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The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
QUAKER MEDITATIONs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
Cold, but not clammy-A boarding
house choWder.
The elusive banana skin has no
trouble in giving a man the slip.
The father of twins is apt to stop
playing poker and take to cfibbage.
A man never fully realizes what a
hard world this is till he hits it from
an aeroplane.
1t is a mistake to suppose that a
has a bad temper.
It's all right, in way, to talk about
our ancestors. They are dead, and
can't get back at US.
The literary genius seldom makes as
much money from his pen as the man
who raises hogs does from his.
No man talks so much about other
people that he hasn't a few words left
with which to sing his own praise.
Love is a disease says the Cynical
Bachelor, "that very few of US take
sufficient precautions against"
There is nothing more discouraging
than a man who has been disappoint-
ed in love, unless it is a henpecked
husband.
Tommy's Pop-"A theorist, my son, is
a man who thinks he is learning to
swim by sitting on the bank and
watching a frog
Mrs. Buggins-"John, why don't you
get home earlier? Here it is after
midnight" Mr.. Buggins-I would
my dear. if 1 didn't have to stay out
so late thinking up excuses for not
getting home earlier"
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

in a gale. They didn't hear the smash
as the light boats crumpled up, ana
they didn't hear the words of the man
with the red flag as he muttered:
sGood-looking girl, but she gone
dead nowi''
Young Mr. Haynes knew when they
the water together and came up to-
gether, and he threw his arm over a
beam that had been hurled from shore
and hung to it from instinct. 1t was
not until a boat had pushed its way
through the wreckage and taken the
girl from his grip that he remembered
her presence.
Stunned, but not much hurt" was
the verdict.
81 say to her." said the man with
the red fag-"I say to her, sGo backa
t-dynamite!' but she don't go backa.
What can I do ?? have to see her fly
like a bird. She be one leetle fool, but
the young man! All, he knows, but he
rushes in to save her."
Two days later Miss Viola Trayers
sat on a sofa in her aunt's parlor. She
was still half deaf in one ear, and the
other was roaring Mr.. Gordon Haynes
was led In. He had a cloth over one
eye, was blinking with the other, and
there were just five strips of plaster
on his face.
you needn't say anything said the
girl as she looked up.
MOP" he mumbled.
"No. We're ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1911, by Associated Literary PresS.)
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
THE OPIUM CAMPAIGN.

There can be no reasonable doubt
that China is sincere in her struggle
against opium and that she has, more
over, accomplished much. Whether
she will be able to show, as she de-
sires to 90, that the entire opium crop
for the present year, has been eradi-
Gated, seems rather doubtful. Prob
ably, too, her own claim that opium
growing has already been reduced 10
per cent is far too favorable Yet En-
gland is certainly too conservative in
claiming that the poppy crop has only
been reduced 20 per cent. The Sham
ghai National Weekly asserts that --all
the reports show THAT the crop has
been greatly reduced, in some places
wholly exterminated." The opium
conference to take place at The Hague
on the 18th of next July ought un-
questionably to result IN restriction
of the importation from India into
China of the deadly drug. The British
government would find scant sympathy
should it refuse to grant this needed
reform, even in the face of the injury
to India that it entailS-Providence
journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
FROM OTHER PENS
PROTECT sHORE RIRDs

The government biological survey
calls attention to the disappearance of
shore birds in the United States. The
black-bellied plover or beetlehead,
which occurred along the Atlantic sea-
board in great numbers years ago, is
now seen only as a straggler. The
golden plover, once exceedingly abun-
dant east of the Great Plains. is now
rare. Vast hordes of long-billed dow
itcherS formerly wintered in Louisi-
ana; now they occur only in infrequent
fiocks of a half dozen or less. The Es-
kimo curlew within the last decade
probably has been exterminated and
the other curlews are greatly reduced.
The birds are shot coming and going
on their migrations north and south
and as they decoy readily and per-
sistently, coming back in focks to the
decoys again and again, in spite of
murderous volleys, they stand little
chance of living. Shore birds lay
fewer eggs than any of the other spe-
cies generally termed game birds.
They deposit only three or four eggs,
and hatch only one brood yearly.
Therefore, under the insensate system
of slaughter, they are passing out of
existence.
These birds are great consumers of
insects from the mosquito to the grass
hopper and of worms injurious to the
farmers crop. They should be pro-
tected from persecution which
threatens extermination.-Milw
Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
PROGRESS of Virginia.

To sum UP, in 1900 the total value of
our agricultural products was 129.000,-
GOO; in 1910 they amounted to 1926 900 900.
In the eastern part of the state, where
the climate is tempered by the water,
trucks and small fruits of all kinds
and in great variety are bountifully
and profitably produced. We have con-
structed, under state control, since 1907
$50 miles of permanent highways, and
since 1906 have built 308 high schools.
elevated our standard, and increased
the value of school property ,00O
we are using the stored energy of
generations to push old Virginia for
ward. We revere the memories and
traditions of the past, and, remember
ing what has been done by her sons,
we are determined that our state of his
tory and tradition shall be in the front
rank of moral, educational, and mater
iaI progress.-Gov. William H. Mann, in
T oc1ia'S
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
HUNOQ or THE DAY

Lady Macbeth?'' Really replied Mrs.
Cumrox, there is so much gossip about
people connected with the stage that one
scarcely knows what to believe."-Wash-
ington Star.
Small Boy-If you please, sir-may we
have an extra half-holiday this after
noon? Headmaster-Why? Small Boy
Well-sir-we-thought you might feel like
it, sir-as you were singing in your bath
this mornfng-Punch.
Tommy's Mamma-WfIlie Byjones is a
nice little boy to play marbles with, isn't
he? Tommy-Yes, ma'am. Tommy's
Mamma-Then, why don't YOU pIay with
him instead of with all those rough BOYS
from the back street? Tommy-I won all
his yesterday.-Philadelph Record.
Thompson-Do you like to play bridge
with your family? Johnson-No, If I'm
going to lose money I'd rather lose it
where 1t may do me some good.-Life.
Blobbs-That girl has been remarkably
successful slobbs-Yes; she used to work
Record.
Customer-Are you sure you'll have my
er-Certainly- Don't you know there's
nothing surer than death and taxis?-
Woman's Home Companion.
"Are you the editor?, ..Yes." have
here novel of mystery and a spring
poem. Which will you take?'' ''CSimne
the spring poem. Plain
Dealer.
Caesars wife snorted. whats the use
OF being above suspicion when they dig
into your trunk just the same?' she cried
Herewith she Indignantly paid the GUS
toms.-New York Sun.
Never count your chickens before they
are hatched." Say the rest of IT." "No
harm to do your pennant boasting before
the season starts, however."-Kansas City
Journal. S
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

lfTom the Chicago News.1
People who talk too much never
talk well.
Wise is the popular man who
doesn't overwork it.
A woman is always willing to apoIo-
gize-unless she is wrong
Dead men tell no tales. but lots Of
tales are told about them.
A mans wife can always find some
excuse for him If she wants to.
It's easier to make a woman talk
than 1t is to induce her to think.
One thing the average man doesn't
like to hear is the truth about him
self.
Just because all flesh is grass. YOU
are not justified in calling eyervbodv
a hayseed.
The love of money may be the root
Of all evil, but the love OF baseball
produces more rooters
When you get into trouble most of
your friends will say: TITS too had .
and let 1t go at that.
A pessimist is a man who refuses TO
enjoy his dinner today because he has
mo prospect of one for tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
A BAD START.

It is regrettable, indeed, that the
city commission has become divided
into factions, with the mayor and two
of the commissioners apparently de-
termined to run each of the city de-
partments to suit their own sweet
wills, and regardless of the ideas and
desires of the other two commission
ers. Such a combination, with its
usurpation of power, rather seems to
destroy one of the important purposes
of the commission form of govern
ment.
That purpose is that each mem
Der of the commission shall have
personal supervision over one of
each of the five departments of the
city government that is prescribed in
the commission law The law de-
mands that each commissioner shall
give bond for the faithful discharge
of his duties. He is held by law to be
absolutely responsible for the con-
duct of the department of which he
has charge. Therefore, the least that
could be expected is that he should
have free hand in creating the ma
chinery under which his departm ent
is to be operated. This machinery to a
great extent is made up of the subor-
dinate officials in the departments.
This important fact was recognized
when the commission form of govern
ment was originally organized in this
original commission was to pass a
resolution allowing each of the COM
missioners to name the subordinates
~, I,se Il FT4r a
the head of each department in com-
plete harmony with the machinery of
the department, and the plan seemed
to work well.
But through the recent action of the
mayor and two of the commissioners
in practically debating the appointees
to most of the subordinate positions in
each of the departments, that har-
mony has been destroyed. In couple
of important instances the heads of
departme have had subordinates
actually thrust upon them contrary to
their wishes. It is not difficult to fore
see the result IL this condition of af-
fairs is permitted to continue: The
heads of a couple of departments. al
though they are held responsible by
law for the conduct of their depart
ments will become mere figureheads,
and the actual work of their depart
ments will be carried on by the sub
ordinates in the departments at the di-
rection of the combination of COM
missioners that appointed them. Then,
as matter of fact, the real RESPONSE
bility for the administration of these
departments will be divided. Inces-
SAINT wrangling among the commits
sioners is bound to be the outcome.
Nor will that help in any way in Civ
ing the city a business-like admins
tration.
Rather high-handed seems to be
about the only proper characterization
for this action on the part of the
mayor and the two commissioners who
have formed a combination with him.
They appear to have placed some large
obstructions in the way of making the
first real trial Of commission govern
ment in Topeka the success that it
might be,
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
Fake Panels save capitol.

That the papier-mache panels in the
assembly chamber, which caused q
statewide scandal 25 years ago, should
years after they had been practically
forgotten act as a safeguard to the
building they desecrated and save the
state perhaps many thousands Of dol
lars is curious turn of tbs wheel of
fate, but it is a fact.
Having base of plaster of paris,
they acted as a check to the flames
which ragged in the building, the fire.
men believe, and prevented them from
eating down into the chamber itself.
Had the original contractors used
carved walnut. as they were supposed
to do, instead of the cheap substitute
or, in other words, if they hadn't
cheated-the historic chamber might
now be in badly damaged state. As
1T is, flames did not get into it. and the
damage by water is very slight.
The discovery has caused many of
the old-timers to retell the story of the
panels, which, a quarter of a century
ago, shocked the state as it has not
been shocked since and caused state
prison sentences to hover over some
men of prominence In politics and
business.
Originally the ceiling of the assem-
bly, chambe was vaulted stone arches.
In the eighties chips began to drop
down to the desks of the lawmakers
and cracks to appear in the heavy
stonewerk. Investigation showed that
the weight of the massive ceiling was
more than the foundation could stand,
and it was decided to replace it with
wood. The plans of the contract call
| ed for carved walnut, which, then as
now, was very expensive The work
was completed, and from the chamber
| it appeared to be very fine job. The
walnut effect was perfectly simulated
The contractor was paid, and no ques-
tions were asked.
Two years later. following reports
| that the walnut was not walnut at all
an inquiry was started. 1t revealed
the fact that while the erosspieces
were of walnut, the panels We're pa
pier-mache. 1t was no trouble at al
| to poke a cane through any one OF
the panels. 1t was said at the time
that some one reaped a profit of up
ward of 100000. There was talk OF
taking out the panels. but they looked
like the "real thing" and were re-
tanned. Whether they will be removed
during the general process of building
over the interior of the west end oi
the capitol has not been considered
Albany dispatch to the New Yorl
Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchisor Globe !

From the Atchisor Globe.l
If a business man is deserving of
trade toss him your mite
Finding fault doesn't help unless
you can offer a remedy for it.
western mans idea of a good sad
die is one he can't lift with one hand.
If encourag ging remarks were votes,
all the candidates would be elected
easily.
Why do so many of the women who
appear in vaudeville screach instead of
sing?
How often have you been told to sit
erect, and how often do you obey
those orders?
About nine times out of ten, when
you ask a mans judgment, you get
his prejudices.
If a fighter isn't too badly knocked
out to talk about it, he is quite likely
to blame it on the referee.
The fact that everyone can't wir
doesn't amount to much when offered
as consolation for the loser.
When a man keeps a diary, he
thinks it ought to be at least as in
teresting as the one Pepys wrote.
A minstrel parade is all right in its
way, but it wouldn't stand much of &
chance with the circus variety.
Most base runners will cut the
bases a little If they observe that the
umpire is looking the other way.
1t is ell right to toot your own horn
occasionally, but don't get the notioI
that you are the whole band.
This inside information men tall
about may be added to the CONSTANT,
growing list of things overestimated.
1t is our observation that every DIR.
country has some wonderful croI
prospects that don't put much in th'
bin.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Only when the sun does it, is cast
ing reflections a bright thing to do.
<
There never was a skeleton in a
family closet that didn't come to life.
\
Just one word of advice is usually
strung out into 10 or Is minute SER
mon.
Trouble like rain, also has the habit
of falling on the just as well as the un-
just.
n X
According to some philosophy hap
piness is the pursuit of something, not
its possession.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Even though the Topeka ball team
has been losing games with rather dis
tressing regularity most of the dis
cerning fans in town seem to hold the
opinion that there is an abundance
of excellent material on the team and
that as soon as the men get working
together and a little luck begins to
break with them there will be a diff
ferent story to tell This is the proper
spirit to show and the kind of con-
hdence that will help the team won
derfu1ly
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Prospects for real peace in Mexico
are not as bright as they may be.
Many of the revolutionists are report
ed as having no more use for Madero
and his plans than they have for Diaz.
The Mexican revolutionists seem to be
like other brands of insurgents. They
are difficult to please.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
lFrom the New York Press.1

IFrOm the New YOrk Press.
A man cuts across lots to vices, but
goes the long way round to virtues.
Where a bride is SO clever is being
able to learn so many things she knew
before.
To be a success at writing love let
lters one needs only to be a master OF
nonsense.
The price of two cigars looks bigger
to man who is putting it in the COL
lection plate than months salary.
Even when a man can sleep all
through a sermon he is so ungrateful
he will grumble about how uncomfort-
able the pew was.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

A tornado visited Missouri the other
day and did considerable damage. But
the papers outside that state devoted
no more than a few lines to the story.
Had even a smaller tornado struck any
part of Kansas, the newspapers of the
country would have played it up in
great fashion.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Attorney General Dawson says that
theaters will not be permitted to open
their doors in Topeka on Sundays re-
eardIess of any permission that may
be given in the premises by the city
commission. Mr.. Dawson says that
sunday theatrical performances are
against the law of the state. And when
he begins to enforce that law in To-
peka it is supposed he will also en-
force 1t in several other cities in Kan
sas where Sunday theatrical perform
ances have always been given.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Fourth of July weather one day and
Merry Christmas weather the next is
a transition that hasn't much to rec
ommend It. Nor are the fruit buds
the only things to suffer. Imagine the
distress of the individual who was
egged on by the hot wave to take 'em
0ff
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New
Jersey, is to spend the month of May
in a big swing around the Western
circle. In other words. governing
New Jersey is only side issue with
Mr.. Wilson. The prospects of getting
the Democratic presidential nomina-
tion seem to be the main chance.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

From the labor disputes that have
recently come to head in various sec
tions of the country, and as they seem
to be common to this time of year,
perhaps it might be just as well for
May Day to be called Strike Day in the
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

The list of the wedding presents
given to young Jay Gould and his wife
was not made public, but the chances
are good that none of them came from
the admirers of the Gould family who
live in Kansas along the line of the
Missouri Pacific's Central branch.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
WIIlL TOMoRRow COME

WHIT A0HIOI1INkJW O<VNAEs
tomorrow we will seek relief
Or remedy for melancholy;
Wen make our present troubles brief;
No more we'n chronicle the grief
Resultant from our folly.
Make positive of joys rich store.
GUST them and let the sunlight enter;
Make positive of joys rich store,
Do better things than done before;
On right our minds wen center.
Tomorrow we will prove as wrong
Our thoughts of self. And We will bor-
row
Strength for our weak ones from the
strong;
And things will be as they belong;
when we awake-tomorrowi
A. w. u, in the New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Recent reports from China show
that the terrible famine is continuing
in certain sections of that benighted
land in ALI its fury. Men and women
are dropping dead in city streets from
lack of food. And yet the world seems
to be standing idly by offering scarcely
any relief to these sufferers
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Contractors and their political allies
in New York state are probably rub
bing their hands with glee these days.
The state has decided to expend $9.-
100000 in repairing the damage done
to the capitol by the recent fire and in
also putting up some new state build
ings to provide more adequate quar-
ters for several of the state depart
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Mayor Billiards. warning to parents
10 keep their children out of the
streets also suggests the crying neces-
sity in Topeka for adequate public
Fairgrounds where children can in
dulge in their play with safety.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

"What fools these mortals be- A
wealthy New Yorker and his wife are
making a record-breaking trip in a
special car from California to New
York for the purpose of having their
dog doctored. The beast has a sore
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal "a a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great DeWB or
ganiEation for the exclusive Sft4rnoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nai building over wires for this sole pur-
poSe.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Although the United States senate is
ready to work after three weeks of
little less than idleness. the chances
are it won't do very much. That's
been the habit with the senate these
unanV wears
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Just how Topeka is growing. Per-
mits for the erection of fifty dwellings
were issued during the month of April.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

A good way to make "others" out of
all of them: WANTED, solicitor to take
orders from friends. neighbors and
others. ADV
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Acquiring cash is disease with
some people," says Hondo Murphy.
PUT some men in Mr.. Crusoe's place,
and they would open fair and warmer
by laying off the island into town lots
and selling them to Mr.. Friday. or else
they would secure the clam and cocoa
nut concessions, and sell them at a
lic.'"
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

The only drawback to religion is the
hypocrite who gets it as the prelimin-
ary step to getting the church trade.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02
sERyo17s PROPOSITION.

Just now we must refuse to throw
A fit about that ordinance
Anent the open Sunday show
That problems not circumstance.
The weighty question on our mind
Is: Dare we wear the low=necked
Iindo
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

No rule. is infailible; sometimes
there is found a fool who is hard to
separate from his money.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Both Cleveland, Ohio ana its coun-
try roads are dry-but the road
houses are wet, so the Clevelanders
are now taking theirs with an auto
mobile chaser.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Being Queen of the May was n
cinch if she wore the costume ordi
narily affected by May Queens.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

The coming of the first s'r"-less
month. brings this sadly solemn
thought: The bivaive has it on the
crustacean: the oyster gets four
months vacation. and the common
lobster is in luck if he gets ten days.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Senor Corral now denies that he
said the Americans wanted Mexico.
He would better make his denial
strong. Americans will stand for al
most anything, but they draw the line
at charge like that
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

tAsz:N.

That storm in western MISSOURI was
undoubtedly q severe one The list OF
casualties includes one Missouri mule.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

The Galena mine boss who shot al
italian laborer, has been acquitted b.
the court, but the game warden ma!
get him yet.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Political note: There are not so
many fresh Republicans around WASH
ington as formerly, because a large
number of them have been canned by
the Democratic Congress.
H G. p
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Customer-Are you sure you'll have my
taxi at the house on time? Garage own
er-Certainly. Don't you know there s
nothing surer than death and taxis?-
Woman's Home Companion.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Blobbs-That girl has been remarkably
successful Slobbs-Yes; she used to work
in nail factory, and now she's a mani
Record.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-02

Thompson-Do you like to play bridge
with your family? Johnson-No If I'm
going to lose money I'd rather lose it
where 1T may do me some good.-Life.