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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-11-03

small compared with the figures Of the
lady's fortune, his wild oats" W re
well known in Moseley. but beau y
covers q multitude OF sins, SO Miss
lnEc approved OF hI.A Z. and all
So far. so good. But Anstcy, well
aware OF his mothers intentions, took
a wicked delight in alternl,ey pet
ting and teasing the heiress, delaying
all efforts to secure this golden treas
ure with the NEST irritating GOODNESS.
lie knew quite well how TO charm Miss
lngois. and he knew equally well now
20 ia cinate pretty Cissy Blackwood
until that simple maiden imagined
him to be the perfect ideal OF manly
attraction. And Anstey enjoyed m
sell thoroughly, increased the number
OF stolen interviews and looked down
admiringly at the lovely face that
frightened at his coming. He had al
ways preferred wild roses to gar
denias.
You must not come and talk to me
any more. Mr.. Anstey: il would vex
her ladyship terribly II she found II
out Please keep away" said Cissy.
But her voice lacked emphasis and
Anstey did not keep away. Though
tolerably In awe of his lady mother he
thoroughly enjoyed stealing a march
on her and the sedate Miss ms Is,
who. poor thing. could not purchase
Cissy's youth and sweetness-in spite
OF the tempting advertisements with
all her wealth.
Anstey was honorable enough TO feel
both worried and indignant on learn
ing the extent of his mothers debt
when Clssy conndcd TO him how very
much she would like her money.
i shall feel quite rich them" said
Cissy, joyfully, for have quite a LOT
OF money in the bank. You see. have
nobody to spend II on, for haven't q
relation In all the world"
Lucky little woman" sighed Ans.
toy
All I don't know about that. vot
Ike % belong to some one and fee
hey care about you"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-11-03

Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles)
We'll. ! suppose you have got your
European airs worn of, 80 you can
come down to plain American living
again." said the old sroceryman to the
bad boy when he came into the grocery
with a kerosene can, and sat down on
the barrel Of dried apples. and reached
into the barrel Of lump sugar. and filed
his pocket. The old man had Just cut
a new cheese, and he sliced off a thin
piece of cheese and laid It en- big
square cracker and handed It TO the
boy. saying: Just lay that inside
your ribs and tell me II you got any
thing to eat In Europe that could hold
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-11-03

The Bad Boy and His Dad Mt Chris
tian Science Boarding House-The
Bad Boy Tells His Uncle How They
Were kidnapped in Greece-Dad
Sang "Hot Time" in the Bandits
Cave and When They Were Asleep
Escaped on a Mule.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-11-03

when they all got asleep, and began
to cry, and wish | was dead. dad woke
up and said: Now | won, do a
thing to your Creeks and he went
around to the sleeping bandits and
took oil their knives and all their
money. and he took OF the petticoat
they had given him TO wear ard ti.d
a blanket around his waist. a.d he
tied their legs together with strings
OF the saddles Of the mules. and Just
before daylight on the second morning
dad and got on the biggest mule and
started down the trail. and when we
struck level ground We maulei that
mule and be got q move on him ard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.l

From the Atch1Son GloDe1
We have become convinced that some
people enjoy Quarrehng.
The average household has two summer
breads: flies and guests
Don't knock at every fellow who Is a
little more progressive than you are
IF Won love any one in July. give him
ice cream and fan. and don't get any
m The only way Scotty, the Death Val
lev miner. can create any attehelon no"
is by walking home
comfort. but the trouble that is due you
comes in loaves-
An old Chinese proverb says: BE very
anDreciative, and the people you admire
viii spit in your face
Tne white shoes the girls are wearing
are much Ike those soid at the UNDER
takers for the dead to wear.
The trouble with these rules for getting
cooled off before going to bed IS that one
has to light the lamp to read them.
A. least there is one bright side in 1t
for the man whose family has gone and
left hin, alone for the summer: he has his
Individual bath tub
when the Lord made the watermelon he
7idi1'f know that he was also making ev-
eTv woman dissatisfied with the size of
When a man gets into bad kin compli-
carton YOU can do nothing for him. OF
course you can sympathize with him, but
that doesn't held
rake two sisters one Is and the other p
The one Is looks so superior to the one OF
% that you doubt they are related
when people are cross their friends say:
IF he had different wife, or If she had
a different husband" it would have been
different The wrong kind of a wife or
the wrong kind of a husband seems to be
a handicap that no ole can overcome.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21


Our father, though the way be long
ana darkness, veil thy face,
we feei thy presence, great and strong
IN all the realms of space.
ana seek the silence and the shade
10 pray when We are sore diSmayed
Deliver US from evil
temptations clip US round about
And we are prone to yield,
BE over US in times of doubt
Our all protecting shield,
ana when from rectitude we stray,
Lean down, o Lord and hear us pray
Deliver US from evil.
When passion lures us with its wiles
and sets our souls afiame,
When pleasure looks at US and smiles
And temptS our feet to shame,
Remember we are only clay
ana turn not from our cries away,
Deliver US from evil
Wnen sin draws near with smiling face
10 draw us near the brink
And bid us hasten to embrace
The cup of evil drink
Rut out thy hand and take away
temptation, Lord, our Lord, we pray
Deliver US from evil
Our father, though we often fail,
we turn again to thee,
Forgive and pardon, one and all,
OF thy great charity
Defend US, Lord, from day to day
And hearken when we kneel to pray
Deliver us from evil
Chicago Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
COBIrRN FOR THE CABINET.

Now that the rumor is afioat that
Secretary Wilson will retire from
President Roosevelt's cabinet because
of the cotton report scandals, the
Kansas Farmer starts a boom for CO..
burn of Kansas for the place. but at
the same time it announces that NJ.
Coburn probably would not take it.
Whether or not Mr.. Coburn would
be willing to give up his present work
as secretary of the Kansas Board of
Agriculture and undertake the much
larger duties of directing the work, of
the United States Department of Agri-
culture, the State Journal does not
know. 1t is pretty certain, however
that it would be a splendid thing for
American agriculture if he would be
given the place.
After reciting the facts leading up
to the rumored intended resignation
of Secretary Wilson, the Kansas
Farmer has the following to say con-
corning Mr.. Coburn
1.-The prospective vacancy in the
presidents cabinet at once directed
many eyes to Kansas and to Secretary
Coburn. The preeminent qualifications
of Mr.. Coburn for this service are uni
versally recognized and will doubtless
raise up friends in abundance to ad-
vocate the propriety of calling to the
cabinet the man who makes the Kan
sas department of agriculture the best
of its kind in the world. The obstacle.
however, in the way of Kansas MAX
ing the concerted effort she would 9TH
erwise be glad to make to secure this
important position for Mr.. Coburn or,
rather, secure Mr.. Coburn for the posi-
ton, is that he does not want it. For
years he has insisted that his friends
should cease the suggestion of his
name for it. Those who know him
best are certain that he would not con-
slider its acceptance under any circum
stances that could possibly arise. No
other public Office than the one he now
holds appeals to him, and he is not
even a receptive candidate for any
other, appointive or elective
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News1
Beware of an unloaded gun and q
crippled mule.
The troubles of her neighbors are apt
to worry woman.
Occasionally a widow tries to make q
hit by posing as a miss.
When there's nothing else in a mans
pocket he can pocket his pride.
A cynical woman never shows up to
an advantage at a church social.
Most men are willing to admit that
honesty is the best policy-for others.
Every girl imagines she possesses all
the qualifications necessary In an ideal
wife.
A woman would rather talk to dis
agreeable man than listen to an agree
able one.
There is more fun In the preliminary
engagement than there Is in the first
domestic battle.
A widow never calls for help when q
man attempts to kiss her. It is usually
the man who needs help
A genuine topper considers life far too
short to waste any of it imbibing his
favorite beverage through straw.
After reaching the age of 80 a woman
has no further use for birthdays until
she gets in the grandmother class.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
PAVE KANSAS AVENUE.

The State Journal is glad to note that
it has awakened others to the necessity
of repaving Kansas avenue. 1t is
wonder that every citizen of Topeka
who has any pride In his city has not
Joined in the demand for a new pave
ment on the city's principal avenue be-
fore this.
The condition of Kansas avenue is
disgrace to the city of Topeka. Not
only is it a bad thing to ride over, but
its appearance makes a bad impression
on visitors. and it is the street, more
than any other, by which the city Of
Topeka is judged.
There is scarcely a square rod of good
pavement on Kansas avenue in the
business section of the city. It is sim
PLY succession of hills and holes.
The longer the repaving is delayed
the more trouble and expense there
will be connected with it. For months
it has been the policy of the city gov
eminent to fill the holes with crushed
rock, which is not only a trial to peo-
pie who have to ride over it, but it
also aids in destroying what pavement
there is, and brings ruin to rubber tires.
The longer the work of repaving is de-
layed the worse the condition of the
foundation and the more work will have
to be done on it.
The way to repave is to repave. The
city council should take some action in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
AHoPEFuL SIGN.

It is a hopeful sign that the subject
Of graft is being so thoroughly discuss
ed by the press and public of America
It is an indication that we will soon
return to our old, simple American
standards of honesty as Mr.. Cleveland
puts it. We had come to the point
where Misrepresentation was consider
ed quite the proper thing by many
people in financial transactions. Any
thing that beat the other fellow or the
public was considered as all right. But
the developments of the past two or
three years, the expose Of graft, and
the stand taken by President Roosevelt
and other illustrious examples of pub
lie officials who are fighting graft, has
awakened public sentiment.
The current number of the Bankers
Magazine discusses this rise in the pub
lies idea of honor and honesty in bust
ness dealings. In referring to the meth
DDS of some financiers it says:
But little heed seems to be paid to
legal obstacles by these modern ex-
ponents of high finance. A trustee or
director can plead ignorance. Further
more, he is too busy with his yachts,
automobiles, ETC., to attend to such
trifiing details as the management Of
property entrusted to his care. If an
officer, directions may be given to sub
ordinates, and if these orders are not
obeyed, the delinquency may be ascrib-
ed to "a misplaced SWITCH for which
officers, of course. are not responsible
mo doubt the financier whose for
tunes have been accumulated by such
methods as these actually considers
himself, and is considered by others ig-
norant of his methods, as a very fine
type of American. He lives well-even
If at the expense of unwilling contribu-
considerably supports religious and
benevolent enterprises, is a patron Of
art and literature, and is regarded ev-
erywhere as an all-round good fellow.
when the appropriation to personal
uses of property and interests held in
trust is regarded in the same light as
other forms of stealing, the immortality
of such proceedings will be established;
but something more than that will be
necessary to stop further 'appropria-
tons of this character. This remedy,
so far as relates to persons acting in
their individual capacities. is well
known and is frequently applied. A like
application will have to be made where
corporations are the apparent offenders.
AN officer OF director of a national
banking corporation can not use his
charter as a screen to protect him from
violations of the national bank act. If
guilty, the misplaced switch can not
be pleaded in extenuation.
The recent disclosures of corporate
mismanagement indicate that some cor
receive more powerful and convincing
than moral suasion is needed to prevent
a spread of similar evils. Full restora-
ton OF unearned emoluments, and sure
and swift punishment of the guilty, will
alone prove effectual.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Topeka is, of course, good summer
resort. but there are days when we do
not brag about it much.
Instead of making a dash to the
pole, why doesn't Peary try a period
this time?
This is the time of year when the
vacation microbe gets mighty active.
Deacon Twogood says he doesn't
see why chiggers waste their time on
an old man like him, where there are
SO many pretty and tender girls to
work on.
Our esteemed contemporary, the ST.
Petersburg Sviet, demands that the
war be carried to the last ditch. Per-
haps the Sviet cannot recognize the
last ditch when it is in the bottom
of it.
Judging from the number of scan
dals it has. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
must be the Emporia of Europe.
Bill Doolittle suggests that people
who are interested in having the popu-
ought to get Secretary Coburn glori-
ously drunk just before he starts in to
count the people. Bill thinks Coburn
would then see at least double, and
possibly each man would look to him
ike four or five. Bill ought to know
he has tried it enough. One diff
Guilty in the success of Bills plan
however, is that Mr.. Coburn was until
recently president of the State Tenn
perance union and his temperance
seruples are more than theories.
When a town dies it's too bad the
survivors cannot collect insurance
on it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
AYHA WKER JOTS

Ottawa is trying to break into the
summer resort class. 1t has a Welch's
Beach.
In some towns they are called "keg
parties In other towns, which claim
to be more heightened, they are called
Smokers
It has been discovered from the as
SCISSORS statistics at Emporia that the
number of men and women who get
married run about equal!
Coffeyville had ten marriages in one
day recently, which indicates that
Cupid didn't quit just because the sea-
son for June brides is over.
Representative John T.. White of OF
tawa county, who is also a member of
the state grain inspection board, is an
other youngest soldier in Kansas.
In a certain southern Kansas town
the city ordered that no water be used
on lawns during the daytime, and some
of the society families are washing
their lawn dresses at night.
In the liquor fight at Neodesha a
deputy sheriff raided a joint and piled
the goods out on the sidewalk Then
the mayor had the deputy arrested for
obstructing the sidewalk and the po-
lice judge fined him SIS and costs.
It's the deputY's next move.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
A Ninety Mile Race Course.

In France automobile building has
reached it's highest development.
though our manufacturers are fast
closing the gap that separates them
from their Gallo competitors. Not
only is the machine made in France,
but roads for it to do its best on are
provided. Biarritz is constructing
ninety-mile boulevard on the coast at
Arcachon for the exclusive use of fast
motor cars. On it there will be no
speed restrictions, and every man and
woman ambitious to break a record or
a neck will have free license to do SO.
LAUNDERING trucks, family parties
drawn by old Dobbin, nurse-maids
with perambulators will not attempt to
cross the bows of seventy mile-an-
devil wagons. Solid walls will line
each side of seventy-foot-wide ce-
ment boulevard, and any accidents
that may enliverf days sport will be
confined among the speeders them
selves Like the course at Ormond,
Florida, this French race track will
be on the beach, where interlopers will
have small excuse to go. The con-
struction Of the course will cost ST.
100000, a comparatively small amount
when the magnitude of the automobile
business is considered.-"With the
Procession Everybody's Magazine for
August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
It takes the rain TO raise crops and UNI
brellas.
1t takes two to make bargain. but one
can break it.
The man who tries to do others often
finds himself undone.
The man who is on the level should
have smooth travelling.
1t is seldom the high fier who gets to
the top of the heap.
There is no reason why the bill poster
should feel stuck I'D.
We all aim at the target of success, but
few of us hit the bulls eve.
We are all Obliged to take what is given
us in the matter of ancestors.
Every fellow has a future before him,
if he can only catch I'D with 1t.
woman will fiatter herself if she can't
get anyone else to do it for her.
That money talks is true,
In accents cutie precise;
But silence. if you knew,
Commands better price.
A subterfuge hath many hues,
A fabric gay, forsooth,
Which modeSty can always use
To draoe the naked truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New york Press.

TFrom the New York Press.1
One trouble about using tact with girls Ii
they always think it is a proposal Of mar
rage.
woman considers she is leading
ideal life when she sits down to write nine
letters or to wash her hair.
When a woman doesn't get a letter she
was expecting she feels the way a man
does who has lost his last dve-dollar bill
on a horse race.
A girl will never believe people can think
she understands baseball unless when she
goes to a game she says lot OF things
that prove she doesn't.
Conscience is something that worries you
a great deal more when something you
have eaten disagrees with you than when
you can kill three square meals day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
KELLY's FAILURE.

Governor Hoch has decided to declare
the Office of state treasurer vacant and
will appoint Kelly's successor.
T. T. Kelly has failed to give the bond
required of him by Governor Hoch I'M
der the new state depository law. This
is not at all surprising, in view of the
repeated instances OF Kellys dishonesty,
his gross and defiant violations of law,
and the recent tremendous loss occa-
stoned to the state or to his previous
bondsmen by his dishonesty and disre-
gard for the law.
It is therefore no wonder that all
reputable bonding companies refused
to go on Kelly's bond at any price.
Kelly secured from his friends personal
bonds aggregating $4,000 of the
$3.50, 900 required. Whether any of
this $4,000 was of the same quality
as the half million furnished by Mr..
Devlin a few months ago, the State
Journal does not know; but it is GER
tain that most men of financial re-
sponsibility, and who have good bust
ness judgment, would hesitate a long
time before going on the bond of a
man with Kelly's record.
Kelly's suggestion of some unknown
bonding company with a capital of
only 100000 offering to take the en-
tire bond of $75O,OOO is, of course,
too foolish for consideration. And
even this unknown company pro-
poses to charge Kelly two and half
times the usual premium. because of
his dishonest record
Under the statute there was only
one thing for Governor Hoch to do, so
far as this bond matter is concerned.
The statute says absolutely that 'if the
state treasurer shall fail, neglect or re-
fuse to give the bond required by this
act, the governor shall lin writing, de-
clare his office vacated, and appoint a
successor to fill the vacancy"
It will be noticed that the law does
not say that the governor MAY declare
the office vacated, but that he SHALL
do SO. It is mandatory upon the COVER
nor.
The dismissal of Kelly from the office
of state treasurer, however, should not
render him immune from prosecution
for his thefts and embezzlements. Any
honest man would also be dismissed
were he in Kelly's place and failed to
give the required bond.
The state school fund is out many
thousands of dollars. The Rowett re-
port shows that at least $4,000 of it
was stolen absolutely, and $4,000 more
is missing. The "A. R. Brown letter
and other evidence points to Kelly as
the thief. The officers who are elected
for that purpose should most certainly
see that this money is returned to the
state by those civilly responsible, and
that the thief, whoever he may be, is
punished.
In addition to these crimes, there is
the embezzlement which Kelly commit
ted in connection with the Cornanche
county bond deal, and his later embez-
Elements committed by depositing near
~ 100000 of the states money in banks
outside of Topeka, for which there is
not even the slightest technical defense
The people of Kansas cannot afford to
let these violations of law on the part
of a state officer go unpublished, simp-
ly because the officer is compelled to
give up his office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
Rogers Likes Real Money.

Writing of his former associate, Mr..
Rogers, in the August instalment of
greenfield Finance in Everybody's
Magazine, Mr.. Lawson says:
AN impatience of uncertainties is
characteristic of Henry H. Rogers. He
cherishes no sentiments about his inan-
ciaI bantIings He takes but never
keeps any of the paper securities he Gre
ates in such quantities. He counts his
profits in real money. not in stock GER
tfficates, and he is ever outside the mar
ket before the public has discovered
that the made dollars he has sold them
are counterfeit. In fact, it. is understood
by all who are associated in deals with
the master of Standard OH that the
first sale in his prerogative. and thus he
emphasizes the commercial genius with
which have credited him."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

Mr. Coburn has counted the people of
Kansas and he assures US that there
are more of US than formerly, although
he has not yet added up the figures.
This will be perfectly satisfactory-pro-
Rided Mr. Coburn only makes the in
crease large enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
ZW@y during the summer may have
me paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address at the rate of thirty
SCENTS month. Address changed as
pGoen as desired. While out OF town
me State Journal win be to you like
, daily letter from honae.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
. order to get the mat

that direction in order to get the mat
ter started.
Incidentally Sixth avenue, and parts
of Eighth and Tenth avenues are also
in bad condition, These also are among
the cfty's thoroughfares and should be
repaved or repaired as soon as it can
be brought about. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

Now that Senator Plat has rushed to
the defense of Senator Depew and has
assured the country that his colleague
has done nothing wrong, possibly
Chauncey will reciprocate the next
time the senator for the express com
panies gets into trouble
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21

The weather man in Chicago is off on
his vacation, and just before he left he
Enialaid the lake breeze. Chicago can
not keep house without a lake breeze
and Il it isn't found soon Chicago will
have to take his wife and family and
20 to the country.