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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

1.-THE civic reformers of PhiladeI-
phia having begun to pray for Dur
ham, the Republican gang leader, the
result is watched by the rest of the coun-
try with interest, rather than conf
dence. indianapolis News.
And why not with confidence. as
well as interest2 There is no war
rant for believing that any member
OF the Philadelphia gang is be-
yond the reach of saving grace. Is
II not true that, so long as the lamp
OF life continues to burn, the way is
open for any and every sinner to OBJ
tain forgiveness? Sincere repentance,
us sincerity proven by works meet
Tor repentance" is the only requisite
Tor pardon. The old doctrine of fore
ofdlnauon-the theory that some per
sons were born under a sentence of
dannatlon, and others with an assur-
ance or salVauOn-that hard old doc
Irine has few adherents in these days.
Ihose Philadelphia reformers, or
ratner the clergymen who led off in
TINS mighty reform, can point to a
IacL OF recent experience which, they
Delleve, beautifully illustrates the eff
nciency of prayer in the campaign of
OF civic regeneration. Mayor Weaver
IS brand snatched from the burning,
and there are thousands of good peo-
pie in the Quaker city who have no
DOUBT that prayer was the inStrurn en-
taiity through which the snatching
was accomplished. Has the News for
gotten that great impromptu prayer
meeting in the mayors Office last spring
the occasion on which scores of
preachers, moved by a sudden COM
mon impulse, rushed into the Office
70 Mayor Weaver, and, kneeIing
around him, began to pray to the
Father of Nercies that the mayor
might be cut off from the communion
/ and Fellowship of the gang and be-
| come the leader of the new crusade
against the rascality and corruption
/ that had so long disgraced their city ?
Did not the things they prayed for
/ happen? And with such an example
to cheer them, why should not that
! hope be Shared by their Christian
friends al over the country?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
A SERMON FOR TO-DAY.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome
evil with good.-Romans III
Not very many days ago two convicts
in the Kansas state penitentiary be-
came fncensed at a comrades third
comrade. So fierce was their anger
that they attacked him with knives and
murdered him.
One of the pair was at that very time
serving a long sentence for another
murder, and the other was under
somewhat shorter sentence for burg
larry. Both had been in the penitentiary
for a number of years. however; long
enough to think over the evil deeds and
reform.
Why did those two men murder their
comrade2 There was no concealment in
their actions; they simply got angry
al him and in a sudden and Overwhelm-
ing desire for revenge they slew him.
Each would have eventually regained
his liberty in a comparatively short
time, but now they win probably spend
the rest of their lives inside those
dreary walls at Lansing. Knowing the
punishment that would surely follow.
what impelled them to commit that
crime? A moments thought would
have told them that it probably meant
spending their entire lives in place
which they must already 1oathe, yet
for a moments exultation of the spirit
of revenge they murdered a fellow
creature!
Out in Los Angeles woman is on
trial for numbering a young man who.
according to the testimony. had never
harmed her in the least. She was a
little weazened woman, the keeper Of
boarding house, and because Of some
fancied insult she secured a revolver
and shot the young man in a fit of
rage Why?
Psychologists generally recognize a
dual personality in man. The laws gov
erning the two personalities are not
understood, and they are more distinct
in some persons than in others. Men
who have d sincere desire TO do right
make an effort to repress the evil nature
that is in them, but others give it free
play and allow it to grow and grow
until it controls them.
This may account for the seeming
inability of some men to resist inn
pulses to do evil. In some it is direct
ed along one line-in others along an
other. An old thief can scarcely re-
sist the desire to steal when tempta-
ton is placed in his way. Those who
have allowed their tempers to control
them commit murder on the spur of
the moment, as did the two convicts.
An evil temper unrestrained becomes
possessed of the very devil himself.
How many a man, and woman too,
has done things in a moment Of anger
that has been d source of regret for a
lifetime!
It is a fearful thing to allow ones
evil passions to grow and grow, unre-
strained year after year, until they
control and overcome every good inn
pulse The building of a good char
acter is Of more Importance than the
attainment of great riches. A high re-
gard for righteousness, honor and
truth viii do more to bring happiness
and contentment than strife after
riches, no matter how successful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
JAYHz WKER JOTS

In Kansas City, kan, these days the
festive jointist neither smiles himself
nor gives one to his would-be GUS
toners.
given $4,000 for the loss of one eye
will naturally be partial to the see
side hereafter.
A joindst is never arrested in Wich-
tia, but twenty-seven boys who were
"out for a time" Halloween had it in
Jail until the next morning.
There will be any amount of sweet
ness in the Arkansas valley the COM
ing winter. The sugar beet crop is
many times larger than ever before.
A Douglas county man harvested
five pecks of peanuts from four rows,
ten feet long. That would have kept
the boy on the burning deck running
for some time.
The desertion of five little kittens by
a big fat woman in Wichita the other
night drew tears from the eyes of the
Eagle, which seriously considered
calling an indignation meeting.
George Hanna says that Roosevelt
is a Populist, probably because Roose-
welt thinks just as George does, and
as George knows he is a Populist it's
easy for him to see that Roosevelt is
also.
Beloit proposes to nail the lid on
tighter by closing all the stores on
Sunday, except drug stores. Mayor
Mitchell has proclaimed that there
must be nothing doing in a business
way on Sunday after November 1.
Leavenworth brags that one bunch
of eight houses in a certain part OF
that town possesses forty-four chill
ldren, and the Times dares any similar
community to show more. Humph!
Just wait till the returns are in from
Utah!
Charlie Harger thinks Halloween
isn't what it used to be. The old days
he says. when signs were ripped down
sidewalks ripped up and buggies put
on top of the opera house will never
come again and thereby is missed
much hilarity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
Ihe Newsnaner ID schooI.


FIoleSsor j. A. james Of Northwestern
university, in insisting that members Of
ms American history class must know
the news of the day. has acted wisely.
Discovering the other morning that but
two young men in the class had read
that DAYS newspapers, Professor James
said; This will never do. Hereafter I
shall expect you to have an accurate
knowledge Of current events, as chron-
icied each day in the newspapers, and
shall consider 1t fully as important as
tne dally lessons assigned from the text
books. -
It would be well if Professor James's
IDEA were copied in Institutions of learn
ing below the university rank, as it IS
largely in Pittsburg. Pupils in the high
school ana the higher grades of the pub
nc schools might derive great advantage
from following, under the supervision of
thelr teachers, the news of the day. The
more important items of news today are
history tomorrow, and it is certainly not
the part Of wisdom to be conversant
with events that occurred one, two and
more decades ago while ignorant of the
events that are making history today
But II the study of current events is to
De taken up in earnest in the schools,
care should be exercised in selecting the
newspapers from which Information is
TO be derived. There are a few news
papers Ito the credit Of the profession
there are only few which not only
distort the facts of the commonest oc-
currences, but are entirely without the
sense of proportion in assigning news
values to items. Owing to this latter
fault they often place huge headlines on
comparatively unimDortant items and
ignore or minimize items of real and
vital importance. The newspaper for
use in the schools is the one that prints
all the real news and presents it so it
IS easily read and IFS relative fN1nnrfRTRe
appreciated. One more consideration
should enter into the choice of news
papers for this purpose: they should
be clean papers.-Pittsburg Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
The Inferior Motive.

James J. Hill was addressing null
titude of Minnesota farmers at the
Fillmore county fair.
Don't take up with every new no.
ton you hear about" he said 1.-THE
ideas of governmental ownership Of
railroads and municipal ownership of
the trolley lines are not good ideas
simply because they are new ones.
I'm such ideas, as a matter of fact,
there often Iurk covert and selfish
schemes for their promulgators' ad-
vancement. often municipal owner
ship of an industry viii not benefit the
community so much as it will benefit
the man proposing it.
ct is a case of a new ideas adop-
ton for a hidden end. It is like the
case of the small business man who
wrote dictated at the bottom of all
his letters.
" You are in a very small way of
business said q friend. You have no
stenographer. You write all your own
letters. Why. then, this dictated" at
the bottom on each? p
Z" THE fact is said the small bust
ness man. I'm a very poor speller. In
case of mistakes, the dictated" let's
me out Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

7 don't suppose that many people
know that the homes of Francis Scott
Key. the author of the star -Saangled
Banner" and John Howard Payne the
author of Hone, Sweet Home" were
within IS feet of each other in Wash
ington. They lived in c street, between
Third and Four and a Half, and were
neighbors for a long time. OF course
Key got his fame first, for Payne did
not write Home, Sweet Home until
he went to Tunis. Algeria, as d United
States consul where he died in 1852.
The death of Key preceded him. on
January IL, 1913, by nine years. Their
bodies rest in the same cemetery, OAK
Hill. at Washington. Payne, who WAS
an actor and dramatist wrote a great
many things and played and sang in
many of them himself Home. Sweet
Home" was song written In an opera
by him. but it is by no means his best
composition. though it is the only one
that is likely to be remembered. The
fame of Key, however, rests entirely on
his one hymn the t'Star-Spang1ed Ban
ner." I am telling this story to illus
trate one idea: that is, that though this
world is large, it is very, very small
when you come to think of it. that
though their productions are the ma
tons hymns, are known all over the
world and are destined to live. at least.
as long as this country lives, they lived
within sound Of each others voice dur
ing their lives. and their bones are rest
ing almost side by side.-New Orleans
Times-Democrat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


FROM the chicago News.
An obligation of any sort is a mort
gage on your time.
Most people manufacture their own
luck-be it good or bad.
Whoever gets blue over mere trifies
is apt to paint things red to get over
it.
A doctor is making money when he
begins to call his patients his clientele.
He who waits for something to turn
up is likely to turn UP in the aims
house.
A girl isn't an old maid until she
begins to worry for fear she'll never
get married
A man isn't an old bachelor until he
begins to worry for fear some woman
viii marry him.
The more business ability a man
possesses the harder it is for him to
whistle a popular air correctly.
Possibly Solomon's wisdom may
have been acquired by association with
his numerous mothers-in-1aw
Once there was a poor man who at
tended strictly to his own business
and today he is rich and happy.
1t was the husband Of a strenuous
woman who said that any man ought
to be unhappy enough without wife.
Prosperity has much the same effect
on a man as gas has on a balloon; too
much of it viii result in an explosion.
When a man reaches his second
childhood he has no hair and no teeth
and if single, has no more sense
than to want a, wife.
A New York millionaire who began
his career as clerk in cigar store
about forty years ago boasts Of hav-
ing risen from the ranks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

Chicago has two lively rate cOnven-
tons instead of the one she had ex-
pected. There are now before the
general public two Chicago rate plat
FORMS" and the study of them will, at
any rate, promote useful discussion
and tend to give defniteness and GER
tainty to the great issue.
The regular" convention passed
exactly the kind of resolution which
the call and the pledge the delegates
were requested to sign had foreshad-
owed. It was to be a ratification meet
ing, and it was a ratification meeting.
It unqualihedly Endorsed the Roose-
Welt rate proposals because It believed
them to embody Constitutional, eff
fective and just measures for the reg
ulation of interstate commerce.
The "bOlters' convention passed
resolutions that, on their positive side,
have the merit of being good as far as
they go. They demand the rigid en-
forcement of present laws-and the
enactment of new ones if these be in
against all forms of dis
elimination, however effected. and
they recognize the evils connected
with industrial and private lines, arbi-
Jrary manipulation of classifications,
unequal distribution of equipment, and
so on. They call for changes in pro-
cedure and machinery calculated to do
away with delays that defeat justice,
and thus by implication repudiate the
ridiculous assertion of overzealous
railway advocates that the resources
of American Jurisprudence have al
ready been exhausted for the benefit
of shippers and producers.
Since, however, the convention was
"unalterably opposed to comforting
upon" any administrative agency the
power to prescribe rates. in any case
whatever, the public will share the
natural perplexity of one of its dele
gates, who did not see why it should
proceed to organize a federal rate
| regulation associat tom Rate regula-
ton is precisely the one thing the con-
vention fatty and dogmatically re-
/ jected and there is, therefore, abso-
lutely no correspondence between the
name and the purpose of the associa-
ton. VIII not some suspect an UNI
worthy intention--to impose upon and
] confuse the public? Was it polite to
invite such suspicion Chicago Rec
( ord Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

The idea that gold varies somewhat
in color. according to the locality in
which it is found, is widely prevalent
among miners and money changers
and handlers in he gold producing
districts. but such notion is, on the
authority of experts at the Philadel-
phia mint, wholly erroneous.
Pure gold-that is, gold without any
alloy or other impurity-is of one I'M
varying, unchanging color. Few peo-
pie, however, see such gold. All the
gold of commerce used either as
money or for jewelry has alloy in it
after it is manufactured into the de-
sired article. Even the nugget of gold,
which is sometimes quite pure, is COW
cred with dirt and stains on the out
side that conceal its true color. and all
gold dust which is melted at the place
of mining contains impurities which
go into the bar.
This is the reason why Mexican
gold, for instance. has a redder tinge
than that of California, and the same
is true whether it be a piece of money
or jewelry. The red tinge is caused
by the presence of copper and the
paIer tinge by the presence of silver,
and In the minis of the different eoun-
tries the amount and kind of alloy
used differ sufficiently to give differ
ent tints to the money.-Philadelp
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
TUESDAYS ELECTIONS.

While the country as a whole is en-
5oying a rest from politics this year,
a few important elections will be held
next Tuesday. Four or FIVE states will
elect state officers, but the only ones
in which any considerable national in
terest is manifested are those of Ohio
and Massachusetts. Besides these are
important municipal elections in New
York and Philadelphia, and some Of
lesser importance Al Cleveland, Cinein-
natl and San Francisco. Maryland IS
eleeting some minor officials, but there
is considerable interest in the proposed
constitutional changes, the adoption of
which will disfranchise many negro
voters.
Perhaps there has never before been
a municipal campaign in New York
City in which there is such widespread
interest as in the present one. When
it was opened a few weeks ago there
seemed every indication that it would
be a tame affair and that Tammany
would win in a walk. The fusionists
found it impossible to fuse, and as there
seemed to be comparatively little oppo-
sition to Mayor Mcclellan, the country
therefore took it for granted that Nc
Clellan would be easily reelected.
WINS was nominated by the Republic
cans after the failure of fusion, and
then the municipal ownership league
insisted that w. r. Hearst should rum
and he consented. Then things changed.
New York got worked up over the in
surance scandals. Jerome asked the
Tammany leaders where they got it, -
referring to suddenly acquired wealth.
+ --r-r =
with the result that Tammany is very
much frightened and chances are about
even between Hearst and Mcclellan,
with WINS probably third in the race.
/ In the meantime the bosses had fixed
4 up a deal to knock out the reelection
/ of District Attorney jerome. New York
probably never had a more popular Of
I fetal than Jerome, and when both Tam
many and Oden refused to nominate
him on a regular ticket he was nom
mated independently. The Republican
/ candidate has now Withdrawn in his
favor, although jerome is a Democrat,
and he has a good chance for re-elec-
ton The whole country is interested
in the fight on Jerome. because he
stands pre-eminently for honesty in
public service in New York, and his
defeat would he the cause for rejoic-
ing on the part of every CRATER in the
country.
In Philadelphia there is a desperate
battle on between the reform forces,
led by Mayor Weaver, and the Repub-
lican machine, which has the support
of Governor Pennypaeker. Boss Dur
ham and the old Quay organization.
The fight in Ohio is for and against
the reelection of Governor Herrick
Herrick's record is nothing to brag Of
and the Republicans are having hard
work to defend him. His opponent is
John NJ. Pattisons a clean Democrat
Herrick is opposed to the anti-saloon
league. and he is handicapped by being
tied up with Boss Cox Of Cincinnati
whom Secretary Taft denounced in his
Akron speech. The Republicans, how
ever, have big majority in their favor
! in Ohio.
Little is said about the municipal
campaign in Cleveland, where Ton
Johnson. Democrat. is running fol
mayor for the third time. but in Cincin-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

queer Uses Oh the 4ElCDkAOnD.
Abundance of amusing as well as
statistical proof of the approach of
such an era of universal telephony as
is implied in twenty per cent develop
ment is not hard to find. Newspa-
pers give publicity to all sorts Of in
genious schemes for utilizing Mr.. Bells
inventions in heretofore unheard- Of
ways The instrument has come to be
Of assistance in about all the vocatiOnS
and avocations of the everyday world.
Not only has it annihilated time and
space on the superficial earth, but the
Norwegian fishermen drop into the
ocean depths a line with telephone at
approaching herring, cOnfish, or mack
eral is communicated to the anxious
listeners above In some Of the most
delicate operations of hospital surgery
the telephone proves helpful, and in
ordinary medical practice the country
mother raises the baby to the trans
mftter in order that the physician in
the village may determine whether or
not the cough is croupy.s Concerts
have been transmitted more or less
successfully over the wires, and Sun
day morning preaching effectively
conveyed. After a recent revival, in
which scores of eager seekers" had
put in their requests for prayers, the
evangelist handed his secretary a list
of names with their telephone num-
bers and with the instruction: Just
call up each one of these sisters and
brothers tomorrow morning, and ask
them how it goes with their souls. Tell
them to keep on with their prayers
and inform them that am praying
for them right along.''-F. w. Co
burn, in the November Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05


In New York the betting is 8 to I
on Mcclellan. In Ohio the odds are 2
to 1 on Herrick. Little is heard from
or about the gamblers in Philadelphia
although there are many claims and
counter claims as to the local contest.
The machines men are probably too
anxious to think about wagers, while
as the fusiOnists are opening their
meetings with prayer and singing
hymns as a means of emphasizing the
gravity of the situation betting by
them would hardly be the thing. Mary
land presents q problem 50 very much
mixed that those with money tucked
away in their inside pockets seem dis
posed to leave it there until after the
election is over.
Some years ago betting on an cleo
ton exerted considerable influence.
Money was q recognized spellbinder.
It talked in that way to a valuable
purpose. Men about town, and par
ticularly young men, were impressed
when they heard a well dressed, suave,
land confident looking individual in
private conversation, or standing on a
chair in a hotel lobby or fashionable
barroom, offer odds on the candidate
of his choice. They regarded the Of
fer as standing for the individuals
personal opinion, and representing in
formation he had gathered at first
hand. If this candidate was theirs
they sailed forth and worked harder
than ever. If they were on the other
side they grew just a bit discouraged.
Then came a change. Betting was
adopted as a means sometimes of
bracing a weak candidacy. Party
managers would set aside sum for
betting purposes. and send fluent and
aggressive sbarkers' out into the
highways and byways with it. and in
struct them to shake it with conf
dence under the noses OF the other
fellows. It was a means of creating
sentiment and giving the public a new
campaign song to sing
This policy has in a measure weak
ened the power of the campaign
wager. People nowadays look at the
] confident barker with crisp bills
winding like a green snake in and out
/ between his fingers. and ask them
Iselves whether the money Is his own,
4 or only part of his party's betting
fund. whether he is expressing an
/ opinion after investigation. OF doing
+ the boss bidding with the boss coli
/ lections
The chances at this time appear to
be in favor Of both Mcclellan and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

natl there is a big fight on against the
Boss Cox municipal ticket.
There is a straight partisan contest
over state officers in Massachusetts,
where the Republicans have a natural
majority; but year ago 1Iassaehus-
etts went Democratic by a big major
ity on governor. electing Douglas, the
shoe manufacturer, who refused to run
again. Massachusetts elects state Off
GERS every YEAR.
There are also elections in Rhode
Island. Nebraska and some other states,
but they are overshadowed by these
others in prominence.