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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From dc Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Better big dogs bark than the bite
of a little dog.
In measuring a mans deeds by his
talk use inverse ratio.
A young widow with a fortune is for
tunate If she remains widow.
The average husband is a silent part
ner in the domestic firm.
Your opinion is all right-if you can
get the right people to indorse it.
We feel sorry for some men who are
compelled to listen to their own talk.
From the winners viewpoint there
was nothing the matter with the game
as played.
A woman's interest in divorced man
never lets up until she discovers why he
was divorced.
If every man was taken at his own
valuation there wouldn't be half enough
halos to go around.
1t is easier to tell how a thing ought
to be done than it is to make good when
you try to do 1t yourself,
1t takes an awful lot of self-control to
enable man to go up IN the attic ev-
cry time he feels like swearing.
A man never realizes how old fash
toned his clothes are until he beholds
his sons glad rags on his return from
college.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

which have been matters of more or
less dispute between the United States
and Great Britain ever since 1918, or
for nearly a century. 1t is proposed
to submit to The Hague for final de-
termination the Interpretation of the
treaty of 1913 giving to Americans the
same rights as are enjoyed by British
subjects in the fisheries of Newfound-
land; the control of international
waterways and the proper distribution
of water to be used for power pur-
poses from Niagara Falls and also the
settlement of outstanding pecuniary
claims of each government against the
other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The doing of things does not count
for very much unless they are doue
well.
A person often makes break by
insisting on silence while he is talk
ing.
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Probably 1t is speaking the truth to
say that some of the new leaves have
already begun to fall.
X x ~
Some folks are so unfortunate that
they always have something to do
whenever they have any leisure.
\ =
It's the wise girl who asks a man
to call for the ring he has asked to
have returned, that is If she wants
to keep 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
FROM OTHER PENS
A LAND TAX FOR BRITAIN.

A teapot tempest has been raised by
suggestion put forth in the London
Chronicle, apparently as a governmental
feeler, that a national tax on land be
levied to meet the coming deficit The
writer estimates the capital value of
land without buildings at $26, 935, 900 OOO
Upon this a tax of a penny in the pound
SAIL per $1,000, would yield $117, 500 OOO'
about the sum needed
The estimate of land values is, accord
ing to American ideas, much too low,
since it is based on income and not on
sales. Land is taxed heavily for local
purposes, but assessments are based on
income, not value. An instance is given
in recent rrespondence of land rated
at only SO an acre which is in demand
at $4,000 an acre to build cottages for
coal miners. 1t is hard that the labor
er's cottage site should be heavily rated
and the lords deer park lightly.
A land tax was imposed in England
in 1892, of which some traces still re-
main. Every year a special act of par
lament is passed exempting personal
property from local rates, and imposing
rates only on land, houses, tithes and
underwoods. Personal property is levied
upon only for government purposes
through the income tax. Upon prin-
ciples of expediency as well as Justice
Britain needs a tax reform which shall
assess all landed property equitably on
it's purchase value much more than she
needs to burden land usefully employed
and heavily taxed with additional i'm
posts for further waste of battleships
New York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Another batch of bonds. amounting
to $4,000, has been paid of by the
Shawnee county commissioners. Dur
ing the past few years they have made
an enviable record in discharging the
old debts OF the county with the re-
suit that it's present bonded indebted
ness is only $4,000. The bonded
debt of the county has been reduced
by 100000 in the past five years and
this has not been done at the expense
of needed improvements. This is a
record of which the county commits
sioners may well be proud and for
which they should be heartily con-
graduated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

A million dollars was expended last
year in the crusade which has been
started in this country against tuber-
culosis. Probably more than double
that sum will be expended for the
same purpose during this year. It is
money well spent for this terrible
plague must be controlled and event
ually stamped out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

When it comes to being a little in
advance of everyone else in doing the
unusual the medals will have to be
pinned on the breasts of the French.
They have established, on the top of
e tall fiat house in Paris, an airship
station. 1t is called a garage, the
same as Is rest house for automo-
biles, but it might better be called a
nest. That would surely be more
apprOprfate,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Railroad officials seem to be laying
unusual emphasis on statements that
unreasonable anti-railroad agitation
and legislation" should cease, in view
OF the fact that there does not seem to
be much talk of this sort in any Sec
ton Of the country. Railroad batting
is luckily a thing of the past There
does not seem to be any disposition on
the part of the people anywhere in the
country to treat the railroads with
anything but the fairness due them
and they expect the same kind of treat
iuert In return.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

In New York city they have finally
convicted a chauffeur of theft for
using his employers automobile with
out permission This seems to be
most equitable proceeding and one that
should prevail throughout the coun-
try. If 1t becomes common the days,
or rather the nights. of 10y rides
which frequently end so disastrously,
Nriu be nunahered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

The response of Kansans to the ap-
peal made by Governor Hoch for funds
to help the Italians in the great dis
Gress should be most liberal Few
people Of any locality in the world
have enjoyed the material prosperity
that the residents of the Sunfiower
@taate have during the past year. They
can well afford to be generous in this
hour of dire need among their breth-
rem across the sea-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.I

EIUIII lII1 -N0W I OI n 5ss-
A woman wants to get into society
so as to help to keep the rest out.
Where a woman has real brains is
to be able to fool all men without
them
The reason the average man stays
so long in the bathroom is to keep the
rest of the family from it.
An optinist is such a poor guesser
that he can think he's sailing flying
machine when he is tumbling out of it.
A man always inagines you mean
to insult him when you don't take a
deep interest in how he's trying to get
rid of a cold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
HUMOR OF THE Day

man passed away" instead of "died?'.
like to feel that he is really dead.-Har-
per's Weekly.
Tommy-Pop. what is retribution? Tom
mys Pop-Retribution, my son, is some
| overtake other Observation-Disclosures Rec
ord.
right. She-Certainly. We can buy the
| auto with the money father LEFT me and
you will surely make. enough to pay for
running it. don't you think?-Puck.
| Shell suppose your uncle didn't fail to
remember you in his will2 He-It was
scarcely a remembrance-more like a faint
Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
Caller-Sir I am collecting for the Poets
hospital; VIII you contribute anything?
the ambulance and will have some poets
ready.-Judge.
teacher asked the question, What is the
best thing in the world to do, and at the
her hand timidly. well. Emma?'' ITO
get married"
IT say. Elsa. what are you going to
serve for dessert?'' ''oh. the usual things.
cakes candy and opera singers; then
afterward fruit. coffee and potts.
Fliegende Blaetter.
Miss Knox-eWhat was it you said about
Miss Gidday? Mr.. Goodley-I said her age
surprised me greatly. She doesn't look
thirty. does she? Miss Knox-No not
now. suppose she did. though, at one
time.-Stray Stories.
What is it. madam 20 asked the man be-
hind the desk in intelligence office IT
want a cook. explained the lady, patting
the directofre knot on the back of her
head. and want her bad" quite SIM
pie madam" the clerk assured her. I'VE
have no other kind."-New York Herald.
The jSpinster-.Why don't you marry. Mr..
heart never won fair lady. The Spinster
(coyly)-Yes. but I'm dark.-Harper'
Weekly.
PROFESSIONALISM is your idea of the the
Dry of Natural Selection"2 F1ippant
Friend-Choosing a silk umbrella from the
hallrack and leaving cotton one.
MistreSS-When I engaged you, Lucinda,
you said you had male friends. Now,
almost every time 1 come into the kitchen
find man. Lucinda-Lor' sakes, he am
no male fren OBJ mine. Mistress-Then
who is he? Lucinda-Ma huSbandi-Puck.
First Young Lady Oearning golf)-Dear
me. what shall do now? This ball is in
a book of observation-disclosures
presume you will have to take a stick Of
the right shane to get it out. First Young
Iady-Oh. YES. of course. See II you can
find one like a dustpan and brush--Phil-
adelphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

One San Francisco court recently
sent man to prison for eight years
for the theft of eight cents while an
other court in the same city imprison-
ed man for only year and a half
who was responsible for wrecking a
bank with loss of 100000. All of
which is another instance of the va
riations of Justice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

1t surely must be that Count Boni
and Prince Helie did not help the
people OF France to save any of the
billion dollars that they are alleged to
have put by during the past year.
Possibly the Gould money! or that por-
ton of 1t belonging to the daughter
Anna, is not looked upon as French
oOfr,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

numerous or so fatal as in some for
mer years. The most serious one Of
the year occurred in Belgium, May
81. In collision of passenger trains
sixty persons were killed and 100 were
injured. A collision in Mexico April
% caused the loss OF twenty-ei eight
lives. In an elevated railway col
lisfon In Berlin, Germany, September
60. twenty persons were killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Frank A Vanderlip is soon to be-
come the president of the National
City bank of New York city, the larg-
est financial institution in the United
States. And it wasn't so many years
ago that he was Chicago newspaper
man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Evidently Mr.. Root is going to leave
the office of secretary of state with
record for unusual and brilliant
achievements in the realms of diplo-
macy. 1t is reported that he and Mr..
Bryce, the British ambassador to this
country, have formally agreed on the
disposition Of three main questions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Here's a pleasant thought for the
great army of baseball fans in the
United States to contemplate: 1t will
not be SO many weeks now before the
big mines will be on the diamond again
playing practice games with scrub
teams all over the country. In other
words, the baseball season of 1909 is
fast approaching.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
HOME RULE" AND MIsRULE.

It is to be taken for granted that the
Pittsburg councilmen and bankers who
have been arrested on charges of cor
ruption are in favor of home rule"
They were getting along finely up to the
time that a few reformers began to in
terfere with the conduct of the munich
pal business. Then. there was trouble,
but it was not noticeable until lot of
detectives from Scranton were import
ed and President Roosevelt took adj
vantage of an invitation and "butted
in And now see what has happened,
and now Pittsburg has been advertised
all over the country as grating CEN
ter. Of course, the meddling reformers
are to blame, the Scranton detectives
are a lot of sneaks, and Roosevelt is a
busybody.
That's the kind Of talk that has been
heard in a number of places besides
Pittsburg. 1t has been in evidence in
San Francisco. IT was on many
tongues in Minneapolis during a certain
crisis in the affairs of the metropolis of
Minnesota. 1t was reiterated time and
again when there was an uprising
against the commended corruptness OF
the government of Philadelphia 1t pre-
vailed in Philadelphia when the hood
lers were fighting for their liberty. 1t IS
unfortunate that so many misrulers
have appealed to home rule sentiment
for protection in the course they have
been pursuing.-Newark News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
FTILL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

From the descriptions recorded in
the newspapers of the way the folks
in the big cities ushered in the new
year it is evident that their watch
night services were held in restaur-
ants, rather than in churches
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
Is Human BacilIi Breeder.

Mary Mallen, who was taken to
North Brother island fifteen months
ago as being infected with typhoid
germs and danger to the city, Is still
confined there, under observation. She
was first heard from on Long Island
A sporadic outbreak of typhoid fever
occurred there, which was traced to
her. She got away. but when an out
break occurred in a family in another
town it was found that Mary Mallen
was the cook there. She left the place,
and another outbreak in another town
was traced to her.
Clans was infected with the germ with
out being I'll, giving out the bacilli and
injecting members of the families
where she worked through the food. 1t
was not until family in this borough
where she was employed as cook was
stricken with the disease that officials
of the health department decided to
take hand. She was taken to North
Brother island, where an examination
revealed that she was thoroughly in
fected with the germs.
Since the woman's detention exami-
nations have been made daily, but
while she would on some days seem to
be free from the bacilli, the next day
the germs would be found in large
numbers The health department in
the officials at the island to
discharge her if she was found to be
free from the germs for two successive
days. but for $50 days this condition
has not been met, and unless some
method of driving the bacilh out OF
Mary Mallen's system is found her de-
tention may be for an indefinite period
New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
First Crane in Europe.

Dr. Johnson, as is well known, re-
fused for many months to believe in
the Lisbon earthquake, and Parisians
formerly were just as skeptical as to
the existence of the giraffe, a new spec
linen of which has just been added to
the Jardin des Plantes. The earliest
specimen of these gentle creatures was
seen in Paris in the reign of Louis XVI.
We learn from a French contemporary
that the giraffe was first heard Of in
1897 when it was described by French
man named LevaiIlant. who had jour
neyed in the lands of the dottentots
and Kaff1rs. When the explorer referr-
ed to the animals with the long necks
he was looked upon as a Munchausen
and told that he was such in not the
politest language. It was only when
some living speciments arrived in the
French capital that Leyaillant's repu
tation for veracity was re-established,
and then the animals for a long time
formed the sensation of Paris, not only
among the multitude, but in all scien-
tiflc circles.-London Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
Prince Comes in steerage.

When the Nord Amerika, from Naples,
arrived recently one of the Storage pas
sengers. a short, slender-built man,
swarthy in complexion, who announced
that he was Prince Emmanuel, of Jerusa-
lem informed the ship news reporters that
he had come to the United States to raise
funds with which to build a universal
university on the site of King Solomon,s
temple in the Holy City. If his plan is
carried out. he said. any one may obtain
a university education by correspondence
at small outlay.
Prince Emmanuel said tnas his title was
bequeathed to him by his father. now,
according to his story. reigning Sow
ereign in Europe. He wore a uniform of
black. with silver braid and buttons. His
cap was short in the peak and high in
the crown. his coat hung below his knees,
he wore boots of the Cossack variety and
his sharp pointed beard was wavy and
dar,y He said he had come to America
on the Invitation of DR.. Preston Conner,
of Philadelphia: William Mckinley of
Washington. president of the National
Correspondence Institute. and Prof. How
Ter of Alexandria. Va. who he says, are
Interested In the scheme for the Universal
University.
to how he came to have the title of
prince the young man told a reporter for
the sultan of Turkey. and that his mother,
an Arabian Jewess, had given him to
Robert Goldretch. a Jewish rabbi of Not
tingham. England, and that he was
brought UP as member of the Goldreich
family. He is registered at the British
consulate in Jerusalem. he said, as l. f.
Goidreich-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
Mail Order WIG Misat.

That the mail order wife" as an
investment does not fill the bill and
and specifications in the advertise
ment is the testimony given in court
here by Joseph Sturgis a Lee farmer.
Mr.. Sturgis qualifying as an ex-
pert, swore he had thrice married
what he called mail order women
and found them unsatisfactory.
After successfully escaping from
two of them through the courts. he
correspondent with one in New York
city. On the stand he said he had
her. Then she urged him to come to
New York city and see her, sending
her $500 more in advance to assure
her of his coming.
He forwarded the required sum,
and when he got there found her an
invalid in wheel chair. She said she
was awfully sorry to have deceived
him so regarding her beauty, but that
she had wealthy relatives in England
whom she expected to die very soon,
and just as soon as they did she would
pay him $40 for every dollar he had
let her have. So Joseph gave her an
other $500 and she sent him on an
errand to a dressmaker.
When Joseph got to the dress
makers she rushed to him threw her
arms about his neck and wanted to
marry him straightaway. Joseph
agreed, and they were soon married
They came to Marshall and then went
to live on the farm.
The latest Mrs. Sturgis told "Joe''
that the corn fed Holsters" around
this country didn't look very good to
her. and after she had spent her
husbands money she returned to New
York and Joseph applied for a di-
Vorce.
After this story the court thought
Sturgis was certainly entitled to a di-
vorce and it was granted upon the
grounds of desertion. Joseph said
Mrs. Sturgis' postoffice address is I'M
known to him. but he knows she is in
New York because he received a
souvenir postal card of the Singer
building and knows she sent it
Marshall (Mich.) dispatch to New
York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

City Editor-why do you say that this
man passed away" instead of '.died?'
Reporter-He owed me money and don't
like to feel that he is really dead.-Har-
per'S Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Hell wonder if we can get along all
right. She-Certainly. We can buy the
auto with the money father left me and
you will surely make enough to pay for
running it. don't you think?-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Shell suppose your uncle didn't fail to
remember you in his Will? He-It was
scarcely a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS like a faint
Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Tommy-Pop. what is retribution? Tom
mys Pop-Retribution, my son, is some
thing that we are sure wilh eventually
overtake other people.-Philadelphia Rec
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Caller-Sir am collecting for the Poets
hospital. VIII you contribute anything?
pleasure. Call tonight with
the ambulance and will have some poets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

In developing the idea of truthfulness, a
teacher asked the question. What is the
best thing in the world to do and at the
same time the hardest2" A little girl raised
her hand timidly. well. Emma?" ITO
get married"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

IT say. Elsa. what are you going to
serve for dessert?" "Oh. the usual things
cakes. candy and opera singers; then
ices, nuueurs and professional soloists;
afterward fruit. coffee and potts.
Fliegende Blaetter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

Miss Knox-What was it you said about
Miss Gidday? Mr.. Goodley-I said her age
surprised me greatly. She doesn't look
thirty. does she? Miss Knox-No, not
now. I suppose she did. though, at one
time.-StraY Stories.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

PROFESSIONALISM is your idea of the the
Dry of Natural Selection"2 F1ippant
silk umbrella from the
hallrack and leaving cotton one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

The jSpinster-Wh don't you marry Mr.
Scratch2 Helm too nervous, and faint
heart never won fair lady. The Spinster
(coyly)-Yes. but I'm dark.-Harper s
Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04

hind the desk in an intelligence office. IT
want a cook" explained the lady, patting
the directOfre knot on the back of her
head. and 1 want her bad" quite sim
pie. madam" the clerk assured her. I'VE
have no other kind. New York Herald.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-12
Circulation Double That Of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
EASY TO SETTLE.

1t is reported that Railroad Commits
sioner Lee, is making a careful study
of the matter which is before the pub
lie and which is due to come up be-
fore the Railroad Commission on the
18th, with view tie determine the
Justice of lowering the rates charged
for carrying passengers in MISSISSIPPI
pi.
The News believes that Mr.. Lee is
animated with desire to do the right
thing in this matter, but if he is not
already informed on the subject, we
fear that he will hardly be able to
arrive at a conclusion in so short
time; that will warrant him in decid
ing the question. A common sense
view of the matter will, we think be
all that Mr. Lee can arrive at, and in
reaching his conclusion he should not
be afraid to trust to the sentiment If
the people of Mississippi in guiding
him, and we feel sure that if he will
accept the verdict of the press of the
state, both daily and weekly, he will
come to the conclusion that there is
no demand for action by the commits
sion now, but that on the other hand
there is an almost universal desire
that the matter be allowed to rest for
a long time to come.
In reality this matter was settled
some time ago. when it was rejected
by the legislature, that body being
the most representative authority in
the state, found, that then above all
other times was the most inopportune
that could be selected, when the whole
country was PROSTATE as result of
the panic; and just now when the rail
ways by reason of rigidly forced eco
Monies are beginning to show smill
balance on the right side of the ledger
the commission should let the rate re-
main unchanged.
The News has careflyy scrutinized
the columns of the press of the state