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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
FRON OTHER PENS
CAN DEMAND SERVICE:

Governor Buchtel of Colorado, in an
interview regarding the candidacy of
President Roosevelt for another term,
gives, a new meaning to that much
abused word patriotism The chief
executive from the Centennial state
says it is the right of the people to
make a demand for the service of any
citizen in the republic, and possibly
practice of forced enlistments for
army service in time of war or ma
tional peril. If volunteers hold back
the draft becomes effective.
Heretofore expression of the idea of
politicians or statesmen serving nation,
state or town for pure patriotism and
at great discomfort to themselves has
caused the American people to turn
aside politely and smile. The platitude
concerning the office seeking the man
has caused even the self-contained and
judicious to smoker. because of the evil
dent placing of the cart before the
horse.
There may be a few precedents in
American history, but the occasion is
rare when Office goes out in haste, hot
footed and breathing hard, in pursuit
of Man. President Roosevelt may be
determined and sincere in his declina-
ton, for which there also may be a few
presidents, but the demand for his ser
vices for another term may be just as
determined and sincere, which in poll
tics may be unprecedented. Science is
somewhat at sea as to possible results
which would ensue from contact of an
irresistible force with an irnmovable
body, but this may be settled when the
time comes for the next national Re
publican convention.
Meantime Mr.. Roosevelt may do well
not to dwell too laboriously upon his
statement made upon the night of the
last national election. He may be draft
ed and there may be objections to the
hiring of substitutes. The makers of
patent medicines and other proprietary
articles have for years spent good
money to educate the american people
to refuse sternly anything that is of
fered them on the plea that it is Just
Is good" Shall all this lavish expendi-
ture go for naught when possibly for
the first time in history practical and
useful application of that education can
be made?-Los Angeles Express.
THEOLOGY VS.. ANATOMY.
With all due credit to the ingenuity
and persistence of those amateurs of
psychologist science who are trying to
ascertain the weight of soul by avoir-
dupois, apothecaries', troy or metric sys-
tenn, 1t seems fitting to remind them
that their labors are essentially vain,
for the reason that If what they regard
as the soul could be weighed that fact
would be proof positive that it was not
a soul-New York Tribune.
\ OTHERS WE'RE DAMAGED.
And in addition to the cold spring
killing the peach crop, the mild winter
did great damage to the plumbers plum
crop.-Indianapolis News.
THE REASON.
Between the tariff on steel and the
state house contracts it is no wonder
Pennsylvania is a land Of millionaires.
Kansas City Times.
wOMAN,S WEAPON.
If winter keeps on lingering in the lap
lrI, IL rrriA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
Pats Reasoning.

An Englishman and an Irishman were
walking along a country road when
they crept into a farmyard and stole
a horse from the stable. Pat, think
ing that the horse was no good with
out the cart, stole a cart from - the
same tplace.3 The news at once spread
about that Farmer Giles had had a
horse and cart stolen, and the police
were soon on their track. The police
man, meeting the Englishman with the
horse, inquired OF him where he got
the horse, the Englishman replying
that the animal belonged to him.
How can you prove tyr asked the
policeman
Because I have had it since it was
a foal," was the answer
Pat overheard this conversation. He
was pulling the cart along when the
policeman stopped him. asking him If
the cart belonged to him.
Sure" said Pat; "why, I have had
this cart ever since it was a wheelbar-
row. Judges Library.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

"Ex-Senator Burton" says the lola
Register, has for almost twenty years
bean one of the most eloquent and
popular orators in Kansas, and the
announcement that he was to speak
was ordinarily enough to fill most any
hall or opera house in the state. 1t
will be interesting" adds the Regis
ter, ''to see whether. this popularity
will stand the test of a fifty cent ad-
mission fee" 1t did not in Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

]. T. Moore. the newly-elected chair
man OF the Republican state commit
tee. is publisher of the Pittsburg Daily
Headlight, but one would never guess
by reading the paper that its owner
has anything to do with politics. Mr..
Moore keeps his business and his poll
ties separate. The Headlight is less of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
Information Bureau for All.

remember it. This is the secret of
knowledge. If you learn too many
things at a time your mental stomach
can not digest or assimilate them all,
and you suffer from mental clog. The
cerebral wheels are gummed up. The
machinery refuses to work to advant-
age. The average mans entire vocab-
ulary is about 5000 words. The UNI
educated manage to get along in life
with about 800. Some of the cleverest
men of the day struggle along with
5000. Philologists may have master
ship of 10000. The dictionaries give
from 100000 to 5000 words. But
most men are too lazy to consult their
dictionaries; they prefer to write to
the editor. The press in general is
the information bureau of the world.
-NeM York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

IDENTIFY puzzling over some knotty
question, he asked what was the trou-
bic.
-BegorraI" replied the Irishman. ct
was just wondering who got hit--you
or Judge So
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
Approaching the Gar.

Surprising one of the czar's minis
ters demands an extra interview and
it does not please his majesty to grant
it, Peter Katoff, valet and trusted
friend of three successive Russian en-
perors, is sent to announce the fact
that Ibis majesty is tired"
He rarely needs to ask the minister
what is his business. for there are few
Of the emperor's letters and kilograms
he does not read. If, too. 1t does not
please the valet to announce a visitor
or deliver a message, the emperor
would be none the wiser. To obtain
an audience with the czar is next to
an impossibility, but there are excep-
lions.
One gentleman relates how he went
to the palace in response to an invi-
tation from the emperor. After he
had been conducted from room to
room and carefully searched, he was
allowed, to his great surprise, to speak
to the emperor on the telephone
The Bystander
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

a political paper than any other i'm
portant newspaper in Kansas, in that
it takes no part in politics whatever.
It publishes no editorials nor anything
else to denote its publishers political
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Here Is another way the telephone
helps: Down in Allen county a spe-
cial venire of Is jurymen had to be
summoned from different parts of the
county to attend court, and the sheriff
reached all but three of them in a few
minutes without leaving his Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

There does not always have to be a
woman in the case to arouse interest
in court trial. Note the one in
progress at Boise, for instance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

A buggy was run into near Gypsum
City by Missouri Pacific train that is
said to have been running SO miles an
hour. 1t will be difficult to make peo-
pie living along the Central Branch of
the Missouri Pacific believe this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

six thousand dollars worth of liquor
was turned intb the cutters by the Of
hcers at Independence Wednesday.
What a headache those cutters must
have had in the cold gray dawn of the
morning afterl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

No suspicion attaches to "a. r.
BROWN in connection with the North
Topeka bank robbery. Inc money
has not been returned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

THE FIRST XEAItIN.
For nature I've a yearning now;
want to see. and milk COW;
I want to hear the cattle lows
I want to hear the rooster CROW;
want to feel my fly line swish;
want to catch a good sized nsh;
want to frolic with the lambs;
I want to dig, and dig for CLAIMS;
/ want to wander by the brooks;
want to sit in leafy hooks:
want to hear the bullfrogs snore;
/ want to hear the bulloeks. roar;
1 want to hear the katydid;
/ want to lift the blessed lid
OF this routine day after day;
want, / want-to get away.
La Touche Hancock in N. Y. Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

OF course, Kansas farmers have no
objection to dollar wheat, but they do
object to having 1t brought about by
green bugs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Victor Murdoch has figured 1t out
that Foraker was hanging over
precipice, and, before taking fresh
hold, he let go to spit on his hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
Tho Brutal Husband.

TITS sad, but I'm afraid it's true,
that husbands are brutes," sighed Fay
Templeton. "Just heard a very sad
story of the husband of a young friend
of mine.
For a year they've had a honey
moon without a fly in the honey pot
But the other morning the young wife
came down to breakfast with swollen
eyelids and without a smile. She
wouldn't tell her husband about it.,
either but pouted and sulked.
Finally, though, the young man in
sisting that he be told why his wife
was treating him SO badly, she looked
up with tears in her eyes and said:
John Smith. if dream again that
you have kissed another woman, 1
won't speak to you again as long as
live "-Young's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Foraker denies that he has retire.
from the race. Foraker Is correct
He has been retired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Abe .Hummel has been sent to-
states prison again, and Abe Ruef has
pleaded guilty. ABE" is not the hon
ored name it once was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Taft clubs are being organized in
Topeka, though the necessity of them
does not appear. Everybody is for
Taft, anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Naturally the corporation organs
deprecate the fact that there is to be a
fight in Ohio, since it may mean the
elimination of Foraker from the Unit
ed States senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

If those Central American states
submit to arbitration, we can see trou-
Bile ahead for the. umpire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Secretary Taft's fathers name was
Alphonse. What's the matter with
naming that new Madrid baby Bin2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

This is the third summer we have
had thus far this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
Cubs Look Like Cream Pufrs.

Czarina, the high-priced, cream
colored Syrian bear at the Bronx Zoo,
has been missing for a week Yes
terday the keepers noticed Car, her
mate, carrying food to the mouth of a
deep cave in their enclosure.
After a fight with the Gar the
keepers got close enough to the en-
trance of the cave to see the missing
Czarina asleep within. Curled up be-
side her. their eyes not yet opened,
were two pretty little cubs about
three days old. The father bear has
been very cross since they were born.
They look like cream puffs.
Last year the Czarina had a cub
and tried to kill 1t, 50 it was given to
a woman to nurse on a bottle, but it
died.-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Aguinaldo, is also tout OF politics"
according to the news from Manila
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Liberal has a Big Stick Of its own
IN the shape of as, 900 club"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

The wind did some good. 1t blew
q good many OF the green bugs out OF
Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
Another Victim.

The late Senator Pugh OF Alabama
practiced law for many years in Eu-
faula. A Eufaula man said of him
the other day:
''In an eloquent speech on circum-
stantial evidence, I once heard Sena-
tor Pugh drive home the danger of
this sort of evidence with a good
story.
''He said that a Eufaula woman
made one of those corn pone buildings
for which the ladies of our state are
famous. She put the pudding on a
shelf to cool. and then she went out
to have a dress fitted. Her little son
Jabez was left alone in the house.
"Jabez played with his toys till he
got hungry. Then he put a chair be-
meath the shelf, climbed up, and ate
all of the delicious pone pudding. that
his small Interior would possibly hold.
To conclude, he did a strange thing.
H caught the cat, dabbled her four
paws in the soft yellow custard in the
bottom Of the dish, and then set her
down. She scampered through the
kitchen into the dining room and par
lor, and thence out of doors. On the
parlor's carpet of green she left i'm
partially small golden footprints, very
neat, very conspicuous. The boy
smiled softly to himself.
"And that evening, on his fathers
below, the banging Of the front door,
a terrified mewing, and the sharp
crack OF rifle.
s'Then little Jabez smiled softly to
himself again.
"'Ah me- he said, there goes an
other victim of eircumstantial evil
dence.'"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

It is our guess that there is consid-
cradle bowling I'm Old Madrid these
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

mexico Is Pacihe.H says head
tine. Then perhaps Guatemala is At
aantic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT.
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

San Francisco wins. Ruef loses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
SUGGESTIONS.

As commencement y time Of the
schools is near, some one has had the
nerve to suggest that a chest of tools
would be a very appropriate presents
for the "handsof4e boy graduate" We
wonder how something along the line
of dishpans, stoves, sewing machines
and milk buckets would answer for the,
sweet girl graduate ?"-Burlingame
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
WOMANs WEAPON.

If winter keeps on lingering in the lap
of spring she ought to jab him with a
hat pin.-Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
THE REASON.

Between the tariff on steel and the
state house contracts it is no wonder
Pennsylvania is a land of millionaires.
Kansas City Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
A PONY TENNYsoN.

A PONY IENNYSON.
Break, break, break
My phone nnections-see2
And would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
o, well for the telephone girl
That she's only in reach of my shout;
o. well for the manager, too,
That his lies can not be found out.
And the damnable breaks go on,
To the ruin of business hopes;
But, o, for a chance to revenge myself
On the telephone central dopes!
Break, break, break
And rave most bootlessleei
But the tender grace of a placid mind
VIII never come back to me.
From the New York Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

"Bigley is certainly self-mads man."
remarked Long.
He isl agreed Large, land from the
experiences had when asked to marry
his daughter, Judge he spent a great deal
of time on his feet."-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17
\ OTHERS WERE DAMAGED.

44IAAAN1
And in addition to the cold spring
killing the peach crop, the mild winte
did great damage to the plumbers plum
crop.-Indianapolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

He-How many times did you refuse Jim
before you married him?
She-Only once! He seemed so discour-
aged I was seTand to try again.-Albany
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Daughter-Papa, in time OF trial, what
do you suppose brings the most comfort
to a man2
Papa-An acquittal. I should think
Bismarck Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

lie?'
NO"
did he tilt her?''
mo, he married her."-Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-17

Lfnks-I don't see that the hair restorer
has done you any good. You haYep't hair
on your head.
Winks-Yes, but just think how much
worse it might have been If had never
used the remedy.-St. Joseph News-Press.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-12-28
DEATH OF D. j. MCCARTHY.
Was Son Of John Mccarthy, Former
State President Of A. o. n.

The Daily Tribune of this city con-
tanned the following in its issue OF
Monday, Dec. 23d:
ID. J. Mccarthy. of the freight
claim department of the Great North
ern railroad WAS found dead in his
room in the Porter Hotel, Eleventh and
Robert streets st. Paul, at $3.50 o'clock
Sunday night, from gas poisoning.
Coroner A. w. Miller was called and
after an examination the body was TAX
en- to the county morgue, where the
coroner will make a. further investiga-
ton. Mr.. Mccarthy frequently was
out of the city for the railway conf
pany and he did not reach the hotel
until o'clock Sunday morning. The
chambermaids did not disturb him dur
ing the day. Toward 3 o'clock, how
ever, it was remembered that he had
not been seen and the door to his
room was broken open. Mr.. Mccarthy
was found dead in bed and the gas
turned on. He had undressed before
retiring and 1t is supposed that he ac-
cidentally turned the gas on after ex-
tinguishing the light. Mrs. r. NJ
Nicholson, who conducts the hotel, says
that Mr. Mccarthy was a quiet and {,
we'll behaved young man. She says
that there was leakage Of gas in the
room. Deceased was IS years old and
had lived in the "ity a year. His par
ents reside in ST. lwater. Letters found
in his pockets indicate that he was
about to be married"
The young man thus mentioned
proved to be the son of John Mccarthy
of saltwater. former state president
of the Ancient order Of Hibernians OF
Minnesota. His remains were convey
I'D to his parents home on Monday last
the funeral taking place on the follow
tag day from ST. Michael's church.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-12-28

That uproarious farce comedy, Char.
ley's Aunt" will be the attraction and
the clever people of the Christine Hill
forces should keep the theater ringing
with merriment With this delightful
and ever popular play.
1t looks as though lucky Christine
Hill had picked another winner, for
who hasn't heard of "Charleys Aunt,
from Brazil, where the nuts come
FROM" Seldom has a. better farce
comedy or more popular one bee1
written than this masterpiece of Bran.
don Thomas, and the Christine Hill
people should be at their element in it.
1t will bring back to Minneapolis Bort
Mccain, who was popular here some
years ago with the old Ferris forces.
He will play Charley Wykeman. Edna
Archer Crawford will be Kittie Verdan;
Walker G. Graves, Jack Chesney;
Frences Mcleod, Ella Dellahay; Har-
rison Steadman, Col. Francis Chesney;
George Webb. Lord Fancourt Babber-
~; A. Leroy Pattison, Stephen Spetti-
grew; Frances Harrison, Amy Spetti.
grew. Christine Hill will appear in
the cast herself, taking the part of
Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-12-28

Inc year 1907 does not break rec.
ords in the probate court in the mat
ter of money earned for Hennepin
county During the year there have
'een 3S estates probated upon which
there We're taxes of any considerable i'm
portance paid into the treasury. A
total for the year of $15,254.3O was COL
'ected from estates because of the in
herltance tax law. Among the most
important estates of the year were the
shattuck estate, which paid s2,075:
that Of H. Alden Smith, s2,412; a por-
uon Of the John Martin estate, paying
$500; H. NJ Carpenter estate, $2,5s7;
Ruth G. Richardson estate, s945. The
year 1905 brought in more money and
was the first of the operation of the
law. 1t will probably be many years
before a like amount is collected for
estates in Il year. After all collections
have been made the money realized by
the county from estates filed in 1906
was s1o3,os7.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-12-28
ST. PAUL..

Div. No. 4, A. 0. H., will give a
grand ball on New Years Eve, at Hi
bernian hall. Hall No. has been
engaged for the occasion as a large
crowd is expected Music will be fur
nished by the Shamrock Orchestra.
Division No. /, l.. A. to A. o. H.,
will give their thirteenth anniversary
ball Thursday evening, January g. at
Hibernian hall. The committee in
charge has been working zealously and
are confident of a successful evening.
Memorial Mass was celebrated at 9
o'clock Friday morning at the Cathed-
raj, by Rev. J. ]. McMorrow. for the
deceased members Of st. Paul Coun-
Gil No. 397, knights Of Columbus.
William Roy Brennan, the eighteen
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Brennan. died at the residence of his
parents, 461 Lafond ST.. last Wednes-
day. The funeral took place from the
above residence Saturday morning at
$3.50. Services were held at ST. Vim
cents Church at 2 o'clock.
Louise. the -year-old daush-
ter Of ]. D. O'Brien. prominent st.
Paul attorney, is seriously ill with
diphtheria. She was removed to the
city hospital last Friday.
Mrs. James Nolan, of Charles st.,
entertained the H. G. l.. Euchre club
last Tuesday evening. Favors were
won by Mrs. J. Gardner and D. E.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-12-28

Brethren banished and kindred slain
These are our trails, Lord, on earthl
o let our wall in Thy sight ascend
Poor and forlorn we turn to Thee!
Turn to Thee as the Sufferers friend
For pity. Lord, in our misery!"
The rite is over, the Mass is said,
The blessing is given, the chant ID
sung,
The Litany told for the living and dead
And scattered again the old and the
young.
Timid and sad on their homeward way.
Down by the vale and up by the
pass.
Praying to God for a better day
For themselves and their faith in the
Midnight Mass.
Ceases the white SHOWS silent fall,
The sickly moon through pile OF
clouds,
Shines on the glen where feecy pail
Clasps the cold earth in a frozen
shroud.
Was that shrek on the piercing wind
And that the CLINT Of steel CUR
ass!
Q God! the wolf is again in the fold, I
And the lamb is slain at the Mid.
night Mass!
Down in the glen of the Golden Gorse.-
His altar stone for a rigid bier
sanity sogart1l lies a corpse,
His bosom pierced with a troopers
spear.
But the angel who bears his soul away
And secs his hearts blood drop on
the grass,
Will witness bear on the Judgment <
Day
For the priest and his flock at the
Midnight Mass