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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
ROOSEVELT AND TAFT.
FRON OTHER PENS

ADVANCE IN FREIGHT RATES.
Apropos an advance in freight rates,
1t is pointed out that rates have de-
clined rather than advanced while
wages have been raised and the cost of
supplies to the railroads has advanced
greatly The cor6Jlary to this is the
claim that the pHblic has been more
benefited by the heavy expenditures
upon the railroads than have the own
ers of the roads. Whether the premise
is correct would first need to be de-
monstrated, but concede it, and it fol-
lows that the public and the owners
of the properties have been benefited
much the same. Security-holders
have the improved property as their
own, and they have as an asset of
great value the facility and the ability
to operate more advantageously and
proftably than ever before. The public
enjoys more efficient and if it be so,
relatively cheaper costs Of Transports
ton. There is a sort of partnership
between the railroads and the shippers
and travelling public, and each owes a
debt to the other. The benefits and
the sacrifice should be mutual.
Whether the time has come when the
relationship should be adjusted and
the public concede something to the
transportation companies is a fair
question No doubt this question can
be safely left to the Interstate Com
merce Commission. and various state
commissions, which stand between
the companies and the public.-Boston
Herald
TO C1RCUMVENT THE WEATHER.
Farm methods have advanced great
ly in many ways in recent years.
Agricultural machinery is being con-
stantly improved and adapted to new
uses; soils are studied more closely
than formerly. crops suited to special
needs OF the market are more often
cultivated and farmers all along the
line are taking more intelligent and
scientific interest in their calling.
They have many difficulties to con-
tend with. but some of them once
considered unsurmountable they have
overcome. In some regions irrigation
has enabled them to defy drouth. and
as the benefits Of this system are seen
In the arid West 1t is gradually COM
mending itself to enterprising farmers
in other parts of the country as a de-
sirable thing
Here and there during the continu-
ance of the recent cold wave individual
farmers have been reported as keeping
up fires in their orchards to prevent
the fatal chilling of the buds. and
perry beds and young vegetables. but
in the main the frost has been allowed
TO do its worst without hindrance 1t
Is an enterprising and inventive age,
and since killing frosts may be look
ed Tor every spring in the Northern
states, 1t would seem that by now
some new agricultural genius would
have devised scheme whereby the
temperature over. a given area might
be expeditiously and easily raised
above the danger point.-Indianapolis
Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
NO HARM IN KISSING.

Cheer up, lads and lassies, and even
you older folk who may still be in
clined that way. There is no harm in
kissing. That is. when lips meet lips
in loving salutation there is no danger
of menacing microbes changing their
habitat and causing all kinds of dis
agreeable disturbances. in their new
quarters Such a theory is a vagary,
even though it has been pronounced
by many an expert in meteorological
realms.
And the authority for this most i'm
portant information which has. no
doubt been eagerly sought by those
millions of people who used to revel in
osculatory indulgences? 1t is. none
other than DR. A. NJ. Worthington, of
the medical school of Harvard univer-
sity. There could be no better.
And he says: kissing harmful? Ger
tainly not! No. sir There is no
possible reason in the world. or proof
in the world. why when two self-re-
specting persons meet lip to lip they
can't break away without upsetting
the bacterial balance Perhaps the
only serious danger springing from
such a union would affect the heart"
Surely the. love-lorn of the land owe
a handsome testimonial of some sort
to DR.. WortEington. No longer will
they need deny themselves the pleas
ure of a kiss for fear of swapping the
misunderstanding microbes of which
they may be possessed Indeed, DR..
Worthington's ultimatum may pave
the way for an avoidance of serious
complications between the United
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
Sunfower Siftings.
EUNOR OF THE DAY

Pushing Young Grocer Ito local NJ. Pr
Ha, good morning, Mr.. Rogers! I pre-
sun eo you want my renewed support in
No, don't, young man; / want a tin
Of sardines, and look sharp about it,
Mrs. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is the subject
OF Mrs Suffragette's lecture this after
noon? Mrs. C1ubWoman-The disasters of
married life. Mrs. Bridgewhist-I suppose
she will have her husband on the plat
form as an exhibit?-Stray Stories.
Louis-Have a cigar? Phi Beta Kappa
Don't smoke; but I'll take a lead pencil
Ted-Are you making any progress in
your love affair with that young widow?
put on second mourning. -Lippincotts.
W." "Br9xn's saving money. That That so?.
sent to jail for thirty days.'-Detroit Free
Press.
ct suppose. now that you are married
and settled down, life is a struggle for
Father-You are marrying my daughter
roa ovd ow yog fhf that gets 20
avoided, can it?-Feilgende Blatter.
The man who gives in when he is wrong
right is generally married.-Life
MY earning capacity has been doubled
since I married. What are you doing
with all your money?'' with all my
money. merely said my earning ca
ord-Herald.
mice car Yes as it the latest
thing in cars?" II guess so; it has never
gotten me anywhere on time yeti Hous-
ton Post.
health officer recently received the
following note from one OF the residents
form you that my child. aged months,
is suffering from measles as required by
act of parliament Bits.
who is tn thin fellow that's going
around the art gallery shifting at ali the
old masters?y That? Why. that's
Splotcherby. He's the chap who made
the $4,000 advertising design for the Cleo
patra soap people. '-Cieveland Plain
Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.J
Don't let the politicians fool you.

Don't let the politicians fool you.
The people are always expecting
letters of great importance; but did
you ever get one?
A policeman is not always able to
arrest the culprit, but he is always
able to find tracks.
A brides definition of Awe is that
feeling every good wife entertains for
her husbands Office Keys.
A college man always talks more
about it than is relished by men who
have not attended college.
You are not sufficiently indignant
about the agent nuisance unless you are
victimized about SO often.
Every little while we see this head
in the newspapers: The secret of
happiness" There is no such secret.
We know so many things that
should be done that We no longer hope
to see them accomplished during our
life time.
The women have a doubtful way of
paying compliment she is attract
ive." they will say, from a mans
point OF view
We have noticed that when the
dogs get after a rabbit, its left hind
foot. which is said to be very lucky,
doesn't save it.
When a father gets the baby to
sleep, his wife thanks him by saying
he will never be able to lay II down
without Weakening it.
A married man is never mentioned
in crowd of women that there is not
more or less speculation as to why he
does not behave himself.
Nearly every woman has picked out
the song she would like sung at her
funeraI: and every woman has a
queer liking for poking around grave
yards.
At recent meeting of the Shan
non Literary society, this subject was
discussed: (Which looks most disgust
ed three months after marriage: the
10 a ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
She Was So Literary.

She was charming debutante, and
he was a somewhat serious chap.
Conversation was rather fitfuI, so he
decided to guide it into literary chan
nels.
Are you fond of literature % he
asked
''Passionately," she replied. 'I love
books dearly
Then you must admire Sir Walter
Scott" he exclaimed with sudden ami
nation. rs not his Lady of the
Lake exquisite in it's flowing grace
and poetic imagery? Is it not"
1T is perfectly lovely" she assented,
clasping her hands in ectasy. 81 sup
posed 1 have read it a dozen times
And Scott's 'Marmion,' he contin-
ued, with its rugged simplicity and
marvellous description"
1T is perfectly grand" she muir
INJURED.
"And Scott's 'Peveril of the Peak
and his noble Bride of Lammermoor'
in the English language will
you find anything more heroic? You
like them, I am sure?"
81 just dote upon them" she re-
piled.
"And Scott's Emulsion?" he contin-
ued hastily. for a faint suspicion was
beginning to dawn upon him.
d II think" she interrupted rashly.
that it's the best thing he ever
wrote. ''-COSmopolitan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Even the ugliest-lookIHg hats are
apt TO make fine appearances on pref
y
When a man sets out for the par
tlcular purpose of scaling the heights
Oh renoWn he usually falls down.
T.
me wound in a female heart that
can be healed by money Secured
through a breach-of- promise suit was
not a very serious one.
X X
Few mothers hesitate an instant
ABOUT insisting that their children are
the brightest and best-behaved of
those in the neighborhood.
X X y
rms is the month of May, according
10 the calendars. But it doesn't feel
that way in the homes of enthusiastic
house-cleaners who have had their
gas stoves taken down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.l
The near-great man imagines he is
the real thing.
Some men are proud of their ability
to tell lie that passes for the truth
When it comes to an argument a wo-
man gives in only when she gives QUIZ
Most people imagine they would
rather be miserably rich than happily
poor
Don't fool away your time telling a
man he is a liar IF he is he knows il.
And a man never sincerely loves the
ground a woman walks on unless she
owns it.
We may know a good thing when we
see it. but nine times out of ten the
other fellow beats us to it.
When a woman refuses to remove her
hat in a theater it's safe bet that her
husband doesn't cut much ice at home
A woman never cries for the purpose
of making herself feel better. She
turns on the briny flow for the purpose
of making some man feel worsa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
PRECouous wIsnoaf..

EhEsOOO1OCS -AlSDGA4.f rs-fss-a
know maid
With pigtail braid,
She is so staid
I'm half afraid
To ask her my poor lot to share!
At any rate
1 hesitate
To get myself into fly.
Is but to wait.
For my fair maid is only-six!
oh, my she's pert
In accents curt
She snaps, It only like big men,
And when the flirt
Sees / am hurt,
She adds. you see. you're only ten. >
II don't deny
My youth" I cry
But this. is fairness, you'll admit
When Beauty's nigh
1 have an eye
Mature enough to value it!''
(Aside)
L hear that she
Will wealthy be
If still unwed at twenty-one.
And SO 1 see
One course for me:
To wait till fifteen years are run!
-Young's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
tFrom the, New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.]
The crosses we carry cheerfully are
those we think aren't. 1
A man is just fool enough to be
proud of getting into a lawsuit.
Doing almost anything that isn't
against the law gets stupid even be-
fore you do it.
Most men who get into public of
flee act as if ii were a hammock on a
summer day.
There's hardly anything man lies
about so much as how successful peo-
pie consult him about their affairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

1t is to be hoped that the practice
will not become general of candidates
for public office following the lead
of the one in Maine who gained the
good will of newspaper editor, who
had been unfriendly to him, by giving
him a severe horse-whipping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Albert Patten, superintendent of
the Topeka street railway company,
is. indeed, an optimist of the first wat
er. He thinks warm weather will
reach these parts by May 26, the date
he has set for the opening of Vine
wood park
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Bear stories are beginning to come
from the Jeffries camp. 1t is now re-
ported he is so i'll and the chances are
so poor of his regaining his fighting
condition that the prospects are good
for his calling off the battle with john
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Colonel Roosevelt was especially
honored the other day by being per-
mitted to occupy one OF the royal pal
aces of Denmark. But the chances
are it fell far snort of the ordinary
four-room fiat in this country as to its
equipment with modern conveniences.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

It is all very we'll for the esteemed
Democrats to condemn the new tariff
law, remarks the Los Angeles Times
but could they make a better one with
out enlisting the services of the Wash
ington police? 1t is very easy to sit
on the fence and make faces at an
enen1V as he goes by.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

For man who claims to be inno-
cent of any wrong-doing Governor
Haskell, of Oklahoma, appears to be
taking a peculiar way to prove it. He
has been successful again in getting a
postponement of his trial for compli-
city in the Muskogee town lot frauds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
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Speech was given to man to disguise
his thoughts" said Voltaire, thereby
admitting that he was not familiar
with that type of man toswhom speech
was given for the purpose of bawling
out the fact that he never had a
thought.
After carefully reading the country
weeklies, we have discovered the One
Best Bet. 1t is that the only way coun-
try school terms are closed, is success
fully"
A Clay Center man complains about
a flock of quail, and wants permission
to shoot them,-not because he IS
afraid they will bite him, as might be
naturally supposed, but because they
disturb his slumbers after ) o'clock
q. m.
While Governor Stubs was making
prohibition speeches in Denver there
arose. among his cohorts, grave sus-
picion that he had better let Demon
Rum have Denver until he has male
sure that his job was safe from Demon
Wagstaff
HE GETS OUR GOAT.
We fear not Halley's comet, with its
long and fuzzy tail,
And from ordinary dangers never ran,
But we suffer trepidation when we
chance to cross the trail
Of the observation-disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Mr.. Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is out
with a plea for farmers and labor
unions to join hands. But before
this can be brought about Mr.. Comp
ers will probably have to assure the
farmers that none of the labor I'M
ions will instigate any more boycotts
IN farm products.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Maybe that Ohio man who believes
II will be useless for him to pay any
more of his debts because the earth
is going to be destroyed by Halley's
comet is obsessed with the idea that
he can take his money with him when
the end comes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Great excitement among the fair
sex of Topeka. new leading man
has been engaged for the local stock
company which has done so much dur
ing the past nine months to make the
town more enjoyable place to live
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Mr. Roosevelt told his Dutch friends
the other day that the time had arrived
in America for letting up a tri1e on
the strenuous life. and combining lit
tie enjoyment and pleasure with work.
It's to be wondered if he will practice
what he breaches. But, at that, he has
always been able to get all kinds of
fun out of ais methods of strenuositv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

One of the new books on the mar
ket is entitled How to Keep Hens for
Profit" 1t occurs to the New York
World that the cold-storage houses do
not need any advice on this subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

in Chicago that one man recently re-
ceived tax bill which will
compel him to pay into the Cook
county treasury one-sixth of a cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

This Goes not sound reasonable, but
the telegraph states that 300 college
students in New York have given up
athletics for the time being in order
to work as census enuuerators
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Parrot stock ought to be on the
boom. A Kansas woman has been
notified twice within year by a bird
of that variety that the house was on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Evidence is at hand that France
proposes to have a war fleet of air
ships which can make a success of
running away. if the occasion de-
mands. They are being built to travel
at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Notice is taken by the Chicago
News that while Professor Moore may
be a reactionary in politics, he hands
out a lot of insurgent weather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Apparently, it doesn't take very
much to rouse the enthusiasm of the
Londoners. They are actually lioniz-
ing Commander Peary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Surely John Dawson hasn't as much
respect for the common law of Eng
land as he used to have. At any rate
he ought not to. A young man riding
q bicycle in an English lane was run
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

for using "obscene" language in her
presence. And justice, impartial and
apparently blind, held the charge to
be a good one and fined the much lac
Grated young gentleman IS and costs.
DIVORCE LAW NEEDS FIXING.
When the next Kansas legislature
meets. one of it's first acts should con-
Germ the amendment of the divorce law
which permits nonresidents to maintain
divorce suits in Kansas providing per-
sonal service in such suits is obtained
within the confines of the state. If adj
vantage were taken of the law as It
now stands, Kansas would become be-
fore long the real mecca for prospec-
tive divorces of the most undesirable
type. It would soon outdistance Ne
vada and other places in the race for
unenviable notoriety in this respect. And
that is something which Kansas does
not want
How such a provision was ever per
mitted to creep into the Kansas divorce
law is a mystery. But it is. there, all
right, and the manner in which it
works out was evidenced the other day
in Judge True's court in Wyandotte
suit came within its scope. Judge True
characterized the provision as being
bad law, but it was so plain and man
datory that he had no other recourse
than to entertain the suit oe an Indiana
woman for divorce for no more con-
trolling reason than that she had Sc
cured service in her suit on her hus-
band while he happened to be in Kan
sas.
What a loophole this law will be for
nonresidents in other states who de-
sire to sever their matrimonial! bonds
but who have no just cause to do so
under the laws of their home state?
All they will have to do is to arrange
things with each other to happen along
in Kansas at an opportune time for the
necessary service in their suits. That's
the only semblance of residence in the
state demanded of them. And the Kan
sas courts will have to entertain their
demands for an annulment of their
marriage contracts. Getting this an
.lulment is then the easiest thing in
the world for the Kansas laws permit
the granting of divorces for the flimsi-
est sort of reasons.
Nor would it be out of place for the
Kansas legislature when it gets an OPP
portunity to remedy this particular de-
feet in the divorce law, to make a gen.
eral revision of that law so that di-
vorces may not be secured so easily
oven nv the bo- ; residents of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

An old miner near Spokane, Wash
was stricken with paralysis just as lie
struck it rich. Many other miners
have gone out and gotten "paralyzed"
without having the unfortunate incl
dent embalmed in print
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05
KANSAS COMAENT
THE sURJEcr or .JAY-DRIvINe.

THE SUBJECT OF JAY DRIVING.
The fault with the jay driver is that
he isn't fair to the other people. And
the Virture of the jay driver is that
IN majority of cases he doesn't mean
to be unfair.
The public road belongs to every
BODY. To protect everybody's rights
on them. certain rules and customs
of their use have been worked out
In these rules and customs there has
been no thought of pretty effects.
Curves of beauty in turning corners
nave received no consideration. There
has been no question as to whether
a square corner is more artistic than
a zigzag corner. or whether the hats
that women occupants of the back seat
wear look better when displayed from
the right side or the left side of the
road. Rules of the road are establish
ed under the consideration of the
greatest number, just as every other
regulation of civilized life which crimps
down on personal liberty is establish
ed. And SO the jay driver who shaves
a curb1ng here and scoots hypoth-
enuse off a street intersection is a
public evil because he infringes on the
right and imperils the safety of every
other driver and walker who uses the
street and to whom the street equally
belongs. Similarly the fast driver
steals from every other user of the
highway an established possession in
the right to safety. These things are
established by law and rule, but they
have an even stronger regulation in
the matter of common fairness. which
is, after all. the most active law of
the land. No man. expects to tramp
another mans grass. or kick his dog
or upset his baby carriage; and this
consideration is acknowledged less
because the police might otherwise
interfere than because it wouldn't be
decent to he unfair on the highway, to
hog the roads to send traffic and in
nocent bystanders flying for safety at
the corners, to give unnecessary fright
or annoyance ION the country roads.
This law will compel fair dealing, and
the Herald doesn't believe it is needed,
to cure the fault of the jay driver
and make, him q good citizen. For
the present, at least, and particularly
in community such as this. the man
who is guilty of some infringement
on public rights should be censured
but not turned adrift. Ten chances to
one he'll accept the censure good
naturally, and undertake to do better.
Ottawa Herald. S
90
ROOSEVELT AND TAFT.
When President Roosevelt wanted a
capablesman to, go to the Philippines
he sent Taft; when he wanted a dip
plomat to send to Cuba, he sent Taft;
when he needed statesman to go to
Panama, he sent Taft; when he had a
round-theworld job for man of
iron constitution and Icvel-headed-
ness, he chose Taft; when he was
ready for q successor, he selested Taft.
And now you can bet your bottom dol
lar that he is coming home from a big
jaunt himself he is not going to LAY
down" on his man Taft.-Indepen-
dence Reporter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

Two things to look forward to wifi,
pleasure: The coming of Summer
and the end of the Incubator Baby
case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-05

down by woman driving horse and
wagon. He lost an ear and had his
collar-bone broken. Under this slight
provocation he said dammit" This
so offended the lady who had collided
with him that she had him arrested
for using obscene" language in her
presence. And a justice, impartial and
apparently blind, held the charge to
be a good one and fined the much lac
Grated young gentleman IS and costs