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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
JAPAN,s INTENTIONS.

Those who have been closely follow
ing the trend of affairs in the Far East
are inclined to believe that one of these
fine mornings the japanese Mikado will
hand out a document to the rest of the
world which will contain something like
an Asiatic Monroe doctrine. 1t is not
at all improbable that we will hear the
cry, Asia for Asiatics.'
If this is the Japanese programme,
one of the first things that will be done
will be to invite Germany to retire
from China, and France will be the
next victim. European nations, 1.-The
Powers" have been encroaching on
China for years, picking up a station
here and there, and it is quite probable
that Japan will put a stop to that prac-
tice.
1t is not at all improbable that Japan
has an ambition to occupy the same po-
sition in the Orient that the United
States does in America, and it is now
in fair way to succeed. Its victory
over Russia has been so decisive that
other great European nations will hest
tate some time before going to wal
with the Japs.
There was nothing more Japan could
hope to gain by prolonging the war with
Russia, and there was a probability
that it could gain much by stopping
while its resources were yet plentiful
! It must. of course, recoup itself, but thi:
| it will probably do quickly. and then i
will be in shape to enforce whatever
policy it may adopt in the Orient.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
A WORD OF DEFENsE.

The State Journal wishes the floor for
a moment to speak briefly in the de-
Tense of its contemporaries. Although
the matter in question is a silent testi-
monial to the State Journal, this paper
cannot sit quietly by and consent to
the charges made by the authenticated
councilman from the Sixth ward against
other Topeka newspapers.
In his resolution which passed the
city council last night, Councilman
Hughes says: Whereas a list of fifty
five wholesale and retail liquor houses
and nine disorderly houses having been
published in two daily papers of the
city of Topeka, all of which are run in
direct violation and contrary to the or
dinances of the city of Topeka and the
laws of the state of Kansas" etc.
The State Journal sorrowfully realizes
that it's esteemed contemporaries re-
ferred to are guilty of occasional lapses
which require correction. but it indig-
nantly denies the charge of the alder
man from the Sixth ward that they are
run in violation of the ordinances Of
the city and the laws of the state! 1t
will not sit quietly by and see this
charge goes unrefuted, and it hurls its
defiance at the author Of the charge-a
hurl or two, at least.
It must be admitted that there are
times when the State Journal is obliged
to correct the errors of its contempor-
aries. Tt has been necessary to call at
tention to certain overcharges in public
printing. There have been some incon-
sistencies in their actions in supporting
an embezzler and other unworthy can
didates for public Office while posing as
great moral guides. There have been
rumors of participation in the loans,
through the First National bank, of the
funds of the state treasury. These and
other actions on the part of its contem-
poraries the State Journal finds it diff
cult to endorse. Neither can it endorse
certain questionable advertisements
that appear in their columns. and the
various bunco schemes, to which they
resort to secure circulation.
But Notwithstanding these things 1t
will not allow the councilman from the
Sixth ward, just because he happens to
be commander of the army and navy of
the state of Kansas to wantonly
charge that the other daily papers of
Topeka are run in direct violation of
the ordinances of the city and the laws
of the state.
No Sir-eei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
JAYHA WKER JOTS

The Howard Courant claims TO nave
once seen man sitting in hammock
with his own wife.
Tom Thompson tells of Howard
man who keeps two sets of false teeth
on hand-one for week days and the
other for Sundays.
Paul Rankin, who has been with
the Ottawa Herald for some time. has
gone to Coffeyville to become city edI-
tor of the Coffeyville Journal.
An Onaga woman found a cabbage
snake fourteen inches long in head
of cabbage she was cutting up. II the
snake" had not wiggled she would not
have seen it but would have made 1t
part of the cold slaw.
A Hutchinson man who has been
travelling in Europe, not W. Y Nor
gan, but DR.. F. w. Cook, ran across
copy of the first number of the Hutch
inson News that was ever published, in
Sussex, England. It was lying on the
counter of a grocery store. The paper
was twenty years old. How it got
there the grocer did not know.
A Missouri Pacific section crew near
Fleming, in southeastern Kansas, pro-
duces the biggest snake story of the
summer. The section men say they
were riding along on handcar when
the right of way was disputed by his
snakeship coiled on the track. 1t was
bullsnake. They killed it and it
measured seven feet long and fifteen
inches In circumference.
A Japanese slack wire performer
who was with a circus in western Kan
sas, went swimming at Ness City and
was drowned. He was showing how
long he could stay under water, but
one time he failed to come I'D at all.
BY the time his companions realized
that something was wrong and recov-
cred his body, he was dead.
Tom Charles printed story in the
Belleville Freeman some time ago that
a bunch of cattle got into a cornfield
up there and the corn was so thick
that some of them couldn't be found.
All the other papers reprinted it as a
pretty good sample of a Republic
county corn lie. Now Tom Indignantly
asserts that the story was every word
of it. true. and adds that it was four
days before the last of the cattle were
finally gotten out of the field.
zone of the things that strike Amer
leans as odd says w. Y. Morgan in a
letter from England, sis the rule of the
road, turn to the left in passing This
rule is rigidly observed everywhere in
England. But when your motor car,
running at 80 or 40 miles an hour
meets another coming at a like speed,
and your driver turns to the left, the
American on the rear seat shuts his
| eyes so as not to see the collision, while
cold chill travels down his backbone.
| OF course there is no accident for the
other fellow also turns to the left, but
| it is hard on the nerves. However. a
Kansas man in Europe takes plenty of
nerve with him and he is all right so
| long as his money lasts"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
WHEAT RATES.
No, Stree

It is announced that the Union Pa
cific is running two extra wheat
trains'' each day now off of its Colby
branch, running from Salina, through
Lincoln and Plainville, to Colby. 1t is
said that these trains average from
thirty to forty cars each a day.
The average freight rate on wheat
from the territory covered by. the
Colby branch to Kansas City is about
nine cents a bushel. For car of a
thousand bushels it would be ninety
dollars. Thus the Union Pacific
draws $500 for hauling a train of
thirty cars from that branch to Kan
sas City, and it has two such trains
every day.
East of Kansas City this same
wheat, in these same cars, will be
hauled for half of that rate, mileage
considered. Is there any good reason
why such an excessive rate should be
charged on freight in the state of
Kansas?
The Union Pacific is no worse than
other wheat belt roads in it's wheat
rate charges. In fact, it is doing ex-
ceptionally well in handling the grain
promptly. By putting on these special
wheat trains it is doing much to help
the farmers, but at the same time
there is no reason why the freight on
grain should be so high. Cattle will
be hauled for less and it is much more
expensive. Cattle have to be rushed
to market-there is a federal law
against delaying them; they have to be
accompanied by shippers, for whom
accommodations must be provided. In
hauling grain the railroads can go as
slow as they please, sidetrack the
grain when they like, and there is
little trouble attached to it. The ship
per loads the car, and the consignee
unloads it. Yet it costs more to ship
car of wheat than it does to ship a
car of cattle-and cattle rates are
surely high enough
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
A Jerry Simpson Story.

Now, in a kind of ante-mortem spirit,
they are telling stories of Jerry in the
days when he was "all there is to it,
They are telling of a brilliant career
ruined by a jest, OF a man who had
the friendship of Tom Reed to an ex-
tent enjoyed by few men of Reeds own
party.
will you tell me-" said Reed in his
drawl to Simpson one day, why you
are a Populist?'
For the same reason" said Simpson,
chat you are a Republican. A MAORI
ty of the people of our respective dis
tricts are of our way of thinking
From that time forward Reed was the
stanch friend of Simpson. There is an
other story of Simpson which is going
the rounds. 1t demonstrates further how
he stood with Reed. And also where
his heart was upon occasion.
Simpson wanted a private pension bill
passed. Heretofore he had been oppos-
ing pension legislation. This particular
bill did not have a favorable report. but
he went to the speaker, Mr.. Reed,
about it and told him the bill affected
the fortunes of a poor old widow down
in Kansas.
why" said Reed, "do you want this
bill passed when you have been oppos-
ing pension legislation during this ses-
sion, especially such a bill as this,
which comes in without favorable re-
..,rhere are 80 reasons why I support
this BILL replied Jerry. 1.-The first one
is that the woman needs the money
have forgotten the other 29-''
Jerry got recognition and the bill
PASSED. -Washington Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
HE'S IN DOUBT.

All that man could ask she seems to be.
Shes pretty, admit,
quite wen informed, from affectation free.
Not vain a little bit.
She has accomplishments, she sings and
plays
With charming taste and skill,
Her painting has elected the praise
OF well known critics, and in other ways
She seems to fill the bill.
She's quite domesticated; she can cook,
And that, the truth to tell,
For a snort time my resolution shook
knew, of course, much farther I might
And not do half so well.
think that it would take a day or so
Her virtues to repeat.
she mas In EN- vast quantities, / know.
l find them quite attractive, too but oh,
She's SO confounded neat.
look about my room, where paper scraps
Burned matches and such trash
Bestrew the floor and sigh and think per.
haps
1t might work out. I know that other
chaps
Spill their tobacco ash
And leave their shoes and things around
and yet
In time get married, too.
But in my little ways I'm rather set
And she's a fend for tidiness I'll bet
That it would never do.
-Chica 90 News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.J

LFrom the Chicago Nsws.I
Faint heart ne'er got mixed up in a
breach of promise suit.
When the millennium arrives the
world will have no use for lawyers.
Great men slip down in winter and
small men slip up at all seasons.
When opportunity is spurred on by
labor the result is sometimes called
luck.
wise wife knows that hattery is
the real key to her husbands pocket
book.
Any gossip can say mean things, but
it takes a good cook to turn out a first
class roast.
Instead of old women and young
whisky the average man prefers old
whisky and young women.
Whoever chooses his wife for the
way she looks on the street seldom
makes a serious mistake.
There was once a woman who could
actually starch a mans shirt in the
right place-but she has been dead
several hundred years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
Return to Wood Paving.

1t is curious that in the process of
history repeating itself there should now
be exhibited an almost worldwide ten
dency in municipalities to return to the
Wood-block pavement. 1t is the more
curious because of the constant outcry
against denudation of forests, as, if
there should be any general revival of
this type of pavement, the draft upon
the trees would be enormously increas-
ed. Another matter for surprise in this
reha Utilization of wood in preference to
stone and asphalt is that it's introduce
ton years ago when it was generally
known as the Nicholson pavement"
was attended by no end of scandal,
which, however, was not probably due
to the style of paving, but to the style
of the PAYERS.
In London and in nearly all of the
large towns and cities of the British
provinces there has been an enormous
increase in the selection of wood paw
ing in preference to all other kinds. This
is the more significant for the reason
that the wood must be brought from a
far-away country, much of it from
Australia. 1t is put to the proof in ex-
periments extending over periods of
from Is to rs years that the softer
woods creosoted will have a solid life
of from IL to Is years, while the harder
woods will last from Is to IS years. 1t
Is of record in the parish of st. Pancras,
London, where the traffic amounts dur
ing the year to All, 31S tons per yard of
of Australia was only about one-fifth of
an inch per annum This will hardly
be said of asphalt, nor yet of the stone
block although it would seem that eth
er of these pavements properly laid
would be superior in wearing power to
wood. No matter what material may
be used, the chief feature contributing
to durability is the manner in which it
is laid. The best material will soon go
to wreck if it be placed upon rotten
concrete funGation. More than a quar-
ter of a century ago in America the
wood pavement of creosoted blocks fell
into utter disrepute because of the
grating of contractors. or, TO put the
best face upon it, because the contrac-
tors did not know how to lay the
blocks.-Baltin1ore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES
When we have any parading to do we
want to dc it on a street car.

When we have any parading to do we
want to dc it on a street car.
You will notice by the advertising
columns that you can buy roach food
today mighty cheap. Why not give your
reaches good square meal once IN a
while?
What a waiting public is anxious to
know is, does Mr.. Rockefeller wear
store eyebrows along with his new wig,
or is he worrying along without any
eyebrows to match his nice curly brown
head of hair?
Ever notice how willing some people
are to apologize for their meanness, Just
so the apologies don't interfere with
their continuing to be mean?
Judging from Councilman Green's list
the lid on lower Kansas avenue has
slipped sideways.
You will notice that S. S. Ashbaugh
won the Kansas Colorado suit for Kan
sas yesterday. It is Fred Smiths turn
next.
A Sedan man dropped dead while
reading a newspaper. Still. reading a
newspaper isn't always fatal
+ It. T. Kelly is scheduled to make an
other anti-horse thief address next
week, and the politicians are wondering
if he will mention w. R. Stubs.
The printers and proofreaders are
thinking of taking a few days off while
they take a course in learning how to
spell the name of Mr.. Edward Scherubel.
We sincerely hope that there will be
some transitional period between straw
hats and ear muffs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
SIGNIFICANCE OF snGNoNErrE.


wood NV bott vioIette to sho
how mulch / luv butt purhapps no
how mulch thay cost q bunch, thay are
hi
u hafftoo be millyunair to bi
a bunch NV UNI. ann SO hadd 10 lett
UNI go gett this bunch Nv ninyunett
witch groze in owr frunt yard. It's not SO
dere
but shoze mi feelins to u just US clear
w If it kost a lott. ann 1t is tide
with ribbon muther woar Wenn sheez
bride.
shee duzent no i took it but no harm
is dun ann maybee it will be a charm
fore ann me. cult it of hur dress
but she woant mind littul moarorless.
tride to ii it in a hansum DO
like gurlS doc in thee flour stoars uno
butt cOodunt mafk 1t Wurk ann so tide
it in a hard mott that will hoald. beside
it shoze bi bein tide SO hard how fast
oWr harts are tide togeather till thee last.
ann wen smelluvum with ure deer noase
remember ure the sweetest flour that groze
ann wen think Nv u mi eyes get welt
ann mi hoal hart semes full Nv minyun-
net.
lie mock at ure frunt doar ann wen thee
CURL
kurls down lie say this bokay is fore purl
sent by friend Nv hurn ann then lie go
away at wunS ann she will neaver no
that ime the friend and ure the wun to
gett
mi hart in this bigg bunch Nv minyunnet.
u. w. Foley in New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
.The L,lckless Penguins.

We confess to a liking for penguins.
Not that we have ever known any
what might be called a half-tone ac-
quaintance with them through the ex-
cellent portraits of penguins published
in the magazines; but they have al
ways seemed to US a very clubable and
agreeable sort of bird, given to sitting
in groups-three or four hundred to
the page-and never discommoding
one another or grabbing for the best
places 1t is, therefore, with genuine
sorrow that we learn of the calamity
that has befailen them. For penguin
oil is now bringing high prices in the
New Zealand market where it has
been but lately introduced.
Auckland and Marquarie-could the
penguins have chosen any more secure
abodes than those isles of the south
Pacific? Yet imperial expansion, which
hunted out the Tibetans among the
worlds chimney-pots and ridge-poles,
expansion. The lost islands have at
10 St been invaded. For several weeks
a wholesale slaughter has ragged.
Thousands of 1uckleSS birds have been
profitable is the new industry, several
different companies are engaged in
headlong competition which will abate
only when the last penguin is account
ed for-unless, of course, the law steps
i'll to stop the slaughter
But even in this melancholy invasion
of natures serenest Edens we find an
encouraging suggestion. The penguins
are martyrs to their commercial util-
ity. Is it altogether inconceivable that
no commercial utility can be discov-
cred for the less attractive members
of the animal kingdom? Will the
laboratories never find a use for, let us
say, the English sparrow or the
brown-tailed moth? 1t is a poor rule
that won't work good, at least in some
few of it's possible applications Henry
Ward Beecher, when asked to pre-
scribe remedy for pusley. replied:
End something it's good for, and the
Lord will prepare bug to destroy it.
So of penguins, English sparrows and
the brown tails-find a use for them,
and applied science will lose no time in
hustling them out of existence.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
Some Rural News.

Pasco,- Oregon, Express: Sunday
night J. E. Spates threw up his hands
at the command of two footpads, and
was mad enough to throw up his sup
per, although they did not succeed in
getting anything from him except
cussing.
Edgefeld, S. c. Chronicle: Hand
some, bright-eyed, amiable Will Car
ter of Columbia, is in Edgefield visit
ing his five million Tompkinsville
cousins and the other ten million
friends who love him.
Irrigon, Oregon, Irrigator: One OF
the Round girls-the bow-legged one
gave Major Fairplay the nitten last
Sunday night. She says the major
boozes too much.
fredericksburg, Md, Courier: Good
COW for sale. Reasons for selling,
milk too rich for baby. Apply to w.
E. Eddington-
Gibson County, Tenn, News: Look
out, Ben Runions. 1 saw Mr. Hughes
and Miss Ivy Burkhart out driving
Sunday.
Hoag Cor. Beatrice, Neb., Express:
Miss Truly Stone of Beatrice was at
church Sunday.
We were glad to note Miss Myrtle
Jones of Beatrice has returned home
after an absence of several weeks. and
was also at church Sunday afternoon.
Come often. Miss Myrtle.
Mr.. Blakely, living southwest OF
Soag sawed wood all day Monday
Mr.. Conley, our genial P. M, bought
a load of wood this morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
REFLECTIONS Of a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press
man could avoid a lot of trouble
by never being born.
A boy can fool his mother as easily
as she can fool his father.
Women all ought to favor their hus-
bands smoking, because it consoles
them for staying home
Next to putting money in the collec-
ton plate a woman takes the most
pride in having her son pass it.
When a girl wears white stockings
and gets them muddy she might as
well have big mustache for all the
impression she can make on men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
THE SCIENCE OF GRATING.

Grating as a fine art has grown so
civilization and culture that enterpris-
ing institutions of learning will soon
be founding seminaries for it's profess
sors. Twenty years ago psychology
was yet a phantasm of philosophers.
Today it is an exact science. Ten years
ago psychic research was sport of
crazy old maids. Today a long line of
eminent savants are hobnobbing with
the spirits on terms of easy familiarity
and addressing ghosts, specters and
hobgoblins by their first names. So
it will be with grating. Today it is
just winning recognition as an art. A
generation hence it may be one with
astronomy, sculpture, high jumping
and the art Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

IL LO1iA NAAC AbC1l1SOn NIlODes
We all know how much trouble we
have ourselves, but we seldom realize
how much trouble others have.
Women who do homework and the
preachers are touchy when they are
accused of not having much to do.
You may be invited to ride to the
polls in a hack, but you can bet that
you will be compelled to walk home.
Before doing anything as a result of
enthusiasm or excitement, see if your
enthusiasm or excitement will not
wear off.
Every man f1atters himself that he
will finally whip his enemy, and that
he will give him a good one when he
gets at him.
Good news travels; not so rapidly
as bad news, of course, but it travels
Do good thing, and people will hear
of it in time.
When it is remembered how many
things man does and would do for
money. the wonder grows that all are
not millionaires.
We have noticed that when a man
backslides, and is converted again, he
joins some other church. They have
found each other out.
A handsome woman with an ugly
husband is all right, but a handsome
husband with an ugly wife is a COM
bination that will cause trouble.
When a man says everything is all
right, he doesn't really mean that
everything is all right, but that under
the circumstances he wonders things
are not worse.
The average man isn't very proud
when his wife is operated on, but he
will say, in talking to his friends: 50
suppose Doc. Smith, who did the work
is one of the greatest surgeons in the
world
In the novels, when She faints. He
always finds little water in the flower
vase nearby to sprinkle on her face
| Ever lift the flowers and take a lool
and smell at the water in the vase? We
would like to see the woman who
would stand for a dose of that in hel
| face.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08

The Ostrich inn at Coldbrook, Middiesex.
England has had an uninterrupted exist
eTice since the far-away days of King
John. 1t was doing a. thriving business
before Magma Charta was signed and had
Qualified as a veteran before Crecy was
fought. The Seven Stars in Manchester
was a licensed house in the year of Polo
there's, 1856, two-thfrds of a century before
the cathedral was founded, and if boasts
today staircase clock which began to
tick ever so long before Dr. johnson was
born-nearly two centuries ago.-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-08
A Rural Retort.

When Senator voorhees, of Indiana
was on the hustings making speeches
against the Republican congressional
candidate, Lamb. he sat on the platform
and listened to Lambs Standardization.
until Lamb, to make himself solid with
the farmers. told of his life on the farm.
and concluded: I'm fact, my friends, I
may say that was born between two
rows of corn
Nothing but a pumpkin" shouted
voorhees,, and Lamb was laughed out
of the race.-Los Angeles Times.