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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
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7 IOIl the OhlCdSO NEWS
The secret of success furnishes
much food for gossip.
She who fishes for a husband seldom
catches one worth while.
Charity of some people begins and
ends with talking about it.
A woman cares not who saves
money just so she is permitted to
spend it.
Speak we'll of yourself. Your enc
mics will do all the hammer welding
necessary.
Children make sweet music in a
home until they get old enough to
take music lessons.
Man looks upon a mule as the most
obstinate creature on earth-until
after he gets married.
No man who never had a mother-in-
law knows anything about a mon
archical form of government.
Occasionally a woman will confess
her imperfections for the purpose of
inducing a man to deny that she has
any.
1t is usually about three weeks after
he has faced the Darson that a young
man begins to think seriously Of mar
riage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

have predicted. 1t circled across the
continent from Kansas to the District
| of Columbia and spent itself in the
house. with Representative Campbeii
OF the great commonwealth aforesaid
riding the whirlwind.
The weather bureau itself pro-
voked the storm. Incredulous among
mortals, Representative Campbell
oracular institution. He quoted with
caustic contempt the verdict of the
chtef of the bureau that weather con-
dftions had not changed in Kansas for
seventeen years. He said that every
farmer and every farmers wife knew
that the winds had positively de-
creased and the rainfall had increased
there within certain memory. Every
heifer that scented the storm lowed in
recognition of this. The very sun
flowers nodded acQuiescence.
so far the private assent of all who
peruse weather reports accompanies
are like the promises of politicians
we ask for them eagerly. but only the
most innocent accept them. Repre-
sentative Campbell had a popular case
against the climatologist. Yet instead
of leaving well enough alone he car
ried his radicalism to incredible and
disastrous lengths He declared that
not only had the velocity of wind de-
creased in Kansas, but that cyclones
were practically unknown there. The
weather of Massachusetts. he announ-
ced, was not more respectable! In
toxicated by his zeal. he began series
of extraordinary statements and In
moment or two he had denied that
there were in his community any
whiskered Populists, any buffaloes dis
porting themselves in the local wal
lows. any aborigines roaming on the
prairies. or, least of all, any grass
hoppers.
ITO have applauded Mr.. Campbell's
skeptic attitude on weather reports
were possible. But the congressman
has gone the way of all enthusiasts
From believing that Kansas is nisun-
derstood by a single government ofh-
cial, who surveys the world out of a
comfortable, remote and pension
promising turret. he has jumped to the
conclusion that all the world is mis-
taken in Kansas. We might have
granted that an extra twirl or two mad
been put on the cyclone, but now are
compelled to utter disagreement we
would rather accent even weather
prophecy than consent to think or
Kansas without grasshoppers.
The Post evidently needs to hear
from Secretary Coburn concerning
this last subject-a subject which
Kansas itself knows nothing about ex-
cept by secondhand information.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
HUMOR OF THE Day

What is your idea Nf a comfortable
fortune? asked the ambitious youth.
One, answered the man of experience,
that is big enough to buy you everything
YOU want and not big enough to attract
the attention of the grand jury."-Wash-
ington Star.
Woman will always be a mystery"
That's right see the way they take to
bridge, and one of the rules of the game
is that you mustn't talk."-Detroit Free
Press.
Jones has been looking Up his family
the jungle and quit. milwaukee, Sentinel
"Notoriety is dearer than anything else
to that man." Yes. He's all puffed up
for hour If he happens to see his name
in the city ectory.'-Philadelphi
Lawson-But tell you he isn't a Ken
tuckian, no matter what he says. Daw-
son-How do you know? Lawson-Why,
the corkscrew in his knife is rusty.-Som-
erville Journal.
II tell you. John, many a man never
knew happiness until he was married.
THAT is so, my dear, but on the other
hand Oh, you mean thing!-Wash-
ington Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Strange to relate, the peach crop of
1907 has not yet been slaughtered. We
may be happy yet
y
Let us hope that G. Hogg, weather
prophet may be just as much mis-
taken as Chief Willis Moore.
u q
We judge that the railroad politi-
clans regard the Stone anti-pass bill as
a pretty rocky proposition for them.
u
Some day that ground hog is going
to get sunstruck.
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Perhaps there was some excuse for
Chief Moore's statement that south
western Kansas might again be as dry
as 1t used to be. He had probably just
heard that the wholesale liquor house
at Ellinwood had been put out of bust
ness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
LONELY.

Al my club an evening stealing,
Gazlng lonely at the ceiling;
NO one mods, or comes to speak a word
of cheer
For the others, when they view me
LOOK away, around. or through me;
When l order wine, the waiter brings
me beer.
I've a business corporation
(Also one for education),
And l used to have a pass for every
ride;
But my diamonds without glitter
m the runt from out the litter
All my old friends pass me on the other
side.
Cold and hurried are my neighbors,
But share not in their labors-
Very busy times to which I'm not in
vited.
Gone are all the friends who love me,
Absent now in courts above me;
m the only man who hasn't been in
dicted!
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

[From the Atchison Globe.l
Some people eat catsup on every
thing.
When women do society work. what
trifing things they work at!
Whipping a little man does your
reputation as fighter no good.
The call of gold sounds louder to
most people than the call of the wild.
Some people think a funeral a fail
ure unless it has a lot of pathetic
features.
1t always seems as though there is
no hope for a man who makes his
home with her" folks.
So far, the photograph has not at
tanned much popularity as an enter
tainer at sewing circles.
No man loves a woman enough to
make him very grateful for the priv
ilege of kissing her hand.
You can tell married man who
has small children by the finger marks
on the front of his collar.
When women get together, they are
apt to use this expression a good many
times: 20. these men,"
A man isn't as apt to lie about his
age as a woman. but he evens the
score by telling about his salary.
The man who plays solitaire, 'wheth-
err he cheats to win the game or not,
cheats himself-out of time.
Many a man who makes a critical
examination, and then gives an opin-
ion, gives mighty poor opinion.
Women often say. How the chill
dren enjoy Christmas True enough;
but why should old people butt in?
Some girls idea of True Love is a
man who will send flowers in the win
ter. when roses are a dollar a throw.
Women are more truthful than
aggerate the number of Christmas
presents she receives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
TOO MUCH MONEY.

The damning influence of too much
money is strikingly illustrated in the
case of Harry Thaw. The prohigate
| young millionaire who is now on trial
for murder had a splendid ancestry.
Money was his ruin. 1t was not neces-
sary for him to work-to be indus
trious He was one of the idle rich,
and with vast wealth at his command
every avenue of vice was open to him.
| E. G. Stitt, of Sabetha, was an old
time friend of William Thaw, the
grandfather of Harry Thaw, and he
tells the Sabetha Herald the story of
how the Thaw fortune was started, and
incidentally he mentions the sterling
character of old William Thaw. on
whose grandson the attention of the
nation is now riveted.
William Thaw was an old canal man
on the Pennsylvania canal and made a
good part of his money in the canal
business. He had in a measure retired
from the canal for larger interests
when Mr.. Stitt, now of Sabetha, was
interested in canal contracts. William
Thaw, Andrew Carnegie. man named
Clark and Thomas A. Scott built
bridge over the Allegheny river to con-
meet two railroads which heretofore
had transferred passengers by drays
and buses. The four men asked Mr..
Stitt to take a book of stock in the
bridge In fact they were rather in
sistent about it. But Mr.. Stitt was
fearful of the venture and dared not
sink the money. Had he put in thou
sand dollars, he would even at this
time be receiving enough money IA
keep him we'll, from the receipts of the
bridge. The four men mentioned were
the big stockholders. They charged %
cents each for all passengers over the
bridge and SIS for each car and engine.
The same charge is still in effect after
half a century. There are thousands
and thousands of passengers and cars
passing over this bridge daily. Harry
K. Thaw, millionaire murderer, is one
of the beneficiaries of the immense
amount of money brought in by the
bridge now.
Mr. Stitt says that William Thaw
was the most beloved man in Pennsyl-
vania. He was loved by young and
old, rich and poor. Saturday afternoons
Mr.. Thaw gave entirely to the interests
of the poor. They rang the bell of his
palatial Pittsburg home. and he per-
sonally talked with them and heard
their troubles. He then alleviated
them by money or sympathy. as the
case required. He personally saw that
the cases of trouble were genuine.
Upon his death the city of Pittsburg
went into mourning
William Thaw was worth a hundred
million dollars at the time of his
death. He left ten millions to each of
his ten children.
This is the sort of a man whose
grandson is now facing a murder
charge and is known as the de-
generate son of riches.
1t is no wonder that Solomon in his
wisdom exclaimed "Give me neither
poverty nor riches"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

paper. In due time his advertisement
brought a reply and a long-distance
courtsh1p followed 1t appeared to be
satisfactory and the day for the we'd
ding was set. But when the joyous
bridegroom was brought face to face
with the candidate for bride he
f1unked. He discovered that she was
the same woman from whom he had
secured a divorce fifteen years before
and he refused to tackle the same
proposition again. Some romances
turn out happily after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

While the appointment Of S. s. Ash
baugh as attorney to- the railroad
board is not criticised, there is a great
deal OF disapproval over the state be-
cause Governor Hoch failed to appoint
Carr Taylor. The opinion is general
among the people that Mr.. Taylor put
up a good fight for the peoples inter
ests and that he would have accom-
plished great results had not the old
railroad board blocked his way in
every manner possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Incidentally there are a few mem
bers of the legislature whom the peo-
pie are spotting. They are those indi-
viduals who came to the legislat ure
under false pretenses-pretendi to
stand for the people while they were
candidates and then lining up with the
corporations as soon as the corpora
lions needed them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Senator Brewer proposes to move
the boys Industrial school from To-
peka to Abilene. This isn't the first
time Abilene has tried to get a state
institution away from Topeka. A few
years ago it proposed to pick up the
state capitol and move it up there, but
1t stubbed its toe and fell down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press

IFrOm the New \ OK Press.
The only way to make the furnace
burn seems to be to have the weather
get warm.
You can always tell girl that's in
love with a man by the way she pre-
tends to be fond of his relatives.
If a burglar has to come a woman
would like to have her best clothes
around the room where they would
appear to her credit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

DIR. Briefly, of Cloud county, made
humorous speech against the anti-pass
bill, inasmuch as he did not wish to
give up his pass. 1t may not seem
quite so funny, however, when he
hears from his constituents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Ex-Mayor Rose of Kansas City,
Kan, isn't the only one. The mayor of
Cananea, Mexico. is in jail for allowing
gambling houses to run after Cover
nor Ysabel had ordered them closed
Mexico may be the land of "manana,"
but they do not waste a lot of time in
court procedure before they put a man
In Jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

1.-THE people, says the Salina Jour
nal, ARE largely in the dark in the
matter of the cost of railroad trans
portation." They are in the dark con-
corning the cost to the railroads. but
the people know what it costs them.
1t costs "all the traffic will bear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

1t is pretty hard to see how legis-
lator can have the nerve to turn down
the primary election measure and
other propositions that the people
want, and then go home and try to
frame up some excuses for his con-
ztffreptS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Quite likely Governor Swettenham
does not know what the papers are
saving about him. 1t is barely posi-
BILE that the American newspapers do
not have a very extensive circulation
In Jamaica.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Speaking Of discrimination. the
Cuba Daylight notes that most of the
hens sold nowadays by the farmers
wives are roosters. and it demands
that the anti-discrimination law be
brought into effect in the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Governor Swettenham now sees his
mistake. A mistake must look like a
Joke to Swettenham. You know 1t
takes some people several days to see
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Phil Campbell will have to acknowl-
edge that the weather bureau puts US
next when a cold wave is headed in
our direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

The people can do a great deal OF
good sometimes by dropping rev
lines to their senators and representa-
tives, stating their views concerning
propoSed legislation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full DAY
feIcFraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
puhlicatio in Topeka
The news Is received In The state jour
nal building ever wires for this sole our-
lose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

1t was only natural. of course, that
the railroads should refuse to discrim-
mate and give the United States spe-
cial low rate for the transportation OF
froonq
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Senator Lodges occupation is given
as historian" He is one of the kind
that manufactures history as well as
writes ii.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Hutchinson. after having a packing
house for several years, is about to
lose it, as it is unable to run on pay
Ing basis. The wonder is that the beef
trust allowed it to run as long as it
has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

The prospects look good for strict
anti-pass law. Now, If the legislature
will also give US a good primary cleo
ton law, perhaps the people will have
something to say about politics. after
q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

The Japanese war scare is liable to
become an old friend. like that other
old acquaintance, the Balkan war
cloud, 1t isn't serious. however.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

Courtship at long range is some
times dangerous. A Montana man adj
yertised for a wife in matrimonial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
cnNSnLATION.

It is always a satisfaction to walk or
a paved street, even If it is muddy
there is a bottom to it.-Los Angeles
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
WON'T MAKE TINE.

The railroads want more money;
but time is money and they just won't
make it-Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
CLING no DEATH sPoTs.

Port Royal was destroyed, and King
ston was built close to its site. Now
Kingston is largely destroyed, but will
be rebuilt as nearly as possible upon the
old site. So villages have been repeat
eddy rebuilt on the trembling slopes OF
Vesuvius. There are things which men
refuse to learn from experience, or les
sons of experience which they refuse 10
folloW.-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
NEW PROVERB.

A green telegraph operator makes a
fat veyard.-Louisville courier
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA.

''The Island of England" says Snake
speare, breeds very valiant creatures"
and, alasi like every other land, also
very great fools. But to play the fool
like Swettenham, the governor of ia
maica is beyond nature. The proper
attitude to take in a case of this sort
is one of sympathy and-if pity were
not an impertinence-pfty for the Eng
lish people in their misfortune, the ter
rible blunder of having man like SWEET
tenham in a position of authority as the
representative of a great nation.-Phil-
adelphia Ledger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
MARK TWAIN QUOTED

4A1AINHN I w N2UOI Id
When the house voted for United
States senator last Tuesday Dave
Blaine cast his vote for Bristow. which
recalls Mark Twain's old saying: BE
good and you'll be lonesome "-Sedg-
wick Paragraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
FRON OTHER PENS
CURB ON ExTRAvAGANCE.


A Paris court has given the dress
that they must show some prudence in
lady patrons may give them. The rule
is that the costumer must find out
whether a wife's orders are justified by
the financial and social status of her
husband. One fashionable dressmaker
who supplied 81 gowns to a lady within
two months sued for his bill of S., 800
and got an award of only So, 800. In
all cases where property is involved in
litigation in France and generally in
civil suits the French judges may be
depended on to reach just conclusion.
Hartford Times.
MAN FLIGHT AND SET MASTERY.
It has remained for an English pub
licist to declare that on the day when
man solves the problem of locomotion
in the air the mastery of England on
the seas will come to an end. A few
years ago such a declaration would not
have been portentous for the empire.
But now, when some Santos-Dumont Is
likely any day to try his new wings and
mount aloft the prophecy takes
deeper meaning. 1t is difficult to con-
ceive of the vast changes in social, po-
litical and economic conditions that will
supervene when man is master of the
air. Certainly the occupation of the
huge navies of today will be gone.
Dreadnoughts and Skeered-o'-Nothings
will no longer be the hectors, and bull
lies of the seas, for he who rides the
air dominates the ea.-Minneapolis
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
LOBBIES.

1t looks like the preachers lobby
had the sport lobby distanced when
the baseball bill was up in the house
And al this crisis In our country's his
Ntory, where, oh where was the peo-
pies lobby Hutchinson News
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Began as a Bootblack.

Frank J. Constantine, on trial for
the murder of Mrs. Louise Gentry,
took the stand in his own defense
Friday He showed absolute COM
posure while on the stand and gave
his testimony clearly and without
hesitation. He declared that he was
born in New York City and is twen-
ty-three years of age He came to
Chicago to go into the bootblacking
business, as he had been in that busi-
ness in New York, and after selling
out had made an agreement not to
re-enter the business there. He said
that when he engaged room in the
Gentry home he told Mrs. Gentry
that his father was wealthy real es-
tate man.
did you ever tell the Gentrys
that you were of royal blood?"
II did; | am a descendant from
Italian royalty Constantine declared
that he had heard Mr. and Mrs. Cen
try quarreling many times, and de-
clared that they lived unhappily.
On the day of the tragedy he said
that he went into his room to shave,
and found Mrs. Gentry there making
the bed He told her that he was
about to leave the city, and she asked
him if he would not take her with
him. She insisted, according TO Con-
stantine, and he positively refused.
She then, according to his story,
picked UP the razor and cut her
throat. He declared that he carried
her down to the door of Dr. Doher-
ty's Office, pounded on the door and
then left her standing there while he
ran for another doctor He said hat
he noticed that there was blood on
the sleeve of his coat, and he thought
that if he returned he would be ac-
cused of the murder and would not
receive justice in the courts because
he was a stranger in the city. He
then declared that he fled from Chi
cago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
Ten Hours in a Coffin; Part of Frat
Initiation.

To lie for ten hours in coffin, to
see through the glass covering over
his face the gllnmer of candles, was
the fate of Roy Lorraine, student
of the Dubuque, Ia, high school, who
was the victim of ''frat" initiation
The young man being of rhe nerve
less kind, was to be submitted to
the most trying ordeal. Gagged and
bound, he was taken under cover
of night TO a farm in the vicinity OF
the city Here he was escorted TO a
cellar long in disuse and led down
the stairway. Candles were lighted
and placed about in inches in the wall
and young Lorraine, blindfolded, was
induced to lie down in what to him
seemed box. and fhe cover was
fastened. The covering soon was
removed from his eyes, and he awoke
to the realization that he was in a
coffin,
There wa sufficient air to keep
him from smothering and he remain
ed there all through the night. Early
in the morning he was released by
some Of his friends.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-09-26
BOYS'CAPER ENDS SERIOUSLY
Russell Seltenright and Harold Win
rott Shot

Russell Seltenright, the 13 year old
son of Elmer Seltenright, living 6
miles northwest of this city. and
Harold Winrott, were shot by A. F:
Stilson, Saturday night at about $50
o'clock, while making a boyish raid
on the latters water melon patch.
1T seems that on Thursday and Fri
day evenings, the patch belonging to
Stilson had been invaded by others.
and many melons had been destroy
ed. Saturday Stilson purchased some
shot gun shells, and determined to
watch the patch that night All in
nocent of their danger the young
sters entered the patch, when with.
out warning of any kind, Stilson fir
ed into the group. Only two of the
boys, young Seltenright and Win
rott were struck About 30 NO. 8
shot were taken from Seltenright,
they having struck from the short
ribs to the ankle. Although the
wounds are extremely painful, the
boys will recover