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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09

drown. But if honest Investigations
were made in these cases most OF
such drowning deaths would be found
to be the. result of carelessness or
fooIhardiness, or of remaining in
cool water for such long time that
the body becomes numb and the mus
cles cramp so that it is impossible TO
make any of the variety of the SWIM
ming motions. Many cramps are also
duo +o persons going in for a swim
Immediately after hearty meals with
a proper degree of caution, however
there is little danger in swimming
and there is no telling when a cnlld
or a grown person, for that matter
will need to know how to swim in
order to save his own life or the life
of a friend.
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INSURANCE LIMITATIONS.

During the famous insurance 1nVeSti-
cation which was conducted by the au-
thorities of New York state in 1905, all
kinds of evidence was adduced to show
that many of the larger life insurance
companies were conducting their bust
nesses with a more than lavish hand
and that they were exceedingly ex-
travagant with their expenses. As a
result, among the various pieces of leg
islation which were subsequently
adopted by the legislature of the EN-
pire state for the control and regula-
ton of the insurance organizations was
a provision which made rigid linita-
lions of the expense that might be in
CURED by these companies in the
transaction of their business. There
was also another provision which linn
tied the amount of new business that
an insurance comma 49, might negotiate
in any one year.
These provisions of law have not
worked out with anything like satisfac-
ton to several of the larger insurance
companies. This was pointed out eff
fectively by President Kingsley of the
New York Life Insurance company to
the board of trustees of that organiza-
ton at their annual meeting which was
held a couple of months ago. In the
case of his COMPANY the limitation on
new business is $3.50 100000. In order
not to transact any more new business
than this it has been necessary for that
company to materially reconstruct its
methods of doing business. This has
necessitated a reduction in the number
of its employees on a large scale. But.
distressing as is such a condition of
affairs which throws hundreds of per-
sons out of employment. IT is not the
important point at issue.
Mr.. Kingsley told his directors that
If the laws did not set a Limitation on
new business it would have been pos
sible for the New York Life to have
produced insurance to the amount of
s175,000,000 during the year 1908 and still
have kept its expenses within the limits
prescribed by the statutes. Similar con-
ditions have likely developed among
the other large insurance companies of
worldwide scope which are amenable
to the laws of New York. Mr.. Kingsley
does not see why a company should be
limited on the amount of new business
it can do as long as it keeps within the
limitations of expense which are pre-
Vided by statute. Neither will many
other fair-minded men.
Discussing this subject some time
ago the New York Evening Sun said:
" Experiment was stamped all over
the insurance legislation of 1906 If ex-
perience has shown, what common
sense would have inferred. that the
limitation of expense makes the limita-
ton of new business superfuous, it is
time to modify the experiment. Mr
KingsIey's speech should be noted by
our lawmakers for its bearings on that
sound policy which encourages the am
bilious endeavors of Americans to
make their business grow"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe

[Fronl the Atchison Globe.1
Somehow nose glasses look more gen
teel than spectacles-
A good many brickbats are thrown
at society by those who cannot get IN.
People who have good sense in most most
other particulars, sometimes oeueNe
their friends are fond of them.
When a woman RECEIVERS from an ILL
mess she likes to tell how her husband
carried on, for fear he might lose her
Every day I hear more things
don't believe. I am becoming very t1red
of the folly that so many regard as
wisdom.''-Parson Irvine.
When you see a woman coming from
the union station, looking perfectly
content, you may know what mas nap
pened: her company has gone home.
1t is estimated that American hus-
Kin by marriage. Still, you seldom
hear a good word for American nus
bands.
Give a boy a piece of chalk. and place place
him alone with his conscience IN hronl
of a fence, and he will not write
praise the Lord" On the contrary,
he will write something that the first
man who comes along will rub out.
An Atchison rabbit lately hit a man.
while greatly excited, and made his
nose bleed Then he hurried up home,
got his wife and three children and
brought them down town to show them
the blood on the sidewalk
Life is made miserable most of the
time by some association LOT the Ao-
vancement of Human Welfare announc-
ing that it needs money, ana tnat peo-
nile really quite worthy are Tight
Wads, and mean We wish these as
sociations would go to pieces, and give
the people a long needed rest. An
association that is always clamoring
for money, is not needed in any COM
munity, and does more harm than good.
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QUAKER MEDITATToNs.


IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t takes a sharp tongue to make
cutting remarks.
Unless you look out for yourself
you won't see much.
Does a clock factory ever hang out
a sign Hands Wanted?"
The man who kills time is the as
sassin of his own opportunities.
The girl who screams when she is
kissed is generally fond OF screaming.
1t is undoubtedly good luck to
pick up pin, If it happens to be
diamond pin.
It's when she looks in the mirror
that a girl really feels she is out Of
sight.
The young man who is ambitious
for promotion might get Job with a
promoter.
You can't say a man is holding his
own when he puts his property in his
wife's name.
A dogs bark is generally worse
than HIS bite; but. unfortunately, a
mosquito doesn't bark.
Hoax-"Guzzler is always blowing
his own horn" Joaz-"Yes, he does
frequently go on a toot-"
Wigg-"Geei I'm hot: the perspIra-
ton is simply pouring down my spin
al column" Wagg-"Tve got crick
in my back, too"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.l
Matrimonial bonds are not nego-
table.
A wise man is continually ado
to his wisdom.
The sacrifice you are glad TO make
is seldom a sacrifice
A theatrical star isn't bright enough
to illuminate the stage.
People who think they are good
looking support the photographers.
Go slow, and you won't have to sit
down and rest, when you got there.
Occasionally q man breaks his
word while telling the truth-if he
stammers.
It takes more than paint and pow
der to alter the complexion OF a wo-
mans thoughts.
When il comes TO looking on the
bright side Of things one-sided views
are apt to be satisfactory.
When a young man gets engaged
to a girl he should marry her within
a week; otherwise she's apt to change
her mind.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Life is not any too short for some
persons.
Why is it that old bachelors appear
to be happier than old splnsters!
Retween what the average man
wants and what he gets there is quite
a gulf.
No matter how big a goose man
NAV be he has the satisfaction or
knowing that there are bigger ones in
the world.
A high class of summer fiction Is to
be found in the letters the men write
to their wives who are away for the
season.
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SWIMMING.

All the way from the Hawaiian
Islands comes an item of news that
ought to impress upon the minds of
all parents the necessity of seeing to
it that their children, boys and girls
alike, become proficient in the art of
swimming. This interesting bit of
news tells of the wreck of a small
power schooner in the sea a quarter
of mile from shore in which forty
two Sunday school children were en-
joying an outing. The accident was
such as to throw all of the occupants
of the boat into the water. Most of
these children were around the ages
of ten and twelve years. And the only
fatality that resulted from this serious
wreck was the death of an aged Ha-
waiian woman who expired from ex-
haustion. Each of the children could
swim and most of them easily made
the shore, some four hundred yards
away, while the others padded
around in the sea until they came
across driftwood which helped to keep
them ahoat until boats came from the
land to pick them up. Now if a sim
liar accident had happened to forty
two American children the chances
are that seventy-fve per cent of them
reached them. simply because they
would have been unable to swim.
There are few places in this coun-
try which are so far removed from
water that their inhabitants need not
know how to swim. Not only is this
art a most essential piece of equip
ment with which everyone should be
| provided in case of an emergency
| which is apt to confront one at any
| time. and especially in the summer,
but it is also a most healthful exer-
/ else which should be regularly in
/ dulged in. Then it is also the medium
| for all kinds of good fun and sport
And it is not difficult proficiency to
acquire. Confidence is its main re-
| quisite and this can only be obtained
| by continued efforts at swimming
with practice of the necessary strokes
| of the arms and legs to keep the body
| afloat- There is nothing at all to the
| theory that a child comes as natural
| " by swimming as does a dog or 9TH
| er dumb animal; and that all that it
ST necessary to do to teach a lad to
| swim is to toss him into water over
his head and depend upon his instinct
! to show him how to swim ashore.
This foolish practice, which is occa-
1 S1oually followed, uSua1ly makes
youngster deathly afraid of water for
/ the rest of his natural life Boys and
girls who have an opportunity to play
l around water daily can pick up swim
i ming on their own hook. but the best
! way to impart it to children is for
i older folks who know how to get In
the water with them and hold them
ahoat with a hand under the chest
while they are learning the strokes
This inspires the confidence that they
i need to keep themselves af1oat.
4 Sometimes an argument is heard
Il against swimming because 1t is fire.
I quently the best swimmers" who
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KANSAS cOAHENT

GOOD DEEDS OF MRS. SAGE
! The recent investigation abroad OF the
question of the worhngmens insurance
and the establishment of a gigantic EN-
ployment bureau, again call attention
| tc the bounty of Mrs. Russell sage. IN
\ less than three years she has given 1oI
public purposes and for the benent OF
mankind more than $25, 600, 600. she IS
not making a show of her charity, but
she is giving her money in a systemarlc
manner, and after careful investigation
to institutions where it Will 90 most
good. When Mrs. Sage, after her nus
bands death, set about distributing ner
wealth the causes of education, -renglon
and the aneHoration of human misery
appealed most strongly to her she mas
given about 81, SOC, 900 to religious work,
S., 600, 900 to educational institutions ana
$40 600 900 to the Sage Foundation.
With funds from the Sage FoundatloI'
a careful study of workingmen,s lnsuI-
ance at home and abroad mas -oeeH
made This work has been gong on
for more than a year and report Is
expected soon.
Another investigation into the estap-
lishment of a national employment Du-
reau in New York city, which has peeh
conducted with funds from the sage
Foundation was recently 1olloWeu ny
the installation of the National FIN n
uIoyment Exchange. Such capltal as
was needed TO supplement lndlVlo tIs
subscriptions was contributed from the
Sage fortune.
Here IS I case where vast wealth. az
formulated by a hard-hea0ed business
man who gave nothing, is being dis
tributed in a way that will do more
for the benefit of mankind than all the
money ever given by the late h. H.
Rogers, by the living John D. Rocke-
teller or the entire crowd of their INK.
With all of her liberality Mrs: sage
has enough left to keep the Vol from
the door, and when she comes TO ole
she will certainly leave more Iren1S
to mourn her departure than DID h a
Rogers, who might as easily have mace
himself loved by doing good deeds Wnlch
his vast wealth would have enabled MN
| TO do And if there is a reward IN the
hereafter, and most of US believe there
is she will receive a reward Tor her sooo
deeds.-Wichita Eagle.
SOMETHING REALLY ASSURING.
1t is refreshing to read the statement
of Signor Forrero. an Italian historian
that the trouble between American cap
IitaI and labor would gradually lie SET
tied without bloodshed. There nave
been so many predictions by 1ndlV1oua I
on both sides of the controversy thaC
| the country was to be involved IN
| bloody war all on account OF a rev
| billions of dollars. that we had pegun
! TO look upon it as a certainty For
| This reason this reassuring note from
so reliable a source is really dellghlIul
and we can again resume the more
! n1easant occupation of beating our
swords into pillow shares and our spears
into pruning hooks.-Wichita Beacon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09

Waldemar, the artist?''
81 am, though / was much happ Ter
as Sherman, the gardener. But-ao
you like the picture2 Do you miEd
my having painted you? 1t Is far
rrayself-for my own. It is the har-
vest OF my lilies
IT know, now" she said In a low.
sad tone, what it was you meant
had restored to you. It was the desire
to paint"
r. MOI he protested. mot that. You
restored my-faith. No, Glare, love
YOU, and you copyrighted
1907, by Associated Literary Press.)
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the state Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address at the rate of ten
cents a week or thirty cents a month
(by mail on1y.l Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the state Journal viii be to you Hike
a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
Bookkeeping expenses
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urally be expected, they arrive at later
date. All of this suggests that the
work of building bikes. Strengthening
out streams and taking other precau-
tionary measures against floods should
be carried on necessarily until the point
is reached where the possible damage
that may be done by them will be re-
duced To 2 minimum
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

from the NEW AOIA AASS7-I
A girl whose parents think she can
sing is awful smart not to.
An old man with young wife makes
her appear like dancing on crutohes.
What makes 1t easy for a man to
wake up early is If he has nothing to
do and could just as we'll stay In oea
late.
We are all so susceptible to hattery
that we like 1t even when We are
ashamed to know we are being made
fools of by it.
A woman viii -cheerfully pay ten dol
lars a month more rent for house in
the country that has a name which
looks nice on her writing paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09

More than half of the delights of
eating watermelon will be tossed to the
winds If that melon of individual size
(which has been found in Roumania is
1ransplanted to this country AMI grown
on such a scale that it will supplant the
fruit of this variety which is now so
popular and common here. What will
de the fun of eating a watermelon IN
less q fellow can have a piece of suf-
dcient size in which he can bury his
face while taking a bite?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09

President Reyes of the republic of
Colombia recently started for Europe
IN a business and pleasure trip.
scarcely had he departed from his home
shores before a revolution was begun
10 overthrow the government he has
Established. There's no use talking,
ipvhen the cat is away the mice will play,
and particularly in South America.
Reyes ought to be able to get little
sympathy from Clip Castro. who is also
Isojourning abroad.
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HUAOR OF THE Day

Better not wait for Charlie any
longer. You know what 1t is when
fellow is calling on his girl" "Ah.
there they are nowi He Is just bidding
her goodnight" CAN right: let US so
and have a game OF billiards. Wen
just have time Life
why don't you say thank you John
ME when you are handed snything?"
said Mrs. Brown at the table; your
little Johnnie; shes a woman and al
ways wants to have the last word
Once Week.
Ma" said Bobby, "is it wrong for lit
tie boys to tie tin kettles to dogs tails7'
Decidedly wrong, Bobby; I hope you'n
never do such thing as that" mo.
indeed. ma" replied Bobby. emphatical-
"; AL do is to hold the dog."-Har-
per's Bazaar.
she-Yes;. adore a big. broad
shouldered, brainy. handsome looking
sudden.-Columbia Jester.
she-Do you think it would take
you long to learn to love a girl? He
Il don't know. How long have you
got ?-Yo nkers Statesman.
Spigot-Johnson ran his motor car
into a building yesterday; Faucet
-
garage!-Comic Cuts.
''All the worlds a stage" But the
play is no melodrama. In real life.
girl never spurns a fellows love, no
matter how great a rogue he may be.
| Always tries to let him down easy"
Louisville Courier.
Flip" "Lobsters?" yes" "oh.
this is so sudden!'-United Presby-
terrain
matrimonial bureau?" ooh. any
bureau that has five drawers fun of
| women's fixings and one mans tie in
it."-Houston Post.
Judge Cat the close of triaD-
Prisoner, you may have the last
word. Prisoner turning to his wife
| in the audience)-Do you hear that,
old lady ?-Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Country Drummer with cigars)-
Pardon me; have you a match? VII
lage Loafer tentatively hut
hain't no se-gar. Country Drum
need the match!-Chicago News.
81 suppose you will always be
ready to answer when your country
calls you?" yes" answered Senator
Surghum. land what's more. II I see
any occasion when 1 can be OF SER
vice, won't stand on cerem ony with
my country. I'll speak first wash
| ington Star
''Say. par" well sonny?" Amt
| there no sure cure for snakebite 'cept
whisky?" What makes you ask so
many fool questions? Who cares
whether there's any other or not2"-
Cleveland Leader.
what is that old adage about "A
penny saved. etc?" queried the youth.
| "A penny saved by the old man
1 means a dollar burned by his son in
! after years." answered the wise guy.
Chicago News.
| "And do you expect to read all
| those books in your library?" Read
all of them? should hope not; I
shall be perfectly satisfied If ever
get all of them paid for."-Detroit
| Free Press.
| She-The idea of you saying that a
/ woman can't keep a secret. Why. I
| have a secret I'm keeping this very
| moment, told me by Madge Pert
| about herself and Mr.. Wilson, and
| tell 1t because it isn't to be an
nothing on earth would induce me to
nounced until next month-Boston
Transcript.
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Something like a sure-enough Daniel
has come to judgment in Washington,
ID. c. In the police court there the
Judge has laid down the law that piano
playing and singing is just as disorder
~ conduct after midnight as is cursing
or fighting. It is to be hoped that sim
Star decisions will be made all over the
hand. The operation of talking ma
chimes should be placed, under the same
han with late piano playing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09

According to the Square Deal the
state of wurttemberg, Germany. spends
yearly $2.05 an acre on its forests, and
secures a yearly net income of $3.50 an
acre. France spends 50 cents an acre
and earns S1.75 an acre. The United
states spends .0O93 cents an acre and
receives .OOOS6 an acre. Such compari-
sons as these are too odious to be COM
niented on extensively.
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No news has come from the wilds
of Africa for some time. There may
be a variety of reasons for this and
it is not at all improbable that a good
one is that the supply of roaring
lions, peaked-horned deers. etc, has
nm short
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09

If Francis W. Cushman. the late rep
resentative in congress from Tacoma,
Wash, who died in New York the other
day, looked more like Lincoln than any
other public man of recent years, his
n,hotnerar,ts fail to show 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09

It occurs to the Philadelphia Ledger
that there is something marvellous in
the fact that a tree will tower for de-
cades unscathed of storm and get struck
by lightning the first time any one seeks
shelter under it from the rain
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RuriaIs in the Abbey.

The question of the establishment OF
an INDEPENDENT authority to decide VINO
is and who is not to be buried In west
minister Abbey is larger than people
sunnose. The vesting of peculiar au-
thoritv in deans is of misty origin, ana
in no case is it less definite than IN the
case of the collegiate church or st
peter. Westminster. The relationship
Of a dean. with his peculiar authority.
to the bishop of the diocese is very ol1-
f1c,1lt to define. Certainly the dean OF
Westminster is entirely independent OF
ecclesiastical authority, save IN respect
to his personal character. or course
the abbey has become q Valhalla, put
If a noneccIesiastical authority had the
decision. in what way could it also
make a decision as to the religious ser
VICE 70 be held? Curiously enough,
that is the real question. though in our
folerautt day it seems to be absurd. MOI
will dfsestablishment release the slngu-
lar authority of deans, unless cathe-
drals are taken from the church alto
gether. which is not at all likely 1t
was no mean authority who said An,
yes bishops are essential to the exist
ence of the church, and deans are only
an accident: but you can't prevent &C
cidents'' The position is curiously
illustrated by the phrase, Dean and
Chapter." Who ever heard nowadays
of a chapter having an idea OF its
own?-Dundee Advertiser.
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Seemingly it is an impossibility for
any locality in Kansas situated on
creek or river to dodge a Hood Of some
proportions during the course of year.
Il they don't come in the late spring
pz early summer when they might nat
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FROM OTHER PENS

THE LAST SENIOR WRANGLER.
This years results of the great
mathematical examinations at cam
bridge university were awaited witt
unusual interest, within and without
the colleges, for two reasons. Tne
rivalry between Trinity and st. John s.
ALWAYS extreme, was intensified be-
cause these colleges were matched Ior
fbe distinction of turning out the
oreafest number of Senior Wranglers;
ca CHI having a record of IS such honor
men. More significant was 1t that
this years winner1in the examinations
would be the last to be called senior
WrangIer, of a line distinguished
which dates from 1747. A Trinity man
was announced as Senior WrangIer;
trinity also produced the Second
Wraneler. The third was st. john, s
man an American, Mr.. L. J. Mordell
OIL 1 T lrlisaf re the mathematical
tripos.' while being divided as hither-
to into wranglers, senior ana yunlor
outlines, will not be further divided TO
give distinction to the eh1eftalns unoer
the respective classihcations- Con
tenders who get into the lists VIII take
nosition according to the alphabetical
order if their names. Only the ex.
aminine board will have an mixing OF
those Who would be entitled to the
ancient championships. The passing OF
the Senior Wrangler seems like the
dissolution of a British institution OF
no small ce-ProVloehce
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