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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
When a man hates to leave home,
that is a sign he is getting old.
If woman's shoes don't hurt her
corns she claims they are size too
large.
The living too often impoverish
themselves to erect monuments over
the dead.
When a man has tried everything
goes to Seattle.
After a sick man RECEIVERS, and is
again able to eat, the first thing he
wants is sausage.
Taking the flags of twenty-five ma
tional powers. red is to be found in
nineteen of them.
AS a rule boy doesn't care for a
rocking chair unless his sister hap
pens to be occupying one.
What has become of that article
formerly found in every Kitchen; a
basket for holding chips?
The finest household furniture in
the world will look poor and tired
out when piled in a movers wagon.
The swell head" that follows a.
spree differs from the other variety
in that its possessor is sorry about it.
Whenever a railroad man builds a
house, people expect to hear Of his
being transferred to another town.
When some men loss money, it is
not their misfortune; it is the mis-
fortune of those from whom they
borrowed it,
The family skeleton never appears
to worse advantage than when aired
by members of the family before
strangers.
You know perfectly we'll that whis-
ky downs others who fool with it;
and you should know it will as
inevitably down you if you fool with
it.
Those persons who have a piece"
they want printed in the papers
should have a care; a citizen who has
been quite persistent in this respect
of late, was lately declared insane.
The most proper woman in the
world will some day reach that stage
of recklessrress where she will climb
up on a white horse behind a man
and go riding with him. And his
name is Death.
1t is impossible for parents to please
their children. If the children are in
Obliged, they will lay all their failures
to early Indulgence. IL the parents are
strict with the children, they will COM
plain that they never had a chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
A HOME FOR SUPREME COURT.

Representative Littlef1eld is doing
on the house side a work that pro-
perly balances and supplements that
which has been undertaken by Sena-
tor Hepburn at the north end of the
capitol" says the Washington Star.
His bill. providing for the erection of
a building for the United States su-
preme court on the site opposite and
corresponding to that occupied by the
Library of Congress, is in the same
category as the Hepburn bill to ac-
quire for the government all the land
lying between Pennsylvania avenue
and the Mall Both are necessary
measures, and both Of them must soon
err or later be adopted. Delay in each
case only adds to the ultimate ex-
pense, while it imposes serious hard
ship upon the officials and servants of
the government in the meantime.
THE Littlefeld bill merely expresses
in formal terms a proposition which
has been in the minds of men in Wash
ington for years. The inadequacy Of
the present supreme court quarters has
been painfully apparent for more than
a quarter of a century. The spectacle
of the highest court in the country, in
dicial body in the world, sitting in the
discarded assembly room of the SEN
ate, poorly lighted and ventilated
cramped and badly arranged for the
transaction Of the public business, with
the main thoroughfare of the capitol
separating the court room from the
court offices, and with the law library
huddled into basement room absurd
L. -
portance of the collection, has sufficed
to cause many a proud citizen of this
country to blush for shame upon guild
ing friends from abroad through the
public places of Washington
when the site now occupied by the
library of congress was chosen for that
purpose, with practically no dissent in
and out of congress. the idea prevailed
that the corresponding site north of
East Capitol street would some day
be taken for the supreme court. There
has, 1t is true, been some reluctance
on the part of legislators to give the
court a home of its own, owing to the
frequency with which members of the
two houses have occasion to attend the
court. This objection, however, fades
in view of the ease with which speedy
and comfortable access between the
capitol and a detached building can be
provided, as in the case of the new
senate and house office buildings. With
a tunnel of the same character as those
that join the capitol with those two
structures it would be practically as
easy to pass from senate or house to
the court as from one legislative cham
Der to the other.
Now is the time to pass this bill. 1t
is only just to the owners of the pro-
perty on the virtually pre-empted site
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
King Oscar as Artist and writer.

Another proof that his high reputa-
tlon everywhere was based on inherent
merit, and not reflected from the office
with Which he was vested, may be found
in the assertion, heard from every one
who came in personal contact with
him, that he would have made his in
duence felt in the world no matter
where fate might have happened to
start him. Like a majority of the
Bernadottes, he was by nature an ar
list, and he gave ample evidence of ere
atiye ability as well as Of keen and
catholic appreciation. AS a poet he pro-
duced a few things that not only won
praise from polite academicians, but
went to the heart of the people itself.
His translationS are counted among
the literary treasures Of his country;
he wrote at least one play that still
possesses enough vital power to tempt
German managers into staging 1t every
now and then; his works on military
history have been translated into sew
eral other languages, and his speeches
will for long time tt come serve as
models of Swedish prose. Add to this
that he displayed on many occasions u
personal courage rarely found in royal
personages except on the battlefield,
while his familiarity with every phase
OF public business compelled the re-
spectful hearing even OF those least in
cIined to listen to him. The most deli
cate tact and an irresistible charm of
manners were Joined with a simple
majesty of bearing that caused delight
ed comment wherever he appeared. Not
without reason has it been said that
the kingliest Of European sovereigns
was he who had the least portion Of
royal blood in his veins. And probably
it was this happy gift of nature. maxi
ing him look a king in every inch, that
freed him once for all from the need Of
any artificial projections for his digni-
ty. All through life he moved among
other men not as a being made in a
different manner, but as rnan.-From
oscar II, Sweden's Democratic Mon
ARCH" by a Swedish-American, in the
American Review Of Reviews for jan
uary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Clock reoairers seldom kick about
having to work overtime.
z
Why not call the milliners the big
gest nature takers in the country?
r Il <
Many mems experience at soldier
ing is limited to the use of military
brushes.
There are few things that happen
in the world which are worth getting
angry for.
. y
A real lucky man is one who owns
an automobile that his wife is afraid
to go out in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

Charles H. Meyer is not satisfied
with the acquittal of Haywood and
Pettibone and the dismissal of the
charge against him. He thinks that
President Roosevelt should apologize
for styling them as undesirable citi-
zens." If Meyer and his colleagues
were so terribly wronged by Mr..
Roosevelt, why don't they sue him for
libel. He's not immune from a suit
OF this sort just because he is presi-
dent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
THE INCURABLE MAIADY

Take. tonic, potion. pill,
Take daily exercise,
Employ the doctors skill,
With specialists advise.
Note those who advertise
By column and by page
But there no solace lies,
There is no cure for age.
Hopeless it is, and still
How hard my lady tries
The little lines to fill
That Turk about her eyes!
Cosmetics still she buys
The war with time to wage,
But evermore she signs:
There's no cure for age"
We're sliding down the hill;
The fact we can't disguise.
. We. slip and slip, until
We fall, no more to rise.
Time still more swiftly flies,
However we may rage.
he will not heed our cries.
There is no cure for age.
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

There's some sense In these few
words written by John Macdonald for
his Western School Journal: Kan
sas is not the only state in which
teachers are scarce 1t is said that
1000 places are untitled in the pri-
mary schools of Prussia. Let the
legislature Of that land reduce the ex-
penditure for armies and navies, and
use the money to increase teachers
wages. That's the way out, not only
for Prussia, but for other countries"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

The passage of primary law by
the Kansas extra session. at a cost to
the taxpayers of $4,000. with a pro-
vision in that law that would prevent
its becoming operative until 1910,
would distinguish this session as be-
ing fully as much of a legislative joke
as the previous special sessions in
Kansas have been. That is really
about all that can be said in favor of
the suggestion to eliminate the 1908
conventions fro the provisions of
the primary law. says the Kansas City
STAR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

Dionysius, the senate page, who has
entree to the columns of the Kansas
City Star. remarks about the gathering
of legislators and politicians who in
fest the Hobbies of the Copeland: IF
all these feIlers is as wise as they look
don't see how anybody is goin' to be
skinned for govner."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
Sanitation for the exclusive afternoon
publication IN Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour-
mai building over wires for this sole pur-
nose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

W. Burke Cochran. the New York
congressman and famous orator who
first supported Mckinley and then
Bryan at so much per speech, got red,
white. pink and green in the face in
the house of representatives the other
day when he thought he gathered from
the remarks of John Wesley Gaines,
OF Tennessee. the intimation that con-
gressmen had accepted brides on div
ers occasions. Mr.. Cochran declared
that such an idea was ''unthinkab1e"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

Friends of Count Szechenyi, who is
soon to marry Miss Gladys Vanderbilt,
angrily deny that he is a fortune hunt
er. They say he has an income of his
own amounting to $4,000 a year. But
If Boni de Castellane is to be taken as
a sample of the noble spendthrifts who
have captured American girls that sum
will hardly keep the Hungarian in
cfparetfas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

Martin w. Littleton, marry K.
Thaw's new counsel. seems to be try
ing to prove that all the Thaws are
crazy or have been. This ought not
to be particularly comforting to the
members of the family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

There's one refreshing feature to
fhe campaign which is now being
vrazed most vigorously for the Re
nubIican nominations for Shawnee
county offices, and in which consid-
cradle mud is being slung. This is
ff.e fact that four men are running
ear denominations against whom
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

An enterprising Colorado railroad
manager proposes to deliver carload
OF snow at the Denver auditorium ev-
cry day that the Democratic national
convention is in session. This leads
the New York World to remark that
Mr.. Bryan has considerably reduced
his party's enthusiasm to the point
where it will not mind a little cold
blanket like that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
KANSAS COMMENT
THE NATURAL BORN.


The constitution provides that the
president of the United States shall be
natural born citizen of the country
1t does not say a native born
The native born is one born on
american soil, as the non-citizen In
dian, the child of a foreigner living
here at the time, or the child of an
American citizen. Only the latter
would be eligible to the presidency.
The natural born citizen is the
child OF American parents, no matter
where born. He would be eligible to
the presidency if he had never given
allegiance to some other nation.
Thus the question of the eligibility
OF justice Brewer could not be ques-
TONED. He was born abroad, while
MS parents were missionaries but
they were American citizens at the
time, which makes the judge a natur-
al, though not a native born citizen.
The point is perfectly clear. If the
constitution said a native born per-
son, 1t would make eligible the son
OF foreigner who had never been
naturaiized.
Thus there are native born who are
ineligible and eligibles who are not
native born.
There is one other point in this
connection worth considering and that
is that Justice Brewer, had he lived in
India until he was of age, might then
have chosen whether he would owe
allegiance to Great Britain Or to the
United States. This is a right which
birth in foreign country confers,
but as Justice Brewer returned to this
country in childhood, and never owed
allegiance to any other, he is eligible
to the presidency, as IL he had been
born in .Leaxenworth.-Wich Beac-
on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

Canada and Japan have settled the
immigration question between them
without a war between John Bull and
the Mfkado. And that is just exactly
what Japan and the United States will
do in the same premises
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

Kansas City. Kan, will not be a
popular place for habitual loafers.
Judge Sims of the police court has
started to hand out fines of $500 each
to the Migrants arrested there. And
that's the proper way to treat them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

President Roosevelt refers to the
fleet OF battleships under Bob Evans
as messengers of friendship and good
will. Correct. They certainly are a
lot, of those forceful fellows whose
friendship is of the compelling sort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

II this cold wave, which has struck
the town, will only continue for cou-
1ie Of weeks or longer, everyone will
4seI much better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
FLYING MACHINES.

Inc ART Oh aerial Navigation Will IldfS
made a long move forward If the war
which it is inviting bids. No inventor
anywhere in the world has yet devised
a machine that can be depended upon
to stay so long in the air and go SO
far, under control, as the governments
Specifications require. Probably the
war department does not expect to get
the machine, the price of which it
hangs temptingly before the eyes of
sanguine inventors. But if on the first
trial all the requirements of a service
able flying machine cannot be met. 1t
is not at all unlikely that the compe-
tition will result in inventions which
may lead in the end to the construction
of such a machine as the government
asks for. Whatever the result, the in
vitation for the bids is good move In
the interest of aerial problems in which
the whole civilized world is now inter-
ested. Though the flying machine upon
which months of labor were expended
by the Smithsonian institution proved
a failure, it has since been demonstra-
ted by Santos-Dumont and others that
a flying machine is not an impossible
France of some long flights made with
seeming ease and safety. If Americans
can improve upon the machines already
invented the war departments COM
petition will be worth all it may cost
Men of science are agreed that the
success of aerial navigation depends
upon the perfection of the flying ma
chine, since for practical use the air.
ship must be too bulky in proportion
to the weight it will carry.-St Louis
Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
Pictures of St. Roosevelt.

Alexander G. Denbigh arrived from
Siberia yesterday with the informa-
ton.
1.-The people there are of the lowest
class of Russian peasants and know
nothing about the outside world. Their
religion is about all they have, and
they are punctilious in their obser-
vances of it's pompous forms.
I'm every house, no matter how
poor, there are an ikon of some kind
and a picture of a saint. The picture
of your president has gone all over the
world and can be found in many
queer places. I remember asking one
of my men from the Ural mountain
district, who had never heard of
Roosevelt, what picture he had in his
hut. He told me it was one Of st.
Peter without beard and with
tspecks on
"Curious to see such a picture, I
went to the hut and found that it was
a chrome of the president of the
United States. The man assured me
that he had had the best good fortune
since he had obtained the picture of
the Holy Saint New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
A TIMELY WORD.

1t would be difficult to explain why
Mr.. Fairbanks is regarded as joke
by most of the newspapers of the coun-
try. outside of Indiana He is the daily
subject of cartoons and satiricaI editor
ials, mostly good-humored. He is the
low comedian of the presidential cam
paign, not voluntarily of course but by
the practically unanimous vote of the
newspapers. There is nothing funny
about Mr.. Fairbanks. He is a quiet,
dignified man who never has said a
foolish thing, although he has done a
good many wise ones. AS vice presi-
dent, he has been a distinguished sue
cess, and there is no doubt that if he
were elected president he would prove
equal to- the responsibility. But he'll
never be president In fact, it is prob
ably the hopelessness of his candidacy
that appeals to the newspapers as
something ridiculous. Anyhow. since
the approaching campaign promises to
be strenuous and even bitter, 1t Is
pleasing prospect that there will be
Marks the Lawyer present to relieve
the air of heavy tragedy.-Enporia
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
A CRuMB TO POOR PR1NrE:

Congressman Champ Clark, who has
been in the limelight long time, is
trying to toss a crumb to the poor
printer He has Introduced bill to
stop the government practice of print
ing business cards on stamped envel-
opes, and goodness knows it ought to
pass. -Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
Liver and Brain.

Psychologists agree that a mans
brain should weigh about as much as
his liver. The average weight of the
brain is between 46 and SO ounces which
should be per cent of the weight of
the entire body. Therefore,a man weigh
ing $50 pounds should have pounds
or 48 ounces, of brain. His liver should
weigh the same. 1t secretes from 20 to-
40 ounces of bile in twenty-four hoursi
No wonder most of us are bilious! As
the liver is the largest and most i'm
portant gland in the body, it is well to
inquire.-"Friend, how is your hyer?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
King Edwards Cocktail.

In an article, "How Royalty Dines,''
published in Town and Country, It
appears that while King Edward is
extremely abstemious in regard to
liquid refreshment he displays con-
siderable individuality of taste in this
respect, which is curiously exemplified
in the case of a cocktail of his own in
vention, the composition of which is
as follows: A little rye whisky, some
crushed ice. a small square of pine
apple, piece of lemon peel, few
drops of Maraschino, few drops of
champagne, dash of 'bitters, and
sufficient powdered sugar to bring the
mixture exactly. to the royal require
ment.
This delectable appetizer quite takes
the wind out of the sails of those of
your correspondents who have been
recommending West Indian green and
red swizzles.-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17
FROM OTHER PENS
NEwsPAPERs AND THE PANIC.

NEWSPAPERS AND THE PANIC.
In discussing the financial furry, q
Chicago magazine Of politics remarks
that "the newspapers did some noble
lying, all with the best of motives, Of
course-that of restoring confidence.
Results do not indicate that the news
papers did so much lying, after all. 1t
is true that the newspapers took the
brightest view of a dismal situation
and perhaps they were more hopeful
in public utterance than their editors
were in private consultation. Their
declaration, oft repeated in varying
form, was that Industrial and financial
conditions presented no occasion fol
alarm and that the banks in general
were sound. The newspapers did
everything in their power to quiet the
people, dispel the fears of depositors
and restore confidence. Subsequent
events show that this course was en-
tirely in accordance with facts and
warranted by conditions as they really
existed. Beyond doubt. If the news
papers had thrown open their col
umns to the publication of every dis
couraging bit of news or had even left
matters to drift as unreliable street
rumors might direct, there would have
been serious consequences. BY sup
pressing the cries of fear and coun-
selling calm and considerate action, the
newspapers of the country prevented
a disastrous financial panic just as
public speakers sometimes prevent ca
families when FEAR SEXES an aud1ence
in a crowded hall. So far as they told
anything, the newspapers told the
truth. If they did not tell the whole
truth it was because no good was to
be accomplished by telling it. If the
newspapers should tell all the truth
they learn every day about the affairs
and acts. Of the people there would be
a great many panics. not only in bust
ness, but in home circles. There
are few people in this world who want
all the truth told about them and
their affairs. The newspapers have
not been lying and there is no occa-
sion for the public to lose confidence
in them. On the contrary, events have
demonstrated that the newspapers are
worthy Of confidence, for their counsel
in a critical situation has been found
to be wise.-Portland Oregonian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-17

"Tommie, how do you make a tri-
angler" Pull one side out of a square
and glue the loose ends."-Cleve1and
Plain Dealer.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-02-02
WILL 90 TO WASHINGTON.
President Warner and Others VIII Ap.
pear Before Commission.

T. d. Warner, president " the Flor.
ida State Vegetable and Fruit Grow.
ers' Protective Association, expects to
leave tomorrow for Washington,
where, with a half.dozen other promi.
nent men Of the State. he will appear
before the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission In behalf OF the association In
the matter OF securing equitable rates.
II will be- remembered that this
fight has been on for some time, tho
State Association having argued that
the rates on fruits and vegetables
from points In Florida were very much
In excess Of the rates charged Oh
the same class Of produce from other
points. This hearing will be the out
come Of the complaints and President
Warner feels sure that the Interstate
Commission will take some favorable
action IN the premises