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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
HYHAWKER JOTS

Evidently, the school teachers in
| Coolidge are not taking a great deal
of interest in politics. Out of five ap-
| plicants for certificates at a recent
examination, but one was able to give
the names of the recent Republican
and Democratic candidates for COVER
nor.
1t is seldom that anyone objects to
being held up and robbed by a news
butcher on train, because every per-
son expects to get the worst of it if he
even smiles at the butcher 1t re-
manned for a Neodesha man to bring
suit, because butcher charged him
IS for a accent book.
One Howard woman is trying to re-
duce her flesh by lying down on the
floor once every night and rolling over
twenty times. Somebody told her it
would make her thin if she kept it up
Her husband says the noise she makes
at night sounds like a horse founder
ing around in y@mudhole.-Howard
Courant. - | za
In reply to some critics who CEN
Sured him for voting to increase the
salary of congressman to $500 a
year, Representative Charles F. Scott
writes to the lola Register: at requir-
ed but brief experience as a mem
Der of congress to demonstrate to me
that no man could hold that position
and meet it's expenses on $1,000 a
year. 1 think I will be acquitted by
those who know me of not having
any expensive ndDltS or 11V1nR In an
extravagant fashion, but yet my ac-
tual living expenses, not including the
cost of campaigns, either for the nom
nation or for the election, have ex-
ceeded $4,000 each year since I have
been member of congress. With the
salary at its old figure I should have
been obliged to retire at the end of
my first term if my other business had
not fortunately been making a little
money. An income of $500 a year
looks large and il would be large to
anyone in private life. But 1t dwir-
dies rapidly when it is put up against
the expenses necessarily incident to
holding an important public office A
of congress, if he responds
to the demands upon him, necessarily
travels a great DEAL and railroad
passes are a thing of the past. He
necessarily stops at the best hotels. |
He necessarily wears good clothes. If
he lives with his family, as a civilized
man ought to, he necessarily main |
tains two houses, one, in his home |
town and one in Washington The !
very modest house which I occupy /
here, although nearly four miles from /
the capitol, rents unfinished for SIS
4 month, which must be paid the year
round whether we are here or not.
The cost of everything is enormously |
high -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. l


AS a rule, the climate doesn't make
much difference, if your digestion is
good.
Your opinions are like a good many
other things you possess: OF no value
to anyone but the owner.
Ever kill a cat? Well bet you never
did. You may have drowned kittens,
but probably you never killed a cat.
When amateurs in Coolidge give a
show, they have the good Judgment to
give it at time when eggs are as high
as As cents dozen.
We like a woman who looks at her
husbands bunch of office keys with
awe. and who thinks that financial
battles are fought and won behind
the door of his office that is marked
Private"
The average spin is in this position:
If she makes herself agreeable to an
unmarried man, it is said she is chasing
him, and if she treats a married man
pleasantly she is charged with being d
home-wrecker
In Atchison, a noted caterer is Kate
Handy, colored woman, who is hired
when the women give parties. 1t is
safe to say that there Isn't a woman
in town who doesn't claim to be a bet
ter cook than Kate Handy.
ct like him." we heard man say the
other day, speaking of an 7acquaint-
ance, because he is not practical
joker" No one likes a practical joker,
but everybody adnires a man who at
tends to his business, whatever it may
be.
In the event that a domestic sleuth is
employed by the city at large to run
down borrowed step-ladders and meat
choppers, as suggested recently, his
scope should be widened to include Dor
rowed books. Everything that is Dor
rowed for a few minutes will also be
included, for the articles borrowed for
"a few minutes" are always the ones
that are gone a year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

Each day that is allowed to fit
| away by the business men of the city
and others who are interested in the
! creation of a state fair and its estab-
| lishment in Topeka before a concrete
| organization of some kind is perfected
| to work for such desirable ends is just
| so much valuable time wasted. For
| the successful accomplishment of a
campaign IF the sort that will be
necessary to bring these things about
! all of the time at hand is really too
short. The legislature will be in ses-
sion within little more than a month
and the plans of Topeka and To-
pekans to help in securing an appro-
priation for a state exposition and for
its location in this city should be per-
fected in all details by the time the
legislature is called together.
Although Topeka has advantages,
with its ideal fair grounds already in
existence and its excellent accommo-
dations in many ways for the handling
and entertainment of large crowds,
that other localities in the state have
not it is not going to secure the state
fair by merely resting on these
laurels. All kinds of hard work must
be done if this is to be brought about
There are two candidates in the
field against Topeka for the location
of the fair. They are Wichita and
Hutchinson. Both towns have we'll
earned regulations for the kind of
hustling that counts in undertakings
of this kind, and the men that have
helped to make these cities the sue
cesses that they are, have been active
for some time now in endeavoring to
create a sentiment throughout the
state to the effect that either of their
bailiwicks is more preferable for the
purposes of a state fair than Topeka.
OF course, they have not the facts to
back UP their arguments that To-
pekans would have in making similar
ones. But their arguments will have
considerable force if they are not COM
batted. Any sort of an argument is
bound to be a winning one if there is
no opposition to it. And it is patent
that the Immediate necessity which
confronts Topeka in this regard is to |
discount these arguments by present
ing the facts which make this city |
stand out pre-eminent as the ideal |
place in which to hold the state fair. |
Certainly no work along this line can |
be undertaken successfully unless |
there is an organization of some sort
behind it. 1t is the duty of Topekans |
to form this organization and get busy |
AT oppa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

From the way manuscripts are sent
back it cannot be said that literary re-
turns are slow.
Contributions that are always well
coined by publications are those fur
nishing copy for advertising.
X X
Speaking of cold wea Their, it may be
remarked that no weatherAcan be too
cold for the women who have fur
coats.
A family seldom if ever attracts the
same amount of attention in a neigh
borhood that it does on the day it
moves in.
From the length of the calls that
some fellows make many a girl gets
an idea of what it would mean to
spend eternity with a man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
Unjust to Mail clerks.

Imagine a commercial traveller on a
salary of $500 or never more than
$500 year, having to draw his
daily expense account from his own
pocket. Such a thing is unknown in
the business world, but in the United
states railway mail service it is a
conspicuous fact Men of whom un-
usual reliability and intelligence. are
demanded, whose labor is wearing on
mind and body, and whose pay sup
plies no more than the needs of an
average family, these men are re-
quired by the government to pay for
the food they eat and the beds they
sleep in, while actually in the dis
charge of government business.
They are the only federal en-
ployes who are not allowed an ex-.
pense account when absent from
home on duty. They are subject not
only to hardship, but to discrimina-
ton. Surely the entire public must
share the wish that at its next session
congress will remedy this injustice.
Last year a bill providing for an
appropriation of 100000 annually
to cover this need was presented in
the house and in the senate, but died
before committee. But the bill will
rise again, and every representative of
the people would vote for it, The
efficiency of modern business meth
DDS is due largely to the railway mail
clerk. Every letter we receive is evil
dence of his fafthfulness. He de-
serves at least a reasonable reward
for his. task.-AtIanta Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

prohibitory law has been permitted
by the public officials. AS matter
of fact, any kind of a law. criminal or
civil, would be just as much of fall
ure if it were treated by any. commun-
ity with such scant respect and indif-
ference.
But If the Atchisonians would look
around a bit, they would discover.
that where the prohibition law is hon
estly enforced it is something of a
considerable and decided success.
Many places that will fill this bill.
and cities of good size too, can be
found in Kansas. A visit to any of
them and an investigation of their
conditions will show that prohibit
tory law, rigidly enforced, is a great
blessing to a community, that it is a
powerful instrument in the creation
of law and order and that it effects
countless beneficent results in va
riety of directions.
1t is really a waste of time and en-
ergy for a crowd of Atchison, men,
regardless of its size, to start a move
ment for the repeal of the prohibitory
law. There is absolutely no chance
that it will succeed. A proposition to
repeal the prohibitory law in Kansas
would be voted down in such a deci-
sive fashion that the promoters of the
plan would come in for nothing but
derision.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
Don't call a man a liar unless he is
used to it.
Many a fellow is all right in his
way. but it's the wrong way.
Happiness may also consist of not
getting the things we don't want
There are lots of things we can do
today that we should really put of In
definitely.
Things naturally look run down in
a neighborhood that is infested with
automobiles.
Trouble is the most accommodating
thing in the world to those who are
looking for 1t.
1t is human nature to imagine we
would be satisfied with the things We
know we can't get.
It's no wonder it takes three gem
erationS to make a gentleman II IL
takes nine tailors to make a man.
One woman's admiration for an
other woman is based largely upon
how much the other woman pays for
her clothes.
people refuse to adhere strictly to the
truth" SIobbs-"I suppose because
they are too polite"
"Do YOU think there is any luck in
village loafer. There's more luck in
making new ones" replied the village
blacksmith.
Guzzler-'Don't you ever try to
drown your sorrow in the flowing
BOWL" Wigwag-''The flowing bowl
won't drown mine. 1t only makes my
head SWIM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
A GREAT PLAN. BuT-

Hail, Mr. Westcott members of the
| house of representatives from Cherokee
| county. Hail, indeed. three times and
more. Then a few tigers" and any
thing else that will show great appro-
baton. These are undoubtedly the
sentiments of the members of the KAN
sas legislature over the highly original
plan of tEis gentleman that the mem
bers live on the dormitory plan next
winter for the purposes of economy and
geniality. But this is only the begin
ming of his scheme. He would have the
legislature appropriate a trifing sum
like 100000 for the purpose of build
ing an addition to the capitol to con-
sist of bed chambers. dining rooms,
kitchens and parlors. And right here
it may be remarked that Mr.. Westcott
evidently realizes that there will be no
necessity for smoking rooms. The sem
ate and house of representatives cham
bers before, after and during the ses-
sions are used as smoking rooms. In
fact that is one of the distinguishing
features of a session of the Kansas
legislature as compared with the other
state legislatures in the country, the
using of its legislative halls as smoking
rooms when sessions are being held.
But to revert to Mr.. Westcott's plan.
It's possibilities are endless. OF course
there would have to be some system to
the conduct of the dormitory, some
iron-clad rules would have to be made
to regulate the behavior of the jewellers
therein, of whom there will not be
few obstreperous ones If the personnel
of the coming legislature and the ones
to follow are anything like those which
have gone before. Doors will have to
be locked for the night at specified time. |
Lights will have to go out at GER
tain instant. The rising bell in the
morning will have to be responded to
and meals will be served at exact hours !
with those tardy to them getting the |
worst of it as is always the case In |
mess hall Of any proportions.
All of these things would be most |
conducive, however, toward helping the
members lead most orderly lives and
therefore fit them through conserving |
their health and strength to discharge
their most onerous legislative duties
ficiency. But then the mere mention of
the mess hall calls attention to the
fact that the plan is hardly practical |
BILE at this date. The expense of build i
ing the structure would be nothing as
with the expense incident to |
providing the larder with hay, oats, |
corn and other fodder because of the |
prices prevailing for them at the pres
ent time. So perhaps. Mr.. Westcott's
scheme joyfully appealing as it Is, will |
have to wait, at least, until the prices
of proVender are more reasonable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
A USELESS CRUSADE.

Some liquor enthusiasts in AtcEison
have banded together for the purpose
of starting a crusade for the repeal of
the prohibitory law. They believe that
the liquor traffic can only be control
led adequately through a high license
and local option law, because they are
firmly of the opinion that prohibition
has proven to be a failure. And they
are correct as to their beliefs In this
particular as to localities such as
Atchison where there has never been
more than a half-hearted effort to
enforce the prohibitory law and
where for the most part the local Of
icials have permitted this statute to
be violated fiagrantly. Not only that.
but these officials on occasions have
connived In the violation of the pro-
hibitory law by Ievying licenses on
Joints" and Saloons" for the benefit
of the public treasury but to the
great discredit of the community.
They have also permitted a brewery
to operate in its confines in utter de-
f1ance of the laws. OF a certainty,
prohibition is q failure in places like
Atchison where the prostitution of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

the good lady. There are Mr.. Wynne
and Miss Maurer flirting desperately,
and all the time I've been looking for
you two to introduce you to them.
A CLEAN of interest shone in
Chfsholm's eyes
Dear Mrs Bayard," he suggested
don't you think that perhaps 1t would
be Wen to let that infatuated couple
alone and rest content with introduce
ing US to each other?"
Miss Sprague-Mr. Chisholm" re-
peated the hostess, adding, ct am
sure that you win like Miss Maurer
when You meet her. Mr.. Chisholm"
I am quite convinced OF that"
assented Chisholm calmly. CT am al
ready very grateful to Miss Maurer
Tor occupying Mr.. Wynne's atten-
There was no mistaking the mean
ing and mastery in Chisho1m's tones.
Mrs. Bayard turned and fed. Chisholm
FACED the blushing girl.
since 1T was fate, and not Mrs.
BaYard. who took an interest in our
affairs" he said significantly. Il
that is-there is good half hour be-
fore the supper dance. Let's spend
the time in getting better acquainted"
and he sat down again, this time on
the bench beside her.-(Copyrighted
1908. by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

E. H. Gary. the head of the steel
trust. and of which it has been often
said that the condition of its business
is the pulse of the prosperity of the
country, anticipates a prolonged pc
Rod of prosperous conditions in the
country because of the slow but steady
advance that is now being exper-
fenced in all lines of business activi-
ties. And this is the kind of found
alton that is needed for a lasting
prosperity Wonderful boom times
are generally of all too short duration
and their aftermath is not conducive
to tranquility.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News.1
No woman is as truthful as her
mirror.
Few women waste money-if they
haven't got it.
The meddIesome third party causes
many divorce.
It's nothing to a mans credit II no
one will trust him.
It's a sign a girl likes to be kissed
If she says she doesn't.
A man who never accompnshes
anything always looks the part
It's awfully hard to find your con-
fidence after 1t has been misplaced
When you are expecting an oppor-
tunity it usually misses the train
The average man takes lot OF
credit for doing his duty when COM
PEELED to.
Some people are living examples OF
the conventionality of the uncon-
Ventional.
walking in the sunshine will not al
WAYS enable a man to escape the
shadow of suspicion.
Many a homely woman derives lot
of satisfaction from the be1ef that
she is clever.
The surprising part of surprise
party is the fact that the surprised
party is seldom surprised
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

Real honest confessions, though of
recognized value to the soul, are as
scarce as hens teeth, and so no one
should lose the opportunity of extend
ing most sincere congratulations and
words of praise to the Sa1ina butcher
for his declaration after an unexpect-
ed meeting in his shop with a burg
lar. When the butcher fiicked on a
light suddenly the burglar, who was
working at the safe, jumped up with
q start and made a hurried getaway
without doing anything more than to
inf1ict a severe scowl on the butcher.
And he, who is now distinguished
above average folks. remarked to
some friends to whom he was narrat-
ing the incident: And if he was as
scared as I was, he will not come
back
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

There is great gayety in Chicago,
and no wonder. The Reverend Will
liam Danforth, a prominent clergymen
there is also something of a play
wright. One of his recent efforts in
this line was produced the other day
at local theater and imagine the
horror of the distinguished divine on
the first production of the play when
he was forced to sit in his seat and
listen to real cuss words which had
been interpolated in some of the lines
by the man who staged the piece. Can
q greater horror be imagined? Well,
hardly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.

Even if you don't tell a girl she is
pretty when she isn't she knows it's
because you are bashful.
Nothing takes the point out of a
Joke so much as for somebody else to
get it off ahead of you.
The reason a girl can always make
a fool of a man is she lets him think
he is making one of her.
There's hardly anything seems so
extravagant to man as to ride in a
cab instead of street car if it's with
any of his own family
The thing that seares woman to
death is to think what an awful thing
it would be for her baby to be
drowned in the bath tub if she had a
baby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

All possible encouragement should
be given to the plan which has been
projected by the state historical So
ciety for the erection of a new state
building to be used as a home for this
organization, the state G. A r. head
quarters, the Horticultural society
and other such state departments.
With the growth of the state and the
development and necessary amplifica-
ton of the state departments there is
scarcity of room in the capitol, and
the departments named have nothing
like the accommodations they need
A separate and adequate building
should be provided for them by all
means
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

In all likelihood the volunteers for
the voyage that Evelyn B. Baldwin
proposes to make in his quest of the
North Pole will not be numerous. He
proposes to float to it through the polar
seas on an ice foe. The estimated
period for this voyage is three and one
half years. But at that.-this PROPOSE
ton ought to be particularly interest
ing to the people of this state because
Mr.. Baldwin once lived here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

Announcement has been made in
the Pail Mall Gazette of a forthcom-
ing treaty and alliance between Great
Britain and Holland and the predic-
ton is made that other European gov
ernments will soon arrange treaties
for the protection of the Neither
lands. If this is true it is but another
shaft aimed at Kaiser Wilhelm and
another step in the diplomatic isoIa-
ton of Germany. The possibility that
Germany might acquire Holland has
long been regarded as a menace in
England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

No sooner do the friends of one of the
younger of the Representatives. ELECT set
up a claim that their man will be the
youngest member of the next Kansas
legislature than another candidate for
this honor hobs up. The latest is Mr..
San Francisco. of Cimarron. He is all
of 81 years old. He might well have
kept his age dark and let some other
fellow glory in being the youngest man
IN the house, for certainly all the fame
that one man can stand will come to
him because of his name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04
WHEN RIoon rEds.

When you think you're beaten squarely
In the race. you'll find tits rarely
That you haven't coming still another
think:
When your strife seems unavailing
And you find your courage failing
You can always let out still another
link.
When you're beaten to a FRAGILE
And YOU work razZle- dazzle
And show yourself the winner by a
head:
When your friends are all forsaling
And YOU think your heart is breaking
1t is then you prove that you are thor
oughbred.
Chicago Record-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

Politics in a certain ward in Chi
cage are to be placed on another level
If Battling Nelson the prize-fghter
has his way. He doesn't like the way
the territory is represented in the
city council so he is going to become
a Republican candidate for alderman
at the next primaries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

Evidently the east is pluming itself
to affix the designation of wild and
woolly" which the west discarded
sometime back A bank robbery of
considerable proportions was pulled
off the other day with great success at
PeppereI, Mass