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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l


Insurgency is really kick on the UNI
pire.
Air castles seem always to invite
destructive storms.
A woman in gay colors simply cannot
look as mouTnful as a woman in mourn
ing.
II as many as two people are interested.
there is always room for an argument.
A good appetite is great institution if
you don't let it boss you, as you are pref
ty apt to do.
A woman should either elect to be a
satisfactory wife and mother. or Suf-
fragette; she can't be both.
If the man who orders lemonade in a
he wouldn't even be in there.
Widows always have no Trouble in in = getting
married again. Because dead men tell
no tales.
Atchison always was an unusual town /:
good deal better than he likes his
father-in-law
Time is precious, but some men have
that they can't spare enough to clean their
finger nails.
When a railroad train pulls into a sta
tion, ever notice that those waiting al
irving have left the cars?
Speaking of supply and demand the
furniture dealers are a little slow in in
creasing the dimensions of dressers in
order to make room for the supply of jute
hair.
A man who has been a satisfactory
friend for years, becomes unsatisfactory.
Why? Did you not contribute toward the
result? Or are you one of the good kind
who never do anything wrong?
When people return from a trip they
say to their friends: why didn't you
write to me?" And their friends reply:
II did. Didn't you get it?" This is the
most foolish form of the lie.
certain Atchison woman is a martyr,
and enjoys it. She has a husband and
three sons. and when she wants to par
ticularly humiliate them. she cleans the
cellar. and is sick in bed for a week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
NE Earned His saIary.

At time when the public were
hearing a great deal of new "indus-
trial combinations" one of the newly
arrived captains of industry found
himself in a western CITY in extreme
need of communicating with the New
York end of his enterprise.
He had almost completed an ar
rangement for the consolidation of a
number of western enterprises. but in
order to obtain final authority he
needed from New York it became nee
essary to explain by wire to his part
ners all he had done in the west.
The situation permitted of no delay,
such as would ensue should he write,
and to make matters worse he had no
cipher code. For some time the finan-
cier racked his brains to evolve some
method whereby he might communi-
cate his information to his associates
in New York, but in such manner that
it would be meaningless to anyone else.
He could. however. think of no such
method. and at last was forced to the
conclusion that he must take the
chance of sending the message in plain
English. Accordingly, he drew up the
message and gave it to his confiden-
tial man to send.
About half an hour later, when the
confidential man again came in, he
was asked whether he had forwarded
the wire.
Eyes. SIR" said the man; "but not
exactly in the way you proposed. I
rewrote it the first word on one COM
pany's blank. the second word on an
other company's blank, and so on. In
that way 1 sent half the message by
each company. neither half. of course.
meaning anything to one not in the
secret. Then l sent a second wire by
one company reading:
Read messages together, alternating
Words
Not long afterword the confidential
man was receiving larger salary
Harper'S Weekly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
HUNOR or THE Day

government? Bocker-First provide an
auto and then create an office to fill it.
IT hear Blubud has. got the. stage
he a Mhy the h fn sn s in
Girl From Yonkers' company."-To
Topics.
the chicken, sir? Old Gent-Weii you
couldn't cali me the chicken now, could
you, naturalization Opinion.
Game into fortune. didn't hep" Yes.
a big one Whats he dom these days?'
work" well. that ought to keep him
occupied for awhile; he owed everybody"
Houston Post.
"Automobiling is fine sport: isn't it?'''
Yes; but it is the fines which make 1t
Sunday School Teacher-New. Johnny,
DO put m tha Pa aot ao
smaller.-Harper's Bazaar.
OWN" inquired he; Well" she replied,
Ito a certain extent, yes. told him that
faRer Is d not naf ael hin to
don Globe.
do you find the cost Of living any
Yes sir. Two of my daughters have
got married since."-Washington Herald.
But will your father give his consent?''
Don't worry about that. Father is not
going to waste his time opposing a sum-
mer gement."-Leuisville Courier
Journal
Fervid Teetotaller-I object to the custom
of christening ships with champagne on
principle. Facetious Friend-I don't see
why you should: why, there's temper
ance lesson in it. Immediately following
her first taste of wine the vessel takes
to water, and what's more. she sticks to
1t ever after.-Scraps.
Bridge whist spells conversation" said
the woman who doesn't care for cards.
"Only temporarily replied Miss Cayenne.
You ought to hear the remarks 1t in
spires after the game breaks up."-Wash-
ington Star
Sue-Don't you know George kissed me
at the door last night twice before could
stop him? Mae-GraciouSt What cheekr'
Sue-Both.-Smart Set.
Great gunsi I've swallowed my collar
buttoni' exclaimed the first actor in the
dressing ROOM Here I'll lend yeu one
of mine" answered the other. with exag-
gerated NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

One of the real old warhorses in the
Kansas political arena is Col. w. H.
Pepperill of Concordia. who has been
chosen again to act as secretary of the
Democrats state committee. He has
been on this job for more years than
most men can remember. But Colonel
Bill is far from being an antique. In
fact, he appears to be built in a mould
that is too sturdy for even Father Time
to make a dent in. And as soon as the
campaign starts up he will be at his
desk for twenty-four hours a day and
smiling all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The remarkable boss is the man who
has perfect control over his children.
The more intelligent the man, the
more unaccountable things he does oc-
casionally.
If people were not naturally blind to
their own faults they'd find some other
way of not seeing them.
u
Almost every man has an idea that
he could fill the role Of kings Jester in
an admirable fashion.
\ \
Women are ever being criticized on
account of their prediction for hats.
but if the average man takes an in
ventory he'll be apt to find five or six
wearable hats of his own around the
house, even If some of them are eight
or ten years old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

mean to tell me that that old sheep
is named Consuella?"
suh. huh. an the more names you
call her the harder it'll so with you."
Heating, in the city. was Charles
Heating, Esq, managing an agency
for well known cash register con-
Germ. He bore the respect of his fell
lows.
In his bonds before these country
men, Tuning and fretting. and with
perspiration running down his fore
head, his dignity was conspicuously alb
sent.
The mind of the youth was on the
austere Miss Decker. his fiancee.
He mentally thanks fortune that
this little misadventure was thing
of the country.
Pad, pad; pad, pad!
Heating, his back to the driveway,
heard the approaching rig before it
had come to a stop beside him.
What is this?' asked q chilly voice
"a woman's voice.
This man was a chasin' of Con-
suella," explained the farmer. He
had a fishhook in her wool, and his
pole and line hangin' to it, and he
was runnin' her to beat Time. We
knew-EIiram and what store you
kept him, thinkin' as how you'd like
to sick the law on him.
A musical laugh rang out, and the
marrow in the bones of the prisoner
NOAiSCoi0o 90 4aC AlOoAo liz hAA~"
that laugh.
Turn him over" came in a soft
contralto. "You don't care if 1 look
upon the classic profile of your pris-
ner, do you, aunt?"
FIiram's foot prodded the youth
face about-and a beet red face it
was!
The girl in the carriage broke into
historical scream,
"Oh. aunt!' she gasped when she
had recovered her breath. This Is too
much. Your sheep chaser isis my
fiance."
Following the orders of Mrs. Griggs,
Heating was speedily liberated. Ex-
plantations followed. Mrs. Griggs
laughed. Miss Marion Denton screamed
again. Heating. whose sense of hunor
| would not spread to cover the situa-
ton, frowned ominously at the two
embarrassed ones who were respon-
sible for his predicament. With awk-
ward apologies the two made a hasty
departure.
''That is the first time ever saw
| you give indications of being real
| flesh and blood" growled Heating,
| town-bound, and with the girl by his
side.
"Now that I And you something be-
sides a business automaton and a crea-
| ture of conditions. like the rest OF US
we may understand each other better.
laughed the girl.-(Copyright 1916
| by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
IFrom the New York Pre-

[F'rom the New York Press.1
It takes an awful lot of doctoring to-
keep truth from going into a decline.
The surest way to be absolutely worth
for it.
Pay woman compliment and she'd
know it was flattery IL it was to another
woman.
It's absolutely impossible, when a wom-
an feels her toe going through her stock
ing, for her not to suspect everybody
knows.
Next to having to listen to the average
man tell a joke the most horrible tor
ture is to have to let him describe when
he made great hit with It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

Except where the Democrats took
occasion to find fault with the way the
general affairs of the state have been
handled by the Republicans, their pro-
nouncements on the new and progress
sive state legislation they. favor sound
as though they might have been
penned by the same gentlemen who
wrote a similar plank in the Repub-
lican platform. This only goes to
show that all Kansans are progressive
in the matter of state government, ir-
respective of the party emblems they
march under.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

Now that the party councils have
had their say, campaign activities will
begin and continue for the two months
intervening before election day. There
is one distressing feature to the pri-
mary system, regardless of its many
good points. Under it. politics are al
most perpetual. Once upon a time the
politicians had pretty much of a snap.
They worked hard for two or three
months every two years. Then the sue
cessful ones enjoyed the fruits of their
Iabors at leisure. But they have no
snap now. They are kept busy inces-
sanity. Maybe this is the reason there
is not so much mischief among them
as there used to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Cbicapo Ne'ws.1

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Kisses are worth their face value in
any market.
Every man is above the average-ro
hear him tell it.
A light lunch may be the result of a
blonde hair in the butter.
How a poor man lords it over one
who is a little poorer than himself!
Honeyed phrases have a bitter taste
when you are compelled to eat your
words.
The average woman would rather
buy things than go shopping-but that
takes money.
Baseball umpires and horse-show
judges have almost as many friends as
a homeless yellow dog.
No woman is quite sure what things
are stored away on the top shelf of the
closet in the spare bedroom upstairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the state journal
AWAY during the summer may nave
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address at the rate Of ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month tDy
mail onIy.) Address changed as Otter
as desired. While out OF town the
state Journal will be to you like
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, 1910-09-02

unlike the FAIRS of the past few
years in Topeka. horse racing is not
going to be the principal attraction.
The fair here this year is going to be
a great agricultural exposition of pro-
portions commensurate with the agri-
cultural prominence of Kansas. The
horse racing will be a side issue but
1t will be as good as any such racing
that has been or will be held in kan
sas and neighboring states this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

A man is being taken from Topeka
to California to serve out penal SEN
tence of seventeen years. He has been
out on parole and enjoyed freedom for
seven years. But he violated his pa
role by getting in serious trouble again.
Now he will have plenty of time to
think over the indisputable fact that it
paws a man we'll to behave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

No worthier project has ever been
submitted to Topekans than the re-
quests for funds which will be made
next Tuesday to continue the mainte-
nance of the fresh-air camp for con-
sumptives. If this institution is kept
up and developed it will be a great
agency in preventing the spread of tu-
bercuIosis in this city. That is worth
while. isn't It?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

From the expressions of opinion on
the part of prominent delegates to the
International Congress of Socialists,
now in session at Copenhagen, 1t is
evident that the leaders of this party
have little or no use for Colonel
Roosevelt. Honors in this particular
are even. He has no use for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
THr I. d. on D.

THE /. G. OF L.
We may loudly roar at the price of
And again when we pay the rent.
And get no returns for the breath 1t
takes
Nor retain one round. brown cent.
And live in basement nat.
But our cash moves on its relentless
At a speed of 10Y fiat.
oh, the victim calls it a"dirty shame"
And declares he's the under pup"
But his futile attempts to beat the
game A.
Prove him bone from the shoulders
up.
Forty girls, dressed in tights, pa
raded the streets of Coney Islander
suit cases. The exhibition will not be
repeated. Is taht not particularly dis
tressing, Mahetibel? (Bostonese YER
nacular for "Ain't it awful. Mabel?")
The case of the Kansas City preach
err who killed a pair of lady friends
and himself, leaving, as a legacy to
his family. a fine record of forgeries,
poker scandals and disorderly conduct,
will be eagerly mouthed over by the
knockers as an indication that all
preachers are bad. But 1t is simply an
indication that all preachers are not
good.
1t is our observation that a man will
brag about his first baby. even II he
has to brag about how loud It can
squawk.
If all the worlds a stage, where does
the critic get off at7
The hundred million dollar Mclean
| baby remains at home in a cage, while
| its mother takes the family poodle-dog
| to Europe for an outing. The saying
that sit is better to be a rich mans
properly be revised to read. "or q rich
mans baby
Kids are throwing peach seeds
Dad Is throwing fits;
| Mothers canning peaches and
The house is on the Fritz.
The country dog is now the fall guy.
! wa gon to the state fair. and had a
pleasant time. Now the farmer brings
his family to the fair in an automobile.
If you think of nothing else to be
thankful for, Just remember that "Ailsa
| Paige" Is finished in this number of
the Next Saturday Evening POST
The legislature will never be able to
| square all the insurgent campaign
promises, but as the insurgents have
, absolute control. and hot air is still
passing as political currency, it will be
unnecessary to redeem said pledges.
Christine Nelson, the actress was
secretly married on July Is. II we
| can locate any more unimportant item
before this department is turned in to
| the printers, we will scratch this out
and substitute the other.
A Kansas City detective dressed
himself in women's clothing, made a
| date with a smooth crook, and thereby
| captured the wanted" one. Chief
Jenkins should act upon this tip, and
dress Detectives Golf and Voiles in
feminine attire. They could then ap-
proach the unsuspecting crooks and
lure them to their doom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

Leon Morane, French aviator, has
succeeded in driving a monoplane TO
a height of 1854 feet These high
flying bird men probably go on the
theory that it won't hurt them any
more or less to fall several thousand
feet that it would to fall a hundred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

The racing program for the State
fair is an excellent one. The purses
and stakes are liberal and some of
ths highest class trotting horses and
bangtails in the western section of the
country will contest for them. But
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

An article in the current issue of the
Twentieth Century magazine declares
that Senator Bristow is a national fig
ure. If Senator Aldrich agrees with
this sentiment he will probably insist
that the figure in the case is cypher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

"You might as well forget" advises
the Atchison Globe, that Colonel
Roosevelt ever said he would not again
be a candidate for president. He has
forgotten it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

How Kind and condescending of Vice
President Sherman. He doesn't in
tend to read any man out of the Re-
publican party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

Postofice robbers are in Topeka
these days. They are also in jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
KANSAS COMAENT
TIMRER WOLVEs.

If you want to strike terror to a
lumberman, say just the two words,
timber wolves. 1t means stealth ana
"reminiscences and desolation. The tim
Der wolf is gaunt creature that stalks
it's prey for miles. attacks under the
most hopeless circumstances, ana strips
his victims bones. There is no grand
ness or majesty about the timber wolf,
no stateliness. 1t is a cowardly animal
that attacks only when it has the adj
vantage and when its victims back is
turned.
The squatters who have just started
the disastrous forest fires now raging
IN the Northwest, and that have cost
hundreds Of lives and lost to the peo-
pie OF the country millions of dollars
worth of natural resources, are the-lat-
est reincarnation- of the timber wolves
They embody all the stealth and cow
ardice of the original beats, and are
just as wanton and ruthless in their
destruction
The source of these fires, which have
robbed men of their homes and lives
and have made as many widows and or
phans as a war. has been definitely
traced to the criminal aim of these
squatters, who without right have seiz-
ed upon land that they saw Justice
would compel them to give up. Antici-
pating their expulsion they sought to
take revenge in advance and started
the fires out of pure malice.
There is no protection against such
attacks, perhaps no way even of find
ing out the perpetrators. They struck
down their victims in the depths OF
the forest while no one looked on, and
then fed like the wolves to safety. 1t
is a despicable and wanton crime with
out any defense or excuse, and there
can be no reparation for the loss and
suffering they have nflicted.-Ottawa
Republic.
THE INSURGENT MACHINE.
Why is it that when reformers win
and gain the upper hand they become so
arbitrary? At Topeka Tuesday in the
Republican party council 1t was partic-
ularly edifying to see Victor Murdoch,
who has been bowling about the tyran-
ny of the rules in congress bring in the
resolutions under special rules for the
control of the party council which
made it impossible for members of the
council to offer amendments to piankS
which they did not approve, or even to
debate or discuss them from the floor.
The question arises does a party plat
form made in a room by a few indi-
vidualS, forced on a council by gag
rules and steam roller" methods re-
fleet the sober judgment of the Repub-
licans of Kansas?
1t was raw work and the insurgent
machine should have been ashamed to
stand for such methods. The average
member Of the party Council had as
much to do with the platform as the
fifth wheel to a wagon or was of about
as much Importance to use Ed Madi-
sons language as a bound boy at a
huskin.''
If the members of the council had
been allowed to vote, a straight clean
endorsement of our Republican presi-
dent would have resulted.-Leaven-
worth Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02
FROM OTHER PENS
POWERS OF THE PREsIDENr

POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT
An English cabinet may contain half
a dozen potential prime ministers; an
ex-prime minister, or secretary of state
for foreign affairs. or chancellor of the
exchequer. or viceroy of India is almost
always a commanding political figure.
In America. on the contrary, members
Of the cabinet, politically, are only of
minor Importance for two reasons
first, that the tenure is uncertain, be-
ing at the pleasure of the president,
and leaving him without any policy Of
his own aside from the instructions of
the president; and, second, that the
American member of the cabinet ranks
below the English minister and, more
often than not, before becoming a cab
met member has simply a local reputa-
ton and is practically an unknown
man until he is called to Washington.
These things explain why under the
American system of government, the
president has become the great ma
tional figure in politics. They explain
also why the president has come to
represent national ideas in legislation,
as well as in administration, and to
have put out of balance the old theory
of equal and coordinate branches of
government. With the increasing
tendency to look to Washington in
stead of to the states as the center Of
matter of course that the power of the
president is magnified. There may be
a reaction, but the opinion is ventured
that % years hence the authority exer-
cised by the president will be vastly
greater than 1T is today, and that
whether this is menace time alone
can tell.-Omaha Bee.
THE BATTLE OF BACTERIA.
The human body is a kind of fort
defended by a great army of harmless
bacteria. 1t often happens that a
treacherous and hateful bacterium gets
on the inside somehow. but the defend
ers of the fort are able to take care of
it SO that an enemy seldom gets a
footing there.
Sometimes the hostile bacteria on
the outside make assaults on the fort
generally attacking some weak point,
and there all the loyal bacteria rally to
defend the pass, and there is apt to
occur some hot fighting. In fact, so
much heat is generated by the conflict
at that point that it is called an in
Examination. The inflammation is a
good sign, for 1t tells what fierce and
faithful fighters the defenders are.
Generally, however, the invaders are
driven off, but sometimes they widen
the breach they have made and occu-
by adjacent points of advantage or in
volve other ramparts, and then the war
begins in real earnest. But the invad-
ers inflict their worst blow when they
rally their septic allies against the
blood, whereupon there happens the
very shock of war, and which wins, no
one knows until the smoke of battle
clears away.-Ohio State Journal.
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square all the insurgent campaign
promises, but as the insurgents have
absolute control. and hot air is still
passing as political currency, it will be
unnecessary to redeem said pledges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

If you think of nothing else to be
thankful for, Just remember that "Ailsa
Paige" is finished in this number of
the Next Saturday Evening Post"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-02

Christine Nelson, the actress, was
secretly married on July is. II we
can locate any more unimportant item
before this department is turned in to
the printers, we will scratch this out
and substitute the other.