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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
THE BAFFLED MUSE.

I've written sonnets by the yard,
Mid villanelIes and vfrelays.
When was but Hedging bard,
l passed my bIissful salad days.
I've also penued the verse that pays
When / was only in my teens.
But ne,er for me the poets bays
cannot reach the magazines.
Lonely, along my path i'll starred.
tread the dusk Pa<nesSian ways,
Only to find each gateway barred
Against my sheaf of roundelays.
Hopes that did once In glory blaze
Are shattered nov to srnfthereenss
Fame warns nlenot with cheering rays
] cannot reach the magazines.
My soulful verses, battle SCARED.
Return to meet my wistfuI gaze,
read the cold, ironic card.
And skies are streaked with dismal
grayS
Once, looking through the golden haze,
I dreamed of long, luxuriant greens.
Alas! there's naug9lt my hopes to raise
I cannot reach the magazines.
Sage who with lofty brows assays
The product of our verse machines,
Tell me why with my waits ana strayS
cannot reach the magazines? !.
Eugene Geary. in the New York sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[F'rom the Philadelphia Record.

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record.J
What many a young doctor doesn't
know about medicine would I'LL
inergue.
The courage that can only be screw
ed up with a corAscrew suffers quick
relapse.
The fellow who tries to swear off
generally discovers that the spirits are
willing, but the flesh is weak.
mo is about as small and simple
a word as we have. and yet some fel-
lows can never learn to say 1t.
A little misdirected enthusiasm is bet
ter than a life membership in the An
cient Order of the Wet Blanket.
Hoax&"Pocr old D'Auber has been
evicted from his studio. 1t was really
pathetic" Joax-"A moving picture
show, eh?"
+ Sillicus-sTt doesn't cost much to get
married. There's only the license, and
the preacher to pay" Cynicus-"You
seem TO forget that very often there's
the devil to pay"
Blobbs-"That Indiana Judge who
granted divorce for six months is es-
Publishing a bad precedent" Slobbs--
"Oh, I don't know. A fellow ought to
nave whols lot of fun in six months"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

there that day at which all the stern.
strong. determined women were pres
ent to discuss matters They did more.
Mrs. Glenn announced that as soon
as the sex got the ballot she prouoze3
to run for mayor of the town.
Mrs. Dashford would not etop there.
She wanted to be governor, and she
Ielt sure her popularity would carry
her there.
Mrs. Ravens expected to be min
ister to st. James, and she lost her
temper when some one doubted thar
she was diplomat. When it came ia
the presidency there were a dozen
claimants, and after hearing them tell
OF each other unfitness for the no.
sieion' Miss Pauly made a sneak FOR
nome It was exactly one minute to
o clock when she stood in the door
OF Toe sitting room and announced:
.nIamma, I'm no suffragette!''
mo 2 was the careless reply.
1t was just two minutes after +
when the girl got the central over
the Wire and telephoned to Mr.. Tai
your" '..e 'ia''er Win
ooh, i've been busy,
well. come I'D here this evanir.
or that marriage will never come offi
I've changed my mind, and am now
in favor of tyrant mani'-(Copyrirht
1910 by Associated Literary Press.9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.
I From the Atchison Globe

From the Atch1SOn GlObe.I
Too many men try to make porous
plaster take the place of fresh air and
exercise.
No man IS ever as important as the
average politician acts when he goes
to Topeka
Don't become too hard to please;
the dramatic critic never enjoys the
show muchs
If you are interested in a subject,
you are probably prejudiced: you
can't get away from human nature
entirely.
woman's idea of an ideal hour is
that which her husband spends listen
ing to her reading letters from her
kin.
When boy with a telegram calls at
all sides of her suddenly discover that
they are out of sugar, salt or eggs,
and run over to borrow.
A sickness, which attacked Daysey
Mayme last week, is said by her physi-
clan to be hlufitis. Muffitis is ex-
haustiou of the muscles in the arms
and shoulders, due to carrying very
heavy muff. 1t is claimed by the fam
lily that she has the only case in the
town.
If a woman hasn't any valuable
heirlooms, she mist prove that she
once had a fire, or she is lost. Mrs.
L.ysander John Appleton hasn't any
valuable heirlooms, but she says that
a fire which once destroyed her faith
er's palatial home destroyed old quilts,
old silverware, ETC., which had been in
which were invaluable" Eve hadn t
any brass candlesticks," said Mrs. Ly-
sander John Appleton: "our family
has always used electric lights
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It is sometimes impossible to take a
precautionary look before leaping.
X y
Keen rivalry is a good thing because
it is a stimulator to better efforts.
y X X
That Representing theory is a fine
one, but it's difficult to put into prac-
tice.
r. x y
Civilization is also responsible for a
few things which are mighty peculiar.
X X X
The gambling instinct is inherent
with most humans but many of them
lack the nerve to be losers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
REFLECTION OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York P

From the New York Press.j
Nobody ever knew enough 70 reaiize
fully how little it was.
TT doesn't worry a man so much to
be wrong unless he has to admit II
When a mans a good example it's .
sign he doesn't get any fun out OF IL.
A girl is very discreet not TO let 4
man kiss her when she knows mes
going to do it anyhow
The more man brags publicly
about how much the children are nke
him the more he worries about II u
secret
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IRON the Chicago News,

from the Chicago NeWs.I
, If you could only use an ink eraser
or that old leafi
Considering his age. Father Time Is
feeling quite frislxy. thank YOU
Bill collectors refuse to abandon the
ancient habit of making new year CANS.
Don't think because life is short tnat
your good resolutions will outEVe you
. Here's hoping that a year hence the
new leaf won't be blotted as oaoiy as
the old one.
Honest, now, what did you do with
that 90 mt box of cigars your Wiie
gave you a few days ago?
A girls idea of a good HUSBAND Is
a. man who spends so much time max
ing love to his wife that he hasn't uine
to earn q living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

of their earnings annually to Euro
pean countries where their relatives
and friends take care of it for them
in the savings banks backed by Euro
pean governments. Most of this huge
sum would be kept at home here II
there were postal savings banks, and
that's a stake worth playing for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

AS Tar as the conditions regarding
the natural gas supply in Topeka and
other nearby cities re concerned, the
report Of the Montgomery county gas
inspector that the natural gas fields
are just bubhl1ng over with an eaor-
nous volume of gas, is reminiscent OF
those lines from Coleridge's Ancient
Mariner: water. water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

Things now look as though the
Roosevelt hunting expedition was go
ing to come out of Africa and leave
behind a few lions and elephants
who have been derelict to their full
duty as Wall street saw it at the time
the hunt was being organized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

Reconsideration here besaine aeains
Aren't you the man I gave one Of my pies
never felt better in me iife.--Washington
Herald. SA
81 give you my word the next person
who interrupts the proceedings" said the
Judge sternly will be expelled from the
dered.-Judge. lo"
How fast do you run your autoq".
Eight miles an hour: She'll go faster,
put am no speed fierd." How long
ington Herald.
He is a modern samson" what,
That little. bandy.legged freak7' yep"
You'll have to show me-" 'sWait until
he removes his hat What win that
prove?" THAT his wife cuts his hair
rs he what you would call a first-class
the A SCARE say Was 49, at n its
70 Publish i it did come OF. G the Other Il
His Fiancee-And. you know. Tom jump
ed in after me and rescued me from the
waves at the risk of his own lifel Bella
Do you know, If 1 were in your place,
from sheer gratitude would not-inarry
Knicker-what is football? Bocker-A
piece OF leather entirely surrounded by
twenty-five men.-Judge.
The editor of the magazine was some
what dubious. Curious" said he, that
in print before IT has been nef i9 p nsgn
before explained the space writer, " but
not attached to Napoleon. "-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
comfort Osth s. there e are ere too many young men
ali Of ;em exceptin' Nike e He wants "a s me
to marry. i'm, an think will. Afther
er I"-chicag;o tribune IN nee0'H sn''"-
why doesn't that lazy boy come to
breakfast? He just called down that
oat nk et s1 get W put the sS ts him,
there'n be q hookworm expert upstairs
ssVe a csveisnd f Pain
Dealer.
Martin-Why were you in such hurry
to speak to that man you met across the
my tailor, and if hadn't gotten in the
by telling what a botch he had made of
my suit he would have struck me for a
payment.-Chicago News.
State Investigator-They say there has
been gross nlismanagement here. Office
Boyalts q lie, Just walt TN the IS, superin-
ager comes back from his two-month fish
ing. trip; they'll tell you whether this
asylum's being run right or not-Puck-
Diner Ito his neighbor after having
three helpings of fish and meat)-Tve got
it very well. then.-Fliegende Blaetter.
What do you think of man with rip
vest?" HE should either get married or
divorced Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

DR.. Cooks sister says that he is a
nervous wreck. There is no good
reason why this should not be consid-
cred authentic information. If he
isn't in that condition he is even a
more remarkable man than he has
been given credit for being.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

Reports have lit that Joe Zelaya's
stay IN Mexico is to be brief and that
he viii soon go to Europe. Perhaps
when he gets there he VIII join forces
with Clip Castro and their brother In
distress, one Reyes. They ought to
recoup their fortunes materially by
making a circuit of the European
concert halls and penny museums as
The Great South American Trio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

What has become of the great army
of the unemployed in this country
which attracted considerable attention
in the newspapers not SO many months
ago? The director of the census and
his supervisors are having all kinds
of trouble to get persons to even ap-
ply for the jobs of census enumera-
for~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
John MAYNARD Harlan,

lawyer, is altogether too modest. He
wants a fec of only $272,000 for
Strengthening out the tangled affairs Of
the Chicago Union Traction company.
He ought to have asked for the entire
property Of this concern.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

In his message to the New York
legislature which convened the other
day Governor Hughes did not forget
to urge the adoption of resolutions
authorizing the amendment Of the fed
eral constitution so that congress can
levy a direct income tax. It would be
well for the governors of other states
70 keep this important matter in mind
when they get legislatures on their
hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

Dispatches from Nicaragua state
that the rebel army is on the march
again. The fact that this engine OF
war is getting to- no particular place
would indicate that it's generals are
following the precedent established by
that famous king OF France who
marched his men I'D hill and march
ed them down again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
thoughtful of

that B. & o. passenger train to col
Tide with a freight train at a mouth
of tunnel near West Alexander. Pa.
Just suppose the collision had been de-
layed until the trains met head on in
the middle of the tunnel. .y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
FROM OTHER PENS
RAILROAD wRECKs.


The frequency of railroad wrecks
nowadays would seem to indicate
that some of the companies which
have been making special efforts to
prevent loss of life have relaxed their
vigilance.
No doubt there are manv unavoid-
able railway accidents. The operation
of trains is a hazardous business at
best and there are Sinnumerable and
sometimes JnexDlicable sources of
casualty. At the same time it is I'M
deniably true that large proportion
of these accidents are due to careless
ness on the part of railway employees.
Newspaper reports of wrecks too Of
ten record the fact that the wreck
was caused by "a mistake in orders -
Not infreuuently it is case of the
deliberate violation of orders.
There is room for suspicion that all
roads do not deal as sternly with in
fractions of discipline as they should;
that some Of them arc disposed
to overlook departures from orders
where trains are brought in on time
and that Investigations of accidents
are not always SO thorough as to pun
ish the guilty and promote public
welfare. The adoption of safety de-
vices and improved methods of train
dispatching have done much to less
en- the chances of accidents. The bet
terment of tracks and the improve
ment of rolling stock are beneficial
factors to that end. though offset in
some degree by the constant tendency
to cut time schedules.-Louisville
Courier Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganIzatiOn for the exclusive afternoon
puhlicat ion in Topeka.
The news is received In The state Jour-
nal building over wires for thts sole pu~
posP
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

Evidently China proposes to get into
the great universal peace movement.
A commission of her naval experts is
making a tour of the world to get a
few pointers on the best way to estab-
lish an up-tO-date navy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

White rhinos are pretty scarce in
Africa but they'll be scarcer all right
Colonel Roosevelt has set out after a
collection of them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

A few figures in the annual report
OF Mr.. Chance, auditor of the post
office department, are significant of the
need Of postal savings banks in this
country. Foreign workmen employed
A. che United States send $4,000, 600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

Conditions are improving in Servia.
The present king is asked to abdicate.
His predecessor was merely stabbed
out of the way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

These blizzards of snow that have
been prevalent throughout the country
of late are said to be the most enjoy
able kind of weather for the musk OK
But" as the New York Tribune in
uuires, who wants to be a musk ox?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

Hugh L. Farrelly, one of the high
moguls of Democracy in Kansas, is
certain of Democratic success at the
polls in this state next year.. You'll
certainly have to give it to the Demo-
Gratis for being optimists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
KANSAS CONAENT
THE CROoK,s CHANCr.s

THE CROOKS CHANCES.
A noted crook and swindler lately
surrendered himself, saying that the
game was a losing one.
E. He is only one of many who have
found it OUT one of several who have
found it out without the assistance of
the authorities. The crook never at
tai1S permanent success. Whether he
follow the methods of the bold bur-
glar or highwayman. or the clever
machfnations of the swindler and con-
ddence man. sooner or later the grief
which is failure or worse. overtakes
wide and rambling, and includes many
extremes in crime and trickery, but
all lead ultimately to the end they
deserve, and that end is never desir
able tof the ones concerned.
In days news you can find the ex-
tremes, and some that fall between.
The reckless men attempt to rob an
Oklahoma bank ain approved Dalton
style, and are killed or severely
wounded. Mr. Morse. a substantial
business man, is hurried to prison be-
cause he used crooked methods in his
banking business. Surely the crooks
find the end of the road they travel in
time.
And those decent people who OBJ
serve the laws should understand bet
imagine you could increase your
chances of success by STOPPING to dis
honest and disreputabIe means. You
would only make failure certain. This
may be wicked world, but it is get
ting better every year. Honesty, in
dustry, politeness and other simple
virtues count for more now than in
the days when the force of arms was
the principal law. The chances of the
crook become fewer; the chances of
the average man to enjoy his rightful
measure of success, peace and happi-
ness were never SO good.-Atchison
Globe.
ISHMENT.
After all. the adjustment of capital
punishment has its advantages. There
is the case in West Virginia which
has just been called to notice this
week. Six years ago a wealthy con-
tractor was bruta1ly murdered. One
man was hanged for the crime. An
other is serving a twenty-five-year
sentence in the penitentiary for the
part he was supposed to have taken
in 1t. Now q convict in another prison
confesses that he committed the muir
der and neither of the two men who
were punished had any part in it. It
is safe to say that there is lots of
remorse stalking among the officials in
West Virginia who participated in the
conviction Of the innocent men, even
though they are absolutely blame1ess
of any intentional wrong. The pris-
oner. can be released, and, in spite of
the injustice done him, he still has life
and a chance at happiness. But to the
other no reparation can be made
Hutchinson Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

A vote of the people of the whole
country would open the eyes of the
men who are trying to exclude the
statue of Robert E. Lee from the
Hall of Fame. thinks the Chicago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
Warns Canadians.

With the executive council deliberat-
ing on the naval defense policy pre-
paratory to placing the government
policy before parliament that question
is assuming primary Importance. Mr..
Goodwin Smith, Canada's foremost pub
icist. in a dispatch from Toronto. is
quoted as saying:
ut Will evidently be necessary to de-
termine very clearly with whom is to
rest declarations of war. and to be as
sured OF the concurrence of the French,
Irish, and American. as well as Eng
lish Canadians. Are not those who
pledge Canadians to fight heartily on
the side of England rather forgetting
that the name includes large Clements
which are not English. and on whose
jealous participation the same conf
dence could not be placed? breach
or even hesitation would be disastrous.
Altogether the relations between an
imperial country and a dependency
claiming in effect national status and
privilege are a. difficult subject and
one with which before long our states
men will be called to deaL-Ottawa dis
patch to New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
BORROWED SPORTS.


1t is no uncommon thing for business,
educational or other methods and GUS
toms which have proved eminently
successful in one country to be adopted
in another country. Any new scientific
discovery, wherever and by whomso-
ever made, is contribution to the
knowledge and advantage of all nations.
The application which each country
makes of this knowledge is sure to be
noted by other countries, and, if SUI
perior to their own application. adopt
ed by them. 1t is by this interchange
it's present stage OF advancement, and
by similar exchange it will continue to
progress
So it is in sports. Most of those
which we enjoy in the United States
are importations. in Identical or podl-
fed forms, of sports which other coun-
tries have enjoyed before us. The
American game of football is commonly
acknowledged to be an offshoot of the
English game of Rugby. Golf is es-
sentially Scotch. and SO on. In turn
the American game of baseball is play
ed with enthusiasm in Japan. and in
ether parts of the world Now come
the American consuls in England, Scot
land and Ireland with report that
roller skating which had heretofore
been regarded as a distinctively Ameri-
can diversion. has become tremendous
ly popular in those Islands and that
huge Kinks are sprfnging up at every
convenien. Observation-Disclosures Union.
OUR HERO MEMORIALS.
Secretary Dickinson's~ plea for ma
tional memorials at San Juan and
other battlefields of Cuba because of
the individual and united valor shown
by our commanders and our troops at
those landmarks of signal victories. is
well enough in its way, for tablets at
sacred spots where men have laid
down their lives in a human cause
serve to remind the thoughtless of
deeds worthy of emulation.
But one can not but reflect that in
a larger sense we have reared up a
memorial that all the world may read
as it runs. in the reconstructed Cuba
whose sufferings enlisted our forces in
the most unselfish war the world has
ever witnessed.
Inscriptions of metal may be neces-
sary to mark the spots of special valor
for the guidance of future genera
TONS but the visible and glorious
monument is already reared to our
heroes in the happiness an6 prosper
ity of the islanders whom we liber-
ated from oppression by the very
heroism now detailed by offcialdom
for congress to ecegnize.-Omaha
/ Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
A Great Relief

1.-The wolves were upon u.s." he re-
lated to the girl he was trying to i'm
press. Their bowling penetrated to
our very marrow. We fled for our
lives. But each second we knew that
the ravenous pack were gaining on us.
Closer. closer-at last they were so
close that we could feel their muzzles
against our legs, SO that
"Ah.'' sighed the lady. greatly re-
lieved. How glad you must have
been that they had their muzzles on
Everybody Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

His Fiancee-And, you know, Tom jump
ed in after me and rescued me from the
waves at the risk of his own life! Bella
DO you know. If l were in your place.
from sheer gratitude would not-inarry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

.Knicker-What is a football? Bocker-A
piece OF leather entirely surrounded by
twenty-five meI.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

us he what you would call a first-class
newspaper man?' IT should say So When
the 'end-of-the-world' scare was at its
height he had two editorials written-one
it didn't. PUCK
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
HUN0R OF THE DAY

Housekeeper-You here begging aeainq
Aren't you the man gave one OF my pies
to yesterday? Tramp--I wasn't me- mi,nn
I never felt better In me ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Herald. 80
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

HE is a modern Samson sswhatl
you'll have to show me- 'sWait until
he removes his hat" What win thai
proven THAT his wife cuts his hair
Houston Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07

The editor of the magazine was some
what dubious. Curious" said he, that
this anecdote of Napoleon has never been
IN print before. 1T has beer. in print
not attached to Napoleon. "-Louisville
Courier-Journai