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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
THE TARIFF BILL.

Many members CT the h5uss Ct rep
resentatives, and among them som'
good Republicans" too, expressed
keen dispIeasure the other day when
they received back their tariff bill.
They had excellent grounds for fee
ing that way. The senate had mauled
it out of any semblance to it's original
form. No less than SAT amendments
were made to the bill as it passed the
house by Mr. AIdrich and mis- friends.
It is safe to say that at least 800 Of
these amendments are in the nature
of revising the tariff schedules up
ward. And such decreases in sched-
ules as the Aldrich crowd made are
scarcely material for they do not af-
feet commodities that are essential to
trade.
When the tariff bill left the house
of representatives it was a piece of
legislation which sought to revise the
tariff downward in many most i'm
portant particulars. Many consequent
tiaI articles and commodities were
placed on the free list, to which they
had been strangers for countless
moons. on other schedules there
were large sized reductions. This at
tempted revision downward was prob
ablv not as extensive as some of the
ardent tariff revisionists of the coun-
try would have liked. but it really
went much farther in this line than
the best informed people thought it
would go in view of the 'stand-pat"
element which was supposed to reign
supreme in the affairs of the house of
representatives.
But all of this good work has been
undone by the senate. Most of the
things which the house placed on the
free list, such as hides. iron ore, etc,
have been restored to the dutiable list
where they have reposed under the
tariff laws of the past decade. Where
the house reduced other schedules the
senate either restored them to the
figures in the Dingley law or placed
higher rates on them. This has all
been done on plea that increased
revenues are needed. But the in
creased revenues that are expected
under the Aldrich bill will amount to
only 100000 a year. which is but
a drop in the bucket as compared with
the governmental expenses. If Aldrich
and his friends had been sincere in
the framing of tariff bill that would
produce revenue, they would have
made one of low schedules all around
which would have encouraged impor-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.


LFrom the Atchison Globe.l
How women love to tempt men
and then abuse them for being
tempted!
No woman Furnishes her husband
because she loves him, and punish
ment never yet made a man love his
wife.
What has become of the old fash
in his letters with Isaiah 1xii:6-7;"
MAT. xiv: 31,'' etc?
Admit occasionally to your friend
that he knows more than you do. It
gives him a great impression of your
discrimination and good sense.
good business this summer. A re-
porter has traced several screams of
late, and they have all led to a den
lists Office.
If a man is accused of a dreadful
thing, and has never been caught at
it, he is probbaly not guilty. Soon
after a man is guilty, he is caught.
This is a rule that never falls
Society note: One daisy is enough
to be called banks of flowers. and if
one silver teaspoon is given woman
1t is allowable to say that she was
'Banks" and Showers" used social
", permit wide latitude.
There is only one man in town
who loafs while his wife makes the
living and everybody abuses him.
but there are hundreds of women in
town who do nothing while their
husbands and fathers work all the
time. And there is no indignation
about it.
Men around a house on Sunday set
the women crazy. And the men say
that when they stay at home on Sun
day, they would have a good time If
the women were not around. Men
and women don't seem to get along
very we'll, except when they are first
engaged
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

The 23-foot python In the Geological
garden fought with all its might
against swallowing a gallon Of milk
punch Sunday. II took six meHkte
force a dozen eggs, beaten in a gallon
of milk, with a stick in IL" down the
python's throat. But who wants to be
a python2
The python in the zoo, which once
Jurked in a South American jungle.
weighs 225 pounds when It is in good
health. But 1t has been "off its feed"
for three months. has lost strength and
flesh, and weighs about 170 pounds
now. Supt. Stephan. OF the zoo. has been
tempting the big snakes appetite with
delicate rats. inviting guinea pigs and
would have none of them. So Stephan
determined TO lead the python to din
ner and make it eat too.
When the keepers tiptoed into its
dormant. The keepers distributed
themselves along and at the word seiz-
ed it simultaneously at the neck. at
the middle, at the tail, and instantly
a start and began to fight, contracting
its length. trying to kink itself in a
loop, twisting, turning, struggling. It
released its tail and dealt Keeper
he grabbed the tails tip again, and
with all his strength held it to the
floor. While at continued to fight Ste
phan pried open its jaws with a bar
OF WOOO. Inc snake maze earnest Ell
forts to drag in the bar with its throat
muscles and teeth. which curve inward.
But Stephan held on to the bar and
slid in the python's mouth most of
S-foot section Of iron gas pipe, which
it vainly tried to swallow, too.
The nourishing milk punch was in a
watering pot. Stephan slowly poured
it down the gas pipe. The first half
pint gave the python a sensation so
surprising that 1t fought more furious
ly than ever, and. sick as IT was, show
ed tremendous power. But after that Il
seemed to take kindly to the milk
punch and lay quiet during the half
hour it took to administer the long
drink.-Chicago dispatch to the New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
THE wILKERsoN CASE.

John NJ. Wilkerson's voluntary re-
tfrement as sheriff of Shawnee county
appears to be the best and easiest
way out of the distressing dilemma
which confronted him as a result of
the drunken row which occurred in
the sheriff's office on Friday night in
which Ben johnson, who was can
didate for the Republican nomination
of sheriff at the last county prima-
ries. was severely beaten.
II was a most disgraceful occur
renee and an equally regrettable one.
Old John Wilkerson has served this
county in the office of sheriff with
distinction during several terms. He
has n national reputation as a catch
er of criminals. And when he has
been sheriff of Shawnee county those
citizens of the undesirable class have
given it wide birth.
His liking for liquor has ever been
his failing. It has finally been his I'M
doing. But considerable of the talk
that has been INDUCED in about the
city since the deplorable happening in
the sheriff's Office has been rather of
the hystericaI and theatrical sort. The
voters of this community knew that
Wilkerson was a drinking man when
they elected him to Office. His drink
ing was one of the prominent issues in
the fight against him at the last cleo
ton. Still he won out by large ma
jority. Seemingly, the voters of Shaw
ness county preferred a sheriff who
might take a drink occasionally, but
who was a sheriff in every sense of the
word, to one who might be nothing
but a sober stick. Regardless of viii
lrar % al 1oh hn haG
been the Nemesis of the vioIators of
the prohibitory law. 1t is due in a
large measure to his efforts that To-
peka and Shawnee county are drier
today, Iiquorally speaking. than they
have been for years. Mr.. Schenck, the
county attorney can testify to this.
There is no desire here to excuse
the drinking habits of Wilkerson.
which seldom interfered with his
work as an efficient peace officer. But
the people of this community knew
of Wilkerson's failing for liquor
when they placed him in office on the
most recent and other occasions.
And it would appear that a little of
the responsibility for the inevitable
results of liquor drinking-in this
instance a drunken melee-should be
theirs and should be assumed by
them. They should not have been so
free to denounce Wilkerson for do
ing the very thing that they might
have expected he would do. Nor
had they had any right. under all the
circumstances, to hound him out of
Office just because he is a drinking
man. He was that when they elected
him.
Mr.. Wilkerson's successor, Colonel
John D. Norton. whom the retiring
sheriff was responsible for naming, IS
a gentleman of fine attachments. His
wide experience as under sheriff for the
past three years, should fit him admir-
ably for the place to which he has been
so suddenly elevated. He is known to
be as ardent an advocate of the en-
forcement of the prohibitory law as he
is of all other laws. and has proved his
mettIe On several occasions in conduct
ing successful raids against violators of
the prohibitory law. His administra-
ton of the sheriff's office will likely
leave nothing to be desired from any
standpoint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nothing is worth having more than
a good appetite.
Too many men go on the theory
that large fish can be landed with
any kind of bait.
Some girls measure the success of
their summer season by the number
of proposals they get.
y x
A real optimist these days is the
man who remarks that there will be
fine weather this fall.
A woman with little feet takes as
much pains to show them as her sis
ter with big ones uses to conceal hers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

usually intelligent lot or men. 1t ap-
pears now. though, that this was a
mere opinion and not founded on any
fact for the delegates to the Topeka
Industrial Council representing TWEEN
ty-three of the trades unions in the
city recently went on record by an
unanimous vote in favor of this modern
method of municipal government. This
action will undoubtedly make certain
the success of the effort which is being
made to have Topeka adopt such a
form of government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12


Don't rock the babe, mother. and addIe its
brainsl
Don't feed him on milk and make collicky
painsi
Don't trot, the dear child up and down on
your kneei
It's bad for an infant. the doctors agree.
Get rid of the cradle IT'S useless todayi
Go throw out the bottle! It's vanquished
The ring and the rattle. pray hide them.
my dear
For rubber viii poison the baby, hear.
Don't nurse himl Why, mother, you're
harming the child
A thousand good reasons already are
filed.
And baby foods-really. you cannot have
There's hardly a one that the nurse has
not spurned.
The go..cart and carriage will injure his
Don't kiss him, my dear. tho he is yours
Don't talk baby talk to infant, I pray!
It's bad for his mind, so the wisest all
How g,d is g, it that we all grow Up to be
I'm! That is a thing that the wise have
But don't toss him, mother. count his
Or something will happen, nurse says
and she knows!
New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

The Draper. South Dakota, Repub-
ncan has a deep philosopher on its
staff. Hear what he says: IN. r.
Tropser lost COW last week. He
traded five fine shoats to McGilvra on
Friday, and the COW died the next
day. That is the way the world goes,
those that have must lose, for those
&hat have nothing can not lose"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

Reports from Denver style the
election Of James Y. Joyner, of North
Carolina. to the presidency of the
National Educational association as
a victory for those in that body who
are opposed to the Vaccinations and
SIictation of the book trust. It will
strike most folks as being a little re-
markabIe that the book trust should
have any following at all in such
distinguished organization of public
educators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

There is always something of the
''opera bouffe" order happening in
the Haytian army. A New Yorker
recently drove his carriage into a
company of one hundred Haytian SOL
diers who were drilling. He bowled
over the commanding general into a
gutter. An investigation showed that
in this company of a hundred men
there were five generals and forty
i've colonies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

That's an excellent suggestion from
the association which has charge of
the state wide fair to be held in To-
peka this fall to the effect that all
manufacturers in this city place ex-
hibits of their wares on the exposition
grounds. Not only will this be good
advertising for them but it will also
be fine advertising for Topeka, the
home of these industries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

If. as is anticipated. one hundred
thousand people are to participate in
the drawings for homesteads in the
Flathead, Occur D'Alene and Spokane
reservations. it almost goes without
saying that many, many thousands Of
them are going to be disappointed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

e the automobile drivers of the city,
or that great majority of them who are
sensible and law-abiding citizens. will
heed the reasonable request of the
automobile examining board that they
lend their assistance in all ways to-
wards the enforcement of the city's
automobile ordinances. it will not be
long before careless and reckless motor
car driving is thing of the past here
abouts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

This may be Justice but If it is pref
~ generally followed there will be a
whole lot of commotion in society. A
Chicago man was heavily fined in
police court not long ago for taking
another mans umbrella.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

John D. Rockefeller to the fore again.
He has increased his donations to the
general education board by $4,000, 900.
This gift brings Mr.. RockefeIler's total
contributions to this philanthropy up
to $52,o0O.000. No use talking, Uncle
John d. is making pretty good use of
his loose change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York go

from the New YORK Press-l
A girl wants to get engaged just the
way she wants to be asked to dance.
A man could save himself a lot of
trouble by not trying to make It for
other people.
One nice thing about living in the
suburbs is when you mics the last train
out and have TO stay in town.
II takes long time for good reso-
luton TO catch up with the bad habit
to which It always gives a head start
The most successful teaching in the
world is the way any woman can teach
any man to think he Is teaching her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

Those members Of congress who are
saying that their folks at home are not
generally interested in the matter of
tariff revision are slumbering in q
trance from which a good many of
them will awake with a dull, sickening
fhI1d
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
Rodney asked, very hurnbly.
an. one 1oI %

Rodney asked, very hunbly.
mo one. Rod"
Then he dropped her hand which
he had been clinging to in a kind OF
''You are still mine" he sighed.
''I guess II did you good to sit a1one
here all thes& evenings" Jane said,
presently, when she had been kissed &c
her hearts content.
at taught me to love and appreciate
you, dearest" Rodney said. solemnly,
holding her fast.-( Copyright, 1909.
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

Considering the obstacles they have
had to meet through the recent rains
and foods, the railroads in these parts
have done exceptionally well in main
tanning such good service as they have
during the past few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

It is the opinion of the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat that Mr.. RockefeI-
ler's statement that the Sunday school
has Kept him happy. though rich.
should bring boom in Sunday
school membership to offset Chinese
LOSSES .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
FROM OTHER PENS
REFoRMAToRY TRAINING.


The formal graduation of a class
of young men in the school of letters at
the Indiana reformatory, in Jefferson
| vile, marks a long departure from old
time prison methods and is significant
of the great progress made in recent
years in penal science.
The theory formerly obtained that
the first purpose in sending a man to
prison for committing a crime was that
of punishment. The protection of the
public was also a consideration in
voIved but the idea was that as long
as the offender was behind the bars
the protection existed. After his re-
lease the community took its chances.
In the minds of advanced students of
penology the protection of the public is
the first idea; but their theory is that
this is best obtained by making a bet
ter man of the criminal, so that when
he energies from the prison he will no
longer be a menace to the world. Pun
ishment is not done away with as an
element in proceedings, for a sentence
of confinement behind stone walls,
whether for one year or 10, is punish
ment and is felt to be such. whatever
the purpose with which it is rendered.
But young men need no longer bid
farewell to hope when they enter
prison DOORS Sometimes they find
there the first opportunity thew have
ever had to fit themselves to be useful
and intelligent Observation-Disclosures
Star.
THE INDIVIDUAL WATERMELON.
The individual watermelon is the
latest esculent of the cucurbitaceae
family as a table deIicacy. 1t is de-
scribed as being a sort of pocket edi-
ton of the ordinary watermelon,
about the size of an average canta-
loupe and of delicious flavor.
This melon was found growing at
the foothills in Roumania by former
American minister to that country,
who sampled it and was so pleased
with the favour that he thought it
would be a good idea to have them
grown in the United States that his
countrymen might have some of the
enjoyment he had experienced in eat
Ing them.
He supplied the seeds. and the agri-
cultural department, at Washington,
caused them to be planted at its nu-
rnerous experiment stations through
out the country, with the result that
they are found to be adapted to the
soil and climate of almost any part of
the country, though, presumably, they
will grow best where the ordinary
watermelons are most prolific and
toothsome- The crop now being
grown by the government, while still
largely experimental, is for the pur-
pose of securing the seed for general
distribution, so that farmers and fruit
manian melon may have an oppor-
tunity of doing so, and it is probable
that the cultivation of them next year
Will be on as large a scale as the limit
ed supply of seed viii admit.-New
York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

A woman has voluntarily passed Ave
years IN q New York city prison and
the authorities ther- 1--we just decided
that she fs insane
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

Somebody was saying that the labor
Ing men of Topeka. are opposed to the
commission form OF government This
rvas difficult to understand because the
sworkingmen OF this city are an I'M
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
5000 PearI in Oyster.

When William Redding, a local
oyster man, found pearl as large as
his thumb nail in an oyster the other
day and Horace A. Saunders, another
oyster man offered his boat for it. the
deal was made in no time. Redding
sold the boat for $500. He thought
differently this afternoon when Saun-
ders returned from New York with
$500 he had got for the pearl. Saun-
diver for pearls.
The gem was found in a large
oyster taken from the Southport nat
uraI bed. 1t was of the true texture
of a Ceylon pearl, and is the largest
and best ever taken from Connecticut
waters. Now the entire fleet of fifty
boats is working the same section of
the bed in hopes of making more $500
fnds.-South Norwalk, Conn, dis
patch to New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12

The business of one well known firm
of opticians in England consists large
ly in the manufacture of horse spec
tacles. The object of the spectacIes is
to promote high stepping. They are
made of stiff leather, entirely closing
the eyes of the horse. and the glasses
used are deep coneave. and large in
size. The ground seems to the horse to
be raised. and he steps high, thinking
some obstacle. This system of spec
tacIes is generally adopted while the
horse is young, and its effect on his
step and action is said to be remark
able It has been discovered that the
cause of a horses shying is, as a rule,
short sight, and it is now suggested
that the sight of all horses should be
tested. like that of children.-Boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
KANSAS COMAENT

The REASON NOT IMPORTANT.
10 the people of the country gem
orally, it doesn't amount to a great
QedI What may be Aldrich's reason
Ior IaVor1ng the corporation tax, just
50 ne uses his influence in the senate
10 that end. Aldrich declares it his
DeneI that so much money will be
raised by this plan in two years as
very satisfactorily to offset the def
cit, at the end of which time, it is de-
clared, he would urge the repeal of
the law. The country would like to
see Aldrich proceed upon this pro-
gram. knowing that once a corpora
ton tax is levied. it will become a
permanent feature of our national
taxation system.
The corporations have been favored
Tor years by the laws of states as in
dlVlduals have not been. They have
Deeh given further advantage
through the operation of tariff law
that mas been decidedly favorable,
and thus fortified they have built up
immense fortunes. 1t is right that
they should make some return to the
people for the special privileges they
nave been granted, and no better
plan for doing this could be devised
imam the levy of tax on their earn
lngs. The Times believes, however,
that instead of basing this tax upon
the net receipts, it should be on gross
earnings, thus effectively preventing
them from misrepresenting their
earnings by opposing to them padded
expense accounts. - LeaVenworth
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
ma Riggest Cracker.


The "kasabi" torta, 1--WE get our word
tar from torta of Hispan-America)
is the biggest regularly made cracker
on earth; bigger than the special mat
zoths of Manhattan's Jew side, which,
however are only made for short
period in the year. 1t is made from
the kasabi root and lightly fired in
cakes about the size of a small para
sol.
A cracker for a hatl Such indeed is
sometimes the use made by the Latin
peons of the kasabi toFta when need
ing a temporary sunshade (sombrero.
The torta is always made bowl shaped
so if can be balanced on the head with
ont any particular effort-and provld-
ing no wind interferes- Rain, however,
quickly soaks and collapSes this sin
gular edible headgear.-The Bakers
Weekly.
Greater Freedom for Press in Mexico
The chamber of deputies will discuss
the proposed new press law, or the
RataIIa bill as it is known, during its
present period of sessions, according TO
CONGRESSMAN Diodoro Batalla-
For some time several members OF
the chamber have been considering the
advisabiIity of introducing radical re-
forms in the present law on publica-
lions with the view of charging the
liberties of journalists and publishers
in expressing thoughts and opinions,
the present law being considered as too
strict Congressman BatRlla feels that
it viii be passed.-Mexican Herald.