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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-18
QUAKER MEDITATTONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
If you would please yourself please
others. =
The girl who steels her heart isn't
apt to have it stolen.
Marriage is a tie that binds many a
man to his wife's apron strings.
Too many men measure Importance
by the standard Of chest expansion.
To get storm effect on the stage 1t
is necessary to work like thunder.
The fellow who is stuck on himself
is not always q sticker for good form.
Fair play is all any man wants, but
he wants to be the Judge Of it's fairness.
The man who 10 thrown on his own
resources often finds that he hasn't
any.
A woman generally manages to hold
her own except in the small matter OF
holding her tongue. -e
Strange as 1t may seem, IT'S when
you don't tip the waiter that he feels
quite upset about 1t.
sillicus-"As a rule women are more
proud Of their beauty than of their
brains" Cynicus-"Well they have
more cause to be-
Old Gotrocks-"whatf You marry my
daughter? 1 won't hear Of It," YOUNG
SlImpurse-'Tll take good care that
you don't hear Of It till it's all over"
The youthful business man was
about to embark in q new venture. 81
shall burn my bridges behind me-" he
exclaimed. Are they insured?' asked
the older business man, with the eau
ton born Of long experience.
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Hard Times and Bad None


Counterfeiters are unusually active
just now. Ever since the hard
times" began last fall bad money and
the men who make it have been more
than ordinarily abundant. If hard times
were good and work was plenty some
OF the men who are now making
limitations Of our small coins and
small bills would be turning their
hands to honest toll.
THE counterfeiting business is a
pretty good thermometer of the
times" said one Of the secret service
officials today, land even if I did not
read the papers 1 would know that
business was not first class just at
present by the number of counterfeits
that are being sent to this Office and
the number Of complaints we receive
from business men. When business
is good throughout the country only
the big counterfeiters, the experts in
the business, keep at it. The fellow
who makes quarters and dimes in the
New York tenement house from metal
that he has bought at the junk shop
around the corner has work then that
Is safer and easier.
During the last five or six months
the quantity of counterfeit money
turned up by our men or sent to the
amount taken during the five or six
| months before. Under the law we
| are compelled to keep in the office
all counterfeit money of every de-
script1on, and all apparatus and ma
| terials used in making the counter.
feits that fall into our hands until ex-
amlned and inventoried by the score
| tary of the treasury. =
AFTER the inventory Is made the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-18

lawn: then seeing Hardy on ms pfazsA
;..SS; came boldly forward. a.
Hardy blushed q VI - s &
II was fixing another Of your acr6Ses..'
ne explained. Nell. Peterkin has been
70 see Torrance In her behalf. Meanwhile
nave promised that she win not be
- couldn't scold her this afternoon"
5sa1 NeIi az she gathered her troublesome
utsie sister to her breast. you make q
som, sometimes. but then again you set them
.tonna not to blame that there isn't any
explanation. Jack knows that. That's
why ne fixed things for me all right"
chorus. ana for once the Town Crier had
the comforting feeling that she was an
iated-(Copyrighted 1908 by Associated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-18
EROA OTHER PENS
PNEUMONIA SECRET FOUND.

That mystery. pneumonia, which has
baffled the medical world so long is, it
was announced last night, being solved
by the commission of eminent ply
sicians from all parts Of the country
appointed by the health board in an
effort to combat the disease. Pneu-
rnonia's death ratio in recent years has
become greater than that Of the fatal
rival, 1.-The white plague"
DR.. Herman M. Biggs, who has led
the fight against the spread of tubercu-
losis in this city, and at whose sugges-
ton the pneumonia commission was
appointed, told last night Of the prog
ress made.
To a reporter DR.. Biggs said:
"At the outset Of our investigations
some Of US believed a great many
things about pneumonia, and many OF
those beliefs have been proven to be
true by actual experiments in various
cities, as well as in different country
sections.
TT has been proved that pneumonia
is Infectious; that 1t is caused by a
germ, the Pneumococcus, and that 1t
attacks the normally strong as we'll as
the weak with like fatality.
THE pneumonia germ, which is j
lancet-shaped creature, as germs 60
generally travels in pairs and is taken
into the system through the nose and
mouth. 1t remains, waiting it's chance
to descend into the lungs and begin Its
havoc. This chance comes when the
physical condition of the person is de-
pressed from an insignificant attack OF
Influenza, measles, bad cold, catarrh,
tonsilitis, or the like. Once in the lungs
it propagates with marvellous rapidity,
and the lungs soon become congested. If
the congestion is not relieved death is
sure.
I'm many respects there is great SIM
ilarity between consumption and pneu-
pnnniq and the accented treatment IOT
the former in many instances proves ben
eficial to the latter. However, the tuber-
culosis germ works slowly on the lungs
of the victim, while the pneumonia germs
works with amazing rapidity.
Pneumonia has no terrors to the per-
fectly well man, but those who think
themselves in the best of health some
times are its readiest victims.
1.-THE germ may be carried in the mouth
Of a perfectly well person for as long as
six months, waiting. for him to catch a
cold or something of the kind. Instantly
it makes the most Of its opportunity.
New York American.
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A rorrER1NG DYNASTY.

Reports from the Balkans indicate
that a serious upheaval may occur in
Servia before very long, which will be
directed against King Peter and the
brood of assassins that takes refuge
behind his throne. The priests in the
churches and the newspapers in their
columns do not hesitate to warn the
King that the country will no longer
permit the assassins of the late King
Alexander and Of several loyal soldiers
who have sought to bring the kings
murderers to Justice to escape the just
punishment of their crimes. They DO
not hesitate to advise the king to re-
tire from Servia rather than lose his
head.
Little sympathy will be felt for the
uncomfortable position in which the
present Servian king, Peter Kara
9eorgevic, finds himself. While 1t has
not been charged that King Peter was
in the conspiracy that Matched and
carried out the horrible murder of his
predecessor and his unhappy queen, he
did not hesitate to take advantage OF
the opportunity to mount the vacant
throne and as a recompense Tor the
bloody crown offered him, he has since
shielded the regicides and the assassans
Of loyal officers. -
what would happen were King Peter
5r;ven from the throne or done away
with it is hard OF say. There are no
direct legitimate descendants OF the
Ohremoyifch dynasty to which the late
King Milan and the murdered Alexan-
der belonged, hence II the monarchy
s.ara to he continued a prince Of a
rore6rn dynasty would have to be Sc
iecta6 or some nonroyal native OF
Servia would have to be elected king,
which would be no novelty, as both the
Ohremovitch and Kara8eorgevic dyn-
ost,es were of plebeian origin. 1t Is not
nrobable that the European powers
would permit the formation OF a re-
nnhIic. even il the Servians, who are
no more fitted for democratic govern
ment than the Turks. 30 desirAd.-Ne"
Orleans pdcAyunA
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AYHAWKER JOTS

Little George Waters, of Louisville,
was badly injured last week by cutting
his foot. DR.. Outright was called in,
and 1t is to be hoped that he dressed the
cut right.
A man in Junction City is alleged to
nave Killed a bullsnake seven feet long,
and the Salina Journal says that any
man from Indiana can tell of black
snakes that beat this mile.
You are cordially invited by U. G.
Stewart, the Rossville boomer Of Della,
to spend the Glorious Fourth in that
barely-preceptible addition to the map.
The Della police will make no effort TO
restrict the shooting of drecrackers.
The state university has appointed
a committee to mark the spots of his
tor1cal interest in Lawrence, and T. b
Murdoch says: This committee will
marks the building on Massachusetts,
street, west side, where Bill Hazeltine
sold Lincoln pie to the Union soldiera
camped in and about that town in
81. We can taste 1t yet" .
Upon turning over the bingham
New Leaf, the following flood echo
was discovered: t..Efingham experience
ed the heaviest rain of the Spring Sun
day morning. There must have been al
least two inches of water FELL
careful examination of this direful par
agraph may give some idea of the des-
pei oIS SOhoilkOiAo at 1<ilA4lS icLlIi.
The Haskell County Republicans
boost for the visiting thespians: My
Pard" presented by the Ulysses Ora
matte club Saturday night was a sue
cess in every way and speaks well for
the members of the club. The attend
ance was very good considering the
unclemency Of the weather. We hope
this will not be the last time these
good natured people OF Ulysses will
visit our city.
Holton Signal: "a lady who did oot
give her name called up the Signal
last week and said that the editor had
wheels in his head. We knew that
there was something in our head, out
thought it was scrap iron, barbed wire
or cinders. We are glad to learn that
nothing worse than wheels constitute
the filing" Your attention is called
Frank, to the fact that the lady's re-
mark is of antique origin. She should
take a correspondence course in mod
ern slang.
Unless the order is revoked. the Mos
COW postoffice will be discontinued
July 1. The reason for the Office being
discontinued is that no one seems dis
posed to act as postmaster up there.
The pressing need for an Office in that
vicinity is great and the discontinu-
ance will work a hardship on the pat
rons. In place of the Office the patrons
have begun to agitate. a rural free de-
livery and may get it but in the mean
time the office at leila will handle the
Moscow mail.
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KANSAS CONTENT
ACCORDING TO THE BENEFIT ONE

ACCORDlNG TO THE BENEFIT ONE
RECEIVES.
The new tax law may prove crude
and satisfactory this year but the prin-
cIpie underlying 1T is right. Every dol
lar OF every man or corporations mon
ey should be assessed at its full value.
In the end this will be the rule In Kan
sas as 1t now is in many other states
k1ngman Leader-Couier.
Taxation in Kansas has long been
spoken OF as an irksome burden. The
reason has been because of it's unequal
distribution. Dwellers in the cities have
Deen compelled heretofore to pay a tax
tnat is out of proportion to that paid
py the jewellers in the country, and the
second IN turn have paid more than the
corporations. There are very few per-
sons who are inclined to minimize the
benefits they receive from government
and there is no proper protest against
each bearing his proper share Of its
cost. And this is simply the end at
which the new tax law aims--tliat ev-
cry man shall pay according to the
benefit he receives which is directly
measurable in the amount of money or
property he has.-LeavenWorth Times.
RAIN AND FLOODS IN OKLAHOMA.
1t is hoped by the friends of Okla
homa that the damage from floods Is
exaggerated in the press reports. We
al Q iuCAIieO TO tNlnk SO, LOT OUTSIDE OF
a comparatively limited valley country
the rains that caused the floods will
add millions Of dollars to the wealth
and income of Oklahoma.
The Washita river seems to be the
chief center of the torrentfa1 overflow.
The rains began there Friday morning
and were incessant until Saturday
night. The country needed them, and
we believe that when the results are
summed up the profits to the country
will far exceed the damage.
Along the Washita there are towns
and cities that could not be damaged
to any great extent for only very few
of them are built on sites SO low that
they could be reached by high water.
The valley itself is of a nature that
floods cannot remain long in it.. and the
probability is that within a few days
there will not be sign Of water on
the ground, which is remarkable for
it's porosity.
Blessings often appear in disguise,
and the floods just reported may be
the means by which riches will be adj
ded to our neighbors on the south.
They may cause some individual loss
for the present, and of a temporary
and transient nature, but the good that
will come out of the rains that caused
the floods will be general and will have
more than a temporary influence on
the great prosperity that is observable
everywhere in that country.-Wichita
Eagle.
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That crusade against Sunday thea
ters in Kansas City, Mo-, which WAS
started some time ago by a Judge
namedWallace has smothered down to a
fizzle. So does every other reform or
crusade that is established with the
great fanfare of trumpets that this
one was. 1t kept the theaters closed
while the judge was ordering the man
ayers. employees and actors arrested
but that was all it accomplished. A
very small number of those arrested
have been convicted, and only recent.
ly % cases growing out of arrests
Of managers and employees were thrown
out of the trial courts for lack of eyi.
dence. From the way things are turn
ing out, it is not likely that Judg,
Wallace's spectacular stunt will hel,
him much in his candidacy for tn,
Democratic nomination for the offic,
Of governor of Missouri Some peopl
say that this gubernatorial bug of hi
is the real reason for the Sunday thea
ter crusade. He wanted to let the PEG
pie know that there was such an in
dfvidual on earth as himself. He want
ed to get into the Hmelight. And h
aid. but the light has developed int
such a peculiar one that 1t will proba
oily have the effect Of a boomerang OF
hfs chances for political preferment a
me hands Of the people.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Fish may be scarce in Kansas, but
the early spring kansas liar has not
Iaiien on In his batting average. Out
OF dozen fish les entered in a
Denver papers contest, eour Of the
pest and largest lies We're mailed from
kansas points. =
There Is nothing disgraceful about
the average wedding. but it seems
natural Tor the principals to get out
OF town at the earliest opportunity,
just as though they had been detect
ed stealing clothes from a line.
n 4
The Acknowledgment idiot has
peen superseded by the "wetenough-
foryou" chump, who is no less a pest.
Every cloud has its silver lining.
In many OF the rural districts OF
FIoody Kansas" during the past
week, the natives did not have to
look out for the cars" while crossing
railroad tracks.
Yes. it rains once in while in
Kansas. 1854
Wonder what j. r. Burton thinks
OF that Roosevelt demonstration at
the Chicago convention.
Carrie Nation must have had a
good time In Hinkey Drinks saloon at
Chicago, where three bartenders were
required to put her out.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

from the Atchison Globe.J
Nearly every man has his list OF
outrages.
There is everything in quitting be-
fore you have tired everyone out.
One sort Of fool is the man who be-
lieves he can get a ten cent cigar for
five.
The homelier a man is, the more
he has to say about how the women
run after him.
There are not SO many wicked
things for married men to do as most
people imagine.
If a man pronounces a word wrong
he usually Tugs it in every time he
opens his mouth.
Every time the women say anything
about cigarettes, the men should come
back with corsets.
A woman will take abuse from her
husband through love of him that a
clerk will take for money.
When a man fails to make sue
cess as a fakir, he says that the great
trouble is that he is honest.
A great many Of the new ideas dc
not amount to anything. Mutton tai
low. is better for sore lips than vase
line.
When a man has managed to save
a little money, people think he is
childish, and don't know how to take
care Of it.
If a woman confessed to being one
million years old, there would be
some one present who would say:
"She is older than that"
Every woman, according to hel
marriage notice, is pretty and every
woman, according to the announce.
| ment Of her death. was kind and
good.
If it pleases you to hear friend
say he would do anything In the worl6
| for you, don't prepare a thorn fol
yourself by mentioning one or two
things you want done.
People who look at themselves fr
| the glass, get their faces ready JUS
| as il they were going to have theil
pictures taken. No one takes his
| scowls to the mirror. II people did
| and saw how ugly they looked, there
would be less scowlinH.
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counterfeit notes are sent down to be
macerated like the real. money that
Is DESTROYED when 1t returns to the
treasury; the digs, lithograph plates.
and molds are burned up In the
treasury department furnace, and the
silver and gold counterfeits are taken
to a local shelters cupola and there
melted. Although it has taken two
years to fill our store room with the
counterfeiters' junk this time, it will,
II the present activity continues
among the makers of the queer be
all loaded up again within the next
SIX months. -Washington dispatch to
New York Tribune,
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MELAN BRIDGE AND THE FLOOD

There is a disposition to place the
blame for the floods in Topeka to the
melan bridge and other distractions
in the Kansas river, the inference
being that If there had been no
bridges across the Kaw there would
have been no flood this year and
none five years ago.
1t is natural for people who have
suffered to search for the causes that
have contributed to their misfortune
but often in the stress and excite
ment of the occasion they hit upon
the wrong thing. Mayor Green says
that the melan bridge Is too low and
another correspondent says that no
one ever heard of flood in Topeka
until after the bridge had been built.
1t follows that If the bridge is to
five years ago there should have been
no overflow where there was no melan
bridge to interfere with the flow of
the waters. Consequently II the
melan bridge would explain the cause
for the flood in Topeka it would not
explain why Manhattan, st. Marys
Junction City, far away from the in
iuence of the bridge above Topeka
and Lecompton, Lawrence. Eudora OF
Kansas City below Topeka suffered
from the flood as well as Topeka.
, The fact Is that in both floods the
, channel of the Kaw was entirely in
; adequate to carry the waters thai
came down the valley and whether
there were bridges or not Their.
would have been floods Just the same
More than that, the situation Womb
have been much worse five years az,
If there had been no melan bridge TO,
it afforded an avenue of escape which
prevented great loss Of life.
I'll The people must look for som,
Aother remedy. Adequate dykes wou,,
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HUA0p or THE DRY

ley y marty onal-
Yes. . he asked me last evening"
all right: He is one Of the incest Fellows
I was ever engaged to.''-Nashviiie Amer
!, Hewitt have been pinched for money
icy sswe T. We'll women have different
when she wants any.-chicaso Journal.
I've Just been around to see Kitty
rs her trouble pronouncedr'
mot easily."-New York Telegram.
homie mns ss 9sem. at BE Big s :ssss v
come home for vacation and So"
S' sot a the Com.
stitution. -
em ted you 1e, lsH p Tcshps,
in what I Observation-Disclosures.
,Golfer-whenever play see bunkers
The Other Man-You OUGHT to plsv IN
blinkers.-The Taller.
man. ITS no use talking" he eaid, ffrm-
"; II will not have the front door widen
But it's such love Of a hat" she re-
piled. almost tearfu1ly.
IF you're bound to have the fool thing
joined but ee With tine Brutal nc 81
his sex. refused to make further conces-
Ledger.
Yeast-It is said that certain kind Of
noises attract snakes.
Crimsonbeak-That glus-giug- glug-slug
something out Of d bottle is one Of them,
l suppose.-Yonkers Statesman.
N.Y." exclaimed the minister's wife,.'T
never saw the boys in this street fighting
so much as they have lately. There are
two Of them fighting now, and. I'm sure
"Ah, I see.'' remarked Rev. Mr.. Wise.
last Sundays lesson was about David
Bertfe-If I thought no one was looking,
by Jove, I'd kiss you.
Gertie--.shall I-shut my eyes?-Illus-
IT have noticed" remarked the observer
Of events and things. that when a man
doing either of the jobs very well. "-Yon-
kers Statesman.
Second Ditto-oh. don't know. They
are stiIl running horse cars in New York.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE Due and the Count fought duel;
rubber aanrb bands S, at = PAGES" - =,
mo; the counts band went wide and
the Due fired in the air."-Pittsburg Post.
They say that laziness IL caused by
germ. What fine thing 1t would be II we
could find something to kill the thing"
ooh, no! I know something better than
that. Think how much nicer it would be
if we could all find some way to crafty
t."-Pick-Me-Up.
us this the home Of Miss Gladys Got
rox?'
YES"
Tee hee! Can you guess who this is?'
'T guess it's one Of her fool dude
friends" answered Pa Gotrox, and then
the telephone emitted confused sounds
Louisville Cour1er-Journal
whats in here?" asked the tourist.
Remains to be SEEM responded the
guide, as he led the way into the morgue.
Jester.
IT am at loss what to say" sfhrieked
the angry Mrs. Baktawker.
your loss il my gain, nuttered her
unhappy husband.-Houston Post
$50, Doctor. you are still single. All.
fear that you are somewhat OF q woman
hater."
NAY. madam. it is to avoid becoming
one that remain a bachelor. "-Ex-
change.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IRON the New York Press.1

[F'rom the New York Press.
children learn to lie by watching
grownups pretends they don't.
No relations Of any kind in heaven
must make IL very comfortable there.
The reason q woman keeps her old
love letters In they can never be OF any
use.
It's lucky colleges graduate boys ear
ly enough for them to have q chance
to learn something when they come
out.
There's hardly any habit 80 easy to
fall into as telling your wife you love
her with the same enthusiasm you ask
for the sugar bowl ct bseakfast
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No doubt the numerous doorkeepers
and ergeants-at-arms appointed from
Kansas were largely responsible for
the good order and decorum at the
Republican national convention. OF
course they didn't want to stop the
Roosevelt demonstration.
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Bishop Muldoon, who was assigned
the task of offering the opening prayer
at the Chicago convention, probably
gave more satisfaction when he simply
repeated the Lords prayer than if he
had spent ten minutes imploring
divine aid for the delegates,