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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-11
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Chanute is also seeing cabbage
snakes. Mrs. Mary Bright of that
town was bright enough to catch
cabbage reptile six inches long.
The arrival of train almost on
time caused considerable excitement in
Liberal last week, but Billy Morgan
suspects that it was the train for the
day before.
With her usual clear insight, Anna
Carlson says that the reason some wo-
men fail to make a success in pro-
fessiOn is that too many of them look
upon a profession only as a coaling sta
ton between the home of their parents
and the home they expect d husband to
provide for them.
The technicaIity has got in its work
again John Bellringer, who was in
dicted at Clay Center by the grand
jury for failing to make proper re-
turns of his property to the assessor,
goes free. A motion to quash the in
dictment was sustained. There was a
flaw of some kind in the papers.
The intellectual editor of the Ness
City News suggests to the young folks
of that town that it would be a decided
improvement for them to organize q
literary society to settle the problems
of the day rather than loafng around
town or wearing out shoe-leather
dancing two-thirds of the night
Henry Allen has turned his eyes
away from the Second district situa-
ton long enough to diagnose the trou-
bic with China. He says: 1.-THE To-
a new constitution for China. What
China wants is new hair cut, and a
new suit Of clothes, with the slack
taken OUT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-11
BURTON AGAIN INDICTED

Friday was Joseph Ralph Buttons
uniucly day. For the third time d
federal grand jury in st. Louis in
dicted him for his connection with the
get-rich-quick Rialto company Of St
Louis while he was in the United
States senate. The grand jury met and
was given its charge by Judge Van
deventer. Friday morning. and late in
the afternoon it returned the in
dictment against Burton. 1t seems to
have required very little time to con-
vince the special grand jury that he
was indictable.
The last indictment against Burton
was Quashed a few weeks ago by
Judge Vandeventer on technical
grounds. Its wording was held to be
faulty by the court, in that it did not
allege that Burton knew the Rialto
company was being investigated by
the postof1ce department at the time
he acted for the company. and also
that it did not state that the postof1ce
department had the power to make
such an investigation.
The Indictment just returned against
Burton covers the same ground as the
former one, but is so drawn as to meet
Judge Wandeventer's objections.
1t is stated that if this indictment is
quashed the prosecution of Burton will
be dismissed. There is no question
concerning the facts in the case-it is
simply one Of technicalitfes. The facts
are that Burton while occupying a
seat in the United States senate ac-
cepted employment with a disreputa-
bic concern, organized to swindle the
people, to keep it out of trouble. The
federal authorities are the people who
give such concerns trouble and check
their mulcting of the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-11
Raised lis own CONN.

Probably the Oldest living settler in
Jackson county is Ember Mason, whose
farm and home lie on the Big Blue
River, between Independence and Kan
sas City. He was born in 1917 and was
brought to Independence when a child
Of five years and has lived in the
county ever since.
When he cleared UP the place on
which he now lives he left in the mid
die of one field a small walnut tree.
The tree was then about two inches in
diameter, but perfectly straight and
symmetrical. Often in the years which
followed he was asked why he left that
tree to shade valuable land, and his in
variable answer was that he intended
to live until that tree was big enough
to make into boards for his coffin.
About a year ago Mr.. Mason had
the walnut tree, then an enormous and
handsome one, cut down and sawed
into planks. It showed beautiful
grain and the boards were perfect.
These boards are now carefully put
away in a dry place and are seasoning,
and from them Mr.. Mason says his
coffin shall be made. He is now 81
years old, but is not ready to send the
boards to the cabinet maker.-Port-
land Press.
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one rate really should be, let alone all
the rates in the country.
AS for science of rate-maklng,
there is no such thing. A rate today
is merely a compromise resulting from
the operation of a thousand different
competitive forces. Scores of railroad
managers, hundreds of cities, thousands
OF merchants and manufacturers, all
with selfish personal interests. are
operating to influence every railroad
rate. For the very life of industry de-
Ponds on the rate, and every farm
er, miner, lumberman, merchant ana
manufacturer knows it. A great clamor
arises, each man demand adVant-
ages for himself for which he ofers
any inducement he can command
money, power. political influence, so
cial position-anything so long as ne
can get his rate down, no matter what
any other citizen has to suffer for t.
AS a compromise between all these bit
terly selfish forces arises the rate as 1t
now exists with all it's absurdities, its
injustices, its merciless cruelty. A rail-
road rate today may be defined as
compromise of greed.-ROy Stannard
Baker in the November McClure's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.I


No one likes man who is everlast-
ingly saying: beg pardon"
If you are a good waiter, some one
will help you get even with your en-
emies.
Who says disappointment is hard
to bear? Do we not all enjoy looking
in a mirror?
Ever think that every new fad for
the women means something extra
the men have to pay for?
After man reaches 10, any one
has a wonderful voice who sings a
song that he used to hear when he
was young.
After a woman passes forty, her new
hat may be satisfactory in the back,
and at the sides, but it doesn't suit in
front.
A great many years ago our ances-
tors wore their eyes out reading their
Bibles by tallow dips; now, we have
the greatest improved lights.
Men eating at restaurants praise
their wives cooking, and when they
eat at their own tables. they praise
what they get at the restaurants.
An Atchison woman who thinks
her husband is just as good as any
sweet lieutenant, has had one of his
pants buttons mounted for hat pin
There is talk of organizing a So
ciety among the married women call
ed THE Believers" Only those Wo-
men who believe all their husbands
tell them are to be eligible.
People are hard to please: If a
man gives a good many compliments
he is accused of kissing the barney
stone; if he tells disagreeable things
he is a brute, and if he keeps still, he
is glum.
1t is true marriage is an uncertainty:
One can never tell if the brides father
will have TO support the groom, or if
the groom will have to support the
brides father.
Every man believes that his wife's
second husband will not suit the chill
dren, but does the horrible thought ever
occur that her first husband doesn't
please them very well either?
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Fron the CHICAGO Nev, !


Optimism is generated by GOOD liver
Busy men and ennui are not on sneaIr.
ing terms.
The poor we have always win rs,r
the guise of relations.
That love which other peopIe baer
your coin is the root Of much trouble.
A small man never forgets to boast ~
his bravery after the danger is past.
When you see a man without enemies
you see a man who has but few friends
Some parrots are good takers. but
they are not in it with three women in
a box at the oDera.
Oh, no, Alphonse, a trustworthy man
isn't necessarily one who makes a. zpec-
ialty of trusting others.
A hero Is a man who after doing his
duty doesn't stand around and wait for
people to pat him on the back.
Many man who is capable Of giving
good advice isn't capable Of using il to
an advantage in his own business.
A wise man doesn't know everything
but he knows how to obtain Information
about the things it's necessary for him
to know.
Scientists tell US that fish make excel
lent brain food, but there isn't much
consolation IN the statement Tor natural
4 born fools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-11
AN AND ALICE

We thought the Chinese Empress An
creature great must be,
Who sat upon an ivory throne
All day a-drinking tea;
Who wore her nine-inch finger nails
Curved in her lily hand,
Who her enameled features had
By patient coolies famed.
We thought that to look at her
Would be coming near to DEATH
That she exhaled the pleasant fumes
OF sandal wood as breath.
We thought she lived on curried rice
And mice and birds-nest stew,
And liked eggs kept for forty years
As Chinese used to do.
We thought she loved the opium weed,
Which causes many revels,
And that also, as certainly,
She hated foreign devils.''
But at our bIoomin' ignorance
We've sat US down and laughed,
since reading how she entertained
Sweet Alice r. and Taft
Dorothy Posegate in Myerson's Maya
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-11

1euOydfQ klp1ng, in the NOVem Der
MeClure's, describes an air-ship voy-
age across the heavens from London
10 quebec. With the Night MALI
tells of Twenty-first century traffic as
man of today would describe the
run of some famous fast train. The
marvellous mechanism of the craft
that sweeps its great arc through the
sky in less than twelve hours is pic
tured wildly by Kipling's wonderful
constructive Imagination so. that the
great new principles of states and
mechanics seem as everyday as triple
expansion or the dynamo. outside Of
tie ship-along the strange highways
OF the sky-the ere are new elements
ana new forces that give the air pilots
sitter fight than ever their brothers
encountered on the sea.
1.-The pits of gloom about US begin
to MI with very family luminous
tlmS-wreathing and uneasy shapes.
One forms itself into a globe of pale
fame that waits shivering with eager
ness as we sweep by. It leans mon
strously across the blackness, aIights
on the precise tip of our nose pirOu-
cites there an instant, and swings off
Our roaring bow sinks as though that
light We're lead-sinks and RECEIVERS
to lurch and stumble again beneath
the next blowout. Tins fingers on
the Hft-shunt strike chords Of num-.
! bers-1 7:-2:4;6-7:5:3; and so
on; Tor he is running by his tanks
only. lifting or lowering her against
the uneasy air. All three engines are
! at work; the sooner we have skated
over this thin ice the better Higher
we dare not go. The whole upper
vault IS charged with pale krypton
vapors, which our skin friction may
excite TO unholy manifestations Be
tween the upper and the lower levels
5000 and 1000, hints the Mark
Boat-we may perhaps bolt through
II Our bow clothes itself in
| blue flame and falls like a sword. No
human skill can keep pace with the
changing tensions. A vortex has US
/ by the beak and we dive down a two
thousand-foot slant at an angle (the
! dlp-dlal and my bouncing BODY re-
cord IT'D of thirty-five. Our turbines
| scream shrilly; the propellers cannot
4 bite on the thin air; Tim shunts the
1 lift out of five tanks at once and by
! sheer weight drives her bulletwise
/ through the maelstrOm till she cush-
| ions with jar on an up-gust, three
! thousand feet below.
Now we've done it, saws GEORGE
in my ear. Our skin friction that last
slide has played Old Harry with the
/ tensIonSl Look out for laterals Tim
she'll want lifting
I've got her. is the answer
! Come up, old woman
She comes UP nobly but the lat
erals buffet her left and right like the
plnions of angry angels. She is ioIteC
OF her chosen star twenty degrees t.
port or starboard, and cuffed int
place again. only to be swung away
and dropped into a new blowout. W,
are never without a corposant grin
ming on our bows or rolling head owe
heels from nose to midships, and t,
the crackle of electricity round an,
within us is added once or twice tn,
rattle of hail-hail that will never fal
on any sea. Slow we must or w
may break our back, pitch-poIing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-11
Wealthy Ienoran1uses.

L was recently talking with a business
man who is in the midst OF the great
activities of New York, dresses well. and
lives well, but who, every time he opens
his mouth, condemns himself. betravs
his shocking ignorance of almost every
thing outside of his own little specia Itv
lie Knows almost nothing about the
great men and women who figure DrODo-
inently in current history. He could not
even tell the names of the candidates
for the presidency and vice presidency
just before the last election. He said
such things did not interest him.
It is painful to try to carry on con-
versation with such a man. Think of
the splendid opportunities for education
enjoyment, and culture which that man.
with thousands OF others, is throwing
away. It does not seem possible that
man could do business in New York
City and be so ignorant of everything
outside Of his own little groove.
One would think that some of the mil
ltona1reS who try to make a show in
the world would feel chagrined when
they contrast their cheap, shoddy edu-
cation, their narrow, limited intelligence
and their rutty minds, their stingy,
shriveled souls. with their hooking
wealth and their display of the art works
of the masters and the books of great
writers in their libraries which they
cannot read inte1ligent1y. How this os-
tentatious show Of the material mocks
the mental poverty, the brain perjury!
It is. pitiable, as well as ludicrous, to
see men who are rolling in wealth ig-
norant of the great world they live in,
Of the significance of all the principles
and conditions which ame1iorate and
elevate mankind; men who know moth
ing of art or Of science or literature
and whose mental perjury is deplora BILE.
They seem to think that a palatial resi-
dence, gorgeous furnishings, and fine
carriages can be substitutes for that
which makes a real man or a real wo-
man -C1IcraSS.
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oUAKER REFLECTIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Rich and racy-the successful book
maker.
High and dry-the thirsty steeple-
climber.
Some people pay as they go, and
others get passes.
The duh man naturally doesn't cut
much of a figure.
The transforming actor realizes
that life is a fleeing show.
Every man is willing to share his
good opinion of himself.
Trees leave in the spring, but they
are still there in the fall.
You can play a piano by ear, but
you have to play a hose by hand
The average man regards a club as
something with which to kill time
Some men are only good-natured
when they have nothing else to do.
Even the man who raises cabbages
knows that two heads are better than
one.
Wigg-sHe's rather dull. isn't her
Wagg-''Well, should say his point of
view needed sharpening"
BIobbs-t'Looks can't KILL Slobbs--
Its a good thing, or most OF US would
have been dead long ago"
No. Maude, dear, there is no reason
vhv even the milk business should
not reach the high-water mark.
''They tell me the gentleman who
left US so suddenly last week IS quite
an athlete" remarked the star board
err. Possibly" replied the landladys
Il know he jumped his board bill"
The man in the moon is a jolly old
For he laughs and he chuckles and
And he says says to himself: 'It is certainly
How / al always make light of things"
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Behind the Times.

George T. Brokaw. the noted golfer,
was describing village that was be-
hind the times.
ITO show you he said, 'how far be-
hind the times this village is, I'll tell
you what happened to be in it once.
II was scheduled to play a match
game of golf in a certain town, and
the train in which I was riding to this
town broke down. It was a bad break.
The conductor told me that on account
Of it we should be four hours late.
ITO be four hours late was for me an
impossibility. My game, by that time,
would be over So I hired a horse and
carriage, and set out for the town by
a short cut that would everyone as
sured me, bring me in good time to the
club I was to play at.
''Well, the short cut took me through
the village we were speaking Of It
was a sleepy, quiet village. On the
un-drenched main street a few chick
ems pecked. In front of the general
store a man sat in his shirtsleeves, tilt
ed back in his chair whiting a stick.
This man looked at me. Then he
rose and came toward me- I stopped
my horse.
bag of golf sticks, these is NICE And
he fingered first one stick and then an
other. Heads a little fancy, a little too
fur out O. the common, maybe But.
take 'em all around, they're nice. What
could you let me have this here one
:" They are not for SALE I answered
shortly.
HE looked at me in surprise.
g Why amt you peddlin' walkin
sticks?' he said. Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-11
STUBS A TARIFF REvIsIONIsT.

STUBS A TARIFF REVISIONIST.
If a Republican leader had talked
eight years ago as Walter Roscoe
Stubs did about the tariff for a few
moments at Newton last evening he
would have been summarily read out
of the party. What Stubs said was
forcible and to the point. It was the
same sort of statement that You can
find in any number of Democratic
speeches during recent campaigns.
Mr.. Stubbs reiterated his faith in
sane and just protective tariff, but one
of the prohibitive kind he has no use
for. It seeks, said Mr.. Stubs, to
establish a Commercial despotism."
Doesn't that sound like a Democrat?
To illustrate just what he meant,
Mr.. Stubbs pointed out that 'the eight
dollars a ton tariff on steer rails
amounts to several million dollars
profit every year to. the steel trust, and
is paid for by the consumer, which is
the public
A tariff of this kind, he continues
is a tax for the sole benefit of the
manufacturer who gets the "protec-
ton" it affords.
This may sound like a concession to
Democracy, but there is a deal of
sound sense in it. Just why the gov
eminent should enable the steel trust
to charge Americans eight dollars a
ton more than foreigners can ship
their product here for, when the steel
trust can ship the same rails to Eu-
rope and undersell manufacturers
there, is not plain to the common
American citizen who has to pay the
extra profit in the long run.
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BENT MURDOCKs PROPHECY.

A time will come in this land of the
free and home of the brave when it
VIII be counted a crime-a malfeas-
ance in off1ce-for any public officer,
or judge of any court to accept free
transportation from a railway COM
pany; and any officer or judge accept
ing such transportation will be thrown
out of Office. A time win come in the
history Of the country when, if a gov
ernor or a member of congress ap-
points a man to office for the sole
purpose Of boosting himself back into
office, he will be convicted of embez-
Element and thrown out; for is not en-
bezzlement the taking of the property
of somebody else and using it for our
own personal benefit? The time will
come in the history of this country
when CRATER or boodler will be ar
rested, tried, convicted and sent to the
penitentiary as a thief; and we hope to
live to see the time when all these
things will happen as a regular thing
and we will not have to live very
many years either.-El Dorado Re
publican.
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COURAGE.

They tell me it's a risky thing
To eat expensive food;
That terTapin and quail viii prlng
OF aches a frightfuI brood
A life OF ease win cause distress
And lead your nerves dance
But none the less I must confess
I'd like to have a chance.
I'm told that sorrows often Turk
Within q palace grand,
And that deceiYers smile ana 6m1rk
And cheat on every hand.
You'll envy, when with govt you re laFfle'
The poor folks who can dance;
But, Just the same, I'm downright game
I'd like to have chance
Warrington Star,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-11
INCONSISTENT.

The magazines which knock the
hardest on patent medicines because
they contain alcohol, carry the largest
assortment of beer and whisky adver-
tisements These magazines make
sistency. Nearly everybody has his
favorite brand of patent medicine, and
gets some good out of it. or thinks he
gets good out of it, which is the same
thing.-Holton Signal.
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sHoPKBEPERs SHOULD HELP.

The collision between the picture
postal card fad and the law prohibit
ing the sale or distribution of obscene
pictures or literature viii either con-
fine the illuminated postal cards to the
variety most used by tourists or put
them all out of favor. It would be to
the interest of shopkeepers were they
to cooperate with the officers of the
law in wedding out the Objectionable
cards.-1LiLWauke Mlsconsln.
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Railroad managers are not fools, nor
are railroad rates the results of mere
caprice, or spite, or vindictiveness. No
one feature of the congressional in
vestigation was more marked than the
testimony to the immense completely
of rate-making as it is now conducted.
Nearly every important witness on
both sides had something to say of
the difficulty of determining what any
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


FFron the New York Press.1
RESIGNATION is a mighty thin butter to
spread on bread.
A man would rather lose money at bet
ting than make it by work.
It is awful easy to make a girl think
You love her If she suspects you don't.
The time 9 man wants a girl is when
she tries to make him think he doesn't.
All you want to know about the I'M
trustworthiness of a man is when he
prctends he is glad he has red hair and
about q girl when she pretends she isn't.
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THEORY ALL RIGHT. But

A scientist who has been expert
menting in the field Of aerial naviga-
ton declares that the Langley aero
drome theory is sound. But no theory,
however correct has ever succeeded
in buoying up an airship.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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Mr.. Cleveland declined to become d
member of the Thomas B. Reed Me-
mortal association on the ground that a
director should give attention to the
cause he is supposed to direct, and he
had no time to give to it. Mr.. Reed
caused Mr.. Cleveland to give consider
able time to him when he was alive
and the ex-president feels, probably,
that that was suffic1ent.-Iola Record.
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~ AcAINsT "a.

Pueblo, Colo, has a woman police
man, if that is the way to express 1t,
and it is said that the men are going
home earlier than ever before They
have to ask a policeman what time it
is. for fear this female will report to
the wife instead of the Department.
DAYTON News.
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Britain paid s1,500,OOO in fines for over
speeding. As a source of government
revenue the auto may yet permit the
abolition of protective tariffs.-Hutch-
inson Independent
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OVERLOOKEn

Governor Hoch has issued his Thanks
giving proclamation. He didn't say how
thankful he was that he had all the
joints in Topeka closed, nor even how
glad he was that Tom Kelly was still
state treasurer Indepen-
dent.
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KANSAS COMMENT


There is now talk of a railway rate
congress" says a contemporary. There
is also talk of a universal peace per-
petual motion and railway to the
moon, and stu other talk that we
haven't time to mention.-Barber Coun-
ty Index.
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FROM OTHER PENS
AFTER HIS KINDNESS. "

President McCurdy does not believe
the New York legislature intended such
an investigation as has been going on,
after all he had been doing for it
Knoxville Journal and Tribune.