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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

CFrom the Chicago News.1
The best butter isn't strong-unless
it's a goat.
People are never stingy with things
they don't want.
When a poor girl marries a poor
young man-that is love.
A good fellow is usually a man
with a lot of bad habits.
Many are mentioned for the presi-
dency, but few draw the salary
If a girl laughs and grows fat the
other girls have the laugh on her.
Lots of highway robberIes are
pulled off under the guise OF finan-
ciering.
A practical joke is what a woman
plays on a man when she marries him.
Even in a prohibition state there
is always more or less trouble brew
ing.
When a woman acquires a fol, lot
of trinlets she begins to speak Of her
jewels.
We may know what Is best for ,s
to do. but the trouble is to persuade
ourselves to do it.
The phot0grapher never takes nan
pie for what they are worth. b7,f for
what ne can get out of them.
The average workingman would lflsa
to be rich enough to enable him n tar
his boss just what he really thfnks
of him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
THE REAL SENTIMENT.

While the newspaper columns are
overfiowing with discussion of the re-
vision of the tariff and politicians are
preparing to meet this as the great is
she in next years elections, a voice
from the grass roots is heard telling of
the real sentiment of Kansas people on
the most important issue before them
at this season of the year. According
to State Senator Reed, of Smith Cen
ter, who spent the day in Topeka, the
people of the Sixth district are more
interested in the condition Of crops and
the need of rain than any other one
thing Political questions are second
airy thoughts just now while the heat
of the sun and the shadows cast by
passing clouds occupy all of the farm
ers' attention.
The consumer pays the tariff, but he
must raise crops in order to raise
money. Kansas farmers are noted for
the interest they take in politics and
Kansas is classed as a progressive
state on present issues but in spite OF
all these facts and classi1cations there
is little talk over the state about the
work of the special session. The real
feeling lies below the surface and will
not be known until the votes are count
ed in the next primary to choose be-
tween the progressive and reactionary
for congress.
The real test of whether the tariff
revision fight has just begun OF is on
the wane will be had in the next con-
gressional elections. The records OF
their representatives are before the peo-
pie and they can endorse or reject as
they see fit.
This test case should be written in
the records as that Of Rhode Island VS..
The Louisiana Purchase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

and the "scare's'' punishment was cut
fifteen minutes short by a hand bains
waved to him. As he came to the
steps an informal introduction toob
place. Then Mr.. Mortimer, with his
superior ingenuity, managed to rig up
an object warranted to keep all crows
forty rods from a corn field or no pay.
Next day Miss May had 70 come
down to bring the widow some tea and
pie, and Mr.. Mortimer had to see how
his scarecrow was working. Then. a.
the girl failed to appear next day, Mr..
Mortimer had to call at the Jasper
farm house to inquire for her. Then
widows and scareorows and loving
hearts and the good old summer time
got all mixed up and the last report
from the widow:
Yes. sir. that last scarecrow saved
the corn. and If you don't believe those
young people have fallen dead in love
with each other and are going to BE-
married next year you just wait ana
look at the society papers."-(Copy-
right. 1909. by Associated Literary
Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
CFrom the New York Press.l

From the new Y DIRK PRESS
Save the pennies and your family will
take care to spend the pounds.
A boy has a chance to get some edu-
cation by his father not paying too
much for it.
A girl can be so sure of her looks that
she would know her eyes were blue If
they were green.
The chief reason a man believes in
oId-fashioned whipping for the children
is his wife doesn't.
A mother can write a ten-page letter
on how she knows the baby will be
able to talk before anybody but her ex-
poets it.
Being good ought to make a long life
because it's so mighty uninteresting-
The reason a woman keeps house so
we'll is you'd better tell her so anyhow.
The more girl will kiss her brother
the more she would mean it if he wasn't.
1t takes a woman to look up to a
man so far below her that he's scarcely
in sight.
A valuable thing about a private vege-
table garden is it teaches you to bear
dtsappointments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
KANSAS COMMENT
PARTING OF OLD FRIENDS.

PARTING OF OLD FRIENDS.
The public and the railroad train
ing of ways. They are about to be-
come separated each unto his own way.
The travelling public and the train
drinking cup have been friends a very
long time. The tourist never bore any
particular Ill will against the little
companion Of the water cooler. The
only time he ever said anything mean
about the overworked cup was when
it was missing from its place and could
not be found.
railway coach without a drinking
cup will seem as dry as a merry-go-
round without music.
Maybe the drinking cup did harbor
germs and maybe it did get them
mixed once in awhile and give soma
person some other PERSONS germs.
Maybe 1T wasn't the cleanest utensil in
the world. 1t certainly was one OF the
most useful.
When the poor old drinking cup has
extted, the travelling thirst will become
intensified several times. One Graves a
drink more when he cannot get Il.
There will also be more monotony in
every coach than before the cup went.
No through passenger can show his
skill at making the cup set on the arm
of the high back seat while he eats his
dinner What will the fretting child
find to chase up and down the aisle
when trains are cupleSS?
Maybe the drinking cup was false
but the public was too good a friend of
the old cup to suspect it. Somebody
else had to do it.-Wichita Beacon.
THE COUNTRY PICNIC.
The automobile has not become the
beast of burden and thing Of pleasure
with Douglas county farmers the way
1t has In other parts Of the state, but
for social gatherings, neighborhood
friendships, and real enjoyment no
community can be found that ranks
ahead of Douglas county.
The school houses are the gathering
places In the winter and telephones and
daily newspapers make 1t possible II
advertise social features as thoroughly
In the country as in town. But during
the summer the life of the country is in
the picn1cs. Everyone has attended
picnics of various sorts, but unless one
has attended one of the big county
gatherings such as are held in Doug
las county, they do not fully realize a
OF the pleasure and enjoyment that can
be crowded into such an advent
And these picnics mean real good to
the rural community and also to the
people OF the town. They are in a way
overgrown mass meetings where man
meets with man and woman with wn-
man to discuss the things in which the
are most interested. 1t means greater
enlightenment not only upon questions
or good for country, state and nation,
but for the farm and home life as we'll
1t is movement so thoroughly whole
some and beneficial that 1t is bound to
spread and prove popular in many
Observation-Disclosures World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
HYHAWKER JOTS

Doniphan county claims to have as
fine corn this year as that grown In
the fertile Kaw valley.
The Clay Center Dispatch adds its
knock to the state guaranty law by
narration of the many kicks already
registered against that devoted piece of
legislation.
The state wide normal to be held
at Emporia this week is attracting
lot of attention in the school circles
of the state. superintendent Fair
child is on the program for an ad-
dress.
There is team of horses on the
streets of Hutchinson pulling dray
wearing gunnysack pants on their
front legs. The pants keep the flies
away and therefore are of much use
to the animals.
Rev. John w. Brown. who died the
other day at Linn, had often expressed
the wish that he might preach one
Sunday and be in heaven the next. J."
The wish was granted. for he died in
the harness.
A tramp arrested in Ottawa recently
was fully prepared for anything that
came his way. He had six raZors and
two knives. He probably had razor
knife on Sunday
L The Mcpherson Republican calls at
tention to the fact that its small neigh
bor Moundridge, has two fire compan-
held in Mcpherson. So far there has
been ne protest from Moundridge over
the insurance rates under the new
schedule.
The Girard Airship Company have
formed a partnership with a wealthy
syndicate from Joplin, Mo. The broad
minded policy of the Girard people
is to be admired as much as the lack
of perspicacity on the part of the Jop-
lin people in scattering their money
in Kansas.
Last Saturday afternoon Lafayette
Morrison living four miles southeast
of Burlington, was bitten on the little
finger of his left hand by rattlesnake.
He thought he had killed the snake but
when he picked it up to cut off the but
tons 1t bit him. He went at once to DR..
Berry and the finger was properly at
tended to and is getting along nicely
now.-Burlington Democrat.
The farmers near Neosho Rapids
are organizing with the ambitious
project in mind of Strengthening the
channel of the Neosho river. They
expect to spend 100000 in the under
taking and will have to dig a ditch
sixty miles wide, twenty feet deep and
three miles long. They will save hun
dreds of thousands of dollars every
year by this ounce of prevention of
spring floods
Henry W. Young, the well known
Populist editor. writes as follows on the
Times: "It is rather a painful duty to
make few remarks about the weather
this week while waiting Mr.. Altaffer's
August summary. which will appear in
the next issue of the Times. Looking
back over nearly thirty years spent in
southern Kansas, during which time 1
have been fortunate enough to have
evaded half a dozen Augusts, I certain
ly can remember but one that was
drier hotter and more uncomfortable
than the month that is now drawing %
a close. In 1881 I was living at Coffey-
VILE and to the best of my recollection
we had no rain there that year from
the 9Th of July until the 9th of Sep
TENDER. Meanwhile things got a good
deal worse parched than they have
been this year. while it was the daily
rule, to which there were few excep
tions. for the thermometer to get up to
100 degrees or over"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

Senators Foster and McEnery of
Louisiana voted often with Aldrich on
the tariff schedules and in defending
their votes the New Orleans Picayune.
the leading paper of that state, makes
the following remarkable declaration:
IF the new standard of Democracy is
to be raised only over those public
representative men who for the sake OF
a shiboleth will consent to and take
part in a policy that must result in the
impoFerishment of their own states
and constituents. they will be of a very
different metal and temper from the
men who in 1851 declared for Louisiana
and the south above the United States
and the whole world. Louisiana's SEN
ators and representatives must stand
for Louisiana and it's people above ali
others -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There is no rest for the weary. After
the ice man comes the girl with the
gas bill.
The average man is worrying more
over getting a deposit In the bank
than the guaranty of that deposit by
the state.
u
If it is true that the misfortunes OF
life that are hardest to bear never
happen, why is it that the mosquitoes
are thicker and buster on hot nights
than any other time?
4 u
A little philosophy and a sense of
humor will carry a man further on
the road to happiness than a half
bushe1 of brains and a wagon load of
any other things that might be men
toned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

Phil Campbell, congressman for the
Third district, does not have to go far
to find his troubles these days He
has two postoff1ce fights on his hands,
one at Cherryvale and the other at
Cofeyville. The assignment of post
masters is the serious business of a
pcongressman's official career He can
be for OF against Joe Cannon, may fail
to get single public building for his
district, be left off the list of the
chosen for a congressional junket, par
take of the feshpots of Rhode Island
and come home wearing a stovepipe
hat. But the thing that makes him or
undces him quite is the selection Of
postmasters for the towns and cities of
his district
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
Filed Down His Ducks Bill.

Filing down a ducks bill in the
hope that it would not be able TO eat
so much corn was the charge made
against Dennis Smith, of 433S Lay
cock street, when the Women's So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals brought him before Magis-
trate Harris today. A fine Of $40 and
costs was imposed
Smith stated, it is said. that the
duck ate four times as much as a
neighbor's chicken. He decided that
the ducks appetite was affected by
the size of it's bill. and he filed it
down, therefore. until it was no larg-
er than the chickens. Neighbors who
heard the fowl squaWking in protest
informed an agent of the society
Philadelphia dispatch to New York
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

A Hutchinson reporter by the name
of Scott has made the best and most
practical proposition yet advanced in
the interest of good roads for Kansas.
He would hold a convention of the city
and county officials, business men and
journalists of the state at which the
majority of the delegates would be
called upon to agree on a plan of estab-
fishing one good and permanent road
through each county in such fashio 1
that these roads would connect with
each other. Out of this system of roads
would eventually evolve a continuous
highway that would bring great profit
Hnd credit to the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

! Subscribers Of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate OF ten
cents q week or thirty cents a month
Hfby mail Only.) Address changed as
often ms desired. While ont OF town
the State journal viii be to you like
j. daily lstter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time Subscriptions TO save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
Bluebirds, Nest in Mail Box.

When Customs Inspector Fred Mid
dleton a few days ago reached his
hand in the rural mail box in front of
his residence at the Cliffs, in Brandy
wine Hundred, he was surprised to
find a birds nest in the box and in
the nest three eggs. Upon examination
it was found that they were bluebird
eggs. and in short time after leaving
the box a bluebird was seen to enter.
After making sure that the bird
was in the box, Mr.. Middleton took the
bird out, stroked it affectionately, and
returned 1t to the nest from which he
had taken it, The bird did not appear
to be frightened. but rather enjoyed
the attention and contented1y remain
ed on the eggs.-Wilmingto Every
Evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

In the Ballinger-Pinchot con-
troversy over the conservation of our
national resources. it appears that
the indoor and outdoor forces of the
government are allied against one
another. Pinchot and his supporters
represent the Roosevelt idea, gained
from an active outdoor life in which
they have rubbed up against the
rough edges. Ballinger stands for
the Taft idea of calm, judicious
thought only perfected by indoor
reading in the shelter of four walls.
The former would protect the public
at large at any cost and I'm any way.
The latter seeks to weigh and Judge
an points of law as effects the in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

Another temporary rescue of vice
president from oblivion was made the
other day when the citizens of Paris,
Maine, held exercises in honor of the
Tooth anniversary of the birth Of
Hannibal Hamlin and carved his
name deep upon the face of a granite
1acarldPr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

The witch on the broomstick was
the first successful aviator and not
even the records at Rheims equal
some of her midnight flights as
narrated in the nursery books As
for the automobile. it has annihilated
space at the rate of eighty miles an
hour. but Tam O'Shanter shattered
that record to fragments when he
rode his bay mare through the storm
with the COLLINS at his steed's heels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

As was to be expected the ac-
counts of the airship contests at
Rheims, France. aroused a new &C
tivity in the quiet camp of the air
ship builders at Girard. The latest
dispatches from this town indicate
that the airship's propeller blades
were still turning around with loud
fumming noise. but the craft had not
vet left terra firma.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

i lawrence is preparing to celebrate
EEse opening of the street car line in
that city Sept. 81 with fitting cere-
monies. The Douglas county fair will
ne held at the same time as a side
49eue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

dividual of vested interests. The adj
ministration. in siding with Pinchot
appears to have taken a step back
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
MUST GET BUSY.

In again planning voyage from
Friedrichshafen to Berlin, Count Yep
pelin may feel that the remarkable
performances at Rheims this week
make it incumbent on him to show
that the dirigible balloon is not yet
a back number.-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
INTEREST IN FAILURES.

Bryan continues a drawing card,
and Bryan Day at the Seattle Ex-
position, October 80. will doubtless
attract many visitors. Next to great
successes the people feel an interest
in striking failures.-Boston Trans
cript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
Optimism.

sterile field by the roadside up near
Bethel, Ind. when passerby stop
ped and said:
"'Pears to me your corn is rather
small"
"CertainIy," said the boy. Its
dwarf corn"
But it looks yaller."
Certainly. We planted the yaller
kind
But it looks as if you wouldn't
get more than half a crop"
"Of course not" said the boy.
I'VE planted her on the shares. -
Detroit News-Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
Hard on the Senate.

The house of lords is composed of
Independent English gentlemen who
see, or believe they see, in the finance
act not only their own destruction but
the sacrifice to the socialists of all
that makes England great country
it's social, political, and commercial
interests. Possessed by this convic-
tion-the sound instinct of a class
trained by centuries of government
who shall say what view of their duty
may be taken by the peers? We know
that there is a growing feeling among
a not inconsiderable number of peers
that If they pass this budget it would
be far better to abolish the house of
lords and replace it by an elective
senate on the model of the United
States. Democracy would certainly not
gain by that change. as American po-
liticians who have been "up against"
their Senate could tell us.-Saturday
Review.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
FRON OTHER PENS
THE GASOLINE SUPPLY.

The fact that England alone i'm
ported 100000 gallons of gasoline
| during the first six months of the
present year furnishes food for spec
ulation. In the first place, it gives
g. definite hint as to the tremendous
consumption of gasoline. A few years
ago this fluid was really only a minor
| product of crude oil and in very linn
tied demand. The perfection of the
| gas engine and the invention of the
automobile rapidly increased its sale,
however, and today, large as are the
oil fields and vast as is the capital
invested in refining, the supply of
gasoline is only able to meet the de-
mand. Automobiles are multiplying.
Gas engines are coming into univer-
sale use for propelling machinery.
promise of increased strain upon the
worlds supply of gasoline. It looks
indeed, as if the demand would soon
outstrip the supply.
This prospect would be far more
disagreeable to contemplate were It
not that we already possess a pos
sible substitute for gasoline in de-
natured alcohol. Whether inventive
genius discovers others more avail
able or not, alcohol, at least, will
answer. Its price is higher now. but
when manufactured on a general
scale it will be cheaper. It is reason
able to suppose, also that devices will
be forthcoming to make its use in
cASlAeS VI liIe eAplOSlNe type as easy
and economical as is that of gasoline
at present.-Newark News.
REFORM AT WASHINGTON.
1t is not impossible that when the
record of the Taft administration
comes to be written it will be seen that
one of its principal achievements has
been the increase of departmental eff
cheney Governor Hughes has said
that much might be done in the direc-
ton of political reform without the
passage of any additional laws if Of
ffceholders were more deeply concern
ed about the honest and effective ad
ministratfon of such laws as are al
ready in existence, and President Taft
sion-very likely as a result of his long
service at the head of the war depart
ment-that by keeping government
employees to stricter accountab ilftY
far reaching improvement may be
brought about.
that public Office, as somebody once
wittily said, is regarded as a private
snap. Even a man of habitual ScrupleS
may convince himself that he does not
owe so vague an employer as the
great American people quite the same
amount of work and care that he
would render as a matter of course in
the private business world. Govern
ment positions at washington, outside
the highest places, have been regard
ed as life jobs, from which nothing
short of an industrial or political
holders. If now, under Mr.. Taft's ex-
perienced leadership, new standard
is to be set up, the public ought to re-
joice at the prospect Merit and eff
cheney are better tests than diScrimin-
alton and pull. Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

The kind lady has just handed the hun
cry hobo sandwich and a hunk Of pie
Poor mani" she said sympathetical1y
the h. n, 81 got dis hunted look from
bein' chased from place t. place by der
perlice. Daily News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01
DOES HE REALLY RELISH IT?

Speaker Cannon in reply to Con-
gresham Fowler's attack, calls him
joke and adds, "All of Congress
knows he is a joke" Still it is prob
able there are jokes Uncle Joe" rel
ishes better.-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-01

What did papa say, George?" HE said
it was too hot to talk nonsense But
did he know that you wanted to marry
me?" II think he did" And didn't
he. encourage you to proceed?'' yes, he
held the door open for me."-Clevefand
Plain Dealer.