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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23


and settle in a little town where he
could practice medicine, and she
wouldn't give up society, and now
think she regrets it.
man would go to the end of the world
Would you ?" Roger asked.
We'll. I am leaving for japan next
week." ingratiatfngly.
Felicia gazed at him with intense In
dignation for moment, then she turn
ed her back on him, "Silly," she said.
When Felicia went to bed that
night, she was so tired that she could
not sleep. The next morning she was
as pale as Mary. For week the two
girls dragged their engagements. finish
ing up on Saturday night with another
cotillion.
Felicia wore her white dress. 1t was
mussed, and she knew that she was not
looking her best; but she was so tired
that she did not care. Roger had sent
her big bunch of violets. and her
dance card was filed with names. but
the fact gave her no satisfaction.
The fourth dance was Rogers.
Enjoying it?'' he asked, briefly, as
he swung her out into the floor.
"Oh, 1 am SO tired, 1 shall DROP" she
said. Cant go home Roger?'
Sch looked so like a little weary child,
that Roger laughed.
Baby" he teased, and then, tender
~, It'll hunt Mary up and we will cut
the rest of it"
In the carriage Mary collapsed. 'T
didn't dream I was so tired" she Sob
bed, with her head on Felicia's Shout
der, and Roger, surveying the pair with
twinkling eyes, said: Let me pre-
scribe"
! well" came back in muffled agree
ment.
you pack your trunk, Mary" he
planned, land go home with Felicia.
It's lovely in the country now, and I'll
T ~ n
me-"
Mary sat up with her face ablaze.
Bob Carruth?"
yes. 1 had a letter from him yes
terday. He's coming up for visit"
Faint pink tinged Mary's cheeks.
do you think he will want to see me,
Roger?" she asked wistfully, and Rog-
er said, gently, ST know he will, Mary
So Felicia packed her little trunk and
Mary packed her large one, and away
they went to the country, where the
trees were crimson and gold and brown,
and where the air was like wine. And
there Bob Carruth and Roger followed
them.
so she is really going to marry him
and live in a country town." Roger
commented, and as he and Felicia fol-
lowed Mary and her lover along path
that seemed to end in a golden sunset.
EYES," Felicia said.
"And you are going to marry me,
and come and live in the city?" Roger
ventured.
II haven't promised-yet," said little
Felicia. "I am afraid that some day
1 should be saying, Give me again my
hollow tree, my crust Of bread-and lib
erty.'"
you aren't afraid of anything of
the kind" Roger told her, you know
we would live happy ever after"
ooh. well, If you are so sure" said
Felicia. as she tucked confding hand
through his arm, and looked up at him
with happy eyes, ST guess 1 shall have
to say 'yes'-Roger."-
1907, by N. E. Daley.)
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Press.

TFrom the Philadelphia Press.1
To love our enemies as we love our
selves it is only necessary to be our
own worst enemies.
When a married man talks In his
sleep it Is possibly because that IS the
only chance he has.
When poverty comes in at the door
love flies out of the window, which
proves that love also laughs at glaciers.
There are times when a man feels i'm
PEELED to spend his money Ike drunk
en- sailor or a Pittsburg millionaire.
Blobbs-"Wigwag is very fond of
cabbage" Slobbs-'How do you known"
BIobbs-'I have smoked some of his
CIGARS
A girl believes SO much a fellow tells
her before marriage that her capacity
for believing is apt to be exhausted af-
terward.
She-"Do you believe that two can
live as cheaply as one?" He-It de-
ponds upon whether fellow has to pay
aliniony or not"
"All things come to him who waits"
quoted the Wise Guy. Excepting posi-
bly, the weather mans predictions"
murmured the Simple Mug.
Wigg-s'Roosevelt is down on the ma
ture takers" WagglYes; it's Won
der he doesn't get the big stick after
that fellow who wrote the yarn about
Jonah and the whale"
Muggins-.sYou seem to believe In
spending money as you make IT.. Bug
gins-"Sure thing; bird IN the hand is
worth a whole aviary In the nands OF
your executors, my boy.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

AS near as this department can
make out, when Harry Bone or Judge
West have a little spare time they put
it in bringing suits against the Rock
Island and Santa Fee for violating the
eS-hour law. -aD sf, "a.
q q o.
Somebody has started the story that
an epidemic or alveolar pyorrhea and
Lucrative stomatitis has broken out
in Topeka. There is some doubt
whether the story is started to make
business for the dentists or to make
a man look twice before he kisses a
new girl.
. So
We notice that every time old Cy
Leland Is "downed" he Is always on
top of the heap, usually moving a new
job for one of his friends in each
hand.
There is too much standing watek
in my neighborhood," said a South To-
peka man today. ''Why don't you Of
fer it a chair and invite it to sit
DOWN." asked an innocent bystander.
- =
Bet you don't know from personal
observation where there is motto
on the new gold coins or not.
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A SANE DIAGNOSIS.

Perhaps one of the best analyses of
the causes leading up to the financial
trouble has been prepared by Henry
A Wise Wood, OF New York. Mr..
Wood is an inventor OF high standing
and a man of considerable ability.
His views of the panic" and its
causes are not only extremely inter
esting but also logical.
To begin with, Mr.. Wood notes the
increasing demand for currency each
fall during the "crop-moving" period.
The money has to be spread out to
do the business of the country, and he
likens it to thin ice, which in time
might be expected to become SO thin
that it would not carry the weight of
the financial skaters, especially If one
of them should suddenly fall. This is
the first cause given for the financial
shortage in general The others, in
brief, follow:
Second, the exposure, by Ida NJ.
Tarbell, Of the methods and oppres-
sion practiced by the greatest of our
corporations, arousing the people to
the possible danger from great COM
binations of capital.
Third, the exposure of the rotten
ness of The System, by Thomas w.
Lawson, showing how a few men
manipulate corporate wealth for their
own ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Fourth, the insurance investiga.
tions. corroborating Lawson and
showing the public that even these
so-called sacred" funds of the people
were not safe from The System
Fifth, the Chicago & Alton reveIa-
tons, showing how railroad securities
are watered and MIXED. and arousing
investors to the danger from that
source.
Sixth. the distrust of the public to-
wards corporations generally, and its
resentment, particularly towards rail-
roads, because of these disclosures.
Seventh, the Standard Oil fine by
Judge Lands, showing that law
breaking corporations could be pun
ished in a financial way. "This seems
to have been the first time in Ameri-
can finance says Mr.. Wood, "that
it was borne in upon the popular con-
seriousness that laws which conflict
with moneyed interest have a stand
ing in court. and must be obeyed; and
that there may be enforced as penal
ty for the wrongful acquisition Of
money, the surrender of money in
large enough sums to be painful. The
resulting CONSERVATION and flight to
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Postnonine the Smile.

A we'll known Scottish architect was
travelling in Palestine recently, when
family circle The happy father imme-
diately provided himself with some wa
ter from the Jordan, to carry home. for
the christening of the infant, and re-
turned to Scotland. On the Sunday ap-
pointed for the ceremony he duly pre-
scented himself at the church and sought
out the beadle, in order to hand over
the precious water to his care. He
pulled the flask from his pocket, but
the beadle held up a warning hand,
and came nearer to whisper: mo the
moo. SIR" he said; mo the moo. Maybe
after the kinks ootr'-Argonaut.
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He wants the fleets of America, Great
Britain. Germany, and any other pow
ers that want to tag on, to show up in
the Bosporus some morning and blow
the sultan off the face of the map If
the murder of Armenian Christians does
not cease. That would be all right, OF
course, but how would it do to prac-
tice up a little nearer home by letting
the combined feet take old King
Leopold across it's knee and spanking
him until the atrocities in the Congo
cease?
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FROM OTHER PENS
CHANGES IN THE SENATE.

CHANGES IN THE SENATE.
When congress- meets at Washington
next month the senate will have seven
teen new members. Fifteen OF the old
members will be missing by reason of
death, resignation or failure to secure
reelection, and there will be two new
members from the new state. of Okla
homa. If Rhode Island ends its dead
lock and sends some one else in place
Of Wetmore that will mean eighteen
new faces.
Four seats that were filled by Demo-
Gratis in the last congress will be filled
by Republicans in the coming congress
and the political complexion of the
senate, counting in two Democrats from
Oklahoma and a Republican from Rhode
Island, will be Sixty-One Republicans
and thirty-one Democrats The Re
publican strength is now so great that
under no circumstances will it be posi-
BILE for the Democratic party to get pos
session of the senate during the next
four years. Should a Democratic presi-
dent be elected, he would have to face
a dominant opposition in at least one
house of congress, throughout his term.
The new senate will lack some of the
strongest of the former members. such
as Spooner, Morgan and Pettus, but
also it will lack some OF the weakest,
such as Clark Of Montana and Alice of
Delaware. Some of the new members
have had experience in the lower house,
but more will be new to washington
life. The fire-eating Jen Davis. for
merly governor of Arkansas, will prob
ably enter into competition with Till
man to make things lively. "Fiddling
Bob TAYLOR of Tennessee will probably
seek to replace his musical notor1ety
with a stateman's reputation. There
will be two new multi-millionaires IN
the body, Guggenheim of Colorado and
Stephenson of Wisconsin. one of them
counted on as reactionary, the other
proved in long political struggles as OF
liberal sympathies.-Chicago Record
Herald.
NOTHING.
Tn the election returns Mr.. Bryan
will see nothing that should cause him
to hesitate about making his usual
ChautauQua engagements for next
year-Chicago Record-Herald.
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HUMoR OF THE DAY.

Late Arrfva1-Who is that man over
there. Mrs. Upmore. that everybody APP
pears to be SO eager to meet7
Hostess-Is it possible you don't know?
That is Mr.. Percollum. the man who wrote
ting an automobile in it.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
Maid-I hear that you received an ofrer
of marriage the other day?
Cicely-Yes. from a man who wrote that
Maid-How poetici What was his
name?
cicelyLI didn't think to look at the sig
nature.-Judge.
Siowboy has been shaving away at that
desk for twenty years ar 50. wonder whv
he's never been promoted
why, he's always taken a pride in do
ing more than he's paid for, and hts en-
ployers have been afraid they coiIadn't
find man to TN his place."-Puok.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Terrible things happen every second
Why does the officer of a lodge wear
a sword?
A funny" show given by amateurs,
is never funny.
Which does a woman prefer: ALI
mony, or life insurance?
Sympathy is like blonde hair: It is
easy to tell when it is artificial.
In the modern novel, when a woman
wears tube roses, look out for trou-
| BILE.
Three babies in two years. the Ian
caster Literary society has just decid-
| ed are too many.
Deny If it you please, but the facts
are that everybody is looking for a
shade the best of it.
If our happiness depended upon be-
ing with interesting people, how miser-
able most Of us would be!
When you size something up as a
bluff, and it proves to be the real
thing, what a Jolt it gives you!
Down at the bottom Of his rotten
heart, every man has an ambition to
see some woman take poison because
of love for him.
his steady. "All right, shoot me-" he
said; "all ask is, don't shoot me with
shotgun. A shotgun muses. one up
So.''
The showers given for brides, and
to which all her girl friends contrib
ute are so numerous they are proving
rainy days to the fathers who have to
put up the price.
An old man was talking to his
daughter of 16, who was dissatisfied.
and wanted something her father would
not consent to buy. you ought to be
satisfied" he said, that you are 49,"
Why should there be so much indig-
nation in the newspaper offices because
so many men are hurt in football
games? If young men want to play
football and get hurt we don't care.
Do you? If you do, why should you?
How foolish a man is to imagine
that he can refuse to pay his bills and
that his creditors will forget about his
count his creditors will pursue him to
the end of the earth. He will finally
be compelled to pay in addition to be-
ing known as dead beat.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton is a
Very Neat Woman. She has Jersey
COW, and yesterday she bathed the COW
in soap and water, using a sanitary
bath powder, and then made her SER
want take a bath before the girl was
permitted to milk the COW. Mrs. Ly-
sander John is retrieving the family
fortunes by selling milk, and intends
to have a picture taken of Jersey At
Her Bath to prove that the milk she
sells is free from infection.
In the animal kingdom, the beautiful
creature is the male animal. He uses
and displays his beauty to attract a
mate The lion has big name. and
deep voice that seems remarkably
beautiful to the plain noness The pea
cock ruff1es those fine feathers to fasci-
nate the pea hen, a plain little creature
that you wouldn't notice in a chicken
coop. With us human beings 1t is diff
ferent: Women wear the fine feathers,
the pink dresses, the wide hats, the
diamonds. But all the same, men
should look neat. Too many of them
neglect this.
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THE RISE OF THE-HUMBLE

THE RISE OF THE HUMBLE.
While Mary had that little lamb
1t ne'er appreciated
To what degree
OF dignity
1t afterward was fated.
When following to school one day,
In modest simple manner,
1t worked no con
AS 1t does on
Prosperitys fair banner
played
1t had then no suspicion
Nor exc thought
It would be bought
In different disposition.
But then there came a runor strange :
That prices all would DROP sir,
And 1t became
The pet of fame
AT thirty cents a chop. sir
Indianapolis News.
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Safe-blowers recently secured $780,
600 in one night in Boston and they
did not work long on the job, either.
Panics are splendid things for bur-
glars when the people are scared into
taking their money out of the banks
and hiding 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

Kansas hog raisers can sympathize
with Wall street in way now. The
price of Wall streets stock went down
several million dollars in a short time
Kansas farmers who refused 1918 a
hundred for their hogs a month ago
can not get more than $3.50 now.
Kansas stock and Wall street stocks
have both dropped, but Kansas is not
bowling about it like Wall street is.
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One reason why Kansas is not es-
pecially worrying at present is be-
cause OF the view which is thus ex-
pressed by the Lincoln Republican:
ssWhile New Workers are hanging on
20 their currency Kansas farmers are
hanging on to their wheat, their corn,
their cattle and their hogs; and the
New Yorker with his currency will
get hungry before the Kansan with
his farm products
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

Il appears that Mr.. Walsh borrow
ed about all the money in his bank.
He probably believed the theory that
money does not do any good unless it
IS kept moving-and he certainly kept
ft on the move
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

It is stated that Secretary Taft
shrinks from the attention he will at
tract In the European capitals on his
way home. Still, there is room for
the secretary to shrink considerably
and still be larger than the ordinary
man-and incidentally plenty large
enough to fill the White House.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

Here is more hard luck for Bryan:
Ex-senator Burton announces that if
Roosevelt should be renominated, he
will support Bryan. He will probably
do the same If Taft is nominated, so it
seems likely that Bryan will have that
handicap in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

When an out-of-town statesman can
not think of anything else to say in a
newspaper interview, he announces the
up-to-date news that there is no
great need of a special session of the
le1fsIaft1re
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23
KANSAS CONMENT
AND ITs SOME TIME.


The Hutchinson News makes the
following observation which is i'm
porlahl II true and which. If it isn't
true, Is entertaining anyway: "Of
course we never like to admit that we
ourselves are in the wrong, but the
fact is that Kansas has it's share of
the responsibility for the currency
erouth AS Bank Commissioner
Royce said a couple of months ago
the Kansas banks have millions more
money than ever before and he might
nave said, millions more than is
needed Right now nearly every lit
tie bank in Kansas has twice the
amount of money in it's vaults that it
ought to have tits hanging on to
tnat currency like grim death and all
the coaxtng words and offers>of pre-
miulns from New Work can't get
Kansas bank to ship a dollar. If the
Wall street a. helping hand. the Pier
pcnt Morgan. crowd would have all
the currency they need. But the
Kansas banks are sortly saying to
brought this strouble on themselves
and now they can get out of 1t them
selves. 1t is an unkindly and I'M
charitable frame of mind but it is
according to the golden rule of Wall
street, do others before they do
you "-Leavenworth Times.
THE REAL NEED.
And now comes the announcement
That the wireless telephone is being
perfected. What a joy it will be to
travel one of these days. The Kan
sas farmer, on his way to Europe, will
be able to call up the folks at home
and tell his son to be sure and water
Old Mollie. give the calves a little
more roughness and not quite so
much milk. find out whether Jones'
cattle are still getting into the alfalfa
shed. and learn how the wheat is
looking. He will also be able to dress
after this conversation and go to a
theater on board the ship. He will
find a choice library, read the news
of the day in a paper published on
board the vessel, and enjoy prom
enade in small park. But all this
a remedy is found for the sensation of
sea-sickness.-Salina Journal.
THE WAY IN KANSAS.
The New York correspondents re-
port that hard times are compelling
many housekeepers to reduce their
force of "help" and to do their own
work or act as assisters. That may
be the situation in New York, but the
reason Kansas housewives are taking
a turn at domestic work is because it
is impossible to secure the number of
servants desired. A southern Kansas
editor recently mentioned inadver-
tently that he knew two girls who
were seeking positions as domestics.
The result was to stampede half the
women of the town to mis- Office and
1t is said he barely escaped from the
crush with his life.-Leavenworth
Times.
PICK OUT YOUR DAY.
The Philadelphia mint can coin
81 100000 of golden eagles each day.
Gather UP your gold and pick out
your day and Uncle Sam will do the
rest.-Parsons Sun -f-'-sr
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|
Pretty good admonition, that of
PauPs. There was a broad-minded
| philosopher, learned and scholarly, a
student of human nature with COM
prehensive intellect. and in that ad-
vice to the Philippians he concentrat-
ed philosophy that may well be heed
ed by humanity in all ages, chimes and
conditions.
Ponder the right things of life; that
| is, make a study to know and do
them That is the philosophers way
of growing in such things. The in
| dividual who thinks of vice and wick
edness, admiring it in his heart, will
| inevitably become vicious and wicked.
The boy who puts in some OF his
time thinking up some excuse that
will sound plausible but which is not
true, when he wants to play hockey
from school, will grow into liar; al
though he may not intend to-
The public officer who takes note or
the opportunities for graft that come
in his way and who thinks how easy
they could be worked, will find him.
self trying it almost before he knows
it, just as the bank clerk who thinks
out a. way to falsify his books is apt
when a strong temptation comes--at
least he is much more apt to do 1t
than If he studies only accuracy and
faithful service. The public official
and the bank clerk who think on
"yhatsoever things are honest" will
never find themselves facing penitenti-
airy bars. The boy whose mind is never
poisoned with impurity will not grow
nm a lfbertine and cause such trage-
dies as that which is now engross1ng
public attention in Washington.
Solomon once said, GAS man
thinketh in his heart, so is he" and
that very truth is what makes Chris
tianitv superior to other religions. MO-
hammedanism and various kinds or
idol worship that are mere forms but
which do not affect the heart are not
the uplifting force that Christianity is
And the protesting Christian whose
heart and thoughts are not In con-
formity with his professions is only a
counterfeit No class of sinners was
more severely condemned by the Sa-
yior of men than the Phartsees who
observed all the outward forms OF
religion, but whose thoughts and
minds made them hypocrites. There
fore think on the best things.
Circumstances make it probable
that the individual who has been PEN
ming these editorial sermons to the
State Journal congregation for the
past two and a half years will not be
privileged to do so longer, and in this
last one the admonition of Paul seems
At the time the first OF
these sermons was preached it was
with no thought of continuing them
as has been done, but the appeared to
meet with such approval that they |
were kept up. Some of them have |
been pretty poor; others. the writer
hopes, may have done a little good.
The congregation will now rise and
sing the long meter doxology.
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Since Mr.. Bryan made his an
nouncement, the chances that Della
ware or Minnesota will furnish the
next president have become simmer
than ever
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

There is a movement on at Leaven-
worth to excavate the streets with a
view to discovering If there is any
pavement left beneath the mud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

If the congressman who come from
the dry districts of the United States
all vote for prohibition in the District
of Columbia. they will make very re-
spectacle showing.
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Count Sneezenski, der Foreignees
Teller vich hopes to become Mister
Gladys Vanderbullet, recendly chased
Photographer fer taking hiss pictoor.
Whereby hangs a conundrum: Wy iss
dot particular Photographer like Chin
my Flynn in hiss recendt mill init
Chack Chonson? Der anser iss. dey
both took der Count" und. got der
worst uf i'd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

Running for president will soon be a
fixed habit with Mr.. Bryan If some one
does not stop him In his wild career.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

Oklahoma evidently intended to
have it's constitution rugged enough
to withstand the attacks of unfriendly
courts