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The San Francisco call., 1908-11-25
WIT 0OzES LIKE GUM FROM PINE TREE

But credit Berkeley
inheritance from her fathers fetched all
certain that Dooley "hthy man. He written nothing real
English world
sands The literary he
ong to
But DUNES classification while wisdom
His friends his talk the things
mouth Dooley, following
bricks
Not long Dunno breakfastg with friend
table big combs of honey Dunno peered them through his
glasses and remarked I you keep a bee"
Last Dunno and friend the Brooklyn bridge
The crowd that
the where Dunno his Russell
happened be stalled her automobile The
celebrity Dunno studied inquired
why 10 marry Lillian RusseI.g
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-25

About Lincoln Steens
W. Hearst He from another of H editors
information but didn't until Arthur
Stefen filled
theme The Seens
Sefens finally finished his
Steen told all
Randolph by Lincoln
Stefens'9
Well said Dunne why call William Randolph Hearst by
coin OF Arthur Brb
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
AYHAWKER JOTS

w. II. Hollinger, of Rhinehart, is an
other Dickinson county farmer to pos
sess himself Of an automobile.
They are doing a lot of gumshoe work
at Abilene, trying to run down a high
wayman who has been soaring women
and annoying men.
The Leavenworth Post waited until
February 20 before it felt sure OF the
fact that five Saturdays came in the
month, and then announced its discov-
cry.
Perhaps the belief that the time has
the criminal classes induced Mr.. Love
to become a candidate for sheriff in
Montgomery county.
J. w. Ormsby has started the ball a
rolling in Lyons county in collecting
bounty this spring on crows. He cashed
clerks office the other day.
The Kansas farmers are not all en-
joying prosperity. Samuel Farmer Of
Winfield is in Jail for selling whisky
and must pay fine of 500 and costs
before he can regain his liberty.
If you feel like committing a crime
and avoid punishment, go to Douglas
county. According to the Lawrence
Gazette the officers there do not cap
ture criminals until large rewards are
offered.
The rivalry between Coffeyville and
independence IS SO DlIlSr tHaL a Wlcn-
tia wholesale merchant lost his Gus
toners in both cities this week by
addressing a letter to one of them at
"Coffeyville, Independence county, Kan
saS.'
Salina has become so metropolitan
that the officials object to farmers
hitching their teams to the fire plugs
lola has man who eats between
meals, and has drunk strong coffee for
ten years and does not complain of
feeling bad.
Mrs. Lille Campbell has been award
ed $1,000 damages by a Neosho county
jury. She sued Chase Brown, drug
gist, for $4,000, because he sold her hus-
band wood alcohol, which killed him.
The verdict was a surprise to every
body, including Mr.. Brown, who con-
templates writing a book.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
AN ESPERANTO STATE.

Esperanto enthusiasts, those folks
who are endeavoring to establish a I'M
fversal language that apnears to the
ordinary individual to be quite as alb
struse and unwieldly as Sanskrit, will
gain some encouragement from the
novel suggestion made by Professor
Roy, the French Esperantist. He urges
the establishment Of an Independent
Esperanto state in Europe. The site he
has selected for his experiment is on a
neutral strip of territory which lies on
the frontier between Germany, Belg-
ium and Holland, five miles from AK
1a-Chapelle. This territory is known
as Moresnet and is situated in a pleas
ant valley that has population of 5000
inhabitants. Esperanto is to be the Of
fetal language of the place. The ex-
penses of the state are to be borne by
the subscriptions of Esperantists all
the world over The scheme includes
an Esperanto theater, a daily official
Esperanto Gazette and a sort of
Esperantist parliament, which will
meet periodically to discuss the affairs
Of the little state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison elobe.1

We have lived a great many years,
and have never yet seen any time,
need or occasion, for eating off a
kitchen floor, yet 1t has always been
the standard of neatnes II a woman's
kitchen floor is so clean anyone could
eat off it,
Why is cheerfulness expected of q
man when he is in trouble. A man in
trouble always tries to look cheerful.
because he knows it is expected of
him. and adds another burden to his
list. 1t is hard work to look cheerful
when you feel like crying.
1t Is impolite to talk in company
of your personal joys and sorrows; it
Is silly to talk of the weather; 1t is
considered gossip IL you talk about
anybody; you are pedantfo If you give
your opinion of books. Is there any
subject on which man can talk that
will make him as polite as If he kept
his mouth shut?
1t doesn't mean that woman has
wonderful influence over her husband
when she gets him out to a party, un-
less he had his shoes off when he
yielded. After a man has his shoes
off at night, his wifes influence over
him weakens by so per cent If that
influence is directed toward making
him put his shoes on again.
If you are honest and frank with
yourself, dare you sit down and write
a description of yourself, your habits,
your temper, your ability, your am
billions, and the results? If you wrote
honestly and fairly. sighting none OF
your faults, and exaggerating none of
your virtues, would you not be ashar1-
ed to read it? Suppose you try it. It
could not possibly hurt you. It may
benefit you to take some such inven-
tory of yourself
Here is an experiment you can try,
[ illustrate a Inn, r>r-f~ =
truth: The next time you hear a bad
story on any one, investigate, and you
will find that the person telling the
story has at sometime been accused of
the offense credited to another An
old man living in Atchison has made
a study of the subject good many
years, and he says he never in his life
knew clean man or woman to repeat
bad gossip On Others
When you were child, do you re-
member how tired you became of peo-
pie finding fault with you? Grown
people dislike to be found fault with
as much as children. The next time
you feel disposed to find fault with
anyone, remember your own faults.
instead, and keep quiet. There is too
much fault finding in the world. If
you do not like people, keep away
from them: do not try to reform
them: do not try to reform them by
finding fault. We never knew a gen
teel man or woman who was a fault
finder.
A woman will never leave q recep-
ton until she has tasted the refresh
ments. She may not be hungry. b1,t
she wants TO see how the dining room
table looks, and she wants to see how
things are served. When the dining
room is small, and the crowd large.
1t would naturally be supposed that
some of the guests at a reception
would go home without refreshments
but they never do. They want their
plate of ice cream and piece of cake
They are not hungry, but for some
reason they want 1t. and will have 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
fFrom the Chicago News.

fFrom the Chicago News.1
When the wffe's away the husband
will get gay.
His Satanic majesty never let's up
until he gets his due.
About some people the worst thing
you can say is the truth.
Only the dyspeptic can eat his cake
and still feel that he has it.
And the man who Is anxious to
learn is not ashamed to ask ques-
tfons.
One trouble with the average mans
past is that 1t refuses to stay past.
When a man keeps his wife in the
dark he shouldn't expect her to make
light of it.
It's only matter of time until
fast young man discovers that the
race isn't always to the swift.
Some men are so worthless that
their wives are not alarmed when
they happen to have cough.
II a bride isn't homesick for her
family six weeks after marriage it's
a sign she married the right man.
The man who neglects to put his
best foot forward when he has a
chance may feel like kicking himself
later.
What miserable lives most of us
would lead II we could hear every
thing that IL said about US when We
are not listening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07

sian forbidden to voice liberal ideas or
criticize the wretched disagreement
in Russia under penalty of imprfson-
ment, but he is equally prohibited from
such expression where speech Is free
and unhampered. Prof. Mihukon prob
ably owes his immunity from some
thing more than severe petty presecu-
ton for his New York speech, to the
fact that the calloused bureaucracy has
still some regard for the respect of the
outside world. Otherwise he might now
be languishing in some Russian
fortress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
RussIAN TACTH-

Because Prof MiIiukoff. leader OF the
Constitutional Democrats in the Rus
sian Douma, delivered a very plain but
temperate address before the Civic
Forum in New York this year upon ex-
listing conditions in Russia, he was re-
fused permission to accompany other
deputies to Tsarskoe-Selo where they
were received by the car the other
day. When the Constitutional Demo-
Gratis asked of Premier Stolypin leave
to go with the Octobrist and reactionary
members, they were told that all OF
them with the exception of Prof. Mill
ukoff would be received by the car.
AS their leader was denied the priv
ilege of accompanying them, none Of
the Constitutional Democrats would go.
Prof. Miliukoff is one of the ablest lib
eral leaders in Russia, and so far as
the Sutside world knows the member
ship of the Douma, he comes nearest
of any to approaching its conception of
a statesman. His address in New York
was a calm, dispassionate presentation
Of conditions in Russia. Certainly his
picture of the situation was never over
drawn, and If he erred in any way it
was in minimizing the lot of the cars
subjects and representing in less OBJ
jectionable light than it merited the
terrible misgovernment under which
the people suffer.
Prof. Miliukoff is a liberal, but a ter
rorist, or revolutionist. He believes a
monarchy limited by a parliament the
best government for the Russian null
titude in it's present state. Stolypin's
act in refusing him permission to ac-
company the other deputies in visit
to the car is an exhibition of petty
spite and bellies all the pren1ier,s pro-
fessions of sympathy with even the
| most backward of liberal opinions The
incident shows that not only lie q Rus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
WHEN MEN GET PIED.

How sad it is to see a man
Go Keeling on his hcmeward way,
Unheeding the Disguised scan
OF those who watch his footsteps stray.
Oh. why will men call for slice
OF that which they should be denied
And, stunning all our good advice,
Eat right ahead till they are pied3
Ny son. look not upon the pie
When it is oozinS with its juice,
And taste it not. for bye-and~bye
It VIII urge you to raise the deuceI
Drink to me only with thy piesl"
Ben Johnson sang in days of old.
And he regretted it with signs
IN later years. II truth were told
All, how one shudders when he goes
TO banquets, where there greets his eye
The menu which at starting shows
The legend Dry Martini pie
And following comes slice on slice
2. OF pies that quickly seek the head
And make the eater See things twice
And merr1ly stay out Of bed.
Inflamed by pie, men strike the blows
That bring disgrace upon themselves
Alas, who faucies or who knows
What grief is on the pantry shelves?
Beneath that smiling, Turing crust,
What depths of infany may hide7
Oh, why do men. to our disgust,
Eat right ahead until they're pied?
Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07

Thomas F. Ryan, the New York
nnancier, has nice way Of denying
the charge made by Mr.. Bryan in
The Commoner" to the effect that
MFR. Ryan, ]. ]. Hill and others were
responsible for the alleged attempt
10 buy UP southern delegates to the
Denver convention who would be op-
posed to the Nebraskan. Mr.. Ryan
says that Mr.. Bryan has been mis-
informed as to Mr.. Hill and himself
and that some one has been imposing
on Mr.. Bryan. This sounds much
better than If Mr.. Ryan had become
red in the face and blurted that the
Bryan charges were false and ma
Ifcio1is's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
THE UGLY WORD.

When lovely lassie tells you
AS you're sitting by her side.
nat man has never kissed her.
~, Enough a dozen men have tried:
I4ough you doubt it, be not hasty.
Let your anger be deferred;
DO not qualify the lassie
By that short and ugly word.
When lovely lassie whispers
mat She'll never, never wed:
mat she's planned to dwell with mother
Ana to care for her, instead
Hold your tongue o, doubling brother.
Many times that tale you've heard:
Just remember she's a lady
XIII that short ana ugly word
When that se1f-same 1assfe murmurn
That secret she will keep. =
mat she'll tell no living person
In her heart twill ever. sIe<sn
Don't believe her--do not tell her
Treat her statement as absurd:
But it's not polite to utter
That one short ana ugly word.
When q pretty Iassfe tells YOU
She can cook, although you know
That her mothers in the kitchen,
With her arms deep In the dough-
Doubling brother, be not tactless,
Though the thought may have occurred
Though you'd like to. still. you mustn't
Speak that short and ugly word.
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Lots of men are not SO bright a.
their noses would indicate.
II all prayers were answered a lot
OF people would quit work.
The real estate operator isn't al
ways successful in Matching a plot
Any lawyer will tell you that evarv
man should have will of his own.
A hand organ is comparatively
simple, and yet 1t takes a nous,ca,
crank to operate 1t.
There are people so clumsy that
they can't even drop a hint witho,,t
breaking their word.
Corns ana boils always go to ex-
tremes. A corn comes on your foot
but a boil comes to a head. =
Blobbs-"I never knew such q 70,
low as B1ones. He will swipe any
thing he can lay his hands 49,,
joke
IT'S good plan to tell the tr,,tb
the whole truth and nothing but tbs
truth, said the Wise Guy. ayesH
agreed the Simple Mug, Respectable l.
you want to make lot OF trouble %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Private theatricals are never consid-
cred a success unless they produce a
scandal or two.
Many audiences are cold until they
recollect that they have paid good
money to see show and then they get
hot.
An up-to-date moral for the hare and
the tortoise fable would be that the
writer OF it was a nature faker.
=
There is every indication that astron-
omers use their imaginatfons quite as
extensively as they do their telescopes
=
That men are never too old to learn
is evidenced by the fact that many of
them get married after they have pass
ed the three score and ten mark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07

Former Governor Willis J. Bailey
seems to be perfectly justified in re-
firing from the race for the Repub1i-
can gubernatorial nomination. Mr..
Bailey entered the race on an under
standing with Republican leaders
that the nomination would be given
practically without any particular fight
to him at the hands of the state con-
vention. The enactment of the pri-
mary law wiping out nominating
convention made timpossiblefor these
Republicans to fulfill this end of the
agreement SO Mr.. Bailey had a per-
feet right to retire from the field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07

John 6:27.
History cherishes a few great
names Of men who have spurned
honors in order that they might
achieve helpfulnegs. Chief among
these is the humble Galilean who,
when one evening by the seaside he
perceived that the multitude would
take him by force and make him a
king, quietly slipped away into a
mountain.
Most persons are susceptible to
some sort of fattery; he sought no
glory from man. When he heard the
clamorous voice OF the people. seek
ing to crown him. he knew that this
was but a passing impulse of enthu-
siasm. and of that sort of gratitude
which has been cynfcally defined as "a
lively expectation of favors to be re-
ceived."
His conduct is counsel for every
one who has achieved sucoess-won
an Office. made a speech, written a
book or done a heroic deed; he kept
his head the day after. For it is the
man who preserves his poise to whom
It is given to achieve later successes.
"a S1S1L LidIy PCAoOA4o W4eAiiA tAAC
past SIX months have had their ideas
Of what is best in life ru6ely shaken.
They have suddenly been awakened
to the knowledge that they have been
laboring for meat which perishes.
They have staked their all on the
passing show-and lost. The world
today Is more in a mood to listen to
the tested counsels of religion than
1t has been for many year. No stu
dent of deep human conditions Is sur
prised at the spiritual strings mani
fest among men; they are being
driven back to the old foundations by
the lettering and crashing of begilt
and bedizened structures upon Which
many of them had lately been rest
ing.
Everybody has serious moments
be 1t the housewife when she sits
down to her mending or busies her
hands in the kitchen, or the business
man in the interstices of duties
when he yields assent to the propo-
sftion of the Great Teacher that the
things which last are the only things
worth living for. That is why sin
cerity is more desirable than show; a
home of love better than eminent So
cia1 position; a single friend more to
be coveted than a host of admirers.
The admonition of the Master comes
echoing through the ages, Labor
for that meat which endureth unto
everlasting life Living for the
things which last is the one way to
insure immortality of influence.
Think you not that the spectacle
grieves heaven, of men and women
Dropping buckets into empty wells
And growing old in drawing moth
ing up?"
Wherefore do you spend money
for that which is not bread? and your
labor for that which satisfieth not 2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07

All of the many Boston records for
youthful Learning and precocity have
been broken by Cedric Houghton, a
boy of twelve years. He has passed
with high averages the entrance
examinations to Harvard university.
And he has never attended school
for a day in his life. He is home
Taught, his father who is a minister,
having been his teacher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
FROM OTHER PENS
GLASS LEGISLATION.

Maryland is seeking to play the
game of follow my leader" with the
other southern states which have
| passed laws restricting suffrage. A
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
| ton has been introduced into her
legislature which entails certain edu-
cational and property qualifications
upon all citizens who wish to exercise
is a grandfather clause in the
measure, and the bill is specifically
intended to curtail the negro vote.
But the astute drafters Of the bill.
said to be a committee of Demo-
cratic lawyers were delicately careful
not to let the word negro" get into
their measure anywhere, lest it should
be held I'D on the ground Of being
too palpably "class legislation
But they wrote into 1t one pro-
vision which will strike many peo-
pie, perhaps, as unique and cause
them to wonder If the shrewd law
yers did not undo their cunning and
draft a piece of class legislation af-
ter all. This provision gives the right
of the ballot to any man who has a
wife who has paid her taxes on $500
worth of property for two years! 1t
is one of the few places noted in
political history where the high
qualifications Of wife make her
husband eligible to the high privileges
of the state.
after. need mourn for his vote or
bother his head about poll taxes and
road taxes and such other sordfd
things. He need but to find a
woman who will have him and who
has $500, and let her pay the taxes
while he breaks his supine ease with
a periodical visit to the polls. And
finding one willing and able should be
an easy task for him since all
Marylanders are distinguished for
their ga1lantry and personal pulchrf-
tude.
But what effect will this have on
the marriage chances of women? Is
it not law in favor of the rich and
cendemning the poor? What chances
will a girl have now, whose greatest
wealth is not of houses and lands but
of the graces and virtues Of her sex?
1t will be surprising If some of those
Maryland women Of manageable
age and expectations do not in
dignantly point out the injustice Of
this sort of class legislation.-Wash-
A WORD FOR THE BANKERS.
This country of ours has no more
essential element Of national life than
that of our bankers, and It Is a thing
to be proud of that their integrity is
an example of honor set up by every
man for his sons. "As good as money
in the BANK is an American axiom
that should never be discredfted. The
banks are essentially the creatures of
the people, dependent absolutely upon
the confidence of the people, and the
greater the familiarity Of the people
with their operations the greater will
be this confidence A dollar put into
the bank will run out and in again a
dozen times in a week, employing Ia
Dor in honorable occupation promot-
ing helpful enterprises, doing errands
of mercy and expanding its value sew
eral times during the week. A thou
some family. creating a thousand dol
material. without the bank these
be valuless stone. clay. and other raw
dollars could not do this. but would
lie idle somewhere exposed to dangers
from fire or theft or prof1igate waste
in spending 1.-THE southwestern
Bankers Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHETop

From the New York Press.1
All babies are mighty good look.
ing, considering their parents.
Evening gowns cost a lot. but vt,.+
some of them show is worth If
A girl is awful proud of heinz ~.
to blush without knowing why.
The strenuous life is being a nre.,-
cent or being managed by a baby.
woman always thinks she co,,a
make her husband succeeaf,,1 =, S I,su.o
ness II he would let her select III 81
CLOTHES Tor him. AZ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-07

Another vaudeville show Is to be
launched in Topeka. It's our opinion
that when a half dozen more enter
tainments Of this sort are provided
there ought to be enough of them
This new one will make four straight
vaudeville houses and then there are
. couple of moving picture shows on
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