exposing
himself to all kinds Of deadly microbes.
Parsons Eclipse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Kansas farmers suspect that when
Secretary Wilson advised them to
raise more stock he was talking in the
interest of the beef trust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

How is this for rashness: The
Ringlings paraded in Washington the
other day and hauled some live bears
in open cages directly past the White
Elo1taa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Colorado will probably point to the
fact that Vic Murdoch knows how to
swim as evidence that there has been
water in the Arkansas in recent years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Now we know why the battle has
been delayed SO long. It has been to
clear the shores in the neighborhood
of the China sea so that nobody will
get hurt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Have you noticed how much more
dangerous it is to be an innocent by
stander in Chicago than it is to be a
fighting man on a warship in the far
aa ef9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
TO ST. LOUIS.

The Portland exposition shows dis
position to break precedents by declar-
ing that it is ready for opening 20 days
ahead of time. This may incite visitors
from Missouri to go out and demand to
be MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Rojestvensky evidently thinks that
the climate along the coast of Indo-
China is far superior to that of Nippon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

The trusts doubtless envy the ability
fised but his winnings kept secret.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

The beef trust is protesting to the
president that it ought not to be
treated like common criminal. It
is right. The beef trust is not com
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
PRIMA FACIE.

The evidence upon which a Hutch
inson joint was put out of business
this week was that it smelled like
one.-AlIen County Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

It is to be. hoped that Governor Hoch
and Speaker Stubs have submitted
their difference to The Hague and that
each is now satisfied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

Judge Benson of Ottawa is making a
mighty good race for justice of the SUI
preme court just now-in the newspa-
pers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
THnsE HATS-

First prize at the horse show this
year goes to the horse that can pass the
new millinery without shying.-Montre-
al Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
AND ACTS ACCORDINGLY.

Said to be a hen in Massachusetts
that stamps her eggs with initials.
What is wanted is a hen that studies
the egg market.-Florida Times Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
A THEORY.

It is now reported that the man who
said that a woman could dress herself
on sixty-five dollars a year wrote his
article in the Fiji Islands.-HeIena
(AGont.) Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
WY sHOULD HE.

Importance at his own wedding than the
groom usually is.-Portland Advertiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

How very convenient it is for beef
trust witnesses to have poor memories! |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

1t is suspected that all these automo-
bile casualties which have recently &C
CURED in New York are caused by Chi
Uagoans who wish to make sure that
New York will be second in population
an the next census.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
from OTHER PENS.
A LIE NAILED.

A LIE Nailed.
They said she loved d boarder-
We should have learned it sooner
We found it all a falsehoOd, in
Fact twas just a roomerl
Buffalo News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

If Secretary Taft and his party go
TO Japan it viii be necessary for the
secretary to take along some good
American furniture. That in Japan is
made of bamboo. and you know what
Iaft.s $50 bounds would do TO IT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

The Ottawa Republic thinks that Gov
ernor Hanly interjected too much Re
publican politics into his lecture before
the United Brethren conference a few
evenings ago. Let's see: Governor
Hanly talked in favor of the regula-
tlon of freight rates by an OFFICIAL com
mission instead Of by the railroads; he
denounced the pass evil; he insisted that
public officials should do what they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

vic Murdoch is eligible now for ad-
mission into the Ancient Order of
Heroes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

The washington Post says that just
now Kansas is dividing her time be-
tween digging oil wells and cyclone
cellars. The Post is mistaken. KAN
sas is just now busy building refneries
and szirmishing for harvest hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20

The national debt is large, but it does
not worry Us one-haIf as much as our
personal ndebtedness-Seattle Times.