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The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
KEEP oFF THE GRASS.

| Before long now, the grass on the
parkings along the sides of most of the
streets of Topeka will have taken on a
new lease of life and be resplendent
again in all of its glorious velvety
green. This suggests the thought that
a little care on the part of pedestrians.
with perhaps a slight, ever so slight an
inconvenience to them. will go a great
ways to preserving these lawns in all of
their beauty.
1t is a practice with many people, in
deed, it seems almost instructive with
parkings at the intersection of streets.
This may save step or two in the trav-
els of day from home to work and
back again but if it is generally in
dulged in, it means certain death and
destruction to the symmetry and come
Illness of the grass plat. Not only does
it. destroy the beauty of the immediate
piece of grass through which is worn
an ugly looking streak of dirt, but it
destroys the whole beautiful harmony
of the entire parking.
One of the details that goes a great
ways to making Topeka a city beauti-
full, such as it is a way beyond most
of the cities of the country, are the
magnificent parkings which fringe the
streets. The marring of them through
cutting across their corners is little less
than a disgrace, and every man and
woman in the city should appoint HIM
self a committee of one to see that the
practice is stopped. And he should be-
gin to labor with himself in this re-
gard,
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
TAFr,s INDEPENDENCE.

William Howard Taft hasn't been
president of the United States for a
very long period of time. But he has
already shown on a couple of oc-
casions that he is a gentleman of
strong convictions and independence
of thought and spirit. Nor is he
afraid to talk straight out from the
shoulder, even If what he says may
not set very we'll with his friends in
congress, who have revealed them
selves in times past to be a sensitive
lot, oversensitive, in fact.
A noteworthy instance of this good
boldness of Mr.. Taft was his speech
of the other day at the Gorver Cleve-
land memorial service in New York
city when he scoffed at the fear of
congress that a president will or can
usurp its rights. This has been
familiar cry of late in Washington
whenever a president has seen fit to
take some necessary action a little
out of the ordinary. And a good deal
of talk such as this has been ground
less and was probably indulged in
from Interior motives. AS Mr.. Taft
pointed out there is little danger of
any president attempting to usurp
legislative functions because of the
impracticability of the proceeding. On
the other hand, as he says, the real
danger arises from a disposition of the
legislative branch to assume that it
is omntpotent and can completely con-
troll the discretion conferred upon the
executive by the constitution Mr.
Taft rightly lauded Mr.. Cleveland for
pointing out to congress some of the
limitations that there are in the con-
stitution upon attempted legislative
action to restrict executive discretion
There was a gratifying occurrence,
also, a few days after Mr.. Taft's in
auguration which showed that the
Taft administration is Independent of
the influence of Mr. Roosevelt, as
many persons have expressed an opfn-
ion that it would be, although it must
be admitted that Mr.. RooseveIt's
activities were generally of the right
sort and his influence might be a good
one to follow. Only day or two
before March 4, President Roosevelt
through his secretary of the navy,
ordered the navy yards at Pensacola
and New Orleans closed and placed
in the hands of caretakers. This
order was rescinded at the direction
of Mr.. Taft within a week of the date
of his assumption of the duties of
president, and these yards will be
kept ION the active list" This is not
a very large question to be sure ex-
cept that it shows the independence of
thought and action of the new ad-
ministration.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Clio

LFrom the Atchison G1obe.1
What a lot of foolish talk we all
indulge in!
In politics, deal amounts to a good
deal more than an ideal.
If people hate you, there's reason,
as a certain great advertiser says.
When away from the reservation we
have noticed that every Indian is a
chief.
1t is every SPINS opinion that there
is no reason why a married woman
should mind telling her age.
No matter how young and good
looking a school teacher is, her boy
pupils refer to her as ''The Old Lady" "
A young woman may hate to cook,
but after she has grown old, and it has
become q habit, her great objection to
Lonesome Land is that she has mo
one to cook for"
All the trouble in this world is due
common sense is not hard to acquire.
The difficulty is, people accept their
own opinions instead of experience.
An Atchison man called on a girl
Wednesday evening, he called again
1T begins to look said the Girls
Mother that night in an excited voice
to the Girls Father, "as if he Means
Something"
When the men adopt a bad habit the
OCSdCAOA10AAJ -
shame them out of it, but it can do
nothing with the women. When the
women began giving afternoons" the
Globe did it's best to point out the weak
points of these entertainments, but
mark the result: instead of one a
week, the number soon increased to
twelve.
Progress; don't be silly. Don't be-
lieve in hypnotism, phrenology, my
thology, or Zoology generally. Don't
believe in that which is denied by the
best minds in the world. Read lit
tie, and read standard authorities.
Avoid books or newspapers printed by
societies. Such books and newspapers
lie like weather prophets. A book is
sued by a chronological society will
assert that phrenology is a well-at-
tested scientific fact, although every
scientific man in the world laughs at
the nonsense This sort of book af-
fords no information; it supplies moth
ing but falsehoods- Every foolish doc
trine has a publication Society,"" to
spread literature that is not reliable
Don't read this sort of literature. A
Democratic paper never tells the truth
about Democratic measures. Modern
people are outgrowing the folly of be-
ing partisans on any subject They
look for truth, and respect it. If you
have been wrong, acknowledge it, and
make q new start.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
SUGGESTION FROM NEW YoRK


Under heading How to Help I'm
married Kansans'' the New York Even
ing Sun printed recently an editorial
| as follows:
"Coercive laws are all we'll enoueb
but what is needed in Kansas Is TO sf.
tack the tendency at its source to
make the men wish to get married. The
metnods OF persuasion are more often
productive of des'ved results than
threats Of punishment for failure to
perform Instead of simply taxing
bachelors, a well-planned system of
marriage subsidies, perhaps with a
graduated scale of baby bounties.
would be found to be quite the proper
treacle. The chances of married han
| piness would be greater where the state
undertook delicately to help along the
deserving young people whose ceIibacv
was not of their own choice than
where bachelor had been bludgeoned
| into the thrall. The money required
for the subsidies could be got back by
a system of level taxation upon all men
| and women alike who should refuse to
enter matrimony after having had a
stated number of chances. Of course.
| under such plan, 1t would be only fair
| to endow the women with the legal
| right to propose. else base men would
conspire to attack women with pro-
pOSals from individuals whom thew owl
IDENTIFY would not accept. thus putting
the woman within the grasp of the tax
gather"
Thanks, distant friend, thanks, for
the suggestion. although this satirical
little quip of yours is not appropos to any
subject which is or has been under
consideration in this state. The late
legislature, while nothing to brag Of.
wasn't even so foolish as to suggest a
tax on bachelors or any other thing
for disturbing the single state of
blessedness in which some men, and
women, too, indicate a preference to
reveL Still the suggestion may come in
handy in the future when matters of
this sort are deemed to be worthy or
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most married couples think alike
but the wife generally has the FIRST
think.
X 4 y
It's frequently the case that all it
needs to make a girl change her mind
is some other man.
X y =
There are good microbes as well as
bad microbes and in the former class
must be those lowering around kisses.
\ X r
Among the mean men is the chap
who puts off the buying of spring
dress for his wife on the plea that
there may not really be any spring.
X 4 y
There'n soon be heavy demand for
porous plasters for the strained backs
which will be among the distressing
incidents of digging gardens.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

he went on, addressing Mrs Courtney
But l assure you Cousin Robert and
Mamie, with a glance of pride at his
little bride. did all they could to make
me comfortable in your Absence"
Mrs. Courtney managed to stamner
out something that sounded like regrets
and Cordelia tried to save the situation
by suffering something like congratu-
lations.
80 glad we happened to meet you"
laughed Mamie, her eyes dancing and
her cheeks like June roses. Jack
couldn't walt"
'Wouldn'tI insisted Jack positively
This young woman has never been
abroad and I'm goin~ to give her
swing around the world before we set
tie down. We leave for Liverpool this
afternoon"
And when the Courtneys were bowl
ing away in a closed carriage to the de-
pot it was fully five minutes before ex-
preston was possible to them. Then
Mrs. Courtney 1oosened her gown at
the throat. She looked apoplectic.
"It was that Arbuthnot-worth mill
lions" she faltered. Did you ever
know-suck-Iuck?"
"Neverr' declared Cordelia grimly.
"Never?' echoed Augusta.-(Copy-
righted. 1909, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
QUAKER NIEDITATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Many a man suffers from acute re-
morse, but it seldom gets chronic.
The man who looks on the bright
side doesn't always get below the sur
face.
The average man doesn't want any
thing "just as good" He wants 1t twice
as good.
There is quite difference between
bouncing boy and one who has been
bounced.
Any woman is ready to practice
economy. if her husband can afford to
pay for it.
swim is because 1t is necessary to keep
the mouth shut.
The photographer at least possesses
the good trait of wanting to see every
body in the best possible light.
tits impossible to do two things at
once. In fact, some people ind it al
most impossible to do one thing at
once.
Sillicus-"A woman is always fond
of adding little to everything she
tells" Cynicus-"Yes unless she
happens to be telling her age
He-"I love you from the bottom of
my heart" She-"And 1 have always
been given to understand that there
was plenty of room at the top"
1--WE often hear of the ideal mar
ried life" observes the Cynical Bach
elor, (which again proves what a vast
difference there is between the ideal
and the real
Mrs Newlywed-"Bpt you were
here yesterday and I gave you a piece
of pie. Is it possible that you are
back so soon?" Rollingstone Nomoss
you could let me have a pepsin tab
let"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
rEron1 the New York Press ]

TFrom the New York Press-J
The trouble with intellect is how 1T
tie it seems to have to do with nap
piness.
There's no fool like an old husband
of a young wife except an old WlIe OF
a young husband.
The reason a man is not hideous
disappointment to himself is he Is to
everybody else.
When it storms very hard the most
irritating man on earth is the feiIoW
who tells you the year 1t was worse
Some men are so lucky about money
matters that If they found rol. of
bank bills they would spend it before
they got home and told their wives
about IL
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
HUNOR or THE DAY

What. makes you so nervous?,'
Liquor" 81 didn't know you drank" IT
don't, but 1 have a friend who has been
on the water wagon for two weeks, and
he tells me all his symptoms. s."-Cleveland
Leader.
Presence of Mind.-Customer (after vain
ly trying for some time. to pick up his
change-a threepenny bit)-" Ere, gimme
a cigar.'-Punch.
We All DOT don't know that Ma
poleon was so much" How now?" "T
believe 1 use as much strategy to get a
night out as he expended in the Austerlitz
campaign. KANSAS City Journal.
Judge-Why did you strike this man?"
Prisoner-What would you do, judge, if
you kept a grocery store and a man
came in and asked If he could take
moving picture of your eheese?-Har-
per's Weekly.
DO you ever see that umbrella of
yours?" asked the maiden. mo, don't"
replied the man, sternly; ''the person who
takes that umbrella will have to take
me-" do understand that to be a pro-
posal of marriage or a threat?"-Yonkers
Statesman.
She-what do you want? He-A pen
north o. pudden. She-Plain or plum? He
Have it 'ere, or tflxe it wiv yer? He
Ere. She-Fork or fingers? He (wearily)
% blow your pudden! Gimme 'ami-The
Bystander
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
Airing your troubles will will not
mitigate them.
Many a man is an expert hand at
putting his foot in it..
A baseball team can't win with a
pitcher full of beer.
One touch of the sandbag man is
enough to make any one sore.
When the optimist gets it in the neck
he is thankful that he isn't giraffe.
There's one sure thing, and that is
that you can't be sure of anything.
When stingy man is in love he is
apt to loosen up-but not for long.
A wise man never calls another
fooI-no matter what he may think.
day and gives them the laugh the
next.
OF course, the preachers aim wasn't
accurate when his sermon hit you.
A successful politician, like the in
terest on mortgage, keeps everlast-
ingly at it.
when the parlor gas is turned low,
it's a safe bet the right young man is
in it.
It's surprising how much a 16-year-
old son can tell his father that the old
man won't believe.
1t takes whole legislature to
change a mans name, but one minis
ter can change a woman's.
One thing a woman can't under
stand is why a man won't wait for
bargain sale when he wants anything.
When a man takes his wife to the
theater he thinks it's up to him to go
out between the acts and telephone
home to see if the house is still there.
It has been said that misfortune
teaches people fortitude. but as a mat
ter of fact few of us care for forti-
fIIde
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

banks to participate in the association.
Still the national banks of Kansas are
sturdy institutions and win probably
be able to stand in the same
good and firm position that they al
ways have, regardless of the bank
guaranty law, and maybe it will not be
long now before there is national legis-
lation for the guaranteeing of deposits
in national banks
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
FRON OTHER PENS
GETTING IN DEEPER.

What is a reasonable profit? is a
question that is coming up with in
creasing insistency in every line of
business where combination and con-
soIidation have eliminated competi-
ton. The legal opinion rendered by
Judge Mcpherson in the Missouri fare
case, that properly built and man
aged railroad should return a net
profit of at least per cent, hinges on
this and nothing more.
Profit is very much a matter of
bookkeeping, especially in big prop
erty like railroad. 1t is going to be
vastly difficult to determine what is
and what isn't capital or legitimate
expansion of the same. obviously the
initial cost or actual Investment ISM
alone a fair criterion. But even more
obviously the constant expansion of
capitalization known as stock water
ing can not be allowed to go on with
out limit.
And there are very many businesses
just as necessary, with just as much
risk as railroads, where the rate of
gain is far less than per cent. Is
profit than another on the same terms
can hope to get? Here is another
knotty problem which the ingenuity
of the people and their representa-
shall we steer between the Scylla of
extortion and the Charybdis of con-
fiscation ?-Pittsburg Post.
THE STANDARD Oil CASE.
The collapse of the government s
case against the Standard Oil for ac-
cepting rebates, which was on trial
before Judge Anderson, will cause
general disappointment. When the
most powerful and unpopular trust in
the country was convicted in Judge
Lands court the public was led to
believe that at last justice had over
taken a corporation notorious for its
Illicit business methods and political
influences. The setting aside of the
$29,0OO,000 fine by the United States
circuit court of appeals was a grave
setback AS is proved now by the out
come of the second trial, the govern
ment's case was defective.
What course the government viii
pursue with the indictments still
pending is not announced. If the ad-
ministration believes that it can prose-
cute them with success, no doubt it
will press them. But there is no
denying that the moral effect of the
attack on the Standard Oil has suffered
by its successive failures. In spite of
this disastrous defeat, the fight against
rebating will prevail The large num-
Der of offenders convicted among ship
pers and railroads remains a warning
that no interest is safe if it ventures
to make light of the law.-New York
World.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

A clergyman in Oklahoma claims he
has the power to bring rain or keep it
away at his will. For six months arid
conditions prevailed around Bokhoma
in that state at his behest, as he
claims because he had spite against
a lumber company. A man surely
cannot hope to be looked upon as
much of a Christian if he would use
power of this sort to any such purpose
But beyond this man cannot have
much intelligence If he claims to have
any such power.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

Possibly Mr.. Bryan would not have
been disappointed so many times If he
had stuck to attempting to achieve the
aspirations of his boyhood. They
tended towards a seat in the United
States senate. This is some real news,
too, for the prevailing idea has been
that Mr.. Bryan has had a desire to be
president from the very hour Of his
birth
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

some gas and oil fields of large extent
have been struck in Louisiana and
great riches therefrom are to be dump
ed into the Golfers of the people of that
state. Fuel, power and light will also
become cheaper and a great develop
ment in the industries of the state are
looked for. Congratulations to the Lou
1sianians over their good fortune.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

Kansas would better keep her eyes
open. 1t is said that the Russian gov
ernment has offered Leonard B. Clore,
the Indiana corn king, $4,000 a year and
expenses to conduct some experiments
In corn growing in the czar's kingdom.
Coburn can give Clore pointers on corn
growing with a fund of knowledge on
wheat. cattle, horses and chickens
thrown in
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

Here's another idol shattered Says
Jane Adams, the we'll known charity
worker of Chicago: THE popular
opinion seems to be that our American
women are getting too advanced. AS a
matter of fact they are the slowest of
all the English-speaking women on the
face of the globe.''
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

Although the steel trust had bad
year during the twelve months end
ing on December 81 as compared
with the few years Immediately pre-
ceding, it was able to stow away
a surplus of more than 100000
after the payment of interest charges,
dividends, appropriations and all
other charges and expenses. And
that's not so awful bad after ALL At
least. that's the way it will strike
most peOple
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

necessary of attention. But Kansas is
not disposed to monopolize the sug-
gestion and it might be well for the
Evening Sun to agitate its accomplish
ment at home for there are more un-
married folks, proportionately to the
population, to the acre in New York
than there are in Kansas to the square
mile.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

Because a baseball player is to re-
ceive a salary for his coming seasons
work on the diamond which will be
considerably larger than that paid to
a. member of the presidents cabinet,
that's no evidence that he is qualified
to sit around the presidential council
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

It's too bad that there is so much
excellent congressional timber bottled
up in the Sixth Kansas district as is
evidenced by the great number of
men who are launching themselves
or being put out by their friends as
candidates for the job now held by
Mr.. Reeder. Not more than one stick
of this timber can very well be used
at one firna
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

An aeronaut is going to attempt a
trip by balloon from Los Angeles to
Indianapolis. Perhaps it would be
we'll to emphasize the word lat
&ernpt
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

Bankers think that fully ninety-f1ve
per cent of the state banks will avail
themselves of the opportunity of join
ing the deposit guaranty association
provided for by the new Kansas law on
this subject. 1t is regrettable that the
authorities at washington do not see
their way clear to permit the national
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

According to the calendar gentle
spring has officially arrived. But too
much in the way Of balmy weather
need not be expected for 1t mas ceen
evident now for quite period or time
that the same hands which make the
calendar do not make the weather.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

No reasonable doubt should exist
about the mental state of the man who
escaped the other day from the nearby
state hospital He took swim in the
icy waters of the Kaw.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

Through the medium of a four line
verse the Houston Post expresses the
thought that the cat which has posed
as rabbit in restaurants will soon bios
som into more famous role and will
he served as 'pOSSum.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
FTrLI, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRFSS

When the suffragis get into power
the Washington Star thinks that the
red tape incident to governmental ad-
Ininistration will be supplanted by pink
wt1,hop
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
ADJUSTMENTS.

At the Grand.
Tonight-Al. G. Fields Minstrels.
tor
Friday night--Topeka High School ORA.
matte Society in "The Days OF e.
At the Novelty.
90 Ionight-Readick Stock Company In
"A Bitter Curse
Matinees-Wednesdays and Saturdays.
AT the Majestic.
DAILY matinee 2:30-High class vaudeville.
evenings 7:46-9:15-High class vaudeville.
AT the Auditorium.
friday night-Durno, the Magician.
For particulars. prices and amusement
details see announcements in this paper
elsewhere.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
Cook worth $50, 900 in the Navy.

Julius Reutemann. chief commits
sary steward in charge of the cooking
scboo1 al the naval training station,
who received word that an uncle in
Amsterdam had left him $4,000, says
he will continue in the naval service
,1ntiI his term of enlistment expires,
two years hence. He has a WIRE ana
Naw York World.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22
At the Majestic.

Dally matinee 2:30-High class vaudevill
Evenings 7:45-9:15-High class vaudevill
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

AT the Auditorium.
Friday night-Durno, the Magician.
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Famous Rudweiser at Barkiey's.
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Meyers Mercantile Company is op.
ening up a new II fresh line OF fan
cy groceries.
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oarkley has the best beer In tne