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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
FRON OTHER PENS
THE FOREIGN SERVICE.

\ Administrative reorganization is like
ly to prove one of the dominant charac-
teristics of the present period, as the
historian of the future looks back upon
it. There are frequent indications that
careful study is being given to the
various departments of the govern
ment. Notable changes may be made
in the course of the next few years,
each Of them looking toward greater
efficiency.
In this connection the foreign service
is being considered with particular at
tention. The need of better consuls
and consulates is urged. Adaptability
to the task rather than political In
fiuence Is the demand on every hand.
The efforts of Mr.. Root in this direc-
ton have been praised whenever they
have been brought to public attention.
The United States must take steps
for the permanent housing of its en-
bassies in the leading capitals of the
world. That is proposition which has
been advocated again and again as a
direct result Of experience. The sal
aries of the ambassadors and ministers
must be raised in order that others
than men of large private fortune may
be selected as the nations representa-
tives. Conditions which have existed
in the past have limited choice to the
wealthy. A furnished house and a
larger salary might make it possible
for able men of moderate resources to
give the country the benefit Of personal
powers well adaDted to the work which
a diplomat might do in the direction of
increasing trade re1at1onSh1pS.-Chl-
cago Tribune.
SENATOR TILLMAN'S DEFENSE
Senator Tillman's explanation of his
western land transactions closely re-
sembles what the lawyers call a plea
of confession and avoidance. He ad-
mits the truth of the principal mat
tiers set forth in Mr.. Roosevelt's letter
to Senator Hale. His own verdict is
that he was diSingenious in stating to
the senate that he had no personal in
terest in the lands that were the sub
ject of his resolution directing the at
torney general to bring suit for their
recovery from wrongful owners Ger
tainly nothing worse than indiscretion
and Improperly appears in the sem
ator's conduct and he has not been
accused of corruption or of violating
any statute. From a strictly legal
standpoint, of course, he has done
nothing wrong.
Unhappily for the senator's defense.
he has set up standard of official
and public morality to which assent
sense or reason in the position that II
is unlawful, immoral, or improper for
a senator to buy any land or to act
in this chamber on any question
affecting his personal interests. But
it is a fundamental proposition OF
public morals that no government Of
fcer should act in matters affecting
his personal Interest. Senator TIL
mans inability to see any sense IN a
| principle of action SO well established
| is dangerous admission-one that
comes near demolishing the whole
| fabric of his attempted ytndicat1on.-
| Washington Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BAChEL Or
LFrom the New York Press.1

The more money a man can make
the more other people can get it.
There's nothing morti1es a girl more
than chapped lips without having earn
ed them
When a man Is generous It's because
1t intoxicates his vanity to have people
tell him so.
What makes all a woman's friends
think she is freak is for her to wear
hat that isn't freaK.
What impresses woman about trav-
cling with her husband in a sleeping
car is how he can pretend to be COM
Portable when he never Will admit Il
lat home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Mrs. c. N. Williamson, in the London
Chronicle, recently told of "the shock
of pleasure she experienced on finding
that New York 'is as beautiful, as In
diVidual almost, as Venice" Part OF
her praise is for New York's sky and
atmosphere. Her description of a sun
set, glittering like a heap of 5eWels
behind veil Of sprinkled gold dust
indicates that she looked from Brooklyn
bridge down the bay on some day a
few weeks ago, when the smoky maze
in the air toward sunset made the mar
Dor look like a lake of ripping, mol
ten gold. Mrs. Williamson seized on the
one pervading charm which distinguish
es New York from drab-colored Lon
don and from most northern continent
tai cities-that of the atmosphere
which, happily, after a week of UNI
usual fog again bends over New fork
with its Indian summer softened
brightness. It's sky has always been
one of the delights of New York. This
has long been appreciated. Here, for
instance is the way Donald G. Mitchell,
in the Easy Chair of Harper's Maya
zine, so years ago, described the New
York of that day: 1.-THE green waters of
our embracing sea, the green tufts of
our outlying Islands, the dainty spires
of our thickening churches, the laugh
ing remnants of our commercial for
ests, the shining roofs of our world of
homes, and the fleeing shadows of our
flecked May sky will make up a pic
ture that will suffer only for the lack
chow long shall the lack last? of a
ST. James or a Regents park" That
lack has been more than supplied since.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Reports are coming from South
America that a war is imminent be-
tween Chill and Peru. There's nothing
unusual in this. When the South
Americans of one nation are not re-
voting and fighting with each other
they necessarily have to pick a quar-
rel with those of some neighboring
nation. The spirit of war seems to be
innate with them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
THE Better WAY.

Some years ago a mule belonging to
Douglas county farmer broke out OF
the barn and wandered onto the prem
ises of the neighbor owning the adj
for his mule he was told that the law
allowed them so cents for taking it
up, which he paid. On the way home
with his mule the farmer noticed two
cows belonging to his neighbor he had
just visited, in his corn field. Leaving
and said: 1.-TWO of your cows are in
my corn, and if you don't get them
out they are liable to eat enough of
the green corn to make them SICK
The neighbor was interested at once,
apologized and offered to pay the
farmer for any damage the cows had
done, but he refused to make any
charge and the cows were quickly
taken home.
That was several years ago. but
from that day to this those two men
have lived beside each other in
neighborly manner and there has been
no trouble between them.
How much better this way of set
Ting a difficulty is over the old "eye
for an eye'' rule Had the farmer tied
would have been justified, but it is
probable ahat the. row would have
continued till this day. ''Heaping
Goals of fire upon his head was more
than the neighbor could stand and
paved the way for friendship.
Every business man, every profess
sional man and every politician has ex-
periences of this kind again and
again. If he ties up the cows and tries
to get even, he is doing himself an
turns good for evil he grows stronger
in his community and adds to his
friends, his finances and his influence
at the same tfme.-ALawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

owners were compelled to provide
their buildings with the fire escapes
now demanded by statute with the
chance that they would have to re-
equip their buildings later on with
such different apparatus as the pres
ent legislature might deem to be ad-
xyiSa bIo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

1t was not the abig stick" but rather
a "velvet hand that President Roose-
welt laid on the shoulder of California
in protesting against the proposed
anti-Japanese legislation by that state.
And the result shows just what can be
accomplished by going about things
in the right way. A 'big stick has
its place. but the place IS on a shelf
or In a closet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Something of a record has been
made by the legislature in the disposal
of the reapportionment bill General
1y a measure of this sort demands a
great amount of time for legislative
consideration. Perhaps the speedy
disposition of this years bill on the
subject may be attributed to the gen
eraI recognition that was given of its
being a fair and equitable measure
The same cannot be said for some OF
the reapportionments of the past.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Kansas City newspapers continue to
insist that a new union depot is needed
in that town. No one who has ever
been compelled to travel to or through
the place has any doubt of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Talk about public Office being a pri-
vate snap evidently has no place in
regard to the employees of the state
senate. They are to report for work
in the future at $3.50 o'clock each
morning and remain on duty until 6
O'Clock in the evening. There may be
consolation in the fact that things
were not always like this. but it is not
very soothing to many of the present
legislative employees who have evident
ly formed the idea that their only
duties are to draw their breath and
nay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

A picture of the mother of the first
white babe that was born in Topeka
has been presented to the state histor-
zeal society. This opens up a great
field for argument and research.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Oregon's legislators have shown
themselves to be of the fearless sort
but they'll undoubtedly find that dis
erection is the better part of valor If
they insist on pressing to a conclusion
a measure which seeks to regulate the
height of the heels of women's shoes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

The bill presented to the legislature
by Representative Edwards of Green
wood to compel all telephone COM
panies to make connections with each
other sounds good but there is grave
question as to the constitutionality of
Etrnh a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

The Nebraska legislators are evil
IDENTIFY trying to go the Kansans one
better in the crusade against lobbyists.
A solon of Mr.. Bryan's state has offer
ed a resolution which seeks to compel
all registered lobbyists to wear badges
indicating their calling. Why not uni
forms, also? For their own protec-
ton, too, lobbyists ought to be per-
mitted to carry weapons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

This is particularly sad if true.
Harold Gorts. an Englishman, deliver
ed a lecture in New York not long ago
on the Course Of Education and
among other things he said: "Educa-
ton has rid the world of genius and
made US all on one level, mediocrity.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Mr.. Castro is out with a new inter-
view in which he declares that what
he desires most is peace in retirement.
This may be accepted as a withdrawal
of his announcement that he was go
ing to return to Venezuela. He would
assuredly have anything but peace
harIr fhara
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

There is sound sense to the sugges-
ton OF Sam Radges that the members
of the legislature get busy and enact
right away such laws as they intend
to regarding the equipping Of tall
buildings with fire escapes. 1t would
be a burdensome expense If property
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Cuba's new Fourth OF July will be
January %. Her first one was on
May 90. And she'll never have a
chance to change the date again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Evidently Sheriff wilkerson and the
railroad detectives who are looking for
a carload of hogs are of the belief that
''pigs is pigs except when they are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

That resolution adopted at the an
nual convention of the United Mine
Workers of America for the public
ownership Of all public utilities is just
q trif1e utopian
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
Finds Treasure on Beach.

Silver dollars of the n1intage of 1900 are
being washed ashore on the beach near
PASSPORT, L. l., and scores of men and
women are out raking and sitting the
sand in the hope of sharing in the pros
perity which has come so unexpectedly
to PASSPORT. The popular supposition
is that about a century ago a treas
ure ship went ashore on the coast near
here and became a total loss. The fact
that the old silver dollars are coming
ashore 100 years after is construed to
mean that the chests containing the
coins were in the hold and that the
storms of the last year have broken up
the remnants of the hull and also the
treasure chests and freed the silver. 1t
is well known that silver dollars at that
time were made mainly for export
the first coin washed ashore was found
by Clearance Jayne. a ifesaVer stationed
at the Moriches station. He was patrol7
ling the beach when he saw it lying half
buried in the sand. On one side of the
coin is the figure of a woman and on the
other an eagle surrounded by thirteen
stars one for each of the thirteen origi-
nal states. Jayne told his comrades
about his find and they began searching
the beach. The news spread to neighbour
ing villages and soon there was a rush
for the ocean. front. Those who have
found the coins are not parting with
them, because they have been informed
they are valuable and will command high
prices from coin collectors.-New York
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
FTTLL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRFSS

The State Journal IS a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganiZstion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news Is received in The state Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

es a chob- id ISIS fair to middling
Es Onionated Stats Senator, he can
did lods uf tings vot vas oudt uf der
ka-vestion es editer uf der Salina
tumble. A larcher axe comes
glatly to hiss hand, und he knows
how to use id. Axing iss his spec
ial-ti-ty. Vile he ISIS nod axing fer a
chob, he ISIS axing fer somevon elses
chob. Els dere ISIS numerous chobs in
und aboudt Washington vot need
prooning, Misder Bristow-now
hating a chob uf hiss owns in a
position to proon dem to der kveens
abetite. He iss prooner from
Proonsburg, Proon county.
During der negst sigs years., Looie,
number uf national jobberss will
gedt in der knock.
Hoping dis will find you der same,
Looie, 1 remaineseffer. HANS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Offer in Enklandt, Aundt Carrie
Nation vas bumped init eggss. She
hat besser came beck here we're eggs
is too eggspensif to waste dot way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Some cuss hat stolen ex-Gufferner
Bailey's watch. Vich calls to mind a
fragmendt uf political history und
skulduggery: Dis iss nod der
feirsd time Gufferner Bailey vas
robbed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Der Kaiser Vilium uf Choimeny ISIS
hfdy years. o1dt, but he hat peen
ge-speakfng fer Offer sigsty years..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
KANSAS COMMENT
PROGRESS OF SUFFRAGE.

In view Of the renewed agitation for
woman suffrage 1t is rather surpris-
ing ing mat the campaign for full suffrage
TOT woman has not been pressed with
greater Vlgor in Kansas. There is
nearly always a committee of suf-
Iragists before every session of the
they have pressed their claims indif-
IeEently. So far, there has been no
puDAc movement of the suffragists in
connection with the present legislature
OUT douptIeSS the state organization
over.
So far, only four American states
nave given full suffrage to women
Wyoming was the pioneer in the move
ment' the nrst territorial legislature,
more imam forty years ago-having en-
acted the equal suffrage law. However,
number OF states give women partial
Suffrage. Eighteen states have school
suffrage for women In our own state
we nave educational and municipal
Suffrage. Montana and Iowa permit
women TO vote on municipal bond is
sues Louisiana permits women tax
payers to vote on all questions submit
TED TO the taxpayers. New York allows
women taxpayers to vote on village
taxation.
1t is a curious fact that some of the
countries of the old world have gone
much farther than we have with the
suffrage movement. Finland, Iceland
ana the Isle of Man give women full
suffrage. as do Australia and New Zea-
land. In Cape Colony, Canada and
parts of British India, women vote I'M
der various conditions for school and
municipal officers. In Great Britain
women who possess the requisites quail
ihcattonS can vote for all officials, ex-
cept members of parliament, and it is
for the latter privilege that the recent
"suffragette' riots have been work up
there.
There is No question tho sentiment
is increasing that women should have
the ballot as matter of right, al
though there will long be a great di-
vision of opinion as to the practical
ercises of the ranchise.-Hutchinson
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Id ISIS hard to gedt a chury in der
Cooper murderings case in 10-i-see.
All der chendlemen down dere isS
nod in fafor of interfering NIT der
constitooshunal right to ge-shoot
friend ven effer i'd comes handy, er
oder spordt grows vearysome.
Uf der reconstruction uf der pri-
mary law could be lefd to der 20
candydates vich will NOD run in der
negst city election. der anser would
be plain as electric sign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Der pen may be mightier der der
sword. put Ply dis time berheps Mis-
der Hammerstein. who vas hammer
steined by a reporter recendly, thinks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Der trade mark uf der Tuber-
culosis hunterss ISIS der double-cross,
Und We rise to unkvire uf dot vas a
choke er agsidence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
Geese MIX the Cows.

Geese are milking cows in New Bruins
wick now and the owner of the cows and
the police are at a loss what to do about
it. Naturally the police desire to arrest
the geese ana have them tried for lar
ceny; But Michael Kohlheppe, the owner
Of the cows, is opposed to that He
would rather enter into negotiations with
the owner of the geese for reimbursement
for the many gallons of milk stolen by
the cow-milking geese, and obtain
stipulation that in the future the geese
will be kept out of the pasture field in
Livingston Avenue.
For ten days the cows after being
driven up from teh pasture, gave no milk.
The owner could not understand it, be-
cause the grass was good for the sea-
SON He finally decided tramps were
stealing the milk and complained to
Sergt. Clinton at the nearest police sta
ton. The sergeant sent out a gen.
eral alarm for the milk thieves. The
mystery of the disappearance of the
milk was solved today. William Kish, a
neighbor OF Koh1heppe, rushed excitedly
into the police station and exclaimed:
Don't let your men waste any more
time looking. for those milk thieves. I
have found them
.sWho are they2' the sergeant inquired,
picking up his pen and preparing to
make a blotter entry.
''The flock of geese in the field with
KohIheppe's cows Kish replied 's'I
Just watched them and saw them milk
both COWS dry, and the COWS stood stock
still and let them do it-"-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
Radiun wonders.

The University of Vienna, which has
received, through the Vienna Academy
of Sciences, an anonymous donation of
100000 kronen for the esta blishment
of 'radium institute Is rapidly be-
coming famous among physicists for
its experimental work on the wonder
full radium emanations. The rarity
and great cost of radium necessarily
restrict the number of investigators,
and Sir William Ramsay. who in his
recent experiments has gone so far to-
ward proving the suspected transmuta-
ton of radium into helium and other
elements, was recently specially hon.
ored by the Vienna Academy of Sci
ences by the loan of fraction of a
gram of radium for the purpose of en-
abIing him to continue his valuable in
vestigations. A gram of radium, it
has been calculated, has stored UP in
If energy equal to one horsepower for
fifteen day, but it parts with It's ener-
gy so slowly-it cannot be stayed or
hurried-that it takes some $4,000
wears to exhaust itself.-Dundee Ad-
VertiSeT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

der right jab to der k-snoot had efen
der pen skinned liddle-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30

Use hospitality one to another withou
grudging. I Peter iv:9.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-20
NEGRO PUNISHED FOR
 TOO MUCH TALKING

Clarence Ethridges as young white man. walked to the door of Teppich's store on Commerce Street and cracked Rufus GovaH, . negro, over the head with a baseball bat. Before the me- gro could get to his feet, Ethridge cracked him again. Knocking the negro back into the chair.
 Before any more trouble could be generated q policeman pinched both of them and took them to police head questers. The negro pleaded entire in- noeence of any wrong. or provocation for the assault ihs Police Court Friday evening. but Ethridge and Benjamin Finklestetn said the negro had been making remarks about white women who passed the place, particularly one of them. and they, finding that the young woman had no father and that her brother was sick In bed, decided to punish the negro, Ethridge assum- ing the active role.
 Judge Baber was little nonplussed as to what to do about 1t, but decided that since the. negro was well spoken of by several prominent citizens, to dismiss both parties.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-20
WORKING FOR FAIR
A,AGRICULTURAL AssocrA-
 TION NAMES SOLICITING COMmETvTEM.
Many Prominent Citfzens are Nemea to Gather ia Funds fsP Preniotssn
 of the Exhibition
 fn 1ooo. sa "

wishing to avoid the mad rush of doing everything at the last moment. the directors of the Alabama State Fair Association have already com- work. Last year the fair was crammed through with only q few weeks of and iit. Is thought that had more time been taken the affair would have been even . greater success than 1t was.s .s, ..Fasit;5s 8 a'.
 To. get thyngs going early the Exec utive Committee of the Fair Assccfa- tion met Thursday night and the fol- lowing committees were announced hy the President te solicit subscriptions for the coming fair. which will be held in Montgomery this fall:
 West side Commsrce Street, north side Montgomery and Unl0n Depot Jno. W. Tpllis, IT,, Chatham; Jack Clancy, Samuel J. cassels. Leon B. {. Kohp. James F. Hickey. Fred Ri-
 East Side Commerce.. north side Court gouare, Including First National Bank Building, west side-of North Court and western Railway ofiices-Frank ID. !. Rohn. chairfnan; ". A. Davis. Hart well Douglass, ". s. Webber, Geo. W. Jones, Albert Abraham. i4
 South side Montgomery. including Bell Building: west side Court Street
 
 chairman: Duncan May. Geo. B. Wragg. O. O. Nelson. l.. Isasslter, Alex Rice.
 East side Court Street, south side Dexter, McDonough. Washington, fn- cluding County Court House and Govf ernment Building-A. c. Forbes. chairman; Horace Hood. ST., r. .P. Glass. Mayer Gerson,. Mfr. c. T. Key. Ed Creath. j.
 North side Dextsri McDonough. North Court. Madison-E Meertief. chairman; q. Kirk Jackson, Hardwick Ruths John Yung. wm. Ketzkys A T. Kaufman. Special committee. to solicit from railroads and other large ecrpcr2ticns --Naham J. GrieI, chairnan; Jas. H.. Cook. R. .sJ. Chambers, Ray Rushton, Dave Fleming. Geo. W. Jones, W. NJ. Teague. Jr.
 Special committee to solicit from of- ncisls at Capitoi--M. c. Scott. chair man; J M. Kennedy, c. G. Abercrom- bic, O. O. Zirixle.