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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFrom the Phi

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
No man wants to go to heaven by
the aeroplane route.
Some men tell deliberate lies and
others lie on the spur of the moment.
Man wants but little here below, ex-
cept the things he knows he can't get.
The husband of a club woman can
have his inning when he has a night
out.
1t sometimes seems as though sue
cess comes to a man in spite of him
self
If silence is golden would a marriage
between deaf mutes be called a golden
wedding?
The race is not always to the swift,
but that is no reason why a man should
emulate the tortoise.
IF the shoe fits wear it, is a time
worn saying; but with a woman if the
shoe fits she takes it off because it's
too biz
Siliicus-"Do you consider love a dis
ease?" Cynicus-"Yes; it always
makes me sick to see a young couple
in love-
Mrs. Muggins-'-So your husband
objects to seeing you in a decollete
gown Mrs. uggins-"No; he says he
objects to seeing so much of me out of
it,
THE more a man has the more ne
wants." quoted the Wise Guy do
you think you could possibly apply that
to the father Of seven children?'' asked
the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
DRUGGISTS, PERMITS.

considerable discussion mas Deen IN
dulged i'll of late on the necessity of
amending the prohibitory law so that
persons can not obtain druggists per-
mits to sell liquor quite as easily as
they are able to under present condi-
tons. A measure to this end has been
presented to the legislature by Fred S.
Jackson, the states attorney general.
But without entering into a discussion
of the features of this particular bill
it is evident that legislation of some
sort which seeks to accomplish this
purpose is most desirable.
This is apparent in every large CEN
ter of the state where an honest effort
has been made and with success to en-
force the prohibitory law by wiping
Joints and "speak easies'' of every
sort out of existence. In many such
localities the joints have been sup
planted by drug stores which have had
no trouble in securing permits to sell
liquor within the terms of the law,
which many believers in prohibition
think are all too liberal. A druggist
with a permit to sell liquor, if he has
the desire as many of them have, can
violate the law with considerable i'm
punity. And so there is need for fur
Their regulation of the sale of liquor
by druggists and also for the regula-
ton of the permits.
Whether or not the legislature takes
any action in the matter much along
this line can be accomplished under
the present law by probate judges of
any discrimination. 1t is these officials
who have the absolute say as to
whether or not permits to sell liquor
shall be issued. and it is refreshing to
see that the new probate judge of
Shawnee county, w. +. Schoch. is alive
to his duties in the premises and is
using a Discrimination which will I'M
doubtedly bring the number of drug
gists holding permits in this county
down to a reasonable figure.
Mr.. Schenck, the able Shawnee
county attorney who has done so much
in the way of enforcing the prohibi-
tory law in this locality has for some
time past been waging a war against
the issuance of druggists permits in
an indiscriminate fashion and the re-
suit of his activities is beginning to bear
fruit. He has collected a mass of in
formation as to the details of the bust
ness of many OF the druggists who
have waxed fat on their liquor trade.
He is presenting this to the probate
court when they make applications for
renewals OF their permits Will Lue re-
suit that many acquisitions for permits
are now being refused. or druggists
who have made applications for them
have been capable of seeing the hand
writing on the wall and have with
drawn their applications. This means
that within a reasonable tine, under
even the present conditions of the law
ON the subject, this particular evil will
be abated to a considerable degree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


[From the Chicago News.]
And a little kindness is a charita-
BILE. thing.
Women rule the waves of the matri-
monia1 sea-
The arguments of most men are
southland that's all.
The amateur gardener raises more
blisters than vegetables.
It's easier to say disagreeable things
than it is to do them.
There's hardly anything more use
less than a matchless matchbox.
Oftener the winner is in a position
to sympathize with the loser.
People who never change their minds
have no minds worth mentioning.
A wise man ceases to be wise when
he begins to boast of his wisdom.
How could the users of cigarettes be
expected to know they were harmful?
The financial failure of the girls
father has resulted in heart failure for
many a young man.
And many a woman who hasn't much
to say is apt to use entirely too many
words in saying it.
A married man is glad there is no
Mace like home when it is filed from
cellar to garnet with his wife's folks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

| such as was preserved in Spain,
such as is preserved in some other
countries. the real attitude of the
| American government toward the
church. He assumes that II we
| separate the church from the state
it means that the state does not ia
vor the church. / had the honor to
represent this country in transac-
ton of a business character with
Leo Kill at the Vatican, and there
L pointed out to him, with all the
emphasis possible, that the separa-
ton Of church and state was in the
interest of the church, and that In
America he could count on the sus-
tanning of the rights of the church
and its encouragement by every
legitimate means on the part of the
people, without its assuming any
governmental function or having any
other countries 1t comes over me
every once in a while, when I am
charged with accomplishing some
thing among a people, how abso-
lutely essential 1T is that we should
have the influence of the church be-
hind everything that we do"
There has been a good deal of
irresponsible talk in some quarters
of late that the churches of this
country. or many of them in various
sections of it are becoming decadent.
AS a matter of fact such statements
as these are far from being the
truth. There is hardly a religious
denomination in this land that is not
stronger in all ways today than it
was ten years ago, in the number of
its members, in the value of it's prop
erty and in the development of its
energies in many fields Nor need
there be any fear that the churches
of this land will fall into decay as
long as the nation endures. Any in
stitution, or agency, whose influence
is SO essential to a proper develop
ment of civilization as is that of the
church, which is pointed out so en-
phatically by Mr.. Taft, cannot pos
sibly deteriorate in any age such as
the present when high and fine in
telligence prevails and is being fur
Their developed among all classes of
people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.I


Everyone feels privileged to steal an
apple from farmers wagon.
Most people eat as though they were
fattening themselves for market
We never knew a woman or a boy
who wouldn't run a mile to see a fire.
If you have a hole in your stocking,
it is a sign there is a letter in tha
postoffice for you.
When the girls rave about A man
when he first comes to town, in three
months they want to set the dog on
him.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed man who puzzled his brain with
trying to discover the cost mark" of
the storekeeper he traded with?
A woman will endure a good deal
rather than cut in on her personal APP
pearance- Women realize the power of
tears. but the men are satisfied thew
would cry oftener il 1t didn't make
their eyes red.
Pneumonia and the Indians are a
good deal alike: When a man went
overland in the early days, either the
outfit ahead of him, or the outfit be-
hind him, was attacked by Indians.
Though there were many fierce stories
about the Indians, this is as near as
any one we ever knew came to heinz
attacked. A man who has a cold is
Threatened" with pneumonia or s'al-
most" has pneumonia, put real pneu-
monia is as rare as an attack by the
Indians.
Il have lately adopted a new rule:
After I have investigated a subject
thoroughly, and decided what should
do, do exactly the contrary 1 have
made so many mistakes result of
trusting my judgment. that this seems
a wise course. In thinking over INV
past life, it seems to me would have
been better off had adopted NV
present rule long ago; in most thinps
have done, the reverse would have
been very much better. Hereafter 7
shall copper my judgment: 1 believe
this is term used in a gambling game
known as faro. do not know the
game, but know some of the phrases
A good many men who do not nIav
poker. laugh at poker jokes in theatri.
lcal performances.'-Par Irvine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Money may talk but it isn't RESPONSE
BILE for near as much noise as is the
lack of it.
When all is said and done most OPP
portunities which come to a man are
developed by him.
X X 4
Among the incorrect beliefs is that of
the tramp who has an idea that he
ought to be helped.
X X \
If the truth were only known prob
ably all the fast running records have
been made by the gas meters.
X x
Surely is there great satisfaction in
the thought that most men and things
are not quite as bad as they are
painted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
JAYHAWKER JOTS

This weather no doubt seems un-
| usually chilly to the new man on the
water wagon.-Sedgwick Paragraph.
| The Fort Scott Republican thinks the
| Coneland fire fought to be good for al
| least 10 Or Is per cent raise in fire In
surance rates in Kansas"
Most men wait until they have one
foot in the grave before they discover
that they have a mission in life to per-
| form.-Nickerson Argosy.
An eight-foot vein of coal was discov-
cred at Carlyle, Allen county, this
| week. Carlyle is in the gas belt, where
coal is sometimes greatly needed, says
Charlie Blakesley.
Lawrence will smile with approval
over the fact that Madame Nordica
found ottawa to be such a quiet place
that she, slept the whole day when she
stopped there, says the Salina Journal
Wellington is to have much larger
car shops. This will mean more en-
ployes, which in turn will mean bet
ter attendance at the Kansas league
bah games, comments the Hutchinson
News.
Attention is called by the Emporia
Gazette to the fact that the return of
E W. Hoch to Marion has resulted in
leggers have been run down and sent to
Jail.
An Ellsworth paper announces that
trapper in the Ash creek neighbor-
eagles and adds: "This is great
catch, and we congratulate Ed on his
success. He will realize a dollar a
head for the tail feathers OF each
eagle
A very sympathetic woman stood
near Superintendent Willis of the Sol
diers' Orphans home in Atchison re-
Gently, and watched the 165 children
file by. 1.-The poor little motherless
dears," she said when one class of lit
tie ones went by. How hard it must
be for them to be orphans, and among
strangers" To which the superintend-
ent dryly replied: 'Of the twenty just
passed, madame, only three are moth
erless.'' And that is the case so often
that it looks as if the shiftless. the i'm
provident and those lacking every ma
ternal and paternal instinct, are i'm
posing upon the charity of the state.
''Shiftlessness and laziness," says the
Globe, ARE greater factors in filling the
state charitable institutions than sick
ness bad luck or death. Most of the
children at the home have parents. who
should be compelled to care for them.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Those who have COWS that give four
and five gallons of milk and consider
ably more each day, and think that
they have something out of the ordi-
nary in the way of milk producers, will
probably be surprised at the perform
ances of the COW that has set the high
water mark for milk and butter in this
country. This COW is a Holstein and
the greatest amount of milk that she
has given in one day totaled SO quarts.
or more than thirteen gallons. From
this was made STA pounds of butter.
Ter record for week is s25 quarts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Mr.. Wilmarth, the local fire chief,
and others are entitled to their opinions
on the efficiency of rope fire escapes,
but a public officials opinion should
never preclude his enforcement of a
law to the letter as long as it remains
in force. There are many laws which
are not deemed wise by certain public
officials who have the administration
of them but this fact should not, nor
does it usually prevent them from see
ing that these laws are lived up to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
Men Neglect Fasllins.

Most men nowadays do not get much
pleasure from dress, and scarcely
notice the change of fashion in mems
clothes. They are vaguely aware that
hat looks odd when its shape is old
fashioned; and they accept the hat of
the moment because they do not wish
to look odd themselves. But this is a
merely negative interest. They are also
apt to be contemptuous of women's
greater interest in the fashions, as if 1t
were a mark of frivolity
This is an ignorant mistake. Dress
Is or ought to be an art and therefore,
if only a minor art it is a more serious
matter than any of the games to which
many men give so much time and
pains. Besides, men have only become
Indifferent to their clothes in modern
times.
In the heroic age OF Elizabeth they
made themselves as smart as peacocks.
Great soldiers and poets then took
pains to be in the height of the fashion
and fashions changed with some vio-
lence and rapidity. In the eighteenth
century, too, which we do not think of as
a time of effeminacy, and when men were
wanting neither in enterprise nor in
seriousness, they were as splendid and
extravagant in their dress as women
London Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

CFrom the New York Press.1
The first time a man makes a public
speech he can't seem to begin; ever
after to end.
A woman can figure out that a mole
under her left ear has mystic infiu-
ence on her destiny.
The chief lesson that history teaches
US about what fools men have always
been is how we keep on being just
like them.
The time a man is surest he knows
how to farm is when there is a foot
of snow on the ground so he can't
prove it
One reason a woman can respect a
man when she knows he isn't worth it
is the way he won't worry over not
going to church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Ali that fuss about the possibility of
the turning loose of two or three hun
bred Oklahoma convicts from the
states penitentiary ito prey" upon the
people of Kansas seems to have been
out of order. If these convicts are to
be paroIed they are to be taken to
their homes in Oklahoma This is but
another instance that efforts are de-
voted too often to making mountains
out of nnolehiIls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Because no enacting clause had been
placed in the measure, the anti-lobby
bill will have to be reconsidered by the
legislature. And this is not the only
defect in the proposed law. 1t has
many that make it altogether too
drastic. Not few members have be-
gun to realize this and perhaps the
measure will not have such easy sled
ding on its return trip through the
legislative mill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Some individuals and newspapers,
particularly the New York World and
the New York Sun, will probably ex-
press the opinion that no one is better
fitted to fay and lash the demagogues
than Mr.. Roosevelt as he has done in
his latest contribution to the Outlook
They'll argue this way on the theory
that inasmuch as it takes a thief to
catch thief, so the person who is best
fitted to tear the hide off demagogue
is q demagogue and that is their pet
characterization of the president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Some people are most unreasonable
and in this category may be placed the
Chicago Tribune. 1t wants Mr.. Roose-
velt- while on his hunting trip in
Africa, to be sure and ascertain wheth-
er or not there is any such creature as
the shark or the giasticutas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Another peculiar thing about the 60
ings and comings of Governor Haskell
of Oklahoma is that instead of travel
ing around with his private secretary
his companion is generallv the adjutant
general of the state. Is this an indica-
tion that Mr.. Haskell fears the need of
getting the army and navy of the state
to his side at moments notice?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Congress and the other folks at
Washington are certainly getting good
to Kansas. The state university is
finally allowed its old claim against
the government for $4,000 for the de-
struction of the old Free State hotel,
which was portion of its property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

which yielded 1922 pounds of butter.
These records are vouched for by the
Wisconsin state agricultural college,
and form not the least of many inter
esting features of an article on cows
and dairying which apears in the cur
rent number of Golfers Weekly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Here's some real news via a dispatch
from Pittsburg, Pa: The Atchison,
Topeka & Santa F'e railway is classed
as one of the Hartman lines. But
like some news, the chances are that
this is far from being reliable. The in
terest in the way of Santa Fe stock
that is owned by Mr.. Hartman or
that clique of financiers which is
known as the Hartman crowd is
really infinitesimaI at the present time.
1t is so small that they haven't even a
wee voice in the management of the
property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

One of the duties that everysone owes
to himself and his neighbor is a visit
to the national tuberculosis exhibit
which is now on display in this city.
Many an idea can be picked up at it
that will help out in the campaign that
is to be waged by state and nation
against the great white plaque.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27

Pretty soon now it is reasonable to
expect an announcement from England
that she is going to build a couple of
battleships of 10000 tons burden. The
United States. it must be remembered,
has about decided to build two naval
monsters of $4,000 tons each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
REBIRTHs OF FASHION.

A Merry Widow hat by another
name and bequeathed from another
century shows that fashion. like his
tory, repeats itself. To a degree fash
ion is history. The Pompadour
couture, the Empire gown or Direc-
prince Albert" coat for men-which
does not come back because it is al
ways here-are reminders of periods
as we'll as styles. To their number
may be added in time the green hat
introduced by the present King Ed
ward. The military stories of nations
may be gathered from the uniforms
of their soldiers.
The recent discoveries in Crete show
that the wasp waist, the corset, the
elbow sleeves and the short skirt
were familiar to the civilization of
How insignificant, though still in
teresting, beside such a revelation is
John Colby Abbott's exhibition, upon
which these comments are founded, of
Marie Antoinette's straw hat, which
even exceeds today's Merry Widow"
in its extravaganza of inches.
In emulation of bygone dandies men
appeared in the London opera a few
seasons ago carrying tasseled canes
The Varicolored waistcoats of the
present moment are a revival of the
early sixties, which was in turn an
echo many times removed of a vastly
earlier original. Invention produces
new materials for dress of men and
women and cheaper ways of making
both the muff and the clothes. There
are feathers, lace and glittering trim
mings for the millions now where
Practically the only new thing about a
new fashion is the fresh stamp of the
generation that calls it back.-New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
EcbILL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Considerable hard luck for the San
Jose scale is to be found in the inclina-
ton of the legislature to appropriate
$1,000 to be used in bringing about it's
humiliation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
KiIIed a Ffve-Legged Deer.

Bert futile and two friends from
Manchester were up at the former
camp for a few days last week, and
while there shot a deer with a fifth
leg. The fifth leg protruded from the
shoulder in perfect form and hung
over, but a considerable distance from
the ground. It had all the usual bones
of the leg as far up as the knee. but
the leg was, of course. no assistance to
the animals locomotion. 1t apparent
ly was a protrusion from the skin alone
as there appeared to be no joint con-
Meeting 1t with the fieshy part of the
body-Littleton (Me.) Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
FRON OTHER PENS

INTEREST IN APPROPRIATION
A case was mentioned in a debate
in congress where man had eng1n-
eered a scheme through both houses
to advance the dear peoples interest
in some way. There was some senti-
ment connected with the scheme,
something relating to Fairgrounds for
children and a lot of roseate fancies
relating thereto. but when it was put
into execution it was noticed that the
hero who had worked
the scheme through congress got
about three-fourthS of the approprla-
ton made for the playground glorifi-
cation of the youth.
1t was really amusing the way he
evoked congressional eloquence for
the scheme. If there is anything an
ignorant man can display the pagean-
try of his Ignorance upon more than
another it is education, for to him it
is name and that is enough And
urging this scheme in the name of ed
ucation, it corralled enough riffraff
to carry itself through. There is much
legislation of this kind, where the real
animus is outshone by the glaze of
glory emitted by the scheme itself. So,
1t is always d sensible inquiry by an
appropriation committee who gets the
money, since the animus of a thing is
the best test of the scope of it
Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-27
Boots for school Children.

With a view to assisting parents In
poor circumstances who may be unable
TO send their children to school owing
to lack of boots a movement is being
carried on at Coventry for supplying
boots in such cases. The scheme is
known as the poor children's boot fund.
and the committee, which embraces head
teachers in the different schools, besides
the attendance officers and others inter
send out 500 pairs of boots during the
next few weeks Each pair bears spe-
cial stamp which is known to all the
local pawnbrokers SO that there is little
possibility of the gifts being improperly
dealt with by parents. The fund is raised
BY voluntary contributions, and since it
has been established some thousands OF
children have benefited in this way
London Standard.