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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
How They Get Ice Cream sodas.

They were tiny tots and, judging from
their clothes, they were poor. But they
managed to get their glass of ice cream
soda daily-sometimes several of them.
They live near certain west side
ner drug store. and all day long these lit
tie tots (here are two of them) hang
around that corner first on one street,
then on the other. The drug store is one
of many that give paper checks for cash
purchases. and as the customers make
their exit the children step up to them.
oh, bless you, not in any begging fashion.
Nor in any annoying fashion whatever.
They are exceedingly pretty youngsters.
to begin with, and then they so en-
gagingIy soft and well hammered.
DO you care for your check?'' suggests
the older boy. pushing back a rebellious
curl and looking with a careless grace full
into the eyes of the outstepping customer
There is not sign of any of the proprie-
ties being violated. And nine out of ten
of the customers hand him over their pa
per checks. Many of these are scent
checks When the boys get a dollars
worth the drug store allows them a nick
els worth of anything in the store. They
invariably choose ice cream soda.-New
York Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
FROM the PhiladelphIa Record. ;,

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The yachting cap is on deck
The mosquito never takes a vacation.
The village cut-up-A country surgeon.
Love is fire that is dreaded by those
who have been burned.
Some people remember the Sabbath to
keep it wholly for themselves.
Virtue may be it's own reward, but some
people make a trademark of it.
Some women seem to have mastered the
art of being delightfully."- improper.
The average man who talks about not
being appreciated is really a chump.
Wigg-"You see some funny things on
tombstones." Wagg-"Shafts of wit, eh?''
There are people who seem to take
more interest in our affairs than we do
ourselves.
Self-preservation is the first law of ma
ture. and most women try to look we'll
preserved.
Nell-"So they married purely and sim
ply for love" Belle-"Yes, principally
simply
Some men believe in making others re-
spect them, even if they have to do it
with club.
'If the wife is the better half" asks the
Cynical Bachelor, where does the moth
er-in-law come imp
Blobbs-''I overheard Guzzler shooting
Off his mouth at you last night Slobbs
Yes. I didn't know he was loaded"
A noisy bit of crockery,
That's full of jibes and jeers,
May be hollow mockery;
l mean the cup that cheers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
SAVE TIE ASPHALT

The city Of Topeka, having reached
the conclusion that it will make no ex-
tensions of its pavements during the
coming year finds itself confronted
with a strong probability that large
amount Of expensive asphalt repairing
will have to be done during the coming
year. If not. the city can let the pave
ment go, patching with broken rock
getting out Of it what little wear stiu
remains, and put on an entire new sur
facing three or four years later. It
can take the business of resurfacing up
from year to year until all the pavement
has been renewed. 1t can, of course.
continue patching the worst places and
spending three or four thousand dol
lars in that way.
patched pavement is about as nm
comfortable to the public as a wornout
one. At the end of ten years ToDelxa
will have nothing to show for its patch
ing except patches. City Engineer Nc
Cabe recommends letting some of the
old paving 60 and when it is absolutely
necessary. laying new surface Of as
phalt upon the old foundation. Why not2
The old pavement can't be saved A
great section of the surface on Jackson
street was recently washed off by a
heavy rain. The pavement is rotten and
the expenditure of any considerable sum
in trying to restore it is idle. Quit
patching with asphalt, patch with stone
as long as stone will answer and then
get an entirely new asphalt surface. Re-
surface two or three blocks a year. be-
ginning next year. and continue until ii
is all resurfaced. That is City Engineer
McCabe's suggestion. Topeka wants to
save its asphalt pavements, Of course;
but it wants to save them for use. not
a. curios. Topeka is famed for her wide
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
Is MR.. HOWE MUSICAL.

E. w. Howe, who is generally recog-
nized as the brass band expert of Kan
sas and whose musical criticisms are
among the most interesting features of
his newspaper. the Atchison Globe, has
lately purchased a mechanical piano
player and not only says that it is a
very fine instrument but contends that
it produces music far superior to that
of skilled pianist. There are some peo-
pie who will say that this is just what
one would expect from a man who de-
clares that the overture to Wilhelm Tell
is not fit to listen to, but those who
know how good Mr.. Howe's musical
taste is in most instances can forgive
his prejudice against the Rossini over
ture The affair of the mechanical piano
player is, however. quite a different
matter, and it will require something
unusual in the way of excuse and ex-
PLANTATION.
The mechanical piano player is not
more than a notch above the phono-
graph 1t is quite as exasperating as
the telephone without any of the ad-
vantages of the latter invention. OF
course there are people who like phono-
graphs and mechanical piano players
and they have undeniably a right to
their opinion but one would never ex-
pect a musical critic and an avowed
devotee of good music to confess to a
preference for them over the playing Of
a Paderewski. Rosenthal, a Godowsky.
a Gabrilowitsch or a Bloomfeld-Zei
Mechanical piano players undoubt-
eddy fill a long felt want for the people
who declare that they love music" but
who prefer rag-time to the classics and
the performance of an amateur to a
concert by a big band or orchestra
Mr.. Howe is always expressing wonder
at the taste of this class. but it is less
surprising than his weakness for the
mechanical piano player. Everybody
knows who reads the Globe that its
editor has very little use for the anna
teur pianist, and nobody, except pos
sibly the amateur pianists are likely to
quarrel with him about that Neither
does it excite comment when he rails
against the piano. which is doubtless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From de AtchIson Globe

lfrOm the AtchlSOn GlODe.l
As we grow older we find that we admire
nice men more and pretty girls less.
Some how it is hard to feel sympathetic
when a big, fat, good natured looking man
tells his troubles.
..I When man loses a bet they say of him:
He is a hard loser" There never was a
man who wasn't hard loser.
Some shows are so bad that you not
only tire of seeing them, but you tire of
d sSs5ns their Autographs the win
An Atchison woman boasts of having
undergone six operations, which she be-
leves is about one better than the town
record.
Thousands of people seem to do the
worst thing possible. instead of the best
thing possible. They seem to delight in
Furnishing themselves.
About half the talk behind the backs of
people should be to their faces All of us
are too free with private criticism and
too cowardly with public criticism.
DR.. Tidrow frequently asks US to print
items about his garden, and we al
ways afraid to refuse because he reminds
us that he takes two copies of the Globe.
the late camp meeting woman asked
him: DO you serve the Lord p Yes"
Mr.. Miller replied, anybody that orders"
When man is divorced from his wife
months, how the women wonderi 1t never
occurs to them that he knows when he
has enough.
Servant girls say they are mistreated:
ways very kind and considerate. This IS
question that will never be settled.
Might as well not talk about it.
When some one comes to you and says:
your friend you can make up your mind
to two things: You are going to hear
something disagreeable about yourself,
and the person relating it is not your
friend
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

pockets. There is little doubt that cor
ruption of this character exists to
greater or less extent in some Kansas
towns. It is one OF the evils which the
prohibitory law and its Mons enforcement
make possible sN
In some towns the illegal saloons are
allowed to run wide open in second
stories. but are not tolerated on first
floors. This is the condition in Salina,
a town of 1000 people. where from IL to
16 of these second-story saloons have
been in operation for several years. and
pay $50 month each into the city treas
ury as fines. No signs are toll
Grated. but the drinking public has
little difficulty in locating the stairways
leading up to the saloons.
In the county in which Salina is stu
ated the prosecuting attorney is
brother of a justice of the state supreme
court, yet he has not prosecuted joint
keeper in three years. He tried few
prosecutions when he first went into
office. but each jury refused to turn in
a verdict of guilty, although the evil
dence was as strong as 1t was possible
to make it. This is one of the deDlor-
able results of the system now in vogue
in Kansas. In communities where the
law is openly violated and the sentiment
is for the saloon, men who regard
themselves as fairly good citizens will
perjure themselves as jurors and re-
turn a false verdict in order to protect
an Illegal traffic.
But. Notwithstanding this. prohibit
ton has raised the general standard OF
public morals to a higher plane in Kan
sas as whole. The nomination for
public office of man who is to known
to use intoxicants to any considerable
degree will bring forth a storm of pro-
test. In the great majority of counties
the "iointist" is considered to be as
much of criminal as pickpocket.
The law can doubtless be enforced
more successfully in Kansas than 1t
could be in most other states, because
there are no large cities in Kansas, yet
in some Kansas counties it would re-
quire a Roosevelt, a Folk. or Jerome
to enforce prohibition, and men of that
character are few. The majority OF
prosecutors in counties where public
sentiment is against the law are either
too indolent to enforce ii or are afraid
that such action would interfere with
their political futures.
The experience of Kansas teachers
that even with constitutional prohibition
the battle for the suppression of the
saloon is only partly won. and that it
is really only another form of local
option, after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Belleville is going to sink we'll for oil
even if it is beneath them
Solomon needs a public well. Farmers
horses get thirsty as well as the farmers
More ''threshers' are needed in Selden
For the wheat, though, and not the small
boy.
Clay Center has several cases of swell
head.
Dog days in Pottawatomie has made
business pick up for the owners Of mad
stones.
1t cost a Parsons man 1880 finally to
ignore notice to call and settle his dol
lar dog tax
The Rock Island section boss at Stuff
years of "cussing."
A feather bed was airing in an En-
tain harbinger of early winter.
A passing traveller carried home from
Wichita a draft for $1,000. But the $40 he
exchanged for it was not counterfeit.
Failure to support" is given as the
vorce from further public concerts at
Lawrence.
Cherryvale has refused a car line pro-
moter franchise because he Is to use
the '.I'' rail Do they expect him to have
a coffee plant?
The councilmen at Wichita seem to be
cutting some ice themselves. They re-
quire the wagons to carry scales and
weigh on delivery.
What Arkansas City seems to need is
more bath tubs. Notices to clean up
were served by the, police on IS residents
Mr.. and Mrs. Ball of Otter creek enter
tanned. 1t was neither high BALI or a
fancy bali affair, but simply a good old
fashioned evening of games and sensible
refreshments.
Salina meat market offers to sell their
business at sacrifice. But an announce
porter house steaks would probably be
more satisfactory to their patrons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New YORK Press.J
The cement of most friendships is self
interest.
When a woman is built to show her fig
ure she couldn't hide ii if she were nailed
up in a packing case
Lots of girls are anxious to be married
TO be able to talk about things
with knowledge they now talk about with
out.
Nearly every woman feels that IL she
weren't so attractive her husband would
be in danger of getting interested in
somebody else.
A girls way Of letting you understand
that she knows a lot more than she ought
to is to let you understand that she does
not know things anybody ought to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

land grant and other benefits will be re-
ceived with great joy by all classes of the
American people. There are tens of thou
Asia or eastern Europe without crossing
the Atlantic, or for that matter. the Pa
cific- There is also known to be vast
volume of freight congested at points
along the line of the Trans-Slberian rail-
railway communication with the United
States is opened, and the estimate of the
Asiatic markets for American products
and manufactures which such communi-
cation would open confuses statistics and
sflences prophecy. Irkutsk dispatches tell
of thousands of tons of bananas from the
garden of the Lena Delta waiting for
transportation to the Boston market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
All Work and No Play.

New York Times:
Midsummer is an excellent time to
consider the proposition which has been
sometimes discussed of extending the
school year for those who wish to work
twelve months instead of nine. The
idea of doing away with the long Yaca-
ton is Ger tainlv a cruel one, but there
are a number of reasons to be offered
in its favor. 1t would have been hard
ly fair to mention the plan a while ago,
when the thermometer stood near 100,
but now is as good a time to think OF
1t as the winter. 1t has often been OBJ
served that from business point of
view it would be more economical to
use the school buildings twelve months
instead of allowing them to stand idle
a quarter of the time. Internationally
also there is something of a waste in
the long period in which pupils lose the
idea of work and the connection of their
studies. 1t is probably the case that
many parents would welcome the idea
of a summer term. At present we be-
lieve no school system in the country
carries out the plan exactly, although
there are not few whose terms cover
a considerable part Of the summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
vesuvius Again Active.

New YORK Tribune.
By temporary increase in the activ-
ity of Vesuvius, which has been behav-
ing in a threatening manner for several
weeks, local apprehension is excited ana
interest is aroused in distant lands.
New assures appeared near the summit
late in July, and from these there was
a slight discharge of lava. From still
another opening in the rim of the era
ter a fresh flow has now occurred. A
distant village. toward which the stream
is directed, has naturally been panic
stricken AS yet, however, it does not
appear that any serious harm has been
done to that small cluster of habitations,
to the old observatory situated within
1000 feet of the top or to the railways
which climb the gentle slope of this
historic mountain So long as these re-
main uninjured the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
not be regarded as formula bic. though
the attendant earthquakes and detona-
tons naturally aggrayate the tfmidity
which the discharge of lava provot1es.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

the least soulful of the musical instru-
ments, but when he says that his new
''pianoine'-or whatever you cali ills
better than the Performance of good
pianist. the suspicion arises that it is
a case of professional jealousy and that
Mr.. Howe likes the mechanical piano
because he. can play il himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

SnIsctTtcfs of The State journal
asOay during the simmer may haze
He BaPe, mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate Of thirty
cents month. address changed as
cjtcn as desired HIIifle ont of foam
ne State journal ze'iH be to yOH like
a daily letter from home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
Suicide Prevented.

The startling announcement that a pro
ventive of suicide has been discovered will
interest many. A run down system or de-
spondency invariably precede suicide and
something has been found that will pre-
vent that condition which makes suicide
likely. At the first thought of self do
struction take Electric Bitters. 1t being
a great tonic and nervine will strengthen
the nerves and build up the system. It's
also a great stomach, liver and kidney
regulator. Only Soc. Satisfaction guaran-
teed by the Arnold Drug company. 81 N.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

streets and miles of pavement. The as
phalt pavements must be preserved at
all hazards and they ought to be pre-
served in creditable shape.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

It ought to be matter of consider
able satisfaction to the people of To-
peka to note that the money they pay
to the street car company is not taken
out Of the city but is being spent right
here and a lot more with It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

The quotations on the value of Turk
ish promises must have advanced con-
siderably If Russia has accepted them
in satisfaction of her demands in con-
nection with the murder of her consul
at Aonastir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

Why not apply Mark Hanna's rule
Of let well enough alone to the cur
rency question? There appears to be
no general agreement regarding what
is needed. and besides the country ap-
pears to be getting on fairly well under
the existing arrangement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

What Uncle Sam wants is Chinas
consent to the opening of certain ports
and he will do the rest Perhaps Rus
STA realizes this and that is why she
retains so firm hold on John.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
Southern Fruit
and Vegetable
Growing.

The fertile lands along the
Louisville & Nashville r. r.
in Alabama. West Florida and
Mississippi are veritable bo-
nanzas for the fruit grower
and truck gardener. One man
sold from one single acre, 100
barrels of radishes for 100000,
gross; another patch of
acres radishes yielded ST.
463.00,, net. In the spring Of
1902. another truck gardener
sold 800 barrels of potatoes
in Pittsburg from 8 acres of
ground for $1,54S, and after
paying all expenses, cleared
SSs2.0o, or $297.S3 per acre.
Within two weeks after SELL
ing his potatoes, corn was up
and watermelon vines were
running on the same land.
He harvested his corn, sold
his melons, and afterwards
cut two crops of hay off Of
the same land, and on jan
uary 20, 1908, was planting 1t
again in potatoes. Strawber-
ries yield from $4,000 to
S550.00 per acre; as high as
1880 quarts of luscious ber-
ries have been grown on a
single acre. Address
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

The most essential thing to Topeka's
future growth and prosperity is more
houses for people to live in. Tenants at
highly remunerative prices, could be
found for a hundred modern flats or
cottages. in a week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

It is not every flying machine that
can dive as well as hys like Prof. Lang
ley's. The st. Louis fair management
should open up another class of ex-
hibits to include theS duck type of
aerodrorne
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
The Alaska-siberia Railroad.

new YORK IimeS.S
The announcement that the idea of
railroad to connect Alaska and Siberia.
through a tunnel under Boring straits has
at last taken shape in the hands Of people
who are confident of their ability to carry
1t out and are prepared to give an ade-
quate bond in exchange for sufficient
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

President Roosevelt seems likely to
become as noted for porch parties as
was his predecessor although his visi-
tors are on a mission different from that
which actuated the pilgrims to Canton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

William r. Hearst clubs are being
organized in various parts of the coun-
try. Has anybody heard, Of a Tom
Johnson or a German club?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

Elijah Dowie advised his associates
not to drink in New York. Is this in
tended as a slam at New York's thirst
duenchers?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

Sir Thomas Upton might try having
his next challenger built in this coun-
trv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
Aldrich Committees Error.

New York Herald:
One of the senators who will be called
into conference with Senator Aldrich on
the proposed financial bill is quoted in
the Heralds Washington dispatches as
saying that the measure will provide
for an asset currency. He also asserts
that it will embrace a scheme for an
emergency circulation" to be issued
only in times of stringency and subject
to special taxation to insure its with
drawal when the money markets re-
lax. If the bill which Senator Aldrich
and his associates are framing is to
include these provisions it will assured
ly fail of its purpose to give financial
relief during the coming autumn and
winter. What is Immediately needed is
legislative permission to deposit GUS
toms receipts in the banks and a re-
peal of the law restricting the retire
ment of bank notes, so as to encourage
their temporary issue. A simple meas
ure embracing these provisions and
nothing more might be passed. If the
Aldrich committees bill attempts more
there will be no hope of it's enactment
in time to serve purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

If Topeka could have a census taken
now probably she would have no diff
Guilty in making good her claim to 10000
population.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

What Prof. Langley should arrange is
an airship and submarine boat COM
bined.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
Victory of the Anti-canal Lobby.

New York Press:
When the trans-continenta1 railroad
lobby worked the Panama job through
congress the biggest part of its work to
delay the digging of the isthmian canal
was done. After getting the United
States senate ''in line" for the Panama
route the problem of holding up the
treaty in the Colombian senate was
child's play comparatively. AS the time
for exchange of ratifcations approaches
the venal Latin-American patriots have
raised the price agreed upon for Co
lombia's consent to the digging of the
ditch and have refused to cede the SOW
ereignty of the canal strip to the United
States. This is done in the full know
ledge that this government, even if it
should permit itself to be held up for
another ten millions by the Colombian
soldiers of fortune, never would accept
the treaty on the impossible terms now
proposed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

This is the road
that runs through
the most beautiful
scenery, and its SER
vice is just what you
are looking for
diners, observation
cars, Pullmans, high
back seat coaches
and all very good.
Inquire Of your local railroad ticket sgsnt
or write
GEORGE A. CULLEN, G. w. P. A.
103 Adams Street
CHICAGO
p. S. Our double track
roadbed is said to be the
smoothest in America