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The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago N

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Patience is more often a necessity
than a virtue.
The average man wastes a lot of
sympathy on himself.
Ever notice how gracefully the aver
age woman doesn't eat?
When gossip meets gossip, then
comes the wagging of tongues.
The only redeeming feature about
an excursion is the cheap rates.
Laugh and the world laughs with
you-unless you laugh at your own
jokes.
Next to having a good complexion a
woman would like to have a good hus-
band.
Some men are so cautious they will
never allow their friends to owe them
a cent.
Nothing pleases a girl more than
her ability to keep some man away
from a designing widow.
If jumping at conclusions came un-
der the head Of physical exercise most
women would be athletes.
Our idea of diplomat is a man
who never misses an opportunity OF
accusing a homely girl OF being pretty.
A man may think 1t foolish for
women to cry at funerals, yet he
wouldn't like to think OF his wife re-
Joicing when the undertaken gets busy
with his person.
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QUAKER MEDITATTONs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
The proof Of success Is the ability to
hold on to 1T.
Sometimes even the poorest ball
player can make hit with a girl.
Being in the right place at the right
time isn't always a matter of accident.
"This is the best thing" remarked
the dentist as he extracted the aching
tooth.
The trusts, at any rate, will never
be able to control the supply of sun
shine.
Honest toll may be ennoblinR. but II
doesn't always succeed in paying of
the mortgage.
You can tell the age Of a horse by
looking at its teeth. but it's different
with a saw.
when a fellow gets married." says
the Cynical Bachelor, "there 10 a fee
for the minister and the organist, and
sometimes there's the devil to pay"
Wigwag-''The fellow who IL always
borrowing money is nuisance"
Harduppe-"Yes, almost as great a
nuisance as the fellow who never has
any to lend
Blobbs-"What Ii the average cost
of maintaining an automobile 2" Slobbs
There isn't any average. 1t all
depends upon how well you stand with
the judges who name the fines."
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t would be impossible for many
men to be quite as bad as people think
they are.
When woman packs a trunk she
puts her whole soul into the task
while man generally puts his feet
in.
The man has queer ideas of senti-
ment who keeps as mementos the
slippers his mother used to spank him
with.
=
some folks with social aspirations
become so exclusive that IL the truth
were known they actually get lone
some.
Most patrons of a boarding house
are not particular as to what part of
the chicken is served them II it is only
some Of the meat.
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she seemed very busy and was in .
tremendous hurry.
"Oh, I'm 30 glad you came, pec-
ple," Bertha exclaimed II won't
have to pu. you people to any more
trouble trying to find a house for us.
10. and managed to find time TO
look at one this afternoon. 1t Is a
nice big one. has large rooms and q
big bay window. and we're Just de-
lighted to get 1t. The agent said you
had been looking at it. Wait a min
ute until take on my wraps.
She left the room. The two young
people she had left looked at each
other.
''And you've signed the option!"
exclaimed Dorothy.
YES" said Wilson. suppressed and
eager There's only one thing TO
do now
Whats that?" asked the girl.
shyly. and with averted face.
Take the house ourselves.!'
When Bertha came to the door OF
the room a moment later she did not
enter as she had intended. She gave
one look, saw Dorothy and Wilson
standing in the middle Of ehe room.
very close together. and then she fed.
though, she heard Wilson say. some
what tremulously:
Don't blush so, dear. It's .
cousins privilege, you know!"-
copyrighted. 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.)
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AYHAWKER .JOTS

Chanute is encouraged over the fact
that the new school census shows a
gain or IA children Of the school age
In the city over the number of last
year.
THE printers didn't justify by sew
en- picas." Is as close as the lola Re-
cords sporting editor can come to
ers were defeated by the BARRIERS in a
game OF baseball by seven scores.
1t has occurred to the Beloit Times
that the drunken men who loaf
around the depots in that town should
be arrested. It's a wonder that the
police authorities there hadn't thought
of that.
A couple of Courtland youngsters
who are old enough to know better,
went into a store room where the oil
dealer kept his tank. opened the fau-
Gets Of ten barrels of oil and then
made their escape. AS a result their
parents will have $35 to pay for oil
they never used
The Garnetr Evening News and the
Evening Review are still arguing the
point as to which of them first pub
lished the news of C1eveland's death.
But the Evening News 'scooped"
them all with the announcement of
the illness of John" Sherman, the
Republican nominee for vice presi-
dent.
Senator F. Dumont Smiths friends
are receiving pencils on which is
printed: "F. Dumont Smith, the Big
Thirty-e eighth needs senator who
works This leads the Garden City
Telegram to say that the pencils have
the advantage over the campaign ci-
gar in that they are very good while
the campaign cigar-well the least
said about such an unpleasant subject
the better.
force Brady of Lawrence: did you
ever have a girl graduate from the
high school out of your family? If SO
you know what it is, but II you have
not you have missed about all that is
worth anything in life. There is moth
ing like it. The happiness, the salts
faction, the success that has come is
worth many times the money and eff
fort put forth. What is the finest
product of America? &? Secretary Loeb
insists it is rabbits: Carnegie stands
for libraries; Mrs. Hetty Green con-
siders 1t ready money, while Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson crows over the
American hen. They are all wrong.
ster remarked of Massachusetts,: Gen
tlemen, she needs no apology; there
she stands,' For years father has
poured out his money in buying her
frocks and laces and hats. in paying
for her chemistry and music and
chewing gum. Mother has spent
years Of her life in teaching her mo-
rality, truth the catechism and the
proper way to do up her hair. And
they feel that she's worth all the trou-
BILE and care and money she has cost" ;"
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IMMIGRATION AND LABOR.

"Official figures show that the arrivals
of alien immigrants in the fiscal year
just closed numbered 6S7 900, compared
with 100000 in the year ending June
80, 1907. or little more than one-half,"
says the New York Journal of Com
merce. THE government has no rec
ord of departing emigrants, but Com
missioner Watchorn estimates that the
net increase Of aliens in the country
from immigration in the last fiscal year
does not exceed 100000. On the other
hand the Atlantic steamship conference
has a record of the sailing of 5609
aliens for their homes abroad in the
first half Of the present calendar year,
and it is the belief of it's agents that
for the fiscal year the departures have
actually exceeded the arrivals. This
ent with the details of arrivals and
departures given for the different
months, but the one thing certain is
that since the October panic there has
been a heavy and continuous falling off
in the arrival of immigrants and an un-
precedented increase in the departure
from our shores of those who had pre-
viously come from abroad.
This ebb of the tide is almost wholly
in the working population of alien or
igin. Italian laborers have gone out in
great numbers, and there have also been
many Hungarians and Slavs among the
departures, with a smaller proportion
of those from northern Europe. It in
dicates a significant change in recent
times in the movement of this indus
trial current. 1t has become a move
ment in the labor market more than a
movement of settlers and home seek
ers. With the demand for labor and
the rise in wages that accompanied the
industrial and business activity, or the
prosperity of the period preceding the
last autumn. there was a constantly
rising tide of immigration With the
reaction following the October panic,
the tide Immediately slackened. soon
subsided and speedily ebbed with a
strong outfowing current. This af-
forded decided relief in the labor mar
ket and greatly diminished the number
and the distress of the unemployed.
This has not been to any consider
able extent due to great demand for
labor abroad, but to sheaper living
there and the fact that most of these
aliens had savings that would support
them longer in their old homes than
in this country. The facilities for going
and coming have largely increased and
the cost has lessened. and henceforth
this movement of population across the
Atlantic will be chiefly governed by the
condition Of the labor market, though
the tendency will naturally be for fam
lilies to become permanently attached
to the soil. Probably most OF those who
have gone away In recent months have
done so with the expectation of re-
turning when times are better. They
will doubtless do SO and bring others
with them, but for the present year
there Is little likelihood OF much immi-
grafton Of this fluctuating kind. With
the return OF prosperity the tida viii
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HU1AOR or THE DAY

Hc-When woman reaches the
age of 80 she begins to worry for fear
she won't get married. She-And
how about a man? He-Oh, a man
begins to worry for fear he will
Philadelphia Record.
Mounted Oficer-Aw-are you the
West Riding? Voice from the Ranks
No! We're the bloomin' Bluffs
walkin'!-Punch.
What are you reading this summer
Free Press.
Mrs; Caller-Are your new neighbors re-
Mrs. Nextdoor-I should say SO. They
cut glass.-Chicago News.
You say there was great applauseg"
full at conventions, IT wouldn't like to say
definitely whether It was great applause.
see forgot t mH ios stop Os 4on
Star.
to pass around the cigars and let the men
smoke during services has proved fail
Grouch-His wife bought the cigars
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
the Billville settlements: Might I ask
tinidly.
You might" replied the editor. III I'm
not too quick for you; but. as It Is,
anticipate you. Follow the shotgun bar
rel to the door. then turn to the right
Atlanta Constitution.
Mrs. Mulligan-Och! Oh niver go to tn
shtore but phat OF fergit sumthin'.
Mr.. Mulligan-An' phat did yez fergit
this tonne, darlin'?
Mrs. Mullgan-Its afther tonne darlin'?
Mrs. Mulligan-Its afther forEttin' to 20
at all. at all. Dim doin this marnin'-
Judge.
Watson and Williams"
When are they coming?
"Who?'
Watson and Williams"
They're not coming. They're the can
didates on the Populist ticket"
Bah! thought they were a vaudeville
team."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
'I wonder who first said: IT'S better to
be born lucky than rich?" oueried the
young widow.
Some old fool whose young wife mar
ried him for his money. I imagine" re-
Joined the wise bachelor.-Chicaso News.
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Some of the Kansas newspapers are
stating that the supreme court has de-
cided that the running of theaters on
Sunday is unlawful throughout the en-
tire state. This is entirely erroneous.
The supreme court has merely decided
that theaters cannot be operated in
Topeka on Sunday on the theory that
such would be in violation OF a local
ordinance prohibiting labor of all sorts
on that day The city authorities,
however. have seen fit for some reason,
best known to themselves, to apply
this ordinance only to the theaters.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
lFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

tFrom the AtchlSon GloDe.1
First and last there are some mighty
big sticks in the show business.
There never was so big a fool that
he couldn't learn to count money.
If it hadn't been for the gossips,
there would have been no history.
This is the financial situation in ev-
cry home: His money is ours, and
hers is her own.
Some henpecked men get away from
their wives, only to become delegates.
and be bossed by politician.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed man who said in winter: Shut the
door. Were you raised in a barn?"
When a man tells a girl he isn't
worthy Of her, he doesn't mean 1t. as
she finds out after they are married.
Ambition consists largely in wasting
today because of the greater time, ef-
fort and opportunity promised in to-
morrow.
If there were no schools to take chill
dren away from home part of the day,
the insane asylum would be filled with
mothers.
Look at any mans shoes. and you
will note that they are in bad condi :
ton Women's shoes are nearly al
ways in good condition.
Half the people spend half their
time worrying over that which does
not concern them, and which Is not of
the slightest Importance.
A man who Is rough and awkward
at everything else. will show a delicacy
and skill greater than any woman's
when he has to patch $40 bill.
Along about 10 o'clock every morn
ing. a man past 40 puts off till next
day that wonderful thing he intends
to do to make him rich and famous.
The Lancaster Literary society has
decided that the man who lives next
door to the owner of an automobile, is
better off than the man who owns one.
Occasionally you meet a man who
never makes a statement without add
ing that he can prove it, Still, the
hair vigor advertisements say the
same thing, and there continue to be
a number of bald-headed men,
When a real German hears that a
church is giving a Dutch lunch,' and
what 1t serves under such a name, he
has his family gather around with
cold water ready to throw on him, and
then lies on the floor and has a fit.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed young woman who embroidered her
young man a pair of slippers. and had
them "soled" at the shoemaker's? They
were fearful and wonderful things,
and we have not seen pair in years-
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Already are announcements coming
from prominent Democrats in the east
that they will not support Bryan and
the Democratic ticket. On the other
hand it's quite easy to find Republic
cans in this section of the country.
whose prominence is not of the sort to
get their announcements on any sub
jects in the newspapers. who are free
to declare that they intend to bolt the
Republican ticket. and cast their votes
for Bryan. So perhaps the Democratic
malcontents of the east will be equal
led in numbers by same sort of indi-
yiduals among the Republicans of the
west. There IL no doubt. however.
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turn this way again and is likely
to rise higher than ever. The move
ment is become less one of migration
OF people and more transfer of labor,
analogous to that Of capital respond
ing to the influence Of the law of sup
ply and demand. This is at the bot
tom OF all immigration, but 1t has be-
come less permanent and more shift
Ing In Its effect. more adjustable to
changing conditions"
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State journal
AWAY during the summer may havrs
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate OF ten cents
q week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only.) Address changed as offen
rs desired. While out OF town the
State journal will be TO you like
daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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FRON OTHER PENS
OUR BUSINESS CONDITION.

If there is one man in America whose
hand is upon the pulse of the busin~ss
world, that man is J. Pierpont Morgan.
He can diagnose the symptoms as un-
erringly as any doctor that ever pu
his ear to a patients heart beats. And
Mr.. Morgan pronoupceS our business
condition good. He says We have
rounded into splendid form CONNER
ciaIly, industrielly. financially. The
slump of 1907 is forgotten, and the
months Of depression that followed.
when activities were restored slowly,
have passed into history. We have
reached our normal excellent business
health and have even begun to put on
extra fat.
Proof of the correctness Of Mr. Nor
gan's expert opinion is not wanting.
The official report Of the New YORK
custom house for the wear ended June
so shows thai the exports from the pot
of New York alone exceeded by $21,47s,-
6S4 the value of the exports during the
preceding year. Last November We
had to borrow $57, 7,S56,SO1 in gold and
silver bullion from foreign states in or
der to keep our business moving nor
mally. In May we returned to our for
eign creditors gold and silver bullion
to the extent of s28,206,9 903. Roughly
stated. that is difference of $4,000, 900
placed on the right side of our ledger.
Several months ago some of the
great railroads, notably the Southern,
announced that they would have to re-
duce wages, owing to hard times"
Now the reduction has been indefinite
ly postponed on account of the con-
stantly increasing demands for trans
portation throughout all the great pro-
ductive areas of the country, which is
further indication of the excellent
condition of business throughout the
country. If this general excellence of
business prospects is further increased
by good, late harvests-and every indi-
cation is propitious-there need be no
fear of wage Observation-Disclosures
Post
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KANSAS COAAENT
SPLENDID BANK sHow1NGs.

SPLENDID BANK SHOWINGS.
study OF the bank statements Of
Kansas as they appear in the weekly
OF daily papers four times in each year
should give rise to a strong feeling of
coInpiacency regarding our banking in
sututions ana convey a sense of salts
1action that our people should be so
Wen on In the way of possession of the
world's goods as these statements clear
ly show. Not only are the national
banks OF Kansas in first class condi-
t1on almost without exception, but this
is true of the state bank, whether it
is located In city or small town or ru-
raj center, and the assertion is all the
more noteworthy for the reason that in
recent years under conditions of in
creased prosperity vast number of
new banks have been established in
Kansas
1t might be assumed that with this
unprecedented growth of the banking
business, many of the old established
institutions would have suffered in their
quarterly showings, due to wider di-
vision of the business; this is not the
case. Leavenworth city national banks
are today handling a larger volume of
money than ever before, a fact which
is PROBABLY true of national banks all
over the state. Leavenworth city state
banks are doing larger business than
ever before, and the small banks
ceptional showing. Basehor, for in
stance is rural community, the terri
tory about which is settled no more
thicky than many other sections of the
county and yet the bank at that point
has a total Of individual deposits and
certificates of deposit that is in excess
of $4,000, and the statement of the
Jarbalo bank shows a footing of $42 73S.
and the city and county banks are
we'll managed, having good surplus
funds and undivided profits on the one
side to contrast with expense accounts
on the other that are kept within the
smallest practicable margin. 1t was an
appreciation of this fact that retained
through the strain of the panic the con-
fidence of the people in the Leaven-
tutions as we'll as those elsewhere in the
state, and it is this confidence which
promises most in the way OF growth
Leavenworth Times.
HOW OLD IS MAN?
Many are given to thinking of an
cient Egypt as pretty well back to-
ward the beginning of the era of man
on earth. And the six thousand years
that have elapsed since the Egyptians
began leaving the world history, is
quite awhile, reckoned in centuries or
lifetimes. But according to the scien- |
fists, who have other. means than his |
tory of finding out the past, the an
cient Egyptian seems quite modern
with the distant date when |
man first walked the earth. The |
highest authorities place the total
of years elapsed since, in the |
light of the best geological evidence, |
man first appeared upon the earth, at
2SS,OOO. OF this, $4,000 belong to the
pre- glacial, 100000 years to the gla-
cial, A, 900 to the interval between the |
neolithic and the prehistoric, 10000
years to the last named epochs, and
G, 900 years to the time elapsed since
the beginning of the historic period In
Eeypt. How modern then, is even an |
cient historyi-Atchison Globe.
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IFrom the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.l
When a man has to support an affin-
ity she isn't.
Like champagne. all the bubbles
come out Of a romance when It Is un-
corked.
The reason college professors can't
do anything themselves is they can tell
everybody else how to do it.
What a woman likes about ro;nr
away for the summer IL she can after
ward call . boarding house on \ farm
q fashionable hotel
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HEAT AND GOOD HEALTH.

1t will doubtless surprise good many
persons who have suffered more or less
inconvenience from heat during the
last few days to learn that high tenn
perature is beneficial rather than HARM
full to human life. This is the aver
paper by an English physician, DIR. H.
H. Riddle, and it is unquestionably
supported by vast amount of careful
statistics and an imposing array of sci
entific authorities.
There is no foundation for the cur
rent opinion that the heart and the
lungs bear most of the stress of hot
weather. The assumption seems to be
based on supposed analogy between a
notoriously pants when overheated.
There is no such analogy, for the rea-
son that human beings rely chiefly on
their perspiratory system to regulate
the control OF the temperature of the
body, while the dog, not having per-
spiratory glands comparable to ours,
has to make greater use of his lungs
in preventing his body temperature
from being too much Influenced by out
side conditions. The truth is, as ex-
periments in India have shown, that
the ordinary Europeans breath rate Is
not increased but actually reduced
about one-fifth during his first attempt
to accommodate himself to the heat Of
that country. The same experiments
have shown that the hearts action also
is not augmented even in tropical tenn
peratures. The liver and spleen are the
chief sufferers, but even the congestion
which may be caused in these organs
by high temperatures may be left out
of account by those persons who are
careful about what they eat and drink.
New York Sup-
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There's not much reason for surprise
in the statement emanating from New
York that President Roosevelt may
make a few speeches during the pres
ent campaign in the interests of Mr..
Taft and the Republican ticket. Mr..
Roosevelt is noted for doing unusual
and unprecedented things.
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insanity.

"Fingy" Connors, chairman of the
New York State Democratic commit
tee, did one of those unusually orig
fnal stunts OF his the other day when
he told Mr.. Bryan that he would see
that New York was carried for the
Democratic ticket or he would never
shake hands with the Nebraskan
again. Such an outlook ought to be
pleasing to Mr.. Bryan in either event.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-14

A Brooklyn lawyer prepared a list
of rules for his wifes guidance in run
ming the house. AS a result he is in
one of the hospitals being observed as
to his sanity. The fact that a modern
husband confidently expected obedience
under such conditions is regarded by
expert alienists as strong evidence of
INSANITY
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Probably because Andrew Carnegie
received an honorary degree of some
sort on Saturday from the University
of Manchester he felt more qualified
than usual to discuss some features of
American politics and his pronounce
ment of Mr.. Bryan as a Jack of all
trades and a master of none is un.
doubtedly the result of a heightened
perspicacity hat was thus thrust upon
~
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The Democrats are a courageous, op-
timistic lot but it is hard to figure out
how they will survive the blow to their
fond hopes for success that comes in
a cablegram from the land of the
Inikado. Just think of it, The Jap
anese do not like the Democratic plat
form