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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
JAYHAWKER JOTS

There is another reason why the
women should be permitted to vote
says the Emporia Gazatte. They nave
| too much sense to play football
According to the Mcpherson Repub-
| lcan the sheep industry is growing in
| that vicinity. But it is not particular
tc state, whether or not the kind be-
| ing raised is of the "black" variety.
| Can any of the old negro women
who are tottering about remember in
quires the Wichita Eagle. when Sir
Thomas Upton first came to this coun-
| try to compete for the yacht cup?"
| The Manhattan Mercury is of the
opinion that no matter how rich a
| girls parents may be she ought to put
| in a year or two earning her own liv-
| irg, as the experience in teaching
school or working in a store or office
will be of great value to her.
J. H. Williams has an apple tree that
| is fit subject for a museum. 1t got
a notion the other day that spring was
here and yielded a nice crop of bios
SONS. Mr.. Williams wore one to town
Saturday in his buttonhole, and had a
hard time convincing his friends that
lit was not artificial. He picked the
blossoms on October % which was af-
| ter several pretty hard freezes.-Beloit
lGazette- Times.
Levi Smith has invented a little fixen
which he thinks. and has a good right
to thing it too; will make him quite a
little sum of money. states the Latham
Mirror The fixen is a steel pan which
! is filed with preparation similar to
send. This generator, as it IS called,
| is to be placed in a heating stove and
opce thoroughly heated Will remain that
way for hours. He has proved beyond
a doubt that by having a fire in the
stove in the evening the generator will
still have the room comfortably warm
| in the morning. He has applied for a
patent and will have one on exhibition
| IN the near future. .-i.~--=,r key Sl
| An account Of wedding in its neigh
| torhood was printed the other day by
| the Cove County Advocate as follows:
l"A record crowd gathered at Angelus
| at the public wedding of two of its
most popular young people. Margaret
Veland to Will Rueshhoff. Both ars
residents of this locality for five or six
years. After the ceremony, at O'Clock
| on Tuesday morning. wedding feast
was spread at the home of the brides
PARENTS. 1t was simply colossal. Every
| hody-and that meant a whole lot on
ithst day-had plenty to eat and drink.
Then the dance. Grinnelrs band, as
sisted by Winn and Bruce Peck OF
tGrainfield. furnished music for the CO.
tcasion The bride was dressed in white
silk with an overdress of dotted net
| ting. The groom wore conventional
black Presents piled up and as they
saws on sale bills, too numerous to
mention. The bride and groom took
trip to bingham. ILL.,. to visit relatives
and be married again at that point. ON
their return to Cove county they will
reside on the Rundy farm about nine
miles south of Park where a large
house and barn are being built fer their
accommodation"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
THE MAN OF FIFTY.

"The best of the worlds work in
every field Of useful activity has been
accomplished by men whose ages
were nearer to fifty than to thirty
FIVE" writes Forbes Lindsay in Har-
per's Weekly. "The statement is
automatic. Any doubt about it will
be dissipated by ten minutes flight of
memory. And as the mind runs over
many corroborative illustrations an
other fact will be forced upon it:
that the older the actor, the surer
the performance. The achievement
of the man of fifty is the result of
cold calculation and mature judg-
ment. If luck enters into the matter
1T is an incident, not an essential fac
tor. The young man, on the other
hand, deliberately includes chance in
his plans and freely takes risks. One
in ten of him effects a brilliant coup.
The other nine make a fizzle. But it
is the startling success that holds our
attention and moulds our opinion.
The popular mind is influenced by in
stances rather than by averages. One
man may create a reputation for the
entire class to which he belongs.
The meteoric rise of George Perkins
is widely accepted as evidence that a
man is at his best in what is really
the period of immaturity.
"But the fallacy is not entirely
fanciful. Our present system Of BUSH
ness, being abnormal, produces alb
normal effects. Our grandfathers
scrawled Slow and Sure in their
copy books until the maxim was en-
craven upon their brains. The pres
ent generation finds no point in the
story of the tortoise and the hare.
The head of a large corporation de-
clared to ME that he would rather
employ a man of speedy decisions,
even though he made occasional mis-
| takes, than one of the slow as ditch
! water but certain as death kind. The
commercial world of today is sort
of dollhouse in which the young shoots
are prematurely forced. Naturally
enough, they deteriorate at an earlier
lage than they should. Also, in their
eager development, they exert an up
ward pressure that pushes many a
healthy plant out by the roots.
| 1.-The dictum has gone forth that the
man of fifty has passed the period OF
his great usefulness. This Oslerism
is fast becoming a general belief
Gray hairs and wrinkles are a serious
bar to employment. The man OF
fifty who loses his place in the pro-
cession has small chance of regainine
lit, and may deem himself fortunate il
he contrives to squeeze into the real
ranks. And this applies to all classes
in the pursuits that demand educa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
QUAKER MEDIrATToNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.J
Little opinions sometimes cause big
arguments.
Even dull knife won't take the
edge off sharp appetite.
What we want in this North Pole
controversy are cold facts.
AT any rate wealth is more apt to
bring happiness than poverty.
A good bit of sympathy is wasted
on the poor that is needed by the rich.
If a man must die to be -appreciat-
ed most of us would rather not be ap-
preciated.
We would never know how honest
some men are If they didn't keep con-
stantly telling us.
A man shouldn't imagine himself
to be great dictator just because he
employs stenographer.
No wonder Samson lost his strength
with his hair. Any barber is calcu1at-
ed to make man tired.
Hoax-"Young Bjones has a prom
Using career" Joax-"What is he? 2"
Hoax-"A bill collector"
1t is better to make one enemy by
taking decided stand than to make
two by being on the fence
Don't Judge a book by it's binding.
If you believe the publishers adver-
tisements every book is bound to sell.
Appearances are deceptive" quot
ed the Wise Guy. Yes, especially
when they are against u.s." added the
Simple Mug.
why are you so indo1ent?" de-
manded the stern parent. "You don't
see me letting the grass grow under
my feet" No." replied the son, 81
you had let some grow under you
feet you wouldn't be so near having
it grow over your head"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
HUNOR OF THE DAY

He-That fellow over there cheated me
out Of cool hundred thousand; She
marry his daughter-St. Louis Times.
"New-mown hay is a delightful perfume;
We sell lots of it, Haven't You some
pie to think 1 own a motor car not
horse."-Life.
Simplicity he said just for the pur-
urest ef sna nne
what an egotist, You are. she pleasantly
replied.-Chicago Record-Herald. $3.50,
DIR. Cook had just discovered the North
Pole. AS he planted the Stars and Stripes
on the coveted spot he eTcaimed Al
annual failure of the ice crop will not
serve an excuse for boosting the price
Feeling that his efforts had been reward
ed. he started northumberland Free
Press.
do you think that you can make my
daughter happy" asked Mr.. Cumrox.
She has been happy with you. hasn't
sh;n reeinea the confident Il yGut
to please, there ought to be no difficulty"
Washington Star.
''she is very liberal in her charities
said one woman Yes answered the
other: Liberal. but not always practical.
clocks to Africa to aid sufferers from the
sleeping sickness. Washington Star.
there are so many seasoned duelists over
ist?' Pa-one that has been well pepper
ed, my son.-Chicago News.
Tommy. you have written this SEN
tence. The pen is mightier as the sword
eh ha Pen ought to- be en cSanred f fe
typewriter. ma am. Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

OF a little girl-a child of say ten or
eleven, sweet, serious-eyed.
DIT. Forester almost laughed out at
the thought of Turner, great. prim1-
nimself to the illnesses of a Dresden
papy OF woman like Flossie Myerly.
Dinner was just coming to close
when. Sadie, from the head of the
taple, sweetly spoke his name.
Il don't want to hurry you. Harry.
put since you will go. aren't you afraid
your miss your train % Her gage
was very demure- But he was ready
TOT ner. He would save his friend.
nave decided not to go till next
month" he replied calmly.
The next few weeks may be passed
over lightly The big dinner came off
dance or two at the Country club
IN nonor OF Miss Myerly. The house
maker, that proof Of the sweet uses of
propinqutty. was pulled of, in the m
reverent phrase of the men in the
family
Henry Forester did his part-he
amused Flossie thoroughly, taking due
care to be mentally detached. II had
become rather a pleasure to watch
her, to study her scientifically, as it
were, adding daily data to her list of
virtues and defects as a possible wife
for his friend. And he congratulat-
ed himself that he had shown sadie
her place-she let him alone religious
| ly! He reflected that a man could al
ways manage a woman if he set about
it in the right way.
| So. Embossed, unmanaged, he walked
and rode and golfed and danced with
| the lady, and owned to himself that
she was as frank and free as a child
and evidently quite innocent. lamb
among matchmaking lady-wolves.
And next week Turner would be
safely off for Europe. and he himself
could take his own vacation. 1t was
working out beautifully.
After a few days more, at dinner
ono night Sadie Wetherby hurled a
bomb, sweetly, unconsciously, as wom-
en- do such things.
announced. Hes coming for the
weekend and to say goodbye before
he sails. I'm so glad to have him!''
i Everybody politely expressed their
real pleasure-save Henry Forester.
| Had his summers work been in vain /?
| He turned and saw that Florence be-
side him was blushing-or did he i'm
agine it? And what made him so mis-
cradle? He>did not know for several
minutes. and then it came to him.
The minute it was possible, and a
little before it was decent. he dragged
| Miss Florence Myerly from the after
dinner group on the veranda. He trail
ed her off to tho little summer house.
i They sat on a vine-covered bench, and
she laughed. Suddenly he seized her
hand.
"Florence-when-wi you marry
me-Florence, tell me!' and later she
was obliged to explain deliberately that
she never had cared for DR.. Turner in
the least.-(Copyright, 1903, by Asso-
ciated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

ton and knowledge. Business men,
college professors, engineers. and even
clergymen find themselves under the
ban at fifty. Strangely enough. the
chances for employment of the man
of fifty are greater in the callings
where Drawn is a more important
qualification than brain.
1.-THE man OF fifty may know that
his faculties are keener than ever be-
FORE. that his experience is ripper, his
judgment sounder. his constitution
and habits more stable. and his power
of steady. even application greater.
But he can't persuade the world to
share his belief"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
sAI.ARY INCREASES.

So far there has been little or no ex-
pressed opposition to the agitation
which has been started for a substantial
increase in the pay of the firemen and
policemen OF this city. This is as 1t
should be. The rank and file OF the
men in these departments which are SO
essentially important to the welfare OF
the entire community have been all too
poorly paid for long time. There
have been increases of salaries a-plenty
for various OF Topeka's public officers
during the past few years but they
have been confined in the most part to
the big jobs, where the pay, while not
large to be sure. was decidedly
| 1..ore commensurate with the inereas-
| ed cost of living of late years than
that which has prevailed among the po-
licemen and the firemen and also the
laborers engaged in city work.
Under present conditions the pay
which is given to firemen and policemen,
considering the sums they have to ex-
pend each year for personal equipment
in the way of special clothes and other
things, is paltry. 1t will have to be
raised some day and soon if the per-
sonnel IF these forces is not to be de-
Perforated II Il is not. many of the
present competent men in these de-
partments win seek other fields for
earning their livelihoodss and il will be
impossible to fill their places with men
OF a sufficiently capable class to do the
work that is expected of them. This
being the case. the sooner the matter
is taken under advisement by the pro-
per authorities, the better it will be.
Mayor Green makes the suggestion
that this is matter which might well
be left in allegiance for a few months
or until the commission form Of govern
ment has been established IN the city.
Mr.. Green's opinions are always worthy
CT attention and consideration but it
would seem that in this instance valid
exceptions might be taken to them.
When the commission form of govern
ment is finally established in Topeka it
will be new undertaking here and the
naturally be expected to make the best
sort is turned over to them and they
act on it favorably, as they undoubted-
ly would because the justice Of it is
apparent. the expenditures of their adj
grinistration would be increased in the
Dc SI06dtS QdllO tlidlCAidliN. 1EtS AlCIi
OF increasing the firemen and police
mems pay might be sufficiently large
alone to prevent the commission from
taking as good a showing financially as
was made during the last year of the
mayoralty and council form of govern
ment. The cry would go up at once
that the commission form of govern
ment was a failure in the most import
ant particular Of keeping down the to-
tai of the city's expenses.
If the firemen and policemen are en-.
titled to more pay-and they assuredly
are-the time to dispose of the matter
lis now. When the commission form Of
government is installed. the commits
sioners who are called upon to conduct
the city's affairs. should have a clean
slate to start out with. A lot of work
needing attention now and particularly
OF the sort that involves an increase
in the expenditures of the city should
not be put on their shoulders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
EFrom the Atchison Globe.1

EFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Being willing is not enough. You
must do something.
Be as nice in every day life as you
look in a photograph.
In looking for a better job. a man
often loses a good one.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned hearse that wore real ostrich
plumeS?
You can. at least. do this much to
help: don't encourage people in their
fool notions.
A farmers idea of Socialism is an
arrangement to have cheap -four and
dear wheat.
When father rests he does nothing,
but when mother rests she darns
stockings and sews.
| What has become of the old-fash-
toned boy who wore clothes made of
his fathers old ones?
Look at any mains clothes, and you
will find from seven to seventy-five
spots that should be removed.
The cigarette and the wolf are
abused a great deal, but neither is
threatened with determination.
We have noticed that the sort of
man known as an Iconoclast is pretty
apt to finally get into serious trouble.
If there is anything in the world
that will please a woman almost to
death is to say of her that she is
| "inimitable.''
| Apply to any woman a word OF
which she doesn't know the meaning.
and she will smile, and thank you for
the compliment.
Say a home is beautiful. and the
| women present will intimate that il
| is due more to the wife's taste than to
the husbands money.
You may imagine people give You
| the worst of it, but, if your stomach
could talk, you would be abused q
good deal more than you are.
| If you want to see a man who is
really money mad, hunt up one who
has been unsuccessful a good many
years, and then begins to make money
| late in life.
\ Subject of discussion at the next
meeting of the Lancaster Literary So
ciety: Resolved, That there are
more men named Charley than are
named Ed
| There is a woman i'm Atchison who
only rarely talks. There is also in
| Atchison man who is very quiet and
has almost nothing to say. If these
two should marry. We do not believe
their children would ever cry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

from the New York Press.1
Weather has more to do with a
mans mood than morals have.
The reason a woman can be so con-
trary is she thinks she isn't.
1t takes a man lifetime to learn
how to live, and then he is ready to
die.
girl knows she has lovely hair IL
you remember to tell her So and she
is just as sure of it If you forget to.
Most men are so dead in earnes.
about how we'll they think they can
do things that they don't think they
need to do them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Girls never get too old to play with
boys.
=
Honesty is the best policy but fire.
quently its dividends are small.
y \ X
Some folks seem to work on the
theory that a secret does not amount
to much If it isn't worth repeating.
r. X X
It's generally the case that the peo-
pie who kick most on company are the
ones who do the most visiting.
x X X
If happiness is dependent upon good
ness that's probably why there is so
much unhappiness in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

juiciest mince pie that has ever been
concocted. This wouldn't be SO bad
to swallow in relays all by itself. but
the union made pies of New York
now haye the union label pasted on
them and if the label on the Taft pie
is in commensurate proportions to
the size of the pie as it probably will
be-well, the president is to be pitied
when he is called upon to make way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Chicago is particularly boastful over
the way real estate values have en-
HANGED in her midst. recent sample
of this is the sale of a piece of pro-
perty for $5o.00o which was bought
for $1,000 fifty years ago. But there
is nothing so exceedingly great about
all that. Fifty years ago big hunks
of real estate in Topeka that went
begging at 80 cents per acre are now
worth their thousands of dollars per
lot Of twenty-five feet frontage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Nobody got very much excited over
the rimors that Colonel Roosevelt had
been killed in Africa. It's been the con-
sensus of opinion for long time that
the doughty ex-president leads a
charmed life which will only be sus-
ceptible to an attack of old age at a
most distant date
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

One of the English suffragettes now
IN the United States expresses the opin-
ion that the women Of this country
win win their fight for equal rights be-
fore the women of Great Britain do
This 10 a certainty unless the English
women desist from their rowdyism
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Presumably the National Geographic
society which has given Mr.. Peary a
medal for discovering the North Pole
is somewhat prejudiced against DIR.
Cook. At least. that is a reasonable
conclusion from the recent utterances
of Rear Admiral c. M. Chester. one of
the more prominent members of the
society and who was one of the subcom-
1nittee which passed on Mr.. Peary's
proofs of his discovery of the pole.
Admiral Chester expressed the en-
phatic opinion the other day that DIR.
Cook did not reach 80 degrees north.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Mr.. Aldrich, United States senator
from Rhode Island, announces that he
has no definite plan for the reforming
of the federal currency and banking
systems. But if he doesn't have one, and
one that il peculiarly his own. by the
time the matter gets to a head, he
will have reformed his ways in won.
f1Po1Is fashion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Twenty-Five persons were killed and
thirty,four were seriously injured by
automobiles and horse-driven trucks
in New York city during the month of
october. This makes the football
record for fatalities and injuries
throughout the country during the
two months of the game this year look
rather tame
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Mr.. Cummins. United States senator
from Iowa, thinks that Uncle Joe Can
mons recent speeches are so non
sensical as to provoke derision. That's
just what the speaker thinks of Sena-
tor Cummins' and other insurgents
speeches. So honors are even.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

John D. Rockefeller is out with lit.
tie good philosophy to the effect thai
the struggles OF life are q great bless
ing. but the trouble is, as far as most
folks are concerned. that they are
clothed in rather impenetrable dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

William J. Gayuor, mayor-elect OF
New York. is another one of those men
who have peculiar ideas as to the
proper way to take a rest. A twenty
mile walk a day is his method.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

The Turkish ministry is making a bid
for q front seat in the ranks Of the
universal peace enthusiasts. 1t pro-
poses to expend 500. 100000 for battle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Mrs. Astor's marriage failure was a
decidedly profitable one, paradoxical
though such \ statement may seem.
With her divorce she gets 100000 III
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Cuba il making good progress along
thu lines pursued by most Of the ma
lions OF the earth. Her expenditures
are now inexcess Of her revenues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Ever to the fore with novelties. Kan
sas City, Mo-. has something new in
the way of an annoyer Of women This
time it is Jack who appears to take
delight in stabbing women with a hat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Mary Garden. grand opera star, is
going to be married soon But who
cares, pray tell. outside OF Miss Garden
and her nancef
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09

Business il picking up with Carrie A.
Nation. She was arrested the other
day in New York city for disturbing the
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