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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the

LFrom the AtchiSon Globe.1
Being a stepfather is good deal
harder than being a mother.
How a tough woman enjoys hear
ing a nice woman talked" about.
What does piping hot mean? Is
piping hot" any hotter than hot?
Most people put off until tomorrow
that which they should have done
yesterday.
If you love the political game, have
some consideration for those who
hate it.
You'll never have less trouble than
you are having now; when it isn't
one thing, it is another.
Did a woman ever have company
for dinner without worrying over the
possibility of there not being enough
to go around?
Hundreds of politicians are now
screaming: Reduce taxes!" And
every mothers son of us know that
taxes will not be reduced.
If you want to attract attention, be
kind and polite to people. That sort
of thing is so rare that it always at
tracts favorabl comment
To find fault with a man once hurts
his feelings more than a dozen COM
pliments will cheer him. Compliments
are often insincere, but fault finding is
always genuine.
A certain farmer is building a new
house. Have you completed your new
homer a reporter asked him recently.
NO" he replied, but it would have
been completed long ago if the men
had half worked
The story of "a Certain Rich Man"
has been written. Some day the
story of "a Certain Poor Man" should
be written. If it is well done, it will
show that some poor men are terribly
shiftless and dishonest.
old was never whipped as a child, and
has never seen a child whipped. When
we were a boy, we were whipped at
school, at home, by other boys and by
the neighbors.
Methuseleh was not a man of par
ticularly great age. The only remark
able thing about Methuseleh was that
the old man told the truth about his
age. Plenty of modern men who claim
to be rs are really as old as Methu-
Seleh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
The louder a child cries the less it is
hurt.
It's all right to save money-but don't
squeeze It.
But it is more blessed to receive than
it is to deceive.
It's pleasanter to be rich and impos-
ed upon than poor and neglected.
People are often suspicious of a man
who gets there with both feet
Marrying for position has got many
woman into an uncomfortable one.
A woman can always find something
to admire in a man-if he admires her.
No matter how much money a man
has. he is almost sure to envy man
who has more
A woman can even be proud of her
husbands bad habits if he'll attend
church on Sunday.
When a man begins to boast of his
honesty it is your cue to keep one
eye on your umbrella.
Although a great deal of sugar is i'm
ported from Cuba, some people con-
tinue to borrow it from their neigh
bors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

abundance of all things needful to the
highest welfare of life; it realizes that
all the laws of nature are in favor
of mans continuous advancement; and
it works upon the principle that the
more light you produce the less dark
ness there will be-that you can only
remove disease and weakness through
the increase of health and strength
that you can only gain freedom from
evil by giving your whole time to the
building up of the good-that you can
only overcome the wrong by giving
more power to the right-that you can
only remove poverty by giving each in
dividual the opportunity and the ability
to provide for himself and care for him
self. In brief its message is this: Work
exclusively for those things that are
conducive to mans highest welfare.
and those things that are not conduc-
i've to his welfare will die of neglect"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
JAYHAWKER JOTS

The Lebanon Times has an old fash
toned reporter who refers to the Jail as
the county bastile.''
The Horton Headlight has concluded
that life is mostly paying one debt
and contracting another"
How mad it must make a lead PEN
ell with a rubber to have to do the
erasing for one that hasn't. reflects
Byron Cain.
Seems that big families live in small
houses and people without families
own the big houses. Queer world
Society note in the Enterprise Push:
Since the pears have all been gathered,
it is said some of our festive young
ladies have resorted to the cider jug.
The Mount Olive correspondent of
the Moline Review starts off his batch
Hello. Kid, We are not dead, only
sleeping"
A Wathena citizen, reports the Times
of that place, while feeling the infiu-
ence of a little booze the first part of
the week, hired man to haul him
about Wathena in a wheelbarrow.
The Morganville Tribune has decid-
ed that a man is a queer animal, be-
cause: He likes to have it said that
his baby looks like him, but he gets
mad if told he resembles the baby.
A purely personal item from the
Lyons RepuDllcdn: Inc teachers all
returned home on time except Profess
sor Lane. The other teachers report
ed that he went to see his best girl and
his watch stopped on him.
We were mistaken, admits the Doug
lass Tribune. It was not old King
Solomon who said: Resist the devil
and he will fee from you" but James.
And come to think of it King Solomon
left little evidence of having resisted
the devil in his glorious career.
If the weather does not cool off
pretty soon, says the Kingman Leader
Courier, there is going to be another
fruit crop in this section, for already
the strawberries are blooming again
and the cherry tree buds are also COM
mencing to swell as If about to bios
som.
Here is one on the town boys, says
the Usage County Chronicle: At the
corn show the other day they spliced
up a stalk to get in on the tallest dis
play, and by working in an extra four
or five feet had it figured out that they
would be in the running in fine shape.
The work was nicely done, hard to de-
tect, and took some time. However,
they had hardly got it in place before
some farmer came along with genu-
inc stalk that knocked the spots off
the spliced article for tallness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
Horses as Pets.

What ignominy is likely to overtake
that noble animal the horse as the
motor car and the flying machine cap
ture the field of locomotion not al
ready held by the steam train and the
vulgar trolley seems-Uhlan's new
trotting record notwithstanding -
tragically foreshadowed in a Cincin-
natl dispatch to the Times, setting
keeps string of four horses purely
as pets" The beast which has been
the chosen ally of man almost from
the beginning-which helped him to
rise from the level of the semi-apes
that ranged, which has done so much
to make the gentleman that it lends
its name to cavalier and caballero, and
has dubbed the knight of the Father
land ritter-is degraded to the station
of the harmless, unnecessary cat, the
superf1uous poll-parrot, the fat parlor
spaniel, the canary, Gagged and vocal.
The tall comrade upon whose back
the mail clad warrior seemed but a
little lower than the angels, whose
strong shoulders have tanned the re-
luctant soil, whose faithful jog trot,
as he drew the carriers cart has trod-
den smooth the empire builders path,
whose ringing hoof beats with the
tune of fashion for centuries-this
sharer of mans toll and glory stands
sta1l-bound and eats out of the hand
of master who scorns his service of
strength and fleetness.
Edward Flynn, 76 years old, and a
hermit, appears (after the queer fash
ion of hermits) to be somewhat un-
wisely ahead of his time, but his
egregious folly may none the less he
taken as ominous. To be sure, one
may still ride upon the horse car in
New York City. To be sure, the
broad backed Percheron and Clydes-
dale may still be seen straining at the
traces of the brewers wagon and the
English trotter furnishes exercise for
the well fed broker in the park. To
be sure, stray hansoms with patient
hacks in the shafts still linger on GER
tain corners waiting for fares, and
sleek pampered bays still prance along
the avenue ahead of the victorias of
the leisured and prosperous. And
Uhlan makes a world trotting record.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Women of Inver--'tis straight you stand,
Full ankle deep in the shiftin sand
Your eyes on the sea an your back to
the land.
When the fishin' fleet set sail.
Grim are your eyes wi the hunger then,
Sayin' ''Goodspeed' to your fisher men;
In your heart We pray they may come
again,
But your lips are maxim the Wall.
Women of 1nver-ye work all day,
Mendin'S the nets, your eyes on the bay;
It's much We are thinkin' tho little We
say.
AS We watch for the tide to turn.
Ye count the hours there's left of light,
Ye know the minute the sea breaks white,
Ee smell the fog as it sweeps into sight,
An your cheeks wi the salt sting burn.
Women of Inver-the night is long,
When death winds howl an the tide runs
strong,
An ye tell your beads in a huddled
throng,
While the turf on the hearth CLOVIS red.
20 Mary, Mother of God!' ye cry.
Mothers are we. if our men must die
Let US spade their graves where the earth
is dry,
Make the sea give US back our dead"
Ruth Sawyer, in the Smart Set.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

the chance comes to me to prove this,
I promise you, I shall be ready"
oh, if Aunt Jean and Some others
could only hear him now, they could
not fail to be convinced of his SPLEEN
did manhood" whispered Margaret
to her own soul.
In the meantime resumed Per-
civaI, Ct"
Before he could say more a terri
fed scream rent the air
The baby carriage opposite had
started down the sloping pathway
and was peri1ously careening from
side to side. The infant was yelling
Justify.
stop that carriage! Oh, run,
rum" cried Margaret to Percival.
How can you ask me to do any
thing so ridiculous? The infant is
in no danger. The children will"
But waiting to hear no more Mar
garet sprang up and ran after the
quickly moving little vehicle
Her hair came down. her pompa-
dour wilted, and her beautiful puffs
were lost forever
Margaret always afterward main
tanned that simultaneously with the
loss of her first hairpin Percival dis
testing second she had learned to
value him at his true worth.
Suddenly she caught sight of the
cleaning lake in the distance. The
Dapy carriage was rushing toward IL.
She rushed forward and reached the
handle bars just as the clergyman,
coming from a side path, stepped in
front of the carriage.
Over the squirming and indignant
infant their eyes met And for the
first time Margaret saw clearly and
truly. There was for them in that
brief moment in all the world only
one man and one girl. music and
laughter, springtime and love.-(Copy-
righted 1910 by Associated Literary
PreSS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The most harmful brand of deceit
is when you deceive yourself.
y y
People who eat much meat these
days are also exceedingly wealthy.
y
No individual is without faults, but
some are most successful in hiding
them.
The man who keeps on following the
long road without a turn is almost
certain to get there.
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More noise is usually made by the
man with a few talents than by the
one who has many.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
HUN0R or THE DAY

Bridget" said Mrs. Grouchy, st don't
like the looks of that man who called to
see you last night"
well, we'll replied Bridget, "ain't it
funny, ma am? He said the same about
you.'-John Bull.
Commissioner-Don't you feel the need
Nafive-when we do we go out and
lynch somebody.-New York Sun.
Foul tactics" declared the halfback.
What's the trouble now?" demanded
Il tried a kick for the stomach, but this
fellow blocked it with his head."-Kan-
sas City Journal.
MY sturdy old grandfather came over
in the steerage. Forty years later he
went back in the Lusitania.'
Not so much know of an effete
in four weeks'-Louisville Courier.Jour-
nal
1--WE who ride in trolley cars today may
ride in automobiles tomorrow" said the
And in hearses the following ,aav, ;,
said the pessimfst. '-Birmingham Age
Herald.
First Amateur-what on earth ara Won
going to do with those shears?
to trim the jib sheet.-Philadelph
Ledger.
Howell-Did you have double pneu-
POWELL guess so; the doctor charged
me twice much as thought he would
-Harper's Weekly.
A little girl came into the room Juggling
at the stem of big rosy apple.
Why. daughter" said her mother,
out."-Harper's Magazine. A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

increase her naval force. A natural
conclusion might be that as soon as
the Panama canal is finished Japan
will proceed to try and take possession
of it. Fighting Bob Evans, kiss
ing Richmond p. Hobson and a few
others will become more insistent than
ever that this country put a superior
naval force on the Pacific.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, is go
ing to raise goats in Alabama. Some
body should wise Her Majesty up to
the fact that there is not much Of
market for goats in this country as
almost each and every individual here
is a goat of some variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

In the opinion of the supreme court
of the United States jurors have a few
rights. For instance. the court holds
that the reading of newspapers by jur-
Ors during a trial does not deprive
the prisoner of any of his constitution
al rights. The first thing you know,
men who are called to serve as jurors
in important cases will be treated as
though they are human beings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press.

IFrom the New York Press.
Sin sorrows under punishment.
Being unhappy without love doesn't
mean you would be happy with it.
A man can earn several livings, but
get only one out of it for himself.
Women put their most genuine feel
ing into their love: men into their
friendship.
The difference between the average
man and woman is how she will wor-
ship him when he isn't worth it and
how he won't her when she is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

An enviable record in lack of fataH-
ties and paucity of serious injuries was
made at the big aviation meet near
New York which has just been conclud-
ed. 1t is reasonable to assume, though.
that this deficiency in the death toll of
science and sport will be more than
counterbalanced at the automobile race
meet which is soon to be held at At
lanta
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

If there is anybody in Topeka or
Shawnee county who is opposed to the
proposed state fair bond issue, he ought
TO make his presence known and state
his objections
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

mo" explains the Kansas City Star,
the headline, "A Busy Week in Kansas
refers to football at the state univer-
sity, not to the last seven days of the
political campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Large bodies move slowly to be sure,
but an elephant can be hurried along
with few well-placed jabs of a gaff.
That's the treatment which should be
given to the White" one which is rest
ing so heavily on the Y. NJ. c. A. and
z. w. G. A of this city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

They say that the United States is
saving $15,0OO,0OO a year now, notes the
Chicago News and it adds: This proves
that President Taft personally pays for
the golf balls he uses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Reports have it that counterfeit $40
notes on eastern banks are being
showed" along the Pacific coast, while
similar counterfeits on western banks
are being circulated in the east. But
the mere fact that they are counter
felt SO bills should account for the
ease with which they are passed. Not
so many people are familiar with the
looks Ct SO note of any quality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Rev. Frank Gunsaulus says that Col
onel Roosevelt's new nationalism"
and Kaiser Wilhelm's Capitalization
policy" are similar. The very idea
Of such a thing! But maybe Rev. Gun
saulus has not heard that the sug-
gestion that the Colonel would like to
be king, has been characterized by
him as being "twaddle."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Rev. Newell Dwight Hills is of the
opinion that within $50 years from
now one-half of the human race. or
700,000,000 people, will be living in
the United States. Such being the
case, the problems which the people of
this country have to solve today are
insignificant as compared to the prob
lens that will be pressing two and
one-half centuries hence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Although election day does not come
in New York until Tuesday, the cam
paign there is over to all intents and
purposes. Colonel Roosevelt has re-
tired from it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Brazil has just leased one Of her
large railroad systems, that was buIt
and operated by the government
Government ownership of railroads
evidently doesn't work very well in all
cases
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of tho
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
Eantzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication iii Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Not only does General Apathy ap-
parently hold the stage in the closing
week of Kansas campaign. All of his
many relatives are evidently striving
their best to help him keep everybody
else out of the limelight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Even the Mormons seem to be pro-
crossing in the right direction Their
church has just issued a definite COM
mand that plural marriages must
cease
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

October was the warm and dry
month, reports the weather bureau.
But then all months are dry in Kan
sas, HquoraIIy speaking, at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

A probe is being inserted into the
Bath-tub trust That surely ought 20
start a leak
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

The Hope Diamond, a famous and
historic gem, has made its regular an
nual temperance in Paris. Paris is
the regular reappearing place of the
Hope Diamond, for the simple reason
that they make better Hope Diamonds
in Paris than they do elsewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

*The politicians of that period made
several noble but Intellectual effprts
to secure Aristophanes's angora, but
were unsuccessful. He continued to
grind, at space rates, for the Athenian
dailies, and, it is said, turned out some
hot stuff. Several times, while prowl-
ing about in the bottoms district of
Athens, he was assaulted by the hired
thugs of the 'insurgent" politicians,
but the thumps he received on his
bean seemed to enlarge his bump of
humor. The cracked glass they put
in his pancakes served only to sharp
en- his wits. and he lived to a ripe
old age. In fact, he was the Pop Van
degrift of Athens, and used to cut con-
siderable ice in the legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

- NAY q

Robert E. Peary, whose name and
frost-bitten portrait has at times ap-
peared in our leading periodicals, like
wise the daily press, is a naval officer.
Inc fact was not generally known I'M
til this week, when the government so
far forgot itself as to assign him to a
job. This is the first time in ten years
that the government has shown any
inclination to permit Naval OFFICER
Peary to earn his salary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

FRON O7KER PENS
TAFr AND THE. CANAL.

In his forth coming visit to Panama,
President Taft, no doubt, will gather
evidence to support his recommends
ton to congress for a sufficient ap-
preparation to fortify the canal. It
has already. been announced that the
president, like all others who have the
welfare of the nation at heart, is in
favor of Notifications. In going to
Panama Mr.. Taft is taking the 'most
practical method of being prepared for
the fight he will have on his hands
when the matter come before con-
gress.
There will be plenty of opposition
to the proposal for. Notifications on
the ground that the treaties with other
countries preclude such action. There
is no treaty, however. which prevents
the United States, after spending mill
lions of dollars to dig the canal, from
protecting it against destruction, and
it is as much the duty of the United
States to protect the canal as 1t is to
build it.
There are a number of other impor-
tant matters in connection with the
canal that demand a, decision from the
president One of these is the ques-
ton of charges to be made. against
ships using the canal. Mr.. Taft, nat
urally, is anxious to have these charges
arranged on an equitable basis, low
enough to be attractive and high
enough to pay the interest on the
money that has been expended
Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

The favorite outdoor sport in Los
Angeles, California, seems to be ar
resting General Harrison Gray Otis
for libel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

A complete alibi has been establish
ed for Mr.. c. E. Sewers, who accused
himself of being an assistant of
Doctor" Psychic Sarcology Carson,
of Kansas City. Doctor Carson states
positively, that Mr.. Sewers has never
assisted him in his Noble Work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Geraldine Farrar is reported to have
stated that no foreign, or domestic,
duke was worth a ding" Geraldine
may have said that, but it is more
likely an expurgated report of what
Geraldine said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

A report is now current that the
plan of the United States to fortify
the Panama canal is causing Japan to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Prominent among the bran-new
members of the Progressive Republic
cam party, we find the name of Mister
Alice Roosevelt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Aviators are the most exclusive elias.
of humans on the job. They are, {
close corporation and a trust. Their
is only one kind of aviator, and tha-
is daring aviator
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

Hon. Roosevelt, after long silence
on the subject, has permitted himself
to take up the subject of Increased
cost-of-living. He states. and we may
as well believe him without showing
an inclination to be hypercritical that
there is "a movement toward higher
prices"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03
A QUESTION HARD TO ANSWER.

Kansas lost 1000 in population the
past year according to Coburn's re-
port. That this is true is one of the
queeres things in the world and It
is hard to account for it. Kansas has
been the home of prosperity for fifteen
years. Her farmers have grown COM
Portable and some of them have gained
riches. Her fields have produced album
dainty, her mines have yielded forth
their riches, her livestock has been be-
decked with blue ribbons and the Help
full hen has laid veritable golden eggs.
Why she has not grown in numbers
can be answered when we are able to
answer that other question, why does
not mankind at all times do that which
he knows is the best for him.-Law-
renee World.