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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

eyes again she was in bed at Aun
Mary's and the doctor was saying:
she will do nicely now. 1 happened
to be driving by the old mill and saw
1t all That young fellow mana ged liks
hero. There was no boat, and could
render no assistance. and two or three
times thought they were gone"
"Aunty," asked the girl after the doc
tor had gone, did fall into the mill
pond?'' s-.
Yes, DEAR
And go over the dam7'
'.And how-how was / saved?"
:, Why, that impudent young Teller
had the fmpudence to jump I'm after you
go on this way, 1 don't know where
they will stop. I'll just bet he'll have
the nerve to call here and ask after
you"
Aunt Mary was right. That evening
the young man did call and make in
quiries and leave his card, and "A hours
later he was again ushered into the
parlor to find the rescued maiden able
deal of talking and some laughing, and
at the end of half an hour when the
caller withdrew she was ready with the
observation:
well. I 'spose it's some more Of his
impudence ~
IL think 1 must have been mis-
taken all the time, aunty." replied the
what? wasn't it impudence?"
''N-o-o. I guess he knew more about
fishing than did"
Aunt Mary looked at her for a long
minute, and then sagely shook her head
and turned away with the observation:
II don't know about that, young lady.
1 should say it was right the other
way. You may not have caught
whale, but that amt saying you haven't
caught something else"
There may be good fishing in the Ba-
kersville mill pond again this year, but
there will be no further impudence on
the one hand nor indignation on the
other. Affairs have progressed too far
and too agreeably for that. In the Ian
guage of Aunt Mary:
"a girl comes a-visiting-she goes out
to f1sh-she meets an impudent Teller
she falls into the pond-he saves her
lffe-they-"
'"They what?" asked Uncle Joe.
None o. your business! You go out
and see IL that pie in the oven has
burned all to a cinder while I've been
thinking of ngs."-(Copyrighted 1907,
by Mary McKeon.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]


The bigot is often big 1t.
Tears gre not worth their salt
Invalids are not the only ill-mannered
people in the world.
It's q waste of time to tell other people
not to waste theirs.
To succeed It is sometimes necessary to
make hay before the sun shines.
1t doesn't necessarily follow that because
a man isn't n rounder he is square.
The fellow with a. taste for light beer
may develop a dark brown taste next
morning.
1t is a deplorable fact that one taste of
revenge is sweeter than a mouthful Of
forgiveness.
Some fellows are like electric buttons
They won't accomplish anything unless
they are pushed.
Blobbs-"Henpeckke isn't half a man"
Slobbs-"How can any man who has a
better half be half a MANI
Wigg-"Here's a passage in this novel
that says the heroine caught her breath.
Now, what does that meant" Wagg-
Perhaps 1t was bated."
The animals at the Zoo were having
quiet conversation when the lion Joined in
without an invitation. who asked you
to put in your roars?' asked the monkey
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
FpOA OTHER PENS
THE PEOPLE IN EARNEST.

The POLITICIANS VINO are lllaIIeuVeI-
have an ordinary case of personal
popularity to deal with. and that with
Roosevelt out of the lists for nominal
ton they will come into their own,
are simply reckoning without their
host That host is the American peo-
pie. SO,OO0,o00 strong. If Roosevelt
stands aside the Roosevelt cause will
remain And those people will seize
at once upon the next best instru-
ment for the work they have to do.
The American people are in dead
earnest, and any intriguers who over
look that fact are bound to get
shed.-Chicngo Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Frorn the Chicago News.1

Experience is costly-as many an heiress
has discovered by marrying title.
A pound of candy will go farther with
woman than ton of argument
Some women wear combs to hold thetr
hair up and some wear them to hold 1t on
Death comes but once. but II you have
property, taxes comes early ana ofIen.
Some people are such consistent knock
ers that they refuse even to ring door
bell
When a woman takes the concett out or
a man she herself is apt to have double
supply.
man may realize his own Importance,
but If he is wise he also realizes that other
people do not.
When a man Is in too great hurry TO
acquire wisdom he is apt to make a fool
of himself.
A man isn't always as old as he feels.
but a woman is always as old as she says
she fS-and then some.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
ADVANCE OF THE WHEAT BELT

One OF the striking facts in the wheat
report of the Kansas Department OF
Agriculture, which was made public by
Secretary Coburn yesterday. is that the
wheat belt is pushing to the southwest.
The extreme short grass country of the
big Seventh" that was not supposed
to be good for anything but cattle rails
ing a few years ago, is now coming into
the wheat belt, and it is likely that
these southwestern and western counties
will add much to the aggregate Kansas
crop this year.
The northwestern counties have pro-
crossed more rapidly in agriculture than
has the southwest. A large acreage of
corn is grown along the northern bound
ary as far out as RawIins county, with
in a few miles of the Colorado line,
while Thomas, Sheridan and Rawlins
have been listed two or three times
among the million bushel wheat coun-
ties. But in the southwest the western
edge of the wheat belt has been rs miles
east of what it is in the northwest.
Now, however, the southwest is being
seeded co wheat. This year Ford coun-
ty alone will have $4,000 acres, taking
its place among the big wheat counties
Of the state, although it has already
been in the million bushel list once or
twice Six years ago Ford county had
only $3.50 acres. Clark county has ad-
vanced in six years from 5000 to nearly
$4,000 acres. In the same time Meade
has gone from 1000 to $4,000; F1nney
from 1900 to 1900; Gray from 5000 to
4O, 900; Haskell from 5000 to 10000; Scott
from 10000 to 10000; and Seward from
practically nothing to 10000 Hodgeman,
which has never yet raised a million
bushels, will this year probably go high
above the million bushel mark. 1t has
1900 acres, against only 1000 in 1901.
Lane has gone from $4,000 to over $4,000
acres.
Seven short grass counties which have
heretofore cut little figure in the wheat
years ago they raised only
about a million bushels combined-wiH
this year raise considerably over three
million bushels, according to present
prospects.
But the wheat acreage is also expand
ing in the northwest. Decatur this year
has $4,000 acres, against 41,0oo six years
ago. Trego and Cove counties each
have 10000 acres more than in 1901
Rawlins county has nearly 10000 acres
now. whereas it had $1,000 six years ago,
while Cheyenne's winter wheat acreage
has increased from 1900 to $4,000, be-
sides a considerable increase in the
spring wheat area.
Another interesting fact, as shown by |
this weeks wheat report, is that the
territory that had its crop injured worst |
last year will this year fare exceptional |
ly well, according to present prospects |
An elliptical region extending from Ford |
county to the Nebraska line, with Ora |
ham. Trego and Cove counties as it's |
center Jared worst last year. Most of |
the counties in this area at present |
show a condition. of 30 or better, and the |
snow that fell on the fields Monday will |
in0rove them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
SUNSET HILL.

Oh, Youth has gone across the hin
To find the evening star,
: Along the windy pasture lands
Where the late asters are.
He said an. hours light good-by,
And promised Inerrily
That he'd come back DER Sunset Hill
To dwell again with me.
He stoed a moment on the crest
To flute a lifting strain
An Youth has gone to Fairylauds
When will he come again?
Sara H. Birchall in The Reader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.J

[F'rom the New York Press.1
It's q very strong friendship that can
survive intimacy.
Shaving yourself Is a very good practice
at being one of the best swearers
One reason a man likes to drink is his
doctor tells him it's bad for his health
woman likes to dine in a restaurant
with her husband so he can't blame her
for 1t.
There's hardly anything in the world ex-
cites = woman more than to have some
body call her uD the telephone when
she is away and not leave word who it
was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
MAY DAY IN KANSAS.

1.-THE close of April exhibits Kansas
with an empire of growing wheat,
somewhat beset in places, but bravery
waving salutes to her unfailing sun
shine and showers whose alchemy
transmutes them into gold. r d.
Col
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

It is not unusual for the public to be
disappointed in its public officials, but
1t is not disappointed thus far in Lieu
tenant Governor Fitzgerald and Attor-
neY General Jackson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Some of the nations that are repre-
scented at the peace conference at The
Hague will probably keep several war
ships hanging around in that vicinity
to back up their respective repre-
sentatives in case something should
happen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Kansas City has been agitating the
question OF parks for some time, and
now it has captured the biggest Parks
In Kansas, John S. Parks. who has be-
come president of the American Ma
uonal bank down there. and who weighs
inward of the 800 mark
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

William Allen White positively de-
clines to be governor. Mr.. White evil
IDENTIFY is not going to put any ten
cents-a-word stuff into governors,
messages for free consumption when
magazine editors are willing and anx-
ious to pay him for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

mics are urging him for another term,
and his friends are ready to Join his
enemies on that proposition on mo-
ment's notice if there is any way of
making him take it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
MONEY FAILED ONCE.

The Hartman who expressed con-
fdence in his ability to buy up legis-
latures and even judicial officers
found that his money wasn't good
when he tried its use to stop the pub
LEGATION of letter that had fallen into
the hands of the press.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

why, We wish to inquire, has no en-
terprising Snowman thus far put on a
series of moving pictures showing
Pocahontas saving the life of Captain
John Smith?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

While railroad property usually
runs on a straight track. it appears to
have been successful heretofore in
lodging the board of railway assessors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Union Pacific stock went up four
points on the rumor that E. H. Harri-
man was about to resign as president.
Investors appear to think it would be
a good thing for the road for Mr.. Har-
riman to step down and out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

II is mighty mean of New Hampshire
60 beat the First Kansas district by
sending to congress a man who is taller
than Dan Anthony Besides there is no
use of it. Mr. Anthony is tall enough
fcSr any state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

There is also this consolation in the
cold April we have had: The ice man
has not taken as large a chunk out of
our pocketbooks as he would other
wise have done. Might as well look
for the bright side
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Secretary Taft admits that he will be
disappointed If the canal is not complet-
ed In eight years. 1t is to be hoped that
Taft will be kept in position where he
will be able to help keep himself from
dizappofntmer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

but they propagated it. few just
came up to visit Kansas-that's ALL
Kansas isn't claiming Oklahoma's and
Texas bugs No, stree!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

II as "the Kansas green bug" It is
not the Kansas green bug. Kansas
has no claim on it whatever. Not only
ala Texas and Oklahoma see it first,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

If Governor Hughes should accident
ally be made president, it will be a sec
ond object lesson illustrating the fact
that 1t pays New York governors to be
real governors. Theodore Roosevelt
gave the first object lesson of that kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

There were comparatively few
strikes today-on the first of May
but there are liable to be plenty OF
them at the ball park tomorrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

A New York woman has just died
from over-indulgence in peanuts. It's
a wonder some politicians do not die
from the same trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Now don't you wish you had &C
cumulated a nice, big ash pile in your
backyard instead of having it hauled
off like a good citizen?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

The trouble with electing Fred Jack
SON governor is that he is needed IN IN
attorney generals office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

This Is the day on which you can
begin to ride for two cents a mile-lr
you are going far enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Naturally nobody likes to admit be-
ing connected with an outlawed con-
Germ like the Anheuser-Busch COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

IL Is gratifying to note that tn
weather bureau expects to give us a rev
more showers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Now that it has rained you will ge
4 chance to use that lawn mower thai
you oiled up month ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Tulsa, I. T., announces that it wants
a national political convention next
year. Perhaps somebody will go down
there and give Debs his quadrennial
nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Warning: The Queen of the May
better not blossom out in thin summer
garments Just yet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

isn't IL about time for another in
vestisation of Hartman to be pulled
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

tickled to death with the retirement
of Jim Hill from the presidency-if it
were not for the appointment of
James ]. Hill as chairman of the
board.-Minneapoli Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
AND CALLED.

After President Roosevelt's retire.
ment he will have plenty of time to
write that book entitled, Liars I
Have Met."-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
MAKE 'EM ANYWAY.

Many a luscious strawberry shortcake
will not be made this spring.-Memphis
News-Scirnitar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
WARNING FROM Los ANGEL

WARNING FROM LOS ANGELES.
Being a stranger among US we do
not like to say anything harsh about
Ambassador Bryce, but If he makes
any moro breaks similar to saying
that Chicago will be the most beau
tiful city in the world" he has got to
join the Ananias club or leave the
country.-Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
SUCH SMALL SUM.

The insult to the president was the
suggestion that a 100000 campaign
fund could put him out of business
Atlanta Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

Have you tried to burn any ashes
vet3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
Question?

At the end of his examination the
pure food expert looked up gravely.
your candy. SIR he said, has one
good and one bad quality
''Will you explain that, professor =
said the confectioner. with an air half
pleased and half grieved.
The expert, toying with test tube,
answered:
at is good because 1t contains no
saccharin; bad because it contains no
sugar"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
PISTOL, TOTTNQ.

New York's war against the repre-
sensible practice of carrying concealed
weapons might we'll be initiated else
where. Even Baltimore is not free from
pistol oting."-Baltimore News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

April went out all right. anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
TO REKINDLE HOPE.

The man who can make dead ashes
burn as we'll as fresh Goals, may learn
something to his advantage by COM
rnunicating with those enterprising
spirits who are talking about reorgan-
izing the Democratic party.-New
York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01

President Roosevelt is up against
this sort of a combination: His enc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
A New Side of Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln has been studied
from almost every point of view. but
1t is a notable fact that none of his
biographers has ever seriously consid-
cred that branch of the service with
which Lincoln was in daily personal
touch for four years-the military
telegraph for, during the civil war,
the president spent more of his wax
graph Office than in any other place
expect the White House. While in the
telegraph Office he was comparatively
free from official cares and therefore
more inclined to disclose his natural
traits and disposition
During the last four years Of Lin
coins all too brief public career, even
until the day before his tragic ending,
the writer was most fortunate In be-
ing able to see him and talk with him
daily, and usually several times day;
for he visited the war department tele-
graph office regularly, morning, after
noon and evening, to receive the latest
news from the front. His tall, homely
form could be seen crossing the well
shaded lawn between the White House
and the war department with I'M
varied regularity.
In cool weather he invariably wore
q gray plaid shawl thrown over his
shoulders in carelss fashion, and, upon
entering the telegraph Office, he would
hang this shawl over the top OF
the high screen door opening into
Secretary Stanton's room, adjoining
This door was nearly always open. he
seldom failed to come over late IN the
evening before retiring. and when re-
turning to the White House after
dark, he was frequently accompanied
by Major Eckert, our chief, and near
~ always by g. small guard or soldiers.
He sometimes protested against this
latter precaution as unnecessary, but
Stanton's orders to the guard
were irnperative.-The Century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
GREAT STITFEi

Bolivar. a Panama drink. IT is said,
makes a man feel like fighting a cy-
clone. Perhaps the fellows in the
erich mems conspiracy will import
some of that.-New York Herald.
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Polishing the Pole.

In the railway station at Wilkes
Barre. which has a large Slavic popula-
ton, is a sign over the bootblack stand
bearing the legend:
SHINE 5 cents. POLISH 10 cents.
An Irishman stood in front of it the
other day apparently plunged in pro-
found thought. At length he pulled his
pipe from his mouth and spat vigorous
ly.
Faith and they'd be doin' we'll to
cha-r-rge double for dagoes too" was
his emphatic comment. - Harper's
Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
THE RIGHT KIND OF BOY.

Here is a story about boy in col
lege who was about to graduate. He
wrote back to the farm for his moth
ed 20 come. She replied that she
could not do so. She said her clothes
were worn cut and she had no money
to buy new ones for that occasion.
The boy said come anyway. The poor
mother went in her best, was not styl-
ish. The commencement was in a
fashionable church. The son was
prouder Of mis- mother than his honors.
He walked down the aisle with her to
the center of the church and took her
to one of the best seats. There were
tears in her eyes and she burst out
weeping when her son pronounced the
valedict0ry. The president pinned a
badge on his coat, but he took it and
pinned it on his mothers faded dress,
and there We're tears In her eyes. as
he bent and kissed her wrinkled face
The boy with this kind of pride will be
an honor TO his country and his God.
May his numbers increase until the
shadows of his lovelipess cover the
Chief. 5,,.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
KANSAS COMMEHT

BOYS.
nave come to the conclusion that
inc weakest excuse in the world for
= gan 70 make who has madx a dis
mai Iai!ure is this: Il never had a
enance. 1 have looked my commune
ny ever pretty carefully and find that
s s OF the most successful fellows to-
udy are the ones who, when they were
JUS hao apparently no chance what
ever OF forging ahead of their COM
p<1aioils: Ihen there were other boys
VINO had all the chances they could ask
Lor VINO nave turned out to be the
most most worthless fellows in town. /
KNOW boys who were for years sur
Ioondeo py temptations to drink,
carouse ana gamble who have remain
eo SOBER, steady and trustworthy. I
know other boys who were shielded
from temptations and given every ad-
vantage to make honorable men of
themselves who have fallen to the last
ditch of worthIessness- saw that any
BOY VINO wants to make an. upright,
respected man of himself can do it..
II ne Will stay sober, be square with
MS IrlendS and work, there is nothing
that can keep him down. Nature has
Just simply made some boys crooked
ana all the training you can give them
won't straighten them out. If a boy
Woulc rather be a lOafer than a work
er and get his money by foul means
tnan fair, there is no use in trying
to do anything with him. You simply
waste your time when you try to make
a SILK purse out of sow's ear. Per-
sonally, don't know anything about
raising boy, but / have talked with
a lot of old bachelors and old maids
who did know all about it.-Bert
Walker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-01
RANK -ADyERTIsING.

Last Thursdays Atchison Globe
contained nearly a page advertise
ment of the Exchange National bank
of that city. The ad contained pic
lures of the bank officials. This is
tho institution that Ex-Governor
Bailey is connected with. There was
time when banks did not advertise
in the papers, but that time is past.
Every up to date bank now carries
good display advertising in the local
paper the same as any other business
house that wants the business. The
time is here when every business
man who expects to do business with
the public will have to advertise in
the local papers. It is a common
thing to see page advertisement of
both the Hiawatha banks in the pa
pers of that town. Another bank is
to be started there soon and as COM
petition grows more advertising be-
comes necessary to hold the business.
Every business house worthy of the
name sets aside fund to be used in
a dvertfsing and the results prove that
it is the best investment that they can
Chief