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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.

[F'roln the Philadelphia Record.]
Even a single man may have his
double.
The tuition fee is generally pretty
high in the school of experience.
It's when it is first budding that a
young mans mustache is down and
out.
It's when a man is under a cloud
that we are apt to see him in bad
light.
The fact that one-half the world is
short is what enables the other half to
get along.
The man who ventures on thin ice
doesn't want to take for his motto
Slow but sure
Hoax-"Does Wigwag stand we'll with
the girls?" Joax-"Sure. He always
gives up his seat in crowded car"
Blobbs-"In France 1 understand they
eat horse meat Slobbs-''Yes, but they
generally begin the meal with a pony"
81 confess 1 don't like children" re-
marked the old bachelor. But my
children are as good as pie" treasured
the doting mother. But / don't like
pie. either" said the old bachelor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

ward. If the same effective results
from prohibition could be obtained in
New York city as have been in certain
sections of the country, it would
mean to the municipality alone a
great reduction in the appropriations
for the increasing charity demands"
Some people in communities in
prohibition territory that have raised
revenues by collecting fees and fines
from liquor dealers who have been
permitted to- violate the law have a
habit of insisting that their localities
are handicapped when the law Is en-
forced through the adjustment of
such revenue which is illegal under
any and all circumstances. DR.. Greg
CRY contends that the saving to
community in asylum. poorhouse, Jail
and charity expenses more than re-
pays the loss of such Illicit revenue.
In this he is exactly right. The abol-
ishment of the saloon and the joint,
which is possible when prohibitory
law is honestly enforced, stamps pro-
hibition as an almost unqualified
success OF immeasurable benefits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

supple body; the muscles of his arms
and chest rose superbly. judith Watcn-
ed him, fascinated. Then the rotten
oar cracked.
She tore off a strip of her pett'coa-
to bind 1t with and make it strong
enough for work.
He put an oilskin about her. Her
hair brushed his face. He kissed II
furtiveIy: but she detected him. VIII
fully she drew damp curl from under
the edge of the oilskin where he Lad
tucked it-and then she laughed at the
look in his eyes.
Attend to the boatr' cried she. Ard
the oilskin was new-rich yellow: the
hood was scarlet-lined: her hair was
like midnight; and her face was a
flower. Yet he. the artist, the lover OF
color must needs attend to the boat!
When they were safe at last; when
he was helping her ashore, he looked
at her with protecting tenderness she
had never imagined him capable of.
"Ah," cried she. IF only you cared
for my art" She looked up at him. HIS
hand masterfully sought hers. Then:
But there's something better, sweet
heart. There's something better than
even music or painting. Have We found
it, do you think?'
IT think" she admitted. reflectively
and demurely. while smile was run
ming riot over her piquant face, Il
think we've found the thing that Is
"-(Copyrighted, 1909. by Asso-
ciated Literary PresS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
A Hoodoo Black Chicken.

Mrs. Cal Remy. a thrifty housewife OF
this place. recently had an experience
with some poultry which was unusual
to say the least. One of her hens
Matched a brood of chickens, all Of
which were white but one.
The hen attempted to kill the one
black chicken and was prevented from
doing so only by Mrs. Remy transfer
ring the black chick to another hen.
This hen however, also had brood OF
white chicks, and she too objected to
the black chick to the extent that she
tried to kill it.
Finally Mrs. Remy took the despised
black chicken. more dead that alive,
and placed it in a cage with a canary
bird.
Here the chick was not molested, but
was permitted to. peep to its hearts
content. The peeping, however, finally
got on the nerves of the canary and
now he has ceased to sing and makes
no noise save that of peeping, in imi-
tation Of his cage mate.-Columbus cor
respondence Indianapolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
Snake MIXED the Cow.

In Vergennes, in Jackson county. just
north of here, was moccasin snake
that never could have hoped to be OF
intimate terms with Theodore Roose-
welt. This snake had been guilty OF
gross violations of the traditions of its
race, and was really unworthy of the
respect and confidence of its fellow
citizens.
Reuben Porter has a very fine Jersey
cow, which recently failed in her milk
supply almost completely. and the mys-
terry was solved when the Porter boys.
on watch for a milk thief, were dunn
founded by seeing this snake glide
softly through the grass, raise itself OH
its tail. and to calmly proceed to ex-
tract the fluid from the almost burst
ing udder of the COW.
As soon as the boys could recover
sufficiently from their establishment
they ran for their father, who hurried
to the scene, and after viewing the evil
denee condemned the snake to irnme-
date death. The COW is now furnish
ing her usual supply of good, rich milk.
Alto Pass (IIl.) dispatch to the New
York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
coss1p MApE. A CRIME.

Georgia will soon have a law up p
holding the names and regulations OF
IFS virfuous women, the bill tntroduced
bv senator s8deCurry having passed
both senate and house, with the GER
taiTty of the governors signature
So widespread has been the interest,"
zf.fs this measure that the. author mas
received requests for s copies pie ,e1 iron
tors, who intend introducing similar
bills.
The measure makes 1t misdemean-
or to wilfully and falsely utter or cir
cliIate defamatory statements ABOUT
women, and it grew out of a case IN
Hart county, in which SANDER nearly
broke. up a marriage between MEM
bers of two widely known families
Shortly before the date i set o fUr ine
was warned that his bride-to-be was
of questionable character. Upon near
ing this the girls father refused to per-
init the wedding until he had investi,
gated the charges. These were founo
Without foundation, and the circulators
admitted they had lied. There being
no Georgia law covering the case, none
of the Interested persons prosecuted
the defamers-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
KANSAS CO4AENT
LABOR PRoBLEM IN SWEDEN.

LABOR PROBLEM IN SWEDEN.
An intelligent, united. and progress
s1ve Iaboring class is of the greatest
SON the sentiment of the people of
this country is strongly In favor OF
encouraging organized labor and labor
unions when they are conducted along
proper lines. with due regard Tor the
rights OF the employer.
In Sweden the recent labor diff
culties appear to be due not SO much
to unionism, as to the use of union
ism as a vehicle upon which to prop
agate socialism and class hatred.
In Sweden the population is mucn
more strictly segregated into classes
than in America, and 1t has been the
general tendency to keep down. SO
part of the lower classes of labor
ers. Feeling the injustice OF this
treatment, the lower classes fell
readily into the plans of the union
organizer, and in the recent olIn-
Guilty. fired by the anarchistic ideas
of a certain class of agitators called
'sThe Young Socialists" have under
taken by force to accomplish tnelr Op-
ject, which was an increase In the
wage scale.
It is claimed by those who are we'll
Informed, that the wages palo IN
Sweden have been materially ao-
vanced during the past five years
and that the employers are now pay
and as much, considering the cost OF
living, as workmen are paid IN other
countries,
It is also claimed that the .SWed-
ish unionist, spiced by the element
of socialism which has entered into
the unionism OF that country mas
reached stage OF assurance tnat nc
is not content to demand reasonaple
concessions. but is lnslstln .s, upon POI,
ployer to an extent which the EN-
ployer finds intolerable.
IT was when affairs reached TINS
state, and the employers refused 70
make further concessions. that the
conflict came which threatened Tor
time to plunge Sweden into interhaA
The crest of this wave Of revolt
now seems to have passed ano lne
socialistic uprising is now supsloins,
the expected aid from Germany ana
Denmark having failed to put IN an
appearance in SUFFICIENT amount TO
enable the laborers to longer con-
tinue their strike.
con ditions which exist in this coun-
try would never bring about the slrua-
ton which exists in Sweden, YET tIle
danger of attempting to couple unloh-
ism with socialism or any other iorIi
Of nolitical craftsmanship is manifest
JJnionism has its place In the Woriu,
under existing conditions. 1t is right
that men should have the prvllTso
of com bining to protect put II - as %
true that unionism should beware OF
alliances with socialism or otner ISM,
which has for its object the controI
of the government. The true Pr3VinS =
Of the union is not poAucdl out a.
economic and social. ana SO a ioae social
duty with reason and mooeratloA' II
viii he recognized as benehcent IN
stitution,-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
AYHlWKER JOTS

When two men are quarFeling, we
notice that the smaller one Is the one
who tries to hold his temper, says the
Greenleaf Sentinel.
The Lawrence World rightly remarks
that the sky must hang pretty low
around Atchison inasmuch as a six
story building there is referred to as i
sky-scraper.
The man who declared that the con-
solidation of the Missouri Pacific
branch lines in Kansas was an evil
dence that misery loves company is
thought to have had a CROUCH
Ottawa Herald.
Bert Walker is improving along de-
sirable lines. "I am getting more con
fidence in myself" he writes. can
has landed me. have been pestered.
but not plucked."
A Lebanon man who is "batching''
it at home alone while his wife is
son Gazette, sent this poem to her:
ct get my feet on the back of a chair
and scatter the magazines here and
there; let in the flies and track up the
den before; I spill milk on the floor
and sleep till late; and eat three meals
off the very same plate; and like the
old maid when she went to bed. never
a word to me is said"
'Muskogee Red" the old time tramp
printer who is back in Kansas, was in
Chanute the other day, and told the
Tribune he had been down in Arkan-
sas working for a country publisher.
The editor bought SIS worth of new
type and, being especially proud of his
new purchase, took RED" into his
confidence and asked him what in his
judgment he should use in cleaning
that type. "Well," said "Red." "this
type has a very fine point and edge
and it will be necessary to take ex-
treme precaution in caring for it"
''what would you suggest that we get
to clean it with?" the editor asked
RED" "Alcohol," replied RED" i'm
mediately. "All right. how much ?"
asked his employer. "Oh. at least a
gallon" replied Red 'It will cost
you a little bit. 1t will last you a long
time" The editor did as instructed.
And" said Red" chuckling, 81 had
a string of drunk printers all the way
to Fort Smith for a month";
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFron the Atchison Globe. ]

You may easily pick out a man with
chip on his shoulder. Avoid him.
There is a kind of a man who, when
he has a job. is always going home
sick.
No man can tell his side Of the story
fairly to the man on the other side of
the controversy.
Every inmate of a poor farm often
says IT earn more than it costs the
county to keep me-"
A mother is satisfied if her daughter
gets a good steady man for husband,
but she demands "a princess for her
son.
When a woman who has had trouble
with one man, tells it to another, she is
pretty apt to accumulate a lot of new
ones.
Every man who discovers a good
rying it too far. Will there NEVER be
such thing as a sensible man?
The Russian turban is said to be tn :
most startling creation in new fall mil
linery, but the facts are that the price
will continue to be the most startling
feature.
A woman called on an Atchison man
recently about business matter. She
was a great talker, and, finally, the
man said: ''I see I'm going to have
trouble keeping you quiet while I tell
you about the business you came to see
me about"
Hereafter when a man starts on a
trip his wife should pack a yardstick
in his valise. Then when he gets to /.
hotel his reform instincts will be
sheets. Being thus filled with Reform
and a desire to Do Good, he will lose
all desire for mischief.
A woman, in getting a picnic lunch
boils some eggs Then she takes out
the yellows. looks at them, and puts
them back in again, doing a job not as
neat as that done by the hen, for the
yellows look mussy. Will some one tel
why she takes the yellows out, looks at
them, and then puts them back in
again?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
Gathering Gum i'm Guatemala.

After completing his investigation
at Tikal in November, 1904, Mr..
Mailer returned to the east end of
Lake Peten and struck through the
forest to the east for distance of
about IA leagues, following, when
possible, the paths of the "chicle"
gatherers until he reached the
shores of the Lake of Yaxha. Chicle
is the gum which exudes when an
incision is made in bark of the
Chico sapote tree and is used as the
basis of American chewing gum. 1t
is curious to note the complete de-
moralization that chicle hunting has
entailed on the very scanty popula-
ton of Peten. mo one will plant a
milpa Ga maize field. and even the
poorest ragamuffin proudly refuses
to do any work, saying I am a
Chiclero and have no need to work
for any one.' The result is that a
general famine occurs nearly every
year in Peten, which would other
wise yield an overlavish abundance.
Hence all the Chicleros are poverty
stricken, and being heavily in debt,
from which they never free them
selves, they no longer have huts or
mipas and no regular wife or chill
dren; for this unsettled life in the
forests. interrupted occasionally by
debauches in this or that village, puts
even the most unpretentious form OF
family life out of the question:
Nature,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
d9:,:.l5,[121I{A1
~GN GRrB ZUEP~ ~

writed ad Looie Ldnkenfusser. On
der Field.
sloot you. Looie: Dere iss times,
Looie. ven efery buzzum svells oop
NIT patriotizics. Sometimes We mis-
dake a swelling oop uf halluf-cooked
beanss fer patriotizics but der skymp-
toms ISIS dufferendt uf you know how
to diagnisticate. Ven you see q
bunch uf solchers full Ut dust una ids
antidote, ISIS ven you feel der real
ting. We had sendt our solchers oop
tc Fordt Really fer der egsercise6,
vich would be a grand sight. all-
realty, uf could be dere to see Id.
but cand. Derefore I sendt friend
uf mine vot ISIS viggle-vagging me q
full repordt uf der diddings py vire-
less. Id ISIS der negst besd ting to
being on der spot, er ad leased on Won
ISIS a greadt bitzness, und a thrilling
sight, barring Won strong handicap.
He sayss pants ISIS disfranchiseo
among der solchers now. dot dey ha1
to wear bloomers. Id ISIS a shame. yet.
dot id ISIS so. Chudging from der
SAMPLE We send from here, der Kansas
solcherss ISIS a mighty fine lot, und
Untitled to all der rights una
privileges uf near-skitizenship. Der
feirst und besd right uf a vite man isa
to wear pants. Bioomerss iss nice fer
liddle gailss vot vandt to stand on
deir heads, but a man ISIS Untitled t.
hiss pants.
Ny friend vot iss piping ouf der
show sayss also dot der umpireS in
der var game ISIS experiencing con-
siteraple drouble NIT der chob. ID
ISIS hard fer dem to make der solchera
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.J

From the New York Press.J
An innocent girl is too innocent t.
know it.
If an automobile breaks down under
a girls window she will tell it was a
Serenade on a guitar
When a man knows how to do one
thing right he tries to prove it by doins
something else wrong.
No matter in what order they were
born. a woman can get to be younger
than all her brothers If they live long
enough.
A woman is such a curious combina-
ton that when she is ashamed her huS-
band isn't two inches taller than he is
she can be proud he isn't half an inch
shorter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Money talks. but often in a not very
sensible manner.
Misery may love company but the re-
verse Is scarcely true.
4
It's the good listeners who achieve
the most popularity.
Not to do some things is quite as
essential as it is to do others.
O. % a
The girl Is foolish who thinks all her
troubles will be over as soon as she
gets married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

Irrigation Bill Reeder's campaign
for denomination as the Republican
candidate for congress in the Sixth
district has not been helped much by
the announcement of Senator Gore of
Oklahoma to the effect that If he lived
IN that district and was a Republican
he would not vote for Reeder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate Of ten
cents w@ek or thirty cents n month
(by mail onIy.) Address changed as
iOften rs desired. While out OF town
the State journal VIII be to you like
@ daily letter from home.
Advance payment In requested ON
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

Quite a prominent Scotchman ex-
presses the opinion that Canadian
cities are far ahead of those In the
United States in many respects. This
may be true but in many other re-
spects the Canadian cities are so far
behind the cities of this country that
they will never catch up with them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

The joke is certainly on the public
spirited citizens who wish to crack the
neck of the bank depositors' guaranty
law. They had the effrontery to ask
the receiver of a defunct bank to con-
tribute to the fund which will be need
ed to pay the lawyers who have been
hired for this purpose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

Vindication is always sweet and sets
especially well with women But
probably none of the fair sex ever had
a greater portion of it than the New
Jersey woman who is now exhibiting
alive and well the husband she was
accused of numbering some fourteen
years ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

Jim Creelman, an American news
paper writer, who refuses to interview
anyone unless he is in the class Of
kings and potentates, has pulled off
another big scoop. He has brought
back to this country the ancient
wooden lock of the gate to the Holy
Sepulchre in the city of Jerusalem.
Jim is certainly a wonder when 1t
comes to pulling or fancy stunts in
Journalism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

Professors Of the Chicago university
are still at 1t. Another one says he
believes that the intermarriage of
Americans and Indians would produce
a strain OF manhood that would be
hard to equal. Wonder if he's willing
to practice what he breaches? Prob
ably not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

The federal court of appeals, sitting
at st. Louis. has affirmed, the decision
of lower courts in awarding a man
heavy damages against some surgeons
who sewed Up some of their effects in
him after they had performed an
operation. This decision ought to
strike most folks as being a decidedly
reasonable one. It should be a lesson
to surgeons, also, that they should ex-
ercIse a little more care.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21
FROM OTHER PENS
SNOBBERY.

The radiant Tawney, the Cannon
head of the appropriations committee,
declared the senators and members
owed it to the dignity of their respec-
tive bodies to provide their presiding
officers with automobiles Dignity:
What an absurd use of the WORD!
These two bodies would have shown
their dignity in a better light not TO
have given these automobiles. Snob-
berry is the word Tawney should have
used.
Some people seem to forget that this
is a republic; that caste and arlsto-
cracy are hateful to the people. But
it is SO. Because a man has fat Of
flee is no reason why he should nave
an automobile. too. It is the very
reason why he shouldn't have one.
These two men get $4,000 a year
salary, and an automobile, with all It's
expenses thrown in, at a moment when
it is proposed to issue bonds to pay
the expenses of the government. This
seems to attain to the proportions or
an outrage.
This thing of giving to those who
have by taking away from those who
have not, is a dangerous practice TO
introduce into a democratic govern
ment, This automobile business Is all
right for private life, but Wnen IL 1lg-
ures extravagantly in pubic polcy, II
is going to do a deal of harm, ana IL
is bad to put a man on the watch
tower of public duty who doesn't see
it.-Ohio State Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

from dot, tools cosd money.
Der "artistic temperamendt," q
very stylish disease. hat attacked
Homer Dafenpordt, der cartoontsd.
But outside uf der dollar-marks he
invented fer der late Misder Hanna,
und der doIlar-marks he made on hiss
own bank roll, he hat neffer done any
ting to egspose himselluf to der dis
ease.
Ge-speaking uf Misder I. d. Young
uf Beloit: 1 wonder uf he could get.
away NIT Won uf hiss at seens-tuh-
me-like-thuh pee-pui'' speeches
on der floor uf der Big House.
A young laty in Chawcago dived In
ad Won uf der bathing resorts, und
touched a man, und den yelled fer
hellup. Vich iss differendt from der
local sysdem. Here, dey dondt hat to
dive in to gedt der same results, und
i'd ISIS der man vot yells fer hellup.
VIII der guy vot iss always knocking
on der nome team kindly dake a run.
ming chump into der creek7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

Contracts are soon to be let for the
construction of two monster dread
thoughts for Uncle Sans navy. Each
of them is to cost in the neighborhood
Of 100000. And the possibilities
are great that before there is any need
for them ON n battle line they will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

There is one distressing feature to
the recommitment of Harry Thaw to
New York's state hospital for the
criminal insane. His folks will con-
tinue their efforts to secure his release
and the matter will be kept before the
public continually
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

Commenting on the announcement
that an odorless onion has been dis
covered the Philadelphia Press says:
mo doubt an onion with any other
smell will taste as sweet. But no
longer can it be said that fin onion
there is strength"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

If Captain Richmond Pearson Hob
son, the yellow peril enthusiast, could
have his way the party of Japanese
business men who have started for
this country to make a trade trip
would, probably be kept under pretty
close surveillance while they are here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

President Taft is certain that the
Evaporation tax feature Of the tarin
taaW will stand the test of the courts.
III It does, It will be one of the most
remarkable measures that has ever
been written
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-21

Turkey is now facing another inva-
sion. But this time the force is Amer
lean capital If the Turkish government
will grant the concessions desired. If
the Turks are wise they will receive
the invaders with open arms.