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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
Finds "SwelIed Heads in Boston.

Eustace w. Blossom, a noted crimi-
nologist and Bertillon expert, for
there is an extraordinary number of
men who suffer from "delirium
grandiosum,'- or in plain slang,
"swe1led head This sort of delirium
Mr.. Blossom says, he has observed
in greater frequency in Boston than in
any other city he has visited.
In, the tracing OF criminals he has
some very original ideas, and says that
the incendiary or firebugs for example,
is a distinct type. They are nearly al
ways of light build, have long legs,
and are either boys or old men. ac-
cording to Mr.. Blossom.-Boston dis
patch to New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
THE INDIANS DEADLY FOES.

From one million Indians on the
North American continent at the time
of La Sale and De Soto, the number
of redmen on United States soil has
been reduced to scarcely more than a
hundred thousand, says Emerson
Hough in Hampton's Magazine for
April. The magazine sent Mr.. Hough
through the west to make a careful
study of the Indians. both in Okla
homa and on the outside reservations.
Generally speaking, he says, the reser-
walton Indians have not improved.
The Five Civilized Tribes, it is true,
have had a large per capita wealth.
and the Osages, not of those tribes,
but beneficiaries under much the same
laws, are said to be the richest people.
per capita, in the world, or at any
rate in America. Yet the great bulk
of the redmen-which means the
servationists-have done no more
than to take on the vices of the white
man without his virtues. They have
lost the sturdy, Clearly habits of their
| early days. and whisky and tubercu-
losis find them easy victims.
"Out on the blanket reservations
the Indian question is, in fact largely
solving itself by means of tuberculosis
and alcohol,'' writes Mr.. Hough.
Even among the Five Tribes con-
sumption is doing its work in connec-
ton with the deadly Jamaica ginger
and lemon extract, which make the
general beverages in a country which
is very, very dry. If 1 could run a
wide-open bar in Muskogee for one
month, and could have as an adjunct
thereto a barber shop selling the sort
of tonic which makes the negros hair
grow straight, I would not care who
made the songs of this country"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
QUAKER -,ED1TAT1oNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Many man wants a medal for SIM
ply doing his duty.
Lots of married people might study
harmony without taking music lessons.
When a girl losses her head she
should be sure the young man is
good catch.
Some fellows are so slow that they
wouldn't even make successful pail
bearers.
You can't beat learning into a boy.
in spite of the fact that switch VIII
make him start.
A girl can easily twist a fellow
around her finger, but the trouble is
he gets broke SO easily.
Lots of people who are too wise to
buy green goods or gold bricks will
sign contract with a book agent
1t isn't wise to try to make all your
money in one venture, unless that ven
ture is the marrying of an heiress.
The beauty about being an old
mans darling is that a girls husband
harmonizes so well with her antique
furniture.
Blobbs-''Wigwag is always looking
for trouble" Slobbs-"Yes; if Wig
wag couldn't get into trouble once In
while he wouldn't have any pleasure
at ALL"
Wigg-"Bjones says he is the VIC
tim of a woman's sighs." Wagg-
Eyes; he is being sued for breach Of
promise by a female who weighs 21o
pounds"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Every friend is a disappointment in
trouble.
Girls of is regard large families as
extremely vulgar.
Almost all actresses are either mar
ried, or just getting over it.
So few women know how to use dry
goods after they get them.
A woman stops eating when she is
worried, and man stops sleeping.
All men look in their photographs as
though they would make good hus-
bands.
No mans religion ever appears a
success to those to whom he owes
money.
People who are drunk wouldn't ap-
pear drunk if they did not try so hard
to act sober.
If you have a strong point in your
character. don't make it a, weakness by
admiring 1t too much.
When a man tells us he likes to
work, we do not say so to his face. but
We think it just the same.
1t is related that a man went away
on months trip lately, and found his
women folks reduced to skeletons upon
little thin slice of bread, and jam and
tea to save the trouble of getting regu-
lar meals. They were envied by all the
women in the neighborhood who had
cross men to cook big meals for three
times a day. They admitted tina:
sometimes they did not even eat their
bread and jam, because they had
cleaned the dining room and fairly
reveled in keeping it shining.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

on hides VIII mean saving for the
people of this country of at least $780,
100000 annually in their shoe bill
The reduction of the duties on pre-
pared leather and manufactured
shoes will have a tendency to make
this saving much greater. And as
Representative Crompacker of In
diana said the other day in debating
this question in the house of represent
tatives, the farmers and stock raisers
will be able undoubtedly to save more
money through the reduced price of
shoes, harness and other leather goods
as a result of the removal of the du-
ties on hides than they would if the
duty was continued in force.
AS a matter of fact, will the taking
off of the duty on hides cause sub
stantial decrease in the price of cat
tie? In the raising Of cattle and their
sale, little or no attention is paid by
the farmer or stock raiser to the price
that the hide of a steer will bring
him. Cattle are not sold primarily
for the value of their hides. It's the
beef on them that counts in the sale
and in the purchase. The hide pro-
position is a side issue with the pack
er who buys the cattle. Ordinary
steers bring to their raiser from $50
apiece UP. The packer gets from 81
to $11, or Whereabouts, for a hide. The
duty on hides Is 10 per cent ad val
orem. This means that they are pro-
tected about that much. A fifteen per
cent reduction on/the price Of hide
will not mean much of a decrease in
the price that is paid to a stock raiser
for a steer Certainly it would not be
anything like the benefit he would
gain in the reduced cost Of shoes and
other leather goods through a re-
moval of the duty on hides.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
WHERE HARTMAN ERRs.

During his recent trip from the Pa
cific coast to the east, Mr.. E. H. Har-
riman, the railroad magnate, has been
delivering a series of lectures, as 1t
were, on the public questions of the
day through the medium Of interviews
with the newspaper men at the
various cities where he has stopped
for a couple of minutes or SO. Much
that he has had to say has been de-
cidedly interesting and to the point.
but this has not been true of every
thing which has come from his lips
And the subject of the government
supervision and regulation of railroads
is one of these things.
Mr.. Hartman declares himself to be
strongly in favor of such propa-
ganda if the supervision and regula-
ton is combined with an adequate
protection, and in this he is right. The
federal government and the states
should seek to conserve and protect all
railroad property to the fullest extent.
But on the question of governmental
supervision of the issuance of stocks
and bonds by railroad corporations
Mr.. Hartman is not in popular &C
cord Its none of the peoples bust
ness, to put it bluntly," said Mr.. Har-
riman, chow much securities and IN
what form they are issued so long as
the railroad is run in the interest OF
the people and so long as it gives the
greatest possible unit of service thai
lies within it,
If there is anything more the peo-
pies business in the supervision OF
railroads than a power to regulate the
issuance of their stocks and bonds. il
would be difficult to find. Such g
supervision is absolutely necessary Il
the people are to be sure that tine
railroad is run in the interest of the
people," to use Mr.. Harriman's OWL
words again.
AS long as railroads are permitted
to issue stocks and bonds In
promiscuous fashion, as many of then
have done in the past, they Will no
be run primarily in the interests o.
the people. They will be run as sew
eral of them have been for years bach
for the purpose of paying dividends OF
an excessive amount of stocks anc
bonds. most of it nothing but water,
| of the impure sort, and the peopl'
have to pay increased freight bills 81
that these dividends can be met. L
all of the water that has beer
squeezed into the stock and bonds o
| many of the railroads in the coun
try could be drained off there Woul'
be no necessity for many of the hlgi
freight rates of the present time. l
would be quite easy for the roads t.
nav reasonable dividends on thei
| legitimate stocks and bonds will
| freight rates at a much fairer figure
1t will probably be impossible to ge
much of the water" out of the rail-
! road stock and bonds. which has al
! ready been injected into them. Blu
the supervision of the issuance o
stocks and bonds by the railroad
from now on, which several state
have undertaken and which all
them will in time, as we'll as the fed
erai government in all probability, will
| prevent the watering of stocks an
bonds in the future, and that will b
accomplishing something of very de
| sirable sort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
FREE HIDES.

Considerable is the protest going up
these days in the halls of congress
and elsewhere against the proposal in
the Payne tariff bill to place hides on
the free list. A good deal of this op-
position comes from the people, and
their representatives. of localities
where cattle raising occupies a prom
inent place. The claim is set up that
if the duty on hides is taken off the
price of cattle will be materially re-
duced.
1t does not seem, however, that this
position is a tenable one. Especially,
when the fact is taken into considera-
ton that the removal of the duty on
hides and a good sized reduction of
the duties on manufactured shoes and
other leather goods, which is an &C
compartment to it, will be the means
Iessening the American shoe bill to
a great extent. Almost everyone is
aware of the fact that the cost OF
shoes has been most unreasonable
during the past few years. Experts
estimate that the removal of the duty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

Norway has been contemplating the
restriction of emigration to this and
other countries. An association which
has been agitating this proposition is
beginning to receive replies from the
people to requests for their opinion on
the subject but not of the kind that
were looked for. Many Norwegians
have answered that they are strongly in
favor of emigration because the emf
grants send back to their relatives at
home much money which they make
over and above their expenses in Amer
fra
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.

trTOm the chicago News
Charity is too often charity dis
pensed.
Many self made men forget to make
themselves agreeable.
Death may love a shining mark
but shining marks are scarce.
Some people seem to make a spe-
cialty of thinking only near-thoughts.
The husband of nagging woman
is apt to furnish most of the because.
A bachelor is a man who thinks it
wise to view matrimony from a dis
lance.
You cant reform a man by suggest
ing that he aught to be as good as you
are.
+ An ignorant man may acquire more
wisdom than one who thinks he
knows it all.
It's easier for a woman to look as
old as she is than to look as young as
she feels.
Our idea of a true philosopher is a
man who is able to explain away his
faults to the satisfaction of himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

Some time ago a paragraph ap-
peared in these columns which
credited Governor Fort of New Jersey
with the suggestion that the term of
the United States presidency should
be for life. This statement was based
on what purported to have been a re-
port of a speech made by Governor
Fort in Chicago on Washington's
birthday. 1t seems that this report
was incorrect. Governor Fort writes
to the State Journal that there was
nothing in his speech as delivered to
the press nor anything that he said
on the platform that would justify any
such construction. 81 did quote from
Alexander Hamilton on the subject
writes Governor Fort, land 1 suppose
that quotation has been taken as my
views, but this is far from the truth.
/ am not in favor of a life term for
the president. This in my mind, is
absolutely inconsistent with our Re-
publican form of government. For
myself 1 would like to see a term of
gay six or seven years without
eligibility to reelection. 1 am too in
tense an American to advocate life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
SIGNS oF AGE.

So, am growing old, you say;
I walk in a decrepit way;
My hair is absolutely gray
And growing thinner;
My books are all the stupid kind
That entertain a seniIe mind;
And somehow I am disinclined
To dress for dinner.
I smoke a pipe most of the time;
I hate to walk too far or climb:
In fact summed up completely, I'm
A true back number;
I read my morning paper twice,
I'm always offering advice;
Amusement serves but to entice
My wits to slumber.
I take a drop or two at night;
| rise almost before tbs light;
I must confess am not quite
So young and sporty;
/ cut my coupons twice a year
OF course you do not call that queer
OF course notLCome to think. my dear,
You, too, are forty!
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
FRON OTHER PENS
ENJOY THEIR EDUCATION.

Travellers in Denmark are almost
uniformly impressed with the high ed
ucational qualifications exhibited by
the humblest peasants. These people
are familiar with good literature, read
the daily papers and are well inform
ed, considering their limited oppor-
tunities- They have a sort of peasant
college institution where for five
months during the winter instruction
is given in cultural rather than tech
meal subjects. and the students are
from the villages and farms.
The rates of tuition are low. but
many students give up large portion
of a years income for these privileges.
OF course, the simplicity of life here
has much to do with the popularity of
this higher education for the masses,
but their example should be inspiring
to us. In the United States people
have vastly larger opportunities to
get education, and to enjoy it, too, in
the way these Danes do, or better.
Unlike them, however, we common
ly look on learning as a means to an
end rather than as what it is, an end
in itself. With all our night and 9TH
err special school courses, we don't
seem to be able to get the same re-
turns for our investment in these
things that the Danes do. Why this
is it will pay us to consider.-Pitts-
burg Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

Mr.. Taft favors a ship subsidy. It's
to be hoped that a majority of the
present congress are Of the same mind.
This is one of the crying needs of the
nation. In no other way can the
prominence It should have in the mari
time world be attained. The millions
of dollars worth of American articles
and goods which are exported each
year should be carried in American
built ships flying the stars and stripes
of the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few men, or women either, are
anywhere near what they think they
are.
X X
That a woman's won't" means
will is an oft-repeated theory, but
it's great fallacy.
n X
The foundation for many a success
full life is laid with slipper in the
hands of a wise parent.
X X
Girls waste time in dreaming of the
ideal man who is going to come for
them. There isn't any such thing.
4
Honor is fine thing but a man
doesn't find it very substantial to lean
on when he has lost everything ex-
cept it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
HVlNOR or THE DAY

Maud Cat reception)-How wonder
fully composed Ethel leeks this after
noon. Belle-NaturaIly. 1t took her
over two hours.-Boston Transcript.
Ethel-Jack simply raved over my figure
in the asylum?-Boston Transcript.
Clerk--Mrs. Van Aster complains that
her photographs don't look Hike her. Pho
rapherLComplains! She ought to be
grateful.-New York Herald.
:, Sc, What did l.! father say when you asked
He fell on my neck and wept"-Tit- Bits
D. DIDO you believe in first aid to the
case more complicated for the physician
when he arrives.-Ldfe.
Poor girl, Her marriage bureau hus-
band won her heart and hand by decep-
tion. Didn't he really have the money!
80 years old, whereas he is only So
Kansas City Times.
do you think your nerve is sufficiently
gator" "weiI. I've been out IN canoe aaws,
with a nervous fat girl."-Cleveland Plain
The blacksmith had Just inherited a for
you suggest?" Take n your hands nat to oa
good manicure, for the first thing" adj
V1Sed his lawyer.-Chicago Tribune.
Yes" hesitated Mr.. Justwed. these.
biscuits are pretty good, but don't you]
think there ought to be just a little
rupted Mrs. ]. quickly. "of them?'' ended
Mr.. j., with a flash of inspiration-Cleve-
land Leader.
81 was SO sorry" said Mrs Oldcastle,
Ito hear of your mothers illness. Typhoid
fever is such hard disease for old peo-
pie to recover from YES" replied her
ma did have an awful hard time, but
she's adolescent now, thank goodness
Chicago Record-Herald.
doubtful housewife. Yes. num-" hasten
ed Hornpipe Harry. as he took a reef in
his trousers. But you don't make use of
| bersv !" "Oh. no mum. I say SILVER my
gasbag!' or 'Shiver me wings! 1 am an
airship sailor. mum. ILLUSTRATED Bits.
Driven to It.-what does the Shake
| speare club discuss?' Depends on who
present. If there's full quota of ladies
in attendan nee, they discuss Shakespeare"
Not a Hero to His Wife.-Jack the
Giant Killer. DOTTED his seven-league
boots Yes he said, my wife always
the house" Thus we learn that even
mestic life.-Nashville American.
How dare your, sexelaims the angry
| composer to his critic. How dare you,
| sir, characterize my music as you have?''
II don't understand you" demurs the
egi5e Yo ss SAID Sun that tn my rhapsody i'm;
OH. my good friend. said no such thing!
said 1t was vagrant melody. Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
IFrom the New York Press. ]

IFrom the New York Press.J
It's not so very dangerous to propose
to a girl unless you are single.
81 A mans idea of showing good man.
ners is to somebody who is richer than
he is.
A woman can have lot more fun
planning a trip with her husband than
he will ever let her have taking it.
After hats and clothes spring is the
most poetic to a girl because it Will
soon be the hammock season.
The reason children can believe in
fairy stories is they aren't half as big
lies as they hear told at the dinner
table
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

Sometimes even disgusting news is
of the good variety. In this category
is the announcement that Mrs. Ferdi-
nand P. Earle, of affinity fame, is
suing for an annulment of her mar
rage to the artist on the grounds that
he is a bigamist and lunatic. Not
much sympathy will go out to her,
though, even if she did marry the
man while. as she says. she was in a
psychological maze 1t may also be
said that the adequacy of such an ex-
cuse is that few people will under
stand just what it is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
DEFECTIVE LEGISLATION.

Wouldn't it be just as well to send a
man to the penitentiary for putting a
sleeper in a legislative bill as it is to
send him there for stealing a horse /?
Isn't it just the same as obtaining
money under false pretenses? Isn't it
cheating the people? Sure it is. and
yet it is something which the people
have submitted to with grace that is
appalling. We think that when a leg
islator sneaks a sleeper in a bill for
the purpose of imposing on the people,
he should be jerked up and hurried to
the penitentiary. Akin to this is the
practice of seeming to enact a certain
purpose, and then hiding behind it a
provision that actually nullifies that
enactment.
| 1t is marvellous the way these little
selfish schemes work themselves into
legislation. as If making laws was on a
level with a horsel trade. There is a
f1uorspar found in only one congress
sional district, and yet the member
held up the duty on that, though it will
| increase the price of every pound of
steel made in the country. But he
doesn't seem to care so his consti-
tuents carry off the bag of gold. The
| idea of every section of the country
| tryinr to beat some other section bears
witness to a very poor state of patriot
| ism, and yet the basis of commenda-
ton of congressional service is the
| amount of revenue or tariff favoritisn
a member may seize for his own sec
I tion.-Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

Here's a cruel prank of fate. An aged
and wealthy Georgian fell in love with
the mistress of a boarding house be-
cause she was such a fine cook and
after a brief courtship he married her.
Three short weeks after the wedding he
died of acute indigestion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

News forecasts of what is going to
happen in Washington are generally
unreliable but unfortunately suchis pro-
baby not the case with a recent dis
patch announcing that there is trouble
ahead for the tariff revision and its
contamination is likely to be delayed for
some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

tenure for any office" The State
Journal regrets that it was led into
an unintentional error and mis-
represented Governor Fort in this re-
gard and is glad that he furnished 1t
with the means for making this cor
ractfnn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

The ice men have always been envied
more or less because of the returns from
their trade, but how about the brick
masons? They have been receiving 621s
cents an hour for their work and they
have now gone on a strike with de-
mand for 10 cents an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganlZation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news Is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pUr-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02
Easy Come. Easy Go.

A passerby at Broad and Lombard
streets in Philadelphia once heard the
following dialogue between a laborer
who was digging in a sewer and a
stout. beaming lady with capacious
market basket on her arm:
'Ah, good marnin' to you, Pat" said
she, leaning over and looking into the
pit. And what are you doin'?'
Good marnin'. Bridget he replied,
looking up. Pm .a-earnin' alimony for
yees. And what are We dom ?''
Sure, I'm a-spendin' it," replied
Bridget airily, as she trotted off.-Lip-
pincotta.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

Making provision for the pavement of
the streets seems to be quite as dis
turbing a proposition to the city coun-
cilmen as did the remaining of them.
Assuredly is the path of the city faith
ers strewn with everything except roses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-02

The spectacle of tariff jugglery now
before the people is the best sort of an
argument for the delegation of the
whole business to a permanent commits
sion of tariff experts. thinks the Wash
dngton Herald. And it's a good thought.