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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05

and equipped with all necessaries- For
to this cyclone cellar often FAMILY
must hasten and subsist there until
the storm passes. It is no sign OF COW
ardice to go therel merely it evidences
good judgment. The man who tries to
push against a cyclone is like man
who would saddle the bucking ava
lanche. This is the cyclone season,
and the low pressure of the atmos-
phere, and the deadly hush that pre-
walls. BODIES evil to those who walk
abroad. There is a cloud on the hori-
ION about the size Of a mans hand
who holds a bob-tailed flush, and while
it is no time to weaken and run, still
the prairie dog has been in Kansas q
much longer time than man, and he
never ventures far from his hole these
days, and he learns early how to duck.
@Otherwise It is an excellent ticket
and should receive the support Of
every man who thinks So"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.


TFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Probably you have no call to talk
about ugly people.
You don't always know it when you
have your enemy going.
What has become of the old fashion
ed woman who was accused of prink-
ing?
It is wonderful what interest the
gossips take in a woman whom they
occasionally see in tears.
After a man passes sixty, his whis-
kers begin to look as If he had forgot
ten to keep moth balls In them.
Nothing makes US quite SO mad as to
have an agent come In, with a catlike
tread, when we are very busy.
When a clerk buys something at a
store where she does not work IT is as
bad as going to Kansas City to buy.
There is always a disposition in those
who have them to claim that gray
hairs are more a mark of snffering
than of age.
When you do a mean trick. ever re-
mark that you regret afterwards that
you did it? There IS a great deal of
comfort in avoiding mean tricks.
Local news is so dull today that we
are compelled to mention that Mrs.
Lysander John Appleton, who has had
ague several days, missed her chill last
night.
If a girl will not assist her mother
4 with the house cleaning she should al
least have the decency not to appear
on the street in her best clothes while
her mother is al home beating carpets
washing windows, etc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones, logged out in
4 their new Easter clothes, meet Mr.. and
Mrs. Brown. Says Mrs. Brown to Mrs
Jones: your dress is a perfeet dream;
think 1t is the sweetest thing ever
saw: those hounces are the lovelies1
ever conceived, and am going TO have
my new dress made up just that way.
! Brown looked at Jones new suit and
asked: Where was the fire?"
Are old people older than they say
| they are2 A woman died IN AtchisoT
lately who gave her age as sixty-nine
Old residents say she was certainly
more than eighty. AS people advance
in life, they drop years, and are usually
much older than they say they are. II
| ancient times, people lived to be up
wards of a. hundred. There are people
that old now If they would tell tht
| fr14fh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05
THE sTANDARD OIL REPORT.

At last the long-awaited report Of
Commissioner Garfield concerning the
Standard Oil company is complete and
a brief summary of it has been given
to the public. President Roosevelt
also makes a few pertinent remarks
concerning the findings of the COM
missioner of corporations. stating in
cidentally that the Standard receives
quarters of a million dollars an
nually in the way OF secret rates, be-
sides many other advantages.
Representatives of the Standard
have also issued statement which is
simply a denial of Mr.. Garfelds find
ings. In view Of the Standards IN
enviable reputation. however, the pub
lie viii be inclined to believe Mr..
Garfield and the president. rather than
those who are charged with the Of
Tense. The criminal always contends
that he is not guilty.
One matter in which Kansas has
been interested does not appear in the
summary Of the report made public.
That is the cause for the advance of
railway rates on crude oil from the
Kansas fields to Kansas City that was
made simultaneously with the COM
pletion of the Standards pipe line,
which threw the Kansas producers
completely on the mercy Of the Stand
ard. The Standard then put down the
1 price of oil it paid the producers, and
/ trouble ensued.
/ On the face Of affairs It looked very
much as though the railroads were in
collision with the Standard in this mat
ter, and the people of Kansas are anxi-
Gus to know Mr.. Garfield's conclusions
concerning it. A general alIusion is
made to this practice as follows:
The advantages of the STANDARD
OIL company would alone give it a high
! ~ favorable position in the oil Industry
! To certain extent a natural policy OF
railroads would be to neutralize these
/ advantages by giving favorable rates
/ to the smaller refuers The STANDARD
its fleets Of oil carrying vessels, is an
4 active and powerful competitor of the
railroads. Except in the Texas and
California fields, it has already taken
the transportation Of crude oil almost
| wholly away from rail carriers
The general policy of the railroads
! with regard to other freight traffic has
been to equalize conditions Of competi-
ton in giving markets by the use Of
1 commodity rates, relatively more favor
| able to distant producing points than
to the nearer producing points. But IL
appears that in the case of the oil in
dustry the policy has been generally
reversed and natural disadvantages OF
the Independents have been enormous
" increased"
The Campbell resolution under which
Mr.. Garfield made his investigation pro-
vided specifically that the cause of the
low price of crude oil in the Kansas
field should be covered. 1t is possible
that the facts in this matter are held
back awaiting legal procedure, as they
were in the beef trust case.
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MIR. WHITES OPINION.

It is plain to perceive that the En-
poria Gazette is lingering in the vicin-
ity of the cyclone celler. It says so
itself. 1t scents danger in the air. It
does not require even a casual glance
between the lines to see the cordial
endorsement that the gifted editor of
the Gazette gives the new Republican
ticket when he says:
'sThere is no question but that every
man on the Republican state ticket
nominated by the railroad machine is
personally honest. But the architec-
ture of a country should conform to
its climatic necessities. There is no
reason why skyscrapers should be
built in an earthquake country. and
there Is equally no reason for tall and
imposing tin cornices and pasteboard
fronts in a cyclone country. The COM
mon sense architecture for a country
liable to cyclonic disturbances is solid
stonew work. low walls, and no false
fronts. Above everything there should
be near every well regulated home a
cyclone cellar. This should not be a
cave Of gloom, but rather a place OF
refuge adorned with some comforts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05
yAYHA WKER JOTS

James Carter, a farmer near jaime y
town, harvested ten wolf scalps from a
single coyote hole recently.
Mr.. Dern is running for sheriff of
Kingman county. Think how wicked
one must be in calling him if one says,
oh, Dern!"
Keep cool. Take warning from this
item in the Ness County Echo: "A calf
belonging to George Garret died east of
town, Monday, caused by getting too
hot"
The Clifton News and the Palmer In
dex are running a race to see which
can take in the most eggs in a single
day in their respective columns. Palmer's
score thus far IS SO cases, while Clifton
claims 95.
Some ornery boy tied a string across
walk at Hiawatha the other night,
nent Citizen What the p. m. said is
not printed.
The Dunlap Leader last week print
ed the first installment of a serial
story written by a, local author. The
plot was inspired by actual happen
ings in Dunlap and the scene is laid in
and around the local hotel. Aussuranoe
if given that the initial chapters are
very interesting and the story promises
to be of more than usual merit.
There will be something doing at Hol-
ton one Of these days. Phil Haas will
do it. AS the result of an election bet
he iii wheel W. A. Thompson around
the square in a Wheelbarrow. Ever see
Tlompson2 The wheelbarrow that holds
him viii ha -e to be built on an extra
good foundation. Eolton people conf
IDENTIFY expect that the sight win be
worth the price of admission.
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49, ~ --s-~s
Not so very many years ago-not
more than i've or sfx-the rich men OF
this nation were held up to the youth
OF America as examples worthy Of en-
uIation. Their careers we're published;
it was told how they made their first
dollar; their struggles for success IN
the shape of wealth we're described: ;
and the moral Of the lesson was, go
thou and do likewise"
Today the man who has amassed
great wealth is in constant danger Of
being held up to the country as a sort
of man to be stunned. How many
times has this been shown in the past
year! The man who believes he can
do anything with impunity, and that his
wealth Will save him from the conse-
quences. is coming to grief. Men who
got their wealth by dishonest or ques-
tionable means are pil1oried before the
public, and America is rapidly getting
over its craze of wealth-worship.
For several months the Standard OIL
company has been so pilIoried, and yes
terday the president of the United
states made public facts which indi-
cate that the charges against the
Standard have been absolutely true.
Within recent months the men who
have been at the head OF the beef trust,
most Of them nfllionaires, have been
indicted Is common criminals; and al
though they have escaped legal pun
ishment on a technicality, in the minds
Of the public they were convicted Of a
serious crime. The man who trusted
in his riches to secure him immunity
from the censure of public opinion has
fallen from the high pedestal on which
he was placed a few years ago.
We have really reached that point
where the man with excessive wealth
is regarded with a sort of suspicion
until he has proven that he did not
acquire his wealth by injustice or I'M
fairness The day of the individual
who is above criticism simply because
he is rich is over.
While there are doubtless many men
of extreme wealth who cannot be ae-
cused of securing their wealth dishon-
estlv. and who are worthy Of the re-
spect and confidence Of the public. 1t
is an encouraging sign that the Age of
Gold-the age of commercial greed-is
passing. The time will come when we
will no longer be a nation of money
worshippers, but we will place manhood
and honesty on the pedestal. Honor
viii be greater than wealth The man
who trusted in his riches has fallen.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.

TF'rom the Philadelphia Record.l
A railroad train travels over sleep
ers. but a steamboat leaves wake be-
hind it.
Wig '.Guzzler is ordering another
round Wagg-''Yes; he's trying to
get square
A woman seldom stops to think when
she is talking, because she never thinks
to stop.
The girls who used to elope with the
coachman must now transfer their af-
fections to the chauffeur.
The nations may bury the Ratchet.
but it has been noticed that they hang
on to their rapid-fire guns.
It is better to enter a profession that
is overcrowded than to spend all your
life looking for one that isn't.
The bride armed with a cook book
is calculated to dispel many of the IL
married life.
At any rate. the fellow who is oblig-
ed to take a back seat can take a nap
the wiser
Poverty came in at the door. "Ex-
cuse me- remarked Love, as he few
out of the window. Il guess it's up to
me to hustle for a job"
Mr.. Buggins (bitterly)-"T could
have married a dozen women before /
met you" Mrs. Buggins-''Yes; guess
Is Is an unlucky number"
Miss Oldgirl-"I have never retired
without looking under the bed for a
man. Miss Pert-"Well don't be dis
couraged. You are comparatively young
vet"
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sUCH Is IIFE.-

Is this 70 Iive-to drudge and toll,
10 scheme, to worry. ever strive
T or soInetnlng Of the yictor's spoil2
Is all OF this to be alive?
70 grab and look for more to get,
All feverish, insatiate?
II this is living. then you bet
am content to vegetate.
Does living mean to rush about,
10 hurry-scurry here and there
70 push and elbow, whoop and shout
TN not an instant's time to spare2
cont think was made to dart
About at such a lively rate.
II this is living for my part.
am content to vegetate.
Are these your eity's vivid Joys
~, 1 ne stare of color, glare and light,
ne Jingie-Jangle, fuss and noise
Inc craze of feeling. sound and sight 4?
Sueh bliss as you can show I ind
hardly can appreciate.
II TINS Is living. to my mind,
It's better far to vegetate
Chicago News
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Republicans who are indignant con-
corning the manner in which their
state convention was run by the rail-
roads, should not allow their indigna-
ton to carry them too far. There is
no reason, for instance. why they
should visit their displeasure on the
supreme court. The majority Of the
members of the court are up for re-
election this year The manipulation
OF the convention was something
with which they had nothing what
ever to do. and it would be poor
policy to vote against them because
they happen to be on a ticket with
other candidates whom one does not
approve. There is Chief Justice John
ston, for instance. He is recognized
as a 5urist Of great ability and he has
given the state long service on the
supreme bench. He should be kept
there. The Democratic nominees may
be able lawyers and excellent gentle
men. but that is no reason why Re
publicans should oppose the present
incumbents. simply because a railroad
combine ran the convention that nom
mated them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05

=, me men who planned and backed
the overland Route were big and brave
out they could have done nothing with
out little army of agents and drivers
every whit as big and brave In their
nun DleF spheres OF action. And it was
action, white-hot and picturesque, such
as you may find today only on the
fIring-line of an army.
Ihere was an agent in charge of each
DIVISION of two hundred and fifty miles
OF road, with all its stations and equpi-
nent he bought and distributed ra-
tons. fodder, mules. harness, and kept
the buildings in repair He fed his
passengers and fought for their lives,
ne kept his drivers on the jump, and
his mule teams fit and ready His sta
tons were forts as we'll in which he
must stand off the Indian raids that
lent zest to a trip in the Overland
coach. There was no summoning a
Wreck1ng crew by wire when q coach
toppled off a mountain road. The
agent was king Of his territory and his
responsibilities demanded that order of
ability which made the American pio-
neers a race of giants.
The stage driver took his chances
and counted himself lucky If his skin
would hold whiskey, without leaky and
annoying bullet-holes, at the end of his
run The road he must travel was no
moro than trail, and one of his chief
concerns was to keep in it during the
wearing night hours. Stage driving as
an art departed with the passing OF
this race of experts. Now and then
you will find in the quarter-master s
wagon trains of the regular army q
grizzled pilot of four or six government
mules who learned his trade in the far
west, and who may be called an heiI
to the skill of the men on the boxes OF
the overland. The Outing Magazine
for April.
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$50 I've been given to understand" he
answered wonderingly.
The cane flew across the room ana the
old man came toward his with Outstretch-
ed hands.
You're the living image Of your father
when he left college he cried. I'd have
known you anywhere"
I wish You had recognized me IN front
OF the barber shop" he laughed, then
added brazeniy: No. I don't. Then you
would just have helped me to catch my
train I'm glad stayed"
1T was easy work explaining. John
Davies now regarded the whole matter as
a joke, and insisted upon carrying Glider
back to his home.
I M sorry the eIOpement wasn't in
earnest" he said late that evening as they
smoked in the library.
I'll do the best can, was the earnest
assurance. and when Glider finally caught
the 5.4S Mabel saw him of and on her
finger glistened a ring that had not been
there when they took their first ride to-
gether. - Copyright, 1906. by Homer
SDrague
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TOO Much s.Funny business.

a well known Kentuckian tells OF a
marriage ceremony that a justice OF
f17a 7neace in the BIue-Grass state was
hurriedIy called upon one day to per
form.
big mountaineer very roughly dressed,
had brought his prospective bride
Win him to the office Of the clerk Of
the court, thinking to secure his
license and have the ceremony per-
formed at one visit. When his license
had been duly granted the noun
faineer asked if there was a justice of
the peace then in the court house who
could tie the knot Upon being ad-
vised by the clerk that he himself was
willing to join the two lovers, the
bridegroom said:
@But you'll have to secure two wit
nesses suaflfngly observed the clerk
and Justice, before can proceed
At this the mountaineer demurreds
saving that he did not care Tor wit
nesses. Nevertheless. he was con-
vince5 in a moment that this formality
was an Indispensable one. and accord
inely the necessary witnesses were
procured and the ceremony began
When the couple had promised to love.
obey etc together with the rest OF
the service, the justice of the peace
quite innocently observed that the
bridegroom should kiss the bride
Thereupon the mountainer exhibited
fresh frnpatience at the exactions of
the official. Look herei' he exclai1n-
ed, angri1y. at seems to me that you're
draegfn. in lot of funny business IN
this Weddin'. Why. / kissed her before
we came in!''zSuccess Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05

Newspaper publishers are constantly
besieged with persons who have schemes
70 boom their Calculations. Some pa
pers need such schemes and there is
therefore a demand for them in some
quarters. The State Journal. however.
does not believe in them It agrees
with a MIG uri publisher who sums it
up this way. "A clubbing scheme may
make a paper go for a year. but it
will react the next. As a business pro-
position the clubbing arrangement is a
failure And another means Of increas-
ing a list is to engage in piano con-
tests most popular young lady con-
tests and like cchemes They are all
hurtful to the paper. Such contests in
variably engender neighborhood quar-
rels and make enemies for the paper
conducting them, no matter how fair
they may be- Ny experience
with subscriptions is this: The
subscriber who has to be bought
with a premium is of little value
TO the publisher; the subscriber who is
secured by a solicitor for a per cent viii
prob@bly become a permanent subscrib-
er. but the one who comes In voluntar-
fly and enroIls Is the man who win re-
new promptly at the expiration Of the
time for which he has paid and viii IN
nine cases out Of ten become a per
manent friend Of the paper" The best
sort Of a circulation scheme that was
ager invented is to print the news.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the chIcago Newg.l

from the Chicago News.l
Fully two-thirds Of our troubles are
only anticipated.
Waiting works wOnders-if you keep
busy while waiting.
Haste makes some people waste a lot
Of other peoples time
Hatred is often the result Of knowing
but one side Of a person.
The Almighty never recognizes a
preachers worth by the salary he gets
It's always the man who doesn't want
credit who can get It for the asking.
A miser loves money because of the
many things he doesn't have to spend
it for
If a young mans cake is dough" he
can easily find a girl who Is wiling 20
take the cake.
Many man who irnagines the eyes
OF the whole world are upon him isn't
known outside of his own precinct
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


from the New YORK Press.
The dangerous thing about getting
engaged to a girl is you may have to
marry her.
There IS something about base ball
that makes man awful glad he does
not care for grand opera.
No matter how much a man loves a
woman it is better for him to tell her
he loves her more
Generally a woman keeps the pair Of
slippers she wore at her first ball along
with her love letters.
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tt is stated that the criminal class is
practically eliminated from San Fran
cisco. This is very desirable state of
affairs. but it required a rather siren
nous proceeding to bring it about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05

Very likely the Standard Oil mag
mates are now ia the market for tech
nicalities. Anyone having a good line
Of technicalities that will do the bust
ness will confer a favor by addressing
J. D. r. or H. H. r.. No. 26 Broadway,
New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05

The days Of Spartans are not over.
Robert Maynard. a sabetha boy, fell
out OF q tree and broke his arm but
was afraid to say anything about it.
He ate his supper as usual and doubt
less would have not mentioned the fact
at all II he had not soon become so
sick with pain that his parents made
him confess. He win be laid up six
sa-su7ra
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"Skunks, polecats. and SO forth,
yells Gofernor Hoch in hiss egseptance
speech Perhaps. But id hat peen
der opserfation uf our lifedime dot no
Won can go COP agensd desc notorious
rodents mitoudt wearing avaw some
uf der perfoom. From der pecooliar
odor uf der Gofernor's toga, We might
gadder dot he knowss vot he iss talk
ing aboudt- We hat also opserfed dot
der smellful animalss iss harmless IN
less dey ISIS stirred COP by der victim
to-be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05

A headline says the Standard OIL COM
pany got a quarter Of a million rake
or from the railroads. Is this rake
OFF, any relation to the muck rake?
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tits one thing to pass good laws and
another thing to enforce them. Kan
sas has had a fairly good railroad law
FOR some time.
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Talmo. Republic county, which isn't
big enough to get mentioned in census
reports as even a village" supports a
brass band which band connoisseurs pro-
nounce one of the best small town bands
IN the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-05

You will notice that President
Roosevelt lines up with Victor Muir
dock for denatured alcohol in order to
curb the Standard Oil trust.
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NO NEW THINE

San Francisco is a terrible calamity,
but bear in mfl9d there are 10000
cities in Asia alone where ruins are
buried in mother earth. We have no
patent on Belleville Tele-
scope.
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THE CONNECTION.

The Topeka Capital complains that
the friends of Curtis, the railroad at
terneys, are asking the Shawnee dele
gates to support Fitzpatrick of Dodge
city for lieutenant governor as against
Ansel Clark. the civic league" can
didate. Yet the Capital has been verv
busy denying the connection between
the railroad interests and Curtis SEN
atorial candidacy. Here it admits the
whole thlng.-Sedan Times-Star
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There is considerable skepticism
concerning the Standard OTIS alibi, in
view Of the Standards reputation.