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The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

s.As near as can lgure out, re-
marked one Of the brightest Republi-
cans IN Kansas. who has heretofore af-
fllafed with the machine the Re-
publican party has a great opportunity
before It this year. and it Is making
the worst botch 1t ever made. And I
think those OF as who help do it VIII
So home and never be heard OF again
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
POOR BOYl

James Apdrews. age 16. the only 10Y
in a class Of seven TO be graduated this
spring at Oxford, Pa, committed suicide
because he didn't want to face the or
deal, and who, that has seen an awk-
ward boy, surrounded by white skirted,
graceful girls on the stage, can blame
him ?-Atchison Globe
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

The Kansas city Star remarks: Ac-
cording to the Abilene Reflector viii
liam A. Harris was not prominent as
q senator" He certainly was not
prominent IN the way that the Re
aector's great and good friend, ].
Ralph Burton OF Abilene, is prominent.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

The members Of the Illinois Ierisla-
ture appears TO be training for the
United States senate. They were cali
ed together several weeks ago to pass
8 primary election law IN an emerxen-
cy to take the place of the one that
had been knocked out by the Illinois
supreme court, and It hasn't had time
60 consider e yet.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Those Republicans who are figuring
on the 5000 plurality given Governor
Koch two years ago as giving them
cinch. should remember that there will
be no Roosevelt to attract them this
gear. and it will be just as easy for
them to vote for Harris as for Hoch
two years ago.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

The announcement that Taft's boom
is growing must not be confused with
the notion that Mr.. Taft is still grow
ing. Mr.. Taft's downward progress to-
ward the 250-pound mark is said to be
slow but steady.--I.awrence World.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
THE REAL ANARCHISTS.

Some years ago a prominent preacher
of New York made the declaration that
the plutocrats were the real anarchists
OF the country. The plutocrats laugh-
ed. Let US see. Should a conflict be
precipitated between the classes and
the masses, who will have begun it,
The men who have used license and
privilege to grab more than their share
of production. 1t Is easy to call the roll
OF these men. The. names grow always
clearer. They are those who make and
control the gigantic trusts who buy
courts and legislatures. who write spec
ia1 privileges into the body of the laws,
who own special Representatives in the
public council.-Memphis News-Scimi-
tar.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Among the contributions to San Fran
cisco no advice should be accepted for
Transmission. San Francisco can man
ufacture its own advice. It needs bread
and butter and cash more than it needs
ndvfra
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
THEN AND NOW.

Politics is improving. After Harris
was nominated Governor Hoch said he
considered 5Iarris the strongest man
the opposition could possibly have
named. Ten years ago rival candi-
dates always pretended to believe each
that the other was a low -browed, pig
eyed freak Tho e1caped being a villain
only cause natr- e made him an idiot.
Lawrence Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

The little ordinary. half-grown
earthquake hardly gets a two-line
mention in the san Francisco papers
any more. It takes the real thing to
shock California people now.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

There Is a disposition among some
delegates to believe that the lucky can
didate this year is the one who isn't
nominated. He won't waste time and
money in a campaign.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

An Iowa statesman declares that the
American hen can pay of the national
debt in a year. Maybe she can. but
most people woeld be willing to let the
national debt run awhile IL she Will
5uat pay OF their debts as starter.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Maxim Gorlxy scomplains that he is
not appreciated in America. Mr.. Gorky
is mistaken. The Americans appreciate
fully his insult to them in bringing an
actress to this country with him. and
that is why they viii have nothing to
do with him.-Salina Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
WHAT On IT.

The people WHO live around vesuvius
have had plenty of warning They
might have known that when the Caney
gas well Yves capped things would break
loose on tho ether side.-Sedgwiclx
Paragraph.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
on AGTN.

The sun is hot,
The crowd Is there,
The ladies' fans
Mix up the air.
The bIeachers hold
a crowd Of guys
Made mostly
or mouths and eyes;
Each player. IN
A brand new shirt,
Doth take his place.
Each sense alert;
Now listen to
The umpire call:
gmp-ump-u -ump-ump
Imp p-unp-PLAY BALL"
r.1r.Alnr. Loc.e.t
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Senator Burton was the only member
OF the Kansas congressional delegation
who was in Topeka yesterday. Senator
Burton was not afraid of injuring his
political prospects.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

But let not anyone conclude that
the present insurrectlon in Kansas in
dicates in the least that Kansas will
vote for a Democratic president in two
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

OF course II the State Journal had
been advocating the election of Harris
as governor, it also would have earn
estly desired the denomination Of Gov
eruor FIoch.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
''The most imoortant national issuI

THE most important national issue
Is tariH reform" says william A.
Harris. There IS possibility that Mr..
Harris may be the next governor Of
1zRnsas. II he should be. Kansas will
be satisfied If he succeeds in reform
Ing the state government He can let
the tarin reform itself.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
ALWAYs AHEAD

A prophet of evil Says tves may expect
a long dry spell 'ihc August. The writer
has lived In Kansas fof thirty years and
never knew a time when somebody
couldn't see Gala nifty ahead.-Gaylord
Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Governor Hoch that he was in favor OF
his denomination.
It viii be interesting to note whether
the mayor of Wichita has secured irn-
Yuuuffv.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

very likely Kansas viii survive a
while longer even though a railroad
ticket IS nominated.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

What do you suppose Colonel Bill
sapp has been thinking as he has
heard the rumblings from Topeka dur
ing the last three or four days?
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

"I've got heart failure" is the way
one delegate expressed it when asked
what he thought Of the chances for
Republican success.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Hobson, you will remember, has
been nominated fol-. congress a time or
two down in Alabama-but never
elected.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

This time It isn't case OF strike
while the iron is hot" but a strike
while the miners are prosperous.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
Much Ado About Nothing.

The man in the restaurant was angry
and the proprietor was endeavoring to
pacify him, says the Detroit Free Press.
What is the trouble?" asked he
tAren't you satisfied with things here ?''
not
Whats wrong? Wasn't the service
quick enough2 2'
Yes, answered the patron but
Was the waitress iTnppfite %
No. rs the
wasn't the table linen clean %
Yes, but I tell you"
Were your knife and fork all
Yes. they were all right. but I tell
you the
You haven't been overcharged?"
No, she charged me the regular
scale"
Well, whatever can be the matter2''
The food is bad. Man, 1 tell you
the food is bad
"Oh, pshaw," said the proprietor. rs
that all? thought something was
really wrong. You people are getting
altogether too particular"
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

BY the way. has anyone heard Of
Mr.. Bryan lately?
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Some way or other the san Fran
cisco earthquake has been lost sight Of
"a Kansas for a few days.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Mayor Ross. of wichita. evidently
believed that discretion is the better
part Of valor.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

The United states senate Is unlike
bill distributors. The latter pass bills,
but the senate only talks about it.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
No one REALLY KNOWS.

explaine the causes which led to
the San Francisco horror The Geld
truth Is that all of their altered facts
are merely theories and deductions for
nobody hiladelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02
Where the Japs ran.

It is said that the japanese are an
ingenious race, but it appears to the
occidental mind that there are limits
to this boasted ingenuity. An ento-
molcgist in a New York college tells
The Reader for April of a case where
a trusted japanese assistant failed him
in a moment where singular ingenuity
was required. The scientist had a tray
of carefully arranged and minute spec
linens and was carrying It from one
table to another. when he stumbled on
a protruding chair leg and partly fell,
scattering the specimens over the floor.
Many hours of work were in a second
undone. Some serviceable and hard
worked expletive must have leaped to
his lips and then proved inadequate to
the occasion, for, after a pregnant mo-
ment Of silence he turned to the Jap
anese and said:
Tell me quick what would you say
in japanese II such a thing happened
to. you2 Give me the translation in
stantly."
All said the japanese scientist,
with calm gravity, I'VE would address
the chair and say, You are very i'm
polite.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Miss Oldone-I wouldn't have refused
Charley Banks if I'd been you
Miss Sweetgirls-I don't believe would,
either IF Id been you.-Chieago journal
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

your papa isn't as nice as my papa
is - 4.o,,
think your papa is-'-HousSon Ros1-
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Cashier cant honor that check, mad
am; your husbands account is over
drawn.
Mrs Coin-I suspected something was
wrong uhin he signed 1t without waiting
for me to go into hysterics--Ch chicago
Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

From New Jersey had come a report
that mosquitoes were making a mid-=sin-
ter visit The best sleuth of the stan was
Nothing to it, he wired back. Some
neopie over here have been stEng by the
spirff of reform and are buzzing about it
philadelphia Ledger
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

she-Do you know what I'd do if you
should try to kiss me2
He-No, why?
she-Oh, nothing; only you don't seem to
have any curiosity.-London Tit-Bits-
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

How did you cure your boy Of swear
SBy the laying on Of hands. Chicago
Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

Knfeker-Do you think dreams are caus-
ed by what you eatZ
Tocker-I know it; I had a little supper
with the boys and now my wife has q
dream of a hat.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

"Johnny's in love with his teacher. isn't
he p,
ssWeu he was, but he's feeling some
what sauelched now He wrote her love
letter and she gave it back to him with
An the mistakes IN spelling corrected N
red ink. Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

The airship is still in its infancy.
Say
'sWell?''
s.Ioo you ever think they'll get that child
raised 5''-Louisville COurier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

! Wilson Foster is a very taetfpi u. man
C3lIson-Ie has to be. He has been work
ing in a department store for 4 years
selling women's shoes.-Somerville Jour
raj
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

AREN'T you ashamed to beg2'
Sometimes, mum When hnd nos
stfnev people are I fairly bushes To-
them Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-02

what Is your idea OF successg'
fsst1ceess" answered the cynfc consists
II, making enough stir about your achieve
n3erfs to cause your failures to be over
looked washington Star
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-01
TAKEN 200 MILES ON SLED
Body Of Dead sootchman Is Pulled BY
Hand Long Distancs-Party
in Great Danger.

Ottawa, Can.-George Ross Mckay, a
native of New Glasgow died in the
wilds Of northern Quebec while en-
ployed as q member of national
transcontinental survey party. Grand
Lake Victoria is 400 miles from rail-
way. 1t was here that Mr.. Mckay had
been at work as axman for the last six
months.
Becoming seriously Ill in the early
part of February, he desired to return
to Ottawa, and In company with his
20-year-old son. William Mckay, two
Indians and several other men, he set
out on the trip.
| A hand sleigh was the sole means OF
conveyance. So weak was Mr.. Nc
Kay's condition, however, that only IL
miles Of the way had been traversed
when he died on February 6. The par
ty then placed his remains on the
hand sleigh and for 66 miles pulled this
conveyance along.
After that teams were occasionally
met with, and though these helped
somewhat in the rest Of the journey to.
war civilization, 1t was only on Febru.
ary 18 that the railway line was
reached at Mackie's Station, on thu
Canadian Pacific railway line, where
a coffin was secured for the remains
and the body was then brought to OF.
| taWa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-01
WASH IN RUNNING WATER.
Public Drinking Places in Buenos
Ayres Must Cleanse Glasses
That Way.

"They do some things better in Buenos
Ayres than we do in this country" said
former Milwaukee man, who has spent
many years in Argentina.
IT may be considered small matter
by some, and yet one ironclad regulation
down there always struck me as emil
pently sound-a regulation providing
that all glasses used in barrooms, saloons
and public drinking places shall be
washed in running water. The idea Is
that by cleansing them in water that is
used over and over there is good chance
for the transmission of disease. Inspec-
tors are always on their rounds seeing
that the law is observed, and woe to the
man who is found derelict in it's OBJ
servance. Buenos Ayres, by the way, is
kept as clean as any city in the United
States, and is one of the most progress
sive towns in the world.
when man dies down there 1t does
not matter whether he made will dis
posing of his property of not. The law
of the country comes into play, and d.
vides all his possessions equally among
his heirs. Not one of them can be disin-
herited. One good effect Of this is to do
away with big landed estates. Many OF
these, though, are still of enormous size
and farms of 5000 acres are the rule
rather than the exception.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-01

be good natured, but when he is sick
and mad, and full of snuff, be is gend.
One such camel is enough for man to
handle, but when II canels are all
sneezing at once and trying to locate
the person that is responsible for their
trouble, it is the safest to keep away, and
when pa went in amongst them, with
no shirt on, and the Arab keepers had
run away in fright, it was dangerous
thing to do
But pa is brave even to rashness. He
went up to Mahomet, the double
bumped leader of the herd, who was the
leader of the sneezers, and kicked him
In the Stats and told him to hush up his
noise. He dubbed him on the humps
with tent stake. Then there was q
rebellion in Egypt, and Mahomet bit pa,
and wouldn't let go, and the other
camels sneezed all over pa, and had him
down. walking on him with their padded
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-01

take in money enough to buy meat for
the animals. He said the animals had
all taken cold, and lay around dormant
and didn't take any interest in the BUSH
ness, and the manager told pa he must
think of something to wake the animals
up. Pa said he would leave it to me to
wake 'em up, and get some ginger into
them told pa if had five dollars to
spend could make every animal jump
like a box car. Pa gave me the money,
and 1 went and bought five pounds Of
Scotch snuff, and divided it up into ounce
packages, and started during the after
noon performance at Wilmington, Del,
to wake up the animals.
There is something peculiar about
animals, If you try to give them any
thing that they think you want them to
take, you can't drive it down them with
a pile driver, but If you try to hide some
thing where they can reach it, they
watch you out Of one eye, and when you
60 away they look at you rs much as to
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-01
TO LIVE OVER STORE.
Aeiress of $50, 900, to Turn
Homestead Into Business
Place for Rentals.

Philadelphia.-In line with her ideas
of unostentatiousness and frugality,
Mrs. Anne Weightman Walker. the
richest woman in America, will Iva
over store. She intends to convert
the old Weightman mansion at 1885
and 1888 Walnut street into a paying
proposition, and from rentals to add
to the $50,0o0,000 left her by her Ia!
ther, the chemist. Sc
The old homestead stands in one Of
the most desirable locations in the
city. The fact that it yielded no re-
turns and that the taxation upon 1t Is
very heavy has not been pleasing to
Mrs. Walker, and she has decided 10
have the basement and first floor con-
verted into stores. She will occupy
the upper floors. ~
In strict economy OF this kind, Mrs.
Walker is very much like that other
rich woman, Mrs. Hetty Green, who
frequently finds it advantageous in a
financial way to live over stores shs
owns or in small apartments. Mrs.
| Walker and Mrs. Green have some
thing else In common-each has an
income of about 100000 a year.
The fact that Mrs. Walker will make
this use of the homestead property
has disposed of the story that she
wishes to become social leader and
would use the old Weightman man
sion as the scene of social functions.
Mrs. Jones Wister, who has brought
suit against Mrs. Walker in an effol.
to break the will of William Weight
man, by which Mrs. Walker received
the entire fortune, remains the social
leader, while Mrs. Walker keeps the
/ millions. ~
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-01

He wanted me to try my snuff cure on
the performers and freaks, cause they
were getting to be dead ones.
Well. before the day was over at Will
mington, Del, pa was scared worse
than he ever was in all his life before.
The state of Delaware is the only state
that Furnishes criminals by tying them
up and whipping them on the bare back
with a cat o-nine-tails, and all our
men had been warned to be good while
they were in Delaware, cause If they
committed any crime there was no pows
er on earth that could save them from
being publicly horsewhipped. Pa him
self impressed it on the men to look out
that they didn't get into any trouble.
makes men good.
Twenty years ago some hold-up men
from New York robbed bank in Della
ware, and were caught, and given so
lashes apiece on the bare back, by big
negro. and there has never been bur-
glary in Delaware since. We thought
we would play joke on pa, so the man
ager told pa that constables were look
ing for him to arrest him for cruelty to
animals, for kicking a camel in the
stomach, and hitting the camel with an
iron bar, and that if pa didn't want to
be publicly horsewhipped on the bare
back he better skip out for Washington,
d. c., where we would show in couple
of days, and wait for us.
Pa was so frightened he couldn't get
supper, and everybody talked about
cats of nine tails, and how prisoners
were cut to pieces, and every time pa
saw jay with a SLOUGH hat he thought ii
was constable aft. him. After dark
he put on an old suit of clothes and said
| he was going to Washington. They told
him If he went to take train he would
| surely be arrested at the depot, so pa
| put saddle on one of the mules, and
rode out of town and rode all night, and
ers to be delivered at Wilmington fol
| the circus. Finally he got out Of Della,
ware, and the next day the farmers came
in with the oats, but the show was gone
and they won't do thing to pa if he
ever shows up in Delaware again.
Pa met US at the depot in Washington
but he was ever SO changed from his
long ride and anxiety over the posi-
bility of being arrested and pilloried
and lambasted by negro in Delaware
He said to me, with trembling voice:
'sHennery, this ere show business is too
much for your pa. would rather be {
Mormon, in Utah, with 40 wives, ant
several hundred children, and Ions
whiskers. l am q changed man, Hen
merry, and afraid Of my shadoW,a
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-01

Well, spose have done it, now, and
It would not surprise me to be killed and
fed to wild animals. The manager of
the show was talking to pa and me, be-
fore we left New York, about the condi-
ton Of the show. It's finances were all
balled up on account of settling with
people who pretended to be injured
when the tent blew down at Poughkeep-
sic, and the hands and performers are
kicking because we are month behind
on salaries, and they get drunk when
ever any jay will buy for them. Every
body gives passes to everybody that
wants to get in the show, so the box
Office man has sinecure and people
chase us from town to town for money
for board, and hay, and everything.
All through New Jersey we showed to
claim agents and creditors, and didn't
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-01
CAVE 200 INDIANS GRAVE.
Place Where They Fell After a Sim
gular Battle Rediscovered -
Wee Babe Alone Lives.

Phoenix, Ariz-Jeff Adams, we'll
known cattle man, declares he has
found in the Superstition mountains q
cavern, 35x100 feet, heaped up with
the skeletons Of 200 Indians. The cav
ern is upon the side of a precipitous
gorge reached only by dangerous
tran. Af,
rediscovered the long-lost cavern
where, in December of 1872, the Fifth
cavalry accomplished the greatest job
of Indian killing in the history of the
army. The Indians-Mohaves and
Apaches-had fed to the cave pur.
sued by five troops of cavalry and a
company Of Maricopa Indian scouts.
The besiegers had settled down 10
starve the aborigines out, when one of
the troopers discovered that by shoot
ing at an overhanging rock bullets
could be made to glance into the cav
ern. Firing in this manner was kept
up till the glancing bullets had killed
or wounded every Apache within
Then the Marioopas led the way and
finished the bloody work.
Under the body of its mother was
found year-old babe, which was
adopted by a Maricopa squaw. later to
be sent to eastern schools and to be-
come the famous Indian physician, DR..
Carlos Montezuma.
The skeletons lie as the bodies fell,
and 1t Is doubtful II in the intervening
years single foot has pressed the dust
of the cavern floor. The Maricopas
cleared the cave Of valuables at the
time Of the slaughter.