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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-16
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-16

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
A RUN AND A RESCUE.

The baseball player who can deliber-
ately check his mad course while in
the midst of a home run, is worthy OF
more than ordinary attention. A New
York man was playing the fascinating
game the other day on ball grounds
that are near the East river. Two
strikes had been called upon him, but
he met the next ball squarely and
drove a long fly over the left fielder
head. 1t was an unusually long hit
and the batter started for first base
with a roar of approval to hustle his
flying feet. He turned first base and
was just turning second when he saw
a woman topple over into the river
from a nearby pier. Without checking
his speed he left the base line and
raced to the river. Still running he
leaped into the water and held up the
sinking woman-who was old and quite
helpless-until other hands could re-
lieve him of the burden. Then he
clambered to the pier. and, after dry
ing his garments by running up and
down the field in the warm sunshine,
went back into the game. OF course,
he couldn't finish the home rum be-
cause the memorable laws of the
sport declared him an out" for d.
verging too far from the base line.
Possibly the fact that he received quite
as much applause for the rescue as
he would have received for the run
he didn't make. reconciled him to some
extent.
Here was an example of the man
meeting the opportunity half way and
on the run. There was no lack of
physical courage in this hero's make
up, and as to his moral courage there
can be no question. The man who can
be turned abruptly aside when making
a home run on phenomenal long hit.
and with the. tumultuous cries of, go
it!' ringing in his ears, certainly has
moral courage Of high type.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From the Chicago News

the SniCd8O N0W8.
When it comes to the scratch the
flea is elsewhere. -
A crouch always hurts the grouchy
person most of all.
Anyway, the man who has no
friends never disappoints them.
Occasionally a woman buys a hat
that actually looks like one.
Don't give q dollar with one hand
and take back two with the other.
He is a wise man who knows what
a woman wants him to do without be.
ing told.
A mans good reputation may be
due to the fact that people are not ON
to his curves.
I In writing a love letter a man
should remember that 1t may come
home to roost.
Ever notice how many things there
are in the shop windows that you
have no earthly use for?
Probably from the viewpoint of the
man in the moon a balloon doesn't
come up to his expectations.
Never call an aggressive man a liar
to his face. Use q long distance
phone and brock the news to him
gently.
A married woman's idea of q satfs-
factory compromise is to have her
husband agree to do Just what shA
wishes him to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison Globe.J
People don't fear the devil like they
used to.
You can get fool to do anything
by daring him to do it.
The poorer the man, the louder he
laughs when a rich man tells joke.
When a man neglects a duty. he
says: IT was too busy" but usually he
was too lazy.
Some people handle their tongues
the way a foolish man handles. gun:
Every time it goes off some one is
hurt.
Boys have as much fun in drowning
kitten as girls have in hunting for
violets.
If a man lives to be thirty, and has
never loved but one woman, it is be-
cause he has never seen more than
one woman.
Sometimes you meet a girl who is
still q baby at fourteen or fifteen;
and when you do, you have met the
sweetest thing on earth.
When a man gets mad. there is
only one woman in the world, besides
his wife, who knows how mad he can
get. and that is the telephone girl
1t takes a man to go home and
grumble because dinner is not ready,
and then get interested in a newspa-
per and keep dinner waiting until it
is cold.
things that try to run in his sleep, is
receiving warnings that there is
something on his bill of fare that
should be cut off.
People often say to a boy when he
eats between meals: ''It will spoil
your dinneri" But, piecing between
meals never spoils your dinner until
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

condition of the roads. In addition, II
Is figured that 1900 men would be re-
Quired to guard these convicts, whlcn,
during these hard times would Slse
employment to people who stand IN
need of it. 1t is further proposed tnat
this be undertaken, not through con-
tractors, but through the prison auth
critics, relieving the proposition OF the
usual objections to ordinary contract
prison labor. -
It may be added that this kind OF
sentence would beyond doubt add a
new terror to crime. A possible GRIM
inal who had to work hard all day on
the roads would be even less enan-
ored of a prison sentence possibility
than If kept in prison and put at the
usual employment given to prisoners.
Nevertheless, so repugnant to almost
everybody would be the sight OF gangs
of criminals working on the roads, SO
suggestive is such sight of slavery,
that it will be long time, II ever,
before public sentiment will sanction
the change, however great may be Its
theoretical advantage and however
much it may lessen the cost OF crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
CONDEMN COLLEGE FRIvoIITY

Chancellor McCracken of the I'm
iversity Of New York made use Of the
opportunity afforded by commence
ment day at that institution to develop
the idea that there is too much amuse-
ment at American colleges, and that
it denoralizes many of the students.
The subject is so controversial in
character that it is only fair to repro
duce the chancelIor's exact words:
Lord Bacon wanted students to al
lot their time, one-third to sleep, one
third to meals, recreation, and pray
ers, and one-third to work. Many col
lege students, especially in the larger
colleges, prefer to amend the third
division. Their allotment would be
read thus: One-third to sleep, one
third to meals. recreation and prayers,
meaning college prayers, when re-
quired, but instead Of the one-third
for work, substitute one-third for ath-
letics, college societies, college politics,
with just enough attention to the de-
mands of the faculty to keep the name
of the student On the college roll I
am not saying for a moment that any
great American university tolerates
idleness, dissipation, or frivolity. 1
am saying that even colleges of great
repute may not succeed in preparing
men to study the professions"
The speaker intimated that the time
spent at college by one-third of the
students, especially in the largest col
leges, is worse than wasted. This Sc
rious charge coming from source so
fully informed and highly respected
cannot be ignored. Neither can it be
successfully refuted. There has been
strong temptation, for the sake Of
building up the colleges, to make
them attractive to students by other
methods than improvement of facili-
ties for progress in formal studies.
Exaggerated importance has been Civ
en- to athletics. The social side of col
lege life has been permitted to develop
to an extent inconsistent with the
theory that the main purpose of at
| tending college is to gain learning.
There must be a reaction against friv-
olity in college life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
Thinks This Life q Dream.

The Matin publishes a strange article
from Tolstoi on the problem OF the
next world. The great Russian writes:
Il am waiting for quite another hap
piness; already 1t approaches.
I'VE live dreams with almost the
same intensity as we do reality. Pas
cal, I believe, says that If we could
see ourselves in dreams and were al
WAYS in that condition we would con :
slider dreams the reality and reality
the dreams. That is not altogether
exact, for reality is more true than
dreams.
"All of our life from birth to death
is frau9ht with dreams. Is 1t not also
a dream which we take for reality
Are we not certain Of its reality sira-
ply because we do not know another
life more real?
ssNot only do I believe that. but I
am convinced 1t is the sole reason OF
the gertrude that our earthly life Is
one of dreams, and Of another life
more real, and so on to inffnity uati'
we reach that last life which Is the
life of God.
birth and our first ideas on earth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
THE COST OF CRIME.

There's an interesting discussion of
the cost of criminals in the United
States, and the way they can be made
to pay back something Of what they
cost. in Batten's Wedge, issued by the
we'll known advertising agents. The
idea of the article is not new, but
it is strongly put.
According to the figures given, penj-
Tertiary sentences in the United States
reach 15O,0o0,000 in year. The average
cost of conviction. of detectives, Pr
lice, courts, prosecutions, etc, is figur-
ed at $500 a sentence, which totals
about s75.000.000 a year. Allowing for
short terms, it Is figured again that
these 100000 sentences a year give a
constant penitentiary population of
about 100000 The cost of keeping The
100000 at rs cents a day figures $27. 3d.
900 year. Without going into details,
jail commitment cost is figured at s42,
100000, and Jail population cost at $43.-
100000 year. On this basis the total
yearly criminal cost reaches the rather
enormous figure of s1Ss675,OOO
The statement is made that of the
| 100000 constantly in states prison.
about $1,000 are ablebodied men and
| they are sentenced to hard labor
which, as rule, they do not GET
Where convicts come into competition
with ordinary labor. that kind OF
work is usually cut out. Thus is mini
mixed the kind of labor to which con-
victs can be put from which a return
can be secured. One method. however
Is open which is almost without OBJ.
lection on the score of competition, IND
which would be unanimously voted
hard labor. work on the roads. 1t is
not necessary to argue at length, as is
done in the article, for the benefit q,
good roads to everybody from tbs
| farmer to the man who drives tn,
automobile. That is something tn,
whole country acknowledges today
Supposing there is no objection to tn,
plan, it is figured that $1,000 convict,
working 200 days in the year won1I
put in 100000 days work on the roads
That would make a great change in ~.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
AYHAWKER WTS

A young man is under arrest at
Chanute for stealing four ivory bill
lard balls from the Santa Fe reading
ROOM. He hailed from Chelsea, Mass.
A physician at Leavenworth pro-
nounced an old soldier who had been
drinking a little too freely, to be dead.
The old man took exceptions to the
remark and sat up to convince the
doctor that he didn't know his bust
ness.
In order to be out of the ordinary
Emporia comes galloping up with the
was sandbagged and rendered uncon-
scious. When he came to his senses
he found that the men who had tap
ped him on the head had put IS bill
in his pocket. Probably they felt
sorry for the man because they hit
him so hard.
Joe Conner says his famous COW
gives only seven gallons of milk per
day. Her calf is seven weeks old
When she was at her best, however,
she gave ten gallons of milk a day. 1t
is necessary now to milk her three
for the COW. and has refused 500. He
says that the COW in seven months will
probably not give more than two OF
three gallons of milk a day. Other
cows give more steady. and give three
gallons daily all the year round
Atchison Globe.
A lamentation for the good old
days. by Ancil Hatten in the West
phalia Times: How times have
changed! When we were young, peo-
pie had bad colds. soaked their feet
in hot water and got we'll. Now they
have grip, take quinine and feel sick
all summer. Then they had sore
throat, wrapped piece of fat pork
in an old sock. tied it around the neck
at night and went to work the next
morning. Now they have tonsilitis, a
surgical operation and two weeks in
the house. Then they had stomach
ache and took castor Oil and recover
ed. Now they have appendicitis. a
week in the hospital and six feet due
east and west and six feet perpendicu-
lar. They worked then, they labor
now. In those days they wore under
clothes; now they wear lingerie. Then
they went to a restaurant; now they
go to cafe. Then they broke leg;
now they fracture a limb. People
went crazy then; they have a brain
storm now. Politicians then paid good
hard cash for support; now they send
government garden seeds. Yes, times
have changed, and we all change with
the times. That's progression"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
THE FrsHERnyEN,s warns

THE F1SHERMEN'S TALES.
1t was a group of Fishermen
(Atl amateurs were they).
A-telling each of wondrous catch
In river and in bay.
And as the stories passed around
They more amaxing grew,
And every teller of a tale
Swore roundly 1t was true.
1t would have much amazed a man
Who lived by catching fish,
To hear these tales; indeed, he might
Be tempted to say ''Pish!''
For experts in the angling art
Could ne'er by nip and tuck,
In close devotion to the rod q
Expect such mighty luck.
OF them, unseen, unwot;
He murmured: "Sfnce left the earth
Lies have improved a lot.
My record this beats, admit,
Despite my natural bias
Which was tribute. for the shade
Was that of Ananias.
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
QUAKER MRDrrATToNs
from the Phil

[From the Philadelphia Press.1
The fool. at any rate. IL aiwayv rens
erous with his folly.
A fellow can blow his own ho-.
without going on . loot.
The fact that beauty Is only s1r,n
deep is very comforting to a lot Of reo-
pie.
If the eyes are the windows Of ~.
soul every man must look out for ht,,,-
self.
Rather than sew I'D glove on Sun.
day some women would remember the
Sabbath day and keep 1t holy.
JiIlH"Pn scream II you kis. ~. >,
Jack-"An right; then I won't" Jill
I'm going to scream. anyhow
The fellow who tells q girl he co,,z
listen to her voice for the rest Of his
life should be careful. or he may have
to do it.
He-'I would gladly die for Won but
for one thing" She-"What in fh.t pc
Helm afraid you could never r.
place the loss"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There can be no doubt about 1t. The
actual bone of all contention is the
jawbone.
X
It's particularly. quiet around a
house when the women go away and
also take the photograph with them.
n X.
Never would it, be known that some
writers of verse were poets If, they, did
not announce the fact themselves.
X
Some men may act like perfect fools
when they are in love but great
many more do not even need that for
an excuse.
- y
About the least desirable of foreign
loans are those made by American
millionaires to their titled sons-in-law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[F'rom the New York Press.
A guess is as good as Judgment
when you hit 1t right.
Flattery is pretending to agree with
what people think about themselves.
Money saves lots of men from 60
ing to the dogs by their not having it.
girl thinks you are making love
to her If you tell her whom you are
named after because she asked Won
The average man thinks he has
great powers of deduction to be able
when house falls on him. to con
clude that it hurts,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

may be considered the beginning
slumber and all terrestrial life mekes
our total slumber Death IL the AVA.
ening Of the sleeper. In this preseas
dream there is an appearance Of fovs
OF our neighbor, but In the lie 20
which we are going that love IS not
"I do not amuse myself by iniagin-
Ing this theory. / believe with all my
soul what say. feel and know with
certainty that in dying shall be hap.
py. that then I shall enter . worio
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
HU1HOp or THE D/Y

my time" said Mr.. Dustin stax -
That's what makes me doubt ~ bsns-
ut Of vast wealth" replied the eagy-Qae1g
cred by the wasting Of few dollars uSlk-
five minutes."EWsshinston Star.
In. your paper this morning. sir. 80
called me bum actor want an 81
TT. II shall Be happy to explain. young man.
pssT2of5ssdeT ThE thought cnitt:d + e;
happen again. "-chicsso Tribune.
You did not seem to get on very xsll
you would like him very much"
I'm awfully disappointed You haa
thinss in ON" '0
so he has
o. " da. thousht you meant in T..eA
ing but painter. Record-asr-
Nodd-Tou live next to q burying
ground. don't you? How do you like i'll
Todd-very much. Good neighbora.
IL ane gsope never running
Here Is my seat: madam. but candor
well able to stand az I am
Pohtensss compels me 10 say 'Thank
You officeholders," sneered the man
w c,s was o ysiniy trying to be one. don't
one xe r sraie To. y man who wa. on.
ne smiled benigniy; only once"-Tit-
noisseur?
PEA connoisseur. my SON. is an emf
you treat him to Is the best ever.-Chi-
cago News.
Does this car go to Twenty-fourth
| street?' inquired the elderly lady.
mo. ma'am, but have something Just
formerly a drug clerk: Il can let r, You %" on
twice at Twelfth street-"-Bohemian.
| When you delivered your speech" said
the stenographer. why did you omit that
T 1ir to ss5,sinins at gnat and swai-
.'Hush!' replied the prudent orator,
| there has already been quite enough OF
this nature-faking discussion. "-washing-
| ton Star.
Is there any arbutus around here?
| mo; nuthin but rheumatics. Were
pretty healthy this spring."-Harvard
He Cat the end of fishing story)-My
never saw such a fish in my life.
4 Punch.
Advertising always brings results"
Yes. but not always the ones you
What do you mean?'' 80
| Wen, young Barnes was shaky on his
college education. and he advertised for q
| COACH"
did he get one?'
| cabs were standing in front OF the
| house."-Cleveland Leader.
L
time at the dentists when he was 10 New
York" said Johnny Green.
| why do you think eo?" queried his
ma.
"Cause heard him tell a man today
that 1t cost him nearly 500 to get his eye
teeth cut" replied Johnny.-Chicago
News.
Life" said the suburbanite. has it's
problems for mild man."
| LAS to how?'
IF we raise hens they scratch up the
| neighbours flowers, and If we raise flow
| ers they offer temptation to the neighbor's
hens."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
| wise-Yes he used to be in the newspa-
per business but he's studying for the
| ministry now. He says he decided that he
couldn't be newspaper man ana save
| his soul
De Ritter-How oddi I've heard his old
city editor state 1t differently. He said
| he couldn't be q reporter to save his soul.
I-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

Many of the women who are promi-
nent in the society of Washington
have made plans to go to Chicago and
add little distinction to- the Repub-
lican national convention by their
presence in the galleries of the con-
vention hall. 1t is now said to be the
thing for the feminine portion of the
smart set to take a decided inreres, in
notifies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
KANSAS coAAENT
FRIED GERMS.

Most of the people of Emporia re-
earded 1T as settled thing that the
town was to have a meat and milk in
spector, and they were glad Of 1t: for
meat which is unfit for human con-
sumption might be-. offered for sale
with impunity, unless chance inter-
venes. -
1t now appears that some inspired
local statesmen have come to the
conclusion that the inspection OF meat
would be a worthless extravaganza.
They argue that the chief danger to
the public lies in impure milk. which
is not cooked before being devoured.
Thus the germs are consumed alive,
and they at once begin to prey upon
the consumers vitals, causing him to
die in frightful agonies. The germs In
meat, on the other hand, are destroyed
when the meat is cooked and do no
harm, but may be considered nutritious.
I. 1t would be interesting to know where
those statesmen obtained their profound
scientific knowledge touching germs
and microbes. Warnings have often
been issued by real savants to the eff
feet that in order to destroy many of
the germs which infest meat, it Is nee
essary to cook the meat almost to a
cinder. 1t Is almost impossible to des-
troy trichinae, for instance, by cooking.
Even if the pestiferous germs were
really made innocuOus by cooking, 1t
would make no difference in this case.
People who. pay their good money for
meat want clean, wholesome meat;
when they want germs they will go to
laboratory for them.
So long as the town has no official
authorized to inspect slaughter houses,
meat shops and animals marked for
the butcher, it will be possible for peo-
pie to kill and sell the carcasses of
wounded, crippled. ancient or diseased
beasts, and hundreds of such critters,
rejected by the packing house buyers,
are believed to find their way to the
butchers block In country towns.
The Inspection of milk is necessary
and good, but It is only a halfway
measure, and the people of Emporia
will be justly indignant If provision is
not made for the proper inspection of
meat.-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

News comes from junction City
that, during the United States army
maneuvers in that vicinity this sum-
mer, an army column five miles long
will go across eastern Kansas in a
practice march. Is it confession of
ignorance to ask how broad, or wide,
this column is going to be?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

This is fine. President Castro
official newspaper, published at Cara
cas-, printed an article recently in
which the United States is called "the
Cain of America which pretends to be
cordial in order to disguise brutal
Instincts If Castro does not look out
ne might turn out to be the Abel of
America
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

News from the front has it that
Holsters are to be plentiful this sea-
son. This refers to the crustacean
variety. 1t would have been better
news if it had told that the other
kind of Holsters, of which there is al
ways an abundance on hand, was get
ting scarcer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

Once in while justice is admins
tered as it should be in Chicago. A
woman was recently convicted there of
the horrible crime .of aiding in the
downfall of young girl and she has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for
a term of twenty-five years. It's too
bad that she could not have been sent
up for life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
Richmond Pearson Hobson has GER

Richmond Pearson Hobson has GER
tainly developed into the champion
pessimist and alarmist in this country.
He continues to harp the opinion that
the taking of the United States battle
ship fleet out of the Pacific before
some other power places one there to
counterbalance that of Japan would
mean condition leading to inevitable
war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

ficult to appreciate them. 1.-The
wheat grown in Kansas in twenty
years ending with 1907" SO reads this
back page, amounted to 1,092,360,-
SOS bushels with a farm value of
$50, 909,719 dollars and whatsoever
VIII Nav Come!