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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-20
W0MEN's NEGLECT
SuFFERlNGTHEsUREPENA
Health Thus Lost Is Restored by Lydia
n. Pinkharn's Vegetable Compound.

How many women do you know who
are perfectly well and strongP We
hear every day the same story over and
over again. Il do not feel we'll; I am
n tired all the time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
DANGERl

The Republican leaders who ap-
pear to be in control of affairs today
do not realize the temper of the peo-
pie of Kansas. The revelations of the
past few months have had their effect
The people have been reading the
magazines and newspapers and have
formed their own opinions. They are
ripe for a political upheavaI.
The Democrats have selected for
governor a man who is the idol of the
thousands of Populists who went into
the Republican party last fall and
who rolled up the big Republican ma
jority of 1904. There are also addi-
tiona1 thousands OF Republicans who
are admirers OF this same man.
The Republicans are contemplating
the nomination Of ticket openly and
VIGOROUSLY advocated by the railroad s.
The majority of the Republican party
are opposed to corporation domination
in politics.
It is little wonder that the Democrats
are anxious for the denomination of
Governor Hoch, and a lieutenant gov
ernor and railroad board who win be
controlled by the railroads.
And incidentally it might be well to
ask what the Republicans propose to
make a campaign on. What, for in
stance, can they say concerning the
administration of Governor Hoch ?
Will they point with pride to the man
ner in which the state treasury has
been managed? VIII they call atten-
ton to the brilliant record Of the at
torney general? Win they point out
how the railroad board has given relief
to the people of Kansas from unjust
rates? And what sort of promises dc
they propose to make for the future,
and what sort of assurance VIII they
give that the promises viii be carried
out?
Gentlemen Of the convention. there
is danger ahead!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Lawrence proposes to decorate this
week in honor of the Sunday scnooi
convention.
Lots Of people are wobbling over
life's road with a punctured tire IS
the way Anna Carlson puts It.
It is said that a large number of
people have gone west from McPher-
son county to make new homes IN
western Kansas
Baker and K. U. recently debated
about Castro and decided that he IS
not free to do as he pleases with the
Monroe doctrine. Roy Tapiey thinks
that is what paralyzed Castro and
made him resign.
Opinion handed down by Bert Walk
er: The girl who spends her young
years dreaming about some handsome
Prince who will come to meet her ana
carry her away generally ends up by
sauntering to the altar with Dub.
Confession by Waiter johnson: This
is the sort of weather when we just
itch to be a boy again and see some
other kid give US the old familiar sign
that lately has been used to illustrate
/ the Frisco's two tracks to Texas.
Story by Mack Gretchen: A little
bOy over at Halstead was being Scolded
| by his teacher for writing poor
ESSAY. The teacher. said: johnnie,
have a notion to tell your mother
about it." The kid replied: Tell her
| If you want to, she wrote it herself
How would you like to be Mrs.
/ Barney Self? asks the Atchison Globe.
/ She has seventeen children to take care
of for a week She has nine of her
own, and Mrs. Morris Sec left this
morning for Kansas City, to Join her
/ husband, who has gone into business
/ there, leaving eight OF her children at
the home of Mrs. Barney Self until
they finish school.
The rival editors I'D at Colby
print good-natured paragraphs ike
/ this about each other: Bro. Turner
says we are a Moses We can prob
ably stand that If Moses can. In look
/ ing over the scriptures to find a char
acter that will permit us to return the
/ compliment, we find nothing but
Balaam's saddle horse that has many
points in common with our contem-
porary. However. we shall not COM
| pare them. The mule family has never
done us any particular HARM
Prof E. A Popenoe has begun to
/ plan an energetic campaign against
| the San Jose scale, found recently on
many fruit trees in and around Dodge
! City. The Agricultural college and
lied Prof Popenoe to give great atten-
| ton to the trees about Dodge City
/ and also to visit many other localities
| in the state to see If this most danger
| Gus pest is at work elsewhere He will
go to Dodge City with spraying ma
chinery and materials to see If COM
paratively mild remedies will succeed
| in killing the young scale now appear
ing, without injury to the trees. More
drastic remedies will have to be ap-
/ piled next winter when the leaves are
of. When trees are badly infested he
recommends cutting the trees down
and burning them, root and branch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
PoTNTED PARAGRAPHs.
IRON the Chicago Newa.1

LFrom the Chicago News.1
More often than not the inside tip
fails to win out.
Honest business men have no use for
false profits.
He who never does wrong never does
very much, anyway.
Women invariably speak of an I'M
married minister as talented.
Give some men a fair start and they'll
take an unfair advantage.
Most men are willing to start some
thing for the sake of an argument.
It is the easiest thing IN the world
to puncture a pneumatic know-all.
Women Ike pretty clothes because
we'll, because they like pretty clothes.
Crowded street cars are places in
which to study the other side Of hui
mainly.
A woman can keep an expense ac-
count almost as long as a man can
keep a diary.
When a silly man is unable to at
tract attention in any other manner he
invests IN a gaudy vest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
A Chase for a Whale.

FOR four hours or more we tugged
At the oars, changing our course from
time to time to suit the varying whim
OF the whale; several times we were
almost within "darting distance" when
ne turned fiukes and sounded. So we
puiled down, perceptbly gaining near
er and the chase every moment becom-
ing more and more intense. We
strained at the oars till the mate
crouching by the stern-sheets. was
blurred to our sight, and brilliant
specks Of light danced before US; our
throats were parched, our hands were
bleeding.
Suddenly, ssStand by your iron,
Tony!" and from somewhere back of
US came a faint, sonorous whistle.
twisted my neck and caught q
glimpse of dark mass cleaving the
water hundred fathOms ahead. Our
oars bent like reeds, the boat Ieaped
ahead like an animal under the lash
STOPPING low over the steering-oar, MT
Hicks jerked out crisp words of en-
enlargement to US. Again the whale
time, that long-drawn whistling ex-
haust; and the humid vapor escaping
from the pent-up lungs drifted like a
mist. over the boat, and we felt on our
neclxS the da1npness. The rankness of
it was still in our nostrils, when there
were a swirl and a rush, and the huge
monster preached clear of the sea, and
with mighty fukes tossed high, for an
low of the afternoon sky; then, with
deafening roar of displaced waters,
disappeared beneath the surface, just
as another whale, coming from we
knew not where, broke water under
our very bows. "Give It to him.
yelled the mate. Tony gave a frantic
lunge, and the harpoon was buried to
its bitches; overheard went the second
iron.
s'F'ast, by -! Peak your oars!
Get out of the way of that line! Empty
some water on that loggerhead, you
=lubbersl" and with a dash over the
lettering thwarts Tony and Mr.. Hicks
unprepared in heap to the bottom
For an instant our stem was sucked
under and we shipped barrel OF
water. Then we were off with the
speed Of an express, with the Watel
pouring in a sheet over our bows and
sitting the full length. of the boat, till
| the last of us was drenched to the skin
| Writing and squirming from tub t.
| loggerhead. from Ioggerhead to chock
under the kicking-strap and along the
channel formed by our peaked oars, the
line whistled and tore, Ometimes witt
a rumble like the roll of drums, some
times withthe wailing shrek of a sirer
l-hiStled till it smoked, yet still the
boat was being dashed through the wa.
/ us rolled up wash like that of {
i steamboat. The water boiled at oul
bows and eddied by our quarter, leav
ing a line of suds behind US far back K
/ the horizon. Buffeted from side to sid
/ by the oncoming waves, the boa
creaking and quivering under the i'm
pacts, we tore in an arrowlike figh
due westward, until the ship was but
/ speck in the distance.-Clifford w
/ Ashley in Harper's for May
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Mr.. FEEDER, the Democratic nominee
for state printer. can rGilize his name
to feed the presses il he should happen
to beat Tom McNeal.
What, we would like to ask, has de-
layed Murat Halstead's Complete and
Only Authentic history of the san
Francisco disaster.
We wonder # this gaping the gap act
is done by a chicken Chickens are
usually good at gaping.
A man who has been milling around
with the politicians today and neglect
ing his buslne while he saved The
country, has about concluded that the
lntry is not worth it. He has quit
We notice that al Democrats are
also wroth because the State Journal
printed that stor-- before the Republi-
can state convention. The Democrats
are insisting that Governor Hoch is en-
titled to a renor-lnation.
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things aside. and singing in cracked
chorus, Where Is my wandering
boy %
They were laughing 50 loud. watch
ing so intentIy, Johnny fell upon them
like thunderboIt from blue SKIES.
Johnny was still IN working clothes
he had, in fact started to the Dlack-
smiths shop in a mad hurry, IN nope
Of getting dulled plow-polnt sharp
ened- So he had come to the FORD IN
the very nick of time to see that
woman was in need OF help, ana 70
rush to give it.
"Gentiemen!" Johnny's voice cut
like Ice, you must show me your war
rant for taking a prisoner. Unless
you do He stopped short there
his face white, his eyes two points OF.
flame. Even yet he did not know, but
second later Lorena was beside him,
elasping to him, burying her race II
his rough sleeve and sobbing out.
Johnny Save mel Take me away.
Don't stop to fight thera-oniy take
Not YETI" Johnny said, putting her
The events Of the next i've minutes
are better left unchronicled. Suffice
it. that Mr.. Granville Gore and his
sportsmen friends from the city went
away on the night train, at least two
of the visitors carrying beautiful black
eyes. As to how the eyes had been
achieved there was discreet silence.
But when In the fall Lorena and
Johnny were married. there came te
the bride a chest OF massive silver,
along with an unsigned note which
ran. please accept this in token OF
forgiveness. Remember you owe me
something-in that I gave you occa-
sion to find out the difference there Is
between a man and a mouse"
Lorena was for sending it back! but
Johnny laughed and said, Mullen is
right. He is a man. You can drub
man into deceney. But a mouse al
ways runs away
And I hate mice of every sort, -
Lorena added with a pensive smile
! lCopyright. 1905. BY 2. g Eastm ent.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
GLOBE sFCTf1s.
[From the Atehiaon Globe.1


Among the women it is considered a
disgrace to be tickle
We say asparagus tips are too high.
But we do not know OF anything that
can be done about It.
What, since the women claim they
never have anything to wear, do they
want with so many closets2
If you want to feel thoroughlv IN
comfortable, stop and think what peo-
pie COULD be saying about you.
After a man has been a failure 80 or
40 years don't expect him to brace I'D
and become a success.
There is always more or less specu-
lation when a mnther of VERY. young
baby appears wearing a waist that is
buttOned in the back
The next time you rush in eagerly
with a guess, remember the great
number Of poor guesses you have made
and be more modest.
Mrs. Jim Langan does not believe
her husband can sing as we'll as Ca
ruso but believes he can run a restau-
rant as we'll as Delmonico.
Investigate this suite OF rooms
your friends claim to have at a fash
ionable hotel, and you'n ind one little
bedroom and a clothes closet.
It is told that when the body OF a
certain Atchison man lay dead in the
parlor of his home It was the first time
he had ever been in the parlor.
Inc dNGAdEC 6tA4 HcCAAl1 10 nave SO
much spare time that she spends a
dollars worth Of the prcprietor's time
at a table drinking a five-cent glass
of soda.
You can have your fortune told five
ways for ten cents. And that's about
all It is worth. Never pay more than
two cents to have your fortune told
They tell of an Atchison woman who
is so superstitious that when her hus-
band recently wanted to raise her
weekly allowance from Il to 10 dollars
she refused to accept the raise
In addition to getting up to wait on
the smaller children in the night, Moth
er has a new duty: She has to get
IN when her grown daughter comes
/ home from a party and unbutton her
waist down the back.
Hundreds of men fool with women
/ lust enough to get their wives Jealous
and make themselves trouble. It's q
Ditv women are not less attractive to
men. Many a good man would thus be
saTad-
There is a certain handsome girl in
Atchison who does not look to be more
than % We heard her age figured
/ no the other evening, by three com
/ neteut people (wonen who had known
her all their lives), and we were sur
nrjsed to learn that the girl is nearly
/ 10. People are living so much longer
here Of late that It IS possible for a.
woman to be q good looking girl as
e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record.l

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Most men marry into the Trouble
family.
A girl often loses a good friend when
she marries him.
No man can become great without
judicious advertising.
Even when a man is making history
some other fellow wants to boss the
job.
The minute a man accomplishes any
thing he Is called a crank by those who
have failed.
The golfers favorite lunch Is not nee
essarily sausage, although it does come
In links.
Accept favor from a man and he
won't let you forget it for the rest Of
your natural life.
"oh. that mine enemy would write
a booki" cried. And straightway he
dfd-a cook book.
Nell-''She has the reputation of be-
ing extremely modest" BELIEVES:
but I'm getting rather tired of HAVING
her brag about it,
Il can only let you have $50 on this
diamond said the pawnbroker. but. .
expostulated the inpecunious youne
man. this IS a diamond OF the firsi
water; it has never been soaked be-
l0EGs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
WHAT HE WANTS,

want to be millionaire,
am not really mercenary;
FOR wealth. indeed I do not care
At least not more than's necessary
90 not pine for motor cars,
want no 50-cent cigars.
Are plenty good enough for me.
lis not that would like to deck
My wife with diamonds and laces,
Or hang rare pearls about her neck
she mas enough OF airs and graces.
55e hanged II can care for style,
ny tastes are simple as can be.
The unassuming life for me.
l want to wear just what I choose
Oid coats nor care il they are seedy,
DIG hats, old gloves Old easy shoes,
worn only by the rich or needy
But I'm not rich nor poor enough
ana so have to make a bluff
70 wear old clothes shall not dare
TIL / become a millionaire.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
Getting Rid ID VisIfors.

Mamma wants two pounds Of but
ter exactly like what you sent her last:
# it amt exactly like what she got be-
fore she won't take it, said a young
boy to the proprietor in an East Ger
his face wreathed IN smiles, turned to
a number of customers who stood by
and remarked blandly: Nov, some
people in my business don't like to
come in contact with particular Gus
TONER'S but-I sincerely say do. take
great delight in serving them and try
my best to secure for them what they
desire. Just wait another minute, my
little man. and I will fill your order
with pleasure" The little boy, being
thus encouraged to speak, adnonished
the busy grocer to 'sbe sure and get
the same kind of butter, because a lot
Of pops relations are visiting our house
and mamma doesn't want 'em to come
again. ''-Philadelphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01

A DoUBLE BARREI.ED GAME.


The politicians are wondering just
what did happen IN Mcpherson county
that caused Jim Simpso. to line up
with the Curtis crowd His explana-
ton is that he did it to get a ''whack'
at Stubs. When the facts come out
in the cold Hight Of truth 1t win prob
ably be found that Simpson. astute
up against it and he mad either to ride
through the convention on the coat
tails Of Farmer Smith, his oid-time
enemy, or be defeated. As a matter of
fact Simpson IS no more love for Cur
tbs than for Stubs. It is very evident
that there is q double barreled political
game on in Kansas just now. There are
times when one must wish FOR the re-
currence of the old idea of politics
which had for it's chief tenet the sup
port Of men because they were good
men and not through furtherance of
political intrigue or for the qualification
of political rudges.-Leavengor
Times.
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NOTHING DOING THERE.

The theory that San Francisco was
scourged and laid desolate because of
its sins seems to be received with a
feeling akin to satisfaction by those
Of the truly good who hold to the doc
trine of direct providences; but you
will please observe that none of the
newspapers has been called upon to
stop its presses to announce an earth
quake or q general conhagration in
New York or Chicago.-Salina Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
HUMOR or THE Day

Toni always hate to pass an icecream
saloon. when am walking with my girl
DIck-l've never happened to pass one.
Tona-Get out! How do you manage it,
Dick don't manage it; she does. She
always insists on going in.-Philadelphia
Press.
You called me a political jobber' in
your paper this morning. began the irate
visitor
diately.''
.'Oh. then you didn't mean to say that?''
Certainly not. / wrote 'rObber' very
plainly. hiladelphia Ledger.
- k-1nan told me the other day that I
wv here is he7 I would Ike to punch
7 killed him Brooklyn Life
Il don't remarked Mrs. Upton like
these terribly Observant people who never
let anything escape them They're apt to
be disagreeable and uncomfortable. Now
there's Mr.. Shopper; he observes every
thing but the proprieties. Cleveland
Leader.
What did he say when you asked him
He looked at me suspfciousIy and then
wanted to know my views on the subject
of limiting the size of great fortunes
And what did you tell him.
Il told him that his fortune couldn't be
any too big to suit me Cleveland Plain
Dealer
one
The cabman. cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
RRMARKABLE.

The DemocratIc state Platform
passed at Topeka yesterday is a de-
cided Improvement in three respects
over former Democratic platforms in
Kansas. In no place can be found the
words. I'VE denouhce" or I'VE deplore''
or I'VE condemn" IN no places does
the platform declare for fesubmissIon,
and in length the document occupies
only a column in the newspapers.
When you consider that this platform
was written by David Overmyer, who
has written most of the former ones,
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
A Water Lily Garden in a Tub.

Everyone recognizes the charm of a
pool of water in which there are a
few gold fishes. Add to this pool few
water lilies, scientifically known as
nymphaeas; a few water hyacinths for
the border, and a plant or two of par
rot's feather, and a transformation of
increased delight will be wrought.
Such an enchanting garden, where
the owner may watch the lilies IN
fold their beautiful petals, may be
made of half a barrel or a tub, or bet
ter three or four Of them placed to-
gether, and sunk into the earth. The
space between the tubs may be used
for a rockery and the edges may be
hidden with moss. The little umbrella
plant, the calamus, many of the wild
growing sedges and the wild arrow
head are all very desirable plants to be
placed along the border of the tubs to
hide their artificial shape.
The tubs should be half filed with
rotted vegetable material from boys or
ponds; or with good loan with one
third we'll decayed COW manure. Place
several inches of sand on top of this
and fill the remainder with water.
There are both tender and hardy nym-
phaeas, and the latter are especially
desirable for tub growing for they
bloom freely in shallow basins. There
are day blooming and night blooming
lilies One lily plant to each tub is
sufficient in addition to the border
plants The water hyacinths float up
on J0er Su1ldCS Ol the WdLCL WlLIOut
roothold and a mass of them. with
their beautiful light blue flowers, some
times rivals orchids with rich markings
and delicacy of color.
Tender nymphaeas' roots must be
stored in a cellar or greenhouse at a
temperature of not less than sixty de-
grees and the hardy roots should be
well covered with straw If left in the
small tubs during the winter. It is
safer, however, to empty the water and
place the roots in the cellar.