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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26
GLOBE s1GHTg.
TFrom the Atehison Globe.l

TFrom the Atehison GlobeI
How women pick a wedding to pieces.
1t doesn't take much to make d fool Of
anyone. -
Being busy has kept many a man out
of mischief
When g poor mans wife wears dia-
monds, there is always talk
Bill Bowen has become q real riolf-
t1eaan5 there is a lie out on him
There are numerous tragedies In a
Womans life, and one of the most Sc
rious is when her waist line begins to
move up.
At recent wedding in Coolidge. the
girls the groom had proposed to ar
ranged to sit in the front row. And
1t was necessary to bring in extra chairs
to accommodate them.
Ever attend the races and notice that
while about ten bookmakers take in tl1s
money there is only one who pays OUT
cash! There Is something in this for
everyone who CANDLES to think over.
There is one change in spelling that
President Roosevelt neglected: to spell
SOW Ito SOW wheat Sc. Sow. because
of its connection with a female pig. is
one of the most uncomforta Bile words
in the language
Look over your list OF troubles. Ia
it not a fact that most of them are
Insignificant, and might easily be rene
died2 All OF US worry about great
things OF little Importance, and neglect
little troubles of great Importance.
The following letter signed "Spinster.'
has reached this office. How shall a
spinster conduct herself2 If she is ser
ious they say she is sour, and If she Is
smiling, every one says she smirks and
is silly" The Globe refuses to settle a
question so weighty
An Atchison girl has tried amateur
singing. amateur acting, painting. piano
playing, visiting. elocution, chasing and
society, and didn't make q success OF
either. She might as well give up, and
take job as clerk; she can't avoid it
very much longer.
It is a good idea in the training of
wives to send a wife to the country
when q farmers wife is cooking for
threshers- After the town woman has
watched the farmers wife a day. she
never complains il she has washing. kin
company, a fire and her bread bufns all
in the same day.
An Atchison Democrat says Cover
nor Hoch said to him yesterday:
GU are q good looking man; you
should be a Republican Whereupon
the Democrat says he replied. prompt
": Governor, q Democrat IS good in
his acts. and not IN his looks" Well
bet the Democrat thought that up last
night; that's cab wit. (Chart-Cab
wit: A man goes TO a banquet, ma kes
a poor talk, but on going home IN a
cab. thinks OF lots of good things he
might have said.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26
SENATOR BAILEY.

A serious situation confronts Joseph
". Bailey. United States senator from
Texas A man of unusual brilhance
and great ability, he has risen to hlgn
honor in the senate, the recognised
leader of the minority. During the last
session of congress he received plaudlts
from all over the country. The inde-
pendent Republican press spoke kindly
of him and Democracy regarded him as
a great ard honorable leader In Texas
he was a hero
But now change is taking place. It
begins to look as though Senator Bailey
had been trying to serve two masters.
It turns out that he is attorney for
one of the subsidiary companies OF the
Standard Oil company, for which he mas
rendered great service. It is charged
that he has received a fee of S225,0oo
in d single transaction involving raIt-
road matters and that he has been
otherwise acting as an attorney for iE-
terests that he could not honorably
represent.
It might be possible for a man IN
Senator Bailey's position to be honest
and still receive such large fees from
interests affected by legislation IN
which he has a vote, but it doesn't look
right. Texans do not regard such mat
ters lightly, and a strong movement is
already under way to defeat Senator
Bailey for reelection next winter. It
is true that he was renominated for
senator in the Texas primaries few
weeks ago, but an appeal viii be made
to the legislature to disregard the noIni-
nation.
The Harris County Good Government
club at Houston has circulated state
ment on the subject. which it has sent
out for publication in the Texas news
papers, and half million copies viii
be circulated besides.
It is serious condition that con-
fronts Senator Bailey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26
HUMOR OF TIE DAY

Great Britain is going to send over
commission to investigate our idiot asy-
How stupid those Britadns arel They
think all our idiots are in the asyluT1a. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer
People are Just crazy to meet that
who is her"
An insanity expert. Town Topics.
Mrs. Firstfloor-I called to speak about
your daughters playing. +
Mrs. Secondfial-EoW look here she'll
play just as loud as she likes. Seer
Mrs Firstfloor-That's what I was GO
n" to ask for. You see, I'm going 20
folks TO hear him holler.-Chicago News.
Stella-I see that the presidents mes
sage was 5000 words long.
Bella-How funny; just the same as
Jacks last letter.-New York Sun.
TN thankful I'm on middling ground
lows that?a
We'll, I'm just poor enough to thank
the Lord I'm not rich enough to pity the
poor. Atlanta Constitution.
Naggsby-when man and his vita
think the same thoughts sirnultan eously ii
Is q sign that they are exceedingly congo
Waggsby-so? Wen, then, my wife and
are congenial all right. for the other
nT g. when she said she wondered why
2 AcSA o. - mari AACAF
l mad been sitting there in silence for half
an noQr wondering over the same tdenti-
cal thing.-London Tit-Bits
hear Blank had q. bad accident with
MS accident Was he hurt internally7F
NO, externally. Nothing was Injured
puL nus paflk account Detroit Free
Is it necessary to inclose stanosy.,
said the poet
More necessary, even. than to fncIose
poetFg, responded the editor.-Philade1-
-. Mlo9wLl can't understand why any
Hl IN should want to lead a double life
e.12es ioI-saIfle mere. single life is
SOU eAOush TOT Tle,-Chteago News.
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proyerTbs About women.

The Germans say. Listen to d wo-
mans first opinion, but not her second"
This proverb embodies the world-old
theory that a woman's intuition is bet
ter than her reason.
The French say: "A wife is perpet-
ual torment" and "A man of straw is
worth a woman of gold The absurd
French cynicism, the French distrust of
woman kind, is as well portrayed IN
those two proverbs as in one Of Guy de
Maupassant's stories.
The Spanish love their women, but in
light and jesting way. Thus their
proverbs make sport Of her. For in
stance Women, wind and fortune are
changeable." IF you have anything to
proclaim In the open market, you need
only whisper it to a woman BE on
your guard against bad woman, and
never trust a good one There Is only
one bad wife, but every husband thinks
he has got her.
Bitter and contemptuous is the italian
idea of woman. They say in Italy, as
they suck desperately on Their misera-
bly-made government cigars: He who
loses his wife and a brass farthing has
only lost the latter"
The Chinese objection to woman is
that she talks too much. "A woman's
tongue is her sword, and she never per-
mits it to rust"
The American proverbs are kinder.
Women can keep a secret, but it takes
a lot of them to do it, and women
paint to hide their bushes"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26
THE FIGHT ON LA TOILETTE.

The Washington correspondent Of
the Chicago Record-Herald. Mr.. Curtis,
writes his paper a letter in which he
declares it is the intention of the Re-
publican members of the senate to
"seuelch' Senator LaFollette this win
ter because of his speeches during the
summer.
In commenting on this statement,
the salina Journal, whose editor,
Joseph 7. Bristow, is not only a warm
admirer of Senator LaFollette. but IS
also himself an aspirant for a seat in
the United States senate. has this to
say:
1T seems that everywhere LaFoI-
Iette has met with the same reception
given him in Kansas. He is now in
New Jersey. where d lively fight is be-
ing waged against Senator Dryden, and
this is the straw which proved the
overburdening of the proverbial camel
The people Of New Jersey have taken
to LaFollette so well that there Is
grave danger that Senators Dryden and
Kean may be routed and the people
elect senator there not Identified
with any interests save the Interests
of the people.
For his unheard of and .discourte-
Gus" treatment of the more dignifed
senators, it has been decided that the
man from Wisconsin must be sat
u,on' SO effectually that he will come
into the corral and be good. Mr.. Cur
tbs says that Senator Lodge and SEN
ator Foraker have been delegated the
task Of eating him up, and eonse-
quently they VIII turn loose on La
Toilette during the next session. Pa
thence has ceased to be a virtue, and
the refractory member from the VOL
VERNE state must be eensured.
During the last session LaFouette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

It is. Of course, very convenient that
there should be teehniealities on which
railroad board can refuse to consider
a complaint made to it; otherwise it
might have to consider a case in which
the facts would be Overwhelmingly on
the side of the complainant, and it
would be embarrassing to stand UP for
the railroads in the face of over
whelming facts.
The state Journal does not know
just what the facts are in the case of
implement dealers, but the railroad
board has just dismissed the complaint
on technical grounds without hearing
any evidence. The reason for the dis
missal was that the complaint was
made by the Southwestern Implement
Dealers association, through the
states railroad attorney.
Possibly from the standpoint Of d
lawyer the technicality is a good one.
There seems to be a difference Of opin-
ion on that point. But the technicalty
won't appeal to the people.
AS we understand it, the railroad
commission is not a court. If it were,
q good many Kansas people would
probably be guilty of contempt OF
court. The commission is a body
created to investigate complaints made
to it and to rule thereon.
The whole point in the implement
dealers case was. are the freight rates
charged on farm implements reason
able? The people can not see what
difference it makes in the business of
the rates whether the complaint was
brought by the implement dealers in
dividually or collectively; by Carr
Taylor as state railroad attorney, or
by the state Of Kansas. ex rel Carr
Taylor, state railroad attorney.
It appears very much as though the
railroads are compelled to hide behind
this technicality in order to avoid
bringing out the facts relative to the
business of the rates the farmers have
to pay on their farm implements The
railroads of Kansas can not afford to
do this. These implement rates are
either just or unjust. If the railroads
can show that they are just, the rates
should be maintained and the people
will be satisfied. If the rates are I'M
Just, they should be lowered In
either case the facts ought to be
brought out. and lodging behind a
technicality to prevent it only arouses
so much more antirailroad sentiment
It's bad policy.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

We Judge that when things get a lit
tie dull in Russia. the police go out
and arrest a few dozen people for
plotting to kill the car.
X X y
Another big point in favor OF The
Peoples Lobby is that it has the OPP
position of the Kansas City Journal.
= =
We judge a lot of Topeka men are
disappointed to find that a pennant
isn't good to drink.
There are a lot of boys in Topeka
today who have determined when they
grow up to have q law passed com
polling school to "let I'D" on circus
days.
There is a suspicion that this new
game of lawn billiards is an attempt to
get back into the limelight on the part
Of those who are not strenuous enough
to play anything harder than eroquet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

in her eyes and a swiftly beating hear
IN her bosom.
Ten minutes later Kendall came IN
hourishing three oninous yellow
sheets OF paper IN his hand. he heid
them out to her.
Here are the copies OF some tele-
grams he said. READ them"
Miss Kitty Hargreaves,
1876 - Street. New York.
Impossible TO keep my engagement
with you and Miss Huntley. Sec lei
ter. r. KENDALL
Mrs J. NJ Waterman.
1924 @- Street. New York.
Unforeseen circumstances compels
me to cancel my engagement With
you. Details later
MARJORIE DEREFORTH
ssMr. Jack Davidson,
Phoenix Club, New York.
Meet us, with your wife. at the
Grand Central Station at 5 D. m. Mar
5orie and myself have decided to be
married at your house tonight
'*DICKsH
Copyright. 1906. by P. c. Eastment.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26
Two Rooted Lakes.

A rooted lake exists in Siberia near
Obdorsk- This lake is nine miles wide
and seventeen miles long. Its roof,
natural one, is made of salt
Biologists say that long ago a great
part of the water of the lake of Csodorsk
must have suddenly evaporated. leaving
huge salt crystals afioat on the surface.
These crystals in time caked together.
Thus the water was entirely covered
over with them as though frozen.
The lake in 1878 dropped three feet Tt
found an underground outlet into the
Obo river. but the salt crust was so
thick upon it that it retained its own
level Not dropping at ALL 1t formed
roof of salt three feet high over the
whole body of water.
on the Mangishlak peninsula, in the
Caspian sea, there is another lake that
has roof of salt crystals thick and
strong enough to allow men and horses
to cross it on foot.-Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.

IFrom tIle Chicago News.
Most of our socalled troubles are
base limitations.
Specializing in futures is equivalent
to buying experience.
The philosophy Of drinking is to
know when to treat and retreat.
It's useless to have an aim in life If
you ere too lazy to pull the trigger.
A mans legal rights and his self
constituted moral rights are seldom
Synonymous.
And it's almost as difficult to keep
up appearances as it Is to keep down
expenses
Fortune knocks often at the door of
the man who keeps his address IN the
advertising columns.
Don't pay any attention to the reli-
gious talk Of an able bodied man whose
wife takes in washing to support him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

Bryan reads Sullivan out of the party.
Sullivan denounees Bryan. Sullivan
hands few warm ones to Bailey. Bailey
sweet and savorv names. Watterson
and others go after Bryan for his gov
eminent ownership OF railroads idea and
are beginning to show signs of inward
sadness that they climbed so hastily on
to the Bryan band wagon Sapp ex-
hibits his sore spots and builds a beauti-
ful little fire around Ryan Overmyer
nurses his wrath against Ryan. Ryan
ditto Overmyer. FARRELL, the Democratic
campaign thunder factory. bolts the
Democratic nominee for congress. Har-
ris and others thereupon land heavily
upon FARRELL And the Very Independent
Kansas City Star wrinkles brightly and
tells in dulcet tones about the gentle
dove of peace that hoyers with glisten-
ing wing of purest white above tbS quiet
camp of The United Democracy. Peace!
Sweet Peace!-Marion Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

that D. ". Blaine. a Republican, has
been nominated BY the Democrats for
representative in Pratt county: and that
two other Republicans are Democratic
nominees for congressman. These ex-
amples'' says the Kansas City Times,
show the drift of sentiment among
Karsas Democrats" Does this mean
that the Democrats are trying to steal
Kansas Republicans and put them into
0ffice2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

He used to be q happy man
win smooth and lofty brow;
They put him Up for ofIice, an
You ought to see him noWi
he has sseery sort o. look
An his remarks so pat
Sound ike he read EN- in a book
A no. count book at that!
His is q life that irritates;
His trouble never ends.
A-snakin' hands with folks he hates
An turnin' down his friends.
ne meant TO make reform his plan,
But couldn't find just how,
de used to be a happy man
You ought to see nm now.
Washington star.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press1

JF7rom the New York Press.1
Flats would be awful nice if they had
any place to live in.
a girl win always be nice to a man
unless she is IN love with him
The worst that IS in a bad man isn't
SO terribly much worse than the best
that is in a good man.
What a boy likes about school is the
chance his teacher has to be sick so
there will be a holiday.
A little more money always seems to
show you how impossible 1t is for you
to be happy without a great deal more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

The stand pat papers IN Kansas were
remembered when it came to print the
proposed amendments to the constitu-
ton. There are three Of these propos-
ed amendments and the papers which
got on the list picked up a nice little
PLAT take. AS they appear in print
they occupy just Il inches of space.
They run 10 weeks and the lucky pub
fishers get a check from the state for
just little more than 500. Nice easy
money. Sometimes there is money in
standing pat. = Mankato Advocate.
Well, they were entitled to 1t. Children
are generally given a lump Of sugar af
ter swallowing bitter medicine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

A story is told of the late John l.
TooIe. the comedian, and Mr.. Justice
Hawkins. now Lord Brampton. They
were at supper together, discussing the
events of the day. The Judge Incl
dentaliy mentioned that he intended on
The morrow giving the man he had
been trying fifteen years. because he
deserved it. As Toole was leaving he
blandIy inquired: ooh, would you
mind calling at the newspaper offices
and telling them about that fifteen
years. It viii be tip for them-ex-
elusive Information, you know-and
will do me no end of good with the
press Good Cod No. sir." exelaim-
ed the judge. who took the precaution
OF accompanying Toole to his hotel
ana seeing him safely to bed.7Ex-
change
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26
FuNsTON.s LUCK.

OF course they will attribute it TO
F'unston's luck. Funston's luck consists
IN knowing more about Cuban affairs
than any other American. It also con-
sIsts in having served two years in a
Cuban campaign during the fight for
freedom, in the course of which ne
was severely wounded. and passed
through an experience that would try
the soul of the bravest and hardest
man. The luck which you hear referred
to SO frequently and 50 glibly Is usually
composed of some such material-Iela
Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

The candidates of both county tickets
in Ellis county have made a commend
able move by signing an agreement not
to use liquors or cigars in making their
campaigns. and they further promise
to aid the county attorney in Furnishing
any who break the agreement It is
stated that the use Of liquor has been
q common practice in Ellis coutny in
sszne campaigns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

Mr. Bryan insists that he can say
what he pIeases about government own
ership. OF course he can. and as long as
he doesn't get the people to thinking his
y y. the Republicans viii be glad to
have him keen un his tax.
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- ---s
SCREENING.

King Edward and Emperor William
met the other day and kissed each 9TH
er. You couldn't find many men IN
Kansas who would stand for such q
sickening thing as that.-Leavenworth
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

vets great and good friend Jacob Riis,
does not look with favor on reformed
spelling. If he did perhaps Mr.. Riis
would reform that name of his.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

Nearly all the school book. publishing
houses Of any repute are in the trust
says a Kansas City defender of the
trust, and it adds. THE books published
by the trust are used generally in the
schools of the country as a sheer matter
of necessity" Which. If true, is an
other strong argument in favor Of hav-
Ing the state publish its own books.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

It IS stated that Lieutenant Burton
Mitchell viii go to Cuba as General
Funstou's aide. But a good many peo-
pie have an idea that General Funston
doesn't need any aid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

When the Cuban trouble broke out
before Theodore Roosevelt resigned
his ONCE in Washington, raised regi-
ment of Rough Riders, and got into
the fight Like as not he feels like
doing the same thins nov.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

The weather bureau now proposes
TO prophesy on the weather a week in
advance. This plan will be an i'm
provement on the present plan of
guessing only day in advance in that
the people viii forget before the week
is I'D what the guess was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

What shall it avail a girl If she can
paint a whole bouquet of daisies on a
piece of cloth and then marry a man
who is too poor to hire the family wash
ing done2-Osborne Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

An exchange wonders If Sir Thomas
Lipton's visit TO America means an
other yacht race. Either that or else
that the Upton teas need some addi-
tional advertising.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

II these corporation senators insist on
''hazing La Toilette, they viii make
the Wisconsin senator so popular that
the people will run him for president III
two wears.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

The imagination Of the ordinary
way-faring man. however. is hardly
equal to the task Of coneeiving the
governments collecting S131,0S0. 900
in fines from the Standard.=Tndian-
auolis News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

Securities amounting TO $4,000 that
stensland had hidden away have been
discovered in Chicago. This was evil
IDENTIFY % thousand for Stensland.
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THE REASON

Some weeks ago man was ground to
death on the Jewell branch and last
week another man named M. L. Rucher,
a harvest hand, was killed in the same
way. between jamestown and Scots
Vile pieces of his body being scattered
along the track for $50 yards. Both
men had been drinking.-Jewell Repub-
lican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

OF course we think a graf deal OF
Sir Thomas Upton. but we couldn't be-
gin to think of letting him take a Ger
tain cup home with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

Ministers complain that their sal
aries are shrinking while all others
show an opposite tendency. People
who draw some of the others hadns t
noticed it.-Ph Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

Boston hes achieved distinction any
way. 1t isn't every town that can win
she cellar championship in two leagues
ne same wear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

It is reported now that the terrorists
have the Russian nobility scared to
death. Jobs on the Russian nobility
continue to have few attractions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

It is hardly fair for the country TO
expect Funston to live up to the Bag
Bag story by swimming from Key
West to Havana.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-26

It IS to be hoped that Cuba won't
use ~ all the Intervention Secretary
Taft has in stock. Atlanta may need
some of st.