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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

1t is announced, through the STUDIO
press bureau, that 20 prominent bust
ness men, grocers, butchers. ct ceteras
have formed a club at Wichita for the
purpose of endorsing that great, good
and glorious Stubs. This is an aWrul
blow to the aspirations OF one Tom
Wagstaff, but few thousand OF MS
friends in the Ultimate Consumers ana
Tax Payers association will endeaYor.
to the best of their ability. to onset
this terrible jolt.
1t begins to look like DR.. Cr1ppen,
the medical gent who left the remains
of his wife in a London cellar ana
went away on a vacation with ms
stenographer, would not be permitted
to enjoy said vacation in a quiet
peaceful manner.
When you go to circus. dress
yourself in a frame of mind winch
will permit you to laugh at the clowns,
whether their jokes are one or twenty
years of age. He who seeks something
to knock should go into politics, ana
let Grandma take the kidlets to the
show.
NATURAL HISTORY. (Lesson VII
And the worst of them all is the CAT
Who goes out every night on a pat
Sleeps all next day, then
Goes out batting again.
Now, what DO you know about that!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
SPIRIT OF U. S. ENTERPRISE.

The Americans mental attitude may
be surnlised from his attempts at in
depreciation of his great men, the
captains of creative effort, those I'll
tanic psychical phenomena that move
upon the face of the continent and are,
in their effect, their sheer power to
transform, more potent than tempest
or food, writes David Martin Key in
Harper's Weekly. WHAT is the popu-
lar conception of these tremendously
efficient organisms that sit in their
New York offices and see the travail
of their spirit express itself in the ma
teria1 excrescences of railroad and pipe
line. elevator and steel mill? The
American idea of great man. is that
be is being not of extraordinary
suDtlety, but of transcendent directness
and perspicacity. He can see through
Is inches of armor plate. His superior
intelligence does not exult in triply-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
EAHTrRE


Long time watched the purple fruit
Swing high upon the orchard wall;
Long time stood in rain and shine
Saw morning rise and sunset fall;
Heard the World in the distant streets:
Guessed flames banners against the sky,
Helpless. thralled, meath the orchard
wall,
In sun and shower stood I.
It swung so low, it swung so near.
Time and again my apron wide
I held glad stretched-it only fell
In idle folds against my side
I heard the banners flap aloft,
But dared not turn to see who won,
For lower on the orchard wall
The fruit enpurpled in the sun.
Now, silent are the triumph streets,
And short and sharp the fast years fall.
And bright, a. mass of foreign green
Sways slow above the orchard wall;
I know not If the fruit abides;
We're overwatched, my soul and L;
We think we only dreamed we saw
A purple globe against the sky
We only dreamed 1t was for US.
The perfect weight on the bending
bough;
We only dreamed that faith and hope
Would mold its ore to crown our brow;
We hear the triumph banners flap
'Gainst an unseen glory sky,
But habit-thralled, beneath the wall
We doze at peace, my soul and l.
-Rea Woodman in the New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
KANSAS cOMAENT
ROOSEvELT.

Andrew D. White, whose eminence as
a scholar and diplomat is everywhere
recognized. suggests the nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt for governor of
New York. He believes it would not
lower the dignity of Col. Roosevelt's
position before the people in the least
or lessen the affection the American
people feel for him, where he to serve
another term as governor of his native
state.
Very good. But DR.. Rockwell D.
Hunt, who says Theodore Roosevelt is
the greatest of living men, the most
startling character since Napoleon"
dominates him for president of the
United States of the World. DR.. Hunt
insists: This is not an idle dream. The
numerous forces, economic, political,
cultural, ethical and religious, now at
work in all lands in earnest advocacy
OF international Cancellation, may in
deed usher in the dawn OF universal
peace earlier than the most Sanguine
have yet dared to hope. The whole
world groans and yearns for peace,
peace that shall be free from burdens
of war, peace that shall not be broken
while earth endures. The machinery
of such peace is well-nigh complet-
ed; it's contamination awaits the touch
of the hand of the master engineer.
In the councils and the confidence of
eminently fitted to essay the task as
unique in its possibility of blessing to
posterity as in the boldness of its con-
ception, the most commanding person.
atty of his generation-that man is
Enthusiastically Theodore Roosevelt" Z
AS sort of a clincher, the king of
Italy recently declared: What 1 want
is the United States of the World.
There should be one president of the
world, to be elected once every five
years. "-Atchison Champion.
ED BAKER OF tx. c."
Edward M. Baker is a prisoner in
Kansas City, charged with shooting a
woman: his affinity" A few years
ago, Ed Baker was doing pretty well
in Phillipsburg, Kansas. His family
was happy, and there was enough
money to pay the grocer and the
butcher. But he wanted a larger field,
where he could do big Things In
Phillipsburg, Kansas, as in many 9TH
er Kansas villages, supremacy in met
ropolitan greatness is expressed brief
ly as tx. c." So Baker selected tx.
c." as his larger field. Financially he
did better, perhaps, than most men
who venture in from the grass roots.
But he acquired taste for strong
drink and an affinity which he might
have escaped had he fingered in the
short grass county seat. And now the
prison or the gallows is staring him in
the face. Finally, he hasn't done very
well. And TX. c." and other cities on
the map have lot like him: men
with ambitions larger than their fund
fool doesn't do very we'll in the coun-
try towns, but he has greater oppor-
tunity to expand himself in the cities.
|-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
FROM OTHER PENS
A STRONG ExECUTIvE.

The president of the United States
has become more powerful man than
his early predecessors, and this is not
explained by any change in the consti-
tuition or the laws. The governor Of a
state was at one time a mere orna-
mental and titular figurehead, with lit
tie real authority. This was truer in
some states than in others, but in al
he has increased in power and become
the real head of the state.
This Is due to the fact that the ex-
ecutive, though elected by a party, rep
resents the entire state. which estab-
fishes a relation between the executive
and the people quite distinct from that
which he sustains to his party. This is
true, and the president who forgets
that he is president of the United
States and all it's people, and the gov
ernor who keeps his party and not the
entire commonwealth in view in the
administration of his office. are not Mt
for their places.
But the growth of the executive has
kept pace with a distrust of the legis-
lature. Every new state constitution
places new shackles on the legislature
and increases the power ana lmpor-
lance of the governor. the direct vote
in many states, both on United States
senator and on proposed legislation. has
reduced the state legislature to the
status of a mere recording body of the
popular will. While legislative discre-
ton has declined, the governors veto
power has been strengthened In many
states At the recent session or con-
gress the fountainhead of the great
measures passed by congress was In
the White House, not in the capitol
Philadelphia Press.
GERMANYS DREAM OF EMPIRE
Germany has not been, like Great
Britain, a great colonizing power Tne
kaiser has no millions of subjects ready
To rise up at his call, in all the COT
ners Of the earth, and rush to the oe-
Tense of the fatherland. And yet Ger
many is steadily pushing forward IL
the upbuilding of an empire.
The extension of Germany's dominion
in these last strenuous decades ha'
been Industrial and commercial rathei
than political. Germany at home has
been consolidated and strengthened
until it is knit in firm unity. The army
and navy have been kept in mgr
state of efficiency. The fatheriano i
AN armed camp. with every subJec'
trained and ready
Along with this military PreparSu =,
ness Germany has become 1ndustrlail.
the most efficient, perhaps, OF all TN
great mowers And pioneers OF TRACE
have fostered this Industrial progress
Ly opening the worlds markets 10
German goods. In South ana Centra
America the Germans are winning incl
vay while Americans look on II
snathy, or bIunder in their methods
The Germans are capturing trade ant
settling rich lands and introducing
German blood and ideals: The Gel mahl
y in their way not merely by force O
. hilitv. but by speaking the Language
of the natives, and meeting them hal
,vav with courtesy and tolerance. Whe1
Americans condescend to use the sam
methods, the United States may com
nete with Germany on equal terms II
TI'atin America.-cleveland Plain Dea
Ter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

In all I spent four months travelling travel
the states. and met mony men OF
varied classes. In my widest dreams
for the race I had never foreseen such
wealth, such freedom, such equality.
America is the land of the common
people. as England is the land of the
man 7 would go to the states as soon
as I could earn a passage, because,
once on her soil, should cease TO pc
a laborer and become a man-wnlcn is
a very different thing. Better than
the boundless wealth of America, bet
ter than any material benefit she can
bestow. is this sense of manhood and
equality that is as all-peryadinga a as the ne
air. worse than the earthen moor OF
orr peasant's howell, still found In our
Southern countries, and the starvation
wages on which he lives, is the slav-
ish spirit that drags the cap from MS
head before the parson or the squire
or crowds him into the ditch as the
carriage passes by. He is not man
only a laborer, one step above the ser1.
Joseph Burt, of London, in Leslie's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
POINTED r.AiiaGKArHs.

LFrom the Chicago News.1
Occasionally people get too respectable
to enjoy life
Don't be kicker. A mule can beat vo,,
at the game.
A mans life may be like an open book
of the blank variety.
Even miser may be liberal when IL
comes to giving himself away
Many a successful candidate is unable
to make good as an official
So long as a man has wheels in his head
he is never out of the running.
Why is it that there are SO manv ma
ried men going around looking for svm-
patty?
he will be kept waiting all the rest ~ Iei
life. u iis
Even the girl who prides herself on bar
man asks for ii. ~ -is NJ
While a young man is wonderinp 10 -
dare kiss q girl the chances are fI5at L he
Is wondering why he doesn't brace IN s snS
get permission. Up ana
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.l

How we'll an ugly man looks in
photograph!
When a man gets sick, what is he
to do? 1t does him no good to see
doctor.
Do you dress up for circus day, or
do you greet the elephants with what
you have every day?
It is possible to have majority.
INT no candidate ever had the liars
unanimously on his side.
When a man begins to dress for COM
fort rather than looks he is either OLD
or married, or both.
No one but a policeman should ever
butt into a family row, and he is apt
to get the worst of it.
Without wishing to insinuate any
thing. it may be said that a good
MANY bashful men get married.
There is only one favorable thing to
be said of eating with your knife: as
yet, there is no law against 1t.
Next to an English saddle, west
ern mans idea of the greatest joke is
a man who would ride such a saddle.
One sign of a worthless man: when
he is always looking for another job,
instead of taking care CT the one ne
has
Until L am able to get rid of the
smoking foolishness, I might as well
not try other reforms Irvine.
Maybe the world is growing better:
we do not see as many young girls on
the street carrying music rolls as we
formerly did.
Every time circus is announced to
appear in Atchison, the old men be-
gin telling about the days when they
knew Dan Rice.
when a man finds a soft place to
fall, and then faints, I don't take much
stock in his faint said an Atchison
Tean the other day.
1t is a felony to sell liquor to In
dams, but we notice the Indians man
age to get drunk a good deal without
going into the distillery business.
Nearly every man says: Il don't
know what a leisure moment is" And
every man who says it, tells whop-
per, since we all have more leisure
than we realize. or will admit
My boy is so much like me that /
blush every time 1 look at him. Peo-
pie often ask me, Did you ever try
taking it out of him. I'm trying to
take it out of myself. t."-Drake
Watson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It is generally the smartest men
who make the biggest mistakes.
X
Auto wrecks seem to be crowding
railroad disasters out of the limelight
these days.
= y
The popular relatives nowadays are
those who own motor cars of large
seating capacity.
:: y
Truth is naturally stranger than fic-
ton because there is so little OF 1t In
comparison.
If many folk would treat the mem
bers of their own families as consid-
erately as they do their neighbors
there would be much more happiness
in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the state journal
Rway 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 (by
mail onIy.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out Of town the
State Journal will 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, 1910-07-18

The worst trouble about an Associ-
ated Press dispatch relative to the
aeroplane flights and falls in Liechlin-
gen, Rhenish Prussia. is that the
printers can not get the date line into
one line. AS a result. the first glance
gives the impression that the story is
local item.
Our personal idea of nothing to beef
about is the rubber tariff.
when get to that ultimate winter
resort" says C. P. B., ST expect to be
greeted with music-and nv idea of
music appropriate to the occasion
would be His Devilment' playing "A
Hot Time on calliope."
It has been ascertained. bevond a
doubt, that DR.. Crippen was once asso-
ciated with DIR. Munyon. This being
settled, all good citizens should turn
out and assist in running the scoun-
| drel to earth.
The Nicaraguan idea of sport and
pastime is to get an American into one
of their filthy jails and starve him to
death. They would relish this amuse-
ment with any stray white man as the
victim, but owing to the peevishness Of
other civilized nations, they have to
confine their sport to Americans to
avoid serious trouble.
In Newcastle, Pa, the police arrest
ed a hobo for taking a bath. New
castle is probably Indebted to the
| funny periodicals for its views on the
| tramp subject, and therefore consid-
cred the unfortunate boob insane.
Congressman Anthony calls upon all
good men and true to help smash the
Stubs machine. Such action might
be considered drastic. but, neverthe-
less, as Hon. drummer used to remark
| it might be just as we'll to puncture
about three of the Stubs tires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.1

[F'ror the New YOrK FTeSs.I
There's too much about age in in
surance policies for women to want
any of them.
The sublimest impudence in the world
ia mans feeling of superiority over
woman.
Love is good enough to get married
an. to STAY married ordinary commo-
ditics are needed
A man can take pride in the way
he's too liberal to hang onto his money
TO pay his debts with.
When a girl says she wants to learn
to swim it's a sign she says 1t to the
nan she wants to teach her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

According to Popular Mechanics "the
Roosevelt dam is nearing completion.
But this statement refers to the great
engineering feat in connection with
the Salt river irrigation project in
Arizona, and not to the announcement
that is expected from Mr.. Roosevelt
some day as to which faction of the
Republican party he is not in sympa-
thu with.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

"Generally fair and continued warm
weather" is the monotonous weather
predictions for these parts which have
prevailed of late and are still in order.
And the heavy thunder and rain storms
which sneak in unannounced don't
seem to have any effect in making
these predictions unreliable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Cincinnati women who participated
in the Elks parade at Detroit and won
an automobile for the fine showing
they made, are in for peck of trou-
BILE. All of them, some two hundred
in number, will want to use it at the
asme time and it will only hold five.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

That. phony messenger boy who has
worked Topekans and citizens of other
Kansas towns by collecting divers sums
from them on fake kilograms, and who
is now plying his trade in Kansas
City, Mo-, must be the real and origin
al John Doe. Nobody seems to be
able to capture him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

According to the Deseret News
s'what the governor of North Carolina
said to the governor of South Carolina
isn't half so important as what the
president said to the ex-president. Will
# ever be known" Possibly not. BSt
1t appears to have been quite as agree
able as was the remark of the COVER
nor of North Carolina to the governor
of South Carolina.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Any opinions delivered by Mr.. jack
son, the states attorney general, on
the primary election law or any other
law, are not valid or binding interpre-
tations of such statutes. This is a
matter for the courts to determine.
And If the present primary law is not
9ufIiciently stringent to prevent Demo-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

After noting the number of speeches
Colonel Roosevelt is going to make in
the near future in different parts of
the country, one might be pardoned
for thinking that he is a candidate for
some sort of an office. But such is not
the case, not yet at any rate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Gratis from participating in Republican
primaries, or vice versa, it should be
made so by the state legislature before
another primary day rolls around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Clifford Pinchot and others are giving
the congressional insurgents all the
credit for most of the excellent legis-
lation which was enacted at the recent
session of congress. This is the first
authoritative instance on record where
the tail has wagged the dog.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Kansas druggists appear to be up
against it. Under a ruling of the in
ternaI revenue department they will
have to take out federal retail liquor
licenses in order that they may sell a
variety of perfumes. essences, medi-
cines or drugs which contain alcohol.
And the possession of a federal retail
liquor license is considered prima
facie evidence in Kansas that its pos
SCISSOR is violating the prohibitory law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Topeka's Aero club gives promise of
developing into state organization.
Z Presumably it will be of the theoretical
type, unless Henry Laurens Call of
Girard succeeds in putting a little fly
Ing ability in his far-famed machine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Some one signing himself death"
has threatened the life of the editor of
the Chattanooga Times. If he will
send in the amount past due on sub
scription doubtless all will be forgiven,
thinks the Birmingham News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Wilbur Glenn Voliva. protege of the
late John Alexander Dowie, alias
Elijah, the three times, is about to
gain complete control of Zion City
and its industries. But who. outside
of Zion CITY. cares?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Among the notable records of the
present era is that made by New
Jersey man who died the other day.
He had refused to speak for thirty
nne wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Chicago suffragettes must be an at
tractive lot. A number of them held
an audience of men in the street for
an hour the other day while it was
raining
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18

Our personal idea of nothing to bee
about is the rubber tariff.
The Dickinson press., 1910-04-09

DRY of once having been the means OF
contributing to the entertainment Of
Abraham Lincoln is Teresa Carreno,
now the most distinguished female
piano artist of the day. In those days
she was being exploited as a musical
prodigy" and even at that early age
she was the mistress of a wonderful
technique. The Lincolns went to hear
the little Venezuelan maiden play and
were delighted with her. She was in
vited to the White House and played
for the president.
All of these women of genius whose
blessed privilege it was to dispel q
little of the gloom which was even
then %enshrouding the personality of
the greatest man of his age are still
in the flesh. Adelina Patti, nov the
Baroness Cederstrom, is growing old
gracefully in her castle in Wales;
Lolita, who is as thrifty as she Is men.
tally alert, lives in New York city in
a beautiful home of her own; Nine.
Carreno, whose art has developed into
splendid fulfllment Of her youthful
promise, is still Americas premiere
pianiste, and Anna Dickinson, broken
physically and mentally wrecked, is
living in retirement in New York city.
The Dickinson press., 1910-04-09
NOTICE OF LEASING OF SCHOOL AND
INSTITUTE LANDS.

EnLE.H LIZ
The school and state lands in Stark county.
North Dakota, not already leased, will be
offered for rent at . public leasing to be held
at the court house in the city of Dickinson in
said county on Tuesday. the 10th day of April.
terms OF leasing will be as follows:
All lands viii be offered for q term Of 5 years
beginning with the season OF 1910. and only for
grazing and hay purposes, at the minimum
annual rental Of 10 dollars for each quarter
The lands will be struck Of! to the highest
bidder. who. will be required to pay at the
also On additional fee Of p for issuing lease,
which fee will be charged for each quarter
section or fraction thereof included In such
Subsequent years rent will become due on
January list Of Q year, and In default OF
payment within thirty days thereafter, lease
win b cancelled without notice to leasee.
Any cultivated tracts will be offered at a
minimum annual rental of five per cent of the
"A list Of the lands to be offered for lease
viii be on file with treasurer of said county
for public inspection for at least two weeks
before the date of leasing. i.
Coal rights are reserved to the state In all
leases and the board of university and school
lands reserve the right to reject any or all
No Hay Permits will be sold this year as
heretofore. The only way to secure the use
Of the land is by leasing on above terms.
All Leases Subject to Cancellation should q
sale be authorized.
Dated at Bismarck. N. D.. this ist day OF
ALEX. MACDONALD.
3-19-4t Commissioner