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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
JANA WKER JOTS

Aesop still lives out in the short
grass country and writes fables for
the Utica Enterprise.
The Beloit Times announces that
senator Burton will make a speech at
Eskridge, Wabaunsee county. on the
Fourth.
A paper called the New Leaf has
been started at Long Island Its edi-
tor hopes that a good many people
may be induced to turn it over from
time to time.
Postmaster Kennard of Seneca. has
been working three years on a twine-
cutter He has now perfected it. got
MS patent and it is being used nv the
postotfice department.
The lid evidently doesn't fit very wen
at Sallna- A tarantula twelve inches
around was found in a bunch of ba-
nanas there the other day. That is
Detter than even Leavenworth can do.
Cottonwood Falls and F,IrndaIa
played ball the other day, ana Elm
Gale Won by a score of 81 to Ok II
IS SAID that nothing has created 60
much excitement in Chase county since
the Spanish war broke out.
Three Atchison girls picked 552
quarts of Strawberries between Ia
CLOCK IN the morning and 5 O'Clock
IN the afternoon. A lot of neoDIe
would ike to break that record ~
somebody will furnish the berries -
me population of Butler county owl
| oehtly IS not growing much. This
year II is 22,658, or A less than lsst
year, and the baby crop has been fair
" good in Butler county fi44ri,,s- - ,
past year. too. In 1890 fbs c6,,, rs
nao a population of 24,O55, and in lam
II was 23,363. The CITY Of III nor, y :
n me past year has gained 80 and
~" mas population OF 3,76A
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

The chigger is not very big, but he
can make more trouble in a single
evening than cricket, which is d
thousand times his size, can in whole
summer.
The Bible speaks of an angel as
she" but can you imagine anything
but a woman angel?
Did you ever know a smoker who
had a match of his own in his pocket
and who didn't want to borrow?
There is a pessimist in Topeka who
SCOTS at the idea of the human form
time it is manufactured by human
hands. You know what half Of the
human race he referred to.
As we understand it, in taking the
census Secretary Coburn is simply
gathering data on the baby crop along
with the other crops Kansas raises.
Deacon Twogood is walking chesty
today: A book agent tackled him this
morning and he escaped without get
ting caught
When man who doesn't think as
you do says he is standing by "prin-
cipie,'' it IS dead easy for you to see
that it is only sheer bulI-headedness.
Ever know a worm to hurt any
body? Yet everybody hates a worm.
In a letter from Europe Billy Nor
gan complains of the roughness of a
shave he got in ireland, which sounds
like a joke. Ever see Billy Morgan's
beard? Well, nobody else ever did,
either. He hasn't any
No. there will be no excursion on the
Fourth over the Topeka, Eskridge &
Council Grove line to hear Senator
Burton speak at Eskridge.
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The Rabbits Deadly ENEMY.

The ways of life of the weasel or
bloodsucker, are not fully understood,
and the killing of these rabbits in
particular, presented most interesting
problems. How did the minks manage
to catch them? In every case the rab-
bit was apparently run down in fair,
open running. In one case in particular
the mink had chased the rabbit across
celery swamp, as smooth and level
as dance hall floor. Whatever him
drance there was in the foot of snow
would have hindered the mink more
than the rabbit The mink is as slow
a runner as the rabbit is swift. / have
seen mfnkS run several times, and their
peculiar, measuring gait takes
them along about as fast as a man can
run. The rabbit cannot only go with
incredible speed, but can course for
hours. And yet the mink is able to run
down the swift rabbit. The rabbit
seems to give up the race; it would
look almost as if some unknown law Of
nature made him the prey of nninks, as
If he felt that was his destiny, and did
not try to escape from it. In the cases
we observed, the jumps of the rabbit
grew shorter and shorter until it be-
came little more than a helpless hop.
The marks in the snow indicated that
the mink was not being dragged by the
rabbit, but that the mink did not over
take his victim until the latter, for no
apparent reason, had given UP the race.
and probably never in open running.
Then it would seem as if these blood
suckers have some power of which we
know nothing. AS 1t is, only one ex-
PLANTATION can be offered why so slow
running an animal as a mink, or weasel,
can catch as swift an animal as a rab-
bit.
We know the mink does not tire out
the rabbit by following him leisurely,
maintaining his slower gait reIentlessly,
never giving his victim a chance to eat,
and so by the slow sure process Of work
and worry wearing out poor Bunny.
Hence it must be that the rabbit has,
in common with other small rodents,
that terrible, denoralizing, or panicky,
fear of all of the weasel fanily--a fear
so great and bewildering that once a
mink is on its trail the rabbit becomes
paralyzed with it, and instinctively
knowing that he cannot escape by run
ming in a hole, gives up.
If this is so, then there is law in
nature that we do not fully understand.
A law akin to that which makes a rab-
bit a coward and a WOodchuck brave
to his dying gasp A ferret put into a
gray squirrels hole was at once driven
out by the indignant squirrel. A rabbit
has as sharp teeth as a squirrel. and
surely might defend itself as we'll as
a young woodchuck. Yet the latter will
face unfiinching two dogs and a man.
After his back is broken, and he is help
less, will he hold UP his head and whis-
tie a fierce defiance. Yet a rabbit will
not even try to escape, apparently, from
an animal it could just as well elude
as not! It seems almost as if the rab-
bit were meant for food for other ami
mails. Nature having given him great
reproductive powers and unlimited food,
and then saddled him with some strange
fatality that makes him play his part
in spite of himself, in the general
scheme of wild life.-John Burroughs in
Tune Outing
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personal punishment and dishonor, the
laws will be obeyed.

! personal punishment anu uislO1loA' -
laws will be obeyed."
President Roosevelt seems to be aim
ing at the same end as Messrs. Judson
| and Harmon. but in a more certain
| manner, however. The correspondents
| includes a communication from SecIe
tary Morton on the subject, ana the
/ president seems to have implicit 1aitn
/ in Mr.. Morton's innocence in the mat
ter. On the contrary he tells MI MOI
ton that he alone. of all railroad ON
| Gals whom the president urged 10 les-
tify concerning rebates three years ago
did so and said he would do al IN ms
power to break up the practice
The president emphasizes the squal !
DEAF policy by saying that the Iac'
that Mr.. Morton is a member OF ms
cabinet lis not to be allowed to shleiu
him. nor on the other hand IS II 70 DC
allowed to cause him to be singled OUT
or the officers with whom he IS associa-
ted to be singled for attack" It IS IN
doubtedly true that much of the agl-
tation in certain quarters over the COL
orado Fuel case has come from MI
Morton's connection with the adnlllS-
tration. The enemies of the admins
tration have hoped in this manner 70
discredit it.
The International Harvester case was
similar to it. but Mr.. Morton had noth-
ing to do with that and this is the nrse
that has been heard Of it, although
practically all roads running west from
Chicago are involved in it. President
Roosevelt points out this fact ana al
reefs that the same action shall be ia
u IL ~, harvest
ter case as is taken against the santa
Fe in the Colorado Fuel case.
The president does not believe in TAX
ing any action that is not warranted
by the evidence at hand. Such action
might be directed against the wrong
parties and would thus not only do an
injury to them in violating the square
deal" policy, but it would also fail and
would therein have bad effect on fu-
ture prosecutions. In other words the
president desires to be sure of his
ground.
He calls attention to the beef trust
inquiry and directs that similar action
be taken against other corporations
where there is evidence that the law
has been violated. It is in this connec-
ton that he gives specific directions to
proceed against the SANTA re anu tHS
roads involved in the harvester rebates.
The president says:
In both this Colorado Fuel case and
in the International Harvester case /
direct that proceedings for contempt
against the companies be taken by the
government. Whether, as the cases de-
velop, proceedings against individual
officers becomes necessary. must depend
in each instance on whether testimony
is obtained showing that such individ-
uaI officer has either by act or con-
nivance been personally guilty in the
matter. If there are any railroads guilty
of the practices which we have enjoin-
ed other railroads from following, but
which have not themselves been en-
Joined proceedings should be begun to
put them under q similar restraint"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

rFrom the Chicago News,J
It's a wise proverb that knows It's OWL
The the June bride now occupies the center
Won can drive a boy to school. but you
can not make him learn.
ne who wears a long face doesn't nee
esssriiy live the longest.
In marriage one and one MAKE one III
,7iIiorce one from one leaves two.
Anv fool can write poetry, but It taxes
a wise guy to swap it for ready money non. ~
Men who talk much usually sayI ply re
tie ana bore everybody except therlsetVe e.
Nothing worries pessimist more th s,1.
the noise made by people who snout LOT
1Jbe, a man asks for the hand OF an
1,eiress he means the one in when she car
ries her purse ,, 49,,
s-,TI because he hasn't the nerve 70 tackle
one nearer his own size.
In after years it usually gives a married
v,sa a headache every time ne hears an
other man wnistling the wedding marcn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
HVM0R OF THE DAY

He-so she wouldn't marry him toreform
she-No. but she was willing to make
best man OF Washington Post.
Hes travelling at pretty rapid gait.
'..Rapid-weH, I should think 50. He's
going at twelve horse power gait on a
Two horse power income. "-1diiwaukee
Prof. Chaikdown-Now, what little boy
viii make up a sentence Illustrating the
Little sammy-Well. if grubs won't
catch EN- try angelworms.-Judge.
Edith-Poor Pauline! She was lost at
Lena-oh. isn't that Dreadful And she
80 much wanted to be cremated.-Smart
Mag-Yes, Chinnmie, I t'ink I could dress
very. comfortably on $55 a year
Chimmie-Hully, gee. Yer must t'ink
m James Hazen Hyde.-Ldfe.
Jake-say, Pete, is that chile of yourn
goin' froo de high school?
Pete-I speck She will she done gone froo
most cherry fing in sight.-Exchange.
Alice rushed in from the garden. where
sheS had been picking flowers. She was
badly stung by a bee and was holding on
mamma" she cried. Il burned me on
bug!'-Brooklyn Life.
Lawyer-Tll be frank with you. You
can't break your fathers will.
Client-Iu be frank with you-I can't
pay you unless 1t can be broken.
LaWyer-pH go you one better. Wen
break that will if it takes a les.-Cleve-
land Leader.
Dat dog O. NINE said Mr.. Erastus
Pinkly, keeps on a tryin' to Whup ev'y
four-footed critter dat comes down de
He must be a fighter
mo, sub. He ain no fighter. But he
don seem able to reco'nize de faek.''
Washington Star.
New Arrival-What a gentle, peaceful
creature that COW isl Just look into her
old Guest-I did that when I first ar
rived. But I discovered that in order to
get a correct line on a cows character
must Judge her by her hind legs.-Phila-
delphia Press.
Tom-Now that your engagement is
broken, are you going to make Carissa
send back your letters?
George-You bet I am I worked hard
on those letters: they're worth Using
again.-Detroit Free Press.
This is a hard world growled the
That's whatr' replied the observant
man, the only thing with which you can
make an impression on it is rocks. Phil
adelDhia Press.
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Crockett and the Nfules.

When -Davy Crockett sat in the ma
tional legislature as representative OF
the state of Tennessee he had many
clashes with men of more education but
less wit than himself. It is told of him
that one day while standing in front
Of his hotel on Pennsylvania avenue. a
swarm of mules trotted by under the
cnstodv of an overseer from one of the
stock farms in Virginia. A congress
man from Boston, who was standing
near by. attracted Crockett's attention
to the unusual sight, saying;
Hello there, Crockett; here's a lot OF
YOUR constituents on parade Where
are they going?"
The celebrated hunter looked at the
animals with a quizzical glance, and
then turning to the other, said quietIy'
mt with great emphasis, 4'They are GO
ING to Massachusetts to teach school =
Harper's Weekly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
LIVEs o. cREAT PoETs.

BYRON.
Byron ban a sassy feller;
he ban writing Don Yooan.
and he tai bout dis Childe Herold
And ban shoot some dandy con-
he ban write some lines to Yul4as
All so sweet lax Wedding bell,
ana each time he write to ladies
lie skol always say Farewell"
Dandy lesson dis skol teach US,
ven We meet With ladies fair.
III DER jealous sWeethearts reach Us,
We skol climbing golden stair
DlS Lord Byron ban great masher-
Yennie. Yulia, Kit and Nell
but so sumo sum tings look risky
he skol always say Farewell"
BURNS.
Robbie Burns ban old Scotch Doet,
Always writing someteng new.
He ban f1irt with Highland Mary
And with plenty orders tn
he writes lots of lines to mouses
And to simple little tengs,
But dey used to say about him:
Iengs look bright ven Bobbie sengs.''
Bob ant never save no panga;
He ban busted high and dry.
So he say Won night: BY yiminys
1t ban nearly time to diet"
But We see some songs of Boobies
Syeryvar a faller turns.
and his songs dey all ban different
God made yust Won Bobbie Burns.
by the Norsk Nightingale in Milwaukee
Sentinel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
Love.

"sIn Cohasset, last summer, sara
vvi1iiarn III. Crane in a New York club,
az learned for the first time, what love
really is. ,-z o,,-
,-.,--st5oy1 that I got this knowledge It
was a conversation between a young
man and a pretty girl.
And do you really love me- SAID
the pretty girl .~;a,7
eyyhv darling, while I was bidding you
good bye on the porch last night your
dog bit large piece out Of the ca an
Of my leg, and never noticed II TIL
got home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
THE SANTA F7E REBATE CASE

The correspondence made public today
by President Roosevelt and Attorney
General Moody relative to the rebates
given the Colorado Fuel & Iron COM
pany by the Santa Fe during a time
when Paul Morton, secretary of the
navy, was the vice president in control
of the roads traffic, shows that the
president believes that Mr.. Morton was
innocent OF wrOng-doing in the matter.
and that the rebate was given without
his knowledge.
At the same time President Roosevelt
gives positive orders to the attorney
general to bring contempt proceedings,
not only against the Santa Fe for in
fringement of the injunction against it
in the Colorado Fuel case, but also
against practically all roads running
west from Chicago for violating a sim
liar injunction relating to rebates to the
International Harvester company. If
the proper evidence is forthcoming. the
inference is that individual prosecutions
of the guilty officials will follow.
This is undoubtedly the big point in
the entire correspondence The presi-
dent emphasizes the idea Of the square
deal" and protests against taking ac-
ton that is not warranted BY the evil
dence thus far produced in each Of these
cases, but he proposes to act on the
evidence secured and to enforce the
law.
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REFLECTIoNs OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

from LTIt NV
Content is a small part SATISFACTION ana
a large part resignation
IT * better to be a servant OF some one
elee f1an 10 be a slave of yourself
Tbere is a lot Of satisfaction in being dis
satisfied with what people expect to sat
isfy you
Good manners in q man makes you feel
80 doesT37f treat you so bad as he might,
even II he robs you
There is so much charity to do that if
neopie did it somebody would have to do
H far them. il would make them so poor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

People will probably continue to be
little skittish about turning their sur
plus funds over to the Equitable until
the new management demonstrates to
a certainty that it has the interest CT
the poiicy holders at heart That is
one trouble with rascality-it makes
people suspicious of those who come
afterwards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

Leavenworth complains that the rate
on coal from the Leavenworth mines to
Kansas City. 26 miles, is almost the
same as it is from the Pittsburg field
to Kansas City. 1876 miles. Possibly the
owners Of the railroads are not inter
ested in the Leavenworth mines.
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REPRESENTATIONS ROOSEVELT.

AS a private citizen Theodore Roose-
welt put an end to the anthracite war.
AS president he is now doing more than
anyone else in the world to stop the
war in the Far East Pretty good for
a man who is so often accused of war
like -Post-Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
INNoCENTs ABRoAp.

Billie Morgan and F. Dumont Smith
are doing the Happy Hooligan" and
Gloomy Gus" stunt in Europe. They
will probably see the lord mayor and the
king-even though they have to climb
up on a ladder to do so.-Pratt Repub-
lican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

Leavenworth is happy over the report
that Governor Hoch will not disturb
the joints in that town if gambling is
not permitted there. Leavenworth can
set along without slot machines and
policy games if it has to, but to do
without joints-the thought is unbear-
able
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
Pressing Up the Speed Limit.

It is a question whether the demand
for very fast trains is great enough to
warrant the great cost of running them.
Even a very small gain in speed is at
tended with a tremendous increment Of
wear and tear. Train acceleration Is
very much more function of the me-
chanical department than of the general
passenger agents office. There is a
limit established by the strength of ma
terials and the point reached in the CO.
ordination of parts. To keep as near
this limit as is practicable is wise; to
60 one inch beyond it or even to en-
croach unduly upon a narrow margin
of safety is not wise. The danger is
not so much in the eighteen-hour sched-
ule between New York and Chicago as
in the temptation it offers to establish
a seventeen-hour run and then a six
teen, as competition becomes keen and
proportionately reckless. Speed is an
evolution. Our progress in that direc-
ton has probably been as rapid during
recent years as was consistent with
sound principles of railway manage
ment, and leaps forward are apt to be
regarded as showing more enterprise
than discretion on the part of those who
make them.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

A Minnesota man tried to rob a
train as a Joke. The court failed to
see the point and gave him so years.
Banker Bigelow got only ten years for
robbing a bank in a serious manner.
Moral: When you rob anybody don't do
n a q inIra
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

The best indication that the new
Equitable management means business
and that it win run things in the in
terest Of the policy holders would be
the election of Mr.. Cleveland as its
president
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NEW JERSEY DID 1T.

The Japs do not amount to much
after all. It turns out that Oyama s
chief of scouts is Mr.. O'Callaghan of
Toronto, while the Russian ships were
destroyed in the Tsu battle by sub
marine boats from Elizabeth, New
Jersey.-TorontoI Star.
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independence doesn't aIlege anything
like the quantity of grievances against
King Oscar that were specified once
upon a time against King George III
Anaconda Standard.
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ne RIGHT KIND-

will support a high tariff as long as
he believes the country is benefiting
from it, but he would kick it to
smithereens whenever the interests of
the country demands it. That is the
kind of a man the American people
believe n.-Independence Reporter.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the state Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate OF thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out Of town
the State Journal will be to you Ike
q daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
HONORS ARE EVEN.

The Norwegian storthing has per-
formed a revolutionary act with Ches-
terf1eldian grace and politeness, and
King Oscar has protested with equal
politeness and grace; so that honors,
so far, are even.-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

King Edward has changed his birth
day from November g to June 80, so as
to have it come during the social sea-
son in London. That's what you can
do by being a king: you can change
the date Of your birth to suit your con
wenience
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MILwAUKBEs HANDICAP.

MILWAUKEE, has asked Russia and ia
pan to meet there to negotiate the
terms of peace. But Japan, in view of
recent developments in Milwaukee
banking, might be afraid to deposit her
checks for tndemnity.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

The Hutchinson Bee owns up that it
would rather own a Kansas wheat field
than have the job Mr.. Nick Romanon
Of st. Petersburg is trying to hold
down. There are others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
ms RAvEN VOICE.

Linevitch wants Kuropatl1in recalled,
not because Kuropatkin NEEDLES, but
because he has such a hoarse way of
laughing and saying, II told you so''-
Toronto Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

The success Of the preliminary moves
for peace In the Orient stimulates the
hope that there may yet be found some
amicable adjustment of the differences
between the Chicago teamsters and
their employers.-Washi Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

There is a suspicion abroad that Hun
gary is preparing a bill for a divorce
from Austria, since Norway has SEEM
inely been successful in that line
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LIKE AN EVERYDAY AFFAIR.

OF all the cool. easy, ball-bearing, di-
rect-pull revolutions in history that of
the Norwegians gets the blue. We
and yet we put on three times as much
strain when we get a new president
st. Louis Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
EROM OTHER PENS
NEXT.

Now that Grover Cleveland has set
tied the women's club problem, perhaps
he will be so kind and condescending as
to solve the servant girl question
Rochester Post-EXpress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22

Roy Farrell Green, the Kansas poet
whose work frequently appears in east
ern magazines. has joined the local
stan of the Arkansas city Traveller.