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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
HYHAWKER JOTS

1t strikes the Howard Courant that
real friend is 1.-The man you can
always call on to prove anything you
choose"
The Minneapolis Messenger has ar
rived at the correct solution of a
the safe bet is generally the one you
did not make"
According to the Wichita Eagle
Hutchinson missed trick in that it
did not have its 1910 census taken
on the day that 10000 people at
tended the fair. there.
A man had his arms and his head
cut off by a train at Neodesha re-
Gently and reporter there who
handled the story was particular to
state that Ibis injuries proved
fatal
Attention is called by the Hutchin-
son News to the fact that the Salina
Journal scooped the Salina Union the
other day on the visit of the formers
editor, United States Senator Bristow
to Kansas City.
Ewing Herbert is further qualified
to write editorials in his Hiawatha
papers denouncing the automobile
He has just purchased another one
This makes two machines for the also
postmaster of Hiawatha.
Attention is called by the Wichita
Eagle to the fact that Deception
creek in Barton county made good its
name recently by getting out of it's
banks and washing away sections of
the Missouri Pacific track.
Private advices to the Kansas City
Star furnish it with the informa
ton that Prince Frederick William of
Germany has not yet applied to any
one in Girard for permission to take
a ride on Henry L. Calls airship.
The Great Bend Tribune declares
that property owners in its town are
holding their real estate so high that
wholesale firms are lodging the town
and locating where they can buy a lot
at reasonable cost. After the Great
Benders pay taxes for a number of
years on this property that they hold
at prohibitfve figures they will wake
up to their folly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Even the biggest fish began life on a
small scale.
It's always the last word that brings
on the first blow.
All men are brave until they are
called upon to make good.
The flower of the family isn't neces-
sarily blooming idiot.
Playing the races and playing the
fool are usually synonymous.
A man is rich in power If he is able
to do without the things wealth will
buy.
The youth who can afford a motor
boat doesn't have to paddle his own
canoe.
MANY a summer girl would like to
forget how many summers she has
been in the game.
Sometimes a man is loved for the
enemies he has made, but more often
for the money he has inherited.
Some would-be fiatterers, after
smearing on lot of salve, spoil the
effect by rubbing it in with wire
brush.
Many a young man in search of a
wife has passed right through a peach
orchard and pitched his tent in a
lemon grove
A town man never gets rid of the
idea that he will make a fortune in the
poultry business when he has saved up
enough to buy a ten-acre farm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

United States has done nothing in this
| respect.
And isn't it about time that some
thing was done?
The United States is now expanding a
half Dillon dollars in the construction
OF the great Panama canal, and when
1t is finished, unless the shipping in
dustr-- Of the country is stimulated
wonderfully, there will be few mNr-
cnant ships flying the stars and stripes
to use it. The shipping interests of
Great Britain. Germany and France
would derive nearly all of the large
shipping benefits that this magnificent
waterway will make possible.
IL is ridiculous to argue that the
subsidies would be nothing more than
gifts to people who would like to build
ships. The returns from the money in
vested by the government in this way
Will be many to the entire people. Thu
ship-building industry will boom. Work
Will be provided thereby for thousands.
The money now paid on export freight
would find immediate circulation a.
home here instead of being scattered to
the four winds of the earth. AS aux
iliaries in times Of war a large mer-
chant marine would prove invaluable.
1t is just as ridiculous. also. to aAgue
that the substituting of ship-buildIng
will be of no benefit whatsoever to any
portion of the people of the country ex-
cept those who live in the seaport
towns. Any undertaking that will pro-
vide all sorts Of employment for thou
sands in any section of the country.
that will put millions more of money in
circulation in the country, is going to
benefit the people Of the entire country
and every section of 1t. It would be
just as sensible to argue against the
government lending a hand in carrying
out projects for the irrigation and rec
lamation of arid lands on the theory
that such undertakings will only be of
benefit to the people on or near them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Frnm the Atchison Globe.

From the Atch1SOn GIoDe.1
When a man is in a hurry. his bar
Der seems to be very slow.
Several of the ten commandments
have been repealed, and the others
amended.
There is a great deal of crooked
ness in the world, but not half as
much as is claimed.
THAT story is as grossly exagger-
ated,'' said a man today, las an Ok
lahoma fortune"
The greatest joy to a graphophone
is the satisfied grin on the face of the
man who operates it.
Some men are natural dead beats;
they find a sort of intoxication in
avoiding payment of just debts.
Shut Up the Chickens Tonight;
We've Got to Catch the BOOSTERS in
the Morning" is the title of a new
song.
The cheap liar who is always tell
ing big stories about his smartness
and greatness. is always very unpop-
ular among other men,
If you have a dog which barks a
great deal at night, and disturbs the
neighbors, do you care? If you don't
care, it's a bad sign.
1t always makes an old fashioned
man mad to tell him that the scientific
men of the weather bureau say there
is no such thing as an equinoctial
storm
There are said to be twins in Atchi-
son who dress so nearly alike that
when they start out, one says to the
other: "Shall we carry our wrap on
our left or right arm today?"
We heard recently of a man living
in California who has nine thousand
graphophone records. The story is
"a startler;' simply a big story to
start1e you. They also tell of another
Atchison man who has Melba records
that cost eight dollars each. That's
another ''startler;'' the best Melba
records cost only three dollars each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
QUAKER MEDrTATIoNs.


IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
High tide-Being married in a bal
loon.
Of course, time is money. See how
time flies.
1t takes more than a filtration plant
to insure clear conscience.
The favorite hymn of the baker IL
"I Knead Thee Every Hour"
About the only exercise many a
woman takes is running up a bill.
If you are going to patch up a quar-
rel don't look for needle in hay
stack.
There are lots of questionable char
acters to be found around the bureau
of information.
No woman should doubt a husbands
love If he is willing to wear the neck
tie she buys him.
Many a man has no peace of mind
because his wife is constantly giving
him piece of hers.
A fellow sometimes wakes up feel
a king the night before.
Second thoughts are best" quoted
the Wise Guy. Eyes, when they are
not more expensive" added the Simple
Mug.
Muggins-"A woman never knows
what she wants." Buggins-"Oh. yes
she does. She always wants the last
word"
If you want to give a small boy
something for a birthday present you
can make him happy by giving him
any old thing that will make a noise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
NEW CONCEPTION OF DEATH.

Few indeed are the men and women
of full age-say twenty-five-who have
not vet contracted the malady that will
kill them, according to that d1st1n-
euished scientist and physician, Dr.
Felix Regnault, says Current Literature
for October. Normally, as contem-
porary investigators are beginning to
find out, it takes twenty years for
fatal malady to kill a patient. 1t may
take thirty years. The popular i'm
preston is that man may die sud
denly or that he may only require
year to die in or six months To be
sure, a man may be killed or a child
may die in a few months at the age
of one year. But ordinarily speaking
all deaths are very slow indeed and
about 95 per cent of civilized adults
are now stricken with fatal disease.
Thew do not know it. They may not
suffer from it. In due time they Will
have their cases diagnosed as cancer,
or as tuberculosis or diabetes or what
not. But so inveterate are current
misconceptions of the nature of death
that the origin of the fatal malady-
in time-Will be miscalculated by from
ten to thirty years.
In the case. of human beings. death
barring accidents nearly always
caused by some specific malady. This
maIady is as likely as not to be cured
what is called Cured" The "cure,"
however, no matter how skillful the
treatment or how slight the disease,
has left a weakness behind it in some
particular organ of the body. One of
the organs is, if not prematurely worn
out, at least so worn that its resisting
powers are greatly diminished. All of
US in this way when we have reached
a certain age possess an organ that is
much older than the rest of the ply
sique. One day we shall die because of
this organ. Even if we live to be old
indeed, we shall not die of "old age
but of weakness of the lungs, or of the
kidneys or of the liver or of the brain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

Dor came to talk planting" to the
judge.
Barry proposed to Ruth Gas he now
liked to think of herr that they ride
ooWn the course OF the canal. and she
readily accepted. He remembered
how well she used to ride and how
well her boyish slimness looked In the
saddle. But never in city parks could
they have had this glorious canter
over the wind swept way on the open
plains. They came. back in the glory
of Western moonlight. When near
the shack Barry drew rein.
Shall We" he asked earnestly. "be-
gin all over again?"
Yes" she replied in a low tone
that was what I wanted to ask you
to do
For the next two weeks every mo-
ment he could snatch from his work
Barry spent at the shack. Feeling that
he was depriving the Judge of "Bilrs"
help he put in some effective work
on the ranch. In his rides, walks and
talks with Kate Ruth he felt a sense
of intimacy he had never known
when with the Kate OF o1den days
Darling" he said impetuously one
night after a long silence, "can you
forget the past and my boyish su-
periority? Can you learn to love me
Don't" she cried breathlessly. "I
am not Katel"
He looked at her in bewilderment.
ST am Kate's younger sister. was
away at school when you knew her.
but I used to love to hear about you
from father. I didn't know at the first
that you mistook me for her. After
ward-well, 1 was afraid you would
not care for me, but you can't have
her! She's engaged!'
Dear" he said, gently. ct don't
want Kate. I want you whether you
are Kate, Ruth or BILL"
"Bill?" she interrupted family.
at knew" he laughed. "Bill's sun
bonnet gave him away"-(Copyright
1909, by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSION.

Dispatches came recently from
Illinois which told that sixty mayors
and special commissioners of the
cities of that commonwealth have
petitioned to Governor Deneen that
he request the special session OF the
legislature, soon to be started on its
way, to pass legislation which will
enable the cities to adopt the COM
mission form of government.
This ought to be pretty good con-
tributory evidence to the claim that
this modern method of municipal
rule is better in all of its essential
features than the old method of
governing cities which generally pre-
walls throughout the country. If it
were not. it is certainty. that the
municipal authorities of Illinois
would not be so generally DESTROYS of
giving it trial.
Commission form of government
for cities has long since passed the ex
perimental stage. AS has been pointed
out time and time again the achieve
ments in the conduct of the affairs of
Des Moines under commission rule
have been remarkable. Leaven
worth, working under the Kansas
law on the subject, is developing a
government that is away and beyond
anything like it has ever ex-
perienced before for efficiency. Other
Kansas cities, which have adopted
the plan, are rapidly attaining the
same results.
With these indisputable facts to the
fore, are the property owners and
other voters of Topeka going to let
the opportunity to establish such a
government here slip by? 1t will
come before them at a special cleo
ton to be held on November 2. And
1t would seem that they are not alive
to their civic duties from the meager
number of them who are registered
to participate in this election. Only
half of the voters of the city are
registered. Perhaps a good sized ma
jority of that number is in favor of
the proposition. But no chances
should be taken. 1t is almost always
the case in a light registration that
the names of the professional"
politicians are not absent from the
lists. 1t is their business to be on
hand to vote at every election. For
the most part, it is this class of
men which is opposed to the com
mission form of government, because
it is most successful in divorcing the
of a city's affairs from
politics.
What is needed is a full registra-
ton of the voters of the city to decide
this most essential question of To-
neka's progress. 1t should be de- |
termined one way or the other in
most emphatic manner and this can
not be done if only half of the voters
of the town are able to go to the
nolls on November 2 and register
their opinions Let there be no more |
dilly-dalIying about this business of
1t should be attended
to at once. 1t will be too late after
October %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

Governor Stubs told the members
of the Kansas State Temperance union
that he asked for and secured his $10,-
600 emergency fund to aid the attorney
general in his fight for the enforcement
of the prohibitory law if any such
aid were needed. Good But the first
thing the governor did after getting
this fund was to offer to turn all of
Il over for the financing of the state
fish and game department. If the state
fiscal officers had not decided that the
money could not be put to this use.
that is Just what would have been done
with II. And even Mr.. Stubs will have
10 confess that there then would not
1aava been much of an emergency fund
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If anything, the simple girls are
the harder to understand.
& =
Good food and plenty of 1t is the
chief promoter of happiness and con-
tentment.
T.
History is being made so fast these
days that it is difficult to keep posted
on 1t.
The victors are certain that all is
fair in love and war but the losers Of
ten think otherwise.
x
Equal suffrage is just, but it's dis
tresS1ng, nonetheleSS, to think of the
arguments in prospect
when the women get it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.1
When a man has a conscience 1t is
never his fault.
Most people go to church merely to
feel justified in looking down upon
those who don't.
A woman takes upon herself blame
that belongs to man so she can be
sure he didn't deserve 1t.
No matter how smart the baby is
it's mother knows people would never
admit it unless it was theirs.
A man can believe he adores a wo-
man when what it is is that he IS
crazy over the meals she gives him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

That the Peary-Cook controversy
will be kept fresh in the minds of
many for years and years to come is
made apparent by the fact that quite
a number of the babies of the hour are
being named for the distinguished ex-
plorers. Parents may think they are
honoring their offspring by so naming
them but they won't get any thanks
for their efforts in this respect from
the children when they grow up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

Why Is Europe becoming alarmed
over Spain's activity in Africa? She
cannot whip any nation her size nor
will she do anything to bring on an
argument with a stronger power. She
has no navy and only an apology of
an army to back her up. So why this
new worry in European politics?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
Additional word comes from Nor

Additional word comes from Mon
terey, Mexico, that the flood sufferers
in that territory are certain to perish
of starvation if aid is not forthcoming
Why is it that the people of this coun-
try have been so slow to respond to
the cries for help which have gone up
repeatedly from thousands of their
neighbors who have been overwhelmed
bv disaster?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

Public authorities throughout the
country may be trif1e backward about
officially recognizing DR.. Cook as. the
discoverer of the North Pole, but their
peers. the people, are not obsessed
with any such hesitancy. He is greet
ed by cheering thousands wherever he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
A Mammoth Plank.

A mammoth plank of calantas
wood from the Philippines Is the first
exhibit placed in the room for blind
visitors, which has been under dis
cussion for some time at the Natural
History Museum, and will be open
some time this month Tt will serve as
a table to support the other exhibits.
The plank. which is a flawless speci-
men, is the largest which ever has
been or which probably ever will be
brought to this country from a dis
tant land. 1t is As feet long, feet
wide and inches or more in thick
ness-New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

Regardless of the failing of Ameri-
cans to indulge in the acquisition of
gold bricks they would not be going
by the thousands at from 81 to SIS per
head to hear DR.. Cook lecture if they
did not honestly believe he had dis
covered the North Pole
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

Here is another bit of advertisement
for Kansas City. Mo. Milk Is now re-
failing there at 10 cents a quart. But
perhaps it is not well to rub it into
Kansas City on this score. The same
conditions are likely to prevail in this
neck of the woods before long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
HU7NOR OF The DAY

do you think you could learn to
love me?" well, I don't know. You
might give me a sample lesson.'-
Kansas City Journal.
Her husband is very good to her."
is that so?" Yes. He does every
thing to please her, even to talking
back when she's looking for an argu-
ment."-Detroit Free Press.
"Is that food absolutely pure ?"
asked the timorous man. Yes ans
wered the dealer, heartily. THE BEN
zoate of soda we use is guaranteed
not to be in any way adulterated.'-
Washington Star.
Rubber playing cards. Great in
vention!" what good are they?"
"Bathers needn't lose time from the
whist table Can get board and play
bridge in the surf.'-Louisville Cou-
rier-Journal.
Fred-Yes. the old gentleman will
soon have another wife to support
Henry-What? You don't mean to
tell me he is going to marry another
wife while your mother is alive ?"
mo; I am going to get married.
Tit-Bits.
in the automobile racer" You're on
the wrong phone. This is the sport
ing editor. Call up the obituary de-
partment." -Philadelphia Ledger.
Half a SOW for you If you get me
to Kings Cross in SIX minutes ''It
amt no use, captain; you may bride
me, but you can't corrupt the old
'oss. London Punch.
Shopkeeper Ito commercial travel
er)-Can't give you an order. Quite
overstocked. Traveler-Let me at
least show you my samples. Shop
keeper-Spare yourself the trouble. 1
can't look at them. Traveler-Then
myself? 1t is three weeks since I have
seen them.-Penny Pictorial.
do you think I can stand an OPP
Grafton, doctor?" you know your
financial condition better than do"
Post.
''Say,' a boy yelled in to the prop
rietor of a store in a prohibition town,
the express agent says for you to
send down for that package of Daily
Tribunes right away. cause they're
kin'."-Everyb
MY dear" What is It, hubby"
"I wish you would drop around at the
market today and inspect a steak that
I hold an option on. Then, II you
like it, call at my office and We'll sign
the transfer papers. Post.
Library Assistant (to visitor, who
is wandering about in puzzled man
ner)-Can 1 help you? Are you look
ing for anything special? Visitor Cab
sently)-No, thank you; I was only
looking for my wife.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07
FROM OTHER PENS
THE BUSY HAZERS.

The college year is just beginning
but already the busy hazers are gettlng
into the center of the stage. At Toledo
the sophomores in one of the secondary
schools seized a freshman to cut his
hair but he showed fight, and in the
course of the mixup he fell down
cellar way and injured his head so that
mart of the skull had to be removed by
surgeons. He is reported near death.
In Colorado Springs the stunt" this
wear in Colorado college is for the
sophomores to catch freshmen and
take their clothes off. So long as these
proceedings were confined to barns, the
banks of nice cold creeks or the open
country all went we'll But now that
one of the freshmen has been stripped
on the street in full view of hundreds
of spectators, the Humane society is
taking a hand.
The palm, however, must go TO, the
three upper classes of the University OF
Maine. which have reached so advanced
a position that they make 1.-The right to
haze" an article in their academic
creed The faculty insisted on having
every student take a pledge against
hazing This was too much even Tor
the girls. so between 500 and 800 stud
ents went on strike, throwing their
trif1ing school books aside till the
greater affairs could be adjusted At
last accounts the arbitration commit
tees were in session. with the stuNents
confident that the issue was still doubt
ful.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

An index to the size of the crowds
IN New York during the first eight
days of the Hudson-Fulton celebration
may be gained from the estimates that
100000. street car fares were paid
in that city during the period noted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

Good agricultural crous are being
raised at the state reformatory. Let
it be hoped that the same excellent
results will be achieved with the crop
of youthful offenders who are there
for the purposes of reformation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

1t occurs to the Chicago Record-Her-
aid that more disturbances in Turkey
may be looked for in the near future
Thanksgiving time is approaching"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

Things are assured1y picking up with
the Missouri Pacific. That road is now
working on plans for the creation of an
employees pension system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

"a boy must not necessarily be
smart to hold a position, but he must
be honest, sober and diligent," says
John D. Rockefeller, who, apparently.
has quite as large a fund of sound
philosophy as he has of money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

That much maligned organ, the
vermiform appendix, has one friend at
court, anyhow. DR.. Charles E. Page,
one of Boston's prominent physicians,
declares that its removal should be
styled as a criminal operation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

AS might have been expected Chi
-cago is an excellent field for Gypsy
Smith, the evangelist He is convert
ing the folks there at the rate of 1000
per meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-07

That was a wise decision of the city
council to light all of the streets in
an adequate fashion before undertake
Ing to sell light and power from the
city's electrical plant.