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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
THE JOY OF PRIzE-FIGHTING.

| THE JOY OF PRIZE-FTGHTING.
II all successful prize-fighters fol-
| low the tactics of Mr.. Jack Johnson,
when they are in the ring, there must
| be wonderful satisfaction in the
| bruising and equally brutal game in
addition to its emoluments. In one
! of his daily interviews-an it ap-
pears that the newspaper record of
q day would not be complete unless it
contained few remarks apropos of
something nothing by both Mr..
Johnson and Mr.. Jeffries-the dusky
champion said: "Of my fight with
Burns I can truthfully say that I new
er before entered the ring with a
heart so full of malice. Mr.. Burns
had said many unkind things about
me. and in the ring that day I re-
membered them all. Every time I
forced him to his corner / would
ask him If he remembered when he
had made some certain statement and
I followed it up with one of my best
blows" And Mr.. Johnson is just SIM
ply aching for the opportunity to deal
out the same sort of medicine to Mr..
Jeffries, who has also been guilty of
saying things about him.
oh joy! Could there be a more de-
lightful or satisfying way for squar-
ing personal accounts? 1t would be
impossible to find one. No wonder the
fistic arena is such a popular field for
labor among the strong armed. Sure
ly the money they may win is as moth
ing when compared with the gratifica-
ton incident to the settling of per-
sonal scores. Just imagine how you
would feel if the opportunity were
presented you to get into little roped
square with some back biting friend
or enemy who was not your physical
equal. After you had gotten him
bit groggy you could step UP and say;
Remember the time you called me
snake? Do you? Well, then, consider
this as partial payment for the insult
And herewith you would land ter
rifle blow with your left fist on your
adversary's right jaw AS he recov-
cred from the shock, you would be
right after him again with: "Remem-
Der the time you called me a dub?
Do you? Well, if you don't perhaps
this will remind you of it." And you
would land a mighty punch on his
solar plexus. or upper cut him on the
chin, or swing a right to his left ear
and make it take on the proportions
Of a turnip. And so on and so forth |
until your opponent was down and |
out for good with every insult he had |
offered to you stamped with great red |
Welts on his face and body
Assuredly is there much more re- |
to prize-f1ghting than the |
money it brings in. And it is quite |
evident that Mr.. johnson has pointed |
the way to make it intensely popular |
with all sorts and conditions of men, |
who have heretofore looked upon it |
with more or less askance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
THE REFoRsIER AND HIS WAYS

THE Duke of Wellington complain
ed that he had been much afflicted
with authors, and many man could
tell moving tale of being sorely be-
set by reformers," says writer in
The Point of View in the May Scrib-
ner. Their high motives are not al
ways a guarantee of good Judgment or
of agreeable companfonship. Zeal
too often consumes both them and
their tact. One of their frequent ways
Of approaching people whom they
would enlist or convert is the assump-
ton of a plying compassion for those
who are not altogether such as they
are. They stoop to the ignorance and
the moral failings of their unhappy
victims In their condescension to the
infirnities of men and women who
cannot see eye to eye with themselves,
they have an indefinable air of say
ing: Were it not for your blindness.
your tiTnidity, your callousness. we
should have pulled the world much
further along by this time With
Milton they reproach the perversity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Inasmuch IS rubber is selling at So
a pound the Hutchinson News has an
idea that great many necks would be
better on The market.
A discovery has been made by Mack
Gretchen TO the effect that # the clock
is fast, the employe always notices it
when he starts to work instead of at
quitting time.
The Orient railroad has begun work
on its new million dollar shops at Wich-
ita, but town sentiment is considerably
disappointed at learning that the build
ings are not to go up II stories and
a fagpole high, says the Hutchinson
News.
This paper has never had high re-
gard for Golfers, remarks the Lawrence
Gazette. 1t is made up chiefly of bluff,
egotisTn and impossible fiction. But
when it praises Governor Hughes by
saying that he is trying to put New
York abreast of Kansas in intelligence,
We submit that Kansas ought to take
its hat off for a minute at least.
The Lyons Republican thinks that w
r. Blackburn, one of the favorftes in
the race for railroad commissioner, is
in1uring his chance by hurting the fol-
lowing questions at an innocent long
suffering community: How do plants
grow? What is electricity? What does
gravity pull with? Whence comes mat
ter?" and only gives day or two to
frame up an answer.
Several girls of a nearby city have
formed a girls protective association.
1t is a sort of love trust. It's purpose
is to keep tab on young men of the
city. They will keep each other in
formed as to actions of the men and
protect members of tlle society from
attentions of any youth against whom
there is the slightest breath of suspic-
ion. If member hears of any young
man falling by the wayside she inme-
Giately reports to the rest. That young
fellow is thereafter tabooed. On the
contrary, if a young man shows signs
of reformation this also is noted. He
is corresPondingIy encouraged. The
discovery of the organization has crea-
ted quite furore among young men
of tie CITY. All are wondering how they
stand on the books of the society-Sol-
ONION Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

and stubbornness but for which the
glory of reforming all our neighbors
had been completely ours
This condescending attitude of re-
formers often takes the form of de-
luging others with food of informa-
tion-usually statistical-abour SUBJ
Jects in regard to which full know1-
edge is common property. They can
not believe that you know what they
know, else you would be as afiame
and spasmodica11y energetic as they.
Hence they bow their heads to your
reluctant ear and pour into it with
out any of Mark Anthony's rhetorical
artifice that which you all do know.
Are you aware that two thousand sew
en- hundred and sixty-five persons
died in 1906 from heart failure caus-
ed by excessive tea-drinking? Have
you duly weighed the fact that three
sixteenths of the children of immi-
grants from Bessara bia have never
had their teeth inspected? Do you
know that only ninety-seven farm
houses in Oklahoma nave bath
room p The first inclination of one
suddenly assaulted with such chunks
of fact is to say. Yea, I know it, hold
ye your peace.' But one cannot be
rude to reformer. Besides, he
could not be rebuffed in that way. If
you shook off the dust of one set of
his figures, he would instantly flee
with you to another"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Glol

TFrom the Atchison Globe.]
Undertakes and sa1oon-keepers are
always very polite.
There is no missing link between
some men and monkeys.
The real great sorrow of life is
that one is old so much longer than
he is young.
Compel some men to live in a pig
pen. and they wouldn't be inconven-
fenced a particle.
The man who marries for money
probably eases his conscience with the
thought that he will earn it.
Are you feeling tough? Well tell
you what the trouble is, and there
will be no charge: you eat too much.
About the best satisfied looking
thing in town is a North Atchison hen
followed by thirty little chickens.
A man who recently bought a wig.
says: Badness should be covered up
like any other ugly nakedness."
Nearly every woman constantly
looks as though she is living in the
midst of something terribly exciting.
If a man comedies his wife made
him what he is, that is sign he is
telling his troubles, and not Dragging.
most important lesson to be cleaned
from the conversational school
If man does something that par
ticularly pleases you, don't express
your appreciation to him; give his
wife a present.
Your greatest worries are over
neighborhood nuisances. And neigh
borhood nuisances are the kind you
never get rid of.
Wen never be satisfied until the
Atchison town drunkard lets us alone,
and goes to Topeka to talk reform to
Governor Stubbs
You know some pretty versatile
men. but you never knew one who
could love and support his son-in-law
at the same time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
fU4OR or THE Day

81 have kings among my ancestors.
Miss Cayenne, land also knaves and two
spots."-Washingto Star.
"How's your new maid?' "Ratrer
chilly. I fear she does not wholly approve
of my methods OF doing her work for
her."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
TITS impossible You mean irnposs,-
did."-Judge.
He-If you dislike me, why did You per
NIT me to kiss you last night? She-r
felt that / really ought to make ore
Lenten sacrifice.-Boston TRANSCRIPT
Young Wife-Gregory. dear. what is t,,a
troubIe2 Worried Misunderstanding
Mile; nothing, except that I've lost tie
Young Wife-Is that all, dearS Why. vo,,
can advertise for II, can't you7-Chicas,c
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
Female solomon.

When we picture justice it is as a
woman with sword. We shall have
to change that when little Miss Doro-
thy Frooks shall be elected to the
bench. The new idea will be woman
with a scroll; perhaps with a loaf and
a pot of tea: at any rate. woman
with a cup of kindness. you see"
says little Miss Frooks. ST should not
be a judge to condemn. I should be
a judge to teach the criminal An
entire reform"
This Dorothy is Is gears old. But
her strength is in her youth. Because
she means to run for office she wants
the ballot, and we are almost per-
suaded that we should let her have it.
Miss Frooks confesses frankly that
it was not always thus with her. Once
in her ignorance and thoughtlessness
she laughed at the women who wanted
to vote. Two years ago she saw the
light. She is a strong suffragist now,
and if her laughter ever turns to
tears over those performances of suf-
fragettes which should make goddeSseS
weep she does not say So
Just now her cause and her aspira-
lions appear as very serious matters
to Miss Dorothy We trust that years
to come will destroy neither her wo-
manly charity nor her view of busy
life as something worth while. These
possessions are really rather strong
rivals to the ballot in world utility
and importance.-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A man may not be able to serve two
masters but many of them try it.
X Il
People who are too ALFRED mice"
are quite as unpopular as the other
kind.
a
At any rate, you'll have to give the
bark of tree credit for not being
noisy.
X X x
Many woman has little respect for
a man unless he abuses her to some
extent.
u :: =
AS a matter of fact, most men are
more conceited about their looks than
are women and with far less reason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

OF 80, by their clever tricks,
We turn upon the ancient fan.
With unbelief, and loudly bawl:
Forget it'll Beat it, Get the can,
Tell it to Sweeney Hire hall!'
Yea. even so. The rules have changed,
Changed like the map. and style OF
Socks;
Our language has been re-arranged,-
The player 'swats," instead Of
knocks"
That five-ounce sphere across the lot,
And fearsome words his ears asSail
Should he but chance to swat II not
But dou- W fearsome is the tale
The Sport Reporters then indite:
They pass the English language by
And tell how Murphy flied to right
Or Casey "muffed" an easy fly.
It's up to you to take their word
That Boggs committed suicide
And scored a doughnut in the Third
Because he wouldn't take the slide.
And should some Rip Van Whats-his-
name,
Who dropped off when the game was
young,
Wake up, and go against OUR game.
He'd surely miss the Mother Tongue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
Sunnower Siftinrs.
sIMPLIFIED SPELLINC


We had gentle zeffer from the north
Friday and Saturday.-Colby Free
Press.
A COUPLE OF HEARTY HA-HAH'S
VIM. Goad and Mrs. Daufelser were
married at Marion on Thursday Lass.
Both parties are we'll connected and we
wish them all kinds of success in their
new venture. A nephew of
Mrs. Daufelser went along with Rollie
Carr Thursday and helped bring Pa
Goad home. Miss Bessie Goad
and her brother came up from Glenn
ents Friday evening to see the kids
perform. Pa Goad married the
best bre(a)d woman in town.
For all the jokes we have cracked on
Pa Goad, we consider him good num-
Der, and his wife one of the best women
who ever hit the town.-Strong City
NeWs-Courant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

Apparently. California does not
propose to be left behind by Kansas
and Minnesota in extending clemency
to prison inmates who make a noise
like genius A girl has been released
from one of the California jails be-
cause she has a perfectly lovely voice,
and the thought is entertained that if
she has a chance she may become a
great singer. Presumably the women
inmates in all the prisons of the land
will now proceed to make life miser-
able for their jailers by trying out
their vocal organs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
KANSAS COHAENT
THE FOOL SCHOOLS.

Inc consideration of the fool is be-
coming such an important question
that schools teaching how to handle
MN, nave sprung up. The railroads
nave organized what are politely called
schools of Diplomacy but in plain
prakeman talk, they are Fool Schools; -
ana those who attend them are taught
how to handle the fool problem. The
mead Fool School'' is in New York.
Ihere are others in Chicago, Boston,
montreal, and they are springing up in
many railroad centers.
By a. fool is meant the person who
makes trouble by asking and demand
ing answers to ridiculous questions,
ana VINO becomes a nuisance by reason
Of ms ability to adapt his intelligence
to the common, standardized intelli-
gence of his neighbors
The smart railroad men know a fool
cannot be thrust aside and ignored; he
must be handled, and their schools in
struct employees how to do it,
Look yourself over; are you a fool?
Do you refuse to accept the standard
of intelligence accepted by your neigh
some one is attending a school to learn
how to handle you.-Atchison Globe.
EXTERMINATE THE FLY.
The National Civic association has
started national crusade with the
view of exterminating the hOusef1y,
and it asks all of the people in this
country to join with it in it's great
swatting, poisoning and screening
movement The National Civic as
ISOLATION is little slow. as Doctor
Crumbine, of the state board of health.
has been urging warfare against flies
for long time. But we are glad
that the movement is to become ma
tional. because it did little good for
kansans to slaughter flies and then
have countless numbers from adjoin-
ing states swarm across our borders.
1t is a campaign of education which
the National Civic association intends
to wage. 1t will use moving pictures
which will be displayed in theaters
and other convenient places to show
how the fly carries deadly germs on its
legs and scatters them over our food
and faces The pictures will be so
the people to the importance of ex-
terminating the fy.-Wichita Eagle.
PRAISE FOR MR.. WAGGENER.
It is reported that B. P. Waggener
will be made general solicitor of the
Pacific railroad for Kansas,
Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado.
If he wants the place, the Gazette
hopes he will get it. A great many
people hate him because he is rail-
road attorney. but ten times as many
love him because he is a man. He
deserves the best the company has to
give him. not only for what he has
done for them, but as we'll for what he
has done for men and women and
children. He is one of the best and
greatest hearted men in Kansas. and
has done a hundred times as much
for Kansas and the west as have all |
the pin headed politicians who abuse
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

How could you do it. Mr.. Stitch? How
could you take such undue advantage
of Governor Stubs and issue a reply
in behalf of Mr.. Wagstaff to one of the
governors political maEifestoes while
he was out of town and therefore might
not be able to answer it for a day or
two2 This is about the meanest politi-
cal trick that has ever attracted the
attention of the square dear' newspa-
pers since they have been dabbling in
politics. And their howls of distress
over it will likely be greeted with the
laughter they deserve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

President Taft is right again in urg-
ing the completion of the Gefenses Of
the Panama canal so that they will be
ready TO business, If necessary, at the
same time the big ditch is ready for
traffic. In fact, if these defenses We're
completed a couple of year5 before the
canal is finished it might be all the
better Wars have a habit of coming
when least expected and If the United
state should get into one before the
Panama canal is completed. the enemy
could deal this nation serious and ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
EROA OTHER PENS
NAVIGATING IN FOG.

The latest details received as to the
wreck of the Atlantic transport liner
MInnehaha. which, went on the rocks
off the Scilly Islands several days ago.
and which IS likely to prove total
loss, indicate clearly that the cause of
the disaster was the prevalence of a
heavy fog for several days. This is the
most serious condition with which a
navigator has to deal, worse than the
heaviest storm in the open sea. Dur
ing fog almost anything is apt to
occur from ? collision to running on
the rocks. In the Minnehaha's case
the captain had been unable to ac-
curately locate his position by obSer-
walton for some time, and because of
the impenetrable fog the landmarks
could not be seen.
Despite the greatest care and the
observance of every precaution, navi-
eating in a fog is most dangerous
proceeding, and the avoidance of acct
dents is as much a matter of good for
tune as of experience and skill. The
loss of a great liner is Il surious matter
and the ca plain of the Minnehaha will
have no doubt to explain the matter
both to the authorities and to the
managers of his line but until his ac-
count of the affair has been heard and
sifted it is but fair to him to remem-
Der that most anything is liable to
happen in a fog, Notwithstanding every
precaution.-New Orleans Picayune.
THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC"
Editor Hemphil, who so long ma.1o
Charleston real place on the journal
istic map ana who has recently trans
ferred his labors to Richmond, deliv-
cred the Bromley lectures at Yale last
week on 1.-THE Public and the Press
Mr.. Hemphil1 is a gentleman, stud
ent, patriot, a cynic. As a journalist
he is all of these, and while he con-
fesses that 'for a reason which need
not be more clearly indicated it is not
possible for him to be his ideal journal
list, still he is about as near it as the
country produces, and consequently has
a right to speak with as much author
ity as anybody.
Briefly, he has not much opinion of
either the press or the public. The
public, he is sure, is about as bad as
possible, while the press is worse; and
then again the press is about as bad as
possible and the public as bad. He
considers the relations of the two from
the plane, or maybe the valley, of his
philosophy, that 1.-THE whole plan of hu-
man society seems to have sand in it's
gearbox' % And it must be admitted
that there is too much upon which to
base such pf1ilosophy-just how much
every reader of the lectures will, from
his own point OF view. decide for him
self and decide, no doubt, with as much |
error and as much truth as there is i'll |
most of our cocksure decisions.-Louis- |
vile Courier Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

DR.. Crumbine, secretary of the state
board of health, has started for the
fourth season his campaign to swat
the fly Some would-be humorists
have tried occasionally to poke fun at
this war-cry. But it is far from being
a joke. It is a vital thing this fly
killing business, if society is to proper
~ protect itself against the disease that
these peslxy little critters have the
knack Of scattering around promiscu-
ously If they are given half a chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press

TFrom the New York Press.
Preaching doesn't seem to cure
even those who do il.
Imagination is q mans pastime: a
woman's life occupation.
A man just loves to explain how
near he came to going into public life.
What makes scandal so reasona BILE
is ones suspicion that probably it isn't
true.
No matter how honest a man is he
has hard work TO give up his street
car fare when the conductor doesn' t
ask for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

If there is anything to the charges
that William Lorimer was elected to
the United States senate last May by
the Illinois legislature through bribery
and corruption, it viii at least give IL
Nnois the distinction of getting into
the class of which New York is at
present at the head. This will be pleas
ing to Illinoisans. They never like to
have New Workers beat them out in any
field OF human endeavor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

A New Jersey man has succeeded in
developing a blue rose. 1t is up to
somebody now to produce a red violet
Then there can be a much needed re-
vision of ''Roses are red and violets
blue etc. But perhaps to make a
consistent revision some other expert
would have to get busy and manufac-
ture a sugar that would be sour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

Many beautiful sentiments have come
from the pen and voice of Captain JOS
eph G. Waters. but none of them are of
finer caliber than the verse he wrote
for the Brewer Memorial service at
washington
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

When CLAWS or Pinchot had any
thing to say at the Ballinger-P inchot
investigation the square deaI'' news
papers placed it in the most promin-
ent positions on their front pages. But
now that Mr.. Ballinger has the floor
and is presenting his side of the case
these same newspapers relegate his
remarks to the inside or last pages,
If they use them at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

Expert chemists and other scientists
have now taken the center of the
stage in the famou= Hyde trial. This
means that equally capable and learn
ed men will testify Numerically op-
posite to each other on the same pro-
positions and in accordance with the
necessities of the side that is paying
for their services.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

There appears to be no such thing
as spring weather in these parts any
more. 1t is either of the winter or
summer variety, and its sudden trans
itfons from one to the other is of
wonderful advantage to colds in the
head, Ia grippe and other disagree
able human ailments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

Another chapter in the famous in
cubator baby case will soon be writ
ten in the district court at Holton.
And it is to be hoped that when it is
concluded the word ''f1nfs'' will be at
tached to it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

pensive blow by destroying such work
as had been completed on the Isthmus
of Panama If the Panama canal is
worth having, it is surely worth de-
ffnGir4e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

AS Uncle Joe Cannon so rightly says.
the noise of the minority is not the
voice OF the people. And, indeed, it is
also almost a trudsm that those things
which bray the loudest are never of the
most value