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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
QUAKER REFLECTIoNs.

lFrom the Philadelphia Record. I
1t takes a lot Of cheek to sell shaving
soap.
Even a cook book may contain stir
ring passages.
Any woman can keep house if her
husband puts it in her name.
The bell boy will tell you that NAM
are called, but a few are dozin'.
An operation is always necessary
when the doctor needs the money.
Some fellows are so dull that they
can't even get next in a barber shop.
If a girl thought q fellow wouldn't
propose again, she wouldn't refuse him
so airily.
It's all right to paddle your own canoe
if you don't happen to own a motor
boat
A woman is always willing to give a
man the last word, If it comes in the
form of an apology
Considering how many umbrellas are
borrowed, one is apt to wonder who in
the world buys them.
Nell-"I suppose he proposed to you
on his knees?" Belle-''No, indeed.
never sat on his knees in my life"
A boy doesn't always work for what
he gets. Sometimes he works for what
he could get if he didn't work, which is
a licking
Love levels all things" remarked
the heauteous maiden. YES" agreed
the soroid young man, thinking of the
bills for candy and flowers; tit certain
~ fiattens out q pocketbOok %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
THE TREASURY SHORTAGE.

The manly action of #. E. Grimes, ex-
state treasurer, in paying to the state
$9sSS1.25 in settlement OF the shortages
IN the state school fund charged against
his administration, probably closes the
incident from legal standpoint The
amount paid by Mr.. Grimes is the sum
which he has agreed with the attorney
general can be enforced against him,
and his reminding It ends the necessity
for civil action, while the statute of
limitations has precluded any criminal
action in the matter.
The sum paid over by Mr.. Grimes.
together with that advanced to c. R.
Richey, s7SS.OO. to make good another
item of the same kind several months
ago, amounts to more than Mr. Grimes
salary as state treasurer during the en-
tire time he held the office. Naturally
this is a big sum for a man in Mr..
Grimes circumstances to pay. but he
does it. he says. simply because he feels
that the state has this claim against
him and he desires more than anything
else to protect his name.
Few people will believe that Frank
Grimes took any of the money that is
missing from the state treasury, but
he makes no allegations in his state
ment as to who did take it. Yet there
IS no doubt that a large sum was taken
that belonged to the state. 1t is I'M
fortunate that this matter was not
cleared up, not only in order that the
guilty might be punished. but that the
innocent might be entirely cleared
from blame.
An opportunity to do this was af-
forded in the case of the Garden City
shortage. but when the statute of limi-
tations was allowed to run on that also
without action, the opportunity passed
by.
Mr.. Grimes says he is the victim of
the carelessness, mistakes and unfaith-
fitness of others. 1t is extremely un-
fortunate for him that he is not in
position to prove who these others
are. The refunding of practically his
entire salary for the four years he was
in office is an extremely serious mat
er for Mr.. Grimes financially. to say
nothing of the moral aspect of the case.
Could Mr.. Grimes show who was guilty
of the theft he might recover this large
sum. More than that, he would render
an important service to public morals,
which is the thing in which the peo-
pie are deeply interested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

Bronson said, heavily. Understand;
though you shall marry nobody else; 4
gave up my comfort TO save my ~ ~
You shall let no stranger knoW-o.u ~ Std
cret-perhaps to spurn you Wnen ne oiu
know"
my father was innocent. But until unit !
it is proven shall abide by your WIZ;
Emmy said her color coming pack-
Because it is his wish-and my morn
er's." she added, as she walked to the
window Almost instantly she turneo
from 1t, saying huskily: Judge Gortoh
is coming-running, almost-and WIN
out his hat What can 1t mean
More trouble Miss Bronson sald,
her mouth setting hard Next I minus
the Judge burst into the room with q
face of ashes. He had something in his
hand-something fiat and square ana
dusty. ,,.- -
out to Miss Bronson. Here is the
money, every dollar. We found It I'M
der the safe when 1t was moved to-
dav. There is just a little space, hard
" an inch; I must have crowded the
tray into 1t in my fdgeting with the
other things. God forgive me that 1
did not think Of the possibility then.
But remember, never accused that
.sBut you let him suffer--judgment and
punishment" Emmy cried, sprtnglnS
forward. Now win you atone by help
ing me find him?''
sGiadiyl" said the judge. 1T was
the first thing I thought of. We Will
find him, if he is living"
You will not need to search far,
Miss Bronson said, with quivering lips
Il have never lost track of him, nor
let him suffer for anything-at least not
since poor Lena died.
Next fall there was a wedding at the
Bronson place-very quiet, but very
happy. The groom's name was Hyland,
and the bride was given away by her
father, who had very white hair and
perpetually brooding eyes. Miss Bron-
son cried a little to see Emmy go away.
Oh. 1~r4d
softly upon her brothers shoulder, say
ing:
"After ALL Jack, we have each other
left. * Copyright, 1906, by Homer
Sprague.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
Making Money Out of a waste-PiIe.

The people of Chicago are lucky,
says VIM. Hard in the Technical
World Magazine for December. Wit
ness the rock heap which was
tractors who dug the Chicago
drainage canal But what could
pc harder stroke of bad luck
than to be encountered with a
heterogeneous scrap pile of some fifty
million cubic yards of dirt and stone i?
How to rid themselves of this monster
incubus without depicting the city
treasury, would be a question for the
citizens to decide at any other time.
But this is just the point where luck
came to the rescue.
The people of Chicago are lucky be-
cause they dug their big ditch at the
psychological moment. Just as the
concrete age is being uShered in, and
building contractors have visions Of
mountains of crushed stone and rivers
OF cement, the people of Chicago drop
onto the market with twenty-three
million cubic yards of available rock.
But even millions of cubic yards of
rock could not break the Chicago
faith in concrete. and the big con-
tractor, John M. Even. jumped under
the market with the highest bid for
Chfcago's backyard scrap pile. At the
present price of crushed stone in Chi
cago, the waste heap will sell for as
much as it cost to dig the whole
drainage canal.
In addition to selling the crushed
stone, concrete blocks are to be made
right along the banks of the canal.
and shipped to market, just as bricks
are at present. Mr.. Even will install
half a million dollars worth of ma
chinery. which will crush the stone
and make it into concrete blocks. The
actual cost of the drainage canal did
not exceed SO million dollars. and Mr.
Even believes that the crushed stone
and cement blocks will sell for al least
that amount. Thus will a new indus
try be esta blished, and the people of
Chicago reimbursed for their trouble
in digging their big canal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.l


What a lot of idle people pleasant
day develops.
A boy is never lazy unless he has some
real work to perform
The average man thinks it is suffi-
Gent cause for divoce If his wife hasn'
faith in him.
1t is a sign of extravaganza to come
down the street these mornings with
egg on your lips.
II man dwells on the fact that he is
no smarter than another, it indicates
that he believes he is.
Homogeneous vary greatly in length,
but 1t is not recorded that they ever
outlast a prolonged visit by Her folks.
Perhaps the next time you do what
YOU shouldn't, you will have reason to
regret you didn't quit with the last time.
When women engage in a quarrel over
q man. the quarreling of dogs over a
bone becomes quiet affair in compar-
ison.
Something is invariably the matter
with the man who can describe the cos
tunes worn by the women at social
affair.
There are some people who pray for
patience, and then get mad because the
fire goes out when they prayed so long.
Considering the high price of eggs,
the manner in which cooks spoil ONE
1ettes should receive more attention
from the reformers.
Ever notice that when a fat woman
naarries little thin man she grows
fatter and fater year by year and he
grows thinner and thinner?
The wife of a drunkard hasn't any
thing to be thankful for unless it hap
pens that all her children are girls, and
there are no sons to inherit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
KANSAS COMAEHT
I.ooKINc RAcKwARD.

In taking an inventory for the year
1SO6, enc is too apt to view all things
from tho standpoint of his own per-
sonar accomplisnn ents--that is. what
II has meant to him That is entirely
100 narrow view. During the year
what have you done to contribute to
TIE happiness and tighten the burdens
OF Inc companion OF your joys and
sorrows! Have you frightened the
pathway Of the children of the house
noid Have you helped in the allevia-
Ilon OF suffering in your community :?
iaTe you assisted the poor and needy ?
i rive you extended sympathy to the
pereaveu? Have you done those little
things from day to day that mean so
much to those about you? If not
enough you have made your thousands
ana nave 1t In bank. though you have
entertained lavishly, though you have
aValled yourself of every possible per-
s SaI comfort. the year Will show
balance on the wrong side of the
ledger: and In your reflective moments
you VIII realize. that you have not even
approached living uD to life's truest
ideals.-Kingnan Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
Where Some Writers FaiJ.

In the Editors Study in Harper's for
December, Mr.. Alden gives his opinion
that the chief fault to be guarded
against in writing is the lack of spen-
taneity.
THE most frequent defect in fiction
submitted for magazine use, and, we
might add, in most Of the fiction that
somehov gets published in book form,
is its lack of spontaneity in construction
and expression. The writer of this man
ufactured fiction has certain precalcu-
lated effect in view, with reference to
which he ambitiously contrives every
incident and situation of his story The
harder he tries the more surely he fails
of any genuine appeal to his readers. If
he DISCUSSES his labor by facile mas
terry of dramatic material and express
sfon he may succeed in reaching crude
sensibilities and, because of his lower
aim, may outsell his betters. The null
titude is easily ca waited by splendid
artifice which, in exceptional instances,
has compelled the admiration of even
the judicious We shall find, however,
upon close examination, chat in such in
stances the writer has not by his SIREN
uous effort wholly closed the door
against all spontaneity. Poe came very
near to the exclusion in his short stor-
les of such genius as was in him; but
because he was by temperament poet,
a lover therefore of haunting melody
and easily the creator of pregnant at
mospheres. he could not completely shut
himself out of his fiction. In our day
polite literature must appeal to human
synnpa thies, and the writer's fertility OF
invention is of little service"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
HUMOR or THE DZY

Ma wants a package OF. dye and she
wants a fashionable color" said a little
"A Fashionable color?' echoed the phar-
macist What does she want it for;
''Well.'' replied the girl. 1.-THE doctor
says ma has stomach trouble and ought
might as well dye it a fashionable color"
Maritime Medical News.
When the people Of your town out
west discovered that the mayor had been
misappropriating. the public money, did
from tree.''-Baltimore American.
Prospective Passenger-"How often do
the cars run to jamaica Plain?' Starter
Every quarter of an hour. lady" Pros
starter-'In twenty-five minutes, mum
Boston Transcript.
Yes" said Miss Butte. Mr.. Hanson
called to see me last night and
- Better be careful about him." said
MISS MISS ,Nagger; he isn't exactly as true as
Nor, M, p, remarked the other. gazing ad-
him last night"
Hes clever with his brush" IAN art
ist, Ell? No, was thinking how smooth
his hair always looks. cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Of The Rev Mr.; sIxthly has good deal
a barrel of old sermons and had them
charged to. the church-',-Cleveland Plain
He Worked Like a Trojan for them
too-"WOnder who was the first woman
to get her gowns from PARISH Helen Of
Troy, no doubt. Boston Transcript
Agent-'How can manage to secure
your attention for a few minutes to the
subject Of an investment in mining
stock?' Victim (who is already interested
in six mining companies)-"You can't
manage to do it at all unless you can
make noise like a dividend ''-Chicago
Tribune.
City Manila your wife a good cook
now?" Suburbanite-''I don't know
have not been home since morning
Philadelphia Press.
He Geeling. his way)-"Do you think YOU
could ever be happy with a man ike
Ine?' She-"Weu, perhaps-if he WASN'T
too much like you."-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

After reading his income tax recon-
mendation Mr.. Bryan very naturally
charges the president with stealing
some more OF his clothes And this is
the time OF year when Mr.. Bryan needs
all his clothes. too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

Speaking Of fame. an exchange re-
fers to the late Marcus Tullius Cicero
As the Albert J. Beveridge Of Rome, al
though so far as is known Mr. cicero
wrote nothing whatever about 1.-The
Russian Advance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
COT THEM SCARED.

One thing is certain. no governor of
Kansas has scared the jointists so fire.
quently or SO effectively as Governor
Hoeh has done. That isn't all. either
he has scared a lot of county and city
officials as well. The prohibitionists
have a great argument in favor of their
position just now. If the mere threat
of law enforcement shuts up the joints,
they wonder what the real action would
do.-Concordia Kansan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

The president has given congress a
lot Of things to think about during its
next vacation.-for it probably won t
get through with more than a third of
the work the president has outlined.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

The governor OF Arkansaw an
nounces that when he gets to the
United States senate he will start
something. The governor of Wiscon-
sin did not advertise beforehand that
ne would start something when he got
there. but he really did start a whole
avalanche
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

is to give to the battleship Kansas. but
unless It can be brought abou before
this years passes expire. it is feared
that the crowd will consist largely of
railroad employees whose passes are
not affected by mere laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
sCHMITz AND REIrF.

1t il said that Mayor Schmitz and
Boss Reuf, under indictment in San
Francisco. have parted company. This
will not change the universal opinion
however, that they should hang to-
gether.=Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

A London scientist thinks that the
North Pole will be located =. he vi
entity of Indianapolis in a couple Of
thousand years. Hasn't the London
scientist got the time rather long? It
won't take Fairbanks that long to re-
duce the temperature OF Indianapolis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

Those California congressman who
have been violent In their opposition to
the Japanese will naturally oppose the
proposition to allow the Japs to be-
come citizens. The japanese vote
wouldn't do a thing to them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

For some reason the president failed
In his message to recommend that all
Christmas presents be bought early
Otherwise the good recommendations
were pretty we'll covered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

1t has been officially decided that
there is no ice trust in Kansas City.
Quite likely there is not ice in Toledo
eth er-not now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

If it Is right for a railroad to con-
hscate coal that does not belong to it
in case of emergency, why is it not
also right for a community that is SUI
Gering for want OF fuel to do the same
thing? A number Of Kansas towns
have been unable to see she difference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
An informal Drink.

A diverting joke was played on For
rner Prime Minister BalfOur on the
first ST. Patrick's day of his tenure of
the Irish chief secretaryship- A cigar
box, delivered to him at the house of
commons. contained a bunch of sham
rocks, 'From a sincere Irish admirer."
R,1t. to the terror of his secretaries. the
box was also fund to contain wicked
looking steel spring. covered with a
queer white compound A chemical
EXPERT was called for, and he examined
the internal machine everybody
momentarily expecting an explosion.
The puzzled chemist, venturing to put
a particle of the compound on his
tongue, found that it was simply SUI
gar irnpregnated with lemon. He then
turned the box upside down, and out
rolled a rusty corkscrew, a spiral
spring, and an old nutmeg crater
There was also a scrap of paper in
scribed: BUY the whiskey yourself;
you can then concoct the famous lem
onade of Ballyhooley, and drink to
OuId ireland. The Bohemian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

VIII Governor Hoch say anything
about prohibition and resubmission in
his message. or not? It doesn't cost
anything to guess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

Now nat President Roosevelt has
given the Japs a fine send-off, let us
see if they live up to it BY overlook
ing this little affair out at San Fran
cisco
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

It may be necessary for Taft to go
out and sit on the lid in San Francisco
yet. If so. he should make sure there
are no earthquakes lying around loose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

There seems to be almost as much
doubt about whether Castro and the
uhah of Persia are dead as there is
about Mrs. Eddy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

There Is good thing about not
having a big income. You don't have
to worry about President Roosevelt's
income tax proposition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

George W. Hanna has given his for
mai consent to merging the Populist
party with the Republican but
George w. Wiley is still hanging back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

They still have Senator Bailey doing
some explaining stunts down in Texas.
When a man has to do that much ex-
planning things look rather serious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

The express companies don't do all
the robbing. one Of them was the rob-
bed down in Texas the other day, to
the tune Of $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
UP OR DOWN?

The Kansas City papers note that
whisky is going up. Possibly. in Mis-
souri,, but out this way we notice that
it is still going down and in the same
old way.-OsbOrne Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

we always had a pretty fair opinion
OF Nebraska, but the news that it pays
its supreme court justices less than
Kansas does doesn't help it any.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

It IS stated that Ruef also held up
the theaters in san Francisco In most
places it works the other way-the
theaters hold up the people
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
THE CoNsUMERs PAY.

We could all look on with a good
deal OF compiacency at the contest be-
tween the steel trust and the beef
trust were ii not for the feeling of ap-
prehension that the loser will take up
a general collection to defray the
costs.-Indiapolfs News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

The Houston Post rises to observe
that Mr.. Roosevelt would rather write
Khan be president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

A baby monkey in the Peoria, Ill.
zoo has been named Caruso- That
monkey will certainly have grounds
for anger when 1t grows up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
,'ULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED 'RtFSS-

One thing that makes Washington
sore is that Oyster Bay should rival It
IN fame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

IT Is proposed that a big crowd Of
Eansans shall go to Galveston to in
gtan the silver service which the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
SOME PLANS.

A story comes out Of Topeka to the
erect that the friends Of Charles Curtis
are discussing a plan by which 1t is
expected that Curtis will be elected
senator The idea is not new, but it
mas Deen successfully worked in other
similar contests. The plan is to organ
ice stampede" at the right moment
in the balloting. On the theory that
the best laid plans of mice and men
aft gang aglee,' it is not altogether i'm
probable that the plans to scare the
legislature into electing Curtis as Unit
ed States senator may also fail. We do
not believe that the people of Kansas
are for Curtis for senator and his cleo
ton by trfclSery or otherwise will be a
public disaster.-Concordia Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11
HIGHER UP.

Governor Hoch and his cabinet pro-
pose to give the people of Kansas q
practical exemDlification of the real
thing in law enforcement, if all the Of
Tending mayors lose their jobs. The
only reason it hasn't been done before
was that nobody thought there was
any other way than to go after the
Jointist The new plan Is to go higher
UP and make the man behind sweat
Stockton Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

Prospective Passenger-"How often do
the cars run to jamaica Plain?' Starter
Every quarter of hour, lady" Pros
pectfve Passenger When is the next p
Starter-'In twenty-five minutes, mum. -
Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

When the people OF your town out
west discovered that the mayor had been
Incorporating the public money, did
they suspend him from Officer" mo;
from tree."-Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

Hes clever with his brush" IAN art
list, Ell ?" No, was thinking how smooth
his hair always looks. cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

The Rev. Mr. SIxthly has a good deal
OF nerve" How SOP Why, he bought
charged to.-the MISUNDERSTANDING Plain
De&1er g
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

Yes" said Miss Butte Mr.. Hanson
called to see me last night and"
Better be careful about him." said
Miss Nagger; he isn't exactly as true as
STEEL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-11

He Worked Like Trojan for them.
too-''Wonder who was the hrst woman
to get her gowns from Parish" Helen Of
Troy, no doubt. "-Boston Transcript