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

word of waiIing has come from his
lips. Neither has he been wasting his
breath in predicting ruin for the rail-
roads of the country If freight rates
are not materially advanced or the
wages of railway employees materially
reduced. On the other hand he has
been pegging away forming plans for
the Improvement and extension of his
mighty system of railroads. And now
he says that the senseless money panic
of year ago with it's consequent busi-
ness depression has left the country
with hardly a scratch and his pro-
gramme is to go ahead and finish the
railroad work planned. May his exam
pie be followed generally by the other
railway managers.
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no NON-IRRIGABLE LANDS.

George H. Maxwell puts some fun
damental facts regarding irrigation in
to an Illuminating article, which are
particularly pertinent at this time in
view Of the approaching session of the
Sixteenth National Irrigation congress,
which is to convene at Albuquerque,
N. M, on September 29. Mr. Max
wells article is long one, but the
facts can be picked out of their set
ting like plums from a pudding, and
here they are:
An acre foot of water, which Is a
term used to designate the amount of
water used in the Irrigation of land, is
water enough to cover an acre one
foot deep. For general farming pur-
poses the minimum ordinarily required
in a season is two acre-feet, which is
equivalent to twenty-four inches of
rainfall over the entire surface. At
this point Kansans will be interested
in the reminder that the average rain
fall in this state is approximately
twenty eight inches.
Mr.. Maxwell says that there are
about 100000 acres of land in the
state of Montana now arid which
could be redeemed by irrigation and
that If stored in one place at one time
the body of water required to irrigate
this expanse would cover 1880 square
miles two feet deep. He adds that the
foods of the Missouri river are suffi-
cient, if conserved, to irrigate 50,0OO,-
900 acres Of land, which is four times
as much as the cultivable area
of the empire of Japan. Here
it may be noted that the population of
Japan is between 4s,0O0.000 and 50,-
100000 people.
He practically defies anyone to point
to foot Of land anywhere in the
United States and say, "This is non-ir-
rigable land"
Then he asks what he asserts to
be taken as an argument on the sub
ject of the so-called 320-acre dry
farming bill, which passed both houses
of congress at the recent session and
is now in conference, providing for
the abandonment of the non-irrigable
public lands. Evidently there are no
such lands If Mr.. Maxwell is correct.
Is he right or wrong? Certainly what
he says is worthy of consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09
A LETTER no wIFE.

Dear wife, since you have been away,
1t is a lonely life I lead:
By 10 o'clock, want to say,
am In bed. I'm good, indeed.
l do not linger at the club,
My conduct is not such that shocks;
L m growing sick of hotel grub,
For heavens sake where are my socks
The rubber plant I've watered well,
keep the parlor windows shut;
De all right if you could tell
Just where the can opener was put.
l hope the rest will do you good,
So far haven't had the blues:
m growing sick of hotel food,
Where did you hide my Sunday shoes7
took a meal with Mr.. Green,
His wife is sure a splendid cook;
L m glad that you enjoy the scene,
Where did you hide the button hook?
1 hope you'll have jolly time,
And gain in health while you are there,
L m sure you need the change of Cline,
But tell me where's my underwear?
Detroit Free Press.
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QUAKER MEDITATToNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Goats milk should make strong but
ter.
It's a square deal when the cards go
round.
Even amiable people may be at cross
purposes.
1t is better to make your mark than
to be one.
With the unsuccessful aeronaut his
airship is a soar object.
No man can stand in his own light
without casting a shadow.
Even in buckwheat cakes the bat
ter doesn't always make a hit.
A woman can't always gain her point
when she tries to sharpen q pencil.
No. Maude, dear; for children's nit
tens don't go to the kid glove counter.
It's strange that the girl who Is
afraid of a mouse will wear a rat In bar
hair.
1t is a mistake to suppose that Just
because fellow is in the swim he has
a clean record.
Appearances are frequently decep-
tive. Many a fellow with a weak face
has a strong beard.
Beauty is only skin Deep" Quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes" assented the Sim
pie Mug; so 1 suppose We should take
a woman at her face value"
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HXHAWKER IOTS

The Emporia Gazette objects to KAN
sas reporters using the term Yeggmen,
over every chicken roost robbery. The
Y does seem superf1uous in such cases,
thinks the Wichita Beacon.
This not being Kansas biggest wheat
year, the Santa Fe was able to move
only 100 cars of wheat a day through
Hutchinson during the month of Au-
gust says the Hutchinson News.
The Sedgwick Paragraph, which al
ways takes the Cheerful View, offers
this suggest ton: This much can be
said in favor of Dave Mulvane: He
waited for an introduction before he
punched Editor Amrine in the nose"
Salina leads Emporia in population
by about 500 and the Wichita Eagle is
trying to discover whether that makes
Joe Bristow a bigger man than Bill
White. Nothing of the sort; it only
shows that Salina was smarter and
counted it's students while Emporia
didn't, says the Hutchinson News.
The Troy Chief is of the opinion that
cider will be cheap this winter. THE
cider output of Kansas and Nebraska"
says the Chief, will more than equal
local demand. Much of it will, no
doubt. overflow into the dry counties
of Missouri and supply Oklahoma with
wholesome, temperance beverage"
a Sharon man who had been to Den
yer and returned home with many lit
tie trinkets which pleased two very
small boys who were his neighbors,
said, in reply to their questions as to
where he got the trinkets, that he had
stolen them. The small boys knew
where were things they wanted and as
this big and fine man had said he stole
things, they thought they could get
what they wanted in the same man.
ner. They did and when the little fell
told %lla r,fG ~ l.,
quired the notion of stealing, the Of
ficer refrained, by exerting his will
power, from kicking a lung out of the
man who lied to the boys.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.1
If you would be happy live on an
optimistic diet.
Perhaps the loafer thinks his is the
only simple life.
Being hopelessly good enables a man
to dodge lot of fun.
Occasionally a widows heart is
warmed over by an old flame.
Truth is seldom thing of beauty,
but it isn't the truths fault.
People who do not care much wheth-
er they win or lose usually win.
Charge for the advice you hand out
and people will gladly take it.
1t would be poor business policy for
the fruit dealer to keep all his dates.
A man with a fad can't understand
why so few others are interested in 1t.
When a man gets that tired feeling
there is no way of judging how long
1T is going to last.
What has become Of the schoolboy
who couldn't write a letter without
sticking out his tongue?
The average married woman is we'll
aware of the fact that she earns all
the money she gets-and then some.
Spinsters know a lot of things they
imagine they would do If they were
wives. but as a matter of fact they
wouldn't do anything of the kind. 3
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whispered to the girl on either hand:
You may bow your neck to the ty-
rants yoke if you will, but as for ms
-neveri"
But such deep. rich voice as he
hasl''
"And such eyes and teeth"
At the breakfast next morning
there was excellent fish on the table
fsh caught that morning. az Mrs.
Jones proudly announced The girls
pitched in" but after Ave minutes
Miss Florence refused further fish. 1t
came to her like flash that the i'm
pudent intruder must have furnished
the supply. She looked at her chums
In cold disdain. but Miss Molly clasped
her hands and rolled her eyes.
"Oh, I knew he must be a gentle-
man the first moment I set eyes on
him.
And how terrible it would have
peen had we driven him away from
They were traitors to the cause,
but their conduct only made Florence
the firmer in her determination. Fate
knows when to mind her own bust
ness. and when to interfere with that
OF others. In this case she held Oft
for couple Of weeks Miss Florence
went out grabbing by herself. She
planned to be by herself so as to snub
the intruder If he came within ten
rods of her.
II Is useless TO speculate on now a
girl and boat get upset on bay, lake
or river. They do, and that's all there
is about it. Florence was after the
biggest crab of the century, when she
suddenly found herself sinking down
to watery grave. She didn't know
when the intruder came rushing down
in his sllin and dove overheard to her
rescue. She didn't know when she
was carried ashore and up to the
Jones house. When she did recover
q nd fol1o 81 .w,d
her, and as she tried to sit up she
heard Molly exclaim:
ooh, goody. goody! She will live!
| He has saved her life!"
And if she doesn't marry him she's
| an ungrateful wretch" added Edith.
| why we've known for two whole days
| that he was son of Senator Blake,
and one of the incest young men in
| the copyrighted, 1908, by
Associated Literary Press.)
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HUNOR or THE 0AY

Stella-So you and Tom are engaged!
Are you sure you really and truly love
him? Mabel-Love him! Why, never
took one of his presents back to find out
what it cost!-Chicago News.
Il fell out of the window of my flat
yesterday" And you are on the fourth
floor? That was terrible" Yes, don't
know how to face the janitor. I'm sure
I've violated some clause in my lease
Louisville Courier-Journal.
when I see what Barlow accomplishes
/ am forced to admiration" said Rusting.
He has great physical endurance" Yes
replied Gargoyle. THAT man has the con-
stitution of a debutante. London Tele-
graph.
knicker-What is your definition of a
gentleman? Bocker-One who doesn't need
it.-New York Sun.
Joshua had Just made the sun stand
still That's nothing" they cried, Eng
land is to do the same by act of parlia-
ment." Herewith he felt he was not much
pumpkins after aIl.-New York Sun.
Proprietor-Is he a good German
dialect comedian? Manager-No;
understood every word he said during
his turn.-Illustrated Bits
Unpleasant Ambiguity = look
pleasant, madam! One, two. three.
Now you may resume your natural ex-
preston. Batter.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Pres

IFIOIiI lIIb IN5W YORK PTeS8.
Inc trounle with saving money is
you nave 10 ieno II 10 somebody who
A man wants his wife's clothes to h.
becoming; she doesn't care whe4her
they are or not; if they are stylish.
There's nothing women can areue
more about than what color the babv.s
hair is when it hasn't any at ali
man can never understand a vvo-
man enough to see why she cries when
there isn't a reason for 1t and doesn't
when there is.
One reason man who understa nds
baseball hasn't such a good oninior
of himself as one who UNDERTAKING. ~.
tariff Is the former really does.
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towards the position of being reduced
to the level of the Older nations, says
The Iron Trade Review.
The talk of famine in any COM
modify is useful to bring about meas
ures of economy and conservation. but
as regards either wood or iron in the
United States there is not the least
occasion for alarm. Scientific forestry
can easily overtake the dimdnution
which is now occurring in the timber
supply. with a most ample area on
which to work to grow for the future
a vastly larger annual supply per
capita than readily suffices for Ger
many, while on the other hand the
utilization of our lower grade iron ores
can easily supply a greater quantity OF
iron than can possibly be put into use,
with all the growth in population
which the country is otherwise capa-
BILE of supporting.
1t is not a question Of famine or
exhaustion in the one commodity or
in the other. 1t is a question of pros
pective needs and of prospective cost
to supply those needs. Scientific for
estry cannot produce wood as cheaply
as it has been sold. A higher stand
ard of value for wood must prevail
when it is grown through the active
effort of man than when 1t is cut
down, possibly for the chief purpose
of clearing the land for cultivation. A
higher standard of value for iron now
prevails when the necessity is faced
of working lower grade ores than
prevailed when ore almost up to the
theoretical standard of excellence was
being mined with no thought Of posi-
BILE exhaustion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.

GFrom the Atchison Globe. j
Some people might as we'll be crazy:
they have no sense.
An humble lover often makes a
very domineering husband.
Press notices are as easy to>obtain
as letters of recommendation.
Generally. the dearest things are
those which are advertised free.
girl always likes to create the
impression that her relatives are rich.
Every man we ever knew had am
bition, but only a few had application
with it.
A man can't tell the truth so truth
fully that q jealous woman can't tan
gle him up.
If you have no reason to expect a
letter with money in it, hope will do
you no good.
'I will now" said a brakeman on
starting for dinner. shake hands with
a knife and fork for awhile"
What little you accomplished last
month, and how much you anticipate
accomplishing in the month to come (!
Seven-tenths of the younger men
are usually so much in love that they
can't do their best in other respects.
Some way it looks funny to see a
man walking along the street wheel
ing a baby buggy and smoking a CT
gar.
When a man realizes that he is not
famous, he also reflects with a good
deal of complacency that he is not
dead yet.
Every milkman is accused of wat
ering his milk. We wonder if a milk
man ever did such a thing? We have
great sympathy for fnilkmen: every
newspaper man ought to have: he is
abused so often when he does not de-
serve it.
Where do the women read all the
wonderful things they tell about =?
When a crowd of women get together.
each one has some horrible story to
tell. 1t is usually a story about some
wicked man; he tied his wife in a
chair, and tickled her to death, or he
was married seventeen times. and kept
his dead wives locked in a room.
Some of the stories are told in a whis-
per. if there is man in the house.
and some bride present will say she
wonders if it is true. "Of course, ii
Is" the married women will say.
There never was q man too good to
do such things, If he had a chance
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Say what you please, but few callers
are of the entertaining variety.
= e
It's tough luck to discover that a
good friend is a distant relative.
4 y
Many couples would undoubtedly be
happier If each of them had married
some one else.
4 r
The men who get mad at the UNI
pire ought properly to be classed with
the women who cry at matinee.
X =
Men who go cunning for railroads
have a great advantage over other
trust busters. It's mighty easy for them
to find their quarries' tracks.
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There's one great redeeming feature
to the campaign being waged for the
presidency by Eugene V. Debs, the
candidate of the Socialists. MT. Deps
does not expect to be elected. If he
gets one hundred thousand more votes
than he did four years ago he will be
satisfied that the cause of Socialism
is progressing in a healthy fashion.
This will bring the total vote for the
ticket Up near the half million mark
But at this rate of increase many
quadrennial campaigns will have to
come and go before president will De
placed in the White House by the
Socialists.
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FRON OTHER PENS
"HOSS TRADIN' AND THE "VIs.
IBLE"

IBLE."
When there is lively trading in
wheat and the sales record of the
Chicago Board Of Trade shows a to-
tai far above the visible supply of
that grain-all that is where it can
be seen and gotten at in hurry
moraltsts who aim at the right target,
in the wrong way, often point to the
figures and ask everyone to note the
evidence of mere betting, a pretense
of dealing in graip which is only a
cloak for gambling.
1t looks quite convincing to those
who do not stop to think of the pos
sibilities of quick sales back and forth
and around the circle, of the same
wheat represented by warehouse GER
tificates. These critics forget what
can happen in the "hoss tradin'" line.
The travelling horse traders had a
reunion down near Cardington, O., a
few days ago. They came from far
games and dances and merrymaking.
Also they traded HOSES One nag
is said to have changed hands %
times in single day. AS far as that
particular animal was concerned the
visible supply of horses was sold %
times over, and yet there was an ex-
change of very solid and tangible
property in every deal.-Cleveland
Leader.
RUSSIA AND THE REICHSTAG.
The cable message is almost too good
to be true, that the czar of Russia will
himself proclaim powers for the
Douma, which will virtually give that
body authority similar to that exer-
cised by the German reichstag, and the
rule of the bureaus Will be abolished.
Yet after the grant of constitution
by the sultan of Turkey and the de-
veloped power of the advanced party
of the people in the dominion of the
Sublime Porte nothing that occurs in
the region of eastern Europe should
be surprising. 1t will not be matter
of choice If it comes, but of conpulsion.
But if the car is so far converted to
the principle of the constitutional or
parliamentary monarchy, with the head
little more than a igurehead, he should
at once avow also the principle of uni
versal suffrage and thus teach lesson
even to some republics where there is
yet a limitation of the franchise and a
refusal to recognize that manhood suf-
frage is one of the most forceful of ed
ucators toward the best there is in
civic life. Dental of the suffrage to
any element of the citizenship of a
nation is a degradation of that ele-
ment and a retardation of its growth.
No other act would go SO far toward
disarming the revolutionary forces in
Russia as the giving to the mujik the
same voice at the polls as the landed
proprietor, the nob1eTS or the pro-
J. fessional man.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Mr.. Hartman probably has his few
faults just like other men but he has
many virtues that men in similar posi-
lions are woefully shy of. His optim-
ism in the possibilities of this country
is of the right sort. It's the kind that
spells progress and it would be great
thing II other railroad magnates were
filed with 1t. Harriman's railroad pro-
perties are more extensive than those
of any other man in the country. But
AL during the times Of depression not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09

Mr.. Hearst says that the Democratic
party is just as deceitful to the work.
1ngman as ever before. 1t was not so
many years ago that Mr.. Hearst was
using the columns of his many papers
in lauding the Democratic party and
Mr.. Bryan to the skies and insisting
that they were the only real friends
that labor enjoyed. Some people will
incline to the belief that it is Mr..
Hearst who has changed and not the
Democratic partv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09

Kansas old friend, who first rose to
fame by smashing joints with a hatch
ct, believes that there's something in
a name. Hers is Carrie A Nation. She
Is now going to spell her first name
Garry" and then 1t will go Garry A
Nation" That's the purpose of her
hfe. She intends to carry the nation
IN the path that it should go. The good
old woman has certainly cut out a
heavy burden for herself. Probably
she'll go down in history as the lady
ATLAS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09

Certainly the state campaign IN
Kansas has developed into a regular
CASTOR and Alphonse affair. And it
would be stretching the Imagination
come to think Of an occurrence twen-
~ years ago similar to the one which
happened in Topeka on Labor day
when the Democratic and Republican
candidates for governor appeared on
the same platform and said nice things
about each other
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THE REASON WHY.

The railroads employed, in 1907, near
ly one million seven hundred thousand
persons. The average pay from highest
to lowest. according to the interstate
commerce commission report, was
ffty-five dollars per month. Railway
bosses are not keeping their noses on
the grindstone because they are pay
ing exorbitant wages, but because
they are required to pay interest and
dividends on stocks and bonds that
never saw a railroad.-El Dorado Re-
publican.
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Al woman prominent in the social af
fairs of Lowell, Mass, has announced
her intention of quitting society. She's
going to devote the rest Of her life to
a new cult which involves sun worship.
Evidently the society of the staid old
Massachusetts burg was not warm
enough for her
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Queer Auction Custom.

Candle auction is an ancient GUS
tom which still survives in Somerset
shire. England. A valuable piece of
meadow land in the village of Tat
worth was sold recently by auction
while the candle burned. The ceremony
consists of the burning of an inch of
candle, the last bidder before the can
dle's final flicker becoming the tenant
for the ensuing year. Previous to the
auction freeholders assembled for a
supper of bread and cheese, beer and
picked herrings, the funds for this be-
ing provided from the "colting" of the
new tenant. Fines are also imposed
for speaking, nose blowing, laughing
out loud. and moving. other than bid
ding, while the candle is burning
PiftsburR Chronicle TeleEraph.
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Mr.. Bryan says he is getting lots of
consolation out of the fact that many
of the things he has stood for in the
past have been advocated by President
Roosevelt and are now being advoca-
ted by Mr.. Taft. Consolation Is a fine
thing for the peace of ones mind but it
never went very far in making votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09

Not much was heard during the
spring and early summer of activity
in the wheat fields of Kansas on the
part Of the Hessian fly but this pest is
now given credit for having destroyed
$4,000, 900 bushels of wheat in the central
part of the state. By all means should
this fly receive swat that win prove
20 be its death knell,
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k'ULlL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It ought not to be dificult for the
light to penetrate the Vaccinations of
the trust which. it is reported. is going
to corner the window glass output of
the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-09

"a visit to the state wide fair finds
plenty OF evidence that all OF the prom
Uses Of the greatness of the exhibition
have been fulfilled to the letter. It's a
real exposition and is worthy of the
generous support OF everyone.
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Surely the gumshoe artist who dis
covered the plotters agains THE life of
Mr.. Taft should make known his
Identity. He is worthy of good sized
niche in the temple of famous takers.