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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
A Poser for the Preacher.

A clergyman who enjoyed the sub
stantial benefits of fine farm, was
slightly taken down on one occasion
by his Irish p1owman,, who was sit
ting on his p1ow in the wheat field.
The reverend gentleman, being an
economist said, with great seriousness:
"John, wouldn't it be good plan
for you to have a pair of pruning
shears and be cutting a few brushes
along the fence while the horses are
resting a short timer
John considered a moment, and then
said:
Look here. Wouldn't it be well,
sir, for you to have a tub of potatoes
in the pulpit and while they were
singing to peel 'em a while to be ready
for the pot ?"-San Francisco Chron-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
HUNOR or THE Day

His Idea of It.-Griggs-After all
the difference between man and wo-
man is one of wear and tear Briggs
What do you mean? Griggs-Man
spends his money foolishly on a tear
and woman on wear.-Exchange
Silent Partner-"So you and
Meyer have set up marriage agency?
What capital have you 2" "I put two
hundred dollars in the business and
Meyer his unmarried daughter
Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Making Her Useful-"He loves me.
he loves me not" murmured the TO-
mantle summer boarder. You must
pieces today, remarked the old far
mer. Possibly I have" Couldn't
you play that game just as well with
potato bugs ?"-LouisvilIe Courier
Journal.
Not Satisfactorily-"Did you ques-
ton the gentleman's veracity?" mo.
I was afraid it wouldn't answer
Baltimore American.
The Stranger-Is this pretty
healthy neighborhood? The Native
You bet it is. Thar amt bin a death
here in years, 'ceptin' the undertaken
Weekly.
The Funny Ways of GirIs-Young
Woman-Did you see the way that
man looked at me? It was positively
insulting. Big Brother-Dfd he stare
at you? Young Woman-Stare. Why,
no; he ran his eye over me and then
glanced off at someone else, Just as Il
I wasn't worth second thought
Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

Hattie LIE Blanc has been given her
freedom, and the verdict in this partic-
MAR case is likely to be a popular one
But what's the use of going to the
trouble and expense of trying to con-
Wet women on charges that they have
murdered men? Not many efforts of
this sort have been successful in the
last few years. And there are some
women who insist that the members
of their sex are always given the worst
of il by the men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

at the head of several of the other
governmental departments. Mr.. Hitch
cock succeeded in reducing the annual
postal deficit of $4,000, 600 by ST.
100000 during the first twelve months
he had charge of the postoff1ce de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

Talk is being INDUCED in among the
baseball magnates that there may be
no games for the worlds champion
ship next year between the winning
teams in the major leagues. If this
turns out to be the case, there likely
won't be so many deaths from heart
failure during that period of the year
when such games are played. The
strain that the playing of these games
causes among baseball fans all over
the nation is tremendous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.1
Teachers can cultivate brains, they
can't create them.
The first time man wins bet, the
devil writes him down in his books to
lose Atty
A girl who will wear big, fat, rubbers,
however bad the weather. doesn't want
to get married.
A wise child learns to like to be
SPANKED so as to get lot of spelling
to make up for it right after.
It's Just human nature for an old
bald head to want young girls With
. mass of curls to pretend they can
tolerate him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

over four billion dollars has been
paid out by the government of the
United States for pensions to soldiers,
sailors and their dependents since
1879. That's a record for generosity
in this particular that has never been
equaled by any other nation since the
world began.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

There was scarcely any need for
that London editor to remark he was
exceedingly sorry because he publish
ed an untrue report that one of Lord
Knoliys' daughters had eloped. The
court awarded the young woman dam
ages to the extent of $4,000. Such
judicial swat is enough to make even
an editor sorry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

California's board of health has fig
ured out to its own satisfaction that
babies cost more than they are worth.
But, thank goodness. few of the peo-
pie on earth are so small-minded as
the California board of health. They
don't measure the value of babies on
q dollars and cents basis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

More evidence that men don't vote
as they applaud: Six hundred repre-
sentative citizens of Connecticut gave
a hearty welcome to Colonel Roosevelt
at the banquet the other night by the
New Haven chamber of commerce.
Yet II was only a month ago that the
citizens of Connecticut elected a man
for governor who was most vigorous
ly opposed by Colonel Roosevelt,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
Rrazil,s honorable poaition in tn

Brazil's honorable position in the
great universal peace movement,
which was hers by right because she
had contracted for the building of
what was going to be the largest bat
tleship af1oat, has been short-liyed.
Japan has placed an order with an
English ship-building concern for the
construction of battleship that will
make the Brazilian monster look like
q gunboat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal ts a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
Telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication ia Topeka
The news Is received In The State Jour
nal building over wires for thts sole pcE-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

It will probably be surprising to
many folk that DR.. Wiley, the chief
government chemist, should have the
temerity to make the necessary ar
rangements for marrying. Love is
filled with all kinds of undesirable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

Two walters of twenty years ago in
the Congress hotel at Chicago now
own a controlling interest in this val
liable property. Perhaps this is an
other exemplification of the force of
the adage that everything comes to
those who wait. But you've got to
keep hustling while you're waiting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

For the past few days it looks as
though Miss Indian Summers second
cousin, Master Indian Fall, has been
visiting in this section of Kansas,
much to the delight of that boon COM
panion of the good, old summer time,
Mr. Natural Gas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
Observation-Disclosures

hin NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
A gentle little Buffalo was buffing on
his way;
A Mighty Hunter set q tran and baited
it with hay;
The guileless beast blew in to lunch,
the Hunter pulled a String
And ere the critter could escape, the
trap shut up ker-bingl
The gentle little Buffalo thought some
thing was amiss,
So hooked his hookers in the trap and
scat. tered
II '..-...... $50. ike
thisi
And, as the Mighty Hunter wandered
thence to find a tree,
His tracks were few and far apart:
they looked like
h l. -
to mel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

President Taft has been criticised
not a little for appointing such "a poll
tician" as Frank II. Hitchcock. the
postmaster general, to his cabinet. But
the people OF the nation, the fellows
who foot its bills, would be tickled
nigh unto death. no doubt. if they
could have a few more politicians of
the same stripe and business capacity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

The governors of the other forty
five states of the union are apparently
most recreant in their duties. They
are not travelling from one end of the
country to the other delivering them
selves of denunciations against the
railroads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
THE SEX TRIUMPHANT.

For years and years man has been
claiming that he is the equal Of wo-
man, and has been demanding the
rights she enjoys, only to meet with
rebuffs and ridicule.
Every now and then something oc-
ours to show that his claim is not I'M
founded, and the day must come when
his equality will generally be recog-
nized and he will be permitted to rock
the cradle and sweep the floors and en-
gage in other useful occupations which
are now considered the exclusive pro-
vince Of woman.
AT Seward, Neb., substantial prize
was offered for the best loaf of bread
baked by resident Of the county. The
contest excited much enthusiasm, and
women got busy, and exhausted all
their skill in preparing bread that
would soothe the savage breast.
On Saturday the prize was awarded.
There was the finest display of bread
ev n seen in the west. Long rows of
fat and alluring loayes were on exhi-
bition, and things were SO fixed that
the judges didn't know, who baked any
given loaf They had. to decide on merit
alone, and--teIl sait-~not in Gathl--the
first prize went to hired man Of the
neighborhood! Just an ordinary, every
day hired mani
The humiliation of the women must
have been intense, and the Gazette has
sympathy for them, but if they are fair
they will admit that man has vindi-
Gated himself. If a man can bake
bread as well as his wife. it stands to
reason that he can wash dishes and
scrub, and he should no longer be de-
MED the privilege of engaging in SUCH
useful toil.-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

Colonel Roosevelt's private opinion
of the embarrassing given his friend
Lorimer by the senate investigating
committee would likely be well worth
hearing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

The California state board Of health
Is of the opinion that babies cost more
than they are worth. We have in our
system an appropriate wheeze in this
connection, but on sober reflection.
with It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
to mel


"Washburn Student rises to INQUIRE
whether or not the failure of President
Sanders to shake down larger donations
was responsible for the shortage which
resulted in the sale for SIS of the
students pet mules
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

DR.. Roller has been rolled by zbyszko,
but he needn't feel bad about It. Some
poor inoffensive printer Is thrown by
Jaw, say it yourself,-) nearly every
time he attempts to set it up. and
many good honest linotype machine
has been jimmed by that Polish simp's
misdemeanor Of name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
FRON O7EER PENS
m THE FINAL ANALYSIS.

Most political problems can be
traced, when analysed, to the federal
constitution. Take those of Interstate
commerce, corporations, transporta-
ton, etc.. and two constitutional law
yers, in discussing the politics in them,
will finally reach that little provision
in the organic law which reads thus,
mo person shall be deprived of life,
liberty or property without due proc
ess of law
But plain as that proposition is, it
does not end the discussion, for the
controversy soon changes to a differ
ence of opinion as to what 1.-THE due
argument is long and uncertain. One
will say that meaning is determined
by the settled principles of the COM
mon law anyway it pleases; that the
common law is constantly changing in
response to the demands of the public
welfare.
And thus we get to a mere phrase
that constitutes the primary difference
between the great political parties, and
around which all the great social is
sues of the present day revolve And
then, if we go a little deeper into the
meaning of. the phrase, We will at last
find that it is not. determined by logic
or precedent, but by the temper, dis
position and hereditary inclination of
the individual. And there we are
every man is naturally q conservative
or radical. He may afterward ap-
peal to reason. but it is not reason
that makes him so-Ohio State Jour-
nal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

John Dawson knocks on Poe. Mex,
he will be knocking on julius Caesar
Julius is also dead and unable to ge,
back at him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

DR.. Wiley is going to get married.
It is about time something of a. quiet
ing nature happened to DR.. Wiley.
Here's predicting total eclipse for the
Doc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

Our idea of nothing to print under
the head of Peculiar Christmas
Wants" is the report that 500 Federal
convicts want out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
CANNON AGAINST cANNoN1sM

The spectacle of Mr.. Cannon fight
ing tooth and nail to destroy Cannon
ism will be very entertaining if it
comes off as advertised. Very likely
it will come off. There is a lively ex
pectation that the leading Democrats
in the house have experienced decided
cooling of their zeal against an auto
cratic speakership. Having gained
their partisan ends by railing against
Cannon's power they would now be
glad to let the subject drop and go
gently on in the good old way. But
Mr.. Cannon, of all men, is least likely
to acQuiesce in any such plan. 1t is
inconceivable that he will sit quietly at
his desk and see Mr.. Clark do peace
fully the same things that he himself
was denounced and derided for doing.
There will be some more denouncing
and it will be particularly lively, we
fancy, for Mr.. Cannon is a pretty va
liant old warrior when his dander
is up.
Nor will he fight alone. A goodly
band of Democrats believe in the prin-
cip1e of free debate. They stand ready
to fight for it even against the order
of their party caucus. The speaker
of the house will be made non-parti-
san presiding officer and nothing more
If they can bring it about In the fight
they are sure to have the help of the
lRepnblican insurgents and probably of
laH the Republican members. The
cause of czarism in the house is defin-
itely lost--Portland Oregonian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15
KANSAS COMMENT
CHANGING THINGS AROUND.

CHANGING THINGS AROUND.
Some people, as everybody knows,
are possessed by nature, apparently, of
an irrepressibIe desire to change things
around. This is a trait that is not
peculiar to any country, to any local
ity, or to any class or to either sex.
1t is developed no less highly at times
IN the statesman than in the house
Keeper. We see evidences of 1t as
often in public as in private life. 1t
accounts for the periodical movements
IN cities to change the names or
streets, to find new sites for public
buildings, to shift the statues of pub
lie men from one square or from one
park to another 1t prompts wife
in the absence of her husband very
frequently to change the furniture
about SO that he falls over most of 1t
when he comes home late.
AT present it is prompting some low
ers of art and of the fitness of things
in the national capital to move the
matter of changing the statuary OF
not in exactly the right place; neither
is General Washington; neither is La
fayette, nor Won Steuben; moreover,
the squares and circles in which many
monuments stand should be renamed.
1t is even proposed to rewrite some of
the Inscriptions on the bases. Andrew
Jackson's statue is complained of, in
deed, because it is too lifelike. The
inference to be drawn from this Is
that statue showing "Old Hickory as
a handsome man, which he was not,
would be more acceptable to those
who love art for its purely esthetic
qualities.
But there is no need to dwell on
Washington. All cities have in their
population an element that is strong
for changing things around and if the
"o1d fogy" element which believes in
keeping some things as they are were
not stronger, things in general would
be so shifted and mixed and confused
in this country today, that even the
unable to keep track of them.
AS it is, those who would like to
have things of historic interest and
scenes of historic interest preserved
for the next generation or two must
be tirelessly alert; for to all appear
ances those who would like to change
everything around never sleep--Atch-
| ison Champion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

The insanity defense is coming into
universal use. Down in johnson coun-
ty a murder suspect is giving it a try
crime
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

= ~ s7lss etszEs t1A4kt -S- 1850
% him who fnath,'s both true and trite:
For one of Hope bereft
May struggle bravely to "get right
But all he gets is LEFT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

Why not use Uncle Andy's ten-mll-
hon-dollar Peace donation to dis
tribute among the ''reformers?'' That
would insure peace for little while, 1T
least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

The Johnson county officers have
found $3.50 in real money in the house
of one individual who holds position
in their large chorus Of murder sus-
poets. That amount of real money IN
the house of a newspaper man, would
be prfma facie evidence Of robbery,
but as the suspect in this case Is a
farmer, the find is of no special sig
niffcance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-15

We still hold that Hon Roosevelt
carried that bouquet around so long
before presenting 1t to Hon. Taft that
it was badly wilted.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-14

into the streets to starve, growled
when they heard that huge suite OF
rooms in the royal palace had been
assigned TO the jiu-jitsu girl. Stick
lers for morality and etiquette We're
shocked TO learn that Mile. des Lis
accompanied Manuel on all his travels.
But Manuel continued TO perform the
WOrld-Old kingly feat of dancing on a
volcano. His favOrite holiday was
Paris. There, so riOtOusly gay was
he, that the French police were forced
TO take him in tow and TO close various
famous resorts whenever he was in the
city.
The young kings ministers tried 10
gloss over his faults. The excuses did
not serve. Manuel continued 10 spend
most of his time with Nile. des Lis,
shutting his eyes to the complaints.
AS in the case of Henry III Of
France and other royalties of the same
tastes, the filing" lasted just a trtfle
longer than did the sOre-tired patience
of the people. Manuel awoke to find
himself kicked off his throne and TO
know he had thrown away kingly
career at the feet OF a dancing girl
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-14
DANCING GIRL LURES
KING FROM THRONE
Monarch LayiSheS Fortune on
Partisan Stage
Beauty.

Berlin, Oct. ia music hall dancer
lost King Manuel of Portugal his
throne. The siren in the case is Nile.
Gaby des Lis, whose dancing of the
''Jiu-Jitsu waltz caught the young
monareh's fancy in Paris and threw
his heart into a passion of yearning.
1t was the dancer who inveigled the
young monarch into eXtravagances
which brought down upon his head the
wrath of his subjects
The story is not a new one in the
long history of the downfall OF kings
and mOnarchs. The dancing girl and
Manuel were together constantly in
Paris, and when the youthful king re-
turned TO Lisbon he took her with him.
In Lisbon Manuel and the dancer
We're seen together everywhere in
public.
This by itself might have done no
great harm in his subjects eyes. But
he proceeded to heap rich presents
upon her, 10 load her down with jewels
and to buy her everything her tickle
fancy happened TO crave.
Times were hard. People were clam
Oring for work. Hunger was more
than a mere name in Portugal When
starving men and women beheld the
kings sweetheart aDlaZe with dia-
the state and whose equivalent in food
might have saved many LIE, trouble
set in.
The nation murmured. The king was
deaf to the growing voice of complaint
and spent more and more money on
Mile des Lis. His Indifference was
nothing new in the history of rulers.
When Marie Antoinette was told in
1883 that the people were dying for
lack OF bread, she asked lightly: why
don't they eat cake?" When Cleopatra
on a wager with Antony dissolved a
$3.50 600 pearl in vinegar and drank it,
and when Louis XIV spent the public
revenue on baubles for Nine. de Pom
padOur, the mob had muttereds but
nothing had come of the discomfort.
Manuel unluchily for his short
later century. Members of the bank
rupt nation did not enjoy seeing
$500. 600 worth Of jewels given by a
king to a foreign dancer. That is the
sum Manuel is said TO have spent on
Mile des Lis adornment
People. too. who had bhen turned
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-14
ACUTE PAINS
IN THE BACK
CAUSED BY RHEUMATIC POISON
AFFECTING THE MUSCLES.
LanbAs0 Is q Form of Muscular Rhs0-
matism and is Readily Cured by the
Treatment Which L. COnquering
Rheumatism Everywhere.

Although lumbago occurs in almost any
walk OF life il Is chiefly disease OF work
ng men among whom il numbers thou
sands OF victims. As its attacks recur
frequently and are very painful, this dis
ease means the loss OF much time and
money as well as the endurance of much
suffering. No victim of this disease needs
u be told that il does not yield TO the
treatment usually prescribed. The trouble
being IN the blood, liniments and exter-
nal applications OF any kind simply allay
lie pain for bnef time and the patient
soon suffers as badly as before.
Lumbago Is sudden IN its attack and Is
50 intensely painful that the sufferer is
often unable 70 move, even 70 turn in
bed or 10 rise from a chair. The correct
treatment is the same as for muscular
rheumatism and the ease with which
this painful disease may be overcome
when it is properly treated is illustrated
by the case Of Mr.. I. 2. McGFew, Of No.
1887 Corley avenue, Beaumont, Texas,
who was a sufferer from lumbago for two
years and was often forced to lay OH
from his work as engineer for several
days at a time. He says
II was taken very suddenly with lum-
DcEO Willie al NOLA- LllG Jdllls were
very sharp and so severe that / came
near fainting. From then on | suffered
regularly with these attacks until l took
Dr. Williams Pink Pills The attacks
generally lasted for two or three days
and during them 7 could hardly stand up,
while it hurt me about as badly TO lie
down.
q was treated of and on by doctors
but was not given any permanent relief.
One doctor gave me liniment, but it
didn't help. Ii was only when / tried
DR. Williams Pink Pills that began 10
be benefited. / took several boxes and
haven't had touch of the disease since.
A copy OF our new booklet Diseases
of the Blood, containing full infOma-
ton about this treatment will be sent
free upon request.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
al druggists, or sent, postpaid, upon
receipt OF pnce, so cents per box; six
b as for $3.50, by the DIR. Williams
Aedb;ine Company, Schenectady, n. Y.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-14
Earl WILSON DIES.

Earl L. Wilson, aged 80 years. junior
member Of the finn of Andrews & Will
son. grOcers, and brother of Detective
H. F. Wilson, died at Holy Cross hos
pital at 1855 o'clock this morning. The
contributing cause Of death was can
Ger of the stomach from which Mr.. VIII
son had suffered many months. he was
born at Columbus Junction. Ia. but
came 10 Salt Lake when a boy. He
had been a member Of Andrews * Will
son for a period Of seven years. He
made his home at 1865 South Eleventh
East street where he is survived by a
wife and child.