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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-11
CAN TOPEKA AFFORD NOT TOP

The address in another column "To
the People of Topeka" will proba bly,
strike some readers as sounding a
rather bold note on the part of the
thirty leading citizens who sign it. But
careful reading may suggest that
these men are not working any "hold-
up" on Topeka pocketbooks, but rath-
er that they have taken the time and
trouble TO think out this Washburn
situation. and are clear-neaded enough
to see. and frank enough to say what
the alternative will be to Topeka and
Kansas II the remaining $4,000 neces-
sary is not raised in the next seven
teen days allowed by the conditions of
the New York board
The surprising facts stated in that
open letter make it very evident that
Topeka can have but one sane policy
to capture without fail the offered
$2S5,0O0, and to nail it down forever
as home capital. This hardly needs
discussion. To calmly allow New Eng
land to endow Topeka and Kansas. as
she has done in forty-two years. with
the generous gift of $75O,000. (while
all Kansas in that same time has given
to Topeka's college only one-seventh
as ,00O) and then to re-
fuse to call further offer of $150.0OO
when that sum can be secured by
raising $35, 0O0-such a course would
seem a business madness.
Our city is at last up against the
stern necessity to prove to these re-
mote and willing donors that this To-
cality does value its own institutions,
and is willing to bear its part in sus-
tanning them. What is $4,000 to To-
peka's pocket compared with turning
down the New York boards offer of
gift which banks back on fund of
$43,O0O,O00. and signified willingness
to tap it again if 1.-The locality" will
show its loyalty to it's own school?
Why should Topeka hesitate to pick
up Mr.. Carnegie's second gift-$e0, 900
in all-or the gift of a $4,000 GYM
nasiun. or the donation of more than
500, 900 in the last four years? What
business intelligence shall we show as
a town to the rest of the state If we
fail to grasp this opportunity?
The State Journal has one bit of
cordial advice to its city constituency:
Read the appeal mentioned, weigh its
statements, write out your pledge and
shove 1t into the hands of some one
of the gentlemen named, and help to
prove to the watching state as we'll as
these donors that Topeka knows
enough to see her chance and is wise
enough to take it.
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per. I've been so worried about it
and so hungryl"
She pointed ahead. Through the
trees. the freight glinted upon the
white walls of the tents. and already
the grateful odor of coffee filled their
noStrils.
The thought gave them fresh
strength and they pushed ahead to the
clearing and Nan stopped short, as
winthrop LELAND sprang up from the
shadows.
Piggy" no called cheerfu1ly. mot
to let me in on the trip. I'm heaping
Goals OF fire on your head, Nan. The
coffee and biscuits are ready and some
Of the finest trout you ever saw are
waiting to be broiled. Supper viii be
ready by the time you've changed to
moccasins and washed up"
whit, said Nan fervently you
are an angel and I'm sorry. was cross
last night"
Mrs. Edmonds slipped intot the tent
The Queen of Quadmond was about to
abdicate in favor of king and she did
not want to be present at the cere-
mony-(Copyright 1907 by M. III.
Cunningham
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
If you can't be jolly be jollier-
Evil spirits-the kind you buy for so
a gallon.
Many a man isn't on speaking terms
with his conscience.
Some men are too good to go to Jail.
and some are too rich.
When a man loses his head he must
shoulder the responsibility
1t is easier to find fault than to look
for a needle in haystack.
Many a fellow swears to love a girl
and spends the rest of his life swearing
because he did.
Nell-"I think Maud has more color
than her sister," Believes; about so
cents worth more"
When you see a girl wearing an en-
gagement ring it is bad taste to say
when is 1t coming off -
Wigg-'tAfter the game the umpire
set 'em up for the two teams" Wagg-
"Wel. an umpire should treat both
sides alike
81 like your children immensely" re-
marked the crusty old bachelor. why"
exclaimed the married man. you have
never seen my children" That's ex-
actly why I like them" replied the old
bachelor.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES


Warning to young Mr.. Fish: The
Salina girls all have their hooks
baited.
Sheridan. Wyo.. again breaks into
the dispatches. A casual reading of
the telegraph news for number of
years leads one to conclude that two
OF the chief products of the Sheridan.
Wyo.. region are horse thieves and
train robbers.
We judge since glancing through the
society columns that neither the frosts
nor the green bug have any effect on
the crop of June brides. The yield
this year is fully as large as usual.
~
Mr.. Hartman escapes prosecution
because his testimony before the in
terstate commerce commission render
ed him immune. but still there is no
eager throng of magnates striving to
get the ear of the commission in order
to tell what they know.
o. ~
Appearances indicate that Harry Or
chard tried to make the James and
Dalton gangs look like amateurs.
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JAYHAWKER JOTS

Caldwell is to have a new Christian
church to cost $4,000.
The school enumerator at Chanute
found nine married women of schoo
age during his first days work.
Leavenworth reports the first sun
stroke this year. 1t happened in the
federal prison and a Sioux Indian was
the victim.
Some of the county seat towns are
enJoying-that' the proper word-the
annual visit of the country school
ma'am to the county institute.
Larned is near the Arkansaw, Jet
more is away up on the prairies. Yet
a Larned man went up to Jetmore to
catch % pounds of black bass.
A Kinsley man ran a thorn into his
foot when he was a boy and part of it
was not removed. Lately the foot
made him trouble. and after the lapse
of many years an operation was neces-
sary to remove the thorn.
Another one those later wheat
items@this one from Ellis: Three
weeks ago Philip Zerfas said he would
take five cents an acre for eighty acres
of early wheat. He brought in a sam
pie of the same wheat Tuesday and
says he is now figuring on fifteen BUSH
els an acre.
If woman suffrage ever becomes an
accomplished fact and the editor of
the Stockton Record runs for office. he
ought to get the solid woman vote.
Listen to this: Mrs. w. R. Griffin
has suffered for two weeks with a
felon on her right thumb. but she
pIuckily kept at work on the store
books settling up accounts. A man
would have knocked off work and loaf
ed around till his thumb quit hurting
We have always noticed that woman
can stand ten times as Amuch pain and
suffering as a man, and keep cheerful
about it, too
They go to work early out at Ness
City, according to this story in the
News: The officers of the Citizens
bank began work too early last Mon
day morning, and when Earl Hopper
undertook to open the vault the bur-
glar alarm was set off. There was
some hustling to get into the cabinet,
which is on the inside of the vault, to
stop the big gongs which were going
a 1000 mile clip. The banking force
was kept busy explaining matters sew
eral days. The alarm is set so as to
permit no one to enter until z O'CLOCK
a m each week day morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-11
THE BEST CROP

The best crop is the crop of children
President Roosevelt.
Eyes -Ablaze and Wagging Tongue,
And Tippytoe are children three;
Romping here the whole day long.
Clambering upon my knee.
Hands and knees upon the floor,
Laughing. shouting, noisy crew;
1nere is JOY, and something more
In the things that children do.
ana roguish, brown-haired miss;
loving arms that round me fold,
Lips God fashioned with a kiss.
Elgnl years old she is and fair,
with many of her mothers ways;
Laughter. playmate, comforter.
That's my little Eyes Ablaze.
Wagg1ng Tongue, boy of six,
Chattering the whole day through;
Up to many boyish tricks
He's the noiseSt of the crew,
ShriekS of laughter seem to ring
Through the house the whole day long
Oh the joys that children bring,
Eyes Ablaze and Wagging Tongue.
Then God sent us Tippytoe,
There must be babe, you know,
ToddyinS on uncertain feet.
W1ld-eyed. wondrouS boy of two,
Too soon older you must grow:
But God warmed our hearts anew
When he gave us Tippytoe.
OF the blessings God bestows
On his grown-up children here.
Fairer even than the rose
Are our little ones so dear.
OF the gifts he sends today
TO enrich earth's kindly breast
Little children are the best
Detroit Free Press.
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FRON OTHER PENS
EIGHT HOURS FOR HOUSEWIVES

EIGHT HOURS FOR HOUSEWIVES.
An eight-hour day for the house
wife is unquestionably one of the most
gigantic reforms the president has yet
tackled 1t was the keynote of his car
end speeches during his late excursion
tour in the west. and thus he sounded
it from Pullman platforms in Indiana
and Pennsylvania: Il believe in an
eight-hour day for the man, but 1
want to see the mans wife receive as
good show as the man." If the
president had said this once it might
be regarded as a casual chivalrous
sentiment. such as a mere politician
might cajole a mixed audience with;
but in the mouth of president of the
United States. who always speaks with
elaboration of the reforms he contem-
plates, giving all parties concerned
fair notice of his designs, as becomes
the exemplar of the square deal, Mr..
Roosevelt's repeated references with
out change of phrase to the overwork-
ed housewife can have only one signif1-
cance.-NeW York Sun.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.J

IFrom the New York Press
The prettier girl is the more you'd
better tell her SO.
A woman doesn't have to mind what
her neighbors say If her husband is
millionaire.
Anyway, people who have the devil
for a landlord don't have to be robbed
by ice trusts
Thes harder a man tries to dodge his
duty the more he brags afterward about
how he likes to do it.
A woman enjoys a play unless it's so
interesting she can't study what every
body in the house Is wearing.
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Yes; I'm going abroad at once. I gotta
''oh. you mustn't let the doctors scare
II got this from a lewyer."-Louisviile
Wigwag-Thats a fine dog of yours.
saphedde-Yes indeed. he is. That dog
knows as much as do
Wigwag-IH give you a quarter for
him.-Philadelphia Record.
"of course How else are people to
know your business?''-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Il should think" she said that golfing
would make you awfully tired
never keep my score at al'-Ehicago
Record Herald.
'I don't see how he can be such a pop
ular clergyman. when he abuses the con-
Easy enough. Everybody thinks he is
talking about everybody else. Town and
Country.
"a tramp fell into a water tank of a
i loo and rode p miles without be-
was he found unconscious when
NO. Unrecognizable" Plain
Dealer.
Dolly-MoIly wolcott told me a month
ago that her new gown was going to be
Poiiy--wen, that is all it is. so far. Her
husband won't give her the money for it.
-Somerville Journal
'It Is not a sign that a girl is economi-
cal cal Just because she cuts down the num-
marked the Observer of Events and
Things.-Yonl1ers Statesman.
Spencer out of job? Why, I thought
woman's magazine
Yes. but he caused the magazine to
lose so many subscribers, they fired
How in the world did that happen?''
''Why, the lobster headed his column:
New Wrinkles for Women Chicago
Daily News.
Il suppose your wife is delighted over
"Oh, yes, in a general way. But she says
it has cut into her game of bridge awful
at was just watching Markley while he
was talking to you, said Smiley. 1t was
down. What did he remind you. OFF,
1.-THE ten dollars I've owed him since
last october" replied Borroughs.-Phila-
New Resident-Do you think can raise
enough in this half-acre to supply my ia
BILE for the summer?
Old Resident--Nope; ,fraid ye can't.
New Resident-No? Why, 1t seems as il
I could plant more than I'd need in a
Old Resident-Oh. surely. But you said
raise.-Puck.
81 didn't know young Fritterby really
took any interest in politics"
''Nonsensei He doesn't"
But I just heard him talking for the
past ten minutes about party ties
''Ol he means white lawn bows."-Phil-
adelphia Press.
What makes grass widows2'
wild cats.''-Cleveland Leader.
Patience-Did you ever hear the Duette
sisters sing In concert?
Patrice-No; one always seems to be a
little ahead of the other.-Yonkers States
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe. ]

From the Atchison Globe.1
No man need feel hurt If people
say he is not good looking.
When a girl says a young man is
mean, she really thinks him rather
nice.
Nearly everyone imagines he is get
ting more than his share of hard
knocks.
Brevity is to be commended. but it
is hard to be civil with a plain yes
or no
People do not consider advertising
immodest unless they are expected to
pay for it.
When a woman is making a fool of
a man. she makes him think how
smart he is
You can easily tell who isn't loafing
on the front porch when the porch
light is burning.
No one seems to have as hard
time earning money as the woman
who marries for it,
You can praise one man to another
without offense, providing the one
who is praised is dead.
Tact is so much like prevarication:
the clever woman always tells her fat
friend she is looking thinner.
When a man begins his questions
by an admission of his ignorance, you
can tell he is Laying for you.
Nearly every man is the victim OF
agents. look at the books and things
around your house you do not need.
You often hear a imam of few
words" but never in connection with
pugilism or the life insurance bust
ness.
Occasionally you meet blab who
amounts to a good deal. in spite of the
rule that a man who is always talk
ing cannot succeed.
When you are violently abusing
your enemies. ever occur to you that
your listeners are able to put this and
that together and find a story on
you?
1t is odd, but the women are less
hospitable than their grandmothers
were, and have three times as many
table dishes and are always collecting
more.
The parting doesn't have to be very
sad to make a woman cry; she re-
CARDS weeping as a necessary Incl
dent to going away, like a suit case,
or a ticket
How poor are those who have no
patiencei What wound did ever heal
but by degrees? ?" Who is the author
of the above? It is not important
whether you can remember the au-
thor, II you can soberly accept the
lesson taught.
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THE TELEGRAPHERs.

Memories more than twenty years
old must be aroused to gain even
faint comprehension of the meaning
of telegraphers' strike. The Grip
easements and delays in almost every
branch of commerce, the reinstalla-
ton of the difficulties of distant COM
munication which, modern invention
has caused people to forget, made the
strike of a quarter of a century ago
one of the most grievous chapters in
our industrial history.-New York
Mail.
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Tucker of the Uncle Sam Oil COM
pany," says Victor Murdoch. "has a
special brand of hope. He is going to
appeal to the United States supreme
court for help against a United States
court of which he is in contempt
Evidently Congressman Murdoch does
not think much of fuckers chances.
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France offers its services in straight
ening out the trouble between this
country and Japan. The difficulty is
that there is no trouble between this
country and Japan.
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New York is debating whether a wo-
man should propose. She usually does it.
whether she should or not, and when a
woman proposes to get a man, he might
as we'll give up There is no escape for
him.
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WEATHER WISE.

It is the easiest thing in the world
to find fault with the weather. We
have heard people find fault with every
sort of weather they are now wishing
for. Finding good things to say about
the weather would be better exercise
for both mind and soul-New Bedford
Standard.
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The cotton crop is very short this
year and prices are going skyward.
Some of these days it may be economy
to wear silk wrappers around the
house and make the calico into party
gowns
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The wheat raiser is glad to see wheat
go up towards the dollar mark, but
when he has to pay from 80 to so cents
a hundred more for his fiour-that's a
different matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-11

Cincinnati" says the Indianapolis
Sun, leafs fifteen million pies a year"
Anyone who has watched federal ap-
pointments has noticed that the Ohio
appetite takes to pie like a duck takes
to water
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II Japan wishes to lose the respect
and good will that 80 per cent of the
people of the United States feel for her,
a good way to do it IS by making a big
fuss over such trivianties as that San
Francisco affair
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The Pennsylvania commuters got
their low rates back in spite of the
grea-a-a-t losses the Pennsylvania
railroads are sustaining because of the
two-cent fare law.
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Howard Gould is accused of de
serting'' his wife. But judging from the
stories of Mrs. Gould's temper, per-
haps Howard committed desertion by
request
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more Wall street gold bricks
This sounds very funny to US out
here, and the country as a whole. does
not take much stock in it. In fact,
such rantings from Wall street only
tend to strengthen the president with
the people.
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A pessimist asserts that Orchards
confession to eighteen murders does
not indicate the near approach of the
millennium nor that the world is get
ting much better. Still, it should be
remembered that the first death in the
world was caused by a murder and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-11

The reason Mr.. E. H. Hartman es-
capes prosecution is because his testi-
mony before the interstate commerce
commission rendered him immune
This should be a lesson to others to
speak up and tell the truth.
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THE RIrsY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Nearly 5000. 900 women are work.
ing for wages in the United States.
Perhaps 1O,000,000 are working with
ing. The American home is neither
deserted nor obsolete.-Brooklyn
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There is a suspicion throughout the
country that Harry Orchard also ex-
poets an immunity bath, the same as
Hartman and the beef trust have had.
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first baby ever born was the murderer.
Figuring it on a percentage basis, hu-
mainly is not nearly as bad as it once
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Harry Orchard is writing life of
himself. Perhaps he intends it as a
companion volume to Tracy the Out
law and Life of Jesse James,
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TMMuNE.

No one can annoy ex-senator Chan
dler these days by calling him a liar.
He merely smiles and remarks that,
like a new musical comedy, it sounds
reminiscent.-Balti American.
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A Loud Habit.

A we'll known comedian met a fellow
Hello, Jack!'' he said. Anything to
do this EVENING"?
Nothing special replied the other.
seWel, let's go up to the Hotel Aston
and hear the newly rich eat soup
Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-11

The Gould divorce case will have to
get extremely busy if it diverts pub
lie attention entirely from Boise,
Tdah0
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1t may not be possible to punish MI
Hartman, but the president doesn
intend to let him do 1t again.
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How glad Mr.. Hartman must be
that he took an immunity bath by tes-
tifying before the interstate commerce
commissions
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New York, according to Mr.. Sherman,
proposes to re-elect Mr.. Roosevelt
whether he will agree to it or not. The
rest of the country sometimes feels the
same way
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Judging from the way the oil trust
got soaked in Texas, 1t takes big
corporation to be bigger than the Lone
Star state.
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It is about time for the country I
see whether 1t did any good 70 put IN
ice trusts in Jail.
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In the meantime, why not get GU
some literature advertising Kansas as
summer resort?
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Perhaps Mr.. Hartman now knows
the answer to his famous question
where do I stand?"
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It Is to be hoped no one will try TO
stage the life of Harry Orchard
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Still. Harry Orchard can not equal
Evelyn Thaw as a public thriller
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rough on the Musicians.

Students with long hair, which is look
ed upon as the outward sign of adj
vanced socialistic views, are being ar
rested in large numbers in Sofia, tele-
graphs our correspondent, as a result
of recent rioting between the police and
university graduates and undergrad
uates.-London Daily Mall
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The original Fairbanks man in Kan
sas is keeping mighty still about it.
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Indian Names on Treasury Warrants.
When Assistant Subtreasurer Thorn
as j. Atkins reached his office in the
federal building yesterday morning a
batch of warrants, sent to the sub
treasury to be cashed, was on his desk.
Mr.. Atkins eye happened to catch the
name on the first warrant, and he gave
start and took another look to make
sure that his eyes were not deceiving
him. The warrant had been issued to
Mr.. Billy Mule. MI. Atkins at first
thought that there was some mistake.
The warrant had been cashed, however,
and Mr.. Billy Mules signature was on
the back.
Mr.. Atkins turned to the next war
rant. 1t had been issued to Mr.. Has
No Shirt. Mr.. Has No Shirt had in
dorsed the warrant and it had been
cashed. Next came Mr.. Straight Crazy,
followed by Messrs. Big Baby, Skunk,
Matches, Noise, Bug, Calls Head,
Bear Going Up Hill, Standing Twenty,
Different Tails. Little Turtle, Mad Bull,
Plenty Horses, and INNS. Turkey Leg,
Short Woman, Lean Woman, Bear
Louise, and Dirty Face.
Mr.. Atkins was mystified for a few
moments, until he went to the bottom
of the heap and found a memorandum
to the effect that the warrants were
issued to Arapahoe and Cheyenne In
dams by Charles E. Schill at Darling
ton, Ok, for rentals of ground and
other concessions.-St. Louis Republic.