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

June, going into the country for the
summer, and that there is more or less
migration about that time among field
hands and farm laborers. A more seri-
Gus drawback is that the results of an
enumeration in June cannot be. com
piled and submitted to congress
promptly enough for intelli-
gent consideration at the short session
following. The federal appointments
of 1891 and 1901 were made under much
that the reapportionment plan offered
by the house census committee in 1901
was rejected by the house mainly be-
cause it was hurriedly prepared and
was considered Ill digested and arbi-
trary. 1t will relieve the situation
greatly # the population tables can be
made ready by October, 1910, SO that
all plans of apportionment based on
them can be studied at leisure. If the
presidents of other appointments are
followed representation in congress and
in the electoral college will be increas-
ed sufficiently to prevent any state los
ing it's present representation through
too sharp an advance in the district
ratio.
will show a population in the United
States, not including the dependencies,
of 81 or 92 million. This would repre-
sent a general growth Of about 20 per
cent for the decade. Many of the states
are not increasing in population at
that ratio State censuses in 1905 show
ed that Kansas, Michigan, Massachus-
etts and Wisconsin were growing at a
rate below the average and that Iowa
had actually lost in population between
1900 and 1905. On the other hand, Min
nesota, New York, New Jersey, Rhode
Island, North Dakota and South Da-
while Wyoming was just holding its
own. Oklahoma has had, of course, the
greatest relative increase in population
in this decade. The new state in 1907
gained 1873 per cent on the total for
1900 of the two territories out of which
it was created. Oklahoma Is sure to
gain some seats in the house of repre-
sentatives after 1910, for its present
population entities 1t to seven members
instead Of the five allotted to 1t in the
enabling act Of 1906. The other chief
gamers will probably be New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois,
Minnesota, Missouri, Georgia and Tex
as, and the center Of political power
will thus pass a little further north and
and little further east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
THE NEXT CENSUS.

Plans are already being made for the
taking of the next federal census. Con-
gress has been asked to make an ap-
preparation available in 1908 and 1909
for getting the work Of enumeration
under way. The establishment of a
permanent census bureau has fortu-
nately made this great work vastly
easier and has obviated the necessity
of creating a force offhand after the
hasty and haphazard method of earlier
years. This is a greater gain in econ
omy and efficiency, for a permanent bu-
reau can plan and conduct a census in
a far more thorough and orderly man
ner than could an improvised one,
which was always still imperfectly or
ganized when the enumeration actually
began.
A change suggested by Mr..
North, the director of the census bu-
reau, would also prove of great adj
vantage. 1t is proposed to have the
count taken in April 1, 1910, instead of
in June. Two valid objections have
been raised to the June enumerations.
One is that many of the dwellers in
larger cities shift their residence in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
NEW YEARS.

One more short cycle of time has
whirled around and the beginning of
another year is at hand. Most prop
erly it is set apart as a holiday. This
has been the custom for ages among
all races and all creeds. although
there is some difference among them
as to the day from which they reckon
the beginning of the civil year. Ex-
cept for the Hebrews, however,
whose New Years day comes around
October 1, the people of nearly all
the nations of the earth look upon
January I, as the advent of the new
year.
And in every land it is the occasion
for special festivities. varying in Gus
toms but all to the same purpose. 1t
IS holiday of auspicfousness It is
no time for retrospect Let the dead
past bury it's dead" 1t is the future
that is before everyone and the
thoughts of all should center in max
ing an effort to do just little bit bet
ter in all ways in the days to come
This should be particularly true of
the fortunate people of this country
where there are such brilliant and
Astounding prospects for success and
the happiness that it brings.
With a few humorists and the weak
willed the day is used as an occasion
on which pernicious personal prac-
tfces are Sworn off, but the individ-
ual who waits until New Years day
to mend his habits is of the sporadic
sort and his spasmodic effort at self
reformation is generally as short lived
at the day itself.
Perhaps there is no better way to
celebrate the day than that which
prevailed among the Romans of the
time of the Caesars. aside from their
indulgence in idolatrous rites in the de-
dication of the day to Janus. They
were careful to so order their conduct
that every word and action should be
a happy augury of what their lives
would be during the succeeding
twelve months of the year.
Let everybody do likewise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01

Lady-why, don't believe there are 20
feet OF floor space-and you call it yard
a ward, madam.-Town and Country.
He's almost as wealthy as you are.
" IS. REPLIED Richiey, but he's awfu1ly
:. why. he sa aid he'd give $50 to that char
''Exsetly: that just shows that he does
not expect to contribute at aIl.'-Phiiadel-
phia Press.
Attendant-Do you care toe>urchase that
p'TSi isitcrn f thanks. rye got dozen
under my bed already.
Attendant-One more there wouldn't
Visitor-All right, then. I'll have it,
Punch.
where Is Mr.. MiddlemanT' asked the
caller ct the brokers office.
IT think he's out on little matter Of
wheat" replied the bright clerk.
Certainly not If he had been long he
would have been in; it's because he was
short that he's out.''-Philadelphia Press.
Here is a.sittle poem," said the party
with the unbarbered hair, who had drifted
into the editorial presence. that intend
as 9ea replied the man
behind the blus pencil. Better take it
f sst w aaf ana ss Da Ts Ne sns the
Ibid your case go by default, Sam?'
"Yassir. De fault Of de jury; yassfr. -
Cleveland Plain-Dealtr.
".Beggared againr' moaned Description.
by whom what?'
These new fall hats.'-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
ST notice lots Of people are collecting
silver spoons" said the traveller.
"Is that q new craze?'
NO" replied the hotel clerk, same old
ng-kleptomania. '-Washington Star.
But surely it is true said the plodder,
that every man should be satisfied to
leave well enough alone"
Nothing to it!'' replied the hustler.
mo man who feels that way never reach
es well Observation-Disclosures Press.
$50 You think that your speech is not
likely to create much of an impression?
I'm sure of it, answered Senator
Sorghum
For what reason?'
The opposition has hired the only brass
band in town."-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.1
A pencil is often hard pushed to tell
the truth.
Man grumbles most where he is treat
ed best-at home.
Styles sometimes make a handsome
woman look otherwise.
Heads of sensible women are never
matched with blondined tresses.
When troubles start they come ones
way like a string of beads
Many a man has been bunkoed by
Judging a woman's disposition by her
smile.
A man who makes political speech
isn't necessarily expected to tell the
truth.
Often a benedict is but an ex-bache-
lor who was overtaken by misfortune
and a widow.
There is at least one thing that may
be said in favor of football Nobody
has to play it.
Any man can take a day off, but
when 1t comes to putting it blackwell,
that Is different.
Because the average man just has to
make some sort Of a fool Of himself he
might as well be in love.
1t must be awfully hard on the fussy
old bachelor who has to live in the same
house with a clever child.
A married man says the comforts of
home would be more enjoyable If they
didn't include the discomfort of paying
for them.
A diplomat is a man with an ak TO
grind who gets another man to turn
the grindstone and makes him believe
that he is being entertained
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
PROPER PHILANTHROPY.

Richard I. Crane, tho millionaire
manufacturer of Chicago, is proving
himself to be a philanthropist in the
truest sense of the word. His ideas
of what is real charity and generosity
on the part of those who are blessed
with a profusion of the worlds goods
are worthy Of being adopted by many
of the rich whose distribution of their
surplus wealth for the benefit of the
people in one way and another seems
to be misdirected frequently.
During the dedication on Sunday
last of day, nursery for the children
of Chfcago's poor, a gift to Hull
House from Mr.. Crane as a memorial
to his wife, he took occasion to be-
labor the rich for many of their fads
and declared that inasmuch as a great
deal of wealth is wrung from the poor
1t should be used by those possessing
it for the benefit of the poverty
stricken.
I'VE can not close our eyes to the
faact." he said, that in many cases
the wealth of the rich has been wrung
from the poor. They have been rob-
bed of their just rights. and 1t is
equivalent to a second robbery for So
for any purpose other than that of di-
rectly improving the conditions of the
poor or retaining the criminal
This is a sound doctrine that should
be preached from the high places all
over the land so that every man Of
means could hear. And hearing, he
should give it heed.
He told of declining recently to con-
tribute $4,000 toward equipping an
expedition to go to the Southern Pa
cific islands to gather materials for a
museum and says the man who asked
him for it seemed surprised that he
should overlook such grand oppor-
tunity to bring the curious in touch
with the curios. Then he called at
tention to the fact that it had been
hard work to scrape up 5000 for the
Juvenile Protective league of Chicago,
which works to keep minors out of
saloons.
For the saving Of manhood and
womanhood, for the saving Of souls,
hard wrung dollar here and there
said Mr.. Crane For the gathering
of curios and anthropological speci-
mems thousands of dollars just for the
asking Mark the startling contrast"
Mr.. Crane thinks it would be a good
plan for cities not to spend thousands
and millions in boulevards, statues,
elaborate public buildings and the like
until the Immediate surroundings of
the poor are made better and de-
center.
There is good food for serious
thoughts in the views of Mr.. Crane on
the part of the philanthropically in
clined Misdirected charity and gen.
crosby is worse than none at all and
there is quite as much need for re-
form in it as there is in other activi-
ties of the present time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison

IFrom the Atch1Son G1obe-1
Everything the people should do by
hard work. they are now trying to do
by law.
When Saturday is dull in a country
town, the citizens think a Crisis has
been reached.
When a woman Is fond Of her sons
wife, 1t means that she is an unusually
just and fair woman.
When a man reporter writes a So
ciety item, the only real nice word he
can think Of is "elaborate.''
A new serio-comic song is entitled
I'm So Poor That I Have No Place
to Stick My Gum When I Eat
So far as known, the undertaken is
the only man in the world who knows
that the styles change in hearses.
1t is wonderful what cheap looking
heirloom jewelry and precious stones
are missing after a burglar has visited
them.
young man who pays a good deal
Of attention to society, no difference
how good a young man he may be,
cannot distinguish himself in any other
way.
You see a lot of farmers carrying
babies on the street, but it is colder
dav than ever comes in this climate
when you see a townman carrying a
baby on the street.
Question for debate at the next meet
ing of the Lancaster Literary society
Is it preferable to live in the same
house with a cut-up, or with one who
looks like crepe on the door?
Any lover can act so we'll that his
lady love will frequently remark how
good he is to her, but the real hero
is the old fellow who has been mar
rfed 10 or 20 years. and whose wife is
his greatest admfrer.
Are you going the Sour Way? The
Sour way has landed many man and
woman in the insane asylum. Are you
fretful? Have you tremendous hatreds :?
Do you go all to pieces" on slight pro-
follies, you are travelling the Sour Way:
you are in danger. Become alarmed in
time and travel the other way.
When an Atchison preacher is invi-
ted out to dinner, here Is his favorite
story: He says that once at a revival
Lord had done for them, and each one
told what great things the Lord had
done for him, but one little, weakened
old man, who did not have a tooth in
his head. who was deaf, nearly blind.
and feeble with old age. The evange-
list finally said to him: well, my dear
brother, what has the Lord done for
your The little old man tottered to
his feet, and said in a little squeaky
voice: Il should think you could tell
Dy LOOKING DIT me WDdC the LOTQ mas
done for me: He has pretty near done
me up
The conceit of the average man is
so great that he believes himself capa-
BILE of ANYTHING. An Atchison bank re-
Gently advertised for a bookkeeper and
expressly stated that incompetent men
need not apply, but they did, to the
number of 40 Most of them could not
spell; none of them wrote a fair hand,
but all of them imagined that they
able 1t is surprising that man who
writes a bad scraw1 thinks he is really
capable of writing sample lines in
copy5ooks; 1t is surprising that a man
who could not properly keep a toll
gate, imagines that he could keep the
books in a bank, but the world is full
of such men. It is a wonder that red
headed men admit it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
.AYHAWKER JOTS

Junction City is threatened with a
rendition Of Parsifal. Sympathy goes
out to those who will feel duty bouno
to hear 1t.
A Denver woman displaced her jaw
by yawning. It is stated that she was
from Kansas and that she was sleepy
from trying to figure the prohts OF the
farm last summer.
One of the wholesale grocery houses
at Salina gave each Of its employees a
SIS gold piece for Christmas present.
This was not a small matter. as the
firm has help to the number Of lao.
A Horton girl went down to tn
depot recently to see her friend who
was waiting between trains, and be-
fore she left he borrowed 50 of her.
She intends to phone him the next
time.
There is a Socialist in Neodesha who
insists that everything he says is back
nered he says: Many other things
truly did Jesus, which are not written
in the holy book"
Damage suits against Arkansas
City seem to be quite popular. A wo-
man fell down a coal chute and was
awarded $4,000 damages. If the
woman had broken her neck she would
not have received anything.
Mrs. John Scrivner of Junction
City has a cactus of which she and the
town may well be proud. 1t is five
years old, ninety inches in circumfer-
ty buds on it at the present time.
Winfield has lost pig Of high de-
gree. F. M. Giltner, her breeder, has
sent her to a stock establishment in
Ohio. Her pigness glories in the
name of Alice E. L. 1t would have
been called Alice-for-Short or Alice
fOr-Fat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

EFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
As rule it isn't the stingy woman
who keeps her servants.
If you don't want a girl to consider
you a bore talk to her about herself.
Any fellow who gets up in tho
morning with that dark brown feeling
dresses in bad taste.
white is the prevailing shade"
says a fashion item. Even white lies
are popular.
No one pays any attention to the
blind mans threat to whip another
fellow on sight.
For every man who is willing to be-
lieve the truth there are dozen
eager to believe a lie.
When a fellow can't open his mouth
without giving himself away. would
you call him liberal minded7
Wigg-"My wife tells me your wife
like?" Wagg-"Like a months sal
ary."
No. Maude. dear; to read a woman
like a book it Is not absolutely neces-
sary that she should be of the bold
faced type.
1T is folly to claim that woman is
lacking In the sense Of humor." says
be humored all the time
Blobbs-"Gotrox is very fond of
thousand dollars Slobbs-"Who
cares about how he made his first
thousand? What the public is inter-
ested in Is how he made his last
Guzzler-'sWhen 1 went home last
She actually didn't know me-" Wig
Wag-"How do you account for that 2"
Guzzler-'I don't know. unless If was
because was sober"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
hasn.t tin,ld .bons in hIs body. Aunt

hasn't tinsid sone in his body. Aunt
Il know."fM Miss Caroline agreed. but
I aT sure It's mistake"
Harold sent me these American
beauties" Gloria explained. They
don't go with my hair a bit, but I am
awfully fond Of them, and he knows It,"
Gloria sang that night like siren.
and in the duets she and Harold Cart
wright seemed to rise above reality and
to live in world Of love and song.
Gloria Is lovely woman Miss
Caroline whispered to the minister in q
last act of self effacement. She may
seem frivolous, but she would make
perfect wife for a serious man.
mo doubt, no doubt" McGregor
agreed. but Harold doesn't seem Sc
rious."
"Harold?"
They are in love with each other"
the minister said quietly. ANY one
can see it,"
Miss Caroline stole quick glance at
him, and was met by a serenity that
sent all of her theories flying. Surely he
was hurt-surely he had cared for
Gloria!
But even as she questioned the duet
ended, and 1t was time for her little
speech.
Standing very quietly in front of that
motley audience, she told them why
she was trying to bring music into
their lives. There was always happi-
ness in a song, and even If one were In
deep trouble, there were hymns for COM
forting. Life might be made easier IL
one would carol along the way, easier
for ones self and for the brother who
had not learned to sing. She was teach
ing luIlabys to the little girls, so that
love Of home and of country might be
implanted in their hearts.
And when she had finished her little
talk and come down the aisle, quiet
figure in her gray gown. love Tor her
shone in patient eyes and despairfng
eyes and vacant eyes, and hands were
outstretched to touch her.
The minister, hearing a broken Ital-
ian murmur in front Of him, translat-
ed to Miss Caroline as she took her seat
beside him They say you have a
voice of gold"
"They mean Gloria"
mo, it is you. You do not need the
voice of song, for you to speak with
The voice of love, and they love you"
Worn with excitement, she said with
quivering lips, ct need their love"
Something in her voice made him ask
quickly, "Why?''
IT am all alone
But I love you" he said. Il thought
you knew. But I am a plain mani
scarcely dared to speak oHit."
Her face was tllumined.
Think Of the work we can do to-
gether." was all the outlet she allowed
herself.
But the lover In him shone for a mo-
men in his strong face Think OF
murmured, and then he went to make
his speech, while quiet Miss Caroline. In
the midst Of that listening audience
gloried in her eloquence and Rugged
her happiness to her heart---(Copy-
righted, 1908 by P. c. Eastment)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
President Roosevelt's

President Roosevelt's fame as a
mighty hunter was enhanced greatly
during his recent trip after bear in the
Louisiana canebrakes. On that hunt
he performed a feat which will place
him in conspicuous place among the
marksmen of all ages He hit bear
when his sight was on something else.
So he writes in his account of the hunt
which appears in the current number of
Ecribners. He says: And as I saw
the bear quite distinctly some 20 yards
of, fred for behind the shoulder AL
though I could see her outline. yet the
cane YVES SO thick that my sight was
on IL and not on the bear itself. But
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
KANSAS COMMENT
sPEcIAL sEssIoN Nn HE1p

The effort of Oklahoma to guarantee
deposits has been practically annulled
by the refusal of the comptroller of the
currency to allow national banks to
participate. In the larger cities of Ok
lahoma a big per cent Of the deposits
are in national banks. The state law
of Oklahoma provided that national
banks could participate in the guaranty
into the state fund. Many national
banks were ready to do this when the
federal government destroyed the
dream by forbidding the national
! banks to pay the tax. The national
banks of Oklahoma are now praying
Tor a national guaranty law. A few
of them are thinking of denationaliz-
ing and organizing under the state law.
Others believe that this course is not
necessary and that the strong nation
al banks Will not suffer because Okla
homa is guaranteeing the deposits in
state banks. Some even believe that
the strong state banks will organize
under the national law to escape the
state tax. Thus it will be seen that
Oklahoma has not settled anything by
her state guaranty law. There does
not seem to be anything in the Okla
homa situation to call for a special
session in Kansas. What effect, for in
stance, would a state guaranty law
have in Wichita? Would the rs per
cent of deposits now held in Wichita
national banks leave them and go to
state banks? 1t is hardly possible.
The only possible way by which a
guarantee deposit law may be effec-
tive is to have a national act for ma
tional banks followed by state legisla-
ton for state banks.-Wichita Beacon.
LEAVENWORTH'S MINE FIRE.
Leavenworth recently had a mine
fire. That no one was injured was
due to the fact that no one was in the
mine at the time of the fire, and this
was due to a strike which had been
called.
In many instances such fires during
a strike have been blamed upon the
miners, but not so in the Leavenworth
case. The strikers turned in and
worked like beavers trying to prevent
the destruction of the property of the
people against whom their grievance
rested. AS it is now, the mine will be
age done by the fire Is being repaired.
In the meantime the striking miners
will probably find employment else
where
When the mine is reopened, how
ever, the owners should seek out their
former employees and reinstate them
If possible, at an advance over the sal
airy the men received when they
struck. Men who will so far forget
personal grievances as did those men
should be rewarded, not because of
the work they did so much as for the
purpose of letting them know that the
concern appreciates such conduct.
A great deal of fun has been poked
at Leavenworth by other towns over
the state, all. of course. in a friendly
way But the striking miners who
fought fire to save the mine are worth
most to the concerns that employ
men.-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many feminine forms may be said to
be visual decisions.
~
There are lots of other things be-
sides gold that glitters but they are not
worth near as much.
=
If you haven't anything in particular
to think about try and grasp the mean
ing of eternity.
A rolling stone may gather no moss
but it generally has far more inter-
esting time than one which stays STILL
= 4
You hear a great deal about hered1-
tary vices but you don't hear Of over
worked hereditary getting credit for the
virtues possessed by anyone.
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AMBITIONS.

I long to be a financier,
One of the kiting kind,
With very little in the bank,
But millions in my mind.
Or else a politician gay
For whom the people shout,
With very little work to do,
But heaps to talk about.
Or, an inventor I would be,
And go my whole life through
Enjoying fame because of all
The things I hoped to do.
Or, I would be a novelist,
And comfortably shirk
And let the man who writes the ads
Do all the real work.
Washington Star.