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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many persons. no doubt, would like to
suffer from loss of memory.
X 4
The high cost OF living these days is
also a convenient excuse for extrava-
gance.
The remarkable man is one who never
tries to tell his friends how to conduct
their business affairs.
n X %
One of the reasons for much of the
condemnation of spring poetry is that
there is seldom anything new in most
of It.
% Il "
If the average individual only dis
cussed the matters he is familiar with
there would be quite dearth of con-
versation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

For everyone is an hypocrite and ar
evfi-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly.
Isaiah TX : II.
Although this was the estimate of the
old prophet. Isaiah, of the people of
his day, 1T might well be applied with
equal force to those of the present era.
1t is true that hypocrisy is practiced
to greater extent by some persons
than by others. Likewise, is 1T true that
many do their best to shun any and
everything that approaches the hypo-
critical But the perfect human being
has not been developed as yet. and as
long as man remains imperfect 1t is
almost natural frailty that he be
guilty of hypocrisy to a greater or less
degree occasionally
Incessant should be the striving
against 1t. To the individual who pur-
rosely INDUCES in deceit OF one kind
or another for the furtherance of his
interests and his aims nothing but the
severest condemnation is due. The liv-
ing and the acting of lies is even far
worse than the telling of them. Nor
can they be carried on forever without
a denouement. The man who poses to
be something he is not is just as GER
tain to be found out. as the falsehoods
to tongue are certe:l to be overtaken
eventually by the truth. AS has been
go graphically said. truth crushed to
earth will rise again. And just as sure
ly will the impostures of the hypocrite
be perforated.
There can be 10 lodging of this end.
1t Is inevitable. The regulations for
honesty and probity which have been
built on false foundations filter away
sooner or later into a dross that is
greeted with revulsion. This being
true, there should be an earnest and
tireless effort on the part of every one
to shake off such shack1es of hypo-
crisy as are gripping at them. 1t Is a
difficult task for any person to stand
I'D before his friends and acquaintance
and admit that his life has been lie;
that secretly he is Just the opposite
of what he has been held to be. 1t IS
far better, though. for a man to do this
very thing than to wait for others to
do it for him: to wait until the hand
of an unrelentless fate has dragged
aside the curtains and disclosed him to
the world just as he is. Men are not
Judged harshly when they confess the
error of their ways and couple 1t with
n determination to do better in the flu
trre. But when they wait until others
discover their duplicity the judgment
accorded them is severe. There is no
appealing from it. And it means that
they are consigned forever to a dis
tressing ard humiliating oblivion
In the fight that every one should
make against irdulging in hypocrisy
they might be helped on their way by
remembering one of the conclusions of
the sorely-afflicted Job. In his harangu-
ing with the scoffers, and in pointing
out to them the power ard the demands
of God, he said among other things:
He also shall be my salvation: for an
hypocrise shall not come before him"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12
STREET RAILWAY EXTENSIONS.

Nothing has come to the front in
Topeka in many years which really
means more for the proper develop
ment of the city than the proposition
advanced by the street railway for
the extension of it's system along the
lines it has laid down. Adequate as is
the present street car service, larger
as it is in proportion to similar ser
vice in other cities of the country of
the size of this one, the point has
been reached in the growth of the
city where the expansion of this SER
vice is necessary. Some lines such
as those which have been proposed by
the railway company are sorely need
ed by the residential sections they will
tap And their construction will
mean a great boon for the city gen.
orally.
Many of the property owners who
are protesting vigorously against the
granting of a franchise according to
the present plans of the railway COM
pany may we'll be pardoned for regis
tering their personal protests. A street
railway line along a narrow street is
not an exceedingly desirable adjunct
to that street, except as to the con-
venience it affords, especially to the
people in the outlying districts of
reaching the business sections of the
city with the least possible delay. But
the chances are that the property
owners on almost every street would
be in the same temper as are those
on the ones which have been tenta-
lively picked out by the railway COM
pany for its extensions.
1t would scarcely seem, however,
that the interests of the property own
ers on any one particular street
should be paramount to the interests
of the people of the entire city. 1t
is an admitted fact that nothing helps
quite SO much in the development of
city as a comprehensive street car
service which radiates from the bust
ness center of the city to all or near
ly all the sections on the city bound
aries.
That the street railway company is
willing to spend large sum of mon
ey in the development of such a sys-
tenn as will more nearly meet the pres
ent needs of the city is matter for
commentator rather than condem-
nation. The proposition of the COM
pany to do this very thing should be
met in a spirit of fairness by the peo-
pie of the city. even by those who
think their property rights are going
to be injured. An earnest effort
should be made by both sides to the
controversy to get together. Perhaps
a change of lines can be suggested
that will meet the requirements of the
company and which will not call forth
such severe objections as have been
raised to the present plans made by
the company.
Assuredly the matter should be fig
ured out some way SO that the COM
pany can go ahead with its extensions.
They will mean much to the city.
And in this figuring the endeavor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
LF'rom the New York Press.l

[F'rom the New York Press
There's no education so expensive as
experience.
People miss a lot of fun in life by de-
spising it because it's not expensive.
If man can't find any other way 70
be a hero, he will just escape having
pneumonia.
A college boy can't even learn how TO
write a letter home for anything but
money.
The trouble with domestic economies
is that for every dollar anybody in the
family can save, somebody else can
spend two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Missourians are to get a chance to
vote again on the prohibition ques-
ton at the next regular election. From
the excellent results which have been
finally brought about in Kansas
through prohibition, the Missouri folk
surely have been Shown by this time
that prohibition is most desirable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Mr.. Chandler. the state architect. is
busy with plans for a new heating and
ventilating system for the senate
chamber in the state capitol He
should pay particular attention to ven
tilation, for when a session is on there
is always surplusage of "hot air. in
the chamber that should be carried
away speedily. If he could only devise
an apparatus to reduce the volume of
this "hot air. great would be his ac-
rOrrDIishnent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Lawyers are now declaring that the
new corporation tax law will rob the
states of one of their Oldest functions.
This may be SO. but in all probability
the lawyers in the case are more con-
cerned over the effect it will have on
the corporations than on the functions
oF mfo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

A three cornered fight is reported to
be on between the drug trust pro-
morers to see who shall control the
country's drug trade. But no matter
how It comes out the chances are good
that the innocent bystanders'' will be
compelled to keep on paying the usual
fancy prices for all kinds of drugs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

There will be general applause over
the decision of the senate committee
or foreign affairs forbidding American
officials from receiving decorations
from foreign governments. Such bust
ness is decidedly un-Am erican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12
FRON OTHER PENS
NOVEL BUT NECESSARY.

The defect in the bill which Repre-
sentative Gebhart, of Dayton, has in
troduced to make it a misdemeanor for
anyone to shoot at balloon, aeroplane
or flying machine is that the measure
Is altogether too mild. The penalty
for violating this proposed law is fixed
at fine of from $50 to $500. 1t ought
to be term in the penitentiary.
Aeroplanes are going to be COMPARE
lively common before long, Dirigible
balloons will also increase in number
and in the frequency of their use There
may be many targets in the sky, so
to speak. for vicious or criminally care
less men and boys with rifles. One bull
let fred at a flying machine might cas-
lily cause the death of the man it car
ried, even though the shot should not
touch him. 1t might smash the deli
cate mechanism of the engine or cut a
stay or disable the rudder and dash
the whole machine to the earth.
Why should such a tragedy, or the
act of cruel folly which caused it, be
called a misdemeanor? Is it not a
felony in it's consequences? Could an
attempt to wreck train or-sink a boat
with even one human being on board
be called only a light offense? The
flying machines and the balloons will
doubtless have to be regulated, but they
must also be protected.-Cleveland
Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

High school boys in the east appear
TO be most proficient in one particu-
lar, at least. One from New Jersey
and another from Brooklyn succeeded
the other day in turning double back
somersaults. This is an almost incom-
parable feat in the circus world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

the commission form OF government
and also for six of the memberships in
the board of education. The registra-
ton books close on Friday. March Is.
Every voter in the city owes it to him
self and his neighbors that he cast a
ballot at these primaries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

DR. woodrow Wilson, president of
Princeton university, is accepting invi-
tations to deliver addresses all over the
country. Evidently the Democratic
presidential bee is buzzing strongly in
his vicinity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Jimmy Garfield has spoken. He
doesn't think the bond issue of $780,
100000 for reclamation work. which
has been suggested by President Taft,
is necessary. This probably sounds the
death knell of the project, maybe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

There is nothing so exceedingly
strange in the fact that joy killed a
Connecticut woman when it is learned
that she had lived in near-poverty for
a long time and was suddenly and I'M
expectedly presented with $1,000 in
cash
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Panama is now hailed as the best
place to live because food prices are
steadily on the decline there. But it is
noticed that the lowest price reached
by fresh eggs on the canal zone is sc
cents q dozen, and the prices of other
things are in proportion. So perhaps
the exodus to Panama will not be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12
KANSAS COAAENT
FRUIT PROSPECT.

g. w. Kinkead, a Doniphan fruit
grower, Is preparing for smudging or
heating his orchard Several others
IN TINS section of the state will. at
the same line. SECRETARY Wellhouse.
OF the Kansas horticultural depart
nent, topeka, has ordered all the
olHerent kinds of smudge pots and is
now giving the Kansas fruit growers
what knowledge he has of them. The
pots range in price from 25 cents to
u each. The Secretary says:
stand a chance to raise big
crop or peaches said he. "It will be
the first good crop we have had in
nve years Two years ago there were
plenty OF peaches but they have root
winter has done the peaches no great
damage Even the most delicate vari-
cues are still all right. OF course
heavy frost. when the trees are in
DIoom. would do much damage. but
miss us this year"
The present warm spell is not bring
ing forth buds very fast. The cool
nights keep them back It takes
ana quite warm nights to advance
even peach buds. So far there has
been frost every night during the
present spell. Prospects for a big
apple crop are also f1attering.-Atchi-
son Champion.
AS TO PREACHERS.
A hfteen-year-old boy has been
licensed to preach in Connecticut.
Why Is it that there is such laxity
in the matter of deciding who shall
pc qualified to preach? Does it up
lift religion any to have a child ex-
pound 1T? Think of the thousands
or ignorant, misled street preachers
who are daily expounding their
theories to a guIlible and ignorant
class OF citizens who listen to their
harangues. A well educated Leav-
enWorth minister a few years ago,
shocked at the sermon preached by
an 1tlnerant preacher on the street
citizens by climbing onto a box and
denouncing the speaker as an ignor-
ant fool and gave the crowd a few
practical pointers on religion. He lost
caste Immediately with his congrega-
ton but he saw a chance for good
work ahead of him and he is now
preaching on the streets of New York.
The street corner is where the very
best minister is needed. but. instead,
that pulpit is usually filled by a very
ignorant man.-Leavenworth Post
JUST FORTUNATE.
What's this about Mark Twain be-
ing plagiarist?
Danish the thought, Still there is a /
book written in Danish. which of
course. is little read on this continent, :
the story OF, which corresponds exactly
with that of Tom Sawyer
And the unhappy fact is that the
Danish book was written first! Mark
Twain's secretary denies for him that |
he stole the. Tom Sawyer plot, and |
pleads that Mr.. Clemens does not read |
Danish, which disclaimer recalls the |
fact that Twain's celebrated bulldog
story is an almost exact replica of a |
Greek tale and when Professor Van
Dyke of Princeton called attention to |
in
Ish case. declared that he did not read |
Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Only a few more days remain in
which it will be possible for the vot-
ers of the city to register and qualify
for participation in the important pri-
maries to be held on March Is. when
candidates will be chosen for places in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

If the hens will only begin to do
their full duty one item in the high
cost of living will be reduced materi-
ally before long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

The Pennsylvania State Labor Fed
Grafton can scarcely be styled as being
modest 1t is urging a nationwide
strike of all union labor to win the
street car contest in Philadelphia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Not far distant now is the time when
the old familiar war cry. swat the
Fly" will be reverberating once more
throughout the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

This is more than tough. Young
Knox and his bride have been cast
adrift by his parents on a pitiful al
Iovance of 800 a. month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

It's a noticeable fact that In the fare
we'll speeches he is making. Mr.. Cal
houn, the newly appointed United
States minister to China. is not saying
much of ANYTHING.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Also, what has become of the Back
from Elba' movement?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

A 50 ham of these days is of a size
convenient for use as a watch fob.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Score anoder Won fer Jay E. House.
He has written Magazine story about
Stubs mitoudt referring to his ''irre-
proachable honesty or his remark
able intelligence"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Halley's comet is now visible-if you
happen to be equipped with tele-
SCOPE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12
THE TIMBER THIEVES.

II reports from Indiana are cor
rect, that state has a pest that is near
ly, If not quite, on a par with the in
famous might riders who but lately
infested some parts of the south. The
Indiana pest is the timber thief.
Specimens of this genus are reported
to have applied the torch to farm
buildings in southern Indiana for the
purpose of driving the farmers from
that region. Houses and barns on Is
farms have lately been destroyed in
this manner, according to reports
from Nashville, the seat of Brown
county, into which, until lately no
railroad penetrated. Farmers and
their families have had to run for
their lives from their blazing homes,
and for miles south of Nashville the
families have moved out, leaving the
timber thieves to cut and haul away
walnut and hickory logs at will
which they are said to be doing by
hundreds. It is not surprising to
learn that, on the edges of the thin
ly-settled territory in which the bands
of depredators work, the farmers,
armed with shotguns, patrol the
roads at night.-Manchester Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Der Hutchinson Spiritualist vot sayss
der spirits stole der money, may get
away NIT DIT goot von-in Hutchinson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

A Bosting school marin knocks on der
poem, Barbara Fritchle," und gets her
name in print. Egsept for. her bright
thought, she might hat had to pay so
cents q line fer der prifflege.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

A peculiar ting about der Phillydel-
phia strike fss dot der bo1ice sometimes
miss der innocent bystander und shoot
a striker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

On top uf der turn-down py hiss
papa, comes yet a dastardly addempt
to ruin young Pee-See Knocks fer
keeps. Some noosbaper, vot propaply
hat crouch ad der Knocks femily hat
offered him chob es reporter. Pass I'd
oop, Philander Joonior, pass i'd OPP.
Dere ISIS vorser tings den der anger uf
a parent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Der Peoria preacher vot resigned
hiss pastorate to became brush league
umpire, Will hat Won Satisfaction vich
he hat Overlooked in der past. Els
umpire, he can ad leasd keep dem from
going to sleep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

quent, howeffer, dot a noosbaper falls
into der error Of speaking uf Peary's
proofs chusd like he really had dem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12
OUR GIRLS.


Does it require the wisdom of a pro-
found psychologist to explain the
prevalence of the dancing craze, now
almost epidemic, or can the average
man in the street do it?
We have on all sides Salome Dances
the dances of the muses., flower dances.
nautch dances, barefoot dances and
dances of all sorts, interpreting one
idea or another, Sc the fair performers
tell us through their trusty press
agents. Stately young women in dia
phanous garments appear on three
sheet posters on the dead walls, and
marvellous accounts of the earnings of
favorite dancers find a place in the
dramatic news. with the result that
thousands of girls are privately prac-
tfcing at home dances more alluring
or daring than any yet seen in public.
The dancing craze is an evanescent
thing and will pass away, but there will
always be demand for we'll baked
bread and other food-and for the
girls who know how to make it. And,
thank heaven, there are many girls
who are better fitted for the role of
heroine of the hearthstone than of the
footlights.-Bcston Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

hat totally ruined. by hiss actions, vor
uf der mosd popular amoosments uf
high society. Id ISIS indeed sad to
contemplate der nerfous condition uf
der Dress Suit Set. Efery Willie vot
calls nit a boddle in one hand und a
boket in der oder. ISIS liaple to sea
strange shadows on der window cur
tinss uf der humble fiddle brown-stein
shanty uf hiss affinity. Els result, der
voodsss cyclone cellars und so fort, will
be full uf doods. und High Society will
be full uf emptiness. Hoping dis will
find you der same, Looie. und dot you
may remain a barytone, 1 remain es
effer, HANS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

Der noosbapers say, "Peary Refooses
to Submit Proofs" Id ISIS very fire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

A SATURDAY SERMON.

For everyone is an hypocrite and ar
Isaiah tx II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12

At fire drill. it took der High school
pupils only 21a minutes to get out.
Howeffer, dis ISIS not der record. At
high school fire. a few weeks ago.
four students got out in 90 nat.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-08-12
HE'S A DUPLICATE HANS WAGNER

EVANSVILLE ind Aug H.
Broad shosiderod. BOYS legged. with
big hands. and o. hook nose and
Ruuut features. Eh1rtaf0p Ihdiry n
the Evansville Central league club
Dr. pocket edition ~ Hans Wagner,
the ritBburR star
Nobody seems 10 know fadley'a
flrsi name Even bis team mates
are ignorant ~ bis front handle for
be looks and performs ao much Ike
Wagner that no oue hHH ever
thought or calling him anything but
Hans"
Iihdiry'a every move. from his
flat footed throw across the diH-
uoud fo his big swing at the plate
Do g reproduction ~ Wagner. Ha ia
Just az awkward aa the Pirate ever
dared 90 be-. but. like Wagner he
gets there.
Hans III also has some n the
smuggling pr0penaitlea that have made
hia big League duubir famous Pitch
ern hate 60 aee him ~ the plate IN
"a pinch Recently ENnnrfiin won
eight straight games. Hans drove
ia the winning runs 90 ElK ~ the
eight contests.
Hadlry ia on the climb. Last sea-
son he was in the South Michigan
league u ia expected he viii make
another jump ~ the close ~ the
present season
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-08-12

resolved g. strike out Tor himself
and De- came O. seattle 10 take up
boxing
80 nrst shoer8 mp a day o. two
aEu down af t.nunir Auatin'H buxiuk
school. And asked i.nmnia 60 look
him over Lnnuie ed. and nearly
Rad falpltation " the heart xhrn
~ Hierd hifn up Hfripped.
The big fellow eaa put thrassRh
hia uarea hy fhr uthr Austin. and
va iiie h. showed himself Ignorant ~
boxing wna marteiaHalF fast on hts
feet. and had - iike male in
either haua
Austin Whu in his long career as
frHs her - uhs gentle art saa learned
% HlEr men up. ia aAnEtlne about
Trelt'a chances and r. sulnH ga ham
dc hiSu Tor r. while and arr what -
viii develop into Treat wiz start
artlEe training Monday and wlii
lnkr hard fnad work at first. in or
der tu bring down his waist. az
Launie wants t9 aea u not more
than IS inches
while Treat a. carrying excess
haEaaEs g. tho amount - 20 pounds.
Austin 10 NOT worrying over this aa
this Tat ~ az natural az that a black
bear puts on Ia thc fall. and comes.
NOS as result ~ teer drinking or
lHEinHHa hut wUfuiy from a good
farmers appetite
Treat has no bad habits ~ MI
and as De- has never HfraNed uut ~
the mountains ana ff9su The healthy
outdoor Hfr. bel as strong and enc
durine a. some giant denlzcn of the
- nuds.