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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
TAFT Is TAFT.
made.

After the nomination of William
Howard Taft as the Republican candi-
date for the presidency, during the
campaign preceding his election, and
even now in some skeptical quarters,
all kinds of talk has been INDUCED to
the effect that his administration Will
be directed to a greater or less extent
by Theodore Roosevelt; that the Taft
reign would be nothing less than
continuation of the Roosevelt dy-
nasty with the present president as
the real power behind the throne. Oh
course, the men who really know Mr..
Taft have repeatedly come to the front
with assertions that Mr.. Taft is and
always has been his own master and
that he will continue to be while he is
president, regardless of the fact that
Mr.. Roosevelt was greatly responsible
for his nomination and also that Mr..
Taft strongly believes in many of the
Roosevelt theories of government. By
this time the people. generally, have
also arrived at this conclusion.
But if anything was needed to make
this idea a certainty it is found in the
current issue of Golfers national
weekly where a story is told publicly
for the first time that rather than
resignation as secretary of war in the
Roosevelt cabinet. 1t was not accepted
but it is none the less an Illuminating
incident of the caliber of William How
ard Taft. George Griswold Hill tells
the story. He details the incidents as
happening during the Roosevelt cam
paign for election four years ago. Mr..
Taft was assigned by Mr.. Cortelyou,
the secretary of the treasury but then
+he chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee, to make some
speeches in Connecticut. In this state
MANY farmers have turned their atten-
ton to raising tobacco on the advice of
the federal secretary of agriculture.
Tobacco raising in Connecticut Is
looked upon as an infant industry
which needs all kind of protection from
a Maternal government through the
medium of a tariff. Mr.. Taft went to
Connecticut. During the course Of his
first speech there he put forward his
welI-known arguments on the duty OF
the people of this country, through the
party in power, to remove or most ma
terially reduce the tariff on tobacco
and sugar from the Philippines. The
tobacco farmers of the Nutmeg state,
Republicans good and true, stood
aphast Even Mr.. Cortelyou's breath
was taken away. Before Mr.. Taft
had a chance to make another speech
Mr.. Cortelyou penned his diplomatic
letter to the effect that Mr.. Roosevelt's
candidacy might be injured if Mr..
Taft INDUCED in any more talk along
that line 1t was suggested to Mr.. Taft
that he could make campaign speeches
without touching on this subject at all.
AS Mr.. Cortelyou took his orders for
running the campaign direct from Mr..
Roosevelt it was reasonable for Mr..
Taft to suppose that Mr.. Cortelyou's
letter on the subject had the endorse
ment of Mr.. Roosevelt, although it is
not known that Mr. Roosevelt had a
thing to do with the Cortelyou letter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.1

Il
A dollar will go further in politics
than argument.
While you are waiting and hoping.
you die of old age.
Breaking in a new servant girl at a
house is almost as bad as a fire.
AS soon as you try to make profit
on your friends, you have no friends.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who made New Years resolutions.
1t is also tough to receive a lot of
ed to give any.
A mans promise to a candidate is
as worthless as his promise to a Wo-
man to quit chewing tobacco.
Before a woman is married, she is
half crazy about 1t, but after she is
married. she forgets all about it, and
goes to putting up jelly.
If two men have a conversation to-
day, they cannot agree tomorrow upon
what they said. A man should give a
receipt for his conversation.
81 think you are nice girl" a man
said to a girl acquaintance the other
but am satisfied that your heart is as
cold as the end of a dogs nose"
An Atchison man of so who has tried
to distinguish himself in every way he
could think of, finds at the close of his
life that he has nothing to be proud of
except good well.
When boy goes hunting with a
friend, and returns with five rabbits.
never ask him how many of them he
killed, unless he mentions the subject
himself. If he killed three of them, he
will mention the fact. but if he says,
I'VE killed five that means that the
other boy had the best luck"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29

Anyhow, Mr.. Taft took a day off and
penned with his own hand a letter re-
signing from the Roosevelt cabinet. He
declared that he could not recede from
his position in regard to the Philip
pine tariff on sugar and tobacco and
having no desires to hamper in any
way the Roosevelt campaign he would
sever his connection with Mr.. Roose-
velt's official family. This resignation
was sent to the president who promptly
returned it with the endorsement,
Dear Bill:-Fiddledeedee, T. r." which
was Enthusiastically Rooseveltian, to
say the least. That ended the incident
but it shows the mould of the man that
Mr.. Taft is. AS Andrew Carnegie says,
one of the things that the people Of
this country can well be thankful for
is that they have a man of such char
acter as Mr.. Taft for their next presi-
dent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
KANSAS COMNENT
PAYING THE PENALTY.

Wilma EVAN, a pretty dry goods
clerk In Topeka, and Leon Detlor. a
pressman on the Capital, were to be
married in March. Monday morning
the girl died in hospital in Kansas
City, the result of a criminal operation,
and that same evening the young man
threw himself from the fifth story of
the Capital building. and met the death
he sought.
Detlor was a hard worker, had no
bad habits, did not drink, and was well
liked by his associates and regarded
as promising young man by his en-
ployers. The girl had been employed
in millinery and dry goods stores in
Iopeka for five years, having gone there
from Baldwin, Kan, to seek employ
ment. She was pretty and attractive,
and the woman with whom she boarded
had never seen anything immodest in
her conduct.
The man loved the woman. She was
detached sort of person, with no home
In the town where she lived, and no
fore this have gone wrong who had
mothers. 1t was an environment in
which all the bars were down, and the
man was young and needless, and the
girl, like the manner of all girls in love,
believed he would not counsel any
wrong, and thought only of pleasing
him. The result is not surprising: The
surprise is that the world is so un-
charitable that the man and woman
feared it SO greatly that the young wo-
man went to a strange town, and sub
mitted to a criminal operation, and
faced death, rather than let it know
her shame. She didn't know there were
any kind people. In her terror Of the
future, she saw only scorn and con-
tempt. When it was found she was dy-
ing the young man was sent for. He
stayed with his sweetheart till death
came, then telegraphed the tragic news
to her mother in Baldwin, and return
ed to Topeka, where he put an end to
his miserable existence.
They had not wronged others; they
had sinned, but the blame of the sin
was not entirely theirs; there is a
it falls on everyone who is unkind and
scornful and bitter when a girls love
for man is greater than her strength.
The rarity of charity is the real pris
oner at the bar.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Divorce is also a marriage alter.
Many a self-made man ought to be
ashamed of himself. but he Isn't.
There's plenty Of room at the top
for the fellow who has an empty head
There are lots of things we should
forget TO remember or remember to for
get.
It is pretty safe to assume that the
HONEYMOON is over when the husband
gets the first dressmaker's bill.
Love is blind" quoted the Wise Guy.
ANY one with half an eye could see
that" commented the Simple Mug.
When you have money your friends
are all anxious to shake you by the
hand but when 1t Is all gone they viii
shake you altogether.
Wigg-''The Subbubs have invited me
to come out to their place and take pot
luck" Wagg-"I didn't know the Sub
bulbs ever played poker"
81 pine for you." sighed the youth.
The maiden smiled. You are the apple
of my eye" he continued. "A sort Of
pineapple, eh?" suggested the maiden.
Newlywed-"I believe all married peo-
pie should put something by for a rainy
day." Oldbach-"Yes, 1 don't suppose
they know when they may be called
upon to defray the expense Of d.
yorce."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29

The election Of Herbert Hadley to
the governorship of Missouriis certain
ly most opportune in one way. The
supreme court of that state has de-
cided that the Waters-Pierce Oil
company must sever it's connections
with the Standard Oil company if II
is to continue it's business in Missouri.
Mr.. Hadley, as the attorney general of
Missouri was responsible for the
instigation and the pressing to a sue
cessful conclusion of this most i'm
portant case. And now as the COVER
nor Of Missouri he will be in the
necessary position to see that the
mandates of the court are obeyed by
this company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A wise man who gave his boy drum
for Christmas also gave him something
to burst the head of it.
The individuals who are actually on
the dead level are limited to those rest
ing in the cemetery.
x x X
About the only persons who are likely
to gain anything by fattering people
are the photographers.
% Il X
man can generally break his wife
of the habit of giving him cigars if he
smokes a bunch of them around the
house.
Maybe the fact that misery loves COM
pany is responsible for the invitations
some folks give to others to dine with
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
FROM OTTER PENS
POOLING THE NEWSPAPERS.


A Daniel has come to judgment in
the Vermont legislature with a bill in
tended to guard newspapers against
takers" 1t makes the giving of false
news to a newspaper with intent to
deceive punishable by fine ranging
from SIS to $40 for each offense. We
hope that the Vermont lawmakers will
lose no time in making the bill a
statute. Its enactment will fill a long
felt want of Vermont editors and blaze
the way for the relief of those of other
states. One Vermont paper has been
victimized by q practical joker who
by false represent atoms procured the
publication of a marriage notice"
greatly to the annoyance of the editor
and the parties untruthfully said to
have welded. A few years ago a
Massachusetts, paper had a similar I'M
happy experience, despite the precau-
tons it had taken to guard itself
against imposition. On a larger scale
the New York World confesses itself
victimized in the matter of the Hale
Kaiser interview. The joker should
be made to pay for his humor, and the
imposter treated to a touch of the
laws severity. There is a popular i'm
preston that all is grist that comes to
the mill of a newspaper, that the
editor will publish and does publish
everything the neighbors bring in,
whereas the truth is what his rendered
for publication is carefully scrutinized
as to its authenticity Tran
script.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Doniphan county folks are enter
tanning an epidemic of mumps these
days.
1t is reported taht two of Water
passing a petition around to have
Leap Year continued for another
twelve months.
Prairie chickens are becoming such
a novelty around Jewell City that
when flock of them is seen
nowadays the local papers are par
ticular to mention it.
Warren Knaus of the Mcpherson
Democrat takes a Websterian view of
the balance of trade. He thinks it is
what comes in and not what goes out
OF a mans pocket Cor country that
makes him rich.
The Sterling Farm Journal is for
John A. Johnson of Minnesota for
president in 1912 and the Wichita
Beacon suggests the nomination of
the editor of the Sterling paper for
presidential elector from the
Eighth district.
Rare animals are being added from
time to time to the zoo which the city
of Wichita has established. Among
the latest additions are two hol-
Capra and also of the Angora variety,
in other words, Angora goats.
An enormous white swan is staying
at Sugar lake for the winter season,
according to several AtchiSonians, and
either the bird has charmed life or
poor shots. They have fired re-
peatedly at it but have been unable
to bring it down.
Last Sunday a number of our fell
low toWnsmen entertained themselves
with a dog fight at the stock yards,
says Pawnee Rock correspondent.
An event of this kind ought to be
worth more extensive write-up. For
instance, the names of those attend
ing the fight would have been a de-
cidedly interesting detail
1t costs Ho1ton citizens $3.50 to pay
Evangelist Oliver, his assistants and
the expenses of the revival meetings
held by them during a recent week.
The Salina Journal notes that the
good roads movement is getting con-
siderable sympathiZing interest in
these days when the roads are frozen
and it is impossible to do any work on
them.
Along the streams in Butler county
are mink, musk-rats, skunks, coons,
possums, etc, according to a local
paper but 1t is hard to understand
what kind of animals is included in
the "etc." Anyhow, these animals are
so plentiful that one man in the
neighborhood actually made $50 last
winter from the pelts of the animals
of this variety that he trapped.
Mr.. Forbes. the town marshal of
Syracuse, had piece of real hard
luck the other day. He tried to stop
a dog fight by throwing a stone at
the belligerent pups but his aim was
poor and the stone crashed through q
plate glass window, valued at $40.
Now the question is Will the town
have to foot the bill? Was the mar
shall doing public duty when he in
terfered with the fighting dogs? If
one of the dogs could give his
opinion about it he would probably
insist that the marshal had no right
to butt in for if there is anything that
a dog hates is to be interfered with
while he is giving another dog a
beating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
mPORK-.

What is reported to be matter of
much concern to many members of
| both branches of congress is the pos
sibility of the failure of passage at
the present session of the measure
which has been aptly likened to "a
barrel of pork a general rivers and
harbors appropriation bill. 1t has
| been the custom for a long time to
pass such a measure at least once in
every two years and in it some good
fat sums of government money have
been apportioned among the various
congressional districts in the country
that are traversed by ever sc insig-
nificant a stream of water. Some of
the undertakings for which money has
been appropriated in measures of this
sort in the past would be most laugh
able if they were not SO serious. About
the most that has ever been accom-
plished under the majority of the APP
preparations in this act has been the
providing of jobs for contractors and
the expenditure of government money
in certain districts.
But the Republican leaders in con-
gress, who above all others will be
held by the people as being respon-
sfble for the administration OF the
governments affairs, are in doubt as
to what will be done this year in the
distribution of pork No such bill
was passed last year. In the order OF
things however, it is due at this short
session, but government deficits of all
sorts are piling up on every hand. A
halt of some kind must be called and
the leaders rightly think that a good
start can be made by mailing cover
good and fast on the pork" barrel.
This is a good thought, no matter
from what angle it may be looked at.
But in eliminating the distribution of
lot of fat and juicy pork the lead
ers of congress do not want to over
look the taking of proper steps to con-
tinue the development of the plans for
the conservation of the waterways of
the country and their Improvement to
conditions that will make them most
valuable.
Appropriations for this work prop
erly come within the scope of the riv-
ers and harbors appropriation bill
and the sooner chat congress takes
this matter up in earnest the better IL
will De for the country and all con-
cerned. But no pork should be per-
mitted to grease it's way through APP
Precipitation bills OF this character in
the future. A systematic and COM
prehensive plan for the development
of the waterways of the country
should be decided upon and appro-
priations made for it, either directly
from the moneys now in the hands of
the government or through the issue
of bonds. If all of the money that has
been foolishly and extravagantly ex-
pended in providing the influential
members of congress with pork had
been devoted to the actual improve
ment of the important waterways in
the land, a good sized start on this
great work would already have been
lT1oo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
AFTER CHRISTMAS.

We have but little time to stay, and
one departed may return no more, as
the great Omar says.
Therefore would it not be a fine
thing ifthe Christmas cheerfulness and
generosity and good will were main
tanned throughout the year, and not
laid aside like an old garment when
the Christmas bells cease ringing.
Every man feels better for the
Christmas season; he feels better
for having loosened up a little, and
for having wished happiness to others
than himself and it would be easy to
feel good all the year round. There is
no earthly reason why your cordially
should be shelved Immediately after
Christmas.
The experiment of being cheerful
and generous and helpful for twelve
months is worth trying, since it has
been shown to be profitable and
agreeable for week.-Emporia
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
TAXATION TROUBLES.

According to a Topeka dispatch, the
state tax commission, in its report to
the legislature will censure tax officers
of the state for Ievying more tribute
from taxpayers than they should dur
ing the past year. Most of the excess
tribute was levied by school district Of
f1cers, it is stated. This is a matter
attention to which was called by the
Leavenworth Times some days ago.
1t stated that in Leavenworth county
in some school districts, the boards
in fixing the levy did not take
into account the certainty of a
heavy increase in. the valuations,
and that therefore they raised consid
erably more money than was needed,
thus putting an added and unnecessary
burden upon the taxpayers. The state
tax commission urges that such excess
sums be carefully guarded, so that
these districts shall be able to get
through next year with an extremely
small levy. 1t was a mistake of this
character that was responsible for
some of the unusually heavy taxes
which property owners in certain dis
tricts of this county were compelled to
pay this year, and not a fault of the
county commissioners as has been I'M
fairly charged.-Leavenwort Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29
VITALITY IN THE COURTS.

Among other things that the Taft
administration will signalize and take
mart in is the readjustment of the
courts There is going to be the great
est rafting of dry bones among judi
cial precedents in the next few years
that has attended the discontinue of
dry bones in any of the American
skeleton chests.
President Taft WILL of course, give
personal and administrative attention
to only the federal tribunals and pro-
cedures But the repair work in the
federal system will be accompanied by
similar remedial processes involving
the state judicatures.
There will not necessarily be much
undertaking in this department of the
governmental revision. There viii be
some unpleasantness disclosed, doubt
less but the chief trouble with the ad-
ministration of justice in America has
lain with the archaisms of the judicial
systems and the selfish devotion to
outworn traditions on the part of the
lawyers.-Kansas City Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29

The simple, rural New Workers liv-
ing near the old Camp Woods, Staten
Island, had been in terror O. nights
recently. Mysterious nocturnal noises
In the woods, blood-chilling boots, af-
frtghted those dwelling near Anboy
road, North Tottenville.
Mothers scared naughty children
with the threat. '"rhe spooks in the
good Even Bill Berlinger, an en-
ployee in the bureau of buildings and
mighty hunter, who lives near the
Camp Woods, feared to enter it after
dark. But swearing he would capture
or kill the uncanny terror of North
Tottenville, whatever it might be,
brave Bill Berlinger armed himself
with his double barreled shotgun and
strobe into the woods Monday after
noon. And with him went his trusty
friend S1las Brown, a local lawyer,
who carried club that would serve
Fiji warrior.
They searched the underbrush; they
tramped the edge of the swamp land !:
they peeped up trees; they fould not
nor saw a creature, spooky or in the
flesh. Returning homeward about
dusk, they were passing hollow
stump of a tree; something inside
the stump rustled.
Brave Bill Berlinger and trusty
Sllas Brown jumped back a pace or
two; then Berlinger. recovering him.
self, said: "a rabbit" and thrust
his hand in the stump hollow.
He touched feathers, not fur A
big red horned owl flew wildly from
the stump in brave Bits face; his
shotgun slipped from his trembling
fingers. The owl savagely tore Ber-
fingers face with it's claws; with its
beak tore a piece from his nose, kept
at him, half-blinded, until. with a
blow of his club, Silas Brown felled it.
dead.
Chauncey Jones of Wards Point, an
amateur taxidermist, is stuffing the
horned owl. Mounted, 1t will be pre-
sented to Bill Berlinger as q slight
token of North TottenviIle's apprecia-
ton of his bravery. These bucolic
New Workers have not been so excited
since Aubrey Whites bull calf com
m1tted suicide by drowning itself in
Sam Buffers water trough some years
ago.--New York World,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29

Live and learn. Carrie Nation who
is now devotinE her attention to the
British Isles, announces that next to
whisky, tea is the worst drink there
IS. ''In fact" she says, cit is like the
DEVILS own broth. 1t is as bad to
drink tea as it is to take morphine"
So when Carrie gets back home, and
inasmuch as there are few joints in
Kansas now to demand the attention.
of her axe. 1t is probable that many a
dining room in the homes of the peo-
pie will be raided about the supper
hour and the furniture and crockery
smashed to smithereens if cups of tea
are found on the table. This is not
a pleasant prospect, to be sure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29

''Ain't it awful. Mabelr' Indeed, it's
worse than that. Just think of it.
Some Washburn students actually held
a dance on the top floor of the new
Rice hall. A photograph furnished the
music and some candles furnished the
light but who furnished the feet for
the dance is the mystery which the
Sherlock Holmes of the Washburn
faculty are trying to ferret out. But
outside Of the Washburn faculty,
whose dignity and authority have been
so terribly injured. it is certain that
every person in this neck of the woods
who dances is sore that he or she did
not get an invitation to the affair
Could anything be more delightful than
a dance under such circumstances?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29

Not a little wailing is going up in
various localities in the state because
It is beginning to appear that all of
the Jobs at the disposal of the new
state administration and the legisla-
ture are going to those who affiliated
with that clan of the Republicans
known as the square Dealers and
who nailed the banner of success so
firmly to their standard on the last
election day. Well, why not? To the
victors belong the spoils and the time
81 not so far distant when any Repub-