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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
Harvest of the shears

A reporter recently took a journey of
considerable length for the purpose of
interviewing a rising literary light as
to his next novel. On reaching the house
he discovered the author seated in his
garden, engaged in earnest conversation
with little boy who had large towel
pinned round his neck. The author re-
ceived his visitor cordially, but seemed
rather absent-minded. Are you willing
to tell me little about your next i'm
portant work2" asked the reporter. The
literary man clicked a pair of shears
and patted the boy on the shoulder
I'VE were just talking about it as YOU
came in" he said. willie thinks I
ought to do 1t with a bowl, but I think
/ can do it without. What would you
advise? You see. his mother has always
cut it before, but she's away just now!''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
.IAYHA WKER .JOTy

The muse Of the Jewell Republican
breaks out in this way:
Breathes there a man with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself has said:
My trade of late is getting bad;
III try another ten-inch ad'
Up to this time Jewell county. one
of the most populous counties in north
ern Kansas, has never had a town with
a population of 1000. It's people have
nearly all lived on the farms. This
year both Jewell City and Mankato
get into the thousand class. Mankato
has a population of 1,070 and Jewell
City 1922.
Fish story from the Atchison Globe:
It is claimed fish are so plentiful in
Doniphan lake that they have to climb
in the trees to roost when they are
ready for bed. Charley Morrfn was
fishing there yesterday and caught a
ten pound channel cat in a tree. He
had a spear and damned 1t in a hollow
tree in the lake and pulled it out with
this fish on 1t.
The skeleton of a man, woman
and a little girl were discovered re-
Gently in the northern part of Wichita
county. The bodies had been buried
in ravine together, and the caving
off of a bank brought them to light.
The skeleton of the man indicated that
he had been foully dealt. with, and it is
believed that the trio were the victims
Kansas.
The Solomon baseball team will not
play with a co1ored team. 1t had a
game scheduled with the Topeka
Giants, but when Solomon learned that
the latter are negroes, it cancelled the
game. The Tribune gives these rea-
sons: I'm the first place, the Solomon
boys do not care to eros sbats with a
coIored team; second, it is not believed
that such a game would be well pat
rOnized; and, third, it is doubtful If the
Giants could have secured hotel ac-
commodations in this city"
This is how the system works as the
Osborne Farmer sees it: A little town
permitted a joint to run for a while
on the payment of $50 month fine in
order to pay the running expenses of
the town government. 1t took $50
month marshal to keep order in the
town. Recently the people closed the
Joint and then discharged the marshal
because his services were no longer
necessary. AS long as the joint ran,
the town was $40 a month loser. aside
from the domestic and other troubles
whisky produces
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

pie purpose would seem also to account
for the fact that all the lines are as
nearly straight as they could be made.
For oil short distances, ranging from a
mile and a half on certain lines to two
miles and a half on others, the fare is
two cents. Each line is divided into a
few divisions. When passenger pays
his fare of one English penny he is
given a ticket which Indicates that he is
free to ride to the end Of that division
On each line the first of these divisions
begins at a central point in the city and
extends well out toward the city linn
its.
1.-THE cars are all doubIe-declz troll
leys. They are neatly painted and var
nished, and are kept in perfect condi-
ton. Both in Manchester and in the
adjoining city of Stafford no adyertis-
ing Is allowed on the cars.
THE two city corporations run their
cars, where convenient, over one anoth-
er's tracks; and Manchester also builds
and operates lines which extend far out
into the country. In such cases it buys
property as private corporation
would; and, excepting that II does not
charge all the traffic will bear and that
it conducts its affairs openly and hon
estly, its relations with the outlying
communities are about what the rela-
lions Of a private corporation would
be.
Last year the result of a two-cent
fare in Manchester was a net profit of
851, 900 ($247, $500. This sum was turned
over to the city fund in aid OF rates
In other words. the total tax assess
ment levied on the ratepayers of Man
chester was reduced by nearly quar-
ter Of million dollars from this one
source. This under an efficient NUM-
cipal ownership regime. is where the
people come in. I wish to lay stress
on this point because it has been claim
ed in this country that taxes would be
higher under municipal ownership. The
municipality owned tramways of Man
chester have nothing whatever to do
with the taxes, excepting that they
tighten the taxes by contributing their
profits in aid of rates -
This does not argue. however. that.
municipal ownership would necessarily
be the same success in this country
that it is in England Americans as a
class are too prone to let interested
parties run their municipal affairs.
American cities are making successes
of municipal lighting and water plants,
but a municipal street railway is still
to be experimental with in this coun-
try. Doubtless We shall come to it in
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison GIobe.I


Jealousy is like some other things:
The lid should be kept on it.
Boys like pie so well they never
know what kind it is they are eating.
So long as a man thinks he is smart.
he cannot amount to much. A man
must be humble before he can amount
to much.
The Coolidge Enterprise says of
club lately formed down there that its
constitution Is drinking whisky, and its
bylaws gambling.
The trouble is. when horse is
driven free. he is driven too hard.
Same way with a man: when he tries
to be q good husband and father, he is
worked too hard.
In the district court the other day
a lawyer was making an address. and
said his client didn't intend to "chfseI''
toned expression
Some people say it means good luck
to see a new moon over your left
shoulder. Others say you must see a
new moon over your right shoulder to
have good luck. Same way with every
thing else; the signs" people have are
all different.
There is a good deal of complaint
because Chauncey. Devere Appleton Is
a loafer. Mr.. Appleton is a dry goods
clerk by occupation, and his side Of the
story Is that when he is employed he
is expected to handle corsets and wo-
mems underwear, and that he simply
won't do IL he would rather do Moth
Ing than thus debase himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Iron the Chicago News.1
Budding genius doesn't always hear
fruit.
A matchmaker has more hands thar
centiped ha-; feet ---
Do so well today that Won need hav.
no fear of being done tomorrow
The best sermon is the one that z,.z
s 80 SOul neao ana nits the other fel-
A pessinnist always looks as thouvb
he were afraid it would cost hin, So !,
cents to look pleasant.
When the experienced parlor maid has
spent her savings she can zrah a t~o -
and proceed to raise the dust.
Never put Off till tomorrow what Won
can do today-and tomorrou vos, s,IiS
wish you had done the other thing
A wonan's idea of q fatterer is q man
who tells here there are not stffIcieot
words in the English language ii fes-
cribe her charms,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
MOTHER.

When bin swimmin all day long.
An had fight or two,
An come home IN the ev'in' time
A 4eelin' mad and blue,
There's just one thing that always seems
NY angry thoughts to smother
An. fergit EN- when I see
The smilin' face of mother.
An father seq when he comes home
From troubles on the street:
He SEE that gentle smile, it makes
Ihe whole blame world look sweet.
An, Carlos dog talk says so too,
An so does sis and brother:
1 tell you they amt nothin' like
The sniIin' face of mother.
It kinder brightens every place,
An I know what I know,
That when I die and go away
Coz we all have to GO
III need one proof TO show me where
N at-don't need no other
L II know it's Heaven when I see
The smilin' face of mother
Unidentified.
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HUMOR OF THE Day

on my salary7"
Perhaps she could but what would you
do?'-Cleveland Plain Dealer
You'd never think Kiones was from the
country. would you? HIS manner Is pepr-
feet and his dress fashionable
Yes, but he gave himself dead away on
the street car today"
'.HOW?''
Got up and gave his seat to a woman
Cleveland Leader.
Come, have drink. It always makes
me blue to lose money
How'd it happen -
Wen, you see, I wrote to my congress-
man ana ineiosed a stamp for reply
and he has the ranking privilege. Just
I'll those glasses again. ''-Phifadelphi
Ledger.
What are your favorite character in
hctlon? asked the literary young woman.
Some OF the. statesmen. authors and
actors read about in the Daoers'5' an
5wered MI Sunroxs little sourly.-
sqme folks, II they make both ends meet,
Believe Themselves in clover:
But others are not satisfied
Unless the ends lap over
Philadelphia Ledger.
What we want" said the reforner ss;s
impossible . a. -
Yes answered Senator Sorghum. ..but
would not last long. Some rogue would
corner the harp and halo market wash
ington Star.
New Jerseyma only thing vour
state has to be proud of is IFS TITLE ~
m TsS.ll. of presidents"
Virginian-I know it. It never occurred
to my blundering ancestors that II xrr,,iJ
pc bigger thing to be the ssnoofher ~
trusts. Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

Bert Walker. who was formerly on
the editorial staT of Topekass morning
paper, hands out some remarks about
that publication. Mr.. Walker Is now
editor Of the Osborne Farmer, ana in
cidentally he helped to save the coun-
try as a delegate to the late Repub-
lican state convention. where he served
as a member OF the platform commit
tee. The State Journal does not pre-
tend to say whether Mr.. Walkers
diagnosis Of the Capitals trouble is
correct, but It gives his diagnosis here
with: 1.-THE esteemed Topeka Capital
is taking itself altogether too seriously.
The Capital should get out OF the
Populist trance into which It has
fallen OF thinking that the country is
on the verge Of moral, financial and
political ruin and It will see things
more clearly. The Capital has ruined
lts temper by staying in the prize
package business too long"
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

This department does not pretend
to know much about baseball, but 1t
would suggest that this is a good time
to erect a firm foundation under To-
peka's standing in the western asso-
citation.
These are the days when the sweet
girl graduate commands all the atten-
ton we are able to spare from the
man with the high batting average.
If he is a real boy, among the other
things you will find in his pocket at
this time of year are dried fish worms
A scientist announces that the world
will last at least a hundred million
years yet. We are glad to hear it,
That will give congress time to pass a
statehood and pure food law after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
Practice Makes Perfect.

Miss Bret Harte, with the aid of a.
number OF her fathers English
friends, has opened a typewriting
Office in London.
She is a proficient typewriter, and
an American journalist, calling to
have some copying done, compliment
ed her on her skill.
MY skill. such as it is, is due to
practice said Miss Bret Harte. cit
was acquired very painfully, like the
craftsmanship of one of my fathers
western friends.
MY father used to tell of a man
called Redwood James. a character of
California. James. in a bar one night,
drew a revolver and shot the ashes
from the cigar of a friend on the other
side of the room.
THE friend laughed. and calmly
drank off the remainder Of his cock
tail. My father said to Redwood
James:
" That must have required consid-
cradle practice
tPractice!' Redwood replied. Z
should say SO, young man. I guess I
spilled more'n three dozen Cinnamon
a-learnin' that there trick
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a snapsIlot Of oaIzIand. al.

Am staying with some friends who
live in a great big old fashioned home
In the most beautiful and aristocratic
part of Oakland. This morning we
OF eggs, though" said our hostess,
laughing, and a cup of tea for every
body; this will be our last tea. Wen
have to climb on-what is it they call
it, the water Wagon2' No tea or cof-
fee in Oakland? Plenty of it, but not
plenty of money to buy it with. I had
$7.S5 in the house the morning of the
shock, and I've got just 10 cents left,
I'm saving that dime for mascot. My
checks are no good, and the grocers
won't give anybody a quarters worth
of credit; they can't. The wholesalers
won't give them credit
At this point the door bell rang and
the millionaire across the way came
into the dining room. Il smell tea,
he said; good enough to give me a
little for my wife? She's not very
well this morning. Here's a pound of
flour. I'll trade it for a teaspoonful of
tea. Here's all the money I've got"
He held quarter and a 5-cent piece in
his open palm.
The milIionaires of Oakland are GO
ing hungry, but the poor are well fed
A man living in a $4,000 house with
a roof over his head and plenty of
clothes can't very well go and stand in
line for box of sardines; yet that's
have to do in a day or so, if the banks
don't open soon. There's not a CHM
ney smoking in Oakland today. If you
haven't little gas arrangement which
can be fit with burners, you eat your
food without cooking it, that's all
Every chimney in Oakland went
down with the earthquake, and the
soldiers have orders to shoot any man,
woman or child who is caught trying
to build a fire in a cook stove.
A man tried to sell his bank book
for $500 on the open street in Oakland
today. Then he came down to $50 and
then to SIS. The crowd merely laugh
ed at him. I saw the bank book. It
had a deposit of 500 credit to it. in
a perfectly reliable bank, but nobody
had the SIS to give.
| saw a man stand on a box in the
thick of a thronging crowd on Broad
way and wave three steamer tickets
in his hand. Il paid $3.50 apiece for
these last week. he said, who will
and he had to climb down off the box
with the tickets clutched in his hand.
Ali along the streets are little tables
with kilograms piled upon them. Those
who have learned to know the ropes
by this time walk to the table of their
particular initial and get their mes
sages. Every window Is full of bulle-
tins that read like the agony column in
the Times. Annie; I am safe; find
me at such and such number"
Mother; if you are alive, come to
Berkeley Message after message
writ in the very hearts blood Of the
one who wrote it.--Private Letter.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
IFrom the New YORK. pre..,

LFrom the New York press.1
Lots Of people win buy poetry xrbo
went read it. az
It's lucky children DON'T Learn 70
swear before the teeening age.
bride is either homesiesr for bar
family or unhappy because she isn't.
4 woman would probably be norfi-
ned TO death to wear as a mighty the
work shirt walls.
A man would have to have mighty
hard luck at the race track to feeT IS
PAD about It as II he had contributed
half as much to charity 1ss-
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ERON OTHER PENS
r14t, rBITsTf BTTsTING HEN.

The American hen. plurning herself on
the eulogy recently delivered upon her
usefulness by a congressman, has now
entered the lists as a trust buster. Four
taen millions four hundred thousand
eggs were recently shipped into Chicago
in one day. and the beef trust is said
to be taking the eount.-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
MANY SIDED HOBsoN.

Lieutenant Hobson's career in con-
gress will be watched with curious in
terest He has maintained so much
courage and strength, so much weak
ness. so much ability and so much folly,
that everybody will want to know what
kind Of a man VIII be developed finally
from all these contradictions.-Rich
mond News-Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

# no one else has mentioned It. we
would call attention to the fact that
Schuyler drummer Is abundantIy able
60 hold down the chair at the head
Of the Republican state committee.
Crummer's three hundred and some
pounds of avOirdupois and other
things win hold down fairly good
sized chair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

Bent Murdoch. who wears two pairs
of specs. uses both Of them in looking
over the list Of three thousand bills
passed by the present congress thus
far, but he fails to discover any state
hood bill. any pure food bill. or several
measures for which there is a great
national demand.
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kansas COMAENT
MURDOCK ON MICROBES.

MURDOCH ON MICROBES.
Love microbes are plentiful, but inert
everywhere; and when a well develop
ed one meets up with its affinity, it be-
comes active, for a time, blossoms out
in all its yigor and suddenly dies But
there are other love microbes to meet
not go into innocuous .desuetude for an
hundred years, people of that age quite
often being more or less afflicted with
them All this goes to prove that Il is
possible for a robust fellow citizen to
be more or less in love every week or
two during long and Industrious life;
and to say that the first nicrobe IS
the only one, or that it is more active
or lives longer, is not true, because 1t
IS scientifically established that the
older one is the more strenuous his
love microbes. A man falls in love pc
cause he is full of love microbes and
avoid having the toothache or the
gout.=EIDorado Republican.
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NO MORE FOR HIM.

Apparently young Mr.. Hobson has
submerged Congressman Bankhead just
as he sank the MerTimac some years
ago. but he's wise enough to duck the
impending kissing bee.-Newark Even
ing News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
A HERO OvERIoOKED.

The papers are now printing pictures
of the San Francisco heroes. but so far
they seem to have overlooked the man
who insisted on paying his hotel bill
while the building was falling down
washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

It appears that We are to have an
other opportunity to plant garden
seeds at the expense Of the govern
ment- Why congress hangs on to the
garden seed graft is a mystery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

IN Philadelphia the Insurance COM
panies have advanced their rates. Tt
takes a smart arithmetic man to tell
who pays the losses of a great con7a-
grafton. The public, nerally speaking,
appears to be the man with the hoe.-St.
Louis Cslobe-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
INST LIKE OURS.

It is explained that while the lower
house of the new Russian douma is
overwhelmingly Democratic and Liberal,
the senate is so constituted as to eff
fectually check any Democratic or Lib
era1 legislation. Must have been model
ed after our own senate.-AtlaHta Con-
stitutiOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

IN case the Democrats have a ma
jority in the next legislature. Henry
Honey rises to nominate Colonel Will
liam F. sapp for United States senator.
still Colonel sapp isn't likely to allow
his boom to cause him any loss Of
s1aeu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal Is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news organ
iSaflon for the exclusive afternoon publ
oazi6n In Topeka.
The newg IS received IN The State Jour
nal building over wires for 4h1s sole pur-
BoE8s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

According to General Bristow. -
says the Chicago Tribune. 'there are
two ways of getting into the United
States senate. The real trouble is
that there are not enough ways of get
ting some Of the senators out of IT."
We'll, one way has been discovered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

It is generally. conceded that the
Democratic state ticket is polling a big
vote just now The great question is,
viii it keep on polling this vote till the
polls close in November
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

There are said to be $4,000 men at
Yvcrk at Psnaua now. But what the
country would like to know is, are
they making the dirt ny or the fur
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

It is given out that the senate favors
q sea-leveI canal because it fears what
an earthquake might do to one Of
the lock variety. But it is suspected
that the senate's real reason is be-
cause President Roosevelt favors
something else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

"a steel gang Is at work up in north
ern Xmas, but 1t is busy IN relaying
track on the Central Branch and not
'ln any Of the county treasures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

Russia has just passed a crisis but
another will probably be ripe in a day
or two. Russia is now the champion
crisis-producer of the world she
raises more crises per acre than any
other nation on earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

The country may get a rate bill but
It is not likely to get much OF anything
else out Of the senate before adjourn
fnent. congressman win want to go
home to look after the fences and sen
ators do not like to work in hot weather.
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THE BETTER WAY.

Texas has started in to make certain
trusts pay penalties amounting to $17.-
O00. 000 # the state gets the money it
viii be better than putting the trusts
in jail.-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

A man who goes to a hotel to COM
init suicide generally figures the place is
a good one to die IN, if not to live in
ST. Joseph Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

Russia would ike TO have the United
States hand Gorlzy over to her. When
shs had him she didn't know what to do
with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

Up to the hour Of going to press
the telegraph has not reported the
receipt of any valuable present by
Commissioner Garfield from the Stan
dard Oil company.
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rOImD lie 10 hi?

It's stated in Washington that Mr..
Roosevelt's ambition is to enter the
cabinet of the next president-'if the
election sroes right" But could he be a
secretary and obey his own muzzling
order for a single day?-New York
Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22
TIME 10 KEEP STILL.

John Junkin, who is always an advo-
cate of a strong editorial page, failed
to live UP to his ideal last week The
ticket didn't set well and like the small
boy. John t.had nothing to say" -Sedg-
wick Paragraph.
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Ar THEIR OWN GAME.

Beating the Greeks at their own game
seems to be an easy proposition for he
Yankees.-Albany Press niekerbocker
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-22

After a few years the courts will
get around to take a few guesses on
the fste bill, and then we will know
AEho really won