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The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
THE GrN TOTER.

Why. by the way, did Harry Thaw
happen to be armed with a big revolver
in a popular New York theatrical re-
sort2 What excuse is there for Thaw,
or any other citizen for that matter,
going about the streets armed-unless
it be that he is alone on g dark night
and in danger of attack by robbers?
Harry Thaw had no possible use for
a gun on the streets of New York un-
less he contemplated shooting some one.
In carrying the weapon he was either
cowardly or had a rnurderous intent in
his heart.
There is no possible excuse for the
ordinary gun-toter. Officers whose duty
it is to handle criminals and to preserve
the peace must necessarily go armed, Of
course, and men who are out alone at
night where they may be subject to
assault by ruff1ans. or men who have
money or property to guard, are enti-
tied to carry weapons at such times,
but the ordinary citizen who Is peace
ably-inclined, has no use for a gun on
the streets or in public.
The revolver is altogether too num-
erous. Every day the newspapers
record shootingss accidental or inten-
tionaI, in which the revolver plays an
important part. irresponsible boys are
allowed to carry them. Men go about
with a gun in their pockets, fearful
lest some real or fancied enemy may
attack them. The enemy does the same
thing, and if either is hot-headed. there
is danger of bloodshed if they chance
to meet. Neither ought to be allowed
to carry arms. The average man who
does so under such circumstances is
either a coward or he is looking for
trouble.
A large number of kil1ings-both muir
ders and accidental shootings
be obviated and human life would be
much safer if the gun-toter of whom
Tarry Thaw is a sample, were sup
r,raeeaa
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
MRS. THAW.

The central figure in New York's
millionaire tragedy is not the man be-
hind the bars in the Tombs. but the
woman in a New York mansion who
caused it all.
Very much depends on Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw. former artists model and
member of the famous Florodora
sextette. 1t is she who doubtless
holds her husbands fate in her keep
ing The story that she tells viii
without doubt have more influence
with the jury that deiberates on his
case than anything else
As far as the public knows, young
Mrs. Thaw has thus far conducted
herself very sensibly since the tragedy.
She has been in a trying place. yet
there have been no public Mysteries
and attempts to help matters by pub
lie statements.
If Mrs. Thaw esta abIishes the truth
OF the intimation that she was har-
assed by the victim of her husbands
bullet; that Sanford White was fore
ing undue attentions upon her, against
her will and through no fault of hers,
it viii do much to turn public opinion
in favor of her husband. Therefore
much depends upon what she proves
was the attitude of White towards
her
Even though Harry Thaw may
have been a young spendthrift who
foolishly tried to separate himself
from his money as rapidly as possible5
even though he has "incipient pa
resis," as one physician intimates,
brought on at the age OF s3 by his
extravagant way of living, it IS diff
cult to condemn a man who protects
his wife from the prosecutions of an
unweleome suitor. even at the ex-
pense of the latter's life. It is ter
rible thing to take human life, one
OF the most terrible acts a human be-
ing can commit. but if public opinion
condones such an act at all it is when
committed in defense of ones family
and its virtue and honor.
was Harry Thaw actuated by such
a motive?
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.


From the ATeh1SOn Globe.
When a man finds fault with q. reporter,
name
Look yourself over carefully. Are you
a fool? And nothing pays so well as lit
tie sense.
How men are abusedi Yet is It not a
fact that you know a dozen good men to
every unreliable One2
There is this much about party re-
grets: Unless the hostess gets good
many. they do not break her heart.
There is one very pleasant feature
met in the "reminiscences of an old
couple: They were not married under
a canopy.
When people are kind to you do you be-
come insolent and overbearing7 That's the
effect kindness has on certainly seven
people out Of ten.
When your rival sells a bill of goods you
are apt to think that somebody paid more
than was necessary, simply to make you
mad. But isn't that a foolish notion?
A farmer doesn't have 6. chance to do
much work at this season, being compell-
ed to stand guard with a gun AIl day to
keep his -neighbors from stealing his hired
hands
There is g. very common sort of man in
AtchIson who catches driftWood for a liv-
ing, and eats clay. but he has a son who
is very smart. Where did the son get his
smartness2
A Glabe reporter admired g. pretty child
and quoted one OF its cute sayings in ''ba-
by talk" The mother was very Indignant
English, Would you have been mad at a
thing Ike that2
Who kills the chickens at your house?
We viii wager that while the princess
may be 2 capable, helpful daughter there
is one thing she VOWS she will Never Do.
kial a chicken. But wait until after she
is married, and she viii kill a chicken
with no more compunction than she now
feels IN stepping on g bug.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

TBrom the Philadelphia Record.J
At the head OF the column-Ths drum
major.
Many fellows wife is too rich to agree
with him.
A cousin once removed Is not necessarily
a deceased relative.
Persistency is a good trait, unless a
man is persistently lazy.
The widow believes that husband is
Lots of things look easy until you try
to do them: also lots Of men.
In a crowded street car It generally
takes a pretty girl to make man rise
to the occasion.
A frock coat Is proper for 3 wedding,
but cutaway Is more appropriate for
divorce suit.
Eeli-"so Jack ana Maud are married.
She always said he was the last man in
the world she would MARI T3eITe-
Wen, I guess he was
The Perhaps you drink too
much coffee. Have you ever tried a sub
etitute2" The Patient-"Sir, / have lived
IN boarding houses Tor twenty-five years "
Old Gentleman-'sW by are you sad. little
boy7s' Little BoY-'fIf you had to wear
your fathers nade-over trousers I guess
life even to you would seem q dreary ex-
pants
The canons of criticism are ali wrong
exclaimed the literary person. That's
right, agreed the me eman. They don't
kill half enough. What the critics need
are rapid-fire guns. =
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

ters this denial IN the EmpCfia Ca
zette: The editor OF the Gazette
seems to have a New York press agent.
He sent out statement all over the
country that the editor or the Gazette
had bought the American Magazine.
That will send a thrill Of horror down
the column Of the credit man of the
Duplex Press company who holds the
notes Of the editor OF the Gazette for
several thousand dollarsl But there is
nothing to the New York story" It is
understood, however,. that Mr.. White
has at least a small block of stock in
the American. which has recently been
purchased by John s. Phillips and
others who have been associated with
MeClure's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Some boys. near Americus caught a
thirty-four pound buffalo fish that was
/ trying to make its way over a rifle In
the Neosho.
Bee item from the Arkansas City
Traveller: I. S. Dawson, of Mayheld,
owner of one of the largest apiaries in
Sumner county said Thursday to a
Wellington reporter, that this year he
hasn't a single bee. The winter was
too much for them, not because it was
particularly cold, but because there was
too little food -Or them. The late sum-
mer Of 1905 was not favorable for the
growth Of flowers and consequently the
bees were unable to lay UP honey for
their own use.
Fred Beeler of the Limestone Valley
north of Cawker, one of the largest cat
tie feeders and farmers in northern
Kansas. says a small corn stalk grown
in a dry June doesn't require half the
rain TO carry it through the rest of the
season, that big stalk does grown in a
wet June. He also says that whenever
it gets so dry here that We can't raise
anything else, that alfalfa Will produce
an abundance of seed again. He travels
the western country a good deal picking
up cattle. Wherever crops are good there
is no alfalfa seed. but wherever you
strike a country too dry to grow a re-
spectacle sunfioWer, you find alfalfa
making seed. He says he raised eleven
F--shels to the acre one year, en- alfalfa
that wasn't a foot high He intends to
put 100 acres Of his corn ground to al
falfa and plow up as many acres of
alfalfa and put it to corn. He says there
is no question but alfalfa will restore
fertility to old WORKOUT land.
Not long ago says the Emporia
Gazette, a Lyon county farmer boy
married a pretty Lyon county school
teacher who had been earning
her own way and saving money for sew
eral years This morning, according to
one of the neighbors, she got up at day
light. MIXED the two COWS, did two
days churning, fed a hundred chickens,
got breakfast, did the dishes, cleaned
up the house, cultivated four acres of
corn, had dinner on the table with
meat, potatoes, three kinds of vegeta-
bles and pie, and by half past one was
lying down and resting, reading yester-
days Gazette and the Century Maga-
zine This is the longest day in the
year, according to the almanacs. but
that woman was going some neverthe-
less, and 1t occurs to the Gazette that
if the young man who married her isn't
well-to-do and able to move to town
and educate the children before he is
forty, it viii be his own fault If he
pulls up with his partner they will never
hear the traces scrape on the buggy
wheels in that family. The most blessed
critter in the world is the man with that
kind of a partner
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Speaking Of tragedies, there are few
greater than that when a mother is
compelled to cut of the golden curls
of her fve-year-o1d boy by the realiza-
ton that he is no longer a baby.
Let US hope that Jupiter Pluvius
does not forget US for SO long this time
that the drouth will need breaking
over again.
Although Mr.. Bryan says the money
question is a secondary matter now, a
good many Of US find it necessary to
differ from him. The money question
continues to be of primary Importance
especially to those who haven't any.
Let us hope that the White sox are
not on the toboggan anyway.
It is less than week now until the
spellbinders will engage in their an
nual contest with the hrecrackers and
dynamite cane.
This is about the time that a lot Of
early June bridegroorns are getting
over their first strenuous attempts to
eat their wives biscuits.
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!he washed her hands d the whole Ii,

she washed her hands Of the whole afe
fair.
Cousin Elizabeth opened the door
ana kissed her tearfully. When Eliza
beth wept one could be sure that she
was very happy. BY that same token
Beth Ainley diined the return of Billy.
She was swept into the parlor barely
In time to witness a short and impress
sive ceremony by the rector Of st.
Johns, and IN the presence Of perhaps
some dozen relatives whose garb pro-
claimed that they had been brought in
from the highways without thought OF
wedding garments. Billy was in q
gray business suit and Nell achieved
her usual miracle Of beauty in a blue
travelling dress which had seen wear.
As she kissed the bride. Mrs Ainley
murmured softly into her ear:
There's nothing like being sure OF
your woman. Of course A6illy showed
Billy my motel Nell nodded, and whis-
pered back:
HE proposed. by telegraph; am
going back with him tonight
Tonight Aghast, she stepped back
and looked at her husband. After
Richard Ainley had kissed the bride
with greater fervency than his wife
thought at all necessary he shook
hands with his brother, and turning to
Beth again, remarked.
Yes, tonight. The firm needs Billy
in Denver" AS they walked from the
house he laughed.
Beth he asked, quizzicallg, II ad-
NIT that you're not a matchmaker. but
how in the world did you do it?''-
Copyright, 1906, by Ruby Douglas.)
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrcm the Chicago Newa.7
Might may make right but Il doosn't
always make good.
All that giitters can't be measured By
the golden rule.
If words were but dollars how rich most
women would be
Some grist mills turn out better meals
than some restaurants.
A wornan'e tongue Is the important part
of her running-gear.
Woman Is the holiday Of man-and ev-
cry man is entitled to a holiday.
There are men who every time they en-.
counter a sight draft envy the blind
Men and women should look during
courtHhip and overlook after marriage
Anyway, the ba1d-headed man doesn,t
have 10 squander his money for hair dye.
Try to be agreeable: there are too mans
disagreeable people in the world as 1t Is.
Sometimes a man attempts to cover up
his sins by donating small per cent 81
the spells to charity.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

Most actors" remarked the 4a1kativo
boarder, seem to think they cant get too
far front on the Billboard
YES interrupted Mrs. starvem. quite
unlike some other people who believe they
can I get too far back on the board bill. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
and grand entrance" began the architect
who was building Nuritch's palatia1 man
Yes interrupted Nuritch hotly. and
what do you mean by putin 'Salve' over
the door? Don't you try 10 run in no pat
ent medicine ads on Philadelphia
DO you expect to raise any hay this
Not much" answered Mr.. corntosseL
Only jest enough to make the place look
Of the summer boarders. Washington
Visitor-Willie, tell your mamma that
have come to call on her.
Millie-AIamma,s 5 not at home.
Visitor (shocked)-Why, Willie, I'm sure
saw her looking from the parlor window
as / came up the street
Willle 6stoutlyl-,No, you didn't, neither.
blinds. Nom saw you coming from up
stairs.-Baltimore American.
''I hear your master Is a perfect lady
killer, James, especially since he got his
new automobile Is that so7'
well, partly, ma am, so to speak. He
run over quite a lot. but none of ems
dead yet. Baltimore American.
Suburban Patient-Doctor, 7 am sorry
you have had to come so far from your
regular practice.
other patient in the neighborhood. SO
can kill two birds with one stone.-JUdge.
why don't you tell your views2Y
Tn afraid to-. answered Senator Sor-
ghuH. Whenever I tell my views on any
subject I run the risk of stirring up an
unanswerable argument on the other
side. Washington Star
"Ah ink de best cure TO rheumatism am
to work it off.'
''lVopy; nah wife''-Puck
Little boy, you ought not to throw
4 know It, ma am: but hain't got no
air gun-''-Chieago Tribune.
You don't buy 50 much meat. now Mrs.
no. Indeed; since all these awful tales.
our family has turned valetudinaTian. -
Baltimore American
You say that your friend was utterly
prostratead5, by a mere case OF mistaken
yes. He mistook a toadstooi for
mushroom. Washington Star.
Notwithstanding the doctors. tel US to
avoid night drafts, : remarked the. Observ-
tablished an aIl-night bank in New York
-Yonkers Statesman.
''I am IS years old" announced a wo-
man of 56 at a tea last week.
And 7 am IS said the woman of 45
Then turning to q girl of II who stood
nearby, she asked. How old are you,
Ethel?'
oh replied Ethel, according to pres
ent reckoning, I'm not born yet.''-Life.
CRATER has made enough Of money to
end his days with"
Jail or senate ?F-Life.
Mrs. Brown says her baby can say all
sorts Of things"
But 1 trust she teaches it not to do SO"
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
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as desired. While out of town the
State Journal viii be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short tirne subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
Onr CoIored ReIles

My stahs, Lowindy, but yo' is suit
tinly got nice hath. How yo' mex it
so long en- straight?" asked woollv
Miss Geawgiana of her friend Miss
Lucinda. "Doan' yo' put. somedn' on
it. now homes truf ?"
''Neveh done nothin' to It, true as I
stan hyar, only done wrop it up in a
cup-towel when I sweeps or dus'es
Eff yo' goin' tub have nice haih vo'Ii
have It. en- ef yo' amt yo' amt, yo'
TEX my wohd foh hit, honey. wy.
yoH knows my sistah Evaleen. 'CIah
to goodness. dat chile's lots neabah
wife n am, but huh haih's as bad
as youahs, n she's jes' plumb crazy
to mex it long en- straight wy dat
po' niggah' she spen's houahs on 1t.
She 5es' ma-a-nicu-,hs hit, en- ma-a-
nicu 'hs hit. an still hit amt muffin but
tes' wool. Nom, eff yo' goin' to have
hath yo'll have haih, en- ef yo' amt yo'
jes' nachelly got to put up with wool. -
-Woman's Home Companion for
July.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
THE CAREFUL MoToRIsr.

recently while driving slowly through
a village and fined $5- He demanded
why he had been SO treated, as he had
mot violated any speed ordinance, but
could get no satisfaction. Later a
court officer explained the whole mat
ter by saying: I'VE held a meeting
last night and decided that this speed
ing must stop. This man was the first
to come along slow enough for US to
catch. so we arrested him. New
York sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

me government doctors are about
to perform an operation on the stand
ard oil company, and the patient is
fearful lest the chIorofoFm won't work
well. And as is the case with most
operations, it viii cost the victim a
Lot Of money.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
ERON OTTER PENS


Home coming. week in kentucky
has created a great deal Of humor
among the Photographers and space
writer's" said a kentuckian- "Of
course. the proverbial joke about the
Kentuckian and his alleged fondness
for whisky has gone the rounds, and
it has been frequently remarked of late
that the assembling of the former resi-
dents of the state in Louisville will be
characterized by the greatest jag ever
known in the history of the world.
AS a matter of fact, Kentuckians do
not drink, as a rule. any more freely
than Virginians, GeOrgianss or other
southern people. OF course. in the
event of a large assembly of home
comers, there will be a great deal Of
celebration. Kentuckians do drink
considerably on occasions Of festivity,
but ordinarily they are comparatively
moderate in habits of this kind. The
reputation which the kentuckian gets
for drinking comes from the fact that
such an immense quantity of whisky
is made in Kentucky, and many of the
best brands come from that state.
However, the bulk of the product is
shipped elsewhere and Kentuckians
get the credit for being what is known
as the booze artists simply because
the distillery business is one of the
largest industries IN the state. -
Birmingham News.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

Conner Davies. Of Concordias pro-
claims that if he we're as rich as Car
negie he would endow a brass band Of
fifteen pieces in every town where Car
uegie builds a library Mr. Davies evil
IDENTIFY desires to cut short the popular
aemand for Carnegie libraries.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

Somebody. gives warning that the
Taps are going to raise wheat IN Man
cluria and build mills there to grind
It into -four. and come into compeh-
ton with America What a terrible
dangsEl But Kansas farmers and
miuers better not go out OF the bust
ness for a year or two yet.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

Soon after the appointment Of
Judge Benson. the State Journals
morning contemporary said 1t saw no
reason why the new senator should
not serve IA the senate as long as John
J. ingalls,. From which It Is supposed
that the m c. has little faith in its ef-
Forts to elect Mr. Curtis to Senator
BenAen.s Job.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

Two Irishmen were talking about
one of their friends who had been
killed the day before by a premature
blast.
ITS an awful thing. Pat, the way
poor Dinny was TUX" observed Casey.
TT Is it is" replied Pat, feelingly
"A fine mon was Dinny."
He was that
And a fine shoveler: sure he was
the finest shoveler on the job"
He was good shoveler," ad-
mitted Pat.
"As good a shoveler as youse md
in q year iookin'.'
He was a good shoveler, a good
shoveler he was, but he was not what
you would call a fancy shoveIer.''-
Boston Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
ROOsEyEIT,s POWER.

President Roosevelt ought to be very
good natured man. He seems to be hav-
ing his way in about everything. If
congress gets too fast he makes them
all back up and start over. His great
power lies IN the fact that he is almost
always right and the people are at his
back.-Jewen Republican.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

Those who deny that a man can
legitimately earn a hundred thousand
dollars a year are cited to the case Of
Sarah Beruhardt, who has just gone
home with s1sO.oe0 OF American
money. the earnings Of a few months
only. Or VIII the technicality be as
serted that Sarah isn't a man2
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
a Witherfnr Retort.

Speaker Cannon paid visit to the
minority room today to see his old
friend, John Sharp Williams. says the
New York Times. It is q bright
CHEEKY, cozy room, and as the speaker
settled into big chair and looked on
the surroundings in which Williams
does his work his eyes lighted with
pleasure.
ssJohn," he said. this is a mighty
fine room you've got here
Glad you like it, Joe said John.
For vnu'u be occupying It next year ?
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

Perhaps if President Cassatt had
known that the government contem-
plated proceeding against him first in
the Standard Oil prosecutions, fmpor-
that business would have kept him on
the other side of the pond a while
longer
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
pROsrCTrTT0V or TRTTsTs

The payers and the receivers of re-
bates are being pursued with merciless
activity by the law officers of the ma
tional government. Offenders are be-
ing brought to justice and the courts
are laying down the law in a manner
calculated to strike terror to the hearts
of the corporations that have been fat
tenIng on rebates.--Cyhicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.


n luIH Lus OlIlCa8O NeWs.I
Religion is a mighty poor fit on some
people.
There is hardly any crop you can raise
that viii pay less than children.
It tickles a man almost to death to be
taken Tor somebody who is rich.
If a girl insists on telling what a good
time she had probably she didn
A woman had better be mighty suspf-
clous of the husband who tells her she is
the only pretty one he knows.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28
A CRYING NEED.

The Herald IS in favor Of the proposed
school for brides" We believe a school
in which a bride may learn from older
women few of the general symptoms
of trouble with her husband would
ward off much heart bitterness. There
IS only one thing that would be better
than a school Tor brides" and that is
a school for grooms.' but who could
teach q school like that?-Ottawa Her
aid.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

1t would be well to keep LaFollette
and TiIman away from Dupont, the
new senator from Delaware, who Is
also the head of the powder trust, or
there may be an explosion.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

III says a Kansas exchange, 'al
the senatorial appointments and cleo
tons IN the fatal Lane succession had
been as good as the last one, the Lane
succession would never have been so
fatal Which is doubtless true.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

President Roosevelt must have con
slant access to a ready letter writer At
least ne is ready enough at writing let
ters when occasion demands.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

It would be offensive, perhaps, to
suggest that the inspection should be
extended to the kitchens Of the hotels
and CHICAGO Tribune
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

John D. Rockefeller also endorses
the good roads movement, but it is
hoped that this endorsement viii not
prove a great handicap to the move
47arf
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

If it is in order, we would ike to
inquire if the price Of ice in Topeka
has yet been advanced sufficiently to
pay the ice trusts snes?
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-28

The Republicans of Johnson county
propose to experiment with the direct
primary this year. The primary viii
be held on July 81.