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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.]

TFrorn the New York Press.1
Many A man will swear to thing that
he wouldn't bet on.
When pugiIists meet they seldom strike
each other favorably.
Even the fellow with a pull requires
certain amount Of push.
1t isn't always falling memory that
causes a woman to forget her birthdays:
1t is easier for a woman to make fool
of a man than to make a man of fool
He who separates a fool from his money
is always looking for the good things
Of life.
Don't be a knocker, but on the other
hand don't permit yourself to the some
other fellows anival
mo. Maude, dear. the comedian who
INDUCES in a horse. play doesn't necessari-
ly play the races
Wigwag-s'The trouble with you is you
are bind to your own faults" Guzzler-
IF that's the case let's have an eye
opener
Money talks" quoted the Wise Guy:
yes. out If you don't hear it the first
time it seldom repeats itself" add the
Simple Mug.
This is chickweed," explained the far
mer .'Ah, suppose that's what the little
egg plants grow in, exclaimed the young
woman from the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
SINCE DEATH.

Eddies of life pass over my grave,
lying SO deep beneath,
Birds that pause. and twitter and fit.
those wings brush the shadowy heath
Inat puppies my nook, sing their old
Maynard song
To my dust in its cloSe-fitting sheath.
Flowers rise to the light with their root
in my heart,
AS though they were the shape Of its
thought,
But my hands grope not for their stems
In the dark,
Alasl my still heart knows them not,
And all the sweet traits of their fair,
careless lives
I have strangely and deeply forgot
Over me passes the swift changing grass
The blossoms soon yielding to snow:
Over me passes the wild Changing blast
In accents despairing and slow,
1t whispers Of life and it whispers Of
death,
To the dead ears reposing below.
But when my, friend comes, my old faith
And leans with his face ON my breast,
The thrill OF his grief pervades my still
tomb,
And almost disturbs my deep rest,
And my soul STOPPING down, vaguely feels
for its dust,
Yearning back out of heaven. unblest.
Mary Allen in Harper's weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

gender. Give her half a chance-sav
couple or yearS-to change her
mind mind IN q ar, and I'm certain you'll not
Jack bridled. "obvious,v VIC na.a
not discuss the question further sir
Good morning" with an angrv ierl
OF his head he stalked out Of the
room, and second later Col. View
man was edited by hearing the front
gate slam to with considerable force
he laughed heartily for a minute or
Two then his face relapsed into sud
den seriousness.
Upon my word" he unused. "a fell
low ought to be proud to call
woman ike Drusilla his wife. BY
1oye. IN write a note and ask her to
walk with me to Lovers Leap this af-
ternoon. Nv been a blind man for
twenty years, but I'm blamed If 1
don.t believe 7 see light"
Dearest Penelope-You must
marry me Immediately and we can
take the o'clock train for New
York. It is only rushing things about
twelve months, but certain events
have occurred which make IT essen
tai for us to take this step at once.
II you love me enough, and think
you can trust me to this extent, write
s PACK ~. by messenger and don't fail to
say peas es De 1sv9 JaeRt sr. TA q =,
as you say. I will marry you when
ever and wherever you wish have
peen worried to death all day. Aunt
Drusilla has been limiting about some
sort of matrimonial engagement for
me, and saying just dreadful things
all around. OF course I love you,
Jack, and am willing to trust you to
the ends of all creation. Your own,
"PENELOPE."
At breakfast the following morn
ing Miss Drusilla opened a flabby
yellow envelope and read:
I'VE were married last night at my
cousins. A message of forgiveness
and your blessing will reach us at the
Guests, New York city. ]. w"
A similar dispatch found Col Wey-
man over his coffee and chops He
chuckled as he thrust the envelope
into his pocket and his thoughts
harked back to Lovers Leap.
That afternoon another telegram
flashed over the wires between Plain
field and New York city:
You are forgiven, since people
must be fools. I know two more who
are soon to turn one. Accept our
blessing, AUNT DRUSILLA"
Copyright. 1909, by Associated
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From tn Atchison Globe


In country towns the first" families
usually hate each other.
People shouldn't make remarks about
ugly people, but they do.
So many men forget to be kind and
decent in the ordinary affairs of life.
Nature is very kind: by the time a man
is shelved socially, he is glad of 1t.
"A friend of mine,'' said a railroad man
recently, 'can prove anything by me-
An Atchison woman boasts that neither
of her two former husbands left her: she
left them.
1t is not considered proper for a wo-
man who is marrying the second time to
have procession wedding.
The man who thinks he knows his bun-
anything, doesn't know it very well.
A certain Atchison woman Is becoming
stout. She" people say behind her
back, 'fs looking like her mother"
Every day, / hear people tell cruel lies
about my acquaintances. I suppose they
tell them on me, too."-Parson Irvine.
How people exaggerate their ailmentsi
Joe Miller has rheumatism, and says IL
takes him three hours to get out OF bed.
What has become of the old fashioned
family that included as a large part OF
its Saturday work getting ready for the
Sabbath"
Every man feels a little foolish after
he has given away to anger, and blown
off steam for awhile. And he has about
the proper feeling about it.
We have noticed that when a woman
walks down street wearing a new fall hat
and suit she never looks around; she lets
the other women do that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

| for one reason or another we thought
we should like to take on this particu-
lar trip" It will be noticed that several
of these books are the same which Dr.
Eliot picked out for his shelf, and that
reading Of all OF them would be with
pleasure and profit to any person. They
cover a wide range of topics, religion,
philosophy, history, economics, TO-
nance and poetry. And they show that
Mr.. Roosevelt is quite as myriad-mind-
ed in his tastes for literature as he is
in all other things. The list of books
and their authors which Mr. Roosevelt
took with him to pass away some
profitable and delightful hours in the
African wilds follow:
Bible
Apocrypha.
Borrow-.EBible in Spain" "zingan,' y
"Lavengro,' wild Wales THE Ro-
many Rye
Shakespeare.
Spenser-'Faerie Queen"
Marlowe.
Mahan-"Sea Power.
Macaulay-History;E Essays; Poems.
Homer-"Illad," Odyssey"
La Chanson de Roland.
"Nibelungenlied."
CarlyIe-"Frederick the Great"
Shelley-Poems.
Bacon-Essays.
Lowell-Literary Essays, BisloW
Papers"
Emerson-Poems.
Longfellow.
Tennyson.
Poe-Tales; Poems.
Keats.
Milton-"Paradise Lost" Books and
I'D.
DANTE Inferno" (Carlyle's transla-
tion).
Holmes-"Autocrat.' lover the Tea
cups"
Bret Harte-Poems, Tales of the Ar
gonauts," Luck of Roaring Camp
Browning Selections.
Crothers-"Gentle Reader"
Mark Twain-'Huck1eberry Finn"
tom Sawyer"
Bunyan's '.Pilgrim's Progress
Euripides (Murray's translation)-I
"Hippolytus'' and 'Bacchae."
The Federalist.
regorovius-"Rome."
Scott-'Legend of Montrose," Guy |
Mannering." 'Waverley,' Rob Roy"
"Antiquary."
Cooper-''Pilot,' 1.-TWO Admirals."
Froissart.
Percy's Reliques.
Thackeray's Vanity Fair" and
''Pendennis."
Dickens-'Mutual Friend Pick
wick"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
FROM OTHER PENS
M11cKRAKERs D1sPLEAsED.

The nuckrakers condemned Secre-
tary Ballinger without nearing, ana
they will not change their mlnds. AS
has been stated before in this paper
and as those who have read the letter
of the president to his secretary of the
interior know, President Taft has had
all the evidence before him, ana ne
sees nothing in the conduct of Mr. Bal
down to this-are those who have rem
dered a verdict of condemnation
against the accused secretary, with
only a smattering of the evidence be-
fore them, ex parte evidence at that,
better qualified for stating the truth
than the president, who has had all the
evidence of both sides before him?
Or, it might be put in another form:
Is the president, who is a trained law
yer. and who had a good many years Of
experience as a judge on the bench.
less fitted for sitting the evidence and
arriving at a conclusion In harmony
with truth and justice. than the pro-
fessional muckrakers who jump to con-
illusions upon the slightest provocation,
and whose noses are noted for partial
ity for the nauseous? His partial
critics made up their minds that he
should be damned, and, of course, they
will not be pleased that the president
has taken different view, and who,
instead of damning him, has praised
Mr.. Ballinger.-Knoxvtlle Journal and
Tribune.
%
TEN HOURS A DAY FOR WOMEN.
Among the laws enacted by the leg
islature of Illinois at its last session
was one which provides that the work
ing day for women and girls employed
in industrial establishments in the
state shall not exceed ten hours in
length. This act is patterned closely
after one already in operation in the
state of Oregon, and is heartily sup
ported by trustworthy leaders of So
cial and economic reform.
In a test case Judge Tuthill, of the
circuit court of Cook county, has is
sued a writ enjoining the district at
torney and the state factory commits
sioner from enforcing the Illinois act
In arguing for the writ, counsel for
the manufacturers contended that II
vitiate the constitutional right to en-
ter contracts.
1t may be doubted. however, wheth-
err the manufacturers would care to
carry the controversy to the court of
last resort. The Oregon ten-hour law
for women was taken up to the Unit
ed States supreme court, the prin-
cipal argument against it being that
it placed an undue restriction on free
dom of contract, and was therefore
unconstitutional. The court rejected
that contention, and in so doing
pointed out that there is general
tendency among state legislatures to
enact laws like the one under review,
the higher purpose of such acts being
the protection of women in the inter-
est of race preservation and race in
crease.-New York Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's bad plan to waste money in
buying things that you can easily do
without.
If you'll notice it. the hearty eaters
ere always complaining Of pains and
aches.
Red hair especially on women. is
generally admired by everybody except
those who have 1t.
4
Young lads who are backward in
school never seem to have any difficulty
in learning to swear.
&
Many persons are Handicapped in
their work by having to do things
which they ought to have done yester-
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

/ ne SAld14 ANS luSIcDy- EZek1Gl
This IS the word of God as related
by the famous Jewish prophet, Ezekiel
whose book is one of the most interest
ing of those of in the Old Testament.
1t is particularly rich in striking les
sons touching conduct and spiritual ex-
periences and repeated attention is d.
rected in 1T to the fact that the chance
of reformation with its unusual rewards
is at the disposal of every person who
has become obsessed with wicked ways
either Of smaller or greater intensity.
And surely there can be no more
satisfying promise to an erring humani-
". The people who go through life
without committing a wrong of some
kind or dong some sort of an evil deed
are so few and far between that they
have not been discovered as yet. Among
the great majority. though. regardless
of the insistence of pessimists to the
contrary, the sins which they commit
are of the lesser caliber. The people
OF the world, as a whole. are far from
being bad and wicked at heart. Most
of them have a disposition to do what
is righ- despite the greatness of the
tempt atoms to do wrong and the fleet
ing pleasure that it is possible to acquire
through the qualification of the vari-
Gus passions. The occasional wrongs
which they do worry them quite as
much as they do the pc. CONS aginst whom
they are directed. And most of them
are of an extremely petty character.
1t would be anything but a just judge
who would condemn them for all time
because of these slips from grace, pro-
vided, however, that their wrong-doing
does not become chronic and they are
o. a disposition to do better. If their
repentance is sincere and their restitu-
ton adequate their sins are forgotten
and their lease on life, even unto eterni-
ty, is renewed. There is nothing I'M
usual In this. 1t is a reasonable solu-
ton of such a dilemma
What holds good of the smaller sins
is just as true of the larger ones. Some
people seem to think that the commits
sion of an especially wicked act places
them beyond redemption, that there is
nothing for them to gain by making
and striving to be good. The
re suit is that. they fall deeper and
deeper into the quagmire of crime.
But they are misguided. The oppor-
tunity for them to shake off the shack
les of disgrace and dishonor is just as
great and certain as it is for those who
have INDUCED in but the most trivial
of sins. OF course. the efforts that they
must experd to regain the good favor of
men and Maker will necessarily have
to be greater, the road to their re-
Mobilization will be longer and the re-
stitution they must make will have to
be complete. But this end is denied to |
no man, matter how low he has
sunk or how grave have been his Of
lenses.
AS Ezekiel wrote &Ist before he set
down the words of the text: eff the |
wicked restore the pledge, give again |
that he had robbed. walk in the statutes |
of life, without committing iniquity, he
shall not die" OF a truth, this is a |
glorious precept and promise for every
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

Wroten ad Looie Linkenusser. same blaze
Greetings, Looie: 1 am going to ask you
70 pun OUT hard stunt, Looie; am go
ing to ask you to think. Turn ofer dot
keg uf rusty nutses you call your brain,
una try to gedt someding besite dust oud
Ut i'd. You ISIS der lasd resort. We hat
tried Id on Everybody else. und dere iss
no anser oop to date, es cuss words ind
roth viii nod be accepted ad dis counter
eS. legal tender. Here ISIS der kvesdion,
(nypotheticaD:
Uf proons ISIS sigsty cents a peck. ind
ger Ice crop iss injured py der early frosd.
now long Will i'd dake Gufferner Stubs
und Chloe Napoleon DolIey to frame oop
a anser to der higher taxes kvesdion
Vich VIII satisfy a cross-eyed Democrats
NIT wooden limb? Und, such being der
case, diagram der sentence: Our motto
issy "A skvare deal fer us, und reform fer
der resd uf dem," mitoudt yoosing any
lankwich vich ISIS unfit to prindt.
Dis hypothetical kvesdion, Looie iss q
hat receifed oop TO dis time. In words .uf
Won er more skylables, der skituation ISIS
dis: A muiyunt bones wort uf real money
hat peen buried somevere by der chandle-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IF'rom the Chicago News.J
Even the hotheaded man occasionally
gets cold feet.
Misfortunes often put us wise to our
own carelessness.
A philosophical man when considering
his own troubles isn't.
1t is better to have a few good friends
than good many friends
It's astonishing how many things come
our way that we don't care for.
It's difficult to settle case in court
while the ltigants have any money
If a woman wears anything that is
comfortable she is usually ashamed of it.
When woman tells a man her age she
never brings out the family Bible to prove
1t.
you will find where 1t landed-on your
neck.
The woman who marries a man to re-
form him should not let him become
aware OF the game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

Members of the United States wat
erways' commission, who are touring
Europe, plan to pass considerable
time in looking at the River Seine.
That particular stream is an interest
ing If grewsome one. Thousands of
disheartened Frenchmen have ended
their lives in it. Its dark, swirling
and sluggish water is an ideal place
for suicides grave. Do the Ameri-
can commissioners think waterway
for similar purposes is needed at
home here2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

b. F. Yoakum, head of the Rock
Island-Frisco system is doing a great
work in spreading the propaganda of
good roads among the farmers. He
presents facts and figures to show
that the farmers could save millions
and millions of dollars each year in
the hauling of their produce to the
railways if they had good roads. The
millions thus saved could be devoted
to a much needed agricultural devel-
ODmeOf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

A playwright has been arrested in
New York on a charge of extortion for
activities in other than the drama
tic field. This suggests the reason
able opinion that many such gentle
men obtain money under false pre-
lenses by encouraging audiences to
attend some of their efforts in the
way OF producing plays.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

The Kansas City Star notes that
''the regulars in Kansas abuse the in
surgents because they failed to stand
by the administration but every one
of them, from Senator Curtis down to
Ralf Faxon. is fighting Governor
Stubs and his administration"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

Kansas City, Kan, Improvement
bonds are selling at a big premium.
And it wasn't so long ago that some
alleged wiseacres were insisting that
the enforcement of the prohibitory
law in that town would put it out of
business and on the bankrupt list.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

An enduring monument of noble
proportions ought to be erected to
that Illinois automobilist who turned
his car so sharply to avoid running
over dog that it swerved and plung-
ed into a river
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

There is enc thing that Indiana is
welcome to- Not another state in the
union will be jealous over the fact
that she has a piano player who can
play a piano continuously for So
hours and Sc minutes. 1t is to be sin
cerely hoped, too. that Indiana will
keep this wonder at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

Something in the way of a female
fend incarnate and a more diabolical
one than the Infamous Mrs. Guinness
has been found in a Toronto woman
who adopted babies by the score for
q consideration and then put them
to death as fast as she could get her
hands on them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

Some American wrestler will prob
ably take the Polish champion at this
game, Zbyscko by name, who recent
~ arrived in this country, for a break
fast food or luncheon delicacy and
lust eat him I'D
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rFron the New York Prass.1

rFrom the New York Press.I
The way to learn to hate q man IS for
him to succeed where you fail.
We fix our eye so intently on our little
virtues that we can't see our big faults
A woman would rather have you make
love to her and not mean II than mean II
and not do It.
Where a farmer has a grand time Is
beine able to put all the blame for hIa
mistakes on the weather.
All women's feet would be very tiny II
they were up around their knees where
nobody could possibly see them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

John D. Rockefeller has contrib
uted $24,O00,00O to the University of
Chicago during the past twenty years.
From many of the frothings at their
mouths 1t is evident that a portion of
this money has been ill-advisedly ex-
pended in the payment of salaries
to certain of the alleged professors of
this institution
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

New York city certainly never does
things by halves. It has engaged the
services of hundreds of doctors and
nurses to care for those who are likely
tc be injured at the big Hudson Fulton
celebration which begins there today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

All Of the county fairs have been
generally successful this fall. Isn't it
about time that the Kansas legislators
woke up to the fact that real state
fair is a crying necessity in this agri-
cultural commonwealth?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
KANSAS CONMENT
IN PRISON.

IN PRISON.
The reports from the Western
pennsylvania penitentiary should be
an added inducement to good beha-
vior in that state. Behind its barred
windows are more than 1900 GRIM
inals of greater of less degree. In
pairs they are crowded into cells
where there is a space of eighteen
inches between the cots. Vermin of
various and unpleasant kinds abound.
The food is said to be SO poor that
the prisoners lately threw their full
plates at the Inspector as he passed
through, that he might better appre-
clate the quality. Three hundred of
the inmates. almost one in four, are
AFFLICTED with tuberculosis.
But do not fancy Western Pennsyl-
vania has a monopoly on undesirable
conditions in prison. writer in the
September Hampton's Magazine pic
lures the Ohio penitentiary as being
about as bad, or worse. In a late is
sue of the Survey, o. +. Lewis writes
of the 1ails of New York state, in
which 10000 prisoners are confined,
and in which conditions are deplor-
able. But the facts are that prisons
have improved a lot since the days
when the dark dungeon under the
castle cellar served all purposes when
execution wasn't considered less both
er. The Reformers are too much in
clined to want Waldorf-Astoria ac-
there is enough in what they see and
Improvements in prisons are doubt
less needed, but you won't need them
II you behave yourself.-Atchison
Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

The Washington Post thinks that
the London suffragettes must have
used up their winning ways in some
other cause, to depend so much as
they do on force
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

A real artist has passed on. Refer
ence is made to the Italian violinist
of Chicago who fddled away on
Chopin's Funeral March as he was
slowly ending his life by gas asphyx-
fofinn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hope for Chicago is now running
rampant. They've actually convicted
there one of the high officials in the
police department on charges of graft
ting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

Und DIR. Cook Immediately wissited NIT
hiss wife, vich hangs Won on der yarn
aboudt der GOODNESS between dem" But.
Goodness between DEM" der piece uf
larche, cold ice vich hat separated dem
fer der passd few years..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

mux vomans choosing a bar uf soap Hoo
man intelligence candt stand fer anything
veil step beck und watch us belief DR..
Cook
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

Dere ought to be someding funny aboudt
dot Gulf storm, but hating lifted in dot
country during a equinpx, Id would GER
dainty sprain my humor to tink uf any
ting humorous in dot connection.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

We are in receipt uf a dispadge from
der front, vot sayss der Spinnage forces
hat routed der Moors. But der drouble
init dem warmints ISIS dot dey refoos to
dake der route py vich der route achendt
routes dem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

Kate Barnard Talks" ISIS der headline
uf Moo York dispadge. Far be i'd from
US to doubt der statement. Kate iss a
woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

Commander Peary hat fiddle chance
to make goot hiss claims, undil he drop
ped in dot H. 1. story aboudt der Esky-