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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

LF'rom the New York Press1
modest man is the rarest work of
God.
Old age knows a great deal when
it is too late to do anything with it.
1t takes a woman not to cry when
she is hurt and to do 1t when she isn't
The weather and his liver have the
most to do with mans point of
view.
The easiest thing for young wo-
man and a young man to fool them
selves about is to think they want to
get marriAd-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

adjustments here gave employment last
year to no less than 47.462 persons, all
Of them men except 1884 women and
sos children. This probably represents
a population of from 100000 to 200, 900
dependent directly on manufacturing
plants for its support. or one-tenth of
the entire population Of the state. And
that is not such bad showing in man
ufacturing for purely agricultural
state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

An interview with the grounding
would be pertinent. He may have
changed his methods of procedure on
February ?. If he hasn't not much at
tention will be paid to his predictions
of the future. as under his former plan
Of operations this is the fourth year
that he has been in the wrong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

If the members of the state board of
railroad commissioners were instru-
mental in rousing the officials of the
Missouri Pacific to the necessity for
improving the lines of that system in
Kansas, as they have claimed, why is
it that the officers of this railroad are
transacting all Of the business in these
particulars with Governor Stubs?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Evidently the political equality club
which has been organized in New York
state by Mrs. Oliver Perry Belmont is
to be an organization of that sort in
more than a name. She has invited the
representative negro women of that
state to Join it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

That times are far different now from
what they used to be is evidenced again
by the fact that United States Senator
Gore Of Oklahoma. actually had to Dor
row money to ride on a railroad train
inasmuch as he had left his own bank
roll at home. 1t wasn't so very long
ago that money was the very last thing
a United States senator or any other
public official needed to travel on
raflToad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Is this a vindication for anarchy :?
Paterson, N. J.. which has ever had
the reputation of having more anarch-
lists to the square inch than any other
city in this country, claims to be the
most orderly city of its size in the ma
ton. And it produces police statistics
To substantiate this claim
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
The Color of Water.

The waters of the seas, lakes, rivers,
and streams in general are very often
colored. For instance. the water of the
Mediterranean sea is not colorless, but
green-blue; also there is a brilliant
red river in South America The St.
Lawrence, in Canada, is pale green, and
the Ottawa golden brown; where these
two rivers meet quite frequently whole
broad patches remain unmixed. Here
is a gold patch and there a green one.
Otherwise than this, water reflects the
colors of it's surroundings, and a So
called emerald pool in the White
Mountains, is green because the birch
es on its borders in early summer are
brilliant green. The Blue Grotto. in
Capri, Italy, shows remarkably rich
color, near to green-blue, because all
the light received in that grotto comes
through the water at it's entrance, and,
as I said, the Mediterranean is green
blue. The water of the geysers in the
Yellowstone park are also colored by
natural mineral dyes You can dye
your own glass of water by a piece
OF the bloodroot plant. Try 1t. That
will be a vegetable dyes--6t. Nicholas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

would appear that this can best be ac-
complished by the commission that
President Taft would like to have con-
gress create. Invaluable service could
be rendered to this commission by the
bar associations presenting the results
Of the Investigations along these lines
which they have made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

The Kansas City Geological society is
still undecided about the names that
ought to be given to the two lion cubs
which form part of the men
eserie in the Swope Park zoo. Why not
name these cubs in a manner that
would be significant of the troubles that
have developed since the death of Col.
Swope. Why not call one of the cubs
''Trfar and the other 'Tribulation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Kansas leads and the rest of them
follow. The other day news came from
Oklahoma that public drinking cups on
trains had been abolished. Now the
same story follows along of similar ac-
ton taken by the health authorities
of wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

BY increasing the pay of the firemen
the members Of the city council have
accorded no more than Justice to a
body of faithful public servants who
have been treated rather shabbily for
some time in the matter of salaries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

It's easy to predict one of the re-
suits of the Swope investigation and
the libel and Islander suits it has de-
veloped so far. A number Of lawyers
are going to have some rich pickings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Probably the outside world has an
idea that little attention is paid to
anything in Karsas besides agriculture.
The annual report of the secretary of
the State Society OF Labor and Indus
~ shows that the manufacturing es-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

It appears that the regular Repub-
1Icans who walked away with the
goods at the now famed Kansas Day
club feast are also capable of calling
names
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Evidently Charles Warren Fairbanks,
former vice president of the United
States, has never placed much stock in
the edict to the effect that when you
are in Rome you should do as the Ro-
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

are good girl You saved my shop.
Keep here at work as long as your
are now 81 a week more."-(Copyright
3D. 1870 by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
KANSAS CONMENT
SOUND AND mrRv

The meat boycott will accomplish no
good end The Gazette believes that
me Inc iapor men who started it did so
from the best of motives-to reduce
the cost of living. But these men
forgot one important matter-the
Tar mer- He is not making much mon
ey on cattle as prices now range. Put
cattie' say, at Z cents-higher than
me average price. A farmer cannot
Iatten steer with corn at 65 cents
anu make money on cent cattle 1t
taxes three acres to Craze a steer. With
the grazing land of the country cut up
INTO irrigated farms all over New
Mexico. Arizona and Texas, those
thre acres are becoming scarcer and
scarcer every day. The price of steers
cannot go down. 1t is where it is to
stay And hogs must range some
where near steers. To boycott meat
tons that have developed in this
country as the result of our growing
civilization.
1t may be that the packers and mid
oIe-men are making too much mon
ey But the boycott won't help that:
they will continue to make the same
pronts and pass the grief right down
10 the farmers, who simply can't stand
IL. LABOR men should remember that
we are all brothers in this country.
That the farmer has no efght-hour
law; that he has the keenest COM
petltlon In the world, that he cannot
organize as the labor men can; and
he is at the mercy of the dealers, big
But If the dealers, big and little,
are making too much money from
meat they are making it in violation
Of some law. They are doing it out
side of free competition. They must
nave trust. In that case the way
to boycott them For the weight of
the boycott falls on the farmer He
is the man who suffers He should
nave the friendship and sympathy of
the LABOR men; not their enmity.
Inc thing to do is to eat meat. and
go after the facts about the price.
II the facts show that someone is rob-
ping the people-punish the robbers.
But to stop eating meat makes trouble
Ior the farmers and does no one any
VIII end in nothing for the common
good.-Emporia Gazette
ONE KIND OF PATRIOTISM.
PATRIOTISM Is taught in the public
schools, as it should be, although there
may be occasions where it is overdone,
or poorly Interpreted. In New York,
JACOB goldberg, eleven years old, and
with ideas of America based on a
knowledge of the East side, started to
school, and Immediately became a
patriot. He admired Washington, JEFF
ferson. Jackson, Grant and other
prominent Americans of history, but
Lincoln was his hero, largely because
ne mad heard that Lincoln was of the
poor. and was fond of the poor, to
which Jacob belonged. And to prove
there was nothing wrong with the
Goldberg family, Jacob took a Lincoln
penny. and with it properly heated,
branded his baby brother Samuel.
OF course Jacob had distorted and
juvenile conception of patriotism, but
the variety he dealt in isn't so strange
after all, to older and better informed
grown-ups. There are plenty of peo-
pie whose patriotism consists of shout
ing for the dead and roasting the liv-
ing.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
AbsoIntion From Pinchot

In travelling from Washington to
New York on the Congressional Linn
tied week ago." said Mr.. J. L. Ken
nedy, well-known writer of the Cap
ital, at the Stafford hotel, II had the
pleasure of sharing a diniDg-car table
with Mr.. Clifford Pinchot. The late
unpleasantness was not mentioned,
but the meeting gave me the chance
of making a jocular confession of
my participation, Al years ago. in a
little bit of work which some people
of this day would look upon as almost
criminal. From the age of II to 16
I lived on my fathers farm in Han
cock county, Indiana. The spring that
l was IA my father gave me an ak
and told me to deaden all the trees
in sixteen-acre tract of timber. This
I did by cutting through the bark a
ring around each tree. The tract was
heavily timbered with white and red
oak, walnut, hickory, elm, ash, beech,
and other varieties common in central
Indiana.
The following winter father and
l cleared the tract, telling the trees,
saving them into saw-log lengths,
cutting into rails. and getting out 500
cords OF railroad wood, which was
the fuel of locomotive engines in
those days. Much of the timber we
rolled into great heaps and burned.
Il told Mr.. Pinchot that in view of
his fame as the great high priest of
timber conservation I hoped to get
from him absolution for that act
Smiling benignantly, he said: You
don't suppose 1 disapprove of a thing
like that-something that was a ne
cessity. You were compelled to do
that in order to get land for cultiva-
ton. I give you absolution, as you
were absolutely right
Since that meeting it has occurred
to me that timber planting move
ment should be started in this coun-
try. Something of the sort, in a small
f1tful way, has been done in the past,
due to the efforts of Hon. J. Sterling
Morton, of Nebraska, but the move
ment has never attained widespread
proportions. 1t should be systematic
and national. Those great promoters
of timber onservation-Taft, Roose-
Welt, Ballinger and Pinchot-would
do their country inestimable service
by lending their active aid to the
cause. Reforestation is a crying need
and if congress, the state legislatures,
the oranges. farmers unions, and the
like would take it up, we would soon
have magnificent wooded tracts in
vast areas that are now treeless.''-
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
FRON OTHER PENS
FIGHTING A FIRE

1t is, as a rule, much easier to crit
icise others in the performance of a
given task than it is to perform that
task oneself. Thus it is no verv un-
common thing when trained fremen
are combating a hre-particularly if
it be a stubborn f1re-to hear voluble
criticism from a well known class Of
bystanders, whose only experience at
fire fighting has consisted in CRITICS.
ing men who have made it a business
1t is probably safe to say that, in
great majority Of these cases the crit
les know less about fighting fires than
they know from personal experience
about the ultimate destiny of man. In
view of these facts, it is not surpris-
ing that experienced fire fighters
sometimes gel out of patience and be-
come indignant at the inexpert, and
even irresponsible comments that are
waited to them from meddlesome on
lockers.
1t is no easy matter, at best, to
fight an obstinate fire. 1t is reason
able to assume that men who have
ben trained 70 work can do it better
than those who lack that training. A
move which may seem imprudent to the
inexperienced may be in reality the
strategic move on which control and
extinction of the fire depend. An OBJ
viously incompetent fire department
is bound to effect it's own quietus. Let
the crowd hold it's peace.-Manches-
ter Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

- thought you didn't care for him.
told me that his love for me burned like
gasoline, and begged me to honk-honk
tnrough life with him."-LouisvilIe Cour-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Yeast-How have you been enjoying
your meals since your wife has been do
ing the cooking? Crimsonbeak-Fine! I
get EN- all at the club now!-Yonkers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Inc Lady-What would you expect me
70 give YOU II you'd split that wood for
ne Inc Hobo-Some new kind of anaes-
lore started.-Cleveland Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Church-1 feel some concern about my
S s GoIham-You mean the one in col
lege. yes. you see they are talking of
hho1lis andg football" oh, is he foot
be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
Not the Least Alarmed.


THE last time l was around here
was telling you about the comet said
the touriest.
Il remember, boss grinned the
freckled lad on the fence.
Didn't frighten you much?"
mot a bit, stranger
well, listen. Since then 1 have
found out that the comet will be equal
to 20 full moons
Good news, by heck! Thar'11 be more
spooning than ever, dad won't have to
burn SO many candles and the mules
can feed at night and work twice as
hard in the daytime
You seem to be good prophet, bub.
Do you know the tail of this comet will
sweep the earth next May?"
THAT ought to please ma, sir, be-
cause May is housekeeping time"
You seem to be the limit, young man.
Suppose you awake some morning and
find there is nothing left but the farm %
Just what 1 am thinking, stranger.
President Taft says. Young man. stick
to the farm and I guess in that case
I'd have to do it."-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

They used to hang a man in England
Ior stealing a pig well, it will be
grand larceny in this country before long,
Journal. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

what do you understand by imagine
usm as SO often applied to an actors
personality! Magnetism replied the
manager, 'fs the force that draws dollars
to the box office. "-Washingto Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Would you advise me to write for
poet. Write for money, by all means
If the folks at home will stand for it.
replied the hardened man.-Philadelphia
Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

az. You used to tell me-" she complained.
lnat there was only one girl in the world
loT you Yes" he admitted. You
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Mr.. Bach-I suppose. old man. you find
great many surprises in married life
Ell? Mr.. Younghusband-I should say SO.
Why, only the other day I found out that
my wife is fonder of fried onions than
of ice cream.-Boston Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Wifey-You told me the other dav we
must must avoid all luxuries and confine our
STS Iv TO absolute necessities. Hubby
Inat SO, my dear. Wifey-WelI last
night you came home from the club in a
cap: Hubbey-Yes, but that was an alb
solute ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Blaetter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
A Nation of Bridge Builders.

Suspension bridges, although not sc
rigid as cantilevers, can be built longer
and, although their own weight and all
the loads they carry are supported
wholly by the great cables, they re-
quire heavy trusses to stiffen the floor
The three suspension bridges across
the East river in New York are by far
the longest and the heaviest in the
world. The Brooklyn bridge, with its
beautiful stone towers and graceful
sweeping curves, has a span of 1886
feet, and carries two railroad and two
trolley tracks, two roadways, and a
wide promenade. The williamsburg
bridge. built a few years ago, has steel
towers 335 feet high with 1000 foot
span, supporting six tracks, two road
ways and two sidewalks on its double
decks. It weighs about 100000
proaches which brought up the cost
to about $19,000,00O.
The limits of present resources have
not vet been reached in the length
and height of great spans. Few i'm
portant structures are likely to be re-
CURED in locations involving greater
heights than those already encoun-
tered, but longer spans may be justi-
fled, although the cost increases out of
all proportion to the length. Can't
levers, suspension bridges, and ordi-
nary spans can be made possibly a
quarter or a half longer than the
present maximum, at a price, and even
these wide limits may be exceeded if
a satisfactory metal or alloy can be
manufactured of greatly increased
lightness and strength to replace the
structural steel now used. At present
the limits are practically fixed by the
maximum dim tensions of members that
through bridges and tunnels.-Frank
w Skinner in H2rnar'S Weekly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

-, Inese mechanical toys are very life
IKE How SOP" "Johnny's automobile
mas run down the cat and knocked the
Courier Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
GOING WITHOUT MEAT.


Unfortunately for the movement
started by the workingmen of Cleve-
land. who are pledging themselves not
tc eat meat for month or so, in order
20 bring its price down. meat is not
the only thing that is dear. While
they abstain from flesh. will they eat
bread? Flour is as high in proportion
as meat Eggs are relatively even
higher, and so humble an article of
food as beans shows a larger percen
tage of advance in cost in 10 years
than almost anything else on the list.
Whittier shall the consumer turn If he
is going to stop the use of COM
modify merely because its price has
gone up?
However, such a movement as that
in Cleveland may not be without adj
vantage. Just as the prosperity of
Florida is said to date from the great
frost that killed the orange groves and
forced the farmers to raise a variety
Of early vegetables, so there may be
a real economic gain from high prices
if they send consumers in search of
substitutes for some of the more cost
ly articles of food. The people of this
country know nothing about the econ
omies in diet which are practiced by
European peoples.-New Y ork Tribune.
UNIFORM LEGISLATION.
The legislatures which are in ses-
sion this winter can perform very val
liable service for their constituents and
benefit the whole country if they will
heed some ofthe suggestions made at
the recent conference of governors.
The public welfare demands that
there should be uniform legislation
by all the states on several subjects
For example the states should have
uniform laws on divorce. The pure
food laws should be substantially alike
everywhere. The statutes relating to
extradition require redrafting so that
than at
present.
1t is imperative, of course, that uni
formity of legislation should not be
carried to an extreme. The individ-
uality, so to speak. of the states must
remain undisturbed. Nevertheless, a
certain degree of uniformity in some of
the laws of all the commonwealth, es-
pecially where there is conflict of legal
authority, is desirable and would tend
to benefit the entire country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

He boasts that he mas bee.1 able to re-
main bachelor, though exposed to all
temptations. He ought 10 keer, still
about It. That only shows that nobody
get marriedr'-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

:. rather said little Rollie, what is
the ultimate consumer HE is the last
person, my son, that an article reaches
IN ITS commercial existence" IT know
what you mean. He's a man who goes
INTO INTO a hotel and orders chicken hash
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

Poser.-'They have done about every
thing else" 'Yes?' But how on earth
are they ever going to. introduce into
Baltimore American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09
HUAOR OF THE Day

Mrs. Youngbride-Mrs. Smith says there
rs lois OF cream on her milk bottles every
T nor nT9ge Why is there never, on yours?
ne Mllkman-Im too honest, lady, that's
why. 1 fill my bottles SO full that there
amt amt no room left for cream.-Woman's
Home Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

AT the Bridge Table.-.sYour 1-,ethod Of
play is decidedly mystifying," said the
woman with the gentle voice. ''It leaves
me constantly in doubt" Does If real
ly?" said the one with the sweet smile
Yes. I don't know whether to laugh
Or get angry. Washington Star
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-14
FOR SALE
WHAT FISH DEALERS SAY ABOUT
THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATORS
SAY THEY WERE HELD UP
EVERY LEGISLATIVE YEAR.

Springfield. Ill, June 11-AIong
with more communications bearing
additional volunteer Information for
volunteer witness of the investigation
in the person of j. d. Mclean, of
MeredOsia, who today walked in the
office of the States Attorney, didn't
find him in, so bolted into the grand
jury room where he was permitted
to testify.
Yes, / contributed to the fund TO
kill Fish bin he said. Il gave the
money to Otto chwee and he told
me it was TO be used to defeat the
bill. We have been held up every
legislative year for so long that it is
it. They come to US and tell US they
have to have the money and there IS
nothing for us to do but produce
Dan Yeck. also of Meredosia, testi-
fed today that he paid 500 To
Schweer and S25, which was collect
ed by John Dixon, of Peoria.
In his testimon today before the
grand Jury which is Investigating leg
~islative methods regarding the fish
ing bill, Fisherman Mclean
told of a meeting of fish deal
ers in gfield during the legisla-
tive session. They were told it would
he returned bone, he was informed
it would AXE $4,000. A little later
it was raised to $4,000, and finally
they were told. SO he testified, that if
they made it $4,000 a bill would be
passed which would give the fish
dealers everything they wanted in a
legislative way.