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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

WHAT PARENTS SHOULD KNOW.
No greater service in the interests of
a safe and sane Fourth of July has
been done by any newspaper or agency
than by the Chicago Record Herald. 1t
has been hammering away at this good
work for months, and the things that
it has had to say in this respect are as
pertinent to the people of every COM
munity of the country as they are to
those of Chicago, even if that city has
out-distanced most of the other cities
in the land in the way of stringent
ordinances covering the handling of
powder-crackers and other noise pro-
ducers.
Recognizing the fact that accidents
to children are certain to occur on the
celebration of the Fourth, which oc-
ours next Monday, the Record-Herald
recently directed it's attention to telling
parents some things that they ought to
know to prevent their children. who
may be injured by the explosion of fire
works, from getting lockjaw. They are
as follows. and every parent should
clip out these brief paragraphs and
paste them in his hat until the last
echo of the celebration is over:
protect his children from lockjaw in
case they are injured in the course of
Fourth of July celebrations.
He ought to know that the slight as
well as well as the serious injury may
result in IoCkjaw.
He ought to know that in every case
of injury a doctor should be called.
He ought to know that the wounds
should be washed and peroxide of by
drogen applied even before the doctor
comes, and that the wound must be
kept open in the meantime.
He ought to know that medical treat
ment should include thorough cleasing
of the wounds, cauterization with a
carbolic acid solution or other disin-
fectant. and that it should be dressed
every day. He ought to know that
anti-tetanic serum can be obtained
gratis in case it is needed and he is un-
able to pay for it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
oUAKER afEpITAT1oNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Many a mans will is broken long
before he dies.
To return tea party must be a sort
of re-par-tee.
Don't borrow trouble. Enough will
come home to roost
1t doesn't pay to butt in unless you
are pretty headstrong.
The outhelder who hits the high
ball is apt to ball the high hit.
Any pawnbroker will tell you that
even rainproOf coat can be soaked.
Don't trust to luck. Nine-tenths OF
the people in the world guess wrong.
It must be the ups and downs of life
that keep man from getting rusty.
A man never realizes how many
friends he has till he doesn't need
them.
Take advantage of your opportuni-
ties. If you don't some other fellow
VIII take advantage of you.
You should always remember that IL
is about thousand times easier to call
a man a liar than to prove it.
First Widow-"I understand you
have brought Up dozen children"
Second Widow-"Huhi That amt a
marker to bringing up three hus-
bands"
This play is apt TO take ones
breath away" remarked the young
man who had been out between the
acts. What a pity you are impervi-
Gus to such emotionl" said the young
woman sitting next to him, shifting
suspiciously.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
HOT WEATHER DoN'Ts.

Especially pertinent during these
days of sweltering. heat, when almost
everybody is wishing for the grand old
winter time are a handful of hot
weather donts which occupy promi-
nent position in the bulletin for June
issued by the Kansas state board of
health. Their sensibleness should strike
everyone with such a force that heed
will be given to them. And If they are
observed, why it will be easier for
everyone to put up with the warm
weather. They follow:
Don't fret-it will only make you
warmer.
Don't scold-it will sour your sweet
ness.
Don't eat too much-you will live
longer and it will cost less.
Don't drink ice-cold water-the re-
action will make you feel hotter and
delay digestion.
Don't buy foodstuffs which have been
roosting or feasting place for flies
you may become infected with a dan
Gerous disease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

have carried on their affairs in the past
in excellent harmony, which has been a
good thing for both of them and also
for the people doing business with
them. It is to be sincerely hoped that
the present ripple which seems to be
disturbing their serenity will blow over
and that their relations will become
most friendly once again. 1t would
also appear that designing politicians
are playing quite a hand in the disturb
ances which have come to the front in
banking circles. If this is true, it's bad
business, for the conduct of banks
should be absolutely free from the in
fuence or control of politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
THE DREAMER LIVES FOREVER

I am tired of planning and toiling
In the crowded hives of men;
Heart-Weary of building and spelling,
And spelling and building again.
And long for the dear old river,
where dreamed my youth away;
For a dreamer lives forever,
But a toiler dies in day.
I am sick of shallow seeming
OF a life that is half lie;
OF the faces lined with scheming
In the throng that hurries by.
from the SleeplesS thoughts endeavor
would go where the children play;
For dreamer lives forever,
And a thinker dies in a day.
1 feel no pride, but pity,
For the burdens the rich endure;
There is nothing sweet In the city
But the patient lives of the poor;
Oh, the little hands too skflful,
And the child mind choked with weeds !
The daughters heart grown wflful,
And the fathers heart that bleeds!
oh, no! from the streets rude hustle,
From the trophies of mart and stage
would fly to the woods low rustic,
And the meadows kindly page,
Let me dream as of old by the river,
And he loved for the dream Away;
For a dreamer lives forever.
And toiler dies in a day.
John Boyle O'Reilly-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the chicago News.1


Many man is perfect when Il
comes to being a nuisance.
Do your duty-but remember that
it isn't your duty to do your friends
How can a young man keep a stin
upper lip when there Is nothing but
down on it?
A man wonders whether or not he
ought to marry until he does-then he
wonders why he did.
The man who doesn't owe a dollar
can look any other man in the eye and
tell him to 90 to-work.
A man seldom realizes the true
value Of money until he has to hand
his hard-earned salary over to his
wife.
Blessed is the man who, in the hour
Of adversely, discovers that he has
even more friends than he thought he
had
Truth crushed to earth may rise
again. but it's apt to stay down long
enough for lie to get away with the
goods.
In after years. when a mans wife
springs an old love letter on him that
he wrote he Is apt TO sneak up an
alley and try to kick himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

Statistics issued by the interstate
commerce commission show that IA
talities in railroad accidents were
fewer during the first three months
CT this year than during the CORES
ponding period of last year. This is
gratifying condition of affairs, and
speaks we'll for the increased care
that is being devoted by the railroads
to the operation of their trains. But
Slason Thompson, the Chicagoan
who writes pieces for the railroads.
VIII probably rush into print with a
statement to the effect that this de-
crease in railroad fatalities is due to
the financial panic of more than
twenty months ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
I'LL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
&c 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, 1909-07-02
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press

About the most satisfactory lie Is
saying you had to go to serve on a
jury when ii was a baseball game.
A man might as we'll be roast beef
cooking in an oven as to be engaged
to stout girl and hug her on a hot
dav.
The reason so few people ever have
any money is they are going to save
tomorrow.
When a woman has Quarrel with
her husband it's a sign she can try to
make people believe it never happen
ed to them in their life.
A cheerful thing about thin wife
is her husband never has to listen how
fast she is losing weight and keep on
paying for bigger clothes for her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

contribute to the family support;
whose children are deprived of educa-
ton and the advantages which might
have been theirs if their father had
chosen honest employment instead of
being misled by the glamour of poll
tics and following its wilI-o'- the-wisps
into the morasses of poverty, disap-
pointment and heartaches." And
what is true of Boston in this respect
is true to a greater or less degree of
every community in the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Loose methods never helped a man
to succeed at anything.
Stingy folks are apt to lead rather
miserable eXiStences.
Times habit of waiting for no man
is exceedingly annoying on occasions.
x y y
It's not very difficult to nail lie
but it is hard to keep one nailed down.
If it took. brains to get into what is
called swell society its ranks
wouldn't be numerous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

Ben Tillman's insistence that the
tariff protectionist should put a ten
cents a pound duty on all the tea i'm
ported into this country for the pur-
pose of protecting the decidedly in
fantiIe tea industry of South Caro-
lima was really ridiculous, but it was
no more so than many of the protec-
tive schedules which have been
forced through the senate by Mr.. Aid
rich and his votes, and these same
votes were responsible for killing the
South Carolinan's proposition. TILL
man was perfectly justified in declar-
ing that the Aldrich crowd acted in
consistently in this matter, even
though there could be no possible
justification for a duty on tea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

Probably if Governor Haskell. of
Oklahoma, wandered into these parts
he would not come near getting the
complimentary notices in the pews-
paper that have been accorded to Mr..
Haskell. the baseball umpire in the
Western league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

BoSton Lady@Did you learn anything at
solutely nothing. Wish I hadn't gone ]
had seen all the gowns before.-Tife.
80 you are "a years old. To what do
you attribute Your long pfe?,' "A good
many things have contributed to it, the
which have always taken not to get into
fight with bigger man than myself. -
chicago Record-Herald.
| Father-Bobby. whatever you do. begin
at the bottom and work up. Bobby-But
Circle Magazine.
Miss Hunt-I didn't know that Miss
Flash was college graduate, did youf
MISS Blunt-To be sure did; she is one OF
the aluminium of Vassar.-Boston Courier.
starlight-oh. Miss wobbins. may
Wei, cannot see how Won can Ven TIslI
unless you go.this time!-Life-
Whats this extra session of Congress
for? Il suppose they want to add some
thing to the sum total of the human OUT
put OF gas-'-New York Press.
He who relies on posterity to do him
justice will not feel the pain of disappoint-
ment.-Puck.
office Boy-,Here's lady what insists
tor9Then escorf nT 5s, aWLut eXci1ed! Edi-
room, you idiot!-Life.
night" 81 know it," answered Nh Sirius
Banker. The photograph you keep going
sleep. I'm going to complain to the s. p.
G. A."-washington Star.
The New Husband-See here. pct. I'm
awfully anxious to get to the office early
this morning; Can't we have breakfast?
course we cawn't have breakfast until
Fido gets up.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Knox-There goes vouna De short in
Jay Green's automobile. Crox-Why, I
thought De Short owned it? He told me
not an hour ago that he had put all his
money into it. Knox-Weu, he probably
told the truth; He bought SO cents worth
or gasoline before he started.-Chicago
Daily News.
Robinson Ito Jones)-I say. old man.
have you loose FLYER about you? Jones
Why-er-wOuld you believe it. 1 met
Smith just now, and he had the nerve to
course? Jones-N-no. he didn't told
him 1 owed it to yeu. Robinson-Ahi
owe you sou! I've paid up every cent
I've borrowed OF you. and promise you
for money. 1t was a shame-a beastiy
shame-but don't be alarmed, It'll not oc-
cur again Good day! Robinson dizzily)-
short-Lived- The good die young"
good resolutions" sniclSered the simpIe
Mug.-Philadelphia Record.
Faces the Wrong way.-A pessimist al
ways looks to the west to see the sun rise.
Dayton Journal
Boobies mother !'say. k a. said Bobbie
obediently, kin you fight yet?'-Buffalo
Express.
,n Here's ee man what say de worlds com
i iaIe YER md6 Shd d 9et Jgy In de
Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

A Chicago jury has sustained the
''unwritten law by freeing a man
who murdered the alleged betrayer of
his sister. This apology for justice
has apparently been going out of
fashion of late in other parts of the
country. as it should. The Chicago
5uries should see to 1t in the future
that they get we'll to the head of the
line in this procession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

Emperor William piloted his yacht
TO victory the other day in big race.
There's nothing nomentous about
this. 1t merely strengthens the sus-
picion that when kings and emperors
and presidents come out ahead in
sporting events. the other contestants
do not try hard to win.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

That Kansas City, Mo-, woman who
married recently an Englishman of
distinguished family certainly got her
moneys worth in the way of name
even if her groom has not a title. The
name she will now wear is nothing
less than Mrs. Henry Charles Somers
Augustus Somersat-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
FROAq OTHER PENS

FARMERS AND UNEMPLOYED.
In every state of the United States
the farmer should be UP and at it in
study of this unfortunate condition of
unemployment with which the people
of the city have to deal constantly.
1t may be that when the farmer who
greatly needs the work of these I'M
employed shall enter heartily into CO.
operation with those of the cities and
towns who are attempting to provide
for them and him there may be
found a way to induce the idle ones
to leave their beloved haunts in the
crowded streets and take to the labor
of the fields for good wages and good
living All of those who are capable
of physical work could be provided
with it. The New York legislature
recently created commission to
study the causes and effect of I'M
employment. The sooner that COM
mission gets into touch with the In
telligence of the farmer the more
likely to follow something in the way
of a good result. No doubt the in
dustry and prosperity of the farm
ing class will continue. The unem-
ployed of the cities should be trans
planted to the farms and the villages
of farming districts. The problem is
not an impossible one. The farmer
should enter heartily into its solution.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
Another Maine Nature Tale.

An Auburn man has a cow whose
idiosyncrasies have puzzled him. A
month ago she seemed gay and light
hearted. A week of depression followed.
Another week of airy and hghtsome
frivoIity seemed to follow, and now
again she would seem depressed. He
has been watching her and has just
discovered that she has developed a
passion for literature as a diet. In 9TH
er words. she chews the old pamphlets
and newspapers. He has found out an
other thing, viz, that her moods vary
as to the amount and character of
illustrations consumed-the more the
articles are illustrated, the more ex-
hilaration for the cow; the more solid
the matter, the greater the area of de-
preston. For instance, a copy of the
Congressional Record will reduce the
cows spirits and temperature to sub
normal, while copy Of any Of the cur
rent Illustrated newspapers will make
her caper like happy child 1.-THE 9TH
er day. said he, 81 fed her a select dish
of illustrations from Puck, Frank Les
lies the Lewiston Saturday Journal,
and the annual report of the Maine ag-
ricultural department, and she was so
happy that she kissed me" We give
this story for what it is worth, for we
have not yet had opportunity to verify
it.-Lewiston Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

If the Tafts happened to live in
Topeka their boy Charlie, would have
to wait few years before he could
run his mothers automobile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

The excess of government disburse-
xnents over receipts for the fiscal year
just about to end will be $92,5OO,0OO.
This is an excellent way not to trans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

As a wrecker of men, politics is
viewed thusly by the Boston Travel
Ter: For every politician who comes
out of office with a fortune. able to
set a bad example by his easily and
generally wrongly won wealth, thou
sands are ruined for life because they
went into politics. Every ward in
Boston has its scores Of these human
wrecks. whose wives are obliged to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

Warning to baseball fans: Don't get
too wrought up over the decisions of
the umpire. A New York man fell in
a fit because an umpire called a fly
ball that looked good for home run
q foul. He burst a blood vessel and
NAV die
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

Probably the reason that the police
OF this city have not picked up sus-
pect in the Elsie Sigel case is because
there is not a Chinaman in Topeka,
nor has there. been for a long time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02

Poorly done. thou faithless SER
vants-is the salutation that is due
to the controlling forces of the United
States senate in respect to the work
done by them in revising the tariff.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
POTATO Is the King.

The potato is king in Aroostook
county. Fully $12,000,OoO has been
cleared by the farmers in that one
county on the potato crop of 1908, the
total shipments to market having been
100000 bushels. This year every
piece of land that will grow a potato
has been planted, and the estimate
for the 1909 crop is 100000. If the
prices hold good, it is thought the
Aroostook farmers will clear not less
than $24,000,0OO after keeping all the
potatoes they need for home use. The
price of potato land has advanced 80
to SO per cent, and the market is
strong, even at such prices.
The banks of the county simply. are
gorged with potato money. Autoplows
and disk harrows are being purchased
by the farmers and fertilizer is being
purchased by the carload lot. Train af-
ter train, loaded down with supplies
for the potato growers is moving up
the line into Aroostook county. The
prosperity is not without its drawback,
however, because the price of farm
labor has advanced to civil war rates,
and the county is being overrun with
automobile and piano agents. They are
pleading with the farmers wives and
daughters to insist that with fortunes
made it is necessary to have music in
the home and autos in the roads,
Pressure Isle (Me.) Dispatch to New
York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
New use For s1NTagicians.' .

The astounding fact was divulged, at
the dinner of the Society of American
Magicians last week, that there are
10000 of those wonderfully gifted fell
lows in this country, men who can
pick gold coins out of the thin air, pull
a, ton of two of dress goods, a gross OF
American flags, and a live pig out of a.
casual silk hat, palm live goldfish, and
hatch handkerchief out of hens eggs.
Twenty thousand experts in the art Of
mystifying their fellow-men. whose
dexterity, invariably accompanied by
pleasing conversational gifts, is en-
ployed only for diversion. No feat Of
the Spiritualists, hypnotists, clair
Voyants, or so-called healers is more
remarkable than the tricks these fell
lows can play on the vision and i'm
agination of a roomful of normal hui
man beings. The gravest troubles the
French government encounters in it's
early efforts to pacify AlgierS were
caused by the influence of the native
magicians. The experiment of send
ing Robert Houdin and his son, both
expert conjurers, to show the Alger-
ians how much more astonishing the
repertory of acknowledged trickery
was than the mysteries they had been
accustomed to, proved very success
full. 1t seems that our army of pro-
fessional mystifiers might be employed
to the same purpose among the
unenlightened dupes of the charlatans
who infest this country.
Wherever a pretentious imposter
claiming occult powers is quilting the
people, g. free exhibition of the same
sort of thing, confessedly produced by
acquired skill, would have a whole
some effect. This is no joke. Our 90
900 magicians might we'll be employ
ed to educate the masses and lift them
out of the rut of superstition.-New
York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
Ant Hills and Flies.

A recent traveller in Central Africa
describes an interesting use of the soil
of ant hills. 1t appears that it makes
excellent bricks of which houses are
built. The natives tread it with water
into a dough-like substance, which is
shaped in rough wooden molds- 1t is
then dried in the sun. and afterward
baked in native kilns. The same sub
stance is found to make excellent ten
mis- courts. It is mixed with water into
a thick paste, spread on the ground,
and smoothed over with the hands.
The same traveller tells us how the ma
tives in the neighborhood of Lake
Nyassa esteem a species of fly as an
excellent article of diet It is known as
the "kungu," and appears to be pc
culiar to the lake. At certain seasons
of the year they appear in enormous
numbers, and are sometimes blown in
rnyriads over the land. If this hap
pens near village the natives come
out eagerly to gather them up They
make them into what they consider a
delicious confection.-London Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
SQUARE DEAL. IN POLITICS.

There has been a great deal of kick
ing at Governor Hughes ideas and
plans the past winter, and he has been
defeated in his aims at sundry times.
The machine politicians have been
against him. denouncing his purposes
as too idealistic and Utopian.
The first appeal to the people has
been made to decide between the
Hughes and anti-Hughes forces. That
was in Oswego county. and the anti
Hughes forces were signally defeated.
The plain question that went before the
people was whether their cause or the
cause of the politicians should win:
That is the point. stripped of all
verbiage, that the people saw in the
conflict. In this verdict they do not de
eide against the Republican party. but
tho the Republican party is greater
than the machine; that the machine
must be operated for the people, and
not for the engineers, or it must 60
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