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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
GOVERNOR HocH.s n1rx

There is but one duty of the officer.
and that is to enforce the law, ard hut
one duty of the citizen, and that is to
obey it.-From Governor Hoch's ad-
dress at Ottawa.
Exactly. Then why did Governor
Hoch not obey and enforce the law
concerning the treasury examinations
And why does he not enforce the law
bringing prosecutions against the Grim
tnals in the state house?
And why does he not enforce the law
prohibiting the depositirg Of funds in
banks until the banks give proper
bonds and contract to pay the state al
least 2 per cent on its deposits, as pro-
vided by the new law?
Why does he not enforce the law re.
qutring the state treasurer to give a
bond. Suppose all the states money
left in the treasurer's hands now should
be stolen and the treasurer skip out fol
Mexico between now and Septembe,
list? Governor Hoch has announced
that the bond Kelly may give need moi
be effective till then. How long will the
state. of Kansas stand this fooIishnes.
and negligence?
In other words, why does not Gov.
ernor Hoch obey the law as a either
and enforce it as an officer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
A sERIOus MATTER-

There are places far worse than
joints in the city of Topeka said
Frank NJ. Stahl. former chief of po-
lice. in public address Thursday
night places where some of our best
young men and girls are daily being
wrecked. Some of the places are pay
ing one hundred dollars a month for
the privilege of running. Where is
this money going and who is getting
it? 1 do not know for certain, but I
seriously doubt if the city gets it."
This is a serious charge which Mr..
Stahl makes. or rather suggests. So
far as is known. no one has authorized
the collection of money from joints or
any other illegal resorts on the part
of the city, If any city officials have
given any such authority, the people
of the city are entitled to know it, and
to know whether it is duly accounted
for.
But Mr.. Stahl charges positively that
one hundred dollars a month is col
Iected from some disreputable resorts,
in return for which they are given i'm
munity from prosecution. If Mr.. Stahl
has proof of this. let him bring it
forth, so that the guilty ones may be
found out and the limeIight of public
ity turned on them. Topeka will not
tolerate such a thing as that, even If
the state of Kansas does tolerate a
CT To
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
THE CRAWFORD FIRE TRAP.

Topeka is now fairly we'll supplied
with vaudeville theatrical attractions.
and another playhouse of the same sort
is in course of construction. Within a
short time Topeka will have four vaude-
vile houses running, counting VineWood
park
This gives an abundance of amuse-
ment for Topeka people who are patrons
of that class of entertainments, but it
does not provide for those who desire a
higher class of attractions. There is a
large class of people in Topeka, and
they are constantly augmented by Wis
itors from out over the state, who
would patronize first class theatrical at
fractions literally if they had the OPP
portunity to do so, but they are never
given the chance.
Once in awhile a good play is booked
for the Crawford by the trust which
has had Topeka in its grasp for several
years. but the stage is SO small thai
| it is unsatisfactory to both patrons ane
company. Then the Crawford is such
firetrap that many people do not like
to attend it. The Iroquois disaster i:
| too recent history for many people tc
risk their lives in a packed house like
/ the Crawford. And yet the Iroquois has
been so far forgotten by others that tht
Crawford is allowed to run.
About eighteen months ago an inves
tigating committee, at the instigation o.
the city council and headed by the fir,
marshal and city engineer, made a type
written report on the Crawford, pointing
out that 1t was a veritable fretrap. TIL,
deficiencies in the way of exits, tn,
poor wiring, the unsafe fire escapes, tn
insufficient water supply, were all point
ed out, and the Crawford management
| corrected, or pretended to. some of tn
| evils which existed, but in the close O
the committees report was the follow
ing:
while we have enumerated many de
fects discovered by this inspection, ant
have recommended changes and i'm
provements that could be made, W
would NOT have your honorable bod,
consider that if these Improvement
should be carried out in a satisfactor,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
HVMOR OF THE DAY

An architect remarked to lady that ne
had been to see the great nave in the new
church The lady replied; D ,eE,,,,, men zen,
refer"'-London News.
You Americans face serious periis by
your carelessness in eating.
Yes" answered the man who vas f1g,
principal dangers are indigestion and
bankruptcy. "-Washington Star.
70 drink with more more Sl t made a diquor,
So a funnel he bought,
And it was as he thought,
He could drink his liquor much quiquor.
Chicago Chronicie.
THE school house burned during the
aJist my luck! It wouldn't burn till va
cation Post.
Capt. wish belonged to a golf club.
Bowier-I don't see any necessity for
that.
Cap-You don't think so?
Bowler-Oh, no. Just walk five miles in
a leisurely fashion, and every twenty or
thirty yards hit the pavement hard
whack with your cane, and swear.-Judy.
what makes links look so solemn? He
gets his months salary tomorrow
lows him 50 cents a week out of it. and
he's trying to make up his mind to strike
| for !'-Atlanta Constitution.
Going to send your wife to the sea-
| side this year?"
mo, it's too expensive. Why, when she
| went away last year it cost me forty
pounds
| "Surely she didn't spend all thatr'
mo, but did."-Ally Slopers Half-Hoi-
| iday.
He'll never reach the top in his profess
| SION
why, he believes he's there now"
That's the very reason that he'll never
get there. ''-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.1
Half the fun of living is thinking how
you'd hate to die
Probably Croesus used to plan what he
would do when his ship came in
No boy is as smart as his mother thinks
he is, nor as bad his uncle swears he is.
There are heaps of good things in the
world nobody cares for because they are
cheap.
When man is losing money in business
his wife thinks it is because he sleeps on
the wrong side.
Widows wouldn't be nearly so dangerous
il they weren't so awful innocent.
When a man has a good appetite his
wife thinks it is because he has such a
happy family life.
a cynic is a man who does not insist on
believing his cantaloupes are sweet just
because he raised them.
The only time a girl doesn't suspect ev-
cry man is trying to propose to her is
when it is the one she wants to.
A woman says her husband is good ma
tured when he forgets to declare his shaw
ing water was not hot enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IRON the Philadelphia Record. ]

IErOm the EnlldQSlpH1d INCCOLQ-l
Drinking beer won't cultivate liquid
tones in tenor
It's the heavy hitting bali player who
is sluggish in his movements.
Some people get stoop-shouldered from
carrying their stupidity.
.Nell-"Do you believe in ahinities?''
Believes, and lots of them"
The early bird catches the worm, but
the worm gets 1t in the neck.
If a fellow Is popular with himself he
doesn't care much about anything else.
The baId-headed actor may be justified
in complaining that he never has a good
part
The more miserable girl is when she
is in love the more enjoyment she gets out
of it.
The Bible tells you to love your neigh
Dor as yourself. This is easy enough If
he is far enough away
The trouble with the man who feels that
he is above criticism is that he Is general
" up in the air about it.
TT takes two to make a quarrel" OBJ
served the wise Guy. Yes" agreed the
Simple Mug, land generally both are
wrong.
There would be more charity in the
world il you could reach a mans heart as
easily through his pocket as through his
stomach.
notwithstanding from newspaper ''wo-
mems bathing suits are higher" SlobbS-
"Geei Lead me to the beach, Blobbs-
my dear boy, this refers simply to the
price
Mrs. Muegins-"Adiss oIdgirl's mother
insists that she Is a matShiess beauty
Mrs. Bugzins-'1 suppose that is the rea-
son she has never succeeded in making .
match for her..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe1
The poorer the show, the more compn-
mentary tickets given out.
Defeat is often good thing, as it shows
a man how little he amounts to.
AS man gets older he finds that the
path from the cradle to the grave is not
ert when he was a child.
An Atchison old girl is said to be drift
ing into love affair. If she were younger
she would have jumped into it and have
gotten over it long ago.
At a recent meeting of the Lancaster
eTy tb 9cieIy a Wishes nao v msrr, re
Quested to stand up. The only one left
sitting was an old maid.
They say that Clarence. Jacobs. one os
the twins. lately called his mother, but
his mother was busy and couldn't hasten
at once to her sons side to do his bid-
boy threatened II will break the dishest
not the old ones. but the new lot"
Il liked your. grandmother story" Jake
Wallenstein said to tine ed3tOr today, 'aS
a matter of fact. I didn't see it until is
was copied in the Wichita Eagle; but the
rottenest thing that ever appeared In q
refer to -" Then he mentioned a local
item appearing few weeks ago. Is there
a man in the world who can pay a COM
pliInent without smearing it all up?
A farmer came to town the other day
and complained that the rain was running
his hay. IF were not afraid of YOU" a
town man said to him, II would inquire
why in tarnation you didn't stack it last
sunday, Wnen the weather was pleasant.
When farmer has wheat or grass ready
to cut, he should work like the old Harry
during the pleasant weather, and get it in
stock. But as l want to coddle you, will
say that it beats all how much tough luck
farmers have
The heroines in the telegraph love stor-
les may not always be young and pretty,
but they can give the fiction love story
heroine cards and spades when it comes to
excitement. Mrs. Henry Spilker of Ma
con, Mo, is 40 years old and yesterday her
second husband committed suicide because
he was jealous of her. Three years ago
her first husband committed suicide be-
cause he was jealous of her. Mrs. S-siIker
told the coroner's jury in Macon that she
never did anything" to make her hus@
bands Jealous, but that she should remaiR
q widow because men are 80 foolish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
lFrom the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Many a man has drowned his self
respect in whisky.
Dogs are better judges of men than
men are of women.
Make haste slowly is the motto of
the messenger boy.
Frequently a man Is honest because
he is afraid to be dishonest
Wise is the man who is able to con-
ceaf what he doesn't know.
But few widows are half as gay and
siddy as they are supposed to be.
A woman thinks her clothes make her
and her husband knows they break
him.
No married woman is ever as happy
as she thinks her husband thinks she is.
If woman is afraid of losing her hair
she should put it in a safe deposit vault.
A man may be a hopeless idiot, but
no woman will admit it after he has
proposed marriage to her.
An old bachelor says that bossing is
not a womanS province. No married
man would dare say such a thing.
A woman likes to have a man tell her
that he thinks her feet at least two
sizes smaller than he thinks they are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
al Case of second Sight.

A Scotch minister and his friend, who
were coming home from wedding be-
gan to consider the state into which
their potations at the wedding feast had
left them.
Sandy" said the minister. Just stop
a minute here till go ahead. Maybe I
don't walk very steady, and the good
wife might remark something not just
right"
He walked ahead of the servant for a
short distance and then asked:
How is It? Am walking straight %
ssOh, ay,' answered Sandy, thickly.
s'ye're a. recht-but who's that who's
with you ?"-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
CONFER KNOWS.

Mr.. Devlin says he has one coal mine
If he is permitted to run tive believe
him, We run a furnace in our house last
winter. No doubt Mr.. Devlin has a
great many things he would like to say
to the public just now, and feels the
need OF a personal organ" Wonder If
he wouldn't rather have a well estab-
lished newspaper, like the Kansan.
rather than that particular coal mine?
We're willing to trade.-Concordia Kan
san
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
AND PUNISH THE CRIMINALS.

Things are different now but in the
days of Populism an affair like the Dew
lin bank failure was enough to turn
the tide and insure the opposition the
state election. There may be no i'm
mediate danger of such a calamity as
that now or even in the near future but
it would not be bad politics for the
party leaders to straighten matters out
a little and protect the state from sim
liar danger in the future.-Cherryvale
Republican. l-5t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

The impression is given out that At
torney General Coleman and Secretary
of State Burrow are the only members
of the executive council who are
standing by Governor Hoch in the
treasury matter. They will continue
to do so just as long as Hoch does
nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
.TF THE CHIGGERs DIDN'T BITE."

IF THE CHIGGERS DIDN'T BITE"
OH love to go a-fishing,
When the cares of day are doue,
And the quiet hush OF evening
Brings 3. rest to every one;
When the moon is shining brightly
With a soft and mellow light
Oh, 1t all would be so pleasant
If the chiggers didn't bite.
1 love to sit so quietly
Upon the rivers brink.
With nothing in the world TO DO
But just to fish and think
To watch the clouds go sailing by,
The moon come into sight
Oh, I'd like it all immensely
If the chiggers didn't bite.
wouldn't mind the going-hone
Without a single fish:
The rest and quiet of the night
Are all that could wish.
The beauty of the evening
I'd enjoy with all my might,
And think myself thrice blessed
If the chiggers didn't bite.
ELLA HARRIS KNIGHT.
Burton, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
50 any address at the rate of thirty
cents q month. Address changed as
cften as desired. While out of town
the State Journal will be to you like
= daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

The Chicago News thinks that when
the national senate meets it will be
necessary to separate the sheep from
the goats as a preliminary to getting
any decent legislation. But won't the
quorum be on the goats side?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Tom Kelly telling Governor Hoch
that it wouldn't have happened if
Hoch had examined the treasury and
made him, Kelly, obey the law, will
so down in history as one of the most
colossal examples of nerve on record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
AN APPROPRIATE GREETING.

As the good old summer time query,
rs it hot enough for you?" bids fair
to be somewhat inappropriate this
year, some sort of substitute for the
conventional salutation seems to be de-
sirable. 1t has been suggested that a
greeting which will fit almost every
body is: Good morning. Have you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Now that Senator Depew no longer
represents the Equitable in the United
States senate, there is some curiosity
to know what he does represent. His
colleague, Senator Plat, represents
the Adams Express company, you
know
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

You have heard that different kinds
of light are good to cure various dis
eases: Well. the newspaper search
light is extremely good for the graft
ing disease
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
GOT THEM BLUFFED.

It's the height of bad form in Japan
for wife to express any opinion con-
trary to her husbands. What chance
had Russia against men who have
their wives bluffed like that San
Antonio Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

It is said that the mutineers on the
Kniaz Potemkine secured $S50.000
from the vessels strong box. Perhaps
that is why they were so ready to
surrender to Roumania
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Most New Workers who know of
Chicago at all think of it only as the
place where some of the railroads
90 to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
THOSE ITALIC oUADs.

The keep probing committee should
lose no time in investigating the report
that money has been wasted in the
purchase of italic quads for the gov
eminent printing office.-Washingt
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
FAIRLY GOOD PROFIT.

Mr.. Devlin. the millionaire coal
operator of Topeka, who failed last
week, says that if all his other prop
erty goes to smash. he has one coal
mine that will pay all his obligations.
That speaks fairly well for the profit
in the coal business.-Salina Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
AN INSPIRATION.

YOU a usef,1l n,Irnose II does: Il does,
Without Wall street we should be de-
prived of much entertaining reading in
the newspapers, and much of the in
spiration in our Chautauqua assembly
reform addresses would be missed
Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
WHAT MORTON MISSED.

Secretary Paul Morton is so busy
with insurance matters that he has
probably not had time to read the pro-
ceedings of the Ohio Democratic con-
vention. He would find IT an uncom-
mon and interesting entertainment
Mr.. Morton was among the things
which were called Spades so to
speak-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Suppose the authorities in Warsaw,
LODI, Odessa and Moscow should each
regret to report just when Linevitch
is also egretting-wouldn't it be a bit
discouraging?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
KANSAS C0MMENT
FIRED Ann Els "a.

They arrested Fred Funstons father
in lola the other day. If they don't
take care Fred will quit the army, come
home and clean up the police of lola
Hutchinson Independent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Charles J. Bonaparte, the new sec
rotary OF the navy, refuses to ride on
railroad passes. His distinguished
predecessor was not guilty OF such a
refusal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
STILL ON THE MAP

"All the members of the Dutch cab
met have resigned" 1t takes some
thing of that sort occasionally to re-
mind us that there is such a place as
acknowledgements News-Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
ER0M OTHER PENS
AN OLD SMILE.

This world is but a f1eeting show;
The actors pittance is but small;
The man to whom the profits flow
Is one you scarcely know at ALL
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
40 pRAFr RoosEYELr.

Ex-senator Harris, formerly of KAN
sas, has declared his intention of vot-
ing for Roosevelt for president at the
next national election. It looks as
though Mr.. Roosevelt would have to
submit to being drafted in the next
campaign, but the drafters will have no
easy job.-Lawrence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
THE POWER OF ADVERTISING,

L - ~ A<AS- NE AL En-
In SkeetersviIle, n. +
VINO opened I'D a little store
And went to making hay.
The country roundabout was good,
The people sure but slow,
And Ellington, which was his name,
Set out to make them go.
The old time town of skeetersviue
Was dead enough to skin
When Ellington took hold-hut, say,
He got hold to win.
He introduced a line of goods
That made the people stare
And when they came to take a look
They found the prices fair.
And then they bought and business
Than anybody ever did
In that town with a store.
But what he did was not enough
TO suit his growing size,
And Ellington of Skeetersville
Just yearned to advertise.
He yearncd to see his dazzling ads
Glow in the business sky,
Attracting people everywhere
10 come his way to buy.
But 10! the town of SkeetersviIle.
It's pity to confess.
Had never felt a long felt want
TO nave printing press.
So Ellington turned to at once
To see what he could get
And pretty soon the people had
The Skeetersville Gazette.
And Ellington was in 1t, big;
such advertising ways
Were never known to SkeetersvtIle
AS Billington's displays.
The old time merchants saw the ads
OF Ellington, and they
Began to use line or two
To make their business pay.
The town began to get alive.
Its shell began to crack,
And every now and then you'd hear
The moss fall of its back.
And outside people on the look
For better means to I'LL
Their empty Golfers, thought they'd take
A chance at SkeetersvilIe.
The town was growing good and strong.
Another paper came
To meet the advertisers wants
And spread the city's fame.
The town grew on. No power could thwart
The enterprise and will
OF Ellington ct al, and yet
They called it SkeetersvilIe.
Then Ellington broke loose and said
The old name ought to go,
And something be adopted which
would let the whole world know
1t was a hustling sort of town.
Where things were on the run
And in two minutes Skeetersville
Was changed to Ellington.
w. J. hampton in the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
KNEW TT BEFORR.

on Tom Kelly's honesty before his re-
election are now admitting that they
lied to the people and are confessing
that they always knew he was not
straight. Many of these editors are not
so clean, politically, socially or moral
ly, as Tom Kelly.-Conco1dia Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
THERE ARE OTHERS

King Oscar is disposed to insist that
he is still Norway's king de jure, any,
how. There is said to be some person
or other who makes a like claim as
to France, but Loubet is transacting
the business at present.-Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

Friday was Frances Fourth of July
It is to be hoped Billy Morgan helped
celebrate it appropriately.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
FROM JOHN GILMORE.

You Republicans who did not vote
for Kelly for state treasurer in 1902,
shake. And if you declined to do SO
in 1904, shake again.-Wilson County
Citizen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
NO. QUESTIONS ASKED.

Now the higher education is facing
the problem of tainted money 1t is
highly probable, however, that the
higher education willetake the broad
and liberal view that the faint does not
necessarily follow the castl.-Baltimo
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15
HOCH KNOWS.

Auditor Wells seems to be living up
to that red necktie he always wears.
Governor Hoch will at least testify to
that.-Chanute Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

General Miles has signifed his
willingness to trade his present title for
that of Governor" But it remains
for the people OF Massachusetts, to
ratify it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-15

France and Germany each claim to
be the victor in the Morocco trouble.
II they are both satisfied the rest of us
ought to be.