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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18
HUAOR or THE DAY

New to the Beat The New Girl-An'
may me intended visit me every Sunday
afternoon, ma ann Mistress-Who is your
intended, Della? The New Girl don't
know yet. ma'am. I'm a stranger in town.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Beats the Dutch.-D' Auber-Your daugh-
ter paints in the Dutch school. does she
not? Mrs. NeWrich-Not much. she don q
We pay $50 a quarter to give her private
lessons at home. Dutch schol, indeed -
Philadelphia Record.
Its hard" said the sentimental land
lady at the dinner table TO think that
this poor little lamb should be destroyed"
Yes said the smart boarder. struggling
with his portion. 1t is tough. catholic
Standard and Times.
Ideal.-"Haw very few statues there are
of real women" Yes; it's hard to get
them to look right" How so?" "A wo-
man remaining still and saying nothing
doesn't seem true TO hfe."-Exchange-
Going Us One Better.-The Yank-say.
guess on a hot day like this In the
states all the horses would have bonents
here ali the motor cars have bonnets ou,-
London Opinion.
Not ExactIy.-Conductor- you get out
and stretch your legs when We stopped
at the Junction. Passenger-Well, not eN-
actly; 1 went into the dining car and had
them pulled.-Brooklyn Life.
Vacation Talk.-Simeon Ford, the recon
teur, said of vacations at a banquet In
New York Vacation talk is in the air.
Everywhere you see men wipe their wet
brows look at the thermometer and then
begin to talk vacation. Two fish In the
East River were overheard in conversa-
ton the other day. What are your plans
for the SUMMER the first said. 4 expect
10 get weigh, as usual, the other an
swered. New York Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18
MIR. COOK MAKES GOOD.

To Mr.. H. L. Cook, the secretary of
| the Kansas State Fair association. is
due the unqualified thanks of the peo-
pie of Topeka. Shawnee county, ans
Kansas. He has shown himself to be
a veritabIe genius of a fair builder. and
is the first man to provide Kansas with
fair of proportions commensurate
with its agricultural activities, and
comparing favorabIy with the state
fair in the other commemorative Of the
central west. This must be the honest
verdict of every person who went to the
fair grounds last week, even if he hap
pens to be one of the few who got in a
personal dispute of some sort with Mr.
Cook and is inclined to be sore at him.
There can be no mistaking the fact
that the fair of last week was the real
thing in the fair line. Mr.. Cook de-
veloped it. and over night as it were
In one short year he turned good be-
ginning for a state fair into an actual
ity, when 1t has taken many years to
build the fairs in neighboring states
up to their present proportions. And 1t
Is the exact truth to state that the To-
peka fair was larger in all of its de-
partments and ramifications this year
than were a couple of the old estab-
lishcd fairs in other nearby states.
There are many men among the Of
ficials and directors of the state fair
association who labored assiduously
and faithfully to develop the fair, ana
who are entitled to all possible COM
mendation for their generosity in de-
voting so much of their time and en-
ergy to making the fair a success. But
the burdens of the entire management
of the fair were, after all, on Mr..
Cooks shoulders. Had it been a failure
in any sense of the word. all of the
blame would have been placed on him.
He is entitled to the bulk of the credit
for the tremendous success that was
achieved.
It is not difficult to go around To-
peka and hear persons air their griev-
ances against Mr.. Cook for some detai.
of his administration of the fair. And
he undoubtedly made a few mistakes
and erred in his judgment in some
trivial matters. tha- would make him
offensive to little people. He wouldn't !
be human if he had not. But the sue
cessful man in almost every line of |
human endeavor is bound to mako |
enemies 1t would have been strange |
if the fair had been held without a |
single complaint of any sort being /
made against Mr.. Cook personally, or |
the fair mana cement generally. Had /
that been the case, the fair would not |
have been the big and successful in |
stitution it was. 1t would have been
Mandy pamby sort of an affair with a
lot of officious buttinskis walking in on
free tickets and ATTEMPTING to tell |
everybody his business To make the |
fair a success, there had to be firm
hand on the helm. Mr. Cook had that
hand and has proven himself to be the
right man in the right place. The fair
association should raise Mr.. Cooks sal
ary, or take some other step to extend
he substantial appreciation his ser
vices deserve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

they descended. Then she stood under
the archway of one Of the big apart
ment houses.
You'll have to get a cab for me-
she said I'm awfully sorry, but /
can't spoil this hat
She saw his look of disapproval,
ana suddenly she burst out with her
CONFESSION. 'Oh, it isn't my hat,
Archle' she walled, Il borrowed it to-
night at the store and if anything
ldo.'
She saw Archie's face brighten and
ms good smile shine out. You silly
little Justine" he said, did you bor-
row that hat on my account"
Yes she said, Il wanted to look
pretty when went with you"
And 1 have been feeling all the
evening. he told her, that 1 mustn t
tell you how much I cared for you:
mustn't ask you to marry me, because
I felt that I could never give YOU the
pretty things you craved. 1 knew the
nat must have cost a lot of money,
and felt that you wanted such things
and L had no right to ask you to be
the wife of poor man"
| oh" Justine gasped, 81 never
thought of that, Archie. And I don't
really mind being poor If you don't
mind seeing me shabby
In the dim archway he caught her
in his arms. you darling" he said,
I'D love you if you never wore a
hat
He went to the corner and telephon-
( ed for q cab. You mustn't get into
trouble" he said. land you mustn't
spoil the hat
| In spite of her raptures Justine's con-
science troubled her.
Il feel as if I'd done a very wicked
thing, Archie" she said. Madame
would never forgive me if she knew"
81 believe she would" Archie told
nd r0nrr I 1..Ts -.-T
better if you go and tell her. and if
she fires you Wen get married on the
spot and then I can take care of you
for the rest of your life. Justine
1t was such a tempestuous wooing
that it almost took Justine's breath
away.
But I haven't anything to be mar
ried in" she said.
Wear that white dress you had in
the summer" Archie said, 1.-The one
you wore the night 1 took you out 1
fell in love with you then, and I have
been in love ever since
The next morning Justine went on
mysterious errand to madame's inner
sanctum- She came out with her eyes
sparkling.
Lucille" she said to her dearest
friend, madame is a darling. Do you
know 1 told her all about my wearing
the hat
why, you never dared!" Lucille ex-
Il did," Justine said, "and I told her
why. 1 told her that L wanted to
please Archie and that 1 saw her
there, and that then 1 realized what an
awful, thing 1 had done. and she SEEM
ed positively human She listened and
asked me about Archie, and 1 told her
was going to marry him, and then
what do you think happened, Lucille ?''
Il don't know" said Lucille breath
lessly.
''She is going to give me the hat for
a wedding present. Copyright, !
1911, by Associated Literary Press-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Justice of the Peace Chapman held
court beneath a leaky umbrella yester-
day. Not only did he listen to an ex-
animation of witnesses, but handed
down a decision. A crowd of several
hundred witnessed the trial, which was
conducted in Rockwell avenue at the
rear of the city hall.
The case involved the repairing of a
milk wagon. which had been replevin-
ed by I. Hammer. a blacksmith. Kan
ner claimed possession of the wagon
for a $50 repair bill. J. Pleskov
sought to recover the wagon, so as to
be able to deliver milk to his custom
ers. The case had to be settled at
once.
PIeskov's attorney challenged the
plaintiff to show the court $50 worth
of repairs on the wagon Kanner
agreed to undertake the task. and the
court adjourned to the street. Chap
man stood by while the blacksmith
took off the wagon wheels to show new
axIes, unhitched the horse to show
new shafts. and conducted a general
oyerhauling of the wagon.
After three-quarters of an hour
spent in the rain, Chapman decided
that he had seen enough of the wagon
to convince him that the plaintiff still
had a $25 lien on it. Then he went
home and took a hot bath.-Cleveland
Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

ticular. When John Jacob Aston was
divorced from his first wife he paid
her aIimony to the tune of $1,000, 600.
That sum was an appreciable hunk of
his enormous fortune. Now he has
paid over to the erstwhile Miss Force,
or her parents, the tidy sum of S.
100000 for the privilege of marrying
that young lady. He has also con-
tracted to draw up a new will and
provide handsomely for his bride in
that document. Such provision will
probably. be the basis for her alimony
when it comes time for her to demand
it in the course of the next few years.
Many divorces and second and third
marriages among the prominent mem
bers of other wealthy families have
worked out in the same way in break
ing up their piles of gold. Two or
three generations hence and the ire
mendous fortunes of today and yester-
day will have been so split up by
similar processes that they will be
scarcely worth mentioning, although
it is likely that others will have ac-
cumulated similarly large fortunes.
And so, the problem of breaking up
these big fortunes and rendering them
less powerful does not seem such a
difficult one to solve. The possessors
of them will provide the solution
themselves A lot of righteous indig-
nation is stirred up over affairs of
the Astor-Force variety, but in this as
in all other things there is never a
thorn without a rose hidden some
where in it's vicinity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

The Gould brothers are in a rail-
road war amongst themselves because
the latest wife of Frank Gould is not
acceptable to the rest of the family
He is retaliating for the sights given
her by trying to lessen his brothers
influence in the management of GER
tain railroad properties. Nor is it
likely that this fight will be of any
advantage to the railroads in question
As matter of fact. the Gould boys
have not shone conspicuously in the
management of the railroad properties
left them by their father. So perhaps
It would be just as well if Frank put
his brothers out of the railroad BUSH
ness and then got out himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

If final and official count of the
election returns in Maine give a vic
tory to the "drys," it is likely that the
state will continue to be wet" That's
the way it has been for years with a
provision in the constitution prohibit
ing the sale of liquor and the necessary
laws for it's enforcement. The present
administration in Maine is even less in
sympathy with prohibition than those
which have gone before it during re-
cent wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Secretary Fisher of the department
of the interior is returning from a trip
to Alaska where he has been gathering
first hand information concerning the
conditions that prevail there in respect
to the public domain and the best ways
for its legitimate development clifford
Pinchot has just started on a trip to
Alaska to see what he can see. Mr.
Fisher is an ardent conservationist,
but is also blessed with many and ex-
0euent practical ideas on the subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Women travellers who ride on the
trains and boats of the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad company will be com
PEELED to furnish their own towels
hereafter. The officials of this system
report that during the past year the
women passengers have stolen no less
than $4,000 worth of towels from the
trains. Most of the women will con-
slider the Characterization of their &C
tivity in this respect as theft to be a
little harsh. They merely took the
towels, if you please. as souvenirs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18
President Taft certainly made a te

FfesldeHt TAN Certainly made a ten
strike with his unqualified endorse
ment of DR.. Wiley and the well-merit-
ed rebuke he administered to the
forces that are attempting to nullify
the reasonable legislation that has
been enacted in the interests of pure
food and pure drugs. No one had an
idea, surely. that President Taft would
render any other decision in the pre-
misses. He is a just man, and the mis-
takes he makes on matters of essential
concern to the whole people are few
and far hetwean
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press

LFrom the New York Press.1
Husbands get women accustomed TO
bear any sort of trial.
A man thinks he's public spirited to
let people vote for him for an office.
A woman's idea of dressing for wet
weather is her worst hat and her best
stockings.
lot of new cuss words ought to be
invented for special use by those on
trains that are late
1t seems strange to a woman that a
ma mean get so excited at a baseball
game and keep SO cool at q bargain
counter sale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18
BREAKING UP BIG FORTUNES.

=
There are more ways than one to
skin a rabbit. Occasionally. if left
to its own devices a rabbit will skin
itself, or nearly so. And that seems
to be about the only way for bringing
about Of the disintegration Of the
large American fortunes of today
which were amassed by the frugal or
crafty fathers or grandfathers of the
generation now in possession OF them.
For instance, the many millions gath
cred by old Commodore Vanderbilt
were first divided up among his sons
and daughters. Some of these shares
have been divided up again between
their children and the other original
shares will be divided up in the same
way before long. The same is true
OF the fortune that was left by Jay
Gould. And many other instances of
the same sort might be cited.
Nor must it be forgotten that the
facilities of the divorce courts and the
marriage laws of this free and easy
country, in many respects, ara also
an effective agency in dissipa ting, or
dividing up these fortunes. Take the
experiences Of one scion Of the old
and wealthy Aston family in this par
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18
FROM OTHER PENS
SOCIETY AND OPEN SAB.

SOCIETY AND OPEN SABBATH.
We read that society was handled
without gloves by the Newport clergy
last Sunday. One of the clerical COM
plants says: Entertainments Satur-
day evening and Sunday now seem to
be the habit in Newport" The re-
porter adds: For years golf, tennis,
dinners, sailing parties, dancing par
ties, other amusements and dancing,
too'-plain and fancy, we presume
'thave been held on the Sabbath day"
Society S indeed a shining mark.
But society does not monopolize these
festivities. We find in this same
chronicle of Sabbatical amusements
at the famous old summer resort the
following items:
For the citizens of Newport today
Sunday who wanted amusements
there was a ball game between the
Haverhills and the Trojans. which
Mayor Boyle and other city fathers at
tended.
The public beaches were crowded
Boats and trains brought thousands of
excursionists into Newport. Restau-
rants ice cream parlOrS and other
places were open to any one.
If you were thirsty, it was hardly
an effort to secure beer or other
drinks.
Newport evidently wants this sort of
thing. otherwise Mayor Boyle would
not be filling his fifteenth term.
Society is not alone in wanting an
open Sunday. But it has to stand the
brunt of the criticism No doubt.
good many who attended the ball
game, including the popular mayor,
went to church first.
Which, we wonder, is setting the
pace, society or the common people?
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Mr.. Pinchot's particular forte in the
conservation arena is concerned with
theories, generally of the Impractical
sort Theorists are pretty nifty in sup
porting their contentious with data
Undoubtedly Mr.. Pinchot is on a hunt
for data to combat any OF the prac-
teal plans that Secretary Fisher may
suggest which will make possible the
DEVELOPMENT of Alaska
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have tae paper mailed regularly
qae.h dny to any address at the rate Of
eeV, cents a week or thirty cents q
month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. White
OFT OF town the State Journal VIII be
90 sou like daily letter from homo.
Advance payment is requested or.
these short time subscriptions to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Sicily will have to produce an un-
usual crop of lemons for many years
to come to make up for the damage
that is being done to that land by the
irrepressible Mount Etna. Already
this damage is figured at s2e.oOO,0OO,
and the end is not yet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Commentator is due to the Shaw
nee county commissioners for their de-
cision to save the Calhoun Bluffs road
and put it in the best possible condi-
ton This roads offers the opportunity
for about the most picturesque drive in
the vicinity of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Regardless of the indefensibIe crime
committed. it is pretty difficult to
withhold something of admiration for
the abilities of the yeggmen who rob
bed a British Columbia bank of no less
than $4,000 in cash. There is moth
ing of the usual about criminals of
that ca1fber
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Surely is the millennium we'll on its
way There is to be no more unneces-
sarily rough handling of freight by
railroad employees. The request of
the railroads that shippers also put up
freight in more substantial packages
is a reasonable one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18
THE MODERN NOVEL.

There is singularly little of the NOR
bid in contemporary fiction. When a
man plies his craft too hard he sharp
ems his mind to q. cutting edge that
may do damage. Solitary study and
reflection unsettIe the mind, unfit one
for contacts with the easy-going, I'M
studious world Out of such labors
may come work of great genius, or
only one that is strained and unbal-
anced This period at least the mod
er novelist avoids. He never loses
touch with his audience of average
people, and to insure this makes his
own tastes as average as possible.
There is, of course, the danger of su-
perficiality that lies in wait for those
who penetrate too far into superficial
things The more attention is con-
centrated on accessories of life or art,
as in realistic scenery in the theater
or in realistic descriptions of every
day habits of people, the greater is the
risk of missing the spiritual truths
that most matter It must be owned
that many a plausible novel of con-
temporary American life. impeccable
as to externa1s gives the effect of
barely scratching the surface But it
can at least be said that the average
novel is sane and wholesome, and the
open-air spirit should have some of the
credit.-SpringfieI Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

The exte-.t of the cosmopolitan
character of. New York city's popula-
ton is evidenced by the new $500. 600
theater which has been erected there
which is to be devoted exclusively to
the production of Yiddish drama.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Not Exactly.-Conductor you get ou
and stretch your legs when we stopped
at the Junction. Passenger-Well not cx
actly; 1 went into the dining car and hRs
them pulled.-Brooklyn Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Des Moines papers are calling atten
ton to the fact that the Waws los
IS games in n row. The contest 10
the cellar championship is indeed bit
ter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18

Having defended Doc Wiley. Hon.
Taft may now swing around the circle
without leaving any important unfn-
/ ished business.
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-07
President Taft'S
Message.

President Taft's message to congress
IL one well worth reading. 1t is well
worth reading for two reasons, first, it
1t well-Eritten and forceful docu-
ment, and second, it shows that he
seeks to evade the subject to which
the country is alive to today.
To The Journal it looks like he is
attempting to attract the public eye to
a proper regulation Of the trusts, be-
lieving that the tariff question will be
forgotten by this popular fad of trust
regulation.
The argument that President Taft
offers sounds reasonable and il his
recommendations as to trust regula-
ton are successfully carried out, the
public will not be unfairly dealt with,
but his ideas are not new and have
been advocated by many others.
But trust regulation is not what the
people want at this time. President
Taft knows this as we'll as any other
person in America. He knows that il
is a reduction in the tariffs that the
people want and will demand in spite
Of his attempt to throw them off the
track on a recommendation Of laws
that will operate against undue mo-
nopolies.
We will not attempt to condemn the
message. 1t was a good one as far
as It went, but his failure to recon-
mend a tariff revision disappointed
We are sure, many. of his best friends
His failure to touch upon the one
important subject will not affect con-
gress, however. The Democrats arr
determined and the fact that the presi-
dent ignored the tariff reform question
will not in any way interfere with the
program.