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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
PAPER CURRENCY.

| According to the Washington Post
national bankers. as a rule, are not
at all pleased with the idea OF Mr..
lMacVeagh, the secretary of the treas
ury for changing the size of the paper
currency. The bankers claim that they
would have to reduce the size of their
notes if the government notes are
changed, and that would cause a
great deal of expense and trouble. Be
sides the expense entailed in engraving
new plates for the notes of different
denominations. much annoyance and
expense would also be caused In re-
arrangement of the boxes and money
drawers on the desks of the cashiers,
tellers and other employees of banks.
for such paraphernaIia now in use is
made to fit the bills of the present
size.
While the proposition of Mr.. Mac
veagh to reduce the size of the paper
currency is receiving adverse criticism
in more than one direction, after all, as
the Post points out. it would be only
return to the old system, for in the
earlier days of the nation the bank
bills were much smaller than at pres
ent, varying in dimensions from 5x255
inches to 6x21s inches. the smaller size
being the favorite.
AS far as the public is concerned the
size of the bills, whether they be small
eli or larger than now prevails, will not
matter so much. The present size of
the bills appear to be quite convenient,
and no one has any trouble in carrying
any and all of them around in pocket
books and pocket that it is possible
for him to get his hands on. The
difficulty with most folks lies in the
fact that bills of any and all denomi-
rations are so hard to acquire and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
WOOD WASTE DECREASING.

The waste wood heap continues to d1-
minish and pass away.
A Massachusetts, manufacturer of
brushes recently made a discovery in
Maine which supplied him with mater
ial exactly suited to his purpose. He
went to the Pine Tree state to buy
W God for the backs of hair brushes and
the handles of shaving brushes, and
CHANGED to visit the yards OF a spool
maker who was using white birch. The
SPOOL man took the white part of the
wood only, and was throwing away the
red hearts. Thousands of cords had
been burned or dumped in the lake to
be rid OF it.
The red hearts were exactly what the
brush maker wanted. and at little mors
than the expense of freight he supplied
Ills factory.
This IS typical of the trend of manu-
featuring. Waste of wood is still great,
but 1t is decreasing. What one factory
can not use. another turns to profit.
Formerly mills threw away half the
forest-tops left in the woods, sawdust
dumped in streams to pollute them and
destroy fish. slabs burned in perpetual
bonfires. and defective logs and low
grade lumber abandoned as not worth
moving.
This policy does not generally prevail
now. Some mills have put in machinery
to work up their own by-products, 9TH
ers sell their waste to manufacturers
who can use it. as in the case cited in
Maine. The properties and uses of
woods are now subjects of careful in
vestigation. and the problem of turn
ing to account the odds and ends and
the byproducts is brought more to the
front now than formerly
The United States forest service has
taken up this study in a comprehen-
sive and systematic way. Investiga-
lions of the woods Of particular states
are being conducted. usually in Coop
Grafton with the states concerned. The
Plan, when fully carried out, will in
clude every commercial wood in the
United States. not fewer than 200
species. The properties of each will be
investigated. its hardness, toughness,
elasticity. czzraRaifty. weight, fuel value,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
EvERYoNE,s our OF TOWN.

Summer-and everyone's out OF town.
Fled far from the whitening heat
That the sun all day sends suddenly down
On sWeltering alley and street.
me shutters are UP on the Avenue,
ana the houses, so grim and brown,
are empty-except for servant or two
For everyone's out Of town
Where the breakers rumble their thunder
And shower the shore with spray,
Is gatnered the chattering care-free
That has vanished from dull Broadway.
The shadowy paths of the woods are
bright
With many flashing. gown.
AND the mountains echo with laughter
For everyone's out OF town.
Some hundreds of thousands OF children
Are breathing the reeking air,
And white-faced mothers and babies grill
In each doorway and crowded square,
While grim Disease, through the long, hot
Walks sinister, up and down:
his field IS wide and his harvest white
Though everyone's out of town.
Each hour or two, on the parched East
Side,,
In beautiful coach of glass,
Some baby is taking its first grand ride
Toward the trees and the velvet grass;
Far out, where the skies are softer blue,
The wan little fellows are travelling too,
Like everyone-out of town.
James J. Montague in the Cosmopolitan
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
QUAKER ArEDrrArroNs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Eecord.1
Many husband is merely an ex-
bachelor.
Gush frequently masquerades az
enthusiasm.
Even the most virtuous black
smiths have their vices.
Ambition is generally a desire to
do something we can't.
Some people can md fault where
none has been lost.
A perfect dream Of a hat makes a
woman nate to wake I'D.
1t isn't a charitable instinct that
prompts man to give himself away
Business before pleasure doesn't
go with the man whose only pleasure
is his business.
In spite of the advice to paddIe
your own canoe most of us would
rather own motor boat
A man, may be excused for saving
Things behind his wife's back when he
Is hooking up her dress.
No, Maude. dear. just becauas q
man is a dentist It doesn't neces-
sarily follow that he Is an exnerf at
bridge. a.
Mrs. ushington-"CoIonel srn-
pose you have been in many a tioht
place during your career" Colonel
Bluffem--.'Yes / lived IN one Of those
philadelphia nats for three month";"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

why Is a woman with big feet SO
sensitive about them?
n -
Too many persons talk great deal
without saying anything.
= y y
There are all sorts and conditions
of men on earth and few other
kinds of women.
If love is a disease, as some scien-
lists say, it's about the only one worth
being afflicted with.
y
Lots of people are so weakened
that they won't go ahead even when
they know they're in the right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

tFrom the Chicago News
Some men can't make good even
with free raw material.
Never judge a mans kicking ability
by the size of his feet.
A bad imitation of wickedness il
better than the real thing.
After a promoter gets his hand in
he becomes a financier.
The things you are going to do add
nothing to your bank balance.
Give a woman plenty OF rope and
she will hang-her washing on it.
Go ahead and do the best you can
and don't worry about the con-
sequences.
Among the main things in a city
are those connected with the water
works.
A woman knows that her new
gown isn't a perfect ut when another
woman tells her it is.
Fewer people would have axes to
grind II they had to furnish the mo-
tive power to revolve the grin dstone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate OF ten
cents q week or thirty cents a month
g(by mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the state journal VIII be TO you Hike
q daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions. Co save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.1
Before a man asks girl to marry
him she asks him to ask her.
What makes q man interesting to a
woman is she just pretends he is.
The deeper a man is in debt the still
deeper he would go If anybody would
let him.
A man seems to think home is a
place to go and get even for all the
disagreeabie things that happened
somewhere else
There are precious few of us who
wouldn't rather do little thing and
be praised for it than big thing and
not be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

This is something of 1. vindication
for the men and it is opportune for
they don't get many. Census bureau
statistics show that males compose 4s
per cent of the total church member
ship in the United States. There will
be some, however, who will be mean
enough to arise and remark that a
goodly proportion of this percentage
do not look upon their church member
ship as involving the necessity to at
tend church services.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

size of tree, regions where grown the
common names by which 1t is known
ir different localities. and other mat
tiers of this kind. A history Of the
woods uses in the past will be given.
and an account of present uses; to-
gether, with suggestions for a wider
range of usefulness IN the future by
pointing out in what capacities 1t will
serve best and be most valuable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

that planet are filled with beer. Some
allowances will have to be made for
this statement, though, because 1t was
expressed at a banquet But it prob
ably is as nearly correct as many
other representations concerning
things ~.bout Mars and the other
planets which are q few hundred mil
lion miles AWAY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

There is nothing very strange in
ehe fact that no one seems to want
lehe responsibility for the murderous
Fioting which occurred at McKees
Rocks, Pa. the other day as an in
cident to the strike of the employees
of the Pressed Steel Car company.
1t was one of those outrageous hap
penings which does not help the rep
utafion of this country much as being
p place where civilization reigns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

Navy experts are making a gun
which will carry shell weighing 1900
pounds. Every time this weapon of
war misses it's mark quite tidy sum
of money will be wasted. But things
like that never bother the navy ex-
Rerts, nor those of the army, either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
NO GAIN THROUGH DYING.

Annie Besant's theory Of life in the
other world is not comforting to those
citlzens OF Kansas who object to seeing
the lid fastened down too tight. She
says that the punishment of boozefghr-
ers will be consuming thirst without
an opportunity to alleviate it, Since
that condition prevails in Kansas, there
is nothing to be gained by dyfng.-F5rn-
poria Gazette. VeE -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

These aeroplanes are fast getting
into the bird class. Glenn H. Curtiss,
&he American aviator in the contests
at Rheims, recently covered little
more than six miles in eight minutes
and thirty-five seconds. That's going
come. sure enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

Nikola Tesla, the great electrician,
announces that he has developed
certain electrical appliances with
which 1t will be possible to control the
precipitation Of moisture from the
atmosphere" In other words. he
thinks he can make rain and literal
construction of his announcement
would indicate that he also thinks he
can prevent it. Concerning such pos
sibilities everybody will probably in
iBst on being ''from Missouri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

A PARTY of tourists is held to be
responsible for the insanity which has
developed in a railroad conductor.
This emphasizes the wonder that
more men in similar positions do not
go insane over the fool questions that
ARE asked them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
AHEAD Or DEATH.

When the parson pronounces the
sentence, or ceremony, it is, of course,
until death do us part" but subse-
quent developments frequently make
olHerenr arrangements. And the range
OF matters which may beat death to
the sever1ng act, is wide, as you will
observe by number of recent cases
IN the divorce court. One husband
complained that his wife locked the
front door, and kept him out all night.
another husband got his because he
stayed out with the boys without be-
ing locked out. One woman com
planned that her husband was a heart
less wretch because he made her shine
his shoes. Another woman sought
separation because her husband
wouldn't kiss her; another because her
husband wouldn't kiss her enough.
Still another sought legal separation
because she was kissed too much. An
ante-nuptia1 arrangement provided
that she should be punished for GER
tain everyday acts BY kisses. She got
so many kisses in this way that the
punishment became real. Those three
cases-the kissing ones-indicate the
difficulty of striking happy oscuJa-
tory average. A New Jersey husband
was divorced because he wouldn't talk.
A Wisconsin man left his wife because
she wouldn't stop talking. It is so
hard to tell what is wanted.-Atchison
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

Peaches are reported to be pouring
into New York city at the rate of 60
carloads a day. It's too bad that
few of them can not be diverted To-
pekaWard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

"You picked out the best hired man
we ever had, and you've picked out
the best brother-in-law could have
asked for. BY the way, don't you
owe him his pay yet at 81 per dag? ?"
-(Copyrighted. 1903, by Associated
Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

''There is some doubt about Mr..
Roosevelt's running for mayor of New
York if Mr.. Hartman finances the
campaign" says the st. Louis Post
Dispatch, "but you can never tell what
these practical men will do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

'Football on horses'' read the head
lines in the newspapers these days.
But luckily for the peace of mind of
the parents of college boys they refer
TO a novelty in circus pastimes and not
M newly developed college sport.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

The state of Washington. has made
it possible for young folks about to get
married to begin saving money right
at the beginning Of things. The cost
of marriage licenses. there has been
reduced from SO to 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

The reason for President Taft's
generally genial disposition is finally
explained. The golf balls with which he
wiles away a few hours each day, ac-
cording to The Associated Press. are
"a s.marrN', lot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

The prohibitionists have plenty of
work cut out for them when they get
the opportunity to land on Mars. Ac-
cording to some of the astronomers
who held q convention recently at
amaa Geneva. Wisconsin, the canals on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

King Alfonso of Spain will probably
lose a whole lot of admirers. He has
started in to grow a set of whiskers
of the large mutton-chop variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
XMAS CONAENE
HEAT AMI uTsTopv

L.
ILLS years August comfort see
Iast years August record. It beats an
electric fan. 90
N0Ining Is more certain to the krowl-
euge OF perspiring man than that his
Ssaee OF perspiration is the hottest the
morlu mas known. He receives COM
ParatlVe suggestions with an air of in
Salys ana nothing will turn the tide OF
MS frenzy but the certified testimonial
that he has lived through worse. he
aore; Inc human emotions never take
SOCK OF human experience. Happiness,
sIAeI discomfort and fright are con-
tln rI1y setting high water marks.
Inc west side Of Main street this
morning and the east side of Main
street TINS afternoon believed that the
a Of tate has opened the furnac.
there is some talk that corn fieIds
poWn south and west in Kansas are
burning TO crisp. And there is some
anAlous inquiry of the sky and frna-
hA EN-, as TO what we are coming to-
ne TACT Is worthy of note that we
are coming to September and frost and
harvest time by the old familiar
houte winch generations long gone
nave travelled. We are journeyiny
through the same kind of an August
ana the same kind Of August alarms
tnat the FAMILY from Adam down has
other
If the family thermometer is trio1
ana tested In long service, somewhere
along It's weather beaten frame win
pc round smudge-marks where the fin
year ana the year before, in pa1pitating
demand TO know whether there ever
was anything like this before-OttawaI
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

Brave man: Colonel Roosevelt is
hunting in Africa nowadays without
ANY companions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

Waiter Wellman has almost a
much hard luck as he has nerve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

once when Lionel Brough gave his hu-
morous entertainment at Northern luna
tic asylum he spent the hour he had TO
wait for his train in playing one Of the
inmates, a harmless old gentleman. a
game of billiards. Mr.. Brough offered the
patient 40 in 100 and was beaten easily.
Eff you go about giving odds like that"
said the patient, they'll put you In here
with me. "-London Opinion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
FRON OTHER PENS
JAPAN AND CHINA.

Japan completes it's control of the
southern half of Manchuria by pushing
through the widening of the Antung-
Mukden railroad, in spite of China's
protest. The letter Of the treaty is
with China. Power and the needs of
the region are with Japan. This three
foot railway from Antung, at the mouth
OF the Yalu, to Mukden. was built by
the Japanese military engineers for the
needs of the war. 1t worked we'll in
war, but 1t was useless for commerce.
1t crosses an empty tract of mountain
GUS land, with little population and
great possible resources. BY treaty Jap
an can operate and maintain"
Neither is commercially possible unless
the line is widened to a standard gauge
to connect at Muk6en with the Russian
lines to Siberia and st. Petersburg and
ct Antung with the trunk line from
Seoul, Korea, to Dalny or Port Arthur.
The railroad is needed. If the Manchu
administration at Pekin were equal to
the needs of the day it would be by
this time in q position to gain from
Japan some concession in return for
the widening of this line. But the new
regime at Pekin, since the reform
party was ousted, is worthless and equal
to no policy by the old Chinese obstruc-
CONFERENCE.-The Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
HUAOR or TIE D<Y

III HU4OR or THE Day
secret told You not to ten her. He-rhe
mean thingl told her not to tell you
t toId 1 ns5 sSe n told me-. SO don't ten her
told you.-Boston Herald.
Tambo-can yo' all tell me de din'rence
B Bones iss Shore can. Mlstah Tahabo. An
f s1nf nS SGns bic SR &c New Nsws '
INF. enR Meii at It's ike this: works IN a
domino factory and RnsI on saf to SSPri
London Opinion.
.swhy do so many women rest their
20 tnif fb, Dh .sTo hold their mouths Shut
so that they won't disturb themselves."-
Cleveland Leader.
HoweIl-You can't be sure what you're
Can. Howeil-How's that7 Poweil-order
hash, ana you'll get everytning.-Spokan
Chronicle.
Things are vastly. different now than
they used to be-" said the ss senator S' ss snii
we ha rNs 70 pig s1eE be Free Press
.sYou expressed-yourseK with great feel
ing ire your recent speech SAD tae s sS
m mir Sohs1loue rnc,,v ssYoss see 1 admit
have time to compile any deffnite infor-
nation on the. subject we were DISCUSSING;
so was simply obliged TO get emotional
Washington Star.
"F'ather." said little Rollo, what is
reformer?" "In numerous cases. my SON.
a reformer Is a man who considers him
self peculiarly qualified to hold office be
cause of his professional inexpertence. -
washington Star.
do they Irs Snd eGn sneta
and the like. we want posterity to know
not include one OF the current hats7''-
Kansas City Journal.
There's a yellow touring car at the
door. miss. Say that attn I'm not at aom me-.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
once when Lionel Brough gave his hu-
morous entertainment at a. Northern luna
tic asylum he spent the hour ne had 20
wait for his train in playing one OF the
game of billiards. Mr.. Brough offered the
patient 40 in 100, and was beaten easily;
said the the patient they'll put put" you in here
with me. London Opinion.
No Dispute.-"John D. Rockefeller says
the best thing he ever did Was TO 19lgg ,s
learned, It Hwas."-Philadeiphia Ledger.
AS in Trade-New Assistant-How do
last syllable is si1ent.-cleveland Leader.
Well suppliedxz.I find It hard to kin
have my music, you know. How do you
eS tSs other oh r do Very addition %s Fo y
music. 7 have my Sweeping; ,,n my dgsti i,
vile Courier-Journat
First Chauffeur-Do you find out who
you have run over? SECOND Chaunesy 1---
York Sun.
your new butler seems 1 rather sgk-
detective. think he does very we'll
Church-In the future the man with. the
airships will take nobody's dust. Gotham
an a C your IL find outiHiYsonfsrs Statesman
You don't SEEN to give gyias S SgsSit
oorrect f;1' that's aii"@washington star.
''You seem to have a. great deal Of faith
In doctors" said a friend of the sick
Would be h foolish to let e a sood customer n
like me die-"-Boston Home Journal.
rellar?" asked the prospective tenant.
Yes" answered the agent, proudly. I'VE
really ought to call It 2 .natatoriun and
charge extra rent for it."-Harper's Ba-
Ear,
Customer-Hey, waiterI waiter-Yes.
he orchestra to play something sad and
ow while 1 dine: 1 went to see Il Il
;teak-Chicaso Daily News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

There's a yellow touring car at the
door, miss Say that I'm not at home"
about calls say that I'll be right down.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
Robin,s Nest ON Wheels.

A correspondent sends an account of
a robin building in a child's motor car.
The toy car stood in the porch of a
house at Purley, and while there it
was noticed that there was a collection
of leaves in the hood, but 1t was not
till the motor car was taken to the
other end Of the garden and put away
in the summer house that the robin
completed its next undisturbed, for the
car was lot used. the children being
away from home. On their return the
motor car was taken out and the boys
were racing around the lawn, one
pedaling the machine while the other
rushed behind, when n. to their aston
a robin few out from the
hood. On looking in a nest containing
six eggs vas discovered. which in their
excitement the boys pulled out; but
happily the nest was replaced and the
car put back in the summer house, and
although two eggs were taken the
robin did not forsake It. but continued
to sit On her eggs even though the mo-
tor horn was sounded and many a visi-
tor came to SEQ her.-Country Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

No Dispute.-"John d. Rockefeller says
the best thing he ever did was to join
Sunday school" well, so far as have
learned, it was."-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25

what do they put under these corner
stones?'' s'Oh, current coins, literature
and the like. We want posterity to know
about our peculiar customs" Then why
not include one OF the current haesT-
Kansas City Journal.