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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
WAS THERE GRAFT IN IT?

The controversy between Congress
man Curtis and William Allen White
hos focused the attention of the peo-
ple OF. Kansas on the charge that there
was railroad graft in the so-called Cur
It's Indian bill. Mr.. Curtis denies the
charge. but it is notable that Senator
La Toilette of Wisconsin, who has been
in the senate only a few weeks, pre-
scented such a powerful arraignment of
the bill that the senate eliminated the
Objectionable feature, although Sena-
tor LaFonette broke over long-estab-
lished senatorial usages in making his
tight against it. The house, where Mr..
Curtis was fathering the bill, insisted
on the alleged graft being left in. and
Senator LaFolIette is said to have Sc
cured the assurance of the president
that the Objectionable coal land fea-
ture would be vetoed il it went to the
White House for approval This was
moi. necessary. however, as Senator La
Toilette finally won his fight in con-
gress and the house backed down.
Kansas is vitality interested in know
ing whether Mr.. Curtis or Senator La
Toilette is right about the graft in the
bill.
The Curtis bill, which is designed to
close the tribal relations of the Five
Civilized Tribes In the Indian Terri
tory, among other things authorized
the secretary of the interior to lease
for a term Of 80 years the coal lands,
which the government now holds in
trust for the Indians in the Indian Ter
ritorv. Senator Clark. of Wyoming,
had stated that the value of the coal
lands was anywhere from 10 million
to so million dollars.
It was admitted, of course. that the
railroads would lease the coal lands,
and It was asserted that under the
provisions of the Curtis bill they would
have secured the leases for only a
small fraction of their real value. It
has been charged that this leasing
provision was where the graft comes
IN.
Senator Clarlx's statement brought
Senator LaFollette to the fore with an
array Of figures. supplied by the United
states geological survey, which had
made a survey of all the coal lands
in the territory. According to the re-
port. there were 49, s4 acres. of which
1O4. 600 acres. or about one-fourth. have
already been leased.
The Indians receive eight cents a
ton royalty under the leases. which,
according to the figures supplied by
the survey, yields them about $500 an
acre for their coal lands in royalties
alone. Senator LaFoIlette was assur-
ed by the officers OF the survey that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
PoINTEp PARAGRAPHs.

IFrom the Chicago Newsl
Every man worries many women and
every woman worries some man.
Men are living ccnundrums that keep
their wives constantly guessing.
Every time a man borrows trouble he
gets the worst of the transaction.
You'll never acquire popularity By
telling your neighbors how to DO things.
Girls may admire promising young
men. but tailors prefer those who pay
cash.
In times Of peace the wise nation
makes strenuous preparations for more
peace.
Anyway, a woman is always grateful
to the man who gives her chance to
refuse him.
But few people would know Of vour
troubles il you knew enough to keen
them under cover.
Music may be the food of love but
after marriage there is apt to he a
demand for liver and bacon.
A man IS always anxious to exnlain
where he got his bad cold. but he Isn't
so willing 10 tell where he got his goo6
umbrella 49,
One never realizes how ignorant some
Of our leading citizens are until thew
are hauled up TO testify before an in
Testtgating committee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.I
It is generally said of an elderly man:
HE is notional.'
These SOLICITORS people always have
something to sell.
Just after he is shaved, nearly any
man is a little pretty
There is one thing worse than an
amateur lecture: a lot of amateurs
reading papers"
You have probably met the bore.
who, no matter what the attraction,
always recalls a better one
A country woman regards a com
pliment very much as the average
woman does a husbands explanation.
Care should be taken not to attach
too much importance to the Judgment
of a man who likes the singing of a
glee club.
An unmarried man doesn't believe it
but the time Is coming to him when his
idea of the best kind of luck is when
the baby sleeps nights.
If we were a delicate, refined woman,
we wouldn't visit an art gallery The
nakedness displayed in an art gallery
is a good deal worse than that seen IN
a show with a ballet.
After a prophet has beeen dead a
long time, his followers may tell all
sorts of fabulous stories about him.
without being caught. but a Prophet
alive IS very inconvenient to his church.
There is Rev John Alexander Dowie,
for example.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

this was fair estimate Of all the lands
involved.
Senator LaFollette is quoted BY the
Washington Post as saying
This is a most remarkable deposit
or coal, running from bituminous coal
Of not very high grade up to almost
anthracite in quality. There is no 9TH
er like deposit, SO far as I am able to
ascertain, of bituminous coal in the
country Applying the ascertained
values of the royalties in so far as the
coal lands have been mined, to the
remaining lands. the computation
would show all the lands to be worth
in royalties alone STA. 1000
THE Value Of this coal as mined out
is from $50 to 81 a ton at the mine
Taking 81 a ton as the value of the
coal at the mouth of the mine, it means
that there is a value of coal deposits
in these lands upon the average Of
$4,000 an acre. Applying this figure to
the entire acreage, makes total vaIu-
alton Of s4.377, GOO for these coal
lands in the Indian Territory. some
thing more, 1 think, than a third of
the capitalized value of all the rail-
roads in the country
It is the object of Senator I1aFol-
lette's persistent opposition to leasing
the lands to retain these coal deposits
under government control as trustee
for the Indians. He objects to either
leasing or the sale of the lands until a
commission has gone over the territory
and ascertained the approximate value
of the deposits. Senator LaFolIette
says his figures are conservative and
based on the values Of the output at
the mines, which was 50 a ton. but he
added that the same coal found a mar
ket so miles away from the mines at
81 ton.
These figures convinced even the
conservative senate that there was
colored gentleman concealed in the
woodpile somewhere, and notwithstand-
ing LaFollett's ''newness" in the ser4-
ate he finally won his fight.
Now was there graft in the Curtis
bin or not? And if so, did Mr.. Curtis,
who is exploited as knowing more
about Indian affairs than any other
member of congress. know the facts in
the case?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
QUAKER REFLECITONs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
No man amounts to much unless he
can prove II.
An honest opinion has disrupted
many a friendship.
It's hard to stick to the truth when
you have a grievance.
Many a right bower is turned down
in politics as well as in euchre.
Every rose has its thorn. and. what's
more, the thorn doesn't fade.
Marriage is often a failure, with all
the property in the wifes name.
It is. perhaps, better to tell your
troubles than to listen to other peo-
Pies.
The hardest thing in the world is to
keep up light heart with a heavy
Some people never come to a definite
conclusion, and wouldn't recognize it
If they did.
she-'.I suppose you read a great
deal" He-"No: I haven't time. You
see I'm book reviewer"
Arbitration doesn't always work.
Sometimes the dove Of peace is mis-
taken for a clay pigeon.
Wigwag-'.How do you know he's
married?" Oldbach-s' Simply because
he's such a good listener"
There wouldn't be so many sinners
If people struggled to get into heaven
as they do to get into society.
They don't teach the pupils in a cook
ing school how to make hash. That
seems to come natural to a woman.
wealth and happiness" says the
Cynical Bachelor, have no more to do
with each other than love and mar
riage."
The ayes and noes Of life are so
Conflicting that we wonder WHY
A woman's most emphatic no
Is contradicted by her eye.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
TILE EASTER BONNET.

Touching that Easter hat we Won
der if our girls would take bit Of adj
vice from a standpoint that does not
include at all the bill paying view of
the situation? Even a man who has
no woman folk feels as he looks in the
windows of millinery shops that the
limit of the fantastic in the spring
headgear has been reached in the
spring showings. Every angle and
every curve known to geometers are
described in the new hats and It is evil
dent that there has been on the part
Of the designers successful attempt
at making extremes meet in every hat
As a study, the results are fascinating
Will they remain so once they are
perched on human heads? Girls who
are always good to see no matter what
they wear will carry them off as part
of their stock in trade. but the others,
those who are dependent on their set
tings to some extent for the attrac-
tons should shun the grotesque
things. Nothing can so quickly trans
form a sensible woman into a rfdfcu-
lous enc as does a hat And in Paris,
they are saying. the hats for the com
ing season are built on far saner and
more Intelligent lines than the samples
displayed on this side for our observa-
tion.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
AFENEoRTEs

remember, remember
The gowns used to wear;
The yellow figured jaconef,
The purpled sprigged mohair-
They always were a bit too long,
Or else not long enough;
And often, in the latter case,
Pieced out with different stuff.
I remember, / remember
The roses. red and white,
Upon my bayadere barege,
cit must have been a sightD
My soiferino balzarine-
MY lilac Sat1net=
We gave that to an orphan child.
(The child is living YETI
I remember. I remember
Ny magenta wool delaine:
Ny salmon tagliOni too,
CTWas lined with satin jean)
My lovely light blue empress cloth
Picked out with bands of dove.
wore the night Joe came to call.
And told me of his love.
/ remember, I remember
Those gowns so quaint and queer;
wore them with a happy heart
For many a happy year.
l have an ivory satin now
Embroidered fair with pearl;
But, ali, I'm further of from Heaven
Than when I was a girl.
carolyn Wells in Good Housekeeping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
AZ Easter Onering.

At a recent convention Of ministers
one of them told how he had paid off
the nortase on the church to which
he had been assigned The church
was located in small New England
town. the population of which was IN
usually well-to-do. and where there
was a keen social rivalry. The Sun
day before Easter the minister made
this announcement:
IT am going to make a suggestion
to the good sisters of the congregation.
Next Sunday. in the vestibule, viii be
found a blackboard. and I think 1t
would be a pretty idea If each sister
would write thereon her name and the
amount she will give as an Easter Of
fering-the amount to correspond to
the cost of her Easter hat
And was the plan a success? ?" some
one asked.
The minister smiled.
We'll" he said. II paid of a fairly
good sized mortgage and recarpeted
the church. Chicago Inter-Ocean-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

denee Fairchild. eyes softly shining,
came back to where he stood.
II the mountain viii not 60 to Ma
homet. she said, smilingly. then OF
course Mahonnet must come to the
mountain. And mean to quarrel with
you some time for turning your back
when I came in. But I shan't scold
now: I m leaving for home tomorrow
and wondered If I'll see you again
Il viii call tonight to say
goodbye" he replied. eagerly, "and /
have something important to say, i
may see you alone. I think I've been
waiting all my life to say it.
Her glance thrilled him as It had
that September day at the seashore-
you may see me aIone,'' she whisper
Copyright, 1905. by Beatrix
Reade.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
LAYHAWKER JOTS

Down in Reno county c. H Shirk
promises to live down his name if he
is elected sheriff.
Very likely the time will come when
the beef trust will conclude that it let
Mr.. Garfield off very easily
That Trego county Republican plat
form is attracting the attention of the
country. but not to the extent the
Trego county gold fields once did.
Earl Henney, a Pittsburg boy who
is serving in the navy writes home
that he was on Vesuvius not long ago
and saw it in eruption. He did not
wait for the main show. now in pro-
gress, however.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
Ants live on Lice.

In their migra lions from plant to
plant the lice are often aided by their
foster-mothers. the ants, for many
species are carefully cared for and
guarded by the ever diligent ants. A
peculiar, sweetish liquid called "honey
dew" is secreted by the aphides of
which the ants are extremely fond. To
secure this they herd the aphides. much
as if they were little green cattle. Ere
quently an ant may be seen tapping an
aphid with her antennae, upon which a
drop of honey dew is exuded and quick
ly Tapped up. Thus. the ants are prob
ably entirely responsible for carrying
the young aphides which affect the
strawberry roots in Delaware, Mary
land New Jersey and elsewhere, from
the foliage down to the roots, and for
carrying them from plant to plant. as
the plants wither from their injury The
melon louise is similarly carried by the
ants from hill to hill. But most re-
narkable of all Is the case Of the corn
root arhis. which lays its eggs in ants
nests in the fall. where they are care
fully guarded all winter and in the
spring the young aphides are carried by
the ants to the roots of their favorite
food plants-E. D. Sanders in April
Garden Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
HUMOR OF TIE DAY


Henrietta Whitewash-I suttinly am
'spicous OBJ Ferdinand. Eb'ry lettah he
writes me ne swears ter be eternally true
an axes me ter hasten de weddin, as he
am pinln' away VIII love.
Mrs. V hiteWash-WaaI I don't see nuk-
tin spicious bout dat.
Henrietta WhiteWash-Oh, It amt dat.
gut ne always adds a postscripture: p
S.-Burn dis lettah. Judge.
You think he went to heaven7''
Lord knows! The mule kicked him in
that direction Atlanta Constitution
why couldn't George washington ten
a lie at the cherry tree?" asked the small
Because answered his father. who is
caught with the goods. w ashington
How DO college degrees benefit 8.
They. vary the Tnonotony." answered
the scoffer, "by enabling him to wear in
ltiais after his name instead OF before. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
English Guide-The echo ere in these
mountains is very fine, sir
Tourist latter shouting Hello r. -Wel1,
Engiish Guide You don't understand the
tains 'know.-Cleveland Leader.
ITO be entirely frank" said his critical
friend, Il don't IKE your editorial page"
What's the matter with it, demanded
the editor of the Daily Bread. greatly
'You-er-don't run enough reprint on
it"-Chicago Tribune.
An my threats don't bother him at all
said the collector
'.Eo?" replied the merchant; said we
could go as far we liked, eh?
'tWell-er-I think the place he men
toned was farther than you'd like
Philadelphia Press.
There's a man." said Phipps. who
makes a practice of smoothing over the
defects Of poor humanity"
He has a rather hard looking face"
said Fipps. What's his business
He's society photographer. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
"Jagsby says he. drinks more than a
gallon of water a day"
"Nonsenset He never uses it except as
a chaseri'
WelIY'-Cleveland Leader
Blanche is simply hopelessi". cried
woman who was trying to teach one OF
her friends to play bridge whist.
''Why2@
7 began by asking her if she knew the
value of the cards" continued the woman,
and Blanche said: Why. certainly. About
10 cents a pack Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

The enemies of rate legislation are
making a fuss because some of the
senators have consulted President
Roosevelt concerning what ought to be
done. The point is a good one, of
course. The senators ought to con
suit no one but the presidents of the
railroads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR

Half the fun of lying is betting with
yourself whether the other fellow he
Heves you.
A man wouldn't be nearly SO bald IL
he didn't worry so much about the
jokes on the front row.
A widow never tells a man what good
habits her first husband had untl AFTER
she marries hir>.
The only - - mosquitoes don't
come in winter Is because people don't
wear open-work stockings ont on the
piazza then.
1t makes a man terribly ashamed to
have to walk with his wife in q CAV hat
that he always tries to hirt with Il ik
is on some other wcmau's head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

The Lawrence World turns back the
pages of memory long enough to call
to mind Coins Financial School. with
the Information that its author is now
running a hotel in Arkansaw instead
of q school of finance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12
ERON OTHER PENS
sOMETHING IN DREAMS.

The other night a Florida farmer
dreamed that half a mile east OF his
house there was a little hill on the
crest of which stood a tree. and that
at the root of the tree there was buried
a pot of gold. Next morning bright
and early he started out to investigate.
And his dream came true in part. He
found the hill and also a tree.-Savan-
nah News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

The Chicago octogenarian who was
proud of having voted at every cleo
ton in the past twenty years, and
whose effort to get to the polls on
Tuesday resulted in fatal illness was a
hero and a patriot in his way. His
determination might afford food for
thought for the many men whose in
difference to the obligations of the bal
lot has assisted ia maintaining bosses
IN Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

The eruption of vesuvius in italy
and the eruption of Dowie in Chicago
are both attracting some attention.
but Kansas is pretty busy just now
watching the White-Curtis eruption.
The present situation is too much like
a Ihree-ringed circus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

The government crop bureau reports
that the condition of Kansas wheat is
below the ten-year average for this
time OF year. We will excuse it at
this season If the crop bureau win
just see to it that the condition is I'D
about 100 when the last of June rolls
q rr11rd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

Men with large insurance formerly
scattered 1t among many companies Us
April Worlds Work. Mr.. John Wanna
maker, for example, has 81, 500, 90 fnsur-
ance in 50 policies. For long time he
carried the largest insurance in the
United States During the past ten
years. however, very rich men have
taken out large single policies.
The first 81 000, 600 policy ever issued
was taken out in 1897 by Mr. George
W. Vanderbilt, at the age of 35. in the
Mutual. 1t is 20-payment life, 20
year distribution policy; that is. he is
to pay yearly premium of $4,000 for
70 years. At the end of this time he
viii receive a paid-up policy of 81 ,00O,-
600, and a cash dividend. If the policy
had been taken out 20 years ago, at the
same age, he would have paid by this
time the sum of $500 600 In premiums,
which at per cent compound interest
would amount to nearly s., 0S5, 900.
The most heavily insured man in the
world, however, Is probably Mr. L. Rod
man Wananaker of Philadelphia, who
carries $2,000,00O in the Mutual, in addi-
ton to insurance in other companies.
Mr.. Wanamaker first took out his in
surance in the Mutual amounting to
100000, at the age of a. At IS ne in
creased it by two additional policies Of
100000 and $500, 600. Five years later,
at Al. he took two additional policies,
one of $l,000000 and the other of $780,
600. This makes his total insurance in.
the company 100000, on which he
pays yearly premium of SIS, 226.
The Wanamaker family in Philadel-
phia carries a total Of So, 855, 600 in life
insurance, probably more than any 9TH
er in the world.
The large. policies. of course. cost no
more proportfonately than smaller ones.
Straight life insurance of 81. 900 at the
age of 80 costs $40 a year For the
same man, $780, 900 policy of the same
kind would cost Just 800 times as much
or $4,000.
The largest single premium ever paid
was 1858, 023-28 by a man in Los Ange-
les. 1t was for an income policy or
annuity in the Mutual. It provided
life income for himself and at his 18Th
life incomes for his children and his
six grandchildren.
But all rich men do not carry life
insurance. Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, for
example, does not believe in it, and
does not carry a single policy. The
same is true of Mr.. John D. Rockefel-
Ter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

something, says the Coolidge Enter
prise, seems tes be the matter with the
bowels of the earth. First there was
the Caney gas we'll; then along came
Nesuv1us, and now here are Charley
Curtis and the editor of the Emporia
Gazette, spouting fire and mud, and
steam, and we ourselves have been
thinking seriously for some time of
ventilating that "old trouble" Of Judge
Adna P. Gristlebone, cinderbeetle in
spector for this district. Our readers
viii remember that it was hushed up
on account Of his family, but this spring
he has askedsto be sent to tie county
convention the judicial convention. the
state convention and the congressional
convention and each time he has said
that they were hon l6Mg him on ac-
count of that old trouble, and he de-
manded a vindication. No one is
bounding Judge GristlebOne, but this
vindication business is getting rather
stale, and the innards of the earth arc
getting so nebulous and unsettled that
we may break out at any minute. The
thing for Judge sGristlebOne to do is to
get hood and cap US, by paying his
last five years subscription to this val
liable paper. Verbum sap; aus ges-
peii tra-la-la-looi We want the fell
lows around here to understand that
we can sling English and foreign lam
guages a little ourself, and we don't
propose to be tromped on and left at
home much more without kicking; the
longest worm has its turning pole in
the back yard!-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

Senator Burton is quoted as saying
that he VIII not attempt to resume his
seat no matter If the decision of the
supreme court allows him to do so.
He says nothing. however. about Civ
ing up the salary that goes with the
seat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

Al great deal OF ''resoluting'' is being
done by the Republican county con
vention Just now in favor Of two-cent
railroad fares, but the fact should not
be lost sight OF that fair freight rates
are much more important to Kansas
people than a two-cent passenger fare.
And the way to get fair freight rates
within the state Is to elect the right
Bind OF a railroad board; and without
eae state, to see that congress passes
1 rate-regulation bill that will really
regulate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

Since Congressman Curtis intimates
that William Allen White did not
write What's the Matter With Kan
sas2" Fred Trigg suggests that it may
yet be discovered that President
Roosevelt wrote Whites remarks
about PIatt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-12

Secretary Bonaparte is skeptical re-
garding the effect of peace societies in
preventing war. But they mark the
beginning of better ideas on the sub
iect. if no more can be said for them.
Portland (Me.l Advertiser.