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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
con KNOWS BEST.

IA. G. Stacey, once a well known KAN
sas newspaper man, is now publishing a
paper at San Diego, Cal, and in re-
cent issue Is the following poem with
this Introductory note by Colonel
Stacey:
lover 20 years ago William A. Phil
lips. then congressman from Kansas,
lost a promising son of 10 years of age,
who persisted in a blizzard that came
up suddenly on Thanksgiving Day while
he was out hunting. For three days a
search was kept up, and finally white
mound on the prairie revealed the body
of the unfortunate boy. A few weeks
later the stricken father wrote the fol-
lowing poem, giving it to the writer. In
looking over some old papers this week
1t came to light, yellowed with age, and
is here given as written"
It was really about 80 years ago that
the son of Colonel Phillips persisted in
the snow near Salina. The poem by
Colonel Phillips is well worth reading
Cold and bleak was the wintry day,
The fields were bare. the earth was
Clouds on clouds filed all the air.
Banished the sunshine-then snowflalxes
Dancing. eddying. whirling down.
Covered the earth with a silver crown.
Tickle snow. so cold and cruel
never can love your white flakes more;
Still you bring back the fearful vision
A brave young boy. to the fields Elysian.
Riding to death from his motsher's door.
While darkness. and tempest, and storms
arise
Up to the gates of Paradise.
Stay. little snow birdl-so light you flut-
AS If in the storm you ehirped and
grew,
Tell me. sweet bird. did his spirit utter
A parting word, O'erheard by you?
Uttered that night-so cold and late
AS he passed to Heaven through the snow
white gate.
ours, indeed, was a strange Thanksgiving.
Up to God with its load of woe:
His great purposes half believing.
Striving to see-thOugh blind with griev-
ing,
Striving to see the brave boy go
Up to Heaven through the drifting snow.
God knows best-flutter away.
Cover the earth with your silver crown;
Cover that small mound far away
Cover il up with your soft white down.
Winter or summeT-5od knows best
When to gather US home to rest
w. A Phillips
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
ouAKER REFLECTIoNs.

FFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Can't keep body and soul together
Death.
The more the merrier doesn't apply
to troubles.
We are apt to regard our own faults
in the light of Affections.
There can never be a knothole till the
knot there is not there.
Many a girl who wears decollete
gowns is shocked If she sees a man in
his shirt sleeves.
You can't always tell how play is
going to end. Sometimes it ends the
second ni=ht.
Advice is one of the things that every
man considers is better to give than to
receive.
The city man may bunco the farmer
but the farmer can get square by taking
summer boarders.
Money doesn't always bring happiness,
hut it is easier to be unhappy with
money than without it.
Hook-''No, 1 never play cards for
money; I just play for fun" Nye-
well you have a queer idea of fun"
Hoak-'Why don't you get shaved %
Joax-''I was shaved this morning.
Efeax@srYou don't look it." Joax-''Wen
/ guess I ought to know, was there
when it happened"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Belleville tries to break into the
lime-light because a resident of that
town is a brother-in-law of United
States District Attorney Morrison, who
is prosecuting the beef trust in Chicago.
Walter johnson speaks of the Shaw
nee county campaign as being over"
It is over, all right. but not the way
Walter meant. It is over 10. degrees
in the shade and getting hotter every
minute.
Personal mention from the Council
Grove Guard: The papers say Arthur
Dixon and wife have come to Council
Grove to I've Oklahoma has such
poor water. Dixon's pa and ma live
here and for the present Arthur and
wife will live with them. We notice
Arthur works at the front door of the
drug store as much as he used to do.
They say Mrs. Dixon IS wearing many
Of the things she made for her we'd
ding outfit nearly two years ago.
Arthur looks seedy. too. but he is prob
ably as lovely q. dancer as he used
to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.
800 the Atohison Globe.l


When you are all done but finish
ing, you are just half done.
Six years out Of seven Fathers new
overcoat is the result of cleaning up
his old one.
Some people are so unfortunate that
their troubles make people laugh in
stead of cry.
We have never seen a cyclone in
action. but we have seen real angry
woman sweeping a room.
When a woman tells another that
she is getting fat. she adds very has
tily, but it becomes you"
A boy never gets as much sympathy
for a bruise as a girl, because the dis
coloration- only looks like more dirt.
It is a good thing to back out from
the conversation when he or she be-
gins to speak of life as a tangled
skein.'
No matter in what occupation a
woman's fingers are engaged, It is a
mans opinion that she Is wasting her
time unies she is cooking.
When a man is asked to hold the
baby, ever notice It is not because his
wife wants to rest, but because she
has some other work to do2
If people don't care very much for
a relative, getting called out Of town
and away from work to attend his
funeral is something Of an enjoyment
After a woman marries a man, the
1uuure noluS rev JOYS Tor ner greater
than the conviction that she is
making the women who didn't get
him enviOus.
Troubles seem greater after night
and perhaps It is for this reason that
troubles are greater TO the old than
to the young; Age Is the twilight of
life when commonplace things assume
fantastic shapes.
Notices enjoining silence, courtesy.
brevity etc. are printed for office Use:
why not, in the interest Of the man
VINO pays the bills, print this kind to
pc hung Up IN the dry goods storesi
viii your Husband Stand for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

In 1856" says John Dennis, jr., in
his article in the March Everybody's on
Marshall Field: A Great Mercantile
Genius, when the excitement was
great and the benehcent prosperity
prevailing caused universal satisfac-
uon, a Massachusetts farmers boy join
ed the tide that swept into the west and
was carried as far as Chicago. Pitts
held he came from, good old Pittsfield.
tour years he had been there at work
IN z country store, and before that in
the village school and academy at Con-
way, where he was born. This and no
more had been the sum of his worldly
experiences. He drifted into the whole
sale dry goods house of Cooley, Wads-
worth & Co, q busy place near the
river bank, and found work as a sales
man-clerk they called it then. The
town was full Of buyers; also OF farm
ers' boys with all the advantages this
boy possessed, except three: a talent
for sure observation, a cold, keen judg-
ment and an active Imagination. The
reason the others were not so provided
Is because there Is no combination so
rare; DR.. johnson said Of a like mar
vel, it is not in nature. Other new
corners to Chicago that year. promptly
lost their heads in the mad rush about
them; this youth was neither deceived
nor disturbed. He was twenty-one
years old and knew many things not
taught in schools-knew them or felt
them, the results are the same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
sONEETHING Done


NOW that our Congressman has sent
A package full of seed,
MY wife has made the statement
She Il raise everything we need;
she. II raise the luscious radisha
and the green corn in the sIIuck,
ana won't they all taste crisp and nicei
l think that were in lucki
But first of all I've got to buy
a shovel rake and hoe.
some garden hose to irriEate-
A hundred feet or So
A sun-hat and some gloves for her,
A dress called Dolly Warden"
ana 1 must buy some real estate
Wherein to have the garden.
Ihen she viii grow all that we need
Of radishes and beets
tomatoes and of Irish spuds.
And taters known as sweets;
And she il just love to fool around
In costume Dolly Warden
When I have captured real estate
Enough to build a garden.
Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
VICTOR MuRDoCK

Had anyone told Victor Murdoch four
years ago that he would now be full
dedged statesman, that person would
have been laughed to scorn by the con-
gresham from the Lew Eighth Kansas
district Up to February. 1903, a career
in congress was probably not dreamed
of by Mr.. Murdoch. Up to that time he
had always been a spectator in politics,
chronicling the doings Of others. He
knew politics thoroughly, but it was as
newspaper man and not as a politi-
clan. He was not only versed in Kansas
politics, but as a reporter for the Chi
cagO Inter-Ocean he went with Nc
Kinley through one of that statesman's
Ohio campaigns. Mr.. Murdock's inter-
est in politics was purely that Of a
newspaper man and not a personal in
terest
It was therefore a surprise to him
when the people of Wichita. following
the promotion of Chester I. Long to the
senate. insisted on bringing him out as
a candidate for the congressional va
cancy in the Seventh district. Mr.. Muir
dock was in Topeka at the time report
ing the 1908 legislat ure for his paper,
the Wichita Eagle. He treated his con
gressional boom at first as a joke. but
Wichita insisted and It became bona
f1de, and the red-headed newspaper man
went to Great Bend as one Of eighteen
congressional candfdates-and he cap
tured the plum.
At the time of his nomination Victor
Murdoch had never made a public
speech. But he speedily developed as a
speech-maker. Only the other day he
broke through the barriers that had
been put up by the house leaders in
congress something that Is almost i'm
possible to do-and he made q speech
on the rate question that caused the
whole country to sit up and take notice.
Congressman Murdoch is certainly
making good" in Washington. His
career in newspaper work gave him a
view of politics that is now serving him
and his constituents-weu. He knows
how people dislike shams and Mr.. Muir
dock himself has ar intolerable hatred
of them. Realizing how little the or
binary congressman amounts to, he set
to work to rise above the. ordinary and
to accomplish something practical for
his constituents. The federal irrigation
project at Garden City. which Will
probably be worth millions of dollars
eventually to southwestern Kansas, has
been brought about by his work in
Washington. Except for his insistence
the government would never have IN
dertaken that project It is small won
der, therefore. that Mr.. Murdoch was
named by reclamation yesterday as the
Republican candidate for congress from
the new Eighth district
And even now this young statesman
has an incipient boom for United
states senator-not to succeed Burton,
but to succeed Long three years hence.
During the convention athat nominated
him yesterday it was predicted that he
would serve only one more term in the
lower house and would then be adj
vanced to the senate.
But whether he goes to the senate
in three years or not. Victor Murdoch
will make his mark IN Washington.
He will not be one of the nonentities
who are never heard OF there. for that
is not his style. The whole country
wifi become acquainted with Murdoch
in the years to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Iron the Chicago News.1
The life of a loafer isn't worth Iiv-
ing.
After all. great man is only a little
boy grown up.
Too many people are like cider-they
become sour with age.
II you have talent for criticism don't
fail to use 1t on yourself.
An investigating committee doth make
towards Of many self-made men.
He who is able to hold his tongue is
sure to sidetraek lot Of trouble.
Any fool can write poetry-but he's a
fool for luck II he fails to get II print
ed.
II you do some men a favor they act
as II they were doing you favor BY let
ting you do It.
Sometimes a man IS unable to make
both ends meet because he keeps them
headed in opposite directions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The principal lesson to be drawn
from the life of General Schohe1d, y
says Colonel CASTOR, SIS that side whis-
kers can't keep a good man down -
show that General Schofeld did not
venture to don side whiskers till after
he had made his mark.
This is the season of Lent. but you
wouldn' guess it by the way most folks
Mexican Pete is quoted as saying To-
peka has no saloons and therefore he
has not taken a drink for three months.
This department is not personally ac-
quainted with Mr.. Pete but he must
be a great joker.
This is the day on which King AL
fonso is to ask King Edward If he can
marry Princess Ena-. If he does like
some American suitOrs he will go at It
about this way; After clearing his
throat three or four times. he will say.
Have cigar" After King Ed takes
! it, Alfonso will clear his throat three
times more. twist his coat tails for
awhile, and finally blurt out, Il spose
you We noticed that I've been calling on
your niece pretty regularly here
lately" King Ed will aoknOWl edre t
since his attention is called to it. he
believes that is a fact, although it had
not occurred to him before. well,
you see" Alfonso will resume, 1T think
a heap-that is Miss Ena thinks a
heap-er-I mean, we both think a
| heap Of each other, and we've concIud-
ed-we'd ike to get married If you don't
care" What King Ed will say to that
| has not yet been figured out. This de-
partment admits that it doesn't see
what business 1t is of King Eds any
way, being as he is only the girls
uncle, but this department does not
claim to be very well UP on the ETH
quette Of royal love affairs. Royal love
affairs, by the way, usually do not have
any too much love in them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
sarl1e OId Tnu-1l

A travelling salesman whose terri
tory lies in the southwest was one at
ternoon in the depot awaiting an east
bound train, when a fiashily dressed
person covered with cheap jewelry
came into the waiting room from the
platform, where he had been standing
since the coming Of the last train.
s.Well, this old town hasn't changed
a bit since I lived here said he, by
way of general observe ton to the
drummer and two or three natives of
the place. Everything just the same
as it was Is years ago. Not a particle
Of change!"
Il reckon that's about it. mister re-
piled an old fellow who was embracing
a stove in the corner. Your leavin'
it don't pear to have made much diff
frence in the burned old town. ''-IIar-
per's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
~ Is TTITs THus2

While Kansas has dropped its custer
suit the Standard Oil Co. doesn't fnd
Missouri so easy. But after the sudden
halt in the Kansas proceedings nearly
a year ago, and the withdrawal Of
Monett, nobody has expected much to
come Of the custer suit in this state
Topeka Capital
What does this mean? Does the
Capital mean to intimate that that
STANDARD Oil suit was not brought in
good faith by the attorney general Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
WORD FOR carr TAYLOR.

Carr ". Taylor, the attorney of the
people on railroad matters, is making
record that should be appreciated. If
necessary the next legislature should
he is. The railroads have appealed to
the federal courts from the last decvis-
ion Of the state board of railroad com
nissioners, alleging that the law Is
unconstitutional. Taylor comes back
with charge that the railroads are in
an Illegal combine and not entitled to
any standing in court.-Manhattan Re
public
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
KANSAS COMAENT
sTUBBs. ALLEN AND KELLY.

sTUBBs.. ALLEN AND KELLY.
It is noticeable that those who are
prociaiming that a political coalition
has been formed between Henry Allen
and 4. 7. Kelly are men who helped
elect Mr. Kelly state treasurer and who
have always been against Mr.. Allen.
Mr.. Stubbs, who invented this story,
not only helped nominate and elect
Kelly. but he is one of his bondsmen
and was a political hacker and partner
in business of Senator Burton. The
friends of Mr.. Allen are not going to
Mr.. Stubs for truthful information
about Henry Allen. whom Stubs re-
CARDS as his enemy.-Miani Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Our friend Henry Honey. of the Dem
the Republican party is getting right
on some things. Being disposed to be
fair we hereby promise Henry that we
viii some day say the same thing about
his party if it viii give US half a chance.
Osborne Farner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
A srPREPR0cATTvE,

The Douglas County Republican CEN
trail committee met last week and ar
ranged to nominate county officers by
the primary system. It was also voted
to remove the name of any candidate
from the nomination lists who was
found to be guilty of using money, IL
quor or cigars IN his campaign. Had
they eliminated the practice Of kissing
the baby every one of the cherished
weapons of the Republicans would have
been put under. the ban.-Gaylord Sen
tinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
RRIsTOW.

This paper thinks Joseph L. Bristow
would make Kansas an honest and an
able senator. His official life in Wash
ington would enable him to become
useful to the state and useful to the
country from the start. Brfstow
knows how to do things and his heart
is in the right place.-Jeweu Repub-
Hcan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

printers voted to compel every labor
union man in the city to give his name
as John Smith. The women In their
families must also observe the order.
The action was taken to make the d.
rectory, which Is gotten out by
ponunion arm. valueless.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press-l

There is no use in being so good you
have to have violent reactions.
A widow forgets nearly every thing she
ever knew, but it awfully easy to teach
her again.
An easy way to get d wife would be
to make her believe you are bound not
to get married.
When a woman IS crying it is a sign
she is having just as good a time as if
she were laughing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Monday was the day the township
assessors for the state met in each
county and agreed to violate the law
by assessing property at from one
nth to one.half its real value. VIII IN
the law says 1t shall be assessed at
actual value.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Kansas. or simply that nobody thinks
Attorney General Coleman has suffi-
Client ability to do anything further
than file and dismiss the suit? Why
does the Capital thusly2 What &C
casion has it for slurring its great and
good friend. Mr.. Coleman, IN this IN
seemly manner2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

How nice it WAS yesterday, when
Kansas avenue was covered with snow,
to try TO cross it and discover that
every third step you took you went
into hole in the pavement filed with
about three inches Of slush!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
NATIONAL DIVORCE Law.

Whatever ones views may be as 70
permissible causes for divorce, there
can be no question as to the urgent
necessity for uniformity in the law
The present muddle Of state laws,
ranging from no divorce for any cause
to one because of incompatibility is
not only demoralizing and immoral
but a direct incentive to marital in
constancy.-New York Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

It was given out some time ago that
Addiclzs had given up running for SEN
ator in Delaware as he had gone
broke''-and it takes money to run
for senator in Delaware. Now the an
nouncement is made that he will try it
again. which leads to the conclusion
that he has made another pile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

The house of representatives refused
to adjourn out of respect to the mem
ory of George Washington. Some
critics may condemn them, but then
Washington himself was not a man to
stop working while there was anything
to be done. and. perhaps, imitation in
the case is the sincerest tribute
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Japan evidently is not afraid of gov
eminent ownership Of railroads. A
bin has been introduced into the Jap
anese diet not only authorizing the
government to buy in the roads, but
to compel the railroad companies to
sen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Berthe P. Walker of Osborne. has
been appointed grand sword bearer
for the Masons of Kansas. It has been
plain for some time that the village
deacon was on the war path--Smith
County Messenger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Senator Long declares that Arizona
alone Will never be fit for statehood.
Nevertheless there are those who ex-
poet that the territory now included
within the boundaries Of Arizona viii
be rich and populous territory some
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

evidently knows what It Is for. 1t has
ordered the freight rate on OIL be-
tween Kansas City and st. Louis. and
vice versa reduced to nine cents. a
hundred. Heretofore the rate has
been II cents from Kansas City to st.
Louis. The new rate Is the same as
the rate on wheat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

An exchange says Herbert Hadley is
the first Republican to have been
elected attorney general Of Missouri
since 1852. And since the Republican
party was not organised IN 1852 it
might be stated that he is the first Re
publican that has been elected for a
hundred years before or more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
DAY,s WAGE.

Love wore 3 suit OF holden gray.
And toiled within the fields All day.
And bent TO heavy loads the back.
Though meaEre fed and sorely fasked.
The only wage Love ever asked,
A child's van face to kiss at night,
A wOman's smile by candle light.
Margaret E. Sangster.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

The gathering at Topeka last Thurs
day was enough to satisfy anyone that
there was no truth in the story that the
Democratic party is dead in Kansas
Smith County Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

The sugar beet industry appears to
be growing rapidly in southwestern
Kansas. and it promises more and
more to become a source Of consider
able income to that portion OF the
state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
us COUPMNC PIN.

he would not be a candidate for con-
gress in the Fifth district the opposi-
ton to Calderhead lost the coupling
pin of their organization.-King
Courier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07
OPEN CARS.

Don't be impatient about the ven
tilation of street cars It IS bound to
come along with material abatement
Of the smoke nuisance, in about three
months, or even less. if we have as
early a spring as is promised.-Indian-
apolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

Speaking Of hard luck. just think Of
those Ohio Democrats elecung a gov
ernor after years of struggle and then
having to give him up because of i'll
health before he has filed half Of the
E1He
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

The best thing we can do with our
ordinary problems at present is to put
every one of them aside. so that we
may give our entire attention to the
extraordinary problem whether or not
we are going to rule the thugs or the
thugs are going to rule us.-Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-07

The grave announcement of a
scientist that permanent fatigue" be-
gins at forty has q certain amount Of
confirmation in the fact that such
statements make a great many people
over forty tired. New York Tri-
bune.