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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17
.AYRA WRER .JOTS

Perhaps those robbers attacked the
depot clerk at Salina under the inn
preston that he was Stuyvesant Fish.
The Concordia Kansan claims that
opening of a bucket shop in that town.
Think Of building up home industries
in that way!
Wichita Eagle: Henry Schad ga IN
the first Confederate flag go Up over
the state house at Richmond, Va, at
the beginning of the civil war HIS
father ran the William Tell House, IA
popular hotel in the city at the time.
Schad didn't fancy the Confederate
idea and broke north and Joined the
Union army.
Down at Fort Scott John r. Hick-
man and Perry Hickman, brothers,
married respectively Mrs. Phoebe g.
Williams and Miss. Minnie Williams.
John r. became a stepfather to his
sister-in-law, while his wife is the sis
ter-in-law of her own daughter.
The younger bride is sister-in-law to
in-law of his own brother.
"Paola girls says the Republican,
ARE all worked up this week because
two strange girls in town, who are
peddling something or other. have man
aged to land some of the town boys
for twilight strolls and ice cream So
das. The boys ought to have an in
ming once in while. Their kick is
lilHI the dOid girls are always SWING
ing on to every well dressed out of
town dude who floats into town, and
they are probably just using this OPP
portunity to get back at them"
lightning near Barnard showed a
clear case of discrimination last week.
1t first shattered an oak post, then
skipped one of hedge took the next
two which were of oak, skipped another
hedge post, shattered the next two of
oak, skipped one of hedge, took three
more of oak. skipped the next one of
hedge, splintered the next one of oak
and the next one being a corner post
and of hedge, the, lightning grounded
there. The oak posts We're all shat
tered to pieces, splinters flying in 81
directions, while the hedge posts We're
not even marked. The fence wire was
melted in several places
Deacon Walker: L have never been
able to figure out why it is that in
summer the sleeves of your undershirt
hang down over your hands and in
winter they will insist on roosting
above your elbows. =. William
Blowloud, who all last winter talked
about how he always won six out of
seven games be pitched and who bat
weeds off the diamond in the morning
and carrying water in the afternoon to
get to sit on the bench with the real
ball players. =. i. The fellow VINO
turns to whisky to drown his troubles
will find that the troubles always float
to the top. e. . 49, The ugiiest girl
in my class when / was kid is now
the wife of the man who employs thu
husband of the prettiest girl to do odd
jobs just to help keep the wolf from
the door Another piece OF
incompetence on the part of old Noah
was when he dozed at the gate long
enough to let those two chiggerS slip
by and into the ark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

fFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Pointed arguments are generally
blunt.
The fellow who can bottle his wrath
is a corker.
Has an open conference.-the
hungry man at meal time.
It isn't the henpeeked man who is
most successful in Matching plot.
The bookmaker naturally knows his
customers like a book
We speak of the babbling brook, but
even the river can't keep its mouth
shut
Solomon had so many better halves
that there couldn't have been much
left of him.
The umbrellas prefers a rainy day
for a hold-up, but the feotpad isn't SO
particular.
Turn about is fair play. A poker
PLAYER who was raised by his aunt may
turn around and raise the ante.
No, Maude. dear; just because a
street piano is operated with crank
it doesn't necessarily follow that the
music is by Handel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

of interest to you, you would wish me
to share in the knowledge Of So
opened ii. 1t contained little writing
this letter, but it was to the point. It
was from the captain Of the Rangers
and said that 1t would be impossible for
him to collect his men in time for
them to arrive at the hour agreed
that you must hold me an hour long
er, until they came. 1t still wants a
half hour, and have observed that as
yet no one has topped the crest of the
hill where the trail crosses it,
"Oh, but God is good!' Ysleta cried,
and fell, little heap of crumpled silk
and lace, upon the floor.
Gently he lifted her and placed her
upon the couch. He kissed the wide,
childish brow, and then passed quickly
out to the corral. In few moments
he had saddled his own horse and an
other, and brought them to the door
of the house. When he regained the
room, Ysleta was listening in dumb
agony to the noise OF the tramplins
hoofe.
"Then you have not gomez she
gasped, and held out her arms be-
seemingly. ooh. Harry. forgive me,
or I die,''
He caught the slender form in his
arms, and for a moment held 1t close.
In his eyes was the light of a great joy.
Come" he whispered. THE horses
are at the door. BY dawn we can
reach San Marco-and there we shall
find a priest."-(Copyrigh 1907. by
P. c. Eastment.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

A wise saying from Sancho Panza is
this: Whether the pitcher hits the
stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it
goes i'll the will. the pitcher" Nowadays
Mr.. Panza would say it this way:
whether the pitcher hits the batter or
the batter hits the ball, it's tough on the
man in the box"
n n x
JAPAN" says Ambassador Aoki ''is
going to keep cool" Will Japan kindly
send this department its recipe without
delay?
y n
Up to the hour of going to press the
lick of apprentices who are anxious to
learn the harvest hand trade continues
undated.
X X "
The National Educational association
has twelve vice presidents. We Judge
1t takes as many officers to run the
National Educational association as it
docs editors TO edit college paper.
y X
Been some time now since the papers
have printed a picture Of Evelyn Thaw.
y X
This rumor about there being no peach
es in Kansas this summer appears to
have been an error: The county insti-
tutes are showing up just as many
peaches as ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17
a LETTER FROM DAD.

Dear wife, cannot tell you how
~, II We missed you since you went away;
me nome is very lonesome now,
where did you put my suit of gray?
with none to greet me at the door.
With heavy heart I tread the blocks
Ihat homeward lead: / miss you more.
But say, where did you hide my sox?
How still and dull the house appears,
u miss the sunlight of your eyes;
Inc weeks you've been away seem years
What has become of all my ties?
L hope you will enjoy yourself,
But do not mingle with the flirts:
I've hunted every closet shelf,
Wherever do you keep my shirts?
And now I've told you all the news:
There's nothing more for me to write;
Except where did you hide my shoes?
They are not anywhere in sight.
Detroit Free Press.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
GFrom the Chicago News.l

from the chicago NeWs-l -s---.
Farmers make a-lot Of money for
grain spectators. -E l'rtcps -,t z7('~-
Men who are good whistlers are u.s.
ually poor workers.
Too many men spend their time sit
ting on the anxious seat.
And every man in a poker game
hopes he will get the glad hand
Time may be money-except when a
man tries to pay his debts with it.
One kind of mean man is the fellow
who makes capital out of a calamity.
Woman's sphere isn't as large as it
used to be before the hoopskirt went
out.
A fool doesn't envy wise men. A
fool never meets a man who is wiser
than himself.
The best any man can do who at
tempts to drown his troubles in drink
is to float them.
Our idea of a feminine diplomat is a
woman whip knows how to manage a
man-and at the same time keep MIN
from knowing that she is doing it.
1t wouldn't be so bad IL people who
say they have nothing to say would
only let it go at that.
Generally a woman likes to brag
about the numerous good traits of her
husband Just as if he really had them.
At the age of three score and ten
most men like to boast of their PROV
ess as sewers of wild oats when they
were young.
Girls begin to sit uo and take notice
of Young men about the same time
they begin to see something of inter-
est in a mirror.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17
GAS BY FREIGHT.

A project that will be a boon to the
rural resident. If its advance notices are
correct. and that may also revolutionize
the gas business IN the cities,
is said to be in process of formation in
Kansas City. 1t Is nothing more nor
less than bottling natural gas in COM
paratively small tanks and shipping it
in that state
1t is asserted that tests have proved
that natural gas as it comes from the
wells, can be compressed, $4,000 cubic
feet into 1000 cubic feet space with safe
~, on the same principle that carbonic
acid gas is put UP and shipped to all
parts of the United States. The gas
holder, any size. can be placed in the
gas meters place in the cellar, a re-
Queer attached to it to reduce to any
pressure required, for residences, fac
tories, automobiles or for any other pur-
pose. When the gas is used up in the
tank 1t can be replaced with another
tank.
This sort of project would be great
thing for the farmer who is now de-
prived of the privilege of gas The
tank arrangement would make it posi-
BILE for him to have gas for heating and
lighting, the same as the people of the
cities have-and gas for heating is a
vast Improvement over other forms of
fuel.
This scheme would also give the resi-
dent of the small town and the suburban
dweller the advantages of gas. 1t might
not be quite as handy as having it come
direct from pipe, but it would be near
ly so.
Incidentally it would make competi-
ton in the gas business. No franchises
and pipe lines would be necessary, for
anybody who owns gas wells could tank
and ship it. Just how cheaply this can
be done remains to be seen, but with gas
worth only two or three cents a thou
sand feet at the wells. it would look as
though 1T could be shipped a consider
able distance and sold at a comparative
ly low rate.
If this project pans out, the gas man
of the future in this region may make
his rounds as does the milkman and the
ice man, delivering full tanks and talk
ing up empty ones. The idea looks
feasible if it is true that natural gas
can be thus compressed and then re-
duced as needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17
HUMOR or THE Day

an I've got six small children Z support
Won't you gimme a few pennies for
Citizen-Much obliged to the offer. old
man; but I've. got all the children need
at present--Chicaso Daily News.
81 cracked a lawyers house the other
night said the first burglar ssustsoiy,
ready fer me. He advised me ter git out"
Hot gSt on dyg rgR e ebt ans e SIS
for the advice Press.
Sweet Snger-TIis nibs, the heavy ira
gedian, looks worried these days.
Comedian-Yes, he is worried about the
afraid in time it will displace the other
sweet singer-And why in the world
easy to walk a monoorail from town to
town. "-Chicago Daily News.
Weakleigh-A man is never too old to
Mrs. Weakleigh-Job. you'll have to find
a better excuse than that for staying out
nights.-York Dispatch.
once wrote my name on an egg"
Did you get letter, Maude?"
Yes; two years later, from an actor. -
Louisville Courier-Journal
Blobbs- Guzzler didn't stick to vichy
Slobbs-No. he says he draws the line at
milk that is vichyated.-Philadelphi Rec
ord.
That Professor Blink fooled me bad"
Howl"
He tcld me that ethnology was the
science of the races, and when went to
the library and asked for a book eth
nology. there wasn't word from cover to
cover how to pick the winners. '-Balti-
moro American.
Young Husband-I told the governor I
though it would be wise If we started
housekeeping at once.
Young Wife-And did he indorse the
opinion?
Young Husband-Oh, yes. he indorsed
the opinion all right.-Town and Coun-
tr.-.
Young man. said the merchant. II
hear you've been kicking because you've
got so much to do
"Weil. yes, sir replied the clerk. II
do that think that"
HIM we'll have to give you much
more to do hereafter that you won't have
time to kick. "-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

From the AtchlSOn GlObe.l
The broken heart cuts SO little figure
in the death rate.
How a boy does love to see things
happen that shouldn't happen!
Occasionally you meet a loafer who
is too lazy to grumble, and claims 10
be contented.
About all that some women come
down town for is that IL beats sitting
around at home.
Almost any woman will tell. you
corset doesn't hurt her, because she
never laces tight.
When you were a boy, you were
probably as big a fool as anybody
about the Fourth of July.
When a woman doesn't like dogs.
she Will scream when one approaches
her: Take it away; it has feast
1t is necessary to become acquainted
with most people to find how lmpolite
they are: only few are rude to stran-
gers.
If woman is Jealous, she will al
ways insist that she has good reason
to be, although she may be unreason-
able about 1t.
1t is not difficult to get people start
ed to advertising, but 1t doesn't DO
them any good to keep 1t up unless
they have the goods.
Look on the bright side: Be CRATE
full that the automobile doesn't make
as much noise in proportion to its size
as the roller skate.
Every woman when she leaves home
locks the door. puts the key in the
ledge above the door, and then walks
away feeling Perfectly Safe
There's no use talking; If I am go
ing to a circus at night, 1 can't DO
anything during the day from tnlnk-
ing about it'-Drake Watson.
The men who are bald say there
never was a bald idiot. Sometime we
are going to visit the asylum at To-
peka to see If this claim Is true.
How often you hear people say. IT
And how rarely you hear people say,
sIt turned out better than l expected
Automobiles are becoming SO COM
mon in Atchison that we are losing
orr awe of them, and women now ride
IN them wearing Mother Hubbards.
We not only believe the people are
aDnreciative but that they look around
for opportunity to be appreclatiFe.
Some time ago this reporter made
COMPLIMENTARY reference to big east-
arm concern. Yesterday the head of the
concern sent a box OF cigars to the OF
ace. accompanied by a very neat note
expressing thanks
An Atchison woman who receives
credit from her friends for showing
particularly good sense, never makes
any plans in advance: she takes life
as it comes. If you arrange for pic
mic on Thursday, you are apt to worry
and saw. 20, dear, do hope the wealth
er will be pleasant on Thursday" There
is a good deal in the idea, II you VIII
think about 1t.
From an Autobiography Of a Family
Horse: For ten years after becoming
the property of Mrs. Ellington, was
permitted to select my own gait Theh
one morning felt a sharp lash on my
back. and was compelled to actually
run. 1 didn't know what had happen
ed at first, but soon found out that
Mrs BilIington's little son had reacns
ed the age when he was thought old
enough to drive Ever since then I
have been kept going at rapid gait.
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REFT.Ec11oNs OF a BACHELOR

Iron the New York Press.J
If you pay your children to be good
they won't earn their salary.
A woman writes a letter so as not to
tell in it what she wants to-
Just because a boy has had a col
lege education is no sign that before
he got it he had no sense.
When a woman smiles because she
is pleased it's a sign she would cry If
she were delighted.
When a man wears whiskers it's a
sign he thinks they make him hand
some, though he doesn't look it.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the suTnnrr may have
the paper mailed regularly each dry
- any address NJ The rate Of ten cents
n week or thirty cents month s"Y
mail only. Address changed as often
as desired. White out OF town 'he
state journal will be 20 yoa iize n
daily letter frcm home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short tlr:fe Subscriptions. t. save
bookkeeping expo &c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17
INC scientist,s Victinn.

\ A famous scientist, whose early
home had been in a country district,
had long promised to visit the scenes
of his boyhood and deliver a lecture in
aid of the funds of one of the institu-
tons of the place. At last he fulfilled
his promise. and the lecture was given.
When. at the close of his lecture, he
was conversing with some of the prin-
cipal promoters of the affair, they
warmly congratulated him on the IA
cility with which he made rather tech
nical matter interesting and clear to
his uncu1tured audience.
oh" said he. by way of explana-
ton, II Invariably fix my attention
upon that member of my audience
who strikes me as having the least
Intelligent face. and 1 continue to ex-
plain any subject upon which I touch
until I see by that persons expression
that he understands it,
Almost directly afterward the lead
ing public official of the little town
came into the room and made his way
to where the scientist was standing.
'Sir,'' he exclaimed. you can not
possibly believe how much real pleas
ure you have given me tonight. 1t
seemed to me all the time as if your
eye was never away from me, that
you spoke to me alone. and your VIII ole
wish was to make me understand
every word you said.'-Chicago Jour
nal.
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will read the report of the interstate
commerce commission, printed Sun
day, on Hartman and his associate
looters, and is not ready to shoulder a
musket and go out and shoot the out
fit to death, is not to our mind a loyal
American citizen"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

1.-THE Demon Two-per-cent" is the
name given by the Hutchinson News
20 this new monster that has risen in
Kansas. And a lot of men are anxious
70 help in putting this demon down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

It Is reported that sfipload Of Japs
are bound for Canada. 1t is evident
that some newspaper fake artist has
overlooked an opportunity. Other
wise that shipload of Japs would be a
whole regiment of trained troops.
armed to the teeth, and ready to in
wade the United States at the first
signal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

Now. 1t is denied that Senator Till
man ever challenged Senator Dolltver
to fight duel. but the story gave
Tillman some needed advertising.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

Now that the defense has rested in
the Haywood case, ana the prosecu-
ton is about to rest and a few wit
nesses have been arrested, perhaps
the rest of the country will soon be
wfven a rest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

Mr.. Coburn has accepted an invita-
tion to go east next winter and tell
New York agriculturists few
things about alfalfa, Incidentally he
will probably arouse considerable in
terest as the only man in captivity
who ever refused a United States sem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

There are lot of japanese work
xnen at Wichita, and the correspon-
dents there are daily watching them
to see If they make any plans and
specifications of the old cannon which
overlook the channel Of the Little
ArIauSau
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

When Secretary fCoburn goes to
New York to make that address next
winter, Secretary Wilson might run W
from washington and learn few
things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

Speaking of hard luck. Roy Tapley
notes that although Mr.. Fairbanks
saved a chambermaid from drowning,
the Chambermaids' Union will not
have a single vote in the Republican
national convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

1t does not require much argument
TO convince the Osborne Farmer that
Governor Hoch is saving $4,000 a
year, since the state pays his coal bill
In winter and his ice bill in summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

1t remained for Victor Murdoch to
refer to Mr.. Ham as sugar-cured That
might have been expected from
place that poses as a packing center
like Wichita.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

happen. Mr. Fairbanks knew nothing
about it; or. if he did know about it,
the cocktails were of an imitation
variety that were entirely harmless
anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

Texas has passed a law forbidding
the sale of trust-made goods in that
state Texas must expect to go back
to primitive state and get along with
out any manufactured goods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

A Philadelphia bride secured $685.
by letting her wedding guests kiss her
at one dollar a kiss. 1t is evident
that all the repeaters in Philadelphia
are not found at the polls.
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CONsOLATION PRIZEs.

Nineteen American war correspond
ents are decorated by the mikado- That
is a delicate way of compensating them
for the prohibition that kept them
always some miles removed from the
front.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

The kaiser has been making
friends with Carnegie. And it was
supposed the kaiser had all the IL
braries he wanted, too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

IT is evident that Mr.. Hartman
opinion of the interstate commerc'
commission isn't the highest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

While the government is investigat-
ing the tobacco trust. why doesn't 1t
try to find out what is in the cigar
ate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

There are times when 1t is feared
that Colonel Thomas Benton Murdoch
is just le-e-e-tle bit extreme. For
Instance, he says: Amy man : whe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

1t is rumored that Hearst Is to start
a paper in Yokohama, out TINS Is
probably only another war scare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

Senator Plat is "a. 1t will be 2S
for him as soon as his term expires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

The unwritten law belt appears u
be in the vicinity of Washington
where. most of the laws are written
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

Now that Burbank has produced
seedless tomato, why doesn't ne tao
kle a graftless government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17

What though tremblingly you wait,
dreading some unhappy fate; fearing,
at no distant date fines for fraudulent
rebate. you, o genius, rich and great,
careless, care-free and elate, when you
come to sixty-eight whoop 'er up and
celebrate!-CieveIand Leader.
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One Thing Saved.

A fire had destroyed the new hall in
Plainfield, which had been built by an
enterprising citizen of the place. The
walls and a part of the roof were still
standing. but the interior was total
wreck. The local insurance adjuster
went round the next day to inspect the
ruins. He found the proprietor sitting
disconsolateiy on a pile of debris, just
inside the doorway.
well, Hymer," he said. you seem to
have been having all kinds of bad luck. :"
Looks that way" was the gloomy
response.
You saved some of the furniture,
didn't your"
mot a scrap"
None of the fixtures ?"
mot fixture"
was all the inside property destroy
ed?"
"I believe the acoustic properties are
Left said the proprietor. with a glance
at the bare interior, but that's ALL
Youths Companion.