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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.l


IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Anv fool can make friends. but only
a wise man can keep them.
The average woman attaches a
good deal of Importance to party
invitation.
In our opinion. the man who
smokes a cigar In FUNERAL process
sion lacks good taste.
We have noticed that men who are
good story-tellers don't care much
about hearing them
The trouble with some people doing
a good thing is that they waste the
rest of their lives in admiring 1t.
Going to lawyer with every trou-
bile. in a man, is as bad as a woman
going to doctor with every trouble.
1t is as hard for a woman who
wears mourning to give satisfaction
as it is for a mans kin to please his
wife.
There are many people in the world
of so little Importance that they never
become the subject of telegraph
message until they die.
There are two subjects of converse
ton that never fail a woman: One Is
the hired girl question, and the 9TH
er is that her hair is coming out.
The man who smokes lives an un-
happy life. His friends tell him he
had better not smoke; doctors tell
him he must not smoke; his wife says
he 'shan't" smoke.
A man can never own so many au-
tomobiles when he has grown ricbf
that he will have as good a time as
he had in his youth riding around
with the grocer's boy.
Eat such a big dinner at the house
of hospitable woman that 1t kills
you and she will say at your funeral:
'I knew he was sick the day he was
at our house, for He Never Ate a
Thing"
Country town stories: At Coolidge
there lives a man who Is great
"talker." and the country boys in the
vicinity make up stories on him.
They claim that he once told this in
cident: During the war, he was driv-
ing a team attached to a wagon
loaded with loose powder. The pow
der was being hurried to a detach-
ment of federal troops surrounded by
rebels. The driver, in lighting his
pipe, set fire to the powder, but by
quick work, he shoveled out three or
four bushels of the powder and saved
the remainder. Another: The
same man once made a quick trip
with a team of colts. He mentioned
a certain road over which he had
travelled. why" some one said, you
surely didn't come over that road, A
twenty foot span Is out at the bridge"
The man was stumped for a moment.
but finally said: els that so7 noticed
slight bump when I crossed that
bridge"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

them or to camp she had been rather
glad OF the interruption, Tor Inn TOT
the hundredth time, had been pleadins
his cause. She liked him-to herself che
confessed that she loved him-out she
was ,,nwillIng TO assent to an engage
ment. This seemed painfully like
But Willie was determined to save
her lIfe you can oe engaged. he in7l
sisted with q glance at Tim PleasX
Bess. for my sake" And mine, tooF
pleaded Tim, leaning behind the chair
please. dear" Bess looked at Brace
ct am engaged" she said to the mug
whump.
When the cheering had subsidized and
every one had shaken hands with Tim,
Brace turned to Willie.
I'm consideration of the great service
you have rendered one OF our mem
bers," he said solemnly, I. as mug
whump, tender you the freedom OF the
forest You will not even have to wind
my watch. which is an all day Joo Tor a
grown man."
.Tm so glad" said Willie beamingly q.
and Bess and Tim silently echoed the
nt-(Copyrighted, 1907. by M.
NJ. Cunningham.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06
AYHAWKER JOTS

A Concordia grocer has on exhibition
a cheese weighing quarter OF ton.
A Smith Center old maid declares that
.all there is to dancing is the hugging
and music" And the Mankato Advocate
thinks that's a-plenty.
New York apples are selling at Sc
a barrel in Mcpherson. If that sort OF
thing should keep up long. New York
would get all of our money away from
US again.
Moundridge coal dealers are fussing
because the coal they ordered last April
for August delivery has not yet arrived
They should be patient. Perhaps 1T VIII
be there by spring.
Emporia Gazette: This thing of try
ing to do the Bogie Man act" remark
its false face and whiskers, isn't what
it's cracked I'D to be-"
The Emporia Gazette refers to 1.-The
large, warm mince pie of the hunting
case variety" as being now in style.
But isn't the Gazette rushing matters.
The pie now fashionable is the onen-
faced pumpkin with brunette COM
plexion.
Anna Carlson, of the Lindsborg News.
says that more people would get mar
ried if they were sure they would not
be charivaried and have their ears fill
ed with rice and their baggage decora-
ted with old shoes and silly placards."
And Henry Honey says II that is all
that IS nOlQ1ng MISS SdTlSOH pdCh, lis
will agree to make the cut-ups behave.
Three parties We're here this week
from Nebraska trying to buy Brown
county land, says the Hiawatha Demo-
crat Up near Morrill, they offered
$40 coo for one quarter, $4,000 for an
other and S10,500 for an eighty all of
which was refused by the owners. Is
Brown county land worth $40, 900 quar-
ter? Will 1t pay a fair interest on the
investment? Will it still go higher =?
These are some Of the questions people
are asking each other since these Of
ty land is worth SIC, 900 quarter, it will
more than pay a fair interest on the
investment and it will go higher. Old
Brown never fails to produce a crop,
and with wheat at one dollar per
bushel and corn at Sc cents and all
other farm products in proportion and
with an abundance of all of them in
Brown county you may bet your last
bottom dollar that land is going up m
accordance with her producing qualities.
And why not? We have better land
than some of the central and eastern
states, where farms are selling as high
as $4,000 per quarter and it Will only
be a short time until some of the
quarters in this county are bringing the
same, judging from present indications.
According to the Record, an Erie wo-
man, after accompanying her husband
home from social function a few ev-
enings ago, placed him under the gas
jet for inspection and this IS what she
found scattered about over his coat:
TWO distinct kinds of face powder and
a hair of a compr omising color.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A hall seating $4,000 people is wanted
for the Republican national convention.
Topeka's Auditorium will seat the 1000,
so all that would be necessary here
would be to carry in chair for the
81 before the a.
Unless a certain Kansas railroad hur-
ries along the repairs on it's track, we
expect the insurance companies will in
sert this question in it's applications
among the interrogatories concerning
other diseases: do you ever travel on
the Missouri Paeif1c?" An answer in
the affirmative will bar the applicant.
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HELLO" TO HEAVEN.
Speaking of observation-disclosures, a
good story is told in Lippincott's Mag
azine Here 1t is: A Kansas man and
his family had gathered around the
supper table, and all heads were bowed
for him to ask a blessing when the tel
ephone bell rang. The man answered
ii and, coming back to the table, again
bowed his head, and the telephone rang.
He answered that call, then for the
third time seated himself and, bowling
his head, said, "Hello!"
4
The Baltimore American plucks this
posey from the conservatory Of it's soul:
1.-The most consoling pleasure of old
age, looking out of the windows OF
hope, is the sweet sense of the heart
and soul that you have spread the flow
ers of life along the rugged road of hu-
mainly instead of the nettles of con-
tention." Could even Governor Hoch
do better?
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News. }

IFrom the Chicago News1
A grumbler is the fly in life's ONT
ment.
Kisses of hypocrites taste like fried
ice cream.
Even the high flyer occasionally
lands in lowly place.
Failure fills the vacancy left when
perseverance quits.
There is nothing so thoroughly mis-
understood as perfection.
There is a quiet but steady demand
for wet goods in a dry town.
The more bad habits a man accum-
ulates the less money he saves.
Half a loaf is better than dozen
loaves of the kind some bakers make.
By a strenuous use of his fist the
prize fighter manages to get his hand
Any man would get boiling mad IL
his wife kept him in boiling water all
the time.
Some girls may be called "giddy"
because they make the young mems
heads swim.
Only after a man has done some
thing worth while can he afford to
while away his time.
If a man has no eye for beauty and
no ear for music he doesn't get all that
is coming to him in this world.
It's jealousy in women that makes
them say mean things behind your
back, but in men it is pure meanness.
Before facing the parson with his
bride-to-be a man should burn all the
bridges that connect him with his
past.
1t isn't enough to tell girl she is
pretty. Tell her she Is the prettiest
girl you ever saw II you would knock
the persimmons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06
ADAY OF GLOOM.

To-day far-sighted business men sit
helpless before the riotous forces that
have laid their hands upon the wheels OF OF
Days book, THE Raid on Prosperity
Come off
They don't:
They rise and hit
The trouble-spot blow to split
The rottenness wide open. so
The good. clean air may comes and go =
Straight through It like a knife that cuts
The rioters in Calls and puts
Say,
DR.. Day.
Your view points wrong,
And you can't see
What constitutes prosperity.
You have strabismus, too.
And think
The whole darn country's on the blink.
Because. as far as you can see,
This corporate activity
Has been restrained.
Has had a check
Before 1t landed on the neck
Of everything in sight and made
Itself the Autocrat of Trade.
Say, Chancellor, are you aware
Just what this country is, for fair?
Do you know
How far from New York you can go
And find the nation still is there.
AS rich and strong and fat and fair
AS ever sun shone on and rains
Brought millions to the farmers gains?
There mines their hidden wealth reveal;
There every form of enterprise
That push and progress can devise
Stands forth in triumph to deny
The vision of the narrow eye.
Wake up, o Day, Of Syracuse,
To this new day and hear the news,
Forget the others, DR.. Day,
H Al ib Try e eae dont yo's
About this country going to the demn1-
ton bowwows
In a Wall street furry.
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Pres.1

lrTOIH the new YORK Press.
A lot of people have religion the
way they do their best clothes-to
show of in public.
A comfortable thing about a big
family is you never have any money to
lose in panics.
Nearly everybody in the world can
a lawyer.
A woman calls 1t very romantic to
ind an old letter she can't remember
who wrote it.
The less a man understands what
he's voting for the madden he rets
with anybody for voting the other
way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

You can lead a horse to water but
you cannot always make him believe
he Is thirsty. Governor Gillett, of
California. proclaimed a holiday for
the banks out there last week, but
with one exception. every bank in the
state refused to. take advantage of it.
Governor Gillett appears to be a good
sort Of governor not to have.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

John D. Rockefeller sent a Kansas
niece who was married recently check
as a wedding present, but like as not
the New York bank on which it was
drawn will insist on paying it in clear
ing house certificates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

John D. Rockefeller may sometime
emulate Andy Carnegie and endow
library, but we refuse to believe that
he will include with his donation a
rnorocco-bound edition of the works of
Ida NJ. Tarbell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

Everywhere it's the same story: The
banks have more currency on hand
than they had a week ago. The people
have kept right on depositing more
than they have checked out. That looks
like DESTROYED confidence" doesn't it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

In spite of the announcements that
the railroads are discharging thou
sands of men from construction work
Los Angeles employment agents say
they have calls for 10000 men more
than they can supply for railroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

Governor Varadman has the blues
concerning the future of the republic.
Other men have been afflicted the same
way after the people had decided to
hire somebody else to run the country
for than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

The assertion of an eastern physi-
clan that John D. Rockefeller will live
to be a hundred years old someway
recalls to the Lindsborg News that the
good die young.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

"It is almost as hard" comments
the Washington Star. ito locate the
exact responsibility for a panic as for
an election defeat" And yet Wall
Street spectators will tell you with
out hesitation that Roosevelt did it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

In Lawrence the banks refused to
follow the example of the financial in
mituations in other cities by suspending
cash payment. and kept right on paying
out cash whenever it was called for.
IN. result Il that the Lawrence banks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

1t is doubtless a fact that President
Roosevelt is. in a way, open to the
charge that he has destroyed con-
fidence. For instance, he has de-
stroyed the confidence of the big
financiers in their ability to under
mine his popularity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

The good roads movement ought to
receive a big impetus in Kansas this
fall, especially about the time the farm
ers find it impossible to haul an empty
wagon to town with a four-horse team
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

Been a long time since anyone re-
signed from bossing the Panama
canal. That's what comes of putting
a man in charge who can't resign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

This fine brand of weather which No
venber is dealing out makes one believe
that November is pretty decent sort
of month after all--if it will just keep
ND.
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CAUSE AND CURE.
LEARNING JoURNALIsM

The Wichita Eagle Is knocking on
the Kansas university school of jour-
nalism. The school of Journalism is
all right, but a new graduate can not
run a newspaper, any more than a
new graduate from a law school can
try case. Rudiments are learned at
college, but 1t takes practice to do the
business.-Holton Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

Milk is constantly advancing In
price. Pure food, in which is included
waterless milk, comes high but we
must have it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

Some banks are talking Of increas-
ing their circulation, but they are moi
offering premiums to do it, as some
newspapers do.
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have more money on hand than when
the furry began. And that. too, in spite
of the way the Washburn-K. U. foot
ball game came out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

Conscience never takes, yaca-
tion," asserts the Baltimore American.
The American better investigate fur
ther. Some peoples consciences never
do ANYTHING else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

The New York Republicans fused with
the Hearst crowd in the recent New
York campaign. Now is good time
for ex-senator Burton to point out the
immortality of fusion"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

The Leavenworth Times is afraid
that the airships will also ask for a
ship subsidy from congress. There
might be some sense in subsidy like
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

That Jackson gubernatorial boom ap-
pears to be booming again after brie1
vacation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

This decline in the price Of meat
must be coming by freight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06
OMAHA,s SCHEME.

The price of meat has been cut 10
per cent in Omaha. Perhaps this is
scheme to enable Omaha to make
big showing when the next census is
taken.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

New York likes speed. Perhaps
That is why it made a run on its banks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06
KANSAS CONNENT

GOSSIP.
A gossip stopped us on the street
the other day and offered US some
very spicy news" He told US about
what rumor was saying about ceI,
tain young couple" 1t might pc salo
that this man is a man of famlly,
has both sons and daughters OF his
own. Yet he told US this story ABOUT
the son and daughter OF some otner
parents without stopping to consloer
that he might be sowing the seed tnat
would cause untold agony ana sorrow
to those parents some day. Remem-
Der this before you break your neck
trying to peek into some OF your
neighbors' secret closets; there is one
of those skeletons in almost every
home. When talking so freely about
the affairs of your neighbors, olo IL
ever occur to you that some day a
tragedy might take up its ABODE IN
ever imagine that some day the
tongue of SANDER may cut like two
edged sword and the whispers or the
curious neighbors be as vinegar TO the
wound? Misfortune and disgrace may
overtake some member of your neigh
boris family but that does not give
you a license to get upon the mouse
tops and shout the news to all the
world. Your neighbor must pay the
penalty for their sins or crimes and
you are not held to blame in the least.
When a home is in disgrace over the
erring OF son or a daughter, IL
should be your duty to lessen the
grief of those effected instead of try
ing to do them further injury. Be
charitable. my friends, for you know
not the day nor the hour when the
blight may appear in your own sacred
circle.-Beloit Times.
EMMETT DALTON.
1t is doubtful if public sentiment
in Kansas demands the return OF EN-
NETT Dalton to the state penitentiary.
n Iara L, at n r
five months and his conduct has been
exemplary and decent to degree that
has enlisted the sympathy of the peo-
pie. To compel him to return to the
degradation of prison life after real
ization of such an extended period OF
freedom without an additional charge
of misconduct on his part, would have
the appearance of unwarranted per-
secution. 1t would have been more
merciful to have denied him a parole
at ALL Reformation of the law-break-
ers is really more to be desired than
their punishment, and it would GER
tainly contribute nothing to the young
mans moral uplift to subject him
again to prison stripes and the asso-
Citations of prison life. Isn't is pos
sible that Kansas could extend len
iency to Dalton, the convict, without
in any way offering an extenuation
for the crime of Dalton the bandit? p
Kansas City Star
SUGGESTION FOR BALLAST
1t is announced that the Central
Branch, which runs from Atchison
west is to be rock ballasted. It's a
pity the road can not use the rocks
the public has been throwing at the
Central Branch for twenty-three
years.-Wichita Beacon.
CAUSE AND CURE.
The east is pointing with some
pride to the fact that the financial
situation has been saved by big men
in finance, and not by the political re-
formers. 1t is worth while to remem-
Der that the financial situation which
called for salvation was created by
big men of finance, and not by politi-
cal reforners. The hair of the dog
ought tosbe good for the bite.-Otta-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06

MILWAUKEE, KNOWS NO RIVAL
London has a brewer for mayor. Lon
don is trying hard to make itself fam
GUS but it ought to undertake some
thing new and original If 1T would not
be a dead one.-Milwaukee News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-06
FROM OTHER PENS
BLAMING RoosEvELT.

A grotesque feature of the recent
financial crisis in New York was the
loud complaint made by the vice
president of a former great trust COM
pany that President Roosevelt had
caused all the trouble The institu-
ton represented by this official had
been closed up because its condition
was too bad to warrant it's rescue by
the bankers forming the clearing
house association. Standing amid
the wreckage produced by foolish in
vestments made with depositors'
money, the doleful vice president of
the concern bitterly exclaimed
Roosevelt did it."
Others have taken up the cry. They
have little insight or else they are try
ing to divert attention from their own
misdeeds or the misdeeds of their
class. There have been panics before.
The present disturbances are mere
childs play to what has happened in
other years when wild speculation had
drawn the nation into the inevitable
abyss. If President Roosevelt has
precipitated the general renovation
which is now in progress in financial
circles he should be given high credit
for his handiwork. The logic of his
position that financial crookedness
must be blotted out is SO completely
unanswerable that Wall street itself,
under the guidance of sane f1nancfers,
Is turning in that direction
Wildcat finance and its gilded ex-
ponents will have to go. The reput-
able bankers of New York have been
brought to a realization OF this great
truth by the difficulties of the present
situation. They have been busily
speeding the speculative gentry on
the inglorious road to oblivion. 1t
would be the height of folly for them
to turn back now from the excellent
work which they have begun. It is
their duty to cooperate with the pres
ident in obtaining permanent safety
by putting into effect the reforms in
corporation affairs which he SO earn
estly advocates-Chicago News.
COME OUT OF THE CELLAR
The storm Is over. Wrecks may
have to be cleared away. But what
remains in business and in banking is
tested, solid and stable.-Philadelph
Press.
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THEY ARE MOSTLY SUCKERS.

Henry Watterson claims that 'ithe
devil often bats his hook with joke"
We don't see how he makes such large
catches with such poor bait.-New
York Commercial
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FULL LEASED WIFE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Gtate Journal In a member e tEe
Associated Press and receives the 1uu oay
telegraph report Of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive AFTERNOON
Publication al Topeka.
nal building ever wires for this sole pur-
pose.
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COME OUT OF THE CELLAR.

The storm Is over. Wrecks may
have to be cleared away. But what
remains in business and in banking is
tested, solid and delphia
Press.
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SUGGESTION FOR BALLAST.
1t is announced that the Central
Branch, which runs from Atchison
west is to be rock ballasted. It's a
pity the road can not use the rocks
the public has been throwing at the
Central Branch for twenty-three
years.-Wichita Beacon.