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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

but for the entire cost of conducting
and maintaining the parks. Mr.. Hol-
man has figured It out that after the
ordinary expenses OF the parks are
paid this will leave just $77s for park
improvement.
II this situation does not approx
mate the height of the ridiculous
nothing could 1t points out the fact
that the state legislature goes alto
gether too far in injecting restrictive
clauses in city charters relative to the
expenditure OF city moneys. 1t shows
that home rule for cities falls far
short OF existing in Kansas, when as q
matter of fact the largest measure of
home rule should be accorded to them.
1t is all right for a legislature to limit
the bonded debt that may be incurred
by the various cities of the several
classes. But that is as far as the leg
islature should go in saying how much
money city shall spend for any par
ticular purpose.
If it pleases the city of Topeka, OF
any other city to spend $3C, 900 a year
on its parks, or twice that sum, that's
the city's business exclusively. And II
should have the power to act as II
pleases in this and all like matters
Here is a subject that is worthy of the
attention of the members Of the next
legislature who are to be elected this
fall from this locality and all others In
the state where cities exist The tins
has long since passed-in fact, &
never was in order-when city char
tiers granted by legislatures shoult
have restrictions in them which pre-
vent municipalities from following
their own sweet will in the matter o
their development along each anC
Il every particular line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
carnets I'm Theaters.

The amount of dust that a carpet
of ordinary thickness can conceai
about its person is astounding. In
the old days when cleaning was done
by brushing and pounding-stirrlng
up the dirt and allowing the wind TO
blow it into somebody else's windows
no accurate measure of the dirt
holding capacity of household FURNISH
ings was possible. The vacuum clean
err has changed all this. Nowadays
the dirtiness of things can be deter
mined by meter, in terms OF quarts or
bushels per yard.
AS an illustration of the startling re-
suits sometimes obtained by the mod
ern cleaner, the London Times says
that from four strips of carpet in the
aisles of a small moving-picture thea
ter a washtub full of dust was re-
moved by a little one-quarter-horse-
power cleaner. If some of our own
local theater carpets can't beat this.
appearances are deceptive. AS mat
ter of fact, heavy draperies and thick
carpets in places of public meeting
are sanitary outrages nowadays.
Dust plays an important part in the
spread of disease, and every means
should be taken to prevent its &C
cumulation in places where 1t can be
readily stirred into the air and
| breathed into human lungs. The prop
er decorative furnishing of theater
| is quite as important to the health OF
| it's patrons as the character of its
plumbing. The health boards over
sight of the latter might well be ex-
tended to the carpets and draperles.-
| NTaW York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
QUAKER MEDTTATTONs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
"A four in hand is worth two in the
deck.
The critic, also. shouldn't live in
glass house.
Airing our grievances doesn't always
make them smell any sweeter.
The fellow who rides a hobby
shouldn't forget to use curb bit
If 1t wasn't for imagination lots Vt
the doctors would starve to death.
The temperance lecturer always finds
a fertile field in a prohibition town.
There is only one thing that travels
faster than bad news, and that is the
reputation of being an easy mark
1t has been noticed that the girl who
would rather flirt than eat manages 10
get away with three square meals
day.
II is possible to have too much OF
good thing. The dog with the shortest
tail runs the least danger of having tin
cans tied to 1t.
Hubbubs-"Did you want to be a
farmer when you came out here to
| Iiye?" Subbubs-"No, but must have
been when I bought this place"
Tommy-"Pop, what does multum IN
narvo mean?" Tommy's Pop-"MuI-
tum in parvo is Latin, my son. II
means-er-well. haven't you ever seer
| a FAT woman in bathing suit?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
pAsEBAIL A CoNsoLiDAToR.

r-,,. greatest triumph Of baseDan Is
,,o+ ma. IT engag es the professors, but
that it consolidates the people, says
writer in 1.-The Point of View In the
August Scribner. A young Engllshman
RECENTLY arrived finds the pervadlng IN
+erest ,n baseball, reaching as 1t does
down to the lowermost stratum OF Ine
ejaculation the most extraordinary
+t.ine in this country. Cricket as a ma
+,onaI snort in his islands rarely gets
l,evond the ye3manry. The curates ana
the euests of the manor house may play
+ba 1illaeers. but the factory hands
have no more interest in cricket tnah
,hov have in polo or golf; and as for
the submerged tenth, it hardly knows
that the game exists.
On the other hand, In This countrS
from ocean to ocean the scene repeats
itself; crowds in cities stand cheering
and greaning before bulletin boards
factory hands have an inning or 1--WE
at the noon hour, with the BOSS ant
clerks standing by; on Saturday after
Moons the farmers boys play in lonely
ealds, with mother and the girls IL
bupgies and spring wagons looking on
Inland Empire plays the Pacific coast
and at Spokane the air is rent VIII
cheers while Seattle laments' just
Chicago shouts when the Cubs detea
the Giants, while New York gloomh
turns on its heel and goes its severa
| ways.
Now for the Blue book. Baseball FOL
lows the flag. In the Philippines
seems that baseball is not an ins1gnlr
cant factor in our educational schem'
for it gets into the government report
among nature studies and rnanu'
training. 1--WE first got hold OF the 30
bows through baseball" writes OF
: teacher of the young untamed Moro
, 81 have always found baseball a goo
way to interest the children In II
schools" writes another. A divisic
9 superintendent informs the Philippll
y commission that baseball is don
Q more than anything else to enlist u
sympathies OF the inhabitants. Amol
n the boys it engenders a spirit of pc
II severance, determination, of strugsi1l
n against difficulty and opposition
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
EDrom the Atchison Globe.1

TF'rom the Atchfson Globe.1
The greatest man is common enough.
Every man has a great idea he never
carries out
No wonder the sellers of ice cream
cones make money; anybody can raise
nickel.
When you hear that man is very
anxious to see you, it's something dis
agreeable.
Most men are very vain about their
worthlessness: they think people are al
ways talking about 1t.
When you hear that a man talks mean
about you do you consider the source,
or do you go to him about it?
Occasionally a modest actress comes to
town; one who says her 500 gowns were
made in New York instead OF IN Parls-
1t is pretty difficult to convince an old
| fashioned person that good behaviour Is
possible without going to church.
.'If bust head hurt others as much as
it hurts me, there would De ari less peer
drinking, ana no WHISKY DRINKING.
| Parson Irvine.
Charity may begin at home, but many
| a woman can tell you unat 1t doesn't gel
much of q start, so far as her husband
/. Miss Henri Walker writes that while il
Heidelberg. she saw a duel between st. stu
dents. IN that country, students fign
| dueis instead of playing football.
| A man who has kept accurate coun
saws that of ten men you meet, eight viii
/ saw something disagreeable, while nine on
4 of ten women will say something agree
able.
A man who believes that fortunes ar
made by trickery. instead of by abilit'
} and industry, will never make one, 70
the reason that ne goes aDoul II IN III
In the average country band, there
one man who can play the leader But h
doesn't play he dirsc5S; o nsuaiy ohe ssaTe
which professors in musical coueses ca
t not make sound very well
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
PARK IMPROVEMENT HALTED.

Topekans, through their park COM
missioner, Mr.. Holman. were planning
to spend $4,000 of their own money
next year in developing and improv-
ing their parks. This is not large
sum of money for the people of city
of the size of Topeka to expend in a
twelve months for park purposes, for
making their city a better place to live
in, for enhancing its attractiveness In
the best possible way. But after these
plans were made a kink in the law was
discovered. 1t permits city OF To-
peka's class to levy only quarter OF
mill park tax. That would limit the
expenditures for the parks here &c
$4,000, not merely for improvement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
.AYHAWKER .JOTS

1t occurs to the Lawrence Journal
that a woman's second husband often
mourns the demise Of her first.
This talk of a circus war, thinks
the Leavenworth Post, seems to be
simply new way of advertising the
shows.
Officially, this is the season of the
year, states the Ottawa Herald, when
the sign of true boyhood l. the sun
burned back.
One of the queer things in this world,
remarks the Lawrence World, is that
some of the finest girls never marry
while the slobs tie up without delay.
With the Kansas City Blues winning.
the fish biting and the cools nights for
sleep, there appears no necessity for
being pessimist, thinks the Ottawa
| Herald.
Has Brother Faxon proved a traitor
to the causes? His Garden City Tele-
gram of July 10 failed to have its usual
collection Of editorials on Concrete
Bridges" and soft Water"
Noting that the government has is
sued a bulletin saying that disease
germs Turk in ice cream. the Ottawa
Republic says, 'it does seem that there
are germs in everything except en-
balming fluid"
Some mushy individual has started
a fool movement for a Fathers Day
roses. But as this is the silly season
maybe 1t will not stick after fros
i comes. Mothers Day is idiotic enough
but this would be worse.-Abilene Re
Hector.
Clint Snyder of Osborne county ha'
a strange experience, reports the Sa
! lima Journal. He was sitting in hi
house when bolt of Lightning
knocked off the chimney, came dow
i, and hit Clint, tearing open his pan
leg, Strengthening out the eyelets i
his shoes and burning his foot. H
: got up and started for town. While o.
) the road. accompanied by a FRIEND
another bolt landed on him, stunnin
him and knocking down the team.
The mother who allows her 16-year
old daughter to float around the town
3 ship in a top buggy until a. M, wit
; counterfeit sport of weak Jaw an
o weaker morals, merely opens the fror
4 door to grief and disgrace, says tn
Manchester Press. If you don't kno'
what time of night she turns in you
y roar when the gossips get busy, wi
n sound about as pathetic as the Whee1
/. of a jewsharp. The girl who insis
: on spooning with everybody in tt
;, corporate limits ought to be backe
4" into the woodshed and relieved of tf
Is overflow of affection with No.
it slipper laid carelessly across the hi
v lets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
THE ROYAL VIOLET.

The violet is meek though clad in royal
As any flower that gems the shining
globe;
It's color though the symbol OF a king,
The signet Of loves highest Offering.
Did He who wore the garb
Deep-tinged with purple hue
Proclaim himself the king who bears
Ensanguined sorrow meath His vest OF
Such was the love of Him who wrought
Through death our souls relief,
Heart-pierced and tntertw1ned
With every human grief.
But thought OF color fades away
When incense morning dews entice;
The glories of the gorgeous robe
Yield to the fragrant sacrifice.
For. all the heavy feet that rod
The beauteous flower Of His life,
Pressed from his soul a heavenly JOY
With every healing perfume rife.
And far and wide DER sitting lives
With bitter sin and sickness spent,
The King Of Men diffused abroad
The balm of Love Beneficent.
Richmond H. Gesner, in the Bostol
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
HUA0Q or THE DAY

Colonel Corkright-The farmers almanac
predicts a dry moon this month. Major
Nash (absently)-Great iulepsi Has the
moon gone prohibition. too?-Chicago
News.
Electricity isn't a modern discovery. 1t
make that ou t,rs.. "Whg, didn't Noah have
Conductor-Ticket. please. Passenger
Certainly, sir. Here is the key of my
trunk. which is in the baggage car. In
1 Mileage B ssss
Mother speaking Of his playmate to her
4wn darling Just learning t. whlstle)1Can
temptuously)-wh No; he can only
make the hole.-Harper's Weekly.
Sophie, after scrutinizing her new sister
for several moments. discovered deep
and neck. Mamma" said Sophie earn
estly I'VE don't want her; she's cracked.
We must exchange her right away."-The
Delineator.
"That man who passed you in the hall
never comes into my office without asking
for oIs MONEY es,den mprovid E1as, ehg Nc
Dealer.
| Facing Disaster-'sWhats happened to
Fred these days? He's never at the club,
ahe say he's Going to get t mar Tacss
| Shouldn't wonder. He's aging fast"-
| Fliegende Blaetter.
4 would like the wedding fixed for q We'd
| nesday. Ffance-That's quite frnpossff,la-
I Always go to the club ON Wednesday,
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many men are expected to do
considerably more than their best.
4
A place in society that is bought gem
orally turns out to be gold brick.
y y \
The impartial baseball umpire is like
ly to come in for abuse from both sides.
y y
Honesty may be the best policy but
some people seem to get along pretty
we'll without IL.
This is also the season Of the year
when the stay-at-homes are bothered
by abandoned cats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

That the verdicts of juries are far
from being infalllble is evidenced again
by an occurrence in one of the Chicago
courts While jury was celebrating
on the case of a man charged with
theft he told the judge that he might
as well plead guilty. He did so and was
sentenced to Jail for five months. Short
Nv afterwards the jury brought In a
verdict of not guilty. 1t is to be pre-
suned that the defendant in this case
will kick himself continuously during
the period Of his incarceration.
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! I
t9!1::lsz

s,. leaving the second-nddl job
<esv years ago, Vice President Ea
hanks has suffered the removal o. LIS
chin-warmers. thereby aos.ns tden-
large portion OF his rather
tity.
The Minneapolis preacher VINO gaSs
II az his opinion that pubic s 49,. n
Ernest effcrt TO get his name into prtns
and secure some free adyertisins; AIis
dar,a rtment- takes great pleasurs !"
fusing to print his name.
~.-.uant oSf1cers raided a MOON
shine still in Tennessee. ana oestroye11
the booze-making machinery pu. ~ IN,
10 arrest the proprietor anG tnIU ~. he he
into a dark. sunless jail. ali, hut re-
has lost his moonsnlne Sill
tains his sunshine still.
Dispatch from wichita states .nas 9
man Jumped from the tenth story "
building without givlns any a. = mo-
1s.,. e. that he did 1t to advertise Lne
800 that wichita has a ten-story nulio-
/ ing.
Mo,res woman advertises thus:
.zsrst cirl wanted" Some friend snoulo
| acouafnt her with the 1act the' "'e
has been a long time deao'
| s.,,,,. said at Lawrence: 'T closed
| the richest and most aristoc,aeio SA1
in Kansas-the Topeka CLUB.
Note: The Topeka club was SUI ops,.
| az a late hour this afternoon. 5LuDus
relieves in leaving nothing hali oone.
even when 1t comes to telling q snor-'ei
snd-uglier.
Two ..trustics' have skipped from the
state penitentiary, but the autnorrsSi es,
should not worry about them. ~ =
| will come back after they nave -, q
the administration ticket, to ENJOY q
| few wears more of the 'brotneriy
7 treatment accorded guests at that IN
: stitution.
The army cooking school at ror'
f2ilev has ordered 1000 pounds OF con-,
4 nressed Yeast. Such an amount Wouis
I cause a serious uprising IN SOUL
3 American army, but has no serious =
significance when applied to the y: ,
army. However, bright Joke-sniitp
}, nav he able to get rise out OF tne
;ter. and all are invited to take
try at it,
z NATURAL HISTORY Nesson ALL
n This quaint domestic accident
;. Is what we call the MULE;
His hide contains F.ore devilment
Than YOU could learn at 5chocl-
% while near, do not forget him,
=, or he'll kick you full OF tracks
- The proper way to pet MIN
- Is to hit hin: with an AK
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
awav during the summer may nave
the paper mailed regularly each Gay
20 any address at the rate OF ten cents
n weeI, or thirty cents a month 10y
mail onIy.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town tne
State journal will be to you like a
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, 1910-07-23

Forest fires are raging in all sections
of the country where there are any
considerable tracts of timber. If the
forests of the United States are going
to be permitted to go to destruction in
this fashion it would be better for all
concerned to have them chopped down
and turned into lumber. A practical
method of conserving the forests would
be the establishment of a sufficient
corps of forest rangers to stamp out
such fires in their incipiency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

rFrom the New York Press.1
soft head isn't any use, even for a
pin cushion
Experience teaches q man to fail again
In a different way.
People are not anxious TO prove what
heaven is by a visit to 1t.
A woman who marries for money may
get none at all: but woman who mar
ries for love can ger II IN ner cniioren.
On a warm day woman can dress for
the street in a way that would scare her
to death If q man EaE har in her bed
room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

Chicago's population is estimated at
100000 after a preliminary survey
of the census figures. Evidently 1t is
going to take Chicago some time to
attain anything like the population
New York has. But, then, Chicago is
credited with having dirtier milk
supply than New York. so the latter
town has no monopoly on all the
honors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

Rhode Islanders ought not to grieve
very much over the fact that their pres
ent increased population, according to
the new census figures, is not sufficient
to give them larger representation in
congress. They have managed to do
unusually we'll with what they have.
But maybe they think they won't be
able to hold up their own with their
present congressional representation
when Senator Aldrich retires.
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Rhode Island is bitterly disappointed
because It cannot get a few more con-
nressmen into the big mill. Rhode Is
land. YOU may remember, is the little
link speck on the eastern edge OF the
man which has more representation 10
the acre than any other spot on eartn.
The favorite and-in-door spo-s
r (now that he has returned to the peace
f,Il village of Danvilie, Illinoyo Is oar
ipg Uncle Joe Cannon to answer I'M
pertinent questions.
McCutcheons cartoon reproduced in
Fridays issue, tells the story. 1t shows
Uncle Joe shooting the tall on OF the
G. O. p elephant. The tail. OF course,
Is the insurgent end which Is attempt
ing to wag the elephant.
Ex-senator Burton is promoting
health resort in Texas. His first move
calculated to improve his own health.
He mas Incorporated the scheme for
s2,500,09o.
If Barney Oldfieid contemplates re-
firing from the racing business, he
should seek employment with q phono-
eraph factory. He has had g deal OF
q perience in making new records.
Rebuke for the Topeka police depart
ment: DIR. Crippen has been located In
rearly every part of the world with the
exception of Topeka. This Is indeed
reoreheneible. The local force should
locate him at once, so that we may
get the name of our fair little city
| into circulation via the Associated
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

Another horror of peace that is
equal to any that happen in war.
ELEVEN United States artillerymen are
dead and number of others serious
" injured, including two officers, as
the result of the bursting of a 12-inch
shore gun during coast artillery prac-
tice the other day at Fort Monroe, Va.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

With an aim of raising the Indian
to the plane of independence occupied
by his compeers of other races, the
bureau of Indian affairs will ma
teriaIly decrease the rations to be dis
tributed this year among the red men.
In practice this plan will likely result
in many Indians diving of starvation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

Nine new life saving stations for
miners are to be established by the
federal government in various parts of
the country. This is a governmental
activity worth while. More stringent
laws concerning the operation OF
mines, especially as to their equipment
with safety devices. might be of more
account. This is a matter for the sew
eral states to look after.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

China has expressed Satisfaction
with the new Russo-Japanese treaty
But it probably would not have made
any difference IL China had taken an
opposite view.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
KANSAS COAAENT
A GOOD MAYOR.

We do not believe in Socialism, but
we believe in good men. regardless of
party. Therefore the Socialist admin
istration in Milwaukee. the first in any
city of considerable size in this coun-
try, commends itself. Socialism in
practice seems to be a great deal diff
ferent from the theory There hasn't
been a change in the administration in
Milwaukee but commends itself to any
believer In government. Mayor Seidel
appointed an out of town physician as
health officer, because he was the
best man who could be found. The
physician wasn't a Socialist. The new
administration has closed 104 un-
desirable saloons. Dance halls have
ben separated from saloons. the
streets have been made cleaner, the
street car system has been improved,
and the expenses of the ctty's govern
ment decreased. That isn't Socialism,
according to the ordinary interpreta-
ton. but 1t is good government
Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

Good things surely do come slow.
The local garbage plant and the facili-
ties for the prompt removal of garbage
from all parts of the city will not be
IN operation until next summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

Men who are crowded out of en-
ployment by women should go in for
domestic service, says the Omaha Bee.
1t adds that two afternoons Off would
make certain two ball games week In
summer and two matinees in winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23

It's an Ill wind, etc. Low water In
the Mississippi has stopped steamboat
traffic but the clam hunters are en-
toying an unusual harvest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-23
IS THIS GOOD sENsE9

A CHASTITY Joke on civilization is the
fact that our government spends mil
lions in finding out means to save the
lives of swine and promote the health
of cranberries. but scarcely cent
upon the problem of preserving human
health and increasing the longevity of
the neglect of the subject of human
health in this age of public education
and governmental scientific research is
that the health OF the people is being
taken care of by the medical profess
sion-and this. is no reason at all
Atchison Globe.