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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
HoNv q Great NNork Pegan.

wonderful story of heroism is
John L. Mathews Sophie Wright:
The Best Citizen of New Orleans in
the July Everybody's. OF her begin
nings he writes:
There is enCourag rem nt for some
one in every act of Sophie Wrights
life That first school of hers may
serve as an inspiration to every girl
looking about for some field Of work
to enter in order to help others or her
self. Tiny, crippled almost beyond
endurance, herself only an eighth
grader living in a city where women
OF quality did not commonly work, this
fourteen-year-old girl undertook the
task with no hesitation and with big
anticipation. She borrowed some un-
used benches from a public school
building to fill q room of her mothers
cottage, and on the door hung out her
sign: Day School for Girls The
terms were fifty cents month for
each pupil. The school was from ne
cessity designed for those who had not
yet attained to eighth grade standards.
It's mistress still wore her skirts short
and her hair in two comical twin
braids which stuck out oddly behind
her head. And yet it succeeded. as
with her everything has succeeded. A
pupil came at once, and with an as
sured income of fifty cents a month
Miss Sophie announced her intention
of supporting herself and helping her
family. Before the end of the first
year she was doing SO, with twenty
pupils and the fabulous income of $40
every four weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
JOURNAL ENTRIES


Speaking Of the irony of fate, there
is the instance OF the son of Rev.
Charles NJ. Sheldon heading the list of
Topeka victims Of the Gelorious
Fourth.
Among those who are not lining up
enthusiastically for Horace A. Keefer
for governor can be seen the illustrious
figure of Frederick Vandegrift.
Ksefer has been one of .'Old Vans
pet aYersions ever since the legislature
of 1897.
You know the old hymn about
'Harkl From the Tombs a Mournful
Sound" But most of the sounds that
come from the Tombs nowadays are
stories about Harry Thaw
X X
By the way, have you yet com
pleted the census of little Williess
fingers to ascertain If they are all
here?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
REFIEorIoNs o. 4 RAoHELoR.
IRON the New YORK Press.l

EIOIU lIIe NV 7 OIh Z iCss-I
A girl would never be so deceptive as
to make man believe she loved him
when she did.
A man fools his wife about his brains
a good deal less than she fools her
friends about them.
The more a man reads books on how
to have a garden. the better he will do
it with a hired man who never did any
thing but work in one.
Hardly any man has so much time for
fun as the man who has to stay and
work in the hot city. while his family
are away for the summer.
What a woman likes is to get in an
argument with her husband 80 he can
prove she is wrong, so she can cry, SC
he VIII have to give her nice present
to make 1t Up to her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
KlKyAS cOAAENT



The truest sport we ever knew was
a preacher. The preacher was lion
lied in the town in which he was sta
toned, and it looked as if he had
job for life at $500 a year. He
might have had a nice easy time
purely as a minister, but one fall he
opened up war on VIGOROUSLY sell
fish, corrupt but powerful politieaS
faction which had ruled the county
at least thirty years. Everybody threw
up his hands in horror when the news
went out. The Rev. O1din had ruined
himself in the community by Waging
war on the Honorable James R.
Somebody whose name we viii not
mention. The preacher got on the
at the time, he made a great deal Of
Roadway. He was a smart chap and
for nine long weeks he had the enemy
guessing. He could think up more
things in one night than most men
would invent in q month for his
cause. His personal enthusiasm put
the children to carrying flags, and the
men to wearing buttons and the wo-
men to talking. He put up the pref
and decency that that section ever
had. The preacher lost at the polls,
but he never whimpered, and was just
as good natured as he had ever been.
But the Honorable Somebody and his
corrupt organization were not satisfied.
They told stories on him and got him
fired within three months. Everybody
went to hear the preachers last ser
mon, expecting to hear q sensational
talk. But the parson preached on
cheerfulness and good WILL When
he left the town lost the only true
sport it had ever had.-Sabetha
Herald
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FULL T.EASFD WIRE REPORT
OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HOME NEWS WHILE away.

Subscribers of tho state Journal
sway during the summer may have
slae paper mailed regularly each day
70 any address Mt the rate OF ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only. Address changed as often
IS desired While CIT % town the
STATE Journal win be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
Japanese Tobacco.

Attention is called in the July Every
body's, by. Charles Edward Russell, IN
an interesting instaIlment OF 'Soldiers
of the Common Good, - to the recently
established japanese tobacco monop-
oily. He says:
These matters and the Japanese
purposes become clearer If we take
concrete illustrations. Manufactured
tobacco and cigarettes. for instance.
once we enjoyed an abundant trade
With Japan in these things, for we
mad taught her to want them and
[nen Joyously we supplied her want at
nigh prices Thus in the end Japan
served copiously to swell the hard
earned treasures of the American to-
Dacco trust, for the Japanese were in
dustrious consumers and the trust
could charge what it pleased having
the trade by the throat. But when the
trust had established branch houses
and offices and works and invested in
them SIP, GOO, 900, the Japanese gov
eminent concluded that it might as
well have the goodly profits as let the
trust have thems so it went into the
tobacco business on its own account.
1t bought factories and stores and
passed a law establishing iteslf in q
practical monopoly Of the tobacco
trade. for no makers of cigarettes,
cigars or tobacco were allowed to sell
their products until they had been Of
Tered to, and declined by, an agent of
the government necessary provi-
sion, because in Japan cigarette max
ing is largely q domiciliary trade. Still
there might have been left to the
American trust a chance to compete in
quality Of product or in some special
lines If II had not been for one thing.
The government put an import duty
of $50 per cent on cigarettes and to-
bacco. Thereupon the American
cigarettes vanish ed faster than their
own smoke, and the defeated Amer
lean tobacco trust was glad to sell to
the government (for what it could get)
it's business and branch houses.
Now in japanese shops you will see
on shelves formerly loaded with Amer
lean product nothing but the cigarettes
and tobacco Of the japanese govern
rnentH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
EROA OTHER PENS
THE sPELIING REFORM.

The spelling reform brethren now
claim William Shakespeare as one Of
their confraternity and they are right.
A man who consistently refused to
spell his own name the same way
twice in succession certainly must be
credited with latitudinarian views in
the matter of orthogra phy.-Chicago
Chronicle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
INC Russien RevoIutIon.

Woman suffrage is disturbing the
equanimity of the douma, and the un-
gallant deputies run away from its ad-
vocates. Here comes in again the
analogy to the French revolution
Woman suffrage had its advocates
then; it was one of the Issues and
had an organ q newspaper that ap-
pealed in vain to the convention,
which did not think the time oppor-
tune to grant the request Of the petit
tioners=Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

One excuse for Harry K. Thaw IS
that he had a vain, rich mother@one
of the kind willing to sell her daugh-
ter to a worthless scamp for the sake
Of a title. You can't expect much of a
son who has that kind Of a mother,
an actress for wife. and nothing on
earth to do but amuse himself
Jewell Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

We don't care, il anyone is sent to
Europe to Interview William Jennings
Bryan about his candidacy for the
presidency it ought to be Grant Har-
rington- Harrington has run Bryan's
picture above the editorial column In
the Hiawatha Democrat ever since
Bryan discovered silver in 1492.-Sa-
betha Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
Just Missed 1t.

An elderly woman who had, during
the course of a somewhat eventful
life, buried four husbands. encounter
ed at the gates of the cemetery where
they reposed an old but timfd lover.
whom she had not seen for years. She
took him inside and showed him-not
without a feeling of pride-the well
kept tombstones Of her former lords
and masters.
'sAh, James. she remarked. fee1ingly.
you might have been lying there to-
day If you only had a little more cour-
aKe.''-London Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

revolver and dynamite cap pistol were
relegated to the far distance. and the
dynamite cracker. while still In evil
dence, wrought comparatively little
damage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

while it is too late to pick any more
June brides this year. the marriage
able young men should note that
there are plenty OF girls who are not
anxious for the June label. Any other
old month VIII do just as we'll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

The building Of Kansas City's new
union depot viii require IS months.
This does not mean that Kansas City
will have a new depot in the next three
years, however. They have to begin it
FIRST
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

Mr.. Roosevelt tells one Of his western
admirers who desired to support him
for another term that 1T viii be neces-
sary to vote for some other Republi-
can candidate next time" Now II the
president VIII please specify which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
ZEE ANsWE:R

Dearest I said. and whispered low,
Tell me a thing I long to know
Tell me, thou prophecies of bliss.
Tell me which cheek of thine to kiss r.,
She sighed and shook her head 6the Witchl
1t makes no difference which is which
The choice, kind sir, is up to you
lou must decide between the two
Tom Mason in The Reader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

It is reported that President Roose-
welt is suffering from extreme nervous
ness But pshawl The packers can
tell him he doesn't know what nerv-
business is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
WATCH Gun ZOE GROvER

G. Cleveland has not vet an
nounced his opinion of the Bryan
boom. G. Cleveland Is a man of few
words and large girth, but he can tell
band wagon when he sees one. And
when the band wagon comes along
q. always has a reserved seat vel up
in front.--Osborne Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

The last congress made a pretty good
record. but it won't get near as much
credit for it as win the man in the
white House. who isn't a member of
congress at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

Roy TapIey's argument in favor Of
a denatured alcohol factory in the
state penstentiary sounds good.
alcohol makes convicts why not
have convicts make alcohol % he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

You will note that the Popunst party
continues to hold the right Of way dowT
the middle Of the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

STILL it seems quite likely that the
demand for seats in the Bryan band
wagon win continue quite lively. not
withstandlng Mr.. Bryan's diHinclination
20 climb into it himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

It has become quite apparent that the
great need among a certain class Of
rich New Workers is a powerful disin-
fectant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

Mr.. Carnegie says millionaires seldom
smile. There is nothing strange about
that. Other people would not smile
either if they ran the same danger OF
investigation that many nillionaires
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
rHE GAGE or BATTLE.

President Roosevelt will receive, and
win deserve a great deal of praise for
his determination to bring sweeping
criminal prosecutions against the
Standard oil company. It is not that
the step is politically hazardous nor
that It requires any great amount of
heroisn to attack the most hated cor
poration with the most detested Off
GERS in this country. But the fact re-
mains that the STANDARD crowd are
q great power in the financial world.
Banks and railroads are their play
things as we'll as the oil business; and
no Republican president aware Of the
close dependence of his party upon
dared to strike the shield of those
nagnates so full and square as Mr..
Roosevelt has now done.-NeW York
Evening Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

The Washington Star refers to those
Toledo ice men as having been put in
the municipal refrigerator. That ought
to keep them for awhile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

No wonder the car of Russia is
trying to hang on to his job as long
as possible. His income is $4,000 a
day Imagine a Kansas politician
giving up that kind of a snap with
out a struggle. Osborne Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

This is the time of year when Oyster
bay again gets the idea that it is one
Of the worlds great capitals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

You will kindly note that L. S. not
only stands for Uncle sam, but also
for Upton Sinclair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

The congress just closed cost the
country something like $500. ooO. 900, but
It was worth the price, considering what
ct accomplished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

1t does no good for people who are
working for the wages of sin to go on
a strike. The wages Of sin never
change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

This is about the time that the tetanus
germ makes its appearance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

It certainly looks as though the To-
ledo treatment for ice trusts ought te
erect 2 cure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

When you come to think of It. the
country did burn up a good deal of
powder Wednesday without getting
much to show for it-except a few
burns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

Topeka was real ladylixe and well
behaved on the Fourth. Barring one
~ two accidents, we had a compare
lively safe ana sane celebration. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

Very likely the new senator from Del
aware does not especially enthuse over
this idea of a sane Fourth. inasmuch
as he is the head Of the powder trust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

Harvard maynot be able to play foot
ball. but 1t thinks it can row boat
all right. all right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
FRENCH DIVORCE.

The new French divorce bill proposes
to make the untying of the knot as
easy as the tying of it was. OF course
by elevating mutual consent into a le-
gal ground for the dissolution of mar
rage .scolIusion' would be no offense
and a great stimulous of legal ingenuity
would be removed.-New York Evening
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

It has been suggested that a merger
% the Democratic and Republican par
ties viii be formed around Col Bryap.-
Charleston News and Courier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

One way to do away with the end
seat hog Is to have no end seats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06
RHEt1MATIsM.

Probably the worst thing ever said
about rheuma tism is that bee stings are
to be welcomed as an antidote for it.
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

Dir. Parvenu-Thds is a me prospectus
of that resort we saw advertised, but Il
says it has a very low temperature
Mrs. Parvenu decidedly Then we will
not go there.-Baitimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

Isn't It splendid out here all aIone@'
began Mr.. Borems who had found her
musing beside the quiet lake.
Yes. replied Miss Bright, Il was
thinking that very thing before you came
along. Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

Mistress-I am sorry to trouble you
Bridget. but my husband wants his break
fast tomorrow at $50.
Cook-Oh, it won't be no throuble a,
all, mum. If he don't knock nothin' ovei
whole cookin' it an wake me up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

For. goodness sake. What's that
noise2''
''The girl next door is having her voice
cultivated
HUH Apparently the process Of culti-
walton has reached the narrowing sea-
on."-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

See that maz2 Hal hal hal Ho. no,
hoy' laughed Love.
What's the matter with hfm71 asked
Envy
Nothing answered Love- only he's a
locksmith Hal hal a!'-Philadelphia
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-06

What kind OF pie viii you have. VIII
ue-mfnce or appIe7
I'm take two pieces of each, please
Two piecss!"
twice. Life
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-06
FOUND SooUs HALF DOLLARS.
Fatal Flaw in Treasure Trove Turned
Up by Laborer.

An Italian laborer who was digging
a road near Ardmore yesterday after
noon unearthed fully a bushel of half
dollars. The report spread and 1t was
not long until almost the whole Bop
ulation of Ardmore. particularly the
younger portion of 1t, went out to the
old Saunders farm, where the treasure
had been found.
Sure enough. it was there, and the
Italian was so COMPOUNDED that he
could only humble incoherently. The
coins lay scattered shout on the
ground and many were picked up and
slowed away in pockets. When they
were examined later, however, it was
found that they were all counterfeit.
The coins, which were good pieces OF
workmanship, bore the dates 1916 and
1851.
Saunders, for whom the farm was
named, was a counterfeiter. One day
his place was surrounded by govern.
ment officials. Saunders escaped them,
however, only to be captured a few
days afterward in a hotel in Philadel-
phia. At his home was found a
wagon load of moulds and other ma
terial for making bogus coins. He was
sent to prison for twenty years, but
managed to get away in an in~geniously
contrived box of his own making. This.
unfortunately, was turned wrong side
up and Saunders. upon being discov-
cred, had to go back to Jail to finish
his term. Soon afterward he died OF
paralysis and was buried near Grass
land.
The coins found yesterday vere
specimens of his work. Inspectors
from Philadelphia have taken them in
charge and are trying to recover those
which were carried away by persons
who arrived soon after the find was
Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-06
Used Diplomacy With the Boy.

Hall Game was praising the Amer.
can autumn.
Il visited in October" he salad, "tf-s
country house of a New York a r
was in New England, on n mouutaiI
side, and the splendid colors of the fS
llage-the scarlets and Colds and in.
Vulnerable flamelike tints-gave to thu
still forests an indescribable magnif-
cence.
And the leaves fell in a rain OF
color through the transparent air. In
the garden, one afternoon, | heard q
gardener say to his little son:
81 wish you would rake up these
dead leaves in a pile
"'Oh. J don't feel like it., whined the
boy. NJ backs sore and we got q
cramp I! my wrist and there's grow.
ing pain1 in my leg
"'After YOU get EN- raked up wen;
OK the gardener calmly, you can make
g nice, big bonfire out OF them AMI
jump o1Nr it,
THE boy began to whoop and leap
"'Hurcah!' he shouted. Where's
the rabe?'"
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-06
Remarkable Conservatory.

One of the finest Conservatives in
the world is owned by the Duke Of
C~onnaught at Bagshot Park The in.
terror represents a gorgeous tropical
scene, in which ferns, palms, orchids.
and other eXotics flourish in luxuriant
Crofusion, watered by miniature cas-
cades, fountains, and dripping wells.
Al one end is a stalactite cavern,
which, by an arrangement Of mirrors.
appears far larger than il really is.
Along the floor Of this cavern flows
a rather deep stream, beneath which
are concealed a number OF colored
electric lamps, so that at night numer-
Gus little pools III the dark recesses
appear to glow with a mysterious la.
ten fire. This conservatory was de-
signed by an eminent London firm and
cost $1,000.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-06

a fox and goose get within reach OF
each other, or there will be trouble.
This rule, you will find, prevents your
moving the fox from IL on the first
move, as on either 4 or 6 he would be
within reach of Il goose. 1t also pre-.
vents your moving a fox from 10 ia Q,
or from II TO Z. If you play 10 to 5,
then your next may be . to Q
with a goose, which you could not
have played If the fox had not pre-.
viously gone from 10. It is perhaps
unnecessary to say that only one fox,
or one goose, can be on a disk at the
same time. Now, what Is the smallest
number of moves necessary 10 make
the foxes and geese change places?
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-06
PUZZLE IN MOVING COUNTERS
Change Places and Keep the Geese
from Their Enemies,

Here is a little puzzle of the moving
counters class that our readers will
probably find entertaining. Make a
diagram of any convenient size sim.
liar to that shown in our illustration.
and provide six counters-three
marked to represent foxes and three to
represent geese. Place the geese on
the disks /, ., and s, and the foxe7 on
the disks numbered 10, IL. and -.
Now. this puzzle is this: BY moving
one at a time, fox and goose alternate.
ly, along a straight line from one disk
to the next one, try to get the foxes
IN /, ., and 9, and the geese on 10, IL,
and 12-that is, make them exchange
places-in the fewest possible moves.
But you must be careful never to let
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-06
Arranmore.
more. loved Arranmore.

Oh. A~Irsnmore, loved Arranmore.
How CIT | dream of thee,
And of hose days when by thy shore
wandered young and free,
Full ma ~ a path I've trod since then
ThroiE h pleasures fiOwcry maze.
But nee could find the bliss again
l felt m those sweet days.
How b'Fhc upon thy 'reezy cliffs.
AT sur ny morn I've stood,
With hetrt as bounding as the skiffs
That tanced along the flood;
Or, When the western wave grew bright
With %iaylight's parting wing,
Have - lght that Eden In It's light
Which dreaming poets sing
That Fl n where tn immortal brave
Dwell IN "A and serene.
Whose Fbwcrs beyond the shining wave
At sut'set oft are seen.
All, dream too full of saddening truth!
Those mansions DER the main
Are like the hopes | built in youth
As sVI ny and as vain!
Thomas Moore.