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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
FIREslEN IN SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

All over the country just now there is
talk of stationing a member of the fire
department in every schoolhouse dur
ing the hours when the children are at
their desks. The idea, though not
wholly new, has been suggested with
special force by the evidence in the
Collinwood disaster, which shows that
had there been a fireman with an ak
inside that building when the fire broke
out he might have saved the lives of
the trapped children by breaking down
the locked doors and guiding the panic
stricken little ones to safety.
But the fire departments of probably
no cities are so organized at present as
to be able to spare men for this new
be decidedly costly, and the increased
expense seems hardly necessary, for as
a matter of fact in the Collinwood case.
for example. a janitor with an AK would
have been just as good as a fireman
And this suggests that perhaps all the
firemen in school houses could be OBJ
tanned by making firemen of the jani-
tors to the extent of giving them a lit
tie fire drill along with the children
Every school house Janitor might well
be required, for example, to see to it
that at all times the way to the fire
escapes is open, the doors unlocked. the
fire buckets conveniently at hand and
in good condition. filled with water:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
HUNOR OF THE Day

How do you get through the summer"
inquired Yorick Hamm.
colony" answered Hamlet Fatt, land
make good money talking dialect for now
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Boyce-He really isn't a beauty doctor.
Joyce-You should see some of his pa
tients.-Philadelphi Telegraph.
Father-What, let you marry my daugh-
ter? Why, sir, she's the only one I've
suitor-well. that's all right One is all
I want-Chicago News.
Miss Knox-shes being treated by one
of those complexion specialists. I would
not let anybody make that experiment
Miss Cutting-why not? He certainly
couldn't make it any worse.-Catholic
Standard and Times.
Tourist Ito Irish 1arvey, to whom he has
Just given nip Of whisky)-That's made
he's just as thirsty as the other one
London Opinion.
Money talks remarked the man with
the quotation habit.
Especially when it is fortunate enough
to get back from the race track" rejoined
De Style-What makes you think Got
ToX mas almost IlnlSneQ the cigars MS WIG
gave him for Christmas?
Gunbusta-Why, I met him today, and
he said he was almost at the end of his
rope.-Harper's Weekly.
mo one knows where lightning is going
to strike"
NO" sighed the politician, land. what
is more to the point. one knows what
the grand juTy's going to strike, either"
Detroit Free Press.
First Legfslator-I don't like the way
that subway contractor goes about
things.
Second Legislator-Why not?
First Legislator-Well, 7 don't think he
works on the 1evel.-Earvard Lampoon.
Father-If you marry my daughter, are
you sure you will be able to take care of
her in the style in which she has always
been accustomed?
Suitor(who IL In the wholesale businessI
I'll guarantee it. sir, or-or return the
-Me-Up.
Old One-In adopting a theatrical ca
reer, you are entering a touchy and jea1-
GUS profession. Keep guard over your
tongue.
New One-Oh. I've found out that I'll
have ample opportunity to think before
EQeak.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

the gray, lifeless coils Of a tiny snake.
There was an odor of chloroform
about the basket.
Lamson laughed shortly. tT sus-
pected the contents Of the basket
have seen such things in India; I took
precaution to stupefy the inmate-it
Is deadly horned viper-before I
| investigated"
How did it get In here ?" mutter-
| ed Coleman.
| looked again toward the window
draperies. which stirred slightly as by
sudden draught. "Give it up" he
said, YEARLY. He was silent and
| thoughtful for a moment, and then
he added slowly: 'T believe I will let
them have it. after all. I am tired OF
the chase; it's wearing on me. Come,
| let us go into the library" He plac-
ed the basket on the table and led
the way to a door in a corner OF tina
room.
Coleman followed him with an an
entered the library and the door clos
| ed behind them, he grasped Lamson
by the arm and began with affection
ate concern in his voice: Say. old
| fellow, don't you think that you've
sort of got the emerald on your mind?
Let 1T prey upon you you know, and
that you imagine you are being pur-
sued"
| Look! Lamson interrupted him
shortly. He had drawn aside heavy
curtain and disclosed a carved panel
| through the interstices of which the
| interior Of the studio was plainly Wis
| ible. There WAS the table beside the
fire, on it was the gem cabinet I'M
| locked; the emerald In its case and
the wicker snake basket. Suddenly
the window draperies fiuttered and q
long, 1.-THE. black-garbed figure glided
| forward; a white turban flashed in
the lamp light and beneath 1t was q
| dark-skinned face and fiercely bril-
liant green eyes. The man lowered
over the table for a brief instant and
then turned and glided back to the
window. Again the draperies stirred
and now still.
Coleman rubbed his startled eyes;
the wicker basket was gone; the His
sar emerald was gone. He followed
Lamson back to the studio and
watched his friend as he closed and
locked the open window. The artist
then stepped to the hearth rug and
| lighted a cigarette.
"And the Hissar emerald be-
gan Coleman moodi1y, when Lamson
stopped him with a gesture.
| "Is here" he said coo1ly, swapping
open his silver match box and dis
playing within its lid the rich green
sparkle and royal splendor of the His
sar -(Copyrighted 1908 by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

If you are not registered make it a
point to see that you are by Friday of
this week. It is a duty every man owes
to himself and his city. Many people
are free with their complaints about
various details Of the administration of
municipal affairs. They have 1t in their
power to make their voice in a city gov
eminent heard through their votes. But
generally those who find the most fault
are the ones who fail to register and
vote. If every man would do his full
duty as a voter the chances are that
there would not be so many complaints
going around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

Iowa Republicans fell in line with
those OF Ohio in adopting a platform
at their state convention containing a
strong tariff revision plank. Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota are expected to follow suit
and perhaps the revisionists will have
such strength in the national conven-
ton that they will be able to pledge
the party to an adequate revision of
the Dingley act which is so much
needed and so much desired by the
general business interests of the
couutrv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
GREAT POWER FROM A WASTE.


Like fairy story reads the state
rnent that man will soon practically
pick a hundred thousand horsepower
off the tops of eight roaring blast fur
naces and use it in performing hun
dred giant tasks. Yet for this purpose
is a colossal apparatus being installed
in the wonderful steel plant building at
Gary. Ind, says the Technical World
magazine. BY means of heretofore
unthought of extension Of the use OF
blast furnace gas, the Indiana steel
company will save and put to work a
power which has been only partially
used up to now, and which was once
utterly wasted. And that that power
will entirely displace steam in the great
mills, and that the rolling of more than
two million tons of steel ingots a year
will be but one portion Of the work 1t
will perform, indicates the tremendous
Importance of the innovation. For ev-
cry ton of pig iron which flowed for
many years from the mouths Of the
worlds blast furnaces, the power of
twenty-five horses was generated-and
wasted. Unrecognized, hundreds of
thousands of horsepower that might
have moved the machinery of half the
crafts that cluster around the most use
full of metals. was lost in green and
yellow pyrotechnics, before men began
to see. Now, by a process that has
been growth, but which has only
just reached perfection, the gas from
the blast furnaces is to be preserved
and used, and the wheels of the whole
great industry of steel making will pres
emily turn before it's power alone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHmoR

[From the New York Press.1
The clinging kind Of girl takes on
weight mighty fast after you get used
to 1t.
A mans idea is that his baby has
a first tooth because iSs daddy ia al
smart
What woman can't stand abo,t
the Immoral part OF gambling is if
you lose.
II you try to kiss a afrPs cheee< bar
lips are liable to get in the way 10
stop you.
Even toothache can become a
great pleasure II It's the ndrht vnu
would have TO so to e church feotssr~
II you didn't have e -sseA4s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

Many man sends his wife away for
a rest because he needs 1t.
X X X
Generally speaking, a social scale Is
a place where they weigh money.
X X
Many child has an ambition to be
the cook in the household so that she
can boss her mother.
X X
The prisoner who does not know Just
how long he Is liable to be in prison
is the fellow who has been sentenced
for life.
y X
OF course it would be an honor to
get your face on ten dollar bills but
it's much more satisfactory to get your
hands on them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

March 81 is the date set for the con-
cert in the Auditorium by MarshalPs
band for the purpose of swelling the
fund that is needed to start the ma
chinery working which will result in
the holding of a great fair here this fall
Let everybody remember the date by
buying one or more tickets for the con-
cert. Through this concert everyone
win have an opportunity of contributing
his mite to the establishment of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

In one of the Topeka public school
classes the teacher has the good plan
of having the pupils write down on
one day in the week some item of
news that has appeared in the news
papers and which has appealed to
them. This exercise was held as usual
not long ago and nine out of ten of
the children mentioned the story of
the little girl who played hooky from
the Collinwood school on the day of
the disaster and thereby saved her
life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

Not having made much successful
progress in the establishment of a
union depot for steam railroads. the
folks in Kansas City, Mo-, have turned
their attention to talking about a
union station for the interurban cleo
trio lines that radiate in all directions
from the city. 1t will now be long
distance time race between the two
projects as to which shall become a
rAalttv first
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

Emporia is Offering prize of 500 for
the best ten words about the town. We
enter the contest with this collection
Esmporia is the home of William Allen
White. Nuff Ced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

Reports from the big money centers
are to the effect that the stock market
Is still unsettled and that the financial
situation is still sensitive. Anything that
got the crack the financial situation did
a few months ago ought to be sensitive
for a considerable time to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

A Chicago woman told the court
that she had seen her husband intoxi-
Gated six days out of seven during the
entire ten years of their married life.
The judge rightly figured that she was
entitled to a divorce from a man who
had been drunk three thousand times
during a ten year period.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

There should not be much cause for
wonder over the decision Of the inter-
state commerce commission to the effect
that 1t has no control over ocean trade.
It's jurisdiction over rates and pools on
foreign commerce to a non-adjacent
country ends at the seaboard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

"P1ay Bal1r' has been called at the
local park. And for the next six or
seven months the merits and dement's
Of the players at home and abroad will
be discussed at all times and in all
places ad fnfiuitum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

If President Roosevelt's proposed
message to congress does not meet
with any greater measure of success
than did the recent one which created
such seven minutes sensation, it will
be all right to refer to it as a waste
of words, even though they are vigor-
o11S nnos
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news Or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news Is received In The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
bose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

President Alexis says he'll keep order
IN Hayti. And plenty OF warships are
IN hand to see that he does. It's case
e must with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

S. H Haynes. the Shawnee county
assessor, expresses the opinion that the
tax rate this year under the new law
win be below two per cent and probably
Ep4 more than III per cent. But al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
A HOBBY IN GOVERNMENT.

There Is always danger to government
from theorists and doctr1naires as we'll
as from corruptionists. There are zeal
OTIS who are infatuated with their own
hobbies and who are willing to labor "a
hours Of the day to inflict them On a
state or community. A few centuries
ago, when mems minds were filled with
doctrine, controversy ragged furiously
between the advocates of conflicting
creeds, all of whom wanted to fasten
their peculiar creed on the state and
compel others to believe as they did.
The Puritan brought that spirit to
America, and it isn't dead yet.
The theorist and doctrinaire are al
ways in evidence in politics and at the
legislature, where, however, visionary
ideas do not get much countenance. 1t
has been said, with some truth, that the
really best work of a legislature Is that
of putting to sleep scores of bills cal
topsy-turvy If they were enacted into
laws.
To this visionary class belongs the
initiative and referendum. 1t Is arbf-
trarily assumed by the advocates OF
that principle that the people would
readily undertake to originate bills, to
give bills that thorough discussion they
demand, and to turn out at frequent
elections to vote upon them. Experience
shows that the people would do nothing
or the kind. A single special election In
one year On the most important pro-
position cannot command more than 10
per cent of the popular vote, and such
an election Is a farce. With frequent
special elections the vote cast would bt.
less and important laws would be
enacted by the will of small fraction
of the electorate, which might easily be
controlled by selfish private interests
Newark Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
FRON OTHER PENS
GAMBLING ON THE EXCHANGE.

GAMBLING ON THE EXCHANGE.
The movement to straighten the
crooked paths in the business world,
which has been sweeping over the
country for several wears past, under
the inspiration Of President Roosevelt,
could not be expected to leave untouch-
ed the demoraHzins gambling that
goes on constantly on the stock ex-
change and the boards Of trade. 1t is
surprising, in fact, that the evils of
speculation have so long escaped.
The reason Is to be found in the Difficult
ties involved in drawing the line be-
tween the legitimate business trans
actions and the purely gambling opera
tions on the exchanges. Many efforts
have been made in the last 20 years
to legislate on the subject, but the same
snag has been struck by every such at
tempt. Some measures have gone to
such extremes that they would have
closed the stock exchanges and boards
of trade, and demoralized the legitimate
business for which they were organized.
Congress is considering now some bills
that are just as far reaching as any
that have preceded them. They would
destroy the legitimate business Of the
exchanges while seeking to eliminate
their evil features.
Boards Of trade and stock exchanges
have strengthened the public prejudice
against them by opposing all attempts
to eliminate. or. at least minimize, the
gambling operations in stocks and farm
products. There are certain evils in
the transactions on the exchanges
which should be rooted out. Every
body recognizes this, except the COM
paratively small number Of men who
profit from them. If the legitimate
business men on the exchanges are
wise, they will cooperate with law
makers in the effort to get rid of these
evils, rather than assume an attitude
Of opposition to all legislative attempts
to cure them.-Kansas City Star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-07-21
TOLSTOY DRAWS A
DREADFUL PICTURE
Russian Philosopher issues Ter
ribIe AHaignment of Gar.
SLAUGHTER ON THE sCAFF0LDS

Most Severe Indictment Ever Penned
by Famous Author-G Government
and RevoIutionists Pursuing
Same Criminal Course.
London. Daily Chronicle
prints three close columns of the
most passionate and severe indict-
ment ever penned by Count Leo Toll
stoy, the Russian author, in which he
shows all his old vivid literary skill,
of the present system of government
by executions" in Russia, the article
closing with noble appeal to the
better nature of his countrymen. In
the course of the article Tolstoy
writes:
81 can no longer endure it. Iwrite
this 1. either that these in
human deeds may be stopped or that
my connection with them may be
snapped and be put in prison, where
| may be clearly conscious that these
horrors are not committed on my own
behalf, or, still better ESQ good that
dare not even dream of such happi-
messy that they may put on me, as on
those twenty or twelve peasants,
shroud and a cap, and may push me
also off bench SO that by my own
weight may tighten the well soaped
moose round my old throat"
After describing wholesale execu-
lions in grewsome detail, Count Toll
stoy says:
"All this is carefully arranged and
planned by the learned and enlight-
ened people of the upper class. They
arrange to do these things secretly at
Sdaybreak, and they so subdivide the
, responsibility for these iniquities
among those who commit them that
each may disclaim responsibility; and
not these dreadful things alone are
done, but all sorts of other tortures
and violence are perpetrated in the
prisons, fortresses and convict estab-
lishments; not impulsively under the
sway of feelings silencing reason, as
happens in fights or in war, but, on
the contrary, at the demand of reason
and calculation, silencing feeling.
What is most dreadful in the
whole matter of this inhuman vio-
lence and killing, besides the direct
evil to the victims, is that it brings
yet more enormous evil on the whole
people by spreading depravity among
every class of Russians
Tolstoy refers to the shocking
spread of greed among rufffans to OBJ
tain money by executing condemned
prisoners, and says:
awful as are the deeds them
selves, the moral and spiritual unseen
evil they produce is incomparably
more terrible.
With regard to the Governments
contention that there is no other way
to suppress the revolutionists, Count
Tolstoy, while admitting that the rev.
olutionists' crimes are stupid and rep
rehensible in the highest degree, ac-
cuses the Government of doing the
same thing for the same motive, and
add: "All the revolutionists' bomb
ings and murders do NOS come any
where near the criminality and
stupidity of the deeds the Govern
ment commits"
Tolstoy argues at length that both
the revolutionists and the Russian
Government are pursuing the same
objects by the same criminal means,
and that if there is any difference it is
in favor of the revolutionists.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-07-21
The World of Snort.

Evelyn Howell, thirteen, swan five
miles over a measured triangular
course in Flushing Bay, N. Y.
BY Encouragement of racing dates
there will be no conflict between Sara
toga and Empire City, and there will
be no October racing at the latter
course.
1t has been agreed by the racing
associations interested that the En-
pire City meeting. including many
stakes, will be run off at Brighton
Beach in August, following the Sara
toga meeting.
G. J. Mccarthy, Of New York City.
won the dry fly casting contest at the
third annual meeting of the Anglers
Club, Of New York. at Harlem Mere,
| in Central Park.
Charles S. Clark, son of Senator
Clark, OF Montana, has registered col
ors and has engaged a trainer and
an agent, who will soon gather a
stable of useful horses to be raced on
the Jockey Club tracks.
Willie Anderson, of Chicago, won
the Western open golf championship
at st. Louis, with Campbell, Of Bos-
ton, and Nichols, of Milwaukee, tied
just behind Mcleod. Of Chicago, who
| was second
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-07-21
RAILROADS DOING WELL.
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Lane Looks For Improvement.

Washington, d. C-"Returns from
the railroads generally show that
those roads not dependent upon coal,
steel and lumber industries have been
doing very well recently" said Com
missioner Lane, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. "Of course,
they have not done so well as last
year. Generally they have decided
not to make any reductions either in
wages or in rates of freight affecting
the next three months, which is an in
dication that they believe business
will keep up.
with the opening of the steel
mills at Pittsburg and of the car
shops, more men will be employed
and there will be larger demand
for material as well as labor than has
prevailed for some time. The opin-
ion of railroad men is that we have
passed through the worst of the rail-
road difficulties, and from now on we
will gradually recover from the eff
fects of the panic.
''The prospect for large crops in
the West is extremely good. Rail-
road men do not expect normal con-
ditions to be recovered suddenly, but
look for steady improvement. In my
opinion this improvement will be
much more rapid than some of the lu-
gubrious prophets have been telling
us, because fundamentally there is
nothing in the United States to create
or continue panic.
s'The railroads must spend money
in maintaining the roadbed and
equipment of their lines in order to
meet the demands of commerce, be.
cause they are most seriously embar.
/ rhssed when they are not able to han.
die business offered to them, an6
there is no doubt that there is ar
abundance of money in the United
| States which can be secured for legit
innate railroad Investment. This wa!
shown by the floating of the Penn
| sylvania bond issue"