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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

brand new quarter which gIistened II
the clear winter sunshine.
II don't suppose I could have yoR
| hanson omorrow-if-I-
I'm sorry. Miss, but don't know
where will be sent tomorrow. You
see. were posted at different points diff
| ferent days"
| well. he is the most human thing
I've met In this frosty old town." said
the pretty westerner to herself as she
touched the electric button
! The Ernest cotillon was at its
height. Mrs. Cramer. quite recovered
from her Illness watched in radiant
triumph the success her niece was
scoring.
Drumming over with personality,
don't you know" murmured an old
beau, noddinE over Mrs. Cramer's
shoulder at the lovely girl in her dane
ing frock of silver gauze. Actually
enjoying herself, isn't she?"
Just then to a rafting two-step. half
a dozen young men pranced into the
room, clad in coaching coats and hats
whips which they snapped as they CIR
cled round the great room
The horse show figure-how clev-
err" murmured Mrs. Cramer, "and
hear the favors are exquisite silver
brooches and buckles pinned on blue
ribbons"
Just then one of the dancers paused
before her niece and raised his high
chap, with blue eyes that twinkled
merrily into the astonished face OF the
girl.
why, I thought you we're"
at was for one day." he said as he
led the dazed girl into the mazes OF the
dance. IAN election bet had to settle
and you came along just in the nick
of time"
And you said that you wanted to be
$50 1 did" he maintained stoutly.
You'll at least admit know some
thing about art" Lre
well, my father decided that
ought to help him build railroads In
stead. That's ALL"
eff you can drive spikes as straight
as you drive a hansom--
1T was rather jolly morning, Ell?
he said with chuckle MY, put me
boys were sore They hoped I'd get
some old girl on shopping bent who
would keep outside the shops where
I'd meet everybody I knew. but you
rescued me in that Park drive
He was handing her the dainty Sill
yer favor. and then he thrust his nm
gers into his vest pocket and drew out
a quarter.
That's a little the best favor that
ever came my way. l am going 10
It'll you have another fare?"
He turned grave.
GAS long as 1 live"
IT am going home tomorrow, she
remarked irrelevantly-
How odd! And am going to Den
yer on business. Great luck-and
guess we've proved that we don't re-
quire a on."-(Copyright, 1905,
by Homer Sprague.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A local contemporary serves notice
on the Capital and State Journal that
it will not join them in supporting
LaFollette. Perhaps their support of
LaFollette may amount to something
then.
There is this which must be charged
up against Harry Thaw and which
may help to convict him: He used to
call Evelyn his angel
There will be no peach crop this
year At least nobody has yet an
nounced that it has been killed. The
oftener the peach crop is killed in the
spring the more peaches there are in
the fall. . ,-...
u
We judge that the newspapers will
have a big sale this week. Evelyn
witness stand for several days.
Perhaps now he Will S. K. Reeme.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News 7

trTCIn lne chicago News.
And there's the rest cure; but don't
take - too often
It's better to be fresh than stale
but don't get too fresh.
All men may be born equal, but they
don't all die that way.
Deeds speak louder than words in a
real estate transaction.
Most men live a life Of going to do
and die with nothing done.
Don't be too hard On the poor poet.
He is not responsible for his birth.
Many a man renounces single bless
edness because he needs the money.
Some men make a speciality of Civ
ing away advice that isn't worth that
much.
The wild waves are like some peo-
pie; they make lot of noise and say
nothing.
Truth would be frightened to death
If it happened to encounter some peo-
Die in a dark alley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

The proposition to build a state salt
plant in the Hutchinson reformatory
and have the inmates of the institution
manufacture salt, has two sides to it.
One is the side that 1t would furnish
employment for those confined in the
institution and help pay its expenses.
But the reformatory, as the State
Journal understands it, differs some
what from a penitentiary, where the
convicts are made to mine coal for the
state The inmates of the reformatory
are-or are supposed to be-first Of
tenders and those who are young IN
crime. They are sent to Hutchinson
instead of to Lansing in order that they
may be taught some good trade and, if
they are ignorant. be given some edu-
cation The question is, is the bust
ness of mining and making salt a de-
sirable trade to teach a large number
of boys and young men who will soon
be turned loose to find employment. If
50, a reformatory salt plant would be
a good thing. But if the plant would
be for the sole purpose of working the
boys so as to make money for the
state, without thought as to their well
fare after they are paroled, it ought
not to be contemplated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
Dog Makes 1900 Mile Trip.

A striking example of animal instinct
is furnished by the performance of g
Scotch collie owned by T. G. ioung
now of The Dalles, Oregon. D. L. Wig
gems, a personal friend Of Mr.. Young
who lives in Vancouver, B. C., is au-
thority for the statement that the dog
Travelled 1,500 miles without other
guidance than instinct over road he
had never Travelled.
April last Mr.. Young and family
with the exception of a daughter,
moved from Duluth, Mimi. to The
Dalles. The collie, great pet, was
turned over to the man in the baggage
car and journeyed the entire distance
in that manner. Upon arriving at The
Dalles, the dog was extremely discon-
tented. He missed the daughter, who
had been his lifetime friend On the
third day after the Youngs' arrival at
The DaIles the dog disappeared. Every
effort possible was made to locate him.
but without avail The daughter in the
east was told of the dogs disappear
ance, and great was her sorrow
Two weeks ago Miss Young was visit
ing at Superior, Wis. with friend.
She was strolling in park, when, with
a dash. her Scotch collie, which she had
supposed was lost for good, rushed
upon her. For fully an hour the dog
was frantic with delight
There was no mistaking that the dog
footed it all the way home from The
Dalles, Oregon, to Superior, Wis. When
he Lee. The Dalles h was fat, we'll
kept fellow, but when he arrived at
Superior he was little more than skin
and bones, and his feet were raw from
exposure and wear of travel.
The most striking incident in connec-
ton with the dogs return is how he
knew that his mistress was in Superior
instead of Duluth, the old home of the
Youngs. 1t is presumed that the dog
went first to the former residence of the
Youngs at Duluth, and finding no one
there, and knowing that Miss Young
was accustomed to go to Superior Of
ten, he made his way there.-New York
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
HUMOR or THE Day

Poets usually have sad lives" said the
do. I don't see how they could expect to
be very cheerful. Star.
rs your husband up yet?" asked the
early caller of the sour-faced woman at
the door. Il expect he is" was the reply.
so would L He hasn't come home yet"
milwaukee Sentinel. ai.ltinaos 56als
Runabout-Reggy's new automobile blew
up with him on the first trio. and ne
sued the firm that sold him the MACHINE.
bout-EverythIng 1 believe, but one finger
and part of an ear.-Judge.
You said you were hungry. and yet.
when I gave you three pence little while
house instead of to a baker's," Yes Sssc
Guv'nor; Yer see. it's like this ere: 1
pen orth of Scotch'II make me forgit I'm
'ungry but three-penn'orth of food'll
trated Bits.
us Watkins an OPTIMISM
'Hes-hell eat hash in any restaurant In
the country. detroit Free Press.
Mr.. Borem-She asked me to sing. and
Miss Pepper-Yes; she told me afterward
there and talking to you all the evening
illustrated Bits.
she-Do you think our ancestors were
monkeys?
He-Mine were. The whole bunch didn't
leave money enough to buy a toothpick.-
Chicago News.
How is your time occupied?" asked the
prison missionary
have none. madam" politely answer
ed No. 41144. Time in this institution be-
longs to the state '-Philadelphia Ledger.
What is an open letter." asked Mrs.
Snithers.
AN open letter." replied Smithers, lis
generally nc T. at the man to whom il is
sent would never real If he didn't see
it in the newspapers.-CleYeland Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
KANSAS COMAENT
THE BOXCAR.

A boxcar belongs to the fowl family.
During the spring and summer months
1t can be found in nearly every part
OF the country, it's favorite haunts be-
ing railway tracks, and it is easy to
capture. In the autumn, however, like
certain other fowls it goes into hiberna-
instances are known where specimens
are captured during the autumn
months. A lasso or a well creased
switch crew is sometimes used in snar-
ing the boxcar but main strength is
the best weapon. In any case the
hunter must be very wary as any noise
like the futtering of waybiH will
make the quarry disappear. Some rail-
ways own large f1ocks of domesticated
boxcars, but they are carefully guard
ed during the closed season. The wild
boxcar when caught and fairly we'll
Alma Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

The New York World suggests that
AZ there is to be a war with Japan it
would be proper to let California fight
1t, as that state alone started the trou-
BILE with it's school question and defied
the president to interfere. But the
Worlds view is too broad. Why not
let San Francisco carry on the war.
Why drag California into it? 1t was
San Francisco that started the trou-
ble-not California. A considera BILE
portion of California has no sympa thy
with San Francisco's anti-Japanese
sentiment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press

Itrom the New York Press
wonder II there are walters in
heaven that you have to tip.
Income is what you like to have
you get.
When a man comes home early ona
night in the week he thinks he's a
good example to all creation.
woman lives in mortal terror for
rear some new disease will be found
some day to attack the children.
When a woman talks about ,o,,,-
south for the winter it's a sign she Il
planning a days visit as far away az
Philadelphia. a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

Representative Archer, of Brown
county, is certainly frank When asked
by Mr.. Mercer, of Chase, If he is afraid
to trust the election of United States
senators to the people, he promptly re-
piled, Yes, sir, 1 am" Mr.. Archer
perhaps agrees with that other north
ern Kansas member who believes the
corporate interests of the state ought to
be represented in the election of sena-
Anr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

Grover Cleveland has new job:
Chairman of the life insurance presi-
dents at $4,000 year. Just why the
insurance presidents need chairman
is unknown. but it is supposed that the
chief utility of the office is to keep the
policy holders from getting too much
of their money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

The wealth of the South. according
to the Manufacturers Record, is in
creasing at the rate of S7,3O0,000
week. The wealth of all of Great Bri-
tain is increasing at the rate of
$7,00o,000 a week. The South is lay
ing up a trifIe for its old age, evil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
ROA OTHER PENS
"SABBATARIANsIM."

The most curious phase of Sab
batarianism we have ever come across
was that which Representative Muir
dock of Kansas. exposed in the house
of representatives. He showed that, in
getting at the weight of mails on
which the compensation of the rail-
roads is fixed, the postal officials
weighed the mails for every day in the
week, but reckoned Sunday as a "dies
non" when dividing the weight of
mails by the number of days in order
to get daily average. OF course the
weight would be greater if the total
were divided by six than If it were d.
vided by seven. The house committee
on postoffices has agreed that Sundays
shall not be omitted on one side if
they are included on the other, and
this it is calculated, will save few
million dollars.-Philadelph Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
A MopERN MAGDALEN,

/ Nurse, take the child she said,
And I. alas. was sleeping by its side"
! She looked upon it's face,
sa AND soSbed 5Rat we both had
diedp'
She would not own twas fair.
/ With curling, golden hair,
And tender rosebud mouth 'twere JOY
! to kiss.
Her heart was shut and locked
How would her world be shocked.
| Should she return to it, with this
And so, to hide her shame.
To shield the family name,
The babe was sent into the world, alone,
A crimson birthmark wound,
Its soft arm round and round
A founding. hence that none should
Years passed. and she was wed:
The dead past held it's dead;
Great honors came to her with high es-
Unstinted gold and land,
| A home both rich and grand,
And fortune on her beck to wait.
The children heaven sent
Ere yet their bloom was spent,
Like blighted flow'ret sunk beneath
the mold,
Her husband also passed;
Grief bowed her head at last,
For none should cherish her when old.
Nor ever understood,
What impulse prompted her to her good
How seeking, mid the poor,
The fallen, and obscure,
She ministered unto their needs.
Her long search was in vain.
Her own came not again;
But one day in a paper, this she read:
"Beset by want and cold,
And misery untold,
Men found a woman lying dead.
Her face that still was fair.
For all its lines of care,
Was framed by golden hair, that waved
and curled,
And showing how she died,
A bottle by her side,
Lay empty, with this message to the
world:
" While some have wealth and kin,
or their own doing, yet are desolate
No kinsman Ger my head,
A single tear shall shed.
For her who was the butt OF fate.
i" oh, you, who count it sin,
To fly this life we're in,
In pity for my weakness, breathe
prayer
I've known no mothers love,
If there's a heaven above,
Oh, may 1 meet and know her there"
"a crimson bracelet wound
Her snowy arm around,
And none" the story ended. claimed
the dead"
When servants summoned her,
Their mistress did not stir.
They found her lifeless, as she read.
Grace Lei Dunning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

That new postal law that was advo-
Gated by the Penrose special postal
commission, by which it was proposed
that the postoffice department would
edit the newspapers and magazines,
was so monstrous that it was prompt
ly suppressed by the house committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

Possibly DIR. Wiley was not as great
an insanity expert as he believed him
self to be, but he could doubtless tell
that he himself was mad when he got
off the witness stand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

In commenting on the rise of Henry
Allen during the last dozen years. the
Emporia Gazette hands out this batch
of philosophy: mo one in Kansas
adn1ires Henry Allen more than the
Gazette. No one understands the hard
nxht he has had against adverse cir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

1t is said to have cost Mr.. Ridgway
a quarter of a million dollars to find
out that people were not crying for
his ideal of a weekly magazine. That
represents a large per cent of what
Mr.. Ridgway made by selling the
thoughts of one Thomas w. Lawson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

Fifty reporters are doing" the
Thaw trial in the court room. besides
several hundred who are writing about
1t from the outside.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
PRoTECT THE FORESTS.

Uncle Sam has 100000 acres of for
est reserve of a value estimated at ST.,
100000. The protection and preserva-
ton of these forest areas is one of the
most solemn duties of the nation. The
same is true of such unclaimed coal
lands as still exist. These two resources
OF nature are likely to be wasted and
exhausted under the avariciousness of
the lumber and fuel trusts.-Hutchin-
son News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

'"The Kansas house. solemnly re-
marks Charles Blakesley, having pass
ed the pass bill. is now primed for the
primary bill !"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

One of the officers of the Kansas
City stock yards company is Mr.. Rust,
and there is some curiosity to know
whether he is connected with the moth
and rust that doth corrupt.
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LEGAL HANGING.

been wiped from the Kansas stafutes
Some of the young reporters at Topeka
say there was never a legal hanging
In the state. In the early days there
were many of them, and the sheriffs got
$40 for each Job of this kind. Since
the recent law has been on the statute
books there have also been hangings
on the government reservations, under
national laws.-Beloit Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

Probably nothing would make Mrs.
Myra McHenry happier than finding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
"PROMOTING" A WAR.

1t is very probable that the war talk
that is now being sent out from Wash
ington by newspaper correspondents is
promoted" by the advocates of naval
expension and ship subsidies. The ship
subsidy crowd claim that their plan
would help to prepare the government
for war by supplying plenty of fast
ships that would be readily convertible
into Observation-Disclosures Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
THINK

Now that the Kansas legislature has
refused to prohibit Sunday baseball,
people will begin to consider whether
they would not better cut out Sunday
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Eagle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

But what sort of punishment can be
melted out to the mother of Evelyn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
MANY SIGH

Governor Swettenam of Jamaica has
withdrawn his letter to Admiral Davis
and apologized for sending it. All who
period of their lives should now be will
ing to let the matter drop.-Jeweu Re-
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
COUNTING THE VOTES.

Partial returns from the Russian
elections show a loss for the govern
ment. But the government, like the
insurance czars, probably has a method
by which it can count the votes to suit
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
THE KIND THAT'S NEEDED.

LeglsIdtIoncIthat Elbows Independent
oil companies to live In Kansas has
greatly reduced the price of oil in this
state. More trust busting legislation is
needed all along the line.-Jewen Re-
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
HUMAN NATI1RE.

1t seems that just as soon as foreign
ers land in this country they want to
push the next fellow that comes out
into the inhospitable sea. The negroes
of Texas are going to hold a meeting
to protest against japanese immigra-
tion.-Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
TESTIMONIAL TO sALOME.

Why, l Know an old lady in Ger
many seventy-two years old. who has
heard the opera twenty-seven timer
and she likes itIvery much. 1t never
did her any harm--New York Tri-
bune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
BIG FALL IN PRICES.

Financial matters should not be the
subject of unseemly jests, but truly
the sentiment of Wall street is becom-
ing so hysterical and hypochondriac
that a little fooling may be permitted.
Especially is there an obvious attempt
on the part of the bear element to ex-
aggerate the extent to which business
interests and business confidence have
been adversely affected by the style
and methods of President Roosevelt in
dealing with the economic problems
which have assumed so dominating and
morbid a position in his mind. To
those who are sacrificing, in the midst
of business prosperity and agricultural
plenty, good dividend-paying securities,
out of fear of Washington legislation,
we should suggest that at the very ex-
IRENE the worst that Mr.. Roosevelt
and congress could do would be to
order a general division of the prop
erty.-Wall Street Summary.
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NOT MANY OF HIS KIND.

They have had five new ministries in
Spain during the last year and a half
But not a Taft has doomed up in any
of them.-Chicago Record-Herald.
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WE HOPE NOT.

Having raised their own salaries,
the congressman will now pro-
coed to forget the government clerks,
who form a third of Washington's pop
ulation and live there the year round
on from a third to a half of the con-
gressional stipend.-Duluth News-Tri-
bune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Now will VIII K. Reeme be good?
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WAR

If somebody has to fight Japan, why
not let California bear the whole
burden of the war? That state alone
started the trouble over the school
question. That state alone defied the
president to interfere. Was it not go
ing to secede or do something equally
rash? Did not a popular orator at tn e
reception of Mayor Schmitz stalk on to
the platform and declare that Cali
fornia and the other states west of the
Rockies could whip Japan into a jel-
Typ" Why drag in the other states
east of the Rockies New York
World
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'Is watkins an optimism
''Yes-he'll eat hash in any restaurant IN
the ountry."-Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

Poets usually have sad lives" said the
sentimentalist. We'll" answered Mr..
Cumrox, writing the kind of things they
do, 1 don't see how they could expect to
be very cheerful. Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-11

Mr.. Borem-She asked me to sing, and
insisted upon encore after encore.
Miss Pepper-Yes; she told me afterward
that anything was better than sitting
there and talking to you all the evening
Illustrated Bits.
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she-Do you think our ancestors were
monkeys?
He-Mine were. The whole bunch didn't
leave money enough to buy a toothpick.-
Chicago News.
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rs your husband up yet?' asked the
early caller of the sour-faced woman at,
the door. Il expect he is" was the reply.
I'D like, to see him for few. minutes.
so would l. He hasn't come home yet"
Milwaukee Sentinel. ~. 49, -