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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
INSURANCE IN KANSAS.

Do the people of Kansas carry less
old line insurance than those of other
states, or is Kansas healthier and do
people die less frequently here than
they do elsewhere?
Statistics published this week by the
Insurance Press of New York show
that there was paid to Kansas people
far less insurance by old line life COM
panies during the year 1904 than to
most other states. population consid-
cred. This must mean that one of
the above propositions is true.
Kansas last year received $3.50, 339
in life insurance from old line com
panies. California, with practically
the same population, received $685.
TAI. Kansas received S1.35 per capita
and California sara. Nebraska re-
ceived only forty-one dollars less than
Kansas, yet its population is about
100000 less, It's per capita was $1.S1.
Connecticut, with a half million less
population than Kansas, received
nearly as much as California, or a per
capita Of $3.50. Colorado, with a
population. of $4,000. received more
insurance money than Kansas, a per
capita Of 1852.
And yet it is hard to believe that
Kansas people are less provident along
the line of life insurance than those
of other states. The men of Kansas
are Just as careful about the future
welfare of their families as any in the
United tSates.
It seems probable that the secret of
the matter is that the people of Kan
sas are insuring themselves. In other
words, the fraternaI insurance organ
| izations are most f1ourishing in this
state, and the mass of the people take
out their life insurance in them rather
than in old line companies. The wis
dom of this policy is something that
each man must settle for himself, but
Kansas seems to believe in home in
! surance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
For HoIier HOLIDAYS.

Two demands are just now beginning
to make themselves felt, one for a more
sane celebration of the Fourth Of July
and the other for a more reverential OBJ
servance of Memorial day. These two
holidays, radically different in origin
and spirit, are now celebrated in mucn
the same fashion, which in the case of
Memorial day is unbecoming and little
short of sacrilegious.
Only a small proportion Of the popu-
lation now observe Memorial day in the
spirit in which it was originally set
apart. AS rule, it is given up to
sports and frivolity or dissipation of
one kind or another, and is observed in
a reverent and becoming manner only
by those to whom the civil war, with it's
suffering and sacrifice, is. a living, ever
present memory. It was perhaps in
eVitable that this should be So but the
fact is not the less deplorable. The war
is a long way off, and the generation
now occupying the center of the stage
knows it, as it knows the revolution,
only by hearsay.-Cle Plain
Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
GOvERNOR HOCH,s Duty.

A great deal is being said just at
present about what win happen to
Governor Hoch if he does or does not
enforce thu prohfbitory law One side
is saying If he does enforce it he viii
not be renominated. The other side
asserts that if he fails to enforce it he
viii confess himself a weakling and
will sacrifice an opportunity to cover
himself with glory.
What any particular class of people
will say, or what all the people will
say, in fact, should make no difference
to Governor Hoch. He has taken a
solemn oath to support the constitu-
ton and enforce the laws of the state
of Kansas. That means that he viii
enforce the prohibitory law just as
much as the antitrust law. or the law
against murder. or the law prohibiting
stealing from the state treasury. He
has no alternative.
Whether he will be defeated for a
denomination, or whether he will gain
sufficient favor to land him in the
United States senator even the
White House-should not be an issue
with the governor when it comes to
enforcing the law. One law should
not be enforced more than another,
but one should be enforced just as
hard as any other. And Governor
Hoch's friends will be considerably
disappointed in him if he does not
prove to be the sort of man to act
along those lines.
Too many public officials ask what
some particular class of people viii
say about enforcing such and such a
law. What the people say is not per-
tinent AS a matter Of fact, the peo-
pie usually have a way of approving
the official whom they believe is doing
his duty fearlessly because it is his
duty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
The Voice in the Telephone.

Suppose you are paying an early
morning visit to the Chicago stock
yards" says Charles E. Russell in
Everybody's June installment of 1.-THE
Greatest Trust in the World" 1.-THE
yards open at Z o'clock. In the old
days selling began at that hour, but
now the drovers stand idly by their
pens waiting, waiting. Certain men
that will be pointed out to you as the
buyers for Armour, Swift, Morris, and
the National Packing company go
about observantly, noting all but buy
ing nothing. Before long these dis
appear, to presently return. You do
not know it, but in their absence there
has been mysterious conference over
the private telephone wires in Pack
ingtown. If the day be Monday, let
US say, the buyer for Armour now
goes briskly along the line inspecting
cattle and offering up to a certain
figure, perhaps $3.50 for good stock.
If the drover accepts the offer, we'll
and good. If not, the genial buyer
walks his. way serene-he does not
care. Take it or leave it, is his motto.
"And behind him moves the buyer
for Swift & Co., and he goes Ian
guidly among the offerings, and moth
ing he sees suits him. And If the
drover become insistent and viii not
let go without a bid, SWifts man
bids. but it is at just the same price
as Armour's, always the same. And
after him may come the head buyer
for Morris, and he is of the mind of
Swift's man, exactly the same. And
after him may come the head buyer
for the National Packing company.
And he is of the mind of Morris
man. One price among them all, and
only one ready to buy.
"Can you indict a voice? I don't
know. But that voice in the tele-
phone every day is the instrument by
which the combination in restraint of
trade lives and moves and has its be-
ing. One little voiceI To this stage
has trade consolidation and Industrial
monopoly come at last. One mans
voice in a telephone determines how
much a million farmers shall lose on
their cattle"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
THE SEA FIGHT.

On the tide
Where the flags Of battle ride,
rates or steel and hearts of oak
strive amid the swirling smoke
strive amid the eddying breeze
FOR the lordshiD Of the seasl
vast gray forms
crash among the Keeling storms,
Hurting, with their brass-lipped breath
Ton on ton Of metal death:
Shifting till the armored bulIxs
Turn to shapelesss shattered huiksl
Nelson-thou
OF the victor's wreath-crowned brow,
Saw st thou ever such a. sight,
Even in Trafalgar's fight?
was there ever, in thy day
Equal to this steel-clad fray2
Not a sail
Towering columns, iron masts,
Totter in the fiery blasts
Rope and shroud have passed and gone,
With the fighting ironclad's daWni
Old romance,
When the battleships of France
Fought the British, closely laid
BOARDING pike and hand-grenade-
All have Joined the long-past stream
Like the shadows of a dreaml
Modern skill
Plates to save and shots to kill;
Armor and electric art
Play today the heavier part
In the game where fighting craft
Counter broadsides fore and aft!
It is done
And the Yellow Men have won.
And the red sun lights the wave
Where the Russians found q grave;
While the great gray Victors ride
shattered, but IN cOnQuering pridei
w. A. Phelon in the Chicago Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Iron the Atchlson Globe.I


About all there IS to the fish known as
German carp; Bones and scales.
Every man who attends a lecture is
cross because he couldn't get out Of go
ing.
The average man celebrates a business
failure by deciding at last he can take
days fishing.
You often hear children say they will
not take a dare. Grown people have to
take lots Of them.
An Atehison mans nother-in-law not
only lives with him, but she makes him
ask a blessing every meal.
Atchison is of that size where people
are considered either rich or WastefuI
who have more than two pair of shoes.
An Atchison girl knows how hard Sher-
lock Holmes had to work: She has a wild
over father and two brothers to watch. -
We viii admit that our prejudice against
the corset originated with those we have
seen lying in the debris on vacant lots
It is perhaps fortunate that people do
not take all the good advice they hear; if
they did they would soon work themselves
to death.
A hard boiled egg tastes so good at a
picnic that every one decides that the hard
boiled egg is never rated at its proper
merit at home.
Perhaps the reason a sick man never
looks interesting is that he is cross and
unshaved, and every. one thinks he ought
to be up and at work any way.
The length Of every marriage engage
ment indicates that the man proposes be-
fore he has any money saved and the girl
has to wait until he saves it.
One of the very prettiest girls in town
lives in West AtchisOn and as usual she
has a homely sister who is twice as prof.
Gent in sensible things and twice as val
liable to the family.
Don't harbor a grudge. The first thing
you know it VIII have taken root, and you
can't get rid Of it. More tragedies are due
to an old grudge than to anything else in
the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
Jefferson and Lincoln.

In the June Worlds Work James
HunNker writes an eloquent review of
the Ne and art of his friend, the late
"Joe" Jefferson. The following an
ecdote is from the articles:
Tired of New York, the father of
Joseph went to Chicago, where in that
young community he hoped for bet
ter fortunes. It was all pure barn
storming. In Springfield, Ill, there
was an encounter with the law as
represented by some bigoted alder
men. It seems that the elder Jeffer-
son and his partner had built rude
wooden theater and for a time they
enjoyed prosperity. Then came a re-
ligious revival and the wicked play
actors were unpIeasantly surprised
with a heavy license. SO heavy as to
be practically prohibitive. The town
was full, the legislature in session,
and the actors available capital
locked up in their slender enterprise.
They were in despair. A young
lawyer undertook their forlorn case.
So skillful were his arguments. so
tactful his wit, that the tax was re-
mitted and the players permitted to
go on. That lawyer was Abraham
Lincoln.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
JANA WKER JOTS

The Troy Chief definitely located
Rojastvenslxy before any of the metro
politan papers-in hot water.
Sumner county paid bounties on coy
ote scalps to the tune of $116 during the
month OF May. Not a very good month
for the coyotes.
Togo Tells a Thrilling Tale" was the
alliteratfve heading the Hutchinson Bee
put over the official report. Togo can
probably thrill Us a lot more If he
wants to.
The Ottawa Republic brags that it
consumes more gas than any other in
stitution in Ottawa, and then dares en-
vious exchanges to do their worst with
the statement.
A Lawrence paper accuses Ewing
Herbert of trying to break into the First
district fight against Curtis. It asserts
that he acts just like a man who would
like to back in.
Concordta high school this year Does
this pOrtend that the class is unluclxy
or that It will trot in the same class is
the thirteen original states2
Get ready for a big roar next month.
The new game law goes into effect on
July / and after that man cannot hunt
even on his own farm without paying
his county clerk dollar year for a
license.
The tornado stories that are floating
around remind Charlie White of the Sa-
lima Union of the fact" that in the
early days a tornado once reversed a
well and left it sticking up in the ali
as q standoipe
Down at Emporia Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
Sowerby have lived for years near a
ball park, but they saw their first ball
game when Washburn played Emporia
the other day. Mr.. Sowerby says he
Doesn't see why eighteen4 men should
spend an hour and a half doing Just
what Nit White says.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
ouAKER REFLEcTIoNs.
FFrom the Philadeiphia Record.l

TFrou the Philadelphia Record.1
Even the hard drinker may take things
easy.
both begin to root
With the quiek-wftted golf player It Is
a case Of tee and reDartee-
The fellow who carries all his money
in his pocket never gets rich.
It doesn't do the agriculturist much good
to cultivate acquaintances.
Does making date over the phone ne
cessitate an engagement ring.
At any rate. it is better to throw old
shoes ayt a bride than to cast slurs
1t does seem strange how so many men
get rich from selling out at cost.
The value Of experience doesn't always
depend upon how much you pay for It.
If the suburbs are the outskirts of a city
the cemeteries must be the understands
Say, that young fellow who is calling
on your daughter is q mark exclaimed
the friend Of the family. Well I guess
I'll be able to toe the mark FYhen the time
comes" replied the head OF the mouse.
The storm was raging Ger the deeps
Captain cried the timid passenger tell
me truthfully; are we going down r.
Well replied the captain, the cook tells
me that he Just saw the Kitchen sink.
Mrs Frontpew-''Isn' it terrible about
our minister He was in a railroad acct
dent and had both his feet cut Off" Mrs.
Backpew-''T That's awful; and 1 had just
commenced to knit him a new pair OF
slippers for his birthday.
A married man longs for either some
excitement to relieve the monotony or
some monotony to relieve the excite
ment.
tie hat downtown today that I can buy
for song" Mr. Wlgwag- What is
the song, Old Hundred2'
Even in painting a tail on a dog an
artist must be able to draw his own
conclusions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Iron the Chicaro News-1

LFrom the Chicago News.l
A woman always thinks a man is afraid
to argue with her.
Low spirits are often an excuse for in
dulging in high-balls.
Wheelbarrows have done more for man
kind than automobiles
If kissing is a form of insanity all young
men are more or less insane.
Many a man is given a. soft answer be-
cause he is known to be a hard hitter.
a woman never objects to her husband
kissing the cook-if she is the cook.
Laborers who are worthy of their hire
usually think their hire should be higher.
man can't run forty-horse-power
income.
Never burn your bridges behind you.
it necessary to retreat.
If a young man observes a PARKWAY
look in a girls eyes after calling her a pet
name, it means that she is trying to recall
what other young man had used that
identical term of endearment in the past
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
nc Colo on VICE.

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad furnishes the plant. The Uni
versity OF Illinois furnishes the profess
and Soil Special, stops at every import
ant place on the line. At this station,
DR.. Soandso talks to the crowd about
seed and soil For ten fruitful minutes
the class is permitted to study the spec
linens OF soil and seed with which the
educational train is loaded. Then it
huns to the next station. where Pro-
lessor SomebodyeIse holds forth. The
college on wheels will roll through IL
Iinois. Missouri, Iowa, western Nebras-
ka, ana wyoming. Good luck go with
it, But viii the farmers appreciate, at
its fun value. this professional farm
inE2-Egerybody Magazine for June.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02

Managers of electric railways in
Cleveland have not idled away their
phase of the fact that women, the
majority of women, face to the rear
when alighting from a street car.
They have simply recognized the ex-
istence of the habit and by the use
of a practical device made its con-
tinuance nearly impossible. Just q
rail put in such a position that It can
be grasped by only one hand, and
that the one that swings its owner
head and eyes to the front, has done
the trick, and it is believed that many
accidents will be averted by its
adoption. And if it does work as well
as expected It seems a moral obliga-
ton is laid upon railway managers
everywhere to protect their women
passengers from their own careless
ness=Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Quotations on peace in the Russian
market have not declined. any in. the
last ten days.
A Topeka girl is so nice that she re-
fers to them as the White Hose.
Notwithstanding that can be
rubbed on a strike to keep it from
spreading Address, Chicago.
Togo seems to have bueked center.
knocked a home run. gone around
both ends slid for home, and made a
75-yard dashs for a touchdown. all at
the same time.
Now that Mr.. COwles has kindly
offered Governor Hoeh the Repub-
ucan nomination for the presidency
providing he will enforce the prohib-
might just as well wait until the gov
ernor makes up his mind.
The weather bureau says the mean
temperature for June in Topeka is 70
degrees. Well, it might be great
deal meaner.
As we understand It, Topeka will
not be like heaven during the three
weeks absence of Probate Judge Hay
den: The business of marrying and
giving in marriage viii go on just the
same as though he were here to give
it his o. k.
It always seems as though Clarence
Eddy's name isn't complete. One cam
not avoid the impression that the last
section has been lost somewhere along
the road
Ever notice how little provocation
it requires to get a public official to
take a holiday?
BY the way. does anyone know what
Mr.. Smiley thinks about the Rush
county wheat prospect?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
A COMMoN sENTIAFENT.

AS an Indication Of the hold which
the idea of Memorial day has upon the
people, particularly of this state and
locality. let it be noticed that it is the
one day of all the year, save perhaps
Christmas, that needs no advertising to
draw a crowd together. A Simple re-
minder is sufficient. No special at
traction in the programme, no seek
ing for novelties to catch the eye or
please the ear. There is nothing done
or said that hasn't been done and said
many times before. But the common
sentiment is such that when the
solemn procession starts for Greenwood
the hundreds fall in line, and when
the story of csenp and march and bat
tie and suffering is told again the
multitude is there to pay rapt atten-
tion.-ClaY Center Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
NAME EN-.

New York legislators receive $1,000
of the menbers are said to have laid
by SIS, 600 to S4G,O00.=Literary Di-
gest. II current reports are to be
credited we can show an equal de-
gree of thrift on the part of one or
more OF the members Of our late Kan
sas legislature on. a salary of $3.50 a
sess1on.--Lawrence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BAoHELoR.
IFrom the New York Press.1

Popularity never begins at home
Some men are so lucky they don't die
even if they have no insurance.
Horse racing is a very enjoyable sport
for everybody except the horses the 56cIx-
eys and the bettors.
What girls ike about the schools they
90 to IS all the things they can study
without having to learn anything.
It is pretty hard for a man to figure out
the difference between a Woman's spriue,
hat ana Fourth Of july dreWuxieE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
THEN HB cor DRUNK.

Why this furore concerning frenzied
finance and great deals2 Do not the
moderns sink into oblivion beside Noah?
Was he not the greatest hnancier the
world ever knew2 This is what we are
told He foresaW the going under of
the banks and withdrew his stock to a
safer place. He was able TO float his
stock with the whole world in liqufda-
ton. When the banks resumed he handed
in his stock without reserve, saying: It
viii increase and multiply" And final
Is ha made good s-Iudea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02

Choice Of pedestals in the hall Of ma
val heroes goes to Togo" says the Chi
cago News. Oh, we don't know Some
people think a man by the name of
Dewey is still entitled to first draw
And for real heroism, what's the mat
ter with Hobson?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
PULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the state journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
90 any address at the rate of thirty
cents q month. Address changed as
often as desired. While ont Of town
the state journal VIII be TO you like
q daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02

his fleets are going to the bottom Of
the sea; with young King Alfonso
Jumping lively to keep a bomb from ex-
ploding under him. and with King Peter
looking for some place to light when
he is kicked out OF Servia, the monarch
business is not what it once was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02

All the Servian newspapers. with
two exceptions, are warning king
Peter that he is a. failure as Z. mon
arch and they advise him to run if he
crown weighs hfty-three pounds and
the poor chap can hardly be expected
TO make rapid headWay.-Bunaio Ex-
press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
Ed ZOE BEvERIDGE.

The prestige of the vOluble and
spectacular Senator Beveridge, of In
diana, as a world statesman is seri-
ously threatened by recent events in
the Orient. Before the present war
was begun he wrote a book on The
Russian Advance, in which he prophe-
sled all sorts of great and masterful
things for Russian arms and diplQr,
macy. The time has now come for
him to write sequel to his book, and
for the Asiaties.' '-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
TIE EXPERTS

Experts have shaved the wheat
crop OF Kansas for this year down to
paltry 62.OO0,000 bushels. Leave
the experts alone and bar any and all
kinds Of weather. and perhaps Kansas
would not produce a grain of wheat
this year The experts are hard and
nexorab1e.=Leavenw Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
20 ~. POssIBLY.

It is gratifying to note that the
leading educators are aiming at an
education which has more practical
bilIty than the mere learning of facts.
In the course of another decade or
two an education may really mean an
equipment for the real battles Of life.
-Oskaloosa Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
PRICE or LEGISLATORS.

In Arkansas some legislators are ac-
cused of selling their votes for sips. It
is not surprising that a legislator should
dispose of his vote at that figure when
he himself wouldn't be a bargain at
81 DETERMINATION News.
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Boon THERE HIMSELF.

The rumor is persistent that young
John D. Rockefeller is not going to have
any more business dealings with his
father. The young man knows what
has happened to men who had business
dealings with his father--Washingt
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02

How do you suppose the railroads and
the Pullman company expect to get
their money back for allowing Secreta-
~ of State Burrow and Treasurer KEEL
ly the use of a sleeper for three weeks
in which to take a party of friends on
a tour of the Pacific coast?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-02
THE GRADUATING GIRL.

Her essay is not sitting nearly as
heavily on the mind of the sweet girl
graduate as is the fairy garb Of white
in which she will read it.-Atlanta Con-
stitution.