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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe

lfTOm the ACcn1Son Globe
No man ever lied clear out of it.
Almost any woman will give ad-
vice on any subject.
Poor people say that wolves and
storks often travel in pairs.
Even a lecture will draw if the
doors are thrown wide open.
However, a man can get important
enough to be president without being
elected.
A good listener always learns:
bankers often get pointers in a bar
ber's chair.
Every girl before she gets married,
likes to tell how she intends to help
her husband along.
Men who haven't anything. like IN
say that no man can get rich on the
money he earns himself.
Popular magazines are pretty 5ulI
occasionally, but they might be worse:
they reject good deal of stuff.
Few married women who have
money in their own name have seri-
GUS trouble with their husbands
However, good many people act
on the theory that it is easier r. +sEe
pound of cure than an ounce of pre-
vention.
If you have something to sell It Is
perfectly natural to stampede on an
advancing market and get buck fever
Among the true harbingers of
spring, we contend that the millinery
store is more reliable than the robin
or the first violet.
This is also the season of the wear
when you hear most about the sane
Fourth OF July; it usually goes crazy
py the time it arrives.
An anarchist doesn't have much of
desire to vote, and in several other
particulars he is more gentle than a
BRUSH Suffragette in action
Don't forget that there are martyrs
VINO take considerable pride in their
own crown of thorns, even to the ex-
tent OF putting it on straight.
As another striking example of
hindsight. you will observe that the
label of the fire trap is never seen
until 1t Is stuck up in the ruins.
1t Is also true, no doubt, that more
people would mind their own business.
and to better advantage, If they had
less interference from the outside.
Excepting the dates of birth and
death from consideration, 1t is possible
Tor tombstone to topple over with
out crushing Truth to earth to anv
marked degree.
Nearly every man tries to make the
people believe that he is a very hard
worker. II must hurry along" a mar
said recently. ct have three davs'
work to do In three minutes"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many obstinate people have the idea
that they are merely firm.
Everybody should be as willing to
take a joke as to give one. But alto
gether too many are not.
The bonds of matrimony are not
held in such high regard by lots of
women as are the bonds which will
guarantee them plenty of alimony.
4 X r
This consolation is held out to the
home1y woman. When the fair sex are
given the right to vote, her ballot will
count for just as much al the one
cast by her prettier sister.
x y y
When a man goes alone on a fish
ing trip, he goes to fish. But when a
party of men go on such an expedi-
ton, fishing is little more than side
issue with them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
KAMxAS COMMENT
THE LOBBYISTS.

There Is a Kansas law which requires
lobbyists to register their names before
tney 90 any work about the state
house.
This law is a good deal of joke. 1t
does not catch the men who are really
dangerous. The Representative of a
labor organization who goes to Topeka
TO present his case before the commit
tees, must register, a man or women
employed to argue the cause for wo-
mems Suffrage, or for an amendment
to the prohibitory law, must, If under
salary, enter his name as lobbyist"
But the man who is really up to mis-
ch1ef IN the legislature very seldom ap-
pears on the books as lobbyist
The representative of the American
book trust, or the Standard Oil, or the
tobacco trust, or the tin bridge trust,
or the railroad trust, or the Pullman
company, or the packing house trust,
these men you will seldom If ever see
registered as lobbyists.
They do not attempt to do any lob
bying" in the state house, or with the
committees.
They hold forth at the hotels. or at the
Topeka club, and their work is so
smooth and diplomatic that the MEM
Der of the legislature, unless he is wise
in his ways of the game. hardly sus-
poets that he is being 'lobbyed."
Is there no way of SURPRISING these
really dangerous lobbyists? It rests
apparently, wholly with the honor and
wisdom, and integrity of the members
of the legislature to protect themselves
The men who make speeches in the
committees, or work on the floor OF the
house and senate can be tagged in
plain letters as lobbyists" but the
real lobbyists, the men who handle
the elegant dinner parties, and the
theater parties, and the wine suppers
and the greenbacks are not entered on
the books.-Salina Journal.
JUDGES PROPOSE NEW LAWS.
The district judges at their annual
meeting just closed in Topeka ap-
proved several bills which will be in
troduced in the legislature. Among
the most important of these is a bill
to authorize the chief justice of the
state supreme court to assign district
judges to temporary duty in other dis
tricts and thus relieve congested dock
cts and equalize the work OF the
judges to a greater extent.
Another bill provides for allowance
to district judges and their stenogra-
pliers for payment of actual travel
ing expenses when the judges are
holding court in any county or coun-
ties of their judicial districts outside
of their home counties.
Another bill which will bear their
approval will be the uniform deser-
ton act of the American Bar asso-
citation providing penalties for the de-
sertion of widows and families. with a
few notifications to make the act
conform to the state constitution.
These are all good laws and the leg
islature will no doubt give them ia
vorable consideration.-Belo Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

Unlike Jim Jeffries and few other
notables, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts was able to come
back" Some folk will also be sure to
insist that his reelection to the United
States senate is evidence that Colonel
Roosevelt is beginning to regain some
of his political prestige and power. But
many other people are not likely to for
get that Senator Lodge, whom Colonel
Roosevelt so admires, holds ideas at
direct variance to the New National
ism" which is also so dear to the col
onalIs heart
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

Now that they are up against it, the
tariff looms before the Democrats as a
grim specter. 1t even intruded at their
great love feast which was held at Bal
timore the other day. 1t is easy enough
to say tina. the tariff ought to be re-
vised in this way and that, but when
1t comes to revising it SO that it will
be satisfactory to the most people
we'll. that is another story as Rudyard
Eripling would say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
Rich Cat Had Catnip Couch.

After Surrogate Thomas permitted a
second delay in the hearing on the Pc
tition Of James Clendenin Eckert
against the probate of the will Of his
father, Gen. Thomas T. Eckert, he or
dered that the hearing be set for jan
uary 1e.
That govt killed valuable cat in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas T.
Eckert, 80 West Eighty sixth street, be-
came known at the hearing. The Eek
ert cat. famous for its size, its black
ness, and the frequent outpourings OF
wealth for it's comfort by Mr.. Eckert,
died after enjoying all the Christmas
feasting and festivity that could be
adapted to its feline appetite.
Delight in it's own Christmas tree and
presents and the comfort of it's specially
upholstered couch of catnip in its fight
room were equally ineffective in fight
ing off the attack on all Of its nine
lives, aided, it is reported, by govt and
the generally sp1enetic condition of the
patient. The catnip couch was procured
by Mr.. Eckert at reported cost of
s250-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New york Press1

IFrom the New York Press.1
1t looks as If the devil never took a
vacation.
man with cold feels heroic. q
girl disgraced.
The high cost of living doesn't re-
concile many people to the low cost of
dying.
A man who thinks his work is worth
dollars minute will spend an hour
looking for a dime he dropped In q
room.
There's nothing that gives a uomsu
such sense of triumph as to keen her
husband in bed on account of feeling
Ill. though she knows there is NOTHING
the matter with him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

This has been a happy new year, in
deed, for Topeka. The Santa Fe has
decided to turn it's new office building
into a skyscraper of large proportions.
which will house several hundred
more clerks to be brought here from
other points on the system. And the
Rock Island is going to make this city
the general headquarters for the op-
Grating department that has super
vision over one of the two districts in
to which this large railroad system
has been divided. This will mean
many more Rock Island employees
who will make their homes in To-
peka, and some of them will be among
the more prominent Of the officials Of
thu companY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

California has again resumed first
place among the states of the union
and the territories, including Alaska,
in the yearly production Of gold. More
gold has probably been mined on each
of the past few years in California than
was taken out during any one year CT
that period which is styled the golden
days of '49. But there is not nearly so
much excitement in connection with it
Mining gold. like everything else, soon
gets to be an old story
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

And the cost of strikes on the part
of miners has been pretty expensive to
that union known as the United Mine
Workers Of America during the past
ten years. That organization has paid
out more than $s,OO0,00o in that period
OF time in strike benefits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

our heads are covered with hair7 Little
Girl-To have something to pin more hair
to.-Life.
Blobbs-When the mountain wouldn't
come to Mahomet. what did he do? Slobbs
Philadelphia Record
Only temporarily. You ought to hear the
remarks 1t inspires after the game breaks
up--Iliustrated Bits.
Jack-I went cunning in the country one
day last week Tom-Bag anythinE7 Jack
Nothing but my Housers.-Chicago
Hubby-You have only yourself to
married me Wife-Admittsd! / was a
goose.-Boston Transcript.
That Miss wilkie has completely lost
her head over Bobbitt," said sBjones
We'll. that's good for Bobbitt,'' returned
lot Of money on hats."-Harper's Weekly
Il haven't seen the new minister-shall
yes. And his wife?'. you ,Uo viii kno n
her by-er-her chante-clerical look
Puck.
uiInl gaze yop 81 fSF this t sassaSts aBSgt
gave me 81 for that anecdote when It was
about Roosevelt. kansas City Journal
why do you make that patient wait
three hours every day in your anteroom?'
He needs rest" explained the doctor
him to that ks Is the fnz wng Saa eoPRs
nal.
What do they mean by scot-free?'
Why, he'll give the library if you fur
nish the tte."-Pittsburg Post.
Sbe-R,,t coI,7a1 so,,+ -. - w.
ner's music? He@Weii. confess 1 am
not exactly afraid of it--Simplicissimus.
that so?' Yes, their wasnerwomsn is
now aundress.''-Detroit Free Press.
knife for Christmas very much, Tommie?''
4 want 1t SO much, mother. that I'm
even willing to write a note of thanks for
it.'-Life.
The Price of a wife.-'In some parts of
zone can buy a wife for half a pint Of
common glass beads WELL" replied
1n ife fn u old t PbaGheior no doubt good
pincott's.
yesterday. Binks-well. I suppose you
have come to collect damages. How
much do you want? Jinks-Nothing. I've
come to buy the dog.-The Club Fellow.
Griggs-After ALL the difference between
man and woman is one of wear and tear.
Br1ggs-What do you mean? Griggs-Man
spends his money foolishly on tear and
a woman on wear.-Oakland Mercury.
An Unnecessary Expense.-The Mother
Now that Tillie is going to the young la
dies seminary she needs a new wardrobe.
The Father-How much? "Oh a couple
of thousand" "Um. Don't educate her.
No one will know the difference."-Life
never beat or kick me if will marry
him., said the beautiful heiress but
mas he promised to work for your" her
father asked. "Oh, papa, don't be I'M
reasonable. Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
Chinese Girl Won Name.

DR.. Mary Stone, a Chinese girl whose
family dates back more than 1000
wears. is the first woman named in her
family tree. This pedigree is con-
tanned in twelve large volumes and
gives the history of the family for
more than 1000 years. Other women,
daughters, and wives. are designated
bv numbers. DR.. Stone was reared by
missionaries and chose to become a
physician. Her name has been printed
in the last of the twelve volumes, be-
cause she is considered worthy of men
ton along with the men of the family.
Nav York Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

Worthy of careful consideration is the
bill which has been presented to the
legislature by Representative Williams
of Logan county. 1t seeks to compel
all prospective brides and grooms to
produce health certificates before they
may obtain marriage licenses. The
marriage laws of Kansas are in quite
as much need Of being made more
stringent as are the divorce laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

WREN the time would naturally arrive
for this decline in prices to work out
in the retail trade, the wholesale prices
would be ready to go up again. and
then the retailers would not feel the
necessity of dropping their prices even
for a short time. This is the kind of
medicine that is usually ladled out to
the consumers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

Aviation prizes distributed during
the past year total almost q million
dollars. But it is an Insignificant sum
when it is set up along side the thirty
one men who lost their lives during
the same period in the pursuit of avia-
ton nrizes and ronors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

From the many and varied dis
patches which come this way from
Washington, D. c., 1t would appear
that the chief concern of the Kansas
delegation in congress is the distribu-
ton of the federal patronage in this
state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

skies and I am afraid that If I don't
marry and reform you you viii De
batterd beyond hope"
Eben had one good arm remaining.
This crept UP and around the maid
by his side.-(Copyrighted 1911 by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

News has come from the big marts
of trade for several days past telling
Of sharp declines in the prices OF but
ter, eggs and other food products. This
would have been more joyous news for
consumers had there been equivalent
declines in the retail prices for these
things. But there haven't been. And
y wouldn't be at all surprising, If
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

If there is anything in a name, Mr..
LAppitt, the newly elected United
States senator from Rhode Island,
ought to be a pretty good talker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is q member of the
Associated Press anu receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news Is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

There ought to be a decided drop in
prices in the false hair market before
long. Fully 1900 New York Cinnamon
cut Off their queues the other day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

OF truth do wonders never cease.
Along comes the news that Senator
Bristow is in favor of fortifying the
Panama canal And this Is one Of the
pet hobbies of President Taft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

Highly important if true: A French
scientist is reported to have discovered
q new element which he calls celtium.
the dismagnetis1n of which is three or
four times that of 1utetium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20
THE TRIUMPH.

In the years that are almost gone,
In the life that the gods approve,
Three things I have never known:
Anger. and Fear. and Love.
only In storm-Swept space,
I nave seen their work with the rest.
The sweat on a lifted face,
The wound on a sinking breast.
And still as measured the three,
I have sworn with an equal mind,
Inat they never should make of me
The sport they made Of my kind
But, now as the night comes near,
And each man dreams at his door,
And Anger, and Love, and Fear,
Are things he VIII meet no more.
could wish I had met the three.
Betin1es, In splendor and strife.
To have mastered them quietly,
And drawn them into my life.
For as long as the years go by,
And the shadows pass and repass,
Whoever comes where I lie
win find their track in the grass;
And the sun must with tears be wet.
The knees OF the gods bent low,
Before soul can forget
The truths that it would not knowi
g. NJ H, in the Academy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

For as long as the years go by,
And the shadows pass and repass.
viii find their track in the grass:
And the sun must with tears be wet,
The knees OF the gods bent low,
Before soul can forget
The truths that it would not know!
g. M H, in the Academy.
Animals From Arctic.
From the arctic the American Mus
cum OF Natural History has just re-
ceived a valuable collection of NAM
mails and birds numbering several hun
dred specimens gathered by DR.. Ru-
dolph M. Anderson and M. Stefausson.
who have been spending several years
vile river. the Mackenzie river and
delta, Herschel island, and other re-
gfons in the far north.
The Stefansson- Anderson expedition
left New York about two years ago and
from time to time the museum has re.
celved letters from the explorers, some
relating hardships and privations in the
arctic regions, with now and then a
shfpwreck to figure in their accounts
of adventure. At one time their
whaleboat was frozen in west Of Barter
island and the men with their II dogs
had to proceed with s1eds, feeding on
the country. In several instances carl
ton had to be utilized for food by the
travellers. as well as specimens of other
game bagged in the arctic regions.
The collection of mammals and birds
received at the museum was presum-
ably shipped by sledges overland to the
Pacific coast, and thence transported
by whaling vessel to San Francisco.
and then sent by freight across the
continent to New York.
Probably the most important speci-
mems in the collection are the series Of
Barren Ground caribou, captured by
the explorers west of the mouth of the
Mackenzie river. These caribou will
fill a gap in the museum collection,
which has needed just such specimens
to make the collection one of the most
important in the world.
There are two groups of the carl
bou," says Prof. ]. j. Allen, curator of
the department of mammalogy and
caribou and those travelling over the
barren ground of the far northern
country. We now have several of these
barren ground species. Also contained
in the shipment from Stefansson and
Anderson are a fine series of white
sheep, captured in the arctic regions.
Some Of these sheep range all over the
Alaska and Yukon territory of Canada.
We think that these new specimens
are Dali sheep. and possibly they may
prove to be entirely new species"
Among the smaller mammals are
weasels of several kinds, including the
very small sfort-tai1ed arctic weasel;
arctic foxes and red foxes; several
species of ground SQUIRRELS (the lem
nfngC sand various kinds of wild mice.
The collection of birds includes about
200 specimens peculiar to the arctic re-
gions. It contains specimens of the
jaeger and other gulls, various species
of wild ducks and geese, including the
specialized elder: two species of ptar-
nigan in both the summer and winter
dress and various kinds Of shore birds
of that region, and also finches and
sparrows, including the Lapland lark
spur, snow sparrow, and red poles.
Among other notable birds are the
wheat lark and horn lark and wagtails,
sand hill cranes. and several species of
hawk.-New York Sum-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

What do they mean by scot-free?'
why, he'll give the library if you fur
nish the stte.'-Pittsburg Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

She-But, colonel, don't you love Wag-
ner's music? He-Well. I confess I am
not exactly afraid of it.-Simplicissimus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

TIL give you 81 for this anecdote about
Julius Caesar?'' Whats the matter with
your" demanded the hack writer you
gave me 81 for that anecdote when It was
about Observation-Disclosures City journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

why do you make that patient wait
three hours every day in your anteroom?''
He needs rest" explained the doctor
land that is the only way can compel
him to take it.'-Louisvflle Courfer-Jour
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

They're beginning to put on airs" rs
that so2' Yes, their wasnerwomen is
now laundress." Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

Il haven't seen the new minister-shall
know him by his clerical look?" ooh
yes" "And his wife7" You will know
her by-er-her chante-clerical look
Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

Intensest Yearning.-"Do you want a
knife for Christmas very much, Tommie?''
even willing to write note Of thanks for
it.''-I4ife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

The Price of a wife.-"In some parts of
Africa dilated the returned explorer,
zone can buy a wife for half pint of
t fhf flSe s oid osads- aepdied
wife is worth that much."-December Lip
pincott's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

Teacher-Can any little girl tell me why
our heads are covered with hafr3 Little
Girl--To have something to pin more hair
to.-Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-20

Jinks-Your dog bit my mother-in-la law
yesterday. Binks-We1l. I suppose you
have come to collect damages. How
much do you want? Jfnks-Nothing. I've
come to buy the dog.-The Club Fellow.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-20
A Very Proper Suggestion.

Amid the learned and comprehensive
discussion of the question of monetary
reform in the report of the Secretary
of the Treasury we find an unob-
trusive paragraph which will commend
itself to a very large number of the
American people.
Mr.. MacVeagh suggests that the ex-
emptions from customs duties be en-
larged so as to include within the $Ioo
limit personal and household articles
and souvenirs which the traveller does
not intend to sell. He points out that
the narrow construction placed upon
the present law has been offensive to
travellers, and has not added materially
to the customs receipts
There is no reason in the world why
the returning American should be made
to pay toll upon the minor trinkets
which he has purchased abroad for the
purpose OF generously distributing them
among his friends