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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
A CENTRAL BANK.

"A Central Bank of Issue" is the title
of a symposium in the January number
Of the North American Review con-
tributed by Charles A. Conant, Victor
Morawetz and Senator w. A. PETER.
Charles A. Conant in his article, en-
titled "The Evolution of Central Bank
ing" says:
Zone of the strongest arguments in
favor of a central bank is the fact that
practically every commercial country
but the United States has arrived by a
process of evolution at the central
banking system. There is not today an
Independent nation in Europe which
has not a central bank controlling the
note-issuing and exchange situation,
most of them established within sixty
years and several of them within ten
years. Differences of race, of forms of
government and even in degrees of
economic development may have re-
tarded, but they have not prevented
this evolution. The argument has been
heard in this country that while CEN
trail banks may be suited to mon
arches. they are not adapted to re-
publics. Such reasoning ignores the
example of France, whose republican
government in 1897 renewed the charter
of the Bank of France for twenty-three
years. 1t ignores the more recent case
of the hardy little republic of Switzer-
land, whose central bank was opened
for business in June, 1907, and braveiy
carried the country through the panic
of the autumn. To the objection that
the United States is too great terri
torially for a central bank with the
necessary branches, is opposed the ex-
ample of Russia, whose central bank
holds the second largest gold reserve III
the world and ministers to the needs OF
$50, 900, 900 people scattered over two
continents 7'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

[From the Chicago News.l
Opportunity is another name for &C
ton.
An old topper defines water as an af-
ter thought.
Two and two may make two pair IN
stead of making four.
Much Of the food for thought results
in mental indigestion.
The man who never drank gets no
credit for not being a drunkard.
A wedding is delightful affair-un-
Jess you are the masculine end OF It.
It is seldom that some men eaten
fish big enough to render lying unnec-
essary.
Many a man who has no knowlease
of music attempts to play on his wires
sympathies.
Habit affects some people so that
they never seem happy unless they ap-
pear to be otherwise.
If a girl refuses a young man three
times, It's pretty sure sign that ne Is
going to marry her.
A wise man who wants to make
lasting impression on woman teks
her she is pretty, and lets IL go at
that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
WHEN SHE SPOKE.

saw the girl upon the street
ana my surrender was complete
Her eyes were limpid, filled with light,
A beautiful alluring sight.
Her face was sweet beyond compare;
An aureole her cleaning hair.
10 look at her was ecstasy;
She filled the day with joy for me.
gazed at her with lips apart
And felt a glow about my heart
l longed to know the vision sweet
To lay my heart before her feet.
yearned to hear her golden voice;
Its tones must make my soul rejoice.
such dainty grace, face SO fair,
knew were Joined with culture rare.
And SO listened for a word
From her, while all my pulses stirred.
It came. The girl beside her said
'Umphumph,'' and bent her pretty head
Then spoke my dream: Pm sore on Cy;
He thinks he's Just the KILN guy;
I'm gunto ditch him, bet y'r boots.
Let's get some gum an shoot the chutes. ~
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Even the chronic idler is apt to
be tolerably busy trying to keep
awake.
Really beautiful human beings are
as scarce as the proverbial hens
teeth.
It is far better to hunt for oppor-
tunity than to wait for it to knock at
your door.
Occasionally, 1t is also of advan-
tage to have loved and lost than to
have loved and won.
y X X
Old maids are often held up to rid
icule with the suggestion that they are
such because nobody would have
them. The same could be applied
with equal force to old bachelors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
AYHAWKER JOTS

"a man and a mule the Yin1and
Vine quotes Bill Sincaller as saying,
do not have to have good looks. 1t
is the pulling qualities that count
with them"
There is this much about it, COM
planned old Si-Chestnut the other day,
if the price of lard gets much higher
the old lady will have to shorten the
biscuits with axle grease. '-Sedgwick
Paragraph.
Advice from the Atchison Cham
pion: When boy hits you on the
head with snow ball, don't curse or
slap him. Just turn the other cheek
and remember that you were once a
boy yourself.
Answering the inquiry of the Sa-
lima Journal, What will 1910 bring
to Salina ?" the Leavenworth Times
says: In this end of the state it us
ually brings S65 days, but the years
probably seem longer in Salina.'
The story is going the rounds that
pretty lady dropped into a music
store a few days ago and stepping up
to the counter where the clerk was
sorting music she asked: Have YOU
Kissed Me in the Moonlight q" The
man turned half way around and
said: 1T must have been that man at
the other counter; I've only been here
week. Gazette.
A school teacher having instructed
a pupil to purchase a grammar, the
next day received a note thus worded
from the child's mother: 81 do not
desire for Lulu shall ingage in gram
man. as 1 prefer her ingage in yuse-
full studies and can learn her how to
spoke and write properly myself.
have went through two grammars
and I can't say as they did me no
good, l prefer her ingage in german
and drawing and vocal music on the
peano. Burr Oak Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Insurgents win a big victory" say
the newspaper friends of the recall
citrant Republicans in congress in ref
erence to the action of the house of
representatives in deciding that its rep
-esentation on the special committee to
investigate the Ballinger- Pincnot row
shall be selected by the house itself and
not by the speaker. according to the
usual custom. Let's see. There are some
40 ''insurgent" Republicans in the house.
What kind Of a victory could they win
On any proposition if it were not for
the Democratic votes in that body? It
is Just as reasonable to assert. and more
20. that tho Insurgents" are helping
the Democrats in the PRONUNCIATION of
their propaganda than it is to say that
the Democrats are helping the "insur-
Gants."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
RESTRICTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New york Pres

IFrom the New York Press
If friends were only as plentiful as
'foolsi
Square meals are close rival 70 tliS
Ten Commandments in making soou
citizens
IF the average man could aff0rd 70
be generous, he'd make out tnal II
was weakminded.
Women understand 60 many things
rn,rcf, better than men because they
don't study so hard over them.
There's hardly anything woman !.
can enjoy so much as the way she can
CRY over how cunning the baby's new
shoes are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
Would Cure or Bury.


The latest idea in industrial con-
Germs has come to the attention of Sec
rotary of State Koenig. The proposed
company seeks not only to care for the
living, but lay them away in Mother
Earth in the best style compatible
or family. It is a duplex corporation,
the first of it's kind so far as known,
proposed in this state, and the receipt
of the papers caused considerable
amusement in the department.
The papers were sent by Attorneys
Ayres and Walker, of Park Row, rep
resentatives of the world Medical
Company of New York" The organ
izers are all residents of Brooklyn.
In stating the company's purposes the
papers say:
"For the entering into contracts
with persons and their families to
furnish medical and surgical treatment
and for the manufacture, buying, SELL
ing and dealing in drugs and medical
and surgical appliances.
For the entering into contracts with
undertakers fer the purpose of bury
ing the dead and supplying the neces-,
saries therefor, and for the purpose
of entering into contracts with per-
sons and their families for the burial
of such persons and their families
and the furnishing of the necesRries
therefor
Secretary KONG said: eft is said
that corporations have no soul, but
this one certainly is long on brains;
the man who thought it out is a genius
If allowed to do business in New York
state the company would earn the graf
itude of all those whom it freed from
ailments and at the same time earn
their money. If the company's medi-
cine would not help the sick and they
were to die the company would lose
the gratitude of the patients, but they
would double on the money, for 1T
would yet remain for the concern to
bury them. surely we are living In
an age of wonderful progress.
1T am comp elled to deny the COM
pany's application for the reason that
cine in this tate"-Albany dispatch
to the New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Mr.. Taft's suggestions for amend
ments to the interstate commerce law
which will make it an effective instru-
ment for the regulation Of railroads are
conceded to be the most radical of any
that have ever been made to congress
by, any president. Yet the publication
q them had no material effect on the
price of railroad securities in Wall
street. All of which is a pretty strong
argument for safe and sane methods in
the matter of governmental procedure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
Gives Third of His Blood.

Lying beside his father. Timothy Nc
earthly, we'll known resident of
Pennington, who has lost five-sixths
of his normal supply of blood by
drain incident to kidney trouble, Eu-
gene Mccarthy, a husky graduate of
Holy Cross college, where he played
on the football and other athletic
teams, allowed the physicians to tap
the large vein in his left arm, in st.
Francis hospital Thursday afternoon.
The indications are the both would
have. cause for grateful thanksgiving
for the blood TRANSMISSION. The son has
rallied and is in good shape, and the
fathers condition is better than it has
been in month. For forty-five min
utes the son permitted his own heart
to pump its precious corpuscles into
the vein in his fathers elbow, which
had been sewed to his own vein. and
after fully one-third of the sons
blood had been transfused the union
was cut and the arteries sewed up
Before the operation the fathers
face was the color of marble, but with
in a few minutes a slight color was
noticed, and when the operation was
over there was an extremely healthy
complexion on the old mans cheeks.
After the TRANSMISSION another oper-
alton was quickly performed On the
older man. Both his kidneys were
taken out and counter irritant ap-
piled in order to stop the leakage of
blood. The last operation is perform
ed only rarely and in emergency cases.
1t never had been attempted in New
England before.-Hartford dispatch
to New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

This contention that the city con-
trolls the sidewalks to the extent that
it can collect rent from merchants
having rooms under them may work
out as something of a boomerang. If
the city owns the sidewalks to this
extent some one will be sure to bob
up and insist that the city should
pave them and keep them in repair
as well as remove the snow from
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Mr.. Gentry, who participated in the
kidnapping of Marian Bleakley, is not
Tar wrong when he declares that popu-
lar feeling is against him. If there is
anything the public does despise it is a
kidnaper. But this feeling against Gen
try is not such that he will be deprived
of fair trial in this locality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Regardless of his great abilities in
his particular line of work and the real
1y fine service he has given to the coun-
try, most fair-minded people will proba-
bly, agree that Mr.. Pinchot received
just what he deserved in his summary
dismissal from ONCE by President Taft.
There is a limit to all things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Chicago is the best knocked city in
the United States, in the mind Of the
chief Of police of that town. He is also
of the opinion that it is one of the fin
est cities in the country. This would
appear to bear out the theory that ev-
ery knock is in reality a boost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

clare that there are too many places
of amusement in the country. This is
probably true but the people did not
build them. The theatrical managers in
their warning and chickering's with each
other are to blame. II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Reports now have it that DR.. Cook
Is busily engaged with preparations for
another expedition to Arctic regions for
the purpose Of getting conclusive proof
that he discovered the North Pole on
April 21, 1908. There will probably be
a pretty general hope throughout the
country that he will be successful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Another large business block is to be
erected in Topeka as soon as the wealth
er will permit of building operations.
There is no halt in the march of pro-
gress which the capital city of Kansas
has been Inducing in for some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Democrats should give aid and COM
fort to Republican progressives in Re
publican Districts says Senator Gore
OF Oklahoma. Evidently the Democrats
think that the Republican progressives,
or insurgents" are pretty good Dem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Although ice is particularly plentiful
in all sections of the country this year,
Il is safe to assume that when the good
old summer time rolls around the price
of ice will be around the fancy figures
which are familiar to all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
Blood s25 a Quart.

Sixty New Workers Sunday eagerly
offered to sell from pint to quart
of their own life blood. This was in
answer to an advertisement by Henry
Friedman, of GAG st. AIMS avenue, the
Bronx, who wants the precious Grim
son fluid for TRANSMISSION into the veins
of his brother-In-law, Isidore Jellenck,
a wealthy real estate operator, OF the
same address.
Friedman's relatives were at break
fast when the first man arrived with
blood to sell. Thereafter, all day long,
the door bell jingled at frequent in
tervals. At times there was a line of
persons in the hall, waiting to get a
chance to offer their blood for sale.
Most Of those who made the strange
offer evidently were in poor circum-
stances. but now and then a man of
better dress and manners called. With
all the callers it was the same story,
"Give me money and you can have my
Blood
Blood was offered freely up to
quart. That was the limit All of
read somewhere or other. or had been
told by somebody that the human
system can be safely drained of a
quart of blood. So they made all sorts
of offers up to and including the quart
but no more.
Some asked fancy prices for their
blood, saying it was of exceptionally
healthy quality-good and red and
we'll preserved. In general, those
with blood to dispose of for cash had
the idea that nothing less than SIS a
quart would be a fair price. Many
pathetic stories were told. One man
had a starving family. Another had
to raise $25 by tomorrow, or be dis
possessed. Scarcely any one among
the sixty seemed to fear the result of
parting with the fluid on which the
human body depends for its existence.
Nor would any of the candidates for
the corpuscular subtraction process adj
NIT they were in other than the most
robust health. Several of them looked
most decidedly otherwise.
Irish blood, Jewish blood, German
blood, native-born American blood, and
several other kinds were offered
New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Pittsburg is awed by the number Of
her miliionaires who have died sudden
~ during the past few months. Perhaps
Pittsburg will wake up some day to the
fact that there - such thing as "a
mace that kills"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

It's a good thing for baseball in
Kansas that the checker championship
of the state has been decided thus early
in the season. Such a counter attrac-
ton as that might have reduced inter
est in the national game to a low ebb.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
FULL LEASED 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
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
puhlica ton in Topeka.
The news is received in The state Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pu-
pnee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10

Apparently the attendance at the
-Jeffries fight will be limited
to plutocrats. Tickets for it are to sell
at from IS to $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
A Peacemaker.

1t is a commonly accepted belief that
nothing short of being pried hose will
induce a bulldog to give up his grip
on another dog or on an intruder; but
this is a mistake. A little household
ammonia poured on him-as near his
nose as circumstances VIII aIloW-will
make him let go Immediately. The
fumes of ammonia are so overpowering
grip and his breath at the same time.
Country Life in America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
FROA OTHER PENS

IMPENDING CHAOS IN GREECE.
The military revo1utionists in Greece
continue to tighten their grip upon
the government of that unhappy coun-
try. George is still king. and Mr..
Mavromichalis is prime minister, but
Colonel Zorbas is dictator, emperor or
car, or whatever implies most abso-
lutte authority. He dictates laws, he
makes and unmakes ministers, he de-
cides appeals against the action Of the
tftular government.
The kingdom, meanwhile, is rapidly
falling into a state of Generalization.
Its government has no policy, in do
nestle or in foreign affairs. The
air with threatenings of war with
Turkey. Now it breaches friendship
with that power. Its former be1licose
talk, it sapicntly explains, was intend
worth making an alliance with. The
only way to win friendship is to
threaten to fight!
A fortnight ago 1t was ordered that
a Greek legation, with distinguished
minister, should be esta blished at
Bulgaria had long been rivals and
foes. Now the military league orders
taht all Greek legations throughout the
world shall be abolished. save only
shall be no more diplomatic relations
between Greco and other lands. And
tomorrow may see an order for am
bassadors at all the capitals of the
world.-New York Tribune.
A GERMAN SUGGESTION.
Over in Germany some one has sug-
geSted, as a means of solving some Of
the household problems which seem to
aff1ict oil nations alike, or as step
towards that solution. that all girls
shall be compelled to undergo a period
of training as domestic servants It
is argued that iEasmuch as every young
man must give stipulated part of his
years 10 the service of the nation as
a soldier, it is quite as important that
all the girls shall be compelled, through
a form of CONSUMPTION, if necessary, to
perfect themselves in the household
arts. to the end that the nation, in its
days of peace. shall have more COM
forts.
The idea had its origin with the wo-
men themselves. Just how 1t is to be
carried out. if such a revolutionary
program were adopted has not been
made plain, for the idea is simply still
an idea with no details worked out.
The incapacity of the average servant
| is the reason for the suggestion, of
course But might not the idea of the
proper training Of girls for the house
hold go a bit further2 If there are in
capable servants there are also incapa-
BILE mistresses. Why, then, should not
girls be trained to be the heads of
house?-Buffalo Express.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-05

/ ignite and his Trades against the va
rious departments were taken in a
kindly spirit and as jokes.
Non-Committal Rnilronders.
The railroad men present by inyi-
tation made good speeches. They al
! ways make good speeches in their
way. speeches that cover a wide ter
r1tory and contain broad acres of ad-
vice and narrow inches Of actual prom
ise. For instance. one of the railroad
men told us what splendid crops and
things they mako In the neighborhood
OF Pontiac. Ill. and how much good
money they get for them and how
much inferior are the crops and
things and profits OF like regions in
Virginia. but he failed to give US the
information. which is a fact that evil
IDENTIFY escaped his notice. that the
Pontiac folks get their truck to mar
ket over the railways at large per
cent. less freight rates than can the
Virginia farmers. However, while they
promised very little that was tangible,
the railroad men did promise cooper
alton in a general way. and that, to
say the least Of 1T. was within the
spirit OF the meeting, for 1t was es-
sentially a cooperation gathering.
Nothing was said about reduced freight
rates or better schedules or anything
of that kind. Perish the thought,
Good Work Now and Hereafter.
Nevertheless and Notwithstanding, 1t
was a good meeting. and IL 1t meant
anything at all, and am inclined to
think 1T did mean a great deal. 1t
meant that the United Agricultural
Board Of Virginia, created by the last
General Assembly. is going right at
the work outlined for it by the bill
that brought 1t into existence. That
Is to say. there is to be hereafter a
concentration Of effort that has here
tofore been too much scattered and
done by too many agencies. Demon
stration work, experimental farming,
dairy Interests. public school training
so far as 1t pertains to better farm
results, institute trains and farm in
stitutes not on the rail viii be more
effective and will be held under less
diversified conditions. and In the main
Will do vastly more good. All of these
departments have done good hereto
Tore. a great deal of it, but under a
proper consolidation of effort and all
backed by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture and all done in
diligently by this new board of con-
solidation. must In tho very nature of
the case be more effective in a. gem
eral way and In particular ways than
could possibly have been the scattered
efforts of the various boards and
agencies acting independently and on
their own hook 1t was good days
work the Governor and his colaborers
did last Tuesday, In that they made the
way plain whereby there shall be con
centration of effort when the new
board becomes operative under the
law month hence. Here is to the
new board, and II may be assured OF
the cordial cooperation of the In
dustrial Section OF The Times -Dls.
patch.