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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From ,the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News
Bookkeeping in one lesson-Don' t
lend them.
The man with a cloven breath isn't
always g. spicy speaker.
oh, yes, it's easy to think you will
get up early in the morning!
Dentists, like aristocrats. are Judged
by the quantity of their extraction.
Don't think that because riches have
wings they are in the aeroplane class
About the only time a man objects to
being overrated is when he pays his
taxes
Never call your grocer a man of grit.
He may think you are knocking his
sugar.
The man who CANDLES for fun may
get it-but the other fellow always gets
the coin.
A man will tell you where he got his
hat, but don't ask him where he got
his umbrella.
Many a legislature is a group of men
who prevent each other from doing
anything-except the taxpayers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
HUNOR or THE Dry

Ma asked the little rabbit .qs -
true that pa was shot by an amateur gun
Not at air. snorted the mother rabh,t
scornrully; the gunner was shooting at
sat behind him and laughed. tJn tfaI9er
nately the gun kicked and the man se e
down on your father and killed him. -"
Her Mother-I thought I lust h.aro
you saying good-by forever to Mr.. snipl
She-Yes
Her Mother-Then why are you pencil
ing IN e your , eyebrows and taking such pains
She-I want to look my best when +.
comes back-Chicago Record-Heraid' No
IF plants have thoughts, feelings ana
emotion similar to those of human bel
HweH?"
How the average canteloupe mns+
chuGkle with malicious glee at the lools
Tribune. Aeaso
"Alas?' confessed the penitent NAV
lin a moment of weakness I stole a Ian car
load of brass fittings" a car
In a moment of -weakness?' exclafnoe5
the judge. Goodness, man! what - S.iol.1e1
you have taken If you had Welded ~ uiu
moment when you felt strong ?NBo ST d
.Pardner." said the. tan tramp at the
ried about dem openings in de under ner+
of yer shoe" part
Il guess not chuckled the short trarnn
ders; "dey are de windows of me sole IN y
Chicago News. sue =
The little De Jones girl is tallins =.
her playmate, Lucy van Smith. u
oh, Lucy" said she, I'VE have a new
Have you? What's his manner"
Mr.. Hayes. -
oh. ,pshaw;. we had him, too. but
didn't like him."-Appleton's Msrs1iraW we
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many men have a much more diff
cult time getting happiness than
money.
The prouder most people, are the
less they usually have to be proud
about.
y y y
Present fashions seem to dictate that
the smaller the woman the larger the
hat she must wear.
It's a matter of small wonder that
babies cry harder when their relatives
try to quiet them by singing.
= =
A man who is a success in society
generally does not shine very brilliant
ly in the business world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
A WoMAN,s QUESTION

A WoMAN'S QUESTION.
10 you know you have asked for the
costliest thing
A woman's heart and a woman's life.
And woman's wonderful love2
Do you know you have asked for this
priceless thing
As a child might ask for toy.
demanding what others have died to win,
With the reckless dash of a boy?
Man-like you have questioned me-
NOW stand at the bar of my woman
Until shall question thee.
You REQUIRE your mutton shall always
Your, socks and your shirts shall be
whole;
REQUIRE your heart to be true as Gods
And pure as heaven your soul.
You require cook for your mutton and
I require far better thing;
A seamstress you're wanting for stock
look for a man and a king.
king for a beautiful realm called home,
And a man that the Maker, God,
Shall look upon as he did the first,
And say, 1T is very good"
am fair and young, but the rose will
from my sort, young cheek one day
WIN you love me then, mid the falling
leaves,
As you did mid the bloom of May?
Is your heart an ocean so strong and
deep
I may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.
I require all things that are grand and
true.
All things that a man should be;
II you give this ALL I would stake my
life
To be all you demand OF me.
If you cannot do this-a laundress and
cook
You can hire, with little to pay;
But woman's heart and a woman's life
Are not to be won that way.
Lena Lathrop, in Kansas City Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
FROA OTHER PENS
MEASURE EVERYBODY.

When, some months ago, there was
a great to-do because the police meas
ured and photographed certain bank
ers who hal been accused but not
Convicted of finance so high as to be
decidedly gamy, we ventured the sug-
gestion that many more than police in
terests would be served If the state
were empowered and obliged to take
and preserve full Bertillon records of
all It's citizens.
no need for a special "rogues' gallery"
either of the old or the new kind and
nobody would object to the process
found so Objectionable by the sensitive
bankers. At any rate, no objections
could be avowed. even by those for
whom a subsequent Identification
might be inconvenient, and other peo-
pie wouldn't care. since such identif1-
cation no matter how easy it were
made, would net have any terrors for
them.
The same suggestion. we notice, was
offered, and more seriously, in one of
the papers read last week before the
American Prison association, convened
in annual session at washington. AL
bert G.. Hall of Minneapolis, the au-
thor of the paper, declared that the
real task of making an a1l-embraclng
record of this kind should be under
taken by the federal government as a
part of its census work, and he told
how immensely valuable would be the
possession of full and accurate data
concerning every unit of the popula-
tion.-New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Nothing comes in for greater con-
demnation in the Bible. in the Old
Testament as well as the New. than
hypocrites and their hypocrisy. There
was evidently much of hypocrisy in
those days of so long ago when the
Scriptures were penned. If there had
not been, it would not have attracted
the attention that it did from the
teachers, the writers, the prophets
the learned men of those times, the
men who made it their life work to
better by precept and example the
condition of humanity as it existed
around them. But no matter how
much hypocrisy existed in those days,
it is quite apparent to any one who
gives the matter a moments atten-
ton. that Just as much if not more is
prevalent today. 1t is to be found in
every field of human endeavor. and
generally it is in high and promi-
nent places. Many politicians parade
round their bailiwicks and the nation
championing with fierv and forceful
words the causes of the people. Then
they retire to their secret recesses and
plan to use the support that the peo-
ple give them to advance their own
personal fortunes or their unquench-
able desires for increasing power.
MANY reformers shout their wares
from the housetops and under the
cover of darkness or in places where
they are not so well known they in
dulge to their hearts content in the
practices that they frown upon. Right
here in Kansas not a few of the more
ardent of the prohibitionists have their
whisky bottles and cases of beer in
their homes. And so the story might
be continued down through every
phase of human activity.
This is not true. of course. of all
politicians, of all reformers, of all pro-
hibitionists, of all business men. If 1t
were, the condition of the nation
would indeed be pitiable one. But
the hypocrites are many, and it is up
to the people to divine their motives,
to shun them-to separate the sheep
from the goats. If they are led away
by false prophets, theirs VIII be the
penalty to pay and it is always large
one. Hypocrites eventually fall of
their own weight. The temples, of
professed righteousness that they build
up are Tedreu oI tAAC ii'AAi9' - :
dations. But their hypocrisy prevails
for a time, and nothing of good is
ever brought about by it. 1t would
not be so successful, though, even for
a limited period, If the people general
ly would take the trouble to be little
more discerning. There is no difficulty
in penetrating its shell. AS Jesus of
Nazareth says of the hypocrites in the
words used for a text: eye are like
unto whited sepulchres. which indeed
appear beautiful outward" But take
a look on the inside of these attrac-
tive structures, and 1t will be found, as
Christ said, that they are full of dead
mems bones and of all uncleanness."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
KANSAS COMNENT
CIVIC ENTHUSIASM.

If you want your home city to re-
main stationary or to lose in popula-
ton, one sure way to help toward that
end, is to adopt an apologestic attitude
in speaking of your home institutions.
If you have a friends visiting you. or
when you are conversing with travel
ing men, be sure and make it clear that
you recognize all the faults of the place
you live in.
Thereby they will perceive that you
are person of high social and BUSH
perceptions, accustomed to move freely
among the seats of the mighty. They
will note that you condescend to mingle
with the common people, and that you
absent yourself from the worlds great
metropolitan centers merely from some
interesting eccentric whim
But although you may succeed In
making this impression, your real
estate or your business will not there
by grow more valuable, nor will your
wages thereby be increased. You will
not thereby add anything to the repu-
tation possessed by your town as a
good place to live and do business IN,
which reputation is the only thing
that draws newcomers.
We have often noted the feeling Of
pride with which people in a growing
city speak Of the place they live in
They talk Of the things in a large way
They call the little brook running
through the town, a river, the pond ls
a lake, the hill is a mountain.
1t Is easy, of course, for people to get
to speaking about such things in a
highflowing bombastic way. But an
enthusiastic view of ones surroundings
need not necessarily make itself ridicu-
lous.
This habit Of civic enthusiasm is not
the effect of growth, but a cause and
the principal cause. Just as man ac-
conplishes in life the degree Of success
he believes he can accomplish, so a
city accomplishes in some degree the
growth its people believe It can attain.
-Atchison Champion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Just as Cuba, through most valiant
efforts, was getting in a position to
stand on her own feet, hurricane
came along and despoiled her people
of millions of dollars worth of proper
~. It is hard work some times to
reconcile the theory that everything is
for the hest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Der. The other thirteen districts are
placed by Success as being doubtful.
If these figures are correct there will
be even merrier times in the Sixty
second congress than there were in
the Sixty-first congress. But should
the insurgent Republicans go over
bag and baggage to the Democrats as
they have been wont to do in the past,
the regular Republicans will be a
homeless minority
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Professor E. H. woodruff, of Cornell
university, is evidently of the opinion
that one Ananias club is not enough.
Or perhaps in applying the shorter and
uglier word to Colonel Roosevelt he is
making a big effort to be elected to
membership in the original organiza-
ffop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

A real dilemma has developed in
the Republican situation in New York
state. Some of the leaders of the party
are sure they would have had no show
of winning out on election day with
out the aid of Colonel Roosevelt. And
If they are beaten they believe it will
be because of him, or the attacks that
have been launched on him by the
Democrats, and which are apparently
being pressed with success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Nearly Is per cent of the voters of
Topeka are not registered, and unless
they discharge this important civic
duty they will not be able to partici-
pate in the state, congressional and
county elections on November 8. Nor
will they be able to cast vote in
favor of the state fair bonds. That
particular proposition is of more i'm
portanee to the development of Topeka,
Shawnee county and Kansas, than the
choice of any set of men for the pub
lie offices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

charge against prohibition and against
the city which has honored him by
electing him to its chief magistracy.
And it comes with pretty poor grace
from Mr.. Billiard to make charges of
this sort. especially when they are of
the unfounded variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Impossible! But Congressman Foss,
the Democratic candidate for governor
of Massachusetts, says that Senator
Lodge and his son-in-law, Gussie Gard
ner, have done more to besmirch and
corrupt the electorate of Massachus-
etts by the lavish and uncalIed for ex-
penditure Of money than any other two
men in the commonwealth of Massa-
chuSetts -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

i've been a good fellow was the
only comment of Adam Rapp who was
arrested the other day in Indiana for
stealing $4,000 from the federal gov
eminent while he was postmaster at
Hawthorne, Ill The good fellows"
who are thinking it over in the prisons
of the country are a large proportion
of the prison population.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.I

You can tell man is single by how
he never seems to have any troubles.
A mans wife is foolish to be afraid
of the cook, and he's foolish not to be
afraid of both of them.
There's a good bit of fun when you
are travelling for pleasure and your
family at home think it's on business.
People who get sued on their letters
in breach-of-promise cases ought to
have to pay for writing such stuff.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

New Jersey to the fore. This small
fragment of the United States, famed
for the size and pertinacity of it's mos
quitoes, has raised a bumper cram
berry crop this year. How true it is
that honors never come singlv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
RIPLEY AND HIS CRITICS.

We don't know E P. Ripley, except
that we know he is president of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
company, which owns and operates
lines from Chicago to San Francisco.
And we know that a man occupying
that position Is no ordinary man. He
has fought his way to the top in COM
petition with the other big railroad
men of the country. And, while all of
us say we are as good as anybody,
we're not; we know newspaper men
who know SO much more than we do
that we cheer them, although we're as
envious as most people.
Go among railroad men, and they'll
tell you E. P. Ripley is a wonder; that
he can do more things in his line, and
do them better, than 10 out of 20 of
the big railroad men; they will tell
you he is a man of vast information,
and a man of unusual sense. He
couldn't occupy the position he occu-
pies If he were not all we have at
tributed to him, and more: the Kansas
City Star, the ablest of all the corpor-
alton baiters in the west, lately paid
the Santa Fe a remarkable compliment,
because of its progressive and fair man
agement.
Still, there are $20-a-week editorial
writer's all over the country who are
constantly telling Mr. Ripley how he
should conduct the great railroad he
represents These editorial writers
know nothing whatever of the railroad
business, yet they hippentfy tell one
of the great railroad experts what he
should do.
This sort of thing is ridiculous, but
it's popular.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

And one Of the sporting experts of
the nation remarked before the worlds
series began that the Athletics would
be handicapped because they were not
strong at hitting Truly, they are not
much as mere hitters. They're wal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

to ship black bass all the way to Bra
I'll for the stocking of the lakes and
streams of that country? But perhaps
they have not heard the pronounce
ment Of Professor Dyche to the effect
that carp is a much superior fish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Possibly the piece de resistance at
that quarter of million dollar dinner,
at which DR.. Chancellor of Connecti-
cut told the Kansas teachers he had
an opportunity to sit down, was a ra-
diIuo ME
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

There is every reason to believe that
when Connie Mack and his boys get
home. Philadelphians will at least
wake up for a little while from the
deep sleep they have been in for CEN
furies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Inside baseball is, indeed, an ap-
propriate name for game as the Chi
cago Cubs play it. or is it the wonder
full superiority of the Athletics that is
making the Cubs playing purely inside
O 20 ir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Success. magazine has it all figured
out that the Republicans will be sue
cessful in 1s9 of the congressional dis
tricts and that the Democrats are GER
tain to be successful in a like num-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Is J. Pierpont Morgan being paid
back in his own coin by that attack of
grip which has settled upon him? He's
been accused of having had the coun-
try in his grip for a long time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

There's a little balm for Chicago,
anyway. The baseball team of the
Chicago university, now touring the
Orient, is having no trouble in winning
victories from Japanese school-boys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
CONSERVATIVES AT ODDS.

If there is another general election
in Great Britain this winter-and the
indications are that there will be-the
conservatives will be handicapped
from the start unless meanwhile they
compose the differences which have
arisen among them. There are COM
plants that Mr.. Balfour is not show
ing the vigor to be expected of lead
er. But it will not do to lay the entire
blame upon him. The protectionists
have done more to divide the party
than any other body of men, and if
they persist in pushing their de-
mands the free trade sentiment will in
all probability give the Liberals de-
cisive victory. There was to be sure,
considerable plausibility in the earlier
schemes of tariff REFORM but the
present prosperity Of the country u m,
lessened the feeling that there ought
to be a change. Where the Liberals
are weak is in Mr. Lloyd-George's
budget legislation and in the opposi-
ton to the house of lords. These are
the lines along which the conservatives
must fight if they mean to win
Providence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Mayor Billiard may be wrong in his
opinion of the saloon as a necessary
institution, but unlike thousands of
others who share his views, he leaves
no doubt as to his sentiments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

There seems to be a question in the
minds of a few, concerning the in
cubator- baby-k KIDNAPPING case. Some
one rises to inquire just how it CHANGED
that the two detectives were stuck,
and the lady instigator was not. The
answer is simple; cook looking woman
and hard looking detectives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Apropos the same: E. H. Sothern
does not seem to be fully satisfied
that an actress is nothing much to
marry, but he intends to find out. He
is now looking 'em over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
~ 4
fAHsZsl.

Speaking of double plays, how about
q. H. Sothern to Virginia Harmed to
Julia Marlowe, NO RUNS"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
a SATURDAY SERMON.

Woe unto you, scribes, Pharisees, hypo-
critics! for We are like unto whited sepul-
chres, which indeed appear beautiful out
ward but are within full of dead mem
bones, and of all uncleanness. st. Mat
thew XlXIII q.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

There is only one thing about the
"ravages of age'' which annoys us
We dread the time when the back o.
ed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

The trial of the Dietz family in
Wisconsin is progressing nicely, now
that all the brave deputy sheriffs are
on the job to curse and insult the
defendants. Not one of the brave hun
dred is afraid of the little Dietz chill
dren,-now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Have you seen them? Fine collec
ton OF pretty girls and celluloid col
lars, is not not?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

any husband can avoid dom estic dis
.u,pances py remaining the Silent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

David Bennett Hill, woman hater.
is dead. During his life he never
kissed woman, smoked a cigar nor
took drink. He may be in line for
the best the next world has to offer,
but he is still loser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
LOVELY CHARACTERs.-Lessol
CIeODatra

Cleopatra.
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, who lived
upon the Nile,
Was waiting for souI-mate, and she
waited quite a while.
And, tall and slim and beautiful, she
failed to hypnotic
No soft or soggy sucker that she'd
Cleo-patra-nize
Until Mark Antony arrived and won
her heart for keeps;
He went to Caeser's funeraI,-she had
a spell of weeps;
When Antony came back again, some
truthless duffer said
That he would not see Cleo,-just be-
cause the dame was dead.
Mark Antony believed this,-and he
didn't wait to see,
But killed himself by falling on his
trusty snickersnee.
When Cleo heard of this she was so
awfully excited,
She bought a little rattIesnake and by
the same was bited
Thus persisted Mark and CIeopat-ac-
cording to the fable;
Sad yarn indeed,-but sadder rhyme
OH, amt it awful Mabel?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

Sometimes a fat woman can run II,
a steep hill without getting out O
breath.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22

"A watched pot never boils.'' but
Keep an eye on Jackpot. Otherwise
it may boil away. -9e
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17

the court house of that county, and
1t stood all these years and was just
replaced a year or two ago with a
new structure. In 1869 Mr.. Calhoun
again took up the pioneer life and
moved to Yankton, living there ten
years. He came to Mitchell in 1879
and all the years that he lived here
he followed the work Of contracting
and carpentering. erecting many of
the earliest buildings of the city a.
mong which is the present courthouse
He was a man who made many
friends and kept them by his good
nature and kindly ways. He leaves a
sen, Frank Calhoun, and a daughter,
Mrs. Edith Baughman, who with an
other daughter living in the east will
mourn his death.