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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.I

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
One child has more faith than a thou
sand grown people.
A new broom sweeps clean, but the
trouble is it won't stay new.
The oldest thing in the world is per-
son who has no desire to get even.
The trouble with an egotist is that he
always thinks he is better than we are.
Lots of people are bubbling over with
enthusiasm, but bubbles don't accomplish
much.
A man takes almost as much pleasure
from keeping a secret as a woman does
In telling one.
iNell-'They fight like cats and dogs
Belle-"Oh, worse than that; like brothers
and sisters"
watched pot never boils, but at the
same time if it's a jack pot it is just
as well to keep your eye on it.
Wigg-'What a beautiful complexion
Mrs Highflyer has. and she says it's
real" Wagg-"Do you mean to say she
has the face to tell you that?"
Hoax-"I saw a melodrama last night
in which only three of the characters
were left alive in the last act" Joax-
TT must have been perfectly killing"
Blobbs-"Old Grouchleigh reminds me
of a tadpoie." Slobbs-"What a strange
comparison" Blobbs-"Not at all. He
always feels that he has a kick coming
Guzzler-"Oh, have another" Wigwag-
Sorry, old man. but promised to meet
my wife at half-past three" Guzzler-
That's all right. It's only quarter past
now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
ii UNOR OF THE Day

Il defy any one to name a field OF
endeavor in which men do not receive
more consideration than women" ex-
claimed the orator at a suffragette
some irresponsible person.-Lippincott'
Magazine.
HE always was a lucky fellow"
What do you mean?" when he fell
out of his airship he pumped straight
through the skyight of a hospital
Woman's Home Companion.
"I'H bet you that Brown will invite
US over to spend the evening In a few
days" What makes you thing so?"
ii saw him buying four new phonograph
records this afternoon. Detroit Free
Press.
Swee. Young Thing-why do you
suppose there are no marriages in
heaven? Observation-Disclosures it is
Heaven.-Judge.
81 should advise every young woman
to make thorough study of literature"
''Why?'' so that when she reads
mans letters she can tell which senti-
ments are borrowed and which are or
ginal."-Washington Star.
Society woman-I see by today's pa
per l am referred to as lone of fash
!on's butterflies Her Husband-Con-
sidering the way you go through clothes
1 should think moth would apply better.
st. Louis Times.
A Distant Prospect-"And you saw
you love me?" "Devotedlyi'' with the
cost of living as high as it is?" In
deed do, and when the cost of living
is less I will prove my love by maxi
ing you my wife. Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
DEMOCRACY IN COLLEGES.

When freshman comes to either OF
the undergraduate departments of Yale,
he is invited on the second night of
the term to class meeting, which is
addressed by leading seniors-men who
have been successful in the different
lines of effort which the undergraduate
values, intellectual or administrative,
athletic or social, writes President Ar
thur T. Hadley of Yale university IN
an article on college Democracy in
the June Century. These men tell the
boys of the various competitions that
are open before them in the world
which they have entered The editors
of the News" and of the Literary
Magazine have their call for men who
can write; the football captain and the
track captain, for men who can play;
the glee club manager, for men who
can sing. and so on through an almost
indefinite variety of lines. But the
burden of the addresses is essentially
the same: You have come to a COM
munity that wants men to take an in
terest il its interests; which is ready
to honor the competent and give the
leadership to men who have proved
their fitness for the leadership. We
try to make the competition as fair as
we can. To him who succeeds, We give
place and power; to him who tries and
fails, we give respect and the encour-
agement to try again; to him who
sulks in his tent. we give nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Recognition will be awarded not only
to the successful men in your own line,
but by the hard workers in every other
line. But this is no place for the
trif1er who lacks the nerve to under
take anything, or for the weakling who
tries to excuse his own weakness by
accusations of unfairness against those
who have worked harder, or for the
self-seeker who attempts to gain pleas
ure for himself instead of showing what
he can do for others
This spirit is not peculiar to Yale. 1t
represents the ideals and standards Of
our American colleges in general. 1t is
essentially republican It lays stress
on work for the commonwealth and on
the interests of the commonwealth.
Whether a man regards it as demo-
cratic or not will depend upon his
definition of democracy.
To the communist ideal of democracy
the idea that everybody should have
an equal share in the offices and
emoluments of society-it is absolutely
and in large measure succeeds in guar
anteeing, equality of opportunity;
equality of endowment and equality of
result it neither guarantees nor gives.
Its ethics are essentially those of the
parable of the ten talents. On the man
who has made the most of what there
is in him, it confers the most authority
With the man who has hidden his
talent in a napkin, it will have nothing
to do. Now, this is, unfortunately,
contrary to the ideas of a great many
people who regard themselves as rep
resentatives of modern democracy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

eyes: but he that hearkeneth to counsel
| is wise. Proverbs XII IS.
Most people have no one but them
selves to blame for much of the I'M
pleasant and the disagreeable in life
to which they are subjected. It really
is surprising, when one stops to give
the matter a moment or two's atten-
tion,' just how much of that which is
distasteful and offensive is brought
about by one considering himself
exactly right in every thought which
he puta out, in every step which he
undertakes. Such is the rankest kind
of folly. The penalties of this, as we'll
as all other kinds of folly are severe.
Perhaps as apt an illustration of
how an utterly mistaken idea of this
kind works out as can be presented is
the parable which was delivered by
Christ on the Pharisee and the publ
can. 1t will be remembered that Jesus
spoke the parable unto certain who
trusted in themselves that they were
righteous, and despised others. Two
men went UP into the temple to pray,
the one Pharisee. and the other a
publican" related Christ according to
st. Luke. THE Pharisee stood and
prayed thus with himself: God,
thank thee that am not as other men
are, eXtortioners, unjust, adulterers,
or even as this publican. 1 fast twice
week. I give tithes of all 1 possess
"And the publican, standing afar
off. would not lift up so much as his
eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his
breast, saying: God, be merciful to
me, sinner
II tell you," concluded Jesus, this
man went down to his house justified
rather than the other: for every one
that exalteth himself shall be abased;
and he that humbleth himself shall be
exalted"
How many are there in the world
today who are similar to that Phari-
see? How many are there who, in
their own minds, are sufficient unto
themselves? The number is legion.
They spurn the counsel of others as
being something almost poisonous. In
deed, many of them go so far as to
consider it belittling to seek the ad-
vice of any one. Poor, deluded souls
that they are. Their accomplishments
never amount to very much, are never
of the lasting sort which are worth
while. They live out their own little
narrow lives, such as they are, strut
ting around like the peacock with not
even as much to be proud of, as a
matter of fact, as has that foolish bird.
If they could only know that the sem
sible people of the world are doubled
up with laughter at their insignifi-
canoe, maybe they would mend their
ways, maybe they would realize that
the delightful pictures they have
painted of themselves are such crude
pieces of work as to be nothing more
than blots and smears on the real
substance of society.
But he that hearkeneth' to counsel
is wise, said Solomon, and he never
gave any better advice or uttered
Surer truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A man who is an adept at drawing
corks is not necessarily an artist.
\ y
Few are the men who even cut
much Of a figure at their own we'd
dings.
The competition among honest men
does not appear to be exceedingly keen
these days.
y ::
There are also any number of men,
born in log cabins. who have fallen
far short of becoming famous.
X X
1t wasn't so long ago that automo-
bile rides were a novel method of en-
.tertaining delegates to a convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
GLOBE SIGHTS,
[From the Atchison Globe.J =

tFrom the Atchison Globe.J
The Suffragette is the insurgent among
women.
The loafers are responsible for most of
the complaints you hear.
1t is every mans opinion that someone
else should fix the public roads.
ASK" Perhaps it is just as well.
After city attains a certain size 1t
is always threatening to close its dance
halls.
some places of amusement: they afford
a place to go.
The meanest devil on earth is the man
who is always saying mean things just
to see people squirm.
Ever remark how some people fight
and strive to be common place. and at
tract unfavorable attention?
If you are looking for Information, you
will find the encyclopedia more reliable
than a woman in a trance.
Occasionally, we hear a compensation
nd 6e h this ysef F RsTd men DC I'm
We never cared for gold fish. either.
bird singer ever heard in Atchison.
Lysander John Appleton has never had
chance to amount to much; SO much
of his time has been given to Encourag-
ing Others.
Having seen HaIIey's comet we are in
clined to doubt the statements that 1t
once worried Europe as much as the COM
ing of the Turks.
When man tells you what people are
saying about you, tell him what people
say about him; that will quickly take his
mind off your troubles.
When a man helps a woman down the
steps, she thinks he is gallant, but let a
younger woman offer the assistance and
it is a disagreeable inference of age.
The biggest fool in the world is the man
who hasn't sense enough to appreciate a
real friend. If a man has more than one
real friend in lifetime, he is lucky.
If ever any man proposed to woman
~ Knees Wa dnrIht CHI =
be unhappy for the rest of her life be-
cause she didn't have kodak to prove
It.
Very few people realize how strong the
Amateur lure is. An Atchison woman who
| is seventy years old, is studying a part
and will act in a play to be given shortly,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

AS far as can be observed the only
work which has been done for a week
towards repairing the pavement at
the intersection of Eighth and Kan
sas avenues is the tearing up of sever
al more feet of the granite blocks and
increasing the size of the unsightly
piles of stone and dirt which have
stood sentinel at this spot for so many
weeks. And such prompt and effica-
cfpus work was expected from the city
commission in attending to just such
matters as this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
COMRADES.

Come out, oh. little comrade Of the
tresses flying free;
Rejoice in air and sunlight that were
made for you and me.
10 70 larry is folly and to worry is sin,
our boat Is on the river and the tide
comes in.
What roads were ever fairer than the
gypsy trails we love,
Inc messy rock beneath us and the fly
ing cloud above?
we mock the squirrels chatter and the
calling of the crows,
Our feet are on the mountains and the
west wind blows.
The snow-encumbered forest rims FROST
enchanted mere,
Ihe nils are sharp in shadow and the
moon Is bold and clear;
Your cheek is rich in roses that the touch
of winter brings,
Ihe lake is frozen midnight and the
bright skate rings.
But when were done with rowing under
heavens mighty dome
A deeper joy is waiting in our bounded
realm Of home;
The lamplight throws a halo round a
sunny little head.
It's coy by the hearthside when the
flame glows red.
Arthur Guiterman, in Woman's Home
Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

Failure is often the preface to success
No, Alonzo, a silver cup never runs
when it is chased.
grass widow can give reference-hu,
she hardly ever does.
Does a cow become landed propertv
when turned into field?
Honest politicians are as plentiful in
some places white blackbirds "
Don't pose an earthly angel ,,olas.
you want to attract suspicion Your yysS
If you have money the people yo,, ar
introduced to never forget your name
pessimist believes it a waste of IL
to argue with the iceman, as he's bo S,,rlS
to have his own weigh. uiu
A diplomat is a person who ba.
quired the art of declining to tal-a a.. az,
for an answer to request for a favo no
If a man who is early to bed ana CO.
to rise doesn't get rich, his wife is Ely
~ convinced its because he is too hon. On.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

So Captain Bartlett, who played
such an important part in helping Mr..
Peary reach the North Pole and re-
ceived little or not credit for his eff
forts, is going to head an expedition
of his own in a search for the South
Pole. The betting is about IL to 1 that
DIR. Cook will bob up with a report
of having located the South Pole about
two months before Captain Bartlett
pulls off the trick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

According to statistics gathered by
the census bureau the average salary
OF a minister of the gospel in all the
denominations represented in the
United States is but 1858. Maybe
there won't be so much envy among
other men now of the "easy lives that
clergymen are supposed to enjoy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
lFrom the New York Press

IFTOm the New 7 DIX PreSS-I
The only bad habit a man can give
up is IL he doesn't like to do it.
A sure thing about a man without
brains is how he can question every body
else's.
A woman is SO naturally contrary she
can love a man just because nobody else
will.
4 woman calls it having an exciting
day If she hears how big a neighbor' S
grocery bill was last month.
A girl needs a full moon to appreciate
having a man make love to her, unless
well without.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Presumably the small boys of New
York city will hold their Fourth of
July celebrations on June or July II.
The sale of powder crackers and fire.
works is to be prohibited in the big
town between the dates OF June 10
and July 10
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Peru will occupy a deservedly prom
1nent place in the history of the ma
lions of the earth for the present era
She has agreed to submit without re-
serve to the arbitration of her boun-
dairy dispute with Ecuador. A war IS
thereby aYerted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

President Taft is not going to New
York to participate in the home-com-
ing reception to be accorded to Col
oneI Roosevelt. 1t will be just like
some insurgent to bob up now with a
remark to the effect that Mr.. Taft is
going to stay away from the reception
for fear he might be snubbed by the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

An Empory grocer advertises: "For
luncheon or tea. Kawchief & Ferndell
salmon, Ferndell lobster. Schring's
CLAIMS & Izumi's crabs" These sound
good, as luncheon menu, but we the
common peepul, who know of but one
definition for tea" can not help
wonder what kind of a taste would
result from q brew of this sea-food
combination
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Experts attending the conference of
charities and correction being held at
St. Louis express the opinion that
drunkenness is a disease and fines and
Imprisonment for it should be super
seeded by medical treatment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Now comes a Massach usetts cens
tenarian who attributes his long life
to lemonade. But this only helps to
show that every person who lives to a
ripe, old age, has different recipe for
his longevity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

The cost of running the government
OF the United States in 1878, only a
matter of thirty years ago, was less
than the expenses of the navy alone
for this year. Isn't it time a halt
was called in the matter Of naval ex-
penditures3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Another man has started from New
York to walk across the continent. This
fellow has plenty of money, too. Ger
tainly there is no accounting for tastes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Claims are now being renewed by
the Republican insurgents" that Col
onel Roosevelt is in sympathy with
them and their plans. Why not wait
a bit and let Mr.. Roosevelt speak for
himself on this score?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

1t is fair to assume that the famous
Cambridge university of England did
not confer the honorary degree of
doctor of laws on Colonel Roosevelt
because of the respect he has for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

A Chicago clergyman has taken oc-
casion to rap severely the methods
employed by the we'll known evangel-
list Gypsy Smith. But it will have to
be conceded that Clip rakes in the
coin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Another submarine boat, this time
one attached to the navy of France,
has carried a crew of 81 men to a
watery grave. Peace also appears to
be quite as strong on horrors as is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

All the medals for sticktutiveness
will have to be awarded to the as
tronomers. They continue to theorize
about the comet and it's tail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Undoubtedly, it is safe to say that
there is never any protest to the effect
that the mayor of Hoopeston, ILL.,, does
not earn his salary. It is so cents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

One of the effects of the high duty
on wool, says. the st. Paul Pioneer
Press, is that most consumers are now
wearing cotton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

One of the latest things in nonalco-
holic interior-wash is widely adver-
tised as "the drink that helps you
think" Meanwhile, 1.-The drink that
helps you forget continues to be ad-
vertised locally only in Nick Chile's
Plaindealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
UNDER SUSPICION.

UNDER SUSPICION.
Each night Miss Fashion grabs the cat
And kicks him swiftly through the
door;
Perhaps she fears he'll catch the rat
That sleeps in her top dresser
drawer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

The Presbyterian assembly. in SEES
sion at Atlantic City, has decided that
it can't trust Speaker Joe Cannon. 1t
is the widespread opinion, however.
that Uncle Joe is prepared to pay
cash, providing the Presbyterian as
sembly has anything he wants to pur-
chase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
FRON OTHER PENS
IS WOMAN ExTRAvAGANT?

Professor Munsterberg. writing upon
American problems, has come in the
course of things to the subject of THE
Intemperance of Women" He speaks
of the manner in which women have
set themselves against the vices of
men, and covertly resents, it would
seem, the credit which has been ac-
corded to women for resisting vices
which have not tempted them. When
it comes to actual temptation, however,
he appears to think that they can show
themselves as nonresistant as their
brothers.
Can there be any doubt" he in
quires "for the neutral onlooker of
American society sQuandering money
for beverages which he enjoys is still
outdone by women's sQuandering of
money on gowns which she enjoys ?"
and he adds:s From the higher econ
omic point of view the sums which
the feminine members of the Ameri-
can family are spending on their ex-
terror decoration are entirely out of
proportion to those which are given
for wholesome food for the care of
the body, for books and culture, for
service and for art, for a wise saving,
or for the public good
In the mere interests of justice 1t
may be urged as a mitigating circum-
stance that no other nation is able to
achieve results so harm onious upon so
In1L6Q SUM as t16 lIl6 really lAlSll16SDl
woman, and it is an axiom that many
foreign women only succeed in look
ing dowdy as the result of an expendi-
ture upon which the American woman
becomes quite miraculously smart
Chicago Tribune.
WOMEN ARE NOT SAVAGES.
DR., Max Baff, of Clark College, Wor-
cester, is not likely to enhance his
popularity with the fair sex by his
| declaration that the women of today
are no better from a psychological
standpoint, than the savages of old.
This statement is so unlind, so I'M
generous, that some valiant defender
of the gentle sex-meaning the women,
of course-should send Dr.Baff a box
Of Christmas cigars.
Just because some women scratch
and use the poker when they are
angry, does it mean necessarily that
they are savages? Because one of
! adversary, does 1t mean that with a
little less civilization they would be
| dangling scalps at their trim waist
| line? Because some of them put a
little daub of paint on their cheeks,
does it mean that they will soon re-
vert to war paint. Because they adorn
their hats with bird feathers and their
ears with earrings, does it mean that
! they retain the old savage love of COL
| or and gewgaws?
! No, ten thousand times, no, Women
are fair. gentle and glorious creatures.
What if they do scratch and bite now
and then? What if the suffragettes do
attack public men in the streets? What
| if they do like to adorn themselves
The fair sex is the very sense of civiIi-
zation.-Washingto Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Other efforts to get the name of
Wellington, Kansas, into general cir
culation having failed, they have fallen
back upon time-worn expedient. 1t
has been discovered that Leon Ling.
the Chink murderer, worked in We'll
lington awhile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

Brakeman, Rawlins county, is no
longer on the map. 1t is being sown
in alfalfa. At that Brakeman is not
the first Kansas town to go to seed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
A SATURDAY SERMON.

The way of the fool is right in his own
eyes: but he that hearkeneth to counsel
is wise. Proverbs XII IS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

1t appears that the esteemed school
board has been paying too much for
lighting. Wherefore, we renew our
suggestion that the honorable school
board lay pipes from its meeting place,
and burn gas instead of electricity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28

The only thing against the Stubs
scheme to keep the Memorial building
fund in the treasury for campaign
purposes, seems to be that he couldn't
get by with it because one Fitzgerald
was watching him. Otherwise, the
scheme was good one.