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The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFronn the Chicago News.

TF'rom the Chicago News.
Better a clever enemy than a fool
friend
A cunning man is seldom wise. and
never honest
Adversity sometimes transforms a
coward into a hero.
With dice the best throw one can
make is to throw them away.
A blush is one of the few things that
cannot be counterfeited.
Surely the man who deceives him
self is an easy mark for other deceiv-
ers.
When a real estate agent BEGINS to
go downhilI he loses ground rapidly.
A man may be short of ideas and
still be able to hand out a long line of
talk.
The reason why everybody loves
babies and kittens is because they al
ways act natural
Everybody wants to boss somebody,
and there is always somebody who
wants to boss everybody
As a rule married men do not care
to attend public lectures probably be-
cause they get too many lectures at
home
Those three balls displayed by
pawnbroker indicate that the odds are
two to one in favor OF his getting the
best Of the transaction.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
KANSAS C0ANENT
THE FoOL NEWsPAPERs.


This week an attorney OF the town
called US aside to tell US he had an I'M
portant news item for Us. It was law
suit or some magnitude but the linpor-
tanl part was of course his connectlon
with 1t which he wanted to get before
the people. We didn't write It up. A
man at the head of one of the leading
industries of the town limited to US the
other day we lacked. enterprise because
we did not give his business two or
three column writeup at our expense.
HIS business has not paid US cent IN
I'VE years. 1t is making him more
than $10O every month. The man may
have meant WelE' but he was acting
very, very cheap. He looks to US IKE
a sponge. Some years ago man Win
a benevolent cOuntenance besOughL US
for several weeks to give space IN our
paper and time from our business 10
boom oil prospecting. We did. The
company organized. When solicitors
went to the benevolent looking gentle
man he not only refused to subscribe
cent to the fund but would not lease
his land for prospecting. He was will
ing to let other people do all the Work
and keep his money warm in his own
pocket. The worst beggar of all is the
Well-tO-dO beggar. Two years ago
man told US to mention that a certain
disease was killing cattle in certain
parts of the county. We did It. Next
week he asked US to make news
Item Of the fact that he cured this
y
not see that it was news, not so long
as he was making three or four hum
dred dollars a year out of 1t and we
said nothing. A twenty-five cent ad.
would have done the business for him.
yet he seemed unwilling to pay even that
much Newspaper space costs money.
good. hard munnY-none and gobs of
it. Three hundred dollars n month
will not pay the bills of the Guard Of
fee and vet this money is spent to
make nothing but newspaper space.
Individuals should not think of getting
newspaper space for nothing. any more
than they would think of getting
clothes and food for the asking at the
place where food and clothes are sold.
Giving newspaper space away is giving
the income of the Office away. Space
is stock in trade. Whoever asks it for
nersonsl benefit and is willing to get it
for nothing paakes himself the object
of charity in the eyes of the newspaper
man and who is to blame Council
Grove Guard
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Wanted to KNOW To- Afnch.

Recently there was a series of bur
glaries committed in the fashionable
section of Baltimore. So anxious were
the police authorities to apprehend the
culprits that instructions were issued to
the roundsmen to exercise extraordinary
vigilance during their tours Of iLspec-
ton.
On one occasion, just after midnight,
an officer saw emerging noiselessly from
a house in EUtaw Place a young man,
who hastily darted down the street. The
officer made after him as rapidly as
possible. When he had stopped the
young man. he said:
Didn't you come out of the corner
house just now?"
The young fellow. though Of quite a
respectable air, seemed i'll at ease. II
did" he answered. with some confusion.
DO you live in that house?" sternly
demanded the officer.
That's an impertinent question: re-
piled the young man in a tone Of great
indignation. I don't see what business
of yours it is, so long as her father
doesn't object. Success Magazine,
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

all the Populists who are returning to
It's folds. The latest is Rev. J. d
Botkin, commonly known as Jerry"
Botkin. who was ngressman-at-Iarge
from Kansas during PopUlist times.
M Botkln, who is now the Methodist
minister at Caldwell, says the Repub-
ltcan party IS getting about POpulistic
enough for him. "I don't want to be
placed In the attitude of Topping to
the Republican party, because I
haven't " he IS quoted as saying. THE
Republican party has Topped to me.
Of course, I am delighted. I knew the
Republicans would get around to Pop
ulist principles after a while but I
didn't expect them to come so quickly" q"
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHEr<,n
[From the New York -

IFrom the New York Press
It is high finance when the law isrst
smart enough to catch you.
A man would run away from, bov,e
if he had to practice the thInrs 80
breaches to his boys.
It's lots more fun thinking va. -.
going to have it than thfnkfne sffe~-
ward that you had it.
1t would make a preacher awful
tired II somebody got UP and preached
his own sermon to him.
It's always difficult for a young na,
to understand what there is aaas,t tss
sister that attracts other young men.
It sometimes comes to pass fhet
after man has eaten everything SCI
before him he wonders v-haf ais I5i+,.
Half the satisfaction Of being >
family man is pretending vou are -
some importance in the house Tsy,s,,
everybody knows you aren't.
Building reputation is a eoed bff
like building anything else. yos, So. -
orally have to tear down voa5r eis 80 -
to make room for the new, eA1-
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A man always likes to be It, but if
anyone refers to him simply as 'it'=
with lower case '1'' and quotation
marks around it-he is likely to get
mighty mad.
This department has some curiosity
to know what sort of a valentine
Henry Allen sent W. Roscoe Stubbs.
We doubt very much If any young
married woman in the county ever
began housekeeping with such large
assortment of diamond necklaces and
gold dog collars as Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth will have when she gets her first
breakfast for Nick.
Ralph TennaI issues this "notice to
lovers" and it is reproduced here to
give it more publicity: All postmas-
ters. mail clerks and rural mail car
riers know what Il. L. Y, - IN. T. L.,
and IF. Y. T. L." when written on an
envelope, means.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
WIN railway Speed increase?


Il, For some time engineers have agreed
pfacucal limit of speed with steam.
poth on land and water, has been
feached- The problem, therefore, has
Deen to devise new methods or to rem
der practicable, in a high degree, some
new power of propulsion, such as cleo
trlcity, as a rival and successor Of
steam The latte of these alternatives
mas proved the more easily solved, and,
with the achievement of a speed of one
hundred and thirty-one miles an hour
on the military road Berlfn-Zossen,
Germany, a little over a year ago, a
new era in traffic may be said to have
oeen ushered in. Were it otherwise,
ana were this achievement but an iso-
lated example of phenomenal speed
under ideal conditions, without prac-
ucal application to existing problems,
1t would possess only the interest OF
the extraordinary. As a matter Of
fact, however, these speed trials in Ger
many possess the high est practical
hshed the conditions of further prog
ress along this line. A normal speed
of one hundred and twenty-five, or
even of one hundred and fifty miles an
hour, is no longer an idle dream, but
has come within the realm of the i'm
mediately probable. Certain condi-
tons, it is true, remain to be fulfilled,
but to the present age, accustomed to
the achievement of things almost i'm
possible, the overcoming Of difficulties
of detail presents no serious problem.
Certainly, today we are nearer speed
of one hundred and fifty miles an hour
than the world of 1890 was to one Of
thirty miles an hour.-Success Maga-
zine
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

What did it cost Scott? Randall Doo-
little, farmer. presided at a meeting
held in the Lawrence opera house Sat
urday night in the interests Of the can
didacy of Chas. F. Scott for congress.
Doolittle stated that a frien of Henry
Allen had paid him $3.50 for his help in
lining up his township and was promised
that same amount later on in the cam
paign; that upon learning that Allen
had shared IN the profits of the state
printing contract under Clark. he had
come to the conclusion that Allen was
a Bad Man and he had returned the
two-flfty. Naturally an outsider will
wonder how much the good Mr.. Doc
little cost Scott.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
Twenty Millions worth of Cameras,

Thirty years ago a camera was a rari-
ty. The enthusiast who possessed one
carried a mountain of +raps field and
smothered in a tent during his tedious
manipulation Of she wet plates. Last
year the United States alone made 300
900 cameras, working with the mere
pressure of a bulb or baton, and the
Photographic business reached the re
spectacle commercial total of $20,000,-
600.
Such figures, too. do not even hint at
the true extension OF this use of the
suns aid in obtaining exact copies Of
anything the eye can see. If one were
to tell an ordinary business man that
photography has a more pervading in
huence on his daily life than any other
one discovery of which we have an su-
thentic record, he would PROBABLY be
highly incredulous. Yet it is an indis-
putable fact.-Henry ". Lanier in The
Wurld's Work.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

teaching principles of manhood in the
home and seeing that the heart OF the
boy is set right
There may be some plain statements
in this sermon, but they are things that
a community which has had five high
school girls inmates of a rescue home
within a short time should certainly
pcuder
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Say! The United States senate is not
SO awfully tired of our Senator Burton,
after all. He stepped inside the cham
Der for 80 seconds the other day and
the committee on mileage allowed him
nearly 81 900 for "appearing." We sus-
pect Burton needs the money. but we'd
spend a whole day in that chamber of
horrors for that amount.-Minneap
Better Way.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
BILL HACKNFY ON PASSES.

"Think Of il" says Bill Hackney.
''One member of the last legislature
told me that he had asked for and
received, and distributed among his
friends last winter. passes covering
more than 100000 miles, and in expIana-
tion ofshis opposition to a bill, adversely
affecting the railroads. he said that he
had received so-nany favors from them,
that it would look mean and contempti-
BILE for him to refuse them a favor now.
1t is a species Of 1ribery4as vicious as
contemplate and ought to be- condemn
ed by law"
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

The fact that C. h. Emmons, formerly
editor of the Hill City ReveiIle, has
bought an interest in the Hill City Re
publican and has cast his lot with the
Republican party, is causing Colonel
Joe Wright, Of the South Center Mes
senger, 10 see double and to wonder if
the world isn't upside down these days.
Emmons was formerly one OF the lead
ing Populists of the Sixth district, and
then he became a socialist because he
could not endorse Democracy.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

If Webb McNal is nominated for
insurance commissioner the state con-
vention should declare that all the
things said about him when he was a
candidate on the Populist ticket are
barred by the statute of limitation AL
though, come to think about it, moth
ing very bad was said about him eX-
cept that he made the insurance COM
panies toe the mark.-Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

After hunting for some time and get
ting out both its specs and search war
rant, the Chicago Tribune finds a use
for the comic valentine: 1t adds some
thing to Uncle Sans postal revenues.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

a man in high position is overtaken in
a crime, the first thing we hear is that
he is ready to make good Wouldn't
any horsethief be glad to make good
when caught with the stolen property,
if the law would only accept the horse
and let him go2 The big thieves are no
better than the horsethief or the petty
thieves who steal coal. chickens, bread
and neeatl
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Del Valentine thinks that the Con-
cordfa city council, after passing a res
olution severely criticising the mayor
for allowing joints to run, probably ad-
5ourned TO the nearest one Immediately
afterwards and celebrated the passing
Of the resolution by taking several
drinks. But perhaps Mr.. Valentine does
not really know the Coneordia council.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

In speaking Of the Second district con-
test, Frank farrell says Mr.. Scott 'is a
very Iadylike sort Of a gentleman" but
Mr.. Allen would make a better con-
gresham for the Second district for one
reason. among others, because ''he never
gets on both Sides of a question at the
same time
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

a GRAZING to add your appendix und
lffer to hiss picklifed collection, you
might es veil gif dem oop. Uf you
pudt i'd ouf, he may nod be satisfac-
toned init dem spessimens. una dake
your untire works ven ne do gedt
holdt uf you.
tink Ed Howe iss wasting a lod Ut
walluaple dime batting aroundt ofer
dere in Asly, ven he ought to be ad
nome roasdfng der punk pollytishuns.
I'd vas such a foolishmendt fer
Mayor Rose to send oop dem spot-
fingers und bay deir egspenses ven
ne could hat boughdt a bedder und
more compleder lisd uf Topeka
sigs bidts.
Won uf der faforidt topics uf some uf
der Topeka 'reformp'' clubs iss der faU
u der fectory gailss in der Easd, but
10 vas wissitor vtch bawled oudt der
lache.
Der Americans in Chiny haf peen no
dlhed to dake care uf deirsellufs in case
me Ut Mrs. Gus Gobblesteinhauser
Nonce Gus vas going to ride on der
ratlroadt to Kansas Cidy, und she saw.
Look oudt, allretty Gus, fer a wreck.
und VI 9ere 1ss gong 10 be Won, stOb
oIef ao Iecumseh und dake der negst
train"
Bill ChennIngs Bryan sayss i'd dot der
Car-nlggy dough iss tainted. Ach.
Looie! Id iss sadt vot trouples Bill hat
nit der money propagation. All hiss
life he haf dfvisioned hiss dime pedween
hollering aboudt der brand l1f money
used py oders, und trying to corner
aooudt sigs-tousandt per capiters'' fer
hisselluf.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

The statement is floating around the
Kansas press that this years ballot will
be extraordinarily large. It viii not
II won't be as large as it was two years
ago. There will be a state printer on
the state ballot and one more supreme
court justice than last time, but no
state senators. Two years ago there
were also ten presidential electors on the
ballot. The county ticket win be the
same size as in 1904. Three constitution
al amendments are submitted this year,
but they are on a separate ballot.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Mr. stubbs says the railroads offered
q big newspaper $4,000 to print their
stuff. but were turned down. Now
win he tell how much they gave in an
instance in which they were not turned
41--v~
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
IN THE STUDY.

Nicest place in all the house
Is my papa's study chair;
lust as quiet as a mouse
go creeping there.
An he gives a little smile,
Writing, writing, all the while.
There's atSleast million books
Up ana down and round the wall.
guess from the way it looks
L can't read them all!
II did, I'm sure I'd be
JusJ as wise and big as he.
-BurSes johnson in Success Magazine.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
FROM OTHER PENS
A STARTER.

President Falieres is averse to to-
bacco. That fact alone, however, is
not enough to make of him a great
Syracuse Post Standard
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Did YOU remember the Maine"
Thursday? It has been eight years
since our famous warship was blown
Up, which resulted in sending American
inhuence to the other side Of the world.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Secretary Taft has reversed the old
order by sending to congress, already
typewriter, an assorted dozen bills he
wants passed.-Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

It Is announced that the wine to be
used at the Roosevelt wedding break
fast is 100 years old, and Fred Trigg
thinks this should placate the w C. T.
u. as wine 100 years old will be so weak
with age that it can't do any harm
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

sheriff Pruitt. of Montgomery county,
has returned the railroad passes that
have been sent him. Incidentally It
might be mentioned that no sheriff in
Kansas has a better reputation for do
ing his duty than ANDY" Pruitt.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

There are reported to be ten candi
dates for the Coneyville postof1ce. That
is where Real Trouble confTents Con-
eressman Campbell.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Engineer Stevens says the canal
can be completed in seven years, but
it must be started frst--Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
THE UsTAL THING.

Prof Blair, of Hamilton college,
says people in Mars live to be 200
years old. Will he kindly tell us
whether they chew or smoke TO
ledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Der pefore-p -preakfasd baper, alder
chasing der Ottywa taggers to Graz
vile, shows a disposition to permidt
der poor animalss to croak init star
fation- Dis ISIS to suggestion dot der
snake und tagger editer uf dot sheet
come oudt tomorrow morning und
ledt der beastss eadt a few callufs er a
herd uf pigs.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
SOMETHING FREE.

While the members of the Iegisla-
ture do not get any free railroad
passes, the most of them for the first
time in years will enjoy the free use
of their own thoughts and votes.-
Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
KEPT BUSY.

There is always something doing in
Ecuador. Between revolutions down
there they have akes.-Indian-
apolis News.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

light fall uf schnow fss needed in
der Easd-nOd to safe der wheat, but
to unaple dem sloofs to track 1Eisder
Rockeyfeller, der absendt.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Ven you opserf Adisder Carter und
hiss boos cases, iss you nod re-
mindted uf der "Sherrun uf Eut-
tingham" in der commickopery2
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Der preachers hat endorsed disder
Fosder fer offs. Lods Of worthy
of1is-seekers haf vent oop SaIdt rifer
in der same scow.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Id dakes a coIum in der bapera TO
descripe der boket vich Miss alice
viii carry. Fer mine. I care me nod
ings aboudt i'd, una she can lug
bOnch uf celery und onionss Ut i'd VIII
make her any habbier.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

AIlretty some uf der Professional
makers fss hollering apoudt der
Yaller Peril, vich iss all right. uf dey
would application id to der peril to
garmendts sendt to a Chink vash-
haus.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
AN oPTIMIsT-

A man lost a leg in a railway ac-
eident, and when they picked him up
the first word he said was Thank
the Lord, it was the leg with the
rheumatism in,'s=Atlanta Constitu-
tim
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
OH NO.

The sultan of Turkey is in a posi-
ton to assure Mr.. Castro of Venezuela
that a naval demonstration is not nee
essarily fatal.-Washingto Star.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Der sdory uf der poor cuss in Moo
Orleens vot didtndt want to be carried.
py der surgeons, shouldt be warm
ing to der pOoblic. Ven a dokter dakes
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
THE ToInHER- ToIICHEn

50 Justice Deuel. Is deeply tOuched''
by his predicament The TOUGHER touch
ed, as it seems-B1iIWauIzee Sentinel
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

It Is quite evident that the side
hoards win nave to be put on the Re
aublican party in order to make it hold
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

A new sort of trust has been formed
in an Oklahoma town-Or perhaps it
might be called an antitrust. A list
IS made Of all people who are in the
habit Of sending of for goods that they
might purchase at home, and the
merchants have an agreement to re-
fuse credit to such persons in the
future and to make them pay up on
bills that they owe. The merchants
claim that people who pay cash to mail
order houses ought to pay cash to
their home merchants also.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

The Olathe Mirror thinks a recent sIur
on Congressman Campbell in the Law
renee Journal was caused because Mr.
Campbell is a candidate for United
States senator, a job that the Journals
friend, ". r. Stubbs, would also like
60 have. The Journal, says the Mirror,
seems to proceed on the plan of the
Trishman, who. in company with his
son was travelling to Donnybrook fair
Dennis, moind now, we're goin' to the
fair. ard have ye a sthick2' yes, and
it's good and strong" well, Denny.
sou must be peaceable and quoiet
noind, but If you see a hid. hit It."
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
LONEsOME FOR AIlAsKA

After the stafehOOd OH Dasses
Alaska win feel mighty lonesome
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

Dot Misder. Durno vot pairform
May be a juggolier,
But hiss work. iss hardly worthy If
abblaus.
In some locations he iss s.varm,''
But only tiresome, here,
Fer We haf seen 7. Kelly juggIe Laws.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

TROUBLES Oh THE RICH.
Be kind 10 the Ech. Think of the
troubles they have with such people as
Col Mann.-Chicago Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

tink Ed Howe iss wasting Iod Ut
walluaple dime batting aroundt ofer
dere in Aslly, ven he ought to be ad
home roasdfng der punk pollytishuns
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17
ne FIRST THING.


not enough to make of him a great
ruler.=Syracuse Post Standard
THE FIRST THING.
Engineer Stevens says the canal
can be completed in seven years; but
Ledger.
UP TO DATE.
Secretary Taft has reversed the old
order by sending to congress, already
typewriter, an assorted dozen bills he
wants passed.-Baltimor sun.
%
THE USUAL THING.
Prof. Blair of Hamilton college,
says people in Mars live to be 200
wears old. Will he kindly tell us
whether they chew or smoke?-To-
ledo Blade.
KEPT BUSY.
There is always something doing in
Ecuador. Between revolutions down
there they have akes.-Indian-
apolis News.
AN OPTIMIST.
A man lost leg in a railway ac-
cident, and when they picked him up
the first word he said was Thank
the Lord, it was the leg with the
rheumatism ins''-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
SOMETHING FREE.
While the members of the legisIa-
ture do not get any free railroad
passes, the most of them for the first
time in years viii enjoy the free use
of their own thoughts and votes.=
Philadelphia Press.
OH, NO.
The sultan of Turkey is in a posi-
ton to assure Mr.. Castro of Venezuela
that naval demonstration is not nee
essarily Washington Star.
LONESOME FOR ALASKA.
After the statehood bill passes
Alaska win feel mighty lonesome
Chicago News
THE TOUGHER TOUCHED.
So Justice Deuel. is deeply touched
by his predicament The TOUGHER touch
ed, as it Milwaukee Sentinel
TROUBLES OF THE RICH.
Be kind 10 the Esch. Think of the
troubles they have with such people as
Col Chicago Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-17

What is the cure for it all? The boys
should be saved as well as the girls.
Doubtless the correct answer is that
the boys should also be GROUNDED in
such principles of honor that they viii
protect virtue instead of betraying it.
The fostering OF places where vice and
iniquity flourish win only educate bows
to be vicious. Dens Of vice should be
suppressed wherever possible. but too
often they are hidden away out OF sight.
The only way to counteract thetn is by
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