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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
tFrom the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.1
Most people figure respectability in
dollars and cents
You can forgive even a politician by
being the one yourself.
Theories would be all right If the
blamed fools who have them would
never try to practice them.
The more a woman knows how big a
liar a man is the better she can be-
lieve him when he says something nice
to her.
A man is sensitive over not being
considered to have a good head for fin
ance even If his father-in-law has to
pay his bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Things that are as broad as they are
long are always on the square.
The way some folks live is really not
worth the great sum it costs them.
y
II people did not have faults life
would be SO monotonous as to be I'M
bearable.
The original anti-race suicide en-
thusiast, in all probability, was the old
woman who lived in a shoe.
y y y
AS soon as a man thinks he has be-
come invaluable to his employer his
days Of usefulness have passed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
ARMY FOR CUBA.

That Cuba needs a well trained and
well disciplined little army for the
preservation of order in the island is
true, but why the insular government
should be planning an elaborate sys-
tenn of coast defenses is a dark and
slightly disquieting mystery. No doubt
the young American captains whom
President Gomez has summoned to his
aid can build him as many and as big
forts as he will provide the money for,
and are quite competent to make the
forts good ones. OF what use, how
ever. will they be after they have been
made?
Nobody is going to attack Cuba from
the outside, except, just possibly, as an
incident in a war with the United
hostilities would probably be conducted
on a scale that would render such de-
tense as Cuba could offer vain thing
And, by the way, since when was it
that men of Spanish blood have need
ed foreigners to teach them the art of
fertilization? The world is pretty well
peppered with Spanish forts. and they
are all quite up to the standards of
the day in which they were built. To
be sure, they all had a bad habit of
surrendering when somebody from fur
Their north really set about capturing
them, but they were excellent forts,
nevertheless.-New York Times.
SENATOR ALDRICH'S CAREER.
If Senator Aldrich, of Rhode
Island, has announced that he will not
be a candidate for another term, the
fact has not caused the comment
which is deserved. Possibly there
has been a prevalent skepticism as to
the sincerity of the announcement,
and in Rhode Island, especially. there
may be a disposition to await 1911.
In 1911 Senator Aldrich's present
term will expire, and it is worth
noting that he will then round out
10 years of life, 80 of which will have
been passed in the United States sem
ate. As senatorial careers go, a man
at 70 may easily be in the very prime
of his powers, and there is no rea-
son why Mr.. Aldrich might not serve
another term without the slightest
impairment of his mental activity.
Nelson w. Aldrich: Notwithstanding
his Identification with a degraded
political system in Rhode Island and
his lifelong sympathy with a pure
capitalistic supremacy in the national
government he has been as close and
unremitting student of the
economic and financial problems of
government as any man in our public
life since the Civil war His know
ledge of the federal finances, of the
national banking system and Of fed
eral taxation in all its forms Is prob
ably not surpassed in congress today
This equipment certainly raises
him far above the level of the average
senator.-Springheld Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Decision has been reached by the
states executive council that all of the
electrical wiring in the capitol shall
be inspected and placed in safe con-
dition. Owners and lessees of many
of the large buildings in the city would
do well to emulate the action of the
executive councillors in this regard. It
may be said in passing that If there is
one building in the city which is not
likely to suffer seriously from fire due
to defective electrical wiring or by
any other cause it is the state house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

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Back Home, Moo Chersey.
LITER Looie: Hating noding else to
did. I will wroten you a few lines
Hating noding else to said, I Will
clothes. hoping dis will find you der
same. As effer, HANS.
B. S. Id hat chusd ocurrenced to
me dot I should notification you dot
your oldt friendt und Teller dub, der
kitty-feesh. hat got hiss. He hat
peen adopted Ply hiss nearesd friend,
Colonel Murdoch uf El-do-ra-do. vich
also adopted a chob. Effer skince you
vendt from here away, cerdain stiffs
hat peen Knocking on der kitty-feesh
und calling him names. But now der
hard luck iss all Offer. und der kitty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

President Taft is a sure-enough op-
timist. He hopes to see something of
a material division of the solid south"
during the next decade. But this might
be OFFSET in a way by an unlocked for
division of the equally "solid north" of
which, however. there has never been
much talk in Republican circles, at
1aasf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Miss Mary Garden, the grand opera
star, isn't making any friends for her
self in this country by roasting Mr..
and Mrs. Mayer of Chicago who ad-
vanced her $4,000 for the cultivation
OF her talents just because she had to
pay the money back. Ingratitude never
did win many medals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Mehemmed Reschad Effendi, the new
sultan of Turkey. announces to the ma
tons of the earth that it was Allah's
will that has been responsible for his
elevation to the Ottoman throne. Maybe
s. was, but practical folks will insist on
believing that revolving Turkish army
had more to do with 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

ways and the shooting of game out
of season under decided ban. All
these things mean much to the state
of Kansas and her people and If a
good word is due to any public SER
want Mr.. Travis is entitled to 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

New York city's board OF education
has given permission to the public
school athletic league to use the ath-
letic fields of the public schools for ball
games on Sunday afternoon. Profess
Eional baseball on Sundays Is under the
ban in New York. The move of the
board Of education would seem to be a
wise one. Boys are undoubtedly better
or playing ball and watching ball
games on Sunday afternoon than they
are idling around the streets. Idleness
among boys breeds nothing but mis-
chief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

A call has been issued for the pur-
pose OF ascertaining the condition of
the national and state banks in Kan
sas. In this matter a prophecy that is
certain of fulfillment can be INDUCED
in. All of the banks will be found to
be in frst-class shape and with mora
money in their Golfers than ever be-
fora
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Abdul Hamid really got off pretty
luckily. If his head had been chopped
off he would only have been treated to
q fate that he has imposed on great
numbers of his brethren who were so
unfortunate in times past as to gain his
diSpleasl1re
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

the criminal charges against him in
connection with the Muskogee town lot
frauds through the quashing of the
indictments against him. is apparently
of temporary nature. These indict-
ments were set aside on technicality.
The federal prosecuting officers have
obtained the necessary permission from
the courts to pave the way for the
bringing of indictments of a similar
character which will be in proper form
and perhaps the wonderfully astute
governor of Oklahoma will not find the
lodging OF them quite 80 EASY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
survival of the Frfttest.

The superintendent Of the Carlyle
johnson Manufacturing company, of
Manchester. advertised, one day only,
for 20 men to whitewash the inside
walls OF the new factory. Three hun
bred men applied next morning. The
superintendent threw 20 whitewash
brushes from a window and the men
scrambled for them. The 20 that got
the brushes got the Jobs--New Haven
dispatch to the New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

That story about James A. Patten
quitting the wheat pit and foregoing
further pleasures in sending the price
of wheat higher because of the plead
ings of his wife whose sympathies were
aroused by the sufferings of the poor
brought about by an increased price of
bread, has a mighty fine sound to it,
ANYHOW.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Topeka baseball fans probably are
not placing much stock these days in
the old .adage that a good beginning
makes for a bad ending. But If the
team had lost the first game they would
have found great consolation in the
other one that a bad beginning makes
for good ending. That's human ma
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
Shingles From Tree LOO Years Old.

SHIHSIeS NrOH ITO I,IVV Ic"rs OFu.
A lumber company at Buckley,
Wash, recently sent out a number Of
souvenir shingles that were cut from
a tree LOO years old.
The tree from which the shingles
were cut had $50 rings, which fact
denotes that 1t was $50 years old
when it fell. The stump of a tree
which grew over 1t has $50 rings, and
as this could not have started to grow
until some time after the first fell 1t
is practically certain that the original
tree was thriving in A. D. 500, which
was 700 years before the discovery of
America.-Popular Mechanfcs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

It occurs to the Ohio State Journal
that Senator Aldrich's finance commit
tee is built on the maximum and mini
mum plan, the rest of the committee
being the minimum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Reports from the Far East would
seem to indicate that the thirst Of GER
tain Turks for Armenians' blood will
rot be arated until there is not an
Armenian left alive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

The state board of railroad commits
sioners is to have an expert track in
epector. That ought to help some.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
\ LEAvENwoRTH POSSIBILITY.

Thomas Edison believes that in q
few years coal will not be shipped in
cars as 1t is now, but that it will be
turned into electricity close to the
mine and the power conveyed by wire
to the different cities that need it.
Leavenworth will some day have a
power house at every mine and will
supply all the electricity for power
and electric lights that will be needed
for the population within a radius of
two hundred miles of this city. A big
power house would pay in Leaven-
worth now.-Leavenworth Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Id iss Chawcawgo also dot der Iaties
ISIS trying to suspress der colored page
nit der funny pictoors, on der sus-
picion dot i'd pizens der kids. Berheps
Id would be veil fer dem vimins to stay
home from der club long enuff to pre-
wendt der kids from eating der sup
plemendt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

In Chawcawgo dey ISIS talking aboudt
ge-stopping der smokency uf der SIXTH
zenss. Kansas half a lod more fool
lawss We can lend Chawcawgo uf i'd
wants dem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
A SATURDAY. sERMoN.

Enter We in at the strait gate: for
wide Is the gate, and broad Is the way,
there be which go in thereat. St. Matthew
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

I can tink aboudt, howeffer, und i'd
seems popular to haf pictoor some
ding like dis In efery paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Id ISIS reported dot ven der young
Turk solchers busted indo der royal
palace. der laties vas awfully frighten-
ed. Dem Young Turks musd be harrem-
scare-'m sort uf fellers, aindt i'd?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Der ISIS no anser to dis pictoor und
dis item. Misder Rosifeldt und hiss
hunt ISIS der mosd unumportandt ting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

vonce in a vile you gedt somedins
refreshing from Koontuclxy pesides
viskey. Der latesd iss der noos dot
Beach Hargis haf peen eifen der limit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
KANSAS COMNENT
FOOLISH ANGER.

The man who gives way to anger is
apt to do something he will regret; IN
deed. he will likely regret it If he does
nothing more than get angry. and fuIne
around awhile. For anger is worse for
the system than overwork, and does
not improve the disposition or COM
plexion- But aside from these things,
and really desperate deeds. there Is
the chance always open that the angry
man may make an ass of himself, and
be laughed at, which, to an angry man.
Seems about the hardest stroke Of luck.
No man wants to be funny in his fight
ing clothes, but 1t frequently happens
that he Is.
light saloon bill, and three colonies on
the governors staff were so angry be-
cause he signed it, that they resigned.
Now 1t happens that governors stan
IS never taken very seriously, except
by themselves and Young Things who
Just dote" on uniforms, and an angry
governors staff is surely great joke,
and when the source Of this particular
Stairs anger is considered, the joke be-
comes monumental. A governors stan
Is not supposed to fight, but here is the
case of one whose members behaved
like f1ghters-booze fighters.-Atchison
Globe.
SAME OLD STORY.
The fire Saturday morning which
burned another Topeka hotel and wip-
ed out four lives served to emphasize
the fact that the horrible Copeland no.
tel fire taught some Of the hotel keep
ers no lesson. The Central hotel was a
fire trap, generally so recognized, and
it could not have been maintained If
strict adherence to the provisions of
the law had been enforced. 1t seems
idle to moralize upon the criminal haz-
ard in which many hotels place the
lives OF their HIHSfS. Each RECURRING
tragedy merely agitates the question
for a brief period and then the slipshod
landlord takes advantage of the slip
shot manner in which the fire officers
do their duty and the same old story is
repeated with the same unavailing sor-
row and bitterness and the same empty
resolves for greater care IN the future.
Wichita Beacon.
A LEAvENWORTH POSSIBILITY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

feesh iss purring contentfully on der
knee uf hiss buzzum friendt, der Col.
Fer long time i'd hat peen customary
to hand der kitty-feesh und hiss fam
lily kick in der k-slats veneffer dere
ISIS nodings else bidding. Carpses bill
frogs, sharks und oder feesh vas gif-
fen blaze ad der head uf der table,
vile der kitty-feesh got hiss in der
Kitchen sink. Stock in him vas
k-voted ad SIXTY per cents less den
holdings. Ven effer he sticked hiss
face into a social circle, somevon hol-
Tered fer der bouncer. Uf he tried to
blay der proonsipal part in a fishing
egsibition, somevon remarked. get
der hook" He vas nod considered
wort vile unless he vas long enuff fer
hiss tail to drag on der ground vile
hanging from der shoulders uf swell
fishermans, er heaffy enuff to sink a
boat. But now hiss troubles ISIS all
Offer, und he will be recognitioned in
der best sassiedy. He will gedt fresh
und sassy, und ven oder feesh gedt
familiar und call him Kit fer short,
he will reference dem to who ISIS What
in Kansas fer hiss rating.
Ply taking oop der case uf der kitty
feesh, Looie, Col. Murdoch hat did
good, work.. Nod only iss der social
teed, but aboudt aidy-sefen hard work.
ing natoor-fakerss hat succeeded in
atfertisfng der Col. und killing space.
Der kitty-feesh will became a deli
cateeSSenCe ven ne ISIS Tried. HOPING
dis will find you der same, I remaines-
effer-chusd es 1 did ad der top uf
der letter, HANS.
Id Iss Girl. Glat noos. Some foot
ure dub ISIS assured OF a Meal Tigget.
Patten sayss he stopped boosting
wheat pecaus hiss wife telled him to-
Misder Patten maybe a financeer, but
he ISIS a bum excoosist. Dot ISIS der
oldest excoos mentioned in his
tory. Der late Misder Adam iss cred
tied NIT ids invention.
Id iss reported dot ven der young
Turk solchers busted indo der royal
palace. der laties vas awfuliy frighten-
ed. Dem Young Turks musd be harrem-
scare-'m sort uf fellers, aindt i'd?
In Chawcawgo dey ISIS talking aboudt
ge-stopping der smokency uf der SIXTH
zenss. Kansas half a lod more fool
lawss We can lend Chawcawgo uf i'd
wants dem.
Der ISIS no anser to dis pictoor und
dis item. Misder Rosifeldt und hiss
hunt ISIS der mosd unumportandt ting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

A Chawcawgo Teller guesses do
Niagra Will go dry in 5000 years.. DO
ISIS sensible way to guess.-in feet, II
iss almosd a safe bet. es dere vondt b.
anyvon around to collect uf he 1ooa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

Id Iss a Girl. Glat noos. Some foot.
ure dub ISIS assured OF Meal Tigget.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-10
sHERIFF's SALES.

TChancery A-99.
SHERIFF'S Chancery of New Jer-
sey. Betw cen Conrad Leick, complainant,
and Katie Blum, ct ais, defendants. Fl. ia.
for sale of mortgaged premises.
By virtue Of the above stated writ OF heri
by public vendue. at the Court House. in New
ark, on Tuesday, the fifteenth day of June
next, at two O'Clock p. M, all that tract or
parcel of land and premises situate, lying and
being In the City of Newark. Essex County,
New Jersey:
Beginning in the northerly line of German
street at a point therein distant westerly one
erly line of old Goes avenue. which beginning
point IS also distant westerly one hundred and
sixty-hve feet from the present westerly line
of South Tenth street: from thence running
westerly along the said line of German street
enc hundred and thirty-nine feet; thence in
a northeasterly direction one hundred and
twenty-five feet to the corner of a lot now
or formerly belonging to Charles Weber:
thence easterly along the line of same sixty
four feet. and thence southerly one hundred
feet to the line of German street and place
of beginning. Excepting so much as was taken
by the City of Newark for the opening of South
Eleventh street.
devised to parties of the first part by their
father, William Blum, by his last will and
testament duly probated in the office of the
Surrogate of Essex County and recorded In
book NJ Of wills for said county, on page
273; said devise to said parties of first part
being subject to a life estate in their mother,
Magdalena Blum, wife of said William Blum
the said Magdalena Blum having died on the
twenty-first day of May, 1921.
Newark, N. j.. May 10. 1909.
WILLIAM HARRIGAN, Sheriff.
Joseph Kahrs, Solicitor. ($18.9O
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-10

When she leaves there she's going tt
business college"
What Not going on the stage?" !
asked.
We'll, I won't say that" Miss Sum
merville reflected. "Stage ability has
a small degree, it can be cultivated
If io isn't. you cannot create it. If my
daughter las the talent, and wants to
go on the stage L shall encourage her
in every way. 1t is all posi- about girls
in the profession being subjected to
more temptation than others. That
sort of thing always depends on the
girl a thousand times more than on her
occupation" Miss Summerville's tone
was very positive.
This is the first time I've ever
played in a park" she said, in reply to
a question, land it's also the first time
I've beer with the Aborns. / like both
very much, and have the greatest faith
in the future of Back Again. so you
see there's no reason why 1 should not
be quite contented. I've a son in his
company. tco," she added. laughing
heartily at my surprise, why not?
He's in the chorus, but he's only IS, and
intends to adopt the profession. so why
shouldn't he begin at the bottom?"
You've a new cue, you know, Miss
Summerville. Better come out" a
feminine voice piped up from the wings.
Miss Summerville thought so, too. We
shook hands hastily and the show was
on.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-10

[Circuit A-144.]
SHERIFF's sALE-Essex County Circuit Court
Frederick II. Tiplln VS.. Albert l.. Tiplin.
Fl. IA.
nv virtue OF the above stated writ Of heri
facias. to me directed, 1 shall expose for sale
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-10
Miss Amelia %Summeryille Has a
SartOrial Philosophy All
OF Her Own.
BY ADELINE STANLEY CARRICK.
n ISIS AMELIA SUMMERVILLE,
of the Back Again" Company.

M ISIS AMELIA sUMMERVILLE
" of the Back Again Company
playing this week in Olympic
Park, under the management of the
Aborns, is a firm believer in the phil
osophy of clothes.
It's actually wonderful what an i'm
portant part they play" she declared
yesterday, when I found her in her
dressing-room. 81 think that clothes
have as much, IL not more, influence on
our lives than anything else. Why, |
couldn't play unless l knew 1 looked
well. When one is well dressed it is
safe to forget ones clothes, and only
then.
This is not only true of stage peo-
pie. Next time you're walking along
the street make a few observations.
The man or woman who walks along
with an alert, spruce air is the person
whose clothes are new and whose shoes
are carefully shined. Feeling that their
clothes look well, they carry themselves
accordingly.
ION the other hand, those whose
heels are run down; whose clothes
would look better for a little pressing,
and whose hats show that they're on
very formal terms with the whisk-
broom, always have a detected. spirit
less expression that speaks plainly of
ambitions sleeping, if not dead. Isn't
his true?
Nov, if you don't mind, I'll run over
these lines" Picking up several sheets
of tissue paper. closely typewriter,
she began to pace up n down the
dressing-room, muttering like the
witches in Hamlet" 81 always learn
my lines walking" said she between
sentences, her voice Immediately trail
ing off into the aforementioned NUT
ter. Goodness, I'll never get his down
in time" She threw the p aside
impatiently. you've no idea how hard
players have to work in giving a new
production. You get a whole lot- of
business ready for the first night, hav
it all down pat. and behold, the ext
day you are told that your scenes are
entirely changed. They hand you a lot
of lines, and tell you that you must
know them before the next night, and
there you are" Miss Summerville ost
herself for a moment in a long, weary
sigh. "These young girls who are
anxious to go on the stage because il
looks so easy. make me smile. They
all have to wake up so hardl" There
was a twinkle in her eye as she en-
phasized the last word. i've a little
girl, sixteen, in a convent In Montreal.