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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-11
snail boy story: The sunday schoo
LAYHk WRER J0TS

The Sabetha Herald proposes to aboi-
ish the proof-reader and call the mis-
takes reformed spelling.
Lawrence claims to be the best paved
town of its size in Kansas, and the
pavement not made of good intentions
either.
William Allen White will make the
principal address at the opening of Kan
sas Wesleyan university at Salina next
Wednesday.
If he were asked. very likely Mr.. H
H. Null, who is running for Office down
In Neosho county, would Indignantly
deny that he is also void.
Tom Thompson, of the Howard Cour-
ant, gives notice to admirers who are
thinking of sending him flowers, to sub
stitute Rocky Ford for them.
'Kist, kot. kust,'' is the way a Nc
Pherson young mans recent actions
would have been described by reformed
spelling, according to VIII Krehbiel.
c. N. Snyder, who lives near Effing-
ham. pulled 1872 ripe watermelons in his
patch in one day recently. He cannot
sell them nor give them away, so he is
feeding them to the hogs
John D. Miliken, the Mcpherson at
torney, drew a claim in the Shoshone
reserva ton, and as he was eighty-frst
when it came to picking out his land,
he claims to have secured a good one.
Proud boast of the Iindsborg Record: :
Lindsborg has the smallest population
of graphophones of any city of its size
in Kansas The real thing in Ipusic is
demanded here, not canned music.
Chunk of golden advice from the
Kingman Leader-Courier: There are
few failures among business men who
get to business at o'clock in the
morning, stay with 1t till closing time,
and limit their expenses to 81 a day
when they are making IS. It's the
fellow who persists in spending more
than his income who lands in the
bankruptcy court.
The Hays City experiment station is
said to have discovered a species of al
falfa that will grow in the uplands of
western Kansas. It has a fine steam,
bushy top, and grows as thick on the
ground as timothy It doesn't require
much moisture. It will yield three crops
a year and the seed crop is said to be
larger than the regular alfalfa. The
new discovery means much for the
western Kansan. In the past, alfalfa
has been chiefly grown in the valleys,
which Of course. form only a small part
Of the area. The new crop will enable
farmers and stock raisers to produce al
falfa anywhere.
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boys and girls leaving the farms for
the cities
The time is coming in the next gen
Grafton when it will be necessary to get
three or four times as much cut OF
the land as the farmers OF today get
in most Of these western states. Land
will be worth something like hum
dred dollars an acre on these western
prairies sometime. and the man that
owns it will have to get results out of
it accordingly. Otherwise he will be
failure. Better farming IS the way
to get these results, and the place to
commence is in the country school.
Kansas is behind several other states
in this matter of agricultural education
and she ought to be the foremost. It
is true that an attempt was made to
place agricultural books and charts in
the schools of some countries a year
or so ago. but the promoters of the en-
terprise are alleged to have been graft
ers who charged four times what their
work was worth. and it was brought in
disrepute.
1t is to be hoped that the next state
superintendent of public instruction
will push this matter of the improve
ment of the rural school, as Frank
Nelson began it, that the country
school may be made as efficient for
the boys and girls of the farms as the
graded school is for those of the
towns and cities.
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Mission work in winter.

Along the coast from Hopedale
south to Cape Harrison, seventy miles
in a straight line, but several hundred
miles if the indentations of the shore
are followed. are a few scattered huts
of white settlers, some hundred and
fifty in all. The missionaries make
a point of ministering to these lonely
exiles, and in winter one of the Mora
VANS makes trip by komitick, visit
ing the settlers. holding a service at
each house. and devoting a few hours
to instruction in reading, writing and
arithmetic. Perhaps one of the older
members of the settlers family will
grasp a few rudiments even in this
brief time, and will continue the in
struction, until, with the missionaries
visit from year to year, the family will
become little nucleus of knowledge
a light pickering through the darkness
of this dreary land. Often settlers liv-
ing several days journey inland will
travel all the way to some hut on the
coast. in order not to miss the Mora
VANS visit. It is the only link which
binds them to civilization=Fro
Gustav Hobbies Down on the Labra-
DOR in the Century
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A NEWSPAPER CARFER

Thirty-four years ago Roland p. Muir
dock took charge of the affairs of the
Wichita Eagle and has managed It's
business interests continuously until
Saturday last, then selling his shares
to his brother. That he managed well.
the remarkable progress and prosperity
of the paper stand as evidence. He be-
gan when he and his brother, Marsh NJ.
Murdoch, founded the little weekly in
the small town. He leaves it a great
property, with its daily and its large
and complete publishing plant valued at
$500 O00 The two have worked along
together and with the town. The vel
fare of the three has been a common
growth.
The newspaper has generally been
ahead of its community. That means
that the pride of the paper IN Wichita
and her people was more than a senti-
nient; it was voiced not only in con-
fdence in the future. but in the ex-
penditure of fortunes in money. energy
and talent. 1t meant liberal business
policy when the business of the town
may have been paralyzed and the fu-
ture uncertain except that money and
more money must be expended.
Inc business management OF the
Eagle was equal to the confidence and
excellence of its news and editorial con-
troll and that was because of the hon
orabIe. conscientious and able conduct
of the commercial part of the paper by
Roland P Murdoch. The business man
agement became a great part of his
life and the place he now relinquishes
is one of the big factors in the past
present and future of the southwest.
Mr. Murdoch has a beautiful home. a
charming family. warm friends. a fine
record. In the national bodies of the
Associated Press and American News
paper Publishers association he has Ia
ken an active part and his counsels and
suggestions were valued and received
with favor.
Mr.. Murdoch Is now and for some
time has been very i'll. The hope is con-
fdently expressed that his relief from
his business cares will quickly restore
him to health.
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which she had found there. Even e
he did have models, II was probably
necessary. All artists had to study
from lffs sooner or later. But was It
necessary that they should have hair
that matched gold hairpins2
She rose and crossed the room 70
where the hairpin had fallen. OF a
moment she held 1t in her hand lrreso-
lutte Then slowly she laid It on nla
table, and beside it she left the new
solitaire ring. It would be enough She
knew that he would understand. AS
she turned to the door, her eyes filled
with sudden rush of binding tears,
and as she felt for the latch it lifted,
and the door opened.
It was not Asquith- On the landing
outside stood girl, plump. rosy
checked and red-haired, holding up
her skirts in one hand and a pail OF
scrub water in the other.
oh, I thought Mr.. Asquith was
home she said, apoIogetically, t just
cleaned up his place, ma'am, and
guess I lost one OF my hairpins-it's
little wire one. but I need it to keep
my pug up tight
I laid it on the table, said Helene,
gently. The girl set the pail down on
the stairs. and secured the hairpin,
fastening up her tumbling red curls
with It deity.
Thank you, ma'am," she called as
she went down stairs, and Helene went
back to the table, and slipped the ring
IN its old place just as Asouith came
up the stairs.-{ Copyright, 1906 by
Ruby Douglas.)
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe ,

tFrom the Atchison Globe.1
we always hate to visit a country
house, because of dogs
When you pass a pig in a pen II Il
-,s.-t 20 imagine now good pork will taste
After a family has kept COW IN Ton,
a parrot. '''o A'1
The conversation Of two persons mast
SIXTY is devoted chiefly to an atternpt
to recall names. ~
# you want your plate nlleS at din
used to waiting on boys.
A good many men take credit for NOT
Kicking man when he is down. Wl1v
kick him al all?
On a farm on Sunday afternoon
when the boys disappear, 1t means that
they have gone to the "crick''
After a man passes sixty. If he Is a.
travagant, he is made to feel that he Il
wasting his ehildren's money
This is the season when children 20
nome TO visit the parents at the dear
there
When we go to heaven, we hope there
will be no Monday there: Monday Is
the meanest day Of the week on earth.
7 paid that man a great compliment
an Atehison woman lately said: ct LET
him talk about himself five hours and
never mentioned myself once
You viii notice that the lady sitting
ahead of you has an awful time to keen
her hair up If she has a pretty hand; and
# there is diamond on it. her hair lust
won't stay up.
Some people insist on spelling cat
with a k, for no other reason than thai
to spell cat with k Is incorrect. mis-
is in line with the late disposition ia
raise hell, and do things different.''
Some men insist on being the under
dog; If loahng won't keep them down
they add whisky drinking. These nen
seem to delight in being down, that thew
may have opportunity to refer to everv
industrious, decent man as a thief
We wonder that store-keepers don.t
hit upon the plan of having purchases
wrapped up in paper that contains
love story: The women would cali for
something else as soon as they had rear5
what was on the wrapper OF the laxf
purchase.
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THE ANTI-PAss MATTER.

4 l. II
When the anti-pass two-cent fare bill
was introduced at the last session of the
legislature, only a very few newspa-
pers would touch it. A reporter for a
leadlng daily paper promptly said: Il
am against it. 1t hits the newspapers =
Many papers since then have seen the
Importance of the measure, and regard
less of personal consequence are unself-
lsnly Tor 1t. A great many papers have
renamed silent. Only one or two fully
accredited railroad papers have mad the
courage to oppose it. A number of pa
pers have sought to belittle the PROPOSE
uon as of small Importance compared
with freight rates. Their real purpose
IS plain The last legislature is sup
posed to have passed an adequate freight
freight rate law. It Is not new freight
rate law. It Is not new freight
IS new railroad board to enforce the
present one. When the people see by
reduction of passenger fares how easily
the legislature can do something of
oeneht to each individual, if the present
rate law, when fairly tried, proves in
adequate, instead of a few shippers
lighting lone-handed for relief the peo-
pie viii rise en- masse and legislators,
free from the obligations and influences
OF passes, viii quickly give relief
Burllngame Chronicle.
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ouAkER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some places are SO quiet that moth
ing ever happens, not even the I'M
expected.
A pedigree may be all right in its
place, but it takes money to make the
mare go.
A man can't boast that he has no
enemies without making a few by his
very boasting-
All men may have equal rights. but
they haven't all equal hustling abili-
ties to reach them
Wigg- Deacon Good1eigh has such
a stony look" Wagg-''Yes. he's a
pillar of the church.
Blobbs=.I'm always saying things
I regret" Slobbs-sAnd am always
regretting things I didn't say
Hook-"Yes, we are getting along
in years. but suppose your wife is 80
STILL Nye-''She's SO. but not STILL
Wigg-'Have you ever heard of a
person who was really benefited by the
faith cure ?" Wagg- Well, there
the undertaken.
Some men are sorry they are mar
ried, and some are sorry they are not, .
says the Manayunk Philosopher, but
it's better to be sorry you are not than
sorry you are.
Summer Boarder-'Do you have
vegetables from your own garden p
Uncle Silas-''No, I hain't got no gar
den to speak of, but got the best can
opener on the market, b'osh."
Muggins-''Poor Bjones looks like a
man who had been disappointed in
love" Buggins-''He IS. He married
a woman who used to be a lightning
change artist in a vaudeville theater.
and now he finds that it takes her just
as long to put on her hat as any other
woman"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
IFrom the Chicago News.l


When a fool is in love he acts nat
uraL
No, Alcnzo, the north and south
poles are not voting places.
Marrying a rich widow isn't a bad
sort of get-rich-quick game
One way to beat a cunning man at
his own game is with a club.
A mans wife usually has more con-
hdence in him than he has in him
self.
If wishes were automobiles the de-
mand for gasoline would exceed the
supply
It doesn't satisfy a mans hunger
when he is compelled to eat his own
words.
People never get as much enjoy
ment out of their wickedness as they
pretend to.
Many a man has his leg pulled be-
cause of his anxiety to put his best foot
forward.
Did you ever notice how a girl with
curly tresses lords it over her straight
haired sisters2
Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown. perhaps, but it is merely hear
say with the majority of US.
BY putting things of until tomorrow
lots of people contract the habit of
postponing them indefinitely.
A girl just has to be squeezed and if
she is unable to induce some man to
squeeze her hand she puts on q shoe
that viii squeeze her foot.
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Persons who made the mistake Of
picking out some other country for
their birthplaces, but who later rene
died it as far as possible by moving to
this home of the brave and land of
the free, should hasten to take out
their final citizenship papers If they
have not already done so. The new
immigration law passed by the last
congress makes this imperative If
such individuals wish to be citizens Of
the United States.
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HUMOR or THE Day

Easing His Conseience-The Rev. Mr..
SS5ooodian inspecting himself IN mirror)-
SaIoilne. don't really believe I ought 20
wear TINS wig 1t looks like living a lie
Mrs. Goodman-BIess your heart. Ave.-v.
1onl let that trouble you. That wig viii
neVer fool anybody for one moment-
chicago Tribune.
.. MNoTnin Tt; GsoIngETTessm1aln; l.
yo 9 Have cigar, Jim"
a., Inought I'd come around to tell you
nj Tndsed mo N Gut q your district but
You You see. I wanted to ind out if
.. af you could use. your influence to.
- sorry my man, but can't stop. Good
morning Puck. o@
o, Mrs, Ne Nsseswwed-what did the doctor rec
Newwed-A cook before meals.-Puck.
s,,t 8Id 1of yqu run across anybody in that
We ran EN- down first and then ran
across en.'-Baltimore American.
wo sfsna is1.t a goiitioal job is pretty hard
But getting 1t Milwaukee eee sen 1tlIsI
ot You have a fine piano" said the must
Yes Yes answered Mr.. Cumrox. IT'S a
s sts,ez aIitele. When hear that it can
~ ~Lllnout oein' warped or fractured,
Washington star "oIen'
s,,.i Yog want your son to become a u'u-
~ faSian. But he hasn't the slightest talent
That's all right They said I hadn't
ny G.,,S lalent for the butchers trade. blsc
I n man Of means now just the same.
W. last st, time you were sentenced what
Wen, yer Honor I wuz san4 -, e.
morse norse stealing but dat amt wot v 1Sz
hat. then?"
Judge. I'm almost ashamed Ter con
1ess it; but I WIZ guilty Nv hjrips III In
yer ter defend me. Judge "a ~
~ ~ ~ 90 you always persist in saving
~ n, VIII not be a candidate for cffice -
go Desslu sse answered Senator Sorghum
J.. ~ SOUNDS properly modest, and does net
an ~ Inc me least interfere with my chances i,
Se.se a nonInation wants to come nv
way ashington Star. my
,.4 Dung Jolliem always saws the rfebt
Lung Doesn't hep He never seems a.
loss IoT the proper reply
~ en-, saw him nonDlussed once -
How was that?'' oAoS-
Miss Keene asked him If he thoust+
S sne looked as old as she was. ''16siesSse--
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

from the New York Pregs.l
It's an e%en bet that the devil eanst
beat the dentist.
You've got to be in love with z girl
with vengeance to think she Is preftv
when she Is seasick-
Some women carry their money so
near their shoes that it would be i
scandal for piekpocket to steal il.
A woman has terribly annoying
habit to remember all the foolish t5,;, -
a man said to her before he married
her.
Generally man is so glad to get back
from his vacation that for a while he
even thinks his own wife's coffee Is
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OLD SPORT.

Every Old Sport thinks he can jump
just as high, run as fast and throw a
ball as far as he ever could. The more
glass Old Sport gets in his arm the big
ger liar he becomes. If Old Sport knew
how the Young Sports laugh at him be-
hind his back he would keep his mouth
shut But you can't stop Old Sport
He will always be around to tell about
his wonderful prowess in the palmy
days of his youth. I have investigated
the records of several Old Sports and
ind that instead of pitching most Of
them played right field, while the others
did nothing but keep tally-Osborn
Farmer.
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These lists of our most useful books
Contain a lot I didn't need.
II they are all correct, it looks
AS Il don't know how to read.
And when the schoolboy to. my gaze
Brings forth his coDybook at night
find I don't know how to write
And, worse than all. when I behold
Ine words used to know so well
I'm sure I don't know how to spelli
Washington Star
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

This department desires to suggest to
Mayor Davis that a good way to make
money for the city would be to rent
out the hook and ladder trucks to the
farmers this fall to help them husk
their corn Some way must be found
to get the ears to the ground.
y x
Every man stubs his toe once in
awhile. This Josh Billings spelling
business is where President Roosevelt
stubbed his
The foregoing paragraph discloses
the fact that it is hard for a Kansas
newspaper man to spell stubs with
one - these days. The typewriter
not only tries to put in two IBIS" but
also to begin the word with a capital
IS" from force of habit.
x
Small boy story: The Sunday school
lesson in the kindergarten class of a
Topeka Sunday school the other Sun
day was about David Staying bear
while he was a shepherd boy, caring
for his fathers f1ocks. A six-year-old
attendant was questioned by his moth
er as to the lesson. 1T was about a
kid named Dave" declared the boy,
who killed a bear While he was herd
ing sheep
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When Vic Murdoch went to congress
two years ago he claimed he wasn't
speech maker and never expected to
be. Two years have wrought great
change in him. He now has sixty
speeches arranged for in the Eighth
district. which is more than one day
from now until election.
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Hide-and- With Mad Elephant

This tree, at least seven feet in diam
eter and over 80 feet in height, had been
uprooted by a flood and had fallen from
the edge Of the bank where it had stood
into the watercourse. The huge roots
encrusted with mould and sand raised
that part of the trunk nearest to them
to height of about five feet as it lay,
while the remainder Of it sloped grad
ually down till the top rested on the
ground at the farther side of the "khor."
at once saw the advantage this tree
would give me. Creeping under the
trunk, I flung myself on the ground on
the farther side and listened. But one
thought filed my mind-had my enemy
lost sight of me, or was he still in pur-
suit2 I was not left moment in doubt;
his eagle eye had evidently been upon
me all the time. for his heavy footsteps
slithered almost Immediately down the
bank, and with an angry bang he push
ed his great chest against the tree and
snorted out threat But for the mo-
ment he was bafied. Rage and disap-
pOintment filed his soul when he found
that the space under which I had crept
was far too small for him to pass
through; neither could he climb over.
From the ground to the top of the fall
en- trunk at that end of it measured at
least eleven feet, and this was a height
he could not surmount. 1t then occurred
to him that he might seize me with his
trunk; stretching it towards me in a
straight line from his forehead, he tried
to grasp me, but I was beyond his
reach. This effort was repeated several
times, and SO aggravating did it be-
come that, feeling secure in my retreat.
could not at last refrain from put
ting out my hand and giving the trunk
smart blow. No sooner had I done
so, however, than regretted the ac-
ton, for not only hurt my own hand
by its rapid contact with the tense mus
cular tissue but my impetuous action
unfortunately caused the animal to
change his tactics. Apparently reflect
ing for moment as to his next move.
he suddenly made a rush for the roots
and ran rapidly round them. He was
within an ace of getting me, but
quickly scrambled back again under the
tree to the side he had left, and once
more he was floored. He Immediately
turned and ran back to get me on the
Eside had come to, but as before
crept back under the trunk into safety
and he was again baff7ed.-Captain T.
c. S. Speedy, in Harper's Magazine for
SeDtember
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Senator Long says LaFollette is
more populistic than Jerry simpson
AS a matter Of fact most Of the Re-
publican party in Kansas Is a gooo
deal the same way. If Senator Long
will make inquiries he Will discover
this fact
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RRYAN.s MISTAKE.

Bryan made a mistake in trying to
correct all the evils and reform the en-
tire country in one fell swoop. He let
down the bars to all hands at once. and
they are going after him in a manner
indicating that he won't last long. A
better way is to let one rat out of the
cage at a time.-Atchison Globe.
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stensland may find lot Of reporters
anxious to interview him when ne
lands in New York just as Bryan dlu'
but the crowd that will be most anx-
fous to see him will be waiting in Chi
cago. and it will be a crowd OF de-
--o-itnrs y
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It is said that King Edward and
Emperor William intend to prepare
letter of advice to the Gar Why
don't they call in T. R, of Oyster Bay,
to help them. They will then be able
not only to formulate some really val
liable advice. but the letter viii be
written with simplifed spelling so that
the car can understand it.
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Governor Hoch said he would close
the saloons, but he hasn't. Col. Harris
promises he viii close them, but he
won't We do not see where either
FIoch or Harris has any edge over the
other on either. the prohibition or the
saloon vote, do you?-Alma Enterprise
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A COINCIDENCE.

Strange coincidence that the two ex-
tremes-Ndr. Bryan and the oyster
should be due the same day.-Buffalo
News.