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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28
JIYHAWKER J0TS

In one of his rambles around town
an Ottawa Herald reporter found this
sign: "Ice Cream Combs, Five Cents. -
Just the thing to fix the hair with in
this kind of weather. Why are they
not for sale in every town?
"Abe Martin tells of a man." says
the Emporia Gazette, "who cranked
up his new $4,000 motor. car and start
ed for the poOrhouse to see his dying
mother, but arrived just ten minutes
too late. 1t beats all how master
of language can condense a tragedy
into one sentence"
Once in a great while the Atchison
lobe is real mean. It used the word
sequela the other day and took pains
to call attention to the fact. Then it
failed to diagram the word and there
by explain it's meaning. As it is too
the dictionary most of them will prob
ably pass the matter up with the idea
that sequela means a lady sequel
Some folks are so touchy.' says the
Howard Courant. "The office phone
rang the other day. and to my hello, a
gentle voice asked rs this the Courant
office?' 'Yes'm. :. well. ! have an
fell off her back step this morning and
broke her right limb-can YOU hear?'
Mrs. Who? Mrs. MeI-tWorse than
before.)' Spell it plsaseyes, 7 got
tall right Broke her right limb
d'je'git that?' .Yes-1eg or arm p
ani-bang-chug! and she hung UP
the receiver, and the particulars can't
be given"
We have no influence with women,
admits the Atchison Globe. A certain
Atchison girl wears a wad, OF jute hair
that causes the men to make remarks.
She is a nice girl, and we have endeav-
ored by means of 'hint" Items to save
her from ridicule. But the more we
hint, the larger that wad of hair
grows. No man has much influence
with women. 1t is born in them to re-
gard men as tyrants without taste.
Whenever man advises woman to
do a certain thing. she thinks: 'If
do exactly the opposite. viii be
right" In these days of liberty for
women, they bark back too much to
the old, old days of slavery for women.
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POINTED f.aKAukarHs.

[From the Chicago News.1
Easy-going men take things as thew
come.
The wise young man prices the ring
before he speaks.
Boys will be boys, and even some
girls are boisterous.
Unfortunately the collectors bills are
never counterfeit.
You don't find anybody kicking for
rapid transit to heaven.
It's awfu1ly hard for a man to keen
his fool streak under cover.
A burglar doesn't mind making had
breaks if he isn't caught in the act.
Diamonds bought on the installnent
plan are always the most conspicuous.
Anyway, a stranger In a town never
has to hire small boy to point out
the saloons.
Many man never realizes how mean
he is until he gets married and his wife
tells him.
When a woman's curiosity ceases to
work her sorrowing friends send for
the undertaken
An Ohio judge has decided it is legal
for woman to go through her fus-
bands pockets. Few wives, however.
waited for the decision.
Many breach-of-promise suits are
due to the inability of girls who are
angling for husbands to distinguish be-
tween q nibbIe and a bite.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28

There is many q rest in the road OF life,
If we only would stop to take it.
And many tone from the better land,
II the queruious heart would wake it,
To the sunny soul that Is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne'er falleth,
The grass is green and the flowers are
bright,
Though the wintry storm prevalent.
Better to hope. though the clouds hang
And to keep the eyes still lifted;
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep
through,
When the ominous clouds are rffted!
There was never q night without q day,
Or an evening without a morning,
And the darkest hour, as the proverb
Is the hour before the dawning.
Better to weave in the web of life
Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jeweled crown.
Or the mfser's boarded treasure;
It may be the love of little child
Or mothers prayers to heaven;
Or only a beggars grateful thanks
For cup of water given
Better to leave in the web of life
A bright and golden filling,
And to do Gods will with ready heart
And hands that are swift and willing.
Or our curious lives asunder,
ends,
And sit, and grieve and wonder.
M. A. Kidder In the Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t is sometimes safer to call a man a
bluff than to attempt to call his BLUR.
Even the baseball umpire has 70
stand for back talk after he gets mar.
ried.
Just because he carries his head so
high is no indication of the giraffe's
superiority.
Never tell your best friend anything
you wouldn't care to have the whole
world know.
The average bunco man will give you
a steer. but the Beef Trust makes you
pay for it.
Marriage is lottery in which many
a spinster has never had chance to
take chance.
A girl sometimes has an idea she is
an interesting invalid when she is
merely looking bilious.
The first thing some people will do on
reaching heaven will be to demand an
apology from Eve for that apple incl
dent.
Nell-"Do you think hoop-skirts will
ever come in again?'' Belle-ssEot UNI
less they make the doors larger than
those now in use."
Mrs Muggins-"Did that patent
medicine do your husband any good Pr
Mrs. Buggins-"Oh. yes; it kept him
in hopeful state of mind for q couple
Of weeks"
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AIcohoI and neredity.

Attention is directed by the Medical
Record to the interesting and decidedly
surprising results of an investigation
recently made in England with the pur-
pose of determining the physical and
mental effects on children of alcohol
ism in parents. 1t has hitherto been
held as indisputably true ard "of COM
mon knowledge that these effects are
many and serious-that the drunkard's
child has nothing like a fair start in
life, and is, il not sure. at least very
likely, to be a weakling in both mind
and body. An examination by careful
scientists of 1000 children in Manches-
ter and Edinburgh-where, il any
could be found-discredits this old as
sumption.
The parents of half these children
were sober people, and OF half either
the father or mother or both habitually
drank to excess. The conclusions reach
ed were: That the death rate among
the children OF alcoholic parents was
Slightly greater than among the 9TH
ers, the difference being most notable
when the mother was incorporate;
that the children of the sober were a
little heavier; that the health of the two
classes was about the same; that par
ertal alcoholism is not the cause OF
mental defect in offspring, and affects
| intelligence very slightly. If at all, and
| that, for some inexplicable reason, the
what the better.
| Nothing was decided as to the exist.
ence of predisposition toward drunk.
| enness in the children of drunkards, but
| it was shown, the Investigators think
| that what little superiority was found
in the children Of the sober was dut
rot to the abstinence Of the parents
| from intoxicants, but to the better care
and training which their children nat
uralfy received. In other words in this
case, as In SO many, If not all others
| it Is early environment rather than
| heredity that counts, and there is no
| more OF prenatal doom for the drunk
ards child thai for that of the con-
sumptive.
The prohibiticnists Will not welcome
these conclusions and they can say
fairly enough, that the Investigation
was not broad enough to be decisive
They may even question the wisdom OF
publishing such statements, even ii
true. The truth. however, is never dan
gerous, while falsehood and inaccuracy
always are Experience has shown
that the restraints of the old belief are
ineffectual, and any tightening of that
dark cloud of hopeless feredity, ex-
plotted by lola and Ibsen, Is certainly
to be desired as tending to strengthen
the same of personal responsibility and
to inspire ambition and effort.-New
vorl- rTfrues
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28
THE BUSINESS OUTDOOR.

Things are quiet in the business
world This is admitted on all sides
by those who know about them. The
pessimists are uttering their usual
cries of alarm. The optimists are com
batting them with predictions of an un-
usual prosperity in the immediate fu-
ture. And the conservatives who dig
down into the situations as they exist
come out with the statements that con-
ditions might be much worse and that
the prospects are good for them being
much better before long. They are
sure there is no cause for alarm and
plenty of good reasons for hopes, al
though their predictions do not go
quite as far as the optimists of the ex-
uberant type. In the conservative and
discerning class is Henry Clews, the
New York banker, who discusses the
business and financial situation as fol-
lows in his current Weekly Financial
Review:
General business is very quiet, more
SO than usual at this season. Curtail-
ment is still necessary in many indus
tries, and commodity prices continue
on the decline. In consequence buy
ers hesitate, their takings being of g
generally hand-to-mouth character
Doubtless when they discover that rock
bottom has been reached a rush of or
ders will follow. since there is nothing
unsound in conditions. The crops
though needing rain in some sections
are progressing satisfactorily. and
there is every Indication that farmers
both west and south will this year
raise products quite equal in value tic
those of last year, and this in spite OF
the damage to spring wheat, the inn
portance If which has been vastly
cverestimated. What is = loss Of $780,.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28
KANSAS CONNENT
A GOOD "srRINGENcY."

There Is no reason to worry about
the financial situation The fact that
money is little .close" this summer
Is really good thing. Business has
Deen on the boom for a couple of
years and 1t is always necessary for a
rest or backset so that speculation
can be stopped. OF course it is pleas
ant to be able to borrow all the money
that is NEEDED or wanted but that very
condltlon makes everybody optimistic
ana speculative, leads to booms, and
VIII, II not properly checked, lead on
10 pusts. The eastern financial jour-
naIs speak Of the speculation in west
ern lands being ont of the reasons for
tlgntenlng up. The fact is that west
ern mortgage and westernsbonds have
been in such demand the last few years
tnat the market was over supplied,
and then the investors stopped talking
them. That is all there is to the
sLrlngency in the west. We will SIM
ply have to quit borrowing so much
capital and get along on our own prof
It's Tor a while. which can easily be
done It is probable that in few
months the fasteners will again be
crying for western securities.
In the meantime it is just as well
for the west to realize that it should
get along on its own financial basis
for while and not be borrowing
money just because it is easy. A poor
crop year or general financial dis
turbance would give US bad setback
If we were too much spread out and
were called upon to pay obligations
sooner than We expect. Take a little
more time to making money and not
be borrowing so much capital 1t is
tempting to be able to borrow a lot
and make a profit above the interest,
but it is dangerous habit. Any
thing that stops the habit and calls
attention to the possibility of having
to pay up is good thing.-Hutchin-
son News.
BOYS, B EMANLY. GENTLEMANLY
When we see the boys on the streets
and public places we often wonder II
they know business men are watching
them.
In every bank, store and Office there
will soon be place for a boy to fill.
Those who have the management of
the affairs of business will select one
of the boys; they will not select him
for his ability to swear, smoke cigar
cites or ia a beer key.
And the social society swell' who
is daft about little social functions and
is happy in the conceit that he is lust
the article" that young ladies find In
dispensable on all occasions, is also
given the CLASSY stare" quite as often
as the beer guzzler or cigarette smoker.
Business men may have a few loose
habits themselves, but they are looking
for boys that are as near gentlemen in
every sense of the word as they can
find, and they are able to give the
character of everybody in the city.
They are not looking for rowdies-
When a boy applies for one of these
places and is refused they may not
tell him the reason why they do not
want him, but the boy may depend
upon it that he's been rated accord
ing to his behavior.
Boys cannot afford to adopt the
habits and conversation of the loaf
ers and rowdies If. they ever want to
be called to responsible POSITIONS
Winfield Courier.
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you is supreme; let yours match it.
that may always be Your Lover
Thrilled by the wonderful decu-
ment. Marcia stood up. her face
ut is message from you, dearest =
she murmured. IT will wait and
trust,
She made her way across the water
in serene content, and was met a.
the pier by Annette. who was all IN
pink. straight and slim, like an IN
sheathed bud.
In her hand she held a letter. 81
forgot to give it to you," she said.
arthur made me promise that !
hand; but you slipped away 80
quickly this morning that I did not
have time to tell you."
The letter explained everything.
The little nurse had been the cause
of all the trouble. Arthur had re-
own letters had been posted by the
French woman. When no word came
from his sweetheart he had taxed
Mignon, and her confession had re-
vealed her suppression of the corre-
spondence.
'sShe gave as her reason that she
loves me. I am telling you this be-
cause there must never be shadow
1 of deception between us. dearest. I
know your faith In me, and want 1t
always to be justified. Mother is bet
ter, and I am coming to you--and we
will spend our honeymoon on the
Island of JOY
Marcia went out into the purple
twilight and sped down to the shore.
In the west, beyond the amethystine
shadows of the bay, the island seemed
but deeper shadow. Like a star
shone the beacon which the deaf old
caretaker lighted to warn sailors in
their ships. But to Marcia. as she
stretched out her arms to it, 1t was
star Of hope.-(Copyrighte 1910 by
Associated Literary Press.)
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe. ]
,a~o x,a.,ar x.-oS r. fof J,ara

There never was fat hero.
oh, we're so tired hearing of the
Abernathy boys and Jane Adams!
Working at certain occupations
seems to tame men more than others.
There are a great many stories OF
the brave men of antiquity, to shame
living towards.
We haven't heard ghosts mentioned
in months Don't people believe in
them any more?
A busy man talks less than one who
has little to do. Another argument in
favor of industry.
Haven't you noticed that some days
you are ambitious and that other days
you are mean?
A girl should never show her ell
bow; a girls elbow looks as tough as
the bottom of a girls heel.
An Atchison man takes so much
care of his children that there is talk
of having his picture taken as He
Madonna.
The man who is drunk half the
time imagines that people don't no
tice it, But they notice less things
than that.
After a man becomes about sc
cranky, he thinks he can't do anything
wrong, and that others can't dc any
thing right.
When a little boy discovers that he
can whistle, he reminds us of a young
rooster when it first discovers that II
can crow little.
When one girl sees another with
buttons up and down her waist and
skirt, she longs above all else for a
chance to count them
Probably the most uncomfortable
experience in the world is when two
people who do not like each other gel
together and talk things over"
When you are arguing with a man
you often dispose of his charges BY
saying, THAT doesn't amount to any.
thing" when you know that 1t does.
The members of the official board OF
an Atchison church have a rule that
when they hear their preacher is look
ing for another place, they begin look
ing for another man
They say man sprang from the
monkey. We would pay more atten-
ton to a story that a man sprans
from a mule: we never saw a mar
who didn't in some way remind US Of
mule.
We have noticed that some men tall
about the Big and Noble Things; abou
getting a larger attendance at Sunday
school. and things of that kind; while
other men talk about their ueishbors.
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It's not so much what you wear as
how you act.
-
Many a man who talks about his
Income" works for a daily wage.
rs
The fishing is good at all the noun
tain and lake summer resorts-in their
advertisements
y X y
This is also the season of the year
when the biggest fish gets away after
being hooked.
If you meet a man on the streets
these days whom you do not know and
he greets you with a pleasant smile
and a gracious bow set it down that
he's a candidate for some office.
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>HU1A0p or THE DIP

MT. Hubb-The intelligence office man
ager told me that our new girl was once
an actress. Mrs. Hubb--I believe it. She
brette does 1t on the stage-Boston
Transcript.
am convinced that it is classic" "a
classic? What convinces you Of that?''
Of Il but nobody has rea ssfR SF eHand
Leader.
The Maiden Aunt-No, sri No travelling
second class on the Continent for me.
How do ! know with what strange man
Fl so 1 Ba5 the mann
know what was coming to him, either
Life.
she-what was that noise heard in the
hall last night? Hell guess my dear, it
was the day breaking. -Baltimore Ameri-
can.
At recent dinner of the Authors club
In London Walter Emanuel. member of
that the man with the largest sense of
humor he had ever struck was an English
suffering long with toothache. He re-
fused to have gas, and the dentist pulled
pan ad too tse toe tn tS tniinS In
whsre Re Snshsa tS Ssits heartily He
Mrs Stubbs-John, no true man will
smoke up his wifes curtains. Mr.. stubbs-
curtains would be freak. prefer cigars
Chicago News.
vidi. vioi:,, II could send seven more
he said. ''but / can't think Of seven words
beginning with " and ending with e
that will quite fill the BILL Later he re-
Elected that he could have used picture
postcard and saved at least A cents
Earnest But Prosy Street-Corner Orator
- want land reform: want housing re-
Bored Voice-Chloroform. Manchester
Guardian.
Innis-Do love her? Why. man, can't
sleep nights for thinking about her.
Owens-That's not proof positive 1 get
the same effect from my tailor's bilis.-
:, f Have any serious trouble with your
able to get away before he got my num- num-
ber"-Cleveland Leader.
Higgs-Are you not INDUCING in a good
old MANI. .Biggs-Yes. but great Scott
the necessities are all so laundering hieh
Boston Transcript. -
Yes. my little boy" said the pretty sst-
Element worker, good behavior aiw avs
pays" That's what me dad saws . ~ -
do inc t ts lad IN the blue overaIls
every year for good behavior ''-Chicago
do you believe that he will succes,s -,
Yes indeed. He never WASTES snv lime
telling how much more he knows than 'j his
employers."-Detroit Free Press. 49,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28

Leave it to the Kansas farmers to
get there. One of them had too many
grasshoppers in his alfalfa. So he
built portable chicken coop which
he placed in his alfalfa field and NOV
ed around. And his six hundred
chickens have cleared the field of the
grasshoppers. Not only that. but
the chickens thrived on their new diet
and materially increased their egg
supply AS this farmer says: Turning
srasshoppers into eggs and selling
them for 10 cents q dozen almost
beats raising alfalfa and wheat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28

There can be no denying it. The
voters of Kansas must be deeply in
tsrested in politics when they will
turn out by the thousands, gather in
almost unbearably hot halls, and lis
ten to the candidates discourse for a
couple of hours. That's what they
have been doing in Topeka during the
mast couple of nights.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.

LFrom the New York Press.1
Love at first sight seldom is at Sec
ond.
Nobody is a clever enough liar not
to overdo 1t.
The reason a woman can manage a
man SO easily is he thinks he is doing
it.
in baseball I'LL she begins to UNDER
stand the game.
A man can owe money for years and
never think it is out Of the way till
somebody owes him for week. when
it's = crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28

Speaking of real and serious dilem-
mas, how about the one that NE"
Jersey bicyclist found himself In the
other day. He had the choice ofzturn-
ing into a fast-traveling automoplle
or q goat. He selected the latter and
was ''butted'' into, insensibility.
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HARDLY NECESSARY.

1t is reported from Buenos Ayres
that the delegates from Peru and Chill
to the Pan-American congress are en-
deavoring to secure the adherence OF
Argentina to a plan to have the con-
ference adopt the Monroe doctrine as
a Pan-American doctrine. that is, that
1t should be declared the policy not
only of the United States but of all
the other 20 republics on this CONT
nent. The opposition to such a dec
laration is reported. based upon a
doubt of its wisdom and as to whether
it would not be taken as an unpro-
voked flout to Europe. The signif1-
cant fact, however, is that such pro-
posa1 should have been considered by
the three great powers of South Amer
lea, evidencing. as it does. their COM
p1ete harmony with the United States.
That is worth a great deal more than
any formal declaration can be- A
declaration Is nothing, but the spirit
back of 1t is everything. The United
States has maintained the Monroe
doctrine without formal pledges of
support from other republics. 1t does
not seek such a declaration. but it will,
of course welcome the knowledge that
it has the cordial sympathy and NOR
al support of its sister republics in
that policy.-pittsburg Dispatch.
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Mr.. Dewitt Milisrsthe chautauqua
lecturer, who pointed out the fact
that many of the noted men in the
worlds history were ugly of visage,
forgot to remark that the homeliest
of men are also successful in winning
the hearts and hands of the most at
tractfve women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28

Oklahoma City has population of
64,2O5, a gain of $40 per cent in ten
years. But Oklahoma City probably
won't grow so fast in the future. 1t
ts now Handicapped by being the cap
ital city of the state. This will make
ALI the other cities in the state jealous
ana they'u act accordingly.
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Many persons wondered what the
newspapers would do to I'LL their us
liaI space after the Johnson-J effries
night was thing of the past. They
have found the answer in politics"
Now they are wondering what will
take the place of politics when there
comes 1ull in them. The newspapers
don't know, but they are not worrying
about it. There is always something
on the carpet to keep the newspaper
co1unns filed.
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