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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND.

That considerable NUMBERS or reason
ably wel1-informed and weil-to-do peo-
pie as well as many of the ignorant
and the unfortunate believe in the
occult to a greater or less extent is
painfully evident all over the country
as well as in Topeka. The quack in
mental practice has often larger.
more guIlible clientele than his brother.
the unscrupulous cure-all medical prac-
titioner.
There is SO much mystery and misery
in human life, so much uncertainty. SO
much that clearly calls for the COOP
Grafton with the powers higher than
the Individual feels that he possesses.
that faith in and reliance upon some
thing greater than the human mind can
sense Is inevitable.
This reaching out is, when rightly di-
rected and animated. religion. 1t is
thus that men find out God. Wrongly
directed, the seeker is led by this feel
ing into awful error. He becomes
slave in a bondage which death does
not likely end. There is one easy, in
fallible test to guide men in their
need. What fruit do their longings and
those that minister to them bear?
The fortune te1lers and all this guild
of charlatans, why do they not do for
themselves what they profess to be able
to do for others? Have they the riches
and honor and power they promise
their dupes? Have they the graces OF
character that their falsely claimed
communion with the higher powers
might be expected to give them?
How does it come that they who
claim to be able to guide and counsel
others cannot do as much for them
selves, that they cannot foretell and
forestaIl even a police raid which some
of them suffer in cities other than To-
peka? How is it that they who profess
to show others how to prosper are
themselves leading a precarious exist
ence and depending on little sordid
fees?
People should learn to look within
themselves instead Of outside for the
obstacles in their path to health. har-
mony and happiness. They should re-
alize that no power can help those who
are unwilling to be helped in the right
way. They should realize that the fu-
ture of no one is SO fixed that he him
self cannot change it If he will but be
guided by the universal law written
broad and plain that all who will may
read.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.1

Men who drink hard find 1t easy.
All men are born free and unequal.
If you must draw the color line,
draw it at feeling blue.
The world hates a pessimist as
much as he hates himself
A horse Is still a horse, even when
turned into a pasture.
People who are in love imagine
that they fool other people.
We don't blame some men for re-
fustng to take their own advice.
Remember, girls, the season for
husband hunting is open all this year.
How happy women would be IL
they could live long without getting
old
Even the sure-thing gambler takes
desperate chance when he gets
married.
Jobs patience wasn't SO great. His
next-door neighbor didn't own a
photograph.
Marriage is like a porous plaster;
it's easier to get next to 1t than 1t is
to get away from it.
Even with his experience a self
made man sometimes finds 1t diff
cult to make true friends
Just because a woman declares she
has the best husband on earth it's no
sign that she expects to meet him in
heaven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
FRON OTHER PENS
NOT TO BE CUT DOWN.

The attempt to raise academic
ideals by cutting down the number OF
intercollegiate athletic contests among
the New England colleges. with foot
to have failed. The fact that Presi
dent Eliot used his power of persua-
sion to induce the colleges to favor
this reduction perhaps explains why
four out of ten New England institu-
tons approached agreed to the
change. OF course, President Eliot's
position on this question of athletic
competition is we'll understood. 1t is
a position that directly antagonizes
the undergraduate body, and there
seems to be no probability of recon-
Cling the opposing views. The neces-
sity of favoring athletic contests as a
means to the preservation of college
spirit and the encouragement OF the
zeal of competition is widely preached.
So, too, is the theory that successful
football and baseball and track teams
are admirable means of advertising
the institution that possesses them.
The only college of the larger sort
that has attempted to do away with
intercollegiate sports is Columbia, and
the forebodings that followed its ac-
ton were both dark and numerous
For the faculty of big university to
deliberately drop intercollegiate foot
ball from its athletic curriculum was
looked upon in radical circles as fair
" suicidal. 1t is understood, however,
that Colum bfa is still alive and pros
porous some 5000 students. more or
less, attending the various departments
of the big university. Still, it may be
argued that the attendance might
have been larger with football fully
acknowledgements Plain Dealer.
ELIMINATING" BRYAN AGAIN
The safe and sane" eastern Demo-
hA1 r
an can be led to forego his presidential
ambitions under certain circumstances
have taken counsel of caution. They
realize that Mr. Bryan cannot be elm
mated without his consent, and that
open antagonism to the Bryan Democ-
racy would be fatal both to party har-
1nony and to the movement for presi-
Dental candidate other than Bryan.
The program is to invite Democrats
to get together on platform exclusive
of Organism, and then to look about for
someone who will accept 1t. It is pre-
ciseIy the plan advocated by Congress-
man Glass, of Virginia, and the erect
of his advocacy was to arouse the
strenuous opposition Of every Bryan
man to a scheme SO transparently In
tended to discredit their leader. We
doubt the feasibility Of Democratic
harmony on any such proposition
Justice O'Brien gives away his whole
case when he says that a fight for the
restoration OK OLD party principles CHI
not be carried on successfully by an
taEonixing the Bryan influence. But
these old party principles, as interpret
ed by the old line Democrats, are in
themselves antagonistic to Organism.
so that we fail to gee how Mr.. Bryan's
friends can view the newest "self-and-
sane movement in any other light than
as inimical to bryan and damnatory of
the principles for which he and they
have contended since 1s96.-Washington
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
FORAKER ON UNDERTAKING..

Senator Foraker made a speech in
New York the other day that has not
received SO much attention as 1t de-
served. We are we'll aware that in
certain circles the name Of the Ohio
senator Is tabooed. and we are liable
TO call down upon ourselves the right
eous wrath of some of our contem-
poraries for admitting that this par
ucular statesman, or politician, can
deliver any thoughts which are good.
But there are some things which the
senator said which are worth while.
or so 1t seems to us. to call to the at
tention Of the public, and there may
be. even among those of our friends
who shudder whenever mention ia
made of the name of Foraker, some
good lesson to be learned some per-
sonal application that is fitting. Con-
ceding the harm that has been done in
overtrading, expansion of credit, over
capitalization. and other features of
the business methods OF the present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
.IFrom the Atchison G,ob

l6TOm the AtchisOn Globe
If a man is able to fry eggs, he
thinks he is a first-class cook.
A philosopher is q man who does
MT want the things he can't have.
Encourage the modest man too
much, and he will become vain
A favorite joke among women is
that there Will be no men In heaven.
It fs another sign you are growing
old when holidays begin to crowd
each other.
Perhaps the years mercifully dim our
eyes that we may not see the horrible
ravages time is working on our con-
temporarfes.
The first thing q woman does af-
ter a man caller leaves, Is to look at
herself in the glass.
A man is brought up to believe
that women are better than they are,
and woman is educated to believe
that men are worse than they really
are.
A Jew travelling man Is always a
booster for the other place. When
he is in Leavenworth, Atchison fs q
good town, and when he Is in Atchi-
son. Leavenworth is good town. The
hotel where he is stopping is never
a good hotel until he leaves it.
Does woman ever go to bed? The
last the man of the house hears OF
her at night, she Is putting the cat
out; If he awakens in the night, he
finds she is trotting around to see II
the children are asleep. and when he
awakens in the morning, he finds her
up before him. Does q woman ever
go to bed. or does woman ever stay
in bed after she gets there?
Did man ever know where to find
anything? Did a man ever turn down
the bed covers at night, and not turn
them down wrong? Did q man ever
get up in the morning and know
where the clothes were he took Off
the night before? Does he sver re-
member where he laid his hat? Does
he not keep the rest Of the family
busy finding things all the time he /.
in the house? What IL the matter
with man rs soon as he comes in
the house where there are women =
He can always find things In the Of
foe. He knows where everything In
down there, and could find things in
the dark II necessary. Can 1t be that
things in wrong places?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

time the senator goes on to show that
a part of the recent troubles. and per-
haps the greater part of tn EN- is due to
Undertaking"
The senator called attention to tn o
fact that for three years there has been
"a perfect saturnalia" of undertaking
literature. Any newspaper and maya
zine articles, he added, had been sup
plemented by court proceedings, off,
cial Investigations and speeches in and
out of congress, while even official re-
ports had abounded with the most
virulent attacks upon the great BUSH
ness enterprises of the country. Even
where there were grounds for criti-
cism. the gross exaggerations were of
such an inflammatory character as to
lead to general discussion and to
create an almost universal distrust.
with correspond ding determination to
smash everything that seemed to be
unduly prosperous.
Mr.. Foraker has had the misfortune
to disagree with President Roosevelt.
and with presidents before the present
one. So that this fact may be taker.
into consideration In the process of
accepting such part of the speech as
is applicable, but the fact that so much
of the public thought has been turned
to harmful business methods. and so
much denunciation, not to say SANDER,
of the American business man has
been scattered broadcast in what are
called undertaking articles, that it
would be we'll nigh impossible to Sc
cure an unprejudiced judgment con-
corning them.
We need to stop the undertaking
process more than we need to do any
other thing. We ought to think better
of our own people, instead of worse.
We want to stop crying stop thief" at
every man who has the fortune to sue
coed in business. and to eliminate the
thought that only the man of poverty
can be honest. The rate of judgment
which we have been accepting would
elevate the Weary Willies'' to the
highest pedestal Of public opinion. and
it Is a place they do not deserve.
However. the corporations too have
a duty. Let them hereafter adopt
more open and honest methods in
dealing with the public. Let them SO
conduct their business that there will
be no grounds upon which the muck
raker can build his edif1ce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
THE LITERARY QUEST.

There's a raw 'un as waiter at the
Mansion We're de Veres
He's clumsy and he's frightened-thaf
much Is very clear:
He's spilled some soup right down the
neck of Mr.. Stockton Bonds.
And on the tablecloth. alas! he's made
some claret ponds:
But as the butler leads him out and kfckn
him down the stair
We hear this stammering excuse borne
back upon the air:
Tn not a waiter by profesh. you realize.
I'm simply doing this to get some literary
doper'
They're sledgtng in the Arctic. whore
they're food for polar bears,
They're sweating In the tropfcs-the yAro
on the servants stairs;
They're working as conductors, they're
delving in the mines
And, as amateurish hoboes, they're work.
ing out their fines:
And always they are taking their notes
on pad and Gun.
And turning each experience to literary
stuff
That's how we get our novels. ana In
view OF trials SO ead
It's not bit surprising that the most OF
them are bad!
Denver Republican
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
QUAKER REFLEOrToNs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record
In leap year she who hesitates is
lost.
In quarrel over who IL going to
chop the kindling it's a good plan to
bury the hatchet
Society women who want to re-
duce their weight are looking for
ward to the fasting period OF Lent.
In high finance 1t Is doubtful II v,o,,
could convince a man that # is n,ore
blessed to give than to be a receiver.
Scientists claim that the Exvptian
mummies are all men. This sim NV
proves the futiiity of trying to make
woman dry up.
Nell-1e says he owns an autorno-
bile Do you believe it?" BeIie-
Really, my dear. have such a bad
cold l can't smell a thing"
Roliingstone NomossE'I WASN'T AL
ways as you see me now uster r;.5.
In me own carriage" Tatterdon Tory,
AW come on" Rollingstone Nc
months old re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

No wonder money talks. On most OF
it are female heads.
u y y
Married men are not of the class of
people who are permitted to suffer in
silence.
. = -
A doctor is a mean sort Of fellow
because he will treat a man and then
make him pay the bill.
u = =
Men VINO are generally right in their
arguments soon become extensively un-
popular with their acquaintance.
u = -
It's hard work for chap to soon for
get girl who has Tilted him if the
jewelry he gave her was purchased on
the easy payment plan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

Bank robberies are becoming so
frequent in Missouri as to not at
tract much attention. A safe was
cracked at Willard. Mo-. on Sunday
night and the robbers got away with
$1,000 in cash. Early on Wednes-
DAY morning the vault In a bank at
Rich Hill. Mo-, was blown open and
the robbers secured over $4,000. So
successful has this trade become in
the 'tshow me- state that many who
have desires to get rich quick will
take it ND as q profession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

moralizing as the Sunday saloon and
should be suppressed. Many people,
who are blessed with quite as much
intelligence as the Kansas City re-
former. will disagree with him on
this proposition. In fact 1t will be
hard to find folks who believe in the
closing of theaters on Sunday that
will place them in the same baneful
category with saloons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
A FRIEND.


mere Is no other virtue half 50 grand
There is no other trait so good and true
AS to be like steadfast rock and stand
BY the steadfast friend who has stood
by you.
For friendship pure and a faith sublime
I'M edded deep in the loyal breast
or friend who's a true friend all the
time
You'll part, if you must, with all the
rest.
A friend who Is true mountain spring
Inar can never fail till the sea goes dry,
VINO will fathom your every need and
bring
smile when the world would make
you sigh.
on, many the precious gifts that fall
To the lot of man. but when all are
weighed.
we lind true friend best of all
That God in his goodness has ever
made.
Willis George Emerson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

Tim Woodruff. chairman of the
New York Republican state COM
nnittee, whose chief bid to fame here
tofore has been the wondrous vari
colored waistcoats he has worn, has
made another. He thinks that If the
attitude Of certain financial people is
continued Roosevelt's mination
for the presidency by the Republican
national convention Is assured. This
announcement villa DO one thing. 1t
viii give courage to Bent Muir
x7r,clr-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

what has probably a record in the
divorce line has been consummated
at Richmond, Ind. The marital ties
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ratliff, each
more than eighty years old, have been
severed by a court decree. Mrs.
Rathff secured the divorce on charges
of extreme cruelty. For more than
sixty years this couple has been
prominent in the social affairs of
Richmond and their married life had
been pointed to as an ideal one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

Both Mr.. Stubs and Mr.. Bristow
make emphatic denialS that they en-
tered into any agreement whereby
the former was to stick in the race
for governor and the latter was to
come out for the United States sena-
torial nomination. This only goes
to show Just how peculiar some coin
efdence3 are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

1t was almost unnecessary for the
weather bureau to go to the trouble
of fixing up an elaborate set of figures
showing that January. 1908. was the
warmest January that Kansas ever
knew. Everybody in the state had
already guessed it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

Two weeks hence a day will be set
for taking a vote in the senate on the
Aldrfch currency bill and the inter-
vening time will be devoted to a dis
cussion of the measure by the
eminent solons. From their talky
fally proclivities they must reason
that time is exceedingly cheap when
the people are paying for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

Champ Clark, the Missouri con-
gresham, has missed his vocation.
Instead of wasting a lot of time in
which some public business might be
transacted with several brands of wit
that might be properly characterized
as cheap he ought to fix up a mono
logue and go the vaudeville stage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

Foraker evidently believes that a
poor excuse is better than none. He
says that the result of the primaries
in Ohio was expected by him because
the call for them was of such a
character that his friends throughout
the state refused to participate in
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

"In case the primary law fails to
land some of the reformers in office
what are they going to try next?'' is
a pertinent query put out by the Os-
borne Farmer which then adds:
''About the only thing left for some
of them will be work"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

Cow has the honor of being queen
in Wisconsin. The dairy interests of
that state aggregated $57 100000 last
year There are LOO cheese fac
eeries and 1900 creameries in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Secretary Taft declares that the In
terstate Commerce commission does
not have quite enough power and
therefore more railroad legislation is
needed. So does President Roose-
aEAIf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
An exceedingly comprehensive and

apparently adequate employers La
bility bill has been introduced in the
senate by Senator La Toilette. 1t is
to be hoped that the petty spite which
the senate leaders hold against the
brilliant Wisconsin man will not pre-
clude this measure getting the con-
sheraton 1t Is deserving Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
First Night Nervousness.

At evening service In provincial
church there was a new hymn rendered
by the choir. When the congregation
had been dismissed. the organ blower,
a conscientious old man long In the SER
vice of the church. sought out a mem
Der of the choir. saying:
How did the new hymn seem to be
received this evening
VERY nicely, indeed. Why do you
ask?"
.sOh. nothin'." replied the man. only
I was a little nervous and worried. I've
never blowed for that hymn before
Pearson's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17

In announcing his candidacy forthe
Democratic nomination for governor
of Missouri. Judge Wallace. of Kan
sas CITY. STANDS on Sunday closing
and local option platform and says
that the Sunday theater Il a. de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-17
Preparing For Death.

It is not given to every man to anti
cipate his death as calmly as did the
late H. N. Pottle, an organist, at
whose obsequies funeral march was
played which he had composed ex-
pressly for this purpose; but there
have been others who have found a
curious pleasure in preparing for their
latter end Not long ago we read
that Gabrielle d'Annunzio was busy
experimenting the construction of his
own sepulchral monument. and that
Salvini, the world-famous tragedian.
had been enjoying the singular exper-
fence Of helping to varnish his coffin
at Florence.
The Rev William Dodd. D. D., we
remember preached an eloquent fu-
neral sermon on himself before he
was hanged at Tyburn for forgery;
and Signor Leopoldo do Grassig, an
Italian doctor. left his own death GER
tiiicate among his papers.
When Evan p. Jones of Phi1adef-
phia saw short time ago that his
end was near, he spent the last few
days of life in making his coffin: an
irish singer sang into photograph
the requiem which was repeated over
f,fs grave: and Mrs. Ault. q Calves
ton widow, spent her last day on
earth in decorating the church for
her own funeral.-Tit-Bits.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-07-08

selection of the candidate, now want
to feed on the full body of political
corruption. 1t is almost certain that
IVbrys will not be selected as chair
man, for although he undoubtedly
cleared the way in Ohio for Taft, yet
his appointment would emphasize the
deal that was made with Boss Cox,
allowing him in return for supporting
Taft 10 dictate the nomination or very
questionable candidates for the princi-
pal state officers in Ohio, which quite
q large faction of the Republican
party in that state is refusing to sup
port.
II the Democrats adopt a plank in
their platform for publicity OF CAM
lpaign contributions and expenditures
both for the nomination OF candidates
and for their election, that Issue will
be quite prominent in the campaign
and may affect enough voters In the
doubtful states to turn the tide in fav-
or OF the Democrats. 1t IL said that
Mr.. Bryan favors such plank and
will advise the new chairman of the
Democratic National Committee TO
publish the items of all receipts and
Expenditures in this campaign. If Mr..
bryan should also have the expense
incurred by himself and his friends in
his long campaign for the nomination
made public, he would make II decid
edly uncomfortable for Mr.. Taft, in
Whose interest a very large amount
of money is reported to have been
spent by his brother and others. for II
Is said that many such expenditures
would hardly look well in cold figures.
There will be no Initiative and Ref
Ierendum plank In the Democratic plat
form am assured upon high author
lity, but the anti-injunction declar9tion
lis to be about as the labor people de-
sire. except that the wording will be
much condensed. / am also Informed
that the whole platDOrm Is now un-
Idergoing q severe blue penciling pro-
cess at Lincoln and VIII emerge from
Mr.. Bryan's sanctum s1nctorum In an
abbreviated form that will contrast
Ifavorablv with the verbose boastings
'of the Republican platform.
ROBERT MILLER.