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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29


only knew how have really wanted to
De friends. Ruffesp'
And Ruff1es put her head down on
Mary Changers shoulder, and positive
~ cried with happiness.
but that was not the end, and great
er happiness came from the rosy ruff
neo gown and Mary Changers friend
snip, for. after the season was over.
Ruffes was invited to spend a month
al the farm Day after day she and
FRANK Granger walked in the October
sunshine, and talked of many things.
But the thing of which they talked
most was love, and after a time of
marriage. and one day when they came
into the big living room at the farm
mouse. there was such a wonderful light
In Ruff1es' eyes and such color in
her cheeks that Mary Granger put her
arms around her.
Il am going to be bridesmaid" she
said
"Oh. Nary Ruffies parted. But
Frank laughed. joyously.
1 have told her that will not put 1t
on" he said. 1T is going to be next
month";
So they were married; and Mrs
Witherspoon came to the wedding, and
her gift to the groom was a picture of
little maid in rosy gown with ruffies
from the waist to the hem.-(Copy-
righted, 1909, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Living too high has laid many a
man low.
very high up.
It isn't the henpecked husband who
lays for his wife.
Some girls wear their hearts on
their sleeves, and others are heartless.
It is just as well to believe only
half you hear, and then half of that.
1t is possible to reach mans
heart through his stomach, but it's a
poor way.
Many a rich man labors under the
delusion that he can right himself
by writing check.
Don't pose. The poet doesn't wear
his hair long simply because there is
no short cut to fame.
When a mans character hasn't
been formed before marriage it will
seldom be reformed afterward.
Blood will tell" quoted the Wise
Guy. Yes, if some woman doesn't
tell first added the Simple Mug.
A man never realizes the full sig
nif1cance of the old saying about feel
ing like a fish out of water till he
attends his own wedding.
Happiness is merely qualifying
condition. One man may be happy
simply because he isn't as unhappy as
some other fellow.
The only time to hesitate about tell
ing the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth is when you
are convinced it is going to hurt
somebody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
I,AYMEN RIvAL DoCroRs.

Confirming the recent statement oil
DIR. William Osler, that the anti-tuber-
culosis campaign is no longer a battle
for the doctors only, the National As
ISOLATION for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis issues statement to-
day. in which it is shown that over AZ
per cent of those enlisted in the White
Plague War are laymen-
The National Associations member
ship, consisting of nearly $500, and rep
resenting every state in the Union. is
composed of 54.6 per cent doctors and
asa per cent laymen. In the local and
state associations, however. through
out the country, the percentage of lay
men averages considerably over so per
cent The National Association de-
clares that this fact is peculiarly sig
nificant,- as indicating the treat popu-
larity of the anti-tuberculosis move
ment.
Twenty-Five years ago, when the
campaign against tuberculosis was
started in this country by Dr. Edward
L. Trudeau, even the doctors laughed
at the movement. Gradually the medi-
cal profession realized the possibilities
of an organized fight against tubercu-
losis, and in 1904, the National Associa-
ton for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis was formed by the Amer
lean Medical association. At that time
the percentage of laymen in the asso-
citation was only 1923, and very few per-
sons were interested in the campaign
against this disease.
Today. according to recent figures
published by the National Association,
churches, schools, labor unions, wo-
mems clubs, fraternal organizations,
and state legislatures, interesting fully
5000 900 people, are all allied in the
campaign against tuberculosis. and in
addition to these, laymen of all classes
of society, and in every branch Of So
ciaI and industrial life, are uniting
against this one common foe.
Every day sees hundreds of new re-
cruits in the war. and every day brings
new methods for the fighting of the
plague. The National Association pre-
diets that if the present degree of in
terest is maintained, within five years
everybody in the United States will
have been informed on the way to pre-
vent and cure tuberculosis. and con-
corning the infectious nature of the
disease.
Two things in particular are needed,
and for these the National Association
is working in every way. They are, a
more complete registration of tubercu-
losis cases, and the further isolation of
dangerous advanced cases of consump-
ffoT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
NO CHANGES NEEDED.

Advices from Washington Indicate
now that there is little of foundation
to the recent rumor that Representa-
tive Charles F. Scott, of the Second
Kansas congressional district is slated
to succeed James Wilson, of Iowa. as
secretary of agriculture in the Taft
cabinet before the year is out. Mr..
Wilson makes it known that he has
nc intention of resigning his post In
the near future unless his resignation
is requested. There Is little reason to
believe that it will be, because ''Tama
Jim as he is fondly known, has rem
dered distinguished service in this Of
flee. even If he has been q little off oc-
casionally or agricultural matters as
they relate to Kansas.
This may be looked upon as good
news all around. Kansas would feel
honored with one of her sons in the
presidential cabinet and Mr.. Scott has
the capabilities of filing the chair of
secretary of agriculture with distinc-
ton. But IT his present influential posi-
ton as chairman of the committee on
agriculture of the house of representa-
tives he is really in a better position
to favor the agricultural interests of the
country than he would be as secretary
or agriculture. Somebody might be ap-
pointed to succeed him as chairman of
the agricultural committee who would
not be in such sympathy as he is with
the development of the agricultural in
! terests of the nation in all of their many
particulars
secretary of the United States de-
partment of agriculture would not be
able to accomplish much in his line If
his plans for the improvement of the
agricultural conditions of the country
did not receive favorable consideration
| from the hands Of congress; If the ma
tional ,aw-Inakers did not provide him
with the funds necessary to carry out
his projects; and if they also did not
have the inclination to suggest by leg
islation certain projects of their own
making for the betterment and develop
nlent of agricultural affairs. The bulk
of the congressional work in this respect
is done by the agricultural committees
OF the senate and the house of repre-
sentatives, and since Mr.. Scott has been
az the mead of the after committee the
greater portion of this work has been
done by it.
So in his present capacity Mr. Scott
| is doing a yoeman's service for agri-
culture. It is not too much to say
that he and the other members of con-
gress who are deeply interested in this
question OF such vital Importance to the
whole people of the United States, have
helped IN a great measure to make the
success which has been achieved of late
years by the federal department of ag-
~iculture. And this is said with no de-
sire or intent to disparage in any way
the work of Mr. Wilson
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CONFIRMATION.

enormous sums old Bullion paws
FOR all that flaring gilt of his
l nave the gold of sunny davis
He loves to hear the champagne sizz:
he loves to make his motor whiz;
hes he bound to cut a dash. I trust
II never have to take his dust!
Inc ways are cool and sweet where
May saunter TRANQUILITY or lie
Mitnln the shade and there commune
with all that gives to life its June
Poor Bullion has a sorry load
10 carry through the motley crowd;
ne cannot tramp the open road
Mnere sylvan comfort laughs aloud
Win power and place his back is bowed.
Ambltions legions hedge him round
care TO pause and hear the sound
or some sweet minstrel of the wood
That cheers my hearts calm solitude,
Or with loving hand constrain
Inc fa1rest flowers of hill or plain.
Old Bullion SCOTS at men like me
VINO cannot rule a human herd
BY naughty threat or stern decree,
By fears authoritative word
he thinks my little life absurd
ana yet labor, day by day,
Full glad to work and earn nv pay
My pay? A conscience undefiled,
An open mind, wife, a child,
The freedom of the universe,
The chance to help-it might be worse
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison GIobe.]

lFTOm the AtCnlSOn GiODe.1
Boys say that any girl who wants
fireworks, is q Tonboy.
It is hard to determine whether some
men are towards, or only cautious.
Killing weeds is more patriotic at
present than waving flag and singing
the National Air.
When a woman has been married
twice, we can't help thinking she is a
little bit proud of it.
Men are usually willing to arbilr ate
only when the chances are they would
be whipped in a fight.
Occasionally, there is a woman who
can turn down every agent except the
canvassing photographer who wants to
take her children's picture. No wo-
man has been known to resist that.
When a woman's hair-store and
home-grown-is so arranged that it is
likely to tip her over backwards, that
is a "clas sic couture" Other equally
important information may be found in
the fashion magazines.
The Look On the Bright Side club
opened its doors to a new member re-
Gently. 81 have been kept awake by I'M
necessary noises two nights she said
when applying for admission, ''but, at
least, I didn't have any bad Dreams
There is popular song with this re-
frain, 81 don't know why I love You,
but 1 do" We would suggest that no
one try to find out. Trying 10 ind cut
why one loves another has the same
tragic result as punching a hole in
drum to see what makes the noise
There is a daughter in the Lysander
John Appleton family who is a widow
when 1 marry again. she said, IT in
tend to get married gu. under the trees
Tt is the latest fashion, and under the
pines or weeping willows would be so
sweetly appropriate to My Recent Be-
reavement''
side of your house. 1t will then be
possible when reading letters from
travelling friends to know just how
high the geysers. mountains, and mon
uments are. The educational influence
in such letters is lost when the reader
doesn't know If 100 feet Is as high as
the barn, or only half as high as the
chicken house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.J

GFrom the Chicago News.1
The straight and narrow path-the
fire escape.
Most people are willing to do their
duty-as they see 1t.
Some people take steps for a d.
vorce at public dances
The grass widow may feel blue, but
she never looks green.
Why is it that large man always
takes small woman seriously?
Don't force your advice upon peo-
pie whose friendship you care for.
An honest man never has to hire
a press agent to put the world next.
Fortunate is the woman who knows
that her husband is as smart as she
thinks he is.
A millionaire can say more in ten
words than penniless man can In
ten thousand.
A man could earn several dollars
with the energy he generates in try
ing to borrow one.
The small boy enjoys coasting, but
the average man can go down hin
fast enough without a sled under
him.
This is the glad season of the wear
when flies are almost as plentiful as
insanity experts at n nniIlioRaire'n
trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
FROM OTHER PENS
A SANER FOURTH.

1t is remarkable, when one gives
the subject any thought, that the
movement for a quieter, saner obser-
vance of the Fourth of July has not
made more rapid progress The
ancient Egyptians are held in horror
by many good people because they
tossed one young girl year to the
crocodiles in the belief that the rise
of the Nile depended upon it. The
worshippers of Moloch sacrificed a
few boys to that cruel god of fire on
rare occasions of dire distress; the
Athenians, for time, according to a
doubtful legend, sent 10 youths
year to Crete as the price of safety
for the rest; but the sacrifice of a
mistaken patriotism in this enlight-
ened land and in the Twentieth cen
fury far exceeds anything that history
has recorded for the ancients. Ac-
cording to the figures compiled by the
Chicago Tribune, more than 500 lives
have been sacrificed in the celebration
of the anniversary of independence in
the last 10 years, and nearly 10000
have been injured. But the figures of
the American Medical association,
made later in the summer, show a
much more terrible account to be
charged up to the observance of the
day. When tetanus, or lockjaw, has
had time to develop, the fatalities are
frightfully increased. Manchester
Union
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's little consolation during hot
weather in the thought that it might
be hotter.
X X
This is most satisfying. The snobs
of society seldom if ever amount to
anything else.
y X
Some songs would be just fine If
the words to them meant anything
and their tunes had any semblance
to music.
Necessity may be the mother of in
vention but her family is altogether
too small. There are lots of needed
devices to make living easier.
r X
If the meals at the average board
ing house did not have different
names there wouldn't be much in the
way of variety to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
COMPETITION AND THE TARIFF.

If you ever are troubled about the
high and increasing cost of living you
have reason to be interested in re-
ducing the protective tariff, But you
may never have thought of one aspect
of this problem that contributes much
to the cost of living. Indeed, this as
pect, which is scarcely of lower duties
in congress, should be commanding
enough in itself to bring about sound
tariff revision.
If it is true that competition is the
life of trade, that necessity is the
mother of invention, then it is also true
that when an industry or a line of
trade is strongly sheltered by the tariff
ana made Independent by monopolistic
combination it is not stimulated to per-
feet Its machinery, its scheme of opera
ton, its internal economics, as it would
be under strong compa- ton. It is a
fact that in many particulars European
manufactures are better in quality and
workmanship. and yet cost less in the
making-even leaving out the consid-
Grafton of labor-because the COMPETE
tive system constantly spurs the manu-
facturers to compete in quality and
prices. So long as there is competition,
the public gets large benefits Under
system of monopoly and protection
there is no competition in either quail
ity or prices, and the industry gets all
the benefits, while the public gets all
the injuries The consumer buys in
ferior articles at excessive cost.-Kan-
sas City Times
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be undergoing the process of benevolent
assimilation which has been used with
such a fine discriminating effect on tho
buffaloes and also the Indians which
once enjoyed life on the western plains
of the United States. Colonel Roose-
welt killed three more of them before
breakfast the other morning. The
Smithsonian institution will have to put
up a special pavilion covering at least
an acre in which to house merely the
buffalo specimens of the Roosevelt hunt.
And, then, possibly. it will have a few
stuffed buffalo hides to let.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

plan in Wichita, but I know this
much: we get more work done now in
a week than the mayor and council
under the old plan used to get done in
a month" And that's a mighty good
reason why Topeka should try the
commission form of government. It's
the delay in handling most of a city's
affairs under the old, complex system
of municipal government, that greatly
initiates against their successful ac-
complishment,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

II the state guaranty deposit law is
defective to the extent that 1t will
work out to the disadvantage of the
state banks as compared with the plan
of the national banks for the insuring
of their deposits. a special session of
the legislature should be called by all
means to remedy these defects. All
OF the bankers in the state should be
on the same plane on this most i'm
portant subject of guaranteeing de-
DOeffs
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address at the rate of ten
cents week or thirty cents a month
(by mail only.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State journal will be to you like
a 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, 1909-06-29
ToPEKA's BALL TEAM.

1t is not an unusual thing these days
to hear local baseball fans, or rather
those individuals who like to be con-
sidered as such, deliver themselves of
severe criticisms of the general all
around playing of the members of the
Topeka team. And while this depart
ment is not any better informed on
baseball than it is on a variety of other
topics, 1t Would appear that the Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
HUNOR or THE Day

We want to do something big to adver-
tise that new play" said the manager.
kind of play is it-one to which you in
vite the attention of the clergy or the at
tention of the Observation-Disclosures Star.
Elderly Relative-Mortimer, what are
your intentions in regard to Miss Bullionf
and praiseworthy, uncle Elderly Relative
! am glad to hear that, Mortimer. I was
her to marry Ter yoss o rr ri ''
-she broke him of smoking so that
he could save money" AND did he
ested in saving money that he broke
off their engagement so that he could
save still more."-Houston Post.
Doctor-Now, there is a very simple
remedy for this-er-this-er-re
thirst. .nenever you feel you want a
whisky and soda, just eat an apple
eat an apple. Patient-But-er-fanc
eating fifty or sixty apples dayi-
'Gwimple. how have you invested your
profits in that little wheat deal?"
Profits" Huh! Ruggles, the profits
in that transaction are invested in q
neat but not gaudy promissory note. Sc
cured by mortgage. on which am pay
ing interest at per cent. Chicago
Tribune.
What do you mean by coming home
at this hour, and in such condition.
We'll. Mary-y'see 1 staid a lii late at
the Thompsons, playing bridge"
That's a nice story 1t happens that
the Thompsons have been here all the
| evening" 20 pshawi What's the use
Of arguing with woman? ''-Eife
Fellow Statesman-Senator, that speech
of yours in favor of the income tax was
one of the strongest arguments 1 ever
heard. Eloquent Senator with some I'M
easiness)-You don't think it changed any
votes, do you?-Chicago Tribune.
that Miss Smythe was walking in her
sleep. How do you know she was asleep?
W1tness-Well, mouse ran across the
floor IN front of her and she never even
barted an eye.-Chicago Tribune.
Johnny" said the teacher, "can you
give us definition of the word specula-
ton? Let us suppose, for example, that
your father has $500 and that he desires
| to buy several thousand bushels of wheat
he never expects to really or possess.
What does he do?" He loses his $500 -
Chicago Record Herald.
whats an anomaly" "A man who
wears long hair and a velvet coat and
hates notoriety. Leader.
There's something can't get on to-
coming down in the morning you always
manage to sit beside the same swell look
ing girl. But you never speak to her.
What's the answer?' That's my wife.
She's taking lessons in cooking school"
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

A New York woman purchased and
used some hairdye. 1t turned her locks
q bright. bright green. She sued the
maker of it for damages. A court
awarded her $780, Now this court would
have done society a better service if it
had rendered a judgment to this effect:
EServed her right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

Bishop McFaul. of the Roman Catholic
diocese, of Trenton. N. J., has denied
the statements credited to him in which
attacks were made on the morality of
the students in the large American uni
versities in the east. No one with any
sense believed for a minute that Bishop
McFaul made such statements. yellow
journals have way, peculiarly their
own, OF twisting a prominent mans ut
terances so as to make sensations out
of them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

Jeff Davis of Arkansas says the
United States senate is no place for
William Jennings Bryan. It's too
small for him. This is something of
a calamity for it reduces materially
the important inches in public life
that are open to the gifted Nebraskan.
The people have already decided no
less than three times that he is too
small for the presidential chair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

According to a decision by Judge
Dana of the district court it is unlaw
ful for insane patients to be confined
in institutions within the city limits.
Presumably this same dictum of law
will apply to the county jail where in
sane persons are kept for long and
short periods of time because there is
no room for them at the state hos
pitfalls or the state hospitals refuse to
accent them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

Let no voter forget the fact that the
time is at hand now for the signing of
the petitions requesting Mayor Green
to call a special election to decide
whether or not Topeka shall try the
commission form of government. Only
six hundred signatures are really
needed on the petitions but it wouldn't
be bad plan to get few thousand
names on them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press. ]

Most of the queerness of women's
hats is on the outside; of mems on the
inside.
A boy does pretty well in college not
to learn to dress like a welsh rabbit
dream.
Sometimes a girl will accept the
judgment of her father, unless it is
about a man.
The reason people can have such big
families IS they don't know how to
raise them.
A woman would rather never have
had husband than admit it was her
only proposal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

Here's one effect of revising the
tariff according to the Aldrich plan.
Because of the proposed increases in
She wool schedules the dealers in
mems clothing. so it is reported from
New York, have decided to add nearly
loo per cent to the retail prices of
their wares. 1t is naively remarked
IN the dispatch telling of this fact that
the clothing sellers Took upon the
situation with much satisfaction" Why
shouldn't they? But their satisfaction
is more than offset by the chagrin
which rather overwhelms the con-
sumers of limited purses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

It is the idea of the Washington Post
that "Englishmen who object to the
language employed by baseball writers
lave too little knowledge of the game
TO know IL they want to attract atten-
ton they must reserve their critical en-
ergies for the umpire"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29

c. L. Davidson, who is mayor Of
Wichita under the commission form
OF government, which has been in
operation in that city since April,
says: at is yet too early for anyone
20 form an intelligent judgment as to
the final success of the commission