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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

ter?"
81 was to have seen her tomorrow
to tell her and ask her consent to the
marriage"
''Mr. Hope. can the creature below
be driven away" Interrupted Miss
Darboy with hope in her tones.
Possibly"
"And it needn't get to the voung
ladies' ears that 1 was-was up a
SELF
And you could accompany me to
camp the same as if had met you in
the village?"
Just the same. Yes, could ac-
company you to camp. and I could
take a stroll with Miss Harden and
have a talk and you could let some of
the other fellows pay calls ana add to
the zest-"
"Mr. Hope. proceed to drive the
creature hence"
Mr.. Hope dropped his handkerchief
to the grass, and while the bull was
shifting at it the young man swung
down and grabbed him by the tail and
twisted and shouted. Away went the
frightened bovine on a gallop, and
Miss Darboy was assisted down. Two
hours later she was saying to her
campers:
Young ladies, 1 beg to announce
that the restriction against male Wis
itors to this camp has, for good and
sufficient reasons, been withdrawn. No
applause, please" - copyrighted,
1909, by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
LAYHAWKER JOTS

Fame is a bubble. nothing more"
sings Walt Mason. 1.-THE Lawrence
Journal contains a reference to Myra
McHenley."
Presumably speaking from exper-
fence, the Hill City Republican says:
Most women are won by latte<y and
most men are won by f1irtation.s'
The Lawrence World suggests that,
while Evelyn Thaw may get along
fairly well as an artists model. she
can hardly qualify as woman's
model.
They certainly have the chau-
fore that event for this year was over
500 season tickets had been sold for
the meeting next year.
A Kansas man who spent fifteen
minutes in a telephone booth recently
on long distance call, insisted on
paying the operator for a Turkish
bath, says the Salina Journal.
According to Brother HargeIr, the
editor of a Kansas daily who is
1--WE stop the press to say" printed
this last week: 1--WE stop the press
to say nothing has occurred since we
started the press worthy Of stopping
the press to record"
An Abilene woman went to the tele-
phone office with a kick. She said she
had tried for half an hour to get the
answer to a telephone call and she
wanted to know the reason why. What
is your number?" asked the manager
''Oh, we have no phone ourselves was
the astonishing reply, Il was using my
neighbor' s.'-Abllene Reflector.
Henry Laurens Call is taking his
Girard airship apart, and cussing
each piece separately, and when the
parts are reassembled he believes that
the machine will fly. 1t is expected
that another test will be made this
week, and if it doesn't work this time
it probably will be converted into a
traction engine.-Emporia Gazette.
There is a demand that the officers
paid by the state do the work they
are paid to do. Auditor Jim Nation
figures it out that the district judges,
with good pay, work an average of
half the time, many of them do not
work One-fourth of the time, and yet
they all get the same salaries. There
are judges in some of the western
districts who have no way of putting
in their time. Judge Francis Price
once resigned a judgeship out there
because he had nothing to do, the
law prohibiting him from practice. A
state official a man with good sal
airy, newspaper man who knows
what work means, said to the writer
of this: 1.-The word work is a joke,
so far as it applies to state officers"
1t certainly is a joke when applied to
one-haIf Of the district Judges of
Kansas.-Lawrence Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
TOPEKA PARKs-A CRITICISM.

Topeka is the proud possessor of
several parks. They are, as they
should be. the show spots of the city
and a visitor is always invited to in
spect them. While the park board is
in a measure responsible for this
feature of city improvement a large
share of the credit is due to Super
intendent Reinisch under whose su-
pervision ugly, useless sections of the
city have been transformed into YER
table bowers where rare and beau
tiful plants flourish and where the
fountains splash in little lakes of
pure water.
There is, however. one criticism
which can appropriately be made
with reference to the system of park
Improvement in Topeka and the
blame for this rests also, presumably,
upon the shoulders of Mr.. Reinisch.
This is the plan of planting great
masses Of shrubbery along the outer
edges of the parks. So far as the
view from the interior is concerned
this shrubbery rather enhances the
appearance. but it makes the view
from the outside in many instances
impossible. This is notably true of
Central, the prize park of the city.
People driving along the west or
north sides are denied a view of the
beautiful tract by the shrubbery
which grows along the sides. 1t is
important to the city that these little
parks may be seen at their best from
the street for not one in dozen Wis
itors who are taken out to inspect
them have time or inclination to
leave their vehicles. What is true of
Central park is also true of Willow
park on West Sixth avenue along
which lies one of the most frequented
thoroughfares of the city.
Those who have visited the Paseo
of Kansas City have noticed that the
landscape gardeners have taken pains
not to obstruct the view from the
streets so that visitors may take in
at a glance all that there is to be
seen. There. is shrubbery, to be sure.
but it is massed where 1t will not OBJ
struct the view from the outside.
This is a small matter and is not
written in a spirit of unfriendliness for
we have good reason to be proud of
our little parks. It is a matter that
can easily be corrected by the park
board and it is matter which should
receive the attention of the proper
authorities at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.
TFrom the chicago News. ]

CFrom the Chicago News.I
Selfshness is the seed and sin is the
harvest.
Self adulation is one thing and self
respect is quite another.
The elevator is a boon for men who
are in a hurry to reach the top.
Most people wish a newly married
couple happiness as if they meant it.
Somehow when a man gets into
crowd he thinks he is the only one in
a hurry.
There is no hope for the old bach
elor who can't induce even widow
marry him.
The pleasure a woman gets out of a
good cry has nothing in common with
her sense of humOr.
If one man doesn't do his full share
of work in the world some other man
has TO carry two burdens
After a girl has once made up her
mind to become a spinster she won't
change it-unless some man proposes.
During the courtship a woman COM
pliments a man because of his master
fulness, but after marriage she sees
that he loses ii.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
FRON OTHER PENS
GOVERNMENT TRUsTEEsHIP.

AS a decided novelty and at the same
time proving a decided benefit the of
flee of public trustee exists in Great
Britain without, perhaps, a rival in
the world. The Office was created to
fill u need. Many complaints had been
made that the right kind of executors
and trustees of estates were hard to
find. Not only were there complaints
of this kind, but so many actual cases
OF fraud in the administration of pro-
perty developed that parliament in 1908
created the unique office and appointed
n official to act in its capacity.
The act has really been in force only
16 months, and yet the volume of bust
less which has come into the Office of
the public trustee is enormous. Estates
now in hand are valued at more than
20,000,O 600 On January 1, when the
act came into force, trusts amounting
to G70CO0 were waiting to be brought
in, and thereafter they f1ocked to the
office at the rate of two a day.
From the original idea of trustee
ships over estates a new conception of
the office has crept into the minds of
Britons. For example, the public trus-
tee is informed that the master of1some
large estate, in the north of England
let us say, is dying. An assistant hur-
ries to the bedside of the passing land
owner and receives his final messages.
Perhaps the public trustee may even
agree to act under the Will as guardian
of the chilGren.-IndiauapO Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.

TFrorn the philadelphia Record.I
To be given the cold shoulder
makes a fellow hot.
Even the man who is well reared
may get to the front.
1t isn't physical culture that makes
a woman strong minded.
When the shoe salesman blows his
own horn does he use a shoe horn?
Faith will move mountains. and
sometimes it even puts up a bluff.
If you would be regarded as the salt
of the earth don't be too fresh.
The actress who is featured on a
three-sheet poster is naturally stuck
up.
Pearls are the emblem Of tears. espe-
ciaIly when the girl expected dia-
monds.
Blobbs-"Don't you think that gin
is adorable? ?" Slobbs-"Weu, sort y
pompadour-a able"
If men were as perfect as their
wives expect them to be the women
would die of ennui.
Money is the root of all evil, in spite
of the fact that many a family tree
springs from it.
If you are going to drink in the
beauties of the landscape select a field
of rye and bed Of mint.
Love is the wine of life," quoted
the Wise Guy. "And marriage Is the
morning after added the Simple
Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

[From the Atchison Globe.1
Don't get so mad that you will bite
yourself.
Do you know why people neglect their
teeth? Because it hurts to fix 'em.
Considering that relatives love each
other madly, they pick at each other a
whole lot.
We long for the return of the old
fashioned Sun-bonnet; there was never
a false hair under it.
When a man can't think of any
thing else to claim credit for, he calls
attention to the fact that he has always
paid his taxes.
It is always said of every budding love
affair that the parties to it are drawn
together by a. liking for the same books:
We do so love to pose as Literary.
When we hear of a man who is ''get-
ting things in shape" and making mon
ey, inquiry about his age reveals that
he is nearly seventy. That's the trou-
BILE.
If a Spin is in the habit of giving her
discarded clothes to be made over for
her nieces, her sisters look at every
thing new she wears with a calculating
air.
When the baby cries and its mother
passes it to its father, she may not al
ways say it, but she always looks as
if she was thinking: 1T is your child
just as much as it is mine
Literary criticism: Love stories speak
of the hero gathering" the heroine in
his arms, and we object to the word. 1t
is proper to gather clothes off the line
or to gather gOoseberries, but not to
gather a woman.
You are picked at a good deal but
1t won't hurt you. Christian Science is
getting along, although we never go
on the street that some one does not
take a vicious smash at Christian Sci
enc. Behave yourself, and work as
much as you should, and you'll get
along.
Several people in this town. whom
have never wronged, hate me cor
daily I suppose they hate me as un-
reasonably as I hate a few: because I
do not like their looks. or anything they
do. But 1 often wonder that I go to
the trouble of hating people. "-Parson
Irvine.
Spend more money on yourself and
less on schemers- Look your affairs over
carefully, and you will be surprised at
the large amount you spend every year
on schemers. And. at the same time,
look around your home, and note the
little conveniences that are needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
A LITERARY CENTER.

The center of literary production has
shifted westward and northward. The
golden light of genius which spread
it's effulgence over Indianapolis so
long, like an electric light on tower,
has gone to Chicago. Inspiration, as
measured in terms of quantity now re-
sides within easy shifting distance OF
the packing houses.
What more dreadful than the City
of Dreadful Wind should feel the prod
of authorship? Creation Grated and
boxed is freighted by the carload
through the railroad yards from east
ern publishing house to the ultimate
consumer in kansas. Undertaking, the
food of the magazine Grader, if not born
in Chicago at least reached its climax
of Ioathsomeness in that redolent sec
ton known as the Jungle. There must
be material left that has not even been
turned over. The poetry of Hinky Dink
and the oratory of Bathhouse' John
have spurred the young and encour-
aged the faculty of the university.
After marshaling the singular ad-
vantages of Chicago it is difficult to
understand how the celestial flame of
literature has spared the city from a
holocaust that would make the conse-
quences of the kick of Mrs O'Leary' s
COW look like the phosphorescenee of
a gloWWorm.-To1edo Rlada
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A man who is satisfied with himself
hasn't much of a future.
y 4 =
Some people seem to have the idea
that notoriety and fame are synony-
nous.
That women excel as, animal tanners
is evidenced by the meekness of most
married men.
If it is true that the good die young
the eternal prospects of those of ma
ture years are not very bright.
x y
4 woman is generally responsible for
her husbands business success beause
she creates the necessity for him to
earn more money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

Il n thought you and Mrs Brown we're
rented summer cottage together. De
troit Free Press.
isn't 1t a shame to keep those poor
lions Gagged " Lady" answered the
keeper at the zoo they're much hap
pier and safer there than they would
be roaming the African jungles."-
Washington Star.
Mrs. Peck (contemptuously)-W
are you, anyhow, man or mouse?
Mr.. Peck (bitterly)-A man, my dear;
if were only a mouse, I'd have you up
on the table yelling for dear life right
now!-Life.
'I understand your husband is some
thing Of an after-dinner speaker"
Yes" answered young Mrs. Torkins
what Charley is liable to say after
dinner is the reason we can't keep a
cook. "-Washington Star.
''It is the duty of every man and
woman to be married at the age of %"
said the lecturer. We'll" said a wo-
man of 80, with some asperity, you
needn't tell me that. Talk to the man"
Philadelphia Ledger.
How do you know Bliggins enjoys
trouble?'' Because he'd rather be the
umpire in a baseball game than one
of the players. ''-Washington Star.
Husband-Well, what did your Equal
Rights" club do today? Wife-We pass
ed a resolution condemning the legal
execution of women for murder
Cleveland Leader.
Postmaster-This letter is too heavy.
You'll have to put on another stamp
Coon-Sah, will that make it any light
ah?-Princeton Tiger.
DO you believe in miracles " asked
the telegraph operator. We'll, not ex-
actly," replied the passenger conduc-
tor, yet some queer things come to
pass on railroads. Chicago News.
Mrs. Jagsby welcoming Mr.. Jagsby at
daybreak)-Up all night again, Ell? Mr..
Jagsby-Yes, m dear. thash jush it.
Went up with Misher Wright in his
airship lash evenin' and he couldn't
get it down!-Puck.
"Wot's yourn?" asked the waiter of
a quick-lunCh patron. 'Doughnuts and
black Coffee was the reply. And the
waiter sent in the order to the cook by
wireless: "One in the dark an two rub
Der tires.''-Chicago~ Tribune.
The Young Mani wish to thank you,
sir. for giving me your assistance in
persuading your daughter to marry me.
The Old Man-Sir, I was violently OPP
posed to the match. The Young Man
I know it.-Cleveland Plain Dealer
An officer, at a state camp. decided to
see for himself how his sentries were
doing their duty. He was somewhat
surprised at overhearing the following:
Halt! Who goes thereI' "Friend-With
a bottle" Pass, friend. Halt. bottle"
Everybody Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
JFrom the New York Press. ]

Ltrom the New 7 ork Press- ]
No matter what a college boys edu-
cation costs it's cheap to have him get
over it.
Just because a woman has yellow hair
and black eyes is no sign she can't be
deceptive.
What makes a bachelors life so lonely
is not having things charged to him
in all the shops.
The reason the baby didn't talk earlier
is it was smart enough to want to, but
couldn't learn.
A woman has only two ideas of good
dressing-to show how much she can put
on and how little.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
A TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE.


That this is an age of invention and
the triumph of science has been so
o1ten remarked as to be a truism
On all hands are to be seen evidences
OF this fact. All the aeronauts-bar-
ring our own Henry Laurens Call, of
course-are navigating the air. Each
Gay sees some new invention, to cause
mankind to marvel. It is even an
nounced that the Standard Oil COM
Pany is soon to begin making near
butter from petroleum and it will be
but little while until the dear peo-
pie Will be contributing more millions
to the cause of education through the
medium OF the stuff they smear on
their bread. But it has been left to
a. Springdale, Wash. man, Herbert
Joyce, by name, to develop the crown
ing achievement of science. Joyce has
been to the poultry business what
Luther Burbank is to horticulture and
Buffalo" Jones is to the animal indus
try in his development of the cattleIo.
His triumphs have been along the lines
of scientific breeding of poultry and
his latest achievement is the develop
ment of crowless BOOSTERS.
1t is needless TO say what this means
to the world. Where is the man with
soul so dead shat never to himself
has said. ITO Halifax with NV neigh
boris rooster" o. words to that effect?
To such one the crowlesS rooster
will come as a solace and a boon. It
Will assure him peaceful slumbers at
that hour OF the morning when 40
winks" arc a most priced possession.
No one Understands this better than
Joyce, for the truthful telegraph brings
the story that he has already contract
ed to supply towns, where the Growing
Of ROSTERS has been defined as a nuis-
ance, with his crowIess birds.
EdisOn's has long been a name to
conjure with and the Wright Brothers
are not without their need of praise
but their glory is sure to wane as soon
as the news of this latest triumDh of
scientific breeding is noised abroad.
Their names are destined to give way
to the soul-stirrfng name Of Joyce May
his tribe increase.-Hutchinso News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
FULL 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
TO any address at the rate Of ten
cents a week or thirty cents a month
v(by mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State Journal VIII 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, 1909-07-27

Announcement came from Wash
ington a few days ago to the effect
that the members of the Democratic
congressional campaign committee
had already begun to perfect plans
whereby they hope to be so success
full in the next congressional elections
that they will have a controlling hand
in the next congress. More recent
news from the national capital states
khak the Republicans have started to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

The successful fight over the Eng
fish channel in an airship by Louis
Bleriot is something of an epoch
making event in mans conquest of
the air. It has probably also thrown
considerable CONSERVATION into the
Englishmen- They'll probably figure
it out that after Germany has COB
bled up France she will have no
trouble at all in landing on English
soil by the airship route This is
about as sensible as many of the
German ''scares'' which now pervade
ENGLAND.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
MakIn~ COTTON in Missouri.

There are not many people who
would fail to be surprised at the state
ment that Missouri is a greater cotton
raising state than Virginia, Kentucky,
Kansas. or New Mexico, all Of which
have more of their territory in the
cotton belt said Mr.. Joseph N. Wright
of St Joseph. at the New City Hotel.
Last years production was about
$4,000 bales. and this. with the cot
tonseed. made the crop worth almost
S3,50O,0o0, which was quite little
money to the farmers of the small
group of counties producing it, not
more than dozen all told. Missouri's
cotton district is in the southeast cor
ner of the state, and the lands that are
now turning out the heaviest yield of
the fIeecy staple were reclaimed by
drainage from swamps. AS fast as the
improvement goes on more acres will
be devoted to one of the best paying
crops known, and eventually Missouri
may become a sure-enough cotton
state. Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

Whether the magnificent cotton
wood tree in the state house
grounds started from seed
or stake, which Is now a
subject for dispute. does not matter
very much. The fact that it is one
of the grandest trees in the country
and is still hale and hearty is the
essential thing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
A Royal Jockey.

Keen sportsman that he is. we are
not likely, it is to be feared. ever to
see his present majesty emulating the
performances of Charles II on the
turf. That active monarch not only
went racing in the ordinary sense, but
rode his own horses at Newmarket,
and is said to have been a most
formidable jockey. His successes
may very well have been quite
genuine, for Old Rowley was by COM
mon consent the best horseman in
his own dominions.-London Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

According to an Insurance man the
complaints that are going up all over
the state against the new fire in
surance law prove that it is a good
one. That's one kind of logic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

Scotland yard officials are satisfied
that Leon Ling, the elusive slayer of
Elsie Sigel, is not in London. The
Topeka police are Just as clever, in
this respect at least, as are their IA
nous brethren abroad. They've been
satisfied for some time that Leon
Ling is not in Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

Evidently the Oklahoma prohibit
ton law is receiving the strongest of
moral support from the prominent
citizens of that state. Senator Gore
told an audience at Ottawa recently
that he has turned down seventeen
invitations to eat frog legs because
beer is made of hops
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

The railroads have always done
pretty well by Topeka. Now, if they
will only put in special rates for the
state wide fair to be held here in
Septem ber-well. they'll be doing
another good turn that will be
greatly appreciated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
Balm of GiIead.

The drug had a delicious odor. It
cmelled like a breath of fragrance from
a grove of sun-Warmed pines. The
druggist said:
ITS a balm of Gilead. the real thing.
I import it from Syria 1t grows on a
low bush there, and you get it by tap
ping, the same as you get turpentine
or rubber.
Balm Of Gilead is costly. for the
balm bush only yields a few drops a
day in the tapping season. Dyspepsia
end meiaucholia are the diseases that
the balm is usually prescribed for
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

winds merely rests on the fact that
he is the eldest Son of a pretender
to the Portuguese throne. So, in
reality, he has given UP something
that he did not have one chance in
million of ever acquiring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27

One thing is certain. The Topeka
club is far and away the most prom
inent institution in Kansas these
days. At any rate it is getting more
advertising and notoriety than all
the other organizations in Kansas put
fntrethar