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The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
FROM OTHER PENS
JUST A FAMILY TRAIT.

The secret of John D. Rockefeller's
immense wealth-acquiring proclivities
has been explained by a relative, who
says it is just a family trait. This
naive remark was made at a recent
family reunion when the subject OF
John DIS millions came up. Evidently
some members of the family have not
the trait so pronounced in them as it is
in the famous Standard Oil king He
seems to have carried it to its logical
conclusions. In him it has come to its
finest attenuation. Some folks make
little money by the hardest kind OF
knocks and some have the knocks
without making the money, but here is
a man with whom moneynaking is
mere habit. just family character
istic.
That. indeed, IS a fine explanation
for it both rids Mr.. Rockefeller of the
blame for acquiring such an lmmodest
sum of money and deprives him of the
credit, leaving linz free to enjoy the
comfort of one and the modesty OF the
other. He ought to let this cheer aim
now in his years of anxiety about get
ting rid of his wealth before he has TO
die Let the blame fall back on the
family from whom he inherited this
peculiar little trait.-Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
oUAKER NfEDITATIoNs.
[From the PhiladeIphia Reeord.

IF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
The dyspeptic dimes and whines.
Even the driver of the watering cart
may be out for the dust.
Mayor-y Mayor-y. quite contrary,
how does your boomlet grow?
Any man can make q name for him
self by merely adopting an alias.
No, Maude. dear, it isn't the dipper
that causes the moon to get full.
Many a woman who has never felt
the pinch of poverty wears tight shoes.
Keep telling a boy he win never
amount to anything, and he generally
won't
When a man complains that he can't
collect his thoughts he generally col
lects other peoples.
Most fellows would pay their debts
if they could only borrow enough to
liquidate them.
Hoax" "Bjones says he can name
every manicure girl in town" Joax-
Yes, he has them on his fingers ends p"
Nell-"Mr. Saphedde says he is work
ing for all ne is worth Belief
guess that's right; his salary is Sc a
week"
Youngpop-'Tm afraid my little boy
is spoiled SingletOn-''Oh. don't say
that; on the contrary, I should say he
was-er-quite fresh
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Persons who are particularly free in
giving advice are just as slow not to
take any
Even when universal peace does
come, there is likely to be plenty Of
business for the divorce courts.
\
It is a mistaken idea held by many
people that because a thing is fashion
able it is attractive.
X x X
Baseball fans are probably bemoan-
ing the fact that the closed season on
umpires is near at hand.
X X =
The temporarily most important man
in every town is the chairman of the
reception committee when the town is
entertaining distinguished company.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
NO COUNTER REVOLUTION.

Aside from being most highly un-
patriotic, nothing since the termination
of the recent conflict in Mexico has ap-
peared to US so inane as to attempt 20
designate the isolated instances Of dis
order that still exist in Mexico a
counter revolution. A counter rsvolu-
ton against what? We are still a pro-
visional government. The revolution
has been won, but the revolutionary
party is not yet in power: there has
been no possible attempt as yet TO put
into force many of the reforms that the
revolutionary leaders promised.
An election is to be held to determine
whether the people, after several
months of consideration, favor putting
revolutionary leaders in control of the
administration Until the people refuse
to do this. or until Officers elected to do
If are faithless to their trust, what pos
sible excuse is there for talk of a coun-
ter revolution?
The principles of the revolution that
has lust terminated have not yet been
tried, and until they have there is
nothing on which to base new revolt
Mexican Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.


You can't keep your friends II you
annoy them with trifles.
An old horses efforts to be coitish
are always a little bit stfn.
It is no longer necessary to call an
aeroplane flight spectacular.
Diogenes. in his search. probably
wasted little time in politics.
If your competitor pays a commits
sion you pretty nearly have to.
However, the fly in the ointment is
more desirable than one in the cream.
When it comes TO skyscrapers. we all
want the other fellow to build them.
A tramp has his troubles. but they
don't include the increased cost OF iiv-
ing.
It is pretty hard to get younger than
you are, although a good many try IT,
It sometimes happens that a marry
ing story is true, and Joke at the
same time.
SO many men are trying 10 fool you
that you are lucky If some Of them
don't succeed.
ties of autumn weather until he has
hay fever
Men have 50 little enthusiasm that
they aren't going TO waste II on mill
lnery openings.
A man who knows who the lynchers
were also manages to keep his secret
pretty we'll
Poets are born. OF course. but that
wasn't the primary reason for lowering
the birth rate
a child on the stage usually makes
q nit which proves that people gem
orally love children
An Atchison woman cries so easily
that her cheeks may be declared open
for navigation
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
AYHAWKER JOTy

Miss Ethel Cloud of Wakeeney prob
ably has a sunny disposition.
Nay, Pauline, remarks the Meriden
Ledger. If all the laws were enforced
to the letter there would be no Off
GERS to place the last offender in jail.
Deacon Walker of the Osborne
Farmer is authority for the statement
that the largest private graveyard in
the world belongs to Old John Bar
leycorn.
Get ready to fatten that turkey. ad-
vises the Baldwin Ledger. 1t is Off
cially announced that the president
will name November 3Oth for our ma
tional feast day.
It occurs to the Muscotah Record
that you can't expect a woman to get
much enjoyment out of the church
service if there are at least three
women on her row who are wearing
more expensive hats than her own.
A Chicago expert says the people of
the United States are cheated out Of
$2O,O0O.0OO q year in short weights,
notes the Perry Mirror, and it reflects;
That is about 81 cents per capita per
annum. We hate to be robbed on
such a contemplate scale as that.
1.-The Cherryvale woman who sued
for divorce because her husband spit
tobacco juice in her eyes must be very
finicky. We know q man who spits
tobacco juice in his wife's eyes every
time they go out driving and she sits
in the back - at says the Neodesha
Sun.
Old Bill Shiftless was sitting on a
box watching a game of horseshoe
very intently relates Bert Walker in
his Osborne Farmer. Old Bill was in
an unusual mood. Generally Old Bill
is talking all the time when a game is
going on He considers himself an
authority on the game and is always
giving the Fingers advice on how to
throw this shoe and that one. But
Old Bill had nothing to say today. He
was in a deep study and kept watch
ing the peg all the time. Cy Hoskins
threw two shoes. Each one hit the
peg square on top and bounced away
four feet and the other made two
points without half trying. What's
the matter Bill?" said one of the spec
tators. 'have you forgot how to talk %
mo I amt forgot how to talk. but I
something Just notice how those two
shoes of Cy's hit the peg and bounced
away Cy ought to have counted, but
he didn't on account of that blamed
peg I'm going to invent a peg with
out a top Then when a good pitcher
like me or Cy hits it we will get a
ringer" Old Bill stood up and swelled
out his chest like a prize fighter
''Say, fellers, I guess luck is coming
my way at last I'm going to be
travelling man. I'll get a good heavy
trunk and fill it with my patent pegs
and then I'll travel over the country
making all the towns. I'll sell the
pegs to the boys in every town in
Kansas. Besides making q barrel of
money I'll get to see lot of the coun-
try You just watch Old Bits smoke :"
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
Pana Anaconda Arrives.

The keeper in the snakehouse at the
Rronx zoo shed a soft, romantic tear
in the farthest corner from the croco-
dile Yesterday afternoon.
"And to think O. them seeing their
pore dear papa again after all these
he murmured into his pur-
nle-hordered handkerchief.
sgThenn' were AZ very small and very
happy anacondas. who were greeting
their father after an anguished Iour
months of separation. To other than
his children the fathers name is I1m'
and there was p feet of him that un-
cojIed when the box in which he mas
travelled all the way from some dln
tributary of the Amazon River was
opened yesterday afternoon. Mrs. L,
otherwise known as Big Annie tshe is
"a feet long), was sent to the zoo py
w. w. Mole, an editor of a paper on
the Island of Trinidad, four months
ago. Mr.. Mole had been on hunting
expedition down in the Amazon. Along
with the mother, he bagged the AZ
Young 'uns. but the father escaped
him. and the editor promised at the
time that he would try to get MIN;
too. So yesterday he showed how good
the word of an editor on the Island OF
trinidad is.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.I

TFrom the New York Press.I
Mighty few people would lie if it was
a good habit.
A mans political views are governed
by his bank balance
It's queer what a good head a man
can have for business until he goes
into one for himself.
A blind man ought to be able to see a
girls eyes aren't green when she says
they are blue.
You just can't make a woman see
how. when you live in house you own,
it's rent just the same.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

When Mr. David HarloWe, one OF
the members of the effective public
utilities commission of wisconsin, was
in Kansas a little while ago, he ex-
pressed the opinion that the home
rule feature of the public utilities law
of Kansas was its chief defect This
gives to cities the control and regula-
tien of the public service corporations
having their principal plant within
municipal confines. In Wisconsin the
state utilities commission has regula-
tory powers over all the public serv-
ice corporations in the common
wealth. whether they are purely local
affairs or not And Mr. Harlowe
thinks this is the better plan
But it is likely that Mr.. Harlowe and
the other utilities commissioners of
wisconsin would look askance on an
attempt of congress to pass a law Civ
ing the interstate commerce commits
sion exclusive control and. regulation
over the Interstate railroads, and pro-
hibiting the several states from exer-
cising any control over such railroads
except as to purely police powers. And
the Wisconsin commissioners would
probably join with the railroad COM
missioners of other states in denounc-
ing any decision of the federal courts
to the effect that states had no right
to attempt to regulate interstate rail-
roads in the matter of making,
or anything of the sort.
Still. this principle is the same as
Mr.. Harlowe thinks is properly ap-
pIicable to the regulation of local pub
lie service corporations by state COM
missions. 1t is undoubtedly true that
some public service corporations which
have their principal offices and plants.
and operate chiefly within city limits,
but which also extend their service
far and away beyond their home town.
might be regulated to better advan-
tage BY state commission than by
the city which gives them their prin-
cipal franchise. And the same is sure
ly true of interstate railroads. There
is no reason why they could not be
regulated to the better advantage of
all concerned by the federal govern
ment; rather than that there should be
a partial regulation by the federal
government, and additional and diff
ferent regulation on the same subject
by the several states through which
they pass.
The proper function of a state utili-
ties commission is to regulate the COM
mon carriers and other public service
corporations which are exclusively
within the confines of state and
thereby subject to its control. And it
is Just as proper that municipal au-
thorities should have the control and
regulation of the public service cor
porations whose service is exclusively
confined to the municipality. When
such a corporation extends its service
beyond the municipality, it is tar
get for state regulation And where
a railroad or other public service cor
poratfon is extensive enough to do
business in two or many states, then
its regulation belongs to the federal
government, except, of course, that the
states should enjoy their prerogatives
of exercising such police power on
such corporations as may be deemed
necessary This is an inherent right OF
the states that can not be taken away
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
uEART or THE SEA.

LlG4EAESA AyH AAA1 toA<1As
Sweetheart of my heart, the skies will
with All their glory OF blue and gold
And out of the lonely ocean caves,
With eager voices, the flying waves
VIII rush to the silvery sands to meet
you
Clasp and fold you. and set you free
From the land where the mortal lovers be-
Laugh to the winds-let your sea-lovers
Ravish your loveliness. give you bliss,
And all that my yearning arms must
shy caresses. delights that shame you.
(nHever be half thine daring toldD
All, love and be loved and shall not
But only love you a thousand fold.
So, by and by, when the bright waves
send you
Back to my side, all sweet and warm,
With sunlight's beauty and sealight's
The strength and vigOr that salt tides
shall not be jealous of JOY you gave
willing bride, on the seas soft pill
I shall feel the kiss Of each dreaming
The wild embrace of the surging. billows;
Sweetheart of my heart, you viii bring
The heart of the heart of my own blue
M s. Bridges. in Life
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
She Goes ff5 Miles for a Bath.

Hereafter when Mrs. GenevleVe
Chandler Phillips, of Denver, goes au-
tonlobiling over the state on pleasure
and sightseeing trips she will carry a
nortable rubber bath tub and water
heater. so that she and her travelling
companions may not miss their daily
dip. 4bo
Meelxer Hotel and asked for accommo-
dations for herself and party She was
given rooms, but soon came down 10
the office and demanded her bill, 4
must have private baths" she SAID
The clerk explained that Meeker
was 4e miles from the nearest rail-
road and that the hotel could not boast
Of CITY equipment. The clerk sug-
qested that perhaps Mrs. Phipps and
her friends might be accomm odated
at Steamboat Springs, 115 miles by
the nearest overland route Mrs
Phipps and Miss McMurtry left i'm
mediately for that point 1t was dark
and storrning, but Mrs. Phipps went
over the mountain road in her auto
mobile 81 simply cannot do Wltnout
nv BATH" she ssid.-Meeker (Colo-)
dispatch to New York Herald
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
Hosrg NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the state Journal
sway from homo during the summer
nav have the paper mailed regularly
@@,sh e1ay 20 any address at the rate OF
-, ronfa "a week or thirty cents a
n.onth Chy mall only). Address
CHANGED as often as desired. White
ev-r Of town the State journal VIII De
% you like a daily letter from nome.
Advance payment is requested or
el,eSe short time subscriptions to saFe
bookkeeping expenses
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

held them against his breast. i have
never forgotten the blue Of your eyes
when you came to my rescue in the
water, nor have 1 forgotten the touch
of your palms when you read my fate
and now-I have reached the top OF
the world"
Il say. Sis" Bob called out; Il
never saw you cling to a wet bathing
suit so long. Berwick IS starved, and
so am l.
Starved isn't the word" laughed
Berwick.-(Copyrig 1911. by Associ-
ated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

Uncle Sam will give away a half
million acres of farm land during Oc-
tober, say the headlines in many of
the newspapers. AS a matter of fact,
Trough, the people who draw this land
will have to pay from 25 cents to So
an acre for it. and then they will have
to homestead it. And the man who
homesteads farm on the outskirts of
civilization pays a pretty heavy price
for it. although the monetary cost of It
is not large.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

Some philanthropist ought to offer a
prize to the wouldbe transcontinertal
aviators. which would go to the one
meeting with the most accidents and
smashups. There would be keen and
exciting competition for such a prize,
and the prize money would come in
handy to pay the repair bills
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
KANSAS COANENT
SING Ho!

SING HOl
Some lads and lassies, names to the
writer unknown, took their voices
along with them a-Tuesday night and
Went serenading all in the golden
moonlight upon the woodland hlll
And Mr.. and Mrs. Editor were remem-
bered and favored with Down by the
Old Mlnstream" and "Silver Threads
Among the Cold; and right here on
behalf of himself and the hausfrau
Mr.. Editor makes his best salaam and
vicariously knocks his head three
times upon the floor.
For Mr.. Editor rounded out his two
score and ten years yesterday; but
listening to the youthful voices, and
under the spell of the Harvest Moon,
he had no trouble in looping off thirty
of said years and finding himself out
with a young crowd once again-his
crowd-in a little old town on the
banks of the Wabash far away, where
the sky is bluer and the moon shines
brighter than anywhere else on earth;
finding himself with the old crowd, and
hearing his own voice lifted in lifting
roundelays and ki-oodling in chorus
with the others to beat the band
And no crowd was ever like It; ana
yet everywhere is, and has been and
will always be, a crowd like 1.-THE
grocery clerk, the shoe store clerk,
few boys home from college, and the
girls" And they sang STARS of the
Summer Night and spanish CaValler
and "KaIama- -ka-zip ka-zan" and
the Man Who Has Plenty of Good
Peanuts and Giveth His Neighbor
None" and how that man shouldn't
have any of their nice, ripe, red straw
berry shortcake when his St Jacobs
Oil for rheumatism, cramps, collie,
chaps, letter and chilbIains is gone;
when his John Wanamaker's endur-
able, reversible, sit-on-'em and mash
'em patent restorable, operate plug
hats are gone; and so forth, which is
to say, ct cetera. oh my.
1t was great-great! And the years
will come and the years will go and
the rain viii rain and the snow will
snow for another half century, but the
sound of youthful voices lifted in song,
when the sky is blue and the big
round moons a-shining, will doubtless
continue to bring into sharp outline
the etchings of memory in the book Of
his own youth until The recording
angel pencils ''30' on the final story
of his life and heaves a huge sigh of
relief
Then sing no while in the enchanted
land of Youth and ere the evil days
draw nigh when the Book of Wisdom
says no pleasure is to be found in them.
Toronto Republican.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

The serious collision between an
automobile and a street car in this city
the other day should have a tendency
to make many of the local motorists
more cautious. But it probably won't.
The only wonder is that more of these
accidents have not occurred. They'll
come along, though, in good time. un-
less some of the chauffeurs change
their Ways
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
shock KiIIs Fruit Pest.

Electricity as an agency to destroy
the codlfng moth and other bug pests
is the latest innovation introduced IN
modern apple orcharding in the Spo-
kane valley. where w. M Frost, of
Opportunity, Wash, and j. e Law
renee, a practical grower of Spokane,
recently made what is declared to nave
been the first demonstration OF It's klno
in the world. The test was made IN
a 6-year-old orchard, and more than
a score of second-brood moths and
many green aphis were killed in a few
minutes
The apparatus consists of a storage
battery to charge the incandescent Hght
globes, each of candle power, which
are netted with fine steel wire, coated
with copper and tin, alternately. At
tracted by the bright lights in the trees,
to which the globes are carried at the
ends of A covered wire, the moths fly
against the netting, complete the cleo
trio circuit, and are killed, the bodies
falling into a receptacle placed peneath
the globe
Frost estimates that one battery to
an acre of trees will keep the moths
under control, thus eliminating the US
ual spraying and saving many oollars
annually for helr, equipment, ana nuio.
He is now preparing to wire ms or
chard of ten acres, containing 700 trees,
and several neighbors who witnessed
the initial test are doing likewise. Sew
eraI thousand acres of bearing apple
trees will be equipped with exterml-
rators by next spring
If commercial electric light wires
are extended to the orchard tracts, as
they are in many of the valleys in
Washington. Idaho. oregon and Mon
tana, the expense of batteries may be
saved by making direct connection. Ihe
cost of covering the globes with wire
nets is a small item, and any cleo
trician can do the work.-Spokane dis
ratch to Kansas City Star.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
SAVING TEN CENTS A DAY.

A novel experiment in the matter of
teaching its employees economical
methods is being undertaken by the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Realizing that
the way to add to the dollars is to look
after the pennies, the railroad has APP
pealed to it's men to save at least ten
cents q day for the company. Small
as is this amount for each individual,
the aggregate is som ething enormous
For instance, if the $4,000 employees
on the lines east of Pittsburg and Buff
falo will act on the suggestion it would
mean a saving of $4,000 a day. or
more than $4,000,000 a year. The men
are told that it is within their power
to do this by cutting down in the reck-
less use of supplies of various kinds
enginemen in the use of oil, firemen in
the consumption Of coal, shopmen by
the exercise of care in making repairs,
and in the use of material; trackmen
are urged to economize in spikes and
bolts and to see that material of that
character is not wasted. Clerks and
office employees are reminded that
they can conserve the stationery that
passes through their hands, and in
fact every branch of the service is to
be taken into the company's confidence
in the matter of cutting down the
operating expenses-Abilene Reflector.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

Many political presidential clubs
favoring the candidacy of this and that
aspirant for the presidential honors of
both the big political parties are be-
ing organized these days in Kansas
and every other state. It is easier to
form a club of this sort than it is to
effect an organization of any kind. And
like every thing else that is easily
brought about, they are not of much
vaiue
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

sentative of the Chicago Tribune, who
is getting some first hand information
in Canada, writes to his paper from
Quebec that a victory in the coming
Canadian elections seems certain for
Premier Laurier and reciprocity.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

Statistics set forth in the Journal of
the American Medical association show
that there has been a decrease in the
number Of medical schools and med
icaI graduates in this country during
the last ten years. "Other statistics.
remarks the New York World, SHOW
that there has been a decrease in the
death rate-perhaps coincidence
=.nr-aI--
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

pupils who take it to be wage earners
and at the same time enjoy the ad-
vanfages of a higher education IL
opens a. wide avenue 70 more com
plete education for many youngsters
who would not be able to get it, were
it not for the fact that they will be
able to earn some money while they
are continuing their schooling
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20
FILL, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF TILE ASSOCIATED PA6SS

The state Journal is member OF : {ns
A@a1ctated Press and receives the fun Gay
s@sssraph report OF that great news Or
ranization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka -. -
s,.j buiIding over wires for this sole puE-
poao.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-20

Hercules' labors have always been
looked upon as having been wonder
full, even if their place is in the realms
Of mythology. However, they pale
into insigni1icance alongside the actual
fact that the Topeka ball team won