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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
A VALUABLE VICTORY,

Future accomplishments in the ad-
ministration of Topeka's civic affairs
will undoubtedly prove conclusively
that the voters made no mistake yes
terday when they registered their de-
cision to try the commission form OF
government. It is to be regretted that
the vote was such light one in pro-
portion to the population of the city,
and that the majority which carried
the day was not a larger one, although
it was by no means small. A PROPOSE
ton OF this sort ought to be adopted or
rejected in most emphatic manner.
Still. it is reasonable to assume that
the vote as it was polled is representa-
tive to a fair degree of the sentiments
of the entire people of the city, and on
this basis If full city vote had been
cast the majority in favor of the plan
would have been handsome one.
Now that this most important ques-
ton has been settled it is incumbent on
every individual in the city to do his
part to help the first trial OF the COM
mission scheme of government on to
the largest possible success. In this
number should be all those who were
honestly opposed to the adoption of
the plan. They lost in a fair fight and
they should let it go at that, as they
pro- bly, will, because all of them, for
the most part. are public spirited citi-
Gems of the right type And the way
to achieve the success desired is to
make it a point to select the best pos
sible men for the commissionerships
Five Of them are to be elected. They
are to have exclusive control of the
management of the city. Their powers
will be great. The more capable the
men who are chosen. the better will be
the results. for, regardless of the local
criticism which was launched against
it of late the commission method of
government is superior in all ways to
the council and mayoraIty plan and
great things in the way of municipal
rule OF the efficient sort can be accom-
plished under it.
Topeka has any number of men who
are fitted for the tasks that the city
commissioners will have to perform
La fact, there is some excellent timber
of this sort in the present official fam
lily of this city, men of experience and
worth in the fields to which they might
be called. It's a little early to discuss
candidates for the commission that
will not come into existence for some
months yet but it might not be bad
plan for the voters to keep this i'm
portant matter in mind from now on,
and if this is done, by the time the pri-
maries and the election for the COM
missioners have come around the very
best of the candidates will be chosen.
= Yesterday was really an epoch-mak-
ing one in the history of Topeka and
perhaps it is not INDUCING in any
fanciful prophecy to say that before a
couple of years have passed, most of
the men who were so sincere in their
opposition to the commission form of
government will be among the loudest
in its praise. That's the way things
have worked out in other cities where
a change to the commission plan has
been brought about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Two more bombs, making thirty
three in all, have been touched off In
Chicago. destroying much valuable
property as we'll as endangering human
life. 1t is thought that these bombs
are being tossed about by factions in
the gambling fraternity in that city
that are at war with each other. But If
bomb throwing was INDUCED in on such
a large scale in some European city,
say one in Russia, the newspapers in
every civilized land would get black In
the face with remonstrances against
such outrages and would insist that the
time had arrived for intervention from
the outside
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

trate farther and farther into the land
The rural mail routes traverse nearly
every country road in these parts, and
as these are really post roads, it might
not be bad idea If the postal au-
thorities should promote some ample
and uniform guide post system. The
cost of construction and maintenance
of guide posts would be trivial when
compared to their usefulness. They
would not alone be helpful to the
stranger, but their legends would be In
structfve in many cases to the ma
tfvps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

ha paanG Rslbe yer give man a JOB. yer
paint.-Punch.
Herr Schubert am irving to make vour
parrot talk. but he won't. Newly Knishsd
Paryenue-Ah, he won't talk to ordinary
people now.-Mesgendorfer Blaetter.
to b,s,n seem tt to be sticking pretty close
terrible strain on a man." -Pittsburg Post
auEsa aat the Is essmsss IL sea wae5 IN
s sE ssdiqR P1s fna I'VE. what
Little ,Bobby's Ma-Josiah, Bobby has
been been using Elang again today Little
got 3o c, paH # see here kid, You've
See?-Browning's Magazine.
insurance? Mrs. .Lynne-Yes' indeed s I've I've
realized $4,000 from two flusbands' and
tney weren't very good ones. either
hMaglstrate 1discharging prisoner)-Now,
from bad mo oompa aayise you to keep away
again--Lippincott's Magazine
She says it's from choice ssWhose9"H
OicVeidHu ram Dealer.
Miss Bronx-Jack Is a nice bow. but
cant ca marry him: wish he would forget
s an ABOUT me. Mr.. Harlem-Just lend him
some money and he will-Judge
~, First Golfer-WeIl done. old chap, That's
me longest ball I've seen you drive vet
second G-Tm afraid the Credits NOT ali
nine A beast of a wasp touched me m
IN the middle of my swing.-Punch.
Our family is awfully exclusive, said
one Htlle girl to another who had iust
M sa0, INTO the adjoining flat. lis yours p"
on, no. replied the other I'VE haven't
anytning to be ashamed of"-Chicaro
Stella-Is she in her decIinr wears,
Belia-No; her accepting years.1Judge.
ar. what sort of a woman is his wife7,
splendid She refused three Invitations
70 JOIN afternoon card clubs'-Detro,t
Cholly-Doctor, I want something for my
mead DIR. Gruffly-Mr dear fellow
wouldn't take it as gift-Ideas.
You should have faith in human ma
lure said the man of kindly instincts
yes, sneered the New York ofYioiaI
and lose my job as customs inspector -
II have here poem" sTs 1t a poem of
any serious .purpose?'' inquired the editor
of the Highbrow Magazine .FYes. Sir: Il
was written to pay wash bill with 81
Louisville Courfer-Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

1t is no wonder that the disorder
which has kept Thomas Benton Muir
dock on a sick bed for a long time is
of the nervous variety. His task of
being compelled to run an important
Rnd expensive state department with
out any funds would be apt to put the
strongest of men in such condition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New ]

IFrom the New York Press.1
Nobody knows enough to know it
isn't as much as he imagines.
Having wisdom is knowing there is
mighty little of it in the world.
Quoting the Scriptures is a sign it is
nauch easier than to live UP to them.
The man who knows how to make
love the best knows how to love the
worst.
A girl wants a husband for all the
appineSS she thinks there is in mar
riage; a widow for all the unhappiness
she knows there is out Of it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

daughter finally stopped him one day
IS he was passing and asked:
Doctor, do you regard Mr.. Dart as
thoroughly cured?"
"No. ma'am. I DON'T was the
prompt reply. HE is in love with you,
end if you don't say yes within a fort
night he's liable to go into commissions
and swallow his Adams apple"
Mr.. Dart was not called upon TO con-
lse.-(Copyrighted. 1909, by Assoc
cjated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

According to Professor Georgeson,
a special agent of the federal depart
ment of agriculture, Alaska will be a
land not only of ice fields and noun
tains of gold but also of fair green
astures, wheat fields and pleasant
gardens of fruit, flowers and vegeta-
bles. That is just what Kansas already
IS except as to the fields of ice and the
mountains of gold, and in reality the
latter are few and far between even
- Alaska. But the pile of gold that is
made in Kansas each year through
the sale of its voluminous crops makes
the Alaskan output of the yellow
metal look like thirty cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Another war of the opera bouffe type
Sc in progress in South America. Sal
vador and Nicaragua are now at It,
one of them may possibly give the
ether SO much as slap on the wrist
before long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Indications are to the effect that the
year 1909 will take its place as
one of the most prosperous in the his
tory of the United States. And yet
there are some folks who insist that
there is nothing like a good prosperity
nrevailinR these DAYS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

School authorities in New York and
elsewhere are issuing edicts to compei
the girl students to do away with rats
puffs and other false hirsute append
ages. AS a corollary they should also
crusade against the vivid socks which
are worn by the school boys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

One of the famous prima donnas Is
being sued by her husband for deser-
ton. She replies that the only founoa-
ton for the charge rests in the fact
that she has refused to give him any
more money. Surely, that's sufhcent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Even cannibals are not as particular
as they should be. Reports from the
Admiralty islands indicate that they
eat Chinese with quite as much avioity
q 6 they do Englishmen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Perhaps this is another reason why
the Philippines should be given up. The
wind blows there occasionally at the
rate of 135 miles an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
FROM OTHER PENS
CRITICISM OF COURTS.

No lawyer, no citizen, no newspaper
should attempt to cast reproach upon
the character of judge of a court. in
a personal malevolent spirit. But
when anyone whose relations to the
public are such that he feels that he
is regarded in a sense as a watch
man on the outer walls, and who sin
cerely believes that the official acts or
the personal conduct of Judge are
such that the public has a right to
know, he will not withhold the in
formation and hold his peace, unless
through fear, and coward cannot be
a good citizen of free country.
Who will say that when a man has
been elected to the Office of a judge
that he at once becomes SO hedged
about with the sacredness of his Of
fee as to be immune against criticism,
no matter what he may say or do :?
Who will say that he is in no way &C
countable to the public. or that part
of the public that may have trusted
him, and which he has vowed to
serve? It may be said that the law
provides a way to get rid of a judge
who abuses his powers, OF if he be-
comes corrupt, that is by impeach-
ment. That is true; but in our state
some and expensive. The state senate
is the tribunal before which cases of
impeachment are to be tried, and 1t is
composed of 33 men from all parts of
the state. And in such a court there
is always chance that party politics
may be allowed to enter, and men
may be led to vote this or that way,
paying little attention to facts,
through party bias.-Knoxville Jour
nal and Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

That the erection of guide posts along
the country roads would be most
acceptable to all parts OF the country
is pointed out clearly and concisely by
the Washington Star in the following
words: Country roads are becoming
more and more to be public ways. The
increasing use of the automobile each
year enables a growing number Of per-
sons to use country roads. and to pene-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Presumably there are no animals lett
In Africa which are worth killing. Col
onef Roosevelt plans to leave that
country sooner than he had intended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

New York is not SO superior to To-
reka after all. Milk is selling in the
nations metropolis for only cent
more per quart than it is retailed Tor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Old Nature appears to be the one
who is responsible for the present cor
ner in the cotton market. rms Is
tough luck. There's little Satisfaction
in denouncing Nature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
AUTUMN.

days
To gray from summer blue.
The songbirds haste from the sylvan ways
Just as they always do
Inc ruSticators with pockets shrunlS,
dave hied them back to the homeward
bunk,
And the. baggage jugglers have smashed
each trunk
Just as they always do.
The story is told from year to year;
Inere.s nothing entirely new.
Inc IalreSt blossoms must disappear,
Just as they always do.
The statesman grave and the hummer
arrange for the annual display:
ana the people prepare to politely pay,
Just as they always do
Washington Evening Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
DUE DELIBERATION.

Probably you are old enough to re-
member the Brownsville affair. The
affair itself is old enough to be for
gotten by most people. Probably most
of the soldiers concerned have drifted
into other lines of work, and have
lost interest. But the government
hasn't, and is still paying the expenses
of fat officials while they CAD about
the country, and give the matter such
investigation and deliberation as the
emoluments of the job warrant. They
will make trip to Brownsville in Mo-
vember to gather a few more facts
concerning the matter. The facts
were pretty well heralded to the
world at large when the affair hap
pened three years ago, but the world
at large isn't gathering information
at the expense of the government, or
it might not be SO greedy.-Atchison
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
KANSAS COMNENT
IMPROVING THE ROADS.


Taxes are necessary. and always will
De necessary until the Utopian plan of
government has been perfected and put
into operation, and it Is pretty gener-
ally agreed that it is better to tax the
IuXurles than the necessaries of life.
It is better to put a good stiff
tax upon grand piano than
upon the lumber wagon with which the
INDUSTRIOUS citizen earns his living.
Wnen things are properly adjusted. the
snowy driving horse will be taxed five
times as much as the draft horse that
hauis pillow. though the latter may be
worth the most money. And man
should be taxed more for his whiskers
than for his clothes, for the whiskers
are an ornament, while the rags are
necessary.
Just now there is a great deal of
wholesome discussion of the good roads
proposition in Kansas. 1t is agreed
tnat this is one of the really vital ques-
tons or the time. There is no man
with so good a command of figures that
he can estimate the advantage to Kan
sas that will follow a general system OF
good roads, but everybody who has
given the matter thought knows that
such a system will be the greatest
thing that ever happened to this state.
There is a general demand for good
roads; but road building costs great
deal of money, and the people wonder
where the money is going to come from.
Emporia has solved a local problem of
the kind, through the enterprise and
generosity of her business men. but 1t
is improbable that many communities;
could reach the same solution, and a
state wide movement of that sort Is out
of the question.
One good plan would be to begin by
taxing the luxuries, and automobiles
are luxuries. Any man who can afford
an automobile can afford to pay a tax
of 800 year, and ought to pay it
cheerfu1ly, since he will derive more
anybody else. If an automobile is a
luxury with the roads as they are, It
will be doubly a luxury when the roads
are smooth and well kept, and its de-
probation in value will be less, in Il
year, by a good deal more than hun
dred dollars.
There are perhaps 5000 automobiles
in Kansas if the owner of each had to
pay tax of 500 year, and the money
applied to road building, there would
be half million dollars at the start,
and many mile of road might be
made shipshape with that money. An
army of men would have profitable en-
pioyment, private enterprise would fol-
low upon the heels of public enterprise.
and in a few years Kansas would have
system Of roads that would be the
delight and wonder of the age.
Such a suggestion will bring a ring
ing protest from the owners of automo-
biles, who want the roads improved.
but want the other fellows to pay for
it; but if they give the matter some
consideration they will realize that it
will pay them in the end, and they
should be patriotic enough to dig up
neutrality-suspicious. Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
NEED OF sEAFARING MEN.

Now that the Canadians have set
tied upon an independent naval policy
the wise ones among them express a
wish that Newfoundland were pro-
vince of the dominion instead of a
separate colony. The Canadians can
raise the money for the building of
the fleet, but the question of the new
navy's personnel looms up omin ously.
For, as all know, Canada today is
largely a country of farmers" The
few maritime provinces are compare
lively weak in numbers and popula-
ton The bulk of the Canadian
strength lies in the interior country,
the great agricultural sections which,
many believe, are to supply the world
with breadstuffs in the future. 1t is
a sturdy, self-confident, stalwart race
of men upon whose broad shoulders
may well rest the agricultural indie
pendence of an ambitious nation.
Newfoundland, on the contrary, is a
colony of fishermen and sailors, whose
playground for generations has been
the sea. They know its every mood
and understand each phase of its
changing character. With such a pop
ulation to draw upon, the question
of personnel for the new Canadian
navy yard would speedily solve itself
Observation-Disclosures would take to naval
service as ducks to water They
would give the d---inion the ideal
type of tar-the man who is at home
On the sea.-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
Died in the Proper Way.

A clergyman, who was not averse
to an occasional glass. hired an Irish
man to clean out his cellar. The
Irishman began his work He
brought forth lot of whisky bottles.
and as he lifted each one looked
through it at the sun. The preacher,
who was walking on the lawn, saw
him, and said: '"They are all dead
ones. Pat" ''They are!" said Pat.
s'Well, there is one good thing about
it; they all had the minister with
them when they were dying.
naut.-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Magistrate (discharging prisoner)-Now.
fne, l would advise you to keep away
1roan PAD company. Prisoner (feefingly, -
Inank you, sir. You won't see me here
again--Lippincott's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

c,, Is Miss Passay still unmarried?'' Eyes
she says It's from choice'' ssWhose?"-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Mrs. Brooke-Have you any faith in life
insurance. Mrs. .Lynne-Yes, indeed; I've
ttsaIlzed $4,000 from two husbands, and
Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Miss Bronx-Jack Is a nice how hu+ T
can't marry him. wish he would forget
al about me. Mr.. Harlem-Just lend him
some money and he will-Judge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03
HUA0p OF THE DlY

Pat-Could yer give a man a Job. yer
honor? Barber-WeI, You can repaint this
pole for me; Pat--Be jabbers. I can, SCR.
If you'll tell me where to buy the striped
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

SLeia-Is she in her decIiur yearsz
BeHa-No; her accepting yearsSJudge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03

Little Bobby's Ma-Josiah, Bobby has
peen using Elang again today Little
got to cut it out! won't stand for IL
Magazine.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-30
MISS EVA BOOTH
HERE TUESDAY

On next Tuesday evening Com
mander Miss Booth of the Saliva
ton Army, often styled as The
Queen of American orators" will
lecture at the First M. X. church,
corner Third and Howard, on
"Omnipotence Ungloved."
Miss Booth will visit Spokane
for the first time in seven years,
coming to this city from Seattle
on Tuesday morning. She will be
entertained at the Spokane Hotel
during her stay. and AdSxfAEs
Dean ana the local. officers OF the
Army ara making big preparations
for zer reception.
Adjutant Dean announces that
those who Ass unable to purchase
seats for the lecture can receive
tickets free by calling at Army
headquarters, Main and Wall
streets, tomorrow. Seats are also
on sale at Shaw & B0rden's, on
Riverside avenue. q
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-30
DEATHS.

Stetson-At Denver house, Lin
coin and Sprague. October a.
Charles s. Stetson, 40 years, OF
rupture.
Castenada-At 0402S Post street
October 26, Isabella Castenada, IS
years, Of Adjtson's disease.
Greer-At st. Luke's hospital
October rs. Laura w. Greer, 20
years, of peritonitis.
Martin-At Victor building. Octo
Der 26. Grace Martin. so years, OF
cerebral hemorrhage.
Van Kirk-At S11 Third avenue
October 26. Kittie Van Kirk, 4e
years. of gastric carcinoma.
Gage-At 628 White street, Octo.
Der rs. l.. III. Gage. "a years, OF
tuberculosis of lungs.
Flannigan--At E1701 Pacific ave
nue., October 25, Ida Flanagan, ~
years, of cerebral meningitis.
Wilson-At Deaconess hospital
October 26, Seampa Wilson. 20
years / month, of typhoid fever.
Ross-At Deaconess hospital. DC
tober 81. Thomas Ross. IS years
of tuberculosis and gangrene OF
lungs.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-30
SUFFRACETTES
GET WHAT THEY WANT
(ey United Press.)

SEATTLE, Dot. 30.--Washing-
ton suffragists are not going to
adopt the militant tactics of Eng
lish suffragettes, according to
statement by Mrs. Emma Smith
Devoe, president of the Washing.
ton Equal Suffrage association
discussing the action Of Iowa suf.
fragists this week. She said:
1--WE don't fight and do not have
to. We have obtained everything
we wanted. The last legislature
treated us very courteously. We
are working now, not fighting, for
we are carrying on campaign for
the election of November g.. 1910
when our cause will be placed be-
fore the voters of the state"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-30

to court to collect on the loans. -
A poor excuse, in this case, was
worse than none. Strange, that
since the person in error in sucn
cases must pay all court costs in
civil suits, that this great, greedy,
sharkish money lending concern,
whose official head is a multi
millionaire, should fight so shy OF
the courts and the law! The
truth in the matter is well known.
The game is Illegal and will not
bear thorough airing in court
Read The Press next Monday for
another story on the Spokane
sharks. Astounding revelations
will likely be made concerning the
great illegal money lending game
operated in Spokane, by The
Press next week.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-10-30
ARE THEY ASHAMED
or THAT FILL NOW?

Chairman weymouth see no
necessity for It. That Is up to the
board.
Tuerke-This is a matter In
which Mr.. Ralston wants to re-
hearse the facts of the Sprague
avenue fill / think there ought
to be an executive session. look
ing hard and fast 1t the chairman
Weymouth What Is the pleas
ure of the board? Do you want an
executive session?
Mods in the affirmative from
Commissioners Armstrong and
Tuerke followed, and another "star
chamber" session was on.
The Press reporter, the only out
slider present, was again denied
the privilege. OF givin gthe people
the true inside history of the col
lapse of the Sprague avenue fill.