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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
.AYH.AWKER JOTS

Eta Joe Mccoy announces in the OF
tawa Herald. notes the Parsons Sun,
that he or she, as the case may be, IS
a candidate for county superintend-
ent.
"One of the things the country
needs" says Tom Thompson in the
Howard Courant, lis more farmers
who do not think that four months OF
school is long enough
The Commercial club last week ap-
pointed a man by the name OF Grass on
the lawn committee. TINS seem aT1te
ing Mr.. Wells on the water committee.
Harrington Sun.
The famous catches case decided by
the supreme court on appeal from the
court of Judge Thompson OF Garoen
Citv does not refer, as has peen sup
posed, to the latch strings that are al
WAYS out in western Kansas, rightly re-
marks the Hutchinson News.
About the best looking young married
lady in Troy, says the Wathena Times,
never saw a squirrel until she came TO
Troy a short time ago. Where she was
raised SQUIRRELS are unknown, SO sno
created quite a little amusement Dy
calling a friend to see squirrel IN tns
court house yard, and by ASKING WHAT
1t was.
Thi. story saws the Abilene Re-
Hector. comes drifting in from west
ern Kansas: A German farmer prougnt
in two hogs and sold them They
brought s101. So The stock dealer Went
to write out the check for the full
amount when the German looked over
his shoulder and said: Make IL LOT
800. I haven't the nerve NIT me 10
take it ALL.
Otto Wulfekuhler, the banker. says
THAI T.eavenworth county land is be-
coming too valuable to farm in $50 acre
farms. that a man and his family can
make a good living on 40 acres ana ne
believes that from now on the farms
will get less and the land will become
more valuable and the population N
the county will grow larger.-LeaVen-
worth Post.
Beloit is experiencing healthy
business and building boom. Take
trim about town and through the coun-
trv and the evidence looms up cheerful
in yellow pine, brick, stone ana NOR
tar everywhere. If there's one rn1nS
more than another that looks good to
the eve of the casual observer, 1t is the
ungainlv mass of rafters indicating a
new building. That old "yalier pine
lust seems to shine out the evidence OF
nrosperity.-Beloit Gazette.
walt Mason objects to the word
| "saunter', which is used by reporter
for the Lawrence Democrat. He says
"rThis reporter saunters to the unlVer-
sity. and he saunters to the court
house. and 1t may be hoped that some
dav he will saunter into the river
Tbsre are certain words which aggra-
yate this department beyond endur-
ance: one of them is 'saunter;' another
is dainty as applied to the bologna
and hard tack that the Charming
Hostess serves to her guests when the
club meets at her house"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
THE SCHOOLS AND POLITICS.

From the tenor of the resolutions
which have been adopted at all of the
teachers conventions held in the state
during the past few months it is ap-
parent that the school teachers are
nearly unanimous in their opinions
that the offices of county superin-
tendents and state superintendent of
education be taken out of politics. This
is an opinion that is probably shared
generally by the taxpayers of the state.
There is good reason for it. Politics
and the schools is a union that should
be divorced. That this has not been
brought about before is not much OF a
feathe-' in progressive Kansas cap.
Fitness and qualifications requisite
for administering the duties of these
Offices are the things that should count
in the selection of the individuals to
things have almost been of secondary
consideration in the choosing of such
officials. Political Affiliations and po-
litical pulls have wrongly developed
into primary Importance. The results
have not been all that could be de-
sired
AS soon as a county superintendent
or state superintendent gets into Of
fee ona of his or her chief concerns
is to hold onto the office until he or
she has at least been remunerated for
the expense of landing the job. This
has a tendency to mar the discipline
which should prevail in the conduct
of the schools. especially in the rela-
lions between the county superintend-
ents and the teachers under them.
That Is bad for the schools. But a
greater evil is to be found in the coun-
ty superintendents catering to the
wishes and the desires of politicians
who really have the power to keep
them in Office. Conditions are not as
bad in this respect since the primary
nominating systems have been in force
throughout the state. But they are
quite bad enough.
A county superintendent or a state
superintendent on assuming office
should be free and untrammeled from
the influence of politics or any other
outside force. SO that he can devote
all of his time to his work and dis
charge the duties of his Office to the
best of his abilities. Nor is there much
sense to the unwritten law of these
tics is the word that would better fit
the bill-to give a county or a state
superintendent more than two terms.
A really efficient official of this class
should be kept in office as long as he
desires to remain. That would be one
of the results if these offices were re-
moved beyond the Vaccinations of the
politicians
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
It is only the expected that fails
to happen.
Everybody is selnsh-with the ex-
ception of yourself.
Occasionally a liar tells the truth
because he thinks It isn't.
How a woman does hate to be told
that she is well preserved"
It's a waste of time trying to talk
to woman with her first baby.
1t keeps the wife of a self-made
man busy making alterations.
gossip believes everything she
hears, and takes the rest for granted
It's easier for q woman to run mn
bill than it is for her husband to
r~v up.
Anyway. we never heard of a young
couple who couldn't fool a chaperon
II they were so inclined.
Beware of the man who pats Won
on the back. He may be trying to
ascertain if coin 1ingles in your
clothes.
And more widowers might narr,,
widows If they were not afraid that
their brides would insist on talxine
their children along on the weddinS
- ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Gle


You can't fool people as easily as
you think you can.
We have become used to having
people refuse to laugh at our jokes.
If your best friend buys an auto. It
Is better than to buy one yourself.
Speaking as a reporter. when we
are looking for news. we do not care
much for the latest Joke.
If a man goes wrong, he has some
good luck if the people don't say when
Telling of 1t, "It runs In the family"
1t must make a husband feel un-
comfortable to hear his wife say thir-
ty or forty times day: II have moth
ing to wear"
This will Jar off the good peoples
snecs A New York Judge yesterday
decided that damn" is not a swear
word. Then what is it?
We have noticed that when wom-
an goes to visit a dear old friend. she
stavs longer if the old friend has a
new automobile than If the friend has
a cross baby
Many cooks claim to be old fash
toned, but this is the real test: An old
Fashioned cook always has something
on the stove that won't be done until
day after tomorrow.
Edward Box says woman is dark
mystery That's a way wise men have
of f1attering women Every reasonably
sensible man can tell you all about
women but 1t is wiser to pretend not
to understand them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Contentment is the most difficult OF
all virtues to cultivate.
X X
He who fights and runs away also
opens himself to a charge or cow
ardice.
TT is irnnossible to do anything in a
wav that will please everybody.
X X
People who haven't anything OF
value to say are never backward ABOUT
giving interviews.
Among the popular individuals are
those who have nothing in the line OF
suggestions to make concerning every
thing that comes up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

was no place IN the whole world like
the little house.
1t seemed to her that there had new
er been anything as beautiful as the
cheap rugs and the muslin hangfngs
and the prints on the wall. But it was
not until the crowd had gone that she
had chance to tell him. He came to
her blackenec with smoke.
Il saved It," he said, but suppose
l might as well have let IT burn for all
the good 1t will do me-"
She chung to him, crying a little.
IT'S the most beautiful cottage in the
world" she said.
She told him then how previous It
had seemed to her when she thought
she was to lose It and presently they
went in together. The smoke had
blackened the snowy hangings, but
otherwise nothing was hurt. Mar
guerita had left them, and gradually
the crowd had turned away. They
stood together at the window, the sky
rosy in the east.
TITS a new world, and a new day.
and new kind of love-" Lucille whis-
pered, and her lover smiled at her as
together they faced the dawn.-(Copy-
righted. 1910. by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
QUAKER NfEpIrATToNs.
[From the Philadelphia Recor,

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
It's the cyclists rs that give him
such a distorted view of life.
The man who really has money to
burn is seldom the one who burns it.
After all, the dreamer may be hav-
ing a better time than the fellow who
is wide awake.
When a man stops playing poker It
is remarkable how few sick friends
he has to sit up with.
The fact that a cheap suit of
clothes looks rusty doesn't necessa riIy
mean that it will wear like iron.
Many a woman who says she is
welded to her art wouldn't have to
establish residence in Reno.
A college education can generally
be depended upon to teach a boy
how to spend ten times as much mon
ey as he will ever have.
Tommy-"Pop, life-preservers are
made of cork, aren't they?" Tommy's
Pop-"Some kinds, my son. other
kinds require corkscrews."
Nell-"Lord Deadbroke says his
visit to America is purely a business
trip. Isn't that funny?" Belle-'Not
at all. He's looking for a rich wife"
Blobbs-"She looks like a woman
who has suffered" Siobbs-"I guess
that's right. For years she has man
aged to squeeze a No. foot into a
No. SHOE
i don't see how you can complain
of this chicken. Mr.. Starboarder."
said the landlady. THE dealer told
me it was a Plymouth Rock" well,
maybe it is" replied Mr.. Starboarder.
II don't profess to be a geologist"
II have come to tune your piano.
madam" said the severe looking man.
But didn't send for you," expostu-
lated Mrs. F1atdweller. mo, the peo-
pie in the next apartment did" ex-
planned the severe looking man.
There's one thing about golf
could never understand" remarked
the beginner. And that is 2" oueried
the preceptor. That is, why any
one should play golf when he could
take in a ball game, or go fishinR."
replied the beginner. Whereupon the
preceptor declared the lessons cIosad-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

were quite Numerically opposed to
each other. The conclusions reached
by Miss Hewes are as follows:
1.-THE conclusion that was forced
on me was that for some reason or
other we are really in food shortage.
proof of this. He told me that when
milk was five and six cents a quart.
they used to have great trouble in
getting enough because there was not
enough profit in it to induce the far
mer to raise the milk. But when milk
rose to nine and ten cents, the con-
tractor said to himself, Now there
will be no more milk scarcity because
now the farmer can make such
profit that he will flood the market
scarcer at nine cents than it had
been at five. Grain was the trouble!'
said my friend. 1T was so high that
even milk at nine cents a quart the
farmer could not make a profit
land why is grain SO high?' said
to myself is it the tariff. is it the
trusts-labor trust or business trust?
Is it increased gold supply, or Is 1T
the rise in land values? Is 1t the
growth in population, is 1t cold stor-
extravaganza, or is 1t too much city
life too much manipulation OF wealth
and not enough creating of it?'
1.-The answer must come, but 1t is
in the future. In the meantime
withdrew from my hunt for the causes
and cures for high prices feeling sure
of two points: that the great need OF
this country is seers, economic seers
who work not for today's pocket put
for the children of tomorrow, and
help on the coming of those men OF
power who shall be seers is to teach
the men around her personal honesty
and the women around her thrift!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
THE STATE FAIR.

just WnaL the people OF a city can
do when they have mind to take ad-
vantage of an opportunity to develop
their town has been demonstrated in an
urrnistakable way in Kansas City, Mo-.
recently. In a brief space of time ST.
100000 was raised by popular subscrip-
ton. 1t is to be devoted to creation
of a freight boat line on the Missouri
river. Such a line will be of untold
benefit to the fast growing metropolis
of the central west and the people there
were not slow to appreciate that fact.
Not only did the moneyed men OF the
town and it's large financial institutions
contribute to the million dollar fund.
Men and women of moderate means,
clerks, mechanics. school teachers-in-
6ividuals in every walk of life in fact
helped with their savings to swell the
sum to its giant-like proportions.
That's the kind of civic courage
which counts in the development of a
city-a courage that will make men and
women dig down in their pocketbooks
and bring up handsfu1 of coin for pub
lie enterprise. And that's just the kind
OF civic courage that should be display
ed by the people of this city during
this week when the effort is going to
be made to provide a fund which will
put the state agricultural expedition
to be held here this fall on a solid
| foundation.
A real state fair in Topeka will mean
as much in way. if not more, to this
city than will the projected boat line
| on the Missouri river will mean to
Kansas City, Mo. If the people of the
latter town were able and willing to
raise a whole million dollars for such
| a project, which is something of a ven
| ture with the possibility of a failure in
| it, the people of Topeka ought surely
| to be able to raise 100000 or S15000O
or even more for a state fair here.
There is no chance for the failure of
such a project if it is established in
| the right way In H. L. Cook, the for
mer secretary of the Nebraska State
| Fair association, Topeka finally has a
| man who knows how to create a sue
| cessful fair. But he is not a legerde-
| main artist. He is no worker of magic.
He cannot watt a wand and turn the
| few buildings on the fair grounds into
many. He can do the work expected
/ of him, thor~-,, if he has the tools to
work with, and these tools can only be
purchased with money. The bulk of that
money must be raised by Topekans. II
| they do not raise it and the fair this
fall turns out to BE- an apology for an
agricultural exposition they will have
no one but themselves to blame If the
state legislature lends it's aid to a
| state fair project in some other locality
| Topeka is the logical place for a state
| fair but it will be difficult to convince
anybody of that fact If Topeka can.
not make a great showing in the hold
ing of a fair that will be better and
greater in all details than any similar
fair which has ever been held in Kan
sas. If this is done there will be nc
| doubt about the location of the state
fair when the state officials wake up tc
| the fact that Kansas sorely needs one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
HUNOR or THE DIP

- Hard ard Lines: Lady Caller-Cconfidentally
70 70 her hostessl; My dear, why doesn't
atheticafly)-But, my dear. he does
Punch.
On With the Dance: She-Im fraid I'm
tring you rather. He-Oh not at all i
used to be attendant in the elephant house
at the zoo.-Meggendorfer Blatter.
II, Perspiring: The. eye of a little wash
Of dew at cary morn6g ~ 5ne sparkle
exclaimed, its hotter'n thought it was"
grass is ali Covered With mere the
Baptist Commonwealth.
,n Inc No Qdd a, Giorners; Dentist-Good morn
false teeth? Giles-Well, EUR, they do lit
a bit tight under the ears.-The sketch -
as, SO you think education can become a
qRlis;s aaIps ger. ., Yes" answered Mr..
cause 1 inadvertently use w SrTdSie t Ie
sStenographer can't spell"-Washingto
The Reason Why: Have you lost any
money money OF. on the races today?" No. not a
Bon Vivant.
Better Yet: Dick-If Won will give me
penny, I will show you the nearest way
e thH town. W.T., Tourist-Good, my boyl
other penny I will show you a nearer
Way.-Fliegende BIatter.
Then he you9, don't think practice what 1
preach, eh? queried the minister in talk
ing with one Of the deacons at a meeting
NO, sir, 1 don't" replied the deacon.
you've been preachin' on the subject o.
resignation for two years, an We haven't
resigned yet.'-Ladies' Home Journal
would it be any harm to deceive her
ABOUT my age?' inquired the elderly mil
lionaire Probably not" I'm 6O How
would 1t do to confess to sop II think
your chances would be better with her IL
you claimed 76."-Kansas City Journal.
what is the most unfortunate situa-
ton you can imagine a mans being in %
asks the man who Is always propoinding
useless questions. Il should say replies
the man who can't be stumped that the
worst plight would be to be up in an air
snip, with lunch just served, and drop
Post.
- -sf,- fasr.-
Rivers, who was writing an article on
the cost Of living, found himself temporar-
ily at loss. Brooks" he said, II want
to use that scriptural phrase. from Dan
tontso to. the rest of it?'' "Beelze-
Rivers, resuming his writing. 81 had it
at my tongues end. but I couldn't quite
think OF 1t.'-Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

Where was the food faddist who is
RECALLING Topekans with wondrous ideas
as to the proper things to eat and the
proper way to exercise when one of the
Chicago newspapers was holding con-
test with valuable prizes for the most
nutritious and cheapest menus that
could be devised. Surely daily bin
OF fare consisting of a lemon for break-
fast. a graham muffin for luncheon and
a prune for dinner would have walked
away with all the honors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
rFrom the New York Press.l

IFrom the NEW DIX FEess'1
Save your pennies and investments
will swallow your pounds.
Some men seem to think they de-
serve all the credit for their ancestors.
Widows don't seem to know how
lucky they are any more than bache-
lorS.
1t appears like it could be heaven
Just by having no relations there to
visit
A woman has such an Imagination
she can remember the beautiful com
plexion she had as a girl. when her
nose was freckled and peeled from
Aunhl1rD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

Apparently the titled gentry of old
England are not of one opinion concern
ang prize fights. Sir Robert W. Perks
a member Of the British parliament for
20 years, who is visiting in this country,
denounces the coming Johnson-JeHrles
fight as an instance OF brutahty ana
degradation On the other nano sew
- lords ana dukes Of the English
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28
THE RIDDLE OF HIGH PRICES.

Elizabeth Hewes writes an article
for the April American Magazine in
which she gives the answers she re-
ceived to the question as to what was
the cause of the increase of the cost
of living. The answers she got were
from various sources and while many
were interesting and seemed credible.
none of them seem to have completely
covered the question as most Of them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

Insurgents at Washington are now as
sorting that the new rules committee,
after IL has been made up in the way
they directed 1t should be, with the
aid Of the Democrats. of course, is still
controlled by "Cannonisn." Another
pitched battle is predicted Verify are
the insurgents difficult to please.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

John watch-me Gates continues to
enhance his reputation for wisdom. He
has declined to be the Republican can
didate for governor of Texas. That is
about the emptiest of political honors
in the country. Memory fails to recall
when the Republicans succeeded in
electing a governor in the Lone Star
state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

IF that reported Pennsylvania-Santa
Fe merger becomes a reality 1t will
mean the creating Of the greatest rail-
road system in this country, and both
sides to the merger ought to profit
materially. SO will their millions OF
pafrous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

In view of the nauseous bribery scan
dal that has been unearthed at Pitts
burg, Pa. it is to be wondered If the
newspapers Of that town will continue
TO rise in their wrath whenever an out
slider remarks that the smoky city, is
fairly inundated with rottenness Of all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

The small boy and a few million OF
his elder brothers and fathers are in
their element once again. Scores OF
baseball games are beginning to find
their way into the columns Of the news
naperS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

Reports from various sections of the
state are to the effect that fishing is
fine these days. As a matter of fact,
fishing is always good wherever there
is water and fish but there is quite a
difference between fishing and catching
-,
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reerage are going 20 travel five or six
thousand miles to see the same fight.
Still Sir Robert would appear to have
the best Of the argument.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

There is small reason for surprise that
Colonel Roosevelt considers the Sphinx
the most interesting thing he has seen.
The Sphinx is the only lady who has
kept her mouth closed during all the
centuries she has been in existence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

One bride. at least. Chicago girl
has hit upon a scheme to keep her
husband. Although there was no ev1-
dence that he was firing of her she
had him arrested and placed under
hnnds not to desert her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

II prize fights could only be pulled
off these days without subsequent IN
terviews fro mthe mothers OF the fight
ers there might not be SO much about
them TO condemn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

Gold teeth also evidently have their
disadvantages. Ghouls robbed a grave
recently in Louisiana for the purpose
getting some.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

Dean Walter Williams OF the scnool
of Journalism of the University Oh MIS-
souri,, is a gentleman Of discernment'
In his opinion journalism is not a men
ara TO good society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

This difference is noted by the Louis
v,lls courier-Journal. Tho optin1itst sees
the porkchop. The pessimist sees the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

Evidently there is to be no endlng
70 the increase In the high cost OF Nv
ing. It Is reported that the price OIL
golf balls is TO be advanced materially.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

A school of matrimony has been es-
tablished in Boston. In selecting the
text books the faculty should be sure
end pick cut some standard WORKS on
cooleine for the girls classes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

In the eyes of the National baseoali
commission the case of Johnny King
IS the most important question that mas
ever come up for determination in the
TTnited States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

It's not yet too late to vote at tne
school board and commission prlilstrle
hut It will be after Z o'clock tonignt.