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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
AYHAWKER JOTS

train reached Salina this week that
was eleven days late, which is pretty
late even for Salina.
Beef has taken another jump of three
cents upwards. Can anyone tell u.s.
asks Governor A. P. Riddle, what the
prospects are for rabbits this year?"
Galena has decided that the only way
1t can get Andrew Carnegie to build 1t
library is to purchase a few books
and get library association organ
lied.
Bishop Quayle dedicated Coffeyville's
new $4,000 Methodist church last Sun
day. Not only is the new church free
or debt, but 1t raised $500 more than
was needed.
Were in your place." said an Erie
woman the other day in conversation
with young mother, I'D teach that
boy to mind" And if were in your
place" was the response, II would
take a few lessons in a private business
college where persons are taught to
look after their own affairs
According to the Osborne Farmer a
poor woman wrote to "her husbands
congressman" to send her some instruc-
lions how to care for a sick baby. She
said they were poor and lived in the
country a long way from the doctor;
she was young and had no previous ex-
perience in bringing up children. Her
point seemed we'll taken, but failed to
elicit even kindly reply. The member
from her district sent back word there
was no literature available for her use.
She realized then that her mistake was
In not sending direct to the president,
but she laid her case before her local
paper. OF course she received sympa-
thy there-as follows: Statesmen
laugh at the idea that the mother of a
sick child should write to her congress-
man for a pamphlet giving advice. At
present a farmer with a sick hog can
write to his congressman for relief. 1t
is not so very anarchistic to suggest that
the government should be willing to do
for the babies what 1t will do for hogs"
]. L. Brady dissents from Del Val
entine's protest against calling the
Kansas river the "Kaw." Mr.. Brady
says: 1.-THE river is the one recollection
in a tangible way we have of the Kaw
tribe. The state is SO big and so Won
derful that it does not need to be jeal-
Gus because a stream that wanders
disappeared people. The Kaw Indians
was in the Land and to keep the pretty
name in memory of them is about as
little as we can do. Besides the name
is euphonious and appropriate. The
Kaw river Is good deal like an In
dian in the old days anyway. 1t Is Ii
able to go on a tear on slight provoca-
ton and when it does dts first thought
is to go after the white settlers and
drive them out. 1t gets them if it can
and if 1t once gets a victim it let's go
only after the most reluctant effort.
After all the name Kaw Is good enough
for the river"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
TRADE WITH THE ORIENT.

statement OF the foreign commerce
OF the United States during the past
fiscal year makes the interesting reve-
lation that commerce with the Orient
Is steadily shifting from the Atlantic to
the Pacific coast. In 1901 the percent
age of exports to the Orient which pass
ed through the ports of the Pacific
coast was only Al, but during the past
fiscal year it was no less than So. Trade
with the Orient is steadily increasing,
and larger share of it is being done
each year from the west coast.
This is all very natural. Since the
development of Seattle and Tacoma,
and the upbuilding Of Vancouver. the
Pacific coast terminal of the Canadian
Pacific railway, there has been increas-
ing foreign shipping enterprise on the
Pacific coast. The Alaska boom stimu-
lated the carrying industry, and the
opening of trade opportunities in the
Orient naturally caused the transcon-
tinental lines to seek connections for
the development of business. The Ca
madam Pacific railroad established
lines Of freight and passenger steam
ers between Vancouver and Japan, and
the Great Northern railroad construct
ed two Of the largest steamers ever put
afioat for traffic between Seattle and
the Orient. In addition to these ven
lures new enterprises by Japanese in
vestors increased the shipping facih-
ties not only from Puget Sound ports
but from San Francisco.
There will be a change in the Orient
export trade when the Panama canal
is opened for business. Then the bulky
freight which can be handled more
economically by steamers will be taken
by the canal route. and traffic from
ports OF the Gulf Of Mexico and the
Atlantic coast will increase rapidly.
This may reduce the percentage OF
shipments from the Pacific coast ports
temporarily, but II expectations are
realized as to the future trade of the
Orient there win be business enough
for the merchants and shippers of both
coasts,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
QUAKER MEDITATTONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A pint of happiness is worth a peck
OF trouble.
When a fellow is a bad egg don't
try to beat him.
If the spendthrift follows his natural
bent he will soon be broke.
What cinch it would be If our good
resolutions were guaranteed not to
break.
The artist may believe there is plenty
of room at the top. but he doesn't like
his pictures skied.
Many a fellow doesn't find married
life all that had been pictured to him,
Sometimes it is delightful.
Wigg-"Miss Antique is laying for
YOU" Wagg-"Now. isn't that remark
able? Only Yesterday / said she was
an old hem
Tommy-'.Pop, can we see sound ,r'
Tommy's Pop-"No. my son." Tommy
And yet lots of things look like thun-
der, don't they?"
II would gladly die thousand deaths
for you," exclaimed the love-lorn un-
dertaker. 'tOh! don't talk shop" re-
piled the fippant maiden.
Blobbs-"They say Borrowed is pay
ing attention to Miss Gotrox" Slobbs-
well. if he is it's the first time he
ever paid anything in his life
My poor mani exclaimed the be-
nevolent old lady. How did you lose
your sight?" We'll, you see, ma'am, it
was this way" explained the blind beg
gar: once went over Niagara Falls
in a barrel. and got cataract in the
eye"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06

this. for there are many reasons for
believing that in the one case, as in
the other, the Job in hand will not be
finished without more trouble than the
sanguine optimist has anticipated.
Cuba is not so populous as the socalled
Hermit Kingdom. but enough has
happened to show that it presents al
most as many difficulties to the estab-
lishment of a well-ordered administra-
ton. 1t is desirable that the Ameri-
can people should come to a right I'M
Outstanding of what they owe to them
selves in dealing with Cuba, for until
this is done, the authorities at Wash
ington are not likely to adopt meas
ures necessary to the effective and
permanent solution of the problem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
AWFUL WASTE OF COAL SUPPLY

Owing to improper mining methods,
the United states geological survey
holds, over 20o,0oo.o 900 tons of coal are
wasted every year in the United States
alone. 1t appears that through work
ang the lower beds of coal first, the
mining OF the adjacent higher beds be-
comes impracticable. Again much coal
is left as pillars to support the roof of
the mine We are using what is best
and cheapest, say these and this neg
lect and wastefulness will cost succeed
ing generations more for their coal, be-
cause mining will become more diff
cult and dangerous. We leave under
ground almost one-half of our supply;
In vancouver, British Columbia, 9S per
cent is mined From these facts there
is obviously need for reform in our
methods OF mining coal The informa-
ton is timely in view of the movement
to conserve our natural resources; but
the problem is complex and difficult.
1t is of the most vital public import
ance, yet it is not the peoples to do
with it as they may. The mine owners
may do with their own as they desire,
but the folly of employing methods so
ruinous alike to themselves and the
public. should be emphasized the more
on that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
GLOBE SIGHTS.
lFrom the Atchison Globe.l

From the Atchfson Globe.1
Everyone thinks he gives as much to
the poor as his means will allow.
The viler the cigar a man smokes,
the nearer he comes to you while
smoking it. -
can have is to have a horror of max
ing his friends trouble.
About one-third Of a mans time is
spent asking questions that never
should have been asked.
1t is often cheaper to be imposed
upon than it is to fight: this fact re-
suits in many unfair men.
Only a boy who has killed a rabbit,
and induced his mother to cook It.
knows what tastes good.
If you hear two women talk long
you are apt to hear one Of them say
that she has a sick headache
A woman's memory never fails her
when she is talking about the details
of different attacks of sickness.
BOOSTERS are a good deal like men:
a rooster never gives notice of having
found a worm until after he has swal-
lowed it.
1t is said to be bad form to write a
letter on a typewriter. We knew it.
Anything that makes work easier for
the busy, is Immediately labeled Bad
Form" by the idle.
The fathomless sea is nothing in
depth compared to the silence of those
whom you expected would burst out
in denials when you said something
mean about yourself
If a man should go up to a boy of
not only a good boy, but you are good
looking the boy would probably have
a fit, from pure surprise No one ever
complimented a boy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

Rather than make a scene the bride
promises to obey.
Some people never seem to tire in
their efforts to make other peo-
pie weary.
A girl thinks q man IL swift II he
tries to fiirt with her and slow IL he
doesn't.
Any man may make his mark In the
world, but 1t isn't always a mark of
esteem.
The married woman who isn't sure
of her own charms should employ a
plain cook.
1t is often wise to set good exam
pie for your neighbor by giving your
self a square deal
All things may come to q man who
waits-providing he has sense enough
to wait in the right place.
After a man has been married a cou-
pie OF years he thinks his unsuccessful
rivals ought to vote him a pension.
1t takes woman to swallow her
medicine with pleased expression on
her face when she IL compelled to a.
terrain an undesirable guest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
HUNGER CURE FOR DISEASE.

1t Is most difficult for the lay mind
to appreciate the reasoning by which
that well known scientist. Professor
Hereward Darlington, arrives at his
conclusion that all disease can be
cured by the simple process of going
hungry. DR.. Darlington, who is one
of the best known members of the
council of the American Institute for
Scientific Research, declares that
total abstinence from all food. when
one is diseased, is powerful and pri-
mary human instinct This instinct
points the way to cure-fasting.
Commenting on this. Current Literal
ture for July says: ''Ir the Caring
ton theory of disease be correct-and
1t is outlined deliberately in the new
book on the subject-there is unity
and oneness of all disease. All dis
eases, properly so called, originate In
a common cause, the different diseases
being but the varying faces, aspects
or modes of expression of this primary
disease. If the cause of this primary
disease be due (apart from mental in
fuences and mechanical inturies) to
an undue retention within the sys-
tenn of effete, excrementous material
and the disease itself merely the ac-
tive process of expulsion of this ma
terial-and this is the sum and sub
stance of the Darlington theory
there is but one method Of cure. re-
moval of the cause.
Now there are normally but two
ways in which this impure material
can enter the system-through the
lungs, by breathing impure air; or
through the stomach, in swallowing
improper food and drink. In no
other way can impurities normally in
troduce themselves into the system.
"It follows that there is only one
method whereby this material may be
expelled-through the eliminating or
organs. BY balancing and
regulating the efforts of these organs
and by keeping them at york com
stantly-their functions stimulated to
the highest degree-in this way only
can we ever hope to cure disease. A
treatment devoted to any other end
or any other purpose is purely wasted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06

henchman of Stubs. for the reason
that. in addition to being considered a
staunch Republican and well posted
In political affairs, he is making his
first request for office. And in this
connection 1t will be remembered that
when the Wabaunsee county central
committee met last, motion to en-
dorse Mr.. Stubs for governor was
smothered In great haste. and the
mention of the name of Mr.. Dolley re-
suited in motion to adjourn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
HV1AOR or THE DAY

Fanny has given notice." 'why?"
''She says you spoke In a brutal man
ner to her on the telephone yester-
day" Yesterday? thought was
speaking to you."-Meggendorf Blat-
ter.
She-Did you ever stop to figure out
how many hats in a year you could
buy with the money you throw away on
cigars? Hell have, dear, could buy
three for ou."-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Papa, tell me couple of short
words 7, ,,a and see II can write them"
cially embarrassed. Houston Post.
Those Broken Resolutions-The Rec
ording Angel had sat up till midnight
posting his books for the first week in
January And yet they say heaven
turned in, dog tired.
Irate Passenger Gas train ia moving
off)-Why didn't you put my luggage
luggage is no SIGH a silly as yerser.
Ye're l. the wrang train.-Tit-Bits.
Same Thing-Ernie-They say he Is
welded to his art. Ethel-But he has
wife. Would you call her art? Ernie
Il suppose so. She's painted.-Illustra-
ted Bits. ",
The Lily-White Hand Again-She-
Didn't that novel I saw you reading
end happily? He-Naw! the hero and
heroine got married.
A Dead Beat.-"Won't yer spare a
dyin' man a copper. lady?" Dying!
Why, you smell strongly Of drink"
'Yus; that's what = a-killin' OF me,
lidy."-The Taller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
GENIUS AND INDUSTRY.

Mr.. Rudyard Kipling, being inter-
viewed by the representative of an Eng
lish magazine, declares that he has
mo method in writing" He adds. Il
write when the fit takes me. When
1 feel inclined to work it is quite as diff
ficult to prevent me as 1t Is at other
times to induce me to put pen to pa
per-" This is the traditional view of
the manner in which great authors do
their work. Yet 1t has been contradict
ed over and over again by artists as
eminent as any now living
Anthony Trollope; who achieved so
much popularity as a novelist in his
time, insisted that, given the necessary
talent, an author could write as well at
one time as another, If able to write
well at all. He declared that one of
the secrets of successful authorship
was "a piece of wax in the seat of the
chair" Boswell records it as the opin-
ion of DIR. Samuel Johnson that "a man
may write at any time If he will set
himself doggedly to it." And Alexan-
der Pope, VINO owes so much to culti-
walton and was lifelong invalid, an
nounced with formal finality:
True ease in writing comes from art,
not chance, 80
AS those move easiest who have learned
to dance.
I Certain il is that not the least mar
vel of the greatest genius has been that
OF industry.-Boston Globe.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Candidates for office are frequently
taken suddenly ill when they smoke
cigars from the wrong pocket.
X 4
1t is well to eat, drink and be merry
today for tomorrow the foodstuffs may
advance to prohibitive prices.
X
When family gets in the swim the
head of it generally feels like a man
overheard who is in need of holp.
X
A woman who wears sandals for the
purpose of being considered literary
has usually begun at the wrong end.
X X
A man who takes his wife home a
new dress does not do it because of
thoughtfulness. He figures he can
save about SO that way.
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WITH MOSQUITOES CoMPLINIENr

So you think to flabbergast me
CAS- I've noticed in the press)
Into desuetude to cast me
Quite fnnocuous, guess?
With your innocent reliance
On the sureness-as you think
OF eliminative science
You will put me on the blink3
Well. don't shrink:
Hm-m-m Zip, Pink!
So you say the pesky skeeter
Is a dead and done-for duck,
Never more with merry meter
In the night to run amuck?
So. you'll do me up with oiling
Where the stagnant waters be, IL
And prevent my further spelling
OF your smooth complexion-see!
Well. / don't flee:
Hm-m-mi Zip, Vince!
So you reckon I'll be going
To the shades of limbo low?
Well, you'll have to make a showing
Something better ere 1 go.
I'm acquainted with your purpose
Gainst my billion friends awning;
Yet we smoothly sing and chirp US,
Oh. we sweetly chirp and sing!
Trusting, ling. ling;
H'm-m-m! Zip! ling!
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.]

IFrom the New York Press.1
A woman puts dignity upon her hus-
band being broke by calling it being
embarrassed.
The average man would rather win a
dollar on a bet than a thousand work
ing for 1t.
No matter how wide hat a girl
wears, her lips can get out from under
it on a moonlight night.
A useful thing about owning an auto
mobile is how 1t makes a man econo-
mize on everything else.
One of the greatest temptations OF
having money is that 1t convinces you
that you must get more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
COREA AND CUBA.

In the course of an admirably writ
ten tribute to the memory of the late
Durham H. Stevens, in the current
number of the North American Re-
view, Baron Togoro Takahira, the
Japanese ambassador at Washington,
says that the work being done by the
Japanese governor In Corea Is anal
ogous to that of our own government
in Cuba.
SIT is not" he writes, my inten-
ton in this article to dwell upon the
unwise and improvident policy of the
rulers of Corea, which produced in
ternal conditions unsatisfactory and
even intolerable for its own people,
and out of which doomed the menace
of danger to the peace of the Far East.
This feature of the matter can be per-
haps best disposed of by merely stat
ing that, in some respects. Corea oc-
Cuba does to the United States. The
American people felt that they could
not have a condition of disorder at
their door, and went to war to stop 1t.
They liberated Cuba, but were COM
PEELED by events to re-enter upon its
government. Japan's course with re-
spect TO Corea is almost parallel. We
went to war to maintain Corean indie
pendence and were obliged to fight an
other war. partly because of Corea.
And now, in order to abate a nuisance
that could only be fruitful of further
strife. we are seeking to provide the
people of that country with a stable
government, under which they may
enjoy tranquility and the prosperity
which follows in its train.'
There is much food for thought In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
new cult in religion,

A new cult in religion, which is
styled the Mazdaznan philosophy, is
being exploited in Philadelphia by a
gentleman named Arthur Smith, who
was once German university student.
Through it's teachings, or rather
through the practice of its precepts
heaven may be gained by proper use
of the lungs. According to it, air is
the link between man and God, the
mite and the infinite. and once right
breathing is accomplished. religion,
law. ethics, morals and a few other
ruch things may be dispensed with.
such actions as snoring or putting are
great errors and Vices according to the
Mazdaznanists. Mr.. Smith declares
that this is the oldest religion in the
world and that the records of it date
hack $4,000 years. and for all he
knows Mazdaznan may be much older.
Rut that ought to be old enough for
all practical purposes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06

Senator Joe Dolley of Maple Hill.
desires now to return to the body leg
fsIative as a humble member of the
lower house. II is strange. after hold
ing a place in the SENATORIAL Square
DEAL amen corner. that the Maple
Hill storekeeper would condescend to
this come-down. and 1t is the general
belief in Wabaunsee county that he
has made mistake. 1t is argued that
he ought to have the vote of the rest
of the senatorial district to offset the
anti-Dolley sentiment of his home
county. Then there's another danger
o. w. Little, editor of the Alma Enter
prise, has decided that he will make
an excursion into the political field
and choosing Mr.. Dolley as the weak
place in the defense he aspires to the
nomination for representative. Mr..
Little II a dangerous adversary to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06

Evidence is accommodating to show
that the women in England who are
masquerading as suffragettes and act
ing in unusually disorderly ways are
in reality little less than anarchists.
One of them said, on being arrested
for being with a party that participant
ed IN a demonstration during which
several windows in the premier's
house were smashed, that the next
time she and her friends came out
they would use bombs. Actions and
talk of this kind are not exceedingly
helpful to the cause of woman's suf-
fraRe
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may havs
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate OF ten cents
. week or thirty cents month (by
mail only.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
State journal will be to you like q
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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KANSAS cOlAAENT
NOT USED 10 cIrY.s WAYS.

wichita. which is now supplied with
Irasn cans, finds that the people use
tnem for almost anything except put
ing trash In them. Among other
things they have been mistaEen for
mail boxes, and on two occasions at
least, letters have been rescued from
them. 1t is now proposed to label
mem trash cans" in large letters.
meanwhile 1t is matter Of some dis
that Wichita should experience so
much difficulty in getting used to city
ways.-Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06

Something of freak in the vege-
table kingdom has been developed at
the Massachusetts, state agricultural
experiment station near Worcester.
1t is a plant, or vine. on which both
potatoes and tomatoes are being
grown. Above the ground the plants
are tomato vines. loaded with toma-
toes, while in the ground depending
from the same plant are potatoes the
size OF an egg
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06

For enterprise in achieving rather
impossible things all the medals should
rightly go to the manufacturers of
moving pictures. OF course 1t is we'll
known that pictures depicting animate
things in motion are of recent inven-
ton. That in no way, however. pre-
vents the moving picture men from
making pictures showing Abraham
Lincoln reviewing troops at the close
Of the Civil War.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06

Even the Jail birds have reverence
and love for Old Glory. This was
evidenced in Monongahela City, Pa.
the other day when a foreigner was
thrown in Jail for insulting the Stars
and Stripes. He continued to curse the
flag after he had been landed in the
prison and the inmates there promptly
set upon him and gave him an unmer-
ciful beating. If jailers had not come
to his rescue he might have been kill
"a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06

To avoid any possible chance Of his
Forgetting it. Mr.. Taft is to be formal
~ notified on July 2s that he was NOM
mated for the presidency by the Re-
publicans who assembled at national
convention in Chicago recently.