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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-05

The recent assembly OF Populists at
st. Louis insisted that such eminent
gentlemen as Theodore Roosevelt,
Robert NJ. LaFollette, Thomas W.
Lawson. w J. Bryan, Joseph W. Folk,
William r. Hearst and others are ex-
ponents of old time Populist prin-
ciples In Kansas the same thing.
might be said of various gentlemen
who are strenuous in their demands
for railroad reforms, the election OF
United States senators by direct vote
Of the people, and various other meas
ures that the Populists demanded
years ago. Governor Hoch has even
gone so far as to advocate the manu-
facture Of denatured alcohol by the
state
The conservative Washington Post
comedies that there is considerable
truth In the claims of the Populists.
IF there had been no Populist party
in 1896" it asks, would there have
been a railroad rate bill in 1906? We
doubt IT. If there had not been 1000,
600 voting PopuHsts ten years ago,
would the recent assaults have been
made on trusts and monOpolies in the
courts? Would we have had the beef
scandal. or the insurance investigation.
or the Pennsylvania Railroad expo
sures. or a prosecution of various other
trusts. if Jerry Simpson had not chased
the octopus on the prairies of the west
and Tom Watson had not pursued it
under the genial sun and starry skies
of the south, when the last panic sent
cotton down to 8 cents and corn was
cheaper than coal for fuel in Kansas?
1.-THE Populist party was a perfectly
natural and a perfectly inevitable af-
fair-the child of paternalism. It
threw both parties into fits. and its
principles are writ large in the
United States statutes. The next Re
publican platform viii point with pride
to the achievements of the G. o. P.
that were inventions of the Populist
party. It is somewhere written to this
effect, He needs must go that the
devil drives; and the Populist party,
sitting on the box, has been driving the
Republican elephant and the Demo
cratic donkey at terrific, a frightful
gait, ever since 1891, and the national
old carryall was never making such
speed as 1t Is right now.
There is no telling what sort Of
roads it viii skidoo over when the six
tieth congress she'll set about the
grand and Indispensable game Of
solonizing in this town some year and
half hence.
TT Is useless to deny 1.-THE Popu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-05
PorNTEp PARAGRAPHs.

from the Chicago News.l
No man is as good or as bad as he is
said to be.
Pessimists and optinists are their own
rewards.
And as rule worthless people have
the best dispositions.
Some women work for their husbands
while some others work them.
Every knock one man gives another is
intended as a boost for himself
Even the man who expects the unex-
pected is apt TO be surprised when 1t
happens.
Marrying an heiress Is often as un-
satisfactory as any other get-rich-quicx
scheme.
When a woman is said to have seen
better days it means that she knows cut
glass when she sees it.
Remember. Cordelia that devotion
during courtship doesn't always mean
devotion after the parson says his say.
An Ohio farmer having heard of
man who successfully raised two-dolIar
bills wrote to his congressman for some
OF the seed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-05

boy Her face looked startled, and YET
there was amusement, too IN the wide
gray eyes, as theg glanced from face to
face. and finally rested on Yates.
There IS some mistake / think,
she said, gently. George tells me
parcel of mine was left here tonight. /
have only moved here today, and he
made a mistake. think that gentle
man has on my kimono.1
Wretched limp and Apologize,
Yates was assisted from the table, and
Invested of the pink silk gown.
Il am sorry to spoil your amuse-
ment- she stopped. and turned
her head toward Warwick as the host
toms.
"Marjoriet' he gasped. Marjorie.
you blessed kid.''
Silently and discreetly the crowd
averted its composite face while Stan
ton kissed Marjorie ecstatically. War
wick looked unhappy.
Boys" cried Stanton, stthts Is mS
sister. all the way from Nebraska to
Manhattan to take care Of her little
Mother is here. too" Marjorie ez-
planned, biushing at the effusive vel
come accorded her. we had the adj
dress of these apartments, and you
wrote that they were very nice. you
know. and that Mr.. Warwick lived
here
THAT'S warwick" interposed Stan
ton. Hes a bully fellow"
Warwick bowed. Suddenly he felt
great, supreme gladness steal over him.
She had gray eyes, Stanton's sister
from Nebraska.
$50 we came right here from the
depot. and mother wanted to surprise
you by having everything ready
bought my kimOnO on the way mere
because our trunks haven't come yet
and the boy made a mistake deliver
ing it. We have the apartment just
across the hall"
Boys" cries Stanton Come on 20
the apartment across the hall and be
introduced. You've got to make US vel
come, because ws've come to stay"
Decourously and quietly the crowd
crossed to the apartment next door.
With dignity and beautiful grace they
were introduced TO Stanton's mother
and to Stanton,s home, and Stanton
knew he was accepted and admitted
forever to the fitness of things.
But Warwick sat in a corner, watch
ing Marjorie make tea, tea from his
teapot, which the Jap servant had
brought over, and over the back Of her
chair hung the pink silk kimono- He
IT. Ea7 "'''S''i ~ 7 1
Sugar." she asked. "one or two.
MI WARWICK
1--WE said warwick. with half
Mar-81iss stanton. I'm awfully glad
you're a brunette. with gray eyes.
"Why?' Marjorie's head bent lower
over the teapot. Tea making does re-
Because" said Warwick Pink is
so becoming to that type
And to Mr.. Yates type. too" laugh
ed Marjorie. but her face was flushed
as she slipped the pink kimona around
her. over her gray travelling suit. ald
poured the tea Ia japanese for the
crowd. and for Warwick
Copyright, 1906, by Ruby Douglass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-05
RECKLESs AUTO DRIVING.


It is a good sign that the auto own
ers themselves have undertaken to
stop violations of speed regulations in
Topeka. The public will be less likely
to complain when unavoidable acct
dents happen if it knows. that most Of
the Automobiles insist upon careful
driving and at q legitimate speed.
OF course, accidents will doubtless
happen occasionally, even to careful
drivers, but 1t is excessive speeding and
reckless. driving to which the public
objects. There is danger Of even con-
servative auto owners occasionally
yielding to the temptation to ''scorch'
a little, and this should be guarded
against. One day recently a big tour
ing car was going west on Eighth
avenue. Another big car came UP be-
hind it. The driver of the first did not
propose to be passed, and a race re-
suited. For blocks the two cars ran at
a tremendous speed, so fast in fact
that the dust made 1t impossible to
distinguish the numbers on the cars,
nor could the identity Of the drivers be
told If a vehicle had suddenly turned
into Eighth avenue ahead of these
cars a smash-up would have been
very probable.
It is such reckless driving as this
that auto owners must guard against.
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THn RoAn o. TIIn C5RAFrrEIa-

THE ROAD OF THE Cal2A FsTEEE3-
The road Of the CRATER Is rocky, and
it is becoming more so with every pass
ing month. The CRATER is a transgres-
sor, whose way was said to be hard
years ago. And this applies not only to
the man who gratis in public office. but
also to the man who gratis IN his busi-
ness methods. The good roads move
ment doesn't reach the road Of the
CRATER and it never viii That high
way is well described by writer IN
The Reader Magazine:
The road Of the CRATER is rot an
easy one. The temptation to graft is in
sidious. and men who mean to conduct
themselves with honesty and dignity
may be betrayed into it. Modern bust
ness methods is a sufficiently euphon-
ious term to fool a brisk and ambitious
man not too much given to reflection or
determination. And all goes well for
a time. The bank account increases,
the man feels himself to be shrewd and
influential; he is able to put his family
at the top of the heap; honors come
easily to him. and young men are fat
tered to be associated with him in bust
ness. Then, the exposure comes. Those
tAiAt nave trusted MN KNOW MN LOI
what he is; his own specious plea Of
the modern business method sounds
strangely inadequate even to himself.
His name, which he hoped to see associ-
ated in the minds of men with great en-
terprises, and which he expected his sons
to use as a sort of open sesame be-
comes, suddenly, the synonym for dis
honesty, greed and failure. The CRATER
has, perhaps, thought himself hardened.
He finds. to his di may, that he is not.
Shame awakens; conscience no longer
sleeps. The dreams of his ambitious
youth come to haunt him. He would
give his fortune, many times duplicated,
for the innocence and integrity of his
early manhood. He is not a bad man
he can suffer, he can be ashamed, he
cal long for innocence. Perhaps on re-
Election. there are no bad men. At any
ia e, the CRATER has shown himself
capable of dying broken-hearted. or of
going, a melancholy lunatic, to the
asylum for the insane. His career re-
quires stern metal. Let him who enters
it be sure that his conscience is dead, his
family pride buried his self-respect
quenched, and that he is obdurate to
the reproachfuI tears of the women who
love himI Having made quite. quite
sure of all this, one might adopt 8. graft
ing career in an expectant spirit"
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Bill Doolittle insists that the surplus
IN the cotton crop is not the result
OF shirts being too short so much as
because the holes In the peek-a-boo
waists are 80 much larger and more
numerous than formerly.
\
The new heir presumptive to the
German throne chose a mighty good
day to be born on.
A New Jersey school ma am com
planned that school principal Rugged
her three times in three minutes. and
she asked that he be discharged. And
he ought to be. Any man who can
not draw out such blissfuI occasions
more than a minute each is not en-
titled to a position of trust and profit.
X
The United States treasurer, Mr..
Charles H Treat, says we need more
FIVE dollar bills. Kindly make some
of ours tens and tventies, Mr.. Treat.
X
There Is this about 1t: Kansas peo-
pie who are laying up something for
a rainy day did not have to draw
much on their surplus during May
and June.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[F,rom the Phlladelphla Rsoord.l

from the Philadelphia Record.
An automobile dance-a breakdown.
cat will drink beer, provided It Is
maltese.
The easiest thing in the world to make
is q break.
Hot weather makes even our laundry
feel all done up.
Men will smoke cigarettes just ag long
as women will coddIe little woolly dogs.
After ALL the hey-day of youth ism
so important as the pay day OF OLD age.
When a woman IS iii she always looks
as though she feels worse than she feels
she looks.
There is an extra pair of wings in
heaven for the man who owns an auto
mobile and doesn't swear.
It takes clever girl to know Just
how often she can refuse a fellow with
out losing him altogether.
Mrs Gotrox-"Our waiter is a student
he Is working his way through college. -
Mr. Cotrox-sYou don't tell me. Well
IL the college would only turn out a few
more walters I'd have more respect for
en-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-05
HVMOR OF THE DAY

Mother-You mustn't play with that lit
tie boy
Tominy-wel1, can I fight with HIM
Harper's Bazaar.
Little Wiilie-Say. pa.
Pa-Weu, what is it. my SOM
Little WiIIie-Who loses all the fault
our neighbors fnd2-Chicago News.
Yes. said the architect. Z once had
an Independent fortune, but I lost 1T all.
'tAh." exclaimed the shrewd man, Il
suppose you built q house for yourself. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
do you know why the chickens came
out OF the eggs, Robbie2"
Il guess they knew they'd get boiled if
they stayed in."-Harper's Bszar.
Farmer Honk-My nephew, who gradu-
ated from the academy week before last
is a finished elocutionist-
Farmer Hornbeak-That so2 Kill him
yourself Puck.
Kwoter-It takes two to make a bar
Wise-Yes. and that doesn't seem right.
KWoter-Why2
Wise Because only one OF them can
get it.-PhiladeIphia Press.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atehison GIobe.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
Every woman who dislikes her sons
wife turns detective.
what has become of the old fash
Toned dog that was named "Ponto"
When d man wears a dropping
moustache 1t is a sign he thinks he is
handsome.
The average girl thinks she would
make an excellent wife If she had
chance to try it.
It must be very Notifying for
girl to get fat while she Is being
crossed in a. love affair.
Is not about the most distasteful
thing in the world a favor extended
by a person you dislike7
When a mans shirt front looks as
If he had had a hemorrhage. don't get
alarmed. He likes his cherry pie.
Be as kind as possible to your
friends. agreeable to your acqCaint-
ances, ana let your enemies alone.
When a girl crosses a street on a
windy day and her skirts begin act
ing up. she can put them right again
by turning around
This Is the season Of the year when
in large families with only one bath
room. It is necessary to establish a
bath room time table
Don't cry over the suferings of
characters IN nOF6iS ana neglect the
sufferings of those around your own
home you are imposing on.
Sometimes it happens that a man
is dull company for his wife because
il he told her what was amusing him
most it would be giving himself away.
When a married man tells a woman
his troubles with his wife, 1t is time
for her to run up a six-foot fence be-
tween themi getting on dangerous
ground.
There is a great deal said in the
papers about sea-shell pink being the
proper shade for finger ends. What's
the matter with cherry-red being
proper. indicating that the owner OF
the finger tips has been fulfilling her
obligations to her family by putting
up cherries2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-05
Does 1t Rain on the Fourthe

The afternoon of Fourth of July has
strong tendency to be poky. To avert
this catastrophe many devices have
been introduced. One OF them is to have
a picnic Now, there are two opposing
and mutually exclusive schools of
thought in re the Fourth of July pic
mic. The one school holds that it al
ways rains on that afternoon; the other
denies that proposition, and maintains
that those who so wildly recall stand
ing under a tree-a tree as a shelter
when 1t rains pitchforks and feather
beds is the rankest kind of a swindle,
and something ought to be done about
it-standing under d 1eaky tree and
watching the little men" jumping in
the lemonade-tub while the table-cloths
soak into sodden rags, and the layer
cake pitifully dissolves, are really think
ing Of the annual Sabbath school pic
mic, when of course 1t rains. I dislike
very much to take sides On any ques-
ton. I am like the politician who was
campaigning in neighborhood divided
on entirely nonpoliticaI lines into two
parties, one maintaining that It was
just foolishness to say that the earth
turned clear over every day, and the
other that It must be so because it said
SO in the geography book. You know
about such things, they asked him.
Now, does It? It don't, does it? Not
clear over?"
"We'eu Ha! It does a
little" he said.-Eugene Wood. in .sThe
Glorious Fourth IN Every body's Mag
azine for July.
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Corrohoration

Each man around the store had told
his tale Of the hardest rain he ever
saw fall out of the sky" Tom Linz
kins was an easy winner with his of
the great harvest rain in '93.
1T began with big drops kinder scat
terin'-lilke.' he said. Then it got to
shower. and I just thought I'd crawl
under the canvas on the reaper till it
was over-knowd the team would stand
But, sir. when the lightning took to
hittin right at that binder I concluded
to get out from there. I had a gallon
and a half bucket on my arm and I lit
out fer the mule shed. When I was
about half way there the thing begun
to get heavy. / looked down, and if the
blamed thing wasn't full of water I'm
a -
The lank individual who had been
leaning against barrel broke in:
We'll, now. reckon that must "a
been the day I am thinkin' about
What made me know it was rainin'
some was. seem a flock o. wild ducks
go over. Gents. them ducks had folded
their wings and was naturally paddlin -
For the space of two minutes not a
sound was heard save the purring of
the cat asleep on the counter; then ST.
lently with bowed heads, the crowd dis
persed.-W oman's Home Companion for
July.
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RELIGION No Excuse.

A certain theatrical manager of Chi
cago tells of an Irish policeman in
that city possessing Dogberry-lile
traits.
on one occasion. at midnight, the
custodian of the law overhauled a
sleep walker who was promenading a
principal thoroughfare clad only in his
night robes. When the officer had
awakened the unfortunate man,
placed him under arrest, and was
hustling him off to the station, the
sleep walker exclaimed with indigna-
ton.
surely you are not going to lock me
up?''
"Surest thing you knowl" airily re-
sponded the bluecoat.
why man. can't be held re-
sponsible for the predicament you find
me ini I am a somnam bulisti'
Sure. 1t makes no difference what
church ye belong to- sharply returned
the officer; s'ye can't parade the streets
Of Chicago in your nightly Harper
Weekly.
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Tn-fo-Dafe darpoEa.

Intending purchasers of automobiles
are frequently more nystif1ed than IN
structed BY the explanations of. sales
men. but New YorI's automobile row
has one salesman who carefully avoids
technicalitfes Said he to a prospective
customer:
You see when the piston comes up
and congresses a lump of gas a spark
Jumps in and touches it of and the
engine gives a poke, which turns the
crankshaft around. Then the piston
comes back and chases out the burned
gas and takes in fresh charge as it
goes back; then it comes up and the
load gets a spark and the piston Is
blown back and the crank shaft gets
another poke. just as before Every time
a spark is let in the engine gets 8 poke
and gives it to the crankshaft, you see.
It's perfectly simple and simply per-
feet. New York Sun.
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HOWE News WHILE away.

Subscribers OF the state Journal
sway during the summer may have
aae paper mailed regularly each day
90 any address st the rate Of ten cents
. week or thirty cents 3 month (by
maf onIy). Address changed as often
as desired While. out OF town the
state journal win be to you like q
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, TO save
bookkeeping expense.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New york Press.I

FROM The New York Press
Some boys are able to earn their
living in spite Of their college educa-
ton.
A man has to give up lot OF othei
bad habits to be able to AFFORD the
automobile one
If a girl Is dressed In pink it's a sign
she isn't going somewhere with a red
headed man.
Living in the suburbs is a sort Of
training for the place you may have
to 1--we IN the next world.
If a man absent-rnindediy calls his
wife by somebody se1se's name he'd bet
ter get a high fever TO account for IL
right on the spot
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The ReInarkable NAL of John Brown.

Frederick Trevor Hill contributes a
fascinating narrative of the trial of John
Brown, under the title Decisive Battles
of the Law to Harper's Magazine for
July, for which he gathered facts from
original sources John Browns attitude
toward his accusers is presented in his
own words:
During all the proceedings the pris-
oner never stirred from his couch, but
lay with closed eyes, apparently uncon-
scious of the legal battling for his life;
and when the jury fled into the room
and recorded their verdict, of guilty on
each Of the three indictments, he merely
turned over on his side and settled him
self more comfortably upon his pillow
When the clerk demanded if he
could assign any reason why sentence
should not be pronounced upon him, nc
stared at the bench in evident astonish-
ment, and it was some moments before
he answered.
have, may it please the court. a
few words to say he began. In the
first place. I deny everything but what
have all along admitted-the design
on my part to free the slaves.
That was all / intended. Now
If it is necessary that I forfeit my life
for the furtherance of the ends of JUS
tice, and mingle my blood with the
blood of millions in this slave country
whose rights are disregarded by wicked,
cruel and unjust enactments, I submit.
Let it be done. Let me say one word fur
Their. l feel entirely satisfied with the
treatment have received on my trial.
Considering all the circumstances it has
been more generous than I expected.
But 1 feel no consciousness of guilt.
have stated from the first what was my
intention and what was not.
Now have DONE
In the hush that followed this quiet,
simple utterance, John Brown was SEN
fpnoo6 tn he hor .
and few moments later he was snug
gled out Of the building, not a man in
the audience being permitted to stir I'M
til he had been safely returned to his
cell without the assistance of the
militia. whose services Judge Parker
had haughtily declined. holding that
soldiers had no business in a court Of
law
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GREATER THAN AfnK1NI.Ev

William Mckinley is regarded as a
saint. but he was never as good a
president as Theodore Roosevelt. This
man Roosevelt IS the kind Of president
we have all been looking for. He has
forced congress to adopt certain need
ed legislation. And when we say
forced, we use the word advisedly The
congressional representatives of the
trusts have been whipped into action,
and the president applied the whip
His next move will be on the tariff. He
believes in revision. and the bosses of
congress cannot prevent it.--Atchison
Globe.
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TOO BAD.

Harry Thaw, who shot Stanford
White, is a useless immoral loafer
who never did anything but spend the
millions that he never earned. White
was one of the finest architects in the
world, but from all accounts was as
loose in morals as Thaw. The only
difference between the men seems to
be that eonsorting promiscuousIy
with young women was Thaw's bust
ness while it was Whites recreation.
No one need lose any sleep over the
fate of either one of them.-JewelI
Republican.
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TRUTH.

THE woman you want for a wife"
said philosopher to a young man,
should be pure in her person, pure in
her thoughts, pure in her life, pure in
her heart. If virtue and purity are
wanting, everything else is wanting.
Let the suspicion of impurity rest
upon woman, or let the thought of
wife wander beyond her own home, or
her own husband, and the ruby is sui
lied, the jewel is gone, and that for
ever, and brightness is gone out from
the home, which is left in unutter-
able darkness. ''-Holton Signal
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OLD DICK BLUE.

Oklahoma is a. good neighborhood.
1t has proved this often. and last week
proved 1t beyond doubt by borrow
Ing for keeps the Honorable Old Dick
Blue, who goes to Oklahoma to make
his future home. Kansas is to know
no more the man who asked for
new Office every time he got up from
the dinner table.=Atchison Globe.
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lie POLITICIANs-

Ever stand and watch the little
chickens when they are fed? They
pull and haul and scramble for any
thing that looks good to them, for all
the world like gang of politicians
milling round a newly elected governor
ali wanting the best in sight.-NIin-
neapolis Better Way