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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
FROM O7EER PENS
mi. RRIAND.s HAT.

Despite the uproar, there was no
substantial threat to the stability of
the BRAND ministry at the assembling
of the deputies, with the collapsed
railway strike in everybody's mind
The presence in the lobby of NJ. Le-
pine, the distinguished project of the
Paris police, was promptly made the
occasion of a wild remonstrance from
the Unified Socialists, whereupon M.
BRAND put on his hat as sign that
the proceedings were suspended. Upon
reassembling, the chamber had no
cause for diversion respecting M. Lee
pine. The project was out of sight, if
not gone from the vicinity. Where
upon the extreme left ragged in behalf
of the liberties of the people, and M.
BRAND did not choose to interrupt
again with the symbol Of the hat.
However, he made vigorous answer to
a fusillade of interpretations, declaring
that the liberty bespoken with such
noisy ardor signif1ed mob tyranny, and
that the government would continue to
suppress it. The bottled indignation
having spent itself and NJ. BRAND hav-
ing said all that he@wanted to, despite
Interruptions which prolonged the de-
livery of his half hours speech to one
hour and a half, he again put on his
hat with every manifestation of feel
ing quite mfortable.-Provfdenc
Journal 4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
What Inspection Is.

A plain American citizen who had
never done such thing before went
on one of the docks in New York last
week and watched the customs inspec-
tors go through the baggage of return
ing travellers. He went because there
has been so much printed lately about
the customs inspection that, never haV-
ing been to Europe and never expect
ing to go, his curiosity had been stirred
by what he read of the things that
to see for himself. And then he
found that he had never known any
thing about it at all. He found that
you have to see it to know anything
about it. He did not see anything that
he had not read about a hundred
times, and yet it was all perfectly new.
He wishes every home-staying Ameri-
can citizen could see it-every home
staying citizen who thinks he knows all
about it.
For when we read about it we read
about the United States government
enforcing the tariff law But when you
see it you don't see the government en-
forcing the tariff law. You see a man
not the government, but a man
take wonan's trunk, open it, and in
the presence of several hundred peo-
ple-anybody who cares to look-paw
through it and dig up all the intimate
personal decorations that are in it and
scrutinize them and hold them up and
SQulnC at In6m. L GU see ner, EN- par
raised, anxious, hustered, answering
his questions and visibly 1inching
every time he lays one of them down
and resumes his job of paving through
the rest of the intimate belongings.
The plain American citizen who saw
this had always thought that the en-
phasis laid on the woman feature was
an example of the satirist's genius for
exaggeration. He supposed that women
really didn't figure much in the inQui-
sition-that is, unless they were sus-
pected smugglers. He thought that the
incoming American had to stand the
gaff and that the incoming American
ess didn't suffer any real personal dis
comfort
But it wasn't so. Everywhere that he
looked he saw WON eI1-women in all
stages of explanation, from the eager
to the despairing, all of them watch
ing strange men ploy through things
that were never meant to be shown
except to husbands and other people
who had known them a long time, and
none of them looking as if they felt
very different from suspected male
factors in the woman's court.
And it Jared. The American citizen
hadn't expected that it would jar, be-
cause he thought he knew all about
it. 1t was a thrice-told story. 1t
never had Jared him in the reading,
but it Jared now.-Philadelphi Pub
lie Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Cbicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.
It takes good Judge of whisky to let it
alone.
Usually a very rich man has more
friends than he needs.
But you can't be sued for nonpayment
Of debt of gratitude.
Only a fool let people take him in after
he has found them out.
If you would retain friend, do things
his way instead of yours.
An ounce of prevention Is worth a
pound Of 'I-told-you-so."
Truth crushed to earth will rise again
and it is kept busy getting up.
There is no help for the woman who
can't get a servant to do her work.
Of course, there is no sucn thing as the
bigger half yet most want it.
If a mans conversation is heavy it's a.
safe bet that his words carry but little
weight
When a man bumps into a brand of
trouble worth talking about he has but
little to say about it.
ANY man who owns an automobile will
tell you that punctured tire is any
thing but an inexpensive blowout.
-Muggins-s-A stitch in ti-ne-what's the
rest of the proverb?'' Buggins-"A stitch
in time is worth two needles in a hay
stack"
Don't cast your pearls before swine"
quoted the Wise Guy. "Or before q girl
who prefers diamonds" amended the
Simple Mug
Judging from the number of divorces
granted in this country, some people seem
to regard marriage as they do vaccination
las Something that doesn't always take.
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passer, but you can take it and go.
Don't break the law again"
But when a gentleman has made a
nero of himself by rescuing a young
| lady, even If she is an assistant cook,
shouldn't he see her home? Shouldn't
! catch her if she stumbles %
tt guess you win get along all
right You SEE
Eyes, your lordship, 1 see" finished
the girl, and she picked up her basket
and tripped away.
''Impudent-very. very impudent."
muttered the young man as he watch
ed her disappear.
And it was four weeks later that
they faced each other in the judges
city residence, where young Mr.. Spen-
GER had dropped in with his parent to
call on the father and be introduced
to the daughter.
man. as he stared at the young lady
before him.
"Why-why not?" she replied with
laugh. you didn't hit me with
that club, and you released me and
didn't have me arrested, and even if
you didn't see me home, I'm charmed
to meet you"
chuckIed the father.
Looks like it, Tom, old boy" was
the reply.
And a long time later, when the
colonel limited to the judge that his son
was going to call on him to ask a very
delicate question, the judge smiled and
answered:
about chestnuts? It's an odd
thing but we must have them in the
family, Billy-we must have them
Copyrighted, 1910, by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
LOVE A TERRIRLE THING,

LOVE A TERRIBLE THING.
went out to the farthest meadow,
lay down in the deepest shadow;
And I said unto the earth, Hold me-
And unto the night, "Oh, enfold me!''
And I begged the little leaves to lean
Low and together for a safe screen
Then to the stars I told my tale;
That is my home-light, there in the vale,
And, oh, I know that I shah return,
But let me lie first mid the unfeeling
fern
Tor there is a flame that has blown too
near,
And there is name that has grown too
dear,
And there is a fear"
And to the still hills and cool earth and
far sky made moan.
The heart In my bosom Is not my owni
'-oh, would were free as the wind on
the wing;
Love is a terrible thing!''
Grace Fallow Norton, In the Century
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
QUAKER MEDTTAIoNs.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Those who never try will never triumph
No man wants return ticket on the
road to success.
All that glitters isn't gold, especially
glittering generalities.
In a game of freeze-out the loser IS apt
to get hot about it.
Some people are so lazy that even their
Hvers won't work.
In the matter of brightness it is diff
cult for some fellows to live up to their
neckties.
Some fellows are so sympathetic as to
actually feel sorry for the people they owe
money to.
Sillicus-'Pm getting tired of giving we'd
ding presents" Cynicus-''Wen, it's bet
ter to give than to receive.
Why do the friends of the bride always
cry at a wedding. while the friends of the
groom give him the laugh?
Wigg-"Oldbach isn't very fond of chill
dren is hep Wagg-''No; he dislikes kids
to such an extent that he even wears cot
ton gloves
BIobbs-'I understand you are going to
marry Miss Yellowleaf." S1obbs-'Huhi
I'd like to catch myself Blobbs-''Well,
you had better. If you don't catch your
self, she will.
Tommy-"Pop, can the botanists tell
the different kinds of tree by their bark?''
Tommy's Pop-'TYes, my SON" Tommy
Gee! I wonder If they can teu the dr.
eeEeuk Kind Of dogs that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
A DISAPPEARING DEFICIT.

The postoffice department makes a
good financial showing in the annual
report Just made public. Mr.. Hitch
cock has reduced the postal deficit
81 500, 900 during the year ended with
July He foresees with justifiable con-
fidence the day when the postoffice de-
partment will be self-supportin, posi-
billy with one-cent postage.
No one has seriously believed that
the large annual postal deficit was due
solely to the excellence Of the service.
The service was admittedly good, but it
should at all times have sustained
itself. There has long been evidence
to support belief that if the business
of the department were conducted IN
business principles it would bring in
revenue sufficient to pay all the bills.
It may have been a mere spirit of
bravado that prompted a prominent
man to say that he could conduct the
affairs of the postoffice department at
a profit and pay the government $780,
600 a year for the privilege, but there
was a germ of truth in it, as the efforts
Of Hitchcock prove.-C1eveland Plain
Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
KANSAS COMAENT
THE CoMPANY ONE KEEPs

There are several young men in every
community whose aspirations never
reach higher than fiunkeying around
some cheap job which hardly keeps
them supplied with the makin's for
cigarettes or chewing tobacco. In a
great number Of cases young men of
TINS stamp assume oftentimes the role
or nirt or heart smasher and are
never content until they have, by their
lying, deceitful tongues painted beauti-
ful scenes to catch some girl whose
station in life is as far above such
trash as are the heavens above the
earth. Yet how oftea 1t occurs that one
Of these sensible. well educated girls
reIlnQu1shes claims to the love and ad-
mlratlon of family ties and myriads of
true friends by taking up with a man
who talks a Slum language, parts his
hair In the middle and wears patent
leather shoes, while his mother and
sisters slave over a Washtub to keep
soul and body together, with never
cent OF support from Bright Eyes. No
wonder the divorce mills are grinding
large grists all the time. IF people
would only mind their own business"
is an expression you often hear from
some boy or girl whose infatuation over
some shallow Drained, counterfeit ar
ticle meets only with disfavor, but most
people can readily recall the heart
aches and ruined lives which invariably
follow In such a wake. Young people
can be none too careful of their COM
pany. They think they know so many
times what older people know they do
not know. That's what causes sorrow,
and it's a shame that there should be
years of such a life all because Of
stubborn inclination on the part of
either boy or girl to do wholly and
solely as they please, when even their
better judgment says NO, don't do it,
Downs News.
~
DTSA PPEA RING -ETTR NTTTIRF
A Chicago genius, mindful of the
value of space in modern cities, an
nounces the construction of an apart
ment house on a new plan. The
principle involved is that while no
two bodies can occupy the same space
reason against different bodies occupy
ing it successfully. In these apart
ments the furniture will disappear
when not in use. For example:
In the kitchen, after the meal is
prepared, the gas range will disappear
through cabinet in the wall. the
kitchen table will lsink through the
floor, and the ice chest will slide out
on the back porch.
And likewise in the other rooms.
The bureau, we presume, will fold
itself up and crawl under the bed,
window. In the dining room the pro-
visions will transfer themselves from
the table to the interior regions of the
Inhabitants, and the scraps will move
inside the cat. Motion will be the
secret through which space will be
econ omized.
And If, with all these movements,
there is still a scarcity OF rooms,
might not we suggest that the essen
tial part of the scheme will be carried
out if the renters will catch what part
of the furniture they can and them
selves move out into the country
where space is more pIentiful.-Ot-
tawa Republica.
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accomplished there. Cotton goods also
have been moving freely for similar
reasons. Commodities prices are
showing a declining tendency which
should be encouraged, as that is the
surest way of restoring equilibriums
and reducing the cost OF living, which
is the basis Of much present unrest
and depression. Our foreign trade is
showing better conditions as result
of lower prices for staple commodities.
Curative processes are steadily at
work, and il nothing occurs to cause a
fresh impairment of confidence some
improvement in business conditions
should develop at no very distant
date
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFrom the New York Press.I

wv
Cussing a problem won't solve It.
hut it can keep a man from blowing
up.
man will think he has dignified
self possession when it's unmitigated
gall.
The more a man can fall down the
less grateful he can be for being PICK
ed I'D.
Even the chance to have a good cry
over 1t can't reconcile a woman who
loses at gambling
The way to find out how much one
woman doesn't like another is to watch
how polite she 10 to her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some couples act like they got mar
ried merely for the purpose of get
ting divorces.
Saying something and meaning it
are also distinctly different PROPOSE
tons.
=
In the drama of life, the happy end
ings are not as numerous as those pre-
scented on the stage.
y
Any number of people are not as
popular with their acquaintance as
they think they are.
:
A mans bad luck also has certain
advantages. 1t generally means good
luck for some other fellow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

The big strike of the Chicago garment
workers has been declared off and their
differences with their employers will be
settled by arbitration. That's the way
most of the big strikes end nowadays.
Such being the case it would be far
better for all concerned in these labor
disputes to resort to arbitration in the
first place. and without the declaration
of strikes at all. This would be the. case
IL all the states had laws making the ar
filtration Of labor difficulties compul-
sorry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

It was William Mckinley, remarks
the New York Tribune. who declared
that reciprocity is the handmaiden of
protection It was William Howard
Taft, another son of Ohio, who secured
''the broaded measure of practical re-
ciprocity'' ever enacted. The quotation
is from Philander C. Knox, secretary of
state, who conducted the negotiations
under the maximum and minimum tar
iff clause, and who knows what he is
talking about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

The season for canning fresh things
IS about to close" says Hondo Muir
phy, but wish Uncle Freeman Sar-
dou would keep his company open
long enough to attend to the case of
the Theatre Pest
The other night I attended a stock
snow. The price was two bits, and the
snow was better than some of the
SHOWS nave paid $3.50 to view from
oehlnd post. I felt that 1 was hav-
ing pleasant evening" and those
around me seemed to share my views
WITH ONE EXCEPTION-the Pest
heretofore mentioned. He sat behind
me with two women. From his gram
mar L gathered that he was a sheep
herder by profession. From his con-
versatlon 1 gathered that he was at
tempting to make the women believe
that he was Regular Devil, and had
seen all four sides of the World. He
knocked on the actors, on the play,
on the show-house, on the scenery,
and on the town and its environs. BY
trying to convince every person within
dozen seats of him that he was a
close friends of all the great actors of
the decade, he succeeded in convincing
me that he was an ill-bred yap and
attending the first show he had ever
seen where the price of admission was
more than one dime sterling
some legislation should be adopt
ed, whereby it might be considered
All4HS anu legal TO swat the show
house beefer with an umbrella He
comes in of his own accord and has
a perfect and undisputed right to crit
icise the show, but not at time when
his criticism will annoy bunch of
people who have paid money to be
amused or interested for the evening.
1t is sad mistake for any man to
believe that the audience is more in
terested in what he thinks of a show.
than it is in the show ITSELF The show
may be bad, but not so bad or tire
some as the impromptu criticism of
some pin-head who thinks he is enter
tanning"
An earthquake was recorded at
Lawrence Sunday. No one has discov-
cred the source of that disturbance.
but If the seismograph locates one to-
night we will know who is to blame.
Hon. Taft says blessings overflow"
Some of our prominent politicians
have also stopped over during the past
few days.
LOVELY CHARACTERS: Lesson XIX
Xerxes.
~XerxeS, King of Persia was the
enemy of peace
And at an early age acquired an ap-
petite for Greece.
But Greece was old, and rather strong.
of that there is no question;
owe quote the coroner's report:) .sF5e
died of Indigestion"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

Strange, though, it may seem, it ap-
pears that the editors of Golfers are
humans and quite as liable to make mis-
takes and bulls as are their less dis
tinguished and poorer paid editorial
brethren. 1t always seems to be a
delight on the part of Golfers editors,
presumably an evidence of their self
professed superiority, to give as much
prominence as possible to trihing bulls
that are made by other editors in the
gush and hurry Of their work. In last
w~alea GoT1tag's, q note about the re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

cent baseball contest between the Phil
adelphia and Chicago teams, stated that
the Athletics defeated the Cubs for the
championship 'in a series of five games.
of which the Philadelphia team cap
tured four out of a possible seven and
the Chicago players one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

Kansas City. Mo, has a rather pc
culiar idea of the meaning of the word
soon" 1t expects to have it's new
union depot in use SOON which in this
instance means about two years. But
such a period of time will be soon, in
fact, as compared to the length of time
that this project has been talked about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

With General Weyler. of Cuban fame,
or infamy, on the job Of suppressing
revolutionary demonstrations in Spain,
It is reasonable to assume that he will
make matters much worse for the roy
aIsts and thereby indirectly help the
cause of the revoIutionists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

President James. of the University
of Illinois, in an address he delivered
the other day before the Minnesota
Teachers association, denounced the
conditions of American education as a
national reproach. Well. it's up Ic
President James and other smart men
who are among the educational lead
ers of the country to rectify these con-
ditfons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

Women are often held up as having
a mortgage on most of the maudlin
sentiment in the world, Of being weaker
and sillier than the grOsser sex, but in
what category are to be placed the 16
men who have proposed marriage to Miss
Ethel IeneVe?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

The telegraph dispatches of the other
day told of a divorced wife who en-
tirely approves of her former husbands
marriage to her sister. Maybe she has
a grudge against the sister and sees a
chance to get q little vengeance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

Branding irons ought to be pretty
scarce in Kansas from now on. Most
of them must have been worn out by
certain of the candidates and their
newspaper friends in marking the oppo-
sftfOD with L, l. z. s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

It will take the voters but com
paratively fewhours today to decide
the matters which have attracted the
undivided attention OF the candidates
for office and the other professional poll
ticians for several months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

It occurs to the Chicago News that
New York editors never start in to say
what they think about Roosevelt with
out lamenting the poverty of the Eng
lish language.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08
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
publication ia 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, 1910-11-08

~(Xerxes was a good deal of a. hub
bard squash, anyway. He became
sore because the exports on Phony
Persian rugs had fallen off 80 per cent,
and decided to start something HE
DID. But when Greek meets Creek
is a mere figure of speech when com
pared to what happened when Greek
met Persian)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

According to the claims which have
been put forward by the political lead
ers in each state where their cam
paigns are being settled today, both
sides are going to win in the battle of
the ballots
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

What, indeed, ails Iowa2 Her popu-
1ation has decreased 1852 during the
past decade. In all probability the
standpatters will place the blame on
the insurgents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

Pertinent advice from the Philadel-
phia Inquirer: Eat, drink and be merry.
for tomorrow it VIII cost a darn sight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

Miss Indian Summer appears to be
quite as gifted as the proverbial cat.
AT any rate she has more than one
life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

When the smoke clears away to-
night, we will know whether or not
the Stubs employees shall enjoy two
more years of the full dinner pail, or
have to go to work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

The Mormon church has forbidden
polygamy. From which we gather
that after 0 years of missionary work.
the Z. S. government has induced the
Mormon church to take a broader
view of certain laws governing matri-
mony.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

A colored gent in Washington was
arrested with Sc whole eggs in his
pockets. AS neither the colored gent
nor the eggs were scrambled, we take
it that he did not resist arrest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-08

If you haven't voted yet chase over
to the place and vote for the State Fair
proposition. 1t is of more Importance
to you than the perpetuation of any
political parasite.