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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-23

"A Garden City poet has written
/ eight stanzas entitled Down on the
Arkansaw." This is one way to get
the public down on the Arkansaw,
says Charlie Blakesley.
One man in this town has a large
| dog named Romeo but called Rome"
| for short, says the Beloft Call Nightly
| the lesser CANNES of the city start
| their vocal exercise and that makes
Rome howl
| OF things. A girl who by her babyish
clinging ways and sweet disposition
won the admiration of the men in the
down town place of business where
| she worked is said to be so mean to
her mother that the neighbors some
times wish someone would step in and
take hand in the game.-Lindsborg
News.
A contribution from the Snake
Creek correspondent of the Spring
Hill New Era: ''Sum foxes hav bin
wonderin' why ST Hooper haz been
| changin' his shirt so offun lately. 81
is a kandydate fer the legislacher this
fall. He SEE he has had several per-
sennel appeels frum sitizens hoo think
the state needs his servises. ST kood
karry Snaik Crick presinkt bi a hand
sum majority oil rite, and we hoap he
will git into line. 81 SEE he kin whip
the Teller that started the report that
his wife chops all the wood. He adj
mitS that Mrs. Hooper is a wood chop
per but that she is subject to the
Iroomatism, and chopper wood tends to
inkreese the sirgulashen and thereby
reIeaves the pane. For this reezen
only in the past has he let Mrs. Hoop
er chop the wood. 81 SEE he hopes
this will not be kampane vitoopera-
shen, but If 1t is he kan vitOoperate,
tu."
Commenting on a musical contest
held in its vicinity recently, the Plain
Vile Gazette says: Then came the
contest for solos. Miss Bessie Farrier
of Plainville rendered in a most beau
tiful manner that classical solo. Sing
On She displayed remarkable power
and training, and she is possessed of a
wonde rful voice. which will some day
make her famous. One of the judges,
a specialist in music, ranked her first
The decision of a specialist in music
counts far. far more than the decision
of a judge who knows nothing about
music She was followed by Miss Ruth
Kackley of Hill City, who sang little
sentimental love song. All That I
Want in This Wide. Wide World Is
You, You, You This song is old and
by no means classical. Two of the
judges, moved by this love song,
ranked her first. Apparently, they
could not appreciate really good music.
We deem their decision of little value,
for they are very ignorant of music.
PlafnvilIe is ready at any time to meet
Hill City again in vocal music, provid-
ing we can have competent Judges. As
it was, many people of Hill City said
that Miss Farrier should have had all
firsts. 1t is positively decided that the
next time we contest with H. c. H. s.
Love, I Love. I Love Ny Wife. but
Oh, You Kid We know then we will
receive the votes of the Love Sick-k-k
Judges"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-23
FRON OTHER PENS
USEFUL CONSULAR REPORTS

USEFUL CONSULAR REPORTS.
The daily press Of the land mourns
the loss Of an esteemed contemporary
in the demise of the Daily Consular
and Trade Reports, which has issued
from the department of commerce and
labor for several years. In it's place
will appear a weekly publication. We
hope this change does not forebode
the suspension of the publication of
these reports entirely, as has been
urged by some mistaken advocates of
economy. The reports have served a
valuable purpose, and no doubt as our
consular service improves they can be
made still more instructive and use
full. From cur own experience and
from a careful reading of exchanges
from all parts of the country we can
affirm that the consular reports re-
ceive constant and faithful attention
in newspaper offices, and the informa
ton they purvey is reproduced far and
wide. Inexpensively gotten up, they
are worth their cost a good many
times over, and we hope they will con-
tinue
These reports form q convenient me-
dunn of bringing to the public much
useful information concerning the
laws, inventions and institutions in for
eign lands and particularly OF &C
chants with trade opportunities
abroad that may lead to inestimable
advantages and profit to Americans.
We can understand that certain con-
Germs that have private avenues to such
information might be very glad to
have it withhe cid from the knowledge
of competitors. Quite often the clam
orous protest against waste of public
funds has some such selfish purpose
back of it.-Springfield Republican.
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE QUESTION.
Nothing more forcibly shows the
growth of the woman suffrage move
ment than the situation in the South.
That section Under the old regime was
the paradise of the housekeepers.
Plantation lie and the life in towns
there were few cities in the South
then-were not favorable to club or
CARNATIONS for women. or platform
appearances FOR them Of any kind. It
was not good form for woman to
occupy herself, except by reading,
with matters political or governmental.
All of that vas set apart as "men's
business
But in the South now, as elsewhere,
the new note Is sounded. AS able and
as earnest advocates of the ballot for
women may be found in the Southern
states as in any of the other states,
and in the great temperance wave
which has been sweeping over that sec
votes, have been leaders in the contests
and quick learners in the arts of party
organization and vote corraling-
The cause is still long way from
goal. Some Of its most vigorous and
determined opponents are women them
selves. contented with their present
sphere of activity and OF opinion
that it is by no means sufficiently
frage sisters. are in action. and be-
tween them they are waking I'D men
to a new and larger view Of the whole
question. Washington Star.
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Tolerant Mr.. Goodwin.

We warmly commend Mr.. Nathan
iel c. Goodwin, regarded by us and the
rest of mankind the best comedian
on the American stage, for the kindly
manner in which he speaks of his
wives. Three of them are living, and
he has words of praise for at least
two of these. and for the first one,
who passed away years ago. 1t is
gratifying to know that Mr.. Goodwin
respected all of them and admired
them for their good looks and abil-
ity. His plain discussion of the wom-
en- who have married him seems to
have caused some surprise. judging
by what newspapers say about 1T, but
the idea is old; there is nothing new
under the sun.
John Doyle Lee. the Mormon who
commanded the Iron Danites and In
dams at the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre, in 1857, and was shot to death
twenty years later by United States
troops, after having been convicted of
the crime. wrote a book in prison be-
tween the time of his conviction and
execution which has considerable cir
culation in the West. where Goodwin
has lived for several years. In his
book Lee speaks feelingly of his wives.
He had nineteen. and he says, 'I loved
them all; they were good women with
two exceptions" These two excep-
lions left him In the midst of his mar
rying, but in his book he announced
that he forgave them and that he
loved them at the last. John d. Lee
talked much as Goodwin does. These
wives of mine" says Lee, "were. true
helpmates to me. I was fond of all
of them. Better women with the two
exceptions, I never met"
That is what Goodwin says, and we
are more and more convinced that he
has been reading the Mormon's book.
There is some difference between Lee
and Goodwin. The former populated
the earth. Two of the Mrs Lees were
elderly, each about go. when the
prophet Brigham sealed them unto
Lee, and never bore any children.
But the Other seventeen made him the
proud and happy father" of ga
bouncing little Lees. So of whom lived
to grow up and help populate Utah
and other states. File upon Nat
Goodwin! He has been the husband
of four handsome young women, right
in the prime of life. and there are no
little Goodwins to show for it. Had
the actor done as well for his country
as John Doyle Lee did. there now
would be fifteen small Goodwins go
ing up and down the face OF the earth.
New York Telegraph
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Suppose you found you were right In
believing she loved you long ago.
Suppose she still cares"
Fairfield's tanned face paied. and
his strong brown hand pulled impetu-
ously at his collar.
Don't, Judge. you only open an old
wound. we won't mention it again.
don't know what possessed me TO
But if you should meet her.. the
Judge persisted, land could get a
chance to see her alone z?
"Great Heavens. mani" cried the
other roughly, I'm no longer boy.
wouldn't wait to see her alone! One
look into her eyes would tell me all
want to know. and I'd take her into
my arms if all the world stood star
ing"
Checking himself abruptly he walk
ed toward the window. asking in an
altered tone: "Will you go to lunch
with me. Varnsy?"
IF you'll wait about ten minutes;
/ must sign some letters first"
Fairfield answered absently. looking
from the window with eyes that saw
nothing of the familiar scene before
him. He heard the door open from
the outer office: he was conscious that
the judge was speaking to some one
He did not turn-hiS thoughts were
back in the past he had tried to for
get. He seemed to see again the shy
little girl whose eyes had answered
sorrowful face had looked down at
him from her window when he def
ant and reckless. had turned to shake
a boyish fist at the college walls he
was leaving in disgrace.
A gentle hand touched his arm and
a sweet voice said: Dexter. I hope
you haven't forgotten ?"
"Grace!'
1t was the cry of a strong man
with empty arms and yearning heart.
cry that was answered BY clinRinE
arms.
Pm not conducting a matrimonial
bureau exactly" the judge explained
later, "but when this young lady adj
dressed the district judge asking as
sistance in locating a certain Dexter
F. Windsor, but only in case the said
Windsor is not married. my suspicious
were aroused and I wrote to her to
come on and help me identify the
the chump!" he finished fondly. his
hand on the young mans shoulder
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oUAKER NfEpITATIoNs.

[From the Philadelphia RecordJ
Silence is goden'' is the motto of the
blackmailer.
1t doesn't require very much encourage
ment for any man to make love-to him
self.
There is only one satisfaction in get
ting into q row, and that is the satisfac-
ton of telling all about it afterward.
Wigg-'Who was it that first said Man
wants but little here below ~ Wagg-
perhaps it may have been his Satanic
Majesty"
You may suggest with a propriety that
a bride and groom are Installed in their
new home without suggesting the INSTALL
ment man.
There are men who would like to go
home at 1920, but wouldn't know what
excuse to make to their wives for coming
home SO early.
Hoax-"I see Henry Hamphat has had
a five-cent cigar named after him" Joax
yes, I suppose he came to the con-
cIusion that was the only way in which
he could get any puffs.
Most actors and actresses are bad
eggs remarked the Wise Guy Yes,
an egg seldom goes on the stage till it
is bad agreed the Simple Mug, who had
probably thrown a few himself
No Maude, dear, Senator Bluegrass, of
Kentucky, to whom we have submitted
your query, says that Washington il not
called the City Of Magnificent Distances
because you have to go so far to find q
saloon.
Wigg-'What supercilious couple they
are. Are they in the exclusive set2''
that air. I happen to know that he used
to be hotel clerk, and she was servant
girl who had lived in the same family for
over six months.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

IFrOm the Atch1Son Globe
Everything is fair in weather.
An Atchison bank clerk counts on his
fingers.
Nearly every man wants to lay off every
time he sees a flag, or hears a band.
Every year since we can remember, we
have been disappointed in Fourth Of July
celebrations.
IF my brother were not market
gardener. I would jump spinach as
Some people are only critics; they never
others chance to become critics.
Parades are attractive, If good, but peo-
PIE ffaqg II at them If they are not Be
When the poor speak of the rich. they
fall into the error Of Saying, why. he
The principal asset of the dog and some
gentlemen in politics, is the ability to
make friends, and let the friends do the
rest.
Carriages may roll up to a house for a
reception or a wedding, but they never
have the same sound as when they roll
up for a funeral.
its rattles, and people quit annoying it.
We wish we had rattles to shake at the
approach of a book agent.
The fact that the bride "enters on the
elusive evidence that she is about to re-
linquish the paternal support for all time,
however.
Whenever a man goes down town in
the evening alone, leaving his wife with
the children, the neighbors Just ache to
remind him that HE is the Father of
Those Children.
When a woman rushes over to a neigh
boris early in the afternoon, with a shawl
over her shoulders, it means she has gone
to get the neighbor to fasten UP her dress
up the back
The people of Atchison want another
family row to talk about: they have pick
ed the members of the Lysander John
Appleton family to pieces, in discussing
the Appleton family row. and are losing
interest.
A bookmark is something a woman
erature on the parlor table: She never
uses it in the trashy literature, oh mol for
| the reason that, after she begins on
trashy literature, she doesn't stop till she
gets through.
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A SPRING LIT.

There's a ripple on the river, where the
water Is a-gleam;
There's brown bird singing to its shad-
ow in the stream:
And the barren woods are blooming, and
its people are awning,
For over hill and over dale they hear the
coming spring.
Here's a snow of buds ablow, in the apple
Overhead sunny wind, blowing to the
sea-
Who viii come a-roaming? Come with
today,
And. oh. the yearning faces on the broad
highway
There's ruff1e on the water and a
drowsy cloud above;
There's a blue sky splitting out shower
for Its love.
For sweet April is a-weeping and is
laughing as she cries.
And she gathers up a rainbow end and
dries her pretty eyes.
you will.
ApriLs but a bit ahead. dancing on the
Who would WOO the madcap? Hurry,
while you mayi
And, oh. the feet that wander from the
broad highway!
Smart Set.
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THE WAGsrAFF MOVEMENT.

| Few political movements launched
in Kansas have been attended by such
genuine enthusiasm as that which
marked the opening gun of the Wag-
staff campaign for the next Republic
can gubernatorial nomination. Only
one conclusion can be drawn from it.
There appears to be a considerable
sentiment among the Republicans of
the state against the denomination and
reelection of Governor Stubs. And
this, notwithstanding the fact that Mr.
Stubs has made a good governor and
it is usual for such a governor to be
given a second nomination and cleo
ton without opposition from the MEM
bers of his own party.
1t Is reasonable to assume that this
opposition against Mr.. Stubs is not so
much because his services as govern or
although the increased expenditures
for state purposes during his admins
tration is something that does not set
well with many taxpayers-as it is a
protest against the alignment of Gov
ernor Stubs and his friends against
many of the principles which have
been an important part of Republican
faith for years, principles that have
had the championship of Mckinley, of
Roosevelt and of Taft. Some people
insist that Colonel Roosevelt was the
original 'insurgent." They are the
ones who expect him to line up with
the 'insurgent" movement on his re-
turn home. But the fact is that ME-.
Roosevelt always has been a party
man. He believes in parties and in
the efficiency of party rule by majori-
ties and no man ever paid greater
|
gress administered even by Joe Can
non than did Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t is this
machinery that the "insurgents'' with
the help of the Democrats-and the
latter are only working to put the Re-
publican party in a hole--seek to
destroy.
The antagonism of the Taft admin
istration is nothing more in its real
essentials than the antagonism of the
Roosevelt policies despite noisy
statements to the contrary and it is
perfectly natural that the Republicans
in Kansas who are prominent among
the Taft antagonists should be OPP
posed by those other Republicans in
Kansas who believe that Mr.. Taft is
making an honest effort to carry out
the platform of his party, including
the enactment into law of all the i'm
portant reforms in the administration
of the affairs of the government which
Mr.. Roosevelt promulgated. The Re
publican party is being traduced by
many of it's former friends as being
the sreactionary party. But that is not
its history. 1t has ever been the great
affirmative party In this country, the
party that has done things. that has
worked for progress along all lines. If
it had not been the people of the land
would not have maintained it in power
as long as they have.
And so the Wagstaff movement may
properly be construed as the presen-
tation of the sentiment in Kansas that
the Taft administration has not been
the failure it has been held up to be;
that 1t is working out the great and
pressing questions of the hour in a just
and equitable way in the interests of
all classes of the people. In fact. the
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For If We live after the flesh, We shall
! die: but IL We through the Spirit do nnorti-
| fy the deeds of the body, We shall live
Romans VIII IL.
Through these words does st. Paul
present the doctrine of self-denial and
the reasons why 1t is essential to the
weIl-being Of man. Perhaps there Is
more need for the practice of it these
days, when temptations are multi
tudinous, than there was in that period
of so long ago when the great apostle
was laying down the laws, or precepts,
for right and true living in his many
and varied epistles.
1t is conceded by almost every one
that Jesus of Nazareth lived as nearly
perfect life as 1t is possible for man
to live on this earth. That life of his
was one of more or less continuous
suffering and always one of self-denial.
And self-d denial is the keystone in the
arch of any life that is worth the
while.
BY it alone can the passions be
curbed, passions that are ever tearing
at man to drag him down; the pas
sions that are ever Juggling him away
from the paths of rectitude and point
ing to the direction where sin -four
ishes. And just on the outskirts of sin
is the land of crime.
The man who avoids the disastrous
Journey to the quagmires of such I'M
desirable localities is the man who has
learned how to deny himself the things
which he knows to be harmful to his
weIl-being. Most individuals know
what is good for them and just exactly
the things which are not good. But
too many of them are weak creatures
who are willing slaves to all bodily
appetites and worldly desires. They
are not content with the wholesome
things Of life that are such great pro-
moters of real happiness. With them
it is a case of gluttony in all things.
And in satiating their wants and In
clinations they frequently force them
selves beyond the realms of decency,
and of law and order, as well. They
become the dregs Of society. held in
plying contempt by that great army
of commoners, the plain people, who
by their daily acts and deeds are MAX
ing the world the wonderful place it is
to live in.
Excepting the insane and the idiots.
the few with whom a total ignorance
reigns supreme, it is likely that every
man knows his own failings best, and
especially the disorderly inclinations
which obsess him. 1t is these that he
rust fight, If he purposes to amount
to anything 1t is the things which
cater to them, which appease them.
that he must deny himself. Such de-
NAL can only be brought about through
the exercise of will power. But a reso-
lutte will can surmount all difficulties.
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HUN0R or THE DAY

why are you so detected. old man /?
Has the stock market been going against
your mo, confound II, my daughter
gone and married fellow who mas 70
trousers on in the morning. '-chicago
Herald.
Knicker-How large is their suburban
place? Becker-They have folding beds
Look here doctor, how much are you
going to charge me for this operations?
9Oh, you've got enough to worry you
now without facing that
zones always seems to be looking into
fhe fIItI1rey Yes. He bought a house
on easy terms and piano on the install
ment plan."-St. Louis Times
Little WiiIie-Say. pa, what is worldly
wisdom? Pa-Worldly wisdom, my son.
is a perfect knowledge of the failings of
our neighbors.-Chicago News.
Customer-I'm going to a masked ball.
and / want something that viii complete
" disguise men. Costumer-Certainly, sir,
/ will give you something nice.-Pele Mele.
Hello! Is this the information editor?''
Eyes . who is president of Nicaragua"
wait a minute, and I'll" But want
to know who's president now-not who's
going to be president a minute from
now."-Chicago Tribune
ssWhen a woman marries and then d.
wonId YOU call it?' Taking his name
in vain ?''-Princeton Tiger.
HSw Sns ti%ss pave ESdn nssn he n
terrupted. ssIm taking the census, not
proposing. Detroit Free Press
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

from the Chicago News.1
Putting up awnings is one kind of shady
transaction.
People seem to have a mania for touch
ing a man on his sore spots.
1t is better to be hour ahead of
time than to find the door locked.
When a man says he'll do a thing he
usually thinks he'll do it all the time
The candle of contentment is not neces-
sarily better than the lamp of learning.
When sowing wild oats a young man
should be careful not to mix old rye with
them.
You may not be able to eat your cake
and have II. too. but you can drink your
drinks and have 'em bad.
Why is it that the average man begins
to sit up and take notice when he is in
troduced to grass widow
When you see a woman with hand
painted face it's a safe bet that she has
either had trouble or is looking Tor H.
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Have You DipIoDia.9

Dlplopfa, as its name signifies, is the
defect which causes the eye to see two
images of the same object. Of course,
the drunkard's temporary diplopia is
well known, nut 1t is possible for a
quiet sober person to perceive two
keyholes instead of one. as the comic
journals have 1T, and yet be a total alb
stainer.
Diplopia is usually the result of
squint or general eye weakness, and
is necessarily a distressing malady. AS
a rule the defect manifests itself in
regard to small objects at some dis
tant-eight feet or so. For instance,
one lamp will be seen slightly above
another or to right or left. As a rule,
the false image is fainter than the gen.
uine one, but when 1 looked through
the prism, which made me for the time
being diploptic. I saw the second i'm
age quite as clearly as the first, but
with a tendency to wander. The far
Their away the false image appears
from the true, the less distinct is it's
outline.-Constance Clyde, in the
Strand.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

More people would be spendthrifts
If they had anything to spend.
x AZ
Cheap articles are scarcely ever even
worth the money paid for them.
Most men have an idea that good
things are being wasted when women
kiss each other.
=
This is also the season of the year
when the baseball experts begin to
maui the English language.
X !: %
There is always a great difference
between the salary man thinks he
deserves and the one he gets.
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Wagstan candidacy is the protest
against that portion Of the Republican
party who would tear it apart because
they can not run it to suit their own
particular and Outlines peculiar
whfms. AS such it will be a good
thing 1t will help to clarity the Re
publican political atmosphere. 1t will
present the opportunity of placing
Kansas Republication whore 1t can be
properly classified.