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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
Arkansas.

The years have flown swiftly since
the old Arkansas traveller days, and
on the site of the ''squatter's'' cabin
there towers a college, and on the
banks of the Thames ripe lawyers
read the decisions rendered by the
son of the boy that sat in the ash hop
per listening in wonder to old Faulk-
ner's fiddle. One by one the old-tim-
erc, individualism underscored with
a heavy stroke, have dropped out,
giving place to cultivation and the art
of linguistic skill, and with Dryden I
am constrained to believe that what
we gained in skill we lost in strength"
For romance, poetry and heroic char
acters men in every age have turned
to the past, but in Arkansas romance
and characters were contemporaneous.
The cotton field in bloom, the melan-
choly cypress, brooding sentinel over
the dreamy waters of the bayou, the
joyous hooking bird worshiping a
sunrise which he himself had ''melo-
died." the song of negroes, away off
somewhere, chimes from the belfry
of happy souls; the quaint old planter,
sitting on his veranda, humorous I'M
der mortgage, calling to passersby:
whats your hurry out there? Get
down, come in, and pay your respects
to the ladies while / make you the
finest julep you ever smacked your
mouth over, sir. Where stood his
ram ping ola mouse now STANDS cot
ton mill. Do you see that dead apple
tree, the only remaining relic of an
orchard away over yonder on the hill :?
Beneath it's decaying boughs the old
man sleeps. And do you hear those
men laughing out there in that auto
mobile? The grandson has just re-
peated one of the old fellows stories.
The young man has returned from the
State university. He knows Ovid and
can splutter Pindar, but he has no
troubadour; the young chap is only
a neighborhood reception given in
native to Vicksburg, stretched thinly
up and down the Mississippi. Among
the guests was the old man who now
sleeps beneath the dead apple tree.
Sophomores would not have accepted
him as a scholar, but philosophers
would have looked upon him as one
of their guild. He did not know
many books, but among those of his
intimate acquaintance were Swift,
Fielding and Shakespeare. The river
poet resented his literary opinions, ex-
pressed surely with mildness and de-
corum. and turning upon the old man
snarled at him.
Colonel he said. with a sneer,
perhaps you don't know as much
about such matters as l do
'tAh. as much as you think you do"
Think / do! Old man, 1 have writ
ten more poems than you ever read"
Yes; you have written more poems
than anybody ever read."-Opie
Read, in the National Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. ]

Some men are so good looking they
can keep it up after becoming bald.
No woman has such record for per-
sonal pulchritude.
If your wife is properly economical,
she can save something and still keep
in style by having the water bucket
tastefully decorated for her new fall
hat.
If we were a woman. we don't be-
lieve we would wear anything specially
noticeable in hair; the men make such
mean remarks about thing of that
kind.
In a country town, when it becomes
SO dull on Saturday that even the bar
bers sit around, the leading citizens
say: There is a Good Deal in what
the Insurgents say"
We can stand the tariff pretty we'll,
but the bores who insist on bothering
busy men, drive us to desperation. We
wish Pinchot, and Murdoch, and
Stubs, and Bristow, and Roosevelt,
would do something about the bores.
There are good many men who
can't come back" but such is human
hopefulness and conceit that it would
be possible for one of them to attract
some attention by admitting it.
There is a man in Atchison so dis
posed to be contrary that he COM
mences to praise people the minute his
friends begin to speak i'll of them. This
constitutes at least one good point in
his disposition.
Considering what he thinks he has
under it, we have always wondered
somewhat at the disposition of the col
| lege young man to enter his hat in
competition with the pancake in the
| fiat contest.
The most Improbable thing a man
can do is to tell a senseless, palpable
untruth, in order that he may be a
big man five minutes at the cost of
| being known as a liar the rest of his
| life.
One way a little old ten cent girl
can make herself ridiculous is to say
on every possible occasion: 1.-THE man
marry must be rich" Another way
/ is for her to say frequently, 81 would
not marry the best man on earth.''
Some people are always crazy to say
something. The other afternoon we
were in a street car, returning home
and carrying a little sack from gro
cerv store. WELL" said talkative
man who was in the car when we en-
tered, "you can't live without eating!'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

marry him, and she didn't care two red
cents for an old chevalier. AS for cas-
ties. they must be full of ghosts and
cobwebs. and she preferred a two
story brick house. with stone dog
and a fountain in the front yard.
Mrs. F1ynt became very angry. She
scolded and criticised and put her foot
down. Then she shed tears and ap-
girls lifetime. It would never occur
again. Wealth. title. station and cas-
ties for just saying yes. Had the girls
senses deserted her? Let her take a
week to think it over. and then be-
ware how she broke her loving aunt S
heart.
The chevalier would wait a week be-
fore committing suicide for love of
| Miss Florence He wouldn't do it for
any other person than the aunt. He
would do 1t for her because she had
loaned him money until he could hear
from Paris. and because he was oblig-
ed to ask another favor of the same
sort. Paris wasn't so far away, but
| those Paris bankers always took their
time about business matters. Anoth-
er check was handed over, and again
the hotel bouncer was saved job.
The week was only half up when a
young man with curly hair and black
eyes and white teeth called at the
F1ynt mansion. Mrs. Flynt happened
to receive him, and she noticed that
AAAc SoA0 OOA6 lll6 VI w dllCl
Alvord. He was just a common Amer
lean, and when he asked for Miss
Florence Mrs. F1ynt retired from the
parlor. She wasn't expecting the chew
alier at that hour, and that was the
reason why he was shown directly in
to the parlor, and beheld the young
man holding a willing hand belonging
to Miss Florence.
He assumed a pose. He meant it
to be terrible pose. Then his eyes
betrayed the tragedy that was turn
ing somersaults in his soul. No ap-
probation from the audience of two
Then he Numbered out:
Mile tonerres!" in a voice to
make one SILVER. No shivers. The
Chevalier was about to wave his arms
and yell when Mrs. Flynt entered the
room. The young man with the dark
eyes and white teeth rose up and
handed her various newspaper clip
lings and quietly said:
His history is all there. Shall il
be read aloud?"
In less than a minute the chevalie1
was gone.
Mrs. Flynt read those newspaper
clippings in the privacy of her owr
room, and an hour later appeared ir
the parlor, red-eyed and contrite, tc
say:
Florence. 1 guess we don't wan
any titles. 1 guess it's your aunt who
| lacks the brains. You may introduce
| me to your young man, as Mrs. Joshua
-t!"-(Copyrighted 1910
| by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
HUNOR OF THE Day

What makes the bird sing 50 fiercely?s,
from his cage IN the city and has as come come
culture. The bird is one of his pupils,
explains the hippopotamus. Whereupon
the hyena laughs mmoderately.-Chicago
Post
MY wife is getting to be very tiresome."
to to t kn0T Wf sad 0Rs
the weather" ''Huh Mines as uncer-
tain as the weather forecasts. catholic
Standard and Times.
PA" said little ostend, as he lean
ed out of the window of the smoker,
why do they put those bulldogs in
the baggage carr" ION account of
their grips, my son." responded pa,
solemnly, and then the train rolled
on-Chicago Record-Herald.
"Gsorge: What is is this Rockefellsr fopn-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
How do you know she's older than you
are?" Why. she admitted it herself"
said; You and | are just the same age.
dearie.' Cleveland Leader.
for each of us The Novice-Do you sup
pose we'll have time to read them?-
bIOOhiyA Lille.
Knicker-Where was Jones going when
arrested for speeding? Bocker-To deliver
speech on the extravaganza of automo-
biles.-New York Sun.
But why do you talk of getting d.
vorce; you told me yourself that I make
make !!That's the reason."-H assn 5o
Post.
How do you like the new oatmeal
soap?" inquired the barber Seems
nourishing," replied the customer, 'sbut
I've had my breakfast '-Washingto
Herald.
Paw, what is the great continental d.
vide?" Its the final division of the
continent. my son, between the Morgans
and the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tribune.
Sentimental One-The beautiful beacb
was covered with shells this morning
Practical One-Yes; it's q shame to aI1ow
EN- to eat peanuts down there!-Yonkers
Statesman.
Friend-I suppose there is a great dea,
of money in contributing to the IeaGiine
magazines? Authorizes, but there,s 2
great deal more in contributing to the n,,s1
leading oneS--Puck. -s-
Chief-Tell me. sir, why Won have :.
utterly failed to get cleW to This cri,,,aS
Detective-'Tain't my fault. The reporters
nothing!-Cleveland Leader. me
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
KANSAS COMNENT
REGULATING THE. AERoNA1Jrs

REGULATING THE AERONAUTS.
Germany sets the example in the
matter OF laying down rules and reg
ulations for aviators. Every naviga-
tor OF the air is required to have a
license issued by municipal or pro-
v1ncial authorities, and this license
may be granted only after an exam
1nation of the candidate to determine
his knowledge of mechanics and also
an actual demonstration of his ability
to fly.
Somewhat, we suppose, as in the
ancient trial by water if the pros
pective aviator fails in the test and
tails down and breaks his neck, he
has demonstrated his unfitness. If
ne flies successfully he has proved
himself qualified and a license is
granted him, the same to be automati-
cally revoked whenever he does fall
down and break his neck subsequently.
AS for the protection of the public,
the German regulations strictly for
bid any aviator to fly over any village
or town, although he is permitted to
follow water courses. What resources
the local constabulary may have for
taking in violators of the license law
we know not. But it is to be presum-
ed that in the most governed nation
on earth some method of strict en-
forcement will be found, for one no
table difference between Germany and
the United States is the fact that Ger
man laws are made to be enforced
Ottawa Republic.
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system. In the West, where trouble
was most feared, there has been very
decided improvement and bankers
there are once more lending with in
creased freedom and easier rates.
There will be no occasion for the gov
eminent to aid the money market this
year; in reality, the situation will be
reversed, and the banks are more
likely to be called upon to aid the gov
eminent in the marketing of a new
loan Nothing more than usual fall
stringency is now expected. Forum
ately they will be abundantly able to
assist"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

Under the operations of the new tar
If law which provides for a free in
terchange of merchandise between the
United States and the Philippines, the
trade between this country and it's Pa
cif1c possessions has almost doubled
this past year over what it was the
year previous. Roosevelt repeatedly
demanded and worked for the estab-
lishment of such a trade agreement
beteween the Philippines and the Uni
ted States while he was president.
President Taft obtained it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

Etienne de Khrouloff, superintendent
of the 800 jails in Russia, who is visit
ing in this country, declares that the
Russian prisoners do not suffer any
hardships, are well fed and clothed and
treated pretty well generally. There is
no disposition to question the veracity
of M. Khroulof, but the refugees to
this country from Russia have had diff
ferent tales to tell. And, anyhow, the
individual is rare who will run down
his own particular business or hold UP
it's defects to the light of day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
REFLECTIONS OF BACHELOR

CFTom the New York Press
Engaged people find a sure cure at
the altar.
A lot of gasoline is wasted in family
disputes.
Advertising surely gives great re-
suits when it's a scandal
The way woman rules a man is to
let him think he's doing it.
Money is made UP of the pennies
you are going to receive and the dol
lars you have to pay out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

AS the recent raid by Kansas author
tiles charging it's denizens with viola
tons of the prohibitory law would in
dictate, Cow Island. situated in the
Missouri river near Atchison. is noted
for it's milk punches. Once in a great
while place is appropriately named
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

who accept brides for their votes, but
it fails to provide for the punishment
of men who offer and give such
brides. The law makers of Illinois ap-
pear to be about as careless in the
matter of important details in law
making as were the law makers of
Kansas during the legislative session of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

If any evidence were needed that
times are good in Kansas and that
everybody is prospecting 1t can be found
In the yearly report Just issued by
w. L. A. Johnson. state labor commits
sioner. He shows from reliable sta
tistics that the average wages paid in
Kansas last year in the manufacturing
industries were higher than they were
the year before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

The time would appear to be coming
when an agitation will be started to
prohibit policemen from carrying guns.
A Kansas City cop took a shot the
other day at a couple of fleeing chick
en- thieves. He succeeded in killing a
woman who was busy around her
house, two blocks away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

One of the interesting and important
rumors going the rounds is to the eff
feet that Japan has decided to make
the former emperor of Korea a whang
1t occurs to the Chicago Record Her
aid that just to show a friendly spirit.
the United States might, after Japan
has made him a whang. confer upon
the former emperor the title of doc
die
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

Indications are that the real friends
of football have done their best to kill
the game. The new rules they have
adopted are so complicated and per
picking that the football experts have
been called together to interpret them.
No game will live very long with rules
that are too complicated for ordinary
mortals to understand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

A woman in Iowa has been notified
that the husband whom she has d.
vorced has left her $1,OO0,0O0 in his will.
Here was a man, thinks the Buffalo
Express, who appreciated a kind deed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, that most

Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, that most
eminent divine who occupies the
Brooklyn pulpit made famous by
Henry Ward Beecher. has described
Colonel Roosevelt as 1.-The only man on
earth who can throw double SKIES
every time" While we do not under
stand these ecclesiastical references,
says the Haverhill Gazette, the remark
sounds good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

Illinois has had three primary laws
which have been so defective as to
have been declared unconstitutional by
the courts of that state. And in one
particular the new primary law in
operation there is seriously defective.
II provides for the punishment OF men
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

What will the ghost of Napoleon
say? Aviators are of the opinion that
it is possible to cross the Alps in an
aeroplane, although the first attempt
made by two of them was not sue
ELL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

With a pennant winning major
league baseball team in its midst,
Philadelphia's reputation for slowness
is beginning to fade away
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

Eugene V. Debs is UP to his old
tricks of denouncing all men and
measures that are not of Socialistic
pattern. This won't help the cause of
Socialism very much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

Presumably Bob Chanler is packing
his suit case preparatory to a hurried
start for Europe. Nine. Cava1ieri an
nounces that she is coming to this
country
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4

The efforts of the idle rich to break
into print are usually successful Up
in Saint Louie, Charles Van Studiford,
who is noted principally as the more
or-less husband of Grace, the comic
opera star, tried to ride a horse into
saloon. He was pinched and thrown
in. Then he decided that he would
like to spit in reporters eye. He got
his name in the papers all right, and
the item was closed with the informa-
ton that the horse was perfectly sober.
The Daily Mail, one of the largest
English newspapers. printed a report
of she-swimming contest which con-
tanned the information that Miss
Alice Aykroyd, the Boston swimmer,
swan eight miles in the Thames and.
left the stream as fresh as when she
entered it." Punch. the great English
comic paper, saw, in this statement,
a real joke. An American funny paper
would simply reprint the paragraph.
Punch used nearly a stick of space,
setting the paragraph in italics. and
diagraming it in full with an exhaus-
tive explanation of the point of the
joke, and calling attention twice to
the possibility that the Daily Mail
writer probably considered it a note
worthy fact that the young lady didn't
pollute the water. And the Englishman
who took the trouble to read this joke
two or three times, probably got it all
in bunch three days later and
shouted: Jaw haw, pom me word,
don't you know. Beastly clever joke.
The LADY might have soiled the water.
Oh 1 say. What?"
PERSONAL: We wish to assure tho
young vocalist in our neighborhood,
that no member of our household has
seen the Mr.. Kelley for whom he tune
fully enquiries. And, as we have pur-
chased a perfectly good "A Colts, 1t
might be well for him to submit his
plea for information IN other parts of
the city.
WHY, CERTAINLY.
1.-THE school-house door now stands
AFFAIR."
Vacation days are past"
| (The door was built to stand ajar,-
1t had to be. to last,
Because the kiddos slam it when
1t isn't bolted fast.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Apparently the good old summe
time" was booked for return engage
ment in these parts.
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THE FLAG MAY FOLLOW.

The activity of American business
interests is likely to mix the Ameri-
can republic into some affairs which
1t probably does not care about, but
which can hardly be avoided. Take
1t over in China. A bunch of Ameri-
can capitalists are building a rail-
road with the approval of the Chinese
government. Russia processes to see
symptoms of American political ag-
erosion and the government papers
are rapping away at the United States
as If we were going to steal China or
take 1T away from the Russian back
yard They know no such work
would be done by Russians unless the
RUSSIAN government had a finger in
the pie and they do not understand
our way OF letting the American BUSH
ness men do as they please until we
get notion they should be regulated.
1t is matter of pride that Ameri-
can missionaries are marching on
Chinese idolatry and American capt.
talists are opening up Chinese natural
resources, all with the consent and
good will of the Pekin government.
But we may as we'll face the fact that
wherever our missionaries and our
merchants go with the gospel and the
railroad it may be necessary to send
our flag and an army of soldiers to
protect them and their Chinese
fr1ends.-Hutchinso News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
FRON OTHER PENS
THE LIFE-WEARY.

The tale of those who have grown so
weary OF their lives that they take yio-
lent means to end them has become
one of daily familiarity to the reading
public, but upon few does it leave a
lasting impression, unless the unfor-
tunates are known to them. The rec
ord of late has been so full of such
tragedies that it indicates an increase
in the number Of those unable longer
to endure the burden of earthly ex-
istence. In the majority of cases ill
health is the cause given or suspected,
though in few instances, probably, does
that fully explain these desperate acts.
Statistics show that there has been
an almost annually increasing ten
dency to suicide within the last double
decade. In 1890 there was a suicide
rate of 1878 in every hundred thousand
of the population in 65 leading Ameri-
can cities. Five years later this had
grown to 1873, and through subsequent
increases it reached POT in 1904. There
was a slight reduction during the next
three years, but the panic of 1907 drove
it above the 20 mark again and there it
remained. Last year it was 20.6, as
against 1913 20 years previous. The
highest actual rate was nearly so TO
the hundred thousand in San Fran
cisco. Oakland, across the bay came
next with 55.1, and Hoboken third, with
52.6. This exhibit was not peculiar TO
last year. These cities have maintained
this CHASTITY primacy with almost I'M
broken egularity.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

A flock of aviators is trying to lily
over the Alps. Just why they want to
get to the other side of the Alps is not
known. The only excuse seems to be
the excuse that Napoleon gave for
crossing the Alps, but it is not so good,
in this instance. Napoleon had some
use for Italy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20
THE SHREWD MAN.

A man spoke of another as shrewd in
making a bargain. We don't like that
word shrewd. 1t has a sinister look.
While it has the meaning of insight
and keeness, these qualities are tainted
with a selfish purpose. The primary
meaning of shrewd is curse-a judg-
ment against a person who is turning
every circumstance to his own account.
It is the opposite of frank. 1t is
bending a transaction to ones own
benefit by hiding what is prejudicial
to another. 1t has the quality of being
keen, artful, sly, which means taking
advantage of another. 1t is poor
trait, one that should not make a man
proud. But it is passing away. 1t is
not as fine a distinction to be proud
of as it once was. There is much of
it yet, but business is fast learning that
it is best. to be frank. above-board,
cover up nothing, straightforward.
These are the characteristics of true
business man.
If a man is shrewd. he must be
watched; if he is candid. you can meet
him on the square, trust to what he
says, get what you buy. and pay an
honest price. The successful business
men have found that out. They don't
want a shrewd man even in their own
employ, for he will have to be watched.
Ohio State Journal.
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No, Maude, milk is not the beverage
they sell on Cow Island, near Atchison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

Friend-I suppose there is a great dea
Of money in contributing to the Ieadinf
great deal more in contributing to the MT
leading oneS.-Puck Ats
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

Sentimental One-The beautiful beach
was covered with shells this morning
Practical One-Yes; it's q shame to ALLOW
,em to eat peanuts down there!-Yonkers
Statesman.