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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There is an antitipping bill before the
Missouri legislature and it has not yet
been amended so as to exempt mem
bers and corporation lobbyists.
The effort to EXCLUDE from the mails
Thaw trial looks like a move in the In
terest of the express companies.
~
The author of the bill to establish a
furniture factory at the Hutchinson re-
formatory, perhaps has in view the
preparation of a suitable place for the
heads of the furniture trust when they
shall be caught and convicted.
1t is noted that these working agree
ments'' that are heard of SO frequently
are usually made for the purpose of
working the public.
1t is announced that railroad in
Manchuria will adopt the American
system. But how can it when there are
no senators, congressman or legisla-
lures to elect?
Now that the dispensary system has
been abolished in South Carolina the
governor of that state may feel i'm
PEELED to repeat that famous remark
once made to the governor of North
Carolina.
That contribution of $32 100000 by Mr..
Rockefeller is regarded in some quar-
tiers as an evidence of an advance in
fire insurance rates.
Andrew Carnegie says he would like
to be a newspaper reporter. Perhaps
he has heard of the one in Kansas who
held a place on the states pay roll on
the side.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
ERON OTHER PENS
PROFANITY

Every now and then a crusade is
started against profanity in some of
the American cities. The shocking
thing about this development is that it
is needed at all. Why a city of ordi-
narily decent people should feel under
the necessity of '.crusading'' against
the use of language on the streets and
in public places which is an offense to
every lady and most gentlemen wher-
ever heard-to say nothing of the relig-
ious side of the question-must remain
one Of the puzzltngg anomalies of mod
ern life.
Profanity is not clever. The most
ignorant people swear with the great
est 1uency. 1t is not witty. 1t is not
strong. Oft is only vulgar. A man who
does not indulge in profanity can put
into his clean, crisp sentences more
power than the 'swearer" can force
into outbursts with a dozen oaths. Pro-
family may mark anger and sound out
as a signal of a loss of temper; but
neither of these are things which one
in his sober moments desires to adver-
tise to the world. 1t is the restrained
temperate curbed anger-that are the
signs of power.
Public profanity is akin to, smoking
j. lady's drawing room. It thrusts
into the ears of unoffending people dis
tasteful words which offend them as
bad odor does their noStrils. They are
hurt and shocked Ly what they hear;
and they suffer this hurt on the public
streets, where they have every right to
be protected. They are the victims of
ungentlemanly conduct; and it is very
seldom that they feel willing to take
the trouble to punish the offenders.
The common knowledge of this lends to
the offense a color of cowardice.
Surely practice which is ungentle-
manly which is offensive to all ladies',
which is vulgar, which has no redeem
ing virtue of cleverness. which is cow
ardly. should be outlawed from the
streets and public places of a civilized
city-Montreal Star.
NO OPPOSITE NEED APPLY.
Mr.. Longworth comes pretty near be-
ing in the presidents confidence, and ii
was. Mr.. Longworth who declared to the
newspapers the past week that while
Mr.. Roosevelt would not be a candidate
next year, there was no doubt that he
would strongly oppose the nomination
of a reactionary as his successor. In
stantly the question arose in Washing
ton, What is reactionary, and who
can be thus described? Does 1t mean
Fairbanks, or Shaw, or Cannon, or
planned what the word means. A re-
dictionary. he now says. is "a man who
would not follow in the line of the
presidents policies" So this much at
dents activity next year. The next Re
publican candidate must follow in line
with the Roosevelt Springfield
Republican.
WOMEN AND CLUBS.
Women seem to be inca pable of set
Ting down comfortably in their clubs.
They have not learnt how to occupy an
armchair and reflect upon the import
ance of a daily paper.-Lady's Pictorial.
WON'T MAKE TIME.
The railroads want more money: but
time is money. and they just won't
make it.-Atlanta Constitution.
OUGHT TO BE INCLUDED.
Chicago claims to have twenty thou
sand tramps-not counting the dudes.
Salt Lake Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
A sneezing Teacher.

yesterday" said the pretty girl, ST
met a sneezing teacher. i do not mean
a teacher who 'sneezes, but person
who teaches the proper way to sneeze.
1 had always known that New York at
tracts instructors in every art known
to modern education, but professor
of sneezing struck me as decided
novelty 1 am going to take lessons.
He argues that he is a most useful
member of society Nobody, he says,
canzpreyent sneezing, no matter how
MANY formulas and indictments he
may absorb. But though a sneeze may
not be avoided, it may be cultivated,
and from a stertorious snort it may be
modified into a gentle, melodious trill.
For anybody who startles the neigh
borhood with frequent sneezes the
experiment is worth while. New
York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

A two cent fare bill is pending in
the Pennsylvania legislature and it
has drawn from President Baer of the
Reading a signed statement that his
road is already losing money on its
passenger traffic. This leads the
Pittsburg Dispatch to suggest that he
let some one else do the business 1t
Is noted that when anybody tries to
get a chance to conduct this unprofit-
able service, the railroads are very re-
luctant to let go of It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

The house and senate committees
have agreed to an amendment to the
immigration bill excluding japanese
coolies from the United States. 1t only
remains for Japan to establish the
TACT that she has no coolies. which she
probably will be able to do. easily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

Ed Howe's vision of the future
when the reformers have everything
to suit them, is like this: Parents will
not be allowed to waken their chill
dren in the morning, the interruption
Of natural sleep having been decided
70 be injurious by the High Brows.
They will not let the children do any
work, for fear of violating the Anti
Child Labor Law, and the children's
breakfast will be carefully weighed, to
see that they get just the amount of
nutriment the scientists say is due
them, and an attendant will carry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

IFTom the New York Press.1
An easy way to make mona1, g.
nave your engagement broken off.
II two people seem to be entir.,,.
with each other ~ 'oNs
A mighty satisfactory thing to =
" o t1lsn Is the way she can understand
thlng without thinking about II
A woman likes to WORRY for Co.
levels VIII be stolen wher her h,,sE
pand makes fortune and gives tbe@-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

1.-THE rivers in Kansas are way up
says the Seattle Times, but they
haven't yet equaled the bank bal
ances." That is not so bad but this
one is calculated to make US blush /:
1.-The 1905 corn crop in Kansas was
so big that it moved buildings from
their foundations and bulged the
western boundary over in Colorado.
Lots of Kansas people have had to go
to Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago and
New York for a little rest after the
strenuous work of harvest"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

Lafe Young's paper closes an other
wise complimentary notice of Col.
Bryan with these words: "The Des
Moines Capital. joins heartily in the
city's welcome to Mr. Bryan-the
nominee of the Democratic party for
president in 190s-and probably in
1912 and 1916"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

The country is threatened with a
special session of congress. 1t may
be that the president intends to try
TO make the members earn their in
crease in salary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

As If she had not already con-
trfbuted sufficiently to her daughters
SORROW, the mother of Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw is said to be DESTROYS of being
called to testify in the case, for the
purpose of refuting statements made
by the prisoners wife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

The railroads have been in politics
for many years, but just now they are
being given their own medicine in
large doses. and not at all to their
liking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

Kansas City, Kan, and Argentine
have applied to the legislature for
marriage license. Both are of legal
age and there appears to be no OBJ
lection to their union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

1t IS confidently believed now that
everything in the shape of resub-
mission movement has been put to
sleep for another two years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

Mr.. Whites bill to prevent railroads
from watering their stock, if success
full. should be followed by one COM
pelling farmers to water their stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

their books to school, the weight of
them bringing on all sorts of disease
that will MAIN the children for life If
they carry them themseIyesn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

One of the evidences of Thaw's in
sanity brought forward is that at one
period of his life he wanted to play
bridge whist all the time. What will
Mr.. Jerome do about that?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

The lemon crop is short but Presi-
dent Roosevelt found a large sized one
to send to the Congress of Mothers.
when he wrote that body that the
proper place for women is at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

If the antitheater trust bill becomes
q law. it is a safe guess that the trust
houses will always have their dates
filled when an independent company
tries to get in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

A French scientist claims to have
discovered a serum that will cure peo-
pie of the desire to gamble. If it
should become popular in this country
1T would ruin the business of Wall
street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

The noise that is being made about
the Thaw testimony indicates that a
great many people have been read
ff,s a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

Those Thaw jurors probably will
experience no difficulty in properly
observing the Lenten season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
Western Pilferers.

Aehotel man, now dead. once said to
a party of friends: I'VE have two ban
quets a week. and never charge less
than SIS a plate. There would be a
nea profit if We could keep track of
the silverware and napery. really do
not know what to do. have seen
well-tc-do gentlemen put napkins in
their pockets and go off with them.
1t is charitable to say they were
absent-minded. Sometimes I think 1t
might be wise to keep the name of the
hotel off everything about the house
except the sign at the door. No
one is likely to steal that. 1 travelled
through the West not long ago, and in
many houses, private as well as
public found specimens of all sorts of
Junk that had been stolen from our
big hotels The transients are the ones
who do most of the stealing. IN. Y.
Press. 1913
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
..Betty and I and the Baby"

Save for creeping and crawling
things, the wilderness of today hold lit
tie of life. In it's near impenetrable
depths are some few irreconcilableS, or
descendants of such as would not meet
the issue of the war. There are the
early anticipated the patibility of
whites and blacks, and sought home
far remote from their former over
seers. Still further into the depths of
the wild tract lives Sergt. John Mason,
of the regular army, with his wife and
son, famous a generation ago as Betty
and and the Baby"
Mason was sergeant of the guard
placed over 5Guiteau, the slayer Of Gar
field. In a moment of indiscretion he
fired at his charge through a grated
door of the Washington prison, the
bullet missing Guiteau by but a few
to government prison, being released
a few years later During his impris-
onment the fancy grew upon him that
his fellow-men bore him Ill will, and,
when released, he sought a home far
into the Wilderness. In the interval
before his trial he, with his wife and
child. was taken up by museum man
ayers throughout the country, giving
inception to the first of the so-called
popular songs, Betty and I and the
Baby" Betty is now a tall, angular
wilderness woman, presiding neatly
over her obscure home: "I'' is aging,
eTectness and precision. 1.-THE Baby
is q strapping, broad-shouldered young
man, with his fathers patriotism, and
always prompt to defend Sergt Ma
sons act as a laudable deed.-Metro-
politan Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
PRAISE For VIC

Vic Murdoch has accomplished one
thing in congress- anyhow. He has
coupled his name inseparably with one
or the greatest reforms of modern times
the reduction of a million a month in
the cost of transporting malls on the
railways.--Welltngt eh Mail RI !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
A NIurderous Old Ways Ambition.

Probably the most respected citizen in
eastern Kentucky mountain districts is
old Shackleford. who lives at the head
of Poor Fork creek, in Perry county.
Shackleford is getting old now-he must
be about 70. but there is no adventur-
Gus, fre-eating youth who cares to try
conclusions with him. Too many have
attempted that and died. He has a
record of SO killings to his credit, a
record that no western desperate from
Las Vegas to the Canadian line has
ever equaled. He has been shot from
ambush, but he has survived his
wounds, although this much cannot be
said Of the man that shot first. His
ueighbors stand in awe of him, and he
is said to bear a charmed life. His
cabin is decorated with coon skins, and
over the front door is nailed the skin
of the biggest rattlesnake ever killed
in the Kentucky mountains. Shackle-
ford's most dreaded antagonist in
fight was his wife, and he killed her
several years ago in a domestic brawl.
The militant old lady was given an i'm
posing resting place. She was buried
on the top of Harlan Peak, and her
grave was dug eight feet deep. Shac-
kleford has directed that he be buried
just above her when he dies.
Il want folks to know that I come
out on top he said in giving his in
structions. Outing Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15

OUGHT TO BE INCLUDED.
Chicago claims to have twenty thou
sand tramps-not counting the dudes.
Salt Lake Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
WON,T MAKE TIME.

The railroads want more money: but
time is money. and they just won't
make it.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
HYPOCRISY
TOO OWTEN THE WAY

1t looks as though Topeka would
have two dry candidates for mayor
and one wet one. That is too often
the way the prohibitionists of Kansas
do things.-Burlingam Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
WOMEN AND CLUBS.

Women seem to be incapable of set
Ting down comfortably in their clubs.
They have not learnt how to occupy an
armchair and reflect upon the import
ance of daily paper.-Lady's Pictorial.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
A REAL "Hoss" RACE.
Country Fair the Place to See 1t at,
Its Best.

If you would see a horse strap
ped, booted, braced and geared to
the limit, you must seek such a
track as you see at the oldtime
country fair. Here comes an awk-
ward fiea-bitten gray which never
went under $3.50 in his life. He is
hobbled and checked and goggled, and
hitched up sidewise, lengthwise and
crosswise until there is more har-
ness than horse. You wonder how
his driver ever got him into this rig
glng, and how he will get him out
again without cutting him free with
a jackknife. A farmer with IL
gray beard and twinkling eye OBJ
serves to his neighbor:
Last time John Martin had that
plug out on the road l told him he
had the old cripple overloaded with
ids-to-the-injured. Them straps
that was cal'lated to hoist up his
knees must ha' pulled too tight and
the critter was yanked clean off the
ground. What John was gottin
ready for was a race for Gyin' ma
chimes. not boss trot."-From "The
Country Fair" by David Lansing, in
Outing,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
SEEK TO WIN SOLDIERS.
Russian Girls Risk Life for the Cause
of Liberty.

when the university opened last
autumn l started to work again
among the soldiers" said the young
woman. "As you know, the revolu
tionists are at present working very
hard to win over the army, and one
of the means is to- talk freedom di-
rectly to the soldiers. For this girls
have been found to be more effective
than men, the young peasant soldiers
are more willing to listen 10 girls,
and are far reader to protect them
from arrest. So all over Russia hun
dreds and hundreds Of girls are now
nightly meeting with groups of sol
diers, in working mems homes and in
barracks. To go into. barracks and
talk revolution to the soldiers. hard
ly anything is, so dangerous-for the
girl caught is tried by court-martial
and in a day or two is executed
From Leroy SCOTS Interview with a
Russian Woman, in Everybody's.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
BEAT ALL RECORDS.
The Cunarder Lusitania Crossed the
Atlantic in Four Days
:-.li} and 20 Hours.

New York, Oct. 1.-THE Cunarder
Lusitania, with practically all the
transatlantic records to her credit
arrived abeam the Sandy Hook light
ship at 1:25 Friday morning. The
time for the trip from Daunts Rock
to the Sandy Hook light, the official
course over which speed trials were
made was four days, 20 hours. The
last days run was apparently the fast
est of the trip, the giant liner hitting
up her speed to 25 knots an hour over
a smooth sea with little wind to in
terfere with her.
The Lusitania beats her time for her
maiden trip by approximately five
hours, her time on the trip being five
days "a minutes.
With the Lusitania's trip, the Gu-
nard line and England capture from
Germany the eagerly sought record
for possessing the 1eetest ship on the
Atlantic. The Hamburg American
liner Deutschland has held the record
for a number of years. Steamship
men also claim that the achievement
of the Lusitania proves the superiority
of turbine engines over the reciprocal
ing type.
The Lusitania IN the trip captured
practically all transatlantic records.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
CASSIE CHADWICK is DEAD
End Came to Famous Woman in
Ohio Penitentiary.
Her Fraudulent Financial Transactions
Extended Into the Millions
and Broke Banks.

Columbus, O., Oct. 12.-Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick, whose amazing financial
transactions eliminated in the wreck
ing of an Oberlin bank, died in the
woman's ward in the Ohio penitentiary
Thursday night at 1915. Mrs. Chad
wick had been in a comatose condition
for some hours previous to her death
and the end came peacefully. No
friends or relatives waited at her bod
side; only the prison physician and
hospital attendants. Her son, Emil
Hoover, has been summoned from
Cleveland, but he was not expected
TO arrive before Friday.
In the latter part of 1902, or carly
in 1908, Mrs. Chadwick, in the pres
ence of her husband, gave to Mr.. Rey
nolds, the cashier of the Wade Park
Bank of Cleveland, box containing
notes signed with the name of Andrew
Carnegie. These forged notes are al
legged to have amounted to S7,500,000.
Reynolds gave to Mrs. Chadwick II re-
ceipt for the papers, which described
Tic HOIco anu thc oi5udJuiSp upOu
them. Mrs. Chadwick left with Rey-
nolds as an explanation of the exist
ence of the notes the statement that
she was natural daughter of Car
negie.
With the receipt Of Reynolds in her
possession, Mrs. Chadwick went to diff
ferent banks and many capitalists, max
ing loans and paying not only high
interest to the banks, but heavy
bonuses to the bank officials who
loaned her the money. The extent of
these transactions will never be
known to the family but they ran up
into the millions. They involved men
of high standing in the financial world
and caused heavy losses to many
banks.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-18
MITCHELL WILL RETIRE.
President of United Mine Workers An
nounced He Will Not Ee Can
didate for Reelection.

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 11.-John
Mitchell, president OF the United Mine
Workers, announces in the United
Mine Workers Journal that he will
not be a candidate for reelection as
president. Mr.. Mitchell underwent a
surgical operation about six months
ago and it is said that he has not fully
recovered and that it is possible that
it will be necessary for another opera
ton to be performed. He went to
Chicago recently and expected to go
from Chicago to LaSalle, ILL.,, to con-
suit with a surgeon in regard to the
ACCESSIBILITY of another operation. Mr..
Mitchell's announcement is as follows:
ITO the officers and members of the
United Mine Workers of America:
Greeting: Inasmuch as notices
calling for nominations are being sent
out from the Office of the secretary,
and in order that ali local unions and
members thereof may be in position to
express their choice for the Office of
president, | herewith announce that
shall not be candidate Tor the pres
ideIlcy of your organization.
Il am prompted to arrive at this de-
cision because / believe that | am no
longer well enough to give your in:er-
ests the consideration their impor-
lance demands.
Il shall explain in greater detail in
my annual report tC our coming con-
vention the causes which impel me to
give up the high office to which you
have elected me for so many years.
Il thank you for the confidence you
have repcsed in me, and beg you to be-
lieve that the advancement of my
craft has been my highest ambition.
(Signed) JOHN MITCHELL,
President U. M. w. of A"