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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-10
TWENTY YEARS

This is a far different world from
what it was when Willie Sell heard
the iron gates clang behind him at
Lansing twenty years ago-the gates
that opened to him again today
for the first time and allowed him to
go forth, a free man.
And yet it is the same old world
too. In the march of the centuries a
little space of twenty years does not
amount to much. but mankind has
made a great advance in. science, in
invention, in agriculture, and in many
other lines in those twenty years. 1t
is doubtful if any other two decades
in the history of the human race can
show sucn progress. In electricity
alone the practical knowledge gained
since willie Sell has been in prison
has been sufficient to revolutionize the
affairs of men.
Twenty years is but a moment in the
flow of time, but it is a long time to
drop out of a mans life. 1t may mean
much even in the existence of nation
Yet Willie Sell is still a comparatively
young man. and there is still time for
him to live a life of great usefulness
if he has the capacity to do it.
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AN .ExPLANATION."

It's an exceedingly lame "explana-
| ton" that the rich mems conspiracy"
puts up concerning President Roose-
\ velt's information of that project. THE
| interests say Senator Penrose told the
story in order to work Loeb. and
that Loeb took it seriously. Here is
| their explanation:
Shortly before congress adjourned
last month Senator Bourne, the new
man from Oregon, gave a dinner In
| the Shoreham to a select party. Among
the invited guests were Senators Hans
brough, Penrose and Carter, Bull
Andrews Of Pennsylvania and Secretary
Loeb. The story goes that when
deep duliress oVercame the party SEN
ator Penrose, thinking to have his little
joke, of which he is fond on such oc-
casions, said that Roosevelt was up
against it," as Hearst, Hartman.
Rockefeller and other wealthy men had
united to have Roosevelt superseded in
the White House by a president who
would frown upon the radical tenden-
cies of the present chief executive
Penrose. 1t is said, related solemnly
that he knew a large campaign fund
had been raised and that he hoped to
be '1n" on It. or something to that eff
feet.
Carter and Hansbrough are staunch
Roosevelt men, but not above a joke
They knew Penrose was 5ocose, but that
Loeb was taking him with wide-eyed
seriousness. and they helped the game
along. Then, according to the "ex-
PLANTATION" Loeb got excited about it
and rushed off and told the president.
This is about as sorry a tale as could
be put up. Mr. Roosevelt does not bite
on conards of that sort, and the pub
lie will be slow to accept this 'explana-
tion." Penrose is about as friendly to
President Roosevelt as his masters OF
the Pennsylvania railroad, and despite
his proteststions the public will believe
the White House version of the affair;
and the White House version is that
the man who gave away the secret
was drunk at the time.
Besides, it is evident that a con-
certed attack was made on the presi-
dent through all the channels that E.
H. Hartman could control and fore
most in this attack are the papers
owned by William Randolph Hearst.
The Hearst papers take every word of
Hartman as gospel truth, but they
read into the presidents utterances
meanings that are not there. In fact, !
the Hearst papers, by their attitude, |
seem to be trying to prove that Mr.. |
Hearst is m the conspiracy to over |
throw the presidents policies, just as
the White House version of the con- |
spiracy asserted.
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JNYK1WKER JOT.S

Salina claims it has sweet peas near
ly ready to bloom.
Complaining is already we'll under
way in some parts of Kansas.
The Presbyterian Sunday school at
Concordia raised $34.25 for the starv-
ing Chinese on Easter Sunday.
A Burlingame store recently took in
over $4,000 eggs in one day, 1920
dozen-and this was only one store in
one town in Usage county.
Tickets for the opening performance
at Salinas Convention hall have been
placed at $40, IS and $3.50. Those
wheat belt people have the money.
The Hoffnungsau church at Inman
has done something that many an
other church with an easier name has
not done: 1t has raised $500 for the
starving Russians.
The last ''gabfest" held by James,
town business men decided to clean up
mayor has been asked to set aside a
day by proclamation for the work.
A Minneapolis joker put a sign,
Pup for Sale on a barrel. Then he
invited passersby to stop and see the
pup-a fine animal he assured them.
In the bottom of the barrel was a
mirror. That was all.
Out at Kingman new court house
is to be built in the middle of a small
park. To make room for it, about a
hundred trees of various kinds had to
be removed from the site. The trees
were thrifty ones, some of them 20
feet high. Instead of ruthlessly cut
ting them down. the county commits
sioners offered them to town people
who would transplant them, and the
trees were saved.
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HUMoR OF THE DIP

'Scoundrel." missed the head CRATER
to the pal who had betrayed him You
didn't stay bought
Excuse me-" responded the other
deal with you was mere lease. No
man could buy me at the fgure."-Phil-
adelrhia Ledger
You know, dear" cooed the bride,
you promised to let me have all the
pin money I wanted"
Yes, love, and you shall have It,"
20! you dear! Well, saw a pin to-
day with pearls and diamonds in 1t and
1 do want 1T so.''-Baltimore American.
$50 Jack and LII are going to be
married. are they? I thought it was
merely a case of puppy love-"
That's what it was at first, but Jack
developed a sort of doggedness, you
know, as time wore on, that finally
won."-Chicagc Tribune.
He's SO awfully witty" said she He
makes so many original remarks. Don't
you think so?"
NO" he replied.
You don't? Why nct?'
Probably it's because 1 subscribe to
the same comic paper that he reads"
Philadelphia Press.
why do you insist on going on a lee
ture tour after you have done all that
is required of you in congress?"
We'll" answered the candid patriot,
"a man can't be idle all the time
Washington Star.
''This offer of your heart and hand
is very sudden" said Miss Nur1tch, but
will take it,
"Ahl" gesped the dry goods clerk,
surprised and badly ratified, will you
ar-take it with you or shall 1 send it
home ?'-Catholic Standard and Times.
She wouldn't look at him when he was
rich, but now after he's lost all his
money she accepts him.
We'll, you know how crazy every wo-
man is to get anything that's reduced"
Philadelphia Press.
What made Hamlet refer to the
laws delays?" sked one student Of
Shakespeare.
He was probably apprehensive," an
swered the other, because of the ex-
perts who had been called in to study
his mental condition. ''-Washingto
Star.
says a retired army officer, was COL
onel 1 served with during the civil war.
Once we were accommodating a position
which the enemy held with a consider
able force.
1--WE will take that place tomorrow
he said.
why. colonel I exclaimed. its i'm
possiblei'
.Impossiblel Nonsense, sir, he
snorted. I have the order in my pock-
et.' Kansas City Times.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
Coaches have wheels, even some
baseball coacb.s.
Fortunate is the man who is, taken
at his own estimate.
Few of US are so inclined to mincs
matters as the pie baker.
Some people are so narrow minded
tn It they can't take broad hint.
The stock market is where the spec
ulator hopes to clean up the filthy
lucre.
Some fellows seem to hustle so much
that they never have time to do any
thing.
Even the man Of letters doesn't al
WAYS remember to mail the one his
wife gives him.
No. Maude, dear, the teeth of
storm ara not always found in the
mouth of river.
Does a man rise in light just be-
cause he graduates from footman to
head waiter?
Nell-''In weighing candy are there
IL ounces or is ounces to n pOund?'
Relle-"Sweet sixteen"
There are several things 1 can al
ways count on" remarked the Simple
Mug. "Indeed!'' snorted the Wise Guy.
May 1 ask what they are?" my f1pg-
ers," chortled the Simple Mug.
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TUCKER,

Whether or not H. H. Tucker is
guilty of the charge for which he was
indicted yesterday by a federal grand
jury-using the mails to defraud-
can not be denied that he has a genius
for building up a great industry.
fuckers career in building and
operating ref1neries and pipe lines, and
making a market for his product in
opposition to the greatest trust in the
world, is certainly phenomenal. He
was without experience in the oil bust
ness, yet he has built up a great enter
prise. He has a genius as a promoter.
If he has resorted to fraud in build
ing this enterprise, Mr.. Tucker must,
of course, answer for it, and it is the
duty of the federal authorities, if they
have evidence of such fraud, to prose-
cute him. 1t must not be presumed
that the authorities are acting other
than in good faith. Mr.. Tucker, how
ever, charges that the Standard Oil
trust is responsible for his prosecution
and that it is a scheme of the Standard
to put the Uncle Sam OIL company out
of business and to get possession Of its
property.
If Mr.. Tucker can bring forth evil
dence of this, and if he can also prove
that he has been conducting his bust
ness along perfectly legitimate lines,
this prosecution will make a hero of
him in the end It can not be denied
that Mr.. fuckers oil company has
been branching out in a way to prom
Use trouble for the Standard If its bust
ness were allowed to grow.
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A Tramp in Literature.

Symons Cthe English poet) saw very
frequently, and 1 might as we'll ac-
cuse him right away of being my lit
erary godfather. If 1 may be said to
deserve one. Whether .he realized it at
the time or not, it was the writer's at
mosphere which he let me into that
made me ambitious to scribble on my
own account.
One day he told me that he had re-
ceived els for an article for THE
Fortnightly Review"
Fifteen pounds!" mumbIed to my
self on the way back to my lodgings.
why, that sum would keep me here in
London over a month" Later, in Ber-
lin, I experimental for the first time
with the effects of an article by me in
q magazine. Symon's wonderful ELS
were to blame. 1 sent the paper,
short account of the American tramp
to THE Contemporary Review" 1t was
accepted. In a few days received page
proofs of the article, and in the next
number it was published. No youthful
writer ever had his horizon more am
bitiously widened than mine was when
that article was printed and paid for.
/ assured the editor instanter that my
tramp lore was inexhaustible, and
begged of him to consider other SUBJ
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globel


Don't hunt trouble; It will find you.
Don't let fools annoy you: laugh at
them.
People are not shocked as often as
they pretend to be.
The wages Of sin are paid by the wo-
men; the men owe 1t.
Men are never so old that a bluff
doesn't startle them little.
There is not the slightest sense back
of a great deal of hope.
Love is a picnic; do not expect it to
gather up the napkins and dishes.
What a fool a man can make CT him
self when he tries his best to be wiSei
When a man talks about his princi-
pies, he usually means bis prejudices.
A lot Of people who say they don't
take a good picture" shouldn't ex-
pect to.
II didn't mean to" works longer
hours than airy other excuse. unless
it is, "I forgot"
Our experience has been that west
ern society is pleasant enough until the
singing begins.
If a drunk man doesn't think he is
funny, he is1 pretty apt to have an Idea
he is wealthy.
Nothing Is more pitiful than to see
the wife of a deadbeat go into a store,
and ask credit
There is about as little music in the
average music Lesson as there is box
ing at a box social.
A man who is always full of fun"
is as great a nuisance as the man who
Is always full Of whisky.
Peer relations are like the sins of
our fathers: We Inherit them from
generation to generation.
1t is difficult to refrain from blowing
ones own norm to some people: they
are so unreasonable
A man who does q really charitable
act is as modest about it as though he
were receiving charity.
This is the season when you will
trim your trees in a manner unsatis-
factory to ell your neighbors
A good many men who don't do much
in a small town, ir"agine they would
make a great hit in New York.
We heard a woman say today:
There are two sides to every Ques-
ton" Two! Why, there are a dozen.
A man is as anxious to have a hat
like some cne's else as woman is
particular that hers shall be differ
ent
The average child studies at home
about the way three or four women
work when they get together for that
purpose.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES


As we understand it. Roosevelt dele
gates to the next national convention
will be for Taft and against Roosevelt.
q X
AS a man of letters. Mr.. Hartman
can boast that he is widely read.
10
The report Is spread from trust
quarters that President Roosevelt has
nervous prostration. It must be the
kind of nervousness. that makes man
hard-hftter and a good fighter.
1t is suspected that there are still
several liars whom the president has
not spotted.
This is Jerome's day at the bat, but
1t is doubtful if he makes a safe hit.
AS near as this department can
figure it out. Mr.. Coburn Classics the
green bug along with what we used
to call a cyclone before we forget what
that word was like.
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missive efforts on my part. He intima-
ted In his reply that submission was a
hne quality, but that 1.-The Contempor-
ary did not confiDe its pages to tramp
ology, and that his readers had had
enough of that subject for the time be-
ing.
The little back room in the Crown
tavern, near Leicester Square, where a
number of the young writer's in Lon
don congregated at night in my time,
has given way to much more preten-
tfous quarters. Symons and 1 had got
into the habit of taking nightly walks
about town, interrupted usually, for an
hour at least, about half-past IL at this
tavern.
The gatherings in the back parlor
were comparatively innocent little in
tentions upon life and literature. I got
good out of them in number of ways,
and might have benefited by them
more, had my intentions been more
distinctly literary. What Swinburne,
Pater, Wilde, Verlaine and others were
teresting to me as what some hap
hazard pickup might say to me and
Symons during our stroll after the
Crown meeting was over. On one oc-
casion. however, an Irish journalist
who was present succeeded In getting
me periodically indignant. He had
spent the afternoon in Westminster
abbey, happening. among other things,
upon Longeliow's bust.
II can't see," he said, at the end of
his account of his afternoon, unmis-
takably referring to the Longfellow
bust, why the Americans can't bury
their dead at home" It was on the tip
of my tongue to ask him why the Irish
couldn't keep their live ones at home,
when someone said: soda, please
bridged over.-Josiah F'lynt, in Success
Magazine.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

IFrOm the Chicago NewS.l
Every man has lots of fair-weather
friends.
Egotists waste lot of hero worship
on themselves.
Money may talk but a cool million is
cold and distant.
No, Alopzo, 1t isn't proper to curry
favor with a curry comb.
1t is pleasanter to rush the GROWER
than to be chased by dog.
Women think men are towards il they
refuse to argue with them.
1t is easier to make both ends meet
than it is to weld them together
There is apt to be a rafting old time
when the family skeleton escapes from
its closet.
Most men measure the standard of
their own &c odness by the badness of
their neighbors.
When a man buys a porous plaster at
a cutrate store he is apt to get stuck
on his bargain.
1t would seem to be in accord with
the eternal fitness of things when q
patient man weds trained nurse.
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orion Cqemens-Politician.

He (Orion) exhibited a facility in
changing his political complexion that
was a marvel to the whole commu-
nifty. Once the following curious thing
happened. and he wrote me all about
it himself.
One morning he was a Republican,
and upon invitation he agreed to make
a campaign speech at the Republican
mass meeting that night. He prepared
the speech. After luncheon he became
a Democrat and agreed to write
score of exciting notices to be painted
upon the transparencies which the
Democrats would carry in their torch
light procession that night. He wrote
these shouting Democratic notices
during the afternoon, and they oc-
cupied so much of his time that 1t was
night before he had a chance to
change his politics again; so he ac-
tually made rousing Republican
campaign speech in the open air while
his Democratic transparencies passed
in front of him, to the joy of every
witness present
He was a most strange creature
but in spite of his eccentricities he was
beloved. all his life, in whatsoever
community he lived. And he was also
held In high esteem. for at bottom he
was a sterling man.-Mark Twain. in
North American Review.
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TIE MoLLYcoDpLE.

Who is it stays at home at nights,
And never goes to shows or fights?
The Mollycoddle.
Who wipes the dishes for his ma,
And runs on errands for his pa
A can of beer or a cigar?
The Mollycoddle.
Who always does as he is told,
And who does mother never scold?
The Mollycoddle.
Who always keep his clothing clean,
To girls and cats is never mean,
And who is Johnny
The Mollycodile.
And who in later years in life
Picks out large and healthy wife?
The Mollycoddle.
Who always picks a lady fair
With strength to yank him by the hair
And who gets henpecked everywhere?
The. Mollycoddle.
Detroit Free Press.
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REFLECTIONS. OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

About all you have to do to take the
fun out of a thing is to give it a repu-
tation for being healthful.
When a girl gets a letter 1t wouldn't
be half SO interesting If she let you see
it as she makes believe it is.
It's funny thing how so many wild
ows think they ought to wear yellow
hair for mourning the second year.
A woman's idea OF being a good
Christian is to have you drop your coin
In the collection plate so 1t will rattle
as If it were several
A fat woman, with a diamond neck
lace, would be willing to give it to get
thin, and a thin woman, without any,
would be willing to be fat for one
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KANSAS COMMEHT
A NEW GAME

According to an item in the trade
papers. new game has appeared. 1t
is described as follows: Take a sheet
OF ordinary writing paper, fold nicely
enclose a bank. note Sufficiently large
to pay all arrearages and one year in
advance, and hand it to the editor.
Keep your eyes on him, and if a smile
adorns his face, it works fine and
dandy Now is the time to play the
joke; 1t beats ping pong, pit and finch
all hollow.'-Belleville Telescope.
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Measuring the Heat of the Sun.

The instrument in the observatory
on Mount Whitney by which the varia-
tons of the suns heat are measured
might be called an electrical Their
mometer. 1t is an apparatus so large
as to occupy a building of considera BILE
size, yet the essential part of its mech
anism, which makes the record, is
fine thread of platinum connected cleo
trically with a balance of marvellous
delicacy. The beam of the balance is
flament of spun glass five inches
long and less in diameter than a hair,
IN the middle of which is a concave
mirror as big as a large pinhead. This
mirror (Which weighs two and a half
milligrammes-ab as much as the
hind leg of fiy) is fastened upon
square piece cut from a dragon f1y's
wing. and the whole affair is suspend
ed from a fiber Of spun quartz crystal
two feet long and one -thousandth
of an inch thick.
Outside Of the building is a queer
looking machine provided with large
circular mirror which is controlled by
clockwork in such a way as to face the
sun at all hours and to throw a re-
f1ected beam into the mouth of a great
tube that enters the observatory. A
single ray of the sunshine thus con-
veyed is permitted to fall upon the
platinum thread. through which a cur
rent of electricity continually passes.
1t is well known that the electrical
resistance of platinum varies with its
the resistance of the thread the heat
Of SUMS ray thrown upon it is de-
termined. So accurate, in fact, is the
determination that variation of one
millionth Of degree Fahrenheit can
be distinguished.
Changes in the temperature of the
platinum thread cause the wonderful
little balance to sway, while another
ray of light allowed to fall upon its
tiny concave mirror is reflected upon
a measuring scale. Thus, as the dot
of reflected light runs along the scale
one may observe with the eye the vari-
atoms in the amount of heat conveyed
by the sunbeam, which comes through
the tube from outside the building.
When desired. however, the measuring
scale is replaced by a slowly travelling
Photographic film. which makes a per-
manent record of the fluctuations of
the solar temperature. convenient for
printing. filing and subsequent refer
ence.-Rene Bat che, in The Reader.
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Getting Her Legal Rights.

An old colored woman, arrayed in
rusty black dress and a gorgeous pur-
pie picture" hat over which was a
black crepe veil, appeared at the
court house Of a Carolina town not
long ago.
Am yo' de jedge OBJ reprobates.
sab = she asked, cautiously opening
Yes. l am the judge of probate,
aunty; what can I do for you % was
the smiling reply.
.Yassah! Tanky. sahl Use heah
cause NAH ole man done died detest-
ed an lef' 70 liz infidels, an All wan
ter be 'pinted ter be dere executioner.
ef you please. sahi'-Success.
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Up in Nebraska ministers no longer
have half fare permits since the two
cent fare law went into effect. Still.
few ministers will object to paying two
cents a mile instead of a cent and
half. If the rest of the family, and 9TH
er people besides, also ride for two
cents instead of three.
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mat man Roosevelt Is

That man Roosevelt Is liable to
make the big corporations trouble. no
matter what he does after 1908. If
he should be reelected president he
would simply continue his present
policy II he should be elected to the
senate he would make that body go
dead against "the interests" If he
should take q place on the canal COM
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No Pangs in Starving.

Novelists write a lot of nonsense
about the pangs of hunger and the ex-
treme suffering that accompanies
starvation It is all poppycock. Any
healthy person, with a normal appe-
lite, after missing two or three meals
is as hungry as he ever gets. After
awhile there is a sense of weakness
that grows on one, and this increases
with the days. Then there comes a
desire for a great deal of sleep, a sort
of lassitude that is not unpleasant, and
this desire becomes more pronounced
as the weakness grows. The end is
always in sleep. There is no keeping
awake until the hour OF death.-Dillon
wallace, in Outing Magazine.
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DIR. swENssoN's MONUMENT.

Bethany college at Lindsborg is go
ing to erect a monument to DR.. Swens-
son. The thing for Lindsborg to do is
to put tablet bearing his name to the
front OF the college buildings. Bethany
college is such a splendid monument
to Swensson as to make all other at
tempts at monument building seem
puerile.-Lawrence World.