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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

By the way. what has become of the
fine line of advertising that was put out
q few weeks ago by c. w Trickett of
Kansas City, Kan?
Perhaps Fay Templeton isn't trying
to break into the advertising columns
after all by marrying a Pittsburg mil
honaire. She was neither one of the
original members of the Florodora
Sextette nor an artists model.
X
This Russian trouble is tough on the
printers and proofreaders. Think Of
wrestling with Prince Vassilchikoff, M
FiIassofoff and NJ. Iswolsxy all in a
single paragraph.
A Russian representative was beaten
almost to death by the peasants on his
return from the douma because he had
not secured the land and liberty he had
promised them. This department IS
making no recommendations, but If the
Russian idea were more extensively
practiced, members of the legislature
would not have such short memories
when 1t comes to remembering their
ante-election promises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

IF'rom the Atchison Globe.1
Women can throw as well as they
can run.
It must make a boy parrot awfully
mad to be called Polly.
The smartest bass finally runs
across a bait that fools him.
Il am sorry" does about as little
good as anything in this world
Lately people have a favorite drug
store as surely as they have a favorite
church.
A real gossip is fond Of saying:
Where there is smoke there is bound
to be a blaze
If a grocery store clerk intends to
rob you at all, he will rob you when
he sells you cantaloupes.
Every person who has contractors
and carpenters around says it requires
the patience of Job to handle them
Treat your parents with great ten
derness and respect: You owe them
something because you were not born
a czar.
When a woman BLUFFS she seldom
has anything better than bob tail
flush, but it takes a mighty brave man
to cali her.
we have an idea that a baby be-
comes as tired Of being kissed as q
parrot becomes tired of being asked
IL it wants cracker.
When a woman gives as an excuse
that she has had great deal Of COM
pany," other women know that no more
could be said.
Years ago, the greatest nuisance was
the man with dance tickets for sale
Now the greatest nuisance is the man
who has investment stock for sale.
People have had so many unfortu-
nate and disagreeable experiences with
agents that it's a wonder they don T
watch themselves every time a new one
appears.
Isn't it a fact that you know ninety
good people for every ten mean ones
you know? People are all right:
their worst habit is trying 70 make
each other uncomfortable,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
FROM OTHER PENS
COMsTOCK's METHODS.

Anthony Comstock and his society
have done such a world of good in
suppressing the viler sort of pictures
and printed matter. that it is a pity he
should, from time to time, discredit
his work by unintelligent activity be-
yond his province. This time he has
seized an issue of the Art Student, a
monthly magazine issued in the inter
est of the Art Students league. The
offense was merely the reproduction of
a number of academies" or draw
ings from thenude figure. This is com
monty done b. other art schools that
maintain a journal. The circulation of
such periodicals is practically limited
to art students and those concerned
with their instruction. In an individual
case, a wrong use might conceivably
be made of these nudities but to
pounce upon such publications is, as a
teacher at our league justly remarked.
as absurd as to hale the publishers of
Gray's Anatomy" to court for inten-
tional pornography All this is Greek
to Mr.. Comstock. but it is not Greek
to some of the directors Of the Society
for the Suppression of Vice, who owe
it to themselves and their work to re-
strain his more dire agaries.=New
York Post.
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ADVICE no N~

It IS rumored that Gar Nicholas is
to abdicate.
We really wouldn't blame the car
for jumping his Job and refusing to
work any longer. the way. people over
there are talking about him. 1t isn't
pleasant to work for people who are
always finding fault and intimating
that they can find some one else who
can do the job a great deal better than
you do. and not charge so much
either
This department can give Nick q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
CURIOUS.

When Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown
On the piazza sit them down
70 chat awhile and sew a bit
and help the summer hours TO fit,
Some very dreadful things they say
u Mrs. smith, who is away.
And later on, in quiet tones
1nere starts some talk of Mrs Jones
Il wiki Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Smith,
since Mrs Jones cannot be with
Inc party. Fierce the comments run.
For ladies sewing must be done.
Next afternoon at 2 or 8.
Dear Mrs. Browns the absentee.
Inc conversation thrives full well,
r or each IN turn has lots to tell
and yet-this summer game is queer
All kiss and say: How are you, dear?'
Washington Star.
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REF1ECTIoNs o. a BAoHE1oR.
LFrom the New York Press.I

LFrom the New York Press
A man doesn't have to mention
lawyers IN his will for them to get a
big share Of it.
one OF the queerest things about
L nelns N love Is the way the idiots
When a girl Is too refined to helm
make ur the beds it's a sign she
doesn't think her mother Is
You could never make a woman he
iteve in preacher who thought her
child was a girl when It was a boy.
One Of the Inconsistencies of this
world Is that IL you have no money
you have to spend Il to keen Us an
pearaucess but II you have plenty vou
can let appearances SO hang.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
KANSAS COAMENT
THE coon ON TUNES.


Every once in awhile 1 hear some
ancient duffer moaning because times
and things are not as they used to be.
He longs for the good old times. The
good old times were not what they are
cracked up to be. People appeared
happy and contented, but 1t was
forced. In those days people used to
crowd around one little dinky kero-
sene lamp at night and try to read
They kept warm by a fireplace which
broiled the side toward the flames
while the other side frosted. They got
their mail once a week by stage and
saw daily newspaper once a month.
They knew little that was going on
over the rest of the world, and toiled
from morning until night for mere
p1ttance- But then, we will always
nave moaners with US. Fifty years
from now some fellows will be longing
for the good old times of 1906 in this
town. They will tell about the great
ness of the present day. They may
even brag about the railroad, but that
IS putting it on pretty thick. The trou-
Bile with people is that as they get old
er their stomachs sour and dyspepsia
crawls in and they forget. Don't be a
moaner.-Bert Walker.
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the sugar beet crop will average about
fifteen tons per acre, and the price viii
be i've dollars a ton, making an aver
age return to the farmers of SIS an
acre. What It means to receive nearly
a half million dollars for the product
OF only $500 acres can be seen when it
is figured that this is only a trife over
ten sections. or less than one-third Of
an, ordinary Kansas township. Great
is the sugar beetl
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOMIE NEWS WHILE AWAY.

u Subscribers OF the State Journal
ts-gag during the summer may have
sEss uaner mailed regularly each day
10 any address at Ire rate OF ten cents
b week or thirty cents q month (by
anGz un1y). Address changed as often
az desired. while ont Of town the
8eata Journal VIII be TO you like a
eIallv aaetaR from home
i Advance payment Is requested on
Shaas short tine subscriptions, TO save
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

There will probably be no objection
from the committee if some absent
minded rich man should forget and re-
peat his dollar subscription to the Re
publican congressional campaign fund
every i've minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

Judging from the way the plans for
the Bryan reception are progressing,
little old Manhattan Island won't hold
the people that will be there on Au-
gust %, but some of them viii fall on
into East river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
OVERLOOK sOME Things.

La FoIIette's speech at Salina IS
spoken of by those who heard it as a
remarkable address So enthusiastic
was its reception that a Republican
from western Kansas writes the Capt.
tai that the people waved handker-
chiefs, hats and coats for him to go
on, and he concluded a 3-hour speech
at D. M One report states that
while Senator La Toilette was given
an ovation" Senator Long was
Missed for voting against some of the
railroad rate amendments, but Senator
Longs course on the rate bill turned
out SO much better than it promised
that most Kansas people are willing
to overlook a good deal in what he
failed to do. Senator La Toilette is the
kind of representative of Square Deal
ism who needs no instructions. petit
lions or Question from the people he
serves.-Norton Champion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

warden Haskell is evolving an idea
for a. school for convicts. There are 800
nany. schools for convicts in the dives
in some Kansas towns now, but they
are not the same kind that Warden
Haskell proposes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

It's funny John D. Long couldnt
Bnd any undertaking to owithoutgo-
ing back and jumping on to the III
grim Fathers who have been dead TWO
or three hundred years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

since a usually peaceful Ottawa
citizen started row in the Second dis
trict Democratic convention Henry
Allen is daily expecting to see the dove
Of peace scratching gravel and looking
g. . Hehf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
HARRY I.EHR N EvIDENcE

Harry Lehr hit man the other day
for photographing him. but the re-
porters, failing to appreciate the i'm
portance of the incident, neglected to
report it with care. One account says
Harry struck the man on the beach,
but Harry's friends declare he is too
hard a fighter to hit the man there.
Some think he hit the photogra pher on
the wrist. others say on the ankle. 1t
is not known what he used 20 hit the
man, but certainly 1t was either his
parasol or recticule. The report that he
hit him with his lorgnette is absolutely
untrue.-Pittsburg Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

Isn't it about time we were told that
abe officers who looted that Chicago
bank have always been trusted and re-
spected citizens2 They were, Of course
else they would never have had an OPP
portunity to loot the bank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

The Missouri river Is threatening to
change its course In such way that
-Yanlt0n will be moved from South Da-
lrota. over into Nebraska The Missouri
river changes it's course almost as Of
zen as some people in Kansas politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
Sorry She SnoLe

Some women interested in charities re-
Gently visited a home for discharged fe-
male prisoners They were shown to a
room where two women were sewing
Dear mel" one of the visitors vyhis-
pered, what vicious looking creaturesi
Pray who are they?'
This is the sitting ROOM" blandIy an
swered the superintendent land these are
my wife and daughter IN. Y. Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

The guiding principle of the British
governments proposal regarding the
constitution TO be granted to the
Transvaal is that no difference shall be
made between Briton and Roer and
that to each shall be extended the
fullest privileges of British citizenship.
The government seems disposed to pat
itself on the back for this liberality,
but It is only an act of simple justice.
To grant anything else than equal
rights to the Beers would be an out
rage which would sooner or later re-
suit IN another rebellion against Brit
ish imposition by these Dutch South
Africans.-Ind ianapolis Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

The sister OF W. E. Corey declared
lu the Corey divorce case that rich New
workers are not ut to take care Of chill
dren. Judging from the birth statistics
from Fifth avenue. rich New Workers
do not appear inclined to undertake the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

It is expected that the new sugar
beet factory at Garden City viii pay
put nearly a half million dollars to the
beet growers of that locality. this fall
ma that. too. for the product of only
1850 acres. It is now estimated that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

AS we read the reports from Texas
Net ms be thankful that the Kaw has
been quite wel-behaved during this
year Of grace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

II, as is charged, the jointists of
Kansas City, Kan. paid Mayor Rose
and his officers $50 month for PRO
lection" It is very evident that they
haven't been getting the worth Of their
money. since Assistant Attorney General
Trickett got busy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

+ Chris Hoffman writes home that he
saw the king Of England during his
tour through that country. 1t is up to
the Kansas socialists to get together
and adopt resolutions disowning Mr.
Holman unless he denounced King
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

we judge that the Russians are
asking questions of their representa-
tives after they come home instead of
before they are elected. A dispatch
states that NJ Stefanduk, a member
Df the late lamented douma, has been
almost beaten to death because he re-
turned home without securing the
land and liberty that the peasants ex-
pected, and he could not satisfactorily
e5roIain why.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

The trouble with the Russians ap-
pears to be that they revolute conse-
cutively Instead of simultaneously.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

The 4nutiny crop nj Russia appears to
Be q. constantly increasing one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

Two Fort Scott railroad men who
are reported to have fallen heir &c
million and a half each, are showing
unusual good sense in sticking to their
work instead of chasing of after their
reported wealth The ordinary man,
when he hears he has inherited riches,
drops everything else and runs on to
see about it-often discovering that he
has been deluded and has lost a good
lob. one Of these Fort Scott men is an
smploye in the Missouri Pacific shops
ana another is an engineer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

practical.
Belle-And which do you like better2
Maud-Well. I'll let you guess. You see5
Jack thinks I look sweet enough to eat,
Tom thinks I look hungry enough to eat,
and then he takes me out.-Boston Trans
cript.
That speaker had a tremendous
yes" answered Farmer CorntosseI.
People must like to hear his speaking
oh, I dunno Folks is powerful curl
by Jest Wavin' his hans an stompin' his
feet, same as he did. without sayin' a
word w shington Star
Magistrate-You are accused of attempt
ing TO hold pedestrian UP at o'clock
your own behalf?
Prisoner-I am not guilty, your honor.
Magistrate-You mean alibi? j.
friso3ner-Well call It what you Ike but
the floor with the baby at the hour men
TONED IN the charge.-Chieago News.
He-I asked her to tell me her age ana
she-Well-did Brooklyn Life.
7 think that's the funniest joke I ever
wrote Everybody laughs the first time
safg V van II; y9p re the only exception
Why, laughed" replied Oldun
You did2 Not SOS I could notice it,
o; you weren't born at the time
Philadelphia Press.
,silas Hayaeld-That stuff growing over
Miss summergirl-Do they have to pull
them up to get the cats?-Life.
.Artist-It's new idea of mine. got
that effect by rubbing out.
Candid Friend-Dear mel Excellent idea
but, what hat q pity you didn't carry it fur
Mrs Oldboy latter a slight difference
Of opinion)-Oh! if only had been born
N MI tne n Gays ys{. OF chiyalry-
Ally Sloper.
- DO Do you leave your valuables in the ho-
sort?"
Only when I leave."-Judse
7 hear your boss expects to raise your
Eaising ali Of last motifs sef9sef PSila an
Bacon1You say your wife does all her
z she does her own. I take
man
Have You had any experience as chauf-
We'll. can show you the receipts for
the the nnes have paid. ,-Women's Home
Ell Ethe T., long have the Newlyriches
Bob-From the way they play golf,
should judge about two days.-Judge.
What wages do you pay, mun?''
are worth
I've never worked for as little as that.
mum. Good day to you.'-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Lockkeeper Ito bald headed oarsman.
hearing squeaky,, row-lock and looking
Out for a, tipl-Shal I put some grease on
Oarsman- Grease on my skuIl2 No.
thanks I've tried everything.-Punch
Weary Willie (reading lad. .9-.Afan
wanted to chop wood, bring up coal, tend
furnace; take care of garden. mind chick
Frayed Fagin (groaning)-Gee! Dem
matrimonial advertisements make me
tired.-JudSe.
she-so you've had a great many thrill
-Yes-I am still a bachelor.-Detroit
Lola-Jack says I'm as pretty as can
Grace-weIL Of course it isn't your fault
that you can't be prettier.-C Chicago Daily
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

The north pole will probably throw
up its hands ard surrender when II
sees Wellman coming over the Ice
Savannah Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

However, for obvious reasons, Kan
sas viii not have much to say about
Summit county, Ohio, even if its treas
urer is several hundred thousand dol
lars short-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
A KANSAS CHAUTAUoUA

kansas people demonstrated very
clearly Sunday that a rain is not to in
any way interfere with any little plans
they have on hand. With the sky
rapidly darkening and flood plainly
imminent the crowd hurried to the
what came in the very best of humor.
A drenching was greeted with a laugh.
If the people couldn't get under a
tent, the dry side of a big tree did
very well. If the water ran under the
seats in the tent the crowd lifted it's
feet little or stood on the planks.
And all the time, except when the roar
of the rain on the canvas was too great
to permit of the speakers being heard,
the programme went right along. This
is the philosophical way of doing
thinga.-Clay Center Dispatch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
APPARENTLY 4 DIFFERENCE.

When a combination OF a bomb and
a mujik ends the life of a grand duke
it Is anarchy. When a combination of
a grand duke and a band Of cossack
cutthroats voileys into a mass of work
men it is. the "strong hand" of
Christian government backed by all
Europe.-DuIuth News-Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

been in society?
Bob-From the way they play golf.
should judge about two days-Judge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
Cargo oil SNOW

Looking down over the high hatcn-
way combing into the after hold Of a
steamer discharging at an East river
wharf up by the Grand street ferry. a
waterside strolled saw in the hold below
what seemed to be a cargo of snow-an
odd cargo for vessel to bring.
They had already got out the bulk
of it from Immediately under the hatch
way and almost down to the vessel S
floor, but all round still arose white
banks of 1t reaching up almost tn the
vessels decks; and half way up one Of
these steep snow banks man was at
work with q pick, dislodging masses Of
it to fall to the open space at the cent er
where stood men with scoop shovais. pill
ing this snow into great iron tip buck
cts, which, as fast as they were filled.
We're hoisted up, to be dumped into a
shute running down over the steamer
side this chute emptying into carts on
the wharf.
From the steamers forward hatch, at
the same time and in like manner they
were discharging from the same
snowy cargo, but over the other side
of the vessel, the cargo from the after
hold going across the wharf into 4
warehouse, while that from the forward
hold was going into lighters alongside
a custom officer at each point noting the
weights of 1t as the stuff was hoisted
out.
It was salt. the snowy white cargo,
with which from steam to stern this
steamer was loaded; a cargo of $500
tons of salt, brought from a place in
Sicily, where they make salt by the
evaporation of sea water from arti-
hcially made ponds of about 20 inches
in depth.
To one whose ideas of salt were con-
fined to tie trif1ing quantities of it that
he saw in shakers and salt cellars on
the table this cargo OF thousands of
tons seemed like a lot Of salt; really
like something curious and interesting
and remarkable. AS Il matter of face.
in the various uses to which it is put
salt is used in enormous quantities,
and to those acquainted with salt and
the salt trade, salt in full cargoes,
large and small is something quite Ia
miliar-NeW York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09

II hear your boss. expects to raise your
salary this month";
SO he says but he hasn't succeeded in
raising all Of last months yet''-Phila-
delohia Press.
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Saving an Inlinstrv-

There is not a single side of our in
dustrlal life which the traffic mana
gers work does not touch. A year or
Two ago a strike at the coke ovens in
an iron manufacturing center threat
ened paralysis of all the industries of
the ne1ghborhood. You can't smelt
ore or run .'pige," or make steel with
out coke, and all of sudden, one day,
Inc coke men went out in a body. No
doubt they thought that they should
lie up the iron making industry, and
that the pressure that would result
would be too much for their employers
70 Withstand. On their part, though,
the employers made up their minds
mat they could not afford to yield an
inch OF their ground, no matter what
the consequences to others might be-
II made no difference what the mer-
It's OF the dispute between the strikers
and their employers We're to the traffic
manager to whom the steel industries
appealed for assistance. All he could
consider was that the smelters and
furnaces were menaced; that if they
could not get coke they must close
down; that if they closed down five or
SIX thousand men would be out of en-
pAoyment, and that the town would get
a setback from which it might take
Two or three years to recover. Mean
time, freight, the traffic managers
everlasting care, would seriously d.
m1nish in volume. There would be no
Pi9 4AOll, nor SHSel iron. nor steel Dill
lets, nor rails to carry out, and there
would be fewer barrels of flour, less
household necessities, to bring in.
What did he do, then? BY a for
tunate provision of nature, coal mines
and iron mines nearly everywhere lie
side by side. Cheap fuel close at hand
is an important factor in the iron in
dustries, and when the strike deprived
these steel men Of their usual local
supply of coke the railroad simply
made a temporary rate to the threat
ened locality from the big fields of
Pennsylvania. The rate didn't pay the
actual expense of carriage, but it kept
the steel mills going and saved a loss
to the community that would have
mounted up, very likely, into the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, also, it
saved the railroad a good bit.-From
The Traffic Manager and the Ship
per-" by Philip S. Fiske, in the Amer
lean Monthly Review of Reviews.