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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison GIobe.I

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The smart things said by children
are usually made up by smart moth
ers.
To town people, it seems easy for
farmers to keep country roads IN
good condition
Every man signs lot of petitions
and letters of recommendation he
would rather not sign.
If YOU have a grievance, keep it to
yourself. Everybody else has gr1eV-
ance, and doesn't want to hear yours.
We always avoid the man of whom
it is said, He must have his little
Joke" We become so tired of jokes.
In every neighborhood there is a
man, who, when he has his back
turned, is referred to as Old Tight
Wad.
The man who works hard for bust
ness usually makes enemies, and MS
competitor gets lot or business ne
isn't entitled to.
Fashion hint: Care should be taken
to prevent store hair acquiring the
appearance of straw hat at the
time of the first frost.
A man may hang on a woman's
words before he marries her, but at
ter marriage he looks as if it were the
twenty-ninth day OF eating quail.
Don't coax your friends to do what
they do not want to do. If there is
ANYTHING in this world people parti-
cularly love, it is liberty; if there is
anything they particularly hate, it is
nagging.
A man nearly always bets on his
prejudice, rather than on his judg-
ment. An Atchison man lately bet a
great deal of money on a candidate
who was defeated by fifteen hundred
majority.
II you are a short man, don't let a
book agent f1atter you into buying
something you do not want, by saying
that YOU are tall and fine looking. In
seven cases out of ten, a compliment
is used for purposes of robbery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
QUAKER NiEDIrATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record
Too many nightcaps Will keep a
fellow up all night
The trouble with dark secret is
that it generally comes to light
If IT is true that every man has his
price a lot of them look like 30
cents.
Two things that sticketh closer
than a brother are a porous plaster
and a creditor.
No, Maude. dear; the man who
wears a medal is not necessarily
meddlesome.
summer girl is merely one you
can propose to without any serious
danger of being accepted. 81.
Paradoxical as 1t may seem. itE
when we take a mans word that we
expect him to keep 1t.
When poverty comes in at the door
love flies out of the window, and
sometimes it doesn't wait for poverty.
Marriage requires serious thought"
remarked the Wise Guy. Eyes. gen
orally after it happens" added the
Simple Mug.
Sillicus-"What do you consider
the first essential TO success in a
poet?" Cynicus-"An ability to earn
living at something elsA-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A two-faced man is naturally an
adept at double dealing.
X x
Maybe promises are broken fire.
quently because it is so easy to make
others.
A woman has no trouble in killing
time if she has her own homework
to do.
It is really cheaper for a married
couple to live happily together for
divorces are quite expensive.
Y x r.
People are quick to set down as
the truth the disagreeabIe things they
see in the newspapers about other
folks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

Oh q, squaior and filth that were an
5 y Ihen came the period 81
aGIiye war on the disease. It took
on eyiI c OF money and unceasing war
6aa,s L. L cor olIlons, but the tight has
9een won. The municipalit1, tara
G SI no less than 5000 IInsanitsr,,
t novels at a cost of $4,000. 600 ana -
TINS area there have been bui1t tbo,,
sSl nus OF small but comfortable hon.
4 4pr working people. The mortaIitv ~
foul domiciles, is now less tbs,1 4, many .tly
Guy taken as a whole, the cons,,,, ne
non rate having declined to 13s -
I'oOo- Baltimore American. Pe'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.I

TFrom the New York Press.1
The reason a man lies so much is
trying to keep up with everybody
else.
A woman can remember birthdays
that she couldn't count to save her
life.
The reason women like to play
whist with a man is he'd rather they
didn't.
The more friends man could
make by never giving them advice
the more of it he will give them.
One thing a woman can worry
about the children is what if. when
they are grown up, they should make
unfortunate marriages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
TivernooI an object Lesson.

1.-The greatest fight that has been
pnade on tuberculosis in any COM
munity in the world has been Waged,
no doubt in Liverpool, co~~%ng a
long series of years" said DR.. James
Browne, of London, England, at the
Stafford.
ssSorne wears ago old Liverpool was
the most unsanitary city in the Unit
ed Kingdom. Every condition was
favora BILE to the dissemination and
spread of consumption People by
the thousand dwelt in habitations un-
fit for human occupancy At one time
10000 dwelt in cellars in the midst
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
PROTECT THE HARVEST HANDS.

Every once in awhile these days the
news comes from various sections of
the land where harvesting prevails of
the finding of dead men along the
railroad tracks, who have presuma-
bly, met their ends through accidents
in falling off trains or being struck
by them. For the most part, these
unfortunates are strangers to the
communities near which they are
found. Frequently there is nothing
on their bodies to lead to iJentifca-
tions. They are tossed in a potter S
field and soon forgotten.
II the truth were known, though,
most Of the men whose careers are
thus suddenly brought to a close are
the victims of brutal murders. done
by the hands of the thugs and gam
pliers who make it a practice of fol-
lowing the harvest hands to the
helds at each season of the year when
the great Kansas crops are gathered.
for the purpose of relieving them of
the money they make. This nefarioIs
custom is INDUCED in to a greater
extent than most people believe.
Trailing along after the thousands of
men who make the pilgrimages each
year to the wheat ffelds-and many
OF them are young men of great
promise who are working their way
through college-are drove5 of hui
man blOodsuckers and sharks who
prey on them. They are sure thing
gamblers of the worst type They
bob up in every little town where
harvest hands are wont to eongregate
on Sundays when a weeks work is
done. Sometimes they have the au-
dacity to visit the big farms where
numbers of harVesters are employed.
1t is not difficult to entice their vic
tins to gamble. Harvesting becomes
a monotonOus undertaking for mary
who indulge in it. game o. chance
is eagerly entered into at the slight
est opportunity to relieve the monot-
ony. Nearly all of these games are
ones of chance in a most essential
respect. Those who play against the
men who are running them have not
the slightest chance in the world to
win. Many of those who do not pIav
and risk their hard earned money are
held up and robbed by the gambling
thugs, and often killed. The bodies
of these are then tossed on a con-
venient railroad track and creduloua
officials and the public charge their
deaths up to the railroad companies.
Stern steps should be taken by the
peace officers in every harvesting To-
cality TO mitigate these evils. If a
few of these alleged accidents, which
are cold-blooded murders, were run
to earth and the perpetrators of them
dealt with as severely as the law al
lows, the thugs and gamblers who in
fest the wheat regions during harvest
times would soon become less violent
in their endeavors to fleece and rob
the harvest hands. There should also
be intelligent and earnest effort on
the part of all peace officers to pre-
vent these decidedly undesirable citi-
zens from plying their gambling
trades They should promptly be run
out of every town that they set their
feet in or they should be clipped in |
Jail If these things are not done the |
harvest fields of Kansas and other |
states will soon become places of ter
cor from which the most iesira BILE |
classes of workers will stay away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
A EatefuI Rreach of Etinuette.

Under the Third Empire in France
Sainte-Beuve brought disgrace upon
himself because at breakfast at the
TuiIeries he carelessly opened his nap
kin and placed it over his two knees.
To this he added the crime of cutting
his egg in two at the middle. Court
etiquette prescribed that the half-fold-
ed napkin should lie on the left knee
and the top of the egg was to be mere
ly broken with the edge of the spoon
and drained with the tip of the spoon.
For his failings in these respects
Sainte-Beuve's name was stricken off
the imperial visiting list.-London
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
Through the suez Canal.

Traffic through the Suez canal
showed falling off in 1908 from 1907,
as result of the worldwide depres-
sion in business. Last year 1886 yes
sells. representing 13,633,283 tons net,
passed through the canal This was
a decrease of 472 vessels and 1885,
average size of the vessels using the
canal continued to increase. being
1892 tons in 1908, against 3,542 tons
In 1907. The average time of pas
sage through the canal, IT hours and
"a minutes, was the best average
since the canal was opened. The to-
tai receipts of the canal company for
1908 amounted to III, $4,000 francs,
falling off of about 100000 francs
from 1907. The expenses of opera
ton, however, amounted to nearly
45,000,000 francs, leaving a balance of
net earnings amounting to 66,57S, 900
francs. The capital cost of the canal
at the end of 1908 was 633,54S,OOO
francs.-Engineerin News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHITE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
70 any address at the rate of ten
cents a week or thirty cents a month
F(by mail OnIy.l Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State Journal will be to you like
a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short tIrr7e subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

be called the regular taxes of the
average family sort of pale into in
significance when compared with the
aggregate of the special taxes to
which not much attention is paid. To-
peka is well governed city but 1t
would seem that ways and means
could be found for the proper admin
istration of it's affairs out of the money
collected for this purpose through the
regular taxes. Maybe when the COM
mission form of government prevails
here such a way will be found.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
Diseases of Wireless Operators.

A French naval surgeon has observ-
ed facts which he thinks warrant him
in attributfng certain morbid condi-
lions to overexpOsure to the electrical
waves employed in wireless biography.
For the most part they have affected
the eye, generally in conjunctiVitis,
though in enc instance there was kera-
tits.
Eczema, too, has been observed, and
the author thinks that many cases of
neurasthema are attributable to the
current. He remarks that induced cur
rents are a common product of the
@ction Of the apparatus, and intimates
that these may cause trouble among
other persons than those imm ediately
concerned in the Geographic opera
lions. He recommends that operators
be crowded with blue or yellow spec
tacles.-La Tribune Medicale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
Iifting Grain by suction.

At the Millwan docks, London, a new
installation of grain handling and stor-
ing appliances has recently been put TO
work, including pneumatic elevators
which draw grain out of the hold of a
ship at the rate of IS tons an hour for
each elevator. Four work simultane-
ously, each DIPPING into a separate
hold. The. grain is lifted through flexi-
BILE pipes to an elevation of so feet.
Band conyeyors, electrically driven,
having a total length of PA miles, car
ry the grain to the granary on the
quay.-Youth's Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

ture willhave an amount of space nearly
equivalent to all of St. PauPs present
nrst-class hotels put together. The
people of st. Paul are wonderfully en-
thus1astic over their new hotel They
rightly believe that it will be a great
thing for tie city. The same would
be true if a new hotel of proportional
magnitude were erected in Topeka. The
project to build one here should not be
permitted to die ont
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

According to the American Rail-
way association there are at present
100000 idle freight cars in the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
But it is reasonable to prophesy that
as soon as the big crops begin to
move there will be the usual freight
car shortage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

Attention is called to the fact that
school teachers do not get as good
pay as stenographers. Yes, and their
hours are not as long nor their work
so confining and they get three
months vacation each year. There
is no doubt though. that the general
run of school teachers salaries are
not as high as they should be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

Sioux Indians are talking of es-
tabIishing a colony in Nicaragua.
They can scarcely be blamed for
wishing to dodge the benevolent
assimilation which is accorded to
them in their native land. About the
only thing it has done for them has
been to rapidly increase the popula-
ton of their cemeteries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

That Mr.. Collifiower, who holds a
job in the municipal building at
Washington. D. c., has peculiar ideas
as to the prime requisites for an en-
joyable vacation. He proposes to
pass an extended one which has been
granted to him in umpiring baseball
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
Maine Weather sample.

Calais enjoys the distinction of hav-
ing had a snowstorm on Tuesday, May
%. This breaks the Calais record by
one day The snowstorm of May PA;
1870, has always been the one from
which all comparisons have been made
Henceforth the date will be May %
1909. To be sure, the snowfall in 1870
was much heavier than that of last
Tuesday, but it gives US new record
for snoW.-Kennebec Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

Mr. Hartman is now engaged in
Swapping his horses" as it were,
and he will soon have a surplus in
the Union Pacific treasury that will
total up to a trifle of something like
$5O,OOO,OOO. Who is there to say that
E H is not a wizard?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
SAYS We Can't Whip Canada.

Gen. Otter, commander of the mill
tary forces OF Canada. in an interview
said Thursday: The United States
could not beat Canada in a 25
years war. If they ever started, it
would be another Philippine war, and
Canada would win.
incidentally" said Otter. Lord
Kitchener would make 4 better man
ager of a department store than COM
mander in the position he now occu-
ries.'
He declared in an aside that Ameri-
cans and Galicians are pleased to wear
the kings colors and make better SOL
diers shan Notwithstanding dis
rath to the New York american.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

Representative Payne has jumped
to a prominent place in the hero
class. The way he has bearded Sen
ator AIdrich in his den in the con-
ference on the tariff bill has been a
sight for sore eyes. Mr.. Aldrich de-
clares that he is tired of Mr.. Payne's
"dictarorial methods" The boss of
the senate is now in a position to
sympathize with the great majority
of the people of the country who have
been tired of the similar methods in
dulged in by him ever since the con-
sideration of the tariff bill began.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

That new dance of Gertrude Hoff-
mans must be considerably beyond
the limit, or else she would not have
been arrested in New York city on a
charge that it is offensive to public
decency.'' Almost anything goes in
little. old New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

It's about time there was a change
in the administration of the affairs of
Persia. That country now has $685.
600 900 lying idle which has been in
vested by shahs in jewels for the
decoration of the country's throne
room. But, after all, this is about as
sensible an investment of funds as is
the putting of millions into monster
battleships which will be out-of-date
and ready for the scrap-pile before
they have a chance to display their
abilities on the battle line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
A Lost Opportunity.

Small boys are not always as SYM
pathetic as their relatives wish, but
on the other hand. they are seldom as
heartless as they sometimes appear.
why are you crying so, Tommy
inquired one of the boys aunts who
found her small nephew seated on the
doorstep, lifting UP his voice in loud
walls.
"The b-baby fell d-downstairs!" blub-
bered Tommy.
"Oh, that's too bad" said the aunt,
stepping over him and opening the door.
u do hope the little dear wasn't much
hurt!"
"S-she's only hurt a little." walled
Tommy. But Dorothy s-saw her fall,
while I'd gone to tho ggrocery! 1 never
see anything !"-Youth's Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
RIDICULE IS A SPUR.

There is still an inclination on the
part of many people to ridicule the
airship as an impracticable fad. If so
many greater problems had not been
solved by human ingenuity and that
within half a century, this pessimistic
doubling would be less noticeable.
When the telephone was first an
nounced, doubling auditors attended
demonstrations which convinced them
thew would not believe that any prac-
teal use would follow.
Mr.. e. w. Howe of the Atchison
Globe is to this day said to be an I'M
willing half believer in wireless teleg-
raphy, but he still insists that it is
more of a fake than a fact.
Nearly every person above the age
of twenty-five has seen a new develop
ment of electricity in some form, and
few are surprised when some startling
discovery is announced.
Today the airship is an experiment.
1t is not even certain that aerial navi-
cation will ever be achieved in a way
to make it of real use to the race, but
enough has been witnessed to Justify
complete faith in its eventual tri-
umph.
But it is just as well that doubts
and even opposition exist, because
great inventions have ever grown from
necessity and if no obstacles were Of
fered, but every inventor was eneour-
aged with financial ai'2 as fast as need
ed, the spur that has produced inVen-
tors might be lacking.
Ridicule and lack of financial back
ing have spurred inventors much
oftener than praise and lberality of
purse have done.-Wichita Beacon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

More than $4,000 in cash is missing
from bank at Upton, Ind. The as
sistant cashier of the bank is also
missing. Now if Conan Doyle should
put Sherlock Holmes on that case, the
great detective would jab few quarts
OF cocaine under his skin. wag his head
In a quizzical sort of way and re
mark: Watson, old boy, I believe that
the money and the man have gone to-
gether." And to this DR.. Watson would
reply: Sherlock, your powers of de-
auction are marvellous simply marvel
lols'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

Probably the town CT Rockefeller in
Illinois wants to change its name to
AREA because Uncle John D. hasn't
done very much for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

The Wright brothers have been dec
Grated by the French with the famous
Legion of Honor. But that won't help
them fly any better in their aeroplane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
FRON OTHER PENS

THE FARMERS WILL BENEFIT.
In the Investigations of the COM
mission on country life. bad roads
were found to be one of the main
mer, and responsible, directly and
indirectly, for many of the draw
backs of rural life. No matter how
fertile the soil or how favorable the
climate, the farmer cannot make ma
terial Roadway toward prosperity
without improved roads. Bad roads
mean isolation from school, church
and market, and, as a consequence,
no great social moral or mental up
lift can be expected until the iSola-
ton enforced by iIl-kept roads is done
away with by improved means of
communication.
Road building is becoming a
science, and instead of having work
done under the incompetent direc-
ton of county or town officials, the
states are assuming the responsibility
of control, with excellent results. In
Massac husetts road making under
the supervision of state officials has
become an art, and, as consequence,
the Old Bay state is creating a sys-
tenn of highways which has few
equals anywhere.
Incidentally, as a direct result of
construction of good roads, the
Massachusetts has rapidly increased:
New York, New Jersey, Maryland and
Virginia have recognized the value OF
centralized, scientific control of road
construction, and the results are
iustifying the method. In practically
every case greatly increased farm
values have followed the improve
ment of the roads, and when the
Washington Richmond highway is
constructed the farmers along the
route will be the ones who will reap
the principal Observation-Disclosures
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

St. Paul Mimi, is feeling in fine
6pirits these days because a magnificent
hotel is in the course of construction
in that city. 1t will be u stories high
and win cost 100000 The new struc-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
EssION IN GERMANY.

In Germany a singular erect OF the
industrial depression of the past two
wears is noted in the returns of popu-
iation, which show no increase nGt;ea in I'll the
there is an actual decrease. For in
stance, Berlin, which in prosperous
times grew at tremendou US rate,
close of 1908. against 2,111,361 at the
close of 1907, being net loss Of 4 40 l:
Emigration is largely responsible for
this In the month of March, 1908,
alone. 80,9O8 residents of the German
capital left for more promising fields
of labor. These figures, which we
take from the consular reports, con-
firm what has already been stated in
these columns as to the much greater
intensity of suffering in Europe from
the hard times than that experienced
in the United States. At all events.
our American cities have not ceased
to grow, any more than American en-
terprise has permitted itself to be SO
shaken as to be incapable of quick
recovery. = Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
graph.