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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
TYPHOID FEVER.

That the people generally through
out the entire nation have become
awakened to the necessity of stamp
ing out tuberculosis and that success is
already on the way of achievement in
the gigantic struggle against this
dread disease are matters for congrat-
ulations on all sides. It shows what
can be doEe when the people are thor
oughly aroused to something that will
be of great advantage to them. But
it would appear that this consump-
ton campaign has rather blinded the
eyes of folks to other diseases which
have terrific death dealing propensities
and which, on the other hand, can be
combated with just as much success
as consumption.
Typhoid fever is one of them. The
annual death toll levied by this dis
ease in the United States is enormous.
And this disease can be fought to
finish if there is a disposition to do
so. These things were pointed out re-
Gently at the annual meeting of the
Association of Life Insurance Presi-
dents, which was held at Washington.
DR.. NJ. ]. Rosenau was the man who
called attention to them. He recently
lSlI Tic SONSA SOAN4SO
to organize the department of proven
tive medicine and hygiene at Harvard
university. He characterized the
amount of typhoid fever in this coun-
try as a national disgrace.
There is more typhoid fever in this
country than in any other civilized
land" said DR.. Rosenau. 1.-The annual
toll is $4,000 deaths and over 365. 1000
cases. This is national disgrace, and
is due entirely to lack of education on
the subject. We probably know more
about typhoid and its methods OF
spread and the means for it's control
than we do of any other disease. Yet
right here in our capital city there is
an excessive amount of typhoid and
this sad story finds repetition in al
our large cities. If the public were
taught to fear typhoid as it does a case
of cholera. there would soon be an
end to it,
Such course of instruction should
be started. Typhoid is disease whose
ravages can be reduced to minimum
by preventive measures. The people
should be schooled in them by the
health authorities of every community
Most of the typhoid is spread around
by polluted water. such water. for in
stance, as the people of Topeka have
had served for their consumption dur
! ing the past two or three weeks. There
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. I

[F'rom the Chicago News.1
Men often make bad breaks lust he
fore they go broke.
And If worm does turn, what does
it benefit him?
Don't be too anxious to grasp an on
portunity that is sizzling hot.
A woman would cry more if it didn't
give her nose vermilion hue.
A practical joke is never FUNNY when
It's on the first person singular
But the things you try to keen dark
Will come to light sooner or later.
We all have a soft spot in our heads
at o1rth-and some Of us never lose it.
The attention of those we dislike ia
friends. Jul
A sensible man doesn't care If he ISM
good looking; he knows that there ara
others. "a
If the family Thermometer is not IN
10 date we will have to blame the low
temperature.
Some men ruin a business along tho
lines of the man who used a cannon foT
shooting mice. IA
An old bachelor says that the vocal-
izing at wedding is even more de-
pressing than the singing at a funeral.
You'll never be able to realize that
the other fellow amounts to more thar
you do until you can look at voures1f
from his point Of view
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
AYHAWKER JOTS

The sports at La Cygne, notes the
Emporia Gazette, are having exciting
| times nowadays. A merchant of the
town has placed lighted candle i'll
his store window, and each sport may
guess how long it will BURN. The
winner of the cont st will get hand
some Sc: of hari-painted false teeth.
THE country printer has long
| since ceased to be an oil 5ect of char
ity, but is new business man. Mer
chants s3rmerly advertised Just 10
keep a paper e':ve, and the subscrib-
ers took The paper just to help the
EDITOR aIs ag- and often owed as
much as five yaers back IN subseTip
ton. ah business man s,'sw adver-
tiSeS because he gets results and it
lays him, tie subscriber takes the
l. Aper foT the news and .r9 opinions
it contains.-Western Publisher.
A farmer, not the Kansas kind, went
to the circus with his family. In look
ing over the menagerie the farmer came
to a dromedary, whose uglineSS fascl-
mated him. He sized up the beast from
his miS-Shapen head, his thick neck and
his hump to his slim tail, his crooked
legs and his sprawling feet. The rest
Of the family was ready to move on
but the farmer fingered, unable to take
his eyes from the dromedary. One of
the girls called to him: PA, come on,
were ready to go now You have look
ed at that thing long enough" Still, pa
didn't bulge. linen the boy shouted.
Come on Pop. 1 can see the horses
foot through that door Well miss
part of the show Finally, ma tried
her voice on him. The old man gave
one last, regretful look, and moving on
with his eyes still on the dromedary. he
said, "Oh HI. there amt no such
thing!'
A few newspaper editors in Kan
sas might profit If they would pay at
tention to some remarks from the
Emporia Gazette as follows: "A little
weekly paper that comes to this Of
flee contains, in it's last number, a
severe arraignment of the local mer-
chants because they do little advertis-
ing in it's pages. The few advertise
ments that do appear therein are so
butchered that it is almost impossible
to read them. They evidently were
set by the Village Blacksmith. The
editorial rebuking the merchants is
simply atrocious in its mangling of
grammar and sense. The entire pa
per is a disgrace to, the town it is
printed in and to the whole newspap-
er business. Merchants who pay their
good money for advertisements have
a right to expect good service, and
when they don't get it they are justi-
fed in refusing to spend money with
the newspapers. A sloppy, disreput-
able looking advertisement is worse
than no advertisement at ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
r way home from your

professor, on our way home from your
lecture"
Each time the professor came Mar
ian went, ostensibly to please her
mother. Each time Professor Craig
walked home with her. but Aieda al
ways accompanied them, talking on
topics of which Marian knew nothing
Then came the last lecture OF the
less attention, a strange. lonesome
feeling possessing her.
s.Aleda and Professor Craig have
grown to be such friends" she over
heard Mrs. Gregg say to her mother
Its too bad you insisted on his going
to your house for If he had stayed
with me they would have had more
time to enjoy each others company.
'Horrid old cat!'' thought Marian.
I'm really sorry for namsie-'
Miss Marian!'' Professor Craig hur-
ried up to her. Don't wait for the
others tonight. The Research club is
holding a business meeting now ana
we're not members, you know.
But Aledd will want to ask you
some more questions"
The professor muttered something
beneath his breath ''Never mind
of GHssE ar ns 0efgsa sahnE R'o
Once outside they walked along in
silence. Marian bewildered at the I'M
expected situation. If only she knew
a little about ethnology-just enough
At last, to her relief, the professor
broke the silence. "Marian! She
started at the word as well as the
strange note in his voice. ct had to
see you alone tonight and tell you that
love you. I must, know before I go
away whether L stand a ghost of a
chance to VIII. YOU
why, Professor Craigi'' stammered
Marian, 'do-do you really mean it
I-I-dont know a blooming thing
about ethnology, you knowi''
I'm glad of it, laughed the pro-
fessor. I've gone in for the heavy
intellectual all my life, and 1 want
you to do the athletic so the Craig
family won't get lop-sided. 1 promise
I'll never even ask you to listen to
one of my Spells that you don't care
a picayune about"
Marian bldshed furiously in the
darkness. A little later she asked:
when did you begin, John. TOTO
care for me p"
1.-THE first time I saw you," answered
the professor. promptly.
Marian gave delighted little
laugh. please tell mamsie that and
do it when I'm there. It'll be worth
millions to see her facei"-(Copyright
1910. by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
QUAKER INDICATIONS
from the Philadelphia Record. !

lFrom the Philadelphia Record. I
The average man lodges his noor
relations just as his rich ones dodsa
If love is blind it's no vvonder 40
many people make spectacles of tbars So
selves. " 'neHi-
Just because she is Eighty it doesn.t
er-brained. - heatn-
The office that seeks the man nav.r
seems to have the drawing qualities Of
The dyspeptic's motto is eat dr,rl
ana De merry, for tomorrow Won nav
Any schoolboy who hates aritbrs,,s
VIII tell you that fractions speal- Io,,5o
er than words. -o1u-
Wouldn't it be fine if spontanao,,.
combustion could only be ntiIizad -,
start the furnace fire?
Some people take such a deIiett 8,
airing their knowledge thai IT see1,,s !.
pity they have SO little OF it. =
The foreign nobleman. anxio,s =,
marry an American heiress ,,,ae, -
SAID to be falling in love- wbe3 ~ -
drops his price. "sn ne
Hoax-'Blobbs and Slobbs win e1,,+
oVsr any Old thing. They had q. scra,s
to9ay ABOUT an old overshoe.' >, ros-p
wen. Who won the rubber? ''
Know myself quoted the W.T.
Guy. Exactly agreed the s, WISE
mug, and the average ei,.I kns,,,l ipie
nersel1 SO Well. can't understands III, .t.s
svery man she meets doesn't want -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
HUNOR OF THE DAY

why is, it that novels are so much
more popular with the women than with
the men?" I'm a novel the fellow in
yar1ably asks the girl to be his wife,
Chicago Record-Herald
with gray hair Most of the married
men will be SAFE How sop 1.-The ma
Jorlty of them are bald. Houston Post.
sets rattle around in his liabilities like a
pea in a coal bucket."-St Louis Post
Dispatch
Hank Stubbs-They say Jed Martins
closed up his Well 'cuz he's afeared O.
goin' to let well enough alone'' ez long
ez his cider hoPs out.-Boston Herald
That speaker tries to be accurate
YES LES. answered Senator Sorghum. He
really over-exertS himself. After saving
tnere Is little more to be said on this sub
Ject he will talk for an hour to prove if,
Washington Star.
Post-Fm trying to get a first-class
you lind good one. Post-No. All the
tine ones have made so much money that
they now own and operate their own ma
ch1nes.-Sunday Magazine
I'VE got our cook and our housemaid
70 take opposite sides on this polar ques-
ton" And that means?'' THAT they'll
both stay with us until it is settled -
Pittsburg Post.
Tom-So little Amy is married. Did she
make a good match? Gladys-Exceilent!
Heaps or money, good social position
country house, yacht and all that In fact
the only drawback is the man.-Illustrated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02

than the one put out by President Wa
tiers of the State Agricultural college
for the establishing of public slaughter
houses in cities to which any farmer
or meat dealer might take his drove of
stock and have them killed in a proper
manner. at q fixed and reasonable scale
of prices. AS DR.. Weaver says this
would cut down much of the expense
of long transportation of live animals
and of meat and in this way material
ly reduce the expense of getting the
carcas ready for the retail meat stall.
But if such plan should be under
taken the courts might knock it out
on the ground of it's being unconstitu
tional for some reason or other. That's
what they die when Kansas wanted to
go into the oil refining business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press1

[From the New York Press
Give a man an inch of rope and
he'll take an ell to hang himself.
The poorest sort of husband looks
better to an old maid than none at
all.
Anyhow, if women didn't have to
stand husbands it would be something
worse.
The clearer ideas of religion a man
can get out of the Bible the more he
can muddle them listening to SER
mons.
1t takes good deal of the edge off
an engagement for a girl when there
isn't anybody left to whom she can
tell it's a secret.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
KANSAS FOR TAFT.

Henry J. Allen, editor of the Wich-
| tia Beacon, appears to be the original.
as we'll as the only anti-Taft man in
the Republican ranks in Kansas. Some
months ago Mr.. Allen gave voice to his
sentiments on this subject. He said
that Kansas was against Taft first, last
and all the time. He was so effectively
answered by Earious of his friends at
home here who took a directly oppo-
site view of the situation. that it was
supposed he would not pose again as
the mouthpiece of the Republicans of
Kansas in this particular. Indeed, in
the explanation he made concerning
his first expression of opinion on this
subject he intimated that he had talk
ed a little too much. 1t now seems,
however, that his views in these prem
ises have not changed the slightest. He
was in New York the other day and
had occasion to make a speech at a
reunion of Kansans there. His speech
was labeled as a Message from the
home folks out in Kansas" The
greater part of this message was to the
effect that the Republicans of Kansas
were against Taft to a man and that
the distinguished president of the
United States couldn't carry the
smallest village in the state if he were
running for office tomorrow. He in
sisted that President Taft was without
policies which were agreeable to Kan
sas and also that he was without prin-
ciples.
Now just how near is Mr.. Allen to
the facts in this respect as they exist
Almost at the same time that he was
delivering his personal ideas in New
York-for they are far from rejecting
the real feelings of the Republicans
of Kansas toward Mr.. Taft-the Re
publicans of he state, or their repre-
sentatives, were holding something of
a '1ove feast in the capital city of
the state. 1t developed into fine old
fracas in which hard names were
called and as a result of which the
chasm between the Republican fac
tions in the state was widened to a
considerable extent. But there wasn't
a dissenting voice from insurgents"
or Square Dealers as they call them
selves in Kansas, or anyone else over
the adoption of a resolution endorsing
the administration of President Taft
in no uncertain terms. The square
Dealers even voted for this resolution
as a unit after they had lost their
fight to have it amended so that it
would also endorse the administration
of their chief yeoman, Governor
Stubs. Their defeat in that fight was
bitter pill for them to swallow but
even that did not prevent them from
according Mr.. Taft an endorsement
that was due him.
This ought to be an effective answer
to the contentious of Mr.. Allen. In
this particular it matters not who came
out on top in the struggle for the con-
troll of the Kansas Day club. Every
shade of Kansas Republicanism that
was represented there, and it is not
believed that any of them were not
represented, were to man for Taft
and the methods he is using in the adj
ministration of the federal affairs of
the nation. Mr.. Allen will have to
again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
HAVE you a woR.K JAG2

Is your Ego tired trying. trying hard te
be man?
Are your scattered wits all flying on no
sort of normal plan?
Is your consciousness unsteady, your
mentality askew,
And your soul a little heady with the
stunts it's going through?
If your Entity is dippy, soused with
greed, or jagged with woe
Cosmic ballast somewhat tippy with q
starboard list or So
If your Self your unit oneness, Is un-
stable as to legs,
Take my dope with eager soon-ness and
twill put you on your pegs.
Silence-in the forest timber-silence in
some lonely shack;
silence-where a man can timber all his
muscles at q crack.
Silence-ninety miles from nowhere
ninety more from work and home
Anywhere you please, but go herewith
your toothbrush and your comb.
Egoes need the sky above them; Entities
have use for air;
Bricks and mortar only shove them Into
horror and despair.
If you're drunk with work and worry'
why not drop the fatal cup
Leave the citys noise and flurry-walk
the plains and sober up?
New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Better late than never doesn't worE
out very well at times.
= X \
Egg-stains on a shirt-front nowadays
are also evidences of wealth
x x
Some people never smile except when
they have their photographs taken.
X - 4
A few more seasons will have to be
injected into the year to keep pace with
the changes in women's fashions.
= \ y
Not many men object to being bald
headed because some one has an
nounced that such a condition is in
dicative of superlative brains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
FRON OTHER PENS

FEW COLLEGE GIRLS AS BRIDES.
Less than "a per cent of the alumnae
of Smith college have married, accord
ing to the last quarterly bulletin of the
Smith College Alumnae association.
These records are the nearest correct of
any that can be obtained and their ac-
| curacy is not questioned by the college
authorities.
These figures confirm the deductions
made some years since by DIR. G. STAN
ley Hall, president of Clark university,
| psychologist and pedagogue. With the
aid of his assistant, DR.. Theodate A.
Smith, herself a Smith graduate, DR.
Hall compiled statistics showing that
college graduates. both men and wo-
men, are annually showing less inclina-
ton toward matrimony, while those
who do marry are failing to raise fam
lilies.
These considerations have led DR..
Hall to severe arraignment of the
results OF higher education for women,
his contention being that there is seri-
| Gus need of reform in any system of
training which units women for the
| great vocations of homemaker and
mother or makes them Indifferent TO
those states as the aim and mission OF
woman.-Washington Herald.
A BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.
Chicago is introducing a new admin
| istrative feature, which, If it can be
AAA1NNC " WOIk successfully may Wen
| be adopted not only by other cities,
but by state and national governments.
1t takes the form of bureau of eff
cheney" Its duty will be to devise
| records for each Office as to industry,
| sobriety, punctuality ard performance
| of duty. A standard of so will be
| fixed as the average, and the bureau is
| to investigate all cases in which en-
ployes fall below the standard, and is
also to report on cases of special ex-
cellence of record.
If this can be made to work so as to
exclude all opportunity for favoritism
and preference in the record, it will
afford the best method of eliminating
political influences in the public SER
| vice. The only reasonable question
concerning it is whether system can
be perfected which will prevent the
favoritism of giving good marks to
those whom political influence may
desire to advance, ana poorer marks
| to those who are not in the political
favor. If that practical part of the
problem can be solved. it is the OBJ
vious complement of civil service re-
form in securing promotion accord
Ing to merit.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02

is only one way for such water to be
rendered harmless. That is by not
drinking any of it until after it has
been boiled. Boiled water is not very
palatable, but it will quench the thirst
and it is the only safe way to use such
water as the 1ong-suffering people of
this city have had thrust upon them.
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Taft and the West.

Some things are going to happen
to President Taft out in the western
country that are not exactly on the
'insurgent' program" said Capt. Seth
Bullock of Deadwood, s. D.. when he
was asked about the political situation
today. Readers of the Herald know
Capt. Bullock so well that 1t is scarce
ly necessary to describe him as the
first sheriff of Deadwood. chief of the
Pinchot Black Hills Forest Rangers
and now United States marshal for
South Dakota.
I'm Iowa. continued Capt. Bullock,
Somebody's scales have been tam
pered with. and think they belong
to Senator Cummins. When the time
comes to put the fatiron on things in
be found that the Republican party is
in no mood to follow Senator Cum
Minis in revising and tearing up the
tariff again. Iowa will be for Taft. l
know my state will be all right. and
before long a backfire will be started
for the men who see nothing in the
situation but what DR.. Albert Shaw
would call q recrudescence of the
democracy, and it will make the near
Pops out there jump like jack rab-
bits.
Alexander Mckenzie is here from
North Dakota. and he tells me the
same thing about his state. He and I
agree that there are perhaps more
men who believe In the Repubncan
party than in the insurgents in Min
nesota. Oh. yes. the icicles are 60
ing to drop from the caves on some
body out that way-and they won't
touch Mr.. Taft.
"Oh, you want to know something
about Wisconsin, do you? Take it from
me that LaFollette is unhappy this
minute. The cold has got into the
soles of the boots of some independent
Republicans who have been romano
ing around throwing the harpoon into
Mr.. Taft. Pretty soon the air will be
full of Senator LaFollete. 1t all
amounts to this: The Republican party
is going to take control of itself out
in that country"
what do you think of President
Taft as Politician" Capt. Bullock
was asked
HE is all right. but 1 wish he had
been a county judge before he was a
federal judge. The trouble we find
with him is that he is a little slow to
move If we could feed him oftener
an antelope steak am sure we would
have him going fast early in the game.
But he has started all right. and you
will see the dust in his wake before
many days now."-Washington dis
patch to the New York Herald.
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Naturally, it is gratifying that To-
peka has secured a place on the big
Kansas Oklahoma horse racing circuit.
This means the highest class of racing
at the biz fair to be held here in the
fall. But if this fair is to be what it
should the racing will be nothing
more than an attraction. The agricul-
tural and industrial features are the
ones that are going to make or break
the enterprise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02

A New York legal light has come to
the front with an explanation as to
why widows, both the graveyard and
the courthouse type. are in such de-
mand. He opines that a woman who
marries for n second time is more apt
TO make a happy home because she is
more settled, more domesticated
more prudent. She has profited by
her mistakes" But few of them will
admit that the mistakes" made were
theirs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02

A Pennsylvania inventor started his
aeroplane the other day for the first
time and it went up in smoke. That
is even considerably better than has
been accomplished by the famous
Kansas airship built by Mr.. Call Of
Girard. OF the latter machine. how
ever, it must be said that it lived up
to its reputation during the recent avi-
ton meet at Los Angeles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02

Ever since Mr.. Roosevelt has been in
Africa the newspapers throughout the
world have been stating that the ma
tives there referred to him as Bwana
Jumbo. which has been translated as
meaning big chief" This appears to
be a mistake. In Mr.. Roosevelt's last
installment of his story of African jour-
ney which appeared in the February
Scribners, Mr.. Roosevelt refers to the
natives as speaking of him as Yambo
Bwana. Will somebody please come
across with a translation of Yambo?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02

All possible encouragement should be
given to the movement which had been
started by the people on the East side
for the establishment Of public park.
which shall also contain a playground
for the children. in the Second ward.
1t is such institutions as these that
make a city a better place to live in.
And there cannot be too many of them.