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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
WHAT PROHIBITION DOES.

Prohibition may not prohibit. Some
people say it does, some say it does
not. But that it does something is a
moral certainty. The traveller through
Missouri looks out of the car window
at the saloons along the track and
notices the usual lot of barroom soaks
sitting on beer kegs in front of a one
story shack, their bloated faces and
swollen, red noses proclaiming that
boozerino" still booZeS in Missouri.
Crossing the line into Kansas there
are no such evidences of blasted lives
and depleted pocketbooks. There are
no beer key touts. The men who are
"on to" the ropes can get whisky in
Kansas, but the school children have
no way of acquiring an appetite for
beer and wine, for they are beyond
the cir reach and Kansas as we'll as other
prohibition states, is growing a genera
ton of boys and girls who will go
week in and week out without so much
as thinking of booze. Prohibition may
not prohibit in Kansas, but it is grad
ually eliminating through posterity the
desire for liquor.
Local option is going like a prairie
fire through many of the states of the
Union, and some of these times Amer
lea will look back on the little red
front saloon as a characteristic feature
of her early, barbaric civilization. And
even the man who occasionally relishes
glass of beer will welcome the day
Drovers' Telegram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
HER COMPETENT METHODS.


You hear no doors go slamming,
Her passion she is damming,
But nothing more,
Although she's sore
And doesn't hold with shamming.
No crockery she's breaking,
No fuss at all she's making;
You hear no squea1s,
But when she feels
There's not the least mistaking.
If am mad I show it
By saying things like BLOW iti''
My words aren't choice:
l raise my voice
So all the neighbors know it.
For that 1 care but little,
In fact, no jot or little,
And find relief
For rage and grief
In smashing something brittle.
It's most extraordinary,
But she of words is chary.
She doesn't ramp,
Around or stamp,
1t isn't necessary.
l make the frank concession,
Admission or confession,
All I can do
Is nothing to
Her methods Of expression.
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
How the World Is tn End

A scientific forecast of how the end
of the world might come has been
given by Prof. Ellard Gore. His theory
Is that final cataclysm may possibly be
the result OF collision between the sun
and some dark, dead derelict planet.
Although astronomers have no actual
proof that such dead suns exist, with
out life or light and careering about in
space, they believe it quite possible.
The result of a collision between the
sun and dark planet would be that
the formers light and heat would be
enormously increased and the earth
instantly destroyed by combustion.
Prof. Gore tells how we should be
warned of our approaching doom.
When about 100000 miles from the
sun the dark body would begin to
shine by reflected light. In about ten
years it would have become so bright
as to be visible to the naked eye. In
fifteen years it would be brighter than
any object except the moon. Very
soon afterward would come the great
catastrophe of it's collision, moving at
400 miles a second. with the sun NOV
ing at the rame speed."-Dundee
Observer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

From the New YORK Press.l
A girl doesn't care whether you kiss
her or not If she'll let you
The prouder a man is of his citizen
ship the more he lodges jury duty.
What woman likes about a new hat
is how much more she can say she paid
for it than she did.
A widow is pretty smart to ask a
mans advice about Investing her mon
ey, especially when she hasn't any
1t would be much easier for your wife
to believe you were working nights at
the office IL it wasn't for the telephone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
STOP THE DAMAGES.

They are still filming railroads for re-
bates. At this rate the roads will be
forced as a measure of economy to cut
down the casualty list lately published
Either the rebates or the damage suits
will have to go. Railroads, just like
people, need their money for running
expenses.-Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Just as Kansas got through con-
graduating Congressman Scott on his
appointment as chairman of the house
committee on agriculture, the news
comes from Washington that he NAV
not get it after all. What is Uncle Joe
Cannon holding out on Mr.. Scott for?
Does Uncle Joe think for a moment
the Second district congressman can
pry Kansas loose from its grip on the
Taft band wagon?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

ment that the tariff on hides helps the
price of cattle in the least? They
claim the beef trust only pays what it
pleases for cattle anyway. But the
trust makes the shoe manufacturers
pay for the hides all that the pro
tective'' tariff will let it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Congressman Calderhead says he has
heard of no demand in the Fifth dis
triot for a primary law. This is COM
plimentary to two-thirds of the news
papers of the district, which are advo-
eating a primary law. 1t is evident
that Mr.. Calderhead never reads them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
WHO'S AFRAID?

More and more the tone among the
financial powers of this country is:
who is afraid? That is the sensible
attitude. And why should one be afraid :?
The country has great crops of just the
things that Europe lacks and must
have. 1t is quite out of the ordinary
to think of prolonged financial stress
in the face of Astounding real prosperity.
indianapolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
PAY THE MEN BETTER.

1t is becoming constantly more diff
cult to recruit men for the army and
to keep men from deserving after they
are recruited. Unfortunately there
exists a strong popular prejudice
against the punishment of deserters.
hence there is no way of holding the
men except by paying them better
wages and making a military career
more worth while.-New Orleans Plea
yune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

1t is asserted that Congressman
hiller's congressional committee down
in the Fourth district will not give
George Tucker a chance to beat Mr.
Miller in a direct primary, because a
convention will be held instead. If the
committee is afraid to trust the people
in primary, the people may take a
notion to run the convention and nomi-
nate Senator Tucker anyway,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

The reactionaries may finally center
on Governor Hughes in order to beat
Taft, but not because Hughes is their
ideal presidential candidate. Any man
who will insist on a public utilities
commission and then let it make as
much trouble as has happened in the
New York traction expose, does not
look just right to the reactionaries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

for the sake of creating an i'm
preston" says the Washington Star.
rare prepared to admit that a per-
Torrance of that kind is liable to cause
trouble through being badly re-
hearsed." Also because so many peo-
pie fail to realize that Wall street is
only letting on"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

"Uncle Vim HIS speech before
the Knife and Fork club at Kansas
City was given more newspaper space
than any of the other addresses, but
here's a guess that Henry Aliens few
remarks were the most appreciated
by the crowd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Colonel Watterson says he has re-
tired from politics. but here's guess
ing that the Louisville Courier-J Jour
nal will have more to say about poll
tics than ever-and that has been
Colonel Watterson's chief part in
notifies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

movement is cannot be told, but-s.the
same reason would hold good as to that.
People who have funds lying idle in
their hands hurry to use them to pay
their obligations and get the matter
over with. Then the other fellow has
to look out for taking care of the
money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
ASSET CURRENCY.

When the great banking institutions
have succeeded in fastening upon this
country their pet measure"an asset
currency law, in what way VIII our
monetary system differ from the old
wildcat state currency that caused so
much trouble in.ethe '40s and sos :?
oh, yes, it will differ. in that it will be
on so much larger. scale, that the fail
ure of a few ofsthe big central institu-
lions would result IN such a sweeping
away of values as would bring poverty
to producers and misery to the wage
earners of the country.-Minneapoli
Better Way. -5--
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Congress will soon be in session and
then our old friend. the Congress
sional Record, will doubtless see its
way clear to resume publication.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
DELAWARE.

The penalty that a prominent poll
tician'' in Delaware must pay for bril-
berry Is two months imprisonment, a
fine of 5000 and disfranchiseme for
ten years. Were this applied to all
who deserve 1t in that state a pretty
small vote would be cast there for tn {
next decade.-Boston Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
AND ENDS WITH DOUBLES.

The buddy" Is the latest political
slang in England. He is des cribed as
one who seldom thinks nationally or
imperially, but almost always provin-
cially, If not parochially. Something
resembling this has been seen over
here. But the name applied is shorter.
and begins with the first letter of the
alphabet.-New York Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

The most serious backset the Taft
presidential boom has yet received is
the intimation that Senator Thomas
Collier Plat may be for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
MAKE A NOTE OF IT.

Meanwhile kindly observe your Uncle
Samuel Government receipts for the
first eleven days of November, 1884
579; expenditures, 81, 10000; excess of
receipts. 5000, 579 against s4,1S1, 11S last
year in the same period and an $S4l,oO0
deficit in 1905.-New York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

New York is now ready to send out
all the currency the country needs.
Wall Street is also ready for the
sspanic" to be over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Now watch for Foraker's presi-
Dental announcement and see If he,
like Mr.. Bryan, will say that he will
not ask for the nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

1t is quite likely If Mr.. Rockefeller
wants to pay that fine, the government
won't insist on its being paid in cur
rency. His check is thought to be
good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

II you insist on hiding your money
buy government certificates and hide
them. Then 1t Will draw interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

The chief arguments in favor of a
special session of congress were that
Hartman and Congressman Calder
head were opposed to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

It's a good sign when the receiving
tellers are overworked and the paying
tellers have time to loaf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

The thing that is going to trouble
Kansas now is not the currency short
age but the car shortage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Some of wichita's milk dealers. OBJ
5ect to a strict inspection of their pro-
duct. Such dealers will bear watching
the closest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

some Democrats down in Texas are
standpatters to a certain degree. They
oppose q reduction of the tariff on
hides. But do they suppose for mo-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Funny, isn't it, how Governor Hoch
and President Roosevelt hit on the
same day for being thankful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

It Is hard to get around this point:
Few men could be as great IN defeat
as Mr.. Bryan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
TELL HIM HE rs WELL.

Now is the time to hasten the con-
valescence of the financial patient by
not discussing his aches and pains
Chicago Post,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

"Even those who believe that Wall
street sometimes manufactures panics
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED Pk&Gc99.

The State Journal 20 8 member ~ the
Associated Press and receives the TTN day
telegraph report OF that Sreat news or
ganisat1on for the exclusive afternoon
publication IN Topeka.
The news In received In The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Husband (to wife)-Do you believe in
tht theory that the greatness of a father
often proves a stumbling block to the ad-
vancement OF his son in life?
Wife, certainly do. / am thankful
John. our boy will never be handicapped
in that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Purcha ser-You told me that parrot I
bought of you was the most intelligent
bird in your collection, while the fact Is
he doesn't talk at all.
Dealer-That's what meant when I
spoke of his intelligence"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

(which is proper" asked little Robert
the reddest headed or the red head
est?"
1T doesn't make any difference If she's
old and homely." replid the childs father
but if she's young and pretty, richest
auburn IS the way to say it."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Clara-Coming home from the dance the
other night ] met Charlie Spooner in a
crowded car, and he didn't even offer to
give seat
Maud-Perhaps he knew you had been
sitting down all evening.-Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-21

Old Growells (sternly)-What was going
on in the oarlor last night that kept you
up so late, young lady?
Pretty daughter (holding up her hand
This engagement ring, papa. Isn't II a
beauty?
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-23
FEW JAPS OvERAWE
KOREAN ARMY

Seoul, July 23.-Japanese machine
guns have established a semblance of
order, General Hasegawa thinks he
has the upper hand or the natives
now, and has Withdrawn one of the
machine guns for the palace square.
But he cannot yet guarantee safety
in the streets and is distributing what
forces he has to the best advantage,
TO suppress disorder until the arrival
of the reinforcements now on the way
from Shimonseki, Japan.
The two government arsenals are
guarded by japanese soldiers. AS
their number is not large they are
under orders to explode the magazines
If they find themselves unable to de-
fend them.
The Korean troops are frequently
harangued by civilian agitators, who
take up their stand at the entrance
Of the barracks. The Koreans have
10000 rounds of ammunition. Gen
eral Hasegawa, who has only 2,3 }
troops in Seoul, has not ventured
yet to demand that this ammunition
be surrendered TO him.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-23
JEALOUSY CAUSED THIS
WOMAN TO KILL
BENNETT
EStelle COrWell Fired Shot as
He Talked to An.
other.
FEARED HE WOULD
DESERT HER SOON

Los Angeles, Cal, July 23.-Geo.
L. Bennett, proprietor of the Ben
nett Electrical company, was shot
and killed last night by Estelle Cor
well, young woman with whom he
has lived for five years. At the time
of the shooting ne was sitting on the
porch of the house Of Miss Marguerite
Bennett, who, though of the same
name, was no relation.
Miss Corwell said that Bennett has
of late been frequent caller on Miss
Bennett and she became convinced
that he was about to desert her.
His Double Life.
Little was known of Benefits pri-
vate affairs as he conducted his busi-
ness in one part of the city and re-
sided in another, spending his leisure
hours in the latter section. BY this
means he was able to keep his busi-
ness associates and patrons from
knowing of his evil life.
Bennett was known in the bust
ness world as an honorable man, who
paid his debts promptly and filled
his contracts to the letter.
The woman who killed him, today
said that she had lived with him for
the past five years and that until re-
Gently he had been a model lover,
but that of late he had been frequently
a caller on Miss Bennett, who knew
nothing Of Estelle Corwell. The latter
shadowed him on several occasions
and learned of his infatuation, as she
terms it, with the result that she pro-
tested to him, but without avail. She
then determined to kill him and her
SELF but was captured before she
could commit suicide.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-23

oath of office before visiting Wash
ington.
The inaugural committee has there
fore arranged for the ceremonies to
be held on Thursday, August 1 sub
ject to the approval of the new gov
ernor. The committee Is busy pre-
pairing for the Inauguration. The
formal taking of the oath will be in
the hall of representatives in the
capitol on the morning of August l
and the big reception and ball will
be held in the evening at the Palace
hotel.
Hundreds of invitations have been
sent out to all parts of the terri
| tory asking every one to attend. The
! reception and ball will be public dem-
onstratons and the hall in the capi-
tol will be thrown open to all who
| desire to come.
The committee in charge has ar
ranged for two bands and it Is un-
derstood here that third band will
be present from Albuquerque.
All who desire to meet the new
executive will be presented to him at
the big reception which will prob
ably excell anything of the kind ever
held in the capital city.
! Although the time Is short, the
committee has the work of arrang-
| ing for the Inauguration and recep-
ton we'll in hand and will have all
details complete by the end of the
present week.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-23
.BLOOOHOUNOS SEARCH
FOR TWO LOST
CHILDREN
Sheriff ClOSSOn EnrOute to
CerrillOS to Aid In
Hunt.
MISSING SINCE
MONDAY AFTERNOON

Santa Fe, July 23.-(Special) -
Sheriff Charles Closson left this af-
ternoon for Cerrillos in the southern
part of this county, with his blood
hounds in answer to a telegram an
nouncing that two small children had
been lost in that vicinity since yester-
day afternoon and that their parents
are unable, with the aid of large
bodies of searchers, to find them.
Great excitement prevails at Cerrillos
and hundreds OF men are securing
the country.
A man who came in this afternoon
from that vicinity stated that the two
children were small and had been
playing at their home on the out
skirts Of the town, which is "a mining
community. suddenly their mother
noticed that they We're exceptionally
quiet and she called them to come
into the house. They did not re-
Spond and search failed TO show any
thing of them further than the prints
of small feet in the dirt leading out
of the yard and into the road. Which
direction they took, she could not tell.
as wagons had completely obliterated
their trail.
Frantic with grief she began to
search the neighborhood, hoping
every moment to find her children
with those of some neighbor, but her
fears were confirmed when she learn
ed that tney were not there.
The alarm was given and for sew
eral hours her husband with the as
sistance of several friends searched d
the roads, town and neighborhood for
the children but without success.
AS darkness came on, the search be-
came more general and finally hun
dreds of men, women and children,
mounted and on foot, took up the
trail, only TO be disappointed.
All night they searched and as
morning broke, their disappointment
was pitiful. The agonized mother
plead with the men to keep going
and they could not Withstand her
plea. Finally a message was sent to
Sheriff Closson who is now en- route
to that vicinity with two of his best
Trailing bloOdhounds. He is going
overland and will reach there about
8 O'clock tonight.
The country in that vicinity Is
broken and 1t is an easy matter for
the children TO remain out of sight
of watchers, but the dogs will un-
doubtedly find them If they are to be
found.
Fears are entertained this afternoon
that they may have been kidnapped
and carried away, but there are no
real foundations for that report.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-23
HANDLING MONEY CAUSE
Of FATAL BLOOD
POISON
Army Pdymaster Dies as Re.
suit of Peculiar
AffllCtiOn.

Manila, p. l., July 23.-Major Pay
master Eugene Coffin of the U. s.
army whose left arm was amputated
a few days ago, on account of blood
poisining contracted in handling
money in the payment Of troops, died
this afternoon.
Paymaster Coffin first became af-
flicted with blood poisoning several
weeks since, but 1t was so slight at
that time that not much notice was
given It, Later his arm began to
swell and surgeons stated that ampu-
tation might save his life. He was
unable to withstand the shock.
Collins death Is peculiar in many
respects. 1t Is a noticeable fact that
much of the money he handled had
never been in circulation, but the
surgeons state that he probably con-
tracted the poison through money
which had been in circulation among
the natives or at least which had been
I'm use in the United States for a
long period.
There was no wound on his hand
or arm and the poison entered his
system through the pores of his skin.