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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18
FRON OTHER PENS
SPECIAL PRIVILEGE ON TRIAL.

The graft disclosures in San Fran
cisco all led directly to special privi-
lege. The graft disclosures in Pitts
burg led to the same source. Nor are
these cases alone in this particular.
They merely give cumulative illustra-
ton to the fact that in every case of
deep-going municipal corruption the
cause of the evil is special privilege.
Does this mean that special privi-
lege, through franchises, ETC., can not
exist without corruption? Note the dis
tinction: Wherever councilmeD and
voters are corrupted it is by special in
terests that want something for moth
ing, or for less than they ought to
give; or that want something that they
ought not to have under any circum-
stances But is there something in the
very nature Of special privilege which
makes grating and political debauch-
cry inevitable?
The people are still disposed to be-
lieve that while corruption is the evil
of special privilege, it is not the neces-
sary evil and can be corrected by po-
lice regulationS-by punishments and
by surveillance. But, if big interests
persist in piling up proofs of corrup-
ton, from one side Of the country to
another, and if Capital squelches
prosecutions and inquiries in Pitts
burg and elsewhere, as it did in San
Francisco, the people of the cities Will
decide that special privilege is inner
emily rotten and they will do away
with it.-kansas City Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

As the Indianapolis News so pointedly
states it: I'VE quite agree with the
president that it is most unfair to con-
denim him for not having accomplish
ed in one year what his great predeces-
sor, the faunal naturalist, was not able
10 accomplish in seven years"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

No wonder many of the star base
bali players are dissatisfied with their
salaries. They do the work, draw the
crowds to the games and make the
sport an unusually profitable one, while
the fellows higher I'D like Ban Johnson
walk away with the money. Mr.. John
son is to receive $4,000 this year for
acting as president of the American
League The hardest work he will have
to do is to look wise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Connecticut achieved undying fame
one time through the activity of one OF
her sons who cornered the nutmeg
market, only it turned out that his
wares were little blocks of wood. And
Row one of her citizens announces plans
t., form a skunk trust.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Young Theodore Roosevelt is report
ed to be Waitinganxiously for the sane
ton of his father to his marriage en-
gagement to Miss Alexander Is this
an Indication that the young man is
still dependent on the lion hunter for
an allowance to make both ends meet?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Most of the baseball leagues have
decided on schedules calling for the
playing of 16S games during the coming
season. Why was it necessary to pro-
long the agony in this fashion? 1t will
only mean more candidates among the
fans for the funny house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

If it is not impairment to inquire:
What has become of the activity which
developed month or SO ago in connec-
ton with the establishment of a
garbage disposal plant here which will
be commensurate with the peoples
reeasr The voters of Topeka expressed
thea desires in the premises last Aug
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

A suit was pressed in Chicago court
the other day about the ownership or
some porkchops. Now there's some
sense in going to court over matter
of that kind in these DAYS of grace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

University of Chicago professors are
in great demand among the higher in
stitutions OF learning in China. And
ethnologists insist from time to time
that the Chinese are most discerning
r,enrlle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18
RE-ELECTIoN OF ESTRADA.

Manuel Estrada Cabrera has been
elected with but little opposition con-
stitutional president of Guatemala, the
greatest of the Central American
states, for two successive periods. He
fast assumed the presidency in 1898,
and his present term will expire in
1911 The peaceful and rapid devel-
opn1ent of the republic during this
period, under his prudent management
of affairs, has been distinguished by
the same practical results that have
attended the industrial progress of
Mexico under President Diaz's admin
istration of more than quarter of
century. The popular demand for the
reelection OF the latter from time to
time now finds an echo in the neigh
boring republic of Guatemala in re-
spect to President Cabrera.
From the viewpoint of American in
terests a declination on President Ca
brera's part to become a candidate for
e-election would be most unfortunate,
owing to his marked friendlinesS to-
ward things American in general, and
toward American capital in particu-
lar, there being not less than $4,000
600 of the latter invested in Guate-
/, malan railroads, plantations, mines
and miscellaneous industries. A change
would. in all probability, involve new
policies, accompanied by a degree OF
apprehension in regard to the future
a condition inconsistent with the pres
ent desires of our department of state
for the repose of each Of the Central
American epublics.-Washin Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18
AUNTY HIGHPRICE's JINGLEs.

Hi diddle-diddle,
The steaks OF the griddle;
were eating our food with a spoon.
fhe little dogs blue, as there's no bone to
chew
Since beef has jumped over the moon.
Jack SDrat would eat no fat,
bis wife would eat no lean
They Joined the anti-meat reserves
And praised the juicy bean.
Old Mother Hubbard she went to the cup
board
To get her poor doggie bone.
Ihere was one on the shelf, but she
gnawed it herself
And SO the poor doggie got none.
Mary had q little lamb; sr'
Its fleece was white as snow
She traded it for automobile,
And a pleasure yacht with a golden keel.
And a peck and half of u. S. bonds
And became the queen of the dizzy
blondes.
Tom, Tom, the piper's son
Stole a pig and away he run.
Bright ladI He knew he had chance
To become a king of high finance.
Wilbur d. Nesbit, in the Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

If is no more than fair to assume that
the man who has lived in this country
for Is years and who is of the opinion
that the hues in the United States flag
ere green and white Is color blind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

A letter from the pen of almost any
cid individual Who lived a hundred or
so years ago ought to be quite valu-
able if one written by Benedict Arnold
IL worth $12l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18
FRY rrNSED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
sanization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The state Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Hughes and they are the very ones
who have been loudest in their praise
of everything that Governor Hughes
has said and done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18
sage AND THE GIRL.

A man who was wise In his day and his
A man who possessed the broad mind 81
Who knew plato by heart and Rosseaq
who had fully disested Descartes and
One day met maiden whose features
But whose general knowledge was woe
fully scant-
This man could read Homer in fzomer's
own Greek,
Men oft had gained wisdom by hearing
him speak;
His mind was a storehouse Of iearnlngs
. The lore Of all ages was at his COM
He had shone as prodigy while in his
The years saw his intellect grow and
expand.
He sat with the maiden alone for a
wl1iles
He talked and she heard with ruptur-
Gus smile.
He quoted some quatrains from Omar
: The lady to saadi along a fan. route,
And often she nodded her beautifui mead.
And afterwards said: He was eWfuliy
IS. E. Kiser. in the Chicago Record
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18
Partner With Nature.

There probably is nothing more
prosaic to the superficial observer than
a one-acre corn field, unless it is
another just like it, or possibly a lit
tie more so. 1t is merely a patch of
growing crop, where the combined for
ees of man and the favoring sunshine
are coaxing nature more or less eff
fectively to smile with harvest.
From the hour of planting, down
through successive hoeings to the final
processes of cutting and husking, the
field is nothing more to the unthink-
ing than a commonplace scene of hu-
man activity in which the work Is
hard and the returns uncertain.
But Bascom Usher's one-acre field
was distinctly different. 1t was the
theater not only of an exploit which
charms ones imagination, but of an
agricultural triumph that should make
every American boy proud.
Bascom Usher is II years old, and
lives in South Carolina. Now every year
the government organizes a national
corn contest for boys in which $4,000
in prizes is awarded for various
achievements, including one for the
largest yield from single acre. Bas-
com Usher entered last years contest.
He plowed his acre, planted it. culti-
waited it as he believed it should be,
and watched and tended it as if it
were some delicate flower bed. The
work was hard-everybody that ever
/ ilOSd Gull hHONS lHdl-Dul bdSCOitl
Usher forgot his fatigue in the sheer
joy of watching that corn grow. In
due season it was cut and shocked and
a little later it was husked. Then
the official committee came around,
looked over the results, and decided
that Bascom Usher's acre had won the
first prize.
Please consider what this victory
meant to Bascom Usher in a practical
way, and quite apart from the exal-
tation of pride which it must have
brought to him. His one-acre field
produced 1872 Il bushels of corn, which
sold as prize seed at 81 a bushel. maxi
ing $305, and the fodder for $50. or a
total of $685.. Allowing $135 for labor,
the one-acre cornfie1d returned a net
profit of s200-a yield rich enough
to make the average grown-up corn
grower gasp.
But the sense of conquest was worth
more than the money. Bascom Usher
has learned how. He is master Of the
soil. He has discovered a new charm
in land and become a joint partner
with nature in a combination capable
of transforming black loan and sun
shine into gold.-New York Evening
Mail. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Society has given up the good old fash
ion of New Years calls" '.Yes-thats all
got into the hands of bill collectors
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

The Aristocrat-No, go away; never
give to beggars. The Conlnnoner- Madam
Is the simple loan of an onion.-Ths
Sketch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

You used to tell me- she complained.
that there was only one girl in the world
for YOU. Yes" he admitted. you
didn't happen to be the one. Chicago
.RecordrHerald. =. e-sz, .E-ra-.. -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

ITO some people life is made up entire-
~ of duties,'' remarked the Wise Guy.
Yes, especially those fellows who work
in the custom-ho agreed the Simple
Mug.-Philadelphia Record ..--st
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

why do you stop here?" 81 know Al
artist on the fifth floor Of these apart
ments. If we walk up, we can get
drink ''Oh, whistle up for him to pou
1t down the tube. '-Kansas City Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Rix-I hear you intend to- move
| What's the trouble? Rax-The family in
the flat above bought a pianola and the
| young lady below is learning to burn
! leather.-Chicsgo News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

THE man who knows just what he
wants is bound to be successful" Not
half so much as the man who knows how
to get what he wants. cleveland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

How much does it cost to get mar
ried?' asked the eager youth. THAT de,
ponds entirely on how long you live. "
replied the sad-looking man.-PhiladeIphi
Record,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Reporter-Mr. Ticker just gave me big
scoop on the investigation of his trust.
Editor-As usual Omit all Names dates.
places and the real facts in the case
Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Hotel Girl (to pretty waiter girD-This
steak is not very good. Pretty Waiter
it's tough and Pretty Waiter Girl (to
another pretty waiter girD-Charley was
asking after you this morning, Jeri.- (To
guest)-Did you say teaorcoffee? Guest
gloonily)-Coffee.-N York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Gladys-Oh, mammal Here's note from
that long-haired pianist. He says 1t will
be impossible for him to play at our re-
ception tonight Mamma-What's the
trouble? Gladys--Some one stole his wig
Chicago Daily News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-18

Ignorance of the law said the judge
is no excuse for crime" May 1 inquir,
of your honor" asked the prosecuting at
torney, whether your honors remark i.
directed a the defendant or his counSel?'
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21
Speaking of JokerS

II is announced that the nation escaped dreadful Joker
when the railway bin was conference instead OF being
passed in the senate bill form the insurgents desired
That Joker clause which would appeal the whole ques
ton TO the courts where the interstate commeree com
mission had settled Thus the would be tried
over again once more now and thus the railways would
reap advantage.
The surprising thing this is that the Joker is there.
but that IT was discovered by Mr. Wiekersham
And now while he Joker hunting, let point out to him
the biggest Joker in the bill HE Cor George w Perkins, drew
it first place 1t will be remembered that the BILL before
it was by the insurgents and democrats had clause
providing the merger of roads apparently at their stocks
and-bonds value when road majority Of the stock
in anotheras is the case in the Great Pa
ce system the group the Rock Island aggregation
and in fact with OF the mileage Of the country,
Now forgetting for a moment about the railways, let MS
recall the celebrated gas New York In that
the supreme Washington decided that public utility
corporation has right against rate regulations to earn
than fair rate Of interest It's planthe actual value
OF physical propertywha would cost TO rebuild Fran
hise values going values good viii and the like forms OF blue
sky value were all cut II the plant be rebuilt for mil
dollars the law may the earnings down TO fair return
million regardless OF what the soesandbonds value OF
the may be.
the stocs-and-b bonds valuation is the expression IN
money of the very exorton against which the
suit is brought
Well and good A great victory thrill OF fear
went through the stock They thought of iaFoees
plan for physical valuation OF the railways and OF the time
when this gas decision would be invoked against their earning
the physical value OF the railways would justify
they looked the decision and found comfort IN
but The decision said that years the New York legs
iaure had allowed the gas trust to merge with smaller com
pany at the valuation Of the plant absorbed
This they said contract between the company and
the people admission the Of the people
that the valuation Of the merged company
proper Securities oated the strength OF this agree
the real value Of the merged company could no
longer inquired The people forever pay the
basis OF the merger.
Mr.. Taft and Mr. Wiekersham are great lawyers The
people great lawyers protect them against the joker
industry Washington. And now let Messrs TAFT and
Wickersham this question: If the PROPOSE
ton first placed bill restored will il under the
gas establish the stoeksandbonds valuation OF the
merged roads the capital which shall have to pay
forever and ever?
head off physical valuation in the
interests of Wall street?
And isn't it the biggest joker ever put aeross9
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21
Fables of Convention
v. THE MAN WHO WORE NO HAT

Once there was a Fool Man who
became diseased with a fool idea
about the wearing Of hata
He convinced himself that the
wearing OF hats Induced badness
and In booking for reasons why men
should wear haia In spite OF the
fact that hats Induce baidneaR. he
WIS dumbfoundcd 10 find that there
Was no logical reason az all Why
men should wear hats. except that
they sometimes served to ward off
a burning sun or a pelting rain.
Later when he Jaw a man bare
headed In q driving rain. with new
straw clasped 70 bis bosom under
his coat. be eliminated even that
reason Ia 80 far az u concerned the
pelting rain.
So he began 10 go about bare.
headed Clearly. N there was no
good reason Why a man should
wear a hat all the time. there were
plenty Of excuses for not wearing
one. He never could find one that
suited him. anyway Besides. hats
cost money and the styles change
four times year He figured that
he would be $500 or 5000 10 the
good each year II he were 20 cease
wearing hats
Four days after he began going
about bareheaded his boss called
him into the front office and gave
him his time
Cant afford 10 have n man with
the barehead bug going about rep
rcsenting IA" said the boss. "Sor-
~. We like your work. but. OF
course. we can't ALLOW you 10 lower
the dignity OF the house by going
about bareheaded"
''T,ut how does n lower the dig.
nifty Of the house7" gasped the Fool
Man
The boss pulled up and dismissed
the Fool Man without further dis
course II was folly to argue. he
said. with a man so idiotic as TO ask
such a question as that.
The Fool Man went away angry.
He'd show 'emi' He'd go hatless
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21
POINTED pARAoRAptis.

Ideal weather Is the kind suited
to ones business.
The largest room tn the world Is
the one for Improvement
Not TO begin a foolish undertak.
lag - an indication Of wisdom.
After you have failed at every
ihinE else. you can sim DO a sue
ceaafui peNslmist
II girl bushes when you speak
Of tunnel Il = q sure sign that she
has travelled.
What n man can't understand
about bis wifo's relatives Is Why he
lets them Impose on him.
No. Cordeiln. a washerwoman
isn't necessarily foolish because she
puts out tubs TO catch soft water
when II rains bard.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

membcred me in her will and was
really fond % me because she had
never seen me And would I come
10 Pea Vine and see about the
laERcyT
Then realized what loss
Grandma Chutney vas. and I felt
like nay ha.hA heart wAH almost
broke
Grandma Chutnry was sort Of
odd. Very retiring IN her old axe,
ia her young DAYS she Was with Mr.
=. T Baruum's wwilknoNn circus
looked at her portrait and won.
dsred could this noble old lady ever
hAve been a trick bicycle ridaFf
Hut such she vas before ahe settled
down IN peaceful Pea Vine
Nonder what amount % rocks
she wiiled 10 mnh. Me for Pea
Vine on tho buxt train
tContinaed }
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

theneefoFward AN tho judgment
day. and. furthermore. he would
prove that Il bareheaded man could
open this mundane oyster. aud do
It with dcxterity and dispatch.
One month later he spent his
last nickel for sandwich OF
wsinies and sauerkraut In n res
tAnrant run as a side Issue In
shooting gallery.
Sitting on u revolving stool. he
rovolyed the Problem Of Life In his
mind.
He found himself face TO face
with alternatives grim and inexor.
able. There was no third course
open.
II was up 10 him 90 70 down 10
the bridge and jump into the river
or TO so back to the wearing Of hats.
." En-" Contraction for them"
aeeuaatiye Of they" Vide note un-
Ser tomorrow'a Fable OF Convention.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

Ny luck has turned. DO believe.
Listen. By today's mail 1 gets
a letter poatmarkcd Pea Vine.
which is a distant village That
where my Grandma chutney lives.
bat when opened the letter found
that she doesn't. because she died
last week. II was from her lawyer
telling ua about It, Il Was Just Ike
Grandma Chu,ney 10 die and got
buried without letting anybody
know i, saves hack hire. Grand,
ma Was almost a stranger 10 ~.
since nobody had been able to Dor.
row ans money of her for 80 years.
and she never visited and never
wrote except 10 tell ua 90 stay awAy.
Hut down II the end % the letter
the lawyer. Mr Snuff. told what hc
was 40 10. He said Grandma re-.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

A tot Of people know more than
IN good for those who have 10 hear
about a.
There's hardly any work 30 hard
as having nothing 20 do
The time n woman 10 particularly
lnaiatant you should tell her that
hor husband has brains Is when she
knows he hasn't
a good thing about running flying
machines Is you won't have % meet
friends ~ every corner who expect
you 20 take them in.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

~filnkleya got wonderful head
All his women readers are simply
aid over that serial story he is
running Ia the Daily Stunt
Hos did he cllnch 'em ?"
why. be printed the Last chap.
ter firpt. Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

A little girl who attends d county
council school has quite an idea 81
nobility. aa WIS evidenced by her
reply 10 her teacher The class had
been reading about the kings fam.
ly. Tho teacher. wiahlug to lncnl-
cate the correct idea Of royal do.
scent, said
Now. children. II the king aud
the queen had "A son. what would be
boz"
The Jack. was the quick 20
Spouse Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

lie had fallen from a dlzgy height
n seemed IA n he would be dashed
% pieces In the canon below.
hut fortuitouAly the limb Of a
shrub caught hia clothing and
checked bis descent
Saved" be calculated.
But bark. what il that ripping
aound7
No flowers
(THE FSD1
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

Western av. commission men
still insist that they are plain. old.
fashioned gougers with no frills or
fripperies.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

Arizona and New Mexico will
please show their gratitude By be-
ing atAndpai republican.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

There are 1900 theatres IN the
United states showing moving PIE &.
lures, and playing te . daily aver.
sas % 5000. 600 people.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

Aside from being the longest Of
the year. today hasn't many other
features to recommend II.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

"Ah~ said tho impansionrd lover
n would lny the world ~ your feet
VERY kind 81 Ynu. I'm sure" said
the practical maid. but the earth ~
already az nay feet What I want IN
"a house over my head"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

A few more mysteries viii place
the trunk Ia the dangerous weapon
class.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21
STAR DUST

"Hsarin' there ain't no snakes N
lrsls~d. ties Bottomloy jumps 70 M
conclusion tie . prohibition eounnun'
itY"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-06-21

Richard A. uatilnasr. seorssarY o.
the Interior department. draws an
annual salary Of $4,000.