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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.


lot of good men pick their noses.
White lies get soiled almost as easily
as white gloves.
Conscience gets a good deal of
credit that belongs to cold feet.
Caulihower isn't so superior to cab
bage as the name might indicate.
good thing to remember: there is
hope for any man who is willing to
learn.
Practice in restoring confidence
doesn't make perfect several rows of
apple trees.
No one should have enough spare
time to enable him to win the golf
championship.
If there are boys around the house.
the ice in the refrigerator is lonesome
a good deal of the time.
1t is difficult for a man who has to
walk most of the time to figure that
a chauffeur earns his living
If a boys mother selects the books
he reads. he isn't likely to acquire a
reputation as a Great Reader.
Perhaps, after all, if it were not for
old maids and cranks things Wouldn' t
be in their place as often as they are.
If a man is boss of his own House-
hold. his wife insists that he filters
up the house more than all the child
rem.
It is also possible that a man isn't
as glad to get back from his vacation
as he sometimes casually intiInates.
1t may be said for the merchant
prince that he doesn't often treat his
assistants as if they belonged to the
nobility.
If your own good resolutions don't
help you much. you can't expect those
the lodge passes to do a great deal
for you.
A woman who cries easily is called
sympathetic" and yet nine times out
Of ten she is crying over her own
troubles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

who we're recently indicted with him
and plead guilty got off with fines
ranging from $500 to $4,000. A term
in jail or prison for this attorney
would probably have had a more salu-
tary effect. And such kind of punish
ment for the trust makers is coming
before many DAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.I

From the New York Press.1
A man Is ashamed to wear new
clothes and a woman not to.
A penny in the hand is worth more
than a nickel in the slot machire.
The more sense a man has about
most things the bigger fool he can be
about something.
It seems as IL a woman would rath-
er have her husband wear rubhers
than use Christian language.
When a man gets mad about the
cook at home. it's safer for him not
to boil over till he gets downtown and
can scold the Office boy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

There is no possible chance of hav-
ing Cincinnatus Leconte and Antenor
Firmin, the rival revolutionary lead
ers for the presidency of Haiti. draw
ing straws and one taking the presi-
dency and the other the vice presi-
dency. Haiti is one of those republics
where its founders forgot to create the
office of vice president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

An Australian genius suggests that
parachutes be provided for use as fire
escapes from the upper stories of the
tall buildings in this country. Why not
aeroplanes and dirigible balloons?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Because Emperor William Of Ger
many has yielded few points to
make possible a settlement of the Mo-
rocco difficulty without a war the in
surgent press of Germany are calling
him william the Timid."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

It is not likely that President Taft's
new horse, which he has called
Reciprocity" will cause him anything
like as much worry as did the famous
bill after which it was named. The
animal will be free from the nagging
of certain United States senators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Mr. Edward Hinkel, of Milwaukee
and this city. who is engineering a
movement that he thinks will be sue
eessful in putting the jinx on prohi-
bition in Kansas, may also be set down
as a chaser after rainbows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

From time to time considerable GOOD
natured joshing is poked at smaller and
larger newspapers for bulls of express
sion that creep into their stories. And
q literal Interpretation of brief Asso =
ciated Press dispatch of the other day
would be that Captain Alfred Reynolds.
II. S. N, had been nominated ny the
president "as rear admiral to the SEN
ate,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

It's to be wondered if Congressman
jackson of this state originated that
bill which he has just presented to the
house of representatives calling for a
congress of nations to consider the
adoption of world alphabet by for
mulating a universal graphic sound
notation for every human language.
Or did he introduce it by request
for some rabid misunderstanding, Es-
peranto- Volapuk enthusiast?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

One more Kansas theory has been
smashed to smithereens; namely, that
FLOODS of large proportions are only
icoincident with the late spring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

More retributive justice: SkillfuI at
torneys have been waxing fat these
many years in perfecting the details
for the organization of trusts and
monopolies. But the attorney who
did this crafty work for the wire
trust has just been fined $4,000, while
the prominent members of the trust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Such is fame. All the newspapers
In the country have printed the news
Of the death of a St. Louis man whose
only distinction was that he had been
arrested hfty-two times for minor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Mrs. Barrymore Colts suit for di-
vorce would seem to indicate that oc-
OCCASIONALLY there is something in a
name. Her husband appears to have
been altogether too coItish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

The reason country papers 90 not
print in full the interviews" with poll
ticians. is that they are usually short
of upper-case rs" They might as
well try to print Poe's' Bells poem
from one case without a few pounds
of extra rs"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07
kANxzS COMMENT
a LESSON NEEDED.


II taxes some folks longer to learn
lessons tnan 1t does others. Some don t
learn until ole age approaches. Others
never learn. They die learning. And
one lesson that is hardest to learn is
that babies shouldn't handle firearms.
MOI that the dear little things are not
perfectly axle to juggle them and thor
oughiy enjoy the sport; but shooting
IRONS ana babies weren't intended for
[ G same room. AND offending boys
under the age Of realization should be
en- 1ckled INTO dark closet after be-
ing gwen such drubbing as the severity
OF tier case requires
A small boy-so small that he didn' t
redilze the damage a gun can do
shOt his father the other day il Kan
SaS city, KAN He had seen and play
ed with his fathers rife but had alb
soiutely no knowledge of what a gun
can accomplish il properly encouraged.
a demonstration should be the first step
in boys course of instruction. After
that he will have some respect for
gups. Don merely try to scare him
with warnings Let him see the dan
ger. " hen this lesson is learned the
really dlrncult one is TO be mastered
that is the lesson that it is the unload
ed gun that does the most damage. 1t
is this lesson that both boys and par
ents die wfile learning. Some of them
go to early caves because the bullet
gets through their heads before the
philosophy does.
Guns are great inventions. Hunting
is one of the greatest sports of the
world. It has been an art that has
employed the time Of millions Of good
men since animal first became food
for man. But parents owe it to the
safety of humanity to give the youth
course of instruction regarding the
gun. The instruction if not Needed
should be followed by a course of
sprouts. If the object lesson is never
learned someone is apt to suffer be-
fore that life is lived its course.-Ot-
taWa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Surely are the people of republics
ungrateful. Those in Portugal are
putting on riotous demonstrations
against the government and its troops.
because Of the greatly increased cost
of living under the new regime. Per
haps this higher cost of living is due
10 economic causes, but the people
OF Portugal are no different appar-
emily from their brethren in other
places. The order of the day the
world over is to blame the government
for everything.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

ITO me-" said Harry Kemp, the tramp
poet Of Kansas, to some New York
newspaper intervfewers. there is more
poetry in a threshing machine at work
in a field than in all the Grecian urns
or all the Egyptian mummies ever
found" But there is not very much
remuneration in threshing machine in
a field to n poet, as Mr.. Kemp recent
ly found out through a brief experi-
ence in the Kansas harvest fields.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Two Kansas City gents pinched for
praying too loud for ham and bacon.
were, in all probability. trying to make
their supplication reach across the
river to the packing house district,
rather than upward to the Throoe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

N1&4kSSArSA ~. IcIT[VMR1F
Two Kansas City gents pinched for
praying too loud for ham and bacon.
were. in all probability, trying to make
their supplication reach across the
river to the packing house district,
rather than upward to the Thrcne.
The reason country papers 90 not
print in full the interviews" with poll
ticians, is that they are usually short
well try to print Poe's' Bells poem
from one case without a few pounds
of extra rs"
After a few encounters with the
special prosecutors" the victims OF
the prohibitory law, drop one space and
refer feelingly to the "Strongarm Of
the law
In Portugal they protest against the
high cost of living by mixing it with
the soldiers. This may occur to you
as no good way to reduce the cost OK
living, but it will be admitted that
it is q good way to reduce the rumDer
OF living.
Germany is trying awfully hard TO
COOK up row and may succeed. When
COOK named Major Won Kiderlin
w e~SS4AleI gives out an AnIeTNleW LidJ
is printed in a paper named thu
Zukunft, It's time to start something,
if nothing more than a spelling re-
form.
When things you care hep come
along, do like they do in Ireland when
it rains.
Many people who have bulldogs
named Togo may be surprised to
learn that there is a Jap Admiral by
that name. Togo" has been used as
bulldog name for so long that many
people have forgotten that it means
anything more than "Towser."
Is it fair that tho prodigal sen gets
the fatted veal while the prodlga1
daughter invariably gets the cold
shoulder?
Walking delegate has called a strike
on the Des Moines street Tar line. I'm
pires all over the circuit have been
calling strikes on the Des Moines bail
team ever since the season opened.
The millionth patent has been record
ed in the United States patent Office
but as yet no ono has perfected an at
tachment to prevent dog from how
ing when the family goes on a vacation
and leaves him to keep house alone.
We may count on getting our reward
! in Heaven, and still prefer to draw
little something on account.
Hep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07
KANSAS RANKS SECOND.

The State Sunday School office
calls attention to the fact that a COM
parison of the 1919 census with the
report recently submitted at the inter
national Sunday school convention
shows that the proportion of the
population enrolled in Sunday school
throughout the entire international
field averages Is per cent The low
est rate, 1 per cent, is in Porto Rico.
The highest. 81 per cent, is in Della
ware, and Kansas, with 26 per cent.
ranks second in all the states of the
Union. Nine states make 10 per cent.
Four states. Arkansas, West Virginia,
New Jersey and Washington. reach
exactly the average of 16 per cent.
Iowa, Texas. Ohio and Pennsylvania
are among those ranking well up into
the twenties. But all others. except
Delaware, are at least 2 per cent be-
low Kansas. The absence of large
cities in Kansas, the prevailing
Am erican type of the population and
the prevalence of the evangelical
type of religion. together with the
thorough organization of this state.
doubtless account for this high per-
centage.@Abilene Reflector.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

After a few encounters with the
special prosecutors" the victims OF
the prohibitory law, drop one space and
refer feelingly to the "Strongarm of
the law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

In Portugal they protest against the
high cost of living by mixing it with
the soldiers. This may occur to you
as no good way to reduce the cost OF
living, but it will be admitted that
it is q good way to reduce the runner
OF living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

When things you carr hep come
along. do like they do in Ireland when
it rains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

He-Don't you think she has rather a
good complexion7 Shelf strikes me as
being just a trifie too impressionistic.-
Scribner's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Many people who have bulldogs
named Togo may be surprised to
learn that there is a Jap Admiral by
that name. Togo" has been used as
a bulldog name for so long that many
people have forgotten that it means
anything more than ''Towser."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Is it fair that tho prodigal sen gets
the fatted veal while the prodlga1
daughter Invariably gets the cold
shoulder?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Guest-1'H take some o. that waiter
Some o which, boss? Guest-Some O. that
there. Can't you read? Waiter Scuse
me, sub. amt had no education, Meth
er.-Toledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Condensation.-"D you use condensed
milk at your house?' II guess so. We
order quart day, and the milkman
squeezes it into a can that holds about
a pint Toledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Walking delegate has called a strike
on the Des Moines street car line. UNI
pires all over the circuit have been
calling strikes on the Des Moines bail
team ever since the season opened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

why, a year ago you told me this place
was easily worth SIS, coo. Now you esti-
mate it's value at less than $1,000 'You
must. remember that | was not trying
to sell it for you."-Chicago Record
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

No Trouble Explaining Unsophisti-
Gated Cook--If you please, mum, the
butcher says I'll get 5 per cent on all the
orders give him. What does that mean ?
Mistress-It means, Mary, that we shall
have another butcher.-Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-07

Are you going to send the Sparkler girl
a wedding present." mo, old SparkIer
and had a squabble yesterday" That's
too bad. What was the cause?" Il can't
afford his friendship. He has five mar
riageable daughters. cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-21

japanese and German
China, a large assert
ment. 20 Per Cent Off
Boys Henty and Alger
Books, Market Day, 2
for. ............... 25c
Heavy Cut Glass Tumb-
lers, bell shape, Market
Day, per set. .90c
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-21
Basement Specials

BASEMENT SPECIALS.
zoe Flour Sifters. Toe
soc Heavy Glass Tumb-
lers .............. Soc
Austrian Gold Band Chi
ma, special Market Day
only 20 Per Cent Off
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-13

passengers from Chicago and the
middle west enroute to Spokane and
the coast.
Cut off from the world since Mon
day by the worst snowstorm in years
in the hilltopS, two trains, one an
exclusively mail train and the other
the Oregonian limited. are stalled
and unable to move either way. Six
mail clerks from Spokane are on the
head train. The last word from
them reached here on Monday. 1t is
said their food supply was sufficient
only for a few days. Both trains
were due in Spokane on Monday.
OFFICIALS ARE WORRIED.
While Superintendent w. r. Smith
of the Havre division declares that
the stalled trains have -four and rice
sufficient to sustain life for several
days and that there is plenty of coal
abroad TO furnish heat, other officials
feel great anxiety.
STUCK IN DRIFT.
The limited passed safely from
Shelby. Mont. to a point east of Boil
ton. where, after emerging from "A
tunnel, il ran smack into and
through an immense snowdrift
The train was pulled by only one
engine After successfully plowing
through the first drift the train shot
into another tunnel and out into an
other drift, where it stuck. Infor-
nation of its plight was sent to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-13
Wants No Petty Differ
ences to Defeat Tariff
Commission
FOR L0NGW0RTH BILL
President Leading Speaker Be 3.
fore National Association
at Washington.

Washington, d. c.. Jan. 13.-Signih-
cant progress was made yesterday in
the movement for the creation OF n
permanent tariff commission. President
Taft, in an address at the banquet OF
the National Tariff Commission asso-
citation. openly indorsed the Longworth
bill, characterizing II "as a concilia-
tory measure embodying all the i'm
portant features that are necessary 20
make the commission effective" Fur
thermore. earlier in the day he sum-
moned the republican members Of the
ways and means committee TO the
White house. and urged them to har-
monte their differences.
AGAIN ASKS HARMONY.
The president renewed his plea for
harmony in his address last night. de
claring that what he was most anxious
to avoid was the failure of tariff com
mission legislation at the present ses-
sion because OF any difference as TO
details. He asserted he would not
mention the bill that bears the name
of the Ohio congressman" except that
it seemed to him ito constitute a very
"Cil ulOl dll Ahb
differences of detail that have existed
between the supporters OF various
measures
GIVES INQUIsITORIAL POWERS.
The Longworth bill referred to by
the president. according 10 the admis-
sion OF its author. is an incorporation
of salient features in the Lenroot and
the Goode bills OF the house and the
La Toilette and the Beverfdge bills OF
the senate and provides for inquisitor-
ial powers for the tariff commission as
well as the safeguarding Of informa-
tion obtained.
The National Tariff Commission as
sociation had practically indorsed the
Longworth bill in a resolution sent TO
congress demanding immediate tariff
commission legislation and Il was I'm
amplification largely OF the resolution
of the association that President Taft
spoke at night
The association had declared for a
tariff commission whose powers and
functions should be analogous 10 the
interstate commerce commission
Many members OF the senate and
house were present at the banquet and
among the speakers were Senators
Lodge Of Massachusetts and Cummins
of Iowa, and Representative Long
worth of Ohio.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-13
LORIMER CASE MAY FORCE SENATE
TO PERMIT POPULAR ELECTION

tion which would have tended to
pave the way for the election of SEN
ators by direct vote. In 1908 SEN
ator Owen of Oklahoma introduced
senate resolution No. 81 for the sub
mission of a constitution amend
ment providing for direct elections.
Senator Owen showed that % states
had at that time sought relief in
the matter. Resolution No. 81. how
ever. was never reported from the
committee on privileges and cleo
tions, but was chloroformed there.
This is the committee. by the way.
which found that Lorimer's election
was without taint of any kind.
AGAIN DENIED 2yoTE-
On May 81, 1910. Senator Owen
again urged this reform on the at
tention OF the senate and was even
prevented the privilege Of a vote
Yet the house CT representatives en-
four different occasions had EaSsed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-13
Work of Day in Congress

Washington, Jan. 13.-Following are
the proceedings briefly told of the two
houses of congress yesterday.
SEN ATE-The senate was in session
just five minutes. adjourning immedi-
atCIy on the fOrmA announcement of
the death i'm Colorado of Senator Charles
J. Hughes, Jr, of that state.
HOUSE - After spending practically
the entire day upon il. the house pass
ed the legislative. executive and judi
cial hill, carrying approximately S35,-
100000. The army appropriation meas
ure was reported out of committee; il
carries s92. s1l. 500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-13
FIRE DAMAGES MANY
PENSION RECORDS
Thousands of Documents Ruined i'm
Blaze in Office of Bureau at
Washington.

Washington, Jan. 13.-Thousands
of records and documents in pension
cases VIle destroyed this morning
in a fire y hich originated in the Of
flee OF the United States pension
agency here The origin OF the ire
is unknown. The damage was most
ly by smoke and water.
A number of old records in book
form and running as far back as the
revolutionary war, were completely
destroyed. Duplicates of these, how
ever, are safe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-13

a bill providing for the reform
July 21, 1894; May II. 1898; April
13. 1900 and Feb. -, 1902. the
last vote unanimously, no one op-
posing
Most of the states in the union
have acted favorably TO the election
OF senators by direct vote. the ex-
ception being the New England
states. New York, Delaware and
West Virginia The national dem
ocratic party, the national prohibi-
tion party. the national peoples
party. the American Federation Of
Labor, the National Grange. the So
eiety Of Equity. the Farmers Educa-
tional Cooperation union, and other
great organizations OF the country
have declared for the reform.
POINTS ADVANTAGES.
Senator owen points out these ID
kGCaL.aued On PAGE Fourl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-13
lMPOSTERS OFFER
TO PAY A MILLION
Secretary MacVeagh Receives Many
Proposals Following Customs
Investigation.

Washington, Jan. 13.-Secretary
compromise aggregating fully ST.
100000 from New York importers
of woolens, laces, millinery. silks.
etc, who have been suspected of un-
dervaluation frauds upon the. Gus
toms. One of the offers is said 10
carry a compromise of more than
100000. Since a systematic inves-
tigation of the frauds began several
weeks ago the offers have been COM
ing in steadily.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-13
SAILOR SlASHES
FAMOUS PICTURE

Rotterdam. Jan. 10. 3.-Rembrandf
most famous picture The Night
Watch was badly damaged today by
a discharged naval cook named Sig
rist. who entered Rijks' museum and
with a knife slashed the masterpiece.
Sigrisi was arrested. He declared the
vandalism was an act Of vengeh1B
against the state because Of his d.s-
charge from the navy.