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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10

lay O the land. I like the lay OF it.
The little lady thar" noddtng toward
Phllomena, has got me doped out fine
and pat-Dut she didn't make of the
old galoot. She said it in sport, but
she has looked out fer me. And more'n
that, she's made me understand thar
was at least one woman money couldn't
buy. You amt half good enough for
her." this to Hetherton with q chuckle.
But since it appears she likes. the looks
take her, and try love in q. cottage.
At least, not onfess the cottages got
all the fxin's. No need to tell me how
you stand-I amt quite out O. the mar
ket, If am up here in the mountains,
courtin' and rusticatin'. If you need
margins, I know the reason why. co
right straight to the telephone-Ill be
along O ye-together ven get the
straight o. things down to q dot, over
my private wire. I'm goin to see you
through, If 1t takes one million, or even
two. But when you are through. you
git married, and keep out OF sech
messes.''
Il will" Hetherton said. holding
out his hand.
Before The MacCarty could take Il
PhiIomena flung between them, Threw
her arms about his thick neck ana
kissed him on both cheeks You're
an angel-elephant," she murmured.
Il shall love you always, no matter
what he says" with a nod toward
Hetherton.
eHe says. Amendment accepted
Hetherton said wringing The Mac
Carty's hand.
That gentleman laughed apologeI-
icalIy, but returned the grip heartily.
and said as he pulled away with Heth-
erton at his elbow:
sit takes jest an angel-elephant to
skeer the bulls and bears good and
ID Copyright, 1905, by E. c.
Parcells)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
THIS AT.CoHoT, BUSINESS

Very likely great many things have
been written about the possibilities OF
denatured alcohol that are not so. That
a farmer can dump all his refuse corn
stalks and garbage into a vat and draw
out from a faucet below pure alcohol
with which to heat his house and run
his farm machinery is doubtless sew
eral miles from the truth
But alcohol can be manufactured
from poor corn and wheat, unstable
vegetables and fruits. potatoes. and
other crops. Whether every farmer
can probably own his own still to
manufacture it remains to be demon
strated. In European countries 1t is
manufactured cheapIy and is in wide
use commercially just as the United
States now expects to utilize it, and
doubtless the fertile Yankee brain will
ind new uses for it.
The new law that will make de-
natured alcohol cheap will go into eff
feet next January, but it is not prob
able that the country viii Immediately
reap any great number Of the blessings
promised by it. There will have to be
much experimentation and the people
viii have to learn how to use the new
product.
It appears quite likely, however.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10

taking the examination in that county
knew who are" Long and Greedy, but
no one, including the county superin-
tendent and the examiners, could
Identity the Andover Band. Very like
y they knew about Marshall's Band
and some Of them may have heard OF
the Band of Hope. but the Andover
Band was too many for them. The
question was submitted in Kansas
History. but the demurring newspaper
says Wilder's ANIMALS fails to mention
it. What. if anyone knows. was or
IS the Andover Band. and why was
the question asked in a teachers ex-
amination2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TF'rom the New York Press.1

from the New York Press.1
A nice thing about being terribly
unpopular is It means you have lot
OF money.
A girl learns to swim very soon I'M
less there Is a man around to hold ner
up from sinking.
If man could be useful around the
house and still know how to support mis-
family it would be a good thing.
There is an awful lot of money
wasted buying drinks on a hot day
when they are lost in perspiration.
The man In politics has q. darn sight
more fun acquiring his bad reputation
than his relatives have living it down.
II the baby lets the family get IN a
little sleep between 6 a. m and break
fast its mother will tell how good it
was.
Women stop in the street and speak
to every baby they meet so as to keep
in practice on that queer kind Of Ian
guaKe-
When a boy Is willing to get up early
it's because there is some work for him
to do and he wants to skip out to dodge
i.
The same man that pretends he likes
to row a girl for three hours in a hot
sun when they are engaged will
found lying in a shady hammock after
they are married while she IS getting
him something good to eat IN q boiling
kitchen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
LAYHA WKER JOTS

Charlie Blakesley should be fined
good and plenty for perpetrating this;
"A Scandia man lost his set of store
teeth while in swimming, and they are
supposed to be somewhere in the
mouth of the river"
A contemporary found fault with
Joe Wright because the county Popu-
| list ticket did not appear at the head
OF the editorial columns of the Smith
County Messenger, but the colonel
makes up for the omission now by
printing the ticket in bill poster type
It's up to the Hiawatha World to get
busy since Ralp Tennal printed this
OF course the landing of a duke or
lord by a Sabetha girl is beyond our
fondest dreams. but a Sabetha girl
married man who wears solid gold
buttons in his white vest. Guess that
will hold Hiawatha for awhile.
A reminder Of Old Lew Headley in
the Gaylord Sentinel: L D. Young of
Beloit was a pleasant caller at this
office last Tuesday. Way back in the
earliest days Mr.. Young and the father
of the writer pranced over the prairies
of Mitchell county together and drank
from the same buffalo wallow. The old
friendship still blooms even after all
these years. Last spring Mr. Young
was a candidate for the Republican
nomination for railroad commissioner,
Lew Headley lives in Oklahoma. and
watches Kansas affairs pretty closely.
He is also cranky and hard to please,
but he was so anxious to see Mr.. Young
nominated that he wanted to come back
to Kansas and get into the fight. After
his Beloit friend was licked he was so
Disguised with the politics Of the Sun
flower state that he howled about it for
three months.
Ralph Tennal comes to the defense of
the English sparrow. I'VE confess to a
great deal Of admiration for the despised
English sparrow" he says. Its num-
bers increase because 1t Is a hustler.
chilly days the birds of gaudy plumage
and the songsters desert their homes
and rush off to the south and spend the
winter in a SUNNI home, like a blOat-
ed plutocrat. But the English sparrow,
never. It makes a home and stays with
US through good weather and bad;
through the hottest summers and cold
est winters. Where the English spar
row once plants its flag nothing can
drive it out. It is a civilized bird. It is
out for business, and isn't afraid to put
a nest in the busiest streets. You win
find sparrow nests in New York streets
SO busy that wagons never stop rum
bling over the pavements day or night.
The sparrow will take care of itself in
streets where men are run down and
killed every day. Let a cannon lie idle
a few days and a sparrow will probably
have nest in the mouth of it. We are
always hearing Of the danger of Eng
1ish sparrows, but the danger has never
materialized. The sparrows live on
what they pick up in the road. So far
as we have ever been able to see, the
sparrows have never attempted to crowd
out the song birds. We have never seen
them fight other birds, although they
have q good many rows among them
selves. Their song Is not musical, but 1t
Is friendly and cheering in the bleak
winter months, when the song birds are
loafing down south. The English spar
row is all right. May his tribe Increase"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHs-
LFrom the Chicago News.1

LF'rom the Chicago News.
A supreme test Of friendship is
loan.
Beware Of the friendly advice Of
your enemies
The man behind the pillow makes an
impression in the world
For shooting the ''is-it-hot-enouRh-
for-you" fends this is the open season.
Things we would like to be thankful
FOR so seldom give us the opportunity.
There's nothing new under the sun
except methods Of distorting the
truth.
Love and common sense-but what
has love in common with sense, any
way?
Did you ever hear of a married man
wasting any sympathy on an old
bachelor
People may applaud a kicker at the
start but they feel like kicking him
long before the finish.
Analyze the contents OF your cup OF
sorrow and more or less happiness will
be found therein.
A woman never accuses a man of
7attery if he praises her for qualities
she knows she doesn't possess.
After enjoying a days outing in the
country a woman invariably keeps her
husband awake half the night telling
him about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
EROM OTHER PENS
PUSH AND PUBLICITY.

PUSH has made AmeIlCttH men Wlld {
they are today. It is the great Ameri-
can spirit condensed into a monosyl-
liable. Hand in hand with push goes
publicity as a motive power toward
success. The two are so close that it is
difficult to know them apart. The man
Of push is a champion of publicity If
he has a good thing he wishes the pub
lie to know about it. If he has goods
TO sell there must be push and publici-
ty if he would convert those goods into
income What is the use of having
the goods to sell If no one knows of
them? How are the buyers to be
found? Push and publicity will pro-
vide the articles to be sold and the
persons to buy them. Push and pub
iicity are the antidotes of stagnation
and arvation.-Louisville Courier
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchlson Globe

From the AtchfSOn Globe.
If ever you say Thank YOU" to a
reporter, be careful. or the shock will
kill him.
duty they act as if they expect people
to cheer.
A love affair is never so foolish but
what. in after years, a woman will
proudly boast of it.
A country woman's idea of shiftIess-
ness is to see man doing nothing
during harvest time
Until we became familiar with a
street fair poster. we thought a cir
Gus poster the biggest liar in the
world.
A young girl in Atchison has such
big legs that her coming down town
will be positively indicate, until she
puts on long dresses
The average girls nose suits her IN
I'll she reaches the day when she must
wear glasses. and nnds that nose
glasses will not stay on.
We have noticed that a man who
raises only fifteen bushels OF wheat per
acre always doubts a story that an
other man has raised thirty.
When q man appears on the streets
carrying q colored silk paraso1, and no
girl with him, he looks as If he ought
to make an explanation to every one
he meets.
The Lancaster Literary society will
tonight discuss this question: 'Is 1t
more agreeable to die of infiamma-
tory rheumatism than it is to die Of
liver complaint %
THAT fellow" said ATissourian IN
speaking about a neighbor whom he
does not like. would get up at night
and burn his own clothes to make a
light to steal corn from a blind SOW"
There comes q time in every girls
life when she feels her princess oats
to such an extent it is wonder she
doesn't demand that the men, in addf-
ton to taking OF their hats, also take
OF their neckties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
QUAKER REFLECTIoNs.

From the Philadelphia Record.l
A good title viii often sell q book or
bug an heiresH.
Many a man is his own master as
long as he is away from home.
The working man doesn't always sing
at his work. but he invariably stops
with a whistle.
When a woman gets tired OF her hus-
band all she has to do Is to make an
other man o. him.
The Actor-'I tell you, old man, we
turned 'em away last week" The Critic
who, your creditors ?"
Hubbubs-"Is your house in the coun-
try we'll watered2" Subbubs-'.Yes, all
the water we have is well water
Some people are so busy putting
something by for q rainy day that they
don't enjoy the sunshine when they
have 81
why do you call your horse Wealth
er Beaten7" asked the casual visitor
to the track Because" replied the
trainer, he always loses on q muuuy
track"
The Chick-'What makes you look
so sad, Nesty27 The Nest Egg Moth
er Hen says I'm too fresh The Chick
We'll, don't you worry about that
You'll soon get over it."
Jack Money talks in a poker
game. my boy" Bill Shy-"Huh! II
you had ever played poker with women
I guess you'd know that sometimes Il
doesn't get q chance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10

that in the course Of a few years alco-
hol viii become a very common article
Of use. It win enter into the everyday
life of the people more than kerosene
and gasoline combined, for II half that
is promised for it is true it will sup
plant both of them IN great degree.
1t is just as well. however, for the
farmer not to expect to draw a few
gallons OF alcohol from an automatic
tank each morning and have it do his
whole days work for him while he
plays croquet or rides around in his
automobile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Geograp hies Of the future will have
to add another zone to those recorded
in the past. There's the Panama
canal zone.
=
A Kingrnan man has a pipe two
hundred years old. Bill Doolittle has
one only two years old. and if the
kingman pipe smells as badly in pro-
portion as does Bills, there ought to
be a great market for burnt rubber
and other perfumes in Kingman
county.
X
This is the time of year when the
festive little housefiy insists on making
a bath tub of your cup of coffee, just
as you are ready to drink it.
X X
It is becoming more and more evil
dent that Topeka has no iron-boun,l
all-wool. blown in-the-bottl cinch on
that Western association pennant-
just yet.
X
How Dovie must envy the top-o'-
column advertising space the Thaws
are now getting!
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HUMOR OF THE Day

That man has very shady business
why. what has he been doing7"
American.
Out of job. chr"
.'Yeh. De boss said he was .losin' money
on de tings I was maxim"
Mistakes, '-Philadelphi Press.
Mrs. Wilder Cat the door)-I thought I
told you never to call again.
Mr.. Loster-I didn't come to see you,
madam IL I game to collect a little bill
won't you?-Cleveland Leader.
Of commercial interests, this pure food
What. the matter with it7"
adulterate the poisons we use in our
fancy goods for table use they'd be IA
tai '-Philadelphia Ledger
There is something" he said. that
nave wanted for a long time to tell you.
1 am not rich. as you know, but I am
yf2;niIng streng and willing to work. Miss
oh she cried. It will tell papa about
you. think I heard him say this morn
ing that he wanted to hire an office boy
with just the qualifications you mention"
Judge.
.Oh. dear she said, after the musicale.
II m so mortified that I don't know what
to do. can't imagine what caused my
voice. to break as It did. 1t never hap
pened before What must Mrs. Wadding-
tons guests think Of me2 How can ever
explain 1t %
Don't mention it, her friend advised.
They were all so busy talking while yo'.
sang that they probably did not notice
it..--Chicaso Record Herald
Redd-What Is the tonneau on an auto
mobile
Greene-Oh. that Is the part OF the car
a. pedestrian lands on when you throw
him up in the air Instead Of going over
him--Yonkers Statesman.
Barber-I.ivins mighty high these DAYS.
All kinds O. prices have gone up. so it's
hard for Us workin' men to even get
enough to eat.
Victim-Yes, Onions are cheap, though.
aren't they?-Philadelphi Press.
EIary-Did she make a good match7
Ann-Splendid. Lots of money, good so
cial position, and all that In fact the
only drawback is the man.-Brooklyn
Life.
AN I ask" said the Muck to the
Rake with q gentle dignity that Impress
alone. Then ii hastily and unobtrusivelv
backed up on q little corner where the
graft was showing Observation-Disclosures
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10

OF far more than local Importance
or even state interest-was the re-
cent decision of the Kansas supreme
court in the Rose case. If the prin-
ciple laid down in that decision is
obeyed it means the strict enforcement
of all laws everywhere. or the removal
from ONCE Of those officials who fail
to enforce them. The Chicago Post
points this out in the following:
Mayor ". W. Rose of Kansas City,
Kan, has forced an issue in that state
the final outcome Of which is Of very
great importance to the people in
every quarter of the Union. He failed
to enforce the laws that he was elect
ed to enforce, vet presumes to con-
tinue in Office despite the mandate of
the state supreme court to the con-
trary.
AFTER the court had ousted Mayor
Rose because of his nonenforcemeni
OF law, a majority of the people OF
Kansas City, kan, reelected him,
thus apparently approving his course
and condemning the highest court in
the state
Now the court peremptorily orders
tkat he relinquish the Office. pay a fine
of $1,000 for contempt. or go to jail
until the fine is paid. The case will
be appealed to the supreme court Of
the United States.
without presuming to speculate as
to what the final decision will be, it ap-
pears from the facts that Mayor Rose
is without defense. A mayor is elect
ed expressly to enforce the laws as he
finds them. If he does not do this he
violates his oath Of Office. And wheth-
er a vote of the people of his locality
indorses him or not he is unfit to hold
the position
1.-The supreme court of Kansas has
said in effect that the executive who
fails to perform his sworn duty no
longer is a public official; that laws are
to be enforced until they are repealed;
that the people of one locality can not
practically repeal the laws simply by
voting to retain in office an executive
who deliberately. or through inefi-
cheney, fails to execute them.
1.-THE opinion Of the court of last re-
sort is awaited with interest but not
with anxiety General public opinion
does not side with Mayor Rose"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the state Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address a. tEs@ rate Of ten cents
q week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only. Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town the
State Journal will be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment IS requested on
these short time subscriptions, TO save
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10
state Secrets in Book-Orders.

If Napoleon's enemies could have
looked into his boxes of books. espe-
cially after 1909, or seen the instruc-
tons he sent TO his librarian, they
might have anticipated the future
more accurately. He always read
up" for a coming campaign, the his
tory. geography, Institutions of the
country and people with whom he was
going to come in contact. It is exceed
ingiy interesting to see this projection
of his thought into the future as in
dicated by his reading. This is partic-
ularly true of the Russian campaign.
Frome December, 1911, Napoleon s
book-orders have the Importance of
him ordering works giving information
especially Lithuania, under the head Of
forth; a detailed account in French Of
the campaigns Of Charles XII in Po-
land and Russia; a history of Cour-
land; and anything which could be
found of an historical. geographical,
and topograp hical nature about Riga,
Livonia and the other Baltic prov
inces of Russia; the work of the Eng
lish Colonel Wilson on the Russian
army, translated from the English. a
manuscript copy of which he remem-
bers to have seen either in the Bib
Hotheque ImperiaIe or in the cabinet
of the emperor at the Tuileries; the
account of the Russian army by De
Plotho. Yet he is not too absorbed
in the midst of these instructions to
see that Montaigne's Essays are put in
the box.-James Westfa1l Thompson,
in the July Atlantic.
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me turkish press of our day leads a
rather pitiable life. The censorship
watches over it with unrelenting sever
lty, lest something may creep into the
columns of the newspapers that might
even remotely, induce the mind of the
FAITHFUL MussuIman to examine into
thlngs existent. or perhaps to doubt
the God-ikeness of the Padisha; and
almost at every step the Turkish edi-
tors are threatened with temporary or
permanent suspensions, with fines or
imprisonment Not only discussing
questions Of interior or foreign policy
but the use of certain words by the
turkish papers. is prohibited once for
all, among these words being for in
stance, constitution, revolution, liberty
tyranny, autocrat. fraternity, equality
fatherland, youth. dynamite. anarchist
compatibility, Bosnia. Herzegovina,
Crete, Macedonia, and so on. The
name Murad must not be mentioned,
as by this the "Reminiscences of the de-
throned predecessor of the present
Padisha, who was named Murad, may
be called forth; even the cricket, that
inoffensive insect which in the Ian
guage of the Turks is called the lit
tie August beetle" is not allowed to
chirp in the newspapers. for the pres
ent Sultan ascended to the throne in
the month of August.
Foreign rulers, of course. are equal
ly unassailable, neither their defeats
nor their qualifications in general may
be dwelt upon or even alluded to. In
stead of this the Turkish papers of to-
day are filled mainly with bombastic
reports on the deeds of the Sultan; as,
for instance that he for some reason
made a present or received a new for
eign minister etc. This situation is
the more interesting, as it is of rather
recent date, for the censorship was
first established after the Russian war,
while up to that time the Turkish press
enjoyed a pretty far-reaching liberty
which it not fnfrequently made use of
for severely criticising disagreeable
conditions and unpopular officers
Harper's Weekly
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HARD HIr AZ EIGHTEEN.

If Il keod marie awl the gurls u fawI
in iuv with frum the time wenn u are
small
until you are grone up ude hafftoo be
a moarmun ur be kott fore biggunay
ann put in jafe, ann tho ure hart is soar
from loozen wun q hundred times ur moar
ann tnlnk u VIII neavur smile agenn
Perhaps its onley fore the BEST ann
Wenn
u are ateen ann. boyhood daze are passt
nos ure RELY depe in luv at lasst.
Q them ure luther luvs awI faid away
llke 900 upon the gras ann u kan say
u neayur RELY moo befOar how depe
ann turble IS ure pashun ann u Slope
upon hur fotograf ann kis 1t wenn
Il go to slepe ann wenn u rise agenn
ann put 1t on the beWro IN IRE room
propL up agenst the bottuI Nv perfyoOm
ann WArshlp It Wenn u are aWl aloan
IKE heethen hoo bow doun to wood ann
stoan.
2 happie daze Nv yuth wenn doant kair
II predd ann Wotter is to be ure shair
" long uz she is troo to ann
are giadd neavur Iurnt to smoak or
choO
witch is a turble vice, ann after vile
uie gro so ritch that she kan live in stile
pekummen hur crate bewty ann woant
to wasshadish ur du thing but rede
the fashun noats ann ware fne kloase
ann go
too theaturs becaws luv her so.
New York Times.
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THEY DON,T AGREE.

A year ago J. L. Bristow made a re-
port as special commissioner to in
vestigate the Panama railroad. Since
then the railroads are of the opinion
that he is not the right man to repre-
sent Kansas in the United States sen
ate. The people of Kansas. however,
seem to think differently.
Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10

A news item tells about finding iron
on q. farm in Minnesota, after which
the farmer was able to sell his farm
for $4,000. A great many Kansas
farms will bring more than $4,000,
simply. because Of the corn and wheat
mat are found on them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10

A Chicago man who jumped from a
thirteenth story window was killed.
People who believe IN the fatality of
thirteen here have another proof of
their belief. Such persons should
choose the twelfth or fourteenth
stories when they wish to make a long
flsefa nee lean