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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25
WOMAN,s mo :,

Another evidence that woman
means yves" when she says mo" has
just come to light in Chicago. Incl
dentally it is a solemn warning to a
young man not to cease his attentions
to the girl he loves just because she
has refused once to have him.
Miss Minnie Roberts. twenty years
old. has committed suicide in Chicago.
and the cause was at first a mystery.
Then a friend explained that the girl
had been respondent because her
lover had taken her refusal to marry
him as final.
George has brought me to this
respondent mood" Miss Roberts said
shortly before she killed herself. at
is his fault"
Then she explained that George had
proposed to her a year before but she
had refused him. HE thought she
meant It and did not give her another
chance. So she killed herself, blaming
him. Now the young man is broken
hearted because he did not know
better.
When the Serpent first asked Eve
to take a bite out of the apple she
probably said no, but she went ahead
and took the bite just the same. And
her daughters have ever been like her.
The faint-hearted young man who ac-
cepts the first mo- as final doesn't
deserve a prize.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25
AYHAWKER JOTS

| A short grass farmer near Cimarror
planted a peck OF potatoes and dug
| twelve bushels.
An lola woman would like to get q
divorce. but she isn't just sure what
the gentlemans name is.
1t took a $1,000 automobile to sat
| isfy a Harrington man. The wheat
belt has to. have the very best.
An lola book firm used 2,7OO pen
mics in making change on the day that
school books were exchanged.
The usually correct Wichita Beacon
in speaking of Japan and Korea, re-
fers to the latter as 1.-The island" 1t
is, you know, located just west of the
peninsulas of Japan.
There were six Norton children alb
sent from school recently, but when
the truant officer went after them, five
were out of town and the other one
had the whooping cough.
Harveyville Monitor: Squire Cantrill
tells us that of the 1850 head of cat
tie they have on pasture they shipped
S36 head which have paid out half
of all the origin@' cost and $4,000 be-
sides, which ms - fine profit.
According 20 d recent report made
by the postoffice department the rail-
ways of the country have been fined
trains, and the Salina Journal thinks
the Missouri Pacific must have paid
most of the amount
I Henry Allen points with pride to
seventy columns of local advertising
in the Beacon. the largest amount of
advertising ever carried by any Sep
TENDER weekday issue of a Wichita
newspaper" as evidence that "au-
tumn is here"
New story OF Muskogee Red, the
tramp printer: Last election day he
was in Ottawa, and appeared at a vot-
In oClyA
claiming that he had registered.
Where did you register?" the clerk
asked. lover in police court was the
reply.
Barber county has an original way
of doing away with the school ma am
famine This advertisement recently
appeared in the Kiowa Signal: Want
ed-A young lady to keep company
with a fine looking young man. She
can find out who he is by teaching
Bethel school"
There is a quick witted student at
the university. according to the Law
renee Journal. When he arrived the
other day a girl mistook him for an
other man and rushed up and kissed
him. She apologized profusely and he
had the presence of mind to say, The
pleasure is all mine"
Cimarron Jacksonian: A Cimarron
landmark passed out of existence last
week when the old safe on the corner
of Main street and Avenue A was
broken up for scrap iron. 1t had been
standing there ever since 1886 when
TIE big fire wiped out A. D. Wetticks
livery barn. right on the spot where
the Citizens State bank now stands.
1t seems peculiar that it had been al
lowed to stand there so long. but it
was so heavy that no one cared to
take the trouble to haul it way. 1t
was composed of an iron shell with
packing of pIaster-of-paris and as
bestos The safe lay in pit where
the barn had been for some time and
was dragged out and left on the street
corner, where it stood for all these
years. ---
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JUDGE DALE.

Governor Hoch continues to main
tain the good record he has made in
his appointments. No legitimate crit
icism can be made of his action in Of
fering to Judge Dale of Wichita, the
vacancy on the state tax commission,
caused by the death of Judge James
Humphrey. Possibly some disap-
pointed candidate may feel resent
ment because so good a place Is given
to a Democrat, and it is quite likely
that politicians who regard Jobs as
their legitimate spoils may view the
governors action with displeasure. but
to the public in general 1t looks good
If political considerations were Civ
en- weight in beginning the admins
tration of the new tax law; II 1t were
made the basis for building up a. par
ty machine, the law would be doomed
to failure from the start. Governor
Hoch is evidently determined that
politics shall have no place in the new
tax system and 1t is his evident policy
to make the commission bipartisan,
although the law does not require
him to do so.
Judge Dale's official career has
been confined to Sedgwick county.
where he stands extremely high, but
his candidacy for governor on the
Democratic ticket against Governor
Hoch in 1904 brought him before the
people of the whole state. At his
home in wichita, where he is best
known, he stands high among all
classes and parties. He is a lawyer
of unusual ability and strict integrity.
and his services to the state on the
tax commission, not only because of
his knowledge and ability, but also
because of the confidence he would in
spire in the administration of the new
tax law, would be invaluable.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Frorn the chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.1
A mans outcome usually depends
upon his income.
Often a woman mistakes audacity in
a man for bravery.
Too much credit is more dangerous
than too much money.
Just so it is pie the small boy doesn't
care what kind it is.
A woman is bound to have her way,
even If it is roundabout way.
A man must suffer before he can
sympathize with other sufferers.
When May weds December she sees
only the silver lining of the cloud
And a girl whose face is her fortune
is seldom able to support a husband.
Singers are the only people who are
anxious to hold a note for a long time.
There's mighty little fun in being the
kind of fellow that can't see the point
of a joke on himself.
There is no place like homeland a
married man Is glad Of 1t when his wife
is cleaning house.
Many a good man lives and dies in
the bachelor class because no widow
pities him enough to show him the err
ror of his ways.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison Globe
1t is mighty little baby gets with
out crying for it.
In the fall. the bilious in you begins
| to assert itself.
Nothing like old age to knock the
concert out OF a man.
Art has never been equal to the old
Fashioned country hams
The most wearisome cross of relI
eion Is poor preacher.
woman is never made vain by wo-
man; that is mans work
There is no sweetness in the smile
that smiles alike for everybody.
Age fills out and rounds off a mans
nose; but the older a woman gets, the
| sharper her nose becomes.
Here is a chance for some man to
make nifty million dollars in a few
minutes: marry Helen Gould.
A round-shouldered man is of
great use In community, for the
sight OF him makes others straigtten
UP.
Don't night the shams OF the world
too seriously: the sham will wear you
out, and live long after you are dead.
1t sometimes happens that people
Dear sorrow bravely because they are
so cold blooded they don't feel it
deeply. ,
A strong man is sometimes in
f1uenced by a weak woman, but a
strong woman is never Influenced by
weak man.
We once heard a woman abuse her
husband in the harshest manner Yet
we had every reason to believe that
she loved him.
Every man knows how mean he Is
himself, but is not perfectly sure
about his neighbor; hence his fond
ness for gossip.
Nothing makes a woman more an
crowd of girls, some OF whom are old
er than she is.
Have you one friend in the whole
world whom you would be willing to
hear everything you have said about
him behind his back?
II have come to town." Bert Blair
said today. ''to get a liver medicine
/ didn't like the circus. and people
generally say my liver must be out of
order"
A man may have to earn the living
go down town in the rain, wear ugly
clothes, ETC., but at least he escaDes
this: He is never asked to be a chan
eron.
If a woman says she would rather
De woman than a man, the men do
not believe her. and IL she saws she
wishes she were a man the men call
her unwomanly.
A man said today: ct would like TO
read full and complete confessions OF
an undertaken, doctor and a trained
nurse. There are many mysteries IN
these callings that would like to
know about
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back yards, cleaning with a touch OF
liver in the moonlight. She did noe
urn her head as he rose and came
oward her chair.
81 realized that it was you l nao
wanted all along he said. ''None OF
them were like you and so none suited;
We had been friends for so long that l
did not realize how I loved you until l
I'm only a stupid, bIunJering man
Eda. am more stupid than even most
men. I have no right to expect that
after all these years you VIII forgive
my denseness, but don't you think that
you can learn to love me, dear 2?
81 knew that it was right to give
that boy the money" she murmured.
Porter puzzled at the words, but she
drew his head down against her cheek
and he did not care. He had found
Mrs. Porter and that was all sufficient
Copyrighted. 1907, by Jesse Nor
GAM
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Reco

CFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
No wonder the rapids run, when
people always want to shoot them.
1t is quite possible for a fellow to
be touchy without wanting to borrow.
The father of triplets ought to realize
that it's the little things that count.
Keep your advice to yourself and
your friends will live to thank you for
it.
It's when a woman realizes she looks
well in black that joy cometh in the
mourning.
Many a man is so unreasonable as
to kick because his mule wasn't born
an automobile.
Among my presents" said the
bride were six clocks" How strik-
ing!" rnurrnured the cheerful idiot.
Blobbs-'That fellow has literally
travelled from pole to pole Slobbs-
IAN explorer" Blobbs-"No, a Jour-
neyman barber.
Wont you walk into my parlor?''
said the spider to the fly. Why don't
you try to be modern?" replied the fly.
s'Parlors are completely out of date"
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

A good many that pretend to be Rea-
sons are really only Excuses.
u
Conan Doyle has got married. But,
then, he can call on Sherlock Holmes
to help him find his things after his
wife begins to use his closet. Other men
can't fall back on Sherlock.
4 x
If the Standard doesn't pay that $29,-
900. 900 pretty soon, it will get the repu-
tation of being as slow pay as Bill Doc
little.
X n
The home market is frequently the
best after all. A girl who has been
gadding all summer trying to Land
Something, has come to find that her
plain sister has hooked a speckled trout
without ever stirring out of the porch
hammock.
X r.
The men are making fun of the
frightful appearance of the women's
hats this season, but they don't look
any worse than these cramped, squash
ed things the men are wearing.
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The Sultan's Kitchen,

The imperial kitchen of the sultan OF
Turkey Is more like a fortress than a
place to cook his meals, for 1t has an
armor plated door and is fitted with
locks which can be opened only by one
man. AS each course is prepared, it is
placed on a silver dish, which is sealed
with red wax by the official responsible
for his sovereign's food, and then a
black velvet cover Is placed over the
dish to keep it warm.
meal into the imperial chamber, the
seals being broken in the sultan's
presence, and often the kelardjhi is re-
quested to taste some particular dish.
The cost of the sultan's food does not
exceed $4,000 a year, for 1t Is mostly en-
trees and boiled eggs; but to feed the
numerous members of his household
and pay all domestic expenses lessons
his annual income of SO, 900, 900 by $4,000
week.-Home Chat. s.-i5.Jr
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-FOUR AGES OF sELF-MADE Man

rOOR AGES OF SELF-MADE MAN
HIS capital but Drawn and grit,
He labors on and never tires
Ano while he wrings his bread from earti
he Keeps before his kindred eye
The glories of the nations sires,
And while he rises in the scale
In turn he is a beacon light
10 others who have great desires,
ana from the heights which he has climbed
At last the wealth he gives the land
reeds fat the socialistic fires;
The president declares he but
Conspires.
New York Sun.
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readopt the old books as there were
trying to get them to adopt new ones
This Is all written in the belfef
that papers of influence ought not
when the spirit of discomfort is already
resentment against laws manifestly
wise and benef1cent, and from no per-
sonal motive whatever"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

II is reported that Senator Caldwell,
Of Concordia, will be a candidate for
congress up in the Fifth district Has
Senator Caldwell made satisfactory ar
engagements to suppress the roll calls
in the last state senate from circula-
ton in his district?
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Pres.


A man can sometimes do a good deed
if he doesn't know it is
A woman is never sure her married
life is happy unless it isn't
When a girl is proud of a photograph
of her it's a sign it doesn't look like
her.
Politics is letting the voters have
everything to say about everything ex-
cept governing themselves.
When you see a woman dressed I'D
carefully below the knees she expects
to meet some muddy street crossings.
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assertion.

The navy department anticipates
trouble IN getting enough coal for the
feet in its voyage to the Pacific. The
navy department can sympathize with
the county commissioners of Lyons
county. who are having trouble in get
ting ten cars of coal for the court
house at Emporia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

1.-The world needs men who will
work" Judge Smart told the state
university students in his address at
the opening of that institution. And
the judge is right. Any farmer who
has had trouble getting good harvest
hands will back the judge up in that
assartinr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

Noting that Mrs. Nation has been
sent to the work house in Washington
because she persisted in talking for
hours in front of one of the govern
ment buildings, Henry Allen notifies
her that the only place one may talk
for hours without molestation is in
the United States senate.
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With the Gloucester Fishermen.

The routine life on a mackereI schoon-
er Is not strenuous. The crew consists
of IA men. skipper and cook. Two
men constitute a watch, one aloft as a
lookout, the other at the wheel, so
that each man has two hours on duty,
and then IL hours off, before his turn
comes around again. During this period
he may be called on to shorten sail,
wash the deck or to perform other
work. Half of the crew have their
hunks forward with the cook, who is
king of the forecastle, and the rest
sleep aft with, the captain. We were
assigned to a double bank aft, where
but had to be on our good behavior.
All, the roles and revels were forward.
The crew ate in two shifts, the older
men with the skipper.-Travel Maya
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

The man who is accused of compli-
city in the Goebel murder asserts
that he was in the Philippines at the
time. That is establishing a long-dis-
lance alibi that must be almost a rec
prd breaker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

While It may be true that an in
nocent man has spent thirteen years
in the California penitentiary, reports
from San Francisco indicate that a
good many guilty men have been out
of the penitentiary even longer than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

Some people may wonder why the
Longworths Insisted on having the
drawing room in the California Linn
tied when the went east, instead of oc-
cupying an ordinary Pullman section,
but the crowd of ''rubbernecks" that
greeted the train at nearly every sta
ton indicates the wisdom OF their ac-
finn
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A Trusted Domestic.

One of the most remarkable financial
transactions recorded in years in this or
probably any other city took place on
Thursday last. An elderly colored wo-
man, poorly dressed, entered one of the
large banks in the financial district and
insisted upon seeing the president HIM
self. No one else would do, and the
attendant was eventually obliged to
conduct her to that officials private Of
hces. Arrived there, the old woman,
with much simplicity of manner, asked
whether the financial disturbance was
past, and was smilingly assured that It
was. Thereupon, to the amazement Of
the f1nancier, she drew from the folds
of her dress a bank book and rs bills,
each of the denomination of 81, 1000. and
asked that they be placed to the credit
of her masters" account. The book
was in the name of one of the Oldest
and wealthiest customers of the bank
a retired and superannuated merchant
who nowadays rarely leaves his house.
but who had every confidence in an old
domesttc.-Philadelph Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

President Moffett. of the Standard
oil company of Indiana. who said a
few weeks ago that if the Standard
was guilty of rebating every manu-
facturer was likewise, will now have
an opportunity before Chicago
grand jury to show whether he knew
what he was talking about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

Four crap shooters at FL Dorado
aided the noble cause of education by
contributing 500 to the school fund
by request of the court that pro-
nounced them guilty.
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The refusal of Mr.. Hearst to be
presidential candidate will not. 1t is
believed cause any pangs of regret
in the Commoner editorial rooms at
7
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hUN0R OF THE DAY

First Deafmute-If you objected to his
kissing you, why didn't you call for heip7
y. both my hand'--Hfrper'' Week
Patience-she's engaged to a military
Patrice-Is that so? f .-t
| Patience-Yes, q captain.
| Patrice-Regu1ar armY7
| Pat1ence-Of course! You didn't think
he was in the Salvation army, did you7-
MY son wants to marry your daughter.
YES. If she gets the materials for one.
Does your son know how to supply
| them?"-Baltimore American.
MY husband Is troubled with a buzzins
noise, in his ears. What would you adj
T would advise him to go to the sea-
Then ne you oan can se go a 'wHouston Post
This. is. one of our greatest show
why! It's only a vacant lotr' replied
Sure; but that's where the circus al
ways shows when 1t comes to town.
Yonlsers Statesman.
Mr.. Meenister MacGIucky Of the Free
Kirk, after having given away more than
strong.-Despairinsiy = Obi Ayei Al.
w-e-en I'll hae to gie't upI
MI Elder MacNab-Wha-at, man, gle up
Mr.. Meenister MaeGlucky-Nae. naei Gle
up the meenistry.-Punch
We hold this truth to be se1f-evident.
that all men are created equal. but in or
/, about 1t. we insist upon the dress coat at
all formal affairs.-Puck.
go. Every. cloud. said the CHEEKY citizen.
mas silver lining
Yes answered the morose person,
over a silver lining that You can't see and
mat is so far on you can't reach IT,
Washington Star.
''Bliggins is always telling somethfng
smart that his baby said"
..1f that baby knew how its father Is act,
ding It would be sorry 1t ever learned to
talk. '-Washington Star.
How did he become so popular all OF a
He struck oI."-Houston Post.
II, II suppose you had a lovely time on
Georges ex-wdves." -chicasio Record-H Her
What luck todaY?''
We ran down man.
Did he put up much Of race?"-Pitts-
Counsel for Defense--I uphold that a to-
mato. however well aimed, could not have
caused such a black eye
PlaintinLBut 1t was in tin, Yer Honor
She-Did you ever stop to figure out
now many hats in year you could buy
Win the money you throw away on CT
Hell have, dear. I could buy about 50
LOT myself put only about three for you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

Now il the railroads will be rea
good, Kansas will try to get over being
mad at them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

1t is true that Judge Dale once ran
against Governor Hoch for governor.
but he did not run hard enough 10
hurt and the governor has evidently
forgiven him for it.
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NEWS

IT is announced from Washinton as
a great piece of news that it is a prac-
ticaI certainty that Uncle Joe Cannon
will be reelected speaker. 1t also is
practical certainty that ii will snow
next winter.-Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

President Roosevelt. 1t is an
nounced, will shortly begin his vaca-
ton Putting up that hay crop wasn't
any vacation. after all.
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,RAH FOR COBURN.

The Wiscon sin experiment station
has been making a series of careful
experiments and declares that an acre
OF alfalfa is worth nine acres of tim
ethy or three acres of clover.-Beloft
Gazette. Sa7 =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

A Milwaukee man declares tina
baseball is demcralizing. That Is tn
natural view when the home team i
losing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

Fish, says a dispatch is after Har
riman. Mr.. Fish better be careful o
he may catch a shark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

A Wall street statement: "Spectac-
ular methods continue in the cam
paign against the Standard Oil Co.
The idea seems to be to charm the
nublic attention first with recitals of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

It seems that the railroads wer
only pretending they were going to D
bad, after all.
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A NATURE FAKE.

A political orator announces to a
breathless public that he sees the claws
of an octopus. Let the miscreant be
dragged to Oyster Bay at once. There
he will learn that octopuses haven't
got any elaws.-Brook1yn Eagle.
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Full, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Anyway, Senator Borah, of Idaho.
IS no dodger.
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The road of the San Francisco graf
ters continues to be tolerably rocky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-25

The county fairs are unusually dry
IN Kansas this year in more ways than
one. 1t hasn't rained on one OF them.
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YES WHOSE2

Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr.. Carnegie ar
held up by a Methodist minister as ex
amples of what patience and hard Ia
Dor will achieve Whose patience ant
hard labor ?-Chicago Post.