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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atch,son c1ohe

[From the Atchison GlobeI
Nearly every old man thinks he
looks young for his age.
Is man who plays a hand organ on
the street a musician or a beggar?
Saturday morning is a poor time for
barber to send word that he is sick
What has become of the oId-fash-
Toned woman who knew how to make
a mustard plaster?
II know a man." writes Henry Car
land, who shaved his legs the day be-
| fore he got married"
We hear great deal about people
expecting tips. We never received a
tip in our lives. Did you?
Il have as much ambition as any,
body, but I haven't as much backing
for it as, well. say Napoleon. "-Parsoa
Irvine.
! The world progresses: formerly we
! found only the Police Gazette on bar
Der shop tables. Now we find the best
magazines.
| A number of Atchison women whose
hair on their head is growing there,
are so proud of 1t there is talk of or
| genizing an All Our Own club.
When a girl comes into the parlor
with white dust on her clothes, the
| young man may believe she has been
near the flour barrel, but every woman
| knows better.
| A majority of people demand this
| version of the New Commandment: "A
new commandment 1 give unto you
that We love me and let me do as
please about loving you"
Atchison people tell of a certain man
| who was very fond of his stomach
and who ate good things at all hours
He dropped dead one day, thirty years
before his time.
The reporters are so gallant that If e
fat old woman clad in a Mother Hub
bard should drown herself, the printed
report would tell of a good looking
middle aged wamon, fashionably
dressed.
A certain Atchison woman is good
to her husband, and never grumbles
at him except when he lays off UNI
, necessarily. The best of women have
!. a right to complain about that; to;
, much of it is done.
Speaking of recklessness: There is
recklessness in associating with
: powder can that is disastrous to tn
5 girl who puts it on her face, and thos
who get it on their clothes who go an.
where near her dressing table.
Look at nearly any man at work
and you detect him in lazy tricks
We talk a good deal about the push
9 ing, energetic Americans, but prob
r ABLY there is more laziness among u
: than among other people on earth.
III An Industrious man always sue
ceeds; a lazy man always fails Thi
| is all there is to it, except that the in
dustrious man will have greater sue
cess if he is fair, polite and has a dis
n position to learn as he goes along.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-16
She Lost Her Bathing Suit.

OF the 100000 persons who
went to Coney island on Sunday. near
ly all went into the surf. and one OF
them, Miss Anna Boyland, of 243 Bay
street, Sheepshead Bay. had to send
calls for the police before she could,
with decent respect to her own feel
ings, get out.
Two pieces of her three-piece bath
ing suit had dropped off.
She fastened into deep water but
the three girl friends who were with
her could not conceal her. Shouts and
gibes and dares from the close-press-
ing throng caused cries for police, and
Lieut.. Joseph Conboy hurried to the
beach at West Tenth street.
"Get her another suit" he COM
manded of a young man.
But the gliding crowd jamnied clos
err. Then the officer shouted to the
girls:
ashore!"
Spreading their short skirts. they
proceeded, ring-around-rosy fashion,
through lower and lower water then
to the beach. reaching seclusion after
a short dash to the pier pilings. There,
very indignant, she pulled on parts OF
the new suit. but didn't return to the
water.-New York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-16
EMPLOYERS, LIABILITY.

THE legislature of New York state
passed this year the two bills recon-
1nended by its commission on employ
ers' liability and Industrial accidents.
writes Charles L. Chute, in the Ameri-
can Review of Reviews for August in
an article entitled Industrial Accidents
"a Problem of Today" The first bill
amends the present employers liability
law, considerably to the benefit of the
workman injured. It also makes posi-
BILE a contract between any employer
and his workmen by which the latter
give up their uncertain rights to sue
and accept instead certain compensa-
tion on a uniform scale-roughly, half
wages for disability, four years wages
I'D to $1,000 to dependents in case of
death.
1.-THE second bill, the compensation
bill, has been already referred to. In
certain specified dangerous trades. as
railroading, construction of steel frame
buildings, etc, compensation is grant
ed for all accidents due to trade risk
or to any fault or negligence of either
employer or fellow workmen on the
liberal scale already outlined. The pas
sage of this bill marks an epoch in
this country. If the constitutionality of
these two bills is upheld after Septem-
Der, when they take effect. New York
state will be in advance of any state
in the Union in it's treatment of the vic
Tins of industrial accidents.
These bills are limited in their APP
| plication and dc not offer conpensa-
ton on as broad a basis as do the laws
of most foreign countries. However
they may well be considered a good
start in the right direction.
"Other states are now preparing tc
! follow the example of New York. Ar
especially active campaign is now be-
| ing carried on in Massachusetts,. II
Wisconsin two bills. proposed by the
commission there at work, are receiving
statewide discussion. The state com
missions studying the problem art
country to a realization of the grea'
wrong now done the workers. In form
ulating legislation to correct this vi
have the experience of all the countries
of Europe as we'll as of Canada, Aus
tralia, and New Zealand, to draw upon
In general it can be said that the com
pensation system of dealing with acci
dents, without regard to negligence, ha
been universally successful whereve
tried. All signs point to it's speedy in
PRODUCTION into our state and nationa
legislation
1t is interesting to note that in de
cision handed down recently by the
!, q Kansas supreme court, on an opinio
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-16
MORNING. N THEssALY.


God of the white SUM
Here's thy race begun;
And thy fiery horses
From the sea courses
Champing, appearing.
Draw thy sword mist clearing;
o Sun, my Lord,
Draw for me thy sword!
Give me this day
Strength to laugh and strength to play;
And strong deer meat
For my mouth to eat.
And let that fire Of thine
Flush the red wine
In the vines that tumble
Where the mountains crumble-
Where the boulders lay, things
For giants playthings.
God of splendors, shed
Benediction on my head;
Till the dew's spent
Dew that holds the scent
Up and up the hill
Leads and lures me to the kill;
And my hands are wet
With blood and sweat
Then keep thou cool
The circle swinging pool,
Where the waters, mountain leaping,
Lie forever sleeping.
Then-when my two hands hold
Another day of gold
Then to thee 1 sing,
1o-Io-Sun, my King
Oxford Magazine.
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AYHAWKER JOTS

Verd Napier says that money Is not
everything. But subtract it from some
people and there is nothing left worth
while.
The Howard Courant is growing
tired Of homegrown musicians who
against ragtime.
An inquiry from the Pratt Union:
Why is it that 1t is always the other
fellow who is a cranky. disagreeable
fellow to get along with?
It is so dry around Lafontaine, ac-
cording to the Banner, that there are
bullfrogs there five years old that
haven't learned to swim.
An election returns analysis from
the Parsons Sun: The returns from
Marion county indicate that it has
sued Ex-Governor Hoch for a divorce
and named Tom Wagstaff as the CO.
respondent.
Says the Emporia Gazette: 1t is
beginning to dawn upon Mrs. Long
confidence of the American people
she will have to quit smoking cigar
cites and buy a briar pipe.
Every word a man says against the
character of another man reacts
against himself, says the Coffeyville
Herald. If you do not like another
man there Is a reason for 1t, but it is
ested in the reason.
A birth announcement in the Great
Bend Tribune: A young lady came
to the home of Joe D. Kramer this
| morning who expects to stay with
| them for some time. She is a strang-
er and doesn't speak the English Ian
| guage, but nevertheless Joe Is proud
of her. It's an 8-pound baby girl.
| A certain Coffeyville woman has in
vented device which promises to
either break her husband of staying
out late at night or providing her with
a handsome new bonnet fund. The
invention is in the form of night lock
on the order of slot machine When
| turned on 1t can only be opened by
the insertion of a $5 gold piece. Here
after she says the patent lock goes on
promptly at 10 o'clock.-Coffeyvill
Journal
| Here Is a merited rebuke. says the
Lawrence World, to those uncultured
souls who scott at the psychological
efficacy Of mind over matter. A Her
| ington woman was troubled with CHG
gers and heard that rubbing in perox-
ide was a sure cure. She took in the
dark what she thought was the perox-
ide bottle from the shelf and rubbed
'em. She thought 1t worked fine and
found out later that 1t was a bottle OF
blueing she got.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-16

written by Justice Burch, the Kansas
factory law has been interpreted to the
effect that liability rests on the en-
ployer regardless of the contrtbutory
negligence Of the employee. This settles
the law in Kansas on this most import
ant point. and the future legislation on
the subject will only have to deal with
the matter of compensation for acct
dents. AS has been urged in these col
umns before this should be automatic,
something on the plan of the New York
law. but on a broader basis. so that in
jured employees can get their conpen-
sation for accidents without the neces-
sity of going to the courts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-16
HUMOR or THE DAY

Knicker-what is a swimming hole?
Bocker-A body of water entirely sur
rounded by boys-New York Sun.
80 you went to Reno?" Yes: to get
from my money."-Washington Star.
Mrs Casey-Who was it hit We? Casey
Shure, dunno. Twas in the crowd. Mrs.
Casey-Praise the saintsl Now We won't
be gettin' licked again trying to lick the
felly that hit ye.-Puck.
Are you going to spend your vacation
with your country relatives this summer?
mo. I can't afford the clothes that would
be necessary if 1 expected to make
proper appearance among them now
Chicago Record-Herald.
What kind of cigars will you have?"
asked the dealer. Light, medium or
strong?'' Strong ones, by all means,
said the blushing damsel. Strong enough
not to break in the young mans pocket,
you ACCOMPLISHMENTS Herald.
Inclined to Be Flighty.-''Necessity In
the mother of invention" ct bitel What's
that of all her big family the flying ma
chimes have been the hardest to raise
Boston Transcript
An Ungallant Toast.-Ar the dedication
of a new fire engine in little town on
the Massachusetts coast the following
toast was proposed: May she be like
the dear old maids of our village; always
ready, but never called for."-Success.
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What's the Use?

When the conductor of summer or
chestra acts like a trained monkey or
thS clown in pantomime, and his eff
forts are applauded by the audience, it
is promptly accredited by shamefaced
Americans to the righteousness of ma
tive taste. In such matters at least we
are capable of being humble, but in
this particular instance we seem to be
mistakenly so. Thus the music editor
of the New York Evening Post has dis
covered in a dissertation by a Berlin
music director, Herr Eugene Philippi,
on What the Berliners Like to Hear"
excuse for buffoonery. THE conductor
of one of these bands has to be a sort
of clown. The public is highly de-
lighted whenever he distracts attention
from the music by his fantastic antics;
and if he jumps over the piano and
then covers in corner till the piece is
ended the enthuiasm is tremendous"
There are cafe orchestras in America
which would justify any such resort 10
distract attention from the music" but
be found in Berlin. AS to these aero
| batic conductors, the German writer
declares that whereas in Vienna they
earn or florins day, in Berlin they
| are engaged at $400 or $500 a month.
Furthermore says Herr Philippi
some readers may feel inclined to as
| sert that those who hear the cafe con-
certs / have just spoken of belong to
| the less educated circles; but I know
from an experience covering many
years that the educated outnumber the
others. All have the same taste, and
the more grotesque the conductors
antics are the more jubilant is the ap-
plause." Also, the situation is stead
| lily getting worse"
| This is in the cafes, but what of the
military bands? Herr Philippi whispers
| that a lieutenant often has the maxi
| ing up Of the program, and that In
| doing so he scorns the genuine waltzes
| of Strauss and other specialists, and
insists on having popular operate
melodies and songs changed to three
four measure and dished up as waltzes
such numbers, for instance, as "Sieg-
mund's Love Song" from Die
walkure;" wolfram's "Song to the
Evening Star" from "Tannhauser," or
Gounod's Spring Song" which appears
as Spring Waltz"
If these are the results of two CEN
turtles of musical culture, the most
| widespread and thorough among peo-
pie whose special esthetic genius, whose
i contribution to the supreme arts of
civilization is music, what have we in
/ America to hope for? Who will be so
wildly utopian as to endow orchestras,
opera seasons. or pop concerts for the
multitude Tribune.
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IAN Things Gomez

The magnate looked up impatient
ly from his work.
We'll, my good man." he snapped
at the diffident rural person who stood
twirling his rusty hat, what can do
for your"
IT guess We don't remember me.
Hank" faltered the caller. But you
an me use ter go swimmin' together
in tn OF town. Then you got job
in tn bank, an I got a job in tn
grocery store"
This is all very interesting. and
seem to remember your face. But
come to the point-my time is valu-
able
Eyes, Hank. You got a better offer
and left the old village. stayed plug
GIN along in tn grocery store"
well, well?"
well, Hank, when you left you
owed s73.62 on grocery bill. Here's
where you pay up!"-Cleveland
Leadexa
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/
tkes7!:lsz

DR.. Ludwig L. Zamehof is the mama
of the person who invented Esper-
anto. The only reason this informal
ton is printed here, is that this coli
umn is reserved exclusively for rank
nonsense.
A tip to Dick Cooley: The Hon. J.
]. Schenck awaits your return, He
wants to play a few double-headers
with you.
Mayor Gaynor desires to forgive
Gallagher, the gent who attempted TO
murder him. However, 1T is to oe
hoped that the courts Will hgnten the
tent of taking the forgiveness BUSH
ness out of his department.
On the grounds that the advertise
ment looked like the management
wanted to sell something beside mere
peek, the postal authorities have Tor
hidden the New York newspapers TO
print the line: "All under 20, and none
Of them married" in the "Girlfes" al.
Bv mentioning the seasons of chig-'
gers, cucumbers, more chiggers. wa
terrnelons and hay fever in order. It
seems a waste of profanity to add the
other word in the expression, Just one
- thing after another"
ct hev observed thet tn Teller w'ch
pitches tn most hoss-shoes. allus
pitches thu fewest hay."-Deacon
Squash.
A Chicago Judge rules that an auto
mobile is a deadly weapon. His point
is we'll taken, If the chauffeur chances
| to be loaded.
couple was recently married in a
cave near Colorado Springs. 1t may
| he that tha contracting parties wished
| to keep it dark. but 1t would appear
| that the incident was not on the level.
| Raymond Duncan, the fuzzy boy
with the freckled legs, will exhibit his
calves in Kansas City next week. The
| Topeka boosters of the state fair
should secure this feature for their
| live stock exhibit.
| A German picture entitled Lady
Bathers on the Spree shows the
ladies in question dressed in nothing
which could be called superfluous. AS
| the Spree is a well-known river near
Berlin, and the Germans are not noted
| for their activity in laying out puns,
| we take it that no pun was intended
| in this instance.
Among the things lost in the British
exhibit at the Brussels fair, were
| Tudor panelings. Although this IS
| listed as a great loss, it seems that two
door panelings might be easily replaced
at any sash and door mill
At a late hour this afternoon, It
was reported that Frank FARRELL, who
is now working for the Santa Fe. had
completed the grading past the bust
ness Offices and will have switch
connected with the editorial depart
ments before Saturday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-16

One hundred and forty-one divorces
applied for in six months is one record
that has been made in Topeka that is
not worth Dragging about. 1t ought
not to be long now before the people of
Kansas realize the fact that they need
something more stringent in the way
of a divorce law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-16
KANSAS COAAENT
FINISH OF THE FINNs.

For mauy generations the grand
ouchy of Finland has been a part OF
Russia and yet not g. part. so lar as
foreign affairs were concerned ana
peace and war, Finland was part OF
Russia. But the Firms had their own
language, their own coinage, their own
courts and their own parliament. They
were of a different race than the Rus
slams, being allied TO The Swedes, their
natural friends and real countrymen.
Finland was a progressive country.
Its parliament was a real law making
body. The right of suffrage was very
general ana included women. There
were number of women elected to
parliament at the election about year
ago.
With such a government and sucn
a people. with good schools and edu-
cation general, the Firms are as a
body far superior to the Russians as
a body, and naturally sympathize with
the thought that is considered advanc-
ed and which Russia calls n1h1llst1c.
Last month the Russian Duma, the su-
preme legislative body OF the empire,
took away from Finland much OF its
self government and began the work OF
making it Russian by force. This Rus
sian durna, the third one chosen, is a
reactionary body. controlled by the
court and dominated by the old Rus
sian idea. It is not representative or
educated Russian sentiment but OF the
y
the Russian ruling class. Its action
toward Finland placed it on the list OF
brutal forces and demonstrated that as
progressive parliamentary body 1t is
a failure.
The Firms will have to submit for
the present. Their own little army is
not big enough to resist Russia. But
the action of the duma, prompted OF
course by the cars advisers, gives
Russia a vicious enemy at the door.
For the Firms, while they may appar-
emily submit. will only wait the chance
to bust the lid off and break away from
the political grave in which they are
row inferred. 1t is the finish OF the
Firms as an independent little country
but 1t will eventually id in the finish
of Russia when the disintegration of the
big empire sets in.-Hutchinson News.
FALSE HAIR FAMINE.
The papers tell US there is a false
hair famine in New York.
The Human Hairworkers union had
seven strikes of late.
The condition in New York, espe-
cially, where filthy hair of dead hui
mans is used to make the abominable,
distorted appendages for women In
these days, and where 1880 wigs,
345, 500 switches, and 100000 rats" are
sold annually, is said to be deplorable.
| "Deplorable," because women insist
these days on making themselves hid
| eous with such practices, and VIII
probably continue to do so.
It's a hard time these women are
having to get more hair-but some
way or other, they'll probably get 1t.
Garden City Telegram.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

The more favors you do some people
the more they expect.
Every woman thinks she holds her
age far better than she does.
\ \
1t may also be said to the disad-
vantage of vacations that they are
expensive.
4 y
If a man has lively time at his
club he's apt to have a livelier one
when he gets home.
Try to imagine the trouble in the
world if all persons thought alike.
Each of them would want the same
thing.
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CHOLERA IN RUSSIA.

It is probable that the conditions
among the poor and ignorant in Russia
are peculiarly favorable to the spread
of cholera. for otherwise there would
be reason for great surprise at the raw
ages of the disease, as reported from
that country. The plague has been
carefully and successfully studied, anf
as result of the better knowledge OF
its character and causes ii has been
well-nigh stamped out of western Eur
ope. In European Russia alone, how
ever. AZ provinces and territories have
been visited by the malady during the
present outbreak. and the news dis
patches indicate that there has been
a starting increase of late. In a sin
gle week more than $4,000 cases and
6, 90 deaths were reporter. This is a
frightful percentage of mortality and
warrants the assumption that there
must have been fearful neglect by the
authorities and ignorance on the part
Of the people. 1t is probable, also. that
the figures given out are underestima-
ted rather than exaggerations; for in a
country of such distances and with the
lack Of communication generally pre-
vailing the whole truth is by no means
likely 20 be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Union
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ER0A OTHER PENS
MANUAL TRAINING FOR GIRLS.

MANUAL TRAINING FOR GIRLS.
A paragraph, which is going the
rounds" calls attention to the utility
of branch of manual training in
struction that was never much thought
of in the United States until few
years ago. It states that for the pur-
pose of illustrating the value of a
dressmaking department, 27 out OF
$50 upper-clasS girls in an eastern
high school made the dresses which
they wore at the graduating exercises
at a cost of about 81 each. The para
graph also states that as these girls
sat with their classmates, who wore
the usual expensive graduation
dresses, the principal was unable to
pick out the dollar gowns from those
which cost $50.
A certain amount of dressmaking
ability is assumed to be inherent in
every woman. The Scripture repre-
sents Mother Eve as making the gar
ment which she wore when she left
Eden. But civilization has introduced
complications. 1t would be impossible
for anyone to make a modern dress
the kind enthusiasts would call a
creation"-without technical instruc-
ton. The ability to cut out and fit
and sew her own garments is very
appropriate accomplishments to i'm
part to young women and might well
be a part of the curriculum of every
manual training department for girls.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate OF ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month Thy
mail only.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
State journal viii be to you like q
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

lF'rom the New York Press.1
take.
Calomel has cheered millions where
sympathy has hundreds.
A man can sell his reputation once:
after that he couldn't give it away.
Man began to fall in the Garden of
Eden and he hasn't struck bottom yet
A woman works to make a man jeal-
GUS and then gets mad with him for
how disaETeeabie he is about II.
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There can not be much truth to
these reports that New Workers are
living at such a wild and rapid pace
that they will soon fall into decay.
Authoritative information is at hand
that the homely prune is great favor
ite with the jewellers in the new
worlds metropolis.