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may more than offset the disadvan-
tage of increased distance to market.
The diversion of the bulky pro-
ducts of the interior of the southern
route VIII be a slow process, and the
cost of the creation of a permanent
deep waterway will be enormous. This
much may be asserted with certainty
put there - as little popular doubt of
the ability of the nation to accomplish.
the task as there is that the job will
pc teolous and expensive. The Mis-
slsslpp1 can be bridled and made a
pack animal for the transport of the
country's products to blue water. In.
oeed, time will probably witness the
greater feat of Transforming the Mis-
slssippi into an inland sea for all the
purposes OF commerce. Deep-sea YES
sells will eventually make their way
from Europe to the Great Lakes by
way of the Mississippi. Nature hav-
ing done most of the work, man will
make it his business to perfect it. But
the magnitude of the task ana it's
great cost point to long delay in it's
actual contamination, and the growth
of commerce by that time may give
New York more than it has now, in'l
spite of the utilization of the inland
waterways The chief point to be
borne in mind to the American of to-
day is that the transformation of the
waterways must be done on a coher- !
ent and comprehensive plan, patiently
worked out over many years. There
must be no haphazard disposition of
the millions that are to be poured intoi
the waterways"
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clal resources of the community where
every forty families must support ga :
loon! What a boom it would give to
legitimate lines of business-groceries,
cry goods and clothing stores-if tho
money that is wasted in all those sa-
ICONS were spent in them, How rich the
city of Cleveland would soon become IL
the dimes and quarters that go to the
saloons went into savings banks, And
the saloons not only do no good in re-
turn for all this money that they take
away from legitimate business, but they
do vast amount of HARM Kansas is
lucky in having no saloons
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with me tomorrow. 1 came here t.
find you and won't leave without YOU
wait, hear me outi Locke's tool
Red Matthews. the forger. died las
week. He made clean breast OF 1t
and we know-all Trenton knows thai
YOU had nothing to do with wreckins
the bank. Locke will de hard. but we
have him cornered, and he has to take
his medicine. Let go, boyl You are,
Hendersons hands dropped, but he
poured out a storm or questions.
He confessed! Lapdon. he told me
that Lilias did it-Liliasi That he had
forced her to forge Dalton's name to
that check in order to gain TIME with
the New York people, that the truth
must come out and she be tried for
forgery unless I would take the blame
upon myself to shield her. and my
save her. L. never knew of those
false entries on the books until 1 saw
it in the papers-that was forgery.
too. But what's the use OF all this?
You know all about 1t"
"Liliasi" Landon caught the tone
in which Henderson uttered the name;
the rest was meaningless babble-and
Judith had sent him to bring her
lover homei
Henderson was still pouring out his
questions as Jack thrust the letter In
the boys hand. Never mind all
tkat. The girl had nothing to do with
it Red Matthews eli the forgery and
Locke sent him ou- OF town before he
found out that yon were accvsed OF IT.
Here Is Judith's letter. and he
turned his back, every nerve aquiver
with the blind rage that possessed
him.
Here's one for YOU" And Hender-
son held out the sheet of paper
you Dear Old Stupid David:
who so blind as a man that will
not see? When you have brought
Jack back to Lilias Locke to comfort
her in these black days OF her fathers
disgrace, come to me and ask what
you will. Judith."-(Copyrigh
1907, by c. H. Sutofiffe.)
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.]
A man of many callinss-the train an
nounCer.
Strangely enough. it's when fellow
is done that he Is undone.
Many mans idea of a friend is a per-
son he-can make use Of
A record is one of the few things that
you can improve by breaking.
Retribution is something that we are
sure will eventually overtake others.
Every man has future before him, but
the trouble is he has the handicap Of
past behind him.
All men may be born equal, but 1t isn's
long before one-half OF the world is pull
ing the other halfs leg.
Here's where I am forced to go TO ex-
tremes." remarked the hair-pin as the
woman converted it into button hook.
From the feminine point of view a wo-
man reaches the age of discretion when
she begins to forget her birthdays.
Mrs. Buggins-'I am glad to say our
milk man has stop1ed drinking Mr..
Muggins-'I had am idea from the taste
of his milk that he was on the water
wagon"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.I
A woman would rather be tailor-made
than self-made.
One kind of charity always has card
attached to it
No great man needs brass band to
herald his coming.
Occasionally the shoplifter finds it diff
cult to-talke things easy.
Fortunate is the man who snever knows
when he gets the worst of it,
When a wise man gets real angry he
goes way back and sits down.
When a man talks of himself he is
usually more eloquent than interesting.
Why is 1t that the average chaperon
thinks ii up to her to work overtime?
Some men imagine they are decent be-
cause they wear a clean collar every day.
After getting the average man started
on his hobby nothing short of q steam
street roller can stop him.
If it wasn't for getting her front hair
mussed no girl would object to being
kissed against her will once in awhile.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Gladys Vanderbilt is worth 500
100000 besides the Y in her name.
That's enough to attract the attention
Of any count. -
= =
Sometimes our blessings come a
trif1e late. Jewell county has just had
a tremendous revival meeting. Just
before it opened a lot of Jewell coun-
ty men went down to the Concordia
fair to bet on "Bill Barleycorn,' a
local horse with big reputation-and
Bill flunked If that revival had come
two weeks sooner it might have saved
a lot of good Jewell county money
from the bookmakers.
Query: Does the pure food law insure
the quality of the taffy that candi-
dates feed to the voters? DR.. Crum-
bine, please answer
The Illinois Central election will be
held tomorrow, and it will be decided
whether Hartman or Fish wins, but
you probably won't have to sit up till
to hear the returns.
Now that the open season for Tigers
has closed. this department trusts we
will get relief from the baseball fan.
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HUNOR or THE Day

Secondwed-- I'm sorry you can't cook as
well as my first wife did.
the business aS,itty NM first hys ep na had
| Then you could earn sufficient money to
enable us to have cook. Chicago Daily
| News.
| "You said business was dull and that
you would make me suit at my own
yes, I did," replied the tailor.
persons figure in mind when you made
| this suit. "-Yonkers Statesman.
In the surf-He-Ara>y you afraid?
She-Why, no. There's no danger. is
there?
He-No. but didn't suppose that was
essential-september Lippincott's.
Daughter-He writes me Il letters a
Father-But he gets only one pay enve-
lope.-Puck.
Are your neighbors obliging?"
II should say SO. They always let me
use our telephone whenever 1 want to-
Milwaukee. Sentinel.
Joakley-You,re right: most people wor-
ry over what they haven't got, but I
coakieyNThat so! What have they7
Joakley-Nothing- Press.
she-You call me beautiful now, but will :
you cali me beautiful twenty years from
poW7 s- .-V ---a-..-.f i-.-.....--
He-Oh, why picture tho dismal side OF
everything? You may be dead then
Chicago Record Herald.
He-Sufrage or no suffrage. woman's
chief duty. after all, is to make fools Of
US men.
Shell quite agree. But you've no idea
how tiresome it is when nature has fore
stalled us-B1ack and White.
What a very thin voice that girl has"
''Thini Whay, It's so thin she ought to
sing all her music in skeleton key
Baltimore American.
Tom-It was a case of love at first
sight with me.
Jack-Then why didn't you marry her?
Tom-Oh, 1 saw her again on several
occasions.-Chicago Daily News.
Don't I give you all the money you
need?" her husband complained.
Yes" she replied, but you told me be-
fore we were married that you would
give me all 1 wanted. "-Chicago Record
Herald
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AYH<WKER JOTS

Mr.. Booze is a Jewell county far
mer, who sells wheat and hogs instead
of his name.
Mcpherson will entertain the Bap-
lists this week. Are the Mcpherson
waterworks in good condition?
Mrs. Lennon, Of Smith. county, but
he was careful to avoid taking her
name.
The Lincoln Park chautauqua is
bound to have a good secretary. II
has elected Robert Good. of , the
Jamestown Optin1ist, to that job.
Now will Henry Airen- please rise
and explain what this item in the
Wichita Beacon means? '"Taft's warm
greeting in japan causes the Salina
Journal to try a kiss-shot off from
Hobson.'' =
Rev. Mr.. Heck having been ap-
pointed the new Free Methodist minis
ter at Marion, the Lindsborg Record
is wondering If he is the same O..
Heck often mentioned in general con-
versations.
There were over 400 conversions in
the revival meetings that have just
closed at Jewell City Jewell may
about associating with such wicked
towns as Mankato and, Concordia.
The Belleville Democrat tells of
battle between Mexican and Jap rail-
road hands at ScaEdid, in which II
Mexicans and 10 Japs were wounded,
but it fails to tell which nation won
the battle. Another historical over
sight.
Some Bent Murdoch philosophy:
"Great and good men fall by the way
side every day and the dispatches tell
US it is the tremendous mental strain
overdrinking and smok-
ing It's the stomach and not the
brain that gives out because of over
work"
Here is a pretty good prosperity
note from the Norton Telegram: A
car load of alfalfa seed worth nearly
$4,000 was shipped from Calvert,
seven miles east Of Norton, to the
Nebraska Seed company last Saturday.
This is one of the leading industries
Of this county this year md the total
production of seed this year as est-
hullers will be in the neighborhood
Of forty or fifty car loads. The seed
finds ready sale at So per bushel and
the purchasers for the big seed firms
declare that it is the best seed ever
put on the market, having very little
'oxtaii or weeds in it
Some remarks by Will Palmer:
You can't always judge a man by the
Kind of speech he is able to make. |
A motor cycle makes more noise than
touring car. Some one
figured it out that the average woman |
carries fifty miles of hair on her head. !
10 wonder she sometimes forgets and |
caves half mile of 1t in the comb |
The man who used to |
make side -saddles has gone out of |
business, but it wasn't the trust that |
busted him y. -. In spite of all |
he kindly advice this paper has given
O the girls. three thousand of them
ret married every day.
Preachers formerly rode for ~ cents
Ter mile, but they must now pay
.ents The preachers and the editors
lidn't get much out of this new dealJ
The smaller the baby the
ouder it can whoop it up when it gets
nto a big audience.
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Another danger of the future is shown
by this advertisement which recently
appeared in the Kreisblatt, newspaper
published in Hoechst. near Wiesbaden,
Germany: Can any one favor me with
the names of the balIoonists who. when
passing over the village of Ried last
Thursday evening. dropped a bag of
ballast down my chimney and complete
ly ruined a fruit tart which 1 was cook
ing?-Julia Schmidt, IA Britzelgrasse
Ried." Think how aggravating it will
be, when airships become common, to
have bags of ballast dropping down the
chimneys every now and then and spoil
for II!
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

rFrom the Atchison Globe.]
A one-sided fight never gets very fierce.
1t is not manly for woman to be I'M
How ugly a flower looks when It is going
| to seed!
A Judgment could be gotten against al
| most any of us for negligence.
| There is q mighty little plano playing
| that sounds good to the neighbors.
The devil is mighty mean. but he pun
| ishes others II they do not behave them
selves.
We would as soon pass a funeral pro-
| cession on the street as woman In
| mourning.
"I never knew a man so mean that I
was not willing he should admire me-
Parson Irvine.
| If man is treated well in a small town
he soon imagines he could do better In q
larger place.
y There are only few certainties in the
world. One is the mother: you can always
You might as well take your medicine
bravely; II you don't, someone will hold
your nose. and make you take it.
Hundred dollar an acre land is as scarce
in the recorders office as 1t is plentiful
in the minds of the real estate pen.
There never was a man or woman who
did not occasionally manufacture a groan
to excite the sympathy of their friends.
AS rule you will hear most about
Daughters Art In the homes where the
green plush.
When woman has company she has to
work as many schemes to have her COM
pany entertained" as a politician does to
get votes
pup looks so mild and innocent that
we sometimes think IL will turn out bet
ter than others of it's kind, but IT always
turns out dog.
We wish all the people in town would
decide on the corset they like, and get II,
so thatsthe dealers can take the samples
out of the windows.
This is the season when women get out
the winter hats they put away last
spring looking almost as good as new, and
wonder what makes them look so funny.
A man very decidedly under the inf1u-
ence Of liquor and carrying a baby at
tracted attention on Commercial street
today A good many men will carry ba-
bies under no other circumstances.
A man and his wife were fussing "If
l told what you do" said the man, ANY
jury would grant me a divorce" And ali
would have to do to get a divorce" re-
torted his wife, would be to show you
to the Judge"
At the Child's Statistician club meeting
yesterday a paper was read to the effect
that where Mother formerly said: Don't
Play in That Dirt" Don't Wipe Your
Hands on Your Dress" etc, ten times,
she now says it 80. due to the Washer
union demanding 10 cents an
hour for washing. One child appeared
dressed in dark bingham from head to
feet. 1t had formerly appeared in snowy
white upon all occasions Its paper on
This is the Way They Dress Ne Now"
elected much sympathy from other chill
dren similarly clad.
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MORE WESTERN INDEPENDENCE,

Not only is the west becornine> g.,
ancially Independent of Wall stree,
ana the east generally, but if the plans
Tor the improvement of the Mississjnni
are carried out SO that freight can 90
out from and come into this ,rea+
Central West by means of the Mississ-
lpp1 and the Gulf, it will make the
west commercially Independent also
OF the Atlantic seaboard.
The west, particularly the trans
Mississippi region. has hoped for
something of this sort to obyiate tho
long freight haul to the east but If ex.
pected it to come through direct rail-
road lines to Galveston and the devel-
opment of trade in that port. Thus
lar, however, freight rates to Calves
ton have been kept high in order TO
keep traffic going through the east.
but with the opening of the Mississin-
pi they would doubtless be brought
down.
While this idea of the independence
OF the Middle West may arouse teaL
ousy in New York, the broader minds
PACK there realize that it is newt
able. The Washington Post, in COM
mentfng on this subject, says:
The prospective diversion of large
PoAl iou oL the lnlanQ freight output to
the mississippi river route causes the
New York World to urge the CONNER
c1al interests of New York to take nc
tive steps to attract and hold the ex-
port traffic of the lake region The
world takes a broader view of the sit
uatlon than Will be taken by the ay-
erage New Yorker. 1t perceives that
the movement to secure a free ROUTE
TO the sea is irresistible, and it is gen
erous enough to declare that the de-
mand for such a route should not be
refused. The World suggests that New
YORK should not adopt dog-in-the-
manager policy, but should look to the
betterment of its own communications
and facilities of commerce.
The growth of business on the
Ohio river is evidence of the need of
deeper water in the Mississippi and
it's larger tributaries. With a perman-
ent channel secured, open to vessels
at any stage of the water and with
water communication established with
the Great Lakes, there Is no practf-
cable limit to be placed upon the vol
ume of comm cree that would develop
The enormous traffic of the 500 Canal
and the lakes is an object lesson of
the value OF waterway joining the
source of raw material and the mar
ket The terminus of the proposed
Mississippi freight route is a thousand
miles further from Europe than New
York is, but this strikes the World as
a minor handicap in the struggle with
New York. The freedom from mono
poly, the cheapness OF the haul, and
the fact that cargoes are not broken
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[Ffom the New York Preas1
It's bet that Lots wife didn't look
back, but talked back.
The devil got a sure thing in his BUSH
ness when he invented politics
You couldn't get men to drink If doc
tors tried to make them do it for their
health.
A useful thing about money is the1way
it keeps men out of other mischief trying
to get 1t.
What a girl likes about being engaged
Is how many letters 1t will take to say
the same thing In different words.
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AS 10 A SPECIAL SESSION.

Talk of a special session has been re-
vived by reason of the demand for a
direct primary to nominate the next
Republican state ticket. How mucn
this talk Will amount to can not at
present be told
1t does not appear to the State Jour-
nal that circumstances warrant calling
together the legislature for this pur-
pose, inasmuch as the rank and file of
the Republican party can have a direct
primary without it. if they SO DESIRE
All they will have to do is to volunteer
their services for the necessary work
and contribute three or four dollars in
each precinct to pay for the ballots and
poll books.
While special session of the legisla-
ture would be a good thing for this
newspaper financially it believes that
such sessions should be held only when
extreme necessity demands 1T The
state journal opposed an extra session
10 zeal with the two-cent fare question
until the power of the railroad board
mad been exhausted in that direction.
When the railroads started out to defy
the order of the board, it was believed
mat action warranted the calling of a
special session, but when the railroads
nnally capitulated to the force of pub
lie sentiment, this necessity was abated.
The State Journal takes the same
position now on the direct primary
question. An extra session is unneces-
sary to bring about the desired result,
1t lies within the power of the people
to have direct primary if they desire
1t, and this paper believes there are
enough conscientious, capable Repub-
ncans in nearly every precinct in the
state who are willing to give their sery-
ices or the small expense necessary TO
pay FOR primary in their precinct
They would gladly give their services
10 hoid party caucus and to attend a
county convention at the county seat.
and some of them would pay out from
ten TO thirty dollars each to go as dele
gates TO state convention. So why |
should they not be willing to contribute |
less money and no more time to hold |
a direct primary and get the whole |
thing over with? |
AS to the safeguard proposition. the |
state committee can come nearer safe |
guarding a primary than it ever does A |
state convention. The politicians manip- |
alate convention, seating and I'M
seating delegates as they please but
they cannot manipulate a primary
a special session of the lerislature
opens the flood gates to all sorts of
srafters, aside from the expense it
causes, and for that reason it should be
ooviated IL possible. There are times
when the expense is warranted. but it
1oes not seem to the State Journal |
mat THIS is one Of the times, as long
is direct primary can be held with
out it.
the next regular session will nm
ioubtedly pass a primary law, and if the
republican party experiments with
tate-wide primary in the meantime If
VIII be OF great benefit in framing the
aW.
Ihls paper does not believe in sad
iilns the expense of primary under
resent conditions on to the candidates.
mat would be unfair. But 1T does he
leve the rank and file are Willing IN
ear the small necessary expense and
DO the work. It's I'D to the neonIe |
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''Mr. Ripley" says the Hutchinson
News, seems determined to ruin first
class railroad president in an effort to
make a second class publicist out of
himself No, Mr.. Ripley will get over
his blues in time. And when he takes
his pen. in hand and makes a few re-
marks they are usually Interesting, even
II we do not always agree with them
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Senator Tucker, who is editor of the
Eureka Herald, stands a good chance of
going TO congress from the Fourth dis
trtct. With Charles F. Scott. Dan An
thony and Victor Murdoch already
there, it looks as though Kansas editors
are crowding the lawyers out of con-
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1t is matter of considerable COM
ment that Governor Hoch is doing a
better job of governing this term than he
did during his first one. OF course prac-
tice may have something to do with it,
but in addition to that is the fact that
he doesn't have to fix things up with
the politicians in order to get a renomi-
nation
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The report comes from China that NJ
Taft has been given a punch bowl and
has accepted it. 1t is a safe guess, how
ever, that Taft will not be a candidate
for delegate to the Methodist general
conference, so the results may not be
disa strous TO him
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CuICACO STyI,E

DR.. Wiley is experimenting nov
with a soft drink squad, which re
minds US that the soft drink some
times carries big stick.-Chicagt
Record-Herald.
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wHITR HOUSE TENNIS.

II Secretary Root learns how to
play tennis this summer he will have
a fearful advantage over Taft in the
cabinet.-Atlanta Journal.
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If George Tucker is elected to con-
gress down in the Fourth district, the
people down there will have represen-
tative who will line up with Victor
Murdoch, Ed Madison and Dan An
thony for what they want
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

If the railroads decide that they won't
build any more lines, and if additional
lines become really necessary. the peo-
pie may take hold of the business and
build some railroads themselves. They
have the money.
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ALIBI FOR THE PRESIDENT.

A man held up train with a pitch
fork out in Michigan, being under the
delusion that he Owned the railroad
and had a right to stop the traffic. AS
the president was still at Oyster Bay,
it might have been Tillman.-New
York Evening" Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-15

If the Republicans of Kansas get e
statewide direct primary next year
they will have Dan Anthony to thank
for it