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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
A SOUND VIEW.

In an article in the Boston Tran
script, western writer, the head of
the department of economics in a
western university, analyses some of
the reasons why this portion of the
country believes in the Roosevelt
policies. He says that the economic
observers of the west believe the
series of Investigations which have
characterized the present administra-
ton, like the insurance inquiry, the
various railroad probings, as we'll as
the stock yards Investigations, and in
general the great overhauling tend
ency of recent years, has been the one
safety valve which has saved US from
a commercial explosion. Business
was increasing SO rapidly, and con-
fidence had become so ample that had
there been no check or stay, the
mounting pressure of financial de-
mands and financial obligations would
have eventually reached such proper
tons as to burst of it's own force. In
stead, these Roosevelt policies have
acted as a SOLDERING and a staying in
huence. They have pumped a certain
amount of cold water into the boiler;
they have thereby held down the
steam pressure to reasonab BILE figures.
They have discouraged investors, to be
sure, but at time when the element
of caution was sadly needed in the
public mind. In short. instead of the
Roosevelt policies carrying the coun-
try into panic. they have been the one
element in the situation which is saw
ing US from anything of the kind. To-
day the outlook points to some recess
sion in the tide of business, but to
nothing like stagnation or depression
or hard times.
That this view is approximately
correct is indicated by the fact that
only speculative values have suffered
from the presidents crusades. as a
rule. The railroads are earning more
money than ever before and are there |
fore more capable of paying legitimate
dividends. To the investor-not the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t appears that some good harvest
hands have been spoiled by making
policemen of them.
n \
Deacon Twogood, who is a good
deal of a baseball fan, has a theory
that when Joshua made the sun stand
still there was twenty-seven inning
ball game on between the Israelites
and the other fellows, and the sun had
to stay to see how 1t came out.
\ e
Anyway pie" Jordan stayed out of
Jail this time long enough to celebrate
Independence Day.
x X
The English mother has this advan-
tage of the American mother: She
never has to worry for fear her little
Johnnie will come home after the cele-
bration with one eye gone and several
fingers missing. That is one advan-
tage of getting licked in a revolution.
x 4 x
1t is undoubtedly true that there are
microbes in kisses. There are the
trouble microbes. for instance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

cago on his return from Washington.
lamenting that he was not himself a
porker. eff there is one sick hog in
the country 1 am convinced that an
hourly bulletin of its condition is on
file somewhere in Washington L
stared at the big buildings devoted
to the study of seeds. grasses and
other foods for pigs and concluded
that man is of minor Importance.
Shucks; is the country's first duty to
its hogs? The fathers in this country
should rise up and demand an equal
amount of work be done to assist them
in caring for their families
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
GOOD AFTER ALL.

Reports which are beginning to
come direct from the harvest fields
and from the threshing machines are
not of a nature to plunge Kansas into
pessimism. Early reports of thirty
bushel yields are just as frequent as
they have been in former years. and
while they are, of course, exceptional,
it is admitted in all quarters that the
average yield will be considerably bet
ter than was anticipated month ago.
Geary county sends in a story of
f1fty-acre field that yields 81 bushels
of wheat per acre. and it tests 81 II
pounds to the bushel. 1t is asserted
that this high quality is by no means
exceptional, although the yield is con-
siderably above the average, as a mat
ter of course.
Down in Barber county. where 1t
was supposed great damage had been
done, threshing returns this far indi-
cate an average yield of 8 bushels for
the county. Up in northwestern Kan
sas the surprise is equally as great,
while in the eastern counties the yield
is first class, although the acreage is
never large in these parts.
MiIlers say that the quality of the
berry this year is splendid for milling
purposes. which means that Kansas
-four will continue to maintain its high
reputation abroad.
In view Of the high prices which
now prevail, and which bid fair to con-
tinue, 1t looks as though the Kansas
wheat farmer will fare as well finan-
cialIy as ever before. and he may do
better than ever. Notwithstanding the
pessimism that prevailed a few weeks
ago the farmer may be able to buy
that new automobile or another quar-
ter section of land after all Wall
Street should also take hope. Perhaps
the Kansas farmer can loan 1t some or
the millions it needs SO badly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
An Examination one.

William T. Stead at the end of his
visit to Yale in the cause Of peace, said
at a tea:
You have disappointed me a little
here. Despite all my efforts to make
you, you have not gone in your peace
championship the lengths 1 had ex-
pected you to go. Examination time
Is approaching. and 1 am as disap-
pointed as tutor was in an examina-
ton that I attended in my youth.
This tutor prided himself on his
detective skill. and seeing a student
consulting his watch repeatedly, he
called out to him. with a wise smile:
Mr.. Smith. will have look at
that watch Of yours. If you please
Smith seemed worried. He adj
vanced and handed forth his watch.
The tutor opened 1t. and saw pasted
across the dial q tiny slip of paper
bearing the word-'Fooled.'
"Of course, then. Smith was allowed
to resume his work. But the tutor
kept his eye on him. And certainly
the young man kept looking at his
watch with suspicious frequency
" Mr.. SMITH.
The voice was loud and peremp-
tory. Smith thrust his watch back into
his pocket and started guiltily.
Mr. Smith. I'll just have another
look at that watch. please
But this time the tutor did not go
for the face. He opened the back of
the watch instead. And there, sure
enough, he found a small folded pa
ped. Examining it eagerly, he read:
Fooled again."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
HUNOR or TIE Day


descended from monkeys?
Miss Caustique-Not very far.-Philadel-
Mrs Hunks docking over the maiD-
Why, here's a letter from Aunt HeDsyl
wonder II she's coming to pay us that
Old Hanks1I Wish you wouldn't be so
dog-goned pessimistic, Samanthy.-Louis-
Vile Courier-Journal
Has he much will powerT'
should say So. He win leave about
Dealer.
He with a sigh)--I have only one friend
on earth--my dog.
she-Why don't you get another dog?-
., nBpttrin has been a good deal in the
Yes, Yes. in the sense that he gets himself
Tribune.
Why. Bobby Jonesl never heard such
Well. Ma. Chaucer uses it,"
Then you must quit playing with him
at once."-Cleveiand Leader.
. You say he's stingy?"
Instead OF mailing her souvenir post
cards he encloses them in the letters he
writes her. milwaukee, Sentinel
How. does Mrs. De Style manage to
cross the gaps in her income?"
Il think by bridge parties. Baltimore
American.
your sentence is to be suspended" be-
gan the merciful court.
Great Scott, ;Jedgel' exclaimed the
was hanging, offence I wouldn't have
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
Hit to look lax de doctors can't fin
no cure fer de pneumony," said Brother
Williams zen dey don't seem ter be but
one thing dat has loosenin' influence on
de lockjaw.'
En- what's dat?"
DE kick of young mulei"-Atlanta
Constitution.
More. More trouble To,l 5!s in high life"
"a New York millionaire deserts his
club for his Observation-Disclosures Herald.
How did you find your little dog when
you came home from your trip?'
Didn't find him
why, was he lost?"
mo, he'd growed to be big dog
Atlanta Constitution.
John" said Mrs Spenders, i've got
lots Of things I want to talk to you
Glad to hear it," snapped her hus-
band, usually you want to talk to me
about lots of things that you haven't
got.''-Cleveland Leader.
''Now, Johnnie" asked his teacher.
when you go to the country in summer
what animals do you see rowing about?"
Judge.
Mistress-Gracioust Martha, you've bro
ken ANOTHER plate. How did you DO ~ q 9
1t breaks.--S. d. Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
So many people consider wish an
ambition.
There are a good many rabbits play
ing lion parts.
A guilty man is sure to claim he
wasn't given fair trial.
The average farmers wife hasn't a
very good opinion of creamery butter.
A short man doesn't consider it a
compliment to be called "a nice little
man."
Here lately. people do not regard
a guarantee as more valuable than a
promise.
A Plain Drunk is the nearest APP
proach some men can make to the
Simple Life.
The man who drinks to assert his
rights" has a peculiar notion of per-
sonal liberty.
To a man with a little sense, prob
ably the greatest annoyance in the
world is a fool.
The man with a big fish story has
earnest competition in the man whose
dreams come true.
The man who always has a
scheme" on tap never seems to be
much of a success.
The only time you hear of some
people is when they begin doctoring
for some new ailment.
If you think an occasional Skin
ming does your friends good, 1t is
sign you are fond of gossip.
The man who rolls his own cigar
cites will always tell you how injurious
the manufactured article is.
According to their own stories. some
men spend most of their time turning
down offers of good jobs.
If you don't laugh at a mans joke,
he says you have no sense of humor;
it never occurs to him that he lacks
the sense of humor.
The loafer will always tell you there
isn't much opportunity for a man In
this town. Still. there are twenty
four hours in day here. as else
where.
On a gloomy Sunday this time of
year, when a woman sends her man
off to church, her excuse for not going
is that she doesn't want to get the
only decent dress she has to her name
spoiled" But down in her heart she
is thinking, Somebody from this
house will have to go to church today,
and He Needs to go Worse than Do"
A number of years ago boys hid in
the barn loft to read stofies of the
Deadwood Dick type; none OF that
now. Their taste in reading has great
Iy improved. Watch any boy, and you
will find him reading better book
than read by his brother ten years
ago Not so with the girls: Their
CHI dice of reading is retrograding. The
magazine literature and the novels
found in girls hands these days may
be described by one word: Trashy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

LOVE SONNET OF A CHORUS GIRL
He wants me to give UP my stage career
two,
And learn to cut out slang, and parley
WOOL
Amt he the limit? Nix for me! No beer
No hubby water-daily prayersi-I fear
III have to give him up and say skid
doc;
1t can't be that he really loves me true,
Or else he'd take me as he found me
here.
If I'd go way till people all forgot
I'd ever been an artistic, when he came
To take me out and marry me there's
A paper that would hardly print my
name
Unless he took me fresh from of the
stage
My picture wouldn't be on no front paeei
Chicago Record-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
Iron the N

LFrom the New York Press.1
A woman can talk of her handker-
chief as her wardrobe.
When a man Is in a good humor 1t
isn't with his family.
When a woman sits in a mans lap
for more than a minute it's sign they
are not married yet.
When a man goes away on business
If he telegraphs home he scares his
wife to death and IL he doesn't she
cries.
What a woman likes about going to
the theater is she doesn't have to I'M
derstand the play to be interested in
the clothes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
The Niggard's WAY.

A Philadelphia said of Miss Anna T.
Jeanes, who has given $1,000,00 for ne
gro education in the south:
Miss Jeanes is a splendid philan-
thropist. To a good cause she is gem
erosity itself. Giving promptly AMI
freely, she has no sympathy with mig
CARDS. I once heard her tell stocy
about niggardly rich man Of her
childhood.
This man visited school and made
an address. At the end he called lit
tie boy up to him and said:
My lad, have you Il purse?'
No, SIR
I'm sorry said the rich nan. If
you had had a purse, should have Civ
en- you dime to put in II.
This man was scheduled to speak
again at the school the next month,
and when he came, the boys were pre-
pared for him. An empty purse lay hid
in every little pair of trousers:
And sure enough, at the end of his
speech, the man called another boy and
said:
"'Eave you 4 purse, SON.?
"'Yes, sir was the eager answer.
CT am glad of it, said The other. IF
you hadn't, 1 should have given you a
dime to buy one with. .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

heaven try to distract their attention
until I can slip into the tent-there's
Ia wet streak across my back where
your arn-er--''
''Darling!" whispered Randolph fat
uously. Then walking rapidly forward
he bowed low to Mrs. Bradley.
He opened the basket where the
lone little perch had long since given
up the struggle for existence
Here, madam, is your fish, he
said. Copyright, 1907, by
p. c. Eastment.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

a gasoline-driven pillow was put to
work in field near Beloit recently
the first of its kind in that part of the
state. 1.-THE farmers are progressing
rapidly comments the Lawrence
World. twelve or fifteen years ago
most of them were debating whether
At was safe for the women folks to use
gasoline cook stoves in summer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

It appears that Mr.. Guggenhcims
Emelter trust is also to be investigated
by the government. 1t is easy to see
where President Roosevelt is liable to
elienate from himself the affections of
the junior senator from Colorado.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

Now that the subpoena server has
Mr.. Rockefeller tanned so that he will
eat out of the subpoena servers hand,
the oil magnate probably will not take
to the tall timber every time he scents
a subpoena in the offing. although he
will doubtless continue to be a little
skittish-like country horse meeting
an AUTOMOBILES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

II ex-Mayor SchmItz is still mayor
OF San Francisco. as he asserts he is.
he can not be called a bad mayor any
more. The opportunities for badness
are very limited in his present quar-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
ANOTHERo ,PARADOv

John @. Royce comes out in favor Of
giving another, term in the. office of
is the mouth-piece of Governor Hoch
we must assume that It is also the de-
sire of Governor Hoch. 1t will be
worth going miles to hear a speech of
governor Hoch supporting Governor
BAILEY for any office, or for anything
else.-Concordia Kansan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

There was a big field meet of Gale
domains at Los Angeles on July 4. John
Macdonald is out there, and If he
didn't uphold the glory of old Kansas
In dancing the Highland fling, the To-
peka Scottish society should pass reso-
lufiOns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

The Wichita Beacon hopes that the
Thaw case won't be tried again until
the Haywood case is disposed of. If
the chair please. we second the mo-
ton The country doesn't want to get
cross-eyed, trying to look both ways
nf ouce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
LAWSON AND FAME.

Tom Lawson made the most of his
art opportunities while abroad the
past spring. He sat for his portrait
In Rome before Manchini, the mad
painter" and also had Benneur make
bronze and marble busts of him. A
full length statue may be ordered on
the next trip. Order your own busts,
gentlemen, for posterity has a bad
memory.-Sp Republican
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

With Jacob Riis and Senator Bever-
idge both getting married, 1t looks as
though some of the friends of the
Roosevelt family propose to play even
for having to dig up for that White
House wedding a year or SO ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
THOSE RERRY RoxEs

The Derry raIsers are selling the hole
underneath the bottom of the box for
a higher price than ever this year.
says the Topeka Journal. And down
this way they are getting an extra
nickel for the top hole also-Wichfta
Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
TO THE MANNER BORN.

Mr.. George B. CorteIyou has had
about everything else but the presi-
dency. Why doesn't Mr. Roosevelt
propose him as his successor? Ger
tainly Mr.. Cortelyou has been perfect
ly schooled in the. Rooseveltian sys-
tenn of statecraft, or politics or what
ever it is-St. Louis Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

''The United States government pays
more attention to the bacteriology of
hogs in one year than to the bacter-
lology of man in 25 years." mourned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

Prince william, of Sweden, is COM
ing over for a tour of America. We
can plainly see where little old Linds-
borg will get into the limelight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

Schnftz has demanded the salary OF
the mayor of San Francisco for June
He probably thinks he earned 1t in
STAYING in jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

DR.. Fisk declares that kansas
growing wealth is its. principal dan
ger" This is a danger, however, that
few of US will quail before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

A son of Ulysses S. Grant is men
toned as a possible Democratic candf-
date for the presidency. Now what do
YOU think of that?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

That Georgia gentleman who de
clares that there is no hell has evi
IDENTIFY forgotten the crop Mrs. Leas'
used to raise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

If Mr.. Rockefeller had known it
wouldn't be any worse than that, he
doubtless would not have gone to all
that trouble to dodge the subpoena
eervers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

Now that Mark Twain has been
dubbed a doctor of literature by Ok
ford, we should hereafter refer to him
as DOC" Twain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

It is suspected that over IN England
they never heard Of the Fourth Of July
at least not since 1776.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

Not only are the express companies
charging whatever they please, but the
indications are that they will keep on
doing It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

Young America has great pity for
the little British boy, the latter having
no Fourth of July to celebrate. By the
way, doesn't little Johnnie Bull know
what f1recrackers are?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09

The man who now doubts that sum-
uner is really here may as well be given
ND as a confirmed skeptic-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
A GOOD IDEA.

one of the judges in Kansas City
first of this week Of sentencing all
petty criminals brought before him TO
thirty days in the Kansas harvest
neIds. AS soon as harvest is over the
Aansds Judlc1ary. are expected to re-
taliate by giving them a return sen
tence of 365 days in the Kansas civ
packing houses. The new system is
bound to work if the Missouri Judges
continue faithful at the end Of the bar
gain.-Snith County Pioneer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
THE REAL, RICH MAN

MAJOR Beck of the Holton Recorder
finds some satisfaction in the fact that
while he may not be as rich as John
ID. rockefeller, he doesn't have to hide
out, he can go where he pleases. stav
as long as he pleases and feel no neces-
slty OF concealing his Whereabouts.
And there is a good deal in that The
rIch man who knows not contentment
Is wretchedly poor.-Leavenwort
Times -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
ADVICE

Uncle Sam has 1000 postmistresses.
If you have any confidential messages
to send north, don't use post cards.
Mexican Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
KANSAS COMMENT
A WISE FARMER.

Inere is young farmer living in
Smltn county who is wiser than many
OF MS neighbors. Ten years ago he
owned quarter of land very poorly
improved. During the prosperous
years that followed he laid by $4,000.
He did not get land bug-house, but
pullt a nice story and half house,
Dig barn, good size wash and smoke
mousse, a good cave with arch roof of
cement, bought the good wife a piano,
hlmseh violin, and furnished the
mouse nicely. When you drive up to
ms farm you do not see a worn out
woman in faded calico dress, little
boys not yet in their teens doing a
man work, nor little girls working
IKE slaves, and a. cross, tired man, all
working to pay for an extra quarter or
nalr section of land. They are well
nxed with goodly number of cattle
ana nogsS several nice teams, are out
OF debt, and are enjoying the best
years or their, lives. They are out of
oept. sleep peacefully with no thought
OF disastrous result. of a short crop
year. Rural phone and rural mail de-
livery connect them with the sur
rounding neighborhood, country towns
and the rest of the United States.
When will this wise farmer and his
family see happier time than the
present? Never.-Smith County Mes
senger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
Little country Weekers.

Bishop Frederick Burgess of Long
Island was praising the beneficent
work of those associations that SEND
the pale little children of the slums
to the country every summer for a
week or two.
QUAINT indeed are the comments
on the country which. at their first
glimpse Of it," said Bishop Burgess,
those children make.
lone child, found gazing with pas
sionate interest at a lot of hens, was
asked if he had never seen chickens
before
"'Oh, yes, I've seen 'em before he
answered; but only after they wus
peeled
"Thefe was another little chap.
continued Bishop Burgess, who re-
fused to be a. country weeker. He
would stay in the city. No country for
him.
"'But why:' they asked him.
because they have thrashin' ma
chimes out there said he. and it's bad
enough here, where it's done by
hand"