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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
THE BUSINESS WORLD.

An interesting resume of the pre-
vailing conditions in the business
world and the prospects for the future
is found in the current weekly
financial letter issued by Henry Clews.
the New York banker. as follows:
1.-The business situation has been
somewhat adversely affected by tariff
agitation for the past three months,
orders for nearly all classes of mer-
chandise having been placed upon a
hand-to-mouth basis. Neither job
bers nor retailers cared to stock up
beyond immediate requirements when
the conditions of buying were so I'M
settled. AS a result stocks of goods
at both first and second hands have
in many cases become much depleted.
Meanwhile consumption has been go
ing on at much about the ordinary
rate. Clothing and shoes are being
worn as usual. and there has been no
slackening in the consumption of
food except such as may have been
enforced by high prices. This situa-
ton means that as soon as uncer-
tainty is removed considerable ac-
tivity must develop for the purpose
of replenishing exhausted supplies.
w nile, IHeTelOT6s tue ldIlu HAS lOSS
much of it's effect as a disturber of
business, no real resumption of ac-
tivity can be expected until the out
come of that question is foreseen.
Nobody now anticipates any i'm
portant changes from existing sched-
ules which is perhaps politically
unfortunate, as the tariff question may
loom up again in disturbing form at
some future date. This. however. is
a distant problem and has nothing to
do with the immediate future. If. as
| it is hoped, the tariff be settled before
June 1, we may expect further i'm
provement in general trade; and
| should the next harvest prove any
thing like satisfactory the coming
| fall should witness a very decided
resumption of business activity. An
other important element in the bust
ness situation is the outlook for pro-
longed ease in money. This is quite
as important to the merchant and
manufacturer as to the speculator. II
, enables him to obtain the credit
which he needs on good terms, and tc
make plans extending into the future
In fact, continued easy money is one
of the best and most natural tonic:
for business recuDeration.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
THE TARIFF COMMISSION.

Senator Aldrich, chairman of the
finance committee of the United States
senate and self-appointed boss" of
that distinguished body. was quoted re-
Gently as having told his colleagues on
the finance committee and others who
are in his confidence, that he is in
favor of a plan for the creation of a
body Of tariff investigators. 1t may be
taken for granted. therefore. that the
senate, at least, will consider at an
early date, probably at the present spe-
cial session of congress after the pres
ent tariff revision is disposed of, legis-
lation for the creation of some sort of
a tariff commission. Business. men.
manufacturers, and students of the
tariff question have been insisting for
years that a tariff commission is need
ed in order to frame a scientific tariff
measure, one based upon the difference
bet tween the cost of production at home
and the cost abroad. But their fight
for this has really only just begun in
view of certain provisions which Mr..
Aldrich has injected into his plan.
1t is his idea that this tariff board,
or commission, should be made up of
representatives from various of the
existing federal departments namely,
from the bureau of foreign relations, of
the state department, the bureau of
customs, the treasury department, the
bureau of manufactures and of statis-
tics and from the department Of COM
merce and labor. 1t is proposed that
this bureau shall have the power to
secure information for the president to
utilize in the application of the maxi
mum and minimum policy of tariff
levies which it is proposed to establish.
Such bureau would be a far cry from
the purposes of a tariff commission
which has been agitated for so long a
time. 1t would be far from being sat
isfactory. 1t would not take the ques
ton of tariff investigation out of the
realms of politics, for most of the men
holding jobs in the various federal de-
partments named are politicians to the
core. A tariff bureau made up accord
ing to the Aldrich plan would hardly
be able to pass upon the costs OF pro-
duction. Experience in manufacturing
and in real business affairs would be
necessary if the work of a tariff COM
mission is to amount to anything, and
two or more members of any such
board must have this practical knowl-
edge.
There is only one right solution of
the tariff problem-the formation Of a
permanent tribunal Of men equipped
with expert knowledge of the indus
tries of the United States, yet bound to
no special interest; men of prominence
and character such as will command
the confidence of the people. yet de-
pendent in no way for their livelihood
or standing upon political leaders.
If there now is a disposition in con-
gress for the creation of a tariff COM
mission it should result in the estab-
lishment of no make-shift affair. The
real thing, or nothing at all. is what
the people want and they should let
their demands in these regards be
known in no uncertain terms. --
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

from head to foot with the pulverized
clinging substance. A cat howled
somewhere and he turned toward the
door. Zenobia sat upon her launches
twenty feet in front of the warehouse
splitting and bowling like feline de-
mon. The captain stepped out into
the light. He was covered, plastered,
buried. frescoed. coated with flour.
The crowd stirred In the distance
Tompkins. proprietor of the Golden
Rule. had arrived. There's no pow
der" he exclaimed. Those barrels
contain flour. Come on!" The mob
came like hurricane.
Look at Captain Grant," they
shouted. gleefully. Flour all over his
dressing-gown and on his face and
hair. Looks like ghost!''
''Well, I'll be eternally jiggered!"
fuIned the captain. He kicked at the
screaming Zenobia, and missing, near
~ fell upon his back. Particles of
dust adhered to the flour, giving him
a glorious checkerboard appearance.
He turned and ran from the madding
crowd-a white. gorgeous spectre of
the night.
AS he scaled the picket fence, some
one called to him, but he paid no
heed. He bounded down the little lane
with Berserker vim. and fury. The
person who had called ran through
a gate and stood in the road to check
him. The captain, Wild, chagrined,
4 unS6elnS, WdNeu put Ou If1OIe
steam and growled deadly menace.
"William-William!'' called soft
sweet voice.
The captain. checking, tapped at
the flour in his eyes.
"Oh, you are brave and true-but
you do look like a fright" said Miss
Inola; and she broke down and sobbed
before the captain taking alarm again,
could bound away.
There, there, don't cry" he adj
monished. THAT spitfire, Zenobias
all right and will live to be ten thou
sand"
Then he took her in his arms until
she became white with the dazzle of
the flour.-(Copyrighte 1909, by As
ISOLATED Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
HU1NOR or THE Day

Miss SHARPLY? Miss sharpiy-Certainy! 1
don't want it!-Chicago News.
What kind Of a cow is THAR" "a
Fletcher cow. Chews her food before
swallowing. Life.
Mrs Knicker-The Doctor said you
should live out of doors. knicker-Yes;
I'll have to after pay his bill.-New York
Sun.
Nell-would you rather be rich mans
depends upon how old the rich man was
Philadelphia Record.
Julius Caesars literary attachments
were truly. wonderful" said the student.
ooh, 1 don't know" answered the discon-
body could get his stun published with
s STAY puA hAe '"''uS caesar $ -"ASh'ns 20"
Mrs. Gillet-so there is a tablet in your
transept to her memory. Did she do any
thing to Sri9E people sntp the the cngrsh
new hat every Sunday for three years
Harper's Bazaar.
81 see a husband has just returned to
his wife after an absence of twenty
years" did he get the sample match
ed?"-Louisvtlle Confessional.
Teacher-when that boy threw stones
at you. why didn't you come and tell me.
Boy-Tell you? Why. you couldn't hit the
side of a barnr'-Kansas City Journal.
Tonl-Bel1e is strange girl. She does
not know the names of some of her best
friends. Maud-That's nothing. Why. I
don't even know what my own name Will
be year from now.-Illustrated Bits.
Marryat-So that great inventor is
dead and his wonderful secret is lost.
Newitt-Not at all. He told 1t to his wife
before he died. Marryat-Yes. that's just
what mean.-The Catholic Standard and
Times,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe. ]

tHc AICltlSOI oiODC'I
The great difference between a wild
over and a married man is that the
married man is watched by only one,
and that one has right
How the people enjoy seeing a
noted tight wad taken in by an agent
or a confidence man, But pleasure Of
this kind, by-the-way. does not come
to the people often.
A fire-fghting apparatus and a
town park don't count for as much in
a towns growth as the fact that the
widow of John Brown is no longer re-
ferred to as the widow Brown"
A man came home lately, and said
to his wife: Mary, are you losing
your hair?" She replied that she was
not. "All the women down town, -
continued the husband, "have such
big punches on their heads that you
are beginning to look funny"
An Atchison woman who has been
engaged five years, and does not want
to be married for another five years,
says her young man is so anxious
that she may relent, and consent to
be married within three or four years.
if she can possibly get ready in that
time.
An Atchison man died lately, and,
when his remains were viewed at the
funeral, a placar6 was lying on his
breast, which read: "Now, will you
let me alone?" There is a good deal
of talk about the affair. The under
taker says he placed the placard there
at the last request of the deceased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
QUAKER siEDITATIoNs.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
In an argument it's wonderful how
obstinate the other fellow always is.
1t seems as though one of the most
unavoidable things in the world is
creditor
When a mans money is tied up
there is nothing like a wife to unite It
for him.
You can generally tell that O man is
a big gun from the way he doesn't
shoot off his mouth.
Some people never even pay their
respects without acting as though they
ought to have receipt.
Blobbs-"Oh. we'll, we all have our
faults" SIobbs-"Yes; and we prefer
to be our own fault-finders."
1t doesn't bother the average mar
ried man SO much to keep his wife in
doors as it does to keep her in hats.
1.-THE eyes are the windows of the
SOUL" quoted the Wise Guy. sT sup
pose that's why people who live in
glass houses shouldn't throw stones"
added the Simple Mugg.
wigg-"Old Gotrox is devoted TO
music. There is a clause in his will
leaving $4,000 to establish a home
for poor singers" wagg-"How in
adequate Twenty-Five millions would
mt begin to house all the poor sing
n.
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appointed to one of the stenographic
positions in the states executive de-
partment when Mr.. Roosevelt became
the governor of the Empire state. Mr..
Loeb and Mr.. Roosevelt were strangers
up to this time. but Mr.. Roosevelt ap-
preciated Loeb's abilities as a stenog-
rapher and confidential man and took
HIM to Washington with him on his
elevation to the vice presidency. Mr..
Loeb's appointment as secretary to the
president was the next step and his
faithful services to his chief were re-
sponsible for his appointment at the
hands of Mr.. Taft to the New York
collectorship.
Most OF the Republican leaders in the
state of New York. were on anything
but friendly terms with Mr.. Roosevelt
during his incunbency in the presiden-
tial office. They writhed under his
domination. They used to vent their
spleen occasionally on Mr.. Loeb, calling
him "Rocseve1t's goat" when he fire.
quently came to the aid Of his chief
to save him from embarrassing situa-
lions. But the chances are these self
same leaders do not indulge in pleas
aEtries OF this sort these days. They
probably take off their hats when Mr..
Loeb passes by. For in his capacity as
collector of the port of New York he
has more good jobs to pass out than
any other man in the entire state. He
is head Of an army of no less than 1900
federal employees, very few of whom are
under the rules and regulations Of civil
service. Most of the offices at the dis
posal of the collector of the port Of
New York are given to New York men,
or have been in the past. 1t has been
one of the great big cogs, If not the
greatest, in the Republican machine of
that state. And surely it is Mr.. Loeb's
turn to smile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
MIR. LoEB,s POWER.

There is many a funny turn to the
wheel of politics. An excellent exem-
pnfication of this is found in the high
and especially powerful position in the
political world now held by William
Loeb, Jr., as collector of the port of
New York. In this position, if he had
any desire to do so. he could probably
become the political boss of the Re
publican party in the great state OF
New York. And until he was appointed
to this position he wasn't even a factor
in New York politics. Mr.. Loeb was a
stenographer by profession, making his
home in Albany, New York, and was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Blind people nearly always feel
well.
Many fisherman waits with baited
breath.
With defaulters it is fly time at any
season of the year.
Jokes are like nuts-the dryer they
are the better they crack.
It's awfully hard for a messenger
boy to get the run of his business.
This is fast age, but our ances-
tors managed to get ahead of US.
A small boy describes a snake as an
animal that's all tail except its head.
Many a man who has made fall
ure of everything else imagines he is
a success as husband.
1t would be an excellent thing for
the topper If he could take his home
ward way as he does whisky
straight.
The young man who is lost in ad-
miration of girl is seldom able to
find himself until after he has faced
the parson with her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
AYHAWKER JOTS

Brown county asks for little spec
ial notice because it's six rural carriers
are the only uniformed rural route
carriers in Kansas
A Belle PLANE editor was fortunate
enough on election day to be beaten
for the council, is the way the Arkan-
sas City Traveller puts 1t.
Mrs. Louisa Vannoy of Kingman is
one of a set of twins now eighty years
old Her twin sister is Mrs. Sarah
Fike who lives in Montana.
The Garnett News tells of a man
who searched half the night for his
COW, when she happened to break out,
and then observes that the mans
daughter has a habit of staying out
late every night and he never goes
out to look her up.-Garden City
Telegram.
If an honest confession is good for
the soul Governor Riddle of the
Minneapolis Messenger has helped his
some by the following: Although /
have practiced on it now for more
than fifty years, I find it is just as
hard to get up early as it was when
had to build the kitchen fire for
mother"
A southern Kansas woman remem-
bered after she got to church that she
had left a roast in the oven and had
forgotten to turn out the gas. She
borrowed a pencil and wrote on a slip
of paper, PLEASE go home and turn
off the gas Her husband was usher
and she had another woman hand 1t
to him as he went up the aisle But
that stupid individual didn't look at
it, and in spite of her agonizing at
tempts to get his attention he marched
up and gave it to the preacher, who
had g. very bewildered look on his
face when he proceeded to read the
announcements City Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
ERON OTHER PENS
A NEGLECTED STATESMAN.

Why have the American people fail
ed to honor the name and memory of
Alexander Hamilton in more becoming
fashion?
certificates of the $1,000 denomina-
ton. Certificates of this value are
for the larger business and banking
transactions; they are extensively, but
not popularity, used. 1t is safe as
sertion that vast majority of Amer
lean citizens have never seen a certi-
ficate of this kind and value; they are
not for pocket circulation.
1t may be that the monarchical bent
of Hamilton's mind has made him un-
popular. But he conceded something
to his fellows at Philadelphia; he was
alike loyal and liberal, and while his
ideas of democracy were not accepted
by the convention that framed the
national charter, 1t will DE conceded
by fair men that his opposition to
principles espoused by men too radi-
cally democratic added much to the
strength of the instrument.
The American people owe much to
Hamilton; remembering his good SER
vice to his country, they can well af-
ford to forget whatever faults may
have marred either his political think
ing or his personal practices. This re-
public should honor Hamilton's mem
DRY in some more becoming way. Out
side of art museums and libraries they
rarely see his likeness.-Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
THE CLD-TIME MURDERER.
If the practice of the past few years
keeps up-and it WILT seems as If
a real. genuine, old-fashioned murder
er will soon be obsolete. There will
follow shifting of terms. Just as
the insane person of the past has be-
come a "patient"-and very properly
I, nf he f,rt,
become an insane person" Killing
will cease to be a crime and, instead,
will be but an expression of insanity,
which. while probably disastrous to
the killed. involves no particular dis
comfort for the killer. A short stay
in a place of downy beds and course
dinners. with trained nurse and a
physician or two to complete the stage
| setting. and the insane person" will
| be turned loose once more upon the
world to become insane again If he
| cares to. or to set an example for 9TH
ers with an inclination or temptation
| to send bullet into somebody, revea
| themselves maniacs and go through
| the same process OF downy beds
| course dinners and trained nurses.
When the day of the murderer i.
| surely gone, how we shall look bach
| on the old times and ridicule thost
| benighted people who actually dared
to consider a deliberate killing al
murder, murder as crime and crim'
as something deserving of punish
| ment. And how we shall regard a
martyrs those once-upon-a-time muir
derers and assassinS who victims o
ignorance and injustice. were sent t
the penitentiaries. gallows, and cleo
trio chairs; we shall then know tina
| penitentiaries and hangmen ant
death chairs are only for burglars
pickpockets and trespassers, who ar
plainly criminals and as plainly sane
louisville Cosgrier-JournaL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Women always get Just exactly
what they want That is. some few
of them do.
Few men are ever so busy with
work that they cannot find time to
go to a ball game.
\ X
The people who willingly admit
they make mistakes wouldn't make
an exceedingly large crowd.
X Il
It is a notable fact that the great
men who were born on farms did not
stay on them very long.
Two may be able to live cheaper
than one for the very good reason
that one never tries to see what he
can do in this particular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

from the New York Press.1
Logic kills the Joy of living for
woman
An encouraging thing about coll
1ege boy is maybe he will get over it,
A man would rather be bored to
death at the theater than enjoy him.
self at a lecture.
The only thing a good woman can
be selfish about is all the things she
wants everybody to do for her chill
dren.
A widow can be so successful with
man because she has learned by ex-
perience that what pleases him most
is to have her act as il what would
be vices in anybody else are virtues
In him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

Cows milk was invented primarily
for the use of calves and is really IN
fit for man. according to the conten-
lions of one of the health authorities
of Chicago. who is presumably an ex-
professor of the Chicago university be-
cause they are always discovering
strange things. Still, he'll have to ad-
NIT many healthy human youngster
has been raised on cows milk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

Small investors are said to have lost
more than $40. 900. 900 in the Chicago
wheat market during the past few
days. This is case where history re-
peats itself. 1t is the small investor
who always gets 1t in the solar plexus
when there is unusual speculations in
the grain or stock market. One
would think that they have had a
plenty of disastrous lessons in this
resDect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

Those wiseacres who have been pre-
dieting a shortage in the fruit crops
have been sadly fooled. at least as re-
CARDS this vicinity. 1t would ap-
pear that the fruit trees in these
parts, with the exception of those of
the peach variety, are blooming as
they have never bloomed before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

Oh, slushi Broughton Brandenberg.
author and novelist, who has Grim
inal charge hanging against him in
New York for selling the New York
Times an article which he claimed
was written by the late Grover Cleve-
land Just before his death and in
which Mr.. Bryan was criticised and
Mr.. Taft praised. declares that he is
the "Dreyfus of America He's been
degraded all right, if that is what he
means
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

Shame on the Grants gazelles, a
specie of African animals which are
noted for their massive horns. Not
one of them would stand hitched suffi
GENTLY long to permit Of its slaughter
by Mr.. Roosevelt during the first day
of his actual hunting. That's lese
1naieste. with a vengeance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

If Representative George c. Hilton
of the lower house of the Illinois leg
islature, has any political ambitions
it is a good thing for him that woman's
suffrage does not prevail in his state.
He has introduced a bin which seeks
to prohibit the wearing of mammoth
hats by the women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

Truly, is this an empty honor. Asa,
son of Whoa, has been officially cho-
sen as chief of the Apaches to succeed
the late Geronimo. His name, though,
is assuredly worthy of distinction and
inasmuch as he is the son of Whoa it
is reasonable to assume that his moth
er's name was Emma.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

Notwithstanding the fact that Mr..
Roosevelt is on his first visit to Africa
and has only been on the soil of the
Dark Continent for a few days, he
glibly announces that the Germans
have made astounding progress in the
development of East Africa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

From the galaxy of candidates in
the square dear' crowd who are be-
ing groomed for future congressional
and other important nominations. it is
evident that there are going to be
some exciting times in Republican cir
cles in this state during the next
couple of wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

the development of plan which will
make it punishable misdemeanor for
persons to indulge in any and all kinds
of injurious gossip. wouldn't that
create a most desirable condition in
the affairs of life?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-27

Reports have it that attorneys for
Mr.. Hartman are busy working on a
plan to merge all of the lines in the
great New York Central railroad sys-
tenn into $1,000, 100000 corporation
with central management and one
treasury. There never was anything
small about Mr. Harriman's activities
in the railroad world