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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1908-08-13
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1908-08-13

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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1908-08-13

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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1908-08-13

Sl Den un0CrCn NltnhC0 &SCtttr
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1908-08-13
Epnncuanfs nuo ltntCrnaun.
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TruOrrnt,tr mar mir iolnt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15
WALL STREETS OLD TRICKS.

Evidently the money panic of more
than year ago and the disastrous up-
heava1 in business which was subse-
quent to it has had no lesson for the
frenzied financiers of Wall street, who
were so greatly responsible for Great
ing it. They appear to be up to their
old tricks of attempting to initiate some
stocks to prices beyond their real value
at this time This is made apparent
by a paragraph from the current week.
ly review of affairs in the financial
world from the pen of Henry Clews, the
New York banker. and to whom Wall
street has no secrets. He says:
1.-THE artificial character of the stock
market is no longer to be concealed.
Manipulation has now controlled the
movement of prices for many weeks.
and at no time has it been so apparent
as during the week just closed. In the
effort to stimulate buying first one and
then another of the second and third
rate stocks were jerked up, but with
out any satisfactory results. These
spasmodic movements seemed to ac-
complsh little except TO excite further
opposition against the attempt to carry
prices still higher at this time. Appar-
emily the market has been bulled almost
to a standstill."
But there is not the least thing in
the present situation which forebodes
anything like a recurrence of the panic
of last year. The banks and other fin
ancial institutions in the money centers
tapped by Wall street. are on a f1rmer
foundation and under more conserva-
tive management than they were when
the last panic developed. There is no
chance that they will so recklessly lend
the money in their care to Wall street
operators as they once did. So unless
these gamblers mend their ways in the
manipulation of the stock market there
will be no damage to anyone but them
selves. They will soon be forced to ply
their trade on a paper basis and then
there will be a financial crash personal |
to those who have been the most fool |
hardy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
1t doesn't take a magician to turn night
into day.
Many a man has face as red as a
beet who isn't.
Dead men tell no tales. and dead dogs
wag none. .
All things come to those who wait, if
they wait on themselves
Some men are SO pugnacious that they
would fight a gas bill.
When a boy is a blockhead is he always
a chip of the old block?
In learning to play the cornet a fellow
is generally his own tooter.
The trouble with most people is that
they seem to think they are as good as
we are.
The woman of fashion seems more de-
pendent on her dressmaker~ than on her
husband.
There is no such thing as the biggest
half in spite of the fact that most of
us want it.
There is many good-hearted fool. The
trouble is a man doesn't do his thinking
with his heart.
He-'I have never married because I
have been true to my first love" She
Meaning yourself I suppose"
"a happy married life depends on mar
rying our opposites." remarked the Wise
Guv yes. IT doesn't do to be too even
" matched" agreed the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

When a man carries flowers to his
mother-in-law's grave the chances are
she hated them.
X X
Because a person collects ashes and
the like he need not be set down as
having this for a fad.
X X
After a girl has been married for a
short time she gets over any beliefs
she may have had about the super
human.
A fellow may be said to be making
good progress in his suit for a girls
hand when her dog wags it's tail at his
approach.
If women only had the same success
in making up their minds that they
have with their faces and figures there
wouldn't be so many chances for ar
with them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15
AYHAWKER JOTS

An Atchison Globe Sighter evidently
has cannibalistic tendencies: This is
what he says: eff we were the steady
young man of girl in this town we
| would eat her up, she's so sweet"
Mayetta has a champion corn hus-
| ker in Anda Jacobs who husked 50
| bushels one day last week and hauled
it one and a half miles. This is going
some considering the fact that the
days at this time are rather short.
Whatever may be the defects in
the organization of the New Kansas
| magazine, 1T has highly ehhclent
press agent" says Charlie Blakesley
in the Star Kansas Notes. Every pa
per in the state is boosting the maya
zine except two or three, and these do
the next best thing and knock it."
The Galena Weekly Republican
must be in Mr.. Taft's confidence. Or
maybe it is the power behind the Taft
throne In a recent editorial 1T says:
ut is generally acceded that Senator
Chester I. Long of Kansas Will pc
chosen a member of the cabinet by
President-elect William H. Taft" ETC.
If anyone goes into a Junction City
store and asks for the change OF
dollar into pennies, the storekeeper
weighs out three-QuarterS OF pound
CT the coppers and lets it go at that,
1t is said that in an exchange of 1900
pennies recently made by weight IN
this way the proper number for each
dollar was only missed four times by
cent each time.
AS showing that there's a whole lot
says: "An Atchison county farmer
never pays taxes on any hogs but his
brood sows. The law does not re-
quire pigs under six months of age to
be assessed This farmer breeds his
sows so that his pigs are born the first
of September They are under six
months of age by the first of March
when the assessor begins his work, ana
n a
months old. His spring pigs come in
April, and they grow up. are fattened
and sold before the assessor does ms
work.
On the safe of a lumber company
at independence there has repoSed for
some time a notice to burglars to the
effect that the safe was not locked and
that its owner would rather nave
burglar open the safe in proper man
ner with the key which was LETT hang-
ing on the doorhandle than to blow the
door off the hinges, for the good reason
that safes cost money. This, however
did not prevent gang OF cracksmen
from blowing the safe to pieces not
long ago. All that they got for their
trouble were some papers of no value
to them. This goes to show that BUR
glars are suspicious, If nothing else.
A CRITICISM" from the pen Of the
Bern Gazette's dramatic editor: Last
Friday evening during the play at the
opera house some of the boys in the
gallery evidently forgot where they
we're and began smoking. Soon the
odor of tobacco and cigarettes became
disgustfngly apparent to the ladies in
the audience and many were the heads
turned to discover the source of the
The attention of Manager
Scott was called to the matter, with
the request that the smoking be stop
ped. We do not mean by this to in
sinuate that Mr.. Scott would not take
action until his attention was called to
it, but anyone who is at all acquainted
with his hay fever sufferings will very
readily understand that his nose is not
a very excellent detective"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15

certainly can afford to do the same
thing for the proper development of
the wonderful system of waterways
with which the United States is
blessed above other nations of the
earth and which are now practically
useless. Their adequate improvement
and the conservation of other natural
resources will be of far greater benefit
to the whole people of the Union than
will the Panama canal, and its value
will be great, at that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rE,rnm the Atchison Globe.l

TF,rom the Atchison Globe.1
>-o+bins looks worse on a man than
dirty white vest.
The man who INDUCES IN cry smoke -
generally diSllkeo.
Good women are admired Dut gooo men
are sometimes disliked.
Won probably seem as funny to other
people as other people seem to you.
It is not necessary to pump some people
to get out of them all they know
When a woman's husband becomes
worthless. she thinks seriously OF pup
fishing book
great a nuisance as the man who IS al
ways full of whisky.
So far as IS known. the presence I6t e OF
few worms in the apple does not ahect
the taste of the cider.
Some people put too much perfumery
on their clothes: it looks as though they
were trying to smother worse smell.
The great trouble is. people expect TO be
happy and are mad because they are
not. People have no reason 10 expect 10
be happy. ,,
Every woman believes that she would
be better appreciated IL her husoand nad
to put I'D with some other woman TOT a
time. -
If a man is out late at night, Il is good
protection to have a woman dIohS. n
woman has a way OF screaming that cur
dies highwayman's blooo.
A rich mans daughter shows it in the
daintiness of her apparel all her life, but
a rich mans son is as dirty ana dnsty ana
unkernpt as a poor mans son until he Is
grown.
If man has a relative who was hanged
hank president. every time he mentions
his bank president kin his hearers think or
the kin who was hanged for stealing
How much?' asked the man of the
parson who had lust married him, WELL
the psrsqn replied the law allows me
h s dollar. and said: Here Is a haif
collar: that win make It 81"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

from the Chicago News.J
AS a rule. naugf1tiness does not come to
naught.
The thread of many a discourse is in
reality a yarn
Your. bottom dollar is always a sound
financial basis
If women were mind readers they
wouldn't speak to some men,
The overthrow of many man may be
traced to a slip of a girl.
People in the social scale seldom find it
necessary to weigh their words.
Distance not only lends enchantment
but it doesn't expect to be paid back
There is something wrong with the
minds of men who seek continuous pleas
ure.
The mere fact that man doesn't pay
his bills is no sign that he owns an auto
mobile
1t sometimes happens that a man is as
vain of his wife's actions as he is ashamed
of his own.
The average man doesn't make very
much money unless he can induce others
While a. man is worrying about the
problem of life, a woman Is figuring out
a new wav to arrange her hair.
man thinks he should be proud of
something. even If it is only the hanging
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15

would ask for Miss or Mrs Lang, and
when the door opened he sIurred the
prenx and laid emphasis upon the
name. Miss Lang was at home, and
ne presently found himself COM
rortably seated and awaiting her ad-
vent: He glanced mechanically about
the tastefully appointed room; then
tnere was step on the stair, and he
turned to behold a tall girl in a black
iacS olnner gown and with a spray OF
molly caught in her dark hair
You!" he cried
sne came forward, a half-shamed,
wholly mischievous expression on her
II suppose owe you an apology she
said You see 1 fully Intended to own Ip
5 5erIore we reached the city-you were 50
beforehand then you mentioned Vour
cousin, Maud Cartwright, who is INV best
Bobby's cousin, of whom I've heard All
my life. And so'-she darted a mirthfui
sia a1SS at him MI from under her dark lashes
overwhelming; have heard OF you in a
re ar1ery OF y, roles but meyer before as
L nan9- Please try quite hard to forgive
me- she finished in assumed contrition.
broke into merry peal of laughter
YOU, cried Cartwright. when he could
chaser He tried to Summon S ~i repr eoeSe
She raised one hand and plucked a tall
mouth was drawn into demure lines but
her eyes danced wickedly. Then she held
out to him the long-stemmed rose
81 mad to punish you for calling me a
gorgon and believing me to be such
dreadful looking creature The score Is
not so uneven is it?"
IL, Ihey looked at each other above the
rose and laughed again.
al VIII even it up, my Christmas lady"
iG ,ttd Cartwright; then his voice fell
INTO INTO number tone. And with Cousin
Maud to introduce me 1 may come
"a, Are you sure that Bobby Cartwright is
Positive"
Well, have invited Bobby and Maud
ana the cousin who was expected to
Snrlstmas dinner. We are to have the
puddlng, but perhaps it would not agree
Wild IN you after what has happened"
,.C,f ood FOR the gods" cried Cartwright.
give me a chance at that pudding 1t
VIII AFFORD a very excellent substitute for
It was showing heavily when Cart
WIlght reached the street, but he plunged
resolutely into the storm
IH,eaXenly puddingr' he cried with en-
will not give you up so easily. my Christ
mas lady."-(Copyrighte 1905 bv Asso-
ciated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15
FRON OTHER PENS
THE FATE OF EMPIRES.

How familiar we are all with that
form of vaticination which metes out
to our republic the fate of the Roman
empire! At no period of our history
have there been lacking publicists
who enforced upon use the lessons to
be derived from the decline and fall
of that mighty nation. 1t is the stock
analogy of the pessimistic statesman
who finds things not going to his
liking. Even President Roosevelt,
who does not usually delight in pessi-
mism, drew upon it to emphasize
point in one of his official preach
ments Some new light upon the cor
ruption that led to the downfall of
ancient Rome, and particularly some
informing discussion as to the differ
ing outlook of the Roman and the
American or European of today, are
given US by the eminent italian his
torian Guglielmo Ferrero, who finds
Mr.. RooseveIt's moralizing about di-
vorce and race suicide but an echo
of the Emperor Augustus, tells us
that after all Rome was poor and
mean compared with the modern
world Our growth in luxury and
power, in the command over natures
resources, resembles that which took
place in the Roman empire on
greatly reduced scale. Motives and
passions are the same and the forces
which broke down traditions, laws,
and institutions and elevated
plutocracy to power are Identical
with those operative today. But our
estimate of the process is different
from that of the Romans. To-day"
says Prof. Ferrero, "it appears to be |
a universally beneficent process of
Transformation. The ancients thought |
it a malevolent process of dissolution. |
What they called corruption we today |
call progress. ''-Washington Herald.
HUSBAND POOR BUT WIFE RICH. |
A strong light is thrown upon the |
independent and yet greatly favored |
marries by the acQuiescence of the |
public in the view of Mayor Johnson's
affairs which assumes that he may be
poor while Mrs. Johnson is still rich.
Her wealth came from her husband.
1t is not a case of a rich woman's
fortune always separate from that of
her husband. What she has he gave
her. But now it is generally agreed
that he cannot count upon her prop
erty as if it were his own. If it is
placed at his disposal he is held to be
the recipient of a favor, not a man
making use of his natural right.
This would not be so in other
countries. In Europe a man who
makes his wife rich is thought to be
entitled to rely upon her property in /,
time of need. In some countries he
has full control of it under any cir
cumStanceS. 1t is not deemed pos
sible that the wife can be rich by
virtue of gifts from her husband and
the man who gave her wealth remain
resources himself. American
husbands may be faulty in many
ways, but they are certainly notable
,or their unwillingness, as a general L
-ule, to rely upon their wives for sup Il
port or for indulgence in the pleasures
which money buys. In that respect
hey have no peers, broadly speaking, ! !
LmOng the men of other lands.-I I
Cleveland Leader. Ii
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15

That exceedingly erudite newspaper,
the London Times. printed an extend
ed editorial recently on What Ameri-
ca Should Do With Ex-Presi-
dents" It consists of a learned disser-
tation on the conditions confronting
presidents of the United States on
their retirement from the office but
is more notable, in view of its title,
because it does not contain a single
suggestion as to "what" shall be done
with the former presidents All of
which is merely another illustration of
the fact that there is plenty of talk on
every conceivable subject INDUCED in
which is utterly devoid of good ideas
and suggestions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15

Those who hate peace are probab-
ly hoping that there are good and suf-
fcient grounds for a recent dispatch
from Washington to the effect that
Mr.. Roosevelt is not taking very kind
~ to the batting that is being ad-
ministered to him in a variety of ways
by members of congress and has let it
be known that if congress wants any
trouble" with him he'll be delight
ed" to furnish his end of it. A few
special messages of the sizzling va