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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

hands on Tins hannel-covered shout
ders. o
Are you quite sure, Tim, that Bob
was following that law?'' she asked.
looking searchingly into his eyes. yet
confident of the answer.
"Sartin' sure" vouched Tim solemn
". '"Twas a fearful blow and Bob
was only f1ghtin' for your life, my lit
tie gall
With eyes dancing with gladness.
Jeanette leaned over farther, until
her windblown hair brushed the
guides clean brown cheek. There was
a whispered message and something
which sounded like kiss. Then jean
nette turned to her father, who smiled
tenderly and with responsive JOY.
"You won't forget. Tim dear? she
admonished. half playfully. half in
earnest.
The guide looked up. the red blood
showing through all his tan.
"By the John Rogersi" he Numbered
as he fastened out, 'T guess noti''--
Copyrighted. 1907. by Jessie Nor
GAM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14
FRON OTHER PENS
THAT EXCESSIVE FINE.

In addition to the claim that the
fine assessed upon the Standard Oil
company of Indiana is excessive and
therefore unconstitutional, it is as
serted in corporation quarters that
the penalty is negotiable inasmuch as
the government permitted the infrac-
tons of the law to accumulate until
the maximum fine levied on them at
tanned an unprecedented and crushing
total The charge is advanced that
the corporation should not be COM
PEELED to suffer because of the mac
tivity of the federal powers for a con-
sidera BILE period.
This claim will not bear close scru-
tiny and analysis In the first place.
the statute of limitations has not beer,
set up in the case That statute grants
to an offender certain margin of
grace for violations of the law which
are not detected or investigated or
formally charged within a reasonable
period. The theory upon which 1t is
based is that it spurs the law-enforce-
ment processes to greater activity
than though there was no time bar
rier. 1t is difficult to see how an Of
fender can secure immunity beyond
the statute upon the very principle
which forms the basis of the enact
ment.
Furthermore, the specific circum-
stances of this series of violations
must be taken into account. 1t is well
known that rebating has been prac-
IC0Q Dy LI6 Td1lrOdQS dIlQ lIlS great
shippers for a long time. 1t has, in
deed, been well understood for some
years. But there have been serious,
almost prohibitory, difficulties in the
way of proving the offense. There is
wide difference between common
knowledge and legal evidence of
fact. Only lately have the affairs OF
the corporations been sufficiently ex-
plotted to enable the Investigating and
prosecuting officers of the government
to ascertain the truth in such terms as
to satisfy the requirements of the law.
If the Standard Oil concern has
been successful in hiding its offenses
from the eye of the law for long
period that fact should not operate to
excuse it from meeting now the pen
atty incurred. 1t is to be assumed
that it went into the rebating bust
ness with its eyes open. 1t is sup
posed to know the law. in its full
terms. 1t is a primary presumption
of the law that in each case of rebate
giving this corporation realized that it
risked the payment of a certain sum
of money in fines. When it proceeded
to play this game to a point which
carried the possible fines far beyond
the capitalization and the gross assets
of the subsidiary company it ran
hazard which can not now be taken
into consideration IN palliation of the
offense or in reduction of the fine
Washington Star.
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THAT TWO CENT FARE RULING.

THAT TWO CENT FARE RULING.
The action of Attorney Grattan and
the railroad board in refusing to or
der the railroads to put in a straight
two cent fare passenger rate in Kan
sas is not so strange in itself. How
ever. the reasons given for refusing
to make the order have a queer sound.
The attorney for the board takes the
position that in several other states
the two cent law is being tested and it
would be better to await the result of
these proceedings.
Attorney General Jackson strikes
the keynote in his comment on the
action of the board when he says
that Kansas should fight her own bat
ties and work out her own destiny
and that no matter what decision is
reached elsewhere the Kansas board
will have to commence at the bottom
and face litigation just like other
states.
Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa all
have two cent passenger fare. While
Kansas has a limited two cent rate
there seems to be no good reason why
the people of the state are not entitled
to the same consideration from the
railroads as the people of the sister
states. Those states can afford to
await the result CT the litigation for
in the meantime all the people who
travel on the railroads pay no more
than two cents per mile for their
transportation. Kansas Is In a diff
ferent position and while the people
may be able to pay for the extra bur-
dens the tax comes hard.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.

Everybody laughs at militiamen.
Extremes of heat makes more liars
than profit and gain.
The average town is never as unsat-
isfactory as when providing entertain
ment for loafer.
toned man who could quote from the
Bible better than his wife?
What has become of the old-fash-
toned person who called a wagon filled
with household goods "flittin'?"
Every young man in love with a
mates the time it will take to learn
how to cook.
Even the man who paid for the par
lor furniture isn't to be trusted alone
with it and jackknife, and nothing to
do.
Don't slcp over in giving compli-
ments. A slopover compliment is never
taken seriously, and is liable to be Of
fensive.
There isn't much in the world but
work. Even people at summer resorts
must do a lot of rustling around to
have q good time.
About the time when s. man reaches
the age when he has time to read, his
experiences have been so much more
thrilling than those found in books that
he can't find interest in them.
The long illness had ended in death;
the undertaken had called and gone,
and the family sat alone in a room
off the one in which lay the corpse.
I'VE have cur worst ordeal before us,
said the widow. I'VE have suffered
privations, hardships, loss of sleep, and
now bereavement, but the climax OF
all is yet to be faced" The children
knew what she meant. Cant we
avoid it?" they suggested: Cant we
bury him after night so that no one
will know p" TT is no USE" moaned
the widow. For % years my husband
and have made it a rule never to per-
NIT the newspaper to print our name,
or furnish 1t with an item, and now he
has had to die and give 1t one" Where
upon her means were distressing to
hear. (From a newspaper reporters
dreaml.
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Henry's Answer.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.1

rFrom the Chicago News.1
Usually the flower of the family is a
blooming nuisance
Most of the sure things we bet on
are sure for the other fellow.
A fool will rush in where CRATER
is satisfied with a 1ook-in.
When we refuse to meet an emer-
gency it is apt to overtake u.s.
work by any other name would be
inst as distasteful to lazy man.
When one big trouble comes a man
ceases to worry about the little ones.
Many of the small minds that run
in the same channel get stranded on
the same bar.
When It comes to harvesting the
crop. a young man Is sorry he sowed
so many wild oats.
A man always says, We'll, I sup
pose you know your business best" as
If he didn't mean it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR
IFrom the New york Press.

TFrom the New York Press
Cheerful self-denia1 is something
YOU can find in a novel.
When a girl is bashful it's a sign
her mother is looking.
A nice thing about going fishing is
IT is such a good excuse for being a
liar.
not having any of his friends to bor-
row..
A woman can't have much faith in
her family physician unless he can tell
her how. to make the nasturtiums
grow bigger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14
THE R,OI,.

He was a FOOL and he knows It now.
That same is fact to note
He was a fool
BY every rule.
Or he wouldn't have rocked the boat.
The fool he rocked the little boat.
As fools are wont to do,
The girls they screamed,
The boy he beamed
And rocked the boat anew.
He was fool. and he knows II now,
AS fool he did his best
For the boat upset
And they all got wet;
And the fool-wel1, let him rest.
Frank Fair IN the st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
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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 cent?
week or thirty cents a month (ty
mail only. Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town the
State Journal will be TO you like n
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, 1907-08-14

ought to stop long enough to ascer-
tain that there Is an automobile that is
Just as good or better than any manu-
featured right here in Topeka. The
capacity of the Smith factory now is
almost one car a day and nearly 200
men are employed in their manu-
facture
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

Reports from Garden City indicate
that the sugar beet crop will be
double that of last year. There will
have to be some new banks started in
western Kansas to hold the money if
this thing keeps up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

Fred Jackson, the attorney general
of Kansas. who has made such a bril-
liant record may have to do some live
ly lodging if he keeps out of reach
of that gubernatorial boom.
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If there is any one who thinks that
Topeka is not keeping up with the
procession let him take a drive over
the city and note the many beautiful
and substantial residences that are
under construction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

The news service in every city ~
the United States is greatly curtailed
but nevertheless the people will know
what is going on. Even the telegraph
operators can not suppress facts thas
weople want to know
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

There are some mighty mean men
in the world. The man Robertson ar
rested in Topeka for defrauding par
ents by the means of false Informal
ton about their children is a shining
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

President L. F. Loree, whose ex-
perience with the Rock Island man
agement was anything but pleasant
seems to have jumped out of the fry
ing pan into the fire when he went to
the Delaware & Hudson River COM
rapv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

Frank Rockefeller's story about his
brother John D. may be little severe
on the Standard OIL king, but there
are lot of people who would accept
any statements derogatory to the oil
king even from a less reliable auth
Orffx
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

That s29.oOo,OOO fine probably
doesn't look any bigger to the Stand
ard than a five dollar fine assessed by
Judge Urny does to the average Of
fender at the police station.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

"Please Mister Railroad. won't you
be good?" seems to be the method
adopted by the Kansas railroad board
for enforcing orders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14
PROPHECY REALIZED

The author of 1.-THE Blue and the
Gray, Judge Francis M. Finch of
ithaca, N Y, died last Wednesday at
the age of so. He lived to see the
sentiment and spirit of the most IA
nous or Memorial days poems widely
accepted, and in many instances car
r1ed out to the letter-Cleveland
Plain Dealer re
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

There is a good deal of complaint
about Topeka's new asphalt pavement
made by the people who do not use
It but nevertheless it will be here for
some years to come and will continue
TO be the most satisfactory pavement
II the city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

There is satisfaction in living in
Kansas. If the weather is bad the
resident always knows that it will
rival that of Italy in a few days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

The horse may be going out Of style
but there is nothing that can quite
equal the satisfaction of sitting be-
hind spirited team.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

The te1egraphers strike is apt to get
the people into the habit of using long
distance telephones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14
KANSAS COMNENT
HOW 1T WORKS.

A Sabetha woman spent all the pleas
ant twilight hours alone on the porch,
with the other children, and her hus-
oahd moved the grass, weeded the
garden, fed the horse, and gossiped over
the back fence; with his neighbor. Fin
the mountains. She packed up her
traps and the children and departed.
thinking by way of consoling herself
Tor leaving her husband, "Well, he will
nave SO much to keep him busy, he can
NIX the yard, and has wanted time for
extra work that he won't miss me-"
But contrary Mr.. Man tries the lawn
mower Tor few minutes, but it is too
lonesome with no one on the porch to
crfticise. Then he goes into the evening
paper, but the absence of fnterfuptfnS
questlons leaves all the zest out of this
evenings edition. He tries the horse,
put thinks 1t is such nuisance to feed
the horse while no one uses it that the
next day he sends it to the country.
Next evening he gets out the maya
zines but after starting up half
Gozen times to call his wife over from
the neighbors, that pastime is also put
aslde, At the Office after the third
days wrestling with restaurant meals
and getting his own. breakfast, he finds
that he cannot attend to his business
Then he rushes for the telegraph office
and sends this message, For heavens
sake come at once; am about to lose
job."-Sabetha Herald.
GAS MADE FROM CoRNCoBs.
Here is a chance for every country
town in existence which is located in
farming community. Beatrice, Neb.,
has the distinction of being the first
city in the world to have gas plant
in which gas is manufactured for heat
ing and lighting purposes from corn
cobS, cornstalkes and wheat and oats
straw. The 100000 plant of the new
gas company, which received a fran
chiSe about year ago. began last week
to furnish its customers with gas. The
only raw materials used are baled
straw. cornstalks and cobs. No coal is
used. The company owning the pro-
cess is the International Heating and
Lighting company of Cleveland, Ohio,
and the local franchise was granted to
the Rev. Charles Eaton of that city,
who Is the pastor of John D. Rookie
feller's church. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Rockefeller is interested in the
company. The promoters predict that
when the use of waste materials or the
farm for making gas becomes general
through the agricultural west the effect
upon domestic and social economy Will
be revolutionary.-Sabe Herald.
THE DIFFERENCE.
Indiana farmers offered 80 day and
the company of their daughters as an
to secure harvest hands.
That's just the difference. In Kansas
the farmers wouldn't have to throw in
the $9.-Osborne Farmer.
-
AN EXPLANATION.
A good share of an editors time is
taken up explaining that he cannot use
comps" which people insist on trad |
ing him for advertising to pay the
printers on Saturday night.-Holton |
Signal. 40 a5a fG
.rI GOING TOO FAR
We have stood for Maf1as and Black |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

Anyhow President Roosevelt says
that whether we strike or not we may
have a holiday on September 2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

The Kansas brewery receivers have
been strangely silent for a week or
more. It may be the lull before the
Storm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

The state railroad board evidently
takes the view that the people of
Kansas are able to wait until the rail-
roads get ready to put in a two cent
fare rate on their own motion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

The thieves who robbed the anti
herse thief association in southern
Kansas certainly believe in rubbing
IL in"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

Let 1t be known that the Wisconsin
tornado didn't originate in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

The Kansas farmers will have to
enlarge their corn cribs this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

The Junction City girl who eloped
in an automobile believes in being up
to date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14
BEWARE.

Beware of the man with a scheme to
make you rich quick As rule it's
himself he wants to make rich and he
will make YOU poor in doing fixing
man Leader. r.
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EOCUEDi

The railroad claims North Carolina
butted in the clinches but the referee
didn't see it.-Brooklyn Standard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14

HUNOR OF THE DAY
Professor Gin geology)-There are two
great uplifting machines in existence.
,siumbering soph CwaIzing upl-Alarm
clocks and elevators.-Columbia Jester.
$50 poor Jones. the toymaker, has gone
out of his mind
Yes He has been busy for three months
get it to work.-Ally SIoper.
Mrs. neutrality-suspicious.: Just listen to
ing; Evidently he's missed his vocation.
train.-Phiadelphia Press.
Doctor-In time this trouble will effect
Fair Patient Gin tone of relieD-I was
afraid it would compel me to bive up so
ciety.
What t this Esperanto hear people
The universal language"
Who speaks it?''
Nobody that know Of"
Hostess-Yes, the walls of our flat are
SO thin that my husband and learned
the deaf and dumb alphabet.
Friend-What for?
Hostess-so that we could Quarrel with
out being overheard by the neighbors.
Friend-But suppose your party were to
throw you overheard. dear boy?
Promising Young Politician Gull of con-
fidence)-Well. should have strength to
swim to the other side. old chap.
Mabel know. George. that you have
not much money. but you needn't worry.
as I don't care for money! Only let me
and I'll willingly share your poverty. no
matter how poor you are.
What books have helped you most?
asked the sincere and serious young wo-
Mr. Brown, but they were mostly stories
with love and fighting in them. You see,
began to get prosperous"
first appearance?" asked a man Of a
friend who had just Joined the theatrical
ooh. got on well enough" was the re-
ply. but I couldn't get of half quick
enough
A Scotchman in New Zealand was Civ
ing a visitor some account, of his exper-
lenses dgring the the ear shock
-crockery Jumping off the shelves"
mair surprised still. I've been marrit near
thirty years, an it's ABBOTT the only trou-
for for :" 'Ne "'0Se S''e "iSHa Oia'heu ii'e
Governess (who has told her small pupil
the story of THE Fox and the Grapes }
Now. isn't that a clever story, Ethel?
Ethel-Clever? Not a Bit That fox
was nothing but a goose. He pretended
the grapes were sour;what he should have
said was ooh, what beautiful grapesl So
tempting and so sweet! But my doctor has
told me never to eat sweet things. so I
must refrain"
Lily-Wasn't there a romance connected
with their engagement?
Rose-Oh, yes; they both romanced
about their wealth.
If you touched that jam again?
Tommy-Why, it's funny, ma that you
should forget too. I'm bothered If I can
remember
Lady-Your references are far from sat
isfactory.
Maid-References go for little nova
days. Yours were no good, but I thought
I'd try you.
Smere-The majority Of the rich people
who patronize us artists don't know any
thing about art.
Merlitt-NIy boy, it's lucky thing for
you that they don't.
MY dear Mrs. Croesus may I not put
your name down for tickets to Prof Pun
dts course of lectures on Buddhism"
"Oh by all means! You know how pas
sionately fond 1 am OF flowers
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While Kansas people are buying
gneir automobiles In the east they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-14
A Luminous Comment


A Luminous Comment.
The late Isidore Wormser, the mill
honaire banker of New York. laid the
foundation of his business success as
clothter in San Francisco. An aged
San Franciscan said of him recently:
Mr.. Wormser was a shrewd man.
II you laid a proposition before him
ne saw at glance whether it was
good or bad. true or false, and in an
epigrammatic and illuminating way
he passed judgment on it,
For instance, I once heard a man
explaining palmistry to Mr.. Wormser
The man was an ardent pa1mist. He
insisted that the lines in the hand
Bible. He said that the wise every
where believed in the pa1mist s
science.
- Now, here he went on, opening
his hand, here is the life line This
line indicates infallibly how long you
will live
Eyes said Mr.. wormser. Isn't it
funny. though, that the life insurance
companies pay no attention to it?'''
A Neat Rebuke.
1.-THE late Julia Magruder, as her
ried firt," saiG a Washington woman.
ct once heard her, at the seashore, re-
buke married fiirt rather neatly.
THE woman, young and pretty, was
adorers-football and golf and tennis
champions from the leading colleges
very young, but very handsome, very
charming lads.
Late one night. on Miss Magruder's
return from a dinner, she found the
in the hall of the hotel alone It was
very late. Every one else had gone to
bed. The young woman was embar-
raised. But she looked up and laugh
to say, she extended her handkerchief
and murmured:
"'See, have a knot in my handker-
chief, and I can't remember what it
" Perhaps said Miss Magruder.
smiling gravely, perhaps it was put
there to remind you that you are mar
ried.'"
Not That Kind.
John c. Risley of Detroit, at the New
York convention of the International
of Hotel and Restaurant En-
Eloy es-a convention notable for It's
of the tipping system
said to a reporter:
1.-THE public thinks that we walters
get rich off our tips. The public is very
ignorant in this matter. When l think
Of it's dense ignorance, am reminded
of DOnI1Cdl L dIlcioOo last
April. There was chap at this meet
Ing who knew nothing of parliament
tary procedure. and. besides that, he
was half full. Well, in the course of
the meeting there was lot of excite
ment and shouting. 1t grew worse and
worse The chairman, in the END, had
TO hammer on the table and yell:
order! Order!'
Beer for me- said the ignorant
young man..
Henry's Answer.
Senator Foraker was taking In Aenia,
D., about a political opponent
s'I shall answer him." said the sena-
or. smiling, land I fear that my an
ywer will be as satisfying, as unpleas-
.ntly satisfying. as the elderly hus-
7aud's was You know, there was an
,lderly husband to whom his wife said
me day:
Henry. it's a world Of trouble, and
ife is very uncertain. But promise me-
Z I should be taken away, that you
rill never marry that horrid Mary
simmons
"T can easily promise you that
Henry replied. She refused me three
lines when I was a much handsomer
nan than am today
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Mabel know George that you have
not much money. but you needn't worry.
as l don't care for money! Only let me
have plenty of dresses and nice things.
and III willingly share your poverty, no
matter how poor you are.