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The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
coNoUERING YELLow FEVER.

1t is becoming apparent that science
and cleanliness are conquering the
dreaded scourge that is raging in
New Orleans and vicinity. The num-
ber of new cases each day is gradually
decreasing, and the daily death list
does not begin to be as long as it was
some time ago.
Compared with former epidemics of
yellow fever in the south, the present
one is comparatively mild. doubtless
because of the increased knowledge of
medical men and the better methods of
handling it. There is much yet to be
learned concerning this disease, but
the cause has been ascertained, and its
spread will now be much more easily
controlled. 1t is known that a certain
species of mosquito is largely respon-
sible for the spread of the epidemic.
BY eliminating this mosquito, or by
preventing it's access to persons hav-
ing the disease, the spread of the
scourge will be largely checked. And
the enforcement of sanitary rules will
aid in preventing it from starting.
Medical science in the last twenty
years has largely destroyed the terrors
of smallpox, which was once regarded
as among the worst of scourges, and
other diseases are no longer dreaded as
they once were. Doubtless yellow fever
will be on the same list in a few years
Notwithstanding our dread of it, vel
low fever is not nearly so destructive ol
human life as tuberculosis or typhoid
! These are the real seourges of America
today, but because they are not SC
quick nor so malignant as some Other
diseases, they do not arouse the terror
that these others do. Both are prevent
able. yet people continue to eontract
and spread them in their carelessnes'
and Ignorance.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
JUSTICE GRAVES.

The appointment of Judge Charles B.
Graves, of Emporia. to the supreme
bench to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Justice Cunningham is general
ly regarded as a good selection
With twelve years experience be-
hind him on the bench, besides a
long record in practice before the bar, he
possesses the qualifications necessary
for even a iurist in the highest tribunal
of the commonwealth.
Justice Graves is an old-time Kan
san. He came to Kansas while it was
still territory. He was elected district
judge in the Emporia district in 1880,
and served for twelve years. Since then
he has been engaged in the practice of
law. Those who know him generally re-
gard him as a clean. able 1urist. a
worthy successor to the late Justice
Cunningham.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
CANNIRAMsmc.

Across the lines of quarantine
Now flying high, now low
AL cheerfully and all serene
The stegomyias go;
And where sweet girls sit on the aorch,
In shirt-waists peek-a-boo,
I1ey ntbble snow white shoulders and
blame them not. Do you?
And where sweet girls sit in the shade,
Beneath the greenwood tree,
BY DaDbiing stream or forest glade;
And dainty lingeries,
ana clOckWOfk stockings, slightly show,
And tinted skin shows through,
The stegomyia bites, and /
Don't blame them much. do you?
On, girls with shirt-waists peek-a-boo.
And tan shoes deeollete
think that should nibble you
Were 1 stegomyia.
i see you go arrayed for golf,
With dimpled elbows sweet.
And just gnash my teeth to chew
On you, you look so sweet!
think the stegomyias right
In coming right along,
And in the day and in the night
Lifting his voice in song.
For I-who know the Texas girl
Have only this to say:
Id fly obstructing quarantines
Like a stegomyia
j. NJ. Lewis in Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
JAYHA WKER JOTS

The hotel arrivals in the Cherryvale
Republican are run under this head
ing: Strangers in Our Midst Today:
They May be Angels.
I'm counting her proposals an
Atehison woman counts one she had
from a half-witted man. says the
Globe. What is her total number
one?
One Saline county farmers wheat
made only forty bushels per acre, but
it weighs So pounds to the bushel, or
three pounds better than is necessary
for No. l wheat.
woman who knew Bill White
when he was five years old says he
was a sissy boy with yellow curls. And
yet he writes those Boyville stories just
as though he knew all about it.
There are six rural mail carriers
running out of Holton and the fac
that none of them uses tobacco in any
form is a cause for rejoicing among
those who do not like the weed.
This is the latest Atchison poeticaI
gem: There was man in Atchison,
whose trousers had rough patchfson;
he found them great, he'd often state,
to scratch those parior matchison."
Commenting on the fact that c. J.
Devlin was able to leave Kansas with
out the Kansas City papers finding it
no more mysterious than that a bank
rupt should be able to take g. European
trip. .D T. -~
H. w. King, editor of the Chapman
Lockout, has been elected superintend-
ent of the Chapman city schools and
has disposed of his interest in the
paper to Prof. George H. Baird who
until recently has been at the head of
the Latin department in the Dickinson
county high school. The Lookout was
established two years ago by N. E.
Gillis, who remains with it as asso-
cfate editor. and has prospered from
the beginning. The new management
will enlarge the paper.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If Governor Hoch isn't going to do
anything with that Rowett report,
why doesn't he turn 1t over to the
State Historical society for preserva-
ton? 1t will be a historical docu-
ment, all right.
Although the Taggarts are unknown
in any of the major baseball leagues,
they have become famous throughout
the country for their fighballs.
1t seems that boiling the weather
doesn't do any good. At least this
weather is boiled and there are just
as many germs in it as ever.
In some parts of Kansas this year
the farmers will have to move off their
farms and into tents in the roads and
highways in order to get room enough
to stack their crops. P. Slow is
this for a crop lie?
Now it is asserted that Jupiter has
seven moons. Think what big flock
the bibulous citizen of Jupiter must
see when he is going home after a
night with the boys.
We may escape learning a lot more
Asiatic geography after all.
Some people adopt certain theories
and then fix up their facts to fit the
theories. Any facts that do not fit the
theories are discarded as unworthy of
consideration.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
PITTsBURG AND KANSAS OIL.

Now Pittsburg, Pa, is stepping in
and is claiming the credit for the de-
velopment of the Kansas oil field.
There are several hundred Kansas
men who had an idea that they had
something to do with it. but it seems
that they are mistaken. The Pittsburg
Dispatch says that men from that city
did it. Here is it's claim:
''It has been remarked that when
enterprise and energy are required to
develop a community the Pittsburg
man is there to assist in the operation
or to take the lead from the beginning.
And nowhere are these traits of the
Pittsburg character shown to better
advantage than in the oil fields of
Kansas.
"From Pittsburg went out the ad-
vance guard who blazed the trail. They
were the pioneers who pointed the way
and showed where the treasure house
lay hidden under the prairies. They
met with opposition and discourage
ment. but it is not the purpose nor yet
the custom of the Pittsburg man to be
discouraged. He has faced it too often
not to know the worth of the second
trial, or the third, if he finds it neces-
sary. And so he did in Kansas. He
sent the drill far into the earth. and
proved to the state that its wonderful
soil was capable of greater things than
the production of record breaking
wheat crops. He showed that a barrel
of oil was more to be desired than a
bushel of wheat. and it was good to
have both when they could be pro-
duced from the same acreage. He
attracted capital to Kansas, and added
to its wealth more money than it could
ever have hoped to realize from its
farms and cattle. He made money for
himself, but he also made money for
Kansas. And he will continue as he
began. Kansas may not take kindly
to all the innovations that the develop
ment of the oil fields has brought but
when they are accompanied by dollars.
with many more dollars to come, even
Kansas may be reconciled.
"It is splendid record for Pitts
burg, this development of golden re-
sources in the land of the sunf1ower,
and when the work is done and the
limits of wildcatting reached there is
reason to believe that the Pittsburg
man will be found elsewhere doing for
some other community what he has
done for Kansas
Still more amusing than the allega-
ton that Pittsburg developed Kansas
oil, is the statement that the Pitts
burger added to Kansas wealth more
money than it could ever have hoped
to realize from it's farms and cattle"
Just think of that! Consider the
ignorancei At a liberal estimate the
production of the Kansas oil fields is
not more than six million barrels a
year, worth at present prices perhaps
three million dollars.
Yet the value of Kansas wheat crop
alone will probably be f1fty-five million
dollars this year, and the value of the
corn crop may reach double that
figure. These are only two of her
farm crops. Besides these are the
oats, the alfalfa, the fruits. the cattle,
hogs and other live stock. all reaching
up into many millions more
1t is true that Kansas has a great
oil field, yet compared to the value and
products of her farms the oil is but a
drOD in the bucket.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press. ]

TFrom the New York Press.
There ought to be weather bureau
to tell a man when not to go home
because there will be a storm there.
The way for girl to catch a hus-
band is to run away from him, and to
hold him is to keep teasing him to go
away.
cars is the way she can get indignant
with men who can't help staring at
her in admiration.
About the worst luck a man can
have is to have to stay home at din
ner with the minister when he knows
where a good poker game is going on
It's very puzzling to figure out how
much you wouldn't like a woman if
Won were married to her that you like
now; and how much you would like a
woman that you don't now If you
weren't married to her.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atchison Glob

From the Atchison Globe.J
You cannot get fat on a laugh.
How ugly a flower looks when it is
going to seedi
Don't work" one friend in the in
teIest of another.
We'd like to be as cool and clean
as woman looks in a white DRESS
ST don't like my looks. How are
you satisfied with yours ?''-Parson
Twine.
You say you don't want to be
missed when you are gone? Well, you
won't be.
This is the season when Mr.. Boy
seriously thinks of bathing in the
water cooler.
Were you ever as fair with other
people as you expect other people to
be with you2
Treat a man well in a little town,
and he flatters himself that he can
do better in a city.
It's all right for US to eat cattle and
chickens; and it's all right for the
worms to eat US.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
ECONOMY al Snace.

trip to the far west, many years ago,
he was visited at his hotel in a little
mining town by a local celebrity, man
noted as hunter and scout, and the
great preacher was especially cordial
to him. After the caller had gone away
one of Mr.. Beeeher's travelling compan-
ions took him to task:
Il marvel at the warmth of your
greeting to that man. he said.
"Why?''
..Didn't you notice his eyes-how re-
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
Plenty of Time.

A long-haired man walking along the
street met a little boy. who asked him
.sTen minutes to 81 said the man.
.sWell.n said the boy, "at o'clock get
vo,1r hair cut" and he took to his heels
and ran. the aggrieved one after him.
Turning the corner the man ran into
a policeman, nearly knocking him over.
whats up?' said the policeman.
THE man. very much out of breath,
said: You see that young urchin run
ming along there? He asked me the
time and / told him. Ten minutes to
o. and he said: AT o'clock get your
hair cut "
well" said the policeman. what are
Won running for? You've got eight min
utes yet''-Detroit News-Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
TELLING TALES.

The Lawrence Gazette is telling
tales out of school. 1t says: Stubbs
says he does not like and can not
stand for KelIy's methods in politics:
And yet a year ago StubbS embraced
Kelly and helped him to send fraud
ulent delegation to the congressional
and state conventions. He even forced
Hoch to go into Kelly'S own county,
and aid Kelly in fixing that delegation.
Stubbs recognized that delegation at
the Wichita convention. although ne
knew exactly how 1t was secured.
Stubbs thought then that he could use
Kelly; when he can no longer boss
him, he denounces him. Great reform
we are having in these flush days In
Kansas" A peculiar thing about the
above is that the Lawrence Gazette, a
strong Kelly paper, admits that Kelly
with the assistance of Ed Hoeh, elected
fraudulent. delegations, a fact well
known and frequently charged
Atchison Globe.
BUT WAS HE THE FIRST?
A short time ago the Louisville Lyre
said: "The greatest surprise to girl
who gets kissed for the first time is
that it has no taste to it." Still, she
married the blamed insipid thing last
Freeman.
OUR TESTERS.
In ancient times the state hired
man who was called 3court Jester"
his QuLleS consisted mainly IN Teup-
holstering old jokes and cracking them
for the amusement of the king and
his guests. He was what you might
call the official damphool- The Gus
tom has been handed down and as the
duties of the Office broadened and be-
came more afduous it finally be-
came necessary to employ three men
instead of one, and they are now ex-
pected to amuse the entire public as
well as the titled gentry In the pro-
cess of evolution the term court jes-
ter has been lost in the shuttle, and
instead of telling jokes and riddles
they issue comic orders to the rail-
roads. They are now called railroad
commissioners. Downs News.
COVERING ITS DEFICIENCIES.
One of the greatest CRAFTS that is too
not secure subscribers upon their new
features but have to promise a present
in order to secure them, is the piano
contest. Foreign solicitors strike a
town and induce one of those kind of
papers to buy a piano to be voted to
the most popular lady. The piano is
bought low down and in advertising
to give it away it is marked away up.
If it is possible the foreign agents in
duce some local music dealer to place
the instrument in his establishment
until the piano is awarded, which is
very frequently done by questionable
voting of bogus tickets. If a newspa-
per feels that it is not giving the value
of it's subscription price and wishes to
give a piano to even up, let 1t buy one
of local dealer and give it away upon
it's own hooks.-Arkansa City Tray
eler.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

The loyal Kansan will stand up and
swear that the sunfiower isn't a mere
weed" but that it is the most beauti-
full posey growing-but If he ever lived
on Kansas farm he knows that the
Missouri judge was right about the
weed business.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

few years ago eight hundred or
thousand bushels of wheat was consid-
cred pretty good days work for
threshing crew. Then 1,5o0 bushels
a day held the record. This year a
Brown county outfit has already estab-
lished a record of 1.10O bushels in half
q day, and the season has just begun
This illustrates the advancement that
has been made in only a few years in
farm machinery.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

The Chicago & Alton proposes to
establish wireless signals on all it's
engines so that an engineer will be
able to tell when another train comes
within two miles of him. This will
make it possible to avoid both head
end and rear-end collisions. Then if
we can get some spreadless rails and
some misplaceless switches, perhaps
we will have a few less wrecks.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

Arkansas City Traveller: Macaroni
wheat is making a big yield in western
Kansas this year. The grains are
about twice the size of common winter
wheat and the heads contain from
hfty-six to seventy grains each. Thom-
as county alone estimates yield of
over 100000 bushels. This wheat now
finds a ready market
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

Judging from the reports of the
speeches at Portland last week, we are
ready any time to take a day off and
talk with China about reciprocity
arrangement, if China will let up on
the boycott
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF TILE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
sway during the summer may have
she paper mailed regularly each day
90 any address at the ratio OF thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While cat Of town
the State Journal Will be to you like
Q daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

A Kansas City woman denies that
she was shocked by lightning while in
the east. 1t takes something more
than bolt of lightning to shock
Kansas City woman.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
CUT THE WEEDS.

We notice that the Goulds are going
to Denver with the intention of raising
the money to finish building the Lenora
branch to Denver. 1t is our opinion that
they had better take the weeds Off the
track so that " hat trains they do have
can get through without the passengers
having to get out and clean the right Of
way.-Phillipsburg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

Mr.. WI denies that he had anything
TO do with starting the boycott. Like
as not the innocent Mr.. WI wouldn't
know boycott if he should meet it
in the road.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

Judging from the developments in
the Taggart case it would look as
though Secretary Taft might have his
hands full for a few months renovat-
ing army circles, without trying to run
the other departments of the govern
ment, as he was doing some time ago.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

Why did not Governor Hoch take
some Kaw river water with which to
ehristen the "Kansas?" We have had
plenty of it to spare during the past
three summers.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

rnarkabIy close together they weref
That is a bad sign"
mot in this case" said Mr.. Beecher.
Didn't you observe his nose? It's high
and thin-the nose of great man.
With nose like that, why should his
eyes waste space by sprawling wide
apart? The man is all right"
Mr.. Beeeher's judgment of his caller
was correct, as subsequent history at
tested.-Youth's Companion.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

Former Statistician Hyde was to re-
turn from Europe 'soon.'' ''Soon,"
however, probably won't be till after
the grand jury forgets what it wanted
to ask Mr.. Hyde
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
THE WOMAN's GLUE.

Justice Brewer thinks a woman for
president would not be an absurdity.
Possibly not, but with such an ar
rangement the big stick would have to
give way for the woman's cluo and
that would keep the married men dis
turbed.-Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
FROM OTHER PENS


The Canadian guide who was kisae q
By thirteen girls whom he rescued
after they got lost in the woods will
be superstitious about numbers from
now cn.-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

Archery has been revived. Oyama
has not adopted it, however, and even
the gun that isn't loaded is still doing
business at the old stand --'--
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

The army canteen is by no means
the greatest evil of army life, if one
may believe the testimony in the Tag
gart case. The army sideboard is
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
BUT SIZE YIELDED.

Russia never will give up Sakha-
lin" No-and the lady in the poem
''vowing she would ne'er consent, con-
sented. d."-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

One of the first things the Russian
douma ought to do is to scale down
the wages of the grand dukes. They
don't earn the money
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
Quieting.

Its not everybody I'd put to sleep in
this room," said Mrs. j to the fasti-
dious and extremely nervous young
minister, who was spending the night
with the family. This room is full of
sacred associations to me,'' she went
on MY first husband died in that bed
with his head right on those very pill
lows, and Mr.. j died sitting right
in that corner Sometimes when come
into the room in the dark l think I can
see him sitting there still. My own faith
er died lying right on that sofa under
the window. Poor pal He was a spir-
itualist and he always said he'd appear
in this room again after he died, and
sometimes I'm foolish enough to look for
him. If you should see anything of him
tonight you'd better not tell me, for it
would be a sign to me that there is
something in spiritualism, and I'd hate
to think that My son by my first hus-
band fell dead with heart disease right
where you stand. He was doctor, and
there's two whole skeletons in that clos
ct that belonged to him and half a doZ-
en- skulls in that lower drawer. Well,
good night, and pleasant dreams. Tit
Bits.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
AGREED.

Henry Watterson says that Elihu
Root is "the ablest man who has ap-
peared ia American politics for the
last five-and-twenty years. On this
point Colonel WatterSon and the pres-
ident seem to have cordially agreed
Boston Globe.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
a WIDE pIFFERENCE.

Elihu Root has, because of his ap-
pointment as secretary of state, re-
signed as director of a number of
financial institutions. Chauncey M.
Depew has never seemed to feel that
his election to the United States senate
should in any way interfere with his
interests in the seventy odd corpora :
tions he serves as a director. But
then there is a wide difference be-
tween an Elihu Root and Chauncey
Depew.-Chicago Record Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
TOO BUSY.

I don't wanter run the country;
It's more pleasant, I allow.
To set here in tn grocery
An tell the fellers how;
Ter say: dad gum 'eml things air wronEs
An / kin tell We whyl
/ don't keer to run tn country;
1 'ud ruther speechify.
Eff I was up in Washin'ton
A-runnin' things, by geel
Hank Waters 'ud be seftin' yeFo
A-hndin' fault 18th me!
An now no one finds fault 'ith me
Exceptin', maybe, Sue,
cause 1 don't work: but. dern 1t all.
Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
HIS "VINDICATION" ="

Senator Depew must feel that he is
still the country's leading humorist.
Everybody laughs when he talks of
his vindication.-Wa Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

So far there is no suspicion that the
Democratic presidential nomination
will take after Governor Douglass and
draft him.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
CHAUNCEY

Mr.. Depew declares almost COM
plainingly that he has lived forty
years in the limelight of publicity and
has never before been called to ae-
count for anything. People who have
long regarded Senator Depew as
harmless old fossil who had to be toll
Grated will now be compelled to give
him credit for possessing considerable
cleverness.- Oregonian.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
KANSAS COMMENT
LOOK OUT.

Some of these days there will be a
great uproar in Topeka, and violent
proclamation in the newspapers, That
will be when W. r.. Stubbs learns that
the populists stole the legislature, back
in the nineties,HOttawa Herald
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

1t looks as though a new pedestal
may be necessary after all in the
worlds gallery of republics, for Nor
way to climb up on.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

SLAMS are much nearer a match for the
Japs than they are in actual fighting
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

Since scanning the testimony in the
Taggart case we can readily see how
eur national drink bill is rapidly in
ereaSinR
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

The result of the election in Norway
shows that the riksdag knew what the
people wanted.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21

By the way. has Governor Hoch read
that Rowett report yet?
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
HER PET

Mrs. Harry Lehr says that she il
very proud of her pet poodle. The at
tention which Harry gets from tbs
newspapers is doubtless the cause o.
Mrs. Lehr's pride.-Atlanta Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-21
CONDITIONS IMPRovING.

Canal conditions in Panama are
said to be much better, but it is not
believed that all the room for i'm
provement has yet been occupied
Indianapolis News.