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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

from delegates to political conventions
but that members of the legislature
should continue to enjoy them? If
the pass has an undue influence on a
political convention, the people have
an opportunity to reject its work, but
they have no opportunity to pass on
the work of a legislature, and the rail-
road pass has just as baleful an in
huenee on a legislature as 1t does on
a political convention.
How many members of this legis-
lature are willing to go back to their
constituents and confess that they
voted to keep railroad passes for
themselves but voted to prohibit 9TH
ers from riding on them to state
convention? Are the farmers and
business men who go from your coun-
ty to the state convention, Mr.. Legis-
lator, any more liable to be bought
with a pass than you are?
There is a good-sized minority of
the railroad committee in favor of a
real anti-pass law. This minority is
headed by the committee charms n,
w. Y Morgan, and there are some
good men among them. 1t is to be
hoped that the house will take the
advice of the minority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the. Atchison Globe.i


The really popular boy always has
nickname.
Very few men are sufficiently vain to
have much use for a pocket mirror.
Unpleasant truths always please a lot
of people whom they do not concern
Some people imagine they are cultured
because they prefer tragedy to comedy.
The man who is only agreeable when he
wants a favor doesn't get a great many.
1t is not enough to disapprove of gossip;
you, yourself, must keep from gosslplnS.
Most of the sure schemes Tor MAKING ma tn
promoters.
People who attempt to quote poetry IT..
rarely get it right but none OF their MS
A girl is sure to be interested in man
who pays her attention. If her father
finds the man Objectionable.
nearer having her own way than the wo-
man who fights for her rights
Occasionally a man is SO lazy his chief
that he can hibernate all winter.
1t is a good thing for most of us that
is given le'n those of railway teiegraphers.
When a woman raises her sons in what
she considers the right way, it is never
with a view to making good husbands of
them.
The only enjoyment Father gets out of
the custom women have of giving after
noon parties is that they oont Keep MIN
up late at night.
There may be no such thing as pain.
but you have probably observed that the
children in a Christian Science family
shy at the prospect of whipping the
same as all others.
When daughter is a baby, her father
regards it as a cute trick for her to
search his pockets when he comes home,
but he soon changes his mind about 1t as
she grows older
There is admitted into great many
homes every night, with a fire built espe
cially for it in the parlor, something
on down town.
When Mother grows reminiscent and
tells of the many men who proposed to
her it Is a terrible blow to question her
further, and find that all of the men mar
ried, instead of blowing their heads of.
After a woman has been married few
wears, the piece she clips from the news
paper is more likely to be some system
of cleaning old gloves SO they will look
Ought to Know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
1From the Philadelphia Record

from the Philadelphia Record.1
The root of all evil seems to thrive in
any SOIL
Love is the wine of life; marriage is
the morning after.
Even the most humble pin cushion is
generally stuck up.
1t doesn't take either an actor or a
musician to play the fool.
The fellow who goes into a rattle isn't
the only one who takes chances.
Literally the proof of the pudding IL in
the amount that is left over.
You couldn't broaden out some men
by running over them with a steam
roller.
In spite of the fact that love is sup
posed to level all things, few lovers are
level-headed.
NelI-"He says he is a college man, but
he doesn't talk like one" Belle-tNo;
he's on his good behavior now"
wigg-"Skinnum. says it costs him SIS.
costs his creditors that much
BIobbs-"Bjones is always talking about
his honesty" Slobbs-"Yes; I guess he
can't make money enough to pay his
debts
IF women were only as perfect as they
expect their husbands to be-" says the
Cynical Bachelor, heaven would be at
our very DOORS
Tell me the worst. DOCTOR cried the
sick man. The doctor hesitated. "Can
you stand it," he asked, "Yesi yesr' re-
iterated the sick man; tell me the
worst your bill will be $685." said the
doctor in a hushed voice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
THE sIMONs IDEA.

The proposition advanced by Senator
Simons to induce voters to take part in
primaries looks good. Furthermore it
would do away with the registration
system which we now have, supplying
another just as good in its place and
much cheaper.
One trouble with the primary is that
too many voters take little interest in
it. They let the f1xers nominate the
party ticket and then they kick about
1t.
The Simons idea is to have the act
of voting at primaries register the
voter, and that act alone. The regis
tration books are made up at the pri-
mary. Provision is made that the
voter who is prevented from attending
the primary because of absence, sick
ness or some other legitimate reason.
may vote at an election by making
sworn statement in writing of his
reason for not attending the primary.
This plan ought to bring out a full
vote at the primaries, and at the same
time it would lessen the cost of the
registra ton system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

We note that Chancellor Day is once
more trying to get into the limelight
and incidentally to attract the atten-
ton of some millionaire who wishes to
donate to the cause of +philanthropic
education" .m 10
u @zt
Theatrical managers say that Shake
speare doesn't pay. According to the
bill collectors there are lots of other
people who do not pay either, If they
can get out of it. sf-
rs
When coal is mined 1t is measured in
long tons. but when 1T is delivered it
is measured in the other kind-arid
some of them are mighty short, too.
q q n
When blue laws are enforced they
keep a man from getting out and
painting the town red.
y
There may be something in a name
after all. There's Swettenham's, for
ton of some Millionaire who wishes to
+ y
Sometimes the receptive candidate
doesn't get a chance to do any receipt
ing. no matter how hard he tries. There
was Calderhead, you remember.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

[From the New York Press.1
A man seems to inherit all sorts of
habits except making money.
1t would be very useful in their
business IL prize fighters had false
teeth.
At the wedding the bridesmaids do
the weeping; the brides turn comes
after.
A woman has to have a servants
hall in her house If it's only the kitch-
en- table.
To woman it would hardly seem
like being married unless she worried
over whether her husband wore warm
enough flannels.
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CONVENIENT.

AS the sun went down and out,
And left but a golden glow
On the village windows and on the sky,
And all of the world below
Grew strangely still. and lumber brown
And blue the shadows crept,
I tippy-toed to the trundle bed
Where all of my treasures slept.
My Marjorie with the golden hair
Whose voice is full of glee,
With always laugh and hug and kiss
For her daddy at night when he
Comes home to her, and Jessamine-
The sweetest of little girls
With her sleeping lips curved in smile
And her tousled and yellow curls.
The early to bed and rise
A-wearied from all the play,
Two little forms In a trundle bed
When the sun has gone away:
And the world is a good old world,
AS good as world can be,
And the night is good with its going home
To the babies who watch for me.
j. NJ. Lewis in the Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

From the Chicago News.1
Don't be too sure of the man who
boasts of being sure of himself.
And by not getting married some
men manage to live happily ever at
ter.
No man ever asks truthful woman
what she thinks of him more than
once.
A man will remember the kiss he
failed to get long after the others are
forgotten.
And people who stand up for their
rights usually want to sit on the rights
of others.
Never judge any mans worth by his
size. A silver dollar is much larger
than a $40 gold piece.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
KANSAS COMNEUT
MIXED.


There is only one thing certain
about the political situation at the
present and that is that it is somewhat
bailed up. There may be method in
the madness Of the High Moguls, but
to a rank outsider there is consider
able occasion for wonderment at the
moves on the political checker-board
of the state. The field" of recent
senatorial candidates had an organiza-
ton to buck, which was very evident
ly not friendly to Stubs, Bristow, or
any of the field" The Topeka Capt.
tai is or was the most strenuous organ
or the so-called Square Deal" faction
the acknowledged commander-in-
s shlef OF which is Walter alter, Roscoe koseos
Curtis against the field and the Capt.
tai waded in and whooped er up,
not for Stubs. its logical candidate.
but for Curtis who was admittedly on
the other side of the fence from the
friends are Curtis friends. there seems
to be no question of that, but the
Capital heartily endorses La Toilette,
and everybody knows what that
means. Curtis following backed Sim
mons for speaker, and Simmons re-
turned the compliment by supporting
Bristow for senator. Cy Leland, Cur
It's ancient enemy came out strongly
for the Square Deal a few months
ago and then augmented the fire
works by turning a double backward
handspring into the arms of the OPP
position and Curtis followers when
the senatorial turnverein had its
meeting. Morgan, the "wheeihorse OF
the Curtis organization boosted Bris-
tow for senator for all he was worth.
The senatorial fight is all over and
Wick Murdock's Republican smile that
won't come off seems to be contagious.
Curtis will be Longs able colleague in
the United States senate. Everybody
knows who got the plum, who got the
lemon and who got the mess of pot
tage, but we doubt that any one can
explain the how, and why and the
which of everything that happened
Lindsborg Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

A certain class of politicians cannot
get away from the delegate conven-
ton idea of making nominations.
They think the people cannot be trust
ed to make the nominations them
selves, but ought to delegate that DOW
err to few politicians who know how
to make trades and combines. If the
people make the nominations them
selves it might hurt the politicians
frada
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

keep the chief clerk of the house and
the secretary of the senate from the
pleasant task of making up these jour
mails after the session adjourns. at a
liberal compensation per folio. but it
would make the journals much more
accurate in addition to saving the state
several hundred dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

The proposition to have legislative
claims committee to investigate the
claims filed against the state which go
to make up the miscellaneous appro-
priation bill. was certainly a good one.
and it ought to be revived. All sorts
of petty gratis sometimes go through
in that appropriation. A little prob
Ing would show up these gratis. They
may not amount to much, but they
ought to be eliminated if possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

1t would be no use for the Russian
revolutionists to start business again
now anyway. With the Thaw trial, the
legislature and congress all going at
once, they could not hope for anything
better than a brief mention on an in
side page
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Up in Minnesota an action has been
begun against a railroad to forfeit its
eharter because it has been making
the public pay profits on watered
stock If every railroad charter were
dissolved where that sort of thing has
been going on, railroad charters would
become SO scarce that they would be
valuable as great curiosities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

The Foraker-Aldrich crowd were
Mortified last spring because La Fol-
lette's amendments to the rate bill re-
ceived the support of TIIlman. 1t is a
different matter. however, when TILL
man lines up with them in abusing
President Roosevelt because of the
Brownsville affair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

The modern millionaire" saws
Chancellor Day, "loves to invest and
to spend and to give away his money"
PROBABLY Chancellor Day expects to
get in on the last-named proposition.
Or does he consider himself million
aires investment?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Don't forget. gentlemen of the Kan
gas press, that the words blizzard .
'-drouth.' Cyclone" and "grasshop-
per- have been abolished from the
Kansas vocabulary. Blot 'em outI
Forget themi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

General Funston complains that the
San Francisco brickIayers are getting
more money than army officers. And
they get two or three times as much
as college professors and such trash
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
CoRuRN AND BENSON.

We venture the guess that when ex-
Senator Benson swung his satchel over
his shoulder last Saturday morning
and turned his face homeward, a sad
der and wiser man. that our solid and
sensible friend, Secretary F. D. CO.
burn. who declined to exchange his
important and congenial work for any
political honors,, was an interested and
sympathetic witness OF all these
things. 81 And as. he interpreted the
mournfulness OF. those long steady
strides in the Objection of Ottawa, he
no doubt went QUE behind the comfort
able residence of the Horse Useful and
fhere shook Hands with himself
Jewell Republican,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Representatives White and Ed
wards appear to have asked some en-
barrassing questions of the stockyards
company. Personal experience had
evidently taught them where to look
for information
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
A DEMAND.

Papers, magazines. advertisements
etc, are always telling what a wo-
mans proportions should be to con-
stitute perfect beauty. Her measure
once around the neck, twice around
the neck once around the waist, etc.
We demand to know what should be
mans proportions to make him have
perfect form and give him manly
grace? If he wears a fifteen collar
should he wear a thirty-six shirt ?
Does thirty-six shirt require a forty
two pants? Should a number eleven
sock be matched by a number seven
glove? We demand that haberdash-
ers pay greater attention to the beau
tifying and perfection of man.-Sa-
betha Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Somebody has started the report that
1913 more Philippine Islands have
emerged from the sea, just as though
we had not trouble enough already.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

President Roosevelt has taken to is
suing illustrated editions of his mes
sages. No comic supplement to them
is looked for in the near future, how
ever
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

The Chicago Chronicle says the man
who gives a tip is a coward. Some
men," adds the Washington Post
'have played tips on the races and be-
come convinced that the man who
gave them was a liar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Those congressman who voted to
raise their own salaries doubtless made
a big nit with themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Anyway, Senator Bailey did not Sc
cure his reelection by resiGning in es
crow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Now we will have pictures of Eve
iyn Nesbit-Thaw in seventeen new
poses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Chancellor Day evidently does not
agree with President Roosevelt's ideas
concerning an income tax.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

1t is to be regretted that the state
printing plant is not of sufficient ca
pacity to print the legislative journals
day by day as the session proceeds.
TO be sure such a procedure would
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Here is reform as is reform: The
Wellington News has quit spelling de
pot" with a at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Anyway Ellen Terry does not an
nounce, that she is on her farewell
tour"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

While the T-haw case is running in
the papers, the average reader will
treat ordinary news about the way the
Kansas senate treated the governors
message.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Sveed spring hat efldendtly came in
Moo York. Der untire town ISIS bitzy
NIT a January Thaw. ooh, punko.
know der, foolish-killer viii meet me ad
der frondt door,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Senator Tillman's idea of being fun
ny is about like that of Londor
"sPunch.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26
FROM OTHER PENS
HELPING HILL AND HARTMAN.

HELPING HILL AND E1ARRlMAN.
Special legislation of this sort has al
ways been the besetting sin of the Repub-
in power than it begins to dole out favors
to particular classes. Put in office in
1886 to establish the gold standard it
moved most reluctantly in that direction,
but ran In eagerness to allow manufac-
turers to write their own duties in the
tariff If now it rounds off its record by
to confirm the charge that it is hopelessly
Joined to its idols of class legislation. In
the proposed bill there is an amusing at
tempt to disguise the gift of money to
]. J. Hill and E. H. Hartman. The bill
From a port on the Pacific coast north
Of Cape Mendocino to Japan, and the
.'F,rom a port on the Pacific coast south
III the for mont any
service, 10000 for fortnightly."
But what has Cape Mendocino to do
ing Hill lines of steamships from Seattle
is north of it. and the existing Hartman
line from San Francisco (the Pacific MaiD
to. the south. The committee simply did
not like to say outright that it was in
Hill, and the same amount to Hartman.
We hope to see the bill fought and de-
feated; Subsidy is hateful word; and
dictionary. It has reel1ed with scandal in
the past So it infallibly will again, if al
ways of restoring our merchant marine
every American hopes 1t will be re-
upon them; but they consist in aboIishing
old bounties and statutes for a favored
feW not IN of ne Mth f 5aeF
and political demoralization.-New York
Evening Post.
MUZZLES ON REPORTERS.
The promise of rafting session at AL
bany is contained in the New York SEN
ate's new rule for muZzling the newspa,
gangs. Raine's and Grady's, combined to
push through the resolution, while 1t was
opposed by those senator's, unfortunately
in a minority, who are understood to be
in sympathy with Governor Hughes.
powered not only to admit, but to exclude
any reporter from the sessions of that
we'll understood that the clerk win ex-
clude whatever one against whom a sem
ator may i9dge c0m pa There Is
excites a smile. The senate's proceedings
will be more fully and wildly reported
than ever and doubtless with less tender
ness than ever for the sensitive feelings
of Grady and Raines.-Springfield Repub-
lican.
THE AMIGOS OF THE SENATE.
The Republicans in the Senate would
like to declare hostility to Roosevelt. but
Vengeance and indulge in fierce criticism.
but publicly they are amigos with the
Vigorously in their bosoms. They are
really few senators who are willing to
trust the man in the White House.-Nash-
Vile American
PILGRIMS.
For here we have no abiding city is
the scriptural motto of the homeless
Standard Oil company.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
A RESPITE FOR ROCKEFELLER.
John d. Rockefeller is enjoying a COM
paratfve rest, now that Hartman has
forged his way to such a prominent posi-
ton in the Observation-Disclosures Ameri-
can. l-
AN EPOCHAIs DATE FIXED.
The war really ended when Tillman and
Foraker entered the characterization
News and Courier.
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I5eSN. N
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Der life uf der lechislator iss nod Won
long, ding busded dream UT pie und
pretzels Always dere ISIS der cartoon
isds and Myara McHenery.
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II will bet desc fellers vich ISIS adept
ing to knock oudt Sunday baseball ISIS
uffraid to leaf i'd to der voters uf der
state. Vot dey ISIS looking for ISIS
skinch, nod a fair shake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

My old collech chump, Cheorge Hart
cabtured zwei pieces uf fine cut glass
ad sale yesterday. Dey vas cut from
ten skents to skix cendts.
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But We bet a kvarter to a peanut dot
der SAVIOR
Uf Tillman's words oudt perfumes any
schmeu on earth.
Ven he getdts hiss pichfork oudt to
dake a ride, sir,
Und calls der negro coon" und "miss-
ing link"
You could nod abbroach nitoudt for
maldehyde, sir,
Pecaus his words are hot und really
er-odiferous.
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1 would like to be so big es Charley
Delivuk dot hobo wrestler, but nod vi
1 had ia year hiss fur coadt und green
hat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Id ISIS nod ofden 1 admiration a real
noosbaper man, peacaus, uf he iss
schmardt enuff to success ad id,
candt help but belief dot he would hat
specame millionaire ad someding else,
but Old Ed Howe ISIS der shining egsep-
ton. Here's to der noosbaperino vich
can turn all rough corners mitout
scraping ouf mosd uf his hide.-E. w.
Howe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Der goferner uf Chamaica refoozled
assistance from a U. S. varshibp, und
derform We may gadder dot all der bally
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Say not thou, What is the cause that the
former days were better than these? for
thou dost not inquire wisely concerning
Observation-Disclosures 7:10.
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AN. EPoCHAIs DATE FIXED.
The war really ended when Tillman and
Foraker entered the union.-Charleston
News and Courier.
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A RESPITE FOR ROCKEFELLER.
John d. Rockefeller is enjoying a COM
parative rest, now that Hartman has
forged his wav to such a prominent posi-
ton in the Observation-Disclosures Ameri-
can. ~.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

Der prunesipal feature of resendt dis
padge seems to be, nod dot a niggero
vas lynched, but dot der incidental oc-
currenced at Goferner Vardaman's
home. Berhabps, alder der hide hat
peen carefully tanned und added to der
goferner's collection, We may gedt der
details uf der der hunt, der names uf
der chendleman daklng pardt derein.
und possibly der names uf der dogs
used in der trailing, but uf course, tele-
graft nOos being egspensif, We musd
nod egspect to efer hear der name uf
der niggero, er vot he vas lynched for.
VEN TILLMAN TALKS.
Ven Pitchfork Tillman dells der senate
vot he thinks,
Der sarge-ad-arms remoofs der words
pefore dey melt
Pecaus, ven words like hiss ged oldt
dey really-er-schmell bad.
Und egspress in full chusd vot Ben
Tfllman feldt.
You af heard, no doubt, dot verdain
peoples flavor
Very seriously, a house or upper
berth,