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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20
UNION STATION.

Topeka has never said much on the
union station plan. Cities the size of
Topeka with the railroad Importance
attached to this city have spent years
in hampering their railroads for the
union depot recommendation
most of them have been able to land
their prize.
Wichita with few years work has
procured a two million dollar struc-
ture from its railroads. Several Okla
horna and southern towns have been
able to make the railroads believe
central terminal was the right plan.
Every day one may read in the news
papers of cities and towns who have
been fortunate in railroad passenger
agreements.
The big roads in Topeka would have
little trouble in the union station
plans.
In the first place they are so situated
that very little expense and planning
would bring them together. All of the
roads-with the exception of the
Union Pacific-come down and go UP
the Kansas river. At least their ter
minals cross the river and meet with
in few thousand yards of each
other.
few street railroad crossings. The
grade crossing nuisance and danger
has been practically eliminated in this
city. This means that the railway
lines would find it necessary to. spend
very little money in overhead work
an item of expense that stands as a
detriment to most union station plans.
In the third place the Topeka pas
that
transferring means street car trans
fers or expensive cab fare to the trav-
eler.
In the fourth place-the railroads in
Topeka are not tied down with expen-
sive stations which would be a dead
loss in case they were deserted. The
Santa Fe and Union Pacific stations
are old structures and in a few years
the business will demand better facili-
ties. With the Santa Fe the upper
floors are used as ofices-and with
their official forces here the ground
floor could be used in the same way.
The Rock Island has a beautiful sta
tion-a credit to the city, but with
their new general offices here they
need the room. In case they united
with the other roads in a union depot
plan they could use to a practical adj
vantage their waiting and ticket rooms.
From the Topeka standpoint-there
is no argument against a union depot.
The city needs it. Situated on three
of the largest railroads in the world,
the social. political and business CEN
ter of the state, and a natural stop
over for all ocean-to-oo travellers
Topeka deserves this much considera-
ton from her railroads. Not that To-
peka hasn't been treated like a prince
by her lines-far from that-but that
a union station would be appreciated
by travellers as we'll as the proud citi-
zens OF the capital city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

I'm going to try it in a dory-will
you go along ?" asked the man under
he ban.
moi No! MOI why. man, you are
stark crazy! That sea and this wind
would beat the biggest man-of-wor in
the navy!''~
To the mate whose quick action had
saved the schooner Shaw said:
4 f1fnched at sea when that big
wave came roaring down astern. Are
these waves larger?''
BY third, MANI
But I'm going to try them, and in
a dory at that VIII you go along and
pull an oar?''
ST will not!''
Shaw went to the doctor and the
drug store for remedy for the man
at the lighthouse, and then to the tele-
phone to say:
Jim. old man, I'm coming!"
ou,l never make it! I'm growing
worse all the time, and the light--the
light tonight It won't-won't-'
And then the line went dead, and it
seemed as If there was. note of salts
FACTION in the gale. When the crowd
and understood that Shaw was to ven
ture where no other man dared to, q
great shout Of protest went up, and
men laid OBTAINING hands on him.
II left the wheel of the Laura B.,
you know." he said in haunting voice.
Il want. company on this trip. Who
will go?"
'I Wilt" answered a voice after a
moments silence. Jennie Larkins
came pushing her way through the
press. Then men swor and shouted
and women went and exclaimed. The
girl walked straight up to Shaw and
laid hand on his arm and said:
IF we can't make. it Wen go down
together!'
The November afternoon was wan
ing. In an hour the great lantern
must be lit or there would be wrecks
on the shore. Twice-thrice the dory
was beaten back. Then she got away,
to be lost almost at once in the driv-
ing spray. When sea lifted her up
she seemed to be forty feet in the air.
1t was Of no use to go to the telephone
for news. The crowds must wait.
They waited with the dusk coming on
the gale tearing away at roofs
and trees-with the crews of ships at
sea daring and praying, and men and
women stood elbow to elbow and did
not speak. Thus it was until the lamps
began to shine in the cottages on the
hillsides, and then a mighty shout
went up. The lantern in tho tower Of
the lighthouse was shining over TWEEN
ty miles of troubled sea.
The landing had been made-a
mans life had been saved and the
man who had once lost his nerve had
redeemed himself in the eyes of all
men, and of the girl who was to be
his bride.-(Copyright 1911 by Asso-
ciated Literary PresS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom he Chicago News.l

IFrom he Chicago NeWs.1
A shady past seldom has a siiver-lined
future.
No. Alonzo, all fetching girls are not
mattresses.
The bachelor who symapthizes with a
fair widow is lost.
good many decided blondes got the
decision from a. druggist.
He is an ungrateful man who lives be-
yond his wife's means.
Many man with a way Of his own has
a wife who outweighs him.
Even women who lack the sense of hui
-or want to be jollied all the time
Most of the free advice is handed out
by people who want to get rid of it.
Sometimes a man with bad reputation
way he got it.
A pessinist says that for every man
willing to believe the truth dozen are
eager to believe lie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20
HUlNOp or THE Day
When a man has the blues
His spirits are gay
And he catches the blues
When his hines 90 AWAY

When a man has the blues
His spirits are gay
And he catches the blues
When his blues go away.
Puck.
Still keeping lent-the dollar bill
Your friend came in to borrow
A year ago, and vowed: IT will
Return this PUNK tomorrow"
Chicago Post.
Miss Elderly Showing photographic
And this is the dear old house where
Mr.. Dopey-sHll standing? Well well,
they last more than 30 or 40 years.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Have you ever noticed how bum
actor can get laughter and applause by
using a cuss word"
"Oh, yes. What's the reason?'
i've found out, think The audience
has been wanting to swear, but is too
polite. Toledo Blade.
1.-The newspapers appear to have over
looked a bet in telling of the unknown
woman who wore a harem skirt across
Brooklyn bridge the other day."
None of them expressed an opinion that
the unknown was Dorothy Arnold
Houston Post
woggs-So you don't enjoy these society
Boggs-No Half the time I'm on
needles and pins for fear my 10-year-old
dress suit has ripped, and the other half
I'm worried because my partners gown
has become unfastened and whether I
ought to say anything about it or not
Puck.
How did the burglar escape7' inquired
the detective.
aged eye, The sort o. nicknamed himself
out,
what do you mean?'
ssFirst he pried open his cell door with
a Jimmy then he knocked me down with
q billy, and then he sailed forth."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
SORRY said the constable. but I'll
have to arrest ye-youve been drivin'
along at the rate of 80 miles an hour"
you are wrong, my friend,'s said the
driver. 81 say 1 wasn't, and here's SO
s.All right" returned the constable
pocketing the money. with II to /
against me 1 amt goin' to subject tT
county to tn expense of a triaL"-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20
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fk19sz::Ss

Now that We have Uncle Cy's az
surance that Stubs did exactly right
IA nrlng Judge Glass from the tax
eoll mlsslon, we are inclined to drop
.ne incident. OF course, Uncle Cy
would not for moment countenance
any pontical skulduggery, such as we
suspected the affair to be.
The blue sky bill may be a good
ohe, put even Joe Dolley and his as
sistants can't prevent a boob from be-
Ing trimmed by wildcat stock sellers
sucker Will pay railroad fare out of
the state for the privilege of biting
on mining stock and the like.
Boston preachers, says a recent dis
patch, object to nude art. The Boston
preachers are so far behind the Chi
cage, st. Louis and Topeka preachers
IN securing free ADVERTISING, that q
weak attempt like the opposition of
nude art is almost painful in its
crudeness.
It is now mooted question wheth-
er honesty or turning states evidence
is the best policy.
CHARGE TT TO SPRING FEVER.
We'd like to write a rhyme on
But finding naught but starch" and
''paFch"
And arch" and 'larch" to fit the
rhyme,
Well have to pass it up this time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

What has become of the old instiga-
ton to recurb and regutter Kansas
avenue? No matter what kind of a
sidewalk or what kind of pavement is
used the street will never look imprcv-
ed and completed until the old curb
stones are removed and concrete COM
bInation curb and gutter constructed
In their place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

There is one thing connected with
the Plat murder that proves the prone
ness of human nature to suspicion
People made accusations and the off,
GERS were not immune which were en-
tirely without justification and of such
a nature as to do material damage to
the person accused. A second thought
would have made the fallacy evident.
Still the person has no recourse ex-
cept to wait for time to justify him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

Pardon another mention of the subject
but in speaking of the defeat of the
paving claim--ore of the real reasons
that this claim did not pass the SEN
ate vas because a Topeka resident with
political influence worked night and
dav against it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.I

Girls get young men only in the eye,
hut Young men get girls on the BRAIN
To get the credit for a thing is regarded
by everybody as being just as good as de-
serving it.
Give a woman children and her devo-
ton TO them will make her find some
merit In their father.
A man will brag how he knows. all
about cheese Just the way he will about
how much his company thinks of him.
Nobody is fool enough to think he is as
great as he pretends; he is fool enough to
think he can make other people Deheve 80.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

Governor Stubs arraignment of
Judge Glass and Mr.. drummer of the
state tax commission is almost funny.
If the tax commission has been so IN
satisfactory and has done so many I'M
just things why did the governor keep
one member of the commission?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

One of the most remarkable things
IN the history of politics in Shawnee
county is the fact that there is only
one candidate for judge of the new dis
trict court. 1t is such as an endorse
ment as comes to few men and George
II. Whitcomb could not be blamed if
he felt Just a trif1e proud
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

Pulled up item by Horace Greeley
James in the independence Reporter:
Olga Nethersole played to a bigger
audience in Independence than in any
other town in Kansas, according to-
her manager. Independence gave her
q larger audience than did Tulsa,
which is generally considered a good
show town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

The men of Grace cathedral of To-
peka have been called together by
Dean Kaye in an attempt to stimulate
the interest. in church services among
The sterner sex. Dean Kaye has the
right idea. When he has a loyal sup
port Of male congregations he will dis
cover the success of the church. Wo-
men are naturally responsive to rellg-
lon-but men are colder and more in
different to the public sentiment of His
worship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

In Cherryvale, according to the
Journal, the old soldiers are not "o1d. .
This paper says: "A big bunch of the
boys of 81 attended a G. A r. meet
ing across from the Journal Office. One
scorched up Neoshofon his bicycle and
nimbly hoped off in front of the hail..
another drove up in his automobile,
while a few of the others came down
the street SO fast they looked like a
squad of boy scouts off on a cross
country hike
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

Boyhood days on the farm. the win
ming of a. pure and helpful country
lass. a section of land all his own, the
raising his fanlily-aad old age in COM
fort in the city. That is the life his
tory of the modern Kansas farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

There is to be no let up to the paw
ing in Topeka. This is as it should be.
Topeka is already the best paved city
IN Kansas but there is still room for
announcement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

The police have taken a long step
toward the solution of the PIatt muir
der. It was one of the most inhuman
crimes in the history of the city and
1t is to be hoped that the murderer
will NOT go diminished
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

You can hear any sort of stories you
care to listen to concerning the fruit
prospects but without being pessinis-
tic it would be a good plan to wait
until the middle of April before maxi
ing rlredicfions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

The board of control is showing a
disposition tic go to the bottom Of the
asylum charges. That is all that the
people want and it is IT, to every
one concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

The city primary is only a week
distant. If you haven't made up your
mind whom you are going to vote for
you still have a week to decide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

The new soda fountains being erect
ed in Topeka this spring indicate that
no one will need go thirsty the coming
summer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

There is a sermon in the dance hall
murder at. Silver Lake last week but
the text includes some things besides
dancing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

Shawnee county will soon have two
district judges. Judge Dana deserves
10 be relieved and the new court will
afford the relief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

The building season has opened and
Topeka is showing no disposition to
rest on it's Iaurels. There is activity
In every section of the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
gsnisation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires Tor this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

0rganist Eddy, who, for many sea-
sons held the belt as a professional
lady killer, has pruned his elegant
chest-warmers. 1t is to be hoped that
his power, like Samson's, was a mat
ter of hair, and that the dear sisters
will now be able to escape his wiles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

The cheering news that Roosevelt
went up Salt River Saturday, way fol-
lowed by the dampening dispatch
that he only went up to superintend
the opening OF dam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20
GRIP OF THE GAME.

Late in the baseball season, eevry
year. one or more disappointed mag
Mates say that the methods of manag-
ing baseball clubs have become too COM
plicated and expensive. They declare
that there must be fewer players
hired, fewer tests of new men made
every spring and less money spent on
training trips to the south.
In cities where the seasons record
has been very unsatisfactory there is a
good deal of popular and newspaper
endorsement of these. views, but only
in the fall. Before midwinter hope
takes the place of disgust with past
failures, and the demand from votaries
of the national game for the use of all
possible means to gain a high place
in the race for the championship be-
comes too strong to be withstood The
club owners and managers fall into line
with their patrons and the usual
spring experiments, preparations and
OUTLAWS follow as a matter of course.
There is no use in urging the sim
pie life for baseball. The national
game has become too complicated, too
big a business. too much of an insti-
tuition. The tendency is all in the other
direction. 1t is towards more careful
physical culture for baseball players,
more strict rules in respect to their
conduct during the. championship sea-
son, less consideration for their past
records and more insistence upon abiI-
ity to deliver, the. goods. cleveland
Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20
FROM OTHER PENS

F'1I4IBUSTERING Is FASCINATING
Filibustering expeditions and gueril-
la warfare seem to possess a peculiar
fascination for the man in whom the
rowing disposition is CHRONIC, so that
no sedentary occupation can keep him
chatting in the dull routine of the count
ing house or the factory. Since Will
lam Walker led his forlorn hope in
Nicaragua some so years ago, many
a would-be swashbuckler and dime
novel hero has had dreams of vaulting
ambition which Would establish him as
a Central American dictator. Walker
appears to have been a high-minded
though misguided gentleman, whose
desire to befriend the oppressed was
genuine: some of those who have fol-
lowed in his train have been frankly
soldiers of fortune, with the emphasis
on the fortune, and avarice not patri-
otism. for their ruling passion strong
in life.
The unthinking may applaud a Byron
who goes to Missolonghi to draw his
sword in foreign quarrel; to some it
savors of theatricity and qrixotism
when a man goes up and down the
earth looking for a fight he may take
part in. 1t is an undesirable survival
of knight errantry, which might more
profitably take the form of courageous
resistance to evil and the display of
chivalry at home, in the ordinary walks
of life. One need not go to Manchuria
to South Africa or Chihuahua to find
the heroic Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

An Eastern court has held, in a
case brought by the S. P. c. A. that
a lobster is not an animal 3 Although
he did not procede with the definition
and state that a lobster was a he
human, he left that inference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

The harem skirt is not one of those
i'll winds that blows nobody good. 1t
has given DR.. Mary Walker chance
to be interviewed for the first time in
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

If Wichita Naftzger gets by on the
plea that he needed the money. it
will open up new line of defense for
newspaper men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

The murder of Princess Di Trigona
has put something of crimp in that
I'm Rome, do as Rome does" thing. In
this instance, Rome got caught at it,
an exegency which was not contem-
plated when old saw waa written.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

ADD HAREM SK1RT:-And by
the way, why it ais, or are they, called
a skirt? If it should be spoken of in
the singular, then by not a pant"
or a "trouser %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-20

1t is poor grounds for distinction
but it ought to be worth something:
this department. has not attended any
Of the Evange. Scoville meetings. We
have, however, paused occasionally to
hear the Salvation army at work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-02
CHAIRMAN UNDERWOOD
.ba Nav York Post.

From the New OTk IoSe.
 Chairman Underwood has once more given proof of that levelness Of head and clearness of purpose which nave charac cterized his leadership from the hepinning. He has fiatly refused to countenance any coquetting with the La Toilette idea on the wool bill. whether viewed as a. mere announcement of pro- rramme or as a bill that 1t is desired and expected actually to get enacted into law, the LaFollette proposition does not meet the needs of the situation. If the democrats simply wish for the reform or schedule K, there is certainly no object In letting mutilated bill go before the country in place of the one they want the only motive for compromise in such A. matter is to get something actually done. If. on the other hand. the idea is to put the wool bill through-that is, to get the Presidents approval of 1.-the La Toilette measure is open, from the stand- point of democrats, to equally serious oo- lection; for they cannot be satisfied to let the. tariff stand at the LaFollette point and consequently, if put into power, they would have to upset the schedule once more, which no one can consider a desirable proceeding. There is, to be sure. q. third aspect of the matter-the desira- bility of the bill as means Of putting President Taft into a hole. But somehow that sort of thing, while highly attrac- five to the republican senator from Wis consin. seems to make little or no appeal to the democratic leader in the House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-02
That Remsen Board

The Remsen board that was lugged into existence in order to let the scraps and refuse and rotten fruit of factories be preserved in benzoate of soda has proved very expensive at tachment of the government. Its sal ary list already foots up $120,095, and it's incidental expenses $55, ,500 more. Its expense account includes a great number of luxuries, including two bull terriers, four monkeys and five monkey cages. Eight dog cages were purchased at an expense of $235, although the board had but two bull pups to put in them.
 The truth is the people have been compelled by the interests to pay to the Remsen board $175,527 in order that an excuse could be found for the use by manufacturers of impure foods of benzoate of soda. This is what the board was organized for, and it is what it exists for. Dr. Wiley con stantly offends the board and Secre- tary Wilson by finding cans of rotten goods containing many times the quantity of benzoic acid that the board reported safe. All know that when a manufacturer is allowed to use any benzoate of soda in food stuffs he will use larger and still larger quantities of it until his stuff becomes detrimental to the public health.
 Congress should abolish both the Remsen board and the use of benzoate of soda in the preservation of articles of food, and if this leads to the resig- nation of Wilson and Wickersham nc deep regrets will find expression from the great mass of consumers.