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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
CLOVER.

Little masters, hat in hand.
Let me In your presence stand
TIL your silence solves for me
This, your threefold mystery
Tell ne-for I long to know
How, In darkness there below,
Was your fairy fabric spun,
Spread and fashioned. three in one.
Did your gossips gold and blue,
Sky and sunshine, choose for you,
Ere your triple forms were seen,
Suited liveries of green?
Can ye-f We dwell indeed
Captives of a prison seed
Like the Genie. once again,
Get you back into the grain?
Little masters, may stand
In your presence, hat in hand,
Waiting till you solve for me
This, your threefold mystery?
John b. Tabb.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

France is probably trembling in her
shoes. Mr.. Castro announces that he
Is going to bring suit against that
country because he was not permitted
to remain on the island of Martinique,
He has an idea that he has been horri-
bly, insulted AS matter of fact he
has been getting a little Of the same
medicine that he dealt out with such a
free hand when he was president OF
Veuezuela
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Why wouldn't it be a good plan to
make driveways along all of the bikes
on the north side of the river as well
rs on those which are to be built on
the south side? The suggestion made
10 this end by A. A. Graham is an ex-
rnllent one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

There is the usual activity this spring
in the railroad world In the southwest
with all sorts of plans and propositions
for the building of new and much need
ed lines in that territory. but, as has
been the case for several years back,
Few of these projects have got beyond
the paper stage as yet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

June %. "a and Is have been set apart
as the dates when the Topeka business
men will entertain the merchants of
the state. The first affair of this kind
which was held last year was a grand
success. Plans are being made to make
the coming event greater one. They'll
be carried out. too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
fFrom the New York Press.1

from the New York Press
What woman adores about a ro-
mantle novel is how unreal 1t is.
The more you trust a man the
more 1t scares him to be asked to
trust you
In lot of marriages the woman
imagines that she still loves. and the
man that he once did.
A woman would rather have ANY,
body assail her character than say
she doesn't know how to dress.
Every once In a while a college
boy turns all right by going to the
other extreme after his graduation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

The Boston deaf mute who is plan
ming to travel around the world on foot
will undoubtedly have a quiet journey.
His fingers and hands Will be kept
tolerably busy, though, If he insists on
expressing himself in the Iabored Ian
guage Of the Bostonians
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Plans are being perfected for the
establishment of a regular line of air
ships between Switzerland and North
Germany. When this line gets in opera
tion 1t is most reasonable to suppose
that the airships will not emulate the
occasional attempts of railroad trains
to pass each other on the same track.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Good for the people of Lincoln, Neb.
They have voted to put the saloons in
that town out of business. Thus does
the wave of prohibition sweep along
And one thing is certain. Prohibition
may not be successful in absolutely
preventing the sale of liquor but 1t
does abate the saloon, when it is prop
erly enforced and that is great step
In a most desirable direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

profit and the country the blessing of
cheap food and clean clothing. which
1t must have If we are to really pros
per- OF course, the present high cost
of living is not entirely due to the
farmer; nevertheless he is largely
responsible and ought to be frankly
told so-''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

There must be great rejoicing among
the directors of the Smithsonian Insti-
tute at Washington. One days hunt
ON the part of Mr.. Roosevelt and his
son has made possible the addition of
five stufred lions to the national
museum Of natural history. Great
work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Just on general principles, if for no
other reason, there Will be rejoicing in
Kansas because the school book trust
drew blank in the recent letting of
five year text book contracts by the
stata text book commission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Work on the a-Northwesterr
railroad, the Union Pacific cutoff which
has been in operation to Onaga fol-
some time, Is to be pressed to a con-
clusion. How about the work on the
Observation-Disclosures line? But maybe
such a question is out of order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

congress to give work to the nations
unemployed on the construction of
great national road from New York to
San Francisco. These gentry probably
have an Interior motive in view, be-
cause it is not their nature to work.
They probably want fine road which
will make walking easy from coast to
coast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

A New York milliner declares that
she has never seen a suffragette wear a
fashionable hat. "This," observes the
Chicago Record-Herald, lis a splendid
compliment to the suffragettes."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Just like 'en. New York women are
refusing to use the cars in the elevated
and subway trains which are set aside
exclusively for them. 1t certainly is
difficult TO please the fair sex
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

What, pray ten, is the use OF Profess
sor Wood of Johns Hopkins university
trying to signal to Mars if he doesn't
think there is any possible chance of
getting an answer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

The Washington Post thinks that
after Spain builds it's new feet of war,
a great inland lake should be con-
structed SO that it can be kept out of
f1anpar- -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Contrary old things. Some women
living at Philadelphia haves sent a
petition to congress favoring a high
duty on hosiery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received I'm The State Jour-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

cSBayds Vanderbilt's husband, Count
Szchenyi, is to be a member of Hun
gary's new cabinet Well, she can
a fOrd II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Representatives of unemployed labor
are going to hobo" their way from
Cincinnati to Washington for the pur-
pose of petitioninz President Taft and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
KANSAS cONNENT
'JUsTIFY1NGp LYNcHING.

JUSTIF'YING" LYNCHING.
You hear good many people say
that the lynching at Ada, Ok, the 9TH
er day was justifiable.
Probably it was. if ever a lynching
is Justifiable.
The four men lynched, it has been
pretty Well established. were bad men.
Ihey were gun-toters'' and man kill
ers and were mixed up with all sorts of
mischief. On general principles they
probably deserved hanging
Furthermore. there was no brutal
race prejudice to craze, infiame the
blind mob.
Furthermore, there had been a no.
tor1ous inability to secure convictions
OF criminals in the courts of the sec
ton OF the state where the crime oe-
CURED There seemed to be need for
the community to rise and assert it
lantes.
Furthermore, the mob moved slowly,
sanely, and without undue passion.
And lastly, the men accused confess
ed
Despite all this. the display of mob
Vlolehce was unwarranted, unjustified
and uncivilized, and Governor Haskell
is right IN taking measures to force the
authorities of the county to do their
duty and prosecute the leaders of the
mob.
Oklahoma is supposed to be a civilized
state, with proper channels through
~
law. Courts have been established for
this purpose If the courts do not do
their duty, the people should see that
they reform the courts
1t never is right to leave it to mob
to condemn and execute, for while oc-
casionally a mob may do what ought
to be done, it establishes a precedent
for untold wrongs for other mobs. Nine
times out of ten, the mob is wrong
Salina Journal
a.
WHERE MONEY FAILS.
Romance is not dead. no more than
number of other forms of foolish
ness. Therefore there continue to be
unw1se marriages, and heart-broken
parents. Parents. particularly Ameri-
control over their daughters, and the
captain of industry has no more power
| in this direction. than the section fore
man whose daughter takes a fancy to
town sport and loafer- William
Jennings Bryan, captain of oratory, and
general commanding of the Chautauqua
circuit, failed to bend the will of
| Daughter Ruth. and there followed
business for the divorce courts.
| Just now C. Oliver IseEn, New
York millionaire banker is having one
| of these experiences so common to faith
ers rich and poor. His daughter in
sists on marrying an Austrian count
with a castle in need of repair and
IuoueIn pumping. ana no lnOuceinent
the father can offer makes any diff
| ference to the daughter, and the COM
mon fate of international marriages
does not frighten her. She will have
her count, and the count will count her
money, and spend it. In the mean
time, the poor millionaire. whose efforts
made possible the purchase price of a
count will bear his f1eartache, and pay
the price. and probably decide that the
Chinese are pretty wise people, after
* TIT L.
selves, and some of them do not raise
daughters to bother them.-Atchison
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
Rather Embarrassing.

ssThat Englishman is a funny chap"
remarked the hat salesman in the big
hotel; che hasn't been out Of his room
today
mo. he is a victim of circum-
Stances conf1ded the coffee sales
man.
victim of circumstances?
Eyes; he put his shoes outside his
door last night, according to the En-
glish custom, and somebody threw
them at a cat down the areaway."-
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Ionight-North Bros. Stock company IN
'Out OF the Fold
Matinees-wednesdays and Saturdays.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Daily matinee 2:s0-High class vaudeville.
Evenings S:15-High class vaudeville.
For particulars. prices and amusement
details. see announcements in this paper
elsewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
Memory Studies.

A small boy went into a South Bos-
ton drug store, wrink1ed his face. rub
bed his head and rubbed his left foot
up and down his right leg In an effort
capped him.
"Say," he began, will you tell me
the name of the place where we
Americans have SO many soldiers? ?"
Fort Sheridan %
"Oh. no; it's further away than
that and a new place"
1.-The Philippfnes?"
''That amt just it, but it's some.
where around there"
Perhaps you mean Manila"
"Manila! That's right! knew I'd
get 1t after a while. / want bottle
of Manila extract for f1avoring.
They're goin' to have ice cream. -
Boston Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
ADJUSTMENTS.
At the Grand.


Saturday matinee and night-''The Girl
Question"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
The Making Of a X. G.

To most people it must often appear
that the legal maxim, EVERY man
knows the law" was invented by some
wag. It would be much more correct
to say that no man knows the law,
and the general public are, generally
speaking, also totally ignorant of the
manner in which a man becomes a K.
C. In the ordinary course of things
any barrister of 10 years standing is
supposed to have right to apply for
silk, and If he thinks that he has any
chance of gaining the honor he applies
direct to the lord chancellor. But the
etiquette of the bar demands that any
man who applies for silk shall write
and inform every member of his cir
cult who is of longer standing-that
is. who has been called to the bar for
a more extended period than himself
of the fact that he has so applied.
This intimation gives the senior an
opportunity of considering whether
he should himself apply, and by SO
doing maintain his right of seniority.
The decision of the lord chancellor is
final on the question. When he has
decided to make a new batch of silks
the applicants who have been success
full are informed of the fact, and the
appointments are duly gazetted.-
Dundee Advertiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
A Real Temperance Measure.

The first piece of legislation to win
support from the new Boston Social
Union, federation of all the unsec-
tartan settlement houses in Boston, is
that providing for the elimination
from the saloon of the bottle, can,
and GROWER" trade. The testimony
of long list of patient, constructive
social workers had much to do with
securing the report from the commit
tee on liquor law, by the decisive vote
of to 4 in favor of the bill. One of
the strongest points in the testimony
is that it represents also the ascertain
ed feeling of large numbers of work
ing people in these settlement neigh
borhoods. This bill is intended to abol-
ish the degrading practice of women
going into saloons, often accompan-
led by children. Every social worker
and every officer of the law knows
that drunkenness among wives and
mothers Is seriously on the increase.
The legislature Is asked this year to
begin building what must be ere long
a considerable institution for female
inebriates
The bill would put an end to the
practice of supplying a man enough
liquor over the bar to Get him half
drunk and then seeing that he pur-
chases enough bottled goods to
complete the job. In particular this
state of things affects peace and or
der on Sunday, and for many indus
tries means a bad start on Monday
mornfng.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

"pll never offer to be sister to another
man. why not?' 1.-The last one, I'M
der the guise of brotherly advice, told me
some very unpalatable truths. ''-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
No Love for Americans.

"I was in Cuba when the Ameri-
can troops evacuated the country"
said Mr.. Ralph A. Piner, a San Fran
cisco capitalist, at the Stafford, land
not a single cheer went up from the
native throat. In their hearts the
Cubans were exu1ting at the Withdraw
al of the Yankee boys. but beneath
their breath they called them pigs
was not the victim of rudeness, but
learned that it was no uncommon
thing for Americans to be slurred as
they pass along the streets of Havana
There are few people in Cuba of any
intelligence who do not regard the re-
sumption of American authority on
the island as certainty. It may not
come in few weeks or even months,
but 1t cannot be long delayed. for the
natives are simply incompetent to
maintain a decent and orderly gov
eminent They are inherently defec-
tive, and it is simply waste of time
to give them any more rope. To think
of what we did in freeing them from
Spanish oppression and the ingrati-
tude they have ever since shown
makes the average American pretty
sore. especially when he goes down
there and gets a near view of things"
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Cultured.-"Is he a cultured gentleman?
Yes. indeed. No matter how pretty the
servant girl may be, if he's your guest
at dinner he never notices her."-Detroit
Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

The Point of View.-The Organ Grinder
-How's business. The Scissors Grinder
Finei I've never seen it SO dull-C1eve-
land Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Another speaking about this
ERE tariff" said the man with the bull
bous nose, sit makes all the difference in
the world whose socks is gored. Chi
cago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Etiquette a la ode.-Augustus-HSS2o
old man; how are you, and how are yoAf
people, and all that sort of silly rot?-
London Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

VertfSementS, ana 1lnally IOunQ one
where persons were wanted to address
just the thing. BY the time she had
addressed thirty or forty millions that
delicatessen store would be a sure
thing in case of the failure of the
other.
She applied at certain street and
girls. fifty old women and a number
of boys. The man in the office call
ed her '.my dear" and gave her a
thousand envelopes to take home that
he might see what sort of hand she
wrote He also exacted a deposit of
fifty cents for their return He also
took her for young widow. and re-
marked on his gladness to see her
striving to make an honest living In
stead of attending the champagne sup
pers at sporty restaurants
1t took the ambitious young wife
the best part of two days to address
the thousand envelopes, and when she
carried them back the man smiled at
her in a brotherly way and handed
| over twenty cents. and said:
my dear, you have only to keep
on and you will wear diamonds"
But the striving wife didn't keep on.
She was so discouraged and indignant
| that she left the place without de-
manding her deposit Something else
must be found. She saw the simple
/ life galloping down on her. and shirt
| less coI1ariess and sockless men pass
| ing gents furnishing stores with
looks of contempt
That something else was an ad- A
| bright young woman could make from
/ three to six dollars a day by calling al
such a street and number Nobody
would dare advertise such a thing
unless it were true. and young Mrs
Lee called. Lady canvassers were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Fame and the Filthy.-Boggs-Pd like
% have my face on the ten-dollar bills
coggs-Id prefer to have my hands on
.hem.-Harvard Lampoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Teacher-Why did King Richard offer
his kingdom for a horse? Bobby Bright
suppose because his automobile had
broken down.-Philadelph1 Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

In bowling to the inevitable, it is advis-
able to inject as much cordially into the
salute as possfble.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Teacher cat night schooD-Give me some
Illustration of the Survival of the ffttest"
Shaggy Haired Pupil-Any handsome wild
ow--Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

Mrs. Hicks-My husband has been just
lovely to me all day. Mrs. Wicks-H' m:
What was 1t you caught him doing ?-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-26

When Willie stood up to recite
He said, with outstretched hands:
''Under the spreading blacksmith tree
The village chestnut stands"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-26
Slightly Mixed.

It was the final day of school
And the friends Of Willie Wise
Were out in force, expecting to
See Willie swipe the prize.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-26
Peter Cooper's Locomotive.

The first attempt to use engines in
the United States for any other than
experimental purposes was in 1929 by
the Hudson & Delaware Canal COM
pany, from Carbonate to Honesdale,
Pa, a distance of sixteen miles. The
engines were made in England.
In the following year Peter Cooper
built the first locomotive in the Unit
ed States. 1t weighed less than a
ton; it's boiler was about the size of a
flour barrel and it's flues were made
of gun barrels. Mr.. Cooper was high
ly elated because his engine made
better time than the horses. of other
railroads.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-26
Sheridan's SPELLING.

The author of "The School for Scan
dial" had highly original views on the
rules of spelling. In his Critic days,
for instance, thing" to Sheridan
was always think" and never by
any chance did he remember that a
(which or where" to be really re-
spectacle must needs possess an
latch apiece" This rule of omission
he also followed sheeplike in "weth-
er" for whether" Moreover, he
scorned the use of a double IN" or a.
double IS" For example, "blessed-
ness" was always "blesednes."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-26

ST. JAMES A. NJ E. CHURCH, COR
RULER and Jay streets. Sunday services,
ll:Oo a. M: 1880 p. m. Wednesday prayer
meeting, 500 p. m. Pastor vis:ts Cd
t.seupeM euou 4e :sHBpsenL pug NbHuoW
day and Thursday Weddings, funerals
and the sick attended on notice.
Rev. H. S. Graves Pastor
Parsonage. Cor. Jay and Fuller.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-26
PROPOSED PANAMA HIGHWAY.
A Road for Motors May Skirt the
Banks of the Canal.

: :
Banks of the Canal.
The Royal mail boats, the Hamburg
American boats, the French and Ital-
ian boats all bring their quota of tour
lists and sightseers onto the isthmus,
everyone of whom seems to. be carried
away with the magnitude Of the work
going on and with the conditions as
they find them. 1t would surprise me
if, in the near future, because of the
magnificent climate and of the natur
al interest that is being conferred in
the building of the canal, a great win
ter resort should be built up here; es-
pecially would this be a foregone con-
clusion if good roads should be con-
structed clear across the isthmus
along the route of the canal. Roads
are being constructed upon both sides
Of the isthmus by the isthmian canal
commission. Mileage is not very ex-
tensive, and there seems to be no
the roads now being constructed
across from Colon to Panama. The
distance is only about forty-seven
miles, and If pike should be laid
out and we'll macadamized, there could
be no more beautiful highway mag
ined for the driving of automobiles
and horse highway vehicles, especially
SO if the highway should skirt along
the banks of the canal and the nu-
merous lakes which will be formed
thereby, so that the panoramic view
could be maintained in all its beauty.
There is just enough rise and fall to
break the monotony, and at the same
time afford easy grades for vehicles to
move upon.
This is the only highway in the
world where one could cross from
the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean in
two hours time. 1t is also the only
place in the world so far as I know
where the sun seems to rise and set
over the Pacific ocean viewed from
the land. 1t is also the only place in
the world, if my geography is correct,
where town on the Pacific ocean lies
east Of another town located upon the
Atlantic ocean, as is the case with
Panama and Colon. 1t would be a
splendid thing if the isthmian canal
commission would construct a road
from Colon to Panama.-New Orleans
Picayune.