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The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06


In describing t'The Old-Time Reviv-
al. in the March Everybody's, Eugene
Wood offers the following convincing
picture of q phase of boyhood:
Ihe rearmost bench of all Is the
seat OF the scornful. the boys with long
Wnlte crooked hairs sparse upon their
chlns. with Adams apples that bob up
and down on their throats; boys with
quacking voices; boys that can chew
tobacco without breaking out all over
IN a cold sweat; boys that have grad
uated beyond 'Goshi and licenses
rivers. and who are now clumsily try
ing other expletives not without
vague fear of being struck by light
nlng. They're all smart boys. No
body could possibly know as much as
they do. You couldn't fool them,
betch life. You couldn't get around
them none, and tole EN- up to no
mourners bench. They know too
much And just to show the real
manly spirit and spunk they have, all
the time the preacher is telling about
scuffiing with each other in their hob
bledehoy way pinching, tickling, and
cacklfng with laughter. Afraid? No
Stree. Bobi Neither is the man afraid
that whistles going through the grave
yard after dark. But just the same
they sit close together, for there is
something, they don't know what, that
draws them to these meetings, some
thing that fascinates, something they
are afraid of because it is not of earth.
If they were separated, one from the
them. Wait but little and you shall
see it. What2 Can it be seen? Can
one see the wind that shakes the wheat
field ~
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ia thleen, the trees are burgeonfng,
Iae skies are arehed and blue,
and everywhere the wildbirds sing
And I'm IN love with you;
BUT you, you say no word at all.
Neer wave your hand to me or call,
Ahough 1 am more and more your thraI
Is that the way to do?
Is that the way to do I askg
IS that the way to do?
moe no thought and wear no mask
W hen converse with you;
l laugh and talk and make it plain
Ihat your blue eyes do me enchain,
and throw myself to entertain
And make you laugh, I do.
But never mind. you smiled on Rs;
The skies were brighter blue
W hen you did that, and then, in glee,
You reared right up and threw
look my way as rare as gold.
and said now for a two-months-oid
You said lot dear, when you told
Me with a grin: .tAh, Goov'
j M Lewis in the Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atehigon elobe.1

From the ACcGfS0n GLOBE.
When a Dutchman talks he Always
sounds as though he is as mad as
hornet.
The average farmer Is afraid Of two
things: a woman and a three card
monte man.
It IS a theory growing in conviction
that the man who says mean thing
about another. isn't as mean as the
man who carries 1T.
The man who travels over the path
behind you looks wisely at your foot
prints. and sees where you could have
avoided many pit-fall-
There are lots of people in the world
who feeI every time they part with a
dollar as though they were having an
operation performed.
After d woman passes forty, all the
compliments she gets about her looks
are from women who don't mean them
and from drunken men.
Notice Is served on story writer's that
the demand of the times is a novel so
interesting that the woman reading 1t
while waiting for her husband to come
home, forgets all about the clock.
Every woman thinks that her hus-
band owes at least this much to Society:
To speak 5enderly to her when there is
a visitor though he may have been get
ting ready to beat her when the visitor
arrived
The Fathers club. organized in
Atchison in the fall, fas disbande1.
The members couldn't think of any
thing to say that was so foolish it at
tracted attention, and grew discour-
aged over the attention given the
Mothers club.
When the woman next door gets sick
and the doctor is called, every woman
looks at her husband and wonders If
he appreciates the blessing he enjoys
in a healthy wifc. And a wife looks Al
her husband In this way for some new
reason every time the neighbor is men
toned, and the men go on day after
day without any expressions showing
that they realize their zrsat Eeod luck.
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Eight Cents a Bunch.

When the late Col. Rowell was chair
man of the board of registrars of vot-
ers in Somerville the applicant for reg
istration was given the full test re-
quired by law, and frequently the ex-
animation of the would-be voter was
extremely amusing.
On one occasion Jerry" Shea, a
peddler appeared before the board
He was a shrewd chap, and possessed
a keen sense of humor. After the US
ual preliminary questions, Jerry was
invited to put his hand into the box
containing a number of cards bearing
extracts from the state constitution.
and draw forth one and read it to the
colonel.
It happened that the card he drew
had reference to the salary of the gov
ernor. Jerry read it slowly, and ap-
parently painfully. When he had fin-
ished reading the colonel glanced at
him sharply and said, What is sal
Jerry smiled, and said most blandly:
'sWhv, colonel, I have sold all that I
had today at eight cents a bunch.
He was registered. Boston Herald.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the chieago Newa.l

IFron the Chicago News
Fame at the cost of honor is dearly
bought.
It is the fool who asks questions but
heeds not the answers.
There is something anliss with the
song that fails to make a hit
A weak woman can easily conquer a
strong man by catering to his vanity.
Earthquakes are responsible for some
strenuous movements in real estate.
Many a man who can't trust himself
expects the grocer and butcher to trust
him.
Young man. If you would engrave your
name on girFs heart, use a solitaire
Only the man who holds the KEY to
the situation is in position to open a
deadlock.
It hurts the average man less to lie
about him than it does to tell the truth
about him.
Advertisements that tell OF a cure for
badness come under the head OF hair
raising stories.
AS rule, the man who is always in q
hurry has but little to do, with little
capacity for doing 1t.
Love is responsible for tvo-thfrds Of
the happiness IN the WorId-also for
n3ne-tenths of the misery.
There is one straight path leading
heavenward. but a thousand crooked
paths lead in the opposite direction.
When q man is IN love he can't think
Of anything else, but when a woman is
In love she always remembers to zee
that her hat IS on straight.
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Making a NEillionaire.

He may never be a millionaire, but
there are those who believe he will be-
says the Chicago Chronicle. He works
down town and is compelled to arrive
early. His salary is not large and car
fare is an item. So he invests 5 cents
in newspapers every morning. That
means that he purchases five, for he
gets them at the wholesale rate
He boards a car and begins to sell
his papers. OF course the conductors
do not disturb a newsboy. He sells
one and has had a miles ride ere he
leaves the car Then he boards another
ear and sells another paper. And he Is
q mile nearer the city when he leaves
the second car. He repeats the opera
ton until he has Travelled five miles
without paying car fare. In the mean
time he has disposed Of five newspapers
at 2 cents each and has a dime N his
pocket.
In the evening he does the Same. So
his car fare costs him nothing and as
he spends the dime profit for his lunch
his expenses for the day have been
nothing.
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soME GOOD SENSE.

It Is an encouraging sign that the
number of voters of all parties who
are not so blind that they cannot see
the faults of their own party nor the
good points of the opposition. is grow
ing. A few years ago the Independent
voter was a rarity. Today he is
numerous IN every. community. Nearly
every man believes in the fundamental
principles of some political party,
which is the proper thing to do; but it
is not the proper thing to be so blinded
by those principles that grafters and
dishonest men are enabled to slip into
power through partisan votes.
The number of Independent news
papers Is growing as well as the num-
Der of Independent voters. A sample
of a sensible declaration OF independ-
ence is the following in the Jewell Re
publican:
kansas Democrats are bracing up.
They have called their state convention
ahead of the Republicans, being afraid
the Republicans would get all the good
thunder in their platform. April 25th
is the date for the Democratic conven-
ton, and May 2d the date Of the Re
publican convention. both to be held
at Topeka. The people Of Kansas
ought to quit fighting over political
lines and get together on the impor-
tant Issues that affect their material
welfare. The railroads ought to be
treated fairly, but they ought to be
compelled to treat the people fairly
and stop determinations against in
dividuals and against towns. The in
suranoe companies ought to be treated
fairly, but they should be forced to
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.JAYHA WKER JOTS

A span of mules put up at Lebanon
brought an even ffve hundred dollars,
which is pretty good price for a work
team.
Deacon Palmer. of Jewell, concludes
that after all there are times when the
country couldn't get along very well
without the Democrats.
Speaking of a real calamity. that Is
what overlook a Smith county woman
the other day. when she broke her
false teeth and swallowed half the
plate
According to the Sentinel a Greenleaf
man freely admits that the best meal
ever served at his house was one day
when a former beau of his wife was in
vited to dinner.
Here is an instance Of brotherly love:
After the office of the Jewell County
Advertiser burned Down, the Jewell Re
publican appealed to the public to pay
up their subscriptions to the Advertiser
to help OFT Editor Dillman.
Bent Murdock recipe for raising roses:
There is q rose bush in town at the
roots of which are buried seven big and
little, old and young cats, and last year
it produced seven hundred white roses.
If you wish to have fine roses make it a
buFying ground for dead cats
Disastrous prairie fires are not yet a
thing of the past in Kansas. One in
Thomas county recently burned 25 head
of cattle and several horses. Once upon
a time prairie fires were common all
over Kansas. A steamboat on the Kaw
was once destroyed by a prairie fire.
Two Glen Elder boys have started a
skunk farm. They have bought two
dozen of the animals to stock their farm
with, and they expect to get rich from
the business. They have fenced off an
acre in which to keep the animals. very
appropriately locating 1t near a slaugh-
ter house.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.


rFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
A fray is just a scarf. but it sounds
better.
He is indeed stingy man who wears
long whiskers to save the expense Of
necktfes.
When egotists marry they spend all
their lives trying to take the conceit
out Of each other.
Any man can make money. but Il
takes a hnancier to get hold OF It after
he has made it.
You may be able to read woman
like a book, but when she has wrinkles
lines.
The man who says the most IN praise
Of honest toll generally spends all his
life trying to pay the interest on the
mortgage.
Tommy" Pop. what is a reformer7''
Tommy's Pop-"A reformer, my son.
is man who Is always inqbued with
the idea that the straight ticket is
crooked"
Wigg-@The love of music is largely
a pose" Wagg-'Yes. many a man
win allow the weather to keep him
from The opera almost as readily as
from church"
why should there be so much fuss
made over the fact tfat washington
crossed the Delaware2' demanded the
Camdenite. i've crossed Il twice a day
for 30 years, and nobody pays any at
tention to me-"
II am often at my wits end" re-
marked the magazine editor. s'Is 1T
erature then so scarce7" inquired the
mere man. "I1iteraturei" snorted the
magazine editor What have we TO do
with literature2 My greatest difficulty
is to ind something new to expose"
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06
power From city Sewage.

electrical development challenges
prophecy" writes Edward B; Ellicott
in the March Technical World Maga-
zine. Fifteen years ago man VINO
predicted that it would be possible to
deliver to Chicago, at the city nmIIs,
$1,000 horse power of electrical en-
ergy developed by water power, would
have been regarded as foolish dream
err Yet next November there Will be
ready for the municipalities in the
sanitary district $4,000 morse power
developed from the drainage canal
which carries off all the city sewage
and, after the completion OF the plant,
the full amount above mentioned
more than the city OF chicago ana the
other municipalities can possibly
take
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

This department wishes to take it
back. The backbone of winter seems
to be as free from fractures as It was
two months ago.
The grounding would make a mighty
poor witness in court His reputation
for truth and veraeity has been all shot
to pieces.
Washington isn't the only place where
there has been a White House wedding
recently. Up in Jewell county there was
a double wedding at the White house.
Both brides were daughters OF Mr. and
Mrs. White and they were married at
home.
A country exchange boasts of its
towns fine jail. But is a fine jail any
thing to boast OF? Our idea is that it
would be more to the point to boast of
a tumble-down structure that you can
see through-one that has gone to de-
cay from disuse. One of the first com
pliments a community ever received was
given when the marshal Of little Kan
sas town arrested a man for disturbing
the peace and started to lock him in the
town calaboose. But the paddock on
the door was so rusted from disuse that
he could not unlock it until he had sent
his prisoner for some tools to pry the
lock Off with. That Is better than hav-
ing big modern jail, well patronized.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press

TFrom the New York Press.J
If a girls father doesn't like a man
she is sure he is nice.
one sure way 10 be popular with your
friends is to think they are
II men took on years as slowly as
women TO girl would ever get out of
baby clothes.
A woman has to have a mighty pretty
hand not to think it looks prettier all
covered up with rings.
Unless a girl has on her best stock
ings she looks awful scared In the phe-
tograph taken OF her head
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FROM OTHER PENS
FAILURE OF THE COURTS.

The kidnapping of the Cudahy boy in
Omaha several years ago and the pay
ment of a heavy ransom for the lad by
his millionaire father stirred up a wide
spread interest. as well rs a national in
dignation against child stealers. The
chase of Pat Grove, The kidnaper, was
so long continued that it finally became
a newspaper joke. Rut Pat was at last
arrested; he even confessed the crime
An Omaha jury has now acquitted him,
on the ground that the evidence against
him was not sufficient. Such an outk
come is an encouragement to lynch law.
Springfield Republican.
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Living op six Gents a week.

Man wants but little. in very truth.
in Burmah,' writes VIM. G. Fltz Ger
aid, the well known traveller. IN the
March issue of the Technical World
MAGAZINE stAs Is also the case in India.
most Of the peasants live at a cost of
FIVE or six cents a week-chiefiy, Of
course. on rice. OF this cereal no less
than $50 different varieties are grown
in Burmah. Agricultural methods and
appliances are exceedingly primitive.
but the soil is so rich that with the
Introduction of up-to-date agricultural
machinery the production of rice
could be easily quadrupled-
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Tt is said that the free congressional
seed graft is to be abolished after this
year. So you better enjoy your free
seeds while you can, for next year you
may be sorry you ever said they
wouldn't grow anyway.
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COMING OFT

Gradually things are coming ouf Of
course everybody remembers what an
awful thing it was for Populist state
treasurers to stamp warrants mot paid
for want Of funds" The credit Of the
state was ruined" that way almost
every day. Mr.. Kelly saved the credft''
Of the state by selling at par Oklahoma
warrants received by the state of kan
sas for caring for Oklahoma prisoners.
These Oklahoma warrants drew 6 per
cent while the state would only have
paid on its own stamped warrants. The
state would have saved 2 per cent by
stamping its own warrants.-Minneapo
lis Better Way.
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AN OVERSIGHT.

A New YORK woman testified under
oath the other day that out Of q $4,000
judgment she had received the lawyers
took an even s17.o Why we wonder,
did she omit the most interesting part
of the story2 What the rest Of us would
like to know is why the lawyers didn't t
swipe the other So. 600. It was a blum
dering oversight, TO say the least.-St.
Joseph Gazette
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If it were not too late for with
drawaIs, the way in which the support
ers of both Gilluly and McNary insist
that their respective candidates are
'in the fight to the finish" would IN
dictate that both are thinking of with
draw o.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

Municipal ownership is certainly
making hea6way in Kansas. OberIin
and Clay Center are two Kansas towns
that have recently voted for municipal
ownership Of electric light plants.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

get out OF range. or else he is holding
his hands so high while his pockets are
being emptied, that one can praise only
his sprinting ability or his discretion.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06
re R0cKE.FEI.I.rRs-

While the younger Rockefeller was
advising his Sunday school class to live
whole world in the eyes without finch
ing, the elder Rockefeller was figuring
on how he could get the grounding out
and have the entire hole to himself until
Hadley gets through with his trouble
some Investigations Jewell Republi-
can.
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NEED VOTES. MOI. THUNDER.

Inc JemOcTaTs are 70 hold their state
convention before the Republicans do
this year to prevent the latter from
stealing all the good campaign thunder
What the Democratic party is most in
need of, however. is less thunder and
more votes.-Smith County Pioneer.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

It appears that Engineer Wallace
gets $4,000 job. which should soothe
his feelings some even If he does recall
some of the unpleasant things Secre-
tary Taft said.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

It seems that the packers are afraid
the newspapers will pick out the sen
sational features of their trials and
publish them" The Sensational
features from the packers point of
view, are those that show the guilt Of
the defendants.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

Apparently the czar proposes to
emulate President Roosevelt. He is
trying to play the peacemaker between
Germany and France. Think Of the
ear as a DeacemakerE
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

The only bird that was buncoed by
the sun into coming north last week
did not catch the worm. but he caught
cold all right.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

One good thing about the indoor
circus is that there are not three rings
and an elevated stage" or two to be
watched all at one time.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06
EFFTNG THTNCg

Manhattan reports having seen a bril-
liant meteor last week, and only two
weeks ago experienced two earth
squakes. Since the town is all wrought
up over the congressional situation it
has seen nearly everything but snakes
BelIeville Telescope.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

We have become so accustomed to
having nice summer weather in winter
that this unp1easantness in March
doesn't set well.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

That anti-foreign feeling in China
seems to be good at hide-and-seek.
one day it is raging violently and the
next day there is nothing to it.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

1t Is reported that some gamblers
are preparing to do some gambling In
Indiana. Tt is safe to gamble that
they won't Il Governor Hanly hears
about IL.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

What's the use of paying SO much
attention TO this man Castro anyway?
Isn't Castro really a false alarm?
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

The fact that the egg trust has lost
money on account of the surplus of
eggs gives the hens something to crow
about.-Salina. Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

A man was killed as the result of
q prize fight in san Francisco. One OF
these days somebody will bob up with
a proposition to reform prize fighting.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

It's mighty tough to have to admit
q crop failure in Kansas, but the ice
harvest in Kansas this year really
didn't amount to much.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

Joseph MednI Patterson got a lot Of
good advertising out Of it anyway.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

Let's see. How many times is it
now that Empress Tsi An has been
kiIIed-seven or eight?
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

In Kansas Mr.. Coleman drops the
states suit against the Standard Oil
company I'm Missouri Mr.. Hadley is
pushing the Standard harder than
ever. That illustrates the difference
between the attorney generals-or at
torneys general-of. the two states.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

Many a man thinks he has done his
duty for the world because he has taken
a course in sociology.-Ram's Horn.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06
KANSAS COMAENT
AFFECTAmON.

one Of the surest marks of medic
Gritty is anectaton. Find a man who is
affected in his bearing and you have
found fellow with a crack in his
Uranium. Find a woman affected in
ner speech or manner and you haven't
round 50 awfully much; find q doctor
VINO goes around looking wise and you
nave round quack; find a. preacher
VINO assumes an unnatural tone of
Noice-the bishops voice''-and you
nave found two-by-four. The truly
great men never put on airs Did
You ever know a man whom you con-
sloered great man who wasn't plain
ana simple in his speech, and natural
ana unaffected in his Tnanner2 Name
over the great preachers. the great
lawyers, the great statesmen and see IL
ds an unaneeted man, natural and un-
pretenuous IN his bearing and manner
toward his fellow men. When a man
goes 10 playing the Wise Guy; when he
gets on pedestal and hangs out
sign appoach with reverence" when
ne announces that two plus two is four
IN q tone Of voice indica tive of an inn
preston that he IS the supreme court
handlng down d decision on the ques-
tion OF whether the constitution follows
the nag; when he departs from the
natural and takes UP the artificial he
adVertlses the fact that there is a
screw loose somewh ere. The truly
great man is natural in his manner for
the simple reason that he is a great
man. AIectation is a dead give away
Marion Record.
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WHY HE DID IT.

An Ohio judge granted eleven divorces
in two hours the other day. The dis
patch failed to state whether he was
going out to lunch or wanted to catch
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

Riches may '.shrixel the soul" but
poverty ie equally hard on the uppers.-
Philadelphia Tribune.
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A CRITIC

The man IN the small Indiana town
who shot at an actress when she sang
uncomplimentary things about the place
was probably an impatient dramatic
critic who couldn't wait to express his
views in print.-New York Evening
Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

lawmakers in this country. If they
should all agree what d lot of law
would be saddIed on to usl AS it is.
half Of them are trying to pass laws
and the other half are trying to keep
laws from passing. But we pay them
all for it just the same-and some of
Lhem the corporaaons nav also.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06
CERTAINLY.

Here is a question for q debating So
ciety: Would an American rather hang
to strap than wait for the next car p
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06

An Arkansaw bank failed with LA
billties of over $4,000 and with just
S94-so on hand to meet them. 1t can
be readily understood that the 30
cents was probably in stamps. but how
can the people that looted the bank
Justify overlooking so much as S942
The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-06
A SPANKING.

NJ. Taiguy says he does not know
what Castro wants Perhaps not; but
we know what Castro needs and what
he is likely to get.-Portiand Oregonian.