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An Infant Industry.

Trotter How is our old friend
Blank getting along?
Homer-Oh, he's making fortune
out of an infant industry.
Trotter-Infant industry?
Homer-Yes He manufactures in
cueatorS.
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SkepticaI.

The earth goes round, so we are told,
But the statement isn't on the
square,;
At least, if it really does go round,
Some other chap has copied my
share.
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Obeyinu Orders,

First Amateur-"What on earth are
you going to do with those shears?"
Second Amateur-"The captain told
me to trim the jib sheet"
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II p. Ladysmith Lodge NO. 154 Knights OF
~ Pythias meets second and fourth MONDAY
evenings each month in Eagle hall; VlslIihs
brothers welcome H. W. DAY
G. LUELI4 X, r. q S. =. ~
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ID NJ. A. Fambeau camp No. 1854 meets at
T\s L o. o. F. hall second and fourth Ihufs-
day evening. Visiting members are cordially IN
vited Mrs MAGGIE SUBWAY
Mro En- RAKER Rec Oracle
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M w. w. Granite Lodge No 5S3 meets at
NAs l. o. o. F. hall fourth Tuesday evening OF
each month. Visiting members welcome
F. f MtJNRoE Mrs EMMA MANLY,
Secretary Project.
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= E, u. Ladysmith Assembly No. 375 Eqult-
He able Fraternal Union meets in L. .. o. r.
hall first and third Tuesdays of each month. WIS.,
iting members welcome. Roy LAMERh
E, L. DODGE, Sec. ffeS'
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overheard at Station A.

Licked and stamped on" sneered
the mail bag at the postage stamp.
"But still collected was the ready
reply.
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SOCIETIES

= & A. M. Mystic Tie Lodge No $50 meets at
Masonic hall first and third Tuesdays Oh
each month. ii. E. YOUNG,
E. w. HILL, Sec. W. M.
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Chicago Division

GOING NORTH
No. 901 Local. 1880 A. M.
GOING SOUTH
No. 9O2-Local 200 P. M.
Daily except Sunday.
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GOING EAST.
No. 84-Local- Elk. Sunday. 2:21 P. M.
No. 8-Atlantic Express :. II % P. M.
No. 22-Freight. .......... 8:15 A. nj.
GOING WEST.
No. S5-Local-Ex. Sunday. 1913 P. M.
No. Pacific Express -. 4:35 A. M.
No. 21-Freight -. -. 3 As P. M.
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The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
a TARIFF COMMISSION.

Much reasonableness can be found
IN the demand of the national tariff
convention, which was held recently
at Indianapolis, for the enactment by
congress of the necessary legislation
Tor the creation of a permanent tariff
revision commission. This is a mat
ter that can well be taken up at the
special session of congress which is to
convene on March 1 5 for the especial
purpose of revising the tariff. 1t is
not being agitated that this commits
sion should be esta blished for the pur-
pose of making an investigation of
the revision of the tariff that is to he
undertaken at the special session The
commission which is desired is one
that will do the work incident to such
future revisions of the tariff as NAV
be necessary from time to time.
1t is not conceivable how anything
can be lost through the creation of
such commission, except it might
be the expense that one would entail
If such a body should prove to be IN
successful, and that would really he
trif1ing. In the very nature of things
no committee of congress, especialIv
the ways and means committee of the
house, can properly devote the neces-
sary attention to the investigations
that ought to be made preparatory to
a general or partial revision of the
tariff. This committee has many 9TH
er important things to attend to and
the subject is such a large and intri-
cate one that it ought to have the
undivided attention of a body of ex-
perts.
There would seem, indeed, to be ey-
erything to gain by the creation of a.
tariff commission, unless it should
prove failure. The experiment at
least would be worth the trial. In
the final essentials the work of a. tar
iff commission would merely be of an
ancillary character. It's suggestions
and recommendation on tariff
changes would have to be passed upon
by congress before they became ef-
fective. But these suggestions and
recommendations ought to be of i'm
measurable $alue. And another thing:
Through the creation of tariff COM
mission, if it were rightly constituted
as there Is little doubt that it would be-
the tariff question, the researches into
the necessities for changes in the tariff
schedules, would be divorced in a
great measure from politics. Tariff
matters would be investigated as to
their merits and not as to their poll
tical significance as is all too often the
case under present conditions. Such a
change as this would be quite as de-
sirable as it would be bound to he
beneficial.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
GAAfBLNG IN THE NAVY.

Not often has an opportunity de-
veloped where it has been possible
for some people to disagree with the
acts and sentiments of Rear Admiral
Robley D. Evans. Z. S. N. the gal
liant Fighting Bob Of the naval his
tory of this nation. the naval officer
who has done as much as any one
man and more than dozens of them to
bring the navy of this country up to
its present degree of high efficiency
both as to its men and it's ships. But
the chances appear to have come be-
cause of his recent utterances in Chi
cago when he declared that he en-
couraged boxing in the American
navy and betting on the part of the
sailors on the outcome of the boxing
matches. There will be surely no dis
position on the part OF anyone to
criticize his stand on the boxing
proposition. Boxing. when properly
carried on as 1t is by the men of the
navy under the direction and super
vision of their officers, is a most
healthful sport and of a kind that ap-
peals strongly to sailors
But on the betting proposition
there is plenty of room to disagree
with Admiral Evans. He argues that
in betting among themselves on the
boxing matches, the sailors keep their
money within the fleet. Surely that is
not a sufficient or a good excuse for
the encourage of betting AS a
matter of fact If betting on boxing
matches is encouraged on the ships
and in the fleets of the United States
navy the gambling virus is stirred up
among the men. From betting on
boxing matches to betting on cards
and all games of chance is but a short
step, and if the practice tolerated by
Admiral Evans is given full sway it
Will not be long before the sailors in
the United States navy are, for the
most part, an aggregation of first class
gamblers Certainly this is not a de-
sfrable condition of affairs to which
TO look forward. 1t will be the means
of encouraging bitter rivalries and
intense hatredS among the men of
the navy, and it will mean that many
Of them will go down into the evil
ways that are resultant of gambling
when their terms of enlistment are
over For once a man becomes
addicted to gambling, the pernicious,
the polluting habit often sticks to him
until his end
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY.

A move in the right direction is be-
ing made by the local authorities in
enforcing the truaney law against the
parents of children who are DELINQUENT
about attending school regularly. This
law permits of the arrest and provides
for the punishment of parents who
permit their children to be irregular
in their attendance on schools There
is no doubt that boys and even girls
play hockey from school because of
negligence on the part of their parents
in showing no disposition to see that
their children are regular in their
school attendance. And in all nkeli-
hood the bringing of a few parents,
who are needless in this regard, to q
stern realization of their duties will do
more to put stop to truancy than
would the arrest and punishment of
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

the truants by sending them to correc-
tionary institutions.
On the statute books is also law.
| under the administration of the ju-
venile court, which is sort of COM
panion to the one holding parents re-
sponsible for the school attendance of
their children. This statute, makes pos
sible the punishment of parents for
not taking proper care to see that
their children behave themselves at all
times. It has been invoked in these
parts only on rare occasions, but If an
effort were made to enforce 1t more
generally the results would doubtless
be most salutary.
If a few OF the parents of wayward
children were taken into custody and
made to give good explanations or
suffer punishment for permitting their
offspring to run wild,'' as it were, the
chances are that many parents would
soon see the error of their way in not
keeping their children at home and
under their control. There would be
less rendezvousing on the streets after
dark by girls and boys of tender years.
There would be less infractions in pet
ty and more vicious ways against the
laws of order and decency by the
youths of both sexes than there now
is. In fact. the enforcement of the
two laws in question would be of in
calculable benefit to many Of the
children of the city, to the community
and, indeed, to the parents them
selves. There would probably be no
need for a particularly harsh and
drastic enforcement of these laws, as
a wide discretion is given in them to
the punishments that may be inflicted
by judges. The mere haling of parents
to- court to answer charges of this sort
against them would probably be all
that would be needed in most cases to
bring about the most desirable results.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
HUNOR or THE DAY

Destiny.-"what are you going to do
when you grow upY' asked one little giri
Of another. Marry some silly man. sup
pose. like most women do" was the re-
ply.-Chicago News.
His Newest Trouble.-'I1ooks like you're
going to begin the New Year worrying.
"That's right. I'm awfully worried now
What about?'' I'm worrying about how
to get a good excuse to break my New
Year resolution" ATLANTA Constitution.
Usually.-"His is not a salaried office"
mo; the work is a labor of love-" Love
of what?" ''Notoriety, I guess. Mash
vile American.
A Mechanical Age.-"What has become
of the old-fashioned mother who sat up to
see at what hour her boys got in?' Il
presume she has been superseded by
time clock. ."-Washington Herald.
Judge-What is your age, madam? Aged
Witness-rve seen thirty-two summers.
Judge-How long have you been blind?-
Exchange.
Her idea of It.-''So you are going to
marry SweIIhead?" asked the erstwhile
suitor. ''I am," replies the beauteous crea-
ture 1T don't see how-pardon me for be-
ing so frank-I don't see how you can ad-
mfre him at all. He is so insufferabIy con
ceited." "Well. If you we're engaged to
me it would make you insufferably con-
ceited yourself! Chicago Evening Post
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News.l ]

lIl0 SAllCdSO 4NSMS'1
The man who looks straight ahead
misses a lot on the side.
Today's worry is apt to be the re-
suit of yesterdays blunder.
Every dreamer expects to accom-
plish wonders when he wakes up.
Selfish people are not selfish enough
to keep their troubles to themselves.
Most people are liberal with their
sympathy because ii doesn't cost any
thing.
Every man has a sense of duty, but
not every man has sense enough to
utilize it.
The good intentions ground out by
political machines ought to make ex-
cellent paving material.
This is the season of the year when
each and every baseball team in the
country is a pennant winner
The fellow who drinks to get rid OF
his trouble may find that his principal
trouble will be to get a drink.
When a young fellow and a girl
eIope in an airship and look for a
church it will be a sort of steeple chase.
Life without love doesn't seem so
awfully bad; at any rate most old
bachelors appear to be satisfied with
their lot.
Formerly when two or more women
got together they talked about cake
and pudding recipes, but now their
talk runs to hats and shirt-waist pat
terms.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
JAYHAWKER JOTS

If it is possible, says the Dighton
Herald, we wish the legislature would
hurry along with those forests for
western Kansas. A forest makes an
admirable wind break.
The millionaire tramp" who is
touring the oil belt theatrical circuit,
puts in his time between performances
! by knocking at back doors and asking
for a fried egg, says the Hutchinson
News.
photographers make fierce pictures of
Bristow And the Yates Center News
does not miss the chance to comment:
But then think of the subject they
have to work on"
The Wichita Beacon calls attention
to the remarkable self-restraint prac-
ticed by Kansas writer's, none of
whom have referred to Tafts waltz
at New Orleans in connection with
tripping the light fantastic
A Manhattan hack driver voiced the
woe of the whole race, the Mercury
says, when he was overheard the 9TH
er morning saying to himself as he was
preparing to start out for the day:
Hitch up and unhitch; hitch UP and
unhitch; hitch up and unhitch.
Damn
Thomas Cordry remarks, in the Par
sons Sun, that the Kansas house, in
refusing to adopt the three-nlinute
speech rule, did right on the
same principle of the advice of the
boy to his father who was sitting in a
poker game that was rather strenuous
for the old man: shuttle, dad, and
keep on shuffling; for while you are
shuffling you amt losing nothing
A please pass the butter wall from
the Sedgwick Pantagraph: One thing
we can't get used to when away from
home and that is the measly little dabs
of butter served with meals even at
good hotels and cafes. They charge
enough to furnish all the butter need
ed. At one cafe we sent a waiter back
three times for butter, then got asham-
bread. Instead of talking about nine
foot sheets the legislature had better
take up the butter question.
1.-THE election of Joseph L. Bristow
by the present legislature" says the
Holton Signal. recalls to students of
Kansas political history the remark
able fact that no senator since ingalls,
and Plumb has held office longer than
one term. PETER, Baker, Burton and
Benson of the ingalls, line and Per
kins, Martin, Harris and Long of the
Plumb line were one termers. or part
termers. Charles Curtis comes the
nearest to two-termer, as he was
elected to serve few months of Bur-
tons term in addition to his six-year
term
adam Croaker'' of the Holton Re
corder is also preparing to publish
Kansas Magazine. "If I finally con-
cIude 10 launcn out, ne declares,
the table of contents will read some
thing like this: How National Poll
tics Looks From the Outside by
Chester I. Long; How Kansas Politics
Looks From the Top Rail of the
Fence by Charles Curtis How to Be
Good and at the Same Time Be a Sue
cessful Newspaper Man. by Arthur
Capper; How to Combine Wit, Hum
or, Information and Instruction on
the Editorial Page by T. A. McNeal;
tThe Way Manage to Hold On bV
Del Valentine; The Way to Get the
Most Fun and the Most Satisfaction
Out of Politics. by w. A White;
How a One-Legged Man Manages to
Keep Up With the Procession by
Conner Davies; Red Headed Politics.
by W. R. Stubbs; My Method of Man
ageing the Co1ored Contingent by
Speaker Dolley."
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
KANSAS COMMENT

RULES REFORM WITH REASON.
Inc action of three Kansas congress-
nlen-Scott, Campbell and Anthony-in
yoiLlls yCs win Townsend. of Michigan;
USER OF vermont, and Parsons of New
York, in introducing in the house a
resolutaon to change the rules by MAX
ing the call of the calendar compulsory
each tuesday, is regarded here as hav
ing saved from total failure the insur-
gent movement to reform the rules.
me general fault to be remedied has
peen the power of the speaker or OF
@ tne committee on rules to hold up leg
ed out of committee and placed upon
the calendar. The rule provided for the
Calendar Tuesday will do this.
1ne resolution drawn up by the gen
eral lnsurgent caucus which embodies
the views OF such radicals as Gardner,
OF massachusetts,; Cooper, of Wiscon-
sin, and Murdoch, of Kansas, contained
a clause providing for the appointment
OF committees by a Committee on COM
m1ttees, by geographical division of
political parties, a plan so revolution
ary, visionary, and impractical under
our system of government by political
by all those who are earnestly striving
to gain a practical reform of house
rules to be utterly impossible of at
tainment.
the enortS of some western papers to
misrepresent occurrences in Washing
ton. For instance, although the Town
send Scott -Campbell-Anthony resolu-
ton to change the rules was introduce
ed the same day as the Gardner-Coop-
er-Murdock resolution, the Kansas City
Star editorially stated: 1.-The others,
Scott and Anthony declared the (Mur-
dock) resolution too radical but offered
no measure to define their particular
kind of insurrection"-a statement, by
the way, absolutely incorrect and i'm
possible to understand in view of the
Stars usually reliable special news SER
vice, as both resolutions were offered
the same day. AS a matter of fact the
Scott -Campbell-Anthony resolution has
at least a show of adoption, the Muir
Madison idea, none whatever.
Only through the action of the con-
servative thinking members of the So
called insurgents movement will re-
suits be secured, and if the movement
succeeds it will be in the shape of the
Calendar Tuesday idea only. Tied up
with the radical committee on COM
mittees'' idea of the Gardner resolu-
ton. the whole move to reform the
rules was liable to ignominiouS failure
and not even a respectful hearing from
the house membership, but the Calen-
dar Tuesday idea alone which affords
all necessary practical relief is now be-
lieved to have a good show for adop-
tion.-Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19

Gorham asked softly; will you have
confidence then in me? oh, Heaveni"
With a resolute movement he stepped
forward to touch her. Hitherto her
manner had been half-playful, half
ironical, but it was altogether to hide
her deeper feelings. With an effort that
brought her figure splendidly erect she
warded him off.
mo. no, nor she commanded. mot
here and now. No; but promise me.
John, promise me here and now that
you and part tonight members of
compact to fight the fight of righteous
ness. no matter how hard It may be.
f-if-if you care to see me-. she
faltered. you will know how to find
me; but now-nothing but your prom
1Se and then-gO"
He looked at her steadily while. he
breathed once or twice. 1t seemed as
if he would defy her, and take her to
himself in spite of what she might do,
but finally he turned to the ooen library
door. At the moment of passing out he
turned and looked at her once again.
Neither spoke and she hardly seemed
to know the exact instant of his leav-
ing. She thought he was surely gone,
however, when he stepped back into the
room.
Helen" he began, and she knew that
he would have his question answered,
when I can come back to you able
honestly to take care of you, may l.
come ?"
He heard her softly speak her an
SWer and with a gesture of gladneSS he
was gone certainly this time.
The safe was still open and some Of
the papers lay as the burglar had drop
ped them Helen turned to these and
began restoring them to their former
order.
"I pray he will come back again to
me,'' she breathed. ut may be a long
while to wait until he can, but poverty
and disgrace-nothing matters, If only
we may have some happiness at last.
even the happiness that is nearly all
hardship
She had the will in her hands and. in
spite of herself she opened and read il.
Before she finished she stood erect in
her excitement Folding the paper, she
placed it in the safe and closed the
iron door. Then she turned back to-
ward her room.
HE is coming back when he can
honestly take care of me-" she told
herself, joyfully, land all of Uncle
Growers money is willed to him in
compensation for all he has suffered.
He will soon be back for me-"
She could not sleep any better even
now, but the restlessness had given
place to a peace of mind and a perfect
happiness that were very good.-(Copy-
righted, 1909, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.
From the Philadelphia Record.l

[From the Philadelphia Record.]
A sideshow-a profile.
The barber's stories are frequently
illustrated with cuts.
Life is made up principally or an
ticipations and regrets.
There are times when three make al
most as much of crowd as 500.
For one man who doesn't get enough
to eat there are ten who eat too much.
Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't
require much practice to make per
feet fool.
A change of scene is always good
for an invalid, but it has been noticed
that a prison doctor never prescribes it.
1t never seems to occur to, people
who are getting married that they
ought to take each other for good as
we'll as for better or worse.
WigE'Miss Strongmind is a decid-
ed brunette, isn't she?' Wagg-''Well,
wouldn't say she is exactly bru-
nette, but she is undoubtedly decid-
The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.

LFrom the Atchison Globe.l
It's mighty mean grocer who puts
a screen over his apple barrels.
Some people can't enjoy a pleasant
day, they are so fearful that it is a
weather breeder"
We often hear this statement made:
There ought to be something done!"
Well, we should say sol
Self confidence is essential, but it
isn't everything, and may be over
done. The fool never questions hiss
own ability.
It occasionally happens that a man
believes he is strong and aggressive.
when the fact is he is merely quar-.
relsome and irritable.
About 80 per cent of New Years
resolutions relate to economy and
about 20 per cent to desire for Inn
provement in character.
Lysander John Appleton calls his
son-in-law, Rainy Day" He is what
for" explains Lysander John. .-.
When your failures become knock
out drops instead of spurs to further
effort it is a sign you are getting old,
no matter how long you have lived
We used to think big railroad men
were about the smartest things that
ever drew the breath of life, but late
" we are catching them in a lot OF
fool things.
Girls let so many worthless, foolish
that, when a real desirable man
comes along, they haven't enough bait
to land him.
A school teacher said to one Of her
pupils: Tommy, why are you
scratching your head?" Because
replied the boy, ''none of these other
kids knows where it itches.'
If woman doesn't weigh more
than eighty pounds. she is pretty apt
to be her husbands boss. A little
woman is a good deal like a pepper
box; larger women have more Of the
sugar bowl quality.
There is nothing in this world quite
so pretty as love between q mother
and daughter. When we hear that
girl is coming home from school, az
ter an absence of several months, we
usually go to the depot to see her
mother hug her There is something
a little funny. about love between man
and wife, and there is something not
exactly perfect about the love between
mother and son, but the love between
la mother and daughter is usually juak
right.