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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

When Eve sat in the shade at night
ana waited while the moments passed,
OF course she did not have the right
w men Adam came in haste at last
10 can MIN names or pull his hair
Ut turn his back to pout or pine.
because her loving husband n er
brought any strangers home to dine.
When Adam found that he was late
L wonder what excuse he nader
he could not blandly tell his mate
What tell mine when I'm delayed!
he mad no extra work to do
Because some clerk had gone away,
There was lack of lodges, too.
In good old father Adams day.
He could not tell her that a train
Had jumped the track and gone to Smash,
Nor that he had remained to gain
A little extra bunch of cash:
He could not hand his wife check
To be for her exclusive use,
Thus making her fall on his neck
Without demanding an excuse.
When you call a girl kitten
You are sure to get a pat;
So why should you get the mitten.
When you say she is a cat?
But you do.
If you say a girls a vision,
1t will fill her with delight;
So there should be no collision
When you say she is a sight
But there is.
You can call man a sly old dog,
He asks you in to sup;
why should 1T set his wrath agog
When you say he is a pup?
But it does.
Lippincott'S Magaziue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l


Circus day without a parade is as
without a bride.
who is working" you from the man
who admires you.
Most men think they can be trusted
to work by the week. but that other
men should do piece work.
The man who talks iaughingly of
the time when he stole watermelons,
has not stolen any in a long time.
When a man gets up in the world.
people want to down him; when he
gets down they want to help him up.
You occasionally meet a woman
who thinks she is intellectual because
she has a large number of corre-
spondentc.
'I don't care for music that people
are supposed to listen to-" said a wo-
man today. when I am at a concert.
want to talk
The girl with a peek-a-boo waist
makes a delightful companion on
drive these days: It matters not if
she is ugly, stupid and her father is
poor, the mosquitoes never know IT,
and will attack her through her thin
waist in preference TO any man.
There are mighty few people who
can ask the Lord to forgive them for
the sins of the day without feeling
that it is the proper thing to ask it.
but, as matter of fact, they haven't
committed any
Now if Carnegie were only a woman
he would give those hero medals to
the men, who when things go wrone
down town, don't sulk around the
hnnSo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

Mrs. Longwortn refused 10 come from
her state room and meet an assemblage
of club women as the California Limited
came through Newton That means
that Nick won't carry Newton if he runs
for mayor of Cincinnati.
x
1t is no great surprise that the Indian
Territory voted for prohibition. Judg-
ing from the way the Pottawatonies
who come to Topeka get along, prohi-
bition doesn't interfere in the least with
the Indians.
4
The Masons Of Topeka have been try
ing for long time to build a new Ma
sonic temple Why don't the Masons
put on their aprons, take their trowles
and go to work?
r
Naturally it took several paragraphs
to tell about the fire that is being built
under License Collector Page.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

With a blind instinct for self-preserva-
ton she kept to the middle OF the
street. till in dingy thoroughfare she
stumbled against a eucalyptus tree
reached out and caught her.
Sure, tits a bad fall you'll be hav-
ing" said a kindly voice. and Mrs. Car
ter looked up into a womanly, care
furrowed face.
"Oh. take me with you!" she painted,
clingfng to the arm outstretched to
steady her.
II Wilt" said her rescuer. heartily.
ITS terrible night. this! Come.
Eileen, girl. have you got the food and
the blankets? Then we'd best be NOV
ing along"
To Mrs. Carriers fright-shattered
nerves the rest passed as in a dream,
the great exodus to the hill from whose
summit they 81 " the confiagra ton OF
the city red beneath them. Mrs.
O'Higgins busted herself with crude
arrangements for comfort, but 1t wan
Eileen who. all ignorant of the iden-
tended her and fed her in the long
hours that followed. It was to Eileen
that Mrs. Carter chung with passionate
dependence. 1t was with Eileen that
Larry found his mother. as, haggard
and despairing, he searched among the
myriad camping groups.
Mother" he cried
Eileen paled.
you've been asleep, mother" he
asked, with tender solicitude, as one
might question a child.
Mrs. Carter sat up on her pile OF
blankets. II have BEEN" she cried,
"but I'm awake now-awake to the
kinship, the loving kindness of the
worldi"
The peevlsh line about her mouth
was gone. Something newer and deep
err than life had ever before wrought
in her shone in her face as, with an
exclamation of joy that was half a
sob, she held out her arms to them
DO -(Copyrighted, 1907, by P. C.
Eastment.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
6XRlWKER JOTS

Back pedal when you find yourself
talking too much" is the good advice
handed out by Major John Conway.
The Scandia Journal doesn't see any
use in publishing the railroad time
| tables as long as the railroads don't
| run their trains by them.
Jewell and Smith county farmers
| have definitely decided not to pay
three cents a bushel for husking corn
this fall. They wish they had a chance
to do it.
Hugh Cameron, the Kansas hermit.
appeared on the streets of Lawrence
with d yoke of oxen the other day, and
hauled load of people out to the fair
grounds.
The Strong City Daily Herald pub
fishes the government weather fore
casts with this reservation: 1--WE do
not assume any responsibility as to
the truth of the statement"
A big revival is in progress at
Jewell, and the opera house manager
apologies for having three shows
billed during the time, explaining that
the contracts were made before the
revival dates were announced.
lola Record: Capt. Slower was
Dragging today that he has pear tree
in his yard with blossoms on it, Fred
Moore when he went home at noon
brought them down town and put
Capt. Stover'S story out of business.
The strawberries are fairly good ones.
Capt. Slower in defense says his pear
blossoms are exceptionally good.
Some of Will Palmer's wisdom:
Let the other fellows have their pic
lures printed. 1t always adds to our
happiness to forget how We look.
When a thing ought to be
done, it is easier to get a man to leave
his business to do it than it is to get
one to leave his idleness to do it.
The girl who never leaves
any dirty dishes for her mother to
wash. has got the right kind of a
mother. This is country in
which a man could lose his hunters
license and not be disconnected very
much.
Beat-it-if-you-can item in the EN-
NETT Citizen: Henry Hiram Wade Full
Ter, who isn't any bigger than a min
ute and no older than Yesterday. was
loafing around the office the other day
and timidiy intimated that he wanted
something to do. So we set him to
work printing a job of envelopes for
Tom Abel on the lever job press. A
couple of hundred of them had been
printed, but he finished the run of 500,
and did as good a job as the boss him
self could have done. We claim that at
4 years and months he is the young
est printer in the state.
"A man can get so scientific he
doesn't have common sense" saws A.
E. Blackburn in the Anthony Repub-
lican. 1.-The department of agricul-
ture at Washington had a scientific
fellow to write up 'ChiggerS or Harvest
Mites in a pamphlet for the good of
suffering humanity. He took six pages
and some awful pictures to tell of
them and the best remedies, and
never said word about the readiness, |
cheapness and efficacy of rusty bacon |
rind, melted lard or Kerosene oil as a |
for the trouble. He recon-
mended ammonia, which leaves a |
hard lump for a tombstone of the de-
ceased chigger. Bacon rind is best |
when he is sinking a prospect shaft |
Squirt kerosene after him when he |
gets in good and deep. Beats all other |
remedies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
FRON OTHER PENS
OvERs TRAN.

In view of the breakdown of one af-
ter another of the men who stand at
the head and front of Industrial affairs
crash that carries the magnates from
the stage of active life, the great Amer
lean text receives fresh emphasis. Ov-
erstrain is the bane of American life,
and the exhaustion of nervous vitality
is the penalty But the homily upon
the folly of rushing and striving falls
upon deaf ears, for the man behind the
one in the race for the ultima thule OF
materialistic effort takes no account OF
the carrying off the field of his fellow
The biblical smile of the pitcher bro
ken at the cistern accurately describes
present-day conditions. In the mao
rush for the waters that are supposed
to import a new elixir to living the
avidious often fall while making the
supreme endeavor. The collapse of H.
H. Rogers is warning against the
strain and tension of modern industry.
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lFrom the Chicago News.J
1t is more blessed to give than It is
to regret.
Bachelors who are looking for
trouble should get married.
BY switching the truth a train of
lies is soon made up.
NOW the football eleven will soon be
ready to make a ten-strike.
1t isn't a difficult task for a hoop
snake to make both ends meet.
Even when a man pays cash for an
electric battery he wants it charged.
According to the eternal fitness of
things a duck of a girl should marry
quack doctor.
A poor but otherwise strictly honest
man says that the worst thing about
riches is not having any.
And the sooner man makes up his
mind to let a woman have the lamt
word the sooner controversy win oua
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

J. Pierpont Morgan is to pay So
a month rent for a house in Europe
and Henry Allen notifies him that he
is getting cheated. inasmuch as he can
rent one of the most desirable homes in
Wichita. equipped for natural gas, for
a hundred dollars a month. But just
as like as not. PierD will insist on go
ing ahead and. being cheated just the
same. Some people are extremely
bull-headed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

Marion Butler. of South Carolina,
suggests that the Democratic platform
should contain only two or three planks
As we understand Mr.. Bryan, Roosevelt
has not left more than two or three
planks for the Democrats to stand on
but doubtless the Nebraska states
man can saw out some new ones in the
next six months If it is really neces-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
CANAL ZONE MORALS.

1t was agreeable, as matter of
truth and Justice to observe in the Tri-
bune a few days ago an account of the
moral conditions which prevail in our
isthmian canal zone, given by a well
known clergyman of the Episcopal
church who had gone thither on an Of
fetal errand of inspection and invest-
CATION. After painstaking observations
he declared that moral conditions in the
zone were remarkably good. There was
very little crime, and little work for
the isthmian police excepting to guard
property. Imprisonments were chiefly
for intoxication and brawling, but those
misdemeanors were apparently In the
main inspired outside the zone, for he
found only two or three places for the
sale of intoxicants within it's borders.
This account accords with official re-
ports and with the statements or 1u-
6icious observers generally.-New York
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFron the New York Press

IFron the New York Press
There is no fool like the one who
thinks he isn't
Ideals are what you think you had
before you learned better
A woman can worry about having
nothing to worry about
Widows have a very neat way of
pretending they believe men are I'M
selfish.
AS most of that kind haven't any
brains, what's the use or being proud
of being well born?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
HUNOR OF THE Day

| Bardlets-Married life affords me no IN
Splration Tor song How do you find it?
| work?
Rhymeit-I should say so. My wife
| News.
How long can man go without air7''
| trip ever took occupied seven days.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
| Where have you been. Sam?"
Use been up to ma two ears in work.
Up to your two ears in work."
| Yas. sab"
| What doing. Sam?"
Eatin' Watahmellion, sahi'-Yonkers
Statesman
| you got to change here. This car goes to
| the barn
The Seeing New Yorker (half asleep
| er MIXED a COW in over a week b'gosh
I'll help you do the chores this evenin'-
Puck.
Rogers--I consulted clairvoyant before
my marriage. and asked her If she saw
Browne-What did she say?
Rogers-Said she saw - cooks and q
waitresses--Smart Set.
Knicker-Back from Saratoga?
Boek,er-Yes; the only gambling allowed
Mrs. subhurst-why. Mary, what are
you putting the fly paper outside the
Mary. the Latest-sure. an amt there
more tiles outside than insoide Puck.
Sir have called to ask the hand Of
your daughter. Let me add that my time
Whats that?''
Il say my time is limited'
shes yours Cleveland Plain Dealer
Citizens of prohibition Kansas had pre-
scented a silver service to a battleship
But how do you reconcile yourself to
the delegation.
Punch BOWL calculated the Kansan
Goodness! We thought that big thing
was for oatmeal neutrality-suspicious.
Ledger.
..SS1oeeiety has one ne very odd requirement"
Girls have to come out before they can
get in."-Baltimore American
- Doctor-How is that patient with the D.
Nurse-Worse; this morning he thought
he saw Sunday supplement.-Life.
Would We care fur a drop o. whisky.
~, Faith Casey. I'm afeared 'twould do
Come, come man; what ails yer"
m Jisht tellin' We drop would be no
good at all in stummick like mine
Philadelphia Press.
liver SURROUNDED Dy WOlveS?'
NO, but l know the sensation. 1 used
to open the dining room doors at a sum
ner hotel"-Louisvtle Courier-Journal.
Clara-As Ethel married in haste I SUD-
pose she repented al leisure.
Maude-No. she reDented at cheap
boardinghouse. 1 understand.-Chicago
Daily News,
A young man was teasing his sweet
hearts little sister. Lilly" ne said IT
don't love you at ell"
reply. - NV ~'''
You must love them that hate Won. and
I'm sure I hate. you"'-Philadelphia In
cuirer.
May-I hear Jimmy Smith is going to
Jay-I'm glad of it. I never did like that
feliow.-Judge.
. Il Just met Miss Newritch," said Phyi-
u.s. and she said she was in a great hur-
ry to get down town and buy some gloves
.or your Feet. What on earth was she
MY feet?" said Ethel. "Oh! I under
stand. invited her to my lawn fete this
''-Philadelphia Press
As you see by my collection OF the
poets. said Mr.. Parvenu proudly as he
showed the glories of his newly fitted-up
library, II make 1T a point to secure all
he gems of literature"
Yes. murmured the critic. dryly, as
1e picked up volume, and notice you
prefer those gems Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

doing their best to take care of the
business that is piling up on them. and
II they have got enough rolling stock
to keep their cars at work they ought
to be in shape to head off any serious
car famine the coming winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

The Union Pacific will take nine train
crews from Kansas to its Nebraska di-
vision. If it will just wait until Kan
sas gets its two-cent fare into opera
ton perhaps those train crews will be
needed in Kansas as badly as they are
IN Nebraska to take care of the in
creased business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

1t appears to depend largely on your
political views whether the Oklahoma
election was a Great Victory or Co.
lossal BIunder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

It is predicted that the Democrats
will incorporate in their national plat
form one of these days a demand for
national prohibition. And as soon as
they do the Republicans will doubtless
begin to talk about the evils of stump
fuarv legislation"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

W. Y. Morgan, who is a close friend
of Senator Long, states that the sena-
tor is not worrying about a special
session; that it is the next regular
session of the legislature that the SEN
ator is concerned in. Which same
cannot be successfully disputed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

Cyrus Leland also declared for
special session in order to pass not only
a two-cent fare law, but also direct
primary law. Perhaps that is what
made the railroads conclude to be good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

1t is said that prohibition carried In
every county in Oklahoma except two
and in every city except two. If that
Is correct there won't be many damp
spots in the new state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

AIr. Hartman has discovered that the
west has more money than he supposed
and he has told New York so. That's
what comes of Dragging about our
wealth Next time the west should
know better and keep still.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

Congressman Anthony is responsible
for this opinion: THE denial by Sena-
tor Long that he was holding q confer
ence with friends and certain railroad
attorneys in Topeka the other night,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

Notwithstanding a big increase in the
salaries of the rural carriers, the post
office department was self-supporting
during the quarter just closed-a very
unusual occurrence. It must be good
thing to raise wages once in a while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

zone touch of summer lin the early
fall) makes the whole world kick is
hot speech by the Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

The Kansas City Star refers to the
.railroad-owned state senate in Kan
sas But isn't there danger that the
railroads title might prove defective in
case of a special session of the legis-
1.4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

And now Atchison has washer
woman's trust. Is the public never to
be protected from the robbery of these
rich and powerful combines?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

Mr.. Rockefeller has lost s1o6. 500. 95s by
the shrinkage of the value of Standard
Oil stock since 1901. Still. it is believed
that Mr. Rockefeller won't go into
bankruptcy for awhile at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

II the south is successful in prohibit
ing saloons. perhaps the time will come
when it can prohibit lynching.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

While Mr.. Bryan refers to Secretary
Taft as the Great Postponer." it does
not seem likely from present indications
that Taft will postpone taking the main
scat in the White House after March g.
1909
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

Robert Pinkerton's estate is worth
over two million dollars. Being a boss
detective appears to have paid better
than being one of the kind who pays
50 to some private agency for tin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

Walter Wellman talks about the
North Pole just like the towns that
failed to win the pennant this year.
He'll get il next time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
WHAT WILL HAPPEN.

If the legislature is called in extra
session, and it will be if the governor
has the courage in stock displayed
when he threw down the gauntlet, the
two-cent fare law will be the mildest
action taken There will be a freight
rate reduction schedule put on the
statute book which will take the hair
off, especially on seven or eight arti-
cles in which the farmer is specially
interested The senate lodge will be
dissolved and the members will vote
as they please and not be particularly
interested in stopping the stampede
If we were a western railroad attorney
Interested in preserving the equilib-
rum between politics and business, be-
tween the railroads and the people. we
would rather have $4,000 than to
have an extra session of the legislature.
Center Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
ruE RIGHT ANSWER.

The Belleville Telescope says: Sec
rotary Taft is growing bigger all the
time" For heavens sakei Where is
he going to stop?-Concordia Blade.
In the White House.-Troy Chief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24

Inasmuch as that $685. was all vel
vet and has reached him just at this
time, possibly Mr.. Rockefeller can af-
cord to indulge in a few oysters this
eason.-IndianapoIis News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
REAL POLITICIANs.

Step by step the women are qualify
ing themselves for the ballot. A petit
ton purporting to be signed by $1,000
of them was recently thrown out by
parliament because the signatures
proved to be largely bogus.-Newark
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
LEAN TIMES?

Business conditions are great deal
worse in England than here, reports
western railroad official Just returned
from Europe. In this connection may
also be noted reports of hard times
coming from Italy, which are rather
curiously given as the cause OF num-
erous departures of United states Ital-
ians for their old homes. Having had
plenty of work the past year or two
and saved money. they are now going
back in larger numbers than common
for the season to help relatives in dis
tress or under eviction.-Springfield Re
nIhlican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
RIGHTS OF THE ROAD.

The automobilist has the same right
to use the roads and the same duty of
respecting the rights and regarding the
safety of others that owners of horses
and carriages have. The latter have
exactly the same rights and duties.
When either asserts the right to over
ride the rights of the other there il
iced for exemplary reatment.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-24
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- THE ASSOCIATED f7IsES-S.

The State Journal IS a -1er-bsF y tnG
Associated Press and receives TIE fcn dsy
telegraph report o. that ETea- ncSFS OF
ganization for tho exriusive xefsrncon
publication in topeka.
The news ia received - Ths STATE 3our-
nal building ever wtrJs fer this seNie ely
pose