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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

touched the frili OF pink chiffon that
edged the low neck Of her gown.
Your buds are here" she said SOFTLY
and Noel saw that his pink roses form
ed garland across her bosom above
the violets. After that, events moved
rapidly, and with Mildred's hands ia
his own and her head on his breast ne
was explaining all his doubts and fears
since he had left her that afternoon.
And Mildred explained that Tom Ken
yon was engaged to her sister. Ethel,
and Ethel had pinned the white violets
upon Mildred's gown, for generous Tom
had sent too many for one person
TIE miracle did not occur till the
next day when Noers Uncle Francis
OSmond offered him a place In his
banking house. I'm order to learn the
business which you must one day in
herit, young manr' he said sharply.
I've been Watching you, Noel, and ex-
pecting you to fall into the fast pace
everv day, but I'm disappointed, agree
ably. my boy, I happened to be In that
florist shop yesterday docking at or
chids behind a screen) and saw you
turn down the violets and pay for the
roses like man--you're the right
stuffr'-(Copyright 1910, by Asso-
ciated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
THE FIR WASTE.

THE average annual fire waste of the
United States for the five years end
ing with 1907 was $252.00o, 900, and the
losses for the year 1908 beginning with
$24,00o.0oO in January and steadily in
creasing, aggregate over $20o00G 600.
Although there were but seven fires
during the year 1908 where the losses
were $1.o0o, 900 or more. the aggregate
loss equals that of the year of the
great Baltimore confiagration. When
the business man of large interest faces
a restriction of his credit due to the
fact that he can no longer obtain suffi-
Gent fire insurance to cover his COM
bustible holdings. the fact that we may
have been burning up $500 worth of
property every minute day and night.
for the past six years, may at last
penetrate his consciousness" writes
Alfred Strmpe in the March Popular
Mechanics. and puts the following
question:
What if we were to lose a quarter of
8 billion dollars every year in wheat,
or cotton or beef? What if such a value
in shipping should sink in New York
harbor? What If the national treasury
should be looted annually of that
amount or business failures approxi-
mate that hgure?"
This is a question that should cause
business men and everybody else to
ponder considerably. There is no such
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
GoNIPERs AND PROHIBITION.

Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, has de-
c,ined an invitation to assist in the
campaign for local option which is be-
ing waged in Chicago. He is not in
sympathy with such q. movement. 1t is
his belief that local option and prohi-
bition have proved themselves to be
failures. He thinks the proper regula-
ton of liquor traffic is much moro ef-
fective than the adjustment of saloons
Tc prove bis point. he asserts there is
not a city in Maine where a stranger
can not go and buy all the beer and
whisky he wants.
That may be true of Maine but it is
not true of Kansas these days where
an honest and successful effort is being
ade in almost every section of the
state to enforce the prohibition law.
There was time in Kansas, and not so
long ago at that, when conditions here
in respect to operations OF saloons, or
their prototypes the Joints were just
about what Mr.. Gon1pers pictures them
to be in Maine. Such a time. though, is
of the past and there does not appear
to be any possibility of its recurrence.
The reason for this is that the senti-
1nent of the great majority of the peo-
pie the SldL6 Is III IdNOT Vi SQCI1 Oil
enforcement of the prohibition law as
has prevailed here during the past four
years. They will see to it that only
such men are placed in office as will
continue to enforce the law in this fash
ion. A man now has pretty small
chance Of being elected to any office in
the state unless it is known that he ia
vcrs Just as effective an enforcement
of the prohibitory law as he does Of all
other laws.
If the conditions in the various COM
munities of Kansas had not been ma
terially improved through a strict en-
forcement of the prohibitory law it is
far from likely the strong sentiment i'll
favor of this law and its accomplish
n1ents would have developed to the ex-
tent it has among the people. This law
enforcement has not stopped the drink
ing of liquor in Kansas. Persons who
want it have it shipped into them or
get it from the occasional bootlegger
who has the ternerity to ply his trade
in defiance of the law. But il has abol-
ished the saloon and that is doing a
great deal, regardless Of the opinions of
Mr.. Gonspers and others to the. con-
trary. No matter how stringent may
be the regulations for the control of
saloons they are nothing but breeding
places for trouble in one form or an
other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
THE FAIR GRoUNDs.

Attractive as is the proposition to
turn the fair grounds into city park
and recreation field. there are many
persons who believe mat 1t would be
a grave mistake to move the proposed
state agricultural exposition to another
locality. Certainly such a thing is out
of the question for this years fair. And
although these grounds are small as
compared with the area extent of state
fair grounds in some of the neighbor-
ing states. they more than compare
favorably with the size of the grounds
where some of the largest and most
successful fairs are held. Take Tor
onto, for instance. Its fair grounds
comprise but seventy acres and its fair
is one of the largest and most COM
prehensive of any that are held on the
American continent. Then. too. the
present fair grounds here can be en-
larged to the south and west by the
requirement of much available land
which is not held at unreasonable
rrices. And there is no denying the
fact that the location of the fair
grounds is ideal. Not only are they
now reached by an excellent street car
service, which could be materially in
creased to meet any demands. but the
grounds are actually within a short
walking distance OF the business GEN.
ter CT the city.
1t has been suggested. and the sug-
gestion is an excellent one. that the
city might raake :, lease with the coun-
ty for the use of the fair grounds for
Park purposes during the long interim
between fairs. For the better part of
the year and during its most pleasant
seasons these grounds are almost idle.
If the city could get control Of them
under n reasonable lease it could go
ahead through the park department
and beautify the grounds in a way that
would make them most attractive for
park and recreation purposes. Lakes
could be provided as has beer. sug-
gested by damming up of the Shun-
ganunga,s and such improvements of
this sort Is are made would greatly en-
nance the value of the grounds for ex-
I osition purposes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News.J
Vanity is due to leak in ones wis
dom tank.
Give truth a square deal and it will
not be crushed to earth.
The best people on earth are your
wife's folks-so she thinks.
A brother is a young man who
never 1atters his grown-up sister
Compliments and dsh stories should
be swallowed with lots of salt.
Our idea &c silly girl Is one who
imagines that pouting is becoming TO
to her.
Many family that isn't wealthy has
a dozen servants--one after another.
It takes at least one round OF an
piause to square an audience with an
actor.
man seldom has enough snare
time to convince woman that she's
mistaken.
Many an otherwise truthful woman,
lies about the amount Of money her
husband is making.
And the man who kills time will dis
cover that sooner or later it will come
back and haunt him.
You may have noticed that a woman
never finds a play uninterestine II the
Ieaoing lady wears different Gown in
each act. IA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
HYHAWKER JOTS

| No one, says the Belle PLANE News.
| gives the average boy credit for his
aches and pains.
After the Georgia horticulturist sue
ceeds in growing black cotton, the
Atchison Champion supposes that some
young plant wizard will come forward
| with the statement that he is raising
roasted coffee.
Specialize" remarked Bill Sincaller to
the Vinland Vine the other day. ''My
| family used to be ashamed OF the
gasoline smell when L fixed up for a
party, but they are proud of 1t now.
A joke is told ON DR.. Miller of Glasco
by the Sun: A few days ago he sold
off his chickens. He must have for
gotten this, for next evening, when
thew failed to come home to roost, he
went searching with 4 lantern about
the premises of a neighbor to see if he
could locate them.
A Leavenworth woman frightened
at the typhoid fever epidemic, boiled
water for the table and sat down to
read a magazine while it was cooling,
says the Post. The first article she laid
her eyes on was Dead germs more
dangerous than live germs She de-
cided to filter the boiled water then,
but has since learned that a germ can
crawl through plate glass, so she is
going to take chances and swallow the
germs hereafter.
The best way to build up a city is
rend and tear down. All the resi-
dents of town are partners, not OPP
ponents. In all likelihood the more
business done by your rival the more
treats a customer fairly, honestly and
courteously, will get his share, and the
more business that can be secured by
united effort, the better it will be for
all. When a town ceases 70 grow it
begins to die. and the more people try
to kill off each other in their business
and good name, the more rapidly will
utter ruin come to all. stand together
If a man shows ability to prosper do
not pull him back with Jealousy, or pull
him down with cold indifference.-E.
D. George.
ker in his Osborne Farmer: Every
body, if they NEEDLE around this coun-
try long enough, viii make bad
break. rye got mime In asrash and
unguarded moment I announced that
my longing desire was to lead mob
that would hang the fellow who in
vented the Nobody loves fat man
postcard. Bitterly have regretted that
sad event. Intoxicated with egotism
and swelled up with corpulence had
the wild idea that I would crush the
whole world with a few coarse words.
But alas! How little knew the tenn
ish vow my mail has contained moth
ing but old fatty postcards. They
are even poked in under my door by
night and slipped into my overcoat
pocket in the day time. They are en-
closed in envelopes to fool me and
hidden in my daily paper. Even my
eyes have taken to fooling me. When
1 start to look at the funny pictures
in the paper these pictures begin to
change instantly and 1 see nothing but
a string of Nobody loves q fat man.
know that 1 am goner. saw
couple of the deacons in my church
looking at me the other day and they
were whispering. That means my
finish. 1 am at the mourners bench
and sobbing out my penitence, but the
heart of humanity has turned to stone.
Postcards don't lie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Scarcely anybody is satisfied in get
ting just what he deserves.
X x
There is a good deal of sham about
much OF the stuff which is labelled love.
X y
Prominent among the bores are those
who are continually propounding use
less questions.
x
Children are also backward about tell
inc their ages when their youthful
looking mothers are around.
X X X
Generally. the people who are most
severe with their criticism of others
get terribly vexed if any of the same
medicine IS handed to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.

IF'rom the Atchison Globe.l
We are all so anxious to get mali:
but when we get it. 1t usually brings
trouble.
In some families you are always
placed in the position of having to
take Sides
He has never been ten miles away
from nome" neighbors often say of
each other. 'but he thinks he knows
everything "
mother can have the most terrible
voice when she SAYS to her baby when
it is acting naughty: WHAT did
mother TELL you"
The women are carrying pocketbooks
this spring almost as large as valises.
It's bad idea: a woman always looks
funny carrying valise.
1T always humiliates me to meet
man. and say. cordially, How are you,
Bill?' ard have him reply, in stately
manner, Good morning. MR.. Wat
son. Drake Watson.
"a woman once became mad at me-
said a man recently. land although I
was certain / had done nothing to Of
fend her. she acted as though she knew
of a murder I had committed, and that
she could have me hanged if she chose
to tell
Ever since 1 can remember, have
been trying to quit some bad habit.
believe this is expected of the men, but
do not believe ever knew a woman
who was trying to Quit anything. A
woman never admits she has a bad
habit. Drake Watson.
Don't demand that you must agree
with everything you read. Some peo-
pie will not take a newspaper unless it's
opinions agree with their own. That's
foolish. See what the other side has
10 say. Somewhere between your ex-
ted opinions of the opposition, may be
found the truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
HUAoR or THE DAY

Miss Passeigh--I have had my pic
ture taken once every year since I was
10. Miss Youngthing-Oh, do let me see
one of the old daguerreotypes. They're
so quaint.-Roseleaf.
"They used to hang a man in England
Tor stealing a pig" well, it will be
grand larceny in this country before
long If prices keep going up."--Louis-
scriib !1 am going. to call my new
play The Wicked Flee Wigwag-I sup
adelphia Record.
a rich bachelor or rich widower? JOY.
give, up without a struggIe.-cieveian
Leader.
What are they so stuck up about?,
Who tes you S Sn0"! ana They hs ave friend
dozen fresh eggs every now and them
Detroit Free Press.
Teacher-What did George Washington's
father say when he found young George
h hS Gu. q low the i, cherry trsea Tommy
tion.-Chicago News.
Restful Rhoadsides-say. Walker, did
ye ever work in yer life? Walker Rounde-
ly-De nearest / ever come to II wuz
de daiy df hep a15eSa In
once you called me the light of your
existence" Yes, know il. That was
before had any idea you were going to
become the dead weight of n."-Chicago
Record-Herald.
What makes Bliggins keep footing his
automobile horn % Hes economizinR
The horn is the only part of the machine
he can exercise without its costing him
a lot OF money --washinstOn Star
Miss PiainIy-When 1 get engaged 1
don't intend TO have any mystery about
it. Miss Peril don't see how you can
avoid IL, dear Every one Will regard IL
as a mystery.-Boston Transcript.
Wigg-How do you know he's foreign
er? He has no accent. Wagg--N9; but
he knows so many ways In which this
country could be improved.-Philadeiphi
Record.
Chauffeur-A racing car makes buIiier
noise. Motor boatist-But with q motor
boat you can take your noise ina. afTcn
awful still places.-Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.

From the Philadelphia Record.l
Pot boilers never set the world on
fire.
In politics the dark horse is really
chestnut.
When a girl throws kiss it doesn't
take q ball player to catch IL.
The CULVER in a girls voice is fire.
quently used to draw a beau.
OF two evils the average man
chooses the one he enjoys best.
Even when he is down to his last
nickel many fellow has more money
tAan brains.
Before a fellow tells girl she is the
apple of his eye he should be sure she
isn't already paired.
The fellow who never tries is at
least spared the modification of know
ing what he can't do.
Hoax-"See that deaf mute wearing
diamond rings" Joax-"Yes; how his
conversation sparkles!'
First Oystor-"The clam is awful
close" Second Oyster-"Yes; but in
summer he has to shell out"
No: Maude, dear; we would scarcely
say that the new chanticleer hats were
chic. Your French is very bad.
Some people are SO disagreeable that
it's a source of wonder how they can
keep on such good terms With them
selves.
Some people are not satisfied to
make a dollar go as far as possible.
They want it to come back and bring
another one with il.
Cynicus-''He used to tease that red
headed girl about her hair: but she
got even with him. Syllicus-"How %
Cynicus-'She married him"
Blobbs-"It isn't considered polite to
ask the cost of anything you admire,
is II? Slobbs--"No, especially n
the thing you admire happens to be a
woman's complexion
'T am a plain-spoken man." said the
applicant for a Job. I'm afraid you
won't do replied the railroad oniciaI.
we are advertising for an experienced
train announcer"
Doctor-"Your husband needs abso-
lutte rest, Madam" Mrs. Talkalot-
That's what I keep telling him every
minute OF the day." Doctor-"WeII
suppose you refrain from telling him
for at least two hours every day"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

Democratic leaders of national repute
are making medicine these days at Hot
Springs, Ark Among other things
they are talking over the various can
didates who have been suggested for
the next Democratic presidential noni-
nation. And they do not appear to be
paying much attention to William Jen-
nings Bryan. But he can be depended
upon to look after himself when he gets
home from his sightseeing tour in
South Am lea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
FRON OTHER PENS
IMMUNE.

No American will be surprised by
the statement that Theodore Roosevelt
has been found proof against the var
ious types of jungle fever; for accord
ing to his friends. the ex-president is
stalWart enough to throw off any con-
tagion and. according to his foes. he is
himself fever of special type. On
the latter hypothesis. Mr.. Roosevelts
escape from the pestilence which has
stricken down veteran explorers and
missionaries is logical enough; for is it
not a maxim of medicine--or, at least,
of a certain school-that like cures
like?" And would it not be monstrous
to suppose that one species of fever
could prey upon another?
The real explanation of the great
fauna1 naturalist's perfect health pro-
badly lies in his complete knowledge of
the latest discoveries in this branch of
sanitation. 1t was not for nothing that
he sent body of experts to Panama to
round out the record which similar
body of experts had made in Cuba. If
men of European stock could live and
work on the isthumus, why should they
not likewise hunt with impunity In the
wilds of the Dark Continent?-NeW
Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press. /

Diplomacy is wanting to Insult a
man and letting him do it to you.
Once in a long while an investment
turns out almost as well as a gamble.
The time that money makes the most
difference in people is when they don't
have it
Most men say exceptions prove the
rule because they don't know any 9TH
er way to prove it.
TIE man who would rather walk than
ride in an automobile would rather tell
fish stories than catch them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

one Kansas farmer has cleared $4,000
in IL years on a rented farm. This is
about the best advertising of the posi-
bilities of farming in Kansas that has
come to the front in a long time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

chine to the point where machine of
over 40 horse power will be taxed $50.
The money collected from these fees
and also from the fines for violating the
regulations is to be applied to the state
highway fund for the betterment of the
roads. A number of other states would
do we'll to follow the example of New
York in this particular
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

Only four more days are left in which
1t will be possible for voters to register
Tor the most important school board
and commission primaries which are to
be held on March g. And many are
the voters who have yet to do their
fun civic duty in this respect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

Perhaps the price of railroad fares
will not come in for SO much criticism
now in view of the fact that the Ger
man airship line which is soon to be
put in operation proposes to charge 500
for a thirty-nlile trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

AS the Philadelphia Record so point
edly puts it, the fact that Commander
Peary wants to make all he can out of
his book on the North Pole hardly
warrants him in Withholding from con-
gress proof of his discovery when he
seeks promotion in the navy on account
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

A measure is slated for passage in
the New York state legislature which
provides state rules and regulations
governing automobiles. Among other
things it levies an annual state license
fee on a graded scale for motor cars.
The owner of machine of less than %
horse power will have to pay an annual
tax of IS and this tax is increased ac-
cordinG to the horse power of ma
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seeks Death in Pound.

Angry because Gyp. its mate, had d
new and pretty brass collar. Ted. a
valuable setter belonging to Adclphus
j. SWEET, Sunday, when whipped for
jealousy, ran from the house. tore its
old leather collar off with its paws
and then logged a mile to the dog
pound, leaped the high fence, and took
its place in one of the kennels re-
served for stray CANNES condemned
to death.
Gyp had been twice confined in the
pound last summer, having been gath
cred in by the dog catchers. Each
time it's owner redeemed it. That's
how the dog came to know the loca-
ton of the pound and the difference
between the kennels. The animals
intention, the police say, was suicide,
as plain as could be. But, though
seemingly q wise dog, Gyp had not
been reading the papers Of late. and
therefore did not know the pound was
closed on October 1 last for the win
ter. 1t was as safe in the abandoned
"deadhouse''. as If it was in its own
home, but it didn't know It.
SWEET tracked the dog to the pound.
He was too dignified to climb the
fence, so he 'phoned to Town Clerk
Henry Trippett, who sent a messenger
with key. Gyp looked mournfully
at its master, as If to say, "Good-by.
unkind SIRE and whined q dismal
protest when yanked out of the ken
mel and taken honfe.-Montclair On
J.) dispatch to New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

Noticing the little rift in the congress
sional insurgent band the Washington
Star remarks: Regular insurgents and
insurgent insurgents are preparing
for a fight among themselves"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

Weather representations are uncer-
tain things to deal in but it would ap-
pear that winters husky backbone has
finally been broken. Still a cold snap
would scarcely be in order until the
buds on the fruit trees are better de-
ralnred
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

Now there is talk Of gigantic strike
before long on the part of the workers
in the coal mines OF the country. Pos
sibly the high cost of living Of the pres
ent day would not be a matter of so
much concern in many quarters if
various branches OF labor were not so
eager to dig up reasons for striking and
indulging in the idleness that ensues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

Something of a cruel fate seems to
be pursuing the Ednas these days.
That's Mrs. Jack Cudahy's name and
a bank in the town of the same name
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

Business does not seem to be so very
poor with the railroads nowadays.
Three of the systems in the Hartman
group have recently placed orders for
$12,OOO,OOO worth of steel cars of all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14

fire loss in the countries of the old
world. And the controlling reason is
that all buildings there are constructed
in a far more substantial manner than
they are in this land of hurry and
haste in all things