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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.1

From the chicago .NeWS-I
o-ovardice doth make hypocrites of US
all.
It's nice not to be at home when some
people call.
After telling a little white lie twice
it begins to turn black
Rut few men are as mean as their
neirhbors think they are.
A dead lion is better than live dog
for rug-making purposes.
There are times when a pint of wit
goes farther than a gallon of wisdom.
Any woman with a train to her gown
should be able to draw her own con-
illusions.
some men have such weak eyes they
actually couldn't tell the truth if they
saw it.
A man never realizes how ignorant
he really is until his children begin to
give him advice
Trausgressors seldom realize the
hardness of their way until they look
at It from behind the bars.
one seldom sees a woman on the
street without shopping bag. That
ought to be sufficient warning to bach
elorS.
Unless a man keeps his best ear glued
to the keyhole the chances are he will
not hear opportunity knock at his door.
A wedding isn't considered brilliant
success unless every girl present finds
it necessary to consult dream book
the morning after.
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since Winifred's disappearance he had
nursed a growing sense OF injury.
Iain't fair" he complained. keep
ing fellow on the fence so. Her best
ana a woman ages Eastern a man. II
she'd given me her address, ia have
settled it months ago."
Josiah went up the aisle to his own
pew. Above the high back of the min
listers pew there arose q white sailor
hat. swathed with an airy muslin scarf.
Beneath 1T, soft waves of curling hair
rlpp1 Z, across brow from which all
traces OF care had been resolutely
smoothed away.
Josiah. Watching with some curiosity
until she turned her head slightly,
caught the clear profile and noted the
soft color in her cheek. 1t was Wini-
fred! All at once there dawned upon
MIN the truth that immortal youth is
not at the mercy of added years, and
that better than the passing beauty of
g1rlhood is that womanliness which
shall outlast the ages.
I'm glad I didn't know where to
write" thought Josiah, with a sense of
narrow escape and a growing feeling of
anxiety.
Winifred was unaware of his presence
until she heard his voice in the closing
hymn. AS the last notes ceased. she
turned to him, smiling straight up into
his anxious face.
We'll, JOSIAH" she said
And Josiah wondered why he had not
known before that raiment, whether it
be the unbecoming gray of past years
or the crisp muslin that seemed to give
back to him the love of his early years,
was not worthy of passing thought 1t
was the old Winifred who smiled up at
him out of those clear eyes. Nettie
Searles and the throng about them were
alike forgotten. He only thought of the
woman before him-the only woman in
the world for him. and all BloomvilIe
nad lts answer to long winter of spec
KISS her in the crowded church. Wini-
Ired Lanes best years were yet to come
copyrighted. 1907. by E. c. Parcels.l
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GARFIELD.

1t is no small matter to offend Of
fetal clerkdom in Washington, That is
| why Secretary Garfield-knoWn as
| Jimmy at the White House-took his
official life in his. hands when he dis
| charged eighteen useless and incom-
! petent clerks in the interior depart
ment.
Those who know Washington life as
sert that there are organizations among
the governmental clerks that have the
power to make life a burden for the
| official or head of a department who
effenes them. and in the end they US
| ually secure his scalp. The official who
tries to weed out the lazy and the
loafers among those under him; who
insists on as prompt hours and good
| service for the government as an indi-
vidual or corporation would require;
who objects to a superabundance of
vacations, or who regards efficiency and
good work as better recommendations
! than the backing of powerful senator
the chief or head of a department
who harbors such ideas as these is
| regarded as reasonable to Washington
clerkdom. Government clerks-most of
them-Fegard certain things as among
their inallenable rights. Thus Mr.. E:
F. Ware, as commissioner of pensions.
stirred up a hornets nest for himself
because he objected to the large and
varied assortment of vacations that
many clerks were in the habit of hand
ing out to themselves.
So Secretary Garfield may expect
trouble. To make matters worse in this
instance. Mr.. Garfield has fired" GER
tain pets of powerful senators. These
pets propose to show Mr.. Garfield
what's what and lots of 1t.
The State Journal has taken a great
deal of pleasure in standing up for
Mr.. Garfield when many other people
were running him down. When the
Kansas state senate reared up on it's
launches some years ago and demand
ed his immediate discharge from the
bureau of corporations because of his
beef trust report, Mr.. Garfield held his
peace and said nothing. In time the
big members of the beef trust were in
dicted on information secured by Mr.
Garfield but not put into his report
and the trust escaped going to jail only
ON a technieality.
1t would now be much easier for Mr.
Garfield to pursue the even tenor of
his way and not incur the enmity of
lot of worthless government clerks and
their hackers than to take the course
he is pursuing. 1t would be easy for
the secretary to let the government
keep on paying these clerks for work
they do not accomplish. But that is
not the Garfield way. He is working
in the interests of the government Just
as though it were a business enter
prise. No corporation would keep a lot
of useless clerks on its payroll just be-
cause they have a pull" James
Rudolph Garfield will make good as a
member of the cabinet
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NTEDERACHER.

Very little has ever been heard in
Kansas of George Niederacher, late of
Hodgeman county. Quite likely he
was we'll known in his own commun-
ity, but the State Journal must con-
fess that it never heard his name until
yesterday, when this dispatch ap-
peared in its news columns:
Jetmore, Kan, May 23-The will
of George Niederacher, who died at
his home in South Roscoe township
last week. was opened in the probate
court here yesterday. Mr.. Nieder-
acher leaves his entire estate, consist
ing of six quarter sections of land and
about $1,70O in money for the erec-
ton and furnishing of a building here
for a county high school. The value
of the estate is estimated at from $10,-
900 to s12, 900, which will be sufficient
best county high school buildings in
the state.
But the name of Niederacher will
long be remembered in Hodgeman
county. and the influence of his deed
will go down to generations yet I'M
born.
Living out in the "shortgrass coun-
try where fortunes are still too new
to direct mems minds towards phi
Ianthropy, this man has done some
thing of great practical benefit to the
county in which he made his home
He evidently made no spread. He
never came to the legislature and got
his name in the papers. So far as the
State Journal knows. he was never
heard of beyond the boundaries of
Hodgeman county; yet he has left
what he had accumulated to enable
the boys and girls of Hodgeman coun-
ty to have a higher education than
that afforded by the district schools.
The writer hereof knows nothing
whatever of his personality. but the
name of Niederacher ought to long be
revered in Hodgeman county. 1t is a
comparatively small matter for a
multimillionaire to leave few hun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-24
THE INCUBATOR CHICK.

Poet, poet" said a chick in the mourn
fullest tone,
II wish that I had a mother of my own,
l m not Just an orphan, lor my daddy
still deck,
And my mothers laying eggs in a way to
break her neck:
But my mother never Matched me, and l
think have a kick
My life's SO cold and dismal-Tm an 1ncu-
bator Chick.
THE chicks of other settings have a
mother that can cluck
ana lead them out on vacant lots to
scratch and take pot-luck;
They hunt around for bits of corn, chase
bugs and flies and things,
And at sign of danger snuggle under
mammy's wings,
Whoever took my egg away played me a
wretched trick.
The worlds so dull and dreary for an In
cubator Chick.
m sorry for all chickies that are moth
cred by machine,
And sorry for the babies that now and
then are seen
Without a real mother to pat them and
to pet.
But just a nurse who tends them for
whatever she can get
Not for the worsteSt baby would ever
want to Dick
A youth so chill and dreary,' said the
Incubator Chick.
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HVAOR OF THE DAY

Tell me, Fanny. how much would YOU
siyf- DO DO nave not a blonde hair like mine?''
slve?'-n Motto per Ridere.
NGreen-I was the victim of a Iynching
party in Arizona once.
brOWn-You don't say?
Green-Fact. I married the widow of a
iI,en S Gno was strung up for horse-steal
ca MT. f Phox I;r you send the Borems
Mrs' Phoxy-Yes; how could I get out
Mr., Phox-rn tell Borem that jerks
Is coming. Borem owes him money
Mrs. Bliss-Here is a letter von. NO.,
70 post. dear 1t is to my milliner, coun-
'eMSi Mr.. BiissgE Al order fis for for, hat
hind hind my back so that won't forget III
Mr.. st. JulienH'
We'll. gentlemen?'
,ax As COMMITTEES, We call to ask If you
church within 200 feet of your saIoon?"1
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Shocked Mamma-why, Willie Dewitt
m ashamed of you. calling your little
Little WiIlie--That's all right. ma. 'tain.+
In earnest I'm only playin I was the
president--Wan Street Bulls and Bears.
vi. What kind of man is hep
-0eiL-lnade.g- ff.-
And she?"
''Tailor-made ."-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Elderly Uncle-Like all other vo,,,s
chaps Just out of college, you'll be want
days O VI '"eSe
Nephew Harold with a bright bIusb,-
Not some of these Days" uncle Only
one Of 'em-Muriel. the youngest@o,hica-
go Tribune. 0iii'~-
Young Husband-These are not like the
biscuits mother used to make
Young Wffe-Oh-oh-AIfred are tha,
very-very different? my
Young Husband-Very different Won
can't eat these.-Philadelphia Press.
IT hear that young Mr.. spendft has
sued her husband for divorce on the
grund that he would not stand pat for
her annual expenditures.
Yes 1 believe the cause stated WAS In
come-pattbility. philadelphia Press.
Nan-Ias Harry proposed yet?
Familiarity. He brought up the subject
or divorce when he called the other even
ing.-Baltimore American.
you promised to love, honor and obev :,
said the husband.
Well. I don't love. I can't honor and
You go at once and buy that new hat
he re1oined. thus at one stroke demolisb
ing all her theories.-Philadelphia I,edeer
married you. en
She-Yes. but I thought YOU vould I'm
prove--New York IndeDendent.
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INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

The really able and uppermost fact
in the public services of Booker Wash
ington is that he recognized at once
the supreme Importance of educating
the negroes in Industrial arts rather
than in literature. philosophy and pro-
fessional courses. Leading negroes
everywhere else are demanding the So
called higher education for their fell
lows, while Washington, almost alone,
realizes the value of practical every
day industrialism for them. This is
real wisdom and he is the wisest man
of his race. But industrial education
is good not only for the negroes but
for people of every color and race and
as time goes on the fact will be gen.
orally recognized.-New Orleans Pic
ayune.
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agent for the Val Blatz Brewing COM
pany, will open up in East Atchison.
He will have both telephones, 4e6, and
Will deliver goods to this side of the
river, but as he desires to obey the
law, will not solicit orders. If you
want anything in his line, call him up
by telephone. and your orders will be
promptly delivered to this side of the
river. The change was made owing
to the recent prohibition excitement in
Kansas
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Cnttine Down Expenses.

cat a meeting of Oregon Short Line
directors" said a Chicago broker, "E.
n. Hartman made a fine speech on
economy in railway management At
the end he told an appropriate story.
He said that keen business man
bought at a low price a theater that
had long been Improbable, and by
economical mana cement put it imme-
diately on a paying basis.
But he was very economical. He
watched the expenses with the sharp
est eye.
s'The first months expense account
contained the item.
Meat for eight cats-to protect
the scenery and properties from the
rats ravages-$2.
I.rThe proprietor struck this item
out, writing on the margin:
"If the cats eat the rats, where
fore the meat2 If they don't where
fore the cats p "
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Prose-

[From the New. York Press.J
Do angels go to the other place when
they need a change of climate?
The average man can write a --o..-
long letter unless it's to his own fam,
lily.
A girl has such an Imagination Oh.
can fall in love with a man by pre-
tending she IS going to marry hfn1
Adam was blamed fool to cot -.
apple when he could have gone ~,
without buying any clothes for his =, ~, III
lily. ASNi''-
When you come home and ana
man has been crying, probab Iv she -
oeen up in the attic looking at the "a
pair OF slippers she wore at her A.
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Trial Of First Air Brake.

The air brake was ushered into actual
use in most dramatic fashion. The trial
trip occurred in April, 1862 The train
selected was the Steubenville accom-
mediation, running between Pittsburg
and Steubenville,: Ohio. When the
train was going at full speed, sudden
ly as he came around a sharp curve,
the engineer saw a stalled wagon in
the middle of the track dead ahead.
With hand brakes only, nothing could
have prevented a terrible smashup. The
formal time for the trial of the air
brake had not come, but the brake was
there and in desperation, not believing
for a moment that the thing could pos
sibly avail, the engineer threw on the
air But it did avail
The observers in the rear were al
most catapulted out of their seats by
the shock of the sudden stop. But when
they saw the engine fairly poking its
nose into the wagon bed, SO narrow
had been the margin between safety
and disaster, they forgot all about their
shock and stood in awed silence. The
air brake had come into its own.-En-
gineering Magazine.
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The city assessor In Hutchinson is
making good. He found over a thou
sand new Inhabitants in that town this
year, bringing the total up to 14.346.
At this rate Hutchinson will be eligible
to became a city of the first class in
another year. OF course its people
have long commended that it is a first
GLASS citv
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The farmer who was wailing and
crashing his teeth a few months ago
because he could not get cars to haul
his last years wheat crop away, is now
wearing a smile that extends well
around towards the back of his neck
The car shortage was blessing in dis
etlfsa for him
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dred thousand to a college; but for
Kansas farmer to leave his entire
fortune. accumulated by years of hard
work, to the cause of education in his
home community, shows a high APP
probation of the better things of life,
which few millionaires possess, not
withstanding their princely gifts.
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The trouble with all these mean
things that the newspapers are saying
about the Coreys is that Coreys prob
ably are not subscribers to any press
clipping bureau just now.
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Horoscope of spain's Babe.

A peck of trouble has already been
cooked up for Alfonso Pho Cristino
Eduardo. ETC., prince of the Asturias,
otherwise the new royal baby of Spain,
by Gustave Meyer, the astrologer who
made Hoboken famous. According to
his horoscope, cast by the star-wise
professor, the future king will have a
career that would put a Pittsburg mil
lionaire to blush.
81 find" said the FIoboken sage yes
terday. that the prince was born I'M
der the fortunate planets, the sun and
Mercury. He will therefore live to
be 70 years old and will enjoy every
minute of 1t, excepting when he is
lodging bonn S.s In his early years he
will apparently be delicate, but will
survive ialls difficulties in safety. He
will have several narrow escapes from
death. When 20 he will have des-
perate attempt made upon his life by
a bomb-thrower.
cat nineteen he will ascend the
throne, upon the death of his father.
Just about that period he will be hav-
ing a gay time. He will marry or form
an alliance with beautiful actress,
probably from New York, and will be-
come involved in a great scandal. In
fact, he will be very unfortunate with
the fair sex.
His domestic life will be very I'M
happy. He will be unpopular, but on
the whole fortunate for any one in the
king business. New York World.
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Twas ever thus President Roose-
welt has a pass to every baseball game
in the United States and he hasn't
time to go to any of them; while the
individual with time to throw at the
birds and who would be satisfied with
season pass to only one park, can
not get inside the gates without put
ting down the price
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-24

Victor Murdoch notes that conpar-
atfvely few people in the state know
the name of the new Republican
ehairmain; while IL Leavenworth
should change catchers in the sixth
inning 1t would be bulletined over the
state. The people, Mr.. Murdoch ought
to know, pay attention to the really
important things of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-24

1t was really cruel in Attorney Cod
ding not to let those Sangerfest singers
at Wamego have something to wet
their threats with so as to enable them
to do a better job of warbling.
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The law-enforcement sentiment is
spreading. A justice of the peace out
in Mcpherson has fined fourteen
members of a charivari party as dis
turner's of the neace.
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Lillian Explains Ellen.

Lillian Russell is something of an au-
thority on marrying and giving in mar
riage and an interview with her wouldn't
be at all the proper thing without some
reference to wedding bells and DEGREES
and the like. In order to avoid being
too personal 1 asked her what she
thought of Ellen Terry, England's chief
actress, aged SO, marrying young Carew,
leading man, aged 80.
II suppose Miss Terry wanted some
one to get up and build the fire in the
mornings said Miss Russell. "Or pos
sibIy she wanted to show the younger
.debutantes how neglectful they were in
allowing eligible bachelors to waste all
their time al the clubs.
Il don't know Mr.. Carew, but under
stand he is quite a fine young man.
He played leading parts with Maxine
Elliott in London two years ago during
the run of Her Own Way and be-
came. one. of the favorites of the British
stage Recently he Joined Miss Terry's
company and is now her leading man.
Miss Terry is old enough to know her
own mind and so take it the marriage
will be a success. Portland Oregonian.
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machine men," says J. L. Brady.
"are the green bugs of politics, and
the square deal people are the parasite
bees" Which isn't such a poor com
parison as it might be.
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The Concordia Kansan thinks It is
about time to start something" Ever
see the time when Kansas wasn't
starting something?
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Caruso has just signed a contract
by which he will be paid 100000 a
year for four years for working one
day in five. Caruso is best known to
the American public by that Central
park monkey story, too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-24

There is some complaint because the
board of railroad commissioners have
not vet done anything about reducing
rates. Have patience a little longer
and give the board a few more
chances. We will all live just as long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-24

Perhaps La Toilette wears his hair
that way so that his enemies can not
tell when he is scared. At any rate,
La Toilette was never accused of be-
ing scared, Notwithstanding that
pompadour
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Caruso gets 100000 a year. just
double what w. f. Corey receives as
president of the steel trust, Jobs as
steel trust magnates and heightened
tenors appear to pay fairly good
Wa0eq
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1t must be that Foraker is getting
some testimony in the brownsville
case that he was not expecting.
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The state will manage to worr!
along even if the wheat crop shoult
be q, trifle short.
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The Appeal to Reason is talking o
Haywood for president In 1905 Doe
the Appeal wish to shelve Debs?
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A contemporary prints "some facts
and suggestions about the green bug"
The best suggestion We can think of
about the green bug Is that he
move on
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Alfonso expects to go into the farm
ing business and breed pedigreed cat
tie also.
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what, pray, does T, B. Gerow pro-
pose to do about this school na'am
shortage?
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BY the way. did you remember to
vote yesterday?
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

1t rained in Nebraska yesterday.
Keep a-hopin'.
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Advertisement in the Atchison
Globe: ron Friday next Sam Brouse,
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HoNoRs ARE EVEN.

Honors are about even in Ohio. Mr.
Foraker does not want the indorse-
ment of Secretary Taft for senator
and Secretary Taft will try and worry
along without Senator Foraker's in
dorsement for president-St. Louis
GIobe-Democrat.
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COURTs OUTCLAssED.

That Nebraska woman who mar
ried a burglar she captured in her
home has probably done more to
frighten burglars away from the city
than all the courts have been able to
do.-Washington Post.
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PERII.S OF PEACE.

A soldier of fortune who had fought
under eighteen different flags died
few days ago from overindulgence in
dumplings. Peace hath its dangers no
less terrible than war.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
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WHERE HE STANDS.

If Mr.. Hartman had any lingering
doubts as to his status. the presidents
letter to Honore Jaxson must have put
them to rest--Baltimore American.
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PLAYING IN GREAT LUCK.

The Taft boom seems to be thorough
| ly impregnated with genuine Roosevelt
luck Former Senator J. Ralph Bur-
ton has delivered a broadside against
| ft.-Washington Herald.
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SAFE FUR A MIN UTE.
No snowstorms are predicted for the
next few minutes.-Chicago News.