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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Glob


AS a rule nothing suits a drunk man
any better than he suits anyone.
Some girls are very sensitive because
they imagine pouting is becoming to
them.
The tramp eats to live; in fact. that
is about all he is willing to do for the
privilege.
someone at home or abroad and seems
rather to enjoy it.
Some men are as particular about a
haircut, as If they thought 1t would
never have to be cut again.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who referred to his son as a chip
of the old block?'
common fare of children at home by
what they don't eat when they are Wis
iting.
The average man has occasion to say
to himself at least once a week: We'll
I've got myself into a nice boatl'
Puppy love" is always so serious at
the time that the victim wonders after
wards how he ever recovered so quick
ly.
The greatest triumph for boy is the
privilege of being accepted as an equal
by boys somewhat older than himself.
When children are telling each other
conundrums, the one who guesses the
heard it before.
The man who goes away for his
health stands about the same chance of
bringing it back that bloodhound does
of locating a criminal.
If you keep busy trying to do some
thing the world will appreciate. you will
at least have less time to think how
unappreciative the world is.
Nothing makes a farmer quite so mad
as to hear there was a good rain in
town and none in the country, where it
is needed so much more.
When farmer needs rain. it takes a
big one to satisfy him; unless bridges
are washed out he says only enough
rain fell to settle the dust.
When a young man is planning a va
cation, rest and quiet have about the
same bearing on his plans that prayer
has to winning a ball game.
Weakness is one of the virtues a man
woman, although she is very
apt to demand it Of him after she Ia
won.
We will leave this to mother: Isn't
the dish cloth hanging above the kitch-
en- sink cleaner looking than the cha
Of her shirt waist, to occasionally get
put and use to dust her face with DOW
der?
II q girl has on her best dress and
nat, and young man calls to take her
she will ask him to wait
until she gets ready, and will be gone
n the house thirty minutes. When she
comes out, II he Is observing, he will
notice this great change In her toilet:
the has powdered the end of her nose.
Let a man practice industry thrift.
and decency, and he cannot
very well avoid being prosperous. IL he
Keeps his health. The unfortunate are
nearly always those who do not accent
he lessons of experience. They let
agents" give them advice: and
agents" always make a profit on the
advice they give.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
EXPRESS CHARGEs.

1t is stated that one of the express
companies will shortly "cut melon
of $24,000,O00, or twice as much as its
capital stock amounts to.
People who have to pay occasional
express charges will not be surprised
at this announcement In fact, they
would be more surprised If express
companies did not pay tremendous
dividends on the capital actually in
vested in them.
The express business is one that
usually escapes all regulation, for the
reason that few individuals do suf-
ficient business by express to cause
them to make complaints. A great
percentage of the business of express
companies comes from people who re-
ceive comparatively a small number of
shipments in that way. The enor-
nous charges seem to them like rob-
berry, but they do not feel like taking
the trouble to make formal complaints
to state or federal officials, and so the
excessive charges continue.
Some time ago Topeka man had a
coat which he had left at Meade, Kan,
sent him by express. The charges
were 80 cents. One-fourth of that
amount would have been a high
charge. Recently the same man
wished to send a young dog to a
friend in Texas. The animal was
Grated, and as it would go right
through in trif1e over "a hours, the
only service required of the express
company besides the transportation
was to give the dog water OCCASION
ally. The charges were $50. An
order for five pairs of shoes was sent
from Topeka to st. Louis, to be ship
ped by express. Through some error
in shipping, the order was divided and
one package contained only small
pair of boys shoes and a pair of soft
soled infants shoes that could have
been put in a letter and mailed for a
two-cent stamp. The express charges
were IS cents.
The privilege of shipping by express
is a great convenience at times, but
the charges certainly ought to be
more reasonable. 1t may be that those
who do considerable shipping in that
way get cheaper rates through CLASH
fcations, but the general public is
held UP.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
HUNOR or THE DAY

She-Do you think Miss Backnumber is
trying to draw him out? He-No; think
she is trying to persuade him to double
uD.-Cincinnati Tribune.
Today I met an irresistible body"
twenty blocks. Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
;, The he. Jqdge.~And did this man do you
amer He smashed me fa-ace''-CIeve-
land Leader.
His wife says he drinks something ter
TIDE. she must be wrong; never saw
WHISKY Houston Post.
What. old friend like you, and You
refuse TO lend me so francs?'' Yes"
We'll, at any rate, give me 20 sous to
pay the cab that 1 took to come and ask
you.'-BOn Vivant.
What makes you so late?'
The teacher kept me in because could
And no wonder you couldn't find Mos
COW, 1t was burnt down in 1872 It's an
outrage to treat child like that.''-Pick-
Me-Up.
AN artist" said the man with pointed
whiskers, must not think about money"
II suppose not" answered Mr. Cumrox
Every time buy picture the artist
wants enough to keep him from thinking
about money for the rest of his life.'-
Washington Star.
Goodley-n men really would vote Is
they pray" this would truly be a happy
world
Wiseman-Yes. but in that case Won
wouldn't get some men to the polls once
in ten Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread, and they have a lot more fun
doing it,
When a girl thinks she has pearly
teeth it's sign it wouldn't do you any
harm with her to tell her so.
A man likes to have you think he is
rich unless you are trying to get him
to subscribe to a charity.
A useful thing about having a family
is the way you are never tempted to
throw away money on anything else.
Cucumbers that don't agree with you
can smash all the Christian Science and
theories of that sort that were ever in
vented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
MAKING BABY CLOTHES.

She's busy working day by day,
her nimble fingers seem to fly,
AND as she sews she huns away,
A snatch of some lullaby
lis not for her, nor for her own,
This lonely woman daily sews,
so sweet a joy she's never known,
But still she's making baby clothes.
NO little child her life has blest,
NO little child has found the way,
mat leads unto her loving breast,
No little one has romped in play.
And neighbors children, far and near
Are now the only soy she knows.
At best it's but a borrowed cheer,
She finds in making baby clothes
All. mel What means this world of ours
so many little ones are sent
To labor through the dreary hours,
In sWeatshOp and tenement,
while here a chtldless woman signs,
Who with the frailest one of those,
Would count herself in paradise,
And love to make the baby clothes.
The blessed gift of motherhood,
sometimes, it seems is Ill bestowed;
SO many here there are who would
Save little ones from such load.
But childless and alone they stay,
Like this sweet soul who only knows
The joy of making day by day,
For someone else those baby clothes.
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
a. -ny address at the rate OF ten cents
N week or thirty cents - month Thy
mail only. Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
state Journal will be to You like n
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

With Senator Young and W. B. Ham
contesting the Sixth district congress
sional nomination with Congressman
Reeder. the Square Dealers up there
can not complain of a lack of con-
gressiOnal timber
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

Leavenworth feels that the military
road between that place and Fort
Riley is now assured since Taft has
endorsed it. Leavenworth also feels
it is just about as important as the
Panama canal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

DR.. Snow, of Lawrence, has gone
back to Arizona this summer to hunt
for more bugs. The impression that he
exhausted the supply a year ago when
he brought home 10000 with him ap-
nears to have heen erroneous
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

In spite of the reported wheat fall
ure the Kansas country papers are be-
ginning to carry automobile advertis-
ing. That means that Kansas farmers
will have plenty of money to spend this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

congressman on the back and said
Hello, Scotty." This. however, won't
hurt the dignified representative from
the Second district with the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

Nature Writer Long proposes to
make the most of the advertising
President Roosevelt gave him. Not
content with the increased sale of his
books, he has taken to the lecture
platforn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

Railroad Commissioner Ryker de-
mics that the state railroad board is
contemplating ordering a two-cent pas
senger rate put in force in Kansas.
Perhaps the railroads will beat the
board to it and put it in of their own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

Bert Walker, who Is a good personal
friend of John @. Royce, protests
against the newspaper attempts to run
the bank commissioner for congress.
He thinks John @. deserves better
from his newspaper friends than that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

Daniels comet. which recently has
been re-discovered by a California
professor, will be only 100000 miles
from the earth tonight. You might
get out and pass the time of day with
It as we go by, just to show that we
are friendly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

That rasping. unpleasant sound that
CRATES so harshly on the ears of cor
poration magnates, comes from the di-
rection of Sycamore Hill, and is caus-
ed by a famous woodsawer who is fl
ing his tools preparatory to saving
more wood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

1t is noted that John Bel1o. the
tia, N who shot another man on a
train in western Kansas. had just come
from Chicago and did not get his
s,Vermouth'' in this state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

w. r. Stubs may want to run for
United States senator, but it looks like
he will have hard work side-stepping
his gubernatorial boom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

1t really looks as though DR.. Longs
apology from President Roosevelt has
been delayed in transmission-or some
other way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
FRON OTHER PENS

THE TWO-CENT RATE ON TRIAL.
Two-cent railroad passenger rate laws
| of various western states, enacted dur
ing the present year, are to be given
| a three months trial In Missouri the
railroads will test the new rate for
| 90 days, in compliance with directions
| in an order entered in a federal court.
This course is the result of a sugges-
| ton made by Judge Mcpherson of the
| United States district court, sitting at
Kansas City.
The representatives of IS railroad cor
porations operating in Missouri re-
/ Quested Judge Mcpherson to make
| permanent temporary injunction re-
straining Judge the state of Missouri
| from enforcing the new passenger rate.
| On his recommendation the attorneys
for these railroads and the attorney
general of the state agreed to have
| the injunction withdrawn while the ex-
pertinent was made of conducting pas
senger business under the law long
enough to secure evidence of it's actual
| effects on earnings. Judge McPherson's
order was that the rates fixed in the
Missouri act should be put in force
| June 10 and kept in force for three
months without prejudice to either par
ty. 1t is expected that a similar course
Will be pursued by railroads in Hill
, nois and Iowa.
The main point at issue is: Will the
enforced reduction of passenger rates
cause conf1scation of railroad property?
The lowered rate certainly should in
crease the amount Oh ITaVel. 1nIS III
crease may be so large to produce
a net gain for some railroads. Judge
Mcpherson, in his opinion, calls atten-
ton to the conclusion of the Wisconsin
railroad commission that a 2-cent rate
would be conf1scatory and to the fact
that Governor Hughes in a veto mes
sag. so declared with reference to such
a rate as applied to the weaker lines
in the populous state of New York
How is this question to be determine
ed?" asks Judge Mcpherson. rs it not
all speculation and guesswork? OF
what value will be the testimony of an
ordinary business man? And of what
value will be the testimony of railroad
experts?"
Judge Mcpherson takes up new
ground in holding that if the railroads
can submit evidence that the 2-cent
rate forces them to transact business
at a loss the supreme court will pro-
nounce the statute confscatory and
therefore unconstitutional. The very
statement of his questions shows the
desira bility of getting the only Compel
perience. His practical method of es-
tablishing the facts is to be COM
mended.-Chicago News.
GERMS IN GERMS IN GERMS
Germs in liquids" we are told by
scientific journal, "are being killed by
electricity" What about the germs in
the germs that are killed and then the |
germs in the germs in the germs that |
are killed? How can we be sure that |
they are all rendered lifeless ?-Chicago |
Record-Herald.
NEW NAME FOR OLD METHOD.
Writers of polite railroad literature |
should note that the term merger has |
gone out of style. having been sup
planted by the more euphonious in |
terchange of traffic facilities. "-Chicago |
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

Will the effete east kindly note that
that little breeze down in Lyon county
a few evenings ago was not a cyclone?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

Cheer I'D. The White Sox have to
win only nine games more than Wich-
tia in order to get to the top.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

The White Sox are evidently having
an old-fashioned game of leapfrog
with Oklahoma City, judging from the
way they are jumping about from sec
ond to third place and back again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

Mark Twain spent Saturday at
Windsor. Perhaps he was gathering
material for a volume entitled, "A
New York Yankee at King Edwards
Court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

]. Pluvius continues to do the right
thing by us now, Notwithstanding his
neglect earlier in the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

A report from San Francisco says
Schmitz is defiant. But what good
does it do him?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
ADVICE TO THE GIRLS.
HICKS.

Rev. Irl L. Hicks of ST. Louis who
has been comparatively still for some
time has gotten into print again by
finding a large spot on the sun.-Wich-
tia Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

Governor Hoch's presidential boom
appears to be largely for foreign con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

When Secretary Taft saw Congress
man Charles F. Scott during his visit
TO Kansas last week he slapped the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
People win Stop Taking Medicine.

The kings favorite physician. Sir
Frederick Treves. frequently startles
the public by his frank utterances of
bright paradoxes. 1t was he who call
ed a crowd of nurses who flocked to
South Africa out of love of sensation
and advertisement 'the plague of
women
Speaking yesterday at the opening
of an isolation hospital he observed
that the time was not far distant when
the bottles on doctors shevles would
be reduced to a very small number.
Resort would be had to simple living,
suitable diet. and plenty of sun and
fresh air. He looked forward to the
time when people would leave off the
Extraordinary habit of taking medi-
cine when they were sick.
Referring to the discoveries in bac-
THEOLOGICAL science and the great re-
suits achieved in the reduction of the
mortality from infectious diseases. Sir
Frederick said that he looked forward
to the time when 1t would be as ano-
maIous for persons to die of scarlet
fever, typhoid. cholera, and diphtheria
as it would be for a man to die of a
VOLTS bite in England.-London cable
to New York Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
The Mythical Island of Buss.

On Frobisher's last voyage, 1878,
one of fifteen ships, the buss Emanuel
OF Bridgewater, went astray. On it's
return the captain told a wonderful
story of having discovered a large is
land somewhere to the east of the
south coast of Greenland, which was
named after the buss Ca term applied
to strongly built small vessel of fifty
or sixty tons.) What was the real
origin of the report, whether pure in
vention or delusion, has given rise to
no end of discussion. But this phan-
tom island, some fifty thousand square
miles in area, kept its place on maps
down to the great physical atlas of
Keith Johnston in the middle of the
nineteenth century. Expeditions
were sent out repeatedly to search for
1t, but with as little result as in the
case of Antilla. Yet it was mapped in
detail, and its features named with as
much confidence as if it had been Ice
land or the Faroes. Even yet we find
authorities of reputation maintaining
belief in the existence of Buss Is
land, and accounting for the disap-
pearance of this fifty thousand square
miles of land by a sudden CONFUSION
which sank it some hundreds of faith
oms below the surface of the ocean. 1t
is more easy to believe either that
the original story was an invention or
that the crew of the buss of Bridge
water mistook the southern ocean of
Greenland in those foggy seas for an
island.-J. Scott Kettle, in Harper's
for July.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
The Moon Was Torn From the Earth

In Harper's for June, Professor
Pickering. of Harvard, writes of the
origin of the moon. He holds that the
moon was originally a part of the
earth, and was cast off when in
nebulous condition from a point some
where in what we now call the Pacific
ocean. The results of this are inter-
eSting:
eff it is true, as here suggested, that
we owe our continents and ocean beds
to the moon, then the human race
owes far more to that body than we
have ever before placed to it's credit.
If the moon had not been formed at
all, or il 1t had carried away the whole
of the terrestrial crust, our earth
would then have been completely en-
veloped in its oceans, as may be the
case with the planet Venus at the
present time. Our race could then
hardly have advanced beyond the in
telligence of the present deep-sea fish.
If, on the other hand, the moon had
been of but fraction of it's present
bulk. or if it had been a little larger
than it is, our continents would have
been greatly diminished in area, and
our numbers decimated, or our lands
overpopulated."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26

NEW NAME FOR OLD METHOD.
Writers of polite railroad literature
should note that the term merger has
gone out of style. having been sup
planted by the more euphoniouS in
terchange of traffic facilities. Chicago
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-26
GERMS IN GERMS IN GERMS.

Germs in liquids we are told by a
scientific journal, ARE being killed by
electricity" What about the germs in
the germs that are killed and then the
germs in the germs in the germs that
are killed? How can we be sure that
they are all rendered lifeless ?-Chicag
Record-Herald.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-10-22
Balloons Are Seen At
Various Places AS They
Pass In international Race
HENRY M. E(lRD
DIED YESTERDAY
WELL KNOWN FARMER DIED AT
HOSPITAL FROM BLOOD
POISON.

Henry VI. Hoor.'. well known and
highly respected farmer OF Tevei.
baugh. died yesterday at sIx-thlrty
o'clock AT tie City Hospital after q
short illness resulting from blood pol.
son. Several days ago Mr. Boorl.
while at worl. on his farm. accidental.
ly scratched his hand. No special at.
tention WIS paid to the wound. until
shortly alterward when his hand be
gan 10 swell. He gradually became
worse am; on Saturday evening OF last
week was brought to the City Hospital,
where everything known to medical
skill was done to gave him, but all
efforts proved irsiitless and he passed
away last evenIng at about sIx.thirty
O'Clock. Mr.. 3oortl was well known to
u large number OF people In this and
Surrounding counties and the news Of
HIS death win be received with sincere
regret. He is :rviyed by wife and
several children.
The remains were removed to Jen.
I;iEs undertaking room and prepared
for burial and on Tuesday afternoon
the funeral was held from the home,
followed Ly iuterment on the home
farm.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-10-22
B. & 0. TO USE
union STATION
WILL HAVE TRAINS RUNNING TO
STATION ON AND AFTER
OCT. 81.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 27.-on and at
ter October 27, 1907, the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad will abandon It's present
passenger station at New Jersey Ave.
and c. street, Washington, D. c., and
occupy the new Union station at the
intersection Of Massachusetts, and Del.
aware avenues, two blocks northeast
Sot the old station. The Baltimore &
Ohio will be the first to use this mag.
niacent structure. and all passenger
trains, through and local, to or from
Washington, will use this station.
Asa matter of history the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad. the first railway Of
America, was the first railway to en-.
ter Washington. in 1895. and 1t is at.
ting that IT be the first to open the
doors OF the great central station at
Washington. which will eventually be
used by all the railroads which enter
the National Capital.
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