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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
wPHOTD ExTINCTION.

Is typhoid to go the way of diphthe-
ria? There are signs of It. Antitoxin
seems to have routed dfphtheria; now
it is beginning on typhoid This new
practice has been introduced In the
German army and now every soldier
must be vaccinated with this anti-ty-
phoid virus. The practice is to be in
troduced here. On the 5th OF this
month the vaccination of the soldiers
at Fort Sheridan is to begin, and a
company a day is to be subjected to
the treatment until all are vaccinated-
The results will be watched with
much interest. The practice is already
regarded as beyond the experimental
stage, and the effort will now be to
make it work. The theory is, of course,
correct. Typhoid is a germ in the
blood. tt can be seen. The next thing
is to kill 1t. They think they have
found a poison that will do it. They
are doing it, and soon the method will
be universally practiced and the ter
rors of typhoid will no longer afflict
humanity
That will be next to getting rid of
war. It will save more lives and re-
Iieve mankind of oceans of sorrow. A
great age this, that brings the aboli-
ton of war and the extinction of ty-
phoid.-Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
DOC scorns strilzehrealLers.

Whether or not Rags knows that
there is strike on the cars Of the
| Coney Island &c Brooklyn Railroad
company or not does not appear, but
certain it is that since the strike
breakers have been running the cars
over the Brooklyn bridge he will not
ride on them.
Rags, as is known to most Brook
lynites who nightly cross the bridge,
is the mongrel dog which attached
himself to the police of the bridge
post. He is a dirty brown, roly-poly
pup of uncertain age but with a
great liking for blue uniforms and
brass buttons He can be seen al
most any day at the information
booth of Park Row at the bridge
entrance.
Several months ago Rags developed
liking for riding in the trolley cars.
Coney Island was his favorite resort,
possibly because the ride was the
longest provided by any of the cars
leaving the loops. Every day or two
he would disappear for an hour or
two, but always would return, riding
on the trolley cars. On one of his
trips he encountered an enemy. He
came back with his face chewed up,
and it was feared he would lose the
use of one eye, but the police veter-
mary saved 1t, and now he is as good
as new.
But since the strikebreakers began
taking the cars to Manhattan Rags
has been detected. Repeatedly he
goes and looks longingly at the cars.
but never once has he jumped aboard
with the motorman. All the old men
knew him, and all felt honored at
having Rags for a passenger. The
new men, however, are strangers, and
he gives them a wide berth.-New
York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
HUMOR or EHE D<Y

Some wake and find themselves famous.
put many more find themselves famous
and Wake--Puck.
WAS her marriage a success7 Really.
1 don't know what alimony she got"-
Washington Herald.
Brakeman's Was a BiR.-.sDon't Use too
long words, said +. Hoplxinson Smith, the
author. at a luncheon in Philadelphia II
was once on the way to Reading by train.
and at town nesting beside the river I
came out on the platform and drew IN
deep breaths Of the pure, delicious ~.
brakeman No. siri its Conshocken.'
said he.'-New York Telegram.
What do you think OF those Camor-
r1sts?' We'll" replied the impresario,
their technique isn't much but they Ger
tainly have temperament."-Wash
Star
Il don't see how you can enjoy grand
opera when you can't understand the
OF hash without knowing what was hi
it?"-Detroit Free Press.
Let us have peace" said the F,nnfish
invader Can you not see that the white
strangers love the redmen2" "Ah yes'f
replied the intelligent Indian, they love
the very ground We walk upon."-Sacred
Heart Review.
"All you farmers out this way must be
prosperous see ten automobiles to one
horse2" Yes; the farmers all use au-
tomobiles themselves, but they have TO
keep a horse for the hired man. "-Bunalo
Express.
Does your wife insist on being allowed
to voter Yes" replied Mr.. Meekton
She is not content with having the last
word in a political argument. She must
go to the polls and put in postscript
Red Hen.
as you all lookin' for troubIe7' .'s'posin'
I IL, or s'posin' amt What about ftp
well, II you is, yous wastin yoh time.
You kin shet yoh eyes an listen TO IL
tallxin' to you right here. Washington
Star.
II met Dunkey today for the first time
for years. He hasn't changed much"
'Oh, he hasn't changed at all, but he
doesn't seem to realize IT." How do you
mean2' "Oh, he's forever talxin about
what a fool he used to be- Red Hen.
Hub Cat midnight)-Whata are you groan-
ing about7 Wife-There are two mos
quitoes in the room and they're singing.
Hub-WeIl. what matter so long as they
don't bite your Wife-But they're not
singing in harmony, and It's positively
agonizing.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
DANGER OF ovER-ExERCIsING

More men in the past generation
have been injured through over exerr
else than from under-exercise, writes
Dr.. William Lee Howard in Munsey's.
Like most things in the United States,
physical training and exercise have
been overdone.
IF you will take notice, you will OBJ
serve how common it is for former
athletes to succumb to some germ dis
ease 1t is not because they were ath-
letes, but because, as athletes. they ex-
pended energy instead of making and
storing it. I do not believe that any
contestant in that heartbreaking stunt.
the Marathon run. will ever have in
him reserve force to Withstand a good
attack of disease germs. At an age
when he needs force and cell endur-
ance it will be found wanting. The
heart has expended much of its in
tended reserve force. When called
upon at forty-five years of age to put
out latent energy it viii not be able
to do so; it was stretched and enlarged
so much at its growing period that it
has become soft and inelastic.
1.-THE man who has led sedentary
and careless life, and who, when told
he is getting too fat. at once jumps
into some form of violent exercise, is
injuring himself-throwing away all
chances of making himself germ
proof. What such a man needs is
slow. comparatively effortless exercise,
such as walking or moderate swim
ming. But it must be kept up system
atically-as regularly as his sleep.
1.-THE man who accumulates dollars
by the bag and fat by the day usually
wants to get rid of his fat in the same
manner-by rush and hurry Then
something inside him goes wrong, mi
crobes enter his system and his bags
of dollars are useless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

Every heat wave has a cooling
cloud. Even in town. What, for in
stance, if one had to climb q mast
head for each drink of the day The
eighteenth century sailor climbed for
his drink of water. I'm order to make
our water last long, wrote "a Ma
riner of England" cit was headed up
with a hole at the top to admit a
musket barrel with its breach off, and
through this we had to suck up a
drink Captain and mate excepted) d.
Some ships being stricter. a
man, after his suck. had to take the
barrel to the masthead, and when an
other wanted a suck he had to go
there for it, so no man would do that
except he was thirsty "-London
Chronicle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
lFrom the New York Press

TTTUIT
A great man doesn't feel he needs
fIattery; he feels he can afford to give
If a man is rolling a barrel down
hill he can growl because it isn't
shorter.
A man fond of toasting health and
wealth stands a better chance of los
ing both.
get otlt of life is a sure introduction to
death.
A man who thinks his wife ought to
make her own hats would have a fit
Il she offered to make his ties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

Springfield, Illinois. was damaged
considerably by three storing which
struck 1t the other morning in as many
hours. Among other damage wrought
by the storms. the copper roof of the
dome OF the Illinois state house was
torn off. Fad any such powerful
storm visited Topeka and worked ike
havoc, the newspapers of the nation
would have printed columns to the
effect that another Kansas Cyclone
or tornado" had been running amuck
with terrific fury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
WoAfEN To THE roRE-

Women suffragists seem to have over
looked most important argument as
to why they art worthy of enfran-
chisement. This fact is pointed out
by Robert Shackleton, in an interest
ling and instructive article in a recent
issue of the Saturday Evening Post.
entitled THE Greatest OF These is
Charity" In the main this article is
devoted to a discussion Of modern char
ity, what it is doing and what it IS
failing to do. Mr.. Shackleton points
out that sums of money are now being
devoted to charity which are vastly
greater than ever before, both cornpar-
ativeIy and absolutely; millions are dis
pensed where formerly there were only
thousands; and the benevolent insti-
tutions of our country are almost dou-
BILE in number what they were 20 years
ago; yet there is no lessening of the
total of need. This is due, thinks Mr..
Shackleton, to a curious carelessness
on the part Of many Of the great char
ity givers and the small ones as we'll
He rightly says that the entire field
of charity is full of surprises, and that
one of the greatest surprises Of all
something that I wonder has not
been seized upon as yet by the suffra-
gets as al ACA CAA1A
ment-is the fact that women are far
from constituting the majority of the
helpless and needy; for most of the
recipients of charity are not women
and girls, but men and boys! OF the
inmates OF charitable institutions for
people needing permanent care there are
three times as many men as there are
women In the aims houses of the
country there are almost twice as many
men as women. And the reports of
institutions giving temporary relief
show the same or greater preponder-
ance of male recipients
Surely this is forceful argument for
the cause Of woman's suffrage 1t
would be difficult to provide a better
one, except the one that being pro
perty owners, taxpayers and citizens Of
states and the common country, amen
able to all the laws, they have an in
alienable right to participate in the
government to the same extent as have
the men,
These facts presented by Mr.. Shackle-
ton certainly put the women in an en-
viable light. They are shown to be
able to care for themselves to even
better advantage than do the men. A
state or a nation is merely collec-
ton of individuals banded together for
their advancement ana protection NO
state or no nation rises to a higher
civilization or becomes more compel
ent than does the average of its COM
moment parts, the individuals who make
it up. This being true, and women
showing themselves to be better able
to care for themselves than are the men,
there is assuredly no reason to deny |
them their rights for the fullest pos
sible participation in all the affairs OF
government. Will not such participa-
ton on their part better the govern
ment? As a matter of fact that has
been the case wherever suffrage has
been extended to women, and in what
ever measure. The great, great major !
ity of them are always found on the |
right side Of every moral question, and /
there are few questions, public or pri- |
vate, which are not tinged in some way |
with morality
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A man is also known by the hours he
keeps.
X
Experiences worth having do not al
ways cost the most.
X X
A contortionist is about the only
chap who has no trouble in making
both ends meet.
X
The man who starts off with Just
one word of advice'' usually talks for
an hour or two.
y
If it is true that poets are born, not
made, many of them should not come
in for so much blame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
{;
EzSlS24S -

Having but little time 70 spend al
the fair grounds. and spending a major
portion Of that in review OF the horse
trot and other agricultural exhibits. we
neglected to visit the sheep exhibit
However, comma, the omission win
/ not be listed. in our life history. un-
DER Great Disappointment We Have
Suffered"
A gent employed in the mechanical
department of the Morning paper was
arrested on suspicion. To arrest a gent
connected with the mechanical depart
ment OF the Morning paper was a
serious Jaw paw on the part of the
police.
1t is reported that the Government is
IN doubt as to what to do with the lone
fana Indian, last Of his tribe, recent
~ captured in California. II the doubt
Is serious, perhaps friend Government
IS open to suggestions: why not .ierk''
him. Both the climate of California
ana the texture of the Indian point to
TINS TINS method as the most practical for
his preservation.
Dodd c. desires to contribute cash to
the Coburn Shady Bend fund. but thia
department, although neither athletic
nor belligerent, would get more Eatis-
faction by contributing walIop on the
Jaw to some member OF the rube mob
under discussion.
The Hunnewell mayoress IS now sat
isfied that the Liquor Men are trying
to get her fired; and. as the LIQUOR men
IN a village the size of Hunneweli are
exceedingly numerous, this is a serious
proposition.
There is an insect in the salve; the
boob who writes this nonsense picked
the winner Of the Derby when the
horses were first brought out but
didn't have the nerve to back hts con-
victions and combine business with the
afternoons batch of sunburn.
When of duty. a clerk in A shoe store
does not spend his leisure time lamp
ing the lower extremities OF the pass
ing damsels.
Hep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

A. w. Green, president of the Ma
tionaI Biscuit company, insists that he
IS in love with the western country.
And there is plenty of room for him to
And there is plenty of room in it for
him to locate permanently. Not only
that. but he could hunt all over the
western country and not find a better
place for locating than Topeka. Fur
thermore, the Topekans who met Mr..
Green like him quite as we'll as he does
the western country. Therefore, he
would be in agreeable company in this
good town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
EAMSAS COMMENT
10 UNIONIzE FARMERs.


An action that viii be watched with
vital interest all over the United States,
was the action of the farmers in Ok
lahona IN forming a union in order
70 hx a falr price on their cotton. The
farmers are among the very last OF
the occupations to he 11nionfzed and
It VIII be interesting to note the effects
on commerce which their cotton Sche-
dule OF prices will have. They have
n1ed AZ cents as the price at which
TENDER and October, and Is cents as the
price after that
II other industries thrive in the I'M
lohized form why will not the farmers
hnd rel1ef IN that condition? They
could knock the everlasting daylights
out or the rest of us if they held up
the prices of produce A strict union
OF farmers would make living so high
that nobody but the farmer could eat
If the union chose to make the prices
high enough When it comes to union
Izlng the farmers it is time to ask:
aid
SILLY SEASON NEVER CLOSES.
1t is the observation Of the EN-
poria Gazette that this is a silly sea-
son when oily tongued strangers go
among the farmers and sell them tin
ranges for about a dollar and six bits
more than they would have to pay q
regular hardware dealer in town. But
one with more time or varied expert
ence might go further, and add that
this silly season never closes, so far
as the agent feature is concerned. If
it isn't a bargain in stoves one is Of
fered at a high price, it is new fan
gfed cornsheller and milking machine
combined, or a set of the lives of the
worlds famous statesmen for a dol
lar down and equal amount per month
until the third generation can count
the valuable addition to the library
paid for. At any rate, it is so large
that a man who steers himself against
one proposition is pretty sure to fall
for anOther.-Wellingto Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

Cheaper sugar in October is prom
ised by the American Sugar Refining
company, the trust. Presumably by
that time it will have recouped, under
the high price of sugar now prevailing,
the several million dollars it had to
pay to the government in settlement
of the customs and weighing frauds it
pernetrated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

A poll is being taken by the Chicago
Tribune among the governors of the
states as to their attitude on the ques-
ton OF uniform divorce laws. So far
ell the replies have been favorable. It
is difficult to figure out how any decent
or sensible person could be opposed to
such a plan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

A reasonable report from Hunnewell
is to the effect that the people of that
town are tired Of the row among the
city officials, and that they will take
steps to Gust the entire collection, in
Guiding the lady mayor. Nor are the
people of Hunnewell in a different
mood in this respect than are the rest
Of the folk in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

As definitely as the Moroccan situa-
ton can be expressed: France has re-
piled to the German reply to the reply
of France to a previous German reply
to Frances reply to the original Ger
man communication in the premises.
Another reply from Germany is in
order
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
FULL. LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
HONE News wHILR AwAY.

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Advance payment is requested or
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

If Jimmy Ward, the aviator who is
attempting to fly from New York to
San Francisco, can not follow a route
in the eastern section of the country.
what will happen to him when he gets
on that part of the journey across the
great American desert. should he get
that far? Presumably the buzzards
are already smacking their lips
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
TIE RACER. TINE.

Time waits for no man"-goin' just
a-skImnafn'!
Ar not natEute does he lose a-Waltin'
for tire ". men!
Rushin' right along
Never runnin' wrong;
Fears win never stay him, an
he doesn't stop for song.
er's flown;
Doesn't know an doesn't care just where
he's a-goin'.
Slow tide or strong,
Coin right along:
Oh, the world has never stayed
him with sorrow or a song
Frank L Stanton, in the Atlanta Con-
sttudon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

The Prohibitionists of Missouri have
cut out giant task for themselves.
They are going to work for honest
elections in the 'show me" state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

Getting into drug store at Colorado
Springs, a horse did quite as much
damage as is credited to the proverbial
bull of china shop fame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

That man from North Dakota who
attacked a school teacher in Manitoba
has the best possible chance to escape
They are attempting to track him
down with bloodhounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

It's apparent that the sports who
headed for Milwaukee to see the VOL
CAST Mcfarland fight are in for quite
an extensive trip if their desires in this
particular are realized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

Perhaps it is too much to hope that
the Kaws will win another game. But
they ought TO make run or two
before the season closes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

Sicily is a wonderful country for
lemons And Mount Etna seems to be
as undesirable a one as it is large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

The Karnival Knights will be max
ing a mistake if they do not again
organize permanently. One of their
famous frolics should be a big incident
of each state fair week in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
HUMAN WEAKLINGs.

A st. Louis man of wealth and prom
inenee kills himself because he cannot
longer endure poor health; a Terre
Haute man of good standing attempts
suicide because he has lost his money;
an Illinois man shoots himself be-
cause he is tired of life" a New York
woman browns herself because her
husband has deserted her. And so they
go in the record of a day-derelicts
along life's pathway, men and women
unequal to the conditions in which
they find themselves.
One characteristic, it may be as
sumed, is common to all persons who
take their own nves-a selfish concen-
tration upon themselves. No one, as
they view it, ever suffered such wrongs
as they, was ever so Disseminated
against by fate, was ever called upoa
to endure such pain. They have no
perspective; they cannot see beyond
their own thresholds; they magnify
their own Importance and their own
trials and fail to comprehend that 9TH
ers have equal and even greater trials
and sufferings. Few, indeed, are the
people who get through life without
bitter discipline of soul and body, but
those who make the most cutlery over
the discipline are not often those upon
whom the heaviest trials fall, the re-
verse being commonly the case.-In-
dianapOliS Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15
FROM OTHER PENS
THE MoToR-BOAT.


Running, with the engine in order,
power launch seems and is the
handiest thing afloat. It's power is
great and steady. Its steerage way is
ample. 1t is handy to the helm.
Properly steered, it will face a surpris-
ingly heavy sea. On smooth water
nothing approaches it for safety,
speed and security from collision. But
the instant anything happens to the
engine the motor-boat is a hulk. On
most launches no sail can possibly be
made. On a sailboat a handy man can
always rig UP something that will move
the boat, give stserage way and keep
head to the wind. A power boat has
usually not the vestige of a spar or sail
and no place In which The rudest of
jury masts can be stepped.
Power gone, the boat rolls helpless.
Many men on such a boa- running in
smooth water do not even know
enough to hang out distress lanterns
or signals and the boat drifts, mot I'M
der. control with nothing to show it's
condition. A tug with barges is at
such a moment the worst of ali perils
It stretches out for yards. The tug
can neither guides direct nor stop. The
hawsers are so many traps. Each
barge is a moving rock, offering dam
ger. If a stalled engine on a launch
is suddenly cranked into activity, col
lision may come as on Saturday night
before the power boat is under con-
troll.
These dangers only emphasize the
great Fundamental fact that men who
go on the water in anything need their
wits about them.-Philadelph Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

Does your wife insist on being allowed
to voter Yes" replied Mr.. Meekton
She is not content with having the last
word in a political argument. She must
go to the polls and put in postscript
Red Hen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

What do you think OF those Canon
rtsts?" WELL" replied the impresario
their technique isn't much, but they GER
tainly have temperament."-W
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-15

"All you farmers out this way must be
prosperous. 1 see ten automobiles to one
horse?" Yes; the farmers all use au-
tomobiles themselves, but they have to
keep horse for the hired man."-BuTaio
Express.