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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-23
WHAT BURTON MIGHT TELL.

| An editorial which bears all the ear
marks of the pen of Victor Murdoch is
published as a leader in the Wichita
Eagle, and it contains an extremely
pertinent suggestion. Commenting on
the expectation that ex-senator Bur-
toms address at Abilene tonight will
be sensational the Eagle says:
mo attack upon the president that
Burton can make will be sensational,
because the public knows that the ex-
senator is bitter in that regard, and
denunciation of his policies is to be ex-
pected from him.
I'VE believe" continues the editor
ial, that the meat Of Burton's speech
will be a demand for the curbing of
executive power. and while that can
not be sensational, strong utterance
along that line always has an au-
dience. Mr.. Burton is known to have
conviction that the domination of
the legislative branch of government
by the president is subversive of rep
resentative government, and it will not
be surprising if he also insists that the
executive, through his right in choice
of judges. is possessed of similar con-
troll of the judiciary. What Burton,
| in thus holding, fails to remember is
| 1t today, is the result, not of usurpa-
I ton of the legislative function, but of
partisan government
The Eagle then argues that the
president is powerful over congress
because he is at the head of the party
which has a control of the congress.
His control is not because of the pa
tronage he has to give; it is because he
formulates party policies and congress
is under the necessity of carrying
little control over the judiciary. Any
president appoints but few judges dur
ing his short tenure He can, as presi-
dent. arouse public sentiment in way
to make moss-grown judges respond
to public demand.
'1f Burton attacks the president
says the Eagle, cit will do no one any
good. and will do Burton harm"
Then comes the pertinent part of
the editorial, and the suggestion orig
mating as it apparently does with Vic
tor Murdoch. is interesting to say the
least. Mr.. Murdoch. himself mem
Der of congress, has doubtless learned
number of things in Washington.
Burton could be sensational" he
says, eff he would talk along another
line. He knows how many United
States. senators are elected, the chan
nels of control which reach down from
New York city to nearly every state
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AIuminum's Histo- Y.

The history of aluminium, now in gen.
eral use in the form of kitchen utensils
and other everyday appliances,is known
to few people. William E. Curtis, writ
ing in the Chicago Record-Herald, says
that the first practical use ever made of
the metal was in fitting a cap on the
peak of the Washington monument in
1884. Although aluminium was discov-
cred In 1927 by Prof Wohler of Cot
tingen university Germany, at that
time it was practically an unknown
metal, the cost and difficulty of its pro-
duction having prevented it's develop
ment until the general use of electricity
made it easy and economical.
The cap on the top of the monument
is a square pyramid in shape, weighing
100 ounces, and is S.9 inches in height
and Sc inches In width at the base. Gen.
George w. Davis. now on the retired
list and residing in Washington, was in
immediate charge of the completion of
the monument under Gen. Casey, and
has the. distinction of being the first
man to handle aluminium in a practical
way. Until that time it had been used
only for toys for freak purposes and
small samples had been utilized in MAX
ing models for the patent office. In
mum was 11,347, 600 pounds, valued at
$3.246,3 300; in 1904 the production was
$500, 900 pounds, valued at 81, All, 900. The
total for 1906 will be much larger. The
development of the industry is rapid.
The Pittsburg Production company,
which now holds a monopoly of the
manufacture of aluminium, has recently
changed it's name to the Aluminium
company of America, and is controll-
ed by the Mellins, of Pittsburg who or
crate pipe lines for oil to New York anG
PHILADELPHIA.
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His sentence was swallowed in snort
of disgust
Cynthia glanced at the writing pad
near her, wondering if it would not be
salutary to Rogers manners If she for
got his existence and wrote letters the
rest of the morning.
AS the scratching of her pen became
more noticeable the audience thought
it owing to its dignity to dispense. and
walked across the lawn toward the
gate, its hands stubbornly in its pock-
cts.
Roger leaned over the gate discon-
soiately. She had seemed so diff
ferent the last time they had been on
the river She had really come so near
saying-everything he wanted her to
say-that he had walked around for
hours afterward in a state of ecstasy.
He tried to possess his soul in pa
thence, waiting for the next evening,
when she had promised to go with him
on the river and perhaps-say exactly
what he wanted her to say. Roger con-
sidered it a piece of malignity of fate
that Harding-that idiot Harding should
have been taken so ill-or, at least,
should have pretended he was so vio-
lently i'll. The soreness of his heart
added suggestion that Cynthia prob
ably jumped at an escape from giving
him the answer he was so anxious for.
The pleasant odor from the honey
suckle vines that clambered over the
hedge-the effect of the soft breeze that
gradually famed some of the heat from
his brow-something induced him to
saunter slowly toward the veranda.
Cynthia had probably, he thought, had
time to finish her letter in the half hour
that had elapsed.
He saw that she was fast asleep
evidently she had not been worrying
much. There was a note conspicuously
addressed and conspicuously pinned on
a ruffle of the rose-colored cushion.
He reached for it with an eagerness
he would never have allowed the walk
ing Cynthia to behold. Perhaps, after
all. she might be amenable to reason
ing, her somewhat fighty nature might
gain sobriety from contact with him.
Cynthia with a slight addition of So
briety-he gave sigh that intimated 1t
was more bliss than one man could
properly realize. His fingers were ner-
vous as he tore the note from its en-
ve1ope.
Joy of my 3 soul'-it ran-'your
moods are truly a delight. They afford
all kinds of opportunities for studies in
human nature. After all, we are rather
much alike, a mere matter of tempera-
ment, 1 suppose. If you prefer calling
yours righteous indignation, 1 don't
mind-mine can still go under the name
of plain temper.
He was really sick, Roger, and the
girl he raved about he called Helen.
am awfully fond of rowing, and am
ready to go on the river any time,
whether the sun is shining broiling hot
or the moon like it was the other night,
Just as soon as your righteous indigna-
ton Gains down to a degree that would
make it safe for a person to get within
ten feet of you"
Roger leaned over into the depths of
the hammock, his face well mixed with
pink cushion and sleeve ruffles.
Wake up. Cynthia" he whispered,
I'm in a heavenly frame of mind.''-
Copyrighted by Homer Sprague.)
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
tFrom the Philadelphia Recor

IF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some fellows never pay up till you
run them down.
Kensington halter advertises: 1--WE
cap the climax"
The voice Of conscience never has to
go abroad for cultivation.
Few men thank heaven that they
have more than they deserve.
Even the fat woman may try to make
light of her avoirdupois.
People who live in glass houses should
beware of the glass eater.
A girl can generally manage to keep
the tears back If crying makes her nose
red.
The common scold is generous
when it comes to giving piece of her
mind.
Wigg-"Young Saphedde seems
perfectly tireless." Wagg-"In making
other people tired, yes"
Borem-"They say it takes three gen.
erations to make gentleman" Cynicus
100 bad you didn't begin on your
grandfather"
Wigwag- "Scribbler has written a lot
of successful books. Which is his best
seller?" Guzzler-"I should say his
wine cellar
Mrs. De Lancey Place-"They are
old-fashioned people, are they not?"
Mrs. Main-Lyne-"Oh,v very. They even
have a last years automobile"
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

This department is not qualifying
as an expert, but it desires to express
the opinion that this years spring mil
linery is about the limit or worse.
n
OF course Kansas has forgiven Bur-
ton, but it is liable to forget that it
has done so If he resumes his old
manner of life.
This water that has been squeezed
out of stocks recently: Is it tainted {?
Coming from Wall street, should it
not be boiled before using?
Another thing to be thankful for is
the fact that Easter doesn't come in
January when the hens are on a
strike. Also that it doesn't come in
December when Christmas presents
must be bought. You can find a good
many things to be thankful for if you
try.
q
Before Mr.. Busse is finally elected
mayor of Chicago it is hoped that
somebody will supply the diagram to
go with his name.
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capital in the United States. He was
in his day a master of legislative poll
tics. He knows the ropes. OF all the
men in the world. he is in a position to
speak out. If he would do so, he
would be of service to the people.
1T is said that there is in an office
in New York city a card index which
shows how every prominent legislator
in the nation. congressman, United
States senators, state officers and leg
islators, stand upon railroad questions.
where men are catalogued as friendly
and unfriendly, as comfortable and
uncomfortable.
Burton, who was so long in legis-
lative politics doubtless knows wheth-
er this is true or not, and whether
Rogers or Morawetz or Ryan is in
charge of the bureau which names
peoples United States senators for
them.
''If Burton should tell. his speech
would be a sensation indeed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

CFrom the New York Press
Too many virtues in a man give his
friends a big thirst for a few vices.
A man is sure to get lost on the road
to heaven unless he has a woman for
a guide.
It's a great comfort to a woman r.
think how lonesome her husband
would be If she were dead
Hardly any doctor can diaz
what's the matter with the ba,by as
well as its mother can guess It.
A fine way to surprise your wife :,
to pretend you are enjoying yoursaiP
vaudeville show
You can never tell whether a Of,
means 1T because she looks as ~ r.
doesn't, or doesn't because she looks sS
II she does. WINS a
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
ITrom the Atchison Globe.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.]
Don't tell people you admire them
show it.
When some men can't act mean,
they talk mean.
The devil gets lots of people nobody
else would have.
A woman always has the best of it
when a lap supper is served.
Some mems idea of True Love is a
wife who will support them.
When a man knows his duty. he
puts off doing it by asking advice.
They never agree; still there isn't
much difference in weather prophets.
A woman hater is about the biggest
buffer we know anything about
The woman who wears a picture
hat doesn't always resemble a pic
ture.
If all men are born equal. that is
the only time in life that they are
equal.
Every woman has one thing she
would not forgive her husband for do
ing.
How a bride would take on" at
the funeral if she should become a
widowI
When a sinner dies. the relatives al
ways select a liberal preacher to
conduct the services.
Somehow people never appreciate
the liberality of the man who pulls
their teeth for nothing.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned lazy men? They do not seem to
be as numerous as formerly
What has become of the old fash.
Toned woman who said she worked her
fingers to the bone Shaving for her
children7 ~
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Everything comes to the man who
pays spot cash.
Clothes do not make the manor
the chorus girl.
How the henpecked man does crow
when he is away from homei
When the lid is on tight some men
have an excuse for being sober.
Matrimony is a kind of dynamite
used to explode the theories of bach
elors.
Wero 1t impossible to speak any
thing but the truth we would have few
friends.
A woman enjoys reading old love
letters more than man enjoys writing
new ones.
If some men were paid according to
their worth their pay days would be
few and far between
A wonan's confidence in a man
usually depends upon her liking for
him rather than upon his reliability.
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FRON OTHER PENS
RAISING STANDARD OF LIFE.


The rich gift which Mrs. Russell Sage
makes to the people of the United
States In the Sage Foundation" is of
special moment in that it is meant to
serve important public interests which
have hitherto received comparatively
little attention of a practical and eff
cient kind. It's object is 1.-The improve
ment of social and living conditions in
the United States"-in brief, the eleva-
ton of the general standard of living
The need of such work nobody will
question. 1t has been a frequent re-
proach, directed against this country
by it's own citizens as much as by for
eigners, that the art of living is too
much neglected here, and that it is
largely merited few thoughtful OBJ
servers will dispute. We have here
residences and tenements, means of
transportation, schools. churches. hos
pitfalls, clubs, places of amusement and
entertainment and all the material e1e-
ments and adjuncts of the highest type
Of life. But their right cornbinati ton
and use, so as to get the fullest good
out of them, are things yet to be
achieved.-New York Tribune.
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CROCUsES.

Purple heads and golden heads
Rising from the saowi
Brave bright little crocuses,
Twas good of you to grow.
Your cheerful faces say: "Alrs well,
The earth is soft and warm,
These little patches left of snow
Are not one bit of HARM
Soon birds will sing and bees will hum,
The skies grow fair and blue,
Our hearts leap up and sing for joy
Whenever we look on you!
Golden heads and purple heads
Shining IN the SUM-
Blessed little crocuses,
Twas dear of you to comet
Alice L. johnson in The Home Magazine
for March.
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HARTMAN VS.. HARTMAN.

1t is taxing our credulity to expect
any rivalry or competition that can
prove beneficial to shippers when such
favors from Mr.. Harriman's Southern
Pacific must be granted at the expense
of Mr.. Harriman's Union Pacific, or
vice versa. A similar situation exists
on the north, where Mr.. Hilrs Northern
Pacific gets along quite nicely with Mr.
Hills Great Northern. This COM
munity of interest that has been
established has undoubtedly been a fac
tor in the existing car shortage and
lack of trackage facilities.-Portland
OregOnian.
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A SATURDAY SERMON.

Fret not myself because of evildoe-s,
neither be thou envious against the work
For they shall soon be cut down like the
grass, and wither as the green hero--
1t has been almost a year since the
great uDheaval occurred in San Fran
cisco on April Is. 1906. Once more
the attention of the country is directed
toward the Golden Gate, and another
upheaval is the cause, but this time 1t
is an upheaval of graft.
In a hotel room in San Francisco
there is a small, curly-headed man I'M
der guard. Two men watch him night
and day, asleep or awake, all the time
in his room. Outside the room four
others are on guard. He is the politi
cal boss of San Francisco. about to
face a court of justice to answer to
charges of graft.
For years this man has run the poll
ties of the Pacific metropolis, and it
seemed impossible to shake off his
grip. Business interests were COM
PEELED 10 pay tribute to him, and pub
| lie officials were puppets in his con-
troll. He made and unmade men at
his pleasure, and the mayor of that
great city is now Under indictment
with him.
The night before the Republican
state convention at San Jose a few
months ago-the convention which
nominated the present state officials of
California diDner was given by one
of the leading politicians to a dozen or
SO political friends. At that dinner
photograph was taken. In the center
of the picture, as guest of honor, is
seated Abe Ruef, CRATER and political
hi eli n
ing Familiarity on Ruef's shoulder,
stands the man who, on the next day,
was nominated for governor of Cali
fornia, the present chief executive of
that state. Ruef was petted and bowed
down to. He was consulted and his in
fluence was courted by statesmen.
Why? Because he owned the San
Francisco delegation. 1t was his to do
with as he pleased.
Yet now this man, after being a fu-
gitive from justice, is under heavy
guard with the states prison yawning
before him. All the money, all the
prestige and influence at his command |
will not save him. He has already ap-
pealed to every technicality that smart |
lawyers could invent to defeat Justice |
and the law, but in vain. Sixty-six in |
dictmerts have been returned against |
him, and it seems impossible for him |
to escape punishment.
And with him will doubtless be pun |
ished many another who has been cor |
rupted under his influence. For while |
Ruef has reigned San Francisco has |
become one Of the most corrupt cities
in America. Bribery has been re-
garded as an everyday matter.
But the wicked shall not always |
flourish. and Abe Ruef and his pals |
must at last pay the penalty. Bride |
giver and bribe-taker will alike be
punished. The millionaire monopol- !
list and the poor city employee. whom
he has corrupted, have been caught in
the meshes with Ruef and, if reports |
from San Francisco are correct, some |
public service magnates are likewise |
destined to look through prison bars. |
Sometimes 1t seems as though graf
ters get along better than honest peo-
pie, but there is sure to come a time
when they will reach the end of their
rome
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road is making great many improve
ments this spring. Has not the Rock
Island heard of this anti-railroad agi-
tation that calls for ,'retrenchment" :?
1t appears to be getting ready to ham
die its business and improve its serv-
ice, thereby making money for itself
and for its patrons, in spite of the
"a agitation
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KANSAS CONMENT
BENT MURDoCKs VIEWS.

| BENT MURDOCKS VIEWS.
| When God Almighty put Adam and
Eve in the Garden of Eden He laid
down the Square Deal Law for them
to follow, .iivg up to and obey, but the
devil broke in and knocked out the
Square Deal; and3from that day to this
all nations, peoples and tongues have
| paid a blasted sight more attention to
the forked tailed old reprobate than
they have to God Almighty, the
Golden rule, the Square Deal, perse-
verance of the, Saints and the holy
the adjournment of the Kansas legis-
lature the world has been more or less
dominated by the devil and his ma
chine. Man in all ages has been given
over to hardness of heart and repro
oacy of mind, largely because he is a
self sufficient, two legged hog, who
cares nothing about what happens
provided it doesn't happen to him.
Love or God, love of country, honesty,
decency, fairness, the golden rule have
nothing to do with. nor does any of 1t
enter into the makeup of the two
legged brute who by hypocrisy and ly-
ing gains political position or power.
And the able-b bodied lying that is at
this moment being resorted to by sup
posedly honest men to square them
selves with their constituents, is ap-
palling. Members of the late legis-
latrre who broke every promise made
70 the people, who betrayed every
trust so honestly entrusted to them by
100 trusting constituency, are here in
Iopeka and are afraid to go home be-
cause of this political villainy. And
yet they will go, the people will in
way forgive them while some of them
ing the devil for another term,
Dorado Republican 8
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Grover Cleveland speaks of ''sin-
uosity of explanation" Mr.. Cleveland
must have noted some of the explain
ing done by members of the Kansas
state senate.
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HE WILL GET THEM.

1t is difficult to believe that Governor
Hughes of New York is in earnest when
he says that he is very glad to have
suggestions from people bearing on his
administra tom" but if he is the pre-
diction may be safely ventured that be
will be tickled almost to death long he
fore he is through his first term
Providence Tribune.
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TOUGH ON, LONGFELLOW.

Alfred Austin announces that Long
fellow would have made very pass
able Poet Laureate. We always feared
that some damaging fact to Longfel-
lows reputation would be brought to
light.-Holtcn Signal t..
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Frank Nelson, who will leave
Kansas to become the president of
Minnesota college, is a member of the
state text book commission. 1t Is to
be hoped that Governor Hoch will find
as good a man to take Mr.. Nelson's
place when it becomes necessary, bu.
1t will be no easy task
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The Kansas supreme court has dccid-
ed that where a policybolder in fra
ternal insurance order becomes an hGb-
itual drunkard his policy becomes vofd
If 1t so provides. In this day and axe
1t is becoming the custom to sue the
man who created the drunkard cor
damages incurred by those dependent
on the drunkard for support.
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The Wichita Beacon is urging all
citizens to vote. Every city," it says,
sis better off where all its citizens par
ticipate in the government" Perhaps
that is the reason some citizens partici-
nate three or four times
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a MURDOCH oPINIoN-

The talk of an effort to induce Gov
ernor Hoch to reconvene the legisla ture
irs extra sessions to pass the measures
desired and expected, is probably only
talk. 1t would be an inexcusabIe move
to ever put the breath of life again into
that now dead and done for outfit
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AN ARRANGEMENT.

Senator Hughes from this district
showed his hand in the closing days of
the legislature by his votes on. several
propositions He voted against any
futher conference with the house on
the primary election bill; he voted
against reapportionment of the state
to give the western counties repre-
sentation in the legislature; he voted
to give Tom r. Kelly $2,S66.5O to re-
imburse him for a surety bond which
he never gave, and if there had been
anything else Kelly had wanted he
would have gotten it; he also vote6
$1,000 to Ex-Governor w ]. Bailey for
groceries. We thought Mr.. Hughes
was sent up to Topeka to protect the
interests of the people instead of to
help loot the state treasury. Canton
Pilot
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There is no doubt that some ore SUI
fered severely in the Wall street furry,
but the identity of the sufferers has
not been entirely established. It GOES
without saying, however, that the us
nal number of lambs were sheares.
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AN IMPORTANT, MEASURE.

IL was amusing and proVoking to
the voters and taxpayers of the state
to see the legislature fooling its time
away passing laws to knock out secret
societies in high schools instead of
passing the more important laws-the
primary election law, two cent car fare
and reduced freight rate laws.-Can-
ton Pilot.
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And now the government has arrest
ed the Santa Fe and Rock Island for
not watering stock. What's a poor rail-
road company to do?