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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe. ]


Does the woman who goes around lee
turing about Home Life fool anybody?
There are not as many. people in the
world as there are heroes in the novels.
When a woman goes to a neighbor s
house for a minute" she stays an hour.
Did 1t ever occur to you that there Is
a good deal of fun in being shocked?
If it is not too. small for the bulk of
the woman who has it. a small waist is
very attractive.
The people should be reminded .oftener
that genius Is finding the right thing and
sticking to it.
AS we grow older 1t is harder to get
the look ON our faces the photographer
insists upon seeing there.
Every once in awhile we meet some
man on the streets who says he is rest
ing that we know never worked.
About the first thing girl does after
she has been told she has a fine figure,
is to have a princesse dress made.
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who had her photograph taken
with one hand holding half-opened book?
A woman should not have been engaged
any oftener than she has been married,
and she should not have married more
than once.
If the present sentiment continues grow
ing. in the future mothers will not let
their children play with the children of
bank receivers.
Probably no buyer of a railroad ever
felt the financial glow and happiness a
woman experiences when she sells quart
of milk to neighbor.
It's a fine thing to be boy. Boys are
fused at a good deal. but it is, neyerthe-
less. a fine thing to be boy. boy gets
more out of life than a girl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

Eyes. that's 1t. 1 must take a guide to
show me to civilization. Ny work ia
done, now. / want to live in my own
country, therefore, I must have that
guide. I-I-there Is only one l want,
and want her for Iife." he stammered,
but ne looked at her with no uncertain
light in his eyes. "I am presumptuous.
I know. am nothing but a barbarian,
as I told you. but perhaps with the
guide it might be different"
He turned suddenly and caught her
hand in his own. "Can I have that
guide ~ he asked unsteadily.
The girl arose. Her face was scar
let, but her eyes were looking into his.
"Your first lesson will be in bridge"
she said. "Come in, and I'll teach
you"
But Duncan caught her in his arms
and held her fast.
Yes, dear" she murmured. 'T loved
you from the very first, you were So
so unspoiled by what Tn going to
guide you to."-(Copyright. 1908. by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

TFrom the Chicago News.1
What's the matter with the tongue as an
express agent?
The less man tries to understand q
woman the more he does.
The winner in a political contest can see
the world is growing wiser.
iGve a small boy a piece of chalk and
he will make his mark in the world.
Every time a woman gets sick she won
ders If she will look well as a corpse
Sympathy in the abstract makes no i'm
preston on man with an empty sto1n-
ach.
People don't think much of your opinion
unless YOU happen to think as they do.
One of the worst things about being
single Is that you are always in danger
OF being married.
A doctor practices on his own patients,
but an amateur musician practices on the
patience of others.
You'll never catch on II you don't try:
and after catching on. don't be afraid to
let go IL necessary.
During courtship woman. builds a lot
of air castles. but after marriage she does
her dreaming at night.
If a man could get himself talked about
half as much as the weather does he
would soon become famous-or notorious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
THE CAUSE OF THE WRECK.

Financial and business panics are
exceedingly handy things on which to
lay blame for everything under the
sun which happens to go awry So
not much surprise is called forth by
attention being directed to the fact
that If it had not been for the recent
financial panic, which compelled most
OF the railroads to retrench consider
ably in all lines, the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad company would
have been able to double track that
portion of its line between Braddock
and Walton, and accordingly the re-
cent disastrous head-on collision there
would not have occurred.
But surely the Santa Fe officials.
who are calling attention to what
would not have happened If there had
been no financial panic and the COM
pany had been able to continue it's
work of double tracking its line
through this portion of Kansas, do not
attribute this as the real reason for
the wreck. In fact it is little or no
ports of the smash-up, which most
fortunately resulted in only one fatal
ity. one of the engineers did not pay
wreck resulted.
Thus is it no more than reasonable
to credit this wreck to human frailty for
no intelligent engineer, and the great,
great majority of them are intelligent
and keenly alert to their great respon-
sibilities, would purposely disregard a
signal Railroad engineers, no matter
how careful and efficient they may be,
are nothing but human beings after all
They are just as faulty in construction
as all other men and are just as liable
to make mistakes. But they are at
tremendous disadvantage over other
men. Most every man in the course
of days work makes a mistake or
two, many of them so trivial perhaps
that they do not count for much when
the efforts of a day are considered by
the generally good results achieved.
With the engineer on the road it is
different. His slightest lapse of atten-
| ton, and there are countless things
occurring to distract it, is liable to be
! fraught with the gravest of dangers
and results. A slip on his part through
failure to properly interpret an or
der or to see a signal usually means
disaster, most often more dangerous to
himself than to the precious freight
that is trailing behind him.
There are countless railroad wrecks
which can be attributed to pure
roadbeds improperly cared for. to de-
fective rolling stock and defective
rails. But there are many othAr rail-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
from the Philadelp

TFrom the Philadelphia Press.l
Shops are announcing fall openings. So
are the chestnut burrs.
The football player may be sluggish
without being a slugger.
Many woman puts everything on her
back to make a good front
The value of experience is only demon
strated by the after effects.
The things we get for nothing are gem
orally the things we don't want.
The autumn bride who goes AWAY in
a touring car is really an autonobilc
bride.
There isn't a great deal of difference
between being called down and being
shown up.
Even the man whe is laying up treas
ures in heaven shouldn't allow his fire
insurance to lapse.
Did you ever notice that the henpecked
man does the most Growing when he is
away from home?
"Contentment is better than riches"
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes but give the
average man the riches and he'll be con-
tent added the Simple Mug.
Blobbs-'I never saw such sour-faced
fellow as Grouchleigh." Slobbs-sNo. he
looks though he would rather crack
a looking-glass than a joke"
Wiggs-"What happened to your auto
mobile? 1t looks pretty well battered IN
Wagg-"I ran over a book agent the other
day and struck him square on the CHEEK
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

for the past year of more than mil
lion dollars after the payment of all
fixed charges and dividends from the
net earnings. The vice president OF the
company told the state board of rail-
road commissioners recently that his
company would improve its tracks and
roadbed in this state whenever its
earnings on its lines in Kansas were
such as to permit it to do So The
annual report shows the road to be
earning pretty good money but maybe
it's officials can present figures to show
that none of these earnings resulted
from the operation of the road in this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
THE LEGIsLATOR,s PAY.

An amendment to the states consti-
tuition which is to be voted on at the
coming election that is worthy of the
support of all the voters of Kansas, ir-
respective of their political affilia-
tions, is the one which increases the
pay of the members of the legislature
from So day to $500 for regular ses-
sion and 500 for a special session.
Indeed, it might have been better if
the trainers of this proposed constitu-
tional provision had placed the salaries
Of the legislators at a higher figure.
For every man, every laborer either in
public or private life, is worthy of his
hire. And any man who is considered
by a legislative constituency to be able
and intelligent and honest enough to
represent it in the states legislature is
surely entitled to more for his services
than a really paltry So a day which is
barely enough for living expenses to
man, who like most all of the mem
bers of the legislature has to provide
himself with a temporary home of
some sort in a city other than his own
and who in most cases also is forced
to maintain a residence of his own in
his home town.
1t certainly must have been a trifle
humiliating, to say the least, to the
legislators in the past to receive the
same per diem wage that has been given
to the negro janitors and other en-
ployes around the legislative halls.
Most of the other states in the union
are far more liberal with their legis-
lators than Kansas has been or even
proposes to be. New York. for instance,
pays her state senators and members
Of the lower house $1,000 a year and
has annual sessions of the legislature
and there has been talk in the Empire
state for some time that even this sum
is far too small for the legislators.
A legislator who is adequately paid
for his services, as he should be, is
more apt to withstand corrupting in
. fiuences than one who is ex-
pected to serve for love or for patri-
otism.
While discussing this subject of the
right of the members of the states leg
islature to a reasonable salary 1t might
be pertinent to call attention to the fact
that Kansas is not any too liberal in
recompensing other of her public SER
wants adequately. The salaries at
tached to many of the important state
offices which impose onerous and ex-
ceedingly responsible duties on the
holders of them are miserably small in
comparison with the service demanded
Kansas insists on a high degree of ef-
ficiency and honesty in the conduct of
her affairs at the hands of the men
who are entrusted with their adminis-
tration. And yet she does not come
anywheres near providing them with
compensation accordingly. This mat
ter of fixing the salaries of the state
officers at just figures is one which
ought to receive the careful attention
of the coming legislature. Kansas
wants the best of her men she can
possibly get to carry on her govern
ment and she is now affluent enough to
pay them we'll and pay them literally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Marriage may be elevating but it is
not much good in lifting one out of
debt.
X X
Most persons have trouble enough
without anyone bothering to give them
any more.
v
Few individuals have any difficulty ar
all in fixing up arguments TO quiet
their consciences.
x X X
During this campaign as in others
which have gone before. most men re-
main faithful in supporting their fam
lilies.
\ X y
Generally a youngster in a family
where there is a baby merely has the
distinction of being the baby's broth
-er.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

road wrecks. like the one which just
happened on the Santa Fe. which can
be charged to no other thing than the
frailty of human nature, the liability
OF engineers as well as other men to
make mistakes. To be sure, this is
not a pleasant condition of affairs to
contemplate But that makes it none
the less true. And there will be wrecks
just like this one, occurring with more
or less frequency, as long as railroad
trains are operated by human beings,
which will probably be to the end of
time or the end of railroads. ts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

The endorsement given by the COM
rnittee of two hundred to Fred S. Jack
son. the states attorney general, John
J. Schenck, the Shawnee county attor-
ney and John Wilkerson. the Shawnee
county sheriff. is just and proper one.
These men have discharged the pub
lie trusts imposed on them in an emf
nently satisfactory manner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

Napoleon must be resting uneasily
in his grave just now. To his France
belongs the honor of opening a way
for the peaceful settlement of the diff
nculties which almost precipitated a
war in the Near East. Think of Ma
poleon's land acting in the role of a
peacemaker. Surely do the times
ehanpa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

TF'rom the New York Press.l
The only close listener an orator has
is himself
A man wants to have his children well
trained If his wife will do it.
It's reasonably safe to place trust in
people who have no chance to betray
it.
The less a man knows about making
love to a woman the more she can do
1t for him.
A satisfactory thing about your van
ity is how sure you are it is only modest
szannAniatlnxz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

It is gratifying to ascertain that
even the state railroad commission
ers, erudite as they are, are not too
old to learn. Commissioner Kanavel
reports that the meeting of the Ma
tional Association of State Railroad
commissioners, which was held recent
ly at Washington and which he at
tended. was a great source of instruc-
ton to those engaged in that line of
work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

Oklahoma is fast removing its crimi-
nails from the Kansas penitentiary and
when they are all gone there will be
q shortage of labor at this institution.
This is the kind of a labor shortage
that a state can well gloat over even
II it means the curtailment of the ex-
tent of some of the industries operated
In the states prison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

More of Topeka's good ball players
have been called to higher spheres in
the baseball world and the champion
ship team of the recent season has had
many big holes punctured in 1t. But
1t is safe to say that Dick Cooley will
gather another bunch of likely ball
tossers who will be in the running for
next years Western Association pen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

The police do not seem to experience
much trouble in enforcing the laws
against "crap-shooting' with consid-
cradle success and for which they evil
IDENTIFY think they are entitled to a few
medals, promiscuously distributed
among them, but the same can not be
said of their efforts, If they make any,
TO stop certain Automobiles from
shooting" through the streets at
reckless and dangerous rates of speed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

Advices from New York are to the
effect that after his African hunt Presi-
dent Roosevelt will become an associate
editor of the Outlook. the philosophical
magazine of which DR.. Lyman Abbott,
the distinguished divine, who succeeded
Henry Ward Beecher in the pulpit OF
Plymouth church. Brooklyn, is
the editor. Mr.. ROOSEVELT
work in connection with the Out
look will be devoted to the discussion OF
political and economic topics This will
probably take but a minimum of his
time for he has such a facile pen that
a days work on his part at writing
would fill two or three numbers of the
magazine, unless it's size is to be en-
larged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal e a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the fun DAY
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news is received in Tho State Jour-
nal building over wires Cor this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

It is respectfully suggested that an
adequate addendum to various of the
football teams in this vicinity would
be some efficient hospital corps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

An Illuminating contribution to con-
temporaneous literature MAS been fur
nished by Jim Jeffries. erstwhile cham
pion pug of the world. in which he
sizes up the various prize fighters of
this and other lands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
FRON OTHER PENS
MAKING OF MANY LAWS.

Lieutenant Governor Chanlers VINO
is canvassing New York state in an
the head of the state government
makes a point in one of his recent
speeches that should have a wider
application than can be given 1t in
local campaign. Mr.. Chanler says
the people of this country are gov
erned too much. that the constant
addition to the bulk of statutory en-
actment makes law enforcement in
creasingly difficult and obedience to
law more lax.
The contrast between this argument
and the plea of the ordinary political
aspirant win not fail to impress the
reader. The almost universal cry is
for more law. more control and cor
respondingly less individual respon-
sibility for right conduct. Experience
teaches that laws unless backed by
public sentiment prove of no avail,
while public sentiment has many ways
of enforcing its will even If it is not
expressed in statute. There are many
situations arising from time to time
that demand new laws. many and
obvious reforms, demand LEGISLATION TO
carry them into effect. Yet most
thinking people will agree that we
have a superfiuity of laws and show
too little inclination to curtail the con-
slant output of statute making
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
Prof. William Milligan Sloane, of
Columbia university, president of the
American Institute Of Arts and Let
tiers, has revived the old discussion of
the American national anthem. the
search for which has continued for
generations, despite the popularity OF
certain tunes. 1t is believed that the
subject will be taken up for formal
consideration shortly by commission,
and it is quite likely that before many
months have passed the American
people will be formally told that they
have no national air worthy the name
and asked to supply the deficiency
1t has often been said that no
American audience can be relied upon
to sing through 1.-The Star Spangled
Banner for even one verse. Perhaps
out of a hundred people one may
know the words and be able to hold
the air, with its wide range and
severe demands upon the voice Yet
that is the nearest approach to an
American national air, and it is not
of native growth. The words of Fran
els Scott Keys poem were set to the
music of an old theatrical tune, which
had been in turn Borrowed from
European sources. America" on the
other hand, is a direct adoption of
the British national anthem. which is
of Teutonic origin, and is at this time
the recognized national air of several
of the German principalities.-Was ASH
inEton Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

These instructions which the Re
publican and Democratic state leaders
are sending out from Topeka ito the
party workers over the state urging
them to keep wide awake on election
day. and on the night of that day
when the votes will be counted. so that
neither one side nor the other can
steal the election, will strike many
people as being ridiculously academic.
1t is safe to say that the days of pro-
curing state and national elections by
petty thieving are in the past.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

Particularly pertinent to Kansas at
this time is the publication of the an
nuaI report Of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
NAY company which shows surplus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

Ed Howe's particular friend, the La
dies Home Journal. seems bent on
merrily pursuing it's course of combin-
ing business with pleasure. In its re-
cent issue is an article informing it's
readers on the proper and becoming
way for women to do up their hair and
the columns surrounding this first aid
to those who are afflicted with unbe-
coming coiffures are profuse with ad-
vertisements telling where the latest
things in puffs. rats. wigs and other
attractive, II false, hirsute appen-
dages. may be purchased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

A woman thinks she is getting into So
ciety when her name is printed as Q
patroness for a charity, and a man int<
politics when he's asked to march in q
campaign parade.-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
BLAZING THE TRAILS.

They. dart from Dan to Beersheba-they
~ leap like kangaroos;
1hey breakfast out at Council Bluffs and
sup at Syracuse;
one loops the loop to Fairview ere the
IT, dawn comes with the day.
Ane otner makes a running jump and
iands at Oyster Bay:
one scorches out to Keokuk, one races up
to Troy,
One whizzes through Missouri. and one
The campaign's growing strenuous-
tWould break serpent's back
10 follow all the trails now blazed by
Hitchcock and by Mack.
One dashes out to Denver, and one tolls
TO Timbuctoo;
One ehases to Chicago ere the other gets
hal: through:
One 1er' ks Taft out of Arkansas and
moves him up to Maine:
Ohe boosts Bill Bryan out of Butte and
checks him for Champaign:
one breakfasts down in Kankakee and
sleeps in Jacksonville;
One goes to bed at Fresno and wakes up
at Bunker Hill;
The rails are red and burning hot, the air
With smoke Ia black.
And Dust hangs heavy Ger the trails of
"a. Hitchcock and OF Mack.
The engines puff and smoke and wheeze
there Is whizz and whirr;
AS Hitchcock passes New Orleans a hot
and hazy blur:
Another snort and chuE and toot-a mad
and mighty cheer
AS Mack goes by, fuzzy streak upon the
atmosphere;
From Baton Rouge to Plymouth Rock the
hazy highway bends; ~
From Burlington to Baltimore-and ere
the campaign ends
me red horizon will be split-a long and
gaping crack,
And space will somewhere hold the trails
of Hitchcock and of Mack
j. w. Foley, in the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

Karr-What makes you think that you
are going to succeed in business? Bagster
Because my partner has s10o.oo0.-Somer-
vile journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

Baldwin-The doctor says there are more
than fifty kinds of headache. Do you be-
lieve it? Rambo-~I know it, I've fire.
quently had all of 'em In one morning.
Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
The Pathos Went Wrong.

Irving Bachelor, the novelist, is of
unusually agreeable appearance and
address. Once when he was a repor-
ter on a New York morning newspa-
per. the Sunday editor said to him:
II want you to write me a good
story about the trials and discourage
ments of men who are looking for
work in big city. Get up early to-
morrow. put on some old clothes, and
visit all the places that advertise for
male help in the morning paper. Give
an account of the number of appli-
cants and the kind of men they are,
and describe wildly the feelings of a
poor devil who, perhaps, has had no
breakfast and has walked miles be-
cause he hasn't got car fare, and then
meets disappointment after disap-
pointment Draw it good and strong
on the pathos. People like to read
that sort of thing
At noon the next day Mr.. Bachelor
appeared at the office, crestfallen.
I'm afraid 1 can't make anything
out of that story" he said, to the
Sunday editor.
Whats the trouble?"
I've got three jobs already and a
promise of two New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22

What do you think of the simplifie,
spelling?" 1T would be all right, If 1
wasn't so hard to learn."-Detroit Ere
Press.