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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

As ne understand it, an alienist is
one who can tell whether a man is "a
little "furrin" in his mind
\
It is gratifying to note that Mr..
final plans to move into the White
House two years hence.
This department. regrets to note
that Andy Richards. the editor of the
esteemed wellington Mail, has been
guilty of undertaking. and the job he
did would make Messrs. Neill and
Reynolds look like 80 cents. If the
president ever desires another report
on the stockyards, this department
would recommend Hon. Andy Rich
ards, of wellington, to make it.
We have concluded that we don't
want job as a Russian naval officer.
In war they get licked, and in peace
they get court martialed. Somebody
else can have our chance.
\ y X
The man who was dead anxious to
raise a garden last February. and who
started bravely at 1t in April, discov-
ers about this time of year that he has
no time for such things, in spite of the
fact that the days are longer now than
at any other time of year.
This department demands to know
what business Dick Thomas has to
go off on a tour Of Europe in the
midst of an exciting campaign when
he is one of the candidates.
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The Man with the Information.

Even in journalism. the Spanish pro-
verb holds that knowing something
doesn't take UP any room-eI saber no
ocupa lugar. Special information is, as
l often have occasion to say to appli-
cants for work, the one thing that gives
stranger a chance in a newspaper
office The most Out-of- the-Way knowl-
edge has a trick of falling pat to the
days need.
Not long since, a young American
turned up in New York with apparently
the most hopeless outfit for journalistic
work He had spent eight years in Italy
studying medieval church history-and
that was his basis for thinking he could
write for daily paper of the palpitat-
ing present. But 1t happened just then
that the aged Leo XIII drew to his end,
and here was a man who knew all the
Papabili, cardinals and archbishops;
who understood thoroughly the cere-
mony and procedure of electiug a pope;
who was drenched in all the actualities
of the situation. and who could, there
fore, write about it with an intelligence
and sympathy which made his work
compel acceptance. and gave him en-
trance into journalism by the unlikely
Porta Romano. 1t is but an instance
of the way in which a profession grow
ing more serious Is bound to take knowl-
edge more seriously.-Rollo Ogden. in
the July Atlantic
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A GOOD NAME.

There WAS a man in our town.
And he was middling wise;
He knew from every sign he saw,
It paid to advertise.
In time he made a cleansing soap
Which chased the dirt away,
And he determined that the same
Should bring him ample pay.
He got it all fixed up at last,
Except a catchy name
To lead it on to glory and
Perpetuate its fame.
He knew that twenty-five per cake
Was cheap enough. but he,
To make It hustle at the start,
Just marked II %.
That was the signal for name
To Whoop it up, and so
He caught right on at once, and called
His soap Skiddoolio.
w. J. hampton in Fame
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The Indignation work of the national
government has made it's first great
conquest IN this same Nevada Into
this parched sand and sagebrush the
water was turned last year from the
works of the Carson and Truckee Pro-
ject." 1t was the most important event
in the history OF the state, of more last
ing value even than the discovery of
the Comstock lode. From the massive
masonry dam constructed to hold the
waters of the TFuckee river. the blessed
flow was turned over fifty thousand
acres.
This was the first completed section
of a plan which is to irrigate almost a
million acres of desert. This means
within a few years, fifty-acre farms for
twenty thousand families. on which they
are certain of large and profitable crops.
1t means also new towns and cities to
supply this great farming community
with the products Of the mills and mines
and factories Of the country. east and
west
More than that. it means new pop
ulation of perhaps two hundred thou
sand souls and a prosperous principalfy
added to the greatness of the Union. 1t
is all purely creative, for wealth is made
where there was none before, and mag
nif1cent opportunity offered for indie
pendent and self-reliant livelihood to
those who hunger for it,-Ralph D.
Paine in 1.-The Builders" in The Outing
Magazine for July.
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A few years ago American wheat
growers did not know that there was
in another part of the world an entire
~ different species OF wheat from the
kinds they grow. that a different bread
was made from it, and that millions of
people not only lived on this bread but
contended that it was the best bread in
the world. And it was Mr.. M. A. Carle-
ton, an agricultural explorer of the
government, and not the great grain
magnates, who demonstrated to the
american public that this foreign wheat
Will earn for the farmers of the cOun-
try millions of dollars a year. The
wheat was brought in by the govern
ment scientists, and distributed through
out the Northwest. It yielded last year
alone net income to the farmers who
grow it of more than 81, 500 600 It will
grow on Semiarid land where ordinary
wheat is a failure, 1t will yield four
bushels more to the acre, and ii is not
affected by the diseases which attack
the ordinary Wheats. With an expendi-
ture of $4,000 by the department of ag-
r1culture, this new wheat-the Durum
wheat-has earned $780, 600 for American
farmers since 1899.
The men engaged in the great rice
industry of the south, the first irrigated
crop to be grown in this country. the
grain upon which more people in the
world live than on any other. had made
no study OF the immense varieties of
areas of the Orient. In Louisiana and
Texas 1t is estimated that rice planters
We're losing every year more than So
OO00 because they grew the long
kernelled rice instead of importing from
japan short-kernelled sort that would
not break in milling. The planters COM
plain, moreover, that the American peo-
pie are not rice consumers. and vet
they allow the rice millers to so polish
and otherwise prepare the product that
no Oriental rice connoisseur will eat it.
and they wonder why the public do not
like It, or use 1t as vegetable instead
Of as a dessert
The department Of agriculture.
through its Office of plant Introduction,
has introduced the short kernelled rice
and saved the rice planters many mil
lions already, and it has called the at
tention Of the public to the superiority
Of the unpublished product which is less
expensive to prepare.-The Worlds
Work
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REFLEcTIoNs o. 4 BAcHEIoR.

IFrom the New York Press.
An unpleasantness in your own fam
lily is q scandal in anybody else's.
It's very un1uclCy to propose to a girl
unless you want her to accept you.
If you buy a house the taxes go up;
If you sell It there is a real estate boom
right after you do it..
This is such a nice world that when
you get well acquainted with it you
stop worrying about the next
After a girl has broken her heart
I'VE or six times over q man her par
ents won't let her marry. they don
worry 50 much about whether she Will
die from It.
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band as such, and under that name,
in the Kansas histories in use up to the
present writing.
Some member of the Congrega-
sionai church like President Wilkinson
fwho propounded the question:, hap
pening to have read a biography of DIR.
Cordley, might know about this An
dover band. But It's unlikely that
anyone else. without a personal ac-
quaintanee with one or the other of
the four gentlemen. ever heard the
nickname DR.. Cordley gave the party"
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the state journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
60 any address at f'-a rate OF ten cents
week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only. Address changed as often
as desired. While cut OF town the
State Journal viii be TO you like
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, 1906-07-16
HVMOR OF THE Day

Junior Clerk-Young jenkins, our in
voice clerk, is the checklist beggar ever
hour late In coming in this morning. and
our governor held up his watch as hint,
you know; but Jenkins merely said:
What beautiful watch. sir: wish /
had one like it.'-Stray Stories.
HUH What do you think about war?
Did you ever hurl yourself into the imsni-
nent deadly breach, or seek the bubble
reputation, even in the cannon's nourhy''
Wen, no; not exactly. Not to any no
tlceable extent. But I have taken home
unexpected company to dinner. Puck
An the women seem to think him
Not all the women; only those with
pretty teeth. philadelphia Ledger.
Village Constable 1to viHager who has
clistl-You didn't see the number, but
could You swear to the man?
card me.-Punch.
City Man tcarpingly)--.w hew. but it's
not am told that the mercury fire.
Farmer Summerboard (cheerinely)-
Well. you don't halter stay in the shade.
ye knOw.-Pu ci1.
:. Mrs. Farmer-wouldn,t you like to hoe
me cabbage patch? Why not take ex-
Weary WILHELM Willin' ter, mum Jest
e. ez soon ez I see a bee grab a hoe an
~SlAlR1esC
same ting--Judge.
Do, DO you think that actress has future
10y yes, L she has an interesting enough
past behind her-'-Cleveland Leader.
William. run around the Chinamans
and and get your fathers wash. Here's his
Goodness, ma. that amt pas laundry
ticket That's my simplified spelling les
son for today. American
Mrs. Highmus-You never have any
trouble with your cook? How do you
Mrs, Upmore-Wh enever we get one that
doesn't suit go out of town for a day
and leave instructions with my husband
TO discharge her while I'm away-Chica-
You told me he was a good ladies'
horse, angrily said the man who had
mad the purchase
He was, replied the deacon. NV wife
owned him, and she's one Of the best u-o.
men / ever knew. Chicago Record Her.
Did Ethel faint when the footpad tried
. Yes, she tented and jabbed him under
the ear with her left-"-CleveIand Plain
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the Leavenworth Times remarks: s'But
bee slings will hardly become popular
as a cure for rheumatism. They are
too cheap What most rheumatics
want is bottle with big label on,
the contents Of which have a bad smell
and cost much money" Bee stings
may not become popular as a cure for
rheumatism, but the reason won't be
the one our Leavenworth contem-
porarv suggests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

Captain Arson. of former baseball
fame, is running for sheriff in Chicago
on the no lid platform. The honest
man who takes the oath of office after
being elected on a no lid" platform
would have to make a liberal use of the
blue pencil on the oath to avoid swear
ing to q few lies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

The English tailor who came over to
design new uniforms for the members
Of our army says American soldiers
make a better military appearance
than the English. German or French
warriors. If somebody will hasten to
assure Us that our soldiers are finer
looking than the Japs our confidence
will be fully acknowledging Rec
ord Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

THE election Of Harris, Overmyer and
Farrelly IN Kansas this year viii not
be sufficient to control the executive
council" observes a Democratic ex-
change. Correct. But it would give
the Democrats two out of six. "a good
working minority" The lieutenant gov
srnor doesn't happen to be a member of
The ereortfve council
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

Since the chorus girls have started
telling on each other, the stage door
Johnnies have been able to treat them
selves to a variety Of chills by imagin-
ing what terrible risks they have been
running WaHaaln gkon Post.
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Now just after the Democrats have
been claiming that Roosevelt has stolen
Bryan's clothes and that they do not
at him. comes the story from London
that the taiiors over there do not like
the cut of Mr.. Bryan's garments. Did
Roosevelt leave some others in place of
the ones he took, or IS that stealing
story q. fabrication2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

'sWell, WELL" exclaimed the first
summer girl, where did the engage
ment ring come from p
From Biffany's, OF course replied
the other.
"Oh, I don't meanathat. Who is the
man who gave it to you -
"Ohl Why=er-really. I've for
gotten his last name. I just call him
Shorty Catholic Standard and
Times.
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William Allen White insists on giving
Governor Hoch credit for what Mr..
Trickett is doing. whether the governor
is to blame for 1t or not
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The next Republican national con-
vention" says the Kansas City Star,
as likely to resolve itself into tribunal
TO learn the identity of the only man
who can beat Bryan. " And 1t is likely
to discover that the first initial of his
name is Tnedodore Roosevelt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

THE time has GOMEZ says Senator
IsaFollette, when a man should vote
cor the country instead Of the party
1t is to be hoped now that no RepubH-
can in Kansas will dodge and accuse
LaFollette Of "bolting the ticket" as
some Of them did few weeks ago when
Ex-Governor Stanley gave ptteranee to
the same patriotic sentiment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

Not ali Of the Kansas newspapers are
abusing the syndicate editorials sent
out by the Republican state committee
The ATankato Advocate, which is a
Democratic paper, has this good word
for them: I'VE were pleased to see two
columns Of Tom N1cNeaI's editorials in
q. number of our Republican exchanges
last week II saves us a lot Of time
when they all print the same editorials,
and, besides. Tom writes much better
string OF stuff that some Of them
would"
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It is "authoritatively denied" that
George AIDE win marry Miss Taggart.
but there is no denial Of the story that
George will come to Kansas and buy a
farm. OF course not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

It is believed that Secretary Taft's
keynote speech will increase the Re
publican vote a hundred per cent in
North Carolina To do that three con-
verts will have to be made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

Now that Henry Clay Evans has been
nominated by the Republicans for gov
ernor of Tennessee, what ticket will the
old soldiers support2
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He BIamed the Froq.

James Wilson, the secretary of agri-
culture, was discussing a rather anti
quated kind of farming.
1T is about as profitable and logi-
CAL" he said. s'as the weather reading
Of a Connecticut farm hand I used to
know This farm hand claimed that he
could read the weather infallibly. On a
walk with me one afternoon a frog
croaked and he said:
I'VE viii have clear weather for
twenty-four hours. When q frog croaks
in the afternoon you may be sure Of
twenty-four hours Of sunshine We
walked on, and in twenty minutes or so
q heavy shower came up, and we were
both drenched to the skin.
You are a fine weather prophet
said I, as we hurried homeward through
the downpour. You ought to be
ashamed of yourself.
" oh, WELL said the farm hand, the
frog lied. It's to blame, not me. Am
responsible for the morals of that par
ticular frog?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

It would be just like the irony of fate
If Walter Wellman's airship should get
caught on the North Pole so that he
couldn't get it loose.
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AMERICANS ABROAD.

Later developments seem to indicate
that the heavy transatlantic travel this
year is not due SO much to foreign at
fractions as to home detractions.-
Indiana polls News,
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MEDICAr. PHRAsEOLOGY.

The doctors have now decided that
there is no such thing as sunstroke.
But If you make a good hustle for it
you can die Of shock consequent upon
excessive caloric.-New York Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16
BIIrE AND HIGGINs-

It is conceded that with the Hon.
Bill Higgins and the Hon. Dick Blue
both in Oklahoma, statehood was an
assured fact, anyhow.=Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

Why don't the packers get even and
at the same time strike a popular chord
by naming a brand Of hams after Mr..
Roosevelt
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It looks very much as though Mr..
Bryan would have to lead Democracy
In 1903 whether he wants to or not
Democracy is already waiting for him to
take hold of the halter and begin to
Load
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AND NEvER- coME- &c.

James Hazen Hyde is reported to be
looking around in search of a French
castle in which to spend the rest of his
life. A large number of Equitable
policyholders in this country will
earnestly hope that he may find a cas-
tie to suit him.-Chicago Record
Herald
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POLITIcAI AMBITION.

A fly in the fly paper is like unto a
a man in the grasp of political am
bition. 1t grips him. and holds him.
and he escapes not from 1t, till death
ends his uggles.-Holton Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-16

Wyandotte county very evidently does
not intend to pay any more state taxes
than is absolutely necessary.
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Let US hope that the Dreyfus case is
now over for keeps.
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Here is another crime charged up
against intoxicants: a bushel of beer
corks clogged the sewer at Arkansas
rst4~-
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a GOOD MEAsURE.

The juvenile court law is another
product of the Republican party in
Kansas that is proving a most vaiu-
able bit Of legislation. Under 1t is CIV
en- the initiatory authority to the jul
venile officer to take children that are
abused away from their parents and
place them where they will be given
proper care. The result will be that
many children, instead of growing up
In character wrecking environments
will be made men and women that Will
be useful members of society. The jul
venile court has accomplished a great
deal of good in Leavenworth as 1t has
IN every city in the state, where the
most has been made of the opportunf-
ties it offers.-Leavenwor Times.
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ER0N OTHER PENS
CUMMINs. sTANDPATTER.

" MINIS. 6IANOEA1IER.
Mr. Perkins, the stand-pat candidate
for the Republican nomination of gov
ernor of Iowa, makes a new PROPOSE
ton to Governor Cummins respecting
the state convention. This is that all
instruction be Cancelled and delegates
permitted to vote their own views AS
matters stand Governor Cummins is
thought to have considerably the best
of the situation It is a good time
for Governor Cummins to stand pat.
He has made his fight, and seems to
have won it, and the rest should be
left to regular party usuage. OF course
Mr.. Perkins feels badly His cam
paign opened and was conducted with
a good deal of confidence and tall
claiming, and stand-pat circles all over
the country were promised the scalp of
Governor Cummins on a charger. The
best-laid plans of mice and stand-pat-
ters, however, are sometimes defeated.
Mr.. Perkins as politician should
study the art of surrendering grace
fully. It is as important an art as win
ming modestly, which Governor Cum
minis ssesses.-W Washington Star.
WHAT THEODORE ROOSEVELT IS.
Maybe Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt is
the shrewd, self-seeking, heartless as
pirant his enemies would have us be-
lieve; maybe he is working for another
nomination and another term. But, if
Machiaveln, Borgia, Talleyrand, Met
ternich, Cavour, Disraeli never
dreamed in their most inspired mo-
ments. He must be more or less than
human, instead of the hearty, impetu-
Gus, matchmaking good fellow the
American people think he is.-Wash-
ington Post.
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In speaking Of the man who says
nat bee stings win cure rheumatism,
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TIMES ARE CHANcINcs-IN

KANSAS.
The times are indeed changing and
We are changing with them In the
old days politicians stood together It
was considered a virtue to stand by
your friend-Whether he was good or
PAD, crooked or clean. In the old days
political debt might be paid out of
the pubic treasury. and if there was
law Tor II no one complained. In the
ola days there was honor among
thieVes in Kansas. and no one told
tales, and if tales were told, the peo-
pie were taught that the gods could do
no wrong, and no one believed the
tales Less than twenty years ago the
United States marshal of Kansas lay
day dead drunk and half naked in
the secretary Of states Office, and the
whole state house and ali the report
efs IN town came to look at him and
laugh Less than twenty years ago
Kansas politicians kept their mis-
tresses on the state payroll and it was
considered good morals. Less than
twenty years ago a man lost no stand
ing IN Kansas politics by being known
as railroad man in the legislature.
Less than twenty years ago the legis-
lature adjourned drunk and disOrderly
ana took home Its own desks and car
pets, and the writer hereof tried IN
vain to get one of them. Times have
changed and we change with them
The world is edging along. The thing
that seems all right to this generation
will seem like larceny to the next The
world is growing better. and If you
don't grow better with 1.-THE fault is
yours.-Emporia Gazette
THE COMPRESSION CONTEST.
The campaign for the control of
the next congress is begun. There are
252 Republicans and 1873 Democratic
members of the present congress. To
secure a majority in the next one the
Democrats must gain hfty-eight with
out losing any. The Democratic cam
paign committee has an advantage in
the fact that most of its members are
from the south where practically no
elections for congress are held, the
Democratic nominee being returned
with mere formality. This enables the
Democratic committee to concentrate
It's work and its funds on the close and
doubtful northern districts. RepubH-
cans, on the other hand must make
an active campaign IN every district of
the north in order to get their vote
out.-Leavenworth times.
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City Man (carping1y)-Whew, but it's
not am told that the mercury fire.
quently stands at 10 in the shade here
armer Summerboard (cheeringly)-
Wen. you don't halter stay in the shade,
ye knOw.-Pu,iI.
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Village Constable Ito vilager who has
been knocked down by passing motor cy-
clistl-You didn't see the number, but
could you swear to the man?
Villager-I did; but I don't think e
card me.-Punch.
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FULL T.Fs a sE-VS EVTF2E. IMPORT
OF TIE ASSOCIATED T.RF,sS
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before herr,
Yes, If she has an interesting enough
past behind her '-Cleveland Leader.