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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

shore IN time for you to catch tn,
DO I look like sight?" she de-
nanded.
'As If you ever did" he laughed.
you look all right"
II can sleep on the train she
planned. land I'll be all right by the
time I reach town"
In less than an hour the boat drew
up beside the Regent dock, and Ted
handed her out and reached for the
suit case. Silently he followed her to
the station and sat beside her on the
platform.
Don't you think he said at last
that since you are so fond OF we'd
dings you ought to have one your
self?''
IF you are still wiling she smiled
do you suppose ] was rowing you
around the lake all night for pure love
of exercise 2" he demanded.
I'D rather think 1t WAS for love Of
me-" she whispered.
you win declared Ted, fervently;
and under his breath he added, And
so do I. Bless that fog!'-l Copyright,
1906, by NJ. M. Cunningham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.l
Some men play the races. and others
work them.
Looking for a needle in haystack
is a needless performance.
You never hear a spiritualistic medi-
UNI say: Il don't care a rap
The defaulting bank official doesn't
have to sail yacht to be a skipper.
First Politician-"This deal looks
crooked" Second Politician-"Y
that's straight"
Some fellows kill so much time that
they ought to be ashamed to look a
clock in the face.
Nell-"In Turkey a girl never sees
her husband until she is married"
Belle-'How funny; in this country she
never sees him afterward."
Overheard on the beach-He-''I don't
think Miss Prim cares for men" She
mo, she has been here nearly a week
and isn't engaged yet
The automobile may be faster than
the old-fashioned buggy" sighed the
sentimental girl, but it has its draw
backs; It takes two hands to run it"
Jefferson's record in rip Van VIM
kle" has been broken. A western ac-
tress has been playing Little Eva in
Uncle Toms Cabin for over 90 years
How is your husband. Mandy2'' ask
ed Mrs. Goodheart: Il hear he Is suf-
fering from neuralgia" "'Taint new"
replied Mandy; hits de same ole
ralgy."
quite a heavy rain we had last
affebly. Heavy" snorted the guest:
there was a leak in the roof right over
my bed, and tell you It came down
In sheets"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The Lyons Republican publishes a
clipping, credited to "Ex," which
states: THE Topeka State Journal and
Kansas City Star aver that Governor
Hoch viii be defeated, owing to the po-
sition growing out Of his anti-saloon
campaign in Wyandotte county,"
Eek. appears to be something of liar.
so far as the State Journal is con-
eerned-
X y
Ever notice how easy it is when you
go to bed to get up at O'Clock in the
morning. and how hard It is when 5
o'clock actually comes?
X
Affairs in Russia says a dispatch,
are in desperate state of confus-
ion" If Russia can just keep going
till the statesman from Reno county,
Kansas, gets there. and IL she will en-
Well
A lot of big diamonds as large as
pigeon eggs have been stolen IN New
York Better not buy any that size
for awhile or you may get some stolen
y
This department has been studying
Tor three days to discover why such
distinguished abstainers as Joe Bris-
tow, Charles F. Scott Henry Allen, ct
al, went to Leayenworth to hold a pub
hshers' meeting.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.I
How seriously we all fool with fool
things
The part of me that Is not rabbit"
said a man today. as sheep"
When a baby is weaned, the entire
neighborhood knows about it.
Why is it that panthers only visit
this section during peach and water
melon time?
Very often bride rides to the
depot on her wedding trip, who rides
to her home on a street car when she
gets back.
To be faithful to a man is as natural
for a good woman as It is natural for
a man to be unfaithful to a woman.
The bright spots in every mans
memory are the compliments he re-
ceived at the age when he was a no
account boy.
When a man marries q second time
and doesn't get along with his second
wife, the neighbors say it Is mighty
funny.
Perhaps one reason the baby's cry
ing doesn't waken it's father is that he
thinks it is its mothers place to get up
and care for it.
When an admirer of little girl
gives her a nickel and she spends it
for candy, the harm isn't always as
great as when he gives a compliment
to a girl little too old for the nickel
They said of a certain Atchison
man. ten years ago, that he was dying
of a broken heart because a certain
Atchison woman would not marry him.
But we notice he is still alive
If you dislike man, you have the
same right to tell him to keep away
from you that you have to oil a creak-
ing door, or put out fly paper. When
two men dislike each other' the Wisest
possible thing is to let each other
alone
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GlYing Lee PIeasure.

A. ]. Drexel Biddle. who wrote a
book on Madeira said the other day,
according to an exchange:
Madeira Is a delightful place. One
of its greatest. one of its strangest de-
lights is coasting. You coast down the
steep mountain sides in wicker
basket with wooden runners, and so
fast do you go that sometimes your
runners smoke, sometimes they even
burst into flame.
This coasting in Madeira's Maytime
weather is a strange pleasure. I can't
describe its strangeness. 1t reminds
me- He smiled.
1T reminds me in its strangeness of
a Christmas gift that was sent last
month to a certain maiden lady. The
gift was sent to her by her nephew
and afterward he described it thus:
AT first I could not think of any
thing to give Aunt Mary for Christ
mas, and then, suddenly, I remem-
bered that she was an old maid, wholly
unacouainted with the grand passion,
and SO, in order to give her q unique
pleasure. sent her an anonymous
love letter. Commercial Tribune
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JAYHA WKER JOTS

Down at Lawrence they are still
contributing to the San Francisco
1Rerers. Lawrence never did believe
sSn rushing things.
Speaking of bad luck days, the
Sseyvton Kansan tells of three men
Fho went fishing last Friday, the
18th, and they caught thirteen big
ash.
Salina is willing to let that rain
which the weather man sent on its
Chautauqua last Sunday, pass this
time. provided the weather man
doesn't let it happen again.
A Jewell county man has a new rain
signal. His bees are swarming and he
says he has handled bees twenty years
and that he has never known them
to swarm just before a severe drouth.
SO he is looking for rain.
Musical note in the Atchison Globe:
Today in one block, on Commercial
street, a graphophone was wheeling
out a Sousa march: someone was
pounding out Lohengrin's bridal
chorus on a mechanical piano player;
q. vocal teacher was trying over some
songs and her voice rolled out of a
music store, near which the Salvation
army drummer and tambourine player
were playing an accompaniment for
child singer.
The Nemaha county poor house
must IN reality be a mighty good
house In fact, the Corning Gazette
says 1t isn't proper to call it "the
county poor house" With steam heat,
hot and cold WAFER and gas lights,
says the Gazette. it is the county hos
pitaI' or county home" People who
have visited the county hospital" de-
clare It is far in advance of a very
large number of homes in the county;
that the people there have better priv
ileges and live better than a large
number Of people do in the county.
The muse of the Leavenworth Times
tunes up and MARBLES thusly:
Sing a song of BoWersock,
Closing his career
RELOCATED, aggravated,
Tried to Danish beer;
But when the eanteen opened,
The Vets began to shout:
'In hoe, Bowersock-
goes-outi"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19
Civilizations Best Friend.

We have yet two decades to wait be-
fore we can celebrate the centennial
anniversary of the birth of the rail-
road. 1t is a wonderful record, that
eighty years of rapid-transit develop
ment. It has revolutionized the world,
commercially, socially and intellectual
". The Atlantic and the Pacific have
become near neighbors; the fnaecessi-
BILE and therefore valueless plains Of
the west have been penetrated and
brought into touch with the markets of
the world: New York and Chicago,
that in the pioneer days were weeks
away from one another, are now but
eighteen hours apart
TIE railroad has entered Jerusalem;
1t has pierced darkest Africa; it is
crossing the sands of the Sahara; it
scales the side Of Vesuvius, it bridges
the most forbidding chasms and tun-
nels through mountains and under riv-
ers The whistle of the locomotive is
the voice of progress. The rails over
which it runs are the steel bands that
bind nations into a great commercial
brotherhood.
The rapid development of the world
along every desirable line since the
locomotive became a factor in human
affairs is all the argument necessary
to prove the railroad the greatest OF
all civilizing influences. A comparison
of the past eighty years with the thou
sands of centuries preceding furnishes
an ELOQUENT proof of the far-reaching,
uplifting, Industrial, ethical and eduea-
tional value of the ailroad.-From
1.-The Worlds Progress" in Four-Track
News for July.
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EROM OTHER PENS
!NDEPENDENr JoURNALIsM.

The journalist has one client, one
nattent. one fiock-that Is to say, the
whole community; and nothing should
stand in the way of his single minded
and devoted service Of that one common
interest. He should beware of all en-
tangling alliances-pOlitical, social, COM
merciai-which may limit or embarrass
such service He should let the honors
and emoluments Of public office go to
other people. His own office, If properly
administered, is more powerful than any
nat his fellow citizens are likely to con-
fer upon him. The independent news
paper may be and should be the most
vital and effective instrument that dem
ocratic society can produce for its own
advancement and protection; and It's
true business welfare, in the long view,
lies in a complete, Intelligent, sympa-
thetic devotion to public INTEREST,"
Samuel Bowles. in North American Re
view.
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SETH WELLS. ASKER.

Mr.. Seth G. Wells has also con-
tracted the question habit. This per
haps is not strange, inasmueh as it is
one Of Mr.. Wells duties as state aud
itor to find out about matters. But in
this instance Mr. Wells appears to
have gone outside the pale of his Of
fetal duties and he directs his ques-
tions at Mr.. w. r. Stubs. In his pa
per. the Erie Record. Mr.. Wells pub
fishes the following:
Stubs, the self appointed guar
dian of the Republican party in Kan
sas. has taken it upon himself to ask
the Republican state legislative candi-
dates some questions. While this ask
ing question business is going on we
would like to ask Mr.. Stubs how
much money he received, as chairman
of the Republican campaign commit
tee. from the railroads during the
campaign two years ago, and how he
spent 1t? Also. supposing the candi-
dates do not answer Mr.. Stubs ques-
tons a. he thinks they ought to be an
swered. but prefer to stand upon the
Republican platform, are you, Mr..
Stubs, going to advise your following
to vote the Democratic ticket?"
A good many people would like to
have that first question answered. The
second may or may not be important.
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[From the chieago NeNws.[

lETOTn the chicago NSSWs-L
A kiss in time Is fine
True friends seldom come in punches.
SeIf-made men don't always make
themselves agreeable
There is no task too hard for a lazy
man not to attempt.
Yes, Alonzo, there are some fair sing
ers who are not blondes
Success is often hundred-to-on shot
that the talent overiooks.
A man never realizes the goodness 81
his neighbors until he Is sick.
An alarm clock always gets busy just
when a. man doesn't want to be bothered.
About the only way you can arouse
a mean mans conscience is 70 catch him
at It..
A rule that refuses to work at ali
often gets the best Of one that works
both ways.
Some girls who think they can sing
ought to patronize correspondence
school Of thought
The man who boasts Of the wonders
he is going to work never amounts to
much as an actual worker.
There must be something wrong with
that old axiom about ignorance being
bliss-otherwise more people would be
happy
After a man has tackled three or four
enterprises and failed to succeed IN any
Of them, he usually sets himself up as
pessinist-
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HE'S RESTING.

Silence refgns in Oyster Bay,
Scarcely a leaflet jiEgies;
Oyster. Graded in its shell,
Scarcely breathes or wriggles.
Peeps the bird serenely nesting,
"Teddy's resting.
Railway frauds are laid aside
By his own suggestion,
And the BEEF Trust-wnl It keep
Mercy. what 3 question.
No more strenuous saengerfesting:
Teddy resting.
Lies the Muckrake on the lawn,
somewhat dulled and furnished;
Also. Teddy's hobby horse
Seems \ bit unvarnished-
Hush Waste not your time suggesting
Teddys resting.
From the lawn there comes a snore
Very like Z snorting.
Ieddys nightmare s riding rough,
Through mis- dreams cavorting.
Hencel beware of idle testing
Teddy's resting
Wallace Irwin in New York Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

You don't seem to like Miss Babbie
Ms Ms MalaspaTT,op, remarked Mrs Ascum.
II detest her. replied Mrs. AIaIaprop.
because she's nothin' but a scandal mon
coIlaborate that statement. ''-Philadelphia
Press.
''Hullo! I've found you out at last. You,
a fervent vegetarian, tueking into rump
Pm steadsast as regards my principles,
but 5thels thrown me over, and I'm tired
of life. Punch.
waggsby-They say the devil used to
transform himself into woman and visit
Peckeni-Geei III bet I married him the
last time he lid his transformation stunt
Chicago News.
Il understand your. son Josh has. just
been nominated for the legislature
- Well, /" answered Farmer Gorntassel:
into mischief Of some kind or 'nuther''-
Washington Star.
Summer Hotel Proprietor-Gad we new
er had SO many men guests before. Diyou
suppose it was my ad rtisement of fine
His PartnsT-Sso: my advertisement Of
fine heiresses.-Puck.
LADY began Weary Walker, I'm
sIndeed2" interrupted the housekeeper.
Il don't suppose it ever occurred to you
'Yes'n but de trouble wild me. ma am,
is dat I'm far-sighted- When I git real
close to work / can't see it.''-Philadel-
phia Press.
Jones-Ever been here before. Smith2
Smith-No; that accounts for my being
here noW.=Puck.
Visitor-Why do you make some of your
pies round and some Of them scuare2
Wife-Because my husband has been
complaining OF the sameness of his diet
lately.-Cleveland Leader.
"An actor should put his whole heart
into his work, shouldn't hep
Yes, answered Mr.. StOrmingtOn
Barnes. and even that isn't enough. He
must ind man willing to put his whole
"Oh. N.Y. exclaimed the excited woman
who had mislald her husband, Pm lock-
ing for a small man with one eye"
Well, ma,am," replied the polite floor
walker. If h. very small man maybe
you'd better use both eyes."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
How did you come out in that game
you PLAYED with the deaf and dumb coll
lege baseball team?"
Il guess they'd have beaten US II their
pitcher hadn't thrown his arm out of joint
while he was in the catcher's box yelling
to men on bases--Judge.
Got the job O. business cards done fur
Doc Piller9~ asked the country editor.
"Ya-as," replied his foreman. IT'S done.
but Hi made a Ieetle mistake a-settin' It
up. Mebbe Doc'n kick, but I reckon 1t
amt so fur wrong.
Wv at is it7'
Hi made it Prescriptions Carefully
COMPOUNDED 'f--lohiladelphia Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

The little city of Ottawa is another
place that realizes the value of public
franchises. It receives a bonus of S25,-
600 for a natural gas franchise granted
some time ago and It gets as
good rates on gas as any town
outside the gas belt besides. The
town has just received the first
$1,000 OF It's $4,000 bonus. Fig
ured on a basis of population the
natural gas franchise in Topeka would
be worth over 100000. according to
the Ottawa contract.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Another OF the funny features of this
campaign IS brought out by the Lin
coin Republican. mo one" says Ed
ftor McCoIlum, will object to w. r.
Stubs and his friends asking all the
questions they desire of the Republi-
can candidates for state office. but isn't
there something deliciously humorous
IN Stubs. who had to be whipped into
line for the present railroad bill in the
last legislature and who never was for
she two-eent fare bill, asking Repre-
sentative Pringle, author of the two
cent fare BILL for example, If he favors
these measures2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Mayor Rose of Kansas City, Kan, has
been ordered by the state supreme court
to relinquish his office and pay fine OF
81. 900 for contempt Of court. If he doesn'
pay the fine he must go to Jail And all
this because the court claims he has
failed to enforce the laws he was elected
to enforce. But how many mayors would
continue in office if the courts were all
as strict as this Kansas court?-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
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Full TFlA SFErS yvTRF REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED E7F2Fsss'
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the state journal
SWAY during the summer may have
laie paper muiled regularly each day
so any address at e8se rate Of ten cents
b week or thirty cents a month (by
glnail only. Address changed as often
Ias desired. While ont OF town the
state journal WIZ be to you like a
daiIy letter from home.
Advance payment IS requested ON
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expense.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.l

If a girl has fiery red hair it's sign
her mother win admit It is golden.
A woman only needs to have a stick
pin to be able to talk about her Jewels
What a girl likes about flirting is she
is never sure but maybe she means It.
It takes a woman to 60 on loving a
man after she finds out he isn't worth
1t.
When a man is so good he doesn't try
to get square with his enemies it's a
sign he is afraid Of them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

with imperfect titles because It was an
open question whether the railroad
right-of-way should be one hundred or
four hundred feet wide II they had
made the simple charge that Colonel
Harris was an early Kansas land agent
It mi1ht have been a serious matter.
but bringing in the other controversy
in order to prove that Governor Hoch
was right in his Katy action sounds
funny
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19
SEEING THINGS.

An Illinois correspondent writes
that it has been raining little green
frogs in his neighborhood. When he
begins to see the little pink and yellow
ones it will be time for the water
wagon to back up for him again.
washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

incidentally the state of Kansas will
loudly applaud superintendent Luling
Of the states insurance department, for
standing by California in its troubles
with the Insurance companies over the
adjustment of the San Francisco losses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

The Arkansas City Traveller advises
against bringing an action before the
present board Of railroad commission
iers to secure a reduction in passenger
rates The Traveller does not think It
would be wise-before the present
hoard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

An exchange says Governor Hoch
F.did only his plain duty in the Katy
case. Funny how many other COVER
nors have refused to do their plain
duty in this regard, and how the
people have not censured them for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Senator Fulton refers to Secretary
Hitchcock as AN old fogy,, because OF
the way the secretary has been prob
ing land frauds. Too bad there are not
more "old fogies'' in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Isn't It the height Of presumption to
talk of giving college professors $4,000
year when a second-rate pugilist col
Iects only that amount as the small
end of a purse for a ten minutes
fight New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Coffeyville has just landed a big oil
refinery. Two years ago the building
of a new oil refinery in Kansas would
have been hailed with great rejoicing
throughout the state. Today it causes
scarcely a ripple. These are indeed
changed conditions" as Governor
FTOcn saws
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

One trouble about this Thaw serial
story now running in the newspapers
IS that the press agents Of the actresses
involved will try to rehash the whole
thing several different ways about next
sa--s-,fo-
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The severe poisoning of a Topeka
doctor by the use Of meat that had
been treated with fermaldehyde, is a
warning to the public to beware of its
meat at this time of year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

another joke in this campaign is the
lctlon Of the Republican managers in
attempting to defend Governor Hoch's
Katy record by showing that Colonel
Harria. while a land agent in Kansas in
ha early days. sold Union Pacific land
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Mr.. Bryan is also to visit Scotland
Like as not he intends to learn the golf
language. so that he can capture the
golf vote, too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Maxim Gorky has written a piece"
criticising American morals. Think Of
khe nerve Of it!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Upton Sinclair is now wrestling with
the servant girl problem. He will find
that the beef trust was easy compared
with the hired girl.
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DEvELOPING PROHIBITION.
MEAN

Bill Allen White says. "any monkey
can run a railroad newspaper" And
lust how mean it was to say this can
be realized when it is remembered that
the railroad organs are debarred from
criticism without confession.-Bur-
lingarne Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Here is another important question:
was Senator DolIey turned down in
1Vabaunsee county, or was he not?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Judging from the feel of the atmos-
iphere. old General Humidity is loadng
around in these parts again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19

Why. pray should a candidate for
public office become angry when he is
asked if he is in favor of an anti-pass