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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
GRADUATES ARE MANY.

Critics of the public schools of the
higher grades are fond of saying
that all kinds of public money are
actually wasted in their maintenance
because of their utter futility to ac-
complish their purposes, inasmuch
as only an exceedingly small pro-
portion of the children of a COM
munity ever reaches them These
arguments may have some force in
certain sections of the country and
there might have been a time when
they would have been applicable to
conditions surrounding the public
schools in Kansas. But such is
hardly the case today.
Any one who has had an oppor-
tunity to glance over the pages of
the newspapers printed throughout
the state during the past few years
cannot have failed to be attracted by
the facts presented in all of them to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Recor,

lFrom the Philadelphia Record
A bare fact-a bald head.
The bitterest words are those of his
own tnat man is forced to eat
The only kind of spilled milk worth
crying over is the milk of human
kindness.
Misery loves company; but a girl
isn't necessarily miserable just because
she does.
The man who takes things for
granted should see that he takes only
what belongs to him.
Don't trample on a mans. good in
tentions; wait till you get to the place
that is paved with them.
Patience is a virtue,'' quoted the
Wise Guy. HUH" snorted the Sim
pie Mug; more often it's a neces-
sity.
Blobbs-"Harduppe is In love with
two girls and he can't make up his
mind which one he wants to marry"
Slobbs-''Why doesn't he toss up a
penny" Blobbs-T don't think he
has one"
Wigg-"Did you ever see two girls
who positively hate each other rush
up and kiss?' Wagg-"That doesn't
prove anything: maybe they are hop
ing they will give each other a few
microbes"
Miss Antique-"So you think there
are occasions when a man is justified
in telling a lie?" Mr.. Blunt-"Most
assuredly; for instance, suppose Won
should ask me how old thought you
were.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
SWAT THE RAT.

1t is pretty generally conceded on
all sides these days that an essential
ly proper thing to do is to swat the
fly on each and every occasion. But
the fly alone is not the only pest that
should be swatted. There are many
of them. And the federal govern
ment. through the department of ag-
riculture is paying particular atten-
ton nowadays to instilling into the
minds of the people, especially in ag-
ricultural communities that it is al
most quite as necessary, or rather, as
desirable, to swat the rats as it is
to swat the flies. Except in the case
of the rats which carry around the
bubonic plague infection, these ro-
dents are not as inimical to the pub
lie health as are flies.
But they are bigger thieves by long
odds and the price that the people of
this country pay each year to provide
them with the necessities and lux
uries of rat life reaches quite an as
founding figure. A recent bulletin
issued by the agricultural department
has it figured out to nicely that a
single rat can eat sixty cents worth of
grain in a year and that if all the
TdIS III the COUNTY WCAO AGo OA q a III
alone, it would cost more than $780,
100000 annually to feed them. Not
only is their feed bill expensive but
they have a pernicious habit of de-
stroying all kinds of property, and
causing an endless amount of trou-
BILE in a variety of ways which are ia
miliar to everyone.
Experts express the opinion that
single pair of rats and their progeny
breeding without interruption and suf-
fering no losses would increase in
three years to more than twenty mill
lions. No race suicide here, surely
but rather an alarming condition of
affairs which establishes the necessity
for swatting the rats in every possible
way.
Traps and poisons are excellent
agents for eliminating the possibilities
of a rat plague and as aids to an ex-
termination of these destructive little
beasts, but the men who have given
the subject much study and thought
are of the belief that the most promis-
ing lines for the ultimate extinction of
the rats lie in rat proof construction
of buildings, especially granaries,
through the use of concrete founda-
lions. The food supply of the rats can
also be reduced by the use of care in
the disposal of garbage and the prop
err protection of all food supplies. Ev-
erybody should give attention to this
matter for the saving of rat bill of
800, 100000 a year would not be an
inconsiderable item, even if it is diyid-
ed up among the whole people of the
country. 1t would go long ways in
helping the people to pay in the ag-
gregate the bills which the enthusiast
tic tariff protectionists of the Aldrich
stripe have planned to thrust upon
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
AYHAWKER JOTS

The Beloit Times would like a paper
to name a member of the Gould fam
lily who hasn't been divorced. That's
easy-Miss Helen Gould.-Garden
City Telegram.
Attention is called by the Kansas
City Star to the fact that the Anti
Horse Thief association in Mcpherson
rest of persons who are slashing the
tires of the farmers touring cars.
Salinas new directory gives her a
population of 14,120, which is only
$40 more people than the assessors
were able to find. Does this mean
that there are that many tax-dodgers
IL Salina or does it mean that the di-
rectory is too generous?
The Neodesha Sun is working it's
way into the Walt Mason class as a
purveyor of prose poems, or whatever
they are. Here's another sample of it's
work in this line: ST met a sturdy
granger in town the other day; STOP
ped and asked him how the crops were
doing out his way, and the tale he told
me sounded like the one 1 used to
know, for I heard it every springtime
lookin' good enough, and wheat is mid
dim fair. but there seems to be an
awful lot of chinch bugs everywhere;
I'm Altered that if the summer amt
unusually wet, they'll git the bulge
upon the crops and Spite our prospects
yet The chinch bugs haven't trou-
bled you for many. many years. said I
unto the farmer, to mitigate his fears
Have you forgot about the time when
good Professor Snow with his chinch
bug cholera microbe dealt them such
blown All, no, I amt forgot It, the
are comm back for Mister Snow is
dead"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lFrom the Chicago News1
A man in love gives; woman in
love forgives.
A man isn't necessarily a fafiur,
because he has failed.
There's music in the sole of new
boot-such as 1t Is.
People aren't necessarily good be-
cause they feel that way.
When one devours a book it indi-
Gates a taste for literature.
The man with the largest library
usually has the least time to read.
Some men would rather be wrong
than right il there is more money in
it.
Country people on party tele-
phone line hear all the news that's
going
1t might be well for visitors to re-
member that welcome quickly wears
out
Wise is the chap who catches on at
the proper time and lets go at the
psychological moment.
Ice is about the only thing that
needs a blanket wrapped around If
to keep it comfortable in hot west tn
er.
Any man can inherit money If given
an opportunity, but when 1t comes r.,
keeping it--well, that's another storr,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

Why do people enjoy being mean?
Even a woman weighing two hun
dred pounds, with good health, money
and happiness. likes to be called a
poor little thing"
You are always hearing that chill
dren should behave. The same thing
applies to men and women. We
grown-ups do a lot of fool things.
When we remember that a wood
pecker often works his way into a
tree with his bill, we wonder that a
woodpecker doesn't have headache
constantly.
1t is said that Mrs. Lysander John
Appleton wears her waist line so fash
on her ankles and think they are sit
ting on her lap.
An Atehison man who has a worth
less relative who Is about to be taken
off of his hands by marriage, is terri
bly, afraid the course of true love will
not run smooth.
An Atchison man was round froth-
ing in a fit recently and seven doc
tors were called. Business WORRIES
said one, while others agreed it was
overwork but only one doctor guessed
right. This" he said, picking up a
woman's magazine the man had been
reading.
An Atchison young man who is en-
gagged to be married, is very much an
noyed because people talk about his
plans. AS soon as he Is married, he
will have no cause for complaint The
people will drop him as though he
had never been born, particularly if
he Is a good husband. If he is bad
husband. the people may talk about
him occasionally; but not as much as
they are talking now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
HUNOR OF THE Day

The Mailman Cat the White House)-A
package psa,a 4e Of letters for James s. Sherman.
ioyed Reress Paul plspatch
she-They say girls can't throw straight,
put put when a girl throws sly. glances, no
Srecently bitten)-Yes, the easy mark
Boston Herald.
Why do you always eat a square meal
my entire attention to the management of
the various knives and forks. louisville
Maude-How old is Grace? May-At least
20 Maude-How do you know? May-I
before she was 26.-Cleveland Leader.
Nell-That's a beautiful fan Miss Giddi-
it to match her complexion Neil-Oh, I
nadn't noticed that it was hand-painted-
Philadelphia Record.
glee ciub? Eyes, answered M TO '9 RIig
gins. When he starts to sing at home I
and when he sings in the club III I can't canst
hear him. "-Washington Star.
rs your husband interested in basebalI?'.
men were" NO, John i sous inte aes tae
mat isn't the name for his trouble. He
ev @Gant you Is, stop for dinner" Not this
cook kansas City Times.
WHAT'S your recipe for managing a
huspand?' oh! there isn't any. Just feed
nm well, and trust to ck."-CIeveland
And what are the smart things in la
o1es shoes?' asked the new Customer
The ladies' feet" laughed the shoe clerk.
VINO had been forcing No. feet into No
snoes.-Ch1cago News
:, The way he acted last night was the
limit. What did he do?' BET two chips
on a full house. Houston Post
beautiful Maiden-Mr. Scrapples, I can't
nave you coming to see me any more I'M
DER misrepresentation. Papa lost all his
money last week the board Of trade
persistent Caller-That doesn't make any
f 1iinerence. I'm one of the fellows that got
his money.-Chicago Tribune
She commands a fancy figure ",rhat,s
because she has one "-Birrningham Age
Herald. ''' Ase
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
At HOME.

l wish at pas old baseball team
Va never lose, SO pa nd come
Awhistlin' home at night instead
Of comm in SO dogon glum
About five nights a week. EN- not
A single pleasant word to say,
AS If he'd bet en- lost his Job
Or suffered a setback in pay.
Pas nacherly cheerful sort
En- full of pleasantness en- vim,
But when his baseball team gets licked
II knocks the life right out of him.
He turns right pale around the gilis,
A heavy sadness dims his eye
En- one I'D think his doctor had
jus told him he was gone a-die
En- peevish! My. you dassent make
A false move or ask for the salt
oa At l 1on wi without p 1T pa lookin' up.
In scowH By Joe you'd think at ma
vas playin short for our side en-
They knocked one to her en- she muffed
En- let in twenty-seven men.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate of ten
cents week or thirty cents a month
(by mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State journal Will be to, you like
a daily letter from homo. 7.- e
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some debtors evidently put into prac-
tice the theory that time is money.
y .
Expert alienists have testified in
court that self-conceit is a symptom of
insanity.
Forced laughter is quite as uninter-
esting and unsatisfactory as no laugh
ter at all.
Maybe some people let dust accumu-
late in their homes to hide the shabbi-
ness of their furnishings.
n
There is probably a time for all
things, but frequently there is not
enough of it If they are of the enjoy
able sort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

Illinois will soon have law that will
declare to be void all leases which pro-
hibit children in apartment houses.
This is a reform of the right sort and
should be instituted in every commune
ty which has the need of it. and there
are not a few of them scattered over
the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

any month so far this year and all Of
them have been record breakers. Dur
ing the five months since January 1,
1909. the building permits in the city
have totalled value of $509,705. But.
then, Topeka deserves to grow. and
that she will continue to do SO is al
most a foregone conclusion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

A Russian count has arrived in To-
peka for the purpose of studying the
workings of prohibition in this state.
He could not have picked out a bet
ter place to learn what fine success
may be achieved in the enforcement
of a prohibitory law when an honest
effort is made to do so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
REFLECTIONS OF "A BACHELOR
GFrom the New York Press.1

fFrom the New York Press
The more bargains the less buy.
A man likes to be generous about
something so he can feel what fine
fellow he is to do it.
The happier a man could make his
wife by taking her on a trip with him,
the more she oughtn't to expect it.
The first time a girl is engaged she
is afraid other men will try to flirt
with her; the next time that they
won't.
When woman says she has moth
ing fit to wear it's a sign she would
be madden than a hornet if some
body else said 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
According to the New York rrib

According to the New York Trib-
une, Senator Tillman is causing
much grief to the editors of South
Cardinals leading newspapers. They
do not know whether to take his as
ISOLATION with the Democratic pro-
teetienists and his proposal to lay a
tariff on tea for the benefit of a To-
cal Industry as proofs of genuine
backsliding or only as unseemly prac-
tical iOkes"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

OF all the mob outrages that have
been committed of late a recent one in
Arkansas is the worst. A lawless gang
could not get at a negro who had killed
a deputy sheriff so they collared the
murderer's brother and strung him up.
But what else might be. expected in
A rlransas2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

A little mediation and arbitration
of the sort which was worked so sue
cessfully in Georgia lately would ap-
pear to be needed in Philadelphia
where a serious street car strike is in
nrogress
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

Mr.. Dickinson. the secretary of war,
says he has received instructions from
President Taft to save $12,OOO,O0O in
the conduct of the war department
for the fiscal year of 1911. That's
hnsineSS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

Professor Frank w. Blackmar, the
sociological expert of the state univer-
sity, announces that people merely
think they think. This will be con-
ISOLATION for some folks and discour-
agement for others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

Mr.. Wilson. the federal secretary of
agriculture, is of the opinion that the
recent struggle in the Chicago wheat
pit which has boosted the price of
wheat to excessively high figures will
cause farmers to plant more wheat
in the near future. It's to be hoped
so. The consumer will benefit there
by. And if any one in this land needs
q helping hand it's the consumer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

President Taft will soon transmit to
the senate a report showing the high
handed methods used by the Ameri-
can tobacco trust to control the to-
bacco industry of the land. A special
message or speech from Mr.. Taft
on his idea of what the tariff revis-
ion should be would be more apropos.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

AS Uncle Joe" Cannon truly says
',Some people have a habit of looking
at the world through a gimlet hole. :"
That must be the difficulty of Mr.. Aid
rich and his friends in sizing up the
desires of the people in regard to tariff
reVisions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

The settlement of the Georgia railroad
strike is not only another great victory
for arbitration. 1t is even a greater
one for the proper mediation of federal
and state authorities in labor struggles
of that size and Importance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

Topeka is assurediy growing with the
rapidity of the crops in the fields these
days, when warm sunshine is alternat-
ing with refreshing rains. The build
ing permits issued for May aggregate
a value Of twice the size Of those for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

Count Zeppelin of Germany takes
his place with the Wright brothers as
a hero of the air. His recent perform
ances with dirigible balloon were re-
markable. And it now may be said
that mans conquest of the air is
achieved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

Free lumber" says the Omaha
Bee. seems to have gone by the
board" And the Chicago Tribune
chimes in: YEA. it's bark was wreck
ed ="
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
KANSAS COMMENT.
WHAT HE LEFT BEHIND.

I
EaTie W Evans. in an interview
which the Beacon prints today, gives
an insight as to the personal side of
ehe late Henry H. Rogers. Mr.. Evans
Sncler gave him an opportunity to
hno" Mr; Rogers as man as Well as
one Oh the twentieth centurys kings
OF hnance- The go millions Of dollars
when he passed away in New York
Guy last Wednesday morning are not
the only key to his life Whatever may
be said to his discredit or whatever
moral may be pointed in connection
with the life and deeds of this great
fnancier. his life in many respects bore
examples worthy of emulation. AS the
crlVer or a grocer's wagon, as brake
man on railroad train or as the vice
president of the worlds greatest in
dustrial organization, he was to him.
sen the severest of taskmasters. There
was IN his life no symptom of resting
out. Hard work soothed him and sue
cess Whatever the cost, In any under
taxing, was to him worth the effort.
true, he was imbued with a passion
Tor making money, for acquiring wealth,
aor gong from great achievement to
greater achievement, for amassing a
Mlllon dollars during each year OF
his tense business career. Into the score
of large companies he assisted in Off
cering, he put his personality-the best
OF his body and mind. He worked at
capacity. Nothing was held in reserve.
Against the advice of his friends he
set a new pace in industrial engineer
ing. Henry H. Rogers wasted nothing
neither time, money nor words. Time
to him was too precious to devote to
vacations. Money to him was good to
make to keep or to give to worthy
institutions. He had no words for his
critics. Say what they chose concern
ing his methods. or the methods of
the companies in which he was a lead
er, he did not reply. He believed ar
gument would accomplish nothing and
he went on working, working, working.
From a standpoint of determination
perseverance and tireless effort every
business man and every beginner in
business can find much in the life of
the late Mr.. Rogers worthy of adopt
ing. He did much that will live after
him and he left much accomplished
that will outlast the distinction of dy-
ing sixty times acknowledgements
Beacon.
CHEERFUL IDIOTS.
Some of the newspaper boys are TAX
ing well deserved swipes at the profess
s1ona1 cheerful man, the idiotic indi-
vidual who wears a perpetual smile
and has his office cluttered up with
keep smiling" and look pleasant"
notices. The man who grins eternally
grouchy once in a while, is generally
soft in the noodle. and too worthless
to use for kind1ing wood. Cheerfulness
and smiles are all right in their place.
and the world would be dreary without
them, but this Smiling sermon bust
ness is being run in the ground and
becoming as big a bore as the Roose-
Welt hunting business. 1t is time to
ring off, or some of the Cheerful" mot
to fiends will have all the grin in them
knocked six ways for Sunday. by a
bored and long suffering populace.-
Chanute Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
Lazy Hogs in South Carolina.

Because the alligators eat the hogs
of the farmers along the Ocklawaha
river, the Florida legislature has pass
ed a law permitting the killing of the
alligators. OF course by fencing in
the hogs the alligators could be starv-
ed. with consequent saving of pow
der and ball-but what would the
hogs eat? If the hogs in South Caro-
lima would hustle" for living as they
do in Florida, they would be the fat
test hogs in the world, but our hogs
are lazy.-Charleston News and
Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
Col. HemphiIrs Ideal of a Brain Food

Col. HelnphiIrs Ideal of Brain Food
The New York Tribune pleads for
the return of the Johnny cake. which
shows that. in spite of it's miserable
politics, the Tribune really has some
thing human left in it's composition.
But our contemporary must watch
out for the pellagra, which is es-
peeially fond of Western corn. and
buys it's. supply of cornmeal from the
South, South Carolina corn preferred
The Tribune ought also to buy only
the meal that is ground in the old
water mills. some of which are still
doing business In Pickens county of
grand old South Carolina. There is
nothing in all the range of so-called
cereals that can be compared with
the hominy and meal turned out at
these mills which are fed by streams
of clear water running through races
lined with ferns and grasses and I'M
der the shade of immemoria1 oaks.
We should have some hope of even
the Tribune if it would only put all
its working force on a diet of South
ern corn bread.-Charleston News and
Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

and what are the smart things in la
a eil shoes?'' asked the new customer.
The ladies' feet" laughed the shoe clerk.
VINO had been forcing No. feet into No.
shoes.-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

cant you stop for dinner?'' Not this
evening, I'm afraid. We've got a new
cook. kansas City Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

WHAT'S your recipe for managing a
husband?' obi there isn't any. Just feed
hin well, and trust to luck. "-CIeveland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

The way he acted last night was the
limit. What did he do?' BET two chins
on full house. Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

The Mailman Cat the White House)-A
package of letters for James S. Sherman
The Doorkeeper (puzzled)-Is he-er-em-
ployed here?-St. Paul Dispatch.