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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-17
CLIQUE SIGHTS


IF rom the AtCntSOu Globe
There is some mighty poor candy.
When fish bite freely. they're little ones.
Some people fuss at boy just to keep
in practice.
A drunken man always insists on walk
ing on the main street.
Here is one thing you may depend upon.
nobody wants a hard fight.
Some people are. so mean they won't let
you do even little Boosting.
It is the rarest thing in the world 70
find a partisan who will admit the truth
on the other side
a child can tell what time It is by the
clock bothers it.
What a poet calls inspiration is prob
nifty calls a "hunch.'
Perhaps the reason It is called the ho1i-
days" is that it IS a season when we are
all worked to death
So far as we are concerned. when we
buy anything at store, the clerk needn't
mention the weather.
There IS only one way in which to be
gifts: Tell the truth.
In giving Christmas gifts, do you give
what your friends will like, OF what you
think they ought to like2
If the mother of a lot of children IL
Caught hiding Christmas presents the
girls won't look, but the boys viii
y,sJt,e course II yo1 have remarked that both
paply wrong, claim to be in the right
During the last few days OF the holiday
rush, the clerks IN the stores become as
cross as the husband OF a sick wife.
When a man has a quarrel with his
wife. he is apt to imagine he Is in 4 quar-
rel with his neighbors. and acuuafnta noes
An Atchison man thinks he Is so hand
some that he wonders all the women a.
not ask the privilege OF kissing him.
Without Directing to useful Christnnaa
presents, it seems that the line s1eslid be
drawn a little this side OF washfng ma
chimes.
There is one thing you should nut oer$
tomorrow that ~ ffsV-
and that is sitting down ana countInr ~;
troubles.
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secret wireless messages.

The greatest drawback to the gen
eral adoption of wireless biography,
says DR.. Alfred Gradenwitz in the
Technical World Magazine for Decem-
Der. is the fact that, the electric waves
being propagated in all directions,
there is a possibility of a third party
interfering with the transmission of
messages between two stations or in
tercepting the kilograms In an au-
thoritative article entitled. Secret
Wireless Telegraphy," the Berlin cor
respondent Of the Technical World
Magazine tells of a wonderful invention
by Prof F. Braun of Strassburg, who
has perfected a device which enables
he wireless telegraph operator to COM
rlunicate with the proper person with
out danger of others blocking his con-
nection or picking up his messages
Practical tests have been made at the
Strassburg shooting grounds, which
nrove the effectiveness of Prof. Braunss
invention. This invention places wire
less telegraphy foremost among mill
tary methods of communication.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Topeka is to have a new vaudeville
theater. and you know if there is any
thing Topeka really needs 1t is a few
more vaudeville theaters.
4 y
Now that W. A. S. Bird has been
made Great Incohonee of the Red
Men, there is no longer any doubt con-
corning whom he Will vote for for
United States senator
y =
Speaking of that white crow that has
recently been donated to Baker univer-
sity, why doesn't some one put out a
little salt and catch that Resubmission
Temperance club at Junction City?
\ y
Only little over a week now till the
sch DOL ma'ams will be here.
=
This department expects a pair of
military brushes for Christmas. This
department is bald headed.
a a y
Contributed: Some one has been
so unkind as to suggest that the
thoughts of a state officer who was
''vfndicated' recently at the polls are
of a cryptocrysta1line order.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.


lFrOm the Hnlladeiph1a Record
There may be germs in kisses, but most
Of us are willing to believe that we are
immune.
Making mountains out of molehiIls
ought to be paying business for the real
estate man.
He must be a good boy who can keep
job in a rubber factory without getting
bounced
It doesn't do any good to lock the sta
BILE door after the horse is stolen, unless
you want to save the automobile
Neu-''She's a perfect cat Belle
Nonsense. She's just as much afraid OF
a mouse as any Of the other girls
He-''What would you say If 1 should
ask YOU to marry me?" She-''I should
say you had more nerve than gave you
credit for
Muggins-'I hear you have gotten
square with that troublesome boy next
door" Buggins-'+Yes: my boy got the
measles and gave 1t to him.
Wigg-''The father of the girl Bjones is
engaged to has lost all his money" Wagg
That's tough" Wigg-"But the girl
says she will marry him.
Tommy-'Pop. what do people mean by
the money question - Tommy's Pop-.sTshe
money question. my son. is usually an in
teTrogation mark following touch
For three hours she had been sitting on
his lap "Win you love me thus always,
darling?' she murmured- ''Ye-yes.- dear
est he replied; If the chair doesn't
break"
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HUMOR or THE Day

Mrs Gassett-N1y sister Maud told NJ
something today We promised never 70
tell. Mr.: Gassitt-Well. go on I'm listen
ing.-Judge.
Citiman-How's your new servant girl
coming on? subbubs-Qh, she's past that
neutrality-suspicious. Ledger.
you Alice. do you? Miss Pert-Not at Al.
Boston Transcript
All I lack" said the would-bs poet.
Before I die ..Per6aps's replied the
Of your system ''-Phiiadelphia. Press.
IBID you ever succeed in swaying an
audience to laughter or tears at WHY
Mo- answered Senator Sorghum; Il
recognized the fact that all the world 5 a
es. I want to be one OF the men In the
box office- Star.
F'riend-who was that funny old party
you were speaking to just now? THAT
isn't at ali funny. lea can tel ,@fo S
beggarly pair of trousers. Must I come
here nine times? Student-Wen then.
make me a whole suit. and it Will be
worth the trouble-Khikerki
Lady-Have you any picture postcards
OF Raffles? Attendant am sorry.
madam, am quite out of them. But here
are several of Murillo's, and some of
Michael Angelo s.-Punch
And shall you carry out your plan Of
visiting blue grotto at Capri this year.
FRAU Lammer? Alas. no, Frau Splits;
we are in mourning this summer so we
are going to the Black Forest.''-F1garo.
roo 14-ff - 1u f5nUC @Gf
New curate--I say. madam. that
wretched little dog of yours has bitten a
piece clean out of my leg. The Lady
(anxiously)-Dear, dearl How annoying.
when Tony''s been III. and the dear veter5-
nary said he wasn't to touch meat for at
least two weeks.-L1ondon Sketch.
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KANSAS E0MAEET


With Foraker, Elkins ana ali the
other trust senators after him In the
senate the California delegation jump
ing on him Because he plead for
treaty rights for the japanese IN his
message; the negroes. ~ all over the
country roasting him for discharging
from the army a battalion of insub-
ordinate colored troops; Pitchfork TILL
man and the other fire eating south
erners. barking at his heels on general
tsouthefn9 principles; w. j. Bryan
criticizing him and abusing his mes
sage and Bellany Storer and wife ar
raigning him because he refused to
allow them, while Storer was min
ister representing this country at the
Austrian court, to dabble in Roman
Vatican politics, if President Roose-
welt is not happy it is certainly not
because the circumstances do not
make the situation strenuous enough.
-Holton Recorder.
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An annual income of 40 million doll
lars on original investment of 81, 600
is the surprising record of the United
States department of agriculture says
Dewey Sheldon Beebe in the Technical
World Magazine for December.
To the riddle. why is the depart
ment of agriculture?" some scoffers
have been wont to reply, Just cause"
They used to ridfcu1e the agricultural
said there were no tangible results. But
the department, in it's Yearbook for
1905, comes to the front with a Just
cause" for its existence. What busi-
ness man in the United States, whether
he fathers a trust or runs a corner
drugstore, can point TO a profit like
this: An investment of $4,000 in 1864.
now produces an annual income of
$40, 900, 600. yet this Is one of the rec
ords of the much maligned agricul-
tural department. The department in
troduced from China and France in
1864, a comparatively small amount of
considerable part of the molasses con-
sumed in the United States comes from
this outlay of $4,000, and the annual
value of the sorghum crop is at least
$40 100000.
But the astonishing work of the ag-
ricultural department does not stop
with sorghum The branch of the de-
partE1e nt's work which endeavors to
find new things for the farmer to grow,
and to make the United States indie
pendent of foreign countries for all of.
tangible results; and it's SUCCESS in
transplanting alien grains is phenome-
nal, and is financially paying PROPOSE
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-17

under his scrutiny her secrets were a.
u. by the the way, Polly he said at last
Il forgot to congratulate you upon you
engagement"
Then with the light that came ints
DR.. Fred TTDton's eyes for an inseah
his own secret blazed out.
Not yet engaged. - Polly hascenes
''Oh. see; it's pending" Hi
laugh was painstakfngly light
yes, the executioner's axe hans1
over she broke or with an at
temps to laugh.
but let me be a messenger OF re-
priexel" He turned upon her Win
sudden vehemence-
ssBy what authority % They had
stopDed in the path The snow was
coming down in great fakes, clinging
to the tendrils of bright hair about
Polly's face and melting on her warm
cheeks
Polly. why should I be down here
in Kentucky today, instead of at home
ness? Why should 1 for the first time
this winter accept an invitation that I
have refused for i've consecutive
years2 I bring your reprieve by the
authority of Fate"
but I don't want a reprieve.
Polly's blue eyes met his dark ones
unfalteringiy. while the rich color
deepened in her cheeks
Accept q pardon, them pardon
for life, for eternity-by the same au-
thorityl" he cried, drawing her to him.
'And let Fate take care of the con-
glanced toward the great house. now
dimly outlined in the thickenIng snow
copyright 1905, by Mary Nc
Keon.)
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POINTED pAIsAGRAPHa

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Nothing hurts a conceited man like be-
ing ignored
Each wrinkle on woman's brow rep
resents an experience.
When members Of a family quarrel a
lot of truth leaks out.
With too many people charity Is more OF
a fad than virtue.
Some men can't even do their duty with
out making fuss about It.
And it's a sure thing that one can't n.
sure of anything in this world
A woman would rather do thfrez.to vvor
~ rival than to afford herself pieae1,re
Nothing pieases a homely woman So
much as to have a man compliment her
figure.
Many man who prays for rain rvo.,a,
doubtless steal his neighbours Umbrella -
his prayers were answered. -
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TIE Labor Problem in Panama.

The Panama question is a public
one, and must be openly and frankly
discussed. 1t will have to be settled
in the immediate future. and the
country is not likely to be misled by
demagogues. 1t is not likely that
white labor from the United States
will to any extent go to the Isthmus
to do unSkiIled work. The great army
of shOvelers must be made up of West
Indian black men, or -Asiatic So called
coolies. Neither Will the question of
hours of labor as it relates to the
upon the digging of the Panama canal.
All these things must be worked out
in practical experience on the ISthmus.
The feeling against Chinese labor in
this country has led ito an agitation
against the use of Chinese in Panama.
ought not to be COMPOUNDED. American
workmen desire labor under condi-
tions of reasonable pernanence. They
could not go to the ISthmuS of Pan
anna with their families to remain per-
manentIy. In no possible way could
they are at home. Chinese cooIie Ia
Dor on the other hand. is migratory,
can be secured for fixed periods in
large quantities, and can be handled
on the relay plan. Tt would be a
highly foolish policy to try to create
inducem ents that would persuade
young Americans to leave their fannf-
perform common labor for a period of
years. It was bad enough to take
them to the Philippines as enlisted
soldiers. 1t would be unspeakable
folly to try to persuade them to- go to
the Isthmus as laborers. Common
sense must assert itself against the
demagogues on subject like this
Review OF Reviews.
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THE ELOcUTIONIsTs CURFEW.

TIE ELOcUTIONIST'S CURFEW.
England sun was slowly setting Eaaise
your right hand to your breW9
Filling all the land with plenty--(Nyear a
gaze of rapture now;
And the last rays kissed the forehead OF
man and maiden fair
with movement slow and graceful YOU
may now push PACK your nalrls
He with sad, bowed head---tA dropping OF
your head will be all right,
Till you hoarsely, sadly whisi(I) "CurfeW
must not ring tonight
sexton Bessie's white lips faltered-
Cry here to resemble Bess,
worn quite such charming dress),
I've a lover in that prison for
get to roll your RS
And to shiver as though gazing through
the iron prison bars).
Cromwell viii not come till sunset =
Speak each word as though you d
Every Syllable to pieces)-"Curfew must
not ring tonight"
Bessie calmly spoke the sexton-cHere
extend your velvet palm, .,,.
striving to be calna),
Long long vars I've rung the eurfew''-
tDon't forget to make it y ars
With Ditiful infection that a world Of
sorrow bears),
Il have done my duty ever'-(Draw your
self ~ to your height,
For you're speaking as the sextonl-
"Gyurl, the curfew rings tonight.
Out she swung. far outflow here is
where you've got to do your best;
Let your head be twisted backward, let
great sobs heave up your chest.
Swing your right foot through arc Of
ninety lineal degrees.
Then come down and swing your left foot
and be sure don't bend your knees;
Keep this up for fifteen minutes till your
face is worn and white.
Then gaze at your mangled fngersl-
"Curfew shall not ring tonightp'
Ger the distant hills came Cromwell
Fright hand to the brow once more:
Let your eyes look down the distance,
say above the entrance door
At his foot she told her story-(Lift your
hands though they hurD
And her sweet young face so haggard-
(NoW your pathos you assert,
Then you straighten UP as Cromwell, and
be sure you get it right;
Don't say 60. your liver loves! well:
"Curfew shall not ring tonight4s'
w. D. Nesbit, in Harper's Magazine.
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ERON OTHER PENS
LET JUSTICE BE SWIFT.

The delays of the law are proverbiaI.
The delays of California are particular
ly scandalous. The delays of California
law as administered in this city in i'm
portant criminal cases have been a dis
grace to civilization. 1t is time that
this juggling with justice should cease.
The witnesses are here. There is no end
of competent lawyers. The public well
fare demands that the courts give these
cases the right of way and expedite the
trials. If Schmitz is an innocent. man
he should be cleared of the stigma now
attached to him. p If he is guilty, he
should be in the penitentiary. 1t is not
good for this city that its government
should be headed by a man indicted for
bribery. It is not decent He should be
placed before jury at once. He is re-
ported to have stated. in an interview
in an eastern city, that a majority of
the grand jury which indicted him had
themselves been under Indictment for
crime. We here know that the present
grand jury is composed of respecta BILE
citizens no one of whom has ever been
even suspected Of violating any provis-
ion Of the criminal law, and of whom
but one or two have ever been active
in politics. If Schmitz is starting in on
that kind of a defense, the quicker he is
compelled to make 1t in open court the
better.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press
A woman thinks a man has hlyss-s.~o
sense because he isn't afraid to swear.
A girl can see you trying to lxtsa ,,o-
when she doesn't look, and can't when
she does. H@A
When Eve sent the wash to the 1aundr,
indelible fnk2 c7iAs
There's hardly anybody mean enough n
want 10 be foreign noblenan married -
rich American girl ~ ~ %
Probably mothers could mako tha,..
oeaugnters stop wearing high heels bv tell
ing them they were good for the dieesfioe-
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land have yees seen the new way of
smelling Mrs. Murphy % asked Mrs.
McGraw as the two leaned over the
line fence for & morning chat.
ssI can't say that I have. Mrs. Nc
Csraw How does it work %
TITS. the success of the age. You re-
member that Patrick was STINT to
T2lackwelfs Island for sixty DAYS last
surnme r?'
EFF it won't hurt your feelins thin
I'll emen ber.'
s~That was under the old style. of
speIIff5.. Mrs. AcGraW. Under the new
he simply went off fishin' wild Mr..
Blackwell for two months and had the
time of his life. M. Quad
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A GOOD sTIGGEsTION.

of our public and private schools
should have President Rooseve1t's mes
sage to congress read and discussed A
paragraph or section of it could be ia
Ken each day. We suggest that de-
bates upon the principal parts Of the
message, would add interest to the ex-
ercises. and would bring before the pu-
pills the problems which are now con-
fronting the American people. These
students in our schools are the citf-
zens OF the near future, and they
should not. be permitted to pass out
into the world, without a knowledge
OF the great questions which they will
be expected to answer at the polls
WESTERN School Journal.
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THE GIRL WHO LoAFs.

Almost everybody roasts the boy who
loafs, and but very few people seem
to kick about it when the boys sister
loafs. In fact, some of them rather
seem to expect IL 1of her to CAD about
the streets while n1otherddoesz the house
work. OR4y9fyesteEdago we overheard a
person teH a .pFetty sEoungi thing that
1t would be a shame IL such q pretty
girl should have 70 fool with the dish
washing. ''-Kingman Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-17

A baseball player at Parsons is ac-
cused of taking eight overcoats be-
longing to other parties. He must
also have taken these cold wave pre-
dtcfions seriously.
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THE DIFFERENCE

1t will be noted that Frank Grimes
paid the claim against him like a
gentleman and an honest man. "A. r.
Brown stood on the Santa Fe right
of-way, somewhere out in the short
grass country and threw his Wad into
the mail as it passed along to be taken
back to opekal-Concordia Kansan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-17

While we are agitated from time to
time for fear our supply Of gas will
run out. 1t IS soothing to note that a
well flowing ten million feet day has
Just been brought in at Chanute and
that the pressure Is so strong in the
well that it blew out its tubing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-17

Even If Mrs. Bellamy Storer did
create Theodore Roosevelt it will
have to be admitted that she had pref
ty good material to work on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-17

President Roosevelt will send six
special messages TO- congress this
week President Roosevelt and his
trusty typewriter must be pretty busy
these days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-17

A aaHna colored woman who at the
age of 81. kicked her husband out Of
the house. Is now suing for a divorce
because he never came back. It is
pretty safe to guess that he won't con-
a.m% a.
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Noting that Senator Fred Dumont
smith announces that he shall cast his
vote for Judge W. A. Johnson for
Emitted States senator. and advises the
public to keep its eye on the judge,
ne Parsons Sun says: THAT Is just
what Kansas has been doing for the
past thirty years and the more it looks
AZ him the better it likes him. Judge
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It will be interesting to note il
Thomas C. Plat Of New York. votes
that Senator Smoot Is not a proper
man to represent Utah in the United
States senate
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WEATHER SIGN.

The thickness Of the farmers whis-
kers seems to indicate that Prof
Moore Is on the eve of dealing out a
mighty hard winter.-Newark News.
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REFORM AT BURTON.

4 wave Of reform is Sweeping over
Burton. The powers that be have
suppressed the raffles. slot machines,
and all kinds of games of chance; the
merchants are forbidden to dispose of
their goods on Sunday, and 1t is said
that the restaurants. have been order
ed to close up shop promptly at IL
o'clock on Saturday nights.-Burrton
Grit
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Mr.. Madden OF the postofce depart
Enent. Is inclined to make rulings detri-
mental to the publication Of legitimate
Journals in order to obliterate the
postal deficit. but Congressman MUIR
dock has pointed out that much Of the
trouble comes from. fraud in the de-
Dartmsnt itself. Now let the depart
nent get busy
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Ex-senator Burton used to claim
that he made" Roosevelt. and every
body knows what happened to Burton.
The Bellamy Storers ought to have
taken warning.
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Senator Tillman has been called a
geogra phicaI anachronism. And he
may expect even worse than that if he
goes ahead teaching contempt of the
law.=Cleveland Plain Dealer
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FOR THE TIME BEING.

Such is the prevailing prosperity
that even the Socialists have some
what relaxed the agitation of their
schemes for the regeneration of the
world.-Philadelphi Record
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The next state fair that is held in
Topeka will an agricultural boss
trof'' instead of just a plain ''hoss''
trot- The pumpkin show has its at
3ractions after all
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HURRAH!

That suggestion of the Pullman car
porters to take their tips from the s35.-
0cO. 600 Pullman dividends instead of a
penurious public should really find
place somewhere in the national Re
publican platforTn.-Detroit Journal
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HdoIphus Busch. the millionaire
brewer, favors an income tax. But
would Mr.. Busch promise not to make
It I'D in froth on the top Of the glass?
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DOUBTFUL.

Mr.. Hearst now explains that there
are circumstances under which he
could not refuse nomination. What
many people have been wondering is
whether there are any circumstances
under which he could.-Holton Signal.
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The next gentleman who has griev-
ance against the president. that he
wishes to air can now have the center
Of the stage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-17

Now that the Populist party his Off
ciasiy admitted. through its chairman,
that It IS dead will it stay dead.
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Kinsley is very proud Of its new
garage. even If It doesn't know how to
pronounce 1t.