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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press1

LIE TOHi the view OrK FreSS.l
Philosophy is how you will act till
the time comes to prove il.
The way to win girl is to have her
make up ner mind not to lose you
Unless a girl likes a man she can
try mighty hard to make him think
she does.
A woman likes to go through an
ordeal because the name sounds SO
impressive.
A woman could understand why a
man wore waistcoat if he ran it in
with ribbons. =,
About the time a man gets on to the
hang OF the furnace. Fourth of july
heaves in sight.
A nice thing about stairs would be IL
your house didn't have them when vo,,
get home at in the morning.
A boy can sometimes get over being
highly educated, but never over think.
ing it ought to relieve him from earn
ing his living.
There is hardly anything 4 woman
CONSIDERS more OF reflection upon her
social position than to have a parIor
chair you can be comfortable In.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

state board of health, is after them.
He has made an inspection of the drug
stores of the state and has found any
number of them where but few dol
lars are invested in drugs. The law
provides that a druggist must have at
least $1,000 worth of drugs before he
can get a permit to sell liquor and all
of them generally swear that they
have this amount when they get their
permits. On the evidence found by DIR.
Crumbine many druggists may be con-
victed of the crime of perjury. DR..
Crumbine has also found much of the
liquor sold by druggists falls short OF
the standards set by the pure food and
pure drug laws and for this they are
to be raked over the Goals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
THE MoI1YCoDDLE BATrLEsHIP

It looks now as if Kaiser Wilhelm
may find it necessary to send his navy
on a world tour after our own gets
home. German naval officers are re-
ported to be surprised at our reck-
lessness in attempting such a feat.
The fleet will return, they say-prob-
ably with mental reservation eff it
does return''-worn out and prac-
ticarly ruined.
This new view of the battleship as
a frail, delicate thing, which in times
of peace at least should be coddled
about the home ports and never al
lowed to get far away from a naval
base, was advanced last fall by some
of our own publicists. With tears in
their eyes they bid the United States
battleships good-by. firmly convinced
that if fate saved these expensive
vessels from Atlantic storms final
disaster was sure to overtake them in
| their mad attempt to navigate the
| Straits of Magellan. In our case,
| these fears were apparently confined
to lay experts, and not shared, to
| any considerable extent at least, by
| United States naval officers.
In Germany, however, the naval
! officers themselves are in the same
unaccountable state of skepticism re-
garding the robustness of our war
vessels and the seamanshiD of their
| officers. AS. these views must have
resulted from experience with their
| own ships--few of them having had
the opportunity to study ours+the
kaiser would seem to have ample
ground for some anxiety on the score
of his own navy's mollycodd1eism. II
| the Teuton was less blunt and
straightforward one might be inclined
to suspect conspiracy among the
kaiser's officers to force him to Civ
| ing them trip around the world
Judging from the results so far
achieved by our own fleets cruise
such expeditions are efficient pro-
motors of international good feeling
| as we'll as dissipaters of the notion
that battleships are delicate. Admira
| Evans arrival in the Pacific waters
| and Japan's invitation for a visit Oh
the fleet to her shores have already
done more to smooth out the wrinkles
in our relations with the nikado':
people than all the previous diplo
matte interchanges and protestations
It seems a read pity that European
u politics are such as to preclude mos
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
HU1AOR or THE DAY

This Jig a warm doughnut; step on it,
drawled Robbie.
worm; do not step on it."-Lippincotts
Magazine.
She has very useful husband
How do you make that out?'
HE can always suggest something that
he wants for dinner. '-Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Bacon--why. that piano has sew
eral keys that make no sound at all
ot me- B sac9 Eyes; and there are some
Statesman.
Tommy.Ma, may I play make-b'lieve
Enthusiastically, . dear! ''''e oosf
Tommy.-Ali. right! Gimme some cake
for him, then!-Life.
80 you enjoyed venice?" said the trav-
Yes answered Mr.. Cumrox TT was
kind of pleasant for change to be rob-
bed by a gondolier instead of hack driv-
er"-Washington Star.
The Backer-Go it. Billy: yer amt half
the other art. I amt greedy.-London
Opinion.
Have we amy ancisthors KelIy?p
| An chwat's ancisthors|
.,Mhy, people you shprung from"
shprinr Prom 1r1 nobo Resor Taav The keiys
thim!'-The Outlook
Monument Man latter several abortive
| suggestions)-How would Simply Gone
Home do?
81, Mrs 1;a, Newweeds,I guess that would be
| ever thought of going.-Puck.
rs the plot of your drama taken from
'Oh, yes; the hero meets his death in q
motor car accident. "-Lustige Batter.
Praise to glory the South is going dry!'
shouted the temperance advocate, waving
1T will bring sunshine into southern
Yes. and moonshine, brother" spoke up
the little man who had been sitting in the
end row--Puck.
Riding in an omnibus up Regent street
recently, an old lady was annoying the
other passengers by her remarks The
conductor demonstrated with her. saying:
ma am, remember you are in g public
vehicle, and behave as such. "-Specta-
tor
1T would please me nightly, Miss
Stout" said Mr. Mugley, ito have you go
to the theater with me this evening"
Have you secured the seats?" asked
"Oh! come now" he protested, you're
Standard and Times.
| mat vas an uHiuCky In1ng tnat Peck,
the engineer, DONE" said the brakeman
They gave him one of those new engines
Yesterday, an he named it after his wife
| How was that unlucky?" asked the
trackwalker.
why, the blame thing blew him up
this morning. Courier
Elder discussing the new minister's
probation discourse)-In my opinion he
was ma justified in dividing folk into the
sheep and the goats. / wadna Just say
Jamie. that i was among the unco guild,
an wadna say that you were among the
unco bad. So whar do we come in ? He'll
no do for us, jamie. Wen no vote for
| him.-Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
RESULT GErrER.

The cheerful taffy giver
AS he joys along the way
is the one who gathers favors
AS the farmer gathers hay,
he never in his travels
Is lacking for a friend:
He drops bit of barney
And draws a dividend.
No matter where he wanders,
results are just the same;
he always finds a victim
Who tumbles to his game.
And. whether male or female
And whether old or young,
They sip as it were nectar
The honey from his tongue.
There isn't any danger
OF making it too strong.
because in that direction
"A Fellow can't go wrong
He finds no sort of trouble
encountered on that score
The one who gets the package
Is always out for more.
There's nothing so effective
There's nothing quite so strong,
AS loud and boisterous taffy
To help a game along.
1t cinches the receiver
IL handed to him right
And makes the giver solid
For anything in sight.
Nashville American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

Some people have a wrong idea in
their heads to the effect that the Won
derfully large increases in the valua-
ton of their property which the rail-
roads are turning in for the purposes
Of assessment under the new tax law
mean that the railroads will pay a con-
siderably larger sum in taxes during
the coming year than they have in
times past. AS a matter of fact they
will pay just about the same sums
that they have been paying. Practical
ly the same amount of money is need
ed by the state and counties this year
as has been needed other years and all
tax payers will pay their proportion
ate share. The increased values put
on the property for the purposes of
assessment merely means proper
tionate decrease in the size of the tax
rate, but the amount of money that
the railroads and the other taxpayers
will have to pay will be approximately
the same as that paid by them in prev
fous years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

1t is exceedingly refreshing for the
people of the state to realize that the
trip of the tax commissioners through
out the state for the purpose of in
snectiug the railroad properties will not
be in the nature of a junket such as
the railroad assessors used to indulge
In at the expense of the railroads. Not
much confidence was felt in the assess
ment figures made by the assessors
under these circumstances. As Kan
sas progresses with age all things seem
to change for the better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's a mean man who tells his wife
he is sorry her first husband is dead
X x
Most women are so socially fasti-
dious that they return telephone
calls.
A man generally hurries home
when his wife has a cold and can
not speak above whisper.
X X
why the average girl accepts a man
as to why he proposed to her.
X X
Probably chaperones are referred
to in the biblical phrase "having eyes
that see not and having ears that
hear not"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

There must be a great weight off the
minds OF the newspaper men in New
York and Philadelphia. Prince Hello
de Sagan, Count Boni de Castellane's
cousin and evident sutton for the
hand of Mime. Gould. Boni's former
wife. has admitted his identity. 1t is
safe to prophesy that the prominent
news in the eastern papers now will be
devoted to chronicling the comings and
goings of the prince from morning I'M
til night That may be an interesting
kind of news but some people have
their doubts about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

Magazine undertaking got a black
eye in the federal court in New York
the other day when a jury awarded
Emmanuel L. Phillip. president of the
Union Refrigerator Transit company
of Milwaukee, $4,000 damages in his
libel suit against the Mcclure Pub
fishing company because of an article
by Ray Stannard Baker which was
published in McClure's magazine and
in which it was charged that Mr.. Phil
lin had received unlawful commissions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

And now trouble is reported in the
Alfred G. Vanderbilt family. Mrs.
Vanderbilt is to spend the summer
with her brother while Mr.. Vanderbilt
is to pass the time In England Ihere
are rumors of a separation or a d.
vorce. Troubles Of this sort are crop
ping up daily in families in every COM
munity all over the land but the rea-
son no attention is paid them is be-
cause the parties to them are not bless
ed, or cursed, whichever 1t is, with NIL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

Considerable talk is going the ROUNDS
mentioning F. D. Coburn, secretary OF
the state board of agriculture, as the
logical successor to President Nichols
of the State Agricultural college. II
Mr.. Coburn can be persuaded to take
this place, he will be the ideal man for
it. And 1t seems to us that Mr.. Co
burn could serve the agricultural IN
terests of the state in no better way
than by presiding over the destinies OF
the Agricultural college.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
KANSAS COHAEKT
THE RETRENCHMENT.


The wreck of the Blue Grass Spec
ial train In Kentucky yesterday in
which five people were fatally injured
and number of others were badly
hurt, is a direct result of the ire
trenchment policy which several
western and southern roads have Late
ly adopted. The damage to equip
ment to the road will amount to thou
sands of dollars beside the damages
which the company will be compelled
to pay those injured and the relatives
OF the dead AS to the loss of life,
this is irreparable.
The road on which the wreck oc-
CURED dismissed night operator in
an effort to cut down expenses. On
the morning of the wreck, the train
passed the depot before the day
operator reported for duty and. re-
ceiving no orders to the contrary, the
engineer believed the track was clear
and proceeded on his way The crew
of the freight train, having no orders
to await the passenger, supposed that
some arrangement had been made at
the next station for their safety
Counted in dollars and cents, the
damage the railroad company wild
suffer would have paid the expenses
of maintaining night station at the
town near which the wreck occurred
| for a great many years. Aside from
| the, fact that the loss of life would
have been the gamer in money. Per-
haps the railroads will learn the les
son after while, but so far none of
| them seem to have done So Such ac-
cidents are bound to occur on roads
| where the net earnings or dividends
| are the only object of the officials and
directors and where the reputation Of
| the road as a killer" counts for
| naught There are many railroa DIS
now "retrenching" and it is to be
hoped they will make some arrange
| ment whereby the lives of their pas
| sengers will be protected.-salina
Journal.
| KANSAS IS FIRST IN WHEAT.
Kansas lies in the geographical GEN.
ter of the United tSates and it stands
| first in the production of bread. Iowa
leads in corn. but the use to which
| corn is put in the main. makes it rank
| below wheat in merit. The beef and
pork which supply meat to most
American families, is the product Of
| the corn. which makes that grain a
most important elements in life. but
| bread is the staff of life, and every
family has it served three times day.
Kansas not only produces more
yields a better quality. Even the
Minneapolis mills which ~rind the
spring wheat in the main. have learn
ed that judicious mixture of the win
| ter wheat from Kansas helps the quail
| ity of their flour.
But Kansas is not much behind in
| corn, and when the cattle and hogs
which the state sends to market are
| weighed, it is likely that Iowa is not
head of Kansas in the real products
/ of corn.
| 1t is fitting that the staff of life
| should be most abundant in the very
| heart of the country, and Kansas is
satisfied for the present with being
| the banner bread state.-Wichita
| Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

Governor johnson is a coy individual.
He writes a friend that he would not
refuse the Democratic nomination for
president. At the same time he thinks
no American citizen should be an ac-
tive, open candidate for the presiden-
tial office. This Is a fine sentiment.
But. alasl In this day of grace 1t is
not the sort that carries off the politi-
ra1 hOnOrs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

Aldrich's emergency currency bill
has passed the senate by the decisive
vote of AZ to 16. 1t is generally con-
coded that this is measure which will
work almost entirely for the benefit
of the big banks in the big money CEN
tiers OF the country. But there does not
seem to be much chance of its passing
$He h0f1qo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

of the other navies from organizing
similar world girdling parades. The
kaiser, however, will have to do some
thing to hearten up his officers and
restore their belief in the German
navy, even at the risk of having his
empire unprotected on the sea for
few months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fu;l day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganizafion for the exclusives afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in TIE State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

And now many of the drug
gists of Kansas, who have
waxed fat for a long time in
running their business practically for
the sole purpose of selling liquor with
In the terms of the prohibitory law.
have q real trouble to face. DR.. Crum-
bsna. the ubiquitous secretary Of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

1t is one of the commonest, as it is
one of the absurdist, of popular fall
lacies that everybody has "a right to
his opinion The laws and our char
right to his opinion; but on very many
subjects and as to an innumerable
host of things, man has no moral
right to an opinion. A busy man of
affairs, taken up with his daily labors
and knowing little beyond his daily
right to a blind opinion upon the au-
thenticity of the code of Hammurabi,
let us say. He must leave that to ex-
perts. 1t is something about which
he knows nothing at all, and can not
justly form an opinion. 1t is the same
with thousands of the readers of any
newspaper, no matter how intelligent
and generally informed these readers
may be. On a great number of things
they are not able, by reason of I'M
familiarity or lack Of opportunity to
investigate for themselves, to form an
opinion. But on the other hand, they
may readily be in position to form
an intelligent opinion when the edi-
tor, who, presumably, has had or cor
rallied the opportunity to get some in
formation on the subject. ventures a
modest view of the case. Presuma-
bly,, also, there are thousands of read
ers who are quite willing to accept,
at least tentatively, the opinion of
men who, by special training and by
specialized thinking, have won the
moral right to form a Judgment as to
the matter in hand. The editor is
never infa1lible, save when his argu-
rnent or his facts are infallible; but
If his opinion upon the things he dis
cusses is worth no more than that of
the man in the street, than that of
the man who Ii totally uninformed,
on the subject. then he is at the wrong
poSt-Columbia (S. CO State
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30
FROH OTHER PENS
WHERE IT GETS MARROW.

Newspaper comment on the rever-
! sal by two appellate courts of the SEN
tence of Schmitz. ex-mayor OF San
Francisco, is largely on the line that
| technfcalities is in the statute under
which Schmitz was convicted and not
| in the courts which have overruled
| his conviction. ,u4T=
This we are free to admit is pos
sible view. Yet it is also possible to
| add that the view itself Is somewhat
| narrow at one vital point. The statute
| imposed its penalties on securing
money by threats, express or i'm
| piled, to inf1ict injury by an unlawful
| refuse to renew licenses is held to be
| indisputable. the penalty which was
| threatened If the blackmail was not
paid Is not held to be unlawful. There
| is no dispute as to the fact that
| Schmitz was dishonest, corrupt and
held that the "unlawful' act to be
| used as a threat is not present as re-
CURED by the statute.
Yet we can not rest satisfied with
that viek. For we think the Califor-
mia courts confined themselves to a
technical view-as other courts have
done-in respect to the important
question whether it is lawful for a
public official vested with discretion
airy power to govern that power by
the consideration whether money is
paid to him or not. We certainly
think it ought to be broad and uni
versal principle of law that official
power is to be governed solely by the
consideration whether in the judg-
ment of the official the act is for the
| best public interest. That seems to
| be an axiom indisputable in popular
government But If it is true then it
| must be unlawful for the official to
| say or imply: IT will do this act if
| money is paid to me; and I will not
| do it If the money is not paid
Pittsbure DiSpatch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

Have we amy ancisthors, Kelly?"
An chwat's ancisthors? p
why, people you shprung FROM
"Shprung from, begorrai The Kelly
'hpring from nobody. They shpring a
m!'-The Outlook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

Riding in an omnibus up Regent street
recently, an old lady was annoying the
other passengers by her remarks The
conductor demonstrated with her, saying:
Ma am, remember you are in g public
vehicle, and behave as such."-Specta-
tor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

This is a warm doughnut; step on 1t.
drawled Robbie.
NO" corrected his teacher saThis is a
worm; do not step on it"-Lippincott'a
Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

The Backer-Go it. Billy: yer amt half
The Fighter-Well, you come and ave
Opinion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

Monument Man (after several abortiye
suggestions)-How would Simply Gone
Home" do?
Mrs. Newweeds-I guess that would be
all right. 1t was always the last place he
ever thought Of going.-Puck
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

''Is the plot of your drama taken from
ufe?''
"Oh, yes; the hero meets his death in a
motor car accident. "-Lustige Batter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

1T would please me nightly, Miss
Stout" said Mr.. Mugley, Ito have you go
Have you secured the seats?" asked
Miss Vera Stout
ooh! come now" he protested, you're
not so heavy as all that"-Catholfo
Standard and Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-30

Praise to glory the South is going dry!"
shouted the temperance advocate, waving
his arms.
1T will bring sunshine into southern
homes"
Yes. and moonshine, brother" spoke up
the little man who had been sitting in the
end row.-Puck.