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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-07
New Big Cunarder to BE Launched To-day.

The new Cunard Line steamship Lusi-
tania is to he launched to-day at the yards
of John Brown, Clydebank. Scotland. She
will be the latest largest ship in the world
and exceeds in length all others by rs feet
being 500 feet long. The Lusitania will be
equipped with turbine engines and it ia
expected that she will make twenty-eight
miles an hour.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-07
Anu.Injuncton Bills Dead.

WASHINGTON, June e.-By a vote Of 10
to I the House Committee on the Judiciary
to-day decided to postpone further con-
alteration of the anti=injunction bills. Two
Republicans voted with five Democrats
against postponement.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-07
Court of Appeais Calendar.

ALBANY, June s.-cour OF Appeals calendar for
70 morrow: Noe. 100. u, ioi. l8o, lbs, lSS, lS
and ISL,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-07

President Roosevelt held an informal recep-
ton at which he shook hands with all the
teachers and pupils and their visiting
friends. As Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt were
leaving the school rain began to fall, and
violent electric storm was in progress.
They occupied a closed carriage. how
ever and suffered no discomfort. The
President did not reach the White House
until nearly 2 O'Clock. and he transacted
little public business to-day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
yAYHA WKER JOT.S

There are % divorce cases on the
docket of the Barton county district
court.
"Reminiscences by Father Beck in the
51o4toh recorder: The people OF to-
day can not realize the difference In
comfort and convenience now and
sixty years ago just because of the
manufacture and cheapness of match
es can remember when matches
We're luxury only enjoyed by the
wealthy; when very few country peo-
pies houses were supplied with this
luxury. The reason was that the
matches five cents will now buy would
then have cost thirty or forty cents
and at that time five cents was harder
and more difficult to get than thirty or
forty cents is now In those times
when the fire went out which it fire.
quenlly did IN most homes where only
the open fireplace was used, a flint and
q piece of punk was the resort. If the
flint and punk were lacking as was
generally the case, a boy liked out to
the nearest neighbor'S to borrow a few
live Goals. I remember. once when we
had all been off to distant point on
the circuit to quarterly meeting and
on account of rain and storm had been
detained over night, that when we re-
turned home the next day in the cold
fall rain. of course the fire was out,
and being just the size Tor an errand
boy, was posted off to a neighbours a
half mile distant for fire. AS I went
by the old barn / picked UP a couple
of oak clapboards that had blown off
the roof. Arriving at my destination I
soon had a small fire brand between
the ends of my boards. The top board
kept the rain from putting the fire out
and the seasoned boards soon began to
burn freely. When about half way
home the bottom board burned off let
ting my fire fall in a puddle of water.
! then had to go back and get another
supply of fire. Fronting by my former
experience I get safely home, and it
was not long until we had blazing
fire in the fireplace and in the cook
stove. and soon a plate of fried ham,
a pot of coffee, hot biscuits and butter
made me forget all about the hard
ships and privations of this world of
trouble I presume my experience on
this and the same on a score or more
Of other occasions has been the expert
ence Of most of the older readers Of
the Recorder-TFibune. The writer re-
members that on more than one oc-
casion he was wakened up in the
early morning by his fathers voice
calling, "Get up, Adam. and run over
to Smiths and get some fire."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18

might remove an incentive for we'll
doing from weak officials. IF public
officers could be held amenable to the
people and still be given the four years
that they are usually given. without
requiring them to stand for reelection.
1t would be a good thing all around
And there is a way OF holding them
amenable to the people. The recall does
it. The recall as was recently ex-
planned In these columns, is device in
force in the city Of Los Angeles and in
some foreign nations, whereby, If an
official proves weak or recalcitrant. the
people themselves can remove him.
Suppose, for instance, Kansas officials
We're elected for four years, but the
people had the power of the recall; and
suppose a county attorney should adopt
policy contrary to the wishes Of his
people. If 40 per cent of the total num-
Der Of voters should petition the county
commissioners in the matter the COM
nissioners would call a special election
involving that one office. The incum-
bent is allowed to be candidate in
that election and any others who wish
to rum If the incumbent receives a
majority it means that the people en-
dorse him and he is continued in Of
flee. If some other candidate gets a
majority 1t means that the people do
not approve the policy Of the incum-
bent and he steps out and gives place
to the other man.
OF course the recall is seldom invoked
except in extreme cases, but the fact
that the people have that power tends
TO keep an official in line with the ma
Jority of his constituents, and if any
oInclal Is discovered to be dishonest or
if his policy is too much adverse to the
majority OF the people, the people have
the power of remedying the trouble.
1t would require an amendment to
the constitution to lengthen the terms
of state officers, and the same amend-
ment could provide for-the recall. With
that power in the hands Of the people
longer terms would doubtless be advan-
tageous all around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
A poor appetite maketh a rich
boarding house keeper.
Unfortunately We can not always
undo an undue influence.
Regrets for the past do not interfere
with, our acecptances of the present
The healthiest turkeys are the ones
that feel they haven't long to live.
Many a fellow marries because he is
true to his first love, yclept himself.
MANY a man has a good heart, but
the trouble is a man doesn't think with
his heart
What will the highway contractors
do when they discover that hell is
paved with good intentions?
Hoax" Some brewers, I am told
are afraid of their own beer Joax-
$50 are some undertakes.
When a man begins a speech with
ssTt is needless to say he always pro-
ceeds to say it at great length.
Wigg-"What's your idea in taking
course in hypnotism 2" Wagg-''I've
been promised a job as bill collector"
We are told that we shall be made
uerfect in heaven. Wonder if we shall
meet our vermiform appendices there.
TT is considered mark of Ill breed
ine for man to continually have his
hands in his pockets" remarked the
wise Guy Possibly agreed the
Simple Mug. t'but no such distinction
is drawn in the case of the man who
cintinua1ly has his hands in other peo-
pIe.s pockets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
sCHOOL 9rATNT'F.yaNrE

One Of the acts pertaining TO the
school system of the state that will
probably be urged by the educational
interests in the coming legislature viii
De what is known as the California
plan of school maintenance. This plan
IS 70 have a state levy for schools as
Wen as a district or local levy.
The present plan in Kansas of having
only a district levy works a hardship
on poor districts. For instance. there
are districts in Kansas that get a large
portion Of their taxes from railroads
that run through them. They can
maintain long school term on perhaps
ten mill levy. An adjoining district
may have no railroads nor a high as
sessed valuation. and a twenty mill levy
may run only five months term. The
people In the latter district probably
paid their share on the bonds that were
voted to get the railroad. but they get
none Of the taxes from the railroad to
help run their schools. This in itself is
unjust.
Besides education is a matter Of in
terest to the whole state 1t does not
elevate the entire citizenship to have
good schools in one neighborhood and
poor schools in another neighborhood.
The schools should be equalized as
much as possible and all made uniform
~ good.
To bring this about educators are gen
orally in favor of a small state tax to
be divided according to the number of
pupils in each district leaving the local
tax-the main one-to be raised as at
present. The local tax would, of course.
be considerably cut down. This plan
would make the rich communities aid,
to a certain extent, the schools in the
poor but thickly settled communities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
POINTED PsFs .e.1E@7pfIa
IFrom the chicago News. !


Lots of the money that men marry is
counterfeit.
A mans good judgment usually
shows up the day after.
Some men make a speciality of posing
as horrible examples.
Most people would fall short if
measured by the golden rule.
When words fail a woman in an
argument she resorts to tears.
When a mother gives a child a
sponge bath she uses a wash rag.
Some lawyers have the knack of con-
verting poor advice into good coin.
Men wish they didn't have any
harder times than boys think they are
having.
The average girl declines to marry
q lot OF men because they neglect to
ask her.
Even an optimist is apt to backslide
when he has boil on the back Of his
neck.
Our idea Of an impossible man Is one
who hasn't bit Of foolishness in his
make up.
And when a man bumps up against
hard luck he always blames some other
fellow for showing him.
Most people find fault with their
neighbors in order to get even with
neighb0rs who find fault with them.
After being let in on the ground
floor Of a big deal man sometimes
discovers that some other chap
crawled in through the cellar window.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18

for the young man. Next day, aftei
wrestling for an hour with MS PSipt
tating heart, he made proposal p
due form. Miss Nettie realized Wna'
was coming and was prepared Tor II
She simply handed him an adVer US.
ment she had written and proposed S
insert in the leading papers II rsae,
IAN up-to-date girl wishes 10 adolh
an orphan boy and be mother g
him. VIII teach him how to CLING
trees. stand on his head and turn pach
handsprings. All new ideas taught as
soon as they appear. A positive guar
antee given not to bore him A cure
for ianguidness and the London COM
plant kept constantly on hand Al
dress in confidence"
That was another bump for Bunny
but he took it like a little man. IN
stead of returning to his old ways ana
his old life he went over to Otdneiua
and bought the right to plant oysters.
and he has displayed such energy ana
ambition during the past year tnat
Burt GaIbraith looks at him across tfle
club dinner table and mutters to MIN
self:
II wonder why in thunder Net does
MT name the day. I know they lows
each other, and are as good as en-
gagged" Copyright, 1906 By f. =
Parcells.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18

There are, of course, two sides to the
controversy between the church and
the French government. we in Amer
lea, ACCUSTOMED as we are to entire
separation of church and state, can
hardly understand the situation over
there. Here the idea that any religious
denomination or sect should be aided
by funds from the public treasury
seems absurd; and the Interference of
the government in the AFFAIRS Of any
| denomination would not be tolerated,
so long as the church was not violating
the law.
In France the churches have largely
been built by government funds and
the clergy are supported out Of the
public treasury. France rs pre-erni-
nently Catholic, but it has been drifting
towards the extreme of infdelity and
opposition to all religion. The anti
clerical party is now in control of the
government, and It is separating church
and state.
This would seem to US in America
like a good moVe-if it were done with
the interests of both the state and the
church-in view. 4k~is-aAsa<ls4abeedlsf-t true
that the church would be more OF a
spiritual power If it were supported by
its members voluntarily rather than
by taxes levied by the government. For
instance, If the Baptists, or the Metho-
dists in the country were supported
out Of the public treasury; If their
ministers We're paid out of the taxes
the same as public officers. the church
would doubtless become a powerful
political ma chine, but it would lose
much of its spiritual power-power
over the hearts and the personal con-
duct of it's adherents.
But it appears that the French gov
eminent is adopting somewhat harsh
and extreme measures towards the
Catholic clergy. An attempt is made
to deprive them of the use of the
churches and they are being driven
from their official residences and the
schools.
It would. perhaps, be no more than
right for the church to reimburse the
government for the public funds that
have been put into church property,
but wisdom on the part Of the govern
ment would give the church a long
time in which to do it, and in the
meantime it should have the use of the
churches and schools. AT least that is
the way it appears to American eyes
from this distance-and that is evil
IDENTIFY what the French government is
not doing.
There is little doubt that the course
the government is pursuing viii
strengthen the Catholic church in
France 1t will awaken the adherents
Of the church and bind them with
closer bond of loyalty to their religion
Religious persecution always works
that way, and it is already doing SO in
tF7ic ease
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

II you unexpectedly enter your home
and discover the other members of
your family hastily trying to conceal
something, while there is an enbar-
RAISING lull in the conversation do not
imagine that you are being plotted
against. Remember Christmas Is
coming.
or course it is none OF our business
but have you bought 'ems early?
= f@w
Miss Hook was recently married to-
Mr. Hill in Wichita. There is some
Bessie
We will admit that the car shortage
IS pretty serious, but along about
breakfast time we would like to have
a commission appointed to investipa to
the egg shortage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
The Japanese Question.

The courts will interpret the consti-
tuition ana decide upon the validity of
California's school laws. We wish to
puy many OF Japan'S products, and to
sell her some of our own in return. We
wish to maintain our traditional friend
" relations with the japanese govern
ment and people. California has more
TO gain by friendly relations with Jap
an, and more to lose through unfriend-
~ relations, than any other state. AS
yet nothing alarming has happened in
the way OF Japanese immigration. The
situation in Hawaii is a distinct one,
and is under careful investigation. The
subject is one for study and not for ag-
dtatiOn. If we do our duty toward jap
an, and maintain our traditions of
courtesy and friendship, we shall be
able to deal with the coolie question
without changing treaties or enacting
restrictive laws. The Japanese govern
ment controls its subjects in such a
way that it can very easily regulate
their movements. It can direct them
in great numbers to Korea and Man
chur1a, and, on the other hand, it can
check their movement to Hawaii and
Wholly stop their direct migration to
San Francisco. Japanese statesmen
are broadminded and intelligent, and
they can easily understand the difficult
ties involved in racial questions. They
will be readily governed by the clearly
ascertained wishes of the people of the
United States in the matter of contrall-
ing emigration. In this respect their
situation is very different from thate of
China. There were no Chinese authors
ties that could check the movement of
coolie immigration from Hongkong,
which is under British control. Natur-
ally, Japan cannot restrict a movement
of japanese coolies from our own ter
ritory of Hawaii to our Pacific states.
But it can easily prevent the dreaded
inundation of California in future time
by great hordes. President Roosevelt
and the authorities at Washington IN
derstand the question thoroughly in all
its bearings. The wiser citizens of Cal
ifornia. Oregon, and Washington should
counsel their neighbors that there is no
cause whatsoever for agitation or alarm
and that the governments of the Uni
ted States and Japan would undoubted-
ly cooperate, if it should ever become
necessary, to d event an excessive
movement of japanese coolie labor to
our coast. If legal restrictions are needs
ed, it may not be difficult in the near
future to provide them amply in the
form of a law applying in equal terms
to immigrants Of all races at all our
ports.-From The Progress of the
World" in the American Monthly Re
view of Reviews for December.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Atchison Globe. }

(From the Atchison Globe.)
When eggs are as high as at pres
ent, they should be sold by the karat.
A man wearing rings on his fingers
looks almost as bad as he does wear
ing a beard on his face
Some people treat their friends as
the Missouri river treats its banks:
Gradually encroach until the friend
ship collapses.
We all have different ideas of it:
A store clerk believes il he isn't good
in this life, he will later have to face
seven bargain days week.
Men are not very clever: They all
imagine they can make some woman
believe they are better than they are,
but that is because they don't under
stand women.
On cold gloomy day, is bald
headed man really required to take
chances of catching cold by tipping
his hat every time he meets his lady
accuaintances?
The man who imagines he can write
an interesting love letter, changes his
mind at the breach of promise trial
when the reading public is ready to
agree with him.
The farmers can't agree what
good days work is in the corn field
Some day next week, we expect to go
into the country. and settle the mat
ter. We will husk corn ali day, and
hereafter it will be a good days work
to ShuCk as mucn corn as we put In
crib during the day. (Now let farms
ers laugh.)
This morning a street. car was COM
ing rapidly down Main street, when
suddenly old lady attempted to cross
in front of the car. With a great er-
fort, the motorman stopped his car
within a few feet of the woman, who
was standing in the middle Of the
track. You needn't have stopped
the old lady said: Il didn't want on
The women are constantly filling the
walls with notices for the husba nds
to read, hoping it will better their
mean dispositions and 1t is with pleas
ure that the announcement is made
that an Uplift thought has appeared
In fancy printing, to hang on the wall
and benefit the women. It Is: Quit
Henpecking." So far as learned thfs
is all the present Christmas has done
for the men.
If there is anything to suggest dis
sipati it is certainly not Christmas.
An election, we sometimes think
invites drunkenness. But there "a
nothing to suggest drinking in the
Christmas festivities. We have a zood
many crank notions, no doubt: here ?.
one of them: that drinking intoxicanfs
is one of the biggest fool habits men
have. What excuse is there for a mar
to pay his hard earned money for thai
which harms him There is no frr IN
drunkenness. Where did the foos
notion originate that drinking was
fun %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
For LONGER TERMS.

Agitation has been started to make
the term Of the governor four years in
length instead of two years, and make
the governor ineligible for reelection;
and the movement is gaining consider
able headway. This Is as it is in Mis-
souri, and some other states.
It is argued that If a governor can
not be reelected he Will not be playing
his cards to that end during his first
administration, as is now sometimes
the case but. he will try to make a
good record as a governor from the
first. This thing would work both ways,
however 1t is the usual experience in
Kansas, though, that a governor does
better the second term than he does the
first, either because he has more exper-
fence in. doing the work. or because he is
not trying to play politics so as to get
another term.
1t is argued also that Kansas usually
gives a governor four years anyway.
and IL would save the state and the
governor, too. much worry, time and
money, If he were elected for four years
to start with.
Among those who endorse this idea is
Judge J. X. Barnd, of the Ness County
News, but Judge Barnd would extend
the four year term to all state, county
and district officers, making elections
come only once in four years. State
senators and district judges are al
ready elected for four years.
There Is much to say in favor of
four-year terms. but there IS always
the possibility Of getting a bad official
into off1ce. and the knowledge that the
people cannot reach them for 50 long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
SATISFACTORY SUBSTITUTES

I'm glad to see the congressman
A-gatherin' round once more.
Were purity busy. once again
Down TO the general store
Without the time we used to get
Fur wisdom an debate.
But we don't feel there's cause to fret.
They'll keep the country straight.
Before The winter seasons through,
AgalR Wen talk our share;
B4t awhile we've got SO much to do.
The congressman are there.
Each man of us in peaceful trust
Goes G. an understands
That every topic we've discussed
Is left in expert hands.
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
KAMzAs cOMAENT
INDEPENDENT REPTJBTIcANs

- AA@N
While the Recorder has no particu-
lar use for indep pendent partisans. so
calIed, We believe in Independent Re-
puDhcans and Independent Democrats,
especially the former. Everyone Will
conceue that parties an dparty lead
eIs are prone to become corrupt, espe-
claIiy when there is but little danger
Of de1eat, and in such cases it is abso-
lu5eiy necessary for the party to be
reformed and cleansed from the inside.
In the republican party this is the mis-
slo1 OF independent Republicans. This
will not be accomplished as long as
republicans are willing to blindly en-
dofse everything the leaders propose,
bosses by corrunt yelIow aog s,,a II tn ne
tne ticket If the Republican party
goes not cleanse. itself and be decent
the nrst thing we know the people will
stampede and put the Democratic or
some other party into power. Such a
[nlng has been done before and is La
cOrder