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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
TOPEKA's FUTURE.

II ever a western city had occasion
TO congratulate itself on the promises
the future holds out to it, Topeka has
at the opening of this new year. The
year just closed has been an exceed
ingly prosperous one. both for the
average individual and for the city as
whole. The population has appre-
Gladly increased, many new homes
nave been built, industries have been
enlarged.
But the skies of the future are
brighter than ever before for the capi-
tai or Kansas. In the first place, the
railroads promise to do much towards
ene development and growth of the
city The Santa Fe, which has greatly
enlarged its interests here in the past
TWO years, continues to add to them,
ano the demand for new railroad
equipment means still larger shops to
turn out that equipment.
The Union Pacific has spent a con.
siderable sum in Topeka during the
past year, but it will spend much
more. 1t has just completed its double
track from Kansas City here. but its
extensive yards still have to be built.
In a few months, too, the cutoff to
the northwest will be completed and a
large amount of the traffic from the
Pacific coast will be handled through
Topeka.
1t is pretty definitely settled that the
new line to Council Grove will be
built ere long. Whether or not this
becomes a link in the Gould lines
from ocean to ocean, it will add much
to Topeka's trade, and II the trans
continental traffic of the Gould sys-
TENS is sent this way it will add ire
mendously to the commercial i'm
portance of Topeka. Then. too. 1t is
reported on good auth GRITTY that the
Missouri Pacific will bridge the Kaw
here and build q line north and also a
connecting link south, so that Topeka
will become the most important point
ON Gould line from Omaha to the
Gulf.
Commercially and in industrial lines
the outlook in Topeka is the best.
Business was never better than at
present. The state of Kansas is ex-
ceedingly prosperous. New enter
prises are springing up, new homes
are building. and commercial interests
are expanding.
Topeka has always been noted as a
city of homes. Its fine schools and its
public improvements and institutions
make it especially desirable as place
of residence. is now about to begin
on a new era of municipal govern
ment under the commission plan-that
is, it will If the coming legislature
gives it the necessary authority-and
its people have faith that the mu-
nicipal management will be better
than ever before.
If the promises of the present are
fulfilled Topeka should go far beyond
the $4,000 mark in population by
1911
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

Here is an item that recently ap-
peared in a northern paper: Thirty
years ago Carl Stierle was lynched
near Dakota City, Neb.. for the muir
der of a young woman named Top
ping. A man named Bright has jus;
died in prison in New Orleans, whd
confessed that he had murdered the
girl"
In that brief item are condensed
facts that should make thoughtful peo-
pie more than ever determined to pu.
an end to mob rule and lynch law
When a terrible crime has been COM
mitted the summary punishment of
the criminel by mob is sometimes con-
doned by public sentiment on the
ground that the culprit deserved his
punishment, but the thought that an
innocent person is put to death by his
acknowledges with no opportunity to
prove his innocence and remove the
stigma of suspicion from his reputation,
is itself most horrible to the we'll
balanced mind. In addition to that the
real culprit escapes legal punishment.
There is no doubt that innocent per-
sons are sometimes lynched by mobs.
Every little while some such instance
comes to public notice. but it usually
receives only a brief notice such as the
calls forth an excellent comment from
the Leavenworth Times.
For 80 years." says the Times, Carl
Stierle had lain probably in some pa
per's grave, unmarked, unknown, spat
upon and reviled by those who knew
his fate, condemned without trial by his
fellow-men, filling the grave of a MUIR
derer because man often is monument
ly rash and inconsiderate. For 80 years
the stigma of his apparent guilt had
hung over him and all his kindred, and
he was innocent.
That lynching is always rash, I'M
warrantable, inexcusable, criminal,
vicious and as many more, goes with
out assertion or proof to any rightly
balanced mind. Many will say that
justice is too often tardy and INSULT
cient and that lynching will make an
impression against the recommission of
crimes as no punishment by the regular
machinery ever can. But this argu-
ment is too futile for contradiction.
The above case is one in point. Per-
haps the dense population of Dakota
City needed the lesson, but 1t had bet
ter gone untaught than to have COM
mitted this one outrage upon unfortun-
ate innocence. The, slow grinding
wheels of justice are too often mis-
named; they too often grind out in
justice, and what can man expect of
his lynchings when the best legal ma
chsnery he has been able to construct
in 5000 years so often goes awry?
80 much for the case of Stierle. But
how about Bright? According to his
own confession he had deserved the
punishment which fell upon the inno-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

Oscar Wilde that is about to be STAGED
there. and incidentally it tells of the
visit of Wilde to Atchison several
years ago. THE Globe" it says. has
always had strong dislilxes. 1t has all
ways disliked Oscar Wilde. When he
occurred in Atchison, the Globe was
young. and its editor was young. The
paper showed its dislike for Wilde in
a very pronounced way; in a way it
would not adopt now: it employed
d oarky boy to lead a scrawny, ugly
donkey up the street. On the donkey's
back was huge placard, which read:
Will lecture at Corfnthian hall to-
night on The True and the Beauti-
lul- The foolish donkey perform
ance did not injure Wilde, probably,
out ne lectured to only handful of
people,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

cent head of another. Had he gone
through life without retribution be-
cause a mad. intoxicated mob some
where off in Nebraska has wreaked on
innocent shoulders the vengeance that
was his? This is the less apparent les
son taught by the little item on which
the whole is founded.
Bright died in prison, an exile from
the human race. How many prisons
he had filled with his guilty conscience
in the long three decades since an in
nocent man was made to bear the pun
ishment of his guilt is not known. How
his crime haunted him, how he lodged
the phantom nemesis of his con-
science; how he lay sleepless lest in the
night his guilt might be discovered and
justice yet sent home, no one will ever
know. But it is a pretty clear indica-
ton how sordid and miserable his life
must have been when it Is known that
he lived to die in prison, an old, out
cast man. How fully his earthly pun
ishment expiated his crime is for each
man to reason out for himself.
And the third party in the eonspir-
acy of nature is the lynching mob.
Most of its members are old men now.
Whatever their lives have been, the
consciousness of having lynched an in
nocent man will add oil to whatever
flame of regret may burn their lag.
hours"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHa
rFron the chicago News.I

From the Chicago News.1
Better a peaceful bachelor than fight
ne benedict.
Kleptomaniacs will take almost any
thing except a joke.
Before giving advice prepare to dodge
the consequences.
If you would make your friends smile
let your money talk.
Love is one of the things that don't
thrive on absent treatment.
Faith is what a woman thinks she be-
lieves because she believes 1t.
The severest strain on politeness is to
step down and out gracefully.
Some regular preachers put people to
sleep, but an evangelist wakes them up.
A woman never forEives a man who
guesses that she's older than she claims
to be.
If 1t wasn't for ceremony some digni-
fed people wouldn't have anything to
stand on.
The wife. of an agreeable sinner has less
to complain of than the wife of an fll-na-
tured saint.
Sometimes n woman marries man 70
reform him. but sometimes she gets d.
vorce for the same purpose.
No, Alonzo. we have no pirates ana
buccaneers nowadays; trust promoters
and frenzied fnanciers have suppianteo
them.
OF course 1t was some misguided mar
ried man who defined club as place
where a man feels more at home than he
does at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
HUMOR OF THE DAY

Tommy wrott-Has anybody ever spok-
en- TO you the sweetest three words in the
Lolita Gupha,oh. yes; I suppose have
been asked thousand times. Want some
eandy? Chicago Tribune.
On what grounds. do you claim that
your client is insane7"
triumphantly replied counsel.
Even the prosecution was nonplused at
this-Philadelphia Ledger.
There's no bridge over the Heliespont."
unused Hero. and where there's no bridge
I'll just stay on this side
And that was why Leander had to swim
Here's puzzle for you" said Sin
Let's have it," replied Ascum.
Give woman bunch of photographs.
ilnciuding her own, which one viii she
look at the longest and whyT'-Philadel-
phia Press
stella-,Don't you think an ounce Of pre-
vention Is worth a pound of cuer?
Bella-No. indeed; when we quarrel.
Jack always makes up with chocolates
"A number of statesmen refuse to de-
pend on the judgment of the common peo-
"well." answered Farmer corntosseT
after the poor judgment shown by US
fee, / dent know as I blame EN-
Washington Star.
st was shipwrecked on the ocean once
and nearly died of thirst remarked
re hd s%sy s %as rs
road wrecked in a prohibition state
Chicago Daily News
Waitress --"Roastbeefrnutton
nipbeetspotatoesfriedl m onions.'
Boarder-'Are they in hash form you
announce them,- or separate?"-Boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
EETWEKH
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFron the Atchisou Globe. ]

IFrom the Atchison Globe.J
Down at Coolidge, recently. a drinking
man and a Good Templar failed In bust
ness on the same day. Where do we
If a woman has a dollar left the day
conscience and she feels that she has not
been generous as she should have
been. .
When farmer comes to town on
rainy Saturday, he gets no credit for his
effort; store keepers look at him as IL
they would say: why didn't more Of
you Gomez
After a woman reaches forty, her hats
all look alike, except in summer they are
| trimmed with ribbon and flowers and in
winter they are trimmed with velvet and
feathers.
Ever notice that when a woman tells
a man she is tired of him he Is willing
to get out of the way. but when a man
tells woman he is tired Of her she can
give ivy cards and spades in clingin5?
When a man chooses to be Industrious,
honest, temperate and reliable, and
amount to something, how the drunk
ards and loafers hate him, and say he is
a wolf, and steals everything in sight!
We do not know how it is in big cities.
but in small towns the society women
can be distinguished from the women
who are not in society by the fact that
society women do not wear union suits
and the other women do.
| There is a great deal in the theory of
heredity, but people are inclined to be-
cause his father did. isn't trying very
hard to swear of. More than that. II
| shows mighty little regard for his pater-
nal ancestor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

This department believes that a
good way not to start the New Year Is
to engage in prize fight.
-
How many resolutions have you
with no cracks in them?
One of the best fellows in the world
is Harry Wolcott. In handing down
this opinion this department knows
whereof 1T speaks, for it has had album
dant opportunity to know by personal
contact with him during the eight
years or more that he has been on
duty in the business department of
the State Journal He is one of these
clean, conscientious young men whom
you instinctively warm up to and place
your confidence in. He, has the right
kind of ideals and he thinks the right
sort of thoughts. But that isn't what
this department started out to say.
Harry Wolcott left Topeka a few days
ago and went back to the little town
in southwestern Kansas near which he
was born, and this week he will be-
come a full-f1edged country editor, The
ambition of years has at last been real
lied and he has managed to .swing" a
deal by which he becomes the owner
of the Larned Chronoscope. and here
after he will be moulder of public
sentiment. And he will succeed OF
course there will be times when all
will not be lovely. There will be days
when an irate subscriber will come in
and stop his paper because his daugh-
ter's full name wasn't printed in the
high school graduating exercises, and
occasionally one of the biggest adver-
tisers will take out his advertising be-
cause the paper criticises the joints.
The merchant who uses rubber
stamp or sends out of town for his job
work will demand that the paper fight
the mail order business, and the wo-
man who always borrows the paper
from the neighbors will say there is
never anything in the old sheet and it's
a pity the editor doesn't get some news
occasionally. Then once in awhile
the devil will pi form, and the gaso-
line engine won't run, and the press
will break down on press day. But,
just the same, Harry Wolcott will sue
coed. The people of Larned-those
who do not already know twill dis
cover that he is the right sort, true
blue, the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES brand,
and it won't be many years before he
will be welding a strong influence
over the life and character of the COM
munity. This is this departments day
for prophesying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record

rFrom the Philadelphia Record1
What is one mans luxury is another
mans necessity.
Many a man has gone to the front by
going back on his friends.
The fault-finder is too busy to stop and
inquire who lost them all.
Even the reputation of being a bad man
is rather hard to live I'D to.
A lover may sigh like furnace, but he
doesn't always go out like one.
The fellow who sleeps with his watch
under the pillow shouldn't mind the bed
ticking.
Miss Pert-"What is your favorite tree.
Mr. Dashaway?" Mr.. Dashaway-"Tew."
1t takes two to make a quarrel. but
any woman will tell you that. IL she had
her way. there would be no quarrels.
Tommy-"Pop what is ambition Tom
my's Pop-"Ambition. my son, is generally
a desire to do something we can't"
IT have called" remarked the impecun-
ious nobleman, "to ask for your daugh-
ter's hand" IT never talk business ex-
cept during business hours, replied the
millionaire. Come around to my office
tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
AYHA WKER JOT.S

Speaking of prosperity. the Brown
county fair association finished the
year with $500 in its treasury.
The town of Reserve is to have a
new opera house. Naturally 1t will
have an abundance of reserved seats.
Charlie Blakesley notices that since
the advent of w. r. Stubs into the
senatorial contest the railroad COR
gans" are easing up somewhat on Jo-
seph L. Bristow.
A Lawrence man died recently, who
had made that town his home for
fifty-two years, and Henry Calnau, OBJ
serves that there are not many men
who could stand it that long in Law
renee.
The increase in postoffice box
Plaindealer. which wants the govern
ment to put in meters. whereby each
patron will pay according to the
amount of mail he receives.
The Osawatomier Globe is still ad-
vertising the lakes of wisconsin and
Michigan as Ideal summer resorts
And only two or three weeks ago a
northwestern Kansas paper was ao-
vertising California excursion rates
that expired October 81. That is the
kind of advertising the railroads get
from many papers in exchange for
their transportation.
The Atchison Globe relates that fif-
teen years ago a man named Dutton
lived on the present. squire 0Illln
place near the bridge crossing Sugar
creek, on the road to Bean lake. One
morning Mrs. Dutton had bread ready
to go into the oven and sent her hus-
band out after an arnful of oven
wood, as they call it over there; heavy
wood to produce a lasting fire. Dutton
was something of slow poke, and as
he went out his wife, who was some
thing of shrew, said to him snap
pishly: Now. don't be gone five
years" The husband did not return
with the wood, and his disappearance
caused a big sensation. Some said he
had been foully dealt with: other1
said he had eloped with a woman. But
exactly five years later he walked into
the house with an arnful of wood,
which he threw into the wood box
back of the kitchen stove. His. wife
displayed no establishment, whatever
her feelings might have been. Now. .
she said. carry the STOP out to the
pigs" Dutton carried the slop out TO
the pigs as directed and resumed his
old place in the household without
comment or explanation, dying there
many years later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

TFrom the New York Press.l
There's a heap of trouble discovered
lust by hunting for fun
A mans idea of being steady is never to
get caught by his wife.
What girl enjoys about her wedding is
guessing how many other girls thought
A man has to love girl a lot to enjoy
walking home in the rain. after he has
called when the cars have stopped run
nin..
Next to having her husband in offfce. a
woman would rather be able to speak of
her butler when she goes to visit her poor
relations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
THE NEWCOMER,

A new little presence
Has come to the house,
But noisy the precincts,
Not still as a mouse.
There's no one who troubles
To manifest joy,
And nobody questions
"A girl or boy?"
No person takes interest
In hue of its eye.
In kin It resembles
Or depth of its cry.
In sweet self-importance
And innocent glee,
In ignorance blissful
Its glad moments flee.
All. surely you know him,
These hallmarks confirm.
The member of congress
Who serves his first term.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

The government clerk who receives
a salary of a thousand dollars or so,
which barely supplied the demands
upon him two or three years ago, is
somewhat doubtful IL prosperity is an
unmixed blessing since it has increased
the price of living % per cent or more
IN recent years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

A physician says a plate of hot soup
will warm and nourish man more
than six drinks of whisky. When some
men hear this they will Immediately
conclude they are too hot anyway and
SO they will avoid the soup and take
the whisky
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

A great many statesmen have dis
covered that Washington Is pretty
good place to spend the holidays. since
the anti-pass law has made 1t neces-
sary for them to pay out real money
for railroad fare when they go home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
ONE WAY TO Do IT.

Why not encourage the Japs to come
to this country? once they see just
how big a chap Uncle Sam is and how
different he is from their Russian ac-
quaintances.s they may get over that
notion of whipping him in six months.
Hutchinson News. 't-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

A woman writer says John d. Rock
efeller has great 'gentleness Of soul"
Quite likely all of his gentleness has
gone into his soul and none into that
part of his nature that controls his
financial AFFAIRS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

one of Mr.. Curtis weaknesses is the
fact that the politicians who made
I urton senator are now trying to do
the same for Curtis. That is one rea-
son why some others cannot support
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

A Rhode Island girl, the daughter of
n millionaire. is to marry a French
marquis whose name is Marie Alexan-
der Leon Rene Marquis D'Andigne,
Compte de SaiEes Gommes. Baron de
Segrey. The Rhode Island girl is get
hing enough name for her money-if
pne considers the quantity and not the
uuality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

Things keep about even in this
world. The same day that the retire
rnent of "UncIe Vim Hill was an
nounced, the dispatches told of the ILL
ness OF Mr. Hartman. caused by over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02
PERHAPS H IS RIGHT.

The State journal says it will work
against the candidacy of j. E. Sim
mons, of Lane county, for speaker, be-
cause it is known that he is the local
attorney for the Missouri Pacific. O,
pshaw, that's the reason he is running.
Simmons supposes the legislature will
be much like the state convention, and
If it is he has a cfnch.-Concordia Kan
san.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

only a few days more now until
Senator Foraker will begin to poke
the Brownsville humble bees nest
again and learn some more facts with
singers in them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

If the tobacco people were as pro-
Eressive and business-like as the pat
emit medicine men. life-sized pictures of
Miner Hicks would now be In all the
papers, accompanied by a statement
that Blanks brand of tobacco kept
him alive and happy during those long
DAYS under ground.