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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08
JAYHAWKER JOTS

At the Wildey day celebration at
Syracuse the other night, many mem
bers came from fifty to 100 miles In
automobiles and returned the same
night, much as they used to take a
ten mile jaunt by wagon.-Hutchfn-
son News.
A Coffey county youth, anxious to
accumulate wealth by killing crows
and selling their scalps to the county,
went hunting for the black crop de-
stroyers last week, and instead of
shooting crows shot his foot and lost
one toe. The county refuses to con-
slider that he was in its employ and
won't pay him a pension or even pay
the doctor bill.-Wichita Eagle.
I'VE have had an elopement, two
procession weddings, four operations
breach of promise suit and Black
Hand letter in the family the Atehi-
son Globe quotes Lysander John APP
pleton as saying recently in the Twi-
light Chat, so dear to him and to his
wife, land I think that is doing pretty
we'll" But Mrs. Appleton wasn't sat
isfied; none of the little Appletons
had ever been kidnapped, which always
happens in the real rich families.
Professor Charles NJ. Harger of the
state school of journalism and editor
of the Abilene Reflector is among the
prize winners for the best editorial
comment on an article on Theodore
Roosevelt by Lindsay Denison which
appeared in The Circle and which at
tracted attention as quoting Mr..
Roosevelt when he was vice president
to the effect that he wanted to be
president for the chief purpose of act
ing as a buffer between the frenzied
financiers of the country and the COM
mon people.
Norwich in Kingman county is en-
joying a healthy growth. 1t will soon
be as big as small voting precinct
in the average city. The Norwich
Herald tells about the towns devel-
opment in this wise: Norwich has
| almost topped the 400 mark in pop
ulation. According to the census COM
piled by Assessor Boatright, there are
391 persons in the city, or were on
March 1. His figures on the rura,
population outside of Norwich and in
Bennett township show 3S1-ten less
than In the city. Norwich has taken
off the brakes and by next spring the
assessor will find far more than 40(
in the corporate limits
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seem to be their recent action in offer
ing the small boys of the town, and
the larger ones as well, fee of SO
cents for each dog they may capture
which does not wear tag to show
that its owner has paid the annual
tax on the animal.
1t doesn't take much thinking to
reason just how this plan will work
out to a certainty. In their enthu-
siasm to increase the contents Of their
pocketbooks a certain class of boys,
and it is not a small one either, will
be tempted to grab any and every dog
that comes within their reach. 1t
would be but small matter for these
boys to slip or cut the collar and tag
off of any dog and turn 1t in as an 1n-
tagged animal. The result would be
that any number of dogs would find
their way to the pound which had no
business to be there and they would be
eventually slaughtered because their
owners would have no way of know
ing where their dogs were, nor could
the keepers of the pound have any
way of notifying them that their dogs
were there.
Desirable, indeed, Is it to free the
streets of the city Of the mongrel pups
that abound on them. Equally desir-
able is It to compel the owners of all
dogs to pay the licenses on them, for
there is no reason why one man should
pay dog tax and his dog-owning
neighbor escape the payment of such
a tax through negligence or design.
But this scheme of paying boys so
cents each for every untagged dog
they impound will never work out in a
satisfactory way. 1t is placing temp
tation before the boys to pick up dogs
that are rightly tagged. In reality. it
is placing a premium on theft. The
sooner the decision of the council in
this regard is rescinded, the better
it will be for everyone. A few un-
tagged dogs in the city would not be
such a blight on the community as
would the tempting of the youngsters
of the town to become thieves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.
from the Atchison GIobe.1


When an old girl needs spectacles.
how she fights the idea!
Men always admire a woman who
wears white understands
Every man must do a certain amount
of whining to some woman
If you want 10 please your friend.
get through talking so he can begin
A good many of your tragedies pro-
baby look like comedies to others.
The Missourians say that when a
woman begins to make money, she new
er let's up.
There are some houses that always
look as If the front door hadn't been
opened since the last funeral.
THAT land said brakeman recent
ly speaking of rough land below town,
wouldn't raise blacksnakes."
Perhaps you lack self-confidence, but,
If you attempt to acquire it. remember
it differs somewhat from conceit.
Nothing pleases a farmer better than
to bring an owl or a fox to town, and
have all the town fellows look at it.
Don't make a nasty muss by blowing
your brains out; if you want to kill
yourself. drink lots of ice water.
We hope that when the girls go to
heaven, their gowns will not gap in
the back, and be a. source of continual
worry.
If a couple remain engaged long
enough, the people are as surprised
when they get married as If they had
not gone together" at all.
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Is FARMERS WIFE A SLAVE?

What prosperity on the average
farm means to the women of the
country is described by William Ather-
ton Du Puy in a startling article on
1.-THE Useless Tragedy of the Farmers
Wife," which appears in the Delinea-
tor for June. Were the six millions of
farmers wives in the United States
placed in a caldron. fused into one
homogeneous mass, enough of it chop
ped out to make one woman-the
typical farm woman-and were she
depicted to the people as she is, there
would be the greatest tragedy of
American civilization, says Mr.. Du
Puy.
There is lot to be found out about
this woman, and it is vital to know of
her. 1t is she who bears the brunt
of feeding the multitude for which the
farmer receives so much praise. 1t is
she who gives birth, before her vitali-
ty is Slapped, to the men who make
history. 1t is she who is nBartyred
even in the times of peace and plenty.
1t is a useless martyrdom, for it is
easily preventable, and for this reason
it is especially important that her con-
dition and the causes of 1t should be
known.
In the first place, you will be told
that it is all bosh about the unfavor-
able conditions on the farm; that the
farmers last year raised seven bill
lions of dollars worth Of produce and
that they have given themselves the
uplift. Conditions are not at all like
they used to be on the farm, you are
told, for these men are now riding in
automobiles and there is running
water which has been put in the
house.
There is a lot of truth in some o1
his statements, for the farmers have
mao de a great deal of money, and ir
some communities there are hundreds
of conveniently arranged and idea,
hor on the farms. But the consen-
sus of opinoin of the greatest authori-
ties in this country upon farm condi-
lions is to the effect that probably IL
| per cent of the farmers are gTaspins
| their opportunities for better living IL
so far as the home is concerned, and
that the condition of but 10 per CEN
of the women is improved Strange
to say, with the vast majority there
has come a worse condition with the
development of the farm and the ad
vent of prosperity. The County Lift,
commission, appointed by the presi
dent, has travelled the country owe
and found this to be a fact.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.1

rFrom the Chicago News.1
Don't stretch the truth until you
break your word.
1t doesn't tire a girl to dance until
the morning after.
Our idea of a fiirt Is girl who
doesn't overlook any bets.
Men are like rivers; the deeper they
are. the less noise they make.
A run on a tanbark track is more
hearthful than run on a bank.
Some marriages are eye-openers, and
some others are eye-closers.
If every man got what he deserved
all the jails would be overcrowded.
But honesty may not be the best
policy for the get-rich-quick promoter.
It's easy for rich man to die poor.
All he has to do is acquire the lawsuit
habit.
Our idea of a lucky man is one who
never has occasion to change his opin-
ion of himself.
Don't attempt to discourage the girl
who giggles. What this sorry old world
needs is more giggling.
The blindness of pups and kittens
ends in nine days. that Of men and
women lasts until the undertaken gets
them.
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KANSAS CONNENT
THE LURE OF PICTUREs

The LURE OF PICTURES.
mankind may not average very high
IN artistic judgment or attachments,
but 1t is certain that its demand for
Plcsures Is practically Unsuitable
strange. beautiful and unusual places,
Wnlcn keeps an army of photo
graphers busy. not to mention the
larger army engaged in taking pic
lures of those instructed to look
peasant. The photographer is on
| every modern battleship, swapping
away like a machine gun He fol-
lows the sea, scales skyscrapers, and
penetrates the remote places of the
earth, that civilized man may have
pictures. He hunted the big game of
AFRICA before Roosevelt thought of
It, and an important feature of the
Roosevelt trip will be the pictures
Kermit will get Indeed, these pic
lures VIII likely delight more people
than the dollar-a-word efforts of the
father. Reading is tiresome to some,
but every one will look at pictures
stantinople was photographer. whose
camera was mistaken for machine
gun. This fallen photographer may
seem an over-curious creature to you,
but he is only one of many who are
daily taking risks as great, that you
may sit in the Darlor and view the
strange places of the world.-Atchison
Globe.
JUST A LITTLE CREDIT PLEASE.
A big Chicago and Kansas City mail
order house is sending out to most of
the newspapers of the state requests
for contracts for advertising space. 1t
offers to use a liberal amount of space
and to pay for 1t at the regular adver-
Using rate of the paper accepting 1t.
Moreover, the advertisements are stero-
typed. saving the publishers the cost of
composition The money the publish
ers would receive from the advertiser
would be clear profit. and yet probably
not more than half a dozen publishers
in the whole state will accept the Of
fer. Newspaper publishers as a class
may not be any more unselfsh than the
people who send to Kansas City or
Chicago for half the things they buy,
enough to realize the folly of injuring
the business of their own town, to a
few dollars immediate profits.-Man-
haitian Mercury.
A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.
A man in Kansas City has been
granted a divorce on the grounds
that he wed while under the hypnotic
| influence of his wife. That is es-
| tablishing a dangerous precedent and
| it will be easy to secure divorces.
Instead of being wounded by Cupid
hereafter, it will simply be case of
hypnotic influence. Not one marriage
| in a hundred is entered into a cold
matter of fact, business contract sort
are dwelling in the realm of love, and
are impelled by influences which
| heretofore have escaped analysis
Now having the Kansas City decision
to guide US, we know it is simply
| hypnotic Observation-Disclosures World.
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QUAKER fluctuations.
From the Philadelphia Record.l

TF'rom the Philadelpnla RecoruI
Some men impress US as having
been born with great deal of expert
ence.
Many a fellow who claims to be we'd
ded to his art considers himself the
better half.
No Maude. dear: just because girl
doesn't paint we shouldn't say that she
was artless.
: The fellow who is crooked naturally
wants a wider path than the strait and
narrow one.
If you are going to ask man to
take your part be sure he doesn't take
all You have.
There is certain type of man who
demands rapid transit even in the pur-
suit of happiness.
When a man runs for office he con-
siders that the newspapers are printed
that he who runs may read.
When a young man in public life Is
regarded as coming man he should be
careful not to get side-tracked.
1t Is easier to make friends of un-
desirable acquaintance than 1t Is to
make acquaintance Of undesirable
friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08
Straw Hats and Spring.

"Bilf' Quigley. the Battery boatman,
came into the ship news office yester-
day in his shirt sleeves, and mopped
his brow. He came in to find out what
delayed the Red D liner Philadelphia
and give tip on the weather. He was
sure that the mercury went higher on
April a year ago than it did yester-
day.
weather man promises cool wealth
err for Thursday" said the boatman,
s'but 1 don't take any stock in 1T.
Spring has come now for good. Hats,
straw hatsi City sweltering; overcoats
missing; all that means nothing to me,
but straw hats ahead of time. They
are the things that whisper in their
silence that gentle spring is come"
The boatman, who will bet on any
thing. when told that no straw hats
were worn yesterday laid down three
crisp SO bills. and the amount was
covered in a minute by tom" Morris,
a rival weather prophet.
s'Take back your money" said the
boatman ct always play fair I've
won. and give you back the mazuma.
I counted a hundred straw hats today.
They looked like buckets upside down .
ssWomen's hats" said Morris. GU
didn't mention that, Bill. New
York Tribune,
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~gN ElRB RwRSa ~

Wroten ad Looie Liknefusser progress
sionizer.
Greetings. Looie: Der longer We lf,
Looie, der mucher We find pygosh c-ldt.
But becaus We grow along NIT every
ding else der rabbit stripes,-I tink
dot ISIS vot I heard UNI called.-er ber-
heps Id vass rapid strides. er some
ding like dot,-do nod make a hit NIT
US. In oder words. und nod SO many
uf dem, 1 dondt know vot uf I'm ge-
speaking. Veil, anyway. dose vot-effer-
dey ISIS, ISIS greadt bitzness. uf you know
Id. Tipk vonce, fer instincts. vot UNI
proofmendts hab peen made in unsan-
Idly during der last few years.. Nod
long ago, We had only tree grades uf
unsanidy. foolishment. bug housency
und rating nuttiritis. But now dere
ISIS many oder sysdems. discofered by
der scientists. Dere ISIS Detrimental
Americana, instantaneous combustious,
ldoubelaction triggeretis. devotional Gus
cadamicus und so fourth. A brand uf
unsanidy hat peen invented to fit effery
circumstantial vot hat hummicidaI
trimmings.
Greadt moofmendt hat peen also mixed
NIT der horseless fad. We has seen der
skitizens uf greadt sixties turn oudt
und rubber ad a nautymobil mitin do
lasd den years.. Now dey hat taxa
cabs in Africa. Ut course Id will be
some time pefore der Africans can .
induced to ride by der inside, but dis
mark uf Civilization iss NIT dem to
stay.
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fore noon; and soon after IL the
street was full.
At 1880 neither Tom Jenkins nor
Jim Anderson had put in an appear
ance; but soon after that Tom came
in sight and cheer went up from
the whole crowd. Tom had built a
double deck arrangement on his wag-
on and the count showed that he had
forty-six people on the vehicle, by far
greater number than that of any
competitor.
Just as the excitement was at its
height and Tom was receiving con-
CALCULATIONS. another cheer went up
from the outskirts of the crowd and
soon Jim Anderson was seen. driving
eight horses. two abreast. and with a
wagon of a shape and form that no
one had ever seen before.
As he came up it was found that he
had removed the bed of his wagon
entirely and taken out the coupling
pole which joined the front and hind
wheels. This coupling pole had been
replaced by the trunk of q pine tree
more than sixty feet long. On top OF
the trunk of the tree boards about
twelve inches wide had been nailed.
and on these boards were seated just
sixty people.
AS a matter of course the prize was
promptly awarded to him.
1t was long after the wedding. when
Jim had successfully managed the
Burroughs farm for several years. that
he told his father-in-law that it really
was Celia who had told him how to
win the prize.
IT half guessed it at the time, :
chuckled the old man, "but I thought
then, and think now. that If she was
shrewd enough to plan that she mao
righted, 1909, by Associated Literary
PrRSSo
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Ethics for Lawyers.

A code of professional ethics was
adopted Saturday by the Boston Bar
have been carefully prepared by q
special committee. Some OF them are.
ga LAWYER assigned as counsel for
an INDECENT prisoner ought not TO ask
to be excused for any trivial reason
and should always exert MS pest Ell
forts in his behalf.
''It is the right of the lawyer TO IN
dertake the defense of a person ac-
cused of crime, regardless OF MS per
sonal opinion as to the guilt OF the
accused; otherwise lnnocent persuns'
stances, might be denied proper de-
feuse Having undertaken Such DE-
Tense, the lawyer is bound Dy all Ialr
and honorable means to present every
defense that the law of the land per-
mits to the end that no person may
be deprived of life or liberty but by
due process of law.
.'The primary duty of a lawyer en-
gagged in public prosecution is not 70
convict, but to see that 1ustlce IS oone
The suppression of facts or the secret
ing of witnesses capable of establish
ing the innocence of the accused Is
highly reprehensible.
NMoney of the client or other trus'
property coming into the possession OF
the lawyer should be reported prompt
w and, except with the clients knowl'
edge and consent, should not be com
mingled with the lawyers property OF
be used by him. :.
ssIn fixing fees, lawyers should avo1o
charges which overestimate their ad'
vice and services, as well as those
which undervalue them. A client:
ability to pay can not justify a charge
in excess of the value of the service
though his poverty may require less
charge or even none at all. The
reasonable requests of brother lawyers
and of their widows and orphans
without ample means should receive
special and kindly consideration.
Nothing operates more certainly
to create or to foster popular pre1u-
dice against lawyers as a class and to
deprive the profession of that full
measure of public esteem and conf
dence which belongs to the proper dis
charge of it's duties than does the
false claim, often set UP by the un-
scrupulous in defense of questionable
transa ctions, that it is the duty of the
lawyer to do whatever may enable him
to succeed in winning his clients
Boston dispatch to the New
York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08
A SATURDAY SERMON.


But il you do not forgive. neither will
your Father which is in heaven forgive
, your trespasses- st. Mark xi:26.
These were among the words of
Christ in a talk with his disciples af-
ter he had put to rout the merchants
and the money changers who were de-
filing the temple in Jerusalem. They
communicate an admonition that
needs must be followed If there is to
be anything like true peace and
happiness in the world. If men and
women would do unto others as they
would wish to be done by.
There is scarcely an Individual who
is so wonderfully. constituted that he
can go through so much as a day
without saying a word or doing some
act which is not offensive in some
way to some other person. Many of
these transgressions are more serious
than others and any quantity of them
are the result of thoughtlessness.
Nothing is meant by this latter class
of them. but that does not relieve
them of their stings. And as almost
everybody is offering affronts of this
sort it necessarily follows that just
as many people are being annoyed or
displeased and even injured by them
to a greater or less extent. Surely
the man who gives offense to another
through carelessness is most anxious
to be forgiven and for that very rea-
son it is incumbent on him that he
should just as willingly forgive the
individuals who have wronged him.
It is not exceedingly difficult to for
iYann
sequential misdeeds that are per-
petrated against one. The rub comes,
though, in excusing the wrong or the
injury that is of serious moment,
many of which are actually criminal
in their scope and for which the
punishments devised by law are to
be melted out. The criminal must be
punished for the protection of society.
And It is not believed that Christ con-
templated the forgiveness of real
crime to the extent of it's being per-
mitted to go unpublished. His dictum
in the words of the text rather relate
to the feelings of the persons against
whom the crimes and the wrongs are
perpetrated. To them he urges that
they absolve the wrongdoers of any
thing personal in the way of grudges
and spite. In many cases it is very
hard for persons to forgive some of
the serious transgrissions of others
against them. Many of these overt
acts and indignities may mean the
breaking up of. happy home, the
snuffing out of the life of member
of family. the theft of the savings
of life time. 1t is we'll nigh i'm
possible to forget such things and the
remembrance of them makes them
troublesome to pardon. But in these
cases the effort should be made to do
so Just the same. Its accomplishment
will mean an requirement of that de-
sirable peace of mind which can be
secured in no other way. The greater
the injury that has been done the
greater should be the effort to for
give it. AS Shakespeare says: ITO
err is human, to forgive is divine
and as Christ points out in the words
used for a text, one who does not for
give the words and acts of his
brethren can not hope for the forgive
ness of his trespasses when the final
accounting comes in heaven.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

About the only thing that girls can
throw straight are sly glances.
X
Many women actually seem to enjoy
the horrors and terrors of house clean
ing.
A collegian is not necessarily a hard
student just because his muscular de-
velopment is like iron.
X X r
If man isn't interested in baseball
his acquaintances incline to the belief
that there is something radically wrong
with him.
The young thing who insists that
girls should not marry until they are
20 may be set down as being pretty
near that milestone.
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FROM OTHER PENS
PARTIES AND PARTY LEADERS.

PARTIES AND PARTY LEADERS.
Ex-senator Spooner. according to an
interview in the New York Times. has
recently expressed himself ON the sub
ject of political parties and leadership.
He says that republican govern
ment must be administered by par
ties" One of the striking features of
present day politics is the practical
elimination of party lines. Men re-
fuse to wear the party label. Espe-
cially is this true of the old parties.
Yet the statement of Senator Spooner
is fundamentally correct-party or
ganization is essential to successful
government in a republic. Men break
away from parties oStenSibly because
parties do not suit them, but there are
a great many people who will cordial
ly indorse Senator Spooner's position
when he says: at have never had any
patience with those who hold them
selves too good to participate in party
politics. Such men are not good c1t1-
zens of a republic"
Senator Spooner also discusses the
kind of political leadership needed
today-"the kind that, having con-
scientiously taken a position, will
stand by 1t, however great may be
the temporary popular clamor. God
hates a coward and so do the peo-
pie. If a political leader stands up for
what he believes to be right, he need
not worry about his reputation-that
which is his due will come to him in
time. milwaukee, Sentinel.