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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02
wHERE THE FAULT LAY.

jackson county points with much
pride to it's primary election system, IN
force for twenty-five years. Let's see:
&c was Jackson county's primary cleo
ton system that sent an Illegal dele
cation to the Republican state con-
Yention that nominated the most I'M
popular board of railroad commits
sioners the state ever had, was 1t not
Hutchinson News.
Not much, it wasn't. That outrage
was committed by the convention
syste Nor possibly by a hybrid mix
ture of the primary and convention
Systems, somewhat similar to what
the state senate tried to fasten on the
state last winter.
Jackson county Republicans nomi-
nate their county officers by direct
primary and the plan is eminently
satisfactory. They also elect their del
eEatss to county conventions by pri-
maries. and so far as the primaries go
they also are satisfactory, but it is
the convention that makes the trou-
BILE
In 1904 the main issue in. Jackson
county in electing delegates to the Re
publican state convention was wheth-
er A. D. Walker should have the dele
CATION in hts campaign for renomina-
ton as railroad commissioner. The
primaries were decisive and Mr..
Walker acknowledged himself defeat
e6. But the county convention fol-
lowing gave the boss buster-railroad
politicians a chance to overthrow the
choice Of the people expressed in the
primaries. and they organized a bolt
Ing county convention and sent a con-
testing delegation to Wichita.
There again the convention system
allowed the railroads and the politi-
clans to dictate and this boiling dele
cation was seated along with other
boiling delegations.
This is a poor illustration for the
opponents of the primary to bring up.
That outrage in 1904 was chargeabIe
solely to the convention system that
the people wish to get rid Of The
hybrid plan proposed by the state SEN
ate last winter would still allow the
repetition of such things as happened
in jackson county in 1904 and at
Wichita whenever the politicians wish
them to happen.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.l

TF'rOm the ChlCdBO NeWs-I
When the boss is away the clerks get
gay.
Selfshness IS a quality everybody has
except you.
AS the son is bent the father is in
clined to go broke.
You can't do 1t all, but it's up to you
to do all you can.
After you get dollar in your clutches
the faint soon evaporates.
Every man has a worthless hobby
that he wastes a lot of time on.
Many a man who demands Justice
would whine for mercy if he got It,
It's usually the fellow who is afraid to
take chance who loses on a sure thing.
A baby averages up fairly well If it is
half as pretty as the mother says 1T is,
or half as homely as the neighbors think
II is.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some way this department cannot
get excited over the discovery that
Rameses II was not entitled to be
called The Great.
" y
The pseudomugii signifier, the new
enemy of mosquitoes which scientists
are pushing to the front, Is fish with
blue eyes. We take it, therefore, that
the pseudomugii signif1er is a blonde.
X y -.
We presume the Maude Fealy line
of advertising, which comes from
Denver, would have been more eff
fective if it had not had to contend
with Colorado Springs sensation at
the same time.
y
After perusing Golfers review of
the book. we conclude that 1.-THE Life
and Works of Charles w. Fairbanks"
although one of Indianas famous his
torical novels, is not one of the six
best sellers.
X Y
Noting how the mercury has been
acting down in Texas, we judge a nice
red-hot stove would seem like a re-
frigerator in that locality,
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| Goodland will be twenty years old
next month, and it proposes to cele-
brate for three days.
If Fred Dumont Smith doesn't read
the riot act to the japanese jingoes
| while he is over there. it will be evil
dent TO Kansas that he is not doing his
plain duty.
Business note from the Abilene Re-
fiector: The Knights of Honor have
bought a peanut wagon and started
Second and Broadway. The profits
are to be used for the benefit of the
club. It's a good idea.
The Salina Union asserts that a boy
up there who had been fishing for
| hours without bite. finally caught 80
fish at one throw, The Union explains
that the fish had been caught before
and strung. 1t sounds as though the
reporter who believed the story had
also.
all our subscribers but have never
been able to say anything of Jim
Duzenberry. He has not left town in
twelve years, has always attended to
his own business and never did any
harm to any man. After thinking
over his case for some time we hap
pened to think that while he had been
summoned on several JurieS at Law
renee he has never been allowed to
serve on one.
slant and deadly warfare between the
two newspapers. the Blade had trou-
BILE with its gasoline engine. which
brought forth these consoling words
about as much use for those fellows IS
we have for vipers, in this sort of
dilemma our heart goes out to them
in great waves of sympathy. If there
is anything that Will cause man to
do things which will cause him to lose
his soul entirely. it is a baking gaso-
line engine. We know they deserve to
go to h-l-but really we hate to see
them go. so we hope the old thing will
run
Corroborative story told by the lola
Register: A. H. Brown came into the
Register office last evening carrying
either of which measure close to six
feet high. Mr.. Brown did not bring
them in to show the fertility of the
Allen county soil but rather to grove
that the witness who in case OF the
State VS.. Mrs. Annie Augustine, which
was tried a few days ago in Judge
Hough's court. testified that there were
cookie burrs in Mrs. Augustine's field
higher than horses back, had not
perjured himself. Mrs Augustine was
charged with trespassing by renter,
Mr.. Hail. The latter had planted
corn on Mrs. Augustine's place on
grain rent basis. He did not keep the
corn as free OF cookie burrs as Mrs.
Augustine thought he should and she
hired some boys and put them in the
field with hoes to hoe the corn ana
then charged Hall up with the costs
of the work. Hall claimed that the
boys cut down more corn than burrs,
and had Mrs. Augustine arrested Tor
trespassing. During the trial or the
case a witness swore that there were
cookie burrs in the corn higher than a
horses back. The spectators laughed
at the remark and the jury smiled.
Now Mr.. Brown brings in two cookie
burr stalks from Mrs. Augustine's field
which measures over six feet from
root to the highest burr and the wit
ness testimony must be taken as true:
a three-foot bull snake was found
in one, of Beloit's fine residences re-
Gently. This is the first intimation
that has been given that Beloit is
two-per-cent town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

Individuality When one or other must
be sacrificed she had had no hesita-
ton IN her choice. She had made q
fetch of ego, to find in the end love
had so undermined it that she was
no longer an entity, sufficient to her
self. Then succeeded days when, half
desperate in her unhappiness she
nearly capitulated; hours when Ii
seemed as though an irresistible force
impelled her to Kenneth. but always
pride rose forbindding, and she made
no sign.
having been forbidden to mention the
name. There being nothing to keep
him here now che continued. COM
fcrtablys che may never return" She
watched with satisfaction the result
of this stab. 1--WE often wondered"
she persisted 'that you never regret
ted the break, but it's too late now, so
it's better as it is"
Katherine made no response, but
that night she wept for the first time
long bitter sobs that washed away
every feeling but the love thai gave
them birth. She realized. now, that
over her love for Kenneth his faults
had no control. Human nature is so
frail that 1t must love and cling where
it can. in spite of weakness.
Early Saturday, when Hadley was
about to board an outbound vessel.
hand, thrust suddenly out of the half
iignl, caught at MS sleeve. ne turned
at the touch.
'.Katherine!" No thickness of veil
could disguise her in his eyes. There
they stood, silent, incapable of speech,
staring at each other. The man recov-
cred first and drew her toward the
end of the dock. where great packing
cases afforded some seclusion.
you should not have comet"
II had to, I've been all wrong-and
I wanted to tell you. I've been writ
ing-short Notwithstanding ones,
for different firms, that's why 1 went
to Charles Truax's Office. He buys
number each year. No one knows, I
didn't want them to-you especially,
until could do something worth
while. You'll come Blackjack to
= How much do you mean by telling
me this?"
LAS much as you wish. 1--we
missed you so-your faults-my
faults, what do they matter, Kenneth?
I'm wretched without you-I-"
Then Hadley understood Only at
the last moment had he sufficient
presence of mind to get his trunk
pulled off the steamer before she
slipped her moorings-(Copyri
1907, by NJ. M. Cunningham.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02
HUNOR OF THE DAY

''T always thought" said the hostess.
that Scotchmen were humorous. Last
night showed a departing Scotch guest
room. Here 1 said, with wave of my
hand. you are the first to leave. Take
Thank you, said he. as he fumbled
searching among them. I'm ave me
own. independent.
Charley, dear" said young Mrs. Tor
kins; the horses are in good form at the
yes" was the answer in tone of ir-
ritation. But that don't prevent some
of the bettors from being in bad shape,
does it?"-Washington Star.
What did the consultation of special
lists in Millyun's case decide?"
IT think it was on $500 apiece. "-Balti-
moro American.
Magistrate-This amt the first tonne
you We been arrIsted fer bein' droonk?
Prisoner-Its injoostice yez do me, y'r
Magistrate-Moind phwat We say. Owe
seen your face scores av tonnes; and
Prisoner-Plaze, y'r amer, Orm the new
barman at Mickey Doolan' s.-PhHadelphia
Inquirer.
Was Trapper's wedding private af-
mot much. The brides sister had her
6-month-old baby there.'-Chicago Jour
nal.
Ben-What side of the market are you
on, Fen?
Fen-On the right side. of course.
Bcn-What side is that?
Fen-The outside.-New York Press.
what do you expect for so cents?"
Press.
Harduppe-I don't believe I have a true
friend in the world.
Poorpaye-What, have you been trying
to borrow money, too?-Wall Street Bulls
and Rears - - -
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.l
If you are lazy, there isn't any use
lying about It.
After winning a triumph over an
enemy, the next battle to fight is
against an inclination to look it.
This is what daughter usually thinks
about Father: That if she were Mother
she'd make him stand around.
There is no place or occasion where
time passes more slowly than while
waiting for reply over the telephone.
the period between a death and the
funeral not excepted.
1t is all right to lay off for the fu-
neral of a f1rst-degree kin, but when
a man lays off for as far away as a
fourth-degree kin, it is nothing short
of shiftlessness.
Opposite the house where this re-
porter lives is a yard wherein plays
a little boy two and a half years old.
and the little boys mother is often
compelled to speak" to him while go
ing about her work. And this is what
she usually says: "Get out of that
dirt"
man at Coolidge lately called an
acquaintance into a stairway and ac-
cused him of circulating Stories" about
him and a certain woman. Thereupon
the acquaintance said: II will put a
hundred dollars in the Coolidge Ma
tional bank, and IL you will find a man
or woman IN the town who didn't
know all about your connection with
this woman long before 1 came to
Coolidge. will forfeit the money"
Daisy Mayme Appleton, who mar
ried Bud Hosington. and has five little
children, is very kind to her mother;
she permits her children to remain
with her mother more than half the
time. 1T is. great deprivation to
me-" Daisy Mayme says, "but mother
so enjoys having her grandchildren
with her. 1t is about the only pleas
ure she has. Mother is becoming old,
and 1T is my duty to see that she enjoys
herself as much as possible"
About the most forlorn sight on the
street is a woman who has come to
town with nothing much to come for.
She goes briskly into dry goods store
and looks" but the clerk can tell she
does not want to buy anything, so she
sits and twirls around on the stools,
and finally goes out. looking as though
she had forgotten something and must
hurry. But when she gets outside she
has nowhere in particular to go, ana
perhaps meets someone she knows ana
attaches herself to that person. who Is
probably busy and finally manages 10
get away Then the woman viii go
into a drug store and buy ten cents
worth of something and sit around
awhile: make another excursion or
two up the street. and at last take the
car, looking longingly in every direc-
ton to see If she can't think OF 5usS
one more place to go.
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FROM OTHER PENS
THE CRIMINAL RICH

The first duty of good citizenship to-
day is to compel the punishment of
that f1purishing form of high treason,
which, in Colorado and California and
a mockery of law. What suspends the
Judgment of the just man even in such
a case as that charged against Hay
wood Is the corruption, more vicious,
more destructive. more horrifying to
the moral sense, against which he and
his associates were struggling. This is
not to condone crime or make of two
wrongs a right. But it brings to the
conscience the scandalous and unen-
durable discrepancy between the fates
of the two contending factions and it
challenges every decent citizen to make
his own answer as to whether the
lesser crime shall be punished and the
greater thrive.-Chicago Evening
Post.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate OF ten cents
q week or thirty cents a month (by
mail onIy). Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
state Journal win be to you Hike a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press1
A woman can like any kind of hat I'M
less it looks like one.
II a girl is fond of swimming it's a
sign she thinks she has good figure.
It's not a question whether man can
afford to keep an automobile, but
whether his creditors can AFFORD to have
him..
When a man finds fault with the coffee
and his wife doesn't get mad, it's sign
they are away from home on their vaca-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

A Saline county man has patented
a new sort of railroad joint-and that
at a time when the authorities are
making war on both the railroads ana
the joints. How does he expect It to
In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

1t seems that the Appeal to Reason
was terribly disappointed in the Hay
wood verdict 1t had its mouth all
fixed ready to howl about the capital
istic courts. where a poor man could
not get justice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

Isthmian canal officials and terri
torial governors should note with care
that President Roosevelt is keeping
mis- hand in by chopping wood this
summer, and it is possible that he
may remove a few official heads when
he returns to Washington in the fall
just TO satisfy himself that his ak is
not dull nor rusty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

Very likely llama Jim" Wilson,
temporarily of Washington, u. c., viii
Join In the movement to make Secre-
tary Coburn governor. 1t will give
Mr.. Cohurn less time to point out Will
sons mistakes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

ing HIS stock he believes in buying in
the market where he can buy cheap
est, and the wholesalers Of his own
state don't get the business unless
they can underselI Kansas City, St
Louis and Chicago. 1t all depends on
the point of view
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

With regard to the Maude Fealy Sc
cret wedding, the Denver papers have
printed letters from the bride and
the brides mother and lengthy inter
views with her stepfather.- As usual.
the groom doesn't cut much SSure in
the fair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

when the railroad companies pre-
pared to defy the North Carolina
law" observes the Chicago News,
''they must have thought Gov. Glenn
was one of these ordinary governors
that. put up in punches, are worth
about quarter for. six" And instead
of that he was a twenty-five center.
straight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

The people of Duke, MO, are very
indignant because one of their num-
Der has disclosed to the world the fact
that there are no lawyers there. Yet
perhaps it was done by some we'll
meaning individual who wished to set
forth the attractions of the town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

Four young men hired Chicago
cabmap to take them for a drive in
the early morning hours. and then
they robbed him. Is this what In
sometimes branded as poetic 5usticef
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

Even If it is true that old Rameses
the Second was a fraud and rot en-
titled to be called The Great st must
be admitted that he had the title so
long that it ought to belong 70 him
by right of possession. 1t took the
reporters a long time to get on to his
fake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

The New York Press. which is de-
sirous that Governor Hughes be NOM
mated for the presidency. asserts that
1t is doubtful if Taft could carry Ohio
IN the election even If he Is nomi-
mated. There are also other jokes
printed in the Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

The trial of Caleb Powers has been
indefinitely postponed. Kentucky has
more trouble in convicting Caleb Pow
ers than Kansas does in sticking a
iofntfst in a wet county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

Following the declaration OF
Michigan clergyman that the Teddy
bear should be put down, Michigan
baby ate his. Is not this taking adj
vice a trif1e too literally
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

Anyway. the Haywood thai has
been finished in time to give US a
brief vacation before the Thaw trial
starts IN again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

In this mad rush that Walter Well
man is making for the North Pole, II
is to be hoped that he is. keeping cool
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

Next summer the weather Is liable
to be of far more sizzling variety
than it is at present. We VIII be In
the midst of a presidential campaign,
YOU know
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al MATTER or INTER EST.

Japan Certainly does not expect to
borrow money in this country to help
her to fight US, but she probably
thinks. and not unnaturally that some
of our friends might help her.-Chf-
cago Inter-Ocean.
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JUMPERS.

While a grasshopper, according to
the auth critics, can jump 200 times it's
own length. he would probably be put
to it sometimes to keep abreast with
Mr.. observation-disclosures Times
Dispatch.
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The Chicago carnival of crime must
have moved its headquarters TO New
York for spell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02
THREAD.

NOW that an advance in the price
OF thread is announced. the prudent
household seamstress and the impe-
cun1ous bachelor will more than ever
appreciate the wisdom of the familiar
proverb. "A stitch in time saves nine."
Hartford Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02
SHOULD NOT BE so.

Why should we perversely continue
to make the glorious Fourth the busiest
day on the calendar for the ambulance
driver?-New York Tribune.
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EXPERT OPINION TOO,

If you want to hear some good
warm opinions Of the present "groc-
cry book" two-cent mileage system,
just listen to a busy Santa Fe conduc-
tor when he strikes about fifteen of
the books all -4n~ - bunch.-Newton
Journal. @N
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02

Every retail merchant is a strong
belieyef IN trading at home-for other
people. But when 1t comes to buy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02
ALABAMA AND TUsKEGEE.

The Alabama legislature appointed
a special examiner to look into the ac-
counts of Booker Washington's school,
the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
institute. He not only compliments
the business side of the institution, but
says 1.-The general moral conduct of the
pupils is uplifting and the teachings
are of such character as to win COM
mendation." 1t is evident that the
white people of Alabama are proud of
Mr.. Washington's work among the
blacks.-Buffalo Express.
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THE SAvTNc EA~

The best thing about the mercury is
tnat II Is confined inside the thermom-
eter and can't climb out.-St. Louis
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KEEP YOUR ARMoR IN TRIM.

Carnegie says there is no danger Of
war We may be sure that he doesn't
make the statement for the purpose of
Keeping anybody from purchasing ar
NOR plate.-Chicago Record-Herald.
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PERHAPS IT IS

Nebraska passed a law last winter
reducing express charges % per cent.
The express companies went into court
and were beaten. The express COM
panies ore the greatest robbers on
in half instead of one-fourth The
people have been so busy with the
railroads that the express companies
have been forgotten. Their turn is
coming next.-Smith County Pioneer.
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LEADING THINKER.

Bryan is one of the leading thinkers
of the day-that is, he thinks more
persistently and voluminou sly.-Des
Moines Capital.
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FORGOT HIS ORDERS.

The Michigan train wreck repeats
the old lesson that the most perfect
system in the world depends at some
point on human fidelity, alertness,
memory. The man who forgot"
doubtless meant well and deeply be-
give back life to the dead, joy to the
bereaved, q surcease to the manned
and suffering.-Indianap Star.