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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
JAYHAWKER JOTS

After the Thanksgiving football game
the Salina Journal doesn't care what
happens until it grows warm enough
to play baseball.
A Pratt man took his bulldog to
Cunningham last week for dog fight.
The bull whipped his opponent and four
others. So pleased was Cunningham
with the defeat that they bought the
victor, who is now champion bulldog of
that section.
Evidently Larned has been a trif1e
fast. The Chronoscope prints the puz-
zle: The new time, which has been
so much talked about lately, went into
ERECT Tuesday noon, when all who
wished to be posted on railroad time
in this region set their clocks and
watches back nine minutes.
The Augusta Gazette humorizes as
follows: over at Sedan, where the Mis-
souri, Pacific runs one passenger train
every "a hours and sometimes misses a
day or two, the cows thought Bryan
had been elected until the afternoon of
the eighth day following the election.
The hotels were without butter for the
noon meal on Wednesday of last week.
When the mail came in after dinner the
residents rushed to the country and in
formed the cows that Taft had won,
and the COWS evidently gave down pure
butter, as there was an abundance for
supper"
1t has been interesting to the writer
of this to note the departure from sal
aried positions into the field of per-
sonal newspaper work of many young
newspaper and INSTRUMENTATION
within the past two years, in this state.
First, there was Frank FARRELL, who
bought the Holton Signal. Then Jess"
Leach broke away and got his Bartles-
vile Enterprise, remaining just as near
the state line as possible. Then z. G.
Hopkins took in the Wellington Mail.
The writer believes he was next. A lit
tie earlier than Frank farrell, or about
the same time, Ralph Tennel left Ed
Howe's Globe and bought the Sabetha
Herald. B. F. Culley, Charley Scott's
secretary, has bought the Olathe Mir
ror, and L. E. Wallace. former secre-
tary to Mr.. Scott and former manager
of the lola Register, has also. embark
ed on the uncharted sea. Charley
Blakesley and Charley Sessions are
keeping their eyes peeled and working
up their nerve as they count their
money every night and have scouts out
looking for locations. These and 9TH
ers will contribute much to successful
work and successful Kan
sas-building in the years to come
Ralph Faxon in his Garden City Tele-
gram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
JOURNAL. ! ENTRIES

Tramps and hoboes may be properly
defined as being passive altruists.
X X y
Figuratively speaking, a person has
to tip a waiter when he turns him
down.
X X
It is just as human for some folks
to do things right as It is for others
to err.
Wealth may not bring true happi-
ness and the same may be said with
quite as much truth of poverty.
X X =
A remark was overheard the other
day that these ruffs of lace the girls
are wearing give them a charlotte
russo effect. True, If they are girls
with soft, sweet faces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
THE PRESIDENTIAL MANTLE.

Ever since the nomination of Mr..
Taft forethe presidency there has been
more or less talk among certain men
that on assuming the presidential Of
fee Mr.. Taft would in reality become
nothing more than Mr.. Rooseyelt's
puppet. OF course. the persons who
have been intimately acquainted with
Mr.. Taft's character, with its many
sterling qualities, have discounted such
fears as this with opinions to the con-
trary.. And those who have had the
privilege of merely meeting Mr.. Taft
have been impressed with the idea that
he is not of the mould of man to be
dictated to by others, even by Mr..
Roosevelt who played such great part
in securing his nomination and election.
Also, are there plenty of good grounds
to believe that Mr.. Roosevelt has no
Taft will pursue.
But perhaps the best quietus that has
been given to the approximations of this
sort is found in words from Mr.. Taft
himself, which are made public for the
first time. it is believed. in the Deem
Der issue of The Worlds Work. 1t is
little story but an impressive one. 1t
narrates the incidents of an interview
that Mr.. Taft had during the campaign
with group of weakened financial
magnates."
They frankly asked him. so the
story goes. 'if he were Mr.. Roosevelt's
man." and he is reported to have said
something like this:
You pious gentlemen, of course,
know the Scriptures, and you recall the
story of EIijah's mantle falling on Eli
sha?'"
Yes they said.
Well, take down your Bible and
read it again and see if it is anywhere
written that Elisha wore the MANTLE"
Further comment on this subject is
unnecessary unless it is that which is
given in. single sentence by the edi-
tor of The Worlds Work in saying:
1.-The mantle will be becoming on oc-
casions. but so big man has garments
of his own"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.l
There are no vacations in the school
for scandal.
Nothing prospers like a frenzied A.
nancier-for a time.
The less account dog is the more a
boy thinks of him.
How we dislike to accept a favor
from a person we dislike!
The easier 1t is to get married the
harder 1t is to stay married.
After man makes the opportunity the
opportunity may make him.
The girl who doesn't fancy work is
apt to acquire the fancy-work habit.
Most of a woman's thoughts are
about as high above the earth as her
hat.
If a man is honest you can always
tell 1t bv the way he doesn't talk about
1t.
Some young men seem to think it bet
ter to have loved and lost than never
to have lost at all. ..-.s. ,--.e
It isn't safe to judge by appearances.
The man who acts ferocious abroad
NAV be as meek as a lamb at home.
Some men seem to enjoy getting the
short end of it occasionally so that they
will have an excuse for registering a
kick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
BALLADE OF FAT LADIES.

Lean ladies. straight from sole to crown,
Do all our modern modes invent,
The princess and directoire gown,
And straight-front things. and, not con-
tent.
Their ingenuity is bent
To fabricate a monStrOuS hat,
For thin. ethereal beauties meant
There are no fashions for the fat.
STYLE looks with its severest frown
On plumpnesS of the least extent,
To put its first pretens1Qns down;
1t seems its mission. Heaven sent
To make the buxom lass torment
Her most becoming plumpness flat,
Nor heed her torture consequent
There are fashions for the rat.
1t is a matter of renown
That were all other sorrows blent,
Within this many-sorrowed town,
They have not hearts SO crushed and
bent
With woes that nothing can prevent
Nor grieves as those who grieve for
that:
Their lives In one regret are spentl
There are no fashions for the fat
LENVOI.
Oh Goddess. most omnipotent,
Whose mandate no one may combat,
Heed all these tears and prayers; repent,
Decree some fashion for the fat.
Saturday Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

been treated, or rather maltreated, in
the Kansas penitentiary surely reads
mighty fierce. If the charges that the
woman makes, who is said to be re-
sponsible for the report, are anywhere
near true practices are committed on
prisoners in this states prison that are
tame in comparison with those which
prevailed during the times of the
Spanish Inquisition. If these charges
are brought forth in proper and Of
fetal manner, as they most certainly
should be If there is anything on
which to base them. thorough investi-
cation of the management of the states
penitentiary and the handling of the
prisoners in it is made mandatory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
FOOTBALL FATALITIES.

AS the American football season
draws near the close, the usual mortali-
ty and casualty statistics are presented
for the consideration of parents, guar
dams and other persons intimately re-
lated to the players. The latter themselves
it may be inferred, are not particularly
interested in this gruesome branch of
the subject. Studying the comparative
scores and figuring the chances of sue
cess and failure occupy their time suf-
ficiently when they are not actually en-
gagged on the gridiron. Thus far in 1908,
it appears, 10 football players have been
killed and 272 injured. The number of
those injured is the largest since 1904,
when the figure was 296, but many
games remain to be played, and even
this record may be exceeded. The sea-
son of 1905, with its "a deaths, still holds
the record for ghastliness.
1t may as well be conceded that no
effort to abolish football is going to sue
coed. The game has made firm place
for itself, and not only in college life.
The enormous attendance at every I'M
portant game in the east or west shows
the hold 1t has attained upon the Amer
lean public. Football is an innuent1al
factor in the development OF robust
manhood and in strengthening both
physical and moral courage, and there
are studies in the college curriculum
which might better be spared. But TINS
is not saying that the game requires
no reforming. The mortality ana acci-
dent tables show that there Is lmpera-
tive need for amending the metnods OF
pIay.-Pittsburg Gazette-Times-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
QUAKER SOLICITATIONS.

CFrom the. Philadelphia Record.J
Words of cheer-"Rahi Rah! Rah-"
(. All the people who pose are not
models by any means.
He who dances must pay the piper,
unless he blows his own horn.
The girl who marries without love
deserves a divorce without allmony.
When a fellow goes broke 1t is dim-
cult for him to save even his peace OF
mind.
When a girl is about Is she meets
the only man she ever loved ABOUT
once a month.
A man doesn't always know VINO his
friends are, but his enemies generauy
declares themselves.
Scribbler-"I'm going to call my
new play, The Live Wire SeraWler
E"Is IT so shocking as all that?"
IT is difhcult to conceive that a wo-
man is more graceful than a man
when you see her alighting from
trolley car.
No. Maude, dear; it isn't absolutely
necessary for a fellow to climb down
from the water wagon TO get In the
swim.
The .people who never get to the top
might console themselves with the
thought that it would have made them
dizzy anyhow.
seWea1th doesn't bring true happf-
ness quoted the wise Guy. yes.
hut lots of US would be satisfied with a
GOOD imitation" added the Simple
Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

wired him to have the clergyman picked
a., Phil" she cried, her face burning
nush! shan't listen to you"
come without listening then said
ne. one thing is certain. I'm not go
ing 70 move one step until you promise
SIX months. but tonight in the Deans
'front.' parlor, with Jimmy and his mother
suddenly the girl covered her face with
ner hands and began to sob. Holt looked
contrition. S'uNS u
There; there. Margaret" he said at
abont h didn't mean to be a brute
+h The girls face was lifted. She smiled
PhiL you stupid laundering man. said
s sor; It's pecause-well. because I'm not
run. along and get a cab to rake ne .s ~
Jnini Deans; III be ready at half
past +N i;.-(Copyrighted, 1905 by As
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rFrom the New york Press.

rF'rom the New York Press.
No other people have to meet such
keen and so much competition as liars.
The average person can get more
genuine joy out of a grievance than
out of a blessing.
A woman would rather a man made
love to her without meaning it than
mean it without making love to her.
If the place where woman keeps
the sheets and pillow cases is only an
old box she can respect it by calling it
the linen closet.
When a woman has a son it's sign
she Is going to make her plans, before
he is out of his cradle, for the day
when he becomes president 1873 rs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
FRON OTHER PENS
FINE ARTS 5000 YEARS AGO.

FINE ARTS 5000 YEARS AGO. 2
In an interesting and extraordinar-
lily complete collection of ancient
Egyptian amulets which has just been
placed on exhibition in the Brooklyn
Institute museum are some work of
art which would do credit to the most
skilful of our modern sculptors. When
it is considered that many of these
were made as early as 5000 B. c., and
some of them as far back as 5000 B.
C.-before even Abraham was born
one cannot but wonder what sort
of civilization must have existed in
those days. There is the face of a
Honess carved in stone that. would do
credit to Barge; there are tiny bronze
figures of Isis, Osiris and Horus that
are as perfect in their proportions and
as strong in their conception as any
of the masterpieces of Rodin; there
are alligators, turtles, cats and other
animals which resemble nothing so
much as the best work of the Japan
csc, and there are carved jades and
turquoises which Boutet de Monvel
or any of the present day designers
of jewelry in Paris might take as their
models.
In arranging this probably unique
wisely placed in the very center of
one of the cases a pair of the chisels
with which such carvings were made,
chisels that he says, are 5000 years
old, and they are made of copperi
The metallurgist of today who could
so temper copper as to make CHS
ell of it would not only earn fortune,
but would hand his name down to
posterity alongside of that of Besse-
mer, yet he would but be reviving an
art which was a commonplace to these
Egyptians, and probably to the ances-
tors of our own American Indians
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

The Washburn lads are evidently
made of the right kind Of material
Scarcely have the echoes of rather
unsuccessful season on the football
field had time to pass away before
they are busy with talk and plans for
the organization of a team for next
year which will prove to be winner.
Young men of this optimistic caIiber
are never down and out very long on
the gridiron or anywhere else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

Rain and snow in northwestern
Kansas furnishes an opportunity for
the singing of that old but welcome
song that the wheat crop is saved" in
that section of the state at least. Still
1t is long time until harvest and the
chances are that alarmists and others
will have the crop killed at least a
dozen times before it gets it's full life
and is again finally recorded as a
bumper crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

Alaska the principal merchandise sent
to the United State is salmon, copper,
and furs, and the merchandise sent
from the United States is manufac-
lures of cotton, wooden goods. iron and
steel manufactures, mineral oils, bread
stuffs. meats, tobacco manufactures,
wines, liquors, and spirits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

These are the times when a good
many folks, more especially the young
er ones, are counting the days until
Christmas. But among them are not
the politicians. They are counting the
days until Mr.. Roosevelt will retire
from office and when there will be
many positions to be filled by the
faithful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

One step has been taken toward per-
Hecting an organization to work for
the establishment of the state fair in
Topeka. The Manufacturers and Job
hers association has named it's repre-
gentatives to serve on the committee
which is to be entrusted with this i'm
portant task. The other necessary
steps for the completion Of this COM
mittee should be taken at once for
there is no time to lose and the job
at hand is no small one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

In President Roosevelt's recent ad-
dress, incident to laying the corner
stone of the colored Y. NJ. c. A. build
ing at Washington, he told the white
men that all races must have the same
opportunity to advance. Probably no.
body will be found to take the negative
side of this argument. but it may be
remarked in all spirit of fairness and
truth that many people appear to be
reluctant to take advantages of the op-
portunities presented to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

Congressman "Vic" Murdoch of this
state is reported to be on the warpath
in Washington on a hunt for Mr.. Can
mons scalp and if he gets it he will
not have anything like the fine trophy,
literally speaking, that would dangle
from Uncle Joe's' belt in the event
that the speaker instituted successful
reprisals. Mr.. Murdock's top piece is
like unto an orifiamme and much
brighter than the famed helmet of
Navarro
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

Zion City. founded by the latest
Elijah, one Dowie, cannot be much
pumpkins. after all. Mr. Voliva pro-
poses to buy it, if he can raise the pur-
chase price of $1,000 900. That's a mere
mite to pay for city. A person could
not buy more than a couple of blocks
of a city like Topeka for a sum of that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
The City of Dreadful Height.

A recent writer in Putnam's Month
ly remarked that New York was be-
coming, more than ever. city of
dreadful height, a happily parody of the
title of ThomSon'S depressing poem
The Singer building, or "Singerhorn,"
as it is som etimeS called, was then
nearing completion, and the Metro
politan tower had begun to rise from
its foundations ON the edge of Madi-
son square; but the plans for the new
Equitable, outclassing both monsters,
were as yet unrevealed.
The world stood amazed, not many
years ago, at the Six-and-twenty
crowded stories of the Park Row Syn
dictate building; and more recently the
conspicuous site and peculiar proper
lions of the Flatiron, even more than
its height, made this triangular land
mark a nine days wonder. But when
it came to be matter of As stories,
and a cupola poised 500 feet above
Broadway-and when, soon afterward
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany announced a modification of it's
original plans to provide for so stor-
les in all, and an extreme height near
ly 100 feet greater than that of the
Singer building-the imagination of
the man in the street was fairly stag
gered, and the man himself has since
spent an unwarrantable time gazing
vacuously, with upturned eyes and
down-dropped jaw, at one or another
of these unique achievements in New
World rchitecture.-The Putnamic
Monthly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
FTrLL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Disastrous floods have been raging
IN southeastern Kansas and Oklaho-
ma. Nature appears to be getting
more unreliable as she grows older.
Serious floods in the fall are rather
unusual, to say the least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
HOW to Treat q Chaperon.

The custom of supporting chaper-
on In comfort, and even luxury, in the
incipient stages of love making, while
expensive, need not be considered in
the light of a hopeless undertaking.
Many parents think a chaperon
may be dispensed with; others that
they are absolutely necessary. Some
times the young man likes to have
a chaperon along. With some girls it
is a great deal safer.
If the chaperon is young and hand-
some and only slightly married her
self, she may be great addition. In
case the girl goes back on you at a
critical moment you can fall back on
the chaperon. Chaperons ofthis de-
scription betray a world of sympathy
during these periods.
If she is old and Inevitable, do not
ignore her too much. Remember that
up well, and If possible give her a
mild Knockout drop early in the
evening.
Occasionally a chaperon will happen
who has a New England conscience.
New England conscience, by the
way, is the kind that never enjoys it
self unless every one else is miser-
able. Just as you get a firm hold on
the girl and begin to kiss her like a
rapidfire machine gun, the chaperon
will begin to push icebergs on your
starboard bow, and the lovely aurora
borealis you have been looking at will
get trapped. In this emergency de-
vote yourself for a few moments to
the chaperon herself. Kiss her, re-
Numbering that the only way you can
achieve liberty is by risking death.
She will either faint away or subside.
If she by any possibility offers to
tell the girls parents on you, insist
upon her doing this at once, not omit
ting the details.
While she is doing this you can
make your final arrangements, in
Guiding the rope ladder, the cloudy
usual press notices, and the indignant
fathers final forgiveness.-Lippi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01
HUrOR OF THE Dry


..nTWhat is meant by NATURALIZATION p,
Naturalization Is the process bv nesDs =.
which an eytcted tenant becomes 81 ~
American policeman" -Clevelaned O Ieads en-
81 81 think It only proper to remark. Mr.
She detect G de s as1ghty girl who thought
marry the best man living 'Don't n pe
e iairpe o. REPLIED Mr. Con Sect. he isn't
merely platonic. '-Philadeiphia PPrsesSsu Is
The Parson--I intend to nrav tbs. -,
an yo IorE1ye Casey for throwing that BRICK
I'D be saving toine if we'd tI,st NV Nv Ten 9e
S1o, GIT wen. and then pray for CASEY
see the soap consumption of Indie IL
one 3ne ounce head a year. remarked the
pop" shouted the young s sor paP %5tb say say
glance at his mother. '1et's move o a siq 9e
May I see the lady of the houseY. IN
Is the cooks day out replied f Mr oV W tais
house IN caiI 70 NV see ,, the woman Of the
. SolIiver.she is a blamed pretty woman.
Oii'ih-1ost pretty woman are.-Puck.
A spienetic Englishman. trying to badger
wag; declared that no man Of tastes u Il
eou inK OF a regm gaming any time in such
piled the Scot, suavely. I'll take We +o a
place in Scotland not far frae StiriIJnsS
afrxr-
men ha' been for five hundred years an
they've nae thought O. leavin' YETI . al
Chappie Cblase)-Don't you think society
Is an empty thing? Miss F4iiierNI tbinI
Smart Set. ~ Socieey.-
ing at the baby hippopotamusa isn't lT Se a
cute little darling" she said-Chicago
Tribune.
ono Tour Johnny Is in love ''Pshawl He's
ehjlg 3. tad He AL things must have be-
himself behind the ears LI 70 With
Courier-Journal-
Fair Soprano Ghaving finished her trial.
Grin y09 think my voice will I'll the hall?
the opposite effect.-Tit- 'U'
+. Bull admit I'm. always afraid to go
breaking something JolkNYes: now
o o &c. Of B fay T What RFSs ss
IL J0ik1A go note. buying a wedding
a., Door lady the other day FASTENED to
the the nursery and said to her little daugh-
Minnie. what do you mean by shouting
ea fSe a n 6lSy qTsIy Is Tommy
he doesn't" said the little girl = THAT Ii
our game. He, is papa coming home late.
A lady one dav remarked to the English
novelist. Bulwer Lytton how odd II was
that dove (Colombe) should have been
sent out to find the Old World and Column
bus (Colombe) should have found the New.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff says In his
recent book. Random Recollections," that
Bulwer Lytton Immediately replied: Yes;
and the one came from Noah; the other
from Genoa"
How do you like your teacher. dear?''
little Mary was asked. after her first day
at school. IT like her real WELL said
Mary. but don't think she knows much,
for she Just keeps asking questions all
the time" The Delineator.
Tomn1v-Ma- may I play make-believe
that I'm entertainin' another little boy?
Ma-Certainly. dear. Tommy-Au right;
gimme some cake for him, then.-Phil-
adelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-01

Here's an affront to Col George w.
Harvey, who has been devoting much
space in his North American Review, to
the PRONUNCIATION of Esperanto, which
has been hailed as the coming univer-
sal language. The New York Esperan-
to society has decided that Esperanto is
quite as faulty as Volapuk, its prede-
cessor. was found to be 20 years ago.
They have voted to drop Esperanto and
begin the study of new universal me-
dunn for talk 1t is called Flo and is
fathered by Marquis L. de Beaufort, of
France In all probabilities Flo will
soon be found to be defective, and
presto, there will be another change-o.