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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

sessed him yet more clearly OF the sit
| uation.
| Presently lowering went toward the
wide weather-gray house. whistling,
evidently thoughtful, yet alert.
Mallows made a feint of discomfort
with his survey. Waltz I want to
look over the country from that hill
top" he said. off-hariedly to his
helpers.
As they sat down at ease, he half
ran up the hill. There was clump of
trees at top-elsewhere it lay bare. He
had notion that he should find the
clump tenanted. So he was not in the
airily:
II don't want my money-but you
nave to pay ito Mrs. Damn, at the
postofiice. She has nothing but a lean
dog, and big fat no-account husband.
The money is for her. and the dog
to buy it a bone, and her some-well,
some stockings saw she had on
rags"
"You must take the money yourself
IL never would dare undertake a
commission so delicate" Mallows
laughed.
Alaster screwed up her face. "a man
who can swear so shouldn't be afraid
of anything" she murmured. Then as
though suddenly enlightened, Don't
you be afraid of Mr.. Damn he can't
possibly be Jealous. 1t would be differ
ent If I had asked the handsome man."
Mighty Different" Mallows growl
ed lowering has cheek enough for
anything
''I wonder would he dare ask them
to let him stay for dinner?" Alaster
cried, holding toward the house. 20!
hope so! 1t is three years since we
had company-except preachers and
peddlers-and they don't count"
would 1 count--if Gamer NAL
lows demanded.
She smiled at him.
How could 1 tell, unless you tried
it?" she said. She was not forward,
only human and feminine, repressed
past endurance.
1T am going to try-depend on it,
A month after he ashed the aunts
for Alaster. lowering, notwithstand-
ing his looks, had found himself out
of the running at the beginning OF
the game. The Sisters Drewette might
never have consented to the Mallows
match, If lowering had not admon-
ished them.
Suppose Alaster's father turned up.
only a husband would have authority
against him!"
At that they gave in-joyously it
must be confessed. They were not so
old, but the flavor of life delighted
them. And they felt like fairy prin-
cesseS themselves when. year after
the wedding, Alaster's father did turn
up, not a ne'er do well, but man
sorely repenting the haste and heat of
his youth. He had not known there
was living child-he had thought 1t
died with the mother. Since he had
fortune to bestow upon his grandson,
he quickly made his peace. Alaster
climbed often to the hill of hope-she
loved it, since it had become also the
hill of copyright, 1911,
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
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The Hutchinson News opines tsGt
II, instead of digging in the River Wye
LIT. Ownen had spaded up his garden,
ne might be having green peas in
three weeks. And it might be added
| that the same energy expended in dig
glng in the fence corner instead OF
the River Wye. might have yielded an
excellent crop of angle worms, which
are of more Importance and better
bait than any product of Bacon.
Have you sent your regrets to King
George yet? Neither have we, neither
have we.
The peace officers have pulled off
daring stunt. They have, quite re-
Gently, arrested some boys for firing
at target, and charged them with
"discharging firearms within the city
limits" To be sure, the offense is
mentioned in the ordinance book, but
II has been kept sacred, heretofore,
for use only in instances where col
ored gentlemen shot and wounded
from established rules may bring dire
results. The cop-shooting fraternity
may resent IL.
Albert Reid has a crouch because
local cartoonist of inferior grade ap-
pretended his idea for Diaz resigna-
ton cartoon. He didn't take it so
hard after he had been advised that
Goodwin, forehanded syndicate man,
had furnished practically the same
thing, and that the returns would I'M
doubleday show that at least 40 per
cent of the American cartoonists have
been equally diligent in the larceny OF
Sir John Tenniel's Bismarck cartoon.
me moral, If any, seems to be that
weak minds, as well as great minds,
are prone to follow the lines of least
resistance.
The Pittsburg gent with two wives
under one roof, will soon find the
answer to that Oriental question:
why do harem owners jump into the
Bosphorus?"
Newly married couples should live
in HAT. Then no enc, not even a.
mother-in-law, can come between
them.
The preacher who desires to hold
his job and at the same time practice
what he breaches, should avoid the
subject of Resignation"
Although Diaz is out of a job, it is
suspected that his wife will not have
to take in washing for few weeks,
at least.
vinewood park has been opened
for the season. Numerous other pop
ular open-air resorts were opened on
the same day throughout the country,
but the opening of Vinewood was not
negotiated with bung-starter. and it
is therefore entitled to a distinction.
There were two purposes in the
writing of the above paragraph: one
was to call attention to good thing,
and another to get chance to mis-
use the word negotiated" in the
hope that Uncle Van will see it and
blow up. Uncle Van objects to the
misuse of that word, and objection
with him is equivalent to disturbance
of the peace.
Hep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Not every Jonah has his whale.
Profit is never without honor in any
civilized country.
There's no use keeping the gate
closed when the fence is down.
Abuse your stomach today and it will
reciprocate tomorrow.
The fewer friends you have the small
er the income you will need.
Most family trees require lot Of
whitewash to keep the insects off.
oh, for a brand of good resolutions
that even a strong man couldn't break!
Fortunately a man doesn't have to
pay for the advice his wife hands him.
An engagement ring on the finger is
better than a dozen in the jewelers.
safe.
While waiting for a better chance to
come along, a widow never let's good
chance get away.
An Ohio mother of IS. upon being told
that her son, aged 70, had eloped, said:
We'll, boys will be boys"
There are some expert sign painters.
but we never saw one who could
paint a sign on a fence that a small
boy couldn't change to read something
else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
either.

tFrom the Atchison Globe.
Our idea of a successful idle man is
one who is not annoying.
When we compromise with a man it
generally means we give In.
Did you ever know a steady man
who didn't have a steady job?
A smart man among men is often
unutterably silly among women.
Between the frost and newspapers it
is wonder fruit ever natures.
An official report may be no more
accurate than the other kind, but it is
slower.
Apologizing after you step on a
mans foot isn't any great relief for his
corns.
Nine people out of ten work harder
when they know they have to work
to eat.
A woman always feels in danger of
missing her train until it pulls out
with her aboard.
While vengeance is the Lords, he
could, If he felt like it, find a willing
bunch of assistants.
When a man is dissatisfied with a
job it generally means that the job is
dissatisfied with him.
Does woman who really takes care
of her house have much time to read
household hints?
While there is plenty of kicking on
taxes, the revenue tax on booze is paid
quite cheerfully.
Among the other moIlycoddles,
there is the farmer who puts an UNI
brella up over his riding cultivator.
AS a rule, 1t is easier to shake a
rams confidence in humanity than it
is to shake his confidence in himself.
You have known a number of mar
row-minded people. but you never
knew one of them who would admit it.
1t takes a woman some time to get
ready, but not so long, when one con-
silers everything she has to put on.
Jude Johnson wants to know what
will become of the house fly IL the
automobile drives the horse off the
earth.
On the other hand, it should be re-
membered observation-disclosures doesn't
necessarily mean to condone devil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
Regulate Cold Storage.

Senator Weldon B. Hepburn, Of
Idaho, is hopeful of getting his colo
storage bill through the Sixty second
congress. This is measure OF great
Importance to the consumer and TO the
health of the community. 1t aims TO
protect the public against decomposed
meats poultry fish, eggs, and butter,
and in view of its antecedents, is not to
be regarded as a visionary proposition.
The Jurisdiction of the bill necessarily
is confined to the District of Columbia
and other possessions of the United
States, for, of course. congress cannot
regulate the wholesale and retail trade
of any state. 1t can and would by THIS
bill prohibit the transportation between
states of any of the articles Included
within the prohibitions, but it could
not, of course, reach local dealers by
law. Hence in measure the Hepburn
bill will serve rather as model Tor the
states to copy than an instrument OF
direct regulation.
A provision to interest the innocent
consumer is one that mo food product
enumerated shall be placed in cold stor-
age If diseased in any way" Only re-
Gently the senator received a letter
from a large packer protesting against
this prohibition, and he is chuckhng
merriIy over it, This man actually
wants the privilege of selling diseased
meat he commented. That would
seems to be proof enough that my bill
is needed
The same paragraph prohibits the
storing of products caught, handled, or
slaughtered in an insanitary manner.
You might think that unnecessary,
too,' said Senator Hepburn, but let me
give you an illustration. Take the case
of poultry. I know specifically of one
state where poultry is killed and han
died by negroes. They pull out the long
feathers with their hands, and then,
wetting their fingers in their mouths,
proceed to finish stripping. 1 do not
need to say any more than this to in
dictate the danger to health from such q
practice-from tuberculosis, for ex-
ample"
Senator Hepburn. like DR.. Wiley, is
always on the alert to detect food i'm
positions. In February they served him
a piece of fresh shad' in Washing
ton restaurant.
"Is this shad fresh?" inquired Hey
burn of the waiter.
''Oh, yassir, yassir dat shad puffick-
ly fresh" responded the attendant.
Hepburn said nothing, but started on
a little investigating tour of his OVID.
He found that the shad was caught last
fall.
Shad is one of the most noted lux
uries of Washington life, and 1t is said
to be no uncommon thing for the deal
ers to keep the fish in ice through the
winter and then in the spring touch up
their eyes and color their gills to make
them look as if they had just come out
Of the water.-William E. Brigham, n
the Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
10 A HoPPING TOAD.

Now softly doth the hopping toad
Skedaddle on his way
Down yonder hot and dusty road
Throughout the summer day.
Anon he sidesteps to the right,
Anon he skips apace;
And now and then he stops his flight
And swallows with his face.
Prehensile organs he hath not,
To any marked degree;
Nor caudal affix hath he got
At his extremity.
A sturdy, stocky little chap,
With gullet four by nine;
Inc hops he hops at every lap
Amaze more wits than mine.
His little bow legs squat awhile,
The turtle through the air;
But though you look for him a mile,
That hop-toad isn't therei
-Lurana Sheldon, in Brownings Maya
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
HUlAOR or THE DAY

Where is the cook?" shes in the
kitchen preparing supper for the doctors
wife, dinner for the doctor and breakfast
for the students. "-Fliegende Blaetter.
The assistant editor was opening the
letters. Here's one from a chap that
who's he roasting?" asked the editor
Cynic.
"a man ought to come home in the
evening smiling, and with a good ap-
petite" YES" replied Mr.. Torkins "he
ought to. But the home team can't win
all the Observation-Disclosures Star.
Griggs-Weren't you surprised that the
customs inspector didn't find those things
are smuggled in? Briggs-Oh. no; my wife
in trunk where she can't even find them
herSelf.-Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Powers-I will never forget the
things you said to me before we were
married. Mr.. PowerS-Bet a hundred you
won't! Had known that you had such
a good memory l wouldn't have married
you.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
"Ferdy struck Cholly with the sugar
tongs at the club last night" Shocking
"Oh, very. Both were under the influence
of strong tea."-Washington Herald.
Does that Mexican general follow the
Spanish custom and keep saying 'tomor-
row? ?" mo; he has improved on 1t. He
says day after tomorrow. Washington
Star.
Her Dad-No. sir; 1 won't have my
daughter tied for life to a stupid fool.
Her Suitor-Then don't you think you'd
better let me take her or your hands?-
Boston Transcript.
Ushers-Ladies, the audience wishes you
to keep still during this performance.
Iadies-Heavens! Is it possible that the
audience hasn't heard this old opera be-
fore Toledo Blade.
Have you anything to say before we
eat you?'' said the king of the Cannibal
Isles to a Boston missionary. Yes, 1
have" was the reply. "I want to talk to
vegetable diet."-Bazar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELoF
IFrom the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.I
A man could never really try to be
good and a woman not to.
No woman wants her daughter to
marry for money unless she gets the
chance.
The more a man owes to his wife
for what she does for him the more he
thinks she Is the debtor.
1t seems as if a good many people
would rather be called capitalists
without any money at all than work
ers with plenty.
If a woman heard her husband talk
ing to some other woman over the
telephone she couldn't recognize his
voice. it would be SO polite and gra-
cious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

Baseball has been robbed of some
Of its attractiveness at Pittsburg, Pa.
The National league park there has
been enlarged to such an extent that
It will be impossible for a player to
make a home run by knocking a ball
over the fence. Nothing brings great
er JOY to the hearts OF the real base
ball fans than to see an occasional safe
hit go kiting over the fence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Reform, like charity, should begin
at home.
Finding fault is about the easiest
effort of humans.
There always seems to be seasons
a-plenty why most folk should be
pessimistic.
Even the homeliest of girls is good
looking to many people if she has
large bank account.
y
Painting signs may not be the
height of art, but it assures a return
of SO much per day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

The more one reflects on the good
old spelling bee, the more enthusiastic
one becomes, says the Boston Traveller.
There were spoilers, you know, in the
days when our parents and grand
parents stood up In opposing rows in
the little red schoolhouse and were
boWIed over, one after another, by
.'phthisic" and ''caoutchouc" and abe
cedarian" and gauge" and when
much fame was acquired by those
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
FROM OTHER PENS
TO PUNISH cRIME-ExPOsURE.

While nobody was looking an act to
prohibit and punish the publication of
detailed statements and descriptions
of crimes and executions of Grimm
als'' slipped through the Illinois legis-
lature. The act passed the State Sem
ate on Friday, having previously gene
through the House. and not a single
negative vote was recorded against it.
Much might be said in favor of the
suppression of the disgusting and de-
moralizing details of crimes. the pub
LEGATION whereof is a favorite occupa-
ton with journals of yellow tincture
and given to SenSationaliSm.
The objection to statute like the
one that has just been passed in Illi-
nois is that its real intent is not what
1t purports to be. Pusey's Bill in the
Pennsylvania General Assembly, which
declared it libelous to print a carica-
ture portrait of q living person in the
likeness of an "inhuman animal had
for it's purpose the protection of COR
rupt politicians and stupid statesme en-
from deserved ridicule and contempt.
1t would seem from the abstract of the
Illinois act given in the press dis
patches that the publication of details
of all crimes of whatever character is
to be forbidden. So, when the public
treasury is plundered, or a bank is
looted by insiders, the newspapers may
not print the story. The robbery OF
Beef Trust must be hushed up. Graft
ers and swindlers may not be exposed
and the corrupters of legislature and
stealers of a senatorship may not be
ked.-Philadelphia Record.
JUSTICE AND TECHNICALITIES
Indiana furnishes the latest illustra-
ton of the manner in which court OBJ
servance of legal technicalities defeats
the end of justice. The net result Is
the freeing of a murderer because the
clerk OF the court made an error in
entering the sentence.
A resident of Gary, Ind, had killed
a neighbor In cold blood. because the
neighbours little girl had thrown some
elusive The murderer was sentenced
to the penitentiary for life. The court
clerk wrote after a life imprisonment
sentence the words, land DISTINGUISHED
for ten years" The Indiana courts hold
that an error of this kind invalidates
judgment
Common sense would argue that a
man sent to prison for life would nat
urally be DISTINGUISHED, and that 1t
made no difference affecting his guilt
or Innocence whether the clerk added
that sentence through error or a mis-
directed sense of humor. The clerks
addition, of course, should not have
gone into the sentence, but the fact
that it did does not excuse the absolute
folly of the system of court practice
which DEGREES that such a mistake is
an error warranting the reversal of a
sentence and the release of muir
derer-St. Paul Pioneer Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

Be prepared to buy a tag and pay a
good price for it on June 8. The
money is to be used to continue the
work of the Anti-tuberculosis Associa-
ton in maintaining the consumptives'
camp. 1t is an institution that is worth
while and worthy of generous support.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

President Delano of the Wabash
railroad thinks it would be good plan
to give the newspapers a little taste of
regulation by public authority. Mr..
Delano seems to overlook the fact that
the libel laws have been regulating the
newspapers pretty successfully these
many years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

Those United States naval officers on
a tour of foreign seas should not get
unnecessarily pulled up over the mag
nifieent reception that has been &C
corded them at Copenhagen by the
royalty of Denmark. Even a more
elaborate reception was given by the
Danes to one DR.. Cook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate of
ten cents a week or thirty cents a
month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the State journal will be
to you like daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

Presumably, the Duke of the Abruzzi
will press his suit for the hand of Miss
Katherine Elkins more vigorously
than ever now that the fact has been
made public that her father left a
$4,000 900 fortune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

That automobilist who drove a car
at the rate of one hundred miles an
hour on the Indianapolis speedway the
other day might possibly be able to
pass some of the motor cars enthusi-
asts who travel on the Topeka streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

Two million trees have been planted
in Kansas this year, notes the Chicago
Record Herald and it adds: Good. When
Kansas gets a sufficient number of
shade trees it may become easier for
her to find harvest hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

And now the state of New Hamp-
shire wants it's bit of the Mary Baker
Eddy estate. Indications are that if
this quest is successful New Hamp-
shire will have to collect from the
lawyers who have been engaged by the
heirs and others contesting the Eddy
NTH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

Reputation is the thing, even among
pugilists. Tommy Murphy received
$4,000 for getting defeated the other
night by Knockout. Brown. while
the winners share amounted to less
than $50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

"A reading of the weather reports
from all sections of the country would
seem to indicate that the good" old
summer time for 1911 has been a trife
too previous in keeping it's engage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

master intellects that always knew
whether it was niece" or "neice."
dying or "dyeing," Judgment or
judgement" and "judgeship" or
'tjud gship''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

Porfirio Diaz has broken another
Latin-American record. When he re-
tired from the presidency of Mexico he
left some $6O,OOO,O0O in cash in the
nations strong box.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

If Mr.. Peter Sharp of Pittsburg,
Kan, who is living with two wives,
happened to be a Mormon, wouldn't
there be great fuss about it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

Kansas must be in the east. A re-
turning traveller from Europe told the
New York reporters the other day that
he had lived most of the time in the
west where gambling is wide open.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29

The real thing in the way of a news
paper row appears to be on the car
pet at Seattle.