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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
oUAKER REFLECTEONs.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record.

From the iladelphfa Record.l
When the razor slips a man simply
turns the other cheek.
In spite of the bookbinders most
books are bound by precedent.
Some peoples only idea Of an an
cestor IS an old gentleman with govt.
Guzzler-''Have night cap ?" Wig
wag=''No. thanks, 1t always goes to
my head"
Many man would rather be right
than be president, but It Is quite pos
sible to be neither.
When a youngster is called "a nice
little boy" he seems to think It i'm
plies an insinuation that he is sissy.
The man who is always trying to
get something for nothing generally
ends by getting nothing for some
thing.
Wigg-..Is there rope trust ~
Wagg-"I don't know. but if there is
7 hope the promoters get it in the
neck"
After an old maid reaches certain
age she regards marriage merely as
an opportunity for q girl to throw
herself away on some man.
The Lion-'The leopard, you know.
cannot change his spots" The Zebra
well. I can't change my stripes.
either. but no one ever thought It of
sufficient interest to make a proverb
Of"
what would you do if you were
rich?" asked the New York man.
well" replied the man from Chi
eago, 'I s'pose the first thing I would
do would be to have dinner at supper
time. like all the rest Of the rich
folks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A great many people are making a
great fuss about John D. Rockefeller
being missing to whom it makes no
difference. For instance, this depart
ment does not miss Mr.. Rockefeller in
the least.
No wonder the Ohio railroads make
fuss about that two-cents-a-m mile
law. Think of having to haul Secre-
tary Taft for two cents a milel
Among other things this depart
ment is thankful that it is not John
D. Rockefeller and that it does not
have to ask the attorney general Of
Missouri for permission to go home to
see. the baby.
Been some time now since Harper's
Weekly offered woodrow Wilson the
presidency and he hasn't accepted
Had not Harper's better pass it on to
someone else?
Among other problems the Philip
pines have given us to worry about is
whether Mount Dajo is pronounced
as though it were spelled with an '+h. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

THE GOOD COACH AND THE HOME
II shee wood onley pronnufs that sum day
sheed 90 with trle ann naik a bubble play
IN sum small ehurtch ann sine a konn-
tract then
too play with me wurld without end
asnenn
weed be TEEN too bette UNI awL ann
kood stand Owt on the eoachen lines ann
just volt to doc ann if she was mi bride
ann hollered slide i Woodunt waite ide
ann if she sedd go back to furst ide go
WltnoWt wurd beeaws she tolled me SO.
ann HENRY beamus sedd tits often so
ure apt to get pass to furst uno
ann get put owt bi leeden or to farr
DuI with gurl too be ure giden starr
0fe alaoast sure to ma1k a rum ann gett
a chance too play with the bigg leegers
yeti
ann HENRY sedd tins trubbles are the
Wurst
frum furst too hoam ann not fruu hoam
to furst
but u have gott a bettur chance to win
II she is there on thurd to coach u in.
if shee wood onIey waite a vile sheed see
me bait three Numbered ann otto be
hearo then ann wenn she hurd the
crowd
awl cheer fore me it otto rnaik hur provvd
to no that wenn iHne up too bat ann line
the bawl way owt in rite field she is
mine
ann / am hurs. ann If wun the gain
with hoam run 1 wood not kare fore
but jusst to have hur KUN to me am say
sheez prowd Nv me fore Wott i dunn
To-day. III. ". Foley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
JAYHA WKER JOTS

The Mcpherson Republican appears
to have Joined the spelling reform
movement It speaks of "librel' sub
scriDtions to the town clock fund.
Among the names that the newsDa-
pers near the PottOwatonte reserva-
ton have to wrestIe with are M-zhick-
i-ne-quah. P-noz-wah and M-Spit-to.
Lincoln has let the contracts for an
electric light plant and a system OF
waterworks, and it threatens to put on
metropolitan airs in about six months.
In the Crystal Springs neighborhood
in Saline county the spring chicken
business is already booming. Incu-
batOrs are working overtime and
nearly every woman has had from 100
chickens down for several weeks
Advice to the girls by Bert Walker:
Things are awful duh, aren't they, my
young lady friend2 You Just can't find
anything to do in the old town. Ter
rible to have to live in a place where
you can find absolutely nothing to do
from one mornings end to another. But
can tell you how you can keep busy
part of the time. Tomorrow morning
you hop out OF bed early and get
breakfast started. Then 60 in and tell
mother she need not get up until she
feels Ike it. If she wants 1t, you can
fix uD some toast and coffee and take
1t to her room. She has done it for
you lots of times After breakfast wash
the dishes, sweep and dust the rooms
and straighten up things generally.
Then get busy with dinner. You may
have to chase down town for a thing
or two. but it will do you good Mother
got strong running her own errands.
After dinner is over and you have
things cleared away you can find time
to do the sewing you say you need.
7 on might slip in an hour or two by
reading some good book. Then you
can get supper, and after it is over and
the dishes are washed you will be al
liberty to spruce up, sit IN the parloI
and Wait For His Coming. OF course
this routine would get dresome IN the
course OF quarter Of a century, but
you will find that you haven't more
than got to be a fair hand at It until
some Nice Man viii pick you up and sci
you into a home OF your own=and
then YOU VIII have plenty to do to keer
you busy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

/ death and learned to love him as ali
I did who became at ali closely acquaint-
ed with him. And we are glad that
/ before his DEATH we apoIogized for all
the mean things we said about him,
and paid him the tribute that was his
Just due, that OF a big Drained tender
hearted. courageous. honest man.
but there is a farther moral to al
this that we desire to draw just now"
continues the Edwards county editor
statesman. Kansas Is largely ruled by
It's newspapers. In some states the
lawyers run the state. In some states
the railroads run the state. In some
states the politicians run the state but
Kansas is personally conducted by its
newspapers. The newspapers Of kan
sas make and unmake public men, set
heroes upon a pedestal for the crowd
to worship and the next year kick the
pedestal from under them and roll
them IN the dust and cover them with
obloauy. The newspapers of Kansas.
are ably edited, strong in attack or de-
Tense, but tickle as the proverbial wind,
Inconsistent as a Democratic platform,
and bitter as gall If they admire a
man he is a demigod. If they dislike
him he IS anathema maranatha and
nothing IS too bad to say about him.
Sometimes we think the newspa per
editors already recognize their RESPONSE
bility in a state like Kansas that is so
supremely swayed by its editorial
writer's and newsgatI erers.
Year after year they play upon
public passions and every year they
play q different tune. They abused
Jerry Simpson living and praise him
dead. They exalted Hoch and debased
Bailey and next year it will be the 9TH
er way about. They have no modera-
ton, no caution, they never weigh or
examine or judge impartialIy They
think with an axe and reason with
wet elm club. The newspapers of Kan
sas are more French than Roehefort's
Intransigeant, more Partisan than
Figaro. They delight in instructions
and glory in revolution. Just as soon
as they have laid the foundations for
public mans career, and he thinks he
is geing some. they put a stick of dyna-
mite under him and Gilderoy's kite is
a daisy cutter compared to him.
They are brilliant. and honest for
they always believe that the mood they
are then In is heaven inspired and in
fa1libIe. They can reverse the.6 selves
quicker than the supreme court. and
turn fip-fops faster than a japanese
acrobat. They are always right this
year and they never read last years
files
There Is no yellow in them. but all
the other primary and derivative colors
are there, and Proteus, the chameleon
and the. kaleidoscope are fast colors
and fixed types compared to them
Maybe that is what makes them so in
teresting; you never know what the
devil they will say next. But it would
conduce the stability of politics, the
security Of regulations, and the contin-
uity Of public opinion if they didn't act
so much like a. lot of boys with a dog
and a tin can"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
EROA OTHER PENS


Richard Croker is to return to New
York in May for a short visit, escorted
by several of his former heutenants
who viii go to Ireland for. the purpose
The wonder is that he does not contem-
plate taking up his residence with us
again. The inquiry which made life 50
uncomfortable for him there reveral
years ago now has so wide an appHca-
ton that he would not stand alone as
he then did. where did you get it %
is flung about pretty generally. Boss
ism, It is true is not now remunerative,
and may not be again for some time,
but Mr.. Croker is we'll fixed" and
need not consider the mere matter of
money. It is difficult to think of him
as without further political ambition.
Office never attracted him, but run
ming things has its charms, and he
once possessed the talent for that. He
cannot wholly have lost it Stranger
revivals have happened than would be
that of the Crokerian power in Tam
many.-Wa Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

All the self-made men we're not
born in the United States. Most Amer
leans who visit Ell Paso. Texas. go across
the Rio Grande to the little Mexican
city Juarez- 1T was named for Benito
Juarez. Mexican patriot and statesman.
who was born one hundred years ago
last Wednesday His parents were
both full-bIood Indians Of the zapo-
tecan race, and he was left an orphan
at the age Of four years. His early
lie was spent as a sheep herder and
ne was twelve years old before he re-
ceived any education whatever. yet he
struggled UP from poverty and iano-
rance to be president Of Mexico. The
centennial Of his birth was observed
not only in Mexico. but It was cele-
brated in FL Paso last Wednesday with
the greatest parade ever held in the
southwest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Up at Lincoln the county attorney
and sheriff got busy on st. Patrick IS
Day and started an inuulsition to ind
out where some OF the topers and
others had been getting their liquor.
Az fast as the county attorney Gin
quisited' one victim, the sheriff would
have another ready for him. and the
inQuisidon followed SO fast upon the
subpoena that the inquisited individ-
uaI had no time to get his forgotten
into good working order. It Is said
that a number OF Witnesses were Sc
cured who had been celebrating st.
Patrfck's Day not an hour before. A
peculiar coincidence Of the affair was
that q few hours later the proprietors
OF one OF the local drug stores gave a
ohattel deed OF trust to a local attor-
ueys and On Monday morning It was
discovered that the aforesaid pro-
prietors had been called out Of town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Party lines are breaking I'D in
Washington says the Chicago News.
which is very distressing to the trusts.
which in the good old days had only
70 make deal with the boss Of the
party and were not obliged to see the
oAft@Hent members, vVlc were told by tina
boss how they were going to vote. It
takes nerve sometimes to break away
from q party, but never before did the
discerning constituent have his long
distance eye so firmly focused on the
statesmen This may account for some
of the queer things that are happen
ing" And the fact II at party lines are
breaking up all over the country may
account for some Of the queer things
that are going to happen at home"
next November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
KANSAS COAAENT.
THE ROOT AND MS MONEY.

THE FOOL AND HIS MONEY.
A young student said, I am game
clean to my feet" He was offering
70 bet on the contest at any odds.
Are there no sports in Marquetteg''
ne asked US We looked him over.
The money he had to gamble with was
furnished him by some one else, his
hard working father or, perhaps, his
sacrificing mother had earned It at the
Washtub to give her son an education.
Had he earned it at hard labor him
self he would not have been so game
with It. This game" spirit has ruined
many young man. We once talked
to a man who had Just committed q
cold blooded murder and he said, I'm
game, no duffer can be more game
than me and TIL prove it to him" We
felt sorry for this game" young fell
low. He is started on road that leads
to financial and moral ruin.-Marquette
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Freas-1
man can hardly ever afford to be
we'll dressed If his family IS.
A girl calls It being Ia love when a
man asks her to play tennis with him
The trouble with happiness is there
are too many people to divide 1t Up
among.
When a woman doesn't mind to-
bacco smoke in the house e IS a sign
she isn't telling the truth.
makes woman awful nervcszs
about the baby 70 read that there IS
an epidemic Of something in India.
re takes q woman TO know things
without understanding them-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

II there were any probability that the
Democracy would take the advice Of
Judge Parker and nominate southern
man for president very likely William
Randolph Hearst might ind 1t neees-
aary 90 take up his resiaenee in Dixie
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
STRATEGY.

mother heard one of her two little
daughters coughing in bed. She went
TO the relief with the household remedy,
a bitter concoction which the girls al
ways rebelled against. The cougher be-
ing awake knew what was up and when
the mother asked who coughed prompt
~ indicated the sleeping sister. The
sister was reused enough to take the
spoon and the cought remedy went it's
way innocently. But the trick was too
good to keep and in a few days it was
school ground gossip. Now the mother
will know it. too.-Counen Grove Guard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

White House she was superior to an
As the wife Of q Congressman she IS
superior to none. AS Miss Roosevelt
the wife or daughter of a senator was
expected to ask permission to cali
while as the wife of Congressman
Longworth she must call first On the
senator's wife. What viii she do and
what win happen il she doesn't2 These
be mighty questions. my countrymen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Problems OF state pale into insig-
nincauce beside another question thar
is now confronting washington. State
hood. rate regulation, the Chinese sit
uation, and everything else IS OF sec
ondary importance. The question is
waat is the social status Of Mrs
Nicholas Lougworth7 Is Mrs. Long
worth as good or as worthy as she
used to be. or ought the wives Of sena-
tors and ambassadors to look down
upou ber2 As the daughter Of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Here is the testimony of the Kansas
City Star: s'Tin" Donovan is again
CHIEF Of police of Topeka. During the
last fifteen years Topeka has exper-
inented with a dozen chiefs Of police.
but it always reverts to Donovan. Per
sonaly Tim" is a Democrat but Off
cially he is an enforcer Of the law If
he is ordered to close the saloons In
Topeka he viii close them without go
ing to the trouble Of issuing any mani
Iaetnaa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

France IS rapidly becoming Amer
icanized Not only did she recently
have a big mine disaster. due to care
less inspection but now she has a big
coal strike on her hands. The exodus
Of dnanciers from New York to Paris
appears to be having its effect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

A woman who had invested large
sums through Pierpont Morgan. re-
Gently visited Mr.. AIorgan's ohices and
created a great disturbance by assert
2ng that MI Morgan had robbed her Of
million dollars. Morgan had her
adjudged insane. She appears to
have been another frenzied hnancier
20 to sneak
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

But will Senator Lodge kindly tell
US why, if governmental control makes
for higher rates, the railroad magnates
are so opposed. to Charleston
News and Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Speaking OF funny things IN politics.
an old-time Clay Center Populist who
has always preached subreasury, gov
ernmert ownership. and all the rest. is
now running for councilman on a plat
form opposed to municipal ownership
Of the electric nghs plant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
UNINfPORTANT.

preceding on policy and not principle.
Mr.. Belmont's financial position secures
him more publicity than his political
importance nts--Ptttsburg Dis
patch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Governor Penny acker Is said to
speak six languages. but he needs all
Of them when he tries to express his
opinion OF newspapers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
HOORAY! HOORAYt

Congressman Calcerhead is singing
THE clouds have rolled away and the
postnlasters of the district are joining
in the chorus with great gusto.-Belle-
vile Telescope.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

ssOId Goldrox has gone bankrupt"
you don't say2 What was the trou-
ble9''
spent ali his money trying to learn
how to live simple life. ''-A1uWaukee
Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
IAN issue Found.


The greater lesson of the municipal
tidal wave of November, 1905, is that
at last an issue has been found which
stirs the depths of the mass vote.
Deep has called unto deep in our
great cities. I4eviathan has stirred,
and any man at his peril will here
after seek to bind him with his bands
for the corporation furrow or to use
him to harrow the valleys to reap the
It is idle to suppose that this great
It IS idle to suppose that his great
mass, which has stirred to the call of
Mr.. Hearst in New York and re-
sponded in other cities is moved simp-
~ by the desire for administrative re-
form. pure politics. pure water, or a
more economical administration of
city affairs. Why should they be? In
Philadelphia the advantaged and
prosperous knew that the ballot was
debauched, that gambling was licensed
and that the daughters of the poor
We're the sport Of a white slave traffic
but none of these things moved them
until their gas bills were increased.
and then they rose and swore an oath
to high heaven that, whatever else the
ring could debauch and plumber it
should NOT be allowed to increase
their gas bills,-Talcott Williams in
The Reader for February
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Der people down ad Ottywa, so der
alIeched correspondence sayss. ISIS sdnl
seeing larche Wild animals efery
vonce-in-a-viIe. Der attorney cheneVal
should look alder Ottywa- We hat
some mighty bad brands here, but our
citizens nefer see anything worse den
pink rats.
zince der dayss Ut Carrie Nation Dis
city hat not peen so much Ut choke
to der Easdern Press as i'd hat skince
der Morning Gazoot began using Der
ssyYhoop und Shout" twelfe-deck fairsd
colum hed-lines aloud absolutely
nodings.
Bitzness fss on der bum in zion Cidy.
Might We suggestion dot AElsder Ches-
uscrist Dowie shafe und sdart a met
tress fectory?
RERHABS7
oh Choyt Der schnow haf vent
IJnd Hence der sdreet ISIS dry,
CCept we're some leaky choinqt scendE
Assails der passers-py)
Der IiddIe birdlets scrap und tWit
Along der gutter gpoudt,
TJnd Spring egstends der gladstone rnitt
To greedt us Ut we're oudt.
Py der time you see dis Bad sedf-
rnents, der schnow may be sigs foogs
deep on der lefel. ind der peach crop
may be frosen again. am no vedder-
prophet, und hat to write dis dfdeen
HANS ZuPP.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
GET BUSY AND WORRY.

A scientist has declared that the sun
will grow cold in six million years. An
other thing for people TO worry about
Lindsborg News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
WHY HEAR THF LIARS?

Hear the Hars- then DIG Inc canal"
says Secretary Taft. That's business.
New York Telesrann.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

BE not deceived; God IS not Knocked; for
whatever a man s0Weth. that shall he
also Galatians 6:7.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

A contemporary states that the late
Prof. Huxley, during one of his lectur-
ing tours, was invited to take the chair
at an anti-tobacco meeting. He con-
sented, and received a hearty reception
from large gathering.
In his speech at the opening of the
meeting, Huxley related a personal in
cident. He was visiting a friend with
whom he had animated discussions on a
recent scientific discovery in which they
We're both deeply interested.
However, there was one point on
which we differed" continued the pro-
fessor; my friend was a great smoker.
while 7 detested tobacco in any form. -
Great applause.)
After dinner we usually retired to his
study; but finding myself once nearly
suffocated with my friends cigar
smoke. expostulated. Thereupon,
pushing the cigars before me- he said.
Take one yourself; it's the best
remedy.
las knew I couldn't induce him to
give up his, [ reluctantly took cigar
and smoked it. And since that time, Ia
dies and gentlemen, nothing on earth
could induce me (renewed applause) to
forego my afternoon cigar. Chicago
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Dere's symptoms in der atmosphere
vot makes me doubtful, und 7 fear,
ed OUT too sudden, yet to atfertiss
Sveed Spring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
NC Secret of Farming.


The leading factor in making the
farm pay is the maintenance Of crop
producing power. In a state of nature
the soil does not wear out Nature
crops decay on the land that produces
them. and each year there is added to
the soil a small amount Of plant food
from the weathering of the rock par
ticles of the soil.
There are two general methods of
restoring soil fertility: one consists in
feeding a large proportion Of the crops
to live stock, returning the resulting
manure to the soil; the other, in grow
ing crops that add nitrogen and humus
to the soil. combined with the use of
commercial fertilizers. Generally
these two methods can be combined to
advantage.
The most universal fault with Amer
lean farmers is the lack of appreciation
of the value Of good agricultural liter
ature. The successful man in any
calling is always a student. In addi-
ton to this, he is predetermined and
a close observer.
The farm has always been and viii
always be the bulwark of national
character. The teachings of science
are taking the drudgery out of
farm life and lifting it to higher
plane. There is a distinct current set
ting in from city to country. Tt is a
healthy movement. Let it grow
Farming for March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Some Wichita. thiefs peppered DER
tracks to keeb der dogs from ketch-
ing dem Now id ISIS oop to der OH
sers to put saldt on der tails uf der
criminals, eounteract der uffects VI
der pepper, und catch dem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24

Two cendts q gallon will fix ID py der
time he iss oidt enuff to schmoke Gig
aroots er sign checks.