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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

platform, would it not be more rea
sonable to conclude that many of the
Republicans of the country who permit
Mr.. Roosevelt to do their thinking for
them held back their praise of the
Taft administration until they found
out definitely just how Mr. Roosevelt
stood on that proposition? They found
out in no uncertain terms. And moth
ing that they are saying now is a
stronger endorsement in any detail of
the Taft administration than that
which has been accorded to it by Mr..
Roosevelt and his followers in the Re
publican party in New York who con-
trolled the convention over which he
presided
Nor are these endorsements of the
Taft administration undeserved. And
many of the Republicans of Kansas
who look to Mr.. Roosevelt as their
leader must really feel a trifle cheap
over the scafty word of praise-it
wasn't even that much-which was
given to the Taft administration in
the Republican state platform adopted
in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
GLOBE Sights.
[From the Atchison Globe. ]

From the Atchlson Globe.1
A broken heart isn't as serious a
matter az stomach trouble.
Nearly any little thing will cause a
man to neglect his business
You may not be a genius, but you
would be If you use the energy you
waste.
Ever notice that when you particu-
larly want to see a man, he's gone to
Kansas City?
There seems to be more difference
of opinion about a good song than
anything else.
Nothing causes us to marvel more
than to see a man resist temptation;
so few can do it.
Girls probably would play the piano
less if it didn't furnish an excuse to
dodge dishwashing.
At this season of the year. the aver
age town gardener hasn't much left
but plans for next year.
Some men answer a telephone call
in tone of voice indicating that they
would like to drop the %
When a man becomes irritable, and
unfair. and quarrelsome, it is the sur
est sign that he is going to pieces.
business man may solicit COM
plants about his methods, but it is a
brave man who takes him at his word.
If farmer must worry he had
rather worry about a scarcity of har-
vest hands or corn pickers than any
thing else.
What do you suppose that. gallant
old sea dog, Fighting Bob Evans, is
doing now? President of a California
oil company!
Sam Hill has hated me ever since
I have lived in Atchison. And some
times 1 think he is right about it,
Parson Irvine.
An Atchison woman is so grasping
that it is said she is not satisfied with
free salvation; she thinks it should
also be guaranteed.
1t isn't a good plan, however, to de-
vote all your righteousness to right
eous indignation. Any sort of indig-
nation iInpairs digestion.
When ] have a cake headache, I
have so little sense that 1 speak to
my enemies when 1 meet them on the
) street"-Dra11e Watson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
ANOTHER RESULT OF DIVORCE

Superintendent of reform schools
and orphanages practically all agree
that an increasing number of children
is coming to them on account of de-
sertion and divorce. Out of 1875 chill
dren in thirty-four reform schools
twenty nine and six-tenths per cent"
says Charles A. Ellwood in The Sur
vey for October, "came from families
in which there had been divorce or
desertion. Out of the same number
of children tkirty-five and three-one-
hundredths per cent come from fam
lilies in which either father or mother
or both were dead"
The records of four Juvenile courts
and of seventy-f five institutions for de-
pendent children show almost as sur
prising results. 1.-THE significant thing
seems to be that desertion and divorce
are large enough force in the COM
munity to bring pressure to bear upon
orphan asylums to break even their
rules and receive children from fam
lilies broken by desertion and divorce
as well as from families mutilated by
death 1t is surprising that the num-
Der of children who become socially
maladjusted from desertion and di-
vorce. is almost as great as the num-
Der who become so from the death
of one or both parents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.1
Some men would rather go broke
than stay at home.
People who have money to burn
should get it insured.
Of course you earn 500 a week. But
how much do you get?
BY attempting to do some people a
favor you merely annoy them.
There is always quiet demand for
wet goods in a dry town.
It's impossible for a man to behave
right if he doesn't think right.
A wise widow is discreetly silent
when she sets her cap for No. 2.
The porous shirt waist is about tn
resign in favor of the porous plaster.
1t takes an occasional humiliation to
keep a mans head down to the normal
size of his hat.
Clothes may not make the man, but
a turkey doesn't cut much of a figure
unless it is well dressed.
Did you ever notice how anxious the
average man is to attend church when
the minister is away on his vacation
And the man on the rock pile soon
realizes that converting big ones into
little ones isn't what it is cracked nm
to be.
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he would save her from such a brute
as John Sloan.
Sloan to save her father from some
financial difficulty. She had not I'M
derstood it herself, but her parents
appeal could not be refused, and thus
she had become a partner in an I'M
happy marriage.
Smith promised to prepare the pa
pers. He required more information
and this compelled frequent calls to
the big house on the hill.
He drove the young woman about
in his big racing car. AS he learned
to love her he tried to stifie the feel
ing.
No trace of the husband could be
obtained. The law required adver-
Using. Smith shrunk from this. He
dreaded to post her name in the
papers.
How to get around this was more
than he could figure out 1t COM
PEELED him to go out to see Betty once
more.
Turner informed him that Betty
was not well and was preparing to
return to the city.
Stunned with the information, he
insisted on seeing her.
"Great heavensi" he exclaimed;
what has brought about this change?
Have you heard from Sloan?''
mo, Mr.. Smith; I have not heard
from Mr.. Sloan, and that is what has
made me feel so miserable" she SAID.
You see, there is no Mr.. Sloan, and
never was
what" shouted the astonished law
yer.
What a relief those words meant to
hint
You see, Mr.. Smith," she said, be-
tween sobs, st had not been here long
before I heard every one speaking of
the new lawyer, who never had case.
1 felt so Try for any one who had
to remain here always and not even
have any business, so II invented
case for you
"And well, indeed, did you fool me-"
said young Smith.
"And you will forgive me?" she ask
ed, Frightening little. as she saw
him smile.
Forgive you. Betty. There is moth
ing to forgive His happiness had
forced him to speak her name.
1.-The time we have spent together,
Betty, dear, has shown me that I
need a partner. 1 love you, little
girl, I love you and want you to be
my wife, he told her.
AS Betty looked up his happiness
was complete, for he knew she loved
him. Tell me, girl, let M hear you
say it"
webster, I am glad 1 came to the
Court of Last Resort, she whis-
-(Copyrighted 1910 by Associ-
ated Literary Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
Pona an Early Riser.

The pope has become stouter than
he was and less inclined to physical
exertion, but altogether he is more ro-
bust and finds mental labor less of a
burden. OF one thing he is proud, he
says, namely, that he is the earliest
riser in the whole apostolic palace, as
it is his constant practice to get up at
dawn, a habit which he himself says
dates from his early childhood, when
he was obliged to get up with the sun
in order to have time to do his lessons
and to cover, barefooted, the several
miles which separated him from the
nearest school.
The excellent state of his health
makes people wonder whether the life
which the head of the Roman church
has imposed upon himself since the
fall of the temporal power-that is to
say of remaining always within the
vatican-is not conducive to longevity.
In fact while in the past the average
duration of ponti1cate was from four
to five years, since 1870 we have had
the longest reigns known among the
occupants of the chair of st. Peter.
Plus TX was the first to surpass st.
Peters in length, while Leo XIII, who
was elected chiefly because he was
supposed to be so feeble that his life
would be short one, remained pope
for % years. and Plus x has already
worn the fisherman's ring for seven
years.
Of course. there is a prediction that
the present pope will not out1ive the
nine years of pontifcate. because he
was nine years a parish priest, nine
years a bishop, and nine years pa
triarch of Venice. However, when
ever he has read in the papers which
he peruses carefully every day, that he
is also expected not to be more than
nine years pope, he has explained:
This time 1 am going to disappoint
them. Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
THE ENDORSEMENT OF TAFT.

Certain Republican newspapers of
the intensely pro-Roosevelt type and
which have been foremost in the criti-
cism of the Taft administration are
insisting that the delayed but deserved
praise which is now being accorded in
most quarters to the great accomplish.
ments of the Taft administration is
due to the fact that "if RooseveIt's
militant temperance in politics has
done nothing else it has turned thou
sands of conservatives apparently to
Taft as a lesser of evils
Have these newspapers forgotten al
ready the speech Mr.. Roosevelt made
as temporary chairman of the New
York Republican state convention?
Have they forgotten the platform
adopted by that convention and which
was dictated by Mr. Roosevelt? APP
parently. For that speech and that
platform present as strong an endorse
ment of the Taft administration as
has yet been uttered.
In view of that speech and that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's nothing very palatable about
having to eat your own words.
X
A wife is decidedly a mans better
half when it comes to argufying.
y \
Few are the women who are satisfied
with new hats and clothes of their own
selection after they've had them two
or three days.
x
An old bachelor with lots of money
is especially attractive to girls with
the marrying bug if he has a we'll
developed case of hearts disease on
the side
1t appears to be many a mans
theory that there is no place like home
only when all the other places in town
have been closed for the night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
Naming a New Town.

The promoters of the new indus
trial city on the Ohio river opposite
Evansville have invited the public to
assist them in naming their town. The
invitation was extended through the
columns of the Evansville Courier a
few days ago, and the public has been
responding with such activity that
more than 1000 names are now on
file, and more are coming in every
day.
A glance over the list of one days
entries shows that a large number of
persons are impressed with the loca-
ton of the town and think that its
name should be suggestive thereof.
For instance, among the offerings in
nomenclature are River Villa, River
land, Riverton, Riverview, Riverglade,
Crescent City, Crescent View, Crescent
Lights, Crescent Home, White Cres-
cent, Great Bend, Long View, Horse
shoe, Willowview, Bendview, Belle
Point, BirdSview, EVanSbend, Breezy
Point, Rivera. La Belle City, Circle
view and others.
Some of those who are suggesting
names evidently have in mind the fact
that low-lying sections of the town
site are being filled with sand pumped
from the Ohio river. As a conse-
quence there are Standpoint, Sand City,
GoIdsands, and Sand Burdeana. Pos
sibly Sans Souci may be classed with
these.
Obviously a good many Kentuck-
ians are taking part In the contest,
since in the list of names the follow
ing appear: New Kentuck, Kyapolis,
Kaywykee, Kyana, and Kentinana.
Marvelinky and Boone Castle also may
have been the offerings of Kentuck
ians.
The chief promoter of the town is
named Brown, and, as might have
been expected, we find Brownsville,
Brownstown, Brownsburg, Browns
Valley, Browncastle, Brownley, and
others. Brownie is not in the list,
which seems to indicate that some
body has overlooked a bet. If it has
not been sent, however, it doubtless
will be.
Sunny Beach and Sunrise are I'M
pleasantly suggestive at this particular
season, but if the city builders do not
like them, they are rendered some
restful names like Shady Lane. Fern
wood, Dreamland, Mayfair, Wildrose,
Lotus. Fountainville, New Point Com
fort, LawndaIe, Transvale, Carefree,
Tranquility, Port Pleasure and Pleas
ureville.
There is room for suspicion that
such names as Teddyville, Huslxyville,
See More, Comet, Panacea City Shoe
City, Busyisy, Ever Best, Nuff Sed
and Fusimonia were sent in by jokers,
but there is no accounting for tastes,
and they may have been intended to
be taken seriously
The public is doing it's best, and the
promoters have no cause to complain
that names are lacking either in num-
Der or variety.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
QUAKER MEDTTATIoNs.
[From the Philadelphia RECORD.

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Some ROSTERS do almost as much
growing as some men.
The man who always follows the
dictation of his conscience must have
pretty sharp ears.
AS a paradox you can't beat the
ague. 1t stays with people, and yet it
gives them the shake.
The fact that a rolling stone gathers
no moss doesn't influence the fellow
who is out for the rocks.
It's wise office boy who preserves
a few of his grandmothers till the
worlds championship series.
"All flesh is grass" quoted the Liv-
ing Skeleton. "Well, I'm not as green
as I look" replied the Fat Lady.
Mr.. Saphedde-''I make it a rule to
always say what think Miss Caus-
tique-"How reticent you must be-
1.-THE wind is tempered to the shorn
lamb" quoted the Wise Guy. Yes.
but the shorn lamb is generally trying
to raise the wind added the Simple
Mug.
Pa said little Willie, that knife
you gave me on my birthday is no
good" why isn't it, asked Pa. BE
cause I've had it now for three days,
and 1 haven't cut myself yet" replied
Willie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
PosT-VACArToNAL.

You have heard the widowed story,
That tradition horned and hoary,
That 1t wearies one to roam,
Past a doubt
That one vainly on vacation
Tries to find recuperation,
Till he hunts his happy home,
Tuckered out.
That abroad there is no comfort;
That a man must journey home for t;
You have heard that whiskered wheeze
Have you not?
IT'S common place to cavil
At the ''luxuries of travel:''
For in travel Jack of ease
Is your lot.
You have heard that gag historic;
It was often sprung by Yorfck;
It's as old as NoahS ark
And its crew.
It's the commoneSt Cat baSiS)
OF all common commo nplaceS-
So we merely would remark
That-it's true.
Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
HUNOR OF THE Day

do you pay much attention to public
sentiment?' mo; always look the other
way when 1 see a young couple holding
hands in the park. '-Pittsburg Post
.'Pa, what's a fluent speaker?' "One of
the kind you are glad to hear because
the things he says never cause you to
change your opinion Chicago Record
Herald.
'"You don't seem to print the results of
the races" Yes, we do said the editor
of the Plankville Palladium. I'VE have
all the bankruptcy news."-Richmond
Journal
The young mice were having a gay
time. where's your chaperon?" asked
a shocked observer. 1.-THE old cat! She's
away" they said. That's why we're
playing. "-Chicago Tribune.
How do you suppose the fires q
romance are kindled?'' II should judge
by love matches. baltimore American.
Miss Flirty certainly attracts the men"
YES and then she distracts them
Boston Transcript.
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just before he died. It is almost need
less to state that none of the contest
ants for this $1,000 prize has even
come near to disclosing the contents
of this letter. This ought to be pretty
conclusive evidence that persons who
claim they can hold communication
with the spirits in the other world are
takers one and all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Even the cotton crop killers" are
not any more reliable prophets than
are the corn and wheat crop killers"
with which the people of these parts
are more familiar. 1t wasn't so long
ago that grave and menacing predic-
tions were going up to the effect that
the cotton crop would be almost a total
failure. The most recent government
statistics on the condition of this crop
show that it is 659 per cent of nor
NAL one And 66.6 per cent is the av-
erage condition this crop has been in
during the past ten years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

An organization was formed recently
for the purpose of bringing teachers
and parents closer together. The SIM
plest and surest method of bringing
teacher and parent together, is for the
teacher to whip one of the parents
cherubs.
Get one of these new-fangled gun.
silencers: A sign out near Quinton
Heights contains this warning: No
shooting aloud"
For sale, home cook in poor health.
For Sale-A home cook and short
order restaurant at a bargain on ac-
count of poor health."-Adlet in Denver
paper. P. S.-But perhaps it is the
restaurant that has poor health.
Some families are so stylish that they
refer to the kitchen cupboard whera
hubby keeps the booze bottle, as the
"cellarette."
Lots of people do right and get left
as a consequence.
The average woman is inclined to ex-
aggerate, except when speaking of her
age.
The rhymes that once beneath my hair
Were wont to ebb and flow,
Are gone for keeps, it seems but where?
That's what I'd like to know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
EFrom the New York Press.1

A woman is never as proud of her
ankles as a man can be of his beard
The crazier man is to get married
the crazier he will afterward know he
was. az
In the next world somebody has got
to answer for inventing the piano in
the fiat above. Ia
Some people seem to think the Ten
commandments are only good resolu-
lions specially made to be broken.
It's awfully easy to think You are
good. when all the matter with vo,, i
you haven't a chance not to he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Contrary to expectations Mr.. Hearsts
Independence League did not endorse
the Republican candidates for state Of
flee which were put in the field by Mr..
Roosevelt. The Independence League
decided to put up ticket of its own. To
Mr.. Hearst has been accorded the
honor of being the candidate for lieu
tenant governor. He'll have to foot all
the bills, too, although that is not
specified in the bond.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Even Turkey has desires to get into
the great universal peace movement.
But she apparently doesn't know how
as she is buying CASTOR and antigua
ted German warships for her navy.
Maybe she can't afford to buy $11 OO0,-
900 dreadnoughts. Her intention to
help promote the peace of the world
by adding to the number OF engines of
war in commission is the thing that
counts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

1t is interesting to note that while
the output of automobiles in the Uni
ted States for the season of 1910 reach
ed the enormous total of $4,000 cars,
the annual output of horse drawn We
hicles reached a total of 100000, in
GLIDING buggies, business and farm
wagons. This does not seem to indi-
cate the automobile is putting the
horse out Of business to any great ex-
tent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Exaggeration among writer's of travel
is not confined to the present age. The
Chicago Tribune calls attention to the
fact that Baron de Lahontan write
about 200 years ago, in his New Voy-
ages to North America" LAS for the
waterfall of Niagara. tits seven or eight
hundred foot high and about a half
league broad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Prince Chun's institution of a senate
In China is characterized as an indica-
ton that his country is progressing to
a higher and better civilization. A
surer indication of this would seem to
be found in the agitation which has
been started among the Cinnamon for
the removal of their queues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Ordinary folk have a hard time fig
uring it out how it is possible for
man having millions of dollars to de-
velOp a case of menanchoHa on the
side. But Millionaire Lupton, of New
York. was so depressed in spirits the
other day that he picked up a razor
and so successfully cut his throat that
-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Fifty spiritualistic mediums have
tried for the purse of $1,000 which has
been hung up as a reward to any one
who will communicate with the depart
ed spirit of Professor James and as
certain the contents of a letter ha
placed in the hands of the Metropoli-
tan PsychicaI society Of New York city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Maybe the smiles that are to be found
these days on the faces of a number
Of newspaper men, and the cheerful
dispositions that are evidenced by the
hilariously happy paragraphs of 9TH
ers are due to the fact that an In
diana girl recently threw over a mil
lionaire Englishman and welded an
American newspaper man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

The Democrats of Massachusetts,
are evidently the only real thing left in
their line. They had a fine old-fashion-
ed free-for-all fight in which fists were
freely used at their state convention
held recentIy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publicatio in 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, 1910-10-08

Boys will be boys. Here is a Brook
ayn man haling his 81 year old son
to the police court and having him
sent up for six months because he as
sociates with bad COMPANIONS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

It occurs to the Springfield Republ-
can that there is nothing like a bis
automobile race for making the aero
plane seem as safe as a pony
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

New York courts have decided that
divorces secured by New Workers at
Reno are not valid in New York state.
eSor should they be recognized as be-
ing worth ANYTHING in any other state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Probably some of his more enthusi-
astic admirers believe that Mr.. Roose-
velt's present trip is the wedge that
will eventually split up the solid south.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
Kansas City. Kansa

When a woman gets new clothes, she
puts 'em on to show 'em off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Kansas City, Kansas, has the largest
population of any city in the state.
The facilities for escape from Kansas
City, Kansas, are very poor, although
several legislators from that district
have attempted to force the railroads
to put in stations and ticket offices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08

Rich men advise you how to save
money, so that they can advise you
how to spend it to their advantage.