The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-08
KANSAS cOAAEHT
4 BUNCH 90 ..woI1LD BEs."

A BUNCH OF would BES."
one night last week as we went home
dsola the office rather late we saw
disgusting sight. About half dozen
boys ranging from 10 to "A years old,
were lined up on the sidewalk lighting
cigarettes They were so arranged as
70 BLOCK the sidewalk and when man
anu MS Wife and little girl came along
they had to single file past the boys
VINO made no effort to allow them to
pass. When the man and wife had
cite out of his mouth and said. Hello.
1atty 10 the man who had just edged
py- The fellow was good natured and
said nothing, but the best thing that
could have happened to that boy would
nave oeen fer that fellow to have lifted
MN IN the middle of the street with
ms boot. In the first place If such
boys Dy some miracle escape the peni-
Tertiary they will by9their example ruin
whole lot of boys who without their
example stand fair chance to be re-
spectaoie We do net understand what
fas or ambitions a father can have
for his 12-year-old boy who loafs on
the streets of evenings, smoking cigar
cites and Insulting passers-by. If par
ems et1. cant control their children, the
city authorities will be glad to assist
tnem; II they can control them, they
had better begin it right away, for such
actions viii not longer be tolerated.
A FOUR-YEAR TERM
In order that an official may be in
duced to be as jealous in his duty
when first he enters office as he is lust
pe1oTe ne retires, 1t might be we'll to
consider the advisa bility of lengthen-
lng Inc terms of state officers to four
years and making all officers ineligible
to reelection. The only argument we
ever saw urged against this was that
II the state should get a bad man we
would nave to keep him four instead Of
Two years The past history of the
state under the two years term we
nave kept the bad men by re-eIecting |
them to a second term and occasionally |
eho OF their first terms. Kansas never |
had three better governors than Anth-
ony. morrill, and Bailey, all turned down |
after one term.-Holton Recorder.
WHO SAVED HOCH?
our good friend, Joe Wright, says |
that the country precincts saved Hoch /
IN the late election Let's see, Cover
member, is 2,02S. In Leavenworth he |
got 1882 and in Atchison $685. making /
a total in these two cities of 2.070. 1t /
looks IKE Atchison and LeavenwOrth |
saved the governor with ~ votes to /
spare. Minneapolis Better-Way.
HOW long IT WOULD TAKE.
senator Beveridge says no man is
entitled to more than a million dollars
This, you see. only allows man to
stay in the ice and coal business about
2 , CeAA anu d Ad44.--OSDOrnG FARMER.
HELP THE RAILROADS.
Everything seems to work in favor
1f the railroads. When the Leavenworth
saloons are closed. the Missouri Pa
zinc can put on fast trains between
hat town and Kansas City to leave
every 80 minutes. 1t is estimated that
With such an arrangement It would
not take over a year to pay off the
bonded indebtedness of the Missouri
Pacific system.-Holton Recorder.
JUST LIKE ADAM
If there were no women in the world
no, no, this Is not going to be that
I'D gag about staguation, but honestly
low. If theirs were no. women in the
world every mar fa it would put IN
| hurry up order Sfor. one. and donate 4
ib as a starter 3R ana -Minneap-
A DEFINITION.
Heard this de1nition of money the
ither day: Money is that which will
'uy everything but happiness, and fur
lish transportation to every place but
Record.