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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

Downs proposes to quit the kerosene
circuit 1t will have electric lights.
A Horton woman has over $1,000
which she made raising chickens as a
side issue on farm.
J. H. Ream shows the Yates Center
News some blackberries "as large as
walnuts." That's some big.
A Rossville man says his corn has
been growing three inches day on an
average. 1t is now above ten feet in
height.
Horton has a new girl band of
will all want to attend band practice
hereafter.
Five farmers in the vicinity of As
bury, Brown county, will buy autos
this summer, according to the Hia-
watha World.
"a white face bull calf about two
months old, which is good to chew
harness or anything else around the
place." is advertised for sale by the
Atwood Citizen.
In-the-good-old-d days item by Tom
Charles: We have read what Conner
Davies said about Tom Ballard being
the best fiddler in Republic and Jewell
counties in an early day. Tom Ballard
was a fiddler in this country when
they danced on the dirt floor, bare
footed, if they didn't happen to have
shoes and the old settlers know him
well. Everybody knew him, for his
position was of more Importance than
the minister's. Everybody danced, but
everybody didn't attend church. The
old settlers will be grieved to learn
that Mr.. Ballard Is very sick at his
home in Stockton
Bert Walker: THANK the Lord"
said Old Bill Shiftless last Saturday,
as he dropped into a chair in the
grocery store, that harvest is over;
I'm all in" Harvest is unusually
hard on Old Bill. Bill always engages
to work for some neighbor. He shows
up the first day all right, but along in
the afternoon when the sun begins to
bear down a little, Bill finds that his
rheumatism comes back to his arms
and he has to quit. He goes home and
grunts around to hang out a bluff.
This year hands were very scarce and
Bill had to take additional measures
to protect himself from work, as the
rheumatism gag was getting thread
bare. So he got a bad bilious attack
and actually stayed in bed every
morning till 10 o'clock, and then he
would get up and crawl out and lie
on the front porch. In order to make
good Bill found it necessary to stay
away from a couple of ball games in
fering came in. AS soon as the wheat
was all cut in Bills neighborhood he
got as we'll as ever in one night. Bill
has no harvest this year, as he is liv-
ing with his wife's folks. Mrs. Shift
less, who is a good cook, helped out
by getting the meals for the harvest
hands and doing most of the other
homework. Mrs. Shiftless does this
every harvest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.


A man often says. well, I'll at
tend to that" and doesn't
1t may look" as though luck is
against you. but it isn't.
Men don't care much for style, so
long as they can get enough to wear.
Every dead beat frequently says,
'I never beat man out of a cent in
my life"
A girl can not ask for a greater
compliment than to have her mother
brag on her unless 1t is to have her
father brag on her.
When you eat dinner in the coun-
try, you can be expected to be invit-
ed to ask a blessing. And very few
town men can do it.
Every man sees at least one advan-
tage in not being able to afford luxu-
ries: His wife can't put up any lace
curtains to keep the air out
If titles were scattered around SO
freely that housekeepers could get
them, every mother would be known
as the Trouble Man at her house.
If you see all the family gathered
out in the yard looking admiringly up
into a tree, you will know that there
is an apple there, and they nave
gathered to worship IT.
The Jacob twins heard this morn
ing that Barnum's circus is coming
to Atchison, and kicked and screamed
because it isn't coming today. instead
of the 18th of September
When some women get to heaven,
the first thing they will do will be to
spit on their robes to see If they are
all linen, and then the other women
angels will know that another bar
gain hunter has arrived.
A girl would just as soon believe
she could ever be fat and dumpy, like
Ma, as to believe that the Sweet
Young Thing in patent feathers who
calls on her would ever be like Pa
and enjoy sitting around without his
shoes on
We were lately talking over the tele-
phone with a man two hundred miles
away and during the converse ton, the
man quoted the old saying There is
nothing new under the sum-" How about
talking by telephone with a man two
hundred miles away?
Hon. Lysander John Appleton, of
Atchison, announces that under no
circumstances will he be a candidate
for governor. Jack Appleton is not
the only Kansas man declining to run
for governor who has never been ask
ed to run.
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HUMOR or THE Day

what did. your wife say when you ar
rived home last night ..,+z
"She didn't say anything; SIMPLY Pei'eu
me with flowers
How singular! - -
cam StHS With them, you know.''-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
she-Dearest, have you no rural rela7
te HeEYes, darling but their. terms are
so summary.-Chicago Hecoro-heralo
"Ain't he cute? Everybody says he is
the image Of me-. rY.,,z.,. x,o..
''They knockers. Houston POST.
would you please give poor man
oi nMv dear sir" replied the philanthFo-
mist ''you have not grasped the first prin-
ciple of charity. A dime would be or
small AVAIL s PTf vain atm yaS e4 to your
plea. You hustle $3.50 and the desired
dime is yours.
- I'm that case" responded the philan1oo
tsnfs is&tPSgiiade I Lex Tedger rU eve" ~
Jenkins came home. with me the other
morning. and he heard part of my wifes
did she confIne them to your"
"Confine them? Not much, she re-
1.-The closing number Of the evening.
said the famous pianist, rs oy Cnopain,
"Ah! said the punster in the audience,
1T see. Last but not List. "-Somerviile
Journal
Texas Pony-what are you doing out
here on the ranch? -.
CiraffeEThey' using me to give ten
derfoot his first lesson in lassoing--De-
troit Free Press.
Knicker-Has he an inherited streak for
saving money? .
Bocker-Yes, indeed; his father was q
police captain aand his mother was
Chorus girl-New York Sun.
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TRoLLEYs VS.. STEAM ROADS.

| Indiana, according to writer in APP
pleton's Magazine. has solved the pro-
blem of local transportation rates, not
\ by legislation so much as by building
interurban trolley lines that compete
with the steam roads, especially in pas
senger and light freight transportation
In seven years a tremendous reduction
i'll rates has been brought about.
Not only have the trolleys reduced
passenger rates to less than two cents
a mile, but the service is much better
than it was a few years ago. The wri-
ter in Appleton's gives a table showing
the number of trains and the rates be-
tween Indianapolis and IA other Indi-
ana towns in 1899 and in 1906. Eight
years ago the fare from Indianapolis
to Anderson, 80 miles, was S1.10. and
there were six steam trains day. Now
there are nine steam trains and 20 troll
leys, and the trolley fare Is only so
cents.
From Indianapolis to Wabash is 90
miles and the fare was formerly $2.7o.
There were three trains day. Now the
rate is reduced to $1.40, and there are
IA trolley trains in addition to the
three steam trains.
The fare from Indianapolis to Rich
mond, 6s miles, was formerly $2.O5-
Now it is only $1.O5. Formerly there
were six trains. Now there are IA troll
leys and seven steam trains.
One thousand miles of track are now
in operation in Indiana, $50 miles are
building and will be placed in opera
ton early this year; another 1000 miles
are projected. Each one of the roads
operating at present parallels a steam
railroad. Operating these existing lines
are Is principal corporations, each of
which has enc or more subsidiaries. To-
tai capitalization is S41, $50, 900 in stock
and SAB, csc, 500 in bonds, or slightly more
than 1000 per mile of constructed
road. This figure closely approximates
the capitalization of the steam railroads
of the country, and represents a IVA
tered" value of about $50, 000, 000 in
jected in the absorption and amalga-
nation processes that have been re
sorted to. Upon this enormous capital
the growth of seven years-the COM
panies are not only paying liberal div
idend and interest charges, but are
paying heavily for franchise privileges
notably in Indianapolis, where the city
system takes as a terminal and track
age fee three cents out of every five
cent fare collected in the city limits.
In it's financial phases. therefore"
says the writer in Appleton's, the So
luton of this transportation problem
has resulted in a manner eminently
satisfactory to those who engaged in
the task. The public. which provides
the revenue enjoyed nv the corpora
tions. is not wholly pleased; it's de-
mands are not entirely satisfied But
the condition of that public is so vastly
improved, over what it was under the
steam railroad monopolies, that it is
contented, confident that as long as 1t
provides the revenue the traction cor
porations will, as rapidly as possible,
increase and extend their facilities"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News

From the Chicago News.
Get a move On you, then keep going.
The larger the bluff the smaller 1t
looks when called.
Some peoples troubles are enough
to make others laugh.
1t is wonderful what lot of kissing
a little mouth can do.
Some people derive lot of satisfac-
ton from their dissatisfactions.
When it comes to Understanding
himself a man seldom overdoes it.
The babb1ing brook, like a babbling
man. is unable to keep it's mouth shut
In accounting for others the book
keeper does a little work on his own
account.
1t requires a lot of strenuous will
power for a girl of Is to act as If she
didn't care to get married.
Tell a womasa about a year after
marriage that she might have done
better and she will not deny it.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

Up in Decatur county the county
commissioners are protesting against
the habit some trainmen have of
pushing tramps off of moving trains
They say it is not only tough on the
tramps, but 1t also makes the coun-
~ pay the doctor bills. Then here Is
another objection: It incapacitates
the tramp so he can not work. while
If he were dropped off easily some
needy farmer would grab him and set
him to pitching alfalfa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
LFrnm the New York Press1

From the New York Press.
Family arguments are always run
under forced draught.
A mans income is a very useful
thing to those who spend it for him.
A girl believes in love at first sight
until she marries on that system. .
Red hair is a good thing not to be
married to for the sake of the chill
dren.
A woman can always quote the
Bible to prove something she says in
an argument and a man never knows
it isn't there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23
FRON OTHER PENS
HARRIMAN's GOOD ROADS.

Harriman's methods are not ad-
mirable, and the sentiment of the
public is very strongly against having
all the transportation interests on land
and sea controlled by one man. But
we may as well be just. He did not
steal these roads from the previous
owners, whatever he may have done
to other people, and he has increased
the services rendered by the transport
tation lines to the public. In stating
the results of it's inquiries into the
practice of Harrimanizing railroads
the interstate commerce commission
says that every railroad Hartman has
captured is today a better road phys
ically than it was before he took 1t.
A man can't make money out of rail-
roads by hocus pocus alone.-Phila-
delphiM Record.
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On the Missouri Pacific between
Kansas City and the state line, COM
ing into Kansas, the Missouri railroad
commission has ordered that trains
shall not run faster than twelve miles
an hour until the track is fixed. How,
pray, did the Missouri board inspect
that tracIS7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

did Senator La Toilette asks
the Parsons Sun, realize when he
was denouncing the trusts and COM
bines at the chautauqua last Monday
night that he was a beneficiary of
one of them7 Each of the chautau-
quas at which he spoke in Kansas and
Missouri Is a part of big chautauqua
trust or combine which is controlled
by one man. Well, doesn't La Fol-
lette maintain that all the necessaries
of life are controlled by trusts?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

Here is more oppression on the
part Of Capital: In the Marion base
ball league the Bankers standing is
1000. the Politicians and Colts are
each at the 800 mark. while the Me-
chanics are 900. Thus does Capital
press the crown of thorns upon the
brow of Labor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

Governor Carter, of Hawaii, where
a large portion of the population are
Japanese, says the japanese are a de-
sirable class of people. This country is
making a mistake in shutting them
out at the behest of few agitators in
San Francisco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

told that he had been offered a con-
siderable sum by Standard Oil repre-
sentatives to quit the job Later his
drill broke and he forfeited his con-
tract and left, the drill remaining
In the we'll. While the Glasco people
did not strike oil, they believe they
struck Standard Oil scheme.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

Senator La Toilette declares that
the country is run by Chauncey
Depew and seventy-five other men. all
bad" WhereuDon the Omaha Bee re-
marks: This will be surprising news
to Depew, who has not cen able for
several years to get even a fourth class
postmaster appointed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

A war with japan would furnish
Kansas an opportunity to develop an
other crop of heroes. 1t has been
eight years since the last crop was
harvested much OF that crop
was allowed to go to waste. In case
of a japanese war, heroes would
spring to the front from every town
ship in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23
THE CLOUD AND THE SUNSHINE

De Sunshine tell de Rainy Cloud:
on never treat me right:
cont you take en- storm de stars
En- blow EN- fu'm de night?
My task is took ter shine all day;
wy don't you rain en- go yo' way?''
De Rainy Cloud go sailin' by
He projick roun' bout
Den roll de kiver FUN de sky
En- let de sunshine Quit
I'm den he tell de hill en- plain:
Des boiler wen you needin' raini''
F, L. Stanton in the Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

Although Japan may have forced
the emperor of Korea to alb
dictate, President Roosevelt has
not vet been called on to do so, al
though Captain Hobson may inform
us of such a demand at any moment.
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1t is to be hoped that another Hill
mon case will not develop from the
contest over paying the insurance
carried by the late L. H. Perkins.
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Kansas City, Wichita and Dodge
City claim to have been the hottest
places in the central west last week.
Is Concordia losing it's old claim to
this distinction?
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If Attorney General Bonaparte will
only smoke the pipe of peace with it.
the tobacco trust will very likely be
glad to furnish the material.
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with revolts in Formosa and Ko-
rea on it's hands. Japan is beginning
TO realize some of the evils of lex
pansion."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

California" says the Los Angeles
Express. has turned out the champion
CRATER" And here we have been sup
posing, California, that you locked him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23
KANSAS COMAENT
THE ON ROWS


Bully old boys We love them. They
are the salt OF the earth, the saliva
tion or the country, the real, substan-
tlal corrective patriots who have bull
WarKed the American republic for
n1ty years. We were in Emporia the
other morning. On the shady side of
the street, near Newmans, we found
the quiet squad. They were telling
while waiting. Waiting for pension
day, listening for 1.-The dip of the
golden oar of Charon's boat that will
cross them to the other side. Blessed
old noys- And as we sat with them
on the curb, along came Wash"
thornton, an army comrade, with
whom we served three years. While
IN Topeka we met up with another
quiet squad of the old boys who are
watching, waiting, and we could not
Iorego the pleasure of sitting beside
them and talking awhile. And it is
the same in every town. Bully old
boys, VINO carried the flag to victory
the flag that has never been low
cred in the face of the enemy And
the tragedy of all of it. The govern
ment-and there would be no govern
ment but for the patriotism of these
old boys-tells us-brutally tells us
that death must come to one OF us
every twelve minutes. The brutality
OF all of it. But the drumbeats on
the other side muster the greater
army, and why not join it-and
them? Bully old boys.but after all
we somehow hate to go and leave the
weak and shattered units of the
grand army. The trumpeting of
Taps? No, we are not just ready.-El
Dorado Republican.
THE RECALL IN KANSAS.
We hear much about the recall sys-
tem-a plan by which a councilman or
other city official may be recalled by d
vote Of lack of confidence at any time,
without waiting for regular election.
No such law operates in Kansas, and
yet the entire city council of Stafford
resigned on demand of majority of the
voters, because they would not act
favorably on petition for the accept
ance of a free public library. If the sal
airy attached to the job of councilman
had been $1,000 year instead of 81 how
ever, the response to the recall" might
not have been SO prompt.-Hutchinso
News.
THE ONLY ONE
The insurance trust has had the |
a good many years. but it now looks
as though Attorney General Jackson |
is about to break it's strangle hold and |
put the trust to the bad. By the way,
we wish to repeat that Mr., Jackson
is the first attorney general Kansas
has had for many years.-Concordia
Blade.
OUR CHAUTAUQUA.
BY way of emphasizing the tenn
perance nature of the Topeka Chau-
tauqua, a man named Waters made !
the opening address and the Kaw
river rose four feet.-Lawrence
World.
USUALLY THE WAY.
The county attorney of Cloud county
has brought suit against the bondsmen
OF cx-County Treasurer Wade to collect
a ten thousand dollar shortage. These
bondsmen apparently figure that they
were only on the bond to protect the
county against loss If there wasn't any.
Advocate.
KNOWS MORE THAN. JOHN D.
We feel thankful for one thing-we
know more about our own business than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

Mars is evidently a warm number
~ he is causing the present heated
term
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

Oil well drillers at Glasco contract
ed to go down 5000 feet. When about
half way down good prospects of oil
were discovered, and the contractor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

1t will have to be admitted that in
its prosecution of the tobacco trust
the government is biting off a good
sized chew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

If you use coal. this would be good
time to lay in your next winters sup
ply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

A large number OF Kansas towns
have recently received communications
eSom a Kansas City firm, asking II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23
KNOWS MORE THAN JOHN D.

INV
We feel thankful for one thing-we
know more about our own business than
John D. Rockefeller, If he is the richest.
Stafford Republican.
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THE EIGHTH woNDER,

Secretary Taft says there is no graft
In Panama. If this is the case the
western hemisphere may be said to
have furnished the eighth wonder of
the world-Chicago Record-Herald.
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WHEN THE FINISH COMES.

~ IAI1.S 7 HE FINISH COMES.
AFTER the tobacco trust is busted it
Will De quite appropriate to equip
every cigar store Indian with a big
stick instead of a tomahawk.-Wash-
ington Post.
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USUALLY THE WAY.

The county attorney of Cloud county
has brought suit against the bondsmen
of cx-County Treasurer Wade to collect
a ten thousand dollar shortage. These
bondsmen apparently figure that they
were only on the bond to protect the
county against loss If there wasn't any.
-Mankato Advocate
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PROSPERITY.

There is to be corn crop that will
protect the farmers from mortgages
next year.-Birmingha Ledger.
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LET SWORDS RUST!

If the Japanese officers are to draw
the sword only in a defensive war
against the United States, 1t will eat
itself out with rust in the scabbard.-
Philadelphia Record.
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Upton ADVERTISING

Sir Thomas Upton has made an
other appropriation for advertising
himself and his celebrated brand of
tea. He has announced that he will
propose another yacht race in the near
future.-Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
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OUR CHAuTAUOUA

OUH Cf1AU IAUN4U A.
BY way of emphasizing the tenn
perance nature of the Topeka Chau-
tauQua, a man named Waters made
the opening address and the Kaw
river rose four feet.-Lawrence
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EASY WHEN YOU KNOW HOW.

"Save; work hard; practice self
denial is the rule laid down by John
D. Rockefeller for becoming rich. AS
this is what a great many poor people
are already doing without the accu-
mutation of egregious wealth 1t is
possible that Mr.. Rockefeller has omit
ted some such small but indispensa BILE
factor as making arrangements with
the common carriers for exclusive
privileges in the matter of rates.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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NO LONGER NECESSARY.

ANI1NI1IOkJ<AIN
With the two-cent railroad rate en-
forced by the various commonwealths
the passenger can begin to see where
he gets off. 1t is at the nearest sta
ton the other side of the state line,
where he makes a quick purchase of
another ticket.-Chicago Daily News.
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CHEAPENS ONES EXISTENCE.
The success of Mrs. Bowie and her
son Harry in pleading the 'unwritten
law" and the boldness with which tn e
insanity dodge was tabooed by Mrs.
Bowie's counsel. will embolden the
pistol toter" and the lifetaker. Such
defenses and such verdicts tend to
cheaper human misunderstanding
Sentinel.