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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

these charge are well founded. but it is
also true that the public educators of
the land are striving earnestly to
eliminate some Of the follies that have
crept into the educational methods.
That they will succeed in time there
can be no doubt. And that Kansas is
In this procession is also a fact, and
the future years will make possible
some annual reports from the state
superintendent of education which will
show that the educational affairs of
the state have kept abreast of the
progress of the times in this regard
and which will show that the schools
OF this state are better than they ever
nave been before. But there is not
the slightest necessity for making any
apologies for them now. They are
doing their great work, and doing it
well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
THE ORGANIZERS.

They dream by day, they dream by night,
And strange their dreams appear,
To them the whole broad world is bright
And all is beauty here
They read on fancy's glowing wall
Their dearest wishes writ,
But do they labor? Not at ALL
They simply sit and sit
And dream by day and dream by night
Of things that they will do
w men all their wonders come to light
And all their dreams come true.
They see beyond the flfmsy screen
Or present need, crown
But do they grace the present scene?
Not much! They just sit down
And dream by night and dream by day
or things they can attain,
And. oh. the wondrous things they say,
And say and say again!
Iney see success at every gate
And cures for human ills
But do they labor while they wait?
Not much! We pay their bills!
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
fFrom the Chicago News.l

from the Chicago News.1
Lots Of high steppers overstep them
selves.
A face that cannot smile is seldom
worth while.
A mans dollars do not always make
mn for his lack Of sense.
All work is drudgery to those who
are not interested in honest labor.
When man spends all his salary
himself it's a sign that he isn't mar
ried.
young man seldom begins. to rise
in the world until after he settles
down
candidate stands on his party
platform and his opponent jumps on
it.
The time for any man to marry is
when he finds a woman silly enough
to accept him.
1t is to be hoped that the meek in
herit the earth before the other fell
low gets through with it,
Many a man with a powerful voice
has a dent where his bump OF INTEL
Iigence ought to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
A man who hopes a great deal, will
not work.
An old person car claim to be
young, but he can't look it.
A picnic is not success unless
there is a pie or two to throw away.
When a man quits smoking and be-
gins again, he feels mighty sheepish.
If a mans bluff does not work, he
is liable to find himself in an awk-
ward position.
Scientists have succeeded in nearly
everything imaginable except getting
rid of noise.
Somehow said brakeman re-
Gently to a man he disliked, tyou re-
mind me of last months Puck"
1t takes almost as much sugar to
get along with a gooseberry as it
takes to get along with a mean hus-
band.
No woman should give way to grief
Let her keep her hair frizzed, and ev-
erything may come around all right
1t makes a man cross to make a
demand on either his purse or his
sympathy; therefore, women who have
to handle the brutes. should beware
These days a woman takes some
a loaf of bread, and which isn't any
larger than her grandmother's bis,
cults.
When a woman talks to herself the
neighbors say she is insane, but didn'-
she acquire the habit in talking K
her husband, who kept on reading ant
never answered?
Show us a man who is interested IL
what his wife is saying to him, ant
we can show you a woman who il
repeating to her husband a compli
ment she heard paid him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
FROM OTHER PENS

BANKING GAINS IN DULL TIMES.
The statements made by the ma
tional banks of the country under the
call of April 2S, 1909, shows that
they had gained at that date no less
than $774,261. 900 IN total resources
since the report of their condition
made on May IA, 1908. That means
an increase of nearly per cent in
a year which was marked by much
industrial depression and no little dis
couragement in business. 1t might
fairly be called the growth of the ma
tional bank in dull times-a gain of
about $65,000,0O0 a month in re-
sources.
Where such development is pos
sible in period of depression, what
may be expected when the current of
trade and industry is flowing swiftly :?
If that is the way the financial
strength of the United States in
creases-and the national banks
measure less than half of ft-when
business is not considered good. what
may be counted on when things are
booming?
It seems fair to estimate the
the country in a good year at more
than 100000 every business day.
or over a billion and a half annually.
If Americans feel somewhat conscious
of their wealth and power and pros
perity they do not have to look far
for facts and figures to justify their
soaring conception of the land they
live in and stake their future upon
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some wit is so delicate that it
would be more properly classified by
being called sickly.
u X
1t is far easier to fall in love than
it is to get out of it, if things don't
go just Satisfactorily
n x X
Few women look upon their parties
as exclusive if they feel compelled to
have their relatives attend them.
= y
1t may be hard for a family to lose
a beautiful daughter through matri-
mony but it's much harder for them
to lose the homely ones by the same
route.
Women are noted for their intuition
concerning all things but isn't it I'M
usual that their opinions are always
at variance with the mems, especially
among married folks?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
IMPROVED FARMING.

Alabama has ambition to become
the empire state of the South-on this
side the Mississippi river. Texas and
Missouri on the ether side of that
mighty steram, are certain to surpass
her in wealth and population. And
Alabama, through her newspapers, is
urging upon the tillers to bring pros
perity with both hands full to the
planters, the gardeners, the farmers,
the dairymen, the herdsnen. the
fruitgrowerS and others of that great
community.
AS a nordinary proposition, 1t were
better to buy cheap grain in Chicago
and cheap flour in Minneapolis than
to grow dear grain ground into dear
flour in Alabama. But there is an
other phase of the case: Grain grown
o nthe farm and fed to live stock is
a natural and necessary concomitant
of what the agriculturists call drop
rotation, and given an elaborate crop
rotation of corn, oats, peas, alfalfa,
cotton and pasture, every farm must
| improve every year in fertility. and
gather energy every season for the
greater dmands thus made upon it.
| Not in 40 years has France failed
| to grow wheat sufficiently in quantity
| to supply her population with bread ;
| as that of France, and our present
| production what it is there would be
bread riots even in rural commun-
| tiles Why cannot Alabama, and ev-
| cry other state, North or South. East
or West, induce It's farmers to try the
| French method of growing crops?-
Washington Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
THE PAROLE SYSTEM.

One of the features of the courts is
the parole system. 1t is an innovation
and there was a great deal of criticism
when it was inaugurated. There was
fear expressed that the leniency thus
given to criminals would be worked to
the disadvantage of society. Probably
there has been some such work. No
doubt q number of bad men have been
turned loose on parole and have abused
the second chance thus given them.
Whenever a paroled man goes wrong
it is heralded out to the public, the
newspapers print the fact, and some
body condemns the parole system.
But the men who are released on
parole and who behave themselves are
never heard of. Their names do not
get in the newspapers. They go quietly
ahead attending to their business and
want no advertising or the fact that
they have made good and none is
given them. So
The figures show that many more
than half of those convicted the first
time and then paroled by the judges
come through all right. 1t Is sure
proposition that more are thus saved
from becoming professionals, from the
shame and disgrace of confinement and
from the broken spirit that comes from
Jail and penitentiary life.
Even If a number of paroles turn
out wrong it is better to give the first
offender another show and save at
least some citizens from becoming out
laws.-Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
EFrom the New York Press

TF'rom the New York Press.
One thing you can be sure about
girls is you can never be sure of them.
For every one person that acts like
tonic on us, 1000 act like a mus
tard plaster.
A woman can be proud of her hus-
band for not being any worse than he
is, thanks to her.
There's nothing gives a woman
more satisfaction than to speak of the
family estate, if it's only a trunkful
of old letters.
The thing that makes a woman sus-
picious of how another womans hus-
band makes his money is for him to
give her better clothes than she has
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate of ten
cents "A week or thirty cents a month
(by mail on1y.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State journal will be to you like
a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

President Taft has decided to reopen
the famous Brownsville case by giving
the discharged negro soldiers a chance
TO prove their innocence. And it is safe
tc say that any injustice which may
have been done many of these soldiers
will be righted at last.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

John D. Rockefeller declares that golf
is the real thing. He says that finance
cannot compare with 1t. This is a good
enough opinion to be held by a man
like John D., who has such a pre-
ponderant balance on the right side
os his financial ledger. But with most
anen, their attention will be devoted to
finances rather than golf because of
the necessity confronting them to get
the wherewitha; to make both ends
meet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

President Taft has put the stamp of
his unqualified approval on the work
OF Mr.. Magoon while he was governor
general of Cuba. Now if Mr.. Taft or
some one else could give a similar mark
of approval to the conduct of the Gu
ban government during the period since
the United States occupation of the
asIand ceased, there would be more rea-
sons for general rejoicing all around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

probably been able to fathom out
any possible reason for the use of
this word for such an occasion. But
why change the custom? The would
be destroyers of most of the old say
fngs, accepted historical facts. and
various habits of long standing ought
to be squelched, just on general prin-
cinles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

From his clashes with Senators Dolu-
yer, Bristcw and others in the tariff
cebate, it would appear to the unpre-
JUDGED that Mr.. Aldrich falls far
short of having the best of the argu-
anents. But he has the great satisfac-
ton of having the votes to do just
about what he pleases. This is a bit
unfortunate for the consumers of the
land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
KANSAS COMAENT
ABANDONED FARMS.

The New York Times makes the
startling statement that there are H.
ooo abandoned farms in New York. It
says further, I'm the eyes of scientific
agriculturlsts, most of the farms OF
enls state are virtually abandoned" an
assertion II .Justif1es by quoting figures
from the census of 1900, showing that
the total number of farms was 226, 720,
as compared with 241, 05S in 1880. a loss
OF 14,SSS in 20 years. This loss in
nun nun noers, 1t continues. would not be
lslsnincant did not the same census re-
veal decrease in farm values of 1853
inilnons IN the 20-year period and a
loss or the farming population
Ihere is OF course no comparison to
be made between the farm lands of
new York and those of Kansas. A
very considerable portion of the farms
OF THIS state were not under cultiva-
ton until after 1880. Since that. time
there mas been a steady increase in the
va,ue Oh these acres. until they have
how passed a point which the pioneers
ever thought it possible for them to
reach. It is not uncommon for Kan
sas land to sell at 500 an acre and
farms in the middle and western sec
ton of the state have multiplied in
price in the last 20 years
There are many hundreds of acres
OF abandoned farm lands in New Eng
land and there is probably not one in
Kansas that has been exhausted by
this fortunate condition in Kansas,
there may be applied the lessons learn
ed by students of soils and agriculture
with view to prolonging the life OF
the land. 1t is as true as the simplest
axiom, however. that unless these les
sons are applied, there will be an ex-
act duplication on Kansas farms of
the exhaustion of the New England
acres, for while the fertility of the soil
here is remarkable its powers of re-
covery after the production of a crop
| are no greater than those of farm
lands elsewhere. The Kansas farmer
elated in his ability to put enormous
crops of wheat and corn on the mar
ket every year is something of a pro-
| fiigate after all. AS rule he doesn't
attempt to look very far ahead, MOI
toward safe-g guarding himself and his
children in the future by economizine
his ground and those elements which
make it yield OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
worth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

Some railroads were fined $4,000
in Arkansas the other day for giving
rebates. Thought this giving of re-
bates and other violations of the law
by railroads were a thing of the past.
The railroads have said so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

BY all means should information be
conveyed to Colonel Roosevelt that it
IS incumbent upon him to swat the
tsetse fly According to experts this
is about the only bug or beast in At
RIGA that may prove dangerous to him
Tn nv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

Assuredly no one will have the au-
dacity to refer to the state tax com
missioners as "junketing crowd The
shree of them took a trip of investiga-
ton recently to the Pacific coast and
their total expenses amounted to only
$3.50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
HUNOR or THE Day


-, Isa aiI only one way of
have certainly 0S 6isc S"t et Il t.
Mrs Hashley.--BostOn transcript 1 -
DER Shinn?" well. we Amt nebber had
20 sn. stop IN de middle OBJ collection to go
Journal Souf'er-
high b,i Rsople ga can stand on the top Of
Lapsling, but can't II alvsys rixss
me m; an attack Of verdigris. "SChlca xso
Fickpocket 1who has just been ..nabbed'')
tb3i ns e me, II my luck amt dead Quit Ter
eut.a sheer waste O. thrupence.-The
the street with her feet bandaged. .Why,
w sshad on earth,s the matter?' she was
lspile2 done hit me on de haid nl wifi as siEub
Sn N haaa st9 fos
;Dugaid-Yon was not vera neighbor-
IKE thing to be dom. Angus, when you
was tellin' the whole toon that was drunk
Angus W never t aaid we WAS WAS in Gescow
my lips, Dugald Mackay. Aal I said was
nat ina you was perfect sober on the Sabbath
Ody!-Lonoon Opinion.
,r They nl had begun to call Wellington the
first shock of it was over, sIm not as
marc a citizen. at that, as IL I were a
i s.eei KING stu he could not help think
sculptors to perpetuate him in bronze
Patience-And was the Judsa co,.iaa-
ate? Patrice-very; he asked me my age
before he swore me-Yonkers Statesman
Opportunity is like everyone else"
"HowT' Always anxious to call on the
man who Is already successfuI."-Wash-
,o Mr. M saL,esn the way you pass a sa-
1oon it@ erKxaneYes sir Mr. wise-wei,
Ella-Her face speaks for itself. Stella
yes; and 1t is pretty plain talk.-Chicago
stella-Will your graduation thesis be
hardly hare walk 1eiaI in enough Gr, but can
Cent take e, your order for one of our
mo, guess not" said the busy man, IT
might be able to use it a few times, but
my my. son VIII be home from college in
ast aaY .ss YOU Yogv no trads-no profession?
replied Sauntering Sim. "I have a profes-
sion. and I've just stopped here to do a
little professin'- II you could put a little
Jelly on de bread, I'd promise not to leave
any chalk marks on your gate post"-Chi-
| cago Record-Herald.
Maud.Don.t you think they are we'll
matched? Mary-Rather; he's a yesetar-
ian and she's grass widow.--Pfck-Me -IJp
| If you would retain mans friendship
don't try to show him that he isn't he II
as smart as he thinks he is-Chicago
News.
It Didn't work. haven't anything fit
replied; Tets stay at home" Taken up
thus, there was nothing for her to do but
hurry and get ready.-Buffalo Express.
The Practical Maid.-"You look sweet
enough to eat!' II am. I do IL about four
times a day."-Cleveland Leader
| Don't you think, Mr. Skippins, that the
college you have selected for your son has
rather fallen off in it's curriculum ?'' mot
much 1T hasn't. They amt got a football
| team to beat t."-Baltimore American.
| 1T takes a wise man to know when to
change his mind. Yes" answered Sen
ator Sorghum. I'm getting brain Tag
trying to change 1t often enough to keep
up with the views of my various constitu-
ents on the tariff. w ashington Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

Evidently the Duchess of Marlbo-
rough. who was Miss Consuelo Van
derbilt, kept her fingers firmly on her
purse strings while she was supporting
her duke from whom she is now sep
arated. She has enough loose change
scattered around to dig into it to the
extent of $4,000 to keep the famous
Holbein in a British art gallery. In the
way of a reward she expects to receive
a little more in the way of social IA
xors from the high and mighty of her
adopted land. Well, it's her money sc
perhaps criticism is out of place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

If Chicagoans do not cease to claim
Mr.. Dickinson, the. secretary of war,
as one of their fellow-townsmen, the
night riders of Tennessee will surely
get after them, and then there will be
something doing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

A Chicago judge has come to the
front with a decision that a woman
may take as much time as she
pleases in trying on shoes in a shoe
store and that if after she purchases
a pair she subsequently finds that
they pinch her feet she has a right to
return them and get her money
back. But the shoe dealers need not
worry much over this decision. bad
as it looks for them on its face. Most
women seem to take delight in wear
ing shoes that pinch their feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

That mysterious airship which was
seen floating over the Salton Sea.
turns out to have been mirage. But
even the latter was worth seeing. So
those who saw it have no kicks COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08

The i. president of the, Chicago
school board wants to do away with
the word commencement" as the
designation of the exercises incident
to the graduation of a school of col
iege class. Not many people have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
1910 Words on Postal.


has just been established by A. j. Far
we'll, craftsman, of 142 Henry street,
Brooklyn, N. Y, who in a local contest
wrote 1870 words, using 223 lines, on
the back of an ordinary postal card
More than 100 other contestants tried
their skill in the same contest, and Sec
ond honors fell to James r. LaIly, a
hardware clerk of Greenwich, with
about third as many words.
Mr.. Farwell had previously entered
two similar contests, missing first prize
each time by small margin. Learn
ing of another contest advertised in the
Greenwich News, he challenged the
two previous winners, and sent them
each a duplicate pen and some of the
ink he was himself using, in order that
the contest might be a perfectly fair
one. Then he sat to work transcribing
over and over again the advertising
phrase prescribed. The phrase of six
teen words was written nearly S7s
times.
The work took more than two weeks.
in which 40 hours were used, five lines
per hour being the fastest time made
He broke all previous records for the
number of times the phrase could be
written on a postal card and also for
the largest number of words. Every
word on the card is written
legibly and can be read with the naked
eye when held close.-Greenwich
Comm dispatch to New York Times.
Not an Office to Covet.
The President has, see, just nam
ed a new governor of Alaska. some
Washington newspaper man. said
Mr.. T. F. Barnes, of Seattle, at the
Hotel Herman.
81 don't know the new governor,
and I wish him well. but I'd make a
bet of case of champagne against
a bottle of beer that he will rue the
day he ever accepted the job. There's
| trouble coming to him in gobs- No
man has ever held that particular Of
| flee who hasn't, for the better part
of his incumbency wished he were in
purgatory for d change. The best
| commission, will get in hot water
from the time he lands, and will be
accused of every crime from horse
| stealing to infanticide. It was so with
Governors Brady and Hoggatt, and
| their successors will fare no differ
| emily. Hoggatt, who has just resign
| ed was straight as string and
| plucky as a bulldog. but he grew
1 weary of the eternal hammering and
| was glad to get out. If 1 had deer
| grudge against a man I'd want to sex
| him made governor of Alaska."-Bal-
| timore American.
Even Old Neb Kicked on Raw Greens
Nebuchadnezzar glowered across the
table at his favorite queen. This al
falfa,' he snar1ed, sis positively raw!
Showing that though customs
change moods, humanity speaking, dc
not: while manners, in phases thereof
which respond to occasions OF con-
slant recurrence, exhibit in their es'
sentials and equal immutab1ilty--
Puck
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shadows. One of them was stronr and
~ me, and one was young and handsome
my son and my husband ''-(c.onvrirbt"
3D. 1908, by Associated Literary Presso