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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
THE CROPS WILL GROW.

One good feature Of the life of the
United States is that politics can not
keep the crops from growing. Politi-
clans may crate and demagogues may
rant; corruptionists may bride and
weaklings receive, but the sun shines,
the rain comes and the crops grow
and ripen just the same. Occasionally
the farmer may neglect his farm in
order that he may take a hand in poll
tics, but in the main the men who till
the soil and tend the crops are not to
be drawn from their work by the noise
and blare of political enthusiasts.
What is more, the earth. and Mother
Nature do not suspend their functions
because the country is rent and torn
by the various political organizations
that come so often before the public.
1t is well that this is so. There is
altogether too much, no doubt. In
some form or other it is always pres
ent. Thou hast all seasons for thine
own, O-Politics," to change the
poets words a little. In winter the
politicians and officeseekers, as well as
some who do not belong to either
class, are laying their plans, and in
summer they are doing the active
work. And is it not great blessing
for the people and for the country
that the farmers do not have to quit
their work to run the politics of the
country? And is it not a much greater
blessing that the plants themselves do
| not have to stop growing and ripening
| until It is known who is elected? If
| they did there would be more years of
| famine in this country than there were
In Old Pharaoh's kingdom in the times
SO long gone by.
| And so, whether the next president
Is a Democrat or Republican,
whether 1t is Bryan or Taft. there is
| good reason to hold the hope and faith
| that Nature will not change her ways;
that the earth will produce fruits and
| crops in their proper season and that
in spite of the discussions and bitter
ness, the hurr-- and worry and turmoil
of the political world there will con-
tinue to be seed to the sower and
bread to the eater" throughout the
land. That much we have to BIZ
| thankful for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
HUA0R or THE Day

II hear Written. the author. has drop
ped pea the phi uss essay. and I: as.
startiinsT Not at ali: It 4. = treats.
on the care of the scalp."-Baltimore
Women are beginning to use the type
writer more in their personal correspond
writing criss-cross r'-Louisviile Courier
Journal.
,,.B BlY1nstcn 4 suffering ~ ring from .hsym:.
Fl. doctor 1 Calls It Outoa Phi pR
Press.
Don't you ever get homesick. cap
tain?" asked the passenger on the
ocean liner. mo; I'm never home
long enough" replied the captain
Exchange.
Yes. the Indian was weak renegade.
I'VE call him statisticsl" sneered the
Because thsrs the oiS s away spat Upon
almost anything out q himI"-PucS.
Just this way. SIR" said the courteous
clerk in the railroad ticket office LET me
show you some summer guides entitled
with the modest income shook his head.
They don't interest me-" he sighed.
| nat want TO know Is How to CO. ~
Chicago Daily News.
How did you get here. old manr'
| I'm my airship."
| Road Rood?"
'Cloudy."-Life.
| Recruit-P1ease, Sergeant, I've got a
| splinter in my and
| Sergeant-Instructor-w yer been do
in? Stricken yer 'ead?-Punch.
In Decentralization is not next to
godlinesE rs next to impossible.-The
News
IF were you" said the old bachelor
to the benedict, 'Td either rule or know
| why"
WELL" was the reply, "as I already
know why. suppose that's half the bat
tle."-Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
.AYHAWKER JOTS

There's an old fashioned reporter
working in Fort Scott who speaks of
the city prison as the "calaboose.''
An Atchison county assessor asked
a woman the usual question, Were
you born in the United States?" mo,
sir,'' she replied. me and my hus-
band was both born in Missouri"
On exhibition at a Newton grocery
store is a bunch, or cluster, of apples
which is something of curiosity.
There are nine of them, all of good
size, on one small stem. They are so
close together that they touch.
Says the Emporia Gazette, within
which Walt Mason Is wont to ramble:
"And 1t has come to pass that the
Newton nsan-Republican has added
real poet to it's staff" Surely this
can not be jealousy. :.
Manhattan is feeling extremely I'M
easy, remarks the Hutchinson News,
and with good reason because Mr.. AL
mutt, who built the famous Salinas
one-car street railway. is threatening
to do the same thing to Manhattan.
A bad man with a butcher knife
tried to clean up the village of Hope
and clean out the merry villagers.
The Emporia Gazette says that when
the town marshal was done with him
he was carrying most of his person in
sling.
Besides the above" says the Coats
SOuI ant, uCSCIlOihS tiO odhidSC AC-
sulting from a thunder storm, there
was considerable damage to the wheat
that was standing by the wind" How
careless Of the wheat to be in such a
position!
The proprietor Of a natatorium at
Salina finds all sorts of things includ-
ing diamond rings at the bottom of
the pool whenever he cleans 1t out,
but he is unfortunate in having claim
ants for everything valuable that he
comes across.
Kansas is dependable for having a
queer happening with regularity. The
Frankfort Index furnishes the latest
1t gives formal notice that the people
will have to quit subscribing for it, as
| the facilities of the office are not equal
| to supplying an increased demand.
Thomas Spriggs of Lyon celebrated
| his seventy-fourth birthday July 4
And there's something peculiar about
Mr. Spriggs' birth. He was born in
March, but not in the month of March
lin March, England. Mr.. Spriggs Is
| accused of having been getting of thit
joke at least once a year for the last
| seventy years.
| "A w. Logan. Candidate for State
| Senator and Family" Is the underline
| for a group picture in the Public Opin.
i ion of Usage City. This causes Charley
| Blakesley's nimble wit to remark
"And it is evident that his candidacy
| for a family has been successful, whai
ever may be the result of his race fol
state senator"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News. ]

IFrom the Chicago News.1
This is the open season for shooting
the chutes.
What q lot of discouraged looking
people one meets!
The boat rocker on the sea Of matri-
mony deserves his fate.
Success is apt to come to those who
count every cent and make every cent
count.
Many an honest man might be
otherwise IL an opportunity worth
while knocked at his door.
Christian Science will not always en-
able a man to generate q smile when
any one steps on hi spet corn.
If people were credited with their
good Intentions the recording angel
would need few more assistants.
When it come to photography. the
only way to please everybody Is to let
people spell to suit themselves.
Some people seem to think they are
charitable because they dream of CIV
tns auav EaoneS-And let it 90 1t that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
QUAKER MEDrTATToNs.

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
1t ought to be easy to call the turn
on a crank.
man takes to feed his vanity.
When man is beggar It is gen.
orally because he is too much OF
coward to be thief.
Poverty wouldn't so often COME in
at the door If Love would only go out
and hustle for a Job.
Some fellows never accomplish any
thing because they always want to
boss some other fellows job
Some men are SO constituted that
they can't do you favor without TAX
ing a mortgage on your life.
Nell-"Maude has lost a good
friend in Jack" Belle-'Why. have
they quarreled?" Belle-"No; they
are married"
Mrs. Henpeckke-'T could have
married a dozen men before I met
you" Mr.. Henpeckke-"And I was
the unlucky thirteenth. eh?"
Wigg-"We shall soon have univer-
sal peace. The nations are all burying
the Ratchet" Wagg-"Yes. but no.
tice they are still hanging on to their
natives and their rapid fire guns"
''She has eyes like a startled fawn.''
exclaimed the poet. Yes. and an ap-
petite like an ostrich" remarked the
fellow who had had her out to supper
the night before.
Mrs. Gotrox-"When 1 married my
husband he was q struggling young
man." Miss CaustiQue-"But you had
made up your mind to have him, and
all his struggles were useless. I sup
pose"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
WHOLESALE PRICES.

A report has just been issued by the
federal department OF commerce and
labor covering the movements of whole
sale prices for the Is years, 1890 to
1907, including the course of such prices
during the latter year. 1t is interest
ing to note that in spite of the finan-
cial and market depression coincident
with the last six months OF 1907
prices of commodities. save in a few
departments such as lumber, fuel and
metal materials. were higher at the
close of last year than at it's opening,
and that the average price of all COM
modities showed a decrease of only
little over one point for the period,
the actual decline being from 1878 to
1864.
The report shows that wholesale
prices considering the 25S commodities
investigated as a whole, reached a
higher level in 1907 than at any other
time during the Is year period covered.
The average for the year 1907 was 81
per cent higher than for 1905; 44.4 per
cent higher than for 1897. the year OF
the lowest prices during the IS year
period: and 29.5 per cent higher than
the average for ten years from 1890 to
1899.
Prices reached their highest point
during the Is years period in October
1907. the average for that month being
IL per cent high than the average fol
the year 1907, and 2.S per cent higher
than the average for December. 1906
the month Of the highest prices In thai
year.
When the commodities are consider.
ed by groups. all of the nine group.
show an increase In price in 1907 al
compared with 1906. For farm products
taken as a whole this increase wal
| greatest. namely 100 per cent; for food
4.6 per cent; for clothes and clothing
Sc per cent; for fuel and lighting g.
per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

belongs to the officials of the city.
The members of the police force
should do 1t without instructions from
anybody. The ordinance has been up
held by the supreme court, the meni-
bers Of the city council have gone on
record as being opposed to its repeal.
and 1t is the duty OF the police to
impartfally enforce 1t with just as
much assiduity as they do the
ordinance relating to the illegal sale
OF liquor in the city. or any other of
the city's laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

which 1t cannot be AFFORDED to ignore.
AS to just how much artificial col
oring matter or preservatives go into
the drinks which the average Ameri-
can buys at the soda fountain or the
delicious things which he eats in the
ice cream parlor 1t IL difficult to say.
In a general way 1t Is known, for in
stance, that the fruit syrups have
vividness of color that no one ever
saw in the fruit from which they are
extracted. and sometimes tints are OBJ
served in the ice cream or ices that
are not even suggested by the flavor
which names 1t. There IL also the
suspicion that these fiavors keep" a
good deal longer than they would
have done in the days before the pro-
perties of some of the chemicals were
known. The taste is not improved by
these artificial agents. but the added
beauty from them pleases the eye
and thereby adds to the pleasure OF
the taste. At the same time. II they
are harmful, they should be forbid
den, especially in the summertime,
when the system is peculiarly suscep-
tible to bad effects from anything re-
motely approaching the poisons.
The District of Columbia. stirred by
DR.. wiley's revelations, is setting on
foot careful investigation of its soda
fountains and ice cream dispensaries.
1t is a good movement likely to pro-
mote the public health and should
be emulated in every section of the
country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's good reason to fear a dog
who attaches himself easily to
strangers.
Chronic government employees are
class of persons whose earning
capacity has never been tested.
\
Most families are well equipped
with home-growing vines in daughters
who have developed into wall flowers.
y =
II a girl doesn't take a fellows
presents to a jewelry store to see what
they cost, that's a sure sign she loves
him.
It's not a good plan to loan money
to biologists for thousand years or
so are not counted by them as any
time at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
GLOBE s1GHTs


IFrom the Atchison Globe.J
Freedom is like blue roses: there
is no such thing.
The talk of a good many people
sounds as IL they had begun in the
middle.
A grouchy man may not be agree
able, but he is a joy in comparison
with the facetious man.
Just because a man sometimes
those who think he wants to do some
thing terrible.
You are always hearing of the
beauty of women. Women are not
so beautiful, after all; it is the gen.
tleness, patience and kindness Of wo-
men that is most attractive.
Every time things go wrong with
us. we think OF the luck of the wolf.
Although every mans hand Is against
him, a wolf gets along pretty well.
Think Of the luck a wolf must have
| to merely live!
You often hear that people are SO
strange" and that the conditions OF
living are so variable. There are only
two kinds of people, and every ordin-
airy observer knows all of them thor
oughly. There has not been q new
thing in human nature in thousands
of years.
| What sort Of a woman is most pop
ular with her husband7 Nobody
knows. No one can explain why
man is in love with his wife. It just
happens. If wife isn't the sort OF
a woman to attract her husbands ad-
miration, she shouldn't try to become
the sort of a woman he admires. It IL
better for her to be her natural self.
Everyone has a particular annoy
ance. Mine Is a man who gets drunk
twice month and requests the return
of a curious copper coin he says he
loaned me nine years ago. When he
Is sober he has no recollection of the
transaction, which really never oc-
CURED, but when he is drunk he says
the coin was worth a hundred dollars
and he wants it."-Drake Watson
81 once knew a fellow who could
balance a feather on his nose. having
devoted a ridiculous amount of time
to learning the trick. and he had the
greatest contempt for those who could
not do 1t. Other men were able to do
useful things that the fellow could
not do. but he never thought OF that.
and hated all those who could not bal
ance feathers on their noses."-Par-
son Irvine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may havs
the paper mailed regularly each day
60 any address Mt the rate OF ten cents
q week or thirty cents a month 10y
NAH only.) Address changed as often
rs desired. While out OF town the
State Journal win be TO you like q
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
Bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

Dyspepsia is the great destroyer of
domestic happiness. declares DR..
Wiley, the chief government expert.
who has just about convinced every
body on the face of the earth that all
the ills which human flesh is heir to
are due to impure food. He says fur
Their that poor bread is one of the
greatest of agents in producing dys-
pepsia. And then he argues brilliant
ly that If the people were furnished
with good bread, which the bakers
should be compelled to make, there
would be less dyspepsia to cause do
mestic discords and naturally fewer
divorces. Hats Off to DR.. Wiley, the
premier logician of the nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

What an unusual and peculiar
spectacle Topekans are witnessing
these days. A few men, the theatrical
managers to be explicit. whose BUSH
ness on Sundays has been stopped un-
der a city ordinances prohibiting all
sorts of labor on the Sabbath, are
compelled, through failure of the city
authorities to administer Justice in the
premises, to go around and gather
evidence and cause the arrest of other
violaters of this anti-Sunday labor
ordinance. This is work that properly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

Contributions to the Republican
campaign fund will not be accepted
from corporations, says Mr.. Taft. But
It is not presumed that this ultimatum
should be taken to mean that no
subscriptions, will be received from
the many wealthy Republicans of the
country who have made. and are MAX
ing, their fortunes out of corporations.
They will have to be particular,
though. to dig down into their per-
sonal bank rolls and not into the
funds of the corporations. Inasmuch
as q good many of these plutocrats.
who will help provide the sinews of
war, own various OF the corporations
and trusts body and soul. it will be
drawing the line pretty fine to look
on the private contributions of these
gentlemen not as corporation money.
It's easy for those interested, how
ever. to make such distinction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
EATIN'.


An; aiins sivin dixs.
A-laughin' an a-1okin'
An sayin' boys Is pigs.
Pa says me stunnmick's rubber.
Er gumerlastic stun,
An says me legs IL holler,
never gifts enough.
An sister. she's a teacher
Way up to number five.
She says the anercOnder
Jest eats 'em up alive.
An how a nostrfch gobbles,
An gulps wit great delight.
Jest grabs an grabs an swa1lers
Most anything in sight!
Aunt Jane she says my manners
Is really shockfn' bad,
T see q boy s. greedy
Is 'scouragip' an sad!
But ma she knows about 1t,
She's Johnny-on-de-spot!
She says when boys II CROWN
Dey has t eat a lot.
An bread an lam is cheaper
An medicine an pills:
She'd RAIDER pay de grocer
Dan pay de doctor bills.
An sometimes wen dey's knockin',
She sorter winks her eye,
And slips acrost de table
Anudder piece O. pie.
An says: Now, don't y mind 'em.
knows EN-. dat do.
W'n dey was kids an hungry
wy, dey was Jest like you"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

In any discussion of lucrative jobs
It would be we'll to remember those Of
the three receivers who were ap-
pointed by the supreme court to take
charge of the brewery property in
Kansas. The three of them have
divided up $19.400 in fees for their
services. This might properly be
styled maximum of money for
minimum of work. AS matter of
fact II breaks the record in these
parts along this line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

Pittsburg. Pa, is revealing In sui
cides these days. Since July 1 twenty
one persons have ended their lives
there. This is but a natural conse-
quence to the get-rich-quick mania
which has enveloped the people of that
smoky town. It's but a step from
blasted hopes for fortunes TO self-de-
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

Everybody in Shawnee county
ought to sleep with more or less
security from now on. Sheriff Wnker-
son is the proud possessor of four
bloodhounds, two of which are
thoroughly trained for man-trailing
And what's more, the sheriff also has
two red foxes and one of his deputies
has a. tame coyote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.]

[From the New York Press
The more q girl likes a man the
more he would like her II she didn't.
The worst about marrying for mon
ey is 1t SO often turns out to be coun-
tefreit.
Anyway, II a man didn't spend all
his money on his family he'd lose Il
some other way.
wives and got the same wages there
would be lots more trouble than there
Is.
What a woman likes about having
her husband take her to summer re-
sort IL the good manners he protenAD
Ito have before strangoraI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

Mr.. Bryan's plan of having the DEM
ocratic newspapers throughout the
country take up subscriptions for his
campaign fund will probably not APP
peal any too strongly to good many
of them. They have all the trouble
they care to bargain for in gathering In
their own subscriptionS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

Wise, wonderfully wise is Frank H.
Hitchcock, the chairman of the Re-
publican national committee. He has
already landed on the safe side of the
fence by refusing to make any pre-
dictions as TO what states are con-
sidered to be certain for Taft and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
ANOTHER CIGARETTE EVIL.

Do yon know that the cigarette is
an enemy to good breeding? Let a
lady enter any public place where men
are smoking. The ones with cigars will
take them out of their mouths and
quietly let them go out. The men with
cigarettes will continue to smoke, will
round their mouths. and blow the smoke
as far as possible. Ever notice this :?
1t means that the cigarette habit is a
deadener on-a mans manners.-Law-
renee Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22

In addition to being an actress OF
remarkable ability Mrs. Leslie Carter
now has the distinction of being bank
rupt. There's little use denying 1t.
Honors never come singly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
IT'S A SAD THING.

One Of the saddest things in this
world is to see people trying to get
out of their social class. OF course
men and women have done SO but
they have paid dearly. 1t is noun
tain Of glass they must climb and one
misstep is fatal. 1t is the hardest life
that one can live, a life of constant
tragedy. The wonder Is that people
persevere, that they take the rebuffs
that they wear their lives out after
that which is not worth the blood
that the rough places cause the feet
to lose. Society is a good thing but
those untitled for it pay too dearly
for their admission tickets.-Lawrence
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-22
NEW SUGAR FIELDS.

From two remote corners OF the
world come reports Of important devel-
opments in the matter of sugar produc-
ton. Well directed efforts are being
made by Japan looking toward the Gre
alton of a great cane growing indus
try on the Island of Formosa. Sugar
production has long been more or less
Important line of activity on that is
land, but the mills used have been old
fashioned native stone affairs of small
capacity and wasteful In operation.
Lately American capitalists have been
given contracts for the erection of
&c., 1000 and 1000 ton mills Of the most
up to date pattern. Not only this, but
American locomotives and rails are be-
ing purchased for the purpose Of IA
cilitating transportation to and from
these mills.
In Natal cane sugar has also been
produced for sometime, but until within
the last 10 or 10 years the most primi-
tive methods have been used. Now,
however, the capital invested amounts
to $7,300.0 900, or more than is invested
in any other branch of industry In the
colony, with the exception of coal min
ing With what is being done in these
quarters, and with reasonable proba-
bilities of continued peace and progress
in Cuba, 1t seems reasonable to expect
a comparatively early reduction in the
price of one Of the prime necessities Of
NkA-Toronto star.