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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-10
GOOD NEWs.

The cheapest and best irrigation in
the world is where every man has his
own artesian we'll, with a sufficient flow
for all his needs-that is, it is the
cheapest after the well has once been
secured.
According to a news item printed in
the Syracuse Journal, away out in
Hamilton county. a fine flow of artesian
water has been developed just south OF
Coolidge, near the Kansas-Colorado
line, at a depth of less than ESQ feet
The item says in part:
Last Saturday the well driller on
the old Nolan ranch south OF Coolidge
one mile. struck aTtesian water which
flowed out al the top of the ground at
a depth of 100 feet. The water rose in
the pipe four inches above the ground
al that depth. Drilling was continued
and at 100 to 100 feet the water rose
in the pipe eighteen inches above
ground. At 1876 feet a stronger flow
was encountered which rose twenty
four inches in the pipe above the sur
face of the ground At $40 feet an
other and much stronger flow was
struck. making a gusher which spouts
five feet above the ground. Ed Pars-
ley, who is agent for J. L. Murphy of
Missouri, and has had the we'll drilled,
says this was put down in the nature
inch hole. When an eight inch we'll is
drilled on this land It will irrigate a
full section of land and will make land
now worth $50 an acre worth at least
$500 an acre and the figures are con-
sentative considering what land under
the Colorado bitches is selling at.
ed Parsley was at Coolidge
Wednesday morning inspecting the
we'll and had 16 foot length Of pipe
attached to the well casing perpendicu-
larly. and the water gushed out over
the top of that There is no way of
determining just how much higher
than that the water would rise"
Now If there is artesian water at
Coolidge. there is very likely artesian
water under a large area in the Arkan-
sas valley. and if so. it means that the
problem of irrigation in that locality is
settled. And when the problem of
irrigation in the Arkansas valley is
definitely settled. it means that a ire
mendious population can be supported
on those broad prairies.
It is quite possible that the estimate
Of the amount of land that can be
irrigated from a single we'll is over
estimated in the report from Syracuse,
but if even forty acres can be irrigated
from one we'll 1t is a big proposition.
Bringing this artesian water to the
surface would not only benefit the man
who got the first use of it. but much
of it would soak away and increase the
underfiow for the use of those further
down the valley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-10
own the road. COMPOUNDED young

down the road. COMPOUNDED young
bounder!
was thoroughly awake BY this
time. and set off for the beach at q
brisk pace. It was a day for the gods
the air was clear and bracing, the
scent of pine mingled with a tang OF
the sea. It was very still The dew
lay heavy on the grass, and from the
roadside trees came the drOWsy tWit-
ter of half-aWakened birds who didn't
have to get up at unearthly hours TO
do their wooing. But my joy in the
mornings beauty was embittered by
surmises. What had HolwOrthy been
doing? Was he going to meet her.
too? increased my speed to run.
and then brought up suddenly at the
edge of the beach.
There pacing up and down while
he peered impatiently at his watch
was Carstdirs. Miss Cameron had evil
IDENTIFY mentioned her fondness for
morning hours to him also-a sup
position that was enforced when Hol-
worthy and another fellow joined US
a few minutes later, both coming from
different directions. We stood about
in an awkward group, cycling each
other suspiciously, each one reluctant
to have the others out of sight a mo-
ment. Even the Illuminating presence
of Miss Cameron failed to restore
peace as we walked along the beach
five abreast hanging on every word
she said.
why, you're positively savage" she
laughed. It don't believe it agrees
with you to take g sunrise stroll. How
did it happen that you all got up so
early?"
We all gIared at each other as we
thought Of how we should have an
swered that question if we had been
alone with her. The little speech I
had prepared the night before died on
my lips. But It was a comfort to
know that similar speeches were dy-
ing on the lips Of three other men.
Altogether our morning stroll was not
edge to our tempers than to our appe-
titles. After breakfast Miss Cameron
went off with Carstairs in his motor.
The rest of US stayed home and
sulked
It was Holworthy who brought me
the news. "She's going back to town.
he groaned, f1inging himself down by
me on the grass.
''Who?" I cried.
shes going to marry Carstairs.
She told me so herself. She's been en-
gave a queer, short laugh Think
how Internally de-trop we must have
been this morning"
Well, of course that ended 1t. There's
no use butting against a stone wall.
And since 1t had to be some one, I was
glad 1t was Carstairs. After all It
seemed only just. So we wished him
joy, and told him what a lucky fell
low he was, and we all went to the
wedding-all, that is. except Miss
Archer. who, by the way. is the beau
tiful Miss Archer still.=( Copyright,
1906. by Constance Darcy Mackay.)
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JNYHN WXER JOTS

J. L. Landry. editor of the Argentine
Republic, is also a lawyer. Incidentally
he is a justice of the peace, and in the
ahsence of the other officers he subs
for the police judge and city attorney.
Nothing like being versatile.
One of John Conway's remarks: The
Kansas philosopher who said that
every man ought to ask himself If ne
is q fool. forgets that quite number
of US are married an1 get some infor-
nation without asking for it.
1t is told that a Lawrence girl con-
ffded in a couple of friends that she
was engaged, and they confded it to
several more friends Finally the news
reached the young man. It was the
first he had heard of it. All Lawrence
young men are not slow, however.
HOpe-so item by Bent Murdock:
There died last week an Italian wo-
man, who left $4,000 to the editor of
her favorite newspaper She gave as
reason that she had SO often been en-
tertained by 1t. Wonder if there is any
dar~er af that sort of thing becoming
epidemic?
When you hear any person roasting
the Handholders' union" Says Bert
Walker, who always keeps his dues
paid up and in good standing in the
union, "just make up your mind thar
you have run across some one who has
petitioned for membership and been
blackballed."
Down at Parsons they are even
building gas pipe lines out into the
country so that the farmers may have
the benefit of natural gas. One line
has been run out for four miles and
will accommodate twenty-five farmers.
The country people are getting all the
good things the town people enjoy in
addition to those the town people don
have.
Speaking of woman's prerogative to
change her mind. listen to this from
Emporia: THE Maddens at 1105
State street, who we're having a second
story built to their home, have changed
their minds and the carpenters are to-
day tearing down the frame work that
has already been built. L. J. Bailey,
one of the carpenters who is working
on the house. said, Mrs. Madden de-
cfded she would rather not have two
stories to the house, so we are tearing
Gown all we have built to the Rouse -
Emporia Gazette: More than halt
the men in EmDoria received letters
this morning marked Presidents Of
fee, the Santa F'e System" on the en-
velope. The envelope contained Presi-
dent Ripley's letter "to the people of
Kansas" which has been appearing iii
the papers for some time. A great
many who received the letters felt
honored to be remembered by the
president of the Santa F'e system, while
several others wrote letters to him
complaining that he was insulting their
intelligence. none of which letters he
viii ever see. The Ripley letters were
mailed at the Emporia postoffice under
a onescent stamp.
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KANSAS cOMMENT
FROM BILL WHITE.

Dave Mulvane is out in an Interview
declaring for Curtis. and predicting his
election Seven long weary years ago,
and five years before that Dave Null
vane was out with an interview for
Burton and predicting his election
Kansas who is not for Curtis; there is
not a crook in Kansas politics who is
not for Curtis: there is not a railroad
attorney in Kansas who is not for
Curtis. These people are not in poll
tics for their health. They make
money by cheating the people. And
yet there are fellows who claim to be
in favor Of decency in politics who
are shouting for Curtis for senator.
This is a curious world. And the more
you see of it the funner it gets.-En-
poria Gazette.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

AFTER you have trampled on rat
tlesnake with your bare feet remarks
Colonel CASTOR, there isn't much ex-
element in seeing one in a box But
not many of US ever had the jim
jams.
We note that the country papers are
printing the item about the divorce A
T. Pigg got in the Shawnee county dis
triet court recently. under the head of
Live Stock Notes.
X X y
Here Is more trouble: Some chump
has invented a contrivance so that peo-
pie talking over a telephone can see
one another. That means that we will
have to dress up and look nice every
time we talk over the phone. But it
will give a woman a reason for smooth
ing her hair before she answers the
phone. She always does it anyway,
and now she will hav an excuse for it.
4 \
It is our ambition now to keep ahead
of the ice bills before the coal bills
begin to come in
No, Gertrude, Secretary Root did not
invent root beer. You cannot charge
that up against him.
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CHMMTNS.

Governor Cummils' victory IN Iowa
foreShadows what viii happen in KIM
sas. He fought the federal Office
holders, the railways, he congressional
delegation and the machine and beat
them all, because the people believe in
him and lined up for him. Cummins
is for the square deal and for a revision
of the tariff; and now that he IS nomi-
mated for governor for a third term,
the people who are with him are going
to walloD the dayliSn-s out Of a lot of
machine congressman who fought The
reform movement And that IS just
what will happen to every member of
congress who gets in the way of this
reform movement in this state.-El
Dorado Republican.
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HUMOR OF THE DAY

Jinks-Do you suppose man with a
family. can live on dollar a day and be
a Christian
Blinks-Of course. He can't afford to be
anything else.-N. Y. Weekly.
Sensitive Golfer Cwho has foozled-Did
you laugh at me, boy2
Caddie-No. sir; I was laughin' at an
Golfer-And what's funny about him?
Caddie-de plays govt awful. Ike you.
"A fool and his money are soon. parted. ("
remarked the man who comments on
things"
That's right" replied Senator Badger
But we have the satisfaction of knowing
that a new one is born every minute
Milwaukee Sentinel
What would you do IL you was one O.
these here trust magnates?" asked Mean
dering Mike.
7 reckon I'd feel purity at home" ans
wered Flooding Pete. I'd walk up every
once in a while an say not guilty jes
about the same as I'm doin' now
W ashington Star.
DO you think that any man can be in
love and sane at the same timer
1t depends on what he is in love with
If the object of his affection be beautiful
a good cook, able to make her own
clothes and willing to overlook it If he
doesn't call her Pet or Darling in public
don't see why there should be any rea-
son TO doubt his sanity. '-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atchison Globe.l

You can shave your whiskers off,
quicker than you can get them back.
The world is cruel. Instead of sym
paehizing with a jealous woman, il
laughs at her.
we are compelled to admit that
some men We don't like are quite pop
ular and prosperous.
Unfortunately there seem to be
more ways of being disagreeable than
there are of being agTeeab bic.
Sometimes we think a woman is
patient and self-sacrificing in order to
have something to throw up to her
husband.
When a man. or q boy, opens the
refrigerator door. the women folks
follow with a cloth to wipe up what
he spilled
A woman wearing a sealskin jacket
in August looks cool and airy in com
parison with the man with a long,
heavy beard.
When a horse has spring halt, it
must feel a good deal like a woman
who wears long garters and has them
keyed up too tight.
1t is said a man who can be worked
by one woman can be worked by them
all: Same way with a church. If one
fakir can work it, any fal<ir can.
The people are becoming 50 capa-
Bile these days that they not only at
spare time for touching up the neigh
bors.
What has become OF the old fash
toned woman who dressed up for
going down town. summer or win
ter by putting a shawl over the dress
she happened to have on?
Some how it gives a man & feeling
that there has been a conspiracy
against him to hear OF a piece of gos-
sip after it has f1oated around amonW
his friends for a week.
If you want to be famous, don't be
Reformer: manufacture chewing
gum. One Of the most famous men in
this country is man named Beeman,
a manufacturer of chewing gum.
Occasionally we have a piece OF
good luck Last Saturday we went into
a barber shop and found the best bar
Der IN the shop idle, although there
was a chump waiting for his fayorite.
No wonder people hate whisky. To-
day We saw a patient country woman
sitting in a store. waiting for her hus-
band. Just before we had seen her
husband in a joint drinking and hav-
ing a high old time.
It is interesting when father tells the
children of what b rake he used to be,
but mothers past isn't so interesting
because she doesn't dare tell Of any
thing she ever did that was any worse
than whispering IN school
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THE MODERN PUZZLE.

Life is a puzzle,
All Sages avoW,
But never so Yexing
A problem as now.
Since the muck rake'S been busy.
And stirred such a stew
Nobody can hardly
Know just what to do.
To eat you must decide on
You will or you won't;
You'll die If you do
And you'll starve if you don't.
If you're sick disease threatens,
In drugs dangers lie;
If you take them you're poisoned,
If you don't you will die.
The airs full of microbes.
To breathe it is death;
And yet to be living
You must draw your breath
All money is tainted;
Your soul cannot give
It room-without money,
ct how can you liver
In water is typhoid,
In wine ruin IS brink;
So when you are thirsty
There's nothing to drink
Yes. life is a puzzle
And bitter our cup;
We can't guess it right.
And we won't give it up.
Baltimore American
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Heat of Death valley

Death valley is veritable hole at
this time on account Of the excessive
heat. In spite of the i'll advised state
ments printed from time to time that the
valley and the surrounding desert are
not dangerous to level headed men.
news comes in that prospectors are be-
coming lost and that seasoned miners
and their animals are dying from heat
and thirst
In Amargosa canon work has almost
been suspended on the Tonopah & Tide
water railway. A large number Of work
men have died from the terrific tenn
perature.
The crews have been working Il,
a canon. covered with sand and with
out a sign Of vegetation. With no wa
ter than that hauled through the burn
ing desert in large tanks. they are IN
able to Withstand conditions.-Sacra-
mento Bee
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FRON OTHER PEMS
AN OLD TRUTH IN NEW DRESS.

AN OLD TRUTH IN NEW DRESS.
A Chicago professor sent to fnvesti-
gate the cooking of a public school
culinary expert was so captivated by
her good dinner that he married her.
This fact is significant of an old truth
which the marriageable maidens of the
land should lay to heart. Long ago
a keen reader Of the human heart gave
this advice to women: THE straight
est way to a mans heart is through his
stomach. You may be as beautiful as
Venus and as talented as Madame de
Stael but you viii never reign supreme
in your lege lords affections till you
know how to haste a turkey" Per-
the truth may be, If there were more
good dinners there would be fewer.
cases in the divorce courts.=Baltimore
American.
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FULL y.EssEvD WTRE. REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the State journal
away during the summer may have
shs paper mailed regularly each day
60 any address at tz9e rate of ten cents
q week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only. Address changed as often
as desired. While out Of town the
State Journal viii be 20 you like a
GalIy letter from home.
Advance payment IS requested on
these short time subscriptions. TO save
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-10

Gradually the press Of Kansas Is
getting around to the point of placing
honesty and candor above party; of
admitting the other party's good
points. il it has them. while standing
up for your own of not pretending
chat your own party and its candidates
have a monopoly on everything that is
good, and that the opposition is totally
depraved. The Lawrence Journal is
the latest convert to this idea It says:
1.-THE best party paper is not the one
that unhesitaungly swallows the party
platform and supports its leaders. The
paper worth while is the paper that
has the courage to condemn what is
wrong and endorse what is right The
party paper used to be expected to be
sverlastingly abusing the opposition
party and its members. This has been
stopped also. The paper that succeeds
has its party Affiliations. OF course, but
Il does not think all the good is in one
party nor all the evil in the other"
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
lFrom the New York Press.l

from the New York Press
A woman's ideal of a house is all
closets and pantries.
There IS just as much room in a fat
as in palace to quarrel
The people who shout loudest for a
revolution are usually out of the coun-
try where II Is taking place.
When a woman says her husband
loves his home she means he opened q
bureau drawer without swearing at it.
Those who hare children have mighty
few theories about raising them; they
are too busy with the facts of feeding
and clothing them.
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a bunch Of Kentucky girls are now
"doins" Paris. They are ont attract
ing as much attention as the alleged
beauties who accompanied the king of
Cambodia during his recent visit in the
French capital but if Paris deserves
the reputation it has for knowing
beauty when it sees the real thing, it
will recognize that the Kentucky arti-
Gle Is a good many points ahead Of that
from Cambodia-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-10

Senator Fred Dumont Smith has
combed his famous pompadour down
smooth, but is dollars to doughnuts
that it will istle up again like the
hair on cats back the first time the
senator from Edwards and seventeen
other counties gets into an argument
IN the legislature with the senator
from Atchison next winter.
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anding fault because Colonel Harris
bought a vacant lot in Lawrence in
5tead of a house already built But
possibly Colonel Harris thinks he may
not need a house in Lawrence after the
middle Of next January. It is rumor-
ed that he is contemplating taking up
his residence in a big brick house at
The corner Of Eighth and Buchanan
naraets in topeka next winter.
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A sIGH ZOE PEACHEs.

There is sadness in the thought that
hundreds of carloads of the finest
peaches have rotted along the railroad
tracks in northern Georgia because of
the failure of the Western & Atlantic
railroad to provide cars for moving
them. They are the peach es we might
have eaten-forever lost because of
incompetent railroading Springfield
Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-10

Another key to the Thaw tragedy
has been found. There are now
whole bunch of them-enough for Mr..
Hoyt to write another alleged play
q bout them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-10

Attorney Kander. who represents the
breweries in Kansas City. says state
ments that breweries own saloons is all
rot Tt is feared that Attorney Kan
der is not living up to his name. to say
nothing of the dreadful things he is
doing to the Kings English
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THE MORNING GREETING.

When General Trepoff and General
Orion met they probably said: Good
morningl Have you read your death
sentence ?''-Springheld Union.
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GET TOGETHER, GENTLEMEN.

The attention Of Professor Tyler,
the man who says the doughnut is
forcing the race to oblivion, is respect
fully called to the more recent discov-
cry of DR.. Carl Beck that man does
not really need a stomach. IL these
two can get together. possibly Profess
sor Tyler may find a way to let the
race run on little while longer
Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-10

There is a suspicion that the "vindi-
cation" which was given Mayor Rose
by the Second district Democrats the
other day was one of the made-to-
order kind
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ROME AND PITTsBURG.

Particular people object to the social
conditions in ancient Rome being de-
scribed in detail in such books as Quo
Vadis. Our idea is that social condi-
tons in ancient Rome were a good deal
like social conditions in modern Pitts
burg.-Lawrence World.
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STANDARD OII5s NEW STUNT

Kansas is to study the sunfower
with view of extracting the oil from
its seeds. We may hear shortly of the
oil trusts cornering the market in sun
flowers. If there are any possible ways
and means of so baking the distress
ing prodigality Of nature in making her
products free to anyone.-Baltimor
American.
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IMPOSSIBLE

The legislature can't shorten the
hours of labor for women, declares the
New York court And if the New York
court will experiment with the hired
girl. it will learn other facts along the
same line that will interest it.=Ottawa
Herald.
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SOME IN KANSAS.

Mr.. Rockefeller says that all the
hard things his countrymen say about
him can never offset his love for home
and country. Especially that part of
his country where the oil fields are
Washington Post.
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In future the job of the man who is
in charge of the Republican national
campaign fund Is going to be anything
but a sinecure.=Chicag News.
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sTURBsY- soRT oF W..

Among the list Of those selected
from Kansas to attend the Bryan re-
ception, there appears the name of
W. A. Harris of Lawrence. The Salina
Journal inquiries in a Stubbsy sort of
way, Now who is ". A. Harris of
Lawrence ?''-Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-10

It is said that ex-senator Burton
wishes to start a newspaper to help
reform the United States senate. Mr.
Burton made a big start in that d.
rectlon when he resigned. Let the
good work go on.