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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22
FROA OTHER PENS
THE SUMMER WHOEVER,

4
The problem of the summer widower
is getting to be serious one in this
country Every year, with the ARRIVAL
of "the period of excessive caloric1ty,
as it is called by a fair Vassar gradu-
ate. thousands ofsArnerican homes are
brett by the departure of their reign
ing queens for mountain. lake and sea-
shore A supposedly humorous song,
-portraying the fancied jubilation or
typical husband over the so1ourn or
his matrimonial partner in rural re-
gions, had somewhat OF vogue last
season, but it was sung by summer
widowers only in an attempt to keep
UP their spirits.
If there is any individual on earth
whose general appearance resembles
that of a lost dog, it is the husband
who is trying to keep bachelors hall
at home He it is who feels most
keenly the hollow mockery OF that
sshurrah" in which the husband OF the
parture for bucolic wilds. The other
side of the picture is not presented
nv the writer of the song. We are
told nothing of how the deserted nus,
band feels as he enters the dark ana
empty house at midnight and listens
instinctiyely but in vain for the old
familiar snore, or the touching inquiry
respecting the cause of his tardlhess.
There is nobody to ask Where ne mas
been, nobody to tell him TO put out
customary warnings against coliidlns
with the inevitable chair. the MEAN
choIv nights have come, the saQdest
of the year, when wire ana cniiu ar
out of town and nougnt the neart
can cheer.-Pittsburg Gazette-T1mes.
sEIDEL CONTINUES TO SURPRISE
Emil Seidel. the Socialist mayor OF
| Milwaukee, is like Mr.. Gaynor IN one
respect; scarcely a day passes that ne
does not do some sensible thing IN q
simple way that no one had thought OF
| before. He had been in office only a
little over two months, yet the Repup-
licans and Democrats who prophesleo
dire things as a result or MS electloil
are Joining in his praise. he ooes not
act as they thought Socialist mayor
would act He seems to have nlgn
| regard for his oath of office, and 9
| wholesome respect for the laws and or
dinances of the city, that his Demo
cratic predecessor, David Rose, never
even pretended to have. AS German
terpret the laws 'liberally." Yet un-
der his control the total number OF sa-
looms has been cut down consloerapIS
by the refusal of licenses to a long us
of places which have been notorious,
allowed to break the excise laws an.
regulations with inpunity in the past
Ias+ week a hundred of these pro
ltected" places closed their doors in de
SPAR. Mayor Seidel is strictly enforc
ing the liquor laws in the restricted
Districts feat which was suppose
to be impossible. He has JUST nov
made it clear that the Johnson-Jeffrie
fight pictures will not be tolerated Il
Milwaukee,. In many ways he has bet
tered conditions in that city. Yet nj
methods are far from militant a.
81 Iila r. issue orders" he declares
} at nrefer to ask for cooperation. Ant
IL think that will generally accomplish
: the desired results. New York Even
ing Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

troll when the latter's resignation was
demanded. Perhaps this proceeding will
have a salutary effect in calling the
attention of governors and other pub
lie officials throughout the country to
the fact that the laws apply to them
as well as to the common people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY

subscribers OF the State Journn.
.wav during the summer may nave
the paper mailed regularly eacn uas
to nnv address at the rate OF ten cents
a week or thirty cents month 10Y
mail onIy.) Address changed as oi.en
a. desired. While out OF town tne
state Journal will be to you ike d
daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions 10 save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

Mayor Gaynor is making personal
Investigations of the conditions that
prevail in New York during the late
hours of the night and those of the
early morning. If it hasn't been done
already. attention will soon be called
TO the fact that in this Mr.. Gaynor is
merely initiating what Colonel Roose-
welt used to do when he was one of
New Yorks police commissioners. In
deed. it is pretty difficult for anybody
to do something that Colonel Roose-
Welt has not done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press

TF'rOm the New YORK Press
1t takes courage to refrain from
pretending to be brave.
Friendship seems to be able TO
stand a much heavier strain than love-
A man never knows how much he
needs money till his family teaches
him.
You can see through a woman's rea-
sons for wearing some of the summer
clothes she does by seeing through
them.
When a man starts in to fix the
lawn mower It's sign his wife would
better send the children to spend the
day with their grandmother so as not
to learn a lot of new languages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

"The Republican National League
is the name of a new organization
which was formed in Kansas City the
other day. 1t proposes to "perpetuate
the Roosevelt policies and principles"
If President Taft is as successful in
getting legislation from the sessions
of congress of the immediate future
as he was with the session just closed,
there won't be much work for this
organization to do after 1912. All of
the Roosevelt policies will be perpetu-
ated in equitable and workable laws
. by that time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

Secretary Ballinger has been tried
before two tribunals" says the Kansas
City Star. zone was the congressional
committee, packed in his interest. The
other was the people. Whatever the
former tribunal reports the people
have decided that Ballinger won't do
In other words. Golfers Weekly and a
number of newspapers constitute "the
people" of these United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

Vanity, vanity. all is vanity. Taxi
cabs of the "de luxe variety, which are
soon to be put in service in New York
are to be constructed with glass bodies
SO that the women Who can afford to
ride in them will be able to display their
fine feathers to the multitudes they
mass ON the streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22
KANSAS COAAENT

DIRIGIBLES FOR THE SLEEPLESS|
Are You awake when you should be
asleep? Have you tossed restlessly
through the still watches of the night.
yours ticks like a court house clock
ana every cuckoo clock in the block
strikes the half hour, is something hard
to understand. And, by the way, did
anybody ever wake in the night to
near the clock strike the even hour?
The answer is no. However, as the
man of the Barrack Room Ballads
would say: THAT is another story.
This one has to do with new lure
for Morpheus. when the malicious lit
tie gods eludes you as if you were
plague.
No longer need you study the mad
dening pattern of the wall paper.
nor count the foolish sheep jumping
over the fence. Neither need you burn
the midnight oil over the memorable
Thoughts of Socrates" A New York
clubman has discovered a fast-asleep
panacea for the wide-awake assocla-
or rather a trip in one. just before re-
firing II you wish to retire hrSt, IL
is as well to omit the balloon trip. But,
If there are indications that your night
is to be sleepless, telephone the garage
and tell your aviator or whatever the
chauffeur of a dirigible is called, to
give the balloon an extra feed of gaso-
line and bring it around to your house.
When it arrives, spring lightly into the
saddle and enjoy a brisk canter toward
the land of the rising sun and the
milkman's matinee.-Hutchinso Ga
zette.
THE PERNICIOUS SENSATION
HABIT
The American public is fast ac-
quiring the sensation habit. Time
hangs heavily on it's hands and the
commonplace skaters it's nerves, I'M
less there is something going on over
which the papers will rave and the
crowds can mass and hurrah.
Just lately the public has had its
fill, with the airship stunts, Roose-
welt welcome, and the Reno fight
events have only made others more
imperative, and increased the pubic
hunger. Something must follow that
will arouse expectancy and call TOT
| black headlines and columns of gush
| or else we, the people, won't De abe
| to survive these hot days.
A public habit is just as easy &c
form as an individual habit and u
can be just as pernicious, and TINS
sensation habit has few good points
| to commend it.
A dose of thrills is becoming a.
now. as his morning eye-opener IS tc
the topper and the after effects OF the
| former have much similarity TO the
unsettled stomach, brown taste and big
head feeling that follow boozing.
The public needs a Kelley cure &c
rid it Of it's growing appetite Tor SEN
sationalism and put 1t in normal
| healthy condition, and if it don't gel
| it this old country will have genu,
| Inc case of delirium tremens one o.
these days and we will all be seeing
snakes.-Chanute Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

Newspaper items are frequently too
indefinite. One such came from Long
Beach, Cal, the other day. It told of
a series of minor accidents that were
incident to the cleaning of some bed
springs with gasoline. But it neglect
ed to state why the springs were being
cleaned. or what was being removed
from them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

An unusual spectacle is being present
ed in Iowa these days. The governor
Of the state, B. F. Carroll, has been
indicted by a county grand jury on a
charge OF criminal libel. Z 1t is charged
that the governor delivered himself Of
ubelIous statements concerning the for
mer chairman of the state board OF con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

General Allen, chief signal officer of
the United States army says that the
army must he equipped with fleets of
aeroplanes and airships. Sure. The
United States army must have every
thing that is fashionable with the
other armies on the face of the earth,
regardless of expense or anything else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

All the governors of the several states
have been invited to participate in the
conservation congress to be held at
st. Paul on September 5. But there is
nothing on the program relative to the
conservation of gubernatorial Jobs, and
that's what many of the governors will
be most interested in just about that
&f,,,a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

Shades of Shakespeare ana other I'M
mortaIs who have made the stage ram
Gus! John Arthur Johnson designates
himself as all actor. This must maAs
lin Corbett awful angry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

when you look at fly through
microscope you discover that 1t Is one
OF the most ingepiously diaDollcal
pieces of mechanism ever turned out OF
natures workshop iss the mild ana
gentle way the Chicago Tribune puts It.
How the flies ears must burn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

Noting the case of the man, who, see
ing his wife going through his pockets
rnistook her for burglar and shot her'
the New York Herald remarks that
slaughter Of married women VIII be
frightfuI If this method becomes popu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

And speaking of summer resort weatn-
ar of the delightful and invigorating
variety it would be well nigh impossi-
BILE to find any of more desraDle
quality than that which has preValieo
IN these parts for several days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22
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Out at Hutchinson negro thua
walked in a restaurant shot the night
hasher and removed SIS from the cash
register. and says our correspond
emit in closing, "a policeman arrived
just one hour later"
Our correspondent, being no doubt.
a citizen of Hutchinson, is inclined to
hrag. But we have policemen right
here in Topeka who could have made
it in So minutes flat.
When they arrest a white man down
in Mexico, they keep him incommuni-
cado. We are not strong on Spanish,
but gather that this means keeping
him half-starved and we'll supplied
with Mexican insects.
Down in Missouri the state supreme
court has decided that the affections
of wife are worth $4,000. But in that
particular instance, the said affections
were purloined by wealthy man. The
court does not wish to be understood
a. placing a general valuation of $780,
900 on all Missouri wives.
Wireless from Eastport, Me-: "Presi-
| dent Taft's yacht, Mayflower, left this
port with the president on board. He
| is known positively to be on board. as
| the yacht is down by the head, and
| drawing about a fathom more than she
did while Mr.. Taft was ashore inspect
ing the Sardine factory"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22
NATURAL HISTORY. Gesson ky
This cannot be a Belgian Hare
A hare would turn and run;
Perhaps it is a grizzly BEAR,
So Johnnygetyourgun

Mcbride made his annual pilgrimage
to this office today, and brought along
this one. which he claims has How
eldisann" tied to post. He says:
guy who offered to bet on the ]. ].
scrap. I said would take the dingee
at to 1, the prevailing price. He
made the talk, handed SIS to the
stakeholder and called him: He
seemed to hesitate about putting up
the SO. and 1 pulled out a silver dol
lar and said: I'll give you a dollar
to come on with the bet He did.
That night I pulled down SIS, but
was only 50 ahead. What I want to
know is this: Was the bet a to 10,
3 to /, to Is or to 9 shot?"
What do You say?
Strike breakers on the Grand Trunk
refused to work. Certainly. r. they
have been strike breakers.
A Newton man, while in Jail await
ing trial, took a dose of eonsomme
of match-heads. The light lunch sent
him onward.Lprobably toward the
place where sulphurous hiproducts al
ways occupy position on the bill Of
fare.
This department is entitled, under
the rules of the game, to two weeks
spend only one week of it, and put
the other week in cold storage, on the
theory that half a loaf is better
than none.
BY carefully sticking to a diet of
sour milk a Bulgarian lady has at
tanned the rather over-ripe old age of
1875. But who the samhill wants to
live 1875 years,-especially on a diet
of sour milk?
The gentleman for whom the Gano
apple was named, has just died and
passed to his reward. The Gano oues-
tion being settled, will some one kind
ly answer this one: ''Where is the
gent for whom the Ben Davis apple
was named?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22
SOME ONE SEES BEAUTY IN YOU

oONAE I'm II 0E@E<0 AoEA<AO Il IN 1OO
Our dear ones, however they may
look to outsiders. are always beautiful
to us If we think of their looks at all,
writes Erman J. Ridgway in the De-
lineator for August. Our friends, too.
have long passed the stage when we
appraise their looks. Looks may lead
to love. but character retains it. We
love our friends for what they are. but
in each one we find some superlative
physical beauty. It may be the eyes;
or the mouth; or the hands. 1t may
be voice; the smile; the laugh. 1t may
be the poise; the walk; the carriage;
but something we are sure to find.
Have you ever seen in one list the
adjectives we are wont to use in
speaking of a friend7 She may be
pretty attractive. beautiful. distin-
guished, delightful, charming, fascinat-
ing, stunning interesting, inspiring,
superb, splendid, glorious She may be
sympathetic, helpful, restful, kindly.
cordial, unself1sh, loyal, tender. For
these, and a hundred other reasons, we
choose our friends. and no two will
ever agree exactly in their estimates of
another. But with a world full of
DeduIleS OIL DOuN anu character IL
would seem that everybody should
have host of friends to admire and
treasure if he have an eye for beauty.
If one cares to make a good i'm
! preston, to be found attractive and
beautiful, health is first considera-
ton. And the second is plain. old
fashioned cleanness. A healthy, clean
person, neatly dressed, however sim
ply, is bound to be attractive. But the
wellsprings of beauty are in womans
heart.
Her body's beauty is but poem
Written by God about her soul.
Her gown is the binding for the poem
which, if it serves its purpose truly
will suggest the sentiment of the poem
and at the same time will harmonic
with the other bindings on the shelves
of life's library.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

Strike breakers on the Grand Trunk
refused to work. Certainly. II they
had wanted to work they would not
have been strike breakers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

Siliicus-Love Is a game In xzh,,a r,-.
deals the cards. Cynicus-Then w,v Az
ne SO OFTEN deal from the boffo,, Sr u ~
deck Record. " tn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22

Farm Hand-Can't see why Won ST. tbsre
gay after day, when yer never ketch moth
m n, Aaipose Person-My friend, the doc
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-05-07
DEFECT OF The AEaopLANE
The Breaking Of One Wing In Some
Machines Certain to Result
In Disaster.

That some aeroplanes are able to
come safely to the. ground after break-
ing q wing In the air and that some
are not was emphasized by the death
OF Leon Delagrange at Bordeaux.
France. A rather strong wind wac
blowing and when the machine head.
ed into the wind the right wing SUD.
denly broke and the monoplane fell
to the ground This is the first acct.
dent which has occurred owing to the
collapse of an aeroplane when in the
air. However. some time ago SINH
lar accident happened to Aeronaut
Latham. but without disastrous re-
Suits
One wing OF his monoplane broke
on and stood almost at right angles
to the other wing, yet by leaning to
one side and warping the remaining
wing, Latham was able to guide his
machine down in circles and bring Il
safely to the ground. After repairing
theswing he attached 1t in such way
that when he was up In the air he
could pull a cord and cause the wing
to break of as before. He did this,
and came down a second time with
the wing broken, simply to demon.
strate that broken wing did not nee.
essarily mean disaster.
In the machine used by Latham the
wings are secured separately to q
mast so that the breaking Of one does
not affect the other. In the Della
grange monoplane the wings are con.
nected together over a tripod, the re-
suit being that II one breaks the 9th.
er collapses. and the machine is sure
to be dashed to the ground.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-05-07
WHEN EVERYTHING LOOKS BAD
Then 10 the Time to Bring Out the
Ginger Jar and Take Good Dose
Of Its Contents.

DO you feel gloomy, melancholy, de-
1ected? Do things look blue? Are
collections slow and are bills piling
up? Ia your establishment stagnating
from a lack Of energy. ginger, enthusi
asm? Then. says a. writer in the Book
keeper. ginger up!
Are you up against II in every sense
OF the term-eligible for membership
In the Down-and-Out club? Does II
seem as II the crack OF doom is about
to enter the city lines? Have you &C.
copied failure as the inevitable end
and do you now wait patiently. but
learfully, for the coming Of the sher
IN! Have you given up the battle? n
you haven't. then don't! Don't do II
anyhow.
But ginger up! Send the office bow
scampering after the ginger jar. Get
IL out OF that corner where Il has
been hidden for over a decade. nm.
touched and covered with dust and
cobwebs. Open 1t and take some
goodly portions Of it's contents. There
nowl You feel better. A smile lights
up your coiintenance. A determination
has been inoculated In youn system
You become enthusiastic. Il ia con.
tagious and your employees are en-.
Unused, too You rally: you fight. az
Will" becomes your motto 81 can't"
Is thrown into the waste basket. where
It belongs. You win! You must wini
It's natural.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-05-07
The Nations skuII.maklns.


Scientists. like poets. can be dithy-
rambic and rhapsodical, and lead gov
ernments into publishing works Of
fiction in the guise of reports of in
vestigations. So while admitting to
the full all that the American envir-
onment does in affecting and modify
ing the inner being. mental outlook
and social customs of the many races
which come from abroad. It will be
with considerable skepticism that
ethnologists read the latest report of
the immigration bureau on quickly at
tanned physical notifications, noted
In immigrants to this country, or at
least that portion of the report which
seems to show that structural changes
follow mere living In this country, ow-
Ing to better nutrition. etc. Of course
where there are intermarriages and a
blending Of types IN parents It Is to
be expected, and Is visible to the most
careless observer. But, after all, what
we are more concerned with Is the
Americanizing Of the contents of the
skull. American hatters and milliners
can be depended on to produce hats
to fit any shape of head.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-05-07
ACCORDING 70 The LOCALITY
,Nieknamss Given Australians Vary
Depends on Which Colony He
Makes His Home In.

Nearly ali my friends" remarked
an Australian the other day, "oall me
q Cornstaik. I've quit correcting
them long ago.
Nov. as It happens. the term
should only be applied to the people
OF New South Wales. They are the
tall. slim blokes. who look as though
you could break them In two between
your finger and thumb come from
the colony OF Victoria. where we are
known by the still more unattractive
sobriquet OF Gumsuckers.' on account
OF our great forests of blue gum trees
Queensland is in the tropics. and
its inhabitants are called Banana Eat.
ers. The South Australians are Crow
eaters. because In times OF drought
the natives are sometimes reduced to
the use OF crows as food. West Aus.
tralia occupies nearly half of our
island continent. and nine-tenths of Its
area consists of hot and arid des-
ert. For that reason the natiye.born
colonists are known as Sand Crop
ers.
so. call me 'Gumsucker' II Won
like. but never a 'Cornstalk.' and the
next time you want to apply a nick.
name to al Australian ask him from
which colony he comes"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-05-07
NO ESCAPE FROM The 7uNAs
Flying Fish and sardines Rounded
Up In Schools and Devoured
by Hundreds.

l have observed some curious
scenes at sea. but never have l seen
fear so forcibly expressed as by a
school OF flying fishes exhausted and
at the mercy Of the voracious tunas,
declares a correspondent Of the Out,
Ing Magazine. have had them gather
about my boat and cling to it's keel
as closely az they could. while the
air was full Of leaping tunas and soar
Ing flying fish. At such times when q
school OF sardines is rounded up the
fishes are so terrified that men have
rowed up to them and scooped them
In by the pailful
have stood in boat when the air
seemed literally full of fish, the tunas
coming up with a rush from below,
and endeavoring to catch the flying
fishes with tremendous leaps. Some
times they take them in midair;
again they strike and knock them
higher. bleeding or dead, or miss them
altogether. But whatever the result,
the tuna is never displaced; It makes
the same spectacular jump, utterly
unlike that of the swordfish, shark,
or tarpon. returning to the sea head
nrst with graceful curve.