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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

The first offense. of man was eating
the fruit of the forbidden tree of
knowledge. And that crime has been
continued by canning that fruit for
common use.
Education nowadays means chiefly a
mere cultivation of the memory
through which great stores of facts
may be accumulated. The process not
only fails to develop the true intellect
but 1t is fatal to the little mind that is
left. One result is that insanity dou-
bles every ten years.
Real training of the intellectual fac
ulties is not unlike that of the body.
A man is given a tool. or set of tools,
and is trained to their use. What is
the good of a shop full of tools to the
man who cannot use one of them. And
what is the good of a cyclopedia stored
in the head to a man who cannot use
a single fact therein contained?
To forget-wen, as a latter day bust
ness proposition it doesn't seem daz-
cling at first thought, to be sure. But
forgetfulness has it's blessings. besides
which the feats of memory are gray
and uncertain shadows.
To forget, to sift facts, to retain a
few essential ones, and to know how to
apply them to life is the secret OF VIC
torious and happy living.
"Of the making of books there is no
end" and most that is put to print
in them isn't So And most of the rest
isn't worth while.
So there's the pity-the nonforget-
full, who try to store away in the brain
cells everything, from the trivial to the
important, load themselves down with
a lot of stuff that would better be for
gotten, down so completely with ideas
of other men that they have crushed
out all originality and proved useless
burden.
The bore who can't forget infests ev-
cry circle, makes existence wearisome,
and sooner or later has his mail ad-
dressed to Iunatic asylum.
To forget, is quite as important as to
remember.
was Napoleon-and went down at Wa
terloo. Caesar was overwhelmed with
the ever-present memory that there
was but one of him and others would
not stand for it.
This is no plea for the dullard who
cannot remember, but a suggestion for
the Understanding and self-acting man
"a word for the far-sighted who know
what to remember and what to forget.
and who have nerve enough to give the
forget" the long end of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
NYHlWKER JOTS

A new band stand is to be added to
the educational facilities at Lindsborg.
The well being put down at Dodge
City to find oil or gas has resulted in
encouraging conditions"
Atchison has finally discovered that
its coal mine is failure. Every other
town in the state knew it some time
ago, says the Wichita Eagle.
A Lawrence woman offers a reward
for the return of her nose glasses"
and the Emporia Gazette thinks that
probably she can't smell without them.
IAN Emporia man. the Gazette
says. ''thoughtlessly left an ear of corn
out of doors last night, and the rain
came along early this morning and
saved it,"
1t is intended to have push BALI
replace football as the game at Baker
university. Why not humble peg, or
is that too dangerous? inquiries the
Hutchinson News
To be clean in mind and body, to
be neatly dressed, to be polite and
agreeable, while making yourself like
able, and to live as near as you can
single qualities that admit you to So
ciety.-Eldorado Republican.
The BARRIERS at Lawrence have been
trying to raise the price of a shave
from ten to fifteen cents. but haven't
had much luck. Some of them refuse
to join the crusade, and the others
don't want to try it alone. So it pays
to go to Lawrence to have ones
whiskers harvested, remarks Walt Ma
son.
Three ministers wanted to cross the
river at Leavenworth to attend re-
vivaI at place which boosted of no
regular ferry. Brother Styles and
Brother Beamish weighed at least two
hundred pounds apiece, but their com
panion was a mite of man weighing
scarcely one hundred. They got a
boatman to take them over, but in
mid stream q severe thundershower
came up and the waves threatened to
capsze the boat.
Brother Styles" said Brother
Beamish, "I think we had better join
in prayer"
do you though % shouted the boat
man. "Wall, I say you don't! You two
big ones come here an lend hand
at the oars-an' let the skinny fellow
pray."-Kansas City Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
KANSAS COMMENT
ON THE CHAIN GANG.

The Atchison Globe is of the opinion
that something will have to be done
right away to discourage the drunk
ards of that town. 1t says:
Something should be done to the
naoltual drunkards who are arrested
DAY after day. When they are in Jail
they cost the city money, as it has to
pay out 10 cents a meal for each meal
they eat, and they eat three times a
Jay regularly. They do not do more
imam 70 cents worth of work a day on
the rock pile. They are absolutely
Worthless. Why not put them on the
chaln gang, and make them clean the
streets! No matter how clean the
streets are kept, they can always be
mace little cleaner. If some of these
habltual drunkards were chained to-
gether. and made to clean the streets,
tney would soon learn to be afraid of
the station. Working on the rock pile
ISN'T hard work, and it isn't particu-
iar!y humiliating, as the men are kept
inside the Jail yard. Fear of humilia-
ton viii do whole lot in keeping men
straight"
having rounded up all the old soaks,
ana put them to work on the streets,
II may De hoped that the Atchison au-
tnofltles VIII set good example to
oLner towns and award punishment
Where II belongs, by putting chains on
-tASAA VA SO1Q the To The
haoltuaI drunkards,'' and putting
them to work on the streets as we'll.
IL the sellers of booze don't. want to
associate with the consumers of
booze, they might be permitted to form
a separate chain gang.
The real offenders in most of the
police court tragedies are not the dis
heVeled wrecks who are sentenced to
the chain gang; they are the people
who deliberately sell the poison to
men who are known to be drunkards;
these people often dwell in palatial
homes, and wear fine raiment, and like
to be classed as Prominent Citizens
but they are far more despicable. far
more worthy of a place in the chain
gang, than their victims.
The offense of the seller of drink,
whether he is druggist or jointist. is a
hundred times worse than the offense
OF the consumer; the latter yields to
an overmastering passion as strong
as the desire for life in a drowning
sailor; the former yields to his greed
for money, no matter how dirty the
money may be.
Every day, in every considerable
town in Kansas the John Does and
Richard Roes are being locked in cells
or sent to the rock heap for drinking
liquor; the men who sell the liquor re-
ceive no punishment until the state
goes after them. Lock a few of the
law-defying druggists in Jail, or put
chains on their legs, and work them in
the streets, and drinking will be re-
duced one-half in twenty-four hours
Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Somehow, you hate to tell a man
he can't spell.
Being polite is not much of an
effort until some dull person insists
upon telling his jokes.
No matter how young you are,
there are always those who think you
are old enough to know better.
When women say they under
stand" the men, they mean they can't
be fooled by any of their meanness
What your friends call your
strength of character" your enemies
are likely to call downright mean
ness"
What has become of the old fash
toned family in which visit from
grandmother from neighboring
town always preceded the arrival of
baby?
From the time a boy sits under a
street corner electric light playing
with toads, until he is blind and
toothless, he has to account to some
woman why he didn't come home
earlier.
A man buys a home, supports his
wife in comfort, and is good to her,
but when he leaves the house in the
morning to go down to earn more
money TO pay her bills. and doesn't
kiss her goodbye, the neighbors say
he doesn't care for her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
QUAKER MEDTTATToNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Push and pull are hard pair To
beat.
Whisky must be drunk before II can
make a man that way.
The man who can afford a good
press agent can get along without
genius.
Trouble is one of the things OF which
there Is always enough to 20 around.
1t takes a great deal of experienc.
ior q Leliow 10 ran In love and land on
Fewer flowers to the dead and a NJ
tie more charity to the living vvo,,id
help some.
The social climber is anxious IN -
to heaven, because that's whore ali ar
best PEOPLE go.
The pessimist doesn't worry aho,,4
the uncertainties of life: he exnects
the worst, anyhow.
Blobbs-"Are they hauniiv y,ar-,oa .,,
Slobbs-"Weli. you can FORM SoT,. g.
when tell you that he rnsrriad 80
for her money ana she msrriad HE. -
reform him." ' ="
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
Substitute for the Divlnine Rod

Firm as his faith in ''rose-back. ="
pigs is the farmers faith in divining
rods. All laws of nature to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, he explains. ST
believe it because I seen it," He will
tell you how underground rivuIets
have been discovered by it on his own
farm, and how, just at the blessed
spot, down tipped the rod. Interesting
though this is, as a contribution to
folk lore, real and soundly scientific
interest attaches to the new substitute
for the divining rod-the acoustele
The thing is a sort of stethoscope. One
end of it goes a few inches into the
earth; the other end is provided with
an acoustical trumpet. You listen. If
there's water tinkIing down below, you
hear it, Naturally you apply the
acoustele only in places where water
seems likely to be. Otherwise you can
wander around all day with only the
satisfaction of initiating an American
president who sought high leading by
keeping his ear to the ground.-Bos-
TON Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
THE PIE AT STAKE.

The Republican state central COM
mittee gives a number of good reasons
why the Republicans of Kansas should
vote their ticket. And this is one of
them that should make political re-
formers sit up and take notice:
The chief reason why the Republi-
can ticket should carry Kansas this
year is because the Republican plat
form stands for all the reforms the
people ask and the ticket is composed
of men who talk the kansas Ian
guage." But there is an incidental
reason also why the ticket should be
elected. To give the state over to the
Democrats would take bread and but
ter from the mouths of hundreds of
Republicans and their families. For
instance. it would give the Democrats
five places in the governors Office.
eight in the secretary of states, eight
in the auditors, nine in the treasur-
er's, five in the attorney generals, Sc
in the insurance. 80 in subordinate
places around the state house, six in
the superintendent of schools 10 in the
bank commissioners at least Sc in
the supreme court and, in case of a
vacancy during the term of the COVER
nor, 1t would give the court over to the
Democrats with % places all told, one
in the architects, Sc in the board of
control, II regents of, the three state
educational institutions, 107 in the
penitentiary, At in the refOrmatory, So
in the state grain inspection depart
ment, with about so local inspectors
on fees, four in the medical registra-
ton board, Sc in the state board of
education, five in the live stock sani-
tary department, six at the Dodge City
Soldiers home, three in the state
printing plant, two in the dairy de-
partment, four in the state tax COM
state charitable stitutions-Hutchin-
son News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
from the Chicago News.1

rFrom the Chicago NeWs.I
Criticism is the friend of success.
An occasional failure doesn't dis
courage a hustler
The love of money is the easiest OF all
roots to cultivate.
A woman says that all men may De
equal. but none are superior
The wise man who has good opin-
Ton of himself keeps 1t to himself.
IFS easy for man to get to the
swift class If he's on the down grade.
beware of the little fellows. MOS
ouitoes are more bloodthirsty than IL
There is something missing from
mans makeup if he doesn't love chill
dren. ..,, 9;
dine to her continuous efforts TO nave
her way. ,.,, ,a5
If makes a pretty girl hopping mao
If a Young man declines to dance at
tendance upon her.
At some period in mans life ne
6rnolv believes that all his friends have
eonspired to inture him.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned young man whom the girls useo
to say was too slow to eaten coid!
Occasionally a man is so suspicious
that he imagines you are trylng to
poison his dog every time you throw
him a bone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

To Looie Linkenfusser. vich ISIS on
der wing. Postmaster bleas forwards
py wireless.
Lieber Looie:-You remember you
hat peen alder me for a long time to
connection you NIT a chob, und I hat
peen ge-spraining my neck trying to
Last night id came to me, und I hol-
ty,-I hat discofered i'd. Looie ISIS cut
ted oudt fer air-shippist." So I make
hastenings to wroten you aboudt 10.
Catch der feirsd freight fer Washing
ton, und ven you gedt dere, ask der
way to Fort Myers. Dere you will md
a chob Waiting fer you. But beheps
you Wit der chob, but id ISIS easier. Nit
dose "heafier-den-air" flying macheens
you hat der only real. niggle- plated
skinch on record. Again Wy? Pecaus
you are so full IF Wind dot you hat
got der laws uf grahtation tide to
der fence und der harness on Id. III
you dropped, you would nod fall. You
could svoop around like baird nit
oudt dancher. You see der troubles
NIT Misder Wright, ISIS, dot vile he ISIS
all Wright odervise. he ISIS a silendt
man. und haf fiddle to said. Derefore
he ISIS differendt from you. pecaus der
tonnage uf his brain alone would push
down der CRAFTY vorser den your Whole
carcass. He can svoop. too. but he hat
a hallufa time ad der end uf der svcop.
Id ISIS nod der s-oop vich hurts, i'd ISIS
der sudden stoppency dereof.
Also. Looie, uf you need u ussist-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

will hardly be counted in comparison
with the amount that has not been
touched
Twenty billion tons is a vast amount
of coal The total production of coal
of all descriptions in the United
States in 1906, which is the latest re-
port that is at hand, shows that it was
less than one-fifth of the amount here
given as available in this newly dis
covered area, to say nothing of the
amount yet undiscovered. And this
is but one instance of what may be
repeated. This is a big world, and
much of 1t is an unknown region, es-
pecially so far as it's mineral products
are concerned. Coal has more than
once been found in the most unex-
pected places, and on many occasions
regions which had been known for
centuries without any thought that
they contained coal, have developed
rich deposits. This is possible in many
places not yet investigated. There
may be vast coal, fields in the yet un-
discovered parts of the earth, as well
as in those regions where man has not
facts and possibilities are considered
and when further consideration is
given to the wonderful developments
of modern times in the way of pro-
ducing light, heat and power without
coal it may reasonably be concluded
that the general freezing of humanity
will be postponed for many years to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

Queer things come out of bottles
pink elephants, creepy lizards, black
bugs, red giraffes, hobgoblins, etc. But
not even an extra long session with q
quart of "forty-rod" has ever been
known to produce live rat from a
bottle. Yet, UP III prohibition Maine,
there's a sure enough, liv.rg rat in a
beer bottle Wilbur Meady, of Ran
6oInh. has the curiosity. The beer
bottle has a small neck, and the rat
must have crSwled into It about as
soon as he could move. for although
he is only three inches long now. he
cannot get out again. The Kennebec
journal vouches for the yarn.-New
York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some self-made men are certainly
most curious pieces of handiwork.
X X X
It's easy enough to fool a person but
the difficulty is to keep him fooled.
x X
A man might as we'll confide in his
wife in all things as she is sure to find
them out eventually.
X X y
Experience would be much more
valuable If it could be sold for some
thing like what it cost.
X X
Conservatives are not likely to be
as popular as they once were now that
it has been discovered that plants have
eyes and memories.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
FINDING MORE COAL.

Periodically-and sometimes oftener
it is told that the supply of coal
for fuel cannot last a great while
longer. The statisticians, reasoning
from the estimated quantity of coal
in the deposits now known and avail
able, and the annual consumption as
shown by the reports, can with some
degree of accuracy figure out the
length of time that the supply will
last. Thus they profess to be able
to tell about how long it will be until
there is no more coal available and
people will have to find other means
of warming themselves or freeze.
And yet, after. these gloomy pre-
dictions have been put in circulation
and persons have begun to feel sym
pathy for the shivering mortals who
are to come after them, here comes
the news of the discovery of a. new
coal deposit in some unexpected place.
One of the latest is that hitherto I'M
known deposit has been discovered
in British Columbia, near the states
of washington and Montana, which is
reported as being practically mex
haustible" and already railroads are
being built into that region so that
this coal may be speedily made avail
able for the world. 1t is told that Dr.
Selwyn, q prominent and well-inform-
ed member of the Dominion Geologi-
cal department of Ottawa, estimates
that there are twenty-five billion tons
of coal available as soon as transport
tation is ready, and further than that
when that amount has been mined it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
FROM OTHER PENS
THE STUDY OF CHILDHOOD.

The western woman who COM
planned that, while the national gov
eminent was ready to advise her hus-
band concerning the proper care of his
hogs, it was not prepared to help her
in the care and training of her chill
dren, was not giving way to neces-
sarfly vain regrets, for the guidance
she sought will be furnished if the
proposal Of the national child labor
committee, with headquarters in New
York, is enacted into law,
The tendency of modern progressive
government is toward more intimate
service in behalf of the people. 1t may
be called paternalism. but if properly
exercised it is at once so serviceable
and so inoffensive that the public well
comes it. The problems that deal with
childhood are of the utmost impor-
lance to society since our citizenship
of tomorrow is recruited from the
ranks of the boys and girls of today.
No nation that is careless of its chill
dren can hope long to survive. The
proposed new bureau would be under
the direction of an expert with the
prestige and resources of the govern
ment behind him for the promotion of
health, vigor and general efficiency of
the children of the nation.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
VICTORY.

Her face was scratched and battered
Her hair was wildly scattered,
Her dress was torn and tattered,
From hef form
Ifle maid was almost strangled.
her pompadour was tangled,
Her hat 1t hung and dangled.
So forlorn.
She surely was unsightly.
5he been 1ostled most unrightly,
But she held her bundle tightly.
Without fail
Lo. and when the strife was vented.
a1lni09ugn her pocket-book was dented.
Still. she walked away contented.
From this Sale
June Bohemian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.l

from the New York Press.
A man who will admit he's a liar
generally isn't as big one as the
fellow who won't.
No matter how smart mans wife
thinks he is he knows ne is a great
deal more.
The thing that inspires man to
want public Office is how he hates
to work for his living.
If a woman had to choose between
good figure and a good complexion
she would decide for the curly hair.
There would be no objection to peo-
pie thinking how smart they are If
they would keep it to themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

Castro does not seem to be in such
a bad plight as vas thought at first
when it was announced that the
Dutch had made up their minds to
teach him a much needed lesson in
international courtesy. 1t appears
that the interests of England and
Germany in Venezuela are such that
they will use their best efforts to pre-
vent Holland from Carrying out her
intentions on the premises. Castro
was certainly born under a lucky
star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

Mr.. Bryan now charges that the steel
trust is financing Mr.. Taft's campaign.
The chances are that Mr.. Bryan has
been misinformed for there is a federal
law prohibiting corporations from MAX
ing campaign contributions and the
Republican managers would hardly
dare to take any corporate money even
If corporations could be found who
were willing to take the risk of violat-
ing the law in this regard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

That is a pleasant dream that the
delegates to the nterparliamentary
Union, now in session at Berlin, are
INDUCING in. 1t is of a universal peace
among the nations of the earth. Moth
ing could be more desirable but moth
ing is more improbable as long as the
affairs of nations are administered by
human beings which will likely con-
tinue as long as the world is in ex-
fstence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

1t is apparent that the struggle for
aeroplane records during the imme-
diate future will be confined to the
Wright brothers. Wilbur Wright
smashed to smithereens the European
records for these mechanical birds in
a flight near Paris the other day. But
his feat is nothing compared to those
which have been accomplished in this
country by his brother, Orville
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

world with their successful aerial navi-
cation. They will be done with hello
copters. Is it asking too much of Mr..
Edison to have him explain just what
a heIiocopter is?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

So accustomed are the consumers
to high and increasing prices in most
OF the necessities of life that the
news that potatoes will be high this
winter will hardly be noticed by them.
And it may be said that if any news
did come along telling of low prices
for anything there's many a one of
the common herd who would drop
dead from the sudden surprise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

The death of Giovanni P. Morosini.
the millionaire Italian banker of New
York, recalls the fact that he is sur
vived by a daughter who stated re-
Gently that she needs 100000 a year
for her wardrobe. That hardly comes
within the classification Of pin-money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

If Helen Maloney. the daughter of the
Philadelphia millionaire. entered into
one of her unusual marriages or esca-
pades for the purpose of thwarting the
plans Of her parents to have her marry
a titled foreigner. as she says, the
young woman has more sense than she
has previously been credited with.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

archist, has decided to make lecture
tour in Australia. She says that since
the American fleet has been so royalty
welcomed by the Australians she
feels confident that the publisher of
Mother Earth will receive no less a re-
ception. This may be set down as a
fine sample of woman's logic.