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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
EpON OTHER PENS
cONvICTs EARN MONEY.

1t is not generally known, but it is
nevertheless a fact that convicts in the
Ohio penitentiary earn as high as $50
or $50 a month for themselves work.
ing overtime. They have a certain
task to perform in eight hours and all
work they get out above their tasks is
credited to them. In the bolt shop
alone more than 200 men divide every
month 5000 for work accomplished in
overtime The convicts are not al
lowed to work more than eight hours
a day. One man in the bolt shop earns
nearly $50 a month running what is
called a perfect mill. A large number
of convicts clear for themselves more
than $50 a month.-Columbus, Ohio,
Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rrrom the Atchison Globe.

rFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Did a man ever move an old house
and make money at it?
Look into the past of the man who
likes to go visiting, and somewhere
away back you will find him q. boy in
a photograph album, with long curls
down his back.
When a man is fifty he is cautious
and refuses to walk on slippery places
and climb ladders, but when he gets
to be eighty, he feels he can do 1T just
as we'll as anybody.
If a fortune teller tells a man he Is
going to marry a blonde, there isn't
dark haired girl of his acquaintance
who isn't ready to be made over to full
fill the prediction.
A woman writes to this Office to pro-
test against any widower getting mar-7
ried again. mo woman" she says
should be expected to submit to a
secondhand husband"
Love affairs are becoming SO fatal
that Cupid is hereafter likely to be
pictured equipped with a bomb or a
gatling gun instead of the slow and
obsolete bow and arrow. g..
Nowadays, when woman is seen
hurrying along the streets with look
OF grim determination on her face.
bets are about even as to whether
She Is out cunning for a man, or
merely headed for bargain sale.
The hobo has lot of trouble with
policemen, dogs and poor pie. but he
enjoys the distinction of being prac-
tically the only person who can take
an absolutely disinterested view of the
2 cent a mile and antipass railroad
legislation.
1t is interesting to watch the evoIu-
ton of the girl who works in the dry
goods stores. AS rule the girls who
take places in the stores are very
young and rather green looking. The
first morning they come to work with
braids down their backs, and wearing
dresses that show the tops Of their
shoes. They have big waists, and not
much figure. Little by little they be-
gin to change: They begin on their
hair, and gradually get large pompa-
dour, and then their skirts become
longer, and their figures begin going
in at the waist, until within a few
weeks, the new girl stands behind the
counter looking like a real princess.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
A ROYAL Joke.

SPANS 20-year-old king is still, it
seems, very much of the boy Every
once in a while he drops unexpected
ly into the unconventional in way
productive of much embarrassment to
his encourage.
His latest prank was played in the
great cathedral at Leon, to which,
with his queen, he recently paid an
unofficial visit. He had gone alone IN
to the organ loft, and had begun to
NAV a chant-for Alfonzo's education
has made Of him an organist of ability
as well as. nnguist,-when with nc
warning whatever he switched on INTO
1sharo military march, at the same
time calling out in a loud voice:
Attention. Quick step. Forward
Priests and suite. were for, the instant
too surprised to do anything put gasp
and the next minute. there was the
solemn strain of the chant again, with
the laughter of the king heard be-
meath it.-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
Experience.

A certain member OF the Pittsburg
stock exchange has set his nephew up
in business three times, but the young
man lacks something essential to sue
cess in the line selected for him, and
has failed with each effort.
When he recently appeared before
the uncle with his fourth request the
latter said:
you must learn to lean on yourself.
I can't carry you all my life. I'll tell
YOU what I'll do. You owe me a great
deal as the result of your last failure.
Pitch in on your own hook and go it
alone till you pay off those debts.
When you've done that, I'll give you
check for what they amount to. Such
an experience will do you more good
than all the money I could give you
now"
Two months later the nephew
walked in with every claim receipted in
full, and the uncle was so delighted
that he gave the promised check.
"FIow did you manage it. Howard ?"
he asked, after an expression of con-
graduation.
Howard.-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press1
It's cheaper to have bad habits than
an automobile.
Everybody is always trying to make
money without earning it.
If there isn't any reason for a girl TO
fall In love with man it's a sign she
will
A woman always speaks of her SER
want in the plural even when she
hasn't a single one.
The reason a bachelor never enioys
having a good time is because he can
have it whenever he wants to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
SYMPATHY AND PRoPINQUITY.

Human sympathy and philanthropy
are greatly affected by distance. A
relatively small misfortune close to us
excites more interest than great
calamity half way around the world.
This is shown in the fact that millions
of people are starving in China and
other millions are on the verge of star
walton in Russia without causing any
manifestations of pity or generosity in
this country. The starving Chinese
and Russians are so far off that their
woes affect us but slightly. 1t is pleas
ant to believe that such suffering
would not be allowed to exist in our
own country-Chicago Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

After this week Kansas will have no
congressman-at-large for the first time
in many years. On next Monday Con-
gresham Bowersock becomes a private
citizen; Charles F. Scott, the present
congressman-at-large will become the
representative from the Second district;
Victor Murdock's constituents will be
the people of the new Eighth district
instead Of those OF the Seventh; and
Judge E. H. Madison will begin his term
as congressman from the Seventh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Frofn the Chicago News.l

Justice is just what the unjust are
anxious to avoid.
Unless a man is a good listener he
should never marry.
A nobody is a man who is ALWAYS
boasting of his ancestors.
At this season OF the year the can
opener is mightier than the sword.
Smiles cost less than electric lights
and they make the home brighter.
1t doesn't pay to SOW wild oats. yotne,
man; there is no market for them.
A wise man fiatters a woman by fell
ing her that he is unable to understand
her. $3.50
If a man is ignorant he NAV Iearn
but If he knows too much there is no
hope for him. --N
The man who is always turning ova-
new leaf evidently believes that on
good turn deserves another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
DO Not WANT safety Devices.

In an article entitled 1.-THE Needless
Slaughter by Street Cars" in the
March Everybod y's, the writer, John
p. Fox, tells of his discovery of the
fender in use in Liverpool:
81 learned that up to the time of my
first visit twenty-one persons mad &C
tually been in the way of cars equip
ped with this fender and not one of
them had been killed! Not only had
every man, woman or child been
pushed off the tracks, clear. of the
wheels, but in every case this had been
done without anything approaching
serious injury. From the official rec=
ords of this fender one may learn that
within the last five years, out of 344
persons who have fallen on the tracks
not one has been run over and killed. i
Full of enthusiasm over this won
derful record of success, I promptly
sent accounts of this fender back to
Boston and to New York, so that
American managers might lose no
time in learning of it. On returning
from Europe, went to the managers
of the Boston Elevated and was talk
ing with the secretary, when he called
out to General Bancroft the president:
"'See here, general, just listen TO
what Mr. Fox says he has found In
Liverpool. He has been telling me
that they have a fender over there so
perfect that three times it pushed off
the track man who was trying TO
commit suicide, and without even
hurting him. s
And this was General Bancroft's
reply:
"a You send that man over here and
We'll kill him quick enough.
Doubtless it was a jest. For, per-
sonal1y, General Bancroft is a humane
and considerate man. But as jest, it
seemed to me rather grim. And so
it proved, for nothing could better
illustrate the whole attitude of Ameri-
"a I'm ne T will not saw toward
anything in the way of life-saving de-
vices, but toward anything that comes
from Europe. They think, they know,
that .wessdo things better over here
They are patriotic and they are proud
of it, Since the day when 1 stood in
his office, General Bancroft's road has
killed upward of one hundred per-
sons''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
The Railroads Fight with Snow.

The first big tieup came with a
heavy fall of snow December $40.
most trouble. The lines were cleared
up, and were in fairly good running
order. Then came therfall in temper
ature and a fall of snow that stunned
things on the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific so that sleepless
nights were spent by magnates and
officials: This was on December IL.
The. 500 line, Kenmare branch, cutting
the Red river valley, and part of the
line from the eastern part of the state,
were showed in. This line was open
ed February 4. In two solid months
not a train passed over it. Rotaries
worked against the SHOWS from the
Kenmare and Thief river ends, but it
was like fighting iron with glass.
Then President Hill grew busy. He
heard that his Rocky mountain d.
visions were blockaded as badly as his
Dakota lines. Papers were telling the
people that passenger trains from the
coast were held for hours and some
times days before drifts. Traffic was
paralyzefi. So Mr.. Fiji HE'D himself
to New ork. Going from one rotary
contractor to the other he found no
chancesto get new iones built in time
to fight drifts this winter.
Hundreds. of passengers stalled by
snow were being fed at hotels along
costing thousands. {5a
Rotaries must be had at any cost
Finally Mr.. Hill located some rotarles
en- route on the Erie to New York
They were to go to German railroad.
Then wires got hot with bidding
Finally Mr.. Hill secured the German
company's consent to sell the ma
chimes on condition that others We're
built for the company later. And the
plows were rushed to Dakota and the
Dakota plows to the Rockies. Then
all available laborers were rushed to
Dakota and the battle began on both
the Great Northern and Northern "a
cific, the 500 giving up in desperation
after exhausting every aVa1laoie
means-H. D. Frankel. in the world
Today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
COST OF LIVING IN GERMANY.

There is a widespread complaint in
Germany over the high cost of living.
The mayor of Stuttgart recently gave
a public address on the subject, pre-
senting calculations showing a decided
increase in the cost of meat and pro-
visions generally within year-to say
nothing of the increase within several
years. This advance in the price or
necessaries of life has compelled the
city to raise the wages of municipal
employees, and the plight of the tax
payer, caught between the two fires,
seems to be especially a matter of
commiseration.-Spr (Mass.)
Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

The mail order business is all right in its
place. For instance. If the constituents
OF certain state senators will send them
a few orders by mail it will be a good
thing for the state-provided the orders
are obeyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

The president is plainly against
''molfycoddles." When congress con-
venes next fall and gives him a chance
TO write a few more messages. per-
haps we will hear something addition
al on the subject
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

II Victor Murdoch is given a chance
he will probably discover enough other
gratis in the postal service, which, If
eliminated, will allow the rural deliv-
cry carriers and the postal clerks to be
paid decent wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

The Hutchinson News recalls that
Abe Hummel was once indicted by Mr.
Jerome for perjury in another case, but
now Jerome calls him to impeach Mrs
Thaw's testimony. Which strikes wal
ter johnson as a Joke
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
CLASS IN DIVORCES.

The few divorces sought by intelli-
gent and respectable people for incom-
patibility or other causes besides mu
tuaI degeneracy stand in class by
themselves The great majority that
incumber the courts are those who
marry in vice, drunkenness, crime and
idleness and who return to it the
month following-DetrOit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

Naturally this fine brand of spring
showers that J. Pluvius, the weather
bureau. or a benef1cent providence has
been giving US. ought to put things in
excellent shape for spring work, agri-
culturally speaking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

Whenever a corporation measure Is
UP for passage in the state senate, it is
possible to tell approximately how the
roll call will look, even before the dis
cfIssion hepins
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

a correspondence course in the art OF
holding elections from the administra-
ton party that has recently held me
insurance election in this country.
Then he will always be sure to win.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
SECURITIES! YES.

Gambling in stocks is as uncertain
as gambling at roulette, but people
who put money in American securities
as an investment now will not regret
their action.-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

Some congressman are going on a
junket down to inspect the Panama
canal. What do they want to do that
for? Wasn't Mr.. Roosevelt down there
the other day?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

This is March First. It is the date
on which you should note just how
rich you are and then be truthful
enough to tell the assessor when he
comes around a few weeks hence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

Even though Senator Bailey ha'
been "exonerated'' he will probably bt
more careful from whom he borrow'
100000 or so i'm the future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

The car thought that he had things
fixed this time so that a douma would
be elected to suit hims but it turns out
to be the same sort of a gathering as
the first douma. The car should take
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

The Kansas legislature has poor
ventilation in its halls to contend with,
but it has not had to brave an attack
of smallpox, as Missouri solons have.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

How would you like to be member
of the legislature opposing measures
which the people are demanding, and
know that you will have to go home and
face those people within q week?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

Judging from Senator .Beveridge's ar
ticle on the expense of living in WASH
ington, Ambassador Bryce will need all
of his $4,000 salary and probably more,
fnO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

Perhaps congress now wishes II nae
a little of that time it wasted on INT
Brownsville row.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
THE IMPORTANT THING.

The Topeka State Journal advises
TIE Legislature toEdo tie most import
ant thing nrst. Didn't the legislature
do that when it passed the bill ap-
propriating the per diem and mileage
Of the members Parsons Sun. ------
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

One of the principal Republican can
didates for mayor of Chicago was in a
Pennsylvania railroad wreck His boom
for mayor stayed on the track, how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
LADIES VOTING COSTUMES.

The woman suffrage movement has
not vet progressed so far in this state
that the editors of the women's de-
partments in the newspapers have be-
gun to print designs for voting cos
tumes.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

Possibly Castro is waiting for tn
Thaw case to subside before ne DreaA
into the limelight again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

The BARRIERS are certain spring Is ner'
The farmers have begun to come l
from the country to get their halr Gu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

One big objection to electing La Fol
lette to the presidency is that he Is s.
badly needed in the United States sen
ofn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

Ralph Faxon writes newspaper let
ter defending Senator Clark, OF Mon
tana, telling what a good man he IS
And Clark is a Democrat, too!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

The baseball schedules have begun
to appear in the newspapers Anoth
er sure sign, etc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

incidentally the United States su-
prerne court also upheld the opinion Oh
the people of Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

Once more It is necessary to ask
Have You Registered?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

The National women's Suffrage as
ISOLATION adjourned Tuesday night IN
a very hopeful mood. That, sisters,
Is the frame of mind which Usually
.haracterizes the closing of a Demo-
cratic state convention in Kansas
Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
FREIGHT RATES.

Not long ago a Dodge City lumber
yard paid over $500 freight on car
load of shingles shipped here from the
western coast, and in addition to this
had to wait a long, long time for the
car to find it's way to this point. High
rates, and long delays on freight is the
important point that should be rem
edied, but the greatest part of the ex-
element seems to be over free passes
and a two cent fare.-Dodge City
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
THE NEW GOLD COINS.

Still, most of us are not likely to see
the gold coins of the new design unless
there is a pretty general advance In
salaries.-Newark News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
ADVICE

There is strong probability that the
legislature is going to make divorces
harder to secure and more expensive.
Better start yours now if ever and
save money.-Clay Center Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
THE, MIIEAGE BOOK PLAN.

Perhaps, if the state can get from
the railroads a two cent rate on the
INTERCHANGEABLE mileage basis, in books
of 1000 miles, it will serve the real
purpose of the state as well as to force
a fiat two cent rate, the fairness or
recently been adopted by the legisla-3
ture of. Missouri. 1t provides that,
when a man pays $40 for a mileage
book, it is good for 1000 miles ride on
any and all railroads within the state.
Lawrence World. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01
KANSAS COMMENT
BE nCAMi"


It is highly desirable that a direct
primary bill be passed at the present
meeting of the legislature; but on the
other hand. water will continue to run
ooWn nil and the sun Will shine even
II the bill is not passed. The bill Is by
ODDS the most important thing now on
the legislative block; but if it is neg
lected, and if nothing comes of 1T in
this session, Kansas will go ahead do
ing business at the old stand. The
only people who will be affected Will
be the men or perhaps the party that
votes the primary Dill down These
men and thee Republican party have
been licked before and got over it.
little better for the experience, and
it will be that way next time.
The thing to do is to be calm; if
this thing is a craze it will die down
in two years, and shouldn't be adopted
now anyway, and if it is not craze
but an evolutionary movement bring
ing the people a little closer than they
are to actual sclf-government,- 1t can
wait for year or two. and in waiting
will only crush those who oppose It. :,
So it's all right anyway. Time viii
straighten out lots of kinks in the
course of events. Reformers often are
too impatient. Unless a thing is
good thing it should not be done, and II
it is a good thing it will take care OF
itself without considering the for
tunes of any man or any party.-Em-
10
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-01

AN IS6OOAS|'
Roosevelt has no kick coming on
the race suicide in Erie. On last Mon
day afternoon, in less than two hours,
twenty-three baby carriages, each
containing a baby, passed our office
windoW.-Erie Record
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-12-06
TUBERCULOSIS IN HOGS,

Wishing to test the matter of hogs be-
coming infected with tuberculosis from
the milk Of tubcrcular COWS, the Iowa ex-
pertinent station at Ames fec four lots of
pigs four and one-half months with milk
that was infected with the germs of bo-
vine tuberculosis and with pasteurized
milk free from such bacillf. Two lots
were fed IN lots with timothy pasture and
the other two In dry lots. One of each of
the lots was given tubercufar food from
four to seven times and at the end Of the
period expert hog buyers could see no
signs OF disease and considered the whole
lot worth the top of the market, except
four head, which were small.
Post mortem examinations found that
only one-fourth of these twenty head that
had had the tubercular baccilli were fit
for consumption, though As per cent. of
the lot were not so badly affected that
with entire safety. or those fed the pas
tuerized milk none were affected. 1t there
fore seems plain that in the short space Of
four and one-half months healthy pigs
were made unfit for market purposes by
feeding the germs Of t~uberculous diseases.
Careful inquiry into the ancestry of these
pigs indicated that there was no tubercu-
lar disease connected with any of them,
so that the cause of the disease was en-
tirely In the food. If this result is at
tanned In his time, what will be the con-
dition of hogs sold from farms that al
ready have the disease or are fed on milk
from tubercular cows for the year or less
Of their natural lives before being put on
the market?