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The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19
JAYHAWKER JOTS

A punch in the mouth isn't so bad.
thinks the Neodesha Register, if you
get it through a straw
Judged from the schoolboy's stand
this has been an unusually brief sum-
mer
Some people think that Hades exists
only in the next world, says the At
Gibson Champion, but 1t explains that
they have not had the hay fever.
Despite the growing popularity of
the aeroplane, the Trego County Re
porter believes that the railroads Will
continue to do business for a few years
yet.
1t is the idea of the eNwton Kansan-
Republican that those who spent their
extra money for vacations this sum-
mer will now begin to save for Christ
mas.
AS the Dickinson County News un-
derstands it, the mad stone simply
saved the man three or four hundred
dollars, and anything like that has got
to go.
The man who gets mad at what the
newspapers say about him should re-
turn thanks three times day. says tie e
GaIena Republican, for what the news
papers know about him and suppress.
The Galena Republican thinks the
grimmest satire on humanity of which
any genius could conceive iss dud
hitched to cigarette. And yet, reflects
the Republican. that dUd was once a
boy.
A gentle hint from the Phillipsburg
Dispatch: "A certain editor, un
known to fame. states in his country
paper that he has been told that a man
who squeezes a dollar never squeezes
his wife. In looking over our sub
scription books We are led to believe
that some awful good women in Phil
lipsburg are not getting the attention
they deserve"
One of the Cove county farmers evil
IDENTIFY thinks that a poor but original
excuse is better than none. Accord
ing to the Cove County Record this
farmer came to town recently with
bloodshot eye. He said that the facts
in the case were that he put his head
to the foot of the bed the night be-
fore, thinking it would be cooler, and
that his wife kicked him in the lamp.
Tom Thompson of the Howard
Courant reports a personal experience
that will not set very well with the
reformers who insist that it's the
many habits men indulge in that keep
them poor. Says Mr.. Thompson: AS
I never smoked or chewed, and never
played a game of pool or billiards, by
the usual accepted theory I ought to
have saved several thousand dollars in
the past thirty-five years. But
haven't got the money to show for it.
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tions the situation is already working
out its own cure. Liberal concessions
have been been made in iron and steel,
with the result of materially stimulat-
ing the demand. It is true that the
Steel Corporation is only working
about 20 per cent of its capacity, new
ertheless its total product is almost as
large as at any time during its history.
There is little reason for complaint as
to the volume of the steel business,
though profits may have been consider
ably curtailed. Similar conditions pre-
vail in the textile trades Prices of
cotton goods have been reduced, and
the result is a much wider distribu-
ton both at wholesale and at retail
In this direction at least, consumers
are already getting the benefit CT low
er prices. Cotton mills are reopening
and there is every indication that the
crisis in this industry has been passed,
especially with cheaper cotton in pros
pect. Better orders from China have
already resulted. L is also worth not
ing that labor, though undoubtedly
very restless. is showing some discre-
ton and is slow in enforcing its de-
mands at a most inopportune time.
Financial conditions are certainly
against making additional increases in
wages. and public opinion is not likely
to support the men in any further de-
mands, with conditions as unsatisfac-
tory as they are.
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Leon Gupiel didn't have the nerve to
be crook. He tried hard, he told In
spector Hughes, and when they picked
him up yesterday he had a revolver
tucked away in his hip pocket, a mask
made out of an old sock, and a get
away cap. but Gupiel had never had
the nerve to use them.
Gupiel comes from a farm up in Deer
ing, Me-, and it wasn't so very many
years ago that he used to work in the
village grocery store and deal out goods
to housewives of Deering. But the call
of the city rang in his ears and he
started for Boston with hope looming
big and a mighty small amount OF
cash.
He managed to work as a waiter in
Boston for a time and saved up enough
money TO come to New York. He went
to the Mills hotel in Bleecker street
while he looked for a job. Two weeks
very low Walters did not seern to be
wanted in New York, and anyway no
body seemed to want Leon.
So he decided that If no one woul6
give him a chance to work honestly for
a living he would make one some other
way He bought a 30 caliber revolver
and IN his room cut holes in an old
sock so that it would fit over his eyes
and fasten by a string behind The
cap was obtained in a secondhand
store.
Yesterday he gave it up. He would
get rid of the revolver, and with the
money he could get for it manage to
drag out for a few days and then
Leon never answered the question. for
yesterday as he was going down West
Broadway on the way to a pawnshop
Detectives Trabucci and Donohue
noticed the bunch in his hip pocket and
grabbed him.-New York Sun.
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in Chicago's underworld. but because
they can get valuable information
first hand on conditions that need to
be remedied and which are common
in more or less aggravated forms in
every city in the country. There is
no such squeamishness. however, on
the part of the postoffice authorities
in barring from the malls such books
as Three Weeks which, While not
actually presenting obscene matter, are
more indecently suggestive than any
bald statment of facts describing the
conditions surrounding vice in the big
and little cities.
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FROM OTHER PENS
TAFT IN a NEW IIGHr-

Uncle Joe" Cannon chuckles in
glee over President Taft's unsparing
disclosure of the hollowness of insur-
gent pretensions to Republican ale
glance. La Toilette and his whole
crew are not worth one Taft was the
sweeping comment of the former
speaker, upon reading the Hamilton
speech Signalling the parting of the
ways. Declaring that he has been
quite Won over from certain aloof-
ness of feeling toward the president
"Uncle Joe" explained that it was be-
cause of the enemies the president has
made.
The veteran is not to be counted
among the tinid souls who would have
Mr.. Taft bemean himself to the insur-
gents for fear they might get real mad
and borrow Champ Clark's hammer
and tongs. It was freely predicted
that the presidents denunciation of
men who called themselves Republi-
cans would sever the last tie, at a
heavy cost to his political fortunes.
But what has actually resulted2 Do
not the signs roint to a rousing of the
party conscience, not among the regu-
lars alone, but among the lukewarm,
who were half-persuaded that radical
ism had a mission t. perform. Nor is
it too much to say that the picture the
president drew has given pause to the
insurgent movement as a whole, lead
ership and following. Assuredly, the
run -amuck policy of La Toilette and
his ieutenants, if not brought to it's
knees, could have no other result than
division and defeat.-Washing Post.
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Something akin to robbing Peter to
pay Paul Because of the high cost
OF living in Germany the government
has decided to cut in half the freight
rates on potatoes fresh vegetables.
corn, fodder and grain and to reduce
materially the rate on sea fish Il
this reduction in rates causes a large
deficiency in the operation of the rail-
roads, the people who are now getting
the advantages of these reduced rates,
will have to provide for this def
cheney through increased general
taxes, as the railroads of Germany are
operated by the government.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19
KANSAS COMHENT
THE REAL COWBOY.

The cowboy as pictured in fiction
ana on canvas is far different from
the real cowboy as he is seen with the
1O1 Ranch Real Wild West Show. The
demand for western characters has
caused many to affect the chappelS
and neck handkerchief in imitation of
the real cowboy, but there are many
Things and characteristics about the
COWBOY OF the ranch and plains that
the Would-be cowboy cannot initiate
he cannot initiate the Looping gait of
the genuine cow herder nor can he
nave the same pair of beautifully
bowed legs. All cowboys are bowleg
ged. This is a fact not known to
everybody, but fact nevertheless.
When you see a man or boy in suit
OF cowboy clothes and he is straight of
carriage and you cannot see light be-
tween his knees you may we'll put him
down at once for a counterfeit and you
VIII not be WrOnging him at all They
are not born bow legged but in infancy
they are in the saddle and the best
part of their lives is spent with the
horse under them. It is the constant
straddling of the horse that put Che
curve in their legs and you will not
find one cowboy on the great 1O1
Ranch at Bliss, Oklahoma, who is not
bent in the legs.
If you see cowboy with his hand
kerchlef tied in the front you can also
put him down for base imitation of
the real goods 1t is not matter of
choice for the cowboy to wear his
handkerchief around his neck. 1t is
almost compulsory and it is equally
compulsory to tie it behind and not
under his chin. He wears it around
his neck because it is easier to get at
and ties it behind so that the larger
portion is bagged in front and when
in a storm or fast riding he has but to
drop his chin in the bag like fold and
his face is Immediately protected. Ex-
perience has made him an expert and
with two motions he can drop his face
on his breast and when he elevates it
the handkerchief has been picked up
around the face and shields it to the
eyes Any of the cowboys with the 1O1
Ranch Wild West Show W hile riding at
break-neck speed can roll a cigarette
With one hand and hold the bride
with the other. This is not considered
any accomplishing ent but a necessity
for If the cowboy could not do it there
would be many times when he would
not smoke. The real cowboy is cow
boy pure and simple while the coun-
terfeit is cowboy only in dress. Cow
boys do not graduate in the east
Arkansas City Times
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.I

=
The littler the girl the bigger charge
of dynamite she can be for some man.
A man who is able to help support
a lot Of his relations always gets the
chance.
What we mostly object to about a
great tall1er is that we aren't doing it
ourselves.
It discourages a woman to have her
husband go shopping with her because
he wants to buy something.
A man can sit up all night in poker
game and never feel it. but being kept
awake one hour by the baby will break
down his health.
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PATERSON STANDS PAT.

The opportunity afforded by a new
statute for easy change to the com
mission PLAN from existing systems of
municipal government throughout New
Jersey is refused by Paterson, as II
has been by a majority Of the cities, 50
far, that have been required by the
enthusiasm of the friends of commits
sion government to vote on the ques-
ton. The issue as presented to Pater-
son was conspicuously one of a change
for the sake of a change. 1t seems
that the present charter was adopted
only six years go and the adninistra-
ton has proved satisfactory. The
mayor, who is serving his second term,
was able to submit to the voters a
record of material accomplishment
which the commission advocates were
bound to discredit if a genuine need for
another form were to be shown.
The large taxpayers appear to have
been solidly against a change, although
it is to this class that the commission
plan usually makes its strongest ap-
peal The vote was overwhelmingly
against; but, had it not been, the poll
for adoption being less than the per-
centage of the total canvass necessary
to secure change under the law, the
proposition would have been defeated
1t is rather futile to advance such a
proposal so long as a municipal sys-
tenn of any orhet variety is working
WELL The argument that one plan or
another has peculiar sanctity does not
seem to be particularly forcible--
Providence Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Chicago's vice commissions book
has been held up at the postof1ce in
that town until higher authorities
shall determine whether or not it is fit
matter to go through the mails. There
is no probability that this book has
been printed for promiscuous circula-
ton or for the purpose of furnishing
the general public with reading mat
ter It is one of the most valuable
sociological documents that has ever
been prepared. Yet finicky govern
ment officials doubt the propriety of
permitting this book to be circulated
among people who are interested in
it. not because some of its details are
obscene in that they present the re-
voting conditions that have developed
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

A ledger of a retail merchant of
seventy-fve years ago which is in the
possession of a Kansan shows that the
prices of all commodities were Won
derfui1y cheaper then than now. And
it also shows that the wages paid in
those days were even smaller in COM
parison with the prices than are the
wages of today with the present cost
of things
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Priest Must DENY PoIyeamy.

Are you a polygamist ?" was the
question put to a Roman Catholic
priest yesterday by Judge Lacombe in
the United states circuit court when
the Rev. Father Matias Cuevas. head
of the Roman Catholic orphan asylum
at Manuel. Rockland county, n Y,
sought full citizens papers in the nat
uralizatiOn branch of the court. The
question. which appears surprising in
the present instance, is one Of the set
interrogations which must be answer
ed by all applicants for citizenship
New York Evening Sun.
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etc. Gaby Des Lys. the French dancer,
who is reputed to have cost Manuel
his job as king of Portugal, has ar
rived in New York with sixty dresses,
and as many hats pairs of slippers and
stockings to match. and also a small
matter of $4,000 worth of jewels.
She has a theatrical engagement in
this country which will pay her $4,5OO
q week
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Full, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
mvFmv from homo during the summer
Ruay have the paper mailed regularly
eers cents q week or thirty cents
month (by mail onlY). Address
changed as often as desired. While
0xf og town the State Journal VIII be
60 sou like a daily letter from homo.
Advance payment Is requested or
these short time subscriptions to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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Governor Dix of New York says that
the people of that state want the priv
ilege of witnessing boxing bouts. That
they are not very keen for it, though.
at $50 per seat was made evident by
the smallness of the crowd at the
Flynn-Morris go. Maybe. though,
New Workers were discerning enough
to size up Morris beforehand as a
lemon of large nronortions
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many a man who does his best doesn't
do much.
X X X
About the only coat that is not ex-
rensive is one of tan.
X
They don't seem to realize it, but
nobody pays any attention to the
chronic knockers.
X
It is seldom the case that one side
to fight is wholly to blame for its
start.
Il
The race may not always go to the
swiftest, but IT isn't good judgment to
put your money up on a slow one.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

If either of the aviators, Ward and
Fowler. who are trying to fly across
the continent, is successful and wins
the $4,000 that has been offered for
such a flight, he will probably find
himself deeply in debt beyond that
sum for the repairs it was necessary
to make to his machine.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19
ABOUT THE COUNTY FAIR.


County fairs were instituted in the
early days of Kansas to induce the
farmers to stock their farms with a
better grade of horses, cattle and hogs
More scientific farm methods were also
encouraged. These institutions thrived
for number of years. Lately they
have been steadily on the decline. Too
much money is given to the owners of
fast horses to induce them to enter the
races. This of course cuts down the
allowances for premiums on the farm
ers' stock and farm products. The
prosperous farmer figures his time and
expense to get his stock in shape to
enter at the fair is not repaid. His
land is increasing in value and he must
be constantly taking advantage of
every means whereby he can make his
farm pay better dividends. Hence he
keeps his fancy horses. cattle, hogs
and sheep at home. There is not a
township in Brown county that can
show more fine stock and better farms
than Morrill,. But the money that
should be used to induce these men to
place their products on display at the
fair is given to the men with fast
horses. The day of races is past in the
farming districts. Unless a change is
made in the management of the county
fairs they will sooner or later be rele-
gated to the scrap pile.-MorrilI News.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

It has finally been concluded by the
police in British Columbia that the
men who robbed the branch of the
Bank of Montreal at New Westmins-
ter, were experts" That is just what
every one else in the world concluded
Immediately on reading that these rob
bers got away with s3I5.0O in cash.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

During an automobile race at the
New York state fair nine innocent by
ISLANDERS were killed by one of the ma
chimes which ran amuck. This is
mere evidence, if any were needed,
that automobile racing should be abel
ished
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Mayor Gaynor's stock with the fair
sex has probably increased several
thousand per cent. He says that
most any woman a man happens to
meet is too good for him. Nor is
Mayor Gaynor very far off
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Conditions seem to be improving
bit in Mexico. Independence Day was
recently celebrated there without riots
and b1oodshed
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Like most hopes. Carl Morris has
finally demonstrated beyond peradven-
ture that he will never materiaIize.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

NOW that it is over. and the dust
mas settled, this department wishes to
lnank the several Kansas towns that
loaned pretty girls. II they were a
Idlr sample, said towns should be proud
OF tle decorations Topeka used on its
seml-centennial floats. Time may come
Wnen we think it necessary TO take a
POKE at some of the Kansas towns we
are busily thanking in this pararraph
put NEVAH g time we have anything
soIter than a wailop on the jaw for
anyone who makes sighting remarks
ABOUT the class OF Kansas beauties ex-
lplted in that Pageant. A slant at
them was worth the trip to Topeka
including hotel bills.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

There are times, in the life of every
man. when he wonders how "a broker
ever made money by lending Il.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

If Col. Astor experiences as much
trouble after taking as he did before
taking, he viii regret the price he paid
for the prescription.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Several thousands Of people viii see
Iatt when he passes through Kansas
ana 80 per cent Of them will see him
Tor the first time-curiosity two thou
sand children met Bale Waggener at
the depot, and every one OF them had
seen him several times before: that
WASN'T curiosity. Let's muss up the
CID saw ,ong enough to chirp: To rath-
er be Bale Waggener than to be Pres
ident."
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Doctor. do you really think all the op-
erations you perform are absolutely nee
essary2' Absolutely. i couldn't take my
family to Europe without them. "-Balu-
more American
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Best seats at the Morrls-Flynn dis
turoance were 500 each. This item
should be listed under increased cost
of living as the record high price for
a cheese sandwich.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

You can see the Brooks comet fr,
That is undoubtedly the reason y
haven't taken the trouble to look for
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Il was charmed with the oratory OF ths
lecturer. That man ought TO be in con
gress." why, that's just where ne Is.
wen, he deserves to get out OF it!'-At
lanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

New Stable Lad CwatchinR hired mount
depart, plunging with its rider)-That 'un
amt 'ardly safe. wonder you keeps I'm.
Master-Best 'oss we've got; find Is way
'ome alone from anywhere, e viii, Ike a
dog.-Punch.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Tomorrow is our day of; going up to
Horton to visit Charley Browne and
the rest Of the boys. Key under the
south CcontributionsD wastebaslet.
Makeyerselfathome.
-HGP-
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

Suburb tell you there Is nothing like
a trip to the country Avenue-Yes: 70
certainly makes one appreciate the city
the better.-Judge's Library.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

How wuz de feed in de last jail you
wuz in, Dusty?" Just $3.50, me boy"
How wuz dat?'' "Deieunner wuz bread
an water. Repeat tree times an you
have de daily menu. u."-Birmingham Age
Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

"Have you spoken OF our love TO your
mother as YETI" mot yet" murmured
the dear girl. Mother has noticed that
I've been acting queer of late, but she
thinks it's just biliousness. ."-Pittsburg
Post
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

MY wife often alludes tearfully 20 IN
fact that she threw over a millionaire Il
marry me-" Mines just as bad. He
father offered to buy her a French poodle
if she'd turn me down.'-Louisville Cour
ier-Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-19

IF buy you a seat in the Stock Ex-
change Will you agree to go TO work2 II
amt crazy for work, dad. Make II a
seat in the senate. Courier
Journal
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-10-05
AFTER THE LUMBER TRUST
Secretaries of Colorado and Wyoming
Associations Defendants In Suit
Filed by Government.

Denver.-Sensational charges that
the so-called lumber trust completely
dominates the lumber trade of at least
twenty states by maintaining a spy
system, blacklists. divisions of terri
tory and other alleged illegal meth
DDS conducted through a central
agency in Chicago called the lumber
secretaries bureau of information, are
made in an antitrust suit filed in the
United States court here on Wednes-
day by the department of justice.
This is the governments fourth
move in nationwide fight against
the lumber trust"
The secretary of the bureau and the
Colorado and Wyoming Lumber Deal
ers' association are defendants in the
action filed Wednesday. The govern
ment asks the court to enjoin the bu-
reau from continuing espionage upon
lumbermen by paid spies and circu-
lating blacklists and other conf
dental information. 1t asks that the
Colorado and Wyoming association be
enJoined from contributing to the aid
OF the bureau.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-10-05
STRIKE OF SH0PMEN
AND TURKEY CLASH
WALkOUT OF MEN
ON THE HARTMAN LINES
BECOMES A REALITY.
Between Twenty Thousand and Thirty
Thousand Mechanical Workers In
Fifteen States Quit Work
Without Demonstration.

Chicago.-The threatened strike OF
the shopmen on the Hartman lines to
enforce recognition of their newly Or
ganized federation became a reality
Saturday. The number OF men who
quit in the fifteen states affected was
estimated at between 10000 and 80
600. although julius Kruttschnitt,
vice president of the Hartman lines
Saturday night said the number was
much smaller.
Reports from most OF the points in
dicated that the men walked out
without demonstrations. and no riot.
ing was reported. Traffic was con-
tinued without interruption and the
railroad heads say that the shopmens
strike, even IL extended, would not
interfere with transportation.
The response to the strike order
was general throughout the middle
west and in the south. The men had
received notices from the internation-
al presidents OF the five crafts direct.
ly involved and when the hour came
the men laid down their tools and left