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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

Mr. and Mrs. A. w. Burkhardt, OF
Coffeeville. Miss, after visit in the
city during the past month, returned
70 Iudianola last Wednesday.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

MS. Meek, OF Memphis. was a
que Of MIS-. J. H. Wynn during the
earl part OF the week.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

DR.. Flourney Wickliffe. of Lake
Washington. was a guest in Green
vile on Wednesday,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

MIR. and Mrs, d. II. Green and
daughter, Of lndianola, returned to
their home last Sunday after quite
sojourn in this city.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

Mr. Frank Ship, Of Tennessee. paid
a visit to friends in Greenvile this
week.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

Mrs /. NJ Heard has returned
after being the guest OF friends and
relatives in Leland and Elizabeth.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

Mrs. James Robertshaw and Miss
Birdie Robertshaw have gone tor
two weeks stay at Castalian Springs.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

Mr. J. II. Nelms returned on Sur
day after visiting in Kentutky.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

Mrs. Helen Hopkins and Miss Hell
en- Gordon have been visiting in
Memphis during the past few days.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

Miss Laura Randolph, OF Texas, Is
charming guest OF Miss Matsy
Wynn.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

Mr.. William Percy has returned
from a visit in Sewanee, Tenn.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-15

BRADLEY'S STUDIO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
~ EAsTERN -

Since there have been two postpone
ments os the Burton trial in St Louis,
the idea has got abroad in the east that
the government might not push the
case against the Kansas senator. This
has recently been denied by Attorney
General Moody, who says emphaticaHy
that the case viii be vigorously prose-
cuted, but the eastern press has been
discussing it just the same. The New
York Sun takes a very sensible view
Of the case in the following:
The second trial of Senator J. Ralph
Burton, Of Kansas. after conviction
for practising illegally before the post
Office department in the interest of a
get-rich-quiek concern. has been post
poned again; and there is a report in
Washington that Senator Burton wants
to make a deal with the prosecution
by which the case shall be dropped in
consideration of his resignation from
the senate.
No doubt powerful influences are at
work to prevent a United States senator
going to jail. and for the good repute
of the greatest legislative body on earth,
as it is sometimes called, and not with
out reason, it may be desirable that
Senator Burton should be permitted to
escape retrial and disappear from pub
lie life. On the other hand. justice
would suffer in public esteem If such
compromise were arranged; for it would
imply confession of guilt, and people
would say that if Mr.. Burton had not
been a United States senator, but a sub
ordinate officer in one of the depart
ments. the law would have taken its
course
Should the entry of noIle proseaui
be made in the record in the case of
Senator Burton, the same consideration
would have to be shown Senator
Mitchell and Representative John N
Williamson, of Oregon, who have been
convicted of completely in public land
frauds, if they did not want their cases
to go to trial again. There would then
be precedents of immunity for any rep
resentatives of the people who violated
their oaths of office, provided they We're
willing to go among their fellows with
the badge of disgrace upon them and
accept disqualification for public SER
vice. Would it not be better in such
cases to treat the distinguished defend
ant as other indicted persons are treat
ed-that is to say, let the case proceed
to its proper conclusion. when, if the
conviction stands, plea for mercy can
be considered %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Has not E. B. Jewett a case of libel
against a certain Topeka paper? It
connected his name with that of Tom
Kelly and Nick Chiles.
Ever think how poor an impression
is made on you by a young man who
always wears a cigarette in one corner
of his mouth and his hat on one side
Of his head?
What a waste Of money it would be
for Charley Foster to buy an encyclo-
pedal
In these days most of the magnates
seem to believe to the corporations be-
long the spoils.
It doesn't take a baseball player to
catch a fly these cold mornings.
Don't you wish your father had had
the good judgment to be an insurance
president instead of leading an hon
orable life?
10, the poor Indian, isn't so ALFRED
poor after ALL when it comes to foot
bail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
ENEoRCING THE Law.

From a number of counties in Kan
sas where the prohibitory law has
been openly violated for years comes
the news that the officials have be
come inoculated with the germ -of~1aw
enforcement that is sweeping over the
country, and jOintists are languishing
in Jail accordingly.
Following the good work done by
T. A. Wagstaff. county attorney in
Montgomery county. comes the re-
port that Republic county is prac-
tically free from joints for the first
time i'm years. B. It. BulIen county
attorney of Republic, has been con-
Quoting a vigorous campaign against
the violators of law. A week ago the
BelIevine Freeman figured that the
county was ahead about $500 in fines
and forfeited bonds on liquor prose
cutions On Saturday County Attorney
Bullen bagged another jointist on
three counts, and then three other vio-
lators of the law concluded that it was
useless to fight and they pleaded
guilty.
Thus it seems that a little backbone
and persistence on the part of the
prosecuting officers will accomplish
wonders.
Now, however. the county attorney is
facing a new ordeal. A jointist who
has just served a jail sentence, says
that when he came to the county a
stranger he was approached by v. T.
Bullen, a brother of the county attor-
ney, who represented that by reason of
his relationship he could keep the
1ointist posted on conditions in the
county and promised to do it for one
third of the jointists profits. Notwith-
standing that the jOintist was arrested
and has had to serve a Jail sentence
/ besides paying a fine. On the strength
of his story a constable arrested Y. t.
BulIen Saturday for aiding in the VIOLA
ton of law.
/ Whether the story is true or con-
Icocted to place the county attorney in
an embarrassing position remains for a
4 jury to determine. That it may put
Ithe county attorney to the test can not
/ be denied. for it now devolves upon
him to prosecute his own brother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
JAMES NJ. NATION.

1t is stated that the present assist
ant state auditor will very probably
decide to be a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for the Office in
which he is now serving his fourth
year as assistant. If this is correct it
will be extremely fortunate for the
state. 1t may not be as good for Mr..
Nation, for a man of his ability can
usually do as well or better in private
life than he can in public but the
state of Kansas viii be fortunate if it
can secure as faithful and efficient an
official as Mr.. Nation in that very es-
sential and responsible office.
The office ofauditor is one Of the most
important in the state government
aside from those that have to do i'm
mediateIy with the enforcement Of law
it is probably the most consequential
post in the executive department of
the government. The auditor is the
Watchdog of the treasury. For that
reason it is important that his integ-
rity should not only be unQuestioned.
but that he should also have the
brains to head of the many smooth
schemes which are laid to plumber the
state. Further than that the auditor
has much to do with the various
boards that are concerned with
assessment and taxation, and the cier-
| zeal work of his office is enormous.
There may be, and doubtless win be,
other good candidates for this Office. If
so, all the better, for there viii be less
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16


IThis is considered by many to be the
best of the late Captain James W. Steele's
poems. It was not published in the Kan
sas Magazine, of which Captain Steele was
at one time editor as # was not written
until two years after the famous maya
zine had proven a financial failure and
had passed into history. It was first pub
lished in a newspaper On Oct p, 1875. This
poem was favorite of Sol Miller. who
made many references to it--Editor-l
I don't mean any offense. Mister, it's
good as stories go,
But three hundred years is 50 far back
that it amt for me to know
If the first white speck on the western
sea was made by q Spanish sail,
dug beside Spanish trail
Rock, and the start on the eastern
II your story's true, the -spaniard's march
was many a year before.
Do you mean to say he came here first
while continent closed him IN
A thousand miles on every hand where
an Englishnan never had been2
The days are long and dreary here, and
the night passes silent and slow;
They must have been longer and drearier
still, three hundred years ago.
There's times when there's naaght but the
And the signing winds and sailing clouds,
and nobody here but you.
But I seem to see when I hear you talk.
how the. plains stretched away from
And the Hills that went down in the sun
set, rose again in the morning light,
And the coyote that basked in the shad-
ows, and barlzed till the dawn of the
And the buffalo lift his shaggy head and
clumsily gallon away.
I can see afar on the hilltop the moving
And the pennon dance in the southern
wind at the head Of the struggling
And the campfire spark in the evening,
CLEAN through the darkness far,
And seem, on the dim horizon line, like a
red, setting star.
And even now as the night comes, and the
shadows gather round,
And you tell the Old-time story, I can al
most hear the sound
OF the horses hoofs in the silence, and
the voices Of struggling men;
For the night is the same forever, and the
time comes back again.
There are gathering forms on the hillside,
stretching their thin arms high,
And they seem to nod and beclSon against
the sonbre sky:
1t is but the tender cactus, each with its
milk white bloom,
But they seem in the falling twilight as
if each wore Spanish plume.
IF you hear with your ear to the pillow a
pit-a-pat soft in the dark,
And you rise from startled slumber some
stealthy foe to mark
It's only the rabbits playmate, idly wan
But it i-s seems in the mighty silence like
a trampling host you hear.
And now the fair southwestern hills and
lonely southern streams
And alkali, and rock and sage, shut in
the Spaniard's dreams.
And there, forgetting and forgot, dying OF
slow decay
In those low fields and squalid towns his
followers pass away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
Nc Champion Bntt-In.

President Mccall of the New York
Life Insurance company was testifying
the other day before the legislative
committee about the corporations
agency business.
What is the chief qualifications of
q good agent?" he was asked.
s'Well, a first class agent must be a
man who is able to butt in.''
Just at that moment one OF the re-
porters who was watching the investi-
CATION felt some one touch his shoul-
der. Looking around, he saw
stranger with a glazing red mustache
and pale blue eyes This individual
leaned forward and whispered:
I'D like to talk to you a few min
utes."
what for? inquired the reporter
irritated at being interrupted in the
busiest hour of the morning
i want to sell you a policy in the
-- Insurance company confined
the stranger, whereupon there was an
abrupt ending of the interview.-New
York Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
LAYHA WKER .JOTS

oxford is undergoing a scarlet fever
scare.
lola also gets into the cotton belt
this year, but not enough to hurt.
Cattle thieves are said to be doing a
hOurishing business in Rocks county.
Frank farrell says that the cigars
the politicians hand out are known in
Holton as germ killers.
Albert Reid calls attention to how
much more welcome she is at your
house as grandmother than as
mother-in-law.
A farmer near Alton received five
hundred dollars for a single bunch of
hogs that he hauled to town Monday.
There were A in the bunch.
Bent Murdoch is of the opinion that
it takes more gall than brains to run
an insurance company. It takes some
brains. too, to figure how to get away
with all of the profits.
William Denton of Clyde has ship
ped six cars Of melons this fall, rum
ming from a thousand to fourteen hun
bred melons to the car. One car of a
thousand averaged Sc pounds each.
A Smith county farmer Henry
Stone, has twelve hundred acres to
pillow, but he win probably make it, as
he has a single pillow that gets over
thirty acres a day. 1t runs by steam.
The Alma Enterprise is fearful that
when Judge Ansel Clark becomes
lieutenant governor he viii not orna-
ment the Office to the extent Dave
Hanna did because Governor Hanna
has one of the finest collections of
variegated vests in the west.
Republic county figures that it is
about $1,000 to the good on joint
prosecutions thus far in the present
term of court with a lot of cases still
pending. Thus far there hasn't been
an acquittal although a number of
jOintists have forfeited their bonds.
Jewell Republican philosophy A
man must have a lot of-eomhdenoe in
his wife when he sends her to town to
pick out his tobacco for him. .
Most people welcome a change of sea-
son, and Kansas is a great country to
accommodate people who like a
change. person meets
some pretty hard places on the road
he has to travel in this life. For in
stance. the ice man and the coal man
both handed their bills into this Of
flee yesterday. NO one is
more thankful for an early morning
fire than the fly. Tt takes very little
cold weather to make a fly feel very
melancholy and a very little warmth
to make him happy again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.1
The road to hell is really q boule-
ward.
It always amuses people to see a
bartender chew gum.
We don't know what you are, but
we admit we are a Gull.
Beggars are not only choosers, but
they are impudent about it.
Occasionally a fool says a good
thing, but he never knows IL.
Everybody likes to be told that
they should have been an actor or an
actress
Although every man occasionally
tries it, very few men can initiate an
Irishman's talk.
Il wonder" every one thinks when
getting a wedding invitation, what is
expected Of me"
One consolation: a baIdheaded man
does not have to worry about his hair
being combed.
The instinct to conduct a confess
sional is terribly strong in every mar
ried woman's heart.
AS a matter of fact, nearly all the
members of the Square Deal club are
looking for the best Of it.
It's mighty hard for bartender to
get the attention of a customer, be-
cause of the mirror behind him.
If hell were ten times worse than
pictured, people would behave them
selves just the same as they do now.
The smaller the town, the longer
the people demand that the skirts Of
the chorus girl must be on the stage.
It is as easy to mention something
that viii start a spoiled child to cry
ing for It. as it is to start a riot in
Chicago.
In spite OF all the physical culture
prescriptions floating around, people
continue to get fat where they
shouldn't.
No woman can claim to have at
tanned the limits of economy unless
she knows the possibilities in boil
ing piece.
we suppose the reason the worm
was created without feathers and
bones IS that It might not obstruct the
workings Of the cider mill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
poINTED PARAGRAPHs.
[From the chieago Newa.l

From the Chicago News
To the political victors belong the
broils.
An honest gas meter is the noblest
work of a corporation.
Age may tell on a woman. but It
seldom tells the whole truth.
Sometimes even a fool makes a
safer friend than the man who knows
too much.
A broken promise may be mended,
but it always shows the crack.
Did you ever notice that the al
mighty dollar is the slave of few and
the master of many2
A girl admires the tone of a bach
elor's voice when there is a ring in it.
Few men are blacker than they are
painted or whittier than they are
whitewasl1ed.
There is but one land in which all
men and women enjoy equal rights,
and that is dreamland-
Perhaps a man is sometimes dubbed
a ~bad egg" because it is disagreeable
to have him strike you when he is
broke
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
inexpensive Luxuries.

For the benefit of our younger read
ers who are starting in life. we print
a story from which they may gather
hint or two. A certain Irishman, who
is always well dressed and notorious
ly irnpecunlous, had been seen riding
about several seaside resorts in auto
mobiles, and an intimate friend tack
led him ON the question.
whist. man." said the Irishman
don't say a word about it. found
everybody wanted to sell an auto for
just hung around the garage at every
hotel I stopped at, and pretended to
be as green as the Emerald Isle, and
gave out that I wanted to get a sec
ond-hand machine. and would not go
to a dealer, as I did not know any
thing about a machine, and he might
rob me I have had 49 rides, IL lunch
es, five dinners and about 40 cigars,
good, bad, and Indifferent but diVil a
machine have I bought yet."-London
GloSs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16

They had been expatiating on the
peculiarities which distinguished the
members of the human race from
those Of the animal kingdom.
I'VE all differ and yet we're a good
deal alike, young and old" remarked
a veteran who had been listening to
the conversation "a story I read re-
Gently regarding a forgotten bunch of
KEYS started a train of thought. You
know that a boys pocket has amused
his elders ever since boys had pockets.
There's a little Of everything in it.
Now, just for the fun of it, he con-
tinued, turning to the man on his left,
fish up what you're carrying in your
righthand trousers pocket.
The latter eolOred slightly, but COM
piled. In three trips he brought to
light a ring with eleven large keys on
it. knife with a broken blade, an
empty match safe, two queer coins
and something that looked like an
overgrOwn raisin.
Precisely what L expected, said
the first speaker
IN bet that outside of your latch
key. and maybe a key to your Office or
desk, you can't even guess why you re
Juggling those keys. They used to fit
something or other; but YOU We moved,
and the something or others been sold
or given away or left behind, your
knife won't cut, there are never any
matches in that match safe, the coins
are pocket pieces. but you don't know
how you came by them or why you
keep them, and that dried, weakened
horse chestnut's for rheumatism. If
it We're ever a remedy or a preventive
which it wasn't-the life went out of
/ it long ago"
The object of these remarks ad-
nitted that the case had been summed
up correctly.
Il know it." concluded his friend.
mine men out of ten are loaded with
that kind of rubbish. It's true that a
boy carries fish lines and beetles and
chalk and apple cores and a country
store assortment generally. but he
/ knows what to do with it every half
hour That's where we have to admit
that the jokes on US if we are entirely
fair ,'-Providenc Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
FR0M OTHER PENS
Changed His Coat.

Oliver PEBBLES jenkins, of Stanford
university, is head professor of the de-
partment of zoology He is a scientist,
and therefore a deep thinker, and con-
sequently often preoccupied and alb
sentminded. His most. recent adven-
ture attributable to his absent-minded
propensities is at present furnishing
much amusement for the faculty.
He was reading one evening after
dinner when his wife approached and,
touching him on the shoulder. remark
ed softly: OLIVER. Mr.. and Mrs. Bran
ner are coming over this evening, so
just go upstairs and put on your other
coat
The little. quiet professor complied
without a murmur An hour later.
when the visitors had been in the
house some time, the hostess excused
herself for a moment and slipped up
stairs to see what detained DR.. Jen-
kins. She found him in bed, calmly
sfeeping.
"Oh. to be sure, the Branners.'' he
said when she awakened him. "Ill be
right down. I guess was little alb
sent-minded. I must have forgotten
what I came for when I removed my
coat, for I kept right on undressing
and went to bed.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
I3ie one. sure ,NougIl.

Allen Jameson had a trying ex-
periences while cutting corn for the
Rev. NJ A. Wolf in the Usage bottom
the other day. He was working away
when suddenly something struck him,
knocking him to the ground, where he
remained for some time in an uncon-
scfous condition. He finally recovered
and although badly bruised up, he was
able to get home. The next day he
went back to the field in the hopes of
finding out what had struck him, and
was rewarded. There were two ears
of corn that had fallen from the stalk
he was cutting on. The condition of
the ground indicated that he had
struggled hard to get from under the
nubbins that held him down.-Metz
(AIo.) Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
VaIne Id q Gamma.

Professor Bailey Of Yale university
SAYS that in the town in which he
spent his childhood there was q So
ciety of women who were very active
man haters. On one occasion the
president prepared a paper presenting
the strength of women and the weak
ness Of men, entitled, Woman: With
out Her. Man Is Helpless To
strengthen her point she hired a de-
crepit old man to read the paper be-
fore the regular weekly meeting Of
the club. When the time came the old
man stood up, and, reading from the
manuscript, loudly announced his title
as Woman Without Her Man, Is Help
less. ''-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16

An autocrat who far away
Our destfnfes doth guide,
She manages to have her say
And in majestic pride
Reffres To silence. while in vain
Against your fate you rail,
You plead that she viii speak again.
And plead without avail.
A voice commanding and severe
And naug5ft beside is she;
Her silences are more severe
Than words can ever be;
AS near and far her mandates ranaa
We tremble at her tone
The girl who sits in the exchange
And runs the telephone.
w ashiugtOn star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
BEGIN At HOME.

Secretary of state Burrow sold
Smith Center bonds he owned as an
individual to the Kansas school fund
through himself one of the members
Of the commission, for the Investment
Of that fund. Incidentally he made
some $1,000 by the deal. This is the
same character of a transaction for
which metropolitan papers are so gen.
orally condemning Perkins and other
directors of eastern insurance COM
panies. In house cleaning why not
commence nearer home.-Kingman
Courier-I 4eader.