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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10

Some of the newspapers in France
are more than reckless when they get
excited. L'Action Franchise. the or
gan Of the nationalists, demands the
execution of Dreyfus because his
mere presence Is a menace to the
country. This paper also calls on the
people to overthrow the present gov
eminent and make the Duke of Or
leans king. If this isn't treason. what
is 1t? And it is all because of the ac-
ton in placing the body of Emile lola
in Frances temple of fame and the
disorders and attempted assassination
of Dreyfus which were incidents to It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10

Any quantity of explaining is be-
ing done these days by the managers
of the political parties in the last
presidential campaign as to where
certain of their funds came from and
what was done with them. 1t would
have been much more satisfactory to
the people If congress had passed the
campaign fund publicity bill and an
opportunity given thereby for every
one to ascertain just what are the
sources of the funds for the approach
ing campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's no need Of asking what busi-
ness most women are in. They're in
everybodys.
X X \
It's hard not to think that some of
the duck served in restaurants is Of
the decoy variety.
X
A good many children seem to have
the idea that it's only necessary to
say Thank your where there is COM
pany around.
\
Generally, it's the next door neigh
bors who insist that singers have such
talent they should go abroad to study.
n
Maybe physicians hold consultations
because one doctor can think of some
thing to operate for that hasn't oc-
Cured to the other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

IF'rom the New York Press.]
A woman knows she has soul be-
cause there is no proof Of it.
One reason so many men get mar
ried is they don't intend to. but the
girl does.
1t makes a girl awful ashamed to sit
in a mans lap without saying she
won't.
It's better to have wed and been di-
vorced than never to have imagined
You loved at all.
What fiatters a man about being
cynic Is the disagreeable things he
expects always coming along.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10

Probably it will be just as well for
President Roosevelt to assert en-
phatically for a third time that I'M
der no circumstances will he accept
the presidential nomination from the
Republican national convention. I'm
der certain conditions a double mega
tive has the effect of an affirmative
so perhaps a third negative in this
particular case is really needed al
though the first one should have been
sufficient,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10

Louisiana has a legislator who has
in mind the introduction of a bill
which. IL it becomes a law. will make
it a crime of some sort for persons to
kiss each other on Sunday. 1t would
seem that this would be mighty
hard law to enforce. And it is also one
piece of fool legislation that was
overlooked in some inexplicable way
by the first Oklahoma legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10

Ever is something new being found
in Chicago and brought out into the
light of day. The latest is rice
christians" This is the designation
given by the Rev. DIR. Sheets OF that
city to what he says is a largely grow
ing class of persons who join a
church. get all the advantages they
can out of it, and then join some
other denomination and work it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10

When Kansas was bleeding, and
that's not so many years ago, pre-
diction that in the year 1908 Kansas
farmers would be carrying their but
ter and eggs to market in expensive
automobiles of their very own would
have been looked upon with ridicule
which would have bordered on con-
tempt. But that is just what many
Kansas farmers are doing these days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10

the improper handling of sewage in
towns where there are no sewers DR..
Crumbine and the members of the
state board of health have had plans
drawn for cess pools for houses that
have been equipped with bath tubs
and other modern conveniences.
which, il properly constructed, will
not be menace to health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10

1t may be some consolation to the
Kansans along the valley of the Kaw
and other fractions streams in the
state to know that they are not the
only ones in the country who are SUI
ferers from floods for the latter out
bursts of nature have been many and
disastrous all over the land. But II
there is any consolation in this 1t is
not exceedingly great.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10
Full LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IL member q sno
Associated Press and receives the fu1 Gay
telegraph report OF that gfcss nG
publication in Topeka.
The news IL received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur'
Y0eA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10
Jubilee Causes False Hair Famtne

Vienna hairdressers have received SO
many orders for wigs for the coming
festival in honor of the emperor's jubi-
zee that they are at a loss to obtain
me necessary hair. The hairdresser Of
Inc Volks theater must secure 1900
heads of hair before next month. but
although he has offered fabulous prices
he number of women who have con-
sented to part with their locks Is COM
oaratively small.-London Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-10

Suburbanite Ito applicant for jojb)-Do
you know anything about gardening?
Applicant-Sure. I worked in a beer gar
den Once.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

CFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Growing old is often merely q waste
of time.
The man who sells hair restorer
is also nature fakir.
If two can live as cheaply as one. u
is merely because they have got to.
When the optimist has his leg pull
ed he is thankful he is not a centipede.
Lots OF fellows would get stir joints
II they never acted before they
thought.
Many a married mans motto IL: BE
sure you are right and then ask your
WIFE"
The average bride doesn't think she
is happily married unless she gets at
least a dozen pickle dishes.
In politics there is quite a difference
between the uplift OF the amateur and
the holdup Of the professional.
"a barking dog never Bites quoted
the Wise Guy. THAT is simply be-
cause a biting dog never barks." re-
piled the Simple Mug.
''I would die a thousand deaths for
you'll" exclaimed the elderlv sutton.
Zone would be quite sufficient" re-
piled the pert youp- thing.
Wigwag-"Do you think that Joy
ever kills?" Henpeckke-"Well.
once heard Of a man who died two
days after his mother-in-law."
Clothes don't always make the man.
Many a fellow dresses well for fear
people will think he is poor, and MANY
another dresses shabbily for fear peo-
pie will think he II rich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
AYHAWKER JOTS

An agitation has been started by
the Sylvia Sun for a Commercial club
at that place.
Two hacks in Atchison took in SIS
the other night which is pretty good
for small country town.
According to the Robinson Index
thirty-five automobiles have been sold
to Brown county citizens this spring.
Most of them were purchased by far
mers.
Sabetha Is to have a tribe of SOUR
rels in its city park. Fourteen young
ones are to be turned loose there as
soon as they are large enough to care
for themselves. This is something, at
least, in the way Of a start towards a
public menagerie.
The drain pipes on the roof of the
Clay county court house at Clay Gen.
ter have been stopped up for some
time A plumber found the cause in
the bodies of one dead duck and sew
eral pigeons which were lodged in
them. How they got there is some
thing of a mystery
The editor of the Colby Free Press
gracfously thanks one Dick Chelf for
furnishing him with a package of old
fashioned spice wood from Kentuck.
that before "sassafras came into
style spice wood was used for tea
by people in the spring for a health
drink
Via the Atchison Globe: A year or
two ago, a wild brant lit at w. D.
Chalfant's place, northwest of town,
and has since been counted with the
chickens. Last week another brant
dropped down into the yard, and
joined the first one. Mr.. Cha1fant
now has a pair. and expects tribe
Of young ones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

lFrom the Atchison Globe.
No man ever sells out at his own
estimate.
Some men are only fit to eat and
wear out clothes.
People are never content for the same
reason that sheep never has feathers.
Some men are noted as good fell
lows" but the folks at home never hear
anything about 1t.
Every man who has ever had the
toothache is secretly convinced that his
was the worst case.
The heart is that part of you which
leads you into scrapes from which the
head has to extricate you.
This is the season when those who
ate cranberries last winter, make a
sour. gritty, sandy, gooseberry pie, and
pretend to like it.
Too much attention is paid to the
higher life, and not enough to the low
er. In trying to be an eagle, a gosling
often spoils good goose.
There probably never was a woman
who wasn't afraid that the cat would
get in at night, and suck the children's
BREATH although such a thing never oc-
CURED.
If we were writing a detective story,
we would have woman for the villain,
and track her by her hairpins. Tracing
a man villain by his cigar bands and
cigar ashes is getting old.
UP to the time she is sixteen, the
smartest girl Is apt to think that If a
husband has bad habits, it is because
his wife never made him an angel cake,
and met him at the door with a kiss.
Some man-hating woman recently
won a prize for giving the following
definition of a man: Mana creature
made in the likeness Of his creator,
with less fortitude than a woman, and
less fidelity than dog"
If we were a woman we would rather
do the kitchen work alone than have
the assistance Of a husband who looks
every time he wipes dish as If halo
ought to evolve out of the atmosphere,
and settle on his noble brow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago New. ,

IFrom the Chicago News,
Many a man who feels big acts
small
For ages women have been trying to
conceal theirs.
Some absent-minded men even for.
get that they are forgetful.
There are countless people in the
world who do not count for much.
Are you one OF the tailor's cus-
toners who are on the padded list?
Beware of the spinster who asks Won
for match during leap year.
No matter how beautiful a mana
wife is. he never wishes she was two
faced.
Soon after mounting the ladder Of
fame q man Is apt to find himself laid
away on the top shelf.
The se1f-made man can see NO beautv
In a picture unless he finds himself +,
the central foreground.
If all men were as wise N fhet~
wives believe them to be the wisdor,,
Of Solomon would be as fooIishness
in comparison.
After settling with the parson m.
newly made husband mieht a. wei
keep his pocketbook in his hand r..
that IL only the beginning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11

the freight rates on one or another
commodity should be increased here or
there. If so. the Interstate commerce
tention to any protests that might be
made. A general increase in freight
rates merely because the earning pow
er of the roads has been affected by
conditions which have affected the
earning power Of the entire
community is another matter.
As the community is less able
to pay higher rates than 1t was a year
ago when there was an extremely ac-
tive demand for commodities, it should
not be asked to pay them.
''One experienced railroad manager
has given it as his opinion that traffic
stagnation, as measured by idle cars.
has reached the worst point and that
from now on there will be a steady i'm
provement in conditions. It would be
much better for the roads to await that
Improvement, reducing dividends in
the meanwhile II necessary, as some of
them have wisely done. than to resort
to so unjustiiable and unpopular an
expedient as a general advance in
freight rates.
IF there were to be such an advance
the interstate commerce commission
would be overwhelmed with remon-
strances from shippers. All its time
would be taken up with hearings which
could not end otherwise than in a dec
laration the higher rates were unwar-
ranted and must be abandoned"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
FREIGHT RATES.

when a merchant finds that GUS
toners are not buying freely he may
cut down expenses or he may lower
prices in the hope Of attracting Gus
tom,'' says the Chicago Tribune. HE
does not increase his prices with the
idea of making up what he has lost
through the decrease in the number of
sales When the earnings of a bank
shrink because there are not so many
applicants for loans no attempt is made
to swell profits by charging would-be
borrowers higher rates. One can I'M
derstand why railroad should lay off
men when business is slack or why 1t
should reduce transportation rates in
order to stimulate the movement of
commodities. 1t is not easy to perceive
the inherent justice of the contention
of the railroads that they should be al
lowed to raise rates at this juncture so
that they may swell their gross re-
ceipts at the expense Of whatever
freight has to be moved.
THE roads running to southeastern
points have filed tariffs to become effec-
tive June 1, increasing materially the
rates on fresh meats. They are dear
enough ALREADY and an advance In
rates will make them dearer for con-
sumers in the southeast. 1t is reported
that other advances are to follow; that
the eastern roads intend to put ur
rates considerably on the 1st of July
If it were unresisted there would doubt
less be a general increase in rates
| throughout the country. Such a policy
is favored by railroad managers be.
! cause it would provide greater reve.
nue@it is said the higher rates contem-
plated by the eastern roads will bring
| them in 800, 1000. 000-and also because
| it would be a remedy for traffic stag.
nation 1t has not been explained
however. how the movement of com
modities would be stimulated by max
ing 1t more expensive to move them.
1T may be that there are reasons VIII,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
GAME PIRATES ABROAD.

Among the game laws of Kansas is
one which absolutely prohibits the kill
ing Of antelope. There's another one
which prohibits the killing of prairie
chicken except for q season of thirty
days between September Is and October
Is. Both of these laws have the en-
dorsement of all the true sportsmen in
the state. But they are disregarded all
too frequently by others. This is made
forcibly evident by the following letter
to the Syracuse Journal:
Editor Journal: Seven antelope
have lived all winter in the draw near
Rev. Peter Kinds and Mr.. Bulls
places. ten miles north of Kendall.
These gentlemen and Messrs. Holders
and Lewis have protected the antelopes
all they could from hunters. but on
Sunday. April IL. 1908, a party of hunt
ers came out here from Syracuse in an
automobile, and after chasing and
shooting at them till they were very
near run down and had stopped to
rest, one Of the men got out of the
auto and fired three shots at them, and
since that day only two of the antelope
have been seen.
NOV .Na -hova r,o--,o1 1905 -r-n-,. 20
warn all hunters to let what few ante
lope and prairie chickens that are in
their neighborhood alone and thereby
avoid criminal prosecution.
There is good and sufficient game
law and all it needs is strict enforce
1uenl 10 pa oLect e.I.eioa,e, prairie CnlcA-
ems and birds. WATCHMAN."
These men who protected the ante
lopes during the winter should not be
content with the warning they have
given in the above letter. They should
bend every energy to bring the MEM
bers Of the automobile party to Justice
and it should not be exceedingly hard
work to do SO. There are not many
antelopes in Kansas and If they are
to be slaughtered in the ruthless fash
ion that most Of this herd evidently
were 1t will not be long before there is
not a single one left in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most girls never reach the age OF
twenty-one until after they are mar
ried.
It's particularly easy for a chap to
forgive an enemy who is bigger than
he is. -t9
4 y X
If the average person only believed
the things he understood his beliefs
would not be extensive.
\ X 4
Funny, isn't it? People who advise
others to go back to the soil never do 1t
themselves.
Once in a while an editor buys poetry
but it is sure to be volume of Tenny-
son, or Longfellow or some other fam
Gus poet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11

Governor Hoch is getting to be an
inquisitive gentleman of the right Sort
Having started the machinery rolling
which ought to make for the better
ment of the conditions of many of the
tails of the state, he now points out a
law which provides that all public
buildings must be equipped with fire
escapes. And he Is seeking informa-
ton from the various county attorneys
of the state as to whether or not this
law is observed. Surely the governor
Is winding up his term of office in a
blaze of glory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11

Great Is the JOY among the entomol-
ogists. One Of the official bug hunt
ers OF the government has been pur-
Suing the mosquitoes for three months
In our Panama possession and he has
collected the larvae Of SO species. This
hunt. too, has developed something to
the lasting credit of certain mosqui-
toes. 1t appears that not all of them
are bad little bugs. There are some
which. instead of spreading any dis
ease hostile to men, wage war on their
weaker and more pestdferous relatives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press.l
The baby's new tooth means to its
father than it's going to be a million
aire.
A man thinks he's awful smart for
his political party to win an election.
When man doesn't cuss over his
shaving it's a sign he wears full
beard
One thing a woman learns by get
ting married is what an angel Of pa
thence her mother was
The thing a woman likes about a
musical luncheon is it sounds lust as II
you had to Day. but you don't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
FRANCHISES CAN BE TAXED.

If there are legal obstacles in the way
OF levytng tax On the gross earnings
of the public service corporations as
Mayor Green has suggested-as there
seems to be in the opinion of some of
the legal lights of the city-there is
nothing to prevent the city council
from passing an ordinance which will
permit the assessors to fix a real value
On the franchises held by the companies
and tax these franchises at the same
rate that other property in the city is
taxed. A franchise tax law of this sort
was passed a number of years ago by
the state Of New York and after untold
litigation in the state and federal
courts, it was decided to be perfectly
constitutional by the court of last re-
sort Of the state and also by the SUI
preme court of the United States. The
same condition confronted New York
that confronts Topeka. Public services
corporations were operating under
charters that had been granted them
for absolutely nothing and under which
they did not have to make any return
to the public treasury for the valuable
privileges that had been given them.
The injustice of this finally became
manifest so the legislature stepped in
at the instigation of President Roose-
welt, who was then governor of the
state. and declared that the franchises
of corporations should be considered
just the same as real estate for the
purposes of taxation. That is, the value
of the franchises should be fixed by the
assessors and these values taxed at
the same rate that was levied on real
estate. Maybe it would take a general
state law in Kansas to permit the tax
ing Of franchises of public service cor
porations in Topeka and maybe it
wouldn't. But this talk that public
service corporations cannot be made to
pay for the privileges they enjoy is all
rot Their franchises have a most de-
cided value which is easily figured out
on the basis Of their earnings and It
the supreme court Of the United States
says as it has, that franchises can be
taxed in this way in New York state,
why they can be taxed this way in To-
peka and Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11
HUH0R or THE Day

Onice Boy-I bought our fair typist
bunch OF posies for her desk today.
Messenger Boy-Wot did youse loosen
up like dat fer? Office Boy-Tryin' ter
bait de old man ter IRE de chesty book
keeper.-Puck
Host-Have you seen the wedding
gifts. old man? 0uest-No, not yet:
We'll. wait moment I'll get one OF
the detectives to escort you through.
Life.
Absent-minedly the young woman
yawned. Pardon me-" she said: oh
served Mr.. Ltngerlong. Opened by
mistake.''-Chicago Tribune.
Johnny, where's your sister, up
in her room" IT quarrelled with her
yesterday and I am sorry. Won't you
go and ask her II she'll make upT
"She's maxim up now. -Houston
Press.
IT. sir" remarked the sef-important
statesman. was never approached
with a proposition Of graft in my life
THAT fact answered Senator
Sorghum. may be q recognition OF
a reflection on your influence.
ington Star.
''whatr' gasped the windmill agent:
zone hundred dollars for that OLD
horse? why, he is q swayback." Wall:
should say he Isl chuckled the OLD
farmer. "And you expect to get hun
dred dollars for him?" Sure! am
advertising him as the steed Secretary
Taft rode''-Chicago News.
Elixa-Did you say Sam was maxim
a lot Of money out Of his votcef Cloe-
| Sure thing! At de opera AT oe op-
crap "Yas. he calls de carriages!'-
Vo aIrap q
ct want to make GIFT to Miss Pas
say said Dunley. II wonder what
sort Of animal she'd prefer for pet.
| IA man." promptly suggested Miss
Observation-Disclosures Press.
Old Friend-Anything gone WRONG.
| old man? All your family seems de-
pressed and extremely quiet Host
No, nothing wrong. Just Lenten re-
solve not to knock anybody.-Kansas
City Times.
| $50 woman. you treasure another
mans photograph 2" Don't be fool
ish, Henry. This Is portrait OF your
self when you had hair.
1 ton Herald.
| Patience-I hear VIII Is going to
| marry that girl he's been spending so
going to make her a. permanent re-
much money on. Patrice-Yes; he's
ceiver-Yonkers Statesman.
life at best is but gloomy pris-
on" said the moralizing bachelor. $50
much the worse for men who deliber-
ately choose solitary confinement"
remarked the girl who had her trap
lset.-Bohemian.
| Little English Girl-Can we 20 on
the continent. mamma? Her Mother
l-we've been there SO much. Little
English Girl know II, but never
get tired of watching the Americans
spend their money.-Brooklyn Life.
There's only one trouble with these
books that tell you how to succeed"
Whats that?' They all begin by
telling you that you've got to work.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A clergyman, having performed the
, marriage ceremony for a couple, un-
. dertook to write out the usual certi-
fcate. but, being in doubt as to the
, day Of the month, he asked: "This
. is the ninth. Is It not?" why, par
, son." said the blushing bride. ''you do
all my marrying, and you ought to
. remember that this is only the third"
l-Philadelphia Inquirer.