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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-11
LAYHA WKER JOTS

The water wagon at Mcpherson had
two runaways in one day last week, but
it is still able to carry its load. It
was pretty full at the time. too.
Six beggars recently reached Emporia
in one bunch. Two were blind. one was
deaf, one had game shoulder and
two were one-legged. They worked to-
gether.
President Palma will never be known
as the Father Of his Country the Jewell
Republican thinks, because the insur-
gents seem to regard him as a sort Of
step-mOther.
THE man who specuiates and hap
pens to VIM observes Mark Gretchen
is rated as captain Of industry. The
poor devil who tries ii and loses his
wad gets no sympathy ana is told that
a fool and his money are soon parted
anyway"
A Lyon county man lost his first
planting of corn last spring by bugs.
He replanted 1t, and food washed 1t
away. But the third times the charm
and he once more planted the field dur
Ing the latetr part Of June. He was ex-
hibiting one stalk from that field last
week that lacked only one inch of being
fifteen feet high.
Recently ". c. Palmer, Of the Jewell
Republican, expressed a wonder why
there are so few Indian burying grounds
found on the prairies, considering the
large number Of Indians that formerly
Hoamed over them. Bert Headly, of
the Gaylord Sentinel, who is somewhat
familiar with the subject, writes Mr.
Palmer as follows: while history has
record Of many tribes inhabiting at
various times different portions of the
state, it neglects the important informa-
ton that Indians Of all tribes and ma
tions had a permanent lodge or stopping
place. from which source they would
start out upon extended pilgrimages,
going sometimes half across the CONT
nent. It is an established fact that an
Indian has more respect for the dead
than the living and when you learn
this it will not be so much of sur
prise to know that when a member of q
party died while out on an exp Hition
the remains were carefully preserved
and taken back, where they were given
interment, after the manner of the
tribe, beside the bones of his fathers
In various parts of the country have
been discovered burying grounds which
cover large tracts OF land and showing
evidence that thousands of bodies have
been deposited there. This shows that
starting a little graveyard wherever
they happened to be camped. have been
reliably informed that Indians have
carried their dead a distance of a thou
sand miles in order to give them an
oDDorfuDity to start on the Journey to
the happy hunting ground from their
native soil. have, in my short life Wis
tied enough Indian burying grounds to
convince me that the jurisdiction of ons
cemetery extended over a great deal
of territory. I could lead you to one
place where, should those bones arise
again. the population would be greater
than that Of New York City. Some of
the richest farms in Oklahoma have
been fertilized by Indian bones. It Is
the white man who sca2ters his dead
/ from Dan to Beersheba. The Indian is
more -circumspect."
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including the present attorney general
Of Missouri, were given It by Kansas.
One OF It's. greatest mercantile firms
went there a few years ago from Stat
ford. out on the kansas prairies. Its
newspapers are supported chiefly by
Kansas. One OF them is owned in this
state and another-its leading one--is
edited largely by Kansas men.
About the only connection Kansas
City has with Missouri is that Missouri
gets its taxes and has the right to gov
ern It. This fact also furnishes a haven
for Kansas corporations that wish to
escape from Kansas laws: They move
over into Kansas City. Another Mis-
souri, feature of Kansas city is it's class
Of Jobbers who ship -four quarts for
$1.20 by express" to a class OF thirsty
Kansans.
Outside of these things. Kansas City
has little in common with Missouri.
It is a drain on Kansas. and it really
ought to belong in Kansas and hell,
support this state. by which it was
built and from which it draws its
trade. There is no reason why it should
change its name to something dis
tinctively Missourian."
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Iron the Chicago News. !

Iron the Chicago News.l
What becomes OF all the autumn
leaves the women press?
Occasionally wise man makes fool
remarks just to fool people.
It pays to be honest=but the pay
often goes to the other fellow.
Any man who knows his place is
never out of place any place.
Few questions are raised regarding
the honesty Of a poor man.
The experience we buy is the only
kind really worth the price.
A mans conscience troubles him less
than the fear Of being caught at it.
There are only four letters in love.
but there are thousands Of love letters
Some women are for getting married
and some are forgetting that they are.
Fools never know when to stop talk
ing, but wise men always known when
not to begin.
But the homely girl who knows how
to cook has one advantage over the
pretty girl who doesn't
See that you have plenty Of sand be.
fore starting on the road to success.
for it's somewhat slippery
Babies are the links that bind moth
ers to heaven-and also keep them at
home when they want to go shopping
A woman doesn't have to be mar
ried long in order to discover that her
husband doesn't know half as much a
he pretends to know.
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KanKsas City is all torn up over the
proposition to make the name of the
town Kansascity. Either form is
wrong. Change the name to some
thing distinctively Iissourian.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
But Kansas City isn't Missourian. It
is distinctively Kansan. Kansas money
and Kansas men-to a great extent
built It, The only thing Missouri con
tributed was the site. and the site she
gave was some hills and bluffs that
couldn't be put to any other use.
Kansas City is all torn up over the
more than Missouri to the wealth and
prosperity of Kansas City. That com
munity's industry. meat packing. has
been built up by Kansas. It's whole
sale houses derive most of their trade
from the Sunhower state. Kansas has
furnished many of its leading citizens
and its population is largely made up
of former Jayhawkers. Much Of its
brains have come from the Kansas
prairies. Some OF its greatest preach
ers were born on Kansas FARMS A
number OF its most brilliant LAWYERS
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yearnlng love and longing to minister
70 him; she caught the cropping hand
and kissed it, sobbing with impetuous
abandon:
"Oh. Harry. Harry came as soon
as knew am going to stay with
you and take care OF you forever-yo,l
shall never. never be alone in the dark
ness again!9
Why" he cried, ''Why--it must be
1t is AMY My own AMY"
His next movements demonstrated
that mis- arms at least we're as strong as
OF old, and Miss Colver submitted to
the loving bonds without a struggle.
Dear" he said. gravely when the
old understanding and the purport
OF the purloined letter had been made
clear, Dear I do not mean to let you
leave me again, because you might
forget to come back, but I must not
hold you by false pretense. You came
like a sweet angel to care for a blind
man-but you Will not discard me, viii
you, though my sight be fully restored.
ooh, Harry
The ecstatic cry and the soft. bare
arms about his neck were answer
enough.
From the crushed box between them
there crept a perfume that presently
brought unpleasant remembrance to
Miss Amy.
''Whyi'' she exclaimed. examinins
the contents and the accompanying
card, THE senator's roses! And I have
on my she viewed the costume
with amusement, guilty sense OF out
ragged social amenities and her sisters
disapprovaI.
When she had made shame-faced
explanation. Mr.. Henry Scott intimat-
ed, with a heartless disregard of the
senator's shattered hopes that the par
sonage was close by and that the even
ing bodice and the roses were plainly
in preparation for the wedding that
was to occur imme diately.-(C Copyright
ed, 1906, by c. H. Sutcliffe.)
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QUAKER RRFLECTToNa.
rF7rom the Philadeiphia record

From the Philadelphia Record.
Any pugilist viii tell you that an
ounce OF prevention is worth a pound
ing.
A girl can either make q fool Of
fellow or make him make one Of him
self
Most things would go without say
ing IL we would only let them 60 that
way.
The trouble with the man who out
lives his usefulness - that he doesn't
know It
A baby is bald TIL it's hair com es
out, and when q mans hair comes out
he is bald again.
Some fellows wait to get rich before
they marry. and others wait to marry
before they get rich
When woman never gossips it may
merely mean that her friends are
afraid to trust her with their secrets.
aywright-''Well what do you
think OF my comedy, old man p Critic
-"Great! It's almost as good as q
play"
Some people are so imbued with the
idea that they should love their enc
mics that they pay scant attention Ia
their friends.
There are two ways for a girl to geg
a fellows money. She can either mar
~ him for It or sue him for breach Of
promise.
Boy-'Don't you want a Teller to
keep the tramps away. misgus ?" AEissus
How can you keep the tramps
away?'' Boy-.FVTell, kin eat up all
the pie an things wot'a left over"
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

JOURNAL ENTRIES
We judge that one Of the difficulties
Of air-shipping is reaching termina
facilities with too great speed.
\ +
Speaking OF the recent outbreak at
Parsons, we trust that no one will sug-
gest anything about going on the war
path.
we are curious to know if Secretary
Taft name was spelled "Taffed" at
some renute Leriod in the past before
it was simplifed.
Mrs. Edith Simmons Willis Elliott
Smedley is again getting into the news
papers. 1sn't lt about time for Mrs.
Simmons, ct al, TO make her farewell
appearance.
=
It is mighty hard for this depart
ment to believe that Hearst is max
Ing the bold speeches he is credited
with in tire r.-.Ns SIN sacrs. Two OF three
years ago the WI ter hereof had 10
interview Hearst. aid he. Hearst. was
as bashfIii az a boy en- speaking doy''
in school. He blushed when spoken to,
and seemed as modest about pushing
himself forward as Rev. Charles NJ.
Sheldon-and Mr.. Sheldon was long
ago awarded the blue ribbon for mod
esty by Topeka newspaper men.
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KANSAS COAAENT
DIRECTORS.


Speaking Of the bankers Of Phi1adel-
phia. Comptroller of the Currency
tstdgely said the other day; Except
from very rare and exceptional causes,
such as sudden panics or runs due TO
false rumors. there is never any rea-
sonable excuse for the failure of a bank
OF trust company. It IS almost always
the result Of fnexcusable folly ard in
competence, OF dishonesty and fraud
and often due 70 ali of these combined.
When a bank does fail it is the fault
OF the board of directors" Of course
nothing could be palmer than that it is
the duty Of the board Of directors of a
bank or a trust company to know all
that Is going on in the Institution. In
many cases the directors are mere dunn
mics. Paul Steisland, now in the peRi-
tentiary for looting the Milwaukee Ave-
nue. bank of Chicago has been quoted
as saying that bank directors are usual
" ignorant Of what is taking place in
the bank. When such a situation ex-
lists, and the bank examiner does not do
his duty or is fooled by some shrewd
scheme. a dishonest president or cashier
can have full ing.-Leavenworth
Times
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No wonder the west is jubilant when
harvest time comes, and after the gold
en- grain has been stored away has a
celebration over it. Originally, Kansas
was the first state to have such 5ubi-
lation. but now 'carnivals' in which
homage is paid to King Corn have be-
come popular among its neighbors as
we'll.
Weeks before harvest time. prepara-
lions are made for the festivities The
prominent citizens of the town contrib
ute to a fund for decoration, music.
and usually the entertainment OF
townspeople and guests at a banquet.
The services Of some leading orator are
secured. and the state governor IS 1nVl-
ted to attend, with other notables. A
special week is set apart at a time
when the farmers have finished gath
ering the grain and have leisure to at
tend. Their presence is very desirable,
as they take occasion to make their
purchases for the winter, and spend
their money in other ways, nearly all
of which benefit the tradespeople, ho-
tel keepers and the town in general
The railroad companies are induced to
offer special rates of transportation,
and, with others, offer prizes for the
best designs and decorations of build
fngs. and in other ways encourage the
display of emblems- A programme IS
arranged, consisting Of professions,
public meetings, concerts and other at
fractions which will interest the towns
people and visitors.
Each resident vies with his neighbor
in the decorations, and here is shown
what can be done with the grain in
honor of which the celebTat ton is held
Some of the designs are truly wonder
full AS single stalks can be procured
which are often Is feet in height. an
opportunity is offered to construct
r,acodas booths and other ornamental
buildings. with walls and roof Of the
plantzD. A. Wiley. in The Home
Magazine
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BIZ BILL IAE-A.
When in the far-om Philippines,
Or down in Cuba's isle,
Things are going kind Of crooked
And the iasurrectos smile
At the thought OF lots Of plumber,
And they lay their plans with craft,
We've a pretty good prescription
Send EN- Big BIZ Taft.
Bill Is built on lines so generous
: That We are prone to poke
Some fun at his dimensions,
And he reIishes the Joke
But though at his Well-rounded form
nation may have laughed,
A brain Of corresponding size
Is in Big Bill Taft.
He knows the arts Of peace and war;
he knows when to refrain.
And when to emphasize his views
In ways exceeding plain
It s bad day for scaflaWags
And those who live by graft
When things are so that they collide
Against Big BIZ Taft
As special envoy you're all right!
Wen send you ships and men.
And If you want more Of the same,
Bill Taft, just ask again
For Uncle Sam well understands
A word is like draft
That calls for honor upon sight
When from Big Bill Taft.
New York Sun.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

4
The average woman Is as old as she
looks but she is seldom as young as
she acts.
1.-The world is full Of poor workmen;
and 1 am one of them. Drake Wat
son.
Somehow. we always dislike to do
business with a man who refers to the
college where he was educated as his
Alma Mater.
A little Atchison girl has such thin
legs that her mother Is afraid to let
her go on the street alone for fear
some dog Will nab her for soup bone.
st hate automobiles SO heartily. "
said a farmer today. that expect that
when go to the bad place. VIII ind
the devil using gasoline as fuel
It is so seldom that a farmer boy
gets to wear his Sunday clothes. and
he grows 50 rapidly. that by the time
he does put them on the trousers are
high waters.
In its last issue. the Coolidge Enter
prise says. Under the rulings Of the
Interstate commerce commission, the
Enterprise will not be able in future to
print any more railroad advertisements
railroad time cards. or pufEs Of rail-
roads.
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HUMOR OF THE DAY

Markley-Subbubs may be induced to
sen MS mouse to me. He says 1t isn't far
out OF town, either.
hail. 0i'4s Z iihies from me city
MarlzIey-why, he told me its was only
10 miles By the railroad
Wise-Ihats true; 10 miles by the rail-
road ana he walks the other tFo.'-Phil-
adelphia Press.
Mrs. Madison Sdueer-I suppose In your
tsraee family there are number of his
His GracAYes, indeed. 7 must get than
out some day and show them to you, BY
Mrs. Madison squeer-Ah, then you stiil
have the tickets?-Puck.
Tourist in Highlands Cwho has eaten
ABOUT rour-p Esorth)-What do I owe
Guidwife-Aweel it's the sawbath. So
ven no chairge ye onything.
onything. But ye can just gle the BARNS
saxpenee apiece!-Punch.
''why?" asked the aEitator. should the
WS.s a sl1 be at the beck and call OF
Tn not, said the auditor. who was
yaWnlng. Il We got my employer SO that
he minds every word I say and asks no
Star. ''7''-''s ~"
It's just flashed on me who that young
man !aTa,, was that t., spoke to me just now"
7 forget his name, but I was engaged
10 him in the mountains before I went TO
the seashore- Baltimore American.
Cicely--Why don't you learn to swim?
Muriei-Ihere no one to teach me
Cicely-aow about the boys?
fore; different summers you know
Brooklyn Life.
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Nature Notes.

Camels cannot swim.
The spider eats daily 26 times his own
The chiffon, morusk, has 1000 sep
crate eyes.
4 bee visits 100000 flowers in gath
ering one pound of honey
The green finch is the first bird to get
up in the morning. His hour is 1:S0,
The skin Of the whalebone whale,
boiled to a Jelly, is a favorite dish of
Danish epicures.
The boa contractor, auckland, the
naturalist, declares, tastes like veal,
only finer and sweeter.
The highest leap ever made by a
horse was seven feet. eight inehes-a
leap made in 1892 in London by Black
Bess, a thoroughbred.
The South Sea Island fisherman
throws into the water a poison ex-
tracted from a certain bark. The fish,
stupefed, at once come to the surface,
and are gathered IN by hand Their
flesh is quite as wholesome as though
they had been netted.-Fxchange.
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EROM OTHER PENS
SQUEEZING THE CONSUMER.

In these times of agricultural pros
perity the naughty farmer dictates
terms to the humble trader. The cot
ton growers are going to reduce their
production and warehouse their crops,
and if you want cotton you Will have to
ask nicely for 1t. The Mutual Protec-
tive Association OF Bright Tobacco
Growers of Virginia and North Caro-
lima has resolved that it will hold its
tobacco until the American Tobacco
company, which is practically the only
buyer. is willing to pay a good price for
the leaf The buyers have concentrat-
ed themselves into one corporation, the
producers will concentrate themselves
into one association and prices will be
ed.-Philadelphia Record.
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but the attorney says the commissions
ers WIN not allow him to act or make
any use Of the money. The reason is.
that the railroads made the commits
sioners and therefore own them. IN
our judgment they made another board
just like them at the Topeka conven-
ton and we fully expect to see them
elected next November; but there is
one Republican vote we know OF that
they VIII not get. If this be treason,
make the most Of #
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Here is more treason in the Jewell
Republican: THE Republican party in
Kansas is all right on the railroad
question and on every other question;
but It wasn't the Republican party
that ran the Topeka convention. The
railroads wanted to name the railroad
commissioners and they did it. Any
body that watches proceedings intelli-
gently knows this is SO. and also knows
that the rominees for commissioners
are entirely satisfactory to the railroad
interests. AS long as people win shut
their eyes and swallow anything that
the railroads and politicians tie the
party flag to, just SO long it win be
impossible for farmers and shippers to
get any satisfaction out Of the Kansas
board OF railroad commissioners. Gov
sruor Hoch appointed an attorney for
mo commissioners who wishes to act in
ne shippers interests the legislature
appropriated money for that purpose,
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At recent inquest in a Pennsylvania
town, one of the jurors, after the usual
swearing in, arose and with much dig
nifty protested against service, alleging
that he was the general manager Of an
important concern and was wasting val
liable time by sitting as juror at an
The coroner. turning to his clerk.
said: 'Mr. Morgan, kindly hand me
s.Tervis, (the authority on Juries).' Then,
after consulting the book, the coroner
observed to the unwilling juror:
Upon reference to 'Jervts,' find,
sir. that no persons are exempt from
service as jurors except idiots, imbe-
Giles. and lunatics. Now, under which
heading do you claim exemption? =
Success Magazine.
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Any candidate for the legislature that
pledge himself to vote against a stand
pat candidate for United States SEN
ator, should be defeated at the polls.
The Carnegie steel trust, the lumber
trust, and other combinations have rob-
bed the people long enough. Under q
system of high protective tariff. they
are enabled to throttle competition and
fix robber prices for the protected arti-
cles Party lines should no longer stand
in the way when it comes to voting for
cheaper lumber, harvesters, plows,
cook stoves and hundreds Of other arti-
cles used by the masses.-Scott County
News
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Reed's only Bird Hunt.

Thomas R. Reed used to tell the
II never felt more ashamed in all
my life than I did one day after kill
ing bird. I never shot but one bird
ia my life. I spent a whole day doing
that. 1t was a sandpiper. chased
him for hours up and down mill
stream. When at last I ported him
and held him up by one Of his poor
little legs 1 asked a small boy who
had been looking on what he thought
OF It.
"Ohi" he replied, Il was only
thinking of how big you are and how
small the bird is."-Boston Herald.
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REFLECT9oNs "a q BACHELoR

EFrom the New York Press.I
A girl win hardly ever let you kiss
her unless you do t.
It pays to tell the truth once IN
while to throw people on the scent.
It takes a woman to believe what
she knows isn't 50 because she wants
Generally q woman can make a
much better living at stenography
than At getting znArried-
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ELoouENr sILENCE.

One thing that the most Of the Re-
publican papers of the state maintain
an eloquent silence about, is the dec
laration of Carr Taylor, attorney for
the board of railroad commissioners
that the members Of that board ought
to be impeached and ousted from Of
fee It will be remembered that the
much advertised hearing of a week
or so ago was knocked gally west by
the board on a technicality.-M Mime
apolis Better Way
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SHIFTING THE BLAME.

Four years ago Charley Curtis laid
all the blame of his defeat for United
States senator on Governor w. J.
Bailey and was impolite enough to say
so in a speech before the joint session
of the senate and house Of representa-
tives after Long had been chosen. Has
it taken him four years to discover
his mistake? Has he ever apolOgized
to Bailey for the mean things he said
about him ?=Atchison Globe.
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The Atchison Globe calls William R.
Hearst an amateur Friend OF the PEG
pie" But Hearst has been working
at 1t long enough to be a professional.
And it's the professional Friends of the
People who are really DANGEROUS.
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The placards are right. The Demo-
cratic party has merely adopted the
new spelling. When it writes Hearst
1t simply means "Hearsed. New
York Tribune.
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"R. B. WEIGH, who died in Topeka
Saturday" says the Kansas City Star,
s'yvas one Of those old fashioned law
yers-now happily coming into style
again-who really enforced the law
during his four years as county attor-
ney." Which is one Of the greatest
compliments that can be paid to an
naacia1