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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
THE CHANGE.

Inc clouds were all tumbled and ragged,
ana the morning was laden with rain
"A little boy knelt at the easement
Win MS nose flattened out on the pane.
Inc drops trickled down on the window,
ana the tears on his cheek ran a race;
On ne was SO sad The day was so bad,
That somehow it showed in his face.
He cried and he fretted and scolded.
LII the little dog went from his side
Afraid. and the little white kitten
Crept into the closet to hide,
And the little tin soldiers were standing
Way up in the attic alone,
For the little boy knew of nothing to do,
But kneel at the window and moan.
The clouds journeyed on DER the heavens
TIL a little like streak of the sky
Shone into his eyes, till they frightened,
And the tears on his face were all dry;
Then the glad sun burst out like a bios
som,
And a smile spread all over his face;
When the sky was all blue. his happiness
Till joy was all over the place.
The dog wagged his tail and was merry,
And the kitten came down through the
She purred, as he stroked her, and told
her:
The day is all right after ALL"
And the little tin soldiers were marching
Until they were tired of the drill,
And a sleepy-eyed- boy, with a heart full
of joy,
Climbed into his bed and was still
Chicago RecOrd-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

days ago. that the general attorneys
of the railroads in Kansas who are to
hold a meeting in Chicago this week
to decide whether or not the 2-cent
fare is to be put into effect as request
ed by the railroad commissioners, will
recommend to their superiors that 1t
be done without further parley." But
it appears that their "superiors" over
ruled the men who understand condi-
tions in Kansas. Evidently those
'superiors'' are from Missouri and
must be shown-by a special session Of
the legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
HUNOR or THE Day

that storei1eeper, in canniff,s Nfills. He
ways offers something just as good"
| Silas Stubbs-Runs in his nature, Ezry.
him durin' the rebellion he sent a substi
tute. b'gosh!-Puck.
IF it wasn't for one thing .Tompkins
would be the most successful liar ever
mo one ever believes his lies"-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
Mrs. Gossip-Mrs Richleigh has so much
enbonpoint, hasn't she?
Mrs. Comeup Gudiciously(-Wel now.
timore American.
Timid Lady-Is your dog dangerous, my
Little Man-No. ma'am. If he should
happen to bite yer onct or twict, don't
mind I'm; he's just playin'.-Harper's
Bazaar
1T en- afraid the car is going to his
DOOM" said the Russian courtier
NO" answered the court jester, weep
ing afresh.. mot to his doom, to his
Hi, nanny. She's done ketched live
rattlesnake. an she's jumpin' rope with
That's nuthin'. Yer daddy is ridIn' a
harricane to town SO as to steer clear o
His wife-why is it you never. start up
the phonograph any more, John7
Her Husband-There is harmony in
neously, my dear-Chicago News.
Yes. said the young man. pensively,
"a dog I once had saved my life"
Tell me about It," said the young wo-
man, with eager interest.
II sold him for 81" said the young man.
when 1 was nearly starving. '-Tft-Bfts.
''What?" asked the man who Is ALWAYS
preaching. have you ever done to make
this brighter world?'
i've done lot in that line. stranger
said the one with the large, rough hands.
I'm a barn painter by trade, and gener-
ally paint EN- red."-Chicago Record-Her-
aid
Thar. my son, you see what larnin' done
fer yer daddy, don't you?"
What, maw?"
"Why, jest as soon as the COVER mint
knowed that he could do figgers in his
head they p'inted him postmaster at 500
year, and purity soon he'll be sellin'
stamps what goes on letters. Atlanta
Cons titutiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

throngs in the rear.
Phillida felt, rather ~than saw, his
keen eyes probing the thickness of her
wells. When she had sufficiently col
lected herself, she glanced up. with
quickened breath, and their glances
met.
Your
'Um-hum." She adjusted her tie
deliberately. struggling hard to main
tain her hippancy.
What in heiwhere-ror heavens
sake Hartridge blurted out in
railroad journey without so much
ado ?" They had got apart from the
crowd, and Phillida. as she spoke.
turned and pushed back into line.
But L don't understand. 1 did not
know-you didn't tell me" Hart
ridge broke off. nonpIused. The pulses
In his temples were throbbing abb
slant; they were suddenly vivid and
subtle and tantalizing. Then. without
warning, they brimmed with tears.
There are so few-opportunities
here for-for inexperienced persons
she jerked out in a quivering under
tone. I've just learned of a place
where any one who is-er-energetic
and determined, can get some sort of
of start. and I. well-I've got some
sort Of start. and 1, well-Ive de-
cided to try my lucki You see poor
papa-so uIlwise of him-has been
fooling around bucket shops, and
and"
The color rose like a tidal wave in
Hartridge's face. They could stop of
in Philadelphia long enough to have
the ceremony performed, and take the
midnight train south! He looked again
into Phillida's eyes. They were clear
and bright and steadfast.
"You-you angel"
He bought two tickets.-(Copyright
ed, 1907, by E. c. Parcells)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[FromAthe Atchison Globe. ]

lFTOIIf@lne AIcHlSOn 6IODe.4
1t is always said of the manager
the day after a picnic: HE is worn
out"
The people who hear disagreeable
things about their friends usually help
along by talking a little.
1t is alleged that an Atchison man
who has posed for years as a Truly
Good, is really Truly Bad.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed man who said: you don't know
beans when the bag is open!"
Have you noticed that there are very
few old people these days? 1t is said
to be going out of style to grow old.
When a man does creditable thing.
people say he didn't do It; but he IS
often accused of doing discrditabie
You are always hearing of how much
a man would save if he didn't smoke:
Still, did you ever hear of a rich man
would didn't smoke?
A man was denying that he had told
a lie. Il had no object in telling a
lie," he said, an intimation that he
would have lied had there been an in
centive.
and winter to some women is that
their leisure moments in the hot season
are spent in chasing flies instead of
hunting the poker.
Weakness is one virtue that never
seems properly distributed: the COM
mander of an army may possess 1t to
degree, but you never see a Pullman
porter thus endowed.
If a woman writes a letter without
telling a secret. she is pretty apt 10
have something to say about one she
has to tell the next time she sees the
party to whom she is writing.
Behold the Old Hem How faithful
she is! And it's all natural; no one
nags at her to do her duty. An old
hen belonging on a farm below town
has "set" three times this summer.
The last time she sneaked off into the
grass, laid 16 eggs and came off the
other day with 16 chickens.
do you give your associates the
credit they deserve? One day lately l.
had a cake headache, and didn't dc
much. I felt that when the paper
came out that night it would be worth
less. But 10 and behold, when it came
out it was the best paper we had had
in weeks.''-(Handed in by reporter
who is apt to think he is the Whole
Thing.)
A young man and young woman will
fall in love, and be so desperately in
love as to attract the shifts of people;
people who say it won't last" Finally
they marry and in two or three months
the neighbors are shifting because the
bridegroom is so cold. What is to
blame? Why doesn't the bridegroom
in love? We have always
thought it would be a great thing If
people could marry and remain in love-
But so few do it What's the troublep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rFrom the New York SUM-

Tow Girls are so hard-hearted that
. I7fannond won't make an impression.
You can learn a good deal about wo-
men by not trying to understand them.
When a girl won't deceive her father
about her beaux she hasn't any father.
Cooks are very useful to keep men
from doing all their talking against the
government
The trouble with having money of
your own is you can't be happy without
other peoples, too.
When a man knows better than to
invest his money so as not to lose all OF
It he has already gone and done 1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

AS we understand it. Assistant Attor-
ney General Dawson has been down in
Texas taking lessons in trust-busting.
OF course. Kansas has an attorney
general who is something of a trust
buster himself. but there is no harm
in learning the methods of others also.
Texans have long had regulations as
broncho-busters. and it Is no surprise
that they should be expert in trust
busting. too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

The announcement that William A.
Harris will not run for governor the
coming year doubtless sounds pleasant
to those Kansas Republicans whose
chief mission in life is to maintain a
connection with the public treasury
Colonel Harris came so near election
last year that some Republicans have
an attack of ague every time they think
Of If
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

The next time Vancouver has an anti :
Japanese riot doubtless a number of
San Francisco agitators would be glad
of an opportunity to be present and as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

The news that the expenses of main
tanning the state institutions during the
past six months is $4,000 more than for
the corresponding time last year, is no
great surprise to the man who who keeps
on his grocery bills. That $4,000 in
crease is only a trifie over six per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

The wichita Beacon accuses its con-
temporary, the Eagle, of pursuing a
dizzy course these days" But doesn't
the height at which an eagle flies
usually seem dizzy to US ordinary NOR
fals2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

The trusts and corporation magnates
are not now loking forward to the
presidents coming message with the
idea that they will see the president
-pedaling on the trust-regulation
movement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

Now it is said that Chauncey Depew
favors the idea of another term for
Roosevelt. Possibly Senator Depew
hopes that some Roosevelt admirer will
rise and suggest another term for De-
now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

The state railroad commissioners are
now inspecting the Central Branch.
With the exception of the rails, ties
and the condition of the roadbed, it Is
believed they will find the road all
right 1t doesn't need a new right of
VraU
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

It is stated that ten million people
have deposits in the postal savings
banks in England. Kansas farmers
have no postal savings banks, but
most of them have bank deposits,
Just the same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

At last the news comes from WITCH
tia that the lid is leaking down there.
This information has been expected
for some time. and it is suspected that
1t was DELAYED in transmission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

1t is expected that the shore line of
the Pacific will be higher than usual
during the next three weeks Taft set
sail from Seattle yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

President Roosevelt has turned down
a United States senator and congress-
man in appointing a California post
master. 1t was a case of merit VS.. pol
ftics, and merit won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

The Parsons Sun has declared uncon-
stitutionaI all moves tending to give
Kansas a fiat two-cent fare. So what's
the use of doing anything now?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

Vesuvius is reported to be smoking
again. As we understand it, Vesu-
vius is the Uncle Joe Cannon among
mOuntains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

Last year. it is estimated. Kansas
workmen lost a million dollars by
strikes. Kansas is rich enough to af-
ford most things. but it is doubtful If
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
~ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Meanwhile Kansas will continue 4
pay three cents or buy mileage book:
awhile longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
LIKE FORAKER.

Unknown I go my way, and no one
cares or asks" sings a Topeka poet.
How like wall from the lips of the for
gotten Senator Foraker!-Los Angeles
Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

only method to keep the state from be-
ing Disseminated against, the question
OF cost Is minor matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
NOTHING LEFT FOR HIM.

In addition to Secretary Taft. Vice
President Fairbanks was in Kansas
City last night. Speaker Cannon was
here a week ago. Philander Chase
Knox knows it's no use to come.-Kau-
sas City Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

Some of Taft's critics say he has not
spoise." But he has enough avoir-
dupois to make up for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
KANSAS COANENT
81 CAN'T AFFORD IT"

IT CAN'T AFFORD IT"
Young man. don't be ashamed TO
say frankly, when occasion arises
can't afford it,
The universftx, will open within the
next few days, and all its varied &C
tivities will again be claiming the
time and energy and money OF the
students. Every year young mem
and young women, too-gS out from
the university under burden OF
financial embarrassment Whlch lowers
their standing among business men
and among their fellows as wen as
socially, because they are SIMPLY I'M
able to pay their debts. How many
of these. do Won suppose, could have
kept out Of debt, had they mad the
strength at the right time to say,
frankly and like men, Il cant aEoro
it?''
We do not blame any young man or
young woman for wanting to go in the
best society in their college. we 90
not blame them for wanting 70 Wear
as good clothes, to eat as gooo 1000,
to have as much spending money as
their associates. But between the
rich mans SON with an allowance OF
500 or more a month, and the poor
young man working his way through
school, on an income OF perhaps $50
or $40 a month, there is financial
chasm which can be bridged only by
frank manliness. The two young men
may have equal brains, equal Dreeo-
ing, equal opportunity in all save
money. Yet if both start In to live on
$10O-a-month basis. one or tnem
will leave school before his course Is
finished. involved in debts that VIII
harrass and embarrass him ana Trip
him up for years to come-years IN
which he ought to be absolutely I'M
trammelled to start himself in a Dusl-
ness career and begin making sue
cess of life.
1t is not always easy for a young
man to keep out of debt. sometimes
going in debt is the highest KIND OF
economy, although as a rule we pc
lieve it well to keep out OF DEBT II pos
sible. But no one can afforo TO CON
tract debts if he can not, at the time,
sec when and how he is going 10 pay
them. Better be honest with yoursel1
and frank with the world, young man.
and save the respect of both by say
ing when occasion arises:
''I must not do that, because cant
afford it"-Lawrence World.
FIND THE MORAL.
The superintendent OF one prancn
of the Reading road has dismissed
about thirty engineers and otner
who have been in the
habit of drinking at saloons, ana
keeping regular accounts In them; |
There is a. strong temperance moral
here and one need not search ueeply
<1,-fh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

This is Friday the Thirteenth. II
you started to do anything today, bet
ter take ii back and not do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
STARTED LOT OF THEM.

Judge Parker pleads for state rights.
Governors Hughes and Glenn appear to
have reminded a lot of eminent persons
OF somethinS.-New York Telegram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
AND ALSO WISE.

Judge Parker's declaration that he
VIII never again be a candidate seems
to De entirely reasonable and credible.
Indianapolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

Frost is predicted for this month
Possibly because Mr.. Fairbanks Il
headed east from California again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
THE MISER!

1t is hard to believe that the New
Rochelle man who starved to death
while saving up 100000 is now en-
joying the fruits of his frugality.-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
DOES NOT TAKE LONG.

1t is now understood that sixteen of
our battleships will sail for the Pacific
some time in December. But there is
plenty of time for the president to
change his mind again before the date
now fixed.-Rochester Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

Mississippi is liable to go dry next
Both candidates for governor have de-
clared for prohibition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13

at IS generally understood" re-
marked the Leavenworth Times q few
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
The Miracle of Sunburn.


Has it ever struck you that sunburn
is miracle? Probably not. Yet such
is the fact.
When you go down to the seashore,
and back in the summer sun, the light
attacks you fiercely, first reddening
your skin, then swelling, blistering, and
scorching it. If you kept in the sun
long enough and the miracle did not oc-
ing off your skin first and then fiercely
attacking the raw flesh.
But the miracle does occur. The skin
changes from its pale color to a tan,
and upon this tan the sun has no effect.
The sun may beat on a tan-colOred skin
for days, for weeks for months, but
the skin will remain always sound.
And so nature works her miracles
The white skin is suffering, and nature,
aware somehow that a tan skin is sun
proof, changes the white to tan.
To prove this miracle-to prove that
it is not the hardening of the skin, but
the change in its color which protects
it from sunburn-is an easy matter.
Let & pale person, unused to the sun,
stain one side of his face yellow, and,
out in the bright summer sun for
couple of hours. The one side of his
face is no tougher, no more hardened
than the other, yet the unstained side
will be inf1amed, blistered, while the
tan-colored one will be quite cool and
unhurt.
Sunburn is a miracle. a protection to
mankind, as inexplicable and as won
derful as the miracle of how the arctic
animals change in the winter from dark
coats to snow-white ones.-Answers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
BACK INFO THE FOLD.

Long live democracy" shouts
John Temple Graves, who has just re-
membered his party utilization after
having spent a busy summer nominat-
ing Republicans for the presidency
Omaha Bee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
FORGOT AIL AROUT ANDY.

Kaiser Wilhelm thanked heaven
and the swords of his trusty troops
for the peace that has been maintain
ed so long, which makes it look as
though Mr.. Carnegie was ignored en-
tirely.-Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
E1Nn THE MORAL.
FROM OTHER PENS
OUT OF THE GRAVE.

What traitor to the Republican par
ty achieved the utterance OF this trea-
son-what enemy of good government
conceived this violation OF the sanct-
uary?
"Our capacity to produce has deVel-
oped so enormously and our products
have so multiplied that the problem
of more markets requires our urgent
and imm Mediate attention. we
must not repose In fancieds security
that we can forever sell everything
and buy little or nothing. Inc
period of exclusivenesS is past. .
If perchance some of our tarltts are
no longer needed for revenue or to en-
courage or protect our industries at
home. why should they not be en-
ployedF to extend land promote our
markets abroad?"S
These heretical declarations do not
proceed, as protectionists for protec-
lions sake might frothingly imagine,
from William H. Taft.
They are from the last public ad-
dress of William Mckinley, who was
wounded unto death six years ago this
day If so extreme a protectionist
could even then have recognized as
existent the need of a change in con-
ditions, how much stronger would be
his warning now! Why has not the
American Economist moved to ex-
punge McKinley's name from the list
of presidents of the United States p
Los Angeles Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
Maori Traditions.


Many ira ditions of the Maoris OF
New Zealand indicate true refinement
OF feeling. That of Niwareka, or
Great Delight. is one of these, and
represents a gentle Maori maiden,
beautiful and modest, who, though
deeply loving her bridegroom, yet
shudders at the barbarity of his peo-
pie and at his delight in bloodshed
and cruelty. Unable to bear the sights
and sounds around her, she passes
from his embrace and seeks the
shadows of another world ONLY
through great suffering and sacrifice
does her young husband. unable to
bear his solitary lot, redeem her from
the shades. This beautiful legend is
pound up with the origin of the Gus
tom of the tattoo, an ordeal which
the lover vas compelled to endure
that he might realize the nature of
suffering.
One Of the finest legends of old
Maori romance relates how a daugh-
ter OF the heavens condescends to
dwell with man; but, repealed by his
rudeness and want of sympathy, as
cends again to the skies, carrying with
her her earth-born child. Her hus-
band is only able to reach her and re-
gain her love by climbing upward
not by earthly tendrils, but by those
which, descending from the heavens
have taken root in earth"
One curious feature of the do
nestle life of the New Zealand natives
Is that the old women are led to be-
lieve that the highest honor they can
enjoy is to be permitted to do all the
co oking and prepare the food A
great deal of labor is thus left to
them, which they cheerfully perform,
resenting any interference on the part
of TIE younger Maori women, who
thus have plenty of leisure for enjoy
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
THAT EXPLAINS IT.

The estimate that the farmers of
this country earned $1.000.000,0 900
more this year than last also tends to
explain to some degree why many of
the rest of US were unable to take
vacation.-Indi News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-13
THE QUESTION OF QUESTIONS.

THE QUESTION OFF QUESTIONS.
How shall financial confidence be
sustained and our national prosperity
and at the same time the
abuses, the extravagances and the
wastes of prosperity, eliminated p
Wall Street Journal.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-12-20
Abandoned her Baby.

On Monday morning one of the ladies
in the Office of Sutterby's feed barn
found IA two weeks old baby on the
table in the toilet room, evidently aban
doned by the mother. At midnight,
Monday, after some hard and clever
work on the part of the officers of the
city and county, Under Sheriff q. j.
Herrick arrested the child's mother,
Mrs. Eta Persons, at the home of the
latter's mother, Mrs. T. B. Mosher, in
Judd's Corners. The mother is in
Jail, having waived examination in the
justice court and been bound over on a
charge of abandonment The child is
being cared for in Owosso.
Mrs Persons gave birth to the baby
in the studio of Leon Pharis, a photo
grapher, in Laingsburg and was cared
for in private family at Laingsburg
until she left Monday morning. She
admits abandoning the child but will
not talk further.