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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31
oUAKEIs REFLECTIONS.
800 lac PhilaaeIphia Reeord. ]

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
Wigg-"I should say she had too
many strings to. her bow" Wagg-
Likewise too many beaux on g. string. .
The fools are not all dead yet where
as the undertaken rejoices.
Nell-'sNow is the time to buy bath
ing suits. after the season is over. They
are awfully low" BELLE Low, ell >
Well no girl Will wear EN- if they are
below the knee.
ANY man who can joke with his wife
about her dressmaker's bills must have
a keen sense OF humor.
Blobbs-"Do you think the canni-
balls appreciate our sending mission
aries to them - Slobbs-'AFell. I think
they would appreciate it more if we
sent them canned.
MuEgins=''I know at least one mar
rietl couple who are perfectly happy"
Buegins-" Indeed Muggins@'. Y es.
the wife is blind and the husband is
deaf"
Pride goeth before a fall. No nut
meg is so great that sooner or later 1t
won't stack mp against a crater.
It is wen to diet on shipboard. for
even TOO many rolls are apt to make
one seasick
Many "a. fellow puts on a bold front
with a loud SHIRT
ScrawIe err suppose you are famil-
lar with all z,1e details Of the play.
ScrfbbleI On no. merely wrote
the book from which the play was
drama affixed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31
WEALTH DOEsN,T PROTECyr.


The death of Robert NJ Snyder, a
Kansas city millionaire, in an auto
mobile accident a few days ago. might
be the occasion for a little moralizing.
Two or three years ago Snyder stood
high in Missouri. He was rich and
influential, and was what men call sue
cessful. But when Joseph W. Folk
was unearthing Doodle and corruption
IN St Louis, he struck, among others,
The trail of Revert NJ. Snyder. As a
result Snyder was arrested for brib-
cry. He was stin fighting the indiot-
ment at the time of his death. with
the prospect of prison bars ahead of
him.
But that was only part Of his trou-
bles. Some months back his son, Carey
Snyder, became a fugitive from jus
tice, accused of bank robbery. He
fed to the Pacific coast. Three OF
four weeks ago the body OF a man was
found in a lonely place in Oregon.
The man had evidently been muir
dered. The body vas identified as that
of Carey Snyder.
There may have been no connection
between the wrong doing of Robert
M. Snyder and the misfortunes that
overlook him and his family. but most
people viii have an impression that
things might have been different had
Snyder been square" Riches can
not give protection against some
things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31
ERON OTHER PENS
A COMMON NEED.

The growing need of small bills. es-
pecially I'VE and ten dollar notes, as
brought before the bankers conven-
ton in St Louis, is a. strong indica-
ton of the countrys prosperity, for
il shows it is Increasing among the
mass Of the people who do not handle
the big sums in bulk. but who consti-
tute the great arteries of circulation
through the country. The quick re-
covery from disaster. the flow In sums
large and small toward objects of pop
uIar subscription, the generous re-
Spouse to various charities all prove
the increase of resources in all classes
and that the nation at large is in an
era of unexcelled rosperity--Balti-
more American.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Tt will strike the average man that
the invention Of a machine 10 count
money is a great waste of time. We
will count all OF ours by hand.
= 8
An Ohio court has fined the Stand
ard Oil company $4,000 for violating
the law. Very likely when John D.
Rockefeller is convicted he Will be
given slap on the wrist.
p y =
Dennis Madden says Of Colonel Har-
ris: His profligacy IS suppressio veri. =
Nov. We guess that viii hold the
Democrats for awhile
y X
Topeka boys have a tough time OF
Il. There are no gates to carry off
and no wooden sidewalks to tear up on
Halloween.
=
On second thought. perhaps the in
ventior Of that machine to count
money was a good thing after all. It
WAS invented by man out in the
wheat belt. where the farmers have
felt a pressing ueec for something Of
that sort
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..TIIE BLIGHT or PROHIBITION.

Il
Leavenworth is scared stin. It is see
ing things at highland most of the
day besides. It is afraid it may lose its
cherished saloons. 1t sees all sorts Of
dire disaster waiting just around the
corner.
Under the heading. THE Blight of
Prohibition the Leayenworth Times
takes a terribly dismal view of the pos
sibility of enforcement in that
town If the saloons were closed. ac-
cording to the Times, life would not be
worth living 1t knows by experience.
Listen to its testimony:
you who lived in Leavenworth when
the prohibition law first went into effect
will no doubt recall that many of Leav-
enworth's best business houses. and
many of LeavenwOrth' biggest tax
payers Immediately moved into Kansas
City. No; that the town looked like
mining camp after the mines had shut
down: that nothing but cob-webs and
! theater posters filled the store windows
on the main streets: that LeaTenworth's
/ revenues were at their lowest ebb: thai
] the streets were unpaved dirty and
filthy; that no one took an interest in
/ the town or seemed to care whether it
( advanced or not 1t didn't advance.
/ StfIlings. No. was built. pontoon
/ bridge constructed and saloons and
Z wholesale brewery DfauCn houses
{ thrived across the river. Beer was
brought over from them at night and
/ into Leavenworth. Men in sBiffs did a
/ thriving business bringing the liquor
/ across the stream and Lesvenworth
people had their drink.
Then a few wel-regulated saloons
! opened for business; others followed. No
/ objection was raised to them and at
last persons who had left here realized
I that the town was on the upgrade.
! stores opened, windows We're washed,
! streets paved and scrubbed; new build
! ings went up and now Leavenworth has
/ about got back to where it was before.
except that the streets are in better
condition There isn't vacant house
in the city at the present time that can
be rented. There is not a vacant store
building on the main streets. There Is
a cry for more cottages and more store
buildings
Now see what win happen to happy
Leavenworth If the saloon should again
be driven out. Here Is the picture the
| Times portrays.
But IL We again have the prohibition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31
HUMOR OF THE Day

En1ptihed- They say that men Of brains
live longer than others.
you 20 get melancholy about It, You may
pc one Of the lucky xceptiens.-Baltimor
American.
Senator she asked, Whist IS your
definition OF Success?''
To be able, as far as A man is con
cerned, 70 have so large an income thai
his wife won't have 10 exaxRerate when
she tells about it.''-Chicago Record err
Last Tuesday said Miss Butte. was
my birthday, and. really. it was hard foi
Indeed. replied Miss cutting, couldn't
you remember that far bach? '-Phnadei-
phia Ledger
fear" said the young candidate.
That there IS an impression that 1 am
trying to play politics.
Yes" answered Senator Sorghum. ..and
when a man plays politics he IL in reality
trying TO work some politician. w ash
I'm troubled a great deal with head
aches IN the morning, said Luschman.
NJ I 81 s, is ny eyes; do you think !
No replied DR.. Wise. nneaninxly;
but fewer. -Phiiadelphia Press
You look discouraged
Il am; Another college has just con
benJafnln mere isn't likely 10 be much
lett Iof me when he dies Chicago Rec
Mrs: Knieker-vhat were the favors at
her dinner
Mrs. Bocker-Her cook let her give il
and her doctor let her eat it.-NeW YORK
Sun.
Beware OF tares. my brother, beware
of tarea -
Right yoq are. parson. III never 60
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Clob.

From the Atchison Globe
When you are good to a dog. how
you do appreciate a grateful tail.
woman in town. driving a horse,
= nearly as dangerous as an ANTONIO
bile in the country.
Any MiEsourian will keep q Traveller
over night, although the Mfssourisn
viii always say: But we don't make
a habit Of it"
An Atchison candidate uses such
big words in his speeches at the coun-
try school houses, that there Is talk OF
sending them to the state chemist, 10
have them analysed
1t seems from the evidence spread
on the table that woman thinks
and thinks and thinks. and the result
is less change in the bill OF fare than
there is in the fashion Of dreES worn
We have always contended that AL
the best stories come from the cOun-
try. In a neigh borhood near AfchfS0n.
there are a good many Germans and
Irish. The other day a German said.
About half the lies You hear about
the Irish are true"
Last evening. my lawn was com
pletely covered with leaves The wind
blew all night, and this morning I
found all the leaves blown or the lawn
ana neatly piled up on the street pay
ing, ready 10 be burned The wind
did the work while I slept. Drake
Watson
The town drunkard. who IS a good
nattlred man. bothered this reporter
ave times today, by starting idle con
versa tons The nth time, the town
drunkard couldn't think for & moment
Of anything with which 70 start talk,
but soon recovered himself, and said:
poor Mckinley, Isn't it too bad he
had to die the way ne did ,"
The latest arrival in Shadeland Was
very cross. What is the matter %
blew from the lips of a Shade floating
near s'I SEE said the cross one,
that every desire expressed in re-
gard TO my funeral. was ignored.
That's nothing" replied the old
timer in Shadeland: the only Shades
whose wishes are carried out, are the
women who express the desire that
theEr husbands marry again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

Speak not to me Of love, good SIT,
I've lovers by the dozen.
WITH languished sigh and honied word
wilt thou, too, friendship cozen3
Far be il from my lips. my Lass,
That song Of love should filter
Thy friend am ]. love il. Derchance,
But friendship out Of kilrer
And friends are passing few. good sir
since al would lovers pose as
GeEae4-fare to Plato's Garden, then
We u gather Platos Roses.
The farinE S very sweet, my Lass,
Like ali Diatonlc biisses:-
But, oh. my LaHs-dear Lass-give ne
A few platonic kisses
Sally cowlana, in the Reader.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

rFrom the New York Press
The reason a girl doesn't scream
when a man tries to kiss her IS some
body might hear.
A useful way for a woman TO keep
from being scolded by her husband is
10 do all the scolding herself.
Won don't have to be married very
long to have your honeymoon seem
several centuries back III history.
The only reason people don't like
corned beef and cabbage more is be-
cause it costs less than nearly all other
dishes.
There Is nothing that makes wo-
ma II .s1aadder than to get wedding
present from a fashionable place and
fheff wien she goes to exchange it ind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

Virgil P. Kline. the noted corporation
lawyer of Cleveland, in an address upon
ambition said:
ambition is an excellent thing. With
out it the world would not progress. But
there are worthy and unworthy ambi-
tions. silly and wise. benefcent and
malefcent ones. Then there are the Pc
culiar, the distinctive ambitions, such
as we see in childhood. Thus I once
knew a little boy who had an ambition
to be a letter carrier. and, finding in i
cedar chest in the attic a great bundle
Of love letters that his mother had been
preserving since the days OF her court
Ship. he packed them in a leather school
satchel and distributed them from house
to house throughout the neighborhood. -
Los Angeles Times.
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airy rode again triumphant through
the streets OF Memphis. Soon. II they
can BE assured Of police protection,
QuantrelI's border rufans' viii cross
the Missouri and once more swoop
down upon Lawrence. Kansas. Does
the example of Father Sherman's un-
finished march to the sea deter pa
trlotic enthusiasts from planning to
act John BOWLS raid over again .,
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PATE IS THE SAME.

That reduction of per cent that
was ordered" in the freight rate on
grain cuts no ice in the net price
which the farmer gets for his grain
because it has never gone into effect.
The rate to Kansas City is still Is
cents a hundred pounds. Campaign
documents are not always to be relied
upon.=Minneapo Better Way.
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Add Years to Your Life.

The veteran always got up at 6
o'clock in the morning.
Il used to get up at g." he said.
by getting up at 6 1 have added ten
years to my life.
Consider he went on persuasive
~ 1.-The difference between rising
every morning al and in the course
Of forty years amounts to 2S,200
hours. or three years and nearly a
half. This is equal to eight hours a
day for ten years. Thus. YOU see, by
rising at 6 instead of you add ten
solid years to your life.
WONDERFUL said the veteran s
listener. Il shall assuredly adopt
your plan. Only. instead of getting
up two hours earlier in the morning
I'll go to bed two hours later every
night New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

1T is said that the pure food law will
stop the manufacture Of gelatine from
the hoofs of cattle to great extent.
Then what. we, rise to ask, are We to dc
Tor pure fruit jellies in the future?
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TIE PRICE or LAND.

We have heard a number speak OF
the advance in land here as being IN
warranted. It may seem so, but if land
has been sold With a. view OF buying
al a lower price at some future time,
a great mistake has been made. Land
is lower here now than it will ever be
again Our reason for thinking SO, is
that every acre here viii produce al
falfa. and every acre Of alfalfa land
is worth a hundreds dollars. It makes
10 difference how dry the season may
be. We are sure Of two crops. three for
ordinary seasons and often we get
good fourth crop. If we cannot feed it,
there is always a good market for it.
and it seems impossible to supply the
demand.-Lebanon Argus.
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+ Landslides usually occur in the
hprlng, but there are some people who
expect to read about one in next We'd
uesday's newspapers.
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Mr.. Bryan appears TO be quite we'll
satisfied with the publicity already Civ
en- his government ownership views.
Doubtless he thinks there is little use in
repeating them as long as everybody
lrnnHrs about them ANYWAY.
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Mr.. Hearst catches them coming and
zoinE. His papers print his speeches
and then his opponents have to pay him
for. the papers in order to find out what
he saws
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

The shake up that is coming to san
francisco political bosses promises to
Jay in the shade that little trembler
1pa last April.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

Abe Reuf is the san Francisco po-
nticaI boss who is making such frantic
efforts to head of an investigation by
q grand jury. Would his supporters
he known as Reufans2
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The Democrats think they even
have a chance to carry rock-ribbed
Shawnee county for Harris. Can you
imagine such thing2
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AS TO REBATES.

There is really no difference in the
principle of rebating on freight rates
and on passenger rates. The sugar
trust received rebates from the New
York Central railroad and the road
was fined s1OS,000 for It and the
traffic manager was fined $4,000. That
was right and it was done by a. judge
OF the United States circuit court last
week. 1t would be just as right to
fine them for giving rebates on pas
senger rates or worse yet. giving the
whole fare for rebate. wouldn't it,
Well, il that was done Mr.. Caiderhead
would be classed as criminal
wouldn't he? Well. that is what he is
in the real right and moral sense. He
has no more right to receive rebates in
the passenger rates than in the freight
rates No one else has the right either
and it is your duty, Mr.. Voter, TO give
the fellow who rides on passes a black
eye at the coming electon.-Belleville
Freeman, (Dem.)
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The president says he is heart
and soul for Hughes The an
nouncement is creating no great
amount Of surprise. however.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

Tim woodruff is getting excited,
saws a dispatch. Tim shouldn't do it.
Right now is when he needs to keep
eool-headed if he expects to beat Mr..
HEARST
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Governor Cumrnlns is charged with
helping to defeat several Iowa stand
nat congressman. That man Cummins
il Just bound to make a hit with the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

The Filipinos are to have a repre-
sentative form OF government How
long viii it be before we will be hear
ing graf stories from Manila?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

Mrs. Peary firmly believes that her
husband has found the pole. Possibly
ne has and is putting in his time dig
ging it up to bring it home, but there
is room for skepticism concerning it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

The leper chapter IS closed. he Tor
whom there was no room in this world
has gope-let US hopeEto q better
Philadelphia Inquirer
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+ Hearsfs voice has failed. but as long
as red ink and six-inch type remain
4he cause Of the downtrodden will be
slnheId
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In just another week now we viii
know Who's Who in Kansas.
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LeavenwOrth alleges that if the sa-
Icons Of that town are closed it Will
Increase lawIessness. inasmuch as the
city will not have the revenue from the
saloons with which to hire policemen
10 suppress crime. There's logic for
7gou
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31
KANSAS COAGEN7-
A ToIGH pRoposITIoN


When Republican becomes sore,
and leaves the reservation, ne is mighty
mean in his comments about the Flag
and Eagle. Guy Stoddard says in the
8Iuscotah Record: 'Some astonishment
IS expressed by our state exchanges al
the apathetic condition OF the present
political campaign in this state The
kansas City Star is running the Demo-
cratic party on a prohibition issue be-
cause 1t IS mad at the Brewers assocla-
ton. The Kansas City Journal is run
ming the Republican campaign because
IL IS mad a the Star-and is & railroad
paper, knowing that no Republican leg
lslature VIII hurt the railroads hard
enough to make them scream. The
voters OF the state are standing around
with their hands in their pockets, Won
dering where they are at If they find
out before election day, there Will pro
baby be something doing. Governor
Hoch is making his campaign on not
what he has done for the dear people,
but on what the last legislature did. He
ought to tight shy of that proposition,
for i We mistake not. that is the cellar
door that Ex-Governor Bailey tore his
urlInentlona oles on four years ago. we
great railroad laws in the interest OF
the people. Can any of our readers tell
us II railroad "a ties are raised or lower
cd here! Are express charges any less2
Il Was supposed that the last legisla-
ture pulled the hair of the Standard
Oil company ana made it be good, and
yet the price OF oil is the same. The
people are not bowling for a two-cent
passenger rate, but they are kicking
because It takes one steer to send an
other TO market; lower freight rates,
ana negligence in supplying cars cut
bigger figure in the business world
than taking a cent a mile of of your
ticket. II you vote the Democratic
ticket. you can't have any more beer.
II you vote the Republican ticket you
set a dlsh OF reform and pay the same
old express and freight rates, and so
there you are. It IS like the old col
ored mans sermon. He said there
were two roads out OF this world: one
led to nell and the other to damEa-
ton. ''-Atckison Globe.
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There are thirteen candidates fol-
railroad commissioner before the peo-
PIE, but just FOR whom this will be
NnIucky IS not vet deoided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

A Pennsylvania man asserts that his
wife hasn't spoken to him in seven
years. Yet the misguided man is su-
ing for a divorce@NeW Orleans
Times-D Democrat.
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The public is utterly defenseless. In
Philadeiphia they stopped the milk
men from putting water in the milk
and now they are going to raise the
price % per cent No doubt govern
ment ownership OF cows will be advo-
Gated in Pennsylvania some Of these
days.=Houston Post.
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Those Toledo icenen who are just
starting in on their sentences have this
consolation: They will be out in time
10 DO business next summer. anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-31

Japan is paeihed, says a cablegram.
80 We won't have to spank Japan after
ALL
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In the death OF Senator samuel s.
Benedict of Wilson county. the state
OF Kansas loses one Of its most con
ecFsndous men. sam" Benedict might
have been termed q Gibraltar OF in
terrfty. Others may have differed
widely from his views. but no one ever
questioned his absolute honesty. He
was a man or wide experience and
would have been an extremely valuable
member in the coming legislature. HIS
demise is to be greatly regretted.
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some New Workers are curious TO
know whether Mr. Hearst would
work at the job if he should be elected.
he has been congressman two
terms. but the other members who sit
near the seat he would occupy II he
we're there. hardly know him by
aeht. Mr.. Hearst has twice been
elected 20 congress. but it would be
Teareelv proper TO say that he has
served two terms in that body. Would
10 work at the governor business in
ahe same Way2
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pORTTRS g. TIPS.

The Pullman Sleeping car octopus IS
shown to have a surplus Of 100000
600 in It's treasury. squeezed out OF the
travelling public This does not in
clude the hold-ups Of the porters,
either@Los Angeles Times.
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That ouantreH reunion story is evil
lentls taken seriously ifl the east. The
ssw york Evening Post says: Last
geek the survivors OF FORESTS cav
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Naturally the first step in the great
scheme Of federal drainage Of swamp
lands is to begin by draining the treas
ury-Eew York Post
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED SRFSS

The candidates are now on the last
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NVEsTIGATOR.

Mr.. Hughes seems to investigate yei-
low journalism with the same ruthless
zest he displayed toward crooked insur-
Philadelphia Ledger.
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1t v0rries q Woman terrlbIy not %
have anything 81 NoNry ever
Work Press