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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
AS WALL STREET VIEWS III.

Even Wall street, which believed that
the interstate commerce commission
would render decisions favorable to the
railroads in the freight rate cases, is
able to find something of good in the
decisions which happened to go the
other way. Writing on this subject in
his current Weekly Financial Review
Henry Clews, the prominent New
York banker and broker says:
1.-THE decision of the interstate COM
mission was of course a shock to both
railroad and financial interests, for it
was confidently expected that some
sort of a compromise would be reached
granting the roads moderate conces-
sions in the east, where rates are low
and the companies have been placed
Under enormously heavy expenses ow-
ing to the increase in wages granted
in 1910. In all probability the decision
will make it more difficult for the rail-
roads to place the new issues which
they had contemplated and this will
of course compel delay in improve
ments and means less activity in con-
structive work of that class than an
tiC'pated But the decision has its ad-
vantages. 1t will avert a possible con-
gestion Of the security markets by the
flood of new issues which would GER
tainly have followed had the railroads
secured what they wanted. AS soon
as the shock is over calrner views will
prevail; our railroad managers will
accept the situation philosophically;
efficiency viii be the watchword; re-
trenchment will be in order. and con-
sidering the excellent physical condi-
ton of the roads a year or two of
waiting for larger income from in
creased business will do no lasting
harm. Some Of the weaker roads may
suffer from the decision; but it must
be remembered that the commission
has announced it's readiness to recon-
slider the question of advanced rates
if after a fair trial experience shows
that the roads were right in their con-
tention and really needed higher rates
to compensate for increased expenses.
In business circles the decision will be
accepted with favor, since shippers
would have been obliged to put the in
creased charges upon the public, which
! would ultimately pay the bill and is
| already more or less disturbed at the
high cost of living. Considering the
political situation, it is worth some
thing to avoid a further cause of pub
| lie discomfort"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
Looking Ahead.

To peer hopefully into the future is
not against the constitution of the
United States nor the decisions of the
supreme court. Neither is it an offense
against good taste nor a violation o.
any of the rules in the $1.15 edition OF
Etiquette for All Occasions" Yet, as
Mr.. Burns has said-We alIude to the
laid schemes of mice and men gang aft
aglee," whatever that means. Quit,
appropriate is it to try to copper the
future. but it is generally of little
d.au. LsaFollette is looking forward to
the nomination in 1916. Think of that
in time when we are making history
as fast as steam and electricity can
turn it out. We are shifting issues
twice year, just as some men take a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record
Some people are almost as easily
ratified as dice.
The horn of plenty doesn't last II
you blow 1t in.
Many a fellow is broke because
some rich friend has dropped him.
The most extravagant assertions
sometimes come from the most frugal
people.
Some people are SO absent-minded
that even their confidence is usually
people.
Borrowell-"I tell you, it's hard to
be poor" Harduppe-"Gee! 1 find it
the easiest thing in the world"
An optimist is a man who can hear
a photographer tell him to look pleas
ant without feeling tempted to throw
things.
She-'The Bible tells us to return
a. kiss for blow" He-"Now I know
what to do if you ever slap me in the
face
OF course. we should make the most
of our opportunities, but 1t isn't neces-
sary to regard every other man as an
opportunity.
mo woman can keep a secret re
marked the Wise Guy. How do you
know" demanded the Simple Mug.
HAS it ever been proven that any
woman ever tried?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
Iagain. Do not marry the sewing ma

again! Do not marry the sewing ma
chine mani
do not marry the drug store man.
do not marry the fertilizer man!
The widow slipped softly out OF peo'
There stood the ghost under the APP
pie tree. He had the same white sheet
around him-same peach stone in MS
mouth! She reached for the old gun
and as the ghost turned to be swallow
ed up in the night. she fired. There
was a yell and fall. The ghost hao
been salted. Boots and legs kicked
the air-the sheet was thrown on
and the next minute the widow was
out doors and bending over man ana
saying:
why - why its Mr. Phillips.
Why-why-what on earth.''
II didn't want you to marry
anybody but met he exclaimed as
he struggled to his knees.
mel"
But do!''
well, come in and sit down and
We'll see how badly you are hurt"
But 1 can't-can't sit DOWN.!
Then come over tomorrow and
stand up and tell me you want me for
a wife and maybe I'll say yes!"-
(Copyrighted 1911 by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
HYHAWKER JOTS

A high school note in the Bucklin
Banner: "Lena's new rubbers are at
tracing considerable attention"
The ingalls, Beacon has discovered
that "a big wishbone and a little back
bone make a poor combination"
Mr.. John Thyfault, of Smoky Lane,
Rocks county, must have to take the
blame for everything that happens in
his family.
One of the last items to feel the
declining prices will be the good yell
low butter made by the clean house
wife, says the Colby Free Press.
Some words of consolation from the
Selden Independent: Many now oc-
cupy back seats in the world who may
occupy the front seats in the next.
As Editor Knox of the Alma Signal
sees it: The sins of commission charg
ed to the present legislature are largely
offset by the virtues of omission to its
credit.
In a batch of Local Happenings"
in last weeks Se1den Independent was
this one: MANY trust magnates are
sued and pursued, but few are
caught
1t is all right to talk a great deal
about the man behind the gun, says
the Beaver Valley Booster, but do not,
it cautions, forget the women behind
the powder.
conservative boast from the Oak
Ranch correspondent of the Atwood
Square Deal: Give us water at the
proper time and what county could
show greater results in an agricultural
way.
1t is the opinion of residents along
the Central Branch, says the Norton
Courier, that George Gould might bet
ter have cut out a million dollars
worth of wedding presents and bought
a few engines.
Apparently the Seneca Tribune is
quite the most remarkable newspaper
in the world. 1t declares it made its
first mistake a week ago and that
merely concerned getting one wrong
initial letter in name.
Honors generally go where they are
deserved. And so the Hutchinson
Gazette can well point with pride to
the resolution which was passed at
the annual banquet of the Kansas
Democrats designating 1t as the Of
fetal organ of the Democratic party in
Kansas.
Among the school notes in the
Luray Herald: Some of the pupils
newspapers, others apparently take
none whatever. Some parents en-
courage their children to read papers;
others do not. Reading newspapers
is habit that ought to be encouraged.
Americans read more than all the 9TH
ct people III IIl0 WOIlu 4Nd1l0 d ld-
ton that has few newspapers, and
you name a nation that does not rank
very high in civilization.
"Old Maid" who contributes col
umn of STRAY Straws" to the ingalls,
Beacon, furnished this one, among
others, for last weeks issue: The Old
Maid, who never could agree with her
stepm other, got into a dispute with
her yesterday and they had quite a
scrap. The Old Maid gave her step
mother a smash on the jaw and her
stepmother spread the Old Maids
Roman nose all over her face with a
skillet. These little disagreements do
much toward causing scandal in a
community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
Was 1t Andree's Balloon?

The Rev. Father Turquetil. of Rein
deer Lake, one of the famous mission
aries of the far north, has reached
Prince Albert after journey whicE
occupied II days, till he reached the
railway at Lepas. A story told by
Father Turquetil about year ago
caused a commotion all over the world.
1t was to the effect that while on q.
trip 300 miles north of Reindeer Lake
he had heard from natives that an
enormous white ship had come down
out of the clouds and that two men
who were in it had been killed by
Eskimos.
He reported the story to Bishop Pas
cal at Prince Albert and the latter told
it to the newspapers in the east. 1t
was inferred that it must be the i'll
fated Andree balloon, and Father
Turquetil has received many letters
from all parts Of Europe asking for
particulars of the event
Father Turquetil says that the
stories which were printed at that time
were much exaggerated and that he
has been unable since to confirm by
tangible proof the narrative which was
first given him by some Indians who
had been trading with the northern
Eskimos. He states that this winter
has been severe in the north and that
he had most difficult journey out by
dog train.-Prince Albert (Sask.) Dis
patch to New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

A soft snap may end in dull thud.
The fishing line will soon be the
popular chord.
Fortunately for most of us, common
sense isn't fashionable.
One never hears of a lawyer going
to law on his own account.
A wise wife never quarrels with her
husband just before pay day.
A man may be working for all he is
worth and not be worth much at that.
When some people say they did
their best we are glad it wasn't their
worst
You can't always tell how glad a
man is to see you by the way he
shakes hands.
Beware of the man who is ashamed
to admit that he earns his bread by
the sweat of his brow.
A student of human nature declares
that most men like to be jollied and
are willing to pay for it.
A reception is a place where women
fail to enjoy themselves if they are in
vited, and get sore If they are not.
A small boy looks forward to the
time when he will be man and can
do as he he pleases-and perhaps he
will If he doesn't get married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
1,uE NEW DEMOCRACY.

One of the popular students of the
Kansas State Agricultural college, a
fraternity man, first class in his studies,
singer worth hearing, a leader
among his comrades, sells coffees and
teas part of the time and does house
work while he's resting, to pay his
way through college, asys the Kansas
Industrialist. There isn't a boy or a
girl or a man or a woman in any de-
partment-or a member OF the faculty
either-who isn't glad to meet this
student. He stepped from a train one
d., a few years ago, with hardly
enough money to pay the little fee the
state exacts for tuition, declared he
was alone in the world, his parents
dead, and that he had come to town
for an education. In the summer, for
several years, when the college is
closed, he has worked for the Harvey
Eating House company in Colorado or
California or some other state Every
wear he has a better job-not a posi-
tion-with better pay. He is learning
important things, seeing the country,
8 wing his money and paying his bills
promptly
Fine, isn't it? But not at all an ex-
ceptional case. Others are out early
to classes sometimes cooking their own
meals and making their own beds,
studying in the library, and then has
tening into the residence districts to
clean some ones house with a vacuum
machine; selling specialties, waiting
on table, washing dishes, doing jani-
tor work; getting in an hours wrest-
ling or boxing or running in the 7. M.
c. A. gymnasium-paying their way
for an education. No social distinc-
lions, no laying down of dead lines,
no Goldfish aristocracy" can operate
to the detriment of that kind of young
men. OveralIs at 5 O'Clock and an
oratorical contest at 8. Making
casting in the foundry at one hour
and writing a column for the college
paper the next. Setting up an engine
or cultivator or a seeder at IL
O'Clock and going with committee
at noon to see the president-busy,
busy, busy from morning until night.
"In the peaceful struggle for exist
ence." said David Starr Jordan, in
1.-The Blood of the Nation" published
in 1906, there is premium on such
virtues. The virile and the brave sur
Vive. The idle, weak and dissipated
go to the wall" Were the "embattled
farmers" who fired "the shot heard
round the world" at Lexington, any
drawer or more worthy of acclaim
than these boys of Kansas. 1.-The best
We breed" as Kipling put it, who are
building up the finest democracy of
the nation? Is not the states future
as a great agricultural commonwealth
safe in their hands? Why need
theorists and sociologists and long
haired scientists worry about rural
yearnings? Why should men haggle
and scheme and work themselves into
frenzy about appropriations when
the results are so mighty? And what
pity it is that SO few men can see
over the fence that bounds their own
little acre-what a pity so many are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
PelIagra and Corn.

Tests, presumably conclusive, recent
ly made by an Illinois commission Of
physicians, have failed to show that
pellagra, 1oathsome and fatal disease,
is the result of eating corn, either good
or bad. There will be satisfaction in
knowing this, since corn, or maize, a
staple article of diet among a large
part of the POPULATION, has been ac-
cused of causing pellagra by investiga-
tors in Italy.
Within recent years this malady has
developed in the United States suffi-
GENTLY to create danger both of its per-
manence and its further dissemination.
To the end that its progress may be
halted, every effort ought to be put
forth to discover what produces pei
lagra.
Another angle of the matter which
scientists may well study with extreme
care is the relation of the disease to
insanity. If recent increases in the
number of patients in institutions for
the insane may be traced to long
standing cases of pellagra, as some in
vestigators have limited, then the elimi-
nation of this scourge is all the more
to be desired.-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
Father of Kipling.

John Lockwood Kipling, whose
death recently was announced from
London, had just begun his ten years
service as a teacher in the Bombay
Rudyard was born. He afterward had
more important posts as teacher and
curator in British India. and he was
connected by marriage with both
Burne-Jones and Sir Edward POINTER,
now president of the Royal academy,
but he was almost unknown to the
W. rid at large until he made illustra-
tions for some of his sons books.
These pictures were photo-engraved
from clay models in low relief, for the
elder Kipling's art took the form of
architectural sculpture. Nobody
thought them really good illustrations,
though they had the merit of being
true to the fauna and fora of India.
The elephants head that appeared as
a decoration on the cover of the edi-
tons illustrated by Lockwood Kjpling
was also his design. These il1ustra
tions would hardly have been accepted
by the publishers but for the wish of
the son that his fathers work should
thus be recognized. 1t will be remem-
bered that a sister of Kipling publish
ed volume of poems when her broth
er's fame was at its height. The
verses were not bad, though much in
ferior to those furnished by Miss
to a book by her brother, Howard
Pyle, and Miss Kipling has not since
attracted attention in the world of let
tiers. Kiplings American brother-in-
law, Wolcott Balestier, who col1abor-
ated with him in "The Naulahka,"
promised to develop powers that
would have made him quite worthy of
continuing that literary partnership,
but death cut short his career.-Bos-
ton Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.

LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
There are always original ways of
making fool out of yourself.
You can please any young girl by
feelings her that she is coquettish.
A man who is always expecting to
win in a rattle, has too much hope.
When that much-advertised rainy
day does arrive, it is generally flood.
AS a general rule, the man who is
anxious to sell his influence hasn't a
great deal.
When man yawns old-fasl1ioned
people ask: rs it the weather or the
company"
Bill Bowen says he is afraid of but
two things in this world: Mob rule
and his wife.
Horses are overworked oftener
about it so much.
1t is hard to make people believe
that young man is very sick unless
he has appendicitis or typhoid fever.
An Atchison man, who is married to
a big talker, has never been able to
finish a sentence since his marriage.
If you must be a martyr, keep it to
yourself, and don't make others feel
uncomfortable by appearing in that
role.
A town COW seems to enjoy her
depredations as much as an ornery
boy appreciates his own efforts in that
line.
Fathers Lenten sacrifice isn't such
a difficult cross to bear when Mother
and Daughter follow suit and let up
on the entertainment game.
Ever occur to you that this compu1-
sorry education you hear about is an
other instance of driving to water
without power to make drink?
Speaking of appealing looks. have
you ever observed a calf coming to
town and the slaughter house in the
back end of a farmers wagon?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Any number of people are surfeited
with things they don't need.
y
Eatables you have to learn to like
were meant for other folk.
Z
Love is not so blind that it doesn't
get its eyes opened some day.
= x q
The bigger the bluff, the more GER
tain it is that some one will call it.
y = =
If much of the unwritten law was
fair and just it would have been writ
ten into the law books
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the Sew York Press.1

from the New York Press.
You trust people more because you
do than because they deserve it.
1t seems to be a woman's mission
in life to like people in spite of their
faults.
Temptation, like matrimony, takes
off the mask after the contract is
made.
The devil wouldn't retire on a pen
sion of twice his salary If he could
have it.
There's something about a scolding
that makes the person who gets it
want to do it right over again and
this time escape getting caught.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28
THE DOOM oF SAILS.

Alas! must ye. utterly vanish. and cease
from amidst US,
Sails of the olden sea-
NOW dlspossessed by the stern and stunt
ed ironclad,
Wingless and squat and stern?
Purple sails of the heroes lured to the
westward,
Spread for the golden islesl
sails OF magic foam with faery plumber,
Waiting the wizard gold.
sails OF the morning, come like ghosts on
the Sea-lne,
With midnight load of the deep,
sails of the sunset, red over endless
waters,
For the farthest Orient filed
Sails of the starlight, passing we know
not whittier.
Silent, lighted, and lone!
Sails of the seaman accursed, and cruis-
ing forever,
Hoist by a spectral crew.
Sails set afire by the lightning, resound-
ing to tempest,
That drum and thunder and singi
Sails that unruffled repose on bosom OF
azure
Chased by a placid flood!
Alas! must ye go as a dream, and depart
as vision,
Sails of the olden sea?
Stephen Phillips, in Spectator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28

It seems to be just as difficult for
the powers that be to conduct govern
ment satisfactorily all over the world
as it is in the United States and its
subdivisions. M. BRAND, after most
brilliant service in the premiership of
France. has given up the job in dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28

Chicago is solicitous in the right
way to safeguard the lives of its citi-
zens who do not banker for sudden
death in unexpected places. City regu-
lations have been adopted there pro-
viding for the stretching of nets across
the rotundas of the skyscrapers so that
the suicides who drop from above will
not strike persons who might happen
to be walking below
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28

Evidently the raising of the hulk of
the battleship Maine from the bottom
of Havana harbor is as far from
realization as it ever was 1t is going
to take $1,0OO,OO0 to do the job, and
the appropriation available amounts to
onlv 100000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28

Apparently the United States is not
going to get away with all the honors
for holding long drawn-out criminal
trials. 1t is expected that the trial of
the leaders of the Neapolitan Camorra,
which has just been begun in Italy,
will continue for a year or more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28

If women could get $1,000 each for
their kisses-the price which a Kan
sas City woman has placed on one of
hers in suit she has started against
the man who got it-most of the fair
sex would soon be millionaires, pro-
vided, of course, they could get all the
customers they desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28

Undoubtedly the controlling reason
why the Kansas editors were able to
write so many fine pieces about Topeka
is that the capital city of Kansas is
filled to overlooking with material
from which such articles can be made.
This may sound boastful, but the best
of boasts are founded on facts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28

If the Congressional Record is to
have a sporting editor. there can be
no question but he should be q man
who is thoroughly versed in reporting
prize fights. There also ought to be
an editor on the great national daily
who is an expert in editing billings
gate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28

Even with its calendars clogged and
many of its members obsessed with
the idea that the nation could not go
on its way Unless they talked and
talked and talked, the United States
senate can transact bushes. if it is so
disposed. This is evidenced by the
ease and rapidity with which the new
treaty with Japan was acted upon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-28

An agitation has been started in
New York to place the ban on the use
of profanity on the stage. If it is sue
cessful and spreads throughout the
country most of the cheap vaudevil-
lians will have to go out OF the bust
ness or change their WAYS