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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10

SONG OF THE GERM HUNTERS.
We have harried the germs, In spite OF
their sQuirms, and have slain the
same in their lains
we are after the fly with baleful eye,
and the .skeeter must say its prayers:
We have purified wells and have killed
on smells that have risen unto the
skies,
But In spite of our toll and the water
we boil, the public ups and dies.
We have swept the streets, screened fruits
lied;
NO bacillus thrives upon human lives
which we have properly sterilized;
Inc insfdious bug in the BARRIERS mug we
nave given rude surprise
But what's the use ?-some screw is loose
the public ups and dies
In the days gone by no swat the fly
was the usual summer sign:
But II somehow fell men lived as we'll
their lives were as yours and mine;
so something s wrong with the germ fiend' S
sOng-what it is we can't surmise;
But the cinch remains that, spite of our
pains, the public ups and dies.
Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
THE GRACE OF POVERTY.

els it altogether a sad reflection that
nine-tenths of the world is poor and
the remaining tenth weighed down
with superfluities 2" asks a writer in
the current issue of Harper's Weekly.
''St Francis prayed for the grace of
poverty for himself and the brothers
minor and praised personified Pow
erty as the lady of highest excellence
doubtless st. Francis knew. In the
course of the worlds history there
have been half-dozen ethical
genuises, and when they spoke of a
thing as good, it was eternal truth
they spoke.
perhaps st. Francis had in mind
the fact that life's worst miseries are
never concrete and external. Depriva-
ton is uncomfortable, but not tragic.
Broken hearts and despairing souls are
not for those who have had to re-
nounce the worlds goods but for
those whom the great trusts of life
have betrayed; those who, looking
back upon the record of years in which
they have been silently and secretly
heaping up impressions can find no
affection stable, no principle mistaken,
no faith firm. Despair comes when
the 6Inlcal structure OF the universe
seems as fluid as the physical; when
the earth itself moves with the earthly
pageant so that literally nothing
abides.
But in world where ali is slight
and temporal and transitory there is
certain refinement, a certain stoicaI
adjustment of oneself to the tune of
the universe in poverty. To be rich
and not overloaded with tawdry things
is almost an impossibility; but poverty
leaves wide scope for austere choice
of the rare and the beautiful.
There are tiny huts in out-of-the-
way places, giving upon wonderful, ex-
tended views of distant hills and layer
upon layer of azure cloudland, that
furnish more beauty than Lambeth
Palace and Versailles together For
the spiritual quality of human living
somehow pervades and colors an en-
tire locality. Intangible perhaps and
yet perceptible is the atmosphere of
habitually directed thinking and con-
siderate living. The choice Of silence
and loneliness and spirit-rest in the
place of the vulgar dissipation of
human noise bespeaks the spirits
Sfro1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
A BLOW At LIBERTY.

Hanging is too good for James ].
Gallagher, who came so near succeed
ing yesterday in his attempt to assas-
sinate William ]. Gaynor, mayor of
New York City. Judge Gaynor was
the last man in the world who should
have come in for such murderous at
tack and from such a source. His
has always been a fight for the people
and their rights, and many were be-
ginning to turn to him as one of the
men who will be asked to help solve
the important questions of federal
government which are pressing now
and will be for the next few years.
But the assault has a wider signifi-
canoe than the striking down of
man. even if that man be William j.
Gaynor. 1t is another blow at free
institutions. There have been many
such struck in this country. Three
presidents of the nation have already
given up their lives to assassins'
wrath in less than half a century. And
now an attempt is made on the life of
the mayor of the metropolis of the
nation. What does it all mean? Here
is a land where the largest measure
of freedom is accorded to all NO
man is too poor, or too lowly of sta
ton, but he can have his full
rights protected through due process
of law Yet the assaSsin's gun is
worked here with more frequency
than it is in other sections of the
world, where governments are not of
the people, for the people and by the
people, but for the benefit of the czars,
emperors and other despots who rule
them.
One cannot help think as he recalls
the great and good men of these United
States who have fallen victims to the
savageness of those whom they would
probably have gone farthest to help.
that there is one class of people on
earth who deserve no better fate than
to be held down under the cruel heel
of tyranny. And it is beginning to
look as though stern and rigorous
measures will have to be adopted in
this country to restrain the human
brutes who really have no business It
large.
A nation wide prayer is probably
going up today that William ]. Gay
nor's life be saved to him. He has
put it to good use so far in the serv-
ice of the people. He seems to be
just the man needed to bring order
out of chaos in the administration of
the affairs of the largest city in Amer
lea, in which the people of the entire
country have more or less pride. His
friends may be pardoned for thinking
that a greater public service is before
him if his health and strength is pre-
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the school finances of the city are not
in such shape as to warrant an ex-
penditure of even a few thousand dol
lars for any such purpose.
About the only argument put for
ward for a change OF these books is
that the school children have grown
tired of studying the same old songs
and music. There is no contention
that the music books are not Of a high
standard among the books of this
character. They haven't been in use
six years. Perhaps they are a bit tire
some to some of the pupils. The same
complaints would likely be made by
them concerning all their books. That
would be no good reason, though, for
changing all of them. Then, too, mu-
sic is music and children can be taught
its delightful and inspiring mysteries
with one set of tunes just as efficiently
as with another. In fact, it would ap-
pear that the more familiar they are
with the tunes, the easier it would be
to instruct them in the fine points of
the art.
But the important feature of this
little controversy over the music books
is the evident intention of the members
of the school board to conduct the
schools in an economical manner to all
concerned. That's what the people
put them in office for. and that they
are delivering the goods is reason for
congratulations all around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
STARTING OUT RIGHT.

Indications are that the members of
the reorganized board of education
will live up to the expectations of the
people whose chose them to administer
the school affairs of the city. A straw
showing the way in which the wind is
blowing came to the front at a recent
meeting of the board. It was the
adoption of a resolution reconsidering
the action taken at one of the last
meetings of the old board which pro-
vided for change in the music books
in use in the grade schools. After re-
considering this action the matter was
referred for investigation to a special
committee, and the chances are that
a report from this committee against
a change of these books would be most
acceptable to the board.
At any rate it would be acceptable
to the people OF the city, the patrons
of the schools. If the music books are
changed it would involve an expendi-
ture of several thousand dollars in the
aggregate by the parents of the school
children to supply them with the new
books. Or the board might buy these
books for the use of the pupils But
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Many a mother thinks her daughter
is in love, says the Lawrence Journal,
when she is merely bilious.
1t is the idea of the Beloit Call that
a love letter generally consists of ten
pages of the same thing said in 81 diff
ferent ways.
Taking a firm hold on times fore
lock the Emporia Gazette is out with
the suggestion: do your Christmas
shopping early"
Everybody has his own idea of en-
tertainment, says the Abilene Reflect
or. A number of insurgent papers are
taking delight IN going out to the po-
litical battlefield and mauling the
corpses with a club.
Just think about it these long hot
days and it will make you mad re-
marks Bert Walker, in his Osborne
Farmer. There was Old Noah who
spent forty days and forty nights in
the ark with all the flies in the world
right under his nose. Two swats
would have done the business, but
Noah was asleep at the switch and now
we have to suffer for 1t.
There is a certain man in Atchison,
says the Globe, who is threatened with
good sense, but he has one marked
weakness: he is always right. He
can't understand that other people
have a right to an opinion, when it
differs from his, or that others can
possibly be right. The man of intelli-
gence always admits that there may
be something in what others say.
You hear a great deal about trials
and tribulations sweetening a persons
disposition. Personally. we believe
there is some danger of getting an
overdose Of this medicine. We once
heard of family who had barrel Of
sweet cider in the cellar. They let it
ferment in order to improve the cider.
They didn't choke off the process in
time and before they realized 1t the
cider had turned to vinegar.-Linds-
borg News.
year or so ago, according to the
Holton Recorder, Scott Moore bought
a second hand spring wagon for which
he paid something like SIS. If there is
$4,000 auto IN town that has given
any family more use and pleasure than
this IS spring wagon has the Moore
family we don't know who 1t belongs
to. Scott has fixed up a complete
camping outfit, table, seats, stove and
other conveniences, which he keeps
packed in his spring wagon and nearly
every warm summer evening the fam
lily take some eatables and drive out
in the country some place and eat their
supper They carry ice in their picnic
basket and can cook eggs and bacon
or ham and make coffee Just as con-
veniently and much more pleasantly
than they can at home. They all get
the outdoor life which they enjoy with
minimum of trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Iron the Chicago News.l

A badly told story is a poor relation.
He is a poor mechanic who can't
make ar excuse
Many a man who is willing to be a
CRATER lacks the chance.
The ships most successfully naviga-
ted by women are courtsnips.
Love makes the world go round
and sometimes keeps it square.
It's difficult for a man to collect him
self when his wits are scattered.
A man is never his own worst enemy
as long as he can keep his temper.
Spending ones vacation offers a grand
opportunity for spending ones money.
A poor man has to spend money to
prove that he has it; rich man
doesn't.
The man who never boasts of what
he is going to do has fewer excuses to
make.
There's one thing to be said in favor
of summer. We have warmer friends
then than we have in winter.
Some men their bills with resig-
nation, some others pay them with
money, ard a great many never pay
them at all.
There are two kinds of unhappy peo-
rle I'm the world-those who are sad be-
cause they are not known. and those
who are miserable because they are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
HUNOR OF THE DAY

Edith told Clara, under promise of alb
solute secrecy, of our engagement. Fred
EdithmNo a the snitefu thing e nevsy
toned it.-Illustrated Bits.
THE decline of Rome was a sad thing"
What else could you expect rejoined
Colonel Stilwell. "of a town where they
candles and used roman punch as a bever-
DECENTRALIZATION Star
vice" wouldn't he listen to your He
listened TO me carefully and then struck
me for 81. OF course. I had to cough up.
Louisville Courier-JournaL
$50 they've quarreled already" Eyes,
he wanted his people for their first sun
day dinner at home and she wanted hers.
and both refused to arbitrate. Detroit
Free Press.
And what are we to understand by the
biblical expression, The four corners of
oiogy. Rockefeiers corner in Oil n HAZE aHe
meyers corner in sugar Carnegie's cor
ner in steel and Patterns corner in wheat"
answers the new student.-Saturday Even
ing Post.
Wife treproachfully)-Yo forget how
you once breathed your love in my ear
be gratified. Hub-No I don't, but wish
keeping my mouth shut while breathing
Boston Transcript
'I see you employ a number of old
men," Il do" How old are they?'' TOO
old to be interested in canoeing, or man
dolins. or race horses. or girls or tennis
That makes them fine for work."-Wash-
ington Herald.
Mr.. Dorlins Cautiously approaching the
kitchen)-Bobby, what is your mother
storming about? Bobby Dorkins-She
burnt herself on that fireless cooker.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Has the college been of any value to
you, Mr.. President?' Young man,
where would have been but for the cleo
toral college?" responded the genial ex-
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
QUAKER NIEDITAFToNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

lF'rom the Philadelphia Record.]
The trouble with the average bread
winner is that he wants cake.
The fellow who has money to burn
generally scorches his fingers
The faint heart that neer wins fair
lady is sometimes to be congratulated.
1t doesn't do so much good to know
just what to do IL we forget to do II.
Some people are so anxious to give
the devil his due that they pay in adj
vance.
strangely enough. it's when a man
fall for it,
NeliI.Young Mr.. saphedde says he
Beile-'In trust 70
woman likes to take things back
snd have them exchanged, even though
1t requires a trip to Reno.
"Bjcnes says he freoue,t,v
lake. taxes trips across the water" Wagg-
Yes; he has relatives in Camden-"
UNCONSTITUTIONAL doe~r,t .
appeal to you" slobbs-"He knows
It's no use. I've turned him down too
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.l
is easy to snub an enthusiast


1t is easy to snub an enthusiastic
man.
We have noticed that we never lose
our umbrellas during a rain.
Some women seem to have the same
inherent fear of a man that they have
of a mouse.
You will find all sorts of people in
the world, including a tew who pre-
tend to like mineral water.
If you have anything to give away,
you are at liberty to wait until Christ
mas, but pay your debts now.
AS a man gets older, and n1istrusts
his teeth, he cuts his chewing tobacco,
instead Of biting it off.
Only a few people walk gracefully.
and not one, so far as recorded, is able
to eat green corn that way.
If a friend Of ours has no more con-
sideration for our feelings than to get
drunk, we will not steady him on his
way home
The slowest man we know is always
joking about the slowness of Phila-
Gelphia, one Of the really pushing, en-
orgetic cities of this country.
An Atchison man has an exceedingly
happy disposition: he buys German
carp six or seven inches long, and says
they are better than black bass.
The farmers are not discouraged be-
cause of an unfayorable season; like
IH0 members OA a lOSiuS Dzali cluD, LQey
are telling what they will do next sea-
son.
While the people cling to most of
their foolish notions, it may be said
that the Fats and Leans are not play
ing baseba:l as often as they did In
days gone by.
child's faith in Santa Claus is be-
lieved by many to be beautiful. As a
matter of fact, tine child hasn't it, (Note
We usually do not abuse Santa Claus
until about the 1st of December, but
we are particularly grouchy here late
"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
FRON OTHER PENS
BORROWING AND STEALING.

BORROWING AND STEALING,
Outright, unmitigated stealing, in
the sense of taking money or moneys
worth with the intention of keeping it,
is a crime the commission of which is
attempted with curious infrequency by
bank officials and employees. Detail
cations, big and little, are not so I'M
common as one could wish or as they
ought to be, but not once in a hum
bred times, perhaps not once in thou
sand times, is the original act any
thing except a secret borrowing, made
with both the firm intention and the
confident expectation of speedily re-
turning the cash or securities taken.
Now and then, to be sure, when the
defaulter finds discovery close at
hand and inevitable, he stuffs his
pockets with bills, and in the ordinary
sense of the word, steals just before
he makes a run for safety, but that
is a mere act of desperation, and has
little or no qualitative likeness to what
was done before.
This popularity is explained, doubt
less, by the fact that, though for the
higher bank employe the opportunl-
ties for simple theft are constant, the
temptation to utilize them is not
strong. since ultimate detection is GER
tain and the penalties many and Sc
we're. On the other hand. the oppor-
tunity for borrowing" Is equal to that
for stealing, while detection is not
very likely IL the amount tdhCh Can
be put back soon. The remedy Tor this
evil would seem to be better account
ing and examining, but elaboration
in that direction has its practical limit,
and in every series or guardians Ior
guards there must always come one at
the top unguarded.-New York Times.
SOUTHERN CORN PRODUCT1ON-
remarkable showing, and one
which is prophetic of great things for
the south, is made by Martin v. Calvin.
director of the Georgia experiment
station, in a communication to the At
lanta Constitution, wherein he COM
pares the corn production OF the lead
ing cotton-producing states to the pro-
duction of grain in several eastern and
western states
These figures show that North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
Arkansas and Oklahoma produced
417,577,O0O bushels of corn while
the gross product in Pennsylvania, In
diana Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, North Dakota. South Dakota,
Kansas and Colorado was 355,790, 900
Thus for 1910 the cotton states have
to their credit 61,790.O00 more bushels
OF corn than the nine eastern and
western states given in this list. The
latter does not. of course. contain all
of the corn producing states OF those
sections, but, nevertheless. these fig
ures are eloquent of the determination
of the farmers Of the south to cease to
depend entirely upon cotton, and they
forecast increasing prosperity.-Bir-
mingham Age-Herald.
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who had just arrived to say that he
would put an "e'' on Brown and
change the Henri to Samuel in order
to win the hand of the charming
granddaughter. The matter was
taken under advisement for two days
and then grandma reported:
'It was a put-up job on me, ana
Sherlock Holmes would say so, but
If you two young folks are smart
enough to carry such a thing through
1 guess mebbe you'll make success
of marriage. Ethel, you get over
that decline at once, and Browne.
you think of some name not quite so
silly as Henri, and not quite SO COM
mon as Samuel."-(Copyri 1910
by Associated Literary Press.)
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Five Baths in 81 Years.

Vagrancy was charged against John
Sweeney of Joplin, Mo-, who says he
is SO years old and never had a shave
in his life. and who was arrested in
the Frisco yards. His snow white
beard is feet inches long and he
wears it wrapped several times around
his body.
Sweeney says he has been a tramp
81 years, has had only five baths in
that time, and never felt the scrape
of a razor on his face.
He has been put to work on the
streets. and attracts considerable at
tention.-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

CF'rom the New York Pressl
The strongest belief conceited man
has is that he isn't.
An extra hateful bill to pay is when
1t was for something useful
Temptation plays a game where no
body else has chance to win.
1t seems as II the worse destiny treats
q woman the more faith she can have
in it.
A woman is willing to slave he self
to death for a man who tells her she
inspires him to want to do noble things
for her.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES
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
q week or thirty cents a month Thy
mail onIy.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town the
State Journal will be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Everybody has plenty of friends I'M
til he needs a little assistance.
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If faces were really feminine for
tunes more women would be broke.
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Many mems important business
on afternoons takes them to the ball
games.
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Few women think of their comfort
when they are buying wearing apparel.
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One person less in the world
wouldn't maks much difference to you
unless it happened to be yourself.
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Do not be in a hurry to believe that
Uncle Joe Cannon is dead one, until
the agent sticks his foot in the door so
you can't shut it. and then proceeds to
sell you the Life of Uncle Joe, in is
half-calf volumes, at dollar down and
ten cents week. Then 1t will be time
to suspect that Uncle Joe has indeed
passed away.
AS we understand it, the police have
ascertained that the moving picture
gentleman was shot in the basement.
Just because a girl has nothing to
conceal, it is no reason why she should
pass up the dressmakers and white
goods sales.
About that 21z cent coin: Let US petit
ton our Uncle Samuel to forget it.
With such coin in circulation, the
dealers would charge us I71k cents for a
As it is, they haven't the nerve to
charge 20.
It is to be hoped that Mrs. Nick
Longworth has proper sewer connec-
tionS in her house, so that she may get
rid of the slush which she is receiving
through the mails.
1t may be just as well that the Span
ish authorities seized those guns which
were consigned TO the insurgents. The
dubs might have used them as clubs,
and injured some one.
A 7S-year-old preacher in Chicago is
going to marry a girl of %. From which
we gather that the preacheresque habit
of getting the best of everything, is not
confined to the choice cuts of the yellow
legged chicken. -
We cannot help but feel that wheth-
er Vending kissed her only once or
several times, the Missouri widow has
little to brag about.
The Poles are proud of Kosciusco,
but they have room left in their pride
department for the Pole who won the
New York banana eating handicap,
with a score of "a dry ones.