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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04
MY COTTAGE.


have built a charming little cottage
In a country where
There Is never anything to trouble
Want nor pain nor care.
1t is filled with books and gay with
flowers"
Like the one Coppee
Lived and dreamed in-dreams of flower
like beauty,
Ne'er to fade away.
spirit
Hither takes it flight:
And 10, sleep in her soft arms enfolds me
TIL the morning light.
When III fortunes heavy blows fall on me
There in peace / dwell,
Happy in the sweet, unending summer,
Hard at work. and well.
1 have built a charming little cottage
In a country where
There Is never anything to trouble
Want nor pain nor care.
-Muriel Leigh. in the Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Mr.. wickersham, the federal attor-
ney general. is of the opinion that the
solution of the great problems con-
fronting this government depends
upon the lawyers. Numerous other
opinions to the contrary have been ex-
pressed from time to time. 1t is the
idea of some people that what the
legislatures and the congress of the
country need are fewer lawyers in
their memberships and more substan-
tial and conservative business men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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Rvvav during the summer may have
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20 any address at the rate OF ten cents
n week or thirty cents a month (by
mail onIy.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town the
State journal will be to you like
daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04
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The president of a steamship com
pany at Cleveland, received through
the mails, a human ear in a bottle of
alcohol He charges striking sailors
with sending him the gruesome token.
but unless they belong to a different
ternity ever known to this department,
they can prove an abb. It is our
opinion that real sailors would drink
the alcohol and send the ear packed in
salt.
It can never be said OF Mr.. Roosevelt
that he leaves anything in an unfinish-
ed condition. In mailing a recent
canard, he said in part: ut is wholly
untrue Utterly preposterous. / never
said any such thing. There Is not a
word of truth in it's
This. we may be pardoned in pointing
out, was evidently calculated to con-
vey the impression that some one had
lied.
The lady hobo" captured by a train
crew at Hutchinson, was no doubt one
of those female enthusiasts" who we're
reported as heading for Reno to see
the fight.
since the disturbance started this
morning? And did you find him down
cellar, under the porch or in the attic?
CONCERNING WILLIE.
Willie was a handsome boy
His curly hair was Mothers Joy,
But Papa thought that most of it
Should be cut off,-removed.
The Glorious Fourth arrived one day,
And Willie's locks were burned away,
But even Papa will admit
His looks were not improved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFrom the New York Press.1

It's very dangerous to trust a man
who won't trust anybody.
Grief that ennobles a woman seems
to make a foot of man.
A girl can take as much pride in
having cold heart as she doesn't in
having colo feet.
Money is so hard for man to get
because he thinks it's going to be so
easy to.
Travelling is the greatest enjoyment
when you don't know when you are
going to get home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04
KANSAS cOMMEHT
NO JOB FOR MTTcK-RAKEPs


Wnen the lawmakers make the cor
porations dance and business gets bad
al over the country, the people howl
with glee and cry. Make 'em dance"
the grasping monopolies." And then
When meat goes up and work becomes
scarce and the bankers crowd their
creditors and the creditors put on the
clamp all down the line until the man
out-of-a-job can't get credit at the gro
Gerry or meat market, he gets real
angry and declares that the corpora
tons are making hard times on pur-
pose to circumvent unfair legislation.
The sane people argue in vain and the
man below continues to urge on the
muckraker. Capital suffers as much
as labor by stagnation in business
and some day the great common pee
pul Will awaken to a realization of
the fact that there are sane and in
sane ways of regulating corporations,
and that the muckrakers are not the
right doctors for the case in hand
Leavenworth Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

II as Governor Stubs contends Mr..
Wagstaff is carrying on campaign
based on false and deceitful state
ments, why does the governor worry
about it? It's a truism that lies never
do much damage. It's only the truth
that hurts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Archbishop ireland has written an
article for the North American Review
in which he defends the pope in the
Vatican Roosevelt incident. Why not
let everybody forget all about the re-
grettable affair?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Some local crap shooters tried to tell
the police judge that they were just
rolling dice for fun. Rolling dice for
fun is about as interesting and exciting
a pastime as setting up ten-pins for
some other fellow to knock down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Colonel Bryan is discussing the
possible influence of Colonel Roose-
welt on the country's politics. There
doesn't seem to be any chance that
Colonel Roosevelt will return the COM
pliment. The reason is obvious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Something unusual in the way of
fishing is possible these days in sew
eral of the lakes in Manitoba. They
are reported to be full of moose that
have been driven into them by forest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Good things come slow. Topeka's
water supply is just about to be placed
in a condition where it will not be in
terfered with by high water in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Colonel Roosevelt is only six months
behind with his correspondence. II
he could have few hours to himself
he'd catch up without the slightest
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

There is goodly company of II
told-you-so's'' concerning the outcome
of the Johnson-J effries fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

That recent wreck on the Santa Fe
which snuffed out the lives of two To-
pekans, E. B. Jolley, the we'll and most
favorably known engineer, and H. A.
Mitchell. a young fireman, with a
promising future, will have to be
charged up to human frailty. A brake
man on a freight train forgot to close
a switch. Most men in all other walks
of life forget to do some little thing
that they ought to have done every
day of their lives. But such mistakes
as they make seldom result seriously.
With the railroad men it Is different.
A lapse OF memory. or a failure to
obey orders. is usually followed by a
disaster. And the railroaders are no
more nor less than human beings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

This is the 134th anniversary of the
adoption of the Declaration Of indie
pendence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Maybe that Kansas City judge thinks
he is doing the farmers of Kansas a
good turn by deciding to give all
Migrants who get before him the
alternative of going to the Kansas har-
vest fields or to Jail for six months.
But bad as they need help in harvest
time this is just the kind of labor that
the Kansas farmers do not want. Nor
does the state in general desire to be
flooded with the Migrants of Kansas
City. They constitute a problem that
Kansas City should deal with and not
foist on other communities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04
woULD-BE WATERWAYS.


President Taft has notified congress
that while he signed the rivers and
harbors appropriation bill this time he
would not do it again unless there was
a better system devised for the future
expenditure of the funds.
AS usual President Taft is right. The
large sums of money which have been
given to rivers and harbors have been
badly used. The money has been
spent fairly enough but not on right
lines. Work has been begun, stopped
and all that was accomplished has
been lost, then started again. Gobs of
money have been put into circulation
to dig out river beds and fill up mud
holes, with no good at all in the end.
What Taft favors and what should be
done, is to make these appropriations
on scientific lines and then continue
done.
The adjoining country which is to be
benefited should also put UP some OF its
money along with Uncle Sans. If the
people who get the advantage believe
in their cause they should show their
faith by their works and by their cash.
We might have some good waterways
in this country, but we have none that
are in use to amount to anything IL
the government is to improve these SO
as to restore trade to their courses the
citizens along the route should hrst
come across with the evidence of their
own faith.-Hutchinson News.
TEACH BOYS TO WORK.
There are said to be four hundred
BOYS in the Missouri penitentiary be
tween the ages of 16 and 20 years: we
do not have the statistics at hand, but
we believe that three-fourths OF these
boys were never taught to work In
spite of the fact that the labor laws OF
the state prohibit child labor we be-
lieve that learning to work Is even
more essential in the development Of
character than the teachings OF
schools. We do not believe in small
children being worked long hours day
after day in factories or mines to the
detriment of their physical bodies, put
we 40 believe that every boy and girl
should be taught to work. One reason
for the great success of the Jews as !, a
people is that every Jewish BOY IS
taught to work.-Lawrence World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

They will have to invent another
brand of brain storm for Mr.. Charl-
toms case. Worse than that, the DC
mentia Americana" gag won't work,
because he did it in Italy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

1t would be sacrilege indeed to close
this column with a prayer, therefore
let us close 1t with that inane war cry:
Banghurrahforthefo ofjuly and If
anyman acknowledgements shoot
himonthespot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

This is not the only department
which has trouble of the kind. Tho
Des Moines Register and Leader man
recently turned in a Maud parody,
which got into print with start like
this:
Maud Muller at meeting
Put up a bluff at raking hay"
One may be pardoned for presuming
that he intended it to read = \
Maud Muller at a matinee"
but there is no way of proving it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

BY the way. Did you bet right on
the fight?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Have you looked for the family dog
since the disturbance started this
morning? And did you find him down
cellar, under the porch or in the attic !?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Higgins is an enterprising blacksmith .
What now?" He has put in a soda
water fountain and souvenir cards."-Buf-
fa1o Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Johnny asked the teacher, can you
explain the difference between levitation
Johnny, zone levs and the other xravs.''-
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Knicker-The cost of food has gone UP.
Bocker-But 1t doesn't cost any more to
pile the home plate with 200 pounds of
beef.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

MY boy. I'm busted and shall have to
sell the autos" Horrors, dad; 1 could
never walk you'll get used to it in
time. You can carry a windshield at
first."-Loutsville Courier-Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Sallie-Does he play golf7 San--Not ex-
actly; he plays bridge. Sallie-But they
are nothing alike. Sam-They amt? Then
I guess you never heard him swear
Illustrated Bits.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11
Homesteading Tricksters

A homesteader near Lennon at
tempted to prove up on the strength
of residence and improvement, test
flying that he had plowed between
ten and eleven acres' on the tract.
His proof was protested, when il
was discovered that he had measur.
ed off one tract of ten acres and an.
other of eleven acres, and had plow.
ed a few burrows between the tracts
he measured.
Another claimant is now trying
t, m k.a better record on the tract
This plan was like that of th'
settlers . quarter of century ago
when some of them were putting
up houses SO small it was hard t
turn around in them without taking
out one side for the purpose, ant
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11

Just in order to keep the record
straight: Remember that none of
the petitions filed with the county
commissioners asks for a division
of Stanley county: None of them
seeks division of the county as
its immediate object. The petit
tions ask merely for the opportu-
nifty to vote upon the question. Ii
those petitions represent a major
ity of the legal voters in the new
counties sought to be organized,
and we believe that has not been
seriously questioned, there should
be no straining for technical
grounds to defeat the wish OF the
petitioners. Whether Stanley
county is divided at all or not is a
matter of little moment as COM
pared with the right to have a
vote if the people want it and have
properly asked for it.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11

the land office official ruled that
they would not in the future con-
slider anything smaller than ten.
by-twelve" building a house.
This looked like a heavier ex.
pense until some bright mind found
that the ruling did not specify Just
what ten by-tw welve" meant and
with house of the usual size, he
also constructed a miniature one
ten by twelve inches in size, which
he carried to the claim at every
visit and placed in position, and
when time came for final proof,
with a clear conscience he swore
to tn, existance of a house ten
by-twelve'' on the land.
Then, of course there is the fel-
low who plowed about" ten acres,
running single furrow around q
ten acre tract.
To these should be added the
impossible yarn told in the last
issue of the Saturday Evening Pos,
regarding the Texan who entered
and proved up hundred quarters
of land in the names of his favorits
steers.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11
Burke Stirring Things Up

Our own congressman, &. III.
Burke, has leaped into the lime
light and is now the head of an in
vestigation which promises to be
of national interest. Already it
has unearthed an alleged connec-
tion of the vice president, which a
senator says he was offered a bribe
of $25,0O0 to cease combating. A
great syndicate wanted to buy
many acres of Indian lands in
Oklahoma. A lawyer had obtain
ed agreements from the Indians to
sell and to pay the lawyer ten per
cent of the purchase price, or $3,-
OOO,O in fees. Such an agree
ment between the Indians and the
lawyer could not be effective until
it was confirmed by the president.
Senator Gore says he heard of the
deal and urged the president to
withhold the sanction, for accord
ing to law the government will sell
the land when the Indians want to
sell and charge nothing for the
service. Later the senator intro
duced bill to compel the sanction
of congress before this particular
deal could be put through. Now
he mentions several senator's and
congressman who were interested
in having the proposition quieted.
Among these latter he says the
vice president was mentioned, but
that official says there is nothing
to it. Anyway, Congressman
Burke is going to write the name
of South Dakota in prominent
places before the hearing is over,
and he can be depended upon to
bring forth an honest verdict after
a fair hearing of the matter.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11
Strange Phenomena at Huron

Late yesterday afternoon Huron
ians were startled by the appear
ance of huge, black, misty, object,
rising from the western horizon.
1t made a slow ascent into the vault
of the heavens, accompanied by
much wind and dust. Strange
mutterings and groans were detect
ed from time to time and flashes
of light appeared now and then.
Soon onlookers were again sur
prised by the falling of the large
drops of some sort of liquid from
the blackened heavens. Immedi-
ately upon this discovery the Old
est Inhabitant was searched out and
asked if he knew of what the liquid
consisted. After considerable
searching back into the years OF
memory, the Oldest Inhabitant
finally recalled a similar instance
and after searching still further the
regions of memory, he recalled the
name of the liquid, which, he said
was called in olden times rain. y
Huron Herald.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11
No Postoffice Yet

Uncle Sam is the slowest man on
earth. We can bsild a small city,
establish newspapers, banks, hotel,
stores, sell $4,000 worth of town
lots, make wad of money and die
of old age, all while he is fddling
around fumbling with red tape try
ing to start little dinky postoffice
at Faith. Talk about postal savings
banks. If the old man runs them
the same as he does the rest of his
postoffice business it would take the
help of a bonding company to get a
deposit in and congressional in
fiuence to get it out again, while if
you wanted to make a loan you
would have to have your grand
father put in an application fifty
years before you were born. Your
Uncle Samuel is nice old man,
but he's slow, mortal slow. Faith
Gazette.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11

towns of the new West, however,
no danger threatens from this di-
rectiOn.
In Philip there is an astonish-
ingly large share of our women
and girls who are engaged in the
various stores and other business
places about town. In the homes
nearly every wife is busy house
wife. So the student of social
problems may mark it down on
his cuff that the new West is a
land where women work. Our
recent progress received much of
its impetus from women's work.
They have bourne their full share
of the burdens and trials incident
to pioneer life in the Great Empire
of Stanley, and to them is justly
due the homage and respect of
sane thinking people everywhere.
1t has become a chestnut to re-
fer slightingly to the school
MAINS shack and five acre farm. .
Probably that remark and similar
derrogatory remarks concerning
the feminine homesteaded were
first coined by contemptous cow
puncher. But fate has had its lit )
tie sarcastic fling with him. For
he and most of his fellows in the
end married homesteading school
ma'ms." SO this hustling energst-
ic woman of the prairies has not
only taken the cattle mans land,
but in many instances she has
taken the cattleman as we'll.
Ard all this his been as it should
be. The man she might have mar
rieA, possessed of a less adventure
Gus spirit than she, is back in some
eastern town today whiting a dry
goods box to pieces while his wife
takes in washing. She, of heroic
mould, has found here in the West
an adventurous spirit akin to her
own. They will join hands in the
great pioneering tasks before
them, and as a part of their work
rear up a family of strong, heroic
men and women to follow after
them.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11
Terrible Murder and Suicide

News has just reached here OF
an awful tragedy near Sutton,
Mimi. A farmer named Jason
Quitall early Saturday morning
murdered his wife and two child
rem and then blew his own brains
out with shotgun. Interest at
taches to this terrible affair be-
cause the Jason Quitall family
formerly resided in Stanley coun-
ty about twenty-five miles north of
Philip, where they homesteaded a
fine quarter section of land.
The murder was schoekingly
brutal in all its details. The
father had been to the barn and
done up his morning chores. On
his way back to the house he met
his little daughter running to greet
him. Suddenly seized with an in
sane freuzy he Drained her with a
heavy wooden milk-pail. Going
on to the house, he found an ak on
the way, and literally hacked his
wife to pieces. The maniac, then
seized his little two year old son
and threw him in the cistern. A
| moment later the insane man blew
the top of his own head of with
his shotgun.
A terrible scene greeted the
neighbors when they arrived, at-
tracted by the report of the gun
Thefarm yard was literally smsared
with blood. the husband and wifs
Lying close by each others side
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11

and every member of the family
being dead.
Those who knew Quitall when
he lived in Stanley county say that
he was a meek hammered man of
gentle disposition and can not con-
ceive how the man could commit
such a horrible crime. He was
most considerate in his treatment
of his family, and they worshiped
him in return. There is no doubt
that the man was insane on last
Saturday and probably had been
for sometime before.
The family lived here in STAN
ley county until about year ago.
They had proved up their home
stead, and the husband had broken
out a good sized tract of land and
had made considerable improve
ments. Then in an evil hour the
family decided to sell their place
and return to Minnesota. All went
we'll for awhile in the new home,
but after the crops were under way
the drouth came on and after sew
eral weeks of blistering weather a
hail storm wiped out everything
the family had. The husband be-
came despondent and unlike his
former CHEEKY self. He would re-
main in sullen mood for days at
a time. Then a visiting neighbor
from Stanley ccanty told of the
continuing prosperity in the West,
and how the new owner of the
Quitall farm had refused an offered
advance of one thousand dollars in
the price of his farm. The cash
rent on the Minnesota farm was
coming due and could not be paid.
All these troubles drove the father
into deeper despair, until finally
his tottering reason gave way, and
he committed the terrible crime
we have just mentioned. 1t is GER
tainly sad case.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-11

Welcome showers have visited
many parts of western South Da-
kota within the past week. The
corn will be considerably benefited,
especially on the older and more
carefully cultivated ground. The
condition of various cornfields in
this county this year ought to drive
home the truth that when we have
better and more scientific cultiva-
ton of the soil our corn will get
on with much less moisture than it
is commonly supposed to need.