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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe


Pay man a compliment, and in =
Few minutes he will fish for another.
A girl is as certain to SOW her affec-
tfons as young man is to sow his wild
oats.
Some people can defend friend in
such q manner as to start a new story
on him.
II you are sincere in your desire to
avoid crowds. why don't you go oftener
to prayer meeting?
We believe that the very worst sight
when the weather is intensely hot Is
to see two big fat women kiss.
1t is said that the most unreliable per-
son on earth is colOred preacher
when he is getting up an excursion.
The woman who takes three hours
TO dress for a party may be vain, but
she VIII never wear short hair or try
to act like a man.
During extremely warm weather pho
tographers should take pictures of men
wearing overcoats and fur collars out
of their windows.
After man accumulates a thousand
dollars, men who have accumulated only
1ve hundred begin saying that they
never did, and they never will, bow
down to golden calf
When a man refers to the happy DAYS
When he was a barefoot boy it indi-
Gates that his bank account will tide
him to the grave. Poor men never
speak of any happiness in connection
with bare feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

The announcement was made week
ago that the famous old BIRTHPLACE OF
John Brown, in Torrington, was to be
turned over free of rent to any respect
able family who would agree to oc-
cupy it and preserve the building and
the relics of John Brown intact and
free from depreciation. Since then says
the New Haven Register, there has
been such an avalanche of applications
for the place through the mails that
the postmaster at Torrington has haa
to give up his after hours Of fishing and
tend to business Thirteen letters came
Friday, six Saturday and more this
morning. One applicant addressed his
letter to John Brown. Others state they
fit" with him in the war, and others
have still more sentimental reasons It
will be noted that there is no mention
of an application from the Kansas gen.
tleman who slept under the same blan-
ket with the old hero.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
THAT KANSAS SKULL.

The eastern newspapers are becoming
interested in the discussion of the iden-
tity of the Lansing skull. The following
pertinent editorial on this subject ap-
peared in the Newark Evening News:
Some time ago. it will be remember
ed, a human skull was unearthed near
Lansing, Kan, which the local scientists
concluded to be anywhere from ten
thousand to a million years old and
when, little later. a state official I'M
hesitatingly pronounced it to be a relic
of prehistoric man and conservatively
estimated its age at from 40 to 60 thou
sand years. the real thinkers of the
globe were set into a futter of more
or less pleasurable excitement Had the
announcement come from London, Ber-
lin, Paris or even New York, it would
have been dismissed with scarce
thought. but emanating from the official
and scientific circles of Kansas and be-
ing vouched for by no less an authority
than the leading physician of Lansing,
it compelled attention and gained wide
credence at once Psychologists began
to look upon their mummies as crude
and modern and the learned gentle
men who have been poking around in
the ruins of Babylon and Assyria, were
forced to admit that the tablets and
things which they have unearthed at
such cost were mere spring chickens, so
to speak. in comparison with the great
Lansing find.
AS for Kansas. her people were not
surprised-taking it as a matter of
course that any epoch-making reve1a-
ton would naturally bob up among
them, if it bobbed up at ALL After OBJ
serving strong evidences that the skull
was dome shaped at the top and had
once been adorned with Picturesque
whiskers, they were prepared to hold
against all corners. that the Garden of
Eden was really located not far from
Topeka, although of course. it's place in
history was more remote than the i'm
perfect scriptural chronology would in
dictate. Opinions differed as to whether
the skull was that of Adam or one of
his immediate descendants but its con-
tour and its suggestion of whiskars es-
tablished the fact that this ancient man
must have thought and acted along
substantially the same lines that rule in
Kansas craftsmanship today-a conclu-
sion that was strengthened by the ex-
pause of the jaw. which indicated great
vocal power. The antiquity of Kansas
lished and there is no telling what gen.
civilizations would have followed but
for story that has just come to light.
Il is to the effect that some 20 years
ago a convict incarcerated for counter
feiting, when dying in the Kansas peni-
Tertiary begged that he might be bur-
led in an unmarked grave outside of
the prison cemetery His request was
acceded to and his body was placed in
| an abandoned shaft near Lansing-in
the very spot. indeed. from which the
prehistoric Skull was digged a week
or two ago. 1t is possible, of course. that
the convict's remains crumbled into in
distinguishable ashes right away before
a skull 40 thousand years old or more.
but just at present ribald people who
are not in sympathy with Kansas ideals
and refuse to credit the profound hypo-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
A WORLD cHARAcrER.

In the rush of present-day pursuits
men forget to admire some things which
the perspective of later years makes
clearer. holder and more interesting to
their minds eyes. Particularly is it
true in the case of great men and wo-
men, that in order for them to be prop
erly appreciated in worth 1t becomes
necessary for them to die: and even
then for a period of time to elapse un-
til a recreantly kind world sees fit to
scratch its head, turn backward few
pages of history and reward by a CRATE
full remembrance those who deserve ia
vorable recognition.
President Roosevelt is one of the char
acters now taking a prominent part i'll
the great world-play, who If he lives up
to what his past career promises. viii
win its share of honest applause some
time in the future. No telling when the
plaudts of the nation and the world
for he is placing both under obligations
to him-will see fit to take turn and
give him a share of what he deserves
His speech-making tour which he has
been making throughout New England
within the last week gives evidence Of
that sturdy patriotism which has in
spired every official act since the time
city of New York until the time when,
less than twelve months ago. he swore
to the pledge supporting the constitu-
ton of the United States as president.
There is one thing in his talks, in his
mingling among the people of the coun-
try, that makes an impression. Several
times he has addressed multitudes on
the subject of the army and navy;
touching briefly upon the great needs
and requirements of the same. Every
time he has tried to impress his hearers
with the idea that the young men who
go out to represent Uncle Sam in arms
in the military by land or water are
those. to whom we must look for i'm
portant actions of defense in case of
future troubles. He has told and re-
iterated-and as truly as can be-that
it is the place of our military and naval
academies so to train the soldiers and
sailors that when the call to battle is
sounded those whom it reaches and
upon whom the honor of the flag de-
ponds will be neither slow ROT uncer-
tain in their response. 1t is the fellows
who can hit the mark that Roosevelt
is talking for, and it is those in whom
we must confide ourselves when con-
fiict with another nation arises. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is far-seeing. As ex-
ecutor of our national guardianship he
knows it is particularly important that
we place the lock before the barn has
been entered and the horses taken.
Roosevelt has number of good.
strong ideas which the people should
read and re-read as they are ex
pressed in his vigorous speeches as he
travels from one place to the other.
They are all timely: actuated by a sim
cere striving to fill to the very best of
the 2ower which he possesses the oner-
Gus and grave duties of chief exeeu-
tive. 1t will strengthen anyone in op-
timism of the present time to go over
these addresses from day to day as they
are given. See if right now you cannot
enjoy the feeling that Roosevelt is
really world character and that this
day is a good one in which to live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News

from the chicago News
A wise wife always feeds her husband
before asking him for money.
He who loves and runs away can figure
in a breach of promise suit some day.
The less a knows about women
the more he suspects they know about
him.
If man is able to make a bluff at cry
ing woman will forgive him anything.
The custom of treating is foolish and
vulgar-if you are not included in the in
vitation.
If the average mans digestive apparatus
is all right his conscience doesn't trouble
him much.
The average man is kept so busy crfti-
cising the faults of his neighbors that he
has no time to correct his own.
If a man Is color-blind he may be able
to look at a modern stained-glass window
without wanting to smash it.
Time works wondrous changes Diogenes
hunted for an honest man years ago, but
now detectives are hunting for dishonest
men.
If girl has two proposals one form
man she understands and the other from
a man she doesn't. it's ten to one the
mysterious man will win out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

thesis that Kansas science has built
upon the sp-called ancient skull. are
irresistibly inclined to poke fun at the
scientists. This is all wrong. 1t is
positively irreverant. And yet. old
fashioned people will be genuinely re-
joiced to know that Kansas will not
now be able to cut I'D such antics with
science as she has in politics. Unless her
legislature enacts that the skull is of
extreme antiquity. or Senator Burton
explains away the convict story. we will
still be able to view Thebes and Troy
and Karnac as at least moderately an
cient and continue for while to credit
the Old Testament.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

Jeffersonian committee secured the only
brass band In the county by lively work
The Coffeyville young lady who has
been sending out messages to different
towns = boy wanted should remem-
Der that loose tongue never told any
girl the way to the altar.
The Newton Republican. which went
to press before the afternoon entertain
mept ended. declares Buckskin Bills
show was respectable. paid their bills
and robbed no one. Can a leopard
change its spots?
Sheriff Mills Of Seward county Is
something of detective in the ANNA,
line as well as a man hunter. After a
five days search he founding his miss
ing calf in the bottom of a dry well,
safe and sound. but a trifie hungry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
KANSAS HORSES TO FRONT.

Kansas is holding it's own in the horse
world. The state long ago became fam
Gus as the home of Robert McGregOr,
Joe Patchen and John r. Gentry and
there is no indication that Kansas horse
breeders are showing a disposition to
leave the front rank.
In this connection the following from
the Horse Review will prove interest
ing:
Crack performers from the central
west continue to show up week after
week in the grand circuit. Mention has
been made from time to time in these
columns of such as have won important
victories in the big ring from this sec
ton. Since the last review along this
line. the four-year-old Kansas bred
flly, Maxine. has Joined the grand cir
cult and according to reports, has i'm
pressed the followers as being a real
high class Arotter. At any rate, she
classes with such crack western trotters
as Halle Hardin, Baron de Shay and
Tiverton, and she is perhaps as good as
even, The Roman, Charlie Mac, Silver
Sign and Chase, all hailing from the
Missouri AMI Mississippi river country,
and decidedly among the very best trot-
tiers in the big ring, saying nothing
about Amelia.
Maxine was bred by William Brad
bury. Topeka, Kan. She is sired by
Jack Daw 2.2SH. the son of Jay Bird,
now premier sire at r. I. Lees Prairie
Dell farm, near Topeka Her dam is
the former great champion yearling
trotter. Pansy McGregor, who held the
yearling trotting record at 2:23% and
later trotted to a two-year-old record
of 2:171a. Maxine was trained last sea-
son at the Topeka half-mile track and
her creditable work there as a three
year-old was the talk in harness horse
circles at Topeka last summer. Late
last fall she was sold during the Terre
HauSe meeting to her present owners
The price was reported to be $4,000. At
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. she won two heats
and record of 2:15H. During the late
Brighton Beach meeting in the $1,000
stake for four-year-old which was won
in straight heats by that other western
four year-old.' Zephyr, in 2:111z, 2:12k,
2:12A, Maxine finished 1922, just beat
ing Halle Hardin, the Colorado four
year-old, for second money. Last week
at Readville she finished 2-4-3 in the
Blue Hill stake of $1,000 for 2:30 trotters
in 2:osA, 2:OsA, 2:1oA, 2:14A.
Silver Heir. the eight-year-old bay
stanton owned Dy tne MOaK RrOtnerS,
Lawrence, Kan, in Frank Erwin S
Grand Circuit stable, is another western
trotter that has shown considera bic
quality. Last week at Readville in the
2:1s trot this son of tie Kansas sire.
Happy Heir, finished 2-2-6, earning sec
ond money. The time was 2:121z, 2:145k
2:111s. Silver Heirs record remains at
2:17k since the meeting at Pekin, ILL.,.
early in July where he won q good rae
in straight heats. but this latter show
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

John Wanamaker who is both an adj
vertisar and a newspaper publisher and
therefore competent to speak from
either standpoint is credited with the
following: There is only one way to
advertise, and that is to hammer your
name, your location, your business. so
constantly, so persistently. so thorough
ly into the peoples head that if they
walked in their sleep they would con-
stantly turn their faces toward your
store. I he newspaper is your best
friend, in spite of your criticism. 1t
helps to build up the community that
supports you. When the day comes
that the newspapers are dead, the peo-
pie are near the edge of the grave with
no one to write their epitaph.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

Mr.. Joseph L. Bristow, the capable
and efficient fourth assistant postmas-
ter general, has incurred the enmity
of some of the most influential politic-
fans in congress, and it is said that
they are clamoring for his official scalp
Mr.. Bristow's offending would appear
to be his unalterable determine ton
to put business interests ahead of
politics in the administration of the
affairs of his office, but the country will
be very much mistaken in President
Roosevelt if he should listen to the
clamor for his removal on such grounds.
Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.)
The politicians and pension agents
got the scalp of Commissioner Evans.
and If they want Bristow's they will
get that, too--Albany Argus (Eeu.l
Possibly Mr.. Bristow would not OBJ
Ject to losing his scalp in the way that
Mr.. Evans lost his, by having his in
come multiplied by six while his work
= lessened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press

Itrom the New York Press
Philosophy is the salve of disappoint-
ment.
There is no reward for lost love be-
cause nobody wants it returned
The birds that fly the strongest don't
have the finest plumage.
To a woman the next handsomest peo-
pie after herself are her children
When woman is going to church it is
sign she is dressed in her best.
Girls swim overland almost as natural
ly as they ride horseback straddle..
You could never make a woman believe
that all the angels don't have nice crinkly
hair.
A man bets on reason and loses a
woman doesn't bet on instinct but she
wins with it.
Mental science never cured a girl of a
stitch in her side right after she had been
out on dark piazza with her best beau.
A woman will try nine different cooks in
a month and take it as a matter of course
but when a man has to be shaved by a
new barber he thinks he is a martyr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

Hutchinson ''bootleggers'' are given
500 and costs.
Down at Parsons good shower is
styled "nubbin buster"
Ottawa is troubled with Kurds- This
doesn't refer to curdled milk, but beg
ging Turks.
A Little River farmer has raised &c.
200 worth of alfalfa from 100 acres of
land this season.
The U. S. senatorial campaign at Bur-
lingame has reached the stage Of
Threatening Letters.
Forty race nags will contest for a
premium at the Salina fair. Money
makes the mare go.
Coffeyville's ice famine is cracked.
The Wellington News is running a
pleasing "Doo1ey" serial.
the feud between towns representing
the Missouri Valley Ball league is grow
ing equally as bitter as the senatorial
fight.
Chanute parties think they got even
with the proprietor of a ricketv merry
go-round by 6lching his watch and
purse.
the Bloomer Girls ball club and a shoot
ing gallery should enliven Clyde a
trifie.
Down in Chase county they hitch"
their automobiles At least the Elm
dale Reporter tells of one that was tied
up there for over a week.
This is the finest prairie chicken
weather in the world" says the Ell Do
RADIO Republican, but the trouble is
that there are no prairie chickens"
Six men had their pockets picked at
Abilene Wednesday. the sum total ag-
gregating over $500. and Salina can only
look on and gnash her teeth in jealous
envy.
Lyon county has youthful genius
who has made a splendid model OF the
war ship Alabama considering that the
only salt water he ever whitfield was a
throat gargle.
Postmaster Benz, of Parsons. has re-
celved his commission at last and a
wireless telegram of thanks is pursG-
ing Senator Burton somewhere out on
the bounding waves
The first love case of an lola girl
affected her so severely that physi-
clan had TO be called in: the youth sat
on dry goods box, cracked his heels
and Dragged about it.
The Strong City-Cottonwood Falls
feud continues. The Democratic countz
convention meets at the county seat
and the Republican convention at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

Boston Transcripts: The report comes
from Paris that the Academy of Medi-
cine has examined the discovery claim
ed to have been made by DIR. Raudoin,
who has succeeded ir condensing a bar
rel of wine into the compass of four gall
Ions. When the water is added in prop
er proportions, it is said, the most prec-
ious of wines recover all of their subtle
aroma. So the time may come when a
filming party will be able to- carry it's
liquid supplies in a less obstrusive man.
ner than it is now obliged to carry it
in, and, what may appeal to some, in
larger Quantities. The calm, quiet, in
nocent recreation of angling is not I'M
likely to become more popular than
ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

Indianapolis Sentinel: Last week the
largest shipment of live cattle mat ever
left Portland. Me-, went out on the
Norseman for Liverpool. There were
LIS beeves and 1893 sheep, all grown
in Canada and shipped through Maine
under bond for export 1t would have
relieved the pressure in the mea. mar
ket if these cattle could have been sold
in New England. but that could net be
done. The beef combine has tariff pro-
lection. What a cheerful farce it is to
send meat past our doors to be sold
abroad for less than we are paying, in
order to increase the profits of one o.
the most constituencies trusts that ever
existed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

With the approach of the football sea-
son comes the annual discussion about
the rules governing the game and the
players Whether the presidents rule
shall or shall not be followed is a moot
ed question in various Kansas colleges
and the observance of the professional
class brings on other controversies.
There are a number of excellent foot
ball players who have, during the last
summer, technically disqualified them
selves from playing in intercollegiate
games. Football players who have play
ed baseball during the summer for
salary are clearly disqualified by the
rules of the Amateur Athletic union
from playing on an amateur college
team. This is often technically obviated
by the player receiving a present" or
donation in the way of cash at the
end of the season which is not exactly
a salary although it is well understood
that he shall receive the present. The
rules of the A. A. u are interpreted to
mean that a player is disqualified VINO
plays for a stated salary during the
season but is not disqualified from en-
tering i'll amateur contests if he receives
money for playing. a game. This rule
is made to keep out of the amateur
ranks players VINO are thoroughly pAo~
fessionaI and who play year after year
on salary, and it is intended to allow
the players who are paid for playing
in a game to be classed as amateurs.
These rules if strictly followed, how
ever, certainly work a hardship on
many players. There are college foot
ball players who can make neat sum
of money during the summer playing
ball with some small country team.
That should be their privilege. 1t does
not injure their standing in college ath-
letics. What the colleges wish to bar
are the simon pure professionals who
are not attending college with a de-
sire to absorb some of the knowledge
dispensed there but from a desire to
take part in athletics. The various coll
lege athletic boards should deal leniently
with the football player who is supposed
to be in the professional class. If that
player has only technically violated the
Amateur Athletic union rules.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
ascay during the summer may haze
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate of thirty
cents a month Address changed as
oftsn as desired While ont Of fo70''
The State Journal aCiH be to yoN like
a daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

ing at the Massachusetts, track indicates
that he is capable of reducing this yer.
materially. Silver Heir made good
showing on Kansas half-mile tracks
when he was three, four and five
year-old, obtaining pacing record as a
three-year, of 2:24A, a trotting rec
ord when four-year-old of 2:24A which
he reduced the following year to 2:1e.
where it has remained until this years
Pekin meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

The New Orleans Railway company
announces that it will allow it's en-
ployes. numbering some 5000, to sub
scribe to the preferred stock of the COM
pany under especially favorable condi-
tons. This application of the principle
of prolit-sharing in corporations, it Is
believed, will give the men an interest
in their work which they would not
have otherwise, and will be a factor in
preventing strikes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

So far Admiral Higginson has not
been called before naval court of in
quiry on account of his victory in the
maneuvers off the New England coasr.
Has it come to this. that naval officers
are to be permitted to win victories
without being punished for it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

Sam Smalls last temperance lecture
in Vermont, when he was removed from
the stage helplessly drunk probably was
as effective as any that he has deliv-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

Alarmists who fear a collapse of the
present period of industrial prosperity
should bear in mind that the boom in
real estate which always precedes a
financial disturbance has not yet ar
rived
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30

The next polar expedition might find
it advantageous to carry with it a wire
less telegraph outfit SO that it will not
be so hard to find by those who follow
in search of it.