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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
LAYHA WKER JOTS

A carload of automobiles was I'M
! loaded at the little town of Canton,
Mcpherson county, few days ago.
A Rossville woman has made 1874
pounds of butter the past year, and
sold it for $247.32, all from eight cows
Monday is known as "hog day. in
stead of wash day" at Logan. The
farmers bring in their hogs on Mon
days.
Mack Gretchen, who prints news
paper, has become convinced that the
price of everything has doubled ex-
cept newspaper subscriptions.
The editor of the Clay Center Dis
patch is also president of a gold min
ing company, but he probably values
his newspaper more than he does the
gold mine.
Sedgwick Paragraph: This is a
fast age We ordered sample 1908 cal
endars in February only to find that
travelling agents had worked the field
ahead of us. Need anything for 1910?
Speaking of the way western Kan
sas lands are advancing in value, the
Colby Tribune notes that a Thomas
county man has refused $500 for
farm that he bought year ago for
$4,000. And it is high prairie, too.
A western Kansas man announces
his candidacy for a city job as fol-
lows: lowing to the earnest solicita-
ton of those to whom I owe money,
have consented to become candidate.
SUBJECT TO the usual ulSCAOSuA0 VI
character"
Will Palmer's wisdom: When you
get up on a spring morning feeling
like YOU haven't had a fair chance in
life and that the whole world is against
you, try a few swigs of sassafras tea.
The thing you hate worst is
the thing to do first. What
is wealth? Not money, and mortgages
and cattle and farms; but contented
mind. Are you rich this morning
3 1t seems to a married man
as if an old bachelor drifts along
down the stream of life as easily as a
loose log We'd like to
watch a Christian scientist having a
tooth bored out and that internal lit
tie wire dingus run down into the
root A talent for gambling
is talent for trouble. This
country is getting freer and freer every
day. You can now write on both sides
Of postal cards. The rail- |
roads are not bigger than the state of
Kansas but they are smarter when it
comes to electing senators.
II you don't hang onto your troubles !
perhaps the March winds will blow |
hem away. Do you know |
any boys these days who are learning |
trades? Won't we soon have a gem |
Grafton of men who will not know how |
10 do anything but to run to the post |
office every time the train comes in to |
get their post cards? The |
Kind of maple sugar Kansas gets |
doesn't dare call itself maple sugar any
more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
THE USE OF THE NAILS.

The postoffice department is "com-
ing down" on publications that are
mailed to subscribers at only a nomi-
nal subscription price. 1t has barred
from the privilege of second-class rates
a st. Louis publication that was put
out at ten cents a year, On the ground
that it was published chiefly as an ad-
vertising medium. Yet the st. Louis
publication was doubtless far more
legitimate than many other publica-
tons that are put out at such cheap
rates. for it rejected all Objectionable
advertising.
All publications that have the privi-
lege of second-class rates ought to
charge a reasonable subscription price
and stick to it. Some publications Sc
cure large lists of names to which pa
pers are sent free when the recipients
do not care for them and would not
have them at any price. OF course the
CT such periodicals is prob
ably legitimate, but they ought not to
go at secord-class postage rates 1t
all depends on whether the. paper is
published to carry reading matter or
advertising to it's readers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.

rFrom the Atchison Globe.l
There is the instinct of the beggar
in everyone.
When a new man engages in bust
ness, how polite he is!
Tobacco heart probably kills more
people than broken heart.
All the worlds a stage, and all the
supernumeraries are critics.
When a woman does wrong she
usually thinks she has been wronged.
When a woman loses anything, she
nearly always believes someone stole
Women are very tender hearted
when it comes to killing anything but
a man.
Some women just naturally can not
get along unless they have a love af-
fair on hand.
that we wonder so many are afflicted
with it.
No matter how much money a man
is making people viii not believe it
when he brags.
There is apt to bessomething wrong
with the man who is continually max
ing explanations.
1t is another sign of old age when
man pays more attention to religious
matters than to politics.
The College of Hard Knocks has a
larger alumni of successful men than
any institution we know of.
After ALL is there any one in the
world more stupid than the man who
comes in at the wrong time?
During cold weather there is moth
ing but pair of stockings between a
woman and freezing to death.
You hear of lots of unusual things.
Ever hear of a bank examiner becoming
detective or an expert accountant?
What has become of the old fash
toned boy who celebrated Easter by
seeing how many eggs he could eat?
A woman who imasines she is pretty
is bad enough. but a man who thinks
he is good looking is the limit.
What has become of the old fash
toned mother who told her children
that they would drive her distracted?
There isn't much in the biogra phies
of successful men as to what saloon
was the favorite hangout of the youth
There would be no such thing as an
old maid school teacher if boys made
practice of marrying their first love-
There is always this to remember
in time of trouble: 1t is never as dark
outside as 1t looks to be when stepping
from the door.
Are you one of the kind of people who
know 1t all? Then you may depend
upon 1t that you get it good and proper.
behind your back.
Steer clear of sympathetic people
when you are in trouble; for if YOU
are not very careful, you will tell more
than you intend to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21

came running along to make inquiries
was the division superintendent: Cloak
ed and bedraggled as she was, the man
did not recognize his discharged oper-
How did it come about? Why didn't
a man come to give warning 2" he ask
"A tramp told me of it. and there
was no man to send" she replied.
You must be from the village. and
perhaps you can tell me where the girl
operator boards. must get into the
station and try and raise Vincennes oy
telegraph
Ten men followed the light Of the
girls lantern over the great heap OF
debris ard to the depot. The ID. s. was
surprised when she unlocked the door
and entered. He was more surprised
when she laid aside her sodden hat and
cloak and sat down to the key and be-
gan calling each way and finally re-
ceived response. He gave her no IN
waited. She ordered a wrecking crew
to the spot and then turned from the
key to meet his eyes.
"I-aw-bsg pardon" he said.
1T don't understand. sir" she re-
you're williams"
Certainly"
And two weeks ago IL"
Discharged me for being woman
1 have five days yet. I believe. You
will find everything in order when the
day comes"
"But, Miss williams! I was labor
ing under a misa pprehension, 1t seems.
You seq
"I am a woman, sir, and there can
be no misrepresentation, and I bid you
good night"
Six weeks later the d. S. stepped
down and out The president of the
road had sat up to take notice, and the
girl was bossing things in
one of the best offices on the line
copyrighted. 1907. by p. c. East
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
GOOD FOR NORTH TOPEKA.

| Some of the wide-awake. pushing
citizens of North Topeka are putting
| forth efforts to make the district north
of the river an attractive locality. They
have inaugurated a campaign not only
to clean up" but to improve. One
of the best methods of making hand
some homes is by cultivating lawns,
flowers and shrubbery, and it is pro-
posed to furnish grass seed for lawns
at low price. and public meetings
have been inaugurated to help the
good work along.
Most of North Topeka's handsome
lawns were ruined by the flood of four
years ago, but many of them have since
been replaced, and the enthusiastic cit
liens of the North Side intend that
more of them shall be grown. AS
result of the systematic efforts now be-
ing put forth, the rest of Topeka is liza
Bile to wake some morning and find the
First Ward one of the handsomest and
most attractive residence districts of
the city-not a locality of pretentious
palaces perhaps, but one of pretty
homes, each with its plot of well-kept
grass, set off with flowers and shrub
berry. 1t doesn't take a big income to
make coy and attractive home. A
little paint for woodwork combined
with what nature does when given a
chance with soil and sunlight, will
make a cottage attractive as we'll as a
mansion.
Incidentally it would be we'll for the |
rest of the city to profit by North To- |
peka's example. Thousands of Topeka |
people make their premises attractive |
with the help of nature, but others do |
not Taken as whole, Topeka is I'M
doubtedly the handsomest city in Kan
sas, but it could be made much more
so if every house, no matter how hum
Bile. had its little plat of grass, edged
with a few flowers and foliage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1


Even a blind man can find trouble
without much difficulty.
It's about all some people can do to
keep from being done.
1t is difficult to greet misfortune with
a smile when it is always frowning.
Women love secrets because of tho
pleasure they derive from letting them
escape.
A friend in need usually needs all he
can induce you to give up-and thea
some.
Instead of throwing stones people
who live in glass houses should grew
violets al a dollar a bunch.
Women would have but little use fer
minds and compilations if 1t were i'm
possible to change them.
Usually a man who doubts the truth
fuluess OF the Bible has unlimited faith
in a patent medicine almanac.
1t takes a cute girl to get so close
to a man that when he tries tc kiss ner
it's impossible for her to get away.
The average woman makes a strcnu-
Gus effort to discover her husbands
faults for the purpose of hiding them
from other people.
The average woman seems to think
she is responsible for all her husbands
joys, but that all his sorrows are due
to his own foolish actions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If this Pittsburg flood were of a
kind that would cleanse that town, it
wouldn't be such a calamity.
y 4
This brain storm theory may ac-
count for Tillman.
n
Many a man who puts sand in the
sugar and who sells shoddy stuff for
all wool, prides himself on the way he
always pays his debts.
= y
This department wishes to commend
the executive council: 1t has re-em-
ployed Ed Bass as gardener of the
state house grounds.
-
The governm ent has just counted its
cash in the Chicago subtreasury and
all doubt is removed that $4,000 has
been stolen. But if Tom Kelly had
the opportunity he could doubtless
prove that the shortage is only appar-
ent, caused by clipped coupons. etc,
etc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Most trees require rich soil. but the
family tree thrives on rocks.
Patriotism is often one-third love
of country and two-thirds rum.
Clothes don't make a man any
more than a complexion makes wo-
man.
Every man to his trade" is a good
motto, but few of US are good traders.
The girl who says she would marry
nothing less than a foreign nobleman
really couldn't.
Perhaps it is possible for woman
to keep a secret, but most of them are
terribly out of practice.
Hoax-''He says his new invention
is a world-beater." Joax-"What is
it?" Hoax-'An egg-beater."
Nell-"Miss Skinandbones is a rath-
err sharp girl" Belle-'Do you refer
to her intellect or her elbow?''
A sad-eyed man went into the Mar
riage License Bureau yesterday and
asked for lottery ticket.
Some fellows are in such a hurry to
do things that they hate to lose time
finding out how to do them.
Wigg-"It's queer how suddenly a
great man can go up in smoke" waeg
Eyes, all that's necessary is to have
a fve-cent cigar named after him."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
THE OTHER MANS Joe.

It's pretty soft for the motorman-he
With nothing to do but start the car and
tap a warning gong.
The rest of us have to pay cents when
ever We want to ride:
Lacking the fare, we must use Shank 8
mare when we do our homeward glide.
It's pretty soft for the doctor. who deals
in human ills:
Though at ? a. m. he must leave his bed,
armed with box OF pills.
AT times he must face the wintery wind
that stingeth like a knout,
But the rest of US have to take the dope
the doctor dishes out
It's pretty soft for the lawyer, who labocs
over his brief.
And prays to the court that his client be
granted said relief.
He must read a thousand volumes, all
bound in musty calf,
But the rest of us, when we break our
legs, must give the lawyer half.
It's pretty soft for the hod-carrier-he
And beats it up the ladder-it's easy to
learn the trick.
He climbs to the top of the building.
where all is mortar and muss,
But most of the bricks get loosened ana
fall on the rest of US.
Let US gather around the table, while our
hearts with envy throb,
And drain a flask to the easiest task
The Other Fellows Job!
IN. Y. American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
PROSPERITY AND THE CROPS.

After all. this question of prosperity
finally gets back to the crops. The
bountiful harvest of last summer and
fall has been given the credit for pro-
viding the foundations of the unusual
run of business for the nine months
past.
Naturally there is wide interest in
the story the farms will tell during
1907. Already the area under fall TIL
lage is pretty accurately known; it ex-
ceeds the fall tillage record for 1906
by about 100000 acres. In regard to
spring tfllage, estimates as yet are at
wide variance. Some state that the
increase over the corresponding tillage
in 1905 will reach 100000 acres; 9TH
ers hold that it may not be greater
than 100000 acres. Perhaps it will
not record so heavy gain as the min
imum figures, but there is no reason
for doubling that the acreage under
cultivation for the 1907 harvest will
be very much in excess of that for the
previous year Whether or not agri-
cultural conditions will prove favor
able between the present and the time
the yield is gathered. is also a point
of uncertainty, of course. So far as
definite information is to be had. how
ever. the prospect is that the farmer is
to have at least as bountiful year as
in the one just closed.-The Iron Trade
Review.
1t is generally stated in financial
circles that the iron trade is the suresi
index of commercial conditions, be-
cause every other industry is more or
less dependent upon it; but after all
as the Iron Trade Review says, the
question of prosperity or hard times
finally gets back to the crops.
The farmers are the real builders of
the nations wealth. If no crops should
be produced for single year, what
would be the result? Suffering and
disaster everywhere. But with good
crops. prosperity smiles on all classes
and the arteries of trade and com
merce pulsate with life and energy.
It is also a noticea BILE fact that the
farmer is no longer dependent on the
big financial interests. Flurries and
panics in stocks, depressions in finan-
cial conditions, no longer affect him.
Wall Street might have a panic every,
day. but the farmer would not feel it.
He has money of his own, and If oc-
casion requires it. he might loan some
to the needy millionaires who get
pinched now and then.
1t is certainly gratifying to note that
the outlook for the farmer is good the
coming year. Not only does he de-
serve it. but it means good times for
other people, too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
F2ON OTHER PENS
CONSCIENCE FUND RECORD.

Kant. the Koenigsburg philosopher,
expressed the enrolling sentiment tn at
two things always excited his reverence
for the world in which he lived bevond
anything else that he knew and under
stood. One was the heavens above him
and their matchless harmonies, and the
other was the moral law within him
which drove or led men in the path of
right. 1t is before this court of last
appeal that men plead guilty and set
themselves right by making restitution
The courts of law may fail to bring
about justice, but the conscience which
is not at ease with itself is the more
effective kind of a consta bIe.-WaIl
Street Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.l

7 81
People are awful rich when thew
aren't afraid to go to a wedding in \
street car.
A good way to make the furnace burn
well is to have warm spell of wealth
er.
The best way for a woman to pra-
marry him.
Money is very useful thing not "a
nave in your pocket when anybody
tries to borrow from you
A woman would rather have her hus-
pand lie about how he likes to 60 Ia
church and not do it than to go ara
admit TIA f--44A- 81 ~oc
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Misplaced sympathy.

There's no telling anything about
people in New York" sighed the little
Canadian woman, looking puzzled.
when we came here in october and
took our little fat 1 was much inter-
ested in the marketing and sought out
the biggest and best looking shops.
On the corner of our street is a shah
by little grocery and candy store, kept
by a miserable looking hunchback.
His clothes are threadbare and his
hands always tucked under his apron,
as if they never were warm. One eve
ming my husband noticed him and
suggested my buying small articles in
there occasionally, just to help the
poor fellow along. 1 did, and listened
to many a complaint about hard times.
and how the little dealers were being
pushed to the wall. Yes I said to
him the other day, and then you have
to pay a lot of rent for this tiny place,
don't you?' He almost Strengthened the
bump out of his back and exclaimed,
Rent! Why, I own this building and
the next two. I'm your landlord
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
White as Mourning Color.

The news that European has been
noticed in Jamaica wearing white as
mourning for a relative lost in the re-
cent catastrophe recalls the fact that
that color was originally employed in
many countries to indicate reverence
for the dead.
In fact the custom obtained in
Europe as late as the reign of Charles
VIII of France. and in Italy, too, it
fingered, though for women only. the
men wearing brown. In Ethiopia the
white soon changed to gray and in
Egypt to yellow.
China, however, employs It to this
day other -colors have had their
vogue-blue, for instance. which even
now is used in Turkey. Armenia and
Syria The latter signifies the heaven
ly region. white stands for purity, gray
and brown typify our mother earth,
and black, most repellent of mourn
ing colors would seem to suggest an
eternity of night.-London Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
HOW Tt Impressed Him.

Ex-senator Billy Mason tells of a
political campaign in South Dakota
the stale committee to take a part.
When Mason arrived at his first town,
where he was to deliver speech the
next day, he found that the two so
called hotels were crowded to the
doors.
Not having telegraphed for accom-
modations, the Illinois man discovered
that he would have to make SHIFT as
best he could.
He was compelled for that night to
sleep on a wire cot that had only some
blankets and a sheet on it. AS Mr..
Mason is a man of considerable aVolr-
duDois he found his improyised bed
ANYTHING but comfortable.
well" asked the proprietor, when
the politician appeared in the morn
ing. 'how did you sleep?"
SEairIv we'll" answered Mason
.sbut / certainly looked like waffle
when I got up.''-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
Ids Narrow Escane

Mr.. Ferguson, two of whose down.
town friends had Just dined with him.
had taken them into the library for a
smoke.
"I must tell you a good one on my
wife" he said. She's been roasting
me because I look at the headlines in
the papers once in a while to see If
anything important is happening in
the Thaw trial. Well, the other after
noon, while the girl was away, she
put a pan of biscuits in the oven to
bake, and while she was waiting she
picked UP a paper and began to read
the stuff herself. She cot so interest
ed in 1t that she let the biscuits
AT this moment Mrs. Ferguson came
into the library for a book.
And the Joke of it was.'' continued
Mr.. Ferguson, without a moments
pause. that they found the COW next
morning in a forty-acre lot"
Hal hal hal" roared the guests,
laughing till the tears ran down their
not at the story
Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21

The railroad magnates say that ad-
verse legislation in many states caused
the panic. and they are blaming Presi-
dent Roosevelt for it. 1t must be they
think Roosevelt is bossing all the leg
islatures as well as congress. There
are a few legislatures, however, that
can prove an alibi: The railroads are
@tiIl bossing them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21

In speaking of the recent furry in
Wall Street, Mr.. Hartman said: '-Some
of those mcn have made a lot Of
money as a result. but don't think it
will do them much good in the end"
From which it may be presumed that
Mr.. Hartman intends to take it away
from them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
POWER OF PUBLIC OPINION.

Hartman, Frick and others are learn
ing not slowly, but surely, that they
cannot disregard newspaper advice, if
they would stay out of the poorhouse
They do not yet appear to realize the
fact, but their assumed ignorance is
only an affectation, and that the sheriff
man will catch 'em eff they won't
watch outr'-Brooklyn Eagle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21

Mark Twain has an alleged farm in
New York which he has named
Quarry Farm" Back there they have
to dig out the rocks before making a
farm In Kansas they make the farm
first and then it Yields the "rocksr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21

The patrons of those eighteenth hour
trains on the New York Central and
Pennsylvania are petitioning those
roads to, make the schedule 90 hours.
The patrons would prefer to take a
little longer for the trip and be sure of
getting there alive
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21

An enormous acreage of trees is cut
every year in France to supply Paris
with flrewood. The French, however
are provident enough to plant tree
whenever they cut one down. In
America it is different.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21

President Roosevelt is considerably
criticised on account of his conference
with Governor Deneen. Why should the
president waste good time on a mere
governor when railroad presidents are
waiting to talk to hirni
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21
THIS "HELPED.n

One of the important elements en-
tering into the defeat of the straight
Two cent railroad fare bill was the
great number of letters from Missouri
wholesale dealers who wanted the law
because it leSsened the expenses of
their men travelling in Kansas There
IS no reason why this should have in
fiuenced the real merits of the case
put there Is a prejudice against doing
things just to help the Missouri river
johbers.-Wichfta Beacon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-21

In recording the railroad magnates
who are calling on the president. do
not overlook Governor Deneen, of IL
linois. BY virtue of his office, Cover
nor Deneen IS a director of the Illi-
nois Central He called on the presi-
dent by request, however, in which
he differs from some of the presidents
other callers