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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
A HARD NUT TO CRACK.

without doubt one OF the press
ing problems from the public point
of view before the present congress is
| the enactment of legislation which
will have for its purpose the reforms
that are so sorely needed in the bank
| ing and currency systems in vogue in
the country; reforms which will seek
to make impossible any such money
stringency in the financial world as
has been experienced recently; and re-
forms that will protect the funds of
depositors in all sorts of banking in
stitutions.
That it will take all kinds of hard
work to whip legislation to these ends
into any kind Of shape which will be
agreeable to a majority in congress,
there Is no question. There's scarcely
a man in the house of representatives
who has not some pet scheme of his
own which he thinks will solve this
vexing financial question. The same
holds good of the senators, although
the dignified reserve which they must
maintain, forsooth, has not permitted
them to air their views on this i'm
portant subject. They will take up
the time that the senate could devote
to business in expounding these Views
at great length from the floor.
Nor is it strange that there are so
many views held by congressman as
to the best remedy to apply to the
financial sore spot. They are not a
remarkably wonderful set of men ex-
cept in ways political. There is quite
as much a diversity of opinion among
the prominent bankers of the country,
the prominent financiers, and the
prominent business men, likewise the
prominent farmers. In the latter
class, however, there is a unanimity
of opinion on one point. They, and
countless others of the hoi polloi, want
reasonable steps taken to protect their
deposits. But in the other thinking
classes mentioned, there does not
seem to be any possible chance for an
agreement as to the ways and means
to secure the needed reforms.
Better evidence that this is so
could not be found than that which
developed in New York city the other
day at the first session of the annual
meeting of the National Civic Fedora
ton. The subject under discussion
was Protecting Peoples Savings"
This topic was used as a medium for a
general discussion of the all burning
financial question and suggestions as
to how the currency anc banking sys-
TENS should ba remedied.
James Speyer, one of the prominent
bankers Of the country. favored an
elastic currency on a gold basis. An
drew Carnegie urged an elastic cur
rency which will contract as we'll as
expand. He thinks some form of
asset currency is needed. Victor
Morawetz, chairman of the executive
board Of the Santa Fe, suggested the
formation by national banks of a sort
of a national clearing house. August
Belmont wrote that he favored the
Hepburn plan for a flexible currency.
Horace White opposed the plan for a
government guaranty for deposits on
the ground that 1t would put a
premium on lax banking methods.
Theodore Marburg, president of the
American Economic association, in
sisted that there was danger In any
circulation of money except on a gold
basis. George Won L. Myer. the post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

A man in Andrew Carnegie's posi-
tion can look with complacency on dull
times and indulge in the philosophy
that they are a sequential necessity to
each era of unbounded prosperity. But
most folks fail to be able to appreciate
things in that light.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

Perhaps there is nothing in the sug-
gestion that the city officials of Coffey-
vile are getting square with the peo-
pie, because the county officials went
over their heads and closed some joints,
by announcing that activities of all sorts
will be under the ban on the Sundays
of the future
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

When folks and communities are up
against it they generally have other
things to think about besides jokes.
Not so with the versatile east. The
east now declares that the west is re-
sponsible for the continued money
stringency. This joke has real merit
because 1t is capable of drawing a
laugh from the most Grabbed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
Iron the New York Press.l

smart girl never tries to fool her
mother; she let's her fool herself
A girl would rather have the right man
tell her she was beautiful and not be than
to be and not have him tell her SO.
What woman likes about her hus-
band explaining his politics is she can't
understand 1t any better than he does.
Unless man pretends to know how the
baby's food ought to be prepared his wife
is afraid he Is not a good father.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

Information that certain classes of
Americans are f1ocking to Monte Carlo
is exceedingly gratifying Greater
pleasure will be expressed If they stay
there forever. They are of crowd that
will never be missed at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

Timely is the warning sounded by J.
"a. Holmes, chief of the technologic
branch of the United States geological
survey, against the waste Of fuel and
water. Unfortunately not much atten-
tion is paid to such warnings until it is
too late. Then folks wiring their hands
with anxiety and wear hard luck
frown that won't rub of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

John Browns spirit would be in dis
tressing dilemma If it were called upon
to decide whitherward should go the
erudite Gene Ware when his mission on
this earth shall have been fulfilled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

Whole volumes of evidence will be
needed to convince Kansans that any
freight rates in this state are lower
than they are in neighboring states.
This is an unjust charge that has been
made by Nebraska
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
KANSAS COMMENT
MR.. sHUKER,s FEARs.

| NIT SHUKER'S FEARS.
| ney general, returned to Topeka the
osher DAY after having filed a number
u complaints in Leavenworth for al
| 1gseu violation of the prohibitory law.
ne seems To have been very we'll salts
fed with his work. Indeed he was
conplacent, and being contented to this
degree. he felt impeIled to give out an
thst 1t is with this interview
this article. Mr.. Shukers said that In
LeaVenWorth he had been warned that
II would be Well for him to keep close
70 ms motel of nights, because there
were a good many" people here who
would like to git him ..in the dark"
we are inclined to pass over a feeling
OF some Wonderment as to the charac-
ter OF friends Mr.. Shukers has made
IN Leavenworth. as indicated by the
use OF such words as git" But that,
also, Is neither here nor there. What
we are seeking to get around to, is the
declaration that we do not believe
mere are In this city "a good many"
persons VINO would like to git" Mr..
Shukers. We do not believe that At
torney General Jackson has been very
badly treated upon the occasion of any
OF ms visits to Leavenworth. Why
the part of "a good many people to
isn't.
We haven't the slightest doubt that
so In Leavenworth as much as he
pleases.
We don't believe the thing that this
friend or the assistant attorney gen
eral has charged against Leavenworth
which Mr.. Shukers repeats for circu-
lation over the state, which statement
amounts almost to a positive declara-
ton that there are a good many an
archists in Leavenworth.
The Times will make the pledge here
and now that If physical violence is Of
fered Mr.. Shukers it will be the most
insistent and the loudest in the de-
mand that those guilty shall be pun
ished. Nothing of the sort is going to
happen, however.
Mr.. Shukers is in absolutely no dan
ger when he comes to Leavenworth.
The only prospective enemy he has, so
far as Leavenworth knows, is his own
tongue, which works rather too freely. |
Times.
A SHATTERED ILLUSION.
Joseph L. Bristow's paper, the Jour |
nal, printed December II, under a |
Washington date line, a brief account |
of how President Roosevelt received |
Justice Brewers criticism of his ''hide |
and seek" policy with the third term |
article as follows:
What the president said to Harlan |
about Judge Brewer wouldn't look well |
in print. One of the mildest express
sions was that Judge Brewer had |
'sweetbreads for brains"
Can it be possible that the president |
INDUCED in language so filthy and so |
profane that paper owned by a man
receiving the patronage of city, county |
and federal government is compelled to |
admit it wouldn't look we'll in print?"
-Salina Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

Death dealing disasters in mines are
becoming aIarmingly frequent. Surely
in this enlightened age there should be
means of determining the dangers of
such catastrophes and the prevention
of their possible occurrence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

There are good grounds for the
fears expressed by Senator Ben TILL
man that Mayor Dahlman of Omaha
fs in danger of being forced into men,
bership in the National Ananias club.
II Mr.. Roosevelt told Mr.. Dahlman
that II he was responsible for the fin
ancial panic he was glad of it, the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

Although this snow fall is nothing
to brag over, still it is most acceptable
to the many carpet baggers in Topeka
who have hied hither from localities
where people experience real winters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

French naval officers seem to be
the only ones who are worrying about
the success of the great cruise Of Bob
Evans fleet. They think it is sur
rounded by insurmountable obstacles
Bob will show 'em.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
Registered ,Possums.

Divers of our well meaning contem-
porarles are debating about the rela-
i've merits 9th 'possum meat of thier
several states. but all of them fail to
convince because they omit to men
tlon the chief element essential to
possum merit. The Louisville Courier
journal, the Richmond News-Leader
ana the Houston Post assert that their
Kentucky, Virginia and Texas pos
sums are respectively superior on &C.
count of the food that they eat.
whether persimmons, haws, paw
paws. young chickens or other proven
der.
The truth is that the virtue of pos
already limited. but now we declare
plainly that no other 'possums are
equal to those produced in South
Carolina for the palpable reason that
only in this state are thoroughbred
animals raised. Our 'possums have
pedigrees, hence their meat is sweeter,
tenderer and of more subtle flavor
than the plebeian flesh produced else
where. So pronounced is this SUI
periority that it is observed in some
caught across the North Carolina line
and on the Georgia side, although the
barrier of the Savannah river renders
1t less perceptible in Georgia. A par
t1cularly valuable characteristic of
these South Carolina marsupials is
that tHey are com DdtlVe, tney are
dead game:" hence there is. no cor
ruption of the stock from adjoining
states.
Far be it from US to suggest that
any variety of 'possum is not edible,
indeed extremely palatab1e, but scrub
'possums are scrubs whether of Vir-
GINA, Kentucky or Texas and South
Carolina Is to this animal what Arabia
or Barbary is to the horse. They are
no common 'possums in South Caro-
lima: they are as scarce in this region
as are the common people or the
average man"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

ment for publication. And any state
ment not for publication is considered
by some in the same category as no
statement at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

Probably 1t is in honor Of the mayor
of the city that apple green has been
decided upon as the color scheme for
the decorations for the Midwinter fair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

Those who believe in signs will see
an evil omen in the fact that Secre-
tary Taft's ship is a day late in getting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal Is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full Day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganizafion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The state jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
nose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

Those Kansas bankers who did not
put on the lid are deserving of all
the profits and rewards that are COM
ang their way through increased busi-
waru
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
LIKE A BAD BOY.
JOB FOR WESTON.

1t is rumored that should the anti
pass law continue in vogue, PEDESTRIAN
Weston proposes to come down to
grand old Texas and organize classes
ing. It will be a great day when the
senator's and congressman of Texas
arrive at the national capital, having
covered the distance from nome on
foot.-San Antonio Express AND Pro-
lessor Weston could secure q large
newspaper men provided the students
were furnished free passes 70 the
training grounds.-Austin' eiex-')
Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
AN APOLOGY DIE

You remember you Republicans how
you told us that the Lord made gold
money and that with that kind of
money we could have no more panics.
Now we do not want to be finicky but
we do insist that you owe an apology
to the Lord. You did not know did
you?-Colby Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
Presidential Latin.

President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of
the University of California, while
making a friendly call on President
Roosevelt lately, is said to have
shown him cartoon which repre-
sented various financial interests
standing as gladiators before the i'm
perial parsonage while they saluted
thus: I'VE, who are about to bust.
salute thee" Whereupon Mr.. Roose'-
welt laughed and replied: "Abusus
non tollit usum," the English transla-
ton of which is: Abuse does not do
away with use" But it will not make
the president any more deeply beloved
by the "gladiators'' because he is able
to drop into Latin when he discusses
them with the same ease with which
he uses cowboy vernacular or the
language of Brer Rabbit.-Indian>
apolis Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
From OTHER PENS
RIyERs AND HARBORs.

Directly and indirectly. mostly in
directly, the Philippines have cost the
our money. and if, war should come
from our possession of them, the cost
will be many times multiplied. The
late Thomas B. Reed opposed the ac-
QUESTION of that oriental land for
many reasons. chief of which was
that our own country was in the in
FAINT state of material development.
The waterways convention in ses-
sion in this town last week reminded
the country of Mr.. Reeds theory of
development at home ere we exploited
things abroad. We can scarce
imagine the mighty works that might
have been wrought If the billion we
have dumped in the Philippines had
been devoted to our waterways. The
navy need not have cost half so much.
The pension roll, that grows like
Jonah's gourd, need not have been
quite so prodigal of expenditure.
Had that billion been expended on
our rivers and harbors, we would have
a fourteen foot channel from Chicago
to New Orleans, from Pittsburg to
Cairo. In addition, a ship canal would
have separated north and south
Florida. Another canal through the
Dismal Swamp would allow the
mariner to shake his finger at the
dangers of Hatteras. The Chesapeake
and Delaware bays might have been
connected by a canal on which could
float the biggest ships. There are
many other like enterprises that
might have been bought with the re-
mains of that billion.
1t is a silly thought that the i'm
provements of rivers and harbors IN
lure railroads. The contrary is the
truth. Facility of Transportation
stimulates production, and whatever
ENHANCES production makes work for
railroads.
What have made our country SO
great and powerful are cheap lands
cheap foods, cheap transportation,
and congress can do no petteI snan
make an annual appropriation OF $5O.-
OOO.O 900 the next twenty years for
rivers and MISUNDERSTANDING
Post.
LIKE A BAD BOY.
But all the harm the president has
done the country-and it Is a great
deals due to this motion OF MS that
IL he does not like anything 1t must
be changed. Custom, usage, common
consent, ancient history. mean no.hing
to him. There is story told OF an
American in Europe to whom gulde
in a cathedral was pointing out lamp
which had been burning for seven
centuries Never out in all that
timer" queried the traveller. Never,
now" said the Yankee, blowing 1t out
That is precisely the attitude OF Theo-
dore Roosevelt-Phiiadelp Rec
ord.
%"
JOB FOR WESTON.
1t is rumored that should the anti
pass law continue in vogue, Feoestrlan
Weston proposes to come GOWN 10
grand old Texas and organize classes
Of instruction in long distance walk |
ing. 1t will be a great day when the
senator's and congressman OF Iexas
arrive at the national capital, having !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
An English View of Taft.

Mr.. Taft's reported designs on the
American presidency are exposed to
no slight risk through the stories in
circulation as to his excessive physical
proportions. According to the latest
of them, two officers have been de-
tailed by the war department at
Washington to secure an adequate
mount for the secretary. They ram
sacked four states and finally dis
covered in a far-off corner of Missouri
A steed combining the requisite quail
fications Of grace and strength. An
other officer, so the story goes, is to
spend his time, until Mr.. Taft returns
from his tour, in discipling this animal
to an appropriate standard of
obedience-Pal1 Mall Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
Paper Stockings.

Stockings are to be hung up this
Christmas just as commonly as ever,
and among them will be stockings
that never have adorned or will adorn
a human leg. Brilliant paper hosiery
has been devised, and 1t is warranted
to last the day out. Such stockings
are strong enough to bear the weight
of one of papa's checks, no matter
how heavy the figure may be. The
newly coined gold eagle will be a
most welcome Christmas present. Lit
tie red boxes are made to hold those
yellow treasures.-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
Hard Figures and Facts.

In 1896 Mr.. McKinley's plurality in
this state was 26S,469, and in 1900,
when a large number of Gold Demo-
Gratis returned to their party, finding
an excuse in the paramount issue Of
imperialism, President McKinley's
plurality was 143.606. In those fig
ures there is. certainly no hope for Mr.
Bryan in New York, particularly as
his partisans knitted Alton B. Parker
in 1904, an act Of retaliation which
took no note of conservative support
of Mr.. Bryan in 1900 and left an in
delible memory
This question, do you think Mr..
Bryan could carry New York;" is like
ly to prove very embarrassing to his
following in Washington during the
present session of congress, because it
suggests the utter futility Of making
another campaign with him az the
Democratic candidate for president.
The more the question is asked and
the moro the search for the electoral
votes needed is prosecuted BY the au-
gurs, the greater will be the inclina-|
ton to consider calmly the expediency
of substituting for Mr.. Bryan Demo-
crat who would mollify, combine and
inspire, and at the same time draw
upon tho Independent Republican
yote.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18
Milking a Fish.


YES" said the pretty dairymaid
'it is difficult to milk a COW; but
how would you like to milk a fish,"
"Sepia," she went on, smiling, 'is
obtained from the cuttlefish, and you
will find on the Chinese coast (the
pater was a Chinese missionary many
cuttlefsh farms-great tanks where
the fish are bred for their black milk,
which gives US India ink
1.-THE tanks are divided by means
of sluices into a number of compart-
ments or locks; and care is taken new
er to disturb the fish, for when they
are disturbed they darken all the wat
er with their black fluid, which thus is
wasted
''To milk a cutie fish the queer
creature is driven slowly and gently
into a compartment lined with metal.
Then the water is drawn off and the
fish finds himself left high and dry.
He becomes alarmed, he squirts forth
all the sepia in his sack. Then, milk
ed dry. he is returned to his tank
again.
1.-The sepia is packed in kegs and
Theoretically sealed for the market.
One cuttlef1sh yields about a sover-
eign's worth Of it a ear.'-The Read
er.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

do you think it is as easy to make a
fortune 1t used to be?' asked the am
bilious youth.
Easier" answered Senator Sorghum.
1.-The problem is to do it in such a way
that your friends will continue to speak
to you."-Washington Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

when I asked her to marry me she
didn't seem to know what to say"
Like a preacher playing golf, chr
Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

us your son. Mr.. Comeup, at all of an
altruistic temperament"
BLESS you. mol He's sound as a dol
lar."-Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-18

well, Bobbie, do you like your new
school?'' II can tell better when
I find out what they give for being
good."-Life.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-07-04
BIG SHOW NEARLY HERE.
Agents are not Allowed to Misrepre.
sent.

The big Sells-Floto shows are COM
ing to Canon City Friday, July 5th,
and as this wealthy western institu
trust, will positively give the usual
street parade. Moreover, the agents
have positive orders never to mis-
represent a single item or feature. The
entire enterprise is built on honest
endeavor to give every one his moneys
worth.
A child can attend alone. present
$40 bill at the ticket wagon and re-
ceive the correct change
The Los Angeles Examiner, well
known for its honesty and fairness,
says:
1T has been said that when you
see one circus you see all circuses.
meaning that they are alike. This
may be true of the general run of
such entertainments. There may be
bigger companies on the road, there
may be some with more canvas tents.
more lemonade vendors. more sellers
of popcorn and palm fans, but GER
tinly there is none with a greater var
iety of wholesome entertainment The
Sells-Flot show Is called the circus
beautiful" II an entirely clean per-
formance. spick-and-span wagons. at
tentive employees, courteuo
tentiye employees, courtesy to the pub
lie and a compliance with all the ad-
vance promises make a circus beau
tiful" then the Sells-Floto combina-
ton is entitled TO the description.
The menagerie is complete and the
program contains about everything
that is worth seeing in the circus line.
4 special feature is made of the train
ed animals, the acrobats and the
clowns and all of them are excel
lent
Specially notable is the perform
ance of the five Potters, a family OF
acrobats that surpasses anything in its
line ever seen here. The double twist
ing somers sault done by the Potters in
the air while swinging from one trap
exc to another. and various other
feats were real novelties.
In addition there were remarkable
slack and tight wire performances by
the famous Alpine family that accom-
plish entirely new and dangerous
feats. The trained animals were all
good and the clowns, of whom there
were some thirty odd, kept the audi
ence in an uproar OF laughter with
their antics.
The Sclls-Floto Show won home
for itself as the saying goes. some
time ago in these parts. Its enlarged
successor promises TO more than keep
up the good work