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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
THE HUGHES APPOINTMENT.

Although this western section of the
country naturally expected that the
successor on the United States SUI
preme court of the late Justice Brew
err would be selected by President Taft
from among the many distinguished
legal lights within it's confines, there
will be general acclaim mere, as there
probably will all over the country, on
the appointment of Charles E.
Hughes, governor of the state of New
York, to that position. The popular
ity of Governor Hughes in the west is
second only to that which has been
accorded to Colonel Roosevelt and
President Taft. himself.
There's a good reason for it. Mr..
Hughes is of the type of public SER
want that appeals strongly to a pro-
gressive people. He has ever proved
himself a courageous defender of the
rights of the people. Their battles
have always been his and he has had
the ability to lead them to victory in
many memorable contests. At the
same time he recognizes the fact that
corporations have their rights, and the
control he has instituted over them in
New York state through the public
utilities commissions created at his
behest, while admirable in making
them best serve the public interests,
is also of such fair and impartial
character that it has actually been
welcomed by the corporations them
selves.
Governor Hughes stands for prog
ress in all things. Yet is he in no
sense doctrinaire, an Impractical
theorist. He is a lawyer of high at
tainments. He has had a large eX-
perience in the administration of i'm
portant public affairs. In fact, he
would appear to approach pretty near
to the ideal as to his equipment for
most serviceable work on the bench
of the court of last resort of the ma
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

this direction have never been eQualled
in previous years, thanks to the per-
Sfstent endeavOrS to stimulate more
scientific cultivation which have been
made the last few years. If further
evidences of the activity in the west
were wanted they could be found In
the regular reports of railroad earn
ings, which are exceedingly favorable.
In March 81 railroads reported gross
earnings of $65,000,00O, an increase
of $8,800,000 or nearly 16 per cent
more than a year ago. For the Hrst
three months of the current year fif-
ty-three railroads reported earnings
of $179,OOO,OOO, an increase of $24,-
100000, or over Is per cent Such
heavy percentage of gain as the latter
has not been seen since the year 1SOU,
which was one of unusual prosperity
for the railroads. These returns CHIEF
ly include roads serving the agricul-
tural districts, and do not cover the
eastern trunk lines, such as PennSyl-
vania and New York Central, which
are also known to be making very
handsome gains in revenue. 1t is
worthy of note that the southern
roads have made large gains, notwith-
standing the light cotton crop, and
that the western roads did well in spite
of a light grain movement. The rail-
road situation would be eminently
satisfactory were it not for the in
creased expenses forced upon the
roads by the demands of labor, and
high prices for materials. Labor, how
ever, is getting a big share of pros
perity, and it is but reasonable to ex-
pect that stockholders, too, should
conditions are maintained. Much will
depend upon the crops. If these
prove good, the year will be a salts
factory one for the railroads"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
CAUSES OF LTYING,s COST.


May it not be the psychological hour
to call for the creation of a new aris-
tocracy Of the simple life, of those who
care for the reality and not for the
shadow, for the crue inward pleasures
of the mind rather than for the ex-
ternal, evanescent show? May it not
be high time to create a free-masonry
of those who do not ask how much one
has, not how much one knows, but
what one is?"
Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, of the
University of Chicago, and one of the
recognized economists of the country,
makes the above suggestions in an ar
ticle on 1.-The Increased Cost of Idv-
ing'' in the May number of Scribner's
Magazine. He is emphatic on the point
that the recent rise of prices cannot be
attributed to the increased gold supply.
What are the causes of the increase
in prices of farm and food products?"
he asks, and he answers: 'In the main
1t is an increase of demand out of
proportion to the available supply. The
movement of population from the farm
to the city has been going on for de-
cades, as every one knows. The less
enterprising, the less active, the less
Today much of our land does not begin
to yield. what it is capable of. Our
methods are bad and wasteful.'
Nor does he think that the Payne
Aldrich tariff measure is being treated
fairly in being held responsible for in
creased prices. On this point he says:
Some of our public men are not deal
ing fairly with the people when they
re he I0..x
Aldrich act of 1909 and assert that it
has in some respects lowered duties.
Suppose that 1t has done so as COM
pared with the Dingley act of 1897.
Then, that only transfers the cause of
offending 10 the duties fixed by thu
Dingley act, which were. on the whole,
enactments. 1t is no comfort to a
drowning man in 40 feet of water to
be told that just back of him the wa
ter was Al feet Deep
In concluding his discussion Professor
Laughlin does not forget to call atten-
ton to the fact that the standard of
living is now higher in this nation than
it ever has been before, and this is
accountable for much that is charged to
the high cost of living, but which in
reality. as Uncle Jim Hill pointed out
is, as matter of fact in many in
stances, the cost of high living. 1T
must be admitted says Professor
Laughlin, "that aside from the higher
prices of many staple articles, our
standard Of living has changed with the
growing wealth of the country. Each
family now wishes more extensive food
better clothes-all to keep UP in the
procession with the successful rich,
who are increasing enormously in num-
bers''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

rFrom the Chicago News.1
All baseball grounds have flies on
them. - a.. -
break loose
And some people get ahead while
others are getting even
Sooner or later every man gets II
where he wears his collar.
some men can't even drop mint
without breaking their word
Men paw women compliments be-
cause there is no real money involved.
1t IS said that money talks. but in
notifies it seems to be silent partner
It is. however. not at all strange
that so few fast young men come to
the front
A wonan's idea of a good photo-
oranh of herself is one that shows as
much of her neck as possible.
People who do their own marketing
are beginning to doubt the old adage,
sfWhat goes up must come down"
When a woman hears a disagree
able thing about a man of her &C
ouaintance she usually passes it along
with a little more added to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
HU1NOR or THE Day

Here, you write carelessly on that ma
chine grumbled the president of the
bunco trust. you spelled stockholders
with a u in place of the first % ."
Comes closer murmured the stenog-
rapher.-Toledo Blade.
$50 the bride and groom especially re
quested their friends not to throw rice
after them? yes. They asked us to
hand the rice over in package so that
keeping. ''-Washington Star.
The Man in Bed (waking up suddenly
and discovering his felloW-lodger drinking
his whisky)-'Ere, Mulligani What are
yer doin' with that whisky? Mulligan
man, whist I'm wakin In me slape.-
The Sketch.
Friend-Why. do you encourage these
women suffrage meetings2 Surely you
don't approve of them? Husband-Ap-
home as late as 1 like now without finding
my wife at home to ask questions.-Tit
Bits.
"she is very liberal in her charities "
other; liberal, but not always practical.
For Instance she wanted to send alarm
clocks TO Africa to aid sufferers from the
sleeping sickness. Washington Star.
Bridge" Good gracious, does she carry
the craze as far as that?"-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Tess-I broke my engagement with him
because he wouldn't give up tobacco;
Tess-Yes and he's still smoking.-st.
7 o11is Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

: IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
A woman who works down town is
fairly we'll satisfied except on windy
days.
Every man should at least be truth
full enough to admit that at times he
is a liar.
Everybody loves a hero a long way
off and picks unfairly at his neighbor
next door.
A boy is never satisfied until he
catches fish so big that it pulls him
into the creek.
new play is entitled, "Tho Shalt
A new play is entitled, Thou Shalt
Not" 1t isn't usually expressed so
elegantly. Don't Do That is more
common expression of the same thing.
In the books girl fights hard to
keep man from stealing kiss, but in
real life he can get one any time that
needn't be snatched so abruptly 1t
tastes of teeth.
If you are past 80, and someone
tells you you have changed, get a glass
of water and throw your mouth open
for the pill: No change after that age
is for the better.
After a man has been defeated for
office. he doesn't feel very friendly to-
ward the man who defeated him: he
may not be willing to see him killed,
but he wouldn't object TO seeing Doth
his legs broken
She had been married a year. 81
wonder" she unused when the front
door slammed after Him, and she hung
UP the dishrag, elf Carnegie offers any
medals for putting UT with brute
like that"
When a woman gets as high as SIS
of her own in the bank, she takes lot
of proud satisfaction in saying that she
will not marry any man until satisfied
that it is not her money that attracts
him. He. Must Love Her for Herself
Alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

In April, when the moon is full
How many a dress of bright delaino
Goes arm in arm with some dark coat
Along the woods by Lovers lane!
The newly plighted farthest roam,
And latest in the wood remain;
But brides and bridegrooms seldom leave
The homeward end of Lovers lane.
Sometimes a troop of children stray
And follow in their parents train,
To pick the sweet anemones
That grow SO thick in Lovers lane
Sometimes lady walks alone
With head inclined, as If again
She heard a voice to us unknown:
(She seems at home in Lovers lane)
stranger, banished long ago
From this green path, forgiveS his pain,
And sends little prayer to heaven
For all who walk in Lovers lane.
Sarah N. Cleghorn, in Everybody s
Magazine.
Bill-Jalxe said he was going to break up
the suffragette meeting the other night.
Were his plans carried out? Dill-No,
Jake was.-Life.
Physiology Observation-Disclosures, you may
explain how we hear things. Clarence
Pa tells 'em to ma as a secret and ma
gives 'enp away at the bridge club
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An excuse is a good one when it's a
reason.
X X y
Just like hopes, many fears never
come to pass.
K
If life is what people make it then
they surely have no right to complain.
X K
The average husband is much
prouder of his wife than he is given
credit for being.
Almost every woman has the idea
that the rest of the world misunder-
stands her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
partnnent

Talk about governmental paternal-
ism. The limit in this particular ap-
pears to have been reached at Water
loo. NIB, where the local authorities
have passed an ordinance making it
unlawful for any barber in the town to
eat onions between o'clock a. m. and
9 o. m. 1t would seem, also, that this
ordinance has been carelessly drafted
and will not accomplish its purpose en-
sarely A barber might eat onions at 6
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Alice, who was years old, was Of
ten asked to run errands for her moth
er. she went willingly If she could
nronounce the names of the articles
wanted, but she dreaded the laughter
which greeted her attempts to pro-
nounce certain words
Vinegar was one of the hardest for
her She never would go for it if she
could help IT. but one morning her
mother found it absolutely necessary
To send her. On entering the store she
handed the Jug to the clerk and said:
ssSmeIl the Jug and give me a quart"
New York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
sHORT-GRAss DIAMONDS.


Mr.. Armour says he regrets that the
price of meat is so high. This surely
must make it unanimous then.
AS we dope it out from the foreign
news, Mr.. Roosevelt is president Of
everything but the United States.
Speaker Cannon is the only man We
know of who can be both down and out
and right on the job at the same time.
Chancellor Day does not like Mr..
Taft. Now and then it seems that Mr..
Taft may have inherited a streak of the
famous Roosevelt luck" after all.
Just now the Back from Elba'
movement is giving Speaker Cannon
less concern than is the Back to Dan
vile rnovement.-Gove Co. Rep. CIT
zette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
FRON OTHER PENS
HIS WANTS SATISFIED.

When a brokers' clerk, without the
knowledge of his employers or any
body else, accumulate a fortune of
several million dollars, it is natural
that there should be a general inquiry
as to how he did it. The most notable
characteristic of Charles Frederick
HOFFMAN, the clerk who did this won
derful thing. seems to have been his
extreme reluctance to spend money
unnece SSarfly.
He was, according to all accounts,
of parstmonious, not to say miserly
disposition, and all his life he saved
pennies as eagerly as he did dollars.
But, of course, he didn't save his mill
lions. His small economies doubtless
increased somewhat the size of his
first investment. AS u direct part of
his total accommodations, however. they
were neglible, and the mans place
among moneyed men would have been
practically the same as it was if he
had found a reasonable number of uses
for his profits besides that of adding
them to his capital for further spec
ulations
Hoffman need not be pitied for his
narrow and shabby life Presumably
he thoroughly enjoyed it, finding a
more than sufficient recompense for
all his deprivations in the illusion that
they formed the necessary condition
for the one success he coveted. He
people held desirable, but it is appar-
ent that he never went without any
thing he wanted.-New York Times
THE BRIDEGROOM'S DOT.
1t appears that marriages are ar
ranged differently in Canada. 1t is
customary in the United States, par
ticularly if the prospective bride be an
heiress and her admirer titled indf-
vidual of foreign residence, for the
father of the young woman to bid for
the title-that is to say, he is expected
to help negotiations by stating how
much he will pay in money and throw
his daughter into the bargain. A case
just reported from Montreal may not
be typical of the Canadian way, but
it serves to show a reversal of the sit
uation hereinbefore described. The
father of the young woman in the
case objected to the suitor's attentions,
and declared he would not consent to
| a marriage unless the would-be BRIDE
groom should first pay him $1,000.
The young man had not that sum
| of money in his possession, but he
| had the price of two railway tickets
| from Nepean, Carleton county, Ont,
where the parties lived, to a point in
| the province of Quebec, and to that
point he and the young woman Went
land there they were married NOW
| they have been arrested and sent
back under escort to their former
| home in Ontario, on complaint of the
| irate father, who charges that his
daughter stole $1,000 from him and
| ran away with the fellow who after
ward became her Observation-Disclosures
] ter Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press

IFrom the New York Press.1
Popularity takes lot of boosting to
keep it up.
saving money is very useful for
somebody else to spend.
Conscience is sluggard; appetite is
energy incarEate.
Good nature lets an awful lot of rot
ten things happen trying to be nice
about if.
Man, crawling meanly upon the
earth with a broken body, may aspire
TO saor in the clouds with a strong
spirit, and the world will seem better
to him below
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

An ordinance should be on the city's
statute book making it a misdemeanor,
punishable by a fine, for person to
start a bonfire with waste paper and
trash at any time when the wind is
blowing strong. Not only are such fires
dangerous to surrounding property and
might be the means of starting a dis
astrous conhagration, but they impose
unnecessary burdens on the fire de-
raarfrnenf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

An extraordinary service has been
performed by the Chicago Tribune for
the poor, old consumers who are hav-
ing such wrestling matches these days
with the high cost Of living. It calls
attention to the fact that turnips can
be purchased reasonably cheap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

One of the Paris newspapers has dis
armed Colonel Roosevelt of the big
stick and substituted in it's place a
broom. The Journal DIES Debats, in
commenting on his speech at the Sor-
bonnie said, among other things:
"Roosevelt's simple and energetic Ian
guage is that Of Hercules. armed not
with a club, but broom at the door
of the Augean stables"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

One million immigrants are expected
to land on the shores of the United
States during the current year And
the chances are that the census enum-
orators are delighted to think that
these foreigners did not arrange things
so as TO get here In time to be counted
in the census that is being taken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

The Wisconsin, one of the battleships
in the navy that cost a few million dol
lars. is to be placed in retirement after
a ten years service during times Of
peace. Assuredly is the retention of
place in the battleship procession of
the nations Of the earth an expensive
undertaking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

The Milwaukee Sentinel. at any rate,
is not discouraged over the assumption
Of that towns government by the So
cialists. It sings: But the sun still
rises, hens lay eggs, the gardens pro-
duce their sass and there is beer in
Milwaukee. Let the disconsolate cheer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Senator George Hodges, of Olathe,
who has been looked upon as the most
prominent candidate for the Demo
cratic gubernatorial nomination, is
really in a class by himself among the
politicians Of Kansas. He honestly be-
lieves that a nomination should seek
the man. More than that, he practices
what he believes in this respect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

From the quantities Of fruit reported
to be killed each spring by the tickle
and equally frosty weather, it is ap-
parent that II the fruit growing regions
OF the country enjoyed a spring season
without freezing weather, so much
fruit would be grown that its raisers
would have to give 1t away to get rid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

The nineteenth continental congress
OF the National Society of the Daugh-
tiers Of the American Revolution, which
recently concluded its session at Wash
ington, was not much of a success. 1t
was attended by no really serious
ssarrana'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Kansas is attaining more aesthetic
levels all the time. Large farms are
now being referred to in every day
Parlance as estates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

There must be something radically
wrong with the people of Des Moines.
They show So little inclination to sup
port a pennant- winning ball team that
IL is likely the franchise for this team
Will be transferred to another city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Golf must be the game of the pluto
Gratis 1t is growing more popular all
the time. as is evidenced by the con-
tinual increase throughout the land in
the number of golf clubs. And this,
Notwithstanding the fact that the price
of golf balls has increased materially.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

In the famous murder trial now in
progress in Kansas City an effort is to
be made by the prosecution to lay bare
the life of Dr.. Hyde. In other words,
the defendant is in for a severe skin
ming"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Some men are apparently just as un-
reasonable and as hard to please as arc
some women A Balt1morean wants
divorce from his wife because she loves
him SO much that her caresses and
words Of endearment bore him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

a. m. and their fragrance would be do
ing business with his breath for sew
eral hours thereafter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Jeffries has one great advantage;
owing to a natal defect, Jeff's opponent
can never attain to the pink of per
fection," without being skinned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Hereafter" says Filling Fuller, Il
shall leave my good resolutions on the
clock-shelf when start for Kansas
City. Last week / went down there
with a full set of good resolutions, fell
down ker-flop and broke every one Of
'em."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Now that Willie Allie White has ex-
planned it all. we see plainly that the
Wagstaff movement is a Deep DARK
Plot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Dispatch announces that Hetty
Green will retire from active business
life. 1t is generally understood. how
ever, that Hetty Will not have to sur
round her retirement with wolf traps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Col Roosevelt hasn't been heard from
on the subject for several months. but
it appears that he is of the same opin-
ion. In his Paris speech he took few
swats at the French custom of evad-
ing the stork.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

''Now, that changes the complexion
of things sagely remarked the leader
of the mob which chased all the ne
groes out of Texas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

Governor Stubs is making a trip
through the Big Seventh and spreading
his gospel on the short-grass plains
Travellers who have crossed the Big
Seventh are responsible for the rumor
that Stubs gospel is already com
mon to the sIort-grass regions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26
YEA ANCIENT JOI

YEA ANCIENT JOKE
I know your face, but L forget
The time and place that last we met,
But as a Joke of ancient date
I know you're broke and came by
freight.
You're out of luck, but what you need