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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29
THAT SALARY QUESTION.

For some strange reason slight
opposition is arising to the proposition
to increase the salaries of the judges
of the supreme court. Just why is not
apparent, unless 1t be on account of a
desire simply to oppose something. or
because Of a wish to play to the gall
leries.
1t is doubtful however, If opposi-
ton to this movement to do simple
justice to some OF the states servants
Will meet with the APPROVAL of the
galleries 1t certainly will not be ap-
I proved by the thoughtful citizens Of
the state There can be no argument
on the question that public servants
ought to receive a just compensation
for their services. yet corporations in
Kansas are today paying two. three
and four times the salaries which jus
tees of the supreme court receive.
More than that, these corporation ser
wants can do business and earn fees
outside OF their regular salaries, while
the supreme court judges. from the
very nature of their positions. are
confined to their official salaries
The supreme bench of Kansas
should draw the very greatest judicial
talent in the state and it should not
compel its servants to hold their posi-
tons at a financial sacrifice merely be-
cause of the honor they receive Be
cause there are always candidates for
public offices, it is argued that there Is
no necessity to Increase these salaries.
and this argument appeals to some
people, yet what a niggardlv argument
it is. Why should not the state of
Kansas pay value received for what 1t
gets as well as the big corporations?
Is it good policy for rich state like
Kansas to underpay those who work
for It?
The supreme justices receive a SAL
airy of $4,000 a year. This salary was
fixed many years ago when the state
was comparatively poor, and when
that sum meant as much as $4,000 or
$4,000 does now. When that salary
was fixed it is doubtful if half a dozen
lawyers in Kansas made more Now
hundreds of lawyers. doctors, business
men and farmers receive a greater
compensation than that every year.
II these salaries are not increased
within the first five days Of the coming
session Of the legislature. three of the
judges must wait six years before anv
increase could be given them under
the constitution. This agitation is
therefore begun early in order that it
may be thoroughly understood before
the legislature meets and that there
may be no cry of snap judgment or of
undue haste because it is necessary to
rush the measure through
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

million dollars, or ten millions more
than its mammoth wheat crop.
The aggregate Of all this farm
wealth for 1906 is something over 424
million dollars. There are about one
million people who get their living
from the Kansas soil. so that this gives
considerably over $500 for each man.
woman and child on the farms
This is by far the greatest source Of
income the state has, but it Is by no
means its only source.
Its coal mines, It's zinc and lead. its
oil. its gas, It's salt and gypsum add
millions more to its resources Its
shops and factories and shelters and
other industries pile up millions in ad
ditfon. AS stated in these columns re-
Gently. the Santa Fe railroad alone
pays out Is million dollars a year to its
employees in Kansas
After studying Mr.. coburn's figures
over carefully it looks as though the
state Will be able to worry along few
months longer without going into the
hands of a receiver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

the yard At the gate the clown dis
mounted and tn Few handspri7gs up to
the very door. There he paused ex-
pectantly while the elephant ponder
ously turned into the yard. hcus tne
door at the back of the chariot swung
open and out huttered a turkey SIX tect
high. The clown sprang forward, ana
with his whip made the bird face the
wire CIV.
sDick,' hs called. heres yonr
II sul;sgiving turkey II you dCnt eat
every mouthful OF it I'll make the eie-
plant bite you"
Dick, his face aglow with excitement
This one does-bad," said Ied'
darkly. You wait and see- Turkey,
bow to the gentleman what's going 10
eat you
soiemnly the bird pranced forward
and bent its neck. Then 1t followed
Ted around to the back of the mouse
and the cavaicade followed turning
into the road. Down beyond the Deno
Ted was waiting with the bird but phe
cambria skin covered with turkey
feathers, Inc making OF Wnlcn nao
kept Ted up half the night, had peen
removed, and 1t was merely an ostr l,,a
that was bundled into the pest chafiOe
of the Blakesley outfit
Late that night Ted turned up at the
quarters There had been Thanks
giving dinner in the training ring. ana
all, from the "Old Man" to the host
lcrs. were sitting about in the benches
swapping stories.
did it work. Ted?"
did it work." echoed Ted. say:
I'm AFRAID the kids more like to die OF
indigestion than starvation. He - an
to the good; everythfng's all 10 ths
good And the little group crowded
about to shake his hand, for they knew
that a romance-seeking girl had at last
really found the heart of the clown
beneath the motley Copyright. 1906.
by M M. Cunningham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29
CORRECTING NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

OAEAAAbEz&JAAN&E HAASxAkL1kGkLk1 IN SION
7 do not control one mile of railroad. =
=: H. Hartman.
Is that so?
Well, now, do you know
Some people think that you
Have corralled a few
And laid them away
For a rainy day?
Not many. of course, but enough
When the game
Calls for the same
If It ever does.
Ny suzi
Amt 1t funny
How a chap with money
Acquires a reputation
Among The common herd
OF really and truly being
A Julius Caesar bird,
When he amt anything but a dove
Ghuck-fuI of brotherly love
For everything that has worm
he needs in his business2
Oh say,
Amt it rotten to think that way?
It's a sham dame
70 queer the fair fame
OF a saint
who Who is what he is and amt what he amt
What do you suppose inspires
5eople to be such liars?
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
A mans remarks may not be so
pointed as his beard.
The minute a girl feels she needs
chaperone. she doesn't
The average mother is apt to spare
the rod and spoil the slipper.
Ask a temperance crank to have
drink and he will take umbrage.
The disappointed ofHceseeker feels
like suing his party for nonsupport
The fool who rocked the boat last
summer Will soon be monkeying with
Surprising people lived at the North
Pole, they would have no place to go
but south.
Nell-"Romantic. isn't she7'' Belle
="Oh, very. She sent out invitations
to her elopement-"
The early bird catches the worm.
provided he doesn't spend all his time
Growing about being so early.
The man who let's his money do the
talking has no fear that people are
going to make fun of his grammar.
When a fellow stops buying extrav-
aeant presents for a girl 1t means that
she has either refused him or accepted
him
we are not so apt to consider our
selves better than other people as we
are to consider other people worse than
we are.
For counting purposes a girl natural
" prefers an automobile to an old
fashioned buggy. Every automobile
has a sparker-
Blobbs-s'I prefer a girl who is in
teresting to one who Is handsome
Slobbs=''Yes, tn e handsome girls don't
always have the bank accounts"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29
globe sIGHTs.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.]
When a fly shows up in a warm
room these days, 1t moves around with
the energetic al rof a man who missed
the return train on Sunday excuT-
sion.
A woman was walking on the street
today and we heard her say: I just
can't bear rubbers." Just then her
feet slipped from under her and down
she went.
Occasionally there is a woman who
will not come right out and say man
proposed to her, but viii modestly say;
HE would have proposed II I had let
him"
They make good deal of fuss about
it, but so thoroughly are all details
embellished that there Is suspicion
that women find certain enjoyment IN
describing a funeral.
1t will add largely to the Globes
income if there are many SHOWS this
winter. Every time there is a snow,
Mrs Lysander John Appleton adver-
tises her sleigh, "as good as new" for
sale
An industrious farmer visited the
court house the other day, and walked
around, and looked around. When he
came out, he said: 1T seems to me
that a lot of shiftlessness goes on
around here"
Don't worry about being smart The
people you agree with will think you
are smart. no matter now stupid you
are. and those you do not agree with
think you are dumb, no matter how
brilliant you may be-
At q serious debate lasting several
hours. the Lancaster Literary society
decided yesterday that the success of
a revival depended not upon the num-
Der of sinners saved. but upon the
hardness of the hearts of the sinners.
A bald man who attended the the
atre Saturday night, and sat behind
DR.. Boyle, complained because the
doctor didn't cut his hair; the bald
man said he couldn't zee over it, And
that's all a man gets for having a fine
head of curly hair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

rolLoWlng upon the oil trusts legal
troubles, comes the news that its only
important competitor, the Union OH
company, has completed a pipe line
across the Isthmus of Panama. saws
Wilbur Bassett in Technical World
magazine for December. This company
controis the output of the California
OIL nelds; and by cutting off the long
ocean trip around Cape Horn. the in
dependent company gains power and
prestige which will enable it to COM
pete with the supposed master of the
oil market
Many trouble were encountered nv
the builders of this great pipe line for
carrying crude oil. There were over a
hunured rivers and streams to cross.
Wnlle IN many places the land was so
spongy that the pipe line had buried it.
SER IN the bog before the construction
gang was out Of sight. Seventeen
Dicks an hour was the record of the
negro bricklayers who did the building
work, which amply illustrates the labo~
difficulties involved in the task The
pipe used is of inch interior diameter
tested to 1000 pounds pressure. and
weighs approximately 600 pounds to tn
JOINT This iron pipe had to be painted
oerore shipping, to prevent the action
or neat and moisture. After distribu
ton, every section was again gone over
and such spots as had been barred by
tongs or by accidents of travel were
again painted.
The successful completion of this pipe
line establishes the Californian compc-
tition with the Standard upon a sound
and permanent basis.
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PETERs on uJNfAN

1t is very evident If Senator Benja-
min r. TiIlman goes to Newton to de-
liver q lecture he won't get the glad
hand from Newton's distinguished
citizen, Judge Samuel r. Peters. Judge
Peters would not only snub the sena-
tor from South Carolina himself, but
he would boycott. blacklist and
strangler any church. Chautauqua as
sembly or other organization that in
vites Mr.. Tillman to lecture in Kansas.
Incidental to the job OF being New
toms distinguished citizen, Judge
Peters is the editor OF the Newton
Kansan. He believes the government
IS showing signs of Inconsistency, which
he points out in these remarks in the
Kansan.
The presidents sends a member of
his cabinet to San Francisco to settle a
controversy arising out of the school
officers prohibiting the japanese from
attending school with the white chill
dren. All this, while there are thous-
ands and thousands of persons in the
southern states who, although entitled
to cast a ballot. are not allowed to do
so, and If perchance they should vote.
it is not counted. In short, the incon-
sistency in our eagerness not to have
any i'll treatment visited upon a yellow
cOlored person, while outrage after
outrage committed against the black
person goes unnotieed. Not only this,
but a one-eyed United States senator
from South Carolina comes up into
Kansas. talks treason, insults Kansas
people. and instead of being denounced,
is paid big money for doing so. Chau-
tauqua assemblies. claiming to be reH-
gious organizations created for the
purpose OF intoxicating right morals.
not only invite this man to come and
insult Kansas people, but pay him for
it. Every assembly or church or or
ganization or party that invites such a
man as Senator Tillman to come here
and insult our people, should be boy
cotted, blacklisted and strangled."
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Mutual Error

We'll, what do you want?" said the
master of the house sternly to Dreary
Samuel, the tattered tramp, as he stood
outside the door, shivering with the
most accomplished art
I'm looking for work" replied he of
the unemployed brigade. Amt you got
no scrubbin' or washin' or cleanin' or
nothing that an honest Body could do %
This earnest appeal for work made
the householder think that he had mis-
judged a real, honest British laborer
out of work.
All" he said, now you speak like a
mani I like to hear of anyone willing
to make an effort. I never thought
you wanted work of that kind"
mo more I DO" whined Samuel shud-
dering at the bare idea: its work 70.
my wife I'm looking forr'-Answers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

That crop report that Secretary Co
burn gave out to the public yesterday
ought to bring forth a paean of praise
and thanksgiving from every corner OF
the state. as well as the middle. n
shows that the year that is now draw
ing to a close has been the most pros
porous in material things in the history
of the state It furthermore shows that
the products Of the farms of Kansas In
1906 are nearly double what they were
in 1896. only ten years ago.
One of the great surprises of this crop
report is its figures on wheat. Last
summer, shortly before harvest. we. as
a state, were considerably discouraged
over the wheat prospect. Eighty mill
ion bushels was regarded as a liberal
estimate for the crop, and some pro-
phets placed it as low as 60 or SIS mill
ion bushels. Now that it is all cut and
nearly all threshed we discover that
we had more than 90 million bushels. or
almost as much as the greatest crop
ever raised in the state Not only this
but it's value is the greatest of any
wheat crop ever produced in Kansas.
Thus once more does Kansas take
rank as the greatest wheat producing
region on the face of the globe. Rut
notwithstanding that fact. it is SIN
more a corn state. This is prop
osition that many people lose sight Of.
yet it means much to Kansas. kan
sas is not dependent on a single staple.
It's corn crop this year will bring in 65
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

When little college scores
against a big college and almost de-
feats it in a football game. it feels just
like the Democratic party did in Kan
sas over the recent election.
y y
It sometimes happens that the man
who cannot draw an elephant that can
be told from a blackbird, can draw a
salary with five figures In it,
~
Very likely when Mayor Jim Orr, of
Atchison. called on Governor Hoch the
conversation was about the beautiful
autumn days and what radiant jewel
Kansas is in the diadem of states.
n y
A Colorado Springs woman was ad-
vised by the spirits at seance4 TO IN
vest in = bath house enterprise, and
now the bath house investment IS in
court We judge that a good way not
to invest money is on the advice OF m
spirits that go out Of their way to ad-
wise such things.
Junction City must be feeling mighty
funny today. It is wearing nice new
lid, the first one 1t ever had.
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His Sage Conclusion.

well. sab. if yo' please, dess go
ahead and flung in yo' predestined
pro-ratty, and be done wild i'll" a trifie
impatiently said good Brother Shin
paw, who was passing the hat II isn't
got all day to linger whilst yo' pre-
medicates over de mattah. Dess rec
collect dat de Lawd loves churfuI
giver, and puffawm accawdin'."
''Yassahi Toe be sho'i'' pleasantly
replied old Brother Bimmelick, who
was hesitatingly coming over a TWEEN
ty-five-cent piece. q dime. a nickel, and
a copper cent, reposing in the palm of
his hand We'll, uh. den, muh brud-
der, as 1 KANT no-ways contribute
dis yuh quawtah as churfully as 1 kin
dis Injun-headed penny, 1 dess suits de
action to de words, as dey seq in
stories, and chucks de cent piece into
de election dat am bein' took up for
de heather, uh-way off yonder
some'rs, 1 dunnah whuh. woman s
Home Companion.
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FRON OTHER PENS
AN ISSUE THAT WILL NOT DO.

The suggestion made by the Hon
John T. Morgan of Alabama that tn e
negro should be made the issue of the
next presidential campaign. we believe
to be i'll advised and unwise. Mr.. Nor
gan favors a plank in the national
Democratic platform which will force
this issue to the front. He is so much
in earnest for this policy that he would
favor the withdrawal of a southern
state from the national convention in
case such plank should be presented
by that state and rejected by the con-
vention. What Is the south to gain by
a contest upon any such line? Not one
northern state could be carried on that
issue. Why not let the sleeping dog
lie Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

William c. Whitney, jr., who has
spent year in Indian Territory. learn
ing practical mining at Quapaw, de-
scribed at dinner party in New York
Quapaw restaurant.
AT this restaurant one evening"" he
said, at his descriptions end, two
miners near me go into a botanical
argument about the pineapple, one
claiming that it was a fruit. and the
other that it was a vegeta BILE.
In the midst of their argument the
waiter entered in his shirt sleeves, and
looked about to see what was the
cause of the loud talking.
The miners decided to let the
waiter settle their argument, and ac-
cOrdingly one Of them said:
Pete, what Is a pineapple? Is it a
fruit or a vegetable?'
The waiter. Ticking the ash from
his cigar, smiled at the two men with
pity.
TITS neither, gents he said It's
an extra Exchange.
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REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.
rFrom the New York Press. ]

From the New York Press
If a girl doesn't scream when YOU
kiss her she doesn't seem to enjoy it.
About all you have to do to make
people hate anything IS to tell them it
is healthful.
If women voted they would want a
law saying what kind Of clothes you
had to wear when you did It,
The incest thing about having
money is that nobody ever cares then
whether you pay your bills or not
One comfort to a woman in having
her husband sick abed is she knows he
isn't out getting his feet wet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29
KANSAS COMAENT
GROWINc RETTER.

GEtOWlNGs BETTER.
conditions have changed. The
world is growing wiser and better.
Many -airly" settler stories are I'M
true But this one is true. In the
early seventies, county seat and county
line elections were always ripe and
were picked early and often. When a
spring wagon load of men went out to
Talk county seat to the sovereign
squats they loaded up with Red Jacket
and two or three boxes of cigars and
II was not uncommon to meet up with
a fellow citizen who wouldn't even talk
until ne had sampled" about every
thing in the spring wagon. But when
election day came and the ballot box
stuf1ng began in earnest, it took a bar
rel or two of the 20 be Joyful to save
the country Now that we have all
turned prohib even the smell OF red
liquor is not heard in the land on cleo
ton day OF course the world is get
ting better.-El Dorado Republican.
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Of this great home favorite and Theo-
dore Roosevelt. For two days the en-
tire Gazette force has been thinking
and thinking and thinking what to say
about this, but all We can think to say
IS that for once in his life, anyway.
Mr. Roosevelt will be in good COM
DauvFsf
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The Forgetful saurian.

A colored preacher took some candi-
dates for immersion down to a river in
Louisiana Seeing some alligators in
the stream, one of them objected
why, brother urged the pastor
cant you trust the Lord? He took
care of Jonah, didn't hep
"Y-a-a-s." admitted the darby, but u
whales diff'rent. A whales got Il
mem'ry, but eff one O. dem gators was
ter swaller dis niger. he'd jes' go ter
sleep dar in de sun an fergit all bout
me''-Woman's Home Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

There seems to be a difference of
opinion whether the increase of four
cents per hour in the wages of yard
men, recently granted by the Santa
Fe. was secured by the Brotherhood OF
Railway Trainmen or by the Switch
mems Union of North America The
important thing to the yard men. how
ever, is that they get It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

The authorities of the College of
Emporia were so short sighted as to
suspend one of the college teams best
football players right on the eve of
the Thanksgiving game with Winfield.
Just think Of that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

It is hard luck, of course, to be fined
5000, but think of the pleasure Presi-
dent Joe Smith can get out of going
home, after hard days work, to his
little family of five wives and forty
three children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

Now that the president is safely
home again, those people who held
their breath all the time he was gone
for fear something would happen to
him because he dared to smash an an
cient but foolish precedent, can begin
TO breathe freely once more.
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FIX THE LAW

There are a good many fool laws. For
instance: At Coffeyville a gang of men
paving street, worked eight hours a
day for $3.50. They wanted to work
nine hours a day for $3.50 because they
needed the money, and the contractor
was willing. But the state labor COM
missioner said 1t was a violation of the
eight hour law and made the contractor
cut down the time of the workmen, who
are the only losers.-Holton Signal.
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The friends OF Joseph T.. Bristow
doubtless regret that ex-senator Bur.
tons book attacking Mr.. Bristow.
President Roosevelt, Cyrus Leland
William Allen White. ct al. Will not be
published till after Mr.. Burton is re-
leased from the Iron county Jail. If
1t could be placed on the market be
fore the senatorial election it ought to
help Bristow's chances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-29

Salina doesn't fear an custer suit.
A drunk man in that town recently ap-
peared at the police station to be lock-
ed up. which Salina believes is proof
that nobody needs ousting- It's in
ebriates are too we'll trained.
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THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

Through the courtesy of Myron Doom,
The Better Way has had the pleasure
OF reading part of an old Indiana
strong supporter of James K. Polk for
the presidency. and it is not saying too
much to mention for fact that the most
strenuous campaign known to these
present good days, is the oleaginousness
of bears grease compared to an appli-
cation of sandpaper when put up along
SIDE OF the strenuosity of the days of
Al There were giants on the political
rostrum in those northumberland
Goliaths, who did not hesitate a min
ute about decapitat1ng, or even f1aying
alive any opponent. Pet names then
would be cause for criminal libel now,
ana when these antagonists got really
in earnest, why pistols for two at ten
PAGES was the only arbiter.-Minneapo -
lis Better Way.
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The men are catching it at every
turn of the road these days. A ST.
Louis court has decided that sixty
cents a year is not a sufficient allow
ance for a wife's wardrobe.