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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Wichita boasts that George w. Per-
kins. of insurance fame, got his start in
that town. For the sake of the rest of
the state will Wichita phase conceal
such unpleasant facts instead of pub
Iishing them to the world?
y " ,
Bill Doolittle started in this morning
with twenty New Years resolutions.
AT three o'clock this afternoon Bill is
ssed a bulletin stating that four of them
were still intact and he expected to get
through the entire day without break
ing at least one That one Is this: Re
solved that I will go to church on Sun
day.
y -
Speaking of the mixture of races, it
is the Irish potato which that California
Jap has cornered.
No, Gertrude. Santa Claus and Santa
Fe are not relatives.
u
For Sale:-One expird railroad pass.
VIII be valuable as a souvenir. Ad-
dress, N. E. Politician, Copeland Coun-
ty.
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LOOKING FORWARD.

If this youngster that arrived on
this mundane sphere at 1901 o'clock
this morning and was duly christened
Nineteen Hundred and Seven, is as
kind to the world in general as his
predecessor. no objection will be regis
tered when he goes hence. AS soon as
he learns to read we trust he will take
note of the kind words that were given
the old year yesterday as it passed into
history, and that he will try to be
worthy of the same 3s4 days hence.
To thoughtful individuals there is
something solemn in the passing of
one year and the commencement of
another. 1t means one more year
gone in the Journey from the cradle to
the grave, from Time to Eternity.
With the birth of the new year comes
the eternal question, What of the
future?" How will 1907 deal with US
and ours? What does the march Of its
seasons hold in store for us?
AS a nation the outlook is bright.
In temporal things we were never
more prosperous, and there seems lit
tie reason why prosperity should not
continue. We are gaining in knowl-
edge of how to do things; questions
hitherto unanswered are being solved;
new attachments in science and inven-
ton are constantly being reached, and
man is continually eonquering new
worlds.
While the rush for wealth continues
undated, men are beginning to take
a saner view of riches than they have
hitherto. The people as a whole do
not now bow down and worship the
golden calf to the extent they have
been doing. The multitude does not
look upon money success as the only
success worth attaining, and the cap
tains of industry as the only leaders
worth following. We are learning
that there are things higher than mere
money and the American people are
becoming more imbued with the idea
of a square deal for every man, as adj
vocated by Theodore Roosevelt.
So 1907 is bright with promise for
the future. 1t may be a blessing that
we do not now know what it will bring
to US, but whether 1t shall be joy or
sorrow, disaster or success, is in a
great measure. in our own keeping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
THANKFTJT,NEss


Who dweils upon these prairies. biest il
Here Plenty opens wide her FURNISHED
And ali things good. her joy, her luxury.
She freely offers from her boarded store.
Yea. who dwells here has room for thank
No petty bounds obstruct his hungry
On every side, the landscape, Hnitless.
Mocks well the boundless acres of the
sky.
Yes, here, are usefulness and beauty
Here heaven and earth are met in Ma
And joy and love and thankfulness, en-
Kneel round the altar of an honest toll.
Here has God placed the children of his
That they may see how gracious is his
That, they may learn, in this. His favored.
How deep His love. how liInitless His
sway.
Here has He taught the optinist's broad
That leads cen 'yond the circle that
OF thankfulness for all this luxury.
And now we come with gratitude and
Our harvests garnered and our hearths
aglOw-
we come in memory Of the golden year.
To us these blessings. measureiess and
The while we bow in humble guise to
heaven
We list our hearts in thankfulnsss to
Kindred, N. Oak
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POINTED PARAGkAPas-
tFrom the Chicago News.I


About all for the present-thanks.
Many a man walks and runs a risk at
the same time.
How many handkerchiefs did you pluck
from the Christmas tree?
man never goes around looking for
trouble in the guise of creditor.
Oh, by the way. have you reserved a
seat on the new water wagon?
Telegraph operators do business a
sound basis even If it is on tick.
Even If a woman hasn't anything to
talk about she keeps right on talking.
A girl never really enjoys being in love
unless she Is jealous of some other girl.
The man with lot of initials attached
to his name isn't always a capital sue
cess.
1t Is generally wise, when man at
tempts to jolly you. to keep your hand on
your pocket book.
The best way to preserve fruit is to sur
round the orchard with high barbed-
wire fence.
The under dog gets a lot of sympathy
but the upper canine collars most of the
gate receipts.
While money may not make a man
little greatness he has.
But few people are able to appreciate
the fact that their troubles and misfor-
tunes do not all come in a bunch.
A young man who will ask a girls per-
mission to kiss her is too slow to get out
OF the way of funeral procession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Some years ago the bones of a big
buffalo were dug out of the ground
in Logan county. A university profess
sor has put them together and asserts
that the buffalo lived 10000 years
ago. An arrow head was found i'm
bedded in the bones, so that there is a
possibility of mistake in the date
An archaeologist once discovered some
remarkable prehistoric relics
around the pyramids that were finally
traced as far back as Napoleon's
soldiers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

1t has been charged that the rail-
roads abolished the exchange of trans
portation for advertising in order to
make the newspapers dissatisfied with
the Hepburn bill. But If there was
any such purpose it has miscarried.
The newspapers that amount to any
thing and that have the confidence of
the public are only too glad to get
cash instead of railroad tickets for
their space
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

HE and she are both very wealthy, so
mate of says s9s e. maFm ne 3Sa
sort that only light on the money box"
Philadelphia Press.
IT can't understand what there is SO at
tractive about Emily. She hasn't any ac-
little and smile great deal That's
enough, isn't it?'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Jack-And after we are married, darling.
the love lights will still linRer in your
yes. Eva-Yes. but the love lights won't
stop the gas bill from coming every
month, my dear.-Chicago News.
"Popr' Yes, my son." you've been
well, pop, it must sound funny to hear a
horse neigh in Observation-Disclosures States
man.
Mr.. Misfit (savagely)-Before married
on you? Mrs Misit-There was one. Mr..
Misfit-I wish to goodness you'd married
himl Mrs. Misfit-I did.-Chicago Jour-
so you exchanged your real coin for
ingiy. Zoo bad" .soh, dunno moi that I
dsserv e, much n, & symPathIy;" responded IN
the money takin' summer boarders."-
Pittsburg Post.
Fuiflled-wilkie Collins had. just fin
ished The Woman in White She'll
be very common some summer, declared
wonderful charlottesville Courier-Jour-
nal.
DE trouble wifi some mighty smart peo-
ple," said Uncle Eben. lis dat dey hates
to git along by tellin' de simple truth,
cause it seems to Observation-Disclosures
Star. 80, u.
The Acme.-Knicker-Do you hate the
end-seat hog on the street car? Politician
Yes, but the end-seat hog on the band
wagon is worse.-New York Sun.
Let me see,'' said the man who at
fected a knowledge of literature, wasn't
it Shakespeare who said, THE evil that
men do lives after them, the good is oft
inferred with their bones?"
It don't know" replied the weary look
ing man, but I'll bet the man who wrote
that never married to a widow
Chicago Tribune.
ITO him that hath" said the man who
loves to quote, shall be given"
Yes" said the practical philosopher,
land to him that hath not shall be given
a swift kick. '-Puck-
What's the trouble between you and
She asked me to tell her just what
thought OF her.
'Wen?"
wen. I did what she wanted me to-
Cleveland Leader.
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when mother had agreed to something
father did not wish us to do, she would
say to him:
must keep my promise to the girls.
You should have said sooner that you
didn't want them to go; when poor
father hadn't had a chance to refuse US,
and We all knew he hadn't. One of the
things he has always been most pune
tilious about is keeping promises, so
when mother said, L promised the girls,
she knew she had him"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.1

From the New York Press.1
A woman thinks another Is ugly unless
she says so.
You can always tell a man of good
deeds by the way he tells you.
There is hardly any way you can COM
pliment girl more than by being Jealous
about her.
If they passed the collection plate at a
vaudeville show. all the men would want
to stay home and smoke an old pipe.
where they really were when they tell
their wives they were working late at the
office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Colonel Harris declines the honor of
being the Democratic nominee for
United States senator on the ground
that the honors should be passed
around. Colonel Harris self-sacrifice
would be more loudly applauded If
there were any chance for a Demo-
Gratis election
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

The Boston & Maine railroad, it is
stated. has not cut off any but inter-
state passes. The Boston & Maine is
somewhat remote to secure the pat
ronage of the Kansas politician, how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

The sudden death of Ellis Garten,
editor of the Cimarron Jacksonian
removes one of the brightest of the
rountry editors of Kanass. Published
away out in the short grass country.
his paper never failed to reflect the
working of brilliant mind. Nor was
As afraid to do things. AS the mayor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

A story was printed in the Chicago
papers the other day alleging that a
murderer in Jail there had been left
$4,000 by a rich Kansas aunt. The
fact that the aunt was a myth leads
to the suspicion that the culprit was
trying to inspire the lawyers to recog-
nize his innocence and make a fight
for his acQuittal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

of Cimarron a few weeks ago he
"confiscated" two carloads of coal
which had been sidetracked in the
town. and sold 1t out to people who
were suffering for lack of fuel.
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FROM OTHER PENS
STRAYED.

STRAYED.
| woman's place may be in the home
| but she has strayed out of 1T into al
but eight of the 305 gainful occupa'
| lions enumerated by the United State:
census. We wonder why!-New Bed
| ford Standard.
1T WILL GET IT.
What San Francisco appears to neet
now is a political earthquake, one o.
large energy and robust size.-Phila-
| delphia Press.
COAL.
long ton of coal consists of about
/. 500 pounds of slate and slack which
# taxes two weeks to get delivered and
ten days to burn.-Butte Inter Noun
tain.
NOT HIS FORTE.
Upton Sinclair, author of THE Jun
gle" is to go on the stage. 1t remains
to be seen whether he'll make good in
packing houses.-Chicago Post.
OF COURSE.
The San Francisco school question is
mere teapot-too small for an inter-
national tempest to start in.-Los An
geles Express.
IT'S THEIR NATURE.
why" asks the Baltimore Sun
Should grafters seek Officer Why
should ducks enter the water?-Chicago
Record Herald.
NOT A MATERNAL TRAIT.
1t is nearly always safe to assume
that a school boy who plays hockey
didn't inherit the game from his moth
er.-Toledo Blade.
A BILLION COUNTRY
Is this a billion dollar county? Well
the interstate commerce commission
reports that the railroads alone did a
business Of nearly two and a half bill
lions last Observation-Disclosures Inquirer,
BRYAN
Colonel Bryan is still the subject OF
an occasional resolution and 81 new
subscription to the Commensurate
more Sun.
THE STENOGRAPHER.
Speaker Cannon seems to have solved
the spelling reform question. II die
tate to a stenograp her," he Gays New
York Tribune.
CONTROL THEIR TEMPERS.
Senator Tillman's belief that white
men must control evidently does rot
extend to their tempers.-Philadelp nia
North American.
KAHN.
Dispatches refer to him as Congress
man Kahn of California If st's all
the same to you, Mr.. Dispatcher, make
it read Congressman Kahn OF saz
Francisco.-New York Express.
WEALTH OF FAME.
There comes mement of indecisior
in the life of many a man: when he
doesn't know whether to write life in
surance or American litera ture.- At
lanta Constitution.
VERSATILE
There is one thing sure. If a mar
stays long enough in the cabinet the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

was Nicholas Raglan, for thirteen
years secretary of Baron Won Schlip-
penbach, Russian consul in Chicago,
O. man or a woman" inquiries a Chi
cago dispatch. The question can I'M
doubtedly be answered in the affirma-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Taft talks about the presidential
Examination a good deal like w. r.
Stubs used to talk about the senator
Hhip-and you know what Stubs
SnalIy did
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

New York is to have a fifty-story
building. What New York really
needs is more room to spread out side
wise instead Of putting on so many
fop-boxes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

The interstate antipass law is tough
on Rhode Island politicians. If they
get on a train and get off at the next
station 1t constitutes interstate COM
merce, and an intrastate pass does no
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

It Is to be hoped that the San Fran
cisco and Japanese jingoes also laid in
generous supply of peace on earth
during the late Christmas season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

notwithstanding the new law that
requires the label on the bottle to tell
exactly what Is inside, it is quite likely
that e large amount of beer Will con-
tlnue to masquerade as hop tea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

The prosecuting attorney who Sc
cured Caruso's conviction has been
compelled to resign, owing to "a storm
of public criticism" The criticism,
however, was all in New York. The
rest of the country app1auded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
WHERE HIS TAXES GO.

A Downs man who is comparatively
poor but who spends in the neishbor-
hood of $125 per year for whisky, 800
for cigars and $500 for chewing to-
baceo. in realityl- pays more taxes
than seventy-five xper cent of the men
living in this town. What taxes he
pays, he believes should go direct to
the government-Downse Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

The defeat of T. A. Cordry for sec
rotary of the railroad board means
that the Parsons Sun will continue to
have mighty bright editor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

The japanese are certainly learning
American ways. One of them has
cornered the potato market in Cali
forufa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
1T CAN'T BE DONE.

If the president wants to win another
Peace Prize, he ought to arrange
treaty or protocol or something between
warning factions srof the Republican
party in Kansas-Holton Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Mayor Schmitz is a member of the
musicians union in San Francisco, but
now he is compelled to face the music
instead of make 1t.
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The representative from Greenwoo,
county appears to recognize thing O
two, also.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

And may it be a happy Nineteen
Hundred and Seven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Very likely King Leopold is also
nown on the muck-rakers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
KANSAS cOMMEUT
THE PEopLEs LOBBY.

The Gazette's old army comrade.
Henry Justin Allen, takes a mild gen.
tie dog-fall out of the proposition for
a peoples lobby. Two short but rather
eventful years ago a short almost fat
young gentleman with merry twin
kle in his eyes, a glad smile and a
minority report from the committee on
hair was tromping the legislative hall
of Topeka conducting a fuIl-hedged
peoples lobby in opposition to the
Doard of control. bill then pending be-
fore the legislature. 1t is only on the
admission that the young gentleman
whose name is withheld on account OF
the respectability of his family was
wrong then, that Henry Justin Allen
may consistently claim to b right now
And Henry has been buying groceries.
paying for clothing, and making love
to that mans wife, and If the young
man was engaged in so undesirable
business as conducting a peoples lobby,
1t is time for good man like Henry
to quit him !-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
VERSATILE.

There Is one thing sure. If a man
stays long enough in the cabinet the
president will give him enough different
things to do to make him an all-around
public servant.-Coiumbus Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
OF COURsE.

Had the railroads not been so quick
to acknowledge that there is a car
shortage there would have been. sew
eral Kansas newspapers asserting that
no shortage exists. 1t would have been
characterized as the cry of the dema-
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Jack-And after we are married, darling,
the love lights will still linger in your
yes. Eva-Yes, but the love lights won t
stop the gas bill from coming every
month, my dear.-Chicago News.
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Another Choafe Story.

1t is related Of Joseph Choate, that
when he was a very young man, just
starting out to practice law, he was
once retained by a shopkeeper to de-
fend him in a suit for damages
brought by an employe. Unfortunate
ly for Mr.. Choate, his client lost his
head completely under cross examina-
ton, furnishing evidence so favorable
to the prosecution as to result in
five thousand dollar verdict.
The merchant was, nevertheless,
highly indignant with his lawyer for
having lost the case. and when they
encountered each other at the court
room door, he clustered:
eff had a son born an idiot I'd
make him a lawyer"
Your father seems to have been of
another opinion replied young
Choate. coolly.-Harper's weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

II can't understand what there is so att
tractive about Emily. She hasn't any ac-
complishments. All she does is to talk a
little and smile a great deal" That's
enough, isn't it?''-Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
HUMOR OF THE DAY

HE and she are both very wealthy, SO
everybody says it's a bright matrimonial
match, OF course" "Ah! Yes. one of the
sort that only light on the money box"
philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

"Popt' Yes, my son." You've beer
in Russia, haven't your" Yes, my son.
well. pop, 1t must sound funny to hear
horse neigh in Russian!'-Yonkers States
man.
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BETTER.

The government ought to hang to
all the coal lands 1t has and work
them in the interest of the people. 1t
is better for the government to work
the coal lands than to let the coal
barons work the government.-Jewel
Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Fuihlled-Wilkie Collins had just fin
ished THE Woman in White" She'll
be very common some summer" declared
he. Verify the power of prophecy is a
wonderful thing.-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

DE trouble wifi some mighty smart PEG
pie" said Uncle Eben. lis dat dey hatei
to git along by tellin' de simple truth
cause it seems to easy.
Str. - u - IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Mr.. Misfit (savagely)-Before married
you, was there any doddering idiot gone
on you? Mrs. Misft-There was one. Mr.
Misf1t-I wish to goodness you'd married
him! Mrs. Misht-I did.-Chicago Jour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

so you exchanged your real coin for
a gold brick, eh?'' said the city man. pity
ingly. Too bad" oh. dunno that
deserve much sympathy" responded IN
Gle Goshall Il ~mlock. Fact is. had made
the money takin' summer boarders."-
Pittsburg Post.
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A COLD DAY.

We have a few subscribers who put
US in mind of Tom Jones whom the
Swede collector said had promised to
pay his account in January. AS the
story was told. the Swede returned
from an unsuccessful trip and told the
boss that "Yim johnson say he will
pay when him sell his hogs. Vim
Smit he will pay when he sell him
wheat, and Tom zones say he will pay
in january" We'll, said the boss.
that is the first time Tom ever set a
time to pay. Did he really say he
would pay in january" well aye
tank So" said the Swede. HE say it
been a colt day when you got dat
money. 1 tank dat been in january"
Hope Dispatch.
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Nor HIS FORTE.

Upton Sinclair, author of The Jun
GLE" is to go on the stage. 1t remains
to be seen whether he'll make good in
packing houses.-Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

There comes moment of indecisior
in the life of many a man: when he
doesn't know whether to write life in
surance or American litera turc.- At
lanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01
CONSISTENCY.


The Kansas City Journal, which is
largely owned, and wholly controlled
by railroad interests. never misses an
opportunity to slur and denounce
President Roosevelt, and is just as
Jealous in supporting and defending
Mr.. Curtis. This fact, however, does
not embarrass the Capital a particle in
its labored effort to show that our con-
gresham is an ardent supporter of
Roosevelt and lies awake long sleep
less nights studying how to most eff
fectively circumvent the railroads.
HOlton Recorder
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The Acme.-Knicker-Do you hate the
end-seat hog on the street car? Politician
Yes, but the end-seat hog on the band
wagon is worse.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

A long ton of coal consists of about
1900 pounds of slate and slack which
it takes two weeks to get delivered and
ten days to burn.-Butte Inter Noun
tain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-01

Dispatches refer to him as Congress
man Kahn of California If It's all
the same to you, Mr.. Dispatcher, make
it read Congressman Kahn OF Sar
Francisco.-New York Express.