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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
NATURE BUMPS SPECTATORS.

Certainly there is nothing of regret
among the vast army of consumers in
this country, who have been holding
the bag for so long, at the predica-
ment in which the SPECTATORS in food
stuffs have found themselves during
the past few weeks, and which has
caused many Of them to lose large
fortunes. It had begun to look as
though these men who have been TAX
ing advantage of cold storage houses
to keep up the prices of eggs, butter
and the like, were going to successfully
play their games forever, unless the
strong arm of a new law stepped in
that would prohibit them from keeping
things in storage as long as they
pleased.
A stronger law than that which man
could make stepped in. however,
work of old Mother Nature-and the
rapacious spectators in food stuffs
were put to rout. In the great agri-
cultural regions of the nation there
has been nothing much so far that has
savored of winter weather. Hence, the
hens proceeded to become helpful. So
did the cows. Fresh eggs and large
quantities of them began to make their
way to the markets many weeks before
the usual time. So did country butter.
The result was inevitable. It's next to
impossible for cold storage eggs and
the same kind of butter to compete
with the real things in that line. The
men who had speculated in these prod
ucts had gone their limit. They
couldn't take care of the new products
that were coming in. They couldn't
gobble them up and put them in stor
age, for they had exhausted their
means, and were possessed of all they
could buy in this line. In order to
prevent mourning almost total losses,
they had to turn their supplies on the
market and the prices went down.
Many of these men have been brought
face to face with financial ruin. And
while sympathy is generally extended
to all people who go broke, it is likely
that most folk are inclined to the be-
lief that these Spectators have got no
more than they deserved.
Cold storage is a great thing, an al
most necessary thing in these days of
complex civilization ard complex
trade. But its possibilities have been
shamefully abused by the greedy. And
they are paying the penalty now. 1t
is likely that cold storage will be
abused again, when conditions become
right for SPECTATORS to take advantage
of them. 1t is likely thai federal and
state legislation will have to be framed
in the future for the regulation of cold
storage plants But the halt that ma
ture has called this year in the oper-
atoms of the cold storage spectators
will undoubtedly have a most salutary
effect 1t will make them a trifie more
cautious. What has happened once is
more than likely to happen again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
NEARLY CLEAN-UP DAYS.

Winter is almost over. Have you
made any plans to improve the town
in which you live? asks the Kansas
Industrialist, and it continues: Do you
clean up once or twice year, or 365
days in the year? What will you do
with the vacant lots; grow weeds or
have gardens? How about the yards?
VIII they be kept clean or will trash
accumulate and make breeding place
for flies and disease germs? If you are
interested in improving your town, try
some of these plans, recommended by
E. L. Holton, professor of rural edu-
cation in the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college.
All small towns have vacant lots
which produce only weeds. Organize
club among the boys. Rent every
boy a lot Have him pay certain
amount depending upon the size and
location of the lot. Then offer prizes
for the best cultivated lot, the best
producing lot, etc. Give a prize to
the boy that sells the largest amount
of garden stuff, or the boy that grows
the largest ear of corn. the best ear
of corn. the best pumpkin, etc. Do
clean and your boys busy.
Girls might be allowed to enter this
contest, if there are plenty of lots, but
preferably, a flower club should be
organized. Give every girl some flow
er seed. Let her choose the kinds she
likes and believes will be the prettiest.
Offer prizes for the best arranged
flower bed, the prettiest flower bed,
and the flower bed which lasts the
longest. Get the girls interested in
planting parkings and small vacant
spaces with flowers and help them by
protecting their gardens.
Having given the children some
thing to do, try to find something by
which you can help the town. Tin
cam days might be organized. Have
the mayor set aside certain days for
a general cleaning. Pile all refuse in
the alleys, and have wagons, hired by
the city or lent by some enterprising
citizen, to haul 1t away.
Keep the business district clean,
Wash the windows once in while.
Paint the buildings. Plant vines,
trees, bushes and flowers. Build new
sidewalks and keep the old ones in
repair. Offer prizes for the best yards,
the neatest street, and the cleanest
block. Arouse your neighbor to do
! his part and make your town the
cleanest, prettiest and best in the
state.
| One town in Kansas has a system
for keeping clean. The mayor has
general supervision. He appoints
| boys to look after certain blocks and
report to him the condition of the
streets, alleys and yards. Regular
"house-cleaning" days are appointed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

a milk wagon should cross over. put
il it's a girl, and she is in her auto.
|she shouldn't be obliged to, snouio
she?'
Miss LOSING said Mr.. Fairlee,
II understood that when you met
Farmer Jones you were on the right
hand side of the road"
81 thought I was. but guess
wasn't
.sAnd he drove into your auto 2" .
II guess I drove into his load OF
hayl"
Mr.. Fairlee. attorney at law and
coming Log Cabin Jurist. rose up ana
paced back and forth for two minutes
and then delivered himself of TINS
opinion:
Miss Losing, we are beaten on
our case higher than a kite!'
ooh, I'm SO sorry!"
But it is just as well. have de-
cided to drop the law and take up
''What?" she whispered.
''This!" he replied, as he reacheo
for her hand and continued to hold II
until her mother was heard coming
out on the veranda.-(Copyrigh
1911 by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

and one-half miles This will provide
the necessary excuse Of consigniEg
vessels of war equipped with armor of
this quality to the scrap pile. Many,
many more millions Of dollars will
now have to be spent in providing
armored vessels that will be able to
hold their own with the new pro-
JectiIes When that has been brought
about more powerful. projectives will
likely be developed. Thus does the
race for efficiency between armor and
projectiles keep merrily on its way ad
infinitum. And the people, the dear
people, and likewise the poor people,
have the pleasure of holding the bag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.
EFrom the Atchison Globe.


When in doubt, buy liver.
Hatred is worse habit than. cigar
cite smoking, and harder to break.
What has become of the old fash
toned boy who smoked grape vine?
A loafer doesn't get very good re-
suits out of the economy he practices.
No one feels quite as important as
a little man who has just called big
man liar.
A genius is the one who does today
what the other fellow thinks he will
do tomorrow.
The real estate dealers seem to have
remembered a good deal of the land
God forgot.
The club is the only convincing ar
gument, and no gentleman will use
that on a woman.
There are still a few people, we
notice, who consider the tambourine
musical instrument.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned circus that advertised Behe-
moth of Holy Writ.
Most any woman can accumulate
money by going bareheaded, but what
would the milliners do?
There is no need of looking for
trouble. Get elected to the city coun-
Gil and trouble will come to you.
So many women believe men join
lodges just to get another excuse for
coming down town after supper.
What has become of the o1d-fash-
toned woman who saved all the paper
sacks that came from the grocery?
AS a rule, there is little complaint
against those who can't pay their
debts: it is against those who won't.
It doesn't ease the grief of the be-
| reaved ones much to tell them the OBJ
| ject of their tears is better off dead.
It isn't the man who really has q
complicated past who runs it in Sc
rial form for the benefit of his steady
| girl.
Plenty of people reserve the bulk
| of their po1iteness for occasions when
| they figure on asking for something.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
HYHAWKER JOTy

If the warm weather continues. the
baseball microbe will be coming out
i ahead of time, thinks the Hutchinson
News.
The Lawrence World has arrived at
the conclusion that s'if the DEVILS only
workshop is an idle mind. every news
paper man ought to be q saint
More evidence that some people are
easily satisfied: There is no town
quite so good as Lawrence" says Sen
ator Brady in his Lawrence Journal.
To prove it's assertion that Kansas
is not the only state that has fool laws,
the Lawrence Gazette points out that
Missouri's game laws protect jay birds.
Some men reached the height OF
says the Hill City Republican, and
others are pushed up with sharp
sticks.
| It takes forty years to turn out a
self-made man, says the Peru Citizen,
| but given a big mirror and lot OF
other things and self-made woman
comes forth in about an hour and a
half.
The man who claims to stay away
from church because there are a lot
of big hats between him and the
preacher could probably invent, says
the Downs News. another excuse just
as easily if the occasion required
According to the Hiawatha World,
woman in that town whose husband
has an auto says she wishes that he
would run 1t In telegraph pole
and knock it to pieces fer she is tired
of taking in washing to keep it run
ming.
A man who is considerable of a loaf
er got q present from a real friend.
relates the Sabetha Herald. 1t was
wall-hanger, bearing these words:
''Y esterday is dead-forget it; tomor-
row does net exist-don't worry; today
is here-use it,
DR.. Cook tells a good story of how
he was about to kill himself to avoid
starvation, when a bear appeared He
killed the bear and was saved.
Strange to say there will be those
who will doubt DR.. Cooks bear story.
Hutchinson News.
We hear that a certain Greenleaf
woman will not talk over the phone.
We supposed that any woman would
talk over the phone, over the back
over anything, just SO she could get
to talk; but it seems that we are mis-
| taken.-Greenleaf Sentinel.
According to'the Junk Editor of the
Emporia Gazette, here is the best
story he has seen in print for several
years: A young clergyman was COM
planning TO q friend that his congrega-
ton was made up of tightwads: They
are so stingy," he said, that when I
ask them to sing old Hundred they
sing The Ninety and Nine.'"
Charles Moreau Harger. editor of
the Abilene Reflector and professor of
Journalism at the State university, has
an interesting article in the Atlantic
Monthly for February on Journalism
as a Career" He concludes it as fol-
lows: 1.-The field is broad; it has a
place for writer's of varied accomplish
ments; it promises g. profession filed
with interesting experiences and close
contact with the worlds pulse. 1t is
not for the sloth nor for sloven, not
for constituencies nor for the unpre-
pared. Without real qualifications for
1t, the ambitious young person would
better seek some other lifework."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
QUAKER NrEDITArIoNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.]
The egotist believes that all Is are
on him.
1t isn't always wise to trust the
fellow who trusts to luck
The greatest puzzle in the world II
the success Of other people.
Riches may not bring happiness, but
lots of people would rather be rich than
happy.
Many a man who knows all about
cube root has some difficulty in squaring
himself with his wife.
In their admiration for the Golden
Rule some men allow distance to lend
enchantment to the view.
Blobbs-"Longbow is an awful liar"
Slobos-~Yes; I've known him to send
regrets to a O'Clock tea"
Harduppe-"Every man should mar
~. Everything I have in the world l
owe to my wife" Wigwag-"Don't for
get that ten-spot you owe me-"
1.-THE man who narries without mon
ey," observed the Wise Guy, Sentences
himself to a life of hard labor EN-
tiers into a labor union, eh?" smoker
ed the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[Fron the Chicago News I

IF'rom the Chicago Newsl
Loud apparel naturally proclaims the
man.
A woman's club sometimes reminds a
man of hammer.
Modern application is likely to extract
the teeth of an old saw.
No doubt the mind cure is all right
If you have the mind to begin with
Every man is a conner until he reach
es certain age-then he's a goer.
It's easy. for a pretty young widow
to make a man think he wants to marry
her.
The chap who gets free ride in a
patrol wagon isn't carrieu away with
enthusiasm.
A man likes to repeat the smart
things his children say, because he
imagines it is hereditary.
And the man who is driven to drink
by adversely probably would have II
brought to him by prosperity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A Joke that is carried too far soon
ceases to be one.
The rolling stone may gather no
moss, nor does it get into rut.
A rule that actually does work both
ways is often a mighty Door one.
y x =
Most of the men who are known as
good providers have enormous appe-
tites of their own to satisfy.
y X X
Don't forget that you may appear
quite as odd to some folk as other peo-
pie do to you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

They are going to establish a course
at the state agricultural college which
y Il teach the students taking it the
proper way to eat. This is all very
lovely but the essential thing in this
day of grace is not so much how to eat
as it is to get something to eat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press-1
Heaps and heaps of people can i'm
prove their morals by getting very
sick.
You can always prove a man is
wrong in an argument by letting him
do it.
A woman is most successful with
man by letting him think the success
is his.
The minute girl gets married she
wants some other girl to begin the
same trouble.
Enthusiasm is the first to burst into
hard game. and first to sputter out
of IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

Just at this season of the year there
appears to be no such thing as poor
ball player. Every player that is
signed up by every club in every part
of the country is styled in the news
papers as being "a good one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

A Japanese railroad man, who is
visiting in this country. says that too
much talk Of the possibility of war
between the United States and Japan
may lead to one. Evidently, he doesn' t
put much stock in the theory that
barking dogs never bite.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

The recent and material fall in the
prices of eggs and butter is not pleas
ing to everybody-far from it. The
farmers are very much put out about
it. Still, it is impossible to please
every one in the world at the same
time. That's why the round OF kicking
IS continual. When one class Of folk
have no reason to find fault, another
class has. And so it goes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

And the drop in the prices Of food
stuffs has also made it possible for
many people to renew their acquaint-
snce of years ago with bacon and eggs
at one and the same time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

A few buttons, more or less, in the
collection plates which are passed at
Grace church, New York, probably do
not worry the pastor and the treasur-
er. The church owns property that
nets it an annual income of $415,0OO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

About the only news coming from
the scene of the Mexican revolution
which is worthy of credence is thst
telling Of retreats or the part of both
the rebel and federal forces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

Another woman who saw Lafayette
during one of his visits to this coun-
try has just died. The figures on the
population of the United States during
that period are evidently not nearly as
large as they should be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

So many people of all classes are in
favor of President Taft's plan for
reciprocity with Canada, that it is
likely congress will give it a black eye.
That's the way congress has ever been
in the habit of doing things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
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
ganization 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, 1911-02-15

To the credit of the Mexican revolu-
tionists and also the federal troops op~
posed to them, it must be said that
they are a cautious lot. They never
take any chances of getting into a
fight that might be damaging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

Speaking of optimists. prominent
among them is a representative of a
detective agency who believes that the
bank robbers operating in Kansas will
be captured eventually
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

distressing news comes from Ger
many. A court ball had to be post
poned because Kaiser Bill is under the
weather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

Indications seem to point that there
is nothing but brine in that pork
barreP' which some of the wiseacres
discovered in the legislative cellar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

Governor Harmon's friends evidently
believe in ding time by the foreIock.
They have opened permanent head
quarters already for conducting a cam
paign to land the next Democratic
presidential nomination for their fav-
orite- Politics must be getting more
profitable all the time. If it were not,
its devotees would not keep so con-
tinuously at the game. There would
be a breathing sper once in a while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
Thief-Catching DOGS.

Eighteen thief-catching dogs sailed
for the far east in the steamship Mum
caster Castle. The dogs are consigned
to European business men in Hong
kong, who want them to guard their
property
There are a lot of thieves in Hong
kong" said Capt. Watson of the Nun
caster Castle, land we hope these beasts
will make quick work of them.
The dogs are big and lusty lunged.
and the last thing heard as the Mum
caster Castle passed down the bay was
a canine concert from the forward
deck, where were located the dog
houses in which the thief catchers will
spend their time on the way to China.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

There was an old fashioned Repub-
lican love feast in New York the
other night. Colonel Roosevelt was
there and he sat alongside Billy
Barnes. Other progressives and stand
patters mingled with each other like
there had never been any such thing
as differences between them If they
had been searched, though, it is likely
that long knives and other sharp
weapons for attack and defense would
have been found in their belts and
boots for use in case of an emergency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

Dave Leahy is of the opinion that
the legislature is farce. That's also
what Myra McHenry thinks about it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

and everybody helps. The result is
one of the cleanest towns in the state.
Every town can do this If it desires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

The United States now has some
coast artillery and projectiles for it
that will pierce the heaviest of armor
plate at a distance Of more than four
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
FROA O7EER PENS
BACK TO COMMON SENSE.


Judge Swann's commentator of the
jury which found Joseph C. Robin sane
in the face of the testimony of five
alienists that he was insane will prob
ably be generally Endorsed, whatever
credit may be allowed to the experts
in their special field of knowledge. The
latitude given in the courts to expert
witnesses has been so abused as to
constitute a serious obstacle to the adj
ministration of justice, and though due
weight would be attached to the pro-
fessional opinion of a physician that a
defendant In a criminal case was suf-
fering from pneumonia or smallpox,
the public has come to be exceedingly
skeptical of an opinion that the de-
PENDANT in such a case is suffering
from insanity sufficiently to relieve
him of responsibility and make him
immune from punishment.
The chief value of the jury system
lies in its capacity to produce verdicts
in consonance with the everyday COM
mon sense notions Of responsibility and
guilt. Its decision is intended to be
the judgment of the prisoners equals,
not sophisticated conclusion of q body
of psychologists and criminologists
The plea of insanity as an exemption
of responsibility is so often employed
that it has lost it's force. Juries will
find public opinion behind them in
ignoring technical refinements when
such pleas are made and deciding on
common sense grounds whether or not
the defendant understood his actions
a was justly responsible for them
New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

Cobble-I should like to lena vou that
80 old man, but know how it would be
r FL | didlIt would end our friendship
great deal of friendship between us.
think if you could make it five, we might
worry along on half as much-Iife
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

The Tailor-Married or single? The
Gustomer-Married. Why? The Tailor
Ihen let me recommend my patent safe
ty-deposit pocket. 1t contains a most in
geniouS little continuance that feels ex-
actly like a live mouse.-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

"A number of performances are being
described as iInproprieties, said one the
atrlcal producer. Yes replied the other,
IT'S getting harder every year to tell
what lmproprieties the public regards as
proper. w ashington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15

Il told you in SO many words not to
dare to take a drink todayi" said Mrs
hanback,. "Fhash what y did, m dear.
agreed Mr. Jawback. you toll me in SO
many words that I couldn't remember
em."-Boston Traveller