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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12
JANA WKER J0TS

jamestown has a new opera house
nearly completed
Observation by Deacon Palmer:
ct is fortunate for all of US that we
do not have to pay dog tax every time
we growl."
o. J. Nugent is the latest candidate
for something He thinks he would
like to be state auditor. Mr.. Nugent
lives at Hiawatha.
A rumor was circulated in Jewell
CITY last week that the depot floor mad
been scrubbed, but nobody would be-
lieve it until they had seen it for them
selves.
Here is a rat story from the Downs
Times: Last Thursday night Maruh
Rychel set his wire rat trap and the
next morning it contained ten live rats,
two dead ones and two pOlecatS. Ihe
occupants had gotten into big hght
during the night and there was strong
evidence that the pOlecats did not come
out second best.
Confession by Frank farrell; The
editor of the Signal has accepted an
invitation to address the Kansas UNI
versity class in Journalism January 20
The editor makes a. very fine speech
when practicing before the mirror IN
his room, but he gets the DUCK ague
when he appears before an audience,
and forgets his piece, and everything
else he ever knew. However, with the
aid of a. typewriter copy of his talk, ne
will endeaVor to tell the class IN Jour
naIfsm some things he has learned IN
the 10 years he has worked as a pug
newspaper man.
Just because a family contains 81, a
black sheep it does not follow that the
entire family is that color. F1fteen
years ago Charles Bascom. promls-
ing young Smith county man Went 70
oklahoma and started a bank at wa
TONGA In the course of time ne be-
"a NE a swindler and forger, and had
to leave the country, leaving many
wrecked fortunes behind him. When
his father heard the news he was SO
S,irnealf After all these years a sister
Of Young Bascom is now in Oklahoma
hunting up all the people who We're
defrauded by her brother, and IS pay
10 each claim in full.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12
KANSAS cOMNENT
HOW WANAMAKER DID IT.


Don't advertise if you believe you are
wasting money. Let your competitor
waste his money on advertising, and
perhaps in this way you'll soon put
MIN out of business. just stand back
and laugh at him when you see him
squandering his money for printers ink,
says an eastern exchange. Once there
was a boy named John-we think his
last name was. Wanamaker, or maybe
moneymaker, anyhow, his name was
John, with some sort of a maker at
tached to his last name. He owned fifty
yards of calico, three pairs of jeans,
half dozen pairs of home made yarn
socks and five pairs of boots He called
this a dry goods store through a Phil
adelphia newspaper and offered to sell
pair of socks for SO cents. The DON'T
believe-in-advertising merchants just
laughed Young John spent S65 with
a Philadelphia paper to advertise just
one time and less than S100 worth of
goods. He was cautioned by the mer-
chants who knew il didn't pay!" It
was through sympathy that they offer
ed him advice. But John didn't listen
to them and went and blew his money
foolishly; and today poor John sees
the result of his misdeings-he has SO
many large dry goods stores that he can
hardly find time to study his Sunday
school lesson. Can you see a lesson in
this? Be a progressive, up-to-date bus
mess man. Advertise your wares If you
want to sell them.-Coneyvil Record.
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SaddIe worth s7O.OOO.

"The costliest saddle in the world be-
longs to the khedive of Egypt" said q
fashionab bic saddler. 1T is made of
black leather, though there is more gold
than leather visible. and it cost SO, 600
It is really four saddles in one. 1t is a
four-horse saddle, and the royal grooms
sit in it to guide the four horses of the
royal coach on state occasions.
The lightest saddle in the world be-
longs to Archer, the jockey. It was
made IN London. and it weighs sixteen
ounces. The pigskin had to be scraped
with glass down to the thickness of one
eighth of an inch to give such a light
weigh as this. The saddle is a fine,
strong one, and it cost $3.50.
We occasionally get orders for Mex
lean saddles from South American gen
erals and from Indian rajahs. Such
saddles are often mounted with gold and
silver and even jewels. They cost all
the way from 500 to $1,000"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12
HE MOULD NOT ADVERTISE.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
VINO never to himself hath said:
My trade of late is getting bad,
III try another ten-inch ad.''
II such. there be, go mark him well.
No bank account for him shall swell,
No angels guard the golden stair,
To welcome a big millionaire
The man who does not care for trade,
BY local line, or ad displayed.
cares more for rest than earthly gain,
And patronage but gives him pain.
Step lightly. friends! Let no rude sound
Disturb his solitude profound.
And let him rest in calm repose,
Jhsought except by men he owes.
And when he dies go plant him deep,
Ihat naught may break his dreamless
sleep.
And that the world may know his loss,
race on his grave a wreath of moss,
ana on stone: Below here lies
a man who would not advertise
Unidentified.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Some of the country flowers illustrate
the truth that the proDhet is not with
out honor save in his own country as
well as any. person could possibly do it.
One morning a summer resident start
ed from Brooklyn with bunch Of fow-
ers in her hand.
Going to tote that whiteweed into
the city2s inquired the man who drove
her to the station, with evident scorn.
Yes" said the young woman, quite
unmoved by his opinion.
On the train she was Joined bv an
other young woman who had formerly
lived in the city, but had married a
BROOKLYN man a few years before.
Those are pretty daisies you have
she said, tolerantly.
"Yes. I think they are" said the sum
mer visitor. smiling to herself.
An hour later she handed the flowers
to a friend in q. busy city office.
''Oh, what lovely margueritest" cried
the recipient.
.sI'm So glad you like them.'' said the
young woman, quietly. Il thought you
WouldH-Youth Companion.
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Ihe senate.s TO-

Henry Beach Needham writes in The
WORLDS Work for January on THE
Senate-of Special interests the first
OF series of articles on the decadent
upper branch of the national legisla-
ture After quoting a biographical no
ice of the senate's boss" Senator
Aldr1ch of Rhode Island, he adds:
Ihere is a modest silence about the
early struggles of this "self-made" mill
nona1re, who began life as a clerk in a
hsn market; became a bookkeeper in a
wholesale grocery establishment, in
WHICH ne rose to be a partner. served
as president Of the street railway COM
bination, and finally retired with wealth
IN abundance. The senator's biography
neglecIs to extend word of thanks to
his close business associates Marsden
J. Perry, Rhode Islands first captain of
industry, and William G. Rocker,
whose legal ability enabled the trium-
Y1rate to do many profitable things
without breaking a law or committing
crime. Above all, there is no mention
OF the United Traction & Electric COM
pany. Now it is just as important to
an understanding of the United States
senate that one should be familiar with
the organization of the parent corpora
ton of the Rhode Island company, as
familiarity with the promotion of the
company is essential to a proper eSti-
nation of Senator Aldrich
In the early nineties, the triumvirate
obtained an option on the horse-ca
lines of Providence and Pawtucket
Eight millions of dollars were needed
to purchase the properties and to cleo
trify the roads. For four months Mr.
Perry peddled this option about New
York, but without success. Mr.. Perry
is a shrewd, clever man, otherwise he
would not have left the chattel mort
gage business of his young manhood far
behind him. He communed thus with
himself:
I'VE have a powerful senator in our
number, chairman of the committee on
finance. To that committee must go
special interests. big as well as little.
Let US use our senator
Thereupon Mr.. Perry lost no time in
seeking out Mr.. F. P. Olcott, who is
the head of the Central Trust company
the trust company of the sugar
crowd" OF his success Mr.. Perry fire.
quenrly boasts:
TN twenty-four hours the matter was
closed. and in forty-eight hours we had
four millions to check against" And
the sugar crowd" had a United States
senator
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record-l
Love is a dream, but matrlnohy Is an
alarm clock ~,
Even in winter a girl can wear an au-
t1ln1n-mobile countenance.
before you give a. man advice be sure
Won know the kind he wants
An Aesh may be as grass, but some of
ms are not as green as we look
scribbler-''wh hats the name OF OF ms s
ggln.,riibbler-ssIs it realistic?" Scrawler-
SOhl very. It's one of the worst frosts
/ ever saw.
And do you find writing poetry rernun-
erative2" asked the business man. on!
YES. indeed, replied the budding genius.
s.XVbv. last year I made almost enough to
pay the postage
tend to understand what that baby OF
YOURS is trying to say Subbubs-"Oh b!
baby talk is easy. / can even understand
the train annOuncers-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Married people have the best of it in
ocean travelling" said a sea captain.
for they have a stateroom to them
selves. People travelling alone. unless
they are willing to pay a good deal ex-
ira. have to sleep in the same room with
strangers-an unpleasant thing.
Some of these lone travellers, to Sc
cure privacy. pay the extra fare. Others
many many others-try to secure pri-
vayc by giving us lies instead Of money.
"One man will tell the chief steward
that he has an intolerab1e snore. An
other will say he is subject to epileptic
attacks, wherein. in the small hours, he
becomes a shrieking and dangerous
maniac. Another will say that, in the
throes. of acute sea sickness. from the
beginning of the voyage to the end he
fills the cabin day and night with dis
NAL noises.
mo matter. They all have to share
their staterooms with strangers. The
only way out of it is to plank down the
coin. Exchange.
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concerns with which he is employed.
he viii be ready to begin his real work
in the senate. What has Chauncey
been doing in all these years he has
been drawing a. salary in the United
States senator And what, pray, is his
real work? II he proposes to do any
more than he has in the past as the
senator Of the insurance companies
and the New York Central. the coun-
try will let him continue TO hold his
seventy-nine other jobs with corpora
tons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Every little while some big town sit
uated in a county with little county
seat threatens to take the court house
away from the little town, or at least
the little town imagines so. There is
no rule in Kansas, however, giving the
largest town in a county the right to
the county capital. In the Third con
gressional district more than half of
the counties have cities larger than the
county seats. In Crawford, for in
stance. Pittsburg has over 5000 peo-
pie. while Girard. the county seat, has
only $500. In Cherokee, Galena is
twice the size of Columbus, the county
seat. Oswego. the county seat of La
bette county, is less than one-fifth the
size of Parsons. Cofeyville has 1000
or 5000 the best Of Independence in
Montgomery county. Chanute has up-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.I


A girl learns a lot just by not asking
questions of her mother, who can't help
telling her
A man could have a lot of fun doing
things that now bore him because they
are respectable, if they weren't.
A woman is nearly always sure -hat a
cup of nice. hot coffee viii help her hus-
bands business when it is bad
1t is Just like shower bath to have
one of your children ask you Why one Of
your neighbors is 50 much more SUCCESS
full than you
If a girl looks as if she never spoke to
man in her life except in the presence
of her mother it is an even bet thai she
has a secret enlargement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12
HUMOR OF THE DIP

rs your mistress at homer
She will be If you come back In ABOUT
three minutes, ma'am. I'm Just hooking
her up. Houston Post.
Some folks say de devil is not ez black
ez what he's painted; but-may de GOOD
Lawd save me frum gittin' Up a race
problem wild him!''-Atlanta Constitution.
Curious idea. this TRANSPORTATION Of
souls, said the man who reads profound
Yes . answered Miss Cayenne. III 7
thought some human beings know coulq
possibly be TRANSPORTED INTO animals,
shouldn't be nearly as fond OF pets as
am. Washington Star.
It can't understand why they called
Henry VII BLUFF King Hal"
"A man with six queens doesn't need to
bluff. Cleveland Leader.
It thought she and her husband were
They are. but she thought she'd better
put it of until she could give q 6ail; Two
receptions and four bridges -Philadel-
phia Press.
Squire (helping the odd job man to a
whisky)-Ah, Pat, I fear this IS putting
Pat.Well gorT: ys might H as re vel |, put 2l
mer in yer hand.-The Taller.
Use gwine to turn over a new leaf on
New Years" said Uncle Eben, but I
specks dat as usual de readin will be
bout de same as what was on de page
befo' w ashington Star
There goes Banks. He's looking pref
I'm. I've just been talking to him. He
is all sWelled up full of New Years res
olutions. Detroit Free Press.
He's Dragging that he doesn't owe a
cent to any man in the world"
Wen, he needn't brag that he doesn't
owe me"
why not?"
Omaha News.
Yes. she's made name for herself
In what way2''
why, she used to be Ellen Cummins
Brown. Now she is Alleen Comyns
Browne cleveland Plain Dealer.
He bought her an elegant diamond ring
A fitting gift for a wife one loves;
But he said: It's an economical thing,
For it saves its cost in the price of
gloves Cleveland Leader.
MANY a man. said Uncle Eben. takes
takes credit to hisse'f fob bein' repent
ane when he's only afraid of
de investigator committee. Washington
Star
IF you think talk is cheap" said Uncle
Allen Sparks, do a little of it recklesslr,
let somebody sue you for SANDER. and
then hire a lawyer to defend you and you
viii change your mind. Chicago TIRE
bune.
IF it's a nice day. come and take me
out in your auto. Wednesday,"
But suppose it isn't a nice day."
Come the day misunderstanding
Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Secretary Taft, in discussing a GER
tain hoax, said:
1T reminds me of the story about
Sir Richard Owen, the famous Eng
lish scientist.
"A footman came to Pembroke
lodge, Sir Richards residence. one
morning with a large bone wrapped
in a cloth, and with note from his
master, Lord John Russell asking if
Sir Richard would please say what
animal the bone belonged to.
1T required but a glance from the
scientist to convince him that the bone
was nothing but a ham bone from an
ordinary pig. He sent a message back
to that effect, and. meeting Lord John
the next day, said:
'' Why on earth did you send me a
pigs ham bone yesterday?'
I'll tell you said the other, smil-
ing General Grant, you know, is d
great joker. He made a present of
what purported to be that rare deli
cacy, a grizzy bears ham, but. as I
had my doubts, sent you the bone "
-EXChange.
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The widow had run

There was none. The widow had run
him to earth
'sYes-just So" was all he could say.
but month later he was on hand for
the wedding.
Here only two weeks. and yet see
what I have donei" said sister Hannah
after the knot had been tied hard and
fast I tell you, Dorothy the way to
get married is-to get married. I've
tried it three times and ought to know"
Copyright, 1906, by Beatrix Reade.D
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12


The fact that colored rays may be
used as an anaesthetic is the interesting
announcement of Prof. c. Redard of
Geneva, Switzerland. Frank c. Perkins,
who tells of the discovery in an article,
Blue Electric Light as an Anaesthetic,' -
in the February. Technical World Mag
azine, says:
The apparatus employed is simple,
consisting of an electric incandescent
lamp. with a blue globe and reflector,
together with a blue veil used for COW
eriag the face of the patient and exclud-
ing all traces of sunlight while the rays
are doing their work.
Doctor Redard claims that after the
patient has attentivelys fixed his eyes
on the blue rays for two or three min
utes he will become unconscious after
which a small surgical operation-such,
for example, as the renewal of a tooth
can be performed without causing the
patient the slightest pain.
THE awakening from the effects of
the rays is quite gradual, and no dam
gerous or even unpleasant symptoms are
noticed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

wards Of 10000, while Erie. the county
Wilson county Neodesha is larger than
Fredonia. In fact the only. counties in
the Third district in which the county
seat is the chief town are Cowley, Elk
and Chautauqua; and in Cowley. Win
field and Arkansas City are nearly of a
size, with the former slightly in the
lead
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12
WHAT HENRY KNOWS.

Henry J. Allen. of the Ottawa Herald,
will respond to the toast, What I Know
About Running a Newspaper at the
banquet to be given the Publishers as
sociation at lola next Monday night. Mr..
Allen has demonstrated that he knows
a plenty about running a newspaper,
but the people would like to know what
he knows about the congressional race
in the Second district. That is the ques-
ton now before the house.-Coffeyville
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Governor Pattison Of Ohio had to
stand on fOotwarmers while viewing his
inaugural parade. 1t is enough to give
cold feet to view the crowd of patriotic
and hungry Democrats iE Ohio who are
anxious to serve their state for a nice
fat salary. after having been kept out
of that PRIVILEGE for so MANY years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

The senate proposes to hold up fur
Their work on the canal until it investi-
gates things at Panama. 1t doesn't care
particularly about Panama but it wish
es to show the president that he isn't
the whole works after all And then a
delay Of a year or two in digging the
canal win not be particularly regretted
by the senates good friends, the ran
q-oaGs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Bent Murdoch announces that some
of the clabber-faced barnacles of the
United states senate are going to try
to "sit on Senator LaFollette. It is
not at all improbable that those cIab-
ber-faced barnacles will find such an
action a pretty good imitation of sit
ting on q DorcuDine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
eanlzauon for exclusive evening publi-
cation.
The State Journal receives for exclusive
RuPllcation the leased wire report of the
publishers Press for the edition for Sun
Gay morning.
The news is received in the State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

The fact that 26 cases were in the
police court at Kansas City. Kan, for
drunkenness and kindred nisdemeanors
on Monday morning is irrefutable evil
dence that if Kansas City ever had a
lid 1t has been either lost or stolen or
shot so full of holes that its usefulness
is nil.-Concordia Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

In speaking of the candidacy of
Frank Nelson for United States sena-
tor the Holton Recorder remarks that
one commendabIe thing about Mr..
Nelson's announcement is that he does
not undertake to saddle the response
brity for his candidacy upon his
friends by pleading that they urged
him" or were 'clamorous' for him to
get on the track.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Nearly 20 freight rate bills will be Of
fered in congress. There is an old ad-
age that too many cooks spoil the broth
and there is serious danger of this be-
ing the case in the railroad rate matter.
It would not surprise anyone much if
nothing for the relief of the public is
accomplished.-Con Blade.
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FROM BENT MURDOCH.

Miss L. Graham, a. Philadelphia old
pelican, in lecture on sociology, Satur-
day night. advocated the chlOroforming
of the slum babies Of the criminal class
es in the big cities. Why not commence
on the criminals-the parents of these
slum children and stop the breed?-El
Dorado Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Postmaster General Cortelyou has ap-
proved the use of automobiles by rural
delivery carriers. 1t would require only
about two years salary of rural car
rier to buy good motor car. after
which he could keep it in repair if he
had some way of adding $25 or $50 a
month to his salary and using the whole
amount for that purpose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12
THE GOLD BRICK BUSINESS.

It is announced that American heir
eign titles that were worth in the ag-
gregate about 80 cents. And still there
are a number of American heiresses
left who are willing to pay high for
the privilege of being buncoed that
way.=Birmingha News.
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STRFNUOUs.

what with the STANDARD OIL inVesti-
cation, the insurance scandals, the pro-
posed railroad rate legislation, the posi-
bility of war between France and Ger
many, and the approach ing Longworth-
Roosevelt wedding, the White House is
by no means a dull place just now.
Teddy's desire for the strenuous is be
ing amply gratif1ed.-Ottawa Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

A Hutchinson family has been poison
ed by eating cabbage. Now is good
time for some individual to come for
ward with the theory that the cabbage
snake isn't SO harmless after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

The Olathe Mirrorzsays that the
definition of success given by a Kansas
woman which won a prize in a. Boston
contest was first originated by Robert
G. IngersoH. That. however, does not
detract from its value as definition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

San Francisco proposes to celebrate
the discovery of the Pacific with a
worlds fair in 1913 It's a mighty good
thing for San Francisco that Mr.. Bal
boa did not discover the Pacific two
years earlier or its celebration would
have run up against the Kansas semi
centennial and been bumped off the
track
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

The governor of Ohio had a glass
cage made for himself the other day
1T is suspected that steel cages are
awaiting some officials in other states.
-namin' no names.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Mr.. john A. Mccall is said to be III
as the result of the nervous strain of
testifying in insurance Investigations.
Policy holders in the New York Life
Insurance company will do their best
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Why doesn't Herbert Hadley sub
poena Miss Tarben if he really wants to
find out things about the Standard Oil
company
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-12

Mr.. Carnegie's autobiography can
scarcely be as exciting a sthat of some
of his prominent associates in the steel
business would be if they could be
persuaded to write Misunderstanding
ton Star.