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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

This department has invented a
brand new suggestion which it be-
neves VIII fill long-felt want. 1t is
well known fact that no house Is
whenever there is an unlocked for
knock at the door, there is always a
tremendous rush to put things to
rights before the door is opened. It
the women folks. The suggestion of
this department is this: Why not
have straightening up" drills In the
domestic science courses in the
are trained, so that they can put a
house to rights in forty seconds Drill
them I'm rapid, but methodical move
ments to gather up a bundle of papers
ly picks the sewing scraps off the
floor, throwing them into another
room, and while pulling the door
shut, gracefully kick a pile of I'M
This should be done in ten seconds.
Two other rooms should be straight
ened in the next twenty seconds, leav-
ing the last ten to smoothing the hair
just before the door is opened. A drill
of this kind is greatly needed. Let the
it is incorporated in the domestic
science courses.
What a blessing il was the tele-
graphers struck when neither the
nor the Thaw case was on
trial-or would you consider it the
other thing?
And this in the Athens of Kansas:
Having mastered the RECOMMENDATION
OF chauffeur, says the Lawrence
World. I'VE are now working eight
hours a day trying to master the pro
nounciation of garage"
n
Papers that have a grapevine tele-
graph franchise have a tremendous
advantage these days Their service
IS not interrupted by the strike.
X n n
You really can not blame Mr.. Rock
efeller for seeing hard times ahead
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
HUNOR or THE Day

The1r Line.-Clara-"You may not be-
lieve it, but I said No to seven differ
ent men during the past winter. Maude
what were they selling ?"-Pick-me-
UP.
Miss Eleanor" said he, as they sat
on the beach in the moonlight, will you
marry me?" This is so student" she
cried. My loser" he asked. NO" she
replied, your Eerve.'-Judge.
What time did you go home from the
banquet?" Three in the morning."
Thats strange. ! got home at two,
and had further to CO., You think
you walked further, but you didn't sec
me walk. "-CleVeland P1ain-Dealer.
This is one of our greatest show
plnces," said the man who was showing
a friend about his town. "whyI It's
only a vacant lott! replied the friend.
Sure; but that's where the circus al
ways shows when 1T comes to town.
Yonkers Statesman.
Last week." said the visitor, severe.
ing but Ashes" your mistake" replied
the editor, suavely, was in sending a
burning poem. 1t really is nothing bul
ashes now."-Pniladelphia Public Led
ger.
Mrs. Outertown-I think you worked
for me once before. Can you recall? The
New Cook-Shure, it amt unlikely. It's
SIGH a bother layin out new routes 1
concluded to use wan av me ovid vans
this trip.-Puck.
1t was the morning after their arrival
at a seaside resort. IT have often heard
of the roar of the ocean," she said
dreamily, but never knew it sounded
like that" That's the roar of de-
parting guest who has just been pre-
sented with his bill. n-Ludge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The best luck that can happen to a
doctor is to guess right.
An Atchison man is SO worthless he
can not even get up a. good excuse.
1t is noticeable that when a men is
unusually accurate. he likes to tell
about 1t.
He's so bad that he would corrupt
man this morning. in describing a
tough boy.
A Coolidge man went on a trip to
Colorado. and took his wife along. and
his wife printed a card of thanks in
the Enterprise.
If YOU are called up on the telephone
before 6 a. m. you can bet 1t is a farm
err, who wants to talk to you before
going out to his work.
There will always be people who
will visit in business office, the same
as there will always be others who will
talk loud when the baby is asleep.
In addition to her other accom-
plishments. Kate Handy. the noted
Atchison cook. can second a fiddle on
a piano, according to her husband,
Hon. Emanuel Handy.
When the mother of twins begins to
talk, all other mothers cease. and the
mother Of twins is never cowed for the
reason that one so seldom hears from
the mother Of triplets.
Mrs. Frank Gilbert lately went to
Kansas City, and while there had her
baby's picture taken. few days
aftcrward Mr.. Gilbert went down. and
was asked to bring home the pictures,
and he didn't do thing but return
with a dozen pictures of another baby.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton didn't
enjoy last Christmas at all through re-
calling that seven years ago Christmas
her cousins baby died, and on New
Years she had q sad time: 1t was the
nineteenth anniversary of the day she
lost her grandmother. Anniversaries
are always sad days to Mrs. Lysander
John.
There is q knock on the door. fol-
lowed By an instant's silence in the
house, and then sound as II cy-
clone had begun its work. Chairs are
flung across the room, there is the
hurried swish of a broom, tables are
moved. etc, and then the door is OPEN
ed by an excited. but triumphant look
ing woman: In the minute that
opening of the door. she nd straight
ened W" the house.
A North Third street woman who
has a hard time to keep up appear
ances, uses a graphophone to prevent
the neighbors from hearing too much
of what goes on within her four walls.
Her husband is a great scold, and
whenever he begins to holler about
this or that, she starts the graphic
phone, and keeps 1t going until he
Quiets down. 1t is said that the woman
has but one record: Whenever the
ne1ghDorS near waltz Me AIouho
Again, Willie" they know the old man
is raising cain"
An Atchison girl of very high ideals
married and moved to another town.
This was six months ago, and her let
tiers contained SO many illusions 70
Disappointment. Disillusion, ETC., thae
the girls mother pictured the husband
as a brute who beat his wife three
times day and pinched her, and slap
ped her, and pulled her nose. she
went to visit the daughter, and has
returned a wiser woman. She round
her son-in-law kind. courteous and
and, when she asked her
daughter what she meant by "Disap-
"Disillusion," etc. the
daughter replied. "You should see how
horrid he looks in his bare feet"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Tournal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address mt the rate of ten cents
o. week or thirty cents n month (by
mail only. Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town the
State Journal viii be TO you Ike
daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to saVc
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
Famons lilac Tree.

Chief among the many objects of in
terest in the gardens of Easton Lodge.
Dunmow the residence of the Earl and
Countess of Warwick, is the magnificent
lilac tree which occupies a conspicuous
position on the terrace. This tree is
the finest specimen of its kind in the
United Kingdom. It has a circum-
ference of 120 feet and a height of six
teen feet, and it has so dense a growth
and blooms so profusely that when in
flower it forms huge boquet of lilac
blossom.
The lilac is that commonly known as
the Persian, and described by botanists
as the Chinese; but it is not a native
of either Persia or China, but was
raised in the Rouen botanic garden in
1895 by the naturalization of the true
Persian lilac and the common lilac of
British gardens.
1t was of notable proportions at the
middle of the last century, and produced
such a magnificent display Of blossoms
that in the Towering season Viscount
MAYNARD, Lady Warwick's grandfather,
used a make a special journey from
London to enjoy the beauty and frag-
rance of the Observation-Disclosures Maya
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
stammer?-You're Kind Hearted.

Stammering arises from a weak nerve
in the brain. Strengthen that nerve
and the stammering is cured. But it so
happens that this particular nerve is
never weak in the case of people who
are mean, or hard, or utterly selfish.
I do not pretend to say that only
stammerers have gentle, sensitive,
sympathetic natures. but do claim that
a person who stammers slightly will
generally be found to be trustworthy.
difident, kind-hearted, and, nine times
out of ten. possessed of considerable
mental ability.-Sketch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
eEEJ,ECTIoNs or A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.1
A woman likes to be fattered so she
will know it's true.
Next TO being an old maid a girl is
most afraid of not going to heaven.
A man that wears Burnside whiskers
isn't even ashamed to be photographed
in them.
The most satisfaction of having a
home of your own is when you don't
have to live in it.
The reason a man can be a bigger
fool over a girl than over anything
else in the world is so that he can
get over it quicker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

The Salina Journal thinks cit is
true that an official order from the
state railroad board declaring the
track of the Missouri Pacific to be in
a dangerous condition might injure
the business of the road" 1t might,
but it wouldn't. Everybody else
knew about the Missouri Pacif1c's
tracks before the railroad board. Such
an order would simply tell the pub
ua what Il already knows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

There Is no school ma'am famine
after all. State Superintendent Fair
ahild has counted them and he finds
enough to go around and seventeen
left over. Thus seventeen additional
school ma'ams can get married and
still leave enough to teach the young
idea in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

1t is stated that the king of Siam
has presented a $4,000 thimble to his
wife. Is not this a mistake? 1t prob
baby means that the king has pre-
scented $4,000 worth of thimbles to
his wives. 1t might take that many
to 20 around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

1t is said that the relief system in
San Francisco following the earth
quake developed a great many loafers,
but this does not apply to grand jury
men. They have worked overtime for
month";
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
IN THE NUTMEG STATE.

A dispatch speaks OF the "S1mpIe
Country People, near a Connecticut
town. Nothing so clearly illustrates
the superiority of the west over the
east. as the intelligence of the rural
ties. 1t would be difficult in Kansas
to find a single believer in witchcraft,
or one whose superstitions reach back
into the dark ages.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

Wichita is inclined to believe the
prophecy of that Minnesota scientist
that we are to die of thirst. 1t has
been trying two-per-cent now for
several weeks, and it Just can't learn
IN like IF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

A biscuit trust has just been
formed. but it is feared that the
merger won't improve the quality of
those turned out by Topeka bride
who is making her first attempts at
nOnlrinrr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

Says the Atchison Globe: "The
principal charge against John d.
Rockefeller is that he did up his
competitors. A man who hasn't the
same ambition-to succeed better
than his ompetitors-doesn't amount
TO much" Which may be true, but
there is a vast difference between
honest and dishonest competition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

New York has heard that some
Kansas farmers offer free beer as an
inducement to get farm hands, and
the Commercial now thinks it under
stands what a prairie schooner is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

If that elderly individual up in Van
eouver is really Quantrel1, what a pity
for him it is that he could not have
borne his ignominy In peace and Sc
crecy to the gravel!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
\ FoRCEFUL REMINDER.

Twenty-Five million dollars of fines
from the Standardization collected
may impress itself on the trust mine
as an argument that getting speciaf
favors In transportation may prove to
come out on the wrong side of the
pront and loss account.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

The Standard OIL company makes
the charge that the present admins
tration has deliberately tried to
SHOWN" the Standard. Every day or
two something new comes up to make
the Roosevelt administration popular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
IMPOSSIBLE.

It is said that Roosevelt is working
quietly to give the Fairbanks boom
for president a frost. We like Fair
banks all right enough. and we don't
wish him any il1-luck. but we believe
it is an impossible task for Roosevelt
or anybody else, to reduce the temper
allure of Fairbanks boom for presi-
dent, any lower than 1T Is now.-Atch-
ison Champion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

Some way or other, the Standard
Oil officials seem displeased at the
conduct of Herbert Knox Smith, COM
missioner of corpora tons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

twas only natural that the Wichita
Beacon should turn it's light on the
city council Of that town. What is a
beacon for if it isn't to turn on the
Heht7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
That Law Again.

For miles and miles the through
passenger train has plodded along in
the wake of the slow freight. The
travellers grow irksome and even
petulant.
Conductor" says one OF the boldest
of them, "why do you not get that
freight to take a siding while we go
by it?'
"Under the new Hepburn law" ex-
plains the conductor, sadly, 1--WE are
not allowed to pass anything. Sue
cess Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

This Quantrell story Is a reminder
of the Indian uprising in Jackson's
Hole, Montana. that never happened.
Remember that?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

The Standard denies that It pro-
poses to join the railroads in a finish
night on the government. Perhaps it
Is afraid that more railroads will
turn states evidence as the Alton did.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

Senator Foraker insists that he will
never ride on the Taft band wagon.
He seems to prefer being under II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

We are firmly convinced that there
Is no danger of a frost tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

As is usually the case, the innoceni
bystander is getting the worst of it ir
this strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

1t isn't the waters that are troubled
these days: 1t is oil-Standard Oil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
MOVE IN RIGHT DIRECTION.

1t is no doubt true that the govern
ment gets and holds too large a pro-
portion of the country's money sup
ply With lower taxes and smaller
SURPRISES there would be less tempta-
ton to the extravaganza which now
permeates every branch of the public
service.-Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
Life Lines in the Streets.

That which was once Illyrfa is now
Dalmatta, or. rather, that part of
1llyria which reaches the Adriatic is
Dalmatia, "the half forgotten coun-
try" as the Austrians called it when 1t
fell into their hands not so many years
ago.
1t is one of the few bits of Europe
that remain in a measure unhackney-
ed, and it is still out of the beaten
paths of the tourist. who himself is
almost as much of a curiosity to the
people as they are to him. There are
seasons. according to- a picturesque
article in Appleton's magazine, when
the bora blows. that wind of DEATH
as the natives call it. which comes out
of the blue with more than the sud-
denness of a tornado and shakes the
earth and all that is on the earth,
stineing, binding, choking. In the
square OF Trieste life lines are promi-
nent features. which the citizens must
grasp when the bora clutches them,
and they grope their way through the
whirling dust and the promiscuous
missiles flying in the darkened air.
But the bora goes as quickly as it
comes, and when it is gone the peo-
pie simply excavate themselves out of
the drift and think no more about the
winged demon. which has left no trail
whatever in the restored serenity of
the secured sky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news is received On The State Jour-
n0aa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
FRON OTHER PENS
SIZE OF FARMS.

The question of the size of the
farms is receiving attention in the
west where there are many who be-
lieve that farms are still too large.
These people claim that a well titled
farm of smaller number or acres is
what the country needs on account or
the increased amount OF labor which
larger acreage requires, the increased
increased taxes From the standpoint
of the productive use and cost OF
working capital they are no doubt
right.
Even though the capital require
ments were the same for smaller as
for e larger farm, the concentration
of its use upon the land would be
much more effective on the smaller
acreage than on the larger. the wis
dom of this lesson has been learned
from the foreigner who knew how to
succeed on a small acreage in Europe.
Here he follows the same general
plan and farms a small piece or land
lntensiVely and contentedly. He need
not bother about the LABOR prop
for his own family constitutes labor
supply and the size of that determines
the number of acres that he can sue
cessfully cultivate. His success IN &C
curing ownership proves that ne is
right in probably nine cases out OF
ten, and that the farmer who tries too
much acreage is the man who Is mis-
taken under existing conditions, how
ever correct he may have been in the
early stages of our agricultural his
tory, when land was less expensive,
outlay for buildings. implements and
improvements much smaller in pro-
portion to gross income. and the
working force larger on account or
the greater size of the family and the
tendency of it's members to remain at
nome to a much later age. All these
influences affect the size of the farm.
Wall Street Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16

BY a recent count the sawmills IN
the United States number 1921.
with q capital of 1881, 100000, and
manufactured products worth $491,-
100000. But how fast Is the timber
going? An answer to the question Is
fered.-St. Louis GIobe-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
wHERE LAwRBNcE WINS.

J. L. Brady of the Lawrence Jour-
nal kicks and kicks hard because the
Lawrence papers get none Of the
University of Kansas advertising,
while every cross roads paper in Kan
sas does. But surely the good Mr..
Brady would not have any one believe
he is so mereenary as to prefer more
money to association with the high
brows of the university town.
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
Caught in Their Own Trap.

Two men, who had an intense desire
to make Mr.. Gladstone look foolish, were
once caught in their own trap. They
had determined to try to put a poser
to Mr.. Gladstone by raising discussion
on "a subject on which they, greatly dar-
ing. imagined he knew nothing about.
Accordingly, they looked up an article
in an encyclopedia on some such theme
as Chinese Funeral Customs They
arranged to discuss the matter at a din
ner party where Mr.. Gladstone was to
be the chief guest. AS usual, he sparkled
with information, but when this unusual
theme was introduced by the two men
Mr.. Gladstone was silent. They thought
that at last they had fathomed the
depth of his extra ordinary knowledge,
and one of them challenged him reck-
lessly by saying: II suppose, Mr.. Glad
stone, you cannot throw any light in
this natter" Mr. Gladstone replied in
the mildest way possible: mo, I don't
think anything new on the subject has
appeared since the article dealing with
1t was published In such-and-such an
encyclopedia" naming the very volume
from which the men had extracted their
facts. The laugh was turned against
them, and they never tried again to
make clever man look foolish.-Cas-
sells MAGAZINE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
KANSAS COMNENT
THE REAL ROBBER.

ING<AL IlOLoIGAh.
Thousands of good Republicans, in
Guiding editors of some of the best
Republican papers, are protesting
against the high tariff policy of the
managers of the party. but these man
ayers pay not the slightest attention
to the complaints. Every party man
seems to think he is a party man to
secure offices for a few of his &C
quaintances, and not for the legiti-
mate good of himself. his neighbors
and his country. OF late. the high
tariff is defended very little, but the
Big Leaders among the Republicans
have private reasons for supporting it,
and the little fish complain of the
tariff in private, and support 1t in the
resolutions when they attend conven-
tons. And many believe that the pri-
vate reasons of the Big Leaders for
supporting the tariff policy are not
creditable. We do not believe in in
discriminate and reckless charges of
prominent men, but the tariff policy
of the Republican party seems as out
rageous as the cowardice of the aver
age Republican on the subject, is re-
Observation-Disclosures Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
BUT NOT NOW.

DR.. Quay1e, a few Sundays ago in
his Chicago pulpit INDUCED in few
remarks about kissing being less in
furious to the human system than hot
biscuits, and the newspapers have
been misquoting him since at fearful
rate. One paper has it that he has
offered to trade hot biscuits for kisses
or kisses for hot biscuits we forget
which. We have seen the time when
we would have jumped at the
chance to trade kisses for hot biscuits
That was, however, when we were
younger and had better Digestion
Holton Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-16
AN ECHO,

The depositors of the defunct First
National bank of Topeka, are soon to
receive another IL per cent dividend
The next and last dividend will like
~ amount to four per cent and Will
bring the total dividend up to SO per
cent. The loss to depositors will be
IA per cent. Ex-Treasurer Kelly had
more than 100000 of state money in
this bank, contrary to law, when 1t
failed. The states loss, unless keily's
bondsmen are called upon to make 1T
good. will be more than $4,000. Tom
Kelly made a rabbit out OF Governor
Hoch in this matter. and there is
curiosity to know whether Attorney
General Jackson, who Boldly Defed
the beer trust. the harvester trust and
the insurance trust. has the nerve to
tackle little old Tom Kelly and make
him dig up this amount.-Atchison
Globe.