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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
AYHAWKER .JOTS

Inc Howard Courant has discovered
that one of the burning questions of
the day for solution by the modern
woman Is to make 40 hairs look like a
cloud of sunlit tresses.
IL was to be expected that lola would
produce a catfish story that would
eclipse all others. H. E. Leslie. of that
sensational place, is credited with
catching one which weighed so pounds.
Milford is all torn up because the
county surveyor has discovered that
the town was not laid out properly and
mat most or the houses are in the
streets, and the streets cannot be
found.
Barber county people are investing
in automobiles, and this has brought
to them the question of how to spell
and pronounce Chauffeur" After con-
siderable discussion, "Shofer' was de-
cided upon as the proper pronuncia-
ton.
The Atchison Globe denies the report
that 1T is soon to be sold. The Cham
pion printed the story. The Globe says:
During the 81 years the paper has
been in existence, the owner has never
mad an offer for it; the matter of a
sale has never been talked about more
than two or three times. When the
owner of the Globe tires of newspaper
work, and retires, here is probably what
Will happen: the paper will be turned
ONCl " CcTldlH ldltHlui employees ana
the owners two sons, on plan which
will leave 1t in the control of the pres
ent owner for good many years.
Sheriff j. r. Harris. of Harper coun-
ty, was taking a woman patient to the
asylum from near Freeport; she was
nearly six feet tall and weighed over
200 pounds, says the Republican. Just
before the train got into Wichita, where
they changed cars, she went into the
lavatory on the car and locked the
door. To catch the train east they had
two minutes so they had to break down
the door. They found her in a famous
good humor. wearing a glad smile and
that was all. The curtains of the car
were drawn, the sheriff and train men
got her into some of her raiment after
a fight in which she came nearly to
whipping four men, but like the boy
who put the watch together and had
extra wheels left, the sheriff found
when she was fully dressed there were
several garments left over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
FROA OTHER PENS
CURE OF POVERTY.

People toll and MOL because they
wish to do with their own as they
like. and they would not fight and
struggle for the means if their free
dom in disposing of the results were
curtailed. If the riches of the world
were poured out Unfortunately to
the poor, that act would not cure
poverty. 1t might alleviate the mis-
cry of some, but the relief would be
only temporary, and for the majority
the windfall would mean 'revelry by
night"
The attempt to abate poverty was
made in the last century in England
on a rather ambitious scale by a
philanthropist. The worthy poor of
certain village were made the
benefciaries Of the will of a wealthy
woman. The distribution Of the funds
was to be carefully safeguarded and
confined to the needs of the worthy.
AS years went by one salient fact
stood out in clear relief-the number
of the needy increased at an alarm
ing rate, and each year an increasing
number became slack in their own
efforts and reckless of the future. In
brief. the whole of the small popula-
ton had been practically pulled down
and robbed not only of their own self
respect, but of initiative and enter
prise.
There is no positive cure for
poNcfty ne SuTeSt pTeVenllNe-dn q
that is by no means always efficacious
must rest in the heart, brain and
character of the individual. Nor would
the world be bettered in any way by
removing from the reach and hope of
men the comforts. delights and
luxuries. Human character and civili-
cation depend not alone on bread,
meat, shelter and clothes; they are the
product chiefly of the influences which
crafty and moIIffy the mind, soothe
the heart and uplift the spirit. Leave
TO man only the materials which
satisfy physical wants and the whole
world would be poor indeed.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

California promotion committee has
been summoned to take action and
every effort will be made to protect
these Pacific producers at the meet
ings of the ways and means commit
tee of the house of representatives
when they are held for the purpose
of hearing on matters of tariff re-
vision.
1t would not require a great gift of
prophecy to present a pretty accurate
idea of what the campaign of resist
ance is to be later on, but this illus
tration is interesting because 1t shows
how swiftly the alarm has been
raised. and It is reasonable to expect
that the preliminaries in California
will be repeated elsewhere. Further
more there will be equal stubborn
ness from many sources no matter
whether the cause is meritorious or
not.
Because of these reasons the friends
OF tariff revision should prepare at
once for the fray. They should equip
themselves so thoroughly that the
may be able to go before the commit
tee of congress and make a clear and
convincing showing in every case in
which they believe that the tariff is
inexcusably nigh. Otherwise they
might make little Roadway against the
weIl-organized forces of the opposi-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
He who laughs best doesn't have
the laugh on him.
Even in hot weather some people
insist upon making a cloak of their
religion.
If it is true that the devil is the
father of lies he must have a mighty
big family.
Mountain atmosphere may be in
toxicating, but that doesn't make a
person alright.
The fellow who tells you to your
face what he thinks about you may
also indulge in back talk.
Wight takes lot of cheek to
kiss a girl Wagon, she is gen.
orally willing to furnish the cheek"
at is never too late to mend
quoted the Wise Guy. mo, but it is
sometimes too late to realize it,
added the Simple Mug.
Wigwag-'I see some fellow has
invented a baby carriage that shuts
up" Youngpop-I wonder if he
could invent that kind of baby"
Now that the weather is clear L
guess I'll put up my umbrella" re-
marked the impecunious young man
as he entered the pawnshop.
Although 1 am no mimic, this is a
good take-off," remarked the fat man
as he realized that he had reduced
his weight from 29s pounds to $50.
Tommy-"Pop, what is the differ
ence between being gowned and being
dressed % Tommy's Pop-"Well, my
son. a woman may be fully gowned
and still be only half dressed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
TARIFF REVISION.

Both parties. Republican and DEM
ocratic, are to stand for tariff revision
this year. And it is we'll to realize at
once that the work of revision is sure
to be full of difficulties. 1t is not
merely that the professional stand
patters will resist any and every
change in their determination to yield
nothing. but every INDUSTRY that may
be affected will be heard from and
fight stubbornly against any lowering
of duties by which it may be con-
cerned.
For a hint of what is to occur refer
ence may be made to the agitation
that has already begun in California
On the prospect of a revision plank in
the Republican platform a leading
rural paper of the Pacific coast re-
ported that California producers were
very properly getting together to
make sure that whatever revision
might be undertaken 1t would be of
the right sort from California's point
OF view. A conference was called to
meet at San Francisco on July 1s. the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
KANSAS COMMENT
AN INCREASED POSTAL DEFICIT

AN INCREASED POSTAL DEFICIT.
The postal deficit for the year end
ing with June 80 was about $13,5O0,-
600, the largest in the history of the
country with the exception of 1905
when the deficiency amounted to $751;
100000. The deficit for 1907 was ST.
oOO,OOO, and the postmaster general
attributes the decrease in revenues
this year to the business depression
that set In last October. Up to that
time the revenues of the department
mad SHOWN good increase over the
oltlons mad obtained in the business
world the deficit at the end of the
f1scal year would have been practically
nominal
The deficit is not large amount, in
view OF the exceptionally large ex-
pend1tures that have been made in the
last few years in the development and
extension of the rural free delivery
service and other improvements in
postal facilities. The expenses of the
department are now annually more
than $2OO,00O.000, and there has been
deficiency in the receipts for all but
twelve years since the service was es-
tablished. The expense of the rural
free delivery service Is about $685.
100000 a year. but the report shows
that this service is becoming a great
revenue getter for the department
and that a fair share of the expense
or its maintenance has been Offset by
the discontinuance of small postoffices
In the country districts. The depart
ment has issued notice that rural free
delivery will not be continued on
roads that are not kept in condition
to be Travelled with facility and safety
at all seasons of the year. The effect
of this is to cause Improvements to
be made in the highways of the coun-
try producing general benefit that
probably more than offsets the cost
of the rural delivery servrce.-Leaven-
worth Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
Queer Facts About Flies.

Did you know that in the Temple of
Actium the Greeks used to sacrifice an
Rome similar sacrifice was offered in
the Temple Of Hercules Victor. 1t is said
that no Fly was ever seen in Solomon's
have used to keep 'em out? A trick
worth knowing. Ell? Beelzebub, a god of
the Philistines. was supposed TO ward of
perish except one. and that is the bee-fly.
We use q screen of very small mesh to
bar flies from our houses. but myriads
paper is sort Of destructive agent after
the fact: but what we want Is pre-
gions Of the west we used to encircie the
camp with |. lariat made of horse hair;
and no snake ever was known to cross
well as the most harmless would coil up
alongside OF 1t and peep over at US all
night. A somewhat similar plan was
adopted about eightyfive years ago to
keep flies out of house. and it's success
was most startling.
A man Of the name Of Spence was the
horse hair Iariat. and basing it upon the
superstition or fear of insects. He made
a screen Of white or ight-colored thread:
square: and placed it in his window
Now. there was no physical obstacle
s whatever to the entrance OF the flies;
large enough to admit one fly, but sew
eral. even with expanded wings. to pass
through at inc same moment. AS TO the
free admission of air and Of flies there
was practically no greater impeachment
than if the window had been entirely
open. But not a fly passed through!
There must have been some dread about
venturing across this thread work
Spence found after much experimenting
that this plan of big meshes did not
work successfully il there were open win
dows on more than one side of the room
If light came from the opposite side the
flies would pass through, because they
could see through. Isn't this unusually
interestingi The principle of the common
green fly trap is the same we used to
employ in catching wild turkeys in rail
pens: that is. the fly after once climbing
up the conical stair never looks down
again to get out, but butts his head
against the top or side of the cage until
death ends his sufferings.-New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
BACK TO THE LAND.

High food prices and bouncer crops
are predicted by the United States
Secretary of Agriculture Mr.. Wilson,
who takes as basis of estimates the
reports SO far received at his depart
ment. The farmer will be prosperous
which is good for trade, but high food
prices bear hard on men who do not
till the soil. The secretary shows that
there is, relatively to population. too
small an area of land under cultiva-
ton. This means that food will be
dear, and growing dearer, till there
are more farmers. Too many men
flock to the towns and cities. Many of
the railway companies are planning to
extend their lines into good agricul-
tural regions where there will be am
pie room for the men who now help
congest the city populations. When
the present depression is ended many
persons will be saying that it should
have lasted longer and so have driven
hundreds of thousands of men back to
the farms. But compensation always
works wisely, and as food grows dear
er there will be the inducement of
profit to win men to the land.-Mexi-
can Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
HAND TT OUT.


Don't get chAry with advice.
You know how to do things.
Show the dubs and no accounts
And the Rubes a few things.
Wh1le they may not thank you for
Pointing out q blunder
You can prove 1t to yourself
That you are a wonder.
All around you fellows may
Need to be instructed.
Tell them how their business should
Rightly be conducted.
ThouGh you may neglect your own,
Show a disposition
To keep other fellows straight;
Let that be your mission.
Yes. it Is a thankless task,
No one will be grateful.
Though OF pointers sage and good
You should keep his slate full.
Friends and neighbors might go wrong
Without your attention,
You can always find some flaws
And some faults to mention.
Cheerfully keep chipping in
With your private reason.
Give advice right of the reel
In and out of season.
You may get your features punched,
You might take those chances.
Like as not you'll only get
Cool contemptuous glances.
Nashville American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
WORTHY OF HONOR.

The man who caught the hand Of
the ASA ssin, Czolgosz, while the latter
was trying to fire another shot at
President Mckinley at the time the
president was shot in Buffalo, is dead.
and he died, according to physicians,
as result of complications arising
from the injuries he received at the
hands of the crowd. Believing that
the detective was the assassin instead
of the protector of the president. the
people set upon him and the officer
was badly injured. while Czolgosz es-
capped serious injury at the hands of
the mob. 1t was the irony of fate that
such should be the case.
If Albert Gallagher died, as is re-
ported, as the result or injuries he
sustained, and his family is not amply
provided for, the United States should
not be ungrateful, but should provide
literally for their support. We pen
sion our soldiers and their families
and they are worthy of it. We also
pension the wives of ex-presidents, as
well. But the men who guard the
president take great risks on certain
occasions and their loved ones should
not be left to struggle with the world
alone. Had Gallagher been killed by
the mob. his family would have been
amply taken care of and he would
have been given a burial worthy of a
prince. But people forget quickly in
America and before the late dis
patches came out it is not likely that
one person in a thousand could have
named the unfortunate detective.
Gallagher died as a result of his
loyalty to the president, fully as much
as If he had been killed by the mob,
If his death was due to complications
brought about by his terrific beating
and he should be nonored fully as
much as if he had been killed out
rf0 Lot
They are the ones to remember
Salina Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most folks enjoy meeting men with
histories with the possible exception
of book agents.
X y
The only adequate weapon to be
sure of killing a cat with is a nine
chambered revolver.
n
Many man would like a burglars
recipe for getting into a house with
out waking the women in it.
X X X
In birdland the canary is probably
classed as professional singer while
the parrot is looked upon as an
orator.
X
It's the mean man who takes field
glasses to baseball game for the pur-
pose of searching the stands for his
employees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
1From the Atchison Globe. ]

lFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Most people like to be told they
were pretty babies.
Treat yourself well, and the world
will do the same thing.
Some men carry home a very small
steak to very big family.
When a man attempts TO rest his
mind, he usually abuses his stomach.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who wore cap all sum-
mer?
A man never knows much until he
Is old, and then he Is too discreet to
tell it.
1t hurts a man to get whipped. but.
ah, he Is such smart man after
wards!
A girl of 16 never has cause to wish
she Is older.
Carrots and ochre are the chicken
necks and chicken backs of the veg
etable world.
Some people are as foolish with
their money all the year round as tho
ordinary man is just before Christ
mas.
When, in a mans estimation his
pipe has become mellow and sweet"
his wife contends that 1t smells ter
rible.
After the first baby is born, a man
feels very much like an old doll looks
when Its owner gets a new one for
Christmas.
If you must say anything of your
rival praise him: You can make more
enemies for him that way than by
criticising him.
Every time q new barber comes to
town, the bald-headed men half way
hope that he knows something that
will make hair grow.
IT am not very particular, and
am ordinarily easy to get along with,
but the blackberry don't suit me very
well.'-Drake Watson.
If a woman gets offended at a man,
he can make 1t up, but the angels in
heaven can't placate a woman II she
once gets mad at another woman.
Subject for debate at Saturday
nights meeting of the Lancaster Lit
erary Society: why are women's
stockings SO long. and mems stock
ings SO short?"
About the only excitement out in
the country is to say at the breakfast
table: The dog barked last night
as though somebody was prowIinE
around the house."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press.]
A girl thinks a good deal more of
how a man proposes than who ii is
doing 1t.
The way to make woman happy is
for a man to tell her she makes him
so.
The best way to make your opinions
respected is to KEEP them to yourself.
The pleasurable thing to a man
about being hated is generally it's be-
cause he's rich.
The harder 1t is for man to re-
member to buy postage stamps for his
wife the easier 1t Is for him not to for
get theater tickets for htmself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

out of politics, when even my daughter
electioneers against me-"
Il didn't work against you. just left
stood the test"
Woodham nodded. and with an arm
about the shoulders OF each he led the
right was his daughter and on his left
the new found son who had stood the
test. and in his heart Woodham was glad
that he had.-Copyrighted 1908 by Asso-
ciated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may havs
Ehe paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate OF ten cents
week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town the
State journal win be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment IS requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

II Harry K. Thaw had only done
Stanford White to death in Missouri
ne might be walking the streets to-
day. That's what General Richard c.
Horne. who shot and killed H. j.
Groves, the editor of the Kansas City
Post. is doing. Horne was acquitted
Of the charge of murder on the ground
that he was insane. He was commit
ted to an asylum and has just been re-
leased from that institution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

II any man in town cares for his
dog let him remember to keep the
animal tied up. Working under the
ordinance just passed by the city
council the official canine chaser of
the city will be no respecter OF dogs,
either of high or low degree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

Political cranks and jokers of all
sorts made life merry for the members
of the resolutions committee of the
Denver convention. One of their fix
asked for a plank in the platform
pledging the Democratic party to pro-
vide red clover for all the COWS in the
country. A few cows were interview
ed on the subject by some of the more
versatile members of the committee
The best they could get out of the
bossies was "moo" so the proposed
plank was consigned to the scrap pile
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

The expected has happened. The
dairymen around Topeka declare that
II they are forced to submit to the
proposed milk inspection ordinance.
now pending before the city council.
they will have to boost the price of
milk to ten cents a quart. So once
again viii the long suffering consumer
get q severe whack in the pocketbook
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

Although politics Is the all engross-
ing topic of the day the people should
not forget to wish fervent God
Speed to our magnificent battleship
fleet which has just started on Its
world encircling trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

Anna Gould, once a countess of the
peanut French caliber, is now a prin-
cess OF the same type. Few women In
the world, outside of France, will envy
her. especially when the circum-
stances under which she changed her
titles are taken into consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

with Kansans experiencing such
frigid summer weather II is probably
we'll nigh impossible for them to ap-
preciate the fact that scores of people
are dying each day in New York be-
cause IF excessive heat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

Most appropriately named is the
leader of the Snake Indians who are
said to be threatening an uprising in
Oklahoma He Is called Crazy Snake.
And If he and few of his braves
actually do go on the war path 1t will
not be long before the number of
good Indians is materially in
creased
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09

For the first time in several moons
q Democratic national convention has
developed into a love feast. Such con-
ditions have developed to a marked
degree at Denver with the exception
OF little outbreaks by Pat McCarren
and Jim Guffey, and Mr.. Bryan and
his popularity. are said to be the cause
of 1t all. Strange are the ways of
nolftfcfanS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
The Peacock Kingdom"

The little native state Of Mourbhanj.
known as the Peacock Kingdom" is
the most northerly OF the tributary
states of Orissa, and native chronicles
relate that the principaffty was found
ed more than 1000 years ago. The
chiefs emblem of signature is a pea
cock, which is held sacred. and hence
the killing of this heraldic bird is
strictly forbidden throughout the
state. The state has an area of 4,243
square miles and the country is varied
in soil and scenery. 1t abounds in
rich valleys, but vast extent Is
clothed with primeval forests. The
maharajah of MourbnanJ is an en-
lightened prince and administers his
state on modern British lines, as the
administration report for 1867
shows. The government is divided in
to separate departments, as in British
territory, and each department is I'M
der an officer, who is responsible for
its proper administration. Mourbhanj
offers first-class opportunities for ex-
ploitation by American mining engi
neers and manufacturers of various
kinds of small machinery, sawmills,
and the like.-Consular and Trade Re-
ports.