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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
A PRAYER FOR THE Idle.

The September American Magazine
opens with the following prayer by
Walter Rauschenbusch:
% God, we remember with pain and
pity the thousands of our brothers and
sisters who seek honest work and seek
In vain. For though the unsatisfied
wants of men are many, and though
our land is wide and calls for labor.
yet these thy sons and daughters have
no place to labor, and are turned AWAY
In humiliation and despair when thoy
seek 1t. righteous God, we acknoWi-
edge our common guilt for the disorder
or our industry, which thrusts even
willing workers into the degradation of
idleness and want, and teaches some 10
love the sloth which once they feared
and hated.
I'VE remember also with sorrow and
compassion the idle rich, who have
vigor of body and mind and yet pro-
duce no useful thing. Forgive them
for loading the burden of their support
on the bent shoulders of the working
world. Forgive them for wasting in
refined excess what would feed the
pale children of the poor. Forgive them
for setting their splendor before the
thirsty hearts of the young, Turing them
to theft or shame by the lust of eve
and flesh. Forgive them for taking
pride in their selfish lives and despis-
ing those by whose toll they live. For
give them for appeasing their better
self by pretended duties and injurious
charities. We beseech thee to awaken
them y the new voice of thy spirit
that they may look up into the stern
eyes of Christ and may be smitten
with the blessed pangs of repentance.
Grant them strength of soul to rise up
like men from their shame and give a
just return of labor for all they receive
and enjoy.
And to our whole nation do thou
grant wisdom to create a world in
which none shall be forced to idle in
want, and none shall be able to idle in
luxury, but in which all shall know the
health of wholesome work and the
sWeetness Of Wall-earned rest >,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
.AYHAWKER JOT5

Bert Walker says the women don't
lie about their age any more than the
men do about the way they are going
to vote.
A Kansas City morphine fiend was
at a loss to know how to be cured.
So he had himself convicted, fined and
sent to the workhouse and from there
to the general hospital. mo matter
how big your trouble appears to you"
adds the ottawa Herald there's al
ways way out"
Octave Chanute for whom Chanute,
Kan, was named in the year 1871, has
been critically Ill in Paris for some
time. Mr.. Chanute designed and con-
structed all the bridges on the Santa
Fe between Kansas City and Chicago.
He was superintendent of the Leaven-
worth, Lawrence & Galveston rail-
road, now a. part of the Santa Fe, at
the time the city was named.-Fort
Scott Tribune.
Conner Davies feels that this bit of
philosophy by F1ambert must be kept
from Carrie Nation: How arid life
would be without a pipe. how colorless
without cigar, how intolerable with
out a bit of tobacco to bite upon. The
folks have a habit of saying: queer
sort of enjoyment, sending up clouds
of smoke AS If all that is most beau
tifuI does not go up in smoke. And
glory? And love? And dreams. my
friend, whittier go they? Tell me If
the warmest kisses given under Ital-
ian skies, if the splendid sword strokes
of our heroes have left anything be-
hind them that my last pipe has
not?'
1T hope I am not knocker, and 1
trust I know how to attend to my own
business, but some things get me,
the Holton Signal quotes a friend as
saving. "The other day I had occa-
sion to go to the freight office and saw
four barrels of bottled beer standing
on the platform, where they had been
unloaded from the car. I was curious
and looked at the names on the tags.
Three of the four were men who have
owed me for months and from whom
I cannot get a cent. 1 know that the
brewery or shipping company did not
trust them for these goods, and 1t does
not look like a fair deal to the home
merchant"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
HIGH PRICES.

In one column of the newspapers Of At
couple of days ago was an interview
with Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of
IT, board of directors of the United
States Steel corporation. He had just
returned from a trip to Europe. In
discussing conditions as he found them
there, r remarked that increased and
high prices were the rule in all of the
european countries. And he attributed
the increased cost of living abroad 10
the increased wages of the working
people. The high wages that are pail
to the working people in this country
has been given by some economists as
the controlling reason for the high
prices that have prevailed here during
the past few years. There can be 10
doubt, as Judge Gary points out, that
the people generally, both in this coun-
try and abroad are now given to ex-
travagances that they used not to in
dulge in, and that this makes for high
prices
But in another column of the news
papers of the same day that the Gary
interview appeared was another news
item to the effect that the supply 81
| gold has been increased from the Klor.-
dixie region alone by $50. 900, 600 during
the past twelve years and that the pro-
duction of gold there is increasing ali
the time. Nor is the Klondike the only
section of the world from which gold.
and much of it, is being mined and
added to the money supply of the
world OF late years the gold supply
has increased enormously. Some
| economists insist that this large in
crease in the supply of gold is respon-
sible in the main for the high prices.
That this increased gold supply is a
factor, and an important one, too, in
the making of high prices, no one will
deny There are differing opinions,
however, as to just how big a factor
| it is.
Certainly it ought to be patent TO
| every one that IL the supply Of gold,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFron tha Atchison Globe.

TOH1 lud AICIloOA N1lOOC-I
Probably the most disagreeable
thing in this world is being caught
Money pursues some men so re-
lentlessly that they have to die to cir
culate their income.
Down at the bottom of their insur-
gent hearts, Suffragettes greatly adj
mire womanly women.
In draping things, and in arranging
flowers, every woman thinks she has
particularly good taste.
1t is creepy to stay in house alone
at night; under such circumstances, a
man gets the Listens.
All we know about Latin is that it
isn't particularly interesting to those
who don't understand it.
If man is writing letters about it,
it doesn't take much of a farm to be
big enough to be called a ranch.
An Atchison man is always telling
how hard he works. People say about
the only hard work he does is swear
ing.
a handsome man seldom amounts
to much. This item should not offend
many; there are few very handsome
men.
We've picked at the women some
but we've never done what we heard
woman do today: pick at widows
mourning.
Don't tell your troubles: when a
private. He didn't get half what he
deserved"
We've noticed that when a forty
horse power autom obile becomes
stuck in the mud, two real horses can
pull it out.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned father who promised his child
rem money for their work, and then
forgot to pay them?
While we are not a professional foot
racer by any means, we can get up
pretty good speed in running from an
over-cultured man or woman.
About all a school teacher gets out
OF her great education is that after
she becomes old, she knows more to
find fault about than other people.
81 am greatly encouraged" said
man the other day. "A good many
people are knocking on me lately;
that is a sign 1 am amounting to
something
Our idea of the greatest possible
humiliation to a man: For man to
be engaged to a woman, and her get
killed while running round" with an
other man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
A CENTURY OF PEACE.

| One of the proposals of the day.
which is meeting with the cordial re-
Spouse it should from every one ap-
preached on the subject, concerns an
adequate celebration of the hundred
years Of peace between the United
! States and Great Britain which will
be marked by the centenary anniver-
| sary of the signing of the Treaty of
Client in 1914. DR.. James L. Tyron,
| assistant secretary of the American
Peace society, one of the prime pro-
motors of this laudable undertaking.
has just given to the press letters re-
cefved by him preparatory to meet
ing in Toronto of the One Hundred
Years Peace society which has been
formed to carry through the project.
This organization is composed of rep
resentatives from trade, peace, histori-
cal and other bodies, and intends to
furnish the towns and cities of the
United States-Canadian border with a
means for associated work in the in
terests of the celebration
These letters come from men of
prominence in all walks of life in this
country and show a sincere feeling of
fraternity in the United States for
Canada and Great Britain And the
men of prominence in Canada and
England are just as enthusiastic over
the proposition. A century of peace
between two such nations as the Uni
ted States and Great Britain is an oc-
currence of large caliber. one worthy in
every way of an appropriate celebra-
ton on a large scale. In this instance
1t Will have an important lesson to
teach the world. During the past hum
dred years many large differences have
arisen between the United States and
Great Britain. Some of them seemed
almost impossible of solution without
war. Yet each and every one of
them have been solved and settled
either by arbitration, or by mutual
concessions or agreements. If the Uni
ted States and Great Britain are able
to settle their important and perplex-
ing differences in this fashion there is
no good reason any two or three other
nations cannot do the same thing. The
fact that Great Britain and the Uni
ted States have been doing this very
thing for 100 years ought to be en-
phasized. No better medium can be
found than the celebration which has
been proposed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19

which is the money standard of the
world, is increased at a faster proper
tionate rate than are the commodities
needed for life and living, the price of
these commodities is going to go up.
This is a condition which has develop
ed during the past few years. And it
is one of the reasons for high prices.
1t emphasizes the need of an increased
production of all the commodities that
humans use. especially in the matter
Of raw materials. The world needs
more wheat, more grain of every kind,
more cattle and more swine. And
much more grain and cattle will have
to be raised before there is a sufficient
supply of food stuffs and other COM
modities, not only to meet all demands,
but to balance with the increased sup
ply of gold
A few cheap politicians parade around
ON the platforms of the land telling the
people that the tariff law is to blame
for all the high prices which prevail
in this country. How do they explain
the similarly high prices in European
countries, several of which either have
free trade or tariff for revenue only?
There are many other more compelling
reasons for the general high prices of
today than those which con possibly
be assigned to the United States tariff
law, or the tariff laws or lack of them
in other countries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19

heads bitten through. Another eve
was gasping yard or two away.
AT sight of a human being Rob Roy
first crouched, then growled. bristling
menacingly. But Mrs. Miller had at
least the virtue of courage. In a wink
she had a firm grip of his collar and
was leading him away from the scene
of his crime.
Before she had got 20 yards she
found herself facing Len Talbot.
II was bringing him to you. know
these must be your sheep" she ex-
planned. 'sThe Hickses never had any
thing live but children"
"Yes-they are my sheep-on my
land-I bought it last year." he an
swered. But why. o why. didn't you
let Roy escape? I can't possibly shoot
murderer
why not?" Mrs. Miller demanded,
looking keenly at the tall, lean-faced
bore her scrutiny well.
Because" he answered, "Myrilla
loves him. I wouldn't hurt her for a
kingdom"
Ter snorted. And you're letting her
peak and pine because you're too proud
to say a civil word to her?''
Talbot stepped close to her, caught
her shoulder in hard grip and said,
his voice shaking: Let go the dog,
tell you'll And never dare mention
what you have seen. Myrilla!! Madam
you are cruel-crueler than DEATH
"But-nOt as cruel as you are"
Aunt Jane persisted. 1T hate to say
tive been making myself believe
I'd cut her off with a shilling-but
now I've seen you'll can't do 1t. She
loves you-and don't much blame her.
You-you don't look to be-anything
but a gentleman-and a gentleman's
son."
Then and there, in the face of scan
dalized birds and to the disgust of
Rob Roy. Len Talbot Rugged and kiss
ed Aunt Jane as heartily even as he
did upon the wedding day, less than a
month after.-(Copyrighted, 1910, by
Associated Literary PresS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
Lawyers In Germany.

The German law fixes the exact fees
which a German attorney has to claim
for all kinds of professional work and
the rechtsanwalt can charge neither
more nor less.
These fees apply to all matters of the
civil code and of criminal cases. The
amount depends exclusively on the
value of the object of contention.
1t is an old though still unfulfilled
wish of German lawyers to have a new
fixed list Of fees-not made after the
old and low standard of the year 1873.
but made with consideration to the
changes-the numerous decided changes
which have taken place since that
year.
The rechtsanwalt is attorney and
counselor-at-law all in one Gin England
solicitor and barrister). The rechtsan-
walt can never oe business man, as is
the case in the United States.
The exercise of the law is not to be
considered a calling or profession, but
is TO be looked on more as public Of
flee. According to the lawyers code Of
the LIST of July. 1878, lawyers are
charged publicly with certain duties.
He is obliged to have his residence IN
the town or district where he is ap-
pointed (so-called residence duty)
Further, he must conduct himself in
and out of office in way befitting his
professional and social standing q. e.,
duty due to his rank). Thus lawyer
is forbidden to advertise in newspa-
pers, by canvassing, ETC., or to buy OF
take over a practice already made, as
being unworthy of his calling.
His position in society is between Of
ficials and scholars, and through GUS
tom and law he is compelled to keep the
position to the last degree. This COM
pulsion to keep ones rank has given
rise to the existence of committees
called establishment, whose duty il
is to keep a strict watch that no law
yer dishonors his calling. These COM
mittees have a strict code of punish
ment, ranging to complete expulsion
from office. In this way the lawyers
In Germany have a good and honored
position: in fact, there is scarcely a
country in which the lawyer enjoys
more respect and confidence--Green
Bag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press

FROM the new Ork HreSS-
Should the sailors widow wear sea
weeds?
Even the lobster bushes because of
it's inability to keep out of hot water.
Even musical notes may go to pro-
test if the people next door don't care
for music.
Some people only feel that they are
in reduced circumstances when they
can no longer borrow.
Many a rich old sutton who tells a
girl he would die for her is mighty
slow about keeping his word.
A girl naturally feels that fellows
heart is in the right place when he en-
trusts it to her keeping.
Only an oDtimist can suffer from
insomnia and be glad it isn't a tooth
ache that is keeping him awake.
NeIl-"The fellow Miss Antique is
going to marry is a beardless youth. -
Belle-.'Well. they can even things up;
you know she has hair lip
Scribbler-'I understand your wife
is of great value to you in your work;
1 had no idea she was literary
Scrawler-"She isn't, but she never at
tempts to straighten out my DESK
Rollingstone Nomoss-'I asked him
fer nickel an he told me to git off
de EARTH Taterdon Torn-"Wot did
youse do?@ Rollingstone Nomoss-'I
struck him fer dollar fer a Turkish
BATH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
HUNOR or THE Day

The wise sheep will dodge the shearing.
| and will not rely solely on the tempering
of the wfnd.-Puck-
| Friend-Pretty busy now, Mr.. Klexlf
Artist-verg, thanks Painting all my
creditors.-Fliegende Blaetter.
Angler Swho is telling his big fish storyll
right weights at the inn, but he weighed
exactly a flatiron, two eggs and a bit
of soap!-Punch.
When Harold proposed to me-" said
But you don't really care for himil said
love to play little jokes on papa."-Wash-
| ingtor. Star.
Fell of a shed, most got drowned, tipped
over beehive. was hooked by a cow. jina
stone s bruises an a sti m necE"-cfeveland
Plain Dealer.
He-Do the Browns give much to char
ity? She-Oh. yes; they board many OF
their relatives nearly ali summer.-Boston
Transcript.
Astor-There's something lacking in this
garden scene. There should be vegetables
win supply the vegetables when they see
your acting.-Boston Transcript.
"A man on our side Of the river" re-
marked the Ohio man. recently emptied
a pint bottle Of WHISKY at a single drink.
sun rejoined the Kentucky colonel.
must have been crazy. Any sane man.
subj ought to know there is at least two
drinks in a pint bottle of whisky. Chi
Gags News.
You don't seem to know your way.
ventured the officer to the civilian whom
he had seen three times in half an hour
ooh, yes replied the other; I'm initial
ing cab taking a stranger to his destina-
ion."-Buffalo Express.
"Brassie has an awful nerve" Whist
did he dor" Waited in an umbrella store
till the rain was over."-BuffaIo Express.
His wife says she does not believe a
word he says" How comfortable that
is! She would have no object in question
ing him about where he spends his time"
The Widow.
Mrs. Knicker-Has your daughter got
used to home since she graduated? Mrs.
Bocker-No; she behaves like an ex-
president home from Europe.-Harper's
Bazaar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
KANSAS COMAENT
A NEEDED REFORM

II men would devote as much low
ing care to their whiskers as women
90 10 their hair. they would contribute
greatly to increasing the dignity of the
sex
A woman wouldn't think of coming
ooWn Town without having her hair
properly arranged. She combs it and
1usses with it. and pads 1t out with
runs ribbons through it. and so she is
vision of loneliness when she ap-
pears in the busy haunts of men.
But a man gives his whiskers no at
teniion, Iurther than to brush the egg
sneliS or clam chowder out of them
with the shoebrush. 1t never seems to
occur to him that his whiskers might
be made beautiful If he would devote
one-half the time to them that a wom-
an gives to her hair. He might easily
have made a wire cage to attach to
his chin and then he could weave his
whiskers around it in captivating
styles and tie the ends together with a
pink or blue ribbon.
The alfalfa editor gets tired of see
ing the same old fashions in whiskers,
when it would be so easy to devise
new and striking ways of wearing
them.
There should be a whiskers' club in
Emporia. If such an organization
were formed and the members held
weekly meetings to exchange ideas
and compare notes, the results would
soon be apparent The towns whis-
kers would soon become distinctive,
and their reputation would cover the
country.
Let US have a new deal in spinach.
Gazette.
AS TO SHOWING YOUR COLORS.
When any question comes up for or
against the welfare of the town the
editor of newspaper has to go IN
record before the whole people. His
remarks have to stand out boldly be-
fore friend or foe. 1t matters not
whether it hurts his business or not
and it often does hurt 1.-THE has 70
come out in the open and take a stand.
How is it with others? A few of them
have the nerve to stand up and express
stances, but a majority are business
towards or probably more properly
speaking, selfish policy men. They are
all things to all men. They won't open
their mouths if they think they are go
ing to antagonize the opinions of a Gus
toner or friend. In the presence or
opponents they shut up like clans for
fear they lose dollar or make an
enemy. Why should not the same
everyday frankness be expected from
all men that is expected of the editor.
What would you think OF the editor
who lacked the nerve to stand up for
what he believed was right regardless
of the fact that 1t sometimes loses him
business? If you expect the editor to
come out openly and stand up for the
cause, has he not right to expect
your commentator and endorsement
as publicly and openly as you have OPP
portunity. These burdens should be
acknowledgements News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-19
FROA OTHER PENS
MENELIK's FAMILIAR STUNT.


MENELIK'S FAMILIAR STUNT.
The enterprising press correspond
ent at Adds Abeba, in distant Abys-
sinia, informs a listening world that
King Mene1ik is once more dying. This
time, the proud ruler of the desert Is
reported to be suffering from a strok e
of apoplexy, and his condition is said
to be critical.
King Menelfk has died SO often in
the last few years that dying may be
said to have become habit with him.
Often has the news come singing over
the swaying wires that Menelfk OF
Abyssinia has given up the ghost,
shuff1ed off the mortal coil and given
a last, long, lingering kick at the buck
ct, only to have the whole story de-
MED when the Adds Abeba press cor
respondent became little more IA
miliar with the true facts in the case.
Abyssinia's ruler has had a career
renowned in both war and peace, but
in history his fame Will be recorded
as the most dyingest man that ever
lived. Menelik has fallen while lead
ing his men in the charge of battle; he
has been the victim of the assassin's
dagger, and has drunk the poison pre-
pared by unfaithful members of his
household: he has succumbed to more
diseases than ever before afflicted hu-
man-yet he still sits steady on the
throne of Abyssinia. -Birmingham
News.