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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
GOVERNOR sTURBs As HOST.

Governor Stubs has kept faith with
the Saturday Night club in the matter
of the promise made at the club ban
quet last spring when he invited the
club to come and break bread with him
at his Lawrence home some time in the
future. The governor has set Fridas
night of this week as the date for -he
club entertainment.
Now all Kansans who have attended
Saturday Night club affairs in the past
will appreciate the governors bravery
in inviting to his house such a body of
men. Every Saturday Nighter carries
a long bow and CULVER full of ar
rows and when he sits down at a fes-
tive board. instead of his heart re-
spending warmly to the good cheer of
his stomach. he becomes Indifferent 10
all feelings of gratitude or sense of de-
corum and proceeds to discharge shafts
of sarcasm and satire on every hand
caring nothing att all which course his
arrows may take But the points of
these arrows have not been dipped in
venom. On the contrary, they are as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

When she smiles she may be making
fun of you, she may be about to
throw you over. You can never tell
until it is too late.
X
Little cares and worries always come
home to roost at night and they are
worse company than Poe's raven.
x y
The big misfortunes that we fought
bravely and vanquished leave US easy
prey for the little ones that come
after.
n
There was young girl who was
stricken with paralysis and after THAI
she became blind, but when they moved
her bed UP by the open window in the
springtime and she breathed the fresh
air and the scent of the flowers she
was so happy that she sang the song,
Count Your Blessings" man was
passing by that window. his brow twist
ed into a scowl by some imaginary
tt ouble. He heard the song and look
ed up and saw the singer. This man
quickly wiped the frown from his face
and before he had gone a block he
vas whistling in delight at the thought
of his own good fortune. And this all
happened In Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

bright and clear as winter sunshine
The wounds they make do not rankle.
For every member of the Saturday
Night club speaks the Kansas language
and what If the wit be keen and the
humor runneth over? Banquets were
not intended to be formal and serious
affairs. anyway
When Governor Stubs feeds the Sat
urday Nighters there will be great do
ings at the Stubs home on the hill
and like as not his guests will impeach
him for treason and elect Mort Albaugh
in his place at the state house. But the
governor is a good Indian, if he doesn't
belong to the Shawnees, and he will
enjoy it all as much as anybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

\ According to the reports from the
Aaron smelters and steel mills of the
least the early fall rush of orders will
double their winter business over that
of last year. This is all very fine for
the east, but does not tend to soothe
the grumblings of the west over the
tariff bill. The Aldrich schedules on
aron ore were adopted while the
amendments for free iron offered by
western senators were thrown on the
SCRAP heap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

Gov. ]. H. Bradley of Idaho has
come out squarely in favor of wo-
mans suffrage, while on the same day
President Taft submitted to an inter-
view in which he lodged the question
as follows: when the time comes
that the women of the United States
are agreed they desire woman suf-
frage believe the time will then be
right for them to have it, and I hope
that when that time comes they will
get it, When the woman suffrage
bill was defeated in the house of rep
resentatives in the last Kansas legis-
lature most of the members voting
against the measure explained their
votes by declaring that the women
were not united in the demand for
suffrage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
HOW THE LAW WORKS.

A deputy state factory inspector
visited Chanute the other day and
found everything all right in the fac
tories of that city except in one case,
where a boy of IA years of age was
employed to carry water to the work
men. The inspector had the lad dis
charged and then went on his way
to other towns, proud in the con-
seriousness that he had done his duty
according to the law.
Doubtless he did, but his visit to
Chanute brought trouble to one little
home. That boy who carried water
for the workmen was the sole sup
port of his widowed mother He got
dollar day for his services, and
this, added to what his mother made
by taking in washing, enabled them
to live comfortably in their humble
cottage at the edge of town. But now
that this dollar day has been taken
away from them, the mother and her
boy face poverty and misery. The
mother will have to work night and
day now to make both ends meet.
But the boy, how will he feel about
law that takes his job away from
him and forces his old mother to toll
like a slave? VIII it make him sullen
and tend to turn his hand against
society. Will he take kindly to an edu-
cation purchased lat the cost of his
mothers health and happiness?
AS for this factory inspector, he
doubtless sent in a report to his chief
that all was well at Chanute.
. But is all well at Chanute? The
woman at the tub, robbed of her
boys help by the law, may well feel
like Eugene Wares washerwoman,
who had only one friend who would
keep her to the end
The rigid enforcement of this child
labor law, without regard to circum-
stances or conditions, is serious
problem, and may result in more
harm than good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

c. F. Foley, Democratic represen-
tative in the last legislature from
Rice county and minority leader on
the floor of the house, has been men
toned in many quarters as his party
candidate for governor in the next
election. But Mr.. Foley now puts an
end to this speculation by coming out
in the Sterling Journal in a signed
statement in which he declares that
under no circumstances will he enter
the race for the office, nor will he
even consent to again run for repre-
sentative in his county. His choice
for the head of the Democratic tick
ct in this state is George H. Hodges
of Olathe. Mr.. Foley made a brilliant
record in the last legislature and as a
candidate for governor should have
made as formidable showing as any
Democrat in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

well-bred, beautiful young quartetts
Derore them, young people charming,
and, after all, old enough to know
their own minds. Thomas smoke To
his own mother.
The fact is, we all hate nonsense
We hate planned matches, and being
engaged to order with diamond rings
to advertise the fact, and the society
pussles purring, and fashionable we'd
dlngs preceded by Showers" of stun
that only a fire or some other special
dfspensation of Providence can rid
you of. And then he took a law
yer.nke tone beitting the junior
partner of the firm Of Tracy &. Tracy
we cannot be engaged because" he
paused for effect and got 1t. for a
sudden suspicion sent the parents al
one to their feet, eight living interro-
cation points
he finished leisurely "A month ago
at Baxter, by Roberts uncle John.
who hates fuss and feathers" with
q quick movement Tom moved-past
leading her to his mother. and Bob
mad Sallie by both hands looking AT
her only forgetting the others.
And when it finally became evident
70 the bswildered families that the
right children were together, that
Sallie had married Robert, that Tom
had married Mary, the relief went FAR
on the way to forgiveness for the
elopement.
But why elope?" Sallie's father
finally spoke. IT think I may say for
my friends that these marriages will
make us ultimately happy-that they
are, in fact, just what we desired.
What was the real trouble? We were
all quite willing" But a chorus of
laughter greeted him-happy young
laughter
THAT was just the trouble. You
were too willingl" 1t was Sallie
who had spoken from the shelter of
her young husbands arm. Then
everybody aughed.-Copyright, 1903,
by Associated Literary Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

A Leavenworth girl has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against her
grandmother, alleging as cause of
action that the old lady made her
tend bar in her saloon and failed of
her duty to give her an education. This
suit is unique in the records OF litiga-
ton and If finally carried to the
supreme courut will afford an
opportunity for the establishment
of a precedent in the matter of
the liability of a wealthy guardian
under the law to provide an
adopted child with an education.
AS for the barmaid phase
of the case, that only goes to show
that everything went in Leavenworth
before the advent of one. Shukers, as
sistant attorney general
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

The authorities at New Castle, Pa,
have arrested a one-legged man and a
ore-eyed man on the charge of wreck
ing a Baltimore & Ohio train. These
two suspects successfully withstood a
II hours process of grilling by the po-
lice, but the last heard of the posses
searching for the real wreckers was
that their hounds had struck a blind
trail and their horses had gone lame.
The one-eyed mans hoodo must have
pursued the dogs and the one-legged
mans lamentations worked on the
horses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
HU1NOR or THE DIP

amelia. I am going to ask you the
Is entirely unexpected. L need time to
think! Please ask it hypotheticaiIyi"@
Chicago Tribune.
Bacon-A woman who wants to vote
4, h called suffragette. is she not? Egg
called If there are ladies present.
Yonkers Statesman.
NellE,Harry had such masterful
BeIle-Did you? That's queer, for IL
was exactly what made most of us 9TH
er girls turn him down.-BaItimor
Blobbs-Why do you liken Hard
uppe to the busy bee? He's not par
t1cuIarly industrious. is he? Slobbs-
Oh, no, it isn't that, but nearly every
one he touches gets stung
phia Record.
Yes; I'm just back from Europe"
reminded you of homes" "Oh, YES. In
venice everything was flooded and in
Pompei the streets were all dug up
Kansas City Journal.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-I wish to gracious
you'd take that bunch of hairpins out
or your mouth when you're talking to
men. can't understand a single Word
you say. Mrs. crimsonbeak-Th Won
go! You hate to see me have the least
bit OF pleasure.-Yonkers Statesman
"I admit have the fault YOU men
t1on," said the conceited man, self
complaccntly, but it's the only fault
I have, and it's a small one" yes
replied Knox, "just like the small hole
that makes plugged nickel no good"
Catholic Standard and Times
There was a time when they nut
men in Jail for debt" said the bill col
lector, severely. well" answered the
fretted citizen, Il don't know but a
good, stout Jail. where your creditors
couldn't send in cards or call you up on
the telephone would be great deal of
comfort. Washington Star.
''Tommy-Pa, what part of speech is
woman? Father-Woman isn't a part
of speech at all, my son; she's the
whole thtng.-The Pathfinder.
Argus waS lamentinR his hundred
eyes. THE trouble is that a monocle
gets so totally lost" he continued.
Thus he regretted he could not put
on style.-New York Sun.
Taper-I should like a two weeks all
sence to attend the wedding of a very
dear friend. Mr.. Gingham-It must be n
very dear friend. indeed, to make Won
want that much time. Who Is IT.? TAPER
Wen, sir, after the ceremony she will be
my wife-Vogue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
LFrom the New York Press.1

LFrom the New York Press1
Modesty, just as much as lack Of IL.
is pretty much all habit
The reason a woman knows her son
will turn out to be O fine man is he
shows no signs of II.
Small change jingles louder than
hundred dollar bills; petty souls make
more hurrah than big ones.
A woman always feels she ought to
show some jealousy toward her hus-
band If it's only about an old pipe.
The way for a man to make his
wife adore him is for him to go out
between the acts at the theater and
telephone home to ask If the chill
dren have been burned up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

Fashionable society sustained two
severe shocks in one day when Mrs.
Levy Mayer, wife of a Chicago mil
lionaire, voluntarily resigned her
place at the top of the social ladder to
go to Cape Cod and run a farm, while
Mabelle Gilman Corey, the ex-actress
and now wife of the big, steel mag
nate. declared that society is the
riffraff of pinch-beck nobility and
announced her intention of going
back to the stage in search of real
happiness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

Georgia claims to have the best pure
food laws in the world. but a study of
the law as outlined by the papers of
that state reveals the fact that its
strongest provision in the eyes of its
trainers is that section relating to pure
feed rather than food. BY pure feed,
as defined in this law. is meant cotton
seed meal, and the foxy Georgians
have sent a representative to Washing
ton to attend the meeting of the pure
food commission and try to get. that
section Of the Georgia law relating to
cotton eeed naa1 7dra&tad 4sasc tb@ Aari-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
CROSSING THE RAR

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me:
And may there be no moaning of the bar
When put out to sea.
Too full for sound or foam.
boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark;
And may there be no sadness OF farewell
When embark
Place
The flood may bear me far,
! nope to see my Pilot face to face
When have crost the bar
-~Alfred TennvsOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
wHERE CREDIT IS DUE.
FROM OTHER PENS
POINT IN PATRIOTISM.

At a vaudeville theater the other
afternoon there appeared a fiddler. a
really skillful fiddler, so skiliful that ne
could play two violins at once ana leau
the orchestra with his head
In the course of his performance he
played a medley of popular airs, OF
which 1.-THE Star-Spangled Banner
was one. Here and there throughout
the house men and women rose in little
groups until finally pehaps half the
house was standing.
One stander made an audible remark
about the lack of patriotism OF some
persons who posed as Americans A
dignified midd1e-aged man took the re-
mark as addressed to him. and In
stage wait few minutes later turned
to the speaker. Said he:
1T yield to no one in my respect for
my country. I and my ancestors fo''
some generations were born here. :
the proper time and place I am ready
to rise and uncover during the play ing
of the national anthem, but I'm blessed
If 1 believe that show respect to the
United States by rising when vaude-
willie entertainer, who is making joke
of music, and who. by the way. am
willing to laugh at and applaud, uses
as part of that joke The star
Spangled Banner
Moreover, I regard as indecent and
improper the use Of the American nag
as stage asset, and I think that the
man who applauds it's every appearance
.
or a short-skirted woman is really
bringing discredit on 1T"
The man who had made the remark
about good Americans didn't reply, but
a number of those near him thought
that the middle-aged man was right
New York Sun.
WHEN THE BIG DITCH SHAKES.
There is little question that the
most imperturbable American felt
responsive SILVER when news came
from Panama that the isthmuS had
been visited by a decided earthquake
shock.
We are investing multiplying mil
lions in the epocha1 task of wedding
the seas in the interest of Americas
international commercial supremacy,
and it would be a tragic elimination
to our dreams were the project
wrought at such formidable expense
to crumble into a worthless mass OF
ruins.
Just what may be expected in the
way of Developments at Panama is
more or less a closed book. Inva-
riably Nature is inscrutable. She
scorns to take mere man into ner
confidence and rarely informs him as
to her titanic designs until they burst
upon him in beneficent or malef1cent
fruition.
been twenty-eight earthquakes in the
recorded history of the isthmus, and
this government was fully apprised or
the volcanic nature of the country be-
fore it closed the deal with the French
corporation. Only one of them-in
have wrought damage to the canal.
But again the question arises, who
can penetrate the future ?-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

Missouri and Illinois travelling men
are clamoring for an edict from the
railroad boards of their states similar
10 the ose recently issued by the Kan
Eas boaSes forbidding the careless and
reckless handling of baggage and
trunks by the employees of the rail-
roads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

form pure fool bill Georgia is a cotton
state and needs the profits that will
accrue from the general use of the by
product OF its cotton plant. DR.. Cruna-
pine should have added a section in re-
iaflon 10 the uses of sunhoTer seed to
the Kansas pure food laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
Bit IN KANSAS!

People who have investigated the
matter claim that he is Door Da-
kota farmer who doesn't keep in adj
dition to his big touring car run
Still, they do better than that in Kan
sas. Out there they provide limous-
ines for the hired man.-Chicag0
Record-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

The very latest thing in corporations
ls the million dollar syndicate formed
by John D. Spreckles. Lyman j. Gage
and U. S. Grant. j. to promote a
worlds fair in 1915 to celebrate the op-
e,74ne Of the Panama canal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

Kansas farmers who suffered from
the drouth fromAugust 5 to September
s have little of which to complain.
Over In central Missouri the farmers
enjoyed a rain on July 10, and since
then have had no other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
KANSAS COMAENT
PLUME AND lNGALLs.

| Cy Leland is quoted as saying that
Plumb was the greatest senator Kan
sas ever had. Mr.. Leland is a practical
| politician. and from his view he is
| absolutely right. Preston B. Plumb did
more for Kansas and got more for
Kansas than any other senator we
and he did not care more than the or
clnary man cares for empty honors.
He knew he could not talk, as ingalls,,
could, and SO he left the oratory to
ing the work for Kansas-something
ingalls, would not do If he could. and
could not if he would. Never again
Will Kansas have a pair" of senators
matched up as Plumb and Ingalls, were.
Plumb could plan and manage and get
tbirgs ready, and then Ingalls, would
step to the front OF the stage and in
the glare of the footlights and amid
whole country to it's feet with hats off
and flags flying Kansas got what it
went after In those days, or rather
n hat Plumb went after for US. And
II. the United States senate two men
as really great as they were, nor two
more Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
SUMNER A SHEEP COUNTY.
r. H. Behimer and George A. Hunt
have gone to Ration, New Mexico, to
ship into this county six carloads of
sheep. This is the second shipment of
sheep that Mr.. Hunt is making to this
county. The first was made about ten
days ago and of the 1900 brought here
all but about 400 have been sold.
These sheep are one of the largest
kind that are raised and are known
as the Ramble A stock. They were
originally bred from the French Mer-
inc sheep in France.
The way the stock raisers and farm
ers are taking hold of the new indus
try it looks as though Sumner county
may become a prominent. wool pro-
ducing district. Sheep are easily
raised so far as what they. eat is con-
cerned and the only obstacle that
many people think will have to be
overcome is the danger of the young
lambs being killed by the coyotes
Wellington Mail.
ABOUT THE DUMB WATCH.
In front CT nearly every jewelers. |
store you will find a dumb watch as
q sign. The hands on the watch al |
ways point to SIT. There is a story
that the hands were placed at this hour
because Lincoln was shot at 8:17. Char
ley Mage says he has looked it up
end that this is the reason. We don't
like to quarrel with a nice man like
Charley Mage but he is mistaken.
Dumb Watches used as signs were made
Ra they are now long before Lincoln
was shot (and he wasn't shot at S:17
any way). The hands are placed at
BIZ because TIE arrangement leaves
the best space for lettering. Look at
a dumb watch used as a jewelers. sign,
and the truth Of the last proposition
will occur to you.-Atchison Globe.
WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.
Like the private soldiers who win
the battle for which the general gets
credit. the two Esquimaux who went
to the pole with DR.. Cook, will never
be known to fame and may yet starve
to death through, the negligence of a
world too busy shouting for Cook, to
heed the wants of his assistants. They
we're surely as brave as he, because
thew did not possess his incentive.-I
Wichita Beacon. v.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

Amelia, am going to ask you the
old, old question: 20, Herbert. this
Is entirely unexpected. L need time to
think! Please ask it hypotheticaIIvI"-
Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
Munich Taking to Milk Drinking.

Patriotic Munich citizens are great
~ grieved to learn from the municipal
statistics that the consumption of
beer in the city has decreased 1913
per cent since 1908. They recall that
famous year of 1889, when the city's
consumption of beer reached 525
litres a head of the population, or 400
quarts.
Last year this had fallen to 240
quarts. That Nuremberg now beats
Munich by six quarts head can be
borne, but the Munichers are more
concerned at finding that Berlin is
gradually creeping up to them, being
now only matter of eighteen quarts
behind.
There is some consolation in the
fact that the Bavarians still stands at
the head of all the German national
tiles in beer drinking, having 211
quarts a head to their credit: while
the Prussians are a long way behind,
with a beggarly 81 quarts.
While the beer consumption has
been going down, statistics show that
more milk is being drunk every year
in Munich, so that the citizens are be-
ginning to fear that the infant popu-
iation is actually being nourished
upon milk instead of the famous ma
tional Observation-Disclosures Correspon-
dence, Pail Mall Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09
Soap Grows on Trees.

Side by side grow the soap tree and
the taIloW tree. The soap tree yields a
product from which is manufactured
the purest article of soap that is posi-
Bile to be made. Indeed, the pulp of the
berry is a natural soap and will make
a lather almost like the manufactured
article The soap berry tree is now
creating widespread interest, and the
berries are being imported from Algfers
and China
1t will pay to plant the trees and look
after their cultivation. The product of
the taIIow tree also enters into the
making of soap, and the two together
make a, nice combination, and their
cultivation should be looked after by-
those in new Industries. Besides soap,
the soap berries make a very fine oil,
and when the virtues of the tallow tree
are fully known it may also yield fine
and profitable oil. The young man who
now plants out ten or twenty acre
orchard of these two trees may drop
into an easy fortune.-Ocala-B Banner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

Bacon-A woman who wants to vote
is called a suffragette, is she not? Egg
bert-WeI, yes, that's what she's
called If there are ladies present-
Yonkers Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-09

Nel-Harry had such a masterfuI
Gy about his proposing that 1 liked
Belle-Did you? That's queer, for it
was exactly what made most of US 9TH
er girls turn him down.-Baltimore
American.