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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
THE ABUSE OF CREDIT.

Increased production of mineral
wealth, suggested as remedy for
money panics, does not strike at the
root of the trouble. The argument is
set forth, with a wealth of detail, that,
if more gold were taken to the mints
and coined, bankers and the business
world in general would be provided with
firmer basis for the more than liberal
credit they grant. 1t is shown that, in
1907 when the financial depression en-
sued, banks and trust companies in
New York city had loaned to their GUS
toners and were earning interest on
more than twice as much money as
the country possessed. The inference is
drawn that. had the country produced
twice as much mineral wealth up to
that time, there would have been no
panic. Federal and state legislation is
recommended to induce great produc-
ton to serve as the foundation for alb
normal credit.
But what is to hinder fiduciary con-
Germs, smitten with the speculative ba-
ella, from still loaning twice as much
money as the country possesses? Over
speculation does not depend on the
amount of mineral wealth mined or I'M
mined, coined or uncoined. Restriction
of wildcat banking would seem to fur
nish a more reliable cure than addi-
tiona1 Observation-Disclosures Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

Hope for a pardon should now be
strong in the breast of Miss Jessie
Morrison, about the only other Kan
sas convict of fame that Governor
Hoch has left in the states peniten-
tiary She would appear to have
something of an advantage over the
others who have been dealt with so
generously because she has ever con-
tended that in the Staying of the girl
who married the man both the women
loved she acted in self defense. The
jury that convicted her did not see it
this way, of course, but then Mr.. Hoch
has developed the habit of drawing
different conclusions from the same
evidence than those arrived at by the
juries that have had the determination
of the important criminal cases in this
commonwealth during the past score
of years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe


Not even a school teacher notices
the bad grammar in a compliment.
A man who has been in an amateur
entertainment never hears the last
of it.
A woman with any sort of a figure is
prouder of it than man is of a mill
lion dollars.
Make hay while the sun shines, and
the sun never shines so steadily and
bright as when you are young.
That woman never lived who was
satisfied with a man, and the men are
equally fussy about the women.
Do you believe people like to hear
you talk? Well, If you do, you were
never worse mistaken in your life.
What has become of the o1d-fash-
toned parents who put a package of
fire crackers In their boys Christmas
stockings?
BY the time a girl has reached six
teen her gifts to her mother assume
the character of things she would
like to borrow.
Changes do not always mean i'm
provement. Not so many people play
guitars as formerly, but there are
more monographs
A Missourian doesn't care much for
an Old Soldier. anyway, but if the old
soldier was a Jayhawker, then the Mis-
sourian goes straight up. ~. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

An Investigation of the states peni-
Tertiary is to be made and particu
Iarly in the regard of the methods
that are and have been employed in
the punishment of unruly and incorri-
gible prisoners. From the caliber of
the men appointed by Governor Hoch
to do this work, it is apparent that it
will be we'll done. There is good
reason to believe that many of the
stories of cruel and inhuman treat
ment of convicts is pure moon
shine and if the commission finds this
to be the case it's word will be taken
as a final and complete refutation of
charges to this effect which have been
banded about. On the other hand, if
there is any truth to these charges it
is certain that the commission will
ascertain it and that no one RESPONSE
Bile for the handling of the prisoners
will be spared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
Flies without a Motor.

A new aeroplanist has come to
town, bringing with him the story
that he has designed and built ma
chine that can fly without the aid OF
motor. He is Alexander v. Wilson,
of Bangor, Me-, and so confident is he
of success that he is prepared to put
in a bid to the government for ma
val aeroplane as soon as the official
specifications are issued
Mr.. Wilson has built several ma
chimes within the last dozen years. He
has also flown with them, most of his
experiments having been on the ice
in winter over Eagle Lake, near Bar
Harbor, and in summer along the
shore
On September 1 he received his
patent rights for his aeroplane from
the United States government.
Mr. wilson's latest aeroplane was
built a few months ago, and in one of
his recent flights he covered z miles,
and on another occasion rose to a
height of 700 feet without the aid of
a motor.
One of the chief features of the
Wilson aeroplane is a movable full
crum, which is under the control of
the operator and enables him to tilt
the moving wings to any desired angle
during his flight These movable
wings comprise the real novelty in the
construction of the machine, enabling
the operator to get from the gravity
force the proper surface friction at all
times. There are four of these wings.
two at each end, the total length of
the machine being SO feet.-New
York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
-.AN5AS COMNENT
THE BREAD LINE

me authority of Mr.. T. V. Powderly
TO speak for conditions among the
poor and laboring classes is unques-
TONED What Mr.. Powderly has to say
OF the right and wrong methods of dis
Penslng charity has the additional
force of good reason. In an interview
from New York Mr.. Powderly con-
uemns the practice of maintaining
Dread lines" where the applicants
Ior charity are freely supplied with
bread The system. Mr.. Powderly ex-
plains, merely feeds the fire that con-
sumes manhood" by putting a prem
ium on idleness. What should be done
is 10 provide the men with work, and
furnish them food in proportion as
they work for it. Mr. Powderly has
arrived at this conclusion not only
from his knowledge of conditions from
MS long association with labor affairs,
Dut from having mingled frequently
with the crowds in the New York
bread line, and gained their views.
me TACT will at once suggest itself
that Mr.. Powderly is by no means the
tlrst to argue for the distribution Of
food by the labor qualification. The
standard of bread for sweat was set
In the days of the gospels, and it is
the only safe and healthy basis upon
winch the distribution can now be
The approach of Christmas time.
with its appeals to charity and it's
spendfdly charitable responses, gives
a particular Importance to Mr.. Pow
derly's suggestion as to what consti-
tutes the best charity. 1t is apparent
that the solution of the bread question
is not alone in furnishing temporary
jobs for those who lack bread. But
back of this may be a reorganization
of social plans by which ignorance
and vice are attacked and routed, and
through them the curses of idleness
and poverty be cured.
1t is clear that there is work |
enough and money enough to supply |
every need in this country, and it |
needs no dream Of socialistic impossi- |
bility to suggest a better distribution. |
A chance to earn a meal for those who |
lack the meal and are able to earn it, |
and a decent protection and provision |
for those unable to earn it, would be |
the first necessities. After this should |
come intelligent consideration of the |
which have induced poverty
and idleness. In the majority of cases
the cause will be found in vice, and |
Of which Mr.. Powderly is speaking,
IN neglect of education and moral |
which amounts to vice, and
usually ends in vice.-Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

If the 1egislators-elect have their
ears to the ground, an attitude which
it pays wise men of this class to as
sumo. they must hear the rumble of
the sentiment which has developed
among the people all over the COM
monwealth for the establishment Of
a state fair. AS an Ottawa man puts
It in a letter on the subject eff the leg
islature does not appropriate 100000
to start the fair project the people of
Kansas should wipe the legislature off
the map" This might be modified to
the extent of saying that if the legis-
lature does not make a good sized ap-
preparation for the fair the people will
zee to it that the personnel of the next
one is such that this most desirable
appropriation will go through with a
rush But the chances are that there
Is no disposition on the part of the
members of the coming legislature to
do anything but treat this proposition
in generous fashion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

Senator Curtis joins with other
prominent Republicans in favoring an
honest revision of the tariff along the
lines of the plank on this subject in
the national Republican platform. 1t
may be said that this plank was one
of "glittering generalities'' and there
fore a trife ambiguous. So there is
plenty of room for differences, of
opinion as to just what an honest
revision of the tariff may be. And
that will be the great trouble when the
nationaIIegislators finally try to get to-
gether on tariff revision. Still with Mr..
Taft at the helm, the consumers of the
country who are most vitality interested
in this subject have reason to hope for
fbe hest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
says She's a Glove Pirate"

1.-THE girl in the downtown office is
a constant menace to the wife in the
home. She is a love pirate, whether
she intends to be or not. She is the
bird of brilliant plumage that fas-
cinates and lures men from the gray
responsibility of the home"
In this statement Mrs. Benedetto
Allegretti, who has just obtained a
decree of separate maintenance from
her husband, a River street candy
manufacturer, charging that he has
been fascinated by Mary McLain, a
pretty Scottish maiden known as "the
candy heart GIRL today summed up
her judgment on the woman in bust
ness.
Mrs. A1legretti said that, conscious
ly or not, the girl in the office with
another woman's husband exerts an
influence for evil on the man, who
cannot help contrasting her neat
gowns, her well-kept hands, her trim
ly shod feet, her picture hats, and her
care free, smiling face with the busy
housekeeping wife in her Bingham
gown.
cit is impossible that man and a
girl can associate constantly in an Of
fee without eliminating that reserve
which would exist had the man met
the girl only in her home or in some
social way. The fact is that in a
short time the man gets to know the
girl better than her own mother
knows her.''-Chicago dispatch to
New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
baseball Puzzles Foreigners.

The intelligent foreigner who has ac-
quired his knowledge of English from
the classics and the best authors is
called upon to undergo another period
of establishment from the American
newspa pers Scarcely can h. have re-
covered from his surprise at learning
that baseball is not the sanguinary
game that might be inferred from
reading that Brown died at second"
or that 1.-The Pilgrims fairly slaughtered
the Pirates in the sixth inning" when
he reads with amazement that the
White Rats are going into politics this
year Such is the fact and it is an
nounced that every White Rat worthy
of the name will support only those
candidates who can be depended upon
to restrict the size of booking agents
commissions, to improve the copyright
law and to punish irresponsible man.
ayers" Berlin commentators may re-
gard the announcement as worthy the
earnest attention of the biologists, and
even some Americans may require TO
be told that the White Rats is the
name of an organization of vaudeville
artists for the general betterment OF
their calling.-Boston Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
Eleven Hundred Known Diseases


A German physician who has a bent
Tor statistics is responsible for the
statement that the human frame is
liable to 11O00 diseases. If he is correct
one can not but marvel at how few of
these ailments the average person
manages to contract during a lifetime
The eye alone is subject to no less
than 48 different and distinct affec-
tons. Considering its. apparent vulner-
ability to contagion it escapes with
great good luck, but in reality it is not
as exposed as at first thought would
their protection of the eyeball, and the
first instinct is to snap shuz when a
blow is directed toward them Incl
dentally they "oil'' the eye and keep
its surface free from dust, 2tc.
1t Is for the good of the human race
changed during the last 25 years.
Formerly there was specific remedy
for each disease, and the poor patient
was almost drugged to death. Nova
days physicians recognize that healing
is a matter of restoring normal condt-
favorable influences of mind and sur
roundings and less to medicine
The German doctors figures are
rather appalling, but the daily progress
of the science of health and healing is
rapidly reducing the number of danger
Gus diseases and ultimately may elimi-
nate them. Study and experiment have
marched far. tuberculosis, the white
plague, will be foguht to a standstill
within few years, the average stand
ard Of health and strength will be
raised and the average duration of life
will be prolonged.
Thus medicine wins greater victories
in the science of prevention than it
ever won in the science of healing
Chicago Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l


Many a single man is guilty Of dou-
BILE dealing.
A man is always willing to lend you
IS when he hasn't got it.
The only regular thing about some
men is their irregularity.
Too many men try to adjust their re-
ligion to fit their business.
An automobile by any other name
would. no doubt, smell the same.
Some women, like buildings, are too
rich to agree with their husbands
A disconnected person is almost as
hig a bore as one who is self-satisfied.
Every time two women go TO matt
nee together they call it theater party.
There's sufficient money in circula-
tion. but the trouble Is in getting it to
circulate orr way-
Never judge by outward appearance.
A good looking woman may not be as
good as she looks.
Isn't it queer how people who are not
of giving advice to themselves
seem to know the proper thing for you
to do?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
EqpIavinr RECORD Broken.

Walter J. Clark has a hen that has
laid 24O eggs in 274 consecutive days.
Mr. Clark thinks this is the record, as
one of the farm journals recently
stated that 236 eggs within a year was
the egg-laying record
Mr.. Whites hen will be years old in
February. In that month, 1906, Harry
E. Curtis bought some eggs at the
Danville poultry show and put them in
his incubator. In the regular course OF
time they Matched out, and he sold one
of the chickens to Mr.. Clark
In order to keep the hen on her nest
Mr. White built trap to hold her IN
until she had laid her daily egg.-Dan-
vile Qnd.) dispatch to New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRFSS

OF the state educational commission
IT may be said that its activities have
been multitudinous and if the 1egisla-
ture gives due consideration to all OF
its recommendations for the better
ment of the conditions in the schools
throughout the state, there will not be
much time for anything else unless the
session is a remarkably long one. The
redeerning feature of the commissions
work. however. is the fact that most
of its recommendation are of the
sensible and reasonable sort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
tFrom the New York Press.l

CFrom the New York Press
The virtues We are proudest of we
practice because we have to-
A man feels more self-respect for be-
ing able to discount a note than he
would for not having to do it.
The reason there will be no purga-
tory for a woman in the next world is
she gets it here in suffering man.
A girl who sets out to marry a mill
ionaire is lucky if she doesn't wind up
by getting only her board out of it.
A woman wants a romantic man to
make love to her, but shee need m;Lt-
ter -of-fact one to support her children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
THE LITTLE BOYS BABY PRAyER

4 III DO 4 . BIB II IINEA I Elk
Dear God. need YOU awful bad;
dent know what to do:
MY papeI's cross. nv mammals sick:
hain't no fren but You.
mem keeriess angels went an brung,
Std of the boy 1 asst,
A Weenchy. teenchy baby girl.
l don't see how they dast
Say, God, wisht You'd take her back.
she Jest good as new;
won't no one know she's secondhand,
But 'ceptin' me an You;
An, pick a boy, dear God, Yourself,
The incest in Yer fold;
But please don't choose him quite so
young;
I'd like him five years old.
S. M Talbot in Lippincott's,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

A story which was first published in
the Baltimore Sun but which has now
been printed all over the country and
In many of the large newspapers which
are soliritous for their re1utations is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

the nation for the construction of good
roads, and the day of their accom-
plishment cannot be fastened too
rapidly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

Soandso-Barker knows his own bust
ness. Humpher-Yes; but he doesn't MIND
little thing like that.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

I'm almost sure the Count is in love
with me-" eXcitedly exclaimed the first
heiress. What makes you think sop in
uuired the other. He asked me today
how much L was worth."-The Catholic
Standard and Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

First Doctor-This is a most mysterious
case. l can't make anything out of It,
Second Doctor-Hasnt the patient any
mOneY?-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

She-They say there are germs in kisses
Now. what do yo1I suppose a girl could
catch that way? He-A husband.-Phila-
delphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

Man Ito boy at roadside)-What time 4.
it? BoY-Purty near twelve o'clock. Man
I thought it was more than twelve. Boy
Nope. Never gets more than twelve in this
country. Begins at one again.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

Rastus-Ah done proposed t. Liza Coon
erbout a yeah fore yo married her. Nose
Am dat so? Rastus-Yassah; an All had
NAH rabbits foot on nah pusson at de
time, but she done turned me down. Nose
(sighing)-Yo' all shore wuz lucky in hay-
in dat rabbit foot wild you.-Chicago Daily
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

You are a pretty sharp boy. Tommy
Wel, I'd ought to be. Pa takes me out
IN the, woodshed and strops me three or
four times week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

The Friendly Critic (after the First
chap. but there isn't one good situation in
the whole play. The Leading Man-Oh,
don't know-I've got forty-week contract
at 500 per.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

What would you do. dear, If were to
die?, asked Mrs. barley. fondly. II don
KNOW, replied barley thoughtfully
which is your choice-buriai or crena,'
ton ?"-Illustrated Bits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

Lady-I've been expecting a packet of
medicine by post for a week, and haven t
received It yet. p o. ClerK-Yes. madam.
Kindly fill in this form and state the ma
you must know. it's biliousness PUCK.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

What we want is more plain speaking"
cried the suffragette orator. And not so
many plain speakers" said some unmanly
brute in the crowd.-Judy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

Tenement Tessie-And de novel says de
heroine had a willowy form. used to pine
for her lover and would spruce up when
she seen him coming froo de gate. Shanty
Sue-Gee. where did she work-in a saw
mill?-Chicago Daily News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

We passed, in the course of an hour two
dead cows and more than fifty dead chick
ems. A strong smell of gasoline pervaded
the atmosphere, and there were wheel
tracks in the dust. Sherlock Holmes be-
came greatly interested. Watson" ex-
claimed he. after deep thought, there has
Vile Courier-Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24

The Easterner-Wheh 1 was in New
York was one of the 400. The westerner
4 see. Which one of the two ciphers
were you9-ChicaEo News.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-08-15
BAKER DRUG STORE.

or 6 doses of 1866" will cure any case of Chills and fever.
 John Warren has returned from a visit to Oklahoma.
 Mrs. Monte Hicks left today on 8 visit to relatives at Fulton.
 Mrs. J. B. Whitesides and Mas ter Raymond, returned today from a visit to relatives at Lit tie Rock.
 Mrs. Arthur M. Westmoreland will inaugurate her fall term i'll music next Monday, Aug. IF. Pu- pills desiring to begin lessons on the piano will please call and make arrangements on that day.
 Tom kinser of the Iron Mount tain depot force, left this morn ing. for a ten days vacation at Chicago. While there he will take a trip on the Great Lakes Star of Hope.
 Mrs. Harry Herring and child ren and Mrs. Gillian of Batesville and Mrs. Johnson and Miss Mile dred Johnson of Newport, who have been guests of Mrs. George Terry. for several weeks, will re- turn home tonight.
 A new bridge has just been fin ished across BOdcaw Crook. on the road from BOdcaw to Azor which was badly needed The creek at that point often gets igh enough to make crossing inn possible, and the county judges action in constructing the bridge isl most cOmmendable.
 Minnie Richardson. colored, on yesterday received a check from the Iron Mountain Railroad for S5OO, payment of a judgment for i personal injuries received on a local freight at Bierne several years ago. The case was tried here at the July term, 1907, in the circuit court. and judgment given for $500. The case was appealed to the supreme court the verdicct being affirmed, and the money was paid yesterday
The Prescott daily news., 1908-08-15
ekASE9 l. O C A l. GNMA N F. w $

5 or 6 doses of '666" will cure any case of Chills and Fever.
 Dr. J. L. Bell made a business trip to Blevins yesterday
 E. G. Woodford left yesterday on business trip to New York.
 Sam T. White has returned from a business trip to RosebOrO.
 Mrs G. B. McGraw is spending a few days in Hampstead county visiting her daughter
 Mrs. G. o. Marsh and Miss Geor- gia Marsh, are spending a week visiting relatives In Jackson township.
 Mrs. R. l.. Montgomery return ed to her home at New Lewisville this morning after spending a week with her parents here.
 A marriage license was issued yesterday to MT John Phillips of Gurdon, and Miss Bertha Schaiff of Wheeler Springs, the first in a. week.
 We are authorized to announce that the unveiling ceremonies at the grave of Sovereign Joe Britt will occur at Boughton on Sun day. Aug. 30.
 Mrs. J. O. Kendrick and daugh- ter left this morning for Arkadel- phia, where they will make a short stay before returning to their home in Memphis.
 During Mrs. Louella Moncrief's absence in St. Louis. from now untilt Sept. 1, her millinery store will be in charge of Miss Lola Wilson, who will be at the store every Wednesday and Saturday