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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30
FROA O7EER PENS
CHAMP cLARK's MULES.

Champ Clark has said that If elected
speaker of the house he would drive a
span of mules down Pennsylvania ave.
nue. in Washington. 1t looks as If the
Missourian would have the opportunity
of making good on his freak promise.
He is reelected, his party has gained
control of the house and he will proba-
bly, be it's choice for speaker.
But it is not distinction of this sort
that Mr.. Clark and his party will most
need. On the contrary, they will need
to resist such tendencies. They have
already been driving mules too much
They have been handicapped by mulish
caprice too long. That is one reason
they have not been entrusted with pow
er more often. The country has feared
their lack Of dignity and their lack of
stability. 1t has not in this temper
airy turn Of the tide expressed any spec
ial confidence in the Democracy. The
conditions by which Mr.. Clark and his
party gain the ascendancy in the lower
branch of congress cannot be construed
into popular esteem of the Democracy
and the things it has stood for. The
result is rather negative in character,
SO faE.S the Democrats are concerned.
They will do well, therefore, not to
mistake this fact and conduct them
selves accordingly. At best, they are
only installed on probation. What is
done in 1872 depends, no doubt, very
largely on how they deport themselves
between this and that There will be
enough mule driving and braying which
Mr.. Clark would like to prevent,
and SO it would i'll become him to go
out of his way to do any of 1t him
self.-Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

cake, chocolates-which he brought
himself-and popcorn. But he always
sat across the room from his hostess;
and when it was time to go he found
| his hat in the dim hall by instinct
and fled with single Good night"
One evening, after he had been
coming two months, he stayed half
hour beyond his limit. The crate fire
Audrey had been unusually engross-
ing. He glanced at his watch.
mumbled panic stricken excuse ana
galloped out of the house like hre
engine answering a general alarm
Thereupon a strange thing hap
pened in the Mcclure home. Miss
Audrey looked after him, the polite
smile with which we speed the parting
ried footsteps had quite died away,
she kicked viciously a sofa pillow
which his departure had displaced,
and burst into tears.
The next day. the Beauty, Health
and Etiquette department of the
Telegram received a naive and puz-
cling communication. AS usual, Miss
Mcclure called Price in counsel.
The note was in a round, school d
began. Dorothy Devere being the
| name under which Andrew conducted
the department, "I am a young lady
almost eighteen. I have a gentleman
friend who calls very frequently. I
him four months. Several times he
has asked to kiss me. Shall let
him? Pansy."
Miss Mcclure looked up at Price.
There was a hint of laughter in her
eyes.
There was no one else in the Of
fee. Prices heart rose in his throat
to SURROGATE him. He lunged for
ward, crushed her to him and kissed
her on the mouth. Then he stumbled
out, dazed with delight. A desk tele-
phone was in his way; it crashed on
the floor, but he did not stop to pick
it up.
On the street a chill wind dashed
s1eet in his face. He did not feel it..
His pulses were pounding like bass
drum in a circus band. "She kissed
me backi" he breathed in awed Ella
ton.
A new society editor sits at Miss
McClure's desk. She wears black
sweater and chews gum. A pencil
| is usually protruding somewhere
from her frizzly hair. Rimless
glasses pinch the bridge of her sharp
little nose. She does not prod the
typewriter keys with tapered forefin-
gers. Instead ten stubby digits race
back and forth over the keyboard SO
rapidly one almost expects to see
sparks follow them. This Is the first
item she wrote:
Miss May Barker entertained last
evening at a linen shower in honor of
Miss Audrey Mcclure, who is soon to
| be married to Mr.. Hugh Price, city
| editor of the Daily Telegraph -
| copyrighted 1910 by Associated Lit
erary Press).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

No game laws stand in the way of
hunt for knowledge.
X X X
The better you treat your friends the
more of the same kind of treatment
they expect.
Another rare occurrence is a gen.
eral agreement among all the MEM
bers of family about anything.
X X
Among the great majority of the
satisfied people in this world are those
who don't want much.
X y
1t is unusual to find a man who will
admit that he doesn't know all there
is to know about everything.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

Delegates to the Arizona constitu-
tional convention are to be congratu-
lated. Their work has been of a high
order. Its result is one of the brief
est and most concrete constitutions
that has been adopted by prospective
state in many, many years. No effort
was made to write into it such matters
as are purely within the province of
q legislature to handle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New york Press

The honors man wins his mother
deserves.
Not the occasion, but just chance
determines whether girl will cry or
giggle.
A girl with a beau would rather
have a terrible scandal in the family
than cold in head
If a man pays a dollar on an ac-
count of two hundred, he thinks his
creditor is a greedy hog not to mark
1t all off.
The telephone is live wire when a
man is working in his office at night
and his wife calls him up and finds he
is at the theater.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

From butcher to many times a mil
lionaire and a power in the Industrial
and financial world-this is the life
story of Michael Cudahy, who died in
Chicago the other day. Many young
men who are struggling along in low
ly stations ought to find plenty of en-
couragement in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

There must be something wrong
with the contentious going the rounds
these days that the United States army
is little better than worthless. Sew
eral officers stationed at the Leaven-
worth post made an excellent showing
in a ten mile steeplechase which was
led the other day by General ]. Frank
lin Ral1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

Environment is sure to tell. Stu
dents at the University of Chicago are
fast getting into the same freak class
that has so distinguished many of the
professors of this institution. An edict
has been issued by the senior class
that all OF its members must grow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

Another of Topeka's large indus
trial concerns-the Wolff Packing
company-is going to materially en-
large its plant. All of which is an
other bit of substantial evidence that
Topeka is an excellent center from
which to do business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30
KANSAS COMAENT
IS THE DICTATOR WAY BEST?

IS THE DICTATOR WAY BEST?
President Diaz, of Mexico, has a
way of accomplishing results. We
don't know what his way is, further
tnan that Mexico has been more pros
porous than ever before since he has
Deen In control. Some say Diaz is a
dictator. That may or may not be
true, since the newspapers are often
unreliable. But this cannot be dis
puted: after many years of worthless
ness. Mexico has become prosperous
and almost enlightened under the
leadership of Diaz,
Should Mexico go back to its old
sh1ftless way in order that Liberty
may again reign supreme in Mexico
The Mexicans are a good deal like the
Cubans in that they spend too much
time in fighting for liberty. Uncle Sam
throttled liberty in Cuba, and COMPEL
ed the people to work more and in
surge less. Should not Diaz be per-
mttted to do as much for the shiftless
Mexicans?
The Filipinos never amounted to
anything until their liberties were re-
str1cted. And if the present revolu-
ton succeeds in Mexico, and the Mex
leans again secure liberty. they will at
once go back to their old shiftless
ways.-Atchison Globe.
FOR A FOUR YEAR TERM.
Since the election there has been
considerable agitation for a change in
the term Of state officers, from a two
year term, to a four year term, and no
candidate to be eligible to reelection.
There has always been considerable
amount of argument against this
change, because of the fear Of getting
undesirable officials. This is now elimi-
mated, or would be, with an amend
ment to the constitution providing
for the recall, by which the people
could at any time recall any officer
Who was an undesirable. We believe
the change with this provision, would
be a good one AS it is now, every
man who is elected to a first term, is
always candidate for a second term.
That means two campaigns, without
the primary campaign, and that is an
expensive proposition. We all know
that the remuneration in the various
offices is not large Then again. the
activities OF a state campaign have
more or less effect on business. We
are inclined to think that the change
would be a good one.-Oskaloosa
ATTEND TO THE ROADS ANYHOW.
Perhaps nothing has been exploited
TO a greater extent than the King
implement that is more generally neg
lected. Whether past experience
shows that the road drag is not the
useful and valuable implement its
champions would have us believe or
whether 1t is simply neglecting the
use of good thing is not apparent
but the result is the same. The raods
need attention and they need it more
frequently than they get it. If the
road drag Is not the thing then some
thing else should be used. But use
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

A few men might be inclined to look
on the terms under which Governor
Stubs has paroled James Dalton,
compelling him to go to church each
Sunday and abstsining from the use of
alcoholic beverages, as a sentence
quite as severe as one of the prison
or 1ail VARIETY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

And now the necessity presents it
self for raising the rate of premiums,
or assessments, in the fraterna1 insur-
ance organizations. This is certainly
the era of raises in the game of life
and the poor old consumers just have
to meet them or get out of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

King George of England. expresses
great qualification that it has been
found possible to solve by arbitration
serious and intricate disputes between
governments. But it hasn't been no.
ticed that he has taken any steps to
curtail the construction of monster
battleships by Great Britain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

A few embers of the recent Mexican
revolution appear to be smouldering.
But unless advancing age has robbed
President Diaz of his force and cum
ming, he can be depended upon to put
them out in short order. A revolu-
ton in Mexico hasn't much show as
long as Diaz is on the other side of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

show in their midst are taking with
them innum cradle cases of California
wines and fruits. New Orleans molas-
ses can hardly be expected to COM
pete with such arguments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

If all the members of the approach
ing Kansas legislature follow the paths
they are now hewing out for them
selves in their present discussions of
the laws that ought to be enacted. the
session of 1911 will be one of notable
accomplishments. But between recog-
mixing what ought to be done and do
ing it is a deep chasm that engulfs
many who start to cross it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

That death dealing operation of
propagation has been performed again
on the British parliament. Another
parliamentary election is now under
way, and If all the suffragettes are not
retained in jail it promises to be a
IfveIv one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IA a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganizafi0n for the exclusive afternoon
publication ia Topeka.
The news Is received TN The State Jour
DoNo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

Two-thirds of the voters in Old
Mizoo voted wet. 1t is safe bet that
two-thirds of the Mizoo voters do not
drink booze or have any pecuniary
interests in" booze products. What is
the answer? Is it possible that Old
Mizoo considers Kansas a Horrible
Example? Aw, perish the thought!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

1t is also a noticeable fact that in
the big suit which the federal govern
ment has just brought to smash the
sugar trust many of the questionable
acts in its organization and promotion
are charged up to dead man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

Something of additional cheer for
the housewives who also like to keep
up with the fashions: The prices of
furs are on the elevator. going up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

The escape of those Oklahoma out
laws who have been burning school
houses and attempting to wreck trains
seems to be assured. Bloodhounds
have been placed on their trail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

Louisiana must tend to her knitting
or California will walk away with the
Panama Canal exposition. A delega-
ton of prominent Californians who are
on their way to washington to present
the claim of their state for holding this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

Women are also divided into two
classes. The other class is the one
that weeps over Crook Crippen's last
letters to his lady friend-which let
tiers were probably written by some
American reporter stranded in Lon
don.
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20

A dress reform is being attempted
In the Wichita police department. The
police commissioners want the cop
pers to wear long tailed coats. But
from the past history of the Wichita
police force, it may be gathered that
the most needed dress reform is the
abolition of pockets in the uniforms.
1t is asserted by expert politicians
that the Democrats reelected Hon.
Stubs. As there is no way for the
suspected Democrats to prove an abb,
they will have to go down to their
graves with this awful charge hanging
over them.
The price of fur is higher than
cats back, but as we have never been
able to adopt fur as substitute for
steak, the item will not be given space
in our "increased-cost-of-li de-
partment.
Out in the wheat belt, the Crum-
binesque slogan has been perverted to
read: Swat the chinch bug"
BURBANK NEVER SAW THIS ONE.
There is never a rose without its
thorn-unless it be one of those Bur-
banked things. Jim Dalton, the con-
Wet paroled by Stubs. must go to
church every Sunday.
After several weeks of International
hurrah over the kidnapping of an
American girl in Mexico, it now de-
velops that she eloped, of her own
accord, with greaser farm hand, and
was not kidnapped little bit. It is
such INSTANCES that drive newspaper
men insane trying to print the thriller
before the bottom drops out of it.
THE AMBITION OF YOUTH.
I'd like to be a copper and
Patrol a busy beat,
Or on a chilly corner stand
To rest my frozen feet
While waiting for chance to tap
Some evil minded dub
Across the visor of his cap
With pistol-butt or club.
I'd soak him on the frontal bone
And leave him in a trance
Then saunter to a telephone
And call the ambulance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

Out in the wheat belt, the Crum-
binesque slogan has been perverted to
read: Swat the chinch bug"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

The price of fur is higher than a
cats back, but as we have never been
able to adopt fur as a substitute for
steak, the item will not be given space
in our ''increased-cost-of- de-
partment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-30

She-There's baby crying again; I'll go
and sing to him. He-For heavens sake,
sit still and let him holler.-Red Hen.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-22
of Bryan, Teras

AS made TO the Comptroller OF the Currency at the
close of business, Sept. /, 1910
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-22
.GRANDsTAND At BULL
FIGHT COLLAPSED
Hundreds Buried in Ruins, Some
Killed and Many
Hurt.

Madrid. Sept. 22.-During bull
fight at Mejorada yesterday the grand
sand collapsed, burying hundreds OF
occupants, and 1t is feared that a
score or more have been killed. The
scene is one OF terrible confusion.
The body of one man was found and
several other persons were badly in
jured and removed
The rending OF the timbers gave
warning and while the mighty struc.
ture sagged, men. women and children
arose from their seats and with
screams of fear attempted to fight
their way through the exits The
spectators we're thrown into a panic
and hundreds fought and battled, try
ing to tear their way through the
crush. Many were badly wounded by
being, trampled upon before the build
ing completely toppled.
Soldiers were rushed to- the scene
to assist in the rescue work.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-22
A. & M. GRADUATE
SECURES COMMISSION
IN REGULAR ARMY.
Other A. & M. Men Who Have Been
Appointed to Army from Civil
Life Heretofore.

College Station, Texas. Sept 22.--
Capt Andrew Moses, Coast Artillery
Corps, U. S. A., commandant of cadets
at the A. & NJ. College Of Texas, has
received advices that a commission as
second lieutenant in the army has
been issued TO Robert Gibson Sher.
rard, who graduated at the A. & W.
College last June. and he has been
assigned TO the infantry branch Of the
service
During his senior year at the col
lege Lieutenant Sherrard was major
of the second battalion in the corn,
of cadets. On the report made by the
inspecting officer after his visit to the
A. & NJ. College in April last. the wal
department issued an order designat
ing the A. e. NJ College of Texas as 9
distinguished institution" only ten o
which are so designated each year
| By virtue of being so designated, the
/ college has the privilege of naming
one graduate as principal and one IS
alternate for appointment to the
United States army with the grade ol
second lieutenant President Milnel
/ and Captain Moses selected Mr.. Sher
rard for the appointment and he has
now been commissioned.
Other boys from the A. & NJ. have
been appointed to the army from civi
life. Last year George Moore, Of the
class OF '0S. and J. w. Wallis, of the
class of '09. were appointed from civi
( life on their examinations. They are
both on the Pacific coast now. and the
records OF the war department show
that Lieutenant Wallis has gone to the
front rapidly. He is now commanding
la mortar battery on that coast, hi:
senior officers being absent from tbs
post at this time. which brings hin
in command The A. & NJ. boys who
have gone into the army have made
good. and there are quite a number o.
them on the rolls of the war depart
ment
Lieutenant Sherrard, who has JUS
received his commission, is from Bur
net, Texas. His father is a prominen
citizen there
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-22
KILLED IN
TROLLEY SMASH
Head-On Collision Of Heavily Loaded
Cars on Short Curve Near
Ossian, Ind.

Kingsland. Ipd, Sept. 22-- Forty-one
persons were killed and many injured
in head-on trolley collision near
ossian, according to telephone re-
port from that place. The report
states that forty-one bodies have
been taken from the wreckage. The
two trolley cars are reported to have
come together with a loud crash on
a short curve.
The cars were on the Bluffton line
outward and inward bound TO and
from the Allen county fair. They were
heavily loaded with passengers and
met head-on shortly after O'Clock at
Ossian a suburban town near here,
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-22
SENATOR GORE ON
DRY FARMING
4 viii Revolutionize Agriculture in
West and React Upon other
Pursuits.

Spokane, Wash. Sept. 22.-United
States Senator Gore, OF Oklahoma,
says In telegram TO John T. Burns,
ecretary-treasurer of the Dry Farm
ing Congress. that while he can not
attend the convention In Spokane, Oc-
tober SO, he Is deeply interested in
the movement. which is for the bet
terment OF agricultural conditions.
The full text of the message follows
Il regSet the impossibillty OF ac-
cepting your kind invitation TO attend
the fifth Dry Farming Congress at
Spokane. feel the deepest interest
in the objects OF the congress and in
the great good already accomplished.
The system will revolutionize the.
farming Of the West and will react
benehcially upon the farming Of the
whole country ] hope 10 see your en-
IRE section as fruitful as a garden.
rry farming Is good farming. When
ever can be Of service command
me-"
Commenting upon the foregoing,
Secretary Burns said that when Sen
aior Gore declared dry farming TO be
good farming he sounded the keynote
of the modern method of tillage in
semi-arld and so-called arid districts,
adding:
1T has been demonstrated Ia Okla
homa and other states that profitable
cropa can be grown successfully II the
principleE OF dry farming are faith
fully carried out There Is nothing
mysterious about this system Of agri
culture II calls for deep plowing.
discing and frequent narrowing TO
open the soil thus conserving the
tsgest percentage Of natural moisture
and precipitation
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-22
cANNiBALs BAPTIZED
BY MISSIONARIES
Sharks Are Driven Away and FIT,
Man-Eating Brutes Participate
in Ceremony.

Chicago, Sept 22-Dr. Johnstone
Meyers. pastor of the Emmanuel Bap-
tist church. who spent six months in
Africa hunting facts about the mis-
sionaries there, was the object of a
reception given here last evening. and
in brief address he told of baptizine
a number of man-eating natives.
"Just before | left the Congo coun-
try / took part in picturesque cere-
mony that l shall never forget" said
DR.. Meyers. 1T was the baptism of a
half hundred black men, who but a
few years ago were savage. man-eat-
ing brutes.
"The sharks had been driven back
from the shore and the men had
waded out in semi-circles in the water
facing us on the shore. Then DR..
Clarke, the missionary, began at one
end and ! at the other, baptizing these
savages who but short time before
ate human flesh"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-22

Yorktown. and that they do very little
fishing.
Monday night, while several of the
boys were taking a swim just before
retiring, Bateman dived off the pier
and scratched his foot severely on
the piling. He scrambled out of the
water, yelled "shark" and exhibited
his lacerated foot. In about ten sec
onds the entire squad was making 1t
for the club house. and 1t was not I'M
til Dutch Holm had stretched the
shark to t&enty-six feet that Bateman
told the true story of his decorations
An invitation to dance came to all
the members of the squad but Coach
Moran put his foot down on it. Every
man must be in bed by $3.50 o'clock
and no dance.
Reeves, the new man from Marlin,
plays well on the piano, and after
supper when the String bean quar-
tette" gets to going, even the pelicans
on the reef sit up and listen.