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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
AYHAWKER JOTS

There was not single death re-
ported III lola from February II I'M
til March 1.
Clayton is getting excited over the
way it Is growing. A second barber
has started up business here.
Burlington has definitely decided
to have an ice plant and local COM
pany has been formed to esta blish
one.
j. c. Atchison, of Agra, reports a
yield during one year of s425 from
eleven cows for cream sold after
using all the butter and milk his
family required
lola claims to be the home of bull
dog that is so intelligent that it I'M
phone to come home when the re-
ceiver is placed at its ear.
James E. Alger and wife who have
lived on the same farm near Douglass
for thirty-five years have sold it for
SIS an acre and are gong to move to
town to take life easy in the future.
Wichita women qualified as judges
the city election their way a year
ago. They now ask to be appointed
in each precinct as judges of cleo
tons.
The Salina Journal has amended
the square deal by lacking on this
issue: Equal condemnation for the
man who falls downstairs on the way
to breakfast as for the man who falls
upstairs on the way to bed.
Cognizance is taken of the fact by
the Coffeyville papers that the frogs
are croaking this spring in the ponds
in the city just the same as they did
last summer and the belief Is ex-
pressed that probably they are the
same frogs.
1t has developed that the wolf
lately killed near Holton by Miss
Ethel Williamson, and which re-
suited in this young lady getting much
notoriety for bravery. was one that
had been raised by a farmer as pet
from cub.
Mckinney lake, near Lakin, has
been alive with ducks on several days
of late. The hunters are handicapped
because there is no skiff or boat on
the lake and it is therefore difficult to
secure the game they shoot. This is
a good excuse for empty bags.
The editor of the Oberlin Eye re-
marks that most of the boys in town
have already purchased their new
thirty dollar spring suits. This leads
the editor to remark that when he
was a boy a seven dollar suit would
make young man step higher than
a blind horse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News. ]

IFrom the Chicago NeWs.l
What man has done woman can
undo.
Help the actor along by giving him
the glad hand.
1t is easier to cultivate a girls
IMAGINATION than her voice.
Lots of men would be good hus-
hands il they had better wives.
He's a brave man who tries to stop
a woman's runaway tongue.
Lack of credit prevents some peo-
pie from living beyond their means.
No man is half as smart as his wife
tries to make people believe he Is
A man who owes another grudge
is sure to be Johnny on the spot on
MANY a man gets ahead by Undue
ing other men to put their shoulders
to his wheel.
You can learn a little each day
unless you happen to be one OF those
wise persons who know 1t all.
It's easy to convince the world that
Won have sense after you have sue
ceeded in accommodating large pile
of dollars.
According to statistics. one woman
out of a million can open telegram
with as little emotion as she dis-
plays in opening q can OF corn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
THE PESTS OF SOCIETY.

The anarchist who made an at
tempt upon the life of the chief of
police of Chicago had been in this
country only three months. The man
who killed the Roman Catholic priest
at Denver had not been here very
long. Neither of them was here a
sufficient length Of time to learn any
thing of our country and it's free in
situations.
The man killed in Chicago left his
native land to escape persecution. He
was forced to fee from his home in
kishenev like hunted animal The
man in Denver came from a hot-bed
of anarchy and crime in Sicily. Both
landed in this country with the belief
that government was oppression and
that officers of the law were their per-
sonal enemies.
They were unable to distinguish
between despotic and republican gov
eminent. or between government by
the people and government by a privf-
legged class. Coming here with a
blind and unreasoning hatred of law
and authority they became the pupils
and followers of those who abuse
their rights and privileges under our
liberal laws by teaching treason and
murder. They were soon ready for
any crime.
1t is not only possible, but prob
able, that men who come to this coun-
try as anarchists and who were made
the foes of law through oppression
and injustice in their native lands
would look upon government and law
in ic~h =
under the proper influences and edu-
cation when they come here. Even
II left to themselves their own
observations, if they had ordinary in
telligence. would lead them to dis
tinguish between free government
and the kind of government they
knew at home.
But in addition to maintaining
practically wide open doors for anar-
chists at our ports we tolerate schools
of crime which take the ignorant
immigrant and turn him into a blood
thirsty animal rather than a useful
member of society. These training
schools and lecture bureaus for trea-
son and murder are run openly and
| when a move is made for their sun
preston then we hear prot ests
against interference with the right OF
free speech.
1t is true that this anarchy of the
| upper strata aids in breed
| ing the anarchy we find below. But
| one does not excuse the other and
we should be tolerant of neither
And inasmuch as it is possible te
keep one class of anarchists out OF
| the country, If the proper steps were
taken, we should not permit those al.
ready here. the native products OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe. u

Old men are afraid of young men
because they are tattlers. Old men
learn that it does not do to talk too
much.
They used to say that there was one
crop that never failed, and that was
the crop of children. You can't say
that any more.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned woman who gave her sons
medicine when they fell in love, and
their appetites fell off?
You can take your choice: 1t is
usually that you will have good
stomach and no food, or good food
and a poor stomach.
If you want to hear talk" you
should hear the women when they
get to going about woman who is
trying to butt into society.
Occasionally you hear of a digni-
fed quarrel. There is no such thing.
The most dignified person in the
world loses his dignity when he be-
comes mad.
In one respect men are wiser than
women. A girl, however poor she
may be, expects to marry a prince at
least. A poor man never expects to
marry princess.
When girl plays the low tones on
piano very low, and the loud ones
as hard as she can pound, she thinks
that is all there is to playing with
expression and feeling
An Atchison man says that he has
noticed that when a woman does not
pu. a tombstone over her husbands
grave the first year after his death,
she never does 1T at all.
After woman has worked HARD to
keep her husbands love then what
has she got? This question will be
deiberated upon al a coming meeting
of the Lancaster Literary society
There is a girl in Atchison who
has to ask the consent Of five people
before she can do nothing. They are
her mother, grandmother, grand
| father. bachelor uncle, and rich aunt,
She has a father, but he doesn' I
count.
Plenty of people pretend to think
that the people are very wicked these
days, and that they were very much
better a long time ago. An old lady
who is 80, said to a friend the other
| day: The further back can re-
member. the worse people were. This
| is the golden age. people are better
now than they ever were before"
| You may not be able to tell farm
| er's wife from the wife of a city man
| by the clothes she wears; she dresses
as we'll as the city woman But in
| one way you can always tell a farm
er'S wife: when she goes to a resstau-
rant with her husband she ALWAYS
waits until he orders, and then saws
to the waitress: Same for me
please"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
YOUNG MEN WHO SMOKE.

DR.. George L. Meylan, the physical
director Of Columbia university, en-
beavers to lead us to believe that the
use Of tobacco does not injure the
physical welfare of young men in the
late teens and early twenties. DIR. Mey-
Ian does not present arguments-h
gives facts. He examined the young
men entering Columbia university and
found that the smokers were in every
way superior physically to the nom
smokers. They excelled in weight, in
height in lung capacity and in muscu-
lar power. In each case the figures are
given. and DR.. Meylan, apparently
against his will states that the investf-
cations prove conclusively that smok-
ing is not injurious to young men; at
least not in the commonly believed
manner. He has, of course, made no
investigation of the effects of nicotine
upon mentality.
There is one peculiarly interesting
feature of Dr.. Meylans report. This is
the fact that the lung capacity ofhabit-
ual smokers is greater than that of
young men who do not smoke. One of
the most commonly accepted state
ments of Psychologists is to the effect
that smoking in youth impairs the pow
er of the lungs. In Columbia DR.. Mey-
Ian found that the average lung capacI-
ty of smokers was 415 liters, while that
of the non-smokers was 4.N liters.
DR.. Meylan does not recommend boys
to smoke as hygienic measure, neither
does he present any case in favor Of
nicotine. He merely gives the figures
as he found them. He knows, of course,
and says so, of the deleterious effect of
nicotine on the heart even though this
does not show in physical tests. He
also must know that there is no doubt
of the truth that young children are
stunted mentally. morally and physic-
ally by the use of tobacco. Neither of
these facts does DR.. Meylan attempt to
controvert. His observations merely
prove that young men, of the college
age, are not physically harmed. as far
as muscular development is concerned,
by smoking. He does not believe that
smoking is positively beneficial, as
might be drawn from his figures. The
physical superiority of smokers, DR..
Meylan believes, is due to the fact that
the stronger men naturally take to
smoking, while most of the weaker ones
are included in the class of non-smok-
ers.
So, as a matter of fact, DR.. Meylan
does not. after all, present so strong a
case in favor Of tobacco as appears at
first glance. He does believe that the
evil has been exaggerated, and that
smoking is not baneful to college men.
That it Is a great danger in early youth
and that, carried to excess, it tends to
overstrain the heart and causes other
ailments. the Columbia physical direc-
tor does not attempt to deny
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
HOW TO CURE TT

Pack the victim I'D in ice.
steam him In a vapor bath.
Let him wander in the snow
barefoot on the garden path
GIVE him qu1nine twice a day
mixed with whisky two years old.
Have him say some mystic words
That's the way to cure cold.
Let him exercise his faith:
That is certain to succeed
There are twenty patent dopes
That are also guaranteed
Herbs that by an ancient dame
IN a copper pot are brewed
Ii that doesn't drive 1t hence,
He might try some breakfast food
Fasting is a splendid thing
When the throat and lungs are sore:
Keep it up for thirty days
If you do not die before
Treat 1t to the open air,
Sleep with all your windows wide,
with your arms and legs exposed
Though it's ten below outside.
Whafs the use to have a cold?
why continue with a cough
when there are on every hand
Remedies to throw 1t Off
Remedies that never fail,
Though the starry heavens fall,
mat your dearest friends have used?
Quit your job and try them all
Nashville American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press

[From the New York Press.l
The safest way to keep your monav
from being hoaxe1 out of you is tn
spend 1t.
A girl calls it making love to h.
when she sees you go past her hous
in street car.
The unfortunate thing about bs;r-
fat woman Is that even a shaw
seems tight for her.
A man can get tremendously earn
est over an argument if he doesn't
know anything about it.
A woman seems to feel it's a raf,..
ton on her social position r. 81
doesn't undergo some hirh-nr,oaS
surgical operation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09

Catherine, miserably, and she told o,
their meeting that morning.
Aunt Kitty listened and debated.
and finally she said Suppose we go
to Marf1eld's for lunch 2"
Catherine stood up. "Oh, do you
really think we would find him." she
quavered.
WELL" said wise Aunt Kitty, ar
think we might. He may not be eat
ing much, but habit will make him.
And when they came to the sixth
floor OF the big store they saw at this
table at the far end of the grill room
young man who stared blankly out
OF the window, where the March
winds whistled and sang over the
roofs
Hes there. Aunt Kitty said
Catherine, breathlessIy
Then I will leave you" said Aunt
Kitty. For once I'll chaperon you in
spirit
The young man at the far table
had eaten nothing, but as he drank
his third cup Of coffee there came to
the table a vision as radiant as the
morning, and the vision said, May
have lunch with your
"Catherine!" he whispered, as one
in a dream.
'And please order things that will
be nice for anniversaries" the vision
went on.
For anniversaries?" he had pulled
out her chair, and helped her with
her wraps, doing the things that must
be done, because of curious eyes, but
still in a dream.
"BecauSe-when we are-married
II think It would be-nfce-to come
here, don't your" stammered the tim
i'd voice, and now the vision was rosy
with bushes.
And after that the March winds
how1ed and tore over the roofs I'M
needed by the two happy people who
had that morning been buffeted by its
cruel asts-(Copyrighted 1908 by
E. c. Parcells.)
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appears in the current number of the
North American Review, he calls at
tention to an important feature of the
proposition which has been overlooked
to certain extent. The adoption of the
plan would inevitably tend, he points
out, toward the improvement of the
roads. Improved roads mean improv-
ed conditions and better facilities for
the farmer in transporting his goods to
market. The establishment of rural
routes has already. especially in the
south and west, increased the value of
farms, and another advance should
come from the Inauguration of the
special local parcels post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
HUAOR or THE DAY

Phoebe-You would hardly know Freddy
since he got back from Monte Carlo. He
e Evei ely Is Know him! why,
shan't know him at all-Illustrated Bits.
Briggs-I hear you've been specializing
Grfbbs-There was no specializing about
it. I was dead sure thing from the
Say. mister" said the small boy. lem
or replied the ladylike Mr.. Cissy, my
satche1 isn't heavy.
No, know it wouldn't be heavy for
Ollie Standard and Times
Little Willie ran away to hunt red
skins"
Yes"
But he didn't find any until his father
".
=; Dad-I wish could be little boy again
WiIlie-I wish you could. dad-only lit
tier. of course.-Judge.
sold himself into slavery
But they say he is wealthy"
But thought the days Of slavery were
over, How did he do it-marrying a young
mo; he has hired a professional chauf-
feur."-Nashville American.
why don't you go to work?' asked
the prosperous citizen, sharply.
'Gwan," retorted the mendicant, "youse
fellows that have all the soft snaps have
a nerve. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
Now here'' said the proprietor of the
What is it?" aueried the stage mana
ger.
Last night you gave the last act first.
Probably nobody noticed IT, but 1t shows
again. Louisville Courier-Journal
Pat (examining Mikes new purchase)-
Yis; it's foine hat; but phwat the divil
do this lookin' glass be dom sthuck in
tn crown ut?
Mike-Thot, We fool, PLY thots T. see
how it looks on We. whin We hev it on
Columbus had Just discovered the world
was round. But, they sneered, have
you discovered to sail a ship with doc
tor?' Herewith the great navigator de-
clared himself outdone.-New York Sun
new gown he could not help kissing me-
Maud-Well. the modiste guaranteed the
dress would give you satisfaction.
Does overwork kill many people?''
Nope Worry over work catches a few,
though. "-Philadelphfa Ledger.
est Paul knew how to get women to
church for all time to come"
How did he do it?'
Made it a rule that they must all all
ways wear hats"-Town and Country.
wife-what do you mean by bringing
those muddy feet in here?
Husband-Scuse me. m'dear (hic); did'n
have any other t'bring Had hard time
gettin' theesh in.-Bohemian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Has an eye for business-The ocu-
list.
1t runs in the family-An heirloom
clock.
It's the stilted man who looks down
on his neighbors.
1t doesn't pay to offer a reward for
misplaced confidence.
Many a man shows only his worst
side to his better half.
man can afford to be perfectly
frank If he doesn't care whether he
has any friends or not.
Some people don't believe in put
ting off till tomorrow the ddsagreeable
things they can do today.
No, Maude, dear, 1t doesn't neces-
sarily follow that bleacbed blonde is
also light on her feet.
Hoax-"I wonder how many
American girls have married foreign
Counts" Loax-"I don't know. but
those who haven't are countless,
Blobbs-"Guzzler says he doesn't
believe in CARRYING other peoples
burdens" Slobbs-.'No, Guzzler Is
generally struggling under a pretty
good load of his own
Mrs. Muggins-"Mrs. Talkalot SAYS
she never catches cold because she
always breathes through her nose,
Mrs Buggins-"That's all right for
Mrs. Talkalot She couldn't breathe
any other way. Her mouth is AL
ways too busily engaged otherwise"
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

No. Tommy. a buttress is not a
nanny goat.
Especially clever is the fellow who
can make a living without working.
q -
If you command wisely, you will be
obeyed cheerfully, says German
proverb.
= .
An automobile enthusiast is a man
who never lets his business interfere
with his motoring.
Some men are so stingy that they
will not even tell story at their own
expense.
Perhaps it is all right for a girl to
feel insulted when told that her eyes
are like stars, inasmuch as stars al
ways seem to be winking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09
KANSAS COMNENT
LAW VIOLATION.


The manner in which the people
over the state are obeying the pure
food law which was passed at the last
regular session of the legislature
speaks well of them as a people. In
only one case have prosecutions for
violation Of the pure food law been
necessary. The officers tell us that
the law Is being we'll observed. since
the butcher prosecutions ended.
The method in which the law is
being enforced is rather peculiar 1t
Is an old maxim that ignorance Of
the law excuses no one. But the men
enforcing the pure food law are go
ing on a different theory and the re-
suits are gratifying.
Instead of starting wholesale prose-
food inspectors are educating the
people into an obedience of the law
by explaining to them that many
practices which were formerly per-
fectly legal are now illegal. And that
the people appreciate this sort OF
treatment Is indicated by the manner
in which they are obeying the law
when they learn that they have been
violating it
The same holds good in the matter
of the enforcement of the labor laws.
People who violate the state labor
laws usually do so through ignorance
of the law, rather than disregard
for it, according to the officials. In
stead of making wholesale arrests the
state labor officials are educating the
people into law enforcement by call
ing their attention to the law viola
tons. If the changes asked for are
then not made of course the violator
has to suffer. But there are few such
cases
And 1t seems that it shall come to
pass that officials will grow to be well
coined instead of looked upon with
hv he x-h
their supervision. This is indeed a
great change from former customs
and speaks well for both the people
and the officers.-Salina Journal.
AFTER THE JOBS.
Just now there is quite a contro-
versy going on in the columns of
Kansas papers regarding the question
as to whether or not certain men are
in the race for big offices merely be-
cause they think the state needs them,
or because they want the office. A
man running for an office he didn't
want would be a sight that would
bring more people than Barnum's
circus. We take it that such strange
things have happened in the history
of our country, but when you see a
man in Kansas breaking his neck in
a mad race for an office. you can
make up your mind that he is after
it because he wants it, and he doesn't
care a whoop whether the public
needs him, or not, so long as the pub
lie will vote for him. The idea Of
self-sacrtfice among politicians is an
exploded one; they may, in a few
cases. do the best they can for the
interests of the people after they are
elected. but while running for the
job they have an eye single to their
own individual interests. The poppy
cock about being compelled to run
in order to have a man able to con-
troll the office, and one who is honest.
and the great sacrifice that must be
made of self interests in order to ac-
complish this end, is enough to make
one gag. Cut it out, boys; the fellows
who are running for Office are running
for the sole reason that they want the
jobs, and not because the people want
them.-Lawrence Gazette.
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this detestable class, to carry on their
open teaching of crime.
Anarchy is a crime PROGRESSED
anarchists are criminals. They are
in open rebellion against the peoples
laws whether they resort to violence
or not, for they are melting others to
violence by teaching them contempt
and disrespect for law. They should
be treated as criminals and no
sophistries or false theories on the
freedom of speech should deprive
society of the protection 1t should
have from these pests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09

New York society will surely have
something to talk about now that ought
to be sufficiently exciting to drive away
the ennui with which its members are
ever afflicted. Mrs. Fanny Burke Roche
Eatoyni has brought suit for a divorce
from her latest husband who was a
professional whip. He has brought a
counter suit. She names ten cores
pondents and he names eleven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09

An opinion seems to be gaining
strength among the political wise
acres at Washington that when the
date for the Republican national con-
vention rolls around all of the ''fa-
vorite sons" who are now mentioned
as presidential candidates, will have
retired from the race, and the nomi-
nation will be given to Mr.. Taft by
practically an unanimous vote.
Things are certainly beginning to look
that way.
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News comes from Portugal that a
marriage will probably be arranged be-
tween the young King Manuel and
Princess Victoria Louise, the only
daughter of the emperor of Germany.
If this alliance is contaminated it win
be safe to bet that Victoria will be the
boss of the Portuguese rolay household.
She has been the tyrant Of the German
palace ever since she was old enough
TO talk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-09

William Jennings Bryan absolutely
dominated the Nebraska Democratic
state convention which has just been
held at lincoln. And that's not the
only Democratic convention he will
dominate. Just watch what will hap
pen at Denver.