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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
UNFAIR TO HUGHES.

An instance of the irresponsible AMI
unfair way in which the acts and mo-
tives of men in public life are attack
ed by who should know better is
found in the protest of william Jen-
nings Bryan against the elevation of
Governor Hughes of New York to the
supreme court of the United States.
Mr.. Bryan makes the general charge
that Mr.. Hughes has always been on
the side of the corporations and he
particularizes tkusly:
TT will be remembered that he vetoed
the bill for the reduction of. railroad
rates after a New York legislature
and a Republican legislature at that
had passed the reduction bill. This
measure gave to the congested popula-
ton of New York the, two cent rate
now enjoyed by the more scattered pop
ulations of the western states and his
veto is Conclusive proof that he obeys
the dictates of the railway managers
instead of listening to the voice of the
public
Mr.. Bryan has ever been credited
with being a square dealer with all
men and it must be that he did not
read the memorandum written by Gov
ernor Hughes in explaining his veto
OF this bill. After a bitter legislative
struggle Governor Hughes had sue
ceeded in creating public utilities COM
missions for the regulation and control
of the railroads and other quasi-public
corporations in New York state. These
commissions have a larger measure of
control over corporations than have
any other similar commissions in any
of the states. Among other things,
they have the rate making power
and the courts have confirmed them
with it. Governor Hughes pointed out
that the two cent passenger fare bill
was passed by the legislature without
any proper investigation as to it's rea-
condolences. He believed the matter
was one that came within the func-
lions of the utilities commission, which
had the power and the means of maxi
ing the necessary Investigations to find
out just what was a reasonable passen-
ger fare For these reasons he vetoed
the bill and they appear to be forceful
ones.
In other words Governor Hughes was
determined to give the railroads just
as fair a deal on this proposition as
they des erved. He did not obey the die
tafes of the railways. as Mr.. Bryan
puts it. He merely extended the JUS
tice that was their due. That is the
caliber of a man that Charles E. Hughes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The greatest nuisance at a theater
is the talkatively inclined individual
who has seen the show.
a. u
Once in q while you'll find a man
who il willing to say the umpire did
right In deciding against the home
team.
This is also the season of the year
when the fish that got away holds an
important place in the conversation of
fishermen.
y
A fact generally overlooked is that
when girl Invites a fellow to supper
to make a hit with him, it's her moth
er who does the cooking.
y n
The weather is not more erratic
than the people who find fault with 1t,
for It is well nigh impossible to tell
what any OF them will do next.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
SERIOUS CoNDITION.
Marshal Ryan informs us Il
HUNOR or THE DIP

..Hard-worlzin' wife you've got. Bill"
Yes, wish I'd couple more Ike her.
Sydney Bulletin.
Your honor, don't see how can pay
as much ai,rony as that JndEe-Why
fore you got married life.
1.-THE South Sea Islanders often ex-
they go through a regular form OF ei-
vorce."-Chicaso Journal
Little Fido-Uncle Towser, whats the
eat? Big Towser-YoungssSr, there's a
beef boycott on and were the innocent
why don't you brace up and step live
though you were going to a funeral" I
know it's well enough for you to talk. but
Vol, guess vsTe ou Yoi1S waw to- the II
Detroit Free Press.
Mamma" said little ostend, as he ran
through the Kitchen, when you make my
doughnut viii you make the hole just
asked his mother in surprise. wei. you
see, I've promised little brother the big
gest part Of it."-Chicaso News.
Tad-I suppose that mIllionaire's money
made him famous. Gad-No His name
wasn't In everybody's mouth until pop
ular cigar was named after him.-Judge.
Zones made an awful big hit at the
banquet the other nigh" rs that so9''
refused. "-Detroit Free Press.
HE seems to be an up-to-date poll
tician." II should say so. Before pro-
posing to Miss Specie he got UP q petition
with 1000 signatures urging her to accept
him. Life.
Timpkins-Empty-hea sort Of chan.
that man Brown. Jones-Yes, and very
bounder. Timp1xins (after q
she chuck you. toof-Tno
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
THE OPEN moon

Why Why should 7 house in grim Reality
Mnen ! need only close my eyes to lie
Within another worldwide knows how
that are?
Here beckon all the older tales I love,
WIN +h al the wonder and the thrills
Here tarry still the ancient mysteries
OF treasure laden land beyond the seas
Here I awaken at the huntsnan's horn
Surfing the echoes Of the early morn.
And strain to see the plumed horscrnen
Adown the dim demesne Of old romance.
And here, when twilight skies brood low
and gray,
Sometimes I hear a wandering piper play
lost Arcadian melody. so sweet
None other dare its cadences repeat
There is no WEAKNESS nor solitude,
Since I may have, companioning my
mood,
more real than any burdens
seem.
When, I pass through the open door of
dreami
Charlotte Becker. in the New York Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

ward the river. and after nghting Tor
minute she tainted away.
When the girl opened her eyes
again her brother Fred was wiping
her face with q wet handkerchief and
calling her name. She sat up in a
dazed way and looked around for the
tramps. Three old hats and two rag
ged coats lay on the ground. but
there were no tramps to be seen.
Now. then. you listen to me-" said
Fred as he sat down and chaffed her
hand. Scott and I were across the
river fishing. We heard you YELL
And you rushed to my assistance 2"
ST rushed7 Not any! stood there
with my mouth open. 1t was Scott
who rushed. Say, the water is as cold
as ice, but he never stopped even to
kick off his shoes. rushf Yes
rushed upstream for boati"
But you attacked the tramps when
you did land7"
IT attack the tramps? Why there
weren't any here to attack. Scott had
had them yelling for mercy in fifty
'sBut you laid me on this bed of
moss?"
II laid? 1 laid nothingi couldn't
lift half of you. 1t was Scott. After
licking the tramps he threw them In
to the river to go over the dam, and
when I got here I sent him to the
mouse TO CndnBe MS ClOI4cS- 1OOh a.
mel Hear me! College athletics saved
you. and by the great horn spoon If
you don't fall in love with Scott Dan
forth and be new-fashioned 1 won't
own you for sister!''
It doesn't make any difference just
how long 1t took Miss Prue to see
things in another light. When Scott
Danforth took that trip to Europe
she went along as Mrs. Danforth.-
(Copyrighted 1910 by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
QUAKER NIEDITATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Scene and not heard-A pantomime.
Book beer is passe, but mint 5uIeps
are ripening.
An INSCRIPTIONS politician is mere
" a man who beats you running for
office.
1t seems also as though the bio
graph was rnightier than the boxing
glove.
He-"You are the first girl I ever
kissed" She-'I thought you had a
good bit to learn"
Many a Fellow sings second bass
in a church choir who would make
better shortstop on ball team.
ANY woman will tell you that one
of the principal pleasures of early mar
ried life is exchanging the wedding
Strangely enough the money dropped
in the stock market is always dropped
by the very PEOPLE who are trying to
pick it UP.
There might be an Improvement in
turer would only sew on the buttons
as tight as he does the tags.
NeIl-sMrs. Buggins has more tact
than any woman I know. Belle
Eyes, she can even make her husband
believe he is having his own way
Wigg-'I believe it was Patrick
Henry who said Give me liberty or
give me death Wagg-"Yes, but
that was long before Reno was ever on
the map"
WILLIE exclaimed the stern par
ent, ST am surprised to detect you in
a lie. Remember the story of George
Washington and the cherry tree" "Oh,
that cherry tree is a chestnut now"
replied Willie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
The Od America.

In 1880 about the time that Charles
Dickens was engaged in his dyspeptic
tour of America, G. p. r. James, an
other English novelist, was an Ameri-
can visitor, and wrote a letter, sold at
auction in New York last week. 1t is
a document Of interest to those out
side the glorious company of autograph
collectors. Wrote James when at New
Haven:
I'm passing through this land one
sees no poverty, no squalid wretched-
ness, no novels and old huts. Great
good humor, too, Is visible everywhere
among the people; each man seems to
feel that by industry he can get on as
well as another. There is little of that
jealous rivalry, none of that irritable
envy that we see in older lands, where
we are all struggling for that bread
which is not sufficient for the whole"
Here is an -cho of the old American.
Great good humor prevalent, mini
mum Of Jealous rivalry and irritable
envy, general belief that a kind Provi
oence had called the people of this land
to dwell in a pretty good place. Would
an English novelist visiting America
now so write? Yet If Americans today
were called on to occupy the houses
that satisfied in 1850 they would deem
themselves i'll used. In New Haven
wages are nominal1y four times higher
than so years ago, and measures in
purchasing power twice as high. The
average American stomach is filled
with more and better food, and the
average American back is covered with
finer raiment 1t is the spirit rather
than that with which the spirit exe--
cises itself which has changed for the
worse 1t Is now almost nfashionable
to praise America as formerly it was
deemed unpatriotic to have any doubts.
Jefferson Brick was most ridiculous
person, but when he disappeared some
thing of great value tended to go out
of American 1ife.-New York Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the chicago News.l

Is what you are worrying. about
really worth while?
Don't criticise a fool; fools can't
help being foolish.
It is the aim of the man behind the
gun to make his mark.
Self-love is the only kind that puts
a man in the undertaker's hands.
Some mems idea of happiness is TO
dicover a wet smile in a dry town.
The man who succeeds doesn't waste
his wind by converting it into hot air.
A girl with a dimple looks incapable
OF deception-but you can't always
tell.
When we hear some men talk we
are reminded of an automobile horn
attached to q bicycle.
There may be people who think they
always get their moneys worth, but
we never met any of them.
1t takes people who have no opinions
Of their own to make good jurors
therefore women are not eligible.
A man prides himself on his won
derful self control when he refrains
from doing anything he doesn't want
to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
Modest IongfelIoxy.

although I was forewarned of
Longfellow's visit, I was quite over
brought to my room. One look of his
kind, deep-seL eyes, and warm hand
shake soon restored my mental eQui-
poise, and put me at my ease. me
man endowed with the finest qualities
man can possess, was spiritual feast
for me.
HE spoke to me of Boston and its
celebrities. and acquainted me with the
names of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Thomas Bailey AIdrich, James t.
Fields, Celia Thaxter, and others,
chaffed me about going up Bunker. Hill
monument, and asked me how com
pared the California weather with the
beautiful climate of Massachusetts. He
went on speaking in the manner of a
perfect man of the world, and simply
charmed me. Then my son came in,
and we were both invited to luncheon
at the poets house in Cambridge.
"Longfellow's great charm was just
that perfect simplicity, so rare in cele-
brated men. There was not shade
of the patrOniZing air so frequently
assumed by people of superior stand
ing, not a particle of the pomposity 1
had more than once observed among
much less known writers. A celebrity
without conceit is a rare thing to be-
hold; he did not seem to care much
for compliments.
when L attempted to speak about
his poems, he interrupted me, and,
pointing to handsome armchair
standing in his study, drew my atten-
ton to it by remarking jokingly that
the children liked his verses, because
he had received that present from
school on the-here ne paused, and
niversary of my literary activity.
"Then, as if regretting that he had
spoken lightly of the gift, he grew
suddenly serious, and stroking the
back of the chair with his hand. ne
said almost tenderly, I prize it high
w, Mime. Modiesko. in the Century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

IFrom the New York Press.1
We forget past misery so we can get
it again.
The way to keep your friends Is to
let them use you.
Women cork up secrets SO tight that
the bottle always bursts.
The chief trouble about getting mar
ried is all the money you will think YOU
would have had If you hadn't done II.
A man really can make more fuss
over the way barber trims his nous
tache than a woman over the way q
tailor cuts her gown
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

An elderly New York spinster, who
In possessed VI q large fortune, is being
held UP TO ridicule because she per-
sists in making collection OF old to-
mato cans. old bottles and other junk.
At any rate she gets the real thing in
her particular line, and that Is more
than can be said for many other folks
of wealth who spend fortunes yearly
in the collection of works OF art which
later turn out to be fakes"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

Tae new home OF the international
Bureau OF American Republics which
was dedicated formally in washington
che other day. is more Familiarity re-
1erred TO as The Temple of Peace. -
Presumably. though. not the least i'm
poreant of the records housed within
IT VIII be a roster of the army and
navies Of the nations which are con-
cerned in its maintenance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

Once in a while labor unions get in
wrong. An instance of this is to be
found in the declaration of the Cen
trail Trades union of ST. Louis that
President Taft's attendance at an
American league ball game to be
played there on May 4, will be con-
sidered as an affront to them on the
part of the president of the United
States. Because the st. Louis unions
have had some trouble with the base
BAH management in that town is the
inadequate reason for its surprising
action in this regard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

Confrmatory evidence of the tales
of travellers that life at sea becomes
most monotonous is found in the dis
patch telling that several hundred pas
sengers on a Bermuda line steamer sat
up until o'clock in the morning re-
Gently for the purpose Of getting view
of the comet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

1t was almost unnecessary for that
Columbia professor 20 &C to the trou-
BILE of figuring it out that Halley's
comet has absolutely nothing to do
with the weather conditions which
have been prevailing of late. They
have been no more or less erratic than
they usually are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

does not appear to be any possibility
of them getting together. Yet this
piece of legislation was one of the
pledges in the Republican national
platform. It has been vigorously
championed by President Taft. And
a failure to enact it into law wil be
held up as a black mark against his
administration by his unfair critics.
Certainly a president OF the United
States has a difficult time making
good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

Decision hss been reached by the
National Geographic society and the
Peary Arctic club to postpone their
South Pole expedition until next year.
It would appear that the distinguished
gentlemen who are members of these
societies are taking great chances. DR..
Cook may get busy and beat them out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
passing strange
Several
Strange.

Strange, passing strange. Several
heretofore Republican newspapers
which have taken the lead in the de-
nunciation of everything that President
Taft has done, are actually compli-
menting him on his appointment Of
Governor Hughes to the supreme
bench. And particularly strange is
their attitude in this respect inasmuch
as this appointment is not acceptable
to Mr.. Bryan, the leader of the Demo-
Gratis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

Jackson is busy" says the news
paper headlines in respect to the ac-
tIvitses of the states attorney general.
And a reading of the stories under
meath them seems to indicate that most
OF his activities are not concerned with
affairs of state but with the effort he
is making to land congressional nom
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
EROA OTHER PENS
CoEDuCATIoN.

STRAIGHTFORWARD the tide of educa-
ton in Eastern educational institutions
takes its way. Two of the leading
Metho dist preparatory schools OF the
Middle states have just decided to
give up coeducation of boys and girls,
and now Tufts follows Wesleyan in the
same decision. 1t seems to be agreed,
at Tufts at least, that there are reas-
ons, based ON innate differences in
point of view between men and wom-
en- which make it expedient that dur
ing the undergraduate stage there shall
be separation. Tufts. therefore, like
Harvard and Brown, is proposing the
creation of a separate institution for
its women students, which will open
next fall. Boston university is now
left as the most conspicuous expon-
ent in New England of a method of
administration and a theory of educa-
ton which Is more firmly entrenched
among the state universities of the in
terror and West than elsewhere in the
country, but even there, there are
signs of disquiet, conspicuously SO at
the Universityof Wisconsin, and on
the Pacific coast where definite limits
have been set to the number of wom-
en- students who may matriculate.-
Boston Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

The high cost of living is reported
to be sending Chicago folks from
apartments where the rent is high to
boarding houses and hotels. If it
was only sending them to the farms
or to less densely populated centers
they and everybody else would be the
eafDerz
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

is and that's the canber of men who
are needed ON the supreme bench os
the country Nor is there any need to
fear that the corporations viii get more
than their Just deserts from Mr..
Hughes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

Colonel Roosevelt apparently plans
TO be tolerably active on the road when
he gets home here. He would like to
have the date for his Kansas speech
fixed on the day before he is scheduled
to deliver an address in Wyoming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

The height OF the ridiculous has been
reached in vaudeville circles by the
staging OF Johnny King, the baseball
player. in an exhibition game Of pool.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

When we observe a sequence of head
lines like these: "Suffragists After
Taft Unions After Taft" Ministers
After Taft" etc, we may be pardoned
for likening the chief executive to the
first incumbent of that office. II they
are all after" him, he is undoubtedly
First and all the rest of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

That decisive battle of the Near
aguan' revolution which has been i'm
minent for several months now Will
be pulled on in a few days according
to the revolutionary press agents, If,
of course, a circus does not intervene.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

Reports from washington now indi-
cate that the postal savings bank bill
stands little chance of being enacted
into law at this session Of congress.
It seems the louise and the senate are
% ear apart on this bill that there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28
KANSAS COMMENT
ABsTRACr AND CoNcRETE

ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE.
Leading thinkers in this and ether
that physicians are justified in ending
the lives OF patients swho are near
deaths door in order that needless
sumer1ng may be avoided. Theoreti-
caliy this practice may be justifiable,
although the common run of human
1ty has hardly advanced to the point
where It is accepted The vast ma
Jorlty still adhere. for one reason or
announcer, TO the old-fashioned doctrine
that no one has the right to take hui
man life, even his own, but on the con-
trary, that 1t is ones duty to live until
nature relieves him. even though the
purden may appear to be unbearable.
It is possible even that the advanced
thinkers may find the application of
their belief very difficult in specific
cases.
Hyde of Kansas City. charged with
the murder of Col. Swope without
expressing an opinion as to the truth
OF 1aIslty or the charges, it is claim
eo tnat the physician fastened the
end that was inevitable in a few hours,
or rev days, at the most, by admin
lstering a drug. Col. Swope was a suf-
Ierer: II death was near at hand. was
not ms physician justified, according
to this new theory, in relieving him of
ms sufferings? If DR.. Hyde knew that
the patients death was only a matter
or a few hours. was he not to be COM
A-cSOOA 10 InlS new
thought principle. endorsed by so high
autnor1ty as Charles w. Eliot. presi-
dent emeritus of Harvard-for termin-
4 a6ars the patients sufferings Few
thoughters probably, who would saw
ne was. People generally would I'M
hesltat1ngly declare that such a prop
os1tlon is almost unthinkable. Yet
teaching.
1t only illustrates the difference be-
tween an abstract theory and a con-
crete fact Oftentimes we feel like en-
ible. but when we come to apply it
to a given case 1t fails to work.
Hutchinson News.
MARKET VALUE OF DIGNITY.
The remark attributed to Frank B.
not expect to compete with trusts in |
paying salaries and that dignity and |
nonor ought to count as an element |
in determining the pay of federal |
Juoges-may be little ironical, but it |
contains big grain of truth.
The demand for higher salaries for |
FEDERAL judges is no different from |
that In other private and public po-
slt1ons. The one argument of high |
cost of living is offered as conclusive |
and, while 1t may be just to pay these |
public servants more, Mr.. Kellogg is |
right when he says that dignity and |
A-~AAOA AAAOos 10 SOAAApul0Q III Tie
mary. In this country men have ac- |
copied federal judgeships whom sal |
airy could not tempt. The same is true |
of nearly every gift of the country. |
Senator Root gave up law practice |
estimated to yield an annual income |
of 100000 for cabinet position then |
paying $4,000, and as senator he re-
ceives only $500. Mr.. Kellogg him
self is credited with a desire to repre-
sent Minnesota in the senate, showing
that he holds the value of official dig
nifty and honor above other considera-
Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

Murder will out. The fact that
John Dawson assassinated a Socialist
orator in q debate some time ago has
Just become public property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

April will have to change her ways
II she wishes to be considered in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-28

No complaint has been noted from
the Fourth district constituents be-
cause the franked year books were
seven years old. The Fourth district
constits welcome any change from
diet of Willie Allie Whites political
literature.