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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

I ing commercial schedules all day. Il
was very evident that the COMMITTEES
regretted that the fve-minute rule cut
| him short
He said, 81 have little veneer of the
city on me. but deep down, and not
very deep down, either, am a coun-
tryman." 1t was especially on behalf
of the country people that he asked for
the removal Of the duty on works of
art Only the day before he had visited
a small, free school down in Virginia
where the children of his poor neigh
bors were taught Noticing the great
Improvement that had taken place in
the last few years, it occurred to him
to look over their reader. He found in
it a very significant argument for free
art. 1t was the reproduction of a
painting called THE Song of the Lark .
by Jules Breton; and he was able to
tell the children. much to their delight,
the history of the paintings history
which in itself was a very forcible
argument for free art.
The painting, which is one of the
most famous in the Chicago Art Insti-
tute, was imported by Mr.. Samuel p.
Avery, of New York, who was COM
PEELED to pay a very large duty upon it.
Mr.. Avery sold it to Mr.. Henry Field in
1885, and later Mrs. Field gave it with
the rest of the Henry Field Memorial
collection to the Chicago Art Institute.
Perhaps the most interesting part OF
Mr.. Pages Renaissance was the fact
that Mrs. Field was also the founder of
the little industrial school in Virginia
referred to.
The history Of this painting, Mr.. Page
said, was simply an illustration of the
generally accepted principle that all
important works of art get into the
public museums within generation or
two, and that to discourage the impor-
tation of works of art by 1evying i'm
port duties upon them was to impair
the growth of our great popular educa-
tionaI institutions,-the public muse
ums.
Fortunately for the country, congress
takes this same view Of the
duty on art, and we expect will short
ly repeal it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

If those who have a hand in the re-
vision of the tariff fail to take of the
duties that are now imposed on works
of art they will continue a mistake
which should have been rectifed long
ago. Surely there are no infant indus
tries in this line in the United States
which now need, or ever have needed,
protection. Indeed, the removal of the
duty on works of art will be great
boon for the people of this country and
ought to stimulate rather than retard
the development of art among them.
The American Free Art League of Bos-
ton, which is taking a prominent part
in the agitation for the removal of
hese tariff charges has just issued an
interesting article on the subject as
follows:
Mr.. Thomas Nelson Page, the author,
appeared before the ways and means
committee at Washington the other day
IN favor of free art His interesting
argument, together with the charm of
his southern accent and manners, held
the attention of the committee in spite
of the fact that they had been discuss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
woRTHY OF THEIR HIRE.

Il Government clerks all over the
country, and in this number are the
employees in the offices in the federal
building in this city, are looking
with expectancy to congress to take
the necessary action which will pro-
vide them with increased salaries. And
these expectations they are INDUCING
in may be set down as being of the
reasonable sort. There is no good
reason why the pay of the govern
ment clerks should not be advanced
materially. Except in the higher po-
sitions in the governmental depart
ments the pay of the clerks is the
same today that it was many years
ago and this is not as it should be.
Day Iaborers, mechanics and other
skilled workers in the government
service are paid the prevailing rate
of wages in their callings throughout
the land and in many instances lit
tie better than the usual rate of pay.
This is not the case with the govern
ment employees in the purely cleri-
cal positions. Persons doing similar
work for private concerns are much
better paid. AS a matter of fact the
pay of the government clerks is barely
enough for them to exc out a living
on, and hardly enough for those who
have families dependent upon them.
This is due primarily to the fact that
the cost of living has greatly increased
during the past few years in all parts
of the nation and while this condition
has been met in way by private en-
terprises in paying their help more
than they used to, it has not been met
by the government in behalf of its
clerks.
Congress has been pretty liberal
with its own members in doubling
their pay within the last few years. in
providing increased pay for army and
navy officers and men, in giving to the
heads of governmental departments
increases on what were already fair
salaries. It surely ought to see the
justice of the expectations of the gov
eminent clerks that their pay will be
raised to proper figures. 1t will re-
quire a considerable sum of money to
make these raises but some of the
funds might be more
probably expended in this way rather
than in a few of the ways in which it
is now scattered to the four winds of
the earth. Thousands of good, cap
able men and women are giving the
the benefit of their abili-
ties and energies, which are by no
means small, and they should be COM
pensated accordingly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
QUAKER MEDTTAIIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A glutton is a man who digs his
grave with his teeth.
The poorest marksman sometimes
hits the nail on the head.
The heart prompts many good
deed that is vetoed by the head.
1t is a sure sign of protracted cold
spell when your coal bins get low.
The fellow who agrees with every
body is a most disagreeable sort OF
person.
The man who has only a quarter to
spend for his dinner doesn't need an
appetizer.
No, Maude, dear; we shouldn't ad-
wise you to consult an ear specialist
for erysipelas.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to re-
mark that where ignorance is bliss It's
folly to get married
The more worthless a man is the
more he thinks the world should take
him at his own valuation.
Mrs Highhyer-.'What do you think
of my new bali gown, dear?" Mr..
Highfyer-"Oh, it's all right as far as
it goes
Sillicus-"Do you believe in here
dity?" Cynieus-''Not at all; would
you lay the blame of a bad egg on
the hen p
She-''Do you think the married
men really envy the bachelors?" He
ASK me If I think the barnyard FOWL
envies the wild duck
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
HUMOR or THE DAY

MA, I didn't know the Browns kept
horses" They don't, my dear. What made
you think SOP 81 heard pa telling a man
on the street yesterday that Mrs. Brown
has the finest carriage of any woman he
nows."-Detroit Free Press.
Tramp--Lady, I'm near perishing from
or a senator?-Town Topics.
Now. then, look pleasant, please mot
at all; this is to send to my wife at the
seashore. She would come home at once!"
.-Fiegende Batter.
How much fuel do you compute We
shall need on our motor trip?" well sup
pose we say two gallons of Scotch."-Out-
ing.
Her. Mother.-"Ethe1 dear, do you ever
feel tinnid about asking Milton for money!
Ethel-"No, indeed, mamma; but he
seems to be rather timid about giving it
to me. "-Chicago Daily News.
First Landlady-If you allow tipping it
reduces wages. Second Landlady-Yes, but
the boarders get too much to eat.-New
York Sun
The Boy-Boo- hooi Boobies swallowed
my little enginei The Caller-Good gra-
cious! How could that happen? The Bow
We was on the floor playing at Trains
and he was the tunnel.-Harper's Weekly.
''She says she is not a woman to marry
strated that. Three of her ex-husbands
pay excellent alirnony. and even the fourth
pays something. understand. "-Pittsburg
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some folks might wear masks to
their great advantage. ,.i--,
X X =
There always seems to be plenty of
individuals on deck to watch others
work.
X X
A good way in which a man can
learn many things about himself is
for him to get into politics.
X X
Among the honest men are those
who return from fishing trips and
confess that they did not get as much
as bite.
Society is by no means a heavenly
estate but it is quite as hard for some
people to get into it as it is for a
camel to hop through needles eye.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

she asked.
"The second condition is that you
give me an answer-an affirmative
answer-to the question / asked you
after the dinner at the Grays' last
Tuesday night"
The girl flushed. Her head was
turned away.
"And if refuse to comply with the
conditioner" she suggested.
ct shall press both the charges of
piracy and kidnapping" said he
severely.
'Of course can't face any such
charges as those she said demurely.
Take the tiller, please, Billy. This
breeze is getting f1awy."
McVicker sprang to her side with
wonderful light in his eyes. A small
brown volume slipped from his
pocket, carromed off the rail and went
overheard with a splash; but so en-
crossed was he at that moment that
he failed to notice his loss. nor did
he realize that his choicest tome was
bobbing up and down in the knock
about's ake.-(Copyrighted. 1903. by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

lFrom the Atchison Globe.
Don't touch a piano unless you can
play.
People never fail to appreciate
goodness.
No man is as wicked in his acts as
he is in his thoughts.
1t is very funny to see two old
frauds get together. and try to fool
each other.
The first person to discover a new
tooth in baby's mouth is entitled to
a new dress.
This is to the credit of human ma
ture: No one ever resolved to be
worse next year.
The stepmother never has much of
chance when the square deal is
being passed around.
There is some objection because a
man keeps his wife busy all day Sun
day waiting on him.
The only way to guard against a
man hearing what you say about him
is to say something nice.
AS an evidence against society, we
have noticed that when a man goes
to a party, he swears he will never go
again.
1t is hard work to get girl started
to singing. but, after she begins, you
have to do something desperate to get
her to stop.
You may think the women take the
IaSnlon magazine TO copy the styles.
They don't: They take the magazines
to make fun of the styles.
1t is a husbands experience that
when he kisses his wife her only rea-
son for welcoming the caress is that
it gives her a chance to smell hisN
breath.
Every time a married daughter
goes to see her mother, she carries
some present back with her; either
a little jam, or a pot of apple butter.
or loaf of bread.
You can add materially to the dis
comfort of others by scolding and
storming around, but it is difficult to
see wherein you are benefited. In
fact, scolding is apt to make you more
uncomfortable than others; people
have been scolded so much they
don't mind it as much as they used to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.
The bigger the smoke the smaller
the fire.
It's hard to beat a sharpshooter in
a crap game.
Church-going has cured many a
man of insomnia.
Age tells on a woman even If she re-
fuses to tell her age.
Every spinster regards her condition
as merely temporary.
Every man with a side-show ability
thinks he can do circus stunts.
1t takes a man with cheek of brasa
to boast of his heart of gold.
The man who thinks he knows IL ALL
never misses an opportunity to butt in
The world doesn't look very large
to the man who has a tourists ticket
around it.
Women say lots of things they don't
think, and men think lots of things
they wouldn't dare say.
The Bible is good book to read. II
you doubt 1t, brush the cobwebs of
your copy and look into it.
A man may get rich by attending
strictly to his own business, but the
monotony gets to be something fierce.
An "able tnancier" is a man who ia
able to separate the other fellow from
his coin without the aid of a sandbae
When he casts his first vote a young
man Is apt to wonder how the world
would manage to get along II he were
to die.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

Heretofore sensible Nebraska seems
to be trying to get into the japanese
imbroglio. One of her legislators has
introduced a bill to segregate the Jap
anese and Chinese laborers in that
state. But the chances are that the
majority of the legislators in Nebraska
are not in sympathy with the move
ment. The rumpus that California has
stirred up with her anti-Japanese leg
islation has furnished a magnificent
opportunity for insignificant gentlemen
in other localities to attract a little at
tention that they would not otherwise
get through the agitation of some
proposition directed against the Jap
anese.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

Enrico Caruso, the famous tenor, is
reported to have turned down an offer
of $225,00O to travel around the coun-
try one season with a circus company.
If the circus people wanted him to ap-
pear in one of his roles as an adjunct
to the monkey cage, in which he shone
with more or less disgusting distinction
in Central Park, New York, a summer
or so ago, it is easy to see why the
offer was spurned by him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

And now Senator Perkins of Cali
fornia is annoyed at the criticisms of
the president and he points with pride
TO his record as favoring nearly all of
the appropriations that have bAen
asked during the past few years for
the upbuilding of the navy. He neg
iects to be specific enough to tell of
the millions of dollars he has been
responsible for securing for the Mares
Island navy yard and aegeedly portion
of which was put in a mammoth dry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
lFrom the New York Press.l

ItrOm the New York PresS-I
A hard thing to make up your mind
to do is something you know is SEN
sible.
When a girl isn't willing to flirt
with a man he's related to her.
One of the most wasteful things a
man can do is saving money for his
heirs to throw away.
Nothing makes women so sus-
picious of one another as for all of
them to pretend not to be.
The reason a man brags about the
furnace so much down town Is he
cusses it so much at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

The chances that Herbert S. Hadley,
Missouris governor and a son of KAN
sas, will some day be president of the
United States have taken on roster
hues since it has been learned that he
saws his own firewood in the cellar of
the executive mansion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

dock to accommodate the largest Of
this country's battleships but which is
a useless member because the water in
front of it is not of a sufficient depth
by no less than six feet to permit one
of these battleships to get near 1t. For
all practical purposes this expensive
drydock might just as well have been
built on the Kaw at Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

If there is reduction in the number
of district judges in certain of the
localities in the state as is provided for
by bill which has been introduced in
the legislature, it will take a few of
the Judges of the future a week or
more to travel from one court center
to another
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
: comes from pittsh,,r.

News comes from Pittsburg, Pa,
that George. j. Gould has decided to
quit the railroad business entirely and
just as soon as he can get out of it. If
the operation of the Missouri Pacific in
this locality can be taken as a criter-
ion of his abilities as a railroad ad-
Illustrator, it is reasonable to say that
he ought to have arrived at this con-
clusion some time ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

Probably there will be few motor
car owners in the state who will OBJ
5ect to the assessment of a reasona BILE
state tax on automobiles if this money
is to be devoted to a good roads fund.
Excellent highways will be of great
advantage to them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

Any bank robbers in these parts who
have mislaid a set of their tools and
other paraphernalia can secure the
same by applying in person at Horton,
Kansas, where an excellent outfit of
this sort was dug up recently by some
bows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

Assuredly are battleships expensive
necessities. Mr.. Newberry, the secre-
tary of the navy, has estimated that it
costs more than one hundred thousand
dollars year to keep one of them in
repair. Think of what the naval re-
pair bill would be if Hobson had his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

Undoubtedly the Oklahoma convicts
are glad that they were taken away
from the Kansas penitentiary. They
are having no trouble in. escaping at
will from the jails and other places in
which they have been confined in their
home state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

Let no one get the idea because the
federal government is going to estab-
fish harbor lines in the Kansas river
at Kansas City, that that locality is
soon to become a port for ocean going
steamships or sailing craft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

Natural gas has finally reached EN-
poria and the people of that town will
henceforth enjoy an occasional period
OF disappointment with it, but even
with its spasmodic failures, natural
gas is a great boon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

A production of the original grand
opera "Salome" in Philadelphia soon
is bound to be success as far as the
attendance is concerned The clergy
men of the city have united in a pro-
test against It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
FTILL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRFS

There was some consolation and
satisfa ction in the cold wave which
arrived on Monday night. to the
weather men at least They had pre-
dlctedS #
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
He Read Wire,s Thoughts.

II. TOurV1lle, a member of one of
st. Louis oldest French families, has
Mrs. Katherine Tourville handsome
blonde of 80 years. who has left him,
taking along his psychic needle, -
Marie Louise Tourville, 20 months
old. Through the child he can read
every thought of his wife, he says.
Tourville said his wife, piqued by
his powers, left her home because he
was adept at reading her thoughts
through the medium of the child.
Il can always tell what my wife is
thinking about when our child is
near" Tourville said. MY impress
sions come through Marie Louise as a
transmitter. I often have read my
wife's thoughts aloud to her, and I
don't believe she liked it.
while 1 was seated with Marie
Louise on my lap Wednesday even
ing received the psychic impression
that a man had been in the house
you today, my DEAR I said to Mrs.
Tourvi1le. I believe he was bill
collector
MRS. Tourville acted strangely af-
ter that. At the Office next day I felt
something drawing and pulling within
me. Suddenly 1t snapped. 1 knew in
a minute 1t was my psychic needle
Marie Louise
The Tourvi1les were married against
the wishes of the wife's parents, in
August, dI Se1I d Oils. AACy
separated several months ago. and
Mrs. Tourville went home to relatives
in Wilkes-Barre, Pa, where her uncle,
Bishop Hoban, of the Catholic
church, resides.
"After our marriage I projected my
psychic soul and astral entity into the
child we both wanted" said Tourville
at his home. "I exerted every pos
sible influence to SO attune the child
that upon her birth she was my
psychic affinity, perfectly keyed-a
true psychic needle. When she was
away from me nebula or film came
between us, so the impressions she
transmitted to me were dim, but when
she was near me the psychic telepathy
was perfect as it passed among us
three."-St. Louis dispatch to New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
New Material for Paper.

Without claiming expert wisdom in
paper making The Courant declines to
believe that news paper can only be
made from wood pulp. There must be
other workable substances which have
at least equally valuable fibrous quail
ties and that can be used. 1t is only a
question of experimentation until the
thing and its suitable treatment are dis
covered.
A dispatch from Washington says
that a company has been organized in
Georgia to make paper from cotton
stalks, and that such paper can be made
for SIS a ton, paper at "a cents being
$45 ton. This may come to something
but it is not the only immediate hope.
Over in the Philippines the ground is
so productive that it is scarcely an ex-
aggeration to say that after a piece of
land has been plowed it must be cult
waited the next day or it will be cover
ed with the new growth of cogon grass
that springs up spontaneously wherever
it gets a chance.
This grass is full of fiber, and scien-
tific men are working to find a way to
make paper out of 1t. They were very
confident a while ago that they had
reached a process that was both prac-
teal and economical. If they succeed,
the only obstacle will be the distance
Hartford Courant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
Revere,s Ride Not a MYTH.

It is curious how many intelligent
persons will read without understand
ing what they read. Were this not so
we should not now be having a convul-
sive tempest in teapot over. Paul Re-
vere's famous midnight ride. The let
ter from Hancock to Gerry that Ben
tarnin has published does not say that
Paul Revere did not make this ride,
nor does Mr.. Benjamin say that it does.
All that Mr. Benjamin says is that from
what Hancock wrote to Gerry the mid
night ride of Paul Revere was unnec-
essary. This may be quite true in the
light of today, but we are not dealing
with what was necessary to unnecessary
but with what was actually done, and it
was thought necessary at that time,
perhaps, that Revere be sent of to give
the midnight warning. Paul Revere has
been aptly called 1.-THE Messenger of
the Revolution from the many rides
he made far and near. on behalf of
the peoples cause. His famous mid
night ride is an historical fact. and not
merely a poetic legend of Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow. Next time and all
the time read with understanding
From a Letter in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

For particulars. prices and amusement
elsewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10

Tonight S:15-The Raymond Wells STOCK
company in 1.-The Devil and vaudeville.
Daily matinee 2:30.