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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

He did not know; he never, never
dreamed it. You, you only, had his
love and all OF 1t; and, oh, could not
help II! Surely have suffered enough
and l never, never meant to wrong
you.''
Miss Rachel stood so still she
might have been carved of stone. too
terribly bewildered for the simplest
form of thought But her sister,
bowed with shame, went on with her
passionate pleading
Cant You forgive me, Rachel,
when he never, never knew and you
had all his love?''
Miss Rachel's voice trembled
But Steve-Stephen Loring?''
He caught my girlish fancy,
Rachel. But when found out how
l felt-about-your Andrew sent
Steve away and resolved to live alone
as a punishment for my sin. And the
next week Andrew died suddenly
his heart all yours to the last oh,
Rachel, sister, you cannot forgive me,
know! I will go away--alone--''
Hush, ehild,' said Miss Rachel
sternly, 81 have nothing to forgive.
You are the greater sufferer, as you
have always been. But go away for
a while-I want to be alone"
Next morning the sun had scarcely
Rachel opened an unused gate and
went over to her neighbours. In her
hand she held the tiny package of
seed she had placed last night on her
desk.
Next year two rows of sunflowers
nodded across. the fence-the same
low picket fenCe-not by any means
six feet gh.-(Copyrighted, 1903. by
Associated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News !

[Fron the Chicago News
You can't always Judge the dinner
by the price.
A well digger says there's always
room at the bottom.
The average girl would rather be
In love than be happy.
If we didn't have to work there
would be no fun in loafng.
Speeches. amazement is one of the
things that go without saying.
Do everything reason tells you to
do-unless conscience vetoes it.
If you are in small place it may
be because you won't fit in a big place.
All the world may be a stage. but
just the same st1ge money does not
pass.
The optimist expects to get a good
hand even when the other fellow shut
fies and deals.
The way to make a woman happy
is to make her believe that she is
making you unhappy.
One trouble with fate is that IL
hands us corn beef and cabbage when
we want pie and Ice cream.
The man who believes that two can
live as cheaply as one never had to
reckon with milliners and dress
makers.
Even the Bible reading girl is ant
to be skeptica1 when she turns to the
page where the date of her birth q
recorded
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

he continued to be heard for a day
or two, demanding of the finance
committee an explanation of the pro-
posed duties on white lead and pig
lead and bullion. One of the things
the senator from Kansas particular
ly wants to know is why the commit
tee recommends a duty of $3.50 a
ton for the smelling of lead when
the total cost of smelling is only IS
ton. Up to the present writing he
has not been able to get satisfae-
tory explanation OF this upside
down protection"
Since this was written has come
the announcement from Washington
that Mr.. Bristow won a partial VIC
tory at least in his fight on the lead
schedules. When the matter was
finally shaped up Senator .Aldrich
and his friends agreed to a reduction
of these schedules as they had
originally proposed them and this is
about the only successful fight that
has been made in the senate so far
against any of the tariff plans of Mr..
AIdrich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
QUAKER fluctuations.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Many a man is merely his wife,s
understudy.
The Ice man is quite satisfied To
have his customers take the cake.
If you have any doubts about a
strange bed look before you sleep.
Any boarding house mistress will
tell you that none but the brave de-
serve the fare.
Some fellows act as though thew
were afraid to sneeze for fear of blow
ing their brains out.
It's when a girl snuggles closest to
her best young man that she has
faraway look in her eyes.
Before he makes a name for him
self many young man has to nm
make the one he has already made.
Blobbs-a'Scribbler says he is
writing a book called The Chauf-
feur'.' Slobbs-"Auto biography.
suppose"
Wigg-"What was the occasion Of
General Sherman's remarking that war
is hell?" Wagg-I suppose he had
been obliged to sit through one Of
those military plays
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t Is difficult to discover anything
new because there are SO few new
things.
Some singing merely serves the
good purpose of making listener for
get his other troubles.
4 X
The women who say they will never
speak to their husbands again are
great jokers generally.
n y
An Individual who becomes welded
to art is likely to lead most unsatis-
factory existence.
\
Women frequently have expensive
rugs and fancy furniture sent home
on approval just before they give
party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

the first hard rain would wash the
bikes away or cut them up so that they
would be worthless. Well, such a rain
came, as severe a one as could be de-
sired, and it did not cause the dikes
to bat an eyelash. There was no flood
in the Kaw to test the holding quail
ties of the bikes along its banks on
the north side of the river. but there
was good high water in Soldier creek
and the new bikes along it did all that
was expected of them. Good for the
bikes and the men who built them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rErorn the Atchison Globe.l

TFrOm the Atcn1SOn OIODe.1
what is known as strong will pow
err is usually pure devilishness.
Most people have good hearts. but
MANY of them have mighty poor heads
After a man marries. the only dis
tinction he can hope for is that of be-
ing a good provider.
Don't expect to make every scheme"
go. If one in 20 goes you will be
doing we'll.
There is such thing as constancy
to an old lover: When no other man
Cor woman) comes along
When there isn't much else to dis
tinguish a magazine, You will observe
that the printer fails to indent the par
agraphs.
When you receive letter from wo-
man, it is always safe to bet that you
will find this sentence in 1t: L am
not at all well"
We cannot get up much enthusiasm
over lettuce as food. STILL we know
nice men who are fond of lettuce, and
vino are very proud of a salad they
make to eat with It,
Art note: Plate rails have gone out
OF style. and the woman who has plates
that cost as high as % cents each will
hereafter have to stack them like the
common kind at so cents a dozen.
This broadening that living in a
large city is supposed to have, means
that people there can ride longer
way on the street cars for five cents,
and wear a greater exaggeration in
hats without being laughed at
Every little while we meet people who
study the science Of rearing children,
and we seldom like them. They read
in books how, to act before the chill
dren are born, and what to think about,
but they usually have worse looking
children than their neighbors. The or
binary catch as catch-ca children are
always the best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
HUHOR OF THE DAY

Ethel-'wasn't he. grand? He said my
complexion reminded him of peaches
Milton.-"He should have said canned
peaches"
Ethel-"Canned peaches?"
Milton-"Yes; preserved by chemicals. -
Chicago News.
Generous Lady-Here. my little boy, I
know you are hungry for box Of these
animal crackers. Boy-Much obliged, lady;
but my folks is observation-disclosures.
'If you agree with everything a person
says that person will think you have good
Judgment "I dunno. I've tried that un-
successfully on my wife. ''-Pittsburg Post
The Doctor-Young man it will not do
for you to stick in an office. You must get
out doors-must have air. BY the way,
what is your occupation? Patient-I am an
aeronaut.-Life.
a poet has just starved to death; Let
us rather wait for his centenary, collect
a number of wreaths and have public
speaking. Courier-Journal
What was that thing you put in my
MOUTH gasped the patient "A rubber
verse the words, docki' sighed the victim
Cleveland Leader.
Mystified MabeI-Mother cat lunch)-
Yes, darling, these little sardines are
sometimes eaten by the larger fish. Mabel
(aged 5)-But, mamma, how do they get
the cans open?-Boston Transcript.
Fried Sole.-Bootmaker Ito Arctic ex-
plorer just returned)-Iow did you like
those boots made you, sir? Arctic Ex-
plorer-Excellent. Best ever tasted.-The
Taller.
A Poor Memory.-"Have you forgotten
that you owe me SIP Dear, dear, 1 had
forgotten. My memory is miserable-but
wasn't 1t only $6.39?'-FIiegende Blaetter.
An Observation-Disclosures your father
give you auto? Bocker-Yes, but he
didn't endow it.-Harpers Bazaar.
Quite Dinerent.-'There goes a man who
has made great deal of money dealing in
futures A wheat speculator?" mo; a
fortune teller. baltimore American.
At the Directors Meeting.-Member of
the Board-You, sir, are the biggest idiot
have ever met! Chairman-Order! You
seem to forget that am in the rooml-
London Opinion.
Expert Aid.-When a mans money is
tied up there is nothing like a wife to
unite it for him.-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

The noblest thing about a mother is
that she isn't father.
Most of a mans education is acquired
by unteaching himself what he learned
at school.
A man gets so nervous waiting to
learn whether It's a boy or a girl that
he can't be much worse II it turns out
to he twins.
= If there's no other way to have one
a woman could pour kerosene oil over
the doghouse, SO as to be able to speak
of it as the garage.
The thing that makes woman proud
est of her husband is for somebody to
get him mixed up with another man
of the same name who is famous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
Radium in Surgery.

Sir Frederick Treves considers that
we have practically reached the thera-
peutic limitations of the X-rays, the
high frequency current, and the Fin
sen light, but that in radium we still
have UNEMPLOYED fields of usefulness.
This writer believes, without desir-
ing to raise false hopes, that radium
will cure every form OF naevus,
whether it is a port wine stain, a pig
mented mole or a hairy mole, and ro-
dent ulcer, which has not yielded to
the Finsen light or the X-rays, and
that. too, in two sittings of one hour
each wonders are also accom- plished
in the early stages of epithelioma of
the lip and tongue.-British Medical
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

Shall naval surgeons have absolute
command of naval hospital ships is a
question that disturbed the Roosevelt
administration greatly and it has now
been forced to the attention of Mr.. Taft.
From the fuss that naval officers are
making about this question they ap-
parently consider it of more moment
than the enactment of tariff legislation,
when as a matter Of fact it is scarcely
worth discussing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

Many of the United States senators
were certainly in their element when
the wood schedule in the tariff bill
was taken up for consideration by
them, that is. if they are the block
heads that a good many people credit
them with being.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

Venezuela would seem to be rubbing
it in on one, Castro. Its courts have
decided that he must pay many thou
sands of dollars in rent for palace
that he occupied without authority.
There is nothing very strange, though
in the confiscation of this castle by
Castro. He apparently did not need
authority for any of his acts while he
was the boss of the South American
renublic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

There is not much news in the re-
ports from Washington that a big
fight is in prospect in the senate when
the proposition to impose an income
tax comes up for attention A fight
of considerable proportions has de-
veloped in the senate on each and
every Identical feature of the tariff
legislation that has been considered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

1t takes all kind of men to make
world and that is probably as good a
reason as any to explain the actions
of a New Yorker who is really sorry
that he is going to prison. for term of
only five years. He wishes it was for
life because he is more happy and con-
tented in ison than he is on the out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

Among the idiosyncrasies of Abdul
Hamid. the deposed sultan of Turkey,
was his employment of no less than
three hundred cooks. No wonder he
had a continual crouch on. Think
of the broth that must have been
spoiled in his kitchen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

England may be pardoned for ex-
periencing a real German scare" if
there is any truth in a report which
is circulating there to the effect that
the Germans have established in the
center of London depot of arms
containing $4,000 Mauser rifles to-
gether with TIA million rounds Of
ammunition for the use of $4,000
trained German soldiers now en-
ployed in various capacities in Great
Britain. Will some one please rise up
and explain just exactly what it is
that England and Germany have to
fight about?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

'The artist who has been divorced
from his second affinity" says the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat, finds little
support in proposing to seek another
of his souls mates. Wobblers on the
stability of marriage never have been
lucky in their samples
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

Pessimists on the subject of the eff
cacy of the dixes which have been built
around North Topeka received some
thing of Jar to their opinions during
the recent storms. Some of these
eauItnnders went so far as to state that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

In an article on the consideration
of the tariff measure in the senate
the current issue of the Literary Di-
gest prints the pictures of a group
~ Republican senators who are la
belled as the insurgents against the
Aldrich crowd and in this galaxy are
the pictures of Senators Curtis and
Bristow of Kansas. This group
might we'll have been designated as
''the senate honor roll"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
London,s Erudite Cabmen.

The two cabmen authors who have
just been brought to light deserve a
place beside the erudite driver discov-
cred by Sir Frederick Bridge. This
cabman often drove Sir Frederick
home from the Albert Hall after the
performances of the Royal Choral
society, and one evening as he received
his fare he astonished the eminent
conductor by criticising the tempo at
which he took some of the Messiah"
choruses on a previous occasion. This
started friendship between the mu-
stefan and the cabman, and the for
mer discovered in the latter very
solid foundation of musical knowledge
and got to think highly of his. opin-
ions. On one occasion, indeed, the
cabman asked him to perform new
oratorio by Perosi (Which Sir Fred
eriek had not then SEEM and offered
to lend him copy of the score.-Lon-
don News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

A photograph of Carrie Nations
new home on her Arkansas farm will
lead every one to the conclusion that
she is about to undertake a course in
the simple life. What a change it
will be for her?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

The New York Evening Post has
discovered why Mr.. Hartman is going
abroad 1t says 1t is because he has
learned that the emperor of Russia
has given the emperor of China a toy
railroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20

America and Americans. This leads
the Chicago Record-Herald to believe
that he is booked up for the chau-
tauqua circuit this season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
VICTORY.

How poor his trdumphs is whose venture
pays
it SO;
Have pulled the strings and seheued in
cunning ways
To drag him UP or boost him from be-
low.
How evanescent his poor pride must be,
How often he must nurse vain regret,
How often weakly wish that he were free
To scorn those who have placed him in
their debt.
How splendid is his triumph who has won
Alone, unaided, honor and renown,
Who owes no thanks and rises to his own
Despite the worlds attempts to keep
him down.
$. E. Kiser in the Chicago Record
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Another instance of the fact that
the possession of millions of dollars
does not necessarily make for hap
piness is found in the securing of a
divorce by Mrs. Frank Gould.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
KANSAS COMHENT
HIS TRAINING SCHOOL.


A news dispatch says that Senator
Bristow's tariff debate last week,
winch mas attracted much attention,
IS the third debate in which he has
peen engaged. This is far from being
correct. Senator Bristow's training
schooi as a. debater was in the Biblical
Literary society of Baker university,
which next to its rival, the Athenian
Literary society of the same institu-
ton, to which the editor of the Trib-
une mas the honor of belonging, is the
pest debating training school in the
state. The Kansas senator years ago
participated before that society in
deDates as hotly contested as any he
VIII ever engage in at Washington.
me brlstling of his eyebrows and the
Wafilke glare he gave Senator A1drich
the other day, and the pointing of his
long, pony finger, are little matters he
cultivated week after week very care
fully in those early days of his life,
under the tutelage of his societys
critic, and his recent fight for recogni-
ton and the privilege of being heard
was but repetition of his efforts to
get the floor during an old time society
business session scrap, when the lead
ers of an opposing faction were trying
to shut him off by moving to table
some pet motion of his. Don't i'm
aglne that Bristow was mixing up in
any game new to him the other day.
his literary society training gave him
debating wrinkles the United States
senate has on it's list. The senate is
said to be the greatest training school
for debaters in the world, but the
tribune doubts if it is any better than
the old debating societies of Baker
university where Joe Bristow and Phil
Campbell and Henry Allen and Bishop
Quayle and long list of others first
won their debating spurs.-Chanute
Tribune.
ROOSEVELT FOR MAYOR.
What happy suggestion that was
OF General Stewart L. Woodford that
ex-President Roosevelt be elected as
mayor of Greater New York! 1t is
like flash of genius and it holds no
end of suggestion for the rest of the
country.
If a president would make a good
mayor, why not governor a good
torney? A congressman good county
clerk? And a cabinet officer a good
street commissioner?
Why not reverse the course of pro-
motion. anyway? If there is a good
man in any community let's try him
out by electing him president of the
United States. If he makes good in
that office, instead of going the whole
length suggested by General Wood
ford, let's put him in the cabinet of a
successor or send him to the United
States senate for a term If he fits
in there, elect him a representative in
congress. Then try him as the COVER
nor of the state. and so on down
through the state offices and legisla-
ture. Finally give him try at the
county and municipal offices and if
true when tried, finally shove him up
to the very pinnacle of eminence and
make him dog-catcher. a-.-
There's food for much thought in
General Stewart L. Woodford's sug-
gestion. 1t is such a proposition as
might be expected from a gentleman
who wears pink whiskers.-Hu
Inson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
FOR ECONOMY.

1t is not safe Position that any
thing goes just so it is at the govern
ment expense. The government has
been run too wide open. It is time to
economic. If there Is to be tariff
reduction it means less revenue. There
is no other way. If the tariff must
come down the government expenses
must be shaded also. The income tax
offers one solution but the reduction
in expenses of operating the govern
ment is along sane and sensible bust
ness lineS.-Lawrence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-20
FRON OTHER PENS
PERSIAN LIBERALS WIN.

The Shah of Persia has proclaimed
another constitution and has ordered
the holding of new elections. This un-
doubtedly is aresult of the protests
of foreign powers on account of the
continued disorders in the country.
Even Russia has Joined with Great
Britain in these protests. and a Rus
sian relief expedition is now on the
way to Tabriz. The Shah is con-
fronted with the danger of losing con-
siderable parts of his territory to for
eign powers If he does not make
peace with his subjects.
The constitution which was wrung
from the Shah at the beginning of his
reign was withdrawn in June of last
year and the Parliament was forcibly
dissolved. The reactionary movement
at that time resembled in many ways
the dissolution of the first Russian
Douma, and there were many indica-
lions that the Shah was closely imi-
tating, if he were not directly instiga-
ted by, Russian rulers. The Persian
| liberals, however, have kept up the
fight. 1t has been much such a war
as the Cuban rebellion. The liberals
have had few victories, but they have
forced the Shah to terms by their per-
tinacity in keeping up the conflict.
The liberal triumph is much less
complete than is the victory OF the
Young Turks in Turkey. but it is
very notable fact that liberalism
should have made any progress at all
| in such a country as Persia. where
| the bare idea of popular liberty mas
| not existed until within the last few
years-Buffa1o Express.
| COMPARATIVE VALUES.
One of the big modern battleships
costs about S1O,0oo,0O0. And single
shot from one of it's eight to twelve
big guns costs, including depreciation
| of the weapon, about $500. Ship and
| guns will not last over 10 to 15 years,
| even if naval progress doesn't sooner
make the type obsolete. Moreover, the
big-ship and big-gun fashion which
| the battle of Tsushima encouraged,
| shows signs of reaction. The Japs and
| the Russians were not at all equally
matched here Evidence for the
| Dreadnaught type of ship is not at
| all conclusive. No one knows as should
| be known whether these g1orified iron
| pots are the last best word or not.
/ Ten millions would endow a first
class college, build huge hospital
with ample funds to run it, would de-
velop a big stretch of inland water
! way, or build and fill Carnegie in
| stitute. Many a boy or girl has gone
| clear through college on the half of
! $1,000. Many a farmer has made a
| good living and raised family on less
/ than an $500 farm. Many a happy
! though humble city home has cost less
than this sum. Here are some facts
worth thinking about, especially when
| if all the big nations build all the big
| ships they can afford they will then
| be on precisely the same relative foot
| ing as before, but with their mon
/ ey spent and every incentive to fight
| to get its worth out of their invest
| lnent In war gear.-Pittsburg Post.