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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Some people would cry over milk even
before it is spilled.
Many a family tree grows with the
rapidity of a mushroom.
The favorite poem of the actress is
Twinkle, twinkle. little STAR
When a man is in trouble he is al
ways full Of sympathy-for himself
Many a man has acquired wealth by
giving, away nothing but advice.
After a man is married he does
lot less talking and a lot more think
ing.
There are few suburbanites who know
enough about gardening not to try II.
1t is base ingrat1tude on the part OF
a woman's age when it begins to tell
on her.
Even in this age of CONNER cialism
many marriage is an artistic rather
than financial success.
Blobbs-"There are lots of undeyeI
oped fields for making money" Slobbs
Name one, just one." Blobbs-
We'll, for instance. what's the matter
with starting a barber shop and en-
rloying only deaf mute barhers.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

1t is no compliment to be told you
are faithful correspondent
Lots of people fool around love just
as though 1T was not loaded.
People get too old to dance, but they
never get too old to sing.
Any discussion in which you are not
interested seems very trivial to you.
The world is becoming better. Only
a few people now play the mandolin.
No person who has false teeth should
throw back his head when he laughs.
A man often thinks: ct am no an
GEL but I'm a pretty good sort of a
fellow. after all"
When a man expresses his real SEN
timents on any subject, he does not
wish to be quoted.
Don't worry as to who will carry on
your work when you die: the man will
turn up all right.
One way of gracefully saying that 4
girl is homely is to constantly refer to
her sweet disposition.
With the possible exception of a
willingness to fight, you can't prove
anything by calling another a liar.
How nice and easy q thing is when
you hear some one tell about it and
how difficult it afterwards turns out
to be.
A boy is never as much consolation to
his mother in her sorrows as he.
daughter, but he can't help 1t; it is not
his way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
AYHAWKER JOTS

Don't measure your duty by other
peoples neglect" admonishes w. C.
Palmer. IF somebody don't do more
than the other fellows, nothing would
ever co.
The Wichita Eagle has an idea that
Tommy johnson, the hero of the
kanSaS-NebraSka football game, is
bigger man in Lawrence right now
than the entire board of regents.
A Barton county man drove to
town with spring wagon the other
day. The Ottawa Herald insists that
the motor car drivers asked him to
give it to the historical society as a
relic.
The Garden City Telegram thinks
that a good house cleaning is needed
, in Cloud county and its vicinity be-
cause of the BLACK hand" missives
which have been floating around
there of late.
we'll If you keep good natured," thinks
the Greenleaf Sentinel. There is so
much to get cross about that you are
surely a gentleman if you can master
your own disposition
T.. Harry Kemp should file a protest
against the newspaper custom of re-
ferring to him as 1.-The tramp poet"
] If he becomes too widely known as
4 q poet. it may injure his standing as
a tramp.-Emporia Gazette.
The Blue Rapids Times tells of a
new graft that is being worked on
farmers wives. The CRATER drives up
to a farm with a preparation which
he claims will remove all kinds OF
grease, including axle grease. To
| prove it, he wipes one of his wheels
with a cloth and Immediately cleans
| the cloth in water in which the prep
aration has been dropped AS the
wheel of his buggy has been covered
with tar soap instead of axle grease,
of course it washes out very easily.
| George winans of Hutchinson, ex-
| state superintendent of instruction
and editor of the Interstate School
man, writes: There are no naturally
good spoilers. 1t is freely conceded
ably unnatural spoilers. There are a
great many original designs in or
biography, as everybody who spells by
note instead of by ear can readily
testify. The only reason why some
people always spell correctly the
| words with which they are familiar
as spoken words, and other equally
we'll educated people fail to spell such
words correctly is to be found in the
| fact that the good spoilers have in
some way acquired the habit-per-
haps a tiresome habit-of noticing
closely individual letters in words as
| they read them, while the poor SPELL
| ers dispense with such close obser-
walton. If the preceding statement is
true to any extent it follows that the
naturally poor speller, If painfully
| aware of the fact and desircus OF
remedying the serious defect. should
lose no time in getting the habit of
| observing the forms of words as he
reads them, and of holding himself
responsible for their correct spelling
afterward. His reading will be at
/ first a slow process, but he will have
time to give more careful, thought
full attention to what he is reading
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

rough and tumble of battle more or
less injurious agitation and legislation
may have to be endured. President
Taft has evidently sufficient political
sagacity to recognize these conditions,
and it is quite likely that he will Wig
orously carry out the Roosevelt re-
forms. Should he not do so, there is
little doubt whatever that Mr..
Roosevelt himself will be recalled to
perform the task. Therefore our cap
tains of industry and railroad mag
mates may as well choose as to wheth-
err they would prefer to have congress
devise scheme of wholesome regula-
ton of corporations under Mr.. Taft's
moderate and kindly hand, or wheth-
er they would rather take the chances
of dealing with Mr.. Roosevelt, who
would undoubtedly be less gentle and
more radical. The choice is with them
now; later on It will be with the peo-
pie il they do not act.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
ADVICE TO CORPORATIONS.

That certain important hand-writ-
ing on the wall is being observed in
large financial and corporation quar-
tiers is evidenced by the following ex-
cerpt from the weekly financial review
issued by Henry Clews & Co., one of
the most prominent of the New York
banking houses:
"Of late the stock market has
shown more or less weakness owing
to- the approaching session of con-
gresS and an undercurrent of uneasi-
ness regarding President Tafts at
titude towards corporations. The
president has just finished a tour of
$4,000 miles throughout the country
traversing the populous districts of all
sections. He has thus come in close
touch with political sentiment, and has
evidently found the So-called "Roose-
welt policies" popular. Having been
elected on promises to carry out these
policies, it is to be expected that he
will more or less favor legislation un-
acceptable to corporations and that
agitation on these lines will be renew
ed when congress opens. To the dis
interested observer this is not alto
gether surprising. A strong hostile
public opinion has unfortunately been
created against our large corporations,
chiefly because of abuses incidental
TO their recent rapid growth. It will
be conceded that these corporations
possess enormous power, and that by
means of further combination they
might be able to exercise an influence
that would by corruption or other
means threaten supremacy of the gov
eminent itself. The placing of such
vast interests in the hands of a few
men, who absolutely control the des-
TIMES of hundreds of thousands if not
millions of our population, cannot
reasonably be expected to be permsn-
emit. The people will rule. They will
insist upon the open field and a fair
chance. That is the foundation of our
i government, and no power that is able
to seriously interfere with that object
Will be tolerated. The threatened
control of our industries and our rail-
roads by small groups of men, organ
| lied for purely selfish purposes and
having little or no regard for public
welfare, has awakened a deep-seated
feenng OF uneasinesS among the
| masses and is really the chief incen-
| tive for most of the socialistic prop
uganda which is spread broadcast to-
| day. Mr.. Hartman was a man of
vast ability and undoubtedly achieved
great results, but the system of exec s.
| sive Capitalization in industry for
which he pre-eminently stood is in
violent conflict with all the principles
| OF this government, which aims at
| equality of opportunity to all. Roose-
velt's tremendous popularity in This
| country was based upon his clear
| recognition Of the fact that public
welfare was being frustrated by our
great railroad and industrial combin-
atoms. His methods of cure may not
| always have been the wisest, but his
purpose was sound and his policy will
prove winning one. although in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
FROM OTHER PENS
OPPORTUNITIES IN CHINA

What may not be expected when
the Cinnamon, with all their quick
ness of apprehension, their patience,
endurance, industry, thrift and man.
ual skill, and their undoubted intel
lectual capacity, become universally
educated and possessed of a keen ap-
probation of the fact that they are
a homogeneous and united nation =?
Those who believe wars have about
to come to an end should consider
what will happen when such a people
overflow the limits of their own land
and are forced in countless millions
to seek for maintenance elsewhere.
Every step of progress China makes
in the rapid march upon which she
has entered means the development
of new wants, and that means a trade
of incalculable volume. 1t is that
which makes our relations with China
of such importance and our position
in the Philippines of such value. AL
most from the dawn of history it has
been the countries which have dom
mated the Eastern trade that have
become rich and powerful-Constan
tinople, Venice, Holland, Great Brit
ain, have in turn been helped tc their
commercial greatness by it, and now
the time approaches when its control
will cross the Atlantic and center on
our Western coast. Fortunately, we
have wise and decided policy in
Eastern matters, are on good terms
with the Chinese and have president
who understands the situation fully
and is on the alert to take advantage
of every opportunity that offers for
the country.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE GLAD SOUTHLAND.
Good market quotations for cotton
are bringing to the South welcome
flood of prosperity, and the rest of the
country may share in its g1adness. If
there is a margin of profit in raising
cotton at cents pound. the reward
must be abundant when its price is
nearly doubled. Reports indicate the
effect. Farmers are raising mort
cages instead of struggling to meet
the interest. An unprecedented
amount of unpaid paper is being re-
deemed, and the bankers rejoice. The
farmers wives of Dixie have their
lives frightened by the new pianos
and organs. Music swells the chorus
of plenty. There sounds also the whlrr
of new sewing machines, tmpelled by
busy housewives. The sons and the
spending this winter in schools. This
is shown by reports from colleges and
preparatory institutions.
Farmhouses are adorned with paint
that the brush had not touched for
years. New fences are built. The
girls rejoice in tailor-made gowns
Their SWANS take them riding in au-
tomobiles. The country stores, with
stocks exhausted, are ordering new
supplies. The Southland. having won
its money, spends it literally, yet with
honest discretion. All this means con-
sumption for the products Of manu-
facture, so that the economic beneff-
cence of sun and soil and Industry are
spread throughout the land The
wealth may accumulate, but there is
no decadence where toll meets toll
with the mutual reward of exchange
able production.--Washin Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
|say things when the bride interrupted

say things when the bride interrupted
with:
Hes mine, and talk won't help
things. You had more chances than
I did. and il Won didn't take advan-
tage OF them it's not my fault sup
pose you want damages, and you can
pick out six of my Leghorn hens to
take back with you"
And when the second widow and
the soueaking hens had disappeared
up the road old Pap rubbed his hands
together and smiled on his bride ana
said:
''You are really a wonderful woman
wonderful. It's so easy that wish
I'd been engaged to two more!"-
copyrighted, 1909. by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

from the New York Press.1
1t isn't so much that we love life; it's
that we hate death.
A red-headed widow is very lucky
thing for her first husband.
A pretty girl can have the use of all
the wisdom she needs in the men she
can capture.
If we put into doing something for
our friends half the time we put into
trying to get even with our enemies;
this would be a grand world.
A man takes chances in business. the
stock market, horse races, going to the
theater at night in his office, runnin g
for office and lodging his taxes; all j
woman's chances are on the one thing
matrimony.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The fashions seem to change these
days even in ideals.
X X X
Many a fellow just simply refuses to
hear when opportunity knocks.
X X X
All the gold bricks in the world are
not limitations of the yellow metal.
y X X
Sons of the in-law variety are the
only kind desired where there is a large
family of girls.
X X X
Probably no one thinks very much of
borrowing" an umbrella because every
body is afflicted with the habit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
THE CALL OF CHEYENNE.

I've roped the wai-eyed pinto
ana slapped my bed on tight;
III sleep out in the sagebrush.
Far from the ranch tonight:
There's work to do in plenty
But 1t can go, by Hen,
I've heard the Frontier summons
The call of old Cheyenne.
My. old Pie Biter's saddled.
The trail Is long and white.
And at the end is shinin'
A dome all gilded bright
A dome that hypnotizes
And lures cartlemen.
Back to the Fontier revsIs
Ihat brighten old Cheyenne.
1t won't be long. TIM thinkin,.
Before the call will cease.
No cowboys yell win SKATER
Wyomfngs rural peace;
WIN be quite vanished then
BuI sun IN dreams I'll hear it.
The call Of old Cheyenne.
arthur Chairman in the Denver D..
1ican. uVef Heput
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

us he well posted?" Yes, at every
club he belongs to."-Harvard Lampoon.
Jones-.smith, the hotel man. has struck
b ran idea TO dTaE o1 daTsis Nnn
of the Discomforts of Home st. Paul
Dispatch.
Knicker--well my dear? Mrs. Knicker
1ba your wings or bef s,,n you come in
Mistress-Bridget, hope you're not the
sort of girl who quits her job? Cook
No mum; I'm regular Depew.-Puck.
Old Lady Gin shoe shop)-Have you felt
slippers. Small Boy Assistant tsolemnly)
Yes. ma'am; many time!-Comic Cuts.
Ragson Tatters-pere amt any doubt
but hunger is de best sauce. Fringey
thing thing ter go with it.-Boston Transcript.
The Kansas lover is not poetical. but he
sweetheart: II would rather listen to you
chewing. your gum than hear Caruso
The Customer-Can you recommend
these csc, complexion powders? TT. The Chemist mist
wash like the natural complexion, but
they won't rub of on a coat sleeve!-
Sketch.
Young wife-And you would like my
d9 pa{ better II they were laf
ave ave. a game O auoits down by the Wa
term tanks.-Ideas.
Up to His Ears.-aWhat is the natter"
aeaa ln y
Houston Post.
Not Unanimous. = She-There's Mrs.
Toozie; she seems quite reconciled to the
death of her first husband. He-Yes, but
I'm afraid that her second never will be-
Women as a rule remarked the
mates True" rejoined the deInoraiizer.
but they try awfully hard to make their
own figures count. '-chicago News.
He.I don't don't want ANYTHING, really: but
I've two eyes. monsieur-Pages Foiiies.
IT IT ;. hear ey your girl h has a good trade L.
e telephone operator -Sai''"0fe AMER
viearrm sorry to hear you've been so
poorly. You must pray for a good heart.
| Thomas-Yaas. EUR; but it's my liver
| wot be wrong, ye know, zur-Tattler.
MacGregor-I hope. they don't take to
MacGregor-We'd all have to wear steel
bottles.-Buffa1o Express.
Seems this Seattle Exposition was a
success"
eyes; it was a surprise to me all around.
I didn't suppose they could think up a
new name for g midway, but they did,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Little Willie-Say, pa, what Is a hypo-
critic?
Pa-A hypocrite, my son, is man who
publicly thanks Providence for his suc-
cess, then gets mad every time anybody
insinuates that he isn't mainly RESPONSE
BILE for 1t himself.-Tit-Bits.
Head Waiter-What's the matter with
that dyspeptic looking old chap over there
at the fourth table?
Assistant-He's got crouch. He was
getting ali ready to make a kick about
that cantaloupe, and he found 1t was a
good one.-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
THE SHADOWS.


The spirit of Life I find
In the grass and the flowers of the
meadows,
In the trees that sing to the wind,
But most of all ih the shadows.
For the star-flowers fade from the heath,
And the weeds and the grasses wither,
And their crumbling forms on the breath
Or the winds float hither and thither.
And the trees that tower in air
BY the bolt and the blast are shattered,
And their trunks are riven and bare
tered.
But the shadows like palmers creep
Ger the plain to the misty border,
To the towers of Dream and Sleep
Where the Twilight stands as warder.
All! who shall tell of their flight
When the dusk descends on the meadow?
They are one with the soul OF Night.
With the vast. the eternal Shadow?
Robert L. Logan in the Forum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

from the Chicago Newsl
Some men succeed in spite of them.
selves.
1t is usually costly to follow cheap
advice.
When some people talk it Is waste
Of time to yawn.
The more talk it takes to run things
the slower they move.
The 5ravest dentist isn't anxious In
look into the jaws OF death.
A woman would rather suspect her
husband than distrust her preacher.
If man shores he has a good ex-
cuse for remaining away from church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

With two such capable gentlemen
as F. d. Coburn and Doc. Crumbine
acting as undertakers that report
printed in the American magazine for
November to the effect that ten cases
of pellagra exist in Kansas, has been
so effectively buried that there is no
possible chance of its arising from
the grave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

Expert alienists are now expressing
the opinion that it is doubtful If there
is a single entirely sane person on the
earth. If this dictum Is applicable to
the men who are promulgating it
there will be more general tendency
to agree with it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

All those who believe that the series
of speeches on the Roosevelt policies
which James Rudolph Garfield secre-
tary of the interior in the Roosevelt
cabinet. proposes to deliver, is to be
without political significance will
please stand on their left ears for half
a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

appears to be most reason
able one. Men who do not pay taxes
of any sort and who ply their trade
in a city in competition with its reg
ular merchants only at the seasons of
the year when business is especially
brisk, should be made to pay well for
the privilege.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

There's no use talking, Mount Nc
Kinley is assuredly a giant among
mountains. A Columbia university
professor now comes out with state
ment to the effect that DR.. Cook did
not get within ten miles Of the top
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

If Lord Northcliffe, the famous
British publisher, is correctly in
formed in the premises, England,
with all kinds of perplexing problems
on hand, is eager for another one. He
says it won't be long now before
Great Britain has a protective tariff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

Evidently the Washington Post is
fearful that something serious Is go
ing to happen when congress con-
venes. 1t delivered this warning re-
Gently: Insurgents and regulars will
please observe that there is a law
against carrying concealed weapons
in the District of Columbia,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

Strange things are always happen
ing. Among the most unusual of
them hereabouts is the decision of
the members of the Shawnee County
Bar association to hold regular meet
ings at frequent intervals at which
silver tongued orators will be under
the ban. Please imagine a gathering
Of lawyers without an extensive talk
fest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

Scientists are now out with the
opinion that baId-headed men are the
wiser. Sometimes scientists have
been known to make mistakes. but
it's a safe bet that Tom McNeal and
a few others do not think so in this
particular. In all probability, though,
Ewing Herbert will not become dis
couraged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

1t is reasonable to assume that the
sport Of aeroplaning will not become
unduly popular in Chicago. That
towns city fathers. in their great
wisdom. have decided to charge a
license for airships at the rate of ten
dollars a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

Judge Schoch of the Shawnee
county probate court. says that most
men act as though they were scared
when they approach the marriage
altar. 1t would be decidedly unusual
and inappropriate If they acted other
wise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

Rather out of the ordinary were the
big automobile races which were held
last week at Atlanta. They were run
off without single contestant or on
locker being killed. Still that is no
excuse for more of them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

That Kansas hen which is ac-
cused of having laid an egg on which
appears "Drouth 1911" is a disgrace
to her sex if the charge is true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

It's an Ill wind, and so forth. The
winter wheat in Kansas thoroughly
enjoyed the recent and continued
rains which prevailed over the entire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

Not the least interesting of the local
political possibilities of the future is
the booming of John ]. Schenck,
Shawnee county's attorney. for the
Democratic nomination for governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
Going Long Way to Wed.

Miss Clara Beck, of Mansfield, has
started on a journey of 10000 miles
to meet and marry Ernest Keppler,
formerly chief clerk of the Big Four
railway. Keppler is the representa-
tive of an American exporting house
in Manila. He will meet Miss Beck
at Hongkong, China, and they will be
married at Canton and then make
their home in Manila.
Friends of Miss Beck have made
novel plans to keep her from being
lonesome during her long journey.
They have sent her two trunkfuls of
wedding presents. Each present is
wrapped in a package labeled with the
date on which she may open it. The
labels permit her to open two pack
ages each da,- CT the journey.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

The West met the East in football
last Saturday and did more than well,
thank you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16

One of JaDan's richest women is
going to make her home in the United
States. This would be better news if
the lady in question was not already
married.