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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

oIner people might not like lilacs.
Mailman said, Most any one would
IKE this room. wouldn't they? It is
dream.'' 80
Mary said. I'm sure she'll like it,"
Nathan smiled. He had discovered
long ago that Miss Mary thought she
was getting the house ready for some
otner woman. He had discovered, too,
- tnal sne was unhappy. and he meant
70 make her happy. Since living in
the West he had learned that men
ger things when they go after them
win steadfast purpose, and he meant
TO get Miss Mary. 49,
Martha had many things to say Of
Mary's wasting her time. You'd bet
ter stay at home and help me clean
house, she said.
This is my last day over there"
Mary stated. 'sThe silver and ivory
morning and want to arrange them
AS Miss Mary crossed the lawn she
felt sense Of desolation. After to-
day, what? Pussykin met her at the
door of the new house. Within a
bright fire was burning, and two big
cnalrs were drawn up to face the
hames. Nathan put Miss Mary in one
and sat down in the other. Pussykin
CURED herself up on her rose colored
cushion. On the table beside Miss
Mary was great bunch of pink roses,
and their fragrance filled the room.
This is as it should be- Nathan
said. This is as I have dreamed of
1t, Of you in front OF my fire, with the
roses matching your cheeks"
But the other woman 2" Mary fall
tered, and her startled eyes met his.
There is no other woman" Nathan
said. ut is you want, Mary, and
it is for. you I have made the house
beautiful
When Miss Mary went back Martha
said sharply st hone after this YOU
will stay at home, Mary
Miss Mary looked at her quietly.
II shall stay at home" she said,
''but it will not be in this house. I
am going to marry Nathan Crissey,
Martha. And Pussykin and 1 are go
ing to live there happily to the end of
our ays."-(Copyrighted 1910 by AS
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
DON'T ROB THE CHILDREN.

Alasi how often the mothers sacri-
flee is a double robbery, writes Erman
]. Ridgway in the Delineator for Janu-
airy. She robs herself and she robs
her children.
But how?
The first obligation on every soul
born into the world is to make the
most Of itself.
When a mother devotes herself to
her children to the exclusion of all
other interests, neglecting friendships
and entertainments and outings and
all opportunities of growth-she is
robbing herself.
When she so devotes herself to her
children, she is likewise robbing them.
For by the constant care she teaches
them to rely on her rather than on
themselves.
She robs them of their self reliance,
without which boy or girl is a rudder-
less craft, bound for the bottom of
the sea of life.
The biggest thing parents can do for
children is to make them paddle their
own canoe-make them pull their own
weight from the first moment of con-
scious thought.
AS soon as a child knows how to
think he becomes. an individual, with
rights and obligations.
Mothers ignore the obligations
'Such a little fellow!"
But If he is to be a big fellow out
there in the big world, pulling a big
stroke. mother must begin with the
little fellow.
That's so.
Love can do such strange and
strangely, opposite things.
Mother-love grows strong men and
women. Also mother-love grows weak
men and women. The difference lies
in the way the love is manifested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
LAYHAWKER JOTS

Mr.. James Jesse is among those
present at Antioch, Elk county.
One of Tom Thompson's casual re-
marks: No one ever admits having
started a quarrel.
1t occurs to the Jewell County Re-
publican that the fresh air cranks
ought to get considerable satisfaction
out of December.
Babies are fine in their place. re-
marks the Conway Springs Star, but it
hastens to point out that there is no
place for a grown-up baby
The man who joins the regular army
to keep out of work finds out that
Uncle Sam has played a great joke on
him, remarks the Howard Courant.
Will Palmer thinks that dog and
a girl are sometimes much alike, be-
cause: when they fall in love with
a man it doesn't matter how emery he
is"
Dell Valentine has figured it out
that a twenty pound turkey at TWEEN
ty-eight cents a pound would mean
money enough almost to buy calf a
few years ago.
A man known to the Jewell County
Republican says if you keep looking
cheerful and talking that way that af-
ter a while you'll get to feeling cheer
full in spite of everything.
A little six-year-old Howard girl,
reportS LIE OouIdut, aIlel SltIihs sun
and thinking for many minutes, said:
Mamma, guess I won't worry about
getting married till I get older"
Evidently having become tired of
temporizing, the Emporia Journal
hands out this vigorous advice: ''If
any man refuses to do his Christmas
shopping early, shoot him on the
spot
Sofy Daniels has been getting soft,
sentimental letters from one admir-
ing honey boy, reports the Howard
Courant, and she will remember him
at Christmas by presenting him with a
mush Iadle
A suggestion in the Jewell County
Republican from Bob White, its cor
respondent at Middle Buffalo: If the
Goulds would pay less for titled hus-
bands and more for fence posts to
fence their right of way, it would be
better for everybody concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.]
A quick fight is better than long,
angry argument.
An Atchison Catholic has a dog that
will not eat meat on Friday.
We see references in the magazine
to "the ideal guest There is no such
thing.
People are very much alike. ex-
cept that few nice ones do less
talking than the others.
Vanity is a bad trait, but everyone
should have enough of it to keep his
teeth and finger nails clean.
An Atchison jack of-all-trades has
occupied nearly every possible posi-
ton except that of capitalist.
People are very tired of the whisky
joke, but probably the marrying joke
pleases them fully as well, or better.
Speaking as a reporter: Consider
ing how much everyone talks. it is
surprising how little news there is in
his talk.
A man who has been sick a long
time, said recently: There's whole
lot in the statement that doctors prac-
tice medicine"
.'If you knew how tired I am of be-
ing scolded," said woman to her
husband, thereafter you would talk
behind my back
Children are punished by scolding
them, or by whipping them. But after
they become men and women, they
are punished by gossiping about them.
Doc Robinson, horse doctor, Bohe-
milan and town drunkard, has two
qualifications for president of the
United States: he is American born
and old enough.
People like abuse so well that they
pay no attention to nice things said of
a man in an obituary. ''Huh!'' they
say, they always whitewash a man
after he is dead!''
Rip VanWinkle is very popular in
literature, but what a trial old Rip
was as the town drunkard in the VIII
lage of Failing Water, And what a
nuisance he was to his industrious
wife
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
FRON OFFER PENS
OUR HORSES IN AUSTRALIA

OUR HORSES IN AUSTRALIA.
A large and comparatively new
market appears to have been opened
up for American thoroughbred horses.
Heretofore, our exports of horses have
been mainly to Great Britain and Ger
many, but the increasing demand in
Australia for American thoroughbreds
has moved our exporters to attempt to
supply that demand on large scale,
instead of by piecemea1, as was for
merly considered necessary. So it
comes about that so thoroughbred
American horses are now on board the
United States and Australian steam
ship Indralema, which left New York
October 1, called at Cape Town to
coal and left that port on November
Is for Australia. Only one horse of
the lot had been lost, according to the
reports from Cape Town and this rec
ord, for what is probably the longest
trip ever taken by so large number
of highgrade horses, naturally en-
courages horse exporters in this coun
try to expect the early development
of large trade with Australia. 1t is
an open secret that, If these horses
arrive in good condition at their des-
tination, it will mean subsequent large
shipments. The American horse ap-
pears not yet to have reached the limit
of its fame.-Manchester Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
Rembrandts in America.

1t is asserted as a fact that there are
not less than So paintings by Rem
brandt in the United States. The first
of these, "Danae and the Shower of
Cold" was brought to the country in
1854 Since then the number has
steadily increased until the present
surprising total is reached, which
means that of this great Dutch mas
ter's canvases America has double the
number left in Holland with a score
to spare, leaving only two countries
which possess ,more-Great Britain,
which has 165, and Germany. 120. AS
yet only nine Of the Rembrandt paint
ings in America are to be found in
public museums; but there is notice
able tendency on the part OF collectors
to leave art treasures of this kind to
national institutions, as is the custom
in Europe.-London Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
NOT list LIKE .aa.

Champ Clark, Democratic leader, has
been heard from since the election and
declares for downward revision, by the
Democrats, as the first work of the sue
cessful party.
This naturally recalls the mandate
the Democrats thought they got from
the people in 1892, when Cleveland was
elected the second time, and with him
the ''wiidhorse" congress, at the end
of tariff campaign. The consequent
ces of that undertaking to lower the
tariff are not soon to be forgotten.
Happily, the conditions are not now
just like those after the 1892 election.
The Democrats will have the house, but
the president and senate will stand as
bar against radical tariff legislation
and also against panic.
1t will be remembered that the panic
of 1898 started before the Democratic con-
gress passed its tariff bill. It was the
fear of what was coming that brought
on the stagnation of business. The
dread of panic is often the cause Of
panic. But there will be less dread
of a panic this time, especially if the
Republicans in control in congress I'M
til next March are wise enough to do
some tariff revision on geneuine lines,
before that time.-Buffalo News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
A STRIKE MEANS DISASTER.

1t is to he sincerely hoped that the
members of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers and the western
railroads employing them will be able
to adjust their differences without the
enginemen feeling called upon to go
out on a strike. AS the situation now
stands the engineers on all the roads
radiating from Chicago to all parts
of the west asked the rail-
roads some time ago for various
concessions including increases Of pay
which would amount to about 10 per
cent. The railroads offered an per
cent increase as a compromise. This.
was not satisfactory to the committee
that was looking after the interests of
the Brotherhood. Negotiations were
suspended until vote could be taken
among the engineers. This resulted
in an almost unanimous-vote on the
part of the 10000 engineers affected
to go on a strike unless their ultima
tum for a is per cent raise in pay was
granted.
Such a strike would be of momen-
tous concern, not only to the railroads
and their engineers, but to the entire
western section of the country, and to
the nation as well. Inasmuch as the
railroads are of the opinion that they
have always treated their engineers
with consideration and that the COM.
promise they have offered is a fair
one; and, on the other hand, inasmuch
an the engineers think their present
cause is just one, it would likely be
a labor war to a long-drawn out fin
ish. That such strike would Grip
~ 80 H. H., CT
seriously for a considerable period of
time, at any rate, goes without saying.
The hand at the throttle of an en-
CINE cannot be replaced with the ease
that other positions in the active op-
Grafton of a railroad can be refilled.
With the railroads more or less tied
up, it is not difficult to imagine how
the people of the west and of the
whole country will be affected. Bust
ness will almost be paralyzed for the
time being, and at a time when it is
least prepared to stand a severe shock
of any kind. The west is more pros
porous than any other section of the
country. That prosperity would
dwindle away to nothingness. The east
is dependent on the products of the
great west, and those bumper crops
of last season are just beginning to
move strike Of the enginemen of
the west in the immediate future
would be little less than a calamity.
Reason dictates that it must be
avoided.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers has earned a deserved rep
-utation of being a model labor organi-
zation. It has ever been conducted
with the greatest of intelligence and
on the highest plane. The railroads
of today are more disposed to be fair
with their employees and the public
than ever before in their history. Is
it too late for the engineers and the
railroads to submit their differences
to arbitration? That would appear to
be the surest, the safest and the fair
est way out of the present serious di-
lemma.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Not few men realize how really
trifing are their personal needs until
they get married.
X
Many people neither have any inten-
ton nor do they make any effort to
practice what they preach.
x y =
Christmas has few Disappointment
for the dear, old dads. They've learned
not to expect much and they don't get
it.
This is also the season Of the year
when the little tots who believe in
time.
Nobody ever has the slightest idea
that his piano or monograph ever an
noys the neighbors. It's always the
other fellows that's annoying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
FEDERAL. EDUCATION.

The demand for the naturalization
of education, made by many promin-
ent educators has profound signifi-
canoe, coming as it does at a time
when so many other things seem to
threaten the effacement of the bound
airy between state and federal author
ity.
For several years, from isolated
sources, the suggestion of national
department of education, with a cabi
net officer at it's head, has been heard.
Many of the leading workers for in
dustrial education believe it should be
under federal control. And now Pres
ident James, of the University of IL
linois, who has the reputation of be-
ing an exceedingly sane and level
headed man, comes out squarely with
the demand that primary and second
airy education in all the states should
be controlled by federal power. To
the Minnesota Teachers association he
said:
Education should be made in form
what it is in reality-a national func-
ton. 1t should be placed by the side
of the army and navy and internal
improvements and federal justice as
one of the great and fundamental
functions of the American people,
finding its expression in every depart
ment of our national life, from the
rural districts of our remotest states to
the federal government at Washing
ton.-Boston Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
HUNOR or THE Day

A -Goodley-They're in re-
duced circumstances, of course, but
their family is a very old one and
proud, even If they have lots of debts.
They date back to the earliest colonial
times Cutting-The debts, you mean?
don't doubt that.-Catholic Standard
and Times.
Sounds Natural.--'You're the waiter,
aren't your" Yes, sir well, you'll
lose your job if you don't take care.
I've been waiting here longer than you
have."--New York Times.
The Only Thing Lacking.-"Why are
you so sure there is no such thing as a
fourth dimension?" Because" replied
the discouraged fat man, ''if there was
I'd have it."-Ladies' Home Journal.
Bridget's Daughters. Have you
been married, Bridget7'' s"Twicet,
num- And have you any children 20
"Yis, mum, I've three. One be the third
wife av me sicond husband an two be
the second wife av me first."-Cleve-
land Leader.
Poor Georgei-Maude-Ge George and r
have decided to form a life partnership.
Clara-That's nice. Where does George
come in? Maude-Oh, he's to be a silent
partner and put UP the money.-Chf-
cago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
RELAND,s EYE.

IREIAND'S EYE.
A drear. waste, island rock. by tempests
worn,
Gnawed by the seas and naked to the
sky,
1t bears the name it hath for ages borne
It looks far eastward Ger the resort foam:
Round it the whimpering wild sea voices
cry.
The gulls and cormorants have their
storm home
On Ireland's Eye.
A strange and spectral head the gaunt
crag rearS
And ghostly seem the wings that hover
nigh.
Are these dim rains the plantoms of old
tears
In Ireland's Eye?
The tide GIBBS fast: the WIND droops low
today,
Feeble. as dying hate that hates to die.
Blow, living airs, and blow the mists
away,
From Ireland's Eye.
William Watson. in the Spectator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
Missouri Gallantry.

When Treasurer John Hayes of
Linn county, Missouri. died ten days
ago all hands agreed that something
ought to be done for his widow. Con-
seouently, the county committee of the
party which had opposed the. election
of Hayes appealed to the governor of
the state to appoint Mrs. Hayes to
serve in her husbands place for the
rest of the unexpired term. The COM
n1ittee also ordered that Mrs. Hayes,
name be placed on the ticket as the
regular party nominee to be voted for
in November, and the other political
party did likewise, the result being
that Mrs. Hayes will be elected with
out opposition. It will be observed
that they do some things mighty grace
fully out in Missouri.-New York Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

Europe's wine supply is shorter this
year than 1T has been in quarter of a
century. and is only about half as
large as It was last year But there
won't be as much weeping and wailing
among the people of the United States
over this disaster as there will be
among the jewellers in France. In that
country the average consumption of
wine is reckoned at one hundred bot
He9 per capita per annum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

Nine. Nazimova. the actress, has
set new style for dressing the hair.
It's salient feature is a band of broad,
fluffy lace Topped over the top of the
head with its ends falling in careless
folds over the ears. This produces an
effect similar to that which could be
obtained with ear-muffs. Surely the
style is quite ridiculous enough to
suit the most fastidious of the fair
sex in their hunt for something unique
IN the way of coiffures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

Rather remarkable, but exceedingly
unimportant even if it is true. is the
report from New York that william
K. Vanderbilt. jr.. is going to work
Most of his time during the past few
years mas been devoted to arranging
automobile races which have resulted
in many deaths and many more seri-
Gus accidents. 1t is to be hoped that
his work will be such that it will
preclude the possibility of his engi-
neering any other similar events.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

Any prospective candidate for a
nomination for one of the city COM
missionerships, who will run on the
platform that he is not only willing
to go to the wilds of Michigan and
herd up the buffalo which have been
given to Topeka, but is also capable
of doing this Job up in first class style,
viii likely win out in a walk. In
deed, a nomination would probably be
given him by a unanimous vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

Waldorf Astor. who with his father
is an expatriated American citizen now
owning allegiance to the crown OF
Great Britain, has been elected to
membership in the house Of commons.
But it is dollars to doughnuts that if
young Mr.. Astor had remained in this
land, he would never have got elected
to congress. regardless of the size of
his bank-roll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

Everybody realizes that it is we'll
not to count chickens before they are
Matched. Topekans have just had it
brought home to them that it is also
we'll not to worry over the location of
buffaloes until they are ''catched." And
a few additional words from the clever
cowboy and city fiscal officer. Buffalo"
Bone, would appear to be in order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
sEAsONABLE ADVICE.

The towns of northern Kansas should
be making preparations to receive the
bank robbers when they call on them.
Here in Frankfort, for instance, a few
sawedoff shotguns loaded with BIB shot,
and distributed around among the boys
who sleep in the upper rooms within
the four blocks near the banks, would
be a good emergency treatment for
them while the doctor was being sent
for. This bank robbing business seems
to be on the increase, and it may be
some time before they are captured,
either by detectives or officials. and If
few of them were left behind in one
Of their raids 1t might lead to the dis
covery Of the others.-Frankfort In
dex.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press-1

From the New York Press-]
It's easy to admire brains; it's next
to impossible to love them.
What girl can't possibly follow is
her parents advice about man.
Judgment doesn't do so very much
harm If you don't invest money ON it.
Love isn't much more foolish than
lots of other things, only It shows
more.
A man has to feel some pride about
his ancestors, even if it's that he
never had any.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh
has made a bid for unpopularity with
the corporations of the land. But he
has merely made the reasonable sug-
gestion that the time has come when
the corporations should take the pub
lie into their confidence and open their
books to stockholders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

All OF the championship medals for
Misunderstanding properly belong on the
chest Of that Washington waiter who
insists that a lemon seed sprouted in a
cut on one of his thumbs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

Girls have taken up with wireless
biography and one of their number
has been commissioned as regular
operator on an Atlantic coastwise
steamer. If old maids work into such
Jobs it is reasonable to assume that
most of the Come Quick, Distress
signals which are flashed hither and
thither in the future will be directed
at bachelors who may be inclined to
T71arHy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

One of those peculiar professors of
the University of Chicago is authority
for the statement that one-half of the
people in the world go to bed hungry
each night. If there were any chance
of this figure being correct, which
there probably isn't, there would have
to be a revision OF the generally ac-
cepted idea that the old world is a
pretty good place in which to live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

There is nothing very strange in the
fact that a couple of marines in the
United States navy had serious quar-
rel over the possession of fifty cent
piece. A marines pay is SIG per
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

automobiles slower than they do IN
Topeka. Certainly trolley car in this
city would have to display wonderful
burst of speed to catch up with any of
the automobiles that are operated on
the streets here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14

That was an unusual automobile ac-
cident which happened in Chicago the
other day. A trolley car caught up
with an automobile travelling on ahead
of it and smashed the machine so hard,
that one of its occupants was thrown
out and killed and couple of others
were seriously injured. Either the
trolley cars go faster in Chicago the