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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-18
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
IFrom the Philadelphia RECORD

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Never tell a woman she looks like
her old self again.
If the high liver doesn't look out
he won't have any liver left.
Incidence is the mother of good res
clutions that never bear fruit.
Ambition is the alarm clock that
causes a man to rise - the occasion.
The average Englishman can't see a
joke, even with a magnifying glass.
Many a man only tells the truth be-
cause he's too lazy to think up a lie.
The kodak fiend can never say of his
camera that he didn't know it was
loaded.
The fellow who is proud of his an
cestors doesn't stop to consider wheth-
er or not they would be proud of him.
She-.Women are surely usurping
the place of the men, He-"How
about the bald-headed row at the thea
ter?"
Mabels Mamna-"Didn't I see that
young man kissing you last night?"
Mabel-"You'd have to be able to see
in the dark if you dad
his vacation. I suppose you left your
heart behind your insiruated SIobbs.
Yes, but what worries me is that I
had to leave my trunk" replied Blobbs
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TAFr AND ROOsEvETT.

That was a peanut brand of politics
which was played the other day by a
majority of the members of the New
York Republican state committee when
they denied the honor Of the temper
airy Craftsmanship of the state conven-
tion to, Theodore Roosevelt. The same
cid gang of political marauders is in
control of this committee that was in
control of 1t when Mr.. Roosevelt was
governor of the state of New York. His
fearless administration of state affairs
was offensive to them and he made
personal political enemies OF them. In
no sense can the action of this COM
fnittee be considered as showing the
sentiment of the Republicans of the
Empire state. Through the delegates
they will elect to the state convention
they Will probably choose Mr.. ROose-
Welt as the permanent chairman Of the
convention, If he is disposed to accept
the place.
OF far more important political sig
nificance. however, than the action of
this committee is the statement made
by Mr.. Lloyd Griscom, chairman of the
New York Republican county commit
tee, after it had been taken. There
endorsing the administration" said Mr.
Griscon. IF an effort is made to
show that the choice of Vice President
Sherman is an endorsement, whereas
the choice of Colonel Roosevelt would
not have been, it must of necessity fail.
as Mr.. Roosevelt's views regarding the
conduct of public affairs by his success
scr are well known
This is no more than a decided in
timation from Mr.. Griscom that Col.
Roosevelt is in entire sympathy with
the efforts ard accomplishments of
President Taft. Mr.. Griscom is a trifle
wrong in saying that these views of
Colonel Roosevelt are well known"
There was every reason to believe that
such views were held by him. It has
been impossible to figure out how he
could hold contrary ones in view OF the
fact that Mr.. Taft has been most sue
tessful in securing enactment into law
of most of the imnortant Roosevelt
policies. Mr.. Roosevelt has not yet an
nounced these views publicly. He may
have conveyed them, as he probably
has, to many of his political visitors
during the past six weeks. But they
haven't had anything very definite to
say about them. Mr.. Griscom is one
Of the. most recent of Colonel Roose-
velts visitors. 1t was reported that he
visited the colonel for the express pur-
pose of getting him to announce his
views on the Taft administration. He
was not successful III this respect, 1t
being reported that Mr. Roosevelt was
not yet ready to make such announce
n,ent or discuss publicly any other
matter Of political moment
But Mr.. Grisccm's statement is en-
I,hatic that if an effort is made to show
that the failure of the New York Re
/ publican state committee to make Col.
| Roosevelt temporary chairman OF the
| state convention was due to any idea
1t would not be an endorsement of the
Taft administration. 1t must of neces-
sity fail, because Colonel Rooseyelt's
idea on this subject is known.
There can be no doubt now of the
stand Mr.. Roosevelt will take when It.
comes time for him to discuss the ad i.
Tn1n1StratiOn of President
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house where Belle McNee lived with her
invalid mother. The girl was wholesome
ly, daintily sweet, and she managed to
make the tiny, spotless home reflect her
own characteristics, despite the fact that
she work all day as bookkeeper In de-
partment store.
They sat on the porch and watched the
stars. Belle did not talk much, and when
she did 1t was with a queer f1ppancy
that made Disbrow uncomfortable. 1t
wasn't an occasion for fnppancy
1t was II o'clock before he got up to go.
They shook hands, the girl with a few
testing words that grieved Disbrow.
There was a hard little smile on her face,
as he could see by the rays OF the electric
light the corner. His throat choked
up; he could hardly get out the word
.,Goodby.'' But he did, somehow.
At the gate he jumped as If someone
had stuck pin in him. For a voice was
speaking to him, strange, broken, yearn-
ing little voice, half-tears-a voice that
sent million mad prickles along his skin.
Tommy it said. IT know. IL made
him tell me. Tommy, you silly boy, you
aren't going to let a little old earthquake
beat you?"
Tommy went back in three bounds and
gathered her to him hungrily, while her
arms went around his neck. He kissed
her hair and her wet cheeks and her lips
as he said, over and over: Sweetheart,
sweetheart sweetheart! Not even an
earthQuake-not even an earthQuake!
Copyrighted, 1910, by Associated Literary
PreSSl
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it's willingness to grant these rates if
the others will. And they probably will

its willingness to grant these rates if
the others will. And they probably will
dc so.
1t would appear to be to the advan-
tage of the railroads to grant these
rates. Nothing is so important to the
development of in agricultural state as
an adequate agricultural exposition.
The exhibits advertise the possibilities
Of the state to people all over the coun-
try who are ever on the hunt for the
most desirable localities i'll which to
engage in farming and the manufactur-
ing pursuits which are engendered by It,
Kansas has been unfortunate in not
having had a state fair of this scope in
years past. That's the kind of fair that
is going to be held here in Topeka
There can be no mistake about this.
Nor can there be any doubt that it will
be the beginning of the real state fair
movement in Kansas. In paving the
way for a more rapid development of
the state, this fair is making new and
big business for the railroads in the
immediate future. Therefore, 1t would
seem to be entitled to all possible en-
enlargement from the railroads, and
especially in the matter of q special
passenger rate.
The railroads have always been gen.
crous in their treatment of Topeka
and kansas. In all probability Topeka
would be the last community in the
world to make an unreasonable request
of the railroads. And because the rail-
roads in Nebraska and Iowa are going
to give reduced rates to the fairs in
those states, it does not smack of I'M
reasona bleness for the pr omoters of the
state fair to be held at Topeka to ask
for similar rates for their big enter
prise.
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SPECIAL RATES TO THE FAIR.

If the railroads in Nebraska and
Iowa, where the two cents mile pas
senger fare prevails, are going to put
in special rates of one and one-half
cents mile for the state fairs to be
held in those commonwealths. there
does not appear to be any good and
sufficient reason why similar rates
should not be accorded by the railrc ads
in Kansas for the great state fair
which is going to be held next month
in Topeka Permission has been grant
ed by the General Passenger associa-
ton to the railroads in western terri
tory to ut in special reduced rates for
state fairs. So there is nothing to pre-
vent the railroads in Kansas from tax
ing this action except their own judg-
n1ent in the premises. 1t is understood
that one Of the railroads has signifled
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She Changed the StyIe.

Copenhagen has a milliner who
succeeded in making successful war
on the big hat. Her esta bliShment
was the headquarters for the best in
the line of millinery, and her bust
ness was prosperous until rival from
Paris appeared on the scene, whose
hats were larger, more picturesque
and in every way more attractive. She
saw bankruptcy staring her in the
face, and to avert 1t resorted to a des-
perate measure.
She sent a friend to the Paris shop
and purchased twenty of the most
elaborate hats and had them distrib-
uted among the basket women in the
public market. The gifts were ac-
cepted with thanks, the hats being not
only snowy, but good protection
against the sun.
The joke soon spread through Co
penhagen, and every one laughed ex-
cept the fashionable women. Over
night the style was changed. Gus
toners returned to the native MILL
ner, and the French woman closed
her shop.-Chicago Daily News.
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ROBIN RUNAWAY

Where damask roses, bleeding hearts
And poppfes bright and bold
Disputed every inch of ground
With phiox and marigold
Among the prim old-fashioned flowers
That made her garden gay
In beds of clustered fragrance grew
The robin runaway.
Her hair was like the yellow corn.
Her eyes were soft and blue
she met him in the evening dusk;
Between the folds of filmy lace
That on her bosom lay
She wore fresh and dewy sprig
OF robin runaway.
Though time for many a year has spun
The linen of its SHOWS
Still sweet with robin runaway
Her tangled garden grows,
she tends the blossoms all alone,
Her locks are thin and gray,
For Robin came and Robin Wooed
But Robin ran away. Z.
-Minna Irving, in the New York Sun,
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe. ]


Don't go to the devil before you are
dead.
When we greatly admire an angel,
we are always shocked at the devils
she runs with.
One of the funniest sights in the
world is a little bit of a man with a
great big look of disgust on his face.
Times have changed They used to
have the high building effect in layer
cakes: now 1t is in the sandwiches.
A mothers whipping never amounts
to much. When a mother begins to
jaw her son, lie usually goes out and
gets switch, and has it over with.
When you are sent to the penitenti-
airy your sentence will be reduced for
good behavior. But it is not neces-
sary to go to the penitentiary to get
credit for good behavior; an honest
man gets it, as we'll as a convict.
We can pick out every man who had
neat mother. When you see q man
stop and shuttle his feet before enter
ing a house, you may depend upon 1t
that when a boy his mother was al
feet!"
Because you are foolish, or unrea-
sonabIe, do you send people home
every day more weary than they would
have been but for you? Do you wear
people out with useless, silly talk? II
you do not get away very WELL maybe
you have fool habits that are hold
ing you back. Look yourself over.
Do men flirt a good deal with
strange women? The writer of this
recalls that when a very young man
| he was once riding on railroad train
and admired a pretty girl across the
aisle We frequently looked at her
| timidly and once she winked in g
| broad, bold. unmistakable way, and
had she shot at us, we would not have
been more thoroughly frightened
You often hear that town boys are
bad, and resourceful. Atchison boys
say that Bud. Harris, who moved into
town from farm last summer. has
taught them more than they evel
knew before. Town boys are al
| afraid of circus men and expect tc
pay to get in, but Bud. Harris taught
them how to sneak in and he has nc
more respect for circus man than he
has for a circus lion
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HUNOR or THE DAP

Knicker-Are you swept by ocean
breczes? Bocker-Yes, and busted by
land ones-JuGge.
what are those floating tables2"
Great scheme on the part of the man
agement. They've fixed 1t so you can
play bridge in the surf."-Puck.
The Ancient Mariner wept. Water,
water everywhere, and 1 forgot to wa
ter the plants" he cried. Trembling,
he feared to face his wife.-New York
Sun.
Choily?" Jaw, I light cigawette BIZ
mingham Age-Herald.
Tommy-Pop, what does multun, in
parvo mean? Tommy's Pop--Multum in
parvo is Latin, my son. 1t means-er
well, haven't you ever seen a fat wo-
wan in a bathing suit?-Philadelphi
Record.
Sapleigh-Ah, speaking of electricity,
that makes me think Miss Keen
Really, Mr.. Sarleigh! Isn't it remark
able what electricity can do?"-Boston
Transcript.
will you love me always?" murmur-
ed the girl. Certainly, If you wish it,
responded the young man. But I'll be
down here only two weeks. '-Pittsburg
Post.
ct sec you have an actor employed on
the farm Yes, 1 put him on. He's
darn good actor. too. 1 thought he
was working the first week he was
here."-Kansas City Times.
One evening at tea little Tommy said
to his grandmother: Grandma, do your
glasses make things look biggerT'
Eyes. dear" said grandma. "Why?''
OH said Tommy, a. Only tfougat IL
they did, maybe you'd take 'em off when
you're cutting my piece of cake
Scraps.
Figg-Talking about pueillsm and
state laws, did you ever notice it? Fogg
Ever notice what? Figg-That there's
10 law to prohibit fighting in the state
of trimony.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
IIyker-Joblott is an exceedingly kind
hearted chap-Pyker-Is that SO? Hy-
kcr-Yes. Only last week he had his
dogs tail cut off for fear he might ac-
oidentaily step on it some day.-Chi-
cagO News.
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KANSAS CONAENT
DENYING THEIR TRADE.

The observant exchange editor who
goes through several hundred newspa-
pers IN the course OF the week and
mas the advertiseme as a general
| thing, more interesting than the edi-
| things
In most country papers the man
VINO DuFies the dead usually has a
| describes himself as an undertaken.
he generally is funeral director"
AT Concordia he is "mortician.'
Whars wrong with the good old word
unoertaker?" It would be impossi-
PIE TO invent better word for the
business The undertakers may call
themselves funeral directors and NOR
tlcians, but the plain people, the ones
VINO are eventually undertaken, will
always use the good old word that did
Wen enough in the olden times.
BARRIERS are good advertisers, but it
would seem that they are ashamed to
pc known as BARRIERS. In their adver-
Iisements they are tonsorial artists or
mar oressers. There is absolutely
nothing wrong with the word "bar-
per, ana all efforts to supplant it with
sometnlng grandiloquent will be fall
ure. barber will be a barber to the
END or time, and as his trade is an
honorable one, figuring in all the liter
azure or the ages, he Is foolish to re-
pudiate the name by which he is
known.
Kansas man advertises in the
nome paper that he is practical iron
WORKER Why not say he Is a black
smith and be done with it? There is
no trade more manly or useful than
that Of the blacksmith, but the aver
age citizen has no more use for a prac-
tical iron worker than he has for a
zette.
SHOULD SUPPRESS PROFANITY.
Attention is frequently called to the
language that is used by boys and
young men on the streets and in pub
lie places.
Their conversation is frequently in
terspersed with oaths and obscene
languafe that are used indiscrimin-
ately and unmindful of the presence
or ladies' who happen to be passing.
In Virginia they have passed a law
which makes it a, misdemeanor to use
oaths or obscene language and while
Kansas Sc reforming itself in many
Things 1t would be good idea to pro-
hibft the habit here and enforce the
law vigorously.-Clay Center Repub-
| licln.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Only a very few people don't get
the credit they deserve. Too many
get more.
X
Everv baby is mighty clever, in the
opinion of the family of which 1t is
part.
y
Hanging is too good for most of
the fellows who get up at parties and
attempt to sing comic songs.
4 X
If offenses carried their own retri-
button, as some fine theorists hold,
there wouldn't be any need for judges
and jails.
It is to be hoped some one will soon
discover something "scarcer than
hens teeth" That expression is just
about worn out.
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AYHAWKER JOTS

The real successful man, thinks the
Atchison Champion. is one who is able
to keep out Of other peoples rows.
A fashion note says the hustle is
coming back into style, notes the Law
renee World. and it adds: 'It is now
time for Senator Bristow to accuse the
steel trust of being implicated"
''Who would be willing to live in
Alaska just to east raspberries ?" asks
the Lawrence World, as it calls atten-
ton to a statement in Golfers that
Alaskan raspberries grow as big as 25-
cent pieces.
Old Bill Shiftless is not quite as
to be. The Osborne Farmer has been
forced to admit that he doesn't whis-
tie where other folks are trying to
work. But maybe he can't.
A reflection from the Abilene Re-
Hector, and if Brother Harger's repu-
tation for integrity was not SO excel
lent, there would have been tempta-
ton to label it a "sad reflection:
wireless telegraphy makes it harder
than ever to get away with girl or
money, or both"
Advice pertaining to automobiles
from the Fredonia Herald: Never
judge a girls eyes by her motor Cog
giles. Take care of the tires and the
wheels will take care of themselves.
A good road is better to be chosen
than great bitches. A chauffeur is
known by the laws he keeps. Every
day is a fine day on the Speedway"
Wheat is threshing out in this part
of Mitchell county at Is and 20 bush
els an acre, reports the Beloit Gazette.
Some fields, it continues, have run as
high as 81 bushels an acre. The yield
is remarkable from the fact that at
one time in the winter and early
spring reports were sent out from Be
lott that the wheat crop was virtually
killed by cold weather and ice which
covered the ground for a month or
more.
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That New York clergyman who told
some camp-meeters in Maine that
there are fewer Christians and more
heathens in the world of today was
called upon by his congregation for
an explanation. He gave one by say
ing that the idea he intended to con-
vey was that religiously speaking, the
people in the world today are at once
declining as well as advancing. An
other explanation from this reverend
gentleman would appear to be in
order
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There is nothing strange in the plan
of action that has been decided upon
by the members of the Colorado leg
islature, in special session assembled.
They were called together by the gov
ernor of the state to pass legislation
which would fulfill the pledges made
in the last state campaign by the ma
iority party. They propose to enact
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This is strange. An estate left by a
New Yorker for the purpose of charity
was worth 100000 when he died. A
contest over it by relatives has been
in the courts for several years. De-
cision has been rendered against the
contestants, and now that the estate is
about to be settled it has been found
that its value approximates 100000
900. Evidently the lawyers engaged
in this case were not of the modern
variety
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Maybe it was the peculiar climate in
the Philippines which was responsible
for the court martial verdict in the
case of Colonel Ames of the Twelfth
infantry, u. S. A. His judges found
him guilty of drunkenness, but did
not consider this as conduct unbe-
coming an officer and a gentleman.
Something of a Scotch verdict, Ell.
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Every time he faced a roaring lion.
Col. Roosevelt won the decision. But
some denizens of the New York politi-
cal zoo laid him out temporarily.
Women have been barred from the
Rotary club in Chicago-probably be-
cause their hobble skirts prevent them
from rotating at the speed required
Dan Frohman is going to get mar
ried again. It seems impossible for
theatrical man to keep out of trouble
Mayor Gaynor is getting along so
well that the doctors have decided to
operate. Physicians never let well
enough alone. They cut it out.
An Austin. Ill. widow won a wom-
an-hating old bach by feeding him Gus
tard pies and cookies of her own max
ing. But what we can't understand is,
batch who likes custard pie and cook
les.
Down in Oklahoma City, the police
pinched nine joy-riders who were rid
ing in one five-seatcd auto. The po-
lice reporter, after some careful figur-
ing, found out how 1t was done. The
driver was the only one of the five
male passengers who didn't have some
thing on his lap.
How do you spell the name of the
Kansas substitute for Demon Rum
W-h-i-s-k-e-y or W-h-i-s-k-y? We in
quire to know.
Not long ago this department tried
to introduce a pun on the name of this
popular poison. 1t was about unlock
ing something or winding up some
thing with little whis-key. The proof
reader is such a stickler on the SPELL
ing of this word that it got into print
spelled whisky and minus the pun.
The paragraph was a mighty flat one to
begin with, and a blamed sight flatter
after said proofreader had made said
correction.
In recent editorial in the Oklaho-
ma City Times, the word appears fiji
| teen times and is spelled "whiskey''
every time. This department will
some day punish the proofreader by
reprinting that Oklahoma City editor
ial.
Bristow is still making fierce at
tacks' on the regulars. However, his
awful ferocity is not netting him over
one stick of personal advertising each
day. Is it worth the effort?
| A Parsons. Kan. youth has solved
the question of high priced meat to a
limited extent. He met his sweetheart
| on the street and bit out 81 cents
worth of chuck off her starboard ear
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A real philanthropist has come to
the front in Kearny. N. ]. He is a
butcher, ]. V. Shand, by name. He
has fallen heir to a $1,OOO,00O share
in an estate, and If he gets the money
he proposes to open a big butcher
shop where he will sell meats of all
kinds without taking any profit. 1t
goes without saying that Mr.. Stands
meat market will be we'll patronized.
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laws which will merely pretend to full
fill these pledges. Political parties of
all stripes through their elective rep
resentatives have been doing this very
thing for wears
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Topekans ought to be glad of the
opportunity to rent their spare rooms
in order that the crowd which is going
to attend the state fair here can have
adequate accommodations. This big
crowd is going to mean much to To-
peka and 1t will mean more If not an
individual in it has the slightest pro-
test coming on anything approaching
a laxity of hospitality on the part of
TonekanS.