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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24
Some Animals Chumuy.

mans ancestor had been the ma
Jestlc mastodon instead of a malicious
which has become a hereditary instinct
IN nearly all animals would no doubt
be absent. Wherever man comes into
contact with birds and beasts which
have never been r1olested, as in the
arctic. these display no emotions but
those of curiosity and disdain.
The classic example of alliance be-
tween animals OF different species is,
of course, the friendship between man
ana dog. When to the strength and
cunning of mans monkey ancestor was
added the speed of the dog, an irresist-
ible combination was secured which
ended in the perfidious enslavement Of
the lower creature by man.
Birds are nothing but snakes which
have evolved feathers and wings dur
ing countless millenniums. The in
eradicable hatred between monkeys
changed into the friendly tolerance
between birds and men. Owls, which
are instantly mobbed by all birds,
should they appear in public, find
friendly shelter in barns by reason of
their rat-catching proclivities. The
long-legged birds. such as storks. peli-
cans, and cranes, have also procured
immunity in most parts of the world
Among the fishes, sharks extend a
peculiar protection toward "a fish of
the remora family, which, too lazy to
propel itself through the water, at
taches itself to the larger fish by
means of suction ridges upon the head
In South Africa, where insect life is,
perhaps, more abundant than in any
other part of the world, sheep may Of
ten be seen placidly grazing while
birds Of a certain species hop busily
about their backs engaged in the des-
truction of insect parasites.
The lion, which will kill and eat
nearly all species of wild game, never
molests the jackal, who, sinking be-
hind him. finishes the half-eaten prey.
Hunters will hear his long-drawn
howl succeed the musical roar Of the
big cat when he comes to devour his
masters leavings. But the lion has
an inveterate enemy in the honeybird
which will fly toward the hunter and
lead him through the thick bush till
he has pointed out the lions lair, or
sometimes store of honey.-Harper's
Weekly. 80 ..-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24

1t does not take much to encourage
some people. This is evidenced by the
expressed feelings of several gentlemen
who are in the field for nominations of
one sort or another at the state Re-
publican primaries Ia August
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24
HU1AOR or THE Day

Miss Esmeralda, do you ever think Of
often and deeply, Mr.. Chuckstsr.
suppose that's why I don't marry."-Chi-
Mrs; Fiynn-Th' landlord has raised tn
Mr.. Flynn-Th' hear-rtless writchl It
wor all we could DO ivry month to bate
him out ay tin!-Pnck.
MY wife insisted upon my attending her
pink tea yesterday afternoon. and simp-
Wv. 1aS 70 so owear s. un ,Ss, my breath.
die. sss soS!s SS' Tnsss w;r' .s Ia
Dolan with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS! but
thinks he's out av soight whin he puts his
Mrs. Dolan-iiow loike a man whin he
puts his head in a silk hat!-Judge.
Mrs. Goodart-If give you some money
VIII lx you promise not to spend it in the
Thirsty Tim-Sure. ma am. IL yer gimme
enough ter make de delay an de extra
walk wort OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Press.
A new squire has arrived at the hall and
the village reprobate has been calling
the gate: Lady-But think You are max
ing a mistake. am the governess.
ere n .hsys Kep pssn are yeri And
Punch.
Traveller Gin station restaurant)-fIi.
waiter. this is a pretty small beefsteak.
,,,n Wait te but you see, If you had
Wiener Caricaturen.
,..S Mhen was your age, the young mans
Iatner severely declared, II spent pennies
where you spend dollars" w
But you must remember. dad, that no
for the Solars 1tahm at rs T SioMlns much
Chicago Record-Herald.
Green-what's the maxim about taking
care OF the pennies?
lei Br ,Ss care Of your pennies and
Of take care
Chariemagne sighed NO." he remark
a erman am nothing him Ike as i,ndspensable to
with he meekly took back seat in his
The famous ballplayer was looking
though the sporting columns Of the news
on doing which he secured one s more men, nn-
ton IN the newspapers.-Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Popley-Mr. D'Auber remarked to
Mr.. Popley-oh. that's the way with
make people think well OF those old clas-
steal heroes-Philadelphia Press
The Storekeeper (of Plainfield)-I see as
how they're maxim planners NOWADAYS
with them there mechanerical. players
right inside 'em. -.
Farmer Grayson-weil! Wen, Looks
like the forerunner Nv the cow that'n do
her own crean1-saparafins b goeh.-Puck.
mother was giving her little girl a
bath when she said: ct wondsr where
this dust on the water came from ?''
Small Giri-Perhaps I leak somewhere.
mamma. You know, I'm made Of dust
The Circle.
But your minister IL gruf"
Kinder"
And chews tobacco"
Were satisfied. Them sort don't run
much to aninities, or such il our expert
ence."-Washington Herald.
The Wrong Place.-A shade BUSTED up
to ct. Peter. My good man." he said,
will you tell me where / must go to pro-
cure souvenir postcards?"
And st. Peter. cycling him oourly told
him where he could go to.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24
KANSAS COMMENT
WHEREIN GERMANY LEADS.

Germans and Germany never let a
day pass without accomplishing some
thing, moreover such an accomplish
ment as commands the admiration of
other nations and their people. Science
has found the most nutritive soil in
those continental states, as has any
other movement which makes for pro-
gress. Not alone to the mighty and
powerful forces in progress do the
people OF that nation devote them
selves. No opportunity is so unpre-
tentious as to be missed by them.
Just now German educators. noting
the wide and strong interest in postal
cards, have taken advantage of the
card collecting and card distributing
craze to help their work. They have
engrafted instruction in German his
tory. geography. natural history and
other subjects upon popular fad.
Children buy these cards and ex-
change them with their playmates.
They keep increasing collections of the
picture cards, and looking over their
treasures is one O ftheir natural joys.
helps the work of the schools is so
much added to the educational forces
or the German empire. Parents take
only less interest in the cards than
their children, and the spreading
abroad of useful information goes on
at rate which gives great SATISFACTION
to the men who have discovered this
way of turning a fad to account. for
the pubic good
This method of supplementing the
work of the schools ought to work
we'll in America. In no other country
do children have so much money to
spend, and in none do fads run a more
violent course. The experiment is
surely worth trying. 1t can't do harm
and may prove very useful.-Wichita
Eagle.
THE FATE OF TRESPASSERs.
We have the idea that our American
railroads kill many passengers. Yet
almost ten trespassers are killed to
every passenger killed, is remark
able statement in the Atlantic We
believe that the trainman takes his
life in his hands. yet. more than twice
as many trespassers annually sustain
fatal accidents. When we read that in
five years 1894 trespassers were killed
by railroads, and 25,236 trespassers in
jured, we wonder that there should be
left living single Jack the Hobo to
wash his shirt. Were this army Of the
dead lying but three feet apart along
the trackside in CHASTITY regularity they
would stretch out for nearly fourteen
miles. At a brisk walk, it would take
four hours to reach the end of the line.
And then, were all those reported in
jured in the last five years lying but
three feet apart, we should be Obliged
to walk for more than four hours more
before we reached the end of this Sec
ond line The Baltimore & Ohio repre-
sentative said that many railroads
maintain private tramp graveyards,"
in which are buried many of the I'M
known dead without inquest and with
expedition Question: How many city
graveyards could be annually filled
with the unrecorded, unreported vag-
rant dead?-Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24

Any number of states in the union
would like to get hold OF Ohio's rec
ipe for developing men of the largest
possible national caliber.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24
Inquiry Into Wall Street.

While the American public will take
sympathetic interest in all the re-
commentators of Governor Hughes
message to the special session of the
New York legislature, one at least is
of immediate practical concern to the
country at large. This is the recon-
mendation for a commission to deter
mine the facts in relation to specula-
ton in securities and commodities on
the New York Stock exchange.
Such a commission, properly con-
stituted, as 1t would be IL made up by
Governor Hughes could undoubtedly
upon thorough and impartial investi-
cation provide a basis for wise and
necessary legislation which should
protect legitimate transactions and
correct the worst abuses now existent.
Regulation in such matters is recog-
nized by the country at large as a deli
cate problem, and there is no DISPOSE
ton to tamper without knowledge.
The public has considerable excuse
for exaggerating the evils of Wall
street. and with good reason a deter
mination is growing to check them.
The business of the country is serious
ly compromised by the fragrant sins of
a few On the other hand, the true
functions of the stock exchange are
perhaps recognized more widely than
ever and the country, especially the
west, wishes to see them safe guarded.
The investigation proposed by Cover
nor Hughes would help to clarity the
atmosphere and probably would show
how much larger a proportion of le-
Ultimate business is transacted than is
generally Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24
Auples for Sleeplessness.

The apple is such common fruit,
.avs medical writer. that very few
persons are familiar with its remark
ably efficacious medicinal properties
hast thing he can do is to eat ap-
ples lust before retiring for the night:
Persons uninitiated in the mysteries Of
fruit are liable to throw up their hands
in horror at the visions of dyspepsia
which such a suggestion may summon
delicate system by the eating OF the
rine and juicy apple before going 10
bed. The apple is excellent brain food
because it has more phosphoric acid in
easily digested shape than any other
fruit 1t excites the action or the nVeI;
nromotes sound and healthy sleep. and
thoroughly disinfects the mouth. ms
is not all; the apple prevents indiges-
ton and throat diseases.-London
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24
The Salcey Oak.

Salcey forest, near Northampton,
where some fine old oak trees have
been damaged by fire, is the best
known of all the royal forests, though
it formerly extended across the bor-
der into Buckinghamshire. and there
are still nearly 1000 acres in charge
of the commissioners of woods and
forests. 1t was settled in 1868 with
out timber" by Charles II upon Queen
Catherine as part of her jointure. The
great glory of this forest has been
the Salcey oak, now a mere pic
turesque sylvan ruin. which is forty
seven feet in circumference ana
tabled to. be 1900 years old. This
famous tree was spared, not for senti-
mental reasons, in the eighteenth CEN
fury. when all the finest oaks were
felled for the navy by shipwrights
from Deptford dockyard. who CON
verified" the wood on the spot to save
the excessive cost of transport
westminster Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24

Green-Whats the maxim about taking
care of the pennies?
Brown-Take care Of your pennies and
let the get-rich-quick schemes take care
OF Observation-Disclosures News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24

Traveller Gin station restaurant)-fIf.
waiter. this is pretty small beefsteak
Wafter-Yes, but you see, II you had
more to eat you would lose your train
Wiener Caricaturen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24

Chariemagne sighed. NO." he remark
Cd. Il am nothing like as Indispensable to
Germany as that Tower fellow" Here
with he meekly took back seat in his
tory.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24

The famous ballplayer was looking
though the sporting columns of the news
papers. II see they've quit mentioning
me-. he said. Il may as well sign" Up
on DOING which he secured one more men
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-17
PERFORMANCE VS.. PROMISE.
Response Of Republicans to Peoples
Wishes Contrasted with Demo-
cratic Proposals.
(From Gov. Hughes Youngstown
SDeech

(From Gov Hughes youngstown
Speech.)
'When we consider the inevitable
conflict of many opinions and the i'm
portance of the questions involved the
record of progressive legislation is ex-
traordinary. The creation of the bu-
reau OF corporations, the railroad rate
bill, tie employers liability bill and
the laws passed for the better protec-
ton OF labor constitute a record of
legislation which no just critic can at
ford to minimize, and which attests iii
a marked manner the response of the
Republican party under it's forceful
leadership to the demands Of the people.
'If all that Mr.. Bryan has favored
during the last twelve years had been
enacted into law we should have been
overwhelmed with disaster, and would
regard it as our chief business in the
future to fird a way Of escape from
the meshes Of i'll considered legislation
in which we would have been entangled.
1t is fortunate for him as well as for
us that he was defeated, ana Whatever
may be his present political potential
ity may be ascribed to the fact that
hitherto he has not been permitted to
carry out his program. No doubt much
remains to be accomplished in the way
of necessary reform, but the record
already made by the Republican party
is a noteworthy one, and we must make
further advances with care and needed
reflection. Our progress will be in
trusted to safe hands, and we shall be
fortunate in having a sailing master
who knows his chart and who will take
quite as much account of reefs and
shoals as of the speed of the vessel.
We have got our direction, we have
a most precious cargo, and we must
have a safe and experienced pilot"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-17

and private, may be summed up in a
single sentence:
Il dare to do all that may become q
man; Who dares do more is none"
The call of the people is for Will
liam Howard Taft. They know him.
He is one of them. There is need this
year of a leader of practical eXper-
fence in public affairs whose principles
over night, and whose record in high
Office is sufficient guaranty for ais
future performance. Mr.. Taft fulflls
that requirement in every detail. His
record is an unbroken story of accom-
plished results for the public welfare.
No act or utterance of his requires
apology or explanation. He is Meth
err dodger nor a trimmer. He has
encountered many difficulties and mas
tered them ALL His cheeriness, broad
humanity, integrity and devotion to the
principles which have made the Re-
public great and powerful distinguish
him as an ideal of American citizen
ship.
In the great political campaign upon
which the country is about to enter no.
body will have the slightest excuse for
misunderstanding the attitude or
the purpose of William Howard Taft
The record of the Republican nominee
is an open book in which there Is
naither evasion nor contradiction He
stands by the party platform and by
the history of the party's achievements.
The Republican party presents him to
the people as statesman and patriot
worthy to rank in succession with the
great leaders of American progress
whose names, from Lincoln and Grant
to Mckinley and Roosevelt, are unsep-
arably associated with the noblest tri-
umphs of the Republic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-17
BRYAN TRUE To SILVER |. OIL
Belief In His Panacea Will Remain
Unshaken.
Declaration of Faith Made to Cover
the Past, the Present and the
Future.

1t would be extremely unkind to
say that Mr.. Bryan is tickle in his
political belief His best friends
would be the last to make such an
assertion, for they realize thoroughly
that their leader, when he has once
implanted a conviction firmly in his
mind, clings to it like grim death.
This is especially true of Mr..
Bryan's attitude on the silver ques-
ton through which he first rose to
prominence. He has very little to say
about that question at present, but
that he is absolutely certain that
it is a subject of the greatest i'm
portance and that his own particular
financial panacea is the only safe
guide for the United States may be
plainly seen from the following ex-
tracts from his collected wisdom:
In an address at the Jefferson Club
banquet at Lincoln, Neb., December
20, 1900, Mr.. Bryan said:
'@The principles for which we con-
tended in the last campaign still live,
and we who believe in them must
continue to fight for them. An cleo
ton does not change principles; it
only determines what principles shall
for the time being be applied"
In the North American Review, in
the same month, Mr.. Bryan recorded
this declaration of faith:
ITO consider this election as de-
cisive of the money question would
be as absurd as to have regarded the
election of 1896 as decisive of the
tariff question. 1t would be more
reasonable to regard the late election
as conclusive upon the question of
Imperialism or upon the trust ques-
ton, both of which were discussed
more by our people than the money
question. Is
'The increased production of gold
has lessened the strain upon gold,
and had to some extent brought the
relief which Democrats proposed to
bring in q larger measure by the re-
storation of silver; but there is no
assurances whatever that the gold
supply, even with the new discoveries,
will be sufficient to maintain the level
OF prices. Favorable conditions have
given us an abnormal share of the
worlds supply of gold, but the
scarcity of the yellow metal abroad
is already leading to the export of
gold, while the increase in the issue
of banknotes is evidence that we are
still short of money here. The Re
publicans defend the gold standard
not by logic, but by giving it credit
for better times. When prosperity
fails, the gold standard will lose it's
charm"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-17

ment from the bench that we shall find
the most remarkable evolutions in MI.
Taft's development as an American
statesman.
The country had gone through an I'M
sought war, the successful outcome OF
which imposed new and enormous re-
sponsibilities upon the National Gov
eminent, and placed the United States
in the attitude of a first class power,
obliged to face the perils of permanent
contact with Old World nationalities.
Momentous problems arose-partly ra-
cial, partly religious, partly constitu-
tional-all complex and urgent. They
required an immediate revision and en-
largement of American foreign policy.
| They required also the services of a
new school of American statesmen and
diplomats, who should be constructive,
self-reliant and capable of dealing with
grave conditions in a manner creditable
to the National honor and just to in
ternational interests.
Among the patriotic, broad-minded
statesmen whom this changed condition
Of international affairs called into the
service of the United States none has
exerted so wide or so wholesome an in
iuence as William Howard Taft.
Porto Rico and the Philippines had be-
come American territory, requiring
American treatment. Cuba, an indie
pendent nation by the grace of the
1 Ofot oh
of kindly solicitude to the Government
at Washington, and has been ever since.
The Republic of Panama came into ex-
istence, bringing with it the terrific
rial understanding essential to the con-
struction of the isthmian canal, but
ties of discord in Central America
against which the United States is of
it's own voliti0n the guarantor.
That these vexatious problems have
all thus far advanced toward an HON
orable solution is due more to William
Howard Taft than to any other indi
vidual. He has been the builder and
exemplar of the new American policy.
He has given to the inhabitants of our
insular possessions a convincing assur-
ance of the integrity of American pur-
pose. To the Philippines, to Hawaii,
to Porto Rico and to Panama he has
gone as a messenger of American good
will and fair play-and in all those
territories he is gratefully recognized
as their friend and protector In him
they have an advocate of the forces
and methods that make for peace, pro
gress and brotherhood under Ameri
can sovereignty.
Mr.. Taft is a many-sided man. He
works hard and plays hard. He radi-
ates geniality and sunshine. As a
nudge he was both just and gentle.
AS Governor of the Philippines his
courtesy. tact, sympathy and forbear-
ance gave TO the people of tne Orient
an exalted ideal of American dignity
and American manhood. As Secretary
of War he elevated the standards of
tbe military service and gave increased
security to the National defenses.
He combines the executive faculty
with the judicial in the highest de-
gree, and his rule Of life, both public
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-17
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
A Man Who Has Done Things.

A Man Who Has Done Things.
Responding to the call of the ma
ton for a man equal to the emergen-
cies confronting the Republic, the
people themselves have found him and
presented him to the electorate.
Naturally, the people sought among
themselves for one truly representa-
tive to the highest ideals of American
citizenship. Their misunderstanding
and correct valuation of men led them
to the individual who more thoroughly
than any other fulfilled their require
ments-and that was William Howard
Taft.
William Howard Taft, Of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, probably is the way ne
would designate himself. That desig-
nation, however, is grossly inadequate.
For while Mr.. Taft is an American of
Americans, he is also a citizen of the
world who, as invited guest, counselor
and adviser of foreign governments,
has eXerted an influence for peace and
international good will unsurpassed by
that of any other American statesman
living or dead.
The dignity of private citizenship,
which he enjoys to-day, is in perfect
accord with his temperament and in
clination. There never has been, nor
will there ever be, anything in official
honor sufficiently alluring to draw Mr.
Taft away from his lifelong identity
with the plain people.
AS a boy in Cincinnati he was ready
to give and take in all the stirring
controversies, mental and physical
which give effect to the law of the
survival of the f1ttest. AS a student
at Yale he displayed all the qualities
of wholesome young manhood which
have made that university famous, and
the endearing traits of his character
were honored at the reunion of ais
class during the recent summer by a
celebration more delightful to him, per-
haps, than any other demonstration of
public favor possibly could be.
In the frank, fearless, boyhood and
college life of William Howard Taft
there was the promise of an ear
nest, generous, upright manhood.
That promise has been completely and
splendidly fulfilled. The serious af-
fairs of life appealed irresistibly to the
young collegian after his graduation,
and at the early age of twenty-four he
appeared as Assistant Solicitor in his
home country.
Mr. Tafts professional advancement
from the position of Superior Court
Judge and Solicitor General to a seat
on the bench of the United States Dis
trict Court was due solely to frank
recognition of his proved integrity, his
diligence and impartiality in the ad-
ministration of justice and his loyalty
to the ioftiest standards of judicial
conduct. 1t is said of him by one who.
as a lawyer, knew him we'll: HE was
the gentlest, fairest and most upright
of ell judges before whom 1 have prac-
ticel. He was as incapable of doing an
unkind or an unjust thing as snow is
of turning into SCOT"
1t is. however, in his career since his
voluntary = though reluctant - retire