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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-17

toners were waiting for but still tad
Widows sewing machine was silent
The 1augufdness and Iethargy of look
ing like a poet and being poet beatA
sliding down hill all hollow. The fifth
PR in the Clarion was send-of.
THE event OF the season occurred at
the Methodist church two days since"
It read As we have all along pre-
dicted, we have lost our fairest flower.
IN other words, Mr.. Harold De Isle
prevailed upon the charming Widow
Bidweu to give him her hand and heart.
and the Rev Mr.. Peters made them
mony The happy couple left for Chi
cago Immediately after. but may return
next week to prepare for the jaunt
abroad
Ten days later the bride returned
and at once notified all old customers
that business was to be resumed at the
old stand.
Ten days later. in distant state. the
bridegroom was talking up Bohemian
oats. They had come to an UNDER
standing about money matters They
had understood that each had played
the confidence game on the other. and
that they hadn't $500 between them
Editor Flint. Of the Clarion and Fer
gus County Advertiser sat down and
wrote an auction bill for Farmer Jones
and told him what the price for zoo
copies would be, and as he found him
self setting it up he found himself say
ing to himself:
'tOh, I don't know. don't seem to
have so much ache under my vest as
did. I shouldn't wonder II recover
ed from the blow in time. -(Copyright,
1906. by M. NJ. Cunningham.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atehison Globe.

From the Atchison Globe.1
The woman who apologies at the
table the most. means it the least.
This is a rather sure rule: If a man
has accumulated money he is smart
The most peaceable man in the
world is liable to get into trouble If he
plays cards.
II q woman has no intention of buy
ing anything but calico, she collects
samples Of silk at the silk counter on
her way.
When a woman has company she
will apologize for everything about the
table except the man she picked out to
sit at its head.
There is one thing about carrying
an umbrella: If there is no rain, the
umbrella won't hurt you.
Are the people growing more self
controlled? Isn't It a long time since
you heard of any one who is so high
tempered he throws things2
There are too many young men who
start out to make their mark in the
world, and stop at a soda fountain or
hammock on the way
When a man runs away from his
wife, do other wives think I wish
mine would run away from me r Or
do they become scared and try to do
better2
Walk behind ten men. and notice
them, and you will see that seven out
of the number have burned the right
leg Of their trousers by striking
matches on it.
Somehow when we over-hear people
on the street talking German It seems
that it would be impossible to say any,
thing in that language in a calm, de-
Hberate way
The arms of the girls who wear
short sleeves on the street have be-
come so inmodest looking that refined
people refer to them as they do to legs:
they call them limbs.
II It sends the blood to your head
and bothers you to bend over and
pick pin OF the hoon these are indt-
cations that you should seek employ
ment in a strawberry bed.
It is 50 long since Lysander John
Appleton has had a day off that he
feels that he could not be as sorry as
he should be If he had to take day
of to attend friends funeral
Every man thinks he Is IN advance
of the times In which he lives As a
matter of fact, most of us are behind
and important things Of which we do
not take advantage.
The country looks so pretty these
days that II Is possible for an admirer
OF nature to drive i've miles and fail
to hear a word his companion Is say
ing to him, If she happens to be his
wife.
BY the time a woman is past fifty
years of age even flowers have lost
their romance for her: She has ar
ranged them on collins so often that
their fragrance only brings sad reool-
lections-
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A Friend of ..Runns ;,

A very good proportion of men are
buns" Why. comes within that huge
question of the mystery of souls. Some,
no doubt, are born buns; some acquire
GUINNESS and others have it thrust up
on them. In a civilization as CONNER
cial, individualistic and aggressive as
our own. the last class is a large and
pitiable one. But perhaps any bum Is
pitiable=pftiab because of deficient
will or energy, inherited appetite or
feeble cerebraton, wasted strength in
childhood or a luckless beginning. But
no man, however consummate his
GUINNESS, likes to be without friends
One may go further and say that no
man deserves to be without friends
One of those who realized this to su-
perlative degree was the Rev. Samuel
Hopkins Hadley, for twenty years the
superintendent of the Jerry McAuley
Mission in New York. Mr.. Hadlev was
he came of a good family and had re-
ceived an education. Liquor was the
cause with him. as 1t is with the major
part Of all such unfortunates- But be
was saved by a revelation Of Divine
power and kindness, or, in the Ian
guage of the old-time Protestant, he
experienced conversion. He reformed
and spent his life in helping beaten and
broken men His impulse to reforma-
ton came while he was In a low sa-
loon. Suddenly about him, as about
saul, "a great light shone," and he
knew that God was a fact and His ben
ef1cence available even for the most
abject. His life Of unwavering devo-
ton to the wanderers and drunkards
the thieving and despairing, was evil
dence to the reality of this vision. My
poor bunsi MY poor bums!" was his
plant in the days when he lay facing
death.-The Reader for May.
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HUMoR OF THE Day

The girl-..Papa. Harold and I are
engaged and will be married this
spring"
it's all right. Does he look like any
body I know ?"-Judge.
He-''And am the first man who
ever loved you, darling?''
eago News.
THAT bride and groom made perfect
spectacles of themselves on their we'd
ding trip
mo wonder everybody saw through
them."-Cleveland Leader.
That fellow. rejoices in the name of
Il don't believe it,
Honestly, that's his name
oh, don't doubt that. But I don't
believe he rejoices. cleveland Leader.
Ef1e Cwho has been put in a separate
bed for the first time)-"O Mummy, I
don't like this bed"
Mother-'What's the matter with it,
"The-the-the sides is too near
the middle. London Punch.
Please. Pa" pleaded Bobby. Just
Al right" SAID Pa, closing his book.
Well, say, Pa" began Bobby who
is going to bury the last man that
dies?' '-Puck.
Wife-"You were talking in your
sleep again last night dear. Why do
you persist IN doing it?'
Husband-"Good Lord Maria a man
ought to be allowed to talk sometimes
oughtn't he?"-The Bohemian.
Half a dozen situations in six
months!" gasped the lady interviewing
a cook who sought to enter her SER
vice.
Alas! num-" replied the queen Of
the range, where are the good and
faithful masters and mfstresses Of
olden times ?''-Tit- Bits.
Hewitt-'A doctor is going to per-
form an operation on me tomorrow
Jewitt-fWhat for?"
Hewitt-''The usual rate-two hun
dred dollars. "-Woman's Home Com
panion.
"a fellow threatened to punch me in
the head"
'That would be too bad
THANK you"
''It would have a tendency to in
crease the swelling. Troy Budget
Geraldine Have you ever felt the
need of a mother?' %
Gerald-'I have felt the need of
vO11rs dear''-WaySfde Tales.
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proper influences. It should be remem-
bered that 1t is not the fault of the
senate or OF the federal Judiciary that
the constitution should oppose it open
" and not throw mud at those public
servants who insist upon abiding by it,
1t is also worthy of consideration
whether the indfscriminate and whole
says way OF impugning the honesty Of
public Officl-ls may not tend to keep
honest men from seeking public office.
and he cause of good government is
not going to be served by destroying
the confidence of the people in those in
public life. AS a matter Of fact the
country Is to be congratulated on the
United States senate and the courts be-
ing in the hands of strong. brainy men
instead OF in the hands Of demagogues,
and the despfcable abuse of these men
by certain writer's and speakers is
worthy OF the strongest censure.'.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-17

Zachary Taylor was elected to the
presidency in 1s4s in spite of the
Massa chusetts objections to him as a
Louisiana slave holder. In the fifty
man living in a southern state has
been chosen to that Office Abraham
Lincoln was born in Kentucky but
grew up in Illinois; 1t was an assassi-
nation, not an election. that put An
drew Johnson (North Carolinian by
birth. Tennesseean by domicile) in
the White House. Would it be in any
way bad politics for the Democratic
party to take its candidate in 1908
from the region to which 1t looks for
the bulk of its vote2 It's one of the
Washington Posts beliefs that Texas
has in Joseph ". Bailey and Charles
A. Cu1berson two men of presidential
size either of whom would command
the support of every northern Demo-
crat.-Hartford Courant.
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SOME ONE HAS BLUNDERED.

The quarrel which has arisen among
public men at Washington, in connec-
ton with the discussion of the rate bill,
is likely to prove a serious matter for
somebody, if not for the measure it
self. The controversy involves Presi-
dent Roosevelt on one side and Senators
TiIlman and Bailey and former Senator
Williams E. Chandler on the other
The public might have been disposed
to take the view that somebody had
made a mistake, had not the president
passed the lie direct.
The president, It is said, on the last
day Of March entered upon negotiations
with Senator Tillman through Mr..
Chandler and with the Democratic side
Of the senate through Senator Tillman
for the purpose OF ascertaining whether
there could be such united action
among the friends of the Hepburn bill
as would make a sure majority in its
favor and against injurious amend
ments. At an early stage of these ne
gotiations, it is asserted by Senator
Tnlman, eAIr. Chandler said the presi-
dent had stated that he had come to
complete disagreement with the sena-
torial lawyers who We're trying to in
jure or defeat the bill by ingenious con-
stftutional arguments, naming Senator
Knox in addition to Senators Spooner
and Foraker" Late Saturday afternoon
the president authorized Senator Lodge
to say to the senate that the foregoing
statement attributed to him by Mr..
Chandler was a deliberate and I'M
qualified falsehood; that Senator For
aker's name was never mentioned at
all in conversation; that Senator
Spooner's name was only mentioned
by him to express a cordial approval
of Senator Spooner's amendment, and
that while he did not agree with
part of Senator Knox's amendment he
thought Senator Knox made out very
strong argument for asserting affirm
atively the jurisdiction or authority of
the courts
Now Chandler is mad. Tillman feels
that he has been tricked. while Spoon
er, Knox and Foraker are annoyed that
public attention has thus been directed
to their true character, that of sena-
toTfal lawyers.
It is not the first controversy on a
matter of veracity in which the presi-
dent has engaged. He has shown on
the previous occasions that he can
readily lay aside official dignity and
become very human under provocation.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many suggestions are being made to
San Francisco that she change her
name in the interest of brevity. Out
there they call it Frisco; that is surely
snort enough. San BernardinO is like
wise "San Berdoo."
The people do not object to con-
tributing directly to San Francisco, but
they will not stand for having the in
surance companies act as collecting
agencies.
The eastern press is attributing the
retirement of Colonel Sapp from the
Craftsmanship of the Kansas state
Democratic committee to the fact that
he wore silk hat and a frock coat.
THE president has put his foot in it
again gleefully remarks the Oil City
Derrick, the organ of the Standard Oil
When Bayonne, N J., gets her
women policemen the saloon keepers
will get rest while the soda water
vendors bear the brunt of the innova-
ton.
Mr.. Cleveland's declaration that he
will not run for president removes any
lingering doubt that may have existed
IN the minds of other people. 1t is now
unanimous.
The rate bill is doing noble service
In the senate as a means of preventing
any action on statehood, the Panama
canal or Reed Shoots case.
In the revised dictionary perhaps
muck raker' will be defined as one
who objects to the robbery of the pub
lie by a select and favored few.
If a presidential nomination. gets
anywhere in the vicinity of Secretary
Taft it can hardly fail to hit him.
The Standard Oil people are taking
a wonderful interest in the welfare Of
the manufacturers of wood alcohol.
whose business it is claimed will suffer
by the passage of the free alcohol bill.
Nothing personal in their anxiety, Of
course.
The manner in which Senator Lodge
got into the controversy between the
president and Chandler is styled "a
noble indiscretion" by the Washington
Post. Out here in the west it would
be called "buttinag IN.
The Democrats have been so long
without a president of their own upon
whom they could shower encomiums
that it can hardly be wondered at that
it is no unusual thing for Democratic
conventions to pass resolutions endorS-
ing Mr.. Roosevelt
The Washington Post expresses the
opinion that Colonel Sapp was not re-
moved on account Of wearing a silk
hat but because of what he wears
under 1t.
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A novel experiment in practical CO.
operation in industry is being carried
out by a colony OF miners at Saginaw,
Mich, where they have leased several
hundred acres of coal land and are
successfully supplying a large trade.
The shares Of stock are held equally by
the workmen in the mine and they are
all required to be bona fide workers, ex-
cept the sales manager. It is claimed
for this novel departure that it has
been very successful in supplying coal
at less than the price which prevailed
prior to the entrance of the co-opera-
tive company into the field.
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A LUCKY STRIKE

George Gish. brother of Mrs. S. W.
Stewart, who formerly lived near
Sterling, but now resides at Roanoke,
Virginia, made lucky discovery a
short time ago. He purchased his
turn 10 Virginia. In tearing down the
old house, preparatory to erecting a
modern residence. he discovered, hid
den in the old fireplace. an old iron din
ner pot, containing $4,000 in gold, silver
knives, forks and spoons, two gold
watches and q Masonic badge The
house is over one hundred years old and
was built for tavern. How and under
what circumstances the treasure came
to be secreted a mystery.-Alden
Journal.
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RHODE ISLAND AROUSED.

There is an interesting political sit
uation in the little state of Rhode
Island and one which is likely to raise
to the Standard Oil company. There
is and has been for some time consid-
cradle dissatisfaction with the repre-
sentation in the United States senate.
A political clique or faction of which
Senator Aldrich is the head and front,
has controlled things there for years
hopes to do so indefinitely. Ordinarily
the state is pretty safely Republican.
but at a convention of the Democratic
party Col. Robert H. I. Goddard has
been unanim ously chosen as a candi-
date to be elected by the general as
sembly next January as United States
senator.
One of the remarkable facts about
it is that Col. Goddard IS a Republican,
but has such Independent proelivities
and is a man of such character and
ability that all the people of the state
have implicit confidence in him. Sen
ator Wetmore. whose term expires,
and Mr.. Colt. the head Of the rubber
trust, are both candidates. If the
Democrats and Independents could
succeed in securing a majority OF the
next legislature then and then only
could Col. Goddard hope to succeed.
Making him their choice and thus
raising the issuing is a shrewd political
move and should very much strength
en- the likelihood of securing the ma
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MUsIc EvERYWHERE.

Fredonia is unquestionably the most
musieally inclined city in southern Kan
sas. Besides a good brass band we
have the best vocal talent Of any city
with three times our population. Nearly
every drug store and even a furniture
and hardware, own graphophones and
in passing along. the streets before the
closing hour of these stores, you walk
from the strains of a selection by Sousa
into tie raptures Of grand opera If
your ear stir yearns for music you can
go over into the court yard and hear
the trills of sweet voiced birds as they
sing their praises 20 God.-Fredonia
Herald
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me Sins oil tI1a SnrnIns

ana thus the story of life insurance
II TINS country is the story of the sur
Plus- L IS THIS accumulation of the
excess cost of the insurance. which has
debauched the life insurance cononan-
les. Mr.. Hyde, Mr.. McCurdy. and Mr..
Mccall have had constantly at their
u1sposal these enormous sums They
nave been able to defer their renav-
luent Tor twenty years; and have been
oDnged TO Day back only such small
sums as they chose. Instead of having
It back, they have dissipated enor-
NOUS sums Did they wish to increase
e er salaries? There was the surplus
from which such increases could be
taken Did they wish to make provis-
Ion Tor large number of poor rela-
lions? They promptly set them all to
1eedlng upon the surplus. Does Henry
B. Hyde need some 100000 to save
one of his demoralized bank accounts
from solvency? The EQuitabIe's sur
pius provides the necessary amount.
10 they all control certain trust com
PanieS Wnlch require large deposits
with Whlch the stock market may be
played and big dividends earned? The
surplus furnishes anywhere from $40
oOO,OO0 to $3O,00O.000 for this benev-
olent purpose Does Mr.. HYDE need
money to rent space and furnish I'D
saIe deposit vaults for a company con
lrolled by himself and friends? Why.
take II out of the surplus of course !
IS MT Mccall moved to contribute
$3.50, 1000 to several national campaign
funds? Again the surplus is drawn up
on Is fund of some $1,000, 600 need
ed for the purpose of bribine Iegisla-
tors? The surplus will not mind a
little thing like that. Are 100000 or
100000 needed to help float GER
tain unbeatable bonds? Again there
IS the surplus Above all do the com
panies require large sums to pay extra
VACANT commissions to a corrupt
agency force, so that they may bring
in more poicy-holders who viii begin
piling up more surplus? Does the
New York Life need $13,OO0,0OO for
this purpose above the charges for
commissions actually provided in this
same new business? It is quietly Dor
rowed' from the surplus And SO on.
From. 1.-THE Story of Life Insurance"
by Burton J. Hendrick. in May Nc
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10 ROB THE People.

The railroads of this state are admit
ted by everyone to be worth $4,000 a
mile They are assessed at 81, 900 a mile.
They do not pay fair share of their
taxes. They should pay on at least
$4,000 a mile and if they did the far
mers and business men would have to
pay many thousand dollars less than
they now have to pay. The farmers
and business men of Kansas have to
dig up thousands of dollars in Kansas
more than their share of the taxes every
year to make up for what the railroads
steal from the taxes. Stealing is steal
ing, even though it is expressed in six
hgures.-Emporia Gazette.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IRON the New York Press

IF'rom the New York Press
It's mighty exciting to get lost in a
sleeping car.
Fibbing is very easy way not to
hurt peoples feelings.
A rich woman hardly ever gets her
moneys worth out of the man she
marries-
The more taxes a man pays the mad
der he would be If he didn't have the
things he pays them on.
If a woman always agrees with you
she has individuality. and if she doesn't
she Is contrary minded.
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Having rid herself OF the horse cars,
New York city is now turning her at
tention to the miles Of cobble stone
pavement with which her streets are
encountered.
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WILL THEY GET OVER IT?

It is somewhat surprising just now
to hear the Republicans who have
never scratched a ticket before, say
they will not vote that ticket this fall.
A whole lot of them will probably get
over it by November and come into
line but we tremble to think of what
the result may be If they stay mad
clear through until that time.-Alma
Enterprise.
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creased to 52.58z The omciaI records
show that the number OF dogs killed
rose from 1,762 IN the earlier period to
?. 405 during the last quarter Of 1905.
Saxony leads in the slaughter OF dogs
for human consumption. American
tariff laws have not yet brought US
ANYTHING quite SO bad as that.
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Pennsylvania is taking hold of the
matter OF road building in a substan-
tial way. It is proposed to build a
public highway across the state from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
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WHAT CONGRESS ESCAPED,

After disposition of the rate bill
congress will go on right merrily to
adjournment. Possibly it was lucky
to have its attention so long preoccu-
pied. With plenty of time on it's
hands it might have been forced to
take up the tariff question in the face
of an election for congress.
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''Why do the politicians fight Mr..
6tubbs2" asks the Salina Union. Can't
say unless it is because after recent ex-
.perience they regard him as an easy
man to lick
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Since. Chicago saloon license was
raised to $1,000, 700 saloons have gone
out of business. The increase in the
police force seems to have been pre-
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PERAIANENT HONE
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great news organ
ization for the exclusive afternoon publ
cation In Topeka.
The news Is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
nose
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Grover Cleveland announces that he
would not accept a nomination for the
presidency under any circumstances.
What combination Of circumstances
does Mr.. Cleveland imagine could re
suit in the nomination being offered
"a him
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The way in which the decision on the
type OF the isthmian canal lags indi-
Gates that the transcontinental rail-
roads are still doing business at the old
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The primary election law appears to
afford an effective method Of disposing
Of a United States senator whom the
people do not want for another term.
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EROH OTTER PENS

WHERE CLARK IS DIFFERENT.
Senator Clark of Montana will re-
tire from the senate in order to look
after his private business interests.
A number of men are staying In the
senate for that very same reason
Washington Post.
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CONFORMING 70 CONDITION.

The word obey is omitted from the
form OF marriage service in the new
Presbyterian book of worship. The
compilers evidently sought to bring
the service into closer conformity with
the actual conditions of married life.
New York Tribune