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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
AYHAWKER JOTS

Mr.. John Urban happens to live on
Rural Route out of Clyde. 4.4...
One of the haberdashers at Beloit
advertises "a shirt that looks like the
real thing"
Paul Morton never drank or smoked,
but he ate grape fruit, which, says the
Salina Journal, was enough to under
mine even a rugged constitution like
his
Notin that Laura Jean Libbey says
she has never been in love, the Hutch
inson Gazette thinks if that be the case
it is pretty safe to say that she is i'm
mune by this time.
AS reported by Editor Kelley in his
Toronto Republican: The dean of the
Emporia School of Poetry claims that
the schools particular kind of poetic
eczema is contagious
1t is the opinion of the Baldwin Re
publican that the genuine Christian Is
one who, after slipping on banana
peel, will arise calmly and without
agitation remove the peel from the
walk.
New York boasts of a pig that chews
tobacco. notes the washington Repup-
Iican and it continues: Judging from
the looks of the sidewalk there are a
lot of them around here put we are iloI
Dragging about it,
Maybe the fact that its home is near
a. co-educational institution is respon-
sible for this remark from the Law,
renee world: The housekeeper is not
the only one in the world who is some-
times troubled by misplaced spoons
Taking a few chips in the game OF
"soak the whiskers" which Is SO popu-
lar in Kansas these days, the Lawrence
world remarks: Soil is sometimes TOO
thin to produce anything, but the poor
err a face the heavier the crop or Wnls-
kers.
Dad what has become of your
hair?" asked Susie Sinealler OF her
father. Some of it was pulied out;
in early life 1 was foolish enough to
make a rule that whenever hair
left my head it had to stay away. -
Vinland Vine.
A Kansas City, Kansas, woman.
mother of a young girl, backed the
girls beau into corner ana mace ie MN nm
give up the marriage license he mad
procured to marry her daughter. Then
She returned the license to the re-
corder and gave orders for II not 70
be issued until she should De hearo
from. The country needs more attn
Lotto mothers like this one.-OttaWa
Herald.
device for obviating slipping on
ic1 movements. without injury to foot
wear, has been invented by an 1ola
physician, reports the lola Register.
The arrangement is very simple. con-
sisting merely of four small pieces of
tin and several strips of adhesive
plaster. Two of the pieces of tin are
cut Just long enough to fit at right
angles across the ball of the loot, ana
the other two are cut just long enough
to to- fit in the same manner across the
heel. All pieces are about an inch in n
width. These are driven full of nail
holes, and the tin is fitted to the
footrear with the protruding side of
tbe holes downward Then the strips
of adhesive plaster are applied at
right angles across the tin. and serve
to hold it on. The process does not
harm any kind of footgear, and eff
fectively holds the foot TO the spot
where it is set down. 20
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
SUPPORT YOUR INSTITUTE.

Much is being printed just now in
favor of farmers clubs to relieve the
alleged loneliness of rural life, says the
Kansas Industrialist. Clubs are to be
encouraged where needed, but why
should they be undertaken in Kansas
where every county-and there are
1O5-has from one to six farmers in
stitutes? What is an institute if it
isn't a club, and the best kind of a
club. too, that could possibly be de-
yised? Why should not the members
of these institutes meet more frequent
ly, in town or at country school or
church, and there have a feed-which
seems to be the first requirement with
most men-that shall satisfy the keen
est appetite of even the hungriest
ruralist Banquets, they like to call
them, and let them do it.
There is such a thing as OVERRIDING
| the club business in the country as it
was overdone in town. About all a
J farmer needs is a good, live institute
/ in his community. The disposition to
support it properly by attending its
meetings, paying his dues, and profit
ing by the discussions and the annual
| contests Beyond this line farmers
need not go. except to have beef club,
!
| perhaps, or some other form of CO.
operation in meat killing and curing
And even this department of farm life
can be safely handled in the institute
One meeting well attended is worth
/ twenty with only ten or twelve chairs
| occupied.
| What all the farmers need drilled
| into them is little more of the spirit
| of co-operation-indeed they need q
whole lot of it. As a class. the farm
ers OF 1911 are not so eager as they
were in 1865, for instance, to give one
| another a friendly lift. Silo parties
| should be popular in every county
parties at which everyone turns to and
helps to fill some ones silo. There
should be a revival of old hog-killins
days and attention to meat curing, sc
that the farmers shall cease to pro.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
,isnn GlOh.e.1

rFrom the Atchison Glob.e.]
Men look out of place at matinee.
Post card philosophy: Do Him Now.
Every woman says she is easy on
clothes.
woman holds a baby as naturally
as a man holds cigar.
Some men are already figuring on
the trips they won't take next sum-
mef-
Most girls would rather be married
and have trouble than not to BIS mar
ried at all.
Gossip, remarked a man the other
dav. is something everybody is greatly
interested in.
It is our theory that no one was ever
bothered by insomnia along about D
o'clock a. M
Laugh heartily at a mans joke and
he'll have another one for you the
next time he sees you.
Then there are the people who
don't care what kind of toilet soap
they use, just so it is pink
Remember that your family joke
may not seem very funny to the COM
pany that comes to dinner.
You have to be pretty stingy not to
give away the extra cigar you get
when you buy them quarters worth
at a time
one way Oh SHOWING your S1iA1tACSS-
ness, if you are a grown man living in
town. is to become excited over a good
rabbit snow.
It is said every actor has an ambi-
ton to get into vaudeville. notwith-
standing the fact that vaudeville is
pretty bad as it is.
Nearly anyone can practice on a
! piano, but only a few can practice in a
way to keep the preaching about that
subject from being bitter.
A counterfeit is usually detected.
but the imitation a woman puts up in
lieu of the real thing in enthusiasm,
manages to fool quite a number of
people.
i II a woman really loves a man, she
will tell him occasionally that he
works too hard even if the man in the
case Is holding political. job or is
AN army officer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

are going with Len Hampton! she
gasped. WHY II was sure~ opt
II know" Sybilla nodded; or
don't you mind, Nab, wont eve
SONG tn take us both, and Mrs. Dean
into the bargain-l1is car is Die
enough, you know. though we don
actually need a chaperon. now VET
engaged. oh. say. Nab. VIII II -
too much Tut of the picture II l wear
nv diamond ring with the pink or
gandy?" -. 4,s.
Mabel said nothing. In fact, JUS.
then it appeared to her there Wa
nothing left to say. But wneh ueAt
Sunday Peter Benn preached aoou'
Leah and Rachael, she, OF all the con-
gregation, understood him best
copyrighted 1911 by Associated LII
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

ed by one of the professors of the Chr
cago university. This time it comes
from the dean of the divinity school.
Maybe it is true, but if it is, it is a
condition among humans that is we'll
nigh universal The man or woman
who is not superstitious over some
thing is not known to many people.
Just inquire honestly of yourself, and
you'll find that there is one or two or
many things about which you are SUI
perstitious. And it is dollars to dough-
nuts that the professor in question has
a few superstitions which are excep-
tionally peculiar to himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.1
Love making is one kind of a cold
weather picnic.
Even stingy man loosens up when ask
ed for advice.
Some men borrow trouble and some
buy it by the bottle.
Most concerts are all right, if there are
no cats in them.
Learn little every day and then rro-
coed to forget the most of it.
Now for congress and an increase in the
supply of natural gas.
There is. always room for one more in
the straight and narrow patch
good deal Of hospitality is administer
ed according to the HOMEOPATHIC school
1t doesn't increase the size of ANYTHING
TO look at 1t through magnifying glass
It's easier to borrow from a new friend
than it is to pay back what you owe an
old one. 90
A woman's idea of a great financier is
a man who can straighten out her ex
pense account -
And people who do as they please seem
to get along just about as we'll as those
who are always trying to please Others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
QUAKER sIEDrrATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
an easy one.
He who fights and runs away doesn't
always buy q return ticket
There isn't much hope for the fellow
who is too lazy to 90 fishing.
The difficulty of knowing what MT 70
say Is In knowing when not to say it.
The fellow who simply sits down and
hopes LOT the best Is really hopeless.
Many a man who has no r,,,sfo a, =.
soul can play a woman's heart-strfnes.
Many man is weighed and found
found wanting the earth,'' added he c;sss'
pie Mug. ING SIM
Wigg-.Bjones boasts that he can win
any guessing contest In the world" Wagg
He's prescription clerk in drug store"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
A MANS SONG.

we washed up the silver and dishes,
:, I've made all the beds for the day,
I've finished preparing the fishes
Nv ordered for luncheon today;
Inc 1loors have been swept and the parlor
lame IN for a clean and a wipe,
When the breakfast was eaten the rugs
were all beaten
And now for whack at me pipe.
We polished the mirrors and busted
Inc cupboard-they neeCed it, too
We mended chair that was busted,
ana blackened the range and the flue.
We hooked up the waist of the missus,
SheS off for a lecture on Kneipp,
Inc weeks washing's over and I am in
clover
And now for a whack at me pipe
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

United States army officials have been
criticized for not paying as much at
tention to the aeroplane as has been
given to it in the armies of foreign ma
tons. And along comes the unexpected
news that an officer of the United
States army is the first man to estab-
lish the fact that it is possible 10 send
and receive wireless telegraph messages
from such an aircraft. Evidently the
experiments that have been conducted
by the United States army with the ae-
roplane have not been accompanied by
the usual fanfare of trumpets and beat
ing of tom-toms. This, of itself, is
also a trif1e unusual
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The good resolutions that are brok-
en- oftenest concern getting up early
mornings.
A changeable climate also provides
a better excuse for the existence of
weather prophets.
\ \ =
Not a few women become deeply Of
Tended if any one protests against be-
ing bitten by their pet dogs.
X
Many great men have died in power
ty, but that's not much consolation
for the multitudes who happen to be
in that state.
= X X
It is quite as easy and natural for
some people to do things the wrong
way as it is for others to do the same
things the right way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

duce the meat. sell it to the packers,
and then buy it back at an exerbitant
advance. This situation. described
recently by President Waters, is as
ridiculous as anything possibly could
be.
The value of the grange or the club
is not to be moderated. The point at
issue here is that the institute can fill a
large place in rural life If earnestly
managed. 1t induces better farming,
better live stock, and altogether better
farm life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
FRON O7EER PENS
A NOTEWORTHY REPORT.

A notable victory has been won by
the advocates of the popular election
of senators; the senate committee on
Judiciary has decided in favor of a
resolution authorizing the submission
of a constitutional amendment for
such election to the states. The
significance of this action lies in the
fact that heretofore the upper cham
Der of congress has, refused to ind Use
such a proposal; whether it Will do SO
now remains to be seen, but an impor-
tant step forward has been taken in
the judiciary committees favorab BILE
report. On four occasions, in 1894,
1898, 1900 and 1902. the house has
voted to submit a similar amendment,
but without further result.
The New York Tribune, deprecating
hasty action in the matter, says that
under existing conditions 1.-The states
which wish to name their senators by
popular vote can do SO now without
let or hindrance." And it asks. ''Why
should it be thought desirable to force
the states which prefer the old method
to drop it before they are ready to
make the changer" Presumably the
Tribune is acquainted with article /,
section of the United States constitu-
ton, which says, 1.-THE senate of the
United States shall be composed of
two senators from, each state. chosen
by the legislature thereof In a
sense, it is true that states wishing to
elect their senators by popular vote
are already able to do SO, but u is
misleading to say that this can be
done without let or hindrance."-
Providence journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

The presidency of the Missouri Pa
cific, which is reported to carry with
it salary of 100000 a year, is going
begging. No big railroad man of ex-
perience and reputation wants to tackle
the job. 1t might be good plan for
the directors of the Missouri Pacific
to make material reductions in the sal
aries distributed among it's high Off
cial family and devote the saving made
in this fashion to improving the road
bed and equipment of the company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
KANSAS COMAENT
i, CARRIE NATION

NA1lON.
IL IS reported that Carrie Nation is
suffering from a nervous and physical
breakdown, and that she is not likely
to live very long,
Carrie Nation is one of the women
VINO may some day be looked upon with
a good deal more respect than she is
today.
Today we are inclined to see the
grotesque, unusual side of her charac-
ter; the picturesque side which has
peen featured in the cartoons and fun
ny papers.
Anyone who has ever come in per-
sonal contact with this woman, how
ever, has discovered that she does not
IN the least regard herself as a joke.
she is absolutely sincere in her belief
that she is doing a great work for tenn
perance. She is fanatic. There is
strain OF crusader in her nature which
Is not akin to modern life It is the
spirit which has led her to march into
the saloons amid a hostile crowd where
personal violence threatened it is this
which has led her to face policemen
and judges without flinching. 1t is this
spirit which is almost identical in its
character and manifestation to that of
John Brown of Osawatomie
In her way Carrie Nation has very
much the same sort of a character as
that OF John Brown, ready to go the
limit. to defy even death itself, to carry
De the destruction of the drink evil.
And who can d my that it was Carrie
Nation and her militant methods that
aroused the people of Kansas FROM
their lethargy and made them take &C
tive measures to crash the joints and
saloons which had grown up all over
the state?-Salina Journal.
THE LENGTH OF MESSAGES.
Exercising everybody's prerogative to
criticize, a Kansas newspaper protests
that Governor Stubs message was too
long, and urges that hereafter all gov
ernors confine their messages toa news
paper column. 1t won't work. The SUD-
1ects which properly require treatment
in such a document are so numerous
that they can not be treated intelligent
ly in mere 1900 words or so. Co..
ernor Stubs message was unusually
concise and yet the printing of it re-
quired three columns of newspaper
space. At that, he overlooked matters
OF such Importance that he believed
them worthy of special messages. Mr..
Taft's message was one of the longest
ever written, and yet those who have
perused it will understand that it could
have been shortened but little if the
subjects discussed were to be treated
at an.-LeavenWorth Times.
THE WILD WEST Is NOW TAME.
There is proposition before con-
gress to discontinue a number of the
smaller army posts in somewhat re-
mote places, and provide stations for
the troops by charging posts at more
accessible points. To some extent this
has been done already, and there would
doubtless, be a saving in abandoning
other minor posts. Most of these small
and isolated posts are in the west, and
as the west is now as safe from IN
dams as New Jersey, they have out
lived their usefulness. No longer is It
necessary to send troops to bluff In
dams or outlaws: the Wild West has
become tame. 1t is natural that towns
which have reaped benefit from these
smaller forts should object to their
passing.-Beloit Call.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands,
who fined the Standard Oil company
small matter of $4,000 has Just as
sessed few fines against some viola
tors of the internal revenue laws which
run all the way from $1,000 to $4,000
each. Judge Lands is evidently one of
those folk who always delight in going
TO extremes. 1t has not been unusual
for him to fine other offenders against
the law 1 cent each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
LFrom the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.1
Vanity will dress up for blind peo-
pie il there are no others.
Self-interest will keep a man loyal
where only duty will woman.
A woman wants to say her prayers
when everything is all right; a man
when it is all wrong.
A girl likes to have proposals. so
she won't have to fib so much about
having them anyhow.
II man knew as much about his
business as his wife does about their
refrigerator, he'd be a big success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

Through a case which made its ap-
pearance in the local district court, it
appears that the laws of Kansas have
been SO construed as to define that a
horse is not a horse if it happens to
be a gelding. Law is discriminating, to
saw the least
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

According to the ideas expressed by
several Kansans a couple of months or
so ago, political contest of huge i'm
portance must be on the boards at Col
orado. The Santa Fe officials have
started on a harmony tour of that
state. Playing politics was alleged to
he the reason for the similar tours
which were conducted in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

Some people get more or less fame for
not doing things of any great conse-
quence. They are trying to pin laurel
wreath on the tomb of a Chicagoan
who died recently because at one time
he engineered successful corner in the
bean market. Boston will probably in
sist that lemon wreath would be
more suitable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

The generally accepted fact that it
impossible for a woman to handle a
revolver in an effective fashion is dis
puted by that happening in Arkansas
where a woman was so successful in a
pistol duel with her father that she
killed him. Still it is a poor rule that
hasn't an occasional execution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

Three or four lines were all that the
newspapers devoted to the heroic
mother-love of those two Indian wo-
men who froze to death in South Da-
kota because they stripped off their
blankets and clothes and wrapped them
around their babies to keep them warm.
But at least a couple of columns of
newspaper space would be needed to
tell of the divorce suit of some pamper-
ed society pet who might be willing to
place her children in the discard in or
der that she could get her divorce and
marry some other man who had cap
tured her fancy. Such is life, in the
glorious twentieth century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

New Mexico's proposed constitution
was accepted with rush and a hurrah
by the people of that territory And
as it is a pretty substantial document
the federal authorities should lose no
time in giving it their approval
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

What an intensely thoughtful act it
is to leave a loaded gun or revolver
around where children can get their
hands on it A 3-year-old boy in Iowa
shot off his 6-year-old sisters head the
other day with loaded shotgun which
their father had left standing by the
kitchen door
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is q member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganisation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

There seems to be plenty of opportuni-
ty for Emma Goldman to engage in a
little missionary work in Japan. Twelve
anarchists were executed there the
other da-y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

What's become Of that revolution in
Mexico? Perhaps the news about it is
so heavy, that the telegraph wires are
unable to carry it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

fiicted with religious appendicitis - is
the latest great thought to be project
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25
LAME DUCKS.

The New York Evening Post refers
harshly to eX-congressmen hunting
federal jobs as the Dishonorable Order
of Lame Ducks. Extinct volcanoes"
Disraeli called public men whom a
discerning electorate had retired to
private life. Yet such men, like the
volcanoes, desire to- remain forever in
the public view.
The Lame Duck is always with US
after every election. There is some
thing pathetic about the sight of de-
feated officeholder trying somehow to
hold on to the public udder. The
Evening Post thinks it is not so much
the desire for salary as the reluctance
to give up the dignities of official place.
But this diagnosis of the sad case of
the Lame Duck is not correct. He is
out of q job. He must live. If he is
lawyer he has no practice; if he is
a businessman, he long ago abandoned
business.
Nine-tenths of the ex-congressmen,
for example, have no money, and have
lived on their salaries. 1t is welI-nigh
impossible for such a man to reduce
his style of living, or to begin work
in private life where he was 20 or 80
years ago. His only recourse is an
appointment and the lingering hope
that some day he may get his con-
gressional job back again. But he new
err will.-Port1and Oregonian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

Adam Zawfox-Jevver git through a
winter thout woTkin? Job Sturkey-Yeb-
/ spent one winter in workhouse.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-25

jackson Wentworth, after an absence
of thirty years. returned to the home Oh
his youth. Jackson had slight affeeuon
of the skin which made his nose very red
Hence, when he called at the parsonage
the old minister remarked: Jackson
Jackson. my man. I'm afraid you've pc
appearances, DR.. Steenthly,'' said Went
worth. II hardly consume two glasses
of beer a week. ''Wel, them, said the
minister, in a soothing voice. IT guess
your face Jackson, is like my gas meter.
1t registers more than it consumes. =
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