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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-12

If you're a downright good mixer,
Son, and love to float around among
the people off and on prOmiscuOusly,
you know-reading deep down into
these things that the world terms
hearts" and getting, oh wiser and
wiser with all of it, you'll be agreeing
with me from the first that there's a
lot of really truly lOve-lOTn persons
with their lives smashed to smith
-ereens on account of some rot or an
other, whom the world takes for just
ordinary bilious sort of people, you
see, with an out of whack liver that
needs fixing or something.
: It's a hard job to tell real love
from real biliousness.
They both are inConvenient, they
both need careful. sudden and con-
CeTted action, and they both are the
doggOnedest nuisances.
(AII who have had experience,
please stand up).
But when calomel and so on works
with one, it's good strong common
sense and a smile that won't come of
that you need in the other.
Ever been stung, SOM
And didn't you finally get bravely
and beautifully over il all?
The good old rule of being an Al
loser holds good in life just exactly
as It does in poker, you see, and it's
3 mighty fine rule to remembers
But listen:
Don't you know what makes things
happen and the world go wrong and
the whole miserable business go hang
In a draggly, drizzly sort of way?
I'm going to tell you. It's just the
little old way we go at it ALI
Women Not Fools.
Some very lovely uplifting lies have
always been more or less conspicuous
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-12
Brudder Dickson.

From Puck comes the story;
Mr.. Dickson, a colOred barber In
New England town, was shaving one
of his customers one evening, when
the following conversation occurred
respecting Mr.. DicksOn's connection
with a colored church in the place:
q believe YOU are a member OF the
church in Elm street." said the GUS
toner.
NO. sab; not at ALL"
WHY. are YOU not a member of the
African ChuTch?"
Not dis year, sab"
why did you leave?"
"WeH, I'll tell you, sah," said MI.
Dickson. 1T was JUS like dis: |
fined dat ar church in good faith; !
give SO to de preachin' Nv de gospel
an de people call me 'Brudder Dick
SON De second year l only glib 50,
an de church people call me 'Mr.
Dickson Well, sab, de third year
gibs nothin' to de preachin'. an at
ter dat deg jes call me 'oP Niger
Dickson, an l quit en-"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-12
-. Cot II Wrong.

lady while going downstairs 10
dinner had the misfortune 70 step
slightly on the dress of lady IN front
of her The man on whose arm the
former was leaning said aloud, ruoe-
", so that the couple IN front might
hear:
always getting in the way, like
Balaam's ass"
TrDon which the lady whose gown
had been trodden on, turning round,
reDIied with a sweet smile:
Pardon me! 1t was the angel VINO
stood in the way and the ass which
smoke Tit
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-12
HOPPITX HOP

Are you just barely getting around
by the aid of Crutches or a cane?
Unless you have lost a limb or have
a defoTmity-if your trouble is rheu-
matism, lumbago, spTain, stiff joints,
or anything of like nature use Bal
lard's Snow Liniment and in no time
you can throw away your crutches
and be as well as anyone. Price Csc,
soc and S1.O0.
Sold by w. A. D'AIemberte, drug
gist and apOthecary, 121 S. Palafox st.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-12
Kills Would BE Slayer.

A merciless murderer is Append
citis with many victims. But DR..
Kings New Life Pills kill 1t by pre-
veption. They gently stimulate ston-
acb. liver and bowels, preventing tina.
cIoogiug that invites appendicitis,
curing Constipation, Biliousness,
ChiIls. Malaria, Headache and Indi-
gestion. 25e at all druggists.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-12
Proof.

us he intelligent and Well-in-form-
ed?"
"Is he? Why he's been summoned
as a taIesman a dozen times and new
er got on a jury yet. Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-12
Valuable Information.

Lawyer-You are the head Of this
corporation
Multi NilIionaiTe-Yes.
Lawyer-What is the business in
which your corporation is engaged?
Multi millionaire (vaguely)I be-
lieve il makes money, but not just
exactly like the mint.-BaltimOre
American.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-12
A. = StandstiIj-

Hewitt-HOw is your vile getting
along?
Jewett-She isn't getting along She
is the same age she was when ! mar
RED her-Puck-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-12

and the world will never know!
The heart of a woman
You'll never just quite understand
it, Son, being man-bUt twas ever
ever thus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.

Not the least important matter to
| demand the attention of the present
| congress is legislation requiring pub
LEFTY of political contributions made
in connection with congressional cam
paigns. This is in line with similar
movements which have started in
various of the states of the Union,
particularly those in the middle west,
for the purpose of safeguarding state
and local elections, so that tainted"
money will not cut any figure in them.
President Taft is favorable to the
proposition, having discussed it in his
regular message to congress as fol-
lows:
81 urgently recommend to congress
that law oe passed requiring that con-
didates for election to the house of
representatives and the committees in
charge of their candidates. and cam
paigns file in proper office of the
United States government a statement
of contributions received and of the
expenditures incurred in the campaign
for such elections, and that similar
legislation be enacted in respect to all
other elections which are constitution
ally within the control of congress-"
This suggestion demands nothing
unreasonable from the standpoint of
the people, at least. 1t makes for a
purity in connection with elections
which is SO essential If the real will
of the voters is not to be thwarted.
A poll of congress on this question was
made the other day by representatives
of the Chicago Tribune. It de-
veloped the fact that quite a number
of the Republican members of the
senate and a proportionate number of
the members of the house believe that
legislation to this end should be en-
acted. This number is sufficiently
large to pass such legislation with the
aid of the Democrats. They could
scarcely turn down the proposition as
it has been one of the war cries in
their national platform for many years.
AS matter of fact, though, a bill
carrying out this plan ought to go
through congress with little or no op-
position from any source. ANY mem
Der of congress who is afraid or re-
luctant to iell his constituents where
he gets the money to carry on his
campaigns, if he needs any help from
other sources than his own. can scarce
ly be called fit for elevation to con-
gressional levels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
MORE INJUSTICE.

An instance of the manner in
which justice is frequently not ad-
ministered in this country occurred
in New York state the other day. The
court of last resort there freed from
prison and charges Mrs. Ben Teal,
wife of a prominent actor and theatri
cal director of New York city, who
had been convicted and sent to jail
on a charge of subornation of perjury
in connection with the divorce suit of
Mrs. Frank J. Gould. The New York
court of appeals, in Diminishing the
case against Mrs. Teal, declared that
she could not possibly have been
guilty of the crime charged against
her for the very good reason that the
evidence she was alleged to have
sought to manufacture was inmater-
ial and was not even admitted at the
divorce trial. Mrs. Teal had served
ten months of her years sentence be-
fore the court of appeals decision
was handed down.
This is an excellent example of the
wrong that is often done persons, i'm
properly charged with crime, because
of the laws delay. and it presents a
rather outrageous spectacle of the re-
suits of over-zealousness. or some
thing worse. on the part of prosecut-
ing attorneys in their endeavors to
make records by sending people to
jail for imaginary crimes as well as
real ones. 1t is reasonable to assume
that the very public officials who were
responsible for Mrs. Teal's conviction
would have known, had they proper
ly analysed the situation. that she was
not guilty of the crime they pressed
against her. But they did not stop
to make such an analysis. Perjury
had become rather common thing
in New York divorce suits and it was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
THE SINGER OF BEAUTY.

The poets of power and passion
Are leaders and lords in the van,
They help us to forge and to fashion,
Ihey teach US to plot and to plan.
on, they are the strong ones, the smiters
The seers and the prophets of wrath
VINO summon the swords of the fighters
To clear for our progress a path.
But what shall be said Of the singer
whose song has no purpose or plan?
The bard who is only a bringer
OF joy to the spirit of man?
Shall he. be despised and neglected
As useless or vicious or vain?
Shall he be rebuked and rejected,
And stlenced with scorn and disdain?
All: no, let him sing, let him fling us
His song without purpose or art;
The lark does not stir us or sting us,
And yet he is dear to the heart,
All praise to the poets of duty
Who rouse us to wrestfe with wrong.
But here's to the singer of beauty,
And here's to the lit Of his song!
Dennis A. Mccarthy, in the New York
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
UPKEEP OF RAILROAD TRACK.

"RaiIroad reports frequently give data
from which interesting deductions may
be drawn as to steel consumption, since
there are single systems which en-
brace not inconsequential fraction of
the total railroad mileage OF the coun-
try says the Iron Trade Review.
Thus the Southern Pacific report just
issued covers almost 10000 miles Of
railroad, or about per cent of the
total steam railroad mileage of the
country. In this fiscal year ended
June 30, 1909, this road laid, for renewal
purposes, Sal miles of steel rails. or
Ala per cent of it's total trackage. in
Guiding sidings. The rails laid were
chiefly IS and 90 pound, the proper
ton being about three to one in favor
of the IS pound rail so that between
Sc, 900 and $4,000 tons of rails were used.
Comparing the systems mileage Of
road with the total mileage of the
country, the annual consumption of
the country, at similar rate, would
be about 100000 tons of rails, for re-
newal purposes.
"These items of upkeep are made
necessary by the traffic. and are paid
for from the revenue from such traf-
fic. They do not depend upon man
cial conditions or prospects but upon
the actual business beng done. In
the period of intense iron and steel
activity from 1905 to 1907 inclusive,
large part of the railroad material ia
ken was for the purpose of extensions,
and arose from the financial conditions
then existing. The present demand for
railroad material is in large part OF an
entirely different character. being the
direct outgrowth Of the traffic and
paid for by it. 1t is a necessity rather
than a luxury, with the railroads, and
that is the best augury that 1t Will
continue, irrespective of clouds that
may from time to time appear on the
financial horizon. Much more than
few years ago. iron and steel is going
to the railroads for the ordinary pur-
poses Of conducting their regular bust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

lFrOm the Pn1IaQefpnfa EsecOfu-J
Don't wait for Fortune to knock;
have the door standing open for her.
The fat man who eats too rapidly
should realize that haste makes waist
A piece of red flannel dangled in
front Of him makes a frog hopping
mad.
Half the people who are disappoint-
ed in love never realize 1T till they
are married.
s Those who attempt to fight the devil
with fire will discover that he has the
most ammunition.
Blobbs-"Yes. he has acquired ease
and plenty" Slobbs-'But he didn't ac-
qIire them in that order
There seems to be quite difference
between buying something for a song
and giving your note for 1T.
Any struggling artist will tell You
that the best time to work is when you
are SO rich you don't have to.
1t isn't the fellow who makes a fool
of himself that we object to so much
as the one who makes a fool OF US.
The American-"I like the French
cafes of New York better than those
of Paris" The Eempossl-
BILE, Monsieur" This American-"That $
right; the New York walters understand
my French letter than those OF Paris .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
KANSAS C0MAENT
MRS. BELMONT ALL RIGHT

Newspapers and men who have
made mean remarks concerning Mrs
u II. F. Belmont because of things
she has said regarding suffrage and
because of things she has done,
should take them back and apologize.
she now says that when young she
was tomboy. That accounts for her
Suffrage proclivitfes and excuses
them. The Eagle believes that any
woman who played and fought with
the boys. who beat them at their own
games, should be entitled to vote at
any election as often as any man.
Mrs. Belmont, according to the re-
port, demanded equal rights when she
was girl and enforced her demand
with her fists and with cIods and
clubs. She was a good fellow when
young and she must retain some of
ner youthful inclinations. If she
wants to vote all right. Let her put
IN the clause that only tomboys are
TO enjoy the right of equal suffrage
and every man who had tomboy for
a playmate will be with her.-wichi-
ia Eagle,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
JAYHAWKER JOTS

How nice it is to be lulled to sleep
at night by q chorus of anonymous
dogs. = Dick Madison in Labor
Chronicle.
1t has been hard to understand why
Concordia does not get to be the
mometer goes higher in summer and
lower in winter than any other
thermometer in the country. That
ought to make it a great place for the
Oldest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal.
A newspaper man has more trouble
than any other business man. A year
ago we were berated for keeping up
a newspaper fight in the city. Now
that the editors of the city are living
peacefully and harmoniously together,
1t is charged that both dailies are
owned Jointly. Queer world, isn't it :?
Conner Davies in the Concordia
Kansan.
Evidently Florence has a preacher
that the town thinks lot of. saws the
Hutchinson Gazette. They held a
shower for him the other dav. In
stead Of giving him gold or precious
stones they presented him with a
dozen hens. Considering the present
cost of eggs is there any more ex-
pensive testimonial they could have
given?''
Travelling men are also complains
ing about the Union Pacific branch
Wnlcn runs between LeavenwOrth and
Lawrence. A motor car is run on
the line A traveller who started to
use the car the other day says the
train didn't start on time. He asked
the conductor about the matter.
Cant start until we get more pas
sengers," he said. 1.-THE men have to
get out and help push" He says
whenever the car stopped at a sta
ton the passengers got out and
pushed until it started and then
caught it on the run.-Hutchinson
News.
One of the drug inspectors. who
stopped in this city on his way back
from the western part of the state.
told of colony out there that was
making its own beer. The inspector
had noticed that an unusual amount
of malt was being shipped there. and
upon investigation found that the
congregation of a Russian church
was receiving it. They had erected
a small shed back of the church. and
were making their own beer. No
one else was allowed in the Club
and as everything was conducted ac-
cording to Hoyle. the inspector could
not touch them.-Junction City
Union
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
NEEDED. A PHm.ANrHnop1sr

:, Andrew Carnegie has looked after the
literary welfare of the people through
the establishment of public libraries;
John D. Rockefeller has given millions
10 the cause of education. founding COL
ieges and providing for old age PEN
SONS for teachers.
Hospitals, charity institutions of ali
Kinds have received liberal donations
from the estates Of wealthy men, and
explorers have been financed that the
uttermost parts of the earth may be
visited and placed upon the map ac-
curately.
But not one Of the great benefactors
has thought OF the most important
field Of exploration in affairs intellect
tai.
1t is true that there is a Marshall
Field ground in Chicago and parks in
many cities where university genius
may expand, but for the exclusive use
OF athletes there = no stadium worthy
of the name.
Let some ti-millionaire who has
made his money through war contracts.
provide half a dozen stadiums in the
larger cities. divided with a view tc
covering north, east. south and west,
and he will leave name which will be
honored when Carnegie's books have
left their coverings and Standard Oil
stock has fallen to zero.-Wichita Bea-
con.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15

In second. the cover was re-
moved and handsome gold-mounted
talking machine was placed on the
center table.
flendish taste. The thing mas SO much
decent"
record.
Listen" she continued. this is
ing the machine the girl returned to
seat herself in the lap of her father.
Wnirr-frr-huff1e-uz began the
machine. and then suddenly:
hsra Mlss Eva: ], Thomas Briggs. do
presence Of your father of asking you
10 become my wife. L.
WIN roar. the portly one arose,
merely suddenly deposifing fury
eo onoie OF ciinging femininity on the
recorded eloouence of Thomas BRIGGS
was at an end
He stared at the broken machine
savagely
vo From n. behind him came a teary
II don't think that was very
nice, sobbed the disarranged one
After-after Tommy was man
enough to live up to his word when
when In reality it wouldn't have
1870 &-AAs 0ilGiC Acc Ut Gil
Smith glared at the girl.
DO you love him." he asked.
Ye-ye-yeS,'' came the weenfuI
but decided answer.
The old man stared long az the
broken machine. Gradually an
amused smile played about the cor
ners Of his stern lips.
Well, take him. then" he grum-
bled. Anyway, made him prove
that he could think. -(Copvright,
1909, by Associated Literary Press.9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
FROM OTHER PENS
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS

In France. as in England, the first
months OF 1910 will see a tremendous
struggle for the control of the gov
eminent. Though there is q vast
technical difference between the is
sues which the voters of the two
countries have to decide the main
feature is the same. In the ono case.
as in the other. the battle is between
the old ideas and the new The AS
quith cabinet stands for the finance
which lays the chief burden upon the
shoulders Of the rich and the well-to-
do; the Briana ministry also desires
to provide for old-age pensions and
similar schemes of social reform in
this way. while maintaining the high
protective tariff which has become an
indisputable dogma with the mass of
Frenchmen of late years. France has
deficit of forty million dollars to
meet; England's deficit is fully twice
as. big. The. tone of British politics
is bitterer than it has been for de-
cades; in France. the class-hatreds
are intensified by the separation of
church from state. the closure of the
religious schools and various other
moral problems of this sort-New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15
HUNOR OF THE Day

Senior Partner-Keep a sharp eve on
f n01afas J,nia I'm afraid he's Fo6bng the
extravagantly? Senior PartnerMWeil.
passed him in the street yesterday, and
ne was smoking cigar that didn't smell
Dubbins-Do you know where I can find
try around the North Pole? That's a
very likely piace.-Judge.
Sunday School Teacher-Alfred. do Won
know the meaning Of faith? Alfred
Yes'm. It's when a Teller puts a picture
der with Our Next Mayor on it.-Puck.
Hank Stubbs--I fixed one Nv them air
agent feiiers today. Bige Miller-How so?
HANK Stubbs-Waal, he came sneakin' up
to my front door an asst me eff the lady Nv
the house WIZ in, an / said no, but the
genIIeman Nv the barn an boss stables
:. How iss your boy Fritz getting along
in der football team and ali der way back
in his studies. Boston Globe.
buy suit OF clothes from. a strange
TANG tailor. - Yes; a person you don't know is
Airs. Mallard-So poor Mr. ROSTERS
dead?, Mr.. Cochin-Yes; he was killed in
broil.-Yale Record.
st think / shall marry him to reform
him. said the romantic girl.
II have seen that experiment tried re-
piled Miss Cayenne.
successfully
"Well, I went say that the men were
reformed. But they always seemed more
or less repentant and dissatisffed.--Chf-
cago Record-Herald.
How can get the boys. interested IT
Let 'em figure out the baseball aver
ages advised the wise old pedagogue.-
Pittsburg Post.
The Judge-What reason have you to
believe, from the evidence. that this man
didn't visit his home some time during
the day.
Foreman of Jury-Because. your honor.
1t was disclosed by the evidence that on
that day his wife was giving bridge par
ty.-Life.
she-Bell says she can read her husband
like a book.
He-Ah. yes. He is her third volume.
isn't he?-Boston Transcript
What are you going to do with all that
counterfeit money!" asked Sapphire.
MY dear" answered Ananias, 81 am
going to pay my dues in the distinguished
club that bears my name.'-Washington
Star.
wife-You promised that if would
marry you my every wish would be graf
flied. Husband-Well, isn't it? Wife-No:
wish hadn't married you.-Illustrated
Bits.
'.You can't get something for nothing in
Il can't. But. the chaps. have done
business with In Wall Street seem to
manage f.''-washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-15

time some one was made an example
of. Why not Mrs. Teal? She was an
excellent victim. She and her hus-
band were not very well to do and
had no influential friends. The Gould
divorce case was a notorious one.
Why not soak" it onto Mrs Teal.
Sure. A grand idea. 1t was put into
execution Immediately. and Mrs Teal
was led away to Jail. If she had been
a Charles w. Morse, bank-wrecker.
ETC.. the court would have admitted
her to bail pending the appeal of her
case and bail to any amount would
have been provided for her. But, no.
She was just plain. ordinary Mrs. Teal
with no particular claim as to distinc-
ton not even as a, criminal. So she
went to Jail and languished there for
ten months while her case was getting
to the higher courts and decision
being written which declared her to
be a woman innocent of any wrong
doing.
Similar cases to this one, not many
which are quite so aggravated to be
sure, are happening all the time in
every section of the country. People
are cast into jail on suspicion of be-
ing criminals and held there as vag-
rants at the pleasure of capricious
police officials. Others. like Mrs. Teal
are rushed to jail or prison on clever
convictions secured by prosecuting
attorneys on charges that higher
courts dissolve as soon as they get
their hands on them. For this mis-
treatment there ought to be proper
redress. Civil suits against police of
ficials and prosecuting attorneys and
and states, are possible
for false arrest and Imprisonment, but
they are expensive undertakings and
long drawn out affairs which are
scarcely worth the effort. Immediate
and substantial relief ought to be
provided by law as it will be some day
and then certain class Of public
will be trifie more careful.