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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-03

gretful smile, she tossed the card into
the wayside bushes.
She had paused scant moment IN
the boarding house hall to survey ner
tumbled hair when through the cur
tain door she saw him coming, fumb-
ling a bunch Of keys in his hand; With
a smothered cry. she fled up to her
own room and waited, peering breath
lessly through tiny crack.
1t was the same gray figure. with
hands deep in his pockets-the very
whistling man into whose arms she
had almost fallen two hours before.
His heavy read mounted slowly and
sounded in the room overhead. where
the crash of trunk had driven her to
despair that same day. She buried her
head in the cushions, laughing hysteri-
cally. Then arising, she surveyed her
radiant face in the tiny mirror
What a dear, sweet, lovely old thing
Fate is" she murmured.-(Copyr
1910. by Associated Literary Press)
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TO PREVENT COMPLICATIONS.

preliminary steps, indicative of the
administration policy in dealing with
the complications which promise to
arise over the international trade OF
the country, under the provisions OF
the maximum tariff section of the new
law, have just been taken by Presi-
dent Taft" says the current issue of
the Iron Trade Review. The an
nouncement is made of certain coun-
tries that will be entitled to the mini
mum tariff rates of the new law, in
Guiding such we'll known customers of
this country as Italy, Spain. Russia,
some of the smaller countries of con-
tfnental Europe, and the United
Kingdom exclusive of the British col
onies.
THE real meaning of this an
nouncement, coming as it does two
months before the date of the actual
enforcement of the maximum tariff
provision, March 81, is that it is
avowedly the purpose of the admins
tration to give full notice to those ma
tions which have not been prompt to
remove the determinations in rates
and regulations which affect the Unit
ed States, that they are likely to be
1elL OUT TIE COlu VIII IAO Al51lCI
rates of the United States tariff ap-
piled to their commodities sent to the
markets of this country Of CONT
mental countries this situation applies
especially to Germany and France,
and to certain of the British depen-
denotes, notably Canada. 1t is said
also that the advisers of the president
are looking with especial care into
the trade situation, and the regula-
tions with South America.
1.-The action of President Taft in
giving notice of the nations which
have already qualified for receiving
the minimum rates of the new tariff
cannot but have the desired influence
upon those nations that are showing
! disposition to be obnoxious in mat
tiers about which the United States
feel they have a right to complain"
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nothing to do with these odd and sub
lime aspects of scenery in certain por-
tons of the earth. Ages and ages ago
there existed on our planet vast val
leys adown which giant streams mean
dered. So strong was the current that
gigantic boulders were borne along
like pigmies in a flood. 1t all prefig-
ured Poes weird conception of the
scoriac rivers that roll their sulphur
GUS currents down Yaanek in the ulti-
mate chimes of the pole Bit by bit
the solid face of nature was carved
out in Phidian fashion, the beds of the
streams sinking deeper and deeper.
The aspect of continent slowly un-
derwent modification. Nature was
playing the part of sculptor. 1t was
not, as so many biologists infer.
process of cataclysm. It was the grad
ual building up of scene of terrific
sublimity."
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A BETTER REASON NEEDED.

OF the variety of reasons which have
been assigned for the actions of the
great majority Of the Republicans at
the, Kansas Day club imbroglio, in all
likelihood the most ridiculous one is
that these actions were controlled and
dictated by the railroad and other cor
porate interests which do business in
the state and which at one time played
a more or less prominent part in the
political activities within the common
wealth.
Because one or two, or possibly
half dozen men participated in those
festivities, who have either been en-
ployed as railroad attorneys or who
have friendly feelings towards rail-
roads, or who may now be employed
as attorneys by other corporations, is
no good reason for the assertion that
the railroads and corporations en-
gineered things in those ways which
have left such bad tastes in the mouths
of the insurgents" and the square
Dealers" That is arrant nonsense.
The great majority of those who at
tended the meeting of the Kansas Day
club and had things run to their liking
are as free from the faint of improper
corporate influences as are the people
who are making such charges. And i'll
the truth were known it would prob
ably show that the big railroads doing
business in Kansas and the other large
corporations which have agencies here
paid absolutely no more attention TO
the Kansas Day club meeting, either
before or after it was held, than they
did to a recent reunion of some old
Boxer chiefs in China.
For the past two or three years the
railroads have kept at quite distance
from the political arena in Kansas not
withstanding the assertions to the con-
trary from other sources. They haven't
had a look in, as it were. Politicians of
both parties and all factions have been
fighting shy of them and the railroads
have been fighting shy of the politi-
clans.
In days gone by when almost every
Republican who attended a Kansas
Day club gathering Travelled on rail-
road pass which had been provided him
for that purpose. it might have been
reasonable to suggest that the railroads
had some influence. if they cared to ex-
ert it, with the proceedings of that Dr.
ganization. But such suggestion
nowadays is lighter than the air 1t Is
waited about on.
If the railroads and the corporations
had been running things at the meet
ing of the Kansas Day club 1t is scarce
ly probable that such an unqualided
endorsement would have been given to
President Taft and his policies. For
Mr.. Taft has gone much further IN
urging stringent railroad and other cor
porate regulation than Mr.. Roosevelt
ever dreamed of going and his sugges-
tions in these particulars are looked
upon with anything but friendly feei-
ings by the railroad and corporate In
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.JAYHAWKER JOTS

1t is noted by the Emporia Gazette
that "there is no paper in Kansas so
poor that it can't afford a Special
Washington Correspondent"
Never bet with woman, warns the
Atchison Globe, if you win. she says
no gentleman expects to collect a bet
from a lady; and, if you lose, she says
every gentleman makes it point OF
honor to pay bet he loses to lady.
We know a young fellow in this
town, says the Beloit Call, who start
ed out about two years ago with the
idea of becoming sport. BY staying
out late nights, smoking cigarettes
continually and doing nothing in
school he has reached the stage
where the old people think he is
tough and the girls think he is cute,
so he is sport.
Some of the best looking and most
becomingly attired women and girls
in town wear rats and puffs. Some
look well without them. 1t is a mat
ter of taste with the wearer, and of
preference with the observer. If you
must kick about something, there are
dozens of things that need kicking
more than rats and puffs.-Howard
Courant.
A reporter in Lawrence, few days
ago was sent to write up a fire in a
residence. Going to the door he in
quired for the lady of the house. The
maid said she was out. Are any of
the family at homer" inquired the
scribe. mo they are all out" was
the reply well, wasn't there fire
here last EVENING"" YES said the
hired girl, but that's out too.'-Sa-
lima Journal.
Says John Lawrence, a farmer of
Chapman: Speaking of the prices of
farm products years ago, brings to my
mind the time when I hauled load
of wheat IL miles and received %
cents per busheI for threshing it. I
have sold several hundred bushels of
good corn for 10 cents per bushel.
paying cents per bushel to have it
hauled. 1 once sold nice bunch of
shoats at cents per pound. "-Abi-
lena RehactOr
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
/ From the Atchison Globe. ]

From the AtCn1SOn SloDe.l
When married woman is only 20
years old she is mighty proud of the
fact.
If you think everyone has it in for
you it will not be long until everyone
will have.
Say what you please about heir.
looms, all that most of us have are
collections of time-honored family
jokes.
We wish someone would invent a
new kind of meat: We are dead tired
of the same old beef, mutton, pork
and chicken.
Considering the energy with which
women go after fly or bedbug, it
is strange there are not more woman
entomologists.
You can find a plausible theory in
support of any fool notion, but unless
there are a few facts back of the
notion it is apt to f1atten out.
Whenever Christian Scientist
leaves town without giving everybody
her address, and telling everybody
where she is going, a rumor arises
that she has entered some hospital
for an operation.
who boards that she adores her hus-
band. OF course she adores him.
That is all she has to do. If she did
the housework for four or five people
it would be different.
Speaking of sermons: There was a
good one at the theater last night and
the text was paid in Full A man
did wrong, and he got punished for
it. That is all there is to the longest
sermon ever preached: Do wrong,
and you will get punished for it.
One reason a family group looks so
odd in a photograph is that Father
and Mother appear in the center: In
life, Daughter has the middle ring,
the other children have the side rings,
and Father and Mother are carrying
water to the elephant on the outside.
The turban, the new headpiece the
women are wearing, is like Charity:
1t covers up everything. A woman
can do her own hair in a little wad
as small and tight as doorknob,
then cover it over with a turban, and
she looks as if she had so much hair
she is real careless about it, The tur-
bans sell at the 10-cent stores for 10
cents, but the woman who is hard
pushed for dime can cover an old
wire hustle with her switch, and she
will have one on her head as good as
anybody's without a cent of expense.
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QUAKER .MEDITATTONs.
[From the Philadelphia Recor,

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
The man who is weighed and found
wanting evidently hasn't a cash hail
ance.
It takes time to realize that the closer
we get to some people the smaller thew
are.
The one time you should never aprea
with a friend is when he calls himself
a fool.
Where is the man who used to th,nt
the airship was merely a flight of the
imagination?
In teaching the young idea how to
snoot 1t is just as well to supply him
with blank cartridges. A
Some people seem to have an idea
they can't be neighborly without bor-
rowing from each other.
Mr.. Saphedde-"Can you read nv
thoughts?" Miss Caustique-"No
don't care for light reading
Letter writing is a lost art.~
marked the Wise Guy. yes assante5
the Simple Mug, it's a good idea 70 10
write burn this at the top ~
Guzzler-'Did you ever drink s+o
Ience! Wigwag-''No, but I've butte5
my head against one, and imaeine Ecu
eject is pretty much the same '.'s
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Unanimous consent should be given
Cor the advancement of the Minneapolis
journal to the head of the class. 1t
has disposed of the vexed question as
to Who's who?" in the political arena
in a manner that ought to be satisfac-
tory to every one. "A Democrat" says
the Journal, ais one who does not be-
lieve in the regularity of any other
Democrat. A Republican is one who
believes in the irregularity of every
other Republican"
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press

IFrOIn the New OK Press.
What woman hates about society
is when she can't get into it.
An easy way to get into trouble in
an argument is to have it about poll
tics.
The more children a man has the
better other people think they could
raise them.
Half the energy a man puts into his
whims would make him wonder if
put into his work.
Hardly anybody is such an expert
liar as the man who says he likes to
work before breakfast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-03

Reports from the gas fields indicate
that the Kansas Natural Gas company
has had much success in striking new
wells and thereby materially increas-
tng its supply of natural gas. But this
company has never been troubled with
a lack Of supply in its fields. All its
troubles have been caused by its fall
ure to distribute its supply in adequate
quantities among its consumers at dis
tant points from the fields
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With twenty-five candidates already
IN the field and more to come for the
four city commissionerships under the
new plan of government to be Install
ed here this spring, the voters of the
city ought to have no trouble in suit
InE their fancies
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Despite the meat boycotts in New
York city and other places the retail
Butchers in those localities have been
notified by the wholesalers that they
can expect material increases in the
cost Of meat in the near future This
doesn't speak very well for the effec-
tiveness of such a boycott. And it
also suggests that if the beef packers
are given enough rope they will be
sure to hang themselves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-03

The congressional Insurgents" have
decided by a unanimous vote to sup
port President Taft's legislative pro-
gram for dealing with the railroads,
the trusts, conservation matters, pos
tai savings banks. And yet Henry AL
len, the builder of skyscrapers, insists
that Kansas is so thoroughly insurgent
that it is against Taft from a to lizard.
Evidently the congressional "insur-
gents" have not consulted with Mr..
Allen as to the course they should
pursue. How careless of them!
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There is one thing that keeps peg
ging away in fine fashion in Topeka
It's the building business. There is
no let UP in it. Even during the
month of January when the weather
was such that men would ordinarily
not think of engaging in building en-
terprises, permits for new buildings
representing an expenditure of $50, 900
were secured from the city authorities.
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There will be more gnashing of teeth
among the insurgents Chester ].
Long, former United States senator
from Kansas, characterizes them as
Bryan Republicans" Probably this
won't appeal very strongly to Mr.
Bryan, either. for he Is a great stickler
for party regularity.
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law And yet there are some people
who still insist that the new tariff law
does not go very far in the way of
revising the tariff downward. 1t doesn't
go far enough. to be sure. but it makes
an excellent beginning in that direction.
1t might be we'll to remember, too, that
Rome wasn't built in day.
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One thing is certain. That farmer
in these parts will be g. hard chap to
please who insists that there is not
enough moisture in the earth this
spring. 1t wouldn't be very surprising,
though, If many Of them bobbed up
with the opinion that there was too
much of it, an almost unheard of COM
plant heretofore
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Just one drawback is to be found
with the delightful spring weather
which is fast approaching. A miscel-
laneous collection Of poets will come
out of their lairs and do their best to
inject a little agony into the otherwise
pleasant state of affairs.
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The lamblike attitude of Mr.. Febru-
AIRY 1910 did not continue for any con-
siderable length of time. In fact, you
never can tell just how a February is
going to cut UP. The same is equally
true of every other month, for that
p,natka~
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The London Daily News reports that
an English school boy wrote down the
following answer in the course of a re-
cent examination: "Women's suffrage is
the state of suffering to which they
SverA horn
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According to the bureau of statistics
of the department of commerce and
labor more than half of the merchan-
disc imported under the new tariff law
enters the United States, free of duty.
Except for 1890. when sugar was adj
nnitted free of duty. this is a larger
percentage of imports entering free Of
duty than under any previous tariff
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TILE PrrY oE -MoMEN-

Whin gan1blin' med fool av him
TIL wimmin med excuse:
Ihey vowed twas brave an cool av him
To lose all on tn deuce.
Twas beautiful to hear thin sigh
Wild teardrops in aich purity eye
TIL loser was lucky bye
Though he had ben q goose.
Whin whisky med a fool av him
TIL wimnin said twas plain
Some wan had med tool av him
Or he had ben insane.
Twas beautiful to thin smile
An hear thin vow in lovely style
He'd straighten up in half a while
An stop his raisin' CAIN
Whin loafin' med a fool av him
TIL wimmin told his dad
Twas. nothin less than crool av him
To be stern wild the lad.
Sure it was fine to hear thin VOW
He was too good to reap an pillow,
Too nice for haired work., anyhow
He is so young" they'd add.
Whin wiInmin med a fool av hime
Ohio! Twas dif'rint thin.
Their words was few an cool ay him
They hated him like SIM.
9TH wretchi' THAT scoundrelr' "Cut
i'm deadi"
Dye mind, now, what alwa' said?''
They'll say, an toss aich purity head;
Hes Just like all tn min!'
Chicago Evening Post.
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Questioner Gin meeting)-You spoke in
What ala You s mean on sy fsat speaRe
meant the sort of man who would point
out the silver lining in cloud merely
70 avoid lending you an umbrella.-BoSton
Transcript.
o, The way to run this country, said the
able aes and in cSptGl Sf
There's only one Of YOU sWashington
pa?" Just to show to the world what
their powers of endurance have BEEN
aerdp TaRt aB9 aT e s whe knows al ab fSs
taken drop in three ears'-Life.
That kid Of mines wise guyr' For
land Leader.
Mrs. Rubberton-After all, one-half the
world doesn't know how the. other half
That's no fault of yours.-Chicago Daily
News.
What's the matter?" eve just had a
you yesterday at the other end of town
and you told me the same story" Yes.
I got 10 cents after t.'-Meggendorfer
Blaetter.
dealer in seal oil and whale blubber. The
sons greatest ambition was to learn
the business" And the grandson" HE
wants to forget the Observation-Disclosures
City Journal
visitor--And does the little dolly call
Mamma" when squeezed. Gladys-Oh;
no, ma'am. She calls for her governess.
This is a society doliy.-Chicago News
DIX. Did YOU offer him back his ring?"
es." What did he say?' HE said he
had several duplicates and didn't need it's
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Lady--what would you expect me
The Hobo-sonne new kind of anaesthetic.
mun-and yer'd halter give it before I
started.-Cleveland Leader.
WI = thought S you did. didn't for him;
line. and begged me to honk-honk through
life with him. Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
Irate Customer-See herei That student
lamp you sold me a week ago is no good.
ought to have told you it was a college
student lamp.-Puck.
him. Yes. She didn't know what a good
erously he behaved about the alimony."-
Chicago Journal.
What's the proper thing at a we'd
d1ng?' wish the pair happiness, and
tell everybody else there's no earthly
chance for it."-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
A woman can thrill as deeply over her
preparations for house cleaning as a man
over getting ready to go ffshing.-New
York Press.
The musical young woman who dropped
her peexaboo waist in the piano player
and turned out Beethoven sonata, has
her equal in the lady who stood in front
of five-bar fence and sang all the dots
on her veil.-Everybody's Magazine.
isn't your hat rather curious in shape?'
asked the uniformed man. Certainly
answered his wife. "It has to be. ANY
hat that wasn't curious in shape would
look queer. ''-Washington Star.
The Shining Example--When a boys
mother expresses the hope that he will
make the man his father was 1t is a sign
that the old man is dead.-Dallas News.
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FRON OTHER PENS

PERMANENT EMBASSY HOUSES.
The officers of the American Embassy
association who have been making a
tour Of the central west to propagate
the purpose of their organization, which
is to start out the government on a
policy of building permanent embassy
houses for our diplomatic representa-
tives to foreign governments declare
themselves to be happily disappointed
in finding no strenuous opposition.
A variegated assortment of argu-
ments has been presented to support
the demand that the United States do
as other great powers have done or are
doing by establishing permanent quar-
tiers as the personal and official seats
of our ambassadors and ministers
abroad. But to us the subject appeals
most forcibly as a plain business pro-
position. If the government builds
embassy houses at the principal Euro
pean capitals it will make them more
or less equally pretentious, according
to the rank of the embassy, and reduce.
If not completely abolish, the present
disparity between these positions as
maintained by our diplomatic officers
orally supplemented from their own
private fortuneS.-Omaha Bee.
MAN AS A BIRD.
The death of Della lagrange and the in
jury Oh the same day of two other
cness de la Roche. the first woman to
drive an aeroplare. leads the Engineer
ing Magazine to express its doubts as
to whether aviation instead of a COM
mon and useful method Of travel, will
ever become more than "a hair-raising
sport, ike Alpine climbing or. tiger
hunting"
This journal may be altogether wrong
just as the French Academy of Science
was wrong in its pessimistic view of
the future of photography. and yet the
Cispassionate observer of events cannot
help but note that the achievements
of the aeroplane are solely those which
have bean accomplished in the master
~ hands of their inventors or carefully
trained disciples. 1t is no safe device
fer the average adventurer. 1t is all
very well for the Wrights, a Bleriot, a
F'arman or a Pau1flan. to dare up
v ards in their one or two plane con-
structions, but that. as yet, means very
little. The scientific world is cautious
Of granting a success to the aeroplane.
Man, as yet, is not an entirely sue
cessful bfrd.-Philadelphia Press.
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Perhaps, though the weather man
will go ahead and prove that you're no
prophet, anyhow.
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Did you ever get left?

Oh. you ground hogl
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The Lady-What would you expect me
to give you if you'd split the wood for me?
The Hobo-Some new kind of anaesthetic
mum-and yer'd halter give it before
acknowledgements Leader
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Did you offer him back his ring?'
Yes What did he say?" HE said he
had several duplicates and didn't need it,
cleveland Plain Dealer
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visitor-And does the little dolly call
Mamma" when squeezed. Gladys-Oh;
no, ma'am. She calls for her governess.
This is society dolly.-Chicago News.