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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe


Age is no disgrace. if it doesn't
bring bitterness with it.
How soon patience with the faults
of those we dislike cdlses to be a
virtue!
Our idea of meek, low-spirited
woman is one who will take kindly
the seedlings of her husbands kin.
Many man advertises a poor arti-
Gle of his own manufacture as ''the
old reliable" or the only genuine"
eff I finally go to the bad place."
said a man recently, lit will be be-
cause of the tasting do at grocery
stores"
We have an idea that the double
deck crowns, kept under a special
glass case in heaven. are intended for
those men who are such good hus-
bands they please the neighbors.
81 was worrying over crops this
morning" said Church White. when
it suddenly occurred to me that had
been doing the same thing forty
years, although never owned an acre
in my life"
An Atchison man says: "As a
young man, 1 was familiar with the
doctrines of orthodoxy, my father be-
ing a Methodist preacher. Lately
talked with noted Methodist preach
er, and his Hberality surprised me.
The doctrine of my father was not
the doctrine at least one Methodist
pr6acn6S To-Day. SLlll later, talked
with the head of a theological semi
nary, and his liberality also surprised
me-"
The mother of a large family fell
i'll and died, and the attending physi-
clan reported that she died of starva-
ton. It was incredible. but he prov
ed it: The woman had to get dinner
and then spend the next two hours in
waiting on the family. and getting
the children to the table. 1t was
never on record that she got all OF
them there at the same time, and
they came struggling in all the way
from potatoes to pie. BY the time
she had wiped the last face. her own
hunger had left her. and she had no
desire to eat. Chickens. the doctor
said, come running at feed time. but
children don't. A hen has a better
chance to eat than a mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago NeWs.l
Occasionally the taxidermist stuffs
himself-at meal time.
A spinters face is sure to light up
if she strikes match.
Cupid denies all connection with bar
gain-counter marriages.
How one woman does enjoy seeing
another fall in love with the wrong
man!
Don't hold your head so high that
you can't see where your feet are go
ing.
A married man enjoys attending
wedding almost as much as he does
funeral.
Some snobbish people would rather
be foolish than have sense of the COM
mon kind.
The wages of sin are promptly paid
by women, but men try to repudiate
the debt.
Some girls are easily won, and some
others struggle against It until they
lose out entirely.
About the only thing the something
for-nothing seeker gets is a lot OF cost
" experience.
to hear the running comments of a
babbling brook.
The Wall street lamb who tries to be-
come a bull or a bear usually winds up
by making a monkey of himself.
A woman ceases to wear her heart on
her sleeve about the time she begins
to hang her back hair on a hook.
The average man would like his wife
to be a practical and sensible woman
yet If she is it's ten to one he'll be
afraid Of her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
PAssENGER RATES.

Although the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway company carried
$4,000 more passengers under a
years operation of two-cent fare rates
in various states than 1t did during the
preceding year when three-cent fares
prevailed, it is able to present figures
to show that its revenue from passen-
ger traffic was less by $4,000 dur
ing the two-cent fare period.
This however, should not be con-
sidered as an argument against the
equity of two-cent fares. The point is
not as to whether or not the two-cent
rate brings in as much money in the
aggregate to the railroads as did the
three cent rate. 1t revoIves around
the question as to whether or not
two-cent rate is reasonably remunera-
tive to the railroads. Is it sufficient to
pay the expenses of conducting the
passenger service and giving the com
pany a fair profit on that service?
Just because a railroad company
takes in less money under the two
cent rate than it did under a three
cent rate. that, of itself. is no sufficient
reason for the adjustment of the
lesser rate. 1t might merely show
that the higher rate was altogether
too extortionate and one which should
not be permitted to prevail.
OF course, the railroads claim that
two-cent rate is not properly re-
smunerative for other reasons besides
the one that it does not bring them in
as much money as did the old rates.
But that has not been demonstrated
to the satisfaction of everyone, even
though there has been a decision
favorable to the railroads on this
point in the federal courts in Missouri.
The railroads are voluntarily engaged
at this season of the year in hauling
all the people they can attract to their
cars from one end of the United States
TO the other on rates that are con-
siderabIy less than two cents a mile.
They may be doing this for the pur-
poses of advertising their lines or they
may be philanthropica1ly inclined to
the extent of making it easy for the
vacation takers to travel around their
land and see the sights. But neither
Of these reasons sets very well. If the
railroads did not make money out of
their tremendous summer excursion
business at rates that are less than
two cents a mile, it is not reasonable
to believe that they would keep them
in force. Not long ago the interstate
commerce commission decided that
railroads could no longer give each
other preferential rates for hauling
each others freight. They must
charge each other the same freight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
EROM OTHER PENS

AMERICAN CAPITAL IN CANADA.
The intrinsic value of a protective
tariff is conclusively shown in a Cana
dian consular report just made public,
showing that s200,00O,000 of American
capital is invested in Canada by man
ufacturers who also have plants in this
country. These factories have been
established in Canada to retain trade
which is impossible to supply proftably
from the home factories on account of
the Canadian tariff. The best informa-
ton is there are IFS of these firms aid
the largest plant is that of the Inter-
national Harvester company, at Ham
ilton, employing 1000 men. Shoe man
ufacturers are also largely represented.
These institutions, if it were not for
the Canadian tariff, could undoubtedly
supply the trade from plants in the
United States more economically than
to erect new ones there.
These facts have no bearing upon the
justice or injustice of the particular
schedules in our pending tariff bill, but
have bearing on the value of the pro
tective principle. They demonstrate
the fallacy of Democratic platform
declarations and the shortsightednes
of Democratic leaders who are de-
nouncing other Democrats in congress
who have favored protective duties
Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.
LFrom the Philadelphia Record.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
A man and his good resolutions fire.
quently go broke together.
The numismatist isn't the only fell
low who is out for the coin.
The people who tell US not to cry
over spilled milk don't like milk.
Perhaps the most talk-about person
in the world is the weather man.
Give a blind beggar a dime and the
chances are he will go right of and get
an eye opener.
It's a good thing to know when 10
stop talking but it is better to know
when not to begin.
Sillicus-"Very few people believe in
second sight" Cynicus-'No, only
those who fall in love at first sight"
That happiness is largely a matter OF
Imagination Is exemplified by the rnaa
who pays 25 cents for a 1O-cent cigar.
NelI-"A girl can't be too careful
about choosing a chaperon." Belle
That's right: many chaperon gets
all the attention"
When a girl is in doubt as to wheth-
er she loves fellow or not that doubt
vanishes the minute another girl be-
gins to make goo-goo eyes At him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
A DfADDENING Lay.

"A NAAtgDELNlNer LAY.
On the frozen Critic Ocean somewhere
north OF Berfng Sea
There's an Eskimo a-sittin, an I wisht
that it was me,
For the wind is in the fcebergs an the
polar bears at play
Make a peaceful summer picture on the
shores o. Baffin Bay.
Oh the folks O. Baffin Bay,
On cold storage every day, =
In the shadow of the glaciers Toll and sip
whale-oil glace.
Their pantaIoons are leather an their
coats are made Of skin.
Which prevents the chilly weather that's
outside from comm in.
For, altho' skins are free in this here
happy, chilly cline,
Projections necessary in the good old
summertime.
Oh, the folks O. Peary Land.
They have lived, you understand.
the SHOWS Of many summers
and have never even famed
Ship me somewhere north of Greenland,
where the ice trusts power is dead,
And where hard drink never harms I'M
less il hits you on the head:
Where Aurora Borealis hangs her ribbons
on the moon;
Where the sunsets in September and the
cold gray dawn's in June.
Oh, the folks o. Melville Sound.
Never go away from town
To summer in the mountains till the mer-
curry comes down.
Richmond Dispach.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Excuses are unsatisfactory things
even at their best.
A man generally needs something
more than sureness he is right before
he can go ahead.
Some people are unfortunate in kav-
ing places for everything but not the
things to put In them.
n
Tramps have the advantage over
ordinary travellers these days because
they can catch a refrigerator car occa-
sionally.
When the girls parade along in their
summer furbelows each and every one
of them is mighty good looking-a. a
distance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

had the first automobile in the state
of Nebraska and he played the first
game of golf in that state outside of
Omaha. Such great honors as these
would appear to be enough for one
ordinary man. but not so with Mr..
Hayward. He would gladly pay $500
for the privilege of taking a ride on
the Wright brothers aeroplane. Isn't
it about time that Nebraska gave a
state wide reception in honor of Mr..
Hayward? Why, he pretty near
eclipses Mr.. Bryan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE.

Mr.. Bryan's suggestion to President
Taft that he urge upon congress the
| adoption of an amendment to the con-
| stitution providing for the election OF
! United States senators by direct vote
is a good one in one respect. but an
unreasonable one in another. He thinks
the time is most pertinent for the
pre- ssing of such a constitutional
amendment in view of the fact that
congress has acted favorably on the
proposal to amend the constitution so
that the federal government may levy
direct tax on incomes This must
needs be ratified by the legislatures of
three-fo of the states. Mr.. Bryan
thinks, therefore. that it would be OPP
perfume to have an amendment to the
constitution providing for the direct
election of senators by the voters sub
mitted to the state legislatures at the
same time
Such a procedure would be excellent
if it could be brought about. But the
unreasonableness of Mr.. Bryan's sug-
gestion lies il the fact that there is
not the slightest ghost of a chance that
the senatorial amendment could be
forced through congress as it is now
constituted. And MIR. Taft would only
be placing himself in something of a
hole if he should follow Mr.. Bryan's
suggestion and agitate the adoption of
such an amendment. Mr.. Taft has said
that he personally is inclined to favor
the direct election of United States
senators. What sort of a show. though,
has such an amendment to receive the
favorable consideration of the senate
while that body is under the domina-
ton of Nelson w. AIdrich of Rhode Is
land and his coterie of me toos?"
After the exhibition that Mr.. Aldrich
and his followers have given during the
consideration of the tariff bill in mis-
representing the voters of this land, it
should be apparent to every one that
one of the crying necessities of the
times is the smashing to smithereens
of this AIGrich clique. This could be
brought about in no better or surer or
quicker way than by the adoption of
constitutional amendment for the
election OF United States, senators by
the direct votes of the people, if it
were possible to adopt it.
AS Mr.. Bryan says, if Mr.. Taft could
secure rhe adoption of such an amend
rrent TO the federal constitution as a
sort of a ooroIlary to the amendment
making possible a direct income tax,
his administration MOulQ De d 1uSInOI-
able one. But Mr.. Bryan is asking
the impossible of Mr.. Taft in this re-
epect as he ought to know, if ne does
not. The time is far from being ripe
for the pressing of the senatorial
amendment in congress. And Il proba
bly, never will be until more of the
states in the Union have followed the
plan of Kansas and other states by
devising primary systems for the nom
ination of United States senatorial can
didates by the votes of the people and
so changing the complexion of senate
that it will be amenable to the desires
of the people. 1t will be a long time
before the United States senate is so
constituted that it will agree to an
amendment to the constitution for the
election of United States senators but
that day should be fastened in every
possible way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during tI1e summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate of ten
cents a week or thirty cents a month
Thy mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the state Journal win be to you like
a daily letter from homo.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
The best luck is never to trust to
it.
Sweet sixteen sours very fast with
out any beaux-
The reason girls know so much
they ought not to is their mothers
think they don't
A girl is so brave shed rather a
hammock broke down with two in it
than not to with just herself alone.
The average mans brains are
chiefly useful to some other fellow
who knows how to make use OF them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
HUAOR or THE DAY

What do you think of my graduation
essay" asked Miss Clarissa Corntossel.
you're ahead of your brother. Josh. It's
easier to understand than a college yell"
W ashington Star.
Sapleigh-Queer feIIahs, these poets.
There's one, for Instance. who speaks OF
be an aching void" Miss Biunt-aave YOU
never had a headache Mr.. Sapleigh?-
Tit-Bits.
Mrs. Waldo (of Bostou)-I have a letter
from youn uncle James, Penelope who
wants us to spend the summer on his
farm. Penelope Cdubiously)-Is there any
society IN the neighborhood? Mrs. Waldo
I've heard him speak of the Holsteins
and Guernseys. presume they are
pleasant Professionalism Register.
Mary-I wonder why swells wears an
eyeglass? Jane-Why, to block up one
they can understand at a time.-Christian
Endeavor World
your tickets were complimentary. were
they not?' We'll" replied the man who
had seen painfully amateur entertain
ment, i thought they were until saw
the show. "-Tit-Bits-
Your. hair wants cutting badly. sir
doesn't replied the man aIiOi in the Chair:
1T wants cutting nicely You cut it bad
ly last time "-Democratic Telegram.
"Algy, dear" remarked a young wife to
her husband Il wish you would taste this
milk and see if it is perfectly sweet. II it's
to dear little Fido?'-Judy.
It is unlucky to be the thirteenth guest
at a dinner table which is laid for twelve
only. The proper course is to wait for an
invitation.-Punch.
And what. may I ask. is your bust
Indeed? That must be a very interesting
occupation. Do you belong to the Love
me all the time, in rain or shine or to the
Then unto me did say school of popular
song writers 2'-Chicago Record-Herald.
Hopeful-Say, dad, what is a matrimon-
ial bureau? Dad-Cupid's mill end bar
gain counter, remnant sale, mail-order
house.-Judge.
.T see your boy has a little Ratchet"
Y eS; but fear he'll never make a pres
cherry tree eh?' no: he chops up my
favorite golf sticks. "-Washington Herald.
Sapphead-You saved me from being kill
How shall ever repay your Stouten-
Young man, don't you let trifling debts
like that worry you!-Life.
TN never speak to you again" Now
that's a. nice way for a woman to talk 70
her husband, isn't it?" ''Well, I won'tr
Never 'Well, not till pay day, any
Post.
Mrs. HOpper-Its just as much economy
for me to pay S25 for hat for you to
pay $50 for fishing trip. Mr.. Hopper
perl get something for my money
Boston Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
CONFESSION AS EVIDENCE.

A jury in Judge Scanlan's court ac-
quilted two men indicted for a burg
larry to which they had confessed while
in police custody. The men go free,
and jurymen were rebuked by the
judge and the prosecuting attorneys
complain of the character OF men sent
to the criminal courts by the jury COM
missioners.
Aside from the question of whether
there was a failure of justice in this
particular case, the acquittal serves to
point TO dangerous police practice
and to show the remedy. A confession
obtained as the result of a rigorous,
or. worse, of a brutal police quiz may
not secure conviction if the prisoner
repudiates it and alleges that it was
extorted from him by mistreattment
even though that was not the case. The
average juryman has some information
and muhc information regarding po-
lice methods, and a confession can be
robbed of value by a plea from the
prisoner that he had to make It to
get sleep or food or to escape maltreat-
ment.-ChicaRo News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

It's a good thing that Mr.. Roose-
Welt is in Africa these days. else that
story about a half hundred canary
birds singing atarecent church service
in Cincinnati in perfect unison and fol-
lowing the choirmaster's baton with
amazing precision would like be
branded as a mature fake" and then
there would be trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
Services on a Church Tower.

The Rev. J. Enraght. vicar Of Ran
worth CIorfolk), and the church choir
mounted to the top Of the church tower
and there offered prayers and sang
hymns and psalms, invoxin~- the AL
mighty's blessing upon the growing
crops.
Despite the altitude Of the tower and
a good breeze. every word was audible
to the congregation assembled in the
churchyard below and on the road
London Evening Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

rates that they charge the public. If
they continued to indulge in prefer
entail rates with each other the COM
merce commissioners iRtimated that
they would consider these rates to be
reasonable ones and would order them
put in force for the benefit of the pub
lie. Similar conclusions might be
reached in the instance of passenger
rates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
Packing With Ferns.

It has recently been discovered that
the leaves of the fern plant, which
grows almost anywhere, is an excel
lent preservative for packing articles
of food, fruit, and even meat. It is
said that on the Isle of Man fresh
herrings are packed in ferns and ar
rive on the market in as fresh a con-
dition as when they were shipped. A
number of experiments have demon
strated that potatoes packed in ferns
keep many months longer than those
packed in straw. In fact. potatoes
packed in fern leaves are as fresh in
the springtime as when they were
first dug in the fall.-Eternal Pro-
gress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

As James NJ. Nation. the state
auditor points out, there are plenty
of other needs for a special session of
the legislature besides the possible
necessity of Strengthening out the
tangle in the banking world. The
last legislature made many glaring
errors in the framing of laws which
should be corrected in order that
various of the states activities can be
conducted in proper fashion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

One of the perturbing questions of
the day in Washington is as to
whether the tariff bill in its final
form will be known as the "Aldrich
bill" or the Payne bill" If it could
only be called the latter with the
Payne spelled Pain it would be
most appropriately named.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

Reports come from Washington
that the house conferees are to make
strong fights for reductions in
various important tariff schedules as
they have been fixed up by the SEN
ate. Maybe so. But it is safe to as
sumo that they will be losing ones.
For the history of tariff legislation
during the past dozen and more years
points out that the senate generally has
its way in all tariff particulars. Still,
there's nothing like hoping for the
best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

Hereafter" says the Washington,
D. c. Herald, party conventions
should adopt for platform purposes
the motto the railroads invariably
attach to the time table ads: Sub
ject to change without notice."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

The New York authorities have
decided that Elsie Sigel was given
poison before she was strangIed. It
would be more to the point if they
would discover the whereabouts of
Leon Ling, her murderer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
An Idiot Bows Memory.

At the last meeting OF the Vienna
Psychological and Neurological Soc
iety a 10-year-old idiot boy was pre-
scented who knew the calendar from
1000 to 1000 In every detail. With
out a moments hesitation he would
tell the day of the week of any date
mentioned. also the name, day, and
the date of the movable feasts in any
year. He answered Immediately and
accurately such questions as, What
day was June IA. 1908 ?" 1.-THE name
day?" when is Ash Wednesday,
1917. How long is the carnival in
19247" when is Easter, 1892
when is Ascension day, 1882"
His answers were given without
hesitation and were invariably cor
rect. Curiously enough, his range of
memory was bounded sharply by the
years A. D. 1000 and 1000. Before
the f1rst-named year or after the last
he knew nothing of the calendar at
all.-PalI Mall Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

James J. Hill is in an optimistic
mood these days. This is because
the crop yields are going to be good
and there is no menace ahead to the
business world. But really, though,
''Uncle YIN" always ought to be in
that frame of mind. There is no rea-
son for man with a bank roll of the
size of his to be otherwise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15

If the Des Moines and Topeka
teams do not stop using up so many
runs in each game there may not be
enough of these things left for the
Western league to finish out the sea-
son with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-15
A LEGAL PROBLEM.

If those European jurists do not
tell us pretty soon how Justinian and
Blackstone would have managed with
airships our land will lapse into sum-
mer anarchy; which is to saw that
baseball will no longer be played by
rule. The balloon that spoiled the
tions. Its drag rope struck a player,
caused him to muff fly and let the
ins score an extra run. At some ex-
pense this mishap might be prevented.
say, with a wire netting over the field.
But ballast sand offers insuperable
difficulties. If a breeze is blowing
where the balloon is, but not on earth,
the balloon Will be a mile or more
away before the sand reaches center
fielder's eye. How can the aggrieved
party prove. to the umpire's satisfac-
tory to defeat came from heaven and
is, therefore. to be allowed for an act
OF Providence?