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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

mo administration has been char
acterized by larger achievement for
the common good in the consideration
and settlement of questions vitality af-
fecting the welfare of the American
people," said the Indiana Republican
Editorial association the other day of
President Taft's accomplishments. A
year ago this body refused to endorse
the Taft administration. It's present
opinion is the right one. however, and
Is one that everybody will come around
to sooner or later, II there is disposi-
tion to be honest and just to the presi-
dent OF the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.


GFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Every one expects some one else to
answer the telephone and the door
bell.
cards If he has to do the playing at
home.
There are times when living in
hope and living in hot water are very
much alike.
Plenty of people fuss about small
pro1lts, but the list doesn't include the
one doing the buying
While the Sphinx has no brains
man usually feels complinented when
he is referred to as one
Spirit talk, even when uronnted
by the bottled variety, is always sub
sect to reasonable doubt
Every married woman likes to poke
ture of the marriage ceremony.
Don't blame other people for not
taking your advice; you won't take it
yourself more than half the time.
You have to pay the regular tuition
price in the school of experiences
wnetner you are good football
What has become OF the old fash
Toned man who tied his horses tail
up IN turban or Psyche knot on
muddy days? oA
One reason many people make
laIulc oI7 the cnEken business is that
they depend upon the chickens to at
tend TO the business.
Without wishing to knock tba
Faithful. Watchdog, it may be said
that fleas bother him good deal more
than burglars do.
The Globe may have its faults b,t
it never refers to them as .sweek-end"
visitors. (Note.-Are they "week-erd,
or 'weak-end" visitors?1
Farmers change in other resnects
but they continue to cling retber
tenaciously to the notion thai all tha
easy money is made by the town men
1t must be a great ACKNOWLEDGMENT
to father to send his son to college
only to see him join the gIee -cIuh IN
his efforts to acquire a Higher Edu-
cation.
There are, however. a number NJ
other ways of having a good time he
sides indulging in the reflection that q
rich man can't take it with him When
he dies.
F.. A girl who counts her face her for-
tune, Kind sir. should go on the stare
rather than make a blur, at sfa1
ography: the spell of beauty is 50
often different from the kind Webster
advocates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Almost all unlucky people insist
they were born that way.
Much that passes under the guise of
perquisites Is nothing more than graft.
x
Some college students are more
successful at learning things that are
not in their books.
\ =
The woman who wins breach of
promise suit also gets lot of unde-
sirable notoriety. ~
y
Any number of folk could devote
considerable of their time to excellent
advantage in the cultivation of little
modesty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
KAMSAy COHHENT
A REMARKABLE PREf,EnEc1,


ne was 81 years old. and. in his
Ieepieness, Tell head foremost into a
srate hfe and burned to death. Be
Sause u the aWfulness of his death,
through the press association ranorts
et' as a judge he established a most
reHarkaole precedent. precedent
very rarely before or since heard of,
one mat courts will not follow and
yet one so full of Justice and com
scientiousness that We believe in "a
corolng II as one of the truIv great
acts of the judiciary
Wnen Hillary Ward. who fell into
Ine nre at his home in Point Pleas
on the bench, he tried the canss IF
WldoW who was suing for damages.
he rendered a decision against the
"ioow and she Lost the case.
AIlerWard, Judge Ward became pos
sessed OF more information concerning
me ease ana came to believe that his
decision against the widow was unfair
dnen he took from his own pockets
Sz,OOo and paid it to the widow as
1t was strange court procedure. It
was making what courts would con-
denim as Infamous precedent. There
was no law for it. But it was JUS
tee as between human beings.
Iney called Hillary Ward IAN hon
t f5s 'u 4hst He was something more
10 a JudSe can err ana still
pc honest. But here was a judge who
refused to rest under even his unin-
territorial error in wronging a fellow
being He had been unjust and. at
ms own cost, voluntarily turned injus-
tice into Justice Judge Ward was an
honest judge and he was also a just
man.
A little money matter, in a little
court, In a backwoods district of Ten
nessee! But in such environment are
porn the Inspirations that light up the
world.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Japan appears to have made seri-
Gus blunder At any rate. the Socialists
along the Pacific coast have passed
resolutions roundly scoring Japan for
executing twelve japanese anarchists
who were concerned in q plot against
the emperor of the Flewery kingdom.
But for Socialists to champion the
cause of anarchists is not going to help
Socialism very much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
WHAT WE HAVE NOT.

The wealth of the United States,
real and personal, is estimated by the
1910 census at 125 billion dollars.
Wherefore, If everybody had an equal
share. we ought to have about $1,40O
apiece. and each family should ap-
pear on the assessors rolls with as
sets of $4,000 to $1,000
Wherefore, also, when one family
appears with assets of some 400 mil
lions, it is plain to a good head az
figures that hundred thousand fam
lilies must go without their share.
And for every common millionaire of
the ordinary field variety, there must
be about $50 families of the Pot
ter's Field species. to make good the
proportion.
In short, dividing the assets of the
great nation of the United States by
the number of people. we get the
amount that each person has not.
We might say that such a division
gives the amount that each person
ought to have but this would doubt
less provoke disagreement and argu-
ment. BY putting it simply as the
amount that each of us. with a few
exceptions, does not have, we are
on indisputable ground.-Ottawa Re-
public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Hetty Green has relinquished the
management of her properties which
are estimated to be worth 100000
600. There is nothing SO very unusual
about that as Hetty is getting on in
years. But she proposes to pass her
vacation next summer at Newport, and
that is something decidedly unusual
for Hettv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

When the largest telephone ex-
change in the world gets located in
its new twenty five story building in
New York City, it won't be so unrea-
sonable to ask it to make connec-
fion with heaven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Nor is there any likelihood that there
will be a tremendous rush on the part
of the others attending the banquet
for a bite of that ostrich egg. omelette
that the Texans are going to serve to
Colonel Roosevelt. Just offhand, 1t is
fair to assume that for strength and
popularity of flavor an ostrich egg,
even fresh one, is in class by
itself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

And this prosperity is fairly oozlng
out of the pores of the Kansas editors
who have foregathered in Topeka, is
the best evidence imaginable OF the
general prosperity that prevails in the
Sunflower state. Editors merely holu
the bag when times are poor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Several of the newspapers of the
state have devoted a couple of col
umns or more of late to tell. what the
legislature has done during the first
three weeks of it's session. AS mat
ter of fact what it has done could be
summed up in one word, ''nithing."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Any number of people who may get
in trouble will have to get along with
out the services of handwriting ex-
perts who might be able to heips them
out. AS an incident to the Lucky
Baldwin will case it.appears that such
experts command wages of $50 a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Senator Hale of Maine expresses the
opinion that congress is in the most
disorganized condition he has ever wit
messed during his long career in the
national legislature. 1t does not seem
possible to pass legislation of any kind.
But maybe this is not the calamity it
looks at first sight. 1t may prevent
the enactment of much legislation of
the fool variety. There is too much of
that already on the federal statute
hooLS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Although Peru and Ecuador have
decided to settle their boundary dis
pute. several bands of soldiers of both
countries which happen to be on the
boundary line indulge in skirmishes
and fights every day or so. Evidence
is beginning to accumulate that many
South Americans prefer fighting to
eating, and that they will fight
whether or not they have anything to
fight about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

There is nothing to compare with
the conceit of man. 81 am great
singer because 1 have remained
bachelor" says Enrico Caruso. And
won't this make the women's blood
Ini
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
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
garhzation 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, 1911-01-31

This insurging business certainly is
catching. One of the volcanoes iq~the
Philippines that has been dormant Tor
many years is now putting on a high
class erupting stunt. ..'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

The effectiveness of the aeroplane
for herding cattle will not be estab-
lished firmly until one of them has
succeeded in checking a bunch or
stampeding steers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
49,
stMOTHER. -

(After an old English ballad.)
Nd0lner, my mother. the time is nigh,
w men out Of the world they'll send mel
Ihey,H hang me up on the gallows SO
And "a jerk of the rope will end me.
The judge. he says. Have you kith or
Have you any on earth that need you?
rave you a sweetheart in cottage or inn
Thatl say at your death. God speed
twas then that thought, o mother o.
That thought of the love that you bore
me.
And my blood ran cold like the Ice in the
wine
When the face of you came up before
1t many thing that's evil I've DONE
ana your heart have 1 broken, dear
mother;
But now that I'm looking the last at the
sun,
It's you that want, and no other,
Willard D. Coxey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Just who are the editors of Kansas?
They're first in war, first in peace, and
last in the hearts of their countrymen
when it comes to giving advice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
The Dry Cigarette.

If you wish to smoke a cigarette
properly and, with no unpleasant out
ward effects; if you wish to avoid the
sticking of the cigarette paper to the
lips, you have but to learn the method
of the Spaniard who taught this writer
to roll and smoke cigarettes. 1t is a
mere turn of the lips The ordinary
English smoker has a watery end to
his cigarette. The Spanierd turns his
lips, and the cigarette never touches
the mucous membrane. That is the
way to smoke a cigarette, and this
writer can recommend the practice OF
cultivating the dry cigarette--Londou
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
Sing Sings Star Reporter.

The Star of Hope. Sing Sing prisons BIZ
monthly newspaper, which chronicles
events of Importance in that little walled
city, with its LEO convict population, has
a star reporter. Just what his name is
even the majority of the inmates don't
know. Nor do they know what was the
dwell in Sing Sing.
He is known there as Convict So, 49,
and as such he signs the stories he writes
for the Star of Hope. He has gained quite
reputation among the prison readers and
is usually chosen by the editor of the
prison newspaper to cover the big
stories as they occur in Sing Sing.
One of the last assignments of Convict
81. 430 was to report the visit of Mrs.
Maud Darlington Booth to Sing Sing on
Sunday, December II. and in the current
issue of the Star of Hope appears his
story, under the caption, Mrs. Booth at
Sing Sing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

johnson sure is optimist.'' what con-
WINGED you?'' Saw him go into a strange
restaurant and order scrambled eggs.'-
Toledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Brigand Chief-Did you tie the cap
tive's hands and feet? FoIlower-No, only
her hands You see, she has on q hobble
skirt.-Lippincott's. ; 80
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Minnick-What in the world made Bin
nick get UP and walk out of church in
the middle of the sermon? Sinnick-He's
a somnambulist.-Browni Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Wfllis-Science is making rapid strides
Giliis-Yes; we'll soon have things so that
we can make the weather to suit our
predictions.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

An Ideal-"I hope you will now make
up your mind to put your life on higher
Plane II don't see how much higher L
can put it. I've just got new aeroplane.''
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Engiishman-Have you any dread
noughts in America? Yankee-Surely,
married one.-Town Topics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

Lawyer Slightly deaf)--You say your
husband lately left you wfdow2 Matron-
ly Caller-No, sir! / said he lately left me
for wfdowi-Chieago Tribune.
The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-09
Danger in Poor Corn Seed.

One of the incidental results of
the recent State Corn Show at
the University at Morgantown
was the discovery that consid-
cradle amount of corn that looks
good is really of poor seed q uality.
The fact should serve as warm
ing to the corn growers of the
State; for the apparent meaning
of the tests made at Morgantown
is that much of the corn grown
in West Virginia during the last
year is in such condition that it
will not grow.
The story is as follow: The
Corn Show brought the Univer-
sity about hundred and fifty
samples of corn. After the prize
winning samples had been sep
arated from the rest, two lots
of forty ears each were taken at
random from the remaining ex-
hibits for termination test,
which was made by the class III
corn Judging under the direction
OF an expert. The results were
surprising.
In making the tests six grains
we're taken from different parts
of each ear and placed in a box
of sand till they sprouted or had
time to sprout. These tests
The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-09
OLD HICKORY CHIPS

Do your postal-savings bank
ing early.
When it comes to sailing over
things, it is hard to lose. Herbert
Latham.
1t must be consoling to Uncle
Joe Cannon to- learn that he is
not lame duck.
Some Cubans fear annexation;
others devoutly hope that they
may one day deserve it.
Mr.. Morgan doesn't like a
country with central bank sys-
TEN, SO we guess that settles it.
We hear nothing more of the
dollar-a-word contributor, posi-
bly, they have cut him to thirty
cents.
Eugene Debs, who predicts an
American revolution on Lincoln S
anniversary, forgets to designate
which anniversary.
The prospective reduction in
the Senate of the Republican ma
jority from twenty-seven in the
present Congress, to eight in the
next Congress indicates the
probability of "a complete control
of the United States Senate and
government by the Democratic
party after the election of 1912.
The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-09

were madein duplicate in order
to secure thoroughly reliable
result. In the first lot of forty
ears, the test showed that only
seventy-fiye per cent of the corn
was good; twenty-five per cent
being worthless for seed. In
the second lot of forty ears, bet
ter results were obtained, only
fifteen per cent failing to grow,
eighty-iye per cent being good.
The general average for the
eighty ears was eighty per cent
perfect, In other words, eight
ears out of every ten were worth
less for seed.
No farmer can afford to plant
corn and have fifteen or twenty
or twenty-five per cent fail to
grow because of dead seed.
Enough Of the perfect. grains will
fail to produce good stalks with
out planting dead grains that
might. be used to some good pur-
pose for chicken feed. The les
son is that farmers should test
their seed corn before planting.
They should be sure that every
ear is good ear in all of its
parts. Then they may expect a
good stand when they plant, and
a good crop if soil and culture
and weather conditions are fav-
orable.
d. w. WORKING,
Sup't Agricultural Extension.
The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Washington was first in the
hearts of his countrymen, but
the colonel is getting the biggest
headlines.
A rich man in Pennsylvania
amputated his own toe to save
Doctors bill. When the rich
economic what can the poor ex-
pect.
Teddy has declared in maya
zine article that the animals of
Africa are becoming extinct.
Then he declares that they will
charge a man when cornered.
It's all mistake. They may be
scarce in Africa but we have
species galore in Williamson.
There is waste that enriches.
The sea us prodigal with her
waves, yet no lustre of single
star is ever lost. Not one drop
is missing from the tides. When
nature takes penny from one
pocket she noiselessly slips. it
into another. We are born to fill
a niche-we play our part in 1ife's
great drama. A man is lost
lost in the sense that he loses
himself in the heart of another.
Conservation of our natural re-
sources is a thing very greatly
aired these days, conservation of
timber, of coal and the like. All
of which, of course, is much to
the point, but why not start a
movement for the conservation
of human life. By some effective
plan in this direction. it might
be possible to reduce the loss of
life in this country resulting
from accidents, mishaps and
similar causes. There is need
of work to be done in this line.
Hope is largely the basis of
happiness. We dream of the
golden days to come when times
will be better, and we hope that
some sweet day our ship will
come in laden with riches. And,
although we have had hard
time in this world, in the world
to come there will be happiness
in store for us. 1t is good
thing that this is so, for without
the bright star of hope forever
hanging over just over us, many
of us would give up the fight.
The young girl who goes to
the city finds dangers of which
she knows nothing and is often
unable to protect herself. The
city life attracts many, but there
should be great care before al
lowing the daughter to 60 to the
city to live. There are many
villains whose business is to de-
stroy young womanhood, and
when a girl cannot be enticed she
may be taken forcibly. You can
not be too careful, and whom you
trust should be one whom
you know to be trustworthy.
The young man who goes astray
may be received again into soci-
ety but the girl who becomes a
victim, even by force, is con-
demned as if she had sinned
.
willingly, and there is no forgive
ness. No fatted calfis killed for.
the daughter who becomes VIC
tim of a scoundrel, and she must
often live the life into which she is
forced, because there is no other
life she may lead. ADVERTISE
ments Of employment (?)should
be carefully investigated before
they are answered at all, and the
matrimonial agency should be
left severely alone. For the girl
there is danger ruin and death.
The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-09

A girl pastor of church in
Maine is to wed, and says that
she will continue to preach after
marriage. This is not unique.
Most of them do.
The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-09

Jack Johnson intimates that
the only dope Jim Jefferies ever
had was what he has been hand
ing out to the newspapers.
The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-09
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.


been in session several days late
ly. This gang certainly has its
work cut out for it now.y
We wish to commend the prac-
teal unanimity of the vote in the
West Virginia state senate in fa-
vor of electing U. S. senators by
direct vote of the people.
Let the legislature. amend the
methods of enforcing the tax
laws SO the grafters can and
must be made to refund. Do not
repeal the whole law.
We wish to add our little mite
and say that we, think it would be
a shame for the legislature to de-
prive Athens of the Normal
school after the late disastrous
fire.
Don't forget the Virginian' S
banquet on the 22d 'Birthing-
tons Washday. Send your 50
to DR., w. S. Rosenheim at Will
| hanson. Don't wait for any spe-
cial invitation.
The February number of the
Ferret is about due now. This
is a bright little journal published
by the pupils of the Williamson
High school under the tuteiage
of Miss Wlles.
The Board Of Trade is doing
some good work regarding the
insurance problem, through a
committee; and the committee on
municipal affairs is working on
the water problem.
Even Senator Root says Lari-
mer should not be seated. When
Root wakes up and favors prog
ressive morality and decency in
American politics there is hope
for anyone else except a Mingo
renegade.
The administration at Wash
lngton is working over time to
leglslate before the Democratic
Congress comes in. There is
nothing like an expression of the
real opinions of the voters to
make politicians do things.
Even the Mingo Republican
contained a little decent lltera-
ture last week. It reproduced
an editorial from the Charleston
Mail, which quoted two short edi-
torial squibs from the Enter
prise. Occasionally the Enter
prise makes EN- sit up and take
notice. .
When there is a little job too
low down for the renegades to
perform they always have some
Republican handy who is willing
to do it in order to hold some
mental job at their hands. They
own few Republican servants,
but they do not stand high in
their councils.
There were only nine wet"
votes in the House of Represent
atlves out of membership of
eighty-six, and the man who was
TEN p orarily misrepresenting
Mingo county in that body was
one of the nine. This same man
would also vote against an honest
election law, an honest registra-
ton law, al honest assessor ent
OF the property of corporations,
or any law that would curtail the
power and influence of the whis-
key rings Of Mingo and other
counties. We sincerely hope he
will never have the opportunity.
The problem of compensation
for county officers must be solved
by this legislature Sin order to
make our promise to the people
good. This is not a bold prob
lem. 1t is only necessary to
place all county officers on stip-
ulated salary and require them
to collect fees and pay them into
the state treasury. We do not
favor low salaries, but respect
able compensation for the class
of work performed by each Of
ficer, graduated according to the
population and condition of the
counties. We were gratified to
see the legislature refuse to re-