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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

my own way in the world entirely. For
many years sold newspapers and
made more money that 1 have ever
earned since. But / always spent it
as fast as it came in and the statement
am a miser and worth $4,000 is RI
diculous and absurd
THE papers also published that I
kept ten dogs and five cats in my
rooms on South Seventh street to guard
the treasure. All that is foolishness.
If I had money I would be out among
the bon tons in the West End. But
have no money and am satisfied to
live my own life and let others live
theirs. You could buy all own for
$40 except my dog Jack and the pic
ture of my dead wife and son and
daughter My wife died four years
after our marriage, rs years ago, and
my two children died soon afterward.
You won't find cat in my rooms,
and in addition to Jack there are only
three pups. Jack is by far, believe,
the Oldest dog in St. Louis. I raised
him from puppy, and he's been my
pal for 26 years. He's getting pretty
old now and can't do the tricks that
he used to astonish my friends with.
Jacks got more sense than a good
many men in St. Louis but he don't
get drunk-that's where he's wiser -
ST. Louis GIobe-Democrat
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Dogfght. TIlen NFanf1pht,

An argument over the relative merits
of two bulldogs landed two men in hos
pitfalls as prisoners last night and put
another in a cell. 1t started at Mac
dougal and Sullivan streets when At
tillo Simone, of 179 Prince street, and
VincenzO Mirabella, of 227 Sullivan
street, met on the corner. Each had a
bulldog, and when the dogs began to
growl the owners began to glover.
The dogs weren't as cautious as their
masters. They fought on the sidewalk
and in the street. They fought over
large area, with their owners inter-
polating kicks here and there. At last
the separators We're successful, and
Mirabella went off with his Well
cheWed terrier.
He stopped at home long enough to
leave the dog and to pick up a re-
volver. Then he went back to the
corner, where Simone was explaining
to any who cared to listen how easily
his dog had whipped the other one.
whats that?'' put in Mirabella.
You say my dog was licked?"
Sure, say So" returned Simone-
Then it really began. The Wrangle
grew more and more personal and drew
a bigger and bigger crowd. Words
weren't emphatic enough and had to
give place to fists The men fought
back and forth over the ground that
their dogs had covered. Then the third
man entered, Lipini Napaloni, fish
dealer, of 100 West Houston street.
Mirabe1la, who is a. barber, says that
Napaloni grabbed for his watch and
chain. Then, says MirabeIla, and then
only did he bring out the revolver with
he had provided himself. But the fish
dealer had a baseball bat, and he
brought it down on the BARRIERS sleek
head. Then Napaloni dropped the bat
and ran.
AS MirabelIa got to his feet Simone.
seeing the revolver, picked up the club
and laid it across the other side of
Mirabella's part. The barber fired four
times and hit the right side of Simone's
tack Simone staggered into the
Italian hospital, at 157 West Houston
street, and fell on the floor.
The crowd that had seen the dog
fight, the argument, and the man fight
was making it unpleasant for Mira
bella Somebody stole the revolver.
Somebody else punched him. There
We're several hundred Italians in the
street when reserves cleared a path to
Mirabella.
At ST. Vincent's hospital it took DR..
O'Neill an hour to sew up the scalp
wounds in the BARRIERS head. There
were 80 stitches. Simone is in the
Italian hospital. Napaloni was found
at his home. and he was arrested for
attempted robbery, as well as felon-
ious assault.-New York Sun.
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THE BALLOT FOE WOMEN.

The State Journal is in receipt of q
letter from the corresponding secretary
of the Massachusetts Association OBJ
posed to the Further Extension Of Suf-
frage to Women" inviting attention to
the contents of the assiciation's official
organ The Remonstrance." The argu-
ments against woman suffrage appear
to be based entirely upon questions of
policy. So far we believe nobody has
been brave enough to declare that the
proposed extension of the franchise is
wrong If it be not wrong then it must
be right and if it be right it should be
adopted.
There is nothing in the constitution
of any state compelling women to vote.
nor is there likely to be, therefore it
appears that these Bay state ladies are
giving themselves a wholly unneces-
sary amount of worry. The ballot
should belong to woman as a matter
of right and it is nobody's business
what she does with it. Everybody
knows what the answer of the other
side to this will be.
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scorns Fathers millions.

The son of a millionaire, from whom
he has several times refused financial
aid, Louis Reppetto, 5 years old, lived
35 years in two rooms in the basement
of a building at ia South Seventh
street He is now penniless and serf-
ously i'll of heart disease at the City
Hospital. That, at least is what Rep
petto, who was reputed to be worth
$4,000 or more, told reporter, who
visited him at the hospital yesterday.
MY father has money-lots of 1t, -
he said Hes worth between So
600. 900 and $4,0O0,0OOs but if the City
of st. Louis were for sale at 500 7
couldn't buy a woodshed in it.
Il was born in a cottage near where
I now live SO years ago, my father at
that time being in the fruit business.
About 8 years ago he went back to
Genoa, Italy, where he now lives on
the interest of his money. He has Of
fered me large sums of money to go into
business with and urged me to come
over to Italy and live there with him
on one of the largest estates in the
country. But I wouldn't let him or
any other relative give me a penny.
My father is almost 90 years old now,
and will be dying off some of these
days and leaving me million or two
as an inheritage
when I was not more than s years
old, my father gave me a beating for
going swimming in the river when he
had ordered me to stay home. ! ran
away and since that day have made
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dBBH E#EgEE
NSxS38S ~

We may not get an AndycarneRio
hero medal for our efforts to advance
the cause Of Higher Education by
way of this free series of history les
sons. but we should have one for the
display Of nerve it takes to put across
anything OK the sort. A few threats
have been received. but disregarded.
When Duty calls, Opposition may as
we'll shut up for the night, so far as
this department is concerned. Intim-
idation has about as much effect on
this corner as a drop of formaldehyde
would have on the moral tone of an
Elinor Glyn book. History is needed,
and history will be delivered.
The subject-or vietim-of today'B
outburst, was a bearcat at discovering.
He could discover the contents Of an
Indians hip pocket and the color of
an Indians liver in a brief passage
of time. He travelled much, and only
returned home occasionally to bank
the fruits of his discoveries Meet
Hon. Cortez, who ante-dates Hon.
Diaz as trimmer of Mexico:
Competitions History. JDesson III.)
A little later in the game
One Cortez came. with sword and
flame"
On Mexico he filed q claim,
And pressed said claim a-plenty.
How Cortez got in histories
Remains one Of the mysteries;
No page in Hum oristorfes
Refers to F'ifteen-twenty.
For Hon. Cortez discovered less
And gave more thought to cussedness
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HOMES FoR WORKTNGNrEN.

At the recent session of the munich
pal congress, a man who has had
much TO do with the study of the con-
gestion of population in New York
city told that body that good housing
at reasonable rents for wage earners
in American cities cannot be provided
while we continue our present policy
of taxing buildings at the same rate
as land
Vancouver. B. C., appears to have
solved the problem of high rents in a
measure. Fifteen years ago that city
exempted from taxation so Per cent of
the value of buildings. a few years
later it exempted rs per cent, and nc W
improvements are not taxed at all.
Practically the entire revenue of the
city comes from a TAX on land values.
The tendency is to cause the building
of more and better homes and con-
sequene reduction Of rents.
They do things differently in New
Zealand.
In accordance with an act passed in
December, 1910 the government is now
putting into operation a plan for the
sale TO workmen, in cash installments,
of dwellings especially suitable to their
use.
Ihis act makes some important
changes in a former workers dwellings
act passed in 1905, which it repeats,
chiefly by doing away with the tenancy
and lease methods Of disposfng of
houses and substituting sales on very
easy terms, including an initial deposit
of $4S.66. with subsequent instaIIments
of $1703 every half year payable week
ly, fortnightly, or monthly, for period
of 251a years. on every S4S6.65 owing
at the commencement of the purchase.
OF this amount 5 per cent is charged
for interest in the sum owing from
time to time. computed half yearly !;
the balance of the installments goes to
pay the principal; SO that the amount
of interest payable dfmfnfshes from the
first half year onward. while the
amount paid upon the principal CORES
pondingly increases. Thus in the event
of a dwelling being erected the capt.
tai value of which, including land, ETC.,
is. say $2,725.24. the amount owing just
after the payment of the original de-
post would be s2,6765s The half
yearly installments payable would in
this instance be 1885,
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

GFrom the Chicago News.I
A bad habit doesn't seem so bad If
it is yours.
Great expectations often breed great
disappointmen
It's pity we can't convert our wild
oats into breakfast food.
The hardest thing that can be said
about a man is He is easy"
A man can avoid lot of explain
ing by keeping his face closed.
A woman's idea of miser is an
other woman who refuses to tell a
secret.
A man doesn't always get what is
coming to him when the postman calls.
If you think the world isn't grow
ing better, perhaps you are partly to
blame
This is sad world for the woman
who is married to a professional funny
man.
The less a man has accomplished
the more he may have to say about
the necessity of lifting up the masses.
Trouble never waits for an introduce
ton, and furthermore, it is apt to be-
come unduly familiar on short ac-
quaintance.
It sometimes happens that a girl
gives a young man q present-and the
only thing he can do Is to make lem
onade out of it.
When one woman says to another,
81 always feel that can trust my hus-
band with you.v is it a compliment, or
otherwise?
If a married man gets in bad his
wife always blames some other woman
for it publicly but privately she reads
the riot act to him.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison Globe.l
No motorcycle rider seems to grasp
the importance of making haste slowly
Some women run sewing machines
like they had no regard for the speed
limit.
You can not, however, tell how fast
motor car is going by the noise it
makes.
Tact is what enables a woman to
boss her husband without letting him
Some men seem proud of their
crouch, although they don't say much
about it.
Some men are so lazy they will pro-
long a sick spell longer than the doc
tor requires.
The rebate one gets on the empties
isn't likely to serve as foundation for
a fortune
While Adam blamed Eve, that fact
didn't save the old man from having
to go to work.
If woman's letters were set up in
type, it would be a terrible strain on
the cap case.
We have been able to find a num-
Der of things more interesting than
the baby elephant.
While the sunshine may fade the
carpet it keeps the microbe from get
ting a Good Color.
One can't always judge the amount
of business done by the appearance of
the office furniture
Some small towns are quiet. and the
lecture course is the principal amuSe-
ment in others.
Regardless Of the high price of
shoes, the stone bruise doesn't seem
as fashionable as formerly.
1t is hard for some Jealous women
to learn that finding fault is no cure
for their particular trouble.
If boys had to work at anything else
n nd q
would be a large general strike.
Yacht races don't seem to take place
as often as formerly, and there are a
few other Improvements in the world
| of sport.
Every year produces a new kind of
husking peg, but a hundred bushels a
day continues to be big days work
in that line
Women can never hope to be on
equal footing with the men as long as
they insist on their new shoes hurting
their feet.
Civilization has worked on it a good
while, but hasn't had much luck
| teaching mankind to be comfortable in
good clothes.
If the children have to keep quiet
when Father comes home, someone
should tell him to leave his crouch
down at the office
About the only thing we ever heard
| in favor of the Indian is he doesn' t
/ take to Whiskers much, and that is be-
cause he can't.
An artist can find some satisfaction,
but not much money, in the belief that
his critics don't know what they are
talking about.
/ Old Doc Wiley may finally arrive at
the question, What is Mexican chilli ~
And the answer won't be, An aid to
Digestion
When woman queries: isn't that
/ just like a man p the Interrogation
Isn't prompted BY anything particular
/ " to masculine credit.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

EFrom the Philadelphia Record
The early worm gets in the chestnut
An overworked conscience IS apt to
lose its voice
1t isn't always early training that
makes a railroad man.
It is hardly a fair exchange when
you lose time in finding fault
No, Maude. dear: a deaf mute artist
wouldn't necessarily be a sign painte-
Many "A girl who is forbidden to
drink saltwater takes it surreptitious-
ly-
To look for a needle in a haystack is
one of the most needless things in the
world
Many a man who goes around look
ing for good thing might take a peep
in the looking glass.
Some people are not satisfied to make
a mountain out Of a mole hill They
want to sell IL or In building lots.
Tommy-"Pop. what sort of schools
did they have in the Bark Ages?"
Tommy's Pop-"Knight schools. my
SON"
Wigg-"Every man has some vice.
Wagg-fYes, if he doesn't write poetry
he generally belongs to a glee club or
an amateur theatrical society"
Blobbs-'I don't know what to send
Wigwag for a wedding present. He's
going to marry a grass widow" Slobbs
why not send a lawn mower3"
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FROM OTHER PENS
A BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

It used to be that iron was the gauge
to tell how business stood. Now it IS
steel, but that is quite the same thing,
and, according to that test, there is
prosperity in the land, and more com
ing. The particular omen that irid1-
Gates this situation and prospect is the
marked increase of the capacity of the
open-hearth furnaces in and about
Pittsburg. Two firms propose adding
six open hearths each and another four
this Increasing the output of steel in
that region 100000 tons.
The projectors of these vast enlarge
ments certainly see q good trade ahead,
which the present capacity will not
supply. The market may not inspire
now such bright hopes, though 1t is
not particularly discouraging, yet it in
dicates more activity to follow soon
one Of the firms will add So, 900 900 to
It's equipment and another quite as
much These are peepholes into the
future that disclose prospect OF ac-
tivfty and prosperity.-Ohio state Jour-
nal.
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TAFT IN KANSAS.

Mr.. Taft's experiences prove absolute
" that there is nothing the matter
with the n. tanners of Kansas. His pres
ence in the enemy's country has been
everywhere attended by exhibitions OF
that fierce joy which warriors feel.
When Kansas disag greed with the pres
ident's speeches, it told him SO. When
It agreed with him. it cheered him.
IF. on the whole. the people of Kan
sas have listened to Mr. Taft with
thoughtfulness rather than with en-
thusfasm. it is only what we should
expect in state that is generally re-
puted to exhibit more serious thinking
to the square mile than any other state
in the Union.-New York Evening
Post
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.LAYHAWKER JOTS

Chanute will vote on the commission
form of government November Z.
Roy Toy has bought theater at
Cheeryvale. That name has a celestial
sound.
Word comes from the northern part
or the state that the worms are kill
ing the alfalfa
farmer in Douglas county claims
to have produced two kinds of wheat
from the same seed. Burbank is not
the only pebble.
Mack Gretchen of the Sedgwick Pan
tagraph points out that lit isn't so
much the amount of religion one has
that counts: It's the amount he uses -
The Coffeyville board of education
has barred football and the college pa
per this year. But the Osborne Farmer
thinks that the loss of football will
be compensated for by the absence Of
the paper.
Down at Winfield Col Bill Hackney
has been fined IS for failure to pay the
license on his dog The colonel will
appeal and there will be something do
ing at the court house when that case
comes I'D.
Henry Allen prints recipe for driv-
ing away fleas. Now perhaps he will
tell waiting public where to find the
fleas. They are not in Kansas. Must
one go to Missouri or to California to
try out the remedy?
ture says the Manhattan Mercury are
now conducted on 200 farms in nearly
one-half the states counties, by the
Agricultural college. Indeed, so keenly
interested are the farmers in this kind
of work that the college cannot pro-
vide enough men to carry on all the
experiments suggested or take advan-
tage of more than one-half the offers
of land that come from every part of
the state Evidently there is every
thing in experiment work to attract a
farmer. 1t is hoped to enlarge this
department in the next year or two.
Charlie B1akesly pays the following
handsome tribute to the memory of
the late Earl Brown of Concordia:
The death of Earl Y. D. Brown of Con
cordia, in a Kansas City hospital Sat
urday, will cause sincere regret in kan
sas. No young man in the state was
more widely known. He was a gradu-
ate of K. U. and the Harvard school
of law, and was a past exalted COM
mander of the Kansas Grand Lodge of
Elks. In Concordia he built the finest
theater in the state. He was a rich
mans son who was unspoiled-hand-
some, gifted, useful and companion
able. He was easily Concordia's most
widely known and most popular citi-
zen
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engaged to Ben Mar1ow!'' Augusta was
delighted.
ben Marlow?" repeated Genevieve,
contemptuously. Mother, dear, was
Aunt Gus has forestalled me I shall
have to make q public confession. I've
promised to marry Neal Waite"
Meal Waite!" almost screamed Miss
lowering.
Meal waiter echoed Mrs. Whit
more, family.
What is the matter with Neal?' de-
manded Genevieve, rising and standing
before them in outraged dignity.
Matter? The very idea of marry
ing that insignificant little nonenity!
A pretty picture you will make march
ing up to the altar with that ridicul-
Ously homely, red-haired infant in
tow! I distinctly refuse to be present"
Augusta swept to the door
Lovelier than ever, Genevieve stood
there staring from one to the other of
them. Her cheeks were flushed to a
warm red and her breath came in
startled little gasps between her part
ed lips Her soft. black eyes were wide
with wonderment-
'sWhy, Aunt Gus" she said at last,
with genuine reproach in her voice
How can you talk so about Neal-he
certainly is not as tall as am, but he
is not insignificant. and as for being
homeIy,' she paused and little smile
curved her lips. ST never thought of
Neal as being homely. think he has
the most adorable face in the world"
She looked down at her mother and
was relieved that she received a loving
pressure of the hand.
The mother arose and leaned against
her beautiful daughter with an arm
around her waist. ST don't believe you
quite understand. Augusta said Mrs.
Whitmore, quietly.
Understand what?'' demanded Miss
lowering, bewildered.
'fWhy, that Gene loves Neale Waite
and nothing else matters!" said
Genevieve's mother.
Nothing else matters," repeated
to her own room and sat down before
her writing desk. Nothing else mat
ters,'' she said again, as If the truth of
the statement was slowly forced upon
her dormant understanding.
She pulled out a locked drawer. and
from its secret depths she brought
photograph and propped it before her
on the table. 1t was of a young man.
a musician, seated with a cello be-
tween his knees. His face was in
clined over the instrument and one
hand drew the bow across the strings.
Tears came into Augusta Lever
ing's hard eyes as she addressed an
envelope to a remote German town.
After she had written a letter and
sealed the envelope she arose and
in the glass. Then she was positively
handsome again.
'Because-sh him-of course
nothing else matters!'' she cried tri-
umphantly.-(C Copyright. 1911, by AS
ISOLATED Literary Press.
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HU4OR or TIE Day

Mrs. Given-Will you work? Weary
WILEY m; I'm perfectly willing to de-
velop the coal mines in Aiaska.--New
7 ork Sun.
Had Applied the Edges.-Wife-Our new
maid has sharp ears. Hub notice that
the doors are all scratched up around the
keyholes.-Ex.
Throws Them Up at TIim.-s'Ary wife
keeps all my old love letters" s'Senti-
ment2" mo; spitefulness." Boston
Transcript.
A Youthful Quibbler-Caller-So YOU
go to school, do you. little man? Let me
hear you spell bread" Bobby-B-r-e-d.
CaIIer-Ine dictionary spells IL with an
"a" Bobby-You didn't ask me how the
dictionary spells It; you asked me how I
spell it.
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THE ORTD1KST OF THE GARRETT.
l.
Lost out In the battle
Go hungry for a spell,
But I've knives and forks to rattle,
And a fine old dinner-belli
II.
A song? I sit and sing it
In attic far from fine
Then, the dinner-bell-I ring it
And imagine that I dine
III
The table-nothing on it.
But let not the world deride;
I can feast upon the sonnet,
And a 1ovesong on the side.
".
And throughout the whole creation
With it's praise and with its blame,
Troubles half imagination
Joy is pretty much the same!
Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Consutu-
ton.
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five states mentioned the north is like
" to select delegates by the old
method. The states which have legal
lied the presidential primary are Ore
gon, Wisconsin, North Dakota, New
Jersey and Nebraska. If the plan be
extended to all the 4s states of the
Union and each state put forward a
favorite son what an interesting time
we shall havet
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REFLECTIONS OF 4 BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.1
Kissing relatives is meaner than
counterfeit money
You never hear a pretty girl wonder
ing where all the men have gone.
If women smoked cigars men might
be able to understand why they need
moneT.
Specializing fl stocks makes about
as rich hauls as fishing in a barrel
Of kerosene.
A man has the courage to enter
in a marriage contract, but a woman
has the courage to live Up to it.
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Two more of oklahoma's wonderful

Two more of Ok1ahoma's wonderful
guaranteed state banks failed Satur-
day, one in Covington and the other
in Shattuck, says the Cleveland Lead
er and proceeds with a vigorous knock
on the system It is generally under
stood that the bank guarantee law was
intended primarily as a protection to
the depositors and not as an absolute
cure for bank failures