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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
AGREETNG WTTH STUDIES.

III a man is nominated who is not 1T
Tor the place. who is not worthy Of your
confidence, you should not vote for him
4 think that it viii be much easier Tor
men to scratch their ticket this year
than before on account of the changes
made in the ballot law. Before q man
could not scratch his ticket without en-
daEgering his ballot. What We need IS
the Massachusetts ballot There all the
names for the same Office are given to-
gether and the voter selects the one ne
wants. w. r. Stubs in speech at
Wichita.
Mr.. Stubs is right. The state Jour
nal is anxious to give due credit for
right sentiments whenever possible, and
it therefore hastens to agree with Mr..
Stubs. It wishes Mr.. Stubs opinion
and sentiments were such that it could
agree with him oftener.
OF course there may be some curiosity
among some people as to when Mr..
Stubs first made the discovery contain
ed in the first sentence quoted. He evil
IDENTIFY had not discovered It during the
campaign of 1904 when he was demand
ing that all Republicans vote for every
man on the ticket-Tom Kelly, school
fund commissioners. and all Had he
made the statement while he was run
ming the state campaign that he made
at Wichita the other day, Thomas Todd
Kelly would never have been placed in
q position to deposit over half a million
state funds in the defunct-F'irst Nation
al bank
Mr.. Stubs is also Overwhelmingly
and unanimously correct in his state
ment about the ballot and his estimate
Of the Massachusetts law. The Massa-
chusetts ballot is the most perfect of
any for the purpose Of getting at the
real choice of the people. The ballot in
use in Kansas and some other states
makes It difficult to vote any but
straight ticket. It therefore helps to
carry through bad candidates who may
be on the popular ticket. The Massa-
chusetts form makes it as easy to vote
a mixed ticket as straight one. The
candidates for each Office are punched,
giving the party each man belongs to
after his name. Thus the voter has the
names Of all the candidates for each
office before him in a bunch, together
with their politics, and he selects his
individual.
In other words. the Kansas ballot
places a premium on the straight tick
ct. yellow dog and all. The Massachus-
etts ballot makes it easy to vote for the
Individual
Arguments will be made against max
ing any more changes in the ballot law,
but on the other hand, is it we'll to stop
until we have the best2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
POsT CHEcK CTTRRENCTY.

There should be such a demand for
the post check currency system that
congress would be compelled to heed it,
Notwithstanding the opposition of Thos.
@. Plat, United States senator for the
express companies.
The plan proposed by Mr.. c. W. Post
for post check currency is that all treas
ury notes and silver certificates of the
denominations of 81, 81 and So that shall
hereafter be printed shall have blank
lines on the face to allow filling in the
name of a person and a p0stoflce and
state. When these lines are blank the
currency passes for money just as at
present, but if the holder wishes to send
some money by mail he fills in the
blanks with the name of the person to
whom he wishes to send it and the name
Of the postofnce where the payee resides.
Then he places in one corner a two
cent stamp which he cancels with his
initials. ard the bill is changed into a
check on the postofiee named, payable
to the person named and it is just as
safe as any bank check.
It is also proposed to issue post checks
in denominations of 10. % and so cents,
which can be changed from currency
into checks by afixing one cent stamp.
This sort of a system has been. rec
commended by men prominent in the
postomce department. and has even
been recommended for adoption by the
postofhee committee in the house. But
owing to the activity of the express com
panies' lobby, headed by Thomas c.
Platt, who is president of the United
States Express company, congress has
not adopted the plan. The express com
panies fear that the adoption of the post
check would decrease their revenues
from the money order business. It would
do so, and it would also largely take the
place Of the governments money order
business. But it would be a great con-
venience to people who wish to send
small sums by mail but who are SO stu
ated that 1t is inconvenient for them to
go to money order postof1ce. an ex-
press office or a bank to buy money
order or a bank draft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

she never leave her father to come ID
him2 He went to see her much often-
er than had been his habit. and,
strange to say, Of evenings her father
disappeared, no one asked where. and
left them to themselves. John and
Alice were again almost the boy and
girl lovers Of ten years ago. They took
twilight walks ana long drives unmo-
tested and unauestioned, and were
very happy.
With surprise, John began to real
lie that his mother no longer nageed
hln about his engagement nor had fits
OF weeping, during which she declared
that he was going to make her a
stranger and dependent in her own
house.
Then one evening he took courage,
ana masterGully laid before Alice a
plan to brave everybody. Finally she
yielded, though she dreaded the ex-
plantations that would have to follow
one sort September evening, John
with a license in his pocket, drove to
her door and told her father he was
vile, ten miles away, and that thew
would not be back till evening. The
ola man was used to their driving. and
salo nothing In fact, he seemed almost
anxious to have Alice go.
Late in the evening they returned
man ana wife. John tied the horse
and went In to have it out with AIire's
father. But the old man, strangely
-S-s4s Vas not 70 De found. Thew
waited awhile. and then John left her
to go tell his mother.
When he had gone. Alice sat. silent.
IN the big chair on the porch, happy in
spite of the probable trouble Johns
mother would make, happy in the face
OF her fathers certain anger. At any
rate, nothing on earth could make her
anything but Johns wife. So she
waited for John-and wondered where
her father could possibly be- In a half
nour she heard Johns quick, eager foot
steps. He swung in at the gate and
almost ran to take her in his arms. He
kissed her-and he laughed, actually
laughed like a boyi Then he explained.
He's at my house-your father. It
seems they took advantage of our alb
sence to-marry each other. Alice!
How's that for sly? They braved me to
my face, but they were so afraid that
we would be angry that they were posi-
lively relieved when told them what
we'd donel They are coming over here
tomorrow, dearest, and then our home
will be our own"
Then John, being a man, could not
just see why Alice could declare that she
was perfectly happy, and still should
weep into his shoulderi But Sylvia was
a woman-she would have known the
reason.-(Copyright 1906, by 3. c. Par
oells.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
JAYHA WKER JOTS

The colored population OF smith
Center now numbers three, and the
Pioneer deems the fact worthy OF
chronicling.
A Colby merchant offered lump OF
coal to the person who could guess
nearest its weight. 1t weighed 10
pounds and the nearest guess was Nv
Good sense from the Prairie View
News: 1--WE give no pianos, dolls
guns. rifles or lbric-a-brac as premium
to take our paper, but we give YOU d
full dollars worth Of news a year. ANY
of the above named articles can De
procured of dealers handling theIrl-
we are just running newspaper.
Sol Long of Winfield, who first
achieved fame as the reading clerk OF
the senate during Popullst Gays ny
having a voice that made the state
house trenble when he spoke mas
written some Recollectfons of a Coun-
try Lawyer" In his preface ne says.
IT am not doing this to get my name IN
prints helm there too often alreaQy-
P SITS written in style Of my own
and will be the success OF Its class II
in a class by itself.
Alnira Todd in the Erie Records:
We always have a great deal OF SYM
pathv for the new baby in the family
of seven or eight youngsters. His first
few months, after he has passed the
blinking period, are filed with terror
and bumps His brothers and sisters
take turns about turning him upside
down, tossing him into the air and
tickling his stomach. If this sort Of
baby ever passes his third birthday,
he is a strictly safe subject for the aife
insurance companies.
There is an individual in Burlington
who is determined not to let his right
hand know what his left hand is doing,
even If his right hand goes snoopin'
around trying to find out. Some time
ago he-or she-had cement wallis and
curbing put down around the Congre-
ratfonal church: and now the same in
dividual or some other has given the
church a new bell Weighing LOO
pounds and costing $40. In each in
stance tn man who has had charge OF
the work has refused to tell who bears
the expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23

congressman but not lower officials. On
this point Mr.. Russell says:
with the pass bribery nuisance
France deals in summary fashion. Rail
roads have no chance to win the good
viii OF France deputies and senators by
surreptitious favors Every French sen
ator and deputy has by law an annual
pass on every railroad. This the gov
eminent eompels the railroads to fur
nish- Then the government deducts for
the pass. ten francs a month from the
pay OF the senator or deputy. The rail-
roads get nothing. That is the extent
Of that performance. The passes are
provided to afford the senators and dep
uties opportunity to acquaint them
selves with conditions in the country
and every part Of 1t.
The president of the republic must
be transported or public business at
the expense Of the railroads. That is
the law. and the service entails no kind
of obligation on the presidents part
Even Il. the companies were to furnish
him with a special train of Beautiful
cars. that would mean nothing, because
they are obliged to transport him with
their best devices anyway
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
HOW France DOES II

1t is interesting to note how other
countries deal with the problems of con
trolling the big transportation lines
Germany and some other countries nv
owning them; France and England bv
owning some and controlling all. In the
March number Of Everybody's Maya
zine Charles Edward Russell writes of
how France does it.
"In France" he says, NEARLY all the
railroads are owned by private cor
porations. OF a total trackage of 90. =
600 miles the companies own about q. -
500 miles. the government only 3.4o7
miles. Those that believe that the solu-
ton of our troubles lies in government
control and not in government owner
ship can find much to interest them in
the examples of France and England
In both countries the government con
trolls but does not operate, but the
methods of control are different. In
England there is general supervision
and regulation; in France the govern
ment takes part in the actual direction
supervises the workings Of the lines.
and can interfere at any time in anv
way 1t sees 1T to modify rates or make
any other changes 1t may desire. The
French railroads operate rrder the eve
Of the national minister OF Lublic works
they are ESSENTIALLY attached to his de-
partment. and are subject to severe reg
dlations and restrictions that for verv
good and sufficient reason they cannot
disregard
France has also solved the pass cues
ton for public officials In a way that
would doubtless meet the approval OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
STUBBs TOO BUSY.

The Hon. W. R. Stubs. generals
simo of the political destinies of the
state. drew a lot of illegal money from
the state during the time he was
speaker, if the State Journal has copied
the state records correctly. He is en-
titled as speaker to So per day. beside
his regular pay, for every day he
actually presides over the ~delibera-
lions of the house. It seems that he
presided exactly six days during the
fifty days term. But he drew money
as a presiding officer for every day of
the session and five times drew per
diem for presiding on Sundays! But
the State Journal should not be too
harsh in its criticisms. Thee Journal
should remember that Mr.. Stubs was
SO busy looking after the welfare of the
great common people" that he didn't
have time to examine his own &C
counts Then. his expenses in the boss
buster movement We're great and the
state probably was well repaid for the
extra money they paid for his services.
lola Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
QUAKER REFLEoTIoNs.
TFrom the Philadeiphla Record. !

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
A flow Of language is naturally fluent
It's the other fellow who always gets
licked
Lots of people are sure they are right,
but don't go ahead.
It is better to be happy than rich, but
lots of US are neither.
Even the girl who wears button shoes
can be straight-laced.
Perhaps it's the February groundhow
that makes the March hare mad
When a man boasts that he is clothed
IN his own Righteousness it IS often mis-
NJ sfAG
# the fellow who knows II all only bsa
sense enough to keep It to hifn=eIf he
wouldn't be such a bore.
Tommy-'.Pop, what are inalienabIe
rights? Iommy's Pop - 'Inalienabie
rights my son, are the rights that land
the solar pIexus blow"
Hoax-.1 was ont skating the other day.
H E 7 peer 6sen On the ice in 2 years.S
oh fell IN with It right away
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
HUMOR OF THE DAY

The agent of the building had agreed to
R 5ind n ~ val wapaPeg on the rooms What
thing with large f1gures?"
Decidedly not" said the new tenant
rent I have to pay. Chicago Tribune
rs there any question about the social
position OF the Doilartonsg'
There was none until recently" an
sWered Miss Cayenne. TT has been dis
covered that the society paper Town
ton Star.
This Is queer. have just been read
ing where a yarn mill was seized by the
sheriff and squib factory exploded
joke to be in the funny business ''-Balti-
more American.
Mr.. Tynid-I asked your father for his
consent over the telephone
Miss Chance-What did he say2
Mr. Tymid-He said. 7 don't know who
you are, but it's ali Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Miss Tartun-AErs. Upmore has
strange dislike for me
Miss Jellers-Yes; and she has only the
slightest acquaintance with you-fhat's
what makes 1t seem so strange. agO
Tribune.
Mickey. wot's a philant' ropist?
Well, It's like this: If wuz to swipe
a quarter from We when We wasn't lookin'.
an den ofLer to give we a dime If we'd
promise to buy a loot brush wild it. I'd
be one of them things. Life.
Mrs. Dashe-You know my husband has
no nobility, none Of the liner feelings
Mrs. De stuart-TIow awfuIi
Mrs Dashe-Would YOU believe that I
have cried for hours and only got 2 SOW
ereign from him London Comic.
Miss Pechis." said he tentatively T
want TO put hypothetical case to you.
Just fancy young man proposing to
But" interrupted the bright girl. Il
don't know any that I do fancy. "-PhiIa-
delphia Press.
Him-what makes you look so misera-
Her-Why do 7 look miserable2
Him-Yes; you look al if your worst en-
envy had just been happily married.
Her-Oh, it's ever so much worse than
that She has just been happily divorced.
Chicago News.
BTcJigger-so Belle is married?
Thingumbob-Yes; with her beauty she
captured an honored name
McJigger-Huh "Sninkins?'' You don't
call that an honored name, do you?
Thineumbob-Weu you just ought to
delphia Press.
1T understand you played solo at the
musical last night"
NO. merely an accompaniment"
why, nobody sang"
'fTrue. But everybody talked Louis
vile Courier-JournaL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.


TFrem the Atchison Globe.l
Compliments are like the styles in dress;
Easily spoiled by OVERRIDING
The people who are forever using the
word ideal" are the ones who bring 1t
into disrepute.
If good advice really amounted to any
thing there wouldn't be single bl0t on
that Big Book Up Yonder.
Very often mans decisions do not de-
pend upon the merit OF the case as much
as upon what he had for dinner
When a school teacher puts the lid on a
valentine box the children say that she is
afraid she will get comic" ones.
If you want to compliment a mans ap-
pearanee, and can not say he is hand
some he will be satisfied If spoken of as
distinguished looking.
Somehow we do not like any book in
which the woman swept Into the par
lOr-" By all good rules or housekeeping
she should sweep out
When you admit that you do foolish
things people laugh at you to your face,
and when you Geny doing them they
laugh at you behind your back
It IS a great affliction to nervous man
to see the pictures hanging crooked on the
with his hostess to straighten them.
The woman who really loves housekeep-
ing thinks thdre isn't anything that
grows in the yard any prettier than the
washing that grows on her line early on
Monday morning.
The average woman will sit up days and
nights with a friend who is sick and give
up her life almost to help her but she
can't forget It If the friend once borrow
ed 10 cents of her and hasn't paid her
back.
When a man finally figures at a society
function It is one in which there are p1en-
ty of flowers. and they are not merely
banked. but come in all sorts of strange
designs, and have long white ribbons at
tached. There are usually six men in the
receiving line and they are dignihed and
wear their best clothes, and while their
gloves may not come to their elbows, they
are white IN Difference to the fashion. And
the men in a receiving line at a man s ap-
pearance IN society really do something:
They have to carry him out to the hearse
and again from the hearse to the grave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
Gas Pines Made of Paper.

Paper gas pipes are among the novel
ties reported from Europe. It appears
that paper can be used to advantage
for this purpose.
Manila paper is cut up into strips
whose width is equal to the length of
the pipe section to be used. The paper
bands are then passed into vessel
filed with melted asphalt.
After coming out of the hath the pre-
pared strip Is rolled uniformly and very
tightly around an iron rod Of pipe which
serves as the core and has the same
diameter which the gas pipe is to have.
The rolling of the paper is stopped
when the right thickness has been Sc
cured.
After the pipe section which is thus
formed has BEEN put through a high
pressure it is covered en- the outside by
a layer Of sand which is pressed into the
asphalt while stu hot. Then the whole
is cooled off by placing it in water. The
core is taken out and the outer surface
Of the pipe is treated with a water
proof compound.
1t is said that the pipe is very tight
and Is cheaper than metal piping.-Bos-
ton Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Lost, Strayed or Stolen-One bald
headed man wearing a wig and a crafty
expression. Anyone having informa-
ton of his whereabouts win confer a
favor by addressing H H, Kansas City,
Mo.
Now that the White House wedding Is
over with, the women folks can turn
their attention to other parts of the pa
per, and the bargain sales advertisers
will once more get the worth of their
money out OF their advertising.
How many Kansas people-aside from
Dave Blaine-would know a lock from a
sea level If they should meet It in the
road?
It's pretty safe guess that Mr.. P.
Grove feels like kicking himself several
times around the block. He lodged the
officers for months only to find out at
last from an Omaha jury that he isn't
guilty. If that wouldn't make man
Disguised what would?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
The "a FamIIy Eortunes ID Amerlca

" e-S7-saAA5 ADtA k1tNAAa
The Great Family Fortunes of America
The great fortunes that have sprung
up so amazingly in this country during
recent decades today in the opinion of
many serious thinkers constitute a me-
mace to our national weIl-being, SAYS
Cleveland Moffett, in writing Of The
Shameful Misuse of Wealth." in Sue
cess Magazine. Without these great for
tunes there would be no reign of luxury
in America, no Haunting of feasts and
follies, no riot of extravaganza; with
them we may expect all the evils that
have in previous civilizations attended
upon enormous riches. And many Of
these evils. as we have already seen, ere
actually with US.
It is admitted that we are the richest
people in the world today-the richest
people the world has ever seen. The
Wanted wealth of Croesus is estimated
at only eight million dollars, but there
are seventy American estates that aver
age thirty-five millions each. As show
ing the rapid growth of Individual for
tunes in this country there is interest
in list Of rich men-printed in 1855
according to which New York City at
that time boosted only twenty eight
millionaires. And a pamphlet published
some years earlier says that in 1S45 Phil
adelphia could show only ten estates
valued a. million or more, the richest
being that Of Stephen GIard. which
reached seven millions. In contrast to
which in 1892 there were over two hun
dred millionaires in Philadelphia.
AS to New York City, the number Of
its millionaireE. according to best infer-
nation, is over two thousand while the
number Of millionaires in the United
States IS at least five thousand or half
the total number of the world. There is
one family alone. at the head of which
stands the richest and most powerful
man in the world, John D. Rockefeller,
and the wealth of this family IS estl-
mated at a thousand million dollars, a,
sum so huge that the human mind quite
fails to grasp it, a sum so huge that #
at the birth of Christ Mr.. Rockefeller
had begun making a dollar a minute
and had let all these dollars accumulate
day and night for all these centuries,
he would not yet, in 1906, have anassed
a thousand million dollars. And If Mr.
Rockefeller should today turn this
wealth into gold coin and take It out
Of the country, say into Canada, he
would carry across the border three
times as much gold as would then re-
main in the United States. Nor would
he carry it himself, fo- the weight Of It
would be one thousand seven hundred
and fifty tons. And if he loaded IT on
the backs of porters, eaca man bearing
his own weight IN solid gold (say 1850
pounds), it would require twenty-three
thousand men to move It. And if they
walked ten feet apart the line of them
would reach forty-four miles and would
occupy fifteen hours in passing a. given
point None of which takes any account
Of the daily interest on this fortune,
which interest. if paid in gold, would
require the strength Of seven men to
carry it. for 1T would weigh a thousand
pounds. such are the riches OF, a single
family
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-23
KANSAS IN THE LEAD.

It is predicted that another row is
coming up IN the United States legis-
lature which will make the statehood
business look like 80 cents. This time
It viii be over the control OF the stu
dents in Annapolis the United States
school of cadets. The law absolutely
prohibits hazing under the penalty of
expulsion and some of the representa-
uves insist on the enforcement Of the
law. It is said that this would throw
fully half Of the boys out of that
school. Let US be thankful that Kan
sas as usual at the head of all good
movements has set the pace for the re
formers in this matter Of prohibiting
hazlng in the big schools. Kansas
university stands out a shining light
among the big schools whose students
have cut out hazing@Belleville Free
man.
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mention the fact that allowing the
open and notorious violation OF law Is
as productive Of crime in LeavenweFth
as it is in Topeka. Besides. whisky
is the greatest crime breeder on
earth, and Leavenworth has plenty
OF that.