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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.l


Even a kleptomaniac may take the
cake-in a bakery.
When a topper sees things double his
glasses are little too strong.
Although the average man may know
when to stop, he doesn't do it.
He who hesitates about proposing to
a woman may win by losing.
The average man doesn't care If the
truth does hurt-the other fellow.
Open the door to little vice and a
big one viii crawl in at the window.
Too many men are unable to recog-
nize their obligations when they meet
them.
No, Alonzo, a bee isn't necessarily
angry when it stings, but the victim is.
Be sure the gun Is loaded before at
tempting to teach the young idea how
to shoot.
It is not true that the most enjoyment
a woman gets out of a visit is derived
from the preparations she makes for it.
How large the interest on a promis-
sorry note looks when you are paying 1t,
and how small it looks when you are re-
ceiving 1t. e--. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05
.NYHAWKER JOTS

The Ottawa band earned it's salary in
| the Priests of Pallas parade at Kansas
City. 1t walked 70 blocks.
| Frank FARRELL has promoted Ralph
now appears as Major Faxon in the
| Holton Signal. se---.--, ,f7t ~ -
The man who takes In money on the
| subscription for the new Methodist par
sonage at Holton is very appropriately
named A. Dunn.
The Wichita Masons have invited
President Diaz of Mexico to come up
there and see some Scottish Rite work.
But will it be up to the Mexican drawn
work to which Diaz is accustomed?
Soft soap is all right in it's place, but
Leavenworth street car patrons VIII
were on certain car over there tha
other day dc not agree that its place is
on the street car rails. where 1t has
been placed by some bad boys.
Noting that Eugene Ware will move
to Kansas City, the Holton Signal says
''he will continue to write verses on the
side" Also. it might he added, on any
thing else that comes handy. Some of
Ironquills best verse was written on
scrap paper.
A new bulletin board has been put in
the derot at Garnett to give the time Of
trains, in accordance with the order OF
the railroad board, but no crayon was
provided. Judge Trigg suggested that
paint be used to mark each train zone
hour late" and let it stand
Holton Signal: Tom McNeal will
leave the Mail and Breeze, it is said, at
the expiration of his term as state
printer, and cast his lot with Albert T.
Reid in the publication of Western Life,
very creditable paper, which COM
pares favorably with the Saturday
Evening Post.
Hunting story from the Bison Bee:
Hunting seems to be becoming quite
popular among the women here, and
some are becoming quite handy with a
gun. Mesdames Chris Bieber, Geo
Rau ard Artie Brooks went duck hunt
ing one day this week and the latter
hrougtt down 4 ducks at one shot.
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ed to Katherine that at every stop
| more Maggies and Toms scrambled
aboard, all with an air of golden anti
cipation that she had never felt at
prospect of an automobile tour or
garden party. So absorbed was she
| in watching the half-holtday crowd
| that she did not notice the attention
she was attracting from a group OF
| half-tipsy youths who had dubbed her
"the QUEEN and were daring each
other to "pick up the peach"
At Ridley's park she felt oddly diz-
", with the confusion. Perhaps she
had worked bit too hard at the Set
tlement house. Perhaps she had not
eaten enough lunch. At any rate,
when they reached the park entrance
and the crowd showed her this way
tered around her and paid her loath-
some compliments, she wondered
whether she should faint or scream
aloud. Suddenly a man in uniform
showed the leering youths aside and
touched her elbow deferentially.
Where do you want to go, Miss?'
inquired the trolley inspector, for
such he was
Home, home" exclaimed the tired
girl with touch of hysteria In her
voice.
"Car on the third track" said the
Inspector, laconically, and he put her
aboard.
once out of the crowd, with the cool
rine felt better. She understood now
why Maggie felt that Tom-big. pro-
tecting Ton-had given the girl new
view of. life. 1t must be dreadful TO be
alone and unprotected in the world
Now, If Arnold had only been different.
If he had not been so absorbed in bust
ness-then suddenly feeling that had
never come to Katherine Morgan before
obsessed her. Had Arnold ever really
neglected her? Had he ever refused her
his attendance. save when she wiliful-
Iy changed her mind or made ch1ldish
demands on his time? She remembered
too, that her father said something
about a shaky market, possibilities OF a
panic, the need of conservatism, etc.
They had all been meaningless terms
in her moment of anger-but now she
understood. = If Arnold meant to take
her "outen the factory" he must stand
in with his boss, too, and Arnold,s boss
was 1.-The street" Something bright and
round fell from Katherine's eye to the
gloved hand she raised hastily as
screen and then it happened-crash1ng
beams. cracking glass, shrieking women
and groaning men.
When Katherine woke up she was In
Arnold Gresham's big touring car ana
Arnold Gresham's face was very close
to hers.
How did you get OFF," she inquired
DULY. feeling as if she had been chang
ed into Maggie Delany and Maggles
Tom had come to the rescue.
for Won. found you had left with one
girl. and another told me she had seen
you board the car for Ridley's park. l
was just following you out when saw
some service to the injured. Katherine,
why in the world did you go out ike
this, alone?"
Katherine laid her head contentedly
on Gresham's still trembling snouloerI
: "Recause I needed to know that
could not get along without you Ar
Mold dear. take me home. "-(Copy-
righted, 1907, by P. c. Eastment)
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WHO Is ON THE LID?

| With the president shooting bears
| in Louisiana, Secretary Taft encircling
the globe, and Secretary Root in
| Mexico, who, we pause to inquire, is
| sitting on the lid? Heretofore when
| the president has temporarily absent
ed himself from looking after affairs
at Washington he has left either Taft
| or Root in charge. Once upon time
the big secretary of war had both his
| own and the state departments to look
| after-and the president was also alb
sent. That was the occasion when the
| latter uttered his memorable saying,
assuring US that the nation was safe
fnasmuch as he had left Taft sitting
on the lid"
But now Taft is on the other side
of the globe, hobnobbing with the
Japs and renewing his acquaintance
with his ward, our little brown
brother" Root is far away in old
Mexico, and the president himself,
after a triumphant tour down the
Mississippi, is about to enter the
canebrakes of Louisiana on a bear
hunt. Even the faithful Loeb is
away up in the wilds of Wyoming.
Therefore we deem it a momentous
question as to who is official lid hold
err Is it Cortelyou? The young sec
rotary of the treasury is tremendously
versatile and capable. He has per-
formed well the varied tasks that have
been given him since he entered the
government service as stenographer.
1t would not seem improbable that the
president has thrust the lid beneath
his weight, just as an experiment.
Or possibly it is Bonaparte. The at
torney general is fairly busy man
these days, engaged, as he is. in a hot
pursuit of the trusts, yet the busiest
men often have the most time for
additional work, paradoxical as the
statement may seem.
Or even Garfield may have been as
signed to the duty of lid-holder. The
president has a very high opinion of
Secretary Garfield, and as the latter
has recently returned from an extend
ed tour of the west. including the Pa
cific coast in particular, he ought to
be fresh for any sort of a job that
may come his way.
Or-happy thought!-it is barely
possible that the lid is so we'll trained
by this time that it will stay on by
itself, especially as the president is
within hailing distance of it and can
be appealed to in case it shows signs
of instractability.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Coal bins are yawning.
Fall Is being sprung on us.
Pawn shops are disgorging fall over
coats.
Some people never begin a thing
without first coming to a conclusion.
The hairs of our heads may be num-
bered, but they often have falling
out.
One beauty about castles in the air
is that they entail no servant girl COM.
plications.
No, Maude, dear. we have never
heard that the population OF Cork was
merely a floating population.
wigg-tComing home from Europe
Guzzler says he was barreled up dur
ing the entire trip" Wagg-"Crossed
in a tank steamer, I suppose"
Customer-t'What sort of fish is this?''
waiter-"Sole, sir" Customer-"Well.
bring me a little honest confession. I've
always heard that was good for the
SOUL
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES we going to have
rabbit for dinner, Mrs. Slimgrub?" Mrs.
Slimgrub-"No. sir. What made you
think so?" Starboarder-"I just noticed
a hair in the butter, that's all"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05
FROM THE BEAR IN THE CANE
REAK f


Oh. Teddy. when you come this way,
You'll find me busy pitching hay;
work all day out in the sun.
And then work all night for fun.
m strenuous as I can be-
Oh. Teddy! Teddy, don't shoot me!
Oh, count me out on this new deal!
don't know how the fishes squeal,
Or why camel lays an egg;
l never wrote a book. I beg
OF you, don't try to raise a scrap
Oh, please don't catch me in your trapi
Oh. pass me by. Ted if you Will;
I've never laid a plot to kill,
Or never set a deadly bomb,
Because I didn't land a. plum:
No unions ever meet with me:
Oh, Teddy, won't you pass my tree?
Oh. say. I'm poor enough, you bet,
And don't belong to John DIS set:
And II ever see a trust
IHNstart right in and make 1t bust;
50 when you're shooting down here, say,
Oh, point your gun the other way!
Oh, Teddy, would you like to learn
We've little bears enough to burn?
No suicide of race. don't fear,
The woods are full of 'em down here.
Now. Teddy, when you come to shoot,
Oh, give me just one chance to scoot!
Sara Josephine Albright.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.]
EVERYTHING bites in this world but the
fish.
Inst as the world begins to admire a
man. he breaks out in vanity
A mans word may be as good as his
bond. and yet have no special value.
There are two sides to question II
you are deeply enough interested.
Another trouble with this affinity"
BUSINESS is that some men require so
many.
A girl doesn't seem to mind working
for a living, If she gets married to do it.
Man is disposed to believe that while
he helps others, no one ever helps MIN.
men.
man than we have of two big sober
Every year after a woman gets q
little old, diminishes her patience with
the new styles
You can always spot the villain In
a show, but 1t frequently takes more
than four acts In real life.
Old styles are coming back in love
stories. Here of late the heroine is POOR
but a Perfect Lady.
An Atchison woman married a widow
err, and she was always Jealous OF her
husbands first wife. Then the husband
died, and now she is worrying because
she fears her husband is happy In
l.
TO hell" she says, than to go to heaven
and find Bill there with his first wife"
The Coolidge Enterprise tells of a not
ed gossip down there. A number of
worthy Coolidge people watched" her
several weeks, trying to catch her in a
lie. AS soon as they caught her in a lie,
they Intended to severely reprimand
her. But finally the worthy people got
together compared notes and found
that the gossip had been telling the
truth.
You can't always tell which is the
hest way Some days Geo. Grice, of
the peanut stand, decides that it is a
good way to display roasted peanuts.
and lets the men steal a few. The the
DRY is that If a man steals few pea
nuts. he will get a taste of them, and
buy a sack But other days Mr.. Grice
seems to conclude that this is not a good
way, for he displays no peanuts, and If
a man steals any, he must steal a sack,
and break through wire screen, and
run the risk OF arrest
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ton as not to know that every dollar of
this comes out of the pockets of the peo-
pie who take out insurance policies? 1t
is the result Of a policy that robs the
people that the legislature may have
more money to squander."
There is a growing impression that
the per cent tax on the business of
life insurance companies is wrong, at
least so far as it relates to mutual
companies. 1t is perhaps just and pro-
per that it be imposed on stock COM
panies that make a profit out of the
business for their stockholders. Such
companies operate for profit and are
protected by the laws of the state.
They pay nothing for the benefits and
protection of the law except what is
assessed against them in the shape of
special taxes. 1t appears to be just and
right that special tax should be levied
on such companies, and it should-and
doubtless does-come out Of the profits
of the stockholders.
But with mutual companies it is diff
ferent. II they are legitimately man.
aged, the policyholders get the benefit
of all the earnings, less the expenses.
This special tax comes out of the earn
ings, and hence out of the policy
holders. It makes the burden just that
much heavier on the man who is try
ing to provide for his family against
his death, and as he is usually tax
payer, it amounts to double taxation on
him.
Mutual companies ought to pay
their share of the expense of administer
ing the state insurance department, but
it hardly seems right to tax them for
the purpose of making money for the
state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05
FROM OTHER PENS
RIDE OR RETIRE.

The epauletted soldier, the officer
born to command, is the man on horse
back in popular conception. No sculptor
carves a military hero on foot He IS
always mounted on spirited thorough
bred with sweeping tail and inflated
nostrils. There are a good many army
mobile to a charger and padded office
char to a Mexican saddle. They do not
share the popular notion of an on1cer
as mounted and mobile. So they regard
general order No. 1913, which prescr1bes
a riding test of fifteen miles for field
officers below the rank of general, as
harsh decree and wanton interference
with vested rights. If the chlef or the
general staff were a sluggish, OBESE
man. tender in his riding seat, the test
would not appall. but he happens to be be
a centaur and callous of the feelings OF
sto11t gentlemen scant of breath who
shy at horse. In the maneuvers three
years ago it was Bell who refused 10
he captured by the enemy and made
good his escape by a breakneck gallop
through the enveloping lines. No mercy
is to be expected from such hard rid
ing chief of staff.-New York Sun.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Another hard job is to satisfy tour
ing car taste on a street car salary.
X 4 X
AS we understand 1t, the railroads are
asking for an injunction, but they do
not care whether it eniofns or not.
* y n
Chairman Knapp, of the interstate
commerce commission, told the Nation
al Grain Dealers convention that Co
operation is the life of trade" And
those western grain dealers who have
bad to compete with these farmers CO.
operative elevators are willing to con-
cede that cooperation makes things
pretty lively for them.
K X =
Free advice: If you ever expect to he
tried for anything, go up to Boise to do
it. 1t seems they never convict up
there.
Another good point scored by the
railroads putting in the two-cent fare:
The few apples in the country won't
be used up by a special session of the
legislature.
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tors and obviates much of the danger
that the railroads will lose by conduc-
tors knocking down" cash fares An
extra cent a mile Is too much of q
penalty, however, but the scale pro-
posed by Judge Smith, Of the Santa F'e,
to the railroad board, seems fair. The
man who is anxious to catch a train,
yet who has not given himself sufficient
time to purchase ticket, 10 usually
willing to pay little extra for the trout
BILE he causes, and he should do so.
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In the face of the more glaring
evils of the open joint. comparatively
little has been done in the past about
the drug store saloon. In some of the
dry counties of the state a drug store
proprietor whose greed for gain has
led him into the meshes of the pro-
hibitory law has occasionally con-
tributed his stipend of cash to the
school fund and has taken an involun-
tary vacation behind prison bars. but
such instances have been rare in the
larger towns. Now, however. the
open joints have been fairly well
closed, and it looks like the alleged
druggists will take their turn soon.
The reputable drug men will doubt
less be thankful to see something of
this kind happen. The creature who
violates the law behind the blind of a
prescription case brings odium, to a
certain extent, upon the entire drug
business; yet the majority of drug
gists, the State Journal believes. con-
scientiously obey the law. Therefore
every decent druggist will be glad to
see the pretended drug stores, that are
really illegitimate saloons, put out of
business.
cut off the sale of liquor for legitimate
purposes-and there is a legitimate sale
the same as there Is a legitimate sale
of other poisons and medicines. But
with this legitimate sale to hide behind.
some alleged drug stores conduct reg
ular saloon business.
And these same pretended druggists
who are really joint keepers, lay claim
to Responsibility. 1t is difficult, how
ever, to see how they are much super
Tor to the ordinary law-breaker. 1t Is
somewhat doubtful if they are entitled
to as great a degree of respect as is
the Missouri saloonkeeper who tries to
obey the law in his state-there are
few such.
There are a class of druggists, of
course, who do legitimate drug bust
ness and yet who are extremely care
less, to say the least, regarding their
liquor sales. They are not particularly
anxious to break the law, but since it
has become the custom of the drug
store joints to sell liquor to all corners,
they have done the same.
This class deserves sound lesson that
will make them more careful, and those
alleged drug stores that are in the bust
ness chiefly for the liquor trade, should
be put out of existence entirely and
their proprietors treated the same as
other 1aw-breakers.
Down the road leading into the near
future there seems to be something
waiting for these drug store jointists.
They may be able to tell what 1t is by
noting what has been happening in the
district court of Shawnee county dur
ing the past two weeks. And the re-
spectacle druggist will be glad to see
that sort of business-the sort that
brings a reproach to his calling
stamped out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

The Holton Recorder intimates that
it is incredulous concerning the ability
of the state board of railroad commits
sioners to get up an intelligent. equita-
BILE and business-like schedule of freight
tariffs. But the Recorder should re-
member that this is the age of miracles
in such things. No one would have be-
neved three months ago that the rail-
road board could be induced to take
action that would bring about the two
cent fare, but it did-with the proper
amount of urging. And besides the
board has a fair-sized fund to hire ex-
perts to help 1t get up a freight schedule.
Give the board its due.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

1t appears to the State Journal like a
perfectly fair proposition to allow the
railroads to charge penalty to pas
sengers who fail to purchase tickets
before entering trains. Under the old
law they have been allowed to charge
ten cents above the regular fare, for
which the conductor had to give re
ceipt. and which was refunded upon the
presentation of the receipt at some
ticket office. This was not a sufficient
incentive to force all people to pur-
chase tickets, and there is no doubt
that Justice to the railroads ought to
allow them to compel the public under
ordinary circumstances, to purchase
tickets. It saves work for the conduc-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

A 640-acre farm in Atchison county
for which he recently refused 800 all
acre is one of the assets of the editor
of the Leavenworth Times, but he is
not advocating any plan whereby real
estate may escape assessment and tax
alton. Why, then, should money in
the bank or mortgages be given a
chance to escape?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

Hasn't this smashing of idols gone
about far enough? Not long ago IL
was alleged that old Rameses the
Great was an arrant hypocrite, and
now George Washington is accused Of
being a liar. The iconoclast is liable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

In the meantime. what does Con-
gresham Calderhead think of the way
the Republican party-right here in
his own state, events acting towards
the railroads? 1t is not so very Ions
ago that Mr.. Calderhead was telling
us that the government had no more
right to fix railroad rates than it has
to fix the price of farm products.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.

IFTOfn lne NEW II OK FfeSs.1
The reason woman can fool men so
easily Is she has such success doing 1t
to herself. -zll5s-3
Riches may not get a man into heaven
after death, but poverty can get him
into hell during life.
A woman can have more enjoyment
worrying because her husbands fan
nels are either too heavy or too light
than any other way.
Some men are SO sharp at business
that they only put nickel in the col
lection plate keeping the rest as a dis
count for cash. -it-s'z 49,
When you hear a woman give a de-
licious sigh over a newspaper she has
been reading either about an elopemeut
or q divorce case. ztses ~ -s1iS@7s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

1t is very evident that Mr.. Coburn
would not succeed as a politician. He
not only turned over to the state the
fees that had accumulated in his de-
partment under the fertilizer invest1ga-
ton law, but he turned over the in
terst that had accumulated on the fund
I'm the meantime
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

Since Secretary Taft has gone over
to Japan and assured that country that
we don't want to fight, 1t is feared that
the secretary will lose the support Of
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

A New York dispatch says that the
salt trust and the independents have
Joined to boost the price of salt What
has Hutchinson to say about that?
Hutchinson. please stand up and ex-
1ofn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

Many women never suspect their
husbands Of carrying some other wo-
mans likeness around IN their pockets,
yet the men are frequently guilty.
Nearly every man likes to know that
he has in his pocket the picture of the
woman on the silver dollar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05
UNFAIR.

The enemies of Senator Long are not
cutie fair,to him. . They. accused him
of holding a conference with railroad
attorneys on the two-cent fare PROPOSE
lion and now that the railroads are go
ing<to grant the order of the board
these same people. are chargir-@ that it
was Longs influence with the railroads
that did the work. The criticisms are
,oanifestIv unfair Senator Long is en-
titled to better Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-05

Victor Murdoch, after seeing how
Governor Hoch has braced up, sug-
gests putting some of the ICONS
tive" senators on the Chautauqua cir
cult to see If it won't inspire them with
some grit to act in the interests of the
nAonle