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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-21
NYHAWKER JOTS

Wheat says the Jewell County
Republican, lis like man. 1t ism t
how tall he is. but what's In the head
that counts
vival, and sixteen rams omed sinners
went down to the Republican river
and were baptized. ~
It's no unusual thing for the mer-
chants Of Ellinwood to catch live Jack
rabbits in the streets. Charley Kerren-
horn is the latest one to turn trick
like this.
It cost Muscotah merchant just
$50 to bring bloodhounds from Beat
rice, Neb., to trace the robbers who
had stolen $50 from his store. Total
loss to the merchant, therefore, $40.
A Morrill, man is proudly eating
canned cherries his wife put up when
she was thirteen years old. That was
thirty-four years ago. They are said
to be in perfect condition and good to
keep a hundred years.
While engaged in generating a gaso-
line lamp, Towanda young man
spilled some gasoline on his hand,
gave a good exhibition of a human
torch for time and will be unable to
pillow corn for several days.
Reno county farmer captured a
litter Of five coyote pups and promptly
boxed them up and sent them to the
County CLERK, d IcWdIQ VI
81 on each coyote. The clerk paid the
express charges of 60 cents and then
had to take the pups out behind the
court house and kill them.
An agent of the Children's Home So
ciety went to Dickinson county farm
on Thursday and took away four
teen-year-old girl who had been work.
ed like a beast of burden until the
neigh bors became indignant Among
other chores, the child was compelled
4
Here's an Atchison custom as de-
scribed by the Globe: A girl with
chewing gum in her mouth walked
into an ice cream parlor the other
night, and when she sat down, stuck
the gum under the table. When she
felt for her gum, she found two pieces.
and, to be sure of getting the right
piece. put both in her mouth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.]

[From the Atchison Globe.]
Too many men honor women and
abuse their wives.
The smaller the man, the larger the
set in his finger ring.
All that you can truthfully say of
some men is that they are alive
People who say they are "easy' are
not: Easy" people don't know it.
Every man has what he calls his
secret hope which he tells to a dozen.
Every mother Of a boy knows how
much arnica you can get for a dime.
Every man with things to sell I'M
derestimates the value of other mems
time.
Every woman imagines that every
other woman gets new dress every
week.
can successfully protect man from
another woman.
Every man who is in love wishes he
had curly hair, and could play a guitar
and sing.
There are lots of fine places to spend
vacation, considering there are so
few vacations. ~
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed man who referred to a proud man
as big feelin'?'
Every bride imagines that her love
for her husband surrounds him like
stone wall in the midst of his tempta-
tions.
The worst thing about death is that
it leaves it's victim without a single
tomorrow on which to put off doing
things.
Every woman, when she reads of a
man who made a fortune by his own
efforts, is surprised that he didn't start
by keeping cow
At a party when a girl is not invited
to dance, she must go off into the
dressing room, and pretend that she
has a violent headache, and does not
care to dance.
AS well as a boy likes shows, he is
naturally economical in matters per-
tanning to them. A boy can get more
fun at a show if he worked his way
in or crawled under the canvas. than
when someone pays his way.
Boys are most interested in the pack
ages that come to the back door, be-
cause they contain something to eat.
but the girls center their attentions on
the packages that come to the front
door from the dry goods stores.
An Atchison man who has been in
the habit of writing open letters to
newspapers all his life, recently aston
ished a prayer meeting by winding up
his prayer with these words: Grant
this prayer, Lord, and oblige yours
truly, Prominent Citizen"
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A PROTEST PROTESTED.

Bolton Hall writes to the New York
Times a protest that ought to be pro-
tested 1t is against the condemnation
of Henry Heath Bawden, the profess
sor whose resignation the president
of Cincinnati university has asked be-
cause of his loose views on marriages.
To Bolton Hall it seems astounding,
and an indication Of narrowness, that
"a college professor can be asked to
resign because of views he holds on
subjects outside of his teachings"
To carry out this theory. a college
professor may be a thief, and so
lon gas his specially is ancient his
tory and not the ethics of business
and he doesn't get 'caught-it's no
body's business. He may be an athe-
list. and so long as he teaches political
economy and not theology, he is all
right. In short, it is not properly the
concern of the university which en-
ploys him what his morality or lack
of morality is, SO long as it does not
warp the accuracy of the subject
which he happens to teach.
That is not the view Of the presi-
dent of the Cincinnati university, who
has an old fashioned way Of looking
at it in which many like to agree. He
believes that the morals of teacher
still have an influence on the morals
OF the young men whom he teaches,
And II there is In these days any SUBJ
iact ON which a man who Influences
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-21
HUA0R OF TIE Day

Miss Gaddie-Mr Bragley is getting to
De quite an enthusiastic golf player now.
MI Wtse-Yes, but he's worrying a good
deal because he's 30 small.
Mr. Wise-Ol no. He's afraid there won't
be room enough on him for all the medals
he's going to wfn.-Philadelphia Press
Museum Attendant-we can not tell
whether this animal IL one or several mil
lion years old.
Old Condemnation! see. Female OF
Its specie. eh?-Kansas City Times.
What will happen when women get the
That easily answered"
They won't want t.''-Louisville Cour-
fer-Journal.
Mrs. Hicks-Are you going to the private
theatricals tonight?" They are going to
Mrs. Wfcks-No. am in mourning now.
you know, and I couldn't, Of course, 70 to
see anything funny.-Somerville journal.
Teacher-If a vehicle with two wheels In
a bicycle, and one with three wheels a trf-
cycle, what is one with one wheel?
Observation-Disclosures Bits.
Briggs says he spends most Of his time
at home in the Kitchen
IT wonder why?'
ct believe he said his wife was a sparlor
socialist. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

A. prophet may be without honor in
his own country but he is never with
out competition.
X \
When a girl owns a horse and buggy
and let's a fellow do the driving. that's
a sure sign she loves him.
X
There's no truth in the report that
they play bridge for beans in Boston.
They're not sacrilegtous enough for
that.
n n u
It's a grouchy customer who tells
barber to leave the ends of his hair
alone but to take some out Of the mid
die.
Probably the wise man who said "all
men are liars" did not include the wo-
men because some Of them told him he
was beautiful.
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TILE REGICIDEs RULE.

A dispatch from Lisbon, which in all
probability means a dispatch duly edi-
ted by the Portuguese censors, states
that the government has completed it's
investigations into the plot which led
to the assassination of King Carlos and
Crown Prince Luis Philippe, and has
decided not to institute prosecutions
against those found to have been i'm
plicated. The reason for this decision
Is because so many persons of position
are either suspected or are known to
have been connected with the tragedy
in some manner. This action then
would seem to confirm what many have
long believed, that the real instigators
of the barbarous murder Of the king
in the regime which Franco deposed
and which again returned to power
upon his downfall, after the double as
sassination. The decision not to pros
ecute the regicides by the government
is, apparently, only measure of self
protection, yet it. must be regarded as
practically a confession that those with
controlling voices in the government of
Portugal today are the same who con-
nived at and brought about the assas
sinations. If these deductions are cor
rect, Portugal is today like Servia,
ruled by regicides, the king in each in
stance being merely puppet who must
dance when the string is pulled by a
band of murderous politicians. 1t was
in hopes of saving the kingdom that
Carlos made Franco premier and final
ly dictator. Now Portugal has again
fallen into the hands of the Temperate
ly displaced corrupt clique and the
bankruptcy, If not more serious dis
aster, which formerly threatened, is
even more imminent.
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HYDROPHOBIA.

When ten persons who had been
bitten by mad dog in Wisconsin ar
rived at the Pasteur institute in Chi
cago the other day 1t looked like a
warning Of what might happen any
day, here or anywhere in this state.
1t was also timely reminder and cor
roboration of the warning sent out
less than a month ago in a bulletin by
the bureau Of animal industry in
Washington which contained an ex-
haustive treatise on this disease.
According to this bulletin, hydro
phobia is not only a real disease and
an alarming scourge, but is rapidly
increasing in this country. It causes
a very considerable financial loss. but
this is overshadowed by the fact that
thousands Of people suffer on account
of it every year, and that from 10 to
80 per cent of those who are not
scientifically treated die of it. the ac-
tual number of deaths being between
100 and 800 each year.
The bulletin is equally positive that
the Pasteur treatment is a triumph
ant success. Pasteur's treatment dates
from 1885, and the first Pasteur in
stitute was opened in Paris in 1885,
This was followed by one in New
York and another in Chicago, which
were established in 1890. Since that
year similar institutes have been
opened in other cities in this country
And at all of them the treatment has
been phenomenally successful. The
Chicago institute, UP to October, 1907,
has treated 3,010 persons, and only
three per cent of them died of the dis
ease.
Hydrophobia may be easily eradi-
Gated in any community. All that is
necessary is to muzzle all the dogs for
few years. Universal muzzling
stamps out the disease without fail.
That is the reason that there has not
been case of hydrophobia in Great
Britain since 1899, nor in. Holland
since 1879, nor in Berlin since 1888.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-21

Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas is
not the only ridiculous figure in pub
lie life in that state of jokes. Many of
the politicians and public men appear
to be afflicted with the same malady.
Recently the speaker of the lower
branch of the legislature declared
himself the acting governor of the
state during the absence of the execu-
tive. Then he proceeded to call an ex-
ira session of the legislature. The call
was held to be valid and the legisla-
ture was duly convened only to remain
in session for an hour or SO when it
adjourned sine die without transacting
a bit of business. Could there be a
more absurd spectacle than this?
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Press1
When doctor gets sick his patient.
all smoker. 0ues
At any rate when a woman 49,.
break into society she can burst into
tears. AAAe~
The greatest compliment an erot,,.
can confer Ii to say: II aErse wsth
you" VITA
When some people put up at a hot.,
the manager sees to 1t that they mt
up before they get room. p1'
1t takes two to make a nu.r.,
spite of the fact that we alwavs IN
it's the other fellow who made IL.
Wnen q fellow makes a fool Of him.
self over q girl he IL merely savi,. AZ
girl that trouble Of doing it for him; tms
Because a woman loves her enem,s.
she seems to think it gives her the
friends. 70 ner
The last shall-be FIRST" Quotes ~.
wise Guy. Yes. especially when \
woman reads q book" added the si,-s
- -~oAs
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Fred rose to his feet
"Hetty," he said. II want you to
know something. When left for the
west. you kissed me good by-ons
for your old playfellow-ano-u
sounds silly to say, but it's true. I've
never kissed another woman. l
meant to tell you some day, and now
to say anything until Ruth told you.
but
ST understand" said Hetty softly.
did she tell your" he asked.
mot in SO many words. but think
she meant me to understand. l am
TT began last winter" said Fred.
I'm glad. too. think we're all go
ing to be very happy"
Aunt Mehitable," broke in Ruths
Mr.. Stirling. He will arrive this
The interruption was welcome 40
Hetty. She felt that she could not
have endured another word.
day in her room. Fred and Ruth
waved their hands gaily when she
drove of to the station to meet Mr.
Stirling. How well they looked to-
gether.. she thought. Something IN
her. She seemed to realize for the
first time that she had been cheated
out Of her girlhood.
Absorbed in, her sad musings. she
absent-mindedly took q turning which
made her drive longer by half q mile.
When she reached the station MT.
Stirling had already started for The
Pines.
Hetty drove back slowly. The full
moon arose and the air was swept
no thoughts for the beauty OF the
night
+ She threw the reins to the stable
boy and took a short cut for the
house. She was in no mood to Join
the family party and intended to go
quietly to her room.
AS she passed the rose garden she
caught side, Of Ruth's white dress In
the shrubbery. Ruth's face was up
turned to her companion, and-yes,
he had taken her in his arms. It was
Ruth's kiss Fred would remember
now.
Hetty sat down on a rustic seat un-
der a live oak. The meaning Of It all
swept over here. She was thirty-four.
and there had never been moonlight
or rose garden for her. She had al
ways left love out of her plans for
herself, and now 1t was Fred-Ruth's
and she was alone with the emptiness
OF thirty-four unlfved years-alone
and old. Her eyes flied with scald-
ing tears and she sobbed aloud.
crv, Why sh metty; what on earth are you
Fred sat down beside her and
gathered her in his arms.
Don't cry, dearest" he implored.
Tell me what the trouble is. Don't
you want dad to have Ruth? Why,
-
Your father!" gasped Hetty. SIS
that who she's with 80
why, Of COURSE" said Fred. IT
told you all about IT,"
Hetty sprang up in establishment.
II expected her to marry YOU" she
cried.
He laughed softly.
Il didn't. She knew all along that
I wanted to marry you. She's been
doing all she can to make the match.
She knew you needed some one to
look after you."-(Copyrighted, 1908,
by Associated Literary Press.)
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Just a glance at the Kansas news
papers is all that is needed to con-
vince one that the campaign among
the Republicans over nominations for
governor and United States senator is
warming up. All kinds of interviews,
manifestos, charges of this and that
are being tossed around in infinite
quantities by the candidates and their
henchmen. And in all of them the re-
torts courteous are painfully con-
spicuous by their absence. This is but
natural for politicians as class alb
solutely hate peace. If the campaign
continues to wax warm with the
weather 1t will certainly be a sizzleI
by the time primary day rolls around
on August 4.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.l

lfrom the Chicago NoWs.1
The best thing you can do is to do
your best.
Only man after her own heart in
terests young widow.
A little dimple has caused many n
man to have heart trouble.
It's hard to keep up appearances,
and save money simultaneously.
The more Justice some men ret thu
less they want to talk about it.
There are times when the truth in
about as inspiring as a cold fried e~r
A nnilliner feathers her nest by put-
ting feathers on other women's hats.
A man may overtake q lot of peoule
on the road to ruin, but he nAver
meets any one.
When a woman tells her husband sh.
wishes she had been born q man he ts
apt to echo the wish.
The difference between a lob" and
a position" is sometimes not ava, :
matter Of remuneration.
When an honest man is in hard ,,,.,-
he doesn't want charity so much az -
opportunity to dispense with Charity
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but during the ten years that he has
been at the head of the nations agrf-
cultural department he has accomplish
ed wonders for the country. It will not
be an easy job for Mr.. Roosevelt to
fill Mr.. Wilson's shoes unless he should
extend an invitation to Mr.. F. d. CO.
burn, Kansas secretary Of agriculture,
to Join his official family. And Mr..
Coburn declares he would not think Of
accepting the place il it were offered
him.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
lFrom the New York Press.1

[F'rom the New York Press.1
A theory Is a SPLENDID way to do a
thing so long as you don't try.
The first essential to being a great
man is for him to have no doubt about
it himself.
A man can cut down his smoking and
drinking if he's sick abed and think
he's dying.
The reason woman says the baby
never cries at night is she believes it
is never going to do it again.
What satisfaction woman gets out
OF her husbands having garden is
how often she can catch him pretend
ing to know things about 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-21

That's a good plan of the Commercial
club to hold a meeting with the MEM
bers of the city council and talk over
things for the betterment of condi-
lions in Topeka. This town is a mighty
fine place now to live and work in.
but, of course, like all other things it
can be improved in a variety of ways
and a full and free discussion Of these
ways by all classes of people is the
first step to the taken towards their
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Several of the friends of Eugene ".

Several of the friends of Eugene ".
Debs, the chronic candidate of the
Socialists for the presidency of the
time to time that Mr.. Debs will be the
chief executive of this country before
he dies. Mr.. Debs has also had
thoughts along these lines. 1t is the
prevailing opinion, however, that Mr..
Debs, the perpetual candidate of the
hopes are to be realized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-21

It takes a quantity of cold cash for
a cold trip as is made apparent by the
statement of Commander Robert E.
Peary who says he must have at least
$50, 900 II he is to make his ninth final
dash for the North Pole. He has no
doubts of the success of the under
taking this time
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enough.

Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins, pastor Of
the Pilgrim Congregational church Of
Chicago. is quite as charitable as he
Is optimistic He expresses the opin-
ion that most men are Christians in
spirit. Men have been generally class
ed, heretofore, as heathens.
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others needs to ring true, 1t Is the sub
ject of his relations with women. The
west has had trouble enough with
freak professors, many of them less
dangerous than Professor Bawden. 1t
does well to get rid of the lot OF them.
They cannot do otherwise than twist
the beliefs Of the young men whom
they teach. II morality is not to be
expected of a college professor,
where should It be sought?
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FRON OTHER PENS
A WORLD ON WHEELS.


urban highways and byways impels
one to the conviction that human ma
ture has taken to wheels, and that
when it is not being whirled through
space in an automobile it is standing
with reluctant feet" on roller skates.
Judging from the contortions of many
of the skaters it may be said of this
mand more energy and concentration
than most of the serious pursuits Of
life. There are. other things to be said
for it,: 1t affords a common meeting
ground for young and old. and If the
time comes when roller skating clubs
are formed, families that have been
torn asunder by the demands of golf
will be reunited in a common passion
for roller skating. Then, too, it is a
less expensive amusement than golf,
and is thus within reach of a greater
number of those individuals who pos
sess more energy than can be expended
in business and the ordinary duties
of life.
of sport is that they are inclined to
make a business of their amusements
and to go into them with the same
eager desire to excel that distinguishes
their business career. 1t Is this desire
that too often destroys the charm OF
golf; that makes of automobiling
mad whirl, and that may reduce roller
skating to a frenzied struggle to cover
space. When out of door sports as
sumo milder character and are re-
garded but as agreeable interludes"
to the business of life, then they may
be looked upon as unmitigated bless
ings. whatever be the form they take.
Chicago Tribune.
PovERTY-srRIcKEN CONGRESS-
MEN.
Though the salaries of congress
men have lately been raised to $500
a year, one congressman has Just re-
signed on the ground that he cannot
afford to stay in office, but must go
out into the world and earn money
for his family. There was a time when
the honor of serving ones country in
congress was thought abundant re-
compense for the discomfort of re-
ceiving less money reward than might
be procured in other occupations.
Still further back, $4,000 a year was
considered a large salary 1t was
much larger than the average Amer
lean income, and men were eager to
obtain it for its own sake. But now.
it seems, a representative who sees
chance to make more money outside
of congress than In 1t does not hesi-
tate to follow Speaker Reeds example
and resign.
Conditions are changing in the
United States with astonishing rapid
ity. Congress has become numeri-
cal1y SO large, and the individual con-
gresham has so little influence, un-
less he is of the managing coterie.
that after he has been in Washington
a short time he loses the feeling that
he has been honored by the people
and trusted by them. He finds him
self in an atmosphere OF wealth and
luxury and sees lobbyists and corpor-
alton agents spending money Hike
water Is. it surprising that he begins
to want to share in the prosperity
that apparently abounds all around
him; that he would rather be a $75,-
00O-a-year Individual than q $780,
a-year congressman Chicago Jour-
nal
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The conditions of the big battleshir
fleet, as found by Mr.. Metcalf. the Sec
rotary of the navy. is something Of a
paradox. 1t is better than when the
ironclads started on their $1,000 mile
journey. This speaks volumes of
praise for the officers and men who
had the handling Of them, and es-
pecially for those charged with the
care of the engines and machinery.
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According to the newspapers of New
York city, the town that is the mecca
for actors and actresses throughout the
country and where they flock in multi
tudes at the close of each theatrical
season, want, dire want will stalk along
with them hand in hand on the
rialto this summer. The season just
closed was the most disastrous in the
history of the profession.
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That periodical rumor that James
Wilson is to resign his portfolio as Sec
rotary Of agriculture in the presidents
cabinet, is stirring again. If he does,
the country will lose the services of a
valuable man. Mr.. Wilson may have
made few mistakes in his premises
.annarnine the kind of wheat best suit
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Mrs. Mary Baker q. Eddy is a great
woman in one way, at least. She minds
her own business. At any rate, she
says she does and she recommends
this surprising privilege to all her dear
friends and enemies. That's fair
arorCb