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ton honors At the annual examinations
last wear Struble was the honor man. with
Hunsaker a close second and Norton
third. Hunsaker's best subjects are me-
chanical processes, physics and mechan-
les I'm which branches he stood number
one at the last annual examination. and
was number one in ordnance and naviga-
ton. At the same time Struble stood
number one in five branches. namely.
,seamanship, ordnance. principles OF
mechanism. physics and mechanical pro-
cesses.
The class has membership of 200 and
there will be about seven star members.
that is. those who attain 50 per cent OF
the multiple for the entire course at the
academy.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23

anxieties caused by responsibilities
which must weigh heavy on every
man of right feeling, in the amount
and trying nature of the work the
doctor has to do, in irregularity OF
meals and broken sleep, in exposure
to weather and to infection, and last,
but not least, in the scanty remunera-
ton which his labor too often brings.
These conclusions of this eminent
authority will be readily agreed in
with the possible exception of the
last one for it is the general opinion
that doctors are pretty well paid for
their work But maybe the general
opinion in this instance is wrong
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
AYHAWKER OTS

Mound Valley spent $3.50 for the
use of b1oodhounds to trace a bur-
glar. They only succeeded in freeing
a cat.
J. c. Starr, celebrated the twenty
third birthday Of his paper, the Scott
County News, last week. He founded
| the paper.
year ball in Mapleton prevented the
females from raising any disturbance
about their partners.
Things are getting SO quiet in OF
tawa that it has been necessary to
work up q little excitement by spring.
ing a ghost in vacant house.
This is the unkindest cut of all: A
kingman county man who has lived
in that county thirty-five years has
bought a farm in Arkansas and will
move to that state.
Tom Charles, president of the State
Editorial association, has sold his pa
| per, the Belleville Freeman, to Albert
Kimball, for many years editor of the
Scandal Journal. Mr.. Charles Is fore
ed to take up his residence in New
Mexico on account of Mrs. Charles
health.
An O1athe paper relates that a
farmer was in town this week trying
to buy bull dog with a white patch
over his eye. When asked why he
IL,
he answered that such a dog would
take hold and never let go. ''Why,
SIR" said the farmer, I'VE people of
the farm are just pestered to death
with fellows with petitions who insist
on bringing out this candidate or that
candidate for office. They are worse
than lightning rod sellers or book
agents. They come right into the yard
or the house and they place a paper
before you and demand that you put
your name down. They don't give
you a chance to inquire whether it
is mortgage, promissory note, a
pardon for a chicken thief or a petit
ton for new road that you are to
sign. When you hesitate they look
at you in utter amazement, as If they
think you have suddenly gone crazy.
They want your signature and they
want it quick. 1t is no use to tell
them that you don't want to sign any
petitions, for they get sore and are
likely to say things. To sum the
whole primary law up in a few words
the legislature has loosed upon the
poor, overburdened farmers of Kan
sas a pest worse than the green bugs
of last year, and a bench-legged bull
dog who wears a patch over his eye
is about the best preventive I know
or
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that habits and practices INDUCED in
during the years of childhood are GER
tain to mold and influence the per-
son, his thoughts and opinions,
throughout his entire life. The tree
will grow as the twig is bent. and II
the child is started in habits of
gambling, even by playing marbles
"for keeps he is pretty sure to look
with tolerance on games of chance
during later life, and also apt to in
dulge in such games to a more or less
extent.
1t is sometimes claimed that the
tendency to gamble is Unborn in all
human beings, but whether or not
there is anything to this it is certainly
wrongful and a mistake to encourage
tendencies of this character Gambling
in its worst forms is undeniably a
terrible evil. 1t has probably caused
more unhappiness, blighted more
lives, wrecked more careers and re-
suited in more crimes than any other
prevalent evil in the entire list, not
even excepting its twin brother, drink.
And in study the problem of where
the gambling instinct first begins one
Is impressed with the thought that
playing marbles 'for keeps" is simply
a primary lesson, leading up to the
larger forms of real gambling and it's
hurtful train of distressing and OBJ
iectionable consequences.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
MOB VIOLENCE AT ANN ARBoR.

Ann Arbor, the seat of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, was. recently, the
scene of the worst riot ever charged
against university students in this
country; a riot which was quieted only
by the bugle call to summon to ac-
ton the company Of militia which
was under arms at it's arnory. The
trouble arose over the election of a
student from playhouse. and over
1900 students participated in the dis
graceful affair
The conduct of the students at Ann
Arbor is absolutely without extenua-
ton, and the authorities of the town
were derelict in their duty in not
sending the militia at the inception of
the outbreak. The fact that rioters
were students of university should
not have been given a moments con-
sideration. They were no more en-
titled to tender treatment than would
have been a similar crowd Of Italians,
Portuguese or Greek laborers.
From an educational standpoint the
exhibition was pitiable. In strict JUS
tice every man in the crowd should
first be expelled from the university,
and then made amenabIe to the
criminal law. The University of
Michigan could better suffer a
defamation of its student body than to
condone a crime against the COM
munfty in which it is situated
Incidents like that which has so
signally disgraced the University of
Michigan indicate clearly that there
has in some of the so-called great uni
versities been a departure from the
real business Of training young Ameri-
can gentlemen. and attention is being
directed towards the sometimes de-
rided small colleges.
Topeka is favored with one of these
smaller institutions, and it may be
said, to it's credit, that it is notably
free from student rowdyism which
has caused the friends of the great
state university at Ann Arbor to hide
their faces in shame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
THE RErIJRN OF TILE MOTTO.

1t was neither a debasement nor
clipping OF the coinage-the Grass d.
version Of medieval potentates-that
Mr.. Roosevelt attempted when he Or
dered the motto, I'm God We Trust" re-
moved from the coins of the United
States. Yet from the great majority
for it's restoration which the house of
representatives gave, the vote being 225
to 5, one might almost believe that the
members of this assemb1age thought
his turpitude, innocent though it was,
hardly less in degree. In this, as In
his simplified spelling propaganda, the
president had sadly misread the minds
of his masters. Even Wall Street re-
vealed a deeper insight. Its hurlyburly
bidding for the few mottoless coins that
have been issued assuredly discounted
their approaching disappearance.
But enough have been coined to make
it possible for the president, should he
be willing to pay the inevitable prem
ium to carry on his minor transactions
in the coin of his adoption. The house
has not gone SO far as to declare that
they shall not be legal tender. The
spunk that has been displayed in his
booed and legally inhibited simple SPELL
ing may likewise be shown in a discrim-
mating selection of the executive pocket
money. Moreover, the president can
pride himself upon having provided
the most interesting chapter in the his
tory Of American nuniSmaticS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.J
The smallest Of men is the stingy
man.
It's better to forget an injury than
to forgive it.
Few men are powerful enough to
keep their faces closed.
The owl Is the most solemn-looking
bird and the most stupid.
A girls face is her fortune If she
is able to land millionaire.
When a man makes good he doesn't
have to explain how he did it,
It's safe to knock some men down
before turning the other cheek.
The only way you can have fun
with some people is to make them
angry.
Fortune occasionally smiles on a
man, but more often it INDUCES in a
grin.
After all, there is nothing that at
fords people more real pleasure than
agreeable work.
When it comes to speaking ill of
their neighbors most people are there
with the goods.
Brag may be a good dog, but there
is no more bravery in him than there
is in society poodle
Some people can ever see the silver
lining to a cloud of adversity-if it is
lowering over others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some men acquire their popularity
with a club.
The ties of wedlock-the kind a
mans wife makes for him.
Many a fellow who is ambitious to
become a prize fighter makes poor
fist of it.
Even the man who wants money
bad would draw the line at counter
felt money.
Many a man treats his friends in a
barroom better than he treats his
wife at home.
Every woman lives to congratulate
herself that there was one man she
didn't marry.
A man may acquire the habit of
taking everything as 1t comes rom
dining at a table d'hote.
A woman with an account at de-
partment store can generally De de-
pended upon to fill the bill
There is nothing new under the
sun, especially to the woman who has
been married three or four times.
Muegins-"I hear your wife has
had a great deal of illness lately;
what seems to be the trouble?" Bug
gins-"As nearly as I can figure II
the doctor needs the money
"a fool and his money are soon
parted, quoted the Wise Guy res
but they were lucky to have gotten
together In the first place" added the
Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
PLAYING MARBLES "FoR KEEPS

With the gladstone spring. which
has arrived in all its glory. comes the
usual round of out door pleasures.
sports, pastimes and games. One of
the latter will be the good old-fash-
Toned game of marbles, which dates
back in history so far that its origin
is lost in the same obscurity that wells
many other ancient customs and
traditions. 1t Is a good, wholesome
and interesting game, also, or perhaps
1t might be better to say that most of
the games played with marbles are
entitled to be classed in this manner.
And every year. with the recurrence
of spring, the boys in this and many
other parts of the world get out their
marbles. and for at least q few weeks
this is the popular and all-absorbing
game with them.
sometimes, however, the prevailing
tendency of the boys in most COM
munitieS is to allow this game of
marbles to drift into a petty form of
gambling by playing for "keeps. "
When this is done it is really a cues
ton whether the game is a good one
for boys, and whether it should be en-
u w Gwen tOl6TdlSu. w nile II
is true. the value of the stakes won
and lost is inconsiderable neverthe-
less the principle involved is exactly
the same as gambling in it's larger
and more reprehensible forms.
dozen or two marbles may represent
icapitaI' to the boy owner, lust as
much as real money does to the same
boy when he becomes a man. And
when he cultivates habits of petty
gambling as lad, he is pretty sure
to follow the same custom after he
grows up and reaches the estate of
manhood
Most parents and teachers en-
deavor to discourage the practice of
playing "for keeps" among the bows
in whom they are interested. and es-
pecially if they are wise and intelli-
gent. and realize the baneful effects
of perverted training and tendencies
during the years of youth This is
the formative period of character, and
the experience of ages has shown
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
HUNOR OF THE Day

Wife-Do you like those beautiful sus-
penders embroidered you, dear?
Hubby-Yes, darling-they don't show
when am dressed.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Hear the story of the shaky build
in.?"
Nope. What is it?''
oh. there's no foundation to it"-Pio-
neer Press.
Mrs. Black-Nothing that mother eats
agrees with her.
Black-Food seems to have human in
telHgence-Town Topics. f-5se Fsg
Your husband is not a very practical
man, is he"
NO" answered Mrs Torkins His
idea of economy is to save up money to
bet at the next race meeting. ''-Washing-
ton Star.
II broke record today. Had the last
Didn't think it possible How did 1t
happen?''
Why, said to a woman in the car:
Madam, have my seat. '-Philadelphia
Ledger.
knicker-Why has Jones got red cross
on his auto?
Bocker-Because he furnishes the cases
Tor the hospital-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23

A millinery monstrosity has been
developed for this season which is
said to eclipse any other feminine
sartorial creation, or, rather, freak,
that has been invented as yet 1t is
called campaign hat. 1t is two feet
high. 1t is black. 1t is composed of
fine lace. 1t has above all an Eng
lish cockade. And it's chief distin-
gushing feature is the cost which
runs all the way from $40 to 500,
This wonderful conrrivance OF
feminine headgear has only arrived as
far west as Chicago and it is hoped
around here for the benefit of those
who foot the bills. that it will not get
any further west.
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want you to know that 1 was
Thompson before I married.

want you to know that I was .
Thompson before I married.
''Yes?"
"And how dare you. sir-how dare
Bromley ask a Thompson to dras
boards around7 It's an insult. sfr-an
insult to our blood!"
IT didn't mean 1t SO. 1 didn't
know never heard that the Thomp-
sons had-had-
Had any blood at all. you mean.
think you are, sir?"
you may have heard of Lord
Bromley, of EngIand?" queried the
deacon, trying to look dignif1ed but
making failure Of 1t. as any man
| must have done, perched in the center
of a goose pond.
Eyes. sir, I have. and with good
reason He stole a morse from
Thompson and was hanged for It'll"
"You-you don't say!"
I'm the next generation two Brom-
1eys were branded on the palms OF
their hands for cattle stealing. In the
third, one OF them went to prison for
| arson. He sought to burn down the
castle Of a Thompson
Gan 1t be possible?"
And in the fourth. fifth and six
generations the Thompsons got to-
| gether all their retainers and drove
all the Bromleys out of the country.
| and the king rewarded them for 1t.
I
that Lord Grassy was Thompson
Doesn't history tell you that the Duke
| OF York was a Thompson? Why. man.
there isn't noble in England today
| that wasn't Thompson first. He had
! to be-"
II have been toId that de-
| scended from William the Con-
| queror." faltered the deacon, as he
felt that he had lost his case.
"But who was William the Con-
queror? When he landed in England
| it was the Thompsons that lent him
money and paid his house rent until
he could strike a job. Deacon Brom-
ley. do you want that board to get
| ashore on?"
IF you please
And is It to save an idiot or a SEN
| sible MANI"
| "Um! I think I would like to talk
| with the widow little while. I
didn't know. you know
| NO" replied Aunt Salina as she
went after the board, but you do
| now. It's Thompson. It's Thompson
with a p It's the Thompson family,
descended directly from Adam and
Eve. that have been making and un-
making kings and emperors and
| dividing UP the earth for the last six
thousand years, and are not through
| yet. There's the plank. and now you
| come in and have a talk and get over
your foolishness."
The marriage took place a month
! later, and Deacon Bromley hasn't ha q
a chance yet to thrash the genealogist
who paid half cash for his board
| Copyrighted, $685. by Associated
Literary Press.)
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In all domestic dramas the wife
plays the lea ing role.
x x
1t is never necessary to be in
troduced twice if you are known to
have money.
X X
A man who manufactures an
obesity cure may be said to live on
the fat of the land.
X X
When you get right down to facts
the sort of an animal that most
women desire for pet is man.
X X
Most folks find the books pointing
the path to success unsatisfactory be-
cause all begin by telling them that
they have got to work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.

| from the Atchison GIobe.1
| You laugh at some people; others
laugh at you.
The expression. "They say" has
ruined many a man.
Did you ever notice how hard 1t is
for people to get along with each
other?
If you should die. and find yourself
a ghost, is there anyone you would
haunt?
If you must kill human being. kill
yourself; it will be the easiest way in
the end.
The shorter the hours a man works
the more he how1s about being taxed
beyond his strength.
Nine women out Of ten understand
their husbands. One man out of ten
understands his wife,
Every time you do a thing that is
foolish, you fulfill the prophecies of
those who dislike you.
HE" the wife and daughters of a
deaf man always say, hears q lot
more than he lets on"
Domestic note: Sons favorite pie
appears on the table a great deal Of
tener than Fathers favorite.
Did you ever in all your life have
a really good time? Isn't it a fact
that something always happens to
spoil it?
Nothing that is really needed In this
world ever has the courage, the en-
terprise and the persistency Of the
dandelion.
When women are sick, they tell
their husbands of their own accord
how they are feeling; their husbands
do not ask them.
So many good things have been said
that it is hard for a man to say a
good thing that has not been said a
hundred times before
A woman who will tell the truth
about the number of men who have
asked her to marry them is as rare
as the man who doesn't exaRperata
the number of fish he catches.
If you have friend who tries to ba
funny, don't lose an opportunttv -
discourage him. A great many worthv
young men are spoiled by being an.
couraged in an ambition to be funnv
From the day the children are III
tie and are not satisfied because fafh-
er doesn't keep a candy store. INIT,
the day of his death, there Is some
criticism of him going on arounS
home. io
1t must be a terrible experience ..
write sad farewell to family ana
friends, and go to ones death thin[-
Ing how they will mourn, and then he
brought back to life by the stomach
There are all kinds of fads for mall
ing weak people strong; we wonder
that someone does not advocate s1esI
as cure all. We never knew
one to get more OF It than was go
Tor him, and half the people Of a.
worio are really suffering for lacS
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Most people will wonder with Gov
ernor Hoch just what objection the
friends of Mr.. Stubs can have to
Senator Long or any other candidates
for nominations taking such steps as
they see fit to get out the full vote in
their respective localities and through
out the state at the primary election.
Until the Stubbsites raised these OBJ
jections everyone had an idea that the
chief purpose of the primary law was
to get the fullest possible expression
of opinion of the voters of the state
as to just whom they would like to
run for Office. And surely this can
best be accomplished by the candi-
dates getting out as large a vote as
they possibly can through all legiti-
mate means.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

lFrom the New York Press.1
Love letters are equal parts hys-
terics and Imagination
A girl wants to have golden hair
even if it must be red
A man can fall into any habit ex-
cept that of having good ones.
woman wants her husband to go
to church so as to show what a good
influence she has over him.
It's less of trial to eat your wife,s
meals and tell her you like them than
to stand her tears IL you don't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23

That better times are ahead in the
railroad world, and therefore in all
lines of business activities, is becom-
ing apparent on every hand. The
supply of idle freight cars is being
diminished by leaps and bounds and
the New York Central sends in an or
der for 1876 new locomo tives and a.
900 tons of steel rails. Other of the
big railroad systems will follow suit
before long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23

Senator La Toilette has called j.
Pierpont Morgan ano John D. Rookie
Teller pirates If the characterize
tons that have been made Of these
gentlemen could be gathered they
would be found to include all that
have been applied to every kind of a
sinner and a saint as we'll since the
beginning of time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23

Sensationalism in universities and
professors with a novelty of theme
or statement were roundly and
properly scored a few days ago by
Andrew Sloan Draper, commissioner
of education for the state of New
York. And Mr.. Draper delivered
these remarks in the right place. He
was making an address to the profess
sors of the University of Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23

Andre Tardieu, a French journalist,
has published an interview in the
Paris Temps with President Roose-
welt. 1t will not be long now before
the short and uglier word will be
hurled at him. Does not he know
that the president of the United States
never gives out an interview? Poor
Andrei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23

washburn's faculty is to be COM
mended for making a course of gym
nastics compulsory for all students. A
sound body is quite as much needed
for a successful battle in life as is a
we'll stored brain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23

There is a theory that everything is
created for a wise purpose. But Will
some one please explain of what par
ticular use is the republic of Hayti?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23

There is now cause for international
joy all around. The battleship fleet
has been invited to visit Japan and the
invitation has been accepted. It
would be just like some fool hater of
peace, or anarchist, to attempt to blow
up one of the ships during its stay in
Yokohama harbor. Then there would
be a considerable addition to the
gaYety of nations