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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

Observation-Disclosures Ito prisonerl-
If you were there for no dishonest pur-
poses why were you in your stockinged
feet? Prisoner card there was sickness
in the family.-Punch.
Case Of Neglect Ave you card about
Abrahams? They've taken away is ap
pendix." '.Ah, vot PITY Wy didn't q
ave it in is vife's name?-The Taller.
like. Sculptor-I believe you; instead of
sending it to the Salon, should send it to
the Horse Show.7Journal Amusant.
what do you think of the wine?" mot
bad. But I know where you can get an
even cheaper wine than this!'-London
Opinion.
Madge-How is it you don't like travel
ing? Marjorie-Those horrid trains won't
wait minute for you even If your hat
isn't on straight--Judge.
News is scarce this week." said the
editor of the Plunkyille Palladium Hard r,i
up with advice to the new king."-Pitts-
burg Post.
1t requires something of hero to give
a family man to give up when he is
right.-Puck.
why don't they have. women on
juries?' she asked. Imagine woman
sl-ting through long argument by law
swer she received.-Buffalo Express.
The professor regarded with an eye of
suspicion the small yellow cube the waiter
INJURED. for butter-or worse."-Chicago
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's this consolation. It's gen.
orally possible to ignore arguments you
can not meet.
The average girl fools herself by
thinking that people take her to be
much younger than she is.
n y X
mo fishing allowed here" appeals
about as strongly to fishermen as does
Keep off the grass to children.
4 y
Few employees are to be found who
do not think they know more about
their employers business than he does.
X X ~
It's fine to speak kindly of the alb
sent, but it's finer to speak in the same
way to those who happen to be present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
coon ROADS.

Nothing but commentator is due to
the Shawnee county commissioners for
the activity they are displaying in i'm
! proving the roads in this community.
They are experimenting with the new
and modern method of oiling roads
which is said to produce a more dur
able wagon-way than even the most
substantial of macadam. If it lives up
to its promises it is likely that this will
be the process used in turning all of
the main roads in the county into
highways which will be serviceable in
all kinds of weather. But if the oiled
roads do not turn out to be as good
as 1t is expected that they will, the
commissioners have other plans to i'm
prove the roads. And they are san
guine that all of the chief roads in the
county will be put in such a condition
as they ought to be inside of three
years.
This is not a long time to wait for
such a great boon. Good roads will
mean much to the people of the en-
tire county. They will bring the farm
ers closer to the cities and the towns
and this will be of mutual advantage
in countless ways to both farmers and
townspeople. But the good roads of
Shawnee county. while of immense
value to it's people, will not reach the
acme of their worth unless thev are
joined by good roads in neighboring
counties.
In other words. while the Individual
efforts of counties to improve their
roads under existing Iaws are most
praiseworthy, the thing that Kansas
needs if she is to have real good roads
is a law giving the supervision over
their construction to state engineer
ing department. Such a department
would have the power and the ability
to devise general plan for road inn
provement on the principal highways
of the state along systematic lines.
Then roads can be built that will be
continuously the same through con-
tiguous counties. That's the kind of
good roads which are needed and
which will be built eventually. And
perhaps Kansas. as other states are
doing, should aid in the construction of
such roads. Some of the funds for
state aid might be raised by yearly
tax on automobiles graduated tax,
with minimum levy against the low
power cars UP to a maximum levy on
the highest power machines. Such
taxes are levied for road purposes in
several of the states. notably New
York, where a huge sum of money is
collected from automobile owners each
year for the building of good roads
and their maintenance.
Until some such plan is developed in
Kansas the county authorities are do
ing no more than right than to i'm
prove their highways to the best of
their abilities. and there are many
roads in each county which need inn
provement and which would not come
within the scope of system of state
highways. And while the Shawnee
county commissioners are planning to
do SO much for the roads in this To-
cality, they should see to it that the
Calhoun bluff road is made safe for
all kinds of vehicles. 1t would be an
! almost impossible job to turn a large
part of this highway into a good road,
but it could be made perfectly safe
and ShOi11d ho
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

Robert, faithful retainer of the Cleg-
tom Clogg institution. was.
ssUm-m-m," laconicaliy acquiesced
/ No reason for me to keep bent over
a huge ledger ali the days of my life. >
This was news to Annabelle. Rob-
ert, however, had reputation fol
truthfulness not to. be denied. She
resumed the Sleeps eyes and small
talk.
Just as things were progressing
nicely peculiar noise caused Robert
to excuse himself and enter the par
Tor. He made a hurried exit imme-
kitchen door and returned almost in
stantly with two trimming pals of
water. These were taken beyond the
sacred portals. No explanation of this
strange conduct was vouchsafed the
caller as the flushed ex-bookkeeper
again Joined her in the sitting room.
Annabelle politely waited for some
time, then. with a reproachful glance
at the young man, carefully picked
up the broken threads of conversation.
Annabelle went home with food
for thought. Her little flyer in love
had been moderately successful. Rob-
ert had cast several admiring chances
her way, but the marathon of the
youth into the parlor was beyond her.
The parlor of the Hamilton home was
the hub of mystery.
Robert had explained, in an en-
barrassed way, that he was engaged
In a special work. Annabelle told him
that she would call again. She did,
and once more departed, more mysti-
fed than ever. Roberts eccentricities
bordered insanity. He needed watch
ing-study.
During Annabele's every visit the
young man frequently excused himself
and dashed wildly into the parlor in
reSnOnSa tn an irnneraffva f1an a
sounded like nothing she had ever
heard before. The cod, when their
water became foul. made impatient
and gasping .pilgrimages into the air.
fifth visit to the home of Robert, and
on one of his hurried rushes to the
rear of the cottage after the essen
tial brine, that the girl determinedly
opened the door and the mystery was
Annabelle CAPPED, unpicturesquely,
perhaps. but not naturally. The seven
scaled ones gathered curiously at the
glass side of their prison and stared
fishily, shaking their whiskers the
while.
The burden bearing Robert entered
and gasped when he suddenly realized
the presence of his fair one. Here
was an end to this one romance. He
sighed lugubriously.
Annabelle was speaking.
Robert Hamilton! What does this
mean?"
Robert shame-facedly confessed his
heart hidden secret. The maids voice
| was so forceful he couldn't help
| himself
'Um-m," ventured Annabelle at the
| completion of his story. you need
guardian, Robert, and I deem it my
| duty to marry you at once and stay
right here with you In these days
| of good plumbing 1t is silly to be
bound as a waiter to gang of gan
Cling Goldfish. We will just connect
pipes with faucets to come over this
vat, with drain to- carry away the
| refuse water. No need of so much fuss
and furry"
capable direction Goldfish culture be.
came a pleasure.-(Copyrig 1915
| by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?

HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?
nursery rhyme knew of old
mat thrilled one line of bugle blow.
One line Of blazoned purple and gold
5 or sunrise CLEAN and sunset glow;
The soldiers gallant Ever oni'
The virgins hope, the poets throe-
How many miles to Babylon?"
The city where royal roadways rolled
League after league and row on row,
Where hanging gardens did enfold
Lilies ashine like magic snow,
All the white wonders children know,
And hoping hearts do dote upon
That would forget Times mournful
flow
How many miles to Babylon
0 City of Dreams! How ready and bold
Were we to cry Come. let us go
Out of these streets where wise men
Scold
Their logic, their eternal No.
Forth we adventured, Portland loi
The wise men, all at pro and con,
Laughed with their laughter grim and
How many miles to Babylon"
ENvOI.
All, Prince, we know the years-we
The weariest ever sun shone on,
Weary as wealth and wan as woe,
How many miles to Babylon?
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
The Talking Rarber

| 1t is an open question whether bar
bers as class have ever been quite
as talkative as undying tradition has
proclaimed. Everybody knows today
the taciturn. morose barber. who is
Igeneralfy expert with shears and razor,
and speaks only when spoken to; and
not then if he can avoid speech. We
have no doubt he existed in ancient
Greece and Rome long before the
Christian era. when the conversational
facility of BARRIERS was as favorite a
subject of the Jester as it is now.
The barber shop, from the earliest
era, has been a resort of gossips.
Politics, the arts. the gladiators, bet
ting odds and the current theatrical
attractions have always been discussed
in tonsorial establishments. What
wonder If the barber himself has
learned much and been impelled to i'm
part his share of information. COM
ment and opinion. Horatius F'loccus
and Plutarch testify to the large in
formation of BARRIERS and their habit
of imparting it. George Eliot in
"Romola," pictures Florentine bar
Der shop as depot for general infor-
nation. But that is not to say the
BARRIERS have not been encouraged to
impart the Information thrust upon
them. The man who shaves your
beard and cuts your hair is generally
talkative or not according to your
own mood: Keep silent and the bar
Der VIII save his gift of words for
next"
In the town of Waterloo. Neb, a new
public ordinance, restricting the con-
versation of BARRIERS. has aroused Sc
we're criticism. It provides that the
local BARRIERS must not discuss the
gossip of the town between and 8
p. m" Presumably the male inhabi-
tants of Waterloo chiefly frequent the
barber shops between supper and bed
time. The Des Moines Register con-
dennis the ordinance as "unconstitu-
tionaL" 1t is quite in the meddle-
some, trivial spirit of much of the cur
rent legislation, national and state. The
gossip of the town. may be hard to
define. The discrimination against the
barber is clearly Illegal. If this Gus
toners assemble to discuss the gossip
of the town he cannot be deprived of
the right to take part in the discus
sion. The barber will continue to talk
in Waterloo. as well as elsewhere, as
long as the man in the chair talks.
The mood of the walrus and the car
penter has always prevailed in the bar
Der shop. When the carpenter ceases
to talk of many things" the walrus
will devote himself to silent thought.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.1
A mans jealousy is his fear of him
self.
fierce pain.
Nobody without some pepper In him
is worth his salt.
Owing money is the worst trouble
for the man who lent it when he tries
to get it back.
There's no way so easy to get fooled
as thinking a man who can look you
straight in the eye will do other things
straight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

News about the football games to be
played next fall is beginning to find
its way in the newspapers already.
And from the talk which was flying
around at the close of the last football
season some people probably got the
idea that there wouldn't be any more
football games in the United States of
the American variety. But you never
can tell what is going. to happen from
the talk Won hear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

1t was almost unnecessary for the
newspaper reporters. at Cambridge to
report that Colonel Roosevelt put ZEN
ergy and animation" in the Harvard
commencement exercises. Nothing else
was to be expected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

An organization has been formed to
find out what is Democracy. The New
York World has been hunting for the
same thing for more than a decade.
And although the World is pretty
smart it hasn't found out yet. 1t is
safe to say. therefore. that this new
organization has cut out quite a job
for itseIf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate of ten cents
n week or thirty cents a month (by
mail onIy.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
State Journal will be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

Edward S. Holmes. jr., a former
statistician in the federal agricultural
department, pleaded guilty the other
day to misconduct in office for his par
ticipation in the famous cotton statis-
tics leak" of 1905. He was fined 5000,
which he paid, probably from the saw
ings OF the sum he got. for the advance
information on the cotton crop which
he so kindly furnished his friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

Mr.. A. c. Hale, better and more
Familiarity known to the poor and the
distressed of Shawnee county as "Uncle
All" has retired from the office #
poor commissioner of the county after
a service in it of % years. 1t has been
a service worth while, one that has
been of equal benefit to the needy Of
the community and the taxpayers who
help them along.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
ERON OTHER PENS
THE EVIL OF .DEsERTIoN.

At the Milwaukee Press club recent
ly, General Arthur Macarthur referred
to the evil of desertion, which is one of
thu problems of maintaining the United
States army in times of peace. Men
who enter the service regard too light
ly the obligation to remain in obedience
to their ssuperiorsSfor the full period OF
their enlistment.
It is now repoftet1 from New York
that no less than $500 disappeared from
garrisons during the past year. In
commenting on this fact the press OF
that city mentions the fact that a de-
serter who was caught was sentenced
to confinement at hard labor for
six months and forfeiture of pay for
that period, and declares that the pun
ishment was inadequate as a deterrent,
because at its expiration the culprit
became a private in good standing.
The suggestion having been made III
this connection that desertion should
be made on absolute bar to further
military service, the Army and Navy
Journal expresses the opinion that such
a law would go a long way toward
abating the evil Of desertion. 1t has
been further suggested that II cap
tured deserters were compelled ID
serve their full period of enlistment
with the time of absence during
"French leave" added, and deprived of
pay. and at the end Of the term of en-
listment discharged as unworthy of
further employment by the govern
ment, men would think seriously be-
fore they desert from barracks or
camp-Milwaukee Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

No less than eight different commit
tees of congress are to be busy during
the summer making investigations of
various alleged abuses. There are as
suredly more abuses in the land than
that which need looking into, accord
ing to the ideas Of the muck-rakers, at
any rate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

New Jersey is evidently only sub
urb of New York. It's noticeable
fact that when any big news event
happens in any part of New Jersey it
is generally treated by the New York
City newspapers as local item and is
telegraphed throughout the country
under a New York date line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

streak on the part of Johnson" The
Chicago Record-Herald rightly thinks
that judicious stroke of lightning or
the disappearance of the man who
holds the stakes might also bring the
battle to an early and sudden terminal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

A conscience-stricken New York i'm
porter wants to return to the federal
government 500. 900 to square up the
duties he has evaded in the past If
every importer and smuggler should
act in a like manner, the federal
treasury would have such a surplus of
millions on its hands that it could
probably wipe out the entire debt of
the nation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

For some reason it is popular to alwa q
REFER to the man who takes a chance AZ
snorts: "A fool and his money are soon
fool for luck
Some men go through life without ever
knowing whether or not strong coffee
would keep them awake. They board.
Insurgents continue to advertise that
Cannon is a dead one. but the chances are
that ihe will be on hand to spoil the wake.
Any man can become popular with a
certain class if he has the ability to come
back. the next afternoon, after buying
the drinks all night
There is at least one early riser in my
mousse, says Jack Supp. and that's the
In hunting an excuse for some mar
RACES, IT Is necessary to dig up that moth
eaten expression, 1T was a love match"
A little over a month now, until the
cover of the political coffin will slide back
disclosing the identity of the remains.
DR.. Hyde was tried and found wanting.
He Is still wanting-out.
benzine gave out Dispatch failed to spec &c
lty whether it was benzine in the fuel
TANKS or the benzine In the buffet. Either
would be equally serious on a vessel carry
ing thirsty Germans.
A local automob ilist, who is in the habit
of taking an occasional trip through the
country, came in last night with q case
or nervous prostration, and his family is
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of sending
him out to the nut ward. In attempting to
find a short cut, he crossed the trail of a
farmer who was formerly of Boston, and
this Is what struck him.
Il desire it specifically apprehended,"
said the farmer in part, that this road
way is unequivocally individual and not
constructed to the use of every Thomas,
Richard and Henry who chances this way.
desire no logomachy, but receive this
statement as uncontrovertible.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

According to Jack London. novelist
and romancer. who is reporting the do
tngs at Reno for number of newspa-
pers. three things only can happen to
make it a quick fight. First. a lucky
punch; secondly, the blowing up of one
or the other of the fighters, and thirdly.
a display Of the hypothetical yellow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

1t wouldn't be half bad to be a
Cherokee Indian for a short time, at
least. More than $4,000. 900 is being
distributed among them by their
Great White Father.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

Italy and the United States are get
ting into entanglementa over the
Charlton case. In all probability,
though, it won't be necessary for the
nations to go to war to Settle their
differences on this subject
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

Prospects are that Mr.. Clifford Pin
chot will visit Kansas in October. The
tennis experts in the state ought to
brush up on their games so they can
rake things interesting for the dis
tinguished visitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
KANSAS COMAENT
AMERICAN ExTRAvAGANcE.

<A1n1@1S1CAN EATRAVAGANCE.
Over s40,0o0.ooO worth of diamonds
ana other precious stones were i'm
ported into this country through the
port OF New York during the last 10
months. The expectation is that the
lmportat1ons will increase another 81
100000 during the present month and
that total importations for the fiscal
ing by 100000 the greatest previous
lmportations ever recorded.
Inc significance of these figures lies
IN the showing that people are not only
prosperous enough to spend millions
for articles of personal adornnent, but
that they have no fears for the future
to compel them to exercise some Of the
economics which were much in evil
dence a couple of years ago. After the
latest Wall street depression which
serious crippled general business by
creating an artificial shortage Of
money, the business of importing pre-
cious jewels was the one most imme-
diately affected. There was a sudden
and large decline in the volume of I'M
portations. People had other uses for
money than in the buying of diamonds.
1t also illustrates the tendency of
the American people to react sharply
from economy to extravaganza the in
slant that the pressure is off from them
and they feel no fears for the imme-
date future. When times are hard, or
LnCre IS q undnCleSI or business QGpToS-
sion, the average man in this country
feels for the future and proceeds 10
econoE1ize sharply. He does not feel
half as sure of a retention of employ
ment as h did before, and he knows
that the expected advance in wages is
not to be forthcoming. This is one
lc-ge fact, which enables the country
to recuperate so quickly from the eff
fects of a depression The American
standard Of wages and of living is So
high, under ordinary circumstances
that there is usually a fair margin for
saving, when ordinary economy is ex-
ercised. When the economies are re-
sorted to, the aggregate of expenditure
are promptly taken up when the fears
pass by, and ire country recuperates
from it's depression with wonderful
rapidity.-Independe Reporter.
80
TAFT GOT THERE.
Never in the history of the country
has president accomplished so much
with one congress as President Taft
has done. The country has come to
look to the president for a program
and to hold the. party responsible for
the program. President Taft has had
a forceful, aggressive program and he
has made good. He has pushed il
through a congress that was unfriend-
ly to the public interest and only acted
because of the big stick Taft is moi
so spectacular as some others, but he
is the most effective man who has
been president since Lincoln.-Hutch-
inson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01

The National Educational associa-
ton will indeed be honoring itself if
IL elevates Mrs. Ella Flagg Young,
superintendent of the Chicago schools,
to its presidency.