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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-02

to do q little trick and I want you to
help me-"
Whereupon he proceeded to unfold q
scheme which appealed so strongly to
his partners sense Of humor that he
promised to Cooperate in its develop
n1ent.
few days later there came to Adam
by mail a franked notice to the effect
that he had been named as consul to
Pango and that his confirmation was a
certainty. At last the coveted prize
had been drawn. Pango? Where was
Pango? 1t didn't worry him a little
bit because he couldn't place 1t. Pango
was the entering wedge that assured
his entrance into the world OF oipio-
macy.
Being a woman, Jessica was more
curious. Adam confessed that he had
always been regrettably lame In geo.
graphy; that, for aught he knew,
Pango might be in the Antipodes. pro
vided 1t were not in Michigan. Jessica
secuted the idea OF Michigan, but was
not SO certain about the Antipodes
why don't We look for it on the
mann" Adam asked, with sudden IN
spiration.
with the big atlas Of the world
spread open on the library table. they
began the quest for elusive Pango. II
was by no means disagreeable task.
but it proved to be fruitless. range
eluded their combined vigilance; Pago-
Fago there was, anu - DaAiDOA ~ oe.-S-
names that might have been Pango'
but weren't.
s.Never mind" said Jessica, tired
eyed, but undismayed. Wen go any
way"
perhaps your father may happen
to know" suggested Adam lamely.
Don't ask him. Don't ask anybody.
I'll manage il. Listen-let me tell you
something she said excitedly. "There
init any Pango. Papa and Tom VIII.
Jams are trying to hoax us. It's just
as clear to me as daylight. Papa's been
too angelic and happy for the last Few
days to be natural. I've suspected some
thing all along and now know II. he
| thinks he's got the joke on us. Adam,
| you must fnd some way to outWis
Haight & Williams
only one way occurs to me-lets &c
| and find Pango without consulting any
body. How does it strike you, little
| grip
"Ill do anything to beat those ras-
cally lawyers she declared, her voice
rather tren.ulous and her cheeks afiame
Two mornings later, when the judge
| sat inipatiently at the breakfast taoie
and wondered how it was that his
| young housekeeper had not yet put II
sn appearances, a note was handed him
| Dearest father it ran, I'VE hav'
gone to Pango. Be sure to take goot
care of yourself and don't drink NOR
than your usual two cups of coffee.
It was signed. Your affectionat
children, Adam and Jessica Hazeltine.
1 -(Copyrighted, 1910. by Associate'
Press.l
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still unsettled. The fail campaign is
just beginning and may develop dis
turbing influences. At the same time
both government officials and local
politicians are beginning to learn that
blind attacks upon capital are quite
likely to injure their own prospects as
well as those of their party. There has
been decided toning down Of hostility
towards corporations, which betokens
more ltional treatment OF the latter
in the future.
1.-THE market has now had sharp
rally and on any further advance the
taking of profits would be in order. The
big banking interests are showing more
confidence in the future and seem
willing to express their belief in the
general soundness Of the present imam
cial situation as to the business ana
cial situation. though not inclined to
support any prolonged bull movement
In such quarters the present sisua .,
outlook is we'll understood, and no
disposition is shown to finance nee, any my
monetary and political outlook is
clarified"
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AYHAWKER JOTy

A new paper, the Moline Gazette, has
II ade it's appearance. Frank s. Evans
is its editor. Success to him.
The fact that a man can be killed but
once must be q great consolation to
the citizen who buys new automobile,
thinks the Emporia Gazette.
1t appears. thinks the Leavenworth
Post, that one of the surest ways to
get caught, when out with another
mans wife, is to go boating and both
get drowned.
A timely observation from the Leav-
eflworth Post: With the Mississippi SO
low that wagons can ford it and the
Missouri merely a stream, the agita-
ton for River Traffic has ceased.
"There were two of them and one
said to the other, Pat, this politics is
and every night, and when you're
asleep, and when you get UP, and it's
politics in town and politics in the
country. Do you suppose there'n be
politics in heaven?' Faith, and you
know there WILL answered Pat, for
without it how do you suppose St.
Peter could ever have become register
of deeds?' Robinson Index.
There was a called meeting of the
Ancient Order of Spins last evening,
and papers were read on every subject,
from removing grease from carpets 10
the SAD InCIIlOrleS tAAt c1Ll6StA ~ %
bunch of old letters, reports the Atch-
ison Globe. The Spins were having a
hilarious time when a visiting Spin got
up to make a few remarks. she salu
that, while they are happy. now, there
was a sad time coming. Think OF the
day" she said. when, having no hus--
bands or children, you will be all
alone" There was sniff, and then
snort, as Spin after Spin recalled wives
and mothers who are alone from Gay
light till dark, except when some MEM
Der of the family wants , waiting on n;
The shifting and snorting lnGreaseo II.
volume as Spin after Spin told of her
freedom from worry, her independence in
financial matters, and the joy OF dong Ilg
az she pleased. ''But we must not take
offense at what our sister has said,
one Spin remarkd; Let us show ., our
good Intentions by calling on every
lonesome wife and mother we know.
This was six weeks ago, and, though
the Spins have devoted every af tern On
work they haven't made half tine
rounds yet.
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t1es7:lsz|

Down in Kansas City Sunday night
a policeman in a heroic ef1ort to save
q few quarts of booze which were taken
from q saloon by burglar, ran into
a .Ioaded" negress and. was shot fun
of holes. In retaliation the OFFICER lei
off his gun at random, and potted q
negro undertaken who was asleep IN
a nearby house. The undertaken ana
policeman are both in the hospital.
and the negress Is In jail, the saloon
keeper lost his booze and the only one
connected with the incident who sur
fered no inconvenience Is the burglar.
This, as you may have observed, is
the usual outcome when an attempt
is made to shoot criminal.
Now for a fall In temperature.
large number of candidates are to get
q severe chill, and 1t IL to be nopeo
that the hot winds which nave peen
blowing steadily from the south wing,
first floor. of the state house, VIII
abate.
1t may be gathered from the Grip
pen case that the English consider 1t
deucedly bad form, don't you know.
for one to make compost OF ones
wife before clipping with the pretty
typist- Hey, what?
At any rate, both Dave Leahy and
the reading public will get q much
needed rest.
Hon. Jawn d. Rockefeller is new
bathing his sacred person in booze,
probably with view of driving the
petroleum out of his system before
it is everiasting1y too late. Even the
Rockefeller brand of petroleum is a
dangerous thing to be saturated with
when one Is exposed to Extreme Heat.
NATURAL HISTORY Lesson XVIII.
| The RABBIT is a funny bird
Whose ears are long enough.
| But, for a tail, so I have heard,
| He wears g powder puff.
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QUAKER s1EDrTATIoNa

rFroun the Philadelphia Record-l
No mere man can carry his head as
high as a g1rane
A woman doesn't care how not she
is il she can look cool.
Cupid apparently shoots a gooa
many of his arrows at random.
when a man says he is feeling SO SO
does II mean he is on the mend!
when a man loses his head unfor-
t1inately he retains possession OF MS
tongue.
Yes, Maude, dear; bridge IS played
in India. Haven't you ever hearo OF
an India rubber?
Some fellows look for work on the
urincipIe that distance LENDS encnant-
ment to the view.
Perhaps the reason society girl
throws a fellow overheard Is because
he isn't in the swim
There is pretty much the same dif-
ference between a theory and Iact
al there is between courtsnlp ana
marriage.
Tommy-"Pop. does the earth go
round 2" Tommy's Pop-"Yes, my son,
but it wouldn't if it was divided
among all the people who want II.
Polite Pinktights-'The leading
lady says she is welded to her proIes-
sion" Fanny Fsootlights-''Well,
hone her profession won't share the
fate of her three husbands.
.sThey say Ezra Punkinseed is a.
courtin' old ST Lentz's daughter" said
the village gossip. DO you spose
the old man'1l let him have herr
sure" replied the village wit 'Didn't
you ever hear that 81 Lentz gives con-
sent r"
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patience surprising those of the an
Gent philosopher, for she-it is gem
orally a woman-has made the modern
schoolboy generally amenable to dis
cipline, reasonably respectful, sensible
of the value of an education and, on
the whole, something more than the
sluggish dullard, laggard and truant
that he used to be. There are still
plenty of bad boys in school and out.
but there are not so many of them as
there formerly were.''
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Greelex,s Birthplace.

Amherst, the ancient capital of New
Hampshire, celebrated the 150th ami
versary of its legal existence today.
The feature of the day was the ad-
dresses appropriate to the OCCASION
the principal one being delivered by
Col William b. Rotch of Milford, N.
H. who reviewed the history of the
town from its irst settlement down
through It's organisation as township,
the days when it contributed 800 out
ofsits total of 32S citizens over 16 years
of age to the ranks of the continental
army, and the time when 1t was the
seat of the state government OF the
present day
Nearly all the speakers referred to
the fact that Horace Greeley was ma
tive of the town, and spoke of him as
its greatest son. 1t was here that mr..
Greeley was born, February 3, 1871. IN
a house still standing as one of the
landmarks, to which the citizens point
with pride. Here also, before he was
10 years old, he laid the foundation
for his later career by ransacklng the
neighborhood for such books as were
owned by the citizens, which he care
fully read.
Mr.. Greeley was the orator of the
day 30 years ago, when the town cele-
brated its centennial. Today the clti-
zef1s got out and examined the letter
which he sent them at thdl tiiho
turning the pittance that they mao
sent him to defray his expenses on MS
trip to his native town. The civil
war, in which he was to play sc
prominent a part, was only rev
months away, and he was busy with
the exciting affairs of the day, but ne
left them to talk to his old neighbors.
sI am so terribly driven said MT
Greeley in his letter, between writ.
ing and speaking that I have not tn
today found time to fill out the NOTES
of NV remarks at Amherst. But !
have done 1t now, and shall incloee you
a fairly printed copy between this and
morning. 1 know that my chiroFro p"T
is awful. s,a
ed to return you the $50 that you sent
me for the expenses of my journey. :,
need money badly enough, but Will
not allow that $40 to go OF the town
books of Amherst against me. l never
cost the old town anything, and, nav
ing obtained a settlement elsewhere,
trust I never shall. So plea see that
I am put right on the books SO that
ii shail not hereafter be said to my
prejudice that 1 charged my native
town for speaking at her birthday
celebration. Greater falsehoods than
that have annoyed me ere now SO
good might, and God bless you!-NeW
| York Tribune.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

conscientious man has no business
conducting a photograph gallery.
= \
There is something decidedly wrong
with folks who won't laugh at funny
story
People who are not easily fooled by
others have no trouble in fooling them
selves.
\ (:
Among the c1everest actors are the
men who can give the impression they
are working when they're not.
~
Many individuals take good care that
there's q strong string attached to the
bread they cast on waters.
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HU1AOQ or THE DxY

HSw m many TN; tines have you been ar
offenses. never git pinched for violatin'
de speed laws or failin' to blow a horn
Washington Star.
What became of that beautifui little wa
summer? Hostess-Oh, he was SO un-
fashionable up here that 1 exchanged him
for skye terrieri-Life.
DO. have to exchange wedding pres
ents in the department from which they
floorwalker. THANK YOU" said i the ssc June ne
bride. Il want to trade china vase for
TONI wish this ten-dollar bill was
never get rid of it.-ieveland Leader.
Your novel y evidently the result of
publishers got up."-LouisvilIe Courier
Journal.
said Mr. Tyts too se" Sae o. S Mrs
Tyte looked down. patted her skirt and
Il don't think much Of these" she sn mir.
mured.-Tit-Bits.
native Wsn sh gcg Be saa to get back to
know, replied the nervous man, unfit
my family has gotten past the customs in
pectors?-Washington Star.
How do you know when your husband
forgets to mail the letters you give him?"
I always put a card addressed to myself
among EN-. If don't get it the next 1fsv
know. And it only costs a cent. "-Cleve
land Leader.
Are you going abroad on a feliovsbir,..
NO; on cattleship.' Harvard Lam
why do. you consider women superior
man buys hair restorer by the 0I,srt
doesn't her Er-yes.'' well a woma :,
buys hair Jose Palladium.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

TF'rom the Atcnlson t1iooo.I
Every insurgent is at poteoln soiie
thing of an anarchist.
Thers is mighty little difference be-
,txyaen rrankness and impudence.
Saw what you please, the people want
big promises from politicians.
n is irnportant to feel we'll. We've
notieed TINT we never "argue" unless
we are feeling tough.
a great many men think they are
voting for principle" when they are
merely voting tneir preJuoices'
NV roise that goes on in the day
ti,1,a never seems to disturb the dog
thst barked all night the night before.
Girls. hide your elbows. They LOOK
ike a boy's hands in the particular
1hnt they always seem to neeo wash-
ing. -, s...,.
what has become Of the old,fasn-
toned woman who never left nome,
S,,mmer or winter, without putting on
a shawl2
Addressed to girls: If the man you
are engaged to should quit, would you
sue him for breach OF promlseI VI
would you take poison, or get announcer
young man!
We have heard a good many men
fell how, when they were boys. they
learned to swim by plunging reckless
Nv into deep water, but we never knew
a bow to learn to swim that way.
From what we Know Oh WOAiiChD ="
have never believed they are so anxi-
Gus to see q man come to summer
resort. where men are few, as some
of the funny men pretend they are.
Bill Bowen, who Is over six feet tai,
| fat. and married, called his mother up
NV Telephone this morning, and asked:
"Mother, tell me honest: which DO you
love best, me-or pa?" (Pa got the de-
| cision).
life grows harder all the time. A
new niece of fiction gives the scrub
1ron,an in the story the name of Aileen.
we would hate terribly to have to live
| up to place where the scrub-Woman is
| I AIMED Aileen.
The Ali Alone club is a new organi-
| zation. It is made up of women who
are alone in the house when they dress
| in the afternoons, and the badge OF
| the order is an unbuttoned button just
| below the shoulder blades.
Joke from the Herman Berich Little
Boy minstrels: End man: II have a
new job Interlocutor: All
what is it. Hermann" End man: y
| have a lob in a pickle factory, to cut
warts off the pickles" (Laughter).
An Atchison man was shocked yes
4eriay: after living with his wife I:
wears. he learned yesterday for the firsi
time that she was a widow when hs
married her. Her only excuse was tlai
she thought it best not to tell him
Many people will say, whats the diff
ference?" There's whole lot OF dit
ferennA-
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INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY COM
MISSION.

Representatives have been named
bv the governments of the United
States and Canada to confer upon the
advisability of providing an interna-
tional commission to oversee the al
fairs of those railroads that operate IN
both countries. Under existing conan
tions a shipper with a grievances
against against an international rail-
road must appear before the railway
commission of both countries and un-
dergo large annoyance and expense.
with an international commission
granted large authority by both gov
ernments difficulties and delays would
The railroads, probably, would not
favor a commission of this kind. But
the two governments are beneveo 10
consider It practical and desirable. j.
3, Mabee, head of the Canadian ran
road commission. and Gnaarma CHAIRMAN
Knann of the American Interstate
on,,, ,nerce commission, are the repre-
sentatives who will confer. Whatey yer
report they may make Will pro DaDns
ba acted upon by their respective gov
nnaents.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-02

The idea that a person can commit
a serious crime and make a getaway
has been rudely shattered again of
late In two notable instances--the ar
rest in San Francisco of Joseph Wend-
ling, the alleged slayer Of s-year-old
Alma Kellner of Louisville, KY, and
the capture of DR.. Crippen and his girl
companion in Canadian waters on al
legations that they murdered Mrs.
Crippen in London. The earth is large
but there is no corner OF it where a
criminal can hide successfully If the
police of the world make up their
minds to catch him.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFron the New York Press.l

4. IETOfn LflS kScW Z OK u 4 lcH51s1
A man can hardly ever fool woman,
but she can DO 1t herself.
There's nothing to make man so
sure a fault is lovable as to have 1t.
The way to get everybody you know
mighty fond of you in summer is to
buy aIxacht.
If woman had 80 husbands she
" ouId feel it her duty to herself to try
to prove to her friends that each was
better than the other
Nothing shocks a girl of 20 50 much
as to think what If she were 80; moth
ing pleases a girl of 80 so much as to
think she isn't 81.
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my idea of absolutely nothing to
be proud Of" says Hondo Murphy, ais
the umpire chasing incid.s..t of last
Sunday. And, had I been one OF those
present, the chances are that 1 would
have temporarily forsaken my pose
over the nut of some one of the
loud-mouthed yaps who Joined in the
chase.
From the evidence introduced, /,
find that the jumps not only stole the
game from Topeka, but did so in a
loud. sassy tone of voice. And had
Richard Cooley or any of his players
walked up and pushed his face around
to the back of his neck, the stunt
would have met with my approval.
But as one who believes in fair play,
1t makes me red hot to see whole
gang of men chasing even q rat. That
I favor the removal of the rodent goes
without saying. 1t is the gang spirit
the idea that strikes a gang of
atavisms when they see something
running from them, that makes me
want to butt in.
Fifty thousand years ago, the apes
which later took the semblance of hui
mans, would have ganged the umpire,
in exactly the same manner. 1t was
their diversion. One ape would do
something which did not meet with
the approval of the others Then the
gang would commence beating them
selves on the chest and shrieking The
ape who was in bad would take to the
woods, and the gang would run him
down, tear him to pieces, and proba-
bly, close the incident by eating the
pieces. The ump-chasers of last Sun
day displayed the same grade of in
telligence. the principal difference be-
ing that they wouldn't have made a
Sunday supper of the remains.
"'Kill the Umpire sounds funny as
Sunday supplement joke, but 1t is
a disgrace as an actual occurrence,
and Topeka has something to be
ashamed Of
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A man who visited Beverly, Mass,
with the hopes OF seeing President
Taft had q large hammer in his pos
session and was arrested. If all the
men in the United States who have
had their hammers out for Mr.. Taft
had been arrested, it would have been
necessary to enlarge the Jail facilities
Of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-02

Stage robbers of today are appar-
emily not as chivalrous as were their
prototypes of the past who have been
told about In song and story. Two of
them held up a stage coach in New
Mexico the other day. They did not
touch the mail pouches and express
packages but contented themselves
with taking all the valuables and
money belonging to the two women
vaassaf1 1era
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A Few weeks ago IL the temperature
In these parts reached 50 or go de-
grees the weather was considered to
be unusually warm. Such tempera-
lures nowadays are looked upon as
cool and agreeable weather compared
with that which has prevailed of late.
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FROM OTHER PENS
THE SULTAN OF sULU.

The fact that congress has not ap-
propriated a sum for his entertain
ment ought not to prevent the admin
istration from finding some way to re-
ceive the sultan of Sulu. when he visits
this country next fall, with appropriate
honors. Our inexperience in colonial
government doubtless accounts in part
for the general indispositior to take
this oriental potentate seriously. But
it would be a mistake to let him go
home feeling that. he had been snub-
bed. The Sulu archipelago may not
be of great Importance to the United
states. At the same time the loyalty
of the sultan to the American occupa-
ton saved the government some possi-
bilities of trouble, and it would be un-
grateful not to recognize the fact IN
some way. Furthermore, the method
of his reception here would do much
either to advance or to diminish our
prestige throughout the Far East gem
eraIly. AS a nation we have been too
Indifferent to the demands of etiquette,
too scornful of the feelings of others,
too impatient of prejudices which we
do not share. But, just as civihty
sftiooths private life, SO in the inter-
course between nations or peoples the
scrupulous regard for courtesy may DO
more than actual service to promote
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal.
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An early frost is due this year. ac-
cordIng to the brethren of the goose
bone weather prophets. 1t is SEIZED
vfied for about the flrst week In Sep
Aember. Katydid have been heard
wrangiing during the past few days
and this is "sure" sign that frost
viii come along in about six weeks
Af~,aA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-02

Corn crops in several sections Of the
state, which were put out of business
a few days ago by the 'crop killers
have been saved by opportune rains.
This is getting to be frightfully old
sskorxy in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-02

Mr.. Leahy's announcement that
there would be no eleventh hour"
statements from Governor Stubs evil
IDENTIFY did not place the ban on
eleventh, twelfth ana thirteenth hour
statements from Mr.. Leahy.
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"Aristotie said the small boy is the
only untamable wild animal notes
the Philadelphia Public Ledger ana 1t
interestingly adds: "But the modern
school teacher must have faith ana