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Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-21
EASTERN

American battleship fleet will visit
some port in Japan during world cruise,
in accordance with invitation extended
by Toxic government and accepted py
President Roosevelt and his cabinet
Ship subsidy bill passes the senate,
and the first step toward building up a
merchant marine has been taken.
Governor Guild of Massachusetts is
in the shadow of death; friends fear he
will not recover.
Roosevelt will send message to con-
gress dealing with proposed changes in
antitrust laws in SO far as they con-
cern labor organizations.
Famous hotel in Chicago menaced by
flames; guests flee to places of safety.
italian duke, cousin of King Emman-
uel, leaves Washington suddenly, and
society is wondering If he has been
Tilted by Miss Elkins, whose hand and
millions he sought.
Bishop Fowler of Methodist Episcopal
church dies in his home in New York
city.
Prominent resident of Milwaukee
kills his wife and mortally wounds
himself: deed due to infatuation for
another woman.
COAST
Nine policemen, including two SER
geants, face charges of grating on
their beats in san FRANCISCO; accused
of taking money from disreputable
lodging houses.
Cruiser South Dakota at San Diego
coaling for trip to Santa Barbara.
Japanese of San Diego raise $211 for
the entertainment of Admiral Evans
fleet.
Ruef appears in court in support of
his plea that bail be reduced.
FOREIGN
Japanese officials in Toxic rejoice at
hearing of Americas acceptance of in
vitation for battleship fleet to visit
Oriental port
Denial of engagement of italian duke
and Miss Ell1ins is expected at Rome.
Tolstoi RECEIVERS his health and re-
sumes his literary work, according to
advices received in st. Petersburg.
England, Canada and India take
steps to reduce immigration into Can
ada.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-23

plans of the government engineers
which will be certain to strike most
folks at glance as being decidedly
impracticable.
For a much less sum than these
government plans would call for, even
if they did not have so many infeas-
ible features, an adequate drainage
canal could be built on the north side,
as Mr. Rodgers. the city engineer has
suggested, which would carry off the
surplus waters at flood times. 1t is
some such scheme as this that Hutch
inson has used to such an excellent adj
vantage and which made it practical
~ flood proof during the last time
that floods were on the rampage.
But now that the government engfn-
GERS report is in it behooves the city
and county authorities to get busy at
once and decide on some plan for flood
relief. The matter has been delayed
quite long enough. Something should
be settled upon and it's accomplish
ment undertaken as soon as possible
for there is no telling when some
spring or early summer floods will
come along and do more damage than
those which have gone before them.
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JAYHAWKER JOTS

S. H. Dodge, who sold the Beloit Ga
zette last spring is feeding 200 sheep
in Mitchell county. His long editorial
experience with the shears is going to
come in handy.-Kansas City Star.
Plenty of women are good drivers,
but few of them know how to hitch a
horse to the post A woman drove up
to the south side of the ostoffice the
other day, says the Howard Courant,
got out of her buggy and hitched her
to tie her hitch strap in a double
bowknot.
Sometimes there are instances in life
like those in the story books. The
Atchison Globe tells of an Atchison
girl who engaged herself to a carpen-
ter, thinking he was poor, and discover
ed on the eve of her wedding day that
he had $3.50 in the bank. He had not
told her, wishing her to love him for
himself alone.
Says the Cimarron Jackonian: ''It is
rumored that, in consequence of the
general shakeup which is anticipated in
state governmental affairs. Judge Adna
P. Gristlebone of Coolidge is to lose
his lifelong job as chief inspector of the
cinder beetle quarantine, and Colonel
Webster Foote of Garden City is to be
appointed in his place. We have this
from inside sources, and we believe
that this is a matter of serious concern
to the people of southwestern Kansas.
We have the utmost confidence that
Mr.. Stubs can explain his attitude in
regard to the matter; however,
A gem of some sort from the Elk
Falls Journal: Mike Swartz says, the
reason some of the street lights are not
is, that he has the rheumatism so bad
he can't hardly come up town and
when he does come up he forgets to
go back home, and that the lights on
the streets, he has fixed up the people
refuse to go to bed at. night, and that
while he is a good runner. he is no
climber, especially when it comes to
going up a cold iron pole unless there
should be something at the top to warm
UP on. We guess our only salvation is
to invest in a brewery for Mike, If we
want to keep the streets well lighted,
at night"
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FLOOD RELIEF.

| OF the recommendations of the gov
eminent engineers for the prevention
of Kaw river flood damage at Topeka
| it may be said that along the plan
worked out they are exceedingly COM
prehensive. But their comprehensive
ness is far overshadowed by their ex-
tensiveness and a good many persons
will be pardoned for looking on them
as something akin to a joke. Theo-
retically, through greatly increasing
| the capacity of the river at this point,
they appear to be most plausible and
in practice, if they were worked out
to the letter, they might afford the re-
lief that is so much desired. Actually,
though they are not feasible in many
ways but particularly because of the
expense that they would involve and
the havoc their contamination would
work with existing property rights. On
the question of expense there would
not be much to say if there were no
other plans available which would
probably afford just as much relief
and which could be put into execution
for a sum of money considerably less.
Because no matter how expensive the
undertaking might necessarily be To-
peka could we'll afford to pay it, or go
into debt for it, as the possibility of
continuous damage to the city from
floods must be stopped. regardless of
the cost.
One of the features of the plan of
the government engineers. which in its
entirety is merely widening of the
river at this point to carry off the
flood waters and the dyking of the
banks, involves the frightening of all
the bridges over the stream to a con-
siderable extent. 1t proposes three
additional arches for the Melan bridge,
two on the north end and one on the
south end. In widening the river to
the extent of one arch length on the
south side a channel would be Great
ed which would wipe out of existence
some exceedingly valuable property.
The same would hold true on the
north side to a lesser extent, and this
is hardly to be thought Of The same
conditions would prevail in the rails
ing of Kansas avenue on the south
side by all of three feet. Many of the
substantial buildings now on it at the
points which would be affected would
have to be raised accordingly or they
would be we'll nigh worthless and the
expense involved on property owners
would not be inconsiderabIe. These
are just few of the details of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

[From the Atchison Globe.J
| There is no good fishing, and no
good times.
You frequently hear this said of a
man: HE is a great bag of wind"
Some men are so stubborn that the
only way to convince them is to argue
on the other side.
| st am ruined; I am ruined" shout
ed a man the other day after he drop
| ped a sack containing half dozen of
eggs.
If a man asks his wife's forgiveness
for a big crime, it becomes less in her
eyes than the little offense he refuses
to ask forgiveness for.
AS people grow older the worse they
look when they are asleep. In fact,
no one past the tender age of 3 years
looks respectable when aslep-
By the time a man discovers he
likes tho soap he in using, the brand
is washed off, and he can't tell how
to get the same kind next time.
About every other man we meet
tells about what Atchison ought to
have. We believe we can make out as
long a list as any man in town. But
we can't always get what we ought to
have.
We never knew an old man who did
not tell of some friend swindling him.
Talk with any young man, and he
knows the story of his father being
swindled by a friend; such matters
seem to be talked of around the fire
side.
After man passes fifty, he not
only fears the criticisms of his child
rem, sickness and neglect, but he has a
greater horror than all: the shelf 1t
is the horror of his days, and the tor
ment of his nights. And s.the shelf"
finally gets US all. Death. they say is
painless; not so, the shelf.
After a man has saved money and
built a house larger than his family,
his relatives begin to punish him. If
an Objectionable relative comes to
town, the rest of the family say: Lets
send him to BilPs; he has plenty of
ROOM The result il that Bill often
wishes he was back in the little two or
three-room house he started house
keeping in.
What are the family's rights?
When Mother is called to the tele-
phone the family expects her to tell
all about it when she drops the receiv-
er, but Daughter, and Son, and Father,
tell if they want to tell. and maintain
a cool silence if they don't. Mother,
the custodian of the family's secrets,
must never have any of her own, ac-
cording to some unwritten law. There
fore, when Mother is called to the tel
ephone. or the door, or gets a letter,
she must tell the family all about 1t.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many a man doesn't let his own bust
ness worry him half as much as he
does his neighbours.
a x 4
The debt to their professors Of good
many college graduates for all they
know is not an extensive one.
X
A servant who has worked only in
the best families need not be ex-
pected to have had much experience
in caring for children.
x x X
After election many candidates for
office have not as much faith in the
wisdom of the common people as they
insisted they had while on the stump.
y y x
There would be lot of old maids and
bachelors today if the movement to
prevent weakminded folks from marry
ing had been started years ago and had
been successful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

From the Chicago News
The man who has no vocation
doesn't need a vacation.
A man is at his best on Sunday
If there is any best in him.
A poor complexion worries
woman more than a poor intellect.
But a man who leads a double life
never does two mems work.
The man who is looking for
trouble always finds it-and then
some.
The Lord freezes the water, but we
are expected to cut our own ice.
The youth who is unwilling to toe
the mark usually remains at the foot.
The funny actions of woman may
he due to her missing sense of humor.
Our idea Of a martyr is a man who
noses as a good example in a small
town.
The best candidate for Office wins
If he gets more votes than the other
fellow
In after years a married man won
ders why he failed to appreciate
soft snap when he had it.
The average woman thinks more of
her figure and complexion than man
does of everything he pays taxes on.
"A man is only half a man until az
ter he gets married." says woman
writer Yes, and after that he may
he nobody at all.
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they would be of enormous help and
SO the government has proposed to
give the people, generally, advantage
of them. They will be sold at cost. In
a pamphlet which has just been sent
out are listed several hundred of these
government publications on agricul-
turel, engineering, irrigation, history,
forestry and miscellaneous subjects.
Some Of them may be obtained for
five cents each, while the full history
of the civil war, comprising enough
books to fill a room is priced at SOL.
This history is made up of the Off
cial records of the Union and Con-
federate armies and Is most valuable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-23
QUAKER fluctuations.
(From the Philadelphia Record

(From the Philadelphia Record
Unfortunately spot cash isn't al
ways spotless cash.
1t is never a dark secret when
girl bIeaches her hair.
1t doesn't always take a iar-seeihs
man to see his own finish
When our neighbor builds spite
fence it's an insult that we can't over
look.
The woman with only one gown
NAV be justified in complaining thal
she has no redress.
You would discover that most men
are ali right If you would only trouble
yourself to ask them
Scribbler-''What is your idea OF
successful poet?" ScraWler-NOne
who is able to earn his living at some
thing else"
Cvnicus-'T would propose to that
girl but for one thing. Wlgwag-
SAfraid she would turn you down
eh ?" Cynicus-''No; I'm afraid she
wouldn't"
NelI-'I wonder why Mr.. Silltcus
doesn't mind his own business" Belle
-"For two reasons. In the nrst place
he has no business and in the second
place he has no mind.
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sible." Oe
He threw himself into the big chair
ana knitted his brows. The sensible
tnlng Is to get over the difficulty. Let's
begin at the beginning. Everybody
says I'm black sheep?''
Yes" she murmured.
We'll, 1 am. I've wasted NV time
IN riotouS living, as the Bible saws of
the prodigal. and when 1 fiunked in
my studies, got what was coming 10
me. But that was before met YOU.
Peggy 1 don't think my worst enemy
could accuse me since the night 1 saw
you at the Junior Prom in your white
gown, with your hair twisted up in a
big braid like a crown. You seemed
the princess in fairy tale, and
made up my mind then and there that
He drew long breath and went on.
But now 1 know I'm not good enough.
and L know, too, that 1 haven't any
right to ask you to wait for me. All
I'll ask is that you don't condemn me
utterly, don't shut me out from your
life"
His voice broke; then. as she held
out her hand to him, he went on
steadily.
I'm only going to ask that you will
believe in me, and if, after two or
three years, no one else has come into
your life that you care for. andI have
made good, that you will let me plead
my cause again.
He stood looking down at her. Her
cheek was laid against the bunch of
white violets. Their delicate fragrance
was round about her.
Dear little girl" he said, ''I'll stick
it out at college another year, and
then I'll go into business with dad and
show him what I can do. And II you
will have faith in me-"
She sat up, her eyes shining. "Oh. I"
she said, IT felt that back of 1t all
there was man in you, Justin--and
then--when you saved my life-I felt
that it belonged to you
I'm not half good enough" he
said humbly.
She took from the bunch OF violets
half dozen blossoms, and held them
out to him
They shall be a talisman." she
said, "of faith and hope and love
you must let them keep you from all
evil, Justin"
And as he knelt beside the couch,
the rapture in his eyes answered her.
I-(Copyrighted. 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.)
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TAFr AND CANNoN.

In the pursuit of rest, recuperation
/ and recreation at Hot Springs, Vir-
| ginfa Mr. Taft is not making much
news for the newspaper correspond
| ents who have been assigned to look
| after him. This is particularly true
| because the great and small politi-
! clans of the country are extepding a
courtesy due the man who is soon to
| be president of the United States and
are not descending upon Hot Springs
| in hordes to petition him for jobs or
disturb him with countless other
things of more or less moment. Mr..
Taft is not even worrying about the
m alxe-up of his cabinet so the crafty
reporters with him even haven't the
chance of figuring on cabinet states.
His playing of golf has become an
old story and is pretty well worn out
But it is naturally the duty of the
newspapermen "at the front" as 1T
were, to keep the wires alive with
news of some sort. At least they
think it is and so they are bending
their nimble wits to the task. The re-
suit is a lot of think" stories, that
are good of their kind. but the kind
of most of them is not of good
quality and some of them are to
laugh over.
One of them to the effect that
Mr. Taft is making plans to oppose
the reelection of Mr.. Cannon to the
speakership of the house of repre-
sentatives may be placed in this
category 1t is well dissected and
shown to be made out of piece OF
whole cloth, in which the holes were
many by Raymond Paterson, the
Chicago Tribune correspondent at
Washington, and than whom there
are few better informed political
writer's in the country. On this
proposition Mr. Paterson writes to his
paper from Washington. in part, as
follows:
Nothing that has happened in
long time has convulsed politicians
here to such an extent as the report
sent out from the Virginia Hot
Springs last night that President-Elect
Taft was undertaking campaign for
the purpose of defeating Uncle Joe
Cannon for the speakership.
persons who are we'll informed
dfscredit the report in that shape en-
tirely They do not believe that Mr..
Taft who is an orderly sort of man
and has deep respect for the constitu-
ton, would openly set about in in
reference with a co-ordinate branch
of government, any more than he
would attempt to dictate to the
supreme court how it should decide
important cases.
Republican leaders therefore in
sist that reports from Hot Springs are
entirely misleading, and they believe
that the president elect will not make
the slightest effort to prevent the re-
election of the speaker. Further
more, it is the general opinion that
Mr.. Cannon will have an over
whelming majority in the Republican
caucus and that he will be reelected
beyond all doubt.
1.-THE Republican majority in the
house is so large that even if ten or
a dozen members should refuse to be
bound by the caucus it would not
affect the result
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-23

From the publicity that is being
given by Mr.. Gompers and other labor
leaders of their intentions to go to Jail
rather than pay a fine if they are found
guilty of contempt of court in the Buck
Stove company injunction case it would
seem that they are anxiously awaiting
a chance to play the roles of martyrs
1t is unusual, to say the least, for men
TO declare what they will or viii not do
before a judgment is pronounced
against them and the present efforts of
Mr.. Gompers and his friends look
good deal like attempts to egg on the
federal court to punish them. And they
may get accommodated even beyond
their desires in the premises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-23

Even the most expert of financiers
get a gold brick palmed off on them
occasionally. This seems to have been
the case with William B. RidgeIy and
the presidency of the National Bank of
Commerce of Kansas City, Mo- After
much persuasion he left the rather
lucrative and prominent position of
comptroller of the currency of the
United States to become president of
the Kansas City institution. And after
holding this job for a comparatively
short time he has been forced out of it
by those who were in control of it when
1t suspended operations during the
financial crash of a year ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-23
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
rFrom the New York Press.]

TFrom the New York Press.1
A woman's idea of logic Is reason
ing out something wrong when you
might guess it right.
Being an optimist is hoping you are
going to make a fortune when you
know you will lose your last cent
The reason for woman wearing
low shoes has nothing to do with the
weather, but the stockings she mas on
The meanest trick man thinks you
can play on him is to make money
following his advice which ne dlon
follow himself
It's very romantic for a. girl to be
riding in a carriage and think what IL
somebody should jump in and carry
her off in broad daylight.
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Plans are now being made for the
perfection of an organization of the
business men Of this city and of the
interests in contiguous territory to
work for the establishment of the state
fair in Topeka. That's just what is
needed and there should be no delay
about it. Other cities which have their
eye on the state fair have already got
busy. They are handicapped in not
having the material with which Topeka
has to work in the way of adequate
fair grounds and all kinds of accom-
modations for the handling of large
crowds. But it is not going to be an
easy task to have the fair placed here.
Hard work is needed and now is the
time to start 1t. Let everybody lend a
hand and a dollar or two If necessary.
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HUMOR OF THE Day

You were a college MANI" Intercepted
the iadg in rs the 6ungsloTS
tackled the wedge of peach pie. And took
degrees?' ''Yessum. I" How many de-
stole de college thermometer one summer
day.'-Chicago News.
Johnny-Smokin cigarettes is dead sure
yer Yer git dat idee? Johnny-From pop.
Johnny-No. he wuzn't tstTingin' me; he
wuz strappin' me: OATS how 1 know it
hurts.-Philadelphia Press.
Father-I saw. have those awful people
Yes, father, long ago; but here are our
old friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Jones. whom L
know you want to see!-London opinion.
First Husband-what do you hear from
o md Hnsban nd local bank reports that
she is we'll and happy.-Life
''of course. you've heard that subbubs
was married the other day" Yes, and
married below his station tSsf YES b d9nt
married at Germantown; his station is
Chestnut Hill. you know. "-Philadelphia
Press. .5a'-iff
Sergeant Instructor-Erel What's the
rnn man arr fhe TeT
ror latter much cogitation)-I thought as
it might catch i'm as e comes back!-
Punch.
That's the Goddess Oh ..1 E4Der tayt;t,tuds-
eh?" Yes. and typically American re-
spcnded the western visitor. Hanging
to a strap."-Washington Herald.
Miss Sweetner-Isn't it laughable to see
the youthful airs Fan Billiwink gives her
self? She must be at least ten years older
than / am. Miss Capsicum-Fully-and
you wouldn't tear under the wing, you
know. either.-Chicago Record-Herald.
Dolly-MoIly Wolcott told me a month
ago that her new gown was going to be
dream. Polly-Well, that is all 1t Is, so
far. Her husband won't give her the
money for it.-Tit-Bits.
Bills that watch your father gave you
ten years ago still doing good serviceE
Jiii-Yepi 1 pawned it again today for
the twentieth time. Yonkers Statesman
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OF all the many unique requests
which have been made in wills none
have been any more unusual than that
found in the last testament of a Phila-
delphia man who died recently. To
his son-in-law he bequeathed fifty
cents "to enable him to buy a good,
stout rope with which to hang him
self" 1t is unnecessary to reason out
the feelings of the deceased for his
daughters husband. They are quite
evident.
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This may be termed as extravaganza
even for an actress. Anna Held is the
possessor of a Russian sable coat which
is valued at $4,000, and now she doesn't
know why she bought it as she has no
occasion to wear it. The only place she
thinks she could use it would be while
driving in a carriage, but, alas, she
uses an automobile and. considers the
coat too expensive to be soiled by a
motor car
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An explosion of gas in Brooklyn.
New York, with a death roll of twenty
souls; a fire in a mine in Butte, Mon
tana, with fatalities of twice that num-
Der Thus are calamities and catastro-
Plies piling up a record that terrify-
ing And they ever bring home the
depressing thought that everywhere in
the midst of life death is silently and
stealthily lurking.