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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
LAWS DELAY LEGISLATION.

In urging the necessity for congress
sional action on the recommendation
of President Taft for the appointment
of a commission to investigate and
suggest a method for the revision of
the procedure in the federal courts, it
was stated here the other day that the
leaders in congress had apparently
overlooked this most important matter
in the preparation of the legislative
program which congress is to be press
ed to follow. That statement was cor
rect in a way. but 1t is evident that
this plan for looking toward doing
away with many of the laws delays
and reducing the costs of litigation is
to be taken up as a distinct and sepa-
rate proposition, irrespective of such
programs for legislation as the con-
gressional leaders map out, and urged
vigorously.
This was indicated definitely in a spe-
cial dispatch from Washington which
was printed in the State Journal of Sat
urday last. It told that President Taft
has given his unqualified approval to
the bill covering this matter which was
presented at the special session of con-
gress by Representative Madison of the
Seventh Kansas district. The bill got
as far as a pigeon hole in a committee
room at that session. But it has been
reintroduced ~ Mr. Madison, and there
can be little doubt of it's passage since
President Taft has stated that it pro-
poses to enact into law his very ideas
on the subject.
And if Ed Madison had never done
anything else during his service in
congress than to start the machinery
going for a reform of the court pro-
cedure of the nation, his services to
his state and country would have been
of a memorable order "In my judg-
ment." wrote President Taft in mis-
regular message to congress, "a change
in judicial procedure, with view to
reducing it's expense to private It'll
giants in civil cases and facilitating the
dispatch of fral decision in both civil
and criminal cases, constitutes the
greatest need in our American institu-
tons"
That a Kansas congressman should
anticipate a movement of this impor-
lance and have a bill already drafted
and in congress, which it subsequently
developed was entirely in accord with
the views of the president, is no small
feather in his cap and no small honor
to Kansas that she has such progress
sive representatives in the national
legislative assemblage. This measure
also reflects unusual credit on the
members of the bar OF Kansas, for it
was one of their number, Judge S. H.
Allen of Topeka, who assisted Mr..
Madison in drafting it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
A PRAYER.

Keep clean, dear Lord, the little hands
That nestle close in mine:
May they obey all Thy commands,
And all their works be Thine:
May they be clasped to Thee in prayer
Each evening as Thou watchest there.
Keep sweet, dear Lord, the lips that speak
In accents soft and low.
Thy name each evening, as they seek
Thy holy will to know.
And may they whisper words of love
And reverence to Thee above.
Keep pure, dear Lord, the little heart
That beats for Thee alone,
And may my daily life impart
Reflections of thine own:
Dwell there forever, Lord, I pray,
And guide my thoughts and words each
day.
And lead, dear Lord, the little feet
That walk Thy paths each hour.
Nor may they stray from byways sweet,
But guide them by Thy power,
And onward, upward by Thy love,
Lead them at last to heaven above.
e. A. Brininstool in the Los Angeles
Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
QUAKER SIEDTTATTONs.

[From the Philadelphia Record
Egotism never dies from lack of
nourishment.
Any new broom will sweep clean.
but it won't keep clean.
The more polish man acquires the
better it is-for the bootblack
Truth is one of the virtues that are
most frequently their own reward
Nor is it absolutely necessary to
marry in haste and repent at leisure.
When Monday morning comes in at
the door religion frequently flies out
of the window.
What the average man wants when
he marries is a home with all the com
forts Of a club.
If the suffragettes ever have a
chance to handle election returns they
ought to know how to pad.
TO transform a man into a brute ;,
remarks the Cynical Spinster, "alI that
Is necessary is to marry him.
Wigg-"Guzzler's silk hat loots os
though he had slept in It last niebt :,
Wagg--"And the hat, on the othar
hand. looks as though it had lost lie
nap" s- iOs
Miss Antique-"Do you think
man would try to marry me for ny ny
money!" Mr.. Blunt-s'WelI. e. ,,,,. ny
De worth . chance. How much hsvs
you got" nave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16

problem OF pure drinking water, and
applied scientific remedies where need
ed, until the quality has been brought
up to a high standard in most cases.
In the smaller towns, where less ex-
perienced men are in charge and the
organization is not so complete. cpl
denies Of typhoid are experienced
which are only corrected after large
numbers of residents have paid the
penalty in sickness and death. Eternal
vigilance is required on the part of city
officials from the mayor down. Condi-
lions which have been all right for
months and even years are liable 20
change at any moment, and it is this
state Of complacency born Of long i'm
munity which is most to be feared. A
daily or weekly analysis of the city wa
ter IS SO Insignificant a price to pay for
the protection it affords as not even to
admit of any argument.
Probably the greatest risk the city
dweller runs in his annual outing in
the country is from contaminated water
at summer resorts. The lack of the most
ordinary precautions at many such
places is both astounding and criminal.
Drainage from main buildings, as well
as outhouses and barns, is allowed to
find its way, often by open and most
direct routes. to the source of supply
from which drinking water is obtained
The frequent result is that, instead of
finding increased health and vigor, the
children and often adults return home
with the seeds of disease. Not until the
guests at such resorts insist on a cor
rection of these unnecessary evils by
refusing their patronage. will propria-
tors generally awake to the point of
applying remedy.
Farmers, even the more scientific.
are apt to ignore the question of water
for domestic use, and nothing but their
active, outdoor existence saves them
from the illness which would certainly
attack others. With the steadily de-
creasing amount of water in springs,
streams and lakes: with the corre-
spending reduction in it's publication.
greater care and watchfulness will be
needed on the part OF all those who are
responsible for the proper condition Of
the water the people drink
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
PRODUCTION AND PRICES.

Exception is taken by the Springfield
Republican to arguments presented in
these columns not long ago to the eff
feet that one of the reasons for high
prices in this country on the necessi-
ties of life is the "undeniable fact that
the production of foodstuffs in this and
other countries has not kept abreast of
increases in population" The Repub-
lcan digs up some statistics issued by
the federal department of agriculture
a month or two ago which tend to show
that the per capita production of sta
pie farm products in this country is
as large or larger today than it was
formerly. Therefore. it insists that a
better reason for high prices will have
to be presented.
The Republican seems to overlook the
fact that an enormous quantity of the
staple farm products of the United
States are shipped to European coun-
tries each year. In the past year Eur
ope paid no less than $133,0O0.O 900 for
American beef The expectation of
other farm products was on just as
proportionately as large and larger
scales. If all the farm products of the
United States were kept in this coun-
try, there can be no doubt that the
prices the consumers would be asked
to pay for them would be materially
less. But a large portion of the farm
production here is sold in foreign mar
kets and therefore such increased per
capita production as there has been
in late years in the farm products in
this country, really counts for naught
in providing the people of this country
with an increased supply. Nor will
there be any change in this respect as
long as there are foreign markets which
are willing to pay good prices; or until
the production of farm staples here is
materially increased.
But to get a little closer to the brass
tacks of the relation of high prices for
necessities, or things in common con-
sumption, and the supply of them, it
is to be wondered If the Springfield Re
publican has perused the bulletin is
sued recently by the bureau of statis-
tics of the department of commerce and
labor relative to the domestic move
ment of live stock, provisions and grain
curing 1909. The total live stock re-
ceipts for the year at the seven lead
| ing interior markets of the United
| States were 39,545. 725, the lowest figure
since 1904. The receipts of cattle at the
| four principal Atlantic coast cities were
| below the figures for the past few years.
| The stock of meat. as reported for the
| five principal packing centers at the
end of the year. was below like fig
ures reported under the same dates in
| each of the past five years. The grain
receipts at Is principal interior mar
kets during the past year were lower
! than for any year since 1904 etc.
If these figures do not help to ex-
plain the high prices for meat and other
things which have prevailed of late
nothing will Or perhaps the Springfield
Republican believes that the relation be-
tween the volume of the supply and
the prices of things is a mere matter
4 of theory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
NEED FOR PURE WATER.

Inasmuch as Topekans have had
temporary difficulty due to an acct
dent, in securing pure water. it
might not be out of place to re-
print an excerpt from an article on the
imperative need for pure drinking wa
ter which is presented by H. H. Wind
sor in the March Popular Mechanics. 1t
may spur the authorities in charge If
the water department to further activi-
ties to make the Topeka water supply
what it should be and what the people
Of the city are paying for. The excerpt.
in question, follows:
1.-THE larger cities have studied the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
AN ATHLETIC PURSUIT.

The testimony of that veteran let
ter carrier to the healthfulness or ms
employment is borne out by those sci
entists who address themselves TO
studying comparatively the physical
effects of various pursuits. whether
or not Letter carriers as class I'VE
longer than workers at MANY other
tasks may not be determined But 1t
seems to be established that, subject
to the risk of encounter with such
perils to existence as threaten human
beings generally, theirs is an occupa-
ton which conserves rather than taxes
a normal euipment of physical endur-
ance The observed benefits are IN
great measure accounted for by the
circumstance that most of their busi-
ness hours are passed in the open air
and that they are always a-Walk1ng-
But another consideration is cited TO
account for the well-trimmed and wiry
figure which the letter carrier usually
illustrates, even though he be OF ad-
vanced age. The science of physical
training recognizes the importance OF
an objective in every task. For his
practice of pedestrianism the carrier
necessarily always has an objective,
and at frequent stages of his route.
The force of this is the more mani
fest if the policeman's lot be con-
trasted. Like the carrier, the police
man is required to cover a prescribed
beat, but, unlike the carrier, he rare
" has an incentive to arrive some
where.-Providence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
HUNOR OF THE Day

Wife-Will you take me tonight to
what Every Woman Knows? Husband
@ caiIssa ds7 ear hat Kk ea soV Woman Knows
would go in a minute.-Harvard Lam
pooh.
Toni can't teach that Wilson girl to
skate; it's no use trying; P 3o IeaTnf TOM ROM
oh, she thinks she falls so gracefully
Boston Transcript.
stella-Is she economical? Bella-very.
she will save 10 cents any time to spend
dollar.-Puck.
How Titles clothes hang about her. her;
Why, they don't fit her at ALL bus
they they did i'd LIE. Life
Lady Gin modern book store)..I wish to
on board this scenic railway?-Life.
The old monite5s are being ..o ssogpsd
I jpdge?" Yes; they never Ga aaES tine
PP e65t. h'no Oh oan''"s 'es'
at the. zoo)-Old man.. where they
keep the jaguar? Lead me to 1.-THE jag
ulk-war. Got speshal interes'~in Jaguar.-
Puck.
I'll be ready in minute she said to
he called up some time later. Il find that
1 shall have to shave again. Detroit
Free Press.
you. L. my ny darling. The Fair one-Remem-
s esr f to be HaT0s n6uia Tme me
Her-Do you love me? Him-Yes. dear.
Her-But how much? Him7Just as much
as you love me. observation-disclosures
Leader.
He (impecunious)-But you say yourself
his hands? She-Yes: that's why l don't
think he'll listen to you.-Boston Trans
cript.
Recruiting Office-If you are a married
man, why are you trying to join the
army? Henpeck-Cause I'm such lover
of peace.-Judge-
The Lady Fare-You cannot cheat me.
my man. haven't ridden in cabs for thir-
Haven't you. mum? Well. you've done
your best.-New Zealand Free Lance
+ HE married an old-fashioned woman"
rs that so?'' yes: she won't even let
him smoke in the se."-Detroit Free
Press.
Lottie-Is your young minister SO very.
very fascinating? .Hattie-Fascinatin
Why, lots of girls in our church have
kiss from 1.-The the rector after the ceremony.
The Mean Thing-You're so conceited,
heaven the first question you'll ask will
| be Are my wings on straight Connie
Yes, dear; and shall be sorry that you
| won't be there to tell me.-ulustrated
Bits.
"Whitcomb is an independent thinker
clock in the railroad station is wrong,'-
Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.1
There is probably no greater hand
leap than vanity.
Every woman's life, according to
her telling, is like novel.
A man pursues bad luck oftener
| than bad luck pursues him.
It is as difficult to transplant peo-
| pie as it is to transplant trees.
There never was a bigger lie than
that the world fails to appreciate a
man.
The greatest men are those who
learn the most by the fewest exper-
fences.
No girl who is afraid to stay at
home alone evenings should ever get
married.
Never ask a man how his health is.
unless you have a spare half hour to
listen to his reply.
Lysander John Appleton not only
has meat at every meal, But He Asks
a Blessing Over 1t!
People thought a certain Atchison
man was the greatest bore in the
world until they met his wife.
The greatest thing in the world is
for a man to be able to do something
we'll, and say nothing about it.
A correspondent wants to know the
meaning of theosophy. 1t means
about the same as the slang word
nit
What has become of the oid-fash-
toned woman who had this Uplift
motto hung on the back stoop: "Clean
Your Feet"
The older a man gets. the wider
the road he wants to put between
himself and any one who has a no
toriously sunny" disposition.
1t is every woman's opinion that IL
her children, were described in stage
language, they would be referred to
as IAN all-star company
Get any mans confidence and you
will find that there is an unaccount-
able prejudice against him, and that
he is being imposed upon.
A horse without a blanket on looks
bad standing in front of saloon, but
it looks a great deal worse when
standing in front of a church.
When woman is chasing a man
she might as well frankly say so: Her
efforts at concealing it never fool the
people moment, and if she is honest
about 1t they may help her along
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
ENLIST OR BE DRAFTED.

Probably the nonresident has not in
terested himself in good roads because
he did not want to be lonesome-or
maybe he didn't want to appear to be
trying to run affairs where he did not
live. Why not suspect that he has been
waiting for the resident citizens of the
community to take the lead Who
knows but what the nonresident VII
fall in line as soon as the first volley
for good roads is fired? When the work
begins he will be drafted unless he vol
unteers. Until drafting time comes wo
should give him plenty of opportunity
to enlist of his own free will. Building
good roads is going to be a big cam
paign and deserton cannot be tolerated.
Everybody must enlist for a full term.
Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
Boy Inventors.

Wireless telegraph and the conquest
Of the air have taken firm hold on
OF lads Of tender years. but advanced
ideas, are devoting their talents to the
invention or construction of machines
in both these lines.
While these devices are largely for
pleasure. young America has proved
his ability to turn inventive genius into
utilitarian channels. One of the most
remarkable inventions made by boy
is device for signaling on elevated
roads. It is in use on part of the
of Morris Schaeffer, Is years old. a
public school boy. Morris was offered
$4,000 for this patent, but on the
advice of friends. refused it. The boy
expects to be able to get $4,000 for
the idea from the railroad company.
OF quite a different caliber is the
machine invented by Donald H. Miller,
student at Columbia university. This,
by the mere touching of keys, similar
to those on a typewriter, translates
Chinese into English. 1t can also be
used to translate any other language
The continuance resembles an adding
machine.
From darkest India comes the rec
ord of the achievement of Claude
Moore, the son of poor coal miner
Young Moore who is 20 years old,
was reduced to the sum of cents
when he received word from the pat
lent office that it had issued him pat
ent on a corn-huske1- Thereupon
Claude, who is a thrifty youth. sold
this patent to the Harvester trust for
considerable real money.
most ambitious piece of work has
just been successfully finished by Fran
c.s Lee Herreshoff, the young nephew
of the famous yacht designer. This
is the construction of a high-power
racing automobile which has develop
ed the tremendous speed of 80 miles
an hour 2
Herreshoff has also patented a de-
vice for subdping the glare of acetylene
lamps. The mechanism does away
with the necessity of extinguishing the
lamps, for it softens the glare. making
it hardly more noticeable than an oil
lamp.-Van Norden Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
FRON OTHER PENS
THE ENGLIsH SPARROW.

If the English sparrow were not such
a hardy little rascal, so well able to
take care of himself and thrive and
multiply, how our pity would go out
toward him! Especially might we now
allow our generous feeling to how
when the department of agriculture has
just issued a farmers bulletin in which
1t has nothing really good to say about
this dweller everywhere and offers vari-
GUS means for getting rid of him. But
the English sparrow needs no pity. He
will live by grace or without it, and we
may expect that, notwithstanding the
bulletins, we shall continue always to
have him with us-hardy, prolific, bold,
cunning, sc f-reliant and unwashed.
The bulletin-and it is sadly in accord
with popular experience - represents
this active neighbor of humankind as
dyed criminal among birds
He attacks. it seems, almost every sort
of vegetation useful for food, preys on
his own kind by destroying their eggs
and driving them from gardens and
parks and has no melodious pean to Of
fer after his victories. He should be
treated as vermin, and reduced in num-
Der, even if he cannot be exterminated
To be sure, the bulletin does offer one
forIorn hope. Mr.. Dearborn, of the
biological survey, says that he ought 10
be eaten.-Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
The Wonderful Y. M. c. A.

The wealthy people Of America. be
1t said to their credit, give generously
tc all good causes when they know
their gifts will be wisely spent. In the
past ten years no other religious or
ganization has received so much money
a the Y. NJ. C. A. Millions have been
raised for new buildings all over the
land, and with no apparent strain. Its
businesslike administration Of its vast
resources, it's energy in pushing its
work-:n the cities and through it's rail-
road, army, and navy branches-and its
fine policy in following the armies in
all recent wars. have created for it a
worldwide enthusiasm. AT the last
banquet of the international committee
Senator Root affirmed that they had
made their way by working with men
more than by talking to them, saying.
Come with u.s. not go, do that"
BY their appeal to all classes of Chris
tians, as we'll as to nonChristians, they
have kept out of doctrinal theology,
ard by their activity in good works
they have escaped cant in religion All
interested in saving our boys and young
men rejoice in their worldwide sue
cess.-LeSHe's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16

A most convincing argument in
favor of the guaranteeing Of all de-
posts in banks is to be found in a
recent decision OF the Kansas supreme
court, holding guaranty company IL
able for the states losses in the old
First National bank failure. If it is
right and just that state. a city or a
county should have its deposits in
banks guaranteed, 1t is no more than
right that the same Justice should be
extended to individual depositors. who
are less able to stand loss than is a
community or commonwealth. And
some equitable plan for the guaran-
teeing of individual deposits which will
stand the tests of the courts ought to
be devised.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
Sells Throat and Lungs.

Bert Morphy, the noted singer of
Chicago who features all conventions
of Elks with his melodies, received a
letter when in Detroit last week from
DR. James H. Blair. of the Bennett
Medical College, asking him to sell his
throat and lungs to the college for
use after his death. The reason the
organs are wanted is because Morphy
once was in the last stages of con-
sumption and was cured by outdoor
singing. The price offered was good
and Morphy went to Chicago, and
after consultation, tentatively accepted
But Morphy has a little daughter,
who got wind of the bargain and
pleaded with her father to rescind.
She did not want her papa cut up by
doctors. Morphy between the love of
his child and the thought of how much
good the money would do her after
he was gone, fed to Detroit to think ii
over DR.. Blair pursued. He argued
with Morphy with redoubled fervor,
capitulated when assured that his
body, minus the larynx and the lungs,
could be returned to his family I'M
mutilated. Before returning to Chi
cago DR.. Blair said:
''Those who hear Morphy sing lit
tie dream that those songs are a bat
tie for life; nature, by this means.
has been able to create wall between
an extensive portion of the upper apex
of both lungs that have become dis
eased and the surrounding healthy it's
sues. Constant exercise of the vocal
organs has brought about an abnormal
development of the muscles of the
larynx that have also given their sup
port to the protective forces.
This muscular development of the
1arynx is vividly illustrated by the
fact that during the winter vacation
season Morphy wears a Is collar and
finds it necessary to buy an Is size
after one weeks combat in the open
air against a military band."-New
York Press