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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-28
ONLY AN OUTLAW.

Temperance quarrels in Kansas are
mild compared with similar quarrels in
other places. says the Atchison Globe.
and it cites this dispatch from Chicago
as an illustration:
Resolutions demanding that the
city council authorize the mayor
to issue special bar permits for
dance halls and that the state
legislature grant complete home rule
in regard to amusements, were passed
by 10000 representatives gathered in
mass meeting here this afternoon. Out
side the First regiment armory, where
the meeting was held, was an overflow
gathering estimated at 10000. In
marching order more than three hun
bred societies Of Germans. Swedes.
NOrwegians and Poles paraded in
Michigan avenue with flags and nu-
merous uniformed bands. The speak
ers who addressed the meeting scored
the reformers, the mayor and the
states attorney, whom they held re-
sponsible for the revocation of their
permits. Men prominent in the affairs
of the city. including a number of
aldermen, occupied seats upon the
platform in the armory when the
meeting was called to order. Samuel
Alschuler. ex-candidate for governor
of Illinois on the Democratic ticket.
was one Of the speakers. Exon
gresham E. T. Noonan declared that
the revocation Of the bar permits was
an invasion of constitutional rights.
Other speakers OF local prominence
followed and the meeting closed with
the adoption of resolutions protesting
against all attempts to deprive mem
bers Of the societies Of the right to en-
joy themselves in their own way"
And ali of this unroar was started
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DID sTIrBBs DO IT2

In these columns yesterday were a
/ few remarks about W. R. Stubs. in
which the state Journal tried to take
an optimistic view of the inconsist-
encies of the Republican state chair
man and it really hoped that Mr.,
Stubs might now prove that he is
sincere and consistent in his present
alleged fight for the Square Deal and
right principles generally.
But no sooner had those lines been
written than there appeared a signed
statement from Henry J. Allen con-
corning the Second district primaries.
in which appears this paragraph: =
Some remarkable incidents dis
graced the campaign. At Baldwin
City. Saturday. a negro arrived from
Lawrence loaded with whisky bottles
He went around distributing liquor.
saying that Henry Allen sent him. He
was arrested and later confessed in
court that he had been sent to Bald
win by Mr.. Stubs and others"
The State Journal knows nothing
whatever of the facts back of Mr.
Aliens charge, but If Mr.. Stubs is
guilty of any completely in such trick
as that it wishes to take back any good
things it may have said about him.
This paper has no words in its
vocabulary to express its contempt. for
any man who would do a-thing of that
kind,
Baldwin, the seat of Baker univer-
sity, is naturally extreme in it's opposi-
ton to liquor. To convince the people
of Baldwin that a candidate is at all
tlnged with an inclination towards
liquor. let alone using it to carry an
election, would be to set them solidIy
against that candidate. If Mr.. Stubs
got d negro to distribute whisky there.
telling that he was sent by Henry
Allen, Mp. Stubs took a sure method
of setting the people of Baldwin
against Mr.. Allen however dastardIy
the trick was.
1t was made even more infamous by
the fact that Baldwin was once Henry
Aliens old home. There he worked
his way partly through Baker unfver-
sity, and he is-or was some time ago
"a member of the university's board
of trustees.
If Mr.. Stubs committed such
trick as that. while he was preaching
the doctrine of the Square Deal and
uprightness in politics, it shows that
he is as inconsistent as ever.
1t Is difficult for the State Journal
to believe that Mr.. Stubs did such Il
thing. A man who would stab an
Others reputation in such manner.
who would steal his honor among his
friends, is dishonest. One can hardly
believe It of Stubs. The State Journal
trusts that Mr.. Allen is n1isinformed,
and that Mr.. Stubs had nothing to 10
with the matter. Kansas has had
enough of Burton and Kelly ethics,
and 1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Stubs
is not of that class.
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be up to DR.. Henry w. Roby to get
busy. The editor or the Clay Center
Times goes out Of his way to cfiticise
poetry. He takes a club and swats It
squarely between the eyes. Listen TO
his shameful utterances: Speaking Of
poetry. the soulful kind that IS so
shadowy and feathery ard emotionaaly
shivery; the kind trat comes from
whence and goes whittier ike violet
perfume In the darkness of midnight
the kind that the old fellows wrote
when drunk on champagne and fine
women were near; champagne is great
inspiration for Iurid verse; so is whisky,
only the verse is a little more beefey.
Ella Wheeler wilcox seemed drunk on
mixture Of the two when she wrote
most Of her truck years ago. though it
may have been simply the riotous blood
Of pink ribbon youthfulness. But to
get back TO poetry written by the rakes
of old and the rakes Of the newer day;
that stuff. much Of which If really un-
derstood, would make girlhood blush
and sturdy manhood swear; there never
was a sentiment or truth expressed in
this erotic stuff, which, If really under
stood, could not have been better ex-
pressed in prose. Poetryfs mission in the
world is the same as music's; it is
music. The Jingle. the modulated ca
dences. the pathos, the love pats, if so
clear that the average man can grasp
it as he runs. are soothing and pleasant,
If there is nothing else to do. But prose
would be better. 1t is a literary crime
to write stuff in prose that no one can
understand. 1t Is a crime in to take
page to tell what q sentence or two
should tell In poetry it seems to be a
virtue and an evi6crce of genius. But
poetry is going out of fashion. all the
old fellows who manufactured it are
dead, the new ones are writing prose.
The world would not be any the worse
burned -
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because the decent people of Chicago
demanded that the saloon licenses be
raised from $500 to $1,000 a year; that
bars be abolished in some of the
dance halls and other dens Of vice
that saloons be compelled to close at
the hours designated by law. and that
a determined effort be made to do
away with the vice and crime that has
held sway in Chicago for months.
Because these reforms have been in
augurated the saloon element is howl
ing about 1.-The invasion of constitu-
tional rights and demanding that the
dance halls be allowed to foster vice
as heretofore.
Which simply emphasizes the fact
that the saloon is an outlaw. no matter
what the law may be. In prohibition
Kansas the liquor element demands
local option or high license. IN high
license states it demands low license.
In low license Chicago it not only OBJ
Jeeted to raising the license. but It re
fused to obey the few loose laws that
were passed to control It.
The saloon is an outlaw at best. It
viii always foster crime and object
to regulation" no matter how loose
that regulation may be. The thing to
do is to suppress it entirely.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS

rFrorn the Philadelphia Record
Another mans hobby always looks
easy to ride
Success is apt TO turn mans head
even when he has a stiff neck
There is no philosophy like that OF
not wanting what we can't get
The foolishness of woman consists
Of being more afraid OF a mouse than
of man.
The Optimist-"I hear you are as
good as married" The Cynic-''B Bet
ter. Divorced
Her Papa=''What are his means ?"
Her Papa's Daughter-''a he means 20
marry me-
Overheard in the Garden OF Eden
Eve: ION the level now, Ad, am the
only girl you ever lovsd2 q
Wagg-''Do you think that poodle OF
the BARRIERS is full blooded?' Wagg-
st1So, I'll bet it's a sham poodle"
The lover may sigh Ike furnace
according to Shakespeare, but after he
is married he is apt to swear at enc.
Uncle George=ssBut don't ycu want
to grow up and be a big MANI" Little
Willie-''Not on yer life. want to be
jockey"
She-"Au the men tell me you are 3
thoroughly good fellow" He-'Ye1.
but don't let that worry you. I expect
to reform after we are married"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-28
JANA WKER JOTY

Speaking Of chess tournaments, two
osborne county men who began in
1879 to play chess for the CHAMPION
ship Of the county, are still at it.
A southern Kansas farmer has put
in the last four years trying to invent
a machine that viii milk the COW, and
Deacon Palmer, who has learned
thing or two in his lifetime, asks, why
don't he let his wife milk her?'
Miss Nellie Fouts, an Osborne county
girl who is a missionary i'll China, wrote
home that one Of the things that started
story circulated among the Chinese that
thirty thousand Cinnamon had just
been killed in the United States.
The women's clubs ought to pass
resolutions about Conner Davies for
starting the story that a woman near
Florence was kicked by mule. caus-
ing her to bite off the end Of her
tongue, and her husband refused a
thousand dollars for the mule.
The newspaper brethren should pass
resolutions concerning the case of
A. Q. Miller, Of the Belleyille Telescope.
who persists in hiding some mighty
bright paragraphs under the heading
paper instead of putting them on his
editorial page where they can be easily
stolen.
There was great disappointment felt"
at Gas City Saturday, and a "Iong-felt
want" refused to be aba5ed. It was
primary day and some boys got q key
and rolled it down the street to a place
Of secrecy. Men who saw it tagged and
soon a considerable crowd had gather
ed in anticipation Of breaking the
drouth. The key was tapped and found
to contain-only water.
Ancient history from the Russell
Record: The winter Of II and u was
a hard nut to crack in the line Of arctic
weather Cattle died by the thousands
and west Of Ellis county. antelopes were
frozen while standing in snow drifts
In the spring q872) every available
man was hired by the cattle owners to
roam over the country to find and skin
the carcasses of the dead cattle, which
covered the land for miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-28
FRON OTHER PENS

FURTHER RETURNS FROM JOLO.
Additional reports of the action at
Mount Dajo confirm the correctness
of the presidents estimate OF II and
cause confusion to those critics VINO
were so ready to go off at half cock
with furious denuneiations of the
bloodthirsty barbarities of the Ameri-
can army. It now appears that there
was no complete determination of the
outlaw band. Every effort was made to
avoid injurlng the women and chill
dren. many of whom were saved, and
supplies. assistance and shelter were
promptly given to them by our troops
after the battle. AS for the charge
that the action was needlessly precipi-
tate. and that the outlaws might have
been captured without fight If
little patience had been exercised, 1t Is
now to be observed that efforts to in
duce or compel them to surrender had
been patiently made for six months
without effect, the fanatical Moslems
believing they would be able to hold
their crater fortress for at least two
years. Finally as to the status of
these martyr patriots who died de
Tending their homes and their liber-
ties it is to be observed that a num-
Der of leading Moros actively cooper
ated with our troops and that the sui
tan and his chief dattos are congratu-
lating our troops and are rejoicing in
the Kidding of the island of a pest and
a burden, so that now the fields can
be titled and industries prosecuted
without molestation.-New York Trib-
une.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Still. Ironquills recent poem about
boo ks will not especially interest the
literary gentlemen who manufacture
books at the various race tracks Of the
country.
This department knows of six
year-old Topeka boy who promises to
be another Herbert HadIey when he
grows up. At least he knows how to
ask eighteen embarrassing questions to
the minute, and as he belongs to no
union he works at it fourteen hours a
day.
A Topeka man has been fined 500
Tor hugging girls. 1t should not be
supposed, however, that that is a fixed
price Some Topeka young men get
on much cheaper than that. while 1t
costs others a great deal more-after
the wedding ceremony is over.
We Judge from California. and Art
iona dispatches that the railroads are
having their usual troubles with floods
in the desert.
The winter we are having as sum-
nler approaches makes US long for the
gladstone springtime that was with US
last January.
The Chicago Inter Ocean. in discus
sing mathematics and the female
mind, says that women do not. as a.
rule know or care much about figures
mats where the 1nter-Ocean is ex-
tremeiy Off not more so. The av-
erage woman does care a great deal
about figures, especially her own: and
as for knowing them, she can spot one
tnats padded block away.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TFrom the Chicago News
Even the prepaid telegram goes on
tick.
More men are willing to lend an ear
thar. 2. hand.
Everything comes quickly to those
who refuse to wait.
The more a man talks the less time
he has for achieving success.
It isn't difficult to forgive those who
wrong our neighbors.
No. Alonzo. a hght-haired woman
isn't necessarily light-headed.
Charity is the term some people ap-
ply to their conscience-fund contribu-
tons.
A man never accomplishes much I'M
less he has a wife to boss honl-so u
woman says
If a man is unable to show scars on
his fingers he never learned to white
when a boy
But few men VIII pass through the
peariy gates if st. Peter springs an in
vestigating committee on them.
Fully nine-tenths of the so-caIled
tough luck In this world IS due to a
combination Of door Judgment and
lazlnesss
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Mr.. CALDERHFAD,s POSITION

Dickinson county's Republican con-
vention Endorsed Congressman Calder
heads position on the railroad ques-
ton" What is Mr.. Caiderhead's posi-
ton Topeka Capital.
Mr.. Calderhead's position Is that the
government has just as much right to
say what farmer shall charge for his
corn as to say what rates the railroad s
shall charge for transportation. And
as the courts have repeatedly decided
that the government can fix transporta-
ton rates. it can be easily figured out
what the Dickinson county Republican
convention indorsed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IRON the Atchison Globe.I

LFrom the Atchison Globe
It seems to US that nine-tenths Of the
'stories" are old.
When you have a row. don't you al
ways say the other fellow is a hood
lum?
81 have read all of your Vaccination
Notes" a man said to Drake Watson
today.
It is a rare woman who understands
that when a man pays woman atten-
ton he Is not always IN love.
What has become of the old fashion
ed woman who called her friends
"copycat," when they bought some
thing ike hers2
After you have seen a woman in
dresses, it is funny to see her in tights
That is the reason chorus girls are so
attractive
Ask the average woman how old
contemporary is, and she Will say.
"Oh, I don't know She's good many
years older than I.
When two town men start of to the
country in buggy, every woman VINO
sees them, says to herself. I wonder
what they are up to now
If a man works particularly hard
early in the morning and makes
half hour by it. he wastes an hour later
in the day in complacent reflection
The women are always talking Of the
impoliteness Of interrupting any one
who is talking, but It Is a man opinion
that it is more impoHte TO interrupt
any one who is eating
When a woman goes insane, she
shows her greatest anger when taking
about her husband. And, it might be
added. occasionally a husband gets II
from his wife before she goes crazy.
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an actress out OF money and an en-.
gagement. Deduction: She must stand
A4fs. Barnes OF ana bring her namg
before the public She adorns herself
with what she calls $500 worth OF
Je"eiIy- DEDUCTION: RhinestOnes. She
sends for a reporter instead of a de-
tectlve. Deduction: Sensation. The
detective who was here today asked
where she bought the jewels. and she
failed to remember the name OF the
house. Deduction. She didn't want
to-"
sir. you have become brazen againl''
exclaimed the stenographer.
Last night" he continued as IL he
hadn't heard her, Il sat here in my
room for half an hour without a light
noise in the hall I quietly looked out
and saw a lady standing on the sill Ct
the han window. Deduction: Up 10
snuff. I think she pinned something to
the inside OF the curtains, near the ton
I made sure It was Miss Delamar. De-
pose we seek"
Miss Bierce followed the bank clerk
down the hall to the window. Close Up
to the pole she saw the channels bzs
and motionsd him to reach 1t down
mo use to have any trouble about
it," he said as he placed the bag In
her hand. call her up to your room
and tell her that you found her jewels
where she has mislaid them You are
something Of q physiognomist- study
her face when you produce the bag
That's all, Miss Bierce-
But, Mr.. Tfllmans I am overwheirn-
ed with shame and modification ana
can you ever-2?'
s'There-therel bIushed and caused
you to think I was guilty Good night
Miss Bierce- '-(Copyright, 1906, BY =
c. Eastment)
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The Bishon,s f1.o0O.

lowing story II was sitting in my
room one morning very busy, when ]
was told that a lady wanted to see
me. I was very busy. and almost said
at first, oh, I'm too busy to see any
one this morning But I thought, and
said, No, have made rule never
to refuse to see anybody, in case it Is
some one in trouble So 1 said. Let
the lady come upstairs She came, and
the first thing she said to me was this:
I was going to ask you whether you
can find use in your work for
f1.O0O?' I said, 1T is the very thing
1 have been wondering all the morn
ing how I was to get I showed her
exactly what I was going to spend her
$1,000 on, and the whole scheme was
carried OUT
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Sure It was Not a Mans work.

saws the New York Tribune, the fol-
lowing story was told of old Geroni-
mo, the most celebrated Indian pris-
oner ward the federal government has
ever had:
life astonish your, Geronimo was
asked by his keeper.
Most of them do not, for see how
they come about said the aged In
dian.
but" he added ''they took me
once to New Orleans and showed me
where they made ice. At one end of
a building I saw wood thrown into
furnaces and out of the other end
came blocks of ice. Man did not do
that; only the Great Spirit can make
ice from Ere
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IRON the New York Press.l

From the New York Press.1
If a man had rich father-in-law
probably he'd fail
If you get mad because somebody
steps on your corn people think you
have a bad heart and If you don't that
you are a poor TOOL
One objection to being a clergyman
is if you don't marry all the old maids
in the church they prosecute you. and
If you do. the law prosecutes you.
A man never knows what poor
guesser he is till he sits down and hr-
ures out how different married life Is
from what he thought it was going
to be.
II the government taxed men IN a
Wnols year Tor Keeping people clean
one night on an after-th eater sunrsr
there would be q revolution.
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We went over to hear the band boys
practice at close range last night and
we think that some day they viii be ex-
pert tootists. But musical critic
would probably find flaws with their
playing, It being only their third rehear-
sal. In the first place he would likely
call for lesser grunt from Bilge Pitkin
OF the big horn, who certainly blows
like Sam Hill so far as noise is con
cerned. Then Phil Hendershot ought
to back pedal on that trombone, the
critic would no doubt say, for he really
jams it too hard down his throat The
bass drum is fine, and Slim Hart sure
does thump it with braggadocio a
kind word would be said, too. for Fred
Bailey, who tWeedles the fife in great
shape most of the time. The cotEets
take the cake. There being four Of
them, at least two get there ely on the
right key in every place. At present the
bunch is what the critics cali an
"umpah bah" band, because waltz time
alone is being exploited. All hall the
band-may it some day equal Sousa ;
Royal italian Red Band.-Paw Paw
BazOo-
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KANSAS COMMENT



Inc man with the millions is hiding
Out He is the richest man in all the
world but he dares not go upon the wit
ness stand to answer a few innocent
questions concerning his business. He
is a hermit, an exile from society. He
has no health. and cannot eat q. square
meal He is haunted by the fear Of
publicity, and bounded by his own
conscience. He is a stranger to social
intercourse, and in the realm of warm
friendships he is a pauper He is the
object Of condemnation by the public
upon which he has preyed. And the
declining years are upon him. The
pathway is toward the setting sun. And
1t is said his mind is giving way. That
may not be true. but it is not imprOb-
able. But true it is. with all his wealth,
the old man is a pitiful sight as he ap
proaches the day when he must lay
aside his millions, and ike the poorest
man that walks the earth, go out upon
the untried path alone. Yes, he IS the
richest man in all the world, and from
a cold, financial view point his life has
been a marvellous success. And the life
win soon be finished, for the twilight
of evening is beginning to gather about
him. Has it paid marion Record.
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a lady. entertaining guest of impor-
lance. was giving final Instructions to
Now. polly" she said. 'in the morn
ing take pitcher of hot water up to
Mr. ks room. Be sure not to forget
this"
Thought no more Of the matter until the
next day, when at noon she remarked
casually: ''Of course. Polly, you carried
that hot water to Mr.. ks room this
morning."
Polly beamed. ''D'law. Miss Mary. I
was so feared I mought furgit dat water
dat I ey'ard it up las night ''-Lippin-
colts.
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The first day Of April is rapidly ap-
preaching and the weather man is see
ing to It that the demand for coal keeps
Up as much as ever.
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1t ts announced that the evidence is
all SIN I'm The Smoot case. Let's see
does anyone remember when the Smoot
case cOmmencedg
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Late returns show that three wards
in Lawrence We're carried by Henry
Allen. rs this another endorsement
for W. r. Stubs in his home town?
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AS A RULE

The more desperate, abandoned and
notorious the criminal the harder his
lawyer always works to turn him loose
on society again.-Chicago Tribune.
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SAVING At THE sPIGOT.

marvellous. He throws away millions
OF dollars on useless printing and pos
tai franks. yet stops the elevators in
public buildings on the score of econ
omy. He turns loose pots of money on
questionable contracts, yet prohibits
government clerks in Washington
from using the telephone on any ex-
cept public business A news story
says that a veritable army Of spies has
been set to watch the department
clerks to see that they do not use the
phones for private purposes.-Savan-
nah News.
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Anyway the days are getting longer
whether spring Is here or not.