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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28
HV1AOR or THE Day

Unrevised-caesar had Just sent his
three-word message. "Of course" he
admitted, II didn't have to have it re-
vised by ANYBODY" This accounted for
AND then there is many a man who
helps himself to stay poor by his deter
mination to maintain his reputation az
a good fellow.-Puck.
Pessimist Jones-How is it, Smith,
that you look SO hale and happy and
we'll? Optimist Smith-Every. time I
sit down to worry I fall asleep.-Chi-
Up Against It.-"These vacuum
cleaners are going to hurt the play
writing biz LAS to how?" "When
the housemaids become obsolete, what
are we going to do for soubrettes -
Kansas City Journal.
Had Heard None-'That man II an
idiot. He simply won't listen to rea-
son." How do you know ?"-Nashvills
Corrected.-Teacher- is wrong
about this sentence: II am 20 my last
birthday" Little Johnnie-It should be
40 instead Of "2o"-Clsveland Plain
Dealer.
Pleasant for the Lender.-'Thepe."
said Dudley, adding up the column Of
figures, "a total of 1852; guess that's
all-oh. no, there $50 forgot. Gee, I
wish somebody would lend me 1882
Can you do it. old man7' What for?"
demanded Markiey. why, I want to
get out Of debt. "-Philadeiphia Press.
Bringing 1t to Climax.-'T know
what's passing in your mind" suddenly
said the maiden as the habitually 81
lent caller stared at her. IT know too,
why you are calling here night after
night. appropriating my time to your
away. You want me to marry you.
don't your" II dol" gasped the
young man. II thought So Very well.
I will."-Tribune.
The Crucial Test.-"Do you consider
your nerve Is sufficiently steady to Mt
you for an airship navigator" well,
I've been out in a canoe with q nerv-
Gus fat girL"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
have a rabbits foot? Wagg-I might
If were a rabbit.-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
How He Advertised.-wife-Be sure
to advertise for Fido in the morning
newspapers. Next day the wife read
as follows ia the newspapers: Lost
A NANCY lapdog with one eye and no
tail Too fat to walk. Answers to the
name of Fido. If returned, stuffed.
large reward. "-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Useless Knowledge.-Adam and Eve
had just tasted of the tree OF know
ledge. TITS no fun" they mourneds
I'VE have no parents whose grammar
we can correct" Herein they felt they
had missed the chief 1oy.-New York
Sun.
Beenaway-So he led her to the altar
at last? Staidhome-Well, to be exact.
she pushed him.-Puck.
The Boss-"What's THAR" Office Boy
IT says, you better send out and git q
half dozen boys to do my work today:
I'm goin' to be sick about oc1ock!-
Harper's Bazaar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

Newspaper reporters are supposed
to be the most wide-awake people on
the face of the earth. Probably that
accounts for the fact that they are the
only ones who saw the marvellous
meteor that has been chasing around
Saline. Ellsworth and Osborne coun-
files Of late
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

Vivid imaginations are apparently
strong with the officers and men of
the United States army and various
national guards who are engaged in
maneuvers at Fort Riley. They lose
and win all sorts of battles and en-
gagements without so much as batting
an eyelash
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

"a Prohibitionist does not have to be
total abstainer. The Prohibitionist
r. the man who votes the Prohibition
ist ticket on election day because he
thinks the principles are right" This
is the latest dictum of Eugene W.
Chafin. the presidential nominee of the
Prohibitionist party
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

Holland has received a diplomatic
note from Castro concerning the diff
ferences between the two countries. 1t
Is one of defiance. That was to be ex-
pected and it's now up to the Dutch to
get busy. All nations will applaud
them IL they do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

Mulai Hafid. the new sultan of Mo-
rocco. is apparently only to be sultan
in name. France is busily engaged in
drawing up a set of rules and regula-
lions by which he shall conduct the
affairs of his country. So this being
sultan of Morocco is not so much of a
Job after all and is hardly worth go
ing TO war for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

Judge Thompson of the United
States court has decided at Cincin-
natl that imitation whisky must be so
labeled as to show just what it is. The
Chicago Record-Herald rightly sug-
gests that a simpler way would be just
to label it poison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

It's rather surprising to learn that
the government still owns more than
one hundred and seventy thousand
acres of land in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28
KANSAS COMMENT
RESTRAINT OF TRADE.

NCSIhAlNT OF IfADE
:, Few weeks ago the Gazette pub
lished a dispatch from a Connecticut
Town, telling Of a woman who had to
Do restrained from marrying her
eiehth husband before her seventh
was planted. She went and secured a
marriage license while the late No. z
was lying on ice in the spare bedroom,
and her friends felt that she was rush
ing Things unduly, and interfered.
NOW comes from Dodge, Neb., a
story concerning a woman who Is just
crying her eyes out after the obsequies
OF her fourteenth husband. And even
IN the midst Of her grief she Is said
teenth victim. Such stories are fire.
quent- There are women who seem
10 nave mania for collecting hus-
yard.
1t is obviously unfair to the women
OF reasonable ambitions who would be
content with one husband, or at most,
Two apiece. The female who goes
ahead marrying and planting men,
wearing a path from the minister's to
the undertaker's. and switching from
orange blossoms to widows weeds
every other week, stands in the same
reiatlon to society that Rockefeller
does to commerce. She must practice
some unlawful system of rebating in
order to build up such monopoly
and the authorities should arrest her
for restraint of legitimate trade. Hus-
panos are scarce and valuable arti-
Gle In this country, and no woman or
group of women should be permitted
to corner the market and make it i'm
possible for the small operator to do
business.-Emporia Gazette.
CHINA's OPIUM CRUSADE.
China is trying hard to put a stop
on opium smoking, and the efforts in
this direction are such that China is
apt to be successful. All efforts at put
ting on the cid" to check the liquor
traffic in this country pale into mildest
coaxing compared with the methods
of the Chinese government to prohibit
the seductive poppy pill. Lately, a
non-commissioned officer of the army
was caught smoking opium by a de-
tective, and the general commanding
sentenced the offender to be beheaded.
The troops were formed to witness the
execution of sentence, when all bowed
low to the general, and explained that
the officer was not addicted to the
opium habit, but was smoking 1t at
the time he was discovered, as a medi-
cine. The general then COMMITTED the
sentence to $500 1ashes and dishonor-
able discharge, adding that there
would be no more leniency; that
opium smokers in the army would be
promptly decapitated. - Atchison
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

mt think that anyone in Kansas cares
a rap because he has said that this is
state of cranks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28
A GOOD sUBsrIrUTE.

Unwritten law murder cases, socalled,
have been occurring in Kansas lately
with too great frequency. The injured
parties in the conduct leading up to
such cases would do better to resort
to the methods pursued by the two in
jured husbands in Washington, who
recently applied coat OF tar and feath-
ers to the man who sought to break
up their homes. Murder brings too
much grief, even when the man needs
killing.-Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

You refuse to cash my check for $100?"
Yes" And yet you offer to lend me
S1O?' '1 do" II don't understand you. "
sssWell. isn't 80 worth saving f'-cleveland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28
Unnerred When Lights Went Out.

Superstition had much to do last night
with preventing the escape of a MUIR
derer after he had killed another man
with jealousy on account of a wO-
man as the mOtive-during a quarre
In the house at 1910 Taylor alley Just
as Henry Adams had left his enemy
Grant Royce, lying nfeless in the hall
way and was preparing to escape, al
the street lights in the neighborhood
suddenly were extinguished because OF
some trouble at the electric light plant
and the dogs in the alley set up q
mournful and forlorn bowling. Every
colored man, woman. and child in the
street took cover like rabbits to their
warrens, closed and barred the doors
and put out their lights, thinking some
terrible calamity was Detailing thai
part of the city. All this so unnerved
his fallen foe and was an easy cap
ture for the police, who arrived a few
moments later.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Few Elopements In Mexico.
Not long since, while in San Anto-
MO, Texas, / stopped at hotel, in the
parlors of which occurred a very pretty
and romantic wedding" said Mr.. E. "
Turner, of Memphis. Tenn, at the Stat
ford. 1.-The principals. were a young
Mexican OF great wealth and high So
cial position and beautiful young
woman Of the same nationality. They
had Travelled over 1000 miles to get
married in the United States, for, ow-
ing to the rigid laws of their own land
they were not able to wed at home.
The reason was in the brides youthful
ness. She was only IL, and in Mexico,
unless the fair ones parents and
guardians agree. no priest dare Join in
wedlock II the woman is under 81. In
the sister republic they punish severe
ly for any infraction of this statute,
and hence runaway marriages are OF
the most unusual occurrence. "-Balti-
more American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28


with singing sarcasm, "that is just
the trouble. I've heard too much from
you already"
"Now. please listen. The train was
late night before last, we were derail-
ed just the other side of the draw, and
I couldn't very well swim all the way
here, could II"
"Is that all you have to say?" in
quired Sibyl. but the tone OF her
voice was a bit softer.
Except that I love you and
"And my maid as well, suppose"
finished Sibyl.
"Don't bee a foolish girl, dear. You
have a prize in Louise. If you'll prom
Use not to discharge her, I'll tell you q
secret. It was Louise who arranged
this campaign-it was she who sug-
gested my writing her letter that
would reach you. Shes prlck' Ill
right, is Louise"
Sibyl opened her eyes wide and
stared at Judson-for a moment.
"You mean to tell me that stupid
French girl planned all this to give
you a chance to explain" unused SibyL
But, why?"
at hunted her up and told her you
were angry with me because 1 kept
YOU waiting nearly two hours. She
understood it was not my fault. II you
would not!"
but how can you explain about be-
ing with Miss Lawton! suggested
Sibyl.
easily" assured Judson. "She was
on the same train with me. and 1t was
late and dark, and she was afraid and
7 offered to see that she landed safey
under her parental roof. Surely no
decent American could do less, could
he?"
.sWell-but-" Siby1 felt that she
was caught in a closely woven net. and
was trying-though not very hard-to
ind an opening. Harry looked very
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

Pleasant for the Lender.-'Thepe
said Dudley, adding up the column o
figures, "a total of $3.50; I guess thas'
all-oh. no, there $50 I forgot. Gee!
wish somebody would lend me $ss2
Can you do it, old man?" What for p
demanded Markley. why, I want I,
get out Of debt. Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13
Albany Oil Hearing DeveI-
ops Some Interesting
Testimony.
BRIBERY AS A WEAPON
Agents of Competitors Paid
For Treachery---Marked
Bills in Evidence.

Albany, n. Y. Feb. 13-Six witness
es were examined today in the hearing
in connection with the suit brought
by the United States government to
dissolve the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey.
Gave Free OIL.
Testimony was given to the effect
the Standard officials offered to give
free oil to dealers who refused to buy
from the Standard. 1t was also
brought out an attempt was made to
show that oil sold by a competitor of
the Standard to merchants of Pitts
field, Mass, was short about five gal
Ions on each barrel, and that a driver
employed by the competitor was offer
ed S. month to send reports of
freight shipments made by this com
pany to New York
Marked Bills In Evidence.
Marked bills, which, it was claimed
were paid this driver for his reports
were offered in evidence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13
Military Aid Secured to
Protect Life and Prop
erty in Alaska.
STRIKERS RIOT0Us
Marshal Presses ESQ Deputies
Into Service at the Town
of Fairbanks.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 13.-By di'
rection of the president, Acting Secre-
tary Oliver today ordered a company
of infantry from Fort Gibbon in Alaska
TO Fairbanks, in that territory. to pre-
serve order during the mining strike
in that section. The action was taken
upon representation from the United
States court in Alaska to the attorney
general that the presence of federal
troops was needed
SwcaFs In Deputies.
Fairbanks. Alaska, Feb. 13.-United
States Marshal Perry has sworn i'll
$50 special deputies for the protection
of life and property against riotous
mobs of strikers who are congregated
on the streets. The mObs have been
attempting to capture recent arrivals
here with a view of deporting them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13
MINISTER'S WIFE TRIED TO SELL
14.YEAR.OLD DAUGHTER TO SMELL

Clinton, H., Feb. 13.-The sordid
story of how a mother tried to sell
her daughter to millionaire was told.
chapter by chapter, in court room
here yesterday when the letters found
in the old leather trunk of Colonel
Thomas Smell were read to the jury.
In these letters, written by the wife
of Rev. E. A. Hamilton, Methodist
minister, expressions of affection alter
mated with appeals for money, and
ever dangling before the eyes of the
old man was the young girl whose hap
piness mother was ready to sacrifice
for gold.
Attorney E. ]. Sweeney, represent
ing Dick Smell, who seeks to. break
his fathers. s2,O0O,OeO will, started to
read the missives in a voice so low as
to be inaudible to all save the court
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13

and jury, but bystanders pressed for
ward in their eagerness to miss no de-
tail OF. the story until It was necessary
for him to elevate his voice in order
that the jury might hear
Only few of the letters were read
to give an idea of the nature of the
correspondence, and, by agreement,
the names of women referred to were
suppressed.
81 will soon have her where you
want her." wrote this mother, after
asking for 800. IF you would give
me a home like you did B., how !
would have loved you for it. Don't
forget to fix that WILL Won't you
won't you, sweetheart? Darling, dc
give me all the money want"
The reading of the love letters crea
ted a sensation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13
POSTAL DEPARTMENT
OPEN TO SMALL MEN
| Regulation Prohibiting Employing
Those Under Certain Standard
Has Been Removed.

Washington, Feb. 13.-An order has
been issued by Postmaster General
Meyer abrogating the regulations here
tofore enforced respecting the height
and weight of postal clerks. The reg
ulation which was enforced by the
civil service commission provided ap-
plicants for positions as postal clerks
should be 5 feet inches in height
and at least 125 pounds in weight. In
the opinion of postal officials such a
regulation is unnecessary and some
times embarrassing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13
WISCONSIN WILL BE
SOLID FOR BRYAN
Expected to Have All Delegates to the
Denver Convention Without
Any Opposition.

Milwaukee, Wis, Feb. 13.-The
democrats will meet in state conven-
tion this afternoon to choose four
delegates at large and ratify the Sc
lection of % district delegates to the
National convention to be held at
Denver. The delegates named at this
convention will be elected at a pri-
mary election to be held in a few
weeks.
That the delegation which will go
to the national convention will be
unanimous for the nomination of Bryan
is a foregone conclusion. every county
convention sending delegates to the
state convention having passed reso-
lutions endorsing the Nebraskan. The
big contest in the convention which
will not be pulled off until tomorrow
will be over the choosing of delegates
at large to the national gathering.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13
YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS

Washington, Feb. 13.-Following are
in brief, the proceedings of the two
houses of congress yesterday as taken
from the official records:
SENATE-Senator Rayner of Mary
land spoke at length in the senate on
the currency bill. The senate devoted
two hours to considering the criminal
code bill. and at 4:37 p. m. adjourned.
HOUSE-The tariff question and the
presidents message We're the principal
the course of the concluding debate on
the Indian appropriation bill the pro-
ceedings We're enlivened by Messrs.
Hamill and Leake of New Jersey. both
democrats. discussing the virtues and
faults of William ]. Bryan. Mr.. Leake
reasserted his charge that Mr.. Bryan
did not represent the principles for
which democracy stood. At sos p. m.
the house adjourned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13
JEWELRY THE MOST COSTLY LUXURY
AMERICANS BUY, FIGURES SHOW

Philadelphia, Feb. 13.-At today's
session of the convention of the Pres
byterian Mems Foreign Missionary So
ciety now being held in this city, a
map showing the comparative number
of followers of the various religious
beliefs of the world was placed on ex-
hibition. The figures follow: Jews,
11,222,000; Greeks, 120,157 900; Pro-
testants, 66,G66,5O0; Mohammedans,
216,630,0C0; Roman Catholics, 272 $685.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13
RUIN IN POLITICS
DR.. Frank Billings Gives His
View of Present Condition
of institutions
UNDER STATE CHARITIES
lntimates That Little Is to Be Expected
of investigation, Which Is
Also Tainted.

Chicago, Feb. 13.-Politics has been
the ruin of the state charitable insti.
tutions, Dr. Frank Billings testified
yesterday before the legislative inves
tigating committee. Politics, he said,
has put them in such a deplorable
condition that with all the money the
legislature can pour into them, and
improvement, it will take from three
to five years to make them what they
now should be.
During past administrations" DR..
Billings said, ''the state institutions
were prostituted for politics The con-
ditions which ought to be improved are
the result of those damnable years of
administrations under politics.
THE time has come when politics
will have less to do with it. If your
committee can help you in that direc-
tion--with report of that sort-all
right"
Inquiry Not Sincere.
DR.. Billings did not say it, but inti-
mated, however, that he did not eX-
pect much help from the committee.
He gave the impression that he
thought the committee was busy play
ing politics itself.
In his view the board has done moth
ing but improve. And in his view also
the condition is not so bad as it has
been represented to be. Much of the
roc ell fn, hor
done he placed upon the legislature
for not making more generous appro.
priations. Money that was needed, es-
pecially for improving physical condi.
tions. giving proper ventilation and
heating, he said, had been refused by
the legislature.
Went to Limit of Funds.
DR.. Billings testified that recommen
dations for all the improvements need
ed had been made either to the gov.
just as many had been made as money
had been provided for He declared
that there have been great improve
ments in the care of patients, especial
| ly at Lincoln, where the burning Of
the GirouX boy started the investiga
| ton.
AS to the things needed to bring the
institutions up to the standard neces
sary, he advised more liberal appro
priations, civil service for all EN-
ployes, a general purchasing board tc
buy supplies for all the institutions
the elimination of politics, and pub
licity.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-13
FALLS UPON Yates
Brunt of Battle of Disaffected
Republican Against De-
neen His to Bear.
WILL RUN FOR GOVERNOR
Series of Interviews at Chicago Gives
Impression Announcement Will
Be Made Soon.

Chicago. Feb. 13-Politicians last
evening put it down as the zone best
bet" that former Governor Richard
Yates will be an open candidate for
the republican nomination as governor
within few days. This carries with
ii the promise that he will be the only
+one to oppose Governor Deneen at the
August primaries. Judge Willard NJ.
McEwen practically has withdrawn in
favor of the Yates candidacy, and it
is taken for granted Speaker Shurtleff
will do likewise. although he would
only joke about the matter during the
day. No new aspirants are looked for
under present conditions.
Was '.MysterIous Stranger"
Mr.. Yates did not say so himself, but
he let his friends say it for him. In
fact, he acted the part of 1.-The mys-
terious stranger within our midst,
staying in Chicago the entire day. but
not registering at any hotel and busy
ing himself with seeing people the
best way he could find them. Former
State Senator Len Small of Kankakee,
however. took headquarters in room
500 of the Stratford, and this place
was at Mr. Yates disposal.
The former governor refused to say
anything about his plans. but an an.
nouncement was made by a man who
generally is understood to be in his
confidence.
Has Received Assurances.
1t was:
That the governor has received as
surances from friends. not only in
Chicago but throughout the state, that
he would have active support in all
sections if he threw his cap into the
ring. That he had been given evi
dence that in a single handed fight
between himself and Governor Deneen
he had more than an even chance OF
winning, and that he could be assured
of fair treatment in Cook county.
This last point was the one he was
most anxious about
He did not sec Mayor Busse during
the day, but ii was said that was not
considered necessary. The word which
had been brought to him from the
mayors office was that Mr. Busse did
not intend to mix up in the fight.
announcement Likely Soon.
On the other hand, Mr.. Yates was
told by the Lorimer faction it would
| do everything it could to get votes tC
the primaries for him and he could
depend on the anti-Deneen sentiment
throughout the city rallying around
him in case there were only two can
didates. So he went to Morgan Parl
iE the evening to deliver a Lincolr
birthday address, leaving the impres
sion that an announcement of his can
didacy would be made in a compare
lively short time