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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-18
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cure any case of Itching, Blind or
Protruding Piles in 6 to IA days or
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
AYHAWKER JOTS

Miss Anna Carlson of the Lindsborg
News says that Mcpherson has man
SO stingv that he tried to borrow his
neighbours toothbrush.
1t occurs to the Emporia Gazette that
the true optimist is the man VINO can
slide half block on the back OF his
head and then join in the general laugh
ter.
After Kansas becomes a model
state" says the Leavenworth Post, no
railway train will be allowed to come
into the state until it has been stopped
and thoroughly cleaned from the cow
catcher to tail lights, and the train
men must brush their teeth. too.
AS a matter of curiosity, the Law
renee World would like to know just
how many old socks had d1sgorged
their contents into the new postal saw
ings banks. We have an idea that the
men who bank in a sock wouldn't trust
the Lord himself with their money.
Old Gorgan Graham's advice to his
son, was to own your own business,
mind your own business, and run
your own business, and that advice is
And we frequently think of this when
we see people nosing around into
other peoples business at the expense
of their own. When you feel one OF
these spells coming on just rem
old Gorgan's saying. 1t VIII do you
II
ton Daily Telegram.
Strange how the old saw of whose
OK is being gored rises to stare US in
the face every day, writes Deacon
Walker in his Osborne Farmer. You
can scarcely get into crowd without
somebody springs it. This man is for
a certain reform because it will make
his taxes lighter or advance the value
of his property. The other fellow is
against it because conditions will be
reversed. Then there is the fellow
who wants to reform all the people In
the community. He is a regular fam
attic. Then the day comes when he
has overstepped the bounds trifle
and other fanatics want to cause him
trouble. He is converted to the liberal
idea in a minute. Why? Because it is
his OK that is now being gored. All
of us are the same way. When there
is a lottery for seats at a big show
and we draw a good one, the scheme
is all right. But when we land back
under the gallery we want the plan
abolished. When the law fixes things
so we can get what we want we are
for it and think the man who is
against it is a crank. Then when an
other law comes along that deprives
us of a personal liberty and pleases
the other fellow, we set up howl
that can be heard all over the town.
ship. Whenever you hear man
talk loud about something. if you will
listen a few minutes you will discover
that his OK is being gored and he is
simply doing as you and I do on such
occasions-registeri his kick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFron the Philadelphia Record-]
81 ;I1 -~-,;4t,,o ~ 1Q1n7

rFrom the Philadelphia Record-]
Still writing 1t 1910?
Never put a gift cigar in the mouth.
All in your eye-women's hatpins.
The people who fish for compliments
naturally listen with bated breath.
A woman hates a folding bed. It
gives her no opportunity to look under
it for a man.
If a girl is only pretty enough she
can get some fellow to teach her to
skate every winter.
When a girl artist marries fellow
named Arthur she can still say she Is
welded to her Art.
It's when the comb and brush are
on good terms that they realize the
best of friends must part.
The man who is alone in big city
realizes some of the loneliness OF an
oyster in a church fair stew.
Muggins-"S cribbler says he hasn't
time to read the new books Buggins
what keeps him SO busy? Mugglns
-"Oh, he's a book reviewer"
Blobbs-t.Subbubs has moved In town
from Swamphurst. He complains OF
being run down. Slobbs-.-Automo-
biles, or gossiping neighbors?'
80 you are in favor of dress re-
form for women, eh?' remarked the
bachelor. "Sure," replied the married
man, eff it does away with the buttons
down the back"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
THE JACKSON INVESTIGATION.

Nothing but good can come of the
investigation of the conduct of the
attorney generals department during
the past four years as is provided for
in the Orr resolution which passed the
house of representatives yesterday,
and which is likely to go through the
senate in short order. If the charges
against Mr.. Jackson that he has feath-
cred his own nest with many thou
sands of dollars through fees allowed
him for the prosecution of those un-
fortunates who hold the prohibition
law in such slight regard are without
foundation, he deserves a vindication.
And if there is any substance to these
charges which have been talked about
from one end of the state to the other
for the past several months, the peo-
pie of this commonwealth are entitled
to know it, as are their representatives
in the legislature. Steps can then be
taken for a Encouragement of the laws
on this subject SO there will be no pos
sible chance of a like occurrence in
the future.
1t has been asserted that in enc or
more counties where Mr.. Jackson and
his assistant or special attorneys gem
eral worked, that violators of the pro-
hibitory law were set free Immediately
on their having paid their fines and
costs in the case, which included the
fees to the attorney general. Natur-
ally, they went right back to their old
trade only to get arrested and fined
again. In the civil actions which were
| brought in the famous injunction
suits where the proceeding was against
| the owner Of the building where a
joint was operated, it is alleged that
suit after suit was brought against the
same place. In other words, the opin-
| ion has been expressed by some peo-
pie that this method of handling the
| jointists which has been pursued by
| the. ex-attorney general, is similar to
that which used to prevail il the cities
| of Kansas when not much effort was
made to enforce the prohibitory law,
and when the jointists were hauled
permitted to go back to their trade in
peace. This was nothing more than
an indirect license system, but the
money that was collected under it went
! for public purposes. While the money
that Mr. Jackson is accused of hav-
,Iing collected lin about the same way
has gone into his pocket and those OF
his assistants.
If there is nothing to these charges
which have. been common talk for E
long time, that fact ought to be estab-
lished in justice to Mr.. jackson. Ever
If he did collect costs for violations OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe. ]


Time isn't money to the man who
wastes good deal of it.
It's astonishing how much cold
girl with pretty arms can stand.
What's the use of higher education
If a girl doesn't know how to cook
chicken.
Some men make as much noise eat
ing celery as q horse does when eat
ing corn.
A myth is no miracle, notwithstand-
ing the fact that it frequently mas
querades as such.
1t all depends: Mexican and some
American women could get shot in
the hat without counting it close
call.
said before his marriage, but it is a
safe bet that if he does. his wife
won't
Apparently the greatest favor you
can do some persons is just to let them
alone. In fact. that rule fits good
many.
The man who spills cigar ashes on
the parlor floor and doesn't worry
about it, or get scolded, is Master of
His Household.
It may at least be said for the
farmer that he knows enough about
the city not to want to spend his vaca-
ton on the farm.
There is some curiosity TO know
whether the old fashioned man who
mistook his fork for a toothplck. ever
changed his mind about that.
Battling Nelson has acquired quite
a reputation for assimilattng punish
kment, considering that he never went
so far as to commit bigamy.
You can even find men who will take
the real estate dealers word for eli
matte conditions; for the poor, you
remember, are with us always.
There is the type of fast workmen
| who keeps two others busy making
! corrections, to be included in the list
| of those who make haste slowly.
The world SHOULD quit boasting of
| its exact and even handed justice un-
| til some arrangements are made for
putting the dead beat on a par with
/ less brazen thieves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

sage was important And I was-I
AMIN a hurry. My maid is VeIs
sick. The telephone lines are cow OWE.
so started to drive TO LIZ. Di9'
INV runabout only needs crank.
ing" said Porterheld, taking an I'M
pulsive step forward. Wou.4
only too glad to drive you over there,
That would atone in part for my
4 could not think of discommod-
ing YOU" returned the girl, lclly.
BESIDES you must stay here ana shoo'
sIn case of sickness or distress.
replied Porterfeld, lofty my outy
is clear The burglars can go nans-
If they were coming they'd nave pe1 1't
here long ago. I'll nave thdl cal ~
in a jiffy.'
They made the journey to Lebanon
in constrained silence. --Porterneiu
reused the physician, secured nis
own car. and then started back 1or
the Corning home.
Porterfeld's pulses were thrilnng.
The girl he adored was beside nun,
for the first time in weary monIns.
her winsome profile peeped OUT ol
rich furs, and her elbow toucned ms
occasionally as the gallant little run
about bucked the drifts.
When the car whiried INTO IN
Corning driveway, the moon had hid
den itself behind film OF snow
clouds There were lights In the me
old house, but nobody was IN sign.
Obsessed by purpose, the witness
of which made his teeth cnatter,
Porterfeld shut off. As the car came
to O stop by the wide porch he turned
deliberately took Elsie Corning IN
his arms, and kissed her
There followed a silence tnat
stunned-a silence SO profound that
things seemed to rock with 1t. Per
terfield did not dare to break it.
Under the circumstances, MISS
Corning had to speak first And she
did, finally, in soft little voice, from
which all the chill of their first en-
counter had melted: "Eow cold your
nose is, Toni
The telephone was ringing as Por-
| terfieId stepped into his own home
some time later. 1t was the snerlfI'
as rapid, precise and unruffled as
ever.
"That you, Tom? Well. it's all off
We got the fellows who robbed the
Bellevue bank. Caught them up near
Chiffon, when their machine got
stuck in q drift
Caught them, did you 90 returned
Porterfeld. Then he laughed hap
PLY. Good I'm caught. too" Which
cryptic remark the sheriff understood
later. on the receipt of wedding
invitation.-(Copyrigh 1911 by AS
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

be wise: but companion OF 1ooIS snail
be destroyed. Proverbs Kill ~.
It's an old, a hackneyed saw to the
effect that a man is known by the COM
pany he keeps. That makes it none
the less forcefu1, or less worthy of oc-
casional attention. Indeed, most of
the sound philosophy in the world is
that which has been propounded for
years, yes, for centuries. It is strong
because of it's saneness, because it has
stood the test of time, because age
has been unable to wither it. Much of
it is found in the terse little adages
and sayings, of almost unknown origin
to most folk, which have been handed
down by word of mouth from genera
ton to generation, and which are IA
miIiar to the tongues of all. Undoubt-
eddy, it is this familiarity with them
that breeds a certain sort of contempt
in which a good many of them seem
to be held, a contempt which often
turns into derision for those who call
them to mind and moralize over them.
However, most people would be all the
better off if they had some of these
simple and sometimes homely truths
pressed upon them. More good would
probably result from earnest attention
being paid to them than can possibly
be attained through the consideration
of much of the new thought which
is floating around these days, attrac-
tive though lots of it may be.
Probably among the old philosophi-
cal by-words there is none more truth
full than the one that a person is
known by the company with which he
associates. Nor is there any with a
greater suggestive power for good in
directing the attention to the fact that
a man should be extremely careful OF
the companions he chooses. Particu-
larry pertinent is this to the younger
individuals, those who are standing on
the threshold of life with most of the
world before them. But it is equally
applicable to every one regardless of
age or environment. The choice Of
companions means the making and
keeping of excellent characters and
regulations or their destruction.
It would be far better for a man to
go through life more or less COM
panionless than to permit himself to
drift into the society of those who are
fools on many things. OF course. every
right thinking person-and in this
class are a majority OF CnOSe on eaftn
recognize the fact that evil associa-
tions are to be tabooed. There are
many, though. who drift into them al
most unconsciously at first. Finally
they are ensnared by them and beyond
redemption. There is other society,
however, than that which is actually
evil and made up of wrongdoers, that
is almost as equally pernicious. 1t is
the society of the silly, the foolish,
who seem to have little or no purpose
in life, who fritter their lives away in
frivolities of one sort or another. It
is not difficult for one to be dragged
down to the same level of aimlessness
that prevails in this class of humans,
once he starts on the path to it. 1t
soon aceomplishes his utter uselessness
and eventual destruction
AS Solomon says in the proverb
quoted above: HE that walketh with
wise men shall be wise: but a COM
panion Of fools shall be destroyed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

IF'rom the Chicago News.1
Few people are as busy as they mag
Inc they are.
The girl with dfmpie seems to look
upon life as a joke.
And many a man who is pound fool
ish isn't even penny wise.
It's difficult to secure a welcome that
is guaranteed not to wear out.
How one woman must hate another
when she speaks of her as that thing"
II sometimes happens that in marrv-
ing good cook a man gets Door
wife.
1t is always safe to bet your money
on another mans game-for the other
man.
II you want honest criticism of any
thing you do, tell your friends it is
the work of another.
There are times when the average
man would like to write a little mn
written law for himself.
The louder a child cries the less If Is
hurt, and the more fuss grown neople
make the less they have to fuss over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
NO TOWN FOR THE POOR.

Kansas City's construction of 40 miles
of boulevard is being held up a good
deal lately as a high example for any
municipality 1t has meant the trans
formation Of one of the ugliest COM
munities in the country. a by-word for
responsiveness, into city singuarly
beautiful and picturesque. The exam
pie, we say. is praised, but little is said
of the cost to Kansas City and the re-
suits.
These boulevard systems were built
from money raised either entirely or
for the most part by special assess
ments. The burden fell proportionate-
ly as heavily upon the man who had
gone to the fringes of the town in or
der to get cheap land for home build
ing as it dill upon the wealthy holders
and the realty spectators. 1t is true
that property was greatly enhanced in
value, but to reap this value the prop
erty had to be sold. In many cases It
had to be sold because the weight Of
assessments was more than could pc
borfe It is told in Kansas City, Kan.
across the line, that no small part I
it's increase in population was brought
about by the special taxes which
caused poor families TO abandon homes
built in the larger city and to look
about them for refuge from these exae-
tions.-ToIedo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor are the passengers on the water
wagon quite as numerous as they were
on January 2.
Imitation may be the sincerest form
of flattery but few people like that
kind of flattery very well.
\ = X
Each half of the world is also of the
opinion that it's none of the other
half's business how it lives.
It may be the proper thing to do. but,
just the same, it's pretty hard to smile
when misfortune overtakes you.
x y
People may well be pardoned for pay
i1.g so little attention to the advice
given them-so much of it is worth
less.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

causes indigestion, indigestion causes
bad tempers, and bad tempers cause
divorces. All of which reason is very
logical but equally worthless because
the hypothesis it starts out with Is
ridiculous. Still this is the age when
men seem to think they must attract
attention to themselves in one way or
another, and coming forward with the
suggestion that fried meat is response
BILE for divorces belongs in that cate
CORY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

1t does seem that the people of To-
peka ought to leave no stone unturned
to keep the Smith Automobile plant in
this city. No town can attract new
manufacturing enterprises to it, if it is
unable, through lack of financial sup
port. which in this particular case
would be in the nature of a good in
vestment, to retain concerns which
have already been established in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.l

From the New York Press.
The more theory reform can stand
the less it can fact.
Sentiment can make woman think
she's happy when she knows she isn't.
A woman has to forgive her hus-
bands faults so often he gets the idea
she admires them.
The cure for mans socialism is
getting to own something that makes
him think it's wrong till he owns it.
Lots of people who could know how
to end big thing don't know how to
begin it, so they think they're just as
smart as if they did.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

Senator Lafayette Young's sugges-
ton that settlement of the Iowa
United States senatorial controversy be
left to a state wide primary is another
indication of his large caliber. People
are demanding the right to elect United
States senators. Here is plan to let
the people of Iowa decide who their
next United States senator will be. 1t
Is Tnanifestly fair to all the candidates
for this honor. The question which
has deadlocked the Iowa legislature
could be settled in no better way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

Young Bride-I didn't accept Harry the
first time he proposed. Miss Ryvail-No'
cript.
itq sa deT vote ' me s s1mm 3e to
inspection of baseball bulletin boards. -
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Mrs. Crabshaw-How will we know
when women have succeeded in politics?
Crabshaw-As soon as we begin talking
about the woman higher up.-Judge.
Reason for TT like wide-awake men
oh, Jaggsby. is the most wide-awake
man know; ..ry II never thought he vas
makes him wide awake. He's got in
somna."-Savannah News.
at this station for" Because no one
happens to be trying to catch the train
Judge.
The last time you. were drunk you
promised .. me you would never get drunk
ish yet"-Houston Post.
began Miss Parvenue. Not at ALL" Miss
Bright FASTENED to say. Your scornful
years in the neighboorhood of your
fathers glue factory.'-Catholic Standard
and Times.
Geraldine-You haven't been to see me
Geraldine, this is the first time I've been
able to get about--Pathfinder
His Sole Dread.-Hammond-D you
dread the silent watches of the night?
Martin-No; It's the cuckoo clocks that
give me away.-Harpers Bazaar.
An Exception.-'1 have Observed" said
the old professor. mournfully, that women
wofnans reading is not ' produotiye of agy
profit Don't you believe IT," put In the
family man When she reads the bar
gain ads it's productive Of profit to the
advertisers = Catholic Standard and
Times.
A Truant Tragedian.-"De Ranter claims
to be an actor of the old school Ills
work makes me think he must have play
ed truant most or the time. Judge
First Cook.-Me missus is talSfn' a co,,rsa
ond Cook-The next thing yez know she'll
h Ii askih lave to come in the kitchen
Wife, was a fool when married YOU
Hub-Well. wasn't such a wise guy nv
self--Boston Transcript.
Been over the presidents messenger"
Sure. 1 hurdled it."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
How. Titles clothes hang about her,
Why, they don't fit her at air. "RT1t
think how much worse she would look
If they NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Blaetter.
Lady-Dfd that last nickel I gave YOU
go for beer? Weary Walter-Not alone
mum. I went for the beer and took it
along.-Puck.
Notwithstanding interests sometimes
buy what they don't want, to avert q
panic. Bocker-As buy my wife a dress.
-Harpers Bazaar.
what makes you think he had been IN
a drinking paTty?" He came home"
sobbed the young wife. wearing a phono-
graph horn for a hat."-LouisvilIe Corr-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

A few people hold to the idea that
this country would get along much
better if the supreme court were abol-
ished. Now comes a Chicago man
with the suggestion that the United
States senate should be abolished
Why not abolish all the agencies for
the administration of the federal gov
eminent? Let it run itself. Then no.
body could be blamed for anything
that happened or didn't happen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

Colonel Roosevelt has written an
other letter in which he expresses the
hope that the progressive Republican
movement will prove successful. Yet
he did all that he could to assure the
reelection of Mr.. Lodge of Massa-
chusetts to the United States senate.
and Mr.. Lodge is a standpatter from
Standna+vi1lp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

Europe is reported to be expecting n
war between Turkey and Greece as
soon as the snow is out of the Balkans.
Surely are the nations of the earth
progressing. If wars must be fought it
IS much better to arrange them for the
summer time when the hardships on
the soldiers will not be so severe as
they would be in winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
CASTLES IN SPAIN.

Far from this old sad world of Every Day
hours,
know my castle waits to welcome me
with sentry hopes awatch upon its
towers.
Across prst the troubled sea of Time that
feet,
It shelters close within its harbor walls,
Inc resting, snowy sails of heart dreams
sweet :.
And some some day. I. with you. dear, close
Shall haI launch our little shaliop from the
And sail away Ger gray and nist-crowned
waves
Until the sunlight wakens and we reach
That longed-for tarbor where forgotten
dreams
Wait quiet-sailed. to welcome us once
The little dream boats with their cargoes
sweet
Sent winging there so many years be-
fore.
But still we walt to sight the shallop's
And live within the world of Every Day:
And still the daytime slowly turns to
night,
And evening shadows fade to morning
Content to see through nists of driving
rain,
The castle watch-fires cleaning far
Martha Haskell Clark, in the Metropol-
itan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

Senator Fletcher of Florida has dug
up quite as many reasons for the re-
moval of Mr. Ballinger, as the other
Mr. F'letches insists that every mouth
full of food should be chewed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

Mr.. Cones. of Meade county, has
come jim for considerable criticism be-
cause of his bill which would forbid
the wearing of tights by actresses, but
through the medium of that same bill
he has made the people of Kansas
and the rest of the country his debt
ors. He has called attention to the
fact that the proper name for the
knee-cap is "patella.'' And anyone
who enlightens the people Of the world
in any particular, be it ever so slight,
is entitled to some praise.