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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
NEW TURN IN RATE LAW.

An increased usefulness for the rail-
road rate law is assured In the an
nouncement by the interstate COM
merce commission that it will here
after consider the reasonableness of
rates after the notice of an increase
and before the rate becomes effective.
1t is assumed that the president d.
rected the announcement and that he
decided on the new Interpretation of
the act on legal advice. The presump-
ton has been that the commission was
bound by law to let a new rate go into
effect and then await a formal COM
plant against it before an investiga-
ton could be held and a maximum
determined. The law appears not
quite clear on this point and shippers
will welcome the new and liberal in
depreciation given it.
Shippers have claimed that the rail-
roads were given a great advantage
over them because they could estab-
lish new rates which would remain In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
AYHAWKER JOTS

Raymond is to have a musical treat
soon. The Chase band has been en-
gagged to play there.
One Douglas county young lady
who is a candidate in a prize piano
contest is named Venus.
A Frankfort fan" was finding fault
with one of the Blue Rapids outfield-
ers, and said: He can't cover any
more ground than a geranium."
Replying to the suggestion of an
exchange that umpires are human,
the Salina' Journal insists that they
are not. when the home team loses.
Two harvest hands in Mitchell
county. who were not given enough
work to do. ran down and captured a
wolf that had been hiding in the
wheat field.
Joseph Owens. a veteran of the civil
war, killed himself at Chetopa the
other day with the same gun with
which his brother killed his wife and
himself some years ago. All the par
ties knew the gun was loaded.
A political note from the Coates
Bryan Farmer was driving self
dump rake for Andrew Jackson on
the Jenkins ranch near Gyp mill he
had the misfortune to get his collar
bone fractured"
Two vanDykes attended the post
masters convention at Chanute this
week. One was an official in the de-
partment at Washington. and the
other was worn by Postmaster BILLY"
Markham, of Baldwin, secretary of
the state association.
The Salina Journal tells of a farm
er who had the following sign hung
on his gate: Mr.. Candidate: 1 am
very busy; don't look for me- You
will find the AK in the woodshed, the
hoe hangs on the garden fence the
weed scythe has just been ground.
Take your pick of the tools, and II
you can convince my wife that you
are really in earnest about saving the
country you can depend on getting
my vote on election day."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t takes a smart man to get paid
for doing nothing.
An agile politician is one who can
dodge an issue.
Luck is often merely a case of not
being found out.
Life would be very monotonous If 1t
wasn't for the disappointments.
The telegraph may annihilate dis
lance, but the messenger boy. too, kills
time.
The fellow who doesn't know when
he is beaten should be able to stand a
lot of punishment.
The theory that honesty is the best
policy is the only incentive some men
have to be honest.
The worst affliction that could be-
fall the average woman is to have an
impeachment in her speech.
The knowledge that comes with old
age is frequently confined to the
knowledge of lost opportunities.
People who live in glass houses
should remember that, while love is
blind. the neighbors aren't.
Fame is a bubble" quoted the Wise
Guy. Yes, and it generally comes
from blowing our own horn" added
the Simple Mug.
Sillicus-"In the morning she re-
on it. Her complexion is so fresh"
Cynicus-"Yes; fresh every morning."
Nell-"I don't suppose Mr.. Sillicus
has any vices" Belle-'Vlces? Why,
he belongs to a glee club. an amateur
theatrical society and writes poetry"
Polly Pinktights-"The leading man
says he once promised his mother he
would never be an actor Fanny
Footlights-"Well. he seems to be
keeping his word
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison

TFrom the Atchison Globe.1
A father is always surprised to
learn that his children are as old as
they are.
Talk long enough to any woman.
about a wedding. and you will find
something about it didn't suit her.
No nice girl likes to hear a young
man make fun of another girl; neither
does she like to hear him praise one.
A woman never changes the style
of doing up her hair from the way
she was wearing 1t when the second
baby came.
If father has a favorite among his
children. mother enlists the favorite's
influence when she wants a carpet or
a new stove.
When it Is said of a woman that
she is unconventional. 1t means that
she does things which would be called
shocking in one not so prominent
When a man starts in to support
another. how he will stick to him, in
spite of disbursement! And when a
man starts in to abuse a man, how he
will keep at 1t, when he knows the
man does not deserve abusei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

Tor the service given, but he differs
from them in having the sense to be
opposed to a horizontal increase of
ten per cent in all rates. If the rates
are TO De raised. 1t is his idea that the
raises should come through a general
read5ustment of them. But most peo-
pie who have given the matter any
consideration, except the railroad
managers who are talking about in
creases, and they do not include by
any means all the railroad executives
in the country. think it would be a
better plan for the railroads to wait
awhile and see IL their business does
not so materially pick up in volume
during the next few months that a
general increase in rates will not be
necessary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
1t Brings Health and Hair.

Health and happiness and new hair
Tor the bald are sure to follow the use
or his chest shield, according to the
version of H. c. Dexter, its inventor
He has just been cured of rheumatism
he declares; has felt his lungs expand
and his heart leap with youth. al
though he is now eighty-one years old.
and has grown new hair on a head
that was bald.
The chest shield, which resembles
a baseball catcher's mask, is a struc-
ture of light wire soldered together
1t is eight inches square. 1t has a con-
vex curve that is IN inches at the
greatest height and slopes gradually
back to the outer rims. The frame
work is hung about the neck by a
string of elastic and is intended to
rest directly over the heart and lungs.
Anybody" said Mr.. Dexter, can
obtain benefit from this simple and
valuable device. 1t rests next to the
skin and keeps the undershirt from
subsiding upon the chest in a dead
sog. In this way the air circulates
over the heart and lungs and imparts
new life. 1t is economical, too, for 1t
neither eats. drinks, nor chews tobac-
co. l have been working on this little
invention for forty-four years, and at
last have the right shape and size."-
New York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago NewsJ
Some people can hardly believe
word they say.
1t doesn't take a very large man To
make big boast.
Feminine finery has ruined more
men than strong drink.
People are seldom on time; they are
either early or late.
Occasionally an actress considers a
divorce her best part.
What's the good of being good il
you do not let people know it?
Every man ought to be the sole pro-
prietor of the shoes he wears.
The easiest way not to settle a dis
pute is to go to law about II.
Many a man imagines his wife's
temper was made for crss purposes.
A theory is all right until you at
tempt to make 1t do a practical stunt
The average young man makes love
to a girl because he thinks she thinks
he ought to.
OF course, you are no better than
your fellow man, but somehow he is
always just little worse than YOU
are.
Death loses some of its sting for a
woman IL she knows there will be
good singing and a big floral display
at her funeral
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
The Weather Prophet.

II always have been under the i'm
preston that there ought to be a So
ciety for depressing information as to
symptoms of disease" remarked the
phlegmatic man, land now I've come
to the conclusion that we need another
society, one that will prevent people
from getting to know too much or
little about the weather. 1 am aff1ict-
ed with a brother-in-law who things
he knows something about the wealth
er, and all summer long my life and
that of my wife-who takes him seri-
ously-is made miserable by his pre-
dictions that we are going to have a
thunderstorm before night He keeps
us in the house when in our ordinary
ignorance we would go out and enjoy
our rainless days; he drives us in
doors by knowing looks at thunder
heads And on the one day recently
when he never spoke of the weather at
all we went on an excursion at his sug-
gestion and got soaked to the skim
If any one will start that society I'll
be one of the charter members
New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

w., W w. man tries to make love to his
VIE sne.d better be suspicious that he is
York Press.
,,o mrs. stiles-I do wish you'd try to keep
MT Stiles-But. my dear. you're not SO
Mrs. Stiles-Pm not? I'm certainly mora
careIul OF my clothes than you.
MI. SUBSEQUENTLY. Whereas you should
De more careful of me.-Catholic Standard
orf Are your five daughters all married
mo. five sons-in-law have married on"
-fneRende Blaetter.
9. pol ice IAN Ito tenant of. falkland you
say gay the rug was stolen from your hall
can you give me any particulars OF II?
Tenant (nervously)-Oh, yes, it was a
green on the other
Observation-Disclosures which
was the "reen side?-Punch.
men hesitate" '' "iso
Are you sure. uncle?'
YES my boy; certain of it'-Tatler.
Caddie Ito golfer. who has been lifting
me tuTi All the way round the course)-
suppose? 20 80
Golfer-Well. not exactly a stranger. I
wa, wss; born here. and all my folks are bur-
caddle 9as the golfer lifts another piece
OF OF turf dra with his driver)-I doot you'll no.
better TAX your iron.-Tit- Bits.
Motorist, (who has had a breakdown)-
animal Of amy any s sort your father lend us an
Boy-Yes, sir. He seq as 'ow you can
ave, ave go at this ferret for a bob il you
have a mind to.-The Sketch.
Church-The time is near at hand when
all nature will smile
Gotham-An nature? How about the
weeping willow?-Yonkers Statesman.
Did you say he was a crafty politi-
NO" answered Senator Sorghum. mot
crafty. merely CRAFTY. Washington Star.
Let JOY be unconfined.' said the mas
I'm pulling the cork now" answered
the keeper of the goods.-Birmingham
Age Herald
Anarchist-Im entitled to my shares of
things. and I'm determined to have it. The
Wiseman-But under our laws that is
impossible unless you commit murder
Philadelphia Press
He frequently tells me my biscuits are
not like mother used to make, yet love
him STILL
Loyal girlv'
well, you see. he says they are lots
better than his mother ."--Kansas City
Times.
They've got the prettiest thing in ham,
mocks next door that / ever saw"
How old is she?"-Houston Post.
DO politicians have old-time religion"
They do-ef it's convenient an they kin
git in on it!'-Atlanta Constitution.
IT.
t patent idea mine.
Weary Walker-Wot's the fdee?
Tired Tatters-A noommatic tire fer per-
lice ClubS-ChicagO News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t will take two boys twice as long
to do an errand as it will one.
X X
A noise worth while is one which
sounds like a good, fat dividend.
X X
Most people who indulge in sin do
not do so on account of the wages
that go with 1t.
n X
Some musicians surely have Won
derful ears for music because they can
stand most anything.
X X
Even if persons were equipped with
thousand eyes they probably could
not see their own faults.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

force, at least. until complaint was
made, investigation held and decision
made by the commission. With the
commission loaded down with work as
it is. this process of procedure would
consume considerable time and mean
while the shippers would be paying
the higher rate. 1t is, of course. pos
sible that this new view of the rate
law will be challenged in court. but
the commission proposes to act in ac-
cordance with 1t unless prevented.
This new Interpretation would appear
to be a reasonable one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

AS w. H Davis. former mayor of
the city pertinently says: The money
still needed to be subscribed by To-
pekans or rather invested by them,
to assure the construction of the To-
peka-Southwestern railroad is insig-
nificantly small when compared with
what the railroad will be worth to
Topeka" And it does not seem pos
sible that the men in the city, who
have money to invest, will let such a
boon slip away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

That egotism is not lacking among
nearly all of the candidates who ran
for nominations at the primaries was
made plainly apparent by the nice
things they had to say for them
selves in their advertisements. And
some of 1t was trifle nauseating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

The common people" have finally
had their say in this state as to who
they would like to have as their can
didates for the various offices in the
state. the counties and the lesser poll
teal divisions. And they do not seem
to have placed their stamp of approval
on candidates who have been allied
in times past with the Republican
sYnachiues"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

Think of the joyful prospects of joint
debates by the leading presidential
candidates through the medium of
monographs. Mr.. Taft is about to
reel off a few records for these ma
chimes. Mr.. Bryan has already Can
ned" several speeches. Every locality
therefore, can have a joint debate af-
ter fashion between these prominent
gentlemen. All that will be needed is
a talking machine. some rival records
and then some considerable patience
on the side
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

Some of the "whirlwind" finishes
that were made by various of the can
didates for primary nominations were
so effective in one way that these can
didates were blown out of sight and
are evidently running yet. 1t will take
them some time to recover their
equilibrium
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.J

IFrom the New DIX Press
The reason a woman looks cool on
a hot day is she isn't.
A girl can enjoy going anywhere
with her brother II he hates to have
her do 1t.
Most couples dance their way into
matrimony and limp their way
through it
There's nothing makes a woman
madden than for people TO talk of her
virtues instead of her looks.
A wop1an's idea of a thrilling pas
sage in a novel is with the heroine
reading q love letter and curling her
hair at the same time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
SONG OF A BROKEN HEART.

SONG OF A BROKEN HEART.
The big ship sailed with my heart as
Sing hey for the ocean cold,
was left behind by relentless fate,
sing hey, and the ocean rolled
Eor my love has gone with a chaperon
10 90 the sights in another zone,
was left to suffer alone, alone:
sing hey, for the world is cold.
Yes, my love had gone on a foreign tour,
Slhg ney, Tor the rock and shoal;
Ihey SAID 1t would work as young
hearts cure,
Sing hey for her papa's roll.
Ihey said was naught but an ink STAIN
ed clerk,
SO wretchedly poor that had to work.
Turk,
Sing hey. for I'm in the hole.
Inc return of my love was premature
Sing hey for the ocean roll
Inc voyage had worked her a sudden
cure,
Sing hey for her foreign goal
Sne mad met on the journey a little count
w nom she managed to buy for a small
amount
SO IN drown my woe at the sod, fount,
sing hey for the flowing bowl
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

II state conventions were the order
of the day In Kansas now it's more
than likely that the personnel of the
Republican state ticket would be of a
decidedly different complexion from
that which has been given it by the
direct votes of the members of the
~.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

1t will be decidedly interesting to
watch the enthusiasm" of some of
the more prominent defeated candi-
dates for Republican nominations in
their support of their successful rivals
when the election campaign against
the common enemy opens up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
FRON OTHER PENS
LIGHT ON RUSSIAN BARBARITY

LIGHT ON RUSSIAN BARBARITY.
The news from st. Petersburg of
the slaughter of prisoners by guards at
the Ykaterini prison rs not pleasant
breakfast table reading, nor is 1t the
sort of contemporary record one cares
to dwell upon at any Tune of the day.
But when such things happen 1T is
right that they be given the fullest
and widest publicity. The facts are
being recorded by commission ap-
pointed by direction OF the car, but
were first bruited in the Douma. That
this body forced the official inquiry is
one of the many facts which justify
its existence. The car himself might
have remained in ignorance of what
had occurred, but for 1t. Were the
autocrat strong mentally and well dis
posed toward his people, the Douma
might change conditions in Russia in
shorter time than is possible with SO
weak character on the throne.
The barbarity of the officials and
guards at the Ykaterfnf prison is
match for the methods of popular sup
preston in Persia of the Russianized
forces of the Shah. 1t seems to be
constitutional with a certain class Of
Russians in places of authority. Three
prominent prisoners obtained a bomb,
which they used to commit suicide.
The officials called 1t mutiny, and pro-
ceeded to discipline the prison by
slaughter of prisoners confined in
other cells and under rock and key.
Forty-two were killed and 46 crippled
for life The revelations of the
mutilations of living victims will strike
a chill throughout civilization. In view
of all that followed the suicide, one
can imagine why they occurred. Death
must have seemed preferable to life
under the conditions which existed
Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

Probably the chief feature of the
primary locally was the closeness of
the races for the Republican nomi-
nations for most of the county offices
over which there were contests In
fact so close were many of these that
the candidates had decidedly nerve
wracking experiences while the re-
turns were coming in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
LIFE PROLONGERS.

Buttermilk, or sour milk, prolongs
life. say the doctors. Dudley Haskell,
formerly a member Of congress from
the Second district but long since
dead, was a yankee. He said his moth
err required her children to eat a vine
gar pickle immediately after filling up
on sweet milk The pickle caused the
milk in their stomachs to curdle. Why
not drink sweet milk and eat pickles
and live forever PEI Dorado Repub-
lfcan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
THE VERSATILE TORNADO.

The tornado must be condemned for
its passion and its thoughtlessness, but
it has one refreshing characteristic.
1t is never initiative. Each individual
Cyclone" is unique. The mold is broken
and duplicates are not in the market.
This accounts, in a measure, for the
fact that the victims of the big winds
seldom harbor malice. They have
their little hour or two of travail, and
then there are years and years OF con-
versation. of boastful comparison and
elaboration. Take the case of Mr.. Scott
of Guymon. Ok, who was caught mid
way between the kitchen door and
the storm cave. When he took his
breath of relief he was three miles
away swathed among the willows of
Sand Creek. He had been blown
through three hog tight wire fences
and over some Of the toughest country
of the section.
During the st. Louis tornado straws
were blown into shingles. Two years
later travelling men described how a
steamboat was thrown through an
abutment of the Eads bridge, and the
only thing broken on that vessel was
the temperance pledge the pilot had
signed the week before. Cyclones"
have been known to set broken legs,
strip the clothesline of a banker and
dump the lot on the stoop of an or
phan asylum. lift mortgage and re-
store an erring husband to his starv-
ing family. But never twice does the
tornado do the same thtng.-Cleve-
Land Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

There's this beauty about the pri-
mary law for defeated candidates.
They can keep on running for NOM
nations at each succeeding primary
until they get tired of the game, or
die
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05
Model Heather Marriages.

Inc more one studies the problem
OF marriage the more plain does 1t be-
come that many of the heather ideas
on the subject are infinitely superior
10 ours. one OF the dreams of Social
Isl reformers, for instance, is the en-
dowment of motherhood. They re-
gard 1t as utopian vision of the far
future not likely to be fulfilled for
years to come.
Among the Mohammedans this
cream Is reality. The maintenance
of children devolves so exclusively on
the 1ather that the mother is entitled
to claim wages for nursing themi The
Importance of her services to the state
In rearing healthy citizens is thus
recognized in the most practical man
ner.
We hear a good deal of agitation
nowadays about making the conditions
OIL divorce equal to both sexes Among
the Shawanese this is already done. An
adrift by his wife. who retains all his
property. They go one better and
make drunkenness also an offense for
winch divorce can be obtained.
The savage tribes whom we strive
10 convert have apparently a much
clearer idea of the real basis of mar
riage, the end for which it was or
GAINED, than we, who seem to marry
ior almost every other reason than
the desire for children. With savages
siN hSPiiIS is the main purpose OF
wedlock Married couples in some
tribes do not live together at all until
shortly before or sometimes actually
after the birth of the first child, and
In some cases the marriage is not
binding until a child is born. Among
others childless wife can at any
time quit her husband, but may not
marry again. Westermark is my au-
thority, but 1 can not recall the names
Of the tribes from memory. rnese
poor heathens recognize. IT will he
seen. that children are the chief tie
the only real bond-that unites a man
and woman permanently-in short.
that marriage is rooted in family
Maud Churton Brady in London
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

Kansas first state wide primary ap-
pears to have been an unqualified sue
cess in more ways than one. This is
the opinion OF most men and partic-
ularly of those who were successful
candidates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

The Kansas Democrats, from the
showing made by them at the pri-
mary might be properly set down as
rather negligible quantity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-05

A few political prophets on the out
come of the primaries certainly ought
to hide their lights in the future under
bushels of large Dimensions.