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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
BEEF. AND IT'S PRICES.

At last there has been a reversal in
the usual order of things. To those
who have it is to be taken away and
to those who have not it is to be given.
In other words the rich are to become
poorer and the poor, richer. And the
agency which is to bring this unusual
condition of affairs about is none other
than the beef trust. Strange, and
stranger, indeed, is it not?
News has come from Chicago that
the packer have again revised their
prices of beef. Expensive cuts have
been advanced to the trade as much as
a half cent a pound, and that will
about double the advance to the con-
sumner. But the cheaper cuts have been
| reduced to the trade from Il to cent a
pound. OF course. that will not mean
double such a reduction to the con-
sumner, as things Of this sort never
seem to have the faculty of doubling
up to the consumer where reductions
are concerned.
This is beside the point, though. 1t
is to be found in the explanation for
these advances and reductions which
/ came along with the press dispatches
| telling about them. The revision of the
prices has been promulgated for the
purpose of ia oring the poor mans
! pocketbook through the reductions On
the cheaper cuts, and sort of soaking
it to the rich man by compelling him to
| indulge in a larger outlay for the more
expensive cuts.
To put it another way, the rich mar
is going to help the poor man buy his
share of a carcass of beef through tn,
arbitrary but theoretically beneficent
designs of the beef trust. But be il
borne in mind that the poor man is go
ing to have to do the extra chewing IL
the mastication of his meat. For, re-
gardless of all that has been said ant
written of late of the wonderful nutri
ton in the cheaper cuts of beef, the
fact remains, as it has been proved Il
everybody who has had the temerit1
to try them, that they are the poorer
cuts and call for extra labor in theil
preparation and disposal, even when i
comes to cutting them up in pocket
editions of sausage machines.
Then, too, the poorer people of tn,
land are rather noted for their unwill
ingness to let the world know of theil
poverty. And when one of their mum
Der stands in the butcher shop alons
side his more fortunately situated
neighbor he will be sure to try and
hide his poverty by buying just a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
TAG DAY.

Topeka's Tag Day begins tomorrow
morning. AS soon as the wheels of
business start throughout the city, a
volunteer army of girls and women
but the latter classification is scarcely
necessary as all women are girls-will
get busy soliciting funds. Their efforts
should not be in vain. Nor will they
be, for the temper of Topekans' gener-
osity has been tried often and has
never been found wanting.
They never give to a worthier cause
than that for which the Tag Day has
been instituted. The collections made
during it go towards the support of the
Provident Association. This is an in
stitution that the people of the city
have reason tc be proud of. 1t looks
after the poor, the needy and the dis
tressed in the best possible way. 1t
cisseminates charity as it should be.
1t gives to none who are not deserving.
And it is constantly trying to help
others help themselves.
Such is the kind of charity that
counts. Such is the kind of charity
that can be participated in by every
body in the city,. No better opportuni-
ty is afforded to do so than that pre-
sented by Tag Day. This is an occa-
sion wnen the mite is as welcome as
the bill of large denominations. That's
always the case, to be sure, but the
giver of the mite is often SO reluctant
to let his charities be known that he
doesn't indulge in any. He can avoid
all this on Tag Day when everybody
looks alike to everybody else and all
sizes Of donations are gladly received.
There should be no holding back to-
morrow on the part of any one when he
or she is asked to buy a tag for what
ever he or she is willing to give for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Giobe.l


We have often wondered how a COL
lege professor proposes.
A good card player isn't apt to cut
much figure in the harvest field.
Fat men are now known as "volupt-
uous" That's what is said Of fat wo-
men.
why should 1 tell the TRUTH" Doc
Robinson said recently; mo one be-
lieves me, anyway"
Every man we know is mad because
of the great wads of jute hair the wo-
men are wearing.
We are not very smart, but we know
better than to begin chewing tobacco
as a cure for smoking.
Friends are SO rare; you are not only
mean, but foolish, If you fail to appre-
ciate the few you have.
A woman's notion of aff1uence is to
have money enough to get the chill
dren's pictures taken as often as she
thinks they really merit.
When a mans children are afraid
of him, he is as proud of his work Of
discipline as a drunkard Is of his par
ticular form of meanness..
A girl walked out of a bank the 9TH
er day, and we heard her say: "Tll
have the big head now" We inquired,
and found she had drawn 50.
We have noticed that while the poll
tician may still praise the old soldiers
a good deal, he doesn't listen to them
as much as he used to.
You may have observed that the man
who graduates at the head of his class,
doesn't usually lead them throughout
the rest of the race of life.
To hate anyone violently is as ex-
hausting as violent love affair.
Nearly every murder is due to hate or
| love- and lovers shoot each other al
most as frequently as bitter enemies.
| An Atchison man has been working
hard many years, and would like to
quit Don't you dare do it," his
| friends scream; ''if you quit work, 1T
will kill you" What a sin 1t is for a
man to do nothing!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News1


Never judge a picture by its frame.
Time flies. but the orchestra leader
can beat it.
Most people grieve 50 worth every
time they lose a dollar.
What's bred in the bone is weighed
out to US by the butcher.
Some people try to substitute butter
milk for that of human kindness.
Give some people a bite of an apple
and they'll want all but the core.
Don't marry liberal minded wom-
an. She'll frequently give you a piece
of it.
A man can repent of almost any
thing if it hits his pocket book hard
enough.
Some people are unable to pocket
their pride because they haven't a
pocket large enough
When woman finds marriage is a
failure she wants divorce so that she
can try again.
The novelist who marries his hero
to a suffagette will have hard task
to convince his readers that they are
going to lire happily ever after.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
Needs of Outside Interest.

Only the woman with useful interests
outside her daily routine of homely
duties In her home can escape the pit
falls for the devoted wife and mother
The woman who lives only in the lives
OF her husband and children, and secs
the world only in the relation it bears
to them, is the woman to whom in
some form her children and husband
must sacrifice themselves If during
the years her children need her con-
slant care she finds in that her sole
reason for being, in the years to fol-
low, when they need her care 40
longer, she will find she has not the
wisdom of wide experience and the
serene quality for companionship that
happy self-expression alone can give,
and which would make her both need
ed and wanted in their later lives The
dependent woman has always that quail
ity of fear that makes the jealous and
exacting wife and mother who sees in
every new relationship of husband or
child a menace to her place in their
lives and affections.
The Independent woman is the wo-
man who lives by means of her own re-
sources of mind, body, and estate, -
who finds through wel1-trained powers,
always at her command for service to
her family or society, a serenity and
poise which make her fit for the high
est and sweetest companionships and
the most ideal home and social life. If
these are denied her a place will al
ways be found waiting her where use
full service with wisdom and calm ca
pability is needed.-Isabel Wilder, in
WOman's Home COMPANION.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
Observation-Disclosures.

Hypocrisy-thy practitioners are
numberless, and among the more
prominent devotees are those who look
upon themselves as being of high
estate, and who think their opinions
are the only right and tenable ones IN
each and every subject under the sun,
and even beyond it.
Take the Topeka Daily Capital, for
instance. 1t pretends to be in sym
pathy with President Taft but is dead
set against the tariff law which he
champions. 1t is convinced that Mr..
alderhead should not be returned 10
congress from the Fifth Kansas dis
trict because of the part he played In
the framing of that tariff law. It
makes light of the efforts of a number
of congressman from other states who
have been making speeches in Kansas
in the interests of the Republican party
and the tariff law, which is far from
being a perfect measure but which is
the biggest step that has ever been
taken towards the right kind of a re-
vision downward.
1.-The first" says the Capital in. tell
ing of these congressman who have
spoken in Mr.. Calderhead's district as
well as in other portions of the state,
was Duncan McKinlay of California,
representing in congress the lemon in
dU -, which in a tariff bill presumed
to effect revision downwards, succeed
ed in having its duties advanced over
the 7!ngley bill"
Maybe Congressman McKinlay does
represent the lemon industry in con-
Cress, but if he does he is merely keep
| ing company with the Topeka Daily
Capital. The Capital, and it has yet to
deny the charge, gave its covert sup
port to the proposition to increase tbs
d1ItV on lemons
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ties. But how on earth is a man go
ing to, sing decently and think about
half a dozen things besides?" Here
he paused and sang few more notes.
absorbing it is. 1t just gets hold OF
you and makes you forget every
thing else. Even the little fellows
tend to business. You ought to hear
us sing that new anthem, Edwin. It's
"But what about the girl?" persist
ed Edwin.
"Oh. pshawi" exclaimed the singer,
out of patience. THAT Miss Pen
rose"
miss Penrose." echoed the other.
"She's Clara Penrose.'' He was
standing over his companion looking
at him with an unwonted show of
eagerness in his eyes. st knew she
had come north to study music, and
when you spoke about her being a
languid sort of girl, had half
suspicion. She is beauty, isn't
she % he asked feelingly, and then not
waiting for reply, (which house is it.
George-the one right opposite?"
Two hours later George Upper was
still singing to himself from a score
before him. He had spent the evening
alone after Edwin's sudden depar-
ture to the house across the street.
and was beginning to feel little anx-
iety as to the probable course which
events had taken. "She's just the sort
of a girl to make a man like Edwin
go through fire and water" he thought
to himself, and then, as the door Of
the apartment opened and Edwin ap-
peared his anxiety departed.
"She's the same Clara Penrosc,"
Edwin exclaimed, holding his hand
out to his friend, "only a hundred
times sweeter and kinder. Why, do
you know she's been waiting these last
three years for me to come back to
her? And have been brute to stay
away!"
"Is lit all on again." asked
George with hesitancy.
The look in Edwin's eyes answered
"Yes.''
Here he said, holding out a
handful of new bills, you're a winner,
even If you didn't get the GIRL
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

from the Philadelphia Record.]
Revenge is sweet, until it begins to
ferment-
The people who buy their popularity
can't afford to wait for bargain days.
One difference between a statesman
and a politician is that the statesman
is dead.
It doesn't pay to be stuck up, as the
fly discovered when he landed on the
fly paper.
Unfortunately the people who marry
in haste are not the only ones who
repent at leisure.
Wigg-"Closefist makes his money
go a long way" Wagg-"Yes, when
he let's it go at all"
When a fat girl marries it proves
that love will find a way, even though
she may weigh $50 pounds.
It would be probably just as easy to
love rich girl as poor one, If there
wasn't so much competition.
The Lawyer-"Temporar insanity
is generally cured, isn't t?" The Doc
tor-"Yes, by a verdict of acquittal."
When a man says that misfortune
, drove him to drink the chances are
that drink first drove him to misfor-
tune.
BIobbs-"Harduppe must be seized
with a spirit of REFORM. He says he
hasn't had a drink for month"
SIobbs-"Oh, you must have misun-
derstood him. What he probably said
was that he hadn't bought a drink for
a month
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24

good, If not little better beef than his
friend who is better of in this worlds
goods. This, to be sure, Is a false
philosophy, but it is popular one.
But to get down to the real essen
tials, a cheaper cut of beef is a mis-
homer. There is no such thing. The
cheapest cut is expensive and from
that they run up to the superlative de-
gree OF responsiveness. The beef trust
may juggle the prices with half cent
advance here, a cent reduction there,
but no consumer is going to notice an
appreciable difference in his meat bills,
unless he turns vegetarian or the
actual supply of meat in the country
is materially increased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
An EMMY Title.

An English suffragette who Is visit
ing in New York is audibly excited
over the census directors ruling that
enumerators shall regard the husband
as the head of the house. Widows
may be heads of households, but not
wives. Miss Suffragette declares this
decision should evoke a protest from
the women of America that will shake
Washington to its foundations. In her
opinion this question of domestic au-
thority should not have been raised at
this time, but, now that a public off,
cial has had the temerity to establish
mans position as the lord Of creation,
the women should do something be-
sides meekly acquiesce.
Our suffragette visitor betrays an
amusing nlisconception of the real
status of domestic affairs in this coun-
try. Therefore, let us hasten to in
form her that the title of head of the
house, conferred by custom upon the
carrying with 1t not the least vestige
of actual authority. A single illustra-
ton will serve to show the real in
significance of the title. For two
weeks past about nine out of ten of
the homes of the land have presented
picture of ruthless desolation. The
tenth will doubtless assume that ap-
pearance within the ensuing two
weeks. 1t is caused by an infectious
disease, always rampant at this season
of the year, to which has been given
the name spring housekeeping" To
a man, the masculine element of the
American population is opposed to
wholesale housekeeping at any period
of the year except when he is away on
his summer vacation. Does anybody
suppose for a moment that If man
were in fact, as we'll as in name, the
head of the house, he would permit
the annual tearing up Of the establish
ment to resemble the home of Mes
sina sufferer after the earthquake I?
Would he consent to eat his meals in
the kitchen AID sleep at night on a
couch in the parlor after beating car
pets all afternoon in the back yard ?
No; sufficient has been said to demon
strate that man is not and never has
been the real head of the house. Then
why make a fuss if Uncle Sam lets
him retain the empty honor of the
title ?-PittSburg Gazette-Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Much of the injustice IN the world Is
purely in imaginations.
y n
Time flies under all conditions. but
never faster than when one is happy.
X
Pictures true to life are not nearly
as attractive as the other kind.
X X
Some people never have an original
idea unless it concerns a new form
of meanness they want to perpetrate.
X X X
One of the most pleasurable pur-
suits is figuring UP profits. But 1t Is
only few who have the opportunity
of indnlging in 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
EROA OTHER PENS
GOOD ROADS AND SOUND HEALTH

There is nothing dry or uninteresting
about the good roads movement. Its
appeal is to everyone. Its call is re-
ceived alike by the pedestrian, the
farmer who carts truck to the railway
station, the driver of a good road
horse, and by those who ride in auto
mobiles. There is as much poetry in
the good road across country as in the
bypaths through the woods or the steep
path that leads to grazing uplands.
Road Improvement has also its eco
nomic side through its appeal to sum-
mer tourists. Governor Quinby, of New
Hampshire, estimates that summer
visitors last year expended $14, 0O0, 900 In
that state, and bases his confidence
that they will leave a larger amount
behind them during the coming sum-
mer upon the Improvement that has
been made upon the highways. For
example, in 1908 it was necessary to
haul automobiles through a steep por-
ton Of the famous Crawford Notch,
whereas now these machines can make
the ascent under their own power.
There have been developed in that
state three trunk roads at a cost of
more than s1,5o0,000. They have been
laid out with an eye both for the con-
venience of local communities and for
the qualification of the tourist Along
these roads are many places Of want
age, where the passing visitor may halt
to look back upon the "steepness over
come" and the wonderful panorama
beyond.-Washingto Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
HUNOR or THE Day

What do. you sell lard for. young .
Ret ta aeyfS 6rner ese to DO replied
the young man, who was not altogether
satisfied with his job.-Chicago Daily
News.
DO YOU. he asked ,bsle s,.a in n early ,ssdZ
mar ria sin to she sa TeP phsf at pres
ent I believe better late than never may
be applied to marriage as well as to some
other things. "-Chicago Record-Herald.
Barber-How does the razor work? Vic
tim-Why, wouldn't know was being
shaved. Barber-Thank you, sir. Victim
You see, it's more like being flayed- alive.
Cleveland Leader
81 suppose you will be too rich to take
in summer boarders this year?" Well"
answered Farmer Corntossel. wen take
e em 'e Want the somebody to show OF their
good clothes and jewelry to."-Washing-
ton Star.
Little Willie-Say, pa, why is the last of
a college term called the commencement.
Pa-Because. my son, it is the commence
the world wasn't made for him exclusive
ly.-Chicago News.
Did you ever waste a whole evening"
asked Genevieve. Yes replied Mabel.
Once, at a party. did my best to be nice
to a handsome man 1 was introduced to.
and didn't discover until the party broke
up that he was married."-Detroit Free
Press.
Yes, he certainly is a great speaker.
One of the best ever heard" What IS
his special line of argument?' That's
his strong point. He can thrill you and
get you worked up to a great pitch of
enthusiasm and the next day you can't
remember what it was about, SO that
when you hear him again what he says Is
as fresh as ever.''-Chicago Record-Her-
aid.
Eyes, SIR" says the. enthusiastic man.
down my way we raise Strawberries so
big that three of them will fill quart
box That may be-" replied the other
man, "but where / live they have quart
! boxes so small they will barely hold
three berries. "-Chicago Post.
Cabby-No, times amt what they was
the dignity of the profession's gone Ev-
erybody wants a bloomin' taxi" and
when they've bowed 'emselves 'oarse and
can't get one they 'aves you as a hap
ology.-The Sketch.
81 await the spring fashions with trent
datfon." What are they to Der" 81
don't know, but / understand they've per-
fected something even worse than the
tube gown."-Louisville Courier-Journal
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Mr.. Bowes, the latest husband of
Margaret Ellington. is going to spend
$4,000 in launching his wife in an
other theatrical venture. If it works
out the way others of its kind have,
the launching cost will be but a small
part of expense of the undertaking.
The fact that Mr.. Bowes is a million
aire makes it all the better for him.
II he only had few hundred thous-
and dollars he'd really be in a sorry
f1radfea r1enf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

A heap of fun in life is missed just
by trying to buy it.
Buying flowers in a shop is the
cheapest way for an amateur gardener
to raise them.
By being cross with her husband a
woman can get ahead of his being
cross with her
The reason a girl can love man is
that, if he weren't around, she could
somebody else.
The trouble with a man learning
how to support himself is that he has
to learn to support lot of others.
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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
a week or thirty cents month (by
mail Only.) Address changed as often
as desired. While ont 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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A COUNTRY OF MARKsMEN.

The younger generation of Americans
cannot keep pace with the one now
passing away in respect to general
familiarity with firearms. Pistols may
be as common as they were 80 years
ago. Certainly there are more in use
than there ought to be. But shotguns
and rifles, especially shotguns, were
once found in nearly every farm house,
and in such homes the great majority
of Americans were then born and
raised" A generation of city bred
boys cannot be expected to know guns
in the old way. and now there is so lit
tie use Of shotguns on farms that they
are by no means as common as they
used to be, even in the open country.
Yet we are still nation of marks
men, in an altogether unusual degree.
The number of Americans who can
shoot well is immense, taking the
country as a whole. It is an accom-
plishme 1T which comes easy" as the
saying is, to American men and boys.
They are descended, in large measure,
f. Dm generations Of experts with fire.
arms. The habit of craftsmanship is
ingrained.
1t is not light matter. The life of
a nation has more than once depended
upon the ability of its sons to hold a
rifle barrel level and aim it steadily at
the mark, living or inanimate. Soldiers
must have more than skill with fire
arms: but it Is true now, as it has been
for centuries, that straight shooting Is
vital. Napoleon knew, and he said that
Fire is everything. "-CIeveland Lead
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FORGETFuI..

FORGETFUL.
went into a barber shop,
A little corner place;
The barber must have had a drop.
He badly cut my face,
And-when he saw my face was cut.
With all his might and main
He soused me with witch hazel, but
1t didn't stop the pain.
Next day, in a forgiving mood,
took another chance
Inc naughty barber by me stood
With .supercilious glance
You shave yourself sometimes, 1 guess,
The barber did observe,
And I was mute, I must confess,
Before such lofty nerve.
Washington Herald.
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Oyster Bay to New York in an auto
mobile in faster time than a railroad
train made the trip, and the train
was speedy one, too. Somebody will
be charging this trip up to the col
onel as another bit of evidence that
he is no respecter of laws. for laws
are in force on Long Island against
the excessive speeding of automo-