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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
HUlNOR or THE Day

Girl Ito crying little brother)--Aren't
you ashamed of yourself, Dick? Bobbie
says he has already given you two bites.
~. II suppose you expect tip. waiter?"
Yes. sir. We'll it's always the unex-
Myer-There goes the widow Naggs.
They say she drove her husband to an
untimely grave. Gyer-Well, that isn't so
bad. She might have made him walk
there.
giggled the fair widow. mo, indeed re-
Joined the inconsiderate old bachelor. But
If you had daughter 1 might take her to
be that old
,Tramp-Madam, / am suffering from in
digestion . Lady-Why; I'm sorry. What
can cure me instantly by giving me some
thing to digest.
What's the matter. Mr. Crabbe?'' asked
Mrs. Starvem. THE way you sip your soup
and stare up at the ceiling in that far
yon of # would Ien reminds 4Ss
sarcastic ledger, ''it reminds me of soup,
family"
school without permission?" Father "a
grocerl-But they were running him.
business. and they were teaching him that
there are sixteen ounces in a pound
A well-known philanthropist once called
on millionaire to beg a subscription
towards charity he was much interested
in. WHO was it," said the millionaire
smiling. that said that charity begins at
homer" The caller frowned. TT was some
one. I'll be bound" he answered, "who
wanted an excuse not to contribute"
Sir Wilfrid Laurer is one of the thin
nest men in the Canadian house of COM
mons. A wealthy member of the house,
who was one of somewhat massive build
once accused Sir Wilfrid of 'fattening on
the house." replied the Premier ito de-
eide which of us is most exposed to that
charge"
One morning shortly after the honey
moon determined wife took her seat at
the breakfast table and placed a large
revolver by the side of her plate w
why. my dear" stammered the astonished
husband. w-what does that mean?' ''It
means. my love- was her stern reply.
that we have bread of my own making
for breakfast. and that no adverse critic
ism will be tolerated"
Artist want to get a frame for a
rather important picture I've Just finish
ed Picture Dealer-Certainly, sir For
your own use? Artist-No; I'm sending il
to the exhibition. Picture Dealer-Just
step this way. I've the very thing Therei
You see. the design of the frame is n
nymph on each sidei Absolutely excludes
all danger of having the picture hung
upside down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.

GFrom the Atchison Globe
If you are fond of giving advice, be
doctor or lawyer, and get paid for
It.
man says he wants to strike the
right spot" woman calls it an "un-
satisfied yearning."
Nothing disturbs man more than
to see a lot of fun going on when he
isn't having any himself.
We think this is important enough
to be done in zephyr and cardboard,
and hung on the wall: Nobody Likes
The Man Who Knows 1t ALL
Worthless people are usually so
good natured that you may find a
great many of them occupying good
positions. The people despise an old
cross bones.
People are always willing to believe
things that they should not believe, but
they sometimes regard with suspicion
anything that has truth written all
over it.
There is this difference, and it is a
very important one, between men and
nice lot of nonsense, she believes it,
but when woman tells a man how
smart he IS, and how brave, and how
good, he knows better.
The girls should be educated how
to pick out a good steak, how to tell
when q chicken is tender, how to tell
when fish is fresh. and when celery
is of the right quality. The bargain
counters in grocery stores and meat
markets are more worthy of attention
than those of dry goods stores.
Women say that it costs a great
deal of money and a great deal of
work to- get up 6 o'clock dinner,
whereas refreshments" can be vamp-
ed UP in an afternoon. Nobody finds
much fault il refreshments" are in
formal and stingy, but II a dinner is
not elaborate, all the guests roar. This
is the reason 6 o'clock dinners are not
more common.
A man who goes to see a girl twice
in week, and takes her places, is
legally engaged to her. according to a
recent decision. whether he says any,
thing to her about marriage or not,
and she could recover in a suit for
breach of promise. We hope the girls
will take advantage of this decision,
and force the young men to marry
them. Young men have a habit of
loafing about a girls house for years,
and then drifting off without saying a
word about marriage. While young
fellow is loafing around a girls house,
he probably keeps some one away who
would talk business. and the girl is
injured in other ways. No one likes to
marry a girl who has been the SUBJ
ject of another mans attentions. She
! Is too apt to be all kissed up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IRON the New York Press1
small boy would be as bad under
any other name.
The influence behind self-controi is
usually somebody else's CLUB.
The reason girl wants to marry =.
man IS she wouldn't IL she knew what
was best for her. what
Once in while there is a eood no.
to be sort of measuring vardstsni. s4. II
all the bad ones. On
A woman never regrets the chan1.
from the bathing to the EVENING e
eeption season Il she is equally b,,iI.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

vertising campaign? What has this
city that can be advertised to best ad-
vantage? What does the city want
In what lines of industry is it de-
ficient? What lines of industry "oaio
find Topeka an especially good nelo
Through what mediums can topeka
best reach those who would come mere
if they knew about the city and It's IN
ducements?
The municipal advertising question Is
live and important one. Cannot the
Topeka Ad Club. that young and Wig
orous organization, with profit both TO
it's own members and the city take II
up at an early date for thorough dis
cilssion and Investigation?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
WHY NOT THE AID. GLUE?

A circular issued by the board of
trade of Springfield, Mass, Offering
$500 for the best plan for advertising
that city has attracted an unusual
Angeles and Seattle. These cities are
used to advertising campaigns by such
cities as Des Moines and Omaha. Los
Angeles and Seattle. The cities are
new and ambitious. They need capital
and population to carry out their often
astounding projects. But Springfield,
more than two hundred and fifty years
old, noted for its culture, located in one
of the most conservative states in the
prosaic east, when such a city begins
an advertising campaign for capital
and population it is significant of a
new order of things. Other cities, even
those well established and regarded as
prosperous, unless they are willing to
lag behind the procession must wake
up, get busy and thrust themselves
into notice.
This is an idea which Topeka ought
to grasp and to grasp quickly. 1t is the
acknowledged fact that notwithstand-
ing this city's commercial club was or
ganized for the special purpose nf
bringing new Industries to the city and
encouraging their organization by the
citizens here. little has been accom-
plished in that direction during the last
several years. The city has grown and
prospered. but other cities, lacking
many of Topeka's advantages. but
more vigorously and persistently BOOM
ed, have done better.
1t is easy, however, to waste both
money and effort in an advertising
campaign. Advertising to be valuable
must be effective and how to make it
effective is a problem difficult of solu-
ton. whole newspaper page filed
with assertions that Jonesburg is the
finest city in the world with the most
| intelligent population on earth the
most wonderful climate, the best
schools, the purest water, the best So
ciety, may read grandly to the people
of Jonesburg, but it will scarcely be
read by people at a distance. On the
other hand a three-inch advertisement
to the effect that Jonesburg wants q
tub factory. that there is a large local
demand for the product of such a fac
tory. that raw material is plentiful and
| cheap, that the town has an excellent
site for such an institution, and that
| local capital will be invested if the
right kind of man or company takes
| hold of the project. commands imme-
date attention and brings a stream OF
| investors to investigate. But Jones'
burg must make good. Like the lner-
chant who advertises the best quality
of calico for three cents a yard on bar
gain day, it must have the goods
otherwise it reaps harm from its adj
vertising instead of benefit.
Ought not Topeka to adopt Spring.
fields example, and the example of
other cities. and begin an energetic ad-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
MEIoDRAMA.

saw her, and my bosom throbbed
With pity of her WOES.
IN sympathy with her 1 sobbed-
i grew quite achrymose.
tnought indeed she had some need
OF my solicitude,
That maiden fair with golden hair
The vaIlain stin pursued.
she was so young. so innocent,
so unsuspecting. too,
Or things it was quite evident
That wretch was sure to do.
She felt no fear at all, poor deari
With trust she was imbued.
That maiden fair with golden hair
The villain still pursued.
But though she had no end of charm
i Questioned much her taste
To let the hero place HIS arm
About her slender waist.
L had to hiss to see her kiss
The silly ranting dude,
Ihat maiden fair with golden hair
The villain still pursued.
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
THE YOUNG READERs


The New York Evening Post goes
to considerable and, 1t may be feared,
unnecessary pains to prove that till
quite recent years no organized atten-
ton has been given to the reading of
children 1t laments the fact that
while they have always had access to
the dull and pious trash OF the Sun
day school library their intellectual
welfare has been sadly neglected.
Most parents, it thinks, are hopelessly
incompetent to minister to the literary
recreation Of their offspring and 1t
cannot understand why the boy
should be condemned to read "Pil-
grim's Progress and the girl shut up
with Little Susies Six Birthdays"
But it may be that that distinguished
journal is wasting its sympathy and
deploring conditions that have not
existed for fifty years at least. II
for a considerable period there was
no organized effort with a view of
selecting suitable reading matter for
children there was, at any rate, dis
organized effort. individual effort, If
you please, put forth by the children
themselves.
There have long been books for
boys, surely, and likewise for girls,
and many of the books for boys were
pronounced bully books by the
boys who came across them, though
some of them have now been con-
verified into forbidden fruit by some of
the present custodians of public
morals. The boy has never fingered
long over Pilgrims Progress" I'M
less he CHANGED to be a very devout
youth, uncommonly precocious and
thoughtful. and in that case he was
not worth bringing up and it made
no difference what he read or failed
to read. But there were other books
for boys back in the SOS and los
that is the point. There were the
Rollo and Lucy books. for example.
once a perpetual delight and source of
inspiration. Some can never forget
the Rollo books and Uncle George
and Jonas. And there were tales of
adventure that took their youthful
the gold mines of Australia and built
camps for them among the Indian
tribes and buffalo herds And the
girl, unless she was a prim, mincing
and somewhat deceitful miss, did not
HOOd ner MIND with Little Susie s
Six Birthdays" to the exclusion of
everything else. She speedily turned
to "Elsie's Girlhood," which was
mildly exciting, and then to "Elsie's
Motherhood" which was perfectly
fascinating" though it would have
been more fascinating had Elsie been
other than a model wife and mother.
Some girls have rebeIled a little, no
doubt, because Elsie had no past and
did not elope with the gardener.
However, in one way or another
children have managed to read some
thing or other for half a century, to
go back no further. and they must
have profited by what they read be-
cause a majority of them developed
into extremely brilliant men and
women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

his aeroplane with such wonderful
success in France. is not the only man
BY any means who is in the air just
now. Any number of prominent poll
ticians in this country find themselves
in the same position. flguratively
speaking But most of them who are
up in the air" are there against their
wills. And a good many of them will
never light on the earth again with
both feet planted in the proper posi-
ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

the nation that few of them possibly
ever dreamed they possessed. He told
one of them that she was likely the
"heart of a family of sturdy men, whom
you control, and I rely on such intel
ligent ladies as you to carry out your
views" And when the matter is
thought of the ''oid maids surely
WELD a great power over the men. in
and out of their families, who come
under their benign influence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

If President Roosevelt is only one
tenth as handy with the gun ss he is
with the pen the slaughter Of the beasts
which cross his path in the African
jungle will be sad and terrible for their
friends and relatives to contemplate
judging from the terrific force and eff
feet with which he is now welding his
pen in the ruthless slaughter Of his
political enemies WHO had the temerity
TO beard him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

whew! Telegraphic dispatches from
the ever changing scenes of the po-
litical warfare declare that Mr.. Bryan
IS warming up" as the campaign adj
vances. 1t had not been noticed
to any extent that he has been at all
cool ever since the campaign started,
but II he has been and is only warm
ing up now, he will certainly be siz-
zling some by the time the campaign
copcludea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

The present campaign will go down
IN history probably as being famous
for it's "replies' from one prominent
political parsonage to another. The
stage has been reached now where a
reply to a reply has scarcely had time
TO cool off before it is replied to. So
swiftly are the replies following each
other that it's hard work to determine
which reply is the reply to the one
that called forth a reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

Among the various unpleasant
things in the atmosphere these days is
the odor Of moth balls. But they be-
speak OF old standbys in the clothing
line which come IN mighty handy even
II they do not fit fashions latest de-
cree
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

How thoughtful of the leaders of
the "hobo" convention, which is in ses-
sion in New York city. in calling the
attention of local authorities to the
fact that they do not realize the dan
ger of the unemployed" men in a
city In spreading disease. Such self
abnegation and criticism is most COM
r,,andoblo ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
EpOM OTHER PENS
BASEBALL A PUBLIC NECESSITY

BASEBALL A PUBLIC NECESSITY.
A police court jury in Detroit has
confirmed by its verdict the contention
of counsel that baseball is a work Of
public necessity. So far as the lower
bench is concerned Sunday games on
the diamond may continue in the
White City of Michigan.
How large a place baseball fills in
the field of popular amusement, in the
sphere of general American interest,
and in the range of everyday, every
where conversation everybody knows.
Were the sport to be wiped suddenly
off the lists a void would be left COM
pared to which the little emptiness
following the collapse of the racetrack
game would be as a cellar of Shanty-
town to the excavation for the
Pennsylvania terminal. Were an in
cident of dishonor to cast a reason
able doubt on the integrity of profess
sional baseball the voice of regret
would rise from every corner of the
land.
Perhaps it was deemed superfluous
to go into these broad considerations
in Detroit. But why did counsel neg
lect the certainty that every fan"
who is compelled to go from Saturday
to Monday without the score is sub
jected to an unconstitutional interrupt
ton OF his pursuit Of happiness p
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

Mr.. Hearst says that he is not
through with Senator Foraker as yet.
Most people will incline to the belief
that Mr.. Hearst will be wasting his
energies If he pays any more attention
to the already discredited Ohio states
man. 1t would seem that he has been
done up entirely and to a rich, brown
turn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

Any monetary recompense or salts
faction that Governor Haskell may
get out of the libel suits he proposes
TO institute. in the event of any of
them being successful, will hardly Off
set his practical elimination as a
prominent figure in the national Dem
ocratic party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

dulged in over the fact that Theodore
Roosevelt. jr., has started to work in
a carpet factory. 1t can be said, how
ever. that. If he is the smallest sort of
a chip OF the old block, the carpets
he makes will be hum dingers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
A New Use for Dust.

The SoleS of policemen'S boots made
of goats hair, seaweed, dust and gum!
This is not a recipe from Alice in
Wonderland but the composition OF
substitute for leather, invented by
John Campbell, a chemist, long en-
ployed in the rubber trade.
From seaweed, carpet dust, goats
hair, Irish moss, gums and chem
ical process which is his secret, Mr.
Campbell has already made the fol-
lowing astonishing list of commodi-
ties:
Policemen's boots, ornamental mold
ings, partitions, betting. upholstery
bobbins (for cotton spinning), electric
switchboards, flooring. golf balls
marble" in all colors, chess boards
book bindings and ivory combs
Mr.. Campbell makes no startling
claims for his invention, and admits
that his composite is not equal to ma
terials of the highest quality. but he
says that in the case of leather, for
instance, 1t provides an excellent sub
stitute in the manufacture of goods
which could not bear the price of the
best hides.
1.-THE product has been tested by po-
licemen and postmen. and the soles
and heels are in good condition after
nine months wear" he says.
1.-TWO thousand feet of it are now in
use as betting in machine shops, and
the substance has been proved to be
impervious to oils, acids or atmos-
pheric conditions. 1t is absolutely
noninflammable. AS it is made of
waste products. the price is low, and
being very light in weight, it is spe-
cially suitable for railway purposes.
81 obtain my seaweed from Devon
shire and the more expensive variety
for the manufacture of marbles from
Japan. Imitation marbles and woods,
which can be turned out in any color
or design, are made of Seaweed moss
carpet dust, gums and chemicals, n.y.
draulically pressed. A beautiful mar
BILE floor can be obtained by pouring
the composite in a fluid state over a
floor and allowing it to set. The sea-
weed which can be colored or made
to form any design, not only gives the
effect of the veining shown in real
marble. but the color and veins go
right through the material Any kind
of wood can be initiated, and in its
pliable state the substance can be used
in the same manner as Hnoleum-De-
troit News-Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
1.-THE WORLD CONSCIENCE. !"

Sidney Whitman. Bismarck's old
friend and biographer. has established
friendly relations with the present
chancellor, Prince Won Buelow. who
has just made him the mouthpiece
for an interview calculated to mollify
England and lessen the tension aris-
ing from the Moroccan situation. For
the chauvinists in either country, who
are perpetually tanning the flames of
hatred, the chancellor has nothing but
contempt. He fntimates that Germany
will soon show In some unmistakable
way her determination to be a factor
for peace, and her friendliness for
Great Britain. Especially significant
is his declaration that "the dominant
influence in the world is neither Eng
land nor Germany, much less any sin
gle individual in either country" but
rather 1.-THE worlds conscience" often
called public opinion. This is a strik-
ing tribute to the effect which scrutiny
of national policies by an audience, in
ternational and interracial in makeup,
is having on the nations and their
controlling officials.-Boston Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30

From the horde of prominent cam
paigners that the Republican national
committee has planned to turn loose
on this locality 1t might be reasonable
to suppose that Topeka is not only
doubtful political territory but that it
is actually the pivotal point on which
the result of the campaign will turn.
OF course. Topekans are glad of an
opportunity to see and hear all of the
shining lights in the campaign and
have reason to feel complimented for
the attentions that are being shown
them. but as a matter of fact the
chances are that they would have
poIIed their usual Republican major
ity on election day If the big cam
paigners had not so much as even
stopped to say 'Howdy" on their trips
to really doubtful localities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
FTTLL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose