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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
THE FIRST DAY ar sCHooI,


Dear mother. may 1 go to school
With Brother Charles today?
Q. yes. my little Maud, II Doctor
Evans says you may.
Your. arm must show a perfect scar
(What trouble that avoidsD
your tongue be clean: your little throat
Be free from adenoids.
Here is your dinner pail I've placed
Some thynol iodide,
With H2O2. HCI,
And some formaldehyde.
Here are a pair of rubber gloves,
Which must be boiled. you know:
And here's some antiseptic gauze,
In case you stub your toe.
When mamma was little girl
She learned her A, B, c.
But you must learn to swab your throat
With KClO3.
Here are your disinfected books.
And fumigated Clothes
Now whether you can go or not
The goodness only knowsi
Chicago Record-Hera1d.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

the valley. Poor mountain" she
said. chow lonely it will be when we
are gone and the winter comesl"
She shivered a little. ITS such q
gray October day." she added.
what are your plans7" he ques-
toned.
drearily; when 1 can leave mother,
I will go to work. In the meantime
we will live with a distant cousin"
1t was on his tongue to tell her
how he loved her, but he felt that
this was not the time nor the place.
Here he must be her protector. not
her lover.
That night he could not sleep and
at last he rose and looked out of the
window. The wind moaned and sighed
IN the trees. the moon was overcast by
clouds, somewhere in the distance he
heard drunken song. As he listened
the song grew fainter. Some of the
miners were going up the mountain.
He dressed hurriedIy and followed.
AS he came near the little camp he
heard the snarl of angry voices
mingled with Eleanor's clear tones.
You must let the pony alone" she
said. eat once"
Then as the whistle of a lash cut
the air, she spoke again. 'If you
touch him." she said, I'll shoot"
Christopher came into the circle of
the freight on a run. a half dozen
swarthy men were grouped about the
pony. Within the cart covered Mrs.
Ames Eleanor stood on the back
step and pointed her pistol straight at
She was enveioped in a long rain
coat ana her hair was braided into
two long golden ropes. She looked
like a child with her white face and
slight figure, and when she saw Chris
topheer she swayed toward him.
oh, make them go away" she
cried. helplessly. and the pistol
n cd md n i'm nd
at the sight of his set face they at
once began apologies. 1--WE just
wanted to have some fun with the
pony" they said. but he waved them
away. "I'il deal with you later" he
said. and they skunk away in the
shadows.
Then Christopher went to the girl.
who was bending over her mother.
in the comfort of a strong mans
presence. 'I was very silly" she said.
but they looked such brutes."
Eleanor made some coffee under the
cup to Mrs. Ames, who was still in
the cart, he came back and issued
orders.
81 am going to drive you down into
the valley he said; you and your
mother must spend the night at one
of the farm houses"
"But'-Eleanor protested.
There are no butts" he told her.
You are to obey" and he smiled
down at her
The light from the dying fire
showed the tenderness in his strong
face, and seeing ii she said, "Oh,"
with quick-drawn breath.
Dear heart" he murmured, "just
once you must obey-but if you could
promise to love and honor always, we
might make marriage service of 1t
tomorrow-there's a little church in
the valley and I know the minister"
You are doing it just to take care
of me-" she said, flushing.
He took her hand in his. 81 am
doing it because love you" he said.
SHALL we find the little church,
Eleanor"
ooh, who would have believed that
the road to Already led there ?" she
whispered, with a wonderful light in
her eyes.-(Copyright 1908, by AS
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
No mans credit is so bad that he
can't borrow trouble.
Even when a fellow takes his meals
out he must also take them in
The thirsty man resembles a sponge
except that a sponge isn't always Dry
When the Arctic explorer goes alec
turing he shouldn't be afraid OF q 1rost-
Only a spendthrift will realize on
his opportunities before they come 10
him.
If you don't believe it's the unex-
pected that happens ask the weather
man.
Irrespective of years. the age at
which a minister should marry is the
parsonage.
CSuzzler-"Yes. I come of a long
lived family. My grandfather is SO and
has never used glasses" Wigwag-"Ai-
ways drinks from the bottle, eh?'
Wfgg-'I never knew a fellow so
trusting as BJones." Wagg-''That's
right The other day I saw him buying
a bottle of hair restorer from a bald
headed barber"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If there is more inconsistent
animal than man 1t hasn't been dis
covered as yet.
Nothing falls quite as often and
with so little injury to itself as the
shades of night.
4 X n
People with poor eyes certainly
ought to enjoy spectacles that can
never be forgotten.
n X u
Among the undesirabIes are per-
sons with keen perceptions and blunt
ways of conveying them.
x y X
Why doesn't some typewriter manu-
facturer put key in a machine that
will make a blur? It would come in
handy for those who are bad spoilers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
Telephones and Country Crime
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

[From the Atchison Globe.1
Everyone should like his kin, but
everyone does not.
A man who has fished much can
readily detect lie in fish story.
When a barber steps out Of his shop
a moment, a customer always comes in
Some girls CAD so much that they get
homesick when they have to stay at
home.
The notion that it is only possible to
sin or act foolish in a saloon, is a seri-
Gus mistake.
A man stops hoping to be rewarded
as he grows older, and prays that he
will not be punished.
What hit manager of an Uncle
Toms Cabin show could make by
having Little Eva's ascension in an
airshiD.
An Atchison man was reprimanding
another man for swearing before a lady.
why" he exclaimed, eff my mother
had heard me swear before a lady. she
would have knocked me down"
Whenever a woman says in company
that she has nothing to wear another
woman will cry out: What has be-
come of that grey wool you had last
of a black silk she had two years ago,
and another wants to know about a
brown dress she had four years ago:
the women always know exactly what
another woman has had in the past five
years.
When a man has been i'll as long as
a month, 1t is whispered about that his
family neglects him, and in a great
many instances it is true. The people
so soon get used to seeing a man sick,
and they become reconciled to his
death even sooner. The best care he
receives is that which is paid for. A
dollar wears longer in a sick room
than love- This is an additional argu-
ment why you should lay a little mon
ey by for sickness and old age.
It is related that once it fell to an
Atchison man to break the news to a
woman that her husband had been kill
ed. do you know" he said calling
at her house, that with your light hair
and pretty complexion you would break
every heart in town if you were dress
ed as a widow2' She blushed and
laughed. And you are one" he added.
Your husband was just blown to at
oms at the stone quarry" But the
black is becoming to you," he added,
as he left the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.I

A woman's idea. of fine dinner Is
not what there is to eat, but who takes
her in to it.
You will always notice how crank
makes all the other cranks think they
aren't.
1t takes all the fun out of doing the
most interesting thing in the world to
get a salary for it.
The reason a girl is always light
hearted when she comes down to
breakfast is she doesn't feel so.
The only way to get man to agree
with you in an argument is when he
wants to borrow money from you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
DIvERsIFIED FARMING

The promise is that the losses re-
sulting from the boil weevil in Louisi-
ana will cause a material change in
the crops of the state and tend to
bring about a great diversifcation of
them From all directions comes the
information that a great deal of land
hitherto in cotton will be differently
planted next year, the planters and
farmers being unwilling to take the
boil weevil risk.
There was a move in this direction
of diversification some years ago,
when the price of cotton ranged so low
that there was no money, If not
actual loss, in it's cultivation. The call
cotton" idea was strongly denounced
at the time and the farmers were
urged to try food crops, to which this
section is so we'll adapted. When,
however, cotton Doomed" up again
in price the farmers went back to it
and it became as predominant in the
south as it had ever been.
Another reversal has come in the
last year, through fear of the boil
weevil. Planters and farmers are
everywhere reported as considering
what they will plant in its place; and
the agricultural bureaus and expert
ment stations are being flooded with
inquiries asSto what is best adapted
for this or that section. The farmers
will be able to see how much good the
experimental work carried on in the
last few years has accomplished--New
Orleans Times-Democrat-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

From the biennial directory of the
living graduates of Yale university,
which has just been issued, it is
learned that of the three oldest living
Yale graduates of which the univer-
slty authorities have any knowledge,
one of them is Kansas farmer, Mr.
Chester Dutton, who lives on rural
free delivery route No. 8, Concordia.
Mr.. Dutton graduated from Yale in
the class of 1888, or seventy years ago.
There are but two other members of
this class now alive They are Will
liam F. Cooper, a lawyer, of New York
city, and Henry P. Hedges, a lawyer,
of Bridgehampton, New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
HUNOR or THE Day

1T is said by some of the critics that
journalism seldom leads to the production
Journalist is not likely to become a man
of letters" Nonsense. Nothing in It.
What we want said one statesman,
lis to get the big financie sis, to work for
the other You cant get big finaneier
TO ToF F6r f6T aWsSg sT got to
Father-well. Gladys. where have you
been all morning? Daughter-I went fish
ing with Tom. Father-Hm! Did you get
a good catch? Daughter-No; only Toni
Town Topics.
''Hows yer husband after the accident,
Mrs. Ginnerty?" Faith, sumtoimes he Is
the way he swears and yills an, takes on
whin he's betther. Oh think he's betther
whin he's wurse Puck.
Are you aware" said the philologist.
that some of these, campaign orators
answered Senator Sorghum, well be
lucky if they, don't split the party
Washington Star.
where were ye last night. Casey7''
sh%re OF Plingsd, into the sc, soshal Swim at
niver very dape there, an judgin' firm
Puck
Politician-We will carry the country
this fall. Constituent hope IS, So Inc The
long enough.-Puck.
Papa" enthusiastically exclaimed the
youth as the vast audience at the Grand
opera rose to its feet applauding and
shouting its approval at the flnal crop OF
the curtain chow tickled everybody Is
that this thing is over!"-Bvening Sun.
Teacher Catching Tommy fishing on
Sunday)-Do you know the wages Of sin7
Tommy-Is this a sin? Teacher-t I'M
doubleday is. TOMMY don't want wages
for this. I'm satisfied to dc 1t for fun
illustrated Bits.
1--WE lust figured out how the Venus de
Milo came to lose her arms" HOW
"She broke them off trying to button her
shirt waist up the back
You're such a wretched writer it's a
wonder you wouldn't get a typewritinS
machine" IT would. only that would
show what a miserable speller I am. -
The Catholic Standard and Times.
First Society Matron-Ive just paid 800
for a fascinating little rag to wear 70
your bridge. Second Society Matron-So
charmed! Who is your raRman nowT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

Mr.. Morse, the wrecker of the Ma
tional Bank of North America, and who
was recently sentenced to Is years i'm
prisonment for this financial trick that
he played, swears that he is unable to
pay his debts even though at one time
he was credited with being worth $22,-
OO0. 600. There is little reason for won
der that he is in his present financial
predicament. He had the services of
a couple of able New York lawyers to
defend him in his recent trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
FRON OTHER PENS
NATIONAL BANK DIRECTORS.

NATIONAL BANK DIRECTORS.
The comptroller of the currency
has sent a list of troublesome ques-
tfons to each national bank director.
One of them is as to his familiarity
with the national bank act. 1t is said
that since the comptroller sent out
his queries there has been an I'M
exampled demand for copies of the
law. The natural presumption is
that it never has been perused by
many of those who should be
thoroughly acquainted with its re-
quirements and its penalties
Any director who is able to answer
in the affirmative all the searching
questions put by the comptroller may
be set down as a man who under
stands his business and whose bank
is safe. There are many to whom
this description does not apply. There
are honorary directors, who are put
in merely because they have re-
spectacle names that may draw bust
ness. There are dummy directors
picked out by the man who controls
the bank, because they may be de-
pended on not to look curiously into
it's affairs or attempt to stop him If
he should enter upon forbidden ways.
If all the sham directors could be
weeded out, and the genuine article
substituted for them, a national bank
failure would be a startling event
Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

Topeka is fast becoming the conven-
ton city for the state and also for this
section of the country. A. number of
these affairs are scheduled here for the
near future and the record for the year
in this regard will be larger than ever
before. This is as it should be. There
are few cities of the size of Topeka in
the whole country that have such am
pie hotel accommodations. such an ex-
cellent auditorium for large conven-
lions and so many adequate halls for
smaller ones. OF course it is polite
for some organizations to hold their
annual gatherings each year in differ
emit sections but they all are always
glad to get back to Topeka when the
time comes and Topeka is ever pleased
to have them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

81 know of nothing more despicable
and pathetic than a man who devotes
all the working hours of the day to
making money, for the moneys sake"
This rather excellent sentiment is the
feature of the second installment G.;
John D. Rockefeller's "reminiscences
which are appearing in the The Worlds
Work And 1t would seem to indicate
that a good deal of the great hoard of
money which John D. has accumulated
has been thrust upon him, as 1t were,
for If he hasn't piled it up for the
moneys sake" what has he got it for
and for what is he holding onto it?
Surely it is too much for the needs OF
any one man. no matter what they
may be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
TAFTS ELECTION MEANS BUSI-
- NESS.

Justly or otherwise. the voters got it
into their heads that Taft's election
meant a business administration while
Mr.. Bryan'sl meant politics. In the
very nature Of things Mr.. Bryan would
have been compelled by his, platform
and promises to have overthrow exist
ing conditions and create new era.
His new era when settled might
leave the country in better condition
than it is now, but 1t would have taken
at least four years of unrest and po-
liticaI turmoil to have brought it about.
The people felt that existing evils were
not bad enough to justify the business
disturbance that was bound to follow
Mr. Bryan's election.
The Beacon does not mean to state
that the Democracy is any less patriotic
or substantial than the Republican, but
it is a fact as established at the polls
that the business men of the country
saw in Mr. Taft better agent for pro-
gress in business than in Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Taft promised to conserve present
conditions while Mr.. Bryan promised
an overturning-Wic Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

Watch the year 1909. which is soon to
be ushered in, closely. If it does not
make a record for reign of old Cen
eral Prosperity in all his glories, well.
then, all the signs which are now blaz-
oning forth the indications to that end,
are most unreliable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

Mr.. Roosevelt's defense of Mr..
Taft's religious beliefs is a good strong
document and argument on the right
to religious freedom on the part of the
people of this country, either in pub
lie or in private life, and which they
really do enjoy above all other people
of the earth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

A change in the name of the local
Commercial club is not as desirable or
necessary as is a change of heart
among the business men of the city
toward a more active participation in
the workings of the organization. But,
perhaps, the latter will come with the
former. It is to be hoped SO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

Internal trouble and excitement is al
ready in the brewing for Japan. Her
national legislature is to meet on De-
cember %. And if they happen to think
of it, many of the commonwealth of
the United States will extend their
sympathies for they will have legisla-
lures of their own on their hands be-
fore long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

One cannot read the personal remin-
sciences of John D. Rockefeller which
are running in The Worlds Work,
without forming the opinion that he
must be a pretty likable sort of an
old chap. regardless of the countless
evil things he has been indirectly ac-
cused of doing in the parts he has
played in building up the Standard Oil
company to its gigantic proportions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Indications are that President Roose-
welt favors the election of Elihu Root
by the New York legislature as the
successor to Tom Platt in the United
States senate. That ought to settle the
question as it undoubtedly will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11

There is a wonderful joy these days
among the meat packers of the eoun-
try, and with good reason. For long
time back they have been Dragging
Of the fact that in the process of
alaughtering and disposing Of the re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-11
Service bal the Oahinet.

If President John Adams had been
a man of different temperament the
custom might have been established
IN the early years of the government
or the United States of retaining the
CABINET of one administration for SER
vice with its successor, where that
successor succeeded to the political
Ideas of its predecessor. President
Adams sought at first to retain
through his administration the mem
bers of the cabinet of Presid ent Wash
| 1ngton. Indeed, at that early period
the status of a cabinet officer was
not exactly that of the present time,
and in the course Of President Adams
rows with the members of his official
household he resorted to the strange
step OF removing his Secretary of
State, Tim othy Pickering, and James
McHenry. his Secretary of War.
President Jefferson, of course, took
new cabinet. President Madison con-
t1nued in his administration a num-
Der of the cabinet officers of Presi-
dent jefferson, and President Monroe
held some of his predecessors. John
Quincy Adams also continued to meet
about his council board some of the
advisers of James Monroe, but An
drew Jackson began his administra-
ton with an entirely new set of Of
fetal counselors. He maintained also
another set of advisers, unofficial, who
became known as the Kitchen cab
met"
had acted respectively as Secretary of
the Treasury, Secretary of War, Secre-
tary of the Navy, Postmaster General,
and Attorney General in the cabinet
of President Jackson retained their
seats under President Van Buren,, but
changes only awaited the passage of
time.
President William Henry Harrison's
cabinet was brand new and John Ty-
lerF sought to keep it together after
Harrison's death, but in less than six
months all had resigned, except Dam
lei Webster, the secretary of state.
Presidents Polk, Taylor Fillmore,
Pierce, buchanan, and Lincoln each
formed a new cabinet.
President Johnson's difficulties with
certain members of the cabinet that
existed at the death of President Lin
period, when for the second time in
American history the question of a
cabinet officers right to retain seat
which the President wishes to have
vacated came up for angry contro-
versy, cabinets by mutual but tacit
understanding end with the admin
strations.-Boston Globe.
Telephones and Country Crime.
1t is the country which needs the
police on the telephone most of all
Help in difficulty can generally be Sc
cured from neighbors in a town; but
in country districts the isolation of the
majority of the houses is a real dan
ger. There is neither the capital nor
the enterprise available for the proper
exploitation of country districts and
until the postal and police authorities
shed their official skins, nervous
ladies in remote country districts
should keep bull terriers. After all,
a dog on the doormat is worth two po-
licemen at the end of a telenbona wire