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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
CITY AND COUNTY DEBTS.

James A Nation, the state auditor,
has certainly dropped bomb that is
sure to disturb the quietude of the
camps where labor the county and
municipal officials of Kansas. He
calls their attention to a Kansas stat
ute which provides that they must MAKE
provisions through the establishment
of sinking funds for the payment Of the
interest and principal Of the bonded
debts of counties and cities when they
come Que. II the officials fail to do
this, they are personally responsible
for these debts. And then Mr.. Nation
proceeds to point out many and large
county and city bonded debts in KANSAS
for which no effort has been made by
the responsible authorities to create
sinking fund to meet them.
This law is a good one. 1t is a most
reasonable one and the failure of coun-
ty and city officials to live up to 1t
is lamentable. Probably, present county
and city officials have been negligent
in this particular because of the ncgli
gence of their predecessors in Office.
Still, this hardly excuses them. Perhaps.
though. they should not be proceeded
against too strenuouSly for past Of
lenses in this particular, especially II
they begin to show evidence that they
intend to obey this law from now on.
Assuredly should there be new deal
in this particular. The only rational
way for a county or city to meet a
bonded debt is through the establish
ment of a sinking fund for 1t. This
fund grows yearly through a tax levy
which is not onerous at any one time
BY the time the debt matriculates, there
is the wherewithal on hand to meet it.
As these debts are created for the pur-
pose of public improvements, the people
who enjoy these improvements are made
to pay for them, on the installment
plan, as it were. And this is an equita-
BILE plan. Under past procedures in this
particular many such debts have been
met by a reissue of bonds. This puts
the final payment of them on the peo-
pie of another generation from those
who created them and enjoyed their
fruits. Such a system is unfair. Such peo-
pie have new and larger municipal and
county problems of their own to solve.
And it is to be hoped that the point
made by Mr.. Nation finds It's way home
to those who are charged with the man
agement Of city and county funds.
Sinking funds for all bonded debts
should be created Immediately in every
city and county Of Kansas where they
do not exist. They may not be able
to wipe out the expensive wrongs in this
particular which have been perpetrated
by derelict eounty and city officials of
the past. But they will at least pro-
vide for the future in an adequate and
Sancih1a Shion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
HUNOR or THE DAY

Mrs. Bridgewhist-what is the subject
of Mrs. Suffragette's lecture this after
noon ME- fa Mrs sunposs
she VIII have her husband apor on the platform
But" we say. to our friend. after the
transaction has been completed and we
are leaving the automobile store, why
ITO get ahead of the repair men,, ne
answers. IT can get parts from one OF
them to repair the other. Chicago Post
TT seems cruel to slaughter all those
pigs for market. said the Chicago girl;
Miss do Gave Know .Rat When you think Of
what the packers charge for the meat, it
does seem a little urifraternal" w Washing
ton Star.
ssBut. Cousin Bertha, how-did you make
the seauaintance of your Sfono s
out walking with my first when my sec
ond came along in an automobile and ran
our friendship. ''-Fliegende Blatter.
"she was very complimentary to me sa last
q c oa11aii Sias "surei means I'm hus-
dav that She had just learned that a
comet is composed of millions of feet of
gas."-Houston Post.
Noah rejoiced to see the water outside.
1T was afraid they were going to con-
serve it,, he cried. Gladly he saw Ararat
appear.-NeW York Sun.
"I can't see why men like to get up
early and go fishing" said Mrs. Mala-
prop Now, my husband is regular
ang1omaniac. I mean, he's 2 debauehee
an apostle of old Izaak Newton himse1ft'
Cleveland Leader.
Mrs. Simmons glanced at the scare
headline sBank Robbed! Police at Scar
and laid down the sheet. ''Naow. look at
that, Ell" she calculated, repeating the
headline aloud. Here's big city broke
into BY burglars and tn city police force
all off fishir' somewhere! What q scam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
oUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IFrorn the Chicago News

IFrom the Chicago Newz1
The early Christmas shopper avoids
the crowd.
Most people who are short of brains
are long on tongue.
Divorce is an epitaph frequently
carved upon loves tombstone.
Solitude is place where many q
man encounters an emmy.
Sca1ding tears are apt to flow when
a woman is boiling with rage.
Some people jump at a conclusion
as the curtain falls on the last act.
It isn't what your enemies say about
you that hurts; tic what your friends
say.
The man behind a scheme is more
likely to go hungry than the man be-
hind hoe.
A wise man never puts the advice of
a friend in the same pocket with his
money.
You may not be able to tell when a
gun is loaded, but you can always tell
when a man is.
The couple that marries in haste on
an income built for one seldom has
any leisure in which to repent.
Probably nothing disconcerts girl
more than to brace herself to meet the
shock of marriage proposal that fails
to materialize.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02

sity. who tossed DR.. Cooks claims into
the waste paper basket, have express
ed the opinion that there is nothing in
the Peary records which produce
scientific proof that he reached the
North pole. It may be that it is i'm
possible to produce absolute scientific
proof that the pole has been reached,
and the integrity and veracitys of the
explorer who makes such claim
must be the controlling factor in
awarding him the honors. And the
belief is probably general, that Mr..
Peary has done everything in polar
exploration that he has claimed.
But as far as records go. those pre-
scented by him do not appear to be
of much more value than those which
were manufactured by DR.. Cook. and
the latter might well have continued
the bluff of standing by his as being
authentic. If anything, his long de-
layed confession of his hoax has
placed him in more unenviable light
than ever. It is undoubtedly true.
though, that a man who confesses his
sin is more entitled to consideration
and forgiveness than one who brazens
it out to the end. DR.. Cooks come
back" however, does not entitle him
to any place in the esteem Of the many
who accepted him as the first hero
of North Polar exploration and who
defended him even after his Ides of
March arrived. It is to be hoped.
though, that what he has had to say
will be the final word in the North
Pole controversy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record-1
The forger is one person who can
always write a wrong.
The only advice worth taking Is the
kind we give ourselves.
Don't go out looking for trouble.
Most of it is homemade anyhow.
Too much money has been the I'M
doing of more men than too little.
Many man clamors for Justice who
wouldn't like It IL he got 1t.
1t isn't every girl who has the cheek
to say her face Is her fortune.
"Get in the push" is the advertise
ment of an uptown dealer in baby
coaches
Wfgwag-"I am up with the lark
every morning." Guzzler-"I prefer a
swallow when get up"
Those high collars make fellow
look as though some one had given
him a cum in the neck.
A Manayunk bride says she is glad
she's married because now she can eat
all the onions she wants.
Blobbs-'I understand the Gnaees
have buried the Ratchet" Slobbs-
Eyes, Mrs. Gnaggs buried it with her
husband. He died last week
"A little learning is a dangerous
thing" quoted the Wise Guy. YES -
like dried apples added the Simnis
Mug. .sThey both puff you up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
AYHAWKER JOTS

Timely advice from the Washington
Republican-Reg A new 500 bill
is in circulation. Examine your change
carefully the next time you buy a
piece of steak.
If you have any doubt about the
statement that engine wheels are made
out of paper, says the Washington, Re-
publican Register, take a ride on the
Missouri Pacific. The wheels on their
engines are nearly all stationary.
Some of the papers are printing a
jokelet to the effect that the Missouri
Pacific runs its trains by an almanac
instead of a time card, notes the To-
ronto Republican, and it adds: This
is a SANDER on the almanac. The sun
comes up at the minute given in the
almanac, each day in the year. The
moon swings above the horizon on the
schedule given in the almanac. When
specialties are announced, like eclipses
of the sun or moon, you can bet your
gazoolians the event will be pulled off
to the minute and second printed in
the almanac. ~
Club note in the Atwood Republi-
can-Citizen: A new ladies' club has
been added to the list since our last
account. II is composed of the older
unmarried girls of the city, and they
have chosen the name of the "B. G..
club" We suppose this means Big
Girls, but the Billikens say it should
be called the "Spinsters" and our devil
was mean enough to suggest that it be
called the "Boy Grabbers." We de-
cline to consider this last suggestion,
because none of them have. Perhaps
it means Bachelor Girls. Why, GER
tainly, how easy.
Hanch Glover is no gay old boy, but
when his wife goes away from home
and he grows lonesome he sometimes
has a few cronies to drop in and play
high five or cincfl, reports the Howard
Courant. The other day when his wife
came home after a two weeks visit, he
cleaned up the house, swept and dust
ed and removed all evidences of the
visits of the boys while she was gone.
He was so proud of the way he had
slicked things up and felt so entirely
safe from discovery that he asked her,
"My dear, don't you think I've kept
pretty good house while you've been
away ?'' YES" she replied. but you
might take these things away when
YOU go to your Office and she handed
him a little paper bag full of tin tops
which. he had gathered up and failed
to make way with. Hanch says there's
no use trying to keep anything from
his wife. She gets onto everything he
does
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
TOKENS.

TOKENS.
What see We for sign,
Tell me, my masters all,
Now that the days decline,
Now that the red leaves fall2
Lavish linden gold
Arras of maple tree,
And the Tyrian purple fold
Of the aster upon the lea!
Courier milkweed down,
The silvery gossamer skein-
And the glistening vermen brown.
OF the ripe haws after rain!
Are these the tokens-these-
Welt and leaf and bloom,
Of the marvellous magicries
That shall burst from the vernal
loom?
Yea, somehow through them all,
Needing well, we may see
The beauty and the thrau
OF the wonder that shall be
When the winters chrysalis
Shall part like a rivenz thing,
And out of the white abyss
Shall blossom the living spring!
Clinton Scotland, in the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atchison Globe.1

LFrom the Atchison G1obe.1
When In doubt in society shake hands.
Any man will claim good stray UNI
brella.
A woman's scream frightens burg
lar worse than mans pistol.
If there is any one thing a man shoJ1d
do in private, it is his loving.
Ever remark how tough a stack of
rabbits look around a grocery store?
IF your average isn't the best you
can do, it is at least the best you will
d.
The man who can tell you all about
the problem of life, can't work it him
self.
Leave something on your plate Tor
the cat, and your stomach will do bet
ter.
The only time men take real inter-
est in church work is when there Is a
big row on.
It is all right for you to have en-
thusiasm, but don't devote il to boring
your friends.
When you are in trouble, people who
call to sympathize are really looking
for the particulars.
/ An Atchison man and his wife are
not on speaking terms because he said
he couldn't tell his rubberst from hers.
| A woman never returns from visit
to the cemetery without abusing some
man for the way his wife's grave Is
neglected.
| There is an unwritten law among
women that no woman should go far
Their than two blocks from home with
shawl over her head.
| You often hear of Dull-headed luck
There is no such thing: It is bull
headed industry bull-headed perse-
verance, bull-headed economy
| You may have noticed that the mar
| who says mean things without men
| tioning names usually makes his
meaning so clear he doesn't need to.
You may be getting old, and do no,
care for snow, but what are you kick
| ing about? Suppose you were j rab-
bit; the kind hunters are after, we
Y mean. >.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
PROVISION FOR CONSERVATIVES.


Sixteen state sanatoria, twenty-eight
county hospitals. and twenty-one
municipal hospitals for tuberculosis
since January /, 1909, says a bulletin of
the National Association for the Study
of tuberculosis, issued recently.
Within the last two years the num-
Der of state institutions for tubercu-
losis has doubled. and the number of
county and municipal institutions has
increased from about 80 to 80. The ex-
penditures Of public money for the
treatment of tuberculosis also has
more than doubled. Not less than 49,
DOC, 900 of state money was appropriated
for tuberculosis institutions in 1909,
when 43 legislatures met, and over
100000 in 1910, when only eleven legis-
latures were in session. The appro-
priations of counties and cities for
tuberculosis hospitals and sanatoria in
the last two years will aggregate fully
81. 5o0,0o bringing the total of official
appropriations for tuberculosis hos
pitfalls up to over $4,000, 900 in the past
two years.
In spite, however, of this good show
4Il6, tAS Ndt4OlAd1 <AoSOC1dl1On LOT Tic
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
states that not one-tenth of the public
provision for tuberculosis that is need
ed has been made. More than s250, 200
tuberculosis patients are constantly
without proper institutional treatment.
Don't forget that generous pur-
chase of the Red Cross Christmas
stickers will help this great cause
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
Out of Harmony.

The village trombone player was re-
turning through the fields on a very
dark night after an engagement at an
outing some miles away, where the
drink had proved too tempting for him.
Feeling rather Quaky and lonely, he
consoled himself with q good blast on
his instrument to keep his courage up.
Imagine hos surprise when he was
answered by what sounded very much
like rival at the other end of tho
field. He blew again, much harder,
and there was a second response-this
time almost In his ear. 1t was from
the farmers bull, who, in response to
a challenge to a further contest,
promptly tossed the challenger into the
air.
When he had recovered from the
shock the trombone player shouted
defiantly into the darkness:
"Tha' great cowardi But all can tell
thee one thing. my lad. Tha' may be
a vary strong man. but tha's no musi-
cian."-ScrapS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
DIR. COOKS CONFESSION.

DR.. Cook has again made known his
presence on earth. He has come back
through the medium of an article in
Hampton's magazine in which he
naively confesses that he does not
know whether he reached the North
Pole or not. He thinks that he may
have made a mistake in the claim that
he did. In other words, DR.. Cook has
the affrontery to admit that he has
played the role of one of the greatest
of i1nposters of all time. His excuses
for making the mistake he did are
particularly feeble. There is nothing
of substance to them. It is scarcely
believable that they will be accepted
by anybody as extenuating the out
rageous imposition which he foisted on
the entire world.
1t would have been far better for
DIR. Cook had he remained silent until
eternity, provided he had nothing bet
ter to say. The wonder is, though,
that when he decided to come back,
he did not continue his gigantic bluff
and insist again and more strongly
than ever that he did reach the pole,
or at least that he held sincere
thoughts that he did make that won
derful journey. But for him to Tess
up that he made a mistake in claiming
the North Polar honors brands him as
having been a monumental falsiher.
His manufactured records of his al
legged trip to the pole are quite as con-
vincing to some people as are those
which have been presented by Mr.
Peary. All of the experts in the world
are not agreed that these Peary rec
| ords are evidence of the conclusive
sort. Indeed, some of those savants
at the far-famed Copenhagen upiver-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02

Dr. Cooks defense, as we take 1t, il
the same as that of Harry ThaW. In
sanity, which was first utilized as
defense only few years ago. has come
court character pinched for swiping
hen to the high class murderer and
explorer, the defense is either "dingy
with the heat" or "dippy with the
coid,'' according to the prevailing tenn
perature of the spot where the faux
pas was committed.
And, after the buffalo herd arrives
the animals may be put to good use by
hitching them to the garbage wagons.
A st. Paul preacher has unearthed
a new trust. He lets it. out gradually
that a Sunday school trust furnishes
an inferior grade of Sunday school les
sons at advanced prices, In direct vio-
lation of the Sherman act.
The scientists who found the worth
less skeleton of a trachadon make
more fuss about the discovery than we
would upon finding perfectly good
ton, being three million years old, was
not even fit for soup bones.
Nay, Pauline, although Mr.. Foss of
Massachusetts Is out after Lodge
goat" he is not hunting one of those
aromatic Williams used in the inttia-
ton of members in fraternal orsani-
cations. s-.e
IN THE INCURABLE WARD.
In numerous sounds my abode abounds
And it's pleasure indeed to me
Just to sit and bark to the joyful bark
OF the good old dog-wood tree.
am sad, alack, when the short, sharp
crack
OF the boards in the high back fence
Marks the swift demise of q flock of
pies
Or a crow-bar's soul jerked hence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Blasted hopes are the more numerous
kind by far.
y n x
People who have ideas in common
must be tiresome companions for each
other.
X X
The man VINO breaches economy d.
reefs his remarks. of course, at some
other fellow.
X X
Most quail hunting tales are in the
same unreliable category with those of
the fishing variety.
n y
If there was championship medal
for the biggest chump in the world, it
would be changing hands every few
minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
A Happy Conapron,ise.

Senator Crane, at a luncheon in Dali
ton, praised compromise.
Compromise is a good thing" he
said. Take the case of a young Dali
ton builder. He got married about a
year ago, and after the marriage he
and his wife had an interminable dis
pute as to whether they should buy
two motorcycles or a 5-horse power
runabout suitable to their needs. He
said the other day:
My wife and I wrangled for
months and months but, thank good
ness. we compromised at last
What have you compromised on?'
I, asked.
with a proud, glad smile. "-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press.l
Any man will go home If every other
place is closed.
The good don't really die young, be-
cause they never are born.
From lying to his wife a man learns
to lie to the whole world.
The first time a man does wrong it
frightens him; after that his family and
friends.
The saddest joke is when somebody
else read It ahead of you and spread It
around among all your friends before
you had a chance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02
KANSAS CONTENT

HUNTING HAS ITS DRAWBACKS.
BY the time you hire a livery team,
pay Tor a hunters license, rent a gun
ana invest in a box of shells and
lnen spend day hunting quail and
arrive home in the evening with
nary quail but perhaps a jack rab-
pit or Watery little cotton tail,
much OF the fancied sport of a hunters
me goes glimmering. We know. For
we nave been there. And then to cap
much vexed farmer chase you off his
premises and across the township, in
the meantime saying all manner of
narsn things about you. reviling you,
eradicates the desire for further
hunting in Kansas. And we do not
piame the farmer bit, for there are
actually more hunters than quail in
hlngman county, and they make life
a burden for the man on the ranch
or farm, shooting his quail and chick
ems ana ducks and turkeys and cattle
ana horses and hogs and dogs and
keeps the farmer and his family dodg-
ing, also to escape being hit by fly
REMINISCENT OF ROMAN DAYS.
The Associated Press report of the
death of Aviator tombstone at Denver
last week contained also some side
lights on the indifference to death and
~-A6 $@Ae1e tAkCSC -0c1l AA4e GAIlIUllS ell
gender in the spectacles. 1t was stat
ed that when the airship struck the
ground with its unfortunate operator,
several hundred spectators rushed to
the scene and fought with each other
for souvenirs Of the wreck while the
body lay neglected, pieces spotted
with the dead mans blood being es-
pec1aIly sought. We are disposed to
be optimistic with the outcome of our
civilization but, nevertheless. a great
many things in our social and nation
al life suggest that thoughtful study
of Roman history at the beginning of
her decline would be a suggestive and
profitable study for the American peo-
ple.-Enterprise Push.
AS TO HEALTH.
We know Of a neighborhood in this
county where the doctors and patent
medicine makers do a fine bushes be-
cause Of the telephones. The women
folk are very friendly and take great
interest in each others health. Every
day each one calls up every other one
and asks, How are you today?" Every
ache, pain, disease and trouble is men
toned by forty women to forty other
women daily. It's grown to be the
sickliest neighborhood in the country.
If some wise matron should answer the
above question, even though it was a
lie, with Zine and dandy and forty
other women would get the same habit
that vicinity would get well and keep
well.-MarQuette Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02

suit was subsequently withdrawn on
the agreement of the railroads to call
back the increased rates which they
Combined to fix the price OF steel
for the immediate future. AS yet moth
ing has been heard of any government
tai proceedings of the antitrust va
riety being brought against the par
ties to this steel rate-fxing confer
enco
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Strictly TruthfnI.

They had had a good day on the
moors, and the conversation after din
ner turned naturally on bags and
shooting in general and in particular.
'sWa-al," said the American visitor,
1T reckon I amt done myself justice
today. Why, I was out cunning once
at home and brought down 80 birds
with one shot"
"Oh, come now" chuckled his host.
good-naturediy; why not make it 100
at once2,
What, sirY' exclaimed George WASH
ington II, do you think I'd perture my
soul for one bird?''-Landon Onlooker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-02

Mayor Billiards. estimate that ninety
per cent of the people of Topeka use
alcoholic beverages does not jibe very
well with the statement of DIR. Shell
don that only 40 barrels of liquor are
shipped into Topeka daily. If. how
ever. Mayor BILLIARDS. estimate is cor
rect and DR.. Shsldon's figures are also
correct the average daily consumption
of liquor by the ninety per cent of To-
pekans using it, cannot be more than
9 drop or two apiece.