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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
POETRY.

Kansans have produced a lot of
poetry. Some of it is excellent. Much
is mediocre. Considerable is execrable.
and for which there can be no excuse
or reason, except ignorance. Occasion
ally some words have been penned that
have nothing of the structure of either
rhyme or verse, that are vague and
faulty in expression. But hidden away
among them are thoughts which are
worth while. They are as the yearning
Of soul to speak its thoughts without
knowing how. Perhaps, the following
which was received at this office re-
Gently, is in the latter class:
June Time.
How love to see the gentle breezes
blow
And smell the sweet perfume from oft
the roses and tulips sweet.
And hear the cooling of the dove as she
feeds her little ones sweet
And listen to the singing of the lark as
twilight dawns.
g.
oh how sweet to hear the music of the
running brook
When the sparkling water flows sweet
ly over the pebbles on its way.
And see the green fields of waving corn,
And the reapers gathering the ripened
golden grain.
And to see the bright stars twinkIing
in the blue sky above.
The world is full and over-fiowing
With happiness if you only had the
heart
To look and trust to our Heavenly
Father above.
Pretty poor poetry, this-that will be
the verdict of almost everyone who
reads it. 1t would look worse, too If
the original spellings had been copied.
Many will make fun of it but among
its severest critics will be those folk
who never get any pleasure out of the
perfume of flowers which may be
waited their way on gentle breezes;
who do not hear in the cooling of the
dove on her nest. if they hear it at all,
the tender solicitude of a mother bird
as she croons her lullaby; who would
almost laugh at the suggestion that
there can be music in the waters of a
brook as they run their pebbly course;
who see no beauty in green fields of
corn and nothing but work in the la
bors of the harvesters; who are strang-
ers to the wonders of the starlit heav-
ems; and who deride the thought that
the world is full and overlooking with
happiness, especially to those who have
an abiding love and trust in God.
Those are the thoughts, though,
which the woman who jotted down the
above words tells about in her homely
way. It's too bad that more people are
not obsessed with a few of them. A
safe bet would be that the woman who
uttered them is a loving, faithful wife
a kind and capable mother. And hats
off, we say, to their author, Mrs. Eva
| Simpson, of Natoma, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrnnn tha Atchison Globe.l

From the Atchison Glope'I
A mans idea of right is that which
affects his pocket.
my stomach is nearly as weak as
an.'-Drake Watson.
This is the season when everybody
slams the screen door.
In business politenesS is almost as
good an asset as capital
man falls in love when IL or IL
wears old, and is never out until ne
passes so.
If we were a druggist, we would
hate to be bothered by people Who want
to buy postage stamps.
Considering that every man occasion
alIy bends the Long Bow, we wonder
that liars are so unpopular.
1t doesn't usually help to tell a
grievance But so many men with
grievances don't want help; they want
to talk.
When a woman is getting ready to
go away for the summer, she's as pusv
as when she is getting ready to be
1.arried.
The weather is pretty bad some
times, but if you don't let it or other
things sour your disposition, you won't
notice it so much
The man who spends a good deal or
his time telling his friends that ne IN
tends to whip you, is pretty apt TO
talk off his fighting edge.
Ask a merchant the price OF any
thing. and he will always say 1t Is
s-unly'' three dollars, or ten cents, or
whatever the price may be-
1t is very rare to fad satisfactory
umpire A man is umpire of the game
PLAYED by his wife and children; anc
little wonder that he fails to give sat
Isl action.
In Atchison, Miss Dayse MNayne APP
pleton is known as "The Penny Prin-
cess, (Chart-she has tremendously
big notions, but no money, and not
much sense.
you know you promised to come UP
directly after dinner" man said To
IJcc Robinson recently. We'll, lied
about it," Doc replied: does that sat
isfy your
History will not disclose a single
rrominea at man who dyed his whis-
kers. eve are now looking to see if
We can f1,.d a really great man who
wore a wig).
An Atchison girl who has just &C
cepted a position downtown, in an Of
fee, runs the office as she ran neT
parlor during her society days: no
smoking, and no work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

For a couple or more months now
the people in several of the Kansas
congressional districts have been hear
ing little except the side of the insur-
gents who would like to get the nom
nations in such districts. But the
regular Republican congressman who
are seeking denominations to which
their generally excellent service en-
titles them are getting home from
Washington. They will soon take up
the active work of campaigning, and
the people in their districts will have
an opportunity to hear the other side
of the story. 1t will be worth hearing,
too, and will probably appeal to the
voters in no uncertain terms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.

CFrom the Chicago NeWs-1
killing time may mean the suicide of
success.
Optimism is sometimes due to a
shortage of experience.
The worm usually turns after it Is
too late to make a getaway.
Many man has been stung by the
political bee in his bonnet.
The man who pays as he goes sell
dom gets beyond the speed limit.
Man is tow, woman spark-and his
Satanic majesty works the bellows.
On the other hand, did you ever hear
of a man marrying woman to re-
form her?
The man who shayes himself might
be perfectly happy If he could cut his
own hair.
Manv a man would enjoy being cast
AWAY on desert island Then he
wouldn't have to call on his wife's re-
lations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
HUMOR OF THE Day

That early. robin" remarked Yo-ick
Hamm, struts about. like a popular
Ham aas FATE rgh f. Be sets
of press notices."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
"Our ticket is composed of Mr. Woubat.
Of Ohio. and Mr.. Bunk, Of New York.
That's a winning combination, hey?" 1T
of the old school Now our ticket is COM
posed of Mr.. Brown, of Harvard. and Mr..
Robinson, of Yale. "-Pittsburg Post.
Stuyvesant-ike most men L have my
faults. Gladys-Perhaps; but they are SO
insignificant that no girl would feel justi-
Smart Set.
You trust promoters are blamed for
piled Mr. Dustin Stax, but that can't
last. The baseball umpire will soon be
along to take some of the blame
"oh. Maud said the other girl did
tises to. furnish young men escorts?'' It
knew the kind" said Maud, bitterly.
feels ike a chaperon every time she ws III.
out with them. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Sick Wife..IDoctor. I will double your
fee If you will prescribe me trip to the
seashore. Doctcr-Very we'll madam T
shall do So Sick Wife-What were 1o.,
the acknowledgements Blaetter.
would it be any harm to deceive her
about my age?" inquired the elderly mil
ionaire. Probably not" I'm So. How
would it do to confess to 50?'' Il think
If you claimed 75.''-Kansas City journal
IT enjoy a quiet smoke" said a man to
a fellow-passenger of a liner wen -
said the stranger moving across the deck.
you will never be troubled with crowds
while you smoke cigars of that brand. -
American College.
Whats the matter. old man? Yo,,,rs
all of shake Somebody swiped tbs
sporting page Of my newspaper. i've ens
to have my daily baseball dope or TN, NJ
good for anything. "-Pittsburg Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

A little girl was burned to death at
Reading, Pa, the other day through
the medium of fire-craclxers. Sparks
from an ordinary cracker ignited her
dress and before help arrived she was
burned so severely that she died. This
ought to be an adequate warning that
children who are permitted to have
fireworks on the Fourth are at least
in need of the constant attention of
their elders
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate OF ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month (by
mail on1y.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
State Journal will be to you like
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, 1910-06-30

Anybody who has registered kick
on the kind of summer weather which
has prevailed hereabouts for the past
few days is mighty hard to please.
The evenings and nights have been as
comfortable as could be desired, and
the heat of the day has been tempered
by breezes. 1t would be a difficult
Job to find summer resort that could
put up a better brand of weather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Maybe Governor Dickerson of Ne
vada, is hobnobbing around with the
prize-fighters at Reno for the motor
iety he can get out of it. Surely, few
people outside of Nevada, ever heard
of him or anything that he has done
until he announced to the world that
the pugilistic pugs and their friends
would be welcome in his state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Jacob H. Schiff of New York, and
one of the leading bankers of the
world, does not believe that the re-
cent amendments to the interstate
commerce law are going to hurt the
railroads. They certainly were not
made for any such purpose, and, for
the most part, the people who think
they see harm in them to the rail-
roads are prejudiced against any and
every kind of railroad regulation by
governmental authority. either state
or national.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

1t is the idea of the Chicago Tribune
that in the case of some men whom
you know, perhaps, the increased cost
of living is due to the fact that the
grocers, butchers. and other dealers in
the necessities of life insist on being
rafd T., cash -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
fFrom the New York Pres

IFrom the New York Press.
Calf love makes veal of marriage.
The lights never go out on a scandal.
Economizing IL easy to begin next
month.
There's hardly anything that can
lore a man more than being as nice to
his wife as to other women
The average man can blame his luck
because he spent his money on thea
ter supper when he ought TO have
bought clothes with It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

From the number and caliber OF the
men in the field for the nominations
for the railroad commissionershlps' II
ought not to be much trouble for the
voters of the state to select sets OF
candidates which will insure the crea-
ton of as good a state board of rail-
road commissioners as Kansas has
ever had
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Stocks continue to drop on Wall
street. Maybe they're just whiting pc
cause of the warm weather which is
prevalent in their vicinity. There
doesn't seem to be any other good
reason for a decline in securities OF
worth. Business throughout the
country is picking up every day. and
big crops are being harvested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Some enthusiasts will probably in
sist that the antitrust law be invoked
against the railroads because they are
getting together in the matter OF
adopting uniform signals for the OPP
Grafton of their trains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Too much significance should not
be attached to the fact that Senator
IaFoIlette wore a smile when he
emerged from his interview with Col
onel Roosevelt. Every other visitor
that the colonel has entertained re-
CARELESS of his political stripe has de-
parted at the conclusion of his visit
with the same kind of smile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Beverly. Mass, is now the summer
capital of the nation, but it will have
to go some to crowd Oyster Bay out
of the limelight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
SEA WEALTH IGNORED.

The sea holds source of riches
which as yet has not been made to con-
tribute much to the national wealth.
Men have tried to take gold from the
waters, but they might employ their
time more profitably in collecting sea-
weed. California has been first in the
field to recognize the value of this
marine product. San Francisco ships
annually to China 100000 worth. This
article is a good winter food for oxen,
sheep and pigs. In bad times in Ire
land it forms staple food for the
peasantry of the west coast.
Some of the benef1cent preparations
in use today from seaweed are iodine
and bromine, from which we get acid
and the iodides of sodium, mercury.
potassium, magnesium and calcium.
From seaweed also are extracted color
ing matters, a volatile OIL and its in
gradients are used in photography, as
well as in coverings for TASKS and III
upholstering. and owing to its salty
flavor it is said to keep away moths.
Being rich in soda, it makes strong
manure for heavy crops. Yet millions
of tons around the New England coasts
annually go to waste.-Boston Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
DOESN'T NATTER.

No, the public will not greatly
bother should congress adjourn with
out a report from the Ballinger inves-
tigating committee
Everybody knows about what the re-
port will amount to No specific
charges Of overt corrupt acts were
brought against Ballinger, therefore
there can be no conviction or acquittal
in the report. Nobody has got any
special credit or discredit out OF the
Investigation. 1t ,droned along to an
indeterninate end with the public pay
ing little or no attention to it. We all
think of Pinchot. Ballinger, Claws,
Garfield, about as we did before
But the investigation helped quite
few of US to one general conclusion:
President Taft inherited a contempt
ible departmental sQuabble from the
prior administration. and as soon as 1t
cropped out in his administration he
should have pitched the whole Jealous
and scheming caboodle out of the fed
eral service and put reasonable men
in their places.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

The Hon. Jeffries has voiced his in
tention of taking up scientific research
for the purpose of demonstrating that
the color of Hon. Johnsing is only skin
deep. On the other hand, Hon. john
sing gives it out cold that all vivisec-
ton specialists who desire to see the
inside works of Hon. Jeffries, should
secure ringside seats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

The moral of the Mexican nation;
election seems to be: First, arrest an
jug the opposition"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
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Pay no attention to the stories about
Roosevelt having an operation perform
ed. The only doctor who could find
anything superfuous to remove from
Col. Roosevelt, would be nerve spec
iaist.
The name of the party who was in
jured by Bob Taft's auto, is This
thwolla. A list of his injuries includ-
ed two superf1uous letters knocked out
of his name.
1t is reported that LaFollette en-
erged from his private interview with
Roosevelt, wearing smile. Just what
Roosevelt wanted of LaFollette's cloth
ing is not told in the dispatch.
1t is further reported that DR.. Wiley
of the bureau of chemistry, has been
shorn of his power to issue citations.
In other and less fiowery words, DIR.
principal advertising graft.
The moral of the Mexican national
election seems to be: First. arrest and
jug the opposition"
Commissioner Tandy is said to be af-
ter Drenning's hide. The Hon. Tandy
has recently purchased a new auto, and
it is barely possible that he looks with
favor upon Hon. Drenning'S hide as
good material from which to construct
waterproof auto top.
Aw. THROW EN- OUT.
Noiseless band
Startless and
Walkless street parade:
Snootless guns
Wooden ones),
Fruitless lemonade.
Tempt not fate
Celebrate
Independence Day
In the plain
Safe and Sane
Mollycoddle way.
| ras BEST m1)D
TO eafesNfAY
llrDEPNDsNcE ~
)DAT LTrLE rdCR
rnAN. IS TO I ttfl
READ a 0ooDC m
BOOK. |NsA
I :: Z: !: I; { ! ! !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

1t is further reported that DR.. Wiley
of the bureau of chemistry, has been
shorn of his power to issue citations.
In other and less fowery words, DIR.
Wiley has been separated from his
principal advertising graft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

The Morning Squash says in part:
Complaints were made a few days ago
that crowds of from 10 to 20 men
through shooting craps so they could
Biddle Creek every Saturday night and
Sunday where they shot craps in
peace" This is indeed serious, if true.
and the police should be notified.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

1t is reported that LaF'ollette en-
erged from his private interview with
Roosevelt, wearing a smile. Just what
Roosevelt wanted of LaFollette's cloth
ing is not told in the dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

The name of the party who was in
jured by Bob Taft's auto, is This
thwolla. A list of his injuries includ-
ed two superf1uous letters knocked out
of his name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

If Count Zeppelin tried to start an
airship route across Kansas, a special
session of legislature would be called
to regulate the fare, and as Yep could
not plead expense of unkeep of tracks,
the fare would probably be set at
about cents per hundred miles,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Pay no attention to the stories about
Roosevelt having an operation perform
ed. The only doctor who could find
anything superfuous to remove from
Col. Roosevelt, would be nerve spec
iaust.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Commissioner Tandy is said to be af-
ter Drenning's hide. The Hon. Tandy
has recently purchased a new auto, and
it is barely possible that he looks with
favor upon Hon. Drenning's hide as
good material from which to construct
a waterproof auto top.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Our idea of the proper way to run
for office without risking the worries
incidental to an officeholder's job, is
to run on the Prohibition ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Mr. Trickett, of Wyandotte county.
who was consigned to the forgettery
some time ago, has broken out through
the transom. He is going to enforce
something or other again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30

Count Zeppelin can still point with
pride. His airship was wrecked, but
not even a brakeman was killed in the
accident, allretty.
The Washington bee., 1910-08-13
Published by AMERICAN MELODY Co., New York
Taft and the Negro.

(FTOm the Atlanta, Ga, independently
1t is generally charged by the po-
litical negroes and one or two selfish
negro papers in this country that
President Taft is a negro hater, dom
mated by Southern sentiment, and is
largely tainted with ''white-lillyism" to
the end that he is displacing all negro
office holders with white men.
Now, what are the facts? The In
dependent says that the charge is not
we'll founded and has no standing in
fact. What negro office holder in this
country has he displaced by a white
man? Granting, for the sake of the
argument, that negroes are entitled to
the places because they are negroes,
and white men are not entitled to the
places because they are white, if they
charge the resignation of DR. Crum, at
Charleston, to President Taft's admin
istratiOn, for which he is not response
bic, it would be offset by the appoint
ment of Whitfield MCKinlay as col
leCtOr of customs at Georgetown, d.
6. This IS a position that no form
er President has ever given a negro.
Some of the anti-Taft negroes have
gone so far as to say that the appoint
ment of Hon. Henry Lincoln John
son as recorder Of deeds, to succeed
Hon. John c. DanCy, was a blow at
the race, How they ever reached
such a conclusion the Independent is
at a loss to know. johnson is a ne
gro and Dancy is a negro, and how
his appointment was a blow at the
race any more than the appointment
/ of the new commissioner of internal
revenue at Washington, to succeed
Commissioner Capers, of South Car
Olina, was a blow az the white race.
In Arkansas, Col. John E Bush, d
negro. has been appointed to succeed
| himself; in Alabama, Col Nathan Al
exander, a negro, has been appointed
to succeed himself; at Jacksonville,
| Fla, Hon. Joseph H. Lee, a negro,
| has been appointed collector to sue
ceed himself; in Louisiana, Walter
| Copen. a negro, has been appointed
| to succeed himself; in Washington
City, President Taft turned the white
| National committeeman down and ap-
pointed Whitfield McKin1ay collec-
tor of customs, displacing a white
man: in New York, Charles Ander-
son, negro, succeeds himself; in
! Boston, w. H. Lewis, a negro, sue
ceeds himself; in New York, Attorney
J |McDouga1. a negro, displaces a white
,man in the office of United States
District Attorney; in the Treasury
Department, the Hon. w D. John
son, negro, Of Kentucky, succeeds
a white man as special agent, giving
to the race an additional place, and
/ a colOred man from Missouri IS ap-
pointed special agent for the Agri-
cultural Department, a new place for
the race. The collector of customs at
Savannah is the only place of import
ance in which a colored man was dis
placed by a white man, and this was
not really a displacement, for Col
Tohn H. Deveaux held the place until
| he died, and Col Leakin, white
man, was appointed to succeed him.
! This was agreed to and recommended
by H. A. Rucker, w. H. Johnson and
Henry Blum. So, when you get bill
The Washington bee., 1910-08-13
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The Washington bee., 1910-08-13

In the last year 10 cities in the
South, through their Chambers OF
Commerce, or through some organi-
Zations of the merchants or business
men, have taken practical steps to
induce farmers to build telephone lines
and connect with their towns.
A famous painting by Jean Fran
els Millet,.evalued at $4,000, "The
Shepherd and Flock" has been stolen
from the Art Museum in San Fran
cisco.
The Washington bee., 1910-08-13
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of particulars, the professional ne
groes' charge against President Taft
must fail.
But President Taft has made inno-
vations. He has placed negroes into
positions which the race had never
filled before; he has put them into
offices heretofore closed in their faces,
and the only change that the Inde-
pendent has been able to discover on
the political horizon is that the Pres
ident takes political advice from a diff
ferent source. The Independent gives
the President a clean bill of health
and presents his record as a complete
refutation of the charge that he is
against the race. His administration
is a success from every point of view,
both in the recognition of the rights
of all the people, in the distribution of
patronage and in his contribution to
helpful legislation.