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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
CLEWs ON ROOSEVELT

Although numerous Wall Street in
f1uences are naturally decrying Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Henry Clews, the bank
er whose weekly financial reviews are
everywhere recognized as good author
ity, continues to stand up for the presi-
dent.
Il am not" says Mr.. C1ews, zone of
those who look for disturbing state
ments from President Roosevelt. The
reforms for which he stands are in all
respects beneficial to the railroads and
to the investors in such securities. Mr.
Roosevelt, as before stated in these ad-
vices, is not so radical as has been rep
resented. His insistence upon the Square
DEAF is beneficial to all, and is doing
more towards reforming abuses, which
were a political menace, than any other
single force at work in the country
The stock market need have little real
fear hereafter of President Roosevelt
and the political situation has unques-
tionably been considerably clarified by
the discussions and movements which
he has invoked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

CF,rom the Chicago News.l
"A girl sees nothing wrong in kissing
the right man.
AS long as a man lives he is a dead
loss to the undertaken.
With the amateur piano hummer ~
seems to be all work and no play
Men who whistle at their work seldom
work any better than they whistle.
Some mems preaching is as bad as
the piano practice of some women.
AS knocker opportunity cannot COM
pete with the strenuous end of a mule
No, Alonzo, a pianist isn't necessarily
an idiot because he plays with his
fingers.
Vanity of woman looks like a plugged
nickel when compared with the conceit
of man.
The man who really knows lot about
women is usually willing to admit that
he knows nothing.
No poor man has any business to
marry woman who has a mania for
making nothing out of something.
Even when a friend urgently requests
you to point out his faults don't do 1t if
you value his friendship.
Every man ought to mary a woman
who is good manager, because few
men are any good unless they are prom
erly managed.
When a mans first baby arrives he
wants to treat all his friends: when
the seventh comes along he expects all
his friends to treat him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
AYK1 WKER JOT.S

Congressman Phil Campbell has gone
to Hawaii for his summer trip.
Home grown spring chickens bring
forty cents each in junction City.
A Belleville man received a letter
from reformed speller in which rec
ord'' was spelled "wreckered."
Gerald Volk, who recently sold the
Wichita Star, is thinking of starting a
morning paper at Hutchinson.
Hiawatha claims a Durham COW that
furnishes milk for six families besides
making twelve pounds of butter a week
Down at Scammon, in Crawford coun-
ty. the lid was screwed down for TWEEN
ty-four hours last week, but the screws
wouldn't hold.
One of Ed Howe's boys, who is now
working on the Washington Herald, will
make trip to London and Paris dur
ing the coming summer.
Brown County World: A farmer who
has studied birds saysstf1at there are 127
varieties hereabouts and every one does
more good than harm, including the
crow. To kill a bird is worse than to
burn corn or wheat.
Over at Atchson a farmer ate three
steaks, ordered mashed potatoes five
times and drank four cups of coffee, be-
sides taking all the trimmings coming
to him. Then he felt like going out and
doing half a days work
Since the fruit is all destroyed num-
Der of Erie women. who haven't been
outside the state in years, are figuring
on visiting some of their distant rela-
tives this summer. They figure that
there will be absolutely nothing to do at
home.
Belleville Freeman: Belleville's pop
ular drayman says that Solomon
couldn't tell the course of the bird in
the air, the path of the serpent upon
the rock, or the way of the man with
the maid; but none of these bother him
like the fact that the best woman in
town, highly educated. refined and kind
and sweet, can walk down the street and
apparently not a soul will see her. But
Just let the new girl with the foxy hat,
the high-heeled shoes, the fluffy hair,
the rosy paint and the gaudy dress step
onto the sidewalk on a crowded street
and every door from the Hotel Republic
to Riddlebarger's grocery will be full
of heads looking her way. What both
ers him is, how do they know she is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

''have been writing highly fattering
articles suggesting that the editor of
the Gazette be candidate for the
Republican gubernatoria1 nomination
next year. To those who SO kindly as
sisted us in our trouble, as the cards
OF thanks say, we desire to extend our
sincere thanks. But In order to make
the matter entirely clear SO that there
may be no mistaking the Gazette's
meaning, it desires to say that the am
bltion of its editor, (and he is frankly
an1bitious), is not political. He de-
sires no political office; either elective
or appointive. Moreover, the Gazette
Is violating no confidence when It says
that he will not under any circum-
stances be a candidate for the Repub-
Hcan nomination as governor next
year; nor would he accept the nomi-
nation If 1T were rendered to him I'M
animously by the united party, and
still further, If he was elected he would
not serve. There are other matters in
his life to him infinitely more import
ant than being governor, and while he
appreciates to the full the kindly spirit
In which the newspapers have treated
the suggestion of his name in connec-
ton with the high and important Of
fee, he would not think for a moment
or taking the matter seriously"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
THE RAIN AND THE WHEAT.


Once more a paean of praise arises
from the plains and prairies of Kan
eas. The wheat crop is saved
There can be no doubt that a de-
cided danger threatened the growing
wheat Of Kansas I'VE days ago-dan-
ger, not from the green bug, but from
lack of moisture. This danger is
practically perennial. 1t threatens
nearly every year. Nearly every
spring there comes a time of worry
for fear the rains will not come just
right 1t is not at all unusual that
spell of dry weather happens, usually
later in the year than this. the wheat
begins to turn yellow, and the farmer
begins to worry for fear one of his
greatest sources of income-the
greatest source in probably twenty
countfes-wf1l be cut off. But in due
time the heavens open and the
beneficent moisture comes down,
bringing joy to the farmer and pros
perfty to the state at large.
Only last year such a condition ex-
listed. Right up to the day of har-
vest the pessin1ists saw great damage
to the wheat crop. Men who were
supposed to have fairly accurate
knowledge of conditions said the crop
would be somewhere around IS mil
lion bushels. But when the farmers
got into their fields with the har-
vesters, and when the golden grain
began to run through the threshers'
the farmers themselves were sur
prised at the yield. 1t aggregated
over 81 million bushels, the second
greatest crop ever produced in Kan
sas.
This year we have had the same |
sort of a scare. A month ago Kansas
had the finest wheat prospect IN It's
history for that time of year. 1t
looked as though the yield would go |
over the hundred million bushel |
mark Then came the green bug |
really did not amount to
the dry weather. which |
was more serious. In some sections
the fields have been turning yellow,
and there is no doubt that the condi-
ton has deteriorated a little. 1t could
scarcely be expected to remain at SS
right up to the harvest
But yesterdays rain will doubtless
prove of tremendous benefit. The
Yellow spots will turn green again, the
stalks will shoot up, and the prospect
will brighten considerably over what
t was a week ago.
1t is never wise to count a crop as
sure until 1t is in the bins but with
moisture at needed seasons from now
IN Kansas still has a prospect for a
breaking wheat crop. In six
IT eight weeks the harvest will be
Upon us; the farmers will be desperate
because of the harvest hand short
.ge; the threshers will begin to hum,
nd the railroads will be swamped
With business worse than ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record
A shoe that is united is naturally
untidy. say
The dentist is apt to pile on the agony
Born to blush unseen-the basbful
colored girl.
speak-easies should be supplied with
dumb walters.
A man can be beat without being a
vegetarian.
A fellow isn't a person of high estate
just because he has castles In the air.
Our teeth may chatter, but a lot of
us don't do our chattering with o1,r
teeth. VII
When fellow has any susnicions
about coin being counterfeit he bites
the dust.
A little change In the weather isn't
so much to be desired as a little change
In the pocket.
Mrs. Buggins-"What do ministers
marry runaway couples for?'' Mr.. Bug
gins-"For two dollars per-"
Blobbs-"They say his business 1s
rather shady" SIobbs-''What is n 90
Blobbs-He' an awning Maker
Wigg-"Young Dashaway's father L.
some high dignitary of the church. A
canon, think" Wagg-'T always
thought young Dashaway was a son Of
a gun
How old would you say amp. ash
ed the foolish maiden. "I haven't fha
idea," replied the dinIonosts',
young man, but can safely saw that
you don't look IT."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Giobe.]
Everything sounds like an encore to
some men.
You can't make anything else out of
a last years straw hat. &.
1t doesn't do much good to try grow
ing thin IL you aren't built that way.
A boy never cares much for the
books his teacher advises him to read.
A husband usually stays at home too
much. or not enough, to give satisfac-
ton.
A woman's idea of a good husband
is one who praises her for being econ
omical when she isn't
The cutfiower and bonbon market
could be cornered without pinching
very many married men.
Getting an invitation frequently both
ers a man as much as not receiving
one worries a woman.
The good old times were all right
for the flies; screen doors and fly pa
per are modern contrivances.
We all do mean little things think
ing people will not catch us at them,
but we are always caught.
There are lots of answers to the
question. Whats the use?" but the
man who asks it never wants one.
"Lunchettes" are the latest fad in
New York city. wouldn't that make
a hungry man swear? Lunchettes!
When dancing begins to look like
hard work to you, it is another sign
you are looking over your shoulder at
youth.
While not a member sworn in to
commit crime, every boy, juding from
appearance, is 4 member of a Black
Hand society.
As soon as a man becomes a widow
er, a committee of women is formed
to see that he does not marry the
woman he finally marries.
How a man admires the five cent
OH fz h.
made that is fit TO smoke" we heard
a man say today, referring to his
brand.
When the hostess goes into the kitch-
en-, and returns with a little dab of
ice cream and some angel cake, she |
pleases the women who are present a |
great deal better than she pleases the |
men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Pretty soon now they will call it the
Unknown exposition.
90
The rain is a splendid thing for the
state, even where it showed This may
sound Irish, but it isn't
~ "
Bill Doolittle joins in the general
thanksgiving over the breaking of the
drouth in the wheat belt, but he is
just little sad because lower Kansas
avenue is as arid as ever.
M
1t looks as though the robin might
have good case for damages against
somebody.
90
The baseball season in Topeka for
mally opens on Thursday. That ought
to be a guarantee that it will rain
some more this week.
&C
We judge from the reports that at
least the fence is built around the place
where the jamestown exposition is go
ing to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
.You.Il never ge

him, so5bingly. you'll never ge
burke looked back. A hook ant
ladder boy was yelling to him 70 se
out; that the floor was weakening
Wait! One morei" he answered
and went at the thick black. sInoke
That hid whSra the stairway mad DeeIl'
He never knew afterward how ne
had fourd her. 1t seemed a frigntful
nightmare of fighting blindly at leap
Ing fiends of flame. that tugged and
thrcttled him and choked out his life
by inches. And then somewhere In
the fiery hell he had found her, felt
the slender limp figure and lifted it
in his arms, close to his heart.
There was just On thing about that
rescue that Margery never was sure Of
until long after her wedding day.
Then one autumn night when Officer
O.FerraIl had dropped in on the new
home to say a brotheriy blessing,
Burke told:
IF I hadu's thought it was all up
with US I never would have done it,
he explained. penitently; but when
measured tbs. distance to The window
and heard the loft crash back of me
just thought it was quick heaven
for mine and then death, and I kissed
her, kissed her and never had an in
to Ler even. But it didn't
matter. Dead or alive, knew had
the right She was the only girl in
the world Cor me-
And Mrs Burke blushed softly and
ran her hand over the thick brown
cur1s of her smoke eater.
"Ain't he the bold boy, though"
she said tenderly. IT knew it all the
time and thought it was a dream. but
knew it just the same.'-(Copy-
righted, 1907, by c. H. Sutcliffe.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
HUMOR OF THE DHY


~. How. do, you think your constituents
ure?
have tried to make them, my constituents
won understand them any more than
do. N-Washingthon Star.
Laird-weel, Macallister, and have YOU
found any of those strayed sheep yet?
Macaiister--Yess But was finding them
Two by itself and one together and three
among one of MACPHERSON s.-Punch.
Cynicus-No sir; with their spendthrift
ways, wives today are not helpmates.
Goodfellow-What are they then?
cr.9t.
Il love my love in the morning." said
the young man ardently
Huh!' exclaimed her younger brother.
you haven't never seen her in the morn
ing yet."-Puck.
Clerk-You can't get room here for
that man; he's drunk.
Man (supoprting a weary friend)-
mats all right. What of that?
Clerk-This is a temperance hotel.
Maxwell, he's too drunk to know
the intermediary and Navy Life.
Director-Say, my man, how is it that
Shakespeares statue is standing on the
pedestal marked Scott?
Attendant-He must have got his base
on an error, sir.-Brooklyn Life.
You say you wouldn't like to get out?'
exclaimed the prison visitor WHY
thought you were in for life
the on non worse than thai: that ma'am, replied
I've got two wives waiting outside -
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
THE FoRTHCoMTNG FoURTH.

Yes, Independence Day, my boy,
VIII surely come this year,
ana you shall have your share of joy,
OF patriotic cheer.
III bring you home a brand new sleigh
And sharpen up your skates.
And on the millpond you shall play
With all your little mates.
And, as with hoyish glee you run
And glide upon the glare
Remember how George Washington
once crossed the Delaware.
And over on the vacant ground
A fort of snow Wen plan
And l will be the Hessian hound
And you the Minute Man.
Wen waliow deeply in the snow
And think of Valley Forge
Inc Wintry wallowings and woe
or the Immortal George.
A duty that we owe;
Before the glorious day is done
Wen to the village go,
ana, gathered snugiy round the red
Hot fire of oak and birch,
Wen hear the Declaration said
In the basement of the church.
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
MIR WHTTE's DECLINATToN.

Mr.. William Allen White summarily
and decisively puts a quietus on the
gubernatorial boom that some of his
Square Deal admirers have been trail
ing around after him. Mr. White says
he wouldn't accept the governorship
on a silver platter and that he
wouldn't serve even il he were elected.
If there were any way to make it
stronger Mr.. White would probably
have done 1t.
"a number of papers, he says,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

1t Is said that some of the Meyer
Haywood supporters propose to an
swer President Roosevelt. What they
need is some good. kind friend who
will caution them not to do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHEop
tF'rom the New York Press.l

from the New York Press.1
A man is terrible smart to 49,,
big a bank balance as he wants 80. e
pie to believe he has, peo-
A girls idea Of nice man Is ona
VINO says she broke his heart bv not
marrying him when he didn't ask ber
Most Of the money a man could s naer,
If he had no bad habits wo1,idn,t re re
any fun to him If he didn't have tha, ne
A woman mas real good time at
thinking of the mean things she p csn
say about it, sue can
one thing woman likes about .
nus pano Is she can pretend he under
let him figure out her train for her r.'iu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

The harvester trust threatens to
leave the state If the suit against 1t is
pressed by Attorney General Jackson.
In other words. it argues that IT should
be allowed to go on breaking the
states laws If the people of Kansas do
not want it TO go off and leave them
to their fate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

1t is safe to predict that next year
the railroad tax commissioners will
exercise little more care concerning
their facts before certifying their rail-
roads property for assessment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

Very likely the railroads feel like
they gold-bricked themselves when
they supported w. J. Fitzgerald for
lieutenant governor instead of Ansel
CLARK
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

Secretary Taft's mother says she
does not wish her son to be president,
and no doubt Senator Foraker will
agree that she is an exceedingly wise
and sensible woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

The railroads that insisted on nomi-
mating w. J. Fitzgerald for lieutenant
governor now know how the brewers
feel who supported Fred Jackson for
attorney general
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

Now that the attention of the coun-
try Is directed towards Jamestown, we
will doubtless learn a lot OF colonial
history that never happened, If we
read the MAGAZINES,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

No, Gertrude. Honore Jaxon, to
whom the president directed a few
lines recently. is not the same gentle
man as the one who has been making
business pick up for the brewers in
Kansas, although their last names
sound similar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

Visitors from the west who visit the
Jamestown exposition will be anxious
20 see If they have used the road drag
ON the Hampton roads back there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

The Conspirators' league, the An
anias club, and the Undesirable Citi-
zens' association. thinks the Washing
ton Post, ought to hold a joint mass
meeting some day for the purpose of
telling each other their troubles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

Lieutenant Governor Fitzgerald GER
tainly isn't acting like the advance no.
tices which were given him a year ago
indicated he would.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

This disposition of Winter to work
overtime does not commend itself to
anybody but the gas company
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

Since the rain it looks as though
Kansas will continue the car famine
for another year after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

The chief work that has been done
on the jamestown exposition thus fal
has apparently been the sending out OF
press notices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

BY the way. have you done anything
toward helping secure the Sisters Hos
pital for Topeka?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

Dennis Kearney was the original
sand lot orator, but the real estate
business has produced a large crop of
them since his time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

If Mr.. Jerome can not do any better
he might perhaps convict Harry Thaw
of the crime of carrying concealed
weapons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

Oh, for some warm March weather
again-that is. like last March!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

The railroads are very glad to note
that President Roosevelt did not go on
the Warpath.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

1t is evident that Secretary Taft car
think of other things besides presiden-
tial booms to talk about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

Once more has the wheat crop been
saved. Bring on your next calamity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

And just Think The Illinois 1egisla-
ture is still hanging on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

We Judge the brewery business in
Kansas is picking up: Picking up and
leaving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

At any rate. Foraker and Taft ar
not pretending to be Alphonse an
CASTOR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

What q new sensation 1t will be 70
Leavenworth to be without saloons!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30

The early bird also catches the
gnowstorm.