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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
JANA WKER JOTy

The Howard Courant refers to Aggie
Myers Of Kansas City, as "a self-made
widow"
The Parsons Sun announces that It
has new quarters. From its improved
appearance 1t will also probably have
new dimes and halves and dollars
Noting that Grant Hornaday gave
the Christian church al Fort Scott a
furnace, the Baldwin Ledger says he
is making things hot for that church I"
M J. Frink. who used to teach
school up in Nemaha county. is now
wealthy citizen of Seattle and has
recently given that city a $500 tract
of land for park purposes
Note of alarm by Ralph Tennal: If
the women don't call a halt on these
for our hemstitched handkerchiefs,
our embroidered muffiers, or our
crocheted bed slippers, when Christ
mas morning arrives?
There is one brave man in Howard,
says the Courant- He has the grit to
borrow a shotgun from one man. a
bird dog from another, a hunting coat
and some ammunition from third,
and then go out and hunt all over a
farmers place without asking permits
sion and bring in dozen quail and
sell them-and all without even buy
ing a hunters license.
A Leavenworth business man return
ed home one evening with terrible
Nv
told his wife Every time I stepped
to the door 1 met an ornithorynchus."
For goodness sake. what's that? ask
ed his wife Look it up in the die
tionary," he replied. She did. Here
it is" she said, running her finger
down the page "Ornithorynchus-a
beast with a bill. Was there really
OH I see"
Cat story in the Sabetha Herald:
Here is a case where an obituary Is
~ al 20
belonging to Charley Dickson, passed
on to the land where it is not con-
sidered a sin to eat bird, last Thurs
day Thomas was seventeen years or
age. He belonged to Mr.. DiclSson's
father before Charley got him.
Thomas has kept South Washington
avenue free from rats and mice for
fifteen years For a cat he has been
respectable and we'll behaved and stay
ed at home nights
Relleviue PREGNANT: Not long ago
one of the teachers in the city school
was giving some lessons in patriotism
The class had discussed the subject
thoroughly and had found out what IL
took to be a patriot. Some Of the chill
dren had fathers who had seen service
in the army and of course were heroes
of the hour. The little daughter of a
0rornfnent business man in the city felt
that it was time for her to say some
thing in behalf of her father and she
raised her hand to get permission to
tell her story, Ii was granted and she
began: Teacher my papa would be
brave and be a soldier and patriot II
he wasn't afraid of getting shot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
THE Easing OF RATES

One of the great railway kings of the
country is James J. Hill. and when Mr..
Hill speaks, as he is not at all bashful
about doing, he commands attention.
AS a rule, Mr.. Hill's utterances command
respect, but when he stated recently
that railroad rates will have to be in
creased because the increase of business
has increased the cost of handling It,
it caused some hilarit.
In making this statement Mr.. Hill
declared th.t "an rates must be based
on the cost of handling the business. .
And that cost" he added. has increas-
ed materially"
One might argue. from Mr.. HIPS
viewpoint, that the greater volume Of
business a merchant does the more he
would have to charge for his goods
There is a significant part of the mag
Mates statement. however, which is
brought out by Joseph L. Bristow in
an editorial in the Salina Journal
In this statement" says Mr.. Bristow,
Mr.. Hill has affirmed the stand taken
by those interested in the freight rate
question and for which they have been
charged with talking without proper in
formation on the subject. When it was
stated during the last campaign that
the cost of transportation should gov
ern the freight rates the biologists for
the railroads declared that the value
of the service was the only proper basis
for fixing rates. Mr.. HiH's official dec
laration that all rates mus be based
on the cost of handling tie business, ,
places some enthusiastic defenders of
railroad interests in an embarrassing
situation. for out here in Kansas those
who dared suggest that proposition
were called 'populists' and 'dema-
gogues. The cost OF transportation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
A TEXAS ExPFRINfFNT.


An Adamless Eden In Texas, accord
ing to dispatch from that state, is the
dream of Mary r. Hayden, a Chicago
writer. and Miss Hayden is preparing
to make 1t more than a dream. She is
arranging to establish a colony of a
thousand women in Refugio county.
south Texas. She has acquired title to
5000 acres and is now at work on the
plans for her novel and unique colony.
Mere man will have little to do with
the proposed colony. He will be toler-
ated. but his presence is not solicited
by the promoter. and if he comes he
must expect to take a back seat. Miss
Hayden Will permit her women colon
lists to have husbands If that condition
can not be avoided. but they must be
mere notch on a stick so far as the
affairs of the coloney are concerned
An endeavor will be made to secure
from the Texas legislature permission
for women to exercise the right Of suf-
frage in the colony and all homes must
be in the name of the wife.
Everything that is usually under
taken on Texas farms viii be attempt
ed by this colony of maids-truck
farming. fruit raising. bee keeping,
dailying. poultry raising and other
kindred farm and ranch pursuits.
Miss Hayden was an intimate friend
of the late Frances Willard and was
associated with her for a number OF
years in temperance work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
German Omce-s and Privates.

The following is the experience of a
German army private:
During the second maneuvers." he
says Il was sent on ahead to select
quarters for my company. The police
supplv the names Of l1ouseholders who
are expected to shelter the soldiery,
and 1 had to decide on the number Of
men who should be assigned to each
place It seems that our major dis
patched a courier with a message for
our captain For some reason or 9TH
err the message was not delivered The
next day the captain called me out
and in the presence of the whole COM
pany, rebuked me for not delivering
the message.
Il did not receive any message I
ventured.
.Shut your mouth, you liar" he
Numbered And again he beloved:
.Why didn't you deliver that message,
YOU -2' 1 told him second time
that had not received any message.
With an oath he rode his horse at me
full tilt, hurting filthy names at me
the while When he had ridden right
up to mel fully expected he would
run me over, but I dared not move
he suddenly refined in his horse, and
drawing a long dagger from his belt,
shouted lfvid with passion: II have
half a mind to stick this through your
vile body. you Schmeinhund."
once more he asked me about the
message and once more 1 answered
him.
sHThen five days confinement and
bread and water be your punishment.
YOU nar!'' he retorted-
He repeated the question several
times and increased my term of i'm
prisonment each time I answered in
the negative until my term of impris-
onment equaled fourteen days I was
placed under arrest Next day I was
released / afterward found that the
captain had discovered his mistake,
but he never referred to it--Lfving-
ston Wright. in the World OF To-Day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

does fx the rates. Mr.. Hill has declar-
ed the truth in this statement, and in
order to bolster up a determination to
Increase these rates beyond an already
unreasonable figure. he promulgates the
unique defense that an increase OF bus
mess increases at a greater ratio the
cost of handling it,
Senator LaFollette declared that ''the
cost or the service" ought to govern
service should include the value of the
property required for the service, a fair
income on this value. and the cost of
operating it. With view to getting at
this accurately Senator LaFollette offer
ed an amendment to the Hepburn bill
authorizing the interstate commerce
commission to ascertain what the actual
cost of the railroads of the United
States has been.
Senator Long, in explaining why he
opposed this amendment, said that rates
ought to be based on 1.-The value of the
service" Now. the value of the ser
vice" would be just what the railroads
could make the people pay. It is an
other way of saying all the traffic Will
bear"
This idea is rapidly becoming obsolete,
and even James J. Hill has discarded it
theoretically The railroads ought to be
allowed to make a fair return on the
money invested in them, but the all-the-
traffic-will-bear practice makes the
people wrathy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

began to thin. One by one they Were
departing. Mrs. Barrington-seliss
round face was lit with contentmlen1 =
1t had been most successful atteh-
noon.
Even she had something to say %
him. - thought Marion, dfsconsoea tsiy-
There was a quick step at her SIDE She
looked up Tt was Burton Sturgls.
Well that's over" he cried with =
shrug Of delight, land heavens put
I'm glad to be back in this corner WIZ
you! DO you know, Miss Page, you re
the only girl this afternoon who hasn
said Quaint. Lovely, Charming ano
Deliciousl' I'd IKE another cnerfy'
please, and will you do me favor
'sDelightedi' cried Marion gayIy,
"I've decided to stay over another
day, and there's a place near here i q
like to show you, II you'd care TO see
it. VIII you come driving with me TO-
morrow p"
For an instant his eyes held hers-
Understanding, humor, canaraoerles
and a something deeper than All tnesS
passed between them.
IT should be glad to-" said Marion
,s1mIIiiiinE.-CcOpyright 1906. by P. c.
Eastment.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.


LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The average promise is like the Ben
Davis apple: looks fine. but no good.
1t doesn't take a very brave man to
declare for a two-cent railroad fare.
The woman who complains that no
one "understands' her is not usually
a good cook
Any man will always defend any
other man who is abused for not writ
ing home.
When Mother sleeps soundly all
night, it means that no one In the
house was restless.
Even a truly polite man is apt to
raise his hat a little higher in greeting
really handsome woman.
No doubt many married men con-
tinue IN love, but not in that violent
manner that affects the appetite.
The man who saves money is sure
of one thing: He will never find that
he made serious mistake in doing it.
There is some talk about a certain
man because he thinks twice day is
enough for the doctor to visit his sick
wife.
Working down town has done more
for the girls than make them indie
pendent: 1t has taught them the art
Of dressing quickly.
Those who send souvenir post cards
don't do It 50 much to find out If you
are still here. as to let you know that
they are there.
Inc cOlc Iacts are that when your
age is guessed several years younger
than 1t really is, some one IS trying to
be agreeable to you
It is said an A.chison dressmaker is
so slow that by the time she gets a
dress finished. the style it is made in
has zone out of fashion.
Don't pay people left-handed com
pliments; If you want to compliment
them, and they deserve it, give 1t to
them straight from the right shoulder.
A dogs life is an easy one: Nothing
to do. comfortable home. plenty to eat.
and then given a lot of credit for look
ing after its own interests by being
faithful to its master.
There was a strange crowd on a
street corner today. 1t was conposed
OF women and girls, dancing and
jumping around some small object in
the center. A reporter who pushed his
way in found that twenty women were
making insane gesticulations in order
to get little baby to laugh
We don't know how they are At the
table at home. but in a restaurant
country people are as silent as the
grave Today young couple sat at a
lunch counter and ate their Iuncheons
when they were through the vounor
man paid the bill for both and tbe
other people at the lunch counter
nearly fell over: They thought the
couple were strangers to each other.
meal e.-S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Blacksmiths are not the only men VIII !
have vices.
Some people can't tell a good story
when they hear it.
1t takes a certain amount Of head
work even to raise cabbages.
1t seems too bad that only four 1etfars
of the alphabet can ever be in love.
Blobbs-'I missed my bath this morn
ing" Slobbs-'Have you reported the
matter to the police p
Hoax-"I gave you several tins on
Asparagus; why didn't you play him -
Joax-''Oh, don't like asparagus tins o,
Rollingstone Nomoss - 'Wot wouid
you do If you had million dollars -
Pessimistic Peters-'I E'pose 1t 'ud be
jist my luck ter wake u5"
Wigwag-"W What's the matter Ola
man? You look limp Goodfs,insr
Well, If you had had your leg pulled 81
often as have 1 guess you'd limp too. .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
POINTED l.AIsAGnAr!Ia
TFrom the Chicago News.l

TFTOm the chicago NeWs-l
or two CRAFTS a politician is apt tc
grab both.
Lots of women get married before
they can afford to.
Lots OF fools look wise and lots Of
wise men look otherwise.
He who envies the happiness of it'll
ers will never be happy
It's waste Of time to cut the ac-
uuaintance OF a man who is insult proof.
Some men get as tired Of being mar
ried as some women do of not being
Men who pose as Judges of human
nature get a good many hard bumps.
The letter carrier expects everybody
on his route to take things as they
come
Everything comes to the man who
waits-and the bill collector heads the
procession
A man is never satisfied until he can
induce some woman to think he is bet
ter than he knows he il.
When a man refuses to let his wife
trim his whiskers she begins to sus-
pect that his love IS growing cold.
You may have noticed that a lot Of
men are always on the ragged edge OF
doing something wonderful-and that's
as far as they get.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
HUMOR or THE DAY

The Cook (selecting her .employeIEs2.--e
well. OF loike the looks o. yez. But
phWat rriferinces how yez from the glr-EA
that bod yez Iast?''-Puck
Mani don't see why Miss Mugley
should want to marry him with ali her
money" Dfck-'T guess she had to
don't believe he'd have taken her without
-''-Philadelphia Ledger.
Woman. you played me falsel' The
words remained unutt6red, but that Is
doubtless what the long suffering piano
would have said had 1t been endowed
with the power of speech.-Chicago Daily
News.
Corporations will have to cease using
money to influence legislation. We'll,
answered Mr.. Dustin Stax, "a lot OF cor
porations have about all they want and
will be perfectly willing to cut down ex-
penses.' Wa shington Star.
Miranda don't care if he does own an
auto and steam yacht. / won't marry
him, Why, he's a regular nat Mrs
Matchmaker-Yes dear; but fats with all
modern improvements are very desirable
Life
Yeast-"Who is your wife's favorite au-
thOr?' Crimonbeak-"I am. She says L
make UP some Of the most wonderful
stories she ever heardr'-Yonkers States
man.
Sometimes said Uncle Eben. when a
man spreads hisse'f in a love letter, he
'nagines he's writin' real poetry when he
ain dom muffin but pilin' up evidence"
=WaShingtOu Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
rHE LI-NIIsER TRUST NEXT.


no doubt many people have suspect
ed that the State Journal has not in
the past been an enthusiastic admirer
of James Monroe Miller as member
of congress. AS a private citizen and a
gentleman this paper has had nothing
but commentator for the Fourth dis
trict congressman, but it has found
great difficulty in working itself into a
lather in admiring Mr.. Miller as pub
lie otsscial.
| Congressman Miller has perpetrated
surprise, however. and he may yet
develop into a real representative of
Kansas people instead Of an echo Of
and a messenger boy for Chas. Curtis,
Mr.. Miller has started the government
on the trail of the lumber trust.
In taking this action Mr.. Miller has
struck at a monopoly that retards the
growth of the country proba bly, more
than any other one combine. unless it
be the sportation combines. stand
ard Oil. simply as a monopoly of the
ell business, is not in it with the lum-
Der trust.
Yet comparatively little is known by
the public of the lumber monopoly.
Few know who is behind it. how many
companies are in it. what forests it
controls, or how it operates. The farm
I
corncrib sometimes blames his local
dealers for charging such uniformly
high prices for building material It
may be that the local dealers in some
towns have a little combine of their
own-which is alleged-but back of
them is the giant trust which has the
building operations of the entire west
practically at its mercy.
Congressman Miller has evidently
been investigating the subject and has
CLEANED enough information to start
him on the right track. For the last
three years. he says, lumber has
advanced by regular steps at an as
founding rate in the southwest. where
so much development is going on.
Lumber has advanced from So TO SO
per thousand a year, so that common
lumber costs as much today as the best
dressed lumber did four years ago.
This is the result of a number of COM
bires. all acting with one common
purpose, although having no immedi-
ate connection. The greatest of these
is the yellow Pine Manufacture as
ISOLATION of ST. Louis. This combine
fixes the price on the greatest mill out
put in the United States; controls all
the mills in Mississippi, Arkansas, Ala
bama, Louisiana and Texas. This con-
Germ also operates III absolute OeHanCe
OF the antitrust laws of Arkansas.
In Kansas. New Mexico. Oklahoma
and western Texas, where thousands
Of people want to build homes, this
grinding combine has practically held
up the development of this splendid
country. and I propose to do what is
in my power to give the people relief
from this organized system Of rob-
berry"
Mr.. Miller may make a record in
congress yet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

So far as this department is concern
ed it has seen Bellamy Storer's sore toe
all it desires to, and Mr.. Storer can
take it away just as soon as he wishes.
4
A morning paper says that when
Bent Murdoch came TO Topeka Monday
he brought with him a big black bass,
which he had plueked fresh from the
Walnut. This may lead to the suspic-
ion that Thomas Benton spent the
Sabbath on the banks of the Walnut
instead of at church, but doubtless he
can prove an alibi.
r.
we note that the man who yells
lOudest about high taxes generally man
ages to get along without paying
much
y y
If the secretary of war hasn't any
other peace stunt to perform. we sug-
gest that he intervene between Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the Bellamy
Storers.
y
A magazine writer discussing paper
money. says a 81 bill lasts about 1s
months and a SO bill will last three
years. VIII that writer kindly inform
this department where that kind of billA
can be had? The ones we get usually
last not longer than three days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR,
LFrom the New York Press1

IFrom the New York Press
When a man believes in he'll it's for
the other fellows
The man who talks loudest about his
bank account has the slfmmest ~alance
A boy can't make an allowance work
even when he charges everything he
buys to his father.
A man would have plenty Of time to
do all his work if he didn't spend 90
much time trying to dodge 1t.
It's better for a girl to have a fortune
than titled husband. because II aha
mas she can get the other with Il le
she insists on it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

what. bv the way. has become Of
the demand for a primary election
Iaw2' asks the Ottawa Herald. II the
Herald Will glue its binoculars to the
other end of the course it will see that
the demand referred to is just turning
the corner and getting ready to come
down The home stretch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
The Japanese Exclusion Problem.


David Starr Jordan, president Of
Leland Stanford, Jr.. university is
quoted in the World To-Day for De-
cember, as saying:
THE present trouble into which the
San Francisco school board has in
volved itself and the country is one
Into whose particular merits I have
not gene. Doubtless the coming of
Secretary Metcalf and President
RoOsevelt's interest may lead to an
amicabIe UNDERSTANDING In a civil
ICED country it is no crime to belong to
another race. and there can be no
liberation of the excitement of race
riots in this country. 1t is even more
important that a nation should be de-
cent than that it should be white. 1t
is, moreover, the sign of a brave just
people that it should treat all its neigh
bors alike. insulting none, expressing
none and cringing to none.
1T can not be denied that great dan
gers, as well as great advantages. lie
In our relations with Asia. We have,
on the Pacific coast, no economic as
set more valuable than the good will
of China and Japan. On the other
hand there is real danger that our civ
the mere overflow of the Superf1uous
Japanese and Chinese.
Il believe that exclusion laws should
be jointly framed. so that the people
we deal with viii not be Inundated by
them. ANY sort of exclusion law is an
evil An overflow of people of less in
telligence, less self reliance and less
patriotism than our own. whether
from Japan. China, Poland. Africa or
elsewhere is also an evil If we choose
exclusion acts as the lesser evil. we
should not make them offensive to
those those we do not need to exclude.
We must always let our neighbors
save their face.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
ERON OTHER PENS
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.

Charities and the Commons, pub
lished in New York, says to all Christ
mas shoppers: please buy your pres
ents early=early in the day and early
in December. That will be your big
gest gift of the holidays-to the work
ers behind the counters and on the de-
livery wagons" This is an appeal in
behalf of all the young women and the
girls and the boys who have to with
stand the wear and tear of Christmas
shopping Birmingham Age-H Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

Says the Washington Post: Now
York state Is again being represented
in the United States senate" But,
hold on. Isn't New York state still
being misrepresented in the United
States senator
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

attended to as soon as possible. There
Is usually nothing done in the way Of
legislation until the scnatorshiD is set
tied. and there is no use wasting any
more time than possible when more
important matters. like amending the
game law and woman suffrage demand
he attentson of the legislature"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

SHAT cold wave we had las week, .
Gays the Washington Post. struck
sUwn just about the time Senators La
Toilette and Spooner passed each
other on the White House steps" Thus
another sidelight is thrown on how the
weather bureau gets its tips.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

The railroads are not the only ones
who are cutting on the free list. It is
announced that the Postal Telegraph
company will no longer issue franks or
do any free business after December 81.
Let the good work go on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

J. Ogden Armour testified that he
did not know whether he owned So
100000 or 100000 Of St Paul stock.
This viii seem strange to some peo-
pie. but q millionaire cannot always
remember about his small change any
better than can other people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

Incidentally Mr. Roosevelt gives
Porto Rico some pretty good publicity
His special message with reference to
Porto Rican affairs is very fair adver-
Using literature.