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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.
CFrom the Atchison Globe

lfrOIn the ALChlSOn Globe.
One good turn doesn't always get
another just because it happens to
deserve 1t.
Every box of matches has a few
thin ones that break when you go to
light them.
If order is heavens first law, num-
Der OF the very worthy people won't
enjoy it much.
1t may be said for the preachers
that they don't figure on pulling you
through on technicality.
Something is wrong with the woman
who has to have some one defending
her Honor with a gun.
When some one says: This town
is full of the meanest old gossips," it
indicates HE is being talked about.
Whenever anything happens dis
pleasing to man, he likes to say:
''There'H be reaction some day.
Not putting bands around cigars is
another conservation stunt that de-
serves more attention than it gets.
Mighty few men are built to wear a
sweater coat and make it seem a thing
of beauty and a Joy forever.
A country band man usually wears
his uniform as if he wanted everyone
to realize what an uncomfortable rig
it is.
Most of the remedies warranted to
drive the enterprising mosquito from
your midst, are so much worse than
the mosquito.
Are you pretty good at forgetting
geography? Most of US find we're that
way when something happens in dis
tant places.
Every man who has had a felon on
his finger tells some pretty large
stories of lying awake with the pain it
caused him.
No man will put up with the same
kind of service in his dining room that
he accepts gracefully at "a picnic or a
free lunch counter.
If You don't know anything about it,
satisfactory results can sometimes be
obtained by keeping still and looking
as wise as possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.]

[From the Chicago News.]
The ocean swells are high rollers.
Your wife, as well as your sins, will
find you out
Isn't it about time to bury the dead
languages?
If you don't believe honesty is the
best policy, try it.
A hating speech may be the result
of a lame excuse.
Lots of city farmers make a speciality
of sowing wild oats.
Many a man who isn't a liar doesn't
tell all the truth he knows.
1t takes a conscientious man to en-
joy his work If the pay is small.
When the sun shines lay aside little
of your enthusiasm for a rainy day.
Every man seems to think that he is
warranted in doing unwarranted things.
Labor is the foundation of many 5.
fortune-but not necessarily OF the la
borer's.
1t is difficult to convince the head OF
the house that two heads are better
than one.
And lots of people who think they
have nothing but trouble don't know
what trouble really is.
Anyway, the average woman knows
as much about things political as the
average man does about caring for a
baby.
Remember, there is limit to human
endurance. The friends who stands up
for you may tire in the course of time
and proceed to sit down on you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

uation from college? Most girls begin
to plan their graduation gowns in their
freshmen year and by the time they
have given four years thought to them
they are naturally most wonderful Gre
ations. Indeed, the elaborate gradu-
alton gown is by far the most import
ant feature of the average college
girls life. And now she is to be de-
prived of it at Radcliffe, at any rate.
This is also one of those things in
which colleges are a good deal like
sheep. What one sheep does they all
do. Could more horrible, a more
terrible prospect be imagined? The
only individuals who will probably
smile with satisfaction at it are the
fond fathers who would have to foot
the bills for the usual graduation frills
and furbelows.
Perhaps those wonderfully wise pro-
fessors and professoresses at Radcliffe
have an Interior purpose in view. 1t is
said that only per cent of the college
girls ever dream of entering the matri-
in feminine nature that at one stage in
every girls career she must deck her
self out in wondrous gown of white.
Now if this is forbidden the college
girls at their graduation, perhaps many
more of them will insist on their pre-
negatives in this particular and wear
one at the matrimonial altar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
HORROR OF HORRORS,

If the faculty Of Radcliffe college, the
co-educational end of Harvard uni
versity, enforces its recent edict, and
it is also promulgated by other similar
educational institutions, it is likely that
college careers will hold out little Or no
attraction in the future for girls of all
degree. The proposition seems pre-
posterous. 1t looks like a step that
even angels would fear to take. But
nonetheless it DEGREES that the sweet
girl graduates shall display their
sweetness on graduation day, at least,
in mere rags of simplicity.
To the girls of Radcliffe, their men,
tors say that when they step up to
get their diplomas they must wear
nothing more gaudy than plain white
shirtwaists and skirts, with equally
plain white collars and little bow ties
plain white belts; black oxford shoes
and black stockings. That's not the
worst of it. The girls are forbidden
to wear jewelry of any kind or any
sort of ornaments even in their hair.
Nor can they carry flowers.
OF course many a girl looks chic and
charming in such costume. But what
girl would consider it a proper rigging
for any such memorable event as grad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Many a first class postoffice doesn't
look it.
Some men can take drink and let 1t
alone. Others take it alone.
Many a man suffers from dyspepsia
because he never tips the waiter
No, Maude, dear; the course of a shin
is not governed by the Storage.
Some people have almost as many
ups and downs in life as q thermom-
eter.
The race problem in the south is too
often a plan to get away from the
sheriff.
Don't believe all you read in maea-
zines. Many a poem rhapsodizing the
sunrise has been written in bed.
'Bjones always looks so pen-
sive when he speaks of his ex-wife. 'Et
Well, if you knew the amount
of the alimony he has to pay I guess
you think she was rather expensive
The more think of it the more
am convinced that I made a, mistake
when I married you.' he exclaimed. shs
drew herself up proudly You can undo
IT, she replied. "Alasi it is too late .
he said. II suppose the ORGANISE hs,
already spent the $40 intended ia eiv<'
the minister, and the minister has ~
communicated me for the 81 he Go3.s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
HYHAWKER JOTS

It's useless to argue, insists the Nc
Pherson Republican, unless you know
you are wrong.
A word of encouragement from the
Troy Chief: He who has never failed
has never half-succeeded.
The members of the Harper Study
and Social club started off their recent
banquet with "Kumquat Cocktail"
The first of last week reminded the
Oberlin Times of the old song, Deem
ber's as Pleasant as May with a full
realization of it's truthfulness.
If it were not for oranges going east
and bananas going west there would
not be much doing on the road, reports
the Greeley County Republican.
We are glad that it is only the roller
towel that is to go, says the Hill City
Reveille-New Era. Our towel has al
ways stood up in the corner, a roller
not being necessary.
The Lawrence Gazette divides the
autoists into two classes: One kind
need them in their business, and the
other kind get them just because the
other fellows have them.
During the sermon the parson stated
that his mission was that of saving
young men, reports the Morganville
Tribune. One of the Claflin young
ladies' in the congregation giggled and
then whispered: Gee, wish he would
save nice one for me-
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity. Every
man takes a certain amount of pride,
says the Alma Signal, in telling that
his Is a particularly hard face to shave.
Once in while a man has an OBJ
propriate name. Mr.. Butcher is the
proprietor of a meat market at Solo
mon.
"a fellow told me the other day." de-
clared old ST Chestnut to the Sedgwick
Pantagraph, that under the new law
1T was unlawful to catch a carp with
out having the carp's written permits
sion, properly signed by a notary pub
lie. Snappin' turtles need protection
next
We saw a woman the other day who
is jewel and of whom her husband
should feel exceedingly proud, reports
the Hoxie Sentinel. She was in one of
the stores and among the first items
on her want list" after having her
eggs counted and her butter weighed,
was plug of tobacco.
An optimistic note sounded by Harry
Leonard in his Harper Sentinel: Corn
is In, oats are looking fine, the first
crop Of alfalfa will be ready to cut In
two weeks, young colts are frisking.
FARMERS have almost forgotten that
wheat they were compelled to plow up
and Kansas again has the look of the
OLD time prosperity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
HUAOR or THE Day

you won't make any mistake in buying
this car, Mr.. Juggins,'' said the agent. ut
is the best in the market. There ism
don't want it, retorted Juggins. There
wasn't any comeback to the last car
had, and I had to walk back. Haven't
you anything you can show me with
few return attachments" = Harper's
Weekly.
The Fullness of Her Love.-Pettibone-,
One cannot live on love alone. Funnibone
4 can live on my love. Pettibone-Why,
how is that? Funnibone-She has 800, 600.
April Lippincotts.
Mrs. Mumps-Your husband wears is air
terribly short, Mrs. Gubbins. Mrs. Cubs
bins-Yes, the coward!-M. A. P.
He knows all the best people in town"
''Why doesn't he associate with them.
then?' 'They know him."-Cleveland
Leader.
Why did you jilt that man who wanted
to marry you?" Because" replied the
mind whether he was in love with me
or merely wanted to hear me sing for
nothing. washington Star.
Beginner-Now, you've seen my style.
Do you think you can tell me what sort
of a golfer shall make? Professional
World of Golf
whats your husband so ugly about?"
''He's been out of work six weeks" ct
should think that would suit him first
rate!' That's It'll He's just got a job
today. UNDERGRADUATES Blaetter.
'There is belief that summer girls are
always tickle" yes; I got engaged on
that theory, but it looks if I'm in for
a wedding or breach Of promise suit" =
Kansas City Journal.
Mother-Harold, you mustn't interrupt
the plumbers at their work, dear. Harold
Its all right, mother. I'm only talking
to the man who sits on the stairs and
does nothing.-Punch.
please contribute to our fund to send
a missionary to the cannibals." ST won't
Pm a vegetarian and don't believe in it.
But I'll send them some cereals, if you
wish."-Toledo Blade.
''You pay too little attention to your
personal appearance. Remember that
clothes make the man." Eyes, but for me
the man says he won't make any more
esr'-Darfb arbier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
HOPE.

1 dreamed one night that Hope was dead.
ana suddenly there too had fled
Fauence and Joy and Peace.
farewell seemed to hear them say,
we cannot live with hope away,
Our stay on earth must cease"
And Effort Ianguished by Hopes bier
And Well-nigh died, but Need was near
To lend a succoring hand.
ar deeper still the grave became,
And not promised land.
Then morning dawned. Hope lived again,
TO chip bravely bear their pain
And grief with Joy to leaven;
To hold aloft her beacon light
To cheer the traveller in the night
And show the path to heaven.
London Sphere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

II Senator Vint StilIings' plan to OPP
crate his theater in Leavenworth on
Sunday by renting it to a Seven Day
Adventist. is successful. it is reasona-
BILE to assume that the membership of
this sect in Kansas will grow with
leaps and bounds. And the recruits
will be made up mostly of theater own
ers, theater workers and members Of the
theatrical profession. But then. per-
haps, the law will be interpreted so as
to prohibit any but Seven Day Adj
ventists from attending shows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many people are satisfied with
small successes
X x e
Peevish children are bad enough but
they're not to be compared With
peevish grown-ups.
x y
Those who resent criticism the quick
est are generally the handiest about
giving it.
Taking ones punishment like man
is usually trying to blame the RESPONSE
bility for it on woman.
Y ~
Not so many people would have to go
away for their health if they did not
have the price of the trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.]

From the New YORK FresS'J
Law is nothing but hollow mock
ery when pianos can be banged the
way they are in flats.
The best of mothers has to lie in
cessantlv to her children to preserve
their belief in their father.
A long row to hoe is when you are
making a reputation and a short one
when you are unmaking it.
The man who can't make money
wants to make it to spend; the man
who can make it wants to do it to
make more with.
It takes only three hearsay CONVEX
sations for rumor to become gossip,
the gossip scandal, and the scandal
SANDER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

Not so long ago a Massachusetts ex-
pert announced that a family of five
should have no trouble in living we'll
on $500 year. Now the Boston
school teachers insist that 1t is impos-
sible for a woman school teacher to
live properly on an income less than
$1,24O a year. Evidently there is need
for Massachusetts folk to get together
ON this propositiou
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

No charge can ever be laid against
President Taft that he has used his
high office to play politics or further
his personal political interests. He told
the representatives of the National
Grange the other day that he was sor-
ry If his pressing Of the Canadian re-
ciprocity bill would cost him the farm
ers' vote. But that possibility would
not swerve him from his purpose of
urging this legislation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

A Cherokee Indian has brought suit
against an Oklahoma railroad for
$250,000 damages for the loss of an
eye. 1t was put out by a cinder In
days gone by such an accident to an
Indian would have been looked upon
by him as trifie and with equanimity.
He would probably have been distin-
guished by his tribe with suggestive
name of "Man-with- one-eye," and
would have Rloried in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

Germany and France appear to be in
need of the good offices Of the promot-
ers Of universal peace. Germany has
warned France that the occupancy Of
Fee is likely to be followed by dan
gerous consequences and a German
cruiser has been ordered to Morocco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

ors nailed firmly to the topmast. Such
legislative activity has never been
equalled before in any house of rep
resentatives. And if the senate in
dulges in its usual procrastination on
all matters of legislation, it will have
to sit in continuous session for cou-
pie of years or more to catch up with
the work already done by the house.
But maybe the senate will change its
methods. Here's honing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

Topeka's ball team appears to be
striving valiantly and it seems to be
full Of excellent material, but not much
luck is breaking with it. Still the kind
of ball that is being served up at the
local park is well worth seeing even If
the home team is losing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

And the nations wheat crop. which
was declared to be going to the dogs a
couple of months ago, was in several
points better condition on May than
was the crop of a year ago at the
same time, and a full point better
than the average crop for ten years.
Isn't it about time the crop killers"
devoted their peculiar energies to
some other calling?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

The Canadian reciprocity plan seems
to be growing more popular all the
time. Newfoundland hopes to be ad-
rnitted to a full participation in 1T, II
Il is brought about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

Both sides to the Mexican revolution
in the field are likely much chagrined
that the peace negotiations fell through.
1t is now incumbent on them to do a
little fighting. Evidence has not been
wanting that this was the very last
thing either sido was anxious for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

The Kansas Live Stock association
proposes to investigate and find out
who makes the profit on meat. There
is no doubt, though, as to who provide
this profit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
KANSAS COMMENT

CAN CORN CROP BE DOUBLED?
Agrioulturists are urging that the
farmers in the great corn belt through
SEED selection and improved farming
Inethods, double the corn crop. Last
year TINS country produced more than
tnree Dillon bushels and to double
SndI would mean a yield of six billion
DuShels. This is so stupendous that
the effect is hardly conceivable.
strange as it may seem this vast
country has already been settled so
generally that ranges for cattle are
1iIalceo. 1t is no secret that northern
MeXlco is destined to supply yearlings
ana tWo-year-olds which will consume
tne corn grown in the middle west. But
the supply OF hogs is limited only to
the supply of corn, and if the corn
crop is doubled, so would the hog crop
be proportionally. The hog natures
SO rapidly that he can be bred and
taIlened soon enough to catch up with
the biggest corn crop.
The effect of a double crop of corn
would be to reduce the price of pork
essentially. 1t would take at least two
years to make a perceptible increase
IN cattle, but that would follow a GER
talnty that future crops of corn would
De TOUR or five billion bushels.
A plentiful supply of corn means
better times for everyone. 1t is true
that it would be cheaper, but that
wouldn't hurt the farmer with twice
as much to sell. Hog meat would be
cheaper with just as much profit to
the producer. and eventually beef
would be more plentiful, although the
shortage of pasture will keep that arti-
Gle of food high for the future =
Onaga Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

Commissioner Tandy says he will
ignore the street commissioner who
was appointed over his head. This
seems to indicate that the squabble
which has been projected among the
city commissioners will continue for
the next two years. Nor is this an en-
couraging prospect for making the
commission form of government much
IF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
PERMANENT HOME.
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IS a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganization 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, 1911-05-11

Now that something like battle has
been fought there, it is really appro-
priate for the first time for the bright
men to remark that Juarez what Gen.
Sherman said it was.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

A little police activity in running
down the incendiary who is plying
his dastardIy trade on the barns in
Topeka might not be amiss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

The mercury has been going up in
these parts of late but like the elevator
and everything else that goes that way
II was bound to take a drop before long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
KEEP YOUR CATTLE IN.

Man must have protection.
Most frequently against his enemies
but sometimes against himself. Ply
steal protection is most sought though
the moral is needed, and one cannot
come without the other.
In his earlier history he builded walls
and castles and meats to keep him
against man and beast. In his later
civilization he builds fences to restrain
his cattle and protect his neighbors
against their ravages.
In both periods he has found peace
and comfort only in the strength and
permanence of his defences. The great
stone and mortar barriers of ancient
days find their counterpart in the
spidery web of steel which surrounds
the modern demesne, and, as one was
built and repaired from the rocks of the
lasting hills, so the other is made from
the nearby catalpa grove and the
strands spun of earth's greatest metal.
Earlier man restrained his neighbors;
later man. himself. The difference is
one Of civilization Stone walls made
good neighbors by keeping them out;
woven wire makes good neighbors by
keeping our cattle in.-I. D. G. in the
Kansas Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11

And the farmers free list bill went
sailing fast through the Democratic
house Of representatives with its coli
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-11
Booker T. in Swell Colony.

Within a stones throw of where the
Duchess Of Marlborough made her sum-
mer home on Long Island, and in the
midst of the homes of many families Of
wealth and prominence, DR.. Booker T.
Washington, educator, has purchased
21k acres of land and new house con-
tanning II rooms, and hereafter will &C.
cupy the place as his summer home.
The place is at Fort Salonga, in the
town Of Huntington, and commands a
beautiful view of long stretch Of Long
Island Sound. 1t was once the property
of J. Cornell Brown, who purchased 1t
some years ago because of the pic
turesqueness of the site. The land is a
knoll. and, besides commanding the
sound view, has an outlook over Smith
town Bay and Crane Neck Point.
AS his nearest neighbors DR.. WASH
ington will have Francis B. Swayne, a
prominent lawyer; Miss Farman, who
is a niece Of Bishop Potter; DR.. Kill
lette, widely known as a physician in
Manhattan: c. o. Wetmore and H. D.
Tremain. There are scores of other
families Of equal social prestige and
wealth who live within mile or two
of the place on estates OF considerable
size, and which they nave owned 1or
many years.
It is said that at one time there was
a tacit understanding among the prop
erty owners of the town that no one
would sell to an outsider Wlthout the
consent of the others, but the agree
ment has not been in force in recent
years. While some of the land has
fallen into the hands of persons who
were not altogether acceptable to the
older residents as neighbors, there have
bean no negroes in the locality, except
ing servants, who lived in the small
tenant houses on the estates of their
employers and who were few in num-
Der.
While living there for a certain period
each year. so that she might retain her
rights as an American property owner,
the duchess of Marlborough set the pace
for her neighbors in the matter OF
keening the estates in good shape. end
keeping the locality exclusive Includ-
ed in the territory is the celebrated
Indian Head farm, once maintained by
H. c.. Brown, on which thoroughbred
horses and ponies were bred, and it
was there that the society folk went
to play polo-New York Herald