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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
KANSAS COANENT
THE POLAR BEAR.

If people who complain of the heat
and oonslt the thermometer every
nve minutes. would devote more
thought to polar bears, it would be
better for them. Get a good work on
natural history, and read about these
admirable bears, and the first thing
you know you will be cool and COM
Portable and enjoying chilb1ains.
The polar bear is large white four
husher which inhabits the arctic re-
g1ons. Its fur is coarse and thick, and
often has a ye1lowish tinge, the result
OF reading stray copies of the Hearst
newspapers which have been dropped
by passing explorers. The polar bear
is often referred to by learned people
as Ursus Maritimus, but if you happen
to meet the critter 1t is not necessary
to apply such a name to it. Many
polar bears are petulant and cranky
and might think you were trying to be
funny If you called them Ursus Mari
timus.
The habits of Hon. Ursus Maritimus
are interesting and amusing. He al
at the drop of a hat. Yet he has a
keen sense of humor, and often amuses
himself for hours together sliding
down an iceberg or glacier. Think of
that on a hot day, and you will at
once notice a decided slump in the
temperature. The polar bear is fond
of fish and seals and Eskimos, and
eats them fresh off the ice. That's an
other pleasant hot weather thought.
But get down the books on natural
history, and read the whole story about
this useful and helpful bear. You will
see the words "snow'' and "ice'' in
every other line, and a man can not
read that sort of stuff very long with
out cooling off.-Emporfa Gazette.
THE LATEST PROMISED LAND.
They are coming back from Canada,
those who went there with hopeful
hearts last year, and for decade past.
The wheat crop there has been cut
short by drouth. and that is one
crop country, so 1t was trek or strug-
gle with hard winter without q suit
able base of supplies.
But always there is a new promised
land, and those who come from Canada,
if the itching foot still itches may keep
going. This time it is the Sunny
South which beckons; a new-old land;
an old land awakening to new posi-
bilities fifty years after it was laid
waste by war, and stagnated by revo-
lutionized industrial conditions. But
it is ever well to remember that the
looks better to the grazing horse, al
though the distant forage may be
sandburs, while blue grass grows un-
der foot. There is cheap land in the
south, to be sure, but that doesn't
prove its worth. Remember this
cheap land. much of 1t, is not virgin
soil 1t was skinned over by cheap
slave labor; 1T might return suitable
and even fabulous yields under mod
ern methods, and again it might not
GO west, young man." may still be
good advice. or changed to go south,
or east. or Forth. but to go slow is
also a timely suggestion to those who
feel the lure of the Far Away and the
real estate prospectus. - Atchison
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

said. IT thought you had chosen me.
Remember, I shall never ask you
again"
sLynette! Lynettei My God! I love
you sol" Allen cried hoarsely-
I hid my eyes. wanted to do right
Ito be honest and true-hut John had
said he would never as'- again-he must
be mighty sure of me. And poor Allen!
How could flout him with q happy
rival? wheeled about; calling to them
over my shoulder:
II shan't marry anybody-until
please"
No; that's not the end. John went
away next week: next year married
A1len-on his deathbed. Fl said Ia
made him mighty happy. Myself! On,
it hardly matters about women.
But-last week / got letter-next
week John is coming for me. shall
give the Waite fortune to charity-my
only true love has enough for US DOTH.
-(Copyrighted, 1910, by Associated Lit
orarv PreSs.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
QUAKER dEDTTATToNs.
rFrom the Philadelphia RECORD

EFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t Is always our charity that covers
a multitude of other peoples sins.
At any rate the rniIkman should all
ways manage to keep his head above
water.
In these days of airships the express
sion "a flying trip has some real sig
nif1cance.
Time is an unknown quantity. Many
coat.
If home is where the heart is one
would naturally think more girls would
be homeless.
The fellow who proposes to a girl
merely as a bluff deserves to have her
throw him over.
Many man will do anything for
money under the impression that money
VIII do anything for him.
History repeats ITSELF quoted the
Wise Guy. Yes. we are SO slow n,
Mug. pe
Newlywed-.sMy wife is woreh her
weight in gold.- Oldbach-s.Yes. ana 4
notice she Is getting stouter every dav
B1ones boasts thar f,e liyes
near to nature Wagg-.sWell. he
would be more presentabIe If he lived
nearer to laundry
Whites Malnma--"Before Won ert+
with another boy you should st<n ana
count ten." Witiie-"Yes. an. M tha+
time the other fellers got me licked :.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
SHERIFF NoRToN's SUCCESS.


Jonathan d. Norton's success in win
ming the Republican shrievalty nomi-
nation in Shawnee county, in an ex-
ceedingly close contest, was no more
than deserved. Mr. Norton was the
logical candidate for this nomination.
During his service as undersheriff and
more lately as sheriff he has dis
charged his duties with efficiency. He
has stood for the enforcement Of all
the laws, and has been successful in
enforcing them.
That he did not win out by a larger
majority was due to the fact that there
were three other candidates In the
field, two of whom made their bid for
popularity on law and order plat
forms, or rather on f1at-footed declar-
ations that they were in sympathy
with the enforcement of the prohibit.
tory law. These candidates took many
votes from Mr.. Norton that would or
dinarily have gone to him had the
fight for the nomination for sheriff
been a square drawn contest between
Mr.. Norton on the one side and the
liberal element in the city on the
other
The other contests in the Republi-
oan ranks for county nominations were
not as close as had been expected in
two or three instances. And there
were some surprises. But the men
who walked away with the honorsi
ought to be acceptable. generally, to-
the Republicans of Shawnee county.
AS a matter of fact, the contestants
for all of these nominations were high
class men and nothing like harm
would have been done no matter
who of them had been successful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.

George H. Hodges of Olathe, re-
ceived the Democratic nomination for
governor by an even proportionately
larger majority than was given to
Governor Stubs in the Republican
primary. And in the selection of Mr..
Hodges for their standard bearer the
Democrats have undoubtedly put their
strongest man in the field to battle
against Mr.. Stubs.
His activities in public life during
the past few years, chiefly as state
senator, have made Mr.. Hodges well
and favorably known throughout the
entire state. They have stamped him
as a courageous man, whose integrity
is of the unquestioned sort. AS a leg
islator he was always working and
voting for what he deemed to be for
the best interests of the people of the
whole state, and he was seldom on the
wrong side Nor did it matter with
him whether the legislation he helped
along was Initiated by Democrats
or by Republicans. Anything that was
good for Kansas and Kansans was
good enough for Hodges.
He did not seek the Democratic
nomination for governor. It came to
him. But he announced that if he got
it he would enter into a vigorous COM
paign for election. That he viii, keep
his word in this respect is not to be
doubted. And in few weeks, when
the smoke of the primary has cleared
away, the campaign for the governor
ship will be on in full blast. Kansas
is, or has been, a normally Republic
can state by a large majority, especial
ly on national issues. But the Demo-
Gratis came near electing the late w.
A Harris governor, when he ran
against the reelection of ex-Gov.
Hoch, and some of them are sanguine
that they will do better this year.
The primary vote received by Mr..
Stubbs, however. shows him to be
wonderfully popular in Kansas and he
is known to have many admirers in
the Democratic ranks. Mr.. Hodges
will prove a foeman worthy of his
steel, and their contest will be an in
teresting one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
Rattlesnake Couldn't Rattle.

mathematics are attacking women
and huge water snakes are destroying
brook trout in this section. A move
men is on foot to organize snake
tie Bronx Zoo, an honorary member
Mrs. Garrett Pittinger, of SwartsWooo,
narrowly es capped being bitten ana KILL
ed by big RATHER in the woods, three
miles from her home. She ana ner son
John were out picking wild blackber-
RES. Suddenly the rattlesnake siIucH
~ Mrs. Pittinger and its fangs lodged
l., = fold of her skirt. Before 1T could
disengage itself and coil for another
strike the son picked up club and
killed it.
-ssThat's funny" he said. 'I have seen
roany rattlesnakes, but never DeIoIe
knew one to strike without nrst SOUND
iIg it's rattle as q warning.
He examined the tail of the reptile
IT contained ten rattles and a button.
Between the rattles he noticed stout
fishing cord. In some way the snake
rattles had become entangled IN the
cord aud in the struggle to escape the
snake had wound the cord between the
rattles in such way that 1t could not
spring them. That was the reason the
snake had struck without giving warm
ing.
For weeks fishermen have noticed an
unusual scarcity of trout in the brooks
In this section. The cause of it was
discovered today by Harry Wilkes, a
boy employed on the Amaine West
brook farm, in saltwater. He was NOV
ing along the water when he saw a
large snake trying to swallow a trout,
which was resisting streruously. Thu
boy killed the snake, cut 1t open, and
found inside it three other trout, one
partly 1igested and the others recently
swallowed Newton IN. j. dispatch to
New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
HUAOR or THE Day

rs your daughter going to get thesis
T READY ror her graduation, Mrs. Comeup?"
have o mee ef tb se ; aln6 She's going to
made."-Balttmore American.
fk s se al RSRs e gstsas
tried the old device of opening the Bible
eyes tS see s wha! T. text iSs be s weq nsN and 81
divided The Widow.
some one SAID to Brother Dickey. yes.
suh, he said. Providence sometimes
@ NJ aa' cons Rfta we gifts ter
'I found that our stenographer can't
What did you do? Discharge him?" mo.
tract."-Washington Star. ~
what are you In such rush about?'
Promised to meet my wife at o'clock
hurry. : 1t Isn't yet..-c1eveian sie Tssde n
owlett-I had an awful time thinking up
home from the Club last night. Asounn-
Did she demand one? Owlett-Of course:
e ssrx It ape and hsr ar0s
Hello, hello. This the janftor?" 'sYepr'
asked You for heat You did not SEND it.
Well, you needn't. Good-by. "-Philadel-
phla Ledger.
Mr. L. s. Dee-I saw the count kiss you
in the conservatory. Why didn't you tell
him stop? Mrs. l. S.. Dee (demurely)-
Why, you know can't speak FRENCH
M. +. P.
Now, little boys" he concluded, what
may we learn from the brutal affair al
Reno?' mot scrap wit out trainin' to
de minute" responded an observant youth
Philadelphia Ledger.
Footpad-Your watch, mister, and be
quick about 1t. Pedestrian-Let me pass.
1 have no time to spare.-Boston Tran
script.
Pendleton-What are the two greatest
wishes of medical student? Kefer-Give
1t up. What are they? Pendleton-lTo put
.Dr." before his own name and .sDr.'
after the names of other people.-Chicago
News.
Old Fungus-My lad, saw you fighting
yesterday, and Youth-Look ERE mister
II you wants to make any contracts YOU
must see my manager!-Chfps.
Mrs. Van Kew-was the party dress a
fit? Mrs. Dwell don't know, but I
heard it gave her husband one when he
got the bill for it.-Browning's Magazine.
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n Needs No Champion.

The Rev. Elmer L. Williams. pas
tor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal
church, championed the. cause OF the
kiss in a sermon at the Despiaines
camp meeting last Monday.
The speakers intentions were no
doubt good. But he was doing boot
less thing in defending the kiss-al-
most as bootless a thing as attacking
1t.
The pIafn fact of experience is
that neither attack or defense has any
apparent effect on the kiss. 1t is real
ly wonderful how it has survived
through the ages, maintaining It's pop
ularity in the face of every discour-
agement.
The "blue law parsons nave
preached against the kiss, the police
have warred against it and. last or all.
science has endeavored to show that II
is a menace to the life and happiness
of the world. But it has withstood
them ALL
The father of the family reads an
article in medical journal de-
failing the horrors that may follow
in the train of a single kiss. He then
goes placidly home and kisses his WIRE
Just as If the article had never been
written.
The mother reads in ten-cent mag
azine or some other publication that
deals in popularized science about the
dangers that Turk in simple kissing.
AT that moment the bdpJ u AcS'
Wnereupon she kisses him to keep
him quiet and finishes the article with
much complacency.
The young nan reads a uSnday
supplement about the 19,000,OO0,oOO
microbes that Turk in every kiss, sew
eraI of the microbes being greatly and
terrifyingly enlarged. And he goes
right down to his best girls house and
If he doesn't kiss her it is not because
of the microbes.
when one considers how long the
kiss has lasted. how easily it rises
above attacks from all quarters, 1t Is
impossible to resist the idea that there
is merit in it; that it somehow SUBJ
serves a useful purpose; that 1t an
swers to some imperious demand OF
human nature which will not be rea-
soned with. -
If science would attack it in the
truly scientific fashion, 1t should first
discover the mysterious demand 1t an
swers to. That known, and otherwise
supplied, the kiss might fall a ready
victim to attack.
BUT as long as the kiss remains the
mysterious affair it is, popular without
effort, and practiced withouet reflec-
ton. all attacks will be in vain and all
defense unnecessary.-Chi Inter
Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Candid individuals are also inclined to
be imprdent.
q =
AS general thing the dogs of low de-
gree have the better dispositions.
e
Supply and demand never jibe with
most folk when 1t come to money
If there is no such thing as luck how
are the successes of some people to be
accounted for?
Old maids have a tendency not only
to revise the figures of their ages but
elso their physical figures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
Turtles Revenge Costs 1903 Lives.

A swapping turtle weighing 40 pounds
cost the lives of 100 chickens and three
pigs in Herman Jacobs barn. at ROTOR
Point, near South Norwalk. Conn.,, this
morning. Incidentally two of Jacobs
farm hands were made i'll be inhaling
illuminating gas.
After a hard fight Jacobs captured
the turtle in a swamp few days ago.
He chained it to a stake in his back
yard, and started to fatten it, intending
to invite his friends to a turtle supper.
The turtle got loose today, and
crawled into the model barn, which
contains a gas plant. Without the
slightest apparent Inconvenience to
itself, the turtle snapped off a gas pipe.
The gas, escaping in large quantities,
soon filled the barn. In the barn are a
hennery and piggery; the unfortunate
chickens and pigs were asphyxiated
quickly; the farm hands. looking for
the leak inhaled much gas.
The turtle also inhaled so much gas
that it sweIled the turtle up and made
it look in prime condition. But Jacobs
knows this appearance is deceptive. He
will continue to fatten the turtle, and
finally will serve it to his friends, Il
only for vengeance sake.-New York
World.
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address at the rate of ten cents
week or thirty cents q month (by
mail oniy.) Address changed as often
e. desired. While out OF town the
state Journal will be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested ON
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
(From the New York Press.l

Envy fires more men to emulation
than admiration does.
A girl is SO romantic she can see
sentiment in the way q man stuffs his
pipe in her presence
elders: it's natural to them. Thew learn
from them to perfect themselves in it.
A man who likes to get up in the
morning can be nastier about 1t to one
who doesn't than about almost any,
thing else in the world.
The first thing woman does when
she gets a lead nickel is to climb into
a pay-as-you-enter car so as to drop 1t
in the box and work 1t on. even If she
has to spend another cents getting
back where she started sffem:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
FRON OTHER PENS
IN PRAISE OF CHOCOLATE.

We don't know whether little Incl
dent which occurred in Germany, cou-
pied with the kaiser's recent neglect to
attend the solemn functions Of a beer
evening" which it was said he never
neglected before, can be used as an ar
gument that the water wagon has really
aTd truly enlisted a permanent and dis
tinguished recruit, but at all events the
incident has to do with beverages, and
there was nothing alcoholic about them.
The kaiser invited to tea 20 German
girls who are studying physical culture.
in response to request from the maid
ems that they be permitted to visit the
ruler while the emperor's yacht was in
the vicinity. The imperial invitation
was extended in the democratic spirit
in which it was asked for, and the de-
lighted girls took with them a quanti-
ty of chocolate, doubtless under the inn
preston that it was their duty to con-
tribute something TO the picnic sup
plies The party must have had a per-
fectly lovely time, for after the yacht
had sailed the emperor telegraphed to
the girls a stanza of his own make,
which, translated into English, reads as
fellows:
You who with us your chocolate drank,
Fair maidens, one and ALL we thank:
And wish your lives as sweet may seem
AS sugared chocolate crowned with
cream.
-Pittsburg Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Some wise men are insisting that no
Democratic national candidate whom
Mr.. Bryan may support has a chance
of winning out. Other equally wise
men declare that no such candidate
can hope to win out unless he has the
support of Mr.. Bryan. And there you
are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Now that President Taft has given
approval to the opinion of Attorney
General Wickersham to the effect that
there is no law or other good reason
to keep the statue of General Lee out
OF statuary hall in the capitol at WASH
ington the whole agitation on this sub
1ect should be dropped
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Chicago had only 7,152 saloons in
operation during the year 1909. But
that is just 1852 too many. Still, it
would be pretty hard work to convince
a majority of the people of Chicago Of
that fact. However, it is not many
aggregations Of people who know what
is best for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Business for the mine and factory
operators in the anthracite coal regions
Of Pennsylvania will probably pick up
considerably after Colonel Roosevelt
begins to write editorials for the Out
look on the conditions prevailing among
the miners and factory operatives as
he found them on personal investiga-
44ov,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Many men will probably not take
kindly to the latest decree of fashion
which places the ban on the coats with
hugely padded shoulders. Such APP
parel has given an imposing figure to
countless gentlemen, and they are Just
as keen to have imposing figures as are
the members of the fair sex.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Something like $4,000 day is being
expended by the state of Ohio to keep
the state militia at Columbus and pre-
serve the peace there which is threat
ened by street car strikers and their
sympathizers- Strikes are certainly
expensive. They are also out of date.
Disputes between capital and labor
should be settled by arbitration. More
of them are being settled that way
every day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Jim Jeffries has come out of his
shell long enough to deny the state
ment credited to him that he was
drugged before entering the ring at
Reno. This denial was unnecessary.
The undisputed evidence has been all
along that he lost the fight on account
of smuggling, not drugging
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Any number of Chicago millionaires
will likely move their residences beyond
the confines of Cook county, ILL., The
tax authorities there are insisting On
their paying taxes on the full amount
of their personal property, including
their rtocks and bonds in foreign cor
poratfons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

New and massive bronze doors have
just been placed at the main entrances
OF the capitol at Washington. But If
doesn't appear they will have any luck
in keeping out an increased company of
congressional Insurgents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

touched by a poem she recited. Laura
is probably the first individual who has
ever heen able to bring this kind of
tears from the eyes Of the New York
critics. Great, indeed, is Laura Jean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

All the medals for fish tales belong in
Winsted, Conn. A bass was caught
there not long ago which had been con-
nected with another hook and line for
five years, and which during all that
time had lived in the water within a
radius of rs feet. This even beats the
fishing story on the jaguar, which
beast is credited with dangling its tail
in the water for bait to attract fish
within the reach of its claws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

News for the consumers that has a
familiar ring: Indications are that the
price Of butter viii be higher this fall
and winter than it has been for many
upare
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

"A campaign Of actual assassination is
being carried on these days in Persia.
considerable political assassinating was
done in Kansas quite recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Touring in an automobile must be
strenuous form of pleasure. Colonel
Roosevelt has taken It I'D.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
oFFENsIvEs PUBLICITY.

The news comes by way Of Washing
ton that railroad officials al offended
because of the action of shippers in
Chicago, Cincinnati and other places
in giving publicity to unfair and dis
eliminating freight rates. It is as
serted on behalf of the railroads that
if shippers keep on publishing such
criticism of existent rates it will in
jure trade. Busire ss men will not I'M
dertake to invest their money in towns
or cities where they cannot get fair
rate sof transportation.
This is equivalent to a declaration
that the exposure of injustice will have
no corrective influence in bringing
about amendment We cannot believe
that this Washington announcement
is made upon the authority of any
prominent man among the captains
of industry in control of the great
lines of railroad. Publicity is the open
doorway to remedy. All communities
are entitled to fair play at the hands
of public service corporations. Where
fair treatment cannot be otherwise
obtained there is no longer lack of
the means of securing it.-Philadel-
phia Record.