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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Glc

GFrom the Atchison Globe.1
There are a number of things, how
ever. it is, best not to learn by ex-
perience.
Some men never settle down until the
earth is carefully tamped and sodded
above them.
something to say. spare a little time
to think what not to say.
Here is a rule that will not fail once
in hundred times: Be polite to a
boy, and he'll be polite to you.
If you want to make trouble for the
most envied person on earth, tell him
he is seeing his happiest days now
A woman comes pretty near being an
ideal wife if her drygoods bills are
never as large as the bills for eating.
Nine in ten who telephone take this
for granted: II DO not have to tell who
I am for everyone knows My Voice"
A new popular wedding song is en-
titled IF I But Knew" Heavens! that
Is why the ceremony goes on; because
neither one knows.
Shades roaming, or rather blowing,
around in the next world: No souvenir
postal cards there to send back.
The trouble fool can make is sur
prising. He will decide that certain
fool thing should be done, and bore
half the people in town to do their
share"
We have noticed that if we have
bad dream IL IS carry IN the ulGnt, anu
never interrupted but that the pleas
ant dreams always begin at rising hour
IL, the morning.
DO thai and I'll reward you" and
Don't do that. or I will punish you
are conImcn expressions heard by chill
dren. Query: Which is addressed to
girls, and which to boys?
A certain woman has been sick sew
eral months. When the late hot wealth
Ell came on, her friends thought: This
VIII xii. her. sure But instead of
killing her the hot weather did her
good, and she il now up and around.
You can never tell what a woman will
do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
VOTE FOR THE BONDS.

A special election is to be held to-
morrow to vote Oh the propositions to
issue bonds for the extension of the
Melan; for the erection of a munich
ral garbage disposal plant: and for
the construction of q bridge across
the Shunganunga at Fillmore street.
And each of these proposals should
receive the hearty support of the vot-
ers of this community.
Experts have presented facts to
show that one of the flood precautions
that is necessary for the protection
of Topeka is the widening of The
channel of the Kaw. This can only
be brought about by the extension of
the Melan bridge and the railroad
bridges which cross 1t. The Santa
Fe has extended its bridge already.
The Rock Island announces that it
will not undertake it's share of this
work if the city does not decide to
extend the Melan bridge. An opinion
has been delivered by the city attor-
ney that the city will be liable to
damages from floods which may be
caused by a blocking of the Kaw
channel by the Melan bridge. This,
of Itself. should be an Almost suffi-
ciert reason for the undertaking OF
tI1lS WOIh
AS for 4 garbage disposal plant. it
is one OF the crying hec,is If Topeka.
2 ht re is nc place now within a reas-
oaA"'e distance of the city Where
garbage and refuse can TIC t;isrc sc i
OF in a proper manner. Neither is
there any adequate system for the col
| lection Of asrba.se throughout the
city. Sucn desirable things can only
be. nrough@ about by the eata5 isIl-
| ment of municipal garbage disposal
plant. All of the up-to-date cities in
the country have them. If one is
properly conducted it can come pref
ty near supporting itself. The erec-
ton of such a plant will ne an excel
lent thing for the city and it's people.
A vote for the bonds to make this
possible will be vote in the interest
and promotion of the public health.
There is also an equal necessity for
the construction of an adequate bridge
across the Shunganunga at Fillmore
street. This would be evident to any
person who took the trouble to go to
that locality and look ihe situation
over.
The voters of the city will not show
themselves TO be. a We discernin.s
lot if they do not cast their ballots to-
morrow by a large majority in favor
of each of these three propositions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
What Dreamers Eat.

Hasheesh, that strange drug which
has given our language its word "as-
sassin"-a man so frenzied by the drug
that he accomplishes murder-is used
by the Persians, Turks. and Egyptians
in a manner akin to the use of opium
by the Chinese. 1t is the product of d
plant grown in large quantities in the
Peloponnesus Southern Greece, in the
district about Tripolitza.
The plant grows to a height of about
feet. and it's branches are thickly
covered with small leaves and studded
with tiny seeds. The entire plant, stalk,
and branches, is cut within a few
inches of the root and laid out in the
sun to dry. The branches are then
rubbed to separate the seeds, and these
in turn are ground into a fine powde =,
which constitutes the drug. The drug
has the power of inducing sleep and
producing pleasant and fantastic
dreams. Continued use of hasheesh
renders it's devotees reckless and re-
suits in a wreck of their mental and
physical constitution.
For this reason the Egyptian govern
ment has prohibited the importation of
the drug, and recently entered into a
convention with Greece to prevent it's
expectation from there to Egypt, where
the consumers of hasheesh are very
numerous. The drug is practically
never used in Greece, but Is now ex-
ported to England, Austria, France
and Italy. and from there much, no
doubt, ultimately finds its way to
Egypt.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
He Did Not Like the Tune.

A poor foreign musician was logged
1y wrestling with his trombone outside
a village inn. He knew that THE LOST
Chord" was somewhere in that instru-
ment, but the latter seemed loath to
part with it. At length the landlord
appeared at the door. The poor must :
clan bowed. and, doffng his cap, said,
'Musig hath jarms," and smiled.
The innkeeper smiled also. and
kindly
''WelI, not always" he said 'fBut try
that tune outside that red brick houss
and I'll give you sixpense.''
Three minutes later the trombonist
was back again, mud despatched and
forlorn.
You vos right" he said, slowly and
sadly; "musig hath farms not always
no. A mad yellow out of dat house
came und me NIT a brigg he knocked
down-yes. He not like that tune-no,
no. and he rubbed the back of his
head.
ct thought he wouldn't said the
landlord. Hes just done a months
hard labor for stealing a clothesline
from a back garden. Dundee Adver-
tiser
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
LIFE is HELD TOO CHEAPLY.

That human life is too often held ill
little regard has been exemplified
again by the roll of the dead and in
jured among the participants in tho
big automobile races which we're
held last week on the new spe-
cial speedway for automobiles which
has been built at Indianapolis And
what's the gain? Not much of anything
that is of real worth.
There is no need of demonstrations
of the possible speed that can be Sc
cured in the operation of automobiles.
1t is a settled question now that they
can be built to travel as fast as men
will ever require them to be run either
for necessity or pleasure. Terrific
speed contests between automobiles 20
prove that a car of one make can travel
a mile, or ten miles or a hundred miles
a little faster than machine of an
other make serve no good purpose. The
manufacturer putting out the fastest
car may get lots of free advertising for
his wares but it is surely not of the
kind that helps his business very much.
Few automobilists of the average tyre
have any use for machines that can
run mile in less than a minute. There
certainly could be no pleasure in such
fast travelling as this even if the law
permitted it on public highways.
As a matter of fact the day for de-
veloping speed in automobiles has
passed. What is needed now is the de-
velopment of machines that will have
endurance; that can be operated day
in and day out with a reasonable as
surance to their owners that they Will
not break down or get out of killer in
any way while they are being operated.
This being the case there is no need
for the speed contests such as were
conducted last week at Indian
apolis and which have been held from
time to time in other sections of ths
country and which are scheduled for
future occurrence. Such contests are
dangerous in the extreme to those en-
gaging in them and they should not be
permitted. There is no excuse for them
and the toll on human life which they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
Loyal Irishnnen.

There was rather an interesting lit
| tie thing in the Gould case-the case
| Of Mrs. Howard Gould suing her hus-
Dand for separation. Attention Is called
to the matter. curiously enough. by
an Enghshman, who writes to the ed
lows:
Here is a funny thing. Every SER
want VINO testified against Mrs. Gould.
tnelr FORMER mistress, was an English
man Every servant who stood by her
was an Irfshman. Is it possible that the
lower class Englishman has deveIoped
INTO white-livered cur altogether?
1Snt 1t q fact that, while certain
Servants, such as the English, are pre-
Ierred by society people, because of
their Willingness to PROSTATE them
selves at the feet of their mistress, that
sort OF sef-degradation is Invariably
accompanied by loss of manhood-the
kind of manhood that would induce a
man to protect a mistress much as he
would his own family? I guess most
OF the follies of the rich carry with
them their own punishment
Very sensible letter indeed to come
from an Engltshman or anybody else.
And very interesting fact this Eng
lishman points out.
We do not think that all English
servants, OF the lower class English
man in general, represent "a white
i1Tered cur"-nothing as bad as that
There are plenty of Englishmen as in
0CPCIuCAt DIS ally IIldn LnaL ever walk
ed. Enough of them have gone to the
scaffold for principle to prove that
But 1T does seem to be a fact that
there is more intense loyalty in the
Irishman, the Celt, of whatever social
or intellectual grade, than in the Eng
lishman. 1t doesn't date from yester-
day. 1t is a popularity that goes far
back into the early days. before the
Irish were ever in ireland, when they
were Celts roaming around in the
Balkans, dashing down to Greece and
adding blue-eyed babies to the popu-
lation, fighting in Spain, and generally
making themselves actively obnoxious.
Those half-savage chiefs that ap-
peared before Alexander the Great
were Celts, Irishmen, the same as the
Irishmen today. When he asked them
what they were afraid of-supposing,
of course, that they would say, eve are
afraid of your awful majesty they
replied, 1--WE are afraid that the sky
will fall on us-nothing eIse.''
Some 1rishmen have been slow to
learn very much about astronomy, or
about the fact that the sky couldn't
fall, even to this day. They have also
been slow to learn servility.
The man who has an Irishman
working for him may find a first
class strike on his hands. He may even
live to see his Irish employe rise up
and hit him on the head where ques-
ton of dignity is involved. But you
won't find the Irish servant, or en-
ploye, or any other Irishman, as a
rule, turning on those for whom they
have professed frfendship.-New York
Evening Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

she said, "how good you were to de-
fend me before all those people.
TT wasn't entirely unselnsn, tne
win forgiveness"
And Patricia accorded it, and they
went for a walk together in the beauty
of the autumn twilight. and wnen they
came back they were engaged.
II am going to tell everybody" the
professor declared.
Patricia's eyes flashed their delight,
but her lips were mutinous-
"TattIe-faIe" she teased, and ran
from him, laughing. to the shelter OF
her room.-(Copyrighte 1909, by AS
ISOLATED Literary Press).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

has been undertaken by The Editorial
Review company of New York city.
In it's announcement this new review
states that it docs not aim at indis-
eliminate dissemination. 1t is not am
bilious to become a popular magazine.
II is distinctly a high-class journal of
original thought and a medium for the
selection and presentation of the most
dominant editorials of the daily press,
thus denoting she Views of different
sections of the country" There would
seem. to be an excellent field for such
publication. And If the future num-
bers of the new magazine are as inter-
esting with such valuable matter as is
the initial one. fine success for it is
assured
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

LFrom the Chicago News.l
All women are more or less vain
likewise all men.
The oftener you look back the
faster you don't go.
A man who feels his oats doesn't
necessarily have horse sense
Marriage isn't a failure any oftener
than single blessedness is.
Occasionally a girl of the period
brings fast young man to full
stop.
A girl seldom refuses a man I'M
less she is reasonably sure he will
propose again.
A minister OF the right sort is an
expert condenser of the milk of hu-
man kindness.
1t sometimes happens that the
best man" of a wedding really does
have the best of 1t.
A woman is never quite satisfied
until she is sure that at least three
other women envy her.
Question ten men and nine of them
will tell you they don't get half of
what they are entitled to in this
world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
QUAKER AIED1rArIoNs.
from the Philadelphia Record

from the Philadelphia Record.l
An I specfalist-the egotfst
One man who is always well bal
anced is thetight-ropewaIker.
A true test of friendship is to
listen to long-winded hard-luck
story.
In a female walking match would
the girl with the largest feet cover
the most ground?
Even when he is perfectly healthy
the dwarf may feel that he isn't long
for this world.
Although Arizona and New Mexico
are still territories there is no rea-
son why the women out there
shouldn't be stately
Miss Antique-"Yes, he called me
a little goose" Miss Caustfoue-
We'll, ! suppose he realized you were
no chicken"
You can lead a man to water. but
you can't make him drink" quoted
the Wise Guy. mo. not unless the
water happens to contain a IittIs
whisky and a small lump OF fca.~
added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Altogether too many people are
satisfied with their lot. or rut. in life.
&
Among other things, eating corn off
some folks.
4 x
Stories, especially those about per-
sons. soon grow out of all semblance
to their original forms.
x X
If there is one feminine style more
barbaric and unattractive than others
it is the wearing of earrings.
Y
The individuals most impressed
with the idea that they are par
ticularly wise are generally the
easiest to fool ssxafEes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
sKNNY's ANuCLIMACrTC swIpE

ANIIO11TlUACITC SWIPE.
The score was to o, and the Stars had
two men out:
1t looked as If the finish no longer was in
For It was Skinny Lindsay who came UP
And the Comets felt complacent-there
was no doubt of that
Then, Spider Watson pitching, uncoiled
MS awkward length
he sent the balls in Whizzing with most
uncommon strength
AND Sunny stood there watching, with a
set, determined face
That showed his one ambition was to
circle to third base
stood three-two,
And Skinny set his teeth until his COM
pressed lips were blue:
Then the ball came wfgrIins toward him
and Skinny swooped and missed
AND the Comets chalked another mark
upon the victory list -
-SomerYiI1e Journal
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate OF ten
cents a week or thirty cents a month
(by mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the state journal will pc to You Hike
q daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

When it comes to beating the tom
toms for Kansas John Dawson, attor-
ney to the state railroad board at, The
present writing. is in a class by him
self His speech at st. Joseph the other
day about the glOries of the Sunflower
state was a notable effort. special
state position should be created for
him. He should be sent around the
country to present with all of the ora
torical flowers he is capable of mould
ing the facts and figures which are dug
up by Mr.. Coburn, the secretary of the
state department. OF agriculture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

In revising the tariff the congress-
men put radium on the free list. This
has turned out to be a terrible mis-
take in view of the recent. find of pitch
bIende in California which will produce
radium enough to supply the world with
this valuable stuff for all time to come.
Now here's. an infant industry that
should be protected especially in view
Of the fact that this mineral which is
produced abroad brings in only IS, 000, 900
a pound, Troy weight. Things ought to be
fixed so the American product can be
sold for twice that sum in this coun-
try At least this is the theory upon
which a good deal of the protective tar
if has been built.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
LFrom the New York Press.1

LFTOln the IVeW I DIX Ffess.1
The way to mako anything doubtful
Is to bet on it for sure thing.
The people who most hate to begin
an argument most hate to end it when
they get into it.
It's lucky for the dressmakers and
hatmakers who fix styles up the way
they do that women have no sense of
hunnor.
One reason a girl likes sitting in a
hammock with a man under the moon
is maybe it viii go behind a cloud
and make it darker.
Whether a man tells his wife the
truth or rot has nothing to do with
whether she believes him; it's whether
|she wants to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

New Orleans to the fore. Her citi-
zens have decided that high hats and
frock coats no longer constitute a
prerequisite for service on the occasions
of receptions to prominent personages.
So when Mr.. Taft reaches that town he
will be received by the gentlemen thsre
in their plain clothes" But. as mat
ter of fact, this has been the order in
Kansas ever since it was established.
If frock coats and high hats should be
demanded on Kansas reception COM
1nitteemen, each reception committee
doing business in the state would conf
prise one man, and a Democrat at that,
Col Bill Sapp of Galena. He's tbs
only man in Kansas who has such a
costume at his beck and call.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

Robert Chambers. the novelist, may be
sued for libel because of the similarity
between the characters in his latest
work, 1.-The Danger Mark and the
youthful Hammersley children of New
York city. Most of Chambers efforts
must have been taken from life be-
cause they are so unusual as to be
stranger than any fiction which has
ever before been invented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

Evidently Arkansas has plans to put
the sixty-flve fire insurance companies
operating within her confines out of
business permanently. She brought
suit recently to collect no less than
$65. O00, 900 from these companies in PEN
alties for their alleged violations of the
antitrust laws of the commonwealth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

= Considerable prominence is being
given to the fact that a young son of E.
H Hartman is carrying chain with
a railroad surveying gang in Idaho
ANY number of other promising young
sters are doing the same thing ana
they are not getting s65 a month for
their toll, either, as is the youthful
Hartman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

whether or not the prohibition law is
being enforced in Topeka and Shaw
nee county is evidenced by the records
of the federal internal revenue office
for Kansas. Not a single government
license to retail liquor has been issued
this year by that office to any one in
Shawnee county There were 20 sucf
permits in this county during last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

That there is no place like home, and
especially when it is in the United States,
is being pointed out again clearly by Z
H. Hartman who is hurrying back TO
the comforts of his own shanty which
all of his money could not duplicate IN
the old world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

''The human face is the masterpiece of
God" writes Gilbert Hubbard in the
New FORK American. But that's no
good excuse for a man not to get a
haircut occasionally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

Leading astronomers characterize the
probable destruction of the earth by
comets as pure idiocy." This will be
reassuring news for some folks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
A CHANCE FOR THE HAGUE.

TIE Hague international court of ar
bitration is fooling away its time with
refining to do, when a great lot of dis
putes might satisfactorily occupy its
attention There is the trouble between
Bolivia and Peru, for instance, which
Certainty admits of settlement by arbi-
tration. Bolivia fas no seacoast, and
is anxious to reach the ocean. That
country casts longing eyes on Peru's
riparian boundary, and there be those
WHO fear tt at she seeks 4 pretext to go
to war with that country and seize
a maritime province. or else exact one
as an indemnity. The attitude of Chill
in this case is watched with so.icitude
for If tn, later country should lend
ASSISTANCE to Bolivia. Peru would pro-
ba bly, have to submit The only ground
fer dispute at present appears to be al
legged dissatisfaction of Bolivia over the
Argentine award. which was favorable
to Peru, but as this was the result of
arbitration. il IL too small an affair to
go to war about. Bolivia would lay her
self open to severe condemnation if she
began hostilities on tr1mped-up cause.
but considerations of this character
have not always deferred Spanish
American republics from seeking their
own ends.-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
graph
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23
FRON OTHER PENS
CHANGES IN THE HUMAN FORM

S11AN1E0 LIN 1E1E MAN FOfIM
The tailors and shoe dealers of Lon
don have accumulated some interesting
statistics on the change in the figures
of men and women. According to the
tailors, there are two new types Of
men; that is, as records their figures.
One is the man who plays a great deal
of golf, or INDUCES largely in other
forms of outdoor sport; this man is
growing taller and simmer. On the
other hand, the man who has given up
walking and horseback riding for the
motor car is becoming prosaically fat:
during the last two years there has
been such a waist development that the
makers of ready made clothing have
been forced to add an extra half inch
to the waists of trousers. For the ath
letic type of man the average chest
measurement is SO inches, with. waist of
"a; while the motoring man, though
shorter demands a 36-inch waist
AS for the ladies, it is delicate sub.
ject, but the dealers feel the truth must
prevail and they reluctantly admit thai
their customers feet are much larger
than they used to be- Two years ago
the average was No. 4. and No. was
kept in stock; this latter size has now
been given up and No. has appeared
while the average has increased to No
5. If this has been accomplished in
two years who can guess the changes
to come Boston Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-23

The publication of a new monthly
mawazine called "-he Editorial Review