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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-28
NLEAvENWoRTH-

How long does Il take to begin to
attempt to enforce the 1prohibitory) law
In Leavenworth2 % asks the Topeka
Journal That isn't exactly the ques-
ton. The question is, How long would
it take to complete the enforcement of
the prohibitory law in Leavenworth
And the answer is so obvious as to show
that it would be the part of discretion
and sound judgment to allow matters
to continue in this city as they are
Leavenworth Times
All right Have It your way. How
long would it take to complete the en-
forcement Of the law against murder or
the law against stealing in Leaven-
worth2 The answer is SO obvious that
it would seem, according to the Leaven-
worth view OF prohibition, to be the part
Of discretion and sound judgment to
allow the city to license murderers and
thieves. since murders and burglaries
are bound to be committed anyway.
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.LAYHA WKER .JOTS

Mr.. Oyler, the Democratic politician
at lola, ought to be mighty useful
man in running a political machine.
Colonel Marsh Murdoch withdraws
the attention of his vocabulary from
Kansas politics long enough to make
few appropriate remarks about 'the
cowardly masher."
Looks like an assistant attorney
general is needed down in Neosho
county. A Chanute paper tells of a
man who claims to have killed ninety
one snakes in one field.
Wichita is beginning to think of mu-
nicipal ownership of its water system,
but Bent Murdoch thinks SO little wa
ter is used in Wichita that 1t doesn't
make much difference.
Anthony is to have an "Orient eating
house, but the gay boys of Anthony
viii be disappointed to discover that
there will be none of that kind of
dances served with the meals.
Tramps are so scarce in Kansas this
fall that when one is arrested in a
small Kansas town he could soon pay
his Inc by charging an admission fee
to see himself as a curiosity
The Courier says several hundred
people had their skates on at Winfield
the other night, but there were no ar
rests as the skates were the roller
variety instead of the liquid air
To prove that some water. at least. is
ASS4 III AfCc1NCllWO ILu5 the lines LEtiS
of a snake crawling out of a milk can
there the other day. The water had
been put in the milk. No wonder that
Leavenworth SHES at water.
Commenting on the faith of General
FNunston's friends that he will rise to
the occasion. Henry Allen remarks
that the general viii have to use a
stepladder if the occasion is more than
five feet high, but Funston will make
it all right
Kansas men are coming to the front
in Colorado politics. TullY Scott. who
used TO help run Sixth district politics
while he practiced law at -Oberlin. has
been nominated for state senator by
the Democrats at Cripple Creek At
Colorado Springs the Republicans
have named for representative O. E.
Collins, who went out there from Sa-
lima a few years ago, and who is now
assistant prosecuting attorney of FL
Paso county.
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mp no THE RAuROADs.

After all, it is up to the railroad
magnates of this country to say
whether Mr.. Bryan's government own
ership ideas shall become popular or
not. The traffic kings have It in their
power to make Mr.. Bryan a most for
midable presidential probability. or
they can make him only a possibility
the leader of a comparatively small
minority. so far as his government
ownership theory is concerned.
If the railroads of the United States
fight against regulation by the govern
ment; if they attempt to so dominate
that regulation that It will regulate
only as they desire: if they seek to
take advantage of legal technicanties
ana flaws in an effort to uphold ex-
cessive rates and unjust discrimina-
ton; If they persist in dominating the
different branches Of government to
the detriment of the people;=in other
words, If railroad abuses continue in
spite Of the attempts to abate them by
means of legislation, there viii be a
great uprising in this country in favor
Of government ownership of railroads,
and with man like Bryan at its head
it will sweep the country, right or
wrong.
President Roosevelt foresaw this
months ago and in public speeches
warned the great transportation COM
panIes that if they fought OF govern
ment regulation the people would en-
force Something even more drastic"
upon them-government ownership.
Mr.. Bryan in his New York speech
declared his skepticism in the efficacy
Of government regulation, and he fur
Their declared in favor of government
ownership if regulation fails. There
fore it is up to the railroad magnates
whether Mr.. Bryan is a true or false
prophet.
It is a hopeful sign that some of the
great railroad men are coming to ac-
quiesce in the new order of things, and
while they will protest against injus-
tice to their roads, as it is their right
and duty to do, they are willing to
coneede that railroads must not con-
tinue to run the transportation bust
ness just as they please. but must give
due regard to the rights of the public.
George Gould recently declared that
the interests of the people must be
guarded at any cost. and while the
hired men who are running the Cen
trail Branch for Mr.. Gould may not
have been impressed with this state
ment yet, it indicates that Mr.. Gould
himself has the right idea.
Boiled down, the situation is this:
The great majority Of the people
would prefer to have the railroads con
tinue under private ownership. If the
owners will submit to fair regulation,
satisfactory to the people. If they
convince the people that they are I'M
fair and insist on dominating the gov
eminent, government ownership will
be demanded.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[F'rom the Atchison Globe.l


Is there anything so contented look
ing as sleeping cat?
No wonder women haven't any money;
they spend it all for purses.
Was there ever a man who didn't &C
cuse his women folks Of shopping too
much?
There are so many liars in the world
a reporter can't well help being any
thing else.
Pay a girl a compliment and she looks
at it as critically as at the new bonnet5
in millinery store
When a girl reaches her loveliest age,
everything is so friendly that even her
feet seem to grow smaller
No one is original enough to hurt, but
the women demand that dressmakers
and milliners never duplicate.
When the devil takes after you, how
he persists in it, It is months before
he sees a victim that suits him as well
as you do.
If a short story writer in the mag
azines wants to be original, let him
write story in which an automobile
does not figure.
The trouble with lots of people is they
think the piano playing of the girl next
door is music. and then say they do not
like music.
How style" spreads among the wo-
men! few weeks ago. a new style
purse appeared. Nine out of ten women
are now wearing them; empty.
When a stunningly pretty girl enters
a restaurant she always takes her seat
at table with a w-drop-dead look
at the other people IN the restaurant.
The worst thing about a man In
valid is that he can't wear things trim
med with pink and blue ribbon, and
his Whtskers grow and he looks so sick
that he isn't interesting.
Women say the highest compliment {.
man can pay a woman is to ask her to
be his wife, but the trouble is most Wc-
men fish for those compliments. and
such compliments do not count.
Thank heaven the multiplication table
doesn't change. is the only thing a
mother knows that is the same as when
she went to school. and which she can
speak of without being corrected.
We admire certain girl in Atchison
because her father is so enthusiastic
about her. The father says she is good
to her mother and good to him and good
to the children, and the greatest institu-
ton about the house
Yesterday a man brought lot Of
apples to town that were as big as
watermelons. He placed them on ex-
hibition, and they attracted great at
tention- The owner of the apples said:
4nOSe are only cul1S; / nave apples at
home that are a third larger" But
we have observed that when a farmer
brings anything to town, for exhibit
ton, he does not bring eulls.
A new man was given a new position.
A business man invited him to call at
his store and he would give him an or
der. The new man didn't call until the
third day, and then he had to be special
" sent. Usually a new broom sweeps
clean. If you hope to get along IN this
world, you must DO better than the slow.
duh men, The men who occupy the
good jobs are the men who demonstrate
that they are better men than the plugs.
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screened retreat. Helene steppd forth.
her eyes like stars
''L,ouisel Here he isf''
Louise entered the dfuly lfghtea
room A tall form came forward ana
she looked into the eyes Of her cousin
Foyer.
Il don't understand she exclaimed.
taking his outst-etched hand. THE
grocert"
II went to the little station near The
Oaks one day he explained Ito re-
connolter and see what held 50 great
an attraction for you there ] found
1t an elegant place to fish and loaf and
concluded to remain and have Gather
by Join me. I found the grocer, to
whom I applied for lodging. in despair
because his clerk had left. I took
charge Of his store while he went to
look up some help, and my first GUS
toner was our little friend here. Well,
it was a case OF love at first sight with
me. and I wooed her in the role Of
grocer from a Wh1Tn- revealed my
true position to her grandfather and
he found my credentials acceptable.
but I did not let Helene know my
identity until tonight I came here to,
confide in you the other day and from
another Whim resolved to let you try
your skill at effecting a change OF
heart. I thought It a good opportunity
to show my worldly wise cousin the
power OF love. Copyright 1906, BY
p. c. Eastmenf.)
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QUAkER REF1EcT7oNs.

LF'rom the Chicago News.I
Little acts of kindness always come
home to roost.
Even the absent-minded man seldom
forgets his troubles.
Most men think it Is all UP with
them when they are down.
A pretty girl looks more so when the
right man tells hen so.
The longer a man aims the more
likely he is to miss the target
Trying TO induce some people to be
thankful is a thankless task.
Love enables a man to reach the
limit of either happiness or misery.
A woman considers a man worth
only what she can induce him to
give up.
Men dislike to blame themselves for
their own faults, so they blame women
for theirs.
A woman's face may be her fortune.
but mans cheek often enables him
to acquire g fortune.
What a delightful old world this
would be If fussy people would only
lose their tempers for keeps.
OF course a woman can't give her
correct age when it is impossible for
her to remember the day she was
born.
Every girl males at least one mis-
take on her wedding day-and that is
when she thinks all her girl acuuaint-
ances envy her
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THE SOD HOUSE.

Up in northwestern Kansas a philos-
opher is editing a little weekly paper.
the Oberlin Times. Every week he
makes a few comments on things in
general which are more than passing
fair. and among the best of them is
this tribute the old sod house, so famil-
lar to the pioneer on Kansas plains:
Slowly, from the broad, wind swept
plains of Kansas, the sod house is pass
ing away. Its walls are crumbling and
falling under the attacks of damper
climate or are carried away by the
hard Kansas winds.
THE sod house is emblematic Of our
early settlement. It stands for the
struggle and trials. the dangers and
privations, the perseverance and de-
termination of our fathers It was
there that they first saw the light of
Kansas morning; it was there that
their baby hands played alone; it was
there that their force OF. character was
created.
They say in Europe that we have
no ruins exemplifying nobility. high
moral and spiritual character, chival-
rous deeds and royal power. But on
the plains where the old sod house
crumbles alone are ruins grand. noble
and royal.
why are they grand? Because
from the dust of the earth a man built
up a habitation with his own hands
wherein to live with his family and
his God.
why are they noble? Because
they were the palaces of natures
noblemen.
why are they royal? Because a
king lived there. the man, ruling in
princely state over his kingdom.
They ask for the Holy Grail and
we show them the house Of a frontier
pastor. He is the .Percivale' of Kan
sas
They speak Of ehivalry. The men
who stood on the thresholds of their
homes and fought hand to hand the
red demons of the prairies. hold high
positions with the knights of old. They
fought the same. they bled the same.
they died the same.
1.-The sod house has held as noble a
race as any gorgeous, dazzling palace
in Europe. From its rough doors
have issued a great poet. as great an
orator as great a statesman, as great
a philosopher. as great a preacher as
has come from the brilliant setting
Of European civilization.
! Atone now It rests on the plains.
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POINTED PARAGRApHa.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.
Many a man with a big head has
small ideas.
Most hotel accommodation are inn
conveniences.
Some men become testy if they are
put to the test.
No man can add to his stature hv
starddng on ceremony.
Some people rise in the social scale
and others are unbalanced.
When a doctor performs an autoDsv
he after inside information
It requires more cheek to kiss q girl
on the lips than on the cheek
It is a grave mistake to be buried
in thought ct the wrong time.
It isn't altogether bashfuIness that
prevents man from meeting HIS OBJ
legations.
Blobbs-'Poor old Btones has lost
his left hand. Still, it might be worse
Slobbs--'' Yes; he still has his right one
left"
Nell-'aThe fellows all say he's
brick Belle-"Then / guess It's s
good thing he missed me when Is
threw himself at my head"
Wigg-'I don't see how man WIN
drinks as much as GuzzIer car 80
along. Wagg-sOht Guzxler is safIa-
fed II he can keep his head above wa
ter"
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4
The time now comes when politics
EnErosses our attention,
And rival candidates will be
Embroiled in fierce dissension.
Wen learn tha1s William Henry Jones,
Who sat next TO US in school,
Is by opponents held to be
An unmitigated fool.
And what we thought were Williams
brains
Wen hear are flabby tissues;
He'll be declared incompetent
To talk about the issues.
His honesty VIII be assailed
Without regret or feeling,
He'll be accused of grating tricks,
Perhaps of downright stealing.
But William needs no sympathy.
II will presently be seen
That his opinion isn't much
OF his rival, Peter Green.
The things he'll say of Peter Green
Would make any mortal squirm,
And long for the obscurity
OF a loWly, humble worm.
But thus it goes in politics,
It's the way they play the games
You're branded as d rascal, and
Your opponent Is the same.
Indianapolis Star.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Two Merry Tranps'' is again doing
the Kansas kerosene circuit. They bet
ter rot be too merry or some farmer
in need Of farm hands will compel
them TO go to work at shucking corn.
y y
As we understand it. Mr.. Stubs is
accused of being a millionaire. but it
would be difficult to prove 1t by the
assessors returns.
y
what sort of a man is hep" Deacon
TwogOod was asked today about a
would-be statesman. HE is the sort, -
answered the deacon, who, if he were
elected to the legislature, would IN
trCduce a bill to amend the multiplied
ton table and make a four-hour
speech in arguing it."
The trouble with some people is that
they are not satisfied with a Square
Deal. They want it cubed.
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INC Last Slave Shin.

Many things can be forgotten in Al
years, and probably few Americans re-
member the story of the slave ship
Clotilde that was run into Mobile bay
and burned one dark night in 1859, and
how its cargo of slaves was dumped off
into the canebrakes and left, some to
be picked up and sold, some to wander
about and starve, and some to die of
inconsistencies.
notwithstanding that it all happened
close to Mobile, scarcely any one in this
year recalls anything of the facts. Only
In an old scrap-book of a friend could
find single printed word about them;
and when this friends daughter mad
once been to the strange settlement,
and had described some Of the peoples
habits Of life in a charming little dialect
sketch, the dramatic situation seized
upon me. A burning desire possessed
me to see these remarkable people face
to face. A chase followed among the
old negroes OF Mobile, for somebody had
said j would find among them certain
man who knew of the Africans. He
also knew the road through the big
dark swamp behind the city to their
settlement. The fates were kind, and
at last I found a white man who, IN
the old Confederacy days, had often
been to the settlement, knew the Afri-
cans well, and, in fact, at a certain timc
had had them under his control as
Confederate officer.
A drive Of half dozen miles over an
elevated plank road and through a Wild
erness of trees and water brought US out
to the clay hills by the Alabama river.
There was a cluster of sawmills close
by in the "piney woods" and beyond
these many negro cabins in rows. But
their occupants were the common ne
grOes, working in the mills, and of re-
cent arrival It was little they knew
of the real Africans" as dis
tinguished from themselves. After much
inquiry, and much running about the
pineys, and the pathetic looking Con-
federate breastworks that still stretch
sullenly for a mile and more through
the woods, we came to a few African
houses. They were only dilapidatcd
ca bins, but surrounded with truck
gardens and rose bushes. Hardly a
dozen of the old Clotilde's victims are
alive, though numbers of their children
live near the settlement and have in
termarried with the common negro.
Few of the captured ones had been
more than 20 at the time Of their en-
slavement and all remembered the hor-
rible details as If they had been ex-
periences of a recent time. They were
more stalwart in appearance and Of
finer physique than the American negro
whose ancestors have been long in
honda &c. Their eyes were brighter too
their voices even softer and more me-
Iodious--S. n. NJ. Byers in Harper
Magazine for October
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well, dear, see they have opened
the douma.''
what is that, George? Some new
kind of music hall2"
No, dear. It isn't a music hall.
It's sort of gathering"
Something like a carbuncle, dear"
mo. no. It's in Russia, you know.
It's IA triumph Of progressive forces
that marks a new era in the nations
life
why. George, where did you learn
to talk like that?"
Sounded pretty good. didn't it?"
1T was splendid, George. Can't you
say 1t again p
twice in the same way-not impress
sively, you know
And to think. George, that at the
wedding breakfast the other day when
they called on you for a speech, all
you could say was 'Er-r-r-r' and then
sit down.
Eyes, remember something of the
kind. But those things are ali so silly
I cant talk that kind of nonsense, you
know. There's nothing elevating about
It."
But, George. that Prof Tomlins
made a real funny speech, and they
say he's ever so serious and intellect
uaI.''
sWho, Tomlins? That fellow that
told all those old chestnuts? sup
pose he'd spent a week getting up that
fool talk. And you preferred him to
your husband?"
Il didn't say so. George"
But you meant it,
you mustn't get angry, dear"
I'm not angry"
mo. no. Of course you are not.
There, there. you are all right again.
And now there's something want to
ask YOU
What is 1t, dear ~
whats q douma, George ?''-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
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HUMOR OF THE Day

That's what they say, dear
to talk to me during the day. I'm get
ting mighty lonesome for some Of that
conversation Houston Post
Bank Teller-I have no doubt you ara
Billyuns, the ice magna4e, but you must
Pc Identified. Can't you bring in some
BiIIyuns-I have no friends.
Bank Teller-It's ali right. You're iden-
tihed-Life.
Il DO not begrudge you a piece Of pie.
the man at the kitchen door But I
must say that my reading leads me TO
suspect that the majority Of you are
tunny Page editors, masquerading as
tramps. hunting for copy New Orleans
Picayune.
What is reform?'' asked the argumen-
Reform answered the world-weary
one, usually consist in merely compelling
man to stop doing things his way ana
making him do them yours.''-VVas hing-
Now. dear said the hero of the eiope-
ment as they boarded the train, ave are
And also said the young girl. radi.
antly, safe from starvation. Here's
cheek pa made out to your order Phil
adelphia Press
See that man thereY'
es; what about hirn7'
One of our great mflIIonafres but. he's
lost his appetite The poor devil lives on
milk and crackers. Pass the corned beef
and cabbage, please, and praise the
Lord Atlanta Constitution.
Don't you think" said the gloomy
young lady, with a scientific twist, that
the pleasures OF the table induce rapid
consumption
Sure answered the practical young
man. what else are they put there for7S'
Exchange.
What did your mother whisper to YOU
before she let you come out on the ve-
randa with us?''
To scream II you tried to kiss me-
Why, I wouldn't dream of such rude
ness
Let's go back in.''-CleveIand Leader.
Don't you think it is almost cruel to
raise a child in the citF?''
Yes replied Mrs. NeWlywed that's
why I want my husband to hurry and
find a house on the Lake Shore drive or
in some other fashionable neighborhood .
Chicago RecOrd-Herald.
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solitary in its ruins. Ger its molder-
ing walls the weeds climb undisturbed.
The grass encroaches slowly on the
ground hallowed by the press of many
feet. The squirrels sport reekiessly
where once was the noise Of active life.
Nov all is solitude<
I'm the midst Of the throbblng, on
rushing civilization the-sod house stu
gives mute testimony OF the life that
wa sonce it sown. OF the time when it
was a palace and its owner a king
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THE HIGHER THINGs.

"Mistah Jawsing," said Brother Wool,
.'it am my perligius duty to denoHnce
to you sab, dat de sans of yo' persist
ence am jes' erbout sprinkle out. Set
yo' min on higher objecs.'' Oats all
right, Br'er Wool, dat's all right But
right dar's wh'ar I made a big mistake.
sab De bigges', fattes' roostah was de
highes' one in de tree, an jes' nachelly
clum fer i'm, elsen I wouldn' ben heah'
now sah,' and the memory OF the higher
things brought the groans that would
not come in response to the we'll aimed
load Of buck shot.-Minneapolis Better
Way
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Dead On To Them.

A statesman. in an argument had
turned the tables rather neatly on his
opponent. Senator Dolliver, in con-
graduation, said:
you remind me of a Fort Dodge
doctor. DR.. X. This gentleman
once had a grave dug for patient.
supposed to be dying, who afterwards
recovered. and over this error of judg-
ment the doctor was joked for many
years.
"Onee he attended. in consultation
with three confreres. another patient.
This Eatient really died. After death,
as the physicians discussed the case
together. one of them said:
8 since quick burial is necessary, we
might inter the body temporarily. I
understand our brother here has q
vacant grave on hand
Or x smiled.
yes he said. I believe am the
only physician present whose graves
are not all filed ''=Harper's Weekly