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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

rFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t doesn't pay to mortgage your op-
portunities.
The younger a man is the more h6
thinks he knows about women.
The eleventh commandment might
very we'll be Mind your own bust
ness"
A new broom sweeps clean. but field
glasses are better for sweeping the
horizon
The grass widow isn't the one who
sees that her husbands grave is kept
green.
There are lots of things that seem
too good to be true; tombstone in
scriptions, for instance.
We occasionally hear of pearls be-
ing found in oysters, but never at
church supper.
Our lines may be said to be cast in
pleasant places when we fish for COM
pliments and catch one.
wigg-'Did you ever cathl Long
bow telling the truth 2" Wagg-"Only
once, and then he tried to lie out
of it."
Long engagements have one ad-
vantage" says the Cynical Bachelor.
"The longer a man is engaged the less
time he has to be married"
Muggins-'Lucky at cards, unlucky
in love, you know" Buggins-"I
don't know why. In either case it's
largely a question of holding hands,"
Blobbs-"A man convinced against
his will is of the same opinion still"
Slobbs-"How about a woman con-
WINGED against her will? Blobbs-
There never was such a thing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
HYHAWEER JOTS

Here is one of the bright remarks
from the Great Bend Tribune: 1.-THE
open season on fathers pocketbook
commences Saturday and lasts until
December 81"
One hundred and twenty-five dol
lars an acre has been offered for a
quarter section farm mile from Hol-
ton. The place has no residence on
IL but has barns and sheds.
H. H. Cowan, of Ottawa, has in his
possession six feet of an old grapevine
which is five inches thick at each end
1t has but few cracks in it and is
nearly as solid as a tree trunk.
Walter S. Jones of Lebo has dis
covered that there are certain handi-
caps to perfect enjoyment even in the
life of a rich Kansas farmer. He has
just been sued for $4,000 for alleged
breach of promise.
Conner Davies wants the Cloud coun-
ty grand jury to investigate the shoe
polishing industry in Concordia. AL
though Mr.. Davies has a wooden leg
and wears only one shoe, he has to
pay full price for "shine."
Evangelist Biederwolf made 607 con-
versions in Smith Center. He expects
TO return to Kansas in the spring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

L
Political conventions seldom go un-
bossed.
Only stupid woman doesn't know
when to act stupid.
Sometimes the man who was born
a fool gets bravely over it.
Too many people feather their nests
with borrowed plumes.
Every woman thinks she has a right
to make a fool of some man.
How it does irritate a woman to be
outalked by one of her own sex!
The worm isn't the only thing that
will turn; even a hair will turn gray.
Married women should let their
husbands be right once in a while
just for a change.
1t doesn't take the average man
long to throw of the greatness that is
thrust upon him.
Your enemies are seldom as black
as you paint them or your friends as
white as they appear to be.
This earth is inhabited mostly by
people who imagine they were in
tended to do something better than
their present vocation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
Growth of the World.

In a little more than 100 years, ac-
cording to government figures, the pop
ulation of the world has grown from
$40, 100000 to 1,600,00O,O00, an increase of
$50 per cent. In other wods,
there were in the world in 1900 only
$40, 100000 Of persons, and in 106 years,
the increase has been far swifter than
been added 100000, 900.
The total commerce of the world in
1900 was about one and a half billions
of dollars; in 1900 it was more than
twenty billions of dollars. Other fig
ures show that in wealth and the
growth of various Industrial agencies
the increase has ben far swifter than
that Of population.
The overpopulation of the world is
not a present menace to the thinkers of
today. but the thinkers of a period
when there were less than half as many
people in the world as there are now
seriously debated the irnminence of the
catastrophe that the overcrowding of
the earth would produce.-Boston
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

there was that little girl from Ken
Behind the curtains Junior growled.
'Pifie-paffie." but Tressie put her fing-
fingers and smiled at her.
Junior Mason is in love with Tres
sie," Miss Angela stated, land you
know it. Marion. You had better let
him marry her, and then she Will be
out of the running"
Mrs. Amesbury stared at her sister
in-law haughtily. IT don't know what
you ay1 mean, A 1 as, she said; ,s
mince words. "You know you had al
ways been the belle of the country
club until Tressie Stuart came. and
you don't like to abdicate to youth and
beauty"
Mrs. Amesbury Strengthened up In
her chair and glared at the sere Miss
Angela
you are insufferable, Angela" she
began, and then as the three missing
men appeared in the doorway. she
swept toward them. I'VE were just
talking" she misstated. sweetly. "of
what we should have for dinner. Oys-
with orange salad. and anything else
you may suggest"
Behind the curtain Tressie and Jun
ior were arguing.
II am going to announce 1t at once"
Junior insisted.
But" Tressie began.
There are no butts" Junior stated,
IN mly, land there are a dozen reasons
why I should tell them that we are en-
gagged"
And Just then Mrs. Amesbury discov-
cred them.
why. Tressie Stuart" she cried, as
she opened the curtains, how long
have you been here?"
''Oh, half hour" Tressie consider
ed haven't we, Junior?''
Long enough for me to propose to
Tressie," Junior said, making the as
founding statement, calmly.
And she has said 'yes,' Junior went
on, II know you will congratulate us,
Mrs. Amesbury@"
And then with last fling Mrs. Ames-
bury gave it up.
my dear" she said, bitingly, as she
kissed the reluctant Thessie, who
would have dreamed that it was poor
little you that Junior really cared for"
Copyrighted, 1907, by M. NJ. Cunning
ham.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
ACTION WAS NEEDED,

| Nothing but unbounded applause
should be showered by the people OF
| Kansas on the members of the board
| of railroad commissioners for the ac-
ton taken by them which will result,
undoubtedly, in compelling the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway company to op-
crate something like an adequate pas
senger service on many of its branch
| lines in the state.
Under usual conditions in times
past the passenger service on most or
the many lines operated by the COM
pany in Kansas has been anything but
satisfactory. But the recent action of
the company in disseminating it's pas
senger service entirely on several of
its branches and making it well nigh
worthless on others, has created a
condition which is intolerable to the
people along these lines and the peo-
pie of the entire state for that matter.
Drastic to a degree is the action
proposed by the railroad commission
ers in giving authority to it's attorney,
If in his opinion the plan is necessary,
to begin proceedings to revoke the
charter of the company which permits
it to do business in this state. Such
an action. if successfully prosecuted,
ceiver for the branches of the road
within the state and their ultimate
sale to some railroad company that
will operate them properly. This al
tentative will ont be used except as i
last resort.
But drastic though the action of the
board of railroad commissioners has
been, it was needed. There is hard
ly a branch of the Missouri Pacific
in Kansas which does not tap a rich
agricultural territory that furnishes as
much freight as the road can possibly
handle. Because of such conditions
the people along its lines, those who
furnish this freight, are entitled to
some measure of satisfactory pas
senger service. 1t is we'll within the
truth to say that they never have re-
ceived such a service. And now many
of them are getting none at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
CONGRESSIONAL EFFORT.

The currency. of course, must have atten-
ton:
The trusts will surely come in for a
knock;
The tariff may receive a passing mention,
Fen though this give the steering com.
q shock.
And then there's governmental supervis-
ion
To stop the corporations getting gay
By legally providing for elision.
OF stocks for which the foxy do not pay
The railroads will be told they must get
better,
Or, they; too. may revised be by their
Things must be fixed so creditor and
Can reach truce from which no panic
ponds.
Ship subsidy may bob up as subvention-
No mater, SO 1t passes out the dough;
sion
Arrangement which will make the SUR
plus go.
But be they these or those things or some
others,
Which day and night the Congressman
e'er haunt,
they could just cut loose. and have
Why, pork in plenty is really what
they'd want.
-IndianapOlis News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
.JOVRN\E, ENTRIES

Many fat pocket books carried by
women contain nothing but samples.
Paradoxical though it may be the
worst liar is often the best one.
Because a man is broke that is no
reason why he should go to pieces.
y
Few ball games are enjoyable when
the umpire is absolutely fair.
e.
good many folks subject them
selves to catching cold when they try
to put the Ounce caps on others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

Lots of other things follow the stars
and stripes besides freedom. Porto
Ricans have been happy for century
without even knowing there was such
a thing in existence as beer. A
brewery in this country has decided
on plans for cultivating their tastes
for it. 1t intends to build a brewery
at San Juan for the purpose of in
Producing to our wards the pleasures
of a bout with beer and that next day
feeling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
Bourke Cochran, the

w. Bourke Cochran, the fiery
Democratic orator from New York
state and who, heretofore, has always
been found hand in glove with west
ed interests, is out with a declaration
that the United States is ruled by five
plutocrats. He names them as Rookie
Teller. Morgan, Hartman, Hill and
Armour. This is certainly a powerful
quintet but they can hardly be said
to rule the government, even If
they 90 have a corner on most of the
necessary activities within the con-
fines of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

John P. Rogers, the city engineer,
As showing the proper spirit, when he
insists that the gas company, the tele-
phone companies and the electric
light company, be given no more per-
mits to tear up the streets until the
pavements already damaged by them
are properly repaired. Mr.. Rogers is
making excellent record in all
things pertaining to the conduct of
the city engineers office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

Senator Ben Tillman's plan, If prac-
ticable, to cut off government LIQUOR
licenses in prohibition states, is the
most important step in the interests
Of prohibition that has been taken for
some time. If such a step were taken
and the government agents were ac-
tive in prosecuting liquor sales by
persons without government licenses
well it would not be long before
prohibition in Kansas existed in fact
es well as in name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

Adventures will now flock to South
Africa. Or. Carl Peters, an explorer,
declares he has found the land Of
Ophir where Solomon and David got
such untold quantities of gold ana
precious stones and other invalua BILE
things a thousand years before the
time of Christ. He locates it in Fam
besi1and in South Africa. This field
will have its advantages to fortune
hunters over the Klondike. They
will have no trouble keeping warm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.1

You surprise girl not by kissing
her, but the way you do 1t.
Some men are so rich they can ar
ford to pay alimony as we'll as run al,
automobile.
ing big feet she doesn't really expect
you to believe her.
There Is hardly anything a man will
spend more money on than trying 10
get something for nothing
You can tell a girl who was horn
red-headed by the way she never haa
to go to the drug store to keep It I'm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

Carr w. Taylor sees some hand
writing on the WALL which others are
gazing at with more anxiety Mr..
Taylor thinks that If the governor
calls a special session to enact pri-
mary legislation it will mean that the
states executive will be a candidate
for the United States senate Is this
Handwriting visible to Senator
Long? If so his Christmas will not be
as merry as 1t would if things were
otherwise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

A convenient memory that can be
lost at will is not a good thing to BE-
possessed of as is evidenced by the
sentence of a st. Louis man to prison
for two years because he could not
remember" when he was asked on the
witness stand concerning some shady
transactions. 1t was subsequently
proved that he told an untruth when
he said he couldn't remember. so he
went to prison for perjury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

John D. Rockefeller is reported to
be retrenching in the way of personal
expenses. He has ordered the sale Of
his most expensive automobile. When
the richest man in the world begins
to look after his pin money there
must be something off color with the
signs of the times. Maybe the panic
gave John D. such a whack that he is
neryo,,s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

DR.. Lyman Abbott, the noted pre-
late and editor of the Outlook is
credited with defending assassination
In Russia as the only ~zy to meet the
terrorism of the government. This
idea is held by a lot Of folks who are
not brave enough to express it.
Assassination is ever abhorrent to
Americans because they have political
liberty but in a place like Russia there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
No Hold Carriers in Japan.

There are no bod carriers in Jap
an" said William E. Morse, of San
Francisco, at the Utopia. THE native
builders have a method of transport
ing mortar which makes it seem more
like play than work-to the onlooker.
The mortar is mixed in a pile in the
street. One man makes this UP into
balls of about six pounds EACH which
he losses to the man who stands on a
ladder midway between the roof and
the ground The man catches the
ball and losses it up to the man who
roScaean
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

Mrs. Charles ]. Holman, mother of
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. does not seem to
be able to keep out of the limelight.
Her latest bid for notoriety is found
in the announcement that she is to
be the godmother of the largest baby
ever born in Pittsburg, Pa. This
youngster weighed over 16 pounds.
She is to be weighted additionally
with the name of Evelyn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

"They named the baby after Uncle
Nebuchadnezzar."
money!"
"Do you s'pose they like the name? 2"
louisville Courier-Journal.
What can you see in that fellow?"
"Oh! 1 like him"
Hes neither witty. wealthy nor
wise.'
mo; but he never has any troubles
to tell me."-Washington Herald.
clearinghouse Keeper-You may
bring me Just one-half the usual
amount of meat until further notice.
Butcher-Indeed! Have any OF
your boarders left?
clearinghouse Keeper-No; but
the three biggest eaters. have fallen in
love.-New York Mail.
Mrs. Harretson-Is Mrs. Witherby a
good bridge player? Mrs. Catterson-
The best one in our church.-Life.
The Motorist-Has your horse baked.
old man? The Milkman-Course! Ais
the matter is his carburetor exploded
his durn magnetic causin' the crank
shaft tew blow out. two cylinders an
puncturin' the fore tires, thereby puttln
the for ard speed-lever out Nv business!
Puck.
what is it that you don't like about
the Johnson girls?" We'll. you see' one
is a fine singer and the other is an ex-
cellent cook IT fail to see why
''Wait The one who can cook thinks
she can sing, and the one who can sing
PERSISTS in cooking."-Cleveland Leader.
Progress-"My wife knew nothing
of housekeeping to begin with, but
she's learning fast" That's en-
couraging." "Oh. she's a bright lit
tie woman, If 1 do say 1t. 1t has taken
only two cooks to teach her to keep
away from the kitchen. and l sup
pose that's at least half the battle. =
Puck.
Everything in this world is useful
in some way" said the serenely philo-
sophical person. ar,
Won don't know what else to do with
something, you can give 1t to some
body for Christmas" shington
Star.
"Are we aIone?" asked one of the
villains of the piece of his brother
conspirator. mo. Guv'nor," came
voice from the gallery, but you Will
he Tomorrow niEht."-LOndOn Taller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

Many will be found to agree with
the Chicago physician who insists that
there is little hope to improve a man
who commits a crime after he is
thirty years old, but few will agree
with him that all such criminals
should be segregated to the extent of
consignment in the cemetery. That's
the Chinese way of doing things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

1t would be rather inconvenient to
lug around that one hundred and
ninety-four tons of gold that has como
into this country from Europe during
the past sixty days. But there is
hardly a chap that would not make
the effort If he had the chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

If the city is losing money by rea-
son of the existence and maintenance
of the Auditorium, it is one of the
losses that the town can best afford. for
1t is an institution of the utmost i'm
portance to the benefit and enjoyment
of the people of the entire COM
fnurffy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

Encouraging news comes from
scientific gentlemen to the effect that
a proper chemical analysis will be
able to show whether or not there is
more air than there should be in the
natural gas. The gas company says
there is not. Perhaps the tests will
show just what there is in the gas
pipes in addition to gas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
Pedigree of ssTote."

'"Tote' is good English, on higher
authority than that it is a colloquial-
ism which has become engrafted into
our language. 1t is Anglo-Saxon to
the core as, says Bosworth's Anglo
Saxon dictionary, London, edition of
1852. thus: Tote from Totian, to lift
up, to carry in the hands or upon the
person in the same sense as the Lat
in-tollo-tollere." Tote is not known
except among English descended peo-.
pie, and is unquestionably correct. al
though now obsolete to great extent.
New Orleans Picayune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

An uncle of w. E. Corey declares
that Pittsburg, Pa, is divorce crazy.
A good many people have the idea
that it is in the same condition in
other WAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
JOIN IN THE CHORUS.
APPROACHES THE LIMIT.

Oklahoma can do good many fool
things without causing more than a
laugh, but If the report that Governor
Haskelrs new board has dismissed the
heads of the several educational insti-
tutions Of the state because they are
Republicans and has substituted Demo-
Gratis because they are Democrats, his
administration will soon find itself in
deep water. That was something that
was not done even by the Populists in
Kansas, except in the case of the ag-
ricultural college.-Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
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
ganization for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole p'ir-
bose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

That Mr.. Roosevelt was fired with
enthusiasm and patriotic joy as he
watched the sailing away of our in
vincible armada is evidenced by the
fact that he pronounced everything
s'bully"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

That fall Of snow was just the right
sort of a blanket for the wheat crop.
Therefore, JOY reigns among the argi-
culturists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

Score another one for New York.
1t is the first place where a murder
and suicide have occurred in an auto
mobile cab
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

From the sore and surly moods in
dulged in by many Christmas shop
pers it is evident that Christmas tide
IS anything but a merry time for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19

is only one way to fight ror liberty and
that is in the same way pursued by
the government in suppressing it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-19
KANSAS COMNENT
WHY Use FoRCE2


| FOR years the Standard Oil COM
| pany, through its most estfmable and
agreeable agents, the Jennings Ad-
umns Of the Gazette TaiJ to proclaim The the
virtues OF Mica axle grease, paraffi1
candies and oil stoves, has been send
Ing box of candles to this office
These candles have typif1ed light, and
the high-browed opinfon-mo1ders
about the Gazette office have lit up
the candles and have burned the free
n1onlsht oil reading Miss Tarbelrs
justly celebrated and popular history
OF standard Oil. Obviously other edi-
tors have done the same thing. The
result has been some way different
rom mat expected by the Standard.
SO this year the Standard has shut off
tne hight No candles have come. The
editorial high-brows from Maine to
N Mania Will have to read what Miss
IarDell says and what other econ
omists say and what the court and
the jury say, by the light of their own
electric. But instead of their candles,
the standard this year, through its
estlmaDle and agreeable representa-
tives, above mentioned and aforesaid,
is sending out a handsome glass jar
OF perfumed vaseline-vaseline that
greases the weary brow of care, vase
line that smooths wrinkles, vaseline
the skin food of the goddesses, vase
line the long neglected by-product Of
the great company in which Mr.. Vice
president Archbold dipped his faci1e
ing the company for the Saturday
Evening Post. 1t is eminently fitting
and entirely proper that the Standard
should send out vaseline instead OF
light. 1t is highly-if not gorgeously
appropriate that the Standard
sh ould recognize that Jordan is a hard
road to travel. and begin the new
year with lawsuits against it in half
the American states, with a federal
fine of 100000 hanging over it, by
sending out a jar of vaseline rather
than a torch of light as the emblem
and symbol of peace.
That the Standard has changed it's
policy is evident in a thousand ways.
Therefore-all hail vaseline-that
shall be king Observation-Disclosures
Gazette.
JOIN IN THE CHORUS
The Kansas City Star points the f1ng-
er at Judge Wallace, insinuating that
the learned and singularly able jurist
is giving the town lot of advertising
that won't do her any good The Star
should remember that Kansas City Is
not alone in her misery. Despairing
walls are rising from most of the cities
where wickedness has been rampant,
and the devil has walked up and down
the earth seeking whom he might de-
YOUR. New York has no Wallace but
her sufferings are fully as great as
Kansas City's. So let us join in sing
ing the Draw aud anthem: "Scots who
hae WI Wallace bled!"-Emporia Ga
zette.