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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
AN UNREASONABLE DEMAND.

1t ought to strike most persons
that the petition, which has been
filed with the county attorney re-
questing him to begin proceedings to
GUST the commissioners of Shawnee
county from Office because of their
action in disposing of the bonds of
the Kansas, Colorado & Southern
Railway company, a subsidiary of the
Missouri Pacific. makes a demand
which is decidedly unreasonable
These bonds were sold for a price
which was considerably less than
might have been secured, and for this
the county commissioners have been
justly and severely criticized. The
sale of the bonds was also question
able as to its legality because it was
effected through brokers who made
for themselves fat fee. But that is
all there is to the proposition.
There is not the slightest reason
to suppose, nor has the charge ever
been made by any one who is
familiar with the details of the tram
saction that the county commission
ers, collectively. or individually, par
ticipated in anything in the connection
with the sale of these bonds which
has the slightest suspicion of being
CROOKED" Their gravest offense has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Being sorry for others is often
mild form of boasting.
Free lunch is usually the most ex-
pensive kind of board.
Charity is never satisfactory. The
best way is not to need it.
lazy man can't see why others
should be foolish enough to work.
We are a good deal happier be-
cause of a lot of things we don't
know.
Many a man who has the courage
of his convictions makes a fool of
himself.
The charity that begins at home
doesn't make many acquaintances
abroad.
If we could see ourselves as others
see us we wouldn't believe quite all
We see.
Our idea of a padded-cell candf-
date is a woman who fondles a dog
for the purpose of trying to arouse
a mans jealousy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
QUAKER SIEDITATIoNs.

[F'rom the Philadelphia RecordJ
Isn't 1t suite to live In a flat?
A pessimist is a man who would
chew a pill.
A pretty girl in a hammock is out
for the rocks.
If a man has sufficient cheek his
face is his fortune.
Even the fellow with a pull should
have a little push about him.
Even when they are perfectly fresh
some fish are smelt.
It's the bone of contention that
causes a man to lead a dogs life.
The butcher who sells spring lamb
shouldn't look so sheepish about II.
The psychological moment is about
the most elusive thing in the world.
When a fellow thinks his best girl
is a treasure he naturally feels like a
treasurer.
The people who tell you life isn't
worth living are generally the first
to yell for help when they get in a
tight place.
Nell-"Mrs. Henpeckke says her
husband is undecided where to go this
summer" Belle-"She can't make up
his mind, eh?"
Man wants but little here below"
quoted the Wise Guy. That Is, he
wants but little below the average"
added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
FRON OTHER PENS
cUNTERFEIT MONEY.

Not once in ten years does the aver
age citizen discover he has a counter
felt coin among his small change or
a bad bill in his paper money. Coun-
terfeit money is constantly being ut
tered. but it usually has a very re-
stricted circulation geographically.
But the confidence that one may feel
in the genuineness of the medium of
exchange costs the government a high
price in vigilance and treasure.
According to the report for the last
fiscal year made by Chief Wilkie, of
the United States secret service, 400
arrests were made, as against 345 for
vice was compeHedSto seek out and
convict a large number of Sicilians,
who brought bad money from abroad
and who, after coming here, turned
their hands to the imitation of Amer
lean money. 1t is Chief Wilkes opin-
ion that these counterfeiterS were
closely related to the Black Hand
gangs which have been operating so
actively.
More than $4,000 in counterfeit
notes was seized and about half as
much in bad gold and siIver coins.
Plates, dies and apparatus were dis
covered and destroyed A side issue
of the service has been the arrest of
revolutionists from South and Central
America who have made counterfeit
money in this country for purposes of
promoting revolts in their own lands.
Toledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

nad their origin in the fact that Pres.
ident Gomez recently Cancelled = lerS,
order for arms which had been rfver
to an American dealer. This action
was taken for the simple reason that
the models submitted did not come uu
to the standard of the Cuban govern
ment- 1t was certainly not Intended
and cannot rightly be construed as an
unfriendly act The very suggestion Is
silly. -
"Cuba's prosperity depends upon the
commercial relations with this coun-
try, and might say that the repub-
mes very existence would be threaten
ed should the government at Havana
lose the friendship of America and
Americans. The mere hint of Ill feel
ing, to say nothing of the suggestion
OF war, would be laughed at in my
country
President Gomez informed me
just before my departure that he had
arranged to have General Guerra visit
the United States within a few weeks
to buy large quantity of arms to
equip the Cuban army."-New York
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
KANSAS COMMENT
FOREST REsRRvEs IN KANSAS

/ -
FOREST RESERVES IN KANSAS.
In the agricultural appropriation
act for the year 1910, which was ap-
proved May 20. 1908, the following
was Incorporated:
That hereafter twenty-five per
centum of all money received from
each forest reserve during the fiscal
year, including the year ending June
tnlrIleth, nineteen hundred and eight,
snau be paid at the end thereof by
the secretary of the treasury to the
state or territory in which the reserve
Is situated, to be expended as the
state or territorial legislature may
prescribe for the benefit of the pub
TIC schools and public roads of the
county or counties in which the for
est reserve is situated: Provided, that
When any forest reserve is in more
tnan one state or territory or county
the distributive share to each from
the proceeds of said reserve shall be
proportional to its area therein
great many people will be sur
prlSed to learn that Kansas has any
forest reserves and still more surpris-
ed to learn that they have been a
source of revenue. OF course Kansas
IS not timber state and has never
ranked as such but the department of
agriculture reports that under the
provisions of the foregoing paragraph
the net receipts from the national for
ests in the state for the year ending
June 80, 1908, amounted to $4,693.0O,
twenty-five per cent of which would
pc $1,l7S.25.-Leavenw Times,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
AYHAWKER JOTS

The Lawrence Journal could not re-
frain from suggesting that DR.. Cook
did not find the pole-cat.
The Chanute Tribune casually re-
marks that the season for pumpkin
pie, mot the embalmed kind. is here.
A discovery has been made by the
Parsons Sun that poison ivy adds
nothing to the general joy of a Sun
day school picnic.
Don't be deceived by every man
who pats you on the back says the
Hill City Republican. Possibly he
would prefer to punch your head"
The sAtchison Globe has started a
department of hog trough philos-
knows some one of it's men will be
putting his foot in it.
Commenting on the fact that con-
ductor who worked on the Central
Branch committed suicide, the Law
renee World says: 1.-The only wonder
is that he held out that long,
We note with some degree of ner-
vousness that towns about here are
having ordinances to punish men for
swearing inside the city limits. If this
thing reaches Concordia we don't see
engine in the office, and We'll have to
get rid of our automobile.-Gomer
Davies.
Lifting the Curse from Kansas" is
the title of an article in a current
magazine, dealing with the work
which Secretary Coburn is doing and
his success in bringing a deserved rep
utation to our fair state, says the
Minneapolis Messenger and it con-
tinueS: THE title is misleading. It
should be Making the Knockers Bite
Dust"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
BLINDFoLD JUSTICE.

Suppose a Rake of narrow brain
shoots down another unaware
You may be sure the mans insane
That Is, if he's Millionaire.
Yet if he rests little time
The Court may hold him free as air.
quite sound of mind and clean of crime
5 Of course, if he's a Millionaire
Don't wreck Bank, by any chance,
Unless you have the cash to spare;
A Mitigating Circumstance
1t is to be a Millionaire.
NO weak excuses will avail
The Paid Chauffeur:-but who will dare
For Speed or Homicide to Jail
A bona fide Millionaire?
So take my counsel,-there's no fee
Whatever charge is yours to bear,
Just ipterpose the simple plea:
Your Honor, I'm MilIionairei'
-P1ick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
GOV. STUBS AND PARDoNs.

Evidently the sob squad" is not
going to have much success in secur-
ing pardons from Governor Stubs
and particularly that portion of it
which seeks to get out of prison those
men who appropriated the money of
others while they held positions of
trust with fduciary institutions.
II don't believe in going quite as
far as they do in China when a man
entrusted with other peoples money
steals it," said Governor Stubs the
other day when he announced his
denial of an application for the par
don of a convict banker, "but 1 do
believe in keeping them in the
penitentiary. You can say for me
that not very many bankers will get
out of the penitentiary during the
next year and a half If I have any
thing to do with it,
This is nothing but an exceedingly
proper stand for a states executive
to take. There are no meaner or
more dastardly thieves in the world
than the bank officials who rob the
money drawer and who accept de-
posts in banks that they know to be
we'll on the way to insolvency.. For
the most part they are men above the
average intelligence, men who oc-
cupied most prominent positions in
their respective communities up until
the time that their baseness becomes
public, men who have many in
fuential and powerful friends and ac-
quaintances who are beholden to
them in time past for valuable favors.
AS soon as they go wrong all sorts
of aid is rushed to them and fire.
quently they are able to dodge their
just deserts. If they are convicted
and sent to prison only a little time
elapses before concerted efforts are
undertaken to get their releases
through pardons, and altogether too
many of these have been granted in
times past.
Governor Stubs is on the right
track in the handling of these cases.
The adequate punishment of bank
wreckers by their detention in prison
for the maximum terms they are SEN
fenced is debt due society that
should be discharged in full
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
CALLING A HALT.

For some time it has been obvious
to thoughtful friends of advanced lib
eral education that some of the larger
universities are drifting, or as thought
by many, only apparently drifting
from their moorings and sailing in
waters which, however pleasant they
may seem, are still not fully chartered,
and which conceal dangerous rocks
The experiment of allowing freedom
of individual thought and utterances to
instructors has in some instances, been
given full scope, and the institutions
have either justly or unjustly suffered
in consequence.
The president of at least one of the
major universities appears to realize
the desirability of not ignoring the
Christian church in the grand scheme
of education. In an address before the
graduates OF the Hartford Theological
seminary, President woodrow Wilson
of Princeton university, said:
ITO my thinking, the Christian
church stands at the center not only
of philanthropy, but at the center of
education, at the center of science, at
the center of philosophy, at the center
of politics; in short at the center of
sentiment and thinking life. And the
business of the Christian church, OF
the Christian minister, is to show the
spiritual relations of men to the great
world processes, whether they be phys
ical or spiritual. 1t is nothing less
than to show the plan of life and
mems relation to the plan of life. =
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Folks who are real exclusive miss a
whole lot of the enjoyable things in
life.
MAN wants but little here below"
sang a bard and that is just what most
of them get.
If it were not for hope of better
things in the future more people
would go via the suicide route.
X n A
Perhaps divorce would have no ter
rors for the average man if that thing
called alimony had not been invented.
X n
If a fellow has the right girl sitting
along side him he can enjoy almost
any old thing in the way of theatre
cal production.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
cuba Needs America.

Characterizating reports that there Is
a hostile feeling in Cuba toward the
TInIted States as unfounded. Senior
Orestes. Ferrara, speaker of the Cuban
house of representatives, who arrived
in New York Wednesday on his way 10
Europe. last night declared that all IN
telligent Cubans look upon this coun-
try as the island republics benefactor
and friend.
Recent newspaper articles have IL
timated that my country is seriously
thinking of taking up arms against the
United States" said Senior Ferrara,
"but nothing could be farther from
the truth Twice the government at
Washington has demonstrated its sin
cere friendship for Cuba. President
Gomez and the Cuban congress could
assume no attitude other than one or
gratitude.
s"These false reports. in my opinion,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
AN EPIC POET BANKRUPT.

Something of the grim humor that
leaves a surreptitious tear behind it
attaches to the history of Stephen
Phillips. epic poet, slated for examina-
ton in bankruptcy proceedings in Lon
don, and unable to come because he
has not the money to buy ticket
from Brighton. Phillips has never
produced, and never will produce,
''Henriade," a paradise Lost" or an
Aeneid.' But his. purpose is serious;
he is real poet, and isolated passages
from his pen are worthy of all the
tribute taste can render. Evidently
the writing of epic poetry is not
profitable vocation in this age of the
world. 1t can, in the nature of things,
never be an avecation for anyone.
Phillips, son of a clergyman, made
a fair living for years as faithful,
though not great actor. He success
fully kept the wolf from the door as
an army tutor for six years. Then he
took UP literature as a profession.
It has been said with more or less
truth that if a new Milton were to
offer ned Paradise Lost" nova
days, instead of getting almost $40
cash for the manuscript he would have
to pay fifty times as much to get 1t
published. The twentieth century has
as little use for poetry as for soratory
and for the poetry of Milton or the
oratory of Gladstone it can find no use
at au-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
period.

A news dispatch comes from Wash
Ington every other day now to the
effect that DR.. Durand. the director of
the census. is taking all sorts of pre-
cautions to follow the desires of Presi-
dent Taft to the end that census super
visors and enumerators shall not par
ticipate actively IN politics. Consider
able energy which is being expended
In this wise might have been conserved
IL more dyed-in-the-wooi politicians
had not been named as census supervi-
sors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
MERCY WITH JUSTICE.

Nothing is gained by being hard
and a good deal is gained by being
merciful. 1t looks as If Mrs Barclay
was insane on the single point of the
in the criminal class but nothing is
gained by following it up. She has
done terrible thing but she has suf-
Tered. 1t always pays to be charitable.
II she goes free. for her work she has
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

Canada now claims all the land dis
covered by Cook and Peary in and
around the vicinity of the North Pole.
From the explorers reports Of it there
is little chance that che United States
will go to war with Canada for the
possession of this land or even fight
the matter out before an international
tribunal of arbitration. Canada is quite
welcome to It. No one would take it
as gift unless it might be a few en-
effect that DR.. Durand, the director of
build ice forts and play with snow
balls all the year round.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.l

[From the New York Press-I
The easiest thing to see is why a
woman thinks she has pretty ankles.
A man can get wildly excited over
a political question. unless he under
stands it.
If a man happens to know who
wrote Yankee Doodle he thinks he's
musical
One good thing about a college ed
ucation is a boy gets it before he is
too old to mend.
The reason girls always follow their
nnother's advice about men is they
say they do, especially when It isn't
true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

According 20 the New York World
that SIS. 600 900 fine once imposed on the
Standard oil company will look like a
rigmy when compared with a fine
which the federal department of jus
tice is planning to have the courts as
sess against certain railroads. They
are to be accused of rebating to steam
ship lines on an immense scale and
penalties are TO be asked against them
which will aggregate $49.000,000. Re
membering the outcome of the Stand
ard Oil case it is likely that the rail-
roads are not lying awake nights and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

Porter, this berth has been slept
in!' mo, sab; / assure you, sab.
merely occupied. It's the one over the
wheels, sah."-Puek.
Bacon-Sunshine is a great medf-
cine. Egbert-Yes, 1 know; but a mar
doesn't get his picture in the paper
for taking that particular kind.-Yon-
What have you done with your
Jealous of its ability and made me
get rid of it!"-Judge.
She with a pout)-A man always
treats his second wife better. He
(blandly)-After a man has once got
rid of balky horse he uses more In
telligence in picking out another
illustrated Bits.
Father" said little Rollo, what
is meant by "a Sabbath days jour
ney?" 81 am afraid, my son, that in
many cases it meant twice around the
golf links."-Tit- Bits.
Lady x. (whose husband has the
worst shooting in Yorkshire)-Well.
Tuesday? Just a couple of days on
the moor? Ossy D'Arcy-Sorry. can't
possibly leave London. Big scheme
on at the war office. We're crossing
CARTIER pigeons Win parrOIS-nOplnB
to get verbal messages through
Punch.
Teacher-William, where is the
capital of the United States located?
Small Boy-My paw says it's either in
Providence or DanviIle. and he amt
quite certain which.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
Mr.. Brown Crushing excitedly into
the room)-Marie, Marie, intelligence
has Just reached me Mrs. Brown
Calmly interrupting him)-Well.
thank heaven, Henry-Brooklyn Life.
Mother-Is it possible, Harry. that
you have eaten all that cake without
giving a thought to your sister?
Harry-Oh, no! 1 thought of her
every second. 1 was afraid all the
time that she would come before I
had eaten it up.-Life.
do you believe in the Darwinian
theory" asked Mr.. Whibbles. 81 am
inclined to go further than Darwin
did" answered Miss Cayenne, and
believe that some members of our
species have started on a return
trip"-Washington Star.
Breaking 1t Gently.-"What? You
stay a whole day at my hotel and
then say you have no money. Why
didn't you tell me that last night7"
"Well, 1 thought you'd be just as
vexed to hear it this morning.
Bon Vivant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

Latest reports are to the effect that
the dove of peace has spread its wings
over the boundaries of Peru and Bo-
1ivia. The chances are, though, that
this fair bird will soon flap those
wings and fly away for it has never
been its habit to work on any one Job
in South America for a continued
neriod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

II there is any character around
these parts who needs a good skin
ming it is Mr.. Jack Frost The apple
crop for this year worked out on
Is per cent basis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

The ST. Paul Pioneer Press hits the
nail nearly on the head when it re-
marks that from the developments the
tariff revision will be satisfactory to
everybody except Republicans. Dem
ocrats, Prohibitionists, Socialists. the
Independents, and those who do not
VOfe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS.

John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain
are making the rounds of the county
fairs, giving sparring exhibitions and
taking in comfortable sums of money
The two are merely "reminiscences
yet they make a hit everywhere They
are cherished as relics of the days
when prize fighters fought in the
ring, and not in the newspapers.-
Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

1t has remained for the Cleveland
Leader to furnish the. best excuse for
the omission of the Bible from the
list of books which DR.. Eliot selected
for his five-foot shelf. THAT one"
says the Leader, fought never to be
on the sheIf'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

Perhaps 1t is just as we'll that the
government weather bureau has de-
cided not to deliver a verdict in
the Peary-Cook controversy. Nobody
would put any stock in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

Inasmuch as the name of the gen.
tleman who says he caught a 339-
pound sword-fish off the Catalina is
lands is Conn, it is most reasonable
to add considerable salt in taking this
little fish story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

President Taft says he is an ''itiner-
ant preacher and as such he ought to
be a great drawer of crowds because
nothing like a collection plate is
passed around when he stops to de-
liver a Sermon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

1t is really too bad that a few of
those nice ings which are being
said these days about the late E. H.
Hartman could not have been spoken
while he was alive. But, then, that
has ever been the way of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

Abdul Hamid. the deDosed Sultan
OF Turkey, is writing a history of his
reign. Presumably, he is using blood
for ink.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

worrying over being forced into the
hands of receivers or put out of bust
ness entirely by such a fine as this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

The Boston Post has it all figured
cut that God made the neck, man made
the collar and the devil made the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

Score another one for the railroads
running through Kansas. They are
anxious to have enforced the order re-
Gently issued by the state board of
railroad commissioners against the
Smashing of baggage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Taft is on his way but
It is a mighty poor one because 1t
does not include Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-17

Seantor La Toilette certainly hates
peace. He has dibbed into the Bal
linger-Pinchot controversy.