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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If you see a girls picture in the
papers nowadays you are safe in
guessing that it is meant for Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw. You don't need to look
at the label.
Perhaps it was the committee room
of the house committee on temperance
that Mrs. McHenry got into the other
day. She asserts that the committee
men were busy putting whisky down.
Among other good ways not to earn
$4,000 is to walk 1900 miles on water,
as yesterdays dispatches told of a man
doing.
*4
General Hugh Cameron has an
nounced his intention of walking to
Albuquerque. But then, General
Cameron never did use a pass.
You can expect the whole town of
Leavenworth to move out the next day
after the prohibitory law is strength
ened. Leavenworth, you know, is one
Of those towns that believe that Pro-
hibition and Ruin are synonymous
terms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

The scenery a farmer admires is
land that will raise big corn.
Every boy expects to finally drink
a snake when drinking out of a spring.
A good many reformers are like
town farmers: Their long suit is tell
ing about it.
This is the season when chicken
owners are buying new roosters to
boss their hens next summer.
The girl who has her mind set on
a Career, is about as useless in the
kitchen as the fudge makers.
Boys have a good many reasons for
going skating, but the need of exercise
is never one Of them.
Children rate contagious diseases
about the same as Dicnics and excur-
sions and other important events.
Buying diamond rings on the in
stallment plan on a SIP a week salary
is another proof of True Love.
We heard a man of thirty-eight
spoken of today as "a fine young
man." When does man cease to be
a young man?"
Ever notice that where there is a
heshy person in the family, every
rocking chair in the house is loose or
squeaks?
You think pretty well of yourself
no doubt; still, your enemy is capable
of making out a very bad case against
All the gossips may be as bad. but
they don't look as bad, as the group
pictured on the cover picture of the
current Golfers
There are a good many degrees of
WEAKNESS. but the man who is tired of
doing nothing. has the hardest time
becoming rested
If you are cheerful under aff1iction
you are called Indifferent, and If you
make a fuss over it you are called
selfish, and there you are.
There is man in Atchison who has
been going to the devil several years
We wish he would finally get there
and give his worthy relatives chance
If a man takes thing that doesn't
belong to him, he is called a thief; but
If a woman does the same thing, she il
called 'kieptomaniac."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
ABOLISH THE CoNvENTToN

Inc politicians propose to cling to the
delegate convention as long as possible.
One cannot blame them, for with a di
rect primary all of their opportunities
for trades and combines will have gone
gimme ing and they will have no more
power than any other voter.
The way it is planned to keep the con-
vention under the gufse of primary
is like this: Primaries are to be held
| to vote direct for candidates. but at
| the same time the voterx also elect
| delegates to various conventions-coun-
| ty, congressional and state. In case
no candidate has a majority Of all the
votes cast the delegates meet in con-
vention. take one ballot in which each
delegate must vote according to the in
| structions of his county, or township,
or district. OF course no candidate gets
majority, and then the bars are let
down to the fine manipulation of the
politicians, the trades and combines.
and all that.
Who will put up the candidates for
| delegates? Who puts up the delegation
to the various conventions now? The
politicians, of course, in four cases out
of five.
And the politicians will make sure
that no candidate will get a majority
of all votes cast in the primaries when
ever they do not wish it. If they wish
to nominate the sheriff and county at
torney, for instance, they will see that
several candidates for each office are
in the field, and SO no one will have
majority. The nomination will be
thrown into the county convention and
they will then dicker and trade, the
same as they do now
The same sort of a programme will
obtain in making up a state ticket
They will manipulate the selection of
nearly all officers from governor down
to railroad commissioners-as nearly
so as they do now.
Any sort of a delegate convention
system is bound to be pernicious. They
have this sort of combination primary
and convention system down in Texas.
Last summer just after it was tried for
the first time it was condemned on all
sides. Even the author of the law
made a statement in the Houston Post
that the combination was unsatisfac-
tory and that the blanket or direct
primary is the best system. Governor
Campbell, who was nominated by the
combination system, says it is unsatis-
factory and that the blanket primary
is better. There can be no legitimate
objection to the direct primary. 1t is
simply allowing the people to nominate
their own candidates instead of turning
the job over to the politicians who get
themselves on the delegations
The minor details of the bill are ques-
lions for those in favor of direct pri-
mary to agree on after due argument.
It is important, however, to have a real
direct primary and no combination
affair masquerading under the guise of
a primary should be adopted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
QUAKER IsEFLI1CIToNz-

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
The one sign that never fails is auld
lang syne.
A woman can drive a bargain better
than she can a nail.
The brave may deserve the fair, but
they can't always support them.
Some fellows are actually too lazy
to brag about how they used to work
1t is easy to rejoice at the good for
tune of others if our own is little bet
ter.
No, Maude, dear; a moonstone is
hardly appropriate as a honeymoon
stone.
Some girls are so proper that they
wouldn't even think of going to heaven
without a chaperone.
Sillicus-"How can a man tell when
he is really in love?" Cynicus-"He
can't tell till it's too late"
When a boy wears short trousers
till he is past 16 it is a safe bet that
his mother is the boss of the house
hold.
Some young fellows expect to live on
bread and cheese and kisses when
they are only able to supply the kisses.
The difference between a civilized
woman and a heather is that one wears
a ring in her nose and the other in her
ear.
Mrs. Hubbubs-"Have you any close
neighbors out at Cranberry Heights?''
Mrs. Subbubs-"Close? Why, we can't
even borrow clothespin from any of
them!"
Salesman-"The beauty about this
watch case is that it is water-tight."
Harduppe."That's just the kind I
want. fellow never knows when he
might want to put 1t in soak"
Guzzler-"It doesn't make any diff
ference how early 1 go to bed, 1 always
take a drink of whisky the first thing
in the morning" Wigwag-'Ah, early
to bed and early to ryes, eh?"
Blobbs-"Poor Sillicus is very low
Slobbs-"You don't mean it, What's the
matter with him?" Blobbs-'I understand
he is suffering from a rush of brains to
the head
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
MAxINIUNI RATES NEXT.

The maximum freight rate bills are
scheduled to come to the front shortly
on the legislative programme. And
right there comes the most important
measures this legislature is called to
pass upon, so far as strictly railroad
| legislation is concerned.
The direct primary bill is the most
! important concerning the political af-
fairs of the people. but the maximum
rate bills touch their pocketbooks. The
primary and antipass laws are designed
! to help the people get such justice as
| these maximum rate measures give
| them.
As the State Journal has repeated
" stated. a two-cent fare law is of
comparatively little Importance by the
side of some measure that will give
just and equitable freight rates. Pas
senger earnings are a very small part
of the railroads revenue. Where the
burden is the heaviest is in freight
rates.
Therefore, while due attention should
be paid TO the two-cent fare PROPOSE
ton, much more attention should be
given to the maximum freight bills that
are pending. Passenger rates should be
made as low as will be fair to the rail-
roads, of course. If a two-cent flat rate
is too low to be constitutional, Senator
Stewards idea of rates based on earn
ings would perhaps be right Care
should be taken not to make the meas
ure unconstitutional
But whether a two-cent fare law is
passed or not, the legislature should
reduce freight rates. Senator Young
and Senator Smith each have a maxi
mum freight bill in the senate, the lat
ter dealing only with wheat and corn,
bf1T
coal. brick and cement, in addition to
grain.
The Smith bill makes a cut of about
80 per cent in local grain rates. Senator
Smith admits that it might be better
to make cut of 20 or % per cent as
the Young bill does, in order 10 be sure
that it would be constitutional. but he
insists that grain should not be includ-
ed in the same bill with live stock or
other commodities, for fear some
schedule might be made that would not
stand the test of the courts In this he
is doubtless correct. w. Y. Morgan,
chairman CT the house railroad com
mittee, believes separate bills should
be passed, one dealing with grain, an
other with live stock another with coal.
and a fourth with manufactured COM
modities. Then if the rates are made
TOO low on one class of freight, it will
not knock out the maximum rates on
all the others also.
The proposed cut on wheat alone
ought to add two cents a bushel to the
value of every bushel of wheat raised
in the wheat belt. 1t means s., $50. 900
a year to the farmers of thirty or forty
counties on wheat alone
No defense can be made of present
grain rates in Kansas, and it is likely
that the railroads will attempt none. |
They are out of proportion to MANY
other rates that are conceded to be
plenty high enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

It seems probable that Senator
Brewer has been making some investi-
cations. At any rate this is what he
told the travelling men during the cam
paign: 81 will be glad to support a bill
making a fiat rate of two cents if upon
Investigation it can be shown that the
railroads can haul passengers for that
amount without making loss" And
the first thing Senator Brewer did IN
the legislature this winter was to in
troduce a nat two cent passenger fare
hilf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

CITY. kan. At present passholders go
ing to Kansas CITY from Kansas have
to pay fare from Topeka east. shame
full waste of two dollars Coming back
they have to pay the same amount back
to Topeka Another waste. Topeka is
the last Rock Island station in Kansas
before the Kansas line is reached, and
the Hepburn bill prohibits honoring
passes between Kansas City and To-
peka. Hence, the very apparent need
of Rock Island terminals on the KAN
sas side of the line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
THE PRAIRIEs.

These fields are mighty, vast as is the sea
AND feneeless as the heavens-The far
That bars the sailors eye infinity
IN the dim distance shuts the same from
mine.
From horizon to horizon, away,
From the rich South unchanged these
Along the world to where the heightened
day
Smiles back the glory of the Arctic sun.
From nm East East to West. from where the roll
Zen nid to the slope of the rough mountain
These prairies speak their own i'm
mensity.
Long ages have they lain beneath these
Meath .wintry SHOWS and summer
blooming flowers,
But not unloved by hearts as fald as
ours.
Here. Ger this spacious realm, how oft
The myriad hoofs, like wave-beats on
In deep-scarred paths across the virgin sod
In wild stampedes that thunder here no
morei
For man has set his foot upon this
And made his home, his habitation here,
And all of yore is changed-the reaper's
Rolls back the native silence from the
ear:
And Nature of her charms has been be-
No more her subtler beauties may be
Yet in these boundless realms there still
Enough to show how grand they once
nave been. ~
Kindred N D.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
FRON OTHER PENS
THE SMALL COLLEGE.

The state of Maine is famous for a
good many things and among them is
Bowdoin college. Maine is proud of
Bowdoin and the rest of the world is
proud of both; because Bowdoin is
typical of the small American colleges.
Last night the local Bowdoin Alumni
held their annual dinner and in the
presence and speech of VIM. De Witt
Hyde, the president of Bowdoin, one of
the reasons for the success of the COL
lege was revealed. DR.. Hyde in his ad-
mirable speech drew attention to the
thought, that is getting more and more
attention from educators, that the
small college possesses qualities for ed
ucation and character building impossi-
BILE to the big universities. DR.. Hyde
pointed out that the ideal college
should be big enough to afford I'M
cramped development along all lines,
but yet not so big that the faculty
loses touch with the individual student
or that any student be not so thorough
" known to the entire undergraduate
body as to be responsible to his fellows
for the manner in which he lives his
life. Dr. Hyde's remarks drew clear at
tention to the undoubted strength pos
sessed by colleges containing only
comparatively small number of stu
dents, and even the big colleges of the
day are realizing this fact and the eff
fort at such educational centers is for
closer individual touch with the stu
Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
From the New York Press. ]

What do they do in heaven to keep
the moths out of the clothes you don't
wear?
When man tells how little coal his
furnace burns he never learned what
they taught him at Sunday school.
IF the government has a surplus the
average citizen imagines it couldn't
happen if he weren't so sound in his
politics.
The funniest thing is after you have
kissed a girl she will tell you the next
day you didn't because nobody ever
did.
It's awful hard for a woman to be-
lieye that she doesn't save money
spending five cents twice for Things IN
stead of spending ten cents all at once
for twice as much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

There is this to say for Fred Dumont
Smith: He put the characterization
law through the last legislature. the
measure that keeps the Standard Oil
company from running the independent
refipers out of the business; and he had
a hand in framing the maximum oil
rate law. If he wifi accomplish as
much for the Kansas farmer this year
he will be comforting a tremendous IA
vor on the state as a whole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

OF course the politicians naturally
hesitate about placing the heavy re-
sponsibilities of choosing candidates
upon the voters by the direct primary
method. The voters have work to do;
and besides, the politicians are willing
TO perform this arduous duty for the
people themselves, out of the goodness
of their hearts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

ain Ottawa says the Kansas City
Star, Henry Allen was always
staunch advocate of law enforcement.
The Wichita Beacon's stand on this
question will be watched with eager
ness If not with hope" Here's a guess
that the Beacon under Henry Aliens
direction will advocate obedience to all
the laws of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
The Diary of a Billionaire.

MONDAY-Country's going to tn
dogs. Actually they've brought in an
income tax bill. taxing me 20 per cent,
while the poor man gets off with one
per cent. Why should pay more than
another man? It's class legislation in
its most disgusting form. Made $780,
600 in @. & @.
TUESDAY-Ran over a common per-
son in street today. Explained to mag
istrate that I was in hurry to attend
a meeting. but my chauffeurs got to go
to Jail. The demagogue wouldn't ac-
cept a fine instead. It's getting to be
an impossible country for anyone but
a pauper.
commission wants to know if I control
my own roads! Of course 1 do, but
don't let the public guess that the
roads aren't independent. What's this
commission for, anyway? Thought 1t
was meant to please the people and let
us captains of industry alone.
THURSDAY-Got my divorce today.
Maggie must be As now, if she's day.
She looks out of place at decent din
ner table. Sent Annabelle new tour
ing car and quart of pearls. She's
good locker, If you like.
FRIDAY-Founded university to-
day. It's a great gag. Universities
please nearly everybody, especially the
folks that don't go to them. Besides,
it helps a man out in society to refer
casually 10 my university. Weary
every Millionaire has one. I'm going
to have five or six before finish. Made
1886. $50 900 on the side today.
SATURDAY = Boosted price OF
doughnuts two cents per nut today.
Need some coin for Annabelle's Vienna
mansion Engaged a man to look over
the states and pick up any available
nomination for senate. Picked up ST.
500, 000
SUNDAY-Imported preacher gave
fine sermon today. Showed billionaires
necessary to development of country
by arousing envy. Raised his salary
$40. O0O Leave tomorrow for Paris to
meet Annabelle May stay abroad for
some time. as several investigation
committees and grand juries seem ig-
norent of their proper restrictions
San Francisco Examiner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

Those billiards. that are raging in
the northwest are hereby warned not
to come too far this way. If they do,
Secretary Coburn will get after them
with a sharp stick. They will do well
10 note the mo Trespassing'' sign that
Mr. Coburn has put up at the Nebras-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

OF course State Treasurer Tully does
not wish to keep up past conditions in
the state treasury, but it really looks
as though he would be anxious to get
away from T. T. Kelly's system as far
as nossihle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

At last an anticigarette bill has
passed the house. In the dim and dis
tant past an anticigarette bill was re-
garded as d handy sandbag with which
to hold up the tobacco trust, but it is
a sandbag no longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

John d. Rockefeller has just given
ss2, eoo. COO for education. AS Chancel-
Tor Day contemplates that pile he
doubtless feels within himself that he
has accomplished something for the
Noble Cause of Education.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

Stanford White has been found
guilty by jury of several million peo-
pie, but the chances are somewhat IA
vorab BILE for the acquittal of his slayer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
is THIS TRUE +?

BY talking to the members of the
Kansas legislature you will discover
that about three-fourths of them who
shout themselves hoarse for that
fearless leader, Teddy Roosevelt"
would be the first to stick him in the
back if they were not afraid of the
crowd.-Belleville Freeman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

President Zantos J. Zelaya, of Mic
aragua, warns the Associated Press
that Honduras better behave or 1t may
get slapped. Just what the Associated
Press has to do with it, President
Zelaya does not explain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

Senator Beveridge has turned loose
a speech on child labor that fills 300
pages of the Congressional Record.
Senator Beverage is the champion
Ions-distance talker in the senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

General Hugh Cameron's announce
ment of his intention to walk from
Lawrence to Albuquerque indicates
that the hermit still has his interstate
tie pass, in spite of the Hepburn bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It's easy to see what Winifred Black
will do to the Thaw jury if it doesn't
acquit the defendant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

1t isn't everybody who can tell the
story of his or her life and have it
eagerly read by thirty or forty million
people. as Evelyn Nesbit Thaw did last
week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

DR.. Grigsby, who was recently let
OUT as physician at the penitenttary'
evidently does not intend to go back to
Grigsby's Station without protest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

The politicians are perfectly willing
TO let the people have any sort OF
primary system that won't do them
any good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

If we have a drouth the coming
summer it will be easily accounted for:
The water is all going into the railroad
stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12
ARE THEY DIFFERENT

Some of the proposed antipass laws
gates to conventions on the theory
that it will in measure influence the
delegates; at the same time it pro-
poses to allow the members of the
legislature to retain their passes. Are
members of the legislature made of
different kind of mud than delegates
to a convention Jewell Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

No wonder oil and gas companies
have hourished at lola. A fortune tell
er down there told $500 worth of for
tune for ore man and s455 worth for
another and escaped with the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-12

No matter what your recommends
t1ons, if you call at the office of the
motel In which Lillian Russell stops
and seek to send your card UP to her,
The clerk on duty will look you
straight in the eye and solemnly de-
clare that Miss Russell Is mot in" At
least, this is true unless you can satisfy
MIN that you are not interested in an
advertising scheme. Then you have to
convince the Pinkerton man on duty in
the hall outside the Russell apart
ments,. the Russell maid. the Russell
secretary and finally Miss Russell her
self.
The espionage grows out of the an
noyances to which Miss Russell was
subjected at her hotel in Chicago the
day after her premiere as a comedi-
enne. A horde of special advertising
managers and lad writer's" swept
down upon her, seeking permission
to use her photograph and indorse-
ment for various articles of commerce,
ranging comprehensively from face
powders and complexion creams to
canned sausages and f1ve-cent cigars,
ingeniously blended from rope fiber
and asbestos.
Finally the ban of prohibition was
posted at the Office. and Miss Russell
was beginning to breathe freely, when
shadow darkened her boudoir win
dow and a breezy young man, over
flowing with cordial bonhomie. stepped
through from the fire escape and
greeted her effusively Miss Russell
was naturally indignant and called for
help like the prosecuted heroine in a
melodrama.
Don't get frightened, lady" said
the affable young man reassuringly. II
want to do you good. Youfor the pic
ture OIL the new tooth-wash wrapper.
Me for the business details Both of us
for the wide publicity. Are you on 20
Miss Russell acknowledged that she
was, but voiced indignant protest
against rude Intrusion She was deaf
to argument. By this time a couple of
hall porters had responded to the
condolences third alarm. The breezy
young man was borne away, struggling
but vociferous.
Think it over. lady," he cried, in
farewell appeal as he was hustled to-
ward the freight elevator. with your
picture on a tooth-wash bottle your
name would soon be in every month.
Are you on ~
And that is why the Pinkerton man
patrols the corridor within easy call
of Miss Russells apartments.-The
Bohemian.