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ton cloths. canned beef, and fiaxseed
oil-cake are unchanged in price when
compared with April of last year.
Comparing April prices with those OF
the corresponding month last year, the
exported commodities showing the larg
esr percentage decreases in value per
unit Of qusntity were: Butter, 25az per
cent reduction; lard, 2S15 per cent: hops.
203z per cent; cotton seed oil-cake, 20
per cent; Illuminating oil. 10 per cent;
picked pork, II per cent: corn, II per
cent; billets. 161z per cent; cheese, 161z
per cent; tallow, 16 per cent; hay, 10
per cent; hams, 10 per cent: -four, 91z
per cent; wheat, S per cent; wire. 8 per
cent; and fresh beef. 5sz per cent. De-
creases Of from 3 per cent to 51z per
cent occurred in copper ingots, refined
sugar. bacon. pig iron, and bleached
cotton cloth. The comparatively few
articles whose export prices advanced
included rosin, in which the April, 1911,
price shows an increase of 62 per cent;
spirits Of turpentine. 445k per cent; fax
seed. 29 per cent; canned salmon, %
per cent; and unbleached cotton cloth,
10 per cent. Plug tobacco, leaf tobacco
and anthracite coal were higher in
price this year. but in no case did the
appreciation average more than per
cent
In imports the largest price increases
occurred in jute, so per cent; fax, "a
per cent; tin plate, 81 per cent; tin in
bars and blocks, q per cent; bitumin-
Gus ccal, "a per cent; still wine in casks,
23 per cent; wrapper tobacco, 19 per
cent; other leaf tobacco. Il per cent:
unbleached cotton cloth, II per cent;
bleaehed. 10 per cent; hemp, 1874 per
cent; wool dress goods, II per cent;
wool cloths, 6 per cent; and raw silk,
per cent. The principal decreases in
articles imported were in hops. OF
which the Price fell off "a per cent COM
pared with April last; mackerel, 25 per
cent; wool, class 1, II per cent; class
,, % per cent. and class 8, 8 per cent;
sisal grass. 121s per cent; pig iron and
cane sugar, each 16 per cent; tea, 10
per cent; raw cotton, Il per cent; and
manila, IL per cent
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. ]

lF'rom the Atchison Globe.
A narrow margin never spells pos
sible defeat to an egotistical candidate.
Our notion of wise man is one who
grasps the full meaning Of a bank
statement.
It is all right to have confidence in
yourself If other people feel the same
way about it.
A labor-saving device iE never saving
lazy men.
Considering how little it has to do,
q dog puffs and pants too much dur
ing hot weather.
Patriotism which doesn't demon
strate more than once year doesn'
amount to much.
On the other hand. when candi-
date really has a cineh on the election
he won't admit it.
It doesn't always prove that man
is henpecked Just because the family
property is in the wife's name.
Thoroughness is all right. except
that a humber Of people use it as an
excuse for being unnecessarily SLOW
While the rabbit is strict vegetar-
ian, It knows too much to try to con-
vince Cog that that is the proper sys-
tenn
Some women marry to reform their
husbands, while others seem to take
similar step to drive good men to
drink.
Time is valuable, but the man who
figures on spending nothing else while
on his vacation probably won't have
much fun.
High ideals are all right. but you
have a job on your hands when you
attempt to force other people to adopt
them
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KANSAS COAAENT
ZOE sHoRr EnrI.IsrAfErNrs.


Some of the regular army officers
nave sent out feeler on the sentiment
or the country regarding a proposed
six months enlistment for young men.
our on hand Judgmen. is that such
move would prove very popular and
likewise beneficial to both the coun-
try and to the young men taking adj
vantage OF the opportunity. It requires
ABOUT six months drill and training to
make an effective soldier out of raw
recruit, much longer time than which
spent on youths as intelligent as our
young American would be and ought
TO De superfiuous. unless It could be ac-
CURED under fire, which, after ALL is
the true seasoning process. There are
Few young men but who could very
lives in the camp. The experience
gained there would more than equal
the same time spent in any of our best
schools. Their training in sanitation.
carriage, discipline, and the advantage
of order and system and team work
would be OF immense advantage. They
would farther become the preferred
volunteer in case of war and would of
course receive the advantage of prefer
ence when it came to selection of Off
GERS, etc. Such a move on the part of
the government would certainly bring
good results. It beats a standing army,
the greatest expense of which is the
keeping OF its men out of the pursuits
of productiveness, and at the same
time provides a mighty reserve force
of trained men against that time.
Which, despite the hopes of US all, is,
unless all signs fail, on itc way to meet
US in battle array-Frankfort Index.
FRANCE AND HER AVIATORS.
Yesterday the French legislators dis
cussed the advisability CT taking up
the airship proposition with a view Of
stopping flights and preventing acct
dents and deaths. The French law
makers will find their task hopeless.
So long as there is life in the human
race, some one will be experimenting
with things that will cause more or
less trouble. In an earlier day a great
deal of trouble might have been pre-
vented by a law forbi6ding the dis
covery of gunpowder. The Indians
would have been better satisfied if
there had been a city ordinance pre-
venting Columbus from discovering
America
There is no use trying to prevent
men from killing themselves in expert
ments- The number of men killed in
auto accidents, and the fact that there
are So few towns where a "sane
Fourth is in operation Is proof enough
for the staten ent.-Salina Journal
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wrote him letter. It was a pitiful
little document that held a cry OF lone
Illness Edith, she said, was busy with
her new happiness-everyb body seemed
busy with their happiness, and she was
trying to paint and be happy without
Edith, without everybody. Wouldn't
George come down as a cure for home
sickness?
He came and found her so thin and
white that he cried, why, Vicky,
what is the matter ~
Nothing she declared, and on top
of her declaration broke down and
cried.
He petted her and went away with a
picture of her forlorn little face blot
ting out the image Of Edith's beauty.
he came down often after that and
one day he said, ST love yous Viclzy. I
want to take you home with me-
1t is pity, George"
st isn't he declared stoutly, you
are the one woman in the world for
me-"
She tried to believe him. but her
heart whispered, IF Edith were not
married. what then?''
Then like a thunderbolt came the
news of Richards death. Edith, heart
broken, went back to the old home
and Vicky gave up her idea of a career
and took up, once more, the life that
they had led together She said moth
ing to Edith Of her engagement to
George.
One day she took things into her
own hands. She telephoned to George
to meet her at the pier. and once more
he rowed her down the river. And
there Vicl<y set him free.
But why?" he demanded, don't
you love me?"
She would not meet his eyes,
Edith" she faltered I'm a little
time, she will have forgotten her sor-
row for Richard-and then-you-"
do you think for q moment,
Vicky," he demanded, that I want
Edith %
you loved her first" she said.
He leaned forward and took her
hand. Little child he said, 'it was
not love trat I gave Edith. 1 thought
it was, because I was blinded by her
beauty. But when she threw back to
me, 50 lightly, the heart that she had
won, when she had no sympathy, no
feeling for the boy she had known all
her life, I was disillusioned. It was
your sympathy, Vicky, which made a
man of me. 1t was your pity that re-
vealed to me what you might be as
wife. The love I had for Edith, COM
pared to my love for you, is as candle
light to moonlight
And Vicky was corsent.-(C Copy
right, 1911, by Associated Literary
Press.
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Night Life in berlin.

1t is on her famous night life that
Berlin POUNDS her claim - be the CAPT
tai of gayety, the revelry which goes
on from midnight to morning in the
gorgeous, ill-ventilated haunts of the
Friedrichstadt. The esser ce of the fun
in these places is champagne. Give a
German 'tSekt'' and you can do any
thing with him. It is his lie plus ultra
Of pleasure, the embodiment of aristo-
cratic wiekedness. The very ordering
of it marks the mood winch no longer
counts the cost. Who says "Sekt' has
done with hesitations, for that night at
least And the best of it is that it has
the same name, whether it Is some
dubious German brew or the real thing
from Epernay. In fact, in the former
case, it has a finer name. The night
life now begins in the splendid new
Palais de Danse, which is an annex
of the Metropol variety theater. One
is tired of emphasizing newness on all
occasions, but it is impossible to avoid
1t in Berlin. The Palais de Danse was
opened onNew Tears night, and every
thing in it is blatantly new. The dane
ing hall is circular apartment crown
ed with a glass cupola. 1t is blaze of
raw color; against the oppressively
gorgeous hangings are copies of we'll
known rocco paintings in the same
faring tone as the rest of the room.
There are also arrangements for she'd
ding vari-colored light. In the center
is a railed-of arena, where women in
fODpy hats and brilliant costumes
dance, mostly with each other. The
surrounding space is thickly beset with
small tables where men sit drinking
the inevitable champagne with more
women in foppy hats There is. how
ever, nothing at which to take offense.
At 1 o'clock the company adjourns
through a court lit with many colored
fountains to the adjoining Pavilion
Mascotte for supper and more cham
payne, till $3.50. The palace then
closes and the company moves off in a
body to the Bar Richie, on Unter-den-
Linden, where there is lore freedom
of choice in the matter Of drink, and
the fun begins to wax loud At the
crowd begins to thin. Some adjourn
to supper rooms in the neighborhood;
others to various nit or drinking
sembles at Toni Gruenfeid's, a suite of
long, narrow rooms. where champagne
is again the staple fare and the guests,
now warmed to the work, are uproar-
iously cheerful and the musicians are
hard put to it to make themselves
heard This is about the end of the
round. Afterward the habitues dis
pense to cafes to mitigate the effects
of the champagne with strong coffee
before going home. 1t is a beaten
track that the night livers tread. Every
night and at every place at the same
time you see the same fsces and the
same dresses. It is an expensive amuse-
ment To do the thing properly costs
from $25 to $50, according to ones
capacity for champagne. and the wait
ers will rob one ingly.-Berlin
Correspondent, New York Evening
Post
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A rumor is loose in washington to
the effect that congress is likely to take
a recess from July 1 to October l. If
various OF the senators had done a lit
tie work Instead Of playing politics for
their personal ends. the business of the
special session could have been trans
acted and final adjournment taken
by July 1. It will serve the senators
right if the house sees to it that they
swelter in Washington during the dog
days or until they take action on the
important legislation that has been
passed by the house.
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HUAOR OF THE Day

~, ~ fool and his money are soon parted
es, but you never call him a fool fin
the money is gone. Toledo Blade.
New official-why should give vo,,
JOB? You worked for my opponent An
plcant-Surei That's what queered him
Poet-Why do you call your cat "Manu-
scripty" Hackwriter-No matter how Of
ten or how far send him away, he al
Tramp-Mister. would you give a nickel
Tor mealY Peoestrian-For a glass of
says, boss; you're payin for it.-Boston
Transcript.
Mrs. Gillet lover the phone)-I want to
Caterer-What was wrong? Mrs. CsiIlef-
There was little fee cream in that salt
you sent us.-Life.
There is no such thing. Johnny" Mrs
Lapsling was saying "as blue-blooded
aristocracy.' All peoples blood is red.
That's due to the presence Of the red
corpuzzles in it-'-Chicago Tribune.
They Did That Time.-Mistress coming
home xpectedly)-Whats the meaning
of this? You've got on my blue skirt and
nay green silk blouse. Maid-Well. what
Of it? Don't they go gether?-Fliegend
Blaetter.
There's an English novelist at the next
table He's looking for pointers on Ameri-
can manners and customs, I understand -
In that case I suppose he viii be disap-
pointed if we don't eat with our knives. -
Pittsburg Post.
Mrs. Nexdore-Why won't you let your
Willie play baseball with the other boys?
Mrs. Greene-A part OF the game I under
stand, is stealing bases. and I'm afraid
it might have bad influence.-Boston
TRANSCRIPT
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Preachers at Asbury Park. n. J.,
are Mortified at the bathing suits that
some of the fair ones are wearing
They describe them as more cutaway
than costume" But then the preach
ers don't have to go to the beaches to
be Cfepded by these costumes if they
don't want to- This thought also raises
the question as to what style feminine
bathing suits would assume if there
We're no men on hand to watch the fair
bathers parade along the beaches and
occasionally stick their toes in the
water.
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NATURAL CARE OF CHILDREN

NEA4A1kEAAl NkAIAE VI Ot1Alx1AtL1Ns
The care of children is not prop
erly subject to theory, but to a con-
sideration of conditions, writes H. NJ.
Alden in Harper'a Magazine for July.
Childhood is the season of impress
sions. of plastic submission to these,
of bacl1ward-looking and waiting, as
youth is the season of forward-looE-
ing impulses. Nature has made this
distinction, and If in childhood she
makes preparation for the blossom
ing of youth. her processes are hid
den. We are advancing no theory,
but only recognizing this distinction
of terms. when we plead for the
child's free and full indulgence of the
backward regard. It is ours to help
him to his natural birthright, to lead
him into the field of the past, with
some sense of what calls him thither
"a sense which determines the con-
facts we give him-and there we
leave him free to derive his own i'm
pressions from the scene, the persons
all that makes the play. We burden
him with no technicalities, which he
no more needs than when he is
brought into contact with natural OBJ
jects; and we refrain from distracting
him by Interior meanings or analyti-
cal interpretations, which he may him
self seek later.
The past is not cherished simply be-
cause it is past. In the lines of Gull
ture the dust of antiquity has been
most diligently sifted fer It's hidden
wealth; and this wealth IS not that of
the market-place. but Of thu clearing
house OF the Imagination.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.I

II IOIu INC new OK EIEss.
A wife seems to take as naturally
to ported plants as to babies.
A man learns so much by middle
age it's a pity he doesn't also learn
how to make some use of 1t.
The reason a. man knows he can
paint inside the house for his wife
is she's so depressed to have him do it.
People are born such optimists that
they just go on and on hoping they
are going to get something out of life.
There is a kind of man who can get
so in the habit OF making failures that
he expects you to think they are sue
cesses.
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HOME News WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ZEN cents n week or thirty cents n
month Cby mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
ont OF town the state journal VIII ne
10 YOU like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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Failing to get recognition as the rep
resentatives of some sort Of a new
party when the committee assignments
were made. the Republican insurgents
in the United States senate haye ap-
parently chosen the only other alter
native to put the Republican party in
a hole by annexing themselves to the
Democratic party. OF course, thu
Democratic senators Will be glad OF
their assistance and Will treat them
fine until a simon pure Democratic ma
jority is attained in the senate. Then
the Democrats viii dump the insur-
gents. This is the way things worked
out in the house of REPRESENTATIVES.
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Without a doubt the most popular
bird in Oklahoma for some time to
come will be the parrot that has been
bequeathed a legacy of $4,000 by the
man who owned it for twenty years.
II the parrot is cared for by relatives
OF the deceased. it also ought to be-
come wonderfully proficient in the use
OF cuss words
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Guthrie. Okla, has probably recov-
cred from it's peevishness over the Joss
Of the honor of being the state capital
now that it has two sets of city Of
ficials including two complete police
forces. Such a condition Of affairs
ought to provide enough excitement
for any town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-26

Six courts in Boston are working
continuously these days to dispose CT
no less than 152 divorce cases which
were on their calendars for the month
Of June. And it may be necessary to
put two more courts to work to clean
up these divorce cases. Evidently the
culture and beans for which Boston Is
famous are not much Of a success as
promoters of marital felicity.
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It would appear to be 10 more than
a business move on the part of the
Kansas corporations, which are negli-
gent in this particular. to pay their
federal corporation tax. If they don't
each Of them is liable to a fine of
81. 600. and that is many times more
than the tax assessed against most of
them. There is no lodging this tax,
either. as this federal corporation tax
law has been sustained b. the supreme
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FROM OTHER PENS

HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN DANGER.
1t cannot be a pleasant thing to live
next to historic pile which threatens
to tumble down. A few months ago
there were fears that the wonderful
leaning tower of Pisa was unsafe, but
investigation resulted in reinsurance.
For some reason new apprehensions
have arisen. The fact that Father
Alfani, the world-renowned seismolo-
gist, has been engaged to look into the
matter would indicate that what is
dreaded is the effect of earth-oscilla-
ton, which must be frequent in Italy.
But the pressure of the wind on the
ancient edifice is the subject of scienti-
f1c measureme and Father A1fanf
has constructed an instrument by
which the minutest influence can be
ascertained.
The Bank of England is a modern
structure compared with Pisa's lean
ing tower, but the "Old Lady of
Threadneedle street." as the bank is
affectionately named by Londoners,
was constructed upon wooden piles,
and these have shrunk away, leaving a
space of several inches between them.
1t was the rotting of the piling beneath
it that caused the fall of the Campanile
at Venice. The piles under the Bank
of England are being removed and a
six-foot raft of concrete is suppressed
ing them The "OId Lady's'' position
averred with no intention of slang that
this ought to hold her for a WHILE
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
CAUSE OF REVOLUTIONS.
At last a Latin-Americsn comes for
ward with an explanation for the revo-
tuition habit. Up North we have been
inclined to accept the personal rival
ries and ambitions Of the leaders as
sufficient explanation, but this, of
course, did not take into account the
facility with which the I-atin-American
populace lent themselves to the
schemes of the conspirators. If we
thought of that at all we attributed it
to the Latin love of excitement. But
Joaquin Casasus, Mexican representa-
tive on the international boundary
commission, who offers the native ex-
PLANTATION, has more particular knowl-
edge.
The reason revolutions arc so popu-
lar in Latin America, he says, is be-
cause they are so profitable and re-
quire SO little cash capital to start.
Men will put $1,000 into a revolution
and take the risk carelessly, who could
not be induced to put the same sum
in a legitimate business investment
The Latin-Am erican, he AYERS, looks
upon a revolution as a gamble. II the
revolution wins the contributors to the
campaign fund shake the plum tree.
If the revolution fails the insurgents
are often bought off and the gentlemen
who took a little flier in revolutionary
common often makes 100 per cent
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Governor West, of Oregon, having set
a precedent by taking command of
posse and capturing a convict who. had
broken his parole, it would be all right
for Governor Stubs to take command
of the Montgomery Guards of Crawford
and Cherokee counties.
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court Of the United states. In all
probability, though, there has been no
disposition on the part Of the Kansas
corporations to dodge this tax. They
have merely been careless IN attending
tn IL
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED fRESS

The state Journal IS a member o. me
Associated Press and receives me lnn Gay ga.
feio9ranb report o. that great news or
ranizatiou for tho exclusive AFTERNOON
publication n Topeka. -. -....
The news Is received in The stare jour
nal buiIdine over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
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It's too bad that Kansas was not tho
scene last week of the coronation fes-
tivities. All kinds of rain fell while
they were in progress.
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The Aldrich plan for a revision Of the
banking and currency system Of the
country has considerable to recommend
it OF it would not have received such
an unqualified endorsement from Pres
f5ar+ Taft
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Summer has just begun. according
to the calendar. Therefore. a revision
Of the calendar is in order.
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has been ascertained that over
zO,oo0'0o0 gallons of liquor are shipped
TTera,s r9lOn states every year.
share enjoyed it. So Jul
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,,,,1 Acc g to the testimony, the gent
that While apples and cigars NAV he
good sucker bait. all members of a
legislature are not suckers. = Some Of
them are sharks. u
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marian: You'll have to ask some
p % Tor the answer to your question
OF golf etiquet; the only golf etiouet
~! which this department is posted
Is; Always use a mashie to swat fhe
caddie over the conch.-von -e,e-b+
break niblick." -
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+ba -iaty' you may nave observed that
ID ~ res les, 81 Chautauqua meeting
ana 81, s Low the req ants, mosquitoes
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chanute congregation threatens
TO can its preacher because he re-
FUSED to pray for rain. They do not
could raise a rain by pravinsy fo1. -
he wouldn't have to preach In cha.
mute; he could hire manager and
charge dollar head for giving ex-
hibitions.
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June Fl was alleged to be the long
really the longest day. It was sund i ~