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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-01
JANA WKER JOTS

There are only nine candidates for
sheriff in Allen county
Dora Thorne' is running around
loose in Kansas this week.
Morton Albaugh says John Q. Royce
is the best lid holder in the state OF
Kansas.
Fred Skiff. who used to be a Law
renee BOY, comes in for $4,000 from
Marshall Fields will. Which leads
the lola Record to remark that Skiff $
ship is apparently coming in
A Cherryvale man has home
grown lemon 115 inches in circum-
ference Not long ago Clay Center
woman made a bunch of lemon pies
from lemons she had raised herself
Kansas will soon vie with California
in lemon-raising as we'll as III the
choice brands of winter weather,
"cot twenty took off my department
today" announced LeavenWorth
small boy at the dinner table. The
family we're Mortified. What was
it YOU did ," asked his mother.
Knocked a fellow in the mud, was
the reply. His father suppressed
chuckle, and inquired mildly: why
didn't YOU apologize % The boy
paused to swallow a large bite be-
fore answering: THE derned rascal
wouldn't wait"
Pushing-the- season item from the
LeavenWOrth Post: Uncle John
Hand, a well known farmer of Lowe
mont who has been visiting in the
city says that the sap is up in the
naples box elders. elns and other
trees the same as in the spring of
the year, and that the buds are not
only swelling, but are in many in
stances almost leafed out, and that
cattle and other stock are feeding on
them with relish. He says the fruit
buds are also swelling, and he fears
that a severe cold spell will ruin what
is otherwise an excellent prospect for a
fruit crop. Dandelions are reported to be
blooming and grasshoppers may be
seen when the sun is shining. This
is believed to be a record breaker for
the last week in January.
Court news from the lola Record:
In district court today the celebrated
"caIf case" is on trial again. The calf
was officially determined once by one
jury to be worth $3.50 but what this
jury viii think of it can only be told
when they deliver their verdict. In
the meantime the costs in the case ran
up as high as $3.50 and the fight now
is as much 10 keep from paying the
costs as il is to determine what be-
came OF the calf. The case has
brought out lot of witnesses and as
all of them have to come from the
Deer Creek neigh borhood the mileage
alone is considerable. The case has
been three times tried.
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think that one of my own kith and kin
would take me to a circus and make
me lose my chance Of going to
Heaveniv
'But the animals Interested you"
Yes, they did.
''And you liked the peanuts ana
lemonade
Alas, but didi
And you thought the clown was
funny and the riding good
Heaven forgive me, but did,
well, I don't see where the kicif
comes in. I don't believe you are any
wiekeder than before.
But Aunt SafIy could not be come
forted. Her conscience was reused
and she could eat no supper. she
thought of the sacred bull Of INDIA
and wept hot tears. She thought Of
the tvvo-horned rhinoceros and the
girl who jumped through hoops and
night of it, and never shut her Eyes,
and early the next morning she
walked over to the house of the village
minister and told him all he asked
many questions in a kind way. and
when he had got at the root OF the
matter he said:
well, Sister Warner. being as your
nephew deceived you, and being as
there were animals and peanuts ana
lemonade. and being as there may not
be another circus along here for fve
years. I think the Lord will let you of
this time. but if your hired man plays
dancing tunes on his fiddle you watch
your feet and don't let them get TO
shuf7:ng!,' - Copyright, 1906. by
Homer Sprague.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-01
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
The world is full OF men whose in
tentions are good.
Opportunities are never advertised in
the Lost and Found column.
When fellow cracks his funny bone
he doesn't laugh in his sleeve.
It's a story with a sad ending that
finds its way into the waste baske.
Any married man knows the differ
ence between a reason and an excuse
The actor only recognizes two sea-
sons-when he has a job and when he
hasn't.
Wigg--Why do you call those two old
maids the Egg sisters?" Wagg-.'Be-
cause they age SO rapidly"
Marriage is a lottery, and some men
aren't satisfied with their luck until
they have tried it four or FIVE times.
Hook jones doesn't know. which
side his bread is buttered on" Nye-
No; 1 suspect he uses oIeomargar-
inc"
Biobbs-"He's q doctor of divinity"
Slobbs-' Homeopathic or allopa thfe %
Blobbs-"E e. Slobbs-"I mean Epis-
copalian OF Presbyterian"
Mrs. Hubbubs-"And how do Won ike
your new cook?' Mrs. Subbubs-..VV q
haven't any new cook; the one we have
has been with us nearly two weeks
How queeri1 remarked the Boston
woman. Il didn't recognize vo,1r b,,s-
band at all; he has changed. hasn't he -,
Yes; several times" replied The chi
cago woman.
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KANSAS cOMNENz
500 CONGREssMEN

There is one section of Mr.. Curtis
primary election call which will put
d serious damper on the aspirations
of the young lawyers in every county
in tn district and it is said every
young lawyer thinks he viii some
day go to congress. We refer to that
entrance fee of $500 which every C.
gressional candidate must pay before
the committee will recognize him and
place his name on the primary ticket
This will hardly be popular and may
be a stumbling block to many future
statesmen.
That $500 business does not appear
to The Times to be strictly democratic
and American. There should be other
-than4a money qualification for con-
ess.-LeaVenMorth Times.
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HUM0R or THE DAY

Miss WelIon-The impudent thing told
me to my face that was getting oid ana
Miss Tartun-I wouldn't mind it. She
didn't say it to your real face, you know.
She couldn't see that.-Cleveland Leader.
Leonidas was holding the pass Of Their
4 understand wei enough, however
he said grimly, that it will be no good
Yet with the courage Of a true Spartan
officeholder he died rather than surrender
it-Chicago Tribune.
Hes a splendid young man said the
young girl and so wealthy and sporty.
''Ye don't say2" grunted her hardened
s'Yes. and he offered to take me out
next Sunday behind his $4,000 team OF
';H'm. If he wuz my son I'd take him
out behind my S10.75 woodshed. '--Phila-
delphia Press
Mrs. 'Brien-Phwat medicine did Mike
Mrs Riiey-DiviI know Oi know. He
took so much av it he was sick for tin
days after he got well-Boston Tran
! script.
Tom-what's that? A 2-dollar bill. You
told me this morning that you were
Jack-well. want you to understand
borrow money.-Somerville Journal
Yes. his wife rules the house with
more than autocratic powers.
/ And what sort of a position does he
occupy in the family2''
"Oh, fancy he's something like a state
commissioner Of insurance don't you
know. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
What step should be taken to make the
/ standard of business ethics higher?"
''WeH. we might try making the poor
4 house more comfortable. Cleveland
/ Leader.
Brave youthr' exclaimed the father OF
| the girl who had been rescued from wa
/ terry grave, how can I repay you? How
/ can I show my gratitude?"
oh, If you only will please let me off, ."
| replied the young man.
/ Let you OFF, How do YOU nlean2'
Don't insist upon the usual conse-
/ quences: I'm engaged to another girL''-
/ Philadelphia Ledger.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

It seems that when Topeka boozers
buy beer they don't get beer. but only
an imitation.
Sc
Have patience a few hours longer and
we will hear from the only genuine
blown-in-the- bottle, all wool and a
yardwide weather prophet Mr.. G.
Hogg. Friday viii be groundhog's day.
How will this do for yell to start
with: Kansas is next door to Heaven;
come and see US in Nineteen leven.'
The weather man is responsible for a
good deal Among other things we can
blame this epidemic Of spring fever on
to him.
A good many people like fast horses,
and in some circles fast young men may
command certain admiration, but you
viii notice that the fast gas meter has
mighty few friends.
Among the few people besides the coal
men who are mad al the veal Their bureau
are the women who have new furs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lF'rom the Chicago News.1
Many a worthless man has good
disposition.
a man who gets what he deserves has
his troubles
If you would be respected and happy.
mind your own business.
Laziness isn't exactly a crine-but it
is the next thing to it.
Not all women who are proud of their
figures are expert calculatnrs.
The way of the transgrassor is to &C
quaint himself with the law in his line
He who considers himself n wit is apt
to be considered a bore by others
It's impossible to convince a girl that
exercise at a washtub improves the
complexion
If a man is attentive 10 his wife 1t IS
either because he loves her or is afraid
of her.
Women may be able 70 make cake ac-
cording to directions. Tut they can't
manage husbands that Way.
Never accuse a man Of being honest
until you know the amount of money
he has been offered as a bride.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison CLOG

IFrom the Atchison GIobe.l
An old man thinks more of a knife he
has carried a long time than he thinks
of a sharp one.
ASK the father of a number of chill
dren how they are and he will answer,
They're all growing"
The cares and worries of life look
pretty good after ALL to those returning
to town through the cemetery gate.
The prettier of two babies may at
tract your attention first, but after you
have been alone with them for an hour,
it is the one that is the better behaved;
and the result is the same in your OK
perience with the grown mp.
There was a time when a man car
rying a box of American Beauty roses
got credit for it because OF the length
of the box, but the new style corsets
are so long that now. if he has roses
every one thinks it is q corset.
When a preacher doesn't draw" the
church members find the collections do
not cover the expense, and when he
does draw there is talk that the
church is too small for such a brilliant
man and a new church must be puiit
It is a financial drain On the people
either way.
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FieId.s AIeerscIlanIn.

When Eugene Field worked in New
ark he used to smoke q cob pipe, great
" to the disgust of his employer. who
was a man of taste and refinement, and
liked his employees to observe the nice
ties of personal appearance. knowing
this. Field still smoked his cob pipe
until it fell to pieces, whereupon he
bought common two-cent pipe of clay
and made great display of II around
the office.
sCan't You find something better to
smoker" asked his employer one day
in early December. ITO see you with
that thing in your mouth one might
take YOU for WOrkingman.
Its the best I can afford said
Field, and every day thereafter he
made it a point to meet his patron in
the hall putting away at the obnoxious
dudeen.
He found a handsome meerschaum
pipe on his desk Christmas morning.
Newark News.
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KEEP A-PLUGHN,i

Are you feelin' blue an glum.
Cause your luck is on the bum
There are brighter days to come,
Keep a-pluggin
Has YOU. business gone to snlashZ
Cleaned you out of ready cash2
Come up smilin from the crash,
Keep a-pluggin'.
Has your day all turned to night?
Things look dark instead o, bright?
Sun Il shine in time all right,
Keep a-pluggin.
20 your plans seem to go wrong?
Afe you Jeered at by the throng?
Never mind, it won't be long,
Keep a-pluggin'l
Does the trail ahead look tough?
lIoes the way seem long an rough?
snow you re made of nervy stuff,
Keep a-pluggin'
20 the keen thorns pierce your feet?
IRE IRE you snubbed by those you meet?
Ion lose courage. hope is sweet
Keep a-pluggin'i
Forge ahead through thick an thin,
meet reverses with a grin,
II you We got the sand you'll win,
Keep a-pluggin'l
e. A. Brininstool
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REFLECTIONS OF A BAoHELoR

LFrom the New York Press
Mosk q lle LIouple with having mon
When the cook doesn't give notice II Il
a sign that she has already gone.
A good cure for insomnia is ia have
some babies in the house; then vo11,I
want to sleep, but they won't LET Won
You can never make a woman he
Heve that if you take a man fo l,,,,c1,
and make contract with hin, fbat =
attending to business
There are two things a girl does ever,
night; one is to say her prayers an7
the other Is to wish she knew what
to have. 914"@
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ised that they should be safe from
prosecution as they allege, what else
was that than plea OF guilty
on their part. They knew they
had been violating the law else they
would not have asked for immunity
before opening their books. And since
they knowingly violated the law the
American people demand that they
sh0uId receive the proper- punishmenl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-01
THE ROOSEVELT WAY.

In one of his speeches last fall Presi-
dent Roosevelt said: THE minute a
man becomes president, he ceases being
president of a party and is the prest-
dent of every man, woman and child
within the confines of the nation. But
permit myself this one particular bit OF
discrimination: I am a trifie more intent
upon Furnishing the Republican offend
er than the Democrat. because he is
my own scoundrel. and I feel a GER
tain sense of responsibility for him, and
I intend to discharge that responsible
ity if I can" There is in that declara-
ton an excellent thought for Governor
Hoch.-Clyde Republican.
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The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun Gay
telegraph report of that great news Or
ganization for exclusive evening puoA-
cation
The State Journal receives for exclusive
publication the leased wire report Of the
publishers Press for the edition for sun
uav morning.
The news is received IN tho State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pitr-
pose.
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CRIMINALLY CARELESS. i"

Tom Kelly is asking the governor
to return his resignation in escrow"
because he is able to explain away
each and every apparent shortage;
and Grimes thinks no suit should be
brought against him, as he is willing
to return any of the state funds iden-
tilted on his person, but granting these
facts, each ought to be arrested for
being so criminally careless in their
methods of purleining state funds
Lincoln Republican.
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w hen young Colby, of New Jersey.
spoke Of going into politics, somebody
ADVISED him to see Carl Lentz. This
communication was the Republican
ooss OF Essex county. Bosses were as
natural to our young american as the
north wind or the road to Nj wark. and
ne went TO Newark and he saw Carl
Leitz- he says the boss talked to him
long while Colby doesn't recall what
was sald, but can hear the boss draw
ing out and smacking his lips over an
attractive young nan of means. free
with MS money and therefore useful
the son OF a railroad magnate and there
Iore SAFE" attractive and honest
therefore promising as A good man.
candidate. And all the boy wanted was
70 make speeches." he thought politics
was oratory.
He let me speak" Colby says.
small meetings for a while, then I
heid the crowd at larger meetings. I
spoke till the advertised speaker came
when, amid the shouts for him. I sat
down unnoticed, but well satisfied with
myself
He was in politics. and having got in
as many another fool young American
mas got in, he was taken up and taken
IN, as the rest are. Lentz fiattered Col
by; then he passed him on to governor
Voorhees, who f1attered him. Seeing the
governor was honor enough for the
year 1901, but when the governor asked
him If he wanted to get into politics
and the young man said he did and the
governor offered to appoint him to an
office, the novice was overwhelmed with
gratitude and nodesty. He didn't know
that to be commissioner on the state
board of education was simply to be
put to harmless testify the machine.
Colby though of his education and wor-
ried about his fitness, but he took the
place and he did very well. very we'll in
deed. Then Boss Lentz made him chair
man of the executive committee of the
Republican organization of West
Orange.
81 thought Lentz was a great fellow. -
he says now, "a great man" Lentz
doomed as large to Colby I robably as
Durham looked to a Philadelphia or
Cox to a Cincinnati Republican before
the last election. The bosses live on the
images we create of them, out of our
own silliness.-From THE Gentleman
from Essex" by Lincoln Steffens, in the
February McClure's.
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PITIABLE.

Isn't it pitiable to see a man ap-
preaching old age with a large part of
his higher brain-cells out of business
with all that is best crushed out of his
life, strangled, starved, blighted, dead
from neglect, trying to enjoy things
which. though they meant much to
him in his young days, are now mean
ingless and dead success Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-01
WHAT Is ~ sTAKE.

Dickinson county, which two years
ago was in revolt against Bailey and
howIed itself hoarse for Hoch, did not
get what it sought in political favors
and is now for anybody to beat Hoch-
Dickinson county, which is controlled
by a small coterie of spoilsmen, ought
to be disciplined until it learns that
there is something besides office at
stake when reform movements are
started.-Concordia Blade.
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IIn-to-Date CattIe Raising.

Henry Miller is the greatest cattle
raiser in California, man whose
ranches extend from the Tehachapi to
Oregon, and who cannot tell how many
cattle he has. even # he did want to
help out the assessor. There is hardly
an old cowboy in California who has
not worked for Miller & Lux. Jim
rode for them when ne was a boy, and
he would rather take a cussing' from
old Henry Miller than ride for the po-
litest cattIeman in the San Joaquin.
But if Miller & Lux trained the old
school of California cowboys on the
open plains, they also, with their
barbed wire fences and branding
chutes, did their part to change the
rope swinging cowboy into a hired
man. Henry Miller noticed that after
a grown steer had been roped and
busted" he would get rough. and per-
haps lose weight for a month; and as
Mr.. Nnler's object is to fatten cattle
ne is reported to be willing to fire any
man who puts a rope on one of his crit
tiers except to drag it out of an alkali
hole.
With this sentiment abroad, you will
find no steer tying contests in Califor-
MIA, and, for that matter, the sport is
none too popular among the cattle
owners of New Mexico and Arizona
Sunset MAGAZINE.
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We should make a rich personality
our great aim, instead of a fat pocket
book. IF the aim is directed towards
the pocketbook the head will suffer, the
heart viii starve, and the life win de-
erioTate,-Success Magazine,
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stin, perhaps you cannot blame the
railroads for refusing to obey the law
when the board Of railroad commission
ers refuses to obey the statute instruct
ing them to require annual reports Of
The RAILROADS.
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ANOTHER BRICK

the country feels much the same way
Kansas does on the rate question. Pos
sibly; but the rest of the country has
studied the art of repression, so it does
not have to follow the Kansas style of
expressing its feelings Washington
Post.
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EROT OTHER PENS
A SCHEME.

Representative Littleheld's bill pro-
gambling of every sort in the
territories of the United States has
been favorably reported. It looks ike
a scheme to force the. residents of the
territories to go to New York to do
their gambling.-Washing Post.
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NO CABINET OFFICER.

J. ogden Armour has been fined 81
for refusing to muzzle his dog. Mr..
Armour does not believe that a prize
dog should be treated like a cabinet
officer Washington Post.
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A resolution to annul the charter
of the Standard OIL company has been
introduced in the New Jersey legisla-
ture. II New Jersey turns against
them, where, oh, where viii the poor
trusts 20?
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at wouldn't be very difficult to name
the specter at the feast of the Kansas
Day club at Topeka last night, now
would t?" says the Concordia Blade.
wouldn't it be more appropriate to
make it plural and say speeters?
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BAD FOR IEGISLATION.

TINS IS an unusually backWard sea-
son in Washington. Never before has
legislation had such difficulty in ma
turing.@St. Louis GIobe-Democrat.
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Legislatures. are in session at Al
bauy. Columbus and several other
places this winter, but the world won't
be really entertained because there
IS nothing doing in the aw-making
business in Topeka
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Secretary Bonaparte thinks he could
suppress hazing if he had a free hand
A free hand with good tough single
in it ought to be able to effect some
reform.-Chicago Tribune.
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Congressman Curtis has one foot
hold in his race for the senate which
can never be taken from him He
has the lone senator from Shawnee
county, the only one in the First dis
trict of the hold-over senators. 1t
is understood that Senator Griffin of
Jefferson county has declared for
Stubbs.-Leavenwor Times.
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Mr.. p. Bigelow offers to forfeit
$1,000 il his charges concerning PAN
anna are not true. Poultney could
afford to pay much more than that
for the proper kind of "vindication."
but the chances are that he will never
have the oDDortl1nifv
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on January 13, 1904. about two hun
dred boss busters gathered in Security
hall I'm Topeka. issued "a new declara-
tion of independence, and drafted Hoch
for governor. How interesting it would
be to know what those two hundred
patriots think about it now.
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WHAT CI.EVEI.AND Is.

As to the Equitable. Grover Cleveland
would like to make his getaway He is
tired of sitting on the platform as one
of the honorary vice presidents of the
meeting Chicago Tribune.
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SOME PREDICTIONs.

Here are two predietions@Ca Calder
head will be renonainated ard re-eleet-
ed and he won't be deuce high in the
senatorial raee.-Coneordia Blade.
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Judge Biddle's discussion Of the moral
tone of the bar before the Kansas law
yers must not be taken by the laity to
refer to the pine bar with which some
Kansas towns are familiar
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You will notice that the oratory
that was turned loose against the rail-
roads i'm Washington yesterday did not
come from the senate end of the capt
Ell