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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

1t is needless for the Russians to de-
clare that no humiliating peace terms
win be accepted. 1t would be impossi-
BILE for Russia to be more Inundated
than she has already been.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
COBURN's WAY.

Secretary Coburn has an interesting
way of telling the people of the world
about the greatness of Kansas in many
different lines. His array of figures
relative to the corn production of the
state, could never have been so enter
tainingly presented by any other statis-
tician.-LaWrence. Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

A writer in one of the current maya
zines points out to US the beauties of
the cold wave. This is the time of
year when we can distinguish those
beauties with the naked eye.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
WHY HE GOES

Mr.. Bryan will go to Europe so that
he may stand clear of the wrestling
between the conservative and radical
wings of his party, and be ready to
step in and take a hand at the finish.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

there has been lot of stuff carried out
of there in the past since T. T. Kelly
has been connected with it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

China is the innocent bystander in
the eastern war situation, and she is
likely to play the part through, even to
the getting hit with a brick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

The christening of the Kansas led
Fred Trigg to indulge the hope that she
will never take water, but that was
when he thought champagne was used.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
LIKES IT.

1--WE will bust Wall street. is the jim
scription on button now being worn
by southern cotton planters. Wall
street will be tickled to death. 1t las
been busted" that way before, and
likes it.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
HANLY.

Governor Hanly of Indiana believes
in carrying the war into the enemy's
country and forced Democratic Ma
tionai Chairman Taggart to close up
his big gambling resort at French Lick
Springs-Hutchinso News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
LEGS AND CORN STALKS.

A st. Louis man wants to know why
some young men in a street car will
pull their trousers legs up high enough
to expose legs that would make a corn
stalk smoker. Some young men would
be tickled to death if they had legs
like this years Kansas corn stalks
Chanute Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

1t is a matter of surprise that Cen
eral Hughes burst his gloves at the
launching of the Kansas" Now if it
had been his hat band
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
MORGAN AND ART.

Pierpont Morgan has had a tri-
umphal progress through Italy. He
was feted and decorated wherever he
went. Italy has lots of works of art
for sale.-Tacoma Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
FRENCH HAVE GOOD IDEAS.

France is thinking of moving New
Years day to March 21. It figures
that the roads will be better for the
water wagon then.-Chicago Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

The correspondents who have been
rendering Secretary Shaw's resignation
from the cabinet seem to be a little pre-
Nious
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

This is the time of year that it
seems like it would be a lot of fun to
shovel snow off the sidewalks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

In a Connecticut cake walk the
other evening Teddy. jr., captured the
prize. It seems to be hereditary for a
Roosevelt to take the cake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
THE OTHER SIDE.

The demand for mosquito bars al
New, Orleans comes at time to give
the South an opportunity to realize
what high-priced cotton really means
Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
MIGHT STAR WITH Nan.

Neither Senator Burton nor Senator
Mitchell has yet announced his inten-
ton to go on the stage. However, the
atricaI managers look several seasons
ahead.-Osage City Public Opinion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

The accident insurance companies
ought to do a big business in Topeka
as long as the Kansas avenue pave
ment remains in its present condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

We will be thankful for small show
ers-if we cannot have greater ones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
A GREAT NEED.

Kansas needs some gubernatoria1
backbone about as much as it needs a
new treasurer's bon0.-Sedan Times
Star. 30
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

The dispatches have now breveted
Captain Taggart Major" No reason
Is given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

When Mr.. Root became secretary of
state his official position did not give
him near as close connection with
the business interests Of the country as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
g7nfzation for exclusive afternoon publ
cation in Topeka
The news is received in the State Jour
nal building over wires for This sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
HOW IT AFFECTS THEM.

The former president of the Equit-
able Life is ill. but several thousand
policy holders are positively sick.-Des
Moines Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
PREsERvATIyE WANTED.

The agricultural department is now
engaged in gathering information as
to the best method of preserving se-
crecy.-Washingto Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
An Epigranl.

During a discussion of Oscar Wilde's
interesting posthumous work, De
Profundis," an editor said:
1T had the honor of meeting Wide ID
london on the opening night of his
amusing comedy, The Importance of
Being Earnest! A little group of us got
supper at the Carlton. and during sup
per the subject of epigrams came up.
ITO Wilde. as the foremost living cpl
gramist. the duty of defining an cpl
gram was assigned.
"He thought moment smiled slight
ly. and then, in his low and pleasant
voice, he said:
IAN epigram is a commonplace
couched so adroitly that only clever peo-
Die can tell what it means LOS An
geles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
Art in the Rural Regions,

There are between 400 and 500
artists in Chicago alone and many
more in other big cities who do piece
work for the big art houses" said
David G. Kensington of Chicago at the
st. Charles hotel. "A few months ago
the managers of the stores were con-
sidering a plan to cut down the pay
cents an hour and steps were at once
taken to organize the artists into a
union. The movement promised to be
SO successful that the dealers gave up
the idea, and the old scale of wages
was maintained. The painters work in
water colors, oils and crayon and pastel
and paint anything they are told to.
They work at their homes for the
most part and get orders every few
days for, say, 100 landscapes at So
each, or 500 water scenes at $40 each,
or 200 animal pictures at $40 each.
They give just as much time and atten-
ton to their work as they are paid
for OF course they do not put their
names to their pictures; but some
times the firm requires that the firm
name be affixed in on some of the bet
ter grades. The dealers ship the pic
lures all over the country to the
smaller art stores and the pictures for
which the painters get So or IS apiece
are sold for $40 or $50 to the connois-
seurs of art who delight in their pri-
vate collections. Such a scheme as
that of course takes all the artistic
temperament out of a painter. but they
do it to keep the wolf from the door
and make a living in the way in which
they think an Almighty Providence en-
dowed them. Every one of these men
and women hope at some time to be
noted artists, but the chances are a
hundred to one against them. Most of
them will be shaving away at it all
their lives. giving what talent and am
bition and love of art they have to the
traffickers for a mere pittance. And
the joke of it all is that the buyers of
oil paintings and water colors and
other works of art believe that they
are getting the finest kind of work.
Not one in a thousand who buy pic
lures can estimate their value" Mil
waukee Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
The Awful Cold of KIondike.

Klondike river is fed by numerous
soda springs, and even the winters cold
fails to close them entirely. Walking on
the edge OF the ice near the shore, a
miner one day slipped into six inches OF
water In a moment he was out and
Fastening to the brush hard by to light
a fire before his feet froze. Napidly he
cut a few fragments of wood with ms
heavy pocketknife. But the unllghted
match dropped from his already chilled
fingers, for he had rashly removed his
mittens in order to use the knife with
n,ore freedom. Then he lighted a sec
ond and a third and finally several at
one time, but either his haste or per
haps a sigh of the air caused them 10
fall to the snow. All this time the frost
was Selling his limbs, his body. his
heart, his mind. He turned to the fatal
mittens, which he never should have
taken off. but his already frozen fingers
could only lift them from the ice where
they had fallen, and after a vain at,
tempt he hurled them from him ana
strove once again to light a match. But
it was too late.-New York News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15
are S6IlIIIS IIIV IIIISot hIIIu OI "O
Not one in a thousand who buy p
lures can estimate their value. ~
waukee Wisconsin.
Grabs in California.
Say" said the old man who had b.
there, eff you ever go to California
Crabs in California.

Say" said the old man who had been
there, eff you ever go to California be
careful how you order crabs. I've been
there, and I know. The crabs in that
little neck of the woods don't often
grow larger than a telephone box, but
incidentally they don't come so very
much smaller. One crab out there is a
meal for good-sized family. remena-
Der an amusing incident in which my
wife figured while we were out there.
One day 1 took a notion that I'd like
to eat some crabs, and told her so. She
said she'd ask the cook to get some from
the market the following day. She did.
Going into the kitchen she asked the
cook if there were any crabs in the
market. The president and general man
ager of the range and dishes, as we'll as
utensils, replied that there were. Then
she was told to get some Some! she
exclaimed. How many do you want?
"A Dozen replied my wife A dozen,
ma'am? jerlkily replied the domestic,
and her eyes stood out so you could
have scraped 'em off with a chip. Yes. L
said a Dozen said my wife. and that
settled it, There was no arguing with
that better half of mine when she en-
ployed a tone like that, and the domes-
tic picked the rest of her conversation
She went for the crabs and returned
without them. When my wife learned
this she was mad clear through. and
proceeded to ball out the cook. But the
poor domestic wasn't to blame. She
couldn't have carried a dozen crabs If
she had borrowed Tom Jenkins Shout
ders. NY wife didn't know this. Later
she found it out. 1t was half an hour
afterward that the market man drove
up to the house and proceeded to bring
in the crabs, one at a time. He had a
sweet job. 1t f1oored my wife, and
hereafter she is going to secure meas
urements on things before ordering
them in any proportion New Orleans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

You say there's no such word as fail?''
IT certainly do
well you'll admit, won't you, that
there's such a word as assignment? phil
waukee Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

Wigg--Why does Bjones call his yacht
the Floating Debt?
Wagg-Because he bought ii on the in
Stallment plan.-Phiiadelphi Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-15

What do you think of government own
shiD?''
well" answered the man who always
expects the worst, cit strikes me a S an ar
rangement by which the taxpayer stands
a fine chance of paying assessments. with
no show whatever of dividends. Wash
ingtOn Star
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
"GoId Goina Out"

good many papers are commenting
in various stages of trepidation on the
fact that our gold is leaving us In large
quantities. Week before last eleven
millions went to Europe from this
country, and the Philadelphia Inquirer
says that that fact has given the fnan-
cial centers of the country a slight
chill of apprehension" 1t is feared by
the financiers that there is In the mon
ey centers of Europe state Of nerv-
BUSINESS caused by the bad plight Of the
Russian treasury, therefore the drain
upon the American gold supply. We
are also given as q reason for the ex-
portation of our gold that large guam
titles of American securities held
abroad have been sold. Still another
reason is found in the fact that we are
not using as much money in our busi-
ness as we did year or two ago. No
doubt that Is one reason, but; If that
be true, how does it happen that we
are constantly regaled with the story
that our prosperity is constantly in
creasing? II we are not using as much
money in our business as formerly 1t
does not require captain of industry
to figure 1t out that the volume of our
business is shrinking instead of grow
ing, and it must follow as the night the
day that q shrinkage in volume of
business means n falling off in pros
perity. The plain, unvanished truth is
that conditions for several years have
been very favorable to our accumula-
tion Of gold. In fact, our trade condi-
tons with foreign countries were alb
normally favorable to us and enabled
us to pile up more than our proportion
ate share Of the worlds gold supply
Now conditions are becoming normal
and we must give up our excess of
gold. 1t is to be sincerely hoped that
this readjustment Of gold holdings will
not precipitate panic. Perhaps II
will not, but nous verrons.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
IMP'D. o. r. M. RESOLUTIONS.

Hunting Grounds of Tuscaloosa
Tribe No. 80 1. o. r. M. Logan,
O. Sleep of the Goth. Sun Cold
Moon G.. S. d. Ala Common Era
Jan. 28, 1905.
Whereas, The Great Spirit and
Supreme Ruler of the Universe in
his infinite wisdom removed from
our midst our worthy and esteem
ed Brother, j. H. Kline,
Therefore, Be it Resolved, That
in the death of Brother, j. H.
Kline, I tuscaloosa Tribe has lost a
true and faithful member one who
was always willing to aid in the
cause of freedom, friendship and
charity.
Resolved, That In the removal
of such a life from our midst
leaves vacancy and shadow
that will be deeply realized by all
the members and friends of Tus-
caloosa Tribe and will prove a
severe loss to society, to the COM
munity and the public. wa
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
An illustration In Steel.

The Kansas City Star, brilliant in
dependent paper, under the above cap
tion says editorlally:
Plttsburg bridge steel costs an average
of about 40 per cent more in the United
States than in Mexico, In spite of the
long freight haul involved in the exporta-
tlon.
This shows that steel can be manu-
facturcd at Pittsburg, shipped to Mexico
and sold there with profit at about $40
per ton and is sold at about that figure
because in Mexico It comes in competition
with the native article.
Yet the same steel, manufactured at the
same place, with on average of shorter
hauls Is sold in this country at about $50
per ton. This is possible because the
tariff keeps out foreign competition and
the steel trust. through an agreement with
all the companies in the steel business,
has eliminated domestic competition.
The consequent excess cost in the max
ing of bridges, buildings and all articles
made of iron comes out of the people in
the long run.
The people have elected men to repre-
sent them in congress, and congress has
imposed this tax on the people. What do
the people have to show for It? Nothing
but some public libraries given by the
ostentatious hand Of Andrew Carnegie.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
Two Phenomena.

At the present time two phenomena
must attract the attention of philoso-
piers, psychologists and sociologists,
and one of them must attract the at
tention of crimnologists also. They
are, first, the great religious revivals
now In progress all over the land; sec
ond, the exposures of corruption in va
rious state capitals. Whether the two
have any connection, necessary or 9th
erwise, with each other Is not now
known and may never be known. Mis-
souri, has exposed her corruptionists,
and religious revivals throughout the
state are numerous and remarkable
for the crop of sinners who make the
good confession. At Denver an ex-
posure of corruption in both parties
appalling in Its proportions Is being
made while at Colorado Springs q re-
ngious revival Is working wonders. In
Illinois lawyer in a public speech
charges the legislature with wholesale
corruption, and in various parts of the
state the preachers are making more
converts than ever before. Is some gen.
eral cause operating to produce more
crime and corruption than usual, or can
the exposures be credited to more Wig
orous attempts on the part Of law Off
GERS to discover and punish crime? Are
the revivals generated by an extraor-
dinary desire on the part of the people
to escape the wrath to come or to the
extraordinary talent and energy of the
ministers of the gospel? Are we verg-
ing on the millennium, or are we sim
ply having sort of general moral
house cleaning?
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
From Lancaster Gazette:

Leb. L. Wagner is again a pris-
oner in the county Jail. After the
hearing of the forgery charge filed
against him in mayors court by
Ham N. Yontz. Wagner. spent an
hour and a half in vain effort to
secure the 5000 bond. John Hat
ter, who was on his bond for his
appearance in mayors court, re-
fused to again go on his bond and
VIM. Schneider, whom Wagner
claimed had consented to act as
surety for him, also backed
down.
Chief Wallace took Wagner to
Jail at 4:3O o'clock Wednesday af-
ternoon.
He still asserts that he will be
able to furnish bond and hopes to
be again at liberty in few days.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
FROM OTHER PAPERS.
A Few Clippings That We Thought Might
Be of Interest.
THE EXCHANGE SCISSORS
Can Sometimes Whittle Out Some Mighty Good Items
Of What Others Are Doing.

of the Hooking Valley succeeded
In preventing the blowing up of
his engine Tuesday.
The bucket contained a dozen
sticks of dynamite.
Gardner runs a switch engine
in the Columbus yards. He was
at the throttle south of that city,
when he noticed the bucket in the
center of the track ahead.
The bucket looked to be too
good to destroy, and Gardner
thought he would secure it. He
put on the airbrakes, and stopped
within few feet of the bucket.
Going forward, he was amazed to
find it partially filled with dyna-
mite sticks. Had he struck it the
engine would have been blown to
pieces, and a number of cars
wrecked.
1t is supposed the dynamite was
carelessly left on the track by
workmen who were blasting near
| bv.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
nrhs Mxsterious stranaer.p

1.-THE Mysterious Stranger"
Mr.. MeCutcheon may live to rue hay
ing evolved ''The Mysterious Stranger"
The picture had a great run, but "The
Mysterious Stranger in Missouri is not
behaving in manner to commend HIM
self to thinking people, and his stay
does not promise to be very long. Quite
the contrary. Touching him the st.
Louis Republic, which Is neither rad
ical nor sensational, says editorially:
"Grand old Republican Missouri as she
is run proves somewhat disappointing
to those good, credulous people who took
campaign talk for gospel truth and looked
for little millennium upon the transfer
of state affairs into the hands Of the pie
hunters. AS presently exploited by these
two by fours, "grand old Republican Mis-
souri, is hardly Utopian dream. 1t is
rather parody to make good citizens
weep
The dismalest picture of political ruin
ever painted by Republican editor dis
appointed for q postmastership was as
order to chaos compared with the actual
ity OF Republicanism as exhibited now at
the capital. Even pore old Missouri" p"
the disordered vision due to undigested
this nightmare of neglect to which the
deadlocked devotees of the 6. o. p. are
subjecting US In the reality.
The g. o. p., me party of good old pie,
is so intent upon the incidentals. per-
auisites and ct ceteras of election that 1t
cannot see the essentials. One Of the es-
sentials which ought to be regarded is the
selection of United States senator TO
represent the state. After more than
two weeks of squabbling over considera-
tions Of beer and railway interests. fed
eral Jobs and factional recognition the
party is further from result than when
h began. The only result of the session
90 far Is an accumulation OF evidences of
Republican incompetency and littleness, to
the disgust of citizenship everywhere. Fv-
cry voter In Missouri, Republican or DEM
ocrat, is sick of the exhibition. The ex-
hibition does more than disgust Mis-
sourians; It mortifies them. The state Is
being pilloried and poohpoohed every
where by people who cannot understand
such incidents in the wake of the people 8
triumph in electing Governor Folk. es-
pecially since the senatorial fight has
been characterized by much smoke and
| scent of DOODLE The Missouri idea is be-
ing deeply discredited by the Republican
| rabble at Jefferson City, which has no
thought above the small tangible ct ceteras
| of politics. 1t is a humiliation which the
| people OF Missouri can never forget, much
| less forgive.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
The Deficit.

Last year when Democratic papers
and orators spoke of II deficit in the
revenues such talk was branded by
the Republican speakers and organs as
Campaign lies" but that talk was the
truth nevertheless. The deficit is now
admitted by all concerned. Even Re
publican papers are bemoaning 1t, de-
claring that it never ought to have
been, and are beginning to realize
that the Republican extravaganza
which begot the deficit is preventing
appropriations for useful and even nee
essary purposes. Experience is bad
school, but fools will learn in no other "
so it is said. We who have preached
and voted economy for years have been
sneeringly alluded to as 'cheeseparing
statesmen" The cry has been, "The
old flag and an appropriation"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-23
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Eta B. Devore and husband to
Jacob g. Banter, 40 acres in Ben
ton TIP. Consideration $3.50.
Marguerite Kleinschmidt to
Marguerite Kleinschmidt, in lot
795 in village OF Logan. Consid-
GRAFTON $500.
John w. Tritsch ct al to Eliza
beth Clark lot 521 in village of
Logan. Consideration $3.50.
Antonia T. Converse to Samuel
Black, one third part of property
in Starr TIP. Consideration $500.
Judson Armstrong and wife to
John F. Armstrong, part Of lot
No. A in village of Laurelville.
Consideration $l050.