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The Alaska prospector., 1907-01-24
ASKS FOR SUBSIDY
Roosevelt Sends Special Message Regarding
 Shipping

Washington, Jan, 24-Presidcnt Roosevelt sent special message to Congress yesterday urging that | subsidy be granted to shipping between the United States and south America and the Orient. He declares that the Pacific steamship lines are threatened by foreign cor porations.
 Washington, 24--At late hour yesterday the Senate and House agreed to the raise of salaries of congressman to s7,5OO.
 Washington, Jan. 24 -. Tho House committee has made . recommendation that the free dis tribution of seeds by the govern ment be abolished.
 Seattle, Jan. 24-At the hearing before the interstate commerce commission regarding the car short age. number of lumbernen testi fled they were forced to pay train men spo! cash to have cars sent to the mills.
 Washington, Jan. 24 - The House aud Senate have passed a resolution allowing settlers on pub lie lands to leave their claim until the 1ath of May without affecting their titles. This action has been taken on account of tho scarcity oi fuel in the west and tho extreme cold weather.
 Olympia. Jan. 24-The reprcs- entatives from Eastern Washing ton are opposing the appropriation of $60o,O00 for permanent build ings at the fair which are to revert to the state university at the close of the exposition, They announce that they are willing to allow straight appropriation oi$l ,00O,OOO.
 For family use-Anheu~er Busch. Budweisor, Pabst, Blue Ribbon al the Buffet.
 ! Collection of Beautiful Ivory Napkin Rings at the Ladies' bA- zaar.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-01-24

to represent the state of California in. the suit started by the govern ment over the Japanese school question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
HE HAS NO lick

II ever I amt feelin' well
u- -MGm glss a med cine bottle down
" WI IN SUIT that's got an orful smell,
?. what's thick an sticky, bad an brown.
II am a bit o. use to fight;
r,s Sne noids me tight by both my wrists
out Wllne Jones, sey, he's all right;
Ills folks is Christyun SCIENTISTS.
1n 1st med cine tastes like all git-out,
Ihat's why 1 yell an squirm an kick.
l know at L would jest about,
VI little ruther, I'd be sick
bul NOM she takes me on her lap
AND calls on pa an pa assists.
mat Willie Jones, he's got a snap;
Ills folks is Christyun SCIENTISTS.
Sometimes git a poultice-hotl
Or mustard plaster, worser still,
which sometimes leaves a blistered spot
It's powders often, or a pill
NO wonder that Teller groans
An hits the spoon an turns an twists (!
wish at was Willie Jones:
His folks is Christyun SCIENTISTS
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

want the people of the Sixth district to
name these delegates?
Well. scarcely.
So they propose to head off the direct
primary If possible, and hold conven-
ton as usual. Then by the usual poll
ticians' methods of trading and jollying,
they will elect the delegates they want.
1t is generally understood that Mr..
Reeder controls the congressional COM
mittee and can have a direct primary
If he insists, but a certain element of
politicians will prevent a, primary if
possible. If Mr.. Reeder allows himself
to be controlled in the matter by those
politicians. there is danger that he will
ALLEVIATE a great deal of support from
himself-for there are many people up in
the Sixth district who believe in the
square deal ideas and yet are friends OF
Mr.. Reeder, but it will go against the
grain with them if Reeder turns down
the primary proposition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Recordl
Success, in the eyes of the world, Is
the greastest virtue.
Most good resolutions are permanent
at least temporarily.
The period of widowhood is often
subservient to the question mark.
An average man is one who consid-
ers himself rather above the average.
Many fellow who can't express him.
self intelligently has money enough to
pay the freight.
\ A man may have plenty of sand, but
it won't avail him much against the
fellow with the sandbag.
RolIingstone Nomoss-''Yes; I ulster
be a poet" Tatterdon Torn"1 often
wondered how you got your start"
1t would simplify matters if in taxi
ing wife. like taking patent medicines,
one.
Nell-"No less than four ministers
assisted at her wedding" Belle-"And
just to think that one divorce lawyer
could undo it ALI"
Blobbs-"Yes; she is a very eccentric
girl Slobbs-'1n what respect 2"
Blobbs-"Well, she broke off her en-
gagement because her parents were op-
posed to it."
First Little Girl-"My papa is going
to buy me a French count when 1 grow
nothing. My papa's going to buy me a
French poodle"
Most of the unhappy marriages
are due to jealousy said the Wise Guy
..YesH answered the Simple Mug; "a
woman is unhappy If her husband is
Jealous, and she is unhappy If he isn't,
so there you are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Earl Brown. who sometimes dips
| into POLITICS up in Cloud county, has
built a new opera house in Concordia.
He will have the edge over the other
local politicians. in that there is no law
prohibiting the issuance of theater
passes.
The favorite summer home of the
late Archie" Williams was we'll up on
Pixies Peak. a mile or so above the
Half Way House. One of the trails
frequented by tourists going up to the
sum nit passed a short distance from
his home. Near the trail General Will
liamS had converted tree stump into
an armed chair. and one of his favorite
diversions was to sit there and have
fun with the passing tourists. AS is
generally known by his Kansas ac-
Quaintances. his old SLOUGH hat and
careless manner of dress gave him the
appearance of a hobo in which he
appeared to take enjoyment. Tourists
the world over are ever ready to make
comments. and General Williams
shabby appearance would lead them
into trap where his brilliant wit
would turn the tables on them. Not
long ago a party of some size was pass
ing the general, and one woman who
appeared to be a leader in the crowd,
called out. Hello. old man. what are
YOU waiting for?'' ''I have been wait
ing" replied the general, ito see if
some Good-looking woman would not
come along. but 1 guess it's no use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
MIR. REEDER'S DILEMMA

When the Squire Dealers proposed to
settle the nomination of congressman
on the Republican ticket in the sixth
dlstr1ct by primary, the Farmer was
the first paper to urge Congressman
Reeder to accept the challenge This
paper stands now where it did then We
insist that the way to settle the question
is by primary. participated in by the
Republicans of the district The Topeka
papers and some of the Square Dealer
organs of the district are stating that
Mr.. Reeder is beginning to show signs
of'cold feet We do not believe it. The
last time We talked with Mr.. Reeder he
expressed himself as more than willing
10 be nominated by primary. We still
believe that he is perfectly willing to
have the thing settled that way. The
Square Dealer organs still hammer away
on the threadbare fallacy that Reeder
has always been nominated by the ma
nipulatfOns of a convention system.
Such is not the case but in order to set
tie the question Mr.. Reeder should sub
NIT to the primary without question.
And We believe that is his intention
This paper does not lok with favor upon
primary. certainly not a makeshift
primary. but we insist when the people
want anything they are entitled to it.
They. appear to want a primary in this
case. Anyway. If we were Mr.. ReedeI
we wouldn't let the Square Dealer office
hunters bluff US. especially with the
cards they are sitting behind in this
particular instance.-Osborne Farmer.
1t is not at all improbable that so far
as Mr.. Reeder is personally concerned,
he is perfectly willin to have a primary
There is no reason apparent why he
should not be. In fact, with the anti
Reeder element divided between W. B.
Ham. 1. d. Young and perhaps two or
three other candidates, one would
naturally suppose Mr. Reeder would
have a better show for denomination in
a primary where his enemies are scat
tered than in a convention where they
might combine against him.
But there is a feeling that Mr.. Reeder
allowed himself to be worked by some
of the politicians of his district when he
gave out the impression a few weeks
ago that he had ''gigged back" on the
primary proposition. There is some
thing else involved in the question than
the mere nomination of a Republican
candidate for congress. For instance,
two delegates are to be chosen from the
Sixth district to the Republican national
convention. Do the railroad politicians
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

The moneys yours she objected
There's where you are wrong" tri
umphent that he carried an overwhelm
| ing stock of knowledge; lit doesn't be.
| long to me-for he left no widow and
no child under 16, so nobody will draw
that money except you-you paid all
MS last expenses. 1t belongs to you,
all right, little woman"
The coy Preside had given him q
taste of what home life might be, and
Miss Mary, who had never been called
little woman" before. turned rosily red
and finally agreed to fill out the appli-
cation for reimbursement according to
directions.
He registered at the small hotel as
Jacob Rhine, jr.. and declared his in
tention of staying until he could have
stone put to his fathers grave.
When the stone was in its place Miss
Mary walked with him to the cemetery
one afternoon.
Her own lot. in a corner Of the
cemetery. was surrounded by an old
fashioned Hrbor vitae hedge that glis-
tened in the February sun.
1T was good of you to put him here
with your mother and father" he said
pushing back with his cane the leaves
from the border Of violets.
There was plenty of room" Her
deeds of Kindness were simply the nat
ural expression OF her feelings toward
humanity.
"Yes-there Is room for two more.
ho eyed the remaining space figurative-
Miss Mary removed the dead leaves
that had drifted on the adjoining
grave.
"And she was the only relative L
had left-everythinR has seemed lonely
since"
He helped her with fhe leaves me-
chaEically. But you have a home
that's something. L often wish when
I'm off on trips that had home to
return to-that there would be some
one-waitinR for me-
You poor man., she said, utterly
unconscious of his meaning.
81 would like to come here some
times-so he wouldn't seem left here
among strangers" he said huskily.
"I'll look after his just exactly as
do mothers and fathers's," she said
hastily.
DO you think you could look after
me some. too?" he caught her hand,
as she reached out to remove the leaves
from the violet border.
She looked at him blankly-then un-
derstood. Her eyes opened wide like
child's.
He kept hold of her hand. and her
ewes finally dropped before his.
What on earth will Mrs. Judge
Brown say?"she gasped weakly
copyrighted. 1907, by Homer
Sprague.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
HUMOR or THE Day

Mistress-Bridget. what di you mean by
putting soap in the finger bowl of our
guest?
Waitress-Sure. an it's yerself told me
if L see amy one at the table in need
of anything 1 was to get it fur them an
say nothing.
Don't you disapprove of gossip?'
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne, but I'm
like everybody elSe-the more disapprove
of anything the more I seem to enjoy lis
tening to it,
He-Do you think it would be foolish of
me to marry a girl who was my inferior
intellectually?
She-More than foolish-impossible.
How old are your"
"I have seen 16 years.
How long have you been blind '-Co-
lumbus Press-Post.
1.-THE president distributes the plums.
"Quite So
What are Secretary Lobe's functions?''
He hands out the lemons. '-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Portly Dame-save me. oh. save mel
Fireman-I'u do my best, mum; but m
afraid I shall have to take you down in
INSTRUMENTATION Vivant.
Ethe1-she is sorry she ever married
Edith thought she could read him like
Ethel-she could; but she skipped all
the chapters but the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lyn Eagle.
Jiggers-It is estimated that there arr
four thousand cigarette fiends in Cleve
land
Jaggers-Reminds me of big fire.
Jiggers-Huh?
Jaggers-Heap of smoking ruins.-Cleve
land Leader.
Todd, your wife has voice like vel
vet"
Don't talk so loud. If she heard you
I should have to get her a new dress to
match it ''-Philadelphia Inquirer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe
If a woman has her children with her.
she never hears half what you say to
her.
Mention a kin quarrel and everyone
present, men or women, old or young,
will sit up and listen.
When a mans mother sides With his
wife in saying lie is guilty, publlc opin-
ion might as we'll hang him.
An Atchison man has picked UP the
poker by the hot end SO often that he
doesn't mind 1t as much as pet would.
Subject of debate at the next meet
ing of the Lancaster Literary society
why do men wear socks and wotnsn
hose?"
II you hand q man a lemon, be n
Samaritan instead Of a knocker, by
handing him sugar and ice water with
1t.
Nothing inpresses a man more, when
he looks back into the past, than the
Stiffness of the things he once cared
for.
What is the higher life? AT Atchison
woman, who has seven little noses 10
wipe, and does it well. wants to know
If she has reached II.
What has become of the doleful wo
man who gave Il warning to the chill.
dren that If they sang before breakfas'
they would cry before supper?
Girls should be careful In the use OF
powder In this weather Ine perSplra-
ton is apt to make little rolls OF 1t.
which may grow into biscuit or light
bread
1t is a wonder the women accomplish
as much as they do considering that
half their time in summer is spent In try
ing to get things to At in the refrigera-
tor.
A dozen lecturers will be distributed
through a Chautauqua programme, two
appearing daily for six days. And every
one Of them will complain that they
were given the worst day and the worst
hour.
What is the wel1-bred stare? We have
read in several of the magazines ana
books of recent publication of this Well
bred stare. The stories tell of how the
hero meets the heroine. and they ex-
change well-breds. A stare Is stare.
and we cannot see where the well bred
part comes in.
We've noticed that when man has
relative visiting him. the first DAY ne
tells how important his relative Is, and
what a big man he is, and how he may
be a candidate for president. But If the
relative remains too long, the host be-
gins to abuse him, and say: II he
amounted to much at home, he wouldn't
stay here SO long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
;, ,,t1, ELECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.l
Men are very useful for women to be
married to.
they think it isn't
You have to spend an awful lot of
,,onev that you can't afford to make
neople believe you can.
A nice thing about dishonest ancestors
20 how respectable you can be on the
money they stole.
A girl doesn't get real enjoyment out
of being engaged to man unless he
goes away so she can write love letters
to him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

cisco for refusal to testify against
Louis Glass in the graft cases. The last
time thinner got a sentence Of six
months. and even this did not save
Glass, who has now been found guilty
without Zimmer's testimony. One by
one the grafters fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the State "curnsI
nway during the summer Elny nave
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate OF ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month fhy
mail only. Address changed as OFTEN
as desired. While out OF town the
State Journal will be to you IAe
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, 1907-09-02

Colonel Watterson will now have to
take a brief vacation, it is feared, from
electing a dark horse presidential
candidate. while he rebuilds the
Courier-Journal Office at Louisville.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

We will have to pass up the apples
this fall and live on Kaw valley Dota-
toes. With 100000 bushels of spuds be-
tween Tecumseh and Turner, this part
of the universe won't exactly starve for
a few months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

Harper's Weekly now suggests
Colonel Henry Watterson as possible
Democratic candidate for President
Pretty soon Harper's Weekly will
have suggested the whole Democratic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

Stensland, the Chicago bank presi-
Dent who wrecked his bank and then
ran off to Africa, is already looking for
ward to a pardon. Some people GER
tainly believe in taking time by the
forelock or any other place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

A Russian revolutionist in New
York got homesick and went home to
be hanged. While he is doubtless
cured of his inconsistencies, the cure
has its disadvantages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

A skilled mechanic gets from $3.50
to $500 a day nowadays, with stea dy
employment the year around. A coun-
try school teacher gets 40 a month
for seven or eight months in the year.
No wonder there is a shortage of
@Machers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

The trolley car also appears to be
somewhat deadly. Fifteen were killed
and fifty were injured in trolley col
lision in Illinois be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

Secretary Taft has made so much
presidential hay recently that Foraker
will not be able to burn a quarter of it
up in the next three months. even by
working overtime and Sundays.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

1t is stated that B. p. Waggener
paid jamestown farmer 81 a ton for
a carload of dirt from an old alfalfa
field with which to inoculate a new
field that Mr.. Waggener desires to
SOW to alfalfa. At this rate raising
inoculated alfalfa dirt will add still
further to the value of alfalfa fields.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

Any promotion that comes to Harry
Bone as a result of his successful
prosecution of those Denver frauds
will receive the o. K. of the people of
Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
KANSAS COMMENT
TRIES TO CHECK REFORM.

TRIES TO CHECK REFORM.
The Minneapolis Messenger tries to
interrupt the glorious work OF reform
by injecting the old notion that re-
formers should first REFORM them
selves. Governor Riddle is lntelli-
gent enough to know that If the peo-
pie really did devote their energies to
TINS end, there would be NOBODY leIt
to look out for a wicked, cruel world.
Suppose some individual citizen
should do and be all that the governor
suggests, how could he get time to
see that his neighbor attended church
regularly; that he voted the right city
ticket; that the milk man didn't water
sugar; and above all, that John D.
Rockefeller didn't get any more re-
rates?
Governor Riddle says that just now
it is very popular to cr1tfc1Se the rail-
roads and the trusts. Pro badly they
have brought this upon themselves by
their own misconduct, and possibly
they are not getting any more than is
coming to them. But it may be well.
while calling attention to the beam in
others eyes to search for the mote
that is in your own?
AS for instance:
Have you returned for taxation all
your property and at its true value?
DO you use a seine for fishing?
Do you shoot game out of season?
Do you throw garbage in the street?
Are there weeds on your street
front more than a foot high?
Is your gasoline can painted red?
Do you use an abandoned well as
cesspool?
Do you run your automobile faster
than fifteen miles an hour?
Do you bury dead animals or throw
them in the river?
Do you pay the preacher what you
promised him or do you expect your
salvation free?
Do you leave your horse united on
the public street?
Do you pasture your chickens on
your neighbours garden?
DO you use profane language on the
public street?
When your neighbor is out of grain
do you charge him five cents a buShel
more for it at your own door than you
can get for. it after hauling it to
town?
Do you put the large potatoes on
top?
Are you as careful of rented prop
erty as if it were your own?
Did you ever in your whole life re-
turn a borrowed book?
Or an umbrella?
Do you listen with avidity to the
nasty gossip about your neighbor?
the printer Wichita Beacon.
JOHN DIS FEES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

The trouble with town bee-keepcrs
is that they don't keep them, but let
them run all over the neighborhood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

That Harvard professor who said
1t takes $4,000 to rear a child in a
middle class American family, was
evidently figuring on present day
raricaS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

The Kaw valley potato does its dut!
this year, even if wheat and some othe
things are a little off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

1t will take $14O.OOOOOO to run New
York city the coming year. No wonder
New York has trouble disposing of its
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

We are learning a few things about
the International Harvester company
even if nothing else comes of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
HARD LINES.

Now if the Geographic service
should be shut off in toto, and we
shouldn't get the baseball scores,
would life be worth living.-Portland
Oregonian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
EXTENsTvE wAsTE.

A moor. as the dictionary defines it,
is an extensive waste" That is what
the Moors are making of the district
around Casa Blanca,-New York Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

Schwab will give a million dollars to
q Pennsylvania college. Those Nevada
copper mines must be the real thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

Most criminals, instead Of being tried
by a jury of their peers, are tried by
Jury of their betters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

Won't it be nice when every famil,
can have its own gas well in its bach
yard?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

A good job not to have just now is
that of Sultan of Morocco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

E. ]. thinner. auditor OF the Pacific
States Telephone company, has been
areA times sent to Jail in San Fran
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
THEY ARE THE PARTY.

Louisville wants the next Demo-
cratic convention. Can't Mr.. Bryan
and Col. Watterson fix it up between
them.-P Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

Anyway, the White Sox are putting
I'D a hard fight for fifth place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02

oh. we'll, of what benefit is pennant,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
RAISING THE PRICE

Divine Right" Baer has raised the
price of coal, in the belief that the
public can also raise the price. =
Detroit News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-02
HAzING,

Hazing by any other name hurts just
as bnd.-Baltimore Sun