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The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
IMPORT REVENUES.

A glance at the latest monthly sta
tistics of the foreign trade of the Uni
ted States shows that the sweeping
changes wrought by general economies
since the panic last fall are still In
full swing. In April, for example, the
imports of merchandise were valued at
only $S7 ,4s1 900. against $129, 1854 900 In
the corresponding month of last year.
The decrease of more than $42 900, 900
means a decline of 33 per cent. 1t far
more than offset the loss of $24, ,000, 900
in exports and left the balance of
trade on the side of the American pro-
ducer and shipper by almost $46, 900 ,O00
instead Of less than SIS. .000. 600 in April,
1907.
This country is still paying old debts
to Europe, still rolling up foreign
credits, stil1 reducing the amount OF
American securities held by Old World
investors. The change is SO swift and
steady that it must exert great effect
upon the future Of business It is
clear that gold exports cannot rise to
very large proportions, certain that the
money markets of the United States
cannot be forced back to the stringency
which marked long period before the
crisis last fall and came to its climax
then. There will be capital for all rea-
sonable needs at moderate rates OF in
terest, and that Is one OF the most
hopeful features Of the financial In
dustrial and commercial situation II
goes far toward insuring unchecked
recovery from all Of the i'll effects OF
the panic Of last October.-Cleveianc
Leader. 49,
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
AYHAWKER JOTS

Another lie nailed: 1t is reported
from Winfield that an eleven-pound
catfish wearing a shovel on his nose,
was recently captured at Baden's dam,
to is the one now in circulation to the
effect that alcoholic beverages are un-
obtainable in Winfeld.)
The bull in the china shop should
take lessons in destruction from a
certain Salina pup. The Salina Jour-
nal tells the sad tale of the pup
which was inadvertently locked in a
morning the stock looked like it had
been through a threshing machine,
but the pup was happy.
Good news from the Clyde Republi-
can: Emery Hakes and o. c.
watterson murdered $50 gophers
Monday The water drove the var
mints to the surface where they fell
an easy prey to the pitchfork. In
the same paragraph with the joyful
news, it is further announced that the
gopher bounty is not in effect west of
the sixth principal meridian.
Having fallen down in the fish
story contest, an Alma paper gets
even with this: "a sample of goose
berries from Peters garden came to
are fine and very large. We measured
one of the larger berries and the cir
cumference was three inches. Mrs.
Peters is one of the finest gardeners in
Alma and always has the finest of
everything in garden truck"
Great Scott! This sounds like Mis-
souri-but please remember that
Atchison is almost in Missouri: IAN
indignant citizen criticised Mayor
King severely the other day because
beer wagons from the brewery are al
lowed on the streets. Mayor King
says that the Atchison brewery has a
United States license, to do business
in Atchison for the manufacture OF
beer for wholesale purposes, and he
is not vested with power to keep their
delivery wagons off of the main
thoroughfares of the city,
Abilene, though small, refuses to be
left behind in the matter of modern
enterprises. Behold the prideful an
nouncement from an Abilene paper:
abilene had a holdup last night. at
about IL O'Clock. George Stice, who
works for Contractor Mccullough
was going to his home at that hour
when he was stopped by two men at
the corner of North Buckeye and
Eighth street One man covered him
with a revolver and the other went
through his clothes, relieving him of
two five dollar bills and some small
change
The Abilene Reflector. competent
Judge of strawberries on the hoof, is
responsible for this: "Of of an
eighth of an acre of Strawberries
Jacob Rumold, living seven miles
north of town, picked and sold 1925
worth of berries besides using a large
amount for their own table use. This
is at the rate of $1,000 per acre for
one years returns. If any one can
beat this we should like to hear from
them, especially when it is considered
that not cent was expended on the
land as this berry patch was planted
two years ago and only a days culti-
vation done on the patch this year.
Strawberries beat even king alfalfa
for large returns
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
looked in ali directions for their fsl-


looked in all directions for their fel-
why. where are the rest Of our
croWd?" she cried in amaxemA Ant.
A-hem." stated Witherspoon. 1T
looks as II we had missed another
How can that se7" suggested Alice.
We started at the same time they
dlo, ana now we will have to wan
could It have happened?" sne re-
well. the fact is," confessed with
erspoon. sit didn't happen by accident.
! paid the driver two. dollars to mfss
Alice loked at him searchinrly to
see If she really heard him Alright.
You see," continued Witherspoon.
7 wasn't going to have Billy Brew
I wanted you all to myself And I
want to say something to you"
Not here in q railroad station!'s
cried Alice. with feminine premonitfon
OF what that something was II
why not?' asked waiter, reckless
". We're all alone and want to tell
you that I love you. and oh. Alice.
won't you say 'Yese'"
Want the New York train?" yelled
the station agent.
Yes, of course" replied Alice.
Witherspoon beamed on her and
grasped her hand. "Oh. sweetheart,
II you knew what q happy man I am
and do you really love me?"
"I was speaking to the station age (
when I said Yes" said Alice blush :.
ingiy. "But maybe the same answer
will do for both.
1908. by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19

and threw the blocks upon the floor
to test my theory. believed the
child would display interest In the
blocks and the holes in the table, and
would seeks to fit the blocks into the
holes. It Is my idea that to bring out
the best there is in children they must
be rewarded whens.they perform the
tasks we desire. The table and
blocks were so constructed that when
the right block was in place In the
table that spring would be pressed
and piece of candy would appear.
1.-The boy displayed no interest in
the table until I had performed the
test three times, with him looking on
with wondering eyes. He saw that
each time / was rewarded, and at the
third test he displayed eagerness to
play with the blocks. In the course
of time he selected block and fitted
it in Its proper place, and a piece of
candy rolled to his hand. At the end
Of three months the tendency to de-
structiveness had absolutely disap-
peared"-Los Angeles Dispatch to
New York American.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
TOPEKA A DRY TOWN.

Something over a year ago a great
fight was waged in Wichita over the
prohibition question. The "drys" won
ity and installed a prohibition mayor
and council and chief of police with
the blessings of Myra McHenry. dis
ciple of Carrie Nation After year OF
spasmodic opening and closing Of Joints
the city has gone wet in the election
held recently. With all the fuss and
feathers attendant upon the inaugura-
tion of the prohibition forces. last year.
there was never a time that Wichita
was as dry as Topeka is today.
There has been no sensation here
lately one way or the other over the
liquor question. The jointist is out
of business, that is all. County attor-
ney, sheriff, chief of police and police
judge, all of them regard the jointist
as they would any other law breaker,
and as a result his path is thorny
one. Even the druggist here has Lis
troubles. He must sell liquor well
within the law or suffer a $500 fine
and $50 day Jail sentence as one Of them
did this week The pool hall man or
restaurant keeper who allows beer to
be carried into his place and drank
there is also in trouble and has fines
to pay. Yet not one Of the officers
mentioned above Is "a temperance
crank" or engaged in a crusade on the
sellers of liquor.
Without any undue effort nor any
particular lack Of vigilance they pur-
sue the even tenor of their official Nay.
Their dealings with the jointiSt are OF
the u1emotional kind-neither for nor
against. He has broken or seeks to
eyade the law and they arrest
him and convict him in the most
friendly way imaginable. but with reg
ularity.
The Topeka way is effective always
The Wichita way, where men are in
famed by prejudice and wax too hot
and too cold by turns. dealing always
in an impracticable way with a cum
ming and untiring law breaker. is ef
fective never, nor does it result in any
lasting good
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
MIR. MOHLER's I'LL TEMPER.

Mr.. A. L. Mohler, general manager
of the Union Pacific railway. is show
ing i'll temper about the flood situa-
ton in Topeka. He seems to take the
absurd position that the people of To-
peka are responsible for the flood
damage to his railroad and he threat
ems to take his track and get out of
town. 1t is not known whether Mr..
Mohler made similar threats at Man.
haitian where the washout was more
serious than at Topeka or at Kansas
City where it will require weeks to
repair the damage.
The people of Topeka might have
more sympathy for Mr.. Mohler if the
only damage done by the flood had
been to the Union Pacific, but there
are unfortunately hundreds of people
in North Topeka and in the Kaw bot
toms who have suffered a greater loss
comparatively than has the Union
Pacific. They are no more pleased to
have floods than is Mr.. Mohler and
they are just as anxious to have ade-
quate measures of flood protection
taken and they haven't threatened to
take their houses and farms out of the
nav vdliCy CithCl.
Why can't Mr.. Mohler be reason
able with Topeka. His company has
property to protect. many thousands
of dollars worth, and so have the citi-
zens of Topeka. Why not meet the
situation in calm, reasonable spirit.
If there is a way to keep the flood
waters out of North Topeka the peo-
pie want to know it and from his
wide experience he may be able to
make some suggestions that will be
valuable.
Topeka doesn't want to lose the
Union Pacific. 1t might do without
this great railway system it is true,
but it doesn't want to be forced to
face such an emergency. The Union
Pacific is probably no more willing to
lose Topeka than Topeka is to lose
the Union Pacific. The presence of
this great railway system has been
mutually advantageous and neither
party should desire to break the
partnership.
So. Mr.. Mohler, let US get together
and work out this problem as best we
can and quit saying things that we do
not mean and which may put us in a
ridiculous position.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
The Profanity Habit.

Major John NJ. Burke, Buffalo Bills
right bower, press agent, and general
manager, was ar the Rennert yesterday
with his usual beaming face and, as
ever, redolent of optimism.
Il am not professional reformer," !"
said the. gallant major, "but I would
like to see the American people aban-
don the swearing habit. We are, as a
nation. too prone to use cuss words
whenever things don't go right or our
feelings are hurt. 1t seems to me that
real profanity should be tabooed by all
who aspire to be considered gentlemen,
so as to create sentiment that the use
of such expletives Is a mark Of vul-
garity and ruffianism.
Instead of ugly oaths when laboring
under excitement, the coming genera
ton should be taught to employ only
near-swear words. such as BY the
jumping Jehosaphat,' by Jingo Gee,
by the beard OF the Prophet" and the
like. The late Jim Hogg, governor of
Texas, one of my best friends, used
the innocent, but blood-curdling, cuss
phrase by goolings' whenever his hot
southern blood got inhamed.
"a great number of prominent Amer
leans got on very well without using
actual profanity. Col. Cody, Though a
frontiersman all his life and accustom-
ed to the society of men who handle the
mother tongue careless1y, is not given
to blasphemous speech. The colonel
when worked up. has been known 10
say 'dog-gone it, and blame It,,
and now and then 'dod-gast it, but this
is the limit of his impassioned voca-
lary."-Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
AN ALLTrERTIvE ALLEGoRY.

serene Susanna sits beside the stream,
Where timid trout are trying to attain
The gourmet glory Of the golden gleam
OF flies for which the foolish fish are
fain.
She bats her bended barb and bends her
back
To trail the tempting tidbit in the tide
OF lively leaps there is a lasting lack
But biteless beauties boldly there abide.
az last the Iass alas! allured by love
OF angling, avid in the ancient art
outbends the broeklet's beetling blum
And strains her strength the struggling
stunt to start
Susanna slips. so slick the Shiny sod;
She smites the surface with a smothered
shrek:
She weighs three hundred pounds, and. by
the rod!
She splashes all the fishes from the
creek.
y New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
How He Made Money Fly.

Though not a rich man and not
overwhelmed to waste money, never
theless L spent cash with a reckless
ness that was of the Monte Cristo or
der while on a tour of Latin Ameri-
can countries recently" said Prof. p.
c. Everett, Of Harvard university.
"It was in the United States of
Colombia where my prodigality
reached its zenith. Meeting an old
friend, I asked him to dine with me,
and when I came to settle cheerfully
paid a check that called for $3.50.
Then I tipped the waiter to $40 and
paid for 800 for two extra fine
cigars. These figures are absolutely
true, but 1t is proper to state that the
cost of my dinner was estimated in
the currency of the country, and that
it stood me in reality only $3.50, one
dollar in our United States money be-
ing worth 800 of the Colombian. So
| it was that the waiter got, at a right
valuation, only 40 cents, and the two
perfectos were so cents apiece on our
Yankee basis.
1T certainly was a novel experience,
this spending of hundreds for articles
| of small worth, and when one loads
himself up with the local currency il
makes him feel. until he gets used to
| the sensation, as though he were a
efeller."-Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
FROM OTHER PENS
SCIENCE AND VOCATION.

Much attention has been given re-
Gently to the work of the so-called-''vo-
cation bureau in Boston. At its head
are Profs. Frank Parsons, Hugo Mum
sterberg and other sociological and
psychological investigators, who are
reputed to be aided financially in their
work by wealthy Boston philantho-
pist. The object of the bureau is to
develop movement by which it may
be discovered for what vocation the in
dividual is best fitted, temperamental-
ly. mentally and physically, and the
leaders in the movement hope, it is
said, to see the system adopted in the
public schools Of the country.
From simple psychological tests"
Professor Munsterberg says, 'it is pos
sible to divide all the people in the
world into classes so that you can say
that this man would never make a
chauffeur for instance, because his re-
actions are too slow. The time is COM
ing when 1t will be possible to say
what activity certain subject should
enter, and to force him into it and ex-
clude him from all others, by reason of
his brain process development, just as
| it is now possible to shut out of the oc-
cupation of locomotive engineer all
men who are afflicted by color blind
ness"
He explains that different sciences
will be made to contribute to the end
| in view, and that in selecting the
proper vocation for the Individual child
| not only will the psychological tests be
made, but ancestry, experience, educa-
| ton and other things will be consider
| ed in their turn. Whether it is going tc
| be possible to regulate not alone the
| schoolchildren, but the whole of socie-
| ty, upon some such scientific plan as
this remains to be seen, but, at least
| the possibility is an interesting one
and it would, indeed, be a boon if there
| were no longer the possibility of having
| it said that a man had missed his vo-
| cation.-Was ashington Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
Hopes to Perfect Humans.

DR.. Leon Elbert Landone, the Eng
llsh scientist. who proposes to do for
children what Luther Burbank has
done for plant life, will open his new
theory school at the old Hoege home,
at Hollywood. in October.
DR.. Landone has a corps of twenty
teachers in training for the work Of
bringing out the best there is in the
twelve children he will select this
| summer from different cities.
DIR. Landone described the cure of
| destructive child, who would, he ex-
planned, have been an inmate of an
| insane asylum at fourteen years IL not
| treated.
"One of the remarkable instances
occurring said DR.. Landone, twas
that of four-year-old boy who de-
stroyed everything he put his hands
on. He tossed costly vases and bric-
a-brac through windows and wrecked
furniture, smashed his toys, and the
dishes on the table.
His relatives loaned him to ms
for four months. I prepared q room
with no windows, the light fflterins
into the room through a hole in tht
ceiling. 1 removed all furniture ant
had peepholes cut into the walls. The
child was not given food for abou
ltwenty-four hours, and then placed II
the room. He threw himself upor
the floor In paroxysH Of rage. Ther,
was nothing there for him to DESTROY
and so he pounded his heels and heat
upon the floor and cried until he wa,
exhausted.
Il prior to placing him in the room
had heavy table constructed. Their,
were twelve round and square hole
in the table, all Of different dinen
sions, and there were blocks that fit
ted each. When the boy was less ex
cited I showed the table into the room
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
HVl4OR OF THE DAY

Judge (to prisoner just condemned to
death)-Yeu have the legal right to ex-
press last wish. and II It is possible it
Prisoner e harber2-I should like just
once more to shave the county attorney.-
roglyphics on brick. ''What are You You
Han .Hansed 41a Il Know. mo- "o: responded the en-
graver. but guess some OF those Assy-
biologists OF the twentieth century can
translate It all right ht"-Philadeiphia Pub
Third Floor Tenant-See here! I'm one
and I've called to ask you Ut to sci seil 'eus your
flute.
IS; Second d, Floor ss :; ;Tsnsat.Delishssa to see
sell your sabyIppncosts IR ane M S4u %sxa.ikne n ksua
Mrs. Turtle-I see by the papers here
than an automobile ran down a twenty
foot embankment and turned turtle Now
wat %aes SsS so S1 1d Is to turn n
into an automobile. You know I've want
ed one this long while-Circle Magazine.
Mrs. Newed-My husband never speaks
Mrs. oidwed0Indeed. How long have
ST see you're still using the old auto
mobile Jokes" remarked the first humof-
What Of itr' snarIed the second hu-
| morist
| Don't you know the 1903 models are
eut?"-Washinston Herald.
Don't you find that living out there In
the suburbs is drawback to your busi-
"On the contrary. I find that my busi-
ness is drawback to my living out there
4
Bobby|Sister's got q beau all right.
| Tommy-What makes you think 80?
Bobby-She used to say: Bobby, sea-
Who's calling. Mhen the phone rams. Nov
me.-Cleveland Leader.
IT met Dunkey today for the first time
| in years. He hasn't changed at all, but
he t5on; doesn't It seem we nte.r to realize IT,"
"Oh, he's forever talking about what
fool he used to be.'-Philadelphia Press.
suburban minister during his dis
each blade Of grass there is a sermon"
The following day one Of his flock diecov-
cred the good man pushing lawn now
er about his garden and paused to say:
gagged in cutting your sermons short
The Standard.
Nurse-Doctor. q sponge is missing; pos
sfbly you sewed 1t up inside patient.
me to add $40 to the btl for material
Puck
Yes. he was mixed up in politics"
Yes but he's out now"
'Tndeed3 Did he escape OF was he par
doned?"-Philadelphta Press.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
"Catarrhr Was a Collar Button.

Treatment for catarrh, which he has
been undergoing ever since the age of
two years, came to sudden termina-
ton with Clare Stagemeyer, twelve
year-old son Of John Stagemeyer, of
this city, today, when he sneezed out
of his nostril q broken bone collar but
ton.
The boys parents recall that when
but two years old the child had pushed
the button into his nostril. A physician
who examined him said that the button
must have, gotten into his throat and
been swallowed. Instead, it had lodged
in the nasal passage, and all these
years had produced the catarrh symp-
toms.-York dispatch to Philadelphia
Record.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
GnoBn s1cHrA

[From the Atchison Globe.l
Nothing Is too foolish for some peo-
pie.
Idle people play entirely too much
with busy people.
A man must ruin himself: Anothas
man cannot do 1t for him.
The moro signs Of luck q man knows,
the less he amounts to.
No one is going to die and leave you
q fortune; If you want wealth you must
earn 1t.
Agriculture note: Only one thing may
be said in favor Of the Cucumber: 1t
stands shipping well.
How many neat little chances others
fail to improve when they might say
something good OF you.
In a little town, q funeral and a
wedding are always sure Of good no.
tees in the newspapers.
There seem to be very few men to
whom widow can loan her money
without being punished for it.
The best women in the world arc
extravagant in at least two particu-
lars: dry goods ana preserves.
Some think q man isn't taking II
hard" enough unless he bawIs in his
troubles like a calf that has lost its
mother.
When q girl from q big family goes
visiting in a small family. and is in
vited to cut the bread, she always cuts
too much.
It must be very discourag1ng to a
man to be very gallant to his wife in
public, and have her look as IL she
wasn't used to It,
The man who attracts attention
once, must attract attention every two
or three months thereafter. or become
a dead one.
A woman, when packing mp furnf-
4ure, doesn't know Of ANYTHING that
can't be made perfectly safe by being
packed In bed quilts.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate of ten cents
q week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
state journal viii be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19
SQUEEZE OUT THE WATER.

There will be trouble with the rail-
roads just so long as the railroads in
sist upon paying dividends upon stock
that exists only for dividend pur-
poses. 1t is idle to talk of advancing
freight rates until the water is squeezed
out of the railroad properties With
this water out the public would be will
ing to give the railroads any fair profit
on their investment and also literally
consider the hazard of the investment.
Until the water is out it will be war
fare between the corporations and the
public.-Lawrence, Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19

The people in this section Of the city
have been paying water tax Tor years
and have been compelled to large ex-
tent to depend upon wells for their wa
ter supply. They are just as much en-
titled to water as the people. of any
other part of the city and 1T Is high
time that the mains were extended to
Supply them
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19

The Santa Fe railroad management
Is to be congratulated on the dispatch
with which its lines have been opened
for traffic since the flood and for the
persistence with which trains were op-
Grated during the flood time. The San
IA Fe saved Topeka from being isolat-
ed from the rest of the world. Every
one must admit that the Santa Fe is
a great institution.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19

Uncle Cyrus Leland must be mellow
ing as he grows older. 1t is told that
he figuratively embraced Senator Long
at the Chicago convention. This does
not seem so strange after all when 1t
is remembered what he used to say
about Senator Charles Curtis and how
he afterward led the movement that
gave Curtis the United States senator
ship. Mr.. Leland's new way is the bet
Tar rrav -
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-19

William Allen White Of Kansas is
writing some mighty interesting.
breezy things about the Chicago con-
vention for the Record Herald. Mr..
White has faculty for seeing the in
teresting phase of any gathering as
well as of individuals