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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
The waste basket is usually we'll
versed in poetry.
Money talks, when the calamity
bowler gives it a chance.
The average man doesn't regard 1T
as a bore to use corkscreW.
The black sheep of the family is
generally pretty tough mutton
It doesn't necessarily follow that an
able seaman would make good sales
man.
And a woman never believes she is
too fat until things begin to slide OF
her lap.
In the the matrimonial armament
even the honeymoon may be obscured
by a cloud.
A skeptic is a man who doesn't be-
lieve in heaven because he can't find
it on the map.
The motto of the bill collector is
Never put off till tomorrow what can
be dunned today"
No, Maude dear; although milk is
extracted from q COW, it bears no SIM
ilarity to extract of beef
With his little slingshot David had
Just knocked out Goliath. II ought to
be glad 1 don't live in a glass house.
he unused.
Everything has its Drawbacks re-
marked the Wise Guy. Yes. even
success may have string tied to IT,
added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
THE TARIFF.

The Inconsistency of some men is
marvellous, including certain congress-
men. Thess latter have been insisting
for years that the only right way 70
obtain an honest revision of the tariff
is through the medium of a tariff COM
mission-a body of experts who will
investigate the cost of labor and ma
terial at home and abroad, and all the
other incidents of manufacture and
trade for the purpose of getting at
facts and figures on which can be
based tariff schedules that will afford
adequate protection to manufactures
and labor IN the United States, and no
more.
In the advisory tariff board that was
created by the new tariff law, a start
was made in this direction Under
instructions Of President Taft the
members.of this board are making the
very inquiries that are needed to make
possible the right kind of a revision Of
the tariff In his message of the other
day President Taft urged that this
board be made permanent and bona
I fide tariff commission. He also sug-
'gested that it would not be well to take
UP any revision if the tariff until this
board was ready to report to congress
on the results Of its Investigations
And the further excellent suggestion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
ADVICE 70 PARENTS.

AS children grow up, many serious
misunderstanding follow from the
failure of parents to recognize their
children's individuality. writes Erman
J. Ridgway in the Delineator for jan
uary.
They assume that the children are
exactly like themselves, when they are
often totally unlike.
If they would recognize this unlike
ness and make allowance for it, the
path to understanding would often be
smoother.
The many successes achieved in
bringing up adopted children-chil-
dren, usually. with a very poor start,
from unknown and undesirable ante
cedents-show what can be done when
parents study their. child intelligently.
Parents are often mortified when
their children give more heed to the
advice of others. Other people look at
the children as individuals and study
them without assuming to know all
about them, and often discover traits
entirely unsupported by the parents.
Children know and appreciate when
they are being justly estimated.
Among the families of your acquain-
IdIlCe now IIldtty-OI TdllleT now lew
fathers and mothers really know their
own childreni
Often parent and child are so differ
ent that they could not be expected to
understand each other. But they ought
at least to understand that they are
different and make allowances.
1t is sad to see a brilliant child in
a commonplace home trying to keep
it's soul from overlooking the narrow
limits prescribed by it's parents-torn
between duty and dreams.
1t is sadder to see a commonplace
child in a brilliant home driven and
badgered, coaxed and threatened, for
ever forced to attempt impossibilities
and always falling back hurt and
Inundated.
Why can't people learn to let theiI
children alone? Why won't parents
study their children? Why won't they
ask their friends to help them under.
stand their own? And If the child is
commonplace, in mercy's name let him
be commonplace! He won't rise tt
such heights of happiness, neither will
he fall to such depths of misery. Il
the child is a genius, in mercy's name
give him a double chance! Don't gel
in his way and block him just because
you can't understand him. Clear this
| fraekt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
AYHAWKER JOTS

A deduction by the Galena Weekly
Republican: Three barleycorns make
an inch, so the table says, and three
drinks of barley juice sometimes make
riot.
A Minneapolis young woman is quo
ted by the Better Way as saying that
hobble skirts will never be popular,
because one can't do the barn dance
with one of them on"
"Crawdad," the Lick Prairie corre-
spondent of the Galena Weekly Repub-
lican, reports that Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Crawfish are now in their new home
This is certainly convenient age
Harrington Times. In looking over the
ads in a paper devoted to them We
found on one page where woman
could get fat for so cents. On the page
following we found where a fat lady
could get thin by simply dropping a
postal to the undersigned firm. And
further along where the secret of a
beautiful skin could be bought in rs
and IS cent jars. 1t certainly must be
nice to be a woman.
A good joke is being told on one of
the prominent r. I. officials at this
point who, as yet is a practical
stranger here, reports the Belleview
walking in the vicinity of McCann's
restaurant, he encountered two young
ladies, who were vigorously engaged
with lighted matches, searching for a
quarter which they claimed to have
lost in the street. The gentleman III
question, offered his assistance and
| was rapidly accepted but after consid-
cradle more searching, no sign of the
! lost coin could be found and finally it
| was given up until the next morning,
| in the meantime the gentleman gave
the girls 8. quarter and they went on
their way home rejoicing. At daylight
next morning he happened to go By
| the spot where the quarter is supposed
to have been lost, and 10 and behold, he
| found a. nickel instead, SO he thinks
| he has been buneoed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An unusual individual these days is
one who hasn't the souvenir postcard
habit.
The largest pay some fellows ever
get is the college allowance that was
given them by their fathers.
X y X
It is also generally the case that an
optimist has goodly supply of the
worlds wherewithal.
X y
Maybe because everybody loves the
good, the true, the beautiful there is
not enough of 'em to go around.
n y
No matter how long the courtship
a couple don't get very well acquainted
with each other until they've been
married a brief spell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10

has been made by Mr.. Taft that the
tariff revision of the future should be
of the piecemeal variety, the taking up
of one schedule at a time as fast as the
Investigations concerning them are
made. Under such a method of pro-
cedure the business activities of the
country would not come to standstiil
as they have done in the past when a
general revision of the tariff has been
undertaken.
This would appear to be a most
sensible tariff program, one that would
be likely to achieve large results in the
course of a few years. But congress-
men are bobbing up daily at Washing
ton with interviews that there should
be an immediate revision Of various
features of the tariff law. It is polite
for the Democrats. who are committed
to free trade to make these contentious.
But the suggestions which are being
made along this line by Republicans
appear to. be out of place just now.
Many who are making them have been
strong champions in the past for a
tariff commission. Yet they do not
now seem to be willing to give the
tariff commission a show. They would
go ahead in a haphazard fashion and
slas away with tariff revision OF
certain schedules to meet what they
call a popular demand. Some Of them
are insisting. that the farmers are de-
handing reductions in many of the
important tariff schedules. This is I'M
doubted1y true, but the announcement
was made the other day that the
farmers who raise broom corn want
the tariff raised on that commodity
because they say they are unable to
compete with the broom corn shipped
here from foreign countries. This fur
nishes some more evidence that nc
producer, be he manufacturer or farm
er, is very keen for a low tariff on any
commodity with the production and
sale of which he is directly concerned
It is always a cry of reduce the tariff
on the things that the other fellow pro-
duces and handles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
Arabs as World Rulers.

1.-THE Ultimate Triumph and World
Wide Glory of Islam and the Turk
was the subject of an address delivered
at a meeting of the Sunrise club at
Cafe Boulevard last evening by Ameen
Ar-Rihani, introduced as Syrian poet
and a citizen of Turkey.
The speaker asserted in graceful
English that back of the civic revolu-
ton in Turkey there is neither moral
nor social revolution to sustain it; that
the Turk of official training and pre-
tudice lacks the moral stamina to
carry out the reforms as promised.
The speaker said:
''The recent revolution was imper-
feet because It was the work of the
army. I do not believe in revolution
that comes from the throne or the
people around the throne. A religious
reform is far more important than
government reform. In the mosque
are the bitterest enemies of progress
and reform. But beginning has been
made, and it is good as far as it goes
though progress is slow.
'sIt is a fact that Polygamy is dis
appearing from Turkey, where it is less
prevalent than in the United States
and the continent of Europe. The
harem is misunderstood and the
Koran is becoming only literary
classic.
ssSome day the Arabs will take pos
session of India and make Asia and
the Orient a network of railways
Islam will come to her own some day
| and England may be only a province
having tribute to the Arabian govern
ment in India.'-New York Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the

[From the Atchison Globe.l
No mans troubles are as great as
his signs.
Any meal tastes good to 1s-year-
old stomach
A tittle-tattle among children be-
comes a gossip when grown.
An engaged girl is kissed a great
deal more than a married woman.
People always resent 1t when a doc
tors wife roots for her husband
A man or woman who reads poetry
will finally attempt to write it.
No man ever became an anarchist
until after he had been a loafersa long
time.
Nearly every woman who has a
hired girl is quietly looking for a bet
ter one.
than a white apron with 4 big bow at
the back.
But the dog isn't the only loafer
who is loved a good deal more than he
deserves.
When a man is crazy about one
thing, he is usually a little off about
| everything else
A good rabbit dog and a. good pool
player may be added TO your list of
interesting paradoxes.
It is a good, old fashioned rule, in
listening to gossip, that anyone who
will bring, will carry.
| Probably a widower enjoys second
wife as much as q widow enjoys her
husbands life insurance.
| People don't regard any sickness as
very serious that doesn't cause them to
| take off their clothes.
A small man always has one weapon
he can use against great big man:
he can talk about him.
| Some poor people have nerve that
would make them rich If directed at
dollars instead of doughnuts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
HUMOR or THE Day

Preparing to Look His Best.-Rastus
For the love of heben, Sambo, what
fer you got you 'alls pants turned
wrong side beforemos'? Sambo-Shi
Don't talk so loud. You see, rs in
vited to a swell reception tonight, and
Use gettin' de bulge out'n de knees
Success Magazine.
HAS little Mrs. f. consoled herself
over her husbands death yet?'' "Oh.
no, not yeti. You know what a long
time these insurance companies take
to payv-Munich Simplicissimus.
Say" began Gilman, you were
saying the other day that you needed
a reliable alarm clock. Get one like
mine; it's sure Don't need it now"
neighbor has just got Shanghai roost-
er."-Catholic Standard and Times.
He's a genius, and so eccentric"
by that / presume he seldom bathes
and always wears a soiled collar
Detroit Free Press.
OCCASIONALLY WELL yes. The booze
at these country clubs isn't half bad
-Pittsburg Post
The Judge rode past Maud Muller.
Couldn't stop, because have hav
fever" he explained However, he gave
Whittier a more poetic version.-New
York Sun.
Have a cigarette?" That's illegal
in this state.' Suppose we start a
game of cribbage." Hardly worth
while. That's Illegal in the next state
Washington Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

From the chicago news.
Occasionally a baldheaded man has
a flairbreadth escape.
Men who are rolling in wealth
should find better use for it.
The man who is unable to appre-
ciate wisdom has none of his own.
Every man knows what he would do
until the time arrives for doing il.
When two souls have but a single
thought the thought is to the effect
that they are affinities.
The bachelor who marries an ola
flame need not expect her to get I'M
and kindle the kitchen fire.
Never ask a girl to name the nret-
test of her sex present at anv ejvar,
place Tt is awfully embarrassing for
a modest maid.
Perpetual motion seems to he a.,
impossibility, but you can't make -
father of strenuous twins believe it.
And it frequently happens thar
widow is firmly convinced that sba .
living example of the survival Of - -
fittest. ssse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
"oNE MANS MnAr-.!

ONE MANS MHAT-
Across the world raging gale
htakes Land and sea and tree and sail,
And safely in our houses. we
Inc Landsmen, pity those at sea.
POOR sailor men," we sadly sigh:
lis bad enough where it is dry
But worse by far for those who keep
The silent watches of the deep.
They'll find a damp and salty grave,
For Death rides with them Ger the
wave.''
And in the fo'c'sl. snug and trim,
To Sailor Pat says Sailor Tim:
ION nights like this und erstand
Inc awful dangers of the land;
The helpless lubber has no show
TO scud before narsty blow,
And brick-bats from the chimney-pot
Falls on his COCO, like as not,
Or trees blow down and mash him
fiat"
Yer right-o Mate" says Sailor Pat;
I'm sorry for the lubber cuss
And wisht he was as safe as u.s.
Hon. Taft Is in the same delicate po-
sition occupied by the Judge at q baby
show In the appointment of a Kansas
member OF the supreme bench and in
CHOICE between San Francisco and
New Orleans as location for the big
fair But he is entitled to more SYM
pathy than the baby show Judge, be-
cause he had no chance to decline.
Rufus Knott gets Judgment for
$4,000 against the city of Topeka. A
really clever paragrapher could take
that name and circumstance and pound
a few giggles out of the same, but our
| best effort looks like a wheeze from an
1874 Hosstetters Almanac. and we
pass it.
Those who consider little old New
| York the back yard of Gehenna,
should observe that it was not in New
York, but in spotless Boston that a
nude white girl was found chained to
the wall in a negro's den.
so YOU MIGHT AS WELL KEEP
COOL.
The wrath of Jove or Jupiter was hot
enough, no doubt,
To scorch the luckless buffers who
by chance incurred their wrath.
But the hottest wrath of mortal will
not thaw a frozen spout
Keep the old gas heater going when
the gas gives out,
Nor warm the chilly waters when
! he wants to take bath.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Use observed de huckleberries
An de places whah dey grows;
An p, nap seen a thousand acres
Right befo' NAH very nose,
An Use picked 'em fer de table
an ise picked EN- fer to sell
III ali guess Use got de business
sized up purity middlin' well.
Dal's place down in de fier, sab,
Right out in de blazin' sun.
Whah dey's thick ez hasty-puddin'
Wen de puddin' IS oyerdone;
70. kin grab 'em by de HANDFUL
WIFI. yo'. eyes blin-folded tight
70 o. KIN git 2 wagon load dan
But what kim OBJ berries am dey?-
Jes' obsarve what ah shall state
Dey is ripe away long early,
An dey's dried up fore hat,s late;
Dey y, Is sour az dey,s bitter.
But dey's hue Ls Ser4mm9 shu nhi
Huekleberries-dat am all.
Now OATS whah ah gifts ma berries
Dat Use 'tendin' fer to sell.
cayse Use got de huckleberry
But wen wants ter eat 'em.
LOT, dye 'spose all ever stops
In dem runty, -scrubby, scorchin',
Blazin' huckleberry lotsf
All goes out to de fores',
way down in de shady glen
Whah yo only fins q buckle
An a berry now an dem
But o Lor, dey's berries fer ye'
What amt shrivled by de drouf,
Mos ez big ez any cherry,
Fairly meltin' in yo' mouf-
Yo' can't pick 'em by de bushel
LAX de ones yo'S gwine ter sell,
But yo' certain, shuah IL pick 'em
Eff yo' knows yo' business well;
Dey's de kim OATS WORT de prizin'
Dough dey's few an fab apart
Dey's de kim dat fits de spaces
In de regions mex yo' heart.
Now yo' taxi de population
OBJ de kentry an de town
An mix 'em wifi de city folks
An stir 'em 'roun' an 'roun',
Yo'll fin dat ninety-nine er mo-
OBJ cherry hunderd-well,
Dey's lax de huckleberries
Dat yo' gadders fer to sell;
Dey ripens awful early
But dey's mos uncommon small
Dey is population, shuahly,
Population-dat am all.
But now an den yo' fins one
Outen frum de common lot
Yo' will hab some scruttnizin'
But good Lor', dah's suffin' fob yo'-
LAX de berry in de glen,
He's de sort OBJ huckleberry
Dat amt common amongst men;
Fer he's bigger dan a dozen
OBJ dem runty little tots
| Dat yo' fins out in de common,
| Scrubby, huckleberry lots.
FLOYD D. RAE
Anamoose, N. D.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10

Already is the campaign under way
for positions under the commission
form Of government in Topeka, which
will be decided at a primary and an
election to be held next spring. Is it
any wonder that the proposition to
elect municipal, county and state Of
ficers for terms of four years is getting
more popular all the time? The con-
tinuaI boiling of the political pot has
become nuisance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10

AS compared with the showing made
a year ago. the recent report on the
condition of the national banks gives
plenty of Indication that times are
pretty prosperous in these United
States even if business is a tribe slack
In some communities 1T would be ex-
eeedihgIy difficult to. figure out how
things could be otherwise in view of the
fact that the agricult uraI products of
the nation for the past season will show
an aggregate value Of more than S.
O0o. 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10

Southern chimes apparently have no
mortgage on hot-blooded, individuals.
The folk of Toronto, Canada, did not
take kindly to pay-as-you-e enter street
cars so they proceeded to do little
rioting and put such cars out of COM
mission. But this doesn't speak very
well for their sense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
THE COTTON CROP.

The worlds annual production of
cotton is estimated at 20.000000 bales,
of which the planters of America grow
more than one-half, or about 12,000,0O0
bales. In the British provinces and
dependencies are grown 5,500.000 bales,
though all of It except the 100000 from
Egypt is inferior in quality to the
American cotton. The price of the sta
pie and of the fabric advances year by
year, which shows that the production
does not keep pace with the consump-
ton, and this, too, notwithstanding the
encouragement lent the planter in the
market return for the seed that is
yielded from this crop.
While it is true that not one-fourth
of the cotton area of the United States
has been subjected to the pillow and the
hoe. it is, nevertheless, obvious that II
our country is long to hold the supre-
macy in the growing of cotton, old
methods of cultivation must be sup
planted by the new. A planter who gets
less than a bale of lint from an acre
seeded to cotton ought to quit his job,
for he is not fitted for it. One planter
in Mississippi-th prairie region near
the Alabama line in the black belt-ac-
quired an old wornout farm. and what
with corn. peas, oats and alfalfa he
now has a plantation as fertile as 1t
was when the land was virgin, and his
acres devoted to cotton yield him from
a bale and a half to two bales the
Observation-Disclosures Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
FRON OFFER PENS
SHOWS OR PIONEER WORK?

SHOWS OR PIONEER WORK?
1t has been argued that the aviators
who have lost their lives in attempt
ing exploits with the aeroplane are
really martyrs to a good cause: that
pioneers in such fields of conquest
must inevitably meet this fate before
unknown dangers are located and re-
moved. This is undoubtedly so in
large measure, but is it altogether
true?
The accident which resulted In the
death of tombstone revealed an I'M
suspected weakness in the structure
of the aeroplane. But were his efforts,
and are those of other aviators who
are still giving exhibitions directed to-
ward the development and perfection
Of the flying machine?
They are flying almost entirely be-
cause big prizes are put up for them
and paying crowds of spectators are
attracted by the novelty of this new
triumph of human genius, and by
the danger of the flyers. The best
scientific authorities agree that the
aeroplane has not been perfected yet.
The aviators are not willing to wait
until the engineers have completed
their work. They are using the i'm
perfect machines as though they were
perfect, and the result is that every
few days one of them becomes the vic
tim of his daring.-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press-l

IF'rom the New ok Press
The only sure way to get out OF
trouble is not to get in.
1t isn't safe for woman to be with
some men, even at the other end OF
the telephone.
When girls are good. it's because
they want to be; when men are good
it's because they have to be.
It's as easy to guess about the stock
market as to reason ont what it viii
do. and much cheaper, because you
won't risk so much that way
A trusting woman can believe her
husband spent the evening in the Of
fee working even though she finds in
his pocket a theater seat check show
ing where he was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10

Mexican insurgents are not OBJ
sessed with modesty. They merely
want Uncle Sam to step down there
and see to it that the next national
election in that land is conducted on
the square. Uncle Sam has troubles
of his own, thank you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10

Service on the new court of COM
merce appears to have not few at
fractions. More than 200 names are
before President Taft Of men who would
not say nay to getting appointments
to this court. In all probability, though
the five judges who are appointed will
not serve very long before some of
their friends viii be putting forward
the suggestion that these places should
carry larger salaries with them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10

A report has it that congress is not
likely to take action On any of the vari-
Gus reports of the Ballinger investigat-
ing committee during the present ses-
sion. Apparently the Ballinger-P inchot
imbroglio is to take on the far-famed
characteristic of Banquo's ghost, and be
with us ALWAYS