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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
.AYHAWKER J0TS

The Atchison Champion has come to
the conclusion that most troubles are
imaginary.
once more has the Lawrence World
felt compelled to remark that korea
has a japan finish.
1t occurs to the Blue Mound Sun
that many pleasant friendships have
been broken up by marriage.
They're getting rather Bostonese out
Seneca wav The Tribune of that town
tells Of a young man who has decided
to STUDY for the grocery trade"
If you should give some men the
privilege of voting four times on cleo
ton day, no two of their ballots would
be marked alike, thinks the Osborne
Farmer.
1t is suggested by the Parsons Sun
that the question propounded by a
leading magazine as to who is King
of America 81 can best be settled by
dividing the honors equally between
Ty Cobb and Hans Wagner.
Noting that the name of the Kan
sas City police commissioner is Marks
the Leavenworth Times says: From
the number of robberies that have oc-
ferred that his initials are E. e.
A Kansas farmer living out near
Woodston went away from home and
somebody broke in and stole $500
worth of diamonds from the house
This should be a warning to Kansas
farmers, says the Salina Journal.
When leaving home, they should al
ways shovel their diamonds into the
hen house and lock the door.
Men talk now days with a great deal
of freedom of what they would or
wouldn't do. but did you ever notice
these real sure fellows have a soft spot
somewhere and all that is necessary is
to find it and you can handle them as
the potter does the clay. A great deal
of this talk about what strong charac-
tiers men possess is all foolishness. Re
member Achilles and his heel-Atchi-
son Champion.
One of Arrington's prominent citi-
zens is James Wagner. who is told
about in the Ehngham New Leaf as
follows: James Wagner. the rising
young acrobat of Arlington, gave his
first public performance on the tight
rope. He is also a traDese performer
of ability and his friends hope by next
year to see him performing upon the
trapese, which he doubtless will unless
some circus company has engaged his
services before that time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05

heart grateful to the pIucky girl who
had saved hi slife.
He recalled Helen Dale as one of
many other girls whom he had
inquired for Miss Dale at the office
the clerk informed him of her depar-
ture. There was no doubt in his mind
that she had gone to escape his thanks.
Well, she was the right sort-some
girls would have been glad OF the OPP
portunity to play the heroine.
New York was not far distant, and
In the evening of the same day he
presented himself at the Dale house.
So unexpected was his coming that
Helen was taken by surprise. She
came down to find him in converse
ton with her mother.
II resolved you should not escape
he said, holding her hand in a warm
just how plucky you were yesterday"
1t was mere chance evaded
Helen, coloring. anyone else would
have done it. It was easy, too, for
cue.''
Nevertheless, if it had not been
for you I would have lost my life,"
insisted Archer.
was surprised at his own pleasure in
the occasion.
A day or two afterward- he came
again and took her for spin in
III his new motor car. Then ne came
again and again. He did not return to
Seaside, but his yacht received sail
ing orders and proceeded to the city,
where she lay at his disposal.
When the first crisp autumn winds
were blowing Bob Archer awoke to
the fact that he could not live hap
PLY without Helen Dale for his wife.
What an ideal companion she would
make-their tastes were similar and
their love of the out-of-doors amount
ed almost to mania. A honeymoon
spent on his yacht
He clapped on his hat and made his
way to the Dale house. Helen was
alone in the library when he arrived
and he sat beside her in the dim fire.
lit room and told his tory. But in
spite of the great joy in her eyes, she
shook her head.
II know how you feel, Mr.. Archer,
1t is natural that you should mistake
gratitude for love, and that you should
offer me the life 1 saved. but"
Something in the flicker of emotion
that crossed her face brought him
close beside her.
"Helen, look at mel" he commanded
taking her hand sin his.
What do you see there. darling
gratitude or love ?"' he asked soft1y'
Her glance fell before his gaze. and
for the first time since her heart had
gone out of her keeping she was ra-
dainty happy.
Love" she whispered, softly, and
then, I'm so glad I had the chance
to save your life. We might never
have known each other, Bob Copy
righted 1910 by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
TAFT AND THE TARIFE.

Prominent newspapers the country
over, regardless of their political pre-
objections, are expressing a unanimity
of opinion that President Taft's sug-
gestions, in his recent letter to the Re-
publican congressional campaign COM
mittee, concerning the need for fur
Their revisions of the tariff schedules,
are master stroke that will result in
someactual achievements in the build
ing of a tariff that will eventually
do justice to all interests. Even the
Hearst newspapers have their words
of praise to say. And the New York
Herald, which is Independent of every
thing except the own sweet will of it's
proprietor, who never yet has had any
personal political axes to grind, joins
in the chorus. Some excerpts from the
editorials in the large newspapers of
the land ought to be interesting, and
especially in Kansas where many of
the prominent politicians in the lime
light have done nothing but make
light of the new tariff law and the
sincerity of President Taft in working
for a proper revision of tariff sched-
ules downward. Such excerpts follow:
From the New York American:
Mr.. Taft's letter is as exact and re-
strained as the drawings and specifica-
lions of a master builder.
His tone has the accent of business.
The president reviews the designs
and detailed drawings of the contract
made with the people in 1908, and re-
ports progress.
The seriousness with which he takes
the platform pledges of his party and
his personal promises on the stump
amounts to a kind of genius-a new
kind in American politics.
-
dent for it in the list of governors and
great officials. and Mr. Taft deserves,
! if not letters patent for the invention,
at least some kind of decoration of
sober political knighthood.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
AS a straightforward political docu-
ment without frills and furbelows. the
letter of President Taft to Representa-
| tive Mckinley, chairman of the Re
publican congressional committee,
printed this morning. is beyond criti-
cism. There is no attempt at rhetoric
or fine writing. In language that every
one can understand, the president sum-
mariZes the work of congress during
that Republican majority should be
elected in order to continue the work
will be found difficult to meet.
From the New York Tribune:
President Taft's letter to the chair
man of the Republican congressional
committee states with admirable clear
ness the issues on which Republican
! candidates for congress can appeal to
the voters. It is q fair and accurate
summary of the record made by the
Republican majority in congress at the
| last two sessions record of useful
and progressive legislation never sur
passed and seldom equaled. Mr.. Taft
| takes no personal credit for the work
| done by congress, though no one will
| question the fact that his energy and
patience were the prime factors in Sc
curing the redemption by congress of
so many of the promises of the last
Republican national platform. The
| country realizes that but for his stead
/ fastness the record of legislative ac-
complfshment at the last two sessions
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on, STRONG DEsIRES.


On, strong desires that hurt the heart
With useless strife of blunted wings
weary of your trayailings.
~ ny must you always surge and start
" men 1 am nearest happiness?
Across the freedom of the sky
Like dazzling phantom gods you fly,
AND seeing you. my joy is less.
When sometimes by an April brook
Beneath the birchen buds 1 kneel
And. almost turned a dryad feel
me thrill of that green life which shook
Ola woodlands that the Hellenes knew
When every breath is rare and good,
Inere sweeps shudder down the wood
w nd-hearted wonders pierce me through
Or when beside the hearth lie
And listen to the liquid flame,
While one love most speaks my name
ana IN that peace my dreams all die
fnen from the shadow-pools beyond
Our small red-circled Joy there leap
Tall shapes fantastical as sleep,
TO call US mortal, helpless fond:
And blind my eyes with visions-vain,
Enormous. never known on earth
longing for immortal mirth
That mortal lips may never stain.
oh, strong desires! Oh. worthless wings!
Shortcomings, heaven-fallings why
VIII you remind me 1 must die
To taste the utmost joyful things?
Fannie Stearns Davis, in Harper's Mag
azine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
Suicides of Children.

Following suicides of two young peo-
pie in our state institutions, the Med
zeal and Surgical Journal points out
that child suicides are by no means I'M
common. The census of 1900 showed
are committed between the ages of 40
and A than at any other period; yet
between the ages of and IA there were
% suicides in the census year, and be-
tween the ages of Is and 10 the sur
nrisiner number of 246. In Prussia LISP
children took their lives between 1880
and 1903 I'm about 10 per cent of the
cases no cause could be found and
in very many instances the causes
seemed trivial. Doubtless they did not
SO appear to the unfortunates, since
warrants the conclusion that half of
them were in some respect abnormal
indeed, of 2S4 cases studied by Eulen-
burg, 20 had pronounced insanity and
81 showed a feebleness of mental con-
stitution. When one has named these
significant facts, however, one must
follow. as the Journal does, with the
larger truth that our knowledge of
the chfld's mind is eninently incom-
plete" In the interest of justice, as
we'll as charity, we must realize that
the life of the child is not necessarily
Elysian; that rather childhood is
period of intense feelings and repres-
sions and often of black misapprehen-
deriving the painful occurrences which
the newspapers sometimes have to
chronicle are as well worth study,
therefore, as any psychopathic problem
that could be na1ned.-Boston Tran
SCRIPT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison clobe.1

lFrom the AICn1SOn GLOBE.
Any man who loves his enemies, will
hate his friends.
Did you ever hear a polite bride and
groom joke that was funny?
What has become of the old-fash
Toned woman who went "calling?"
Lots of people probably say of you:
I'D hate to have his disposition"
Some dead beats manage to line lot
of good people up in their defense
There is one thing woman has the
most perfect confidence in: her own
taste"
One can get lot of comfort out of
an old overcoat when he can't afford a
new one.
A man should not brag about how
few baths he takes, or how small his
laundry bill is.
When you try to act smart, people
say: He's putting that on" but it's
real with T. R.
The biggest failure in town is said
to have broken the hearts Of three I'M
usually nice Atchison girls.
When an attempt at suicide fails, do
you think the Big Bookkeeper charges
it up to profit, or to loss?
A man sometimes imagines he is
wonderfully popular, when he is really
only useful to those who seem attract
ed.
we carry being peculiar to the point
of not liking oysters. We got a rotten
one, once, and have baked on oysters
ever since.
When a Kansas man lands in Kan
sas City. the Union avenue bartenders
say he pours out drink of which so
big that it overruns the glass, and
muses. up the bar
An Atchison man keeps clean, but
hates the trouble, and says the joy of
living will never be complete for him
until some one invents capsule
which will give bath.
A school of instruction, which would
enlighten the public as to when a visit
becomes an imposition, and when hos
pitality becomes endurance, might helm
some if anyone would attend.
Il have long taken the Atlantic
Monthly, and greatly admire it, but
haven't seen another copy in years
The Atlantic seems to be as select and
exclusive as the Outlook. -Parson
Irvine.
An Atchison woman will shortly sue
for a divorce because her husband
hasn't provided her with an automo-
bile. and hopes she will get into the
law books as the first women to bring
suit on that ground.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
LABOR DAY.


This is Labor's holiday. Throughout
the length and breadth Of these United
States the laboring men and women are
being accorded some of the recognition
which they deserve. But there is no
need to indulge in commonplace tru-
isms, overworked platitudes. on labor
and laboring men. Suffice it to say
that anybody, who does not realize that
honest toilin every one offts many forms
is the rock on which is founded the
prosperity and progress of civilization,
is lacking in the most ordinary kind
of common sense.
There would appear to be lots of
room, however, for reflections on the
condition of labor today. That it is on
a higher plane in this land. that the
laboring man comes nearer harvesting
the full fruits of his efforts, comes
nearer getting a square deal here in
all things, than in any other country
on the face of the earth is an admit
ted fact. And the conditions here would
seem to be getting a trifie better all
the time. Certainly capital and labor
are better friends in this country now
than they ever have been before. Plen-
ty of evidence that this is so has come
to the front during the past few years,
and especially during the past IL
months. More differences between cap
ital and labor have been settled of late
through compromise and without
strikes or through voluntary arbitra-
ton than ever before. This is a con-
dition of which employers and en-
ployees, as well as all other people in
the land, can well be proud. In augurs
for continued peace and progress in the
industrial world.
Labor unions, too, appear to be
stronger today than at any other time
in their history. They have accom-
plished much for the laboring man. It
was only the other day that attention
was called in these columns to the re-
port of the national immigration COM
mission which found the conditions
among the miners in the central west
as to hours of work, pay and environ
ment to be much superior to those
which prevail with the miners in the
eastern states. And credit for these
immigration commission to organized
labor. Mistakes are made by labor
unions Just the same as they are made
ny Oil OluOI nuIIldIl agencies. But III
the main, the labor unions of today are
working along higher lines and accom-
plishing more for their members than
they have been heretofore And the
controlling reason for this is that they
are disposed to be fair.
The day is beginning to dawn when
capital and labor are going to work
together in harmony in this land
There may be a few upheavals of more
or less severe proportions before the
noon-tide of that day arrives, but it is
on the way, and the laboring man is
doing his part to help it arrive. The
setting aside of day to the honor of
labor is most appropriate. 1t is no more
than a fitting recognition of it's due.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
HVNOR OF THE Day

YOU 90 about with Jack? Madge-Weil.
you see. Tom is rather slow, and I'm
using Jack as pacemaker for hin-I1t-
Bits.
so you s1aim to be the oldest hum %5ss
grounds?'' 81 saw q bootjack once
Pittsburg Post.
This doesn't smell like the last gaso-
bought an automobile ITS all right. SIR,
said the garage man, you're getting used
to it''-Yonkers Statesman.
superior Intelligence that designed sn{ns the
Unless they were designed by the wife Of
the man who had them built.''-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Alberta dog that runs under a car
Tags is called carriage dog # it nSdf
motor car? Egbert-Why, dead one!-
Tit-Bits.
General Dasher.'' said host, who was
conducting guest through his gallery of
es IT'S lG terrible i'll place at osing
bag there only last week. STRAND.
Mrs Frankfurter-Ach. goodness, Don'd
you see dot your husband Is vighting?
this his holiday?'-Tit-Bits.
Were you bull or a bear. when you
one of the fellows they were both after
Detroit Free Press.
Shall we give samples of cloth to ladies'
who are thinking Of ordering bathing cos
tumes?" 1T guess so; but cut 'enn small.
We don't want ,em to use the samples to
make the suit."-Washington Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News.1
You can't cut a wide swath with a
short scythe.
1t doesn't take a plated reputation
long to tarnish.
It is good idea to let others do
your boasting for you.
When a man is his own worst en-
envy he doesn't try TO get even
Good intentions must be hot stuff II
they are used for paving material.
Many man who forgets to water
his horse doesn't forget to beer him
self.
A man who shutters may be able to
speak a good word for himself occa-
sionally.
Between 80 and 20 a woman tries to
conceal her age-after that she begins
to brag about 1t.
A married woman usually enjoys
meeting another married woman who
isn't happily mated.
1t costs more than twice as much to
live now as it did a hundred years ago,
but 1t is worth the difference.
AS rule the woman who knows ex-
actly how to manage a. husband never
has an opportunity to demonstrate her
theories.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Trying is the first and most impor-
tant step towards doing.
=
1t is also an exceedingly wise UNI
brella that knows its original owner.
y y
Many people who have the most to
say against shams are adept prac-
titioners of them.
To hear some persons talk about the
fine points of automobiles you'd think
they owned at least one.
Y
A man with a vivid imagination has
little trouble in being. happy. or think
ing his, which amounts to the same
thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
lFron the New york Press.1

LFrom the New York Press.1
All the leavings come to him who
waits.
The reason statesmen can fake so
much better than other people is they
have so much more experience.
A woman can love a man because
it's her duty to; a man can love some
other woman because it's his duty not
to.
What man can't understand about
his daughters getting married Is how
she can want to do exactly what he
wanted her mother to DO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05

state of Arizona in the United States
senate. When Mr.. Hitchcock started
on his trip to Arizona and New Mex
leo the political analysts at Wash
ington said he was going on scout
ing expedition to find out what the
prospects were for electing Republi-
can United States senators in the new
states. Maybe he has found out to his
entire satisfaction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05

OF all the gains in population made
by the cities of the United States dur
ing the past decade, none is really
more remarkable than that of New
York. This city had its millions Of
people ten years ago and in that per-
fod they have increased in number by
no less than SO per cent The metrop-
oils of the new world now has pop
ulation of 4.7s6.SS3 persons. and is
secure in its place as the second larg-
est city on earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05

Glenn Curtiss is not only one of the
most successful of the aviators who
have startled the world with their
marvellous feats during the past two
years, but he is also apparently one
of the wisest. He will make his last
flight in the air at the Harvard Bos-
ton aviation meet.
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of a new word. 1t is "aviatress."
Missouri editor died recently as
the result of an acute attack Of "Irate
Subscriber" This Is a disease common
to the newspaper business, but 1t is
seldom fatal It usually just makes the
editor hot" or tired"
One Santa F'e office employees de-
cided that he was not advancing rap
idly enough by his own efforts, 50 he is
taking course at the dental college to
acquire pull.
When Farmer Smith took charge
of the local pension office, he failed to
1ire all the old employees and fill the
positions with political parasites. This
proves conclusively that Hon. Farm
err Smith is not a good sQuare-deal in
surgent.
A Denver man tasted 81 days to cure
deafness. The effort Is undoubtedly
successful, as most any one could hear
call to dinner after fast OF that
duration.
There is a vast difference between
being discharged by ones employer,
and being discharged by the trial
judge Among the differences is that
the discharge by the judge seems to be
the only kind of discharge which is
Immune from translation to the slang
expression, fired"
The case recently unearthed in Kan
sas City of a 17-year-old youth and his
13-year-old affinity is enough to make
parents chain their children to the
table-leg, like a runaway poodle.
Col. Roosevelt, at a recent speech be-
"hit the line hard" From which 1t is
evident that the colonel has not glanced
Ger the 1910 rules of the only lady
like game.
No, Proserpina: The wet sheet
mentioned by the poet in connection
with a flowing sea, is not the sheet
used on an oyster bed.
An old gentleman at Baldwin, Kan,
who has just passed his century mark,
keeps a two-gallon jug of booze in the
house, and takes drink frequently.
Just as soon as this old gentleman
cashes in, so that he can not deny 1T.
a hundred enterprising distillers will
begin to advertise that it was their
particular brand of booze which kept
him alive for more than a hundred
years"
The bathing resorts may be good
| places for man to pick a woman with
a real, guaranteed-under-th e-pure-
food-laws form of complexion,-but
what's the use? To see the divinities
dressed in wet bathing suits, it is
necessary for Mere Man to expose his
architectural shortcomings in similar
garb. 1t follows that the girl he sees,
sees him also. and Romance is off.
Some arrangement should be made
whereby men could wear their tailored
clothes, and view the bathing divinities
from nearby wnarves.
The Ohio State Journal paragrapher
opines that a linotype machine can
never be taught the difference between
conversation and conservation"
This department has discovered a num-
Der of other shortcomings in the limo
type machine We have one which fire.
uuently shortens a word by one or
more syllables to make the sentence fit
snugly into one line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05

Some of the best news that has come
along in many a day: There is going
70 be no hurry about opening the cam
paign for state offices in Kansas. The
people hereabouts, except the politi-
clans, of course, are tired of politics.
The recent primary gave them their
ILL., and a little bit more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-05

Take look at the daily programs
for the state fair which opens it's gates
here next week and you'll become con-
WINGED that every day is going to be a
big and interesting day at the most
complete and largest agricultural OK
position that has ever been held in
Kansas. A season ticket, which can
now be obtained at a reduced price,
will come in handy.