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The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
VOTERS AND CHARTERS.

Certain newspapers that are always
ready to advocate anything that gives
promise of catching the popular fancy
demand that whatever plan is adopted
by the Massachusetts, legislature shall
be ratified by the people of Boston.
This is the old cry that if the people
are to be governed they should have
an opportunity to say what kind of
laws they shall live under. But the
people of Boston are in no better
position to decide this problem than
they are to decide the many prob
lens that come before the legislature
every year. The government of mu-
inequalities is more than academic
theory, and no scheme of government
however plausible will result in hon
est and efficient government unless
back of it is an intelligent and honest
public sentiment. Good government
can not be made to order. One form
of government may be simpler and
more effective in its operations than
another, but it is possible to have bad
government under the best form and
good government under the worst
form, for in the last analysis the
character of government depends
upon the character of citizenship.
Without intelligent interest and con-
stant watchfulness municipal govern
ment in any community is not likely
to fulfill expectations. The people of
Boston will be quite as well off if they
permit an honest legislature to devise
what seems to be the best plan of
government as to attempt by popular
vote to say what the plans should be.
Springfield Union.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
AYHAWKER JOTS

The Baldwin Ledger tells of an edi-
tor who laments the fact that there
are too many women who play bridge
and too few who play bridget
A flaw has been found in Secretary
Coburn's last report by the Garden
City Telegram, which notes the fail
ure of Mr.. Coburn to list the ''by gosh
dramas that have also fiourished with
other agricultural products in the past
few years.
The Frankfort Index has discover
ed that this brief sentence, "Pack my
box with five dozen liquor jugs" con-
tains every letter in the alphabet. The
trouble is that under the new liquor
laws in Kansas this sentence is strictly
unlawful, says Charlie Blakesley.
TITS not much to say for a man that
he never had an enemy" says the
Newton Journal. You could write
that over cabbage head. 1t would be
appropriate in an essay on mush, or a
class epitaph above the grave of an
OK. If you never did anything to make
anybody mad at you, you have been
called man merely through courtesy.
dummy in a window of a clothing
store"
Social note from the Altoona Trib-
une: "a girl in Neodesha played post
office at a party the other night and
yelled and shrieked and howled and
young mans face in seven places, up
set lamp, kicked over the piano
stool, and when he finally kissed her
on the tip of the ear she tainted dead
away and said she could never look
anybody in the face again. They led
the bashful, modest, gentle, sobbing
creature home and the next day she
ran away with a married lightning rod
peddler.''
This, headed Hand Holders, Not
ice!" was published on the Manhat-
tan Mercury's first page: "a special
meeting of Hand Holders union, Local
No. 81, has been called for tonight.
Every member of the union is urgent
ly requested to be present. A motion
to establish six lights in the city park
passed the council last night and an
order to this effect will be issued by
the mayor within a few days unless
Something is Done about it. Every
loyal member of the union is expected
to attend the meeting tonight and use
his or her influence against this dras-
tic and outrageous order. By order of
the president, Maybelle Gaddy.''
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
ANTIsUFFRAGETTEs.

The National Woman's Antisuffrage
league of Great Britain, in which Mrs.
Humphrew Ward and Lady Jersey are
leading spirits, seems to be doing gen.
timely effective work in opposition to
the suffragette agitation. The league
is under a handicap, however. 1t lacks
picturesqueness and has little claim to
newspaper raotoriety. It's members do
not fight the police, chain themselves
to the grille of the House of Commons,
conduct riotous street parades or in
sist upon breaking into the common
jail and staying there long enough to
earn an advertisement as martyrs to
principle. The suffragettes know their
business. They understand the value
of vaudeville tactics, and they have the
satisfaction of catching and holding
the crowd. Against such a program
it is difficult for mere womanly wo-
men to assert themselves, even though
they have as an inspiration the words
of that model woman, Queen Victoria:
Eve women are not made for govern
ing, and if we are good women we
must dislike these masculine occupa-
tions. Chronicle Tele-
graph.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
PUBLIC UTILITIES CoNTRoT.

Friends of the proposition for an
adequate regulation and supervision
of the public service corporations in
the state by public authorities have no
reason to lament over the action of
the senate which killed the Morgan
bills, the measures which sought to
provide for the control Of public utiI-
tiles by the cities in which they are To-
Gated. 1t is far better to have no pub
lie utilities legislation at all than to
have any OF such a hybrid character
These bills We're called home rule
measures and great were the argu-
ments made on legislative levels for
''home rule in this particular. And
surely there are few intelligent per-
sons who do not favor the giving of
city governments the widest and great
est of latitude in the management of
their own affairs.
But the point that these ardent
'thome rulers" disregarded is that the
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

of Don's state of mind, his mother Of
Tered to show Mrs. Vernon her cher
ished orchids, leaving the young peo-
pie to gaze at each other with beat
ing hearts.
Shyly Maude approached the couch
where Laidlaw reclined, In answer to
his unspoken wish
How can ever repay you. Don ?"
questioned the girl. my baby sisterI
Oh! thank God for-bothI"
He could scarcely hear her sweet
voice, but, grasping a ruffle on her
gown, pulled her gently nearer. "Shall
I tell you how he asked eagerly.
Eyes. Dom" with a sweet, shy note
of surrender in her soft murmur.
kiss me, sweetheart! with all that
it means to US BOTH" begged the inva-
lid.
'"That was a lucky jump" remarked
Don Laidlaw later; and two shadows
faded apart silently at the sound of
voices in the conservatory. Copy
righted 1909 by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.


And the unfairness of the fair sex is
proverbial.
That man who is unable to master
himself is q slave.
The smile that won't come off soon
gets to be monotonous.
Much reading of modern books
rnaketh a man full of nothingness-
Most people want what they want
till they get it and then they don [
want it.
There are many men of many mlnos
but a lot of them are unable TO
mind their own business.
Truth may have hid at the bottom
of a well because it was unapie 70
make a faIsehood ashamed of itself.
Some men seem to be as anxious to
separate you from your time as others
are to separate you from your money
Some people act as If they were
afraid they might forget their troubles
if they didn't talk about them all the
time.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
FRON OTHER PENS
THE PANAMA CANAL CHARGES.

THE PANAMA CANAL CHARGES.
Why do not the great body of con-
gressmen who feel confident that all is
right as respects the acquisition of the
Panama canal property provide for a
congressional inquiry? One should have
been ordered long ago. All sorts of
charges have been circulating for sew
eral years, and will continue to circu-
late until completely and properly si-
fenced.
We are promised all the facts
through the medium of the libel suits,
for which the foundations are laid. But
shall we get them through that medi-
UNI? Several years may elapse before
the suits are tried. with the whole way
showing the maneuverings of lawyers
dwelling more on legal technicalities
than on the broad proposition present
ed. Unless indictments are found in
New York or Indianapolis the accused
publishers may be resisting extradition
prevent the cases from ever being tried
on their merits. What the country
wants, and should have, is the whole
truth about the purchase of the canal
property, with whom and through
whom this government dealt, and into
whose pockets the money went.
Why not have the whole question
step by this house, which has but a
at its regular session should order an
investigation. The president has de-
clared that the government has moth
ing to conceal; that all the records in
the case are open to congress and to
the country, and his invitation to in
spect them should be accepted by con-
gress.-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

[From the Atchison Globe.l
Beware of the grocery store that
doesn't smell good.
A lawyer is more apt to quote
poetry than any other man on earth.
Ever think of the great amount of
time you waste in talking foolishnesS?
Chumps seem to get along pretty
we'll in all the trades and professions.
Ever occur to you why free lunch
is served in saloons, and nowhere else?
1t must be a great humiliation to an
industrious woman to have a loafer
husband.
When you are telling how little
others amount to, ever occur to you
that you do not amount to a great
deal yourself?
Perhaps one reason men don't kiss
their wives oftener is that wives use
the occasion to detect liquor on
mans breath.
Always remember that if you wish
to have friends. you must be a friend.
ing out each other.
It is a wonder men are as good as
they are considering that almost every
man starts every day of his life by
swearing at the alarm clock.
When we meet a lean, cross, busy,
nervous woman, we always know what
she thinks of the men, Only fat, con-
tented women care much for the men.
We men roar like lions a good deal,
but we are a sad lot of rabbits just the
same. Men are always saying they
will "do as they please" another fic-
ton.
We have heard people abused so.
much that we don't care for it any
more; we would rather hear people
praised for their occasional good quail
tiles.
When you pay money for a dog,
don't EXPECT much from it. The only
dog that seems to have any sense is
the dog that some one throws away,
and you pick up.
Who was the great woman who first
thought of cooking sauer kraut and
snare ribs together? We would like
to hear more of her, and less of King
Edwards latest favorite.
''I have made so many poor pre-
dictions in my time that have about
concluded to quit making predictions.
NV poor work in this line keeps me
blushing half the time. Drake Wat
son.
A boy will go to the dinner table
with hands as black as your hat, but
a girl won't do it. When her mother
calls her to come to dinner, she will
reply: 'sWait until 1 get some of this
dirt off my hands"
We call on a certain man every
morning and before he Will discuss
news or advertising, he goes over
every question of the day, from fin
ance to the Panama canal. And we
become so tired hsteningi
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The man of few words is generally
near the top rung of the ladder.
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Surely a cat is not to be envied for
having nine lives. Think of having to
die nine times.
Some persons are so habitually
grouchy that it would probably pain
them even to look pleasant.
X X
A woman can hardly be accused of
wasting time in playing bridge, if she
always wins. But few of them do.
*
If women were as careful in select
ing all things as they are their hats,
they wouldn't have so many matters
to worry over.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

Governor Stubbs' plea for an increase
in the number of members of the board
of railroad commissioners is a strong
one which the legislators should take
cognizance of. The talk that he de-
sires this increase to provide him with
some patronage is silly. That he can
be trusted to appoint men to this
board, If he has a chance, because of
their fitness and not because of any
possible political aid that they can ex-
tend to him, is made apparent by the
personnel of the appointments he has
made 70 far.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.J

LFrom the New York Press.1
Sacrifice is the happiness of woman;
forgiveness her solace.
The best woman in the world can
think evil to hear somebody else's
baby praised above hers.
The reason a girl likes to be pretty
is so sh ecan think she is much pref
tier than she is.
The less money a man will give his
wife the more generous he thinks he
is for letting her ask for it.
The only satisfaction about shaving
yourself is how you can lie about be-
ing able to do it in the dark without
cutting yourself.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
New work lives Too Fast.

Some interesting mortality STATISTICS
Were given at Columbia University by by
Prndentfa1 Life Insurance Company.
Country life is stilI healthier than city
life. he showed. the death rate per l9oo
coIin2ry. Bad air, bad milk, nervous
strain. alcoholism suicide and @ accidents gTS
sneed of New York's life, he asserted
causes greater death rate ena here than az il IN
he said. are only 770 per 1000 here,
against S36 in LONDONDERRY York Amer
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
KANSAS COAAENT
LEARNING VIOLENCE.


One of the militant suffragettes in
France promulgates the idea that wo-
man needs to acquire the habit of
violence. Therefore she should do
military service. Her plantform is as
follows:
I'm military education women will
learn the necessity of violence. Women
fear to inf1ict pain. They are wrong.
Let them use violence
Of course. she observes, guns are now
made too heavy for women; but light
er guns can be made, and she doesn't
need to march as much as the men,.
Besides, women don't need to be SOL
diers; they can be nurses in the nos
pitals and assist in secretarial work
A hospital nurse is a sure enough eX-
ponent of violence, all right. The way
der and cuffs him around under a pre-
tense of putting a bandage on him
must be something awful. And as for
the brutalizing effect of secretarial
work, we can well imagine it-such,
for instances, as transcribing an order
to the commissary department in
ten head of hogs for supper.
It's no use. Women were not born
for carnage and strife. AS the health
extremists say that in order to over
come the evil effects of wearing cor
sets a woman should begin about two
hundred years before she is born, SO
to change her from a ministering angel
to a raging destroyer the process
should have been started some thou
sands of years back.-Ottawa Republic
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

a movement has already been started
an Washington for change of the date
of the 1naugurations of presidents to
some time in April. The storm on
March and the storms which have
occurred on other Inauguration days of
that date are powerful arguments in
favor of some such change.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

1--WE have every reason to believe %
says the London News, that the
statement that a new planet has been
discovered at Harvard is untrue. All
the indications point to it having been
there for some time, though in the
hurry of modern astronomy it would
appear to have been oYerlooked.,, >,
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

''There are no plumbers in Hades,
says the Charleston News and Courier.
To this the Atlanta Constitution
adroitly adds, Our Charleston contem-
porary always speaks with authority
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

New York's legislature is considering
the advisability of compelling the
equipment of passenger trains with
emergency surgical kits. The idea is
an excellent one. that ought to be as
valuable to Kansas, or any other place,
as it is to New York
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

There is now talk of a Combination"
of the Gould and Hartman railroad in
terests If it were called a surrender"
of the Gould interests to Hartman, it
would be nearer to the point.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

Seldom has a body of men so readily
confessed to its inability to do things
as have the members of the Kansas
house Of representatives In passing a
resolution for the amendment of the
constitution so as to provide for the
Initiative and referendum.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

Maybe, now just maybe, If Vic Muir
dock was elected to be speaker of the
national house of representatives. for
which place he is being mentioned -
he would not be so anxious as he now
is to strip the speakership of all of its
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

John Mitchell, the great labor leader,
is out with a suggestion that all of
the aclors in the country should form a
national organization which could af-
hliate with the American Federation of
Labor Possibly the idea of being
classed as laborers will be repugnant to
many thespians but a good many of
them would come nearer to being in
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

their proper spheres if they would quit
the acting business and take up some
KIND of work that is more generally
associated with labor unions They'd
be a good deal better off, too.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

It was almost unnecessary for the
weather experts at Washington to ex-
plain that the storm which visited
Washington on Inauguration day was
a "flareback'' which could not have
been told by forecasts. Still some sort
of an excuse was needed for they were
insisting up to the last minutes that
the day was going to be fine.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

Mr.. Taft took a IL mile ride on
horseback on Sunday afternoon. Surely
he is not getting in training to beat
that John Gilpin effort of his predeces-
sor, when more than a hundred miles
on horseback were traversed in less
than IT hours.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

Nebraska bank teller is reported
to be dying from blood poison which
he contracted in handling infected mon
ey. This fact, though, probably will
not deter any other human being from
grabbing all the money he can get his
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
HARMFUL RECREATIoNs.

No man can afford to encourage the
habit of idleness. Recreation is neces-
sary, but it should be chosen for that
purpose, and with the intention Of go
ing to work again with greater zest.
That is what recreation is for, and
what makes it worth while. And that
is why some amusements should be
Stunned. They are so Fascinating they
are dangerous. and often they are
worthless, even as pastime. Playing at
cards, for instance, some one says is
perfectly harmless. Perhaps it is,
taken in moderation, but it is also per-
fectly useless, which isn't a good rec
ommendation. And there is the dan
ger of liking it too well, and wasting
too much time on it. The same rule
may be applied to pool, or dominoes,
or chess, with the possible difference
that they are less popular. The danger
isn't in the game, but in encouraging
idleness. Encouraged and willful idle
ness is responsible for more of the
crime and misery of the world than en-
forced idleness, because there is SO
much more of the former kind. There
is almost always something to do if
you are looking for it.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

Judge Dickinson, the secretary of
war in the Taft cabinet. insists that he
has always been a Democrat and is
still one, although he did not vote for
Bryan. And he is far from being the
only Democrat of this sort.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

The timber on the Roosevelt estate at
Oyster Bay must be quite extensive.
The ex-president has been chopping
down trees on two afternoons since he
left Washington and there are still
quite a few standing.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

A portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm is to
be hung in the Harvard museum of
Germanic art. The only artistic thing
about a picture of the German emper-
or is the delineation of his mustache
with its perpendicular ends.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
ErTTII. LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRFSS

Asa Deklugie. son of Whoa. is to sue
ceed the late Geronimo as chief OF the
Apaches. But what's the use?
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

At the Majestic.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09
ADJUSTMENTS.
At the novelty.

iday night-Max Figman.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-09

Only One-"'It takes two to make a bar
gain UNLESS it's a railroad bargain,
and then Hartman makes h."-Detroit
Free Press.
The Washington times., 1909-07-23

Ice Water Pitch
ers OF fine glazed
stoneware in pretty
Majoilica decora-
tons. pretty low
shape and = nc
gallon size *
15e sugar cans Of
heavy tin. neatly ia
panned and stencil
ed. with hinged I'D.
3ls-lb ca Tc
pdcity .s..-s..--.
The Washington times., 1909-07-23
TO REPAIR A FENCE
PERMIT COSTS ST
Real Estate Firm Objects to
Paying for Privilege of
Mailing on Boards.

Protest against the new building reg
ulation requiring a permit fee of 81 FOR
repairs TO woodsheds, back fences. and
in similar work, is made in a letter 70
the Commissioners by Heisken & Nc
Leran, real estate agents.
I'VE feel that the regulation is un-
reasonable. unjust, and extortiOnate,
and one that should be rescinded," says
the communication. Unless We can OBJ
tain relief from this measure of tax
alton, we must make it a general ques-
ton among those engaged in our busl-
ness.
In reply the firm was informed that
the fees for building permits were
adopted under the provisions of an act
Of Congress approved March S. 1S09 and
made effective by the Commissioners
July Is.
1.-THE intention of this schedule is to
make the Office of the Building Inspec-
tor self-supporting. and to accomplish
this II becomes necessary to charge a fee
for every permit issued" said Building
Inspector Morris Hacker.
''It is not practicable to allow even
minor repair work to be carried on
without a permit and without inspection.
This involves clerical work and time OF
a field inspector. The fee of 81 may
seem large in this particular case. but
the work done by the employees OF this
office was as great as if the repairs had
been much more expensive"
The Washington times., 1909-07-23
DAMAGE AWARDS
HELD AS EXCESSIVE
Union Station Grades Com
mission Asked to Recon-
slider Cases.

Regarding as excessive the amounts
awarded to owners of property on the
south side Of Massachusetts avenue, be-
tween First and Second streets north
east, by the commission to appraise the
damages resulting TO adjacent property
/ from changes in the grades OF street S,
avenues. and alleys in connection with
the erection of the new Union Station,
the Commissioners today approved the
recommendation Of a. LefCWicn sinclair
special counsel for the Government, tnat
the cases be submitted 10 the Unl0a
Station grade damage appeal jury.
II have carefully considered theSe APP
pralsements in the light of the evidence
submitted TO the commission AID am or
the opinion that the appraisements as
to premises 100, 10, 121, 123, 10, IA, L.
13l, 1873. 135, and 1877, are excessive ana
unreasonable, says ldr. Sinclair.
While l consider some OF the OJher
awards of damages also unreasonable,
the excess, to my mind, is not great
enough to warrant the submission or
the cases to a jury, considering the ex-
pense which another trial might enta Il
on the District.
The amount of damages awarded by
the commission, which consists OF
Charles A. Baker, George ". Moss and
George Spransy, was as follows: lO5'
So, 0o0; 10, s., $50; 1H and 123, A,Oi55 10,
s., $50: 127. 1875: I29 and l3l, $3.50; 1SS,
5000, 1856, $3.50; 81, Sl,250.