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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

You can not get out of studying in
the School of Experience. Nor can
you play hockey.
L wish had an excuse to go to the
dog show" said an old bachelor yes
terday. Loan you one of mine,' vol
unteered Bill Doolittle eve got three
excuses. Ones eight, one is six and
the other is four. You can have your
pick
1t need not be remarked that Gentry
brought the rain.
me nara th1ng about 1t Is to tell
whether this is the winter of 1867 or
of 1918. Accurate information on
this point will be received by this de-
partment If accompanied by a certified
check.
Bent Murdoch claims editorially to
have caught a black bass weighing five
pounds and six ounces. in italics. You
always take salt with bass, you know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07
'SLHDIS EaOTD
[From the Atchison Globe.I

What a contempt a man has for
medicine when he is feeling WE'LL
The man who quits smoking tries
to have as good a time telling how
much money he saves, but that system
isn't a success.
We notice that nothing is said the
morning after the party about the
good reasons why one should drive
dull care away.
If there is such a thing as a whisky
trust, there will never be any objec-
ton to it; the price of whisky never
makes any difference to the man who
wants it.
If a red-headed girl is quite salts
a number of choice hues that can be
ascribed to her hair that sound better
than red"
Tell lie, and it will camp on your
trail until it disgraces you. And when
the fact finally comes out that you told
lie, a lot Of your enemies will be sit
ting around.
A mean man suggests that women
probably gained their reputation for
patience because they live through the
interim between instailments of con-
tinued stories in the magazines.
There is no law against tobacco
chewing, and many good men chew,
but 1t is q bad habit. nevertheless. If
you chew tobacco and are careless
where You spit, people will criticise you
freely.
A widower may occasionally marry
to get someone who will bestow upon
his children a Mothers Care. but it is
doubtful If he ever thus expresses him
self to No. 2; he tells No. he Never
Really Loved Before
The quarrels that go on here on
earth: will they finally be settled in
heaven? Two neighbors will quarrel
for years and their ''stories" of the
trouble will be as different as day and
night. When these neighbors go to
heaven, will st. Peter straighten out
the quarrel and get at the right of it,
or will he pay no attention to it? Will
he tell the parties to the quarrel to
forget it? And wouldn't that be good
advice even IL it came from the Globe
and not from ST. Peter7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07
AYHI WKER JOT.S

The Osborne Farmer advances its
price to $3.50 a, year.
Speaking of the varied industries of
western Kansas, Norton man is f1ttApg
out a circus.
The Paradise State Bank has Just
AS yet, no Kansas man has organized
a bank in the other place.
New Workers. explains magazine
writer, don't enjoy the weather Kan
sans do" Certainly not" says the Os-
had no Thaw out here
1t need create no great surprise when
it becomes public that the man who
publishes. You ALPS Doin's and Snar-
keys Bazoo at Woodston, rejoices in the
unusual name of Smith.
Bert Walker: "a member of the Mich
igan legislature wants a law passed
compelling a husband to kiss his wife.
Come to think about it most of the
trouble has been caused by the husband
kissing some other mans life.
Minneapolis Better Way: We noticed
not long since an ad describing a mann
moth Jack as being "a snowy animal
with fine ears standing 16 hands high. -
His owner must have to pin them back
when he puts their bearer in the barn.
Sabetha Herald: Jock Bowman's new
daughter only weighs a pound and a
half, but she is perfectly developed and
layette prepared for her arrival will not
be used before she is six months of age.
The baby is no more than eight inches
long and looks like a tiny French doll.
This is no sign what she will be when
she grows up.
Prize mean story told by the Pratt Re-
publican: One of the meanest young
men in southern Kansas has been To-
Gated in Kingman county. He asked a
girl what she wanted for a birthday
present and suggested gloves, but the
girl thought something for her neck
would be nicer. On the evening of her
birthday anniversary he handed her
small package. neatly done up. She
nervousIy opened it in the presence of
another girl and found a bar of soap.
Experience related by the Downs
Times: Alton has no waterworks, hence
no fire protection, so last week the city
purchased a double cylinder chemical
engine, the capacity of each cylinder
being thirty-five gallons. The engine
costs 1925. Insurance rates will be les
sened some" says the Empire. Not on
your life. Put in the best system of
waterworks in the state and the rates
will not be lowered one cent. Downs
and many other towns in this section
have been up against that proposition
and we know whereof we speak. It's
gross injustice, but stubborn fact
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

'.EmbaImed beef cried the voices,
like the voices OF jury.
Flint"
Shame! Railroad senator!'
The noise rose to a roar of derisive
yelis. Out came the clear, high voice
of Senator Charles Bell of Pasadena,
an Independent reform member of
the last state senate: 'I thought so.
I'll use that hereafter
One account of the lecture re-
marks: 1.-The men whom LaFollette
stirred to wild excitement at Simpson
Auditorium last night were not Of the
emotional breed. A large share of
them were lawyers lawyers, the
rest were largely heavyweight bust
ness men,-just such crowd as you
might see at a Chamber of Commerce
banquet"
Yet Senator LaFollette speaks in
very matser-of-fact manner, and he is
never discourteous or undignifed. 1t
is his facts that count
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

interminable hours, that the ciock o."
Betty's dressing table chimed one.
Betty shivered. No sleep had come
to her eyes. Getting out of bed she
would read. Anything would be pet
ter than lying in bed open-eyed ano
sleepless. moaning over James COR
don.
Her book was in the library. She
opened her door and ran hurriedly
down into the hall below. Pushing
open the library door very gently, she
entered the room-then uttered
faint scream.
The room was lighted by the faint
rays of a bulls eye lantern.
Standing at her desk with his back
to her. opening her check book, was
Tom Cornish.
Starting convulsively at sound of
her cry he turned and confronted her,
white to the lips. Betty" he STAN
mered.
Miss Maxwell stood very still.
"Tom,'' she said, why did you do
But Tom had fallen into a chair and
IT'S all up" he said hoarsely. I'm
dead broke and I thought stood
had the DEVILS own luck lately. 1 lost
every cent of that other check"
Betty looked at him as If in dream.
The check-your check. 1 was
dead broke-debtS everyWhere-and
got hold of your check book. / knew
Gordon did about as he pleased-and
1t was your signature all right. L
meant to give 1t back to you Betty, as
soon as my luck turned, really did"
But to his mystif1cation, Betty was
looking at him with shining eyes. at
was you who cashed the check for ten
thousand" she repeated softly. at
was you--it was you"
1t was weeks before she told Cor
don, and he being a wise young man
In his generation, said no word of her
bygone injustice, but his arms went
round her, and he held her close, while
she, crying quietly hid her face against
his coat
No other man would have under
stood. she whispered. softly.-(Copy-
righted 1907, by NJ M. Cunningham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07
KANSAS COM4ETT
REMEMBER THE NAME.

attorney General Jackson is making
good IN the opinion of the reading, OBJ
serving, laW-abiding public. He inaug-
urated a series of actions looking to the
enforcement of the prohibition law and
now has the brewers on the run, the
whisky statesmen on the trot. the whole
saiers on the gallop. He has accom-
plshed wonders since he took charge.
Inere is no doubt he has the ability, the
courage. has hold of the right end of
the string, has the United States courts
and the state courts with him; now it
only remains to be seen whether or no
ne is slayer. If so, he will be another
Hadley and the glory which should be-
long to Kansas will be brought home.
The chances are within three months
from this day Kansas will be a prohibit
ton state in fact as well as in name.
remember the name: Jacksoni CLAY
Center Tines
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HVM0R OF THE DAY

more -'
What makes you think so, my dear?"
he ran out of mucilage and he wanted
70 borrow some of that p-p-pudding sauce
L made today. Leader
> Life remarked the pessinist ''is real
ly not worth the living
II mats the way you feel about it." re-
joined the optimist, you should apply for
a JOB as baseball umpire. Chicago Daily
Why don't you make a few speeches? ?"
don see the use,' answered Senator
sorghum 1t getting so the people don't
take any interest in a mans speeches IN
less they suspect he is saying something
he'll be sorry for.i-Washington Star
II thought you tod me Miss screamer
so 1 did" -s
But have heard her at social gather
lngs myself number of times. -
doesn t."-BaltimOre American.
does he mean?"
He means that Brightly denies some
thing that Bigget believes is true that's
ALL -PhtadelDhia Press.
Tommy-Pop, was writing done on tab
lets of stone in the old days?
.Tommy's Pop-Yes, my son.
Tommy-GeelIt must have taken a crow
bar to break the pews.-PhiladelphIa Rec
ORD. go 80 ? 3 -~-ss i-s--ff- E--+f.-
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Sports on an ocean LINER.

The voyage to Cape Town from
southampton or Madeira is a long one
sixteen to twenty days, says the
Travel Magazine. And so we find
pastirnes organized on board far
transcending the ordinary concerts
amateur theatricals, deck games, and
the like. familiar to all of us on the
ordinary ocean-going liner.
The programme is an ambitious one
comprising boxing, gymnastic drill, OBJ
stacle racing, cock fighting, cricket,
baseball and football; egg and spoon
races for men and girls and children;
ordinary deck games, and evening
amusement such as concerts. and
dances.
The sack race for grown men is the
delight of all the children, who love
to see their fathers tied up in sacks
and progressing by kangaroolike
bounds, whose uncertainty is made
still more precarious by the pitch and
roll of the great vessel. Nor must
forget the bolster and pillow fights,
with competitors perched on horizon
tai bars, with their legs tied beneath.
Some fighters display rare gameness
and staying power, so that the onlook-
ers feel quite grieved when they "go
under in a very literal sense.
Now and then an unfair wag will
coat his trousers with resin and thus
contrive to keep his balance in a way
enabling him to withstand all corners.
OF course, the prizes are made UT f
the entrace fees paid by competitors,
which may amount to so or 80 cents
per head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07
EROA OTHER PENS
PARK SENSE

1t has come to be recognized as fact
that public parks are among the wisest
investments a city can make A city
grows not of itself, but chiefly from the
population it attracts by it's advantages.
It's business aspects and opportunities,
these count; heads of families are at
tracted by it's schools, perhaps; and
parks and pavements and street light
ing all help. Parks make a strong ap-
peal when change of residence is con-
templated. They promote health and
comfort, besides having the enticements
that the senses value. They increase
the value of property in city. Thus
they pay And you have never heard
of a city that was willing to lose its
parks once they had been secured. Have
you?-Utica Observer.
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Umbrella Buying,

The following story is accredited to
Miss Phyllis Rankin. who in private
life is Mrs. Harry Davenport
my husband and I went into a
Broadway umbrella store few days
ago. says Miss Rankin. "a sign read
ing. Umbrellas. $1.00 up was display
ed in the window.
How much DOWN. asked Mr..
Davenport.
"'Ail cash down answered the
sales innocently. This is not credit
house
&c But I mean how much do have
asked Mr.. Davenport.
ed. We have them for $1.O0 up he
said.
"T know replied Mr.. Davenport.
but I don't want to buy one up; I
want to buy one down. I can put it
up myself.
"'Oh.' said the salesman, smiling
gently, you are speaking of the UNI
brella, while 1 am speaking of the
price
land now understand, too re-
turned Mr.. Davenport, 1T is the price
that is $1.OO up. Then it isn't exactly
$1.00 down as you said? 2
" Exactly. But perhaps you would
like to talk with the proprietor
1.-The salesman hurried to the rear
of the store and 1 overheard him ex-
planning to his employer; also / heard
remarks about an insane asylum. The
proprietor came blindly forward and
said We storekeepers have our ups
and down, but - At this we bought
an umbrella and fied.'-The Bohe-
milan.
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LINES TO THE MISSISSIPPI.

And master Of this W " ePn'1 Worid. thy
Has chiseled this majestic course and rent
These hills in twain. leagues long upon
A hemisphere but waits at thy command,
And towering mountains bow their heads
Their pond rous rock-mass crurnbIes into
And, with thy waters, seeks the yawn-
ing sea-
These are thy monuments. these hills that
Weathered and gray. thy rock-hewn
path along,
Their massive forests swaying' meath the
Recount thy glories in a mournful song
Iney sing to me of all the myriad throng
Or ancient scenes that time has overcast,
Ihey speak IN tones of a mysterious
Born Of old times and cherished from the
past.
Yea, here is glory-but in days gone by
A DEEPER chasm yawned and threatened
And mightier cliffs arose to meet the sky,
And numbering waters shook the at
Where now these long. low lines of hills
appear
Mountains once rose and crags beset the
shore
With beetling brows-but many passing
Has come and gone. and they are here
Yes, thou hast traced upon these crunor-
ling walls,
~ From age to age, thy doings--but alas
Thy story is mine-Tho' thou surpass
Infinitely. the puny power that has
Been given me; yet tbs with thee the
Time tears to ruin all thy sculptered mass
AND wastes thy monuments and wears
zen to Oblivion.
Floyd D. Rae, Kindred, North Dakota.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHE1o1s

IFrom the New York Press
Faith is believing what everything
else goes to prove isn't so.
A woman has an awful good time
hoping other women envy her.
Only the devil seems to be WILLING
to work merely for the fun there II
in it. "
Either a girl has to have a ne1v hot
or a filtration or she can't helm hav-
ing the blues.
If you send girl flowers often
enough her mother might as well give
up trying TO make her think Won
aren't a man of high ideals. '~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

OF information furnished by farmers
in each community few days before
it was made public. On the day it
was published rain came and since
then conditions have considerably i'm
proved. Secretary Coburn always re-
ports things as they are, not as they
NAV he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Ten years from now the airship fac
tories probably will not be able to keep
up with their orders. That is the way
81 is with the automobile factories now,
and ten years ago automobiles were still
in the experimental stage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

1t is becoming more and more evil
dent that President Roosevelt bears
no resemblance to a rabbit except in
one respect: When 1t comes to run
ming at election time he is a regular
&acIra hbft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

In the death OF DR.. John Watson
Clan Maclaren) the world loses an
author whose writings will be read
long after some more popular
Books have been entirely forgotten.
~Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush will
continue to be enjoyed after the
names of most six best sellers have
gone into oblivion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Mr.. Bryan can be depended upon to
build good strong platform If he gets
the job in the next Democratic national
convention. He weighs 234 pounds now
and it might turn out that he will have
to stand on that platform himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

The Shriners are meeting at Los An
@eles this week If they wish to meet
up with some real hot sands all they
have to do is to run out beyond Salton
Sea or up into Death Valley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

The interstate commerce commits
sion has decided that express rates
must go down. Express rates are more
outrageous than freight rates, but be-
cause the business is not so large, the
people in general have said compare
lively little about it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

A number of wheat belt counties
arc making a fuss because the recent
report OF wheat conditions issued by
the state department OF agriculture,
does not do justice to the outlook in
those counties. As a matter of fact
che report was made on the strength
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

A justice at Yonkers, N. Y, deserves
a magazine write-up. He sent the son
of a New York millionaire to Jail for
ten days for speeding his automobile.
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Dead Letters.

A New York business man, while in
Chicago recently, was expecting a mon
ey order letter in a day or two. In
order to avoid any difficulty in identifi-
cation, he went to clerk in the post
office and said:
II am expecting a money order to
the amount of 800, and my name is
Thomas Blank. Here are lot of let
tiers addressed to me from various
places You will observe the post
marks. So. you see. if I am not the
man 1 claim to be. I must have MUIR
dered that man and possessed myself
of his letters, and am now personating
him. AS that is not likely, you must
admit that ! am the man"
The New Yorker, having delivered
himself of the foregoing, left the post
office In few days the money order
came, and the man from New York
repaired to the office to get his order
casned. He expected to find the clerk
ready for him. but at first the clerk
did not recollect him. Presently the
New Yorker succeeded in recalling
himself to the mans memory.
"Oh yes" said the clerk, quite seri,
ously. you're the chap that murdered
the other nnan!"-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

In running the Leavenworth brew
ers out of Kansas. the supreme court
of course, wants it distinctly under
stood that Justice David j. Brewer
isn't on the list.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Bills of the thousand dollar de-
nomination are always popular, but
the fact that he is a big Bill isn't the
only reason for Taft's popularity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Spring is entirely too shy and re-
firing. A little of that sort of thing
is all right, but too much is enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Ellen Terry, who is So. has married
her leading man, who is 35. She will
also probably be a mother to him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

May 1 slipped by this year with
scarcely anybody remembering Ma
Mia Bay. We were all too busy wish
ing for spring to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Some people make a cloak of reIig-
ion, but others do not have enough to
Nrake even a patch, let alone a whole
cloak
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Miss Gilman and Mr.. Corey are to
be welded on May 10. Which one
will it be unfortunate for? Or will 1t
be so for both, inasmuch as both will
be one?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

1t Is the Farmers Advocate that re
marks that Topeka's anti-dog ordin'
ance IS a bit dogmatic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Mayor Green doesn't intend to have
an extra amount of paving done this
year, even with good intentions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Perhaps we say-yol
can now lay your snow shovel ava!
until next winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Secretary Wilson Agrees With F. D.
Coburn,'' says headline. As usual
after Mr.. Coburn demonstrates his facts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Oyster Bay will now become a real
presidential postoffice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

Just now we look eagerly for
warmer in the weather predictions,
Six weeks hence it will make us hot
to see it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

San Francisco has no street car OF
telephone service at present. but it is
owing to a strike and not an earth
quake this time. 81 -
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There is no great loss without some
small gain: The ordinary spring poet
has not survived the frosts either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07

sppears TO be in the blizzard belt ali
right.
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MUST OWN EVERYTHING.

Mr.. Bryan is an unconscious SOCIALIST
If political corruption by railroad man
ayers necessitates government owner
ship of railroads. then such corruption
by other industrial managers necesst-
tates government ownership of thar
property as we'll The steel trust,
the tobacco trust. the oil trust, the pa
per trust, the coal trust, the ice trust
and scores of other trusts have incen-
tive ''to befoul the political system
lust as the railroads have.-New York
World.
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THE NEGRO SOUTH.

If the negroes did not Ike the south
they would move away. But they do
like it. They know that there is no
danger of lynching so long as they 10
not commit brutal crimes and as for
the Jim Crow laws. if the color line
is to be drawn at all the negro wants
is to be we'll marked. In the south his
exact status is fixed and he knows
where he stands. In the north his po-
sition is doubtful and equivocal Nat
urally he prefers the frankness and
sincerity of the southern whites.-Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch.
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TOO MANY.

The Scientific American states that
professor at Lehigh university has made
a calculation to show that If tiny
vessel 61-1O0o of a cubic inch in size
should be filled with hydrogen corpuscles
600. 0O0. 00o 0OO 900, OoO O0O,0 600, twenty five
octillions) of them. This learned profess
sor further states that If these cor
puscles were allowed to run out of the
vessel at. the rate of one thousand per
second it would require seventeen quin-
tiiiion years ~Q7, 900, 000 O0o, coo, Gee G0Oo to
empty 1T.
That seems like entirely too many
corpuscles, and almost too many years;
still if the professor insist there need
be no recount Emporia Gazette.