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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.

IErOm the Atch1SOn GlODe.I
Every owner of an orchard or a
melon patch hates boys.
What a. lecturer needs Is a good
agent, not a good lecture.
Employers don't pay enough; en-
ployes don't work enough.
Nothing makes a doctor quite so mad
as to call him mister
People generally charge man with
being bigger fool than he really is.
How many times a day do you com
mend? How many times during a
day do you find fault?
A minister has harder work getting
his salary than anyone else; but he
has easier work earning 1t.
Those on the inside of the house
forget all about the one holding the
horse for them on the outside.
What will it profit man to behave
in all other particulars, and then be
feared because he talks too much?
trouble, they wonder that they ever
cried because rain fell on a picnic.
The hands man meets in the course
| of days journey, are held out in two
ways: either begging, or doubled into
| fist.
The men always enjoy hearing OF
some woman who was told she must
undergo q surgical operation or die
land who got well without 1t.
| It pleases a woman reader to have
| 1t said of the heroine. that her sur
roundings are not in keeping with heI
air of refinement and culture"
/ If you eat too much. you haven't q
great deal of room to preach, temper
ance. The crowded stomach is as de-
structive as the booze-addled brain.
One of the surprising things of life
! is the number of opportunities accord
led a man every day of going into his
pocket IN order that he may give some
thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05
held and made

one used to being held and made
much Of
Sub. the woolly dog. followed. and
many emotions chased themselves
through. the head of Mrs Simms. To
her credit not once did she think of
the possible wfinkling and spoising of
her gown. When before in her life
had her arms been full of woolly dog
and little boy? It was a new sensa-
tion.
None OF her friends seemed as in
timately acquainted with their own
children as Carrie was with hers
Never before at luncheon had Mrs.
Simms so much as seen a child, let
alone touched one. Yet somehow
Anthony did not seem out Of place
here, nor in the way. He seemed
part CT the household and to take his
place naturally.
1t was very simple luncheon,
though a dainty one. and It tasted
was rather silent. She was trying to
| reconcile the cheerful face of Carrie
Peabody with the account Carrie was
giving of her life.
'It has been hard on Tom she
| was saying. 1.-THE company he was
with when we married failed and that
ended putting his invention through,
| And when he did get another place
typhoid took him, you know, and II
was months Well, we got through
| somehow. I had a few hundreds OF
| my own saved for some emergency
| and I concluded the emergency had
arrived. And things have kept com
| ing up-Tom's brothers trouble. and
then this small boy of ours, and with
| it all we've been, as I wrote you, Bet
| ty, poor, very poor"
But" said the woman, listening
struggling to adjust the facts before
her-"but you seem so happy, Car
RE" There was hint of envy in her
| tone.
"why shouldn't I be?" asked the
woman in the blue wash gown, An
| thony on her knee. "Some time il
will be better when Tom gets a firm
| hold on things. And I have him and
| Anthony, and we all care truly about
| each other, and because we. aren''
rich enough to go outside to find dis
| traction and amusement we've learn
| ed to depend on each other, and were
contented doing it, Betty. We are yer,
! happy in this little cheap flat. Why
| I suppose we're Just as happy as vol
| and Lewis with all your money ant
| what it brings into your lives"
Across the face of the listening wo
man there was a faraway expression
that was tinged with a little bitter
ness It was as if she were lookini
into her past and seeing many things
Carrie she spoke suddenly, en-
| vious1y, "Id give all it has brough
me and ever bids fair to bring me
for one minute of the perfect com
! partnership poverty has brought yo'
and Tom And for >Anthony-yes, an,
for the woolly dog that loves you ALL
ssI'm sorry about the STAIRS Car
RE told her guest as she watched he
depart a little later to the putting au
tomobile below.
"Oh," said Betty, ST never though
of them. I'm thinking about some
thing else Stairs really don't matte
much, after all.
And the curve of the descent swal
lowed up the bird of paradise as Mrs
Lewis Adelbert Simms went back wit
a strange reluctance to the world
| elevators and unlimited credit
Copyright, 1909, by Asso ciated Liter
ary PreSS)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

In married life the parlance of the
sea prevails. A man is a mate for
his wife but she's the captain.
r X
When a girl says she dearly loves
house work the chances are that
her folks have few servants
around.
Occupying a prominent place
among the enthusiastic pedestrians
are those folks who cannot afford
horses and carriages or autos.
X n n
When a girl shows a prediction
for sitting in darkened parlor with
her steady. that's not necessarily a
sign that the light hurts her eyes.
X 4 4
The man who passes consid cradle
time each day cranking up an auto
mobile would probably kick IL he
was asked to devote the same atten-
ton to turning a grindstone. \
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

Among the many seats of learning
which will shortly be celebrating CEN
tenaries is the University OF Leipsic.
This foundation will celebrate it's 500th
anniversary toward the end of July next,
and it's 1,0OOth session. The programme
will include a service in the university
church. the Pauline Pauliner Kirche, a
meeting in the new theater with an ad-
dress by Prince Frederick August or
Saxony. fete champeter at the
PaImenearten, a historic procession,
gala performances in all the theaters,
and a scommers' in a specially con-
structed hall at which 10000 will be
present The arrangements are in the
hands of the rector and professors, as
sisted by the various students socie-
ties.-London Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05
FREE HIDES, CHEAPER SHOES.

Senator Curtis has recently stated
that he would favor free hides If he
thought they would reduce thes price
of shoes, but he took the position that
a duty on hides is desirable to protect
the interests of the farmer and the
cattle raiser; the duty on hides. he
declared, would not add more than
three or four cents to pair OF shoes,
which small amount would not be
taken off the price of the shoes and
would not affect the price.
Miss Ida M. Tarbell, a publicist of
recognized authority, presented facts
and figures recently to show that free
hides would save the American peo-
pie $30,000,000 or more annually on
their shoe bill. This is no inconsid-
cradle saving even If it is in the ag-
gregate.
It could be made much larger and
more material, If the duty be removed
entirely from manufactured leather
goods. A step in that direction was
made in the Payne bill by material
reduction in the tariff schedules on
these articles. The State Journal has
been favoring the removal of all du-
ties on leather manufactures as we'll
the removal of the duty on hides not
in the price of shoes thereby but for
other reasons, as will develop.
Senator Curtis says that out of the
thirteen million cattle hides and the
two million fallen hides. the large
packers "only handle five million
| hides"
The statistics which have been pre-
scented in various quarters while the
tariff discussion has been going on
are at variance with this statement.
They are to the effect that the big
packers handle at least rs per cent OF
the hides of the country, and further
than that, they control absolutely Al
of the Sc important tanneries in the
nation. If they only handled one-f1fth
| of the hides of the land they certainly
would not be able to operate such a
large percentage of the tanneries.
Not only are free hides desirable
because of the fact that they will helI
to reduce the price of shoes, but they
are also desirable to prevent the
packers from gaining absolute control
| of the tanning industry of the coun.
try, which they will soon do if hides
are protected and they keep up theil
present gait of getting control of tan.
nerfes.
If they are permitted to do this thu
result will be inevitable. They will
control absolutely the leather marke
and charge what they please for theil
leather products This will NEAR
higher prices for shoes instead of low
er ones, for the experiences of tn,
| people with the packers in regard t.
their handling of the meat supply o
the country does not warrant the as
sumption that they are philanthropy
cally inclined to the extent of making
leather cheaper as soon as they ge
absolute control of 1t.
Senator Curtis says he would vote 70
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

had made written confession that he
was guilty of the crime. But there was
some justice in this verdict even if it
was of the retributive sort. The con-
fession had been browbeaten out of
this prisoner through the workings of
the infamous third degree by the po-
lice. It's high time that this relic of
the days of witchcraft is banished
from civilized communities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.

from the New York Press.J
The reason man might as well make
love to a girl is she thinks he is doing
1t anyhow.
A man couldn't be good humored at
breakfast if he could make a lot of
money that way. ,
One of the things that frets man
most is how hard it is for him to edu-
cate his wife in things he doesn't I'M
derstand himself.
The thing that appeals to a woman
about neighborhood scandal Is how she
can believe it's true when she knows it
| isn't.
The first thing a man who gets some
money tries to do is to show how
smart he is at something in which he
| will lose It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

Only forty-seven inebriates are con-
fined in the poor houses in Kansas.
Possibly some bright man will come
to the front with an argument that this
is because Of the great wheat and corn
crops of the state and not because it is
blessed with a prohibition law which
Is pretty generally and successfully
nnfnrnna
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

Wroten ad Looie Linkenfusser.
Much oblige to met you. IIooie.
Iooay, in my semi-frequendt Iedder
70 you, v1ch you needndt mind abofIdt
anser1ng, 1 vandt to dialogue NIT Won
DER supchect: Wy ISIS a Graduate?
Ond We VIII dake der supchect by
prosecutions und addempt to anser id.
Nit dis ledder uf INSTRUCTIONS vii +
unclose all-so der folfering diaphran1.
Wen represents a opchect lesson.
TO vit: Der sveed Gail Grad. md
und her faforide domestic anfro,,I
der Mems grad, sometimes known es
Ger VillIe-villie. Each uf dem in
dis map ISIS armed nit a instrumental
vot ISIS known as der diplomacy. Id
consists uf a larche piece of papers.
NIT some fancy doo-dabs .und I'M
readable signature on i'd, und Id iss
license fer der bearers to feel like
dey amoundted to someling fer a
liddle vile. Fer us, id iss easy to nee
vot der Gail graduate ISIS goot for.
she should be knocked on der head
nit her diploniy, und vile in a daz-
zled condition, dragged pefore a
preacher und added to some goot
mans collection uf household fur
nishings. Vile her diplomy ISIS uf no
use es a Weapon to harprune a meal
tigget she dondt need i'd Nature
armed. her init besser Weapons.
But, Looie, cast your optic nerf ad
der oder opchect in der pictoor. Id
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate of ten
cents week or thirty cents a month
(by mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State Journal will be to you like
a 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, 1909-06-05

A Chicago physician has solved a
a great problem If, as he says, he can
keep his patients alive and give them
health and strength by feeding them
on sunlight and wind. But then they'll
be up against it on cloudy days when
the wind is not blowing, and of which
there are not a few
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

A review of the work that has been
done during the past year by the City
Federation of Women's clubs, as it was
detailed at the recent annual meeting
of this organization, will show that
these Topeka women are engaged in
q multitude of affairs that cannot help
Tut be of benefit to the city in many
ways and make it q better place to
live in. Congratulations and words of
encouragement are due them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

A merry heart doeth good like medicine /:
but broken spirit drieth the bones. Pro-
verbs xvii:22.
Not an exceedingly fine discernment
is needed by any one these days to
realize that there is an overabundance
of grouchiness among many persons.
They seem to be as foreign to joviality
as is snow to equatorial regions. They
go about their work, and their pleasure
if they take any. with a sullenness
that makes them anything but enviable
companions. In fact, a good many of
them do not know what real pleasure
is. 1t is actually a difficult task for
them to try to enjoy themselves at
anything. They are bored. by every
thing, or they make out that they
are, and that is quite as bad as the
real thing, both for themselves and
their friends.
Some of this unfortunate class I'M
doubtedly assume such moods for the
effect that they think they will have
upon others. They are pessimistic for
a purpose. They look upon vivacious-
ness as utter frivolity. They think
sombre ways will attract attention to
them. They believe that these char
acteristics will set them apart from
others and above them: that they are
indicative of superior intelligence and
a superiority in all things. Poor, de-
luded creatures. Attention is assuredly
attracted to them, but 1t is not of a
kind that they would desire If they
knew the truth of it. 1t does not
border on respect and admiration as
they deceive themselves into thinking.
1t resolves itself into pure. unadulter-
ated pity, that they should be so af-
f1icted.
On the other hand, the individuals
who are merry of heart, and may their
shadows never grow less, who are ever
looking on the bright side of things,
who are filed with a cheerfulness OF
spirit on every and all occasions and
even under the most trying of circum-
stances,-they are the ones who enjoy
all there is in life to the full They
are welcome everywhere. They have
favors of all sorts extended to them
without the asking. Their appearance
at any old place and at any old time
is like a ray of sunshine piercing the
clouds that have scattered darkness
and gloom over the earth for a time be-
ing. Not only is their joyfulness good
medicine as Solomon says in the words
of the text, but it is good for every
one with whom they come in contact
It's panacea for most of the ills that
human flesh is heir to. Its acquire
ment should be sought after by every
man and woman. In reality, 1t may
well be called the Fountain of Per-
petual Youth, that mythical spring
which the romantic explorers Of GEN.
turtles gone by used to risk their lives
and fortunes to find. The way to it is
not blocked by insurmountable bar
riers of any sort. It is easily accessible
to all, and every one should hasten to
ouafP ~ tie @ters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

Jewellers of Oregon have gone on
record as opposed to the slaughtering
OF the harmless little horned toads
which are now being made into hat
pins and worn by women who consider
themselves to be fashionable: But
what is the necessity of protecting
these little reptiles? They are just as
valueIess as they are harmless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

What has become of the talk that
was being banded about a few months
ago to the effect that a war between
the United States and Japan was i'm
minent? And what has become of that
war? And where is Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

Just imagine, please, the disadvant-
ages of Butte City, Montana, as a social
center for women. There isn't first
class dressmaker in the town. But
probably the men of Butte City who
foot the bills are delighted over this
fact
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

After a lot of Tuning and fretting
and fussing, 1t has been decided prac-
tically to select the northeast corner of
Tenth avenue and Jackson street as
q site for the new State Memorial
building. From the very start of the
negotiations this has been about the
ony site around capitol quare which
was available for the purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

Senator La Toilette declares that the
Aldrich cotton rates in the proposed
tariff legislation mean an increase in
such tariff schedules as high as SO per
cent. And the people of the country
will be apt to take Mr.. La Follette's
word for it as against such defenses of
these schedules as their friends may
make for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

The brewers, in convention at Allan
tic City, are of the opinion that the
best way to solve the liquor problem is
70 provide for an efficient regulation of
the saloons. The people, the country
over, have just about decided that the
ideal way to regulate the saloon bust
ness is to abolish it. And the people.
and not the brewers rule in this land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

There may be a scientific justifica-
ton for cannibalism as is suggested
by a prominent London physician
and scientist but there is surely no
need for the exploitation of such a
grewsome and repuIsive theory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

There's a saying around court rooms
that you never can tell what a jury
will do Its force was exemplif1ed re-
Gently by the verdict Of a Chicago jury
which found a man not guilty of bur-
xlary in the face OF the fact that he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

What brave lot are certain of the
members of the United States senate
They waited until Senator La Toilette
was absent from the chamber to give
him a "skinning."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

Score a good one for the college
students. prominent Kansas farmer
declares that they make the most de-
sirable sort of harvest hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

There will certainly be a union of
extremes when daughter of Lawson
OF Boston marries a Chicago man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05
FROM OTHER PENS
CLOTHES.

Mere man has been consistently
and earnestly poking fun at woman
because of the vagaries which fash
ion has imposed upon her. Latterly,
this has been more marked, perhaps,
than in the olden days when the
funny fellows who write paragraphs,
figuratively, wore out the hoop
skirts and the big balloon sleeves. OF
late much merry laughter has been
expended over the woman of the pa
tel1a shape and the peach basket
headgear. It is thoroughly con-
vulsing. Woman Is such a queer
sight, logged out to represent an
animated mushroom. But what of a
man and his attire? Is the laugh to
be on one corner o fthe mouth? Does
not the shoe on the other foot pich
little. Those strange shoes of the
emerald hue. And what of all the
other green things he dons that give
him the appearance of a string bean
at a little distance, If he chances to
be of a. lean and hungry build?
Consider for a moment the
swell dresser" who swings up the
avenue. his sack coat extending to
the region of the patella. two or
three buttons the fraction of an inch
apart, holding it together. the trous-
ers, turned half way to, the knee, as
though reaching upward to meet the
coat, and themselves bellying like a
pair of balloons. Consider the
diagonal cut of the pockets and the
curious bands and braids about his
cuffs-Is he not slightly figure p
| Pittsburg Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

chend1eman dftndt hat hiss knocker
NIT him. und uf Obrine knew him eS
veil es der house insurgents. he
wouldn't hat risked i'd. efen NIT pad
ded mittens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

ISIS der real proplem. We're does id
gedt ouf ad? If hat learned many
useful tings along nit ids education
ing. 1t can yell "E-wa wa, EVA
wa, Eva, EVA, E-wa-wa" nit sefen
variations, vich might be yoosful in
calling der pigs ven he gedts beck to
der farm. His dipIomy framed in a
sigsty-cendt> frame purchased from
der feirsdt passing achendt fer sigs-
fluffy, will make eggselendt skating
rink fer der family flies und id may
be dot der egsercise he got carrying
noosbapers on a bisiggle will be- uf
assistance to him in sticking to a
riding cultifator.
Now, Looie, der abofe vot I hat
wroten ISIS poor addempt to be
humoresque. Der feet, Looie, iss dot
i'd ISIS nit me a case uf sour grape
MUSES. I neffer had a diplomy fer
school haus in der pine woods we're I
vas severely und painfully edu-
cationed, ditndt hat any diplomys to
spare. I ge-doubt uf der teacher,
vot beaten der alfybetz into my sys-
dem fer dwenty bones a month, efen
any occasion to write "umpty- nine"
on sidewalk err wear a Willie hat nit
a tree-color band.
Dis colleche bitzness, Looie, ISIS
young, und i'd gifts you condolences.
A college grad goes oudt und kicks
der vorldt on der face, und ven id
kicks beck he links i'd vas a
agsidence. Fer us vich hat nod der
collech experience. We neffer raise
der nerf to kick der vorldt efen
vonce. Ply der time der collech kid
iss oldt enuff to dake der feirsd
kick, der oder Teller iss kicked to
pulp.
Hoping dis will find you der same,
Looie, 1 remaineseffer. HANS.
Id ISIS claimed py some dot der
Arkansaw MATHS ISIS nod erichinal in
DER ideas, but vot could be more
orichinal den der habby thought
vich vas recendly egsecuted down
dere? I reference to der mob vich
| lynched a niggero py proxy.
Ven Jingle Chloe Canning crossed
mitts NIT Obrfne. der pug, Id vas
goot bitzness fer Obrine dot der oldt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05

Der story from Liddle Riffer sayss
Mrs Brewers name has peen linked
NIT Mr. Orn's seferal times. BerA
hans DOT is wy she unlinked i'd by der
Sr1ittenvesson sysdem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05
SPANISH SUFFRAGE.

That the Spanish government
should be more solicitous than 9TH
ers in regard to the citizens exercise
of the suffrage may seem anomalous
nevertheless, the anomaly is mat
ter of fact, a compulsory voting law.
applying to municipal elections hav-
ing just been put in force throughout
the kingdom. Under this act all male
adults of legal age are required to
vote unless physically unable. Fail
ure to comply with the law entails
public censure, increase of taxes, and
in the case of an officeholder a de-
duction from his salary, and, should
the offense be repeated. forfeiture of
office. It is the evident purpose of
this measure to raise the standard of
citizenship and thus strengthen the
basis of government and. while the
means used are drastic, there can be
no question of the need of some such
radical reform. Spain has suffered
sorely from Indifferent government
and from the responsibility of the
electorate and it is a matter of self
preservation that she should esta blish
order in her political affairs before it
is everlastingIy too late.-Pittsburg
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