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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
AYHAWKER JOTS

The high cost of living is greeting
increased wages with open arms, says
the Independence Reporter.
If all the interurban lines being
projected in Kansas now were to be
built, the state would have to adopt
an expansion policy, thinks the Cha
mute Tribune.
The contest in Kansas at present is
to determine which school of states
gust 2, says the Wichita Beacon.
Come again, please.
Walt Mason is authority for the ex-
PLANTATION that Henry L. Call of Girard
hasn't entered his airship in any of
the Kansas aviation meets because
the condition of the roads is so bad.
Ogallah where the Union Pacific
had a wreck the other day, and where
there Is a Kansas state forestry branch
"Ogally" by the natives, explains the
Garden City Telegram.
When you see a woman going down
the street carrying her head to one
side, don't jump at the conclusion that
she has stiff neck, says the Emporia
Journal. She may be trying to bal
ance her hat on her head so it will
set straight.
This one is told on an eight year
old Smith Center boy who is about all
his parents can manage: He had a
difficulty with his mother in the mid
die of the afternoon and being threat
ened with whipping crawled under
the north porch far out of reach and
refused to come out. His father, upon
coming home. was very wroth, upon
learning of the status of affairs and
Immediately shed his coat and began
to crawl in the direction taken by his
young son. AS he approached the
spot where the young youth was lying,
his anger was all dissipated when the
question, PA, is she after you, too?"
fell upon his ears. PA" didn't use any
strap that evening.-Smith County
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
KANSAS COMAENT
THE WAY OF THE CROOK

THE WAY OF THE CROOK.
one OF the. gentlemen of the Illinois
.ssislature who is accused of taking
money In return for his vote for the
honorable Mr.. Lorimer. senator from
1iiinols, Is the victim of a queer coin
cloence. Naturally he has denied the
accusation with loud and virtuous in
olgnatlon. And right at an awkward
moment the states attorney discovers
e IN this Identical legislator deposited
S1,ooo IN a Chicago bank on a certain
odte, ana this was the very date on
which ne was alleged to have received
the prlDe. and this was also the very
amount OF the alleged bride.
naturally the accused patriot still
denles with Indignation, but, his mind
Delhg coupled with other affairs and
the matter coming up suddenly, he is
unfortunately unable to recall on the
spur Of the moment Just where he got
tnat 5000 on that particular date.
In the matter of taking brides in
return Tor votes a public officer can
not be too careful. He must have the
Identified; he must be sure that there
are no witnesses to the payment hid
behind curtain; he must sign no re-
celpts; he must exercise hundred pre-
cautions, and it even appears that it
would be wiser not to deposit the
money in bank but to stow it away
IN an old sock behind the kitchen
stove. One should be sure that he I'M
derstands all the necessary details be-
Iore he goes into the business of SELL
ing his vote.-Ottawa Republic.
o.
GREAT ANNUAL KICK NOW ON.
The new reform tax law requires
that the county assessor send to each
property holder postal card telling
him the amount-of the assessment on
his real estate. The effect of these
cards has been something startling.
The county offices are visited daily by
men with kicks, men with roars, and
men with clubs. Heretofore the kicks
all came when men went to pay their
taxes. Now they have discovered far
In advance what their property assess
ment is, and the noise is something
great. The great annual kick in Kan
sas has begun heretofore in the first
of November and has lasted until De-
cember 20; this year under the new
law, the open season for kicking be-
gins on the first of June, and will last
until the same time as before. This
gives the additional months of June.
July and August, September and Octo-
Der for kicking. Kansas ought to be
pleased with this, as the closed season
for kicking on taxes has been restrict
ed to the months of January, Feb
ruary, March. April and May. Kansas
ought to be satisfied with a seven
months open season for Kicking
Lawrence Gazette.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Fron the Chicago News.

From the chicago NeWS.1
If you call policeman a lobster he is
likely to pinch you.
A man may not be a coward because
he is afraid of a woman.
Some men would rather call BLUM
than recognize the real thing.
An egotist is a man who thinks he has
an impartial opinion of himself.
A mans stomach is nearly round, yet
it takes a square meal to fill 1t.
Flattery may be all right for dessert
but it makes an unsatisfactory meal.
It's better to hustle for dollar than
to indulge in a pipe dream of millions.
The average woman has less conf
cence in her husband than she has in
her family physician.
If you are anxious to acquire bad
1same in the shortest possible time, get
into the political game.
Riches may not get a man into heav-
en- after death, but poverty can get him
into the other during life.
A man is apt to think he is having
a moral awakening when he begins to
lit up and take notice of his neighbor's
sins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

Chester. Love was doing what wild
horses could not have accomplished.
The colonel had proceeded as far as
the spot called The powders when he
heard step behind him and turned
to see the young man. Roy was pale
faced and his chin was shaking. Some
thing warned the colonel that he stood
face to face with the sufferer who
wanted to be his son-in-law. He had
given his orders and supposed the
case had been dropped, but here was
the young man.
Its you, is it ?" shouted the man
Of war as he raised his cane and put
on terrible look.
Roy made no reply. His hour of
peril had come at last. The sudden
shock was there. He knew that a
queer feeling was creeping over him.
"S-s-s-speak s-s-s-sir!' commanded
the colonel. Are you not t-t-t-that
stu-ut-terer?''
mo. sir!'' calmly replied Roy.
The doctors had been right.
"B-b-b-but w-w-who are y-y-you
them"
Mister Chester. Colonel, please
minutes conversation with you."
"B-b-but ww-what ais me?"
You are somewhat excited, sir, and
you stutter.''
"Bu-bbut I-I-never s-s-stut-ut-
cred before. W-w-what has h-h-hap-
pened to m-n-me %
In twenty-four hours, by lying in
bed and keeping very quiet and only
speaking when positively necessary,
the colonel recovered. Then young
Mr.. Chester was sent for. The talk
lasted two long hours, and at the end
of it Miss Minnie was heard to ex-
claim:
"Oh, Roy, you had such a beautiful
stutter, and now it's gone, but I think
I can love you just the same. AT least,
I'll try my best!''-(Copyright, 1910,
by Associated Literary Press-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
The Cannibal Islands.

A ship which has just arrived at a
harbor near Seattle brings the tidings
that in islands of the South Seas, in
cluded in the Tonga, the Society, the
Solomon, and the Cook archipelagoes,
there has been a sudden reversion to
cannibalism, and the savageS have re-
vived the abhorrent religious customs
of their forefatherS, as though the
missionaries had never come among
them. Two missionaries and eleven
of their native adherentS, it is said,
fell into the hands of a hostile tribe in
tundras of Siberia, we have come to
aries were killed and devoured.
With steamships taking tourists to
all parts of the globe in comfort with
railroads piercing the Andes, climbing
the Alps, and penetrating the frozen
tundras of Siberia, we have come to
regard the world as SO thoroughly ex
plored and exploited that stories of
cannibals seem to belong to the pages
of Cooks voyages or the books OF
Mayne Reid and Ballantyne rather
than to the current news of the pres
ent year of grace. Yet 1t was only a.
very few years ago that a party of
American explorers was prevented
from landing on the peninsula of low
err California by the hostility of a band
of cannibal Indians, now exterminated
or removed elsewhere. Apparently one
does not have to restrict his research
es to the head-hunters of Borneo or
the savages of inland New Guinea to
tice.
The great navigator Cook, who visit
ed the Tonga Islands in 1878. gave
them the name of Friendly Islands
because Of the peaceable disposition
of the inhabitants. Great Britain
established in 1899 a protectorate over
the group which had already progress
ed sufficiently far toward civilization
to conclude treaties with Great Brit
ain, Germany, and the United States.
In the Society Islands, officially an
nexed by France in 1880, natives for
some years had been thought to be en-
tirely Christianized. In the Solomon
Islands, where formerly the institu-
tions Of slavery, head-hunting, canni-
balism, and taboo" formerly flourish
ed, these practices were still occasion
ally in evidence, but were thought to
have been practically suppressed. If
these islands have gone back to can
niba1ism and the rest of the horrible
customs of the days of savagery, it is
a remarkable reversion, but assurediy
it is only temporary setback to the
devoted labors of the missionaries of
every nation who have given their lives
to show the islanders a better way
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

CFrom the AtchiSOn Globe.
| How people love money; and how
they like to abuse other people for
| loving it!
| in the world If the good luck would
! break even.
There is this to be said to the credit
of prize fighters: They don't try to
| break into the chautauquas.
There is a man in Atchison noted
because OF the numerous ways he has
of playing with the buzz saw.
It is our theory that you don't need
to ask man how he feels; he will
tell all the details, If there is anything
the matter.
An Atchison girl We know eats so
little, and is SO we'll behaved, that she
seems uncanny, unnatural. and not a
human being.
If a man has any sense at all he
needs it most after he is forty, and
usually begins to lose 1t by the time
he reaches fifty.
After a boy gets a watch that really
runs, and looks at it a good deal, it
say: ''what time is it by your dumb
watch ?"
A meal of lettuce, spinach, radishes,
carrots, beets and cucumbers is not
very refreshing, you must admit, yet
people are always talking about the
importance VI IldNiuS FeSSldUie gar
dens."
Go into a house where biscuits are
eaten every day. and it is a sign that
the men folks run things. Men like
hot biscuits, but they are troublesome
to make, and women invented light
bread.
There are few real pleasures in this
life. One of the greatest is to meet q
really sensible man, after days and
days of meeting weak people with
weak opinions, and disposition to be
unfair.
The swatting of the Latest Evil will
suit the,reformers more than anything
recently discovered: They will refuse
to take bath, because of the. Bath
Tub Trust. The Real Reformer never
takes many baths anyway.
What constitutes a course" in a
dinner or lunch? The question seems
trivial. but it is of weighty Importance
for the reason that some women pass
water, (first course) soup (second
course) crackers (third course), etc,
until by the time very plain meal
has been served they are Dragging of
fourteen courses. Until some great
authority decides what constitutes a
course, it will be impossible TO tell
who is in the cut glass set. and who
belongs to the empty Jelly glass crowd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
A CRADLE SONG.

Child with those questioning eyes,
where will thy mother be
men tnou hast grown more WISE
w men lie has answered thee?
Wnen future hopes and fears
Built up of youthful dreams.
Nourished by happy years,
Fade as the sunset CLEANS?
CnilQ with those questioning eyes,
Where will thy mother be?
Child of the tender heart,
Where will thy mother be7
Wnen thou hast played thy part
In iife'S brief tragedy?
When through rare days of Joy
Shoud st thou be forced to learn
mat love is but a toy
To cherish, then to spurn
Child of the tender heart
Where will thy mother be?
Child OF my life and love,
Th1s is my prayer for thee:
May they faith strongest prove
In worst extremity
And my thy smallest need
OF counsel love or praise
To me thy footsteps lead
Through life-and death always
Child of my life and love,
Thine to Eternity.
Julia W. Sawtelle, in Amslie's Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many an individual taken for better
and for worse has no better.
X y
Although everybody is different
there's an awful lot of sameness about
life in general
y
Some parties are so conceited about
their accomplishments they think them
superior to anything that Nature can
do.
Even Ananias would have had DIFF
fcult job in making the reputation he
did If he had lived in the present era.
x X
No matter how unbecoming a woman
may think her clothes are that's no
sign she wants anybody to agree with
her on that subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
UNOR OF THE DAY

that the river will be made to fit the
boat" he cried. Thus we see the begin
ming of the grand scheme.-New York
Sun.
-'She began as q chorus girl" "Weu?"
the leading pri ma donnas. Rre You! You re-
ferring to her progress or her costumes?'
Washington Herald.
whats become of Jakes?" He's gone
all to pieces You don't say sol Ner-
yous prSstra ,tS hSej he Lacked for
more American.
Please contribute to our fund to send
I'm vegetarian and don't believe in it.
But I'll send them some cereals, II you
wish."-Cleveland Leader.
What makes the trust magnate look
SO worried?' HE has just read that the
he feels that he must have overlooked
something Houston Post.
by the way cntinued the near-sport.
American" 1T is still matter of
doubt, answered the wise guy. Some
others say the iceman is entitled to it,
Chicago Daily News
Darling" he breathed rapturously "1
swear by this great tree, whose spreading
branches bear witness to my sincerity
1 swear that I have never loved before
The girl smiled family and observed:
You always say such appropriate things.
George. This is chestnut ree.'-Every-
body's Magazine.
Rural Theater Manager-That fellow
Shakespeare must be maxim all kinds
of money. Travelling Manager-Why 500
Rural Theater Manager-Because every
repertory troupe that plays this town puts
on one or two pieces by m.-Milwaukeo
News.
They're very desirable people to know,
why so2" They own a summer cottage
and a big launch and they entertain
Free Press.
sShe claims to be much younger than
she really is. 1 think. yes. She ad
remember when Travis won his first goit
Championship. Chicago Record-Heraid
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the state Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate of ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
State journal will be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

misdemeanors he would prove against
Mr.. Ballinger. And everybody re-
members that he left the witness
stand without proving any of them.
The other day he announced that he
was going to deliver a fighting
speech" at banquet to be held in st.
Paul. If what he actually said is his
idea of a fighting speech he is sore
ly in need of few more private les
sons in the art from his next friend,
Colonel Roosevelt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

It is scarcely believable that as
many as $500 Topekans would take
advantage of an opportunity to see
the great aviation flights without pay
ing anything, especially in view of the
fact that any money which might have
been made by the promoters of the
biggest event that has been pulled off
in Kansas was to be devoted to making
the state fair bigger and better in all
of it's details. This is kind of citizen
ship which doesn't count for very
Ylauol1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

So Representative Hull who was de-
feated for the Republican nomination
IN Seventh congressional district of
iowa can run anyhow, IL he so desires.
He seems to have been regularly NOM
mated as the Prohibitionist candidate,
even If only two votes were cast for
him. It would be the political joke
of the age if Mr.. Hull did decide to
run under these circumstances and
win 011f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.J

IfTom TIE new 1Ork PreSs.
When a girl won't f1irt her father is
Just big enough fool to think SO.
The strongest position in family
argument is to keep silent tongue.
A lot of wisdom never gets a hearing
because everybody has a previous en-
gagement to listen to foolishness.
A man has to have more or less of
a good opinion about himself for there
to be any at all about him in the
world.
Men make laws of morality and then
proceed to break them. No woman
ever dares to break the laws of fash
ion made by her sex
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
NATIONAL MUSICAL INSTRU
MENITC

A New York man thinks this country
needs a national musical instrument 1t
has a national emblem and a national
game, but it possesses no officially rec
ognized instrument upon which to ex-
press its patriotic impulses. The New
York man says the violin is too difficult
for general use. He adds that the
piano is too expensive, while brass and
tube instruments are not fitted by
their strident qualities for home use
The man finally tells us that the either
is the instrument he would suggest, be-
cause it can be played-as he expresses
it-in any apartment, tenement, COT
tage, camp or dugout. No doubt TINS
is true with mild limitations, but
good many people will be inclined to
regard the either as slightly twangy
instrument of limited resources, and
utterly incapable of giving voice 10
those soaring demands that truly
loyal noise producer may be called
upon to fill.
When it comes to selecting an 1nstru-
ment that is we'll within the grasp OF
the most limited performer there Is
nothing like the bass drum But a
bass drum would prove object1onaole
in both Riverside palaces and Harlem
fats. and would be entirely out OF place
in an average dugout. Nevertneiess'
for nobility of tone and dignity OF ex-
preston the bass drum has the zltner
badly OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Plain Deal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

Something also must be wrong these
days with the Standard Oil company.
It has reduced the price of a couple
of grades of oil few points. But the
reduction is not such that the consum-
er who buys his oil in gallon lots will
be able to notice it to any extent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

No possibility seems to exist that
the BalIinger-Pinchot investigating
committee will report its findings to
congress at the present session. And
by the time the next session comes
around most people will probably have
forgotten about II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

Now that the supreme court has de-
cided the Hodges rock road law to be
constitutional there is nothing to pre-
vent the construction of many needed
substantial roads of this sort in va
Fious sections of the state, unless it is
\ Discrimination on the part of local
authorities and their constituencies to
undertake the building of real good
POada
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recently

II things do not get more peaceful
down there civil war will likely
break out in Oklahoma over the ques-
ton as to whether the capital city of
the state shall be located at Guthrie
or Oklahoma City. The voters recent
Iy decided in favor of the latter place,
but Guthrie thinks she has a few
rights in the premises and proposes
to assert them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
Cotton stolen From Railways.

Memphis, Tenn. June 10.-Accord-
ing to a story printed in local paper,
evidence tending to show that more
than 100000 worth of cotton was stol
en- from railways during the season of
1eos-o9 is now in the possession of the
Shelby coutny grand jury. Negro dray
drivers are said to have been used as
tools by prominent men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

Evidently it is quality and not guam
tfty which counts with the Esperanto
devotees in the southwest. Only TWEEN
ty-five of their number attended the
first convention of the southwestern
division Of the Esperantist association
of America which was held at Wichita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

Mrs. Ellen Foster, a special agent
the opinion that the Kansas peniten-
tiary is the best regulated and con-
Quoted of any in the world. Consid
ering the cost of maintaining 1t such
results should not be unexpected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

clifford Pinchot appears to have a
habit of not living up to his advance
notices. Every one probably remem-
bers the statement he made at the
beginning of his testimony before the
Ballinger-Pinchot investigating COM
mittee of the various high crimes and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

Won't the enemies of higher edu-
cation wax enthusiastic over the news
from Los Angeles to the effect that
college graduate turned burglar? This
incident will probably be used in the
future as their most convincing" ar
o7tT71apf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

Indications are that the weather is
going to be prefectly grand this week.
This will be most acceptable, of course,
but why couldn't it have snapped
places with the weather of last week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14

This is a flag day. The grand old
stars and stripes is 1913 years old to-
day And in case you haven't done
so 1t is not too late yet to fling flag
to the breeze in honor of the occasion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-14
ERON OTHER PENS
EDUCATION AND MARRIAGE

EDUCATION AND MARRIAGE
The poor we always have with us.
Ignorant men and women with low
Ideals have always been with us. 1t
devolves upon the world to reduce
their number. If higher education pre-
vents some women from marrying that
is their affair. The ancient argument
as to what a woman owes to the sta le
has been frayed at the edges for many
centuries. Anyway there are millions
more women than men in the world.
In spite of all the sociologists may
teach, the people look upon the state as
blessing and not burden. They rec
ogniZe the truth of the principle that
the welded state is the natural state.
and many children ought to be bless
ing, but they do not feel personally re-
sponsible for the progress of the entire
human race. If fate gives to them the
opportunity to be the fathers and
mothers of large families, which they
can support in comfort, they recognize
1t as this worlds greatest blessing. If
this course in life does not lie open
they do not feel it devolves upon them
to rush into it with the odds for sue
cess against them.
There is never any doubt that the
educated woman actually lives. She
feels deeply in her inner consciousness
that she is living. And people want. to
live. They have but one life to live.
The state shows a remarkable ten
dency to take care of itself, even omit
ting the argument as to the doubtful
value to the state of the children which
ignorance and poverty provide.-San
Antonio Express.
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There was saving of $27,110 IN
the administration of Topeka's affairs
during the last fiscal year as compar-
ed with the year before. That's bust