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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
THE FARafERs KNOW.

There is a great truth in the state
ment made by John W. Breidenthal
that campaign methods which were
used ten years ago are no longer eff
fective in Kansas. Mr.. Breidenthal
knows whereof he speaks, for he con-
Quoted some exceedingly efficient cam
paigns in Kansas a few years ago In
fact, he is one Of the best political
managers Kansas ever produced.
It is a matter Of comment that the
people, especially the farmers, no
longer turn out to political meetings as
they once did. Political rallies now
are frequently political hzzles in point
of attendance. A few years ago several
thousand people could be brought to-
gether in a county several times dur
ing a campaign, but now 1t takes a
speaker of national reputation to get
an audience running very far into the
thousands.
Some politicians attribute this state
of affairs to apathy on the part of the
voter. But it does not necessarily fol-
low that the farmer is either ignorant
of political conditions or that he
doesn't care what happens in politics
It is doubtful If the average citizen
ever took a keener interest in real gov
eminent than he does today. He may
not care so much as he once did to see
his party victorious over the opposi-
ton all along the line, but he IS inter-
ested in good government. He is more
anxious that an honest and efficient
county treasurer be elected than he is
that a certain set Of politicians or a
certain bank shall control that office.
He does not care so much whether a
certain party elects the state board of
railroad commissioners as he does that
the commissioners shall be men who
will enforce and put into operation the
railroad law.
During the last two or three years
the Kansas farmer has been reading
Everybody's Magazine, and McClure's,
and others of the same kind. He has
been aroused to the need of good gov
eminent. He also reads the papers.
The rural delivery carrier takes them
to his door, and he is better informed
on political conditions in the states
and in his country than if he at
tended a dozen political meetings.
That is why the farmer is taking
very little apparent interest in the
present campaign. He is keeping post
ed. but he isn't talking. And that is
also why it is by no means certain just
what the result will be when the votes
are counted on the night of the sixth
of next November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFron the Philadelphla Record.


IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some men are afraid of nothing but
work.
Even when a fellow is coior-b1ind he
may feel blue.
one mans vote is as good as another's,
if it is counted.
The friendship of some men depends
upon how much you pay for it.
A man is known by the company he
keeps, even after he has married it.
Because a girl can sing like a bird
it doesn't necessarily follow that she is
feather Drained.
The grass widow is generally looking
for some fellow to run the matrimonial
lawn mower over her.
Did you ever have any experience
with train robbersg' asked the timid
passenger only with Pullman por-
ters,'' replied the travelling man.
Can you bake bread?" asked Mrs
Subbubs. mo, madam replied the
cook lady. who hailed from Boston; 7
never heard of any one baking bread
How yer, I can bake the dough, if that
IS what you mean"
mo, sir" remarked the weary way
farer, Il was not always as you see me
now. was once cheated out Of a for
tune" How was thatz'' asked the
sympathetic listener. The man who
had It refused to allow me to marry
his daughter replied the weary way
farer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
KANSAS COMNENT



The Leavenworth Times points out
that one serious flaw with the primary
election system is the fact that several
candidates may be selected to office
from the same locality. It says that at
the primary election in Miami county,
lew days ago. three or four candidates
were named from the Third ward in the
city of Paola, and that in Linn county
several candidates, under the primary
election plan, live in the city Of PIeasan-
This is an objection that cannot be
corrected and, if it were serious, would
be fatal to the measure. But such an
objection is purely political, and is not
at all serious. Suppose all the candidates
in Miami county lived in the same ward
of Paola, so long as they were the choice
OF majority of the Republican voters
or that county, what harm could be
wrought the party or the county? The
Tact that man lives in the same town
ship with another candidate, or with
Two other candidates. does not serve to
measure his fitness for the place he
seeks, and that alone should be the stan
dard for the government of voters in Sc
Letting candidate.
It IS certain that county convention
would not name three or four candidates
from one ward. The delegations would
be traded about 50 that all the candi-
dates from that ward would be shut out
except one-and he would probably be
the most Objectionable one of the entire
lot. But a majority Of the voters at the
primary election declared that these
three or four men were the very men
they wanted as candidates, which is
one Of the very strongest arguments in
favor of the primary election plan The
voters get precisely what a majority of
them want in the way of candidates, and
therefore the chance for party success is
enhanced.
Locality cuts very little figure in the
mind of the voters. either in county or
state affairs In political conventions
locality is one Of the principal features
considered in naming a candidate. The
politicians mete out certain candidates
to one congressional district. and others
to another district until the ticket IS
made up-not for its merit, but for its
ability to swing delegates on a trade.
The primary election in Paola, which
named three or four candidates from
one ward, illustrates the difference be-
tween the way the voter and the poll
tician view it. And there are a number
of people in Kansas who believe that 4
majority of the voters should name the
man they want to support at the polls
Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
A QUESTION.

Has she forgotten On this day.
a year ago. we took our way
tfnere Wild grapes purpled on the vine
ana all the air was like rare wine
Fhat yellow sunshine filtered through,
And nlIed the day UP for Us two;
earth
Besides our love was nothing worth.
At every twist and upward trend
" the old pathway she would bend
or my support in clinging wise,
And then. -he mischief in her eyes
would laugh and pass my prOffer by
ana scale the cliff, tin tWixt the sky
ana me she stood as half awning
A creature past imagining
A creature past conjuring up
By any mind or any Gun:
Like nothing else the world has known
ana thal day she was all my oWni
ana stu as hard to grasp by me
As rays or yellow sunshine be,
As vagrant and as full of moods
As zephyrs tiptoe in the woods
Now here, now there, now everywherei
now laughing down my look of care
Lest she should fall She could not fall.
wore Lhan the leaves could, not at ALL
She would nave come to earth as light
As autumn tinted leaves whose flight
Is more ike some rare bird awning
Than any other known of thing
4 year from that far day to thist
ana yet almost feel her kiss
ull on my lips; when dawning breaks
and one lies half asleep, half wakes
I hear her laughs, 1 hear her sighs.
ana lie there with wide open eyes
TIL waking wakes the sharp regret
1 wonder If the dead forget
!. NJ. Lewis in the Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
JAYHA WRER JOTS

A tramp in Arkansas City recently
tried to enlist sympathy by claiming
to have been a veteran" under Gen
eral Funston.
A Muscotah man will have 1000
bushels of potatoes off of a patch of
peaches and alfalfa are not the only
crops.
Up In Rocks county. which comes
very near being out in the buffalo
grass region. peaches are so plentiful
that farmers have been feeding them
to the hogs.
viii Palmer thinks that out in Colo
RADIO they must hide the fall fashion
plates ten days before the election, in
order to get the women interested
enough to vote.
Exciting item from the Council
Grove Guard: Two Council Grove
young men whose names We omit for
the sake of their families and their
girls had great sport this week getting
ROSTERS drunk on whiskied water
melon.
The Alma Signal has given fair
notice to the chickens Of that COM
munlty. 1t advertiseS that there will
be something like forty Methodist
preachers in Alma for three days the
last of this month attending a district
conference.
A Concordia girl started for Jewell
lily d week ago TO teacn SchOOI. ON
the way some man proposed to her
and the Jewell school board con
seGuently is advertising for another
teacher. 1t doesn't take a girl long to
make up her mind sometimes.
Atchison Globe: J. 6. Overman,
driver for the Troy laundry, has a
dwarf cherry tree in his yard on South
Seventh street which has blooned
every month since March. In May it
bore a few cherries along with the
blossoms. Mr.. Overnnan drove to Good
Intent yesterday, and saw wild straw
berries in bloom along the road.
The people of Perry appear to be
unusually easy" Two fakirs ap-
peared on the streets there recently
selling jewe1ry. They did a land Of
fee business. Finally one Of the fakirs
asked the crowd to loan him So Five
men volunteered to loan him a dollar
each. The money was put up and the
fakirs thanking the people drove away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

We judge that David Overmyer
thinks he is kept pretty busy these
days mailing campaign lies.
=
We often wonder why Daysey Mayme
Appleton, who is mentioned In the
Atchison Globe occasionally, never
thought of spelling her last name ZAP
IS
Moral: II you want everybody to
talk about your wedding, elope.
X
No one would suspect from his pic
ture that Brander Matthews is such a
poor speller-
A great many bad things are said
about Mr.. Rockefeller. but this depart
ment positively refuses to lie awake
nights to hate him, as some people ap-
pear to do.
While Texas admits that It has no
such scenery as Colorado. it advances
among It's claims to immigration the
fact that the peek-a-boo waist season
lasts six weeks longer down there than
1t does in the north.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IRON the Atchison Globe.

From the Atchison Globe.J
Most of US discover we need bread
after the wagon has passed.
If you make a fool of yourself you
can always square matters with a frank
apology.
1.-THE luck of some men,, we heard
license to steal.
There is nothing we admire more
than man with a little sense. Next
to that we admire a polite man.
If a young man can succeed in con-
vincing his future father-in-law of his
good qualities, he Is a peach all right
The average married woman thinks
she will start out by telling her hus-
band everything, but she soon learns
it doesn't pay.
When two women walk up the street
holding hands 1t does not mean any
thing but when two men hold hands
on the street, it means than one or
both are drunk.
When a mother threatens a serious
punishment for her children If they
look around for q way to get out Of
giving the punishment in the event that
they earn it.
Daysey Wayne Appleton having
read in a novel Of Sweet Thing who
kept a waist she happened to be wear
ing when her lover proposed, and re-
solved to treasure 1t forever has q
wardrobe full of waists, skirts. hats,
etc, which she claims to have had on
when different men proposed marriage
to her. Since reading the novel, Day
sey Mayme sends nothing to the rag
bag upon which she can possibly hang
2 love story
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


IFrom the Chicago News.1
Warm words are the product Of hot
tempers.
Good people who fail to die young
usually die poor.
{ Ignorance is bliss only when ignorant
of its ignorance.
A man isn't necessarily crooked be-
cause he follows his natural bent
You can bag your game without the
aid Of a gun-if you play your cards
right.
who glories in his reputation as a liar.
If there IS such a thing as an attrac-
tive distraction It must be a pretty wo-
man.
A small boys idea Of a good time in
cludes all the things his parents forbid
him to do.
It's a fortunate thing for some ofrice-
holders that killing time isn't punish
able by hanging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
&c Lumber Business.

a bulletin Issued at the census bureau
shows that more than ssh. oo0, 600 was in
vested in the lumber Industry last year.
The value Of lumber and timber prod
l1cfs turned out in 1905 was 500. 264, $50, as
compared with 1855. 1871, 291 in 1900. In the
rsan11fa cture of lumber and in the cut
ting of timber in 1905 about 42500o en-
ploves were paid salaries amounting in
the aggregate to more than $50 coz, 600
F,r1uioyes to the number of $4,000 were
Maid salaries amounting to a little over
800. 200, coo in 1900.
THE sliRht decrease in the number of
wage earners employed IS more apparent
than real. being due to a change iTa the
method Of ascertaining the number OF
e4npioyes In 1900 lumber to the amount
Of ss Is. $4,000 feet. board measure. was
produced as compared with q, IA. 139. 900
feet last year.-Bond Buyer
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Turning the Forests Into Paper.

II one asked 1.-The man in the street.
what paper was made of, he would al
most certainly say rags" and for the
Ialr white sheet upon which I write
TINS would be true, but for paper in
general the answer would be absurdly
inadequate, for there exists not one
one-thousandth part of rags" that
would be necessary. Our civilization
exists largely on a paper basis, and in
England alone it requires $50 mills,
producing some 10000 tons a week. to
fulfill our needs. To feed these mills
science laid her hand on celIulose.
which we cannot make, but can only
take from plants. In the plant the
cellulose Of the cell walls, with the ex-
eeption of cotton, which is unique, does
not stand up pure and free and un-
combined, but exists always encrusted
chemically with some other substance.
always cellulose x and the problem
for science was either to manufacture
paper directly out of celIulose x (ligno
ceIiulose or wood ibre), or to devise
some practical method Of extra citing
the x substance from the cellulose. and
thus obtain it pure and free for paper.
Both methods are practised today. Pa
per boxes, wrapping-paper and almost
all the newspapers of the land are
made, not of rags. but simply of disin-
tegrated deal boards pounded and
mashed and amalgamated into paper.
ANY one OF the large Longon or Amer
lean daily papers consumes each day
fully ten acres of an average forest.
Such papers does not last. The wood
fibre out Of which it is made, is, I'M
like pure cellulose, acted upon by light
and air and water and the organisms
of decay. This IS bad. but not wholly
bad, for most of the literature appear
ing on this paper is made as mechani-
cally as the paper itself, and it Is fitting
that it should be as ephemeral in fact
as it is in nature. But sometimes Lit
terature 1with a capital ID appears on
this wooden foundation-and that is a
tragedy. Had Mr.. Pepys written his
admirable diary upon what we call
"scribbling paper" we would. today,
have no Mr.. Pepys. England alone
every year imports some $4,000 tons
OF this mechanical wood pulp to turn
1t into paper. She imports also some
100000 tons of what is called "chemi-
cal wood pulp. e., wood from which
the encrusting Impurities have been
chemically removed, and which consists
Of cellulose almost pure.-Harper' s
Magazine.
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the arm and led her under an aWrlAhs
at the corner. in the SHADE
Where's Pen ?" he asked 9alsels'
very quietly
why, at home. OF course. WneLs s
would she be, goose How Wn1ks atlH-
odd you look. Jack Pen came with rs
OF course she didn't approve, zen
never could see anything interesting ~
love mania, you know, and II was PEI
fectly useless trying to make ner uH-
derstand an eloDement. But why on
earth didn't you meet US yesterday
Pen thinks you re dead or lost. Sne
'phoned the Office and they said you
hadn't been there since Saturday
Il had not I only went back TO-
day" answered O'Donnell slowly
Somebody must have got hold OF the
elopement and cabled 1t here, but they
made a little mistake in the names
They said that Miss Penelope era
hamm was married to Stephen HAM
day"
sOh. how perfectly killing. JACK.
Bess gave one Of her crazy little giriIsn
cries. and you thought, you poor olo
boy-why. Of course. you must nave
thought-but then, how could you ever
think that Steve would want to marry
Pen instead Of me?"
Wasn't It absurd p murmured
O'Donnen abstractedly, looking at the
depot clock. And Pen is out home at
GlenWo
mo; did say she was? You know
I'm half crazy these days, Steve says
its permissible PENS right here in
the depot with mamma waiting for
me. I wanted to see Steve before we
left town and they went on ahead
Steve's coming out on the 5.S5 with
papa Oh. Jack, just think, you ana
Steve will be brothers now.
yes? ?" muttered O'Donnell under
his breath, and they entered the depot
where Penelope was waiting -(Cop
right, 1905, by NJ. n. Cunningham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
EROA OTHER PENS
IOWA.

Boiling is spreading in Iowa First
came the Republican bolt, and now
comes a Democratic bolt. The ques-
ton arises, therefore, will Governor
Cummins or the Democratic candi-
date for governor lose the more votes
as the result of the disquieture If the
Democrats are to win at the polls it
will be necessary for them to pick up
all the votes which may stray from
the Republican camp. Everything has
been onesided so long in Iowa that
the Republican figures are formid-
able. A great many voters on that
side might sulk without endangering
Gov. Cummins' chances. But should
they do more than that, and go over
to the opposition, they would count
double. The campaign everywhere is
warming up, and we should all re-
joice in the fact. Competition is at
once the life OF trade and the hope of
decent politics.=Washingto Post.
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that Secretary Taft may not be able to
come to Kansas and make some cam
paign speeches after all What would
the effect be on James Monroe Miller
and possibly SOME other Kansas con-
gressmen-if the distinguished presi-
Dental candidate should come out
here and make some tarif-revision
sneeches2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-19
HUMOR OF THE DIY

DO you. go to bed with the chiekens7.
NO, lndeedy; boss wouldn't trust me
dat far. y onkers Statesman.
With al your wealth are you not
AFRAID OF the proletariat2 asked the del
mo, amt snapped 1dr. Newrieh.
We boil all our drinking water ''-Phila-
Il would deem It a great favor # you
would give me a little writeup." said the
Nothing would please me more" re-
Piled the editor. When do you contenl-
plate dying? Sentinel.
Sir said the angry female Il under
stand you SAID 1 had q race that would
stop a street car in the middle OF the
YES; that's what said" calmly ans
usually handsome face to induce a mot
orrnan to make stop like that ''-Chica-
go News.
Things are not as they used to be-"
said the man OF melancholy reminis-
no. answered Mr.. Dustin stax re-
gretfully. The time was when great
Now it gets him into Washington
Here's a letter from woman said
the rs-to-correspondcnts editor
who wants to know how to make
lemon tart
That's Just like a woman" rejoined
the snake editor; Tell her, If the lemon
isn't tart 10 begin with, she'd better con
that. Chicago News.
she-You remember, dear. thai $500 you
gave me the other day to put in the
He4Good .graciousi You haYen't ran
through with that, have your
She dndignantlyl-C mott have
nearly nfty ieft--IoWn and Country
= Ed asoras opposition refers to you as
Humorist-Ahl And you are going to
escape the stigma by raising my salary?
Baltimore American
Browne-You asked your wife to 20
with you to the matinee and then got
tickets for the evening?
see the show: and she viii probably be
ready to go to the matinee In time for
my order for that chop?
Waiter-Yes, sir.
CustoInsr-Bless me, how you have
grown--Brooklyn Eagle.
What I regard as most conspicuous
aoou.t George Gayson," said Mrs. Oldcas-
Yes replied her hostess. Il wonder
what made her get a red one7''-AIodern
Society.
How is your brother. Tommy7''
Sick in bed, miss; he's hurt himself
How did he do that7''
We were playing at who can lean the
farthest out OF the window and he won
LES Angeles Journal Of Eclectic and
We're you frightened when you arose to
make your first speech2'
What should frfghten me2"
THE audience"
he audience left as soon as my name
Miss OIdgirl told somebody she expect
ed to blossom as a flower at that garden
Did she?'
In sort of a fashion: she went to the
wall. baltimore American
Maude
New York Girl-NSo. thank you. Ny taste
Wheeling Intelligence
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derstand that there is serious opposi-
ton to Gov. Hoch. They are depend
ing too much on the governors ora.
torieal abilities. It is going to take
a hard campaign to win this year"
Somebody must have a wire or two
crossed The boiler plate sent out by
the Republican state committee does
not sound like that.
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The Democratic opponents Of gov
eminent ownership are accusing Mr.
Bryan of stirring up dissension within
the Democratic party. But why don't
they agree with him if they don't want
dfsseneion
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FORGETTING OLD SORES.

St. Helena, where Napoleon Bona
parte was six years a captive. is to be
abandoned as a garrisoned island by
Great Britain. Since the opening Of
the Suez canal it Is no longer impor-
tant as a stopping place on the route
to India. It is noteworthy that the
Enlish and French peoples have also
abandoned their century long attitude
Of hostility following the Napoleonic
wars. They have a friendly under
standing, and 1t is quite possible they
may become allies. The times change
and the philadelphia Rec
ord.
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LONGS MISTAKE.

Senator Longs answer to Senator La
Toilette is predicated on the assumption
that Senator La Toilette attacked Sen
ator Long; was bitter, personal, lacked
courtesy and all that. That assumption
is a great mistake so far as Clay Center
is concerned and the Wisconsin senator's
talk at the big Chautauqua. He was
gentlemanly, courteous and fair all the
time. There was not a word Of personal
or public abuse from start to finish. He
gave cold facts and figures without
shade of coloring. In fact, there was no
reference to Long except as he named
him in calling the roll" The audience
took a hand and asked questions which
rather jabbed the Kansas senator in the
short ribs but La Toilette was dispas-
sionate and careful Senator Long is
battering a straw image all out of shape
after weeks and weeks of spine suffering
under charges never made.-Clay Center
Times. SIS
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No matter what criticisms may be
made Of some Of Governor Hoch's ap-
pointments on the text book commission,
others OF these appointments could not
have been improved. Such men as Pres
ident Hill, OF the state Normal, and
Frank Nelson. Of Lindsborg. are among
the best men OF Kansas
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''rhe Republican bosses Of Ohio have
been successful In the convention" re-
marks the Houston Post, but they
they must be prepared for eventuali-
ties at the polls" The Republican
bosses Of Ohio are not in the least
afraid Of eventualities. It's Democratic
votes that scores them.