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INTERNATIONAL HONESTY.

There appears to be considerable
objection on the part of some Ameri-
can statesmen to the recommendation
of Secretary of State Root with refer
ence to the Chinese indemnity fund
of S24,O00.0O0. An eastern newspaper
says editorially that ''such a policy as
that outlined by Secretary Root is not
only undiplomatic in the extreme, but
also fooHshly sacrificial."
The situation is just this. At the
time of the Boxer trouble, the nations
of Europe, as we'll as America, made
demands upon China for indemnity
for the loss which each nation was
supposed to have sustained. The dam
ages which America sustained at that
time amounted only to $13,000,0O0.
The other nations had agreed upon a
tremendous sum of money to be de-
manded from China, and had parceled
it out in such a manner as to make
it almost piracy. Russia demande -
S87,5OO.0O0. France demanded $50
100000. Germany was to receive
$50, 100000. England was more mod
est and made hers equal to that ap-
portioned to the United States, $24,-
100000.
That was the situation at the close
of the conference which ended the
Boxer trouble. China was in no posi-
ton to do anything but take her medi-
cine, and so she agreed to pay all de-
mands. Since that agreement China
has paid to the United States $1,000
600. The amount unpaid has been
drawing interest all this time A, sta
tistician has figured 1t out that at the
present rate of payment. interest ia
ken into consideration China would
pay US in the end about $4,000 900
in all Now the proposal of Secretary
Root is that after China has paid the
United States $S.oOO.OO0 more the rest
of the amount shall be cancelled.
Such a policy would. no doubt,
cause European diplomats to stand
aehast Never in the history of the
world have nations refused to take in
demnity from other nations. They
have always demanded such funds
whenever there was the least possible
excuse for it. That the United States
of America should depart from such
a custom, and from such a shrewd
diplomatic policy as this is not under
stood by the press of Europe or some
of the old-time diplomats of America.
Secretary Root is apparently right
| in this matter. He looks farther than
the average statesman, and sees that
by doing the honest thing in our rela-
| tons with China, we are setting an ex-
ample to other nations, and at the
same time are making a solid friend
| in the Orient The damages which
American diplomats think we sustain
ed during the Boxer uprising is only
s1S,OOO,oO0. When we have been paid
that amount plus 100000 we are
ahead of the game except some inter-
est. BY cancelling the rest of the
amount we will probably be assured
of the friendship OF China for a long
| period OF years.
Such a policy in the Orient at this
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rErono the Chicago News.1

TFrOm the Cn1caSO NeW5.J
Holding convention doesn't stop its
progress.
Few people realize that their neigh
bors could be worse.
Many a man who is fancy free dosn't
fancy his freedom.
Woman is more graceful than man is
because she is.
Men enjoy doing anything they don't
have to do for a living.
Wise men miss lot of real pleasure
because they are not foolish.
Men enjoy farming-if they have
enough money to hire it done.
If YOU want a woman to do certain
thing get her to say she won't.
enough to think poetry without writing
it.
The more a woman talks to man the
less he is inclined to sit up and take
notice.
Rather than not get into it at all a
woman Is willing to get the short end Of
an argument.
Any man who is able to dodge unhap-
piness is just about as happy as it is
possible to be.
When a mans business affairs begin
to go wrong his wife thinks 1t is because
he doesn't follow her advice.
1t isn't difficult to size the average
man up. but women are built so Queerly
If Is impossible to get their actual
measure.
years may come and years may go,
hut the time will never arrive when a
man will sit up and patch his wife's
clothes after she is asleep in bed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-03

time is just the thing for America,
even without considering the moral
aspect of the case. We are not in any
great danger of international trouble
with Japan, but We will be more secure
from such trouble If we have a warm
friend in the rising power on the Ash
attic continent. Such a policy as this
makes more secure our footing in the
Philippines, and will increase our
commerce with all Asiatic countries
1t is not foolish sacrifice. 1t is
shrewd diplomacy to see far enough
into the future to make international
trouble less likely, by the use Of
twentieth century diplomacy in secur-
Ing an honorable ally.
Honesty is the best policy for ma
tons as well as for individuals.
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AYHAWKER JCTS

McLouth asserts that two men with
only one arm were there recently. IT
fails to state how this one arm was dl-
vided between them.
Henry Honey suggests that the Re
public county man who was drowned
while watering his stock ought to have
taken a few lessons from the corpora
ton managers.
A Sabetha woman recently found a
four-Ieafed clover growing in the same
flower pot with her palm. She IS ex-
pecting to hear by every mail that she
has inherited great fortune.
This from the Belleville Democrat Is
referred to the nature fakirs for In
vestisation: Last Friday evening about
shutdown Fred Walker saw what he
supposed to be two wolves going
through the pasture and went at once
to the house to get the gun and follow
them He followed them over into Sam
Carey's pasture and got within about
300 yards of them before they saw him.
About this time one of the animals
turned broadside to Fred. They were
not wolves, but animals with heads
like a cat, and long tail Fred didn't
exactly know whether he was hunting
wolves or not but took shot at them
with his rifle and they ran away, one
wire fence, and as they ran through a
field of oats they took great leaps of
Is or 90 feet. 1t is thought they must
have been prairie lynx
Deacon Walker: My friend, you worry
too much about the black sheep in the
flock. You fail to notice the great num-
her of nice white f1eeces on the hillside
because you don't take your eyes off
the black spot in the flock. 1 have be-
Ionged to the best of clubs and we had
black sheep among our numbers there.
I belong to the Oldest and greatest
lodge on earth and we have the black
ones with us there. We have them in
our church, or society, our public Of
fices and everywhere else. There is nc
Mace on earth the black sheep do not
browse. and 1 have just about come
to the conclusion that when we cross
the river and begin to explore the golden
streets and admire the jasper walls, the
Guide will say to US, There is Brother
So-and-So. He doesn't stand very well
| here. Don't believe anything he says
| 7 expect over there to find fellows who
| can't take their harp out of an even
| ing without putting up the price of the
| instrument as security. Why worry
| about the black sheep? He doesn't con-
| troll the world. He doesn't even rule
| things in your little community. He
won't cut any ice over yonde-. The
black sheep we are bound to have with
US, Just the same as the cramp colo
and the measles. All you have to dc
| is to keep your own fleece nice and
white and the black sheep will no
J bother you.
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the men were rolling over and over
on the ground
There were calculations, exclama-
tons, explanations and introductions
Mr.. Blakely hunted for his hat and
missing coat buttons and begged par
don. Molly regarded him with what
she INTENDED to be a colo stare but
which had 'I'1-forgive-youp look
mingled with 1t. The peddler swore
frankly and picturesquely and said
somebody had to pay for his skinned
nose. Aunt Sarah, bless her heart.
was equal to the emergency. She felt
the sting of conscience for havinn-
laid her sacrilegious hands on those
dollar bill was the right sort OF
plaster for a skinned nose. and Mr..
Blakely handed it over. Under other
circumstances. being in the. law, he
would not have given it up until a
Judgment had been rendered bv a
court and a writ of execution issued.
When peace reigned Aunt Sarah
climbed down from the buggy, and
said:
Il must go and see Mrs. Williams,
in that cottage over there. Mr.. Blake
ly, you will have the kindness to drive
Miss Gray back to the house ?"
1t was only a mile back to the farm
house, but owing to the lame horse,
and various other matters, it was
three hours before the buggy drove
up to the gate. Many lovers quar-
rel has been settled in far less time.
Some weeks later, when Aunt Sarah
was asked about the rumored engage
ment, she assumed a knowing and i'm
portant look, and replied:
Yes. l expect it's so, but where
would they have been but for me and
the tin peddler and Providence? 1
shall never let one of these men pass
my gate again without at least calling
to him and asking the price of wash
dishes and nutmeg graters.'-Copy-
right, 1907, by E. C. PARCELS.
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This sort of an apportionment gives
the south undue weight in nominating
the Republican national ticket. AS is
well known, the Republican party in
the south is made up largely OF ne
groes, and the usual rule of apportion-
ment gives the politicians who control
that vote a tremendous leverage in
Republican councils. although the
south never casts an electoral vote for
a Republican president.
How unjust this rule is may be seen
by the following: In 1904 Mississippi
cast only 3,16S Republican votes, while
Kansas cast 210,S93, or nearly 20
times as many. Yet Mississippi will
have just as many delegates in the
Republican national convention as
Kansas.
Texas, which casts less than one
fourth the Republican vote that KAN
sas does, will have almost twice as
much power in naming the Republi-
can presidential nominee next year
that this state will have.
This apportionment may explain
why Foraker has been making the
play he has in the Brownsville cpl
sode. 1t was a deliberate bid for the
colored vote in the south-the vote
that, properly handled. elects the
southern delegations to the Republic
can national conventions. Some time
ago political agents of Senator For
aker were actively at work among the
negroes, organizing the colored vote
for him. If Foraker could have Sc
cured his own state and with most of
these southern delegations in his
grasp, it is quite probable that he
could have landed the presidential
nomination. And even without Ohio
he is still in position to do his friends,
the trusts, considerable good if he gets
control of these southern delegates.
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HU1NOR OF THE DAY

There's hardly anything in the world
excltes woman more than to have
somebody call her up on the telephone
when she is away and not leave word
VINO 1t was.-New York Press.
POST Orderly (to last Joined recruit
whose letters, addressed Mr. JONES'
aave caused the former much trouble in
discovering lSt the right owner)-My lad. ev-
cry man has rank. You must tell your
friends to put private on your let
Jones" Collapse Of post orderly.-Tit-
letters arrived: Strictly private-Mr
Jones" Collapse of post orderly. Tit
The Needy One-I say, old man could
you lend me dollar for a day or two?
The Other One-My dear fellow, the dol
lar lend Is out at present, and I've sew
erai names down for. it when it comes
oack.-HarDer's Weekly.
They say soothing music will make
Y don't believe II. My wife always sings
IuIlabiss while baking biscuits. ''-Cieye-
land Plain Dealer.
The rich ride to the hounds" unused
"WeH?'
''The rest of us have to go to the dogs
on the hoof. Washington Herald
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oUAKER REFLECTIONS
rFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
uncant axnression="EO rent"

From the Philadelphia Isecord.1
vacant expression-"For rent"
IT naturally makes a fellow hot to
keen him covered with a gun.
The worm will turn. OF course it will
Sometimes it turns into butterfly.
MANY a fellow doesn't mind his own
business because he has no business and
has no mind.
A woman doesn't like to send a tele-
gram because there is no way of adding
a postscript
Wigg-"The Bjoneses have had three
sets of twins. Isn't it Singular" Wagg
mo: 1 should say it was plural"
When a woman announces that she
has nothing further to say she generally
manages to say it at great length.
Friday can't be so very unlucky, af-
TOR all" says the Cynical Bachelor. "At
anv rate. no one thinks of getting mar
ried on that day."
Nell-.I shall marry an orphan" Belle
-"Whv an orphan?" Nell-"He won't
he SO apt to brag about his mothers
cooking"
DIR. Bigfee-"I think shall prescribe
trip to Europe for you" Mr.. Easy
thing-''Oh! but. Doctor. can't afford
that and the luxury of paying your bill,
too" Dr. Bigfee-"Oh! we'll, maybe
Atlantic City would do you just as much
good
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

LFrom the Atchison Globe.l
death. 0'
Occasionally an indulgent father
isn't to anyone but himself
woman's idea of economy is saving
money to buy a diamond - ~
Some women are cheerful in order
that you may see their pearly teeth.
The pessimist will tell you the child
is the natural optimist, because it
doesn't know any better.
If loafer won't work when you
want him. he should at least refrain
from saying he is too busy.
If you have a good friend, appre-
ciate him. Don't drive him off by i'm
pudently imposing on him.
The average man can express his
sympathy for another's sorrow about
as effectively as he can trim a hat
The man who boasts he has the
courage to say what he thinks, always
has such disagreeable thoughts.
Make your home comfortable. You
won't occupy it long, and when you
leave it you will be long time away
A girl is as sure to try to make q
man believe she is timid as a man Is
to try to impress her with his courage.
Investigate any Reformer, and you
will find that his efforts for the Com
mon Good are not running him in
debt.
1t is said of an Atchison crazy wo-
man: 'She isn't dangerous but great
Caesar, what a tremendous augur she
uses!"
There are as many jays in a big
town as In small town. They are
jays in a different way; that's the only
difference.
1t is said Luther Burbank has near
Iy perfected an odorless onion. How
ever. what the world wants is an odor-
less breath.
Da~bo1S +bosa voap iool,5a5 4. .ho
American Racing Pigeon association
are those who have amassed a COM
potency raising squads.
The girl who is most successful at
keeping a great number of men i'm
terested," is the one most likely to let
them all get away.
The boy who takes proper care OF
| his dog is the one who keeps the dog
| so busy in the daytime it will be toof
| tired to bark at night.
There is very little difference in the
| last breakfast a man has before ne is
| hanged, and the first breakfast man
| has after he is married.
OF course it is sensible to recognize
| the danger of toy pistols, cannon
crackers and torpedoes. but you are
getting old when the noise bothers
you.
with naturally curly hair, and she Will
| tell of how she cried when her sons
curls were cut off the first time.
| A brakeman was complaining today
| because of the great speed maintained
| by an automo Dilist on Kansas avenue.
| "de ran" the brakeman said, like
| country dog chased by two town
| dogs"
A man can't show his sympathy for
| q woman in trouble. because custom
| does not permit him to put his arms
| around her, and pat her softly on the
| back: at least that is what women DO
| Who are described as $50 sympathetic"
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New York American,
Where Things Are Different.

Tn Harner's for July Robert Shack
Teton writes of the many curious ro-
mances of old-time customes anu
unique conditions in Guernsey one VI
the Channel islands.
at found that in everything Guern-
esv is the place that is different; the
weekly half-holiday is on Thursday'
the gallon is five per cent Smaller imam
the English; to reduce English pounos
Of weight to Guernsey pounds one
Ious+ Inultinly by twenty nine and d.
vide by thirty-two; and one Is given
thirteen Guernsey pennies for every
English shilling.
rs it tax-paying day or quarter
day? Behold a long line OF islano rue. =
with wagons. and other islanders with
naniers. for great part OF rents ana
taxes are payable in wheat and corn,
in butter and eggs, and chickens ana
cells: and contracts calling LOT chlck-
ems are likely to specify the minimum
length of queue
ssDoes a man wish to sell or devise
his real estate? He is not a free
agent. The eldest son has the rignt
indefeasible to the house ana 70 par
of the land and the other cnlloren
have the right to the remainder. II
there are no children. and the man
makes a deed of sale, it must be pup
liclv announced, and anyone OF KIN as
near as the seventh degree may STOP
the transa ction and purchase the iano
| himself. One easily understands WY
land remains IN the Saline AoiiiiiAe' 10
generations.
ga man dies leaving personal prop
erty. 1t is divided into as many
| shares. plus one, as there are children
the eldest son selects two shares, and
tbe other children select one each In
| order of age-the original division, TO
| insure fairness, having been made by
| the Youngest, who, perforce, takes the
share that is finally left!
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Diary of a Worm.


May Got ten tomato plants and
couple of squash vines. Would have
robbed the nest of an egg plant, but 1t
will not lay until November.
May 2-Frost put the garden out OF
business, so had a day off.
May 3-Theyre planting more. I've
cached away enough seed to plant a
forty-acre lot, and am waiting for them
to plant more.
May 4-They set out a lot of orna-
mental shrubs and I've wired for my
friend Quit to come and get them.
May 5-The potato bugs are here on
the job, ready to go to work, but MOTH
ing doing yet.
May 6-Got off working today. Bit
into pepper plant and spent the rest
of the day drinking cold water.
May THE vegetable oysters are out.
If they'd planted them in April l might
have Toasted, but now I'll have TO wait
till September.
May s-Worked all day trying to put a
plant out of business and found 1t was
a gas-pipe support for pea vines
May 9-Spent the day at the dentist 5
getting my teeth sharpened.
May 1O-Ate a pound of paris green
and topped it off with air-slaked lime
never felt better in my life.
Nav 11-Got into a dispute with an
angle worm about the way to hatch egg
plants. Couldn't convince him. Never
saw such an obtuse angle worm IN my
life.
May 12-New bug in the ground. Don't
like his looks.
Rohe He's a detective and here to make
trouble for us. a..,
May 14-Mike Robe hit me in the NTH
rib.
May 15-Sick.
May 16-Sicker
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THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Under the rule of apportionment
that usually obtains in calling Repub-
Iican national conventions, that body
next year will contain about $50 dele
gates. Each state is given two dele
gates for each member of congress and
United States senator. The regular
territories may be allowed represen-
tation as though they each had one
congressman and two United States
senators. with two delegates for each
of the insular possessions and the Dis
trict of Columbia. This would make
the acknowledgements as follows:
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
- any address at the rate OF ten cents
n week or thirty cents Il month (hy
mail onIy). Address changed as often
rs desired. Willie out of town the
State Journal will be to You Ike n
daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expense.
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It makes q great deal OF difference

It makes a great deal of difference
whether the man who writes animal
stories is writing them for living, or
as a pastime. If he is writing for the
FIRST reason he is liable to write what
the public demands as salable goods.
If he is writing for the second reason,
he is not so apt to be particular about
public sentiment as he is facts. The
difference referred to is the difference
between the popular story and the
classic.
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AFTER DUE CONSIDERATION

You may not believe me when I state
What I'm about to say.
Ny foolshness you may berate,
But hear me out. I pray.
The winds may well against me rise,
The very clouds conspire
And send a blizzard from the skies
To brand me as a liar.
But I will risk blasted name,
A future dull and drear.
And SO herewith make the claim
That gentle spring is here.
Louisville Courier-Jour
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There were only 2O.6S5 sales of
Iiouor made by Topeka drug stores
during June as against 21,323 in May.
The temperance people should not ac-
cept this as an indication that the drug
store consumption is falling off, how
ever. June had one day less than May.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.1

CFrom the New York Press.1
When a girl has green eyes it's sign
she believes they are baby blue.
The only flaw In woman's pleasure
in a good cry is it makes her nose red.
Rocking chairs are convenient things
to teach you to swear by barking your
shins on them in the dark.
They are stays when there is ar eS-
ira charge of seven dollars on them for
hand embroidery or something.
Next to pluming himself on his an
cestry a man can best amount to moth
ing by being careful his clothes are the
height Of fashion.
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near by. 1t is not surprising that
judge of this stripe should be friendly
to such men as Reuf and Schmitz and
the corporation magnates who bought
them. Birds of a feather graft to-
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WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.

Twain to run about the streets of Lon
don. barefooted and clad only in a
bath-robe. But if a man who was not
a humorist would attempt such
"ioke" the London Boobies would run
him in and he would pay the costs the
nayt Observation-Disclosures World.
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1t is peculiar how few drug stores
attract such a large percentage of
those persons whose ailments and af-
fictions demands some sort of liquor
az a remedy -. --l.L.
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speciaIty-

Notwithstanding the efforts of the
crop-killers, a good many Kansas
farmers Will celebrate the Fourth of
July in the wheat fields, filling the at
nosphere with the music of the header
and the binder. as usual.
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A RAD BUSINESS.

At Joplin in the United States court
a man was fined $50 for firing a pistol
shot into a rural mail box, and ne got
off easy at that figure. The govern
r1ent doesn't stand for ones desire to
use mail boxes for targets, and the
nudge in imposing the fine told the
man that he could have been sent 70
DOESN'T nav to fool with your Uncle
Samuel's mail in any manner. shape
OF form-Miami Republican.
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The heir to the Japanese throne
was in British Columbia the other day
and refused to step across into the
United States. He probably knew of
our japanese exclusion law and did
not wish to be caught violating it.
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Probably the east is unable to I'M
derstand how the Kansas wheat crop
was destroyed as reported on the
boards of trade a few weeks ago yet
still needs several thousand outside
harvest hands to help save it.