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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
CANNON AND THE RULES.

Commenting on the statement of
Speaker Cannon that the constructive
legislation of congress just closed has
been the best in thirty years, one of
the prominent square DEAF newspa-
pers of Kansas proceeds to twit him
with the assertion that ''it is worthy
of passing note that Uncle Joe should
set up this claim for the session first
following the downfall of his system
of rules"
This is merely but a continuation of
the misrepresentation to which Mr..
Cannon has been subjected since the
crusade started to make e goat" of
the distinguished legislator from Hill
nois, who has the respect and the es-
TEEN of all who know him among
Democrats and Republicans alike, but
who is held up as sort of a hydra
headed monster by those who do not
know him and who find it convenient
to manufacture all sorts of arguments,
and distort all kinds of facts to furth-
er their peculiar political fancies.
The rules of congress, which were
changed in several essential particu
lars that had finally became odious,
apparently to majority of the repre-
sentatives. were no more the rules of
Mr.. Cannon than they were of those
who are now calling them This sys-
tenn of rules" They were developed
first during the speakership of
Thomas Bracket Reed of Maine. They
were continued during the speakership
of Charles Frederick Crisp, of
Georgia, a Democrat, and also again
when Mr.. Reed was reelected to the
speakership. They were the rules
which governed the deliberations of
the house of representatives when
Mr.. Cannon was chosen speaker.
Since he has been in that high and
honorable office he has administered
the rules as he found them. Nor has
there been any indication that he has
refused on any occasion to administer
to the letter the rules as they have
been amended during this session of
congress.
To call the old rules of the house of
representatives Mr.. Cannon's rules, or
to indicate that they were the work
of his mind, no matter what they
may have been, is unjust and unfair
to Mr.. Cannon. This is the kind of
a square DEAF however, that is al
ways accorded by those newspapers
and individuals who do nothing but
harp on the fact that they are
square Dealers The expression is
fast getting to be synonymous with
hypocrisy and misrepresentation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

none of his plots was; but it was log
ical. 1t ended as most similar situa-
lions in real life end. Mr.. Destrode
had the novelist's professional view
or lie, which was as different from
real life as moonshine is from sun
light.
Fortunately. Mr.. Blunt concluded.
he did not depend upon the vagaries
of would-be authors for a livelihood.
The architecture of plots for intel
lectual paupers was a pastime not
a profession. If Mr.. Destrode would
kindly return the plot that did not suit
him he could have his $40.
Marcie, blazing, took up her stub
pen again. She explained that she
possessed enough of brains to work
the plot over into something accept
able and human. She considered the
$40 well spent, since Il had taught
her something of the callous indif-
ference to the worlds great problems
which life in New York bred. Mr.
Blunt need not be surprised If his
false and cynical philosophy were
put into the mouths of one of the
undesirable characters in the forth
coming novel;
Mr.. Blunt, supposing he was cor
responding with a headstrong, ignor-
ant youth, came back with a typewrit-
ten castigation, that reduced Marcie
to revengeful tears. She decided that
Blunt was a miSanthropic bachelor of
sixty, whose chief pleasure in life was
in devising plots in which women got
the worst of it. So for a few weeks
the correspondence was as hot as red
pepper. In her absorbing effort to
frame sentences as cruel and sarcas-
tic, and at the same time as polished
as Blunt, MARCHES little teeth nibbled
away a third of her fathers beloved
penholder.
Marcie was sitting on the wide front
porch when the down river boat stop
ped at the Destrode landing. A stran-
ger alighted, and as he came up the
avenue Marcie saw that he was tall,
young and handsome. Her heart flut-
tered forebodingly and then chokingly,
"Does Mr.. M. R. Destrode live
here?''
''Thats-that's my name,'' said Mar
Gle. with downcast eyes, "all but the
mister"
The man set down his bag helpless
ly. "Why," he blurted out, at thought
you were fresh kid
you're Mr.. Blunt, aren't you? I
thought you were mean old mani
Then they both blushed and
laughed, and acquaintanceship was
cemented.
Business had brought Blunt to Ten
nessee, and though he was occasionally
away on short trips, his principal bus
mess the next three weeks seemed to
with Marcie. And, of course with
moonlight over everything at night,
and the hooking bird singing his heart
away in the shrubbery, the inevitable
happened.
''Marcie, I was wrong" said Blunt
one evening humbly. 1.-THE hero mar
ried the heroine after all. The hero
always marries the heroine!''
Marcie snuggled her head down
comfortably onto his shoulder. "Oh,
Richmond" she murmured, irrele-
vanity but fervently, I'm SO glad you
weren't a wrinkled old woman hater!"
-(Copyrighted 1910 by Associated Lit
erary PresS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
The Fat Man.

Despite the fact that julius Caesar,
| through his authoritative spokesman,
Shakespeare, expressed a preference
for men of flesh. "sleek-headed men,
ing degenerate ages have shown dis
position to admire the lean and poke
fun at the fat man.
Women are not to be considered.
Forever inscrutable, while the prevail
| ing fashion of their dress would seem
to indicate their admiration of slen-
derness in their own sex. 1t by no
means follows that they are attracted
to the bean-pole type of man. SINH
| larly when sex is considered. man
himself is of various taste; Turkish
woman who is not absolutely fat is a
| Turkish woman destitute of charm.
The subject is a broad one, with many
and historical aspects, from the time
when Jeshurun, as we read In Deuter-
onomy, "waxed fat and kicked"
Just now it is given serious and
very interesting discussion by DR..
George M. Niles, in the journal of the
American Medical association. Every
one is aware of the value of fat as a
source of energy for the development
of heat. That phase of the fat mans
condition may be passed by. Another
one is of larger importance. Says DR..
Niles:
1t has been commonly known from
the earliest antiquity that fat people
are more COntenLeQ. more OpIlIIliSllC,
than lean ones. and that their view
point of life in general Is largely gov
erned by this prosaic attribute. Now,
might compare the supply of fat to
the ample bank account of a busy and
provident man That he possesses this
surplus does not prevent him from dill
gently following his usual avocation
(sic), but the knowledge of its pres
ence and that it can be instantly OBJ
ftained lends a mental satisfaction that
would be absent were he living right
up to his daily income"
This may be true; who can say? 1t
is so easy to generalize, and, as mat
ter of fact, so impossible to be certain
about such things. One might particu-
larize through a column or two and
arrive at no definite conclusion. Napo-
leon was a fat little man and infinitely
greater than the lean Wellington; Dr.
johnson and Gibbon were grossly fat,
but Emerson and Carlyle were bare to
the bone. And so forth
One thing, at least, seems clear; the
fat man may not be as spry on his feet
as his lean brother; he may not, as a
rule. be as agile of mind, but he eats
a better meal and enjoys sounder
sleep. He is more cheerful; his laugh
IS heartier. In fact, some of him have
laughed and grown fat. And then,
again and finally, it is probably easier
to be fat and get lean than to be lean
and get at.-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
No man is so greedy as to want to
take both sides of a question.
why do we always have more re-
spect for gray hairs than for bald
head?
Some men are so constituted that
they are either good friends or bad
enemies.
Remembering his own experiences,
a man hates the idea of his wife being
a chaperon.
Some of the modern apartments are
so small that there is really no room
for complaint.
A piano mover sometimes comes in
the form of an agent from the install
ment house.
A man can face the world with a
good heart if he can also face it with
good liver.
From a masculine point of view,
would it be heresy to question the
sex of the devil?
Sillicus-"He doesn't seem able to
tell right from wrong" Cynicus-
Few of US do till we find out which
pays best"
No, Maude, dear; you are sadly de-
ficient in horse-racing lore. The man
who wins the Derby seldom talks
through it.
Nell-'HThe man Maude is going to
marry is over 10. 1 suppose he had to
show her his bank book Belief
don't think she was so much interest
ed In his bank book as in his life in
surance policies"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
RENO AND NEVADA.

A picture is being painted of Reno,
Nevada, these days which must bring
bushes of shame to the faces of the
decent people of that sovereign state
And unless they are in the great mi
nority, which is not likely, they will
probably bestir themselves to make
their community more worthy of the
honor it enjoys of being a full-fedged
member of the United States and hav-
ing a material voice in their manage
ment.
This is not so much because the big
prize fight is to be pulled off there as
it is of conditions of all kinds of vice
and crime which are permitted to fiaunt
their flags of shame in that common
wealth. A description of these condi-
lions as they exist in Reno today and
as they are tolerated by public auth
ority reads like something that most
people would think to be impossible
in any part of the United States.
Gambling houses, dives and all kinds
of dens of vice appear to be as com
mon in Reno as are legitimate business
houses in other cities They are regu-
lated by law, but not opposed by it
and some of these regulations are ludi-
crous even in the face of the seriousness
of the entire situation. For instance.
outside the city limits of Reno the
gambling resorts are permitted to run
in full blast on each of the seven days
in the week. Things are different in
Reno. There gambling is curbed on
Sunday, or rather, gambling houses
that use mechanical devices as adj
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.

The STORY on you may not be true,
but people will believe it.
There is one thing all of us do 10
our detriment: too much doctoring.
Try being a little potter, and see
how much easier things will go this
week
A woman is afraid to pay her hus-
band much attention. for fear she will
spoil him
When people get into a lying streak
they say they have done what they in
tend to do.
No man has a very good opinion of
doctors when he is well, nor of under
takers when he is i'll.
The season is approaching when men
can easily make the mistake of attend
ing too many rallies.
Music is not that which is produced
when the two sopranos in the choir try
to drown each others voices.
We will never get over thinking it is
wonderful to hear two people talk in
German and understand each other.
1t is generally said of Lysander John
Appleton in Atchison that he isn't a
bad fellow, if he will keep away from
you.
A big fat woman don't look it, but
she longs for sympathy, and to be "un-
derstood" just as much as a thin pale
woman.
Speaking Of safe and sane Fourth,
remember that Fire Water Is a good
deal more dangerous and damaging
than frecrackers.
Bankruptcy, says a man who is on
the inside. is when you put your
money in your hip pocket and let youI
creditors take your coat.
Doc Robinson drinks nothing but
whisky, and eats nothing but crackers
AMI cheese and dried beef, yet he is a
robust man at 20, and takes no exe--
else.
changes are always reprinting former
editorials, by request. We never write
anything worth reprinting; anyway,
we receive no requests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
MYHAWKER JOTS

Toe fishing is the latest sport on
Slough creek. The toe fisherman wades
around in the creek poking his toe I'M
der the rocks until a "cat" IS located
when he reaches down and catches the
fish by the gills. A dozen fish weigh
ing close to a pound each were brought
to town Sunday. They were caught by
Claude Rruton. John Henry Brown is
said to nave caught % pounds in this
manner one day this week.-Oskai0osa
Indelpendel t.
A woman was taken out to the coun-
ty hospital the other day, remarks the
Lawrence Journal. We happened to
see her going out and a more pitiful
or forlorn looking woman we never
saw. Years ago this woman lived in
this town and was pretty of face. erect
CT figure and pronounced in her ambi-
tions. Her husband was a good man
then and things were going right. A
change came over the family. The hus-
band lost his job, lost his property
spent what his wife had brought him
and died leaving nothing. The woman
struggled the best she could aud yes
terday gave up the fight. Tt. causn7
Whisky. That is an Indictment against
whisky which this town makes and it
is one that can be duplicated in many
towns in this country. Whisky is the
eIemy of every man, the friend of
lsOne.
An Atctison young thing had heart
that ached. relates the Globe, her hon
ey boy had taken his affections else
" here, and her father recently shut
himself up with her to reason with her.
THAT honey boy averag ed spending 80
cents a week on vou," he said, there's
q dollar week to take his place Esv-
cry time he called he cleaned out the
16 frigeratcr; your mother will see to it
that your brothers do this in the fu
tire. He kept you up late at nights;
J7(,r n hxy SiGtal g and hprn9 ftar
you will let the baby &c this for v',u.
He took possession of the most coiEfor-
table rocker on the porch: when you
look at that rocker in the future, it
Will not be empty, bringing the pang
to your heart that your silly novels
tell about-it will be occupied by the
man who paid for it, and that's me.
Your mother and me stayed by you
through coiic ami teething and are go
ing to get you through this If we hava
to take turns spanking you. Now take
) our eyes off the moon and LOOK at the
dust around YOU"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Sweethearts who part forever" usu-
ally play a return engagement.
X
Imitation may be the sincerest kind
of flattery but it is also the most
ridiculous.
a. X x
It's difficult to read woman's mind
because she changes it so often.
X X X
If you tell the truth about some peo-
pie you'll get in more trouble than If
you lie about others.
According to experts, the English
language has all others beaten a city
block when it comes to numbers and
varieties in cuss words.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.l

All you have to do to find out how
good an opinion man has of himself
Is to let him talk.
A woman can believe her husband
has sentiment about love when she
knows it is about food.
The reason old people never under
stand young people is they lie so about
the way they used to be in their youth.
What makes a mother sure of her
boys intellect is to have somebody tell
her he looks like his maternal grand
father
A man gets engaged just the way he
gets into investments trusting to ap-
pearances; there is no credit on settle
ment day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
SOME OBSERVATIONS.

SOME OBSERVATIONS.
Many man puts his best foot for
ward, all right, but finds a bear-trap
waiting for his best foot.
good way to avoid getting the
govt or any other aflment common to
the wealthy. is to always take a for
tune teller's advice in business mat
ters.
There is wimmin which can't cook
roast beef with a cuss that can roast
their husbands to a cinder."-Deacon
Squash.
some men go home at night lust
for the pleasure of going away again
the next morning.
It is indeed a chump of a hired girl
VINO will fall for that 'treat-you-like-
one of-the-family' talk.
The wise guy who always knows
which sheet the bean is under is AL
ways the first and loudest when II Is
time to "holler."
Electing Diaz president of Mex;co
is so easy that Stubs should secure
his recipe.
OR AN AXE WOULD DO
AS Ger your pate
Inc heat-waves roll
1ncinerat-
Ing mind and soul
Neglect to not
A handy club
Prepared to swat
brainless dub
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29
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 month (by
mail only.) Address changed as often
rs 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.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

where f0G was Ron5sa out Of SsT girl inst
in to effect the necessary fr1provements
Washington Herald.
DO you. think that you can make INV
She has been happy with you. hasn't
hnk s Tee sine the We Hop f s5s y cut
to please, there ought to be no difficuity'S
Washington Star.
You say he actually likes having hi,
wife be suffragette and all that?" yes.
through her POCKETS for get change aP and w, 20
she's asleep."-Cieveland Leader.
Won't you'be glad to get back to your
Know 6l1e replied the nervous man, until
inspectors washington a nas Star ane customs
Now don't tell me you were detained
as than II a won Sucn improbable dsa story
chased many blocks out Of my way bv a
bull rhinoceros. Louisville Courier-Jo,r-
nal.
Benedict Arnold had agreed to deliver
West Point into the hands of the British.
the hazing," he said. Mortified beyond
measure M sure at the failure t Of the experiment.
Tribune.
L nave long line OF ancestors who
were all OF my trade said the baker.
'Oh, sort Of a bread line" smiled the
chump.-University of Minnesota Mime
haha.
Waiter-Pardon, sir but why do Won use
the magnifying glass? Patron-I want h,
make this steak look normal waiter
When you have finished with it. sir will
you be good enough to let me have II to
try on the last tip you gave me?-Comic
Cuts.
Cams you live just as cheap in the
suburbs as in town." Yes, but every
bodys knows IT out there."-Life.
IF your hair was bronze could write
a poem on it," declares the lonR-haired
swain. ''Tll have 1t dyed" offers the fair
young thing eagerly.-Judge.
I'm in a quandary." What's up now7p
Cochin or a Plymouth Rock design on INV
new chantecler hat"-St. Louis Star.
Mrs. Subbubs (who has hired a man IN
plant shade trees)-Digging out the holes.
see Mr.. Lannigan Lannigan-No mum
Ofm diggin' out the dirt an lavin' the
holes.-Boston Transcript
Esau had just sold his birthright for a
his wife I'D take * back and excbanre
it," But, being lacking in feminine sho1.
ping ability, he kept the bargain--Puck
Knicker-The price of everything ba.
gone up. Bocker-Yes, we even Tef >
smaller hole in q doughnut-New YORK.
Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

With that tremendous fight on their
hands concerning the location of their
state capital it is not likely that the
Oklahomans are paying any attention
these days to quite so insignificant a
scrap as that which Johnson and JEFF
fries are going to participate in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

nounceG his candidacy for the United
States senatorial toga which has been
worn SO long by Henry Cabot Lodge.
Most people have probably become
obsessed with the idea that this was
Mr.. Lodges exclusive property. He
seems to think so. anYhoW.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Activity on the part of the police in
getting after the speeding automobiles
is most commendable. but when they
arrest u man for reckless driving who
did not happen to be in the city when
the violation OF the law was commit
ted, they're getting just a trifie too
lone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Real estate business is on the boom
again in Topeka. Boom" is scarcely
the proper expression either. Perhaps
It would be nearer the truth to say
that the real estate business here is en-
joying fine activity that is warranted
by the ever developing and fast grow
ing capital city of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

All is well in the gas fields and with
the gas pipes in this city, reports Mr..
Treleaven, the manager of the local
gas company. This is excellent news
but 1t will be more to the point If these
conditions are maintained during the
winter weather that is to come
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

In all probability a number of the
members of the Illinois legislature are
looking with longing eyes on the halls
OF congress since Senator Gore has
made It known that he was offered Il
$50 600 bribe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Few Kansans who had the pleasure
of meeting Miss Anne Morgan, the
daughter of ]. Pierpont Morgan. when
she visited this state, will take much
stock in the rumor that she has any
idea of bestowing her hand and fortune
on Don Jaime, the son of Don Carlos,
the pretender to the throne of Spain.
Miss Morgan struck Kansans as being
a mighty sensible girl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

II pugilism in this country is rele-
gated to the category Of the lost arts,
as many persons think it will be after
the Johnson-JefEries mill. It is one that
will not be sorely missed by any large
number of people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

There Is nothing 50 very strange in
the fact that the elopement of Mayor
Gaynor's daughter was all right with
her dad. Few fathers would object to
their daughters clipping with million
aires in good standing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Like Banquo's ghost in one respect.
The Topeka-So1thwest project will
not down. But unlike the famous
shade of song and story it now gives
evidence of actually developing into
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

There will probably be great glee
among food adulterators and others
who are not in sympathy with pure
food laws. Dr.. Wiley, the militant
government chemist, has been shorn of
considerable of his power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Good rains are falling in various sec
tions of the state these days and at
time when they are most needed to
help out the crops. Nature certainly
has a big place in her heart for Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Mr.. Pinchot's presence is needed at
Oyster Bay. Colonel Roosevelt is
amusing himself and getting some ex-
ercise by chopping down trees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Emil seidel. the Socialist mayor OF
milwaukee. has cut out big job for
himself. He plans to make Milwaukee
the ideal city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Hooert Iaft ran down a foreigner
with his automobile, but the inci6an+
has no political significance. The same
may not be said of the accident where
IN Roberts father turned down a ma
tlve-one Joe Bristow, of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Business will probably pick up in
most material fashion for the Tuske-
gee Normal and Industrial Institute.
Colonel Roosevelt has been elected as
one OF its trustees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-29

Our idea of the extreme limit IN
wearing apparel. is one of those rad
o1l-cloth surcingles recently affectsd
by number of girls.