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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
A FTNANCIER's VIEW.

The saneness of the opinions held
by Henry Clews, the New York bank
er whose weekly financial reviews are
widely quoted, has often been re-
marked upon. Mr.. Clews is one OF
the few Wall street bankers who
backed up President Roosevelt, and
who asserted that the decline in stocks
some time ago was caused by the poll
cies of the financial magnates them
selves rather than by President
Roosevelt's crusade to make them
obey the law.
Mr.. Clews' ideas regarding the jap
anese war scare are therefore inter-
esting. fortunately" he says, the
silly war talk with Japan is subsid-
ing. There never has been either
reason or feeling to Justify the flood
of nonsense which has been circulated
on this subject during the last few
weeks. If the truth were known. it Is
proba BILE that much of this war talk
has been inspired by international
politics. Both Russia and Germany
probably imagine that their interests
would be promoted by a conflict be-
tween Japan and the United States.
Often the wish is father to the
thought; and these nations would
gladly see Japan crippled in order
that they might secure a stronger
foothold in the Pacific; their ambi-
lions in this respect having been
gravely disappointed by the Japan
csc victory over Russia. Japan is
Britain's ally. and it would give these
two nations additional pleasure to see
that combination weakened or brok-
en-. for it is well known that England
could not be induced to take any part
in a war between Japan and the Unit
ed States"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

[From the Chicago News
The man who argues with a fool is
in the same boat.
Better an impeachment in the speech
than in the brain.
A woman never attempts to bake
bread unless she kneeds 1t.
Smacks are small vessels that fol-
low in the wake of courtships.
Too much cannot be said in favor
of the person who hasn't much to say.
A man with an empty head is better
off than the man who loses his head.
Opportunity waits for no man
therefore if you have an appointment
with II. don't fail to be Johnny-on-the-
spot. ---es-z --.e-
Perhaps the world may owe you d
living, but you will die of starvation If
you sit down and walt for it to call
and settle.
BLOOD will tell" quoted the Wise
Guy Perhaps" said the Simple Mug,
''but it generally neglects to speak
when it passes a poor relation"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
AN OKLAHOMA WOMAN.

Kate Barnard is candidate of both
| political parties for state commission
err of charities under the proposed
| Oklahoma constitutional constitution
whose trainers. among other things.
outstripped the older southern states
| in providing for compulsory education
and outstripped the older northern
states in writing into this permanent
political instrument a prohibition of
labor of children. For these-among
other things-Kate Barnard is re-
| sponsible, according to a writer in
Charities and The Commons
Armed with a letter from her gov
ernor and mayor, she set out to find
out what ''the great men and women"
as she calls them, the leaders in pub
lie welfare, were doing in older states.
Her letters were to the mayors of Chi
cago and st. Louis. but she made her
wants known to people of a different
stamp-factory inspectors. charity
workers. settlement leaders, nosing
about among slum conditions, and
visiting great industrial establishments
From all reports, her speeches in
Oklahoma took like wild fire.
I'm the mining towns especially"
says the writer referred to. "the people
turned out for her. At a country fair
she noticed a man listening attentive
ly; SO she talked at him. She told
him how she had seen a man. sticking
pigs in the stock yards of Chicago all
day-so many an hour-so many
hours-nothing else in his life. If that
man met you in an alley at night, and
mistaking you for a pig. did what
civilization had taught him to do. did
what civilization crowded out every
thing else in his life and held him to
doing. who was to blame? Or If he
met you in the pearly streets of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

LFrom the Atchison Globe
AS matter of fact. there are no very
big fish in small puddIes.
A fool is the greatest nuisance in this
world. And there are quite a few of
them.
Ever remark that in summer time peo-
pie who travel by railroad are nearly
all ugly?
A mule drawing a top buggy looks as
unnatural as the average picture on a
zine cover.
Some people say the Two Per Cent
now being sold in Kansas is gradually
getting stronger.
At boys school the vacation period
is necessary to repair the damage done
during the school period.
1t is easy enough to talk about a wo-
man with five or six children leaving
her husband, but where could she go?
After a man has eaten of a meal that
was prepared only for women he is still
hungry enough to go out and rob the
mouse traps.
1t is the easiest thing in the world
for a woman to fool a man but when a
man fools woman, the magazines print
pieces about it.
If an agent calls on a man, and sells
him set of books he does not need.
Is the agent not guilty of obtaining
money under false pretenses?
Calling yourself a fool every day is
like repeated doses of medicine: soon
loses its effectiveness. Self-discipline
calls for a graduated scale of punish
ment.
We never knew but one woman VIII
said her husband was too good for her.
But women who are too good for their
husbands are quite common.
Although the sight is a common one,
it is always pathetic. We refer to the
tiny, skinny arms that are displayed be-
low short sleeves every day on the
street.
There are some mighty fine children
Of worthless fathers in Atchison, but
have you noticed that where the moth
ers are worthless the children rarely get
over 1t?
Every day you will see cases like this:
A little, thin, sickly looking member Of
the family who worries constantly about
the welfare os some big, fat, unwrinkled
member.
An Atchison woman had her tenth
operation performed. Good heavens"
said neighbor who heard of it's ma
ture. that leaves nothing to her but the
frame and the hide"
The women are familiar with the way
in which men exaggerate fishing stories.
Well, if the women f1irt with the men,
the men Will exaggerate fishing stories.
Go to any farm where turkeys and
chickens are kept, and this fact VIII
impress you: A rooster acts lke
bachelor, whereas a turkey gobbler
acts like a married man. A turkey
eobbler always assists in taking care
Of the young.
The fashion of buttoning shirtwaists
down the back is working great hard
ship on the girls. 1t leaves them with
out a receptacle for gloves, handker-
chiefs, powder rags. and even beddin8,
which thew formerly carried in the
fronts of their shirt waists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

hereafter. and stuck you there. what
then? And she told how such things
were entering into the life of Okla
homa, how she had gone into mines,
'waded in mud and slush nearly two
feet deep and crawled on hands and
knees through narrow black passages
ana seen there the little children
down In those inky passages, forgotten
by the bright outside world, down,
down. down. where no grass grows,
no birds sing. and no flowers bloom
That was the sort of talk that counted
In this Oklahoma campaign
And as result. education is made
compulsory and child labor is pro-
hibited by the constitution of Okla
homa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

Eternal vigilance is the price of
good municipal government, apparent
ly, under our present system. From
one end of the country to the other
one hears OF graft in city affairs.
Down in Wichita Henry Allen has
been investigating the subject of con-
tracts for pLIIic works, and as a re-
suit he makes these few remarks edi-
torialIv in the Wichita Beacon:
mo people are as wise as the men
who make a business Of public con-
tracts. They get acquainted. with
every sort of public rogue, from the
jolly good fellow who has a place in
the city council and uses 1t to help
himself into subcontracts. down to the
fake engineer who gets to be a
supervisor on job, for the purpose of
letting the contractor bride him to
ignore specifications.
THE Beacon has within the past
few days talked with three expert
enced contractors who either hold or
have held Wichita contracts. and they
all say that the conditions surrounding
public work in Wichita are rotten
Towns and cities are all classified
by these experienced contractors. Some
are listed as dead square, and when
a contractor figures on a job he
doesn't have to add to his bid a per
cent for some one in the engineering
department, or in the city council.
Other towns are known to be crooked
in public works, and when a contrac-
tor takes a job he knows he's got to
stand for a graft. No contractor pays
a grating city official from his own
pocket He saves at the expense of
the quality of his work whatever he
has to pay the CRATER. No dishonest
engineer ever requires honest work of
a contractor. When city engineer
and a contractor get together it's a
pair Of them, and they are in league
to rob the city. Better a thousand
times let a contractor do his work
with no supervision whatever than
place g. grating engineer over him.
In one case the city only suffers the
expense of taking care of one rogue.
When the engineer stands in. the city
pays for two rogues, and the result
is shown in imperfect public work,
which makes itself manifest year or
two after it is completed, in bad sew
ers. rickety bridges, rotten pavement,
and half built sidewalks"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

From the FnlAdOSIpnld AeCOro.J
One woman can always annoy an
other by saying she is well preserved.
The rhinoceros has a horn. but that
doesn't necessarily imply that he goes
off on a toot.
One man in a thousand feels that
he is appreciated, and that man is
really overestimated.
1t is said that wealth doesn't bring
happiness. but most of us are willing
to try the experiment.
After all. there isn't a whole lot OF
difference between entering upon
career and getting job.
Mrs. Dashaway-'I Just love every
thing that comes from France" Mrs
Newrich-"So do I, especially French
fried potatoes"
First Mosquito--"It's terrible the
way people SANDER us" Second Mos
quito-"Yes; we must get together
and administer singing rebuke.
Blobbs-"The Hindoos have the
proper idea in suppressing filtration"
Slobbs-'tWhat's that?" Blobbs-
They drown all the girls when they
are babies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If We have a war with Japan, will
we quit using Japanese lanterns on
our lawns?
y Y x
You will note that the fly doesn't
need any incubator to help hatch its
eggs.
Although 1t loafed a great deal
earlier, summer appears to be work
ing overtime on the job now
n u u
Has this drop in the price of cab
bage any conn eotion with the govern
ment's prosecution of the tobacco
trust?
y 4
You don't need to caution a woman
to look before she leaps, If there is a
mirror handy. She will look without
being cautioned. - pa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

South Carolina paper makes this ex-
PLANTATION: "a Kansas newspaper com
plains because South Carolina will have
delegate in the Republican national
convention for every 142 votes, while
Kansas would have 1,4S0 delegates if
the same rule held for Kansas. How
ever, time was when the average South
Carolina. Republican was worth 81, 300
at auction. and 1T is on this proportion
Of values to Kansas Republicans that
representation in their national conven-
ton is now based"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
Failed no BLOSSOM.
HUNOR or THE DAY

After asking a great many questions OF
a lady, a barrister felt that some apology
was necessary, 50 he remarked: II really
questions?'
mot at an answered the lady quietly.
ST am used to 1t. I have a six-year-oid
on."-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Doctors never bleed people now. do
'9Great Scott. mani did you never have
one of them send you a billT'-Baltimoro
American.
First Mosquito-Don't you think these
human beings are too numerous?
Second ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS so; some
effort ought to be made to exterminat@
them. Life.
What profession does your son intend
to follow, after he gets out OF college7"
asked the visitor of Farmer Kornkob.
Il don't think he'll follow any" replied
down NJ smoke cigarettes and let them all
go by him. "-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Does your wife ever go through your
You're lucky"
cause She draws my pay"-cleveland
Leader.
Father said the small boy, what is
scientist?''
"A scientist, my son. is man who
that you can't recognize them. wash
ington Star.
dent"
..Ah. his is a very rare ailment"
"Indeed7''
Yes; he is troubled with improving
go."-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The exiied Bourbons forgot nothing
and learned nothing
1t was not so with the insurance kings.
They forgot everything and learned a
heap Louisville Courier-Journal
Drunk again. said a Scottish magis-
trate to the prisoner before him. Five
shillings or seven days
Och. shure," said the prisoner, who
was an Irish woman. Il have only two
shillings in the wordr'
Ah, weel' returned the bailie we
maun list gang to prison II We hadna
got drunk Wi your money yc = I'd hae
nao quite enough TO pay the Tit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
A Newspaper Story.

when you are abroad this sum-
mer,' said a journalist you will find
in your English newspaper that every
Geographic report is credited to Reu-
ter's Agency. Reuter- supplies all the
Geographic news over there, as the AS
sociate Press supplies it over here.
Now listen to this story.
Werner Won SiemenS, a German
electrical engineer, was commissioned
in 1850 to lay the first telegraph line
between Verviers and Cologne. While
he was laying this cable, a pretty wo-
man came to him and besought him to
desist. The telegraph, she said, with
tears In her fine eyes, would ruin her
husbands business and reduce him to
penury. His business was the conduct
of huge and successful pigeon post
between Brussels and Aix-la- Chapelle
"Siemens advised the young woman's
husband to convert his pigeons into
pie, and to go to London and start
news agency there. He would give him,
he said, valuable introductions.
THE man went to London and start
ed a news agency. His name was
Reuter-. In a few short years, go sue
cessful was his new line of work, he
had become a baron and millionaire.
80, when you see Reuters name
dozen times IN every English newspa-
per, think of his ruined pigeon post,
and take to heart the lesson that new
inventions do not harm, but help, those
who have intelligence, industry, and a
pretty wife,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
FULL LEASED wTRE RFPORT
OF TTTE ASSGT STED PRES
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the suTnnrrr may have
the paper mailed regularly zach dnY
~ my address Mt the rate Of ten cents
n week Or thirty cents u mOr1th ;s'y
mail only. Address changed as often
ms desired. White out Of town Tho
State Journal will be 70 You like y
daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested ON
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping cxpr &c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
FROM JOE TO BENT.

E Topeka, Kansas, July 10, 1901
3 Dear Rent-Age enriches and melloWs
Old Boys with the utmost pleasure and
thank you for writing it. I hope you
will hang long on the tree and drop into
our baskets more fruit like that You
own. 1t is my weakness and Derverslty,
That run to verse: am sorry Tor tnls
harmless fad. but I cannot help it
TO BENT MURDOCH.
The night broods over the ocean,
And somber the gloom on the shore;
We hear the temDeSts' cOmmot1on,
And wait for the sound of an oar
Our feet are sprayed by the surges;
In comes the faint sob or the sea-
That signs the saddest of dirges
And sounding for you and me.
We've been a soldier and rover,
Across all the Nations wide bounds:
We've played the role Of a lover,
And marched with the guard on Its
rounds:
We've drank the cup overflowing.
OF the ruddieSt brand of the wine:
We've been where the gunners were now
A sW'ath through the thick of the line
No tabled drink you can mention,
New life in our veins can restore:
Nor bounty, riches nor pension,
Give back youths ambitions once more.
We wait the call of the Giver,
With eyes that are shorn of their light
And watch all the sounds on the river
For boat that will soon be in sight.
How fast is time in its flying
HOW short are the joys that we share;
The time soon comes to be dying
And answer our names over there
Yours very truly,
JOSEPH G. WATERS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press

From the New York Press,
The interesting thing about lie is
guessing if anybody will be fool
enough to believe it.
A widow is always willing to learn,
specially If she has to forget what she
already knows to do 1t.
A disagreed BILE thing about marry
ing a rich wife is the way she could
dock your pay for staying out late
nights
When a man can't tell whether a
woman's hat is a new-fangled baby
carriage or a fancy lamp shade she
knows it is a success.
The interesting thing to woman
about being in a sleeping car is it is
50 perfectly respectable, but would be
a scandal anywhere else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
FRON OTHER PENS
THE BILLBOARD NUISANCE.


There is not q street, nor public
place, nor a hillside. nor park neigh
borhood, nor a residence street. nor a
business street in Cincinnati exempt
from the nuisance. From the win
dows of every school house in Cincin-
natl the children can see the hideous-
ness and the indecencies. of the bill
board. No church can dismiss Its
congregation but the billboard Will
stare the congregation in the face as
it leaves the portals of the church.
The nuisance IS everywhere in all Its
completeness. The bil1boarder, I'M
taxed and unrestrained, is adding TO
the nuisance everywhere and every day
and if the Cincinnatian takes to the
hilltops or the suburbs the billboard is
with him continuously. 1t is not alto
gether creditable to Cincinnati-cen-
ter of art and of music and of culture!
VIII Cincinnati allow the nuisance to
be continued and increased ?-Cincin-
natl Commercial Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
GETTING IN LINE.

John Temple Graves, writing in the
Atlanta Georgian, says: The convic-
ton deepens that william ]. Bryan is
the talIest moral figure that American
craftsmanship has produced since
George Washington" We have
deepening suspicion that Mr.. Graves
has reasons for believing it to be high
time for him to crawl back into the
band wagon.-Chicago Record-Her-
aid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
The Moving Habit.

Eyes, we are going to move to escape
house cleaning"
"And so are we. If must confess 1t
myself, I think 1t will take the new
tenants two weeks to get rid Of all the
rubbish we are leaving behind
1.-The same here. Our house will need
a mop and soap from cellar to roof. BY
the way, where are YOU going?"
mo. 15 L street"
What? Why, that is where we are
leaving
'Well, 1 declare! Where are you go
inS?"
mo. II B street."
why, that's where we are leaving"
"Phew!"
Great Scotti"-Tit-Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

Now while we have plenty of time,
why not invent the name of the man
who will run the airship? And let US
hope that a better job will be done
than was accomplished by the man
who discovered chauffeur"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

Ella Wheeler Wilcox is discussing
the enforcement of the pure food law,
from which it may be presumed that
Ella wants her milk and prunes to be
the real thing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

Having reformed a number OF 9TH
or things in Wichita that needed re-
forming, Henry Allen is now turning
the electric light on the public con-
tract business down there. and the
people are learning a few interesting
facts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

what has wealth done for your in
quired the cynical person.
WELL answered Mr.. Dustin Stax. 1T
has given me certain advantages. BY own
ing a considerable amount OF coed dtvi-
dend paying stock. have been enabled to
save most Of my salary as a DIRECTOR
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

\ It's a good thing Attorney General
jackson fled his questions in writing.
Otherwise the Standard Oil company
probably would not have the least IDEA
what are the answers, judging from
the recent evidence of Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter. But If 1t has an opportunity to
study up beforehand 1t ought to be able
to pass a fairly creditable examination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
shooting the bridesmaids.

An interesting innovation was made
at a recent wedding at Tunbridge Wells.
In place OF the usual gifts of jewelry,
the bridegroom presented each of the
bridesmaids with a pair of dainty
shoes, mounted with silver, the idea
being that there is as much good luck
in new shoes as in old boots.-London
Daily Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
COSTLY TNDIuGENCE.

In the latest ''unwritten law" trial
in Virginia it turns out that the de-
PENDANT was a victim of delirium
tremens from the excessive use of
alcoholic liquor, and that If he had
paid as much attention to the care of
his daughter as he did to the fndul-
gence of his appetite the murder
could not have happened.-New Bed
ford Evening Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

Canada has population of $780,
900, but the statistics fail to show how
large a per cent of 1t emigrated from
the United States between two days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

Mr.. Fairbanks will be famous even
though he may never become presi-
dent. That rescue of a wyoming
waitress from a watery grave has
made his reputation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

1t is difficult to go against the
Bible, but if Prosecutor Heney con-
victs Glass, Calhoun and the other
"men higher up" in the San Fran
cisco graft cases. he may disprove
that 1t is more blessed to give than to
receive, when 1t comes to brides.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

1t will occasion no great surprise that
rival wives of the recent emperor of
Korea are making trouble. That's what
the emperor gets for having more than
nno xx-ffa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

The recent emperor of Korea rejoices
IN the name of Hau Hang. That
sounds suspiciously like this German
murderer and what is going 20 happen
20 him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

The girl whom Senator Beveridge
will marry is rich. There is no law
against a United States senator engag-
ing in this sort of a get-rich-quick
game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

Recently 1t was pointed out in these
columns that the south has tremend
GUS advantage over the north in the Re
publican national convention. consider
ang the number OF votes cast. Now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24

The salaries paid the public school
teachers of this country aggregate
about 200 million dollars, or one-seventh
of the nations drink bill What lot
Of money education costs,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-24
RUILD ~ ATLANTIC FLEET?

1t will not take the alarmists long
to perceive the subtitle craft involved
in getting UP a Japanese war scare to
draw our battleships to the Pacific
side of the continent, in order that
some European foe may ravage the
Inquirer.