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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
A MOVING PICTURE MENACE.

That there is a serious menace in
connection with the moving picture
shows as they are now conducted, and
! especially to young girls, is pointed out
uclearly and frankly by Anna Steese
Richardson in the Pictorial Review for
October. It does not concern the char
acter of the pictures shown. Few
moving picture houses now display
pictures which are of the Objectionable
sort. Rather does it concern the dark
auditorium in which the pictures are
shown.
AS Miss Richardson says: EVIL has
always lurked in dark corners, and in
the darkness of the moving picture
theater today, moral degeneracy, with
red-rimmed eye and loose-hanging lip,
lies in wait for youth and innocence
Of course. Miss Richardson is writing
of conditions as she has found them in
New York and other large cities. Such
conditions are undoubtedly not quite
so aggravated in the smaller cities of
the country, like Topeka, for instance.
It is the truth, as we'll as a pleasure
to state, that wolves in mems clothing
who prey on innocent girlhood are not
as numerous in the smaller cities of
the land, even proportionately, as they
are in the bigger cities, where the
most despicable kinds of vice are ram
pant But, startling, indeed, are the
authoritative records which Miss Rich
ardson has dug UP in New York and
other cities of young girls who have
been lured to their ruin by the moral
degenerates and perverts who have
used the darkened picture show places
to form the girls acquaintance. These
records show the danger that really
exists wherever moving pictures are
shown in darkened theaters.
And darkened theaterS or halls are
not necessary for a proper display of
moving pictures. The screen or cur
tain on which the pictures are shown
can be coated with newly patented
material of which aluminium forms the
basis, and the pictures can then be
seen in a house as light or lighter than
the ordinary theater. Pictures shown
on such a screen are also free from
the annoying flicker. The Film Index
the leading publication devoted to the
moving picture trade, has been urging
the use of this curtain and the light
ing of the moving picture auditorium
for almost six months. The Children's
society and other sociological organl-
cations in New York have started an
active crusade to accomplish this end.
1t is a crusade that might well be
taken up in every city of the country.
City ordinances or state laws compel
ling the use of the chemically treated
curtain which will permit the showing
of moving pictures in lighted theaters
are all that will be needed to bring
about this most righteous and neces-
sary reform.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
One on the Club.

If the public does not know that
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley. the pure food
expert, is one of the most absent
minded men in the world, all doubt of
the fact will vanish after this story
has been read. The doctor takes his
lunch in the cafe of the National Press
club, and when he lunches he misses
no bets, overlooks no food. He has
a fine Appetite remarkable appetite
considering all the unpleasant and ter
rifying things he knows about food
stuffs.
One afternoon he finished his meal,
walked into the cloakroon, and put
on his hat. AS he was going out he
was accosted by friend, who invited
him to lunch with him.
D. Wiley hesitated.
ITO tell you the truth" he said.
whimsically, 'I don't know whether
I've Just had lunch or not"
He thought deeply for several mo-
ments.
Just to make sure" he concluded.
seriously, 'I'll go in and have anoth-
err"
And he ate as much the second time
as he did the first.-Popular Maya
zine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
Improved Opponents Game,

De Lancey Nicou has discovered a
new way to become proficient at golf.
1t is heroic. but simple. All you have
to do out on the links and get some
friend to bounce driver on your
head.
Luke Wright, formerly governor
general of the Philippines. who was
handling the driver. and all Mr.. Mic
oils other friends were greatly con-
cerned for several days in the fear that
the noted lawyer had sustained a frac-
ture of the skull.
General Gright and Mr. Nicoll were
playing on the links at Shinnecock
Hills, which is near Mr.. NicolPs sum-
the Philippines and became secretary
of war, General Wright was initiated
by President Taft into golf He's an
expert. Mr.. Nicoll is, too-now.
But he never had been match for
Luke Wright, and, therefore, when in
their game last Friday he had made it
close score, he kept his eye intently
on the Statesman'S play, so closely that
his eye was riveted on the little ball
just as Luke Wright drew back and
swept over mighty blow. It never
hit the ball. 1t struck Mr.. Nicon on
the left side of the head and made an
ugly wound. Mr.. Nicou was, more
over, knocked out.
Doctors revived him. and he was
taken home But when his ear was
stitched up he refused to believe him
self gravely injured, and it has turned
out fortunately that he was not.
Wright can't put me out of the
game that way" declared Mr.. Nicoll.
I'll show him that I'm one of those
who can come back"
And yesterday Mr.. Nieoll came to
town jubilant. He had beaten Luke
Wright. --
t'That knock I got did me an awful
lot of good" he asserted. 1--WE played
better golf ever since. A crack on the
other side might make me champion.
Still I'm not too ambitious, you know
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05

made ready for market, the forage
value of these lands for the immense
herds of horses, cattle, sheep and
goats which Craze on them, amounts
to about 100000 annually.
Assuming, as it is fair to do, that
the normal annual timber crop of the
500. 100000 acres of woodlands in the
United States Irrational, state and pri-
vately owned) would have a value,
ION the stump of at least $50, 900, 900.
that must be multiplied by ten to get
the worth of the same timber pre-
pared for market. thus reaching the
colossal aggregate of $500, 100000, and
that only for single year.
Take into account the infinite ex-
tension and perpetuation of properties
by preservation and replanting of the
forests, and the vast problems of
grazing, water storage, agricultural
development and manufacturing prog
ress, which are directly or Indirectly
connected with this forestry ques-
ton, and we begin family to realize
the titanic magnitude of the possess
sions which the United States is fritz
tering away. The fact is, the wealth
potentialities of the timber lands of
this country are like astronomical dis
tances because they stun the mind
with their enormousness. But they
are unlike astronomical spaces be-
cause the number of miles between
the fixed stars and the earth can be
stated in cold figures, and the worth
of our forests, to ourselves and pos
terity can not. The combined riches
of Rockefeller, Morgan, the Astors
and the Vanderbilts sink into ant
heaps compared with the forest en-
tail which exceeds the resources of
computation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
To NY REIOurn

There are no words so sweet and fair
As those that I would call thee;
mere is no perfume half so rare
10 match the soft scent of thine hair,
That like the fragrance of the air
In May does enthraH me.
There are no colors such as those
That through thy cheeks are flowing;
Ihey put to shame the lowered rose
That in some Southern garden grows,
Or soft tintS of eternal SHOWS
In dawn's embraces glowing.
There is no music of the spheres,
OF harps and sweet bells ringing,
would Sooth my soul with gladder tears
or thrill with deeper joys my ears
through all the long declining years
Than thy voice softly singing.
There is no sky of deeper blue
IMAM where thine eyes are smiling,
No land of dreams that poets knew,
where summer winds ne'er changing blew,
And never-fading flowers grew,
Could e'er be more beguiling.
There is no heart as true as thine
But that within me beating,
Which constant as the ivy vine
Shall worship at thy beauty's shrine,
The wrinkles and the burrows line
OF greedy age defeating.
Edward d. Tittmann, in Smiths Maya
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TF.rom the Chicago News.
There's many a penitent man in the
penitentiary.
It's a pity that more sermons are not
as deep as they are long.
A woman always knows how to
manage her daughters husband.
Be up and doing-but be careful
what or whom you undertake to do.
When you are offered something for
nothing look for the invisible string.
It's always hard for a little woman
to impress people with her dignity.
Under certain circumstances WON
an will admit anything-except her
age.
The trouble with most people is
that they waste too much time ex-
planning things.
Some women jump at conclusions
because they want to see how the story
is going to end.
The man who has a good reputation
may not be able to realize the fun he
might have if he didn't.
Some men are always looking for a
chance to earn money and some are
satisfied if they merely get it.
The man who married his stenog-
rapher under the impression that he
will be able to dictate to her forever
after is foolish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
.LAYHAWKER JOTS

The apple crop in Clay county is re-
ported to average 100 bushels to the
acre.
A committee of fifty citizens of
Kiowa called on the negro inhabitants
of the town individually, and told them
to leave. An exodus began at once
The papers announce that the Jail
in junction City is haunted. This an
rouncement. the Salina Journal sug-
gests, will save the city a lot of board
of prisoners.
One of the things that Leavenworth
people will have to look into and that
before long is the water question, says
the Post. Have Leavenworth people
been forced to begin drinking water at
last?
A colored boy at Beloit asked an
other colored boy for tobacco. He
next asked for cigarette paper and
finally for a match. SAY" said the
other one, you amt got nothing but
the habit"
If some men got mail in proportion
to the knowledge they have of other
peoples business, says the osborne
Farmer, it would take four private
secretaries to keep up their CORE
spondence.
Prosperity item from the Beloit CAL:
There are many fine new buildings
going up in Beloit at present, chlef
among which are the big Missouri Pa
ci1c depot St. Johns convent, the
Brewer block, the Franz and Pirotte
double building and Frank Heath's
elegant home on East Main street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
OUR WEALTH IN FORESTS.

Exclusive of Alaska, and the forest
reserves set apart by different states.
the forests of this country cover an
estimated total OF 6O0,000,000 acres,
writes Kate Burr in Norman E.
Mack's National Monthly for Octo-
Der. That is 30 per cent of the whole
acreage of the nation. Including
Alaska, much more than one-third OF
the entire resources of the country
measuring them by square contents,
are embodied in its forest properties.
This gigantic and superb bequest
from nature represents a literal money
value of more than two billions of
dollars.
But its potential money value is
beyond the power OF mathematical
science to express. 1t would be sheer
childishness to try to approximate it
by reckoning up the amount of tim
Der now actually on the ground.
Though the yearly timber crop which
the 1880 acres of national forests
are capable of yielding would be
worth 100000 on the stump. and
probably $100.0oo.Oo0 after being
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

rFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
A stag party is generally dear in the
end.
The game season is open and lots of
people are shooting craps.
Many a man who is his own master
might better be serving some other
The only way it is possible to get
ahead by going backward is in rowing
boat.
In being the architect of your own
fortune don't indulge in too much
fret work
Nature turns over a new eaf in the
spring, but in the fall she always
paints things red.
The things we eat that don't agree
with US always do their best fighting
after they are down.
The man who wants the earth may
console himself with the thought that
he will get at least six feet of it when
he dies.
Hoax-"I hate to break in new
shoes" Joax-"Yes, a fellow no soon
en- gets them broken in before they
are broken out"
Matches are made in heaven
quoted the Wise Guy. well, lots of
them are scratched in Reno" added
the Simple Mug.
Customer want new pair of
shoes, but L wish you would make
them little different from the last"
Shoemak er-'I Impossible: what's last
for?''
Blobbs-"You used to send her lots
of presents. didn't your" Slobbs-
Yes, she took everything 1 gave her,
and when she married she even took
my rival"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rEronn the Atchison Globe.

rFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Mostly what we have to do it to get
Nine out of ten successful men. and
ten out of ten pretty women, are con-
ceited.
one mistake the liar makes is that
he is apt to mistake forbearance Tor
credulity.
"she got married" Atchison people
about ALL"
Hundreds of men are married be-
cause they are towards, and afraid
to back out.
81 am mean" said the Town Bad
Man the other day, "but L never OBJ
ject to timely rains.'
One trouble with the man who likes
to get up early is his foncness Tor
getting other people up.
An Atchison man says he never
had a relative he knew personally,
who didn't cost him money.
If you want to please an old man,
say to him, I'll bet you were a dead
game sport when you were young.
There isn't a man in Atchison who
doesn't believe that if he had settled
in Kansas City, he'd be millionaire.
1t is doubtless true that man
might drive hogs without swearing; a
man might, for instance, be deaf and
dumb.
The knowing smile worn by some
men when talking about girls injuries
more regulations than anything act
ually said.
A brakeman was ''fussing' with
man. eff you're not careful" he said,
tn pull out your arm and beat you
to death with it,
How long does a real cas- of Indig-
nation last with the people? Not
more than two weeks, and usually not
more than two days.
you hush,'' said country woman
to one of her children recently. but the
child is an insurgent, and didn't pay
any attention to her.
An Atchison woman is now hand
ling three men. To accomplish this
feat and to avoid a head end collision,
is regarded as very difficult
If you want to please a young fell
low, no matter how bony or fat he
and he'll be your friend for life.
The fashions are still pretty bad.
but there is no denying that step in
advance was made when humanity got
away from red flannel underwear.
The newspapers pay entirely too
much affection to the marriages and
divorces of actors. The same space
devoted to abusing honest men would
create greater interest
An Atchison man attended a coun-
try picnic last week. What kind of
time did you have" he was asked
on his return. WELL" he replied, II
went out. and came back
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05

F'arnily pride. you see. Her father made
some provision for the lad
on surely take no stock in such a
tnreadbare inventions" Eldridge cried.
Why, it would disgrace dime novel.
Let this impostor out. neck and cropr'
He is no imposter-I have the
ciearest proofs" Clara said with dig
nifty Shame to me that after seeing
Ihem, understanding. believing them,
let myself hesitate. I knew the
right but there was so much in the
way of doing it. Charley had been
SO proud of his name. He would have
died rather than stain it. Hours and
hours I walked and walked PRAYING
to him all the time praying, too. to
God for light. 1t has worn me thin,
but at last I see the light. 1 should
be thief and worse if I chung to this
money, keeping it away from Maria
Estes SON.
1T is a plot. I see through it,"
Eldridge began passionately. This
is some old lover of yours-you have
trumped uD this tale to cheat me of
my due
He stopped short there-a heavy
hand was on his shoulder. a dark
strong face bent menacingly above
him. mot an old lover, but a new
one-if only she will let me be-" said
the man. 81 have loved you, Clara,
from the hour L saw xou. You haunt
me. sleeping and waking. 1 have
hated women-ever since I knew
you have brought me back to sanity.
will not take the money-not one
penny of it-unless along with it I
may take you"
80 that is your camel" Eldridge
began to sheer.
Marshall Estes led him strongly but
not roughly to the door, thrust him
through 1t, then turned to Clara, say
ing: Il dare not ask you to forgive
but that cur forced me to speak,
There is nothing to forgive" Clara
said, signing softly, but with a divine
blush at will be a fair exchange
you take the money, and give me back
love. '-(Copyrighted 1910 by Asso-
ciated Literary Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05

The largest pear frequently contains
the biggest, juiciest worm.
It takes just as long to have your
hair cut short.
About the only things you can always
count upon are your fingers.
a greyhound has longer legs than a
dachshund. but his pants are just as
! short.
A good thing is good thing not
The average woman never admits
that she is hungry. She says she feels
faint.
Even freckled girl may have a
spotless reputation.
Everybody wants something for
nothing, but few are satisfied with
anything they set that way.
The police have discovered that booze
it is being sold in vaseline bottles. bur
even an ivory-headed policeman will
ADMIT that 1t is slick way Of dispens-
Ing the forbidden liquid.
The Wisconsin sheriff, who shot soma
children because he was afraid to ar
rest their father, speaks of his deputies
as "accomplices." He said it that wav
through ignorance, but we do not feel
1t our duty, under the circumstances
to find fault with his designation,
From all the pictures and statues
we ever saw of the lady, we gather tbl+
Venus was pretty badly broken up
over her love affair with Mars.
The gent up at Norton who found
another gent with his wife, must have
been slightly peeved over the incident
After killing the odd gent, he struck
his wife in the melee.
The time is approaching when it will
be necessary to rope off a space for
General Miles and Fighting Bob
Evans. One says that aeropianes IN
warfare could destroy a navy, and tho
other says such talk in rank nonsense
And each of them has a perfectly good
opinion of his own opinion.
Consul ]. N. McCunn has made an
estimate of the loss incident to aero
plane exhibitions. He says nothing in
his report about the loss of life which
is, of course, a secondary considera-
ton.
IT'S A POOR RULE WHICH HAS
NO ALTERNATIVE"
Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes man wealthy,-or otherwise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
THE BETTER WAY.

A good deal is being printed in the
papers over the country in reference
to the anti-cigarette agitation. Laws
have been passed prohibiting the sale
still the boys smoke them. It is i'm
possible to pass a law that will re-
strain youth with an appetite for
cigarettes from smoking them If he
can get them. There are enough laws
on the books now prohi biting the sale
OF cigarettes, but the secret of down
ing the cigarettes lies with the boys
themselves. You can't make a boy
stop smoking cigarettes by legislation.
You must create in the boy a pride
that he does not use them, that there
is nothing to a practice that carries
with it an odor like a post mortem ex-
animation. This is the surest, quickest
way to do it.-Holton Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

Are you tired of prosperity? Are
you weary Of high prices? Everything
is high and everything is going higher
unless the signs of the times fail. There
may be a crash but is it necessary ?
Is there any disproportion. The farm
ers are selling their straw for more
than they used to sell their hay. Their
corn brings as much higher price as
the things they have to buy have been
raised. 1t might be said that this does
not make general prosperity but it does.
When everything is high, it means
that everything is booming. When
everything is cheap it means that ev-
erything is stagnated. 1t resolves it
self into a question of whether you
will pay high prices. and have pros
perity or low prices and have stagna-
tion.-Lawrence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05

The most remarkable rate of increase
yet reported by the census bulletins is
the one which shows that Birmingham,
Ala, has gained 245 per cent since 1900.
A city of $4,000 inhabitants, ten years
ago, rises to 1S2,6S5 in a single decade.
The secret, says the Cleveland Leader,
lies in the fact that she makes things
It is serving the world by increasing
the quantity OF desired and needed COM
snodities in existence. That work proves
to be a better source of growth and
prosperity than the distribution of mer-
ehandise after it is ready for use
though the best development of all car
rtes both interests along together. Biz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
Basis of a Lawyers Fee.

Richard Parr. the discoverer of the
sugar trust frauds, was talking in
New York about the generous reward
granted him by the government.
Some folks thought I was going to
get a reward of a couple of millions
or So said Mr.. Parr. "They put me
in -Swyer class"
The lawyer clasp said the repor-
ter, puzzled.
Yes said Mr.. Parr. 1.-The lawyer
class. The junior and senior partner
of a law firm, you know, once put their
heads together to draft a clients bill
We've won the will contest for
him. said the junior partner. rubbing
his hands. Suppose we charge him
$500. 00o?'
But the senior partner frowned.
"'Go on he said. He's worth more
than that Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Confidence in the physician is more
than half the cure.
The wiser the man the more foolish
the things he will do occasionally.
Scarcely anybody likes to put on one
of those caps that fits so nicely.
To the pure all things are pure ex-
cept as to many articles they buy for
such.
Home1y folk get great consolation
out of the theory that handsome is as
handsome does.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-05

Santa Fe common stock is now SELL
ing above par, and for the first time
since the panic of a couple of years
ago. Nor is there any doubt that Santa
F'e common is not worth par and then
some, even with freight rates at their
present figure. But the fact that this
stock is now getting back in it's right
full sphere is a certain indication that
conditions in the world of trade and
finance are becoming normal. and that
the foundation on which they rest is a
firm one