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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

No more essential a piece of legisla-
ton is pending before the legislature
than the bill, which has passed the
senate, regulating and establishing a
fixed schedule of weights and measures
for use in the sale, particularly in the
retail trade, of all commodities. 1t is
quite as important that persons should
get the quantity of anything that they
think they are paying for as it is that
they should get pure food when they
ask for it and are willing to pay for it.
In fact this weights and measure bill
is properly correlated with the pure
food law and it is right that its pro-
visions should be administered through
the agency of the state board of health.
The pure food inspectors of this de-
partment can look after it's enforce
ment quite handily in connection with
their other work in seeing that the pure
food laws are being properly obeyed.
There can be no doubt that the pur-
chasing public has been much i'm
posed upon in the past by short weight
and short measure. If retail dealers In
commodities that are weighed and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

measured cannot afford to sell sixteen
ounces of stuff for certain price there
is no reason why they should be per-
mitted to sell number of ounces less
for this price and call it a pound. If
they cannot sell two full half bushels
of potatoes or the like for certain
price there is no good reason why they
should divide a busheI of these things
into three parts and sell one Of these
thirds for a full half bushel- That is
not square dealing Probably there are
many dealers who do not stoop to such
ends, but there is plenty Of evidence in
the possession of the board of health
that there are many who do That this
of no argument. When a man buys
barrel of flour he is entitled to a stand
ard weight in it and the same is true
when he buys potatoes. or apples, or
anything like them. If he calls for
bushe1, he is entitled to just that much
If this legislature is going to mean an
increase in prices in the purchase of
certain quantities of commodities it
will be unfortunate for the consumer
who is being forced to pay top prices
now for about everything he buys. He
will have to get along perhaps, with
little less in quantity to make his bills
the same, but he will have the great
satisfaction of knowing that he is get
ting just as much as he is willing to
pay for, and that he will not be paying.
as he now is, for more than he is get
ting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
NEWSPAPER PRIVILEGES.

This is a great privilege that the
newspapers have and one that they do
not look upon lightly, as some people
may be prone to suppose. 1t opens up
a field for them to work in where the
responsibilities are great and the pos
sibilities for magnificent achievements
are imitIess. United action and intel
hgent agitation on the part Of the
newspapers will do much in the next
few years to secure greatly needed re-
forms, or rather a newer and better
order Of things. There are many mat
tiers of extreme public moment which
are pressing to the front just now, for
the accomplishment of which all news
papers can work together, regardless of
may have on general governmental
policies. Some of these are, a partici-
patton in the educational campaign
which is under way against the spread
of the dread tuberculosis; the giving
Of all possible encouragement for the
conservation of the national and state
resources, the creation of an adequate
deep waterways system in the country
and the REPRESENTATION of tree bereft
hills; the protesting with might and
main against child labor, which is a
sapper of the nations vitals; the pro-
motion of the public health; the dis
semination of pure food and numerous
other kindred subjects, all free from
partisanship, all of nature that are
worthy of the support of all men and
on none of which can there be two
sides to the question.
And it is by laboring hard in this
field that the newspapers will come into
their very own. For their services in
these regards, which ought to be monu-
mental. they will demand and receive
the respect and appreciation of their
friends. their masters. their real crea-
tors, the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
QUAKER A1EDIrAToNs.

LF'rom the Philadelphia Record.l
Never trust a man whose dog has
gone back on him.
The most annoying egotist is the one
who always says: why don't you do
as I do?'
About one man in a thousand is
blessed with the ability to let well
Grouchleigh-'I don't feel like myself
this morning." Wigwag-"That must
be fine
By the time a man is ready to wear
flames laurel wreath his head is so big
that it no longer ITS.
A sod widow Is one who has lost her
husband; a grass widow is one who has
simply mislaid him.
1.-The fellow who is disappointed in
love-" says the Cynical Bachelor, gen
orally lives to be glad of it,
Many a woman can accomplish more
with bent hair pin than her husband
can with a full set of tools.
81 don't often smoke" said the stfney
man, as he lit a two-fer, but when I
want a cigar want it bad"
The greatest disappointment about
moving pictures of prize tight is that
we miss the elevating conversation of
the ringside-
Blobbs-"Bjones is a man of strong
character" Slobbs-''What makes Won
think SOP" Blobbs-.'He made a New
Years resolution and is still keeping
it,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t is really something to be thankful
for that all idiots are not of the same
kind.
X
A husbands razors frequently come
in handy to slice up meat in elegant
fashion for parties.
x ~ X
New women seem to be on a par
with their less advanced sisters when
it comes to dealing with mouse.
x X
know myself" is an excellent adj
monition but it would be a better one
if recipe went with it.
X
Probably boy desires to be bigger
than his father only to avoid the neces-
sity of wearing cut-over trousers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
Wen both live to call your sister

''Werl. both live to call your sister
blessed
They relapsed into a silnece which
he was careful to break as seldom as
possible till they were nearing Phila-
delphia.
''Three minutes to the Broad street
station" he said gravely, as the train
pulled in at West Philadelphia. lust
three minutes in which to decide, If we
are to avoid our well intentioned
friends at the station
She shook her head. ooh, no
longer than that" she said. as She
smiled UP at him. cts taken me
nearly three hours. (Copyrighted,
1909. by Associated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
To Curb AutonobiIes.

An expert in automobiles sug-
gests to the Courant a radical and in
teresting way to get rid of the dis
agreeable and irritating horn, and
that is nothing less than to prohibit
its use. There are no horns on car
riages. Why not simply put the auto
mobile on their footing and hold the
driver to the same rules of caution
and safety? Without the horn TO
claim for him the right of way the
chauffeur would have to slow UP al
every street crossing, and whenever
anybody seemed likely to get In his
way. He could not sweep down the
highway warning everybody else to
Sidestep and give him the road. This
is worth thinking of.
Another mighty good suggestion
now going the rounds OF the papers
is that when an automobile enters the
transgressing class part of the
punishment be inflicted on the ma
chine itself. Automobiles cost a lot
of money, and the pleasure they give
comes from their use. Now just sup
pose that every offending machine be
taken possession of by the law and
be confined for a certain period, de-
pending on the nature of the offenSe.
How is Mr.. Six-Thousand-Doll go
ing to feel when his machine is ar
rested in May and confined for six
months and he cannot use it during
all the halcyon days of its season ?
Will not the danger of such a fate
keep him in order? 1t strikes US yes.
Hartford Courant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
Dental Forceps in Antiquity.

DR.. Sudhoff not long ago read a
paper before the Leipzig Medical So
ciety on dental forceps in antiquity.
He said that even before the time of
Hippocrates, references to the use of
such instruments are found. but no
specimens are met with among the
surgical implements belonging to
classical times that have been dis
covered. This can only be due to the
material of which they were made.
Unlike the mass of other Greco
Roman surgical instruments. which
were nearly all of bronze, the dental
forceps of antiquity must have been
made of iron or steel, although no
medical writer mentions the fact. In
the Aristotelian Mechanical Prob
lems,' however, there is a passage
which, according to DR.. Sudhon. has
hitherto been overlooked. in which it
is mentioned as a familiar fact that
dental forceps were made of iron. In
the museum at Homburg, where
there is an almost unrivaled collec-
ton of iron implements. two steel
plated forceps, one for the upper, the
other for the lower jaw. have been
found. That dental forceps should
have formed part of the armamentar-
ium of a military surgeon in a remote
outpost shows in what common use
the instrument was.-British Medical
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

According to the advance sheets of
the 1909 Wilzius Official Catholic di-
rectory there are now in the United
States 14,235,451 Roman Catholics.
Adding to these figures the number of
Roman Catholics in the Philippines,
Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian islands
and the grand total of the people of
this faith under the United States
flag is 22,474,44O. as compared with
12,053,O0O Roman Catholic subjects
under the British flag. OF the four
million people in New York city, more
than one-quarter of them are Roman
Catholics
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

In John D. Rockefeller's reminis-
cences which are running in the
Worlds Work, he tells of participant
ing, while he was a very young man,
in helping to raise $4,000 to lift a
mortgage on a church. The plight
which confronted this church, he says,
stimulated him with the desire to
make money so that he could person
ally help on a more extensive scale in
charities. And so the secret is out as
to why he wished to amass such an
enormous fortune. 1t shows that he
was obsessed with a most laudable
ambition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

portant magazines and periodicals in
the country, and a collection of the
best of them in a book under the title
of cupid is King is a valued treas
ure in many libraries. That he should
be stricken down in the flower of his
manhood is a regrettable loss to his
intimate friends and to the host of
others that his verses had made for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

1t is said that Philander c. Knox,
who is to be secretary of state IN the
Taft cabinet shares the views of Eli
hu Root, the retiring secretary of the
state, on all important questions. If
this is so 1t is a most fortunate thing
for the country. 1t will mean
a continuance of the steady
progression in the diplomatic affairs
of this country with foreign nations
which has resulted in the accomplish
ment of so much that is wholesome
during the regime of Mr.. Root.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

Another baseball association has
been projected in this vicinity. 1t is
to be known as the Kansas Missouri
league. Soon there will be quite as
many aggregations of baseball clubs
in these parts as there are chautau-
quas. That they will be better pa
tronized almost goes without saying
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
REFLECTIONS OF a RAc1mLoR
[From the New YORK Press.1

[From the New York Press.I
Anyhow, a stage hero Is about az
real as the other kind.
The milk of human kindness seems
to yield a heap of buttermilk.
A girl would know how to manage
men if there weren't any in existence.
Most always there is a little good in
a man unless he thinks 1t is a great
deal.
The only man who knows how to
spend money is the one who hasn't any
to spend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

1t is almost impossible to believe,
but a story comes from Aberdeen,
Wash, that tells of the enactment in
real life of a tragedy that has here
tofore been confined to the realms of
melodrama. A brute of a man killed
a fellow by throwing him on a buzz
saw. This is finally placing truth ON
q plane with fiction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

There is nothing better for man,
and possibly also for beats, than a
good laugh, hut it appears that even
laughter should be INDUCED in with
restraint. A Pittsburg, Pa, woman
laughted so immoderately at a joke
that she dislocated her neck. But
then strange things are happening in
Pittsburg all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

In the death of Roy Farrell Greene,
who was city editor of the Arkansas
City x-Ray, the newspaper and liter
airy world of Kansas is deprived of
one of its shining lights. As a writer
of verse of the light and scintillating
sort, much of which was also most
wholesome in thought. Mr.. Greene
had something of a national reputa-
ton. His poems have been printed
from time to time in all of the i'm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

From the changed attitude that has
been adopted in California on the pro-
posed anti-Japanese legislation, the
legislature of that state has jumped
into a unique place in the history of
the legislatures of this country. 1t
has shown itself to be amenab1e to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

Mr.. Bingham, the police commits
Bioner of New York, thinks that po-
1icemen should take drunken men to
their homes instead of arresting them
and locking them up in a station
house. This system, it seems, is fol-
lowed in Cleveland, o. If it should be
inaugurated in Topeka the amount of
fines collected in the police court
would be reduced to minimum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
Old Tavern 1875 Imposter.

DR.. Carlos q. Godfrey, historian at
tached to the adjutant generals de-
partment, has made a discovery that
gives a hard blow to the state and to
several historical societies, which
have officially recognized an old
building in Haddonfield, Camden
county, as the place in which the
Provincial Congress of New Jersey
met in 1875 and substituted estate"
for COLONY" DR.. Godfrey has docu-
mentary evidence to prove the con-
gress met in this city.
In 1906 the legislature appro-
priated s18,50O for the purchase of
this old tavern property in Haddon-
field, on the superstition it was the
structure where the historical session
took place. DR.. Godfrey shows that
the place of the congress meeting at
that time was either in the tavern of
Rensselaer, Williams. called the
Royal Oak, or the tavern of Mrs.
Rachel STEELE, both of which were in
what is now North Warren street,
and both of which have long since
been torn down The historian
seems to prove the change of name
was made here on July Is, 1776.-
Trenton dispatch to New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

Assuredly, a most vigorous force
has been added to the cause of the
English suffragettes by the advent of
the redoubtable Carrie A. Nation
among them With her and her ak
in the van something of success ought
to be achieved when another assault
is undertaken by them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

Some of the candidates for the
United States senate, who have been
the means of causing a deadlock in
the legislature, need as many as one
hundred votes to win out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
KANSAS COMMENT


THE MORTGAGE TAXATION PLAN.
senator ]. L Brady of Lawrence has
introduced an amendment to the tax
law winch Is worth considering. Under
MS amendment all mortgages will be
taxed and the tax will go to the city or
township where the property rnortgaged
Is locdLeo- The purpose of this is two
fold: First, it will give the mortgage
owner the benefit of a lower rate of
Gaxation IN townships than in cities.
for instance the tax rate in Wichita
Is II mills on &l1e dollar while there
are townships in Sedgwick county
Mhere tne rate is not over nine mills.
Inc man nVlng in Wichita who holds
II mills and the money goes to WITCH
1ta Under the Brady amendment he
would pay nine mills and the money
would go to that township and not to
Second: The farmer who owed the
mortgage would have that amount de-
Quoted from the valuation of his farm,
ana sun the township would get full
tax returns upon all it's property.
But no matter where the MORTGAGE
lives, he would be held for the tax on
his mortgage because the assessor
would go by the record and the tax
which must be paid before the mort
gage could be collected.
The advantage to this plan is that
every mortgage would be reached and
none escape a tax.
No doubt in the end the land owner
would pay the entire tax, because the
rate of interest would be advanced to-
cover the tax. But the nortgagor
whose contract has been made would
get the best of it until he came to re-
new.-Wichita Beacon.
ECONOMY URGED
Senator William j. Stone, of Mis-
souri,, is regarded by the reformers as
a machine man, and servant of the
interests of great wealth. Possibly
there is truth in this charge; unques-
tionabIy it is part truth, but the re-
elected senator has said something
winch is not lacking in wisdom, and
which will meet with the approval of
many of his constituents, as well as
many taxpayers of other states. In ac-
cept1ng his election, Senator Stone
says there is need to turn back to the
days when governments were more
economical than they are today; that
the people are taxed too much, and
that the reformers are going about
with lanterns searching for some
means of raising more revenue All
over the country there is complaint
that taxes are too high, and a great
deal of this excess revenue goes for
the PRONUNCIATION of impossible or
needless ADMINISTRATIONS Globe.
o.
HOTELS AND FIRE ESCAPES.
Poor old Cope Gordon, for forty
years IN the motel business in Topeka,
lost $4,000 in the fire, is heartbroken
over the death of his old friend Ike
Lambert and discouraged over any
effort to rebuild his famous hotel.
And now there is some probability
that all of his guests will have cause
of legal action against him for dam
ages because his hotel was not provfd-
ed with the fire escapes required by
law. 1t might be remarked, in this
connection, that there is not a hotel
T0npIxa Xxhi ic aaI A.
fire protection which the law requires,
and there are probably mighty few
in the state which could come I'D to
the standard.-Salina Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

If President Roosevelt cares any
thing for the friends he used to have,
especially in certain newspaper quar-
tiers, he has probably remarked to
himself more than once of late, EFT
~,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
Argues for si,nplifed Spelling.

The other night in an upper West
side home there was spelling bee at
which some forty odd guests fell down.
The hostess offered the following SEN
tence as a test:
''It Is an agreeable sight to perceive
the unparalleled embarrassment of a
harassed peddler attempting to gauge
the symmetry of peeled onion.
which sibyI had stabbed with
poignard, regardless of the innuendoes
of the lilies of a carnelian hue"
The president of a college made five
errors in writing it, a learned clergy
man made seven, and an eminent
teacher and lecturer made six.-New
York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02
HUNOR OF THE Day

(which n do you think affords greater
car. Possession is a fine thing. But /
have sometimes suspected that the police
do."-Washington Star.
What was that hymn I e'erd EN- a-sing-
Mourner-"Shaii We Gather at the River"
-Ah, passon knowed ould Garge!''-The
Bystander.
What I want said the fretful mag
nate; is to find 9.,, some way OF, forgetting
Mr.. Dustin Stax. 'Get them to p1t Won
in the witness chair during a trust in
rn wSI get ,h twice se, as much pay do
fair!" There's difference Between betty &c a us.
KID, majestica1ly answered the elevator
starter, you're merely a necessity. I'm a
Did I understand you to say" asked
societyVat air? quite 500 1'r replica e cra aPr
be-. Society is simply a silly school in
GSPR6 4 tah to on Try to be
Said He-Young smyths and Miss
other. Said She-Judging by the way they
look at each other? Said He-No; Judging
by the way they don't look at anybody
else.-Washington Herald.
Mr.. Chairman began the man who is
erer to RTGs sPpeafng e The
chairman kindly, ito err is human
Washington Herald.
.'Of course. Tommy" said the Sunday
SGnT35 xona: X8nd Ike to be an angel
Tommy, "but I'd like to wait till I can be
a ,fnllsgroWn angel with gray whiskers.'-
You don't seem to be keeping up your
tennis tennis te,n, WeI. II. don't know SO much
S Sleia S Don't fngw if PPs its as good
Cumberland so. Mrs Howard, you come
to church every Sunday? Mrs. Howard
in town yet that we have no other en-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Life.
seemed to move you great deal?" He
did" "By a touching story?'' mo; by
nearly every Observation-Disclosures American.
Mr. Highbrow-It was Michelet, be-
salt of mans life" Miss Keen-Ouite
truei Young men aren't half SO fresh af-
ter they get married.-Boston Transcript.
Husband-Well, what did the phrenolo-
gist say about Whites head? Wife-Noth-
money back! Husband-Just as I expected
hes going to be poet!-Puck.
You ought to know better, Johnny"
said Mrs Lapsling, reprovingly, than ask
me what the difference is between courage
and bravery. They are pusillanimous terms
and mean the same thing."-Chicago Trib-
Une.
viii father be an angel?' asked the lit
tie boy. Hes got whiskers, and angels
don't have any, well" replied the
grandmother, your father may get there
but it will be by a close shave. Atlanta
Constitution.
IT like to see man take an interest in
his work" 80 do I. / once knew a DO
liceman who was so enthusiastic that IL
positively panied him TO see anybody out
of jail. Courfer-Journal.
The Minister-Then you don't think I
practice what preach, Ell? The Deacon
No, sir don't You've been preachin' on
the subjec o resignation fur twa years
an We hivna resigned yit.-Exchange
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BEING A GOOD FELLOW.

No man is a real good fellow who
knowingly lives beyond his means, no
matter what may be the Immediate
success he appears to gain by such
conduct. Sooner or later he will be
found out. Then, though he may still
be tolerated, beneath the liberation
there is always contempt. He may not
be actually Stunned, but he is regarded
as one certainly more or less of fool
and to be watched by the prudent as
potentially a knave.
The business man of any age finds
that he is becoming usually spoken of
"a good fellow in a certain tone,
and that for censures or criticisms of
his conduct the defense that he is
withal a good fellow is offered. had
better pull up short and do some hard
thinkine about the way he is headed
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

DAILY Matinee 2:30-High class vaudeville.
Evenings 7:45-9:15-High class vaudeville.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

For particulars, prices and amusement
details, see announcements in this paper
elsewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-02

Tonight S:15-The Ramona Wells Stock
and vaudeville.
Daily matinee 2:50.
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ANTUsEAfENTs.


"wednesday Night-Clyde Fritch's Girls"
Hearts"