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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
THE CHINESE. AS SERVANTS.

How would it do to admit the Chi
nese into this country as .hired girls
and farm hands-sucf of them as
would work at these occupations
There is d woeful lack of these two
classes of servants and the supply is
becoming scarcer every year. Some
thing must be done about it. If you
don't believe it. ask any club woman
you know.
The Chinese as a rule are extraordi-
narily good household servants. They
can cook, scrub and do the family
washing. Possibly a Chinaman would
not be so good as a parlor maid, but
the average home can worry along
WITHOUT a Darlor maid.
Then there is the farm hand pro-
blem. Every farmer in Kansas who
has to hire help, and most of them do,
knows of the difficulty Of securing
competent, faithful hired men. 1t is the
most barrassing difficulty that now con-
fronts the average Kansas farmer.
Where, a few years ago. he used to
worry about paying off the mortgage,
he now worries about where he is go
ing to get help to harvest his wheat OF
shuck his corn. or feed his cattle.
Most Cinnamon are hard workers.
They are easily ''bossed,' which the
American is not. Whether they would
make good farm hands. the State Jour
nal does not know. but the probable
ties are that many of them would.
The trouble with Americans is that
they dislike mental service. The Amer
lean girl does not like TO do house
work where She is not regarded Just
as good as the members OF the family.
That is why foreign girls make the bet
ter servants. The same is true con-
corning farm hands. Tho American
who is intelligent and competent is also
ambitious. He objects to being boss
ed, and he demands big wages. As
soon as he gets a little money ahead
he is willing to quit being a servant
and ready to be an employer himself.
Why not try the Chinese?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
Nretlnodical. Anxho,r.

Notice the fellow down at the 9TH
er end of the bar2" whispered the
head bartender.
"The rotund and portly gent with
the apoplectic complexion" asked the
man who had ordered a gin fizz.
yep. Well, he leads the most reg
ular life of any man in town Ex-
aetly at 1915 o'clock every morning
he comes in here and orders a straight
drink in a short glass. He INDUCES in
some timely comment on the weather
and the stock market, has another
drink and departs exactly at IL
O'Clock. Precisely at 1890 o'clock he
is back again. has a cocktail, lunch
and another drink or two as social OBJ
legations require, and starts back to
his office promptly at las o'clock. At
o'clock he drops in for drink,
which takes him exactly ten minutes
From to 6 he is here as regular as
clock work. After dinner he drops in
for a smile and remains twenty min
utes; and he puts in an appearance
again at II o'clock and remains until
II. In other words, he spends four
hours a day leaning over the bar with
one foot on the rail. And he's been
following the same routine for fifteen
years. I've just been figuring it up,
and I find that during the past fifteen
years he has spent 21.900 hours in
front of this bar, which is equal to
1929 entire days or two and half
years"
''What lovely vacationl''-San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
No Sherlock Holmes Needed.

In a Washington club two Senator's
secretaries were talking about the
wounded Chinese statesman, WI Ting
Fang.
HE was like Socrates" said the
secretary who knew Greek. At one
and the same time he would make us
laugh and teach US a lesson.
Il once heard him speak at a moth
ers' congress. He was delightful. He
told how the peoples ancestors were
revered in China. He said this reVer-
ence even included mothers-in-law.
Then he said that all the mothers
before him would be mothers-in-law
some day, and therefore he would tell
them something that they might re-
member and profit by.
"A parlOr maid, he began, answered
ring at the doorbell oDsa morning
and a few moments later assembled to
her mistress.
If you please, ma'am, she said.
the strangest lady is down stairs. She
won't give her name, and she has tax
en- of her coat and hat; and she
opened the two closets and rummaged
through them, and then she looked at
the windows and shook her head, and
she rubbed her finger over the man
tel and the piano and then she held it
up to see the dust on it, and now she
is
But the mistress interrupted calm
Dear mel she said. Ny hus-
bands mother wasn't expected back
from Texas till Decembe r.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01


I'd love to hike across the g4epe,
As evenings crimson folds came ooWn,
Like a pink blanket over earth,
Enwrapping hill and dale and town.
And find a rocky lonely glen
Where some swift stream did leap ana
braWI.
And where the sunlight filtered IN,
And where strange birds did MT ana
call.
And there I'd love to choose q rock.
Some house-big fragment for my peo'
With deW-yvet branches for my couch-
And dewy limbs up overhead
To shed their deWs the night tiIns
through.
Like shining jewels on my hair.
And hear the stream sing lnilabyes,
And feel its spray fly through the air
But, if 7 made a couch ike that,
OF dewy boughs in brawIing glen,
I'd have a chill ere morning came
And rheumatisn too; and then
I'd never use my legs again,
: Without a tWinge to make me ouch.
The glen's all right in poetry.
But prefer an indoor couch
Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atehison Globe. ]


What has become of the old-fash-
toned buckwheat cakes that had holes
in them?
It is very easy for a woman to win
her way into a stingy mans heart:
BY looking nice in her old clothes.
The way in which a certain Atehi-
son man has gone to pieces, is pitiful.
Twenty years ago he was a promising
saloonkeeper.
Times have changed: Three-year-
Odds now have votes in family affairs,
where formerly a son had no voice
even when he could earn his own liv-
ing
It is possible for a bachelor to be-
come so proficient in housekeeping
that he can do everything necessary
around house save washing his
back.
we object to the use of the term
"old hen" in derision: the hen is the
most useful, peaceful and law-abiding
creature on earth, and she never
shows her age.
We never see woman with her
shirtwaist buttoned in the back that
we don't wonder how she gets at it
to carry her handkerchiefs and other
packages in the 'front.'
A certain Atchison girl who is noted
for goodness, has also been noted for
being homely. But now that she is
nineteen, she is becoming positively
pretty And we almost cheer every
time we meet her.
For twenty-eight years, when the
editor of the Globe has felt in a
Reform mood, he has jumped the
Chinese, being afraid of the bad men
in his own town. We hope the Chi
nese have not heard about it. We
hope the Chinese will not in short.
call him off to one side, in about a
month and, after unrolling copy
of The Globe, point to a paragraph.
and say: "Muchi belly chow WOW
mumsum % (TranslatiOn Did you
write that paragraph?)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
A RESEMBLANCE.

Jacob Riis, the sociologist, in an ad-
dress to a workingmen's club, praised
generosity.
Il see a handful of children here"
he said. May they grow up gener-
Gus. May none of them grow up into
such man as an old banker whom I
know.
He is a millionaire banker. and he
lives in a palace, but his heart is as
hard as steel and as cold as ice.
"One of his men completed, the
other day, his twenty-hfth year of ser
vice. For twenty-five wears this honest
man had worked for the banker faith
fully. He and his chief were both poor
at the beginning, but where, in the
quarter century, the banker has ac-
cumulated millions, the faithful, mid
dle-aged bookkeeper has accumulated
only few hundreds. His salary, you
see, was only $25 a week.
He didn't think the banker would
remember the twenty-fifth anniversary
Of his engagement, but the old man
did. That morning he handed the
bookkeeper a sealed envelope.
- George he said, today ends the
twenty Fifth year of your work for
me, and you have worked steadily and
well. In this envelope is a nemento
of the occasion
lope, trembling and eager. Within
lay his employers photograph. That
I'm the face of a disappointment so
bitter the poor fellow could say moth
ing.
Well asked the banker. what do
you think of it?'
'' It's just like you,' said the book
keeper simply. Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The czar can now take his title as
autocrat of the Russias' and pack it
away in moth balls. He isn't using it
anymore
What has become of the old-eashion-
ed druggist who used to keep big glass
urns of red and blue stuff in his win
dows to prove that he ran a drug store?
Alice Roosevelt says she is not en-
gagged to Nick Longworth. So there,
nowi
A little Topeka girl came home from
church the other day and was asked
what the minister's tex. was. Il know
it all right she asserted. well re-
peat it." said her questioner. Don't
be afraid and I win get you a bedquiIt, y
was the astonishing answer. Investiga-
ton proved that the central thought of
the sermon had been. Fear not, and I
viii send you a Comforter"
If the grand dukes are thrown out of
a job they might come to Kansas,
providing they are willing to learn to
be good farm hands. But they must
understand that we cannot use people
who won't work at anything but the
trade of grand dukes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
CANOEING

Gently gliding down the stream,
Youth and maiden fair;
Life is but a rosy dream,
Joy beyond compare.
Lover with his sun Drowned arms,
Guides the frail canoe.
Maiden with her sun kissed charms
Smiles upon the crew.
He's the crew from mate on down,
she's the captain bold:
lie fears to see her wear a frOWns
He fears to hear her scold.
And so he guides the fraiI canoe,
Where ef she will go;
She smiles upon her gallant crew.
lie loves his captain SO.
Canoeing is not unlike life,
As down the stream we float;
Man takes his orders from his wife,
He gently guides the boat.
she watches him and gives him cheer,
lis she that keeps him true;
She is captain, without fear
And he the gallant crew.
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

The following paragraph was print
ed in the news columns of the Stand
ard many years ago:
The whaieship Hillman, which ar
rived here on Friday. seems to dis
prove the old superstition that Friday
is an unluclxy day most materially.
We learn from the first officer OF the
vessel that the HiIlinan sailed from
this port on Friday, that she took the
first Blacklist on Friday. her first
whale on Friday. made her first port
on Friday and finally arrived here on
Friday. with $500 barrels of whale,
.21SO barrels Of sperm oil and $1,000
pounds of bone on board and sent
home Is Friday unlucky2 The own
ers of the Hillman, we presume, are
inclined to the opinion that it is not
Bedford (1de.) Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
INVESTIGATE.

The State Journal says T. T. Kelly
never paid for his half Mathematician
surety bond in the Scranton company
If Kelly did not pay for it. who did =?
Was it c. J. Devifn, or was it the First
National bank of Topeka, now de-
funct? In either case it was an Illegal
transaction and the Devlin estate, or
the bank, whichever is out the money,
is entitled to its return. II there is
anything in this charge, and the fact
that it stands undenied indicates that
there is, it should be promptly investi-
gated Let the lid be taken off. Let
accountants be put on both the Dew
lin books and the books of the First
National bank and let the public know
what they will disclose-Kingman
Leader-Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
r,lenl,ant PIared 40 MOI.

A circus was once going round to
some of our towns. and among the per-
formers was an elephant that could
play the piano. When the time came
for this to be done a piano was brought
into the ring, and the elephant just af
ter. The elephant sat down on the stool
and struck one note.
Immediately afterward he gave
loud groan, whereupon the manager
came up. and. addressing the audience,
said:
Ladies and gentlemen. the elephant
has Just discovered the tooth of his
mother in one of the keys, and is over
come with grief, so I will Immediately
telegraph for another piano. In the
meantime we will proceed with the
other part of the performance. -
Answers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
The Difficulty of living.

Senator N. A. Elsberg of New York
was talking in Albany about a motor
iously untruthful man.
Like all great liars" said Senator
Elsberg, ''he is careless. He fails to
keep accurate note of the lies he tells.
Hence innumerable contradictions, in
Vulnerable stories that won't hold to-
gether.
eff, for instance. he takes a week 5
walking trip, he tells A he walked
seventy-f1ve miles, B a hundred miles,
c a hundred and fifty miles, and then,
when he meets A again, he tells him
that he covered a full hundred and
seventy-f1ve miles on that walk.
cit would require a large set of
books, a complicated system of book
keeping, and a force of at least three
clerks to keep a chronic liar straight
in all his stories, to keep him from
contradicting himself or getting con-
fused"
Senator Elsberg smiled.
1.-THE average chronic liar" he said,
s'has the luck of a boy I know who
enlisted and went to the Philippines.
This boy, whenever he wanted money
would write home from Manila some
thing like-this:
Dear Father: I have lost another
leg in stiff engagement, and am in
hospital without means. Kindly send
two hundred at once
ITO the last letter of this sort that
the boy wrote home, he received the
following answer:
Dear Son: AS, according 10 your
letters, this is the fourth leg you have
lost, you ought to be accustomed to it
by this time. Try and hobble along
on any others you may have left
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

iguanas, various empty baskets. a crate
Of fighting cocks, baskets of eggs, bas-
kets of fruit. silver in sacks, a bundle
Of sOiled clothes that some woman was
taking down to the river to wash, furni-
ture. hides in packages. smoked crabs
that smelled to the next station. baskets
of bread. a small alligator and two live
pigs. All Of that miscellaneous mer-
chandise and farm products was
huddled in one car along with the per
sonal baggage of passengers, as re-
suit of which custom a traveller soon
finds himself saturated with the COM
pick odors of the country San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
KAMSAs COMAENT


The deDositors of Devlin's Topeka
bank are stiH waiting for dividends.
Bradley. the receiver, who ought to be
fired from his position as bank eX-
aminer for gross neglect of duty, now
tells the victims that the Lord only
knows when they viii get q part of
their money. And still the defrauded
people down there have made no move
to put Devlin or any Of the thieving Of
1icers of the bank in the pen. They
are patient bunch.-Beloit Gazette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

The bride looked at the maid Of
honor.
my dear she said, your prom
ised me you wouldn't wear blue
smart girl replied the maid. 81
wanted the job and I knew you would
not tolerate me in anything save yell
low"
The bride sighed. She realized that
a display of vexation would spoil her
face
Never mind she said. next time
III have what I want"
And the maid of honor laughed sar-
donicalIy.- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN.

If the FirstNational bank paid Tom
illegal and all such interest pawn ents
can be recovered for the depOsitors.
Can it be possible that the certainty of
this disclosure, if the bank books are
examined, is at the bottom of all the
secrecy maintained about the First
Nationals affairs? The State Journal
is right in the demand that the lid be
taken off. Let the deDositors know
where the money actually vent
kingman Leader-C Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
Queer Baggage.

1.-THE railroads of the United States
are very particular as to what they will
accept for transportation as baggage -
remarked Karl E. Kneiss ofthe Mil
waukee road; but down in Guatemala
the railroads are not so particular
While I was down there some time ago
I made a list Of different articles of
merchandise that saw checked as bag
gage on the Western Of Guatemala. at
the town Of Retalhuleu. Here it is: One
cage Of chickens. a. basket of ducks. a
bundle OF dried fish. a crate OF live
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
PRINCE DEVLIN-

C. J. Devlin comes as near being a
prince as any one in this country He
has wrecked a bank and incidentally
robbed the state of over half a million
dollars, and now he is making a tour
in Europe and no newspaper in the
state has a word of censure for him.
Generally when men do what Devlin
has done thev are arrested and lodged
ia jail. but instead Kansas sends Dew
lin TO Europe to have a good time and
live like a millionaire Our idea of a
prince is man ike Deviin who can do
anything he wants to and not be
blamed for Huntington Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

How much have you contributed
through the grace of Tom Kelly, state
treasurer, to the fund which allows Mr..
Devlin to spend the fail in Ireland?
Had Devlin or Tom Kelly either Of
them gone out and stolen a sack Of
flour from any grocery store in Tope-
lla, instead of stealing what they have,
they would both be occupying cells at
Lansing. Steal a little and go to pris-
on; steal few millions and take a trip
to Ireland.-Smith County Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

The defenders Of the action of Cover
nor Hoeh in allowing the M. K & T.
to use the name Of the state ia bringing
suit to get possession Of several million
dollars worth OF land NOW owned BY
The Indians. point out that Attorney
General Coleman said it was all right
and the proper thing TO do. OF course.
hat was TO be expected Of Coleman.
THAT is a cogent reason why Governor
soch ought to have done the other
N7pr. ia view Of past experiences.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

The bosses having decreed that the
Sixth district shall have two places on
the state ticket all the people have to
do is 10 elect delegates to the state con-
vention to ratify the deal and then go
to the polls in November and cast
Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
WHO?

When one looks carefully over the
history of the men who have represent
ed Kansas in the United States senate
and notes the troubles and vicissitudes
most of them have been up against and
the downfall and disgrace that has at
tended many of them, il is hard to I'M
derstand why any one is anxious to
be elected to that Office. There are
Lane, Pomeroy, Ross, Caldwell and
Burton Who for instance aspires to
have his name handed down to posteri-
ty along with that crowd ?-Holton Re
cordsr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

II Jerome is reelected it may become
quite evident where Mr. Murphy gets
his, even if he is now somewhat re-
ticent about answering Jerome's ques-
ton, Where did you get ito"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
A snap.

Save a little Of your sympathy for
the poor railroads. The president of
the Atchison says that the company
lost money on every car of dressed
beef it hauled between Kansas City
and Chicago. But haven't those beef
trusters been having the snap, though,
catching 'em coming and going!-In-
dianapolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

incidentally the state games and fish
department win make good with the
state financially. Thus far Shawnee
county hunters alone have paid over
$40 to the state for the privilege of
hunting-and hunters must take out
licenses every. year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
THE WHIRTTGIG.

It is a curious turn of the whirligig
Of time that makes Victor Murdock,
present congressman and Republican,
the orator at the funeral of the late
Jerry Simpson, former congressman
and Populist leader. Especially is this
so when it is recalled that Victor as a
newspaper man had much to do with
the fame won by Jerry as a politician.
Hutchinson News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

can incompetent. supine or venal
states attorney can do more to foster
a contempt of law than any other one
agency" said the governor of Illinois
the other day. How well this applies
to Kansas is we'll known. But still we
don't know that our attorney general
is venaI.-Osage County Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
40 DOTBT THERE.

Mr.. Devlin refused to state in New
York yesterday what part he would
take in adjusting his affairs. The To-
peka depositors in his defunct bank
do not need to be told what part Mr..
Devlin took in getting his affairs in a
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

Now that the. revolution has been sue
cessful, Russian students can turn their
attention to the more serious subjects Of
football and cane rushes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

Russia is getting up-to-date. Hereto
fore the Russian calendar has been
about two weeks behind time but this
year ST. Petersburg apparently ceIebrat-
ed Halloween one night earlier than the
Isl nf ne
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

Too bad Mr.. Bryan was unavoidably
absent from Nebraska when Mr. Cleve-
land made his visit to that state. The
two old-ume Democrats could have got
together and exchanged condolences.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

Notice the enthusiasm with which the
people are receiving A. D. Walkers an
nouncement that ne won't run for rail-
road commissioner agafn2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

There is more and more talk about
state insurance. That is what the presi-
dents Of the big companies regard as
the most terrible anarchy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

just now the MeCurdys and the Me-
Calls would doubtless be pleased to
make q campaign contribution to in
sure the defeat of Jerome. if they could
take it out Of the poicyholders' divI-
dcnds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

jerome has all kinds of enthusiasm on
his side now All that he needs to
insure his reelection is a sufficient num-
ber ne votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

1T seems to have been a great disap-
pOintment to some Of the railroad organs
that that convention which was called to
promote railroad rate regulation did not
allow itself to be captured and made
to pass resolutions against the railroad
regulation movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

The Nevsky Prospect in st. Petersburg
wasn't in a state of eruption when the
song writer wrote of where every
prospect pleases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

For some reason or other the criticism
Of Henry Irving by G. Bernard Shaw
makes the Washington Star think Of the
jackal and the dead lion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

The news that Spain lost an armored
cruiser d few days ago is the first init
nation that Spain had any such a thing
since the Battle OF Santiago Bay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01

The Russian revolutionists seem to be
going according to the maxim, IF at
first you don't succeed, try, try again"
and this time they are succeeding.