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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

ceivable that any social body coerced
to communication with her should not
have organized for reprisals, for some
desperate game of repayfng her, hor-
ribly, In kind
The best writer is he who can ex-
press his thoughts in simple but at
tractive language that will clearly
photograph his idea upon the mind of
the reader. The idea one gets from
reading Henry James is usually a
mental blur. Yet Mr.. James is cited
as a purist, and he poses as a literary
critic.
Mr.. James is useful in literature,
however He furnishes an excellent
example of a good way not to write.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
EpON OTHER PENS
NO COURT OF APPEALS.

The terribly severe sentences which
have been imposed by country JUS
tice of England for the most trifiing
offenses have opened up discussion
of the astonishing fact that there is no
court of criminal appeal in England, a
court which exists in every other civ
ilized country in the world. In the
civil actions an appeal can be carried
to the highest tribunal in the land
the law lords, sitting as the house of
lords court of appeal-even If the case
should involve no more than 500. In
criminal convictions there is only one
course open to the prisoner who would
dispute the justice of his punishment.
He can not appeal to any higher court
no matter how monstrous his sentence
may appear; he can only appeal to
the home secretary to have his case
reopened.-Boston Globe.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe. !

CFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The devil is pretty ornery, but he is
too wise to get drunk.
The only way to make a nickel go
as far as it used to is to drop it in
slot machine.
There is never much kicking about
the rules of the game by those who
happen to win.
A good many of the people who are
perfectly harmless are also perfectly
worthless.
What has become of the old fash
toned man who had a stag party"
when his wife left town?
One successful fight is often the di-
rect cause of a man getting an awful
beating in the next one.
A compliment for a farmer in the
country papers these days turns out
to be an advertisement of his stock
sale.
There is an unusual degree of in
terest in funeral in a small town
when the deceased never Joined a
church.
The boy who knows where to dig
worms, always comes nearer knowing
where to catch fish than the man who
buys his bait.
Men never have much luck; in
Adams time. when gowns and new
bonnets grew on trees, there was no
such thing as Easter.
Iner6. Is at least one worry q
escapes when he marries: He no
longer worries because chocolates and
flowers cost so much
When a woman builds air castles,
she is this loyal to her husband; he
is always in them. but his disposition
is entirely changed.
If a man tells a lie, which is pre-
dominant: his remorse at having told
it, or his pride in having told one
that passed for the truth?
You may think you are lonesome.
but you will never know what lone
som eness is until you are on your
deathbed and realize that you are
going alone.
A man who has work to do made
a nuisance of himself in seven differ
ent stores today, quarreling about the
Thaw case. Why not attend to your
own affairs and let the jury settle the
Thaw case?
When girls who work down town go
into the office dressing room and stay
awhile and then come out, they are
usually very pale. but it is no sign they
are i'll: They have been using their
powder rags.
If you have received a single divi-
dend on stock in a corporation you are
an exception to the rule among stock
holders. If you have received a divi-
dend on mining stock you can travel
with q sideshow.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
EFrom the Philadelphia Record.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Tell two girls that they look alike
and they will both hate you.
A trust is a machine for making
money out of any old. material.
Toothache is apt to make a man re-
greet that he wasn't born hen.
The people who can't stand prosper
ity are those who don't understand IL.
Wigwag-"W is the proper way
to wear a nightcap?" Guzzler-"On the
inside"
A Iinguist is frequently a person
who can bore you in more languages
than one.
The fellow who hides his light under
a bushel at any rate isn't apt to have
II blown out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
HYHA WKER JOT.S

The roller skating craze has once
more subsidized at wellington and the
rink there has been closed.
Down at Coffeyville the city clerk
tried to get the women to register by
setting aside a Special Ladies' Day"
They raise something besides sugar
beets and alfalfa out at Garden CITY
A 70o-pound hog was recently butcher
ed near there.
A young woman from Neodesha en-
broidered this motto to hang over her
fathers desk: Don't kick, old man,
do your stunt"
An lola woman is suing for divorce
just because her husband once tried to
kick her through a window. Some peo-
pie are powerful unreasonable.
Congressman Campbell and Scott and
Governor Hoch will soon take to the
lecture platform. The chautauqua is a
great thing as sideline for statesmen.
A Central Branch paper charges that
the Branch" is being run by persons
who learned the railroad business in
twenty lessons by mail, from CORE
spondence school
The students of the State Manual
Training school at Pittsburg celebrated
for that institution by riding the prin-
cipal on a plank. That was manual
training.
Dickinson county has missionaries
and residents in all parts of the heather
world. The Abilene papers frequently
publish letters or news from former
residents of that county now residing in
Africa or India.
A Fort Scott barber has something
new and novel In the WY of barber
signs. 1t is a barber pole on a pedestal
of iron, the whole of which weighs $50
pounds. glass encases the striped
pole, which is revolved by an apparatus
at the summit Of the pole, propelled by
the wind. g-e-
Told by the Wellington News: "Our
house has porch said Willie Green,
and he swelled with pardonable pride.
Stout. ours has a porch on each side.
We'll you amt so smart" said little
Bess, as she tugged at her faded bon
net. ''Our house has somethfn' youse
folks amt got. Our house has a mort
gage ON it,"
tions: We have observed that a gaso-
line engine can make you think you are
a master mechanic one minute and
helpless imbecile the next. If
the railroads don't get busy and get tho
grain out of Kansas before another
crop natures there will be an end to
farming here. All the ground will be
used to store the grain on. 1t
has been our experience that man
who wants a job of printing done never
gets III d
to the office From that time on his
hurry for the job is remarkable.
BelleviIle Freeman: "Our drayman
saws that the best woman he knows in
the town is going to move away. He
says the society folks won't miss her.
the clubs and the lodges and the
dances will never know that she is gone.
Rut there will be- a vacant seat in the
little brick church. More than once In
the next month women of that neigh
borhood will feel the pangs of wanting
a true friend to whom they can tell
their troubles in confidence. from whom
thew can always get real sympathy;
the newborn babies will not get the
same tender care and attention that the
older ones received and the poor moth
err with the little one at deaths door
will long for that kind woman's pres
ence But she is going to leave. well"
he says, "us common folks will miss
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UP TO DATE.

Over an embankment,
Flying through the air,
Turning, smashing. grinding,
Rip and roar and teari
Cries of Help and Porteri
Groan and woman's vail
Bless me, this is pleasant,
Riding on the rail!
Like n rocket flying
Through the startled night,
Splitting. splitting, crashing
Not a burning light
Men and women rolling,
Mortified and pale
Bless me, this is pleasant,
Riding en- the rail.
Landing in a river.
Crashing through the Ice.
Colby running water
Enters in = trice!
Crawling bruised and painless,
Torn upon a nail
Bless me, this is pleasant,
Riding on the rail!
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

Now that Attorney General Jackson
has brought suit to dissolve the mill
lers' combine. the Kansas City Star
suggests that he also dissolve the SEN
ate combine. But no such action by
the attorney general is necessary. The
people will dissolve Il.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
TOM CORDRY's IDEA.

The legislature has passed a resolu-
ton amending the constitution so as to
make the pay of members five hundred
dollars instead of one hundred and fifty,
but considering the fact that nothing of
Importance was done by the legislature
until after the members pay stopped
wouldn't better results be obtained by
providing that they shall serve the en-
tire session without pay?-Parsons Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

The job of city marshal of the coun-
try town will not go begging in the
future-not while the holder thereof
is entitled to hold a railroad pass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

This country may legislate against
the wrongs committed by the railroads
occasionally. but it never goes to the
extent of throwing a claim agent into
Jail in order to get extortionate dam
age claims allowed 30 f.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

This legislature has appropriated
about million and a quarter dollars
more than the last one, but the aver
age man won't notice it in his taxes.
Big legislative appropriations come in
handy to howl about, however,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

Missouri. Iowa and Nebraska have
ali passed laws lowering passenger
rates, while Oklahoma intends to put
low rate provision into her constitu-
ton. Kansas will continue to pay
three cents a nile-or walk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

The Kansas City railroad organ
proffers a reelection to the members
of the lodge" in the Kansas state SEN
ate. The trouble with the proffer is
that 1t needs the o. K. of the people
of Kansas to make it good-whfch it
will not get
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

LFrom the New York Press.
A great man never seems to be to
the little ones.
These are times when everything
goes fast, especially our money.
Half the trouble in the world comes
from there being no worse to get into.
A woman likes to have her husband
brag about everything except how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

Dowie is dead. His was a mysteri-
Gus and wonderful career. No matter
what ones opinion may have been of
the old leader. 1t can not be denied
that he exercised a strange power over
thousands Of apparently intelligent
people
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Many Problem Plers.


With plays revolving about the pro-
bIems of the Capitalization of wealth,
the divorce question, political corrup-
ton. labor and capital and other sub
jects much in the public mind, it would
seem that in this year of grace the
stage of New York is bent upon be-
coming a reformatory institution. OF
course the real purpose of these plays
is to make money, and not all of them
solve even that important problem. AS
for the other problems-they get no
where at all. They may start out with
a fine show of earnest intention to
achieve something, but they end up
either by merely affording a pleasant
evenings entertainment or by boring
audiences extremely. So they accom-
plish exactly the same result as other
plays that make no pretensions of pur-
pose, whether ethical. economic, or
sociological
There are those who really believe.
in a simple honest way, that the lat
ter-day drama is serious and to some
degree uplifting. They do not realize
that the first business of a dramatist
is to produce a good play; that If he
doesn't do that. he fails. no matter
how profound are his ideas or how high
his ideals If. in addition to writing a
really good play. he can offer solu-
ton of problem that is of real con-
Germ to society, or even present pro-
blem in a new light, then his play has
th1t much additional value. But the
play. not the problem, is of first inn
portance.-'"The Players" in Every
body'S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

The sheriff's office will be more Gag
erly sought than ever in the future.
The sheriff is the only county official
who can legally ride on pass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
a NTo,.tifyfr,e Answer.

Richard. aged Z years. in company
with his parents, was visiting friend
At the dinner table he was asked TO
have some cake He hesitated-
"Sav quickly, Richardl viii you
have some cake?" said his mother.
Imagine her chagrin when Richard
renIied: IF it's the kind we have at
home. 1 don't want ary--Excnange-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
DON'T Eat Swine.

The noted Rabbi Hirsch of Chicago
was standing in a crowded street car,
when an elderly lady came in The
rabbi looked hard at the man seated
in front of him, but the desired erect
was not produced. The man did not
rise. The man became uncomfortaDie
under the rabbits gaze, and, looking up,
said:
'eWhew! amt you mad! Wouldn't you
like to eat me? :.
. q can't replied the rabbi. Don't
YOU see a am a Jew?'-Los Angeles
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

Some senators assert that they were
not controlled by the railroads. OF
course not. They were simply careful
not to oppose any. measure that the
railroads did not want
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
CRUEL COMMENT.

President Eliot says Harvard is GO
ing to play football this year and ar
unfeeling Bostonian comments: "It's
about time."-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

There are says Charley Blakesly.
three candidates for the Republican
nomination for mayor in Topeka. All
are committed to law enforcement, but
some mean 1t more than others"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
IS TT SIGNIFICANT2

Do you see anything significant in
the fact that in Reproducing the
state into representative districts the
eastern part of the state was deprived
of three representatives which were
given to counties in the Seventh con-
gressional district Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

If Mr.. Jerome had prosecuted the
Insurance hooters with half the energy
he has shown in the Thaw case he
would today be a bigger man than
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BECOMING

Chinese pheasants by the state game
warden. The birds cost $4,000, or IS
apiece. But it is a pretty bird and will
prove becoming to plutoeratic Sun
f1owerdom.-Wiehita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

Speaking of surgical operations,
kindly note the one performed by the
Interstate Commerce commission in
loosening Mr.. Harriman's tongue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

The Kansas City Star does not ex-
actly say so. but it is apparently sur
prised that Governor Hoch did not
make a blunder in appointing his state
tag commission
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TEST OF GREATNESS.

Mr. E H. Hartman is great man
"a very great man. For three days
he succeeded in getting as much space
in the newspapers as Evelyn Thaw.-
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

Some Kansas people are expressing
surprise because ]. r. Burton is to get
thirty days off for good behavior.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
IINIEVITCH

Whether Linievitch would have
done better than Kuropatkin is a flu
tile speculation, but Linievitch is about
the only Russian commander who
came out of the conflict with enhanced
reputation.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

DR.. Conan Doyle is suffering from
ptomaine poisoning. Wonder II Sher-
lock Holmes can tell how it hap
pened $50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

One state senator who is receiving
good words from all parts of the state
IS James L. Getty of Wyandotte
county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11

In appointing an army officer as
chief engineer of the Panama canal,
perhaps President Roosevelt thinks he
has a man who can not resign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
UNDEFINITES.

Five members of the Russian par
lament recently elected are classed as
"indefinites.', They are probably men
who do not know whether they are go
ing to obey the instructions OF their
constituents or Eot.-Houston Post.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Still, It isn't surprising that such a
senate wanted to give T. T. Kelly that
$4,000.
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HE'S BROKE.

"a woman should train her husband
as one trains mule" says Carrie Gait.
Break him, eh ?-Cleveland Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
WHAT CAUsED TT.

1t is limited that the past several
days of fine weather in Kansas have
been due to the attempt of the wealth
er man to get on the good side of
Phil Campbell, who introduced a resu-
luton to abolish the weather bureau
-LeavenMorth Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
KANSAS CITY GRAND OPERA

NanSaS CITY announces that grand
opera in that city was a success. But
| the statement is made from a financial
standpoint Not that anyone succeed
ed in understanding it.-Salina Jour-
nal
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YES INDEED

DR.. Wiley, the government chemist
says old whisky is the only safe kind
But even old whisky has been known
to cause trouble.-Chicago Record
Herald.
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AGAINST HIS cons

AGAINST HIS CONSC1INGE.
In his Washington birthday Grafton
Grover Cleveland forgot to mention
that George never told fish story
Atlanta Constitution.
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Pansies.

The pansy or heartease is one of the
oldest garden flowers and most popular.
Their great variety and beauty and the
ease with which they may be cultivated
add to their popularity. 1t is best for
the amateur to have in the spring
plants which he or his florist has car
ried through the winter in cold frame,
gust or September. The plants should
be set out as soon as the ground is in
condition for working. The only cu1ti-
walton necessary is to keep the ground
reasonably well stirred to prevent bak-
ing, and Keep it free from weeds. The
blooms should be kept picked close so
the blooming season may be length
ened.
In favorable localities where the soil
is moist and not too warm the seed may
be sown early in the spring and if thin
ned reasonab bly, we'll and the flowers
picked closely will give succession of
bloom almost until winter.
In rather warm and dry localities,
SOW seeds in August or September and
transplant the seedlings to pots, or bet
ter, to a cold frame with good soil where
they may remain until cold winter,
when they should be protected by glass
and boards. They are best kept in the
frames until spring when the boards
may be removed and the plans allowed
to make early growth in the glass COW
cred frames.
The many varieties differ in size of
flowers and IN coloring. They may be
selected according to taste. Some gar
deners prefer a bed of one color. having
enough beds to give variety of cut flow
ers; others prefer to plant a mixture of
varieties in bed or border.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-11
THE WAY OF REFoBMEps
INFORMATIOtJ wANrED

TIE editor of the Chase Register
speaks of two subscribers adding two
dollars to his bank account" Now
wouldn't that jar your mothers sweet
pickles? Say, Brother Garten, what IS
that ar thing you's got down there
called hank account" Is it wear
able or chawable ?-Bucklin Banner.
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THE wEATHER PRoPHET.

foretell,
But when starts Dredictin' 1 kin do it
/ doesn't stop to bother bout tomorrow or
mex day,
But looks away of yonder jes' a-past
de month of May
rs got it safe an certain, an it ought to
make a hit,
De way I maps de weather out dat ives
a-gwinter git.
It's fair an warm an sunshine, an 1t
Soun's les like a tune,
Dat bulletin dat rs a-puttin' out about
mex June.
rs made my calculations year by year. Is
gu got 'em sure
Dey,s all right, honey, even If is an
amachoor.
De blizzard an de snow-drif dey is
gwinter fade away.
Oar ain no use O. stoppin to perdict 'em
day by day.
rs tellin' bout de blue skies an de MUIR
muir of dc bees
An de honeysuekles sendin' perfumed
kisses to de trees
climate purity soon
VIII act ies' like tells you. is prophe-
sym June
oh
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KANSAS COMlNENT
LONESOME LANn

recent number of Harper's con-
r -aineu q story that every one should
leau VINO pushes boys out of the way,
ana thinks boy IS a pest and a NUS
ance only to be tolerated because
some day he will grow up to be a
nan nan; ;, Inc Inc story is called Lonesome
bon6 zen a boy passes out of baby
ioou, ne nnds his little feet travelling
without guidance or help in the brisr-
grown paths of Lonesome Land" No
one loves him: no one cares to have
~. around; no one Sympathizes with
MN MN IN his sorrows, and if he has any
joys they seem to be of the kind THAI
niakes MIN all the more a pest to the
ADULTS around him. Be good to the
s SOY VINO Is passing through Lone
some Land A girl has her Lone
some Land" but she never reaches it
IN sne is a woman, and not always
tneE. But the hoy has two Lone
SONS some lands" that bordering baby
hooo, and that which he reaches at
mature age. And a mans Lonesome
Lane covers more territory and is
more dlsmal than that Travelled by any
woman.-Atchison Globe.
A FIGHTER.
one OF the men of real force in the
present legislature is Senator Getty Of
Wyandotte county. He has the courage
OF ms convictions and has the risrnt
kind of convictions on all matters that
aHect the public He believes in an
honest administration of public affairs
anu is against the grafters and the
corporations that seek to profit at ~p.1b-
lie expense. There is room in Kansas
Tor SO courageous, effective a fighter as
senator Getty and he will be heard
from in the future.-Miami Republic
can.
THE WAY OF REFORMERS.
The worst feature of reform is the
fact that reformers are trustful instead
OF OF being alert. The reform wave of
1914 swept over Kansas and the reform
ers did not look to the small things
Ihey were concerned about the central
Things or the reformation. While the
reIormers were congratulating them
selves upon the success of their move
ment the railroads were quietly nom
mating their men to the senate The
result is that reform has been made
od1ous and the movement is a by-word
Lawrence Journal
INFORMATION WANTED.