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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
INsAN1rY,s CAUSE AND CURE.

Henry Phipps, the Pittsburg iron
master. associate of Andrew Carnegie
and the elder Thaw in the upbuilding
of the great industry which is now the
United States Steel corporation, who
gave s1,300,00O to found the Phipps
Institute for tuberculosis Research
in Philadelphia, is of the class who
grow not weary in we'll doing. His
latest beneficence attracts the atten-
ton of the world-a gift of 100000
to the Johns Hopkins university of
Baltimore, to be expended in studying
the causes of insanity and attempting
the discovery of means for its
amelioration.
Everybody at all familiar with the
history of the subject is aware of the
fact that until quite recently the
treatment of cases of mental aliena-
ion was not only unscientific but I'M
christian and unreasoning and in
many instances even barbarous 1t
made no distinction between cases
which were acute and cases which
were chronic. 1t treated many vic
tins of temporary mental disorders
with such severity as to make them
hopeless maniacs.
Modern scientific investigation has
revealed the fact that insanity is
sometimes the result of pressure on
the brain caused by injuries to the
skull which may be relieved by a
surgical operation removing the alb
normal condition. There is perhaps
another cause of insanity in abnormal
conditions of the blood. This is be-
lieved to be possible for the reason
that post norton examinations of the
brains of insane persons have failed
to reveal any difference between them
and the brains OF persons who died In
the full ponsssion Of All their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

dark" he ended. looking meaningly at
the one blonde lock that crept from
beneath the wig.
The girl arose in some confusion.
"Tm-I'm very much afraid / can't
tell you any more about the future,
said she. at think we'd best consider
this sitting ended"
"Oh. no indeed" Gregory declared
pleasantly. There's lot more to be
settled yet. That rival. for instance.
how about him? What shall we do
with him?"
There was q long silence.
We've got to do something about
the rival" Gregory maintained.
The girl picked up the jack Of dia-
monds and the ten spot with it.
eff it's not the dark lady" she said
count-neither he nor his riches"
She tore the two cards In pieces and
tossed them from her. In an instant
Gregory was on his feet.
Violet he cried. violet you
moap-
1T was the cards." she said feebly.
at was not" he declared fatty.
springing to her side.
A half hour later as Gregory was
leaving the grounds he encountered
Tom Briggs.
"Going to take the car home.
Peter?" the latter inquired with q
mystifying chuckle.
Certainly" said Gregory. what is
there so funny about tnat?"
Nothing" said Briggs with anoth-
err covert gurgle. Nothing whatever.
friend. I'd advise you to wash that bit
of carmine paint off your chin before
you go."-(Copyrighted. 1908, by As
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
Feeding the Elephant.

did you ever try feeding peanuts to
an elephant?" asked a North side resi-
dent coming down on a car the morn
Ing after the circus. II got a sack last
night just to experience the popular
sensation and fed them to a big lop-
cared animal until my arm ached 1t
put me in mind Of little drops of wa
ter etc. 1t was like throwing a peb-
BILE into a we'll 1 just stood back and
threw them one at a time in his mouth.
Some of my friends stood around and
pretended it was ball game. I threw
81 peanuts into his mouth and he con-
sidered this a slight morsel and de-
voured them quickly. A circus sack
of peanuts contains only 35 peanuts, L
discovered through this operation. And
soon 1 had used up two sacks belong
ing to my friends. 1 believe that slop-
footed, bat-eyed monster would have
stood there all night II there had been
any more peanuts. My arm feels as IL
1 had pitched eighteen innings of ball
yesterday."-COlumbu Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
OUR NE1GHBoR,s AUTO

When all the house is hushed to rest,
with drowsy eyedids shut,
And sleep approached at its best,
We hear, 'Whiri Whir, Phuti Phut."
Assailed by that staccato sound
Right well the worst we know:
The demon of the blocks around
Our neighbours auto, OH
'Whir! Whir! Phut, Phut! whtrl Whir!
Whirrrri Blngr'
Now crank her up again,
The troubles Of that pesky thing
Defy the tongue or pen.
1t will not back. 1t will not gee,
1t will not, will not 60
Or bear those troubles quietly,
Our neighbours auto, OH
Or else 1t stands, noon, eve or morn,
Between the times of balks.
AND, coaching style, upon its horn
The happy owner squawks.
SQuawk, sQuawk! SQuawk, squawkl
CHoorayl HoorayD
Come onl Squawk, sQuawki Hellor'
A devil it, by night, by day,
Our neighbor's auto. oh!
There's always something doing. sir.
When that machine IL out.
It's likely stuck and on the whir-
Or on the sQuawk, and shout
And while you'd think ashamed am
Such petty spit to show.
Sometimes We almost murmur Damn
Our neighbors auto, OH"
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.1
It's as unblessed 20 give az It Is to
receive offense.
Everybody is more or less suspicious
of a suspicious man.
Most men who think they are great
don't even look the part.
You never know a man until after
you have traded horses with him.
The things a man is going to DO
don't put money in his pocket.
A good resolution is all right-pro-
vided you. don't let II go at that.
Love is the poetry of life and matri-
mony is the corn beef and cabbage.
Some men are not satisfied with
counting trouble; they go ahead and
marry it.
1t sometimes happens that a man
who has the sand isn't able to raise the
dust.
Sometimes a woman asks her hus-
bands advice so she'll be in a position
to take the opposite course.
girls idea of a happy dream IN
one in which either a title or a dia-
mond necklace looms UP conspicu-
ously.
Often woman stands in front Of a
mirror and makes a bluff at adjusting
her hat when in reality she Is making
sure her front hair 10 pinned on
properly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

One of the refreshing incidents of
the primary returns Is the probable
defeat of F. Dumont Smith in his can
didacy for a Republican denomination
as senator from the Thirty eighth dis
trfct. Smiths reform during the re-
cent sessions of the legislature and his
emulation of those characteristics
which go to make a worthy Legislature
were just tri1e too sudden and too
unreasonable, in view of his previous
record, to fool the voters of his dis
trict or anybody else
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.
IFrom the Philadelphia Recor,

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
When a fellow is In the soup he
naturally feels like noodle.
Doughnuts don't agree with some
people in spite of the fact that they
are hole-some.
The tailor who makes a suit fire.
quently has to enter another before he
can get his money.
Some people are never completely
happy unless they feel that they are
getting more of happiness than they
deserve.
Nell-I wouldn't marry one man in
a million" Belle-"Possibly not, but
I dare say you would marry a million
in one man."
Dead men tell no tales" quoted
the Wise Guy. mo. but the men who
write obituaries about them do
added the Simple Mug
The pitcher that goes to the well
is broken, but any baseball player will
tell you that that isn't so pad as being
knocked out of the box.
Mrs. Newlywed-"My dear. I'm
afraid smoking in the house will ruin
the curtains" Mr.. Newlywed-"All
right. precious; I'll take them down
tomorrow"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
Two Good Natured Men.

| Il am the most even-tempered mar
alive, I never get mad"
| Nothing ever makes me lose my
| temper either. I might feel ruff1ed, but
I would just smile and never show it. .
| "Tll bet a box of cigars I can make
you mad before you can rattle me-
Its a co.
| This conversation. which had taken
Sells, passengers on the steamship
Lusitania as that vessel was leaving
| Queenstown, was the cause of the
sleepy looks and tired actions of a
score of second cabin passengers when
| the Cunard liner reached her dock yes
| terday.
| In their efforts to make each other
angry Hobson and Sells played practi-
| cal jokes on each other during the en-
tire voyage. Their neighbors in adj
| joining cabins were innocent victims OF
the merry feud.
On the first night Hobson tied ropes
to Sells bedding, and after the latter
had retired, pulled them from under
him, at the same time upsetting con-
venient bucket of water. The lights
himself the center of an interested
group whom Hobson had invited to
watch the proceedings.
On the second night Sells found him
self locked out Of the cabin He could
hear Hobson comfortably snoring with
in. but all efforts to awaken the sleeper
seemingly failed. HE nearly got me
then" said Sells, but I determined I
wouldn't let him sleep. I made an aw-
full row, but still the cnores continued.
Finally the steward threatened to put
me in irons If 1 did not stop pounding
on the door. and 1 was obliged to spend
the night in a chair in the smoking
room.
The next night Sells locked Hobson
out, but the latter secured bottle OF
ou,poonfa ard pOured IL through the
kehole. This routed Sells, who emery
ed nearly choked to death. The state
room was uninhabitable for the rest OF
the night. and both men were obliged
to rest in chairs in the saloon.
Each continued his efforts to anger
the other for the succeeding nights
without success, and when the ship
locked Hobson was obliged to admit
he had lost his wager. Although neither
Sells nor Hobson was mad, the other
messengers were, and said so to any,
body who would listen to them.-New
York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
FROA OTHER PENS
A STUDY IN WASTE.

We boast with redundancy of
vain-glory that we are the most prac-
teal people in the world. And so we
are when it comes to building a bridge
over a river or constructing sky
scraper over a city.
But in a thousand respects we are
as thriftless as the Goddess of Waste.
The steward who hid in the earth the
talent with which the master of the
vineyard Entrusted him was an excel
lent husbandman compared with the
average American.
We are living on our capital. We
are gradually emptying the mealtub.
For example. when Daniel Boone hrst
set foot on Kentucky soil, Green river
of that state, was the deepest channel
in the known world for the volume OF
water it discharged. 1t teemed with
fish that might be had for the cast of
the angler. There was the red
horse" millions and billions of them.
a fish that rivaled the shad OF the
Potomac. and now practically extinct.
And all because the greed and the
folly of man have despoiled and de-
nuded the banks Of Green river Of its
trees. A century ago an acre of water
in Green river supplied as much food
and more healthful-than any acre
Of land on its banks. Today an acre
Of the poorest soil on the banks OF
Green river-and some Of 1t is awful
poor and unproductive-wfll yield
more to the cultivator than any ten
acres of the waters of Green river
from its confluence with the Little
Barren to its confluence with the
Ohio.
What we here say of Green river
applies to every river that feeds the
Ohio, north of that stream as Wen as
south of it.-Washington Post.
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xxxvii IS.
There was once a fine old grand
mother who gave advice to everybody
In this homely but expressive way:
Fret not thy gizzard." She declared
and firmly believed, that 1t came from
the Bible, though she did not know
just where it could be found. But she
insisted that it was somewhere be-
tween the covers of the Good Book. "
The old woman was right. 1t Is in
the Good Book" not only in the text
used above. but in several other places
including the Gath chapter of Pro-
verbs. And although she did not have
the exact language in which the adj
vice is given, she had its sense, which
Is OF vastly more importance.
The world is full of men and women
who are constantly fretting their gig
yards, and with what result? None, ex-
cept to increase the income Of the
doctor and the undertaken and to fill
the hospitals for the insane, and the
cemeteries. Ask any doctor what
causes the majority of the mental
breakdowns and most of the causes of
nervous troubles. He will tell you it
Is frettfng. Some people blame work,
but work never hurt anybody On the
contrary 1t keeps men and women
alive. Overwork, however. claims
thousands, but overwork is altogether
another thing; and the overworkers
are generally fretters. Each leads to
the other.
The human gizzard was not design
cd hxy
fretting, and the man who frets IL
much is sure to break il. But the old
woman's advice does not mean that
man should refuse to take his work
or anything else seriously. 1t does not
mean that he should view with I'M
Germ or treat lightly any OF his prob
lens. But 1t does mean that he
should not fret over them when he
has applied his best efforts to them.
1t means that II you have some
thing to do, do It: and with your
whole energy. When you have done
all you can do. don't fret your gizzard
over the result. All the fretting in
the world will have no effect upon the
outcome. Await it without stewing
and worrying, and If It is against you,
tackle it again. Fret your gizzard and
you will lack the strength to renew
the fight with the vigor that Is nee
essary to win.
1t means that you are not to fret
over the things beyond your control.
1t does not mean that you should not
view them in seriousness and with
proper regard of Importance and con-
sequences. But don't worry over them
until you fret your gizzard.
We are travelling at fast pace in
this country. The spirit of the times
is one that calls for speed The man
who can keep it up must look after
his gizzard. Fret it not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

By the time some shoes are broken
in they start to break out.
Probably the moon IL dead because
the poets sang to it in olden days.
M
Quite as many women are just as
naturally homely as others are pretty.
Some men who want to fight ought
to be arrested for attempted suicide.
-
A man is certain to be afraid of his
shadow II 1t II one employed by his
wife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

the nrst six months of the year also
sho" healthy gain over the same
period OF last year. A perceptible inn
proVement in the freight car situation
Is indicated for the month, practically
all the associations showing increased
traHc for the month over any of the
preceding months of the current year
1raln, lumber. and coal continue to in
dlcate an advance over earlier months
or the year. though still below the
June, 1907, figures in volume.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

In his latest appeal for funds to
carry on the campaign Mr.. Bryan does
not forget to emphasize the fact that
the Democratic national committee has
taken action limiting individual contri-
buttons to $4,000. And that's a good
thing for the enthusiastic Democrats
of the country to keep in mind. How
humiliating 1t would be if one of them
had to be censured for contributing a
greater sum-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
nway during the summer may hav,
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate OF ten cents
q week or thirty cents a month tby
mail oniy.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town the
State Journal win be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press

rFrom the New York Press.1
A woman never loses faith in a man
unless he is to be trusted. "
The usual way for a man to learn
how to propose to a girl Is for her to
teach him.
The only difference between an old
fool and a young fool is that he has
had more practice.
The kind of a gir' a mother picks
out for her son to marry makes him
want to sstay a bachelor.
A mean trick to play on a widow is
to expect her to remember that she
has ever had any experience with the
weak points Of men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

That the business of the country be-
gan to pick up generally and materially
as early as two months ago. is shown
by bulletin just issued by the govern
ment of the internal commerce move
ments for the month of June, as report
ed to the bureau of statistics of the de-
partment Of commerce and labor. They
show marked improvements over the
preceding months of the year. There
il q considerably heavier live stock
movement than In June q year ago, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

It's quite evident that Mr.. Hartman
does not expect to be called on this
year by Mr.. Roosevelt or any of the
other Republican leaders to hunt up a
few substantial contributions for the
campaign fund OF the G. o. p He saye
II won't make any difference to the
railroads who is-elected president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

Button, button. who's got the button I?
The button referred to here is the DEM
ocratic nomination for governor. Mr..
Botkin claims to have it tucked away
in his vest pocket but the other as
pirants dispute his claims. And there
seems no way of settling this import
ant question until an official count of
the vote has been made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

None of the primary election
comments are quite as pungent as were
the ante-primary ones. And it's notice
able that all of the interviews of the
successful candidates are of the Let's
kiss and-make- variety while the
gentlemen who were defeated are con-
spicuous for their silence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

Mr.. Bryans chances for success have
been given a great boost along the Pa
cific coast. A Bryan club, composed
exclusively of Cinnamon. has been or
ganized at Los Angeles. It's now up to
the Taft workers to corral the Japanese
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

Mr.. Harriman's railroad interests
are so extensive. involving as they do
the control of eighteen companies and
more than a score of subsidiary COM
panies, that he is said to be planning
the erection of a fifty story building
in New York city for the purpose of
housing the offices of these companies
which are now scattered all over New
York. These plans may be nipped in
the bud IL the government is at all
successful in its new effort to disrupt
the Hartman combination of railroad
systems on the ground that it is in
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

Some real hot weather for a few days
following the recent heavy rain and
the agricultural experts will be an
nouncing bumper corn crop Is "as-
sured." OF course they'll probably tack
on an 'if' or two
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~eN CRrB RwRPa ~

Wroten to Looie Linkenfusser. prize
proon.
Here's looking ad you. Looie: skince
wrotening you 1asd, I've hat had a noder
sad accidence. Ad leasd i'd vas q ac-
cioence to few. In oder words, Loois,
We mar nominated one Pfckhandle
Stubs fer gufferner on der Popo-re-
publican tigget. In der mean time.-
un on der square. Id ISIS a meantime
oder accidences habbened to der ttg-
get. Dis. Looie. Is vot iss called .
statewide primary. Vich means dot ID
der lechislacher fer der porpoise uf
stiging somevon. In dis Id worked fine.
Der boss stfngeree, vot framed oop der
chob. vas nominationed, und led US
hope dot he ISIS habby. Hiss troubless
Is almosd ofer. VI course der Demo-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

There's nothing small about the de-
sires OF Eugene V. Debs. the Socialist
candidate for president. He has asked
his comrades to subscribe an extra
campaign fund of $4,000 so that he
and some of the leaders in the party
can make campaign tour by special
train from New York throughout the
entire country to the Pacific coast. He
must have an idea that the Socialist
party has chance for success this fall.
But, anyhow. such a trip ought to be
an enjoyable one and Mr.. Debs should
be provided with it by all means.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

Coundt Zippy's hot-air Ship ISIS con-
sitered success fer der same reason
dot a prise-fiter iss considered failure.
Vot ISIS der anser? I'm small letters:
Id took der Coundt.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

Dumont Smidt iss heated. una To-
peka half 1osd ids only chance uf un-
choying ids bienial freckled westkit
display. Sad, sad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

Stubs ISIS skatisf1ed, und beliefs no
ISIS in der clear. Raider den hat him
became too confident, We would glatly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
A FASHION PICTURE.


1t is said that the women can glance
| at one of the pictures in a newspaper
| intended to show the fashion of dress
| and understand all about 1T. They can
detect every plat and ruff1e and seam
and gore, and every little change in
| sleeve and blouse and drapery. and
every point of taste or style from the
neck to the last hem in the skirt. To
them it Is a revelation, an illumina-
ton. fascination. They can read the
whole panorama of delight with one
swoop of the eye, and the next day
they can tell about it-where every
button and stripe and insertion is
placed, where cut straight and where
bias, and just where every tuck, fold.
convolution and distraction is located,
and they can tell it all to another wo-
man in about 16 words. and make the
picture as plain as snowy summit
against an azure sky.
A man would look at the picture and
think it was the same old fashion plate
he had been looking at for years and
years-same old girdles and f1ounces
and panniers and passementerie in all
their mysterious beauty, just as they
appeared in the days of his love and
married glory. Feminine fashion with
man is changeless JOY. 1t is what 1t
always was, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. So these pictures,
radiating with lovely ideas and sug-
gestions of beauty to the woman, are
to the men like the grim and eternal
sphinx on the sands Of Sahara.-Ohio
State Journal.
A BIG JOB FOR OKLAHOMA.
The attorney general of Oklahoma
is determined to make an issue of that
part of the Oklahoma constitution
regulating foreign corporations. He
has brought suit against the Standard
Oil to compel its obedience to the
constitutional provisions, and has
asked for receiver for the COM
pany's property in that state pending
a hearing of the case.
Oklahoma departed from the time
honored custom of framing constitu-
tions It operated upon the theory
that such a state document should be
made for the people rather than an
instrument for the exclusive use of
lawyers and courts. 1t was this
innovation that attracted the attention
to the Union.
partment to demonstrate whether or
really regulate corporations without
violating the constitutional rights al
ready granted the owners of the cor
porations.
The attorney general is to be con-
graduated upon his choice of sub
ject also in working out the salvation
of the Oklahoma constitution. If 1t
will regulate the Standard OIL. there is
no escape for any other corporation
In the new states7Kan9aS City star.