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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
AYHAWKER JOTS

The corn crop is not a Jeffries, says
the Beloit Call. 1t came back" the
boxcar knothole observers and viewer
from Pullman windows, notwithstand-
ing.
AS the Garnett News understands it.
Dr. Crippen's defense will be that he
had psychic emotive obsession and cpl
sodic symptoms of hereditary degen-
eracy.
Noting that Missouri is to have a good
roads train, the Ottawa Republic sug-
gests: IF it proves successful, 1t might
he a good thing for Kansas to borrow
it and run it over the Central Branch"
A good many ranchmen who wear
cowboy hats and spurs are on the Win
field streets. When we see one Of
them we are afraid to take our note
book out Of our hip pocket for fear he
drop on him.-Winheld Free Press.
Watermelons come. high. sometimes.
was the comment Of the Augusta
Journal on the story Of the Kansas
City woman who hit her husband on
the head with a brick because he re-
some of the fruit. Before the incident
was closed the man was assessed IS and
costs
Says the Fort Scott Republican: 1.-THE
new city editor of the lola Register is
ambidextrous. writing with either hand
good a qualification for a city editor as
for a reporter to be equipped with an
extra pair Of legs" True, but this kind
of reporters is even scarcer than are
ambidextrous individuals.
family in Olathe reports the Mir
ror, which usually takes an outing ev-
cry summer will not be able to this
season, but they are managing to en-
10y a number of the features of a visit
to a resort at home. They fixed up
bedroom in the attic, which is almost
as stuffy as some of the rooms at re-
sort hotels. By leaving the windows
open they have managed to get both
the number and size of mosquito bites
that they would have gotten at a high
priced hotel. Mr.. Blank runs the lawn
mower during the heat Of the day and
he has managed to acquire nice coat
Of tan that can hardly be told from the
real thing. In the evening the members
of the family sit around and study the
time tables and send most cards and
taking it all in all are having a very
nice near vacation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
TAFT AND THE TARIFF.

President Taft has made another ten
strike by letting 1t be known that he
intends to suggest in his next message
to congress that a new method of con-
gressional procedure be inaugurated
which permit of tariff legislation af-
fecting individual schedules. In other
words, he goes on record as favoring
the plan which has been suggested by
several discerning national legislators
whereby the individual schedules COM
rrising the tariff may be taken up sep
arately and considered on their own
merits. In this way a scientific revis-
ion Of the tariff may be effected with
out disturbing the entire business ma
chinery Of the nation.
1t is the presidents idea that these
schedules be revised on the lnforma-
ton relating to the cost of materials
and labor at home and abroad which is
being obtained by his advisory tariff
commission. He has extended the scope
of this commission, however, to such an
extent that it has in reality become
almost the kind of tariff commission
that most honest minded people are
agreed is necessary IL there is ever to
be just tariff revision.
0uSSSSllOn6 IRE IIl1QC III IHCSO COL
umns not so long ago that it might
be a good idea to give President Taft
a reasonable length of time to work out
a plan for the handling of this vexed
tariff question, before his attitude on
the matter of tariff revision was criti-
cized as being deficient. And he ap-
pears to have produced plan which
ought to work out with satisfaction to
every one who believes in a reasona BILE
protective tariff system for this coun-
try. OF course, it won't be acceptable
to the free traders, and while they are
entitled to their opinions and to rec
ognition for the honest fight they have
always made for their principles. still
they belong in the party opposed to the
Republican party.
President Taft's assertion that the
Payne law is the best tariff law ever
passed never included the interpreta-
ton that some people insist on putting
on this remark. He has never insisted
that it was a perfect measure. But the
big thing that Mr.. Taft got in that
measure was the creation Of the tariff
commission and subsequent appropri-
alton to permit of it's operations on a
broad-gauge track. There can be no
doubt that the president is going to do
his best to give the people an honest
revision Of the tariff If 1t is within his
power. And nothing but congratula-
tions are due him for his attitude in
this particular and his evident iuten-
ton to redeem ultimately all the tariff
pledges he made during his campaign
for the presidency. The people who in
sist that the tariff could have been or
can be properly revised. without the
necessary facts and figures which have
never been obtained or sought after to
any extent until this tariff commission
was created, are critics of the unfair
type.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
HUlAOR or THE Day

Willis-Darwin wrote about the struggle
for existence many years ago. ellis
Couldn't he have made great book OF Il
with?-Brooklyn Life.
"Oratory is a gift, not an requirement.
said the proud politician, as he sat down
after an hours harangue. IT understand"
said the matter-of-fact- chairman: We're
not blamin' you. You done the best you
could. detroit Free Press.
Miss Oldham Gin bird store)-rd like to
swear or use slang. Dealer-Sorry can't
oblige you, madam. 1 don't handle stuffed
birds.-Chicago Daily News.
subbubs-Swamphurst is the most I'M
healthy place in the world; since we have
lived there my wife can scarcely speak
you suppose could get a house out there?
Philadelphia Record.
truthful hs bay sa Of is resss
qualities But 1 guess ri have to send
for summer board can't ask him whether
the mosquitoes is bad or the fishin's good"
Washington Star.
We'll" signs the man with the wash
tie, now that the aeroplane is becoming
money money for e sutom E hats ana veiis."
NO" growls the man with the ingrow-
ing mustache, but. they'll blow In just
as much on silk stockings and high heeled
hoes.'-Judge.
He loves me. he loves me not" MUIR
INJURED the romantic summer boarder. You
must have picked thousand daisies to
pieces today" remarked the old farmer.
POSSIBLY 1 have Couldn't We play
the game just as well with potato bugs?"
-Pittsburg Post.
What was king Solomon renowned for,
above all things else?" asked the elderly
visitor who was making little talk to the
children OF the Sunday school He was
related by marriage to more people than
any other man that ever lived" promptly
spoke UP the fair-hearted little girl in the
front row Of seats.-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

CFrom the Philadelphia Record1
Too many eye-openers are good FOR the
optician.
II they can't be stars some people in
sist upon being clouds.
The less he has of it the longer Il takes
a man to make up his mind.
Back talk doesn't necessarily consist of
talking about a man behind his back
Foresight only comes when q man is so
old he hasn't anything to look forward
to.
Where one woman will put all her money
on her back, another will put 1t In her
stocking.
Somehow or other it takes a woman
shopper much longer to spend 9S cents
than dollar.
To say that a man has more money
than he knows what to DO with Is an in
suit to his intelligence. T.
1t sometimes happens that one-half the
world would give good deal to find out
how the other half lives.
When a fellow is in love with a girl
he should leave no stone unturned to win
her. not even a solitaire.
Wigg-"Since Guzzler came into a little
money he has been so drunk he can
scarcely talk. Wagg-"Yes, I wonder IL
his pocketbook is as thick as his tongue
Blobbs-"Some fellow swiped my UNI
brella last night" Slobbs-s'WeIi, that
isn't such serious matter" Blobbs-"It
isn't shY I want you to understand this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
RISKS IN PATENT MEDICINES.

1t must be frankly recognized in con-
sidering patent medicines that, broadly
and philosophically speaking. two risks
have to be taken with all of them: the
risk that the medicine, though useful
remedy in this disease, may not fit
your particular case or stage of it; and
the further risk that you may not have
the disease you think you have, in
which case. of course, the poor medi-
cine Will be hopeless misfit, writes
Woods Hutchinson. M D., in the De-
lineator for September.
Bearing these facts in mind. it is OBJ
viously only the course OF prudence and
good sense to avoid all powerful OF
drastic remedies of this class, such as
II they do not do good, have the power
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

to do harm. Remedies, therefore, which
are advertised to cure Immediately,
like magfc," lover night" that are
guaranteed to cure every case or
money refunded; that have never been
known to fall" ETC., are good things to
let alone, even If you give credence to
their claims. Usually, as a matter of
fact, the claim Of these Sure Cure"
remedies are based upon one of two
things: prevarication, or some narcotic,
most commonly opium or alcohol.
There is also another universal source
OF risk which it is only fair to men,
ton, and this is the impossibility of
knowing what you are taking. The
vast majority of so-called patent medi-
cines have nothing that is patented
about them except the name or trade
mark. Really to patent remedy it
would be necessary to disclose it's in
gradients and to prove that they haze
never before been used for the cure of
this disease; and this, for obvious rea-
sons, is the last thing that the pro-
prietors Of these remedies would think
OF doing. The composition of the REM
edy is their most valued secret, which
naturally they guard with most Jealous
care, and it is inevitable in the very
nature of the case that any one who
takes a dose of it is taking it in the
dark. If he chooses to run that risk,
it is one of his inalienable rights and
privileges; but let him remember that
to paraphrase Voltaire-he is taking
a drug of which he knows nothing for
a disease of which he often knows less,
for his guess at its nature may be en-
tirely wrong.
Not even an analysis Of the remedy
by a government chemist will help
him, because the rigid secrecy as to its
composition, which is maintained for
commercial reasons, enables the manu-
facturers to change the formula at any
time, according to the changes in the
prices of the different drugs. or the
denunciation Of one or other of them
as Injurious. Some well known patent
medicines in the United States have.
changed their formulas three or four
times within the last five or six years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
The New One.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.1

lFTom the Atchison Globe
A real friend won't steal much of
your time.
The bigger the bum. the oftener and
louder he claims to be as good as any
body.
AS rule. the more jute hair a girl
wears, the shorter she wears her
dresses.
We are sometimes mean enough to
wish that lockJaw were more of an
epidemic.
After a girl reaches twelve. her
dresses grow a little longer every year
thereafter.
IF you don't strike marriage right,
said a married woman recently, 'it's
pretty hard"
Misfortune is about the only thing
that will teach most of us how really
we'll off we are.
In telling your side Of the contro-
versy, you are often as unfair as the
enemy you are abusing.
While the bully is willing to fight
anything, he is apt to make a speciality
of smaller men and booze.
What has become of the old fash
toned girl who allowed her love affairs
to interfere with her appetite?
When a man comes to you, and
abuses your enemy. his real object
usually is to hear you rave. and make
fool of yourself.
The girl who wears a big pile of jute
hair is usually mighty awkward about
spelling, and in the use of commas
and capital letters, when she writes a
letter.
Popular" songs are now so numer-
Gus that we suppose there are thous-
ands Of them. But long ago, in the
old days, popular songs were not at all
numerous; one we recall was entitled:
sSay, Johnny, Will Your Dog Bite ?''
Two men will be friends for years,
and quarrel Then each one begins
telling how much he has done for the
other, and how he has received no
favors in return. In such a case. both
men lie. The friends treated each 9TH
er with reasonable fairness. and both
were reasonably appreciative-
A certain Atchison woman is a good
old girl, as a rule, but is occasionally
seized with spells when she tries to be
spiritual, and better than human be-
ings ever are. Her children do not
like it, and when q certain look comes
into her eyes, and she begins talking
in a certain way, her children say:
Come out of it. mother; come out
OF iti''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

When others ask your opinion on
their work they expect favorable one.
X
Had you not prepared for tomorrow
how would you be getting along today?
Il ::
Many people don't need automobiles
for the purpose of running down their
neighbors.
If persons talked about their faults
they would son lose what little good
regulations they have.
- r
Farmers are undoubtedly inclined to
the idea that the leisure class in this
country is made up of farm hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.I

rFrom the Chicago News.1
There are more brain Gains than brain
storms.
Investigating committees have no ter
rors for honest men.
There's no place like home, even II 1t is
a homely place.
Happy Is the rounder who has no wife
to square himself with.
A faint heart is considered an easy mark
by the up-to-date girl.
Half a million in cold cash makes a
fat widow nice and plump.
We feel sorry for the man who thinks
that everybody else Is dishonest.
Nearly every girl thinks it is up to her
to resist kiss she really wants.
Honest, now, haven't you written a lot
of letters that you wish you hadn t
posted?
for better or for worse and strikes hap
py medium.
When it comes to selecting a second
mate a widow is apt to make q better
choice than q widower does.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Such high caliber experts could not
have been obtained to act as judges
at the state fair to be held here next
month if the exposition were not 60
ing to be of large proportions. Every
big and little straw that blows shows
that this fair is going to be the real
thing in the way of an agricultural
exposition commensurate with the
needs of Kansas, the queen among
aha AGRICULTURAL states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the state journal
HV4y during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate OF ten cents
= week or thirty cents . month Thy
NAH only Address changed as often
~ desired. While out OF town the
STATE journal viii be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment IL requested on
-N1nese short time subscriptions, 20 save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.J
A woman's recipe for keeping young
is a capacity for lying about it.
The more you can like a man. the
more you wouldn't If you really knew
him.
The little that man wants here be-
low he wants over and over again
every few minutes with some new kind
of fancy dressing.
A woman gets mighty suspicious of
what her husband has been doing
when he doesn't raise the roof because
the baby cries at night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Suit has been instituted against the
American Kennel club on the ground
that it is trust in violation of the
Sherman law. Tnasmuch as William
q. Rockefeller, Jr., a nephew of the
oil magnate, is one of the officers of
the organization. most persons will be
apt to jump at the conclusion that
the suit is we'll founded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Some localities are now reporting
that they have recently experienced
the coolest summer weather in 40
years. Surely has the summer OF
1910 been a remarkable one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

More than 500 aeroplanes have been
manufactured and sold in France.
Either a lot of flights are made there
which are not reported or most OF the
purchasers OF these machines have
bought them merely to look at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Even the surgeons which have add
ed something to what little fame
Russia has cannot stand things around
that land. They ara migrating in
large numbers to the waters OF the
Mexfcan r1iIf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

What's the use of the Wisconsin
people going to the trouble of count
hng the ballots in the United States
senatorial primary? Senator Bristow
Says Senator LaFollette will be VIC
korious by fifty or seventy-fve thou
sand majority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Because a st. Louis florist has had
his business activities hampered by
the sudden marrying of several at
Hractive young women whom he hired
within a years time to act as his
cashier he has advertised in the pa
pers for an ugly cashier" He is a
credulous man, indeed. If he thinks
any girl will answer that advertise
Tnenf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Measuring information concerning in
fantile paralysis. which has been given
much notoriety of late, comes from
washington, D. c. Statistics were pre-
scented to a convention of doctors held
there that even in severe epidemics
only about ono person per 1000 popula-
ton is attacked bv it and one death
per 10000 population is an unusually
high mortality
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
MAMMoN.

make occasion: force events
70 step the tread mill 1 create
compel the channeled consequences
70 break its banks to flood my fate:
Inc strongest passions evil sense
OF folly, crime and lust and hate
Charmed with the felt omnipotence
upon my beckon stand and wait:
And Love and Friendship, trusted pair
And Law and Justice all should snare.
Each elbows each to meet my eye
A An swerved by neither prayer nor plea
They chance all hazards of the die
And bend and bow to serve but me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

William A. Larned is one of the re-
marlzable men of the country. Here
ne il more than 40 years old and
still able to defend his title to the
amateur tennis championship of the
United States against all Corners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Many Kansas publicists, or politi-
plans, or whatever they are, who
won't even be consulted about the
matter, are wasting a lot of their val
liable time these days in outlining
what the platform to be drafted by
the Republican party council ought
~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
FRON OTHER PENS
ART OF DOING NOTHING.

A beginner in swimming, who can
float al ease in shallow water, Will
sometimes lose his head the moment
ne imagines he is out of his depth, and,
by misplae ed energy, bring about MS
own death. Castaways at sea will be-
come physical wrecks after going a
couple of days without food, in spite
of the fact that men in other circum-
stances have tasted for weeks ana peen
the better for it.
Belief that there wae q helping hand
within reach would have saved the
swimmer, though the hand might never
have been called upon to stretcn IN ms
direction. Belief that Succor was near
would have saved the shipwrecked crew
much discomfort and the enforced fast
would have done no harm. That former
Pittsburger, found dead in boxcar In
Washington, after being smut up TOT
been alive had he but known in ad-
vance Just when he was going to ba
released.
1t is lack of complete knowledge that
wears the nerve cells. 1t is magma
zion born of terror that brings disas-
ter. A complete illustration of doing
absolutely nothing would have saved
lives in all cases fredericksburg Dis
patch.
%
THE AMERICAN BOY.
"You cannot sissify the American
zine article defending his refusal to
prohibit exhibitions of the Jeffries-
johnson prize fight pictures in New
York. Neither can you satisfy the
American boy, the mayor might have
added with equal truthfulness. if he's
a normal boy, possessed of normal
appetite and normal American ambi-
ton. That sort of a boy. as long as
he is a boy. is not satisfied with aver
age adventure or exploit as long as
= >, I'M for this v0l1thfIIl
mind to invent. His adventurous spirit
is like his appetite-insatiable and va
riable. Both are regarded by his sem
Tors as hopeful omens. later to be ma
terialized into healthful ambitions and
promise of realization If the appetite,
as indicative of general physical fit
ness, remains good.
Once in a while-too frequently, in
fact-this normal ambition and nor
NAL appetite of the average American
wrong channels. His adventurous
spirit is fired by the heroic deeds of
"Deadwood Dick" or Gypsy Blair,
faithfully recorded between the COW
ers of ''yellow-back," which falls into
his possession. and he resolves to go
and do likewise.
That same sort of box-and he is
numerous in every American munich
pality-will find in the prize fight pic
lures, both an inspiration and an out
to the eternal disadvantage and dam
age of his better impulses. That's the
American boy for whom plea is made
in an attempt to prohibit the exhibit
tions of the prize fight pictures. It's
the same boy who inspired laws in
every state but one or two prohibiting
prize fights and brutal exhibitions OF
the manly art of self Defense" and
it's the same boy who can derive no
possible good from either.-St. Louis
Stay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Many of the folk hereabouts who
were wishing for a spell of cold
weather also have colds in the head.
The change was Just little too sud
den for ordinary mortals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Tt may also be said that there are
many ''glittering generalities" in the
speeches Colonel Roosevelt is making
these days. Still they have the
''stinger8' in them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

They've got the culprit who stole
fourteen pair of trousers from a local
cleaning establishment, but of what
use is he to the men who lost the
trousers? They certainly can't wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

News that is almost too good to be
t1us: Mrs. Jack Cudaly says she has
no intention of going on the vaudeville
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27

Kansas will have three north and
south raiIroads-when they are built.
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A SATURDAY SERMON.

Do all things without murmurings an
Observation-Disclosures II:14.