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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

case Moulton was somehow to blame.
ne certainly is not under the ta-
pie Moulton replied firmly. .T'lI take
: iook about the room. He may be
| nlulng In some corner"
a careful search. however, revealed
no traces of the intruder. ssHe is not
| IN InlS room" the older lady said trag-
lcaliy. Where is he, then? Am I
neve[ again to know any peace in my
7 know I shan't close nv eyes to-
of despair. ---.-''''
Moulton protested against this ex-
not be hard matter to get rid of
the rat. you went to set trap
But that's the trouble" Ethel in
terposed- IF we should ask Luz
cinoa to set a trap I'm sure she'd
give warning Immediately
Perhaps" began Etheps grand
mother, surveying Moulton with in
terest, ''since Mr.-er-Mou!ton has
peen SO kind, he would put US under
further obligation
m sure, grandma" protested
EInel, blushing divinely, 'sthat we
GENTLY
Naturally. Moulton took the oppo-
site view: He was to call the next
evening, bringing a trap so disguised
as to furnish no cue to the wary eye
OF the timid domestic. He was also
TO bring the cheese. He left at q late
hour in beatific mood.
After an evening spent in setting
the trap and making advances in the
favor Of Ethel and her grandmother.
Moulton spent several listless DAYS.
Then one morning the servant walked
MIN with the informationthat he was
wanted at the telephone. Moulton
| silpped a bathrobe over his pajamas
and went to answer the summons.
ton?''
I An ecstatic gasp was her only an
sWer, but it seemed enough. "Oh,
caughti''
us it possible? I congratulate
you"
| "Yes-but won't you come and help
us Now we've got him we don't
know what to do with him.
/ III come Immediately, that is, just
as soon as-Ill be there very soon.'
I Not too soon, Mr.. Moulton. I
haven't mean I don't want to hurry
you."
The rat was speedily dispatched
/ and Moulton remained to breakfast.
! When an eligible man eats breakfast
with charming girl the rest is mere
/ formality. And these two young peo-
/ pie reached an understanding in rec
ord time.
But Moulton was not allowed to for
i get to what he owed his happiness,
When he asked Etheps grandmother
/ for her hand the old lady replied with
/ customary frankness:
ETHEL is really too young and silly
/ for marriage" she said. "And I've
always had a prejudice against West
erners. At the same time 1 am going
to give my consent. Ever since thai
Iirat episode I've felt that we needed
a man in the house.'-(Copyrigh
1910 by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
Worthy of Stevenson.

One would have to look in the very
best of the novels of adventure to find
an escape from prison more satisfactory
from an artistic point of view than the
one just added to the annals of Sing
sing. OF course, the romancers. work
ing with a free hand, or rather with a
free imagination have added interest to
their tales by painting In higher lights
tnan nature is won't to use the character
OF those whom they create for the he
roes of well-planned evasions, but for
once nature did rather well, and in the
gigantic Green supplied a man whom
Charles Reade or Robert Louis Steven
son might have used with little emen-
dalton.
He is not a Baron Trenk, a Monte
Crfsto, or a Casanova, and even as a
criminal he has no very lurid glow, but
mere village ruffian as his record shows
MIN, he made fine, outstanding and
outstanding figure of primordial man
as he fought and conquered the two
keepers. one after another, sawed the
steel bar, crushed his huge frame
through the narrow opening, and then
led the few other convicts who had a
trace of his courage and determina-
ton Off to freedom through the cold
darkness of a wild autumnal storm
For Green so obviously did it all,
There was a head to be raped
and he raped it; there was a neck
to be choked and he choked it;
he opened it; most difficult of all, there
were 100 other convicts. any one of
whom might have won release, or at
least mitigation of sentence by oppos-
ing the flight, and he cowed and 81
fenced them all. Just how he ac-
complished that hardest task is a
psychological mystery, but somehow
the specious villain utilized the COM
bination of their instructive sympathy
with an attempt at escape and the
personal fear which he was able to in
spire. And they covered for an hour
on their cots in the gloomy dormitory,
without either initiating or betray-
ing the fugitive. until at last one of
their number, a negro, veutured to
make known to the prison authorities
what had happened.
Bad man and bad citizen as Green
doubtless is, one would hav to be ex-
tremely, perhaps excessively, civilized
and refined not to feel a thrill of adj
miration for his exploit-not to be
glad, no matter how reluctantly, that
such things can happen, even in these
prosaic days. That thrill may need
apology, but if with innocence we get
it from books, as we all do, else would
novels abound with just such adven-
lures, one need not be too much
ashamed when confessing 20 a GER
tain joy in Green's achievement
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Fron the Atchison Globe.l


A boy is as tired of hearing, tSay
thank you" as a parrot is of hearing,
Polly wants a cracker!"
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed man, who. when he was mad, said
he had his Irish up?
The only time a man enjoys having
a woman with him on a trip is when
he takes his wedding trip.
At this season of the year, a wom-
ans idea of a Brute is the man who
is lacking in Christmas Spirit.
When a farmer moves to town he
generally says he quit farming because
help was unsatisfactory.
Society girls in the west should re-
member that they will soon be % years
old, and looking for a job.
A detective can always be counted
upon to find clew, and frequently that
is all he can be expected to find.
By the time a woman is 30, she has
ceased to try to look very well in a
kimono, and wears one for comfort
A little Atchison girl lately gave a
party, her mother limiting the CUES g
to ten. She invited nine boys, and one
girl.
4 poet may be foolish. at times, but
he has good deal on the gent who
thinks he is inspired by the Muse, and
isn't.
When a man says every man has his
price. it is a sign that his price is pretty
low, and that he is looking for a bid
der.
An automobile agent driving up the
street in an empty car on winter day
is about as forlorn looking an object
as any we know.
We probably have a normal amour.
of curiosity, but the place where mar
has been murdered doesn't attract US.
An Atchison man, who has investiga-
ted the subject, says no gossip lasts
longer than nine days. After nine days
people want something else TO taIk
about, and win manufacture story
| If nothing turns up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
HUNOR or THE Day

THAT second assistant superintendent
ed much" Nor me. We call him Welter
MAILMAN in the works. Buffalo Express.
Did you have any narrow escapes in
the surf last summer" Yes" replied
the ife-saver. lone lady whom rescued
was SO grateful that she nearly married
Star.
Young Mother-I can't make up my mind
what college to send that boy of mine to.
administration old Is he? Young
Mother-Nearly six weeks.-Amerfcan
Family Journal.
ts'This magazine looks rather the worse
for wear" yes; it's the one sometimes
lend to the servant on Sundays" Doesn't
she get tired of reading always the same
one % "Oh, MOI You see, it's the same
book but it's always different servantr'
-Tit-Rits.
s'You broke your engagement with Miss
Jaullier?" yes. but 1 broke 1t gently
s.How?'' Told her what my salary was"
Cleveland Leader.
my husband is SO gentle and consider
ate. - SIN what way?' why, he wouldn't
LET me get a vacuum cleaner because it
employed exhausted air. "-Philadelphia
Record.
81 had curious experience yesterdays
said Farmer Corntossel. What was it
"A stranger came along and told me n
funny story and didn't try to sell me any,
thing "-Washingto Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
WHEN I GET TIME.

When get time I'm going to write
a poem great and fine:
pour my very heart and soul
Into its every line.
1t shall be called my masterpiece.
BY 1t I'll stand or fall;
And In the ages yet to come
1t will be praised by all.
I've studied deep of human life,
I've sought the ways of men,
And all because want to draw
Them with my sharpened pen
1 want to sway the plastic world
BY thoughts and words sublime;
And try to make it better, too,
And will when get time.
A1asi The years have come and gone,
And each succeeding day
Has added cares already wrought
And time has slipped away,
The masterpiece I fain would write.
4 fear will be but rhyme;
Because the more of years I live
The less have of time.
Boston Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
he Knew what was Coming.

Prof. Hugh w. Ransom of Harvard
was describing at a dinner in Cam
bridge, his experience as a subway
workman experience undergone in
the cause of science.
zone thing that impressed me-" he
said, twas the happy home life of
thse Woodworking men. It is a far
happier home life than that of the idle
rich. And yet, the way people talk,
you'd think it was wretched and
squalied home life.
ssThe way people talk you'd think
Jim Jackson's was a typical poor mans
home.
"Jim, very pale and shaky, stopped
at the butchers one morning and said:
"'Give me a small piece of raw
beef for black eye. please
"sWho's got black eye, Jim p ask
ed the butcher, curiously.
Nobody amt. yet.' Jim answered.
But I've been on a bust for the last
three days, and now I'm on my way
home to the old woman st Louis
GIobe-DemOcrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
EROA OFFER PENS
A BISON PUZZLE.

There is peculiar puzzle of owner
ship and law presented in the case OF
a herd Of buffalo still existing in north
ern Montana This herd are the de-
scendants of calves captured 33 years
ago by a half-breed Indian named
Michel Pablo. From this start Pablo
raised herd of considerable size. This
herd was sold by him to the Canadian
government some years ago and de-
liyered in Canada with the exception
of some so head. most of them unru.y
old bulls who run over and ravage the
crops of the vicinity.
The Canadian government has
granted a permit for a party of sports
men to come into Montana and sIaugh-
ter them. But it is held that the Ca
madam government cannot claim pro-
perty to them until they are delivered
to it in Canada. Pablo has property in
those that are controlable-andt the wild
and unruly bulls are by this statement
wild game and are protected from kill
ing by the game laws.
1t is thus seen that a p1exuS of legal
points produces this dilemma. Canada
cannot get her bisons. Pablo has no
way to get his money or kill them, and
the settlers must be harassed by a
lot of savage old bulls because game
laws have been enacted with such zeal
that has to override discretion.-Pitts
burg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

to the body This might also be con-
strued as evidence that this particular
physical director is so successful In his
work that he builds up bodies which
are impervious to the assaults of nico-
tine or anything else. But of course
the gentleman in question would not
advance any such deduction just to get
a little praise. oh. no! Men are never
guilty of doing anything like that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

Something real in the way of slush:
Mrs. Jack Cudahy rushes into print
with the announcement that she has a
beautiful mission in life-the care and
rearing Of her children. OF course,
this is an admirable purpose, but there
once was time not so very long ago
when Mrs. Cudahy was not especially
careful as to the kind of a reputation
she was making, a reputation that
would not be to the credit of any
mother or one her children could de-
light in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

Olxlahoma's legislature has located
the state capital at Oklahoma City.
Inasmuch as this is in direct opposi-
ton to a finding of the supreme court
of that state, it is likely that this court
will decide this particular act of the
legislature to be unconstitutional. APP
parently, Oklahoma's capital is slated
to remain in the air. This will neces-
state that all Oklahomans who may
need to visit it shall become expert
aviators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IRON the New York Presz.l

1FrOm the New IOFK EftSE-J
One reason SO many people stay mar
ried is they have to.
You might like your enemies Il they
were in their graves.
The more widow knows about men
the more she acts as If she had to learn
it. Everybody seems to have A lot to
do about running the government but
the voters.
1t takes a woman with a blister on her
foot from a tight shoe to smile sweet
ly as if it were a diamond sunburst in
her hair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

King Victor Emmanuel, Of Italy. is
busy these days travelling through
northern Italy and personally directing
the aid that is being given to flood
sufferers in that locality. Most of Vic
tor Emmanuel's time during the past
few years has been taken up in this
fashion. Italy appears to have been
picked out by nature as the best place
for ravages of all sorts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

Talk about hitting a bulls eye.
Francis W. Hirst. editor of the Lon
don Economist. in an address deliv-
cred at Washington the other night be-
fore the International Conference of
the American Society for the Judicial
Settlement Of International Disputes,
declared that war scares are largely
inspired by armament contractors
who ultimately would drag various
countries into the bankruptcy court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

General Funston will now have to
wait more than three years before
there is another vacancy in the ranks
of the major generals to which he
might be promoted. In all likelihood,
if General Funston, instead of being a
bang-up good soldier, had an aptitude
for being clever in leading cotillions, or
in carrying a dozen dishes of ice cream
across a ball room floor without let
ting any of them slip away from him,
he'd have been promoted to major
generalship long ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
KANSAS COMAENT
no srOP rHIEvEs.

Bank Commissioner J. N. Dolley, who
Is one or the most practical men in the
Stupbs administration, has a plan for
organizing the bankers of Kansas to
prevent bank robberies. His plan is
good So Is his plan to stop wildcat
stock promoting in Kansas. Everything
OoIiey suggests has sense. But here is
suggestion that seems to have some
wisdom. The way to stop crimes like
bank robbing is toestop the profession
al criminal In Kansas. Murder general
~ is done by amateurs who go
into crime on an impulse. But bank
robbery and all sorts of burglarious
crimes and holduDs are crimes done by
trained hands in crime.
The way to rid Kansas of profess
slonal thieves is to grade up the quality
or the men whose business is thief-tak-
Ing. The way Kansas has treated her
sherlffs in the past ten years invites
crime. Fees have been cut down, and
every sort of prestige and help they
have has been taken from them. To-
day, the kind of men who run for sher-
IN on the whole-With certain striking
exceptions-is not nearly SO high as it
was 20 years ago. The sheriff should
be more important man in the COM
munity than the people can get for the
money they are willing to pay. A good
thief-taker is as much of a preventive
of crime as any other agency. Kansas
mas been taking fees from the sheriff
until the office has lost much of its
dignity and strength. One way to keep
the yegmen out of Kansas is to make
the sheriff a bigger man, and the only
way to grade up the sheriff Office is
to give the sheriff more money. You
can't get something for nothing and
until the Kansas people get this in
their heads they will have to suffer
bank robberies and all kinds of indig-
mites at the hands of free hooters and
crooks.
Give the sheriff his fees and COM
pei the railroads to carry him free, as
they carry the railroad commissioners,
and the crooks will fold up their tents
in a few years and let Kansas alone
Emporia Gazette
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

"a fly in the house is as dangerous
as a rattlesnake, as filthy as louise
and as disgraceful as bed-bug," says
DR.. Woods Hutchinson. So when the
next fly season arrives let the pesky
critters be swatted out of existence for
all time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
COMMONS AND LORDS.

The commons would deprive the lords
of all authority to legislate in respect
to money bills" and ask that any bill
to which the lords fail to agree, and
three times passed by the house, shall
become a law-much as in this coun-
try a bin passed by congress becomes a
law after a given time when the presi-
dent withholds from it his signature of
appreciation.
The commons in their resolutions
which speak the views of the existing
Liberal government, emphasize that
the lords shall lose none of their rights
and privileges" save in respect to the
exceptions noted. Manifestly, though
the lords, once they are wholly cut off
from participation in levying taxes and
voting appropriations, and the con-
stitution is changed so that statutes
may be enacted over their protest, will
sink to the plane of an honorary body
and that sort of body very soon loses
even it's ornamental quality. In brief
the scheme of the Liberals apparently
contemplates not merely the abolition
of the lords as a parliamentary body
without including a substitute for it,
In that case the house of commons
would become practically supreme in
Great Britain, and the British cabinet
would rule without check or Iindrance
Columbia Is. CO State.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

Agreeing with the Charleston News
and Courier that mot all the lunatics
are behind the bars" the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald says: No. The man who
stands on the sidewalk and laughs when
your feet fly out from under you is
still at liberty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

Mexico's revolution appears to be
taking on the form of the one which
prevailed in Nicaragua for so long. All
kinds of fighting and preparations for
fighting are going on in the imagina-
lions of the newspaper correspondents
at 1.-The seat Of war;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
THE GOOD FELLOW.

Some people have queer ideas of
what constitutes good fellow" Not
long since a defaulting postmaster,
who had squandered $4,000 of pub
lie money, who for months had been
a fugitive from justice, and who when
caught had just nickel left, consoled
himself by saying 1--WE been a good
fellow" Dishonesty with certain pun
ishment awaiting him, disgrace, a flu
gitive from justice, and the contempt
of his fellows were the heavy toll for
a few weeks gay, life which his stolen
money gave him. That man needs to
revise his estimate of a good fellow"
-Selden Independent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

Tt would be a safe bet that many Of
the men who have been SO prominent
in urging and securing the location of
the Oklahoma capital at a certain
place in Oklahoma City have title to
most of the property abutting on the
capitol site. There are various wheels
within wheels in a matter of this kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

The big fight is on. in earnest as to
whether the Panama Canal exposition
shall be located at New Orleans or
San Francisco. It is to be hoped that
the gentlemen interested viii be calm
and that no blood will be spilled. This
is almost hoping for too much, though.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

DR.. Cook is coming home from Eu-
rope Probably there won't be any
unusual rush on the part of munich
palities to extend to him the freedom
OF their cities. Nor will anybody be
hanging garIands of roses around his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

The State Journal IL q member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
EaniEaffon for the exclusive afternoon
Solicitation Ia Topeka
The news IL received In The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole psaE-
poGa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

The latest crop shortage in Kansas
is one to bring joy to the Industrious
people of the commonwealth. There
is a dearth of hoboes meandering
around these days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

The physical director of Columbia
university expresses the opinion. based
on statistics gathered among the stud
ents in that institution which show
their standing in the classes, that smok-
ing Is Injurious to the mind and not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

It is seldom indeed that this de-
partment gets any inside information
OF outside assistance, and we accept
win profuse thanks the contribution
herewith submitted. This is Mr..
ho1ers apt illustration of a local
headline:
"EMPORIA WOMEN UP IN ARMS"
II Is a common failing, among ar
lists, to utterly disregard the text to
De Illustrated. 1t may be seen at a
gIance that Mr.. Hofer has no such
Iallng. He sticks to the text like
cat to a page of fly paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

Down at Georgia Agricultural col
lege. the whole student body has been
pinched for breaking cannon which
had been loaned them by the govern
ment. The cannon was a large, sub
stantial one, but nothing, apparently,
IS too hard for college students to
break. Hence the period of rock
breaking which faces these Georgia
students is not the hardship it might
be to others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

When asked for an opinion of the
country, the English journalist who
did" America in SO hours, replied:
TRIPPING This highly intelligent
summing-up of his Investigations, is
indeed gratifying. No one knows ex-
actly what he meant, but it may have
had some reference to the fact that
he was tearing around at lively
rate while in our midst.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

1t has been agreed to remove the
congressional bath room from the
capitol building in Washington. Since
room in juxtaposition to a deliberative
body is considered communicating
influence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
THUISH?

There was a young duffer named
Blush
Who attempted to kuish sweet
muish;
But the maid thought him rude;-
In the row that ensued
She stuck hat pin through his cuish.
CAV, look it up for yourself.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

Entered July /. 1875 as second-class
matter at the postoffice at Topeka, KAN.
under the act Of congress.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-19

Anent Saturday rhyme: Of course
we signed the Santa letter "Sub Rose"
to rhyme with the preceding line. But
the printers knew a blamed sight bet
ter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-24
Annual Spring Offering
of
Babies and Little Childrens
Sample Cloaks.

Stock OF the finest manufactures " rhts
line. who twice year closes out TO Us bis
entire stock Of samples and ODD lots.
Samples are the garments SHOWN fr-r-s
which the orders are taken. and are a.
WAYS most carefully made. The chcicssr
"a brics. trimmings and workmanship "a
into these "sample" garments