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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
LAYHAWKER JOTS

If you want any better weather than
this, advises the ottawa Herald, you'll
have to move out of America
There is nothing new or surprising,
says the Parsons Sun, in the announce
ment made by tie banks that the de-
supply. Any married man could have
told that.
Il guess 1 am naturally stubborn"
said Bill Sincaller the other day in
the hearing of the Vinland Vine, but
L can never bring myself to buying a
thing an agent tells me 1 cannot af-
ford to get along without"
No railroad is popular that does not
get it's Sunday afternoon train through
on time, says the Dickinson County
News and it explains: This is the prin-
cipal attraction in a small town and
the people won't stand for any delay.
A Great Bend woman, relates the
Tribune, told the children of the house
they could go to the picture show the
other night. They got a block away
before she remembered they were quar-
antined and couldn't leave the yard.
She brought them back in a hurry.
At a meeting of the Clitter-Clatter
club a few days ago, according to the
Harrington Sun, the women were dis
cussing tuberculosis, appendicitis, and
few kindred ailments, when the prest-
dent interrupted them, saying, Ladies,
we did not come here for an organ
recital"
A hint to the business men and mer-
chants of many Kansas towns from
the Leavenworth Post: It can be truth
fully said of the Kansas City mer-
chants that they are wide awake.
When they attempt to put on a carni-
val they do it right and they are
abundantly repaid for their expense and
trouble. whats the use?' seems to
1ofo in
City.
John Gilmore contends that a news
paper writer can't work away from the
office. Copy prepared at home is not
like that turned out in the office,
where he can tilt his chair, prop his
feet up on the desk, and expectorate
at the ceiling until the thought he has
been hunting comes to him. Now we
understand, adds Anna Carlson in the
Lindsborg News, why it is that the
thought we ''have been hunting for
so often fails to come to us, for how is
a woman to prop her feet up on the
desk and expectorate at the ceiling?
There is young man connected with
the Bell Telephone company who is in
bad condition with his feet. Suddenly
with no special cause, cOrns and bum
ions broke loose all over the vast area
of his motive power. He suffers a good
deal and has bandages enough to make
a horseblanket over toes and other
parts of his lOcomotion. Passing dim
stairway Sunday afternoon and the
anguish being past the endurance point
he slipped halfway up the stairs, re-
moved his shoes to readjust the cloths
and plasters While absorbed in the
operation and experiencing unspeakable
relief, he was Mortified to see a rival in
the same company pass with the sur-
ferers' own special girl friend. That
was bad enough but the rival caught
sight of him and rubbed it in and ad-
ded insult to injury with a pleasant
saIutation of good night. Bill, going
to he'd there ?'-Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News.1
laugh is good thing-if 1t isn't
on you.
Even pretty girl. if wise, will learn
to cook. II
The misfortunes of a man are sure
to test his friends.
No, Cordelia, a statistician is,,4
merely figurehead. -Si
we all talk about saving money
Dut most OF US let it go at that.
When man loafs he inst loaes.
work. fancy
II there is anything nice to saw
ABOUT man 1t is always said At HI.
funeral. at MS
NO man is justified in considerins
marriage mar a failure merely because his
wife snores. MS
II takes as little to start some No.,
10 arguing as it does to start sn,sa
women gossiping. sumo
Feople who try to impress Won o,;.L
their wealth usually find If 5; S4u with
make both ends meet, "ieule to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
HUNOR OF THE DIP

You can't guess what sister said about
you just before you came in, Mr.. High
collar, said little Johnnie II haven't an
idea in the world, Johnnie" That's Il
You guessed it the very first time Tit
Bits.
Little. Willie-Say, pa. when poverty
comes in at the door, what window does
love fly out of? Pa-It probably flies out
of the dining room window, my son.-Chj-
cago News.
SO Bryonson doesn't play on your ball
tied down and is the father of twins 1T
see; he has a bawl team of his own"
Boston Transcript.
1T is every woman duty to keep Young
as long as possible" she said. Yes he
admitted, but the great trouble is that
SO many women insist on keeping yoIne
after it is impossible. ''-Chicago Record
Herald.
Ethyl am sorry you were not asked
10 the Pennberton ball, dear. You know
l Will be there. of course. Claire-Yes:
but then, Kate Pemberton knows I am farr
too young to be of any use as a chaperon.
Judge. -'
., RyanaaFor Who'll re We putin I'D a
lived here widout? Doyle-WelI. thu facf
is, Barney, tn docthor's bin at us + teEs
precautions again Thin microbes ves1e
heard of.-Tit-Bits. W
How was the days fishing?'' "a fail
ure. Didn't the fish bife?'' There
were plenty of fish, but Jim Culver drono
ped our only flask in a tefl-foot nooi u s,SS
then we all came away."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer. ieiiA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

about this fair haired girl which would
keep him contented in a future of mac
ton?
Even as he thought of her, she came
and stood beside him on the dock.
4 want you to go away, Stephen,
she said, land if, when you come back
IN two years, you still care for me, 1
VIII believe that you know yourself
better than you do now
1t was not easy for him to go, yet he
realized when ne was once on his
journey that it would not have been
easy for him to stay. The spell of the
sea was on him, and he was, before
everything else, a sailor.
But he realized, as time went on
there was another spell upon him-the
tropic country, the lazy life did not
satisfy. He found himself buying, not
as he had bought before, useless
tr1nkets, but things which would beau
tify home, carved chest, embroid
cries and linens-things that woman
would like. And when he bought a
ring Of curious workmanship, of beater
gold with a dull blue stone, he knew
that he had made up his mind. He
knew, too, that he had made his last
voyage.
On the return trip his heart failed
MIN. What If little Anne had not been
true? What if her love were not wait
ing for him? Other men knew her
charm, and other men had not sailed
away and left her.
She was not on the dock when the
boat came in, and fearing to face the
things he dreaded he took his way to
his mothers cottage. AS he rounded
tie jutting rock he looked for the
light. And 1t was there! Anne was
waitingl
shall never go away again." he
said, as she welcomed him.
But won't you long for the sea?
am jealous of it,
He shook his head. 81 know now
that nothing has for me the charm of
the lights of home. There is beauty to
he found elsewhere and wonder and ad-
venture. but these things do not count
when weighed in the balance with such
women as you. 1 have found that out,
and I know my mind now, little Anne"
Copyrighted, 1910 by Associated Lit
erary Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A woman is most happily married
when she has a husband who's afraid
of her.
X x
If some people had everything they
want, they would have everything
there is.
y
The closer the friend, the more I'M
reasonable it is to expect him to loan
you money.
An economical wife worries more
over the matches her husband uses,
to keep his pipe and cigars going, than
she does about anything else.
y :.
1t ought to take the conceit out of
many men to see how well the work
goes on in the offices where they are
employed while they're away on their
vacations.
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QUAKER MEDTTAToNs.
IRON the Philadelphia Record. ]

From the Philadelphia Record
All in your eye-women's hatpins.
Many a mans purse is shy of the
long green because it costs him so
much to color his nose.
The world would be a little better if
every evil tongue was owned by per-
son who shutters.
It is much easier for a woman to
turn a lover into a husband than to
keep a husband a lover.
''At last I have a steady job" re-
marked the fellow Who had been en-
gagged to do tight-rope act.
If it wasn't for their long faces
world wouldn't know they were reIi-
gious.
The fellow who marries his tailor's
daughter may be merely proving that
there can be no perfect love without
trust.
The man who marries a woman for
her money, and the woman who mar
ries a man to reform him are Just
about paired.
IT have to work pretty hard to
pay you this rent" remarked the ten
ant. mot so hard as 1 sometimes
have to work to get it," replied the
landlord.
He-why does woman always
look under the bed for a man? She
Why does a man always go out be-
tween acts to look for one?
Cynicus-The smallest men are
sometimes the heaviest. Sillicus-How
do you figure that out? Cynicus-
When they have to be carried by their
friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
When Love Grows Cold.

When love grows cold it makes a
wonderful difference in ones Ian
guage! This is a great truth which
the documents and statements in the
New York breach of promise case of
Ruzzie" Griswold against Miss Helen
M Smith beautifully illustrate
When one reads the letters address
ed to "Geliebter Siegfried' or my
Beloved Sgd" and signed "Brunhilde,' -
letters full not only of fond affection,
but also of German vaudeville dialect,
and then turns to some of Miss Smith s
recent references to "Ruzzie.'' he can
harry recognize the style
why is it that you are feeling SO
miserable just now?" she asks with
fond solicitude in one letter at is
beautiful out of doors today. I wish
I could wander in some field with
mein little sweetheart all de day long,
Write or telephone or speak or show
up orr die
these melting lines should have made
these few remarks a little over four
years after-remarks which even in
print have a certain rasping sound and
vibrant quality of suppressed finger
nails:
"I'n stop the little scanp's nasty
work if there's any redress in law.
There must be some protection against
him and his counsel publishing my
letters. I will prevent him if I can do
it. 1 won't say another word about
him.
81 wish I could see you and be with
you for about five dark minutes at
least" she wrote as recently as 1905.
do be careful what you eat. and take
lots of fresh air. And oh, get well,
sweet boy; and, oh, do you love me a
little? And, oh, am miserable when
you are Ill, and I am (you know it)
fondly. foolishly yours in the great
eternal"
Did burning Sappho" ever love and
sing in a fashion so delectable? We
trow not. But for that matter neither
did burning Sappho'' follow up her
years later, with such cruel words as
these, said openly to a reporter:
"Griswold is an ungrateful young
cad. 1t is against men of his ca1fber
that we should be protected. Sandbag-
ging would be too good for him and I
don't know that I'd be sorry if he got
a good trouncing. I got tired of tax
ing care of beggars like him and got rid
of him.
From these contrasted sentiments
we see that when love grows cold the
heat is not necessarily radiated An0
lost in space. The heat may go into
the lady's language, giving it a pic
turesquenesS and a vigor all its own
But If Miss Smith is all ice as to her
feelings, and all fire as to her Ian
guage, "Ruzzie" Griswold, the young
man who wants damages for her
failure to marry him. as per her al
legged promise, preserves a gentle tone
of heart-broken melancholy. It is thus
that he touchingly refers to the rival
who supplanted him:
Every time I went to call on Helen,
after I got out of the hospital, Har-
per was there. He looked askance at
me when 1 went to Linden Lodge.
From Easter I saw myself losing
ground in her love. 1t was an awful
realization. I have wept and I cry
now at times: for I still love her de-
spite the cruel things she has said''
The case is still young. But even at
this early stage 1T may be asserted
that in unique interest it is not I'M
worthy to rank with the celebrated
suit of Barde1 VS.. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
OBSERVATIONS.

The majesty of one lone tree
Upon a mountain side
Makes up in marvellous degree
F9r those great weaknesses which we
In man SO oft deride.
The simple beauty of a dell,
Where modest roses bloom,
Shames, with its soft and pleasing spell
The tawdFiness we know so well
OF many a mansion room.
The honest methods nature knows,
Throughout her vast domain,
A great, all-seeing searchlight throws
On tricks of trades, and clearly shows
The criss-crossed crimes of gain.
The silence of the rocky shore,
10 wind and wave resigned,
Rebukes the clamoring, wild uproar-
The constant cry for more more, more
OF -loud-mouthed humankind.
-Laurana W. Sheldon, in the New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.


Be a busybody: about your own af-
fairs.
Real reform hurts, but bogus reform
is pleasant.
There is no such thing as cheap
drunk to the man who is putting
it on.
Everybody is bold enough these days
to say they do not like to go to church.
I'D rather take a whipping any time
than become excited."-Parson Irvine.
We have long been tired of hearing
worthless buns tell of the sins of
worthy, industrious men.
IF I had his money" said a brake
man in speaking of wealthy citizen,
''I would burn few lights"
An Atchison crank has added one
more to the list of things he despises:
familiar tunes with variations.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned woman who regarded fainting
away as a sign Of refinement?
We're tired of the old politicians
fighting each other. and making out
that they are so big. How do you feel
about it?
ready, the Globe would demand one re-
curing all pies to be at least an inch
thick.
Science and invention have over
come g lot Of automobile troubles, but
the trouble of paying for them remains
about the same
Over IN Missouri, if a man asks,
How are you getting along?'' you are
considered impolite unless you ask
back: How are you getting along?"
"A colored girl who is employed in an
Atchison family says her steady young
man is a BARRIERS assistant. (Chart-
A porter in a, barber shop.)
If you do a good days work, don't
grunt around the balance of the week.
Some people have confidence in
dream books. In the name of common
sense. why?
It doesn't do a great deal of good 20
laugh at trouble, the result usually be-
ing a sickly grin. Nor does it help any
to whine; about the only thing that
counts is to work your way out.
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attention of the stock-raising interests.
But-and this is a most important
but to Kansas farmers-the Kansas
State Agricultural college does manu-
facture this serum for distribution at
the cost of production to the farmers
OF Kansas. And the farmers of this
state who help to fill their Golfers by
raising hogs on the side will do well
to note the conclusive proof furnished
by the federal government of the eff
cacy of this hog cholera serum. 1t will
mean much more mone--- in their pock
cts each year if they keep supply of
it on hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
OUR MOST vENoMoUs CREATURE


One venomous creature there is in
this country which may justly be
termed a public peril, in the widest
sense, says Everybody's Magazine for
October. Proportionately to popula
ton, more victims fall to it yearly in
the United States than to the dreaded
cobra in India. Some twelve thou
sand Americans are killed every year
by it's bite. Three hundred thousand
more are made seriously ill from the
after effects. Unfortunately, the virus
works so slowly that alarm is stilled.
The victims do not sicken at once.
The bite is forgotten; but ten days or
two weeks after, the subject falls into
a fever His blood is poisoned within
him. Eventually, in extreme cases,
he becomes deIirious, succumbs to a
stupor, and dies.
Yet, because there is nothing horrific
to the sensation-loving imagination in
the Misunderstanding mosquito, public
inertia or ignorance toIerates 1t with
a grin and permits it to breed in city
and county alike throughout the
length and breadth of the nation. Com
pared with 1t, as a real menace, all
the combined brood of snakes, scor-
pions, centipedes, tarantulas, and other
pet bugaboos of our childish roman
ticism are utterly negligible; are as
Pigment to reality, as shadow to sub
stance. It is perhaps characteristic Of
our wryly humorous American tenn
permanent that we should have invested
the unimportant danger with all the
shuddering attributes of horror, and
have made of the real peril a joke to
be perennially hailed with laughter in
a thousand thoughtless prints.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
KANSAS COMAENT
THE BIG TYPE.


MISS Frances Garside wrote for the
Atchison Globe for many years. Her
stuff was printed in the ordinary type
with modest head over the depart
ment containing it. There was no red
ink or big type. People read her stor-
les every day, and were amused by
them and her work attracted so much
attentlon that she was engaged by the
New York Journal, paper that brags
great deal about the salaries it pays.
me Journal engages many writer's
VINO nave distinguished themselves, and
then syndicates their stuff all over the
country and it is remarkable fact
that as soon as a writer goes to the
New York Journal he loses his grip
ana becomes fiat, stale and unprofit-
able.
Miss Garside's stuff now appears in
the Hearst newspapers all over the
country. 1t is printed in big glaring
type ana has an engraved heading
over 1t, and some bughouse illustra-
tons. 1t is not a bit like the grace
ful, pleasant stuff she used to write
IN the Globe where she felt at home,
where there were no alexis with high
Ioreheads to change, erase and criticiSe
her work. 1t IS probable that Miss Gar
side is scared to death in the New
York Journal office. When people are
scared, or made uncomfortable, they
can't write good stuff. Miss Garside
IS writing poor stuff since she went
to New York. 1t is not her fault; it
is the fault of the New York Journal.
All the Journal special writer's did
great work once, and now they are all
writing rot.
1t is probable that Miss Garside will
be back at her old job in Atchison be-
fore long. 1t must be a great trial
to her to see her modest little stories
given to the world through a Hearst
megaphone. She is said to be draw
ing fancy salary, and has little work
to do, but soft job and a big sal
airy count for little with the writer
who works for the works sake.-Em-
poria Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

A few additional words from Colonel
Roosevelt on the subject of race sui
eide would appear to be necessary.
Lillian Bell, in an interview in New
York, declares that unlimited families
are curse and that it is a crime for
most people to have even two children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

Great news for the consumers who
have been the victims of high prices
for so long. Radium is getting cheap
er. 1t now costs only $2,1OO,OoO an
ounce. And there is no tariff on
radium, either. SO a couple of pounds
of it can be bought just as cheaply in
the United States as any place else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10
REFLECTIONS OF BACHELOR,
[Frofn the New York Press.]

LfTO1n the New YOrk FreSs.I
It's a young moon that sees no
spooning.
The less a man talks about himself
the more he would like to.
A man can't get half as mad over
other peoples religion and politics as
over their dogs.
Unfortunately, when the autumn
leaves begin to fall coal is going to
spoil the poetry of it.
When a woman is consumed with
jealousy she proves it by insisting
upon telling how she isn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

It is a good thing for the coming
generation that the environment of
some colleges and universities does
not have the same effect on the stud
ents that it apparently has on some of
the professors. D. Cady Eaton, of the
faculty of Yale. now has visions of
another secession on the part of several
of the states of the Union. He thinks
1t may be the only way for the people
TO regain their liberties and terminate
the rule of graft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

Lee O'Neil Browne, testifying before
the Lorimer investigating committee,
gave several rather elaborate and
plausible reasons why certain of
the Democrats in the Illinois legisla-
ture voted for Mr.. Lorimer for United
States senator. But most people will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

1t is to be hoped that the business
men and merchants of Topeka will re-
spond to the request that they decorate
their places of business in honor of the
Christian church convention a trife
more deliberately than they did for the
state fair
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TOO HIGH NOW.

President Ripley of the Santa Fe
calls attention to the fact that stock
holders in railroads only get an av-
erage of 6 per cent on their invest
ment. That is doubtless true. so far
as the general investor is concerned,
but it is not true SO far as the men
who do the manipulating go. The rail-
roads are stocked and bonded way be-
yond their legitimate needs and of
course if interest is to be paid on water
and all, freight rates will have to come
up. The time has come to make a
decided stand against increased freight
rates. The rates are too high now
and until the water is squeezed out
the public ought to insist upon their
going no higher. Lawrence Journal.
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Members of the Chicago Typograph-
zeal union have voted with large ma
jorities against organized labor aIlying
itself with the Socialist party, or or
ganizing an independent political par
ty. This is another indication that
organized labor is one of intelligent
and sensible elements of the nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

The assumption is reasonable that
the promoters of the Vanderbilt cup
race are not human. They character
ize the criticism of that race which
was engendered by it's terrible list of
dead and injured as having been "un-
lust and unwarranted 3"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

After reading what might be termed
the counter charges of Nine. Cavalieri
it would seem that both she and Bob
Chandler picked lemons in the garden
of love, where, as the song puts it,
nothing but peaches are supposed to
grow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

Agreement has finally been reach
ed by the railroads and the interstate
commerce commission on a definite
standard of safety appliances to be at
tached to railway cars and Iocomo-
tives. These proposed changes in
equipment will cost the railroads $780,
100000. This will come in handy as
another argument by the railroads for
increasing their freight rates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw is without funds.
However, such a condition of affairs
ought not to trouble her, as she ap-
pears to have gotten along very nicely
for several years without much in the
way Of reputation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-10

Mr.. Roosevelt's title of colonel won't
be so significant in the south where he
is travelling. Every other man down
there is a colonel and the rest are
generals or majors
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cling to the belief that the packages
of money containing $1,000 and more
which were floating around Springfield
were the controlling reasons for Lori
mer getting these Democratic votes.