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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

The HOlton SigRal, which has been
opposing the Kansas semicentennial
exposition idea, has reached the point
where it is practically converted to It.
It says.
1.-THE Topeka semicentennial likely
Will be a GO The promoters have
picked out a site on the river front,
and plans for buildings. exhibits etc,
everything but money, and they are
looking to the next legislature for that.
The proposed exposition will be good
thing for the state. and the legislature
should vote some money to help 1t
along. The direct benefits of the show
will go to Topeka, of course. and the
business men of that town should raise
fund of 100000 or more to indicate
their faith in the enterprise. The leg
islature doubtless would be willing to
duplicate any subscription made by the
people of Topeka"
While it may be true that Topeka
viii reap an immediate benefit from
the exposition, the great ultimate bene-
1T Will be to the entire state at large.
The idea is to get people from other
states to come here and see for them
selves the resources of Kansas. If they
do that many of them will become per
manent citizens of the Sunflower state,
benehting both themselves and the
state.
1t may be depended on that Topeka
will do her full share to make the
exposition a success and a benefit to
the entire state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08


Talkin' bout fellers that leave the west
An startsln dom their level best
10 show New York the proper way
To sss high life, an shoot up Broadway,
You never did an you never VIII
Come cross the best of oil Braslxy Bill.
Scotty? Don't mention him in this classs
He'd have to lay down his cards an pass.
Besides, Scotty Ased gold-an' that I'm
told,
Is sonethin' that 'Brasky Bill 'ud hold
1nspOrtSEnanlIke- He quit his range,
With conversation an some small change
An Travelled by rail an some by sea
An. Whooped things up in the highest key
Till he had both continents standin stIn,
Sayin' Look out, feilersi Here's 'Braslzy
Billr'
We got to wonderin' how he came
10 gather such strong an increasin fame
There's no one Twin round OIL Salt Crlck
That knew Of an easier man to lick
Than Brasky Bill IN most any fight.
But he always seemed to come round all
In spite Of the punishment he got
An, tell you what, he could stand lot!
boys,
Twas one of lfe's truest an noblest joys
To read the defiant words he q throw
Straight in the teeth of the hated foe
Most heroes will point to the things
they've done
An show off medals for victories won,
But Bill is the dueerest of the set
Beloved for the lickin he'd always gett
He come round to Oh New York town
An they nearly pulled all the buildin' s
down
BY way Of welcomin' 'Brasky Bill.
A hero licked, but a hero stilll
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

got the tip as to stensland's where
abouts and who accompanied Olson 90
Morocco. Kelley did his first newspa-
per work in Kansas. He was born n
England, but he came to America
when boy and worked for time IN
the coal mines at Leavenworth- Then
he drifted to Kansas City, Kans., and
got to doing little jobs on the Kansas
side for the Kansas City newspapers
Eventually he worked his way Up as
a reporter and into an editorial rosi-
ton, then he went TO Chicago and has
been for several years managing caitor
of the Chicago Tribune. 1t was in this
capacity that he kept tab on Stensland.
traued him down through Spain to Mo
rocco. and taking Olson with him, ef-
fected Stensland's capture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
JAYH< WKER JOTS

Alma also needs new houses. The
Enterprise says: It has seemed lit
tie strange to us for long time why
some of our local money was not in
vested in good new rentabie residences.
And Alma would soon have from 200
to 400 more people within her limits
If they could find houses in which 10
live. Why are our local capitalists
satisfied with four per cent on their
money when they could just as easy
get ten?
Speaking of different brands of.
kisses, Roy Tapley says the Lawrence
variety 'is so sweet and attractive in
its pure, unadulterated form that 1t
attracts powerfully without the use of
cosmetics. stimulants or smearings of
any artificial saccharine substance.
Just what Editor Tapley's qualifications
may be as an expert judge is not
known to the deponent. but 1t looks
very much as though he is trying to
boom the attendance at the State uni
versity the coming year
Final crow from Frank farrell: We
attended a spelling bee a few months
ago, and spelled It "excentricity. The
county superintendent. Mr.. Allen, sent
us to our seat. and the hated opposi-
ton climbed our frame for bad spell
ing. Thine at last sets all things even,
and if we but wait the hour" etc. The
just issued a proclamation for our
kind of spelling,s and 'excentricity'
goes in the future. Guess that viii
hold the county superintendent and the
hated opposition while
The Boston Herald tells this one
about a Kansas senator: At a dinner
recently Senator Long was asked by
young woman to define diplomacy.
The senator did SO at some length,
but the girl was not satisfied with his
definition. well. now said he, what
do you do at ball when a man asks
you for a waltz and you don't wish
to dance with him That is when you
can show diplomacy Il tell him, -
she replied. that my card is full
But suppOsing it isn't and he still
persists ?" Then I insist it is and at
the same time let him see it ism -
! Now the question is, has Senator Long
learned that as a lesson in diplomacy ?
The Lawrence World is searching for
an office boy-and it is having trouble.
I'm the old-fashioned readers" it says.
was a story about a merchant who
: wanted a boy He advertised for one,
and scores of boys answered. Yet there
was only one boy in the entire lot
who withstood a very fair and honest
/ test which he put to all of them. Only
one-yet he was a lucky merchant.
4 Nowadays one might search through
scores of boys and not find even one.
/ This one is a cigarette f1end, that one a
| SLOUGH. One is careless of speech and
another is a lounger against things.
Still, the trouble is not so much with
them on the day Of application as on
some day a few weeks after they have
gone to work, when the new is worn
/ off their Job"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
EROM OTHER PENS
A sOUTHERN TvTEw


John Brown was a. literal and COM
plete type of the lyncher. He placed
himself at the head OF a mob and set
out TO kill those who upheld the law.
If John Browns course was defensible,
so is that of every naddened Iyncher
who. defies the laws of South Carolina
in the belief that the laws are made
quate to satisfy the demands of out
ragged justice. Admitting then, for the
sake of the argument only, the truth
of the Evening Posts accusation
against the south about crimes done un-
der the slavery system. we repeat and
emphasize that when the majesty of thu
federal government embodied in the
vice president of the United States joins
in a public office of honor to the mem
ory of John Brown, the efforts of the
northern press, not to speak of those OF
the south, to arouse a healthy public
sentiment against the lynching Of
brutes who commit nameless offences,
are palsied. This is the real point in
issue. and this our contemporary has
lost sight of in its eagerness to hold up
indulge reply in kind, a eataloguing
of the crimes of the north, the atrocities
Of the northern slave trade among them
but we invite the Evening Post to join
The News and Courier in denouncing all
assaults aimed at law and order. AS we
rebuke the lynchers of the south we
challenge it to reprove the worship OF
the vice president of the United States
at the shrine of John Brown, the lynch
er.-CharlestOn News and Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A lot of college professors are join
ing the denatured spelling movement.
We imagine they cannot spell anyway,
and are taking that plan to conceal
the fact.
How much surprise it occasions
when an aeronaut dies a natural death!
+
William Budd is running for con-
gress in Ohio. What a chance he offers
for the pert paragrapher to predict
that he will come out of the race a sad
der Buddweiser man!
We notice that the man who was
arrested the other day for robbing the
Igorrotes is not accused of stealing
their meat.
Great excitement: It has been dis
covered that two OF the Prohibition
nominees for supreme court Justices
are merchants and not lawyers. But
what's the difference?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the chieago News.l

a kiss in time may prevent nine.
The photograph isn't to blame il It
has a bad record.
Much of the queerness affected by 1nu-
mainly IS cultivated.
With some men life is but hog path
leading to the cemetery.
Sarcasm IS weapon that should be
drawn only in self-defense.
Hard facts do not always make an
impression on a soft-headed man.
Probably more intellectual women
would marry If they were asked.
Occa sional1y svve encounter a wise
nan who causessus to admire a fool.
Every time a man gets it in the
neck he realizes how little he amounts
to.
Don't make yourself common; the
world only sits ND and takes notice of
the uncomIfon.E
Follow the dictates of your com
science and it's doughnuts TO fudge
you'll never land in jail.
About all the pleasure the pessimlst
gets out Of life he steaiH-and then
he acts as If he was afraid of being
caught at It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Clobe.I
No one ever succeeded in training
the dog out of a dog.
A divorced man is very touchy over
what she says about him.
4 poor speller is all right these
days: he's in advance of the college
professors.
There are some women who still
look like the fashion plates in Godey's.
Ever notice that funny looking
people have funny looking COM
pany?
some husband. We wonder If she
properly appreciates him
The attention paid to a rich widow
er's children somehow suggests that
paid to a turkey just before Thanks
giving.
The greatest thing in the world is
poIiteness. And no schooling is neces-
sary to be agreeable; simply have a
little consideration for Others and be
quiet and modest.
Here is a question that came up
among some people who were talking
To have some one around who IS will
ing but dumb. or some one who is un-
willing, but wise?
In real life the only difference be-
tween a romantic wedding and the
ordinary wedding is that the police
tic wedding for the paper, and the
society reporter writes up the ordi-
nary kind.
We confess to having a great sym
pathy for an honest, hard working.
useful man, who is abused. And you
will find cases of this kind in nearly
every town in the state It is fact
that a respectable man IS lately a tar
get for abuse. and many people like
it.
A certain girl is visiting certain
Atchison girl. 81 am going home
next week" the visiting girl said to-
day. mo. you are not going home
next week." the Atchison girl said in
dignantly, although she knew every
member Of her family is crazy to have
the visitor go.
For several years. Atchison people
wondered that Mrs. VIII Bangan con-
sidered her husband good looking.
But it is said she is having her eyes
opened: Mr.. Langan says she has
been suspicious several months, and
is now in open revolt But he fooled
her q good many years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

Conservatism and radicalism are, after
all, but relative terms. He is the true
conservative who, noting that the gan
creme has begun to prey upon some
limb of the commonwealth, advocates
the timely use of the knife Per con-
ira, he is the real radical who stands for
the sanctity Of all institutions arA1 forms
which have come down from long
past In the one case, a comparatively
simple act of surgery is found to suffice;
in the other the Caesarean operation be-
comes essential to the birth of the new
order. Looking backward, it is clear as
the monday that the republic could not
have survived the permanent sway of
the financial autocrats and the trusts
New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York e

IFrom the New York Press1
A girl gets much more offended il
you call hugging squeezing
A man couldn't make much money
collecting the rewards for virtue.
A college education costs enough to
support a boy If he didn't have it.
The devil was awful smart to pick
out a business where he couldn't fail.
A man can exercise some control
over children II they are somebody
else's.
No matter how much a widow once
knew. she is willing to learn 1t all over
again
Women have the remarkable facul-
ty Of growing mature without getting
any older
Hardly anything costs less than
good manners, but there is mighty 1T
tie to be had.
It Is quite evident that William f.
Taft viii not be sent into James Mon
roe Miller's district to make a speech
during this campaign-if he persists ia
sdueaking out his tariff revision views
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

Editor Beck OF the HoIton Record
er. comes forward with this excellent
plan: Every intelligent Democrat
knows and every honest Democrat ac-
knowIedges that Theodore Roosevelt
has made a brave. persistent and sue
cessfu1 war on the trusts. Now It seems
10 us that until this issue Is fought
out to a hnish. the thing for antitrust
Democrats TO do is to come over and
join the antitrust Republicans. draft
President Roosevelt for another term,
make public sentiment so strong in
his favor that he cannot decline to ae-
cent the nomination. When the trusts
are conquered then If they want to do
go they might 60 back and again be-
come Democrats. Men working for
the same great object ought to work
together. If this battle against the
trusts is lost It viii be because those
who earnestly believe in the cause al
low the monopoly politicians to keep
them divided ana working at cross
purposes"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
KANSAS COMAENT


TOUGH ON THE ENGLISH
What viii the harvest be for the
English fire Insurance companies rep
resented in Valparaiso's earthquake
and fire losses, is a question agltatlng
thesinsurance world just now Ameri-
can companies can hardly be said 10
be interested in the losses there. as
that was not their field. But the Eng
lish companies carrying large lnsur-
ance in both Valparaiso and san Fran
cisco viii evidently have to suffer. AS
the day Of dividends recedes and the
hour for assessments or reorganization
approaches, we may expect TO hear
through the English press that the
western continent is not all it has been
cracked up to be for the English in
weston in corporate securities. The
earthquakes have really shaken up
something besides the local structures
and among the something's is certain
" to be reckoned the ideas on fire in
surance where the data supplied by
earthquakes are not sufficiently com
plete" to afford a basis for table or
risk-@Leavenwort Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
HUMOR or THE DIP


edestrian-Afadan. a boy who am
told is your son has just thrown a stone
painful. What are you going 70 do about
Mother-I don't know Have you tried
arnica New Orleans Pieayune
Don't you ever get any vacation
ssvacationt'' exclaimed the work horse.
It can go out to the stable yard ana roll
over any day in the week. ana n ol 3es
that's more than you ever get to do--Cnl-
cago Tribune.
Rhymer-Is it necessary for a poet TO
spacer-No, but safer-smart Set.
Lady-what do you meen by putting
my. spoon IN your pocket after eating the
sandy Pikes-Oh. pardon me. mum. it
was force Of habit was rich once and
contracted the souvenir habit-Chicago
News.
your son is studying art. beiieve.Fzas
he made much progress2
"Oh, yes. He IS able to tax the IAN
NatiSe-Fishi I should rather think
u 1 with 'em1.-Punch
Berthe - clawrence. old chap, do you
fawncy the ideah Of wearing blue dress
of looking like walters, wen all look ike
stewards, bah Jove.-Puck
school Examiner-what is the meaning
of false doctrine?
Schoolboy-Please. sir it's when the
doctor gives the wrong stun to the people
who are sick.-Christian Register.
signora Pr had a dozen proposals be-
fore yours. All from smarter men than
Sig. P-They must have been How did
they manage to crawl out of tia Car
ieaturista-
Il see" remarked Towne that a sta
tistician says that considerably more than
half the population Of the world is fem
mine"
Ridiculous" retorted Browne. IF
that was So how would he account for
the fact that one-half of the world doesn't
know how the other half lives ?.-Chicago
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
Fugene wood on Souvenirs.

If you didn't buy 8 red-glass turnb-
Ter, with your name written on 1t IN
Gnenceriar characters while you wait
you'd forget all about ever having
been to Niagara. AS it Is, when peo-
pie ask YOU. Have you seen the
Fails ~ you inquire: Niagara Falls?
Niagara FalIs2 Name sound familiar
somehow Mother, were we ever at
the Fails - And she answers: why.
YES. dear. Don't you remember You
got that red-glass cup there" And
you say. ooh yes. yes. yes. Why GER
tadnly. Very pretty view there. as I
recall il" I stick up for souvenirs
From Niagara by Eugene Wood IN
McClure'e.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

In the Worlds Work for Septemb Der
in an article Can Men Now Rise
From the Ranks2' appears the follow
ing story about a large New York con-
tractor, Mr.. Frank Gilbreth The
qualities of ingenuity and decision that
have accounted for his rise from the
ranks of labor are illustrated in story
of contract he undertook in HOugh-
ton Mich, to construct some large
building on short notice. He went out
himself to start the job, intending to
stay a week. He stayed four months.
The labOrers were Poles, and ready for
trouble on any pretext The superin-
tendent of the job thought he saw
chance to get double pay. which he de-
manded under threat that he would go
"Au right" said Mr.. Gilbreth; the
next train east leaves at five o'clock,
and don't you miss it." Then the
Poles struck. He secured other labor
ers and went a head. The Poles came
down to the camp the next night to
ruin the job. Mr. Gilbreth and every
other responsible man in camp met
them, each with a sixshooter in each
hand and another one in reserve. That
broke the strike. In his New York Of
copy of the general rules that are to
guide him in his particular work. Each
copy Of these rules is preceded by
preface which says that the rules were
made because at some time, at coro-
ner's inquest of what had gone wrong
in the business, somebody on the lob
attended in the uncomfortable role of
the corpse. and that each rule is in
tended to prevent later obsequies for
the same cause. 1t is the fact that he
has so often learned his business bv
rude knocks which taught but did not
down him, that he has risen from the
mason's union to be a large employer
of men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
THE REMEDY

If there was a law in Kansas making
it crime, with heavy fine, to assess
property at less than actual cash value,
and provision in the law that no
property shall be assessed for less than
its bonded Indebtedness, the taxation
question would be settled in Kansas.
Railroads and other corporations
would then pay their share of the bur
dens of the ernment.-Pleasant
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

Has the Republican state commit
tee no material at hand to show that
Colonel Harris was the head and
shoulders of the book trust forces
when he was in the legislature? If
not, somebody must have blundered-
IA welI-organized committee ought to
be able to prove anything against the
opposition that Is charged to its own
side
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08
Bryan in 1908.

Mr.. Bryan's nomination -wo years
hence-a long ways ahead in Amer
lean politics-is as certain as any
future event can be, and that by a
thoroughly reunited Democracy It
marks the end of ten years of internal
dissension and strife, and expresses a
fully ascertained and weu-nigh uni
versal sentiment of the rank and file Of
Democrats in the west and south. the
east bringing up its support less
promptly, less volubly, and perhaps
with no great enthusiasm, yet already
on the march toward the Bryan col
umn. It is, in point of fact, the logic
of the situation VIVA, is the meaning
and what may account for this
Primarily, Mr.. Bryan's hold upon
the Democratic masses. He captured
the heart of the party in capturing the
free silver propaganda at Chicago N
1896. Chaos, which had taken pos
session of Democracy, wanted a leader
None of the graybeards who had
wrought it was able to mount and ride
it. With a single speech Mr.. Bryan
leaped into the saddle, and it must be
allowed that if he has not ridden sue
cessfully he has ridden we'll. Mindful
of this, perhaps, Dame Fortune has
given him another and it may prove Il
better steed to stride. At all events,
he is in the saddle and equipped as
never before, and as he canters down
the paddock the eyes of an awaiting
throng, not alone in the United States,
may be said to be upon him, and 10
brighten as he comes. Not the famous
episode of the crown of thorns and the
cross of gold was more inspiring than
Will be his return to his native land
after tour around the world, attend
ed by honors never before vouchsafed
by foreign governments and peoples to
any other American, General Grant
alone excepted
Truly with US, as with the French,
Sc 10
Henry Watterson, in the Reader for
September
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Il CIRCTs We.

The Hagenbeck people today strung
banners from the trolley wires about
town to within a block of the square.
the center of town having been cinched
by the Ringing people. The shows are
fighting all along the line, an ad. in a
Kansas City paper calling for 800 men
for the circus war in Texas to
which point all the shows are head
ing.=Iola Record
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cursion rate that is.nesy grated by the
roads Tor corr bsls- In other
words, it would be the ordinary excur-
sion rate in effect all the time.
The question is. would this be fair
to the railroads?
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DOES LAWRENCE CONSENT?

The Topeka State Journal suggests
that just to keep things lively the John
Brown reunion and the Quantrell re-
union should be held together next
time If that is arranged the Sun
would like to suggest that the reunion
be held in Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

Joe Cans. the negro who Whipped a
white prizefighter at Goldheld Nevada,
last evening" is smart fellow. He
ence wanted to see him whipped, so
when his opponent began foul tactics,
he said nothing; he knew the white
men would finally protest, and they
did; in a little while they began cry
ing out: Foul Give the niger a
fair showl" And Cans finally won on
a palpable foul.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

Secretary Taft IS another Republican
whom Congressman Miller transferred
from the Republican to the Demo-
cratic party when he declared that the
latter Is the place for those who favor
a ehanee IN the tariff.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

Grover Cleveland boasts that he has
never had a manuscript turned down
1bv a magazine editor. If Mr.. Cleve-
land will indite a few thoughts relaa
tive to Mr.. Bryan's remarks on gov
eminent ownership of railroads he can
doubtless score another sale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-08

General Funston cannot very well
take issue with his superior ofioer,
General Greedy. but that does not de-
ter the lola end OF the Funston fam
lily from expressing some determined
views on the subject