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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rFrom the New York Press.1

If there is nothing the matter with
the children a woman can worry he
cause there might be next year.
A nice thing about grand opera is the
enjoyment you will have at a vaude-
Vile show the next time you go.
If woman can't find any other ex-
cuse for her husband not being able r.
make living she will say he has an
artistic temperament.
The reason a woman doesn't spend
more money on her clothes is because
her to spend.
When your hand gets all tangled IN
with girls it's sign that the more
she did It the more she is going to Be
indignant with you for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Rockefeller's offers of money have
been turned down in number of in
stances but the roundabout method
which he has now devised for dispos-
Ing of his cash may succeed better. He
gives 1t to his boy. the boy gives it to
the general education board and the
board gives 1t to the college. By the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Los Angeles has found itself com
PEELED to widen its streets, at a great
expense. The experience of the Cali
fornia city should become a lesson to
smaller towns possessing the elements
of growth. The width of streets, when
land is plated, can be controlled much
more easily and cheaply than it can
years later when valuable buildings
have been erected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
Rocls maj Are Musical.

The Ringing Rocks" near Potts
town. Pa, have been visited the past
few months by many eminent geolo-
Rtsts in an endeavor to explain the
peculiar properties which cause the
rocks to give off musical sounds when
of them in the Technical World Maya
zine for March.
'aThe largest of the stony gardens.
as they are known locally, is at Nocka
nixon in Bucks county, where there
are three fields of these rocks, all near
the foot of Haycock mountain, $40
feet above sea level. The largest of
the fields covers an area of a quarter
of a mile long. with an average width
of 200 feet, while the other fields each
cover about an acre and a quarter.
1.-The gardens are considered by
some to have resulted from volcanic
eruption in the far distant ages which
upturned these stones of feldspar for
nation and left them heaped in weird,
fantastic forms, making most desolate
looking patches amid the verdant
fields; for, although surrounded by
heavy timber and cultivated farm
land. not a tree or shrub can be found
within the gardens and no soil can be
seen between the crevices of the great
stones.
when struck by a hammer the
rocks, as they lie in their beds, pro-
duce four distinct tones, running up
ward from middle d on the piano, but
it remained for the late William J.
Buck, for many years historian of
Bucks county, to conceive of the idea
of their possibilities as producers of
melody and for DR.. J. j. OFT, of Pleas
ant Valley to carry out the project.
The latter selected number OF rocks,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Somebody who has been looking
into the matter declares that the peo-
pie of Mars are particularly anxious to
talk with us just now. Probably they
want to tell US how to dig the Panama
canal Mars has long been noted for
its canals
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

The anniversary of Harry Thaw's
birth falls on the same day as that of
Abraham Lincoln, but this fact has
not yet been offered in evidence by
the defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

1t was not discovered that the fed
eral government was powerless to do
anything about child labor until after
Senator Beveridge had delivered
speech on the subject which occupied
10 columns of the Congressional
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
KAMyAS COMMENT
MORE TROuRLE-

Ihere's one thing sure. If the mails
We're tempered with as much as is the
Irelgnt that comes to Clay Center there
would be roar go up which would re-
suit In a lot of official heads dropping
into the basket in short order. Our mer-
cnants can't get stuff from even as
close as Salina without having the
canoy boxes broken into somewhere
along the line, and bologna sausage
seems to be a favorite object of the
petty thieves. It's only a quarters
worth here and SO cents worth there,
hardly worth the time and trouble of
putting in claim to the railway COM
pany, but aggravating nevertheless and
ter Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
A QUESTION.

Some members of the Kansas legis-
lature want to ride free on the rail-
roads and the railroads want them
to ride free. Now why do you suppose
the railroads want to haul these men
around free of charge instead of re-
ceiving a considerable sum of money
from each of them? Every legislator
ought to put this question squarely to
himself and then give himself an hon.
est answer.-Jewell Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Perhaps the reason Jerome fights so
hard against the testimony of the
experts in the Thaw trial is that he
knows in advance what they will say
If given a chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
THE SALARY INCREASE.

The salary increase will add about
a million dollars year to the govern
ment's expenses, but that in itself is
not a very great matter to country
with the revenue the United States
possesses. There seems to be no
doubt whatever that at the present
scale of expenses in the national capt.
tai congressman were no longer able
to live decently on their salaries Such
a state of things prevented in many
cases poor men from aspiring to seats
in congress and gave men of large
means an undue advantage in aspiring
for congressional honors.-New Or
leans Picayune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Unless this Japanese school question
be settled satisfactorily it may be that
the demand for four more years of
Roosevelt will not be unanimous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
TICKER.

The senate railroad committee, in
recommending the Brewer two cent
fare bill and the Stone antipass bill.
picked out the two most stringent
measures of their kind in all the
bunch offered at Topeka. 1t is pretty
evident that the committee over which
George Tucker presides is not afraid
OF the railroads.-7Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

The evidence against the New York
ice trust has mysteriously disappear
ed, but a little thing like that should
not cause uneasiness. There will be
more of the same kind available as
soon as the season opens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
A FEW THINGs NEEDED.

WITH the primary election law
granting the right to the voters to
name their candidates for office, an
antlpass BILL two cent fare law, a
law to establish freight terminals at
Kansas City, Kan, a maximum freight
rate law, reciprocal demurrage law,
law to ascertain the real value of
railroad property, and one or two other
good measures before the legislature
enacted into law. the Republican party
would go before the people in the next
campaign without an apology to make
for a single act of omission or commits
sion.-Salina Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

While Mr.. Rockefeller has left $s2,-
600, 900 to the cause of education. the
greatest educators in the world, the
newspapers will get none of it. The
newspapers, however, will be able to
KOrrY alone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

was encompassed in four years. NO
other ruler in the world has ever ex-
celled it in ten times four years
From Roosevelt: A Force for Right
eousness." by William Allen White in
the February McClure's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Somebody probably will raise the
cry of socialism" when Senator Noft-
zger's bill authorizing municipal GEM
eteries comes up. for discussion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

John d. Rockefeller is said to have
$4.55 for every man, woman and child
in the country. In addition there is
something like $35 per capita in circu-
1ation. This is a rich country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

The Los Angeles Times says: God
keeps some men good by allowing
them to think they are running the
universe"
Instance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

The country is still in suspense as t
whether Stanford White got a chanc
20 pay for fixing those teeth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Tt is remarkable how quickly the
break in the levee of the Colorado riv-
err, was closed after a government ap-
preparation hove in sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Attention is called to the prediction
made in this column last summer that
apples would sell at the same old price
regardless of the fact that Kansas pro-
duced a bumper crop last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

The Chicago News suggests that it i
time for Kansas to reciprocate by send
ing on a few hands for the ice harvest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

time a donation travels that distance.
the smell of oil probably will have dis
appeared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

The Thaw trial seems to have caused
the people of New York to forget
Caruso and the monkeys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

In Ohio a preacher has been sent t.
prison for having thirteen wives. An
other tally for the hoodoo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

What does Mr.. Carnegie think of a
man who hands out 100000 at one
time. without being actuated by fear
of diving rich?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Senator Chapman has introduced E
bill relating to dormant" cities. He
probably had Lawrence in mind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

ing the price of oil that he has turned
over the donation business to his son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Somebody should telephone to the
ground hog that he made mistake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
COMING

The railroads might as well begin
adjusting themselves to two cent fare
now as any time. 1t is coming and
coming fast. The conditions may not
be just right but you will have to con-
vince the people to that effect before
anything short of a two cent fare
would be ccepted.-Lawrence Jour
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
Not for HIS.

prominent lawyer who formerly
practised at the bar of Kansas City
tells of a funny incident in a court
there during a trial in which a certain
young doctor was called as witness.
Counsel for the other side in cross
examining the youthful medico gave
utterance to several sarcastic remarks
tending to throw doubt upon the abil-
ity of so young a man.
One of the questions was: You are
entirely familiar with the symptoms of
concussion of the brain?"
ST am
Chen" continued the cross-exam-
iner. assuppose my learned friend, Mr..
Taylor. and myself were to bang our
heads together. should we get concus-
sion of the brain?"
your learned friend, Mr.. Taylor,
might" suggested the young physician.
-Harper's weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
HORSON.

Captain Hobson refuses to believe
that the Japanese question in San
francisco does not mean war with the
Japs. The president, secretary of war
and high officials in Japan say that
there is no danger of war between the
two countries, but what is their opin-
ION as compared to that of Hobson :?
Besides Hobson's lecture engagements
demand that he should say something
that will keep him before the public
Parsons Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
a STROKE ON THE LYRE.

Who weeps with you when you are
sad and laughs with you when you are
the editor. Who has to be both kind
and wise and never (hardly ever lies,
and when he does creates surprise-the
editor. Who owns heart as we'll as
cheek, possesses a spirit proud yet
meek, and loves on 40 cents a week
the editor.-Lyon County Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
NIGHT RANKS

night bank must be managed with
extreme conservatism, and above all,
it should cash no check, except for de-
positors, and let people who do a day
light business handle their finances
through a daylight bank. New Or
leans has not come to a night bank
yet, but the necessity for one will
sooner or later press itself upon the
Woodworking population, and it will
be realized.-New. Orleans Picayune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
A woman's Letter of Recommendation

] Josephine Daskam Bacon is not hand
| ling THE Servant Problem" with gloves
in her articles in The American Maya
zine. She is talking plain" 1t is pro-
bable that the charges she is making
against women will be the means OF
starting a counter-talkfest that will last
until hot weather. Here are the auth.
or's comments on women's letters OF
recommendation:
I'm writing a reference for a cook,
whose only fault was the somewhat i'm
portant one of utter inability to live in
peace with her associates, to which
fault 1 had sacrificed more than one OF
the unOffending associates, said, AFTER
reading to her what 1 had written, and
which seemed quite satisfactory to her:
And now, Bridget, what reason
shall give for you leaving me?'
oh, you needn't give any, ma am;
But any lady of common sense will
wonder why 1 let you go, If all this is
true of you
oh, just say I'm leaving of my own
accord, ma'am-that's what 1 always
get
when I wrote, she leaves me on ac-
count of difficulty with the other serv-
ants she accepted the note, but L
If it was ever displayed. She informed
me that in "a years of service no lady
had ever qualified reference for her
like that.
I was dismissing a perfectly reasonable
recommendation for willingness, fair
ability, perfect neatness and good
temper, adding that in an apartment
or small house she was perfectly equal
to her duties, but not quick enough
for q large esta blishment, the note was
scornfu1ly left behind her on my desk.
There was nothing essentially deroga-
tory in it, and it was capable of get
ting her a good place, but she con-
sidered anything short of unqualified
praise insulting, though she was only
a young girl, and had been but two
years in this country.
81 don't believe she has any refer
ences with her. said an able directress
of a good bureau to me, but it's quite
immaterial. We depend upon our own
inquiries entirely, and attach no inn
portance to the womens written recon-
mendations. I never read them, my
self"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
Too Realistic,

At the initial performance of a new
play at South Norwalk, Conn. skim
grating scene was enacted and the
scene was so realistic that the per-
formance was interrupted. The South
Norwa1k CORRESPONDENT for the New
York World tells the story in this
wav: "The heroine removed her waist
and gave tar bare arm to the surgeon
for him to remove a large piece of
cuticle to be applied to the woman
dying on a hospital cot. the secret IN
told which would prove the innocence
of the heroine's lover. With a razor
like instrument the surgeon seemingly
made a cash from the shoulder to the
elbow of the heroine, and in the wake
of the instrument flowed crimson fluid.
Two seconds later there was more ex-
element in the audience than upon
the stage. A dozen fainting women
were carried into the lobby. Several
men also tainted. One man was seri-
ously hurt by a fall on the tiled floor
in a swoon. DR.. J. w. Vollmer. house
surgeon of the hospital on RandalPs
Island, New York. the only physician
in the house, worked hard to revive
the sufferers. The grating scene will
be modified
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

SHE'S A SAGE ALL RIGHT.
Mrs. Sage is demonstrating that the
money was left in fairly good hands,
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13
Humorist Discusses Motors.

1 told Ferguson, in the first place,
| that he was foolish to buy a second
hand auto. I try never to introduce
advice where it is likely not to be well
received but when it comes to buying
an auto 1 feel that 1 am entitled to
give the results of experience. Not
that have ever had any experience In
buying autos but other people have
had, and in the long run that amounts
to the same thing, 1 think. explained
to Ferguson that man never wants to
sell q secondhand auto that he has
grown to love unless there IS some
thing the matter with 1t, and that half
the fun Of motoring is in taking
brand-new auto and getting 1t all
banged up and full of complicated dis
orders that no one but an expert can
understand. and then selling it to some
one that does not know the first thing
about the illnesses of an automobile.
told him about Murphy. who worked
with his motor car until he got it so
beautifully out of shape that even an
expert could not guess what was the
matter with it. Nobody but Murphy
himself could mend that machine SO
that it would go at all. 1t was all in
the way It was mended. There was
something or other that Murphy broke
in such a way that it could not be
made jiggle right unless 1t was mend
ed with number sixty cotton thread.
1t could be mended with wire so that
it looked all right. but 1t would not
work and 1t could be mended with
linen fish Irvine so that it pleased the
eye but it would not jiggle, and moth
ing would mend it so that 1t would
carry on it's functions but number
sixty cotton thread. Number seventy
cotton would not do it: nothing but
number sixty 1t was as particular
about the size of thread used as swell
dressrnaker. And the only trouble was
that the thread was liable to break.
1t was always breaking. So Murphy
saw that the machine was in the right
shape to sell. and he sold it. 1t was
years and years before the new owner
happened on the secret. and he never
got any real pleasure out of the ma
chine because Murphy had already
got the motor into such bad shape
that anything the new owner could do
to it was only an improvement-Ellis
Parker Butler in the Reader Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-13

Senator. how much did your campaign
cost you?''
TT was pretty expensive this time,
Ringgold. 1t cost me one days income
and two or three nights sleeD.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-05-02
summer about the 18th of Nav.

Following is list of arrivals on the Yucatan: Mrs. F M Boyle, C Crawford and wife, Bert Lucas. E l. Frank, Dr. k T Griffith and wife, Miss Mae Walker, l. Ottwan. O B DeMoss, J Mcleod, Mrs. G M Mead, Miss Ida DeMoss, Miss B Markell and s steerage.
 Stanley Parker is in town from the Delta. He has sold his inter- est in the roadhouse which he has been operating and will go to the States.
 The Yucatan arrived from the South yesterday afternoon and left shortly after midnight for the, westward.
 Mir. and Mrs. Joe Diggs were ar rivals on he fucatan enroute to Cordova.
 Jack Miller goes to the interior tomorrow with the Eagle mail.
 The Portland left Seward for Valdez at II o'clock last night.
 According to the Gateway the strike at Latouche is ended, men having been sent from Seward to fill the strikers places.
 Six dogs belonging to Fred Voges have been poisoned during the past few days. There is no clue 10 the pOisoners.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-05-02
Capt. Olson came up this morn

Capt. Olson came up this morn ing from Latouche and reports hat the Northwestern has been tioated and is now tied up to the wharf at Beatsons. The work of raising her from the rocks was per- formed without hitch and she is all clear at noon yesterday. The boat will be taken to Seattle some time during May.
 N. R. King. who arrived on the Portland, has taken up the inter est formerly held by A. R. Poole in the Red Cross Drug Go. The firm is now under the management of c. M. King and N R. King.
 The Hubbard- Elliott launch. Union, lost her propeller out from Glacier island a few days ago and had a hard trip into port. The shaft was defective and broke off just back of the boat.
 The Elvira came up from Cor dova this morning. Commissioner Burton was a passenger.
 M. F. Dennison is in town, hav- ing stopped work oh the mail route. Hv will visit the copper country this snrnmer.
 From Tuesdays Bulletin
 C. G. Debhey and wife have pur chased home on Queen Anne bill in Seattle, where they will make their home hereafter. They expect to come to Valdez for the
The Alaska prospector., 1907-05-02
Notice Of Forfeiture.

To T. w. Kcttlcsoa:
 You are hereby notified that the under incnts on the claim known as the "BrkknU lode claim, situated near the head of Trail creek, tributary Of the kcnuicott river, and recorded t1 Book IT, Page 157 of the records of the Valdez Recording District, Alaska. in order to h0ld said mining claim under the provisions ot sec 2"2l Oi the Revised Statutes of the United states, being the amount required to hold said mining claim for the year lgO6. And if within ninety (9O) days from the service of this notice, or the complete publication thereof you fail or retuse tO contribute your proportion of said cX- pcHdlturc as cO-OWnCr, your one half interest Tn said claim will become the property of the undersigned under and pursuant of said Sec 232f of the Revised Statutes of the United States
 Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 7th day of March 1907.
 CHRIS. TJos VIC First publication March :, 1eO Last publication June G. 1907.