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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
FRON OTHER PENS
WHAT'S THE MATTER2

In the old days, before the Spanish
war, when the regular army of the
United States was limited to 5000 men,
the military reformers all used to argue
that its fault lay in it's smallness. If
the army were increased to 100 600 men,
it might then be developed into an ideal
establishment for the purposes of the
United States. The source of the trou-
BILE lay entirely with congress, which
would not make the necessary author
izations and appropriations.
For some 10 years the authorized
strength of the army has been 100000
men, though it mas not actually reach
ed that figure, yet, judging by the re-
ports Of Inspector General Darlington
and Major General Bell, the army is
suffering from the same faults as in
the days when it was limited to 5000
men, and they may be somewhat
worse.
During most of this time, too, the
army was commanded by lieutenant
general another step that was going o
insure thorough and efficient organiza-
ton. And there is, also a general staff.
Does the blame lie with congress or
within the army itself? Has not the
army fallen under the blight of a too
conservative bureaucratic system P
Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
MEMS LIVES ARE NARROW.

Sometimes 1 think men have very
much less capacity for large living
than women, says Erman J. Ridgway
in the Delineator for November. Men
concentrate better, perhaps, but the eff
feet is not all desirable.
Men live one life at a time. In early
manhood they live in the future-a life
of dreams, visions, hopes, sentiment.
In middle age they live in the present.
Concentrating on their lifework. Max
ing a record. Cashing in on early
dreams. Little time for sentiment. In
old age they live mostly in the past.
Timid, in their waning power, they
essay no mighty deeds, but dream over
the dreams and fight over the fights
of their splendid days. Is it not so?
How different from Woman's life-or
so it seems to me. If 1 have observed
truly, women live their lives from
young womanhood to the beautiful
fms. Every day is all-round. COM
plete and lived to the limit. No day
passes without without it's stroll thro'
the past
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
STATE FAIR BONDS.

Although state officers, county Off
GERS and congressman are to be voted
for by the people of Shawnee county
on November s, the matter of most
Importance to themselves and their
community which they have to decide
relates to the issuance of bonds to the
value of $4,000 for the development
of the annual fair that is held here.
It is uncomfortable that anybody who
has the interest of Shawnee county at
heart will cast a vote against the
proposition to authorize the county
commissioners to issue these bonds.
The wonderful success of the fair held
last month shows what its prospects
and possibilities for the future are if
it has the necessary funds to provide
buildings and equip the grounds as
they should be. The advantages that
accrued to Shawnee county, and the
state of Kansas also from this fair
were large and are recognized. They
will be larger as the fair grows in size
and prominence among the big agri-
cultural expositions of the country
Not only that, but if the people of
Shawnee county vote $4,000 of their
public funds to aid this fair, such &C
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ton will be another strong argume nt
for Shawnee county to present to the
state legislature when the time comes
for that body to do it's full duty to
Kansas by providing the means for
the creation of an actual state fair and
deciding on its location. There is lit
tie doubt in the minds of most Kan
sans, except a few intense partisans,
as to where the best fair in Kansas
was held this year. It was in Topeka.
The legislature may go into the state
fair business at the coming session
this winter, although that is not likely,
in view of the agitation which is so
widespread through the state for a
cutting down of the states expenses.
And If Shawnee county provides the
$4,000 needed to develop the local
fair, there will be no possible doubt
that by next year there will not be the
slightest room to question the suprem-
acy of the Topeka fair among the 9TH
er fairs of the commonwealth which
are bidding for the honor of being
designated as the state fair. Even if
the legislature should dispose of the
state fair question this year, the very
fact that the people of Shawnee coun-
ty have appropriated $4,000 to help
such fair along would be most con-
vincing argument for the location of
the state fair here.
If by any possible chance. too, To-
peka should not be chosen as the To-
cality for the state fair, this money
would not have been appropriated in
vain. There will still be an annual
fair here, even if it should not be the
state fair. 1t would be held either be-
fore or after the state fair, and would
become the biggest county fair in the
country. That would mean almost as
much to Shawnee county and Topeka
as would the holding of the state fair
here. But then, there is little need to
theorize about what will be the fair
outlook here in case the state fair were
located somewhere else. Such con-
tingency is not likely. Shawnee coun-
ty is destined to be the home of the
Kansas state fair. The handwriting is
on the wall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the AtchIson Globe.I

LF'rom the Atchison Globe-1
When man is held down, he is holding
himself.
A stage Irishman is never as funny as
a real Irishman.
No woman can make a man out of a
man; he must do it himself.
Any man can become enthusiastic over
investing money for you.
Don't praise young man too much; if
you do, he is sure to get the big-head.
Be sociable. but don't intrude upon peo-
around
Chorus girls are usually so ugly that we
like it better when the chorus is small.
Every man who builds new house has
who built It.
We will be hated for saying It, but one
man like John d. Rockefeller is worth
$1,000 whittlers and whistlers.
Considering the number of agents in the
world, it is surprising the amount of
money some persons accumulate.
There are a lot of things more import
ant than the political situation to everyone
except those looking for a political job.
million outrages are going all the
time, and we can't worry about all of
them. So, usually, we don't worry about
any of them.
When people go hunting in this vicinity,
about all they find to shoot at is signs
reading: mo hunting allowed on these
premises"
After man passes 40, he begins to re-
mark that, he is a better, stronger man
than he ever was. He is beginning to fear
old age.
When girls are good looking, they hear
| about it from the moment they rise until
they go to bed at night No wonder they
are spoilt.
The man who takes more pleasure work
| ing on Saturday than he does in loafins
! on Sunday will never have any trouble
| getting along.
There are plenty of women who. had
| they been born men, would have made a
success as guerrillas, poker players or ex-
pert witnesses.
I When people take general interest in a
STORY" and it isn't shocking as they
| wish, they add to it until it is sufficiently
shocking to satisfy them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
JAYHAWKER JOTS

What do you think of a fellow towns
man, asks the Rossville Reporter, who
claims he drank over gallon of fresh
cider to keep the barrel from running
over?
AS usual, remarks the Ottawa Her
aid, the fall crops of corn, pumpkins.
walnuts, persimmons and Republican
votes promise to be unusually large in
Kansas.
That arbiter of fashion, the Coffey-
vile Herald remarks: wv are con-
strained to the opinion that a slender
woman cannot wear a hobble skirt be-
comingly."
The Parsons Sun warns the Law
renee journal reporter who wrote a
story regarding a woman of that town
who fell and fractured one of her
limbs" to look again and see if it was
not one of her twigs which she has
broken.
This is to be the last year, notes the
Hutchinson News, when Kansas uni
versity and Missouri university meet
on the football ground at Kansas City.
After this time they will play at Law
renee or Columbia, where there will be
just as much glory but not so large
gate receipts.
A DelphoS man, with a genius for
statistics, has estimated that, in the
aggregate, twenty thousand hours are
lost annually by the people of Del
phos waiting on delayed entertain
ments; at least forty-nine hundred and
sixty raw places worn on the patience
of a suffering public, and that the
force expended in whistling, clapping
of hands, stamping and other meth
DDS of Fastening dilatory perform
ances would if properly expended, be
sufficient to pillow, plant, cultivate,
shuck and crib a forty acre field of
corn. Such waste of energy has been,
is and will be frowned upon by long
suffering people until a much needed
reform is effected.-Delphos Repub-
iiCan
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EASILY REMEDIEp.

The sorrows of the rich are again
obtruded upon public attention. This
time it is the lack of privacy on ship
board. Mr.. Harry Payne Whitney is
quoted as complaining that even when
you pay $3.50 each for several sets of
liner staterooms the accommodation
is not all that it might be and one has
not the sense of privacy one DESIRES
1t is, therefore, suggested that liners
of satisfying luxuriousness be built
exclusively for the rich, on which they
can be attended by their own staffs of
servants, including, of course, their in
dividual chef. The Clover classes" who
now inconsiderateIy force the fact of
their existence upon their financial SUI
periors by travelling on the same ship
would not, of course, be permitted on
board even as ballast, and "the privacy
one desires" would thus be assured.
But really the exclusive set is go
ing to too much trouble. Why go to
all that thought and expense for a few
days privacy at sea when as soon as
they return to these shores they have
to resume contact with some 10000
900 inferior persons. Let them en-
dure the sufferings of still another
transatlantic trip with the despised hoi
polloi and when they get to the other
side stay over there permanently
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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A MOOD OF NATURE.

As high as the small grass of the field,
Eight inches high, as high as my head,
Lie 1 reclined; and look DER the tops
OF the grass to the tops of the tall black
trees;
I restlessly turn. and put my lips
And flatten my cheeks gainst the savory
soil;
And stretch my arms to embrace the
earth;
Alas! the little my arms can hold!
And so I've turned from the show of
For which is taller, the grass or the tree?
One size to my eye are grass, tree, and
All small to the infinite, equally nought,
Better am I than they until
1 say. so; that instant they're more
AS much as the pure little simple child
Is more than the bragart who swelis and
For We three alike take suck from the
earth;
And not one Of us three that knows what
And If I am more than the tree in
brains,
The tree rears his bushy head nearer
And sweetness is not to despise, you'll
confess;
Then who shall say who is less. who is
Who Shall say? IT'S lost in eternity!
George Benedict in Lippincott's Maya
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
HUAOR or THE DAY

well I suppose you ascribe the punk
playing of your. team to booze?i ~
got that xcuse."-Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Doctor-of course, If the operators
IN n the anthracite and bituminous fields
The Professor-Then there will be moth
ing left for the consumers to do but to
Her skirt is a la hobble;
And she is happy all the day,
For she can scarcely wobble.-Judge.
What rough-looking elbows that Miss
eating corn on the cob."-Detroit FIRES
Press.
PA, what's the difference between thu
North Pole and the South Pole anyway7''
All the difference in the world, my boy"
Judge.
..r Then you can't get me a new gown
tax ESPERANTO and show off With tbaf Is. 70
Pittsburg Post.
Why dc. you apply for position as
any experience7" Eossed y mV s sser af ns9
he grew up."-Bufaio Express.
tell your dl Wife tnI pan atGTH s909a %
family stew. [Baitinore American. "
Didn't 1t almost break your heart tn
nave to divorce your husband2" "Oh, no.
we mad agreed upon the alimony before
hand.'-Chicago Herald
He-May have the pleasure of this
dance with you? She-Certainly, but IL
must be very slow, as I have gone into
mourning.-St. Louis Star
Ibid you hear that Mrs Gordon Sniff
fley will have to be operated on for apuen-
dicitis? How dreadful And it's no
longer Notwithstanding Plain
Dealer.
Mrs. Chatterton-I wonder why man was
created before woman? Chatterfon-Eo
the woman would have somebody to taIIr
to as soon as she got in the game, I Inn
agine.-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
Doubling Her Capacity.

II want a nurse girl who is capable
of taking care of twins" said woman
to the manager Of an employment
agency.
A dozen maids ranged against the wall
were questioned as to their familiarity
with twins. Finally one girl produced
documentary evidence that for the last
five years most of her waking moments
had been spent in the company of tWiA
She got the job. When she reported for
work in the afternoon she was intro
duced to but one infant.
Where is the other one?'' she asked
"Oh, there are no twins about this
house, said the mistress. 81 Just said
twins so would be sure to get a COM
petent nurse. Any girl who is capable
of handling two children can give extra
good care to one. That is little ruse
always employ when 1 hire a nurse -
Milwaukee Sentinel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
FINANCED Revolution.

At the corner of the Rue Beauverger
and the Rue de la Hale, in the city of
Havre, stands a three-Storied house of
graystone, with a sloping slate roof and
high chimneys, topped by picturesque
pots Of clay, discolored by time, smoke,
and the elements.
In this now dilapidated structure of
slate and granite We're, from 1776 to
1872, the Offices Of Pierre Augustin
Caron de Beaumarchais, who spent a
fortune during our Revolutionary war
in providing the Americans with guns,
ammunition, and supplies of every de-
scription, Indeed, it is safe to say that
without his aid the colonists could not
have carried on the conflict.
Rochambeau and Lafayette lent their
swords to the United States; Beau
marchais sent supplies to the value of
a million dollars. 1t is true that these
material and metallic sinews of war
were ont a gift. for Beaumarchais was
a merchant, and sent them to the Uni
ted States with the understanding that
they should be paid for in time. That
he was far from pressing IN regard to
his bill is proved by the fact that it
was never paid during his life.
After the conclusion of the war Beau
marchais repeatedly claimed from the
United States the million dollars which
his books and accounts showed were due
him. He received hopeful assurances
and offers of a compromise in turn un-
til Alexander Hamilton, who had been
authorized by congress to arrange a
settlement, proposed on a basis of
$4,000. It is probable that Beau
marchais would have accepted this
could he have obtained it, but he died
in 1899 without ever having received a
penny.
Four years before his decease, cha
grined by repeated disappointments and
blasted hopes, exiled by the French rev.
olution and living alone in a Hamburg
garnet, he wrote the following letter to
the American people:
Hamburg, April 10, 1795.-Americans:
1 have served you with zeal that has
been answering. I have received in
return-nothingl 1 am today your cred
itor.
Permit me, before dying, to leave my
daughter to your care and considera-
ton, with the request that you give her
for a dover what you owe her father.
Perhaps, after I can no longer defend
her against the bitter injustice of the
world, she will be left penniless, and
perhaps the hand of Providence, fore
seeing this, has wished. by repeatedly
retarding the discharge of your indebt-
edness to me, to provide for her after
1 am gone"
In 1924 and again in 1885 this daugh-
ter went TO America to claim the
amount due.
In the latter year she was offered
$160,000 and took it as her sole heritage
1t was all that remained of a large
fortune spent in the cause of liberty
John Preston Beecher, in Harper's.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.1

A good bluff beats poor excuse.
Some people work and wait-for others
to work them.
1t requires an emergency to show what a
man really is.
And it's easier toxic a conservative than
1t is to conserve
People who live in glass houses shouldn't
turn up the lights.
Nothing short of brass band could win
in an argument with a woman
If a man has a mind of his own he is
capable of minding his own business.
The trouble with Mother Eve was that
she Started to talk before she had learned
to think.
When one woman speaks of another
womans bonnet as a fright" it's clear
case of sour grapes.
The fact that girl wears fussy dress
with lace about the neck is no proof that
she hasn't got on daTued hosiery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
KANSAS COMAENT
ABOUT TIME.

railroad Commissioner Frank Ryan
has just completed an inspection Of the
L. & I. Mr.. Ryan said at the conclu-
sion of his trip that the L. & T. was
absolutely the worst piece of railroad
property he ever saw still to be in use.
He marveled how engines were able to
Journey over the tracks, and is about
disposed to concede that the age of
miracles is not past. But Mr.. Ryan is
interested less in miracles, that is in
ms official capacity, than he is in the
character of the railroad service in the
state and though he doesn't know just
yet what the state board of railroad
commissioners is going to do about it.
he is pretty certain it will be some
thing.
And, indeed, it is about time.
The L. & T. (Which means the Leav-
enWorth & Topeka) is owned jointly by
the Santa Fe and the Union Pacific.
Neither cares rap about the proper
ty, but neither wants the other to con-
troll it absolutely. So the two have, it
would seem, mutually agreed to let it
rot out and rust out, until there won't
be enough of it left to interfere with
blowing up the right of way and plant
ing 1t to wheat and corn, crops which
do remarkably well in this country.
The state will be entirely justified in
stepping in and taking a hand. The
people who live in the territory of the
L. & I. are entitled to railway service
that is fairly good at least and their
demand for it should be backed to the
um1t.-LeaVenWOrth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13

Since the first story OF HON AuAA.,
waits little evidence party" at loca4
hotel. this department has been col
Iecting further evidence,-evloencs
which appears not in Hon. SpottS
zumwalt's account of the society evens
in question. Hon. Zumwait says ina
himself and party purchased mucn
booze, which they poured IN the Gus
pidores." The new evidence seems to
indicate that the party" was held IN
the ladies' dining room of that partic-
ular hosteIry; that there were no metal
or earthenware receptacles, commonls
called cuspidores in the room. From
which we deduct that "cuspidore," IN
the vernacular oe Hon. ZumwaIt,
means college student. ALSO, Una,
although the evidence party claims
to have carried nothing in with them,
hotel employees may testify THAT the
individual members of that party car
ried packages out with them. NOW
what definite information have you on
this subject? (Washburn college col
loouiaiisln for what DO you know
about THAT?')
We have often wondered If the
farmers were fully satisfied that time
it rained 40 days and 40 nights.
Think twice before you speak: That
will give the other fellow ample time
to make a fool of himself
On some roof gardens. the daisies
bloom all night.
ST am thinking seriously of matri-
mony" says TIick Juniper. But ]
thought you were married two weeks
ago." says Jack Supp. Il was, says
Kick; that's the reason 1 am think
ing seriously about 1t.
Sometimes when a man is "up with
the lark it is a sign that he has kept
the lark up all night.
Epitaph for King Manuel: HE
reigned until Portugal was thorough"
ly soaked"
A man and his. wife may be one.
but they still ring I'D two nickels on
the payzhuenter.
King Alfonso might be able to name
another king who is liable to be drop
ped from the deck in the shuttle.
Hodges may be mistaken in his idea
that thousands of Republicans will
vote for him, but he can safely count
on one.
1t appears that Rev. Warden Codd-
ing, who took charge of the peniten-
tiary for the purpose of uplifting the
prisoners,-or such of them as the gov
ernor forgets to pardon,-has filed no
objection to having his salary raised
from $2,5o0 to $4,000.
The Stubs organs are wasting a
lot of time and editorial space in
| roasting George Hodges. Hodges is a
rare accident political aspirant
who has so lived that he doesn't have
to cover I'D his past.
A large per cent of the Kansas con-
yfctS report that liquor was the cause
of their downfall. This was the answer
which Teacher Codding desired, and
the big half will kindly move to the
head of the class
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most big-headed people are small
minded.
Few women ever have an idea they
spend money foolisI1ly.
\
Not many excuses are reasons, al
though they are passed out for such.
X X
A little more thinking and a little
less talking and all things would move
along a trifle smoother.
y
Inasmuch as mothers do most of
the homework, the daughters of to-
day might well help out and get a
little practice for their work of to-
morrow.
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So sad, so sweet,
The days that are no more.

No day passes without it's dreams for
other days to be. And each passing
day, however active in the tasks of
every day-nay, every hour of every
passing day-in woman's life it seems
to me the heart life, the life of senti-
ment, keeps step with the mind life
and the body life.
What pity men cannot live this
threefold life! What a pity for the
men! But especially, what a pity for
the women! How often must women be
hurt by the apparent hardness or in
difference or forgetfulness of their
mates!
Many times I have seen the pain in
the eyes of uncared for women in the
presence of the rare and rarely-cared-
for woman. And how a man robs him
self when he no longer shows how
much he really cares! For men do
care. No man would barter his wife
for honor and riches if compelled to
choose. He believes he can have her
and them. He believes She will enjoy
them too. He feels that she is part of
him, that they are one. OF course they
are not if he is going to take it for
granted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13

Napoleon Lajoie is entitled to fur
Their distinction as being the hardest
man in the world to satisfy. Answer
ing the criticisms that there is a sus-
picious look to his securing eight hits
in eight times at bat in two games he
participated in recently. he replies that
he should have been credited with nine
hits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13

Cuba must be figuring on putting
up something real in the way of a
presidential palace at Havana. She
has offered a cash prize of $4,000
for the best design for such a build
ing, and a prize of So 900 for the sec
ond best design. It will be the opinion
of many, no doubt, that with the $15,-
600, which is going in prizes for de-
signs, Cuba could build a presidential
palace, or bungalow. that would do her
very well
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13

Manuel Braganza has written a let
ter in which he insists that his flight
from Portugal is no indication of his
abdication as that nations monarch
theoretically, then, he is still king of
Portugal. But this is only another one
of those theories which does not seem
to work out well in practice