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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Many a man marries for love of
money.
And it's all I'D with a gutter when
he is down.
Even a strait-laced man has been
known to go. crooked.
A woman's inconsistency is the great
est of ner many charms.
Many a man who thinks he is con-
sentative is in reality dead slow.
A man is usually charitably inclined
until he gets a lot of money.
From the toper's viewpoint a soft
drink is Synonymous with hard luck.
A model wife is one who lets her hus-
band think that he is having his own
Wav.
Men seldom appreciate the freedom
of speech in this country until after
they get married.
| A nice thing about being a million
aire is the anxiety of all the merchants
| to sell you goods on credit
! You, sir, may wear an extra large
! hat, but remember that the broadest
| stream is sometimes the shallowest.
| Even a wise man can't tell when e
woman laughs whether she really means
it or is merely trying to show off g
dimple to the best advantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
EKA DAILY STATE JoUPs ssATURDAY EVENING JANUARY


in its efforts to kill my pet
'Bones wouldn't harm a kitten"
protested EMERSON.
"No, I suppose not Just look at
him now"
Bones, unmindful of his mastere
predicament, was leaping twice his
height in the air and madly attempt
ing to reach the kissing tabby.
earnestly. ..The dog was brought up
with cats and he is perfectly mad
about them.''
The girl shifted her doubt of this
statement. To cap the climax the cat;
| unknowingly roosting on decayed
branch, moved quickly and came down
! plump upon the head of the terrier.
The result was disastrous for the dog.
| The cat, believing that she must bat
tie for her life, unsEeathed dagger
claws and forced the fighting.
With a humorously pathetic glance
at his master and q frightened howl
Bones turned tail and fled, the cat on
his back.
"Old scores are evened now de-
| clared Elverson, smiling bit rue
| fully as the panied yelps of his pei
came back 70 him. Miss Sibl Heming-
ways cat seems quite capable Of fight
| ing its own rattles.''
The girl turned hooking eyes. at
would seem so, and it would also ap'
pear that Mr.. Allen Elverson's dos
has at least met the Waterloo that he
has long deserved"
And so it was that Bones. who real
ly liked cats as his master had avowed
came, in his misery and shame of de.
feat, to the rescue of two very bored
young people; for, from then on, Mis-
Sibl and the Elverson youth knew
each other, and
Suffice it to say that the two kindl.
old souls who had been denied 70
nance in their own lives had planned
it thus.-(Copyright 1910 by Associat
ed Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

In these days when the cry is al
most universal, particularly on the
part. of those who are workers for
weekly or a monthly wage, against the
high cost of living, of the almost i'm
possibility in many instances to make
both ends meet and keep body and
soul together, there is much talk OF
an exceedingly diversified character as
to the reasons for such conditions and
variety of suggestions for the rem
edying of them.
Perhaps it might not be out of place
to say a word or two on the fact,
which is plainly apparent on all sides,
that a great proportion of the rank
and file of the people of the land, that
great army of laborers who toll daily
with their hands or brains for set
stipend, are anything but prudent in
the handling of such means as rail- TO
their lot to provide for themselves and
their families. They are lacking In
that frugality which is so necessary
to get the most that a dollar will buy,
and waste nothing of that which is
obtained. Indeed, they and frugality
are strangers.
It is a mistaken idea with many that
frugality stands for stinginess, for
penuriousness for niggardlinessi that
an endeavor 20 practice it is an ind1-
cation of traits that are not generally
commended among men. Such is far
from being the case. F'rugality is
merely an economical use or appro-
priation of ones. resources. 1t is the
opposite of wastefulness and lavish
ness. 1t is simply that careful man
agement of anything valuable which
expends nothing unnecessarily, and ap-
plies what is used to q profitable pur-
pose.
How many people practice such a
prudent economy? Not very many, is
safe answer. And there is no good
reason why they should not. If they
did they would get much more out OF
life, and the high cost of living, while
it might knock loudly on their doors
and demand their attention, would not
strike terror to their hearts.
Money is a wonderful thing to be
possessed of. It's power is only meas
ured by it's volume. But much OF
little money does not avail anything
if it is not handled with care and in
| telligence It's a trite saying that the
luxuries of yesterday are the necessi-
| ties of today. There is no disposition
here, nor should there be in any quar-
ter, to urge men and women not tc
enjoy life to the full, not to have al
the things that they are capable OF
getting honestly to make life more
| agreeable and pleasant, and which are
held out to them in greater numbers
with each succeeding generation where
civilization is advancing. They could
have many more of them, however, Il
they would indulge in thrift in al
things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
THE WATER SUPPLY.

1t is safe to say that no other city
in this country, or in any other for that
matter. has ever experienced such an
exhibition of municipal ineficiency as
has Topeka of late in the handling of
its water supply. Flood waters in the
river of a couple of weeks ago dam
aged the service pipe on which the
purity of the city's water supply de-
ponds. Since that time the water which
has been served to the people of the
town has been totally unfit for use. 1t
has been worse than muddy. 1t has
menace to health.
About the only satisfaction that can
be obtained from the men who are en-
trusted with the management and the
conducue of the water plant is the ad
monition: boil your water They have
been promising that conditions would
be bettered in a day or two, but they
have been worse rather than better. They
have given variety of reasons for
their failure to make the necessary re-
| pairs. Among the first of them was
that certain necessary valves were not
or hand and that as soon as they
| could be procured the damage would be
repaired and the people again furnish
ed with a decent water supply, the
kind they are paying for and paying
fancy prices, too. After enough time
| elapsed to manufacture all the valves
| that every water company in the world
would need for a year and permit of
! their shipment from one end of the
country to the other and back again,
another excuse was put forward for the
delay. The latest one has been to the
effect that the leak or break in the
pipe, or whatever is the matter, is To-
Gated in such a position that it cannot
be reached while the high water pre-
walls in the river.
Now if low water has got to put in
an appearance before this city has q
normal water supply such condition
of affairs may not come into existence
until summer arrives. a few months
hence, for the water may not get Lowell
than it now is for a dozen or more
weeks 1t is not difficult. though, t.
find competent engineers who will laugh
at the contention that the break in thu
ripes cannot be located and repaired
under the present conditions that pre-
vail in the river.
And perhaps if some consulting
experts, who appear to be something
, CT a necessity nowadays in the conduc
, of the city's affairs. were employed t
= give a few suggestions to the men il
charge of the waterworl<s. a way woul
soon be found to repair the damage
q pipes that are causing all the trouble
q Something should be done in tn
!, premises and done at once. And whe
I the present exigency is met probabl
a the thought VIII occur tic those charge
. with the conduct of the water plant tina
a city of the size of Topeka should nc
be equipped with a waterworks whic
I depends for it's supply of the kind c
n water that the people can use and whic
p they soreiy need, on one service pip
t There ought to be couple of pipes
v this sort for just such emergencies
e If Topeka's waterworks were no
e conducted by private corporation no
e long would the disgraceful condisio
e of the cIty's water supply which ha
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.I

From the Atch1Son GloDe.l
Very few words mean much.
If you keep right, other things will
keep right.
A man pursues bad luck oftener
than bad luck pursues him.
1t is as difficult to transplant peo-
pie as it is to transplant trees.
Much of the '"art" and culture"
you hear so much about is simply loaf
ing. a
If the difference between two opin-
ions is wide enough, it is safe to bet
that both are wrong
The evangelist is not the only man
disposed to send to hell all those who
fail to agree with him.
Everything is going all right with
me-" a man occasionally says to him
self, without knowing he is saying it,
land things are getting monotonous;
believe 1 will go out and hunt trou-
b1e."
An Atchison young mans future
| father-in-law doesn't like him. and
when the young man calls at the house
and the father-in-law is at home. the
young man does not light; he flies
| over.
What has become of the old fash
/ toned man who wore nightcap or
his head? (Note-The location of the
cap is designated that it may not be
confused with the one frequently worn
| in the stomach.9
Mother Goose should be revised. In
nocent children these days should MOI
be told about that traitor named Jacl
/ Spratt and his wife who licked the
| meat platter clean. In the First Re
1 form Families these days they have NJ
use for a Meat platter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
Nudity in Art.

The slashing into ribbons of Ken
yon Cox's painting called '"The Girl
With the Red HAIR" a study of the
nude owned by the Art Students
league, was the work. it is supposed,
either of a merely mischievous rogue
or of prude in art
In sculpture it is certainly true that
the most beautiful and the most dig
nified work has always been in the
nude. No combination of garments
has ever been invented which could
give the opportunity for beaut1fui
modelling presented by the bare human
body. Subtle differences of surface
and line by which the sculptor gets
his color can not be obtained from
any other model so completely as from
the nude human model. OF painting
this is not so true. but 1t is true that
even in painting the nude is capable
of great beauty and of dignity which
is much less easily attained In clothes,
for the reason that then the lines are
not so pure. the effect of the form is
not so essential, the general result is
more decorative, and consequently less
fundamental.
The prudish, puritanical dislike of
the nude fortunately is on the de-
crease, not only as regards plastic art,
but also in other ways. The new
style of dancing is showing people not
only that nudity may be beautiful, but
that it may be treated in a much more
dignified and less suggestive way than
many methods of wearing clothes.
The dancing of Isadore Duncan and
her school is not only beautiful. but
it is far more dignified and chaste
than much of the dancing which pre-
ceded it and which was "fully clothed
It is as lacking in immortality as a
Greek frieze.
In fact. it is beginning to be seen
that the nude. instead of leading to
immoral suggestion, has the opposite
effect when treated with simplicity
and dignity. In this respect our So
ciety is much more civilized than II
was a few years ago. Our increased
interest in art, increased knowledge OF
beautiful art objects in general have
tended to take away that prudishness
| in regard to the nude which has nc
more relation to morality than ligh
| has to darkness.-NeW York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.]
The striker doesn't always make a
hit.
The organ grinder who is always out
of tune is unfortunately never out of
tunes.
Don't put your money on horse
unless you are prepared to have him
run away with 1t.
Strangely enough, the man who makes
Roadway is the one who gets there
with both feet.
When a man tell you that business
is business, It's a pretty good sign he
has been cheating somebody.
Nell-'Maude is the most careless girl
1 ever saw" Believes. L heard her
say she had forgotten more than you
ever knew
Sillicus-"When people call on you 1t
is customary to leave cards isn't it?''
darduIpe-"Not necessarily. The peo-
pie who call on me generally leave
bills"
You are divinev' cried the young
minister "Alasi am heart-sick,"
cried the beautiful maiden. .Still, you
are divine" reiterated the young min
ister, "and II am doctor of divin-
itY.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
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~ cRsB zUFS~ Is

Wroten ad Looie Linkenfusser' vot mar
vendt abroad. Cry Muncie' Ind-l
Howdo. Looie: Skince writing 70 you
der lasd time. Looie- grafe propiente
hat arisen to stare us in der beck III
der knock Dis condition hal exist
enced fer some time. in feet, always
und den some, but id hat peen 1resn-
ened uf late. Der kvesdion wen neeus
immediate addention ISIS dis. i]ooie:
Wy ISIS id dot der word kansas, wen
ISIS nice, clean. decendt voro, lss
considered humorous py foreigners VI
MOO York. Pensildelfy. Chawcawgo una
so 4th. Dake fer instances, q respecta-
bic b1tzness man in Moo York. Berheps
NJ knows we're he ISIS going, und Vot
for. Berheps he ISIS correctly dressed,
und hiss ofercoat hat der broper num-
Der uf bottoms on id. He walks a ho-
tel into ind registers from Kansas.
Immediately Everybody from der star
boarder to der bell-hop begins to snick-
er. Der hop makes a bet NIT der
shine dot der chendleman's suit case
contains elder a Ratchet er a cheap
| political speech. Dereafter. der Kansan
| ISIS a marked man. Efen der subway
| cars get ouf der track to let him pass.
Con men come all Ger way from Pater-
son, Moo Chersey. to meet him, und
der park squirrels. hearing dot he ISIS
a nut, chase him all ofer town. Und
Wy. Looie?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There are too many people on earth
who want something for nothing.
x X X
Everything in the steak line is rare
these DAYS with most folks.
= y y
The mark of the grindstone is on
the nose of almost every successful IN
dividual
To be happy when young is not so diff
ficult But to be happy when old
well, that's a different proposltlon.
y X i
Thanks should also be given Tor
this: Tons of poetry. or stuff so called,
are written each year that never see
the light of day in print.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

Many of the district judges of the
state who were expected to attend the
annual meeting of these judges which
has been in progress here failed to
show up and the conference was some
thing of disappointment as far as at
tendance was concerned. Perhaps the
newspapers in various sections of the
state are not as active as their Topeka
contemporaries in trying the criminal
cases in their columns and therefore
the judges in those localities have
more work to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

They were poor prophets who pre-
dicted few years ago that the auto
mobile would put the horse out of
business. There are more horses in
this country now than ever before and
the average selling price of them last
year was considerably greater than il
was during the preceding year. Evil
IDENTIFY the horse is still king and the
automobile will have to be satisfied
with the tile of queen for the time
being, at any rate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the NJ

IFrom the New York Press.1
Some people can keep out of mis-
chief by being asleep.
Children learn to tell lies by seeing
how grown-ups live them.
The reason woman can smile SO
sweetly to another is she hates her so
bitterly.
boy can recover from his college
education if he gets enough hard
knocks afterward-
There's hardly anybody who doesn't
think he's musical If he recognizes a
tune band plays in a military parade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

1 will hat to admit dot der feet dot
Frank Foster shot a crippled deer in
Moo Hampshire lasd fall, hat nod egg
sited me to any great egstent- L haf
seen a man shoot a running deer
trough der heart from der beck uf a
running horse. a small boy XIII Won
NIT a % rifle. an old gun-hghter lay
out a fine buck NIT q triggerless, von-
thumb-power skix-shooter. und Ar
kansas hunter pick three goot vons
oud of a flock uf fife. Can you blame
me fer failing to unthuse.
Peace on Vail street: President
Taft hat came oud under hiss sheet
und chack-o-1antern und egsplained
dot i'd vas only joke.
Another Kansas bid for doubtful at
fertisemendt: petition ISIS being cir
culated to prewendt der hanging uf
der solcher vot murdered laty friend
Iss dere no limit to der Kansas brand
uf foolishment?
Question: Ut der brice uf pork
chops ISIS too high fer Hetty Green,
vot hat income uf millyunt a year,
vot der heck can a newspaper man,
NIT der wages uf twenty-some-odd q
veke, eat, alretty?
Chin Jeffries may be a direct de-
scendant uf der famous changing
| Judge" but ISIS i'd a good atfertise-
mendt fer Jeff2 Uf jeff spends es
much time Hanging on der ropes es
be bidding in der interim? Vot?
| Score Won fer der Holy Rollers: Dew
donSt take DON a colleotion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
PRIVILEGE.

BEST is the right to share
The grief of hearts forlorn;
With other men to bear
What must by men be borne:
For right bestows dawn's Orient rose
And glories of the morn.
And as it's shadow-wing
Lends to the sunlight worth,
So out of suffering
Arise the joys of earth,
The good and III, united sun,
And offspring of one birth.
Great is the gift of life
To him who lives indeed;
A partner in the strife,
The toll, the pain, that speed
Like hidden rills veined through the
hills
Iife's ocean deeps to feedt
Florence Earle Coates. in the Inoepeno-
ent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

A number of Detroit men have
banded themselves together to extend
the hand of help to men who are
paroled from Michigan's prisons and
who are turned out on the world with
barely a penny in their pockets and
with no friends to turn to for aid. 1t
would net be a bad plan for similar
organizations to be formed in the
other states of the Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

Commenting on the fact that vertical
writing has been abolished in the
schools of the town of Niagara Falls,
N. Y, and that Buffalo is clamoring
for the old system, the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald remarks that "some school
boards are never happy unless they
are inaugurating changes either in text
books or something else that the pub
lie has succeeded in becoming &C
c1lstomed to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

Miss Ethel Wood has been appointed
instructor in the art of story telling by
t6 =. .acolvqpvydhRae cmfwd I'll uupu
the Massachusetts state board of edu-
cation. The Chicago Record-Herald
calls attention to the fact that the gen=
eral supposition heretofore has been
that story telling was an art which
schools were expected to help stamp
Ofsf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

The last of the libel suits against
newspapers for alleging scandal in
connection with the purchase of the
old Panama canal property was
brought to an inglorious end the other
day when a federal judge quashed the
Indictment for criminal libel against
the New York World. And Bwana
Tumbo is thousands of miles away
and can not be interviewed on the re-
suit Of this particular pet project OF
Rfs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

DR.. Eagan, United States minister to
Denmark, says that DR.. Cooks polar
'hoax has put the Danes in the "show
me" class. And it really is to be hoped
they will be more careful In the flu
ture. BY the way. too. what has be-
come of DR.. Cook?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

Apparently Baron Komura, Japan's
minister for foreign affairs, has not
been holding much converse with one
Richmond Pearson Hobson. Mr. Ko-
mura gives voice to the sentiment that
''the friendship between Japan and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

will just fine the beef packers ham
or two or a few dozen eggs it ought to
put them out of the running that is,
of. course, If some higher court does
not get in the game and abrogate the
nena1ties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

Mr.. Wilson the federal secretary of
agriculture, points out that it costs
more to live IN America than in any
other country in the world. There
ought to be some satisfaction in an
other truth that it is also far more
desirable to live here than in any other
land in the universe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

Governor Patterson of Tennessee
told some interviewers in New York
the other day that the south needs
people. So does the west. And there
is quite as much room and opportunity
for newcomers out here as there is in
fhe south
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

Chicago school teachers are to re-
ceive substantial increases of pay dur
ing the next year. Their old salaries
would look large to the teachers in
the schools in many of the other
cities in the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

If the probe which the federal
authorities at Chicago are inserting in
the beef trust is successful in getting
convictions of violations of law against
the beef packers, Judge Kenesaw
MountaiT, lands. who will have the
trial in iharge. won't have to impose
anything like the $2s.o0O,OOo fine he
assessed against the oil trust. If he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

prevailed for many days. have been
tolerated? Nothing but the actuai
blood of the owners of such company
would have settled the score.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29

Even fiaxseed has gone up to
$2.1s," walls the Cleveland Plain Deal
er, land the clinging mustard plaster
now crowds aside the soothing poul-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
CLASS LEGISLATION AND FRAN
CHISE.

In the first place, when legislation
is proposed, it should be asked: Is this
class legislation? Is it for any special
interest? Is it for any race. industry,
church, or section? If it is the measure
should be defeated. All laws should be
for the general welfare, and where they
are for particular welfare, they are I'M
just. They place burdens on those who
should not bear them
There is an effort always being made
tc have such laws enacted-Somebody
always trying to get some little advant-
age that other people haven't got. This
class legislation usually takes the form
of privilege, which generally means a
cne-sided agreement. We can imagine
a privilege granted that is of advantage
to the people for awhile; for a time
when the advantage is mutual between
the grantors and the grantees of the
privilege: but in the very nature OF
things their reciprocity cannot last In
the progress of national and community
| life conditions change and the privilege
becomes an enrrnous bounty to private
interest.-Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
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
pUblica ton IN Topeka.
The news is received IN The state Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur.
pose.