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The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19

infatuated with her music teacher. At
seventeen she announced that she
would marry foreign title or never
wed. as we can prove by witnesses.
From her eighteenth year" con-
tlnued the report, 'she has been noted
cost 800 and she bought one last
week that cost SIS.
"As early as her sixth year her ter
rlole temper appeared. At that age
she is known to have threatened to set
nre TO the house. 1t can be shown by
three different servants that she once
tried to send the butler to buy a gun,
although she was barely seven then"
The investigator then leaped lightly
from her childhood to her girlhood
again, and wrote: "She has repeatedly
been heard to say that no husband
could rule her. and that she would have
her way about things or make things
red-hot for mile square. She has also
been heard to say that all bullying huS-
bands should be drowned.
When you first came on the scene
her she pronounced you a ninny. The
butler Will make affidavit to this It
was her mother that brought about the
match. She told the daughter that she
could run away afterward IL she didn't
like your antics. Her maid will make
Two or more affidavits to this. --
we have also learned the important
fact that she looked a long while into a
BuHSIIllIH WINDOW only month ago,
and there was a dangerous CLEAN in
her eyes as she turned away. This
point has value that any keen lawyer
Will see at once. Any Judge will charge
the jury that this is highly significant
circumstance"
When Mrs. Livingston had reached
the end of this report she spread It out
on the table, without trying to conceal
It, though it was not hers and had been
feloniously opened by her. To her sur
nna trrr0
tears rolled down on her pretty little
nose.
'Marjory. what does this nean?'' de-
manded Livingston as he entered the
room and placed the letter in her
hands.
And. oh, what does this mean?"
she demanded as she pointed to the
sheets on the table.
Five minutes were spent in exchang-
ing and reading reports.
Then Livingston Perry said: Mar
jory. I'm going out to horsewhip the
scoundrel who slandered you this way!
1 owe it to myself as your husbandr'
L wish / were a man as big and
strong as you" responded Marjory
''Why?" demanded Mr.. Perry, taken
aback
Because-because," said she. "I'd
like to do the same thing to the man
who made the report about you"
And the people are still commenting
on how long that honeymoon has last
ed, and saying that neither could have
done better by looking the whole world
over.-(Copyrighted, 1909 by Associated
Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
AYHAWKER JOTS

About the poorest distinction a
town can have is the possession of the
winning basket ball team, says the
Emporia Gazette.
A man in Seward county glories
over pony which makes a speciality
of running down coyotes and killing
them. All of which might be a nature
fake.
The Emporia Gazette says that if
there is a town in Kansas that isn't
TO have an alfalfa MILL 1t should
speak up and get the red ribbon that
is coming to it.
Bert Walker says that the time he
used to consume in tying his necktie
SO that it would look nice, he now uses
to brush his hair so that the gray
won't show. Vain old chap that he is.
The Ottawa Herald thinks that the
vital statistics of Allen county are not
more than half alive themselves be-
cause they show that only one person
died in that county in the past year.
A thought occurs to the Hutchin-
son News that something must be
wrong because more than a week
has elapsed since a new railroad line
was chartered for western Kansas.
Something strange must be in the
air in Concordia. One of the papers
on it's shoulder is hoping that there
won't be any town row. as an in
cident to the coming city election.
The sweet girl graduates at Coffey-
Vile are making a great bid for pop
ularity with their parents. They have
agreed to wear simple white dresses
at their graduation exercises instead
of the elaborate creations usually
worn on such occasions.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
4 COMEDY OF ERRORS.

/ If Shakespeare were only around
these days he probably would have
found better clay in many of the ac-
tivities and lack of them on the part
of the members of the legislature for
the moulding of "a Comedy of Errors"
than that which he used in such q de-
lectable fashion. OF course the theme
of the tale would have been quite diff
ferent from the one which has lived so
fresh and green for many years under
such an expressive title, but there
would have been an opportunity for
Shakespeare to have done a lot of fun
making at the legislators expense
which would have been rare.
AS the work of soIons in name. but
not in action, is the more closely
scrutinized, the funnier, the more ludi-
crous several of its features become,
and especially in one line, that of
creating offices and increasing the
scope of others without providing any
moneys for their maintenance. In one
instance the legislature created the Of
flee of state engineer and surrounded
it with multitudinous duties and re-
sponsibilities, and then it graciously
refused to provide any money to pay
an engineer a salary to run his Of
through neglect, to appropriate any
money for the further conduct Of the
state fisheries and game department.
one of the real valuable institutions of
the state. Maybe it thought that this
department was no longer necessary.
That's about on a plane with a good
many of the recent legislative thoughts
but as stated, this was probably a
pure blunder. 1t might have been a
most serious one, if Governor Stubbs
had not agreed to come to the rescue
with the executive contingent fund.
And so the story will probably go
on as the opportunity is afforded for
looking closely over the legislative
work. The only wonder is a utilities
commission was not created and then
no action taken to provide its mem
bers with pay or to provide running
expenses for such a department. In
fact that would have been a grand
way for the legislators to have met
many issues. They might have pass
ed laws on all sorts of important sub
jects to meet the demands for them
and then in the eleventh hour failed
to provide the money which would be
necessary for their administration |
This is a new wrinkle in legislative
procedure which will appeal strongly
to people because it is so ridiculous.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
FRON OTHER PENS
COMMON-sENsE HYGIENE.

L
! Theories of hygiene come and go, and
the moderate man. who keeps in the
middle of the roads, finds in the long
run that he is not very Nfar wrong.
Food theories have ranged all the way
from eating no meat to eating nothing
but meat, from Stuffing to starvation
Until recently the starvation advocates
have been tyrannizing over US, telling
us that we all eat two or three times
too much, and that we should ALWAYS
leave the table hungry Just as we
have got ready to submit to this hard
ruling an eminent English surgeon de-
clares that the families of working peo-
pie maintain their health SIIrprisinelv
we'll, even while living in cellars He
observes that during four years of pros
perfty the number of fever cases ad-
mitted to the Manchester House of Re-
coVery was Al per annum while in two
lean years 1,2O7 cases were admitted.
Probably some other great authority
Will come along and contradict the
eminent Manchester physician, but the
man who guides himself by temperance
and common sense need not be worried
or perplexed. 1t is not necessary to
leave the table hungry, but it is we'll to
come to the table hungry, and to leave
it when the wants of nature are salts
fed without gorging. Meat is good, and
abstinence from meat is good; it all
depends upon the person, the time, and
the circumstances. I A milk diet is good
until you grow tired of it. Breakfast
SO likewise will bacon. eggs and toast
if you prefer them. You ought not to
bolt your food, but it is not necessary
to chew each morsel so long that your
jaws are tired, and you wish you had
not begun.-Toronto Star.
o
SCHOOL TRAINING AND STYLE.
A prize essay contest on the subject
of Abraham Lincoln, instituted by a
New York newspaper and participated
in by the public school children of that
city, has produced some interesting, if
not entirely satisfactory results. The
honorS were carried off by children be-
tween 10 and IL, whose compositions
were pronounced "clear, fresh and orig
inal," while those offered by the pupils
of 16 or over were "stiIted and POM
would be most discouraging. It would
mean that our modern system of school
training spoiled style instead of per-
fecting it. This conclusion would be
hardly just The child of earlier years
expresses himself directly and natural
ly, often out of the wealth of his own
enthusiasm. There comes time a lit
this naturalness of expression. He has
come in contact with style that is more
ornate and he attempts to initiate it
with the clumsy results that are quite
natural to a beginner. But if he has
the right stuff in him he will correct
that at subsequent period. For an ac-
curate' estimate of the value of our
showing to the disadvantage of the
older, should be compared 10 years later,
and between those who had gone
through the higher grades and those
who had stopped short of that expert
ence.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News. ]

[From the Chicago News
The best thing to do when you catch
a cold is to let go of it.
The man who does his level best
isn't going down hill.
One way to remove paint is to sit
down on it before it is dry.
Samson was the first actor on re-
cord to bring down the house.
From the olackmailer's viewpoint
keeping secrets is a paying business.
If a man knows enough not to go
to law he is wiser than the average
lawyer.
A woman refuses to acknowledge
her inability to accomplish anything
she wants to.
It's difficult to get a crooked man
interested in the scenery along the
straight and narrow path.
When a man gives more than a
dollar to charity he usually manages
to get caught in the act.
The man who separates people from
their coin will be remembered long
time after the undertaken plants him.
And if every mothers son of us
made a strenuous effort to reach the
top there wouldn't be such crowd at
the bottom.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
KANSAS CONMENT

GEIS T HIS SHARE OF CRITICISM.
+o,,aL eriticisms that are prevalent
eruor iiIs the appoint ntments of the gov
S,.ao. are nnding expression in the
-, - II is stated that not a single
80 Lei OF the school board commits
lie schoaI oiteo any experience in pub
Cs+t,o1in eHnooI matters. Because the
tLain LaIinotIcs are generally in favor of
49, 0"n private schools, it is urged
is 'iIe appointment of Bishop LilIis
Is. dn unfortunate one. He is held in
hlsh esteem but it is said that his
sympathies are not in favor of o,IS 1,,r
PunlIc scnool system and that his an
PoIltInent was simply a play to the
It sanIrIes. The objection is not so
+ha On account of his creed as on
me kround above stated.
me failure to appoint John Seaton
oI Alcnlson on the penitentiary board
- aIotner ground for criticism Sea-
ton Is wealthy and has devoted a
Sredt ueal OF time to that institution.
ne Is a man who is responsible for
the making of the binding twine in
stltutlon which, by controlling the
trust prices on the harvest necessity.
@ las gwen SO much aid to the farmer.
Ihe man appointed in his place is a
banker from Hill CITY. distant 9o0
thn Hhnes from Lansing, and it is claimed
tnat this banker has never given anv
attention to penal institutions.
Inc criticism is also made that the
r. 10 GIVING more thought to
Ihe Iuture7 and his possible candidacy
Tor the United States senate than he
IS 70 the interests Of the state and its
institutions. 1t is easy to crfticise and
mo tault The governors friends
scout the idea of his being poverned
by any but the most loyaI motives to
the interest of the public service. It
Is yet TOO early to judge. We want
the governor to have a fair trial and
II the interests Of the state are as
of known and reliable political friends,
as II mas been by the appointees which
ne mas displaced, then all will be we'll
Newton 7kansan Republican
GYPSY SMITHS WAGES.
When Gypsy Smith went to Kansas
City. 1t was said a number of phiIan-
thropic Englishmen We're paying for
his services. in order that he might
Do Good.
It turns out that the collections at
the Gypsy Smith meetings in Kansas
City amounted to $11,772.36. OF this
amount $7,514.10 was "sent to the
committee in Lodon. It is said
that t, an agent of Gypsy Smith is the
committee in London
When Gypsy Smith began his Kan
sas City revival, it was widely heralded
that he was working for the good of
mankind. and much was said of the
"sordid Americans" who were always
looking for the dollar
STILL of the $11,772.S6 raised in
Kansas City for the Gypsy Smith
meetings, $7.514.1o went to the
committee in London. The balance,
except $1,10O. went for expenses. The
$1,100 went to the ministerial alliance.
In giving the figures above quoted.
the Star adds: 1.-The Rev. S. NJ. Neel,
D. D., who presided at the meetings
on behalf Of the Minister'S alliance,
said this morning no estimate had
been made of the number of CONVEX
sions."-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's no such thing as pretty girl
who does not know that she is unless
she's blind.
If a friendship is really platonic one
it is unnecessary for the girl to take
cooking lessons.
X X
Instead of having SO much horse
power if automobiles had a little will
power many of them would get along
better.
x
Parents of a Ieft-handed baby have
at least one consolation. He may de-
veloped into q famous southpaw twirI-
er some day.
u X
When the girls father is we'll fixed
and generous, it's quite possible for a
young couple to live easy on salary
Of SIS per week.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

CFrom the Atchison Globe.
A mans liver is the ugliest part of
him, and usually costs the most.
Every smooth man ought to be
locked up; he finds so many victims.
t We wonder If everything a girl
wears is as tight as her gloves and her
corset.
Say what you please: When a theat-
rical troupe comes to town you get
ideas in dresses and hats.
A woman may respond to a call to
a deathbed with hope in her heart. but
she always takes black dress along.
An Atchison man has a dog whose
ancestry can be traced back further,
and to more illustrious forefathers
than its owners.
School teaching is a woman's pro-
fession. Men look as unnatural teach
ing school as they would should they
engage in crocheting.
parties" in one week, how women
would abuse them for their worthless
ness! And the abuse would be de-
served.
Very few people really wash their
faces. They put little water on, and
then wipe off the dirt with a towel If
clothes were laundered as carelessly
as faces are washed, there would be
q howl.
Education is generally admired. but
y
appear with a glee club, or a banjo
club, they are not admired unless they
behave themselves. And their yell is
extremely disagreeable.
This is what fashion amounts to:
For two or three years, women will
wear gloves without stitching down
the back. Then, for the next four or
five years, it will be fashionable to
wear gloves with stitching down the
back.
Cranberry jelly isn't the only thing
overrated; there's young blood. If
anything in this world has a value
placed on it that is ridiculously high,
1T is young blood. A man does pretty
well in business, and finally gets in
some young blood. Immediately he
spends half his days in covering up
mistakes made by the young blood,
and his nights in fretting about them.
Old friends are offended, innovations
are made that mean a loss of busi-
ness, every one is disturbed, and mis-
takes appear that the old man Won
ders if a school child wouldn't do bet
ter. All due to the young blood.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19

He was elected, however, pending the
elimination of an. investigation of the
whole primary campaign for the sena-
torship, which already has shown a
most discreditable condition of affalrs.
There does not have to be bribery
corruption or technical violation OF
the law to cause moral revulsion over
the extravagant use of money by per-
sons seeking to represent the people
in the highest offices.
''The statement of Mr.. Stephenson
and his managers showed that consid-
erably more than 100000 was spent
by him in his campaign. His rivals
men of far less wealth, spent from
$4,000 to nearly $4,000 each. The
investigation, addressed particularly to
Mr.. Stephenson's expenditures, has
shown a liberal distribution in all
parts of the state, that various sums
were intrusted to candidates for the
legislature, and that money was spent
freely in saloons, and, generally
speaking, wherever it was deemed nee
essary to get votes. AS to the full de-
tails of the final disposition of money
that passed through various channels
the truth may never become known
to the public.
1.-THE instances where far western,
and sometimes eastern, state legisla-
lures have been brazenly debauched
by millionaires seeking seats in the
United States senate are hardly less
shocking than the Wisconsin specta-
Gle. because the latter is in such strik
ing contrast to the ideals which the
Badger State has erected. The COM
pensating feature of the whole unsav-
oriness lies in the thought that it will
so disgust everybody as to make rep
etition impossible
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

[From the PhiladelphiaRecord.
Two cents a mile is regarded as a
fare price for railroads.
Many a man strains at a gnat who
couldn't swallow a camel.
The man who UNDERWRITERS himself
is never overrated by others.
The people who run up bills are
generally run down by the collector.
About one woman in a thousand is
logical. and then she is invincible.
Lots of things go without saying,
but you can't number scandal among
them.
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever"
or at least until it goes out Of fashion.
If man were able to do every
thing he pleased he probably wouldn't
be pleased to do it,
Hoax-"Here comes Borleigh. Do
you know him to speak to?" Joax-
mot if L see him first"
A young man learns a lot in four
years at college that he spends the
rest of his life in forgetting.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
EFrom the New York Press. j

GFTom the New York Press.
Jealousy is wanting somebody to
like you more than another person
who is more likeable.
Either man makes you mad for
wanting to reform you or for not
wanting you to reform him.
A man seldom knows why he wishes
he was married; he always knows why
he wishes he wasn't
A valuable university course would
to do with their education after they
get 1T.
The comforting thing about how un-
comfortable you can be travelling
abroad is how many other fools are do
ing the same thing
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
AS TO THE TARIFF BILL.

| Although the details of the new tar
| iff bill have been public property for
only a couple of days, there is gen
eraI an alI-absorbing discussion of its
various features throughout the coun-
try. Quite as many of its provisions
are being as bitterly assailed as others
are being commended and this would
be certain to be the case no matter
what sort of a tariff bill had been
prepared.
Some of the experts in the steel and
iron business in the country see
blight for the steel industry if the
measure is enacted into law with its
contemplated reductions in the tariff
on steel and it's products. Yet such
an authority on the subject of steel
manufacture as Andrew Carnegie ap-
peared before the ways and means
committee at its preliminary hear
ings on the tariff question and advo-
waited even larger cuts in the steel
schedules than the committee made.
Shoe dealers, or most of the promi-
nent ones, assert that the removal of
all duties on hides and lowering of
the duties on boots and shoes, will
make that industry flourish as it never
has before and that cheaper shoes will
soon be coming along if these features
in the bill are enacted into law. On
the other hand the people in the cat
tie raising districts do not look with
favor on the proposition of free hides,
although they have to admit that cat
tie are sold by them not primarily for
the value of the hides.
There is skepticism in some quar- |
ters as to whether or not the consum-
IL
proposed changes in the wool sche- |
dulles and wool wholesalers are doubt
full as to whether this detail of the |
new tariff plan will increase the reve- |
nues to any great extent.
And SO the story goes. There is |
plenty of criticism for most every fea-
ture of the bill in some quarters and |
in others there is a corresponding
amount of appreciation. This has been
the case on every occasion when there
has been a revision Of the tariff. The
same conditions will prevail in the
future whenever it is found necessary
to revise it again. To draw a tariff
In the minds, though. of those who
are qualified to judge the revision of
-AAo 'e'i III oS 9H660otoU ny Iii0 ""S@
and means committee will not only
produce the increased revenue that the
country needs but will also work out
for the greatest good for the greatest
number of the people of the country.
The really surprising thing about the
bill is that the revision is planned on
such an adequate and extensive scale.
It proves that a lot of unjust criticism
was levelled at the heads of the mem
oers of the ways and means commit
tee during the progress of the tariff
hearings when it was alleged time and
time again that these gentlemen were
all stand-patters of the first water and
hat it was unreasonable to suppose
hat they would recommend a revising
IF the tariff downward to any great
extent.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
MONEY IN WISCONSIN POLITICS.

Wisconsin has taken such high
place among the states in the move
ment for political reform and for con-
structive, progressive legislation that
the dirty linen now being washed in
connection with the reelection of Uni
ted States Senator Isaac Stephenson
presents particularly deplorabIe and
anomalous spectacle we'll says the
Chicago Record-Herald.
"Mr. Stephenson has taken his
seat in the senate, his credentials are
in proper form, he was chosen by the
legislature in a manner that leaves
no ground, so far as now known, to
question the validity or his election.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
Saws Rrvan viii Run.

"There is not shadow or doupt as
to Bryan's candidacy in 1912" re-
marked a member of congress from
a western state, at the Stafford.
81 took dinner with Bryan IN DEN
yer a week ago, and am positive
he will again be willing to take the
leadership as he has done in three
past campaigns. He did not say this
directly, but often one does not have
to hear a mans open declaration to
know his intention. But before again
trying for the White House Bryan
will seek election to the United
States senate from Nebraska. From
what I know of the situation, l be-
lieve it safe to predict he viii win
this office, inasmuch as senatorial
primary law will be passed by the
present Nebraska legislature, and
with such a law Bryan would have
more than an even chance of vic
tory He would duplicate the trick
of Gov. Chamberlain in Oregon
Thousands of Republicans in Nebras-
ka like Bryan, and as a matter of
state pride would aid in sending him
to the senate. The same men would
never vote for him for president. AS
a Democrat, 1 do not wish Bryan to
run in 1912, but as his warm per-
sonal friend I shall support him, even
while positive he has no chance. -
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19

Among the disturbing rumors
which are going the rounds is one
that the fire insurance rates for To-
peka are to be advanced twenty-five
per cent. It's about time that steps
were taken to adequately increase the
fire protection in the city. 1t would
be cheaper in the long run for the
people of the city to spend a good
sum of money in strengthening the
fire department and the water sup
ply than to dribble out a much larg-
er sum over a period of years in the
payment Of increased fire insurance
rates.