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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
AYHAWKER JOTS

Concordia reports an increase in schoo
enrolment over last year of one pupil
According to the Abilene papers the
Parker shows will have an airship
flight on their program before the
summer is over Charlie Parker has
gone to New York to buy biplane.
The other thing we don't like about
Glenn Curtiss. the American aviator
who won the first prize at Rheims,
is that he is a trifie extravagant in
the use of double letters in his name.
Frankfort Index.
The Beloit Gazette announces that
insurance rates have been lowered in
that town. Beloit's city clerk will soon
be overwhelmed with mail written by
the city clerks of other Kansas towns
inquiring how it was done.
The Walnut Valley Times, in COM
menting on Senator Cores advice to the
Democrats to vote for Victor Murdoch
for congress, declares that the unWash-
ed and unterrified Of the Eighth Kan
sas district are not blind as the Okla
homa senator.
There have been a number Of ex-
plantations of the necessity of the
largely increased tax levy for state
purposes in Kansas. but thus far none
which explains, for the reason. per-
haps, that John Dawson has not yet
taken a turn at it.-Leavenworth
Times.
They must have a classy lot of pris-
oners in the Pittsburg Jail. The
Headlight declares that four hundred
visitors applied there for admission
one day this week. They all came to
visit their friends in durance vile, they
said. The sheriff is going to resign his
office if this thing keeps up much
longer.
Paul Lovewell, in the Salina Jour
nal this week, walks on the U. P.
with hob-naiied shoes, all because that
road will not provide a depot adequate
to the city's needs. Paul admits that
the present depot is all right in the
summer time when the waiting pas
sengers can sit under the shade of the
trees, but in storm and cold weather
it is different matter altogether.
The Lawrence World tells of a negro
who went to sleep at the switch, and
with a drunkard's luck, escaped with
out harm This son of Ham, carrying
a big jag, lay down across the tracks
under a switch light the other night
and was dragged off to the calaboose by
a policeman just five minutes before a
Santa Fe train passed over the switch
at the rate of rs miles an hour.
There are some things in which we
must yield the palm to Coffeyville.
The other day when a negro attempt
ed to enter a Coffeyville home the
daughter of the house, without awak-
ening her mother, slipped a revolver
from under her pillow, left the house
bv side door and chased the fellow
for half a block. She left her mark
on him and he is under arrest.-Inde-
pendence Reporter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

| must be admitted that she has spent
$4,000 and dared the penitentiary In
her efforts to secure a little baby girl
for her own to love and care for.
Her sacrifices and endeavor for the
possession of the little waif She took
from the incubator at st. Louis some
five years ago are unequalled in the
history of this country.
1. The two sides to this question are,
love of a natural mother for baby
and love of foster mother for that
infant The public, in siding with
Mrs. BleakIey, should not be too hard
upon Mrs. Barclay. Not that any one
will condone the crime of abduction.
but the motive should tend to soften
the judgment. A kidnaper. in the
accepted sense of the term, steals a
child from it's parents in the hope of
gaining a reward for it's return. Mrs.
Barclay, woman of means, took the
baby she had adopted and raised
from it's own mother, a poor woman,
simply because she loved the child
and wanted it in her own home.
Topeka people are with Mrs.
Bleakley, the child's mother. in her
fight for her child, and are raising
money to pay the expenses of the
legal battle. This fact is published
with pride, for it is the only course
expected from the warmhearted peo-
pie of this city. But the case, looked
upon with unprejudiced eye from
every angle, presents strange COM
plieations; it is a tangled skein in the
web of human events. There is no
parallel case in the court records of
this country for the judge to turn to
in looking for a precedent Solomon
it will be remembered. when
confronted by two women both claim
ing the same child, rubbed his chin in
and applied the supreme
test in casting about for a solution.
Judge Porterf1eld, next week. will
have to separate sentiment from law
and then call for an inspiration to
aid in passing Judgment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.1
Many a man has found himself tight
in a loose suit.
A hard drinker naturally draws the
line at soft drinks.
He's a poor dentist who is unable to
make a good impression.
Some men who pat you on the back
would rather punch your head.
A woman likes any one who admlreR
new dress she made out OF an old
one.
Even the woman with a graceful car
riage likes to be seen in an automobile.
A dead millionaire's obituary notice
is worth about as much to him as his
money.
Many a, man has fallen off the water
wagon while his wife was spending a
month at the seashore.
It's all right for selfish people to III
dulge in standardization; otherwise
they wouldn't get any kind.
Even the girl who is willing to ad-
NIT that she isn't beautiful can seldom
be convinced that she hasn't b good
disposition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
OVER.WnRK.


Oh. he was the busiest person alive.
He had an astounding proclivtty
For helping excitement about him to
By great and incessant activity.
w mere 'er. procession set forth on the
street,
His personal aid he would lend to It.
He FASTENED with swift and unwearying
He had to go out and attend to 1t.
The clang of fire bell, however remote,
Awakened his zeal instantaneous.
When juvenile pugilists angrily smote,
lie gave advice extemporaneous.
Each public disturbance he took to his
care;
There was nobody else he could send
to it.
Though hundreds of persons were sure to
be there,
He had to go out and attend to it.
The post that he held was lucrative one
With a firm that was kindly but SEN
sib1e.
The record was told of the work he had
done
Was, saying the least, reprehensible,
In spite of his recognized knowledge and
skill,
They decided that there must be an end
to it.
He was finely equipped the position to fill,
But he didn't have time to attend to 1t.
-WaShfngtOQ Star,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
WIsDOM OF SOLOMON

In the trial to decide the owner
ship of the incubator baby to be held
before Judge Porterield of the Kan
sas City. Mo-. circuit court next week
the wisdom of Solomon will be re-
quired to make sure the proper dis
position of the baby.
The Bleakley baby case is a parallel
of that case Solomon was called upon
to decide between the two women
who claimed the same baby. It will
be remembered that each woman had
an infant and that one of the babies
died in the night and it's mother
carried the dead child in her arms to
the bed of her neighbor and laid it
there and took away with her the
living child that lay beside the sleep
ing mother. The latter when she
awoke made great outcry and carried
the dead child to the king, and the
kidnaper with the living child she
had. stolen was also brought into the
council chamber And there Solomon
applied the great test of cutting the
live child in two parts and giving a
part to each woman. 1t is known
how the real mother was willing that
the child should be given to the
other woman rather than that it
should be killed. And the people
marveled, for "they saw that the
wisdom of God was in the king to do
Judgment
Now Judge Porterield, not being
lord of the high justice, the middle
and the low, cannot apply the
Solomon test, so he will have to listen
to the argument of fourteen lawyers
and decide the case on points of law.
The public, or rather a majority of
the people of the states where the
case has been tried, have already de-
cided the case on the basis of senti-
ment- They believe that Mrs. Bleak
ley is the mother of the child and
that as the baby appears to love its
mother it should be given over to her
keeping.
The ties between mother and child
are the tenderest and strongest of all
earthly things and where they are
concerned the public is quick to pass
Judgment and consider nothing else
at all in connection with the case.
Public sentiment is generally right
and this case appears to be no ex-
ception to the rule. but before con-
demning Mrs. Barclay. the kidnaper,
too severely, it might be we'll to
analyze her motives in this case The
strongest argument in favor of this
woman is the fact that no selfish end
or personal gain can be attained by
her In her fight for this baby. 1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A book, a friend and a fireplace will
fresco the interior of a poor mans
room as splendidly as art and wealth
can adorn a palace.
The conquest of the air and the dis
covery of the North Pole coming SO
close together are sure to induce some
prophet to come forward with the an
nouncement of a date in the near fu-
ture for the millennium dawn.
=
Some paranoiac has figured it out
that seven men ou- of every ten spend
more money every year for luxuries
than they do for necessities.
e
The dictionaries of the future will
agree on this definition of a great or
very successful man: He was a judge
OF other men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

The action of the state railroad
board in issuing an edict to the rail-
roads to stop smashing baggage will
be more appreciated by the travelling
public than any other one action of
the board. If trunks could talk thew
would be able to tell a shocking
story of cruel treatment and deIiber-
ate persecution. The average bag
gage smasher is a husky specimen of
manhood. Endowed by nature in the
beginning with strong muscles and
great endurance, he has, by training
and long experience, succeeded in be-
coming an expert in accomplishing
the ruin of an innocent trunk. He
has many trunks to handle and time
is heeting. 1t is q delight to see this
artist sort a trunk out OF a pile in
the baggage room. That trunk rolls
like q ball and three field goals are
kicked on the way to the car. But
the trunks real troubles begin when
the train rolls into the station. 1t
falls from an altitude Of twenty feet
down to the cement walk and the
descent is craftily timed by the man
in the car so that the trunk shall
aIight on one corner. Then the man
with the truck fights that trunk until
the referee calls time and the station
master ties the trunk UP with q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

crumbled letter from under her pill
low. unfolded it and pointed to the
top OF the paper. Mr.. wilkins looked
at the familiar words. Horace o.
wilkins, Grain and Feed"
"Oh that greenhorni" he groaned.
Then he looked at Miss Lila
We'll. what are you going to do
about it, now that you've found It
II don't know" Miss Lila said des-
lars in the world; we used it all for
rent and things
Mr.. Wilkins but don't be hard on
mel couldn't help doing it, it made
you SO happy: And you never would
that paper-and ia got plain paper all
ready for him."
'T'm glad he did," Miss Lila said
bitterly. because now I can pay you
back some time. I'll have to get we'll
now"
A sudden light glowed in Mr.. Will
kins's faded eyes. Say. what do you
suppose did It for?'' he asked almost
wrong way to go at it. But I wanted
to give you what you wanted, and L
contriyed every way to do it: ! see
out with 1T, same as any other man
would. but you're teacher, and was
afraid you wouldn't look at me. I
didn't know howl never had a girl
boldly.
The color had returned to Miss
Lilla's face, and tears rolled down her
cheeks.
"And those stories are worth every
cent 1 paid for them. I prize them
more'n all of Shakespeare and-and
John G. SAKE" he declared. They
show you know all about love, and you
ought to understand
Miss Lila interrupted him. do
you know that I'm thirty"
ST know you're my girl don't
care about anything else" and Mr..
wilkins put the arm OF possession
around her.
When Miss Louisa and Miss Luella
appeared a little later Miss Lila clasp
ed Mr. Wilkins's hand for safety and
explained happily to the transfixed
pair, Were going to take the whole
of this floor for ours"
After the situation had been fully
grasped and considered in all it's de-
1ightful aspects Miss Luel1a asked re-
spectfully. Are you going to keep on
writing, Lil1a?'
Miss Lfl1a's face clouded. NO." she
stammered.
Then Mr.. wilkins came to the front
with a new-found sense of humor.
mo" he said hilariously. 'she's
been accepted with thanks -
copyrighted, 1909, by Associated Lit
erary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
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
EIle State journal VIII be to you like
n 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, 1909-09-03
1T Is NOT so.

Ewing Herbert prints some queer
statements in his Hiawatha World, OF
which the following misconception OF
facts is a sample:
| Divide $500 between a boy and a
| girl, and start them on a vacation
with it. and the girl will go twice as
far, see ten times as much, and come
home with new clothes and money in
her purse. But the boy will be dead
broke, and have seen less. This is the
difference: n girl. when out sight
seing, will live on crackers and soda
water, and the boy will stuff himself
with three big meals day. The same
difference is apparent when the boy
and girl are grown. Ever know that
Father spends a lot on eating when
travelling, and doesn't get to see as
much as Mother. who makes every time
she misses meal take her a few miles
farther"
Herbert has been married and ought
to know better. The fact is that in
nine cases out of ten father is dead
broke after paying the expenses of the
vacation trip for mother and the girls
and is only able to make a ten mile
trip into the country over Sunday for
his summer outing. After the old man
has paid the millinery and dry goods
bills as a preliminary for wifes vaca-
ton he usually has to borrow the
money to pay her expenses, on the trip.
The original plan was for the wife
to go first and then later her lord
and master was to join her at some re-
sort and they would make the side
trips together and spend a week in
camp on some island in the lake. Well,
the old man worked overtime and ate
apples for breakfast and cheese for
supper in order to cut down expenses,
but this saving of 90 cents a day was
not a drop in the bucket when the let
ters asking for more money began to
arrive IN the mail.
At the end of a month the old man
hauled down the flag of hope and Dor
rowed a postage stamp to paste on the
letter of recall he was sending to the
absent partner of his joys and sor-
rows.
1t is true that the humorists. para
graphers and cartoonists have told of
the old mans escapades and didoes
" lille the wife is away from home.
How he played poker and gave wine
suppers and hung his hat on the
But that is only true once
in a dozen cases. Only a millionaire
could stand the drain of a wife on a
trip and spend much money at home |
at the same time.
he figures on making SIS cover his ex-
penses to the Atlantic coast and back |
and pay bis railroad fare in the bar
gain. If he stays over a week he has |
to stop at a sailors lodging house and |
walks over town in order to save car |
fare.
The woman on a trip spends two dol
lars to the mans one in nearly every
case. Ask any Topeka man whose wife
has been away from home this sum-
mer and he will tell the story in full |
Ewing Herbert has followed the pop
ular fancy in his little satire and has
sacrificed truth on the altar of senti-
nent. The humble head of the house
hold gets all that is coming to him in
his world in the shape of roasts at the
hands of the thoughtless and hard
Knocks from those who do not know,
out when the pages from the big book
are read outloud then the world will
know who spent the vacation money
n the good old summer time.
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clothes line and it's battered re-
mains are thrown inside the baggage
room to await an inquest by the
owner. Human ingenuity has so far
failed to invent a receptacle, COM
monty called a trunk, that will stand
two railroad journeys of any length.
The result of the railroad boards
edict will be watched with breathless
interest by the travelling public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[F'rom the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.1
The richer a man can be the stfII
richer he always wants to be.
It's very bad luck to be an hefress
because she'll get married for IL
A sure way to get a good opinion
of yourself is to wear side whfskers.
girl can like to go walking with
a man. no matter how much she
hates it.
What woman always wants to do
for a man is to let him tell her how
much he loves her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

The probate judges marriage rec
ords of Shawnee county for the past
year show that the average age of
the groom is 81 and that of the bride
2S years. This is a higher average
than for the year before and much
higher than the record of several
years back. But at that the average
is not as high as it ought to be.
Thirty and twenty-six should be the
proper figures recorded opposite the
names of applicants for marriage
licenses The boy Of FL and the
blushing bride of IS summers ought
to be spanked by the kind hearted
probate Judge and sent home to their
parents. Government statistics on
the divorce evil show that late mar
riages are the lasting ones, while it
is the boy husband or the girl wife
who seek the divorce courts for re-
lief from their folly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
FROM OTHER PENS
FooL1NG WITH NATURE.

A bulletin from the Forest Service
Bureau of the Agricultural Depart
ment calls attention to the havoc
wrought by woodpeckers who have
adopted the poles of electrical COM
panies as a substitute for the dead
limbs in which they formerly made
the holes for their nests. But the bu-
reau doesn't advise the obvious, the
destruction of the birds. Their econ
omic value as destrOyerS Of insect
pests is too large. Poles treated with
creosote are not molested, it seems,
while the treatment makes the pole
last longer.
1t is interesting to observe in this
connection that the governments, both
state and general, are spending mil
lions of dollars annually fighting in
sect pests. If bird and small animal
life had not been so ruthlessly de-
stroyed, in many cases the balance
of nature would not have been dis
turbed. Importations of plants from
foreign countries on which various
parasites lurked have brought in the
San Jose scale and other similar
plaques.
These, in the absence of the crea-
lures and conditions which keep them
in bounds in their original home, are
among the hardest enemies to over
come. Then, too, the process of i'm
proving fruits and grains and vege-
tables has left all of them more sus-
ceptib1e to adverse climatic condi-
lions as well as to the ravages of dis
ease and insects.-Pittsburg Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

The Emporia Gazette. in taking the
State Journals political man to task
for presuming to ask. where Bristow
is and what he is doing, leaves a puz-
zled expression on the faces of it's
readers and doubt in their minds as
to its real meaning. The Gazette an
swers the State Journay query in this
fashion: 1.-THE political man of the
State Journal is evidently trying to
establish reputation as a humorist.
The Kansas papers are full of refer
ences to him and of extracts from his
speeches. He is in such demand, not
only in Kansas, but in many states,
that he has to turn down scores of in
Vitations to make addresses Now
who does the Gazette mean when it
says ''the Kansas papers are full of
references to him?" The State Jour
nal political man or Bristow?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

Illinois will go down in history as
the first state to set a price on an
automo bilist's head. The honor,
doubtful or otherwise, depending upon
the viewpoint, may be common
enough after awhile, but just now
that state occupies a place all alone.
Acting Governor Oglesby this week is
sued proclamation offering a reward
of 5000 for the apprehension and con-
viction of the parties who ran over
and killed Harold Wakefield in East
st. Louis August 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

No wonder that Wall street and the
country at large are worked up over
the illness of E. H. Hartman The
man controls over $4,000 miles of
railways in this country, enough
miles of track if placed in line to
girdle the globe three times and still
have enough left over to connect New
York and San Francisco. He has a
Gotch toe hold on every road in the
country except the road to health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

Nathan Straus, the New York phil
enthropist who has undertaken a tub
erculosis crusade. finds from a com
pilation of statistics regarding this dis
ease that the increase in cases per 1000
population has risen from 3.55 per cent
in 1902 to SIS per cent in 1909. He de-
clares that raw milk is one of the
chief conductors of infection.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
KANSAS COMMENT
STUDIES IN ATCHISON.


Governor w. R. Sturr- was in tow
about an hour between trains, on his
way TO Lawrence from Everest, where
ne spoke Saturday. Governor Stubs
was enthusiastic about his reception at
everest and as it was his first visit
there. he was greatly pleased with the
splendid prosperity of the farms in that
community. Governor Stubs has not
been able to read for over two months
and gas or electric lights are SO hard
on his eyes that after night he must
sit in darkness. His physician tells him
that the optical nerves in both of his
eyes were injured in a trip he took over
the Great American desert years ago.
One of the party with whom STUDIOS
went across the desert, died from the
effects of the heat and another we,.t
totally blind. W. H. Smith, register of
deeds and secretary of the Anti-Horse
Thief association, met the governor at
the depot and discussed with him the
Shorty" Jenkins case. .'Shorty" was
paroled by Governor Stubs, and Smith
told the governor that the Antt-Horse
Thief association was very much dis
turbed about it. The governor expressed
his surprise at hearing it and assured
Smith he would look the matter up at
his earliest opportunity. Stubs SAID
that he has been all over the state and
he finds that the people are practically
united in commentator OF the stand
Senator Bristow took in the senate
upon the tariff bill.-Atchison Cham
pion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

81 fancy you've asked too many people.
The table won't hold them" "Oh, no!
More people can be placed at a table now
than formerly. Why a fashionable Wo-
man in evening dress takes up about as
much room as rolled-up UMBRELLA
Lppincott's.