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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
A SATURDAY SERMON.

God is light. and in Him is no darkness
at all.-John is.
Johns teaching is attested by expert
ence: He saw Jesus through the medi-
UNI of his affections. and so he por-
trayed him as a life and a light
"It ds the heart, and not the brain,
That to the highest doth attain
With his tendency to employ the big
words Of human speech, John auda-
ciously calls Jesus the light as we'll as
life" We sing about Christ as ''the
Light of the World little thinking,
though, how He is the light that has
been shining at The Hague, that has
been illuminating earth's dark places.
that has been warming into life and
growth the backward peoples, and that
has brought new brightness Into the
lot of the poor and oppressed The
theme Of Christ as the hight of the
world is a large and engrossing one.
Every great life must have it's trag-
edy; that is one of the factors that go
to make up its greatness. The tragedy
in the life Of the worlds greatest Man
is set forth graphically in this prologue
to Johns book-"He came unto His
own. and they that were His own re-
ceived Him not Are there any sad
der words in all literature than these?
He who Is acclaimed as the whole
worlds hope, the greatest leader and
champion Of humanity, was rejected
by those whom he most loved.
Nothing can heal that wound. The
heart lives in Its affections. The whole
world may be ringing with a mans
plaudits, but if the faces of his dearest
are turned from him. the praise of
mankind is only mockery.. One word
of affectionate approval from those we
love is more weighty than the honors
Of the multftudes. When we think Of
Jesus as "a man Of sorrows and ac-
quainted with grief,''Y we should first
recall that HE came unto His own.
and they that were His own received
Him not" Never did the sword of un-
appreciation pierce more deeply or
wound more sorely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrorn the Chicago News. !

From the Chicago News.1
The dyspeptic whines after he Dimes
A derrick will not help a man out
when he falls in love.
Query-Does a man suffer more by
ignorance or by knowledge?
The more favors a man asks the few
er he is willing to grant.
What society needs is shorter en-
fragments and longer marriages.
It's too bad that some people can't
buy sense with their dollars.
In these days of incubators it's a
wise chick that knows its own mother
A wise man is satisfied to appear
great in the eyes of his wife and chill
dren.
People who claim to know everything
are seldom able to accomplish any
thing.
After a man gets to be about SO old
he begins to talk about what a fool he
used to be-
There would be lot more silence I'm
this world If we talked only about the
things we know.
If a woman is unable to keep a secret
she can always find some other woman
who will gladly help her to not keep
it.
Honestly. don't you feel sorry for a
man who looks at you with an air of
vacant inquiry when you are trying to
tell him funny storyf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
THE BROOK.

IDedteated to Whom 1t May Concern.1
come from sources pure enough,
From fountains sweet and ferny:
But heavens! what a lot of stuff
gather in my Journey
l go from places clean and sweet
70 places evfl-sm e1ling, is=s
ana fresh contandna ton find
Where man has made dwelling.
collecting. every mile I flow,
Ihe germs Of every fever:
f0r men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever
l Slip I glide by sewer.and drain,
AND by the pulp mills sluices,
ana gather in my liquid train
A myriad reeky juices
l chatter by the canning works,
where blooms the piccalilli;
l iolter IN 1agoons where turks
A legion OF bacilIi.
1 draw them ali along, and flow
With germs of every fever:
fOr men may come and men NAV 60
But go on forever.
Puck
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
AYHAWKER JOTS

One OF the latest runs on a Kansas
bank occurred at Winfield not long ago.
An automobile attempted to run up the
front steps of the First National build
ing.
The Greek laborers working on pipe
line near lola are coming in for COM
ment now because they eat 400 1oaves
of bread each day. Their number is
such as to make this a tribe less than
a loaf of bread for each man.
Owing to a leak in the boiler at the
light plant there has been no light in
La Crosse for a couple of nights. The
La Crosseites get consolation because
they recall that Hays City was hung
up In the same way not long ago.
About $4,000 has lately been paid
out on land near Fredonia, to the own
ers thereof, as annual rental on ac-
count of oil and gas leases. The AL
toona Portland Cement company have
contributed about $1,000 on leases north
and northeast of the city.
Norton is feeling a bit wealthy these
days. The police made raid on a po-
ker game the other night and arrest
ed seven men. Each of them was fined
$25 which was paid into the Golfers of
the city. 1t Is presumed that the gem
tlemen engaged In the game were of
the prominent men OF the town because
their names do not appear In the write
up OF the raid In the local paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
Deyoured BY q Tree.

When our dog Pancno died we bu-
ried him in the back end OF the gar
den, and in the beautiful springtime
set out some tomato plants beside
forgotten. In the late autumn when
vegetation was dying we pulled up
the useless vines. On the roots of one
was the head of Pancho, that is. his
skull. Some of them had grown
through his eye sockets and others
through his mouth, entwining his
teeth. The tomatoes were fine!
The story of Pancho and the to-
matoes reminds me of Roger VIII
liams and the apple trees. The school
children ought to know all about
Uncle Roger. Why, he was the foun-
der of Little Rhody." He and his
amiable wife were buried side by side.
Not many years ago when the Rhode
Island Historical society wanted to
erect a monument to Uncle Roger it
looked everywhere for his remains,
but all it could find was oblivion. A
chemist traced in the ground the car
bonaceous outlines of two coffins, the
rusted hinges, a few nails, and pine
knot In the coffin of Mrs. Villa ms
was braid OF hair-a most interest
ing fact. showing that hair outlives
the body.
Near the graves stood an apple
tree. This had sent down two main
roots into the very presence Of the
eoffined dead. The larger root, push
ing its way to the very spot occupied
by the skull of Uncle Roger. had
made a turn, as If passing around 1t.
and followed the direction of the
backbone to the hips. Here it divid-
ed into two branches, sending one
along each leg to the heel, when both
turned upward to the toes. One OF
these roots formed a slight crook at
the knee, which caused the whole to
bear striking resemblance to the
human skeleton.
DR.. Steel wrote Of this: There were
the graves, but their occupants had
disappeared; the bones even had van
ished. There stood the thief-the
guilty apple tree = caught in
the very act Of robbery. The organic
iation was complete. The organic
matter-the flesh, the bones, of Roger
Williams-had passed into that APP
pie tree. The elements had been alb
sorbed by the roots, transmitted into
woody fiber which now could be
burned as fuel or carved into orna-
ments; had bloomed into fragrant
blossoms, which had delighted the
eyes Of passersby and scattered the
sweetest perfume Of spring; more
than that-had been converted into
luscious fruit, which, from year to
year, had been gathered and eaten.,'
How pertinent, then, is the question.
Who ate Roger Williams New
York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

ness, even while she feared Cyrus
roughness- Perhaps after all he, cyrus,
had been more to blame for his loss
than had his old playfellow.
You two go on with your spoonfng,
he said gruff1y, and they could not see
that the shrewd gray eyes were filled
with tears.
Cyrus stumbled blindly along the half
defined path that led to the road. he
was living over again his boyhood days
and he found therein much to regret.
There was a bowling mob about the
bank. The employees of half dozen
big mills had taken the day on to res
cue their money from the fancied dan
ger and they clamored about the doors.
AS fast as those in the bank obtained
their money they were let out and 9TH
ers were admitted. The tellers were
paying out as slowly as possible In the
hope OF being able to tide over the
day. On the morrow they might eA-
pect help from the city.
Cyrus Ware stamped his way up the
steps. the crowd giving way before MIN.
The watchman at the door let MIN IN al
once, and, without explanation ware
pushed his way into the presidents OF
flee where Whitehead puzzled over long
columns of figures.
He did not hear Wares entrance, ana
not until Cyrus hand fell upon his
shoulder did he look up.
"Josh," he said, thickly. "I've been
to remember, but that's no sign I've
got to keep on to the end of my DAYS.
I've got about 500. 900 out there in my
wagon. I want to open an account
For q moment Whitehead glanced In
to the other mans face and saw In his
eyes the mute appeal for reconciliation
which Cyrus could not frame in words.
Their hands met in a clasp that wiped
away the memory Of bitter years. ana.
together, they went out of the office
to where a guard Of men stood over
the boxes. Already the news that Cy-
rus Ware was going to deposit had bro
ken the rush and the crowd had ma
terially lessened.
The two men stood on the step super
intending the removal Of the currency.
Cyrus passed Whitehead a cigar. IT m
glad I've squared up old accounts In
opening a new one," he said with
ponderous effort at carelessness. You
see, our young people are planning TO
get married. "-(Copyrighted. 1908, by f.
C. ParcellS)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
cofree as Remedy for Asthma.

Coffee is a very excellent remedy for
asthma. Those who do not know how
to cut short their attacks and have not
tried coffee should do so by all means
It often succeeds admirably when al
most everything else has failed. There
are one or two little points to be at
tended to in taking coffee for asthma.
In the first place, 1t should be very
strong-in fact, perfectly black. Weak
coffee does more harm than good. If
made very strong, much OF 1t need not
be taken; large quantity is a positive
disadvantage, for 1t is less rapidly abb
sorbed and only distends the stomach
Then 1t should be given without sugar
or milk. pure cafe noir." 1t should
be given on an empty stomach, for
when taken On a full stomach it often
does harm by putting a stop to the
process of Questionable Family Doc
tor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

De.1
There are few women who do not
buy hats too young for them.
Few men can look themselves over
and give their faults a fair hearing.
What has become of the oId-fash-
toned town family that bought
dressed hog every winter?
We have noticed that when man
backslides, and is converted again, he
usually joins another church.
It makes very little difference with
some men whether they make a state
ment on oath, or on the street.
You hear of people being afraid to
die. We are afraid to live too long,
the old are treated 50 sha billy.
An Atchison man recently heard a
fine contralto voice, but turned UP his
nose at it. "It is masculine" he said.
When you attribute extraordinary
qualities to man. you are fixing
ment.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned woman who had her picture
taken hanging over her husbands
tomb?
Whenever you give another fellow
the best of 1t, without its costing you
anything. you have made good in
vestment.
One of the first to rush from the
burning hotel at Kansas City. lately
was a man engaged at the dime mu-
scum to eat fire.
The man who Is always saying OF
his friend, "Of course he has his
faults seldom realizes that he HIM
self has his faults
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned girl, who, when she was f1gur-
ing on getting married. would call his
name down the rain barrel to see how
It sounded?
When a man says everything Is all
right, he does not really mean that
everything is all right. but that, I'm
der the circumstances, he wonders
that everything is not worse.
You may have noticed this: Before
marriage. young woman will be po-
lite to the men, and seem to like
them, but after marriage, she will
have an air indicating that she hates
them ALL
You hear a great deal Of the neces-
sity for having a moral in every story
and play. We have always been of the
opinion that everyone knows of the
necessity OF doing right, without being
told at every turn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

DR.. stephen 8. Estey. of the First
Presbyterian church, is to be congrat-
tlated for requesting the women of his
congregation to remove their hats dur
ing the church service or at least dur
ing the time when the sermon is be-
ing preached. It is difficult to follow
q speaker interestedly unless it is pos
dble to see his face. The women of
the church have responded In a noble
fashion to the request. It is to be
hoped that the women in the other
church congregations will do likewise
Without waiting to be formally re-
qrested to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

A probate judge in Alabama has
declared the new prohibition law
unconstitutional and has gone ahead
and issued a number OF saloon IL
censes. Probate judges ever have the
reputation of working in mysterious
ways their wonders to perform. They
don't seem to be any different in Ala
bama on the liquor question than they
are IN Kansas where permits to drug
gists are issued promiscuously by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
}.fl1lIeC,1l.ll

RESOLVED:
Dot We will nod take drink dis
year unless We want to.
Dot We will nod knock any more on
Gufferner Hook, pecous i'd iss wrong
to persoo anything beyondt der CRATE.
Dot We will nod try to write any
chokes aboudt der passing uf der
railroadt pass, pecaus i'd iss no choke.
Dot We will nod lamendt aboudt
negst falls peach crop pecaus Id ISIS
a warm winter.
p. s.: On second think, We resolf
nod to make any resolutions.
I know I viii nefer cut any ices In
sassiedy, pecaus I dondt unsfst on
hating chastised cream in my coffee.
Here iss a suggestion fer Coundt
Bunny der Cast1eine und hiss Gushing,
der Prints: Uf dey musd fight a dool,
ledt dem be real spi-norts Dey could
gedt some real egsercise und egsite-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

and Sedgwick county. only by a narrow
margin and in the face of all sorts of
difficulties. This new railroad win
mean much to southwestern Kansas
and the Sedgwick county folks would
be performing me-itorious act if they
did not stick to the letter OF the bar
gain and turned over these bonds to
the railroad company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

mendt py stripping down to DER cor
set Golfers und chumping on each Cd
ers hats. I offer dis suggestion pc
caus der aferache Franch dool iss SO
tame i'd would be considered noding
worse den disorderly conduct in dis
country.
Id may be INFERRED dot pecaus Mrs.
Katherine Gould cut "unfaithfulness"
oudt UT der list uf dfvorcable charges
agensd her huspand, id hat occurred
to her dot id will be necessary only to
call der chury's attention to der feet
he ISIS a millionaire. ,t
Rev. Jere Knode Cook, der stiff
vfch ruined away NIT a young gail,
ISIS now a paper hanger. We hat nod
heard from Jere personally, but CAD
der from der vicious way he moofs
from Won fiat to anoder, dot he would
like to hang der Frisco paper vich
bawled oudt hiss hiding blaze.
My idea uf large. nickle-plate
choke ISIS fully covered und copy
righted in der report dot Mister Le-
land was dragged into der race" und
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

Justice David ]. Brewer, Of the U. S.
supreme court, and Kansan, has been
mentioned as a dark horse" candidate
for the Republican presidential NOM
tnation. With Mr.. Taft in the race
there does not seem to be any necessity
for talk about dark horse" candidates
for none are needed. 80,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
Another popular idol

Another popular idol has been
shattered. An expert on matters re-
lating to the famous Quantre11 de-
clares that the border ruffian was not
an educated man of good family. Not
only that. but this historian calls him
q kleptomaniac. That's rubbing It in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

Count Boni de Castellane may now be
properly called little spit-fre. He
actually showed his true caliber by ex-
pectorating in his cousins face. Then
he and the Prince de Sagan had rough
and tumble fight in the mud. If Boni
had only received the worst OF the en-
counter 1t would have furnished the
occasion for everyone to rise up and
shout, "Oh, joy" -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

1t is up to the sedgwick county COM
7nissioners to be generous with the
Kansas City. Mexico and Orient Rail-
way company. The road lost out In its
great struggle to lay certain amount
of track by January. L to entitle 1t to a
bonus OF 600 in bonds from Wtchits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

Shooting and f1sticuffs In the settle
ment of newspaper differences seem to
be growing in popular favor. Mr..
Sphinx, the editor of the ST. Louis World
is the latest victim. He was shot and
fatally injured the other night during
dispute with a compositor over wages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

Marshall's band is reported to be
getting lots Of new music. Are the
people going to be compelled to wait
until next summer to hear 1t, or will
steps be taken for a fine old winter
concert or two in the auditorium? Let
us hope for the best. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

A Salina operator thinks that his
best friend has stolen his wife. He is
By no means the first man that has had
such disheartening thing happen to
him. But that he is not alone IN his
fluctuations is likely of little consola-
ton to him..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

Quite frequently the members of the
city council act like lot of school boys.
Some of them performed in this fashion
at the special meeting on Thursday af-
ternoon. They acted like a lot of
knockabout vaudeville comedians out
Of their proper sphere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
EROM OTHER PENS
RIGHT LIVING.

Loss of fortune, according to the news
dispatches, has prompted another man
| of prominence to end all by suicide
Ernest g. Stedman of New York is the
| The list of .''panice suicides" is a LONG
one Most of these men seem to have
given up" not SO much because their
| own funds were lost or diminished as
| because the funds of friends were in
| volved. 1t is much easier for the nor
mai man to stand his own losses than
| to stand responsibility for the losses OF
others There is one reflection which
| is apt to come to men when they con-
| template the accounts of financial sui
cides When man takes his life be-
cause good luck deserts him, or chance
| goes against him, and he finds himself
reduced from wealth to comparative
poverty, all the world hears about it.
Little note, however, is taken of those
victims of AFFECT and, long standing
poverty who are ever passing out In an
unending line. These cases are too
common to attract notice. Improper or
insufficient food, insanitary tenements
and workshops, and the diseases due to
dirt and dissipation are causes that
send more human beings to the grave
in day than financial losses send in
a century. Deplorable conditions are
being slowly Improved. They are not
SO deplorable as they were a genera
ton ago. People are learning more
and more of the advantage of proper
feedj cleanliness, ventilation and
correct living. A man does not have to
be rich, or even well-to-do to live a
clean and wholesome nfe.-Washington
Star.
WISE SAWS.
Since Ebert Hubbard has become a
manufacturer and an employer OF la
Dor, he has blossomed out into wise
60 we NIx,, tina fOl1ovyfnH.
Folks who never do any more than
they get paid for. never get paid for
any more than they do"
Doubtless there is some small wis.,
dom in this epigram, but the Spring
Valley Sun man is wisely impressed to
turn it about and look at it from the
point of view of the. employe. He
makes it read thus:
"Employers who don't want to- pay
what the service of an employee is
worth, never get any more service
than they pay for"
We hear a great deal about work
ing for the interests of the firm" and
that Is all right. The firm makes no
mistake, either, when it has one cor
ner of its eye out for the interest Of
the employee.
Fact is, like marriage and other
partnerships, a little unselfishness on
both sides make the business a much
more satisfactory and gladstone af-
fair all around. --
AS to complete unselfshness. and
everybody. doing the best he knows
and can for himself and for everybody
else; why that's heaven, and We might
just as well have 1t here as anywhere.
Minneapolis Journal.
A. RARE ONE, TOO.
Even without pantaloons, and with
nothing but q Jumper the eagle ON
the twenty-dollar gold piece Is "a birdi''
Atlanta Constitution - ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

Money was not the only thing in
which there was a shortage during De-
cember. The weather reports declare
that there was also a lack of wind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

Another couple of million dollars has
been dumped into the Golfers of Chi
caso university by John D. Rockefeller.
It Will take some time for this fnstitu-
tion to acquire a greatness common
Eurata with Its riches. -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

That Topeka is becoming more and
more a veritable Peaceful Valley is
evidenced by Chief Eaton's report of
arrests for the month OF December. It
shows a decrease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
NOT PoLITElIMPUDENT.

In restoring Its passenger trains. ''out
of Difference to the wishes Of the board
of railroad commissioners the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway company has
shown itself to be the most polite and
urbane railroad now doing business in
the middle west.-Wichita Beacon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

Members of the Michigan constitu-
tional convention have taken decided
preliminary steps to prohibit the man
tIfacture and sale of cigarettes within
the state. Thus do beneficial reforms
NOVA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

Kansas congratulates Minnesota on
the fine showing made by the latter
during the past year in the production
of great cereal crops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT ?"
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal Is member 0f the
Associated Press and receives the fcH day
telegraph report OF that great Dews cr-
Eanizatton for the exclusive afternoon
publication N Topeka
The news is received IN the State Jour
nal building over wiTe5 FOR this sole par-
pose.