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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-05
Mr.. NATIoN,s PLAN.

James NJ. Nation. the retiring state
auditor, has delivered himself of
Swan song' that should be of inesti-
mable advantage to Kansas if it is act
ed upon. 1t suggests the application of
efficiency to the administration of the
affairs of state. Mr.. Nation outght to
know whereof he speaks. As the check
ing officer on all of the fiscal accounts
Of the state, he has had the opportunity
to keep in touch with the adrninistra-
ton of the states affairs in all of their
rarnincations. And he has formed the
conclusion that retrenchments can be
made which will save the state as much
as 100000 a year.
1t is Mr.. Nations belief that many of
the various state commissions and
boards are expensive luxuries mas
much as their activities could be COM
bined, and some of them which are now
Eothing but financial burdens on the
state might well be made self support
ing. He would have a commission of
three created, authorized by the legis-
lature and appointed by the governor,
which would have the authority to in
vestigate these conditions and give adj
vice to the legislature accordingly. As
1AA' NdLAOii POAhtS Ouls II 40 SNe-A So'S
possible that members of the legislature
can familiarize themselves with all OF
the many details which are concerned
in the management Of the state. They
are ever interested in keeping down the
states expenditures. but it is unrea-
sonable to expect them to know how
the economies that have been suggest
ed by him can be brought about
Mr.. Nation has devised a plan, and
they should act accordingly. His ser
vice as state auditor during the past
four years has been Of a high order.
But, good as it has been, it is not to
be compared with the suggestions he
makes as he is about to retire from
public service
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GREAT PROGRESS MADE.

How the money spent last year in the
anti-tuberculosis campaign practically
doubled that spent in 1909, is shown i'll
the second annual statistical statement
published recently by the National AS
ISOLATION for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis, in it's official organ,
the Journal of the Outdoor Life.
The statement, which is based on re-
ports from all parts of the United
States. shows that in 1910, nearly $15,-
O0o 600 was spent in the fight against
tuberculosis, as opposed to $S,000,0e0
spent in 1909. The largest item of ex-
pense N 1910 was for treatment in
sanatoria and hospitals, 81 ,376,500 be-
ing expended for that purpose, or more
than double the amount for 1909. The
anti-tuberculosis associations spent
$760,vv0 and the tuberculosis dis
pensaries, $3.50, 900. The special munich
pal and state expenditures aggregate
s1,75O,OOO.
The statement declares that the most
significant fact in the survey of tire
years work is the increase in the per-
centage of public money spent. While
in 1909, 53.5 per cent of the total ex-
penditures was from federal, state,
municipal or county funds, 62.6 per cent
came from public appropriations in
1910. The actual amount of public
money spent in tuberculosis work this
past year was S., 267, 800, or more than
double the amount from this same
source in 1909. This fact indicates, the
National association declares, that
anti-tuberculosis associations are gain
preparations from public money.
New York state again leads the
country in the money spent, her total
of $4,245, 600 being more than double her
expenditures for tuberculosis work in
1909. Pennsylvania is the second state
and Massachusetts, third.
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VIII reduce the number of cases that
may be taken to the highest judicial
tribunal But little change in the
equipment of the supreme court has
peen made in a century. The court
was able a century ago to transact all
the business brought before it. The
nation has grown so rapidly and its af-
1alrS have become so complicated that
the supreme court as at present con-
stituted is unable to dispose of the
business that presses upon it.
One of the unfortunate features of
the situation is that large corporations
frequently take advantage OF the con-
d1tlons to have their cases, by some
nook or crook. carried to the supreme
court, figuring on the delay of one or
two years before action can be taken.
That time frequently is sufficient to all
low such corporations to carry out
their plans and be prepared to lose
their cases In the final adjudication
ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
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QUAKER siEDITA1ToNs.
[From the Philadelphia RECORD

EF,rom the Philadelphia Record.1
To get in the push generally re-
quires certain amount of pull.
The people who count the cost are
not always the first to pay 1t.
The fellow who proposes on his
knees is naturally uneasy about it.
The fact that music intoxicates some
people isn't altogether due to the fact
that it is written in bars.
There isn't a whole lot of difference
between taking man at his own
valuation and buying a gold brick.
Blobbs-"Youn turns all his
money over to his wife" Slobbs-"He
evidently believes that the hand that
rocks the cradle is the one that han
dies the rocks,
1.-THE truth is mighty and will pre-
VAIL" quoted the Wise Guy. eyes, but
there are times when even the most
truthful of us find it advantageous to
lie low" added the Simple Mug.
''I can truthfully say 1 have never
caused my wife a moments uneasiness
or annoyance" remarked the casual
acquaintance. What a liar YOU must
be- said the married man. s.Not at
all,'' replied the casual acquaintance.
i've never had wife,"
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CAsTLE or suENcE.

Through mists the crumbling turrets rise;
The gray owls shadow as he flies
-GldeS, wraith-like, o er the gloomy lake,
The sullen easements. hopeless, stare
InS1Stent. through responseless- air;
Beneath the hearthstone coils snake.
In that vast hall, SO grim and drear,
Proud feasts were spread with mighty
cheer;
Here gallant knight wooed peerless maid.
Grave lords and DANES of high degree
Sought joy in dance and ninfstrelsy;
Inc Jester leaped-the meek nun prayed.
Lord Ronald-last of name and race!
Ine light of love fllumined his face,
AND then. Midsummer Eve, he died
by unknown hand. The deed was foul:
A shapeless form meath shielding cowl
stole from his room: the night wind
sighed.
No sound is heard from morn till night;
The dull stones seem to shrink from light
But on Midsummer Eve, It's said.
An elfin harp sounds sweet and low,
Faint voices catch the strain, and so
Is chanted requiem for the dead.
Elizabeth Minot, in the Boston Trans
cript.
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Dumb Man Talks,

Hiram Black, a deaf and dumb man,
about 35 years old, who until now has
never uttered the slightest ineligible
sound, succeeded in striking dumb sew
eral other persons today when he ap
peared in several of the leading stores
In town and opened conversation with
the clerks. Black, who has been known
as Dummy Black. worked in the Rus
sell, Burdsal & Ward bolt and nut
works at Pemberwick for several years,
with Charles Mead, now a clerk in the
Hover store of Alexander Mead & Son,
and Mr.. Mead was busy himself about
the shop this morning when the dunn
my entered and in voice as clear as
ever mans was saluted him with
Good morning. How are you?,, Mead
cropped the watering pot he had in his
hand, and for a moment the position of
the two were reversed the clerk being
the speeches. one
Mead says the cold childs crept over
MIN for at least a minute, and he
thought at first that he must have
been dreaming. He was treasured
however, when the dummy asked for
MS name and read it distinctly from
the paper where Mead wrote it. Black
refused to talk much, but explained by
writing to Mead that he was afraid his
voice might not hold out He tried it
again, however, on several others who
knew that he had been both deaf and
ounD from infancy and created the
same amount of CONSERVATION every
where Black lives with family of
deaf and dumb persons by the name CT
,Martling, in Byram, and great interest
mas been attracted to him because of
ms cleverness with machinery and his
evident intelligence in spite of his in
frm1ty. He is a skilled operator of
one or the big bolt making machines
ana has been for years frequent Wis
ltor IN the Greenwich public library.
Where many wealthy New Workers.
have met him.
Black is a fine penman, and appar-
often written out passages from, tba
Bible and other works and called at
tention of the librarian to them. The
last time he visited several of the
stores on his route today he wrote out
al his ages.-Greenwich special 20
the New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-05
JAYHAWKER JOTS

How often we smile, remarks the
Home Circle editor of the Havensville
Review, as we look back over our
fears and find they were phantoms.
1t occurs to the Nickerson Argosy
that the reason some people never
amount to anything is because they
want to be the whole show before the
performance begins.
A good deal of valuable space is
given to the Chicago man who ate a
quail a day for thirty days. We fail
to see anything remarkable in this.
We know fellow who has been eat
ing corn meal pancakes for forty-six
days and is still at it.-Holton Signal
In discussing the raising of poultry
for exhibition purposes and forutility,
Il. M. Wheeler, the Jefferson CORES
pendent of the South Kansas Tribune
says: "A flock of hens that lay between
10000 and 10000 eggs in one season
is something tangible that appeals to
u.s. And it is a tangible something
that would appeal strongly to almost
any individual >5-
Ex-Governor E. W. Hoch, in one Of
his latest travel letters from the east
to his paper, the Marion Record. says.
These shrewd Yankees know how to
retain their grip. Legislation is manIp
ulated largely in their interests. The
great bulk of national appropriations
for instance, go to them, to their
customs houses, to their rivers and
harbors, to their costly public build
ings, to their coast defenses, to their
battleship builders, to their military
and naval schools, to their government
contractors of all kinds and to their
unfair proportion of federal officehoId-
ers- If the Missouri river, for instance,
ran through the east the cities and
towns along its banks wouldn't have
to beg on Bonded knee for a pittanca
with which to begin its Improvement.
Millions would be expended upon it
towns like Kansas City, Atchison and
Leayenworth would be deafened with
the whistles of multitudinous steamers.
When travel over these eastern states
and see their dingy little old towns.
and their garden patches which they
call their farms. and note their sub
serviency to mediocre bosses, and then
think of the broad, breezy, beautiful,
bountiful west, with its virile and pro-
gressfve people and beneficent laws,
get more and more provoked about this
eastern domination in national affairs.
There is Oklahoma. for instance, with
more people than Maine, Rhode Island
and Vermont combined, which ought 20
have been made into two states with
four United States senators instead of
two, begging for years for the privilege
of getting into the Union at ALL why?
Why, because those Eastern fellows
didn't want to lose even that much of
their grip on the real seat of perma-
nent power in this government-tfle
United States senate
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Post-Census Screams.

Just as Macon is rubbing it into An
gusta, SO Chattanooga is rubbing it
into Knoxville and Atlanta into Mem
phis- Each revenged itself for con-
tumelious filings cast ten years ago.
When conditions were reversed.
Though it gained nearly 80 per cent
and without any extension of corpor-
ate limits, Memphis was passed not
only by Atlanta, but by Birmingham
as well-thfs latter defeat bv the
eart-breaking margin of little more
than 1000 heads. From second place
in the ex-Confederate south it has
fallen to fourth, its 131,1O5 being ex
ceeded by New Orleans, Atlanta and
Birmingham. Augusta, Knoxville and
Memphis can truthfully say that the
railing Rabshakehs all made consider
able Observation-Disclosures and Rir-
mingham huge ones-while thew them
selves stood pat, Tennessee LEGISLATORS
desiring to keep large Republican
suburbs out of barely Democratic
Knoxville and Augusta longing in vain
for the north Augusta, S. c., dispen-
sary. But their revenge, if they ever
get any. must be deferred until 1920.
We rather regret that the successfrl
contestants did not set an example of
forbearance and good manners which
would have relegated such unpleasant
ness permanently to the past.-Char-
lotte Observer
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.]

lrToIn the Atcn1SOn Globe,
A holiday is day on which most
men smoke too much
Too many men are looking for
temptation instead of opportunity
Every man thinks he should pot
more letters and not write so many.
You occasionally meet a man who
takes considerable pride in being
slouchy.
Cheap thermometers. like cheap
people, are generally given to exag-
geration
What has become of the old FASH
Toned man who stropped his knife on
his bootleg?
No one ever gives the fly or the
English sparrow any credit for their
habits of industry.
of funny stories to amuse a girl who
is gifted with pretty teeth,
The number of people who swear
off continues to be somewhat smaller
than the number who swear at.
You hear lot about it. but were
you yourself ever imperiled or in
jured by the long and deadly hatpin?
reputation for past achievements
wont get you much unless said
achievements were cashed in when
due.
After a man gets along in years the
pockets in which he formerly carried
love letters are filled with spectacle
cases.
When there is good man in the
office the Office is more worried about
losing him than he is about going
some place else.
A man who is in the theatrical bust
ness is always complaining that it is
either too hot or too cold for people
to get out.
The sagacity of the dog is greatly
over estimated. And this list could be
extended a good deal if you'd investi-
gate carefully.
It is considered a Great Joke for a
man to fall eff the water wagon. but
that isn't, by far, the only tragedy in
cluded in the joke book
You needn't seek farther for evil
dence as to who is boss if pictures of
her kin occupy all the prominent
places on the parlor wall.
You can't help yourself out of trou-
bic by worry, but worry will get YOU
in trouble, all right. In fact, worry
is considerable trouble itself.
Speaking of poor investments. ii
may be stated that a ticket to an anna
teur performance doesn't return much
in the way of dividends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-05

probably after the shingles were off.
had dropped it, and the tin filters
covered it up without noticing. /
mailed it,"
"Oh,'' gasped Cornelia -
Here comes Mr.. John Oliver now"
The carpenter failed to notice the
woman'S embarrassment. A we'll built
man of about forty years of age ap-
preached. AS he came nearer a puZ-
zled look crept into his eyes, and
then suddenly his pace quickened and
he advanced, both hands outstretched.
"YouI" cried John Oliver, the trem-
bling fingers of the woman pressed
close in his; and there, before the
wondering eyes of the men, he kissed
her. Il have waited centuries for
you," he said.-(Copyrighted 1911 by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-05
A Doomed Empire.

The Turkish empire is the most I'M
Wleldy and incapable of defense on
the face of the earth. IT is a thinly
inhabited region, broken up by deserts
and extending from the Adriafic sea
TO The indian ocean. It's population.
estimated at 26,00O,000, is broken I'M
among nearly a dozen different ma
tlonalities, speaking as MANY distinct
languages, and further divided by the
mutual hatred engendered by hostile
proselytizing faiths. And all these di-
visions have been stereotyped and
strengthened by the common history
history of 500 years of oppression.
lnsurrection. spoliation and massacre
turkey mas Poland on every from
tler-ln Arabia, in Armenia, in Mace
donia and in Albania
The government is little more than
an anarchy checked by a military dos
potism. And this anarchy is grit
round by an inner ring of states which
represent successful instructions, and
are thirsting to emancipate their sub
Ject brethren; and by an outer ring of
greedy powers, each one more than a.
match for the doomed empire. which
has been spared so long merely be-
cause its enemies have not been able
to agree on the division of the spoils.
Lastly, the intelligence and industry of
the population is chiefly to be foIlnd
among the races most hostile to the
continuance of the empire The ruling
race possesses the supreme virtue of
courage, but it is utterly lacking in
enterprise, in foresight, in persever-
ance and in administrative capacity.
Such are the materials out of which
a group of enthusiastic young officers
expect in few years to construct q
great military power, strong enough
to reconquer the lost provinces of the
empire and to threaten the supremacy
of Christendom.-Allen Upward in the
November Forum.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

A wide-awalxe man may also be that
way because of insomnia.
= X
Many hypocrite is more than two
faced. He's three or four-faced.
=
Question for debate: When a dog
gets under the mistletoe, should 1t be
kissed?
There's plenty of advice going
around until you ask for it. Then it's
given reluctantly.
y
Colloquially speaking, an individual
can get stung without making a con-
nection with bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-05
HUN0R OF THE Day

When man on the home team strikes
5 out ne strikes out; It can be stated in
makes a base hit he watts daisy bingie
over left garden for an initial sacker."-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
so you don't guide hunting parties any
more?,' Nope" was the slow rejoinder
from the man whiting in front of the
ing now?" Guide fishin' parties. So
North Beach Cynosure.
F'rost-.Are the descriptions of scenery in
E Esstsellers novel good? snow-Greati
Have you noticed my friend, how
think. '-Sourire.
That looks like a good machine of
yours, old man. but It's beginning to
show signs of wear But you must
re% 1as1 lDsd I've had it for some time It's
HI Her cooking school habits are a good
always wants to taste the gasoline om when hen
the automobile isn't working right
Louisville Courier-Journai.
Freshman-where are the bathrooms In
be IL the, new dormitory? Sophomore
It's a freshman house; there won't be any
vacuum cleaners.-Lippincott' Magazine.
Vance, think Ferdie RANKS with Edison
as an inventor and benefactor of man
Luella-What did he invent? Vance-de
invented device to pwevent ciEavette
papers fwom blowing away in stwong
bweeze--Scraps.
Observation-Disclosures their separation
he sent her a legal document giving her
control of their child Husband with a
sigh)-I wish knew where we could 1ef
a document that would give us CONTROL
of our child.-Chicago News.
Hi Hollera-What's the matter. 81? Ye
look all in after the trip to New York Had
touch of high life and couldn't stand
it. ehE 81 Summers kin stand a touch
all right, but what they gave me down
there this time was regular swot-
Judge.
Did the audience weep while 1 was
singing?" asked the temperamentai So
prano. mo- replied the music director.
you were making that noise all by YOUR
self. Star.
She-My little brother shot off his eun
this morning and the bullet went throiIvh
my hair He-How careless of you to
leave it lying around.-Chicago Daily
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An Orerburdened Court,

The United States supreme court has
resumed its session, after a long sum-
mer vacation. with a docket of 700
cases, some of them Of the highest i'm
portance. The Standard Oil and to-
bacco trust cases are up for reargu-
ment, and the Importance of many
other cases on the docket carries a GER
tainty that the court will be unable to
meet the demands upon it,
The situation appears to call for an
increase in the membership of the SUI
preme court or a recasting OF the laws
and method OF judicial procedure that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-05
DEMOCRACY VS.. SOCIALISM.

During the past rs years, 100000 miles
of new railroads have been built, re-
quiring an expenditure each year of
not less than hundred million dollars
Tor labor and material, writes James o.
Fagin in the January Atlantic. We are
both producers and consumers. While
our population is only a little over 5
per cent of the population of the world,
We produce 20 per cent of the wheat,
40 per cent of the iron and steel, so
per cent Of the copper, 20 per cent of
the cotton, and so per cent of the corn
of the world. Furthermore, with in
conceivable rapidity, machinery has ta-
ken the place of human toll, and Incl
dentally millions of slaves have been
set free. The same triumphant pro-
gress has unvaryingiy characterized ev-
cry phase of human endeavor aons the
American continent. Civil and religious
liberty is a natural condition as well as
an attitude of mind. The story of ag-
riculture, of manufacturing, of mining,
of the arts and sciences, demonstrates
the unbroken progress and uplift of the
whole people. Finally, the health and
well being of the toiling masses have
become with constantly increasing
earnestness of endeavor. the individual
and collective purpose of the nation.
And above all, the democratic idea,
through good and evil report, has en-
couraged the personal work and char
aster of the individual citizen. Tt has
always believed that competition which
encourages merit and skill should re-
main paramount. 1t has always gloried
in this personal competitive type as the
ideal and preserver of democratic ira
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-05

The packers may have lost "a
point in the decision of Judge Kohl
Baat. of the United States circuit court
that the federal government had a
right to dismiss its equity suit against
them. But why should the packers
worry as long as all kinds of meat are
selling at their present fancy figures.
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spring. This blew away at daylight,
and then the sun, the warm sun shone
forth, and out-of-doors was almost
ideal. Shortly after the noon hour, the
snow began to fall. And then came a
blizzard from the north with wintry
blasts that made the blood run cold
Kansas is noted for the fact that 1t
enjoys all kinds of weather. But it IS
seldom that Kansas revels in all kinds
of weather in one day.
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Champ Clark believes that no man
should hold the office of president of
the United States for more than six
years. He would limit the presiden-
tial term to that period, and make a
president ineligible for reelection.
There is much to commend the sug-
gestion, but it is not likely to be pop
ular in the vicinity of Oyster Bay.
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REFLECTIONS or 4 BACHELOR.

IFrom the New York Press.l
Cheerful martyrdorn is feminine.
Brides come to their senses. In spite
of themselves.
A man can repent of being a politi-
clan after he is downed.
The money spent in trying to gid
sin would make virtue solid gold.
The dearest thing to a woman about
a house is all the things she has put
away in the closets if she only knew
where to find them.
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II Miss Eleonora Sears, of Beacon
street, Boston, Mass, wants to con-
tinue her notwithstanding career, she
should fight shy of aeroplaning. That
activity seems to be the most direct
route to the grave.