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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
women ANON 80 spies.

Some of the most valuable and least
suspected spies that guard the car are
women of high rank, who frequent the
aristoeratic salons of Petersburg and
MOSCOW and even go as far afield as the
Siberian cities of Tomsk, Tobolsk and
IrkutsI.
There are also spies among the I'M
perial guards. and for these men the
entire army and reserves of imperial Rus
STA are ransacked. Among them one finds
men from the Don and Dnieper cOssacks,
the Mohammedan forces from Kazan, the
Caucasian provinces, and even from far
Kashgar in central Asia, as well as from
the imperial Probajensky and Pavlovskf
guards. The unquestioning and dOgliNe
fidelity of these men is wonderful, says
Harpers Weekly. They are absolutely
fearless of great physical strength and
mentally of unusual acumen and fore
sight. There are nearly LOCO of these
military guards constantly employed in
and about the park and palace of Tsars-
koe-Selo.
one might suppose that the Emperor
Nicholas would sleep peacefully surround
ed by this amazing human network Of
protection. Yet reVolutionists penetrate
the royal apartments and leave letters
of sinister menace and warning, which
must often suggest to the unhappy mon
arch that it might be as well for him to
do away with this far reaching system of
espionage and mingle freely with his peo-
Tlle.
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mOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison GIobe.l

TErorn the Atchison 6iope.l
Ever think how much more you see OF
tiresome people than you 90 OF interest
ing ones2
After the children have grown up and
gone it never brings JOY to a woman 70
call attention to the Immaculate eoiiol-
ton of her house
You NAV depend upon it that when peo-
ple burn the candle at bOth ENDS IL IS NOT
to have the light to Work by, Dul 10 IL
illuminate some folly
TT,-erv man is willing to keep his right
hand from knowing the good deeds MS
left hand does, providing the neg hDois
viii only find them out
In a little town a woman with a past
is pointed out in the same way as the res
licences of prominent citizens, the postoI-
fee, court house. etc
Some very frail looking. people who look
as if they hadn't strength to lift a pound
will swing the biggest hammer when II
comes to knocking.
It seems that a woman can't become so
accustomed to children that she ism sur
prised every time she goes TO Ine cake
box at seeing how little there is left
Why is it that when man appears
with his throat wrapped the people get
sissy impressions OF mn, oGt y Asll d y y
man wraps up her throat, II IS regarded
as a sensible precautlon2
Atchison is a very original town There
are a number of old women in the county
claim that she was once young and
wealthy. and danced with the Prince OF
Wales
When people are in church they speak
low and solemn though the services may
not have begun, and they would disturb
no one if they talked out loud. The same
people, when entering a business office,
viii talk as loud as if calling the cows
home Still a low voice is more neces-
sary in the business office at all times
than in a church before the services be-
gin. A low voice is proper in church.
1t is a necessity in a business Office. but
few seem to recognize IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
BOSS BUsTERIsM.

Governor Herrick of Ohio. who was
defeated for reelection last fail,
seems to have learned something by
his experience. In his recent message
to the legislature he advocates a law
to abolish the lobby which in the past
has exerted such deleteri Gus influence
on honest legislation. The people Of
Ohio did not wait for the legislature to
pass a law to abolish the bosses, they
simply went to the polls and abolished
them. If it should turn out in Ohio
as it did in Kansas that the bOssbusters
prove worse than the bosses the Ohio
voters should proceed to give the boss
busters the same kind of a dose the
people of Kansas seem to have in re-
serve for our bossbusters who do not
seem to have either the disposition or
ability to Dust" anything but the
moral law and honesty and decency.-
Holton Recorder.
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TO DER HALF-BAKED KIDS MI
DER BAD-MAN -MICRORE

Do doubt you hat opserf by der
bapeFs dot der kid Vot make der ad-
dempt ad friskency ad der hagh
school der oder night, vas real sorry
alder he had been ketched und
coOped by der kids Vot he try TO frisk.
He feldt real cheap and so fort, ven
hiss Moder Games py der eoundy ehail
and talk NIT him trough der Stats.
Uf he had fgger dot all oudt vile
he vas making dem bogus viskers init
hiss Moder's needles ind timble, ind
lining der same init a piece uf his
Moder's Oldt skirt, perhaps he would
hat use all not work to make a fiddle
hOnesd money.
But he dfdtndt, und. es dey always
do, he gedts id in der neck.
Uf der kid behind der nickel
counter vas peen a SOLD Won, nit der
nerf uf half-growed hen, der bad
Won would hat reaped perhaps a hon
dered sheckles in small change, und
had a chance to spendt liddle uf id
before der cops nailed him. Der nail
ing pardt ISIS a foregone conclusion
ing, und nod to be Overlooked. Id ISIS
sure to came.
Els id vos, der oder kid had dot mi
crObe vot men calls nerfe ind vimmins
calls bravery, und he makes bitsness
pick OPP for 'it' nit der phony visk-
ers und der dinkey fiddle dirty-two.
Hence, derefore, der kid Vot hap
peen reading ind soaking COP Dur
range Dan, der Dangerous Dago," und
oder such literary mixtures, gedtS
hiss by fasd mail.
Kids, hgger id down to a bitzness
proposition, cutting oudt der family
feeling, vich viii be big idem alder
der ball ISIS ofer. Figger id like dis:
Here ISIS a Teller vot puys sefen dollars
wort uf junk, burglar lamp. pistol ct
cetera, ind spendts sefendeen dollars
wort uf dime making sefen cendts
wort uf burglar viskers, vich goes oudt
to reap der reward. Ad der besd, uf
he make good in der ven.ure, he
cannod spend more den ten dolIers uf
der ketch mitOudt eggsiting sus-
picionings, ind den comes der pinch.
He ISIS oudt, peside der discomforts uf
der Stat house, fOurdeen dollars. Also.
he dakes a nine-to-one shot, vich ISIS
more den der nerviesd gambler will
sday init, uf gedding shot er kicked to
sleeb by der Teller vich he tries to rob
You may readily opserf dot he ISIS
looser dramatically.
Also, dere ISIS Moder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
JOURNAL nFTREES

We give fair warning that no poems
on the beautiful snow Will be cOnsid-
cred by this department unless accom-
panied by a certificate showing thai
the author has taken out his or her
poets license for 1905.
The Capital prints this as news: 80
many Of the state officials are away
from home taht it is necessary to do
business with the assistants" If the
opposite were true it would be real
news.
The word ''agrarian'' is being work
ed pretty hard here of late.
Another rule of this department
concerning poetry is that its meter
can net be measured by the gas meter.
The way Mr.. Rogers testifies in New
York sounds familiar to a Kansas
man. 1t reminds him of an old topper 5
testimony in hquor case.
The dove of peace appears to be
mighty '-skeery' when it is rOOsting
around between France and Germany
So far President Roosevelt has been
elected by a lot of people who don t
have anything TO say about it. to pre-
side over both Harvard and the Uni
versity of Chicago. one of these days
we may wake up and find college
trust has been formed with Roosevelt
at the head of It.
Tt is noted with regret that Farm
er" Smith of Mcpherson was absent
from the agricultural meetings in To-
peka this week for the first time in
years. It is suspected that the reason
was because he is farming his farm
this year instead of trying to farm the
| farmers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
What Is the Northwest Passage?

From the Review OF Reviews.
This Northwest Passage may be
briefly explained. The long coasts of
the mainland are not clogged, like
those on many other polar shores, with
ieebergs or glaciers or thick sea ice.
The coast is low. the tundra behind it
is only a little higher than the sea,
and conditions are not favorable for
the formation and flow of glaciers.
Icebergs, therefore, are not found, be-
cause in the Arctic they are merely the
broken-off ends of glaciers.
But from thirty to forty miles north
of Point Barrow. the most northern
point of the continent stretches the
great barrier of sea ice with hum
mOcks and ridges thrust, by pressure,
from twenty to fifty feet above the
general level. so that when Mcclure s
Investigator got into the heavy foe
the ice sometimes rose around her as
high as the yardarmS AS no islands
intervene for hundreds of miles east of
Bering Sea to protect the coast from
the polar pack, why is it that this heavy
ice is not forced down upon the
shores?
1t is because the coastal waters are
comparatively shallow and the sea ice
grounds miles away; and farther east
the coasts of the mainland are protect
ed from the sea ice, not only by shall
low water, but also by the islands that
extend almost continuously from
Banks Land to the Atlantic end of
Hudson Strait.
So the ice along the coast is of the
winters formation. and in summer it
disap appears entirely or is so narrowed
by melting as to leave channels of
greater or less width that are navig-
able for two or three months The
fact is, as Lieutenant Wheeler. OF our
revenue cutter service recently said,
this Northwest Passage has been made
time and time again by the overlapping
of the tracks of vessels between the
Atlantic and the Pacific. San Francisco
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
He co. q New Pana.

Jacob sehaefer, aged 7, had been out
of school and his absence was being in
quired into.
Il was out walking" he explained.
glibly; Z was out walking with my
mamma and papa
.*Oh, were oyu?'' returned the teacher.
Then. fixing stern eyes on the culprit,
she continued: Il thought you told me
your father was dead2"
Here she paused and waited for ia
cob to wilt Jacob did nothing of the
sort. Instead, bristling with Importance,
he said:
AN so he is dead. but my mamma
put a for let sign in our parlor win
dow last month an now I got a new
papa. Exchange
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

TFr0m the ChIcag0 NeWs.I
Even tanned money may make tidy
sum.
The nearer a man gets to fame the
smaller it looks.
Our idea of a miserable man is a miser
who is in love.
Truth is stranger than fiction TO the ave
erage married woman
Time is money, but it's better to be in
a hurry than broke
Only one kind of women do not care for
pretty clothes-dead ones
Man hopes for the best, but woman in
sists on having something better.
A woman is never satisfied until her
husband is rated in the society blue book.
Some people imagine that they are new
er talked about because they never hear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

The irony of fate is shown by the
outcome of the lawsuit over the prop
erty of Mrs. Kate Brandt, the Man
katO woman who was murdered by
her husband about three years ago.
Her husband is said to have killed her
to get possession of her property, but
he had to assign it to his lawyer to
pay the lawyer for defending him,
and still he was sent to the peniten-
tiary. When the lawyer tried to take
possession of the property the wo-
mans relatives stepped in and de-
MED the right of the husband who
had killed the wife to take the prop
erty. They contended that it should
go to her natural heirs aside from her
husband. The lawyer had to hire an
other lawyer to help him in the law
suit over the property, which was car
ried through the supreme court. The
supreme court has decided that the
husband would inherit the property.
but most Of it viii go to the second
lawyer. who had nothing to do with
the case in the hrst place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
Poultry Looking.

a comfOrta Die LOOKING man, but
with a celluloid collar and ready
made four-in-hand tie, walked up to
one of the employees of the Colonial
hotel a day or two ago and inquired;
Have you seen anything of my broth
er about the lobby here ?"
what sort of looking man is hep
The other wanted to convey the i'm
preston that his brother was a man
with a good deal of avoirdupois, but
what he replied was this: why he's
u large poultry looking gentleman,
about like lne.'-CIeveland Plain
Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
ROOSEVELT AND PATTTsoN.

John M Pattison. the new Demo-
cratic governor of Ohio, warmly com
mends the policies of President Reese
Welt in his inaugural address This is
not to be wondered at, since it has
been whispered that the president was
not very greatly shocked when the
people of Ohio made AIR Pattson
GOVERNOR urlingame Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

The cotton growers Of the south have
formed trust that may need looking
after some day. The members have
doubled the price of their product with
On the past year and are about to take
steps to boost it another 25 per cent
One Of the methods employed is the
restriction of production. Similar ac-
lions on the part of the coal men bring
denunciatiOn from the entire country.
We appear to have +he cotton baron
with US.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

The wicked partner is making his
appearance in the Standard Oil inves-
tigation. One man has testified to the
good qualities of John d. Rockefeller.
Being a good man it is quite natural
that he should Withdraw from the ac-
tive management OF the concern and
merely take the moneN
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Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report Of that great news or
&anlzation for exclusive evening publ
cation.
The State Journal receives for exclusive
pu6iieation the leased wire report Of the
publishers. Press for the edition for sun
cay morning.
The news is received in the State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

We oserf resendly dot der un-
luckiesd man in der world hat peen
discofered in Cauyforny. Vonce hee
vas a habby, care-free hired man on
a farm but he elOOps-der-loop nit der
bosses wife, ind alder hating to lif
nit her fer fourdeen years., she kicks
der bucket init all uf hiss property in
her name. Den comes along der
''wronged husspand," und coppers der
pile.
IF dis looser efer gedts to Heafen.
he can gif Uncle Job cards und
spades in a hard-luck-sdory contesd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

President Roosevelt might prove a
worthy successor to President Harper
as the head Of Chicago university in
most respects, but it is doubtful if he
could ever equal the departed
scholars ability in touching the Rock
efeller check book.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

In forcing the lower class men to
play automobile. Annapolis hazers ap-
pear to have provided for everything
pertaining TO the machine except the
gasoline smell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
RURTON.

The story that Senator Burton Will
resign has been revived. If Burton
resigns it woa't be because he has con-
scientious scruples against drawing
pay and giving no service in return.
1t viii be be cause he has a tip that the
senate is getting ready to throw him
out. or because he can make some
thing by it. The fact that the state
suffers by his hanging on does not dis
turb Burton. =HoltOn Signal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
ONE ADVANTAGE.

At least one thing can be said of
Faust without a chorus. There be-
ing less volume of sound from the
stage, conversation during the perform
ance is much less difficult.-Indian-
apolis News
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~ INsPECTION NEEDED.

If. as some of the congressman sus-
pect. Morales has carried his govern
ment away with him, it would be well
herafter not to allow any South Ameri-
can president to leave home without
having his suit case nspected.-Wash-
ington Stan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
FORAKER S SURPRISE.

Senator Foraker says he is surprised
that so many senators follow blindly
the presidents views on rates legis-
lation." No one will be surprised at
this.-Los Angeles Express.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.I

some girls would never firt with any
man they did not meet
A loud noise is sign that the man
making it thinks he is a good arguer.
The woman that raises children to re-
spect her does it without any theories.
It's awful clever the way a girl can
look as If she didn't understand what you
had done when it was TO kiss her
It is funny how a girl of Is always
wants to look like one Of rs and one of %
like one Of 16.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

The man who expects to become
the son-in-law of the president has
Joined the ranks of those who want
50 drop the Philippines as soon as it
can be done consistently. Probably
no one now living will see the Islands
relinquished by the United States.
When they have attained a condition
warranting the granting of their indie
pendence all occasion for such action
win have disappeared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
FR0T OTHER PENS
THE MARTYR BUSINESS.

Geronimo. who has just taken his
eighth squaw-wife, seems determined
to continue in the martyr business as
long as he lives.-Los Angeles Express.
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TALKING AND ACTING.

It has taken a year for Governor
Hoch to get a report from his expert
on the state treasury examination ana
it has not yet been given out. Ii the
governor would act as ne talks, this
report would have been completed
many months ago.-Miami RepubH-
can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

The senate has found another ex-
cuse for delaying the construction of
the Panama canal. It is not hard to
see why the railroads insist on owning
50 many United States senators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14
NEW YORKs OPINION.

"Earthquake Shock felt in Kansas,
Nebraska, and Missouri-distinct at
Topeka Why this cryptic MESA sc
from Kansas City? Of course, it was
only another roar from Trust Buster
Hoch, whose voice shakes three states
New York Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

Mrs. Chadwick at last has landed
in the penitentiary, but there is still
large number Of more notorious
swindlers at large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

The cotton combine has decided
upon IS cents per pound as the price
at which the crop shall be sold. Pur-
chasers Of calico and muslin will have
occasion to remember this when they
90 to buy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

A St. Louis man wants a divorce be-
cause his wife, a Chicago girl, refuses
to live in Missouri's chief city
wouldn't this justify the wife in filing
a cross suit on the ground of "cruel
and unusual punishment New York
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

A resolution asking Senator Depew
TO resign has been introduced a sec
ond time ia the New York legislature.
If he should comply with the sugges-
ton, it is safe to predict that Platt
viii not voluntarily indulge in any
''me to" business. as he did when
Conkiin stalked out of the senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

The family of a drunkard in Chi
cago has secured a judgment of S17,-
500 against the saloon keepers who
sold him liquor. If they succeed in
collecting it a new industry may
spring up. other husbands may be
led to secure easy money" for their
families in the same agreeable way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

Wall street appears to be rushing on
60 ruin just as though Mr.. Schiff had
not said a word.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

If Roosevelt shall become president
Of Chicago university may we not ex-
pect that course in bear hunting will
be added to the curriculum
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OF COURSE.

Senator Depew has testified that he
believed Mr.. Hyde earned the $780,
geo he got as vice president of the
Equitable Insurance company. But did
you ever see a CRATER who didn't think
brother CRATER earned all he was
able to get his hands on?-Marion
Headlight.
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Up to the time of going to press,
none of the boss busters seem to have
been able to prove Cyrus Leland re
This is a matter of the greatest i'm
portance, and should be no longer
glected.-Burlingam Chronicle.
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NOTHING TO BOAST OF

Now that we begin to see how some
of our best-knOwn "self-made men
did it, possibly we will be a bit less
chesty about them.-Charleston News
and Courier.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EVERY
WEEK DAY AND PUBLISHERS
PRESS REPORT ON SATURDAY
NIGHT TOR THE EDITION FOR
SUNDAY MORNING.
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The man who called in his friends,
announeed that he had a great joke
for them and committed suicide be-
fore their eyes. might justly be re-
garded as carrying a joke too far"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

Uncle Russell Sage is nearly ninety
years old and in feeble health, but he
has no time to think about dying with
call money soaring at from fifty to one
hundred per cent.-HOustOn Post
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NOME NEEDED.

'Ten honest men in Wall street." says
Lawson. And Wall street hasn't de-
manded a recount yet.-New York Mail.
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REFORMERS.

It's remarkable how hot for reform
such men as Oden are-after they are
licked.-P North American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

Don't push a desperate man too far.
Odeu may carry his grievance into the
ma gazines.-Chicag Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

Mrs. Higbie uf Brooklyn knocked
der stufiing oudt uf a stin vot ad-
dempted to gedt gay NIT her Goot
bizness fer Mrs. Higbie in Topeka
Vile she vas knocking oudt der many
Washers, she could do goot by teach
ing her sdyle ut fssical agriculture to
der COILS.
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CHRISTMAS.

Now come the bargain days, which
are supposed to be lucky days of those
who still have some wants unsatis-
fed and some money unspent.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

Tummy Upton seems to want dot
cup mighty bad. Berhaps he viii get
id, yes? Uf he do. id should be knows
es der tea cup"
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chimney sweeps to remoof der fedders
from dot SIS, 600 pipe oragan, ind uf
der folks vot If close by der Audy-
torium dondt gedt oudt a injunction,
dey should also rails der windows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-14

derd-und-sigsty per cents uf der boos
ISIS made uf H2S-O4, pIug-tobacco,
iodine und tan-bark. he would hat de-
licious triangles from chusd linking
abOudt id.