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Arizona republican., 1906-02-02
STRENGTH IN VERSATILITY.
Ready Knowledge of Many Things Means the Success of a News
 paper Man.

Though I think it is true. as was pointed out in a former article that newspaper reporting has reached a higher development in New York than elsewhere. probably nine-tenths of the newspaper men in the metropolis came from the smaller cities where they re- ceived an all-aTOund training difficult to secure on d great journal On a small newspaper with a restricted staff, specialization which doesn't make good reporters cannot exist. An able man plays all parts-the best of schooling for ais later work on a New York paper which will demand that he turn out an intelligent and interesting story about any one of a thousand va rieties of news. A good reporter must have a vast amount of superficial knowledge; it is at once his greatest strength and his greatest weakness Reporters of Today" by Hartley Dav- is, in Everybody's Magazine for Feb ruary.
Arizona republican., 1906-02-02
FUND FOR PROSPERITY.

In emulation of Benjamin Franklin Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston has do- mated S1,0OO to form fund that is Jo accumulate interest for 100 years. to be then expended for purposes which will in the opinion of the managers composing the board at that time best serve the interests of humanity.
Arizona republican., 1906-02-02
sEAeULLs' HEAVY BANQUET.

SeagulIs invaded a boat load of her ring at NanaimO. Wash. while the fishermen were away When the fish ermen returned sixty had eaten SD much that they could not fly away The fishermen lifted them into the water and they just managed to swim to the shore, where they lay down to recover from their dinner.
Arizona republican., 1906-02-02
THE NEW IDEA"
 OFFERED TONIGHT
A Program of the Entertainment at
 the Indian School.

The Cantata. "The New Idea" will be given by the pupils of the Indian school, in the school chapel at o'clock Friday evening, Feb. ?. The public Is cordially invited. Admission free.
 The argument of the cantata fol- lows: The prime minister has become possessed of a wonderful idea through which he hopes to bring happiness to the people of his country. But when this idea is carried out, it brings dls- content and the widest confusion. The people rise in revolt. but they are pacified by the promise to revert to the old state of things and the promise that the prime minister will never have another Idea"
 CHARACTERS.
 King .-.--.-.......--.. Otto DOOlittle Prime Minister George Smith Queen ........... Sarah Maddux Prim Ministers Wife. Lizzie Shields Mona ..--........ Myra Valenzuela Sentries-Paul Mickey, Bernard Jack son, Elario Salazar, Thomas Ho- manic, Wilsey McLain.
 Solos and concerted numbers-for the leading characters and unison choruses
 Act 1.
 Introduction, Chorus and Solo We Come With Anxious Hearts to Learn .....-......-...... Sentry Song 'I Would Inform My Sweet. ..-.-..--.... ...-....-.-...- Queen Trio With Pleasure I Remark"
 ........-... King. Queen and Sentry Finale (solos and chorus) Come. All Good People, ...................-
 Act II.
 Chorus and Solos Our System New Is Being Tried ..... Sentry and King Solo If I should Say.
 ...-.............C Caroline and Queen Duet With Aspect Stern" n,"....
 .-...----..........-M Mona and Sentry Song 'In BygOne Days When You. Did Rule ....... King
Arizona republican., 1906-02-02

The Macmillan Compauys Spring Announcement list, inst out this week. brings word of a number of important and interesting forthcoming books. of which the following are a few of the more noteworthy: New Novels by Winston Churchill, Owen Mister. Eger- ton Castle and Eden PhilpOtts: the biography of Lord Randolph Church. ill., by Winston Spencer Churchill, the first volume of Dr. Henry c. Lea's History of the InquisitiOn of Spain;" Napoleon and His Times" the new volume in the Cambridge Modern His tory; "The Garden, You and l." by Ma bel Osgood Wright, author of "The Garden of a Commuters Wife" "The Life of Animals" by Ernest IngersoI: "Tarry at Home Travels" by Edward Everett Hale; Pre- Raphaelitism and the Pre-R -Raphaelite Brotherhood" by w. Holman Hunt; TennysOn's "In MemOriam." with the authors notes, Nero" by Stephen Phillips; "The De velopment of Shakespeare as a Dram atist," by Professor George P. Baker; the first volume of "The CycIopedia of American Agriculture" edited by Prof essor L. H. Bailey; "The Bitter Cry of the Children by John Spargo; "A 4Iiving Wage" by the Rev. John A Ryan; Mars and Its Canals" by Per civaI Lowell; The Manufacture of Wine" by Paul Pacottet, translated and enlarged by Professor F. T. Biolet- Ii; Wireless Telegraphy and Tele- phony" by Professor Domenico Mag; zotto; and India" by Flora Annie Steele, author of "On the Face of the Waters"
Arizona republican., 1906-02-02
ENeLAND's LID" A FAILURE.

The British Early Closing AssOcia- ton admits that the early closing act. passed by parliament after seventeen years of agitation, has proved a faiI- ure. It has been in force sixteen months and is still practically inop- erative. In no district can two-thirds of the shOpkeepers be induced To adopt
Arizona republican., 1906-02-02

Solo He Has Done His Best King
 Queen, Prime Minister and Caroline Finale (solo and chorus) His Notion
 Was So Very Poor Or''.--....
Arizona republican., 1906-02-02

There is hardly ever any fun in any thing for a boy if his parents give him permission to do it.-New York Press.
Arizona republican., 1906-02-02
VALUE OF NITROGEN.

Nitrogen is so vital to the growth of plants that large sums are eXpend- ed for fertilizers rich in that element So far chemistry has done nothing ef- fective in the way of obtaining nitro gen from the atmosphere. Yet it Is calculated that the nitrogen in the air weighs no less than four million tons
 There are 1O,SS2 advocates, solicitors and prosecutors in Italy. whose gross incomes. according to the income tax returns. amount to s. 462.615. which gives an average income of about SS15. Of these legal men, five profess to have an income Of S6 OOO eight of S5. GOO. six teen Of S4.OO0, seventy S3.OO0 and 5.5oS return theirs as under 500
Arizona republican., 1906-02-02

Factory Smokers. The best SC Cigar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-12
JAYHA WKER JOTS

The Holton Record was 81 years old
last week The first issue was got out
by NJ. NJ. Beck, who still owns and
edits the DaDer.
Yes" remarks Homer Hoch, there
are a good many mysteries in the
world. For instance-that anybody
should like boiled cabbage"
Osborne county is given four dele
gates in the Democratic state conven-
ton, and the Farmer says this viii take
about all the Democrats out of the
county.
Bert Walker: Old Bill Shiftess, who
was converted a few weeks ago, threat
ems to backslide. But it viii surprise
no one, for that is regular with him.
Bill says it isn't his fault he hasn't
stuck, but that the church members
wouldn't give him a chance. He says
he thought the brothers in the church
always helped one another. He went
to several OF them and wanted to Dor
row a sum Of money to get his spring
work on the farm started, but all Of
them turned him down Instead of
helping me get a start, says Bill,
they wanted me to give som ething to-
ward paying that fat preachers salary.
He has n good Job and doesn't need
my money. There is nothing in being
religious" Bill also says there are too
many hypocrites in the church to suit
him. He says he knows half the mem
bers go there Just because they think
it Will help them in their business. One
Of them sells coal to the church and
another sells the preacher his gro
ceries. Il never could be a hypocrite,'
says Bill, land that's why I am going
to quit the church. I've made up my
mind that a fellow can be a good man
without going there every Sunday. No
more of it for me"
Ancient history lesson from the Sa-
betha Herald: A short time before
J Jesse James was killed. he and Frank
Ford were in Sabetha looking around
with a possible view Of transacting
some bank business. At that time the
Sabetha marshal was one Smith, who
was bound to make a good record and
was possessed of g very keen eye. He
contracted a habit of looking carefully
at any stranger who happened to be in
town. James and Ford were crossing
Main street near the National bank
building when they met Smith face to
face. Smith looked Jesse James
straight in the eyes, and Ford and
James took the first train out of town.
When Frank Ford was in jail in St.
Joseph two months later for the muir
der of James, H. c. Haines went to
have look at him. Upon hearing
where Mr.. Haines was from, Ford told
of the Sabetha incident and said that
he exerted every influence he had over
Jesse James to keep him from return
ing to Sabetha and killing Marshal
Smith. James was convinced that
Smith knew who he was. Many Sa-
betha people remembered having seen
the two men here, when their pictures
vyare r7rfnfo5 in the DanerS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrona the Atchison Globe. ]

From the Atchison Globe
When some people come to see you.
don't you feel like yawning all the
time?
OF all the words in the English Ian
guage Don't tell" are paid the least
attention.
If it wasn't for Sunday. the average
married man wouldn't have anything
to look forward to
Don't cultivate that habit of look
ing for something to worry about: You
warded.
Sometimes people complain of their
individuality being crushed out, when
it would really be the best thing that
could happen to them
The discrimination against the male
sex has no end: When a scarecrow IS
built, ever notice that 1t is patterned
and dressed like a Man?
There are very few women who can
look al their husbands without Civ
ing the impression in the glance that
they believe they might have taken
their eggs to a better market.
Could you see another man angel
get a crown with more and larger
Jewels than yours, and admit, without
reserve. that he deserves it? That's
what you Will have to do in heaven.
A Princess Is family af1fction
enough, but the real great sorrow
comes from raising a Prince. There is
big homes have been erected BY the
state to accommodate the Prince and
his parents. The palace for the Prince
Is called a reform school, and the
home where he will drop his parents
on the way Is called a Poor Farm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-12
The Bigness of Texas.

1t is not so noteworthy after all, that
Texas is great big" state, says NJ
G Cunniff in the March Worlds Work
that could legally have ten senators If
it wished amicably to break like 4
glass snake, into five parts as provided
by the contract made when it consented
to become one of the United States.
Don't you go Whirling US around " said
a Texas editor. ION Texline or Brows-
vile. or FL Paso, or Orange. Every
body knows that if you tipped the state
UP and tapped it north like a tossed
pancake It would knock down the sky
scrapers of St. Paul; and east, that El
Paso would drop into the Atlantic; and
south, that the state would blot out
most of Mexico. OF course, Texas is
big; children learn In school that it is
big" The real shining glory of Texas
lies in the way commonwealth of
265, 900 square miles, and a few more,
with a population of more than 5000, 900,
drawn from everywhere including more
than 500, 900 negroes, that is eastern.
western, southern, and northern with
ports and ocean front rich and popu-
lous farms, wideaWake and growing
cities, incredible areas of cattle range,
rainy climate, rainless climate, and
tropics and snow, pulling people in it so
fast that it IS drawing the natior's
center of population southward-how
this lavish variegated empire is hand
ling its task of living by high ideals.
The people of Texas wonder why the
nation Is so perturbed about regulating
railroad rates. It is one of their many
distinctions that they regulate not only
the rates, but the railroads themselves.
Nor do they fear the growth of an
American plutocracy. 1T is just as easy
to manage the corporations as to have
the corporations manage you" say the
legislators from the rice fields and the
cotton fields. the "piney woods and
the uano estacaeo, the busting cities
and the mesquite grown ranges, and
even from the forks of the creeks and
the heads of the canons" Indeed, after
taxing every visible bit of corporation
property in Texas-and some additional
miles of railroad that projected over the
border-the last 1egfsla ture. after deep
and subtle thought, somewhat hard to
explain. but really very enlightened.
passed an Intangible tax law" This
taxes all corporation values that one
cannot see or put ones hand on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-12
THE YOTCE o. 80 PEoPLE.

1t is exceedingly gratifying to those
who respect the law that Saturday.
primaries resulted as they did. The
Ring is rebuked. Anarchy as repre-
scented by the Schlitz combine suffered
g. severe repulse. The people Of Shaw
nee county have declared for law and
against vice and crime. The joint has
been notified to move on.
AS politics IS manipulated IN Shaw
nee county, it is a signal victory. The
Schlitz candidates had the support of
the Curtis and Mulvane managers as
usual, who. with the beer graft crowd,
make up the Ring. It IS really re-
markabie that the law and order ele-
ment did as well as It did considering
the powerful combination that was
lined up for the joint candidates. and
the disreputable methods that have
been used for number Of years in
carrying this county.
At the same time, one cannot help
feeling that the majority for law and
order ought to have been much larger.
Considering the serious questions in
neutrality-suspicious. Of grave import to
the future of Topeka and its people
It would appear as though the honest,
loyal citizens would rise en- masse
against the representatives Of the sys-
TEN that is responsible for the vice,
law-breaking and graft in the capital
of Kansas.
notwithstanding the nominations of
Foster and Tnkerson, the people OF To
peka who are in favor Of making their
city the cleanest and best city in the
west should not go to sleep. It is at
times like this that the forces of wrong
frequently snatch victory from the face
of defeat The fight Is only wen started
The beer combine Is still powerful with
the police force. Then too, the county
election still has to be won, and it VIII
be ten months from now before Foster
and Wilkerson will be in a position to
do anything against law breakers. The
Ring will continue to rule for these ten
months and the joints may accomplish
much harm in that time If they are not
suppressed.
Yet the voice of the people Saturday
ought to have a wholesome effect. They
have declared that the law must be
obeyed. the courts must be respected,
that the joint and its attendant vices
and graft must be driven out. But hav-
ing spoken, let the people not go to
sleep, but insist on having their decree
enforced,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-12
ouAKUR REFnEcT1oNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
Even truth often needs a chaperone.
When Is a bore not a bore? When
he's afar.
You never hear OF a southern lynch
ing being color blind
The best memory is the kind that -
members what to forget
Any old cigar tastes good to the man
who Is trying to quit
The fellow who browns his trouble
IN drink Is generally looking for trou-
Bile.
You can praise an actress to the
skies, but that doesn't make a star of
her.
Let a man have his own way about
everything and anybody can get along
with him.
The bitterness Of experience begins In
a Woman's life when she first refdfs to
men as bruteE.
NO man IS a hero to his valet" quot
ed the Wise Guy. II am" contradicted
the Simple Mug. I'm my own valet"
Here, my good man." said the kind
hearted woman, lis my husbands Ola
overcoat. You viii find It good ana
warm Tank you, nna'ana. VERY
much. but couldn't t'ink of it, re-
piled the weary Wayfarer. I'd look "a
comfortable in it dat It would ruin me
business.
willie put his stockings on
Rkrongstae out, naughty whfnn.
WSliias pleasure all Is gone
Aet1eF turned the hose On him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-12
hesitated and

The girl biushed. hesitated and
then said frankly.
why, you see. of course. it would
really be all right, but then you know
people would talk-they wouldn't APP
prove"
She began to hounder in her expla-
nation. and John suddenly compre-
hended.
''T see. he laughed nodding but
you see you have come to seem to
me like one of my oHn-rny eighth
girl. I call you-but suppose you
are grown up enough for a chap
er0ne."
II am twenty years old" she said
with dignity.
Indeed a great age. wen. I have
a second cousin, a meek, elderly
widow, whom the children rule firmly
I presume she would like 3, month or
so at the cottage"
So It was finally arranged.
From that time on John walker
suddenly regarded his children's
teacher in new light
Il wonder II a beautiful Young girl
like Bess could come to care for an
old dufer like me-" he pondered Il
ing happily over the waters of the lake
on the first night Of their arrival.
Bess!' he said suddenly.
But the children had also called
Bess, and she was away FOR a roup
on the beach
Fshe is only child. after ALL" he
thought with a sigh.
In the Walker boathousa was 2. came
which the children were forbfddee to
use, but Bess one Sunday morning ven
tured forth alone in it. She MANAGED
II very skilfully, but on her return a
suoden wind came UP and made the
Iake choppy. She had all she could do
to keep her little craft right side I'd.
Jonn Walker, coming on the veranda
OF the cottage, saw her danger and
rushed to the boathouse, intending to
row out after her Another emotion be
SIDES anxiety surged within him, and
he knew now that he loved this play
mate Of his children
She was making great progress with
her tiny canoe, and as he rowed out
from the boathouse, she was landing
at the pier
L was very merry, winsome face,
alight with the excitement and danger
that was lifted to his
In the reaction from his fright he
was beginning to censure her. when he
was interrupted by Madge, who had
appeared upon the scene, and who in
stantiy resented her fathers lecture.
you shall not scold heri" she cried
holly I wanted her for our step
mother, but III give her up If YOU
aren't going to be nice to her
/ Bess turned red and pale by turns.
III race you to the house, Madge!'
she cried, and they were away.
Bess," said John softly. when he had
succeeded in getting an interview, as
said. had thought of you as my
| eighth girl don't want to think OF
you as stepmother. but do want you
/ to be my wife, and a companion to the
girls, because I love you. VIII you
try and care for me?'
/ The verdict of the world was that
John Walker had eight girls now and
needed woman in his house more than
ever.
Copyright. 1906. by P G. Eastment.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

This is the time of year when the
town man gets the fever to become a
millionaire by raising chickens.
March seems determined to give US
a touch of cold storage weather now
and then, nevertheless ana notwith-
standing.
Pretty soon now you will be able to
buy Strawberries you've got a
nickel a piece to pay for them.
Among the other signs of spring
this department notices that old never
falling indication piles of sassafras in
the drug store windows.
After Bill DooHttle got sobered up
this morning he got his bearings. Of
course Bill naturally belongs to the
wet crowd, but wien he gets four or
I'VE drinks at work he gets mixed up in
his sentiments. 1T looks to me-" said
Bill, as he looked over the returns to-
day, "as though we miscalculated on
the number of votes we needed down
in the Second ward. The boys did
pretty well, but we orter have voted a
little oftener. it seems like"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-12


IN the March Worlds Work Eugene
Z. Lyle, Jr., tells the remarkable story
OF Captain Baker and jamaica; how
TINS gentle Cape Cod fisherman became
the king Of Great Brita.-'s richest
west indian Isle. The history Of the
conquest began thirty-five years ago,
with an armada of one lone schooner.
she had two masts, and could carry a
hunored tons. Her owner and skipper
was Lorenzo Dow Baker the son of
a Whaler, and a child of the sea as
Well He took a cargo to Argostura
and on his return trip carried a lot of
bananas. But by the time he reached
New York they had all rotted. The
next time he went he got very green
bananas. The fruit was not plentiful
50 ne begun to teach the people how
to grow them. THE first man who
has ten acres in bananas will be a rich
man he told them with earnest con-
viction. He touched intimately the
lives Of the blacks. He was known in
their homes and at their church So
Gals, and he helped them to build the
chapel for which, inevitably, they were
collecting money. He talked to the
school children. rooms full of bright
eyed little piekaninnies, and he told
them of the good of money. Then he
told them how to get it. Grow ba-
nanas," he said. Grow them VIII ere
ever your nanny will let you have a
foot of ground"
Captain Baker had to push his cam
paign of education at both ends. In
Jamaica he taught people how to grow
bananas, but in the United States he
had to teach people to eat them.
They were not yet an ordinary article
of diet, and moreover the yellow kind
from Jamaica was paradvely IN
known.
But ne has succeeded. He revived
the island from economic prostration
and 1t is hourishing- He did it by
making the banana trade.
Captain Baker still lives at Port An
tonic, which is now not only an
American town, but a Boston town.
In the summer he goes back to Well
fleet, there renews intercourse with
Mayhower descendants like himself,
tries periodically to wiring an appro-
priation from Uncle Joe Cannon for
the Pilgrim monument at Province
town, quietly looks after his charities,
and puts his sturdy shoulder to any en-
terprise for the beautifying of life along
Cape Cod. Port Antonio flies the
American flag although it is a British
possession. The original plan was to
alternate the flags. IT'S the coolies
business to change en-" Captain
Baker explained, but I'm afraid he
doesn't know his business very WE'LL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-12
SECRETARY Sessions.

While one can hardly endorse the
shabby manner in which e. D. Nc
Keever was treated with reference to the
seeretaryship TO the governor, Governor
Hoch is certainly to be congratulated
on the excellent choice Messrs. Stubs
and Dolley made for him. There is no
more popular newspaper man in the
state OF Kansas than Charles H. Ses-
sions. and a governors secretary should
by all means be popular Mr.. Sessions
bears the good will Of all factions and
interests in the state. He Is endowed
with another essential of a good official
secretary, and that is an extremely wide
acquaintance. There is probably not a
man of any prominence, in business IS
well as politics. in Kansas with whom
Mr.. Sessions is not acquainted, both
personally and in his reliticaI and bust
ness relations. And coupled with his
other qualifications Mr.. Sessions is en-
dowed with rare good sense.
If Governor HOch will row be guided
by the advice of his new secretary in
stead Of by would-be bosses and others
with axes to grind, IL ere viii not be
as much to criticise in the balance of
his administration as there has been n
that which is past