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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the AtehisOn Giobe.1

IFrom the Atchison Gfobe1
An elderly person is mighty poor
judge of q circus.
We have quit expecting anything
funny from circus clowns.
We have often wondered If doctors
use fork when they cut people up.
We don't know why they are called
see-more waists: there isn't any more
to see
We don't blame the children: We
have done worse than kick and scream
to have our way.
What has become of the old fashion
ed farmer who wore leather "staiPs
on his sore finger?
It is a suspicion in every mans mind
that his family never gets half the fruit
his wife puts up
The flrecrackers don't cost much for
celebrating our glorious freedom. but
the doctors afterward swell the bill.
Sometimes a hostess has this kind
of misfortune: Her guests have such
a good time they don't want to go
home.
Perhaps we are not so old and tough
after ali; the chiggers seem to take
after us as If we were a sixteen-year-
old girl.
Be careful what you say to some peo-
pie IN. Bon second thought we
have decided not to use that word
"sone."1
How hard a circus seat gets after an
hour or two of the performance! And
the older you get the harder the seats
become.
If a doctor has a good practice his
wife does not see any more of him than
the wife of a travelling man sees of her
husband.
An Atchison man who thinks he is
sweet, will not take" a girl anywhere
more than twice, fearing 8 breach OF
promise suit.
An Atchison boy says he bought q
dollars worth Of flrecraclrers last
Fourth of July. and that every one Of
them burnt him some place.
It may be all right for rich man to
swagger and walk chesty on the street.
but he had better not attempt it on his
polished hard wood floors at home
When man has a picture taken for
the first five weeks afterward he spends
a great deal of time in taking surrep-
titious looks at it, and wondering If ev-
cry one else sees the good points in it
50 plain to his eyes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
TILE sTATEyS IAN PLTGHT.

T. T. Kelly asserts that the $547 900 OF
state money which he has on deposit IN
the First National bank, is trust fund
and that he will therefore be preferred
creditor of the bank
But this view is not shared by ]. T.
Bradley, temporary receiver of the bank,
who is himself a banker, nor by many
attorneys. It is the general opinion that
Mr.. Kelly and the state must take their
chances along with the other deposit
tors and that Kelly cannot come in and
claim the states money that he put in
the bank, ahead of other people.
kelly's claim is that his deposit was
only there in process of collection, and
that that would make it trust fund.
1t had been there, however. for
months after Kelly knew it was coli
lected.
The bank certainly did not consider
it trust fund before the failure, for
it loaned the money to Mr.. Devlin just
the same as other deposits. Then, too,
in the banks last statement. it vas
evidently classed under the head of
Individual deposits subject to check. :"
All of which goes to prove that it was
not considered as a trust fund.
There would certainly be little JUS
tice in giving Kelly a preferred claim
over other depositors. AS a matter of
fact Kelly simply used the First Ma
tional bank as cloak to loan c. j.
Devlin half a million dollars of the
states money. Then why should Kelly
be allowed to step in ahead of de-
positors who put their money into the
bank in good faith?
AS to the public-the people Of
Kansas knew what sort of a man T. T
Kelly was when they elected him state
treasurer. Have they any complaint
now if they are compelled to take
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
RoCKEFELLER No MoNoPoLIsT

The much-maligned John D. Rookie
Teller is no selfish monopolist. We have
his word for it, and he ought to know.
Or rather, we have his word that he
does not wish people to think he is a
selfish monopolist. There is perhaps
considerable difference between that
and not being one.
Mr.. Rockefeller went to prayer meet
ing at the Euclid Avenue Baptist
church in Cleveland a few evenings ago.
He was called on to say few words
and talked longer than he had intend
ed. CHANGING at his watch he closed his
remarks with the following:
II have talked too long, I am afraid.
There are others who want to talk, and
I don't want you to think am a sell
fish monopolist.'
If Mr.. Rockefeller will only try to
persuade US now that he doesn't wish
the world at large, as well as those who
attend the Euclid Avenue prayer meet
ing, to think he is selfish monopolist,
and If he will go to point of proving it
to us by not being one, we will en-
deavor to think better of him than we
have been doing. There are a great
many of us who have no selfish ambi-
ton to be monopolists on time in prayer
meeting, and Mr.. Rockefeller may be
with us on that point-although we
have been led to believe that he mon
opolizes everything that comes his way.
But if Mr.. Rockefeller wishes us to
accumulate any great amount of faith
in his professions of anti-monoply he
will have to make it possible for some
of our independent oil refinerfes to do a
little business. That would really be
more to the point than not monopoIizing
the time in the Euclid Avenue Baptist
PRAYER meeting.
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If the law was being obeyed with ret
erence to state deposits, and if c. j.
Devlin was paying the First National
bank anything like a reasonable in
terest on the money which he borrowed
from that institution, the First National
bank certainly ought to have been in
an exceedingly prosperous condition.
1t had more than half million dol
lars in a single deposition which it did
not pay single dollar of interest-pro-
vided the law were being obeyed. On
the other hand. it had a good customer
for this money in Mr.. Devlin. The
word good is used here to signify a
customer who could always use the
money, so that it did not need to lie
idle. Therefore if Mr.. Devlin got this
money as low as four per cent, the
states deposit alone ought to have net
ted the bank $4,000 year, or % per
cent on its capital stock-simply from
a single deposit.
In addition to this the bank had sew
era1 hundred thousand dollars of other
deposits available for loans besides the
other regular business of a bank, which
ought to have yielded well.
There can be only one conclusion:
Either the bank was paying somebody
interest on the states deposit, or else
Mr.. Devlin was securing loans from the
bank without paying even a reasonable
interest on it. This is one of the points
which an investigation ought to develop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Since w. R: Smith has become an
ex-justice his friends are beginning to
call him tBill'' once more.
The Atchison Globe comments that
John F. Wallace, who was supposed to
be great man,, turned out to be a
great hog. And there are others.
VIII Palmer, of the Jewell Repub-
lican, thinks Governor Hoch would
have been perfectly justified in calling
out the militia to save the wheat.
Robert Pigg of Pittsburg poured
some powder from bottle on a burn
ing paper. This item came very near
being dissertation on roast Pfgg.
Farmers are not the only ones who
have trouble during harvest. The
wheat belt postmasters have the
names of strange harvest hands to
wrestle with.
The lid is nearly off at Jewell City.
The Baptist minister is laying side
walks, the Evangelical minister is
breaking bronchos, and the Methodist
minister is in Colorado. There isn't
even a brick sitting on the lid.
Charlie Sessions having noted that
Governor Hoch is making this an adj
ministration of Johns, Henry Allen o.
ks it in negative way by calling at
tention to the fact that w. R. Stubs
name is long ways from John. 1t is
suspected that Henry's is also.
The school meeting season is here
again, and Walter Johnson thinks 1t
is time to launch the annual story
about the school boards inserting a
clause in their contracts that school
ma ans shall not have beaus during
the school term.
The Pratt Republican was twenty
eight years old last week. Editor Coch-
ran learned the printers trade on II
during its first year. He has been with
it ever since and asserts that he will
stay there till he gets a job on the New
Jerusalem Republican.
Speaking of keeping busy, a. woman
in northern Kansas had to attend a
funeral. At the same time her fruit
needed putting up. So she combined
business and pleasure by taking along
a few quarts of berries to pick over on
the road to and from the cemetery.
Bent Murdoch speaks of the United
States senate as that inanimate ag-
gregation of bought-and-p aid-for old
dodgers who blink their eyes in i'm
beetle stupidity" But that doesn' t
discourage the eight or ten Kansans
who are booking longingly towards
Burton'S seat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

half the size of the wheat acreage IN
Barton county, Kansas. alone. In fact
there are dozen counties in the Kan
sas wheat belt, each of which has a
wheat acreage of more than the total
sugar beet acreage of Colorado, and a
dozen more counties approaching that
figure. But as more land becomes
available for irrigation in the Colorado
valley and on the plains the acreage of
sugar beets will be increased.
Meanwhile the same industry is
steadily increasing in western Kansas.
and It is likely that there will be sugar
factories built on Kansas soil at no
distant date. There is no doubt that the
beet sugar industry would be just as
profitable in western Kansas as in Col
orado if the farmers would give the
same attention to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
COLoRADO,s SUGAR INDUsTRY

The report comes from Colorado that
the sugar beet crop of that state this
year will amount to about one and a
quarter million tons. The farmers Will
receive five dollars a ton for the crop,
or total of sc, $50, 600. In addition to
this labor will receive two and a half
million dollars for the manufacture of
sugar, and one other million will be
spent for coal. coke and lime. The total
value of the finished product, at $50 n
ton, will be about IL million dollars.
This is nothing. of course, compared
to some of the crops Kansas raises, but
considering that seven years ago Color
ado manufactured only 10000 pounds of
sugar whereas this year the output will
probably be 125.ooo tons-not pounds it
must be admitted that the sugar indus
try in Colorado is assuming great pro-
portions.
Colorado now claims to be the great
est sugar-producing state in the Union.
There are about $4,000 acres in the
northern district of the state, SO 900
acres in the Arkansas valley, and 1000
acres in the Grand valley, a total of
125.000 acres, yielding an average of ten
tons OF beets to the acre. This is about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFron the Chicago News.l


Hone enables a man to accomplish
wonders in his mind
Honeysuckles and the sweet girl grad
yates bloom simultaneously.
A man seldom has to work overtime
to make a fool of himself.
A man seldom goes to friend for a
loan If he really needs the money.
Where there is a mans will there is
. woman's way to break it.
A well-balanced man doesn't have to
part his hair or name in the middle.
More women would go in for vocal
culture If they could buy things for a
song.
After singing the baby to sleep a
to sleep.
About the only fault the average wo-
man has to find with her past is that
it's too long.
During the courtship young man is
never out of danger till the girl says
NO three times.
Some girls proceed to catch on and
ruarry-then in1plore the divorce judge
to help them let loose again
People would have more faith in a
reformer If he would furnish proof of
his sincerity by beginning with him
self.
Lots of men who figure on schemes
to make millions would be surprised to
ind themselves in possession of IS in
real money.
when a man stands at the marriage
altar he gets as nervous as he does
when watching the bulletins of a base
ball game.
walking is said to be the best exer-
else a man can indulge IN. Perhaps
that is why so many men walk home
from the races.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
KEILY,S BOND.

It seems somewhat peculiar that the
present bond of T. T. Kelly is very
much different from any bond that has
heretofore been given by a state treas
urer for many years.
1t has always been customary for a
state treasurer to secure on his bond a
large number of wealthy and reputable
citizens of the state, so that there could
be absolutely no question about the sta
bi1ity of the sureties.
KeIIy's present bond IS signed only
by c. ]. Devlin and one of Mr.. Devlin's
close associates and partner. w. E.
Thomas, and a surety company. which
qualities for half million dollars neces-
sary on the bond. The bond required
by law is million dollars.
Mr.. Devlin is now insolvent, and there
is said to be some questions as to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Did you look into it yesterday to
see If the fuse had burned out?
So
We are convinced today that the
crying need of the great American
people is noiseless fireeracker.
1t is difficult to see how the United
States senate can use a thousand
pounds of ice a day when it has Vice
President Fairbanks for it's presid-
The doctors had their usual rush of
business yesterday, picking the pow
der and red paper out of little
Johnnie anatomy.
Has anybody been making pot
pie of the Dove of Peace by mistake
IN more than one Topeka family
yesterday the old folks had - shoot
the firecrackers,a because the chill
dren were afraid
When our Odessa exchanges reach
our desk, we expect a rise in temper
allure.
Perhaps Senator Mitchell didn't
know there was law against it
either.
How many times have you sal
down on the sticky fly paper thus far
this season?
Odessa is where Kansas gets its
Russian seed wheat. They seem to
raise something else around Odessa
besides seed wheat, but Kansas
doesn't need any of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

whether the surety company bond is
good.
Providing the surety company bond
is worth Its full face, the state still
has only half the protection now re-
quired by law. What is to be done
about the other half?
Governor Hoch will Of course de-
mand additional security from Kelly
at once It may be something of a
problem. however, for Kelly to secure
new bondsmen.
Governor Hoch announces that he
will look up the worth of the surety
company that is on Kelly's bond and
determine whether it is good for the
half million it is surety for.
Ought this not to have been done
before the bond was approved last
January? The executive council ap-
proves the bond. Mr.. Kelly himself is
one of the executive council.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

An eastern man was out in Colby the
other day talking OF buying some land
A real estate agent drove with him
around the country. showing him six
teen different farms, The eastern man
made q note of the description and price
of each farm. but said nothing about
buying. When the agent drove into
town the eastern man asked, rs that
all you have for sale?' Yes said the
agent. greatly crestfaIlen because the
other man had shown no interest in
what he had seen. 'Well, If that's all.
/ guess I might as well pay you for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
HUMOR OF TIE Day

- U64O6< OE 4AE OAX
These are certainly fine gloves" said
some shopping In city store the other
aay may want to get some more
before leave the city. What shall I
glove" said the CLERK clerk. IT'S ss'e the the
oh! yes. / can remember that by
lorna Doone.'s'
yourS?'
The out-of-town shopper gasped and
said "Fes-"-BrookIyn Life.
Hieks-How did Tompkyns make ali
his money anyhow?
Wicks-Out OF ginseng.
d1cks-Raising it?
W1cks-No; selling roots and seeds to
people who believe that there is a royal
road to fortune.-SomervilIe Journal.
1T takes a great deal Of patience to
get through this world she observed
husband: you don't have to work.
True, she replied; but don't have
to listen to you grumble about the way
you have to?"-Detroit Free Press.
How DO you and your wife spend
We'll: I think UP schemes to make
sAnd she-?"
Thinks up schemes to spend it,
Cleveland Leader.
Weary Willie-Dis paper seq dat yer
kin tell be de bark at de foot of a tree
how old it is
Prayed Freddie-Hum. 1 guess de
man dat wrote dat wuzn't never up a
amt no way ter tell dogs age.
Philadelphia Press.
Say, old man, I want to sell you
ticket for our social clubs private the
atricals.''
mot me. I haven't time to go to
those things. T.
Nobody askel you to go. I merely
want to sell you a ticket. ''-Philadelphia
Press.
''You reckon Wen worry wen we
gifts ter de hereafter?'
1T all depends replied Brother
Williams FER instance. eff Won han
pen ter be in de place whar dey got
wings ter fly wild, en- dey keeps you
flynn, We'en you wants ter rest; or il
you lands in de yuther place whar de
fire'1l SINCE every feather on you."-
Miss Tottie-Auntie, make Johnny
quit sayin' mean things to me.
Aunt Lottie-Mercy. child! You're
been saving now?
Miss Tottie-He says I've worse
temper'n you have. - Cleveland
Leader.
Eleven-thirty P; M-"stiI here.
young man % LAS still as possible, sir.''
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In recent address the Rev. Anna
Garlen Spencer. head of the New York
School OF Philanthropy, characterized
women's clubs as :'tfle greatest nom
professional university for women in
their second youth
The question Immediately arises, In
attaining second youth must one pass
through second childhood first?-Puck.
Henry Barleybeard-v7elI. I hear
yer goin' ter advertise this place as
health resort an start a hotel here
next year?
Cyrus Chinstubble-Yep Doc Dosem
an the undertaken hev promised ter
pay fer all the advertising.-Judge.
81 see that q prominent statistician
says that considerable more than one
half of the worlds population is ferni-
nine"
ST don't believe it. If that were so,
how would we account for the fact
that 'one-half the world doesn't know
how the other half lives "-PhiladeI-
phia Public Ledger.
Tired Housekeeper Gin employment
agency) dear! wonder IL
there'1l ever be any solution to the
servant girl problem.
Employment Agent-Oh, yes, mum.
My wife solved it long ago.
We'll, we'll! Howl
'tShe got rid of TIL hull gang an
did the work herself New York
Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

Mr.. Alexander insisted that he had
not taken any of the Equitable's
money that did not belong to him. but
he paid back several thousand dollars
just the same. Kansas is used to this
pay-it-back idea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the state Journal
away during the summer may hAV e
ehe paper mailed regularly each day
90 any address at the rate of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out Of town
the State Journal will be to you like
q daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

Last week the Atchison Globe said
cattle were at the bottom of most
western bank failures. 1t should have
said stock. In the most recent case it
seems to have been railroad stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

"All men make mistakes" says
Senator Mitchell. One Of the mistakes
OF Senators Burton and Mitchell seems
to have been that they did not ex-
anime the laws quite close enough be-
fore they began to violate them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

It is stated that rural free delivery
is responsible for big share of the
deficit in the national treasury. This
being the case the western farmer is
assured that the deficit is perfectly
iugtidabIe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

OF course Kansas hates to see
trouble anywhere. but If Russia Just
must revolt, and if Germany ana
France insist on fighting, Kansas will
try to furnish them with wheat, pro-
vided they have the price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

Ex-senator Thurston assured that
Oregon jury, with tears in his voice.
that Senator Mitchell was a perfectly
innocent and upright man. But that
was from the standpoint of a United
States senator. The jury thought
otherwise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

You viii notice that it was BUSH
ness deal in Illinois and not one in
Kansas that caused sthe failure of a
Kansas bank. Kansas business deals
are prosperous. but it's a good deal to
expect a Kansas bank to build an Hill
uois railroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

Anyway. Secretary Taft has put
quietus on government officials in i'm
portant places resigning at a critical
time ''for more Iucre."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

It is pretty certain that Mr.. John
F. Stevens will not resign from his
canal job simply because he gets an
offer Of more money somewhere else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

This habit of convicting United
States senators of crimes seems to be
becoming far more common than some
Distinguished gentlemen may wish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

The Democrats have adopted
platform and nominated a ticket in
Ohio. but it is suspected that the Re
pubiicans viii do most of the voting
when election day comes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

Now it has been discovered that the
bricks which the strikers in Chicago
used to throw at the teamsters were
nonunion bricks. and there is more
trouble
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

Incidentally Mr.. Garfield may have
found out few things which he did
not tell in his report and which
pointed the way to the beef trust in
dfctunanfR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

Have you any idea what the prod
ucts Of the Balkans are? The only
ones you hear about are brigands and
war clouds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

It looks as though the car would
have been better off had the Kniaz
Potemkine been sunk by the Japs
along with the rest of the Russian
navy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

We will all approve the proposed in
vestigation OF the free seed graft, pro-
vided it shows Why. the seeds we
planted last spring will not grow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

what you have" said the eastern man.
pulling out a check book And he
bought the whole bunch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05

Among other things. Mr.. Stubs is
now accused OF convicting the beef
trust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-05
The Stun child in the Country.

At luncheon given by Mrs. Alice
Barber stephens, the illustrator, at her
new home at Moylan, the talk turned
for awhile to the various charitable
societies that give slum children out
ings in the country in the summer.
Remarkable instances were mar
rated of slum children's ignorance of
country life-their diea that milk was
an extract of the milkweed, that eggs
came from the eggplant, that nusT
was a product of the mushroom, and
so on.
ssThose instances said Mrs.
Stephens, "are old and well known.
But let me tell you of a new one that
happened last summer.
"a little. East Side boy was on his
first country excursion. He lay on the
grass in a peach orchard. making a
chain of daisies and buttercups. Across
the blue sky line of birds darted,
and his hostess, young woman, said:
"Look up. Look up. See the pretty
birds flying through the air.
Tommy looked up quickly, and
then he said in compassionate tone;
Poor little fellers, they amt got
no cages, have they?' Exchange.
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This is a good time not to be a beef
trust magnate.