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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

| reached the street Mrs. johnson, white
of face, was leaning against tree.
.'Bertie-he's caught on the railroad
track-the express is backing GOWN
my heart-I can't run
But Aunt Helen could run and down
the street, toward the track, she sped
She could see the small, dark olue
figure huddled in the middle of the
tracks. She could hear the warning
whistle Of the express. backing from
the transfer depot to the local station
and then something dreadful hap
pened
..Bertie-Bertie I'm coming" she
cried and then fell, her dainty slipper
tangled in a mass of lace fripperies.
In vain she struggled to her feet. A
fresh ENHANCEMENT of lace threw her
back to the ground. She could hear
people screaming in every direction
She haerd the rush of hurrying feet
and then a strong voice called Com
ing" Just as she got to her own feet
she saw Henry Strong slide down the
pillar of his sisters porch. He had
sprung through his window to the
roof of the porch and was not vast
ing time on stairways. Straight ahead
of her he flew like a streak, bounded
over the first track, bent over the boy
and then something came between her
and the two dark figures, something
that rumbled and Numbered away
into horrible silence. Aunt Helen
did not open her eyes. She did not
found her lying unconscious and white
on the edge of the curb.
It was Mr.. Henry who carried Aunt
Helen home to the dim sitting room
and BERTHE limped soberly, for like the
boy in the song he had one shoe of
and one shoe on. Later, when Aunt
Helen was quite herself. Mrs. john
son brought in what was left of the
missing shoe when the express had
passed over it, and then Aunt Helen
learned how Mr.. Henry had ripped
open the shoe which had caught in a
frog on the track and with Berthe in
his arms had rolled down the bank to
safety.
That night, after BERTHE had eaten
two sponge cakes and had been
tucked into bed, Mr.. Henry, who had
forgotten that dinner engagements
ever existed, sat in his old corner in
Aunt Helens sitting room, and Aunt
Helen sat beside him in her little
Henry" she said softly. ct was
wrong and you were right. BERTHE
needs you-and I need you. have
He did not answer and there was
troubled look in his face. She rose
suddenly and crossed to her desk
''See.. dear, it was not because of
what happened this afternoon. I was
writing to you-when he ran away,
poor lonely laddie. He knew some
thing was wrong
Henry Strong read the half-finished
letter and kissed her.
"And now he knows it is all right
again. Let's go up stairs and make
sure he is not having bad dreams.
Poor chap. he had a great scare"
And so BERTHE, waking from restless
slumber saw the two faces, dearest
in all the world, bending over him,
and. reaching out for two protecting
hands. he fell into peaceful sleep
Copyright, 1907, by E. c. Purcells.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
WARREN M. CROSBY.

The very unexpected demise of War
rem NJ. Crosby creates a wide gap in
the business circles of Topeka and in
the ranks of the city's loyal and high
minded citizens. In the years that Mr..
Crosby has been in Topeka he has not
only built one of the city's largest and
best mercantile institutions, but he has
built it on a sound foundation of strict
integrity, fairness and loyalty to the
best interests of his town.
AS Christian citizen and as a type
of real manhood, Warren M. Crosby
ranked high among the leading men
of the Kansas capital. Quiet and un-
demonstrative, his friends and init
mates know that he lived UP to high
ideals, both in his business and his So
cial life. His sudden death is a shock
that is regretted by the entire com
munity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News.I

LFrom the Chicago News.1
A burnt Spectator breads the hot
air.
Fortune smiles on the few and grins
at the MAN..
A blunt person is apt to make the
most cutting remarks.
The man who makes only penny
contributions is usually a cheerful
giver.
Occasionally you encounter man
who actually believes everything he
says.
man of very tfcw. words usually
has a wife who does most of the talk
ing.
When a man marries for money it's
a sign his wife has more dollars than
sense.
Conversation of a good many more
people would be sensible if it wasn't
for what they say.
People in this world are so much
alike that if you find fault with one
you Will hit a hundred.
After a girl gets about so old she
wants people to know that she knows
things that she shouldn't know
A woman with her first baby feels
as important as man does the first
time he attends a directors meeting
in hotel parlor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

This is the shortest month in the
year, according to the calendar, al
though many people are short every
month.
y X
Those North Topeka people who are
circulating a petition asking their rep
resentative to resign because he mis-
represented them on the antipass bill,
might as well save their energies. A
man who will cling to a little dinky
railroad pass like Leonides at Their
mopylae won't allow himself to be
pried loose from an office by mere Pc
titions.
e
1t looks as though Abe Hummel
played both ends and the middle be-
sides.
Considerable fear is expressed that
Count Roni will not carry out his
threat to commit suicide if his former
wife does not supply him with money.
The fear is really a certainty.
The newspapers are pretty dull to-
day The Thaw case has adjourned
over tin Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Spiritualists, photographers and
lovers do their best developing in a
dark room.
Liquor has worked many a miracle
1t has even caused a blind man to see
snakes.
We are often accused of not listening
to reason when we really have no
reason to ligten.
There is a certain amount of differ.
ence between doing as we please and
pleasing as we do.
1t seems strange how one year of
married life can often transform an
old maid into young widow.
Wigwag-"All flesh, you know. is as
grass. Guzzler-"Well, I'm so dry 1
feel like bundle of hay"
Some fellows only put their whole
souls into their work when they are
making fools of themselves.
Do man an injury and you win
keep your memory green; do him a
favor and he will forget you in a week.
Muggins-''The Trusts seem to s,,c-
coed in throwing dust in the ewes Of
our lawmakers" Buggins-"Yes.
gold dust" -
When a man fails to keen an
pointment with the other feilc,--
owing to circumstances over whtnts
he has no controI' he generally means
his wife. iiS
Hoax-''He used to be a saro.
safe robber, but he has refornads -
What is he doing now 81 ESrs,
He's writing testimoniala for 80
glar proof safes.'' SNA-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
YOU UNDERSTAND.

Mine keg, mine spigot and mine stein;
l brought with me, from Germany.
From that old German home of mine
You understand
filled mine key with German beer,
For mine good cheer, in coming here;
That might drown mine parting tear
You understand
Mine spigot it vas turned all day
tipped my keg. I screwed mine leg,
When from mine land 1 come this way
You understand.
Ach, hein-there's nothing more to tell,
Just memory, that's dear to me-
It's empty, ach: that key is-WeH
You understand.
Song Echoes of a Kansas Dugout.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
lFrom the Atchison Globe.1

| 1
When an article is cheap people
make it expensive by their extrava-
gance.
If mans library contains eighteen
volumes in a uniform binding, IL
means that an agent landed him, and
that he has eighteen books he doesn't
read.
The Teddy bear isn't the only bear
in the house by any means Listen
and you will hear the women folks
say something about "a cross old
bear"
1t is much more difficult to spoil a
boy by saying nice things about him,
than it is a girl, for boys companions
are continually taking the conceit out
of him.
A woman will abuse her husband
by inuendo for months, and then
when he fights back. she will say:
You always have a chip on your
shoulder
A girl lately arrived in Atchison. to-
visit a school friend. She was asked
piled, 81 would like to go to bed, and
sleep a week"
An agent" called on a business
man. 81 would like just a minute of
your time" said the agent. At the
end of the minute; the business man
said: Your minute is up now get
out"
Are you watching your umbrella
fund? The people seem to have SO
completely forgotten the prospects
of a rainy day that notices should be
printed and hung in every rooms to
this effect in order to check extrava-
gance: How about your umbrella
fund ?"
Every time man wants to get into
the bath room, there is a woman in
it, and once he gets in, he has a feel
ing that he is keeping a woman out
of it. Every man longs for a private
bathroom as ardently as a woman
longs for a laundress in the house all
the time.
An Atchison woman was lately quite
i'll. and, calling her husband to her
bedside, said in whisper: I'm case
I die. 1 have just one request to make:
Don't let Mrs. Lysander John Apple
ton have charge of the funeral ar
rangements." Mrs. Appleton is famous
in Atchison for taking charge of fun
erals.
When man sits around his fire.
side in the evening, reading, and two
or more of his women relatives are
present sewing, they are pretty apt
to get up a conversation intended to
teach him his duty without offending
him The women have notion that
good, without his knowing it, but
every man recognizes this sort of
evangelistic work the moment 1t be-
gins, and resents it.
A very old woman recently said to
this reporter: MY children think it
a shame I live entirely alone. want
to live alone. I love my children, but
they annoy me, because I am old and
nervous. Their youth annoys me;
their habits annoy me. try to be
reasonable but 1 get along much bet
ter alone. Young people and old peo-
pie always clash. Young people al
WAYS have a tolerant way with the old
that is annoying to the old. 1 reared
seven children, and was as patient as
most mothers, but am now upwards
of seventy; 1 am not able to stand
what 1 formerly stood. I like my
children and grandchildren to visit
me, but do not want their visits to
he very long"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Noting that President Roosevelt
approves of the conduct of Admiral
Davis in his dealings with Governor
Swettenham, the Hutchinson News
would not be surprised if the rumors
of Swettenham's resignation came
true" There have been several in
stances in which one party to a con-
troversy- resigned when President
Roosevelt approved the other fellow,
so the News is justified in refusing to
be surprised.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Angeles 'Depew and Plat! What a
hopeless duoi Do not be too hard on
them-they are old and useless now,
but If they only would resign!' Poor
old Depew and Plat, That is the way
not only their own people, but the
entire country, regard them. Decrepit
and dishonored, their once great power
dwindled away. all because they used
their ability and their opportunities
for base and unworthy ends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

In looking around for a suitable sue
cessor to President Roosevelt, the
country should remember that a man
named La Toilette is the only person
besides Mr.. Roosevelt who has ever
been able to make the United States
senate perform against it's wishes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

It Is very evident that Henry James
does not know American women. He
says they cannot talk" Incidentally
It might be stated that Henry cannot
Write-at least so you can understand
although he goes through the mo-
lions a great deal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

The DR.. Wiley of Washington, whose
name figures in government reports,
should not be COMPOUNDED with the
Pittsburg DR.. Wiley, who testified in
the Thaw case. The Washington Dr.
Wiley is an expert in pure food and not
in insanity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

News comes from Jefferson City that
the author of the anti-tipping bill is
having a hard time getting anything
to eat. The walters refuse to serve
him unless he comes down with the
tip. The reformer sometimes leads a
hard life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
DID THEY Rim IT2

AS attorney for the board of railroad
commissioners, Carr Taylor gained the
ill-wfll of the railroad attorneys. For
this reason. acknowledged by him as
the truth, Governor Hoch has turned
Carr Taylor down. and appointed S. S.
Ashbaugh, of Wichita, to succeed him.
Ashbaugh is acceptable to the railroads
and the governor argues that now
there will be- 10 friction. Oh, no. the
railroads did not run the last state con-
ventioni-Beloit Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Now that Mr.. Rockefeller has given
Se,0OO,0oo more.to education, the Gus
tomary rise in the price of coal oil may
be expected shortly. Or did he collect
the money first?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

"Now," says the Wichita Eagle. in
an expectant tone of voice. will some
body please tell us why the railroads
are opposed to the primary law?"
why does the Eagle suppose? 1t will
be limited to a guess and half.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
KANSAS COMMEHT
PROTECTING KANSAS STEEL.

PROTECTING KANSAS STEEL.
The farmers of Smith county and
this senatorial district should feel
very proud of Senator Haskell. When
the resolution was up in the senate the
other day for the purpose of instruct
ing the Kansas delegation in congress
to use their power in the interest of
removing the tariff on lumber and
iron, Senator Haskell voted against the
solution-which means that he fav-
ors the present high price of these
articles and the careful protection of
the Smith Phillips-Norton county for
ests.-Smith County Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

The report of the investigating COM
mittee that went down to Kansas City
to ask the stock yards few questions
certainly does not sound as though the
stock yards got the committee drunk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
SOME GOOD IN NEW YORK.

New York City evidently is not hope
lessly sunk in iniquity. The inhibition
of "Salome" shows that there is
decency in the metropolis and that it
exists among the so-called fashionable
people as we'll as in the lower. classes"
Chicago Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
GovERNOR MORGAN.

"Billy" Morgan, of the Hutchinson
News, has been suggested as the Long
candidate for governor two years
hence. Well; there will be worse can
didates in the field than Morgan, if he
gets in the race, and he can count on
the newspaper boys for support
Florence. Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
from the New York Press. ]
It's awful bad luck to have it,

[ I
It's awful bad luck to have it,
Wonder what happens when a
plumber gets hold of Rockefeller?
When a man isn't afraid to call a
waistcoat vest he is so rich he knows
he can do anything he wants to.
A girl is so afraid man in. a stree.
car will look at her that she keeps
looking at him to see If he does until
he does.
What a woman likes about a trip to
Europe is the way 1t makes her friends
mad when she announces she is go
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Eastern railroad magnates have de-
termined to raise freight rates ten per
cent. Judging by the temper of the
people out in this neck o. the woods,
this is good time not to raise freight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Harry Thaw has always contended
that he is not insane. Perhaps he in
sisted on putting DR.. Wiley, of Pitts
burg, on the stand to prove it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Chicago Is now yelling for harvest
hands to work in the ice harvest. The
trouble IS that the ice harvest gives
the average worker cold feet. What
he is looking for is some happy me-
dunn between a northern ice harvest
and a Kansas wheat harvest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Mr.. Trickett is another man who ap-
pears to be glued to his job, and with
a quality of glue that the hot water
of the Kansas City jointists will not
melt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

If the contention were that Thaw's
attorneys were insane. the fact that
they put DR.. Wiley on the stand as an
expert would be good corroboratiTe
evidence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
CIVILIZATIONS

Ones heart grieves for the poor, be-
nighted heathenowho has no chance to
obtain an education, when one reads
of those Depauw university students
who were tied to trees and left to suf-
fer from sleet and cold all night.-New
York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
THE OTHER EXTREME.

A crazy man called upon the mayor
of Philadelphia and asked him to
finance railroad to heaven With the
exception of Pittsburg, Philadelphia
would probably be the most available
location for the other terminus Of such
a line.-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

ibid you ever know of a state which
had less representation than ours in
the senator" asked Jacob Riis, of New
York, in a newspaper Interview in Los
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Governor Hoch evidently is not such
a ready letter writer as is President
Roosevelt He has sent only one spe-
ciaI message to the legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

tink Won uf der nerfe-wreckers to
a nooly married man vich hat peen
betcheler fer a long dime, und used
to dem on his own garmendts only,
ISIS to discofer hiss unnitials-laundry
marks, yet-on q bunch of lace trim
med unmeutiOnables.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Senator Dryden refused to secure his
reelection by the use of money-es-
pecially as long as the five Republicans
necessary to that END could not be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

From der way some uf der lechisla-
tiers handle der Parli-vous-mentary
rules, Won might gadder dot dey took
a course in a meeting uf der Kansas
Labor commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

A few days ago it was reported that
the railroad lobby had become dis
heartened and quit, but Senator Gill
bert does not appear to have heard the
I-i1Tn0r
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
SENATORIAL CREDENTIALs.

Senator-elect Guggenheim, of Color
ado, got to washington and into the
senate chamber Just in time to hear
the charge made against him that he
was interested in securing a monopoly
Of the Alaska copper fields. The charge
was accepted as the sufficient creden-
tials of a United States senator, and
the incident passed. - Leavenwo rth
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
GETTING WISE.

That Uncle Sam has decided to aban-
don the use OF 'billboards and advertise
for recruits for the army and navy in
the leading newspapers of the country
shows that the old gentleman is get
ting his advertising eye teeth cut
BenevilIe Freeman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
roo FAST A PAGE.

No explanation can be given of the
present tendency to earthquakes. I'M
less it be that the world is going too
fast. Whatever the cause may be, it
is time to call halt.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Curtis hat decited to ledt Misder
Rosenfeldt dig der Pannemoff camille.
Fer dis remarkable kindness der
PRESIDENT should be duly thankful. but
dere ISIS oder weighty madders fer
Misder Curtis to consider. Kansas ISIS
aboudt to pass acknowledgements s.
senator law. He had besser worry
aboudt dot und ledt der camille go to
veil, Cendral America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

The Thaw estate should certainly be
generous in paying Expert Wiley his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
SOME REMARKS.

Governor I1oeh is getting his for not
reappointing Carr Taylor. The Con-
cordia Kansansf reciting the story of
Carr Taylor's work for the governor
and for the people, says his retirement
under existing circumstances is the
rankest. rottenest piece of ingratitude
in politics we have seen for some
time" And Davies has seen some
mighty rank pieces of political ingratf-
tude in his time, too.-Salina Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

This balmy weather may be joke
on the grounding. after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

County Attorney Schenck and Sher-
If wiIkerson are keeping up the gooc
rTOrk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
ANOTHER OPINION.

We do not wish to find fault, we
never do, but we do wish to say that
Governor Hoch made one of the great
est mistakes that he ever made when
he failed to reappoint Carr Taylor as
attorney for the board of railroad COM
missioners. The gentleman he APP
pointed will mo doubt make the board
good attorney, but it does appear to
us that when a man makes such ex-
cellent official as Carr Taylor did there
is no need of a charge, for we doubt
very much whether the new man VIII
do any better.-Cuba Daylight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

OF course the late snow saved the
wheat crop. That goes without saying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Der way to do,
Iss thus:
Chusd break in two
Der cuSS-
Ed water f1ue
Und t'row
Id oudt, den stew
Some snow.
How nicei
BUT-uf some method I could find
To hold my red-hot frame uf mind
Againsd dot pipe fiddle vile,
Der same would melt, und scorch, und
hiIo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

The prunesipual differmendt py
Carrie und Myra ISIS dot Carrie could
get bond und dey hat. to turn Myra
loos to keep from beink boddered init
her in chail, yedt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

DIR. Wiley said on der stand dot he
vas a "nerfous practitioner" Ut he vas
nod a nerfous Won ven he came In. Id
ISIS a skinch he would be ven der IRON
jawer Cherome got trough NIT him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09
a SATURDAY SERMON.
THE PRIMROSE PATH

There IS way which seemeth rig a.
unto = man. but the end thereof are the
ways of death.-Proverbs 14:12.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Chudge Urmy, of Topeka. would trow
a prosecooter oudt uf der shop uf he
unsuldted Witnesses like dot Cherome
uf Moo York. We gadder from der
bapers dot witness in a Moo York
courdt ISIS not secured fer der purpose
uf finding informationings., but to be
used py Cherome like pup uses
oldt shoe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

Ut any publisher efer put oudt Der
Un-expurgated Sdory uf My Life" py
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. he may har
to afotd der mail order department
but der sale win be Iarche enough 10
varrandt all egspence. -.--.-...-.......-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-09

One feature -uf der case in Thaw' s
fafor ISIS dot he shot nice clean holes In
Misder White unstead uf Draining him
NIT chair er "a beer Doodle, prim-
tiff sysdem uf homicide vich ISIS un-
fashionable NIT der upper crust Der
fashionable vordlt will be init him.