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The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
SCORE ONE ron. ARKANSAS.

We are accustomed to throw stones
at Arkansas and to think it doesn't
amount to much as a state We think
of the people of that. commonwealth as
unprogressive and not amounting to
very much, taken as a whole.
Yet poor old Arkansas has law
against issuing railroad passes to
state officials or members of the Iegis-
lature-and more than that. it is being
enforced. There is no red fire and
lime-light in connection with it, yet -
dispatch announces that county pros
ecutor has brought an action to recov-
er a fine from the Iron Mountain road
for giving a state senator free trans
portation over that road.
The Arkansas law provides that If a
railroad company gives a state ohicer
or member of the legislature any free
transportation it shall be fined from
two hundred to two thousand dollars.
The official accepting the transporta-
ton shall be fined a like amount, he
shall forfeit his Office and be disbarred
from holding office in the future.
And this law is being enforced in
ArKanSaSi
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
ANoTHER PAss-RETURNER.


Another public Official has conclud-
ed that it is not just the thing for a
man in a public office TO accept rail-
road passes when he has no claim
upon the railroad company except the
fact that he is in position as an OFF,
cial where he might be able to do the
railroad company some favor at the
expense of his duty to the public. He
is Cassius r. Peck. deputy United
States attorney for Oklahoma. He has
returned his passes to the railroad
companies, and in giving his reasons
for doing so he said:
Il do not believe that a public Off
ciaI should accept transportation from
a railroad simply because he happens
to be public official believe that
some valuable consideration should
move from the holder of pass to the
corporation. If that is possible in a
way not in conflict with and entirelS
apart from official duties, then ssich an
official may as honestly hold transpor-
tation as any other Individual, but un-
til I am able to render such legitimate
service and bacome possessed of such
transportation by some other evidence
of right than my official title, it must
be returned. If at any time should
be called upon to prosecute one OF
these corporations, I could do so bet
ter If had not a pass in my pocket.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHa

From the Chicago News.
Poverty-A grindstone for sharpen
ing wits.
Love is a more or less troublesome
case of heart trouble.
Some men attempt to cure the
blues by painting things red.
Excessive politeness Is seldom on
speaking terms with truth.
Beauty is apt to be one woman's
thorn in another woman's flesh.
In the hands of some people the
pen is more dangerous than the sword.
Somehow a married woman is up-
able to forget that her husband is
made of dust.
A man always dislikes another man
who attempts TO act as smart as ne
does.
Paradoxical though it may seem. the
cradle of the deep is on top of the
oceans bed.
When a young man begins to spout
hot air it's up to the wise girl 10 turn
on cold wave.
In the beginning woman may have
been merely a side issue, but with
most men today she seems to be the
main subject.
The man who borrows trouble, un-
like the one who borrows money. is al
ways ready to pay it back with inter-
est-and then some
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
oUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrorn the Philadelphia Record
The early worm catches the chest
nut.
Even watered stock may take drop
too much.
The early bird makes hay before the
sun shines.
A little confidence in yourself is
worth a lot in others.
The manicure girl should have her
business well in hand.
The troubles of other people are the
ones we generally make light of.
In spite of the fact that. love levels
all things, it is often an uphill fight.
It's no use telling a dealer in pet
animals to quit his monkey business.
Take care of the sense of duty and
the dollars will take care of them
selves.
THE fellow who laughs at all the
moss-grown stories is bound to be
popular.
The fve-cent cigar belongs to the
rank and file, but the "two-for" is SIM
ply rank.
The average mans idea of pleasure
is something that costs more than he
can afford.
The more henpecked some men are
the louder they crow when they are
away from home
The fellows who make UP their
minds to marry money are not the
onIv ones who buy gold bricks.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchfson GIobe.l
It is easy to find fault with a good
thing.
The three graces: Loyalty. enthusi-
asm and truthfulness.
However small a mans store, he
thinks he operates headquarters.
No one loves a crying baby, and the
same is true of people who are grown
up.
After a man has worked hard to
get thing, he has to fight hard to
keep it.
A country woman in a restaurant is
as scornful as city girl who visits a
country town.
What has become of the old fash-
ioned farmer who got tight every time
he came to town? =
When a woman admits that her
husband is good to her she qualities Ii
by adding "in his way
Have you heard a dull. sickenfng
thud lately? 1t is Everybody's Maga-
zine falling back to its old place.
1--WE had a lot of trouble during my
life, " an old man says in a recent
book, but most of it never happened .
I've been running all my life,'' said
an Atchison man today, "but hereafter
I intend to make a stand and fight
It is a rare woman who can care
for her husband in sickness without
reminding him of his neglect when she
| fell Ill
: When child does anything to
! please a fond maiden aunt that's all
the lamp that any Aladdin could wish
| to rub.
Do you make failure of everything
you undertake. and then wonder that
people do not take your advice in
everything?
| Dressmakers admit they have theil
greatest trouble with customer wfer
she reaches the age when it is hard tc
| locate her waist.
The great handicap to having q
reputation for tender heart, is that
all the neighbors drop the kittens they
don't want into your yard.
Every good and loving wife becomes
a mother to her husband, until the
children arrive, when she begins tc
treat him like a stepmother.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Frank Jarrell's proofreader lets him
spell Governor Hoch's name Hook"
farrell always fusses if other people
misspell his name.
Now that Sweden and Norway have
kissed and made up, where will trouble
break loose next?
Query: Did Phil Campbell pay the
customary fee to the Sedan Times Star
for his Official announcement as a
senatorial candidate?
Some mems idea of high honor is
to be elected to some job in a lodge
Do you suppose Alice Roosevelt will
keep Emperor Ki's photograph on her
dresser when she gets home along with
some of the others of her gentlemen
friends?
Billy Morgan says he came to To-
peka yesterday because his wife is
housecleanfng this week. That is a
valid excuse.
Jerry Simpson has lost his voice
The State Journals want columns are
open to Mr.. Simpson to advertise for
it. Rates on application.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

scowling when his father would spring
his alleged witticisms- The minister !lll- no
ticed this and thereafter it was irnpossiolss s
for the son to secure a second .helpihs y
any of the food his father served. AS a
result the son would sometimes leave TIE
table hungry. One day the family nao lua at
ali he wanted of it, e9en if he had to
laugh at his fathers JOKES Soon afeer !. ne ne
had eaten his first allowance his father
sprang a pun and the young man laughed
1t wasn't a simple laugh; 1t was roar,
which only ended when he fell on ms
chair. When the son had pulled himself
together again his father looked sterniy
over his glasses. tAheni Henry ne said'
picking up the carving knife and Iork.
spass me your plate and let me help you
to some more of this excellent turkey. =
Kansas City Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
MYHAWKER JOES

Manl-ato is happy because it sees an
alfalfa meal mill in sight.
A -Hugger is doing bus1-
ness in Concordia and the Blade warns
him that a number of Concordia won't
en- have begun to carry revoivers.
The Salina jointists who have to
serve Jail sentences in addition to the
usual fines have changed their minds
about the prohibitory law being
farce.
Personal note in the Hutchinson In
dependent: sInsley L. Dayhon re-
turned to Topeka this morning, after
attending to important business mat
ters in Hutchinson for the past few
days.
Is spring coming again in central
Kansas? Both Mcpherson and Sa11na
report numerous lilac bushes IN
bloom, something these particular
bushes were never known to do before
at this time of year.
An Atchison woman, who works down
| town all day. when she goes home at
and milks three cows, besides doing ter
regular house work. Her husband prob
ably has a hard job on the street oor-
ners saving the country.
| A Jewell county item says: "There
were a few Kelly men here before cleo
ton, but during the last few months
/ they have been almost unknown. There
was man here the other day, though
who acknowledged he was a Kelly man
He was Dan Dyer" 'Nuf said.
Salina Journal: Governor Hoeh at
tempted to pick up a pocketbook from
the sidewalk in Toaeka the other
night, and just as he reached for 1t. Il
disappeared. It turns out now. how
ever, that some small boys had hold o1
the string, not Tom Kelly.
Alton Empire: Uncle Jim McIntire
was the only member of his regiment
present at Denver and carried his ole
regimental battle flag in the gran6
parade. He told Joe Campbell that he
had carried that flag through foui
hard fought battles. When he found i
after AZ years. he broke down and
cried. ~
| Del Valentine need never expect any
favors from Concordia since the Clay
Center Times has printed this: III
has been discovered that one of Guam
trellsS band Of outlaws lives in Con-
cordia, but he will not be brought to
| trial under the recently revived indict-
ments SO long as he is willing to serve
out his term in Concordia."
| Clay Hodgson of Rice county. whc
I lives on the boundary between the cas-
and the short grass country, has ar
orchard from which he has contracted
| to furnish fifteen thousand barrels OF
men at work picking and packing the
apples. He gets $4,000 for it. This
| isn't a bad income from single or
chard in central Kansas.
| John A. Kimmel, a Leavenworth man
was married the other night and was
attacked by "shiveree" party. There
| is nothing particularly startling in that
for Leavenworth is one of those towns
where the charivari is still in vogue
| But Mr.. Kimnnel refuse dto give in tC
the noise factory. The racket started a
eight o'clock in the evening and he anC
| his bride stood it till two o'clock the
next morning. Then they capitulatef
and Mr.. Kirnmel bought off the crow6
with two dollars and two bits. will
| which sum the gang made a dash tt
the nearest saloon and drank to tn,
health and happiness of the newly mar
ried couple.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
WTTTE.

When M. Witte got home to st.
Petersburg a lot of people who didn't
know any better met him at the depot
and read him a speech beginning like
this:
you have accomplished difficult
task, and the nation is grateful to you.
You have given the credit for your
success to Emperor Nicholas, Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Emperor William of
Germany, and the press. You have
forgotten only yourself
1t must be that those statements of
M. Witte right after peace was Sc
cured about how he made the .Japs
give In everything to him was not
cabIed to Russia. That speech doesn't
harmonic very well with the way NJ
Witte Dragged ssbotat it when the. Japs
agreed to his terms.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
A SUGGESTION.

How would this do for plank in
the next Democratic national plat
form?
Whereas, It is commonly believed,
by the rank and file at least, that the
great Democratic party, the party of
Jefferson and Jackson, has been de-
frauded in recent campaigns out of
certain contributions and emoluments
that should have rightfully gone to the
Democratic national committee;
Resolved. That in the interest of
good government there should always
be fair divide of insurance contri-
buttons to campaign funds between
the two great parties
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
He Made Her TalIr.

A Washingtonian. well known So
cially and noted for the ugliness of
his features, spent the week end at a
fashionable house recently. Among
the guests at dinner one night was a
naughty young woman whose fad this
summer is a silent pose in the midst
of social gayety.
"I'lI wager I can make her talk. .
said the Washing gtonian as he took her
out to dinner.
After an hours hard work at light
and airy persifage on the gentleman s
part his companion concealed a yaw1
and said earnestly:
II wish there were some nice men
here" washington Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
DEPARTfNG suMMER.


There, grief among the grasses
A plaint among the pines
The purple grapes in masses
Are hanging on the vines
The leaves have turned to urnber-
Some. painted bright in red;
me MOWERS of the summer
And the summer birds have fed!
There's sadness in the swaying
And tossing of the trees;
mournful dirge is playing
AS sighs the soughing breezel
The rushes, too, are signing
sorrows over all:
Alas, the summers dying
Comes now, the somber falli
Above the bonnie brooklets
The yagrant vines are brown:
Upon the warbling wavelets
The fallen leaves float down!
The ripened nuts are falling
And the apples dropping down;
The bandit crows are calling
From the hills above the town!
David James Evans in the Washington
Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[Ffom the New York Press.l

[Ffom the New York Press.
Spend your money and you won't
lose it in fool investments.
A woman has to be very suspicious
of herself not to be suspicious of her
husband sometimes.
In most cases man seems to think
that his wrongs begin almost imme-
diately after his wedding rites.
A girl would almost rather go in an
automobile and sit in the tonneau than
buggy riding next to the driver.
Even when a mans older brother
has very large family he is just as
likely as not to go and do the same
thing.
When man gives his wife an extra
allowance she is going to find out
something about him for which she
can get still more if she knows how
to be mad enough.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
MoRAL CoWARDIcE.

The American board of commissioners
for foreign missions seems to have Civ
en- another of those illustrations of
moral cowardice under pecuniary temp
tation which do much to detract from
the effectiveness of ecclesiastical lead
ership with the masses of the people.
AS has been fully explained, the Con-
gregational ministers and high-rank
laynen gathered at Seattle had an op-
portunity to declare plainly and une-
duivocally whether "tainted money
was acceptable to their organization.
But instead of saying whether it is or
is not, they have tabled all resolutions
on the subject. thus leaving the ques-
ton open as before with opportunities
for bitter discussion over every gift
that is offered from a doubtful source.
Such lack of conviction or the courage
thereof on the part of accredited Gus
todians of the ethics of Christianity
must increase the indisposition of the
unregenerate, at least, to look to men
in their position for moral guidance
Providence Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

1t is surprising how the general
public finds out all about these resig-
nations of cabinet officers before they
do themselves. For instance, see how
ignorant Secretary Shaw was a few
weeks ago of the fact that he intended
to retire from the cabinet. And Paul
Morton had the same experience.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
OUGHT NOT TO.

Thomas t. Kelly is willing to have
peace and not tight Governor Hoch for
a second term, The price of peace
with Kelly is for the governor to let
Kelly do as he likes with the public
funds and make no objection publicly
or privately It is doubtful if the
governor wants peace that much
Arkansas City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

- haven't been able to get my
bearings on matters political since /
got home from Eurepe," said w. Y.
Morgan to a Topeka man yesterday
- year and half ago lot of men
down my way we're after my scalp be-
cause wasn't for Hoch. Now they
are coming around and asking me tc
help them fight Hoch. I wish some
body would rise and explain this sit
uation. .
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
THE INsoLENT TRUST.

Just: as the people we're beginning
to ind out what q wonderful and use
full thing radium is somebody corners
the market and advances the price
from 10000 ito. $4,000 an ounce
There's no uses talking, something pos
itively must be done to curb these
trusts-Colorado Springs Gazette
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

The worry that is making wrinkles
in the face of the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat over the fear that Bryan
may be secretary of state in case Folk
is elected president, is about on a par
with the trouble some Kansas politi-
clans are making themselves over who
will succeed Stubbs as chairman of the
state central committee in case he is
made senator.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

The opponents of railroad rate leg
islation are trying to make out that
President Roosevelt's attitude on that
proposition is somewhat indefinite. 1t
is quite likely, however, that they will
ind the presidents position very well
defined in the letter that he will send
to conEress earay in Decembar.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
..M.rk Twain was responsive.

A friend wrote to Mark Twain -
asking his opinion on a certain matter,
and received no reply. He waited a
few days, and wrote again. His second
letter was also ignored. Then he sent
a third note, enclosing a sheet OF pa
per and a 2-cent stamp
By return mail he received postal
card. on which was the following: PA
per and stamp receive Please send
envelope. Boston Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

The Hon. Joseph B. Foraker's presi-
Dental boom must be very susceptible
to the changes in the political weather.
1t has been only a week since he
helped pry open the Ohio campaign
with speech which was not in har-
mony with President Roosevelt's atti-
tude on the railroad question, and al
ready press agent is sending out let
ters explaining his attitude.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

The friends of County Attorney Glib
son point to the fact that he is in poor
circumstances as evidence that he has
not been getting money from the joints.
Would that be called circumstantial
rarlidnrrao
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

If New Orleans is so anxious to
have the president come down there,
why doesn't It get him to have the
weather bureau order an early frost
for New Orleans to xiii the germs?
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
THE MAN WHO ALWAYS TREEs.

TuE MAN WHO ALWAYS TRIES
Whatever your ambition. lad,
However high the prize,
It's mastery may yet be hau
BY him who always tries
Does Fortune-with a roseal view
Foretoken fair emprise3
The dreafner's fancy may pursue
The piodder wins who tries.
Would you attain to Learning iorss
And be esteemed wise
BY patient labor grows the store
OF him who always tries
If Fancy strew the flowers OF nope
IN beauty meath your eyes.
The summit of her shining slope
Remains for him who tries.
Though Truth appear in flomely gray.
Her counsel ne'er despise;
She will be- clad in light one day.
To honor him who triesl
Ernest Neal Lyon in Success Magazans,
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

Query: viii Miss RooseveIt's pres
ents from the .Asiatic potentates be
admitted duty free, or will she have
TO pay the custom charges on them
like ordinary citizens of the United
States? It will take some cash to
pay the duty on. something over a
hundred thousand dollars worth of
stuff.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
KAMSAS. COMNENT
BENT MIIRDoCKs JOKE

bEN II MLEftDOCh , JOAb
Who viii be appointed United States
district attorney to succeed J. S. Dean?
1nent, while H. ]. Bone of Ashland,
would like. to have the place. They
are both trying to C. Ichabod Long
about it as he is the whole thing
ElDorado Republican.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

Mr.. Cleveland must be tempting the
fates. An ordinary man would have
known enough to keep still after hear
ing the various opinions of himself
which followed his few observations
on the subject of women's clubs.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
I.nnehter MAS Enocfive.

There is a minister living out on the -eas
side who is great Joker. He loves to tell
his jokes at the table, and, when he does.
pected to laugh. The minister has a son q
years old who gets awfdIly tired Of the
jokes. Recently he got in the habit of
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
al HEAVY LoAD.

The state administration has a big
load to carry. The appointment Of
Colonel r. w. Blue as attorney gen.
eral for the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law in Cherokee county, Kan,
has been nounced.-Arkansas City
Traveller.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

From present appearances the good
services of Mr.. Roosevelt will have to
be called in to arbitrate the question
of who wins the baseball pennants in
some Of the leagues.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

Not the least unenviable position
nowadays is that of the president of
some of the big insurance companies.
They are quite likely to have to an
swer some embarrassing questions
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
soLICITous.

1t Is said that some of the jointists
fear that Hoch's campaign against
them will endanger his chances of re-
election. 1t is noble of the jointists to
be SO solicitous of Hoch 'sswelfare
olitically.-Cherryva Republican.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

It does not seem that there is any
beer trust in Wyandotte county. At
least ten different breweries are doing
business there. In Topeka the bust
ness is generally restricted to one
brand
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
No EVIDENCE m SIGHT.

Mr.. Taggart says the Democratic
campaign received no help from the
insurance companies in 1904. What
is the reason for suspecting that it re-
cefved any help from anybody -Ot-
tawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
TWO LEGISLATURES

Mr.. e. B. Scherm erhorn of the state
board of control has announced an i'm
portant discovery in Topeka. Return
ing from an inspection of the asylums
of the state Mr.. Schermerhorn declares
that the institutions are badly crowded
and that it will be necessary to build
extensive additions as soon as the leg
islature can be prevailed upon to make
the appropriations. The importance of
the announcement lies in the fact that
the sums appropriated in the past for
the enlargement and Improvement of
the hospitals for the insane have form
ed the principal basis for controversy
for the nature of which the state
should be heartily ashamed-on the
extravaganza of past administrations.
The failure of the recent legislature to
appropriate funds for providing more
room and greater conveniences in the
asylums has been contrasted with the
conduct of the preceding legislature, to
the discredit of the latter. Mr.. Scher-
merhorn's statement in Topeka reveals
the result The institutions are crowd
ed full, he says, and insane are being
kept in jails with the association of
criminals because of lack of room for
them at the asyhIms. The situation
points a lesson on the need in Kansas
of divorcing the care of public institu-
tions from the small spites and gratis
of politicS.--OttaaEa Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

A good many old people find life
dull because they. lose interest in it.
You will notice that Miss Mae Wood
IS trying to keep up the interest of one
Thomas G. Platt.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

Auditor Sherrick of Indiana has
been indicted for conspiracy. If he
A1ived In Kansas now he would prob
ably sue the grand jury for libel
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30

Secretary Coburn should not be too
hard on county officials who do not
know enough to perform the duties
of their Office. Some of them were
not looking for work when they sought
the Jobs.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-30
A GOOD EXCUSE.

! A Higbee, Mo-, woman has brought
divorce proceedings because her hus-
band ate the pie on Friday that she
baked for Sunday.-Concordia Blade.