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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
kYKAWKER JOTS

A federal geologist Is testing the
water at Ottawa, particularly that used
in the drug stores.
A Dexter merchant got left at Win
field the other day and the Winfield
Courier Is frank enough to allow that
the joke was on the Dexter man.
Judge Gale has established a new
divorce record UP in Mcpherson count
ty. The gordian knot was united IN
just fifteen minutes after the petition
was filed.
"Goog" Horton has committed a
double-headed crime at wellington. In
robbing a. freight car Of q box Of wine
he robbed a good citizen Of the COM
fort expected to flow from it.
1t is now definitely learned that the
Garnett man who cut off two fingers
splitting kindling wood had been adj
vised by his wife to have natural gas
put in. Men as often miss as hit by
not taking the advice Of their wives.
What's the matter with Medicine
Lodge? Three men were rendered the
assessorship there last week and all Of
them declined. A man had to be i'm
ported from Kiowa to take the place.
Luckily he was a doctor for no one
else in Kiowa has the time to give to
public Office.
A Trego county boy fell and broke
both legs so that the bones stuck
through the flesh. His parents thought
they could not afford to pay a doctor, SO
they let the little fellow lie six days
without medical attendance. Then the
neigh bors raised a roar and sent for
the sheriff and a doctor.
Here are some startling figures from
the Pratt Union: From October 1 up
to last Friday, there was II. 4e4 rabbit
scalps cashed at County Clerk Allmon's
office. The amount of each paid for
them at three cents was $524.s2. They
are still coming in and the money ex-
pended in that way is well spent"
Wellington has an oddly in the
shape of reporter who has moIGn
money than would be needed to buy
out all the newspaper plants in that
town. It is said that he plugs away
hustling I'D the Santa Fe round house
items as industriously as If he hadn't
a second chew Of tobacco to his name.
A wagon load of wood was hauled
through Junction City the other day
which can be called wagon load of
wood with all that one intends to con-
vey by that expression: There were
five logs three and a half feet long
piled on the wagon, besides a number
Of smaller ones. The largest log was
three feet through. and the smallest
one was eighteen inches. The wood
was red elm and was to be used as
stove wood only.
THE first new potatoes Of the year
were raised by John Martin, whose ex-
periments in gardening have made
Luther Burbank look like thirty coun-
terfeit pennies" says the Emporia
Gazette. Mr.. Martin brought a sam
pie potato to the Gazette office last
evening and left 1t on one of the ORR
entail divans of the editorial sanctuary.
1t exploded during the night and made
quite mess, but that was probably
due to the high temperature prevailing
in this office. Mr.. Martin has his gar
den lighted by electric lamps, and con-
seuuently his vegetables grow day and
Gazette that he expects to have rhu-
barb pies ready for the market by the
middle of the month"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
A PRIMARY.
so we'll.

Practically all that remains to be
done to place a direct primary law
on the statute books of Kansas is the
consummation of a few minor details
and the ten days wrangiing on the
part Of the legislators on this import
ant question has not been in vain.
1t is a distinct victory for the peo-
pie of the state. OF course. there
are many who will insist that the vic
tory belongs to Mr.. Stubs and two
or three of his allies. 1t is certain
that he and his friends had
things their own way at the finish of
the fight but the victory for primary
legislation belongs with the people Of
the state.
They insisted on having a direct
primary and they let this insistence be
known in no uncertain terms to their
representatives in the legislature.
There were a goodly number of peo-
pie who believed that the law should
have divorced the primary for United
States senatorship from the primary
for state offices but majority Of the
legislators arrived at the conclusion
that this was not the best plan, and
those who favored the "split" pri-
mary will have to make the best of it.
AS a matter of fact this point was not
material one in Importance when
considered with the main question of
a direct primary.
A direct primary was the thing the
people demanded and a direct pri-
mary, which ought to be acceptable to
all, has been given them. And now
it is the duty of the voters of this
state to keep the fact in mind that
they will have a chance to select such
men as they wish to have for candi-
dates for office. Accordingly it will
be their duty to turn out on primary
day and make known their choice by
their votes. If they don't do this the
result will be that the politicians,
who are ever busy. will control,
through their active rhenchmen. the
nominations at the primary. This in
evitable condition will develop I'M
less the people generally take advan-
tage Of the primary and show just as
much interest in it as they do in the
general election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News. ]

TFrom the Chicago News.1
Everybody expects everybody else
to set good examples.
Unlike a man, the SKY looks most
cheerful when it is blue
In the game of life a good deal de-
ponds upon a good deal.
mans train of thought moves
when his wheels go around
It doesn't pay to bunko a woman
whose only asset is a gift of CAB.
His Satanic majesty usually occu-
pies the seat of honor at a stag party
The man who is capable of bossing
other men is seldom able to boss MS
wife.
The road to success is slippery and
he who travels thereon needs a lot of
sand.
other people have their weak
spots-and perhaps you may nave
small one.
All the world admires peaceful man,
but it gets out of the way Of the
strenuous kicker.
When a mans real estate is about
to be sold for taxes he wonders where
he is going to land.
Accidents will happen and girl
might just as well get used to having
her heart broken once in a while
Some people make an awful lot of
fuss about man being his own worst
enemy-but why should they care?
Our idea of fool man is one who
is so busy putting something by for
a rainy day that he hasn't time to
enjoy the sunShins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
A LABOR UNION AS A TRUST.

A decision of exceedingly general IN
terest has been rendered by Judge Phil
lips. in the common pleas of Cuyahoga
county, Ohio, in a suit to dissolve the
Amalgamated Glass Workers union.
He held that the organization was a
trust formed in violation of the law
forbidding combinations in restraint OF
trade, and ordered it's immediate disso-
luton and the division of the $4,000
fund in it's treasury among its mem
bers.
Some of them say that no benefit TIC
any one can be looked for from this
because the fund has been dissipated
by litigation, strike allowances and
other necessary expenses. But the case
grew out of a dispute between the
members concerning the disposition OF
the fund among blowers, gatherers, cut
ters and fatteners belonging to the
union.
That, however, is a matter that con-
Germs that particular organization
alone; and as to the other side of it
Judge Phillips said that the case had
no standing in court except as case
under public policy as to whether or
not the organization was in restraint
ment under which the blowers. gather
ers, cutters and hatteners were bound
in the Amalgamated Window Glass
Workers Union of America was an
agreement in restraint of trade. a trust;
and, taking the broad ground of public
policy, ordered the Amalgamated to be
dissolved.
The question involved will probably
go to higher courts; but meantime all
labor unions are directly interested in
the decision which raises the point OF
most Importance, towit: how far they
may lawfully interfere with the action
of their members, without violating the
law forbidding combinations in re-
straint Of trade. In the building trades
for instance, unions have decided that
no building work shall go on by their
members unless certain demands are
granted by builders. But, before dis
cussing it further, it is we'll to wait and
see what is done with the case in hand
on appeal.
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AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS.

From statistics gathered by himself,
a young man with mania in this par
ticular line. has discovered that only
one book in thirty that are written ever
gets publisher, while the rejection of
short stories by magazines and other
journals is in much greater proper
lions. Probably among the rejected
mass might be found material just as
think that all of 1t can be worse than
some which sees the light
There are said to be thirty thousand
persons in this country who either
write for living or make an occasional
venture in literature. About four thou
sand novels are published each year IN
the United States alone and a much
larger number Of stories of considerable
length are printed in various publica-
lions, but never between covers. The
short stories are legion. Indeed, editors
sometimes wonder If there is any per-
son in the entire country who Is not
at some time or other seized with de-
sire for authorship. The undoubted
fact is that never were so many books
published, never SO many individual
copies sold and never so many kinds
of periodical literature circulated. The
total figures are so stupendous as to be
almost inconlprehensible
1t is a matter of general knowledge
that many writers who later attained
fame had a hard time breaking into
print. Howells and Thackeray are nota-
bic examples. David Harum" was re-
fused by many publishers. as was the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Many a truthful man lies awake at
night.
To hustle with dignity is a rare &C
complishment.
Did you ever see an optimist with
boil on his neck?
The presidential bee is sharpening
up the sting in it's tail.
Among crooks a fellow doesn't
have to be a pig to squeal on a pal.
Even the comedian shouldn't have
any foolishness in his makeup.
When money talks we don't pay
particular attention to it's grammar.
Some peoples idea of being neigh
borly Is to borrow and not pay back.
1t seems as though the impossible
happens quite as often as the unex-
pected.
When a man stacks up against
hard luck he always complains that
someone behind him pushed
Dolly-"I wouldn't marry a lot of
men" Polly-"I should think not.
Bigamy is serious offense."
Push is a good quality in a young
man so long as he doesn't expend too
much of it on saloon doors
Blobbs-"Yes: he's a widower. but
I understand he is in the matrimonial
market again" SIobbs-"On the rem
nant counter. suppose
Nell-Chollie Saphedde says he has
half mind To- Belief don't
believe it, Nell-"But you don't
know what was going to say" Belle
= don't care. Chollie Saphedde
hasn't half mind to do anything"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

by two presents" Caroline said to
Fay, and read what he had written.
Then Fay faltered out the story.
I'VE thought we would send him
something artistic and tell you after
ward" she said
Caroline smiled at her pityingly.
you see you didn't KNOW, Arthur,
she said; ''he always likes things that
make"
And. oh. girls. what do you think
he said?" Fay asked the eager girls
who clustered about her just as she
was going to morning class.
Tell u.s." they clamored.
Fay quoted glibly:
1.-The violets are faded. and the
medallion hangs over my desk, but
close to my heart IS the little red
heart. the work OF your own dear
hands!'"
"weIl, of all things said Eloise
and Beatrice, such mani" But Kit
ty. pretty Kitty. rnurmured, with all
her dfmples out:
Roses red and violets blue.
His heart to her is ever true!
Copyrighted. 1908. by c. II. SUIT
cliffe.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
HUNOR or THE Day

to propose to that Boston girl? +
Yerner-Yes, told her my heart beat
wildly for her alone. and
Ascum-She didn't believe you?
Yerner-No; she reached over and felt
my pulse.-Philadelphia Press.
man?
Keeper-Well. I'll do the shooting, bring
home the game and let you say you did.
and lick anybody that says you didn't
Illustrated Bits.
do you think it is as easy to make a
fortune as it used to be?" asked the ambi-
Easier" answered Senator Sorghum.
The problem is to do it In, such way
that your friends will continue to speak
Agent-How long do you intend to re-
main in Washington?
RefOrmer-Unti1 congress passes a cOu-
pie of necessary laws that
Agent-Gee! You don't want to rent q
house-you'd better buy one.-Washington
Herald.
Mrs. wigwag-How is your husband.
Aunt Mandy-Porely, ma'am. He was
gittin' along all right, but now de doctah
done say he got de convalescence.-Phila-
delphia Record.
There is only one reason why I don't
brace up and make my name a household
whats that?'
I'm afraid that by doing SO I might
give somebody chance to read a poem
at the dedication of a monument to me-"
Chicago Record-Herald.
In strolling through the garden, while
waiting for his hostess to appear, a newly
arrived visitor came upon Bob, who was
building a fort of the gravel of the walk.
And who are you, little MANI" asked the
visitor.
I'm baby's brother" said Bob, proudly.
Youth Companion.
What shall we do with our ex-prei-
dents?" inquired one soicitous citizen.
comes and secure positions for them?"
Perhaps" replied the other; but 1t
would be q serious blow to literature.
Brown Oaying down the newspaper af-
ter reading the details Of the latest do,
story. What does it profit a man if he
gain the whole world. and has one or two
surplus women thrown in--Lfe.
1t. is the small mind that can see prac-
tically nothing in the moral law but the
the standards Of others in a detail of ALI
mentary economy.-From Star editorial.
The resolute parent stood with the up
sternly. this hurts me more than it does
you
And for once the resolute parent was
right. The slipper was two sizes too small
for him, and he had six corns and a bun
ion.-Chicago News.
You're right" said Alkali Ike, 'he died
very sudden while playing poker"
Heart disease?" Queried the tourist.
Wall. We might call 1T heart, spade. club
and diamond disease. He had all four
aces UP his sleeve. "-Philadelphai Press.
"Bigwadd, the Trust magnate, is re-
ported desperately ILL.,"
who wants him to testify ?"-Loufsville
Courier-Journal
First Financier-About the only thing
is Christian Science
Second Financier-Oh, wouldn't 1t be
grand If we could give him absent treat
ment life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

Something Of a sensation has been
caused in educational circles by the
suggestion of DR.. Eliot, president of
Harvard university, that children
should be sorted out according to- their
inclinations and abilities and made to
learn certain trades. Protests are
bound to develop in volume at such a
procedure as being untenable in a land
of the free" where the constitution de-
elares all men are equal. But as DR..
Eliot points out all men are not equal
and his suggestion is worthy of the
deepest consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

[From the Atchison Globe.I
A conquered foe should be
watched.
A curly headed man seldom wears
his hair short.
The dog is a dog, whether he is a
cur, or thoroughbred.
When man fails to attract atten-
ton in any other way, he can be ex-
act.
Tell a girl she writes an interesting
letter, and she dreams of writing a
book.
Women ask advice of men to fatter
them; they have no intention of TAX
ing it.
If you want to be happy, have as
little to think of as possible when Won
go to bed.
fend your actions when they do not
deserve 1t.
When there is no other excuse for
a poor marriage. people say it was a
love match.
A woman is never SO disappointed
in love in real life that she doesn't
believe in it in story
If the past has taken fairly good
care of itself, the future NAV be er-
pected to do equally we'll.
One thing may be said to the cred
1t of the parrot: he never makes anv-
thing worse in repeating It,
Heaven bless the old-fashfoned
sort of man, who does not give good
advice, but who helps you by good
example.
How unreasonable the talk Of 9th
ers against their enemies sounds. and
how reasonable our own against those
we dislike?
II woman made a dress herself
can 1t, under a strict interpretation
of what's what, and what's not. he
called a creation?
When man fails, they say he Ia
failure, but when a woman fails. tbev
say her homework and her children
held her back.
What has become Of the old-fasb-
Toned summer girl who cut a switch
on a peach tree, and kept the flies
Off the table during dinner?
Between the ages of fifteen .na
seventeen, girl thinks SO nucb ~
the boys, that she usually foreets he.
ambition, whatever it may be.
1t is question which is the bora..
task for a woman: To keep from te1i
Ing the truth" about her husband. or
to restrain herself In braeeinr sho, ~
her children @oout
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

fully earned. For twenty-five long
years he has served the business men
of Topeka, in his capacity as presi-
dent of a successful bank, with fide1-
ity, and while his partial retirement
from active business affairs will be
regretted the liberty he desires will
not be begrudged him and he will be
the recipient of felicitous congratula-
lions from the Topekans and the in
situations of the city he has served
So we'll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

If the people all over the country
were only quite as enthusiastic over
Mr.. Fairbanks as are the members of
the Indiana Republican Editorial asso-
citation. his nomination for the presi-
dency would be a foregone conclusion.
Here is an excerpt from their indorse-
ment of him: I'm him we see embodied
the perception OF Lincoln, the dignity
of Grant, the wisdom of Harrison, the
gentleness of Mckinley and the fear
lessness of Roosevelt combination OF
attributes that rounds out a man su-
perbly equipped for the duties and re-
sponsibilities of the chief executive of
the United States"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A lot of useless discussion would be
saved If the weather is taken as it
comes.
OF course, it takes great art to paint
a picture but 1t takes more art to sell
it.
1t is all right for a man to say things
behind his wife's back when he is
buttoning her dress.
= = y
If a girl is in love with a minister
it is proper to say that she is affected
with a divine passion.
When a ten-dollar-a-w week clerk sends
a girl dozen roses at twelve dollars
per" it usually means that he has
pawned his watch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29
KANSAS COMNENT
PRORU.EM m 1ru1Dv

among the coins exhibited to The
Beacon this week was a piece of
t sat coined 1900 years ago. 1t con-
Iains ABOUT an ounce of pure silver
ana no doubt represented at the date
OF It's issue as much as one dollar in
values of today
now II that coin had been put out
at interest, instead of lying idle all
snese years, and the increment could
De PAID to a direct heir of the man
VINO nrst owned it, what do you sup
pose the heir would be worth? That
the investment might be safe, we will
suppose it to have been loaned at 2
per cent simple interest, the interest
70 oraW interest whenever the sum be-
came doubled. This means that the
sum would double every fifty years.
AT d rough guess do you think the
nelT would De worth as much as John
y; Rockefeller is said to be today?
Wouio ne De worth a billion All we
lieeo 70 90 Is to apply the principle
Oh geometrlcal progression and if we
have patience. we may solve it.
IN 200 years there would be "a
PERIODS or fifty years each, so we
should double A times. Carried out
approximately we find that the profit
gaze ancestor Of our chosen heir, by
raining to put the silver coin at inter
est at z per cent has robbed him of
900.
The moral to this problem is that
by putting single dollar at inter-
est and leaving 1t to accumulate for
z'ooo years your heir at that time will
be worth more than the entire wealth
OF the earth at this date
VI l! that moral looks immoral be-
cause hogglsh, you may drop a penny
into the savings bank today. and in
ABOUT twenty years at per cent COM
pound interest your son and heir will
IT PAYS TO MAKE GOOD.
"A rev years ago clerk in the mail
service was accused of stealing. He
was not guilty but the odium of the
accusation stuck to him for wears He
Went out IN the world and made good
IN the face Of this. Recently he died
and a special train took his body back
TO the old home town where he had
spent MS youth, where he had under
gone the charge of theft and where
his old neighbors had been afterward
glad to do him honor. The fact of his
early accusation was not longer re-
mem ered against him. If man
makes good he has a chance in this
world but had this man lost in the bat
tie of life he would always have been
under suspicion.-Lawrence Journal
o.
LAWSON PAID TO LEARN.
Everybody knows that Tom Lawson
- ooiiocl III MS t1rade against the
american people because of their in
difference to questions which concern
their interests. The only thing remark
able is that Mr.. Lawson should have
been obliged to spend two million dol
lars TO discover truth which duller
men have always known.-Wichita
Beacon.
PUNISHMENT FITS THE CRIME.
An army lieutenant convicted of OBJ
tanning money under false pretences is
sentenced to dismissal from the army
and to imprisonment for five years Tn
sentences by court martial there is not
apt to be any failure to impose in the
way OF punishment anything that the
crime is worth.-Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

Lost, strayed or stolen-One letter
from Mr.. Ridgley. comptroller of the
currency, to Governor Hoch stating
that national banks will not be per-
mitted to participate in the state bank
deposits guaranty plan. It's funny
how it happens that important letters
and documents are the ones that go
aatray
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

Maybe 1t is wrong, but enc can not
help thinking that the Mr.. Moore, the
Norfolk newspaper man, who has
written q song called Don't Scorn
the Sailor" has something of a po-
iitical pull in view of the fact that a
bin has been introduced in congress
appropriating $4,000 to purchase all
rights to the song so that it may
come into the possession of the gov
ern ment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

1t looks as though it were a trihe
superfiuous for Governor Johnson to
announce that he will not be a can
didate for the Democratic presiden-
ttaI nomination in the event that Mr..
Bryan is a candidate. If Mr.. Bryan
wants the nomination there is no
doubt that he can have 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

That request of the railroads for a
delay in the execution of law COM
polling them to sell their coal prop
critics by May 1, which is provided for
in the new rate law. until the con-
stitutionality of this provision is test
ed in the courts, would seem to be a
reasonable one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

His Highness. or perhaps 1t would
be more appropriate to say His Low
ness. the Earl of Yarmouth now sets
UP a claim that he has a decided in
terest IN the cash of his wife, who
was Miss Alice Thaw and who is SUI
ing for an annuiment Of her marriage
TO him. 1t would appear that Mrs.
Thaw certainly has more than her
share Of troubles and worries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-29

Pictures in the newspapers anent
the marriage of Miss Gladys Wander
bilt to Count Szechenyt make it evil
dent that the houses belonging to her
mother are much grander affairs
than the palaces and castles in the
possession of the counts family,