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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
HYHAWKER JOTy

Pork chops greasy will soon be so
high VIC viii have to be satisfied with
the greasy and leave the meat for our
rich friends. remarks the FL Dorado
Republican. s.
The Rush center Breeze has zeol-
rn1n of items taken from the Walnut
Valley Standard of II years ago. The
following paragraph appeared in last
weeks column: Wheat took a jump
last week and in consequence of which
our streets are daily lined with loads
OF wheat, which now sell at so cents per
bus1eL'
The son of the president of Kansas
bank left Manhattan recently to take u
job as chauffeur for q western Kansas
farmer. The young man is D. A. Nell
son, son of John Nelson, president of
the State Bank of Bennington, Kan.
The Nelson's moved to Manhattan last
fall that the children might attend
schools here. The piutocratic farmer
who has hired young Nelson to run hts
snort wagon is J. N. Feike OF Colby.
In addition to owning motor cars and
hiring bankers sons as chauffeurs Mr..
Feike writes his business letters on
Autographed stationery. - Manhattan
Republic. rs-
Prof. Dyche. the fish and game war
den has some funny experiences, mar
rates the Lawrence Journal. Recently
he was out in the country walking
when he met up with a man with a
gun. The officer asked him how hunt
ing was and the man replied that it
was the best he had ever known. He
went on to tell the game he had killed
and boosted SO much that the profess
sor felt that something must be done.
Finally the man asked his name. IL.
L. Dyche, and I am fish and game war
Cen of the state of Kansas replied the
professor. The man was not bit
/ abashed and said quickly, and when
you go back to Topeka. professor, you
just stop in and tell the governor that
you talked with the biggest liar in the
state of Kansas right down here in
Douglas county where we all three
live
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
A TUBERCUIOsIs SUNDAY

Announcement of national tuber-
culosis Sunday to be held on April
cath in 215, 900 churches of the United
States was made today by the Nation
al Association for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis.
Following campaigns against con-
sumption that have been carried on
in the churches of hundreds of cities,
and sermons on tuberculosis that have
been preached before thousands of
congregations during the past year, a
movement has been started to estab-
fish permanent tuberculosis Sunday,
on which it is hoped that every one of
the 33,0OO,oO0 church-goers in the
United States will hear the gospel of
health. 1t is planned to enlist the
active cooperation of anti-tuberculo-
sis organizations, labor unions, fra
ternal organizations, and other bodies
together with the churches in the
movement. The aid of leading
churchmen in many of the principal
denominations has already been Of
fered. All of the large interdenom-
national bodies, such as the Young
Mems Christian association, the
Young Women's Christian associa-
%iOAF the hIHS daughters ana sons,
and the various young peoples So
cieties are also in sympathy with the
anti-tuberculosis campaign.
1t is planned that on April oath
tuberculosis sermons shall be preach
ed in all the churches of the country.
Literature will be distributed to MEM
bers of the congregations. and in ev-
cry way an effort will be made to
teach that tuberculosis is dangerous
| disease and that it can be prevented
and cured.
Clergymen who desire to obtain ad-
ditional information in regard to tub
erculosis will be able to secure liter
allure from state and local anti-tuber-
culosis associations and boards OF
health, as well as from the National
| association
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
QUAKER SlEDITATIoNs.

EFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Never say die," is a good motto.
but you can't make the dyer believe ft.
Tell woman you will never love an
other and she will at least half believe
you.
Life is a dreary ex-pants to the boy
who has to wear his fathers cast-ofe
trousers.
The self-made man isn't always as
careful as he might be in selecting his
materials.
This world is full Of fools, and the
strangest part of 1t is they all seem to
be on to each other.
No, Maude. dear, there is no reason
why even a fresh water sailor shouldn't
be arrested for assault.
The fellow who goes hunting for a
wife generally bags something, even IL
it is only his trousers at the knees.
Nell-"Maude is terribly s1angy: yes
terday she remarked that I was in the
soup" Belle-"That wasn't very ladie-
like, was it 90
Misfortune comes in pairs" quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes, especially when
the other fellow has three of a kind"
added the Simple Mug.
OldbacI-"What makes that baby crv
SOP Homeopathic poor little fellow
is cutting his teeth Oldbach-"Oniy
his teeth? It sounds as though he
might be cutting his whole head on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

up other reasons for the high prices Of
many of the necessities of life to Offset
the opinion that prevails with many
people that high. or protective tariff.
and high prices for necessities are al
most synonymous.
1t is understood that President Taft
has expressed the opinion that these
investigations shall be conducted with
the sole view of getting at the truth N
the premises regardless of any injury
or benefit it may result in to the tariff
and its friends. And that Is just the
kind of an Investigation that every one
in the country wants. Nor. would it ap-
pear that the friends of the tariff. and
even they do not admit it is perfect
measure. will have anything to fear
from full and honest investigation of
the relation Of the tariff to the high
cost of things.
For instance, during the last year or
two that there was a duty on hides the
price Of shoes did not go up. There has
been no duty on hides now for some six
months. Still the price of leather has
gone up materially and the shoemakers
of the nation are talking Of being COM
PEELED to put up the prices of shoes &C.
cord1ngly. The price of cotton has been
soaring to the skies of late and there is
no duty On cotton. There was no re-
duction in the wooden schedules Of the
tariff. This has been properly charac-
terized by President Taft as one Of the
indefensible features of the revised
tariff legislation. Still, wooden clothes
are selling at the same prices that they
have been for the past few years. Sugar
is now selling for more money under
the influence OF a slight reduction of
the tariff duty than it did before there
was reduction. Several other ex-
an1ples might be cited in this same
category. 81. & s.
They all go to show that there must
be some other and deeper reasons be-
sides the tariff which are controlling
factors in boosting prices to abnormal
levels and keeping them there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
HUAOR or THE DAY

about the right of women to vote? Mrs.
Park-lts enough for me to know, my
DEAR that it is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
He-You haven't told me that you love
me once today She-And you haven't
asked me II love you since last night
st. Louis Times.
Hers is f E. p Do1icv mSrning madam
husband. Lady Inside-WeIl he has back
ed out Of going in.-Chicago Record Her
And is your milk pasteurlzed?' asks
TIE ,,T prospective eustomsr Of the dairyman
the cows every morning. '-Chicag News.
on the vegetable wagon he exclaimed,
briefly Herewith all agreed he had the
only reasonably priced food.-New York
She's original, anyway "Why so?''
Il was forced to offer her my left hand
20 snake yesterday and she didn't say:
the left hands nearest the heart -
Mr.. Close-If realized I had any v;ces
my dear. would swear off. Mrs. Close
Then, for goodness sake, swear of that
wise you have on your pocketbook.-Pitts-
burg Post.
'Lottie, what would you do if you woke
your roomT' 'If he was hunting for
Life.
Il am surprised. Bobby said his
f faatlh1er, repro,X,iingly; that you should
oE that It i ss%araK t. hit one smell
an air of having the better Of it.2Judee.
Columbus was regretting his discovery
unused, nobody has called me a Spieot-
ty. Herewith he felt the worst was vet
to come.-New York Sun.
$50 you are studying telepathy % Yes
answered Senator Sorghum; my object
| In life has been to find what people are
thinking and then say it first. Any reliable
system would simplify my labors i'm
mensely. "-Washington Star.
The Doctor-The government found out
some of the sugar frauds by making
chemical or electrical tests, didn't it? The
Professor-Probably you've got 1t into
your head that the government tried the
N-ray on the R-buckle.-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
TARIFF AND HIGH PRICES.

Two separate Investigations will soon
be well under way on the part of mem
bers of congress in relation to the high
cost Of living, a subject that is alive in
the attention of almost every person in
the United States today. They will be
made by the members of the ways and
means committee of the house of repre-
sentatives and by a special committee
Of the senate. And there has been con-
siderable talk in various quarters that
both of these committees will use every
endeavor to give the tariff law as it
now stands and as it has stood a clean
bill of health in this particular. In
other words, it has been suggested that
these committees will take pains to dig
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

LFrom the Atchison Globe.J
When a big fat girl is silly she is
TERRIBLY silly.
Many people seem to enjoy life i'm
mensely by living on expectations.
ct want credit for one thing" said
man recently. II seldom consult an
almanac"
A man can usually recognize bar
gain by the fact that it is something
he doesn't want.
So many men have this attitude: 81
should like to see anyone argue that
question with Me-
There are some loafers who are so
anxious to put in all their time at it
that they get up early in the morning.
What has become of the old-fasll-
toned mother who seemed rather
proud because hers was a delicate
child?"
The woman who raises the hair
that is sold hasn't much style to her.
No woman with any style has a hair
to sell At Any Price.
Sleeping out of doors isn't enough.
In order to get the Complete Cure for
what ails you, you must sleep in a
house built in tree top.
George Washington and Carrie Ma
ton combined were never able to
give the Ratchet that popularity which
came to the hammer unsolicited.
w uen SOSSlpS atlack a man, all ne
has to do is to try to find out who
started the talk, and the gossips will
begin fighting like wolves among
themselves.
A Leavenworth restaurant adver-
tises q ''Cook-Peary sandwich" IN
curry develops that the sandwich is
made of cheese and ham: Cook was
the ham, and Peary the whole cheese.
Times are changing. Wolves used
to run from dogs. The other day.
two dogs took after a wolf below
town, but the wolf didn't do a thing
but turn on the dogs and whip them
both.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
FROA OTHER PENS
AMERICAN FIRE WASTE.

According to the United States Geo.
logical Survey, which has made a
special investigation of the subject, the
annual fire waste, Sor loss, in this coun-
try approximates half a billion dollars.
It is estimated tina the cost of new
constructed each year is about a bill
lion dollars. If these estimates be true,
1t is apparent that the American peo-
pie burn about half as much actual
property as they construct; in other
words, we waste half of our build
ing investment.
In no other country in the world is
the fire waste so heavy as in the
United States. Our fire waste per
capita is about eight times as great as
in any European country. 1t is diff
ffcult to account for such a state of
things. but there is no getting around
the fact of the immense fire waste.
No doubt the general use of frame
structures in this country has greatly
increased the fire risk, but defective
building codes and disregard of the
building laws actually in existance
cans as rule have been content with
a much 1imiser type of building than
would be tolerated anywhere else. That
much of the fire waste could be avoided
by better construction is proven by the
almost complete immunity of govern
ment buildings from fire, although the
government carries not cent of in
Surance. Government buildings are
nearly always of fireproof construc-
tion and of the best materials, and are
generally well provided with safe
guards against fire.-NeW Orleans
Picayune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
REPRESENTATIVE MEN.

Unquestionably it is a good thing
for the people # a country to get an
outside estimate of themselves at
least when that estimate is honest and
not Influenced by prejudice. The Jap
anese commercial commissioners who
paid a three-month visit to this coun-
try and ;sited many of the principal
cities of the Uuited States. have reach
ed home, and some of their impress
sions have already come to US. Thus
Baron Shibusawa is reported as say
ing, I'VE have had a splendid oppor-
tunity to come in contract with the
best and noblest type of American citi-
zens, such as President Taft, James j.
Hill, William J. Bryan, Ambassador
O,Brien, John D. Rockefeller, Jacob H
Schiff and Secretary Knox.
Here is a list that somehow has
queer look to American eyes. 1t may
be doubted if in a contest for a prize
or by an. other means of getting an
expression of public opinion, a single
American would have been found
who would have put together just this
list as representing s'the best and
noblest'' type of American citizenship
There is a lack of educators. scientists,
cIergymen and others whose names
would naturally occur to- most
well-informed Americans, and yet,
who shall say that, after all,
the list as Baron Shlbusawa
is reported to have given out,
is not strikingly representative of the
America of today2-Manchester Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Truth is mighty and strong, but it
is not so fleet of foot as a lie.
= = y
One of the unusual things in life is
for a man to admit he has made a
fool of himself.
While some men wait for their luck
to turn others keep pegging away and
beat them to it.
A great deal depends upon who's
doing which as to whether or not it is
more blessed to give than to receive.
= y :
If many people only got credit for
everything they do some of them
would have better regulations and
others would have worse ones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
TO HER-UNsPoKEN.

Go to him, ali, go to him, and lift your
eyes aglow to him;
Fear not royalty to give whatever he
may claim:
All your spirits treasury scruple not to
show to him,
He is noble; meet him with pride too
high for shame.
Say to him. all, say to him, that soul
and body sway to him;
Cast away the cowardice that counsels
you to flight,
Lest you turn at last to find that you
have lost the way to him.
Lest you stretch your arms in vain
across starless night.
Be to him, ali, be to him, the key that
sets joy free to him:
Teach him all the tenderness that only
love can know.
And if there should ever come a memory
Of me to him.
Bid him judge me gently for the sake
of long ago.
Amelia Josephine Burr, in the Century
magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

IF'rom the New York Press.
When a woman won't spread gossip
it's about herself.
Heiresses don't usually pay the divi
dends mensmarry them for.
The way to hate thing that is
naturally agreeable is to have it be-
come a duty
Children are very forbearing not to
be bigger tyrants over the family
than they are when it's so easy
In the course of time a man gets
to display the same air of proprietor
ship about his religion as he does
about his bank account.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

If 'tariff revision downward" is to be
the slogan of the Democrats in the
next national campaign it is more than
likely that Mr.. Brayn will insist that a
condition has arisen which will make
his running again for the presidency
imperative. He has not had an oppor-
tunity to fight out q presidential cam
Daign with tariff revision as the para
mount issue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

Ninety three inches of snow have
fallen this winter at Utica, N Y. This
will be a keen disappointment to the
folks hereaboIts who had an idea that
this locality had walked away with
the snowfall honor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

A German is in New York hunting
for a suitable place to make a landing
with mammoth airship of the dirigi-
bic balloon type with which he pro-
poses to sail from Germany to the
United States. If he can not find a
place to lano he will likely give up
the projected trip. Occasionally, a
poor excuse may be better than none,
but it generally offers the opportunity
for a smile or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

That titled EngIishfdan who believes
in the George Washington Ratchet
story and takes Americans to task for
making light of it. only emphasizes the
well known condition of the English
mind in being incapable OF quickly
recognizing a joke at sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

A widow applied for help in
Kansas City, Mo-, and secured hus-
band. She may have secured what she
was looking for but that has not been
the case with every woman who has
taken a husband to help her on her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

Battling Nelson's mother cried when
she received the news that her son had
lost his fight with Ad Wolgast. 1t is
probably within the truth to say that
more mothers would cry if their sons
engaged in prize fights.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

Presumably the rebels In Nicaragua
have control of the cables and teIe-
graph wires communicating with the
outside world. All the news that filters
through from the Banana republic tells
Of their winning important" victories.
Enough such victories have already
been won. according to the reports, to
settle dozen Central or South Amer
1can revolutions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

Members of the city board of cleo
trio light trustees have decided to
make Topeka "a CITY of light at night.
That's fine. Now if those officials in
charge of the water department would
only provide the people with a little
water that one could see through there
would be even better reasons for en-
thusiasm among the townfolks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

officials of the socalled milk trust
which has been operating In New
York and New Jersey have been in
dicted and stand a chance of being
sentenced to prison for year and
fined $1,000. A report has it that the
federal grand jury which has been in
vestigating at Chicago the operations
of the beef trust has found indictments
against several of the men higher
up" All of which goes to show that
while justice moves rather slowly at
times it eventually gets there, and oc-
0asinnaliz lands with both feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
KANSAS COMAENT
OF INTEREST TO GIRLS.

You are a pretty girl my dear; we
Wlli admit that, an unusually pretty
glrl. You are striking. you have
figure. and when sfou pass the hotel
the men turn to look at you, and
you have the front room lighted up
four nights in the week There is no
| oouot or your popularity-none at
all, my dear: so you don't have to
urge that as an excuse for the way
you are going. And you know how
you are going-so does everyone else
IN town. And it's too bad; YOU in
/ sist on accentuating the fact that you
gait, your general air and attitude is
that OF female rather than that of
person, and when q man is around.
II you could see the way you act you
tlcular-just any old pair of trousers.
GOOD Lord, girl, stop flirting and
get some sense. Take off that dress
that outlines your figure until you
look naked, and put on clothes like
other women:
Don't say that those clothes make
you look stylish; what they do is to
make you indecent. Don't devote
so much time to the fact that you
wear petticoats and spend a little time
considering yourself as human being.
Or course We know you are smart,
my dear; yoH. know lot-a lot of
Things you have. no business know
ing and that shows also. If you
knew what is written on your face
you would be ashamed to go out doors;
but it is all there-everyone of those
vain things flHyour silly head. And
where your treasure Is there your heart
| Is. As one thinketh, so he is. and you
are so plainly in evidence that it is
pitiful how you advertise yourself.
OF course it's fun; you are having
a good time; it's all innocent fun and
you know how to fake care OF your
self. They all do-these smart girls;
rlr - L,
edge; but stolen waters are sweet,
and bread eaten in secret-but you
don't care to have scripture quoted
| to you. Still il is true and it is the
| wisdom of the ages.
| And you are someone's pride and
! joy; your father doesn't see what the
| other men see; your mother may see
and fear and perhaps she is trying
to make you see too; but you think
| she is slow. You don't think she ever
had a good time. You think she is
| too strict
But no girl who was ever cut up in
doctors office and thrown into an
old suit case or tossed into the creek
She always knewSsO much more than
her mother, and always thought her
| mother too strict. e
OF course it hasn't come to that
| yet. But it's along in that direction
| Just at the turn of the road to the
| left. There is the bend in the river;
there Is where they will throw the
suitcase and wonder under the straw
pile by the barn-there they will bury
the head; perhaps, your pretty head
with all that light in the eyes: with
all that red on your lips, with all that
glow on those cheeks-your pretty
head would not come from that
straw pile looking as it looks today.
| 1t is not pleasant; still you are not
! pleasant to look at my dear, for all
! these things are written upon you; and
/ you're a pretty girl an exceptionally
pretty girl my dear; but only
just DON'T Xau. understand. Just
/ don't.-Emporia Gazette.
i AS TO FRIENDS.
/ There are n5&RtE few men in the
/ world who req EEV elnnreciata the fax
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

w. H. Ryan, former chairman of
the Kansas Democratic state commit
tee. has bolts6 his party and Joined
forces with those who are looked upon
in divers quarters as having bolted the
Republican party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

Presumably stocks among the fair
sex OF maturer years and especially
with the OLD maids, have begun to
soar since there has been a general
circulation Of the opinion of the Lon
don World that woman does not be-
come dangerously attractive until she
is 80 years old and a material step
further in the science of feminine at
Effectiveness is attained when a wom-
ans age Apr oaches 40 years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

One Of Detroit's citizens has been
fined So for disorderly conduct, petty
larceny or something of the sort, be-
cause he drank twenty-five gallons of
soup while he was being entertained
at helping-hand mission in that town.
This is case where little leniency
might have been shown. The after eff
fects of drinking twenty-five gallons of
mission soup ought to be enough
punishment for any man to suffer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Indoor golf, which is now attracting
the attention Of the experts at the game.
ought to be almost as exciting as chess.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-25

At last the Missouri Pacific has sue
ceeded in making a clean score in the
operation of its trains. on It's main line
in Kansas. Not a single one of them
was on time during the month of
January