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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09


out a fight in the courts. This viii
make it available for whatever grain
the farmers now have on hand as well
as for the crop to be raised this sum-
mer. The saving to the state will
probably amount to three million dol
lars in the next two years.
I If a larger cut had been made the
railroads might have delayed its oper-
alton tor at least two years by carry
ing 1t into the courts. Two years hence
another legislature will meet and a
still further reduction can then be
made if il seems advisable and just
1t was the part of wisdom, therefore,
to accept the Is per cent reduction
now instead of running the risk of
keeping the present rates in force for
another two years in an effort to Sc
cure an Is or 20 per cent reduction.
There are other rates, of course,
that ought to have been lowered. Since
the legislature has failed to act on
them it will now be the duty of the
railroad commissioners to investigate
the rates and make the proper reduc-
tiors.
Incidentally It is to be hoped that
some adequate way will be found to
lower the grain rate from the Kansas
wheat fields to the gulf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
Women Investors.

There are 10000 women who own
stock of the Pennsylvania railroad.
This is the surprising statement made
by Vice President Thayer. Almost
half, or, to be more exact. 4 Z per cent
of all the shareholders of the world S
greatest railroad are women.
While it is not to be presumed that
the army of the fair sex owns half the
100000 shares of the company their
portion must still be very large. That
they might, if they so desired, exert
a powerful influence in the manage
nent of the railroads affairs can not
be doubted But they are not share
holders for speculative reasons. They
bought Pennsylvania stock for invest
ment purposes only, and hey are
wisely content to let the men mana ge
its affairs.
What this great aggregation of wo-
men investors want is cure dividend.
Many of them own only a few shares,
but the income must be in many cases
a real factor in life. In the broad
treatment of railroad questions gen
orally the enormous number of women
who own securities in them should be
vital point for conside ration.-Phil-
adelDhia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
A warm heart takes no account of the
thermometer.
Platonic love sometimes needs real
tonic, not a play tonic.
Egotism frequently works overtime
without asking for extra pay.
Some fellows can only screw up their
courage with corkscrew.
A man doesn't have to be a counter
feiter to make his money dishonesty.
The average woman doesn't have to
get on the scales to have her own way.
Borrowell-"Bjones is what I would
call fair-weather friend" Wigwag-
"Ah, he has sense enough not to lend
you his umbrella, eh?'
Rollingstone Nomoss-"Me old teach
er ulster tell me dat fool an his money
was soon parted Tatterdon Torn
Gee! 1 wisht 1 could be foolish about
ten cents worth jist at dis minute"
Nell-''I know a girl who accepted an
opal an engagement ring" Belle
Wasn't it dreadfully unlucky?'' Nell
Il should say it was. She hadn't had
it three days before she found it was
imitation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
JAYH1 W.KER JOTS

Troy is already talking about a
fiesta for next fall.
The spring advertising is filling the
country newspapers, even if the rail-
roads are not doing much of it,
Most hunters in Kansas says the
Wichita Eagle, would be willing to
pay the game warden the fine of 81 for
each duck, if they could only find the
duck
A passenger on Missouri Pacific
train asked the newsboy for a humor-
GUS paper, says the Newton Journal,
and he was promptly supplied with the
current time table.
The Holton Recorder rises to a point
of order. Who, 1t asks, IS going to dis
tribute congressional garden seeds In
the First district this-spriug. seeing
this district without a congressman.
Noting that the SILLY Seven have
organized a club at Marion, the Troy
Chief expects to hear of the "Spoony
Six" doing the same. But isn't the
membership of spoony clubs usually
limited to two? +-
The University of Kansas will begin
research work soon in the chemistry de-
partment for the purpose of dis
covering some method which will pre-
vent the chemical destruction Of
clothes in the laundering process. For
the purpose Of carrying on this work.
the Alden-Spears Laundry Supplies
company of Boston has established a
fellowship in the university. carrying
with it $500 year. Mr.. Fred Faragher,
who has been assistant in the chemical
department, will have the fellowship
this year. Mr.. Faragher will spend
some time in Boston and New York,
making Investigations, and may go to
Europe to continue the study during
the summer. This work will be done
under the direction of Professor Dun
can of the department of Industrial
chemistry of the university.
Apology by Mrs Homer Hoch: Last
week We felt and wrote a few spring
sentiments in the early part of the
week The real spring weather sug-
gested them. but when the paper came
out on Thursday, everything was COW
cred with ice and sleet and when we
read those same effusions by brisk.
coal fire our sense of the appropria te-
ness of things was sadly chilled in spite
of the rudy blaze which burned before
US. We had already learned that the
minister's congregation, the attendance
at woman's societies and the vote at
elections are more or less affected by
the weather. but we never felt before
its blight on the pencil pushers' profess
sion. The sun is shining again and the
birds are singing, but we do not intend
to notice them or mention the fact to
anyone. No, sir, we live to learn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
THE RATE REELECTION

While the reduction on grain rates
made in the maximum grain rate bill
is not as great as it ought to have
been. it was undoubtedly wisdom on
the part OF the lower house to accept
what the senate would allow the peo-
pie to have.
There is no possible defense of pres
ent grain rates in Kansas. None is
attempted even by the railroads. 1t is
understood that the railroads will
agree to the Is per cent reduction on
grain as made by the senate bill and
will allow it to become effective with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
Tho-eas F. Ryan's Detectives.

Thomas F. Ryan probably employs
detectives more extensively in his
financial operations than any other
man in the Wall street district" says
David Ferguson, in THE Shadow in
High Finance" in the March Every
body's. He is credited with having
developed the use of them to a posi-
tive science. All of his lawyers-and
he has an enormous staff of them
are experts in handling detectives and
in finding ways of getting valuable IN
formation for their client.
Mr.. RYAN. is wonderfully cautious.
1t is said that whenever he plans to
deal with q man whom he does not all
ready know intimately, he invariably
man and finds out everything possible
about him. The 'shadowing' is begun
long before actual negotiations are
opened, and before the man has any
knowledge of Mr.. Ryan's plan to deal
with him; and it is continued through
out the transaction.
THE value of information of this
kind can easily be imagined To Mr..
Ryan the man with whom he is deal
spots, If he has any, Mr. Ryan can
calmly point to at the moment when
the situation demands such disclosure.
If necessary, he can probably tell the
man his exact cash balance in every
bank and trust company in which he
has an account; the amount of money
he has borrowed on this block of stock
and on that bundle of bonds; the
amount of the mortgage on his house;
close estimate of his expenditures
Facts of this kind cost money, but
they are immensely valuable at times
in Wall street deals
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe


Everyone says of children: They don't
know what good time they are having. -
well if they don't know it. are they real
THE little sense have cost me dearly, -
we heard a man say today, When 1
foolishness, 1 hope my sons will naturally
have more sense that 1 had"
a man writes this office: II read your
am worthless, and know it, but can't help
it. My father was lazy before me. I
works. What am I to to- doS'' Because seas ssaa a
Socialist leader, and advocate that in
dustrious people divide.
An Atchison woman says she enjoys the
that of men. Not that she has anything
makes herself agreeable to married men
she is accused of being home wrec1xer
is said she is chasing them. ~
things S dd when ounef When The foolish
in company that was SO idiotic that
never think Of it without blushing And
when 1 did it, I thought it was snsrt'
Some of the things you do now, and
later in life."-Parsons Irvine
At a certain age, girls become grace
full as naturally as a duck takes to water
fourteen or fifteen who had enorrIo ~ -.
feet. and was stoop s1ouldered She has
somehow managed to get rid of her he
feet. and now has a graceful figure SIG
does up her hair beautifully. and wear
dry goods to excellent advantage Sbs
was very. unpromising, but is a ds}sss
now all right. uaisy
1t is said railroad men occasiona11,, -
by danger signals We don't know mi,cE
apout ralIroad men, but other men Do 4,
every day: the writer of this ran no bU !.
danger signal this morning, and Is ~ Sor a
ing 1t viii be all right Ever rn op-
and woman run by danger signals sI man
lessness at night is a danger sI I1Tep.
we ali a pilo me- nervousness is anoth
~ encounter explosion or a coilinIaaaa al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
A SATURDAY SERMON.

For what IS man prohted, if he shall
/ gain the whole world, and lose his own
| According to myth ology, there was
once a man, a king, to whom a god
promised to grant whatever request
he might ask. His request was that
all he touched should turn to gold.
This King Midas was afterward dec
GRATED with a pair of very long ass
ears This ornament to his forehead
was said to have been put on because
he misjudged a bout of hddling be-
tween Apollo and Pan. The gods
ought not to have waited so long to
have put the ears on King Midas. That
ought to have been done when he
asked that all he touched should turn
to gold.
The god Dionysius kept his word.
and everything that Midas touched
Immediately became a piece of gold.
And by this gift the richest man in
all the world became so absolutely
poor that he was in danger of starving
to death. Every mouthful of food
that he laid his hands on became a
piece of gold. He might have heaped
up riches so colossal that the Standard
Oil possessions of the present day
pile of riches grew higher and higher
and spread out broader and broader,
its uselessness to King Midas became
only all the more emphatic. He could
neither eat nor clothe himself nor lie
comfortably in bed. No drop of water
could cuench his thirst. The flower
had no perfume for his nostrils. nor
the costliest wine flavor to his palate.
A fable? No fable at all. The story
of Midas is being written every day in
the lives of many a man. But it is not
for gold alone that men thirst Some
wish power. Wealth and power are
two things for which some men will
barter everything worth while in the
world-the good will of their fellows,
their own integrity, their self-respect,
even their very souls.
For gold, or that which it repre-
sents. some public officials will do
things that rob them of the confidence
of their fellow men. For the sake of
gaining a little brief power some men
with political ambitions will betray
tn ose who have trusted them and
sa crifice the good opinion and respect
of their neighbors.
And what is the gain even from a
temporal standpoint? Not long ago
there was told in these columns the
story of a Colorado bribe-taker, a state
who was Stunned by his as
sociates and was eventually expelled
from the senate. The man who viii
buy power, or wealth, or the good will
of some powerful individuals, at the
cost of his own self-respect and the
respect and good will of his neigh bors,
let alone at the cost of his soul
pays dearly for his acquisition. even
though he acquire the power of Har-
riman or the wealth of a Rockefeller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A play called 1.-The Minister'S Son. is
touring the Kansas kerosene circuit.
What a terribly wicked play it must
bel
q n
Almost time now to buy some new
garden tools for your wife to use.
: X p
A Kansas editor wants to know
what has become of the old fashioned
mother whose boys used to get up the
first time she called them. That's
easy. She died about a million years
ago.
Now that the great American hen
has begun to get busy perhaps she will
make omelet of the hopes of the egg
trust.
Incidentally the city campaign ap-
pears to be developing a large amount
of hot air.
The state senate need not expect
any votes from the school sorority
girls next time. either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

bills. paying off any mortgages or buy
ing any sealskin sacks. A man is not
going to sell his soul and forfeit his
standing in his own town for a pleas
ant look and a good cigar from a rail-
road attorney. The stake is large and
the game is being played by the best
talent in the wet. But the people
may watch the cards If they WILL"
But the trouble is that watching Will
not do any good after it is all over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
KANSAS COMAIENT
ALL FOR COMPROMIsE.

w nile the two houses of the Kansas
legislature have been haggling for
weeks over primary election law.
with very little fuss and feathers
the state senate of Missouri has passed
an admirable primary election law APP
pl1cable to all elective offices of the
state and its various subdivisions. Only
school and municipal elections not
held at the same time with a general
election are exempted from its pro-
visions The act follows closely the La
roulette law in Wisconsin. 1t would
De a waste of words to ask what's the
matter with the Kansas legislature /?
That question viii he answered, two
years hence, by the people, who have
been demanding a direct voice in the
selection of United States senators and
other officials.-Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

IFrOm the OhlcdBO NeWs.J
Go slow-and the other fellow may
beat you to it,
A mans greatest success in. life is
usually unexpected.
Some men would have more money IL
their friends would pay up.
Excessive politenesS seldom has any
thing in common with the truth.
A man things he has forgotten his
troubles when he is having a good time.
About the second time you meet a
woman she begins to tell you her trou-
bles.
1t may not cost any more TO keep two
than one, but the father of many a
marriageable girl isn't willing to take
chances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

lFrom the New York Press.
A man can brag even about how loud
his baby can cry.
The worst thing about honesty is the
way you can't get rich by it.
1t never makes a girl tired to dance
till it's time to get up the next day
A widow always has the comfort of
knowing she can't do any worse next
time.
The reason rich men give you advice
on how to do 1t is because 1t isn't the
real way.
When man has really good dlspo-
sition it's sign he has no relatives he
has to be nice to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
A NEEDED REFORM.

A good many people will be grateful
to the postoffice department for re-
fusing to forward certain varieties of
picture postal cards. If it will extend
its prescription little further there
will be still more gratitude. Some of
the cards are worth having, but
large proportion of them imply i'm
becility on the part of the sender and
are an affront to the recipient.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

The people of Saline and Ottawa
counties are preparing to tender a re-
ception to Senator Fred Quincy and
Representatives Kirkland and White
because of the way they have worked
for the people. A number of other
senators may also receive warm recep-
tions from their constituents when
they get home-in fact, it is possible
that said constituents may make it
pretty hot for said senators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

The state university is about to &C.
gin chemical experiments to find a way
ito prevent the chemical destruction
of clothes in the laundering process -
If this will carry with it the preven-
tion of saw edges on collars. the state
will put its unanimous approval on
any appropriation the legislature hands
out to the university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

The wichita Eagle says the auto
mobile lis rapidly displacing about
everything that goes on wheels, be-
sides putting everybody on the qui
vive." Very likely a dispute will now
arise as to whether those last four
words are Murdockese for ION the
jump" or ION the hog
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

The country has watched the news
from the White House sick room with
sympathetic interest during the past
two days. Trouble of that kind brings
sharp worry to any parent, even
though the cares of a nation rest on
his shoulders
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Some people think that Secretary
Garfield will not measure up to the
standard set by Ethan Allen Hitchcock
as the head of the interior department.
but here's guessing that Mr.. Garfield
"mak gooi.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Der Barber County Index isayss a
kicker ISIS linking skeriousless1y uf
clicking der Index" und hopes dot he
will not carry oudt hiss fell design. Vot
der Index should do ISIS procure 1arche
vet-ellum club und Modify der kicker
dot he candt efen lick der wrapper on
a marked copy uf der Index.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

number of Kansas state senators
appear to have an idea that it would
be unconstitutional for them to vote
for anything the railroad politicians
do not want
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Here is another way that the rail-
roads can save money in the future;
They can't spend any in electing
United States senator's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

No, Gertrude, it is feared that the
example set by Senator Spooner in re-
signing from the United States senate
will not become epidemic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

1t is probable that there will be
several brain storms in Justice Fitz-
gerald's court when Messrs. Jerome
and Delmas begin to expound matters
TO the Jury
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

The Emporia Gazette concludes a
lengthy editorial on the doings of the
Kansas senate as follows: Kansas
people should read the papers and see
how their senators vote Then watch
and see If they are changing any large
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
IN THE FUTURE

Country boarders wanted in Lone
somehurst; sterilized milk; germless
butter; eggs laid under a doctors eye;
fresh vegetables canned this year,
certified labels.-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
GETTING BACK

The Beers appear to be gradually
getting possession of the Transvaal
government, Notwithstanding the con-
tempt in which they are held by Rud-
yard Kipling and Laureate Austin
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Senator Bailey loudly demanded
Senator Burton's expulsion from the
senate if he did not resign. Now who
will demand Bailey's resignation or
expulsion. F.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Mr. Hartman has not talked much
for publication for years, but now that
he has unbottled himself he appears
&c. be making up for lost time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
.fONESnME

Nextvto the national and state legis-
Iatures the most lonesome political
crowds in this country at the present
writing are the free pass contingent
and the railway organs.-Wichita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

The Standard Oil company is facing
a court trial. 1t might plead the un
written law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

The car did not pry open the douma
In person this time, but he sent a
Sub" in his place. Perhaps he thought
1t was loaded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Governor Hoch is evidently keeping
up his record for appointing some pref
ty good men for the jobs he has to fill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
FORcE4OF HARIT

Some men are so persistent1y stingy
that if they were admitted to heaven
on basis of free salvation, they would
hold out for rebate.-Douglas
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

The legislature has been somewhat
expensive considering what it has done
for the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Now dot der lechislacher ISIS ofer, led
us go indo der commiddee uf der whole
und seddle dis baseball kvesdion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
YOAKUM.

= B. F. Yoakum. the head of the Rock
Island system formerly president of
the Frisco. asserts that the country
and it's railway interests are all right
and that there is prosperity for both
for years to come in spite of all the
present agitation and apprehension.
And B. F. Yoakum is one of the most
capable railway managers of the coun-
trY=Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
NOTHING UNUSUAL

F. H Hartman has bought another
railroad. This, however, is a piece of
routine news.-PhiladelDhia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Nicaragua and Honduras are sup
posed to be having a war, but thus
far nobody has heard of battle being
fought
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Nobody is starting a presidential
boom for Senator Joseph w. Bailey
this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Thaw should hat chased White into
Vesd Ferchinny before shooding him
Id would hat safed him lods uf dime in
reaching a verdict uf acquiddal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

George w. Perkins. if life insurance
fame, has also Joined the paid-it
! -ck fraternity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
ALMOST UNANIMOUS.

The United states supreme court
has decided that the state of Kansas
has no right to lend her. fair name to
the Katy railroad in a suit against
the government That is the same
notion the people of this county had
about it.-BellevfIle Freeman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Speaking of luck. did you read about
the Rock Islands wreck on Thursday ?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Now. don't you wish you had regis
tered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

The senate passed one of the meas
ures recommended by Governor Hocl
anyway: The anti-high school frater
nitv bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Iowa has only one member of the
cabinet now, but it's hard to notice
the difference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-09

Der bapers ISIS so full uf Thaw und
Stothers dey hat neglectioned to kill
der peach crobp fer der pasd den dayss.