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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
A Year Of Moral Awakening.

Z IOl4 the OulcaRO News.
If nations progress is to be reck-
oned by its moral and intellectual con-
dition the year just ended has been
distinctly one of advancement In a
large sense it has been a time OF. self
analysis and self questioning, of a
struggle toward better ideals, of a
widespread house cleaning movement
taking in all departments of public
life. Seldom has there been a twelve
month in which so many outwardly
imposing but unworthy idols have
been swept from their pedestals. Sell
dom has there been a period in which
the work of removing the coating of
respecta bility from whited sepulchers
has gone on at SO brisk a pace. Men
of questionable standards of conduct
in business or politics, corrupt bosses,
paragon bankers" and lawless cor
poration managers have been cast out
of public life or stamped with the
stigma of pubic reDrOach with stern
impartiality
To assume that this unsettling of
established tradition and demolition of
popular idols has been a destructive
process would be to misread wholly
one of the chief lessons of the wear
The downfall of the old regime means
merely that d better one is coming to
take its place. It means that the time
has passed when any man or any
agency having money behind it can
command respect and continue to ex-
ert power simply by putting on an i'm
posing front and placarding itself as
respectable. Some of the idols that
have fallen the hardest and made the
loudest crash were the most eminently
imposing of the lot. Not a few of the
men mixed uD in the New York in
surance scandals employed the bound
less confidence of the public until
Lawyer Hughes began the inquisitoriaI
operations.
Much remains to be done. but the
people have reason to congratulate
themselves on the assurance that the
conditions at the opening of 1906 are
appreciably better than were those
prevailing at the opening of the pres
ent year. The moral tone of the
country is better. The public con-
science is more sensitive. The men
who lead in civic and commercial life
are more fully awakened to a sense of
their responsibilities. Standards Of
honor and honesty have been raised
and the reprobation falling on those
who fail to meet them has become
correspondingly severe. Altogether
the nation has reason to feel that the
year has been one Of progress In the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
JOURNAL ERTRTES

Beloit paid 1912 one night recently
in solving the problem, Was She to
Blame? ?" It might have spent more,
but the capacity of the opera house
was limited. And still the town is in
doubt about it.
There is this about the Topeka
Democratic Flambeau club: It is one
place where Democrat can be elected
to office in Kansas.
The car has about decided to do
something drastic to put down the
revolution. Can you imagine the car
getting any more drastic" than he
has been?
This is the day that those people
who resolved to 60 church more dur
ing 1906 will break that resolution.
1t seems as though Mr. H. H. Rogers
ought to take something for his
memory
Alabama has Phatt City. That
must be where all the tourist printers
go in the winter time.
This is the time of year when Oyster
Bay goes into state of Information.
Among other things. there ought to
be a law prohibiting a man on a party
line asking central to call him at
4:30 in the morning, and then refus-
ing to answer the phone when he
wakes up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.
FROM the Atchison GIobe.1

From the AtcnlSon GiODe.J
Remember when tempted to do some
thing you shouldn't that all the neigh
bors are at the window.
One of the sorrows Of a newspaper
reporters life is that every night he
has to revise his list of friends.
Every man who has paid dry goods
bills is satisfied that Adam lived and
died without approaching his good for
tune.
Every man is advised to keep up his
courage and laugh at misfortune and
he obey by laughing at the misfortunes
of others.
An intimate acquaintance with a
woman always develops that her WoTn-
en- friends are not as perfect as you had
thought them.
The Coolidge Enterprise strives to
please, but confesses that when it puts
forth its best efforts, it fails. A
Coolidge princess is very indignant over
a compliment she received in the paper
and the Enterprise, in its determination
to begin the New Year right, makes
public apology to the offended princess.
The Enterprise says the compliment is
retracted and never should have been
printed; that it was uncalled-for and
undeserved, and If the Enterprise had
known the wrathful princess then as it
knows her now. the compliments to her
never would have appeared on its pages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
SEVEN MONTHS TODAY.

Just seven months, my baby girl,
Just seven months today
SO when you creep up to my chair
III lay my book away
For there's q story in those eyes,
Oh, brown-eyed baby mine!
Far sweeter than the grandest prose
Or poets richest line.
So come up to my arms, sweetheart
And watch the moO-cows pass,
And make the incest marks and noise
On mammals window glass,
And see the d0ggie chase the cat
Way Up the maple tree;
Yes, hold on tight to mamma dear,
Because he can't get me-
Those two cute teeth, just peepine
Are mammals chief delight;
Oh! must make you laugh just once
To show their tiny white!
So come, lets play at Pat-a-eaSe-
Give me those dinpled hands;
It's dreadful hard for baby girls
But mamma understands
Now pat-a-cake all by yourself,
Dear little baker man,
And make those cookies just as fast,
Sweet darling, as you can;
All, therei see those little teeth
A-shining through that smile.
Now let US put the cookies in
The oven for a while.
Dada! Oh! say it once again!
Your very newest word
For mamma thinks it is the sweetest
Music ever heard.
The sand mans here-Our lessons done,
And must have my pay
A hundred kisses, baby girl,
Just seven months today.
Sara Josephine Albright.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TFrom the Chicago News.I
An egotist is a man who points with
pride.
If they couldn't remarry few women
would want a divorce.
Some men find it easier to stand ad-
versity than prosperity.
Generally the widows grief lasts as
long as the brides happiness.
There are some pretty well fixed
stars in the theatrical armament.
Let them give credit to whom credit
is due-but insist on spot cash for
yourself.
A woman is never old enough to
know that she viii know more when
she Is older.
Sometimes the business cares of a
man fail to worry him until he goes
home to dinner
Every woman is a firm believer in
the biblical statement that sit is not
good for man to I've alone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press-l

A girl at 1s likes men older than her
self; at So. younger
Every boy falls in love with his
schoolmarm, but none ever tries to
marry her.
There is hardly ever any fun in any
thing for a boy if his parents give him
permission to do it.
The only New Years resolutions that
will be kept will be by those who re-
solved not to make any.
There is something mighty nice about
girls giggle when she is doing it be-
cause she is nervous over whether you
are going to kiss her against her Will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

The following is stold of Thomas 3.
Reed: When a young man, just COM
pleting study of law. he wrote to the
postmaster of a small Arkansas town.
asking what opportunities it offered for
an honest lawyer, and stating he was
Republican, This answer came back:
IF you are a Republican the game laws
would protect you, and if you are an
honest lawyer there will be no COMPETE
ton Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
FROM OTHER PENS
ATTRACTIONS OF THE FARM.

ATTRACTIONS OF THE FARM.
There are wonders on the farm more
attractive, rightly seen, than those OF
the city. But what farmer is careful
to open these gates to his children :?
Burbank is as truly a great discoverer
as Columbus, but what effort is being
made to show the farmer boys of this
country the significance of his adven-
turous journeyings from plant to
place? How many farmers are careful
to offer the boy the books of Lubbock
and his peers which would open to
them the fairyland of the worlds be-
meath their feet? Make the country
pleasant and its attractions will keep
the boys and draw many back from the
Times-Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

The State Journal is q member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
sanization for exclusive evening publi-
cation.
The state Journal receives for exclusive
duplication the leased wire report Of the
Eupllahers Press for the edition for Sum
day morning.
The news is received in the State Jour
nal building ever wires for this sole pur-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

incidentally we would like to ask
what d. W. Blaine has done with his
AurOaborealis and Equatorial canal
since he has started his shippers as
ISOLATION. He must have mislaid it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Aeronaut Dumont denies the report
that he will accompany the crowd which
will attempt to fly to the pole. Santos
has proved that he is a brave man al
ready, and, besides, he hasn't lost any
north pole.-Los Angeles Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

During the recent financial furry on
Wall street it appears that both the
bulls and the bears got after Secretary
Shaw. Each crowd tried to take him
into its own camp and he wisely took
to the Chicago woods
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
HELL GET IN YET.

The weatherman has thus far sue
ceeded in pleasing everybody but the
coal man; but the latter viii have his
turn in the course of a short time, be-
cause winter cannot be altogether de-
nied.-Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

James w. Wadsworth. the new
speaker Of New York's general assem-
by is a member Of the young crowd
sure enough. He was born in 1877,
and graduated from Yale in 1898. In
cldentalIg he saw military service as a
private IL Porto Rico and the Philip
pines. He owes his elevation to his
present position partly to the fact that
he belongs to the small group Of re-
formers who brought about the legis-
lative end of the present upheaval in
New York. and partly to his alliance
BY marriage with. the house of Hay.
ne IS a sop-in-law Of the late secretary
81 state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

The latest British peeress is Mrs.
Forbes-Leith, formerly Miss Marie
Louise January OF st. Louis. There is
no indication, however. that the former
Miss January is a relative of January
Jones. the Nevada Peer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
DIFFERENT

w. H. Barnes, the secretary of the
state board of horticulture, says that
the legislature nor the people appre-
ciate his work. Must be something
lacking in Barnes; you notice that
there is no lack of appreciation of
Coburn's work.-BeIleviIIe Freeman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
HOW 10 Do 1T.

The other day we had man come
to the Office to tell US of a grievance
with the paper. He thought a great
injustice had been done him, and he
wanted it corrected. He was a perfect
gentleman, pleasant and agreeable
about his request. and do you know
that we rather liked the fellow before
he left. Did he get the item correct
ed? Well, I guess he did. How many
of you do as this young man did when
you have a grievance with the news
paper? Very few newspapers ever
willfully and maliciously do a man
injustice; they can't afford to. If
they make a mistake they are willing
to correct it. Remember this the next
time you want a correction in the
Belleville Freeman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Jacob n. schiff. Wall street banker
and broker, is making a noise like a
man who wants to resuscitate the Pop
ulist party, but it may be that he is
merely on the bear side Of the market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Another good result of the movement
Of the railroads toward cutting off
passes might be the elimination of the
fast mail' grafters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

A headline in the Chanute Sun says
a young woman down there was hit on
the head by a mortar board. And yet
in some places young women wear
mortar boards on their heads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
LONCWORTH's sIIPPORT

AS we understand it even if Congress
man Longworth refuses to support the
presidents policies he is willing to make
a promise to support the president 5
daughter.-Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Ohio Republicans are hoping for the
best, but they are afraid the world will
never survive having a Democratic gov
ernor in that state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

The managers and agents Of 1.-THE
System" refuse to answer the questions
put to them by the attorney general of
Missouri. He should call Lawson if he
wants information regarding the opera
lions Of the Standard Oil company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
GETTING GOOD.

Germany has apologized to Brazil
Castro has backed down before France
and the sultan of Turkey has gracious
" agreed to reform.-New York Com
mercial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
TAFTs ADVANTAGES.

Secretary Taft is a great traveller. but
he has one advantage. 1t must be easy
for him to close his trunk, so that he
can lock it after he has got it packed
Somerville journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
GIVE HIM TIME

It will be all right if III days to come
Mrs Longworth doesn't give Nick the
deuce because he cannot provide her a
home like a's.-Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

In the new double state to be formed
in the southwest, Arizona. is to get the
name but New Mexico will have the
wntaa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Attorney General Hadley has succeed
ed in leading the Standard horse to wa
ter but he can't make him drink.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Chicago drove Yerkes out Of town
and he got even by leaving his money
and art treasures to New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

The indications are that General
Bingham. Mayor BIeClenan's new police
commissioner, win have trouble in liv-
ing up to his advance notices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

The editor Of the Square Deal, the
new paper at Atwood, evidently intends
TO give 1t to his subscribers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

1t is usually true that when everything
else fails in attempting to check a can
dates growing chances a story is start
ed that he is going to have trouble in
carrying his own county. That story
has been started about Henry Allen and
you can bet his opposition is scared
La Cygne Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
TRUE ENOUGH!

The old truths are the truths we live
by. or ought to live by, and the truths
by which we have our best living.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

The acreage of the candidate crop is
large this year but the condition does
not appear to be above normal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

If the presidents railroad policy shall
be enacted into law. Colonel Bryan may
conclude that it is not worth while to
return
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Here's a good. joke for the farmers:
a decorative artist from New York
has been painting the mural decora-
tions in the Iowa state house. Being
q rural state, the artist put a yoke Of
oxen in the picture. but he put the
driver on the right-that is, the wrong
side Of the oxen. This may be para
doxical, but it is true. and the Iowa
farmers are laughing about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
WITH THEIR MONEY ANYWAY.

The precious stones imported into this
country during the past year exceed in
value by more than $10.000,000 the total
imports for any other year. Probably
some of these gems were bought by
policyholders, too.-Chicago Record
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

If Kansas city wishes a new union
depot why doesn't she go ahead and
build it and then charge the railroads
rent for using it2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

best sense and that the year to come
viii see still further advancement
along the same lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
A sIrGGESTION

Perhaps Russia is merely working
herself up to a condition favorable to
the introduction of football into the
country-Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

There has been a great deal of fighting
going on in the last few years, but Ger
many has not been in any of it. Ger
many is aching so for fight that she
IS liable to start one some of these days
whether she has any provocation or not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
UF COURs DOT Iss ID.

Mitoudt a doubt ven you vas oudt
Last night you dakes some tumbles;
Berhabs you yells, Banana shellsi's
Peeaus you slibs und stumbles.
Berhabs you fought dot you had bought
Too many fizzy drinkIets;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

II. II. Rogers is one Of those birds
that can sing but won't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Sir Oliver Lodge, scientist, says the
sun will be cold in 100000 years; but
don't let that worry you.-New York
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07


Speaking of the craze for long-dis-
lance runs, do not overlook those lately
started by Messrs. Shaw and Fairbanks.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

Be calm my friendt, und do nod spendt
Your dime in Thinking t'inklets.
Here ISIS a tip: A skineh you slip
Und busd your constitooshuns;
(Likevise your purse), on nodings worse.
Den fractured resilooshuns.
HANS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EVERY
WEEK DAY AND PUBLISHERS
PRESS REPORT ON SATURDAY
NIGHT FOR THE EDITION FOR
SUNDAY MORNING.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
KANSAS CONAENT
SOME AMAZING MARRIAGES.

SOME AMAZING MARRIAGES.
Don't be too free with your opinions
about marriage. We once knew a
drunken grass widower to marry a
sixteen-year-old girl and become a
splendid husband. A doctor of our
acquaintance quarreled and quarreled
with his wife and at midnight one
night she went to a neighbours and
never returned because of his abuse of
her. He married an old maid ten
years later, and the union has been
an ideal one. A deaf and dumb boy
who had had one arm taken off by the
cars afterwards married a grand
mother. After fully ten years he still
loves her dearly, and has her married
children, who are older than he is.
come to see him. A man whom we
have seen in the gutter a dozen times,
and who was deserted by his wife and
child because ne abused them and
would not support them. was after
wards married to an equal suffragist
lecturer. She reformed him and elect
ed him to the legislature. Often
marriage which at first seems ill-
advised turned out splendidly. Mar
riage is certainly a lottery. and the
best way is to let the contracting par
ties do the guessing. Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
WHERE ENGLAND IS AHEAD.

An6y 90 some Things DelJer IN Eng
land than we do here. For instance,
a member of parliament there will
not vote on any measure in any Of
its stages of progress to enactment,
the passage of which will affect his
financial interests; that is, affect any
company in which he is a stockholder.
How many votes would be cast in the
senate of the United States if this were
the rule there? And this is not
written, but an unWritten law, enforced
by public opinion among the members
Of the parliament, the Concrete ex-
preston of the sentiment that such an
action is dad form, don't you know
That's all, and it's enough. It would
representatives to adopt as their rule
of condUct.-Olathe Mirror.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07

A good name is rather to be chosen than
great riches.-Proverbs 22;4.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-11-02

What ever objection may be
raised against w. G. Travis, can
didate for Commissioner, even his
enemies will ncede that he would
make an able and efficient officer.
The fight against Travis is inspired
purely from spite and jealou y. A
few sore-heads at Prosser in frenzy
of fear lest they should lose the
county seat, can't throw dust in
the eyes of those who know. Mr..
Travis is the choice of the republi
can convention and will be elected.
Newspaper talk like that at Prosser
adds a little spice and ginger to a
campaign, but when it comes to
voting that is another thing. Peo-
pie are not as tickle as some news
papers would have us b lieve. At
the polls the people will turn in a
verdict for the Republican ticket
and candidates.--Richland Advo.
cate.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-11-02

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Desert Land, Final Proof. United
States Land Office, Walla Walla Wash
October %, 1906
Notice is hereby given that William
Wallace FELTON,, of North Yakima, Wn.
has filed notice of intention to make
proof on his desert land claim No. 25l.
for the FIR. NW4 NW4 Sec. 2, II. 9, N,
r. % E. w. NJ. before Register and Re-
,, ceiver, U. S. Land Office at Walla Wsl-
la, Wash, on Tuesday, the 4th day of
December, 1876.
He names the following witnesses to
prove the complete irrigation and rec
iamation of said land: starry VanHorn
of Richland, Wash, Fred Gibbons of
Kennewick, WASH, Carl Vertrees of
Kennewick. wsah, & H. Winner of
! North Yakima, Wash.
Al. GlLLIs, Register.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-11-02

Some very questionable deals
have been passed by boards of COM
Imissioners because promises had
been given by one of their number
outside and before the meeting OF
the board. Often have We heard
commissioners say about certain
doubtful matters: "Well, it had
gone so far that the only thing we
could do was to approve, but if all
the board had known before what
we know now we would mt have
allowed it," The legal and proper
way is to transact business only
when the board is in session.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-11-02
Candidate News.

Harry Van Horn is candidate for
reelection to the Office Of assessor on
the republican ticket. The assessment
he made, with the help Of the deputies
he appointed, has been satisfactory t"
the taxpayers. Mi. Van Horn deserves
reelection Oh his record and admins
tration of the office. He has been a
life long republican, loyal to the party
and the ticket and should receive the
party vote to man.