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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-30
LYNN STRIKE ENDED,
Fourth Firm Signs an Agreement With
The Packing Room EmploYes.

Lynn, Mass, July 30. The strike Of
packing room employees III Lynn ended
yesterday The fourth firm TO sign the
agreement with~the union was the Jo-
seph Cauut company, and this IS a com.
plete victory for the striking union.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-30
AneElcan League sIandlng.

Yesterdays National League Scores.
At Pittsburg, Pittshurg 4, Philadelphia
3,
AT st, Louis, Chicago 9, st. Louis 3.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
HYHAWKER JOTS

"Mr. Scott's private secretary was
in Lawrence last Friday feeling the
pulse of the public" says the Law
renee Journal and it adds. che found
good deal of fever"
well, there won't be many more
nights when you'll have to crawl out
of bed about IL o'clock" saws the
Clay Center Times, "to see if the pan
under the refrigerator was emptied
or not"
A Hutchinson man was divorced
and sent to Jail the other day all in
the brief space of 80 minutes. The
Ottawa Herald reports that an old
bachelor in the court room was mean
enough to say that the prisoner had
broken even.
Gazette, there was a row in a Wich-
tia newspaper office a couple of days
ago. and one peerless prophet hit an,
other peerless prophet on the head lad
prophet is in a hospital and may die"
The city railway in Lawrence has
Just resumed business after 16 year
vacation This incident serves as a
hook on which to hang a story, which
is not new. but which is timely.
When the old horse car line was run
ming in Lawrence. it employed two
cars. on each of which there was
miserable, half-starved driver. One
day the driver was kicking to pas
senger about the treatment which the
company gave.
I'VE don't get enough pay to live
decentIy," said the driver. 1--WE
have to work in the rain and in the
storm without any protection and we
put in from II to 16 hours a day"
well" said the passenger, sym
pathetically, why don't you strike,
and make the company do better by
you?"
"Strike?" said the forlorn driver,
sarcastica1ly, striker Say. Mister, a
h of a mob us two drivers would
make. charging up Massachusetts
avenue. now wouldn't ?"-Salina
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
LATE PASSENGER TRAINS.

Chronic lateness on the part of most
of the important through passenger
trains which traverse the railroads of
! the state is responsible for a move
ment which has been started, and
which has been taken under cogni-
| zance by the board of railroad COM
missioners, to get the railroads to run
their trains on time.
How to bring this about by the
exercise Of public authority it is diff
cult to figure out unless Kansas has a
law or an order from the railroad
board which will hold water that will
compel the railroads to run stub trains
between division points in place of the
regular trains when the latter are I'M
reasonably late. This is the practice
in oklahoma and also in Texas and it
works like a charm from the public
standpoint at least, as is testified to by
a Topeka man who happened to be in
Oklahoma City the other day. He
went to the station there to take a
homebound through train and was dis
concerted to find it posted up as being
three hours late. He was making up
his mind for long and tedious wait
when, 10 and behold, on the minute
scheduled for the departure of the
ASS UAdA tram q SluO Train puIl0u III
to take its place and he and the other
waiting passengers were carried on
their way. This was a pleasant sur
prise for him and he learned that it
was the usual occurrence in Oklahoma
where there is law making it manda-
tory for the railroads to do this when
ever regular train is more than an
hour behind it's scheduled time.
Unless some such plan as this is put
in operation in Kansas it is not easy
to see how passengers are to be re-
Heved of the veXatious delays which
are now inflicted upon them by the
railroads in the satisfaction of their
own convenience. Perhaps the rail-
roads could take a brace in this re-
spect and obvfate the necessity of such
law if they did not insist on making
one passenger train do the work of
two as well as large express business
on the side. Most Of the through pas
senger trains which pass this way are
so large that it does not take an ex-
pert railroader, to realize that they are
most unwieldly to handle. So much
express business is handled on prac-
tically all of them that it is no wonder
delays are made at each and every i'm
portant station which it is impossible
for engines to make up. A law,
though, providing for the running of
stub trains in place of the regular ones
which are unusually late ought to be a
good thing to have on hand anyhow
in case of such emergencies as might
arise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
lFrom the Atchison G1obe.I

IFrom the Atchison G1obe.]
If YOU give your own affairs the at
tention most people give to gossip, you
will get rich.
You may need two suits of clothes,
but one set of manners is better than
two, if it is good one.
'Who," the women always ask when
they hear of a woman being operated
upon, will be the next
In this office there is a seven-day
clock Time flies so fast lately that
we seem to do nothing but wind that
clock.
When a men inherits money. keep
it dark from the lawyers. and when a
woman has money, don't let the doc
tors learn about it.
Don't be anxious to be told secret.
It is nearly always something unpleas-
ant, and when it gets out you will be
accused of telling it.
How dull a STORY sounds after you
have heard it! Your actions are that
tiresome to those who have known you
a long time.
Our idea of a sensible woman is one
who doesn't consider it any sign OF
social distinction to have a. trained
nurse sitting on her front porch.
Married women are bracing up; they,
are looking more like girls than ever
before. They are getting rid of that
tired, weary, disguised look
You have probably remarked that
in this way: st like you; I don't see
why other people hate you So
REGULATE your enthusiasm, and di-
rect it with intelligence, if you want it
to amount to anything. The crank is
usually. an enthusiast. but he is also
great bore.
we do not know whether this is
good or not; an Atchison man has
been insisting several days that we
print it in this column: "Unreliability
e. a NJ
At the home of an Atchison couple,
a cat and dog were lying close to-
gether, sound asleep in the sun. THAT
cat and dog don't quarrel, said the
wife: svhy do we 20 'sTie them to-
gether," replied the husband, "and see
what will happen"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
-ExEUNT oMNEs.


And that inverted bowl we call the sky,
o solemn stars. that saw the first faint
Reveal the hidden universe to sight.
That watched when slowly shroudins
clouds dispersed,
Showing our new born earth In glory
You have have seen time turn every magic
leaf, 4 ,
For some INSCRIBED with Joy. for some
And seen each generation IN its day
Living its little Afe-how pitiful. how
You have seen empires rise and pass
You hays have seen king and chisftain play
Can you not tell us-we who follow
What happens when the curtain drops
Where wait we for our call to take the
Unknown the play. unknown our part or
Yet II we fan. no other chance re-
mains,
The lights are out. and closed the
prompter's page.
Tell us, stars that watch US from afar.
IMPLYING, unchanging though you are
Where go we when the ebbing tide OF
Recedes and bears US with it past the
Is there some star upon whose lovely
shore
We shall awake to find life held in store1
We come. we go, We know not whence
And all ife's wisdom cannot tell us more.
-Ninette M. Lowater in the New York
Sun. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

to every pension for old age or in
validism. It has been estimated that
the contribution made by employers
to the three classes of insurance
amounts to a two-per cent increase of
wages; that made by working people
to a one and a half per cent to three
per cent deduction of earnings. The
employer is responsible for the full
payment of premium, which he
takes from the amount of wages and
enters in the insurance book in the
form Of stamps. The postofdce is the
medium of payment for both
premiums and pensions-an ex-
pedient which was the occasion of
much throwing about of wit when the
'sticker acts were under debate.
Every housemaid in Germany puts a
stamp in her book every week and
her mistress puts another. and she
goes to the hospital if she is i'll. not
as a recipient of charity. but with the
same legal right to its benefits that
she had to those of the public school.
1.-THE sickness insurance is that
which one sees in the largest way of
practice In the year 1907 five mil
lion people drew it, being paid for an
Of nineteen days for each
case"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

CFrom the Philadelphia RecordJ
An exposer-The retired artists model.
Many an. artist has gone to the wall be-
fore his pictures have
The man who doesn't blow his own horn
must pay the piper.
The man who is dissatisfied with hts lot
can't always mortgage it.
Some fellows jump at conclusions till
they can see their own finish.
man never sees a woman's worst side
till she becomes his better half
Some people never have show because
they are always waiting for free passes.
A girl shouldn't have a pinched look
Just because a fellow gives her squeeze.
Wealth may not bring happiness, but
II seems to furnish a pretty good imita-
ton.
The rich girl doesn't have to fish for a
husband. She can buy one in the mar
ket.
Where ignorance is bliss is it folly to
have more money than you know what to
do with?
It is impossible for a fellow to know
himself like book without being partic-
ularly well read.
Extremes meet" quoted the Wise Guy.
"Tes, especially when you Introduce a
man with wooden leg to a fellow who Is
a blockhead," added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

To the old maids all men look alike,
mean old things that they are.
X "
The man who won't take mo for
an answer generally wins out either
in love or business.
x X q
There is no more annoying period
than that devoted to waiting for GER
tain guests to go.
The man who is bent on making an
other believe an unusual fish story
usually passes out a good cigar with it.
y X y
When farmers meet they have a
habit of inquiring all about each
others crops and stock before their
wives and families are even mentioned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

[F'rom the Chicago News.I
Laziness travels slowly and poverty soon
overtakes it,
Il a mans credit is good it is because he
seldom uses It.
One way to help people is to refrain
from giving them advice.
He who fights and runs away may draw
a pension some fine day.
Change your opinions once in a while IL
you would improve them.
You can always count upon your friends
-as long as you have, the price.
It's some satisfaction 20 the widow to
realize that she looks well in black.
No. Alonzo, the date of a woman's birth
has nothing to do with her age
The bass drum covers a multitude OF
mistakes made by the rest of the band.
A drop of ink on q wonan's white skirt
may make her think unspeakable
thoughts.
Occasionally a man enjoys making a
social call because he knows he will never
have to repeat it.
1t is one of the easiest things in the
world to convince a coward that diScro-
ton is the better part of valor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
STATE INSURANCE OF GERMANY

1.-THE accident insurance. like that
| for sickness and old age, was forced
upon the state as political meas
ure." writes Madge Jenison, in Har-
per's Magazine for October. by the
old Roman law a working man or his
family had got indemnity in Ger
many, if he were hurt or killed in the
chances of his trade. only from the
person through whose care1essness or
malice he had suffered. The injured
person had always to prove the fault;
the immediate author of the disaster,
often an overseer or fellow workman,
was the only person who could be
held, so that a man came away more
often than not with empty hands,
even if he won his suit, because of the
poverty of the responsible party. An
employer could be held only if neglect
could be laid directly to his charge,
and it was not established what was
neglect and discharge of duty in an
employer. A first law. intended to
meet the cases of railway employees,
held the employer for all neglect of
his overseers; another. over thirty
years later GS71). held him unless
he could prove that the fault had
been the workman's. the burden of
proof being thus transferred to him.
Both laws were evaded; in the
Reichstag handbook one reads of a
debate in 1879 in which a great mine
owner admitted that of 1873 ac-
cidents which had come to his notice,
only 1,251-about one-sixth-had re-
ceived redress. The chief problem
with which the young empire was
face to face in those first years of its
life was the friction between the
laboring and employing class. 1t
must have a kind of unity If it was to
live, and in this cause the govern
ment interviewed. and passed in 1888
the first of the present laws. under
which inquiry is exc1uded-indemnity
being granted irrespective of the Gull
pability or innocence of either party.
Though a man has himself dropped
upon the floor the oil upon which he
slips into a machine, his COM
pensation is assured.
''The pension is, in amount, two
thirds of wages If a man is COM
pIetely disabled. the loss of one-third
being appraised as the expenses he
would have to meet in pursuit of his
work if ab1e-bodied, and against his
chances of being worthless. Partial
accidents have partial indemnity; and
in case of death a family may receive
as much as sixty per cent of wages,
a wife until she remarries children
until they are fifteen, and all others
dependent upon his labor for main
tenance, with the reservations which
belong to measures of law. 1t is a
comment upon the temper of the Ger
man mind that in England the trades
unions oppose the passage of such
regulations, since they have the pro-
cess of suit SO perfectly that they Of
ten get an indemnity the whole of
wages, whereas in Germany the PEN
sion. though assured, is never more
than part.
1.-THE sickness and old age in
surance is borne by employer and en-
ployed together. Employers pay one
third of the premium. for sickness;
the contribution for old age and in
validity is charged half to each, the
state adding, moreover, $12.50 yearly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
TO A KATYDuD.


Somewhere in the clover.
When the twilight falls,
There's a gipsy rover
Who forever calls -
In an aggravatfng,
Nervous kind of cry,
Just reiterating:
Summer goes. Good-by!
Nonsensei Who believes you?
In the clover hid,
What is it deceives you,
Gypsy Katydid?
Bees are making honey,
Birds are making song;
You are being funny,
Or my guess is wrong.
Still you call, and still you
Warn me it is so:
Tell me, Gypsy, will you,
How you chance to know?
You're an arch alarmer
In the clover lost;
Quoth your friend, the farmer,
Six weeks more to frosti
Careful, little hinter,
In your clover shack
Watch out lest Old Winter
Happen on your track!
If by any fate he,
Catching at clue,
Finds out what Katy
Did, good-by to you'll
Frank DempSter Sherman in Success
Magazine.
"Going up to hear that lecture OH ap-
,endicities today?' Nav. I'm tired of
hese organ recitals.' '-Cornen Widow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

Something unusual in the annals of
criminal Jurisprudence is to be found
in the acquittaI by jury in France OF
a man who was charged with the muir
der of his wife. He shot her at her re-
quest that her incurable sufferings
might be ended. The jury decided that
this act was justifable. This may
establish a bad precedent for pleas on
the mart of other nurderers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

A woman is being detained by the
immigration authorities at New York
for a no better reason than that she
cannot remember her exact age. Now
if she had refused absolutely to tell
her age she would likely have been
permitted to go on her way for that is
looked upon as a woman's prerogative.
For sticklers over ridiculous technical
tiles the immigration officers at United
States ports are only rivaled by the
customs officials
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.]

From the New York Press
A wife Graves romance; a husband
comfort.
The devil keeps his telephone open
all the time for village gossip.
What a man hates is not being
wrong In an argument, but having to
admit it.
The Lord gave few women intellect
so that man could have a slight chance
against them.
woman's look of agony at we'd
ding is almost as convincing as her ex-
preston of joy at q lecture on foreign
missions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

President Taft is reported to have
cracked a joke. Isn't this referring to
the presidents powers in a rather
sighting fashion? A man of his di-
mansions ought to be able to break
completely any joke that he saw fit to
tackle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

Because Peary and Cook took so few
men with them on their famous trips
this particular field will necessarily be
limited to the hoboes who insist thai
they are entitled to handouts on al
legations that they were participators
in these memorable enterprises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

With the wheat yield placed at TO-
o11,137 bushels and the corn yield at
119.445,320 it cannot be said that the
leading Kansas crops for this year
amount to much as Kansas crops go.
But then they make the crops in some
of the other states look like the pro-
verbal thirty cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
KANSAS CONMENT
.cR1T1cfsaa a., .,,14n .e,o1rnns

| OAl1lC1SA4 OF THE COURTS.
Il do not forget the position as
sumed by some that CONSTITUTIONAL
questions are to be decided BIZ the
supreme court; nor do I deny that
such decisions must be binding in any
case, upon the parties to the suit. as
to the object of that suit, while they
| are also entitled to very high respect
and consideration in all parallel cases
by all other. departrn ents of the gov
eminent. AT the same time if the pol
questions, affecting the whole people,
Is to be irrevocably fixed by decis-
ions of the supreme court, the people
will have ceased to be their own
rulers, having practically to that ex-
tent resigned their government into
the hands OF that eminent tribunal"
An assertion of this nature If made
today would be regarded as revolu
tionary, and SO far as being the pos
sible declaration of any man in pub
lie life, 1t is unthinkabie. The excerpt
is from the first inaugural address of
Abraham Lincoln.
There is little question but that
Lincoln if he were president today
would have the bitter opposition of
every great interest and every great
moneyed man in the country. The ex-
preston, given above, is that of
man from humble walks of life. 1t
happened to be made in a great pub
lie address by an humble man who
had become president, The people in
humble walks Of life today are of the
same opinion in regard to the federal
bench. From sthe circumstance that
the federal judges, usually promoted
corporation attorneys, are declaring
virtually. every piece of remedial
legislation unconstitutional, a consid-
cradle number of folk have concluded
that the government has been resign
ed into the hands Of the higher tech
meal courts. But no public man of
prominence voices sucn a sentiment
and no one of the great newspapers
goes even so far as to express a mild
protest.-In these latter days criticism
of the judiciary is held to be some
thing akin to treason.-Wichita Eagle.
HOW TO MEASURE TARIFF LAW.
The correct way to measure the
proficiency of the present tariff law
is to determine whether the good out
weighs the evil; if 1t does, the law, OF
course, is a success. We must have
revenue enough to run the govern .
ment and we should nave labor. |
whether on the farm or in the fac |
tory, protected. This bill does both. |
Under its provisions the highest tax
is on the 1uxuries, which means that |
rich will bear the heaviest burden. If |
were living today, they would be with |
Taft, Cannon and Payne. President |
Taft has few equals in point of states |
manship.-Osborne Farmer.
A LONG DISPUTED QUESTION.
Whether the man who spanks his |
son does It for his sons good or to |
that all relationships are |
broken off has BEEN the subject of
some dispute in the past. President
Taft seems inclined to the opinion
that the man breaks off relationships. |
The insurgents in congress claim the
action is entirely for the good of the
spankee. And since the question in
wolves the element of individual judg-
ment rather more than political regu-
lation, the public will arrive at the
that it's common sense d.
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

Oh me. oh myi Our own Buffalo
Jones has butted into the North Pole
controversy by asking for a share of
the glory achieved by both Cook and
Peary because in their memorable trips
they practically adopted plans formu-
lated by him some years ago for the
discovery of the Big NaiI.'' Let a
subscription paper be started at once
for he purchase of a leather medal or
some other equally emblematic insignia
of the great honors which are due to
Mr.. Jones in this most important par
tieular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

as that of Great Britain or France.
That's laudable ambition, to be sure
and evidently Uncle Ne1se has reformed
his ways because it will be noticed that
in telling of his desires he uses the
word assist Heretofore he has been
in the habit of insisting on being the
whole thing in the framing of national
legislation on any and every subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

They're going to greet Mr.. Taft at
New Orleans with a few slogans among
other things. The distressing feature
of this is that probably none of the
Kansas poets were consulted about the
makeup of these catch-phrases and
they will be vexed accordingly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

Spain's soldiers must be improving.
They are credited with having made
successful advance up the steep slopes
of Mount Guruga, a Moor stronghold
1t wasn't so many years ago that they
could not make any Roadway at all in
going down a hill called San Juan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

Philadelphia never hesitates to take
the steps necessary to maintain her
reputation for being a quiet town. The
police there recently refused to permit
Emma Goldman to address big meet
ing which had been arranged in her
honor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

Another campaign for an increased
membership Of the Commercial club is
soon to be waged. 1t can be helped
along in fine shape if every man who
IS not member of the club will join it,
Every new member means just so
much more strength to the present
plans for the proper development of To-
Teka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

Tickets for DIR. Cooks first lecture in
New York are selling for SIS each and
a capacity house is assured. This
would seem to indicate that as a press
agent Peary is proving to be a great
success
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

DIR. crumbine is quite optimistic even
If he thinks that the day when the
common house fly will be extinct won't
come for fifty years or more. Most
folks probably do not expect this pleas
ant era to come until the millennium
arrives