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The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
FROM OTHER PENS
GOVERNED BY LAWYERS.

Newspapers. magazines and some
private citizens, among them one who
would be otherwise, have found much
food for comment in the fact Presi-
dent Taft has selected a round half
dozen of lawyers out of the nine men
who are to advise him as cabinet min
listers. Some objection has been made
also, to the fact that some of the six
have been retained to represent cor
porations- Large monopolistic com
bines want the best service they can
get, and they are willing to pay for it.
Consequently it might be assumed that
the corporation lawyers Mr.. Taft has
chosen will prove to be capable and
efficient officials.
But the fact that so many cabinet
officers are members of the Black
stonian profession is not so worty of
notice when it is recalled that of the
27O, or thereabouts. men who obtain
ed a sheepskin in the cabinet college,
an overwhelming majority have been
lawyers. Lawyers predominant in
congres, in state legislatures, nearly
everywhere in the public service. A
doctor rarely gives up his patients for
politics. The business man is too busy
to dabble. Lawyers make our laws,
interpret them and administer them.
The explanation is simple: Lawyers
have the time. the inclination and the
training. Men in other professions and
occupations seldom are so endowed
Pittsburg Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
She never will be Missed-A Mrs.
The greatest ambition any man can
have is to be happy.
Love is the tender passion, but
sometimes it seems pretty tough.
Women must have spring hats
whether we have any spring or not
All the worlds a stage. with about a
hundred understudies for every star
No, Maude, dear: there is no sim
ilarity between a counter-irritant and
a free lunch.
The man who hopes to wake up and
find himself famous shouldn't depend
entirely upon an alarm clock.
Even in the prohibition states there
is no law against raising hops, so the
frog industry still fiourishes.
Wigg-''wflliam Wright says an
aeroplane is as safe as an automobile"
Wagg-"Safer. my 10y; il you are go
ing to cross a street"
Blobbs-" -"Everything have in the
world I owe to my wife Slobbs-
"You seem to forget that little matter
of IS you owe me-"
Hoax-"How much does it cost to
board horse?" Joax-"Give II up.
don't own a horse: but it only costs
me five cents to board a street car"
"They tell me 1 am doing some
good things now" said DAuber. the
artist. well. I'm not one of them,"
exclaimed Wigwag, who had been
done before.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Optimism and opulence are gen.
orally boon companions.
X
InduIging in nonsense is no evidence
of a sense of humor.
y
Almost everyone has a yearning
once in a while to do something awful
bad.
Many girls think their success de-
pends upon the number of engage
ment rings they can exhibit.
% y #
When some persons get to the end
of a rope they are clever enough to
grab another one in the middle.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
HUMOR OF THE DAY

force meets an immoYable BODY. tsa rDsy DEE.
divide de gate e. 10 Nnd the he proes
sor let 1t go at that.-Washington Heralu-
use the side door,. roared the guard q
right. Young fellow" replied the stranger
SPm fT9m TS5t from Gf hQnofsg dfg h Gle
Leader,
Phwat did ye say the doctors name wssE
''Dr. Fitzpatrick" ''Thot settles 1t. NO
docther wild thot Sosnomen+ na+ TSh ge. Enow "a
# ssVhy not?" ''Well, yez see, my
names Patrick.
Guzzle (after he had succeeded in wax
ing his wife-Open the dorsh! MIS-. GHz-
Are you sober? Guzzle-Yesh. Mrs Guz-
zle-Then say reciprocity. y.'-Flek-Me-CP'
The embattled farmers had just fired
the shot heard round the world. None
of your noiseless guns for US, they
inventions-New York Sun.
on fdn dinner 5irge % 5V Weis % don't know what
you're going to do about It,. The ckapi,
the only real new animal, is too scarce TO
be Of any practical food value.
she-They say girls can't throw straight.
tice she generally hits the mark. He ire
Gently biften)-Yes; the easy mark.-Bos-
ton Herald.
Edyth-I lost my head when Jack pro-
posed last night. Grayce-Indeedl Edyth-
But 1 found 1t on his shoulder minute
later.-Chicago News.
The Collateral.-'What do people bor-
ton Herald.
Now is the time to scatter seeds Of
Kindness but If you expect to raise gar
den truck wait a few weeks.-Chicago
News.
Very Doubtful.-'I don't think they
would be happy if married" ''Who2"
THAT Henry James heroine and that
Marie Corelli hero."-Kansas City Jour
nal.
Unstable as water thou shalt not stay
on the wagon.-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.I

IFrom the New York Press.
The reason how many women seem
to be good is how few men are.
There's hardly anything less inter
esting to girl than being kissed by a
man who has a right to.
A man can take a great deal more
satisfaction in lying out of trouble
than not getting into it at all.
The reason a woman's children look
so beautiful to her is they wouldn't
if they were somebody eIse's.
There is nothing a man can be
prouder about than all the praise
worthy things he would do with hia
money If he were a millionaire,
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
MR.. BRYAN. PLUrocRAr.

The man whose vocal cords will re-
tall at 100000 a year, who travels
from place to place in a private car,
and juggles national conventions at
will, may still be a Great Commoner
He may even tour the world first
class, and hobnob with princes and
potentates and still be the peoples
friend. But there is a line which he
who crosses passes from the prole-
tariat to the plutocracy; the line
which divides the democracy of the
sidewalk from the aristocracy of the
motor car. And Mr.. Bryan has crossed
that line to the tune of $4,000 in
vested in an electric automobile,
with siren whistle. and hundred mile
attachment.
And the people are left alone with
their sorrow and Eugene ". Debs.
Some other leader than the Peerless
one may now lead us to three more
defeats.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
wiz Teach How to Eat.


To give instruction in scientific
housekeeping is the object of New
York's newest club.
It isn't strictly a woman'S club,
either, for men have come to the res
cue of struggling housewives, and are
prepared to help in the mathematical
branch of the service whenever it is
necessary to work out the proper pro-
portions of proteins, fats, and carbohy-
drates before going to market or cook
ing a dinner
Associated Clubs of Domestic
Science is the national name of the
new organization. Besides educating
the housewife in the chemical COM
position and nutritive value of food
and the proportion in which these
nutriments should be eaten to give
the best results for health and econ
omy, the organization will promote
all public causes the object of which
is the protection of pure food and the
prevention of retrograde movements
where pure food laws have been OBJ
tanned.
All departments of public science
work, whether in schools or clubs,
will have the aid of the new organ
ization, and besides educating the
housewife. efforts Will be made to in
struct hotel keepers on the important
facts of the science of dietetics.
All laws relating to the protection
of food whether national or state,
will be carefully guarded by the new
association, whose members will report
any failure to enforce the law. The
members will also inspect all places
where food is prepared, and give
publicity to the lack of cleanliness
New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

and blossoms of vegetables are not tc
be compared in beauty to those OF
flowers, but vegetable garden can be
so arranged that it will be anything
but offensive to the eye of even the
most sensitive. Its utility and its ad-
vantages, however. far overshadoW
anything it may lack in beauty.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
AN EXCUSE

Why do not legislatures accomplish
more? The reasonJis not hard to find.
Certain things are outlined which
ought to be doney The individual
members believe they will do those
things when they assemble in legisla-
tive session. A body of people, how
distinct from the men who compose it.
When a man becomes one of 165 men
the qualities that distinguish him,
unless he is unusually strong, disap-
pear and the qualities which he has
in common with other men are
acknowledgements Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
A CUTTING REBUKE

Tell me not in language florid.
For know what you would saw
That the weather's simply horrid,
And it's raining hard today!
Be not full of information
On the very latest news;
Please do spare your glib narration
OF your most important views!
Life is earnest. time is fleeting,
Naught for wasted hours atones;
Yes, I'm quite aware it's sleeting.
i can hear it on the stones
cant you-can't you. pray, be dumb, sir,
While I'm sitting on your chair?
II you want a tip, be mum, SIR;
Do not talk, but-cut my hair!
New York Press
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

Times seem to be a little dull around
washington these days. No special
messages to congress. no nominations
for membership in the Ananias club,
no hundred mile horseback rides, no
exciting tennis matches. no plunging
through icy creeks with corpulent army
officers trailino in the rear, no moth
ings OF the sort that were the usual
occurrences Of each day for some years
back are happening at this period.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

Senator Nelson AIdrich. chairman of
the finance committee of the United
States senate which will have imrne-
date charge of the new tariff bill when
IL reaches that body, believes that the
expenses OF the government should be
cut down and that duties should be
raised so that special taxes will not be
necessary. His suggestion for. cutting
down the expenses of the government
Is an excellent one
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

Times must be little dun among the
promoters of Kansas City. They are
talking Of building a couple of new
north and south railroads from Ne
braska to the Gulf of Mexico which will
run through western Kansas. All of
the many other railroads of this char
acter which have been projected in the
past have never developed beyond
the paper stage. But maybe things
will be different with these new propo-
sitions. Here's hoping
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

The report of the Oklahoma authori-
ties on their investigation of the alleged
mistreatment Of prisoners in the Kan
sas penitentiary is SO obscene that it
has been barred from the mails. It's
too bad that the fair name of the
newest of states is so often sullied by
the actions of it's officials.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
Time to End Courtship.

MANDY, said the 1ovesick Hiram,
al he twitched the wax flowers ner-
vously, won't you be mine? I swan!
It feels like my heart is coming
through"
"Gracious!' exclaimed Mandy, ap-
prehensively "I reckon I'll have to.
Not only your heart is coming through
but we have been counting so long
two of the sofa springs are coming
through h-ChicagO News.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

Wild ducks are now visiting in Kan
sas on their spring pilgrimage to the
north, and not a few hunters are going
out and banging away at them. Real
sportsmen. however, would not shoot
ducks in the springtime. The fall is the
proper time to hunt them.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

dorado Taft, the sculptor, character
ICES the art gallery at Washington as
a national gallery of horrors, so many
atrocities are there" 1t can be take n
for granted that none of the results of
Professor Taft's iabors are in the col
Ia-fi0p
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

The American Civic association has
cut out a difficult task for itself. 1t Is
going to try and get the legislatures OF
all Of the states to think alike on vari-
Gus important propositions.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

and administration of laws is the most
equitable kind of justice, and that's the
sort which is always emanating from
Judge Dana's court
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

That heavy rain of the other night
and day was just what Topeka needed
It cleaned up the streets in the best
possible way and the city now has all
the earmarks of a real ''spotless town"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

1t is to be hoped that Charles H.
Treat treasurer of the United States,
is the seventh son of the seventh son
of a true prophet. He predicts that
there will never be another financial
panic in this country.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

Under the commission plan for the
administration of it's municipal govern
ment the city of Des Moines saved
100000 during the past year. When
will Topeka get into line?
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
lection.

Lieutenant E. H. Shackelton of the
British navy on his recent trip in
search of the South Pole met with the
success that is usually attendant on
polar expeditions. He got within one
hundred and eleven miles of the object
of his n11ast-
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
pubIlcati ton in Topeka.
mai building over wires for this sole pur-
pose
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

With his usual good Judgment, Judge
Dana of the district court has decided
that the Democratic candidates for Of
fees on the city ticket are entitled to
a place on the ballot. City officials
questioned their rights in this regard
because the vote polled by them at the
primaries was not of the proportionate
size demanded by a most recent amend
ment to the primary law. The plans
for the primary in question had been
worked out long in advance Of the go
ing into effect Of this provision A lit
tie common sense in the Interpretation
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

lust watch Topeka grow. A six story
office building is to be built at once on
the southwest corner of Fifth street
and Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

Expert naturalists declare that the
white rhinoceros is really something of
a pinkish color. But whatever shade
its hide may assume, it is most reason
able to suppose that Mr. Roosevelt will
take fall out of one or more of them
If there are any left in Africa. He's
been in the habit of getting what he
goes after, with the possible exceptions;
of the Standard Oil trust and E. H.
Hartman but then it was against the
laws of this country to bring either of
them to earth with a trusty gun.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
KANSAS coAMENT
nNQUIsIFIvE MAN.

The assessor now has started on
ms yearly round again, and diligently
plugs away in sunshine and rain; and
II you want to cheer his heart and
ooosl MIN IN his task, you had better
post yourself upon the questions he
VIII ask. How many lots or farms
or neIds or acres do you own? How
many OF those acres spatronize home
merchants or support mail order
firms? What do you think of paris
green for killing cabbage worms Z?
What are the Christian names of all
your children. cats and dogs? Did
you ever know of cholera among a
punch of hogs? How many cows and
horses and turkeys do you keep? Do
you tolerate jackass or billy goat
or sheep? Have you any of the fol-
lowing, and If so what are they worth:
A spade, hoe or other tool for dig
glng up the earth,s a shot gun or a
oootJack or wireless telegraph, a
comic Punch and Judy show to make
the people laugh? Have you had
appendicitis? Are you troubled with
cold feet? Do you burn gas on a
meter. and if so does 1t mete? These
interrogation give you some idea of
your task; they are written as a sam
pie of the questions he will ask. If
you answer incorrectly and the proof
he can produce, you are apt to spend
the summer lying in the calaboose.-
Neodesha Sum-.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
THE IGNORANT EAST.

The little children of a leading Sa-
lima church were given a lesson paper
in Sunday school the other day which
contained very touching story about
little girl from the west. the child
OF wealthy parents, who was sent to
school In the east, and although this
little girl was II years old, she had
never seen a church in her life, had
never heard of Jesus, and was as COM
pletely ignorant of the Scriptures as
though they did not exist This Sun
day school paper is published in the
east, and it is the kind of rubbish
which makes the people out west
tired Rot of this kind, distributed
throughout the country, especially the
east. is what makes eastern people
think that the west is an uninhabited
wilderness, populated largely by wild
indians, cowboys, and buffaloes. If
the superintendent of that Sunday
school had backbone, he will Iefther
get change in the editorial system
Of that publication, or cancel the sub
scription of his school.-Salina Jour
nal
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
A Tribute to Leupp.

If the experiments of Francis E.
Leupp, commissioner of Indian affairs,
are successful there will develop in
this country a style of art original, pc
culiar, and as distinctive as the art of
Japan or India-the art of the Amer
lean Indian. The fame of the Navajo
weavers is now worldwide, and their
rugs and blankets command high
prices. All Indians, especially those
of the Southwest, are possessed of a
strong artistic sense, and their art is
not only peculiar to themselves, but
capable of being developed into some
thing that will take its place among
the schools This promise is seen
in the pottery, the baSketwork, and
the blankets of the Indian of the
Southwest, or even the beadwork of
the Sioux. But this Indian art is in
crude, or rather primitive, state, as
every other nation which has develop
ed a style or a school" 1t was in dam
ger of passing away. entirely, because
former Ideas of the education of the
Indian consisted In impressing upon
him in every matter the ideas of the
white man instead of developing what
the Indian himself had in him worthy
of development.
But in art matters, at least, Com
missioner Leupp is now endeavoring
to change all this. What he is doing
really to educate-to draw out-what
is in their minds, not to force the
white mans designs upon them. The
idea is not to give them our conven-
tional designs to work on, but to get
from them what is in their concep-
tion and to have them develop it along
their own Hnes.-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
An Argument in Favor of Smoking

in the Anglican Church at Bendigo.
One member wanted the temperance
pledge extended so as to ban tobacco
as well as alcohol Canon Bridges
warned the proposer that he would
have the whole female population up
in arms against him. Every wife
knew that the pipe was her husband s
best friend. It kept him at home and
away from the hotel. Opposition to
smoking was frequently case of sour
cranes Either the objector had not
the physique of smoker or the neces-
sary genial temperament. He was
sometimes a person who had tried to
smoke but with only partial success
London Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
whv Her Husband WAS Late.

A very much excited woman found a
new use for the public service commits
sion on Tuesday night. After the offices
had been closed and only the accident
bureau was open this woman called up
on the telephone. She was answered
by the inspector on duty.
"Can you tell me if there has been q
serious accident on the elevated lines or
the Subway" she asked anxiously.
There hasn't as far as we know" re-
piled the inspector.
you would know if there had been
one wouldn't you?'
"Yes, especially If it was serious. We
would hear at once"
And you haven't heard of any to-
night in Manhattan"
NO"
Not a block, or a delay, or any
thing?''
Nothing at all. Why? What is the
matter?"
well, I don't understand why my
husband is so late; he never was late
before"
Then the inspector hung up the re-
ceiver and laughed.-New York Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26
ADJUSTMENTS
At the Novelty
At the Majestic.
At tho AUDITORIUM.

Daily matinee 2:30-FIigh class vaudevtil
Evenings 7:45-9:15-High class vaudeVhi
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

What happens when an Irresistible
force meets an immovable body Dey
est member of tn class. And the profes-
sor let it go at that.-Washington Herald
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

The embattled farmers had just fired
the shot heard round the world. None
of your noiseless guns for US" they
cried. Herewith they deprecated modern
inVentions.-NeW York Sun
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

Guzzle (after he had succeeded in wax
ing his wife-Open the dorsh! MIS- GHz-
lie mead out of second-story window)-
Are YOU sober? Guzzle-Yesh. Mrs CUE
zIe-Then say reciprocity. '-Ptck-M -Me-Op-
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

Pm tired of nothing but beef or chick
en- for dinner" "Well, 1 don't know what
you're going to do about it. The ckapi,
the only real new animal, is too scarce to
be of any practical food value. Puck.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-26

Mr. MCGUIRE Ito hospital attendant
PhWat did We say the doctors name wasE
ssDr. Kilpatrickh 'Thot settles 1t. No
docther wild thot cognomen VIII get a
chance to operate on me-not II L know
it, why not?" well. yez see, my
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-02-08
WOULD ENABLE SCHOOL
DISTRICTS TO MERGE

Guthrie, Feb. 8-A bill embodying the
recommendation of State Superintendent
Cameron regarding the merging Of school
districts so as to afford improved facili-
ties for the students, has been presented
in the house by Representative Coyne.
The act provides that territory, outside Of
any town or village but adjoining thereto,
may be attached to such city, town or
village, upon proper application to the
board of education of such city Or town.
This application must be made by a ma
jority Of the electors residing in tho terri
tory to be attached All property i'm
mediately becomes taxable as a part of
the school district to which annexation is
made, and the annexed district shares its
full proportion of expenses incident to
the conduct of the schools. Whenever
the territory so attached shall have
population equal to that Of any ward in
such city, such attached territory shall be
entitled to elect two members of the
beard of education The bill will enable
many country districts to share the bene-
fits Of schools in cities and towns OF the
state and at the same time enable the
cities and towns to collect a proportion
ate tax from those benefited
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-02-08
NEWSPAPER FRATERNITY
MAY GET BILL THROUGH

Guthrie, Feb, 8-The first of the bills
introduced by the newspaper fraternity
Of the state was Saturday reported favor
ably by the printing committee. 1t is a
bill by Japp and Burnette making an ap-
preparation of a little over sixteen th0us-
and dollars to defray the expenses in
Cured in the constitutional election in
September 1907. This amount goes
largely to the country newspapers for
publishing notices and printing ballots.
Last winter the legislature passed bill
paying the salaries of election judges and
clerks serving at the same election, but
refused to pay the printing claims. The
accounts are just 1t is now up
to the country newspapers of the state to
see that members from their counties
know the merits Of the measure.