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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
THE FIGHT on JEROME.

The grafters are bound to defeat
William Travers Jerome in New York
if possible. Things have been coming
Jerome's way pretty lively in the past
ten days. and now he has an exceed
ingly good chance for election, in spite
of the fact that he is on no regular
ticket.
A few days ago, when the Repub-
lican candidate for district attorney,
Judge Flammer, withdrew from the
race in favor of Jerome. it turned Je-
pome's chances from probable defeat
to possible victory. When, shortly af-
forwards, the Republican committee
voted to I'LL the vacancy by placing
Jerome on their ticket. it seemed to
make Jerome's election not only pos
sible but extremely probable.
But now an obstacle to this plan
is interposed. The board of elections
refuses to place Jerome's name in the
Republican column on the official bal
lot. It requires a majority of this
board to make an order, and Tam
many controls just half of it, so that
a majority in favor of the order could
not be secured. Jerome's name, there
fore, will appear in the Independent
column only, and it will be necessary
for every voter who wishes to cast his
ballot for Mr.. Jerome to switch out of
his regular column to do So
Yet the action of the elections board
viii probably give Jerome votes that
he would not otherwise have got. for
such things work that way. He will
probably get the entire Republican
vote now, or approximately so, and
as Jerome is himself a Democrat. he
viii get the votes of many independ-
ent Democrats, for there are many
Democrats who do not believe in Tam
many.
Jerome has been asking the Tam
many leaders the embarrassing cues
ton. Where did you get it?" and
they have not been able to do any
thing but dodge. He has been con
Quoting a brilliant campaign. and as
November Z draws nearer the chances
OF his election are growing brighter in
spite of the fight on him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
THE INSURANCE. sTTTArro,,

insurance men say that the exposures
OF the corruption in insurance circles
and the misuse of funds by the officers
OF the big companies have injured the
insurance business. particularly among
those who do not understand insurance
This result is not surprising. In fact
1t would have been surprising had if
been otherwise. The fact that hundreds
of thousands of dollars that should have
gone to the widows and children of
policy holders have been wantonIv
squandered or stolen by those in whose
trust they were placed is enough to
make the average person extremely
cautious about investing in insurance.
But the fact remains that insurance
has been a good thing in the past-as
a rule. The companies have made divi-
bends for the policyholders in spite of
the extravaganza and the thefts of the
officers. Hundreds of thousands of men
have provided for their families by
means of the insurance policy, who 9th
erwise might have left them compara-
lively destitute There can be no cues
ton as to the success Of insurance com
panies.
This being the case why should not
these exposures be a good thing for the
insurance business in the long run. They
demonstrate that the business is a sue
cess in spite Of mismanagement.
They ought to clear the insurance
atmosphere and result in better manage
ment, less extravaganza, the eImina-
ton Of thefts, and therefore more divf-
dends for the poIioyholders.
These facts win doubtless appeal to
the more thoughtful people in the course
of time, and if reforms come in insur-
ance management. as it is expected
they viii come, the business really ought
to be considerably better than ever be
fore, because the policy holders will get
better returns.
There is a class of people who always
deery telling the truth, If it is not pleas
ant. They believe in covering up such
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A wise Washington girl tells her
friends it is always a safe rule to sus-
pect man who uses breath killers.
At Coneordia there is a blacksmith
who runs quarter page advertisements
in the newspapers. OF course he has
the biggest shop in town.
Up in Washington county $50 pounds
of pumpkin were grown from a single
seed. There were five OF them, the
smallest weighing thirty pounds and
the largest 10.
A six-hundred acre farm near Smith
Center was sold two years ago for $18,
000 Since then the owner has had two
big crops off of it and he has just sold
it again for $4,000. That's the way
Kansas land is advancing in value.
THE Mahaska Leader last week gave
Fulton credit for inventing the cotton
gin Know who invented the cotton
gin?" asks the washington Republican
Register. Sure. It was a man named
Howe. Fulton invented the sewing ma
chine, and Eli Whitney invented the
steamboat. If you don't like these an
sweTs. fix them up to suit yourself.
Prosperity story from the Smith Coun-
ty Journal: Nathan Roundsley, the
successful hog raiser of Pleasant town
ship, was cleaning up part of his fat
tening pens yesterday and when he
checked up with Trube Reece found that
he had marketed an even 100 head and
that the average was 207 pounds. Mr..
Reece said it was the finest bunch of
hogs in that number that he had ever
put over the scales. Mr.. ROundsley
took in return for them a check for
Slab, which he said will pay every
cent he owes in the world and leave
him with a farm of 1910 acres of excel
lent land He came here fifteen years
ago, an Alabama coal miner of English
descent, and he has stayed with Smith
county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
-TlHE BAREFoor TRAIT..

Out of the dear front gate it ran,
Into the sun and dew and tan
ArayeFsed the dusty peaceful street
Arehed by naples Gin mem Fy sweet.
crossed the pasture, with clover lush;
Entered the copse, where thrilled the
thrush.
Rambled, ioitered. and played-and then
Turned to mother and home again.
Street and pasture and hin and vale
such was the course of the Barefoot
Trail;
Pausiug and veering for this and that
Now for game of one-old-cat.
Now for a rollicking butterfly.
Now for a nest hung just too high.
NOW Tor broOkside haunt-and then
Back to mother and home again.
Never a sun for this trail too hot.
Never a nook that knew it not;
Twisting and turning from scene to
scene,
It cheekered the realm of the gold and
green;
Passenger-eourier boyhood. slim;
BaSsport-Whistle and tattered brims
Rrovfnce-to beckon affair." and then
10 lead TO mother and home again.
Many a secret and many a tale,
ours who followed the Barefoot Trail:
W Wonders Witnessed and narvels heard;
kinship OF squirrel and hare and bird,
ne shortest route to the swimming hole,
Care free triumphs and j0ys-and then,
(BestD the mother and home again.
Edwin L. Sabin,
IN Saturday Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.
iron the AtehIgon elobe.I

Il TONI the kALGiAASOAA N1ODC-l
Never expect a photograph album
to interest a man long unless it has
his picture in it.
OF course you are familiar with
the man who says, thoughttully;
Lets see; what day is this?"
There is one thing that even an I'M
shaved man has right to rebel
against: A greasy ribbon in wo-
mans hair.
Subject of discussion at the next
meeting of the Lancaster Literary So
eiety: "Resolved, That farmers do not
shave often enough.
Something terrible has happened to
a tall handsome Atehison girl; she has
fallen in love with a man who scarce
" reaches her shoulder.
After a man spends two or three
weeks on jury, he ought to be a
pretty good lawyer. Indeed, he ought
to be a pretty good judge.
There was a chance for a fight to-
day. A man called a neighbor off to
one side, and said. why did you
poison my dog?" But the neighbor
wasn't game; he denied it.
An Atehison man threatens to move
to Kansas City. He says copies of
Judge the funny paper, appear at
than they appear at barber shops in
Atchisen.
At late meeting of the Lancaster
Literary society, this question was
discussed: Resolved. That a man
who clerks in a store ought to change
his shirt, collars and cuffs at least
twice week.
At a late party in Atchison. the
game known as ''postoffice" was play
ed. A tall, thin youngish girl was
chosen by a boy, and he attempted
to kiss her. She screamed and cried,
( r f|oT7sa 4 =
/ hair fell down. Then her mouth be-
gan bleeding, and she sprang through
/ a window, but instead of running on
home and telling her mother, as the
/ children expected, she said to the
1 boy who had chosen her: "Ah, hal
] Did You ever get Ieft2,,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
King Alfonso.


Ihey say the young king of Spain
isn't worrying over the matrimonial
lookout. They take all the responsible
ity off his hands, his ministers do. He
doesn't even have to poD the question
No young woman viii ever say to him,
This is so suddenl" Nor will any
blushing damseI coyly invite him to see
papa See papa, ha, ha, hal Instead of
hunting up the old gent in his counting
room or his lingy old office, Phonny can
expect to see daddy come groYeling in
with his napless old hat in his trembling
fingers and cut and dried sentence in
his mouth expressive of his driveling
delight at the honor the young chap is
going to confer on his daughter. Oh,
there are some things that make
Phonso's job seem a real pleasant one
no doubt of that.
But then again it has its drawbacks.
He never gets chance to see his be-
loved one in the front pardon with the
folding doors closed and the gas ready
to turn down. No little brother hides
under the sofa, thereby adding a de-
lightful spice to the current of true love.
He can't take her to the circus, nor
walk home from church with her, nor
linger at the gate, nor take hurried
advantage Of the fact that the moon
has temporarily slipped behind a SYM
pathetic little cloud. No, Phonso viii
miss all this.
And perhaps he isn't to be so much
envied after all-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
THE RUSSIAN MAGMA CHARTA.

THE RUSSIAN MAGMA CHARIA.
Another advance step-the greatest
yet-has been taken toward freeing
Russia from the bonds of absolute
monarchy. AS a result of the revolu-
ton that has been in progress during
the past week, the car has granted
his subjects a constitutional govern
ment in which. according to the re
ports given out. the people will really
be represented.
In a way this might be called the
Russian magma charta- The revolu-
tionists have wrested the rights of the
Russian people from the car much as
the barons of England wrested the
magma charta from King John. Among
other things they get that greatest of
boons. freedom of speech. Heretofore
If any one presumed to eriticise the
government he was suddenly whisked
off by the police and probably never
again heard of by his friends. Now
not only can the people discuss their
grievances, but so can the newspapers.
In the past no newspaper has dared to
publish even the news of an event dis
pleasing to the authorities let alone
any unfavOrab Bile comment on it. Count
White who in the main impressed
America as the broadcast of Russian
statesmen. is made premier under the
new regime, and will be the real head
of the government.
These early years of the twentieth
century have been fraught with ire
mendous import to the Russian people
One by one the chains of centuries are
being snapped and Russia is rising in
freedom.
1t is to be hoped that further blood
shed may be averted. There viii prob
ably be hot-heads among the revolu-
tiOnists who will insist on more slaugh-
ter, but it is to be hoped that other
counsel may prevail and that both the
revolutionists and the government may
meet on common ground to build d
new Russia that shall take it's proper
place among the truly civilized nations
of the earth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31

o In a Philadelphia club number of
young men We're arranging for rab-
bit hunt as soon as the shooting sea-
son should begin.
John Luther Long, the Japanese au-
thority, said
There is a Japanese rabbit hunt
ing story.
zone Jap meets another in the hunt
ing season with a gun over his Shout
der.
AHA, been shooting?" he says. you
look upset
and with a good reason. It started a
rabbit. Cherry Blossom, my dog, ran
after it. I fired, and Cherry Blossom
fell.
e. Too bad And the rabbit?'
90 The rabbit? It brought Cherry
Blossom back and laid her at my
feet Publishing Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
oUAKER REFLECTIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
Even a scene-shifter may be shift
less.
A good thing is often a good thing
to let alone.
When a man has a boil on his toe
it comes to a head and also to a foot.
MANY a young mans brightne ss
never extends any farther than his
neckties.
The man who knows it all Is merely
suffering from enlargement of the
imag inatiOn.
Talk is cheap. in spite of the fact
that most of US indulge in extrava-
giant assertions.
De Tanque-"Guzzler says he
doesn't want the earth O'Soaque-
NO; but he wants the fullness there
Of"
"Au the world loves a lover" re-
marked the optimist- And misery
loves company" added the pessimist
Some men are so imbued with the
idea that a rolling stone gathers no
moss that they develop into fossils.
NelI="He said I was the apple Of
his eve BeIIe-tAnd what did YOU
say Melt told him he could have
the core
yVigg-"Solomon had a thousand
wives. and yet he was known as a
wise man. Wagg-"He must have
been pretty wise to keep track of all
his wedding anniversaries"
BIobbs-s'So your investment turned
out badly. eh2 I thought you got in
on the ground floor Slobhs-s'I did.
but If looks as though some other fel-
lows had sneaked in through the cell
lar windRVs'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31

Thomas A Edison had finished an
automobile tour of Pennsylvania and
was condemning the Pennsylvania roads,
which he declared to be the worst in the
country.
The topic of roads led naturally to the
topic Of traction, and Mr.. Edison recall
ed a Eiiian who had once inspected a
railway with him.
Mr.. Edison took the Fijian all over a
railroad yard, and described everything.
A railroad lecture two hours long was
poured into the ehieftain's ears.
AT the end OF the usual question,
Now do you understand was asked,
and fhe Fiiian nodded IN assent
But at the same time he pointed to
a freight that was sliding back and
forth in front Of him, the locomotive
first pulling the train up the track, and
then pushing it down again.
Il understand everything" said the
Fijian. zone point, though, is not quite
clear. Look at that freight train over
there. Now understand perfectly how
the locomotive pulls the cars down the
track, but cannot comprehend how the
cars pull the locomotive up Los An
geles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Lon the chieago Newg. ]

GFrom the Chicago News
Laziness Is the fruit of INSTRUCTED
philosophy.
Poor men have no time for the trou-
bles of the rich.
He who borrows trouble pays the
interest with worry.
You can always tell what woman
throws at by what she misses.
Everything that is blind and grins
at the locksmith isn't love.
A woman never quarreis with her
self as long as she has a friend left.
If man boasts of his good looks
it is a sign that he has a lot of gray
matterwmissing.
Take away woman and you cOuldn'
find mans other troubles with a mi
croscOpe-
Man wants a great deal here below.
For further information see the
want columns.
When the economical housewife
casts her bread upon the waters the
result is bread pudding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31

The prize coon story of the season
comes from saltwater, and it cannot
be doubted, as the man has the coon's
head to show for it.
While John Pooler was working up
some hrewood with a crosscut saw he
was startled to find his saw suddenly
become bloody. Upon further investi-
CATION Mr.. Pooler found that he had
sawed through the backbone of a big
coon, which had crawled into the log
to spend the winter.
The coon was killed before he walked
up. and Mr.. Pooler entertained the
neighbors with a coon dinner.-Ken-
nebac Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
IAYHAWKER JOTS


You don't have 10 tell the average
boy what day tonight is.
Now that Russia has freedom Of
speech and of the press, very likely old
Feritas, Vox Populi and Taxpayer will
work overtime writing stuff for the St
Petersburg and Moscow papers
If it is in order, we would like to ask
the chair if Judge Flammer, who has
just withdrawn from the Republican
ticket in New York, is a relative of the
celebrated Film PLANNED, who is well
known in most communities.
Lost: one universal peace. brand ncyT.
Finder win greatly obIige by returning
TO Nick Bomanoff, st. Petersburg.
It is mighty easy TO see who will be
elected mayor of New York If you read
the New York American.
Over in Norway there is new law
compelling a girl to have a certificate
that she can cook before she can get
married. That sort of law in this
country would be likely to lessen both
the number Of marriages and the di-
vorces.
You may not believe in keeping fire
arms about the house. but you will find
that an armed chair is a pretty good
thing to have once in a while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
a HAII-oWEEN coNFEssIoN.

MY lady, the charms have decided,
HIVE shown without question my fatei
By test that may not be derloeQ
The future is told to ne -1,s...itl,
] have not thrown over my snoutQeF
The peel of an apple to sea
bat is her initial; a holder
Device vas suggested 70 me.
II.
have not peered into a mirror
By candlelight. seeking to trace
Beside my reflection, yet clearer,
The picture Of somebody's face.
have not placed under my pilioW
A fetish to bring me 2 dream; -.,,,-,
Where fairies dance down BY the stream
III
I have not, a-shake and a-shiver,
Gone forth at midnight in the gloom
To whisper with voice all a-QuiVer
MY wants in the shade Of the tomb.
TO come face to face with a wrath
A vision Of hoping ecstatic
Built up of my fancy and 1aith
".
I've called in no old superstition,
But surely, this Ai-halloW cen,
Not following lore or tradition
NY fate and my fortune I've seen.
And these are the charms all beguiling
Two eyes with a wonderful light,
Rose lips, cheeks bedimpled with snallins'
A hand that is marvellous white
v
I know. who she is; and you know her
So why should I further confess!
I pay you the tribute I owe her
The question to which you say Yes"
speils2 Sorceries2 All, you can weave
them,
For you have the potentest charms;
And I, their disciple, believe them
Fer I hold them all in my arms.
Wilbur d. Nesbft in The Pilgrim for Oc-
tober.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31

The superintendent of factory went
into the store house one day and saw the
storekeeper Juggling at a big case OF
goods His face was red and the muscles
of his neck were bulging out
Hold on there. Jack" said the super
intendent ALLOW me to demonstrate to
YOU the power of brain over muscle He
grabbed a hook that was on a shelf and
stuck it in the case. gave a quick jerk
and toDDled over into a pile of rubbish.
He got up. looked at the storekeeper and
said: "BIame It, the handle was LOOSE
yes. sir replied Jack; that's why l
didn't use it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
Didn't Know About GOLDFISH Bans.

When Tim Campbell was at the zen
it'll of his popularity as a congressman
from New York, he was one evening
asked If he liked Goldfish balls, and he
replied:
lowe had foine tonnes wit tn
lovely gurls at the hodcarriers' hops;
but Owe niyer attinded a Goldfish ball, =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31

things as this insurance mess instead Of
opening it and allowing the people to
know what is going on. They are afraid
It win hurt business" But in the end
it PAYS TO take the people into ones eon-
hdenee and let them know what is going
on. BY clearing the atmosphere and
bringing about a reformation Of wrong
doing. business. instead of being injured,
win be improved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31
Tears. Idle Tears.

Mrs. De Witt Talmage, at a tea which
she gave in Washington in Mrs. Fair
banks honor, said of a little girl:
She is a remarkable little girl Her
mind is so original that I think she will
grow up to be a genius The other af-
ternoon, awakening from her nap. she
called her mother to chr.
" Mamma, she said, what was
crying about before I went to sleeD?'
Her mother smiled.
You were crying. my dear she an
swered, because 1 wouldn't let you
have your fathers watch to play with.
' oh, yes, I remember now The lit
tie girls face contorted, and she burst
out again.
'Boo-hoo! Boo, boo-hoo-hoo! Boo
hoOts .
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had nIed kept out Of the paper; and a
merchant who did not believe in adver-
Using because people did not read the
paper anyway but who was anxious
that nothing be said about bad lot of
canned goods that had accidentally been
paIn1ed- off on his trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31

Do you know that in the last 100 years
Russia has kept ahead of the United
states in it's gain of population? In
1900 it had "a millions more people than
this country. In 1900 it had IS millions
more: and the United States had been
growing some, too.
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one FOR Owing HFRRERT.

I'm many respects, Hoch is not as
good a governor as Bailey" declares
the Hiawatha World, whose editor
helped to start the instruction. The
governor should appoint an assistant
attorney general for Ewing Herbert
Parsons Sun. -. ..f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31

Senator Foraker's threat is troubling
him so that he cannot make speeches,
and it viii therefore be impossible for
him to publicly endorse Secretary
Taft's Akron speech.
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DEAD POETS.

In the recent balloting for the adj
mission of candidates to the New York
hall of fame two of the three men
admitted were poets. They were. of
course. dead when the votes were cast.
Chicago Reeord-H Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31

Many New Workers are clamoring for
the Hon. William Randolph Hearst to
run for mayor. IF the Hon William
Randolph is in any doubt as to whether
he. too, is a man of destiny all he has
got to do is to listen to them and then
watch what appens.-Charleston News
and Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-31

Turn your thoughts on the higher
things of life says Mr.. Rockefeller,
and, following his advice, we inmed-
treal Star.
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coon PRAcrIcE

One of the health squad told US the
other day that If a young man was
contemplating matrimony, he ought to
practice a year buying the clothes for
his sisteT--Washingto Register.
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KANSAS cOAAENT


Tom Kelly SAYS he is willing to quit
If Governor Hoch is. Governor Hoch
can not quit It is not a personal
matter with him. The man who oc-
cupies the position of state treasurer
is an incident. It is the public funds
that claim the center of the stage It
makes no difference what Governor
Hoch thinks of anybody. He has his
duty to perform. The legislature ap-
propriated SIS, 600 for the investiga-
ton of the state treasury and it is
Governor Hoch's duty to see that the
Investigation is made.-Lawrence
World