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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-29
Good Ribbon "Stars"

Friday ~Only-513-inch taffeta and satin
taffeta ribbon; pink, blue, white, car
dinai, or black-for nj day only-at 12c.
Satin Taffeta Ribbon-1-inch blue,
pink, cardinal, green, yellow; ribbon n
Of wide use, on sale for one day &C
Right Aisle.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-29
75c Crushed Roses, SOC

Friday Only--8 In a bunch; every
wanted color and shade, including all b
new pastel shadings; variety too great
10 tell about here, beautiful crushed
roses. most fashionable millinery trim
ming; real 75c kind, for one day, at 39c,
Second Floor.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-29
Children's 75c Dresses ACC

white lawn; pretty Norfolk style, pleated
and front, finished with a belt; 2 to 5
years. what mother would try to make
them for the special n day price, 49c.
Second Floor.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-29
I5c Toweling at Izc

Friday Only - Old fashioned brown
toweling; 10 In, plain weave, blue border,
max cloth, Irish manufacture. all linen,
for dish towels-reguiar price l6c, one day
at lao. First Floor Rear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
QUAKER NIEDITATTONs.

CFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
The people who always tell the
truth have few friends.
One-half the world generally knows
how the other half gives.
Life is a game of give and take,
with more takers than givers.
Arbitration comes easy after We
have licked the other fellow.
Some people make the best time
when they are on the wrong track.
All that glitters isn't gold. but it
takes an expert to pick out the brass.
The man who never takes advice is
almost as sure to get in trouble as the
man who takes too much.
AS rule you will find that the peo-
world are in no hurry to try the next.
1t seems as though every woman
must have a pet. If she can't get a
man she must have a cat or dog.
One of the shams of polite society
is that when a woman doesn't want to
go where she is invited she sends her
regrets.
Poverty is no crime quoted the
the Simple Mug. cor most of US would
be in Jail"
Blobbs-"What does he do?" Slobbs
a suburbanite." Blobbs-"I
know, but what is his walk in life =
SIobbs-"To and from the station"
<'Society is so shallow remarked
the bIase young woman. Its a good
thing it is, - replied the cynic. cor half
the people who are wading around in
it would be drowned"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

CFrom the Chicago News.1
And deadbeat will continue to be
one until he dies. +5
Kind words never die-likewise also
the other kind.
Any man can afford to be a poet if
he doesn't need the money.
A woman's train Of thought is often
on the rear of her dress.
1t often happens that after putting
up a big bluff man falls over it.
Is a man only half man until he
takes unto himself a better half?
The more money man makes the
less his wife spends-if he's a bache-
lor.
It's as difficult for some people to
be good as it is for others to make
good.
Every cloud is said to have a silver
lining, but too often the lining is tar
nished.
A college education furnishes many
a Young man with an excuse for not
earning a living.
The opinions of other people would
be more interesting if they did not
conflict with our own.
A man can see more beauty in the
face of a homely heiress than wom-
an can with the aid of a powerful
microscope.
A girls idea of hero in a novel is
a chap who would be locked up as
SUSPICIOUS character if found loose on
the streets.
When a schoolboy begins to comb
his hair and scrub his teeth of his own
free will it's a sign that he has mat
ri1nonial designs on his teacher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
JOIN THE COMMERCIAL CLUB.

One thousand members by May L.
This is the aim of the membership
committee, headed by E. L. Copeland,
Of the rejuvenated Commercial club of
this city, which is just now busily en-
gagged in making ready. as attractive a
set of room and offices as any organiza-
ton of the sort would care to possess.
This is a purpose which there ought
not to be much trouble in bringing
about. Its accomplishment should be
easy for the simple reason that it is a
most reasonable one. Here is city OF
more than $4,000 persons. Even its enc
mics, if it has any, which is very much
to be doubted, would be forced to ad-
NIT that it is growing in all ways. It's
friends, and they are legion, realize that
it is going to continue to grow and grow
fast IN every way that is good and
wholesome. Within the city there must
be five times more than a thousand
men, who are available for membership
in commercial organization which
has for it's slogan, better and great
er city. A man does not need to own
or be the head of a business to quail
fly for membership in such a club.
Every able-bodied man in the city,
who looks upon Topeka as his home,
and who has an interest in its welfare,
is a qualified candidate for member
ship. The mechanic is just as well
qualified as the bank president. The
professional man, the doctor and the
lawyer, is just as much needed as the
big merchant. In fact, if the CONNER
cial Club is to prosper as it should and
thereby become of unreasonable ben
eft to the city and it's development,
it must be truly representative of all
of the interests of the city, from the
laborer to the capitalist. There must
be a membership of heterogeneous. of
cosmopolitan character which will
weld itself together in homogeneous
whole. Unless every activity and in
terest in the city is represented in the
membership and by goodly numbers,
every activity and interest cannot be
benefited as it should in the develop
ment of the city that will result from
a prosperous and rightly directed COM
mercial club, such as Topeka is about
to have.
Membership dues are anything but
expensive and the money paid in
through them will be returned in
many ways through the accomplish
ments of the club. If it is not, the
revivified commercial club will have
proven itself failure like the organ
izations of the same name which have
gone on before it. There is no chance
for it to fail, though, if the men of
the city take the interest in it that
they should by joining it and working
with it in every undertaking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
REVENUE NOT ALONE NEEDED.

Among the leaders in congress who
will play the important part in the re-
vision of the tariff that is in the pro-
cess of being undertaken, the question
which is pressing to the forefront is
that of providing a tariff schedule
which will be likely to raise sufficient
revenue to meet the expenses of the
government. This wouldn't be much
of task if the revision was in the
hands of those who believe in a tariff
mainly for revenue. Such tariff is one
of generally low schedules which in
vites the importation of goods in great
quantities for competition with the
goods made at home. The great vol
ume of the imports creates the big
revenues. But those who are to revise
the tariff are not of that disposition,
They want to keep the tariff schedules
sufficiently high to make them pro-
tective to a great degree. This is an
all right theory for few of the infant
industries of the country but not for the
many great ones which have long
since outgrown their swaddIing
clothes. Therefore, to raise enough
revenue and at the same time keep
the tariff protective will undoubtedly
mean the necessity of levying duties on
necessary Iuxuries, which are now on
the free list, such as coffee or some
thing in that sort of a class.
But while an increased revenue is
most desirable just at this time when
the income of the government is run
ming fast behind its expenses, it is not
the only financial matter of import
which should concern the congressman
who have to deal with it. They
should get busy when the time comes
next winter for the making of govern
mental appropriations and use a prun-
ing knife of large proportions so as to
keep the expenses down to reasonable
figures. Then there will not be such
need for so much revenue although
this would not obviate the desirability
of a generally low tariff schedule, such
as Mr.. Taft has said that he desires
but which it is too much to expect
that the present congress will provide
to any great extent, although it is rea-
sonab1y certain that there will be re-
auctions in many of the schedules.
Government expenses during the
past half dozen years have grown to
stupendous sums. The country has de-
veloped greatly and accordingly the
governmental activities have multi
piled and grown more extensive in all
ways. But there seems to be a well
founded opinion at Washington that
many of the federal departments are
conducted in an extravagant fashion.
This is the idea that many of the peo-
pie of the nation have undoubtedly ar
rived at from a mere scanning Of the
size of most of the governmental
appropriations. They are of stag
gering prOpOrtiOnS OF course these
expenses will have to be met so the
question of raising the revenue for
them is pressing one. But an even
more pressing one confronts the con-
gressmen, that of wiping out extrava-
gance in governmental administration
wherever it may be found and keeping
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

This is evidenced by the approval
which is being accorded to the public
utilities legislation, similar to that pro-
posed in Kansas. by the members OF
the Missouri legislature 1t has been
demonstrated in New York and Wis
consin that statutes of this sort pro-
vide the most desirable methods for a
state to supervise and regulate its pub
lie service corporations. And it's too
bad that Kansas legislators did not see
these things in the same light that
their Missouri brethren are seeing
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

[From the Atchison Globe.1
Every ten years, an old joke is new
again.
Some people never have anything
except ideals.
Spring never comes as soon as peo-
pie expect it to.
A man can keep a secret all right, if
it is mean story on himself.
Patience becomes a habit quicker
with woman than with g. man.
Even those who said they liked win
ter, are beginning to be bored
You can't scare boy away from the
table with the thirteen proposition.
Living at the White House is not all
joy: the Taft kin are beginning to ar
rive.
A good many people believe that to
know a lot of contemplate gossip, is
to be wise.
1t is high time whisky was in trou-
BILE, for many years it has been MAX
ing trouble for other people.
A woman will keep out her best
knives and forks longer for her own
visiting kin than for her husbands
visiting kin.
In the fullest Interpretation of the
term, society woman is a woman
with nothing to do, and who wouldn't
do it if she had.
About all the future some people
have left is longing for spring when
it is winter, and longing for summer
when it is spring.
A woman always gets cross when she
has to get up to let her husband in,
but she doesn't mind it at all to get up
and let the cat out
Young people are always claiming
broken heart, but old people never
claim it: They have found out that
they can get over so much.
Il had my picture in a paper once"
gushed a young Atchison girl at
party the other night. "Ah.' said a
tired man, land of what were you
cured?''
When a woman has a COW, and the
neighbors call to buy a little extra
milk, the owner of the COW feels as
important as though invited to read a
paper on ancient literature before
'women's club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
African secret Society,".

The Sese islanders have attained
peculiar notoriety in Uganda because
of a secret society called Bachichi,
which is not burial society, although
it's members take a deep and in
telligent interest in all deaths and
burials in their midst. In the more
retired villages, although greatly dis
couraged by the British authorities, it
is said to be still the custom for the
sorrowing relatives to bear the body
of the deceased wrapped in bark, on
a rough bier, to some forest thicket,
desoIate ravine or other unfrequented
spot, where it is left unburied by the
bearers, who never revisit the place
again. The Bachichi, who are
denizens of a neighboring village and
distant relatives of the deceased. avoid
the necessity of burial or cremation,
and show their respect for the de-
ceased by simply eating him.-Na-
tional Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
HUMOR or THE Day

Mrs Kicker-Does your husband know
! that you manage him? Mrs Bocker--No,
/ cali myself a commission.-New York
Sun.
He-won't you miss me when I'm far
as Very close.-Cornell Widow.
Hub during a auarreD.,You put talk like Ike
can understand me.-Boston Transcript.
she-what did papa say when you asked 6l
aoI r-o 1rg ssIe Couldn't? mo; your moth
er was therei''-Yonkers Statesman.
+1nicker-Jones says he is pursuing art.
Bocker-Great Scotti 1 should think art
would pursue him instead.-New York
Sun.
.'TaIk about nerve" "what'd he dor"
worked Of plpggedd 6 SlIne on he eo got
slick nickel in change. kansas City
Times.
1.-The automobile is great institution"
For instance2' You can sit up In 1t as
you pass a friend, and crawl under 1T
Vile Courier-Journal
manufacturers stand pat, the consumers
want five cards and the legislators have
cold feet."-Puck
Old Gotrox-Ny daughter, sir, is not e
quite the gf ags aHE true aoG ar
but every year will make 1t worse, yo6
know.-Chicago News.
what nice little children! Did youp
mamma promise to give you something
II YOU were good?'' Nom. if we were
bad. Houston Post.
Household Convenience:-"adave you a
fireless cooker at your house? Um-m-:
m well, something like that; we're all
afraid to discharge her."-Puck.
"Father." inquired the lad, sharply.
what is pin money!" My boy" an
svered the parent, pointedly, slipping his
hand into his pocket, pin money is what
YOU stick people for.'-The Purple Cow.
There You Are.-'I believe this higher
eddication neglects spelling /" ''Wel1. If an
eddicated man can't spell a word, he
knows plenty more words that mean the
same thing.''-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Happy.-."That young couple seem to be
enioyfrg themselves Immensely. Are they
married?'' yes, but not to each other.''-
Filegende Blaetter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
FROM OTHER PENS
COMMUNAL COOKING.

The problem of mere existence is a
crushing one to a large portion of the
people. That there is enormous waste
in failure to know, for instance, what
foods are most economical, as well as
palatable and how best to prepare
them goes without saying. A study of
state institutional reports, especially
those sections devoted to a showing of
the per capita cost of maintaining in
mates and the items entering into this,
is amazingly instructive.
Even with the loose methods and
costly inefficiency of public service eV-
erywhere, at every point the superiority
of communal over individual house
keeping is conclusively demonstrate
ed. In the more congeSted residence
districts, where usually both parents
work and where the children them
selves never have the chance to learn
housekeeping and cooking and serving,
it would seem the highest sort of char
ity to establish cook shops where the
good points of institutional service
could be enjoyed and demonstrated
at nominal profit, and hence much
cheaper than anything now available
to those to be served.-Pittsburg Post.
ENFORCEMENT OF TREATIES.
There can be no dispute that when
the government of the United States
has entered into treaty obligations
with a foreign nation, it should see
that those obligations are fulfilled. 1t
does exercise CIVIL JuFlSuICllOH ~ pr
tect the property of foreigners. The
difficulty in asserting any kind of
criminal jurisdiction relates to the es-
sential necessity of respecting the po-
lice power of the States. If this be
a real difficulty then the question
arises how, far 1.-The authority of the
United States extends in the execu-
ton of the treaties which shall be
"the supreme law of the land"
This was the puzzling question in
California. 1t being admitted that the
United States could not by law inn
pose any special conditions upon the
school regulations of the state, could
such conditions be imposed by treaty?
Or must the treaty be interpreted as
conveying no more than was within
the power of the authority that made
it? Otherwise, where are the limits of
this power? All this may not be hard
to answer as a matter of abstract right
but when it comes to putting the an
swer into a formal statute it is not
surprising that so many years of dis
cussion have passed without any at
tempt at actual Observation-Disclosures
phia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
Rats, Gas, and Books.

The rats which have been giving
such trouble at the Leeds public
library are only bearing out their
ancient reputation as enemies of
books. Our Manchester library, for
tunately. has never been greatly
troubled by rats, although there have
been milder incursions of mice. Rats
love scraps of old leather binding and
soft old paper to line their. nests
with. In glass case in the chapter
mouse at Westminster you may see
some antique rat bones and yellow
bits of paper. This is their history:
Two centuries ago a family of rats
made their nests in a hole in the wall
or the dean and chapters library, lin
ing it with plumber from the books
The rats were walled up alive, and
their remains We're only discovered a
few years ago.
In Manchester gas has proved far
worse enemy of books than rats.
Thousands of leather bindings on the
higher shelves at King street have
been ruined-crumbled to the con-
sistency of snuff by the sulphur in the
gas-laden air. Gas attacks russia
bindings first; calf and morocco suf-
fer not quite so badly. In the King
street library Gas in all modern Ii
braries) gas is now superseded by
electric light. The bookworm is writ
ten of more than seen. Unlike the rat,
it does not touch parchment; hence
the immunity of the prepaper books.
Even the common housefly does a
good deal of harm.-Mancheste
Guardian
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

When a pleasure becomes a habit it
will soon develop into a vice.
x X n
Men who always say the right thing
at the right time are mighty scarce.
4 y
Many persons ought to be grateful
that their photographs are not good
1ikenesSes.
Girls are the most up-to-date crea-
lures in the world except when it
comes to telling their ages.
y y
Among plants and buds and other
things the spring showers are likely
to bring forth variety of umbrellas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
EVENING.

There is only star in the sky:
On the wandering waters the breeze
Ines away In the ghost of sigh.
Over meadow and marsh comes tbe cheen
VI the frog-and a dream in the trees
are the wren and the robin asleep.
NOW rises the moon like frail
F1oatlng bubble just over the hill.
AT the fair keening call of the quail.
All the dark brooding forest is still,
save the aspen so shyly astir.
UT The hidden and hesitant rfll
Then the moon slowly wanes. and the
gray
Forest deepens as softly as night
And the rivulet dreams on its way
-dampton's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

Ingenious to say the least is the
explanation of one of Senator Steph-
enson's lieUtenants of the reason why
he had to spend some big sums of
money to help re-nominate and re-
elect his chief to the United States
senate from Wisconsin. He declared
that when opponents to Uncle Ike
got too warm under the collar in voic-
ing their opposition he had to buy
them drinks to cool them off. No Won
der Stephenson finally won out, if this
fellow is sample of the geniuses he
had working for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

Probably the Standard Oil company
IS uuaking in its shoes. Vexed at the
recent disposition of the case against
it in which the great $2s,OOO,OOO fine
was levied. Congressman Reeder of
this state has taken up the cudgels
and is hot on the trail of the oil
octopus and its officers. Nothing less
than the Imprisonment of John D.
Rockefeller for something or other is
going to satisfy him. In bringing this
about, it is safe to say that Mr.
Reeder will be kept tolerably busy
from now on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

From the well known temperament
of Mr.. Taft, it is reasonable to assert
that it will be a pretty difficult mat
ter from now on for any one to OBJ
tain membership in the Ananias club;
that is, if the nominating to this
notable organization is to be an ex-
elusive function of the president of
the United States according to pre-
Cedent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

An aeroplane was tremendously
christened in New York the other day
by the breaking of a bottle of wine
over her PROV. Maybe this was what
was lacking to speed the famous Kan
sas flying machine on a successful
way. Little things like this must not
be overlooked in the future. Perhaps
wine will not be available in a prohi-
bition state but a few drops of water
from the John Brown spring or the
classic Kaw ought to do the trick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

from the New York Press.I
Nobody but a fool thinks he can
teach good sense.
The reason a woman can feel char
table to a man is she knows how lit
tie he deserves it.
No matter how bad temper a man
has his wife wants to make it much
worse by telling him SO.
The man who knows enough to
make a fortune knows enough not to
take anybody's advice on how to dou-
BILE it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

Here's a tip to the San lose scale.
Get busy and seek more hospitabfe
cline than that of Kansas. The state
chronological commission is preparing
for an active campaign and it has the
money to make its actions speak loud
er than words
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

Missouri has walked off with ma
tional legislative honor that possibly
will never come to Kansas, at least as
long as the voters of the state continue
TO line UP as they do. Congressman
Champ Clark has been named as the
leader of the Democrats in the house
Of REPRESENTATIVES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

A serious case of lese majestic
against the Stubs family has been
committed at Lawrence. A man nam
ed Holman was hailed there recently
as the champion "salt raising" bread
maker of the state. There being no
adequate punishment extant to fit this
crime, one will have to be invented
What shall it be? Possibly the best
would be to make this chap and his
friends eat some of the bread of his
own baking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

THE same old story is being re-
hashed in the same old way in Turkey.
The new constitutional government re-
Gently instituted by the sultan is in
danger of destruction because the peo-
pie of that long benighted land cannot
appreciate the liberty that has been
so rather suddenly thrust upon them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

the expenses of the government down
to bedrock. And this does not mean
the pursuit of a false and Injurious
economy such as was practiced by the
members of the Kansas legislature at
their most recent fiasco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-16

This is the straw that ought to
break the camePs back. Just think
Of it! Some Boston aldermen have
been indicted for defrauding their
city, the reputed seat in this nation of
all that is fine and high in morals and
other things