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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.


[From tae Atchison Globe.l
1t IS difficult to ride in a phaeton
without looking lazy
1t proflteth a man little to argue
with a woman or anyone else.
When the angels food cake is pass
ed, remember you are no angel.
Anyone who expects turnips to take
the place of potatoes is a pessimist.
If there is a ladder around. a boy
is pretty apt TO throw .ometI ing on
the roof.
A man who gets his picture taken
with a cigar in his mouth, likes to
smoke too we'll.
Liking or hating your work marks
the main difference between industry
and drudgery-
Old Doc Kelley shouldn't be requir-
ed to prove the efficacy of his cure
twice on the same man.
The fact that the insane asyluns
are crowded may explain a number
of things on the outside.
Fewer manufacturers than formerly
seem to believe that pink is the pro-
per color for toilet soap.
Although the postal savings bank is
becoming quite common, a good deal
still depends on the individual.
Pulling Up a frog in the old oaken
bucket is something of a shock to ones
thirst and artistic temperament.
One can blame his bad temper on
Indigestion, but he can't expect the
rest Of the world to agree with him.
No man is willing to believe a vvom-
an loves him unless she will admit
that he works harder than she does.
Also, when q girl gets as much as
81 a week working down town, she
is apt to assume a superior air at
home.
If men would only empty their var
ious pockets they could reduce the
tonnage they are carrying this hot
weather.
The liar who says he prefers milk
to cream in his coffee, can't make it
pay well enough to compensate MIN
fer the effort.
The man who talks a good deal
about having the courage Of his con-
victions, is apt to prove q disagreeabie
devil in other respects.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10
MDsINnIER NIGHT.


The fireflies glow in the clematis vines
and the roses are weighted with dew
The birches CLEAN white where the cres-
cent moon shines, and the quivering
stars CLEAN through
o humming-bird, stop in your wildering
flight, the sunset has parted the cur
tains of night,
And the purple creeps into the blue.
There is never sound in the peony bed,
where the deepening elm-shadow
falls,
But out of the hush of the leaves over
head querulous mother bird calls /;
The houses are dark in the clustering
trees, and the hollyhock blossoms are
heavy with bees
Where the ivy hangs over the walls.
o midsummer night, with your perfume
and dew, with your mist-shrouded
moon and your stars,
You have weakened the beat of a Joy
strange and new, that the limit of
sense holds and mars
You have touched the wild pulse of my
spirit-born breath that leaps to the
struggle of life against death,
And lures me beyond the earth-bars.
-Lippincott's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

CFrom the Philadelphia Record
Brain food is something a man takes
to feed his vanity.
It's because nobody loves a fat man
that his chances are slim.
Many a man spends all his life look
ing for opportunities that don't exist.
The people who never stop to think
probably wouldn't think if they did
stop.
Whatever else you may saw of The
egotist, he has the happy faculty OF
pleasing himself.
Tell a girl she has a musical laugh
and SIC will go into Mysteries over an
your old stories.
Ever notice that the man who can
take one drink and stop generally lets
some other fellow buy it for him?
Liquor improves with age saws the
Manayunk Philosopher .sThe lonorr
you keep it, the better it is for you"
Even though they are all cast in +ho
same mJld, the size OF a dollar reaIIS,
depends upon how many of them Vol,
have.
Muggins = England and csern,s
will bury the hatchet-" Buggins-~P,a.-,ss
haps, but III bet they hang onto tbat,.
rapid-fire guns"
Tommy-'Pop. a high forehead d.
notes intellectually, doesn't it?" Tor
my's Pop-'Yes, my son. but the ave.
age woman prefers a low necIx -
high forehead" q
Siricus-''I wonder if the a,,au
woman will be happy in heaven :, fr,e,s.
cus-"Certainly not. Judging from - 80
passion for hats. how is she ryoi-.-
make one halo last her through efar1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Besides the body of a slain man the
police of Duquesne found the poker
hand, aces and Fights, known to some
as the dead mans hand" and some
money that is supposed to have been
the last poker winnings of the victim.
The cards lay scattered to the right of
the body, a few PAGES away.
The man, identified as Martin Ned
rich. % of Duquesne. had been shot
through the head. Robbery was not
the motive. for the money of the vic
tim had been left untouched and the
playing cards by his side indicated that
there had been a row over the game,
in which he had been shot to death.
The body lay in clump of bushes,
where it probably had been hurled to
prevent early discovery of the crime.
The police arrested a white man and
two negroes at Wilmerding. One ne
gro had blood stains on his shirt front,
and the police are trying to prove that
he helped to carry the body into hid
ding. Another of the men had been
with Nedrich.-Pittsburg dispatch to
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

IFrom the Chicago. News.l

It's unlucky to bet $13 and lose.
Play is the work We do that ISM
compulsory.
If misery loves company it's up to
everybody to get married.
Many man starves today while
feeding on the hopes of tomorrow.
And there are times when the brave
deserve immunity from the fair.
If the average man has any virtues
he feels like apologizing for them.
There's nothing like the knife of
candor for severing the bonds Of
friendship
Only a wise man knows how little he
actually knows Of that which may be
known.
Courtship may be a romance, but
marriage frequently transforms it into
profane history.
And many a woman's idea of the
truth is the disagreeable things she
hears about her neighbors.
When you are offered something for
nothing you should accept tiff Won
can afford to pay double its value
No, AIonzo, the cigarette habit
doesn't always cause weak minds. In
a great many cases it merely indicates
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

We have been informed recently
that a seismic shock. not of a very v1o-
lent nature, was felt at Rome in the
morning of April 10, an5 at the same
time news was received OF a. extraor-
binary firebaIl which fell in Sicily.
In the afternoon of the day on
which the foundations of the old city
of Romulus trembled the inhabitants
of Messina. Catania and Reggie were
astonished by the apparition of a daz-
cling light blazing in a cloudy sky for
a moment and then fading away with
the accompaniment of four formid-
able explosions. At the same moment
persons on the river front fancied that
the sea, until then calm. was violently
agitated.
Although the damage caused by the
earthquake was very small, while the
fireball harmed nobody, the almost
simultaneous occurrence of the two
phenomena was sufficient to excite
many persons, and several have asked
me whether there is any relation be-
tween the rocking of the foundations
of Rome and the meteor which fell in
Calabria
In those regions of southern Italy,
that country of spiendor like to that
of Eden, constantly menaced on ac-
count of the instability of the earth s
surface there and therefore the scene
of many geological dramas, the slight
est terrestrial or atmospheric disturb
ance takes on an appearance of trag-
edy in the eyes of the inhabitants who
have been witnesses to previous cata-
clysms.
It is not to be wondere6 at, there
fore, that some have sought to estab-
lish a connection between. the two
events. absolutely Independent of each
other, and which happeneS on the
same day only by coincidence.
On the one hand, earthquakes are
relatively rare and weak ct Rome,
which is built on marshy ground, and
thus safe from great tectonic convuI-
sions. The shocks felt in the Eternal
City are usually nothing but the local
signs of great shocks, the center of
which is more or less distant. 1t is
known, in fact. that seismic waves
travel from one point of the earth s
crust to another.
other causes, too. must be consid-
cred In this respect Prof. Agamen-
none has referred to the probable part
played by the Aniene, or Teverone
which flows from the Lubiaco hills and
gives rise to the marvellous Tivon falls
and loses itself in the Titer.
This tributary is fed by many
springs, and this water holds in solu-
ton an enormous quantity of minera
substances gathered from the depths
of the earth, the volume of which
REACHES every year 100000 cubic me-
ters. This erosion of the rocks, due
to the action of subterranean water
may in certain cases be the cause OF
the rather feeble seismic shocks felt al
Rome and the neighboring districts
On the other hand. dreballs come
lneither from the earth nor from the
atmosphere They drop out of the
immensely of the heavens, and have
no relation whatever to the transfer
nations of the surface of the globe.
The capital of italy was shaken for
a moment the Vatican even feeling
this unexpected shock, but the sky had
nothing whatever to do with TN
Camille Flammarion, in letter to the
Paris edition of the New York Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most men and womer, have at least
one thing in common-homely noses.
Any number of so-called bungalows
don't look much like the real thing.
y
Having the last word in an argu-
ment doesn't often lend its side much
force.
The man who gets paid weekly is
always Informed as to the months of
the year with five pay days in them.
y
More marriage engagements would
be dissolved if the contracting parties
were as well acquainted with each
other as they soon get to be after the
big event happens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Nugent. who happens to be chairman
of the New Jersey Democratic State
committee. has called the New Jersey
governor and candidate Tor the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination. an IN
CRATE and disciple of Ananias. MI
Nugent's reputation is not very extern
sive, but it would be safe to class him
among the eastern Democrats who
pattern their ways along the same lines
as pursued by the members Of New
York's TammanY Hal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10
DOLOROUs DILEMMA.


A beauty, Mrs Ida Darling, has
thrown US into a fever in an endeavor
to reconcile her remarks aDropos of
successful matrimony.
First, she says:
My advice is to Gins. Men like
clingfng women"
Then she proceeds:
Every woman should make a ca
reer for herself"
Now, if a homely dame said these
things, it would not so much mat
ter, but q beautiful woman Her views
are certain to agitate ali he rest of
the sex to mans undoing. If all
started in careering. the men would
have to do the hanging on, which
would still be possible, though more
hazardous inasmuch as the careerful
female is as like as not to pitch the
Ginger into the ditch.
Or If woman could cling and career
simultaneously we might maintain, at
least, an unstable equilibrium but she
can't, and an effort to dc both makes
the situation one of extreme peril
line stress, a wife could dc the clinging
while an affinity pursued the elusive
career or contrawise. an arrangement
which made for no small solace. Now
the result can be but this. Wretched
man will be treated like a step-child
for 80 cold, dreary, coufortless days,
while all the fair ones are careering,
while on the date his nay check ar
rives soul-mates will flock about him
in droves and cling.-WiChita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

President Myers of the Aero Club of
Kansas City. No. is of the opinion that
the big inter-city balloon race to be
started from Topeka during the State
Fair week viii bring a crowd of be-
tween 10000 and 10000 to town for
that event alone. Surely this is an at
traction that no state fair in Kansas
or in any other state has yet pro-
vided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

In view of the reversion of the mem
bers of the Second Kansas District Re
publican congressional committee to
the wrong political type, ex-Represen-
tative Charles F. Scott of lola has very
properly Withdrawn his candidacy for
the nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Connecticut is getting considerable
notoriety these days because it viii
produce a big peach crop this year.
But the crop that brought Connecti-
cut its great fame was the one of
wooden nutmegs which was created
through the Individual efforts of a
Connecticut genius
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.I

from the New YORK Press.J
We think our good deeds; we act the
had ones.
Friends seem principally to spend
money on.
Time and tide wait for no man, but
the devil always does for every man.
After man has raised several chill
dren they act as if they had raised
him.
A girl with yellow hair, no matter
how she got it, can imagine she has
blue eyes to go with it If theyrs as
black as ink.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Another blow at reform! And, as
might be expected, it has been deliv-
cred in New Jersey. The Montclair
town council has decided. in the full
ness of its wisdom, that individual
drinking cups are unnecessary for
horses and dogs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10
HUA0R OF THE D<Y

rs your wife econonnizing?'' 1T think so.
She now writes eight words on a page of
letter paper instead of only six."-Wash-
ington Star.
His wife.-"what do YOU do for a liv-
ing, Mose?" Use de manager OBJ laun-
dry" What's the names of this laundry
Eliza Ann. Courier-Journal.
A Shame.-Wa rden-No'm; the guy that
killed his family amt here no more The
gov'nor pardoned him. The Visitor-What
a shame. I've brought him lot of roses
What other murderers have you?-Cleve-
land Leader
Trouble in the Air.-Husband-You don't
go shopping with Mrs. Nearby any more?
Wife-No; the last time we went she
wanted a remnant that wanted.-Judge.
You often See 'Em.-The Old one (as
they clasp hands)-Hel1o there, old man!
The Young One-Why, hello there! How's
the boy?-Puck.
The steIla-what is her walk
in life. BeIla-About half a yard around.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Our Touchy Help. - Mistress You
needn't get angry. Bridget. I merely
asked you to try and not snore so loud
nights: Br b, interferin We are
an Oi1l not sthand it.-Exchange.
Vigilant and Speedy.-"There's nothing
slow about Jones'" IT guess you never
loaned him money" "Oh yes I have
That's what made me speak that wayy.
loaned him $40 six months ago and I
haven't been able to catch him since
Boston Transcript
Children of Today.-'T suppose you
know who Cinderella is, little boy?''
She's a character ina musical comedy"
Louisville Courier-Journal.
mad on the subject of germs, and sterf-
Lies or filters everything in the house"
How does she get along with her fam
ily?" oh, even her relations are strain
ed.'-Tit-Bits.
Hyde Park. Sunday Morning.-'Arry-
Say, Bill, wots the difference between q
see, a atheist don't believe in nuthink, and
a agnostic only believes in abaht art OF
it!-London Opinion.
ct want to do something that will cause
me to be talked about, said the am
bilious man. That's easily arranged"
answered his wife. Merely move into q
strange neighborhood."- W shington Star
PartiaIity-"The inspector twisted one
of his long red mustaches and smiled q
little grimly at the r."-Cassell's
Magazine. Why this favoritism Punch.
Have you had any serious trouble
with your new automobi. % Not a
bit. So far / haven't hit a single man
without being able to get away before
he got my umber.'-C1cveland Lead
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Is the ex-shah of Persia one of those
unusual individuals who can come
back? He has won the first big bat
tie in the war that he is waging to re-
gain his throne.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

No wonder the Democratic team
won the great congressional baseball
game None of the Kansas delegation
was on the Republican nine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

George w. Perkins. formerly a part
ner in the banking firm of J. Pier
pont Morgan & Co.. is out with an
elaborate defense of the trusts. but he
also admits that the great corpora
lions are in need of governmental su-
r,a-x-fssoy,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Any number of people hereabouts
are complaining about the present
spell of warm weather. But what
other kind of weather might reason
ably be expected for mid August?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Environment is bound to tell. A
New York cab driver was able to eat
fifty-one ears of corn at a single sit
ting. But it would take a pretty hun
CRY horse to do as gooo as that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Incidentally, that disgraceful per-
Torrance which was staged by certain
members of the Topeka board of edu-
cation at its recent meeting was a fine
example for the school children of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Work on the installation of the
white way system along Kansas ave-
nue. has been begun all right, but
there'n have to be a lot of real hus-
Ting to get it in working order for fair
week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Nor does it appear that Woodrow
Wilson is a popular idol with ali Of the
Democrats in his native state A Mr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

One advantage incident to a large
family is that it may consume a
whole bottle of horseradish before a
major portion of it spoils.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

It now turns out that the guy wa
not an Austrian spy, but none tn
less a brainless boob.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Champ Clark IS so busy with the du-
ties of his Office that he hasn't ony
time to do campaigning for The next
presidential noinina ion. But Champ
gave an elaborate luncheon the otker
day to The IA Democratic members of
the house ways and means committee,
all of whom are prominent politicians
in their own bailiwicks. Maybe those
famous Gary dinners. about which so
much has been heard Of late, have given
Champ a tip that there are more ways
than one to skin 4 rabbit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

rs your wife econonnizing?'' IT think so.
She now writes eight words on page of
letter paper instead of only six.7-Wash-
ington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson is probably Of the
opinion that Rear Admiral Vain
wright L. S. n, is a mollycoddle. As
Admiral Wainwright and Admiral
Togo were confronted the other day
by a bunch of camera fiends who
snap-shotted away to their hearts
content he remarked 70 the genial
and gallant old Jap: That's the only
way Wen ever shoot at you, I guess -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10
dBE|EI|
EAS1za& ~ 8 -

This new vital statistics" law,
which makes it imperative that all
births be recorded, doesn't bother
anyone now, but it will be a cussed
nuisance to the girls of 80 years hence.
Mike Mordkin's nightly dance with
Annie Pavlowa isn't the dreary un-
eventful thing it was at first. There
is, to Mike. always spice OF adven-
ture to the dance; it keeps him guess
ing whether she will close the num-
Der by handing him a left hooksky
to the jawskoff, or simply kick his
shins around on the wrong side Of
his legOvich.
It now turns out that the guy was
not an Austrian spy, but none the
less brainless boob.
One advantage incident to a large
family is that it may consume a
whole bottle of horseradish before a
major portion Of it spoils.
They have stirred up a town row
down at lola because the police judge
sentenced a woman to work on the
streets with the male prisoners. OF
course there never has been a chance
that the sentence would be executed,
but it made an excuse for a number
OF enjoyable indignation meetings.
Uhlan has trotted the mile in 2
flat, thus ecualing the record of Lou
Dillon. And for a male to equal the
speed of a female that is really fast,
is a great achievement
Prof. Dyche says the dove is an in
sect eating bird. Now don't laugh
too hard-save Up some of your mirth:
he is liable to add, at any moment,
that the dove is also a song bird or q
fish.
1T TAKES HOT WEATHER TO
RIPEN A NUT
CThis might be comforting, if there
was any sense to IT'D
We knock the weatherman, and ~et
We know that we can not
Have rain that isn't slightly wet
Or heat that isn't hotI
And if this weather doesn't change
soon, we are liable to do even worse
Hep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

A observation-disclosures; the guy that
killed his family amt here no more. The
gov'nor pardoned him. The Visitor-What
a shame. I've brought him lot of roses
What other murderers have you?-Cleve-
land Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

Trouble in the Air.-Husband-You don
go shopping with Mrs. Nearby any more?
Wife-No; the last time went she
wanted remnant that wanted.-Judge-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10
FROM OTHER PENS
SPEEDING UP THE LAW.


The speed with which The slayer of
Broker Jackson was detected in New
York has been equaled BIZ the prompt
ness of his indictment and the readi-
ness of the city to try to press his case
for trial without delay. 1t is expect
ed that within a month he will have
been convicted of the crime which was
committed only few nights ago
This is a spectacular demonstration
of the laws speed, unfortunately only
illustrated by contrast of the laws de-
lay in the great majoritS of cases. 1t
is to be doubted whether much good
is done by the speeding up of the pro-
cesses OF justice in occasional instances
Murders are being committed in New
Y ork of just as atrocious a nature as
that of Jackson, and the guilty men
are given long shrift in jail awaiting
trial. For every such instance of
promptness in settling the wheels in
motion there are at least q dozen hon.
icide cases in which a year lapses be-
tween the crime and its punishment
What is wanted not only IN New York
but in every other city ir this country,
is a system of criminal procedure that
will act both promptly end uniformly
in all cases. Would this young man
Geidel be rushed to tho bar at the
same speed that is promised if he were
of wealthy family? An effective DEM
onstratiOn of justice working swiftly
and surely to deter the criminally in
clined would perhaps be afforded by
an immediate Invocation of the law
in the case of a man with means to
employ able counsel and expert wit
nesses. Washington Star,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

His Wife.-"What do you do for liv-
ing, Mose?" Use de manager OBJ a laun-
dry" What's the names of this laundry
Eliza Ann."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-10

You Often See 'Em.-The Old One Gas
they clasp hands)-Hello there, old man
The Young One-Why, hello there! How s
the boy?-Puck.