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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.1
It is easy tc fool a man who wants
to be fooled.
man who is willing to live by his
wits is willing to steal
1t is the people for whom the hint
never was intended who take it.
If you say that a girl is older than
she says, you insult the whole family.
Every man thinks he possesses a
great deal Of personal magnetism,
whatever that is.
If a woman is too easily shocked. it
is sometimes an indication that she
rather enjoys the sensation.
The more money Lysander John
Appleton acquires, the higher the notes
his wife admireS in singing.
You may Rave observer that this
room for an argument you hear SO
much about never has to look long for
tenant.
The bone in the beefsteak occasions
more kicks than the foam on the beer,
although you can't even feed the lat
ter to the dog.
Occasionally it happens that wom-
an has to have money to win a hus-
band, but a man doesn't have to have
money or charm to win twenty wives.
Heard in a minstrel show: why
does woman take mans name
when she marries?" One of the men.
who browns all the music by rafting
DOneS, LHOuSnt WINE ana TeplleQ.
why does she take everything else
her husband has?"
MY ideal man used to be a kind of
Prince Charming; handsome, fascinat-
ing, and RICH said an elderly Atchi-
son spin recently, but I have given
up the Prince Charming ideal, and my
ideal is man who could make me a
good living" You will notice that a
woman never gives THAT up in an
ideal man: One who will make HER
a good living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the chicago News. ]


Many a man is proud of his past
because it is past.
Politeness pays enormous dividends
on the investment.
Vanity in a woman is almost as bad
as conceit in a man.
Even a spinster may be induced to
become enthusiastic over a baby.
A woman's idea of a genius is a
man whose neckties match his COM
plexion.
The average man no sooner ac-
quires a virtue than he proceeds to
advertise it.
A girl hasn't much tact if she can't
induce some man to tell her that she
is pretty.
1t is estimated that there are al
ways 4, 100000 people at sea-and ten
times that number up in the air.
The man who looks downward is
impressed with his own greatness. but
the one who looks upward realizes
his own smallness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
HUNOR or THE Day

II thought, you told me these lots would
double in value in two years, and here's a
them. YES; me but AS You forgot you Gus gave
twice as much as they were worth
Judge
China Observation-Disclosures! I've broken
q piece out of that expensive dinner set.
Old Clerk-Cheer up. Mend it with glue.
to the floor with his coat and charge him
for the whole set.-C1eveland Leader.
Follower of Events-A Harvard pro-
lessor favors a revision of the Ten Com
w whN 111 Ultimate Ut C9 20
Star.
thHGgh yo yo dds said Y0H told mts s
strange. She hasn't said a word to my
wife about the SO you borrowed from me-
when 1 returned from my poker party
w6rd y Ss w 1t me-
at %ora va too and don't 5sevf that
! Hardup-There was a time when people
used to say that I had more money than
Dra1hy but but they cant say that nov now Wife
down to my last shilling. Wife-Well,
you've still got a shilling.-Illustrated Bits.
can understand Engiish?" asked the uat caller Ie
| NO., replied Mrs keepouse, but L am
learning Hungarian rapidly. "-Newark
| News
suffragette-we. believe that woman
| should get mans wages. Married Man
| Well, judging from my own experience.
she does.-Boston Transcript.
What is love?" she asked. Love-" he
| answered. SIS brand of insanity that
makes a man call 2O0-pound woman his
| little tootsy wootsy. Chicago News.
l
| Tommy-Pop, what is the difference be-
| tween probability and a possibility?
| Tommy's Pop-A probability, my son, Is
| something you want to happen.-Philadel-
| phia Record.
rs he man to be trusted?'' Absolute
/ ~. You may even have a cigar exposed
| in your vest pocket and he won't reach
| over and grab it."-Detroit Free Press.
''Whitcomb is an independent thinker,
| He is?" Yes. he even dares to say the
clock in the railroad station is wrong
Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

People who have good breeding new
er have to call attention to it.
X X
1t certainly is pardonab1e for some
folks to think they are just as good as
others.
There must be something decidedly
wrong with the man who would not
care to be a millionaire.
Some boys are worthy of all kinds Of
commentator for not desiring to fol-
low in the footsteps of their fathers.
y X
Lives of great men all remind us"
that opportunities either have not
drifted the way of the average man or
he has passed them by.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

An Episcopalian bishop of Pennsyl-
vania has advised Lenten devotees to
do without the newspapers during the
penitential season which has just
started. Surely the newspapers are not
So bad as to be placed under such a
han. The newspapers, as a matter of
fact. are only as bad as the people
make them. They merely reflect the
doings OF humanity from day to day.
Let the people reform their ways and
the newspapers will have no occasion
to devote columns of their space to
scandals and other distressing Incl
dents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

IFrom tEe New York Press
The way 10 have faith is NOT r.
reason it out. ~
except for all the misery it gives vo,
country life Is not so bad.
When man likes to discuss a sub-
Ject IT'S sign he could do sometime
else much better. ming
The way a girl winds a man aroura
her hnger is making him think 500
other man wants her to.
A thorough education for a worra,
consists of having been engaged threa
lines. SAYING IT was twenty, married
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

II the higher federal courts sustain
Judge Hook. the new state of Okla
homa wrote just little bit too much
into its famous constitution. 1t is be-
lived that II Judge Hooks contentious
to the effect that Oklahoma can not
compel the railroads to maintain a
two-cent passenger fare are upheld,
the corporation commission of the
state will be absolutely powerless to
enforce any of its orders regulating
the railroads and other corporations.
Certainly the states are having pretty
hard shedding nowadays when they
really attempt to do anything.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

That smash-up between an automo-
bile and a buggy at the corner of
Eighth and Kansas avenues the other
day which narrowly escaped resulting
in a fatality to a pedestrian who hap
pened to get mixed up in it, ought 20
serve as a good warning to automo-
bilists and drivers Of other vehicles
that too much care cannot be exercised
by them in crossing streets at their in
tersections
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

Those United States senators and
Idaho. Hepburn by name, seems to have
about the smallest and most peanutty
caliber Of any man who has achieved
any prominence in public life in years.
He protested vigorously in the senate
the other day against the adoption of
a resolution authorizing the loan of
government tents for the use of con-
federate veterans at their annual re-
union to be held in Mobile. Ala, next
April. 1t is a pleasure to record the
further fact that when a vote was ia
ken on the proposition Hepburn was
the only senator who voted against 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

Those United State senators and
members of the house of representa-
tives who make the Chautauqua well
kins ring during the summer months
with their denunciations of just about
everything in the way of governmental
endeavors, do not appear to be doing
much in congress these days, even in
the speech-making line. Perhaps they're
too busy gathering fresh material for
the coming Chautauqua season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

So many candidates are getting in
the field for the city commissionerships
that If all of them get votes the sue
cessful ones will not need more than
four or five to win out. And If the en-
tries keep up there won't be enough
votes to go around unless some of the
candidates vote for themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

In one thing. Governor Stubs is not
as generous as he might be- He is
picking out but one man to run against
him for the next Republican nominal
ton for governor To even up things,
according to his own ideas, there ought
to be two men running against him, or,
at least a man and a boy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

There is no good reason to believe
that the Pennsylvania lad who burned
down house in his endeavor to thaw
out some frozen water pipes did not ac-
complished what he set out after And
1t must be confessed that that is more
than some people do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

1t won't be long now before the time
will be ripe for the breaking of ground
in back yards for the planting of kitch-
en- gardens. And everybody who takes
advantage Of his opportunities in this
respect will find the way to materially
reduce the cost of living for himself
and family during the several months
in the Immediate future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
Aviators Becoming Cheap.

'aAviators like Paulhan. who is reput-
ed to be receiving $4,000 for his visit
to this county. and Bleriot, whom
know to have made 100000 since he
flew across the English channel, are
lucky to be making it now,' said an
Aero club enthusiast in the club rooms
the other night after he had just left
the steamer from France.
In another year there will be so
much competition that you will be able
to hire daring aeronauts like Paulhan
and Bleriot about as cheap as high
divers are now procured by county
fairs. Why. in France alone there are
now actually 300 men known to be fly
ing in various makes of planes, and
they are getting more plentiful and
proficient every day. Let the craze
once get a grip in this country and life
on our streets will be a positive peril
beside which the menace Of automobiles
will be forgotten. New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

KANSAS CTTY'S PAROLE SYSTEM.
There is no more satisfying police
system than that adopted in Kansas
City. Mo-, a year ago, to work out the
mighty problem of poverty and delin-
quency, the Delineator for March de-
clares. A board of pardons and
paroles was appointed by authority of
the city council. There are three
members. Talk of political influence
will gain nothing from this board for
an applicant for clemeny. No attor-
neys are allowed to plead before it.
The pardoning power remains with
the mayor, but he is expected, morally
at least, not to exercise that power ex-
cept upon the boards recommendation.
AS matter OF fact, the board approves
very few pardons. It's members prefer,
rather, to parole men and women and
SO to maintain a watchfulness over
them.
A man was fined twenty-five dollars
and sent to the workhouse for beating
his wife. The board found him to be
an excellent workman. Prying more
deeply into his case, it was discovered
that he had two hundred and sixty
! dollars in one of the banks and that
AS AoN ObuOOOAAAy ISluS0Q 10 snare II
with his wife. Under the law of Mis-
souri, this man might have been heav-
| lily fined and sent to Jail for wife aban-
donment, but such procedure would
not have helped the wife This was
where the board of pardons and pa
| roles exerted he personal touch.
| 1t induced the man to sign an order
for one hundred dollars of his savings
and gave it to the wife. Then it made
him agree in writing to forfeit the re-
mainder of the two hundred and sixty
dollars If he annoyed her in any way
when released, and finally paroled him.
1t was good lesson. The man has
tributing to his wife's support.
| The successful operation of this Kan
sas City plan gives rise to other i'm
| portant ideas. AS the men sent to
the city farm. controlled by the board,
include MANY skilled workers, why
should not their ability be used in
ways other than growing vegetables
and quarrying rock? The farm prod
ucts now are sold to the city work
house, the hospitals, and in the open
market. In the quarry the men are
getting out the state for the tubercu-
losis hospital and the house of cor
rection and other buildings. They are
building a fine rock road to connect
with the county turnpike They are to
be used, later, in the actual construc-
ton work on the proposed buildings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
BALLADE OF sIsTER,s BRASS.

Mother looks about in wonder;
Father stammers in amaze,
AS their modern parlor plumber
NaniShes before their gaze;
Bric-a-brac of recent days,
Statues OF the tinted classes,
Have to clear the mantel-ways-
Sisters going in for brasses.
Where grim portraits used to blunder,
Now on chastened walls we raise
Plaques and tablets dug from under
Butte's substrata-called Cathay's.
Candlesticks have won the bays
From electric lamps and gases:
Drippy grease and smoky hazel
Sisters going in for brasses.
Sisters torn herself asunder
From her family; she strays
Through the streets of CRIME and thunder
Where on priceless junk she preys.
Sister, in her solemn craze,
Home from secondhand morasses
Brings us germs and furnished trays
Sisters going in for brasses.
L'ENVOI.
kinsfolk, wait until this phase
OF her souls Improvement passes;
Then we'll eat, and see some playsi-
Sisters going in for brasSes
Chester Firkins, in Munsey's Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
Glass Houses and Stones.

Clifford Pinchot, former chief forester,
probably has been too busy annexing
that brand of knowledge which causes
two trees to grow where erstwhile only
a sapling could gain a foothold to pay
serious attention to the observations of
the wise old guys" who used to sit up
nights figuring out bitter and cynical
sayings to hurl at the foibles and fail
ings of weak human nature.
Otherwise he probably would have
taken a hint from the philosopher who
handed out as his one best bet the in
timation che who laughs at crooked
men must needs walk very straight
If he has run across it, it probably
made small impression on his mind, or
else he has been too busy bolstering up
the CLAWS charges against Secretary
Ballinger to bother about watching the
expenditures in his own bureau, for the
man who temporarily took up Pinchot's
work has held up bills aggregating $15,-
900 to $4,000 a month for travelling and
other expenses for students in Western
colleges, supposed to be working for the
Pinchot bureau.
The mere fact that there seems to be
no legal warrant for the expenditure of
money for such purposes will not pre-
vent the discoverer Of the expenditure
from being denounced as meddler, an
enemy of the people, and hireling of
reactionaries who are seeking to down
Roosevelt policies.
Herein one may find an explanation
of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
The latter is an idealist who chafes u1i-
der the restraints Of the law and has
been persuaded by insurgent conspira-
tors to believe the formers observance
of statutes violates the spirit of a hero
worship which approaches idolatry
Pinchot's friends were wiser in their
generation than he, for they strenuous
ly sought to prevent any investigation
of the forestry bureau.
Maybe there's a reason."-Cincin-
natl Commercial Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
FRON OTHER PENS
TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN CRAFTS.
MEN

TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN CRAFTS
MEN.
A tribute to the American workman
in typical industry that of making
Of great structural steel plant in Ger
many, DR.. Joseph Hollenbauer. He
makes the statement, after careful
comparative observation during peri
odic visits to the United States, that
in character and skill the American
workman is markedly superior.
This judgment may be received with
some surprise, since the assumption has
undoubtedly received wide acceptance
that German skilled wage-earners are
at least the equals of those Of other
natiOnalities. The assumption Is based
Upon the known peculiar advantages in
Germany for Industrial training, es-
pecially in lines of production that are
highly specialized and internationally
competitive. The making of steel may
parison, since it employs the highest
types Of skilled labor. This observer
makes the criticism that German work.
men are lacking in the individuality
and initiative of Americans. This would
suggest that the Industrial training in
Germany is not producing the individ-
Ual and collective results that have
been claimed. 1t does not appear what
are Its defects. while this manager adj
mits that what the German workmen
&C they 90 We'll. mat WOulO lHfO1NO
the admirable quality of thoroughneSs.
But the implication is that something
more is desired than mechanical, rou-
tine comprehensive Post.
%
NOT A VALID OBJECTION.
The old question of the relation of
state representation in the United
States senate to the population of the
several states has been brought for
ward again because of the contemplate
ed admission of New Mexico and Ari-
iona to the Union. 1t is pointed out
that whereas each of these proposed
states would have two senators. neither
would have more than one con gress-
man. We do not know that this is
strictly correct for both territories
may have gained largely in population
during the last 10 years, but it is suf-
ficiently accurate to serve for purposes
of illustration.
! 1t is a mistake to suppose that
| territory is entitled to statehood mere
| ly because it gives promise of material
progress. This has been very force
| fully illustrated by the case of Ne
vada. That state when admitted was
there was little reason to doubt thai
| it would shortly be as populous as
many of the other states. AS mat
ter of fact, the mining industry did
not develop as was expected, where
! fore the population of Nevada de-
creased instead of increased.
Our plan of representation in the
senate is wrong, if anything is, and
/ the objection made to the admittance
of the two western territories is really
i an objection to our system of govern
ment. Most of us are well pleased with
that and have no desire for q change
l-Charleston News and Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

The discussion has started already
as to the possibility of Johnny Killing
donning a baseball suit and getting
into the game again. And even the
most ardent of baseball fans must be
a trifle tired of ii.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

The news of these days which appears
TO be attracting the most attention re-
lates to the signing of contracts by the
ball players for the coming season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

All of the improvements which have
been planned for the city water plant
are evidently needed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

High prices" do not prevail to any
noticeable extent these days in Wall
street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
would Do Her Part.

Woman is very unreasonable, said
venerable New Hampshire justice r f
the peace. II remember that my wife
and were talking over our affairs one
day, and we agreed that it had come to
the point where we must both econo-
mize.
g Yes, my DEAR said to my wife,
we must both economic, bothr
Very well, Henry she said, with
a tired all of submission, you shave
yourself, and I'll cut your hair -
Everybodys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10
TAFT AND AInRICH.

Much of the indiscriminate criti-
cism which has been leveled at Presi-
dent Taft during the past few months
has developed because of his friendly
relations with Senator Aldrich and
other Republican leaders in congress
who have ever been classed among
the "reactionaries" on matters of pro-
gressive legislation and especially when
any of 1t has related to things that
might be looked upon with displeasure
by the interests"
| In view of the firm stand that the
president has taken during the past
few weeks in suggesting legislation for
the proper control of railroads by pub
lie authority. for similar supervision
over the other gigantic industrial cor
porations which have developed of late
years; for the establishment of postal
savings banks. for the conservation of
the nations resources. and other
| things which the people have been de-
handing, considerable of the criticism
referred to has turned to conjecture
People are wondering just what are
the terms of the coalition between
Mr. Taft and Senator Aldrich and the
latter's followers.
There is no doubt as to the SINGER
ity of Mr.. Taft in his desires to have
legislation enacted in accordance with
the suggestions he has made. Neither
is there any doubt that Mr.. Aldrich
and his friends have been vigorously
opposed to just such legislation in
times past. Nor at the same time,
does there appear to be any doubt that
the Taft programme of legislation is
going to be adopted by congress in
just about the forms which he has in
dicated will be most agreeable to him,
and that Mr.. Aldrich and his friends
will be found voting for this Taft 1egis-
lation.
1t is most reasonable to suppose,
therefore, that instead Of Mr.. Aldrich
debating and directing the course to
be pursued by Mr.. Taft, the reverse
has happened and Mr.. Taft has
brought Mr.. Aldrich and his friends
around to the Taft way of thinking.
Some newspapers go so far as to
state that 1.-The Taft administration is
now fully and irrevocably committed
to the support of Aldrichism and must
stand and fall with it." But an hon
est analysis of the situation in Wash
ington as it now exists does not seem
to warrant any such assertions. Rath-
er do things appear to be exactly the
other way. 1t is Mr.. Taft's theories
for the control of corporations. for
the conservation of the national re-
sources. and for a variety of other
things which are going to be enacted
into law, and not any that have been
advanced by Mr.. Aldrich. If Mr.. AL
drich and his followers support this
legislation, as there is every evidence
now that they will, no honest minded
person will have any occasion to think
that the Taft-Aldrich coalition is any,
thing to be afraid of, because Mr. Taft,
and not Mr.. Aldrich, has the upper
hand in it