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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
: GLOBE SIGHTS.
fFrom the Atchison Globe.

IFrom the Atchison Globe
Confidence fails oftener than any
other crop.
Contradiction isn't proof, as some
people imagine.
Do you pick your friends. or mere
" pick at them2
Being pretty helps a woman, but it
is joke on a man.
A boy is as proud of his muscle"
as a girl is of her looks.
Women talk about the men, and
the men talk about themselves.
Conversation, like interviews, so
often appears in monologue form.
Ever notice that the Iittlest man
usually carries the largest suit case
girl will use a new tooth brush
pretty persistently for a while, but a
boy won't
While a man may be piggish in
some particulars he doesn't want two
girls at one time.
Anyone who trims his toenafIs in
the morning has too much leisure or
gets up too early.
When big talker is silent for a
minute or two everyone says: Whats
the matter; mad?"
No woman can prove she is a per-
feet lady by horsewhipplng the man
who says she isn't.
If a man pays his debts promn4lv
there is always someone to fish him
out of the tight wad class
When pugilist quits training. his
body usually becomes as fat as his
head was in his palmy days
Times really change less than the
old people who talk about the excel
lence of those that are past.
Springing the boom a. the lopica,
time also has much to DE- with deter
mining the logical candidate
A piano contains a mile oe -.
and the young lady prscticing on =
travels the distance too C1ten.
Incidentally, you ere doinp
friend 4 favor when you add a i,,.ta
bit to your savings bank deposlt ''''As
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Thackeray got the best possible title
for one of the best novels in the
world when he jumped cut of bed at
Brighton with the inspiration of wan
ity Fair" But one wonders what
would have happened to the story had
1t appeared under the title, Pencil
Sketches of English Society,"" which
was the best he could think when "up
and about" That is possibly the least
appealing of titles-until we remem-
Der another. and wonder still more
whether the title has anything to do
with the books grip of the reader
The other is "Pfckwick."
At this distance in time Vanity
Fair" and "Piczwick'' seem contem-
poraneous. Thackeray got the right
title, and Dickens the wrong one.
THE Posthumous Papers of the Pick
wick club" A most deadly title, one
would think. But it mattered not a
bit. The readers have made the small
correction, with the help of the pub
fishers. On the back of two of my
favorite copies is The Pickwick Pa
pers." And wherever mer talk (wom-
en- don't care about hirn) the book is
simply ''Pickwick." The title seems to
have had nothing to do with the sue
cess of either Dickens or Thackeray,
for to the good book the readers will
give the title.-London Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
Language of Great Danes.

Has a Great Dane dog, owned by
German, any right to bite an irish
MANI This is a question upon Wnlch
Supreme Court Justice Ford has re-
served decision. There are side lights
to the main question, but they are like
froth upon the glass of Pilsener that
the plaintiff was drinking at the time,
a part of the case, but irrelevant to the
main fact.
The man who was bitten is Peter H.
Heagan. For assault by the Great
Dane he has sued for 5000, which he
asks Jacob Berger to pay. Heagan ana
Berger differ politically Whether they
vote the same way on election day
makes not the slightest difference.
Mr.. Berger keeps a saloon, termed by
Mr. Heagan a gin mill, where beer is
drawn from the wood Berger draws it
and Heagan pays for what he gets 1t
was while Heagan was slipping glass
1 of beer that the argument over politics
| became co hot that Berger decided to
sacrifice finance to sentiment and or
dered his customer out of the place. No
man who has just paid for a glass Of
| lager likes q saloonkeeper, who a min
ute before has asked what he will have,
to be told to drink it and get out. And
besides, if a slOon is not a place to
drink beer and talk politics, what Is It
| for?
With A seIf-assertiveness that left no
doubt of his manliness and his opinion
Of Berger, Heagan said he would re-
main.
Then it was, Heagan explained to the
court, that he was double-crossed by
| Berger. Berger ceased addressing him
in English and spoke rapidly in German.
The dog, that had been catching flies
and keeping persons with no visible
means of support away from the free
lunch, gave a bound toward Heagan
1t is for the action of the dog that
! Heagan sues.
He declared in court that he knew
the dog understood two languages
German and English. and thought Also
| because of his nationality, he spoke
| Danish, or understood it, although he
would not swear he ever heard the dog
spoken to in Danish.
Berger insisted that he did not ad-
dress the dog in German and command
( him to make a meal off Heagan. He
says while he spoke about something in
German. the dog seized Heagan by the
| trousers and escorted him to the door
The animal, he insisted had heard
Heagan refuse to leave the place and
could not stand for the attitude he as
sumed in refusing to do it. 1t was his
opinion that Heagan had made some
remarks about the dogs nationality
which the animal, being sensitive. and
having few relatives in the country, re-
sented.
The dog was not called as a witness.
| although the court interpreter was
there in case he was called to see
whether in his few years in this coun-
try the dog had picked up any other
languages than those that Heagan was
certain he understood.-New York
American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

The wave of reform in medical edu-
cation moves steadily on. and of much
significance is the part which state
universities are taking in this reform,
says the journal of the American
Medical association. Slowly but sure
~ colleges organized and conducted
on the stock corporation basis are
either obtaining connection with pri-
vately endowed universities or are
giving way to the state supported uni
versity medical school In the latter
instance, the medical school is con-
Quoted as an integral part of the
states educational system. The lat
est instance is in Arkansas, where
two independent medical schools. the
College of Physicians and Surgeons
and the University of Arkansas Med
ical Department. both of Little Rock,
have been united. The school formed
by this consolidation is to be con-
trolled and financed by the University
of Arkansas. This is but repetition
of what has already taken place in
Indiana, Minnesota, Colorado, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
AN INSULT 10 KANSAS.

It's little else than an insult to the
Republican voters of the Second Kan
sas congressional district-that action
of their congressional committee
which proposes to deny them the right
of a primary for nominationg can
didate for the seat in the house of
representatives made vacant by the
death of Alexander Mitchell. Further
more, it is an insult to the reputation
of the whole state of Kansas, one u
the pioneers in the movement to pro-
vide a fair and honest means of NOM
mating candidates for all of the public
offices. The right of the committee to
take the action that it has is to he
tested in the courts. And there may
be a legal link which will sustain the
action of the committee because the
coming congressional election in the
Second district is a special occasion
Still the law that applies to nominal
ing primaries for regular congressional
elections ought to apply just as forci-
bly, to a special election of this sort,
even if the law does not specifically 50
state.
For several years now primaries for
the selection of candidates for every
public elective Office have been the
order of the day in Kansas. This sys-
tenn is one Of the political reforms Of
the present era that has been decided
" worth while And nothing but
smiles of derision are due to any po-
liticaI committee, that happens to be
hacked in the interest of a certain
candidate. which has the temerity to
nullify such a settled political prin-
cipIe.
OF the four candidates for this
nomination, three of them, Brady Of
Douglas county, Keene of Bourbon
county, and Scott of Allen county have
expressed themselves in favor OF
primary. Guyer of Wyandotte county
is willing to trust his chances to the
congressional committee. the old way
that nominations were made for spe-
cial elections when the political ma
chimes" were in their heyday Guyer
has been classed among the ultra-in-
surgent Republicans in Kansas. The
congressional committee for the Sec
ond district is controlled by a major
itv of the same brand of Republicans
This makes it all the Iaore remark
able that the committee should have
the effrontery to return to archaic
methods. Not so many days ago
Guyer delivered himself of a some
what facetious effusion to the effect
that it was not necessary for him to
wear u label telling what kind of
Republican he was He did say, how
ever, that he was proud to stand on
the same kind of a progressive plat
form on which Alex. Mitchell made
his successful race. Alex. Mitchells
body would turn over in the grave if
it could learn of the fact that his Re-
publican friends of other days were
going to deny the voters Of the Second
district their right to nominate his
successor through the medium of
urinary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
ROCKEFELLER'S TRIBUTE TO
WIEEI

According to his own recent state
ments. the venerable autocrat of
Standard Oil is mot so much For he
attributes all the financial success he
has attained to the shrewdness and
ability of his wife.
The world has heard but little, very
little, of Mrs. Rockefeller. At last
the old man introduces her to pub
lie attention. She, according to his as
sertions, has been the brains of the
family. She has planned and en-
gineered the deals which have given
her husband unlimited power in the
world of finance
This acknowledgment comes rather
late. On the face of his statement,
his stand in the matter would seem to
be rather kindly and deserved pub
lie recognition of and tribute to his
heipmate. And, for her sake. let it be
hoped he is not actuated by desire
or willingn ess to evade any of the re-
sponsibility for his reputation as a
trust magnate and typical grabber of
the millions which should have been
shared with less scrupulous and more
deserving morals.-Chicago Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
FROM OTHER PENS
THE ANGLo-sAxON IDEA.


In his England and the English,
Price Collier refers to the old Anglo
Saxon ideas of government, still pre-
vailing in England. of choosing their
chief and ablest men to govern them
which was the basic doctrine of repre-
sentative government, and then says:
mo Am erican wishes to see that So
luton of government, of all by the
best, chosen in open and free competi-
ton fall
It seems that the author was i'll ad-
vised, for there are many who desire
to see it fail, which is the meaning
of the referendum movement; that is
resorted to because the people, having
failed in electing their chief and ablest
men, find that they themselves must
attend to those duties which their
agents refuse to perform.
That is to say, having failed to
choose good and responsible men,
they undertake themselves to enact
good and sensible laws; for if they
elected able and reliable men there
would be no need for them to enact
laws. They trusted themselves in
choosing representatives, but not in ac-
comprising legislation. That was the
Anglo-Saxon style out Of which this
republic grew.-Ohfo Stste Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many people expect altogether
too much for the bait they use.
y
It's also a fact that any number of
men work very hard without attaining
much in the way of results.
=
Most folk. returning from their va
cations, actually could use q few days
to good advantage in resting up
y
If the average woman had her way
in building a house, most of 1t would
be taken up with closets for clothes.
Presumably the weather man cuts
up as he does because he discovered
long ago that it was impossible to
please everybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

hands. 7 thought so. Go on, quick.
Uncle AL
'.she would not listen to explana-
tons, and resented her unreasoning
jealousy, and assumption that Belle
was an old sweetheart, or anyone L
had not told her of. SO we separated,
after one month of married life, ana
have never even heard from her
SINCE
Gretchen rose from the tabourette,
and started towards the telephone. AZ
the bookcase she stopped, and lllteo
from it a portrait of Dolores, and had
her reward at the look that swept over
Elsterbrook's face when he saw it.
Where is she?' he asked, tensely'
but Gretchen rang up. and called a
number without replying.
rs that Mrs Devereux's2 Oh thank
you. May I speak to Dolores, please
Mrs. Devereuxl It's very important. p,
She turned with a happy smile 1uli
of mischief. and handed him the re-
ceiver.
There she is" she whispered,
Now tell her who Belle was, and go
and find her"
So the message went over the wire
to Dolores, standing like a statue a.
the other end, her face paled as she
heard the dear tones again OF the man
she loved, and had doubted.
Listen. DEAR" he said. Gretchen
told me of you, and the picture dld
the rest. I am calling now 70 get
you. Er-wait. Belle is still with
me. Her full name is Nevada Belle
and she is the best riding horse l ever
had. Do you understand, dear? III
be at the Square in ten minutes.
He hung up the receiver, and turn
ed to Gretchen, as she stood wide
eyed, and laughing.
II am going down to bring her
home, and you had better make ar
arrangements to go west with us next
week, grille. Art is long, you know,
and life is short, and love is mighty
sweet. You may find the right one
waiting for you right down there in
our Texas land
Gretchen laughed, as she handed
him his hat and cane.
IF I do, I won't let myself show
jealousy on the honeymoon. Uncle
Al. Not till I'm sure it isn't horse
or dog, or a gold mine. '-(COpyright,
1911, by Associated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

That Kansas Semi-Centennial parade
of floats which is to o-rur in Topeka
during the state fair week will be some
thing worth looking at Five pretty
girls from each IF many of the Kan
Eas cities are going to adorn floats sig
ni6cant of their home towns And
when it comes to pretty girls. Kansas
is even more distinguished than it :
for it's wheat and corn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
EUII, LEASED WIRE REPORT
or THE ASSOCIATED PRhs5S
Hoan NEws WILLIE AVA.

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press. ]

IFIOIl 1HS new 4 VI X LTESo-
Two women try to show their fond
ness for each other with kisses; two
men, with kicks
The kind of girl every man wants to
marry is the kind his mother doesn't
want him to.
The reason a man likes blood and
thunder in novels is he's so mild and
gentle in real life
The average man wouId rather have
you think he had a fine taste about
neckties than that he was a good citi-
zen-
way his shirts were Numbered that he
wouldn't know if there wa stock
market panic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

With $50 automobiles in Topeka.
this means one motor car to &c in
habitants. 1t is likely that each of
the automobiles caters to the en-
5oyment of the average family of five.
So this means that each Topekan in
IA gets a frequent automobile ride.
And as most of the automobile own
ers are pretty generous in taking
their friends out occasionally, even
this small ratio is reduced consider
abIv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Hunnewell. at any rate, since a mayor
ess has been ruling there. She and
her unfriendIy councilmen got togeth-
er the other night and ordered the
payment of the bill for the repair of
the town pump
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

New Jersey has a regulation similar
to the one in Kansas prohibiting the
use of the common drinking cup. But
New Jersey is having trouble enforc-
ing this law. This calls attention to
the fact that there is little IL any
trouble in Kansas of enforcing any
old kind of a law If the public auth
critics are so disposed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

After the dry spell in Kansas came
some floods. This is more evidence,
II any were needed, that it never
rains but it pours. Still it will take
more than a dry spell followed by
floods to quell the enthusiasm and
optimism of the Kansas farmers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Charles NJ. schwab may well be
pardoned for being proud of the fact
that the idea of organizing the United
States Steel corporation originated in
his fertile brain. 1t certainly is a
wonderful concern-for the people
who own and control it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
A wAR oF GREEp.

MISUNDERSTANDING the eflOFtS Oh the
nations, i'll which the United States
has taken the initiative, to establish
a condition by which war shall be elm
mated and national disputes settled en-
tirely by peaceful arbitration, the war
clouds are frowning ominously in Eur
ope and peace is hanging by a thread,
at the viii of an imperial parsonage
who holds in his hand the destiny of
millions of humans who stand ready
to do his bidding.
The greed for territorial acquisition
is at the bottom of the trouble and it
demonstrates how easily the peace of
the world can be broken when selfish
designs actuate the purpose of ma
ton
To estimate The cost in life and prop
erty Of such a war as may be precipi-
tated by this selfish motive, is hard
ly possible. The TERRITORY in question
would certainly be no adequate COM
pensation from a monetary or ma
terial view and the untold suffering
that would be engendered is beyond
the comprehension of mortal man.
Its termination would in all proba-
bility change the map of Europe, and
possibly might involve the world in
conflict with consequences so appall-
ing that it scares the mind in it's very
contemplation.
Whatever may be the result of the
present trouble, the fact that greed
is at the bottom of the difficulty speaks
poorly for the influences that Chris
tan nations are supposed to exert on
the destinies of the World-Clay Cen
ter Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Isn't there some judge in Brooklyn.
n. Y. who is sufficiently coura geous to
follow the example of his brother judge
an Des Moines and stop the Brooklyn
street car strike in the new and most
effective way. Probably no.. They'r
particularly standpat on the old law
an the far eastern sta es
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

TAKING THE RISK.


Ihere was a man at Nortonville
who was given to the flowing bowl
at irregular intervals. When sober he
was decent, agreeable fellow. with
OUT much stamina or force Of charac-
Ter ana when he was saturated with
1usSl OIL he was a fool. and an annoy
anes to the entire community.
Flnally be fell In love with a desir-
aoie oamsel. anc she looked kindly
upon him. He made his VOWS that he
was done with the booze. Never again
would ne commune with Hon. John
barleyc9rn. There was but one per
son IN Nortnnvilie who had faith in
MS vows, and that was the girl Every
Dooy else knew he had made similar
VOWS dozen times before, and had
broken them the first time he encoun-
tered a long cold bottle. But the girl
the difference If he had broken his
pledges in the past? He was in earn
est now Moreover, all he needed was
some one to love him. and then all
temptations would be removed.
SO she married him few weeks ago
and the other day he went home with
a skate on and Immediately began to
punch her head, and then he packed
up his collection of tobacco tags and
left the town.
1t is a scrdid little story, and doesn't
did little stories of the same kind turn
up in the newspapers every day that,
taken all together, they have mean
ing of their own, which meaning should
be valuable to the girl who has the
idea that she can reform some no
account ycung man by marrying him.
Ernporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Missouri seems to be afflicted with
even more despicable characters than
-poisoners At Concord in that
state poisoned chewing gum was
placed in the dooryards of families
with small children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Upton Sinclair seems to be working
the blue laws Of Delaware to a FRAGILE
tor the purpose of keeping in the lime
light once again Presumably Upton
mas another novel that nc is about 10
folst ON a Iong-suffering public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Cincinnatus Leconte is the new pres
ident Of Haiti. His term of office will
continue until some Haitian general
can muster up a sufficient force to take
the place away from him They use
bullets for ballots in that peculiar re-
7nuhIic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Although conditions could not have
been better for a large melon crop
this year. It is reported that there will
be big shortage in the local water
melon crop because of the ravages to
the vines by sand lice. Surely if it
isn't one thing it's another that man
ages to happen around so as to take
q swat at the poor. old consumers
pocketbook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

in many. many cities OF the country
of equal size with Topeka and which
do not come near getting the returns
from their taxes that Topeka does.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

It is beginning to look as though
the tax levy for Topekans for ali pur-
poses, state, county, school and city,
viii be 1915 mills for the ensuing ifs
cal year. This is nearly IA mills
larger than the levy Lass year. but it is
also a much smaller levy than prevails
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Lightning also seems to fall alike on
the just and the unjust. It damaged
q Topeka church considerably the 9TH
er nie.hf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09
RUZ ERT9 NJ RDN N.
s. EllS 6
ExS48 8 ~

Phil: Merci pour lie chat noir; ct est
un beaucoup "bear-chat.' Merci en-
core.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-09

Ever see a professional reformer who
refused any fees that crossed his trail9
Neither have we. neither have we.