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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

dressing rooms. and the chorus was
herded in an unfinished loft above thu
auditorium, usually given over to lne
storage Of odds and ends. With tna
skylights open they were trapped.
With no thought for himself. Grant,
ley sped up the narrow iron stairway
leading to the loft. Behind him the
stage was a mass Of flames, so ne
drove back the few girls who were try
ing to make their way down the stairs.
Most of the chorus were too termed
to attempt to escape, but as Grantley
burst into the room they rose to their
feet wild with hysteria.
THE roofs the only chance" cried
Grantley, as he pointed to the iron lad
der leading to q skylight. Until the
flames spread there is safety In the
front Of the building. Hurry up. girls!'
He drove them up the narrow pas
sageway, and as he stood at the frone
of the ladder he encouraged them with
his voice, relieving the tension by 5ok-
ing. He was the last through the sky
light, and 1t was Nettie who helped
him through.
Already the rear Of the roof was
blazing. but the front was still safe.
and on one side there was a drop OF
dozen feet to the roof of an adjoining
building. Leaning over the edge
Grantley swung the girls down one by
one, and at last he dropped to the roof
llllSSl1s JUST dS SAS AeAASS N~>o
through the front of the theater roof
and a stream of water drenched him
to the skin.
"Close CALL" he commented, as he
glanced up and rubbed his aching arms.
'I'd like to find the fellows who turn
ed the hose on me-"
1T was from the street. They could
not see you.' explained Nettie. I'm
glad they did 1t, Dick"
She pointed to the painted tip OF the
roof. where his wig and beard lay wet
and draggled. TITS washed the mem
DRY out" she explained, and the light
of understanding came into Grantleys
eyes as he bent and kissed her white
face, to him sweeter than ever In the
awakening Of love.-(Copyr1ghted, 1905
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
THE UNPUBLISHED LETTER.

One of the features of President
Roosevelt's sudden demand for four
battleships, was the circulation of a
private letter from him. 1t was shown
to Speaker Cannon. 1t was read in
confidence by leading members of the
house of Representatives. Not yet pub
lished-and perhaps it may never be
it's general drift is nevertheless known.
This was to the effect that the presi-
dent feared complications with some
foreign power, and wished the country
to be more strongly armed. The same
idea was expressed by many in the
house debate on the naval appropria-
tons bill.
1t is stated that the president has
felt very keenly his defeat in this mat
ter. One report is that he has been
so aroused that he has been almost
tempted to withdraw his declaration to
desert politics on March 4. This defeat
of his concerning the battleship pro-
gramme means the defeat practically
of his entire programme for this con-
gress even if he sends In a special
message each day. The other meas
ures he has been advocating so earn
estly will likely share the fate of the
battleship recommendation.
AS matter of fact, the president
realizes that his declaration to the ef-
feet that he will retire to private life
on March 4 destroyed his influence
with congress. He contends, so it is
reported from Washington, that had
he made no declaration, he would be
strong enough now to force through
the legislation he desires.
In this connection, there Is a deter
mined belief in some quarters, an &C
tive demand once again in others, that
Roosevelt succeed himself. One promi-
nent politician of the east predicted
no later than Saturday last that the
Republican national ticket will be
Roosevelt and Fairbanks"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
TFrom the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.1
A blonde wig is also fair but false.
He is a lucky man who doesn't be-
lieve in luck.
The rainbow chaser at least gets a
run for his money.
AS tonic for rundown reputation
try a dose of charity.
The path Of glory leads but to the
grave-as do all other paths.
A mans wife usually has more faith
in him than he has in himself.
Ever notice how hard it Is to pay
for a thing on the "easy payment
plan?
When a woman says her husband is
out, she may mean that he is "all in"
You may be sure of one thing and
that is you can't be too sure OF any,
thing.
A married man is always figuring
on the money he could save II he
wasn't married.
Often there is more true love con-
cealed under calico dresses than there
is under silk gowns.
If a mother has but one boy, every
time she starts him off to school she
imagines he is headed for the White
House.
The Lord loves cheerful giver and
his Satanic majesty loves the man
who drops a button in the contribu-
ton box,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.

LFrom the Atchison Globe.]
Every man expects too much Of his
friends.
The older the man, the less he tries
to show off.
There is enough happiness in sight,
if you could get it.
In theory one man is as good as an
other, but in practice it is a lie.
Personally we would as soon go to
school again as to belong to a literary
club.
There isn't anyone in the world who
is true to somebody else in every
thought.
"Oh, that's all right nine times out
of ten it isn't.
The average woman attaches too
much importance to the expression
social position"
Every good item is like a kite, and
this is it's tail: But we don't want it
mentioned in the paper"
Boil down almost any mans prayers
in five words, and you will find them
to be: Reward me. Punish my
enemy"
Of course we are all of US wonder
fully smart. but there is not a day
passes but what some one suffers from
our blunders.
You can usually f1atter a man by
telling him he works too hard. He
may do nothing but loaf but he i'm
AGNES his great need is rest.
When a child goes to prayer meet
ing, and sits between it's father and
mother, everyone wonders what age it
will reach before it breaks away.
1t sometimes happens that when q
man is particularly worthless his
| friends will look rather important and
say: HE belongs to a fine family"
If there still exists the old fashioned
| woman who makes sheep-sorreI pie,
now is the time for her to dust herself
| off and come down from the attic.
1t is a fool girls opinion that the
| man who will spend a months salary
] on Stiffness for her. thinks more of
her than the man who spends only a
weeks.
When the average man has a favor
| to give. he gives 1t to an enemy, think
| ing his friends are all right, anyway.
| This is foolish mistake. The only
way to have friends is to deserve them
| If you give a party. and send word
! to man through half a dozen other
I men to be there. he will come. A
woman has to have an engraved inv
| tation on silver platter before she
will consider herself invitad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
BUILDING MATERIALS.

A question of universal consequence
is involved in the fire tests of build
ing material which have been made
and are yet to be made in Washing
ton, D. c., by the geological survey in
the laboratories devoted to that and
similar purposes.
What non-infiammable building
material will best resist the effects of
fire from inflammable material stored
inside is the question to be deter
mined, and it is rendered of more
consequence to all by the number of
large buildings that have been erected
all over the country, and those, the
erection of which is contemplated.
Iron and steel may not be melted
by the heat of an internal fire; but
they may be warped to such an extent
as to throw out the stone work with
which they are filled in. And the
stone work may be of such material
as to fall away of itself from the eff
fects of the heat, as marble and gran
lite have often done, as well as sand
stone of different varieties, though
both Withstand the "weathering" pro-
cess well, which sandstone does not.
There is no report yet of a test of
trap rock or Of any stone formed by
great heat under great pressure; but
such tests as have been made show
the superiority of artificial stone and
particularly Of old bricks. to all kinds
of natural building stone, so far as
tried. More will be heard of this
matter later on, no doubt, and the
result should be a decided improve
ment in the character of so-called
fire-proof structures, most of which
today are not fire proof at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

casionally complains that Mexican
refugees in st. Louis. New Orleans
and elsewhere use our country as a
base for plots against the Diaz gov
eminent.
1t is safe to say that President
Roosevelt and Secretary Root will
exert themselves to remove any sus-
picfon of unfriendliness on our part,
so far as this suspicion has any basis.
The masses of the American people
are decidedly friendly toward Mexico.
and General Diaz and his countrymen
ought to be well aware Of this as
they probably are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
HUAOR or THE DAY

Little Girl-Mamma, what is a dead
letter." Mamma-One that has been
given to your father to post-Illustrat-
ed Bits.
I'm weary of being a bachelor girl"
''Well?" DO you know any fellow
who's tired of being a spinster man?"
Kansas City Journal.
Father-Willie, how would you punct-
uate this sentence: Ethel a pretty girl
is walking down the street. Willie-rd
make a dash after Ethel.-Town
Topics.
why don't you propose to him.
Vanessa?" "I don't like to-" Brace
up. Faint heart never won fair GENTLE
man. Herald.
Did you ever sign a paper without
first reading it?'' mo, but 1 once an
swered hypothetical question without
knowing what it was all about."-De-
troit Free Press.
'tMr President" said the caller at
the White House, IT suppose you never
have hunted the wild boar?" NO"
answered the executive. YEARLY. but
the wild bore hunts me."-Providence
Journal.
Deacon Injecting a boy on Sunday
morning carrying string of fish,
Johnny. Johnny, do these belong to
you? Johnny-Y-e-s, sir. You see.
that's what they've got for chasing
worms on Sunday.-Pick-Me-Up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
MEXICO'S DISTRUST.

The report from Washington that
Mexico is beginning to have some
distrust Of the United States will
make unpleasant reading on this side
of the Rio Grande. Several causes
an alleged desire on our part to get
Magdalena bay as a permanent pos
session, occasional forays to Mexico
by restless spirits from the United
States, the activity, or imagined ac-
tivity, of Mexican insurgents in Texas
and other parts of the southwest, and
other things-are cited as reasons
for Mexicos suspicious of unfriend-
illness on our part.
Possibly the stories of Mexico's
distrust of us are exaggerated. In a
recent message to his congress, Presi-
dent Diaz mentioned the visit of the
fleet to Magdalena bay, and said
that the lease of it which Mexico
granted to US was pleasing to him,
and would be gratifying to his coun-
trymen. These expressions gave a
good deal of satisfaction to every
American who read them. The
lease of Magdalena bay, which is for
a short time only, is a very valuable
d
moment, when the fleet needed a
stopping place in that quarter. 1t
would be of vast Importance to us lat
er on, when we establish a large naval
force permanently on our Pacific
coast.
There are limitations that the vel
low press on each side of the Rio
Grande is responsible for most OF
the suspicion, be it much or little
| which Mexico entertains for u.s. A
few newspapers in the United States
and few in Mexican cities have at
tempted to create i'll feeling In Next
co against US. but our people took nc
| notice of their expressions until re-
ports from Washington told us of the
feeling against US which was RISING
among the other classes on the other
| side of the line. Official Mexico is
showing no symptom Of any change in
attitude toward us. except that it oc-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some men are vindictive and yet
they never pay what they owe.
X X X
Most women would like to wear a
No. shoe but they have to be content
with No. 5.
X X
Probably the man who said, BE
sure you're right, then go ahead" did
not have a wife to consult.
A fellow who can learn to talk auto
mobile and golf in one season has a
remarkable aptitude for modern lam
guages.
Matrimony certainly makes trying
times for most people. Those who are
not trying to get into it are trying to
get out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press1
A man can get rich II he will stop in
vesting his own money and do il to
other people.
The reason widows are SO SUCCESSFUL
with men Is they know the things not
to know about them.
What woman can't understand ia
how a man refuses to be happy over
his ship coming in some day.
You can buy on your wife from taxi
ing her $50 allowance by giving her a
50-cent bunch of flowers
Big picture hats are useful to mako
you want to kiss a girl. but not to do IL
under them, cause 1t will poke out your
eyes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

Senator F. Dumont Smith, who is
fighting for his political life in an en-
deavor to again secure the Republi-
can senatorial nomination from the
big district in the southwest corner of
the state, points to a record of legisla-
tive activity that would be apt to lead
the uninitiated to believe that this
gentleman has been pretty much the
entire legislature of Kansas during
the past few years. No one ever did
accuse Smith of being modest. There
are probably parts of his record he
will not print.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

All of the candidates for the more
prominent nominations to be deter
mined at the Republican state prima-
ries have taken the field at last and
delivered their maiden speeches. So
the campaign may now be said to be
on in earnest. And there is every in
dication that it will be an exciting and
interesting one before it is concluded.
Undoubtedly, plenty of mud, good
sticky mud will be tossed hither and
thftheF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

Mrs. Elinor G1yn, who achieved
some fame of certain sort as the
author of Three Weeks" believes
that the people of Chicago are hap
by because divorce is so easy there.
Among some other peculiar ideas that
she has is her detestation of women
smoking cigarettes simply because it
spoils their teeth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

They have such little respect in the
halls of congress these days for
message from the president that they
do not suspend the ordinary business
and have it read Immediately on its
presentation as has been the i'm
memorial custom. They postpone the
reading until their convenience is best
suited. This probably puts Mr..
Roosevelt in a pleasant frame of
mind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

About all the sympathy in the
world ought to go out to Patrick
Flynn, of Glenwood Springs, Colo.
He surely has experienced the limit
of hard luck. He was out of work
and at the point of starving when he
Sawned his false teeth for one dol
lar with which he bought some food.
And then he could not eat the food
because he did not have any teeth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

President Roosevelt's various spec
ial messages to congress have devel-
oped the fact that he Is unusually
versatile in the use of words and
phrases They show that he can say
the same thing in several different
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

It's good thing that the pay of
congressman has been materially in
creased. Their wives and women
folk are talking seriously of organic
ing a club and maintaining the club
house where they can gather and get
acquainted with each other. And,
naturally. the congressman will have
to foot the bills. They will not be in
rOnSidarab1e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

The Chicago Tribune now has a
standing headlne which 1t runs over
q certain kind of daily cablegrams of
alleged news from Italy. 1t is "Our
Sagan-Goulo Department"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

Governor Hoch does not believe in
that pernicious practice of sweating"
which peace officers indulge in to OBJ
tain information or confessions from
persons who are arrested on criminal
charges. Neither does anyone else
who has a spark of decency in his
make-uD,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

Kansas now glories in a woman
probate judge. Governor Hoch has
appointed Mrs. Levi Cooper to act in
that capacity for Mitchell county.
Among other things, this draws atten-
ton to an anomalous condition of
affairs in the state. Women may hold
elective offices but they do not enjoy
the rights of franchise except at
municipal elections.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member q the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news Or
Sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received In The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole puf-
Dose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
ways.
No wonder unclaimed freight a

No wonder unclaimed freight and
express sales are so popular. Ever
and again are folks discovering veri-
table gold mines in them. Take the
case of a Kalamazoo barber. He
bought a trunk for $3.50 and found
In it $4,000 worth of lace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
HE TALKS TOO MUCH.


He always has SO much to say:
It's one unceasing babble.
1 always want to get away
where can't hear him gable
All interruption he defies,
To my great indignation:
he wants to just monopolize
The whole blamed conversation.
He talks of this and talks of that,
DEPRESSING and explaining
All stale. Improbable, flat,
In nowise entertaining.
sometimes I've views I'd like to state
While his he is expressing,
Or anecdotes might relate:
so this is most distressing.
But his is all the voice that's heard;
III not a voice you'd take to,
simply can't get in word,
Although really ache to.
l wish he'd go and hire a hall
Ut need not be too spacious)
Ut that I could his speech forestall,
But he's too darned loquacious
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

Winter f1annels and overcoats have
been mighty popular around these
parts during the past few days, as
were the gas stoves that had not been
ghelved for the summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

It's too good to be rrue-this news
that Raisuli has been assassinated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29

Oklahoma can always be depend
ed upon to do the unusual. Governor
Haskell has set apart May Z as le-
nj holiday when mass meetings Will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-29
FROM OTHER PENS
FIVE NOTED MEN.

In the opinion of the Washington
correspondent Of a New York paper
President Roosevelt has singled out
five men whom he considers the great
est Americans of the day-and they are
all Democrats. The president has in
vited Grover Cleveland, w. ]. Bryan,
J. J. Hill, John Mitchell and Andrew
Carnegie to meet the governors OF the
states in conference at the White
House next month to discuss the con-
servation of our national resources. OF
course, q man as polite as the pres
ent occupant Of the White House would
not think Of calling his five guests the
nations greatest men; that was side
deduction Of the correspondent. The
fact that all the governors, the mem
bers of the cabinet, of the federal SUI
preme court and Of the national water
ways commission are to attend In their
ident could not, naturally, invite him
self, may have limited his field in Sc
Letting the five greatest men.
1t is a safe guess that the president
had no such idea in mind when he
picked the five for special invitations.
greatest men of the day in America
would be fruitless as we'll as impossi-
ble but thousands would insist that
one of the five must be the man who
in the present case issued the invita-
lions. Each Of the five named is an
eminent representative of the great
American people; each stands for
something no other OF them does, ana
each may be considered an accredited
spokesman for his respective constitu-
ency No one will quarrel with the Sc
lection and few will insist that the
choice means anything more than in
dictated above.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE SOCIAL SENSE.
individually the average well-to-do
man is a kindly gentleman. Socially
he is a very rude and selfish perscn
who wouldn't shake hands with him
self if, as an individual, he should
meet his communal entity. Why is
there this disparity? Simply because
he holds aloof from fellowship with
in this average citizens house the citi-
zen would not think of drinking the
pure pasteurized milk and passing over
to the baby some dirty, germ-infested
milk There his individual sense
would assert itself. But his social
sense Is so little developed that he does
exactly that ungentlemanly. cruel
thing every day in the world.
But understand, this unsocial quail
ity is being cultivated into a really So
cial sense. Men and Women are learn
ing that it really is not polite to be
only polite to ones own immediate as
sociates. They are learning that ur-
banity and civility in the restricted
cover-a multitude Of sins to the help
less or weak ones of society. They
are not learning it fast enough, but
such knowledge as they have gained
grows with increasing momentum. The
sane and reasonable view of what at
titude individuals in society should
take to one another is certain to come
If men and women will Only heed the
bitter cry Of the children" and the sad
undertone of all our humanity. Ma
ture is on the side of the child" says
John Spargo truly. Men and women
In the social order ought to be as
ktndly.-Kansas City Star.
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Hailstones and CaterpiIlars.

An army of 200.000,000 caterpillars has
appeared in the Krugersdorp district,
which recently suffered severely from
a hailstorm.
Old colonists connect the visitation
with the recent fall of hail, and they
recall instances where plaques Of in
sects have invariably followed phe-
nomenal storm.
It is suggested that the stones carry
some germ which is launched into life
when the melting process begins, and
farmers who have penetrated deeply
into the mysteries of the veldt trace
the periodical visitations of hugo
swarms of butterflies and moths, and
even of the dreaded tick, to the evolu-
ton of a germ in the hailstone, de-
posted on the ground.
Venerable Free Staters now resident
in the district have vivid memories Of
frightful storms in the late. SOS and in
the early '70's, when similar caterpillar
plaques devastated the crops in the
conquered territory, and they also re-
call the interesting fact that when the
black insects arrived the locusts dis
Observation-Disclosures Herald.