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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
AYHAWKER JoTy

The Ottawa Herald, which is quite
as clever at figuring as it is at other
things, has it computed to a nicely that
the failed First National bank of ForL
Scott Will yield eleven hundred per cent
in law suits.
Unusual and startling news from
Beloit: A newspaper man in that
vicinity has prospered to such an ex-
tent that he owns several large farms.
Explanations: He has been in the
real estate and sheep raising business
on the side.
There are a lot of truths in the world
that are not pleasant to contemplate.
The Jewell Republican springs one OF
them to the effect that when a man
dies the world wags right on without
him. and in two days forgets that he
ever existed.
Help me lose my brother" reads
letter received at the Atchison
Globe office. 1.-The Kansas City Star
kin; expect the Globe to do a nobler
work in helping people lose their
kin. have brother have been
trying to lose for twenty years. Please
come to my relief
At Neodesha the residents are now
enjoying clear water (sometimes)
since the installation of q filtration
plant. One woman in telling of a
bath she enjoyed since the water was
no longer cloudy and muddy COM
and do you know when got into
the clear water I felt embarrassed"
Independence Reporter.
Arthur Riddle is indu1ging in
sentiment expressed in rhymes" says
the Wichita Beacon. However, the
same issue of the Minneapolis Mes
senger has half a. dozen columns of
legal printing which justifies the
youthful editors verses. Many an
editor, without legal printing, has
reverses" And that'n be about all
from the Beacon under a threat of
being compelled to eat dried egg
sandwich for a repetition of the
offense.
A Dooley Riddle poem: 1.-THE
hammock held a loving pair. They
held each other, too, for fair. His
arm was round her slender waist, her
arm about his shoulders placed.
Anon he whispered in her ear the
things a girl delights to hear. And
in return she chung to John and
whispered softly too, anon. Elk
tinguished now was every light, but
still they held each other tight. The
campers all had gone to bed. Tt
must be getting late they. said. But
still they sat and rnurmured low, and
didn't even start to go. Was this
a tender parting. pray, before
Journey far away? Or could it be
long delayed reunion of the man and
maid? Not so; they had not been
away-they see each other every day.
But they had had a little fuss. and
did their reconciling thus"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Modern trousseaus for brides ought
to include a going-home-to- mother
gown.
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A man is likely to find himself up
against a difficult proposition when he
tries to fool a widow.
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Many a woman is a veritable Alice
in Wonderland. She has no trouble in
believing things that are impossible.
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The woman can scarcely be blamed
for insisting that men are responsible
for many Of the present designs in fem
inine headgear.
After all, very much cannot be ac-
eomplished in this world without money
That's probably why the future life
where none is needed. looks bright
to some people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
MIR. McKEEvER,s sLANDER.

The affidavit made by E. D. Nc
Keever in the kidnapping case is one for
which there is no good excuse. Mr..
Mckeever must have known that tbs
sentiment of the people of Topeka was
not what he represented it to be. He
has lived here most of his life and he
should know by this time that this is
a law abiding community and that the
people are not the kind who give way
to impulse and blind prejudice. The
kidnapers of Marian Bleakley are just
as safe here as they were in Kansas
City. Neither is there any reason why
they should not have a fair trial. While
sympathizing with the little mother in
her frantic effort to keep her little girl
there are few indeed who would not
give the Barclay woman the benefit of
every doubt or who do not appreciate
the fact that she too has suffered.
Mr. McKeever's employment as an
attorney does not Justify him in TIL
SANDER on Topeka which he uttered
through the medium of his affidavit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30


arm. Nothing can hurt you here
Say Yes Mary And as she
hesitated came the benediction.
And at that Mary yielded with her
head against Georges shoulder, but
listening for any further remarks
from Henry.
None came, and at last her lover
led her from the wood. But he
stopped by the roadway. 'sWait un-
til 1 go and get my hat" he said,
and presently he came back with 1t.
He. had left something in its
place, however, and when the woods
were still. except for the twilight call
of the birds, a little old man stole
around the edge of the big gray stone
and picked up the crisp greenback.
Then he went back to his hiding
place, and ate a supper Of crackers
and cheese ana sardines in the COM
pany of black-faced Sambo and
Irish Pat-(Copyrighted. 1909, By
Associated Literary Press.)
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HELPING THE EMPLOYEES.

Announcement comes from Omaha
that the Union Pacific Railroad com
pany proposes to establish there rail-
way college for its employees in every
department. Three objects are aimed
at Employees are to be assisted to as
sumo greater responsibilities. They
are to be helped to increase their
know ledge and efficiency And prospec-
tive employees are to be prepared for
service. A corps of experts in all of the
many qualifications of railroad work
will act as instructors in this college
and the employees will not have to pay
fees of any kind to attend it.
It can be readily seen how this in
stitution will result in great benefits
not only to the employees of this great
railroad system but also to the COM
rany Latent powers for railroad ad-
ministrative and operating work will be
developed in many of the employees
which will fit them for better positions
than they would be capable of holding
if they went along in the usual course
of their way without receiving any in
structicn in their work except such as
they might pick up through experience.
Perhaps there is no greater field for
successful and remunerative endeavor
than the one surrounding the manage
ment and operation of railroads. Hordes
of men are now employed in railroad
work but there is ever room for ad-
vancement on the way to the top in
every department of railroad activity.
on the other hand. the Union Pacific
will get fine results from this school
through tire increased efficiency it will
promote among it's employees.
This Union Pacific undertAking is but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison Globe.1
Is there any excuse for the indelible
lead pencil?
Nearly everyone feels he needs about
all the patience he has.
Most sections of the west have too
much Town Row. and not enough
rain.
Some towns are like some men: pint
size: can't handle quart crowd, or
quart enterprise.
Most men fear that if they fail to
attend every picnic, their interests
will be neglected.
If you are honest, you must admit
occasionally that it isn't your con-
science you are afraid of.
1t may be difficult to find solution
of your troubles, but it is safe to guess
it doesn't lie in telling them
Subject to debate at the next meet
ing of the Lancaster Literary society:
els the Kin Row as bad as the Town
Row."
The automobile business is the bust
ness to engage in; unless the people
go crazy next summer about flying
Along about July every year, wo
man discovers that her summer
clothes are not what she wanted. and
begins to plan for what she will get
next year.
We don't like the hush that pre-
cedes the last announcement by the
undertaken; neither. do we like the
manner IN winch d CLOCK llckS SO 4OuQ-
" in the presence of the dead.
When a woman who has cut glass
and silver has as a guest a woman
who also has cut glass and silver. she
likes to arrange her spoons in such a
way that the guest will use the wrong
one.
When two acquaintance who don't
care much for each other, meet after
a separation of few weeks or
months ever notice the unimportant
conversation that passes between them
while each is trying to get away?
The fly has been swatted, the re-
frigerator cleaned, the drainage pipes
disinfected, and the mosquito killed.
but nothing has been done to Daugh-
ter's top bureau drawer. She puts
everything in it from face powder to
slippers, and when she wants any
thing, stirs the mess with a stick till
what she seeks comes to the top.
Germs find in her top bureau drawer
a secure and delightful home. and, as
she keeps her chewing gum and fudge
there, the only reason she isn't dead
is that the Lord isn't ready for her. If
DR. Crumbine had a daughter, his at
tenti0n would have been called to the
top bureau drawer long before this.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

GF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
Don't overdo a thing unless you also
want to do it over.
Because a man isn't a rounder
doesn't prove that he is square.
1t is always our charity that covers
a multitude of other peoples sins.
Love at first sight is a case of get
ting stuck on the spur Of the moment.
Many man makes a noise like
virtue to drown the clamor Of his
vices.
The steely glitter in a mans eye
generally tells when he is on his met
tie.
Here's where / go on the water
wagon announced the milknan as he
climbed to his seat.
If we could see ourselves as others
see US the probabilities are we would
never take another look.
If it wasn't for the fact that a fool
and his money are soon parted there
wouldn't be so many f1nanciers.
Sillicus-"A man never knows where
to look for his best friend" Cynicus-
''Why not look in the mirror"
1--WE would love our neighbors as
We love ourselves" quoted the Wise
Guy. Which would transform the
world into a mutual admiration socis-
ty," added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
HUMOR or THE Day

IT guess all the people In the neighbor-
hood are ., getting Ig picture postcards from
that he would be heard from some Of
these days."-Houston Post.
Things are vastly different now than
In what Tay?' Well. you see It isn't
have 70 fear"-Detroit Free Press.
An evangelist was exhorting his hearers
to flee from the wrath to come. 81 warn
you," he Numbered, that there will be
weeping, and waiIinG and sn mas q
7 have no teeth Madam" returned
provided. "-Success.
game Ee' FTesho9Yes. i but the doctor said
he lost foot.-New York Mail.
no r.t trouble y, with y9a is thst yoa RSS;
is it," TO be able to attend my Yeslthy
Herald.
Wigg-Don't you think Miss ANTIQUE
Sure; she never gives 1t away.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Mrs. Givem-why don't you go west and
work on the harvest? Weary Willie
New York Sun.
POSt-Wno are the most successful set
Element workers? Parker--The foreign
mobiles who come over and marry rich
American gfrls.-Life.
Farmer Hayrick-Why are you going 10
charge the summer boarderS more this
year? Farmer Corntassel-Fve called the
place a bungalow.-Puck.
Magistrate-Was his motor very fast7
Cop-Your honor, it was going so fast that
the bulldog on the seat beside him looked
like observation-disclosures City Journal.
why, Johnny. what. are you crying
mind" ''Gwan! That wot 1 wuz licked
fer.'-Washington Star.
PA. what is sublime faith?' when a
man who weighs $50 pounds sits down be-
side a lady whose weight is 235 pounds
ed is held up by rope quarter of an
inch thick. it seems to me that they give
an exhibition of sublime faith that would
hardly need an explanation" Chicago
Record-Herald.
did you see the great actress in roper
toire?' Nope. Saw her in New York. -
Baltimore American.
what delayed you?'' asked the parents
of the young lady who has been out air
shipping with her swain. Did you have
ance.'' she explained, THE propeller
broke and we dropped in on some friends
of Harold s.'-Life.
Chicago people think their city almost
as corrupt as San Francisco" Don't you
believe it,. said the Californian, warmly.
That's Chicago nerve. Always trying to
get into our class '-Philadelphia Ledger.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the chicago News

Close quarters-in the miser's purse.
AS a matter of fact tears are seldom
worth their salt.
And the metal polisher also has a lot
of bright prospects.
It's hard to love your neighbor a.
yourself if he keeps a dog.
Many a man who eats pie with
knife wishes he had an ak.
The way Of the transgressor is one
way, but remember that there are 9TH
ers.
The courtship is a failure il the young
man is turned down instead of the gas.
Most people have things that money
won't buy-because nobody would have
them.
The average woman spends morn time
in trying to improve her complexion
than her intellect.
In after years many a sweet girl grad
tate who fell in love at sight wishes
she had fallen into mud puddle in
stead.
Many IA mans so-called goodness is
due to the fact that an interesting brand
OF temptation has never been handed
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
AN UNFAIR CRITIC.

Of the few newspapers in the state
which appear to take especial delight
in holding up Topeka, its citizens and
their affairs to ridicule on frequent
occasions, none is more unfair, and to
the point of viciousness, than the
Hutchinson News, conducted by Mr..
w. Y. Morgan. Prosperous Topeka
apparently has the same effect on
this Hutchinson sheet that a flaming
red rag has on a bull. No matter
what the undertaking is in Topeka
the News can take it, twist the facts
to suit its peculiar fancies, and vent
its dirty spleen upon it,
1t is seldom that Topeka news
papers pay any attention to these
rantings for the Hutchinson News is
not going to help build up the city
from which it gets its name by throw
ing mud and the slime at Topeka. Peo-
pie cannot be fooled by such puerile ex-
hibitions of petty jealousy. But the
News INDUCED in a recent criticism
which is worthy of attention merely to
show just what a mean, little, narrow
minded apology for a public journal
it is. 1t devoted a third of a column
the other day to the Marian Bleakley
fund, being raised in Topeka, which
it placed at $26. Such puny irony as
it was capable of indulging in was
devoted to "congratulating" Tope-
kans for their generosity in raising
such a sum of money for the purposes
intended. The News went on to re-
mark that had the legislature been in
session, the people of this city would
not have raised even $26 but would
have asked the state to provide it
with an appropriation to turn over
to Mrs. Bleakley to help her fight
for the possession of her child. The
paper INDUCED in a lot or other rot
on the same subject and in similar
vein.
Now it happens that the $26 which
the Hutchinson News stated was the
Marian Bleak1ey fund in it's entirety
was the money subscribed during the
hour and a half left on the afternoon
that the State Journal announced
that such a fund was going to be
raised. The fund is now over the
$500 mark and the chances are good
that when it is completed it Will be
twice that sum. OF course $500 or
$500 is not a great sum of money.
But it ought to help Mrs. Bleakley
out considerably in paying the ex-
penses of the suits which have been
forced upon her. Anyhow, it is a nice
testimonial of the generosity of the
people of Topeka towards their neigh
bors regardless of the Hutchinson
News idea in the premises.
AT $500, which is the amount of
cash now in the fund, it is just twice
the sum that the people of Kansas
pay to Mr.. w. Y Morgan for his SER
vices as a state legislator for an en-
tire session.
And it might not be out of place to
state here, that Mr.. Morgan was the
only member of the last house who
refused to pay the fine of barrel of
apples imposed upon him by motion
for breaking one OF the unwritten
rules of that body. Mr.. Morgan is a
wealthy man, while the large major
ity Of the representatives were men
of moderate means, yet they all came
across cheerfuIly with the goods"
when they were fined by the house
in its moments of prank and play.
Now will you be good?
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PREPARING FOR REST.

If you're waking, cali me early, call me
early mother, dear,
For tomorrow Ill start packing, as do
this time each year.
l am going for vacation UP where noun
tain streamlets run,
And I'll need a rest dear mother, long
before my packfng's done!
must fold my shirtwaists, mother; there
are twenty-three. think.
And my lingerie needs ribbonS-1 shall run
it all with pink;
Then the skirts must not be crIInpled
and the hats must not be crushed,
And my couture puffs,- dear mother, must
be all unrolled and brushed.
Then my slippers need new boxes and my
Silk-embrOidered hose
Must be laid out lengthwise. mother, In
neatest kind of rows.
And my sheath and evening dresses and
my jewels ought to be
In the safest trunk, dear mother; SO at
least it seems to me.
Seven parasols, I fancy, will be quite
enough to do.
And a dozen three-piece costumes really
ought to see me through.
I shall wear my cherry basket and an
automobile veil.
stunning fan-shaped tran.
II you're waking call me early call me
early, mother, dear,
For there's such lot of packing now
my fortnight's grace is here.
But it must be done. dear mother, ere
gain the rest I seek
Just going to the mountains; Wild
Cat Cottage. Six a week.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30

an example of similar efforts which are
being made by the great and enight-
ened corporations of the day in sur
rounding their employees with advan-
tages of all sorts that will help them
on their way to better livelihocds and
also help the concerns to make greater
successes Of their businesses. 1t is also
the reason for the generally settled and
peaceful conditions which are prevail
ing in this countr~ and which have
prevailed for some time in the various
fields of labor. This is particularly true
OF the railroad world and speaks well
for the intelligence and foresight of
the men who are at the head of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
KANSAS c0MAENT

- The TARIFF A DEAD ISSUE?
me republicans who voted for the
Fayne-AIdrich tariff bill are trying to
make the people believe that since the
Dill IS passed, the tariff is dead is
sue These Republicans want the
people TO forget it. They know that
the Republican platform promises
were not kept and they hope that by
the conversational election of 1910 the
people Will not be as strong against
the Aldrich gang as they are now.
Inc tariff is not dead issue by any
means. 1t is the hvest question before
the people of the United States today
and II VIII be alive until congress
passes tariff bill that will be salts
factory to the majority of the people
of the United States.
The tariff question must be kept
awe by the people. A1drich and
Payne have gone directly against pub
lie opinion. They believe that they
away with it. They think that public
opinion will die down before the fall
of 1910.
The people of the west are not go
ing to pc governed by a few eastern
strate that fact at the next election
Hutchinson Gazette.
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTIvES.
A special cottage Is to be built on the
state insane asylum grounds at Topeka
for tubercular patients. This is the
proper thing to do and it should have
been done years ago. Now if the next
legislature Will only see things correct
ly and make an appropriation for a
hospital for tubercular patients who
are not insane. Kansas will be in line
with other states whose legislatures
have made such appropriations.
1t has been pointed out time and
again that a state hospital for tubercu-
lar patients is needed but in spite of
all the state board Of health could do
- H. Hot "a
not see that such an institution is
needed.
1t has been shown that tubercular
patients will not be received in regular
the state where INDECENT tubercular pa |
tients can be cared for. 1t is plain |
that IL anything is to be done for such |
patients. and humanity demands that
something be done. the state must !
hospital just as it does institutions for |
the insane, for the blind and for the |
deaf and dumb.-Wichita Eagle.
CIVILIZATION AT HIGH SPEED.
One by one we are losing the con- |
veniences and necessities that were
once AS welcome and thought to be as
harmless as the spring flowers. The
at the roll call constitute the
only speedometer by which can be |
judged the rate at which we are civil |
izing. The last to be condemned can
not be named for while naming it some |
other once welcome article is convicted |
of harboring germs and is sentenced. |
The drinking cup and with it the veneer |
able toast of Age before beauty is |
The store front candy bucket |
from which the boy first learned to |
grab for himself is no longer open |
faced. The hook on which the butcher |
hung out a quarter of a beef is rusting
from !dleness. The fly that once ex- |
listed outdoors and fed on sidewalk dis |
plays must live indoors now and risk /
contracting tuberculosis. CANNES no |
longer enjoy the run of the store and |
the bites picked up under the counters |
All these and many others of the Were |
Glass now belong to Are Nots.-Wichita |
Beacon. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30

There is talk of forming an income
tax league to further the adoption by
the requisite number of state legisIa-
lures of the proposition to amend the
federal constitution so that a direct in
come tax can be legally levied by II
government. Some such concerted and
furoeful action of this sort will be need
ed in all likelihood. This constitutional
amendment is to have anything but easy
sailing In the legislatures of several of
the states. and 1t will only take I'M
favorable action by Il of them to defeat
a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York PreR.1
man gets to be conceited By
thinking he isn't.
The reason a girl likes to hesitate
over a marriage proposal is she Is sure
she is going to accept.
Some men will find fault with their
wives If they don't save more out Of
their allowance than it amounts TO.
An unlucky thing about being lucky
at making money is all the people YOU
have to do something for with il
No wonder a girl never worries
about not having brains when she sees
all she can do with men who think
they are fun Of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30
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 montI;
i(by mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State Journal will be to you Ike
= 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, 1909-08-30

Forty cities in the country are al
ready administering their affairs under
the commission form of government.
Thirty-three others are considering
the proposition 1t is to be sub
mitted soon to the voters of Topeka
That they will decide by an overwhe1n-
ing majority in favor of this modern
method OF municipal control is almost a
foregone conclusion. If they don't. they
will be biting off their own noses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30

President Taft and the director of
Tne census continue to insist that
oontics viii not be tolerated In con-
nectfon With the taking of the next
census And yet, every group of ap-
polntments of census supervisors
that is announced contains the names
or men who have been particularly
active IN the past in the field of
politics. It's pretty hard, too, to
teach an old dog new tricks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-30

No one in the city should fail to buy
n ticket or two for the big trolley ride
which Is to held on Friday evening.
September g. The proceeds of it are to
be used to swell the Marian Bleaklev
fund 1t will furnish an excellent op-
portunity for everybody, even of the
most slender means, to be contributor
10 this worthy undertaking.