The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-22

telegraph report OF that great news "a
ganization for the exclusive afternoo
publication IN Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur
pose
A good right leg is a terrible pric
to pay for the sport of killing a fey
quails.
This second trial of DR. Hyde il
pretty small potatoes. A jury has beer
obtained already
Indications are not lacking tha
President Madero will have a busy
time in preserving the peace OF
Mexico
Permission to operate a motorcycle
Should be denied any man who viii
drive one with two little girls on it a
the rate of thirty miles an hour.
Professor Ferrero's deliberately
worded defense of the massacre OF
Arabian women and children by the
Italian army falls far short of wiping
out the blood-stains.
Even the Chinese Of exclusive caste
seem to be developing rapidly in the
ways of modernity. Princess Lai, the
mother of the Chinese emperor has
eloped with an actor.
President Taft's message to con-
gress ought to have a few stingers in
it if he writes it while he is suffering
from a severe cold. Most men write
as they feel, and when a man has a
cold he feels pretty mean.
President Sherman is wearing
a 81 suit to illustrate his arguments
on the wool tariff. says the Denver
Republican, but in the states where
women vote probably he will com
mand quicker attention by having it
marked $3.50.
Maybe Larned has counted a chick
before it was thoroughly Matched. For
reasons best known to himself Gov
ernor Stubs is withholding his APP
proval of the location of the new state
hospital as determined by the state
board Of control.
In all probability the dove of peace
will continue on its vacation until it
has expended all of the $4,000 600
that Andrew Carnegie placed at its
disposal This is the way with most
humans. They never get exceedingly
busy until they are broke.
An adequate explanation comes at
last as to why so many of the soldiers
in the regular" Chinese army are de-
sorting to the revolutionists The lat
ter have plenty of money to pay their
troops while the governments treas
1ry is like unto a barren waste.
One dozen government sheep are
to be exhibited at the national sheep
show in connection with the conven-
ton of the National Wool Growers
association to be held at Omaha. De-
cember 1916. An interesting exhibit
at the next chronological congress
would be a dozen of the governments
s'goats."
( Those surgeons at Yonkers. n. Y.
who have been successful in operating
on fourteen-year-ol boy to cure
him of his meanness would be in great
demand if all the people in need of
similar operations would only submit
to them. Not many will. though. |
Some people couldn't be happy if they
weren't mean.
Several prominent politicians have
insisted lately that the Sherman anti
trust law is without teeth. and that /
such as were in it We're removed by /
the supreme court in the Standard Oil /
and Tobacco trusts decisions. From
the strenuous efforts they are making
to avoid going to trial, it is apparent |
that the big beef barons of the land
are not of this opinion.
|
Nirginia's barrier against the pres
ence of newspapermen at eIectrocu- /
tions suggests to those on the inside of /
the game that not very many report
ers would attend the infliction of any
kind of capital punishment We're thew
not ordered to do so. Nor would their
bosses send them on such assignments
if morbid public did not demand the !
details of all such distressing affairs. /
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Next years wheat crop is being |
viewed with alarm already by the pro-
Eessional crop killers. They even go
50 far as to say that the cold weather |
Of recent date damaged it to the ex-
he cold weather had not come along
his same gentry would have insisted
hat the wheat prospects had been
materially injured for lack of such
climatic conditions.