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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
WATCH EASTERN KANSAS NOW.

Nothing of more Importance to the
development of the eastern section Of
Kansas has come to the front in some
time than the announcement that tina
Mckinley syndicate, which promotes
street and interurban railways on a
large scale. is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the Atchison street railway
company. If these negotiations are
successful the Atchison company and
the similar companies in Topeka and
Wichita which are already under the
control of this same syndicate, will be
used as terminal points for the con-
struction of a system of interurban
electric lines that will give much
needed transportation facilities to- the
territory between these three cities.
This territory comprises the most
thickly populated centers of the state,
and one of its crying needs for the
past few years has been an interurban
electric service. Many such have been
planned on paper by various interests.
but none of them have come to real
ization as yet. Matters in this respect
will probably be different if the McKin-
ley syndicate gets the properties it is
after. This concern has the capital to
promote such enterprises. 1t has had
experience in other fields which is SO
requisite for the launching of such I'M
dertakings. And as soon as it gets in
a position to do business, it is lik(Gy
that the work on a series of interurban
lines will be started and pushed on to
rapid and successful conclusion.
The advantages that will accrue TO
all of the communities in the territory
that these lines will tap will be mani
fold. Any number of places in this
section which are ripe for healthy de-
velopment will begin to flourish like
the proverbial bay tree. The suburbs
of the larger cities will be extended in
a much needed manner. Business IN
all lines and in every locality will
thrive accordingly. The farmers will
be placed in close and easy touch with
the cities, and the reverse will be just
as true.
Just such a stimulation as interurban
lines have given to various sections of
the country where they have been put
in operation has been needed in this
and other sections of Kansas, and
needed sorelv for the past few years.
That its realization is almost at hand
in this particular section of the stae is
almost too good news to be true. Let
it be hoped that there will be no hitca
in the negotiations which will bring il
about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
NEWSPAPERS AND JURORS.

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
comments upon an amendment to the
Jury laws passed by the last legisla-
ture Under the amendment news
paper reading does not entirely dis
qualify a man from jury service, but
the Commercial-Appea says it is faul-
ty and should be further enlarged so
that the power of the court might be
further defined. The presumption is
that it would give the judge discre-
tionary power to pass upon each indi-
vidual case. and to decide whether
having read the newspapers ought to
disqualify the reader.
Undoubtedly there are men who
would not be biased one way or an
other by having read the newspaper,
to the extent that they would discard
testimony and render a verdict in har-
nony with the law and the facts.
There MAJ be others who are SO con-
stituted that having reached a conclu-
sion, based upon hearsay evidence they
would be unable to escape the conclu-
sion. 1t may be said of such person
that he is as rule too narrow-minded
for jury service in any event. An in
telligent judge might. with a little
questioning. determine If the juror was
one of these classes. Therefore. as
the Memphis paper says. the court
should be given some discretion in
snck cases--Knoxville Journal and
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
MENACE TO PUBLIC WELFARE.

Attention is directed by the Indus
trialist, that valuable weekly paper
issued by the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college, to a circular letter writ
ten recently by Joseph A. Arnold, edi-
tor and chief of the division of publ
cations of the federal department of
agriculture regarding the alarming ex-
tent to which habit-forming drugs are
used and the various channels through
which they reach the public. On this
subject Mr.. Arnold wrote:
I'm its effort to protect the innocent
public against the insidious effects of
preparations containing drugs Injurious
to health, the United States depart
ment of agriculture has issued another
farmers bulletin treating on the sub
ject SO nearly connected with public
health.
Farmers bulletin No. 377, The
Harmfulness of Headache Mixtures, ;
was issued in September, 1909, and
10000 copies have been distributed to
those interested in the subject; now
farmers bulletin No. 393, Habit
Forming Agents: Their Indiscriminate
Sale and Use a Menace to the Public
Welfare giving the results of recent
Investigations by the department, has
just been issued as a warning to moth
ers, invalids, and users of medicated
soft drinks. of the dangerous contents
of many of the infant syrups, socalled
remedies, and soft drinks containing
coeain, caffein, etc.
at is almost unbelievable that any
one, for the sake of a few dollars
would concoct for infant use a PERM
cious mixture containing cocain, but
several such mixtures have been found
and their names published, together
with list of remedies intended for in
fants and containing morphine, codein,
opium, cannabis indica, heroin, which
are widely advertised, and are accom-
panied by the assertion that they CON
tain nothing injurious to the youngest
babe and that mothers need not fear
giving them, as no bad effects come
from their continued use,' while as a
matter of fact numerous Instances are
on record of babies being put to sleep
never TO wake again, or, where they
did not succumb. the more serious eff
feet of infant drug addiction was pro-
duced.
yet the majority of mothers, ignor-
ant of these facts, continue the use of
these poisons which at least must un-
doubtedly leave their impression on
the delicate organisms of infants and
! induce tendencies which may develop
into the evil habit of drug addiction.
THE bulletin contains a list with a
photograph of the original packages
| of some of the soft drinks containing
caffein and cola leaf extracts, to which
it is not uncommon to find persons
addicted. 1t also mentions some of the
harmful nostrums advertised as cures
for asthma, catarrh, cold coughs
consumption, epilepsy. and the tobacco
| habit, and states that some physicians
in their prescriptions in treating these
diseases and in attempting to cure the
drug habit itself often prescribed the
very remedies that have produced the
conditions which it is proposed to re-
lieve.
| This bulletin can be secured by
writing to the secretary of agriculture,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
THE GARDEN OF FoRGyENEss

THE GARDEN OF FORGIVENESS.
gentle wind breathes through the
tufted grass,
Rich with the scent of roses in their
bloom
And, with the wind. all sins and SORROWS
Leaving a sweet contentment In their
room.
weep;
Here come no thoughts of sadness or
despair;
But fairest flowers in fullest beauty sleep
ana softest sunlight dreams upon the
air.
The murmurings of fountains, low and
: Forever fill the ear and never cease,
soothing the silence with gentle beat
Like kindly voices speaking words of
And here. forever and forever, rest
Inc weary souls, unburdened of their
And cursed things are here forgiven and
bless'd,
And wicked hearts are made all clean
Bertrand shadwen, in the Boston
VAS was that f.s complimentary banquet you
aItended?" NO replied the statesman
complimentary banquets have gone out
OF style BanQuets are now given for
the purpose of roasting things or people
OF whom you disapprove."-Wash ington
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few persons seem to hesitate much
about stealing another mans time.
x e
1t is just some mems luck to be out
when opportunity knocks at their
doors.
A man is seldom liked for what he is
but rather for what can be got out of
him.
The girl who starts out on a hunt
for an ideal man usually ends up by
picking out plug.
x X
If it were not for the "easy marks
in the world lot of other men would
have to go to work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Beloit man, says the Gazette, be-
longs to so many lodges that he wishes
there were more days in the week so
he could get around to all of them.
Il used to think it was wise man
who kept his mouth shut" said Bill
Sincaller the other day to the Vinland
Vine. Now I think it is a mental
miser"
Evidently, the cucumbers in and
about LeaVenworth are of consider
able proportions. The Leavenworth
Times is urging it's readers to plant
vacant lots in cucumbers."
Mack Gretchen is of the opinion
that the principal trouble with the
human scheme of things is that a fell
low only has one way of earning mon
ey and half hundred ways of spend
ing it.
1t has been noticed by the Wichita
Beacon that the farmers who claim
all the crops have been damaged seem
to be going right ahead planning to
buy new motor cars with receipts
from the sale of the salvage.
There never was a time in the his
tory of the country remarks the dis
corning Belleville Telescope, when a
farmer could haul to town any of the
products of the farm and exchange
them for as many manufactured goods
as he can today"
According to the Onaga Herald a
pupil in one of the schools there wrote
the following essay on Geese"
Geese is a low, heavy-set bird COM
posed mostly of meat and feathers.
His head sits on one side and ne sits
on the other. Geese can't sing much
on account of the dampness of the
moisture. There amt no between to
his toes and he carries a toy balloon
in his stomach to keep from sinking.
Geese has only two legs and they come
pretty near missing his body. Some
geese when they get big are called
ganders and have curls on their tails.
Gamblers don't have to sit and hatch,
but just loaf. go swimming and eat. If
I was a goose I would rather be a
gander any time"
w. w. Guthrie of Atchison. has
reached the Holy Land on his trip
around the world, and he has this to
say about Jerusalem: 1.-The streets of
Jerusalem are awful. Most of the
passages containing little booths in
inches in the walls, where all sorts of
merchandise is for sale. Donkeys
heavily laden, crowd you to one side,
and you can hardly breathe as you
hurry along, holding your nose and
looking for a clean spot to step. If
some one would force the lepers into
a hospital, the beggars into the nu-
merous institutions for the poor, clean
up the streets and import some food
fit to eat, Jerusalem might be visited
more than once, but nearly every one
leaving at Jaffa said. Never again for
me-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

1.-THE paper says that De Tanque pre-
sided at .t,, the banguet' but l didn't see
the head Of the table. Puck.
Doesn't it ever make you unhappy to
the way the papers refer .t to your hFs
don't let it bother me any more. He says
he has things fixed so that he could stand
any kind of an investigation.'-Chic
Record Herald.
water. Joax--Yes;. and he doesn't get it
from the well, either.-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Can you tell me how I can keep
maid?'' Madam, you are in the. wrong
place. The embalmer is next door"
rs this proposal the result of a bet or
joke or a dare?'' asked the girl; NO;
you" ut is unusual, but after all the
unusual is the proper caper nowadays. L
accept you, Algernon. louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
',Got anything good?" inquired the city
terest' 'ELouisville courier-Journal.
zee m anlH dEst When G he roasts
a sinner nobody kin complain dat he amt
well done. Gateway
what a dreadful thing an Arctic night
lasting 40 days must be. Wouldn't it
drive you mad?" but think OF the re-
lief it must be to be able to tell creditor,
Come tomorrow knowing that 'tomor-
row will be 40 days off."-Fliegende
Batter.
There is a garden, far oh, far away,
Kept for the souls who sinned and suf-
fered most.
The sword of God forever guards the way
And round its borders camps a heavenly
host.
''You say she is no longer editor OF the
'Woman's Corner?' " mo. She wrote so
many articles on how to make over last
years hats that her readers began to
suspect she was man. Puck.
You may be surprised. after we are
married, to find how much things cost"
he warned her. 'Oh, 1 don't know" she
said, smiling. IT used to clerk in a deli
catessen store. Buffalo Express.
Hospital Doctor-Wen, what's the mat
ter with your Patfent-Well, sir, I dunno
/ eats well, drinks well an sleeps well;
but soon as I sees bit o. work
comes out all of a cold sweat, an trem-
bies that much can hardly stand
Comic Cuts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

visiting housekeeper of theAssociation
for Improving the Condition of the Poor,
show unquestionably that poor fami-
lies have been pushed to the very edge
of want. There is evidence that more
children are leaving school to go to
work, the day nurseries show that more
married women must seek positions, the
supply of meat has been cut down-the
decreased cost of living has, in fact, re-
duced the standard of living, and that
is something which must be reckoned
with in the next as we'll as in this gen
Grafton. And while the Survey does
not so state, it is fair to assume that
Similar conditions, not SO intense per
laps but ronetheless serious, prevail in
many other sections of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
All the hoodoos have more good luck
than they Will admit.
No one has ever attempted to pull
teeth by Christian Science.
How pretty a Woman's ankle looks
in a hosiery advertisement.
A womans idea of extravaganza is
what a man spends on himself.
1t is generally said Of certain Atch
icon man: He tells his wife too much"
There isn't a great deal of hope for
the man who is as proud of gruffness
as he ought to be Of politeness.
Il don't care to attend parties, but
WANT TO BE INVITED."-Parson
Irvine.
Women always have more to do in
summer than in winter; for one thing,
they are compelled to put out traps
for flies in summer.
II have heard a great many men tell
OF the great ambition of their lives. MY
greatest ambition is to have nothing to
DO on circus day."-Drake Watson.
Quit hating your enemies, and quit
talking about them. You needn't love
them, and you needn't speak to them,
but quit hating them, and quit talk
irg about them.
When a man buries his wife and has
her put where there isn't room beside
her for another grave, the women on
the way home from the funeral talk
OF mobhing him.
Every girl includes a new trunk in
her wedding outfit, although the poor
thing must know that after her we'd
ding trip, she will never see the cars
again, except to wave at them as they
PASS through town.
When a woman receives a telegram,
she fears some one is dead. and when
q man gets one he wonders which of
his wife's kin is coming on a visit now;
it is hard to say which one suffers the
more from apprehension.
When a woman's memory fails her,
she doesn't do worse than put too
much baking powder in her cake, but
a man runs off and claims when he
returns year or so later that his
memory failed him. and for that length
of time he didn't know his own name.
If you give a party you will have
trouble; that is all there is about it.
You can't invite everybody, and those
not invited will hate you. 1t is not
pleasant not to be invited to a party;
everybody can testify to this. 1t makes
you feel that you are being neglected,
left out, and don't amount to much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

The socialist mayor of Milwaukee,
notes the New York Tribune, is show
ing good sense in one respect. He is
seeking municipal experts in other cit
les to appoint as heads of departments.
Whoever breaks down the foolish no
ton that a city cannot profit by or
employ any experience or knowledge
that does not exist within its limits
will be doing a great service to the
cause of good municipal government in
this country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

Mr.. Voliva, the successor of John
Alexander Dowie in the church of Zion.
believes that freedom of individual ac-
ton should be respected, with an ex-
ception, of course. Hs thinks that the
size of women's hats has long since
reached the limit. Now as a matter of
fact. while women's hats have grown
tc ridiculous proportions. they seldom
interfere with the rights of men A
few men are only concerned with them
when X comes to paying the prices
charged for them. But. then, small
hats cost just as much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

That it is also pretty expensive to
be rich is demonstrated by the fact
that the wives of many of the Million
aires of the country spend as much as
$4,000 a year on photographs of them
selves and their children. 1t seems to
be one of the customs in the society
of the wealthy for woman never to
refuse a request for a photograph of
herself, and from the number and va
riety OF them which appear from time
to time in the newspapers and the mag
azines most of the women live faith
fully I'D to this custom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
GREEK OUT OF DATE.

Greek is taught in very few High
Schools of the state Why is it taught
in any? The Greek language is out
of date. The students for special
language work require it but it is
waste for the general student to study
Greek 1t is taught Ill Topeka. Out
of 1900 high school students only six
take Greek There is some excuse for
teaching Latin but not much.-Law-
renee World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

Every Topekan who was missed by
the census enumerators-and it is rea-
ronable to suppose there are many
who have been-should make that fact
known to the census supervisor for this
district. This is an important civic
duty which every citizen should take a
delight in discharging. An incomplete
census may be better than none, but
IL is far from being satisfactory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

LFrom the New York Press
Hero worship begins nearer home
than charity.
The man Who loves his enemies
doesn't love the truth.
The reason a girl is so surprised
when a man proposes to her is she ar
ranged it all.
No matter how much they like it peo-
pie who live in the suburbs always
apologize about it to their friends in
the city.
A woman knows none of the refer
ences she writes for servants are true,
but she believes all those that are
brought to her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

A socialist who is serving a six
months Jail sentence at Grafton, ILL.,,
because he refused to pay polltaX, is
being denied permission to get shaved.
1t borders on cruel and inhuman pun
ishment, which is frowned upon by the
constitution of these United States, to
compel a man to wear a beard If he is
not inclined that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
A DIM STAR

any American, not excepting even
the Pottawattomie Injun, oDseIveSs s
Hondo Murphy, "can speak the EnsHsn
language better than an Engishman
can speak it, but even in this country;
the Mother Tongue is brutally apussu
at times. Take, as an example, tnS
native of Boston He has no more -
spect for real English than have ZOE
sick coyote.
when I was a kid of IT, Fate and a
coast line steamer landed me In BoS-
ton. In seeking job, l came INTO
collision with a real Bostonese hatiNS
named Boutell. This party ran string
of cigar stores. and elected me dealee
in one out on fremont street.
LAS a conversationalist, he had me
tied to a post, and the way he dealt
from the bottom and inserted his rs
where they didn't fit, was equalled oniy
by the way he slipped in stray MS one
day, while making round to see IL
had figured out way to beat tne .casn
register. he noticed that we were ous
of matches, and remarked that should
run down the pike and make pur-
chase while he tended shop.
"'Gaow daown tew Jawps'ns, avn
Sudbury squeanh.' he says. They sell
three lawnge bownxes f. 'leven cents.
This fellah avn tn cawnah changes
twelve cents f. three lawnge bownxes.
Tell 'em yew walnut "Paowtfn' Stahn
Matches
leone again with the name of those
| hind my near ear.
81 said "Paowtpn' Sta-nah.'' says
| he.
Not caring to ask again, drifted
down to the place, and asked the guy
for three boxes of Portland Stand
| matches.
"'Yew mean "PaowtPn' Staa-aanh,"
daown't vew?' asks the clerk.
! well. I'll take a chance, anyway.
| says I, and he handed them out. The
| name on the box was Portland Star. -
BY the aid of Science, a Harvard
professor has produced blue rabbit.
| BY the aid of concoction manufac-
! tured by a local druggist, Topeka
| man once produced two pink rabbits
and green gorilla. Science cannot
| compete with the booze which formerly
| infested our be-yootiful little city,
when it comes to producing freak ami
mails.
A St. Louis preacher has discovered
a Horrible White Slave trust. But it IS
unf1iI to ask what the preacher was
doing when he unearthed this Awful
| Scandal.
Depew says the late King Edward
was a greater statesman than Glad
that no one will take the trouble to call
Chauncey a -and-uglier.
SAD DAYS.
The Spring house cleaning days have
| come
The saddest of the year.
When Man avoids his happy home,
And views the same with fear.
The furniture is on the roof,
The carpets on the line,
And Man is prone to hold aloof ,,-r
| When e'er he sees the sign"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

Washington, D. c., to any senator.
representative, or delegate in congress,
or it can be purchased from the super
lntendent of documents, government
printing Office, Washington, D. c., at
five cents per copy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
FRON OTHER PENS
THE WORLDS ONLY WAR.

Just what the precise grievance is
that has led the Albanians to resist the
regime of the Young Turks at Constan-
tinople is not set forth with clearness
in Gicpatches from Turkey. One report
is that they wanted to reinstate Abdul
the Damned.
The cause of the revolt is not impor-
tant. The Albanians have always been
a turbulent people and have not i'm
proved much in recent generations
One preteXt is as likely to serve as an
excuse for an uprising as another
AS the only place on the globe where q
war on any considerable scale is now
being rosecuted-conditions in Near
aqua have passed beyond the stage of
respectable warfare. if they ever ap-
proximated that stage-the attention Of
the world probably will be centered on
Albania during the continuance of thu
troubles. The insurgents seem to be in
possession of a wide area of country
and to be established in a number of
important towns. Albanians, many of
whom have embraced Mohammedan-
ism, have long been conceded to make
the best soldiers in the Turkish army
and the uprising presents the most
serious problem the Young Turks have
been called on to solve in the early
days of their power.-St. Louis Re
public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

Harry Kemp, the hobo poet, does not
take "exans" at the state university.
He just studies what he pleases and
lets it go at that In the old-fashioned
days a fellow who pursued such a course
would not have been permitted to re-
main in any college very long, no mat
ter how near a noise he made to being
oapj1tC
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12

The assaults made on the new tariff
law by Senators Cummins and Dolliver
of Iowa sound for all the world like
those which might be expected from
dyed-in- the-wool Democrats who are
naturally opposed to each and every
Republican principle in the matter of
Tariff making