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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-09
LAYHAWXER JOES

A. l. Keener of Cottonwood Falls. is
supposed to be the tallest man in kan
sas. He wears his hat seven feet from
the ground.
The stork left a pair of twins at the
nome of Editor Painter of the Medi-
cine Lodge Index, recently. Delin-
Quents are requested to pay up.
Frank FARRELL thinks Bale Wagren-
er's recent take orr on W. r. Stubbs
Is the best piece" of the kind that has
been written in Kansas since John ].
ingalls, used to take his pen in hand.
Ottawa had a balloon accident the
other day A dog that was going I'D to
make parachute leap was bumped
against tree in getting started and
killed. The dog was an amateur.
Sabetha proposes to set a good ex-
ample for other towns by passing an
ordinance regulating or prohibiting
chartvaris- It has not yet been de-
terInined whether the ordinance will
prohibit throwing rice at the bride and
groom and tying white ribbons and
baby shoes to their trunks, or not.
Sabetha Herald: Ever since we
broke into the publishing business our
wife has been teasing to set type. Be-
ing short a hand this week we told her
to get busy. After four hours patient
labor she had set up the following
ew sesroh tsenf eht sab athtebaS
ytnuoc ahemeN teb Joy ! was reve
rieht rof alfalfa elttiI a evas sremraf
nwo kcots.
Apple item in the Leavenworth
Post; How many apples do you sup
pose an apple tree contains when 1t is
loaded - And how many apples do
you suppose can fall from a tree dur
ing the spring drop and still leave a
full crop Of fruit on the tree? Here
are some figures which may startIe
you little bit, but they are absolute
ly authentic. J. E. Remsburg, who
owns a large fruit farm in Atchisoa
county, just over the Leavenworth
county line, picked up 1900 apples IN
der Ben Davis apple tree one day
last week, and the tree still contains
enough fruit to make at least four
barrels or a full crop. Four thousand
two hundred matured Ben Davis APP
pies would fill about forty barrels so
that the tree in the first place con-
tanned enough fruit to make over fifty
bushels. The tree in question is about
fifteen years of age, the best bearing
age and IS not as large as it viii be
when fully matured. Every apple tree
when the fruit forms after the bios
SONS fall contains more fruit than it
can possibly hold when the fruit is
fully matured. In June when the little
apples are growing fast thousands are
crowded off and this is known among
apple men as the June drop" Other
things contribute to the June drop, .
and apple men never estimate their
apple crop until this period is passed.
The drop this year was about normal.
which means that there will be fair
yield of fruit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-09
WHO SAW IT FTRsr2

Henry Allen doesn't think the Popu-
list claim to the reforms some of the
Republicans have recently been advo-
eating can be substantiated. He openly
criticises the Fourth of July convention
that was held in Topeka for asserting a
copyright on various reform ideas.
"The tendency to cry I saw it first
has a strong following in politics. says
Mr. Alien THE Populist party Of
Kansas, represented by the convention
which gathered this week at Topeka,
has come out with an earnest express
sion laying claim to the reform princi-
pies now being honored IN the platform
and legislation Of the Republican party.
In this the Kansas Populfsts are fol-
lowing the lead of their brethren of
the recent St. Louis convention. who.
after surveying the things that are best
in national politics. asserted with some
positiveness, These things are ours
we saw them first
Nobody has a copyright on reform
But if such a power existed, its pos
session would go much further back
than the history OF the Populist party
Of Kansas or of the nation. It would
trace away back to the dawn of time.
and an action for infringement would
name the Populist party as a defendant
instead Of a plaintiff
ePopulism in the days of its lusty
activity took pot shot at the sub
ject OF reform. It didn't particularize.
And because it cried out in a general
way-earnestly and sincerely. to be
sure, but not specificaily-fo reforms
It can scarcely claim to have preempted
the definite principles which the Re
publican party is now putting into
practice. The Populist party felt some
thing wrong with the railroad situation.
1t cried out for the wholesale revolu-
ton of the railroad business by govern
ment ownership. The Republican, party
has placed its hand on the exact din
Guilty. and without disturbing the the
cries of Independent commercial EFFORT
and competition, it has acted to correct
the exact abuses which exist. Popu-
lism felt that times we're hard. and I'M
mediately cried out for the distribu-
ton OF more money. The Republican
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party has encouraged trade, establish
ed confidence. and the natural laws Of
business have produced the relief which
Populism would have accomplished by
a revolution. Populisn would have cor
rected the evils of tainted meats by
resolving to hang the packers. The
Republican party has provided that
through law the evils in meat packing
be prevented.
'PopuIism felt pain and trusted to
its howl to produce the remedy. The
Republican party has detected the same
pain, and has deliberately proceeded to
eradicate the cause with remedies rec
ognized as standards.
In this comparison there is no i'm
parchment Of the sincerity of Populism,
in its earlier days or in It's present at
titude Of claiming title to all the re-
forms in sight. Nor can 1t be truth
fully said that Populism did not serve
its useful purpose as a prick upon the
public conscience
But really does 1t make very much
difference who saw these reforms first.
The question is, who has the courage,
the integrity. and the wisdom to accom-
uplish them?
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In spite of all predictions to the
contrary, Mr. c. ". Trfckett, the new
" appointed assistant attorney gen
eral in Wyandotte county, appears to
be making good He has been in
Office only a very short time, yet he
has all the jointists and w-breakers
around the Kaw's mouth on the run.
More than that, Mr.. Trickett acts
and talks like man who expects TO
keep them going. He has SO ex-
pressed himself He says he expects
to keep up the work until 1t VIII be
comparatively easy to enforce the law
in Kansas City. Kas.. naturally the
most difficult place in the state to
accomplish this result.
Mr.. Trickett apparently has not
far He gave single exhibition of
nerve and backbone. coupled with a
determination to do things. and i'm
mediately there was something doing
Things began to happen. Bar fixtures
and liquid goods, loaded on drays, be-
gan TO seek their natural level on the
Missouri side of the line
Mr. Trickett has taken a sure way
to win applause and good will in Kan
sas. If there is anything the people
Of this state admire. it is the spirit and
the nerve to enforce the laval law
whether against jointists or some other
class of law-breakers-
Mr.. Trickett can take his place be-
side Tom Wagstaff. of Montgomery
county, IN popular esteem in Kansas.
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sTRICTTlY GERM PROOF.

The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophiactic
Pup
Were playing in the garden when the
Bunny gamboled up;
They looked upon the Creature with q
loathing undisguised-
Tt wasn't Disinfected and it wasn't Steril-
lied.
of Disease.
They. steamed it in vapor Of thousand
odd degrees;
They froze it in a freezer that was cold
as Banished Hope,
And washed it in permanganate with car
bolated Soap
In sulphuretted hydrogen they STEPPED its
wiggly ears;
They trimmed its risky whiskers with d
pair of hard boiled shears:
They donned their rubber mittens and
they took it by the hand
And 'leeted It member of the Fumigat-
ed Band.
There's not Micrococcus in the garden
where they play;
They swim IN pure iodoform dozen
times day;
And each inbibes his rations from NY
gienic Cup
phylactic Pup.
Guiterman in the Woman n s
home Companion for July.
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HUMOR OF THE Day

The senate has some interesting rezt-
what features7..
Cheek. lip. ayes and noes.''-c1eveIand
rs sh se.t e.. maErisd, her for her money.
He-Dld he get it9
He-It was.-Judge
Assistant-ThIs poet says that the last
if you think it desirable.
Editor-IH do better than that; III omit
the whole poem.-somervilIe Journal
Really. you know. don't think Miss
sqmanEase.rgal looks at all athletic"
Well you told me she was always en-
gagged in some college sport"
Stupid! said engaged to- '-Philadel-
DO you think that wealth brings hap
No answered Mr.. Dustin stax. TT
doesn't bring happiness, but It gives
man little bit of option about the kind
81 worry he will take on. Washington
Il tell 70. .Eben.' said Aunt A1lrandy.
as she looked lovingly at the twins who
were gathering handfuls of wool from
each others kinky heads on the sanded
a,read.in in the g,ogfry. yistiddy an Is
bout cided waht Is gwine ter name dem
tHN young upS- gWln9 ter call EN-
Flora and Fauna. Macon Telegraph.
Mrs. Corrigan-A stroke, is it7 win.
thin; .begorry, yez kin help me wild me
Mr.. Corrigan-Av coorse OF will. darunt.
II the tub breaks down, Oi1 fix it fur
yez.-Puck.
Elderly Aunt-Your husband carries life
Young Wife-For himself? No. indeed
He thinks so much of me, though that
he has had my life insured for 80 900
Isn't that thoughtful of him?-Chicago
a politician should strive to be a rep
Certainly" answered Senator Sorghum
The question is whether you are going
to represent the public or the boss. -
Washington Star
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fne mind. your sDiendid pi1ysi0uei
Being. You say wen born, must be
snob."
Harvell drew long breath Mar.
garet." he said. will you marry me!
VIII you say yes. Margaret %
Not until have told you'' answered
the low voice, that I was born and
bred in poverty in the mountains OF
Tennessee, that am finely born only
as every American is finely born, ana
I am proud of it,
The sound OF stage-coach wheels came
up the road but already the two flg-
ures were far up the path that led to
the bungalow
Copyright, 1905. by c. H. sutcnne.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Ever notice that when you are
Standing Firm for Principle, some
other fellow who claims to be doing
the same thing is merely buu-headed =?
y X
It Is mighty hard for man to I'M
derstand why a woman should get so
excited that she can scarcely eat when
the Delineator comes
X X
When no one was looking Parsons
sneaked Ia among the towns that hold
Cnautauqua Assem- blies=and it had
no ticket
X
Chairman Taggart asserts, as near
as we can figure it out, that he never
ran gambling resort. and besides, he
is going to quit anyway.
X x
A coffey county boy. eight years
OLD, was bitten by a rattlesnake and
It took prompt action to save his life.
This is not remarkable, but a good
many old topers in Kansas will feel
unutterably sad when they learn that
large and vicious snakebfte was
wasted on an S-year-old boy.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the chicago News

From the Chicago News
Learn to labor while you wait for
results.
Also the lack of money is the root Of
much evil.
Ever see an ofaceholder who had a
retiring disposition?
Too many men look upon home as
merely a place to sleep.
Plumbers understand the art Of tap
ping pipes and pocketbooks.
Courtship is probably so called be-
cause it gets many a man into court
Self made men are supposed to have
graduated from the school Of expert
ence.
An old bachelor says that women
are given to small talk in large guam
titles
By the need of the millennium wom-
en- may discover the secret Of keeping
secrets.
children should make an effort to
train up their parents in the way they
should go.
nothing in common with the landlord
Of a summer hotel
If a girl could only marry the best
fewer applications for divorce.
A bachelor says that fully one-third
Of a woman's pleasures In life are de-
rived from her ability to shed tears at
viii.
A man who probably speaks from
experience says that one Of the most
frigid things IN life is a woman's cold
shoulder.
Unless d man has been married at
least six months he doesn't know all
the reasons ne should have had for re-
naming q bachelor.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe
When a flea gets OF a dog and onto
a man. does he ever become reunited
with his family?
We can tell whenever we look at the
succotash, which Is cheaper on mar
ket: corn or beans.
Every man is occasionally against
L is proposition: He can't afford to,
and he can't afford not to.
Occasionally you will find a woman
who can't tell how to make cherry pie
without explaining who planted the
cherry tree.
If the attention of those you are
talking to wanders frequently. that is
q sign you are not talking we'll and
are talking too much.
Every person has something to be
thankful for IL circumstances and age
lem
When preacher calls on a woman
who is putting up fruit. can he honest
~ make the claim afterward that his
call did her any goods
What the world is really looking
for, according to the women's version,
is some man who will hand conscience
money over to his wife.
Marriage seems to get the mans
idea. and the woman's idea of direc-
lions mixed. They can't agree II he
did his running toward her or away
from H0I.
There Is a man in Atchison county
who thinks he is particularly good
story teller; but his stories are very
tiresome. Don't be too quick to i'm
agine that people are crazy to hear
you talk
II often grieve because people hate
me without cause-until I remember
that I do the same thing myself
dislike certain people and can't help It,
just as certain people hate me, and
can't help it."-Erake Watson9
It is the opinion Of the neighbors
that the woman returning from visit
where there were ten servants and she
had breakfast in bed, is entertaining
in her talk compared with the one
who was in a wreck. There Is limit
to the number of servants a woman
can brag about, but the woman who
was in a wreck increases the death list
every time she tells about It.
Two sisters in Atchison. had big
quarrel over turkey wings. Their
grandmother died, leaving nothing be-
yond a good name and a lot of turkey
wings. The granddaughter with whom
the old lady lived, selected all the
right-handed turkey wings, leaving the
left-handed ones for her sister, and
they had a violent quarrel. You can't
do anything with left-handed turkey
wing.
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QUAKER REFI4ECr1oNs.
[From the PhiladeIphIa Record.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
The pen is nightier than the sword.
but is often more sordid.
when we ask for good eggs we
mean eggs that are good physically,
not morally
No. Maude. dear; having the hair
shineled will SCARCELY prevent water
on the brain.
The nearest approach to chaos a
family man experiences is during
house cleaning time
The dyspeptic may be justified in
saying to his cooking school wife,
you make me sicki"
Accidents will happen. and girl
must expect to have her heart broken
once IN while.
When an undesirable young man
fairly dotes on a girl she generally
looks around for an antidote.
The only way man can get ahead
of the gas company is to put the tube
in his mouth and turn 1t on full head.
Wiilie's Mana-Since the new clock
came home the cat has never taken
her eyes OF 1t. Willie-Maybe shs
thinks it's cuckoo clock.
Wigg-Is scribbier still writing dog
Eerel7 Wagg-I guess he is. He
tells me he is turning out advertising
tingles for a sausage concern.
Many 4 woman who has implicit
faith in the story Of Jonah and the
whale doesn't believe her own hus-
band when he comes home at 8 a. m.
The Living sksieton-What' the
matter with the mind reader2 He
seems uneasy. The Fat Lady-E1e's
wondering II the manager Is going t.
raise his salary this week.
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AGR. sTUBBs, oUEsTToNs.

Because Mr.. Walter Roscoe Stubs
and a few other gentlemen got togeth-
er the other day and framed a few
questions which they propose to pro-
pound to all state and legislative can
didates in Kansas this year. certain in
terests in Kansas politics are snorting
loud shorts and cavorting IN an IN
seemly manner. These interests init
mate that Mr.. Stubs has his nerve
with him for even presuming to ask
these questions. and they demand that
Mr.. Stubs and his associates show
their credentials and tell by what
authority they make the queries before
the candidates be allowed to answer.
Which is all very amusing. Just
when was there any abridgement OF
the prerogative Of any American voter
to ask where the candidate who seeks
his vote stands on matters IN which he
IS interested? II any candidate does
not wish to answer the questions, that
Is his privilege. He has a perfect
right to refuse. but that does not take
away the voters right to ask.
It IS a good idea to ask these ques-
tons. It viii promote discussion and
enlighten the people as to the wisdom
Of the measures they suggest.
This paper would not demand that
they be answered as Mr.. Stubs desires
they shall be. There are two sides to
most Of the questions he propounds,
and a legislator, for instance, would
hardly be wise to tie himself I'M
equivocally to support all of Mr.
Stubs propositions. For example,
there are arguments both for and
against a primary election law to ap-
ply to the entire state And fiat
two-cent fare law. applied to all rail-
roads IN the state, would probably
prove unconstitutional.
It would by no means brand a can
didate as unworthyof support If he
should not answer Mr.. Stubs ques-
tions as Mr.. Stubs desires. but Mr.
Stubs certainly has the right to ask
them. It is right and proper that can
didates should express themselves on
thase subjects, or If they are undecid-
ed. let them say SO and give the rea-
sons why. A voter certainly has the
right to ask a candidate what his views
are on matters in which the voter is
interested.
Mr.. stubbs has an asker's license
all right.
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hopes the Republicans viii nominate
Roosevelt, and that the Democrats
win head their ticket with Bryan IN
1908. as he viii then be satisfied
whichever way the election goes. There
are a considerable number of Demo-
Gratis who feel that they would not
have to lie awake nights to worry
about saving the country with com
bination like that
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I90a[s NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Il szEsbeEs Of tho State Journal
y Curing tz9e sumner may have
Ua sgaB mE1fed regularly each day
tsly a.zdJsss as - re.se OF ten cents
GZ az thirty ceues . month (5y
~ any3- Address changed IS often
he <szssd- While ont Of town the
E8 SOal sEu Be to yOn Ike q
F zeEzEs5 EEslzn I7gma
A2asMnB rGsuans IS requested on
las aznoEe time sEz5sCElg Es0nE, 70 save
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Gold Hoardings at Parls.

Although the annual gold production
OF the world is nearly $400, o00. 0O0 there
IS such tremendous trade activity in
every quarter Of the universe that cap
ltal is In demand as never before. One
thinks OF the usually weIl-supplied
money markets as today cleaned up,
bare, in a condition of drought. But
then there IS greater reservoir of free
capital in France which is being tapped
by the other thirsty nations and which
IN spite of the drain on 1t, keeps well
filled and shows no sign of exhaustion.
The Bank Of France, the largest hoard
er Of gold next to the United States
treasury, has in its vaults today nearly
$500, 100000 Of the precious metal; two
years ago, it had $465, 900, 600, and in
1900, when Paris began to slowly forge
ahead of London as the center of largest
noney-supply, the institution held only
1915. 900 900.
How has France, a nation industriaIIy
inferior to Germany and with COM
meree very much below that of Great
Britain, gained such a power in world
nnance? The answer IS, through her
domestic economy. However little one
may admire the French character one
has to admit that for frugaIitv thrift
intense application to the work in hand
and the very commendable ambition to
carve from lifes labors enough to make
bright the inevitable rainy day and to
cheer old age, the Frenchman has no
The poorest peasant in the least produc-
tive parish Of the republic man
ages to put aside a little each
year for a competency. and the
fishermen down on the Brittany coast
would have starved q few winters ago.
when the catch was almost nothing. had
they not been able to draw from the
savings of more fruitful years. There
are tens of thousands of small shop
keepers, innkeepers, scantily paid gov
eminent employees who are investors,
and whose combined savings have pro-
vided the funds to finance many a ma
ton and carry it through a lean period.
The population Of France is about
90 900 people, the wealth of France
is nearly $4,000. 100000. Robert P. Skin
ner, United States consul at Marseilles,
in some recent statistics, shows how
evenly this wealth is distributed. The
number Of estates administered in 1904
was S94.7s7, and Of these, one-half were
for values ranging from less than So
600 to a little under 100000. Only three
were over $40. 900. 00o.-Fro1n France AS
an Investor by Charles F. Speare, In
the American -Eonthly Review of Re
views for July.
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UNDUE CONGESTION IN CITIES

It is a common complaint that many
or most of these agricultural students
seek city occupations. The tendency
is a natural one, for it is in trade and
transportation and manufacturing
and SO on that the great material
prizes of the time are being won. But
there is a limit to possibilities. even in
this direction, and undue congestion
will sooner or later compel reaction.
The country will then successfully as
sert claim to it's fair share of the
genius and energy for development,
as must inevitably be the case, since
the urban life is not independent OF
the nonurban and cannot maintain
progress and prosperity without a
corresponding advance in the condi-
lions Of life and industry among that
IS per cent. of the population to be
found on the farms and in the small
towns.-Springaeld Republican
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[ From the New York Press

LFrom the New York Press.1
A man is always vain enough to
believe he isn't
A lie can travel a mighty long dis
lance without getting lost.
What the surgeons make on the
Fourth of July the insurance COM
panies lose.
No woman was ever so tall that she
had to have her stockings made to
order the way man does his trousers.
A trip abroad is a nice thing to
brag about but the real enjoyment OF
it is getting home to good things to
eat.
There Is hardly any surer way to
live to be very old than TO be rich
and have a lot Of poor relatives wait
Ing for you to die.
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Evidence IS being offered in consid-
cradle volune TO show that Harry
Thsw was excited after he had shot
Stanford White The strenuous life
has not yet become 90 common that a
nsgri fails to show ouickened pulse
when he puts the drst notch IN his
gun.-=NN ashington POST.
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David J. Hanna came very nearly be-
ing named C~r chairman OF the Republi-
can state committee Think how en-
barrassing It would have been for him
had he been eiected-with his brother,
George W. Hanna, running the Populist
campaign as chairman Of the Populist
state committed
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"a New Jersey dog" gays an ex-
change, Swallowed a wasp and imme-
diazsiy proceeded to do ground and
lofty tumbling. The cry Immediately
arose that he WIS mad" Well, you
couldn't blame him for being at least
d trine RULED.