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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
THE INDIGNANT FARMER.

I'm just as mad as I can ber'
An angry farmer said;
Those early strawberries of mine
Desire folding bedi
And my potatoes have declined
To ripen underground,
Unless, to keep dust from their eyes,
Smoked goggles I have found!
1.-THE cabbage-heads, among themselves.
Indulge in secret chats;
But 1 have overheard them. and
They vow they'll have straw hats!
"Such foolishness 1 cannot stand;
And now-just as 1 feared
Each single stalk of wheat demands
A barber for its beardi
the squashes, too, are getting proud;
1t almost makes me smile;
They want the very finest neckwear,
OF the very latest style,
But now the very limits reached!
1 learn, with stifled groan-
Each ear of corn insists upon
A private telephonei"
Carolyn Wells in Harper's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

= a candidate ever keeps his promises.
he won't promise much.
This time of the year the garden spade
is mightier than the sword.
1t is our theory that poetry isn't greatly
beautified by printing it in Old English
type.
1t is hard for children who hate to go to
school to realize that vacations will be
good deal scarcer out ahead
Occasionally man shows up So mean
he makes people wonder why they abol-
ished the o. f. whipping post.
Poverty is bad enough to those born to
it, but the great trial is to those born to
affluence who drop down.
Jude Johnson: In this great land of
the free, there so many glorious
privileges you don't dare to practice
1t is hard to convince o f. woman
that an open window is better than rub
bers as a safeguard against pneumonia.
Time is precious, but it wouldn't amount
to much if you couldn't waste a little oc
casionally; play that double to include
money.
Question for the Lancaster Literary So
ciety: Resolved, that childhood's happy
hours aren't so much so until one begins
looking back at them.
Jude johnson, who returned home today
after being away four days, Is shaking
hands with all of his friends and telling of
the many changes that have occurred In
Al...-son during his absence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

[From the Chicago News.J
The mother tongue frequently runs to
baby talk.
old bachelors either dodge women or are
lodged by them.
But you can't always get inside infor-
nation from a middleman.
In the human race the fat man has
more than slim chance.
No, Alonzo. a peroxide blonde isn't
necessarily light on her feet.
To the right young man girls plain
red hair looks like a golden halo.
Some women are SO changeabIe they
never wear the same complexion twice.
There Is no rose strewn path for the
coward who cannot hide his yellow streak
A mans proposal is $50 sudden to a
girl because she has waited for it so long
His Satanic majesty never begs any,
body to give him his due Nevertheless
he gets it
Occasionally you run across a girl who
is afraid to go downtown by herself for
fear some man will not try to flirt with
her.
The man who makes friends must have
either money or magnetism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
WHAT Ais THE COURTS?

Twenty-Five to fifty years ago there
were time-honored phrases which
were applied by lawyers with more or
less popular approval to the American
judiciary. The courts were the "Palla-
dunn of our hOerties,' the Guardians
of the Ark of the Covenant" Today,
says George w. Alger in the Atlantic.
the public attitude has largely changed.
These phrases are no longer current
The people are dissatisfied with the
guardians, and in some quarters there
is dissatisfaction with the ark itself.
The popular magazines are full of ar
ticies upon judicial aggression, judicial
oligarchies. and the lucubrations of in
genious laymen, who, unconstrained by
any embarrassment through knowledge
of law or of the functions or powers
of the judiciary, cheerfu1ly- lay at the.
doors of the courts all the ills of our
body polite. The legislatures and con-
stitutional conventions are debating
proposals for the recall of judges. and
the bar associations re adding to the
general -usion by sweepingly de-
nouncing, as demagogic attacks upon
the courts, all proposals of change ex-
cept certain excellent, thigh tarty.
measures of procedure-reform emanat-
ing from themselves. The platform of
one political party advocates a simple
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
He Has some Sense of Humor.

There is a certain cigar clerk in
this village who has got a highly de-
veloped sense of humor. We frisked
into his place of business during the
rush hour at noon yesterday and
handed him a silver dollar with plug
in it that would fill a cavity in a rhin-
oceros' tooth. He said never a word
but handed US one good nickel cigar,
if you can imagine such a thing. and
a handful of change. Then we hustled
for the car.
The conductor came for his nickel
and we hauled out the change that
we had received in the cigar store.
Needless to say, it was our all. 1t
consisted of the following:
One Mexican half dollar with
hole in it. 1t has been used for
watch charm.
One Canadian quarter (plugged).
Two horseless piano slugs.
Two beer slugs redeemable in a New
Jersey saloon.
The cigar clerk had a sense of HUI
NOR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
EVENING CHIT
A Difficult Question.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

A very difficult question has come
to me from one of my letter friends.
1t is question 1 have never been able
to solve for myself; how, then, shall I
settle it for another?
therefore L pass the problem along
IN the nope that some wiser brain can
answer it as it should be answered.
My correspondent tells of a case in
winch a widowed mother and two
maiden aunts, have inundated them
selves upon the altar of a feeble mind
ed child's happiness. In order to keep
the child out of an asylum, and make
ms miserable life as happy as possible.
they have toiled and scrimped and
saved and sacrificed, without stint
the last fifteen years. He is infinitely
more care than the most troublesome
pa by: He must never be left alone,
and he requires expensive medical at
tendance.
After telling about this unstinting
sacrifice of all pleasure and all social
relations, my letter friend asks, DO
you think it is right that these three
lives that might be valuable to the
community, should be given for one
of no intrinsic value to the world
How far should one be willing to do
Things like this? How far should one
encourage others to? Should they
go to the utmost limit of devotion? If
not, where can the line be DRAWN
1t is, indeed, very puzzling ques
ton.
T., l.
Peter and his question as to whether
he ought to forgive his brother even
until seven times, and of his Lords
answer, Until seventy times seven"
There was one paragraph in my
friends letter that 1 read over several
times because it seemed to me it was
one answer to her question.
The love and devotion of these
three" she writes, lis wonderful and
beautiful: Almost passing mothers
hn % &c
incapable of approaching it, and gives
naught but trouble in return
My friend grieves because these wo-
men have such bleak and unhappy
lives. Is any life unhappy when it is
a absorbed in a wonderful and beau
tifur' love? What if the recipient is
incapable of paying back the devotion
he receives? That does not make the
joy of love and sacrifice any less.
We all know cases more or less like
this, and I think many of us are in
clined to condemn the sacrifice as fu-
lille. That is a dangerous judgment.
, am ready to leave it to great Judge
to decide.
We must remember that the one for
w nom we would sacrifice ourselves is
not the only person to be considered.
Others have their rights to happiness,
too. And if, in sacrificing ourselves,
we sacrifice their happiness, we ought
to think twice.
I know man who sacrificed a
whole family to the care of half
witted sister, and though he was of
Gods nobleInen. and I know he must
have believed it was right 1 can't |
see it that wav.
And yet, again, who am I to judge? !
There are some things that each of
us must settle with his own soul. If |
evening, I should still come back to |
that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
BY TIE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

! A distinctive air will be lent-yea, al
! most donated-to our be-yOotiful little
city, by the appointment as chief of
police of General j. w. Frierson
Hughes. He is an affable gentleman
of military aspect and military tend
encies. We hereby issue a challenge to
any town in this fair Republic to show
| brigadier general as chief of police.
We hold the record-not only for hav-
ing the smallest, poorest-paiG police
force per capita, but for having chief
with the longest and most. honorable
title.
Within a few brief circuits of the sun,
we may pipe a military police force.
wearing epaulettes, plumed bonnets
and red sashes; We may have a cavalry
division-providing a sufficient number
of cops have family nags of their own
-revolvers strapped on the outside of
uniform coats in left-handed holsters,
and a detective battalion armed with
bass tubas and wearing puttees.
And in the meantime, there will be
Great Reform. The low-browed boot
logger will be induced to go into the
dry goods businessman mayhap not.
Inducing natural bootlegger to do any
thing but sell booze is a job for the
gods. We have in mind several cases,
notable among them an antique col
ored person of the North Side. who sold
booze from the day he landed in To-
peka on a Governor st. Johns ticket
until the date of his death last year.
He was veteran of the Civil war, so
he didn't stay in jail long at a time,
although he was arrested and con-
victed probably 100 times. If the con-
victiOn looked like it was going to
stick, he became ill and was sent to the
Soldiers Home. Meantime his family
carried on the booze business. Said
70 w he n
swering the charge in police court. 1t
is said on good authority that within
"a hours after he arrived at the Sol
dier's Home he was selling booze in
the edge of the reservation. He never
lied to a judge, and either pleaded
guilty or refused to testify. One time,
after heavy sentence, he said: ledge,
Ah'm goin' tub sell lickah as long as
ah live"
1t is harder to break a natural joint
list from selling it than it is to break
no Kelley cure for the selling of it.
The Webb Law will be a help to the
local police. Liquor is harder to get
but it will never be very hard to get.
A natural-born bootlegger will pay his
railroad fare to and from Kansas City,
carry back suitcase full of booze
and sell it at a profit that will almost
pay the expenses of the trip, and his
wife will take in washing to make
up the deficit and pay the family ex-
penses.
"A Topeka audience" says Jack
Supp, who is a hopeless crank, SIS
highly musical You may depend on a
Topeka audience to recognize and ap-
plaud 'Star-Spangled Banner by the
end of the second bar, providing some
ono on tho wa was
Cherryvale has voted down the pool
hall. Being imbued with the real Kan
sas spirit-which may be summed upI
in these. words, = Dang anything I /
don't care for - we are not inclined to
view with alarm the action of the
Cherryvale voters. We never could |
play pool worth a whoop, and for that
reason do not try on an average of
once per year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
IT is SPREADING.

| A number of Kansas cities have
adopted the commission form of gov
eminent this spring. Now that the
new law permits cities of the third
class to make the change the number
is likely to be largely increased.
At present, PSI communities in the
United States are testing this method
of administering affairs, and the report
is unanimously in favor of the plan as
affording a simple, direct means OF Ell
ficient government.
The movements greatest development
continues in the central west; the
northwestern group, Minnesota, Iowa,
the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, wy
oming and Montana leads, with Oh
cities having commission government;
the southwestern group, Colorado, Ok
1aboma. Texas and New Mexico is rep
resented by 50 commission government
municipalities.
In the other groups of states, the
number of cities so administered u.s.
Northern central, 80; Pacific and Rocky
Mountain, B., southern central, q;
southern, ID; middle Atlantic, 10. and
New England, q Vigorous efforts are
being put forth in states like New
York and Pennsylvania to obtain en-
abling legislation to permit cities to
avail themselves of this new idea IN
home rule. Among the larger Cities
the method is being seriously consld-
cred. New Orleans is trying it; st.
Paul. with population of 214,000, viii
try it after January l, 1914.
Discussing commission government
as a means of promoting simplicity,
publicity and efficiency in municipal
affairs, Clinton Rogers woodruff, secre-
tary of the National Municipal League,
thus reviews the situation:
Many of the advocates of commits
sion government felt that the new sys-
tenn would of itself insure efficiency
and result in the selection of Compel
ent men for municipal office. Expert
ence, however, has been sufficiently
long and sufficiently widespread to
show the fallacy of this view. At the
same time. the system has helped
to get control of their
political affairs through the introduce
ton of a plan so simple and SO direct
that it could easily be understood and
applied by the average busy elector.
THE records of those cities which
have had two or more years of expert |
ence have been uniformly encourag ing; |
although it must be conceded that in |
a. number of communities there is some |
because the character |
of the men selected as commissioners |
has not been higher; generally speak |
ing. the present character of officials |
in commission governed cities is very |
much higher than prevailed under the |
older forms. This is because the cleo |
tors are beginning to see that they |
are responsible, in the last analysis, |
and not the form of government, for |
the character of public officers select
ed. At most, a law can make it easy
and feasible to select competent men.
It cannot of itself take the place of
the power and duty of selection, which
rests-where it always has rested,
where it always must continue to rest
in the hands of the electors them
Selves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
QUAKER MED1TATIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A sharp appetite doesn't mind dull
knife.
Friends are of two kinds; those We need
and those who need u.s.
Even in fishing for compliments it's
generally the big ones that get away.
Ambition is a tire that is frequently
punctured on the rough road to success.
Even the high cost of living doesn't
seem to interfere with the wages OF SIM
1t takes a philosopher, If he doesn't get
the best of it, to make the best of 1t.
The only reason some people want a.
finger in the pie is to keep some one else
from eating it.
Wigg-'I never knew such a clumsy fell
low as Bjones." Wagg-'That's right.
That fellow can't even talk without max
ing break.
1--WE can learn much from study OF
insect life,' remarked the Wise Guy.
That's what 1 think replied the Simple
Mug. Take the centipede, for instance.
1t is supposed to be a thousand-Iegger,
but you never heard of one doing as much
kicking a man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
SOLVES LIQUOR QUESTION.
Wichita Judge Would License All
Business Concerns.

Wichita, April 7.-Impressions re-
ceived while acting in the capacity of
referee in bankruptcy cases has led
Judge G. V. Ferguson to become an
advocate of a license system for all
business. The judge saw the system
at work in Toronto, Canada, last sum-
mer and reports that it is a success
there.
Recently 1 have heard bankruptcv
cases in which there was no way to
find out who owned the business in
volved," said the judge. Only today
we were unable to find out who really
owns a promisory note for $3.50, al
though we had a claimant who would
not testify that he gave anything of
value for it.
Cases have come up where the
public was fooled about the manager
of the business. Again we have cases
where the real owners are not di-
vulged."
Judge Fergusons plan is for either
the city or state to compel all persons
or firms to take out a license to do
business.
Whoever is empowered. to grant the
licenses should have the power to re-
Ject applications" he continued. I'm
this manner many ventures which turn
out failures might be prevented. Per-
sons taking out a license should be
compelled to give their location, and
If 1t would seriously cripple an estab-
lished business, then refuse the IL
cense.
In Canada business firms doing rival
business are not located in adjoining
buildings, where such a condition is a
disadvantage to one or the other.
The license system would be an eff
fective way to curb the liquor traffic,
as the city authorities would know
who is responsible for such places and
could prevent the transfer of licenses
when deemed best to do so.
I believe that it would be an eff
fective way to keep persons of uues-
tionable bushes ability or questionable
business tactics from doing an injury
to the public"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
CITY Appointments.
Commission Approves Twenty Names
This Afternoon.

Among the new names approved by
the city commission this afternoon at
2:3O o'clock are: DR.. Cu1mer McGill,
city physician; H. Hill, fumigator;
John Coyne. William Pasker. sanitary
policemen; William Case, dog officer;
o. A. Peck, weighmaster; w. E. Howe.
instrument man; L. E. Terrell, rod
man; B. F. Allen, excavating en-
gineer; A. T. Potts, Charles Wimburn.
sewer men; L. A. Brady, A Acher~
strom, crossing men; j. F. Stebbin for
the asphalt. department.
Other officers approved by the
board are: Frank L. Stevens. secretary
of the water department J. g. Weir.
custodian of the city building z. F.
A. Reinisch, superintendent of parks
w. H. WATSON, city auditor r. G.. Glib
son, assistant city engineer c. A. For
ter office engineer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
HUNO2 OF THE Day

These opera glasses were given to me
a year ago. she said sweetly. Aren't
they beautiful he replied Yes she
answered but L discovered this after
noon that they're beginning to rust from
lack of use" Whereupon he tumbled to
himself, and invited her to go to the the
ater.-Detroit Free Press
Dear Old Lady (using call-office tele-
phone for the first time, to operator at
the Exchange)-'tAnd you've been so
nice and attentive, my dear I'm putting
ar extra penny in the box for yourself"
do you think it is unlucky to post
pone a wedding day?'' 1T may be, but
if you don't postpone 1t you will be mar
ried so what are you to do2"-Houston
Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
New York MONEY Ny,r,-.,

New York. April 7.-MONEY-Money on
call steady. 3z per cent; duling rate 3zL
per cent, closing bid 81 per cent. ofYered
at per cent. Time loans steady: so days.
4za5 per cent; 80 days, 41Z675 per cent:
months, 41z05 per cent
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper. 51k to
per cent.
Sterling exchange steady at a decline
with actual business in bankers bills at
81. 30 for co day bills and at s4s7 10 for
demand. Commercial bills, 4.s2%
SILVER-Bar silver, sec; Mexican dol
lars, 471hc.
BONDS-Government bonds steady. rail-
road bonds heavy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
FOR RECIPROCITY.
New Tariff Bill Would Persuade Not
Force Concessions.

Washington, Aphil IAN attempt to
widen our foreign market and to en-
courage reciprocity treaties with all
nations is embodied in the new tariff
bill A clause empowers the power
to grant favors to any nation that
gives special concessions to the
United States.
The reciprocity clause takes the
place of the penalty clause of the
present tariff law by which it was
sought to obtain special concession to
the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
VIM. j. Burns at Aurora

For the production of 1.-The Expos
ure of the Land Swindlers,' which
VIII be shown at the Aurora tomorrow
only, the Kalem CO., induced VIM. ].
Burns, the famous detective who kid
mapped the Mcnamara boys, to as
sumo one of the roles. Alice Joyce
and Guy Coombs have two of the 9TH
ed principal parts in the production.
which is in three reels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07

ut has come to our knowledge"
says DIR. Lederie, speaking for the
department of health in New York,
that a preparation of soap bark
known as saponin, is extensively en-
ployed in this country in the making
of soft drinks. Saponin is a power
full poison. Unless wholesome sub
stances can be used for producing the
foam we should shun foamy drinks"
We may soon look for a law prohib-
iting anything from wearing a "col-
lar but beer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07

The Denver Times bewails the pos
sibility of free sugar clause in the
tariff bill and declares it will ruin
one of Colorados chief industries.
Colorado went Democratic at the last
election, didn't it? Let the voters
have what they voted for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07

Anthony Comstock has at last de-
fined the word immoral" He says
it means anything that tends to de-
stroy the dignity of womanhood or to
display the female form in an irrev-
erent manner" This definition, SAYS
the Boston Globe. seems to let in mice
on the list of immoralities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07

Mr.. Moore, when he retires from
the weather bureau, will go on the
lecture platform. But he will do we'll
to repress the vein of humor in which
ali his weather practical jokes have
been perpetrated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
Progress,, at 6,ozr ronirht

The four-reel motion picture drama
tization of Bunyans Pilgrims Pro-
gress is being shown at the Cozy
theater today and tomorrow. If takes
an hour and half to put on this big
feature film, and it makes an enter
tainment that is inspiring and uplift-
ing, as Pilgrims Progress" is un-
CORY ever penned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
He Whipped the Baby-Divorce

Nettie c. Lageston Charges her hus-
band, Perry w. Lageston, with ad-
ministering a whipping to their baby
boy when he was only three weeks old,
district court this morning. She saws
he has not provided properly for her
support at any time since their mar
riage, June IL, 1911
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07

With the desks taken out of the
house of representatives, what will
hot-headed lawmakers do for missiles
when they want to throw books or
inkstands at one another. after the
lively fashion of Vienna or Versailles?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07

The Connecticut legislature voted it
self free transportation on all the rail-
roads in the state, but the governor
vetoed the bill Yet some people COM
Main Of the veto power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07

fication of the method of impeachment
Between indiscriminate attack and UNI
reasoning defense, the courts suffer
both from their enemies and, if posi-
BILE, still more from their friends, and
sober-minded citizens are left without
light or leading.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07

The state board of education, to-
gether with the members of a special
supplemental committee, are in ses-
sion in the office of the state super
intendent of public instruction today
and will arrange a preparatory course
of study for the rural schools of the
state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-07
CURTIS HOME AGAIN.
Santa Fe Man Has Left Hospital
After Long Siege.

William J. Curtis. who was operat-
ed upon for appendicitis February 4,
and who made a wonderful fight for
life against great odds, has returned
to his home after a sojourn of eight
weeks at the Santa Fe hospital.