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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
THE JUVENILE COURT.

Most reform laws were made to
boost the fortunes of ambitious politi-
clans, and few Of them amount to any
thing. OF the few, the juvenile court
is one Of the most important. It has
to do with boys who go wrong at the
tender age when character is made or
destroyed Prior to the enactment of
this statute boys whose arrest was
station or the county Jail where they
were demaned by contact with tramps,
bootleggers and hardened criminals.
The juveline court removes boys from
this influence and If there is any good
in them, it will develop. Every family
should be interested in the juvenile
court, and put forth their best efforts
to keep it free from alley politics. The
judge of the juvenile court should be a
man who understands boy nature and
who has the welfare of boys at heart.
Otherwise this part of his duties is q
failure, and the community suffers.
Probate Judge Dick Hayden of Shaw
nee county has Won almost a national
reputation as Judge of the juvenile
court, having handled successfully $50
cases in two years. Judge Hayden is
a bachelor, but he know how to get
next to boys, and they respect him, and
do what he says. Probate Judge
Samuel Fricker of Jackson county has
been very successful with the boys
brought before him. All who were
paroled are making good. They report
to Judge Fricker once a month telling
him all about themselves. Being on
their honor, these boys likely will grow
into respectable citizenship and live
creditabie lives. If they had gone by
the calaboose or county Jail route, all
the bad in them. and none of the good,
would have developed and their gradu-
alton from toughdom to thugdom
would have been rapid. Or if the judge
had been too lazy or INDIFFERENT to in
terest himself in their cases, and had
sent them to the reform school. the
result would have been the same. The
juvenile court gives the first offence"
had been too lazy or Indifferent to in
therefore a good thing. when rightly
administered as 1t has been here.-Hol-
ton Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
.JAYHA WKER JOTS

There was a big chicken roast up at
Morrill, the other day whsn hen house
burned down with 200 young chickens
inside os it.
Speaking of gold bricks, a Saline
county landlady was recently. persuad-
ed to accept a forty dollar. mortgage on
a greyhound to secure board bill
A walnut log nine feet long and A
inches in diameter was recently cut
down in Usage county. It was sold by
]. T. Pringle of Burlingame to a wal
nut dealer for $50.
The Jefferson County Tribune pro-
duces this evidence that you never can
tell what's in boy by looking at him:
A Nortonville boy swallowed a fence
staple one day recently
A Harvey county man is preparing to
build new barn. To do it he will first
construct a saw mill, and then manu-
facture lumber out CT cottonwood trees
growing on the place. That's one way
Of beating the lumber trust!
Every once in while story is turn
ed loose on the horticulturists of the
country about the propagat ton Of seed
less apples. s. A. Flickfnger of Morrill,,
has two apple trees thirty years old on
his farm that bear seedless and coreless
apples.
Tall potato story from the Hiawatha
World: Four years ago a friend sent
J. H Lugenbeel a big potato from
Oregon. Mr.. Lugenbeel planted it and
it yielded so well that he decided 1t was
worth cultivating for seed potatoes. In
four years that potato has raised him
over 1000 bushels and he has sold q big
part of his crop instead Of rsplanting
all every year. Last summer his po-
tatoes made $50 bushels to the acre.
Some homemade philosophy by Will
Palmer in the Jswell Republican: There
are not offices enough for all the good
fellows. Besides. somebody has got to
plow the corn. The Jaclxass
isn't as musical as the canary bird, but
he does more toward building up the
country. You don't have to
call a man a liar any more. Just tell
him he talks like a Standard Oil Off
cial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

carriers in the public service. And be-
cause they are common carriers we
nave all the power OF the law over
them and we make the law. But when
we come to fix the price we are touch
ing property right, the income Of
these roads for the private citizens
who have furnished money to build and
equip them. The constitution provides
Tor public use without compensation.
At this point If we take charge ana say
how much this income on this property
snail be we are taking private property.
commission, but the supreme court or
the United States has never yet de-
cfded that congress may delegate this
power to a commission. And the su-
preme court of the United States has
never yet said that congress has the
power to absolutely fix the rates. Re
member that the constitution of the
United States is only a grant of power
and congress and the president can
only do what is expressly granted to
tn EN- and this includes doing what is
necessary to enable US to do what is
expressly granted. The constitution of
a state is a different constitution. 1t
is merely a limitation of power and
our legislature may do everything
which the people could enact If they
were all assembled to make a law, only
we are limited by our constitution to
doing those things not prohibited in
our state constitution Our state con-
stitution does not prohibit our legisla-
ture from delegating this power to q
commission. But the constitution Of
the United States does not expressly
grant to congress power to delegate its
legislative power and the supreme
court has never yet said We have power
to delegate this power If We possess It,
1.-The supreme court has said that
the power to make a rate is a legisla-
tive act, but 1t is an open question
whether congress has power to make
a rate, and it is an open question
whether we can delegate it as a legis-
lative power to any commission"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
Rather Awkward.

Viscount De Belmont of Brazil was
dining in a New York restaurant Sud
denly he put down his knife and fork
and uttered an exclamation OF ap-
prevail.
by jove, a beautiful woman" he
said, in the demonstrative southern
way.
ssShe is my wife, the viscount's
companion rnurmured modestly.
At this the young man laughed.
How fortunate l was" he said ito
praise the lady. Yes, I was far more
fortunate than an Oxford friend of
mine.
MY friend. on the boat coming over.
stood in conversation with an elderly
man on the promenade deck. Near
by a woman sat in a deck chair My
friend. pointing to her, said with a.
sheer:
" I wonder if that ugly old woman
is actually trying to f1irt with mel
I don't know the elderly gentle
man answered mildly, but I can east
ly find out for you. She's my wife -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

Now comes the time when the birds
appear. They viii soon be fitting
through the trees, f1uttering along the
fences and hopping over the grass, and
now and then. a clear note Will fill
the air, as sweet as a mothers song.
It doesn't seem possible that anybody
could harm one Of these bright little
creatures. But there are, many people,
but mostly boys. There should be a
public opinion. so fierce against the
killing of birds that no one will dare
raise a hand against them. And to
form this public opinion everybody can
help. One should never allow an op-
poTtunity to pass when he can ex-
press his Indignation against this mean
est Of cruelties. The birds are the fair
est phase of springtime. They vie with
the flowers to make the world beautiful
and happy. They sing the JOY of the
grass the woods and the creeks If
once the birds were gone, and nature
were dumb, we would see a doIeful diff
ference. But did you ever think OF the
practical mission of the birds-what
good they are doing while they are
making people happy2 It is the opin-
ion Of q naturalist that man could not
live on the earth after the birds had
gone. Destroy the birds. and in nine
years time the bugs and insects would
crowd man fron. the face OF the earth
They would starve him out. But 1t is
not to prevent this that the birds should
be spared. It IS for their own beauty
and Columbus Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

'Itlooks 10 me- said Deacon Twogood
today. "as though that speech of Bob
Blair's ought to turn some Republican
votes in the Second ward to Mike
9eery.'' But" interposed Bill DoolittIe,
there amt any Republican votes in the
Second ward except on days when a
Republican primary is held
This department would like to inquire
if the spelling reform committee pro-
poses 10 spell it Arkansas or Arkansaw.
If we just must have a strike, let US
hope that they will seEd Us one that is
gentle and ladylike. and that viii eat
out of the hand and stand without be-
ing hitched.
We take 1t that Charlie Holiday can
scarcely count on the support of R w.
Blair for his candidacy for mayor next
year.
Every day or two now the heads Of
families receive unpleasant reminders
that the Easter hat is almost ripe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe

FROM Cne AIClkSOH IlODe.l
Genius is not rare; but plain. common
sense is.
Democrats are jolzed about whisky as
much as Kentuckian5.
The older you become. the more risk
there is in marriage.
You often hear people speak Of dry
wit Is there such a thing as wet
wit?
Ever notice that when you receive a
letter that pleases you, you always read
it twice?
When you have a picture taken. does
it make you mad for people to say it
looks too young for you?
BY the time a man becomes interested
in his third love affair, he must feel
as II he were in a second hand store.
What has become of the old fashion
ed man who always asked his tall
friends. How is the weather up there?''
There are some wonlen who can't say
that they saw COW without relating
what dress they had on when they saw
it.
A man running for office must be like
an amateur who has, agreed to deliver
lecture: he never knows how it will
come out.
Be content with your air castle: The
chimney in an air castle never smokes,
ana the windows do not rattle in every
wind.
After a woman has fallen in love with
the first grandehild, she becomes more
reconciled to the fact that her daughter
has a husband.
If a man is good" to his children
when they are little, as they interpret
it. he hasn't the money left to be
good to them when they are grown
If a man stays in the house longer
than it takes to eat and get out, he
~ 1uf int r,f !,
nuisance in having a man hanging
round
You often speak of bores,'' writes
a correspondent to the editor. Ever
occur to you that you are q bore when
you run around asking people If there
is anything new
Every one has bis idea Of hell: We
always imagine it IS a place with the
sides lined with bookshelves filled with
the popular trashy novels, and the
jewellers theTin are compelled to read
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

rFrom the Philadelphia Record
lust to keep his hand ina glove.
Friendship, like beauty, is often only
skin deep.
The age Of cur has nothing to de
with his courage.
It takes a pretty big navy nowadays
for a nation to paddle its own canoe
Some men. complain Of hard times II
every day doesn't bring 81 soft snap
man is soon forgotten after he Is
dead. unless you happen to marry his
widow
Miss cetrox-.'How much do you
love me2" Mr. Slimpurse- How
much are you worth %
wireless teIegraphy may be com
uaratfveIy new, but the kick under
the table Is as old as marriage.
The average woman can't even buy
aI1spice without yielding to the temp
tation to ask II it is all spice.
Editor-"We are not accepting any
dialect stories just now" Author
That isn't dialect m Just learning
to use g typewriter"
the open door policy, Sam o. Sam
Johnsinay-'s aass sub. When All want
to play policy All hate to have to sneak
around to de side do"
Her Father-''So you wish to marry
young Harduppe. Ell? Has he any per
rnanent investments?" Her Fathers
Daukhter-'sSay, Dad, don't kid me
about money loaned being & perma-
nenf investment 1 read that IN an
But on the level. he has made enc
permanent investment. Dad. was
with him when he bought a lot in the
cemetery"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the chicago News.1

lbIOln the CIICdBO N6WS-l
Most men want to test their reform
theories on others.
Matrimony has destroyed many sweet
and pleasant decisions.
Never put off till tomorrow the mean
ness you can cut out today.
The self-made man is usually an easy
mark for the machine-made politician.
Too many men spend their time try
ing to make molehdlls out Of mountains.
No man is as bad as some other man
thinks he is, or as good as some woman
knows he is.
Nothing pleases the modest man more
than to be detected In the act Of doing
q good deed.
The woman who says that all men are
alike probably has had an experience
she would like to forget
The girl who waits for a man to come
along and make love to her after the
manner of a novel hero will remain
single to the end of the chapter.
Automobile caps are frequently worn
by young men who couldn't buy an
automobile if they were selling for So a
dozen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

The plan proposed by J. c. Rupen-
thai OF Russell for the equalization of
assessments among the various eoun-
ties by the state board Of equalizat ton
certainly has its good points. If fol-
lowed out It would remove the tempta-
ton to assess property at partial
valuation Some counties. for instance.
make the assessment valuation only
20 per cent Of the real value. and then
they deduct the $500 exemption from
she assessed valuation. This virtually
gives an exemption Of $1,000, allow
Mig a great amount of property to
escape taxation. In this county,
Shawnee. property is assessed at its
fun value. the s2Oo exemption Is de-
ducted. and one-half the remainder. or
so per cent, is taken as the assessed
valuation. # Mr.. Rupenthal's plan
were adopted Shawnee's assessed val
uation would be eQualized by being
doubled. while that OF the county that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
HARRNGERS

bunch Of pussy willows in glass;
A wet umbrella dripping in the stand,
bill for millinery that, alasi
VIII take most of the cash I have on
hand;
A loud piano organ on the street,
A bill: ITO Rent" in No. II,
The radiators radia1ing heatl
What does this mean?
note the disadvantage of a fiat
The boys are playing marbles in the lot
I wonder If need d new straw hat,
It's not so bad. the old one that I've got
somehow think I'm getting quite run
down,
really ought to have a change of scene
And yet thought I liked to live in town
What can this mean?
House cleaning necessaries advertised,
And garden tools! It must be e-rly yet.
Summer resortsi I'm certainly surprised
Here's just about the house I'd like to
get.
It isn't spring. It cant be, though I see
Outside upon the lawn a shade Of green
It's all so sudden, that's what puzzles me.
What can it mean?
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


LFrom the New York Press.1
Girls are always afraid that they are
not going to be married and men that
they are.
The only man who really likes farm
ing IS the one who has lot Of money
to lose at it.
Most peoples idea of saving money
is to buy bakers bread instead of
wasting it On -four.
1t takes a woman to know her hus-
bands faults and not believe it when
somebody else does.
No matter how much you can see of
a woman she always thinks It Is
modest If you see it through open
work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

Beautiful. Easily Grown vines.

Not alone may the veranda be beau
titled with vines. The wall of a brick
or stone house may be given a living
coat Of green, which will be joy to the
lover Of nature. The Boston ivy and
the Virginia creeper, two vines known
through America, cling to walls with
out support, and so are especially use
full for this purpose The former IS
not as hardy as the latter, but in the
middle and southern ATTITUDES it sue
ceeds well. and forms a beautiful mass
against a wall The Virginia creeper is
perfectly hardy. It will hide ugly
stone fences, outbuildings, and dead
trees, Transforming them into things Of
beauty.
The rapid growing Virgins Bower Is
an excellent vine for veranda, giving
a dense shade. It presents a snowy
bank Of star-shaped white flowers Of
delightful fragrance which last for
several weeks. A companion variety,
clematis coccinea, has rose colored
flowers which resemble half closed rose
buds from distance. The wistaria is
a good vine for a trellis, but is some
what coarse for most verandas. being
better suited for the rustic house or
pergola, where its delight ful purple
flowers hang in graceful profusion. The
Crimson Rambler rose vine is perhaps
one of the surest hardest and most
satisfactory of vines, admirably suited
for the veranda or almost any other
place It grows rapidly and blooms in
great abundance. Bitter sweet is an
excellent vine of rich foliage which
becomes highly co1ored in the autumn
and is often followed by a mass of
scarlet fruit which hangs for a long
time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

was Why I was against a search. had
Just discovered my loss when you spoke
ana knew what would happen II there
was a general search. -
Hugh" said Betty softly. you're this
dearest and most thoughtful man in the
That's worth a hundred watches,
lips.
6copyright,1sos, BY NJ. NJ. Cunningham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
TOO MANY WRECKS

The Railway Age. a Journal devoted
to the technical and commercial sides
of railroading. recently published an
article in which the charge is plainly
made with reference to the operation
of railroads, there are too many
wrecks" It would have been worthy
of attention coming from a publication
covering general subjects, but it is Civ
en- special significance through its ap-
pearance in a periodical without the
slightest faint of sensationalisIn; one,
indeed, characterized by decided con-
servatism where It's special field is in
volved.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
THOSE IMPLEMENT RATES.

carr Taylor, attorney to the board,
hear the implement dealers COM
plants against the roads now. But
the board, as usual, want to put it
Off" They don't want the present
rates unsettled until this years ship
ments are all in. They know what the
roads want. and intend to see that they
get it.=Beloit Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

Henry D. AIoorman. Is years old,
the youngest county judge in Ken
lucky. was recently elected in Clover
port and a few days ago performed
his drst marriage ceremony. He says
1t viii be his last also, for he thinks
marriage is too sacred a ceremony for
Judges to perform. Says Judge Moor
man: II attach a sacredness above my
once to this thing OF linking two lives.
The seriousness. the sacredne ss, the
simon pure of the thing Is not there
when an officer of the law ties the
knott
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

From the Riverside, Cal. Enterprise
the cheering information is cleaned that
All the judges in Kansas have return
Ga their railroad passes" If the En-
terprase win just furnish documentary
evidence to that erect and include the
governor of the state with the judges.
e will be cause for General Rejoicing
an Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

What a joke it will be on somebody
If, just when Vic Murdoek's denatur-
lied alcohol bill is passed in order to
beat the Standard and make a wider
market for potatoes and corn. it is dis
covered that the Standard is in posi-
fion to control the denaturized alcohol
rnarl1etf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

Some breakfast food company viii
miss a great opportunity if it fails to
get pictures Of these miners who lived
of twenty days entombed in French
mine, and then show that the hay
which kept them alive was really the
ahredded breakfast food which it per-
seefra tes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

Still the world do move. Not so
very long ago the trusts ruled every
thing. and nobody disputed their right
to do so. It has been only three or
four years since trust magnates were
held up to the youth OF the land as
models Of success. Now the trust mag
nate is kept busy going to Europe and
other places to dodge the subpoena
server, and he can hardly get a pleas
ant word in the newspapers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

After going to the trouble of blow
ing open Sour iron doors on bank
saf6," says the Washington Post, "a
gang OF North Dakota bandits failed to
find enough booty to pay for the dyna-
mite used. and the cashier wasn't tax
ing a vacation. either That could not
happen In Kansas. In Kansas banks
the bills are Of such large denomina-
lions that robbers cannot carry them
arvev
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

Since Governor Hanly Of Indiana and
some other vigorous officials have put
out Of ONCE numerous grating officers.
there IS a movement foot to organ
ise an ex-grafters' mutual protective
association. P. S.-There are some
Kansas officials who are not eligible to
nembership. They are not "exes."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

IN view of the pronounced stand
taken by a good many Republican
county conventions on the subject Of
free passes. how much longer will Re
publican oficeholders in Kansas con-
tinue to demand these s'courtesies"
from the railroad eompaniese
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
KANSAS COMMENT
THE WRONG WAY.

Some of the churches in the big cities
are endeavoring to stamp cut evil with
evil In other words, they are Compel
ing with saloons and dance halls by
erecting some Of their own in the same
community This may be a good way
to overcome the evil but it looks too
much like fighting the devil with fire.
Troy Chief.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

We continue to learn. We now know
there is a people called the Palaianes
among cur little brown brothers in he
Philippines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03
DOGs AID DOC.

Some folks are astonished because a
Chicago man left $40, 900 to a dog, but
they do not wink an eyelash when told
that some young puppy has inherited
a fortune.-New York Herald.
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assesses on a 20 per cent basis would
be multiplied by i've. And as the
valuation is raised the tax levy would
be lowered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

A report comes to this Office that Ed
Finnup of Garden. City Will be a can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for congressman in this district. 1t is
luxury that but few men in the dis
trict can afford, but Ed is one of them.
-KinsleY Graphic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

Just suppose the Kansas legislature
should adopt an anti-pass law. what
effect would it have on the little slips
Of cardboard carried by Governor
Hnch2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

About time for President Baer to
come forward with some fool inter
view, isn't it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

When, by the way, is congress going
TO remove the duty on wood pulp from
which paper is made7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-03

That campaign down in the Second
ward Is what one might reasonably call
a hummer.