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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
THE INSURANCE QUESTION.

The state in general will loudly ap-
pIaud the action of superintendent of
Insurance Barnes and Attorney General
Jackson in their attempt to break up
what is known as the fire insurance
trust. Ever since the days of Webb
McNaH the public has longed for some
official who would do something to stop
| the very apparent unanimity of rates
among fire insurance companies in
Kansas.
OF course there are two sides to this
question as to every other. The argu-
ment of the rating bureau that one set
of agents can investigate the conditions
concerning each building and sell their
findings to each insurance company
much more eheaply than each OF IS
companies can make the Investigations
for themselves-this argument sounds
very plausible, but 1t cannot be denied
that the result is a restraint of trade.
There is no general competition in fire
insurance except where mutual COM
panies can do the business. 1t is as
serted that building that can be in
sured in a mutual company is given a
much lower rate than the same kind of
building whose owner has no mutual
insurance connection.
People who have much to do with fire
insurance companies have learned that
the rate is the same In all companies
that do business with the rating bureau,
and this includes practically every
company in the state aside from the
mutuals. There is a bare possibility
that there is no technical trust in fire
insurance, but the effect is the same as
though there were an ironbound trust.
And if there is no combine, it seems
peculiar that no company breaks under
the rates recommended by the rating
bureau.
The state will be very glad to see
the question tested, and Superintendent
Barnes is doing the proper thing in
trying to bring about competition in in
sIFance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
LAYHAWKER JOES

After waiting fifty years. Highland
is to have a railroad. Another proof
that all things come to him who waits.
A Great Bend boy slapped a girl in
the mouth the other day. He evident
ly doesn't know for what girls
mouth is made, .exclaims the Tribune.
The Seneca Tribune tells the best
wheat story thus far-42 bushels per
acre, of 81 pound wheat, on 8 acres.
Who can beat that?
Some boys up at Troy held a sham
battle the night of the Fourth, with
Roman candles as weapons. With
hard work the doctors may save one
boys eye.
A man in Kansas City who was ar
rested for hugging a girl, said he was
drunk or he wouldn't have done it. 1t
takes a lot for some men to get their
courage up.
Noting that the people who went to
the jamestown exposition were disap-
pointed with it. Kingman invites them
to come to its cattlemen'S picnic and
see the real thing.
Roy Tapley takes the responsibility
for the assertion that the doctors who
operated on Emmett Daltons arm the
other day are not the same individ-
uals who tried to operate on him at
Coffeyville several years ago.
An instance in which the unwritten
law did not work in Kansas is recalled
by the Seneca Tribune in the follow
ing: It will be recalled that Clint
Osbon killed Charles HANDLE. at Hol-
ton a number OF years ago. Young
Handle refused to walk down to the
officers at the point of a gun as Osbon
demanded. When Handle refused to
advance the enraged father fired the
shot killing HANDLE, who was one of
the most popular young men of his
city. The people of Holton were ex-
cited, and the story of the tragedy was
on every tongue, Owing to the friend
~ feeling for the murdered man,
change of venue was had to Douglas
county. On trial Osbon told his story
in court and there was no disproof of
it, The jury found him guilty and the
Judge gave him the limit of the law.
The defendant is still in the peniten-
tray. That his daughter had told him
that she had been betrayed was not
was not true. In the Judge Loving
case, just closed in Virginia, the story
was told and the Judge would not al
low the statement disputed. The
Judge ruled that if the daughter had
told her father the story the truth or
falsity of the story had nothing to do
with it. Under that ruling it would
have been impossible to have con-
victed Osbon. In the Virginia and
Holton cases the daughters had both
lied to their fathers. The old man has
been in the penitentiary almost
dozen years. He shot, as he believed,
in defense of his home. His daughter
is long since dead his wife is dead,
and Osbon is hanging on hoping for
a pardon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
QUAKER REFLECTIONS


TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some people are slow to make fast
friends.
Watches naturally feel run down in
the spring.
of course, the elevated road run
over lot of people.
Oysters are out of season, but there
is a clamor for clans.
Don't be all wrapped up in yourself,
especially in warm weather.
The beauty about castles in the air
is that they need no housekeeping.
Lots of men won't need very large
No, Maude. dear, you don't always
see a cowhide when milking time
comes.
Some people can't tell the truth any
more than they can refrain from tell
ing lies.
BIobbs-'I once lived three days
without food Slobbs-"How was
thate Blobbs-"The servants left
and my wife was doing her own cook
ing"
Hoax-"Your aunt seems very ten
der hearted Joax-"Yes: whenever
feel angry about anything I go to
her." Hoax-"I suppose on the prin-
ciple that soft aunt, sir, turneth
away wrath -----~
Rollingstone Nomoss = Thirsty
J'hfngunbob has de rams ag'in. He's
SEEM tIpgs" Tatterdon Torn
''Sr axes ?" RollingStone Nomoss-
Worse dan dat Wood piles an
axes
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

CFrom the Chicago News.1
The clock gets there hand over
hand.
It's unwise to carry a far-fetched
Joke too far.
You can't always judge a mans pay
by the work he does.
It's advice when you give 1t and
lecture when you receive 1T.
A man doesn't have to wear good
clothes if he can afford not to.
A young widow has a peculiar way
of seeing a man without looking et
him.
Put on your thinking cap when any
one offers you something for moth
ing.
If death loved only a shining mark
very few men would have cause TO
fear It.
If a man doesn't marry his first love
he's apt to regret it-likewise also If
he does.
Even the man who makes nothing
but mistakes is in the manufacturing
business. ~
Many a man has been forced to ask
for a hand-out because he was unable
to get his hand in.
Some men stand just inside the door
ready to grasp opportunity by the
back OF the neck when it knocks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
HUNOR or The Day

o,,, Do you think smoking conduces to tram
10 Not IT, judging ID by the population of Gu
NO" declared Mr.. Nagget, there never
vas woman on earth who could refrain
other womRn's clothes"
"No? remarked his wife, sweetIy,
dion5 you ever heara of Eve ?"-Philadel-
The dentist had complained of the phon-
trate.
- Why, I advertise painless dentistry"
the Photographic racket breaks the Con
tract. '-Philadelphia Ledger.
Minister'S Wife Ito her husband,-Ym
you help me to put the drawing room car
pet GOWN today, dear? The room is beau
ttfully clean.
pose ! will have to.
Wife-And don't forget, John, dear, while
you are doing i that you are a minister
DO you ever. talk back to your wife?''
asked the solicitous friend.
very little; Just to show her that
nave not gone to sleep. "-Washingto
so you broke off your engagement to
Miss Toodles?"
Yes. but did it gently"
"How?"
Told her what my salary was
Cleveland Leader.
The ship bearing Taft to Cuba had ar
rived in the harbor. But will the island
side. four car loads of stone were dumped
on the other end of the island Taft was
then a allowed to land.-Milwaukee sentl-
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and let their eyes feast upon the moon
Lit landscape. You did not even have
dinner"
yes. the cure is complete" he said.
Il think 1 rather like doing what I
want to do instead of following a we'll
ordered plan. But you have gotten
me into worst trouble
Marcia did not answer Her eyes
followed the ripple of moonlight across
the water and the hand that rested
upon the railing gripped the wood
more tightly.
You should ask what the trouble
is he said after a moment Then
should tell you that instead of a sched-
ule the most important thing in life is
you. You have lifted me out of my
humdrum existence into the new
world of love, dear. Is there hope that
some day my love will be returhed?"
''I think / had better say yes" she
said with a happy little laugh. "It
will ensure the permanency OF the
cure
"And do you love me a lIttle?' he
asked humbly.
A soft little hand stole into his.
"Dick, dear" she said softly. why
else should I have worked so for your
cure 7"-(Copyrighted, 1907, by M. NJ.
Cunningham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
HOW ABOUT IT?

In case they have a primary in the
Sixth district to nominate a congress-
man how are they going to elect dele
gates to the national convention next
year? Two are to be elected from this
district. In case they are also elected
by primary how Is the district going to
help elect the four Observation-Disclosures
OF course the chairman of the Republi-
can county central committee in each
county in the district could select the
delegates to go to Topeka, but what a
roar would go up. Kansas is entitled to
twenty delegates in the national eonven-
ton. The two from the Sixth district
are always elected at the congressional
convention. If it were an off year this
problem would not have to be solved.
Some wise statesman will have to come
out in the limelight and solve the prob
lem for us.-Osborpe Farmer.
Isn't the Farmer shutting it's eyes in
it's attempt to see?
In case a primary is held in the Sixth
district to nominate a congressman, why
cannot the people of the Sixth district
elect their two delegates to the national
convention at the same primaries?
And what has this to do with the four
delegates-at-large? If a state conven-
ton is held, each county in the Sixth
district will be represented in 1t the
same as usual, and it will elect the dele
gates-at-large as usual. And II no state
convention is held, the people can elect
their delegates-at-large in the state
primary.
What, pray. is difficult about this pro-
Dosition9
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Why, we rise to inquire, has not some
enterprising theatrical manager en-
gagged the Beautiful Chambermaid
whom Fairbanks rescued to star in the
thrilling meIodrama, Saved from a
Watery Grave?"
~ a.
A new order of the postoffice depart
ment allows people who use postal
cards to write on the face of the card
as well as on the back. This will be a
great aid to the rural postmistress in
seeing who the card is from.
" v
A newspaper headline says, Docks
Are Scarce Yet the state medical ex-
aminers are so particular that they OBJ
5ect to creating a lot of new docs"
when it is known that the candidates
bought the examination questions in
advance.
n y
We learn from the society columns
that George r. Peck's summer home is
named "Ethisma." If Mr.. Peck had
remained in Kansas instead of running
off to Chicago, he might have been able
to afford good Kansas name instead
Of having to get one like the Pullman
company gives its sleeping cars
Speaking of luck. it was mighty kind
of the government to fix up a lot of
fraud cases for Harry Bone to prose-
cute in Denver right in the middle of
summer when he needed a Colorado va
cation.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

| IFrom the Atchison Globe.
| Nine men out of ten wear too much
clothing during hot weather.
If his mother will let him alone. a
boy will learn to swim all right.
| The man who is old enough to know
! better is usually old enough to die
! A woman who has had beauty, and
! lost it, IS as grouchy as man who has
| had prominence and lost 1t. uI
II we had a lot of hair. we wouldn't
have 1t cut; we would let it grow. and
grow, and do it up in a knot on top
| of our head.
Next subject for discussion by the
Lancaster Literary society: When a
| girl marries, does she prefer, in a hus-
band, youth or money?
An Atehison husband is so thor
oughly henpecked that he isn't allow
ed to have any of his kin around the
house, except in the family album.
Notice is served on the girls who
want to be Heroines that the Heroines
in the Books never claim at the break
fast table that they sleep in the warm
est room in the house.
About all the training the average
girl gets that would fit her for earning
a living, should occasion demand 1t, Is
in assisting at social affairs: She is
in training to be a waitress,
If man is more subdued after mar
riage than ordinarily, 1t is an indiea-
ton that he proposed to his wife more
than once; the more Subdued he is, the
greater the number of times he asked
her to marry him.
A father isn't through paying for
his children's college education when
the bills are paid: He has to pay
another installment every time he and
his wife pronounce a word the way
they were taught years ago.
A number of years ago only girls
were given fool names, but here IL
late they are also giving fool names to
the boys. BY fool name" is one so
new and indefinite that one can't tell
by looking at 1t If the bearer wears
pants or skirts.
certain Atchison man is not doing
well He is steadily losing ground.
He knows what the trouble is, but re-
fuses to give up his fool ways. Are
YOU SO fond of Your fool ways that
YOU prefer failure with them to sue
cess without them? Look yourself
over Are you doing as well as you
might do?
The country boy learns to be self
reliant while the little town boy is still
having his nose wiped for him. A
Globe reporter. who was driving north
OF town Sunday. saw boys riding the
lead horse. while their fathers cut
wheat, who were no bigger than flies;
they looked like horsefiies stuck on
the animals back. A boy that age In
town Is riding a wooden horse, with a
lot of admiring women kin standing
ready to catch him If he falls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15
THE CHAUTAUOUA.

For the first time in many years the
people of Topeka have a chautauqua
assembly at their doors. Years ago
one of the old-style assemblies
hourished here for some time, but it
succumbed to the hard times. People
could worry along without Culture
better than without more material
things.
with the opening OF the assembly in
Garfield Park today Topeka and yicin-
ity are given an excellent opportunity
to enjoy some of the best talent on
the American platform. This is only
one of the eighteen or twenty chau-
tauquas now held in Kansas, and
those in smaller towns are all we'll
patronized- The, people of Topeka
will doubtless also show their appre-
citation of this attempt to again estab-
lish chautauqua here,
The growth of the chautauqua idea.
as has been pointed out in these
columns, shows a healthy intellectual
growth on the part of the public. 1t
is splendid sign that there are more
assemblies like this and fewer street
fairs and carnivals. Good lectures
and music are really better for a COM
munity than the sort of entertain
ment that is afforded by the average
carnival"
The modern chautauqua. too, is
broader and more popular than was
the old style assembly. 1t is not de-
signed entirely for the High Brows.
There is still due amount of Philoso-
ply and Art, but there are also
lectures on politics and farming. be-
sides popular music and entertain
ments. Glance over the programme
that will be given during the next ten
days at Garfield Park, for instance.
and it will be seen that there Is some
thing of interest to almost everyone.
1t is to be hoped that the Chautau-
qua has come to Topeka to stay.
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
sway during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
- any address at the rate OF ten cents
N week or thirty cents n month thy
mail onIy). Address changed as often
ms desired. While out OF town the
State Journal win be TO you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeRing expense.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press,J

From the New York Press,J
Conceit is the way you feel about
yourself if it's somebody else.
A sure way to go on a long journey
Is to be with somebody you don't like.
The nice thing about a peekaboo
shirt waist IS it seems to be off when
it is On.
What girl likes about yachting is
the good time she could have if she
weren't seasick.
When a woman has paid SIS to have
somebody look into a glass globe and
tell her the color of her eyes and hair
she calls it having her fortune told.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

he says he will accept the nomina-
ton" Other authorities, however,
state that a considerable portion of
the Fourth district is yelling Justify
for Stubs. and that the demand for
Senator Miller's candidacy comes
chiefly from James Monroe Miller of
Morris county Will the Fourth dis
trict kindly settle this disputed ques-
ton for us?
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able to get a match in this country,
and SO he announces that he will re-
turn to, Italy. Without reTnarking on
the discrimination OF the match trust
in the matter. we would observe that
that name doesn't really sound as
though it was a native of Italy
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FROM OTHER PENS
THE PEOPLE WILL DECIDE;


1t Is perfectly certain that the peo-
pie will make the next president. 1t
is highly probable that they will make
the candidate of both parties. The
result of the last nomination of can
didate by the interests that call them
selves nservatiVe-though many of
them are most destructive of the body
politic-wil not encourage its repeti-
ton.
Party ties have become too loose for
the easily gained control of a political
convention to carry even control of
the party vote in. the following election.
The Democratic vote for Roosevelt is
warning enough against the nominal
ton of another Parker by either party.
In the face of this sober Republicans
are not going to put their money on
sick they are of Roosevelt.
Nothing is palmer than that the ma
jority of the people of the country
want to elect Roosevelt again. They
are not scared by the third term bogy.
They will take him if they can get
him, from either party. If it could be
supposed that the Republican reac-
tionists could nominate a man of their
kind in the convention, the. tide
would set irresistibly towards a Demo-
crat nearest the Roosevelt type, even
if he were impossible as a Democratic
candidate.
The surest way to prevent the peo-
pie from making Roosevelt president
again in spite of himself is a general
compromise on some man of moder-
ate temper who still represents the
and politicians are driven to choose be-
tween Roosevelt and Roosevelt man.
They may as well make the best of 1t.
Minneapolis Tribune.
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FRANCIS MURPHY.

he was net rich as men count GAIN,
he lived not for the greed of gold:
his lie work was not to attain
a vast estate to hoard and hold.
he stopped to reach the hand of those
Despised, rejected and deDraved;
He lifted men above their woes.
And pointed how they might be saved.
Not as the eonqueror he sought,
He listened for no trumpet call:
The starving souls of men he brought
Before his Maker-th!s was ALL
He raised men from the depths OF shame,
Above the level of the clod;
Nor asked for glory nor acclaim,
But the approval of his God
He sought to place the erring feet
On solid rock once more again.
He paused with words of cheer to greet
The lowest of down-trodden men:
He went afar to give a smile,
A crushed or broken heart to mendi
None of Gods creatures was too vile
For him to succor and defend.
And who of us shall question, then.
That he shall wear the yictor's crown,
All cleaning with the souls of men
He lifted who were fallen down!
Or that, where angel voices rise
In glad hosannaS to the LORD,
Beyond the Gates of Paradise,
He has not won a rich reward?
e. A Brininstool in the Los Angeles
Express.
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An Oyster Bay dispatch states that
President Roosevelt and family ZEN
3oyed a picnic on Lioyd's neck" The
trusts and nature takers will be glad
TO note that President Roosevelt occa-
sionally lands on other necks besides
theirs They also might note that he
invariably has g. picnic. no matter
whose neck he lands on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

Jesse Grant says he wants to find
out If there is any sentiment for him
for president in the country before he
announces his candidacy. 1t is feared
that Mr.. Grants announcement will be
a long time DELAYED.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

A naval expert predicts that in case
OF war with Japan, the country would
lose the Philippines at the start but
would later regain them. This opinion
may be based on the theory that Japan
would be only too glad to let go of the
islands after keeping them awhile.
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BRITISH ARBITRATION.

Great Britain is the ally of Japan,
and the sworn friend of the United
States, and it would be an admira bic
idea to submit the San Francisco
school question to the arbitration of
Great britain, as the common friend
of both parties. This is the only at
titude that Great Britain could pcs
sfbly aSsume-TOronto Star
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1t looks as though there will be no
rest for the poor railroads. If the
returns from the Kansas wheat fields
continue as at present. the car short
age is liable to be as great as ever. {.
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Governor johnson of Minnesota,
whom Colonel Henry Watterson is
running for president, says his boom
is not worrying him. But is it also not
worrying Mr.. Bryan?
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1t is rather peculiar that there has
not been a greater rainfall the past
week. Not only has the wheat har-
vest been in full blast, but several
Ghautauquas have been in session also.
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The Standard attorneys declared the
inquiries made by Judge Lands to be
"extrajudicial and beyond the power
of the court" But the court found out
what 1t went after.
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An American girl who married an
English earl wants a. divorce. The job
of earless in real life evidently isn't
what it is cracked up to be in the
Bertha Clay novels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-15

According to Labor Commissioners
johnson it is evident that the MEM
bers of the railroadaboard are earning
their salaries these days
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Judge lands called Mr.. Rockefeller
before him to assist him in fixing a
proper punishment for the Standard
Oil company. And then the judge for
got all about asking John DIS advice
on the subject
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GOOD. MATERIAL WASTED.

Jack London declares that he Is not
an authority on any subject. In which
case Jack should go to congress in
stead of wasting his time writing
novels.-Rochester Post-Express.
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John D. Rockefeller testified that he
has not been in his office for eight
years. John d. must keep an office
principally to keep away from.
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Senator La Toilette may never be
president" remarks Joseph L. Bris-
tow, but he will accomplish more
than four-fifths of the men who have
held that Office" And that is what
really counts