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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chica

rFrom the Chicago News.1
The best thing going is an unwel-
come guest.
It's sometimes easier to catch on
than 1t is to let go.
Better a tramp In the woods than
hobo in the woodshed.
Don't waste other peoples time while
you are wasting your own.
The average woman prefers a low
neck to a high forehead.
If you are unable to hold your tenn
per get a strong man to hold you.
Some men don't even try to reach the
top because they prefer company.
There might be more sinners In the
world IL it were more thickly popu-
lated.
Perhaps a rolling stone gathers no
moss because there isn't any great de-
mand for moss.
Fortunate is the man who doesn't
find fault because he doesn't know
where to look for It.
Contentment is said to be better than
riches, but 1t is only q matter of hear
say with most people.
The average man IL willing to let his
wife have the last word-and the SOON
er she gets around to It the better
he seems to like 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27

argues, and is nobody's business but
her own, so she enters her protest
against the form Of publicity pursued
by the Eagle. She goes so far as to
assert that the paper is bought and
read by many persons for no other
reason than to ascertain the ages of
the women and girls about to be mar
ried.
young woman's argument, but declines
to depart from its custom, which 1t
thinks is for the public welfare, as
''the publication In the Eagle seems
to be the only publicity likely to deter
those contemplating marriage by fraud
or Misrepresentation. The Eagle can
not abandon a practice which disturbs
this correspondent, and. no doubt other
estimable young people. At the same
time we are sorry to vex any nice
girl. Socially, woman's age is no
body's business but her own. The Curl
osity which prompts her neighbors to
pry into the matter Is vulgar though
very human. The desire to defeat that
curiosity Is also very human, and, up
to a certain point, commendable. We
are sure, however, that this girl will
not go so far as to tell a lie to that
end. The remedv is so much worse
than the disease that she will revolt at
it. Let her tell the truth and shame
the devil. She has the man, the neigh
borS haven't. If he is the man she
wants she is the happiest girl in the
world and can afford to laugh at the
curiosity which she finds so annoying
in advance. So the Eagle will go on
publishing the ages in marriage Ii
censes, this girls with the others. But,
perhaps, when the day comes. the
printer may blur the last figure so the
neighbors cannot read it. Even edi-
tors have hearts, while printers have
mallets and jacknives.'
It's to be doubted very much wheth-
er that explanation will be quite salts
factory to the young woman who OBJ
jects to having her age paraded in
the papers. 1t is altogether likely that
she is hiding her age from her future
husband as well as from the public,
possibly fearing that he may back out
if he finds that he is getting a wife
several years older than himself.
There would seem to be nothing for
license official and thus keep her young
man in the dark as long as she can.
That probably has been done here in
Topeka on numerous occasions as 1t is
the custom of the local papers to print
the ages of those taking out marriage
licenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27

Messages of good will are being
passed between England and America,
but please note the fact that they are
being exchanged on American soil on
the felicitous occasion of the celebra-
ton OF the tercenrenary of the found
ing OF Quebec and not at the Olympic
games in London. where the high
handedness of the English officials in
robbing the real victors of their lau-
rels because they do not happen to
the Britains Is causing all sorts of
hard feelings and doing more to put
a damper on international sport than
anything which has happened in
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
THE WORLDS WATER SUPPLY.

A French scientist who has been
making a study of the subject an
nounces that the world is drying up.
He finds that the wet spells and the
dry spells alternate with consistent
regularity. A wet spen. according to
his computations. lasts about thirty
years. Then a dry spell. which lasts
another thirty years, ensues.
Every wet spell, according to the
information from this investigator, is
a little less wet than the one preced-
ing 1t, and the latest dry spell is a
little more dry than any dry spell be-
fore it. But it is fortunate so far. at
least, that the diminution of the rain
fall is not such as to cause immediate
alarm. 1t is not expected by the
French scientist that our children or
our children's children will live to see
the world become one vast Sahara.
Not for several million years will the
rivers be dried up and the oceans be-
come wide stretches of sand.
This should be reassuring. even If
there was not at hand an article from
a New York newspaper which says
that 1900 acres of Long Island and
$4,000 acres of New Jersey are now
under water. Furthermore there is
on foot project having for its pur-
pose the draining of vast areas in
Florida whereby the amount of avail
able land in that state will be nearly
doubled. And to get nearer home
with the reassuring evidence of plenty
of water about it might be we'll to re-
call the recent triumphant announce
ment of the Kansas City star that "as
the floods subside and the waters re-
cede it is learned that nothing has
been drowned out in Kansas but the
cut worms and the cnrnch bugs and
the Hessian fly and the weevil."
Taking into consideration all the
existing conditions. it appears that
the people who worry about a possible
drying up of the waters from the face
of the earth. should be listed among
the borrowers of useless trouble. There
are good reasons for going ahead
with present irrigation and reclama-
ton projects, so that the water which
is here may be so disposed as to do
the most good. without regard to the
figures by which foreign investigators
are able to prove that it will some
time be impossible ror milkmen on
this earth to water their product
But when that time comes there
won't be any milk to water or any
men to water it. so what's the use of
worrying at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia RECORD

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
People who are always taking Of
Tense generally find a plentiful supply
II you want a girl to appreciate your
jokes tell her she has a musical laugh.
All dollars are the same size, but
the more some men have the bigger
they look.
A man is addicted to more crooked
work than woman. unless she tries
to drive a nail.
Guzzler-"Liquor improves with age"
Wigwag-"Yes. the longer you keep 1t
the better 1t il for you"
Nell-'Would you marry a man to
reform him?" Belle-"Would you try
to make an omelette out Of q bad egg?''
Harduppe-"How can I express my
love for you. Miss Gotrox?" Miss Got
rox-'Well, don't express 1t c. o. D."
The Fat Mani am trying to re-
duce my weight What do you think of
my chances?" The Thin Maxwell,
should say that your chances. at least.
are SLIM"
Blobbs-''Do you suppose the minis
ters will be clothed like the other an
gels when they get to heaven?" Slobbs
IT suppose So" Blobbs-"I shouldn't
think they would foe1 quite & hons
Without the1x white 0oc1f1ons ~ IL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
INDEPENDENCE.

This, unless he has been grievously
misquoted, is Samuel Gompers' declar-
alton of independence:
when II comes to a choice of sur
rendering my rights as a free Ameri-
can citizen or violating the injunction
of the court 1 do not hesitate to say
that 1 shall exercise my rights between
the two"
Mr.. Gompers is not the first free
American citizen" who has felt his
oats. A century before Columbus came
they roamed the forests and the plains
of this uncrowded country, as unham-
pered as the air they breathed. If
another transgressed their rights
they gathered their tribesmen and stole
before daybreak on the place where
the offender slept. killed him and his
associates if necessary, or, If possible.
carried them away to most excruciat-
ing torture. and placed their squaws
and papooses into slavery. Those were
the rights of the free American citi-
zen. freely exercised. Long after the
white man came they exercised these
same rights. and then first new
standard, the same to which Samuel
Gompers objects, was interposed. The
white man stood for law, and he was
bound to enforce law. His great mis-
take was that he would compel the
red man where he might have taught
him, and thus sowed the seed of gen.
erations of bloody war. but that is not
the main issue.
When first the white man conquered
this great west the same thing was
repeated in a different way. The set
Elements were populated by a new
brand of free American citizens -
Presently they got into the habit of
exercising their rights" in many ways
Objectionable to those who were used
to law. There was great carelcssness
in the appropriation of property and
in the explosion of firearms. 1t had to
be stopped. and an early form of in
junction stepped in to stop it. But the
"free Americans" were still very num-
erous. and frequently exercised the
choice which Samuel Gompers still
proposes to make.
But this is a different age. The free
Indian has become good. or dead. and
the outlaw of the west is mostly a
memory. The sort of independence
which they exempffied is passed now.
1t is not surprising. therefore, that
the court has invited Mr.. Gompers to
come In that 1t may have a heart to
heart talk with him. Clearly, and GER
tainly, he needs 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27

The handwriting on the wall has
been observed and needed by the sui
tan of Turkey. He has invoked a par
lament and given to his people a con-
stitutional government. And now the
question Is will the Turks be able to
conduct a government in their own
hands or will they show themselves
unable to grasp the advantages con-
ferred upon them as did the people
or Persia with the result that It will
be necessary for the sultan to revoke
the boon he has granted? This is what
tha Shah of Persia had to do because
his subjects showed themselves unfit
ted for self government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27

the development in this country yet
where the people have a chance to
decide questions of this kind. They
delegate this authority to a number Of
men who compose the city councils
and these men generally act on ques-
lions of this sort according to their
own personal ideas. and not on the
sentiment of a majority of their con-
stituents. which, as a matter of fact,
1T would be pretty hard for them to
get even If they had any disposition
so to do. which most of them do not
seem to have.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27

Strange as 1t may seem Champ
Clark. the famed Missouri congress-
man. says that Mr.. Bryan Is certain
to win if-and the rub is in the "if'
Mr.. Hearst and the labor party and
few other indictments keep out of
the race and throw their united sup
port to the Nebraskan. There's about
as much chance of Mr.. Hearst sup
porting Bryan as Is in a cooling breeze
coming from the jaws of Tophet. So
really according to Mr.. Clark's state
rnent and the well known position
that Hearst will take. Mr.. Bryan has
no show at all. But there are count
less other people, including Mr.. Bryan
himself. who think that the Demo-
Gratis can win even with the opposition
of this country's great disciple of yell
low Journalism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.


There is no real excitement for a
Missourian unless there is a fight
Ambition, with some men, consists
chiefly in finding fault with their pres
ent condition.
If we ever wear a long flowing
beard, it will not be because we vowed
not to shave until some defeated can
didate became president.
If 1t wasn't for telling their hus-
bands not to smoke too much, and not
to eat so fast, what would wives do
for conversation with their husbands?
A correspondent asks: What is the
best way to spend Sunday? Should a
man loaf around home. or walk, or
ride, or seek amusement" Don't ask
tough Monday morning, whatever we
do on Sunday.
You hear a good deal about the
"directoire gown" Know what 1t is?
In directoire gown. the skirt is
slashed almost to the hip, and there
Is no underskirt- Tights to match the
skirt are worn, and when the wearer
walks, she shows her legs. The fash
ion was invented by the French demi
monde, and a few respectable women
have taken 1t up, to attract attention.
On every table Qf there are children
in the family there are cracked dishes
Sometimes the crack is so faint that
Fathers eagle eyes never see 1t, and
sometimes it is so big and black that
he roars about Queensware bills at
every meal Throw all cracked dishes
out! According to Wise Men from the
east, every crack is the breeding place
for diseases. A woman may wash her
dishes well. and scald them. but this
doesn't help the situation. Obedience
of this order means that old pieces OF
china handed down from Away Bacl
Yonder win also have to 50 to The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27

One of the grand old men of this
country is Cardinal Gibbons. of Bal
timore. the highest prelate of the Ro-
man Catholic church in the United
States. He has just rounded out the
allotted three score and ten years of
life and four more. And all the peo-
pie of this country. il they could be
gathered together. would express the
hope in mighty volumes that a long
life Is still before him. He has done
much 20 advance the welfare of his
church in this country and a great
deal more for the whole people of the
land through his words of advice and
wisdom and countless kindly acts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27

Topeka experienced another decid-
edly blue Sunday" yesterday. 1t
would be interesting IL the people of
the city should take a vote on this
question OF a Sunday without activi-
ties of any sort. which is decided in
convenience to many to saw the least.
And It would also be interesting to
know whether or not majority of
the people of the city favor the closing
of the theaters on Sunday. But mu-
nicipal government has not reached
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

AS soon as a couple get married each
Is likely to lose a good friend.
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Misery doesn't really love compan-
ionship that wants to do all the talk
ing.
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If the world gave everyman what he
deserved many of them would be OBJ
jects for pity.
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With some families instead of. a
daughter marrying off it's a case of a
son-in-law marrying on.
When a musician is heard to say
that certain music continually haunts
him that must be because he has MUIR
dered it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the State journal
AWAY during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address Mt the rate OF ten cents
10 week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only.) Address changed as often
rs desired. While out OF town the
State Journal viii 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, 1908-07-27
century.

According to the registration books
there are s.542 voters in Topeka who
are qualified to participate in the first
state primary which will be held on
August 4. This compares more than
favorably with the number of voters
who usually register for the general
elections and shows that the people of
this city are interested in the primary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27

Inasmuch as Mr.. Bryan says the
Democratic party Is now united, it is
fair to assume that Mr.. Hearst is no
longer considered Democrat. That's
as II should be. Indeed, it would be
a difficult task to classify Mr.. Hearst
as to his politics. except that he Is for
Hearst, first, last and all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27

Most thinking people will agree
with Senator Curtis that the only hon.
orabls thing for the United States to
do is to keep the Philippines and give
the people in them self government
Just as soon as they show themselves
capable of taking advantage of 1t
whether this be within a decade or a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
A ..BuL" CAMPAIGN.

each BILL and where's the harm?
Bill has a hearty. honest sound. ex-
We've had our william candidates and
praised them we'll with voice and quill;
But nows our chance to pin our hopes
unto candidate named bill"
"Bill' Taft and "Bnr" Bryan. We call
.,, each "Bill." and whore the hurt?
Biz has a sturdy. whole-souled ring
We've had our "Wiiiiams presidents: re-
vered them then: revere them still:
term a president named bill"
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Records of Thrift.
To celebrate its thirtieth anniver-
sary the National Thrift society. So
ciety which was founded some thirty
years ago by T. Bowden Green with
the object Of promoting habits of reg
ular and systematic thrift among all
classes. recently organized a competi-
ton in which they offered prizes in
sums Of Els, Flo and f5 to the three
men or women who produced the
In respect Of saving, covering period
Of not less than thirty years. The
candidates, who included engineers,
printers. factory workers, railway
men. laborers. clerks and domestic
servants. have produced some remark
able records of thrift.
Here is the case Of a railway por-
ter, fifty-nine years Of age, who has
set splendid example to his fellow
workmen. He has never earned more
than 80 shillings week, and out of
his pay he has supported a wife and a
family Of six children. Although he
was swindled out Of the first f100 he
managed to save, he is now the proud
owner of f165 in property and f159
las. in other savings.
A shopkeeper at Burnham on
Crouch has even a better record. He
at eighteen, when his wages did not
exceed Is shillings a week. He work.
ed hard, however, and became q shop
keeper In a small way of business two
years later, and SO determined was he
to succeed that he thought nothing of
working sixteen hours a day. In spite
of the fact that he has reared a fam
lily of fourteen children, his business
turnover last year amounted to FL, 1872,
besides stock worth f1,S00.
According to the results of the COM
petition, however. domestic servants
working classes. A record hard to
beat is that owned by servant whose
wages have varied in the thirty years
from f10 to ZIG year. She has been
in her present place thirty-eight years.
Out of her slender earnings she has
saved f175 in consols and has f167
standing to her credit at the savings
bank. in addition to providing for her
old age by purchasing an annuity of
f12.
There are scores of others whose
savings bank accounts testify to their
thrifty dispositions. At Southend a
workman of humble means has ac-
cumulated $500 in thirty years, f426
being invested in consols; while a
Birmingham man, worker in a paper
factory, whose wages have never ex-
ceeded 80 shillings a week, had in
twenty years saved over f100 and pur-
chased a house and two cottages
London Tit-Bits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
Surgeons Get a Big Fee.

After receiving what he considered
prohibitive fee of $4,000. DR.. George
w. Endicott, chief of staff of Mullen
berg hospital, and recognized as the
foremost surgeon in New Jersey. last
night consented to sail today for
Europe for a consultation with Dr.
August Bier, of Berlin, reputed to be
the greatest surgeon in that country.
young American woman studying
art in Germany recently entered DR..
Bier's private hospital in Berlin for
treatment fer poison in the left foot.
The surgeon, after an examination,
informed his patient that it would be
necessary to amputate the foot, but
she would not consent to the opera
ton until DR.. Endicott gave his con-
sent.
The Plainfield physician had never
heard of the woman, and was
reluctant to make the trip to Europe
when urged to do so by her New York
attorney. He asked for a fee, with ex-
penses. which he considered would
not be met. but got his certified
check last night and sailed today on
La Observation-Disclosures dispatch to
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
\ MOTHERS SACRIFICE.

On the witness stand during a muir
der trial in Missouri mother testify
ing to save her son from the gallows
told of the shame of her daughter,
and of the determination of the
brother to kill the man responsible
for it. Appeal was made to the I'M
written law, and according to the evil
dence now before the jury, the brother
must be acquitted because of the
unwritten law or be found guilty of
murder in the first degree. 1t is adj
mitted that he lay in walt for an OPP
portunity to kill the man alleged to
be responsible for his sisters shame.
and that when the favorable oppor-
tunity presented itself carried out his
Intentions.
The outcome of the trial is not the
important feature of this case. The
public will not speculate as to the
result as much as it VIII sympathize
with the mother who was compelled
to tell her story on the witness stand
to save her son from the gallows.
What must have been her emotions
as she repeated in a crowded court
room the confession of her daughter.
What must she have suffered as she
debated with herself as to whether
or not she would sacrifice her son,
allow him to die criminals death,
or sacrifice her daughter by telling
the facts as she received them from
the girl. What an ordeal for a mother
to pass through. q
The story may save the young man
from the hangmanis moose, but his sis
ter, whose betrayal he committed
murder to avenge, is the victim
And the mother has passed through
an experience worse than DEATH
Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
Among the Presidents.

Washington was the tallest of the
presidents and had the longest name.
Taft, the steam roller. if elected. will
be the biggest all-round man that ever
held down q White House throne
When he orders pair OF trousers he
says. extra stout" His girth measure
is ~ inches. Abe Lincoln's was 81.
Roosevelts is As. Mr.. Cleveland was a
big man in his physical prime, meas
uring So inches in the waist. He lost
100 pounds in his recent illness Taft
is the most active big man 1 ever saw.
Dixon H Lewis was much stouter,
weighing nearly 500 pounds-the
heaviest man that ever sat in congress
He was chiefly distinguished for cut
ting out a pane of glass in the senate
chamber with a diamond ring, so as
to hear one of Webster's speeches.
New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-27
Postal Savings Banks in India.

The postal savings bank of India
was established in 1882. in which year
the depositors numbered 39,121 and
the deposits amounted to $932,243. In
1907 the depositors numbered $780,
220 and the deposits amounted to $49,-
223,283, which, perhaps, should not
be considered large in a country hav-
ing q population OF some 300,OOO,O00,
but the average Indian farmer. me-
chanic, servant. or laborer never de-
posts money in q bank. but hides it
away in a pot or box in the ground or
in some other place which he may
consider safe.-New York World.