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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-24
ANCIENT
ORDER HIBERNIANS.
DIVISION NO. I.

Meets every first and third wednes-
days. at p. M, in c. B. U. Hall, Fort
street. Visiting brothers cordially in
vited TO attend.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-24
Dear Madam:

Do you want pretty new, new dress
this week? OF course you do, per-
chance severa1-and another next week
Granted then that you do want a
new dress, the chances are good that
you want it to be of the light cool
summary kind to get the better of the
coming hot weather.
Our offerings of summer Wash Ma
terials comprise the cream of the sea-
sons novelties in Batistes, Organizes,
Mulls, etc, being priced from - 1-2c.
per yard up.
We feel reasonably certain that you
will find just what you want some
where in our stocks, your inspection
of which we respectfully solicit.
Yours truly,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-24
lei ALOHA CHAPTER,
NO. 3, o. E. S.

Meets a. the Masonic Temple every
Hscns63 Saturday OF each month, at 7:30
n9szseA p. m. Visiting sisters and
hnskAsrs are cordially invited to at
0DGnE
MARGARET HOWARD, w. M.
MARGARET LISHMAN, Sec'y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
PRINGLE ON PASSES.

The interview of J. T. Pringle in the
State Journal yesterday is the ablest
utterance on the subject of passenger
fares in Kansas that has yet been pub
lished As the author of the antipass
and two-cent fare bill in the last leg
islature, Mr. Pringle made a study Of
the subject, and consequently he
knows what he is talking about now
that the subject has become prominent
in the public mind.
What Mr.. Pringle says is largely in
reply to President Ripley's letter
Taking Mr. Ripley's own figures, Mr..
Pringle shows that the earnings on the
actual capital put into the Santa Fe
ten years ago have been excessive, and
it is because of these excessive earn
ings that the stock has advanced from
11zs and 16A cents on the dollar to
par. Now the question is, ought~the
public to pay earnings on the great
amount of stock that was only water
to start with and which has been made
valuable only because the public has
been paying high enough rates to pay
a dividend on it2
This question involves freight rates
as much or more than it does passen-
ger fares.
But Mr.. Pringle's proposed reduc-
ton of fares does not necessarily imply
a reduction Of the revenues of the
road. His idea in the last legislature
was to abolish the free pass business
of the railroads and give the public the
benefit of the saving thus effected.
Upon what this saving amounts to,
Mr.. Pringle says, depends the rate to
which fares should be reduced, and
the railroads should have the neces-
sary figures to show what it will be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
ARE PRIMARIES EXPENSIVE?

Texas has just held her first primary
election=and the result is far from
satisfactory because Texas has not a
good system. It is involved and diff
hcult to understand. and in the end
it allows delegates to meet and make
combinations in order to secure q ma
jority candidate.
But Texas has another objection to
the primary. That is, the expense to
the individual candidates. It does not
appear to the State Journal that such
great expense ought to be necessary,
yet here are the facts as set forth by
the Houston Post in an editorial head
ed, Expensive Campaigning:
1.-THE one fact stands out plainly: 1t
is almost Impossible for man Of mod
crate means to aspire to the governor
ship The expenses of Colonel Camp
bell were SIS, 660.86; Mr.. Brooks were
S13S52.54; Mr. Colquitt's, S9,806.57;
Judge BeIrs, s9,734.65. The salary
for the term is $4,000, every cent of
which and more will be absorbed in
living expenses, except where the in
cumbent is a man highly trained IN
economy like the present executive
And yet there IS no help Tor Sucn
expenses in a state like Texas. unless
candidates friends help him to bear
the burden. Campaign literature must
be distributed, postage must be paid
printing bills are heavy, advertising is
expensive and railroad fare costs
money. Campaigns will never be in
expensive so long as men must seek
political hOnOrS. We have heard the
theories of the Office seeking the man,
but it costs money for an ambitious
gentleman to make himself easily To-
Gated by the Office.
THE state campaign in Virginia last
year cost the candidates more money
than the Texas candidates have paid
out this year, and Virginia is little more
than a seventh the area of Texas.
TT is true that in q way the old boss
system Of some of the northern states
Is not as expensive to the candidates a
our primary system, but the boss
makes the people pay the expenses in
directly Moreover, the boss usually
owns the man he selects for the Office.
So the Texas way Is best, all things
considered. even if the candidate is
financially ruined. He may go IN the
office broke and come out in debt. but
he belongs to himself and is RESPONSE
bic only to the people
election system exists, the aspirant
must enter a contest mindful of the
financial sacrifices he will certainly be
called upon to make.
Under the old convention system.
when each county acted independently
of the others. the drift OF public senti-
ment could be ascertained early in the
contest. Tor instance. in 1898 Colonel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
JAYHAWKER JOTS

An lola merchant wilted the other
! day when customer came in and
wanted to buy an overcoat
The Leavenworth Times Is RESPONSE
Bile for this twentieth century proverb:
Scratch a bank failure and you will
usually find woman.
Lots of fun is poked at the Ben
Davis apple. but an Ottawa man re-
Gently picked a small twig with eight
of them clustered on it.
The smelters and other industries at
lola have a pay roll amounting to
three million dollars q year. Right
smart amount of change, that.
A Chanute girl who had some An
CORA kittens that she had contracted to
sell at IS each, fixed up some drugs
to kill the fleas on the cats. The heas
were killed. So were the cats.
Speaking of freaks a bolt of light
ming at Fort LeavenWo rth the other
day turned over a stone coping weigh
ing two tons on the federal prison
The coping was sixty feet above the
ground. The stone did not fall nor was
it damaged. 1t was simply turned
over.
Here is a story that recalls the Bel
An Allen county man sent a pair Of
hares to his little deaf and dumb
daughter at the Olathe school a few
DAYS later word came back that there
been eighteen additions to the hare
family.
Seeing that it has become popular
to ask questions, Bert Walker comes
forward with this: When a man buys
safety razor and commences to shave
himself he saves thirty cents a week.
In year it amounts to about sixteen
dollars. What becomes of the money !?
1 have never met man who could
solve this problem
Probably the handsomest souvenir
ever isued by a western Kansas news
just published by M. G. Inflow. editor
of the Hill City Reveiile. It differs
from the ordinary newspaper boon
editions" in that it is issued in PAM
phlet form without a line Of display
advertising It contains 10 pages,
constituting a sort of who's Who" of
Graham county The typographical
work is excellent, and the text is illus
trated by over a hundred half-tone en-
cravings.
A Howard mother. according to the
COurant, recently stirred up something
when she least intended to- Her son
had been keeping steady company
with certain girl but had experienced
a falling out with her. which fact was
not known to his mother. Sunday
afternoon she very much wished to
speak to her son for moment, 50 she
tried to catch him over the phone. She
called UP the girls home and asked If
Johnny was there. The girl did not
recognize the voice and being also still
little warm over the scrap she had
with Johnny, she answered back,
None of your business! And I'd thank
the neighbors to keep their noses out
of my affairsl" and she hung up the
receiver with a bang. And didn't his
ex-sweethe cart get her title read when
Johnny came marching home that
night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

Wynne and Mr. Crane noting the fulfil
ity OF remaining in the contest with
drew before the expenses had innpov-
erished them But the objection to
that system was that candidates with
money could by concentrating their eff
forts in important early counties force
the poorer candidates out of the race
altogether. thus denying men of lin
tied means the fullest and fairest op-
portunity of submitting their claims
before the people
Under any system that is fair to all.
political honors must come high ex-
cept where public sentiment crystal
Lies in favor of some man as it did for
Hogg in 1890. In that year Hogg had
four able and popular men as oppO-
nents, but the people accorded them
small consideration and Hogg was sue
cessfu without spending much money.
But what he saved in that contest was
more than exhausted two years later
when the battle ragged from January
to November with every inch of the
ground contested up to election day
That is one side of the case. But is
such great expense necessary?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

fought her battle alone and did every
thing in her power to conceal her suf-
fering. She made light Of her disease.
refused to have q nurse, insisted that
no one should be troubled on her ac-
count. but that the family affairs
should go on as usual and that every
body should go to bed at bedtime. Up
to the last week of her life she took
care of herself. Sometimes after ap-
plying the terrible medicine with
which she repeatedly burned out the
cancer-burned it until pieces Of flesh
dropped out of it. she would arise and
walk the floor. but never a word of her
agony got past her lips She would
tell her daughter that her limbs needed
the exercise. At last when she knew
that her heroic struggle for life could
not avail. she was not troubled for
herself, but said to a neighbor: I am
ready to go. but Mr.. Worick cannot
hear word. What will he Do with
out 1ae?' -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

In spite of his repeated declarations
that he will not be a candidate for re
election in 1908, a good many people
who are admirers of President Roose-
welt blindIy hope that ne can be led to
make the race; that the demand Of the
country will be SO strong that he VIII
be compelled to acquiesce.
But those who are intimate with the
president OF who have had an oppor-
tunity to study his character at close
range, apparently entertain no such
hope. For instance, here is the opinion
of Congressman Charles F. Scott on the
subject, as expressed editorially by Mr.
Scott in the lola Register:
1T would be interesting to know just
how those persons who are insisting
that Roosevelt will run again reason
it out. Mr.. Roosevelt has said posi-
lively three or four times that he would
not run. Once would have been enough
for a man of Roosevelt's type. But
when the president has said it three
or four times, there is certainly no ex-
cuse for misunderstanding his decision
that he will not run. Perhaps the pres
ident is being judged by the standards
of other politicians, who say they will
or viii not do things simply for the
effect such statements will have. If
this is true, it shows how little Roose-
Welt is understood in this country after
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The moonlight we have here IN
Kansas is glorious. We understand
that Tennessee thinks the same way
about her moonshine.
\
We note that the telephone com
panies as well as the politicians be-
heve in maintaining strict party lines.
X y =
This is the time of year when Every
body Travels But Father. He has to
stay at home and earn the money to
meet the expenses.
X
Stories about Harry Thaw are now
dun day stuff in the newspaper Offices
It's about % for the Thaw line Of
advertising.
we judge that w. r. Stubs is
a senator. He can sidestep an inter-
view now almost as deftly as Chester
I. Long himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
oUAKER REFTECTToNa.
TF'rom the PhiladeIphia Record.1

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Also a lie crushed to earth is pretty
sure to rise again.
Working the short change-Putting
on a bathing suit
We don't need a calendar to tell US
when the rent is due.
Ennui is the complaint of those who
have nothing to complain Of
II a fellow saved the money he spent
on tobacco It might drive him to drink.
Occasionally a man makes his mark
by making a mark OF some other fellow
A tombstone inscription seldom rem
resents a coupon for a reserved heat In
heaven.
What a fine thing it would be if all
the smart children would grow to have
a little common sense.
Mother-"It is getting too dark n
read You will ruin your eyes. Daugs.-
ter But. mother. this is very liEhs
reading"
First Ward Leader@''Do you have
any trouble keeping your voters ia
liner Second Ward Leader-.Oh. no:
a word to the guys is sufficient
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

Jane had vindicated herself from sus-l
picion regarding the letter.
But you sent vfoletsi" he reminded
Il sent the violets along to take the
curse on" she admitted, but some
one=I know not who-sent them 10
me. first
Merely to take the curse off7'' he
oueried. mot because you had q lit
tie sentiment for the invalid Inen
you deserve to be punished with the
truth! I sent those violets to you.
ssOhl'' cried Jane. hiding her face
"Ohr'
ssBut hereafter" he said. sternly. 7
want the right to furnish your blessed
postage stamps
"Oh!" murmured Jane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atohison Globe.I

from the AICnlSOu OJlODS.
A woman is sure to say of her rival:
'She Is SO deceitful-'
If you want to keep your friends
you must occasionally leave them
alone.
Certain men want to be leaders. and
certain other men want to be follow
ers.
When a Protestant and a Catholic
fall in love, the Protestant always
gives in.
People talk about the Importance of
taking it easy" Some people take it
too easy.
In this season Of chautauquas,
there Is liable to be big man on every
railroad train.
The one thing that stands by you,
keeps you interested IN life. and is al
ways the same is your regular work
Subject for discussion at the next
meeting of the Lancaster Literary so
ciety. Does a man hate to become old
as much as a woman"
The manager of a railroad has about
as many friends as a baseball umpire.
And baseball umpire isn't sure of
the friendship of his own wife.
II you were a candidate for Office
how many men would take off their
coats and go to work for you? You
are cOnceited, no doubt, but how
many?
A man gave a reporter this Item to-
day: "A man named Spencer, a tall
light man. living above Doniphan. left
today for western Kansas, where he
has land"
Is there anything more depressing
than the sight of a funeral procession
passing along the street, How long
before your procession viii move; and
how many carriages will there be?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
EROM OTHER PENS
RownYIsM ANn RAsERAI.I..

L
Great as the public's interest in
long survive if there are to be many
such exhibitions of rowdyism as those
that have been witnessed on the New
York Polo grounds during the past two
days. In Mondays game with the Chi
cago team Manager McGraW of the
New ork club, who seems to consider
hoodlumisn a necessary feature of ball
playing, heaped vituperation and abuse
upon an umpire for an unfavorable de-
cision. Inspired by his example, some
of the spectators took hand, with the
to be called in to protect the umpire
from bodily injury. Yesterday the
New York manager had the umpire
barred from the grounds, with the per-
fectly proper result that the game was
declared forfeited to the visitors. The
assembled thousands were forced to
accept rain checks" and go home
Unless the officials who control the
destinies of the National league take
those used by McGraw and men of his
upon a falling off of public patronage
as moral certainty Interest In base
ball seems greater today than it ever
was before. How great a hold it has
upon the general public is attested not
only by the enormous crowds upon
baseball grounds but by the earnest
ness with which the games and the
players are discussed on all sides. But
this interest has been fostered and is
If in place of baseball we are to have
exhibitions of ruffianism, it will give
way to indifference and disgust.=Chi-
cagO News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
DON'T YOU?

Don't You like this stretchy weather
When it's hot,
When you seem to run together
In = clot
Of hot reeking perspiration7
Don't you feel a wild citation,
And a wish for dissipation?
Do you not2
Don't the mercury keep singing
Songs to you,
Leaping. laughing. lifting, swinging
Through and through
AL OF your enraDtured being.
TIL you feel like rising. fleeing
Out to where you VIII be seeing
Peek-a-boo?
Don't you long for beds of tulips
In the sun,
And for quarts on quarts of juleps,
And the fun
That is where the flags are bending
And the wild perfumes are blending?
And for where a stream is vending,
Fishes run.
Houston Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
Coon Hunting.

The officers of the English squadron
prepared for their recent visit to this
country by an exhaustive study of the
so-ealled American slang. that they
might enjoy that delightful American
humor' over which the English have
recently became SO enthusiastic. Dur
ing their stay in Annapolis a coon hunt
was arranged for their benefit, the Of
ficer in charge explaining to them that
it was a sport highly thought of and
native to the southern states. AS they
rode along one Of the Englishmen re-
marked, You hunt these coons with
dogs. I think %
His host assented, and the English
man continued: They are found in
the woods and are often caught in
trees, aren't they?'
.They are" replied the American,
but how do you come to know so
much about coon hunting?"
oh said the visitor with an air of
conscious pride. I've read Uncle
Toms Cabin you know, and all those
articles that have come out in the pa
pers here lately. but, to tell the truth,
1 didn't think it was allowed by the
authorities no matter what the niger
had done. ''-Lippincott's Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

One Of the big problems in this coun-
try is the matter Of hired heIp-in the
house and on the farm. On the farm a
shortage of hired labor must eventual
y cut down the size of the farms 50
that each man will farm only what =
does himself But in the kitchen it is q
different matter. A restaurant in Wei
lington, a paper down there asserts, viii
probably have to quit business because
Of too much prosperity. The number
Of patrons has increased to such an osx-
tent that extra help is necessary, and
help is impossible to get. Not a girl is
willing to demean herself by anything
80 common as cooking or washing
dishes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
KANSAS COMMENT
PROTECTION.

The editor of this paper is a pro-
tectionist in the strongest sense of the
word, under certain conditions; we be-
lleve in the protection of the infant in
dustries of our own country and we
believe in it good and strong. We
would be in favor of a protective sys-
TEN for the home stores as against the
mail order houses and we believe such
a system of protection would be for
the best interests of the country, but
when one of the home stores would
reach such huge dimensions that it
could and would hog up every thing
IN sight and levy excessive tribute
from the people as the trusts are now
doing, then we would be against the
plan, just as we are now against the
protective tariff for the various trusts.
=Belleville Freeman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

Why. we would rise to inquire should
T. T. Kelly take ofense when another
man says he has quit voting for
thieves" Is it not a laudatory action
when one withdraws ones support from
those belonging to the Ight-hngered
profession2 Whence, then, comes Mr.
KelIy's anger?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
A CHANCE 10 ExPT,ATN

We have a lingering suspicion that
Vice President Fairbanks will have to
sidestep about three PAGES to the left
and then duck quickly when he gets
up to Milwaukee, and the people call nn
hum for an explanation as to just what
he meant when he declared that butter
milk and not the stuff that made Mil
waulSee famous is the greatest summer
drink on earthi-Phnadelph Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

The anti-pass movement has gone so
Tar in Dickinson county that the fair
association will issue no comps" even
to it's own officers. The men who are run
ming it must pay. The newspapers are
paid cash for advertising, and they in
turn pay cash like other people to get
into the fair grounds. That is business
sense on both sides. Let the good work
%
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

IN order to get even with those Re
publieans who started the story that
Colonel Harris would withdraw from
the race for governor, the Dickinson
County News. Democratic paper,
prints this: "Hoch has gone to Color
ado and it Is said that he is becoming
so discouraged that he will probably
withdraw from the race. His letter of
acceptance failed to enthuse people to
rally to the support Of the Kansas rail-
road ticket And there is just as
much truth in one statement as in the
other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

The socialists of Rocks county give it
out fiat that they don't want the offices,
even though they have put up candi-
dates for them. The candidates are
simply running for fun apparently At
ter declaring that the lust Of Office is
the bane Of every political party and
has so paralyzed the great parties of
our country that they have been help
less for 40 years in the presence of fast
growing corporate power which today
threatens to destroy the bulwark Of
our liberties, they resolve: I'VE there
fore declare ourselves unalterably op-
posed to a consideration of any propo-
sition to effect a political union for
the purpose Of securing public Office"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

Fred Trigg is not surprised that west
ern Kansas has few representatives in
the penitentiary. Why" he asks.
s'should anyone want to leave western
Kansas to live in the penitentiary?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

When It is stated that the printers
strike has cost $500. 600, one cannot help
wondering if it is worth the price. Yet
the printers strike has been exceedingly
orderly and wel1-conducted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15

It was during an epidemic OF typhoid
fever.
DO you boil your drinking water7''
a man was asked.
No, I freeze it, was the reply.
Well" said the other, I'D just as
soon have an aquarium inside me as i
cemetery Weekly.