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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

60 on" commanded Carter. more
soberly. All kinds of dreadfslJ POSSIBLE
tiles doomed up before him.
You'll never love me when you
KNOW" she continued, with visible eff
fort Tin not model at a1l-Tm
Silly Thompson's cousin,~ she rushed
on, and when you came In and
thought was professional wouldn't
let. Billy tell you, and thought it
would be such good joke, because
Billy had told me how you never cared
Tor girls or-anything, and
You there. jim? ?" interrupted a IA
miliar voice from the hall. The girl
fled to the model stand and took her
pose; Carter dabbed lazily and with
perfect composure at his canvas.
Billy strolled in, an amused look in
his eyes. Mice model" he remarked
can engage you for next week, my
pretty maid?"
+ Carter turned about lazily and re-
garded his friend.
I'm afraid not, Billy" he drawIed,
You see, your cousin has a perman-
emit engagement with me."-(Copy-
right. 1903, by Associated Literary
Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lFrom the Chicago News.l
If you would f1atter a woman keep
quiet and listen.
It's difficult to please yourself and
others at the same time.
Even a woman will sit up and take
notice when money talks.
Some men are. honest because they
are too poor to be otherwise.
AS a boy grows older his opinion of
his fathers wisdom grows less.
But for loves blindness no man
would ever admit that women were
angels.
1t frequently happens that a man
doesn't appreciate Justice when he gets
it.
Mind your own business--unless sou
are getting paid Tor Winding other peo-
pies.
It is foolish for man to boast of be-
ing boss in his own house when his
wife is present.
Occasionally a man innag ines he has
the right to cut an acquaintance be-
cause he has card in the tonsor:ai
artists union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
SAVING UP.


too,
cannot buy another hat. the old will
have to do,
cannot eat the thickest steaks,
But L must dine on flannel cakes
And must forego
The summer show.
IL say by way of explanation,
m saving up Tor my vacation.
Here enter Crouch and Never Treat
ana starve-selfs when want to eat;
no flowers for Rosie, Jen or Maud,
such thing cannot now afford;
A nickel now,
swear, somehow
Looks bigger than my last weeks pay
I'm saving UP to go away
Last year vowed that would raise
A fund for summer HOLIDAYS:
When winter winds were cold and bleak
III put a bit away each week:
But time flew by
And here am
With empty purse and grief filled cup;
Scrimping myself, but saving up.
Perhaps, by August 1, I may
POSSESS enough to go away;
And then in some lakeside resort
I'll blow myself and be g sport.
I'll cut dash
And spend my cash.
For after all this life my friend
Is just case OF save and spend.
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Gil,

From the Atchison Globe.1
At a wedding, the men look so
cross, and the women so happy.
When children have to wait at din
ner, they will hate the guests.
Some men are double spendthrifts;
they waste both time and money.
Who was 1t that said that of lies
there were three kinds, Lies, id
lies, and statistics?"
When a man abuses himself to his
friends, it is embarrassing If they re-
ceive it with silence.
Next to the jug jokes, the most
tiresome jokes are those heard by the
man who has lately shaved off his
moustache.
entitled. "a National Disgrace" we
read the article to see which one is
referred to.
A long time ago, a little good poet
ry was written. Ever since, people
have been bothered nearly to death
with silly limitations.
They say of an Atchison man that
he is SO irnpolite that he breaks away
before a STORY is half completed. We
admire his nerve.
Sometimes woman who is
wronged Furnishes the man who has
wronged her to such an extent that he
becomes the injured party.
81 love my wife," said a husband
recently. but she is always wanting
to do things I don't want her to do.
She cheerfuliy gives in, but after
wards she acts like martyr, and that
hurts
Most women read every recipe in a
newspaper, and, if any one will listen,
delight in reading them out loud. A
hundred times a week a woman says,
under such circumstances, ct am go
ing fo fry that next time / bake" But
she never does; she goes off on a
trail after a new basque.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
KANSAS CROPS.

After the direful and pessimistic
predictions of the crop killers the
report of r. d. Coburn, secretary of
the Kansas department of agricul-
ture, on the exact condition of the
growing crops of the state comes like
unto message from the tabled Hes
perides. that mythical garden of the
ancients where golden apples were
supposed to grow.
From this communication of Mr..
Coburn, the conclusions in which are
founded on facts and not on fanclful
flights of the imagination, it is evident
that all of the large grain and grass
crops of Kansas are going to do their
full duty during the season of 1909,
and some of them will do little
more. Even the wheat shows a sur
prisingly excellent condition. "Wise
men" were going about not so long
ago shouting that Kansas would be
lucky if she raised 60,000.000 bushels
of wheat this year. Mr.. Coburn finds
the present condition of Kansas wheat
to be 1878, which is not up to the fig
ures of the crop of last year for the
same period. But it compares more
than favorably with this crops con-
ditfon at a corresponding time in 9TH
er years. And while Mr.. Coburn
makes no estimate of about what the
wheat yield will be. 1t is safe to say
that barring unforeseen and untoward
events in the immediate future, it
will measure up to at least 100000
bushels. This will be really an enor-
nous yield for this year as the wheat
acreage is considerably smaller than
it has been for the past few years
back, and the early climatic condi-
lions surrounding this crop were any
thing but desirable.
AS to corn, the Kansas crop of 1909
promises to be a record breaker. The
weather has been little wet in some
of the corn sections of the state dur
ing the beginning of the corn-grow-
ing season. but as Mr.. Coburn points
out this sort OF weather is not apt to
be harmful to a corn crop with the
! almost certain assurance of plenty of
good hot, sunshiny weather coming
along Immediately. The acreage de-
voted by the Kansas farmers to corn
this year is much larger than it has
been for the past few years. Similar
conditions prevail in the field of oats
and grasses. although quite a portion
of the first cutting of alfalfa was
more or less damaged by rains.
This report of Mr.. Coburn fur
nishes reassuring news that prosper
ity is to continue in Kansas. The crops
to be harvested will generally bring
in higher returns per bushel and bale
| this year than they have in the past
few years because of the high prices
that are prevailing for all kinds of
grain and hay in all of the markets
of the world, and which will prob
ably continue to prevail at or about
| their present remunerative figures.
This means another rolling of stores
of gold into the Golfers of the Kansas
farmers, who, in turn will distribute
it around with discerning and lavish
| hands among the merchants of the
towns and the cities. And so. felicia
lions should be exchanged all around
by the people of the great, the glor-
ious, the golden Sunf1ower state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The difficulties of life are what
make it worth the living.
\ y
1t costs some girls quite a tidy sum
to maintain their good looks
= X
A family without some sort of an
undesirable skeleton in its closet is a
rarity.
=
Nothing is maltreated quite so
badly by almost everyone as the Eng
lish language.
\
To try to do others as they try to
DO you seems to be the modern
theory most persons are working
along.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Pres

IFTOm the New Ork PresS-
Some men go to the dogs gradually,
some get there Immediately by going
into politics.
The two persons to whom a wo-
mans voice can be sweetest are
small baby she loves and a large wo-
man she hates.
1t is SO next to impossible to teach
a boy to earn his own living that it's
hardly ever worth while to try if you
can support him.
There's hardly anything SO good for
a mans standing in a community as
to get lot of some other mans
money away from him.
All you would have to do to make
a woman interested in running a sew
ing machine would be to give it a
high-sounding name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

To Mark Table Linen-Leave the baby
and some jam alone at the table for five
Ininutes.-Judge.
Ethel-Mother, Miss Bruce told us such
2 funny thing about the cuckoo today.
tMysteriously). 1t doesn't lay its own
eggs.-Punch.
Mr.. Highmore-Going to take a run over
to Europe, are you? Cui bono? Mr.. Pneu-
ritch--No, think not. Mostly London and
Paris.-chicago Tribune.
ride tRe apy f IN ahe
rule to stop when the bicycle stops"
ON going louisville Courier-Jeurnal.
Well said Farmer Corntossel. i've
to a aoS fasr s and string
feed all your summer boarders out Of that
little garden. do your" inquired the neigh
canned goods. as usual. That vegetable
garden Is just decoy. "-Washingto
The awkwardsst thing I ever saw"
1sa ling gun. ..Evidsntiy," fejoined
handling a by."-Chicago News.
1T is said . that the oceans are slowly
iishman. sibut Germany is likely to get her
fleet of Dreadnoughts completed long be-
lore the seas are empty chicago Rec
Teacher-Bessie, name one bird that is
er pw what sort se Of bra is fhat?
Little Bessie-Our canary. The cat extinct
ed acknowledgements
Hostess with asperity)-And pray what
makes you think this a catfish. Mr.. Jones?
Boarder-Well, we've eaten the confound-
seem to have finished with it yet.-The
Sketch.
That's because the managers won't put
in the usual improvements Why don't
Ham Han cts and enough opheiias to mai make cup up
nal wv -'-'''' ''''
Jil1-Sure. why. he borrowed S. from
me a month ago and hasn't paid it yet
today for SO; he asked me today.s@
Yonkers Statesman.
Tommy-Met the new .n11rister on my
way home from Sunday school yesterday.
and he asked me il I played marbles on
Sunday. MotherE-Well. what did you sayf
Sketch.
Tom-Just saw Miss welloph on the
street and lifted my hat. Dick.And did
she respond? Tom-Yes. She lifted her
noSe.-BOSton Transcript
Dolly-My dear. I have refused offers
from eight men during the last two
months. Polly-Is that SO? What were
they selling ?-Cleveland Leader.
my operation for appendicitis ought to
get me considerable social recognition.
Don't YOU think sop THAT depends. How
much did it cost you and who carvedT'-
Kansas City Journal
Knicker-If wishes were horses Book
er-What would be the use IL you couldn't
bet?-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
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 week or thirty cents a month
(by mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State Journal will be to you like
a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

that frequent Africa. Three more
CRATES. those unusual beasts of the
animal kingdom which are fast reach
ing the point where they will be ex-
tinct, have been added to the bag.
This makes five or six CRATES which
have fallen before these mighty nim-
rods. Now what on earth does the
Smithsonian institution need of a half
dozen stuffed giraffes2 Two would seem
to I'LL the bill nicely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

DR.. Justin Steer, Of st. Louis a we'll
known lung specialist. ended his life
recently because he feared he had an
incurable disease. Physicians who con-
Quoted a post-mortem examination of
DR.. Steers body announce that the dis
ease he suffered from existed merely
1n his imagination. There are altogeth-
er too many people who have the idea
that they are sufferers from disease
when they are not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

1t appears that all is not plain sail
Ing for balloons and other airships af-
ter they have demonstrated their abili-
ties to remain in the air. Dense clouds,
particularly those charged with cleo
tricity. have to be lodged And so there
are possible distractions in the way Of
sky travel just as there are In ali other
kinds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

The Civic University club Of this city
has passed resolutions strongly COM
u1ending the attitude of Senator Bris-
tow and his colleagues, Senators LaFol-
lette, Cunrnins, Beveridge. Borah, Gore
and Nelson. for their fight for an ade-
quate revision of the tariff downward.
This is IN line with the sentiment held
for these distinguished senators by the
whole people Of the nation, with the
ezoaotion, of course. OF that little gall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Visiting Kansas merchants may think
that their money Is as good as any
money in the world. and it probably is
under most circumstances. But it will
be spurned as though 1t were counter
felt II they endeavor to make use Of
any of it while they are in Topeka
during the next few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

axy known as the Aldrich crowd. But
they won't count for much in the
future, regardless of the power that
they hold just now. During the next
few years there is bound to be a much
needed washing of senatorial linen, and
the people will take delight in doing
the scrubblnp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
From the first report which has come

From the first report which has come
along from the Roosevelt hunting party
for some time it is learned that all of
its members are in good health and
that the gun toters in the party Col.
Roosevelt and his son. Kermit, are con-
tinuing their good" work in making
it unhealthy for all kinds of animals
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Eastern newspapers will please no.
tice that tho hail which fell recently
with such force and in such size that
It killed a large flock OF sheep did not
fall in Kansas. This occurrence hap
pened as far away as Old Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

President Taft is going to render a
decision in the controversy between
federal authorities and distillers as to
what is whisky One excellent an
swer to this question is that whisky is
the grandest sort OF a thing to leave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Gould always conducted herself in a
refined and dignified manner. They
never saw her staggering around under
the influence of liquor as her former
servants have testified. All of which
goes to emphasize tie well known fact
that different persons see the same
things in different ways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Probably the two most popular clergy
N en- in Chicago these days are the Ro-
man Catholic priest. and the Episco-
Panan rector who have announced that
they can see nothing Objectionable in
baseball on Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Topeka's rejuvenated Commercial
club has Joined league of CONNER
cial bodies of western cities. If 1t
keeps up its present lick of activity
and good work, il will certainly rank
high in the leagues batting averages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

There is safety In tie prediction that
a newspaper man viii get the next
Republican nomination for member of
the house OF representatives from the
First Kansas district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

New York took the lead in sending
a reckless chauffeur. whose machine
killed a boy, to prison. Pennsylvania
has followed suit by putting in penal
servitude a motor car driver who ran
down two pedestrians. killing one of
them. In Minnesota they are sending
automobiles who kill nothing but the
speed laws to jail for varying periods
and are not giving them the alternative
of paying fines. 1t ought not to be long
now before motorists all over the coun-
try wake up to the fact that it is in
cumbent upon them to drive their ma
chimes with a proper precaution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

The heartiest of greetings are extend
ed to all of the golf players who are
III Topeka to play in the state golf
tournament which is on the card for
each day during the remainder of the
week. May they come near winning
ali of the first prizes. Still. if they
can play better golf than Topekas en-
thusiasts at the game they will gobble
up the medals and the cups, and they
viii be vigorously applauded If they do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
FRON OTHER PENS
LIMITATIONS OF EXPERT
EVTDENCE

DR.. Britton D. Evans, of the Morris
Plains Hospital for the Insane, who
acquired a large degree of eminence by
his ''brainstorm'' testimony in the
Thaw trial, has reached the very 1ogi-
cal conclusion that the frequent dis
agreement of alienists engaged in the
same trial has done much to engender
mony in the minds of the public.
In a word. the disagreements of
alienists often lead to the agreement
of Jurors to disregard expert testimony
altogether and to rely on ordinary
judgment and common sense. But this
is not the whole story. The fact which
enters most largely into the engender-
ing of doubt as to the trustworthiness
Of expert testimony is the almost in
variable rule that experts testify on
the side which subpoenas and pays
them, and seem to strain every pos
sible point when on the witness stand
to earn their money.
Doctors are expected to sometimes
disagree, and expert alienists are more
likely to hold varying views than any
other class of physicians or students.
because the nerves, the brain and the
human mind are mysteries that can
never be solved, and the treatment of
their ailments can never be reduced to
an exact science. But that the class
of witnesses under discussion sho uld
always testify on the side which gives
them q fee, or that a1ienists should
always be found ready to accept fee
and testify on the side desired, is con-
dition of affairs that can bring forth
nothing else than doubt as to the
trustworthiness OF their testimony.
Even though a jury in particular or
the public generally may not accuse
an expert witness of any degree of
dishonesty whatever, neither has the
conscience to rely on testimony which
seemingly goes wherever it is paid for.
Newark News.
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SEEING AMERICA.

Most people Eastern-born and bred
have a consuming desire to see the
great West. The National Education
al Association, which meets at Dem
yer this year, a few years ago sue
cessful1y gathered at Los Angeles.
Numerous fraternal organizations of
national scope also pick out some OF
the numerous enterprising and hospi-
table Western cities, for convention
meeting points. and the railroads do
the rest.
One widely commented result of
holding the Democratic convention at
Denver last year was the eye-opening
effect the travel thither had on
Eastern delegates. Few people who
have never been over the territory
have any idea of the amount of land
and diversity of conditions on the 9TH
er side of the Mississippi river.
And to the traveller with ordinary
powers of observation a transconti-
mental tour suchas is possible this year
at comparatively nominal cost on ac-
count of the A1asISa- Yukon-Pacific ex-
position is something more than re-
creation. 1t may be the crucial point
in getting better education and a
broader grasp of the magnitude OF
the problem of our vast country
Pittsburg Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
Spelling.

81 couldn't spell it for the police,
so I said Samuels,' was the explain
alton given by Lazarus Simonovski
when asked at the city police court
why he had given a false name. Thus
does real life plag iarize from the old
story of the man who wrote to his
doctor that he had mumps. When the
medical man arrived he found the
patient suffering from rheumatism,
and demonstrated with him on being
1nisled 81 know; but not soul in
the house could spell rheumatism, !"
was the excuse.-London Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
An Astronomical Watch.

A firm in Coventry, England, has
produced anastronomicaI watch show
ing the various functions of the heav-
emily bodies. BY its aid It is possible
to tell what consultations are visible
at any particular time and the rela-
tive positions of the sun and moon. 1t
shows the ordinary time and strikes
the hours and quarters in the same
way as a clock. The time of sun ris-
ing and SUN setting is set forth on one
of the seven dials. The advent of the
seasons is also announced, together
with the tides. There are altogether
seven dials, four being on one side and
three on the other. The watch, being
not more than y inches in diameter,
is little larger than an ordinary time
keeper. over four years have been oc-
cupied in it's production, and the value
set upon the watch is nearly $1,000
Montreal Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

''It is said that the oceans are slowly
drying up Yes" complained the Eng
lishman, but Germany is likely to get her
fleet of Dreadnoughts completed long be-
fore the seas are empty. Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

us one apt to get bruised in learning to
ride the bicycle?" mot If you make il a
What do you nlean?'' Some riders keep
ON going. louisville Courier Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

THE awkwardsst thing I ever saw"
said the cynical bachelor. was. woman
the fair widow, you never saw a man
handling a baby."-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Teacher-Bessie, name one bird that is
now extinct. Little Bessie-Dick. Teach
er-Dick? What sort of a bird is that?
Little Bessie-Our canary. The cat extinct
ed him.-Presbyterian
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Hostess with asperity)-And pray what
makes you think this catfish, Mr.. Jones?
Boarder-Well, we've eaten the confound-
ed thing eight times already, and we don't
seem to have finished with it yet.-The
Sketch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
HUlNOR OF THE Day

To Mark Table Linen-Leave the baby
and some jam alone at the table for five
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

WELL" said Farmer Corntossel I've
got to look after my tomatoes, and string
beans and things" You don't expect to
feed all your summer boarders out of that
little garden. do your" inquired the neigh
canned goods, usual. That vegetable
garden Is just a decoy."-Washingto
Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Bill-Tou say Gilps got good memory?
Jil1-Sure. why, he borrowed S. from
me month ago and hasn't paid it yet"
well, that's the reason he didn't ask you
today for SO; he asked me today
Yonkers Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

shakespeare seems to be on the SHELF"
That's because the managers won't put
in the usual improvements. Why don't
they try Hamlet for instance, with four
Hamlets and enough Ophelias to make up
a double sextette ?"-Kansas City Jour
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24

Mr.. Highmore-Going to take run over
to Europe, are you? Cut bono? Mr.. Pneu-
ritch-No. think not. Mostly London and
Paris.-Chicago Tribune.