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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-29
AYHAWKER JOTS

Northwest Kansas is reported to be
sowing more wheat. this year than ever
before.
Bibles are to be placed in the Hutch
inson hotels. But is anybody doing
anything to redeem Wichita?
The Hutchinson News laments the
fact that the child labor law will bar
the Uncle Tom" companies from Kan
sas.
A little matter of $4,000 in cash
seems to be all that stands between
Wamego and a railroad to Westmore-
land.
The street commissioner of a north
ern Kansas town is named Depew and
when the citizens want to roast him
they call him Chauncey.
A woman weighing 200 pounds
eloped from Mcpherson recently and
the impression is strong out there that
there should be no trouble in finding
her.
The penalty of being great: A story
is making the rounds of the news
papers, that while at Lawrence. Col.
Roosevelt ate watermelon with
spoon.
A barrel of whisky was unloaded
at the Lawrence depot recently and
the man to whom it was billed has
become the most popular citizen OF
the town.
A horse at Wamego got frisky and
made havoc of an automobile, and the
Republican is now demanding enact
ment of a law to protect autos from
fool horses.
This apology is from the Hillsboro
News: Several of the leading society
ladies of T-illsboro insist that we apol-
ogize for an article appearing in the
News two weeks ago, in which we
said too much valuable time was vast
ed by the ladies at their functions on
cards and finch We humbly apol-
ogize for the item and wish to state
that we lied. There is not lady in
HillsborO that knows the jack OF clubs
from a Jerusalem artichoke, and as
for finch, they never saw the game in
their lives, and some of them think
it's a new kind of corset. When they
meet at social functions they occupy
their time in reading the Bible and
conversing about the efficacy OF the
atonement and the whichness of the
when.
The Minneapolis Messenger discusses
the effect of automobiles on the coun-
try roads as follows: 1.-THE best gen.
| eral example we know of the value
! of sad experience-of people learn
| ing lessons as a result of their own
folly-is to be found in the widespread
use of automobiles by farmers. For
several thousand years the farmers
have been letting the roads lie as mis-
cradle streaks of alternate dust ana
| mud. weeds and ice, bumps and ruts,
| in spite of the anxious advice of editors
and other sages. Recently the tillers
| of the soil, however, have taken to
driving in wagons whose machinery
and upholstery are vulnerable, and
whose tires are delicate and expensive.
Roads are improving. An alarming
amount of money is being spent now
| adavs for motor cars, but it is help
| ing to teach a wonderfully valuable
| lesson"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-29
CHECK ON THE FRANK.

Somebody is always trying to make
it harder for the holder of special
privileges. The latest move is designed
to put a check on the congressman.
The suggestion is made that mem
bers of congress and government Of
ficials be provided with stamps, hav-
ing a nominal value, although furnish
ed to them free, to be used in lieu of
the present Thanking privilege. 1t is
urged in behalf of. the plan that it
would enable the postoffice department
to keep an exact record of the amount
of mail carried under the ranking sys-
TEN for the various federal depart
ments, by the simple system of charg-
ing up the stamps to each department,
and to the members of congress as they
are applied for.
This would not curtail the Legitimate
free mailing perquisite of the federal
office holder, but might act as a curb
on such misuses of the ranking priv
iIege as the mailing of laundry, type
writer's or baby carriages in the guise
of congressional documents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l


The greatest luxury in this world
is the luxury of a good friend
We don't know much, but we know
a lot of things which mean more than
a political resolution.
If fame seems to have sighted you,
it is always possible to go through the
Whirlpool rapids at Niagara in bar
rel.
If man is in indisputed control at
his home. and cream is scarce, does
he not ALWAYS take more than his
share of cream for his oatmeal?
Most tiresome people are tiresome
because they are constantly trying to
keep something going on. It's good
idea for everyone to rest occasionally
There is talk of sending certain
man to the poor house. He is still
able to do a fairly good days work,
but talks so much that no one will
have him around.
According to the neighbors. if faith
err loafs around home a good deal, he
ought to be at work, and if he doesn't
loaf around home a good deal, he is
neglecting his family.
In literature, criticism is always
more interesting than praise. People
who will go to sleep over praise of a
good man, will become tenSely inter
ested in criticism of a good man
That's the reason there is so much
| abuse in the world.
o, the Newspaper Slush we the peo-
pie are compelled to stand! The doc
| tors decided that Mrs. Crippen, before
| her death in London, had submitted to
a criminal operation performed by her
husband. Now the same doctors have
! decided that they can't tell whether
! the remains believed to be those OF
Mrs. Crippen are the remains of q
| man or woman.
An Atchison man was sitting in his
own home last evening, quietly read
| ing, as a nice man should do Sunday
| evening, when one of his wife's wo-
men friends dropped in The mar
kept on reading Gas men do on sucf
| occasions), and the women paid nj
! attention to him. (Women never d.
pay any attention to the man of the
| house, The man could not help bu
hear what his wife and her friend
talked about: at first, they talked
about what long day Sunday was
what disgrace it was they neve
went to church; how they had giveI
up trying to make the children go t.
| Sunday school. etc. And the mai
kept on reading his paper. FINAL,
his wife and her friend drifted int
real talk, and the man thought t.
himself: This is no place for a gen
tleman." and went to his room.
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.susten in PhiIadeInhia-

shivering, chattering little Chin
panzee sat in a cage at the Bingham
house this morning and asked H. l.
Garner, her guide. philosopher and
friend for a nice young bamboo sprout
to eat She made the request in the
new language, 3'Simianese - which Mr..
Garner has discovered is a sort of
monkey Esperanto.
"Yessah; nosah; I'll go see, sab, -
said the astounded bellhop to whom
the request of Susie was transmitted.
But there were no bamboo sprouts on
the Bingham breakfast menu this
morning, so Susie, the precocious lit
tie linguist, was comforted with a
juicy yellow banana.
Garner held a long conversation
with Susie afterWard, and asked her
how she would like to go out and be
introduced to some cousins of hers
who are spending the summer on the
estate of DR.. E. H. Furness, at Wall
ingford. The monkeys at WaIlingford
are owned by the psychological de-
partment of the University of Penn
sylvania, and are being kept there dur
ing the summer cessation of psyche
logical activity at the university. Dr.
Lightner Wilmer, head of that depart
ment, is out of town for the summer
and DR.. Furness was said to be away
from home. But the psychological
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-29
A Greek Poets Suicide.

A Greek poet whom Mime. Leblanc
Maeterlinck compared to Hermes for
lis personal beauty has committed
suicide at Athens under the most ro-
mantle circumstances.
Pericles Ianopoulos, despite his Sue
cess and popularity as a poet, gave
way to melancholia. At a banquet
to which he had summoned all his
friends he showed them a truIIxfIII
OF manuscripts that were to be de-
strGyed.
ney," he said, as they left him. The
next morning each of them received
by post an exquisite statuette of a
horse. ="
At the same time IanopouIous b.d
ridden out of the city to Mount Aega-
leos- On the throne of Xerxes ~
gathered some wild flowers. ol,t oS
which he made crown and set n IN
his brow Then he mounted his horse
and with revolver in his hand rode
down toward the sea-
A violent storm had broLa1 -
the country. IanopouIous- dr,S,;,s !.
his spurs into the horses TANKS urgas
the maddened beast into the fosrI7e ~
Waters OF the bay and shot hinsaYS
through the heart IA
In letter written to a rela+i,- a.,
poet SAID; i am giving nv dead 80 Sie
10 the sea to cleanse. If the go. I pouy
Express. London
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-29
What Forty-Niners Paid.

Have you kicked at the restaurant
prices lately? Here is the price list on
the 'carte" of the ElDorado hotel of
Placerville, Cal, in the days when it
entertained the forty-niners. ''Paya BILE
in advance" it proclaims; gold scales
at the end of bar" A square meal,
with dessert is priced at So, and 9TH
er items that probably interested the
patrons of the ElDorado are set forth
as follows: Beef, Mexican prime cut,
$1.50; beef, uplong. $3.50; beef, plain,
81; beef with one potato, fair size,
$1.25; beef, tame. from the states
$3.50; also two potatoes, medium size
so cents; two potatoes, peeled, rs
cents; hash. low grade, rs cents; hash,
1S-carat, 81; rice pudding, plain, rs
cents; rice pudding and brandy
peaches, $1.-Los Angeles Times
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monkeys are still at Wallingford, and
Susie said yes, she'd be delighted to
meet them, upon proper introduction
She told Garner:
''Wux! Kie-kic-kie! Wux! Squee!
zap! Wux-wux-wuxi"
Garner said that interpreted, meant:
IT don't know why you brought me
here all the way from nv home on
the first treetop on the left from the
corner of the trail leading from Congo
street; but I'm willing to meet those
Wallingford monkeys. Anything would
be relief after talking with those re-
porters last highland kissing them!
Why do you make me kiss them
Fetch on anybody or anything except
reporters who want to be kissed"
Susie was bought by Garner from a
native of Fernon Vaz. in the French
Congo, during Gamers expedition
there to investigate monkey language.
She was brought to New York several
days ago, and her owner brought her
to Philadelphia last night. She will
make her home here for several
months, and is to be the subject of a
series of experiments which Garner be-
gan seven years ago, when he went to
the Congo district to live in a cage and
talk to the chimpanzees, gorillas and
ourang-outangs in those parts.
Susie understands about twenty
words of English, Garner says. and
monkeys have a vocabulary of over a
score of words.-Philadelph Tele-
graph.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News

Ir rom Cne chicago News
A cheerful man is a pessfmist's idea
of. a fool.
Life is a grind, but the world is full
of cranks.
The future and the past are near
relations to the present
The next best thing to being rich &c
TO have people think you are
A man makes his mark and then his
wife is apt to make him toe it.
Today is the time to do things: TO-
morrow is the time to do nothing.
Throw on the emergency brake when
you find yourself talking too much.
Be sure your sins will find you out
but if they don't your neighbors will.
Some men expect others to agree
with them even when they don't agree
with themselves.
We once heard of a man who loved to
pay his debts, but we have forgotten
his address.
Considering what most people are
willing to do for money it's a wonder
there are not more millionaires.
Men are inclined to boast yet accord
ing to statistics three out of four of us
are buried at somebody else's expense.
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GoLDEN-RoD.

i.
This world is full of beauty,
And the hearts of men are gay,
The children shout with gladness
All through the sunny day,
But the days are growing shorter, and
my heart is filled with gloom,
For the crfcketS are a-singing and the
Solden-rod'S in bloom.
Il
It's sweet to see the beauty,
And it's wrong to be so sad
When the playing of the children
Should make my old heart glad,
But my days are growing shorter, and I
seem to sense my doom.
For the katy-dids are calling, and the
golden-Tod'S in bloom.
III.
Awake, my soul, to comfort,
Ny heart, forget thy fear,
III my days are growing shorter
Then heaven Is more near:
If the katy-dids are calling
And the crfcket's song IS told,
tbs promise that the springtine
Shall follow winters cold.
Then the sun shall shine forever, and no
heart shall harbor gloom,
With the children ever singing, and the
golden-rod in bloom.
Newark News.
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WHY NOT RAISE MORE CORN?


The farmers bulletin issued by the
Z. S. department of agriculture under
this date deals with the subject of
seed corn. Coming as it does just on
the eve of the corn harvest it is
worthy of serious attention by agri-
culturists.
The bulletin closes with the follow
ing summary:
IF you have ever found yourself
compelled to plant corn that was not
fit for seed, do not be caught that way
again. 1t is too diScOuraging to begin
the season with poor prospects of a
good crop. Get your seed at ripening
time when the best quality is most
plentiful. Get an abundance, enough
for planting again what the high wat
er may destroy and a supply for some
farmer who may move into your COM
muntty or for a neighbor who could
not select his seed corn at the proper
time
Save seed only from the most prof
table individuals with the same care
you use in propagating your animals.
Care for each living kernel from
the time it ripens until it is planted
in manner that will enable it to de-
velop into thrifty plant and produce
one or more large ears. Do not ex-
pect termination tests made in the
spring to restore Vigor that proper
gathering, drying and storing would
have retained.
shell your seed carefully by hand"
The average production of corn to
the acre for the entire United States
| is but 26 bushels and it Is believed by
! the experts that this average can be
| greatly increased by paying more at
| tention to the selection of seed.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Recor,

LF,rom the Philadelphia Record.l
Where ignorance is bliss tits folly to
ask why's,
The man who is in the public eve
must expect to be under the lash
The man who invents cure for
colds should be filling his coughers.
The truth more frequently has an
impeachment in its speech than a lie.
The only way some people can be
happy. on $1,000 a year is by spending
$500.
Don't despise the insignificant. Few
men have as many good points as d
paper Of pins.
Once a girls heart is broken she
spends the rest of her life distributing
the pieces.
It is hard to conceive that women
were ever really happy before the look
ing glass was invented.
The fellow who wins at poker
shouldn't complain because he has a
great deal to put up with.
It's all right to hear both sides of
en argument, but it is generally more
pleasant to hear the end of it.
Love is blind" quoted the Wise
Guy, Eyes, but unfortunately it gen.
orally has its eyes opened after mar
riage,'' added the Simple Mug.
BIobbs-"It's easy enough to take
things philosophically if you only make
nm yo11r mind to it" Slobbs-"Yes, the
trouble is to part with them philosophi-
calIvH
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HUNOR OF THE DRY

Mrs. Newlywed-You are not a bit
interested In my new dress.
Mr. Newiywed-Indeed L ami How
many hooks has it?-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
Wig-Lazicus is always talking about
what he is going to do
Wag-Well. if he didn't he would
nave nothing to talk about.-PhiladeI-
phia Record.
What part of the railway train do
you regard as the most dangerous?''
inquired the nervous man.
The dining car answered the dys-
peptic.-Birmingham Age-Herald.
why did Mrs. Flimgilt insist on talk
band?'' NuS-
Because of her superstitious fancy. She
noticed that she nearly always won when
she met him at bridge party and con-
GUIDED he was mascot. "-Washington
Star. wa
Friend-So your great Russian actor
was a total failure?
Manager-Yes. 1t took all our profits
to pay for running the electric light
Mother, L am engaged"
Il object to Mr. Wombat"
Il was engaged to Mr.. Wombat last
| week" retorted the girl with dignity.
This time it is Mr.. PiffIe Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
81 zee your wife is home. Mr.. Neigh
Dor. I'll run up and see her tomorrow
afternoon"
Better wait until next week. BY then
she'll probably have all the dishes
washed. Detroit Free Press.
Margaret and her little playnats
were exchanging condolences
whats your favorite color7'' asked
| Elizabeth
Margaret looked thoughtful for a. mo-
ment and then said brightly, 'PlaidI"
The Delineator.
DO you think, Mr.. Roosevelt, that IL
| you accepted the call to China YOU
could adapt yourself to Chinese ways %
| on, some statesman over there
would give me a queue" replied the
colonel, visibly Observation-Disclosures
| Ledger.
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KANSAS cOMAENT
Is THIS FAIR?

The recent arrest of Mr.. Callahan
and the probable indictment of Mr..
Burt and Mr.. Naftzger, all of Wichita,
includes revelation of the hard life
of a real thief and the injustice which
is given him in his profession. 1t
seems that DR.. Samuels paid Mr..
Naftzger 95 cents on the dollar for the
postage stamps Mr.. Naftzger paid
Chief Burt IS cents. Mr.. Burt paid
Mr.. Callahan so cents and Mr.. Gala
han paid the thief IS cents.
In other words, after doing all the
hard work of breaking into the post
office, breaking open the safe, making
the getaway and running the risk
of being caught, the thief only gets
25 cents on the dollar.
This does not look like square
deal. How can intelligent and hon
orable men be persuaded to take up
the profession when the reward of
industry is so small an the risk so
great? Why should a man take
chances of the penitentiary and pur-
suing posses when he is only allowed
rs per cent of the profits and has to
turn over Is per cent to people who
merely look virtuous and talk of high
er standards.
1t is evident that a Thieves organ
ization is needed in order to give the
men who labor at the trade a proper
remuneration for their toil.-Hutch-
inSon News
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THE POPULAR WILL

The winning of New York by the
advocates of the direct primary makes
the victory almost complete. Some 80
states have abolished the convention
system.
The election of United States SEN
ators practically by popular vote by
all the states is almost certain to fol-
low before long.
Senator Cummins would go still
farther and nominate the candidates
for the presidency by the same meth
cd. Up to the present time his sug-
gestion has not met with a hearty
response, but who knows?
The people have set out to control
the affairs of government themselves
instead of letting out the work to a
lot of politicians and whatever they
think is best that they will do.
The events of this year in the field
of politics inspires renewed faith in
our capacity for self government. The
American people are patient and long
suffering. They will stand much pub
lie wrong doing without anything more
than protest. but when once thorough
" aroused they make a clean sweep
of offending conditions.
When they have accomplished some
of the most needed reforms they prob
ably will settle back to the quiet con-
duct of everyday affairs until the ad-
ministration of public business again
drops into a rut, as always happens,
unless constant vigilance is exercised.
But when the time comes for another
house cleaning they can be depended
upon to show up on the job.
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The young woman who attempted
suicide in New York. in the belief that
she would return to earth at some fu-
ture time and find one moral standard
for men and women alike, took a long
chance. Reformation along this line
lies with women alone. Just as lcng as
they maintain their present attitude of
tolerance toward the misdeeds of men
and their customary intolerance tow
ard the short comings of women, the
present state Of public morals will con-
tinue. What can they expect as long
as men guilty of the most fragrant vio-
lation Of the moral code are admitted
to their society and are accepted as
husbands?
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

From the New York Press.1
Most men don't deserve much, and
they get less.
Politics has made many man re-
spect himself by keeping out of it.
Being engaged is a dream that can
turn into a nightmare of marriage.
Women are lucky not to have been
born men, and they would be luclier
not to have been born at ALI
In a dispute it's hard to make man
believe what. if it were his argument.
he'd think you were a stubborn fool
for not believing.
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Boston is responsible for a brand
new idea. 1t is that Of building school
houses in the public parks. The chief
reason advanced for the plan is that
land for school house sites has become
expensive and the city already owns
the parks. The plan might be worked
both ways, locating schools where con-
venient in public parks so as to give
the children a maximum of ground for
recreation, and turning the grounds
about such buildings into breathing
spots for the use of the neighborhoods.
nspeciallY in vacation tines.
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THE LAST CHAPTER.

A heartless woman, a deIuded man,
deserted in line of sickness and death,
is the story of an unhappy marriage
that comes from the south part of this
state The man was well known in
Clay Center. has visited here. and was
highly esteemed by friends in this
city.
Possessed OF a beautiful home, he
was allowed to die in rooms in a bust
ness block unattended by those who
should have been faithful to his In
terests.
Money was the only consideration
in the marriage on the part of the
woman; love or affection had no part
in the sacred ceremony. A desire to
flourish and shine in social life, I'M
concerned for the pleasure of domestic
life, dissipating the earnings of a life
time, enjoying the excitement of a
fashionable summer resort, while the
one who should have commanded at
tention lay dying Isolated and alone /;
all go to make up the final chapter
of an unhappy union that is by no
means an exception to many of the
marriages of convenience.-Clay Cen
ter Republican.
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Western insurgency is mild when
compared with the brand exhibited at
Saratoga. When members of his own
party turn down the vice president of
the United States and give their pref
erence to a private citizen, it is time
for the old line politicians to sit up
and take notice
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Corporation guilt is personal. I be-
lieve in accusing the man, not the evil.
When you go after the evil, you get no.
where" says woodrow Wilson. But
there is this difference: the man can
20 to Canada or Europe and the cor
marathon can't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-29

Rock Island officials assure the in
terstate commerce commissioners that
the proposed increase in their freight
rates will mean a net gain of only
$4,000 a year. Illinois Central Off
cials declare that the higher rates will
add only $4,000 a year to the roads
income. These lead the New York
world to inquire: "Have they started
All this agitation for higher railroad
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rates solely for the sake of such paltry
sums? Or do they plan that these in
creases shall be only the first step to-
ward a general raise in rates which is
to be broader in its application and
higher in degree? Or, again. are their
estimates deliberately fa1sified 2"