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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
VALUE OF ECONONfIEs.

Every period of industrial depres-
sion is fruitful of enforced economies
which leave a favorable impression on
costs, even after the rigid necessity for
economy has been removed" says the
Iron Trade Review. In like manner
periods Of unusual prosperity and ex-
pansion beget wastes and extrava-
gances for which later the penalty
must be paid. These are truisms, but
thew deserve constant reiteration. All
business interests have of late been
making the most strenuous efforts to
stop wastes and extravagances and to
introduce economies at all possible
points. In devoting himself to this
work. the individual is apt to disregard
the fact that others are doing likewise.
He may later wake up to the somewhat
discouraging fact that his competitors
have been as busy as he at the work
and are as we'll prepared as ever for
competition, but he is also likely to find
when opportunity for observation is af-
forded that his customers have also
improved their position and have
money to spend which he had not
counted upon.
Such a discovery is likely to be
made with respect to the railroads.
While occasion has been taken in these
! columns to insist that the average pop
ular impression of the proportion of
our iron and steel output which passes
to the railroads is excessive. there is no
question that the railroad purchases
are very important and that to have
the railroads as good buyers is an inn
portant help to the iron and steel in
dustry.
THE railroads of late have done SO
much complaining about the poor posi-
ton they find themselves in, after a
period in which they complained that
the public would not keep quiet on the
subject of railroads. that an impression
has been created that the railroads are
in worse straits financially than a
study of statistics and conditions will
warrant. The railroads have been
practicing the most rigid economies at
all possible points and have largely re-
moved the alleged necessity either 70:
reduced costs of material and labor or
for increased prices for the services
fbav raDdaro
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
a NEW RECEssIoNAI,.

The tumult and the clatter cease.
=, The spoony lovers all depart;
IN dance hall reigns a heavenly peace,
sweet stiffness lulls both head and heart;
The landlord charges down doth set,
Lest he forget-lest he forget!
The shrieks and giggles of the sands
Upon the winds have passed away;
The goo-gooing and holding hands
Are over. with the bath. today.
Ger whispered nothings we'll not fret
Wen just forget-ah, just forget.
Another morn will open soon;
Again vain errands we will run,
Suit cases tote at humid noon,
Play dread croquet and call it fun
For desert island yearn. And yet
Seem to forget-seem to forget,
To teach a fat girl how to swim,
To row with merry widow gay,
To fish till hopes of catch grow slim
Then dance. play skat till break of day
OF some smart woman pose as pet
Yet know Gin town. she'll soon forget
For rest and health how vain to yearn!
To work ten months with zeal and zesi
That ebon waiter get your change
And glib hotel clerk claim the rest!
Why muse on Pirates Have Met
AS well forget-as well forget
New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's difficult for a married couple to
think alike because each OF them
wants to think first.
X x
Not only is this world a fleeing
show but most folks ind that all the
good seats are occupied.
X X 4
lust what most persons really
think about things cannot be decided
from what they say about them
x X
A man has hard work in trying to
make his wife believe that hes the
Jolly good fellow his men friends
sing he is.
=
Divorce offers little cure relief now
adays. for in nine cases out of ten
cases either of the parties is free to
marry again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News. ]

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Money is the sugar that sweetens
matrimony.
Most lazy men blame it on lack
of opportunities.
After acquiring q business of your
own learn to attend to It,
A mirror, unlike some people, never
forces it's reflections upon us.
It's the unexpected that happens
when a man makes a fool of him
self.
What puzzles some people is how
some of their acquaintance make
living.
Few people are capable of appre-
ciating a great work of art or great
man.
If a man doesn't f1atter a woman
she imagines that it is because he
doesn't understand her.
How man does dislike to meet
people who persist in recalling in
cidents that he is anxious to forget.
Once in great while a woman can
succeed in reforming a man. pro-
vided she doesn't let him know she is
trying.
At last we have discovered the diff
ference. The clothes of a stylish man
are shaped to him, while a stylish
woman is shaped to her clothes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record
Many an innocent picture is framed
in gilt.
Industry is the watch dog that
keeps the wolf from the door.
Many a fellow has forged to the
front on another mans name.
The people who are satisfied 70
take things as they come don't get
much.
No. Maude, dear, a see-saw. is NOT
part of the outfit of a ships car
penter.
Patience is virtue. but it is well
to remember also-that virtue is its
own reward.
Even though she doesn't marry the
best man, girl generally marries to
better herself.
You can't always tell- by appear
ances. The girl with dreamy eyes NAV
be very wide awake.
The man who agrees with every-
body IL no more popular than the n,ss,,
who agrees with nobody.
1t sometimes happens that o.,
low gets a reputation as 1a,s,.
simply because he is too law to yrn.1u
Polly Pinktights-"The leadtne !.
says she is welded to her arr -. 80. 10y
Footlights-"Yes, but you know, my
has positive passion for divorrssnl :. =
Sillicus-''Do you believe So
storm viii curdle milk - Cynir,,s
sure. A matrimonial storna 80,
Even curoie the milk of humsn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29

wrong They were not slowing up az
they approached the little shanty. Due
racing on with q madness wnlch DIOA~
all rules and regulations.
Then screams arose, men rusneo ~
the front of the car. They seemed y
be lifted into space, then horrible nols-
es shrieks, curses. and awful plunge.
a blow that she hardly felt, because y
was so terrific-and blackness.
When she woke up she looke4
straight into the brown eyes OF winch
she had been dreaming when the pio"
fell.
Darling" he was saying. and her
eyes went open very wide, despite the
dreadful pain in her head. DARLING
thought I'd never get to you. Tel
me you're alive! Tell me you Amt
hurt much! Tell me you love me!
Betty gasped. Fate must have Deen
very busy while she slept. She reached
for her purse, and touched her dress,
now drenched with water. She reach
hair was drippir- water. too. Tnen
she realized that the owner of the
brown eyes was dripping likewise. =
Something went wrong. the tram
went through the draw" he explained
rapidly. There's a lot drowned-ansdi
the ambulances are coming. They'll
| take you away--and I've got to 60:
| They'll take you to the hospital cause
your head is cut, but first you tell me
you're all right, you are going to get
well. And what's your name? I'm
coming to the hospital tonight. See 2,
MY names Betty Larned, and I
guess 1 amt hurt much, but you can't
| come to the hospital. We've never
been introduced She felt very faint
The clatter of an ambulance tearing
around the bank made Jimsie jump,
| and he gathered her close to his arms
| in the middle of the awful scene OF
| wreckage and death.
Say, this amt the time for being
fussy," he murmured earnestly. II loSe
Iyou-and I thought was going to lose
1 you. I'm coming to the hospital soon
as I get off, see ?''
Betty looked up into the big
eyes. and a fluttering smile crept
around her white lips.
Eyes, dear" she said, and closed her
eyes.
The ambulance surgeon bent over
her.
''I'll take care of her" he said
sharply to Jimsie.
Jimsie laid the unconscious form be-
side another in the ambulance, then
he gripped the young surgeons sleeve
"Say, you be careful with her. She's
my girl. See copyrighted, 1908
, by Associated Library Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
A Dead Snake in Chicago.

Once in a great while-a very great
while-a snake becomes a white ele-
plant.
Who is this Burbank of the animal
world who brings about the metamor-
phosis? Why. Chicago's municipal
machinery, of course. 1t can do all
this-and more.
All day yesterday Charles F. Winter
in the municipal service to remove a
dead reptile from his back yard. He
failed. His troubles started when his
two sons, Warren and Leslie, killed a
five-foot adder Sunday evening which
had escaped from an amusement park.
First he telephoned James O'Leary.
manager of the park, to cart it away.
Il haven't any use for a dead
snake" replied O'Leary.
us this the police department"
next phoned Mr.. Winter. Will you
send some one to remove a dead snake
from my back yard? ?"
They would not, but they referred
him to the health department, from
which he says he got the following re-
ply;
I'm not joking protested Mr..
81 would refer you, then, to the
Canal Rendering company" said the
health department employe. They
take away all dead animals under a
COnlTdCI with the
9TH have nothing to do with it,
Numbered the man on the phone OF
the rendering concern. 1--WE don't han
die rats. mice, snakes, grasshoppers
and the like. We won't send wagon
for anything smaller than a cat
Then the patient Mr.. Winter tried
the police department again.
''Try West 51S,' suggested the SER
geant
mo- you don't want u.s." replied
West 519, this is the county morgue
We only handle dead human bodies
no snakes
At this point Mr.. Winter gave up tn
task
''Why don't you dig hole and bury
the snake?'' was suggested.
THE police said 1 would be liable
to arrest and fine If 1 was caught
buryfng dead animals within the cor.
porate limit replied Mr.. Winter.
Then a journey was made to the Of
| flee of Police Chief Shippy. He ex.
planned the department had no juris.
diction.
Then a trip to the health depart
ment. The health commissioner or,
dered the dead animal man called
again. He replied:
Under our contract we are not re.
CURED to take snakes"
The commissioner smiled Tell Mr.
Winter that he ought to skin the
snake and sell the hide for pocket.
books and then boil the remains HI
| could make a small fortune selling the
oil as rattlesnake oil for rheumatism. ,
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
HUAOR or THE DAY

what! Divorced already! Why. I
thought they'd be linked for life" mo;
Jack got time off for bad behavior
Puck.
Teacher-If you are kind and polite to
Sch h The VII think they can lick me-.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Chappie-Have a cigarette, old man?
Sapleigh-No; I don't smoke foolkillers.
Chappie-Well. don't blame you for re-
fusing to take chances.-Chicago Daily
News.
Doctor-I diagnose all sickness from the
patients eyes. Now. your right eye tells
Excuse me, Doctor, but my right eye is
a glass eye.-Moody's Magazine.
The Mistress-what Suzanne. going to
leave me? Going to get married? This is
most unexpected. The French maid-Oui.
| madam. but eet ees not my fault. Eet was
| only last night Eat your son proposed to
| me.-Harper's Bazaar.
yes" said the eminent physician. I'VE
a arm u sIad to hear it. answered Mr.. sirius
Barker ''By proionging life you give a
| man more time and opportunity, to get TO-
7 gether the amount of your BILL wash
| ington Star.
| "Norah, didn't tell you that wanted
pitcher of ice water the first thing in
| the morning?" asked Mrs. Gunson. us.
| mum, we did" replied the new maid. an
! to make sure thot ye'd get 1t tn first
| thing I left 1t in front of tn dure last
| night. brooklyn Life.
| Mr. I.ingerlong-I had a queer adventure
| this afternoon Miss de Muir with a
| swift glance at the clock)-You mean yes
| terday afternoon, 1 presume.-Chicago
Tribune.
| Did your ancestors have a family tree.
| Mr. Maguire2'' Family tree It is, ma am !,
One of me ancestors controlled tn tntire
| timber privilege of the Garden of Eden. -
| Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29

WATCHING THE PIE PLATE.

The Republican state central. COM
mnttee calls the attention of the Re-
publ1cans of the state to the fact that
not only are some great principles at
stake In the state contest but there
are three or four hundred good offices
hung up as prize for the victors. If
the Democrats win the state admins
trat1on all the Republicans will be
thrown out and Democrats put into
the places of pleasure and profit.
Flease notice that this ringing state
nent and appeal to the conscience of
the people of Kansas is not from "the
machine" but from the personal rep
resentatives of our leaders who say
themselves that they are devoted to
the cause of reform. If Mort Albaugh
or Dave Mulvane had made reference
to the pie" involved in the election.
we would have been shocked. But
coming from Mr.. Stubs committee it
is certainly proper for serious consid-
Grafton.
Incidentally IL will establish more
firmly in the minds of the Republicans
OF Kansas that a change in leadership
has not done away with the practical
side of politics and that the politicians
who now lead the party to victory are
fit to be trusted with donations of cash
and truck. They are not abandoing
their battle for purity but neither are
they taking their eyes off the pie plate.
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rTrom the New York Press.l

If a girl has figure like a case
knife her idea is that she is gracefully
slim.
The less a man understands what
he's voting for the more excited he
gets over the election.
A great pride to a woman is how
she knows other people would envy
her than il they would admit it.
Faith is little use to a man without
knowledge, and knowledge Is none al
all to a woman without faith.
A girl who can dance fifteen miles
in slippers that hurt her feet would
drop dead to have to walk two in COM
Portable boots
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
FR0M oxHER PENS
BANK EXAMINATIONS.

The sanest method for guaranteeing
bank deposits IS that being followed
by the comptroller of the currency
Taking up the work as it was left by
William 3. Ridgely when he was
comptroller, Comptroller Murray is ar
ranging for the improvement of the
federal inspection service. He is now
drafting a letter, to national banks in
which he asks for the confidential
views of bankers on the examination
system. The bankers will be asked
whether they have been satisfied with
the examinations, whether they feel
that any of the present methods are
defective, what changes they would
suggest, how long it now takes to ex-
anime their particular institutions,
what plan of examination is followed
and any other information which they
believe would be of use to the comp
troller.
An elaborate and comprehensive eX-
animation system provides a guarantee
that offers no inducement whatever to
wildcat banking. 1t deals wholly with
the individual bank and forces no bur-
den on all the banks such as a guar
antee law would force. The first es-
sential to adequate examination is the
employment of men thoroughly quail
fed for the work and enough men to
do it.-Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.1

From the Atchison Globe.1
The old fellows won't attend, but
they like to be invited.
A man is more apt than a woman
TO go crazy when he falls in love.
1t is surprising the number of things
people know" on each other.
Most men know more about women
than women know about themselves.
People who are forever saying they
see the funny side of things seldom do.
Ask a man what wages he gets, and
he will tell you what he thinks he
deserves.
'"The mint" says a wise man, "can
make money without advertising, but
no one else can
said a farmers wife the other day.
looks as bad as a kitchen"
Every man eats too much, and too
fast and then says that no one in his
business ever has good health.
BARRIERS always tell when they shave
a man with a wig. This is as bad as
a doctor giving away the secrets of
his office.
When a farmer wants to dispose
of a kitten or a pup, he brings it to
town, and turns it loose, instead OF
drowning it.
We have lived great many years,
but have never seen weather bad
enough to discourage man with a
subscription paper.
Fully half the average man says is
of no consequence, and is only annoy
ing to those compelled to listen. Very
few men seem to realize the impor-
tance of keeping quiet when they have
nothing to say
During the average engagement,
both parties get mad and part for
evermore' at least thirty times. When
young people begin to part forever
more" it is an indication taht their
friendship is getting to be more than a
dirtation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
DANGERS OF AVIATION

The accident to the Wright aero
plano at Fort Myer, by which an army
officer lost his life, is deplored by the
experts in all parts of the world who
have been watching the experiments Of
the American inventors. The efforts
OF man to conquer the air have been
responsible for previous fatalities. but
the spirit which urged other inventors
to surmount obstacles spurs on those
who are now studying the subject of
aviation. The airship is in it's infancy.
but its possibilities are recognized bv
even the most ordinary mind TODAY.
What years ago was a dream is now
a reality, and the progress made in the
evolution of heavier than-air f1yfng
machines is truly remarkable. Fatal
tiles will not prevent the continuance
of the work of investigating the aerial
problem. Other scientific achieve
ments were not accomplished until
many lives had been sacrificed, and be-
fore the airship is perfected 1t will not
be surprising If further accidents hap
pen, and there is greater loss of life
the victims being martyrs to the cause
of science.
These accidents must be expected
The great peril of experiment in all
scientific discoveries has made man
realize the dangers to be feared dur.
ing the experimental stages. That the
airship will be a successful achieve
ment is admitted. In fact even now
the greatest scientific minds of the
world are not only studying the prob
lem of conquering the air. but also Of
destroying such aerial vessels as may
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29

Because of the exceeding embar-
rassment which has been caused by
the making public of certain decidedly
interesting letters during the cam
paign, It is quite probable that the
long distance telephone will grow in
popularity as means of communica-
ton between the trust magnates and
their minions in public life. There's
no doubt that the truth is being forced
upon them that many a written word
had better been left unsaid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29

Pupils in the Topeka high school are
not alone in their misery over having
their fraternities wiped out of exist
ence. as adjuncts of school life. ct
least. by the board of education. In
many cities throughout the country
during the past year similar steps have
been taken, and with just as much APP
parent success, by other school boards.
IN some localities the question of the
right of boards of education to put
fraternities and sororities under the
ban has been taken to the courts and
in every instance where this has been
done the courts have sustained the
positions taken by the supervisors OF
the schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29

has the new pavement been practically
spoiled in many places by the IRON
shod feet of the horses which have
been hitched along the curb. And al
though it might cause Inconvenience
to some 1t might be a good plan for
the city, after the Kansas avenue
pavement has been fixed up which
ought to be done at once, to pass an
ordinance absolutely prohibiting the
tying of horses on the asphalt paved
part of the street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29
Some Expenses in 1881.

An old memorandum book has just
come to light in which some interest
ing prices are recorded. They make
US groan. AS we read them we begin
to believe what the old people tell US
that former times were indeed better
than these.
The woman who kept this account
book paid, to be sure, 1925 to go from
Westfield, Mass, to New York, and
$500 more to go from New York to
Philadelphia, but she paid only %
cents dozen for her washing-beau-
tifully ironed and brought to her door
and $40 a month for her board,
and says that it was good, too.
She had her deguereotype taken a
single picture, and paid $3.50 for it.
owe can improve on that price, She
bought pair of shoes for S1.25, and
had a dress cut for 81 L. cents. The
accounts bristle with half and quarter
cents. Things cost sometimes a Flip"
sometimes a '1evy." The former was
6 IA cents, the latter II IL cents
She bought a pair of rubbers for
81 1-2 cents, and wrote them down as
gums" For her pew rent at church
she paid ss % cents a quarter, Her
gowns were made of "debage," de
laine' and null" and she paid $1.75
for the fitting and making of one.
She wore congress CATERS. and paid
the eXorbitant price of $2.25 for
pair. She bought a copy of agnes;
many of us remember to have seen
lying on parlor tables even in the
seventies. 1t was considered a won
derful work in it's time. and most
comforting to those in affiiction. For
teaching school eleven weeks, this
woman received $S2.
She paid 80 cents to go from West
field to Springfield, and 81 from
i Springfield to Hartford, with carriage
hire. She usually went from Hartford
4 - Il 1..,A - l.
one entry, Hartford to New York
across the land and then neglects to
record the price. She has a tooth
drawn and pays IS cents. We reflect
| that this was before the days of anes-
| thetics
She burned in her lamp, "fuid''-a
highly infiammable oil which preceded
| the safer kerosene.
Those seem primitive and homely
days to some who read these lines, 1t
! is true that life was simple then, but
| In New England and eastern New
York and the vicinity there may have
| been higher living, in many respects,
| than now.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Novel Readers in Tobacco Factories
I'm just back from Cuba" said a
| tobacconist. 81 went over lot of Gu
ban tobacco factories. The oldest
thing about them was that they all
had readers.
Yes, in every factory, while the
employees made cigars. a reader on a
| platform read aloud some thrilling love
story. For the employees TO talk to
/ one another was forbidden.
| Talk is forbidden in the Cuban fac
/ tories because the vivacious Cubans
| can't converse without gesticulating-
without laying down their work so
| that both hands may be free for the
gestures appropriate to each phrase. If
1 talk went on, work would cease.
Hence the reader, the employees
| finding that, without him, their peo-
pie won't obey the nontalk rule
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29

General T. Coleman Dupont of Della
ware has been forced to sever his
connections with the Republican ma
tional committee in the capacity Of di-
rector of the speakers bureau. His
Affiliations with the powder trust made
him an undesirable. Who's next?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-29

1t is to be hoped that Mr. urmy,
the police judge, will stick to his de-
termination to fine the next automo-
bflist, who is taken into custody for
violating the speed limit in the city.
the good round sum of $50. It's too
bad that the judge has not the power
to send an offending motor car manip-
ulator to Jail. A few Jail sentences
would probably go great ways toward
putting a stop to the practice of GER
tain automobilists, which seems to be
growing instead of diminishing, to run
their machines at a reckless rate OF
speed on the city streets.