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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-27
Lehi Delegation Excused.

Somewhat stunned by the declaration Of
the senator from Lehi. the delegation from
Lehi asked permission to be excused.
They remembered. they had an appoint
ment. There were some questions from
Lafayette Holbrook and from President
BTimhan. all of which Senator Smith was
willing to answer. In each answer he
scored al autt-prohlbitOn point Others
got uneasy. They began to forget the
arguments showing the curse of strong
drink and with apparent relief voted 20
adjourn. The small army Of prohibition
lists beat a somewhat disorderly retreat
and Senator Smith vent to the theatre.
During the afternoon the thirty mem
bers of the delegation chosen TO repre-
sent the prOhibidonists of Utah county
before the legislature held an extended
meeting in the offices of Heber ]. Grant.
This meeting was of an informal nature.
but resulted in the organization of the
delegation as a committee, with George
H Brimhal1. president of the Brigham
Young college. as chairman. and J. II.
Clark of American Fork rs secretary.
In the course Of the meeting brief talks
were made by the majority OF those pres
ent. the topic in each case being con-
fined to the outlook for statewide prohi-
bitiOn. the best means of securing ii at
the present session Of the legislature. and
q review of the conditions and sentiment
prevailing in the various sections Of Utah
county.
Mir. Brimhan. in the course Of his re-
marks read q resolution that had been
Monday night. The resolution was de-
signed to express to the Utah county leg
islative delegation the sentiment of their
CONSTITUENCIES on the all-absorbing ques-
ton of prohibition. and urged the en-
actment OF such avs So shall absolutely
prohibit the manufacture and sale of in
toxiratinE liquors within the state. Il
was also provided that all legitimate in
fluence be used with the present leEisla-
ture to effect sucn.
IT was stated that Utah county had Sc
cured petitions for prohibition containing
over 10 600 names, which will be present
cd 10 the legislature.
Views Are Expressed.
Rev. ]. Challen Smith Of Provo. de-
c1sred that the present movement for
state vide prohibition was not that of any
sect ar class. but Of the people generals.
Joseph r. Keeler of Provo thought there
was a more unanimous opinion generally
throughout the state favorinE prohibition
than on any other subject
s'.The people are in earnest. he said.
sand the sentiment for prohibition Is so
great that 7 cannot see how our repre-
sentatives can go back on the wishes OF
the people
& r Cummings of Salt Lake. who at
tended the meeting. thought that instead
of delegations working sinely before the
legislature they should all be gathered
into a little army and make a concerted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

her play a score Of times in popular
plays on the legitimate stage.
The stout manager, however, was NOT
to be appeased. He had not yet recov.
cred from his rage; his color ives stu
alarmingly brilliant and he was beating
impatiently on the ground with MS
stick.
'But-but," he sputtered. 'you have
ruined the film and it costs money!
moving picture film. You have spoiled
our whole mornings work."
Mr.. Cavendish," the little German
photographer deposited his camera in a
safe place and came forward rubbing
his hands and beaming at his inspira-
ton. Mr.. Cavendish, Wy not change de
name of de biece-call it the Rescue of
Injured Innocence or Something's of
dat nature. You can always get beoble
to pose for your Jealous Lover Mr..
Cavendish, but nefer will you get any
ding so realistic again as this scene
Ach, it vas peutiful to see the SO strong
young man come leabing down de rocks
and fall upon de villain 1t will take
with de beoble, Mr.. Cavendish and
you will hat money in your pocket"
And this was the way that that ex-
ceedingly popular moving picture film,
The Rescue of Injured Innocence" had
its origin. And, incidentally, it Is the
way Antoinette Dubois happened to
change her name to Poindexter and
/ leave the stage.-(Copyrighted 1909, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Even the Kingman county poor farm
is a good one. 1t netted $4,000 during
the past year.
What does it profit man, asks the
Clay Center Times. if he has all kinds
of physical culture apparatus in his
bed room yet faileth to shovel off the
snow from his walks?
According to the Hutchinson News,
some Chase county farmer boys needed
threshing machine. so they set 10
work and made one, which is said to
have 1t on the average threshing ma
chine forty ways from the jack.
According to the Atchison Globe an
Atchison man, many years ago. found
himself in St Joseph with no money
and no place to borrow any. The sheriff
of Atchison county happened to be in
ST. Joseph at the same time and the
Atcmson man explained his predica-
ment to him. WELL" said the sheriff,
If you will let me put handouts on
you I can take you back to Atchison
free of car fare" The man permitted
the sheriff to handcuff him, and came
back to Atchison without paying fare.
"a young fellow wearing a green hat,
very much on one side of his head, rest
ing upon a mass of light curly hair of
which it could be seen he was very
proud, somewhat loud clothes and
smoking cigarette, wandered into the
hotel one of the coolest Sunday nights
recently" says Del Valentine in the
Clay Center Times. He left both
doors open as he came in, and a travel
ing man had to get up and close them.
After standing around for a few min
uteS in an aimless brainless way
putting his cigarette, Curly-head wan
dered out again, again leaving both
doors open to the cold wind. That time
the girl at the cigar stand had to walk
| over and close them. Question: Will
| the boy ever become president of the
| United States?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
THE LATEST NOVELTY.

f'This 'Subconscious Self is compar-
atively a new discovery. or invention,
but brave things are said of him. -
writes Rev. Henry A. Stinson, D. D.,
in the January Forum. I'VE have
had Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde with
out being able to say which was the
real man. In the new dual person
age we are not left in doubt. The
new creation is furnished With all the
virtues. The friends of the 'Emman-
uel Movement tell us that the Sub
conscious mind is purer. more sensi-
tive to good and evil. than the con-
scious;' and Prof. William James, in
his recent excursion into the realm
of religious experience, where he has
made so great a stir, would have US
know that he inclines to the same
opinion. He says. 'Starbuck seems
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Iron the Atchison Globe. !

Everybody wants little more than
you are willing to give
Attending to your own business is
about the most effective method OF
reform.
The average man seems to think it
lessons his dignity to admit the most
common fact
When little girl does not care for
the boys, ever notice how proud her
mother is of her?
When we are finally sent to the in
sane asylum, either airships or the
Panama canal will be responsible.
When we are bothered a good deal
by boreS, we like to hunt up agreeabl
men and bore them by complaining.
After man has been sick twelve
hours and the medicine Goes not cure
him, he begins thinking of calling an
other doctor.
Money makes fools of some men
while the lack of money has a similar
effect on others; there is never any
danger of a shortage of the fool crop
Speaking of get-rich-quick schemes
you might accomplish something in
that line if you would be as economi-
cal the rest of the year as you will
have to be this week.
When a mans eyes are red he is
accused OF intemperance. When q
woman's eyes are red, it is said she
has been crying and her brute hus-
band has been abusing her. e
At coming meeting of the Lancas.
ter Literary society, Daysey Mayme
Appleton will talk on 1.-The Microbe:
in My Powder Rag" As her powder
rag always looks like the rag that i:
used to wipe the piano legs, her papel
! is bound to be interesting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
POOR COMMISSIONER HALE.

Northumberland rumors prevail
around town that the county COM
missioners, or a majority OF tnem'
have made up their minds to retire
Alfred c. Hale from the office of poor
commissioner for +he county when his
present term of :ncumbency expires
in a few weeks. Such action would
aDnear to be misguided, to say the
least.
Mr.. Hale is an elderly man, to be
sure, but he is still vigorous in mind
and body and competent in every way
to discharge the duties of his office
for several years to come in the same
excellent and satisfactory manner he
has administered them for the past
overweight years. During that long
period he has been a faithful public
servant and the experience he has
gained is an invaluable one to the
county in the conduct of the poor
commissioners office. He knows the
needy of Shawnee county like book.
those who are worthy of public aid
and those who are not. The countys
bounty is distributed by him with
discerning hand where it will do the
most good and be most appreciated.
apprenticeship on this job to do the
same thing, and while he was thus
fitting himself for the place. the
chances are that his indiscriminate
distribution of charity would cost the
county thousands of dollars yearly.
1t has been conceded by county COM
missioners up to the present ones, and
they may be willing to make the same
concessions, that Mr.. Hale has man.
aged his office in an admirable fash
ion. He was responsible for getting
board of county commissioners to
do away with the plan of buying all
the county stores under a yearly con-
tract with single mercantile firm.
In place of this system he has bought
| in the open market wherever he could
get the best prices. This has meant
saving of many thousands of dol
lars to Shawnee county during the
years that the new plan has been in
vogue.
If Mr.. Hale is now incompetent for
any reason to carry on the affairs of
| his office a majority of the county
commissioners may be justified in the
course it is said that they intend to
pursue. But the business and profess
sional men of Topeka evidently do
not think so. for their names have
been attached to paper petitioning
his retention in Office with unanim-
| ity which is unusual. If, however,
| Uncle Aft" is TO be sacrificed be-
cause of a purely political division and
distribution of the patronage in the
| hands of the county commissioners,
the situation takes on an entirely diff
ferent aspect and one which will not
reflect much credit on majority OF
| the county commissioners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
CoRuRN,s CARD.

As was to have been expected. the
1903 Christmas card issued by F. D.
, Coburn, secretary of the Kansas de-
partment of agriculture, is exceeding
ly attractive and expressive in design
and glorious with statistics which tell
in concise fashion of the wonderful
agricultural conditions that prevail in
this, the Sunfiower state.
On the face of the card is a pic
ture of a Kansas farm. In the back
ground is the house with the proper
tions and design of a real mansion.
Near it is the mammoth windmill.
which provides the house with run
ming water and all the comforts and
conveniences incident to it that some
folks believe can only be obtained in
city houses. Clustered about are the
barns and other buildings on an up
to-date farm. And here and there
among all these structures are fine old
trees that add much to the beauty of
the scene In the foreground is field
of waving hay, perhaps it's blue grass.
But the piece de resistance of the
whole thing is gigantic pillow, on
which rests a wreath of laurel that is
entwined with wisps of wheat. Be-
meath the pillow is that magical word,
Kansas, and this verse, which was
penned by William Cullen Bryant:
Far back in the ages,
The Plough with wreaths was
crowned
The Hands of Kings and sageS
Entwined the Chaplet round.
This picture tells vivid story of the
possibilities of the Kansas fields when
they are titled intelligently. There is
nothing of comfort. nothing that goes
to make life worth the living to the
full, which is not within the grasp of
the Kansas farmer who will take ad-
vantage of his opportunities There
is no more fertile land the world over
than that with which Kansas has been
blessed. Fortunes have been made
from it. Other fortunes are in the
process of the making fro1- it. And
still greater fortunes will be made
from it. If the picture in question
does not satisfy any one that this is
so. all he has to do is to turn the
card over and there he will find the
facts and figures. which will prove
these claims in an unmistakable
way.
A brief summary will be found
there which shows that the total value
of the farm products and live stock
of Kansas for the past year, includ-
ing of course, the live stock on hand,
was s532.6S5,244 This is an increase
in values over the best previous year
1908. of s57,44O.413. 1t is also an in
crease in value of farm products above
the average for twenty years OIL
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An unexpected telegram is all that
is needed to terrify most women.
X x
Other peoples tobacco is the ia
vorite brand with many old dodgers.
There is this satisfaction for the
easy mark" He gets lot of atten-
ton.
It's difficult to tell a mans DISPOSE
ton by the way he acts, especially
among strangers. The same is true
of women.
School days may have been the
happiest with some folks but, fortu-
nately, that has not been the case
with everybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
The girl who says LIPS that touch
LIQUOR shall never touch mine is pretty
sage.
The fellows who wait to catch girl
under the mistietoe are mighty slow.
Love may be blind. but where the
long green is concerned IT Is never
colorblind
A woman will marry old man
much more readily than she will wear
an old hat.
Hoax-"What seems to be the prevail
ing age for a man to martyr" Joax-
His dotage."
OF course a woman should share her
troubles with her husband. It helps
him to forget his.
Blobbs-"Clothes don't make the wo-
man, either" Slobbs-'-No, on the
stage it seems to be quite the reverse"
Tomorrow never comes" quoted the
Wise Guy. Say, 1 guess you've never
bought goods on the installment pIan,"
commented the Simple Mug
Casey-"In all yer travels did yez liver
see a man-eating shark?"' O'Hoolihan
-"Oi did not. Oi've seen many's the
man hungry. but niver hungry enough
t6 eat shark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
THE GUTTER.

st CT etaoin taoin shrdlu taoin taoinnr
1t amt the failures he may meet
Ihat keeps a man from winnin'-
It's the disbursement complete
That blocks a new beginnin'.
You want to quit your habits bad,
And when the shadows fittin'
Make life seem worthless an sad,
You want to quit your quittin'!
You want to quit a-lyin' down
An saying hope is over,
Because the fields are bare and brown
Where once We lived in clover
When jolted from the water cart
It's painful to be hittin'
The earth, but make another start.
Cheer up. and quit your quittin'!
Although the game seems rather stiff,
Don't be a doleful doubter:
There's always one more innin',
You're not down and outer.
But fortunes pretty sure to flee
From folks content with sittin'
Around and sayin' life's n. g.
You've got to quit your quittin'!
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

| to put his finger on the DOT OF the
matter when he says that to exercise
the personal will is still to live in the
region where the imperfect self is the
most emphasized. Where, on the
contrary, the subconscious forces take
the lead, it is more probably the bet
ter self in posse which directs the
operation
'It is comfort TO know that the ex-
perts attribute to us all virtue of
which we ourselves have little knowl-
edge, and locate it in that part of us
where, If it is not entirely removed
from temptation, we at least escape
responsibility for it's possible over
throw. We had supposed before this
that when a man was summoned to
resist the Devil and his works. it was
a task cut out for one in the full pos
session of his faculties, or for which
the hopes of success lay in the extent
to which he possessed conscious mas
terry of his own powers. The mys-
terry, as when Bunyan's Pilgrim found
that he had to pass through the VAL
ley of Apollyon, lay in the realm of
evil. But now it appears that mans
hopes of a successful contest with evil
must lie chiefly in his mysterious
other SELF over which he has little
command, and of which he knows
less.
What with the 'Metaphysician,
the Cerebral Anatomist' and the
cal-psychologist, we have
cut a man up into almost as many
and as intricate parts as the ver:est
jig-saw puzzle, but through it all he
has remained largely himself. in the
last analysis, one and indivisib1e. Now
we find that he is. IN fact. not one,
but two. And the lesser known self
is both the more important and the
more noble: that is. if we look wise
and accept all that we are told.
And there is no end TO the tales.
At first, it was 'Spiritualism' and
Psychic Phenomenal Now 1t is
'Healings,' bodily and mental, and a
broad and easy way that ieadeth into
life.' Prompt cessation of pain, quick
winning Of victory over vicious hab-
its, high spiritual attainment, and
comfortable release from all further
anxiety. are the immediate results.
'Psychotherapy' does it. And for ex-
PLANTATION they give us the 'Subcon-
scious Self"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
FROM OTHER PENS
ORIENTAL PROGRESS.

The New York Herald notes an an
nual increase of 10000 in the attend
ance at the advanced schools in China
which it interprets as a sign of the
quickened interest in education in that
country and incidentally of the general
and rapid elevation Of the standard of
civilization in China. But Il is not in
the educational field alone that this
tendency is manifested. In the Chinese
commercial world also revolution is in
progress. Within the past year the first
step toward an invasion of the food
markets of the world was taken, con-
signments of food products being ship
ped to England where they found a
ready sale. This is one of the many
instances of a broadening of commercial
intercourse which promises to make
China a powerful competitor of the
traders of the Occident. In the indus
trial field the building of railroads is
going on at an unprecedented rate. The
old prejudice against granting rights
of way over land in which the dead of
countless centuries repose has been
largely overcome. and as a consequence
tremendous concessions are being made
and both Chinese and foreign capital
is available almost without limit for the
new terprises.-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the Nev

from the New York Press.1
Next to. forgiving people, the hard
est thing is to mean it.
We can't see the truth about our
selves; we won't listen to it from any,
body else.
People who really have brains are
the only ones willing to admit some
body else has.
|: Somehow monthly bills reconcile
one to the inevitable cemetery, where
the postman delivers no mail
man feels a grievance either be-
cause he has nothing worth taxinp or
because he has and must pay taxes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

Stinginess is assuredly not an Amer
lean trait even among the very rich,
Notwithstanding the beliefs of some
folks to the contrary. During the last
twelve months $141,250,0OO has been
donated in the United States in public
benefactions. over a third of this
great sum was given for the ad-
vancement of educational work. And
that is what will count for the most in
the further development of a right
eous civilization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

When H. U. Nudge assumed the
presidency of the Rock Island he an
nounced that the system was to be run
for the simon pure purposes of rail-
reading and not as a medium for
stock jobbing. No one doubts Mr..
Mudge's sincerity on this point, but
when he made that statement he
probably did not take into considera-
ton the habits of the ReidMoore ag-
gregation of capital. which owns a
controlling interest in the Rock
Island. The recent unusual activity of
Rock Island stock would indicate that
these men are up to their old tricks.
Perhaps they felt the need of another
manipulation of Rock Island stock to
receup their $20,O00,0oo loss in the
Frisco deal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

Dispatches from New York have it
that Halley's comet has been viewed
from that point with the naked eye.
Perhaps it is not out of place to re-
mark that New York is a wide-open
town where, if = man is particular in
the choice of his libations. he can get
something that will make him see any,
thing his fancy turns to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

Bank Commissioner Dolley's lawyers
will not permit him to express his
views on the recent decision of the
federal court declaring the bank de-
posts guaranty law to be in violation
Of the United States constitution. In this
they are wise. Mr.. Dolley announces
that he would like to say just what he
thinks on this subject. The chances
are he would be jailed for contempt
of court if he did so, and that would
L.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

It's to be hoped that the New York
courts will stand firm with a refusal
to heed the plea of a man, who named
his son and heir Frederick Cook, in
honor of the explorer. to change that
name because he now believes DR..
Cook to be an imposter. Parents who
are so foolish as to inflict the names
of men of the hour on their offspring
who happen along at those times,
should be compelled to bear all the
disagreeable Things that may result
from such action
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

[From the Chicago News.]
Few people listen to advice unless
they are giving it.
An unloaded gun is a bad thing for
E. fool to fool with.
Our idea of good man is one who
merely thinks his swear words.
Few people can talk on all subjects.
yet a lot of them attempt it.
small package of food for thought
will often supply many people.
Possession may be nine point in law.
but self possession is all Of 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

Mr.. Zelaya appears to have been
quite as clever in one respect as have
been his many brethren in distress
who have been driven from the presi-
denotes of South American republics.
He got away with a considerable bag
of "swag," all right, for he is now
travelling through Mexico in a private
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-30

Announcement comes from Wash
ington that among President Taft's
plans is one for the enactment of law
which will prevent stock gambling and
dealing in futures. If he can do this
he will be rendering valuable service
To the country