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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Perhaps some of them may be victims
of the false reasoning which justifies a
belief that as a moderate fortune helps
US to enjoy life. fortune ten times as
large will provide ten times as much
| enjoyment. To argue in this way is to
! ignore the law of diminishing returns;
| and 1t is to commit the grosser blunder
of supposing that pleasure can be
bought with a price. But we all know
that there is no shop where pleasure is
sold-at least there is none where the
products are guaranteed under the pure
food law. Pleasure cannot be pur-
chased, and it cannot even be sought
for, with any chance of success in the
pursuit If we go cunning for pleas
ure, We are certain to come home with
an empty bag, well as with empty
pockets, and the man who seeks that
kind of sport generally starts out with
an empty soul.
THE truth is that pleasure is a by
product of work. The man who has
something to do that he wants to do
intensely and that he is able at last
to do, gets pleasure as a fee, as a tip,
as an extra allowance. Perhaps the
keenest joy in life is to accomplish
what you have long sought to do, even
If you feel that the result might be
little better than you have achieved
Possibly the most exquisite gratifica-
ton comes from the consciousness of a
good job well done. The foolish talk
about the curse of labor is responsible
for much of the haste to gain wealth
that we may retire into idleness. But
If we are honest with ourselves we
know that labor is never a curse, that
1t is ever a blessing. The theory that
work in itself is painful. or that it is
the duty only of interiors, is essentially
aristocratic and fundamentally feudaI;
it is hostile to the democratic IDEAL
Work is what sweetens life and gives
delight to all our days. That man is
happiest and gets the utmost out of
life who is neither poor nor rich and
who is in love with his job joying in
the work that comes to his hands. And
that man is truly accurst who is re-
fused the privilege of congenial toll be- |
cause he has too much money"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
KANSAS COMMENT
DISADVANTAGES ON cAnnnNc

DISADVANTAGE OF GADDING.
xery 1alr, harvest home, picinc,
carnival reunion or what-not that
cans people together, has been well
attended this year. This is doubtless
because the general diffusion of pros
perlty mas given people the stuff that
IS necessary with which to travel and
eat. But there is a second reason, the
well known love of gadding. Kansas
furnishes more European tourists,
more worlds fair excursionists and
VIII send more people on round-trip
tlckets TO the North Pole than any
o!ner state In the Union with twice
or three times its population. Wher-
ever you go you find a Kansan and
Wherever You find one you can hear
MIN. Despite his love Of travelling
cellent as the Sunflower state of the
pralrles. Even the ocean with its
great expanse of waves suffers when
compared by him to the wonderful
stretches or the plains. The purling
brooks of mountain resorts are too
cold or too clean or too muddy, when
contrasted with the waters of the
Cottonwood, the Wakarusa or Cow creek.
This gadding habit is not always
the best for the Kansan but 1t is bet
ter than staying at home until the
moss grows on his back like a Mis-
sourian; or till the grass seeds in his
whiskers sprout like those Of
Hoosier or Down-Easterner. The
spirit makes the Kansan move on and
when he gets home he cannot sit still
and accept conditions but must go
to the fairs, the carnivals and the re-
unions and raise as much Ned with
his new ideas and ways as can be pro-
duced by travel, change and cynictsm.
We are a state of impulse, and ev-
erybody knows 1t. Nobody is surprised |
when Kansas does a freak thing, and
yet it is ten chances to one that the
freak notion was picked up in Okla
homa, Maine, Milwaukee or Green
land. Our travellers merely assemble
the interesting notions that are found
in places where they have tarried for
a night and bring them home to try |
on the neighbors. This is sometimes
a disadvantage, but the gadding habit
has it's drawbacks and this is one OF
News.
AN ENGLISH EXAMPLE.
After the battle of Waterloo, a pa
triotic British clergyman died and LETT
800 as a legacy to the bravest man
m England The Duke of Wellington
was appealed to, and he awarded the
money to Sir James MacDonneL The
Duke of Wellington explained that SIT
James had closed the gates OF dou.
youmount, thereby saving the day or
England's greatest land victory. But
been the first to reach the gates, ana
% him should go the legacy. There-
lpon the money and the honor was d.
Yided equally between the British peer
md the humble soldier. Going to the
North Pole may be an exploit of I'M
Usual bravery, but it does not seem TO
,eget modesty of the kind which made
he British hero greater than would
he entire prize.-Atchison Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record.J
There are divers ways of getting in
the swim.
Blessed are the meek. for they gen.
orally get married.
Many a person seems to run an in
telligence Office without any.
When a woman weeps she won
ders why there isn't a second deluge.
The average servant girl is out for
the dust till she starts to clean a
room.
The trouble with bore is that
when he gets wound up he doesn't
go.
When a man can't even raise a
family should he attempt to operate
an airship?
The secret of a mans success gem
orally lies in his ability to keep it a
secret.
Instead of turning the rascals out
the great political parties seem bet
ter satisfied to turn out rascals.
'Harduppe claims to be a
man of letters" Wagg-"Yes, but
most of his letters consist of bills
religion is based on the Golden Rule
gets through the world on brass.
Mrs. De Lancey-"Mr. and Mrs.
Gotrox will never get into society,""
Mrs. Rittenhouse-"No, they don't
seem to realize what bad form it is to
be seen together in public so much"
The trolley car was crowded.
Even now 1 cannot get a seat" COM
planned the shop girl, although I've
Pardon me for contradicting YOU"
replied the grouchy man, looking up
from his evening paper. "but you
are standing on mine"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Give therefore thy servant an under
standing heart to judge thy people that !
| may discern between good and bad
Kings Ills.
God appeared before Solomon in a
| dream, just after the latter had
assembled to the throne of the great
kingdom left by the greater David, and
asked him what he would have. The
words used for the text are the es-
sentiaI portion of the prayer of Solo
mon. So pleased was God with this
petition for the powers of discernment
and wisdom that he not only promised
Solomon a wise and an understanding
heart but also great riches and honor
and a long life to enjoy them in. This
was only a dream but it impressed
Solomon nightly. He ordered his
ways accordingly with the result that
all of the promises of God which came
to him in his dream were fulfilled dur
ing the span of his life.
Surely there is a powerful lesson in
this for every one. There is no doubt
that many persons, good Christian men
and women, spend considerable of their
time in praying for things that they
never get because they are the things
which must be won in the battle of
life by ones own efforts. On the other
hand if they prayed for guidance and
power of mind and understanding
which would enable them to deter
mine right from wrong and how to
conduct themselves properly in all
ways they would be more apt to have
their prayers realized.
AS a matter of fact the efficacy of
prayer lies not so much in the proba-
biIity that God will answer prayers by
granting them suddenly but in direct
ing the minds of those who make
them into channels which will result
in the accomplishment of the things
petitioned for through the personal ef-
forts of the petitioners.
An instance Of this is to be found
in the experience of little boy. He
had been brought up in the good, old
fashioned way and was impressed with
the religious teachings of his home
and Sunday school. On one occasion
he lost a rubber ball which he priced
highly. He had been throwing it up
over a porch and onto the roof of his
house, and believed that he had
thrown it over the house. Days of
search had failed to find it. Then he
began to pray to God for help. Night
after night he asked for aid and as he
his prayer one night he hap
pened to think that maybe the ball did
not go over the house at all, but had |
lodged between the roof of the porch |
and the caves of the house. He got |
a ladder early the next morning and |
found his ball just where his thoughts |
had been directed to it.
This seems to forcibly illustrate the |
point that a constant and devout pray |
ing for any proper attainment will |
develop a self suggestion under Gods |
guidance which will work out in the |
desired way. That was Solomon's ex- |
perience, and no man ever gIorified |
God to a greater extent than he did. |
And in Solomon's case there is also the |
further lesson to be learned that mod
esty in all things pays the biggest
dividends
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Isn't it the exact truth that moth
ing is too good for many persons?
Too many people are always trying
to put themselves in others places.
It's a noticeable fact that
physicians are seldom operated on
for anything.
Some enemies can be depended
upon better in a pinch for help than
lots of friends.
The season Is fast approaching
when coal bills will supersede those
for ice. and there you are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

wroten ad Looie Linkenfusser, ad-
dress, doubtful.
Greetings, Looie: Effery Skatterday,
Looie, i'd ISIS NIT sadness dot 1 dake my
typewriter In hand to bump oud my
weekly ledder to you. VI i'd vassndt a
duty, be dinged uf would did Id. To
make you understand anything rekvires
almosd a surchical obberation, to gedt
id under your hide. Truly, your bean
ISIS ossified. You ISIS der orichinal bone
head from Bonesburg, Bone county. I
remember ven you vas a kid you asks
der teacher vonce, How much did Cis-
serowe?' Und again you wanted to
know we're dit vertigo. But vot I haf
to pass you today ISIS serious, und I
want you to make Won grand effort to
soak oop der text. In your lasd ledder.
you complained dot Misder Stubs vas
gedding too much free atfertising by der
cartoonisd, allretty. Der anser iss. der
poor cartoonisd hat noding else to work.
oud on, und he hat to did i'd For in
stance. he pick oop sefendeen noosba-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Here's a great chance for the muck
rakers and the yellows. Secretary of
War Dickinson is soon to argue a case
In court for the Illinois Central rail-
road. But it is only the completion of
some labor that he undertook a number
of years before he became a cabinet
officer, and the question involved is
not in any way connected with either
governmental or state control of rail-
roads,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

As a delineator of female character
j. M. Barrie. the novelist and play
wright, is without a peer. But with all
his knowledge of feminine fancies and
foibles he has not been able to get
along with the woman he chose for
wife as is made apparent by his suit
for a divorce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
STANDARDS OF SUCCESS

Probably many Americans who have
made colossal fortunes have not been
urged by avarice, by the naked desire
for gain; rather have they been taken
captive by the lure of the game itself,
unwilling to draw out so long as they
could sit in at the table," writes Bran
der Matthews in the October Forum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

A couple of London explorers are now
engaged in a fierce controversy over the
location of the site of the old Shakes
reare theater. With them it is not a
case of who got to the spot first. They
cannot agree on the location. One in
sisfs it was one place and the other
says it was another. About the only
redeeming feature to this mixup as far
as the Londoners are concerned is that
It has shelved the North Pole contro-
versy for the time being.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New YORK Preas1

IF'rom the New York Press1
A college education is worth all IL
costs to get over It.
When a strong man loses his grip he
loses his soul
Even neighbors are useful because
you can talk about them.
The reason we talk SO much about
the weather is we hate other people
for doing it.
Sometimes it seems as il a woman
could love a man just because he Is be-
meath contempt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
,ethirg decidedly unusual

Something decidedly unusual has
occurred in the administration
OF municipal affairs in Chicago.
The officials of that city have
decided to make a cut of 10 Per cent
in the wages of every city employee from
the mayor down to the most humble
servant. City officials generally work
the other way in the matter of salaries.
At least, that has been the experience
IN these parts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Serious trouble has developed in Chi
cage. The crowds which have been at
tending the evangelical meetings con-
Quoted by Gypsy Smith have been con-
tributing to the collection box at the
rate of about four cents per head
Gypsy and his colleagues do rot like
this, and they are now telling the
crowds so in plain English. They think
that the saving of souls is worth more
than four cents per.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Illinois special legislative session is
to be asked to formulate a new direct
primary law of statewide caliber. It
ought to be able to do the job up
neatly for it has had the experience of
making three such laws. each of which
has been knocked out by the courts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
lor stubbs insists that

Governor Stubs insists that his
controversy with Senator Curtis over
the increased state taxes is not ended.
why wouldn't it be a good plan to
postpone it until after the North Pole
argument is settled? The people
have altogether too much on their
minds these DAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson
is going to stump Alabama in the
cause of prohibition. In all probability
he won't forget to toss in a warning
or two on the imminence of a war
with Japan. That's Hobson's longest
suit. next to kissing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Chicago's thugs and highwaymen are
in a class by themselves. It's no trick
at all for them to hold UP the speed
lest of Automobiles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Beautifying the city is planned
by the club women of Topeka. They
are fortunate in having such excellent
material to work with. and their efforts
to develop and improve it should be
helped along by every one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

During the past fiscal year the fed
eral bureau of fisheries has distributed
among the streams of the country no
less than 3,1113O1,535 fish and fish eggs.
Is it impertinent to inquire who count
ed them2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
FROM OTHER PENS
REFORMING THE YOUNG.

After an inspection of rural homes Tor
juvenile delinquents in other quarters
of the country the local committee
having this matter in charge for Ale
gheny county reports in favor of the
plan and accordingly the county au-
thorities will provide for the building
of the cottage homes proposed. The
tests made of the system elsewhere
leave no doubts as to it's efficiency. 1t
is estimated that rs per cent of the
boys thus dealt with become good citi-
zens. Prison features being eliminated,
the delinquent, in addition to being
grounded in habits of industry, acc
quires moral stamina and sense of
honor and duty which fit him in an
especial way to take his place among
honest citizens and to become a useful
member Of society instead of menace
to it, The plan based as it is on an ap-
peal to the good instincts that are pres
emit in all but abnormally perverse hui
man beings is logical and humane and
it's adoption here will mark long step
forward in reformatory work Its
greatest value consists in its service for
the overcoming of criminal tendencies
before 1t is too late.-Pittsburg Chron-
icle-Tele -~aph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

All the public and private questions
OF the day will now take rear seats
until the worlds championship base
ball series has been fought out to a
cO0cluSiOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Zach French battleship carries two
real live milk cows. Needless to say,
the officers get their milk. But in all
probability, some of the enlisted men
have to do the milking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Congressman D. r. Anthony says that
Kansans want a high tariff. If he
had qualified the statement by saying,
ION a few things" he would have come
nearer hitting the mark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Important news item: Miss Kath-
crime EIkins has returned from a trip
abroad and is still unmarried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

There'll be no more singing I'D
rather be a lobster than a wise guy,
In view of the activities of the dogf1sh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
PEACE FRUIT OF WAR.

PEACE FRUIT OF WAR.
1t is probable that if there had been
no war between Russia and Japan the
commercial commissioners would not
have come to the United States. The
facts about Japan's financial cond1tlon
are fairly well known to the world to-
day, although the government has
been none too anxious that the whole
truth should be made public. The
mikado's people are bearing Loyalty
and cheerfully a burden of taxation
that would drive many other peoples
to revolt.
Everything in japan is taxed, and
the necessities of revenue are such that
even the women laborers in the rice
and tea fields have first thought of
the amount of their daily toll which
must go to the service of the state. 1t
will take years for the willing and bur-
dened people to make clear the gov
ernment's financial path. War is the
last thing to be thought of in japan.
A great part of the trade of japan
is with the United States. Many of
the island exports which come to this
country are produced by methods
learned from the Americans, but there
is no evidence that the impaired
knowledge has in any way injured our
home manufacturing and producing
industries. The commercial commits
sioners are here to learn more of our
methods, and they should be welcome
to the information.-Chica Post.
MORTALITY OF GOVERNORS.
The recent mortality of governors
of states has been striking. Within
year Governors John A. Johnson of
Minnesota; George L. Lilley of Con-
necticut; Samuel G. Cosgrove of Wash
ington, and John Sparks of Nevada
have passed away. This Is certainly
an extraordinary number of guberna-
torial deaths. Governors Cosgrove and
Lilley had been in office only short
time when the summons that no man
NAV ignore or evade canle ~ them
Both were inaugurated in January,
and Governor Cosgrove died in March
and Governor Lilley in April.
Of the chief magistrates who have
died within year Governors Johnson
and Lilley had national regulations.
Governor Johnson's pro minence as a
national figure was mainly attained
during his service in the executive
chair, while Governor Lilley's was
achieved while he was in congress and
battling with the submarine forces.
Governor Sparks occupied the federal
limelight for short time last year as
the result of some breezy correspond
ence with President Roosevelt with
reference to miners strike at Goldfield.
As the result of the activity of the
Grim Reaper in moving down chief
magistrates various lieutenant COVER
nors have been advanced. In this man
ner Governor Frank B. Weeks has be-
come governor of Connecticut; A. o.
Eberhardt, governor of Minnesota; d.
S. Dickerson, governor of Nevada, and
NJ. e. Hay. governor of Warrington
Hartford Timee-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
Fighting foreign language ISIS a fierce

Der thirdy-eight army ossifers vot haf
to ride 80 miles oud uf Chawcawgo, viii
no doubt boost der pe-numatic cushion
trade ven dey gedt beck home, allretty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

Chon d. Rockingfeller gate hiss Sun
day school class a lecture on how to
hold chob. But Chon d. ISIS besser
qualified to lecture on der supchect,
How to choke a dollar mitoudt leaf1nR
finger marks on ids neck"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

President Taft iss Visiting nit der
ISIS looking ofer der Big Stick crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

When Misder Hoist. uf Moo York, vas
nominated fer Mayor, der demonstra-
ton lasted 20 minutes. vich iss der
yoosuaI trouble nit demonstrations.
Dey lasd 20 minutes. ven id iss neces-
sary fer dem to lasd seferal months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

1 am cerdainly sorry fer dem Frech
fellers vot iss coming Offer here to
prize-hght in der English language.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

pers, und look fer supchect Fifdeen
uf dem iss cofered NIT vot Misder
Stubs sayss- Can you blame him?
Besite dot, der blackscmidt vot builds
der cartoons, iss a friend uf Misder
Stubbs und don'dt vandt der peoples
to forgedt Misder Stubbs. Also, Misder
Stubs don'dt want der peoples to for
gedt him. He would a ding sight rad
der hat dem remember him den some Ut
der tings vich pervail under hiss atmin-
isdration Like der Teller vot does der
jiggle act in vuddyvilly. he would rad
der hat der awjunce look ad him den
hiss hand. Id ISIS der peek into hiss
hand vot hoits. To look ad hiss face
ISIS absolutely painless-to him. Dot iss
Wy hiss friend, der cartoonisd, spreads
hiss face around so permishus. Id ISIS
to addract addention away from der
Stubs Hand. DO you gedt der idea,
1Iooie? Here's hoping you gedt id.
Misder Stubs ISIS liaple to gedt id, also.
Els effer, your oldt colleen chump,
HANS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
A SATURDAY SERMON.

Give therefore thy servant an under
standing heart to judge thy people that
may discern between good and bad L
Kings III:9.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09

e remarked to the hands
against his face. Hap
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-12-25
WEEK Of PRAYER
BEGIN JANUARY 3
Local Ministerial Association Ar.
ranging to Hold Union Services
In Various Churches.

The Ministerial Association held a
meeting this morning in the Y. NJ. G..
A., Rev. DR.. F. NJ Woods, presiding.
There we're present Rev. DR.. J. A.
Hoffheins, Rev. DR.. j. Paul Wright,
Rev. c. S. Trump. Rev w. F. Grnver,
Rev. William A. Roush and Rev. w.
d. McCurdy.
Tie object of the meeting was TO ar
range services for the week OF prayer
in the first week Of January. union
services will be held in the several
churches of town every night during
the week. beginning January 3, ex-
cept Saturday night Each pastor Is
TO have charge of the service IN his
own church. The speaker for each
evening and the order in which the
various meetings will be held win be
arranged by committee consisting
OF Revs. Trump and Wright.
The annual meeting of the Berkeley
County Bible Society, OF which Hon.
John J, Hetzel is president, viii be
held in Christ Reformed church Mon
day evening, January g. The speaker.
who is to be from out OF town, will
be selected by the committee mention
ed above.