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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-23
THE STARS REPLY

a short time ago this paper took
occasion to disagree with the Wash
ington Star concerning the methods
employed by Senator LaFollette In
his Chautauqua speeches and lectures.
The State Journal contended that the
Wisconsin statesman has a right to
make speeches political or otherwise
for pay if he desires, and if anyone
viii hire him. It also contended that
If LaFollette misrepresents the facts,
the senators whose record he pur-
ports to give have abundant oppor-
tunity to reply at length in the states
where they are affected
In differing from the Star, this pa.
per realizes that the Star is on the
ground in Washington and has an op-
portunity to be more .conversant with
the facts than is the State Journal,
but, on the other hand, it may be too
close to get a broad and sane view of
the situation. It's very proximity to
the United States senate with its dig
nifty and it's prestige to maintain, may
give the Star narrow and erroneous
idea of just how this matter appears
to the people of these United States
who are far distant from the in
Yet the Stars side of the argument
is worthy of a hearing, and the State
Journal therefore gladly gives it
herewith:
THE Topeka state Journal diff
fers with the Star respecting the
course of Senator LaFollette in taking
the lecture platform and retrying
there the railroad rate bill and the
Senate's record on that measure For
one thing, it fails to see the point as
to the admission fee to the lecture.
1.-THE point is that when the senator
becomes a public entertainer he yields
to the demands and conditions of that
mission. He goes into the show bust
ness. He is billed as an attraction
that it will get the worth of it's mon
ey. And so when the senator appears
he must redeem the promises of the
wallpaper He must give his hearers
hot stuff for he knows very well that
they have not come to listen to dry
legal refnements, or TO a solemn dis
QUESTION about general policies Of
government Hence the biting per-
sonalities which season his discourse,
and which constitute his drawing
power.
..But. says the state Journal. he
reads from the record. Only to the
extent of the roll calls which are not
in dispute. No senator is denying his
votes. But Senator La Toilette, in the
absence of the men who have cast
those votes, puts an Interpretation on
them in the highest degree damaging
to the authors. Those senators are ac-
credited with motives and meanings
which were they present with oppor-
tunity to reply they would repudiate
instantly and in toto.
Some of the Wisconsin senator's
admirers are inclined to think that he
is revenglng himself on the senate for
its inattention to him while the rail-
road rate bill debate was IN progress.
This probably does him an injustice.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atehison elobe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe1
It is a great thing this year, girls, to
be as pretty as a peach, but care should
be taken that you are not as cheap.
We find it no trouble at all to think
Of a good cold weather joke on a very
hot day, when it would fail fiat to print
it.
A man saves up money for a rainy
day. and the doctor gets it later for
performing a surgical operation on him,
and it isn't an umbrella he cuts out.
either.
During the heat Of the day, the girl
working down town has one joy more
to look forward to than the men know;
Taking off her corset when she gets
home at night.
Occasionally you hear people complain
that they never have d good time; what
is the matter with putting on just a few
clothes, and sitting on ones porch In
the evening at home and eating
peaches?
There is q fad of late for hanging
notices on the wall which the family
are supposed to read and then Resolve
to Lead Better Lives. We suggest this
one to comfort and Uplift Father and
Mother: Get your happiness out If
your work, or you will never know
what happiness is"
You may have wondered why Mrs.
Lysander John Appleton recently ap-
peared IN crepe, though there hasn't
been a death in her family since her
grandfather was killed in the war forty
years ago; she put it on to give a faint
expression to her deep grief because
she was recently compelled to wear
spectacles.
Before marriage a man is usually on
good terms with all his relatives. After
marriage he begins to drift away from
them, and, provided he is on good terms
with mis- wife, shows an increasing fond
ness for her kin. In a. few years, ne has
had differences with all the people on
his side of the house, and lis wife's
folks are taken to his bosom.
If there is any one thing Daughter
likes, It is to say how she would Just
love to be a business woman, but have
you noticed that the miIxman always
has to wait while she searches every
thing from her writing desk up stairs
to the coal bin in the basement for the
milk tickets? The world at large may
be fooled by a girls claim that she has
business ability. but ask the milk man.
He knows.
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He was a Great Man. But

A great deal of curiosity and COM
ment was aroused by the Lincoln log
cabin as 1t passed through the different
cities of the east on its way from New
York to its final resting place in Ken
lucky. Many curious anecdotes are
told of the trip, one Of which was re-
counted with relish at the Belvedere
the other day by Captain N. S. Bulitt
of company A, First Kentucky infan-
try who was in charge of the detail of
five privates that guarded the relic on
its way south.
The car on which the cabin rested
stood on a railroad siding in Philadel-
phia, when a Quaker city man, who
had exhibited great apparent interest
in the cabin. approached Captain
Bullitt with a timid question.
$50 that is really the Lincoln
cabin?" he asked.
1.-THE real thing" responded the cap
tain
And Lincoln was born in there?''
Right within those very walls"
well, we'll" said the questioner. as
he ruminatively stroked a Ineager tuft
of reddish beard. ttand I suppose he
cut those logs with his own hands. -
Cleveland Leader.
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KAMSAS cOMMENT
H0NEsT MEN-

In these days Of absconding bank
presidents swindling insurance officials,
corporate dishonesty and senatorial
mal1easance the question arises. Are
men as honest as they used to be2 Sure,
they are. the trouble is that the people
are SO busy handing out good jobs of
different kinds that they naturally
make q few mistakes in the rush and
the hurriedIy chosen men do not always
stand the fire Of temptations. There
are scads and scads of honest men,
Notwithstanding the Diogenes who goes
around hunting for one with a lantern.
but they do not all land in the high
places The higher up the dishonest
man gets, the harder will be the Gall
which is sure to get him sooner or la
ter.-Lindsborg Record.
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PoINTED PARAGRAPHs.


From the Chicago News.
Even the unmusieal fish dealer
knows the scales.
Any man who buys a mule is sure
to have a kick coming
Love knows nothing about philoso-
ply, and it cares less.
After all, the easiest way to do
thing is to do it right.
What the world needs just now is
men who talk less and say more.
There is no man so ignorant that
you can't learn something from him.
Popular ministers avoid touching
the sore spots of their congregations.
other things are as scarce as the
teeth of a hen-a ROSTERS, for in
stance.
When a woman gives a man a piece
of her mind he Doesn't appreciate the
gift.
Even a graceful man looks ridicu-
Ious when he attempts to pat himself
on the back
When a man is requested to foot a
bill It always hurts his dignity worse
than it hurts his cornss
A girl can never turn her mind to
other things with any degree Of con-
tentment until after she has acquired
husband.
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FARMING 81 POWER.

The country papers out in the short
grass country of western Kansas now
carry advertisements of big traction
engines for use in farm work. The
latest designs of these engines use
gasoline for fuel, although the steam
traction engine is stin il use.
These engines do all sort of farm
work where power is necessary, but
they are especially useful in blowing
the great tracts of prairie. Labor is
scarce and hard to get on the farms
of the west. One of these engines will
pull a gang plow and turn over fur
rows from eight to twelve feet wide,
thereby doing the work of half a
dozen men and as many teams.
The advantage of this sort of power
Is that it never gets tired. After the
engine has worked all the morning.
the farmer can drive it up to his well,
attached it to his pump and make it
water a big herd of cattle while he
eats his dinner. If he irrigates from 2.
well, while he rests at night he can
keep his gasoline engine at work
pumping water for irrigation.
A decade ago this sort Of thing was
only dreamed of. Few people
thought it would ever become a
reality. Now the dream of few
years ago has been more than fulfilled.
If denatured alcohol proves the sue
cess it is expected to be in the way
Of supplanting gasoline for power,
farming by power will become very
common within a few years.
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out for discourtesy at all. The debate
was long and grew to be tiresome to
everybody. Only a few senators ad-
dressed full chamber. Mr.. Knox, MI
Spooner, Mr.. Bailey and Mr.. Foraker
AL lawyers Of the first grade-had
close attention. Mr.. La Toilette came
into the debate late. and, besides, lack
ed as a senator and as a lawyer the
prestige Of those mentioned. He had
more attention than the average new
senator commands, and his were only a
few of the amendments proposed to
the rate bin that were rejected.
THE Star was in favor Of the rate
bill, and would have been glad to see
It made sitter than 1t was. It will
support any amendments that expert
ence may show necessary to give the
public full relief from railroad DONNA
ton and oppression. But 1t very much
doubts If anything is gained for the
cause by the course of Mr.. La Toilette,
and It IS very certain that he does not
thereby increase his influence as a
senator"
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QuAKEIs REFLECTToNa.


TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Silence is sometimes the best arga-
ment.
NOtoriety gets more publicity than
fame.
Hoax-"He's not so warm Joax-
ssWho?" Hoax-''Peary."
Even the roof garden will not flourish
without constant irrigation.
Any man would rather be called up on
a telephone than called down.
The man who used to swear like q
trooper now sWears like a chauffeur
A woman can hurl defiance more eff
fectfvely than she can throw a stone.
Strategy consists Of finding out the
enemy's weakness before he finds QUE
yours.
The average letter of congratulations
Is about as sincere as q tombstone Ia
scr1ption.
Wigg-"Bjoncs was after political
job for a long time. what's he doing
now?'' Wagg-'N Nothing. He got it."
Blobbs-''Is it possible that you have
never visited country town? Then
you don't know the village maiden
SIobbs-"Oh. I've seen lots of comic op-
era choruses.''
Mrs. Mandy. I hear you
have married again" Mandy
sfYaas'n." Mrs. Buggins-.sAnd Is your
second husband equal to your first7''
Mandy as'm; he am fully ss equal,
If not equalizer"
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VACATIONS END.

When the branch is all bare,
hen the blossom Is fair
And the meadow grows suIlen and brown
w hen the cars seem each day
To run only one way
ana that is the way to the town
Then you yearn for the life
That means hustle and strife
And sylvan delights become tame
and voice far away
Seems to whisper and say
That 1t time to get into the game
When the breeze now and then
Hints of autumn again
And the blood feels a quickenin9 thrill.
" hen leaf here and there
Flutters forth on the air
From the sycamore I'D on the hill:
When the shrill katydid
In the foliage hid
Has begun its incessant acclaim,
Ihere's a warning complete
And uncommonly sweet
Ihat it time to get into the game.
w ashington Star.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

When people put 2 and 2 together it
means that they are drawing con-
illusions. but when they put and to-
gether 1t means that they are putting
their conclusions into practice and that
It is time to skidoo.
X
This department positively refuses to
worry because Robinson Crusoe's is
land has disappeared as result of the
Chilean earthquake, in spite of the
signs of regret which a Kansas City
contemporary says are going up all
over the land.
X
George Washington's body servant
has died again. There seems to have
been almost as large an edition of
George Washingtons body servants as
there was of the Ulster County Ca
zette containing the news of Georges
decease, several million copies of which
appear to have been printed.
AS we understand it, the boss busters
are once more active in Cuba.
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as a word She'll marry Hugh. Il
groaned Barney between his teeth.
She'll marry Hugh. And och. IL there's
a miserable lad IN the country thai
same is myself
The door creaked on It's hinges. " 'yria
only the wind" thought Barney. Then
something made him turn and look
Eileen stood in the doorway.
Have ye left someth1ng?' said Bar
ney, starting to his feet.
tender.
IT'S my heart I've lost" she ans
swered-
~Hush's a lucky lad. Eileen" said
Barney, "a lucky lad, and-and-I wish
We joy. the both of yez''
IT'S not Hugh that has my heart,
cried Eileen, 'tis-ah. Barney, can "
not see-can ye not understand
.'Shure-shure, it's never me "
mean?" gasped Barney. Why Eileen.
girl, I'm poor Suddenly light
broke on him, and he caught her to his
heart. mol" he cried, I'm the richest
man in the whole wide wurruldI"
Thus fortune came to Barney after
az
Copyright, 1906. by c. H sutcline.)
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wrong Kind Of nfacarnni.

A young housewife on the upper west
side, who has been married long enough.
however. to know that the breakfast
rabbit should be skinned and not pluck
ed, told her cook yesterday to have
macaroni for dinner. says the New York
''Phwere is ut?" asked the guardian
OF the gas stove, who is new on the
job.
You'll find it on the second shelf Of
the cupboard, replied the young wife,
disappearing from the kitchen.
Two hours later her lord came in at
ter hard days work at managing
large body of unruly toilers, and sat
down expectantly to a welcome feast.
We have nnacaroni for dinner today
said the wife smilingly.
She did watch him as he enthusiasts
tically dipped the ladle into the inviting
mass OF noodles and applying the proper
proportion of cheese started it on its
way. But there was a painful express
sion on his face as his teeth met the
food and he stopped to Investigate. He
called the cook
What is this?" he demanded.
Maearooni, sorr,'' she replied.
tls-that-so,' (sarcastieally). Where
do you buy your macaroni, in a glue
factory or pulp worlxs2 Get the box
She produced the package. 1t bore
the inscription:
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WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HAN
OVER7

Hanover is the best town in Wash
ington county. We have a canning
factory and creamery running at full
blast, two telephone systems. electric
light plant, and as good, If not the best
waterwork system in the state, the lat
ter two owned by the city, high school
as good as the best, two good parochial
schools, churches of every denomina
ton, surrounded by a fine farming coun-
try, and taxes are low, as the city and
township have but small Indebtedness,
and by the present judicious manage
ment will soon be free of debt.-Han-
over Herald
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EEIESH, T.E.AeF-ES VVTF2FF REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED EslRt1$sl
HOaE1 3THgEs WILLIE AWAY.

auRauEsheRa az TIA state Joysnal
10y during tho GaEnaasP may s1geve
80 1oaDaR naa19e6 EegulaEay each. ogAS
hs-r1F afhdgess a. o. E12e OF ten aElslfs
81 s-esEr az z2aR1y cents 3 month GOy
ma 0alyl. Address changed az often
a. Eeaea. V1ello out % eo3sn the
seraa Eouznaa YIN be to yon' IKE q
iau1lv asenaE 9Rona boHaaA
+ .AdEaDcs pAgEnsne ts Eeqneze0 %
h7,e-s ,l,aes ssras auiaaCz9peionss 70 save
5aulEl-aeE1llg aZpenSe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-23
HUMOR OF THE DAY

Judge-Ar. .Twiggles, do you wish t.
poll the jury?
your honor; but It would afford me infin-
tie satisfaction If 1 could club the jury
Chicago Tribune.
There is a big washout. I understand.
on this road, quietly remarked the COM
mercial traveller to his neighbor.
"Where?' asked the other excitedly
AS far as can see replied the trav-
cling man as his eye followed the frank
they whirled by AL along the line
Baltimore American
Say" suddenly exclaimed the Their
mometer. Hades is supposed to be locat-
ed in the center of the earth, isn't it?"
Yes, replied the barometer, but what
= 7 ~, vas Just thinking the lower down ]
I'd go.''-PhiIadelphia Press
Why do you cry so. my dear chndY"
to stop. Boo hool''-Brooklyn Eagle.
man?r demanded the idiot.
We called her a strong minded person
in our paper and she objects.
Very well. call her weak minded here
after Philadelphia Ledger
Kentucky colonei-can get a bath IL
Clerk always willing to obHge)-cer.
tainly. sir. External or internal2-Bo-
MY husband says he is not afraid OF
How fortunater' answered young Mrs,
Torkins. That shows that he doesn't
play them ''-Washington Star
They issued a hundred and fifty wed
ding Invitations
Did they get many valuable presents2"
Motley barely made expenses. IL
lustrated Bits
''Bragley boasts that his wife is college
bred What's meant by college bred, any
'Mabbe it's the STUFF they learn to make
at eookin' school. "-Philadelphia Press.
Connecticut visitor gazing across the
sound toward Oyster Bay)-Is that the
White. squadron we can see shimmering
over there?
Democratic FTost-No; the president is
smiling. That's alI-Puck-
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ERON OTHER PENS
FATTEN THE ICE CREA11.

Horseless carriages, wireless teIeg-
raphy and pitless pIums are all well
enough and betoken the advance Of
civilization. But when it comes to
creamless ice cream. 1t is quite another
story, and the line must be drawn at
the hitler side. So our ice cream IS to
be tested for butter fat. We are to
have no more emaciated ice cream.
Frozen pudding which shows signs of
going into a decline is to be barred.
Frozen SKINNED milk may not, hence
forth, be padded out with cornstarch.
It is welcome news. Nothing is too good
for the summer girl But why stop
with the ice cream? Make all the dain-
ties live up to their names. There is the
chewsone marshmallow. Who knows
if it ever saw a marsh? And are the
chocolate drops really dropped or are
they merely punched up2 Do We get
properly sterilized water in our water
melons? Are our Welsh rabbits really
imported or are they just common.
lop-eared bunnies2 This is an age Of
investigation. and it grows harder each
day to fool the great public. We must
know what we eat.-Boston Advertiser.
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claiming they had been destroyed by
IRE, The case was taken into court
and the judge decided In favor Of the
young man. The insurance company
then had the young man arrested for
setting FIRE to his own property, and
the same Judge orderd the young man
to pay a fine and go to jail for a period
Of three months.
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BILLY MORGANsKI.

Billy Morgan has always had the
reputation of being one of the best
mixers" In the state but not even his
admiring friends ever thought he could
go into St. Petersburg, visit the last
session of the douma and mix Oil with
the troubled waters when the car told
the douma to quit business, 23-skid-
600. He did and actually brought it
all about without a riot or bloodsnca.
Billy Morganski ought to be given a
uniform and a feather in his helmet
by the Russian governmsnt.-Prat Re
publican.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.


r TOM inc new OK Tfess.
If you don't play with fire how can
you be sure it will burn you?
Any old joke will do to laugh at If
the president of your company makes
To a girl nearly all the fun of hav-
ing a man is keeping him from some
other girl
A peekaboo shirt waist couldn't hide
a mosquito bite, no matter how small
it was.
man thinks II Is just as natural for
him to understand politics as st ism t
for his wife to understand business.
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Mr.. Rockefeller proposes to give $780,
900 towards a home for superannuated
chorus girls. But the Indications are
that II the supply OF Pittsburg million
aires holds out the chorus girls viii be
able TO look out for themselves.
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EvERYB0DY Busy.

Last Sunday some Ellsworth county
farmers threshed a stack of wheat that
had been opened the day before. Others
'PAoned in To prosecute them, but the
county attorney was pulling weeds in
his garden, the justice was fixing his
windmill, and the deputy sheriff was
loading cattle at the stock yards. So
the case was drcpped.-Luray Herald.
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THE HOGS HELD or

T. H. Brinkworth was in Tuesday
from Limestone He has been having
pretty hard luck with his hogs in the
past year, having lost about IT'S head.
with the same disease which has been
cutting into the herds of several of his
neighbcrs Fortunately, the disease
finally let up before he ran out of hogs.
Western Advocate
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There is q terrible row among the
jthree Republicans who make up that
gosrtysin Texas. A row IN the Repub-
Hcan party in Texas is about the size
OF those that are settled in police court
IN the rrpr4b
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Z The dollar subscription to the Re-
publican congressional campaign fund
continues to lag Perhaps If Chairman
Sherman would advertise that he viii
take cord wood and potatoes on sub
.scription. he would hear from more
pecple
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r ''The gold heaters are out on strike
says the Washington Post, but the
dead heaters are still limiting their
Operations to the gentle touch" How
about the wife beaters2
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II 1t is true that Brookline, Mass,
with a population Of $4,000. reports an
assessed valuation of $ss,000,000, one can
not help wondering If there are no tax
DODGERS In Brookline.
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The idea that Europe always takes
All the cash the tourist over there has
shout him. has been refuted- MI
I.ongworth came home with enough
to enable him to contribute his dollar
TO Mr., Sherman's congressional cam
4,afen f1nd
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You win note that the order calling IN
complimentary railroad passes goes IN
to erect just in time to discourage Dem
ocratic pass holders about attending the
R1-van reception.
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i AS the tine for prying open the col
Rezes approaches, we would venture to
inquire If anyone has heard Of safe and
sane football lately.
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F Mr.. Rockefeller says he is proud OF
his country. But viii he stin be proud
after these STANDARD Oil prosecutions
ara anishsd2
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vice president to that of president of
the United States, but nature mas been
so generous to Mr.. Fairbanks hat he
is capable of doing some tall STEPPING
Parsons Sun.