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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
The Hudson.

The Hudson river consists of two
strips of advertisements as far as the
eye can reach, inclosing body of
water filled with tugboats. microbes
and floating folks of other descrip-
lions.
Henry Hudson first discovered this
famous river on his way to Troy to
leave his collars and cuffs to be laun-
dered after a long sea voyage.
Stepping ashore at the foot of
Twenty-third street he gave orders
to put up a city that for magnificence
and corruption should never be equal
ed, and then he passed to west Point
started a parade ground, and then
rested at Albany. where he opened
the bureau of franchises. otherwise
known as the State legislature.
No doubt in the near future the
Hudson will be used as race course
for aerop1anes At present it is oc-
cupied with the duty of keeping New
Jersey apart from New York-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
HIDES.

Some of the opponents in the SEN
ate to the proposition put forward in
the Payne tariff bill for the placing
of hides on the free list take their
stand on the ground that the cattle
raiser should have the benefit of the
protection accorded by the duty on
hides. They go so far as to state that
the big packers of the country, the
trust, handle only about a third of
the native hides raised annually, and
that the great bulk of them are hand
led by smaller packers and the cat
tie raisers themselves. Now if a duty
on hides is levied in the interest of
the cattle raisers and farmers it would
be reasonable to suppose that there
should be duty on the bulk of the
hides actually handled by them But
this is not the case. Under existing
tariff laws there is no duty on what
are termed skins, that is a hide which
weighs less than twenty-five pounds,
and in this category is the major por-
ton of the hides handled individual
ly by cattle raisers and farmers.
1t would also be interesting to
learn where the opponents of free
hides get their information to the eff
feet that only about one-third of the
annual output of hides is handled by
the beef trust 1t is difficult to find
any statistics on this question which
will bear out this statement. On the
other hand there are plenty of statis-
tics to show that the beef packers
trust handles all the way from SIS to
so per cent of the hide output One
expert on this subject states that
the trust handles directly about SIS
per cent of the hides of the country
and that it controls, indirectly a large
part of the 45 per cent of hides which
it does not take off of cattle. The
annual output of hides in this coun-
try is not sufficient, however. for the
needs of leather industries of the ma
ton. 1t supplies only about two
thirds of the necessary number of
hides. If these imported hides could
be purchased by the independent tan
ners-and they only comprise one
third of the tanning industry of the
country, the beef trust controlling
the other two-thirds of the tanning
industry as a lucrative side line
without the payment of a Is per cent
duty it is reasonable to suppose that
they would be in a position to com
pete with the beef trust and the price
of leather would in all likelihood
reach more reasonable figures. and
there would be a corresponding re-
duction in the price of shoes.
According to some recent census
figures there were S7,629 stock rails
ers and 5,48S.61S farmers in the coun-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
HYHAWKER JOTS

Webster Foote has worked up so
much sentiment against the split in
finitive in Garden City that an ordi-
nance has been introduced making it
unlawful to split an infinitive on the
observation-disclosures City Star.
So many transcontinental walkers
are following Edward Payson Weston
the people of Lawrence have the i'm
preston that they are watching labor
day parade, says the Ottawa Herald.
"If the people who live all about
Anthony, just on the edge of the
town and yet in the township. could
be counted as a part of the city
population, as they should be. the
population would be over 3.000,"
walls the Anthony Bulletin.
1t is the opinion of the Neodesha
Sun that the cottonwood should be
"swatted" and expression is given to it
thusly: 81 hate the chigger and the
fly, the skeeter and the flea, and the
dog that bowls by night time is bur-
den unto me. I am always pale and
nervous while my garden sass is small,
lest an evil minded chicken should an
initiate it all. But nothing ever grows
to test the patience of the good or to
punish Maynard sinners like the pesky
cottonwood. o, the fluffy, flying cot
ton that is floating through the air,
how it settles in the victuals and gets
tangled in your hair, and every little
passing breeze that comes to cool your
brow, will watt enough of fuzzy stuff
wonder why such trees were ever
made; we have so many other kinds to
furnish US with shade. There would
be more joy in living in the average
Kansas town, If folks who harbor cot
tonwoods would only cut them down"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.


A homely truth is better than a
handsome lie.
After breaking S. bill the pieces are
soon lost
The worm may turn, but the grind
stone has to be turned.
And occasionally a man tells lies by
keeping his mouth shut.
How many good people we hear Of
And how few we meet!
Fortunate is the bride who marries
the best man at her wedding.
Boarding house coffee is one of the
things that are we'll roasted.
A man isn't necessarily hot-headed
because he wears a stove-pipe hat.
If we all had our own way other peo-
pie would quickly get out of it,
Mirror backs in show windows are
one kind of advertisements to attract
women.
Even a man of sand should have
enough sense to build his house upon a
rock.
EVERYBODY wants something for moth
ing, but few people are satisfied with
what they get that way.
And it sometimes happens that after
a man has made his mark he acquires
a wife who makes him toe it.
MANY a mans boosted bravery has
gone lame when his wife suggested
that he visit the kitchen and fire the
cook
Many woman says her prayers be-
cause the minister says she should, and
does other things because he says she
shouldn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.1
It's pretty tough: to have no hair,
but plenty of dandruff.
A young girl likes to be startled; it
is so like startled fawn.
If you must be abusive, abuse a
dog; dog will forgive you without an
apology.
Automobiles are becoming so com
mon that finally you can get them in
slot machines.
Do members of your family die
hard? If they do, you may depend
upon hard death.
One of the first things you notice
when visiting a city is that the auto
mobiles are larger.
The more reputation a man has, the
more disappointed other men are when
they meet him.
Next to magazine art, the most
hideous sight on earth is a skinny ath-
lete in a running suit.
1t is our idea that wives worry too
much; very few husbands are stolen,
and those that are seem hardly worth
worry.
The elderly women, instead of trying
to coax young women to wear less false
hair, seem to be adopting the puff fad
themselves.
aging than to see an old married couple
walking along, and really enjoying each
others society.
People find fault with me about all
sorts of things. While I was being
shaved this morning, the barber
growled to me because my brother
Bruce is hard to shave. Drake Wat
son.
The girls seem to be careless again
nine out of ten dresses you see on the
street cape in the back. The girls
should have that opening in front, so
they could see it when it is opened and
l. in 1t together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
QUAKER MEDTTATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record,

LF'rom the Philadelphia Record
Genius frequently knows no pay day.
1t is possible for the thermometer to
have late fall even in the spring.
A gas bill runs up so quickly be-
cause it has more feet than a cent?
pede.
The hotel clerk can always flatter an
old maid by assigning her to Suite 16.
Is it possible for a fellow to be bad
egg and at the same time be too fresh
A frivolous old woman always re-
minds us of an old cat trying to be
kittenish.
Some boys aspire to wealth and some
to fame, and some combine both by be-
coming baseball players.
Blobbs-''Why do poets always speak
of spring in the feminine gender?'
Slobbs-'I suppose because she is
usually late.''
Father" asked the youthful seeker
after knowledge, what is a despot?'
"A despot,'' replied the enlightened
parent, "a despot is a-we1l, it's some
thing like hired girl"
The man with the high hat was pass
ing a saloon when a gust of wind
came along. "Hello." exclaimed the
wind. catching sight of the high hat
''I'll blow you off,
Wigg-''That girl seems awfully care
less. She can never keep her shoe
laces tied Wagg-"That isn't care
lessness, you chump. Can't you SEE
what pretty ankle she has?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
A Generous Soul.

At railway station of a certain
Alabama town a number of passen-
gers, who were waiting for train
long overdue. had distributed them
selves on the platform, their feet
hanging thereover.
Presently there came along a ma
tive, a sour-faced individual. with a
rope in his hand. It subsequently
transpired that he was looking for a
stray mule. He came out of the bush
opposite the station and stood for
some time looking UP and down the
tracks. Then he directed his gaze to
the group of waiting passengers on
the platform with their feet hanging
over. He regarded them listlessly for
quite while, then suddenly he
called out:
Hey, there! You ALL"
"What is it?" demanded some one
startled by the sudden cry.
"Hist your feet!'
This Injunction to hist" was com
piled with by all with alacrity, fol
as they looked down over the plat
form they perceived a big rattlesnake
just coiling for a strike. A handy
grindstone was dropped on the rep
tile, dispatching it, of course. and
one of the men thanked the native
for his timely warning.
The latter smiled grimly. ST don
s'pose deserve much thanks" HI
said, "but some men who have los
a mule an been huntin' for it fol
three days would have been kindei
onery bout that snake. However
gents, there amt nuthin' mean 'bou
met" -Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29

try. That is, the stock raiser consti-
tutes less than 1 per cent of the farm
ing population and only about one
fifth of one per cent of the total
population. Thus, assuming that
the stock raisers are protected and
benefited by the duty on hides, it is
easy to see that for each stock raiser
thus protected 500 consumers must
pay higher prices for shoes. This
ratio is not a proper one, even from
the standpoint of the most ardent pro-
tectionist, or it should not be SO con-
sidered.
Writing to William Mckinley TWEEN
ty years ago on this subject. James
G. Blaine said of duty on hides: 1T
will yield a profit to the butcher.
only. the last man that needs it," The
butcher of today is the beef trust. and
the words of Mr.. Blaine are just as
true for today as they were when
they were penned a score of years
ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
A sAruRDAY SERMON.


Let every one of us please his neigh
Dor for his good to edtficatlon. Romans
XVI.
Altogether too much selfshness pre-
walls among the men and WoUen IN
the world of today. This is apparent
on all sides. In the hurry through
life and that is also one of the great
faflfngs of modern people, especially
those in this country, each man anc
woman. or rather most of them-for
there are exceptions in these respects
as in all others-appear not to give the
slightest concern for the welfare of
their neighbors. It's the same in social
activities as it is in those devoted to
business. It's apparently case. OF
everybody for himself.
This seems to have been one of the
weaknesses of human nature as long
as people have been on the earth.
That it was in existence in the CEN
fury of long ago when the apostle
Paul. was devoting his life and his
wonderful abilities to preaching words
of wisdom to all people is evident. else
the thought woul dnot have occurred TO
him to express the idea which is con-
viewed in the text. But it would seem
that this condition of affairs is more
aggravated at this period OF existence
than ever before. And. therefore
these words of Paul to the Romans are
especially forceful today. They are
we'll worthy the attention of all persons
who have a mind to better the cond1-
tfons surrounding them and their &C
quaintances, and also the strangers
with whom they come in contact, Tor
in it's broader Interpretation the word
"neighbor" includes every one who
crosses the path of another.
Talk to an elderly person of today,
and his memory will bark back to a
time when things were not always like
this. He will call them pleasant
memories, too. They will recall to him
the time when almost everybody was
interested more or less in the right way
in the affairs of his neighbors; when
everybody was ready and willing to
lend each other helping hand in all
things; when a generous hospitality
and a true courtesy were almost as a
second nature in the dealings of every
one with another. How different is
that delightful picture with the one
that it is not difficult to see anywhere
today. There is no need to dilate on
this picture ON modernity 1t is too
unpleasant and it is too familiar to
all. And it surely bespeaks of the
necessity for change in this respect
This world, fine as it is to live in,
would be a much better place, a place
where more real joy and happiness
would abound, if every man and wom-
an held their neighbors in more kindly
regard; if they stopped occasionally.
and the more often the better, in their
mad rush for business or social success
to do some little thing that would be
really pleasing to their friends and ac-
quaintances; that would show these
latter that their neighbors are inter
ested in their welfare. 1t is actually
the greatest pleasure in life for man
or a woman to do another good turn.
It brings happiness all around. And
the pursuit of these fine pleasures
should be more general.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29

les ana evergreen. A little flag was
stuck in an iron standard at the head
or the young soldiers grave.
Gilbert solemnly laid his cross on
the otner emblens- IT made a cross
muttered softly.
Wnen he Strengthened up his start
LED eyes looked straight into the soft
brown ones of Anna Plimpton.
- didn't know you were here
.nought everybody was gone. -
ne said aWkwardly. lingering his hat.
Il came back to look at 1t again .
she said, softly What a beautiful
cross-did you make it. Gilbert?"
He nodded curtly. at took your
advice, Anna, and thought things over
and guess the reason you won't
give me an answer is because I'm
such low-down, jealous minded fool.
olont feel quite SO mean after that
and I wanted to show him he
gestured toward the grave.
Anna came and stood beside him
Il have been sorry you felt that way
about him." she said in a queer little
voice; "but that is not the reas on
why have never answered your
question, Gilbert"
manded.
"Because-because you have never
asked me any question that I could
answer, Gilbert she half sobbed
You have beaten around and around
the bush and" She hid her face
against his rough coat sleeves.
"Why-why-it's an right now
then, amt it? he asked dazedly. as his
arm encircled her waist.
eyes"
SCI hope he don't mind" said Gill
bert, after a little while
I'm sure he Doesn't replied Anna
sweetly. as they passed out of the
little gate.
And even then Gilbert Butler did
not realize that he had not asked the
proper question.-(Copyri 1909
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
WHY?

Why should a man be a poet
great big, healthy man
VINO might be pudding furnace,
Or driving furniture van?
why should man be a poet?
Why should he dare refuse
To put out his hand to a shovel,
But hang to the skirts of the Muse?
why should Il man be poet?
What is the reason that he
should take it for granted a lady
should support him in luxury?
why should man be a poet?
Why should he dodge and shirk
The labor that good men are doing
Why doesn't he go to work?
Why should a man be a poet?
Why should he wander in quest
OF flowers in the fields of Parnassus
When farmhands are needed out west?
why should man be a poet?
my should he handle the pen
with uly-white fingers when railroads
Are looking for track-laying men2
Why should man be a poet?
Why should he stroll on the shore
At his ease by the sea or the lotus
While the muscles OF millions are sore
Why should man be a poet?
Why should he build Away
His fabrics of fancy while masons
Are earning five dollars a day?
Why should a man be a poet?
Why should he sing like a bird
Wh1le the rest of US work for a living
God knows, and He won't say word (,
New York Times.
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tives in his moving for the immediate
consideration of the income tax
amendment to the tariff bill. 1t was
charged that in making this motion
Senator Bailey played into the hands
of the opponents of the proposition
OF course, Senator Bailey is the last
man in the world who could be held
under suspicion for anything. Since
he has been in public life he has ac-
cumulated a large fortune, estimated
at more than a million dollars, and
his salary as a representative and
senator has never been more than ST.
500 a year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's great, good thing for many
persons that time flies as fast as it
does.
Most of the out and out baseball fans
are pessimists of the rankest sort.
y
The average man is about as awk-
ward in handling a baby as the aver
age woman is in throwing a ball.
n y
Evidences abound on all sides to
show that an excellent education is not
a necessity in the piling up of for
tune
Those who have it not are apt to be
among the most ardent advocates of
the theory that money is not the only
thing in the world worth striving for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
ADJUSTMENTS.

Wroten ad Loofe Linkenfusser, Dry
burg.
Here looking ad you, Looie: Today.
Looie. ISIS a day init crepe trimmings
IN dis willache. Formerly, Skatterday
was day uf delerious trimmings, but
dey hat changed der trimmings. ID ISIS
all ouf. Uf Teller hat thirst, he
might es veil dake id down und ge-soak
ID IN der kaw riffer.-vich ISIS der only
way ne can dampen i'd. Skfnce supper
time lasd efening, We hat peen
oopagensdid. We viii remain In der
same condition fer possuply skix err
sefen days.-unless some Won in
wendts away to make i'd in capsule
form pefore den. Der drought hat
infected de local poedts. es you may
opserf from der follering spassum,
wen 1 finded wroten on a drug store
| window nit a bar uf soap:
Der, glatsome spring-time vich iss
here
Canned disoel der blues.
Pecaus We cand't collect some beer
Nor yedt pinch uf boos"
Ply close ooserfation uf der verse.
l-(dit You effer see verse verse p
you will opserf. Looie, dot i'd ISIS ser
ious masser Ven potter begins to
spread stuff like dot. id ISIS time to
did someding. Id ISIS remarked dot
| a ounce uf prevention ISIS besser den
| a quart uf cure Uf dot poor poet
could hat secured his customary
ounce uf prevention dis morning, We
would hat peen ge-spared der symp-
| toms uf a hard demise vich he here
| egsibits. Fer mine. 1 dond't care a
dingle aboudt id myselluf. But fer
| you, Looie. volts faforide moosical
| instrum endt iss a kvadt Doodle. on
vich you delight to blay tree-finger
| egsercises,-fer yours, you had besser
sday away from hence fer fiddle vile.
But uf you do come, Looie, dond't
fergedt to bring your sigs-kvart va
| lise, und We will be glat to see yor
| Gaming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.l

from the New York PreSs.1
A woman seldom brags about her
brains even when she hasn't any.
A mans good deeds don't live after
him because they are only his I'M
agination.
When a man says he had boresome
evening the night before he means he
stayed home.
1t makes a man terribly sorry for
himself to have to stand anybody else
in the family being sick.
When a man can't blame his wife
for something he did and that went
wrong it's because he isn't married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29

DIR. William ]. Long. the former
clergyman and nature writer, and
who has been called the king of
mature takers" by Colonel Roose-
welt, declares that the Roosevelt hunt
ing trip in Africa is nothing but a
"butchery." He insists that the worst
feature of the whole bloody bust
enss" is the brutalizing influence
which the reports from Africa have
on thousands of American boys. DR..
Long surely forgets that this African
hunt is in the interests of science. Has
not Mr.. Roosevelt said so?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29

Vice President Sherman recentlv
administered a lesson in Doliteness to
the United States senators. He told
them that in the future he would in
sist on an enforcement of the rules
which provide that senators shall ad-
oress each other in the third person.
This lesson was needed. 1t will help
to do away with acrimonious asper-
tiles which some of the senators have
been INDUCING in of late.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29
FRON OTHER PENS
A YANKEE TRICK IN LONDON.

A YANKEE TRICK IN LONDON.
History failed to record the name
of the man who invented ice cream
soda, but London merchants are
heartily wishing he had never been
born. The opening by Chicago
merchant prince of big department
store in London did not in itself
create much disturbance, but the
store had not been open long until
John Bull was troubled and it re-
quired some little time to find out
what it was all about. In spite of
seductive bargains and fine assort-
ments of goods in the old stores the
women flocked to the new American
establishment.
Brother Jonathan had installed a
soda fountain and surrounded it with
comfortable chairs and the London
women had acquired the ice cream
soda habit and along with it a supply
of the comfortable feeling which
rendered them at peace with the
world and put them in mood to
part with pounds, shillings and pence
for goods sold over the American
counter.
AS an evangel of trade the ice
cream soda is proving more potent
than battleshios and not half so cost
ly, and unless some method is dis
covered of checking those American
habits, the first thing the Londoner
knows he will get UP some morning
fast while his wife goes downtown to
attend a bargain rush.-Omaha Bee.
THE FOOD PROBLEM.
The food problem has existed ever
since the world began. But to the
ever-present question of how one is
to get enough to eat modern scientists
are adding all sorts of complications.
The French and German doctors are
the busiest in this direction at present
and all sorts of extraordinary dis
coveries are set forth. One of them
is persuaded that our only chance
of living is to give up all other kinds
of food and subsist entirely on Gruy-
| ere cheese; this, he says, contains all
| the nutriment that is required by
| man: this theory has it's advantages;
think how it would simplify our
housekeeping. The restaurant keep
ers would not welcome the general
adoption of this diet. to be sure. and
| it might prove a little monotonous in
| time.
/ A much more interesting theory
| than either of these is put forth by
another professor. He says that our
| actions can be controlled by the food
we eat; certain salads will produce
certain mental effects; certain fruits
will induce certain states of the mind.
! Unfortunately he does not give to the
world these invaluable rules. If we
| only knew, how beautiful we might
] make this world Criminal courts
might almost be dispensed with. and
| impose would be to put an offender
upon a diet of strawberries and
| cream, for instance. However, know
4 ing that we can eventually reach such
a state. there is opportunity for in
/ teresting xperiments.-Boston Globe