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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
Have the artillery

put under arms. Have the artillery
redouble it's fire..
At the door of a vacant cen adjoin-
ing her own the girl paused. IN
there she said. 4
AS befitted a brave man. the So
ernor of Metz was first tt throw o%en
the door and enter. but the vice gov
ernor was close at his heels. Insy
raised their lanterns and saw-notn-
ing The cell was bare The older
man was turning angriIy WHEN the
familiar sound came to his ears
s He peered into the distant corner
and the mystery was solved ine
roof had sprung a leak and water was
on the floor. The peculiar arrange
ment of corridor and cell had dIf-
fused the sound over a wide area,
driving thousands into a cold sweat
of fear.
.sThere is the force which is work
ing against you," said the frau1ein-
The soldiers, crowdins about the
door. saw and understood. and
great gust of laughter, a sound of re-
lief and joy as well as appreciaIoh
of the girls cleverness rolled through
the fortress like a wave. Other SOL
diers heard and laughed too without
knowing why, but feeling somehow
that the beast which had been gnaw-
ing at their heels had been driven
back toothless.
Three nights later the frauIein and
General Moran stood without the for
tifications, waiting for the father who
had been notified and was coming to
convey his daughter to a peaceful
home far from Metz
Presently the signal was given as
agreed, and answered.
AS they heard the sounds of a eau
tious approach, General Moran took
the girl in his arms and kissed her on
the lips. until the war is over,
sweetheart" he whispered.
Soft arms went around his neck,
and the kiss was given hack to him.
Until the war is over" she replied
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
THE IMMIGRATION BUREAU.

Why this inactivity on the part of
the legislature in taking action on the
proposition to provide the state with
an imm igration bureau? The need for
such an institution is patent on all
sides. Twice a month, and sometimes
oftener, train after train load of home
seekers are carried through the state
by the large railroad systems which
traverse it, to states to the ~0--'' md
west of K3nsds. where land opportuni-
ties are being promoted on a large
scale. But none OF the land in these
other states, that is so extensively ad-
vertised. is superior in any way to the
land of Kansas. Nor is Kansas any
where's near being crowded. There is
plenty Of room in the commonwealth
for as many and more farmers as are
already here. And there would be lit
tie trouble in getting them if the pro-
Ter steps We're taken.
The best possible agency to work
through in this particular would be a
state immigration bureau conducted on
an adequate scale. It will be -~~7'oss
for the legislators. mary of whom SEEM
ed to be obsessed with penny wise
and pound foolish policy, to turn a
expense to the state that might be in
volVed. The bonafde real estate man
of Kansas, and there is a large number
Of them, have suggested to the legis-
lature that each of them be compelled
to pay a state license fee of $50 a
year, the money obtained therefroIn
TO used for the purposes of the i'm
migration bureau. There is not the
slightest doubt but under this pro-
posed fee more than enough money
would be taken in annually to support
this important enterprise.
1t is undoubtedly true that the real
estate mer OF Kansas will be the first
to profit directly by an increased i'm
migration of the right sort to this
state. But such direct profit as they
get in this fashion will be insignificant
in comparison with the profit that an
increased population would mean to
all the business activities in the state.
And for this reason the attitude of
the real estate men is a most generous
one.
So far as is known, the only objec-
lions that have been raised to the Gre
alton of the immigration bureau un-
der this plan have come from men in
other lines Of business who dabble in
real estate on the side They seem to
think that the $50 fee proposed is ex-
cessive. Surely such objections are not
going to prevail, and kill this 1egisla-
lion that means so much for the ad-
vancement and development of Kan
sas. There is nothing of substance
to objections of this character. They
are too trivial to be considered seri-
ously for a moment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.J

TFrom the Atchison GlobeI
No abused man is abused as much
as he says he is.
Criticism sounds fair enough. when
1t is for the other fellow.
If you are living ia small town it
is probably the place you belong.
Clouds aren't gloomy If your diges-
ton is all right and the wheat needs
rain.
Who worries the most. man in
debt or a man who has money loaned
out?
There are other ways of displaying
your firm disposition than by disput-
ing the dictionary.
So far as health is concerned, the
best scheme is to be your own con-
servation commission.
We don't know any better rule than
this: quit the game while you have
velvet in front of you.
1t isn't. as a rule, the spirituelle
maiden who boasts how little she
eats; it is the fat man.
Even If you are not liked very well
it is probable you are liked about as
much as most men are.
There is no denying, however. that
a man with good digestion has a
good deal of fun wrecking it,
When a girl admits that she's stu
pid you're neg1ecting a cue unless you
hasten to assure her tina. she is not.
Did you ever notice that there are
not many men who quit because they
are not given an increase in salary
It Is our theory that the reply you
get in your own se1f-addre
stamped envelope isn't worth waiting
for.
Some men who have tried both
have decided it is more fun to be
overworked in town than in the coun-
try.
Generally speaking a man who
doesn't attend Sunday night plays
says it is because his wife won't let
him.
Almost every man calls himself a.
coward, but he objects strenuously
when others intimate anything of the
kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
HUNOR OF THE Day

A fashionable dressed young woman en-
tered the postofice in large western
to the stamp window. The stamp clerk
looked up expectantly, and she asked:
,Do you sell stamps herea The clerk M1,s
to see some, please was the unusual re-
quest The clerk dazedly handed out a
the young woman carefully examined.
Pointing to one near the center, she said,
II will take this one. please. "-Argonaut
Deer are getting scarcer and scarcer
every year. sWhat makes you think
SO ?''s 1.-THE number of guides killed every
year grows greater and greater. "-Hous-
Bill-what is Gills favorite cereal? Jill
Wild oats, guess-Yonkers Statesman.
Conscience, however, makes no such
towards of us as it would if the still
small voice were in the way of being
baT f %ou,d s. eSa tG sn this $ opera
but those opera bags have been marked
down to $S.sS."-Washington Herald.
Does Bliggins know much about gold
mlneS? Not thing in the world
What makes you so sure of that?' HE
keeps investing in them."-Washingto
Star.
Optimist-Yes. sir. If you'll drink butter
milk three times q day, you'll live ten
use of living ten years longer if YOU
have to drink buttermilk three. time .
day?-Judge.
First reporter (going out on his three
hundred and forty-seventh assignment in
three daysl-They say Napoleon used to
porter Coming In from his three hundred
and seventy-eighth)-He probably needed
that much with all the work he had
Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The man who promises to make a
woman happy undertakes task OF
immense proportions.
X X =
It's just as easy, apparently, for
some men to succeed as 1t Is for otn-
ers to fail
Tn all likelihood, the individual with
a clear conscience has forgotten
whole lot of things.
x X =
If many people paid little atten-
ton to their own conversation lney
wouldn't indulge in so much of it.
y y y
Truth is not always stranger than
fiction. Real children, thank good
ness. are not much like those pictured
in the comic supplements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

TFrom the Chicago News1
Sweet are the uses of alimony-
It's un1ueky for the mouse that
meets a black cat.
some men find courage only when
they lose their temper
He who waits for dead mems shoes
is liable to get cold feet.
A punctured CRATER now and then
is re1ished by all honest men.
Men may not have as much curiosity
as women, but they have enough
The truth is mighty and will prevail,
especially if it happens to be disagree
able.
And many a woman would rather be
envied by another woman than be
loved by man.
Few men are inclined to let well
enough alone when they see something
better within reach.
Yes. Cordelia. we once heard of a
man who had more money than he
knew what to do with. He was a
bachelor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
KANSAS CONhGENT
FIRE PROOF BUILDINGS.

The burning of the state capitol of
Missouri emphasizes the wisdom of
the erection of more modern fire proof
PUBIC buildings and also brings to
light that the state of Missouri was
sadly behind her sister states in the
quality or capitol building. This
capitol was erected in 1888 at a cost
OF 1850, 600 and remodeled in 1887
at a cost of $250,000, making the total
cost only about one-f1fth that of the
Kansas capitol
The loss of the building is not so
serious as the loss of the public rec
ords and documents which with the
building will bring the total loss to
about million dollars. 1t is said
that the legislature will probably
have to do its work all over on ac-
count of the destruction of its records
and this will add to the expense made
necessary on account of the fire.
While the Kansas capitol is fire
proof building, the policy of the erec-
ton of this type of buildings has not
always been followed in the erection
of other state buildings and this fire
should prove the wisdom of adding to
the original cost of these buildings
and avoid the possibility of subsequent
danger of loss ofzproperty as we'll as
the lives of the inmates of these in
stitution buildings Gazette.
THE JOY OF BUILDING.
A pessimistic chap. whose view of
the future is evidently dimmed by
present grievances, left the following
upon the copy hook of the World Of
fee: who will explain how 1t is
that these wise guys build so many
palaces for others to inhabit?" That
is easily explained. 1t is the joy of
building, the exa1tation which comes
from creating something of beauty
and of permanence. It is the same
sentiment which causes the parent to
slave to educate the child. that it
may become worthy citizen,
although the child will never repay
in money, nor perhaps in affection
the labor and anxiety bestowed upon
it. It is the same feeling which
causes old men to plant fruit and
shade trees for future generations to
enjoy. 1t is the joy of living. of do
ing and of accomplishment. 1t is an
inherent trait of character of every
successful man and he could no more
curb it than he could the winds. And
it might be added that the man who
simply inhabits the palace can never
know the real pleasure which came
to the one who built it.-Lawrence
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

present legislature are handling ques-
lions in ways that appeal to them. they
are being pretty generally criticised on
all sides for going at things in the
wrong way. Undoubtedly. they are
making a few mistakes-some of
which may be serious-hut it is not
likely that their critics would be han
ding legislation any better or as well
If the job were up to them 1t is much
easier to criticise than it is to get out
and do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

Senator Root of New York thinks
that if politics. were purified there
would be no need for the election of
United States senators in any other
way than the one now provided by the
federal constitution. Many people are
convinced that the best way to purify
politics is to give the voters the larg-
est possible voice in the conduct of all
public affairs and the nomination and
election of public officers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

The man with a young and sturdy
wife, who is not afraid os work is
comfortably fixed when sickness over
takes him. This was illustrated in
Chicago the other day when that
towns Oldest newsboy, a youngster
who confesses to 102 years. became so
i'll that he could not travel his ac-
customed rounds His wife substituted
for him. But, then. she is only 95
1raars old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
RoNDEAu.

II we are poor and do not know
ne numerous delights that flow
FROM horns of plenty choked with gold,
we lack as well the cares untold
That hand in hand with riches go.
We have our home wherein, although
ne outer world be white with snow,
we keep our hearts from growing cold,
If we are poor.
We're strangers quite to pomp and show,
bu Ut mere we are, we two, and o.
mat d1mpled little one-year-oldi
Loves riches here are manifold.
Lear Lord, we pray Thee keep US so
If we are poor.
T: A. DAILY, in Catholic Standard and
Times 1870
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
EF'rom the New York Press.1

a woman seems to get most of her
wisdom by studying fool men.
It's a romance TO a girl when she
thinks how a strange man might
speak to her.
The children get our traits without
wanting to. and you ought not to for
get IT.
Everybody ought to like sermons be-
cause of the nice maps to be had out
of them
If a man could swim a hundred miles,
lis ambition would be to run a hundred
yard dash.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

News comes via Baldwin, Kan, that
Jack London. the author and eccen-
trio, is promoting the Mexican revolu-
ton. And it ought not to be long now
before it is possible to tell which of the
foolish magazines in this country is
backing London.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

Andrew Carnegie gave some advice
to q group of New York working girls
the other day that they will likely fol-
low with alacrity when the occasions
are presented. Don't refuse man"
he urged them, simply because he is
q millionaire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

Cole Younger says he has learned
by experience that there is no heroism
in outlawry. Still the remuneration is
quite substantial if the successful ac-
tivities of the Kansas bank robbers
can be taken as a criterion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
.THE ToRACco TRUST.

Is the tobacco trust to furnish
revelation of fraudulent practice to
rival the sugar trust? 1t is to be hoped
not 1t probably will be as bad as
that. But the exposures centering
about the ports of New Orleans and
New York are unpleasantly suggestive.
According to information from the
federal treasury department, following
a general investigation Of conditions.
the government has been robbed of
from s., 600 900 to $5,000,000 a year on
import duties from Cuba alone a
wholesale dismissal Of customs officials
has been decided upon. The depart
ment has evidently become thorough
" aroused.
The public generally would be much
more 1enient with the trusts if they
did not SO frequently show themselves
capable of the meanest devices. They
have thrived on government favors and
yet too often are found willing to rob
the hands that have nourished them. 1t
is fortunate for those who have their
money invested in American trust Sc
curities that the supreme court viii
decide the pending cases strictly ac-
cording to the law involved and not III
accordance with the popular feeling to-
ward the trusts themselves.-C1eve
Plain DeAlax
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

The supreme court Of Oklahoma is
in class by itself. Not SO long ago
1t decided that Guthrie had the only
claim to being the capital city of the
new state. Its more recent decision
in the premises gives the honor to
Oklahoma City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

Only another month now and the
baseball players will be reporting for
spring practice. If any real winter
weather is coming this way it ought to
put in an appearance before long. If
it doesn't. the winter of 191O-1911. in
Kansas at any rate, will have been one
only in name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

Not much fault will be found with
the action of the Kansas house of rep
resentatives in passing resolution en-
dorsing President Taft's plan for reci-
procity with Canada. 1t was the right
thing to do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

Something real in the way of retri-
butive justice happens once in a while.
The robber who held up a Chicago res
taurant for $4,000 had his loot taken
from him a few moments later by
three men who held him up as he was
making a getaway
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

sent to prison for conspiring against
this country, has just been freed from
the federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth. He announces that he is going
to hurry on to Mexico to join the
evolutionary forces. The opportunity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

Some idea of the magnitude of the
Mexican revolution, or tile lack of it,
is gained when it is realized that the
population of that country il estimated
at 100000, and there are not as
many as a thousand rebels in the field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

he has to prove that the pen is
mightier than the sword is unusual.
So far the Mexican revolutienists have
have not been able to make much
progress with swords and guns. the
accepted weapons of war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

Times are changing, and for the bet
ter, indeed. The old-fashioned comic
valentine is reported not to be in very
high favor these days. Nor was there
ever much excuse for it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
Singing in English.

Mr.. Andreas DIPPED, in an address
delivered at a luncheon given in his
honor at the Jefferson hotel during
the opera season, sketched most in
terestingly a plan for the simultaneous
development in a number of the cities
OF grand opera in English. Now it
is commonly charged that accepta Bile
opera in English is not possible be-
cause of the unmusical quality of
English words. And when the cham
pion of opera in the tongues of the
Parthians. Modes, Elamites and dwell
ers in Mesopotamia-the language of
any place and any people except the
lands of Jonathan and John Bull
reaches the point where his great
coup is in order, he produces a libret-
to OF standard opera and triumph
antly read the 'barbarous English
equivalents of "Vol che sapete, y
Strida la vampa,'' or "Verdrai, carl
no.
1t sufficiently disposes of this lat
Ter demonstration to observe that the
English Ibretti on sale at the doors
or opera houses were never written
| to be sung, but solely to tell the Eng
lish listener what it is all about; that
they are the veriest trash, the dregs
and rinsings of the caldron of transla-
ton. The average English version of
a nopera book is inaccurate, silly, I'M
idiomatic, unmusical, and vulgar,
though in other respects it may be
fairly satisfactory.
Is English singable? Are is sylla-
bles musical?
In answer we place in evidence, as
Exhibit A. the following familiar
lines from an English poet, one Will
liam Shakespeare:
'sWho 10 Sylvia What /. she
That all our SWANS commend her?
Holy, fair and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her
That she might admired be-
There are in that passage sixteen
1t is. considered wholly apart from
its sense, singab1e and beautiful.
Another familiar Shakespeare song
begins:
''Hark, bark! The lark from heavens
gate sings,
And Phoebus gins to rise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that Hes
remarkable; there are fifteen long
voWels to thirteen short ones. Or
take, as an ''unconSidered trifle," by
no means remarkable or famous, the
speech of Puck:
Flower of this purple dye,
Hit with Cupid's archery
Sink an apple of his eye.
When his love he doth espy,
Let her shine as glorious1y
As the Venus of the sky
Here the proportion of long sy1-
tables is not so high, but many of the
short ones are highly musical.
One need not keep to Shakespeare
to defend the singableness of Eng
fish. Look at:
Break, break, break
On thy cold gray stones, o sea!''
AS actually sung, there is not a
short syllable in the two lines. Or
take nursery rhyme:
Bobby Shaftos gone to sea,
Silver buckles on his knee
He'll come back and marry me,
Pretty Bobby Shafto!''
Read Poe's Raven" simply as an
exercise in phonics, and note the re-
sult.-St. Louis Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13

Everything is certainly carried on in
New York on a large scale. A fire has
burned on one of the islands within
the limits of that city for two years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
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
gaTtzation 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, 1911-02-13

Now that the per capita wealth of
the United States has been announced
at s34,43, there will be a rush of ed
itors, as usual, to call attention to the
fact that they haven't their share.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-13
FpON O7EER PENS
PHILosoPHIC ANARCHISTS.

After ills it will be easy to believe
that there is such a thing as philo--
sophie anarchism and that most of the
anarchists are of the philosophic va
riety. How else shall we account for
a host of them, estimated at 1000
strong, turning back from one of their
red tagged and loud lunged parades
at the "G'Wani" of a single policeman.
It will not do to say simply that the
fighting reactions of a band of anarch-
lists is not keyed to respond to single
policeman and that it takes the sight
of whole squad athwart their way
to start riot. or that these profess
siona1 demonstrators against organized
society were taken by. surprise at the
delightful incongruity of the lone Off
nit, as they might have been, for ex-
BUSINESS to know if they had brought
their visiting cards. Such psychology
ica1 considerations may explain much,
but they will not explain all.
Indeed, if the band stopped by the
single officer had been anything but
philosophers can any one think they
would have stopped? Will the aver
age unphilosophical mob turn at the
sight of one policeman? And are any
but philosophers Indifferent to the
consequences of making themselves
and their profession ridiculous, of pro-
Tossing undying hatred to the constf-
tuted authorities. for example, and be-
ing thrown into confusion by the de-
mand of a piece of paper showing
that they were acting with the approx
al and consent of those authorities ?
New York Tribune.