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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
THE COMING SHORTAGE.

The American Lumberman states
that it is in receipt of many letters
from mill points all over the country
which indicate that on the beginning
of the grain movement there would
be very serious difficulty in securing
sufficient cars to handle the unusually
heavy lumber movement expected dur
ing the fall and winter months" To
add to the demand for cars for the
grain movement, the latest report of
the car efficiency committee of the
American Railway association states
that reports from all railway shops in
the country show that for two weeks
preceding August A the number of cars
in bad order had increased 81 per cent
in excess of per cent per month.
The movement of grain is a move
ment which cannot be avoided. 1t is
not only inevitable. but an absolute
necessity. While the statement is in
the nature of a self-evident proposition
it is made for the purpose of calling
attention to the fact that because of
lack of railway transportation facili-
ties-an admitted lack even by the
railway managers-not only is the alb
solutely necessary grain movement re-
LdIQtQs Dul dll Juliet movements Oh
articles of trade and commerce are, or
will be, equally impeded, with lumber
movements especially retarded this
year. The Importance of that retarda-
ton cannot be overestimated in this
season when all the building trade
journals show a remarkable increase
in the number of building permits is
sued, and in the value of the buildings.
Recurring car shortages are burdens
exceedingly oppressive. They are the
cause of enormous annual losses to all
sections, to all branches Of trade and
commerce and they bear with equal
oppressiveness on builder. on merchant
and mechanic. Yet the remedy is cas-
lily found. In the improvement of the
waterways of the United States on the
plan adopted by the National Rivers
and Harbors congress. the remedy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

would be found. The waterways of the
country are of inestimabIe value-but
are not utilized as they would be if the
fixed policy Of the government was upon
definite plans, with annual appropria-
lions adequate to the work, with the
work continuous and embracing a pol
icy but no special project.
There is no necessary hostility be-
tween rail and river. Europe, with its
wise policy on the subject of waterway
Improvement, finds the one means of
transportation complementing and
experimenting the other-the river car
rying the heavier articles. as it would
carry the lumber for the American
lumbermen and avoid the present pros
pective shortage-avoiding COMPOSITIONS
when the necessary grain movement
begins and inevitably avoiding all 9TH
er COMPOSITIONS of the railways which
are admittedly inadequate in the ia
cihties for carrying the freight offer
ings of the country in normal times.
The true remedy and the enduring
remedy for freight congestions is in
the improvement of the waterways on
the plan suggested by the National
Rivers and Harbors congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the chicago Newa.1

From the Chicago News]
Cupid is the architect of a good
many air castles.
The chap who always agrees with
you has an AK to grind.
Be honest with yourself occasionally
and see how it feels
When one woman says another is
pretty she seldom means it,
The trouble with loves young dream
is that 1t is only a dream.
People who say what they think
have to do a lot of explaining.
A lot of unlearning is necessary for
the average college graduate.
Fortunate is he who can see a smile
farther than he can hear a growl.
A man may have a will of his own
without having anything to bequeath.
Girls with new diamond rings al
ways do a lot of talking with their
hands.
When an enemy is anxious to do
you a favor, introduce him to your
wife's mother.
Only when man is getting the best
of it will he admit that he is getting
the worst of it.
A woman has hard time convinc-
ing herself that her children could be
smarter than they are.
The woman who lives up to the ex-
pectations of her hired girl may be
reasonably sure of a harp and crown
in the hereafter,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

and Bryan will be wonderfully close.
It's peculiar political fact. or perhaps
it would be better to call it a coinct-
dence, that when the Republican ma
jority in a Vermont state election dur
ing a presidential year has fallen be-
low $4,000 the country has gone Demo-
cratic. This has happened but twice
since the Civil war, in 1884 and in 1897
the only times when the Democrats
have elected a president in all of that
period. The normal Republican ma
jority in Vermont in a state election Is
about 10000. This year the Republicans
carried the state by a little more than
$4,000. And the national Democratic
campaign managers are much encour-
aged therefor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most persons who own an oil can
banker for an automobile to go with it.
X x =
When many a woman's wealth of
hair is loosened it drops not to the
floor but on it.
x x
A man needn't worry as to whether
or not he will make a good husband.
His wife will attend to that
=
From the hardness of some men it's
reasonable to suppose that cement was
used in their making instead of dust.
= x X
It's rather thoughtless for a girl to
tell her f1ance that the engagement
ring he has given her is the most
beautiful one she ever had.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.
From the Philadelphia Record. ]

[From the Philadelphia Recordl
Going to the dogs-feas.
Wise is the man, who knowing lit
tie. says less.
Only a fool would guess at the age
of an egg or a woman.
Many a fellow feels high and NIGH
ty without taking tumble to himself.
Some people only mind their own
business when they have nothing else
to do.
The careful man takes pains with
his eating. The dyspeptic has his az
terward
The man who takes time by the
forelock doesn't have to jump at con-
illusions.
1t isn't SO reprehensible to steal a
mans thunder as to rob him of his
umbrella.
It doesn't seem to make the average
man any sharper to keep his nose to
the grindstone.
wigg-"B jones is the clumsiest fell
low ever saw" Wagg-"Yes, Bjones
can't even talk without making a
break"
Scribbler-"When l was writing my
novel 1 often found it quite impossible
to collect my thoughts Wigwag-
$50 I suppose you collected other peo-
ple's.'
There is nothing new under the
sum-" quoted the Wise Guy. "And yet
some people flatter themselves that
they are making new resolutions's
added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
AYHAWKER LOTS

A Glasco farmer, aged 73 years.
was out blowing this week with three
horses, aged II, Is and 20 years. The
boys and the colts are doing work on
adjoining farms.
Minneapolis has the baseball fever
TO such an extent that Presbyterian
minister. in introducing a visiting pas
tor, said: Brother Knox will snftch'
for us next Sunday"
The Hutchinson Commercial club
has published a handsome little book
setting forth, in picture and para
Vantages of the town.
Great excitement and wonder at
lola A diamond ring was found in
mead OF cabbage in a grocery store.
II hao been dropped there the day
petore by a woman customer.
While Mr.. and Mrs. George Robin
son, of Gypsum City were out milking
tne other night, lightning hit both
cows, and killed them instantly. Mr..
Robinson and his wife were stunned
but not seriously injured.
The Glen Elder Sentinel hardly
thinks the directoire gown will be-
come popular as it is proving a great
disappointment to the men. But the
Sentinel should remember that the
newest gown has a slit on both sides.
says the Salina Journal.
The Belott Call tells of an ear of
corn which was brought to its shop
the other day that contained "a rows
or kernels, averaging As kernels to
the row, and thereby making 1880
kernels of corn on this one ear. As
the Call says, that's a pretty fair
showing for "droughty Kansas
Wonders haven't ceased, not by a
mtllsite, observes the Wichita Eagle.
Leavenworth is to have a fair this
fall and the directors have adonted
resolutions directing the secretary to
ask the county attorney and other
authorities to prevent the sale of
liquor within one-half mile of the fair
grounds.
A farmer in western Kansas the
other day traded his farm for a. store,
and the Abilene Reflector adds: He
was summarily jerked before the pro-
bate judge and a jury after listening
to the evidence which showed his moor
business sense ordered him to the
asylum. They figured that no sane
man would do that"
A young man living near Atchison
was hunting in a haymow for eggs
recently. He put his hand in a nest
in dark corner and struck some
thing sleek and cold which moved. 1t
was blacksnake five feet and eleven
inches long. On returning to earth
after the jump he made the young
man killed the snake with a pitch
fork. Inside Of it was a whole egg
which 1t had swallowed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison G1ohe.


We do not like people who can guess
conundrums.
When a woman is Indifferent to the
size of her feet. 1t is a sign of old
age.
Occasionally there are two right sides
and two wrong sides to a question.
A girl who has been engaged a num-
Der of years always looks like a wo-
man who has been married
We never go to a party that we do
not wonder where all the men are com
Ing from to marry the girls present
Send a boy upstairs after anything.
and he viii yell out before he reaches
the top of the stairs, that he can't
find it.
Women imagine that old men sit
and sigh for lost loves, but it is nearer
the truth that they are signing over
wasted dollars.
What" say most wives to them
selves, glancing around the room, as
they hear their husbands coming up
the steps, will he find to scold about
this timer"
When a man plays amateur base
ball, it is a sign he thinks he is pretty.
or that he is a particularly good play
er, crowded out of the league by ieal-
Gus managers.
1t is getting so that man can't rest
secure in the possession of his rainy
day fund so long as anything is left
in either him or his wife that the doc
tors can cut out.
A 16 year old girl walks along the
street as though she owned the world,
and is going to get it, but as a rule,
she is going after five cents worth of
thread for her mother.
Instead of sitting down and counting
up how many days since your wife
said something nice to you, count up
how many weeks have elapsed since
you said something tender to her.
Big hats are no longer allowed in
theaters. Now there is talk of COM
polling women to do their hair up simp-
" when they attend public gatherings.
and leave pompadours. rats, waver,
etc, at home. A modern pompadour
obstructs the sight Of the person be-
hind 1t quite as much as q hat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

She-But would you still love me IL
you got rich? He-Don't be unreason-
able.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch-
YES said Mrs. Newrich. "I treat
my domestics as equals" And don't
they resent ftp" queried Mrs. Oldgold
Hamilton Spectator.
It is easier to be good than great"
Joined the demoralizer, "one has less
pposition."-Chicago Daily News.
Wasn't their divorce a shocking af-
fair?" said Mrs. Feathergilt. 'Tnex-
cusable," answered Mrs. Smartset.
They both had the most unfashion-
able lawyers they could find."-St.
Louis Republic.
Don't you enjoy the glories of sum
person: .it is something Of a comfort
to find the gas bills getting so much
smaller. "-Washington Star.
Couldn't yer git meal from dat
an asst FER fur it perlite as yer please
too" An didn't she say nthing'?"
Nav. she didn't say nothin' but saw
wood "-Philadelphia Press.
when is an expensive thing cheap9"
when it make all the people you don't
| like die of envy-"-Nashville American.
Mfllie," said the young man. as he
slipped the engagement ring on her fin
| ger, have you told your mother about
th1s? Oh, you innocent!" exclaimed
Miss Mile. why, Clarence, mamma
knew it six months before you did. -
| Chicago Tribune.
With Improvements.-Magi
So you acknowledge having stolen the
| overcoat. Anything more to say?
| have the sleeves relined.-Punch
Very Appropriate.-'My hair is fall
| ing out" admitted the tinid man in a
| drug store. Can you recommend
something to keep it in?" Certainly"
replied the obliging clerk. "Get a box"
I-Lppincott's Magazine.
Captious Customer want a piece
of meat without any bone, fat or
| gristle. Bewildered Butcher-Madam,
l think you'd better have an egg.-The
Sketch.
dramatically Speaking He can
| you explain to me the difference be-
| tween "shall'' and "wfll?" For exam
pie, if I say, will you marry me?"
| should you reply, Fl shalP' or "I wilI?"
She (coldly)-I should reply, at won't"
Home Herald
| Always an Army.-Father-wel
Tommy-Why isn't there ever a navy
OF the unemployed.-NewY York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Something out of the ordinary in the
way of a straw vote was accomplished
in Independence the other day. Four
teen knights of the road" alias "ho-
boes." alias 'tramps,'' were held up
and polled as to their choice for the
presidency. Twelve Of them declared
that they were emphatically and I'M
equivocally for Mr.. Bryan. But the
question naturally arises where will
these gentlemen discharge that in
alienable right of American citizenship
Of casting their votes?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACnEL Or.

LFrom the New York Pressl
One touch of fashion makes all wo-
men freaks.
When a man has a good disposition(
it's because he's afraid of his wife.
The only thing experience teaches il
that it isn't worth anything after Won
learn it.
It's rude to stare at a woman h,,,
it's positively insulting to act as If she
were not worth staring at
A girl can have more happiness
sleeping with mans photograph I'M
der her pillow than he can spendina
$4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

It win be q trifie more than bad luck
II Mr.. wa, the Chinese minister to the
United States, is recalled by his gov
eminent because Of some indiscreet re-
marks he has made inasmuch as the
guileless celestial declares that the
only indiscreet speeches and interviews
attributed to him are some which he
never made or gave out. Mr.. WI is the
most likeable Chinaman who has ever
visited these shores and has done much
to cement the present friendly feelings
which exist between China and the
United States. And it's to be hoped
that he will be permitted to remain
here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

From the scarceness of live news
which emanates from the various
headquarters of the Republican ma
tionaI campaign it would seem that
General Apathy and General Lethargy
predominant the situation at the pres
ent time. They've probably been mar
shalIed into their prominence by that
chap who has spoiled many of the
plans of mice and men, Colonel over
confidence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Rhode Island. staid of the staid, has
never been famous for producing any,
thing out of the ordinary heretofore,
unless it be Nelson AIdrich, boss of the
United States senate. But at last
there is a real "phenom' in her midst.
It's an infant twenty-five months old
who is an expert rifle shot. His father
has issued challenge to back his
prodigy in rifle contest with any boy
IN the world UP to twelve years old.
In this instance results have certainly
been accomplished in teaching the
young idea how to shoot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Mayor Busse, of Chicago, has taken
rather unusual and even drastic action
In the administration Of municipal at
fairs He has issued an ukase extend
ing the time for the wearing of straw
hats by men from September L to sep
hember 10. Thus is there additional
evidence that municipal authorities are
growing more and more paternal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Undoubtedly the statewide primary
law which was tested for the first time
in Kansas this summer needs amend
ing in a variety of ways. And it's
pleasing to note that it will be fixed
up by it's friends, inasmuch as it's most
bitter enemies are to be found among
the defeated candidates for the legis-
iature
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

The national campaign may now be
said to be on in all Of it's force. Tom
Hisgen has been officially notified of
his nomination for the presidency by
the party of 1.-The arts and sciences,
more Familiarity known as the indie
pendence party. And the members of
ndr. Hearst's political plaything show
ed themselves to be an optimistic lot
at the notification ceremonies. They
cheered Mr.. Hisgen as our next presi-
dent" But maybe those cheers re-
ferred to the presidency of the party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

managed the affairs, invited me to
visit them, and added: 1--WE are very
happy, and are getting along fine.
find it no trouble to manage, now
that I have some one to carry out my
plans, and Jerry is the best hand to
carry out plans 1 ever saw.''-(Copy-
righted, 1908, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Mrs. Bryan says that her son, Will
lam, is too young to think of marry
ing. That's what Mr.. Bryan said of
his eldest daughter some years ago
when her engagement was announced.
But it didn't make any difference with
her. She went right ahead and was
married. 1t remains to be seen what
the young man will do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

William Montgomery, a Pittsburg.
Pa, banker who is under arrest on q
charge of embezzling the small sum OF
s2,OOOOOO has his hands still sticky with
dough, although it is of a different
character from that which he has been
used to handling. He's helping to bake
the bread for his fellow prisoners in
the Jail where he is incarcerated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

It doesn't speak exceedingly well for
the management of the Havana post
office that populations which have been
going on since 1903 have but recently
been discovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Memories of the days when the grass
hoppers held full sway in sunny Kan
sas are brought to mind by the activi-
ties Of potato bugs in stalling eight
trolley cars near Bristol, Conn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

AS the result of the recent state cleo
tion in Vermont political wiseacres are
dguring that the contest between Taft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
QUADRENN1AL ODE.

Booming and booming like thunder, up
from the shores of the sea;
Down from the peaks of the mountains,
speeches and speeches there be;
son Of Ohio in action; pride of Nebraska
Jackass and pachydernn RAMPANT over
the Eabfested world:
Up from the banks of the Wabash, where
Out from the wood nutmeg forests,
rhetoric. gesture and boom;
Heaving of words on split eardrums. mil
ossa on. Pelion lifted-blest is a people
so free!
Near every crossroads and hamlet, by
every coulee and creek,
Banners and badges and buttons, barrels
with bunghOleS aleak.
Streams of mad eloquence flowing; oceans
or speech dashed to foam,
All for the glory of country. all for the
Flags. swapping out from the steeples;
lions of logic unclaimed,
Char1ots creaking and swaying, steeds
Posters. and torches and streamers;
bulletins. bunting, and band:
All for the cause of the people, all for
the love Of the land!
Oaks of the forest uprooted, sea walls
Valleys all wind swept and beaten,
shreiking of traitors in pain;
Cyclones Of promises whirling, blasting
tornadoes of speech;
Sin fleeing madly for shelter, cannons red
hot at the breech:
Canister, grape, steel, and bullet; hys-
teric platform and pen:
smile climax. CONFUSION. over and over
Orator. spellbinder: prophet, tomtom, and
hewgag and horn,
sounding the pledges of party to living
and dead and unborni
Knee deep in words and franked speeches,
ears full of clamor and din;
Woe to the child of the people, swept
by tempestuous chin;
Tossing in seas of persuasion, argument,
logic. and threat;
Beaten. bOmbarded, and battered; imbecile
soon, but not yet
Skies split with luminous nghtnings, cliffs
tumbled into the sea;
Antics, gyrations, gynnastics-aIl that the
people be freei
Cymbals and tocsins and slogans; twilight
and midday and morn:
Blest be the people forever-living and
dead and unborn!
j. w. Foley in the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
The Tactful Doctor.

A physician in small town in
northern Michigan got himself into a
serious predicament by his inability to
remember names and people. One day,
while making out patients receipt,
his visitors name escaped him. Not
wishing to appear so forgetful. and
thinking to get a clew, he asked her
whether she spelled her name with an
e or l. The lady smilingly replied,
"Why, doctor, my name is HILL
Success Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Couldn't yer git a meal from dat
woman?' asked Weary Walker. Nav,
an asst 'er fur it perlite as yer please
too" AN didn't she say nthing' %
Nav, she didn't say nothin' but saw
wood "-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
HUAOR OF THE DAY

She-But would you still love me II
you got rich? He-Don't be unreason-
able.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

when is an expensive thing cheap?'
ut never is" Yes, indeed" "when?'
When it make all the people you don't
like die of envy."-Nashville American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

With Improvements.-Mag
So you acknowledge having stolen the
overcoat. Anything more to say?
Prisoner-Yes, Your Honor. 1 had to
have the sleeves relined.-Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Mile" said the young man, as he
slipped the engagement ring on her fin
ger, have you told your mother about
this?" ''Oh, you Innocent" exclaimed
Miss Millie why, Clarence. mamma
knew it six months before you did,
Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Very Appropriate.-''My hair is fall
ing OUT admitted the timid man in a
drug store. Can you recommend
something to keep it in?" Certainly"
replied the obliging clerk Get a box. ="
-Lippincott's Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Don't you enjoy the glories of sum-
mer?" Yes" answered the unpoetic
person; sit is something OF a comfort
to find the gas bills getting so much
smaller. "-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

1t is easier TO be good than great,
remarked the mora1izer. Yes" re
Joined the demoralizer, lone has les
opposition. Chicago Daily News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Captious Customer-I want a piece
of meat without any bone. fat or
gristle. Bewildered Butcher-Madam,
l think you'd better have an egg.-The
Sketch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Yes" said Mrs. Newrich, "I treat
my domestics as equals" ''And don't
they resent ftp queried Mrs. Oldgold
Hamilton Spectator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

Wasn't their divorce a shocking af-
fair?" said Mrs. Feathergilt. 'tInex-
cusable," answered Mrs. Smartset.
They both had the most unfashion-
able lawyers they could find."-St.
Louis Republic.