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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
POSSESSION OF DYNAMITE.

In order to lessen crime and ordin-
airy violence states and municipalities
have undertaken to provide for the
licensing and registration of the sale
and possession of weapons.
Concerning dynamite plots or In
dividual crimes New York contem-
porary has done well to revert to a
suggestion that DR.. D. A. Chatard, an
eminent chemist and once president
of the national organization OF chem
lists, made some years ago at a Wash
ington convention Of his society. He
advocated a federal law making it a
penal offense for individuals to have
dynamite or other deadly explosives
in their possession, and authorizing
police visits to homes Of suspects and
providing for severe punishment of
offenders against the act. Only auth
orized persons and corporations en-
ploying dynamite in Industrial pursuits
would then have the legal right to
buy and keep deadly explosives.
Some doubt has been raised as to
the constitutionality of a federal law
regulating the sale and possession OF
dynamite. But there is no question:
ing the validity of proper state laws
on municipal ordinances covering the
subject.
The same principle that applies to
knives, pistols. guns, ETC., applies in
this day of terror and dynamite out
RACES to the sale and possession of ex-
pIosives. AS to the efficacy of the
suggested regulation, of course, no
one would assert that it would do
away with bomb throwing. The man
who was desperate and criminal
enough to contemplate wholesale MUIR
der by dynamite would not hesitate to
break all conceivable laws and Or
dinances in the effort to obtain his
stuff. But the object of all laws in
regard to deadly weapons is to render
it more and more difficult for the
wrong persons to procure such instru-
ments of crime, to reduce the danger
of their use and add as much as pos
sible to the safeguards enjoyed by
the community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Are the new hats called Merry
Widows because husbands are likely
to drop dead when they get the bills?
X X n
man doesn't have much appetite
for anything else when he has to
swallow his pride and eat his words.
X X X
Satan won't put janitors to work at
the furnaces because they would be
sure to turn off the heat
- X y
Nobody objects to fair criticism
but trouble arises over differences in
the understanding most people have
Of the word "fair.''
= X x
In one way it is certain that the use
of tobacco does not impair the MEM
DRY, for man can remember for a
lifetime some cigars that are given
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
rrALY's DAY OF REST Law.

Italy has adopted recently decided
ly unique law insuring a day of rest
each week to all working men and wo-
men. The purpose has been attained
without causing the suspension on Sun
day of the various industries which
enable the people to enjoy amusements
which the authorities say and believe
keep them from greater mischief Thus
the railway and street car lines. the
places Of amusement and public utili-
ties are kept In operation on Sunday,
their employees having their holiday
upon some other day in the week.
The law specifically enumerates the
Industries which may operate on Sun
day as follows:
Those operated by continuous fur
mace fires, the work of which must not
be interrupted; cheese manufactures;
restaurants, bars. cafes, coffee houses.
billiard rooms and public business
concerns in general; loading and un-
loading operations in the port and YES
sci repairs. transportation by land 9TH
er than by rail: hiring of chairs and
carriages; flower businesses, photo
graphic establishments, pharmacists
undertakers; newspaper offices, infor-
nation bureaus, theatrical perform
ances. and public amusements; cigars
and salt stores, even if there be offered
for sale other articles; Industries of
public necessity"
Those whose employment is in the
open air and subject to interruption by
bad weather may also work on Sunday
while the following trades are permit
ted to operate between a. m. and
noon: Dealers in foods, insurance.
emigration and employment establish
ments. advertising and loan offices and
barber shops.
The law has been in operation two
months and apparently gives general
satisfaction. permitting all classes a
day Of rest, yet interfering with the
recreation of none.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

According to the Beacon there are
no vacant lots in Wichita. Every one
which would otherwise be vacant is
occupied by a baseball diamond.
Forty contractors made bids on the
job of building the waterworks plant
for Frankfort. 1t appears that a few
contractors are looking for something
to do.
Burton carpenters act just like their
city brethren, and strike was ordered
last week because a nonunion carpen-
ter was put to work on a building
where union men were at work
Conductor Sam Lightcap. who runs
through Russell on the Union Pacific,
has begun the fortieth year of his SER
vice on the road. The conductor must
be trying to make a century run.
It is now said that Stockton is great
ly agitated because the mules of the
town arouse people in the early dawn
with their brays. Stockton is not the
first town that has been kept awake
by jackasses.
A deputy assessor in Wilson county
he can find on the premises In excess
Of the number reported by the owners
OF fowls. This is in compliance with
his construction Of the new tax law.
Although Jewell county raised no
corn worth mentioning last year. the
people OF Jewell City bought 81, 400
worth of watches, silverware and cut
glass at an auction last week. This
may be why the county Is called Jewell.
The Atchison Globe revamps this
story: "Stuttering Ben observed that
grocer was not giving full measure
Of oil to customer, and called out:
Jim. can tell you how tito sell TT
twice as m-m-much oil as you d-d-do
now Well. how?' asked the grocer.
'Ffll-y-y-your m-m-measure.'
Major J. c. Anderson, who is now be-
ing urged to become a candidate for
governor Of West Virginia on the DEM
ocratic ticket, was formerly of Atchi-
son. In the SOS he was an express
messenger on Butterf1eld's overland
dispatch between Atchison and Denver
He lived on a farm near. Good Intent,
and this place is still known as the AL
derson farm.
Being mayor of Holton Is no fun. If
you don't believe it, ask Mr. Kuhn.
The other day woman called him up
on the phone and asked him to come
and chase the chickens out Of her yard
When he asked who was speaking to
him she haughtily informed him that
she did not care to have her name ap-
pear in the matter. Being mayor, of
course he was supposed to know all
about the chicken business, and in
what part Of town her particular part
Of the trouble was located.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
A telling situation-The bank tel
ler's.
Many g. prosy person is weil-versed
in poetry.
Even the playwright may write q
play wrong.
Many man moves in the best cir
cles who is also on the square.
Some fellows go shooting for game
birds and some merely for a lark.
1t is just as well to u1so keep some
of your enthusiasm for a rainy day.
The books that are in greatest de-
mand are the Bible and the, pocket
book
A woman wants her husband to be
an open book to her, especially a
check book.
The trouble with sober second
thought is that it seldom comes till
the morning after.
He who neglects to return a bor-
rowed umbrella must expect it to cast
the shadow Of suspicion on him.
Many a man in the theatrical bust
ness bitches his wagon to a star only
to find that the star won't draw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison G1obe.]

[From the Atchison G1obe.1
Somehow, We always dislike to see
a cook smoke or chew tobacco
The man who is always contem-
plating never gets any work DONE
When a woman drives a horse she
is always whipping him with the
lines.
1t isn't what father can afford in
most families; it is what the children
want.
Don't pat a young man on the back
too much: admiration does more
than criticism to kill ambition and
ability.
The more worthless a man is when
he leaves town, the greater the
probability that he will come back.
A man could beat the women's rec
ord in the number of surgical opera
lions, If having his LEG pulled" count
ed.
If YOU have an ambition to be pop
ular, don't tell people about yourself;
let them talk to you about themselves.
The world is full of men and wo-
men who do nothing. They general
1y impose on someone who works too
much.
There are so many worthless men
| in the world that a man who behaves
| himself half the time, is tolerably
| sure to become distinguished.
The women's idea of a nice modest
girl is one who does not try to f1irt
with any other girls sweetheart. The
| masculine idea is one who does not
| f1irt at all.
When a woman's friends tell her
she should get out more in pretty
weather, and let the homework go,
| she looks reproachfully at her hus-
band when she says she can't
When a man invents anything, all
his friends assist in setting him crazy
| by saying it certainly is a great thing,
and will make him rich, although
| they know nothing about it.
| When a man dies. it is customary
| to say that he left a vacancy that will
/ be hard to fill. There isn't any va
cancy left. If you take a cup of
water out of the river. it leaves no
vacancy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
A BUDGET OF SOCIETY NEWS.

Between the Vanderbilts, the Goulds
and the Elkinses, our best people" Mrs.
Grundy is having the time of her life.
There have been family councils at
home and abroad to consider pending
marriage proposals, and the doors of
the divorce courts have opened to sep
arate marriages that were not made in
heaven.
did not find matrimony to be
one grand sweet song. as the
poet says. His answer to his
as the poet says. His answer to his
wife's divorce "biH.'' as they say in
New England, reads like a chapter
from Zola, a composite so to speak of
Mana and L'Assommoir. 1t was not
the best people, in France that lola
depicted, as the Nanas and the Cou-
peaus were the daughters ard the sons
of the people. Heredity. environment.
the social system, as lola attempted
to show, were responsible for girls like
Mana and drunkards like Coupeau.
The Vanderbilt divorce case is being
tried in camera, and only gossip in re-
lation to it is being printed Mr.. Alfred
wv ylluC NahoCi Oiit, tbC SCSOAio oOtl VI
Cornelius, who was made heir to his
vast fortune because of parental dis
approval of young Cornelius marriage
prefers tooling a coach between Lon
don and Brighton. and the compan-
ionship of stable boys to his wife's
company. This is a reversion to type
for old Commodore Vanderbilt loved
| horses. but the family at that time had
not chummed with royal potentates
and nothing was said about the COM
modore's low tastes"
The Gould family council, an imita-
ton of royalty, has finally consented
| it is believed, to admit the Prince Helie
de Sagan as a sutton for the hand of a
| daughter of the House of Gould. The
| is not touted as love match like the
Elldns-Abruzzi romance. Both Madame
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
BEING CANDID.

Speak out and get right down to taclEs:
Tell grafters they are stealing:
Tell doctors they are wrotched Quacks
That make BLUM at healing:
Tell politicians that they lie
In matters they have stated
It's very easy when you Try:
Be candfd-and be hated.
Tell singers that they simply sQuan:
II honest they'll admire you.
Tell prosy people when they cau
They're awful bores who tire you:
And wind they are inflated.
Let no good chance to prick them pass
Be candid-and be hated.
Tell hypocrites they're talking cant,
And. war with humbug waEing.
Tell actors that they strut and rant;
Tell women they are aging.
Conduct yourself upon the line
That have indicated,
And as q critic you will shine
Be candid-and be hated.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

Iowa comes forward with a minis
ter who gambled for the office of
mayor of q city and won. At the re-
cent election in Polk City the minis
terial candidate and his opponent
had tie vote. The preacher suggest
ed that penny be tipped to deter
mine the winner. This was done and
he won. 1t is not reported how he
now stands with his congregation. but
the chances are that they care not
for In Iowa any old thing goes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
ropeka.s gain of seventy-three new

Topeka's gain of seventy-three new
factories during a years time is most
gratifying. 1t does. not take half an
eye to see that this city is enjoying a
healthy and steady growth as a
manufacturing and a business center.
There is no reason why it should not.
It's location and transportation facili-
ties are ideal And if there is a finer
residential city in the whole land it
has not made it's presence known as
xrof
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
HUlN0R or THE Day

What's the difference between vision
..see those two girls across the strestT'
We'll the pretty one I would call q Wis
lon OF loveliness, but the other one-shes
OLD Gentleman-very charming old Sc
dilla you have here.
means the fust as as admired 'em. That's
where the clergymen used to sit In the
order of their senility.-Punch.
rowne-.There was a spelling bee down
at our church the other night. The pas
Browne--No; was it interestingly
he gs1s aat We're The first three
goes out where does it GOT
Mrs. lGaylord-I don't know, dear. You
might just as well ask me where your
rather goes when he goes out.-Chicago
Tell me-" said the young woman with
literary aspirations. "how you contrived
azine?'
The eminent author smiled. ct owned
the magazine, he rephed.-Cleveland
There are the bridal rooms" announc-
ed the bell-boy to the blushing yong cou-
'.oh. what a sweet suffer- exclaimed the
bride.
9! don't know anything about that"
says he hopes the suite suits."-Brook-
lyn Life.
Now" said the good fairy, ct will en-
dow you with tenaotty. prudence. fore
lily acquire wealth."
RosaI am going to sell kisses at the
poor people whose houses were burnt some
time ego.
misfortunes were great enough as it is
Meggendorfer Batter.
do you think kissing is dangerous7"
Not when you're in the parlor and all
the doors are closed. journal.
| that you have mastered all OF the modern
Prof. wise-An but my wife's.-Brook-
lyn Eagle.
oa Aaysr tss On the ss
TT isn't comnserciahsm. exclaimed the
manager. We want the scene 70 look
like real meadow. don't wer'-Tit-Bits.
Lady" said Flooding Pete. would you
help a man OATS seen better days?"
After generous meal she ventured to
inquire: when was it that you saw bet
ter days?"
"oh. bother" complained the modern
hero Cant you FIX me up with a few
secret rebates instead?'-Pittsburg Post.
What a singular-looking counter
panel" said the eminent physician. 8
Counterpart! exclaimed his wife. Yet
you are supposed to be one of the greatest
| authorities in the country on brain dis
easel"
1T fail to see the Connection.
That's crazy quilt. you ninny."-
Rustic-what makes these blamed
owner Of Acknowledging had just paid
a repair i1D-Money.-Chicago Tribune.
Whatever may be the artistic success
of the blade Of grass game the man who
can make two dollars grow where one
grew before reaps a more advantageous
harvest.-Puck.
in the world! Do you know. our dear old
pet cat disappeared very suddenly yester-.
day. Excuse me, Mr.. Rudolph. will you
have another piece Of rabbit pie?" Mr..
Landlady Can hour later)-That is three
more pies saved. This season viii be a
profitable one indeed-London Tit-Bits.
II have the greatest respect" said Wise.
''foT the man who says what he things"-
who always Drided himself on his can
dor.
And" continued Wise, meaningly. '.the
greatest contempt for the man who says
what he thinks he thinks. "-Cathoiic
Standard and Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press 3,
A mean thing about swearing of IL
unless you do it every day or so.
The more friends q man has the
more he'd better not ASK them to do
anything for him.
A girl likes to have man not make
love to her once in a while SO she can
say he did.
The average man can take a tre-
mendous interest in most anything If
1t is OF no consequence.
A woman brags about the money
her husband makes 80 that their be-
ing poor won't seem 70 bad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

It's about time, as is indicated by
the news dispatches, that the business
men of Chicago are optimistic over
business conditions and are certain Of
a speedy return of prosperity. The
business men in this section of the
country have been in that frame Of
mind for some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

Senator Elkins has asked the press
to stop gossiping about the possible
engagement of his daughter to the
royal Duke of Abruzzi. He makes the
request rather impossible to be COM
piled with by failing to either affirm
or deny the engagement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

for city of the size to take up by
popular subscription for such a pur-
pose, or for any purpose for that
matter. Certainly the rank and file
of Coffeyvfllians are public spirited
individuals and their examples might
well be emulated by the people Of
other communities in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

They're evidently going to do their
best to make prohibition prohibit in
the new state of Oklahoma. A con-
struction has been placed on the law
to the effect that the carrying Of bot
tie OF liquor is prohibited and a man
is liable to arrest for violation of the
law If one is found in his possession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

The girls of the junior class of the
University of Kansas have made bid
for real fame. They have decided to
eliminate cab service on the night of
the annual prom and will walk to
the big event instead of riding. Their
names ought to be emblazoned in gold
on the pages of the institutions his
forv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

Surely no taxpayer in the county
will have word to say about the &C
ton of the county commissioners in
making an appropriation of $25 a
month for the Florence Crittenton
home, unless it is to remark at the
smallness of the sum. This institu-
ton is a most worthy one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

II looks count for anything the
Topeka Turner team that Is to repre-
sent Kansas in the International
funniest at Frankfort Main,
Germany, will win all the medals. In
asmuch as they are quite as good ath-
letes as they are good-lookers they
will probably get their share of the
prizes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14
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
ganizatfon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news Is received 10 The State jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
Dose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

A. Farmer" Smith of Mcpherson
has announced that he will not be
q candidate for the Republican NOM
1nation for governor. Whose candi-
dacy will this help?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

The Japs have handy word. 1t is
something like "kanshin." 1t means
most ravishing, beautiful. delightful
and all else that's nice. But it seems
TO have been imsused by a party of Jap
tourists who have applied it to Chi
caro
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

Activity, on the part of the Paris po-
lice resulted the other day in the ar
rest of three noted anarchists. They
had in their possession a whole cart
load OF dynamite. Probably they made
bombs by the wholesale for their less
Intelligent and murderously inclined
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

j. w. Kendrick. second vice presi-
dent of the Santa Fee. has just COM
pleted tour of the lines of the COM
pany in the west and southwest. And
he sees behind the clouds that were
stirred UP by the recent business de-
preston an effulgent sun of pros
perity He believes that the crops
along the routes of the Santa Fe will
be record breakers this year, and rec
ord breaking crops hold the command
ing position right in the van of the
army led by General Prosperity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-14

Coffeyville may well be proud of the
fact that her citizens have contribut-
ed 100000 to a fund which is to be
used in securing new industries for
the city. Surely there will be many
cities in Kansas that will brush their
eyes and sit up and take notice. This
Coffeyville fund amounts to IS for
every man, woman and child In the
town. It Is really q mammoth sum