davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
LAYHA WKER .JOTS

A Winfield man overdid matters
this year by raising a sunf1ower four
teen inches in diameter and 8 Il feet
i'll circumference.
The Great Bend RustIer gives the
following comforting advice: Don't
get excited. This hot weather won't
last alwayS-not yet"
The Downs Times takes few mo-
ments off from scratching to brand as
liar the fellow who told it that CHG
gers could not be found in blue grass
and white clover.
Society item in the Cawl1er Record:
A party of girls went wading in the
river last Monday. Ugh! Snakes,
cells, and other crawling things fol-
lowed by squeals and chiggers.
An Atchison county woman last
week found a big rattlesnake in her
blackberry patch. and killed it. When
she went to the house. she drew a
bucket of water from the well, and
found a small rattlesnake in the
bucket
The Wilson Echo last week ran
something like $40 inches of adVertiS-
ing. An exchange scratches it's head
but cannot recall having heard much
complaint that the mail order houses
are eating up the local merchants at
Wilson.
Leavenworth Post: Willie Calvin
the printer. went down to the river to
his clothes on the brakebeam of a
freight car. When he came out the
car had been moved several blocks
and Calvin couldn't find weeds tall
enough to hide his form. He finally
reached his clothes. but he had to sub
ject himself to lot of inspection be-
fore he got them.
Down in southern Kansas a man
was arrested on the charge of selling
something stronger than two per cent.
court house it contained four per cent.
The lawyers for the defendant put up
the plea that the beer when it was
carried to the court house from the
joint, was exposed to the sun, fer
rnented and created an additional two
per cent. The man was acquitted.
Bert Walker, who has been exposed
to matrimony several times, but who
has never yet took it, hands out this
advice: Young lady, don't worry so
much because you haven't accom-
plishments," Possibly you can't play
a good game of whist, but the ability
to play whist never won anybody
happy home. Possibly you can't do
the rye waltz or two-step like but
teri!y, but those accomplishments
won't lay you up any particular joys
for the days of your gray
catch by reason of such accomplish
ments wouldn't be worth ten-cent
piece with a hole in it. If Nature
gave you a sweet voice it Is all right to
have it cultivated, but you will find in
the years to come that there is more
money in being able to cook good
dinner and get it on the table than In
singing a sweet little love ditty. Don't
moan because you can't play the
piano. hut go into the kitchen and
learn to fry a beefsteak- Don't cry
because you can't sing, but put on an
apron and learn to mix up batch OF
bicuits Your piano may get out OF
tune and your voice grow rusty but
the beefsteak and biscuits will never
wear out nor the old man grow weary
of them. OF course, don't mean for
YOU to make a beefsteak and biscuit
your goal, but as you are passing
along this life's rocky roadway you
Will find it a coed idea to take them
with you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.I


A man is seldom anxious to meet
his old sweetheart after he has mar
ried some other woman, but he is pref
ty apt to if the girl makes a better
catch.
For years we have been charging that
soup is good for people. Now comes a
noted doctor who says soup is injuri-
GUS to the stomach and should be
thrown into the swill barrel.
People are not devoted to your in
terests; you must have noticed it.
Therefore You should give your inter
ests a lot of intelligent attention. For
If you don't do it, no one will.
When a woman goes out into the
harvest field, to help her father, or
her husband, does she get a mans
wages for her work? A reply is await
ed with feverfsh eagerness by the only
equal suffragist left in Atchison.
You have been saving the country,
and your neighbors, and your town, a
good many years: why not do some
thing for yourself? Why not attend
to your own affairs more, and trust
the country, and the neighborhood?
Occasionally you meet a cheap man
with his nose high in the afr. Don't
pay any attention to him. The cheap
men are never q force in a communi-
ty Do the best you can, and the first
thing you know the man with his nose
in the air Will take it down to observe
your prosperity.
So many people live uncomfortable.
Why not drop some of your big and
foolish schemes, and make home more
comfortable? Get along better with
those with whom you are intimately
associated. If you do not get along
comfortably with your wife, ever occur
to you that yeu naight accomplish it,
with a little effort? And there is
rothing equal to a pleasant life at
home Pap attention to the small things,
and the big things will take care Of
themselves. Live simply, honestly and
industriously, and you needn't worry
about your future prospects.
Some people are crazy over society
women" We don't care for them.
They are nearly all like pretty girls:
pie suit us good deal better than So
cfety women. or pretty girls Just at
present, we are in love with a 13 year
old girl who, her mother says, is the
best child in the world. When this lit
tie girls mother has company, the
mother eats at the first table, and the
child waits. and looks after things.
Tie Globe has often contended that
success is easier than failure We can
TIove it by an example in Atchtson. We
know two brothers here who are sue
ceeding. They have always been good
sons, and they gre now. good citizens.
They are making a success in life, and
are known as useful, worthy men. We
also know two brothers who have al
ways been troublesome and worthless.
People point to them as horrible exam
nles. They have been a curse to their
parents and to Atchison. Our conten-
ton is that the worthy brothers have
had an easier time than the worthless
brothers. No doubt about 1t. Work
isn't hard; it is loaf1ng, and dissipation
and dsalbeatism that ara hard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

The Hutchinson News votes in ia
vor of tying a can to Vespasian War
ner as pension commissioner. While
the actions that have recently brought
him before the public may not keep
Commissioner Warner from being
fair official, yet his course in attempt
ing to prevent his stepmother from
inheriting a share of his fathers
estate is not such as to commend him
to most fair minded men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

[F'rom the New YORK Press.
When she wears fever blisters it's a
sign she is a summer girl.
a sleeping car is a nice thing to make
one enjoy q sleep when he gets out Of it.
The more money a man can earn the
more useful it is to those who get it
away from him.
When you kiss a girl in the dark it
makes her Indignant for fear you won't
believe it made her blush.
No matter how late a man comes
home at night his wife will believe he
was at the office when she explains 1t
TO others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the state Sournl'
away during the SJIInEccr may t.Ssf
the paper mailed regularly Gael. cay
- any address at the -ate of ten cents
a week Or thirty cents Il noslfll s"y
mail only. Address changed as often
as desired. Wsd;c out Of cown the
State journal win be 20 So1 like "
daily letter from home.
Advance payment L. requested ON
these short tlcne Subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping cXpr-5e.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

reduce their rates. 1t is to be hoped
that our board OF railroad commission
ers viii get busy here as the express
companies in the state of Kansas need
regulating badly" The Reporter might
suggest to the board that it write
polite and ladyIike note to the express
companies. asking them to please lower
their "a faS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Texas is usually looked upon as a
gun-toting state. yet Texas has passed
a law to discourage the sale of re-
volvers The man who sells revolvers
down there must hereafter pay to the
state a special tax of fifty per cent of
the gross profits on his entire bust
ness. There will be few dealers who
will sell revolvers in Texas In the fu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Governor Campbell. of Texas. says he
is bound to bring H. Clay Pierce, the
oil magnate. into Texas for trial for
breaking the antitrust law if it lies
within the power Of the state of Texas
to do it. The governor talks like man
who means business-if this wasn't said
merely for home consumption.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
KANSAS COMAENT

WAGGENER AND. CHILDREN
The Republicans of Jackson and
Atch1son counties fentered into an ar
rangement several years ago by which
the nomination for state senator
should go first to one county and then
70 the other. By that arrangement
the nomination will come to Jackson
county next year. While no an
nouncements have been made, the in
dication is that there will be two. cam
dldates-Albert Sarbach and John ID.
Myers. The Republicans lost the SEN
ator four years ago when Bale P.
Waggener carried both counties. 1t
Is not known whether Mr.. Waggener
cares for a second term. He is a top
notcher in Atchison county, and has
strong following in jackson. No jack
son county Democrat has yet been
mentioned for the position. Mr.. wag-
gener celebrated his 60th birthday
last Thursday with a children's pic
mic. He ran special trains all over
the county and gathered in several
thousand little folks. and gave them
say Waggener did that for a political
purpose, which is a great libel. 1t
was his eighth annual children's pic
ME- 1t was given because Mr.. Wag
gener loves children. And IL is tho
opinion of large per cent of the
fathers and mothers of the land that
the man whose heart warns up to
children is a pretty good kind of
fellow, whether he be a politician. or
just an ordinary mortal.-Holton
Signal.
CONCORDIA'S DISTINCTION.
The Concordia Kansan, in a write
up OF an entertainment given there,
and the program consisted of Fan
ning's Song of the Vikings" Men
delssohn's 81 Waited for the Lord
Gounod's Lovely Appear" Unfold.
Wave;" "Dost Thou Know" from
Thomas's "Mignon;" Handel's "Hal-
lelujah Chorus and a selection from
"Stabet Mater" In the average COM
mun1ty concert would have been
anything but popular if the program
had included anything heavier than
Creole Bellies Lucy Anna" >and
Everybody Works But Father If
Hallelujah Chorus" by Babylon's
Wave" and "Stabet Mater" are popu-
lar in Concordia, then Concordia has
a worthier claim to distinction than
that of being the hottest and the
town in the Fifth district.
Journal.
STUBBS
Stubs is hearty also honest; Stubs
is frank, ditto fundamental; Stubs is
sympathetic, likewise serene: all these
things and more. He has many of the
qualities of La Toilette, a number be-
longing to Governor Cummins of Iowa.
Go to the chautauqua Saturday after
noon and get line on the man, for it
is altogether probable that he will be
the next governor of Kansas.-Clay
Center Times.
FOR THE PEOPLE.
Our railroad commissioners have
done one thing. and all their critics
will have to acknowledge it. They
have "requested'' all the railroads in
Kansas to reduce. passenger fare to two
cents per mile.-Jewell Republican.
-
AWi
Divorces are said to be almost I'M
known in Greece. Wish this country
could get along matrimonially as
slick as Greeee.-Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Lost. Strayed or Stolen: One Balkan
war cloud. May possibly be obscured
by the Pacific war cloud that one r.
P. Hobson has turned loose. Finder
will please return to it's native heath
in southeastern Europe and receive
no reward
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

"All present day methods Of raising
children are wrong" asserts Professor
Frederick Starr, of the University of
Chicago. 1t is suspected, however, that
Professor Starr has failed to investi-
gate all of the present day methods of
raising children, as a diverse method
is employed in each of the several mill
lion families in this country that are in
the business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Professor STAIRS declaration that no
children are raised by the right methods
in these days. leads to the conclusion
that Professor Starr is a crusty old
bachelor. Most of them talk like that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Kansas City has built the finest
union station in the country on paper,
but the people who go there the
railroads still have to use that old af-
fair of the vintage of 40 that mas
Querades as a union depot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

North Carolina appears to be laboring
under the impression that it can pass
laws that even railroad companies are
bound to respect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

One of the men higher up in San
Francisco succeeded in getting a hung
jury, thanks to a friend who chose to
go to jail rather than give the evidence
that would positively convict.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

The fact that seven men on the jury
voted for the conviction of Louis
Glass probably gave that gentleman a
pain, but it would not be absolutely
necessary to refer to It as a pain of
Glass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Belgium also has prohibition. 1t has
prohibited the manufacture and sale of
absinthe. Now you will doubtless hear
something about personal liberty
from Belgium
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

One never hears of a flood in New
Jersey. The surplus water is probably
used up by the trusts In watering
their stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Admiral Dickens says there will be
no war with Japan. Which will doubt
less lead Captain Richmond Pearson
Hobson to exclaim, THE Dickens!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
DEMoCRATIc AcCoRD.

Mr.. Hobson says war with Japan is
sure to come. Mr.. Bryan, on the other
hand, says there will be no war. That's
about as near as, the Democrats can
come to agreeing on anything.-Kan-
sas City STAG
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Now that Attorney Delmas has Sc
cured a hung jury in the Glass case
as well as in the Thaw trial, the sus-
picion may arise that he makes a
speciality of hung juries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Now that the emperor of Korea has
been persuaded to abdicate, New York
has hopes Of Depew and Plat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

1.-THE board of railroad commissioners
In Nebraska" remarks the Ellsworth
Reporter. SIS bringing the express COM
nanies to time by compelling them to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
GAME CALLED.

Game called. The days hot work is done;
me player is a man again
ana even as you and other men
IS grateful that his rest is won.
Game called. The bIeachers right to groan.
He purchased with few poor pence
is forfeited Outside the fence
The Player calls his soul his own
Game called. The effort which they cneered
Was good because they saw it win;
For failure is our only sin:
A stronger struggle-and they Jeered.
Game called. And wehave spent our breath.
No more the mad mob roars and frets.
The world turns from us and forgets;
The Game OF Life. the Umpire. Death.
Game called. An Error or a Hit?
Why, what to us are praise or blamef
Home beckons"and the Lights are lit.
Edmund Vance Cooke in Appleton's
Magazine.
'eTer-day's de Day err de Sackyfice."
The August American Magazine con-
tains the story of a wonderful negro,
Big Frank" whose loyalty to his
master must surely stand as unsur-
the author tells how Frank came to
be married. This particular event
which is quite apart from the main
story, happened in this way:
"One morning before / was out of
bed Frank came in and stood at the
door, just inside, dropping his hat on
the floor. At the instant of my turn
ing to look at him 1 saw in his usually
downcast eyes that look Of utter trust,
confidence, and affection, the eyes of
a faithful dog.
well Frank?'
Eff you please, sab, eff you got de
time. kin you loan me two dolIars?'
Do you need it bad. Frank?
'Ya'as, sah.'
Don't Doctor Joe pay you
enough?'
"'Ya'as, sah.'
81 know he does; wasn't Saturday
"'Ya'as, sah.'
Didn't you get your money?
Ya-as, sab, but Aunt Sue got it.
What do you want with two dol
lars today?'
I needs it,
What for?'
ITO get marriage license
When are you going to get mar
ried?'
"'Fo long,
"'How long?'
"'F'o' long,
well. when? Next week?'
'Fo' dat
Sunday
"'F'o' dat
Tomorrow
"'Fo' dat
"'Well, when?'
g Dis mOrnin'.'
" Who are You going to martyr
"'You knows her.
'''Who Is it?'
"'Aunt Sue
"'You don't mean that you are go
ing to marry that old harridan? Why
she's old enough to be your grand
mother
"'Ya'as, sah.'
why, what on earth! Why, Frank!
I'm amazed at you! What are you
marrying Old Sue for? She'll make life
miserable to you
"'Yaas, sab; knows dat; but she's
terminated to have me, an I done re-
signed my consent-an' ter-day's de
day err de sackyfice.'"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Mr.. Glass. OF San Francisco, does
not appear to be entirely smashed just
yet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
GENERAL sTOEssEL.

A Russian court martial that stayed
at home during the war with Japan
and helped defeat the Russian army
is trying General Stoessel for coward
ice. He was in reality the nearest
thing to a hero that Russia put in the
held.-Birmingham News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
FROM OTHER PENS
WHO is THIS MAN DARRow?"

WHO is THIS MAN DARROW?"
1t was in 1888 that Chicago first be-
gan to ask the question above. AS the
trial of Meyer ana Haywood has pro-
ceeded. the country has been asking
the question with some degree of in
terest, for it has been evident that
Darrow is more than hired attorney
in this case. He is pleading for a
cause as well as arguing for a client,
and the cause is one very near to his
heart. Yet it is one of the paradoxes
of the day that this man who is de-
Tending so ardently labor leaders ac-
cused of having carried on for years
terrorist campaign in America Is him
resistance. The paradox becomes
greater rather than less when 1t is
known that Haywood's library con-
tains several of Darrow's idealistic
books, and that barrow is, in his own
way, very much of a revolutionist. To
understand militant Socialism in this
country or in any other, or indeed to
understand Nihilism or Anarchism or
any of the revolutionary isms that are
giving food for reflection and appre-
hension in all countries of the Old
World and are invading the New, one
must understand this combination of
idealism with what seems to the world
at large as a reckless disregard of So
cial rights and obligations. Even such
extreme types as CzOlgosZ and Herr
Most and Emma Goldman have this
same lQeallSJC III ln6In. DO
have the bomb-throwers of Russia. So
had the foster-fathers of the French
revolution. You can not understand
radicalism unless you understand the
idealistic side of the radical leaders.
They are everlastingly differing with
one another and Quarreltng over meth
DDS of setting the world right; but they
all have the idealistic strain in COM
mon. A study of Clarence Darrow is,
therefore, in a sense a study of all
the radical leaders of social revolution
the world over.
For years barrow has been recog-
nized protagonist of labor, to use
mouth-filling phrase. Twelve years
ago, when Eugene V. Debs was impris-
oned as q result of his activities in the
great railway strike in Chicago. OAR
row became his legal champion. Three
years later he defended Thomas I.
Kidd and two striking woodworkers
who were charged with having con
spired,' through their union. Ito in
jure the business of a great lumber
company in Oshkosh. Wis His argu-
ment, which has been printed in pam
phlet form and is pronounced BY no
less critic than William Dean How
ellis "as interesting as a novel" result
ed in the acquittal of his clients.-Cur-
rent Literature for August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
wives Who Never Speak.

The Korean woman who speaks or
even mods on her wedding day imme-
diately becomes an object of ridicule
and loses caste. Neither threat nor
prayer must move her for the whole
household is ever on the alert to catch
a single nuttered syllable Her period
of silence often lasts for a week or
more and when complete silence is
broken she only uses her tongue for
the most necessary uses.
Some sixty years ago a native of
Pennsylvania undertook. for wager
of $50, to remain mute for the first
month of her marriage, Her husband,
not being in the secret, left her, only
to return later when he was apprised
of the real reason of her silence.
A Brussels couple named Dupont
quarreled so bitterly on their wedding
day that the wife vowed that her hus-
band should never hear her voice
again. His entreaties went for moth
ing and to her dying day she kept to
the letter of her oath.-London Tit
Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
avn

Divorces are said to be almost I'M
known in Greece. Wish this country
could get along matrimonially as
slick as Greeee.-L.awrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
A CONCRETE FACT.

Nebraska's 100000 bushel wheat
crop is certainly worth more than
Bryan's oratory, but it does not fol-
low that it is more interesting. The
wheat crop is a concrete fact.-Pitts-
burg DISPATCH.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
Exemplary.

Freddie had been spending the day
with his aunt, and has been duly in
structed beforehand as to his behav-
Tor. Upon his return his mother ques-
toned him as to what he had said
and done while away from home. His
conduct seemed to have been most ex-
emplary in every way
"I'm glad you were such a good lit
tie boy" complimented his mother
land didn't take a second helping of
meat"
mo, ma" replied Freddie, very
proudly. at remembered what you'd
told me, and said I'd take two plates
of ice-cream instead."-Harper's
Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Visitor (to the country theatrical man
ager)-But why have you 50 small a stage
and so deep an orchestra?
Stage Manager-That is a brilliant Idea
of mine. When the audience throw things
at the actors, they fall short and hit the
musicians. Musicians are cheaper than
actors.-Meggendorf Blatter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Mrs. Handout-You say you used to
take baths regular twice a week?
Weary Waggles-Yes, lady. 1 used to fol-
Ter up de Baptist camp meetings and git
week for what dere wuz in it.-Eife. L
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

Mrs. Lawson-How can Mrs. Wykes-
leigh afford TO keep three servants?
Mrs Dawson-Oh, she plays bridge with
them every Monday afternoon and wins
back all their understandable Journal