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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
sHADOWING A TRUST.

When a man starts out to uncover a
vested conspiracy between government
officials and a powerful business COM
bination, he is laying up trouble for
himself. That is Illustrated in the case
of Richard Parr the man who brought
the New York customs employees and
the Sugar Trust to book. In the jan
uary Van Norden Magazine, John S.
Lopez sets forth these experiences.
After using all it's power in the de-
partment to have Parr shifted from
New Pork and Inundated, the sugar
influences went at him directly. He
was offered $4,000, for instance, to call
off the Strathyre seizure, and laughed
at it. Then friends" of his came with
better offers and advice. They told him
he was a fool mot to get his" He was
offered 100000 If he would take a trip
to Europe, and always he was inform
ed that sooner or later they would "get
him." He was placed under espionage.
Private detectives tried to keep him in
sight always, and when they failed to
discover anything against him, they
tried to manufacture it. Some of the
expedients tried are almost incredible.
He was then newly married and lived
with his wife and his mother in Brook
| Ign. The lives of the women were made
miserable by prosecutions by letter or
| telephone, by the appearance of strange
men at the windows or in the halls.
Parr was said to be living a dissolute
| life, and this was charged against him
| at Washington. He proved every
specific case to have been impossible
and at one time it was shown a man
| Potten up to look like him had forged
| his signature on hotel register. Parr
was in Washington at that time. His
desk at the customs house was broken
into and diary stolen. Foreseeing this,
| he had taken care that there was Moth
! ing important in it. Anonymous let
tiers, from women or men, invited him
to go to certain places to obtain new
evidence; on crowded railroad plat
forms he felt himself jostled unneces-
sarily, and thought they were trying 10
pick his pockets. A friendly warning
| told him he was to be thrown on the
| tracks to be killed by train. He
| caused the arrest of two men in Brook
lyn, and they confessed in court they
belonged to a private detective agency,
hired to shadow him.
| But all this did not daunt the man
| and he persisted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

IRON CHG AtCIlSOh NAlCPS.I
The world is also improving in this
respect: fewer BARRIERS call themselves
tonsorial artists.
One trouble with the man who
takes his time is that he also takes
the time of others
We wouldn't care to have the repu-
tation of saying meaner things than
any other living man.
When woman smiles at her hus-
bands Jokes it is the same kind of
forced smile you see on the stage.
A man can't half work and half
play; he must either be a hard worker
and a success, or poor worker and
failure.
my COW is becoming so poor. and
feed is so high said man the other
day, that I am half tempted to drive
her on the railroad track"
Corporations are robbed and black
mailed every day, in the most cruel
manner possible, by men who claim to
be shocked at the immortality of the
corporations.
Every time we pick up a newspaper
we see this expression, Poets are
born, not made" We are becoming
as tired of it as we are of 'All quiet
seems to know.
So far as we have been able to find
out, the women read the worthless
stories in the magazines for the sole
! purpose of saying, on concluding
them, 81 could have written a better
story than that myself
IF 1 don't marry" a girl says, in
some anxiety, I'll be an old maid.''
eff I hadn't married and been
| hampered by a husband and chill
dren.'' she says some years later. ST
could have won fame and fortune by
writing for the magazines
| The magazines are worrying be-
cause letter writing is becoming a lost
art. We are glad of it. The man or
woman who devotes a great deal of
time to writing social letters, is an
idler, and, as a rule. imposes on some
person who is industrious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record.]
Treating a creditor to drink won't
hquidate the debt. "A
Isn't it strange that when a man gu
fat his hair generally gets thin? ~
Few married men can really afford the
Christmas presents their wives give them.
The trouble with people who can only
talk on one subject is that they always
do.
Never tell girl who thinks she's pretty
that thing Is as plain as the nose on
her face.
The woman who goes through life play
ing bridge is not always prepared to cross
it when she comes to it,
The girl who marries for money may
discover that a rich lover sometimes
makes a mighty poor husband.
The marine architect was submitting
his plans of the great ocean liner to the
president of the steamship company
Here we have the race course" he said.
'.Bu1 that crowds too much the golf
links" objected the president. Whereupon
the architect was forced to admit that he
had been obliged to curtail his plans to q
nine-hole course.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

men had hearts to bestow even uIh poor
strawberry men. She trusted til fate
would find a way to help her In ne ac-
knowledgement.
acknowledgement.
that most of the way lay still befoe them
when he began to tell her of his grand
father
81. a beggar. could not ask Milicensd;
Bayliss to share my Hfe-as naa noPe Z
to do he uttered passionately
am making living, at last. and Muncen Z,
now that you, too, are thrust INTO tns
business world, shall not wait Tor peIter
fortune before asking you to be my Wns.
I can give you very poor nome. -
true. but 1t will be shelter and care Tor
you and not a life subjected to such COM
partnership as you have just left. L..
Millicent laid her free hand upon nus
cIasping fingers.
81 am glad Gladl' she cried, when
Allan lifted his face from hers Promise
me that neither wealth nor poverty SNAIL
ever separate us?' 80,
Allan remembered this urgency with
Joy and dismay when Mrs. Blossom asked
him next morning, rs the young lady
goin' to sell her plantation. Mr.. Strong, OF
will she get a tenant for It? Oh, here's
a telegram for you." she added.
What should he do? Millicent had prom
Used to marry him at once-he poor
strawberry man and she an heiress! re
spread open the telegram.
''Grandfather's true will found Con-
ordinations his lawyers had written.-
copyrighted. 1909 by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
THE STATE FAIR PROJECT.

Now comes the crucial test in the
movement for the establishment of an
annual agricultural exposition at To-
peka which will be worthy in all of its
details of being called a state fair.
Committees have been appointed by
the public-spirited citizens behind the
project to solicit the subscription of
the 100000 which will be needed for
capital to launch the enterprise prop
erly.
There has been much enthusiasm
of late in these and neighboring parts
over this proposed fair. It remains to
be seen if that enthusiasm is of the
sterling kind which will make the men
who are well able to do so go down
in their pockets and bring up bundles
of money that will purchase substan-
tial blocks of stock in the new en-
terprise. That's the only kind of en-
thusiasm which counts in the promo
ton of an exposition of this sort. Nor
is there any good reason to believe that
any other kind exists in respect to the
new proposition for holding of fair
here that will be of state proportions
and scope in more than a name.
Purchase Of stock in the projected
ldlT dSSOCldllOn Will D6 Lie OGSL pOS-
sible sort of an investment for the
prosperous business men and mer-
chants of Topeka to make, even if it
not absolutely certain that this stock
will be of the dividend bearing vari-
ETY. during each and every year of its
life. Experience has shown in other
states that large agricultural fairs.
conducted in the right way, are money
making institutions. But the returns
to the business men of a community
from such a fair are more valuable in
a variety of ways than any pro rata
dividend on the money they put into
such projects could possibly be, even
If the annual earning capacity of such
an institution were on Is or 20 per
cent basis.
A permanently established state
fair Of the requisite proportions draws
thousands Of visitors to the city where
it Is held. Hundreds of them come
and stay the whole week of a fair.
They spend their money in every ave-
nue. Of trade in the city. They adver-
tise the city, If it makes a good i'm
preston on them, to the four corners
of the nation. This in turn means a
good growth for the city, for people
the country over are always on the
alert to find live, up-to-date town
in which to set up their homes and
businesses.
It is such things as these that go
to increase the prosperity of the bust
ness men of city, and therefore the
city itself, in each and every particu-
lar. That's why money put in this
state fair project will be a good in
vestment. The fair will not be any
more successful than have those of
the past in this vicinity if the money
needed for it is not forthcoming. But
if it is. the success of the fair is as
sured and the returns to Topeka are
certain to be great.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Placed your order for an aeroplane
yet?" No; I'm waiting to find out what
the 1910 style of house mortgage Is going
to be.'-Detroit Free Press.
Owner Ito a man who has hired g. horse
and returned soon after)Have you forgot
ten something? Driver-No; but I think
the horse must have.-Fliegende Batter.
The Stranger (triumphantly)- aces.
old son. Shutting Pete (gloomily)-All
right. Take the money. But I'll be shot
If that was the hand dealt you--The By
stander.
Two ladies, previously unacquainted.
few conventional remarks the younger ex-
claimed: II cannot think what has upset
that a, tan blonde man oyer there He was
W. won't 'f look at me- ' now we P sH said
the other, "he saw me come in He's my
husband!'-Ph Inquirer.
woman's club. 4 wiz wish. said the fat one
daughter Nell of bridge" The young one
in pink smiled family. Il did break her
last night" she said.-Brooklyn Citizen
Miss Knox-There's a scandalous story
about her in this mornings Howler. Miss
YOU read IN that paper. Miss KnoxI Lean can
if I want alphabetically.
young man 1 began life on 81 a week
''And lived with your father a while.
suspect "Um-well. yes. I did.'-Bir-
mingham Age-Herald.
Miss Bronx-why do you want to marry
me? Mr.. Harlem-Because 1 love you.
Miss Bronk-Why do you love me? Mr..
Harlem-Because / want to marry you
Judge.
Jaggs-Ever read the works of Bill Nye,
first one to tell us that Henry Hudson
had almost reached Albany before he dis
covered that the river was named after
him?-Buffalo Express.
after all, it is an advantage to have
sophisticated husband In what way?"
well. it isn't necessary to waste time
hunting through his pockets at night
Chicago Record Herald.
Judge (sternIy)-Three times in month.
What do you make of this. sir? Rastus
oiogetically)-Deed 1 doan' make nuf-
fin. You fellows up here seem 70 pc oe
only ones dat get any cuniary profit out
of hunting me up.-Puck.
cold bite? 1 wuz wit de man dat dlscoy..
banquet, and den ask for de proofs
Pittsburg POST
do you know, Mary, that we are
spending every cent 1 eafn?" well,
don't see why you should complain. All
the other people in our set are spending
a good deal more than they earn What's
the use being SO penurious ?'-Chicago
Record-Herald.
SOPHISTICATED Tourist Visiting a we'll
known natural curiosity)-I suppose 1t
was the great Finn MacCOOl who put that
stone there, Mike? Mike-It was SO, bad
cess to him for LAWN it in such an on
convenient spot-six miles from the sta
ton and uphill all the way here and back!
Punch.
Friend-What was the title of your
poem? Potion Give Me Back My
DreamsI'' Friend-And what did the edi-
tor write to you? Poet-"Take 'em!'-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Quite often thorn is lodged be-
tween two roses.
X n
The lessons taught by experience
generally come high.
X x
It's a peculiar thing. but real sem
sible people are not apt to be popular
X x
Folks who can do just as they
please are limited to old bachelors and
old maids.
A woman's idea of keeping a secret
is to tell it to some one with a stern
admonition that it is not to be re-
peated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

AS to who will draw the line and
where it will be drawn in the deter
mination of what constitutes lob
scene" and immoral pictures, which
are to be prohibited from Topeka bill
boards, is a trifiing detail which has
not been fixed up as yet by the city
fathers who are wrestling with this
subject. There is a good deal of
hypocrisy about such things as this.
Some of those who shout the loudest
against bill boards that display the
charms" of a chorus always manage
to get front seats at the opera house
when such a play is produced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Talk turneth away thought.
A wise head on young shoulders
mostly thinks it is.
When you see man with q good
disposition it's only a sign he's well
fed.
The more a girl could be afraid a
man would make love to her the moro
she could wonder he didn't
woman makes up so carefullv
that even when her red hair isn't
really red she can have a temper e
II It was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.J

II IUiII tIIe O1hHCH5O 3NC"S-I
After getting his picture in the papers
many a man who started out in search
of fame lets it go at that.
Honest now, don't you think most of
your enemies would be your friends IL
they were only broad-minded like your
self?
When man of 80 takes a squint at the
past nothing impresses him more than
the worthlessness of the things he want
ed at the age of 81
After burying the Ratchet some people
borrow an ak.
Stick to your tin whistle until you have
the price sse 2 horn.
The less a woman has to say the longer
it takes her to say it.
After falling in business many a man
has made a fortune in politics.
A man would rather be embarrassed
any other way than financially.
Camping out is one way to learn to get
used to the dfscomforts of home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Champ Clark, Missouri's famous con-
gresham, is another one of those who
believes that the time is not far off
when the agricultural products of this
nation will not be sufficient to provide
for the home consumption. Back to
the farm" will soon be the national
slogan. In all likelihood considerable
impetus would be given to such a
movement If some of its ardent and i'm
portant avocates would show a dis
position to practice what they preach.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Two superfiuous words in an indict-
ment have been deemed sufficient by
the supreme court of Illinois to invali-
date the conviction and punishment of
two men charged with forgery. In
other words another aggregation of
learned judges in the land think that
correct grammatical construction is
paramount to the administration of
justice. Kansans are fortunate in the
fact that their supreme court judges
do not work out in this ridiculous
fashion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

clifford Pinchot declares that "spe-
cial interests are responsible for the
attacks which have been made of late
on the forest service of the federal
department of agriculture. That's
quite true in all likelihood. The
chances are also good that political
interests are behind the attacks
which have been and are being made
on Mr.. Ballinger and the department
of the interior
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Men weighing less than $50 pounds
are said to have been discharged from
certain railroad workshops" says the
New York World. MEN weighing
more than 100 unless unusually tall,
have been released as street car con-
ductors as too fat to thread the
thronged aisles. Men over forty find
It hard to get jobs because they are
too old. Men under twenty-five find
promotion difficult because they are
too young. Will the worlds work
presently be done by men between
twenty-five and thirty-five and of me-
dunn height and thickness? And what
viii all the others do?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

No use denying it, people are getting
drawer than they used to be in the ex-
preston of their real opinions. This
thought is suggested by the announce
ment of DR.. Joseph S. Neff, director of
the department of health and charities
of Philadelphia. He charges that some
physicians deliberately prolong the
period of illness of patients in order to
increase their incomes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Although prohibition is more extern
sive now in this country than ever
before in its history. it is noticed that
the internal revenue collected during
November on distilled spirits amount
ed to $1,232,3O9 more than similar
collections for the same month of a
year ago. What's the answer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

About the poorest excuse that has
been put forward IN some time by
suicide came from the young Ohioan
who took his own life because he was
so bashful that he had no chums or
rnnnnanionS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

In view of the fact that President
Taet is on the water-wagon his decision
that whisky is whisky will not be ac-
cepted in many quarters as being au-
thoritatiVe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
KANSAS CONNENT
.FARMERS CAN HEIp

HAIsAGftS IAN HELR-
FARMERS of this county and others
IN the state have complained bitterly
recently OF the infractions of the game
laws by constituencies hunters All
true sportsmen resent the robbing of
the streams Of the state of fish by
SEEMING ana otherwise. Numerous
deputy game wardenS have been ap-
pointed In many counties and in some
instances appointment was secured to
AVOID paying the hunters license. So,
ie IL one n cause and another, the game
laws nave not been well enforced. Now
comes Prof L. L. Dyche, the new
state game warden, promising strict
enforcement of the statutes if the
farmers Will only give him proper sup
port.
Professor Dyche's plan of operation
Is to appoint no deputy game war
oens without the recommendation of
ten of the leading people of the To-
canty IN which they are to serve. He
must also know something about the
men VINO recommend him. He will
appeal to the Anti-Horse Thief asso-
clatons, farmers oranges and all
other such organizations to assist him
IN getting good deputies and in see
Ing that they enforce and obey the
game laws of the state.
Ihere is no use trying to stock the
streams OF the state with fish, says
warden Dyche, ''if the game laws are
not to be enforced Fish must remain
IN stream at least until they are
ola enough to reproduce. We could
distribute million fish every year
with no result if promiscuous SEEMING
was allowed. 1 understand that dep
uty game wardens have been violat-
ing the law by seining and Destroy
Ins nsn lie unnecessarily. That must
stop. l will not allow a deputy war;
zen to serve twenty-four hours after
nave cause to believe that he has
violated the law he has sworn to en-
Iorce. The same is true of the laws
reiatlng to hunting tchinson
News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Methuselah's record for longevity
will be broken to smithereens If the
plans of Mrs. Catherine Cleary. Mis-
souri's oldest woman, are carried out.
She is now 80 years old and proposes
to live until Ireland is free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Surely there is not much consolation
60 the people in any particular locality
over the fact that the present cold
weather is prevalent quite generally
throughout the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

A Missouri man has won a wager
of 800 by eating 40 eggs in six min
utes. The Chicago Record-Herald
thinks that if the winner of the bet
paid for the eggs the 10 Ter has no
cause to be greatly discouraged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
PROHIBIT HTTNT1Nc

Governor Stubs thinks a license to
nunt should be $50 a year. Hunting
should be prohibited. There is no sense
IN allowing man or boy with a gun to
go about roads and farms shooting and
manning stock every now and then
Inc day of hunting in most Kansas
counties is about gone.-Hiawatha
0, poppycock. A boy should not hunt.
because some fool man has shot a cow
boy shouldn't be permitted to fish.
Tor rear he may fall in the stream. A
boy shouldn't play football, because a
man in Pennsylvania had his neck
broken in game A boy ought not to
play baseball. for fear he might lose his
self-respect and bat ball some Sun
day. A boy mustn't play billiards, be-
cause he might thus get with evil asso-
c1ates. A boy mustn't go to dances. or
nell go lowell, what's the use? A lot
of those old yawps whose veins no
longer carry bright, red blood. forget
they were ever boys, or that the future
men of this country are the boys of to-
DAY. They seem to think the boy should
De content with ping-pong, croouet
and that the only struggle in life worth
while is the contest for first place in
the sunday school class.-Concordia
Kansan. 7er
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Is It impairment to inquire what has
become of Leon Ling, the Chinaman,
who killed Elsie Sigel?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
sEvENTY-ODD..

They say I'm old; perhaps am,
But not too old to- dream and laugh,
And I've pipe and collie dog,
Some memories and an oaken staff.
They say the best of my span has gone;
That deny. for today I know
The deep, true things of life and love
would not be a boy again,
With boys unrest and a boys desire;
The long content of a later youth
Is best-and the glow of a later fire.
sit and rock with my hands at rest;
The sun is falling behind the hill;
And a reasoned faith in the things to be-
The better things-is with me still.
My house Is small and my fare is plain,
My books are few and my eyes are dim;
But the stars are hung in their wonted
place,
And the world is good to the very RIM
Century Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
To Electrify Austrian Railway.

Austrian railway officials are prepar-
ing for the application of electricity as
a motive power where grades are high,
and the use of petroleum as fuei Tor
locomotives where it is practicable. Ac-
cording to a recent report plans have
for some time past been under consid-
Grafton for the introduction Of electric
traction on the Alpine lines.
For the section of line on the Aari-
berg railway between INNSBRUCK and
Brogenz two large hydraulic powers
have been acquired In the northern
districts of the Alps many sources Of
water power are being surveyed for this
purpose, and it is probable that in no
yerv LONG time many of the lines
through and over the Alps will be oper-
ated by electricity.-Moody's Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
HUA0R or THE Day

Placed your order for an aeroplane
yet?' No; I'm waiting to find out what
the 1910 style of house mortgage Is going
to be.''-Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Miss Bronx-Why do you want to marry
me? Mr.. Harlem-Because 1 love you.
Miss Bronk-Why do you love me? Mr..
Harlem-Because I want to marry YOU
Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Miss Knox-There's a scandalous story
about her in this mornings Howler. Miss
Goodart-But you can't believe anything
you read in that paper. Miss KNOX, can
if I want to!-Pick-Me-Up.