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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
FREE BASEBAJL.

One of the advance agents of the
millennium has made his appearance
near Chicago. He is the manager of
the baseball club in one of the SUBJ
urbs of the Windy City. It is his idea
that baseball games should be free to
everybody. So he is going to petition
the city fathers of his town for an
appropriation for the support of his
team. In return, the gates to the ball
park will be thrown open to the pub
lie for each and every game. Not only
that. but he thinks this plan should be
taken up by each and every commun-
lty IN the country. He would also in
ject the scheme into politics, by MAX
ing it an issue in local campaigns He
believes that any set of men who
would run for city offices would win in
a walk if they would put plank in
their platforms pledging the appropri-
alton of public funds for the support
OF the local ball team and free base
ball games.
And no doubt this latter conclusion
is quite correct. Indeed. if one set of
municipal politicians favored such a
project each and every other set would
90 the same thing. If they did not
they could never hope for political
preferment. 1t is no more than fair to
assume that if only one set of candi-
dates ran on the free baseball propa-
ganda they would be elected by
unanimous vote. or so near one that
II would not be worth while to count
the opposition votes. Probably no issue
would appeal SO strongly. to the OF
polloi the proletariat or whatever it is
proper to call the common people.
There are only a couple of slight OBJ
Ject1ons to this wonderfully popular
suggestion. If baseball We're support
ed by the municipalities and the games
were free, all places of business would
nave to close on the days the games
would be played on home grounds.
And it would also be weu-nigh impos-
sloIe to provide grounds within a CITY
or near one which would be large
ehough TO accommodate the crowds
tnat would insist on attending the
games
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
VITAL STATISTICS

Aansans gladly pay a fee of so cents
Ior the registration of hog or cow,
out they can not afford, or, at least.
they will not spend 25 cents for the
registration of a child"
This was the forcible point made the
other day by Mr. w. J. V. Deacon.
statistician for the Kansas state board
OF health, in an address on Vital Sta
tistics'' which he delivered before the
state Medical society. And it is one
OF the few shames of Kansas,-Kansss
tf2t likes to glory in the reputation of
being progressive in all things,
nothing is quite so important ia a
community as full and complete reg
istration of the vital statistics of its
population. They make I'D records
which are invaluable. All of the older
states in the union have laws which
provide for them. And the time has
long since. passed when Kansas should
have had one. If the next legislature
fails to provide such a law it will be
derelict in its duty to the people of the
state.
Some people have an idea that vital
statistics are of little or no Importance.
Such contentious are merely evidence
~ Ao4AOA 1AiOC- "a TccOTQ OF a D1rtn is
often needed to prove that child is
entitled to name or an estate. A
record of each and every marriage is
just as essential, and while the pro-
bate courts of the state are supposed 20
keep such record they have a hard
time doing SO because many clergymen
and justices of the peace are negligent
when 1T comes to making returns Of
marriages performed by them. And
records of deaths are just as important
as are records of birth and marriages
1t is time they were kept in Kansas
and because they have not been during
the years back will be likely to cause
embarrassment in the years to come
Another point made by Mr.. Deacon
in his talk ought to receive the re-
spectful attention of the physicians Of
the state. 1t concerns the reporting ny
them to county or city health authori-
ties such cases of contagious and in
fictitious diseases as come within their
notice. Present laws demand this but
they appear to be held in little respect
by many physicians. The time for
temporizing with physicians who fail
to discharge their duties to the public
in this regard has passed and the laws
in the premises should be rigidly en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
Autos for Everybody.

The country physician buys an au-
tomobile because it increases the size
of the territory he may reach, and
because car takes him to his patients
quickly and in comfort
The carry-all which gathers up the
farmers children to take them to
school had better be an automobile.
AS in the case of the doctor, speed
means that greater territory may be
covered. The greater the territory the
larger the school may be, the greater
the enrolment, and the larger the
school funds. That means a better
teacher, closer competition between
pupils, and me more improvement in
the social life of rurai communities.
The mail carrier on a rural route
buys a car if he can afford tor
perhaps a m 1torcycle-because it in
creases his efficiency and leaves him
more time fer home life. The "bus
line from town to town where there
is no interurban electric lines or rail-
WAYS had better be an automobile line
if roads will permit. The travelling
men, usually the principal patrons, all
are willing to pay more fare to shorten
weary distances. The liyeryman, too,
find MOTH car more in demand
than the best of his horses and rub
Der tired rigs" and for this same rea-
son-that his best patrons are willing
to paw more for swift and comfortable
transporta ton than for buggy ride"
Charles P. Cushing, in Leslie's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09

grown a continent-w interest in this
book among fraternity men. Last year
1899 members of Greek letter frater-
mites were studying the Bible with
much interest and seriousness in vol
untary groups in their chapter houses
When Prof. Henry Drummond made
his first visit to America he addressed
the students in professional schools in
New York City. He wrote home to
friend in England that he had never
seen a crowd of men who were more
severely driven by their daily sched-
uIes or men who were surrounded by
fercer temptation of every sort. AS
this plan for the study of the Bible in
creased in its comprehension of diff
ferent classes of students. it was said
that professional men would lot be
interested, nor would they have time
to engage in such study. But it is of
real interest to note that in the city
of New York at the present time lis
professional students are meeting
every week in little groups, using a
series of studies upon the social and
political teachings of Christianity. The
interest among this class of students
in New York is paralle1ed by a similar
awakening among men in professional
schools in other large cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
POINTED PAisAGHarHs.
[From the Chicago Ncws.I

[From the Chicago Ncws1
You can't travel far on lame ex-
cuse.
1t takes an oculist to make some
people open their eyes.
Farmers and washladies get their
living from the SOIL
The man who plants a ladder never
knows what will come up.
A mustered plaster can always be
depended upon to do something smart.
Some men get as much enjoyment
out of a toothpick as othe.. do out Of
a cigar.
Some people think they are good be-
cause they are not as bad as they
might be.
1t costs more to hive now than it did
a hundred years ago. but they had no
baseball then.
Pity is akin to love. and if a Young
man has an obese bank balance If isn't
difficult to find a girl to pity him.
There's no reason why a woman
shouldn't take boarders If she wants
to. but she shouldn't try to board 4
moving car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
Convicted Army Mem.

The war department still finds itself
unable to rid the army, of Capt, Peter
c. Hams, jr.. who has been for nearly
| a year a convict ir Sing Sing. 1t is
now confroI ted with siriilar case in
that tho siIreme court has confirmed
| the sentence of Capt. Thomas Frank
| lin of the subsistence department to
4 the Atlanta penitentiary for his pecu-
| ment of the war department arises
from the fact that these men have
| been convicted. not by courts martial,
but by civil tribunals. 1t will not drop
! them as absent without leave. under
/ the statute which makes this possible
when an officer has failed to report for
| duty for three months. 1t has been
| said that the department does not wish
to order a court martial to sit in Sing
Sing prison, the only place where
Hams could be tried. The situation is
the more difficult to understand be-
cause court martial dismissed Major
| Darlington of the First infantry in
| Manila, a few years ago, after he had
| been sentenced to 80 years imprison-
ment by a civilian court. What makes
the situation more puZzling is that
there has been no effort to obtain from
| this session of congress law to cover
| these cases. If one be required. APP
parently, the department considers it
self helpless, and, according to a serv-
| ice weekly, there is even talk of carry
| ing Captain Hams until he comes up
for promotion to major and then drop
ping him out by nominating another
officer in his place. Congress could cut
the Gordian knot now if the president
should send in a nomination of an
other officer to fill Captain Hams
place. but the war department is
| afraid of the precedent which would
thus be set. If that custom were es-
| tablished, any unpopular officer might
| be got out of the service in this way.
But the fact remains that the honor
able gentlemen who are the officers of
! the United States army must now see
| the names of two convicts appear
alongside of theirs on the monthly
register of the army-surely an intol-
cradle state of affairs.-New York
L Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Some timely advice from the Ottawa
Republic: Remember that your over
coat is still your good friend, and a
straw hat is a tickle thing.
Some of the greatest loafers I know
are early risers,'' says Tom Thompson
of the Howard Courant. They get up
early so they can loaf more.''
Strawberries are coming down in
price, notes the Ottawa Republic, and it
adds: Soon. even the poorest of us
will be able to look longingly at them"
I'VE hear a good deal about race wars
and dislike of the negro, but We
notice. observes the Hill City New
when Negroes money is in sight,
When it comes to matching COM
plexions. the druggist has the dress
maker beaten block" says Mrs. W.
L. Olson in the Solomon Tribune, and
in such a matter as this a lady ought
to know whereof she speaks.
There is something doing all the
time in this world" said the observing
Bill Sincaner the other day to his con-
idant, the Vinland Vine. "Since
have been talking baby has been
born in some part of the world, a man
has died and some couple has got mar
ried"
A young woman of a western Kansas
town desired to show some kindness to
a young officer of the militia, to whom
she had taken a fancy. She, therefore
dispatched this note: Mrs. Smythe re-
quests the pleasure of Captain Whites
company at a reception on Friday
evening" A prompt reply came which
read. with the exception of three
men who are sick, Captain Whites
company accepts your kind invitation
and will come with pleasure to your
reception Friday evening" - Salinn
Journal
Evidently a show which played at
Nickerson recently did not make much
of an impression on the Argosy. 1t had
this to say about it: The Bobby Foun-
tain show, which played here Tuesday
afternoon and evening, was about thu
punk st that ever struck Nickerson.
The show was not only on the bum,
but the management simply held the
people up. It's a cinch the show will
never come here again, and if it should
there will not be enough attend to even
buy horse feed. The pure food COM
mission ought to get hold of the shows
advertising matter and see if it meets
the requirements of the law. The show
is fake and a she'll game of the first
water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
THE JOY OF LIFE.

Here is the road that I will take;
1t leads from the crowded mart
Where haggard horde bow to the lord
OF gold; and the tortured heart
Is grtped with pain, while each new gair
With greed renounces art.
Here is the road that I win take;
IL leads by the wind-swept pine,
Where the gem stars creep Ger the rest
less deep;
And the joy of peace is mine.
II not complain of the lesser Cain
Nor crave excitement's wine.
Then will flee the sark of Care
That is tattered. thin and old.
And I will WOO with affection true
A muse in cloth of gold,
And my heart will sing for the wond' rous
thing
That a carefree life can hold.
Here is the road that I will take
When / leave the mart behind,
And my soul shall be as wide and free
As the heaven seeking wind.
am going south to a bayou's mouth
The joy of life to find.
Clarence Richard Lindner, in Leslie's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09

from his mother. Rather than some.
thing that he and his mother should
hide from his sweetheart. s@
Read the letter." the older woman
said as they sat down to- the table,
and Juliet read it, making up as she
went along sentences which told that
he was glad she. liked the purse, glad
that Juliet liked the books and said
nothing of his mistake. After that
they chatted of the coming marriage
and Juliet's plans for it.
When Juliet went home she wrote
to her lover and told him all about
it-how she loved the books and how
his mother had delighted in the silver
purse.
'I want her to keep it, she said.
land you must not send me another
to make up 70 me, for I like to feel
well as yours Some day I'll give ner
set of Browning and then she will
have both things, and never know the
difference
The answer that came from him re-
paid her for her sacrifice. Pm go
ing to take you at your word" he
said, and let you do without the
purse"
But on their wedding day, besides
the diamond pendant that he gave
her, there was another gift. Wrapped
in tissue paper and tied with white
age. Within she found a golden bag.
all glittering mesh and sparkling
stones. 1t was a thing beautiful
enough for = duchess, thing
prince might have presented to the
lady he loved. and that was what it
meant to Juliet; the gift of the lover
who had given her the greatest gift
of all-his hearts best and purest
adoration.-(Copyrig 1910 by Asso-
ciated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
QUAKER MEDIrATIONs.

from the Philadelphia Press.]
No man ever gets old enough to
know better.
ducive to religion
Good wine needs no bush, and bad
wine never had any.
1t is only in fairy tales that people
marry on6 live happily ever after.
No, Maude. dear, widows. weeds, are
not synonymous with mourning glory.
Many a man who looks very wise
doesn't know what he isn't talking
about.
Gratitude is what We expect other
people to feel for small favors We do
them.
Many a man talks like book, some
like an encyclopedia and others like
biography.
Wigg-"He says his success in the
theatrical world was achieved at
bound Wagg-"Yes. I've heard he
used to be the India Rubber Man in a
dime museum.
Subbubs-t'What struck you most
forcibly about your visit to the city,
Uncle HIP Uncle Hi-"Wall. when I
cum to the hospital I couldn't reTneIn-
Der whether it was a trolley car or one
O. them automobiles"
Have you ever had any experience
in this line?" asked the organizer of
the Polar expedition. -4Oh, yes re-
Piled the applicant: II am engaged to a
Boston girl. and for several years I
lave been going over there to spend
Sundays with her. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
BIBLE STUDY IN COLLEGES.

During the year 1904 seventy repre-
sentative members of Greek letter
fraternities gathered in a room at the
University of Michigan, writes Clayton
Sedgwick Cooper in his article on
college Men and the Bible in the
May Century. The meeting had been
tuition to consider the relation of the
study of the Bible to the fraternity
house life of the university. After the
nature and method of the study had
been presented to the men this stu
dent, who was at that time captain of
both the football and baseball teams
Of the university. said:
81 have been at the University of
Michigan for more than three years,
and as you know, I have engaged ac-
lively in college life. 1 have never
been known particularly as a religious
that especially in fraternity life some
of US must face seriously the problems
and the temptations of our college days.
it appears to me that the problems can
be considered in connection with a
sane and Intelligent study of the Bible
1 confess that 1 know little of the
book myself, but I am determined to
begin its study, and if there is no one
else to do 1t. 1 will lead a group of
athletic men in my own fraternity
house.
The result was the formation of
groups for the study of the Bible in
fourteen Greek letter fraternities at
the University of Michigan.
1t is significant that from this be-
ginning in one institution there has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
RUlNOR OF THE DAY

IT propose to open an exclusive hotel:
no room less than $40 day." Don't be
too exclusive. You'll find that the richer
guests guests IL like s to have few poor people
nal.
Never make a fuss about what you
can't help" said the homely philosopher.
'Nonsense!' replied the fan. That idea
would take half the excitement out of
baseball game. '-Washington Star.
Don't you touch that sprig. Of celeryii....
Good? Certainly it's good-it's the best
canary. "-Buffalo Express.
Now, Willie. you know 1 told you not
to go in swimming, and yet you have
been In the water this very day. -. Il
didn't you tell Satan to get behind you?'
Il did, and he kicked me in."-The
Housekeeper.
II am always cool in the face of dan
came 4" we Do are Obliged to acEnow owl that
he told the truth. The only objection
was that his GOODNESS was ali in his feet.
wigg-Guzzler, has Joined the Yahooo
Yacht club. and he never sailed boat
tions are? Wagg-He owns a yachting
cap and an ,unouenchable thirst.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
'You had the nerve to ask Miss Oldud
her .age?" We'll / tried to do Il diplo-
born" And what did she say2' On
Friday afternoon at about 4:30 "-Cleve-
land Leader.
Blobbs-Bjones is getting more absent
minded every day; sl1bbsmMhats the
worried about something this morning.
and now he's terribly worried because he
can't remember what 1t was.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Mamma Mrs Bedford must come of
a very old and aristocratic family, doesn't
she?' II don't know anything about the
family. Why do you ask" She always
SAYS kinsmen instead of relative.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some men are like the moon, They
never get real bright until they're
full.
4 =
Orders on a butcher or grocer
would be most acceptable wedding
gifts these days.
X x
Nothing pleases a girl so much as
to have fellow remark that he is
not good enough for her.
:: 4
In the race for the unpopularity
championship the nagger has every
thing decidedly in his favor.
y X
If more of the suffragettes were
married there would not be so much
talk among them about women not
getting mems wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

Women are modest enough until a
doctor begins asking them questions.
There are so many lazy men that
prizes should be given for those who
work 8
We don't believe thezmen look for
second wives as industriously as they
In trying to get the best OF it, every
man is apt to be careless of the rights
of others.
Most of the men looking for work
cannot do it in a satisfactory manner
after they find it.
Every man who gets up picnics
thinks that really he should be known
at The Rain Maker
Women think one of the best things
that can be said about man is. He
isn't hard to cook for"
Let any man lose a good office, and
become poor, and soon he has the
symptoms of an anarchist.
woman whose stocking doesn't
wrinkle is said to be good house
keeper, but then howsean you tell?
The wife of an Atchison railroad
man speaks of her men folks who
come home to dinner, as "empties."
You may have noticed that the
preacher who is opposed to circuses
will risk look at the street parade.
If a man is willing to be husband
seems TO De more important these
days than if he is capable of being a
good one.
On a rainy day, you have a gem
timely sunny disposition if you don't
think once of an overturned head
stone and a sunken grave.
We try to be progressive, and be-
lieve in Great Movements, but we
never expect to get lost in a forest
which was planted on Arbor Day.
When there is fight in a small
town in prohibition state, the ques-
ton: Where did the whisky come
rom? attracts as much attention as
the fight
An Atchison woman has so many
holsters. and shams. and hounces on
her bed. that it takes as long to un-
dress it at night as it takes to undress
all five of her children.
By the time a woman remembers
the size of the glove, shoe. shirtwaist.
collar. corset, hose and belt she wears,
she hasn't enough mind left to be
burdened with further statistics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09

Reports from various sections of the
country of late have been to the effect
that prosperity is rather stagnant in
those places just now. But that such
conditions do not prevail in Kansas, is
best evidenced by the latest reports
made to Mr.. Dolley. the state bank
commissioner. They show that there
is now on deposit in the state banks
OF Kansas the sum of -$1O2, 211. O32.
This makes the aggregate deposits in
these banks greater than ever before
in the history of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09

The Women's National Whist league
is one of the organizations that has
devised a method of holding tourna-
ments in which there is no good reas-
on why any of the members partici-
pating should go home dissatisfied. At
such a meeting to be held in Chicago
during the next few days twenty of
the members of this organization will
contest for no less than II prizes and
seven large trophies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press.l

From the New York Press.
It's so natural to lie it's astonishing
how few people do it well.
The more fun a man thinks he can
have being out nights the more his
wife knows she can't.
Insane asylums are all places where
everybody outside is crazy.
The way for a man to make a girl
stop running away from him is for
him to stop chasing her..
When a man comes to you with an
offer to make you rich you're lucky if
he doesn't go away with a dollar he
borrowed from you.
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has just issued ukase. forbidding
people who live within the limits of
the Russian empire to use any other
language than Russian. This decree
affects $4,000 people who either cannot
or do not at present speak Russian.
These people are also prohibited from
forming societies, from speaking their
own languages and from being repre-
scented in the schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09

Assuredly, it would be passing
strange If the proposal of the railroads
to increase their freight rates were not
objected to, and most strenuously, by
the shippers. In all walks of life and
in each of its activities, everybody is
looking for Just a trife the best of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09

"Dave Leahy. Stubs literary Teller,
says Stubs entered politics to rebuke
a governor who swore dreadfully,'
notes the Atchison Globe and it ex-
claims: Surely he doesn't refer to
ed Hoch!" Perish the thought. That
and other remarks in Brother Leahy's
now famous letter must be charged up
to poetic license.