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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

From the tone of Mr.. Carnegie's ad-
dress in opening the peace conference
at New York yesterday, it is evident
that he is not participant in the rich
mems conspiracy to down the presi-
dent He eulogized Mr.. Roosevelt most
highly. In speaking of the possibility
of organizing an international league
of peace among the nations, Mr. Carne-
gle said:
Perhaps our president may yet have
that part to play. He seems born for
great roles in the worlds drama. He
it was who breathed the breath of life
into The Hague conference by sending
five leading powers to 1t for the settle
ment of their disputes; who closed the
war between Russia and Japan; who
recently induced Mexico and several of
our neighboring southern republics to
join in remonstrance against war be-
tween two of the smaller powers. This
first step in the right direction heralds
the day when such Intervention will be
made effective by agreement between
the American powers.
Would that the great peacemaker
of the future might be Theodore
this last would lift him to the highest
place in history. He is a bold man
who ventures 20 forecast or limit the
horoscope of Theodore Roosevelt"
Thus Mr.. Carnegie adds another job
to the long list proposed for President
Roosevelt after he is through with his
present work. But the president would
probably take 1t up as a sfde-line, if
at all. He can do half a dozen such
tasks simultaneously without overtax-
ing himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
GOING DRY.

The thirteenth day of April was evil
| IDENTIFY an unluckys one for the brewing
| companies that have property in Kan
sas. 1t was the day on which the su-
preme court of the state dealt them
blow which will make it impossible for
them to maintain agencies or own prop
erty in Kansas. Hereafter all of their
Kansas business will have to be conduct
ed at long range.
Attorney General Jackson is getting
at the men higher up in the lfquor
business in Kansas. One of the difficult
ties in dealing with the joint situation
heretofore has been that when a joint
has been raided 1t has been difficult to
fix the ownership of the property. Those
in charge would deny connection with
the place, and if the stock and fixtures
were confiscated by the officers, an out
side brewing company would claim the
property and bring a replevin suit to get
possession of it; and soon the joint
would again be running.
This new move by the attorney gen.
eral will make that impossible The su-
preme court enjoins all the brewing
companies known to be doing business
in Kansas from using their property in
violation of law, and they are also en-
y
from the state.
1t is reported that one concern that
had tremendous stock at Wichita had
a force of men working Saturday night
and all day Sunday packing it's goods
and shipping them out to Oklahoma
before the order of the court could be
served on them.
This and the custer suits against the
officers of cities that have been licensing
joints will probably put an end to the
open joint business in Kansas. The
booze drinker will now have to depend
on the bootlegger, the law-breaking
drug store, and the express companies
for material to Quench his thirst. These
agencies are also having trouble. The
whisky drug store is finding itself under
stricter surveillance than formerly;
bootlegging is on the list of extra haz-
ardous occupations, and the express
trade in liquor is being constantly
abridged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

[From the Chicago News.1
Many a bluff refuses to come when
it is called.
A back stoop NAV be all right-if it
isn't on your shoulders.
How frequently has a large hope
been erected on a small foundation!
And the man who knows it all never
fails to tell just little more.
Many a young man worships a. girl
on his knees-if she's sitting there.
A changeabIe climate is all right as
long as it can be changed for a better
one. t-s
Get on to the sidetrack when you
meet men who point with pride or
view with alarm.
Did you ever notice what a lot of
friends you haven't got when you hap
pen to need one?
After a man has reached the point
where people envy him it is difficult
for him to pose as a DeSsimist.
When man is forced to swallow
his own words he is apt to suffer from
a serious attack of mental indigestion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Even a rowboat may be for sale.
Is the music of the church bell al
ways inspired?
Some women wear well on acquaint-
ance, and others wear eff.
No, Maude, dear. the first lady Of the
land is scarcely a landlady.
The doc with a tin can tied to his
tail draws his own conclusions.
Money goes somehow. A fellow
must either plank down or cough up.
Many a musical conductor doesn't
know how to conduct himself properly.
Blobbs--'Wigwag is always in trou-
ble" Slobbs-"Yes; he says he can't
even buy a shoe without putting his
foot in it"
Nell-"My eyes pain me-" Belle
well YOU know the eyes are the WIN
dows of the soul, so. of course, they
have panes in them"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Definition: The ring" in politics. is
always the crowd that we are opposed
to.
No more jokes about killing the peach
crop should be permitted. It isn't right
to joke about the dead.
The strawberry shortcake is now ripe,
but there is still more cake than straw
berry.
A criminal who has been arrested in
Canada is wanted in Pittsburg. That
does away with the theory that Pitts
burg already has all the wicked folks
1t wants.
Dementia baseballiana really appears
more crazy than the Americana variety.
y
A remarkable occurrence happened
Saturday. This page came out with
Harriman's name mentioned only seven
times.
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Greek EnterDrise

AS almost the only tourists in that
part of Greece in summer time we were
looked upon as a prize to be captured
at all costs and were eagerly solicited
by representatives of the two rival
hotels at Olympia who met US as we
landed at Patras, says a writer in The
Travel Magazine. After our choice was
made the victorious manager sent a
courier with US to Olympia lest we go to
the other hotel by mistake. Provisions
for our use during our stay were also
sent by the same train. Our hotel
proved cool, clean and mosquito-netted;
and our almond-eyed Turkish waiter,
Constantine, was a model of politeness
and suavity. He served us sweet, black
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
WHY NOT DISARMAMENT.

The reason why disarmament, as is
proposed by some opponents of peace,
is impracticable is forcibly set forth
by President Roosevelt in the letter
which he sent to the peace congress
yesterday.
1t Is argued by some that our navies
should be dtsmantled and our standing
armies disbanded and that men
should learn war no more. It Is
probable that the great standing
armies of Europe might be greatly
decreased in size with profit to all con-
eerned, and 1t Is possible that the size
OF the navies might be limited by
mutual agreement; but, as President
Roosevelt explains, 1t Is impracticable
to dissolve all armies and navies of
civilized nations as long as there exist
semi-civilized peoples or despotisms
that must have the corrective in
fuence CT force to compel them to
keep the international peace.
1t is sometimes maintained that if
half dozen of the great powers
would get together and agree to dis
armament, nothing else would be
necessary. As well might the peace
loving and law-abiding citizens of a
community get together and agree
that they need no police force. 1t
might be true that they would keep
the peace, but there is an element
that needs police power to restrain it.
This illustrates President Roose-
velt's argument against disarmament.
Warships are the policemen of the ma
tons, and a moderate-sized police
force is necessary. not especially for
war, but to maintain peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
LANA WKER WT.S

Thirty-five acres of land near juno
ton City recently sold for $4,000, or
about $111 an acre.
The Wichita Eagle figures it out that
Pfttsburg, Pa, is the wickedest city
per capita in the world.
One firm at Salina has handled S15,-
600 worth of alfalfa seed this season
Still 1T doesn't take much alfalfa seed
to be worth $4,000.
A Concordia woman set to incubators
with 400 eggs. At last accounts 357
of them had turned out chickens and
they were still Matching.
Scottsville has not only been incor-
porated as a city of the third class, but
it is also big enough to support two
soda fountains. If that is not metro
politan, what is it?
Tom Ellis thinks if Mr.. Hartman
had taken the trouble to inquire of the
Bellamy Storers, they could proba bly,
have told him it was loaded before he
blew down the barrel
A carload of eggs was turned over
on the Central Branch at ,Atchison the
other day, but the ornelet was not as
great as might have been expected.
Only about fifty dozen were broken.
Editor Johnson of the Minneapolis
class. and enc of it's ungodly members.
when asked what last Sundays lesson
was about, replied, Jacobs Wrestling
Match"
1t always calls IOrCn more or less
comment when a woman, says Almira
Todd in the Erie Record. who never
seems to care much about her personal
appearance during his lifetime. begins
to prink up and wear smoothly ironed
shirtwaists as soon as she can get
around to it after her husbands funeral
expenses are paid.
Walt Mason tells this story in the
Beatrice Express: The Presbyterian
preacher at Frankfort, Kan, is a high
ly educated gentleman who has attend
ed the great European. universities, and
who has an understanding of art that
has been thoroughly cultivated-to such
an extent, indeed, that he at once can
distinguish a real picture from a
chrome, which is beyond the capacity
of most of US. Once upon time he at
tended an art sale in England. and be-
came greatly interested in a dingy old
painting which looked to him as
though it had come from the hand of
a master He bought it for a rather in
significant price. although he could not
we'll afford the money at the time, and
investigation showed that it was a gen.
uine Terrier. He still has it, and has
been offered 1000 for it. Among those
who have made bids for it is the
premier of England. You have often
heard similar stories iof art treasures
accidentally discovered; many of the
stories are ia bleS: but this one is true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

porch. That horrid brute knocked
over the cage and killed him."
$50 that's why she couldn't make
her getaway" he murmured. IT knew
she was too fast for Cap"
''I'll call the bird Cap" she prom
ised. "And there won't be any horrid
cat to kill him."
He glanced at the solitaire restored
to her finger.
we'll set Cap on her. promised,
Come Cap. Good old boy"
Good old Cap" echoed Matte, as
she kissed the precious ring.-(Copy-
righted 1907. by Homer Sprague.)
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smartly-Brown's wife makes all of
her own hatsi
Mrs: sInartly--wen. don't care as
Detroit Free Press.
Miss Knox-Yes, ne actually said
your cheeks were like roses.
Miss Passay (coyly deiighted)-OhI
thick Pie''S
Miss Knox-Yes. he remarked about
that, too.-Life.
Pa. what's n political leader?"
man VINO is able to see which way
1 the crowd ,o,s is going and follows with
cago Record-Herald.
-, Re ally" began Mr.. Stinjay. At don,t
a aKe 10 give you all this money to carry
bacteria lurk in bank notes.
That's all right replied his wife
III use some of the money to get T,ao'
cinated, If necessary."-CatholicS Stand
:, Affable Sportsman Ito stranger -,
tth1ooroughbredl-A lot of blood about
mat morse of yours, siri
Stranger-By Jove, you don't saw sol
Must have got into some OF that con!
rounded wire!-Punch.
fen MtaggermIve put one poor devil on his
MRS. Nagger-Whom have Won been
AoOuA your money away on now?
NaSger-Your next husband D,adar,
I've I've had my life tnsured.-ChIcaro
,Esmthusiast-Don't you think the
cniaro oscuro was fine?
,N,on-musical Guest-Well. row. to be
pam with you, L liked the chicken
SALAD better.-Cleveland Leader.
Mrs. Biggs-I don't see as much of
my husband as 1 used to.
Mrs. Wiggs-Is he travelling?
MRS. Biggs-No; he's been taking an
tifat.-Chict go News. an
Aren't you ashamed to ba sear
ABOUT with that .wretched cigarette IN
yocr mouth?" asked the lady of the
misguided urchin. '
There's some cheaper nor these"
was the indignant reply.-London Ev-
eninG Standard.
He-Marriage without love is a terri
Bile thing ii
She (sighing Observation-Disclosures half
SO terrible IS love without marriage
Boston Transcript.
My boy. if you don't go to school
you'll surely regret it."
That's the reason 1 amt there
mister. The teacher said when 1 came
back I'd regret ft."-Judge.
a5"fn our CITY," said Miss Rittenbo,Sse
Squayer. admission to the upper ten
implies good bilth."
of Chicago NOW. in Ni sieep dpsVt caT
the lower five implies a much better
berth. f-Philade]Dlia Press
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

LFrom the New York Press.
A widow with a fortune never has
to be.
There is hardly anything so stupid
as an argument where nobody gets
mad.
A woman will believe anything her
husband tells her. especially If no one
else will.
very expensive thing is to have so
few bad habits that you think you can
afford to get married. ------
People can come nearer to believing
that good wishes will come true, when
they know they won't, at a wedding
than anywhere else In the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
GLOBE SIGHTS

[From the Atchison Globe.J
Being out of a job sort of tames a
man down.
A lot of unimportant things are told
| "confdentially.'
Every man has society manners and
| the other kind
Being a nice man doesn't seem to
get anything in politics.
Men have failed in business for
every reason but lack of advice.
| People abuse stingy man; but they
abuse a shiftless man worse.
| There is SO much abuse that plenty
CT men get it without being rich
When a man begins to lose his hair
the less he has the better it looks to
him.
1t is no sign because a guest has the
spare room that she has also a well
come.
Attending to your own business is
the most effective way to fight com
petition.
1t is a pathetic fact that more
lemons are handed to most of us than
bouquets.
When a man has been married three
times, people point him out on the
streets.
We, the people. are very fond of be-
lieving we are running things when
we are not
For. person with nothing to do.
$500 "a dbLChllOIls a DdDY KICKS
a good deal.
The preachers have never required
a union to enforce a demand for
shorter hours.
The aggressive man is usually only a
polite way OF referring to your quarrel
some friend
The trouble usually is, man likes
too many women and a woman likes
one man too we'll.
Most of US would be willing to eat
green's awhile. IL that would solve the
dandelion question.
Some women, when they want to
have dinner promptly at half past five,
begin getting it at six.
If things don't go to suit you. and
the other fellow makes an explana-
ton, it seldom makes them suit you
any better.
You may know some men a life
time without learning their first name.
Perhaps 1t is Hezekiah, and they are
keeping it quiet.
When the old fashioned woman
very fast. she says: "They must keep
a brick on your head"
A Lovers club has been formed, to
study love. We don't know how it is
with women, but most men know too
much about love already
IF woman ever kills me-" said an
Atchison man this morning. eff 1t is
all the same to the jury, 1 hope they
will acquit her without the publication
of my letters
Asked the boys at half the supper
tables in town every night: ''where
have you been since school? Didn't
tell you to come straight home? A
pretty time for you to be coming
home"
When a jointkeeper' announces a
goose lunch, the men know they are
invited, and attend without further
ceremony, but a woman will not at
tend a millinery opening unless these
words appear at the bottom of the ad-
vertisement announcing it: ''All are
InYited."s 80. !.
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"society" in wan Street.

Among the very numerous explana-
lions of last weeks panicky break in
come with some stamp OF authentically.I 1t
YVES this. When the raising of Union
Pacif1c's August dividend was about to
be announced. a fnancier not uncon-
secret to certain acquaintance in the
circles of high society and wealth. A
pool was made up in tier behalf
TO which a number of gil5ed younger
their several mites. Wall street Cos
sip fixes the total amount In the tens
of millions; probably 1t would be safe
to divide by two or three. The social
Christmas, and was able to foot up Its
losses definitely by ST. Patrick's day.
This social tragedy is no novelty in
Wall street. In 1892 the owners of a
themselves, allowed other clubmen to
take a hand in booming it. The tips
on cordage' were distributed in all
we'll bred circles, and genuinely arts
rose from 81 to lat, the annual dividend,
which had been 9 per cent then ~,
was put up in February, 1893, to II
per cent rate, and 100 per cent STOCK
sold at o. the concern was in the hands
of receivers. 1t has been InsolVent
from the start. The echoes OF that sor
cial catastrophe were only stflled by
the larger panic of 1893.
Not all social ventures in wall street
have been thus tragic. William H.
Vanderbilt's tip to a troublesome
giled relative, after a protest of his ig-
norance Of the stock exchange, was to
buy Lake Shore quick" Lake Shore
fell abruptly, or the relatives next
call. the elder financier cried out:
Don't say word; you have yourself
to blamei" To which came the re-
sponse: why, bless your soul, you
don't think 1 bought it on that tip. 1
sold 500 shares."-New York Evening
Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

Turkish coffee with Turkish delight"
In a small arbor both afternoons Of our
stay in Olympia. we were obliged to
share neither his attentions nor the
We were the only guests. In fact we
saw only one person In Olympia other
than the natives. He was dapper
young German baron and for time It
looked as If he should have him at our
hotel. Great preparations were made
for him by Constantine and the cook,
but by a coup d. etat the rival hotel
captured him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
ERON OTHER PENS
VARIETIES OF THE LIAR

According to n list prepared by the
Albany Argus some months ago the
president has called Mr.. Herbert w.
Bowen a 'disingenuous" liar, Mr.. Will
liam E. Chandler a deliberate and I'M
qualified liar, Mr.. Alton B Parker an
'atrocious" liar, Mr.. G. o. Shields an
inventive liar, Mr.. Bellamy Storer a
peculiarly peridious" liar, Mr., Mr.
John F. Wallace an utter liar and Mr.
Henry M: Whitney a deliberate" liar.
If this catalogue be correct, If the
president really did apply such epithts
to the persons in question, Mr.. Harri-
man may not feel any excessive dis
satisfaction at being charged with de
liberate and willful' untruth. The pres
ident and he simply disagree as to the
facts in the case One retains one inn
preston of the reputed episode, the
other a contrary mpression.-Provi-
dence Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
LADY APRIL.

Lady April, she is fair,
Flowers blooming everywhere,
Natures perfume In the air.
All. but yet. how we regret
That We are not wearing yet
Our winter underwear
Lady April, with the rose
In her tresses, fears no SHOWS,
But, as everybody knows,
We have chilly weather still
And from colds for some weeks will
Talk. with labor. through the nose.
Fairest daughter of the year.
Lady April brings us cheer.
Truly, her delights are dear,
But she brings US little ease,
For we freeze, disease and sneeze
And the grip we have, we fear.
st, Louis GIObe-Democrat.
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Already Wichita has lost big bust
ness concern as a result of the prohi-
bition campaign started by Attorney
General Jackson. One of its big
wholesale liquor houses packed up on
Sunday and skipped out to Oklahoma
In order to avoid having it's property
confiscated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

These he has recently converted into
lumber, getting 10000 feet from them,
and the lumber Is going into q farm
residence. A farmer near Hutchinson
has recently done the same thing.
This way Of beating the lumber trust
Is somewhat slow, however, for those
who have not vet started.
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UeveIand,s odd Attire.

Visitors to Princeton have noted
the complete Indifference of Grover
Cleveland to what he. may wear. Dur
ing one of the Yale-Princeton games,
played at Nassau, a reporter from a
prominent New York paper was told
to get an interview with the former
president Arriving at the grand stand.
he had pointed out to him stout gen
tleman clad in an old homespun suit
that didn't look as if it had cost $40
when new The whole outfit was
crowned by a battered SLOUGH hat. IN
able to believe that this was Mr.. Cleve-
land. the reporter, imagining himself
the victim of a joke. went away With
out getting his interview.
But the shabby figure was the sage
of Princeton, the only Democrat In
fifty years who has gone to the White
House. He was merely indulging in
that eceentricity of attire which is
one of the prerogatives of fame
Spokesman Review.
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HUGHES, FIGHT.

That Governor Hughes is at the part
ing of the ways is now perfectly obvi-
Gus. The test of his mettle is at hand ;
If he is the chivalrous fighter we think
him, he must welcome it, for his is a
most unusual and inspiring leadership.
Behind him in solid phalanx are those
who desire permanent good government,
with the particular reforms which Mr.
Hughes has espoused. On the other
side the lineup is distinct, for the pre-
liminary maneuvering has brought out
clearly the unhoIy alliance of Grady
and Raines and their followers.-New
York Evening Post.
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And so Harry Thaw was himself
largely responsible for the jury's ac-
ton, by prohibiting Delmas from
dwelling on the insanity theory to-
wards the close of the trial. This may
prove that Thaw was not capable of
directing his case after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

Morton Albaugh estimates that the
recent onslaughts of Hartman and
Burton on President Roosevelt have in
creased the latter's popularity about
1914 per cent But was that possible?
The presidents popularity was almost
100 before the onslaughts took place
and how could 1t have been so In
creased? Roosevelt had about all the
popularity there was in stock anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

A Chicago man has been sued for
divorce by his wife because he has not
spoken to her for sixteen years. But
perhaps he hasn't had a chance to
get a word in edgeways in that time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

Thaw convinced the lunacy COM
mission that he is now sane, but
what was more important-he did not
convince the jury that he was crazy
when he killed White.
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Mr.. Hartman proposes to reorgan-
ize the Union Pacific so as to have a
few strong men to curb him. 1t is
suspected, however, that these curb
ing influences will bear a strong re-
semblance to E. H. Hartman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16

Even if President Roosevelt can be
persuaded to run again, it need not be
expected that his reelection will be
unanimous. There are Burton and
Hartman and the Bellamy Storers.