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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IF'rom the Chicago News.I
It's a poor stationary engine that
won't run.
If you sit in a draft the doctor may
cash it.
Only an unusually pretty girl can
afford to be stupid.
A man may be on the square and
still move in the best circles.
A woman with a drug store COM
plexion isn't always true to her colors.
Cranky people and busy bees fire.
quently administer singing reproofs.
AS a matter of fact a lot of people
have no use for you because they can't
use you.
When two women talk It's a dia-
1ogue; when a woman and her hus-
band converse it's a monologue.
A count may be no account, but if
girl has more dollars than sense
well, it's nohe of our business
Try to help the unfortunate-unless
they have mortgaged their property
for the purpose of buying an automo-
bile.
In Berlin piano playing is prohibited
after a certain hour. IN this country
some peoples piano play ing should be
prohibited at all hours.
Anyway the workman who turns out
poor job is a decided improvement
on the one who does nothing but stand
around and make remarks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
HUl4OR OF THE Day

A Sailor" 'Ere's me brings 'ome
ole boxful of crockery for the missus an
writs out label marked China an puts
it on the box for safety, an bust me lib
boom If a bloomin' porter amt gone and
sent it off therel'-The Taller.
He Got E1is.-"Dear Clara" wrote the
young man, pardon me, but I'm getting
but really forget whether you said yes
or no?" Dear WILL" she replied by note
| so glad to hear from you. I know I said
no to some one last night, but had for
gotten just who it was."-London Opin-
ion.
He Knew What That Meant.-AIrs. Exc
$50 you cured your husband Of gambling
How? Mrs. Wyey-I warned him II he
lost any more money I'd discharge
Bridget and do the cooking myself.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Premature.-A German went to a friend
and said: Tomorrow I owe you $40 600.
l am ruined. I cannot pay it, and I can
Ivy didn't you wait to dell me tomorrow?
Now neider can I shleep a vink.'-Ex-
change.
Madge-I haven't much faith in a
girl who is always fishing for commit
ments, have you? TonnSNo; like All
anglers. she is sure to lie about what
she caught.-Boston Transcript.
a ai does the ballot for women work
out2'' Works all right. We have to allow
the ladies a little leeway. Occasionally
one OF them wants her ballot back for
the purpose of adding a postscript -
Washington Herald.
Johnny" said the visitor at the door.
- your tatner at homer? He's tryin'
20 De- SIR, SAID Johnny, but, you know,
Mr.. Squiggs. mas mothers here. "-TIar-
pers Weekly.
Mrs. Dart-Hy husband is lust baarine
me to take that trip around the world
but can't. Mrs Upflatte-Why not7
Mrs Dart-I always get dizzy when
travel in a Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
FOLKS

There is a certain asset on common
place that few of us take it into ac-
count, writes a contributor to the cur
rent Harper's Weekly. It is like an
investment made so long ago, bring
ing in the dividends so steadily that
we have almost forgotten it as an
addition to lifes income and accept it
as a natural part of life itself. If it
were to be withdrawn, we should feel
wronged and deprived. SO it is with
ones own folk. One takes them for
granted. Everybody has folks" to
fall back upon. We forget them when
we feel like 1t, fail to notify them Of
our existence, overlook the fact that
they have birthdays and Christmases
and wants and sorrows like our own,
and leave them there in the dim back
ground of consciousness to go to
when the loneliness or the monotony
of life is unbearable, or when our
children are grown and we turn to
take stock of what friends and what
family we have provided them with.
However self-satisfie6 and preoc-
cupied and self-absorbed a man may
be, theme must come enlightening mo-
ments in his career when he realizes
and picayune a figure, unless he is
taken plus his achievements, his pos
sessions, his friends and, above all
else, his folks They not only have
made him what he is, but they are
still making him. Then endow him
with a sense of dignity, stability and
general expansion What! You think
of me as just my insignificant little
self, standing alone and unrelated in
an alien world Just off there I have
some hundred folks all bound to me
by common memories and the ties of
blood by the same general outline of
face and body and the same habitual
gestures. They may love me or not,
that is incidental, but they would rise
like an army and stand by me at need.
Why? Because if 1 went under they
would realize that part of them
selves went under; something that
goes to make up that larger entity
called the family"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
BOYS AND WORK.

That St. John has several very en-
terprising boys will be noticed by even
the most casual observer. In the diff
ferent parts of town, pop stands have
been opened by the boys. We cannot
say that they do a rushing business,
but at any rate they make the stand
a means for obtaining some spending
money. While doing this they are
also getting some pretty sound ideas
whether he had partner OF not, said:
mo sir, don't believe IN having part
ners in business. I tried that once.
furnished most of the capital. did
all the work, but had to divide the
proceeds with the other fellow" Fer
haps if some of the older fellows
would get the same idea in their hes DIS
the world would go on smoother. A
business man with a partner that is
worthless is almost sure to be a fail
ure himself.-St. John Capital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

as 70 suBscRIBERs.


Every country newspaper Office IS
iamliar with the subscriber who turn
BACK ms paper at the office marked
refused, when he is we'll aware that he
Is perhaps a year or several years back
IN payment And it happens frequent
~ TOO; Tor there are any number Of
people who seem to think lightly of
this sort OF dealing with the newspaper
puDHsher. The irate editor may mail
statement after statement and nine
times out of ten, there will be no re-
Spouse. He is dealing with a man who
may pay his store bill regularly enough
but the conscience Of the delinquent is
dead 10 common honesty with the
newspaper man. Here is where the
country newspaper is made the goat
Dozens of its friends may be personal
friends of the editor: he extends credit
because he is unwilling to run the
risk or causing possible offense. Then
some rascally fellow takes advantage
OF good nature and deliberately cheats
a hard years labor out of its due. It's
a matter OF common honesty; it's 81
matter OF difference between men, The
one can not rest until his obligations
are paid in full; he is a representative
of the highest type of citizenship; the
other cancels his debt in a conscience
too dull to feel the pin prick of the
rights of others; he is a fraud. IN
worthy to face honest men and to
share the privileges which are the
heritage of ntegrity.=Horton Head
ELECTROMAGNETIC
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
She Hold the Shin.

One determined woman did what the
seamen's union might have had much
trouble in accomplishing She prevented
the steamship Montauk Point from sail
ing on schedule time because one of the
crew made an insulting remark to her
when an Erie Canal boat, the captain of
which is the womans husband. drew
alongside the vessel in Erie Basin to take
off cargo of chalk The angry wife APP
Tending sailor could be pointed out he
had disappeared from the rail- The won1-
an then ordered her husband not to I'M
load the vessels cargo.
The Montauk Point had cleared for
Newport News. The refusal of the canal
boat captain to have anything to do with
the steamship put a problem before Capt.
P1nkham, her commander He was more
angry that the woman. He tried to
placate husband and wife and offered
apologies, but the woman was obdurate.
She threatened to quit the canal boat if
her husband attempted to take off one
pound of the chalk There was nothing
pound of the chalk. There was nothing
other canal boat. He was not acquainted
however, with the loyalty to each other
OF the families who live in the canal
boats that form a small colony in the
Erie Basin.
The second boat drew alongside The
skipper and his wife did not know what
had taken place just before. When the
woman who had been insulted saw the
other boat approach she told her story to
the captains wife. In a moment another
resolute woman issued order to her hus-
band, and the second boat sheered away
from the steamship.
/ 1t was eight hours before the ire of the
two women cooled but by that time dark
ness had fallen. The delay meant a loss
of about $500 to the agents.
! Captains in Erie Canal boats and their
wives belong to an old-fashioned stock.
Many are religious and rear their chill
dren with care. In the colony in the Erie
Basin every morning when the boats are
tied up the children are sent to the near
est public school. Some of the canal
boats are 100 feet long, and the thrifty
women, especially those with children,
have attractive cabins. The more pros
porous families have pianos or organs on
board.-NeW York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
FROM OTHER PENS
CONCERNING HUMAN LIFE.


Except in spasmodic ways. very lit
tie is being done to conserve human
life; certainly not to the extent in
which the natural resources of the
country in forests, minerals and water
powers are being conserved. OF course,
in all efforts in this direction that hu-
man equation must be taken into con-
sideration which of itself must ever
stand in the way, more or less, of any
such conservation. That is to say, the
great loss of human life must be
charged up to the account of the indi-
viduaI members of society. Their ig-
norance and wilfulness necessarily en-
tail upon them disease and premature
death; but there is much that society
can do, which it has not done, to less
en- vastly the death rate that annually
darkens our statistics For one thing,
education with q strength en-ng of the
moral fiber of the people, is needed
if we ever hope to bring them into
bodily and mental health. Govern ors
of states who advocate l@wlessness for
any cause stand in the way of such a
contamination, and it would be well
70 the civilization of the county if
their services could be dispensed with.
They are a constant menace to all that
sane and decent members of the So
cial organism hold most dear. namely,
human life, which ought in every pos
sib1e way to be onservcd.-Columbia
! Is. CO State.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Doing ones best frequently doesn't
amount to much.
It's difficult to profit by advice, so
much of it is bad.
4
If people could look into the future
most of them would probably want TO
start on a backward trip.
4
A good days work on each of six
days in a week beats all the medicinal
tOnics that any man can take.
=
When a farmer drives out of town
on an afternoon with a big wag IN
that's empty. it's pretty good evidence
that his bank roll is considerably
larger than it was in the morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.l

Domestic troubles usually date
from the time a mans wife began to
buy his ties for him.
A girl with four feet of veil stream
ing behind her hat seems to be waving
to every man within mile.
Maybe in the next world the dead
beats have to work it all out stocking
the fiery furnace at a dollar a CEN
fury.
A man has to eat a good many fine
dinners with friends to think all of
them put together are worth one call
from him.
A woman who won't worry bit
about taking on twenty pounds of
weight viii go wild about taking on
two years of age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
REGULATING CORPORATIONS.

Not so many years ago and the world
of trade would have been thrown into
a CONFUSION and probable panic had an
attorney. general of the United States
delivered a speech to the effect that the
time had arrived when the business of
the big corporations should be regu-
lated and controlled by a government
industrial commission in similar fash
ion that the railroads are supervised
by the interstate commerce commits
sion. Yet the speech to that end which
was made the other day by Attorney
General Wickersham did not cause a
tremor of excitement. No doubt it has
been received with great favor by the
bulk of the people, and such corpora
tons as are opposed to any such
method probably look upon the plan as
inevitable. All corporation managers,
however, are not opposed to the pro-
position. George W. Perkins, for many
years associated with the banking and
promoting house Of J. Pierpont Morgan
& Co., Judge Gary. the presiding genius
Of the United States Steel company,
Theodore N. Vail. president of the
American Telegraph and Telephone
company. President Delano of the Wa
bash railroad. and others have recently
advocated the same idea.
And President Delano hit one crux Of
the situation on the head when he de-
clared that there was no good reason
why the railroads should be supervised
and controlled by the federal govern
ment which did not apply to all Of the
large corporations doing an interstate
business and with ramifications into
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.


lEAOilA lilI <AN11ioOtl NItUDtsI
How a woman who is good to her
men folks is admired
No cigar is good enough to light
again after it goes out
A grouch's rights shouldn't include
pride in his disposition.
Still. as an insect destroyer. a bird
in the bush is worth more.
When the truth is stranger than
fiction. people are apt to doubt it.
Hook and line fishing doesn't do
anything 20 reduce the high cost of
living.
A family skeleton should not be
aired by the family: let the neighbors
do that.
Aside from the old man. no one
takes an old mans love affairs very
seriously.
Being True Sport is of considerably
less importance than being a good
workman.
Many towards don't know it. and
imagine they would be heroes should
opportunity offer.
If a saloonkeeper is expected to obey
the law, he feels that every mans hand
is against him.
If you are in trouble and need help,
go to an elderly person; young per-
son doesn't care about you.
ballplayer may not care for pub
lie opinion, but he knows it won't be
with him unless he wins.
While the days are getting shorter.
it is still possible to find time to do a
days work without q lantern
After he is old enough to vote, no
one should have his hair clipped I'M
less the authorities demand it.
Nc other loafer enjoys that profess
sion as much as the house cat let in
by the ire during cold weather
After summing up both sides of the
controversy, one is apt to allow his
prejudice to cast the deciding vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
HOW ABOUT FATHER?

The New York state senate commit
tee by the close vote of 16 to IL killed
the womens suffrage proposition TOT
this session. One of the curious speech
es in opposition was that of Senator
Iieve his boy would be benefited OBJ
serving his mother at work at the polls
and INDUCING in political argument.
Now, If this means anything, it must
he that. in the senator's opinion, par
ticipation in an election is democrat
izing thing. That is the only Infer
ence But if an exclusive male fran
cl1ise produces such results, is it not
an argument for the uplifting Of poll
tics by the admission of the admittedly
finer factor? Just as the presence OF
women restraints the coarser hbred from
profanity and shames them into
sernbIance Of decoru1n, may 1t not pc
supposed that woman's participation IN
notifies would similarly purify it? That,
at least. is the suffragist argument
and it is at least as reasonable as the
Human argument.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

Oh, the springs that we shall never see
together
With the verduer creeping softly Ger
the hills
With the hyacinth as blue as summer
weather,
And the butterflies poised in the daft
fodils.
I wonder, is your country any fairer?
Do you revel, too, in flowers, bird, and
tree2
In your spring I long to be sharer-
For how can you be happy wanting me2
Mrs. Poultney Bigelow, in the Smart
Set.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
A CARD INDEX OF DRUNKARDs

Experience has shown that the more
public the drinking, the less there is OF
drunkenness. The drunkard instinct
lively tries to hide his vice. He is in
stinctively ashamed of it. He develops
a sort of specialized form of lying in
order to keep it secret, and, as is the
way of lying. it comes tc deceive the
drunkard himself.
New York is now about II establish
a system of tabulating those who are
arrested for drunkenness. It will keep
the names and the records of all such
persons in a card index. In short, the
history of drunkards becomes public
property. No individual can escape
and none, without making public proc
lamation of the fact, can go to court
to have his name stricken from the
list.
It is in the publicity of the thing that
the card index will be a force for COM
batting drunkenness. Many 8 man who
will run chances with the police will
shy away from the chances of being
officially set down as drunkard.
That which may be q temporary hui
Mutations in q police court becomes
a terrible humiliation when registered
in cold black and white in police rec
ords.-Toledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

At the national convention of hoboss
to be held at Washington, D. c.. soon
under the direction Of J. Eads How,
the millionaire tramp. there will be a
formulation Of demands to make on
congress for immediate labor legisla-
ton which viii shorten the working
dav. provide for a minimum wage
scale. establish a national employment
bureau. and furnish free transporta-
ton for workers. This is the first inti-
nlaticn that most folk have received
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

Colonel Roosevelt now takes a fall
out of the Interior Department as it
was conducted by Mr.. Ballinger. He
Insists that Mr.. Ballinger Improperly
helped the big capitalists in their ef-
forts to exploit the riches of Alaska
Let's seer Wasn't It Colonel Roose-
welt who, as president first brought
Mr.. Ballinger into the Interior De-
partment as Commissioner of the Gen
eraI Land office?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
Live Cat in Fire Ruins.

Employees of the Mound City Box
company, which was destroyed in the
recent big fire in South Vandewater,
while digging in the ruins week later
for tools they had lost. were attracted
by queer and faint cries that seemed
to come from the bottom of one of
the heaps of brick and wood.
James Beltzer and some others
started to investigate. After digging
for 80 minutes they uneartEed a small
box, which, when raised was found to
be covering a cat that had been all but
starved to death.-St. I cuis dispatch
to New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
Notwithstandlng the fact that u

Notwithstanding the fact that the
government finally has put the big
trusts of the country on the run. q
street railway trust has just been
formed in the south to control the
operation of nearly all the street rail-
way systems in the various cities in
that section. But maybe this newest
of trusts is going to be a reasonable"
affair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24
FULL, LEASED WIRE REPORT
or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Honrp NEws WILLIE AwAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
cen cents a week or thirty cents a
month (by mail only). Address
changed as often as desired. While
ont Of town the state Journal will be
10 YOU like q daily letter from home.
these short time subscriptions, TO save
hooIlIzeepinE eKpenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

that the hoboes of the land are at all
interested in work. And as to their
getting legislation that will give them
free transportation, that would appear
to be unnecessary. They have always
shown considerable aptitude in help
ing themselves to that kind Of trans
nortatiou
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

From the disorderly shindigs indulg-
ed in by the lawyers, witnesses and
prisoners st the Camorra trial. which
go unpublished. it is safe to assume
that there is no such thing as contempt
OF court in italy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

Under the caption, 1.-THE Three
Amateurs" McCutcheon has a car
toon in the Chicago Tribune which de-
picts representations of Ananias,
Baron Munchausen and Aesop stand
ing abashed in front of a placard in
scribed, 'Lorimer Testimony"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

The attention of Senator Hepburn
of idaho is directed to the fact that
Union and Confederate veterans join
ed hands the other day on the old bat
tleheld of Manassas in a semi-cen-
tennial memorial celebration of that
famous conflict.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

been missing a trick. Why haven't
they been ousting local officials in sew
eral sections of the state from office
for their failure to enforce the anti
cigarette law2 There is more than one
prohibitory law in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

There can be no doubt now that the
place called Death Valley was proper
~ named. The temperature there re-
Gently reached 14O degrees Fahren-
heit and at one midnight it was 112
lsrroos
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

Reports from Haiti that President
Simon is i'll can we'll be believed. The
situation there is enough to give even
the chief executive Of the land a pain.
If he escapes without an operation sew
ering his head be viii be doing fine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

John T. Parsons. the attorney who
arrar ged the details of the organize
tion Of the sugar trust. undoubtedly
holds to the belief there is considerably
more than one sucker born every min
ute. He says the remedy for the evils
of trusts is just to let them alone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

They do some things in Connecticut
in the right way. A man who tried
to dodge the payment Of his 50 per-
sonal tax has just been compelled to
pay fine and costs amounting to
s30O.99. That's the medicine for tax
Toa~ara
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

Topeka seems to have the unenviable
distinction of narboring the rneanest
boy extant. He robbed a blind man
who bad been giving him emplcyment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

The night was dark and stormy:
quiet reigneS; Nothing but quiet had
rained for some time, because it was in
Kansas, when out of tile inky dark
ness little Robert sprang into the
limelight and inquired: eff John
Drew twenty thousand . year. could
a Salome dancer make bare living?"
Officer! He's out again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

In al likelihood the newspapers of
the country will recover from the as
sault made on them by the theatrical
LaFCllette of Wisconsin,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

And Kansas. progressive Kansas
her two United States senators voted
gainst the Canadian reciprocity bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-24

No one would have expected it. But
Governor Stubs claims he has no
quarrel with Attorney General Dawson.