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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

A man is apt to have a dear wife
either to his heart or his pocket book.
Nothing pleases the average woman
more than an opportunity to displease
some other woman.
1t must be awfully hard on a SPIN
ster not to have man around the
house to blame things on.
The suffragette will never be salts
fed until she is given the privilege of
asking man to marry her.
Perhaps the reason a woman can be
fooled so easily is because she is so
successful at playing the game herself.
People as a rule have only words of
praise for the dead. Their words of
censure are exhausted on the living.
The diamond is almost as hard as
the heart of pawnbroker who refuses
to advance more than 10 per cent of
its value
It is said that men who whistle sell
dom swear; it is the busy people who
are compelled to listen that say I'M
printable things
When man takes his wife to a
pathetic play and she cries at the
touching parts he always tries to look
heartless and unconcerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

"I haven't heard enough to keep
quiet a man said recently.
Our idea of a fearsome tramp is
one who knocks on your front door
with a crutch.
Burglars are becoming so impudent
here lately that some of them now
give you notice of the night they are
coming.
Our idea of a smart man is one who
maintains an average degree of COM
mon sense during the period of his
engagement.
When a rat gets into your room
and you stop up the hole through
which it came in, it will show fight
and cuss you.
Speaking of nerve, there is that pos
sessed by a man in a small town who
will carry a cane when he doesn't real
ly need it.
trouble convincing the public that the
common housefly is more deadly than
the rattlesnake.
If coward lives in Missouri a year
or two, he gets over being scared ;
nothing will scare him then except bad
luck and lightning.
A woman can put up a pretty con-
vincing argument with herself to prove
that loose shoes are more apt to make
corns than tight ones.
A police court violates the law as
often as the men brought before it: if
the law provides that the fine is five
dollars, a police judge usually makes
it fifty dollars.
We have lately been trying to locate
the smallest woman in this vicinity.
About all we have discovered is that
nearly all the small women weigh
about ntnety-seven.
During a dry spell. when the heav-
ems are overcast. and thunder crashes,
we long for it to rain as hard as we
want our club to win when it is behind
in a ball game
Prohibition prohibits because so
many men do not want whisky. If all
the men were drunkards, prohibition
would be ineffective. Haven't you no
ticed that drunkards can always get
whisky?
In the dead hour of the night. when
you are awakened by two big he rats
fighting between the plastering and the
weather boarding, it sounds as though
two or three burglars on horseback
are in your room.
1t sometimes happens, when a boy
is a Great Reader and is expected to
become a senator or college president.
that he proves a disappointment and
becomes a tramp in order to have
more time to devote to his favorite
authors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

that an aeroplanist with few bombs
In his possession could demoIish fleet
OF battleships which might be engaged
In blockading a port or getting ready
to lombard it. But what would fleet
OF battleships be doing while a daring
aviator was dropping bombs on its
component parts one after the other?
Still, it is to be hoped that Mr.. Curtiss
and other aviators will prove absolute
ly such contentious. 1t might have a
tendency to curb the rather mad race
Of the nations to sink innumerable mil
lions of dollars in the huge engines of
war which outlive their usefulness or
get out of date in a brief decade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

trained pressure. the big spark leapeo
back and forth between the poies'
swapping and cracking as 1t did So
The reply was brief. When it was
finished, the girl. with gesture IN
describably joyous and light-neaIteo,
removed the receiver and turned TO
Leclair. The young man had never
seen her more beautiful, and his heart
beat quickly as he started forward, IN
tune to her mood. Her cheeks We're
flushed, her lips parted with smlie'
and her eyes shone like stars
her hands and Leclair's brain swan
with an Intoxicating sense OF victory.
The proposal which he had secretiy
feared was going to be easy, arter all.
She was making it easy.
ooh, Harry" she said, giving ms
And you've always been friend, so
you shall be the first to known!
Leclair's brain steadied suddenly. as
though he had been drenched with a
bucket of water: his bounding heart
sank forebodingly. He looked at her
aged to ask at last. with dry lips.
The girl had noticed that a change
had come into his manner. but she
was too engrossed in what the wire
less had told to see its true signifi-
canoe. Her head dropped shyly. and
the color in her cheeks dtepened- :.
paul has asked me to marry him"
she said softly. And I told him yes.
Wasn't it clever of him to-to ask by
wireless? Why, you aren't going?" as
Leclair turned away wait; Paul is
coming right over"
ST can't" said Leclair,. lifelessly. 81
just stopped in for minute to say
w."-(Copyrighted 1910 by Associat-
ed Literary PreSS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
BUSINESS MEN IN POLITICS.

So quietly have American business
men pushed themselves to the front
in civic affairs that as yet the people
at large scarcely appreciate the ire
mendous importance of the movement,
writes James oliver Curwood in the
July Bookkeeper. They have seen
striking changes during the past two
years which have improved the con-
ditions of living by 100 per cent, one
of the most notable of these changes
being in the pure food regulations.
Probably not one out of ten of the or
binary customers of a grocery mer-
chant knows that the present high
efficiency of the pure food laws has
been brought about almost entirely
by the business men themselves-by
the business men who handle and sell
food stuffs for the consumers. At first
the state pure food departments fell
into the hands of political buzzards
who are always watching for new OPP
portunities. and for a time there was
merry season of buying off," blind
chemistry and other tricks of the
graft trade. The business men
throughout the country made quiet
but almost concerted move. For
months the pure food question was
discussed at almost every meeting of
merchants and retailers associations,
and especially in the smaller cities
combinations were formed to bring
about a proper respect for the laws.
Manufacturers of impure and under
standard goods found that their peril
lay, not in the people at large, but in
the. business men with whom they
were dealing. and according to the fig
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
F7ogging a Schoolboy.

One small boy, Michael Burke by
name, made faces and called names
four years ago in public school at
Tolono, Ill. So doing he laid the foun-
dation of case for the supreme court
of the United States.
Michael's.. disorderly conduct, ex-
tended into an assault and battery, with
his young woman teacher as its VIC
| tim, won him flogging. And presum-
ably he took this at the time to be
the end of the matter. At least. we
may be sure that his immediate
thoughts went no. further than to the
smarting of his own person. The
Burke parents, however. looked be-
Annie Kelley, and got damages in a
local court.
1t being Miss Kelley's next move,
she became declared bankrupt.
Then, urging the point that the ma
tional bankruptcy law does not dis
charge a. person from debt incurred
through the committing of "willful and
malicious injuries to the person or
property of another" the Burkes had
Miss Kelley arrested for failure to sat
isfy the judgment.
From this point the case has zig
Jagged its way through state and fed
eral terms I'D to the most august trib-
unal at Washington Governor
Hughes will escape perhaps by the
width of a summer vacation a chance
to help in the decision as to whether
or not little Michael got proper
wha1ing-that is to say, a whaling
without malice.
Master Burke is now bov of Is.
He is old enough to reflect upon the
largeness of consequence which may
Ispring from an act petty in itself. We
trust he has stopped making faces and
calling persons out of their names. AS
for ourselves. we are impressed by the
marvellous sweep of an arm of govern
ment which can recast a constitu-
tional phrase today and deal with a.
problem of corporal punishment in
rural Illinois tomorrow. If this be pa
ternalism we are making the most of
it. Meanwhile the Burke Kelley strug-
GLE reaching the top-notch court in
four years. has it all over the cele-
brated Iowa calf case, in which the
parties grew old and died before the
final word was rendered.-New York
World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
The snonge Industry.

Such is the great variety or natural
products in the United States that the
average mind, as a rule, only grasps the
idea of the larger interests. such as
coal, steel, oil, etc., when he casts up
mentally the salient features of the ma
tons great production. AND yet there
are numbers of subordinate interests
that are of considerable Importance in
the aggregate OF the nations wealth,
and among these may be mentioned the
familiar and useful sponge.
1t is defined by the dictionary as AN
animal with pores in the body wall and
would be unintel1igible to the average
reader who is familiar only with the
sponge, so called, of commerce, which
is really no sponge at all, but Is act
ually the home of the real sponge, after
the minute animals have been removed
that once inhabited 1t. Huxley once
spoke Of It in his beautifully descrip-
tive way as 1.-THE %alled-up city OF
myriad tiny creatures so grouped along
roads and streets that each one could
get his daily bread from the water as
it hurried past him.
The tariff on sponges has turned at
tention to the increased production in
American waters, especially in the bays
and estvaries of Florida, which are ad-
p1irably adapted to its growth and sub
sistence, and although definite figures
are not to be had as to the total pro-
duction it is fair to assume that, while
the use of sponges must have kept pace
with the increase in population. the i'm
portation from abroad has steadily de-
creased since 1905. when $564.000 worth
of sponges were imported, until in 1909
the value Of the imports was but $780,
Oc0.
Every successful effort to build up and
increase the native output and dimin-
ish importation from foreign countries
is a distinct gain to the Industrial and
commercial resources of our country,
and should be encouraged by every 10y
er of the best interests OF his nation,As
from the aggregation of these smaller
interests, as well as that of the large
ores, is formed the great wealth of the
American people, based upon production
within our borders.-Pliladelp Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
HUN0R OF THE DRY

DIscs are fss you getting on at yoyr
ic saNs ." s"''n'n'nsiS '-f'aitimore Amer
softleigh ttimidIyl-lDo you believe in
(neaningly)-Yes, when the cure has
can.
What is the baby crying for, nv
cniid? dunno; e's alw'ys crying 1
upon the dark side of things as e does ~
London Punch
Webster was compiling the dictionary.
Getting together few words to use In
a 90 word telegram he explained Here
with the public called him blessed.-New
York Sum-
vo, Te Hb me What vi t man eats and III tell
eat fish, livery. Friday av. me lie an.
can't swim sthroke!'-CleveIand Leader,
.She-Did you say anything to mana
about your being too young? HelYes.
But he said when I once began to pay
PittsDurg Gazette-Times.
M NY address" said the valedictorian.
VIII pc very brief. want job" INV
remarks will be equally to the point. de
clared the guest of the evening, "I'ii give
you one -Louisville Courier-Journal.
80" said Miss Sharpe, this is vour
diamond engagement ring, Ell? When Mr..
battered you" "F1attered me?" oueried
MISS Gull Yes; you know, they say
Catholic Standard and Times.
In his haste to field a grounder the
snortstop accidentally swallowed his ouid
OF tobacco: Then he gave the captain the
grand hailing sign of distress and feebIy
chased himself to the clubhouse ssTailx
about your inside baseballi'' he groaned
Chicago Tribune.
''In This country" said the man who
was promoting the big irrigation project
water is the most valuable asset we
have" That settles it, sul,'' replied the
gentleman from Kentucky. at will neyah
invest a dollah, sub, in any place which
Chicago Record-Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Deliberation is not one of the char
acteristics of youth.
X \ &
Some of the keynotes sounded in
political campaigns are likewise false
notes.
y
Many folk are like cheap watches.
They go good for a while and then
stop.
y \
If echoes were more common. it's
probable that many people would not
have SO much to say.
X n
Presumably. few automobiles ever
heard of the old adage: BE sure
you're right, then go ahead"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
QUAKER sfEDTrATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
1t is sometimes an extravagant as
sertion to say that talk is cheap.
Possession is nine points of the law.
especially if it is self possession.
The ChanticIer is the name of a new
summer drink. Sounds like a cock
tale.
A small boy feels that he can never
have any fun in new clothes till he
gets them dirty.
When girl of 16 says she doesn't
care to go on picnic it's time TO send
for the doctor.
1t doesn't take much to please some
people who are tremendously pleased
with themselves.
Some men go on the principle be
sure you are right and then get some-
body else to do it for you.
> The question of whether or not life
is worth living is always suggested
when we pay a doctors bill.
Many an office seeker who feels that
his country calls him later Discovers
that 1t has called him down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

Governor Stubs and his friends have
been insisting all along that matters Of
national concern have no proper place
IN the state campaign. Yet Ethe in
Imitable Dave Leahy insists that criti-
cism concerning the number of guards
smployed at the state penitentiary
zones with bad grace from Senator
Curtis inasmuch as there are many
more guards employed by the United
states senate. If Dawes latest epistol-
airy effort was intended for a joke it
has been a success in provoking laugh
ter, and that's something all would-be
1oxes fail to accomplish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

The French Cabinet has decided to adopt
universal time, based on the Greenwich
standard. Heretofore, regardless of the
prevailing opinion that France was rather
fast, 1t has been 8 minutes slow. But It
came to time.
Local merchant advertises underwear,
u on Probably the knee-length-sleeve-
less kind.
Stray Indian in an Ohio town killed a
negro, and when asked for an excuse
observed: Him no good-me shoot UNI y
This Indian refused to tell where he came
from, but it is obvious that he came from
Georgia, where the excuse for killing a
negro is the shortest part of the AFFAIR
Before taking on Misto Johnsing. Frank
Gotch should be warned by some close
friend that the "toe-hold" is not recog-
nized in the Marquis of Queensbury rules.
senator Brfstow Is nothing If not foxvg
A few years ago he would have used the
price OF farm machinery for his key-note
now he uses the cost of automobile tires
Thus the Hon Bristow proves his ability
to keep up with the times.
One Topeka cat has discovered that
locusts are good to eat. A steady diet Of
these insects has improved his purr about
rs per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address Mt the rate of ten cents
q week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
State Journal will be to you like
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

ures of the pure food departments of
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
five out of every seven complaints now
made come through the retailers them
selves, and in these same states, within
the last two years, the pure food de-
partments have been taken so COM
pletely from political machine control
that 20 per cent of the members of
the staffs are business men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

This is more like it. Italy has made
O. formal demand for the extradition of
murderer Charlton. He may escape
punishment through the activities Of
expert alienists, but If Italy had re-
fused to show any disposition to bring
this young man to justice, she would
have deserved the striking of her name
from the list of civilized nations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

It has remained for a Pennsylvania
pastor to hit upon scheme to get the
young people to church. He advertised
that he would preach in the dark on
last Sunday night. The lights were to
he extinguished because of the heat.
The church was crowded. And need it
ne added that more than three-quarters
Of the congregation were young people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

1t begins to look like Charlton wouldn't
even have to invent new brand OF IN
sanity.
i. L. Dayhoff has a job in the Kansas
City workhouse. The idea that he should
be employed in some such INSTITUTION, was
ago.
When an automobile turns turtle. 1t
means great reduction in speed posslpi-
tiles. No one ever heard of g. turtle
travelling so miles an hour, unless he was
routed for fish market via through ex-
press.
A Chicago forger, after eluding the au-
thortties for several weeks was flnaily
captured by the wiles of a female detec-
as to be Almost unworthy of repetition:
for suckers"
Dementia Americana and Brain Storm
having gone out of fashion the best de-
Tense for homicide is the plea that the de-
PENDANT was ''dippy with the heat"
Only a close student OF the newspapers
yorce news Of the Gould family.
And. if Stubs were. Frenchman. he
would express his opinion thus: 'L'etat'-
c'est moii''
excuse to wear White pants. deacon
Squash.
NATURAL HISTORY. Oesson IT'D
1t is GOAT, and If you doubt,
He's full of fun and fleas without
And other junk within.
But, short the time indeed, we note,
Before the butcher stops
His mad career and "gets his goat
But calls 1t mutton chops"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press

From the New York Press.l
Coming through the rye one might
meet a policeman.
A hard way for man to decide
anything is the way his family does.
1t seems to make pay get away from
you all the easier to call it income.
No matter how many kinds of a fool
a man can be. his son can always
seem to beat him at it.
If woman can get from a man
after marriage to him 1 per cent of the
devotion she expected before, she can
make herself believe it is all there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

Clifford Pinchot is going to California
to make some speeches against the re-
nomination of Congressman Duncan
AdcKinlay. Surely it will be a waste
of time for Mr.. McKinlay to continue
to press his candidacy. At least, Mr..
Pinchot probably thinks so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

Militant methods on the part of suf-
fragettes. especially the kind which
have been popular with the womens
rights enthusiasts Of England, have
been criticised far and wide as being
of the improper sort and as doing the
cause more harm than good. But the
house of commons the other day pass
ed the second reading of the women's
suffrage bill by the large majority of
100 xrnfoe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

Word comes from Australia that its
government has decided it has no
power to prevent the display of the
pictures of the Johnson-Jeffries fight.
without wishing Australia anything
like hard luck, 1T is to be hoped that
those controlling the fight pictures will
take them there forthwith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

After centuries of backwardness. the
Chinese are beginning. to give indica-
tions that they are becoming modern.
The officials and wealthy men of one
of the large provinces in the Celestial
Kingdom have succeeded in cornering
the rice market and are selling this
commodity to the common people at al
most prohibitiVe prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
William E. Curtis, who is making a

William E. Curtis, who is making
tour OF the obscure corners of the earth
and writing pieces about them for the
chicago Record-Herald, reports that
nJakhikhevan, Armenia, claims to be
the place where Noah beached his ark
and that it is the oldest town in the
world. It is to be wondered how many
people have heard Of this place be-
fore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

BY dropping oranges near yacht
rfe Atlantic City while he was travelling
through the air 800 feet above the boat,
Glenn H. Curtiss has demonstrated to
tie satisfaction Of aviation enthusiasts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

And speaking Of oprortune things
how about the heavy rain which fell
generally throughout Kansas the other
evening?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14
Germans,
Americans,

Americans, Germans, Welshmen,
Italians. Poles, Hungarians, Croatians,
negroes, and other Pittsburgers, will
H,ake up the audience which Colonel
Roosevelt will address at Pittsburg,
Pa on September .. In all likelihood,
he'll have to talk Esperanto to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

!. "a movement has been started in IL
linois to elect a clean legislature. This
is one of those new movements which
would appear to be needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

Something real in the way Of re-
fributive Justice: AS crazed italian
was on the point Of numbering his wife
in New York the other day he drop
ped with an attack of heart failure.