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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
A sATTRnAY SERMON.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shai
obtain mercy.-Et. Matthew V ~.

These words of Christ are popularity
referred to as the fifth of the nine Beat
itudes with which he began his ser
mon on the mount, the most marvellous
discourse that has ever been given
voice to- By them Jesus shows where
IN true happiness really consists ana
by what means it can be attained. me
natural and almost necessary longing
of man is for happiness. But 100 oISen
he seeks for it where 1t cannot pc
found. He is blinded and deluded Dy
bis passions, by his love OF the ma
terial riches, the fleeting honors and
pleasures of life. He thinks happiness
is hidden in their midst. He finds OUT
sooner or later that such thoughts are
c1imercial. Through these nine Beat
itudes, though, Christ has directed tne
way to the highest state OF fenclty' 10
consummate bliss, If you Will. They are
the foundations of that sublime moral
ity which is the keynote in all OF MS
teachings They are the only sure way
to a happy life here on this eartn'
And these who are faithful to them
need have no terrors of any hereafter.
None among these Beatitudes is OF
greater concern if a man is TO ap-
proach the ideal state, If he Is to get
out of life some of the fullness or JOY
with which it aibounds, than the one
used above for text. 1t teaches mum
IN ba mereaf,1l. Not only that, but II
elbows that no one can expect to OBJ
tain rnercv If he is not me-ciful Inc
desire of every man is to have mercy
shown him. The making certain OF ITS
se DC a
snv man could expect. or as could De
given. To attain such re"aro' II 10
merely necessary that man should ex-
tend mercy to others, that ne shoulo
assist the poor and distressed to the
full extent of his powers; tnat ne
should he forgiving to those who wronS
him or seek to do him injury; 1nat ne
should be unwilling to give pain to 9TH
ers: that he should be foroearing anu
fill of pity The man who can so OF
der his state of mind and his ways Is
on the road to solid contentment ana
.. felicitous peace. In fact he is tnere'
To those who have not tried 1t, the
satisfaction which comes from show
ing consideration and mercy to others
is the greatest that a human can en-
ioy. And more people should partlc1-
pate in 1t.
Everybody is familiar with the words
of Shakespeare on the subject OF
mercy. They have baen much repeat
ed but constant handling has not soil
eli their beauty or destroyed their
forcefuI philosophy, forceful because 1t
rings SO true. They'll bear repeating
again.
The quality of mercy is not strand.
1t droppeth as the gentle rain from
Upon the place beneath: it Is twice
bless d.
1t blesseth him that gives, and him
that takes:
TITS mightiest in the mightdest; it
The throned monarch better than hds
crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal
power,
The attribute to awe and majesty.
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear
Of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway.
1t is enthroned In the hearts of kings;
Ii is an attribute of God himself;
And earthly power doth then show
likest Gods,
When mercy seasons justice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
HUNOR or THE DIP

Stranger (mysteriousy)-rd like to get
into a gambling game OF some sort.
Where can I go7 Tired Looking Man
(whispering)-Over to the office of that
justice of the peace. He'll marry you
st. Louis Star.
"Ah, Mr. Jimsolli" exclaimed the kitten
ish lady with the plenftude of power on
her face, you must remember I am a
daughter of Eve We'll. honestly" re-
piled the laundering man, you don't look
half that old."-Chicago Post.
Higgins-How were the aeropiane races
yesterday? Wiggins-Good, only for the
fact that the track was too heavy for
making records. Higgins-What do you
mean? Wiggins-They were pulled off
over Pittsburg, you know.-Puck.
Ushe--Ladies, the audience wishes yo,,
to keep still during the performances
Ladies-HeaveEs! Is 1t possible that the
fore?-Cleveland Leader.
First Young Doctor-When will you be
tor-Pm waiting now for only three op-
eratfons more.-Life.
Hes a stinggy old curmudgeon, isn't
hep THE worst 1 ever saw. Why he'd
haggle over the cost of building a sDite
ce"-Chicago Record Herald.
Putton-Ayres-I am caviare to the gen.
eral you know. Miss 1nnocent-Oh, are
you really? My brother is In the militarv
too-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

the stockholders in a corporation
frequently hold the bag" as we'll
4 y
is there anything OF any possible
consequence left for the would-he in
ventors of the future?
4 4
Girls have this advantage over boys:
II they get tired of their family names
they can change them readily.
\ y
This is also the season OF the wear
when picnics are in order but that's
not much on which to commend it.
X X
Evidently the limit in feminine
co1nures has not been reached as vet.
They appear to be growing more mar
vellous and more ridiculous every day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

[From the Atchison Globe.1
An Atchison man who has been sick
a long time is doing very well: The
doctor has come once a day for three
months, and SO far hasn't found any
thing to be cut out.
A woman who is too thin not only
looks better than a woman who Is too
fat, but her friends can say she is
slender" There Is no pretty word
which describes a fat woman.
The girls of these days have so
many more advantages than their
mothers enjoyed. They can spend $50
for hair. and their mothers had to be
content with what the Lord gave them
In this issue we change girls
name from "Flossie" to Florence
The girl is over 20. and when a girl
called "F1ossie" reached that age, it is
a kindness for a reporter to change
her name to Florence In a personal.
An Atchison woman, a great church.
goer, says: MY idea of perfect hap
piness would be to live near my
church, and have nothing else to do
but attend services. Then / would
have two extra pastors hired, and have
services three times a day. oh, would
mt It be sweet!'
A well known Atchison man says his
wife never smoke cross to him but
once Several years ago he remained
out until o'clock in the morning. and
Wnen ne E6luIn6u nome MS VIE SdIO
to him: ST suppose she turned you
out, or you would be there vet"
We know young wife who seems
to be model. Wed like to write
her up and print her picture, good
wife is so important to the success of a
man Many wives inherit nagging
WAYS from mothers or grandmothers
who have had careless husbands: so it
often happens that a husband who is
really a pretty good fellow isn't treat
ed fairly.
"You are liable to change your
oDinions. I have hated town cows
many years, but two years ago. by ac-
cident, bought a good one, and have
been enthusiastic about her ever since.
1t is a Jersey: so small she is called
Rab. because she looks so much like
and never makes any trouble. And
the milk she gives Is nearly butter
Parson Irvine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

accompanied it.
Flora Tillinghast gives this as her
contraoution to the cause of pure
She is an angel" declared the Rev.
Bede TO his inner consciousness.
Wnen he sought the generous giver
70 thank her for her welcome aid
she disclaimed modestly any especial
merit for her act and began to in
beginning the work. She manifested
the most absorbing interest in the
entire business, and together they dis
cussed materials. workmen and even
sand for the mortar. She seemed to
be informed on all these points.
she displayed wonderful energy in
Iurtnering the work. Every day she
drove down in her gay little runabout
TO inspect progress, and the rector
was often at the Rookery, the big,
weather stained cottage in which
Miss Tillinghast and her aunt were
living. Flora declared that she, would
remain at Eel Inlet until the chapel
was finished. and she kept her word
II was not until late in the season
that the Rookery was closed
A short time afterward the Rev.
Bede Pomeroy was the guest over
night Of a bachelor friend who had
been his classmate at college AS
they sat before the cheerful fire log,
after a dinner which disclosed the
abundant resources of the city mans
establishment the rector told the
story of the completion Of his chapel.
He gave every detail infinitely neg
lecting nothing but the name of the
woman who had made 1t all possible.
At last his friend called his atten-
ton to the omission. In response, the
Rev. Bede took from the inside pock-
ct Of his clerical coat d tiny miniature
set in silved case.
Flora Tfllinghast!" almost gasped
the other man.
do you know herr"
why, yes" he laughed hesitatingly.
Everybody knows her Old Tom
Tillinghast's heiress, you know. Spleen
did girl-fairest ever. Every marry
ing man in town has tried his
chance"
Have you?'
Eyes"
There was a protracteJ silence. At
last the rector rose and put his hand
on his friends shoulder.
Flora has promised to marry me
after Christmas" he said, "and I
want you for my best man."-(Copy-
righted 1910 by, Associated Literary
PreSs.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1


The free advice you get is usually
worth less.
The self-made man beats nine taiIors
out of a job.
Bread is not the musical composers
only staff of life.
But woman can't be arrested for
holding up her own train.
A poet takes a great load off his mind
when he buys a hair cut.
The frenzied financier uses the little
suckers as bait to catch the big ones.
Nothing pleases a woman more than
to have some other woman envy her.
Even the pessimist doesn't seem to
be in any hurry to quit this world
Sometimes a girl imagines that she
is in love when all she needs is a
square meal.
occasionally a lazy man is up with
the early bird that is served at a. m.
with a cold bottle.
There is something wrong with the
woman who isn't as anxious to make
peace as she is to start a rough house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
CHILDREN.

n
m m Hetle people from the hills of Dawn.
e ~ nat ser a-straying hftherward your feet,
peaks,
stu dewy, from her wales of asphodel,
anu All tne iucence Of Gods unvexed
stili shining In your confident, clear eyesf
was It some new-spied flower farther
Ine western slope. whose gaudy tints
some noddng. dusty daisy whose frank
Outvfed the breath1ess, stirless purity
VI asphodels that like unnoted stars,
Sio" Whlten on the MINDLESS fields
elysian?
SO soon the dust upon the tender feat
mat SLOW and slower trudge, the strain
ing eyes,
The reaching hands, grown tired OF pluck
ing now.
Yet clasping to the end some wayside
Charles I. Rogers, in the Century Mag
azine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
This Is our ANNIVERSARY.

rms Is our anniversary.
name years ago today, a weIl-mean.
,Eg put misguided editor dragged the
writer ofthese gems awayf from the farm.
other promising young farm hands
lave nao their futures wrecked in the
same manner. but this Is an unusually
ssu case. Although the writer has on
ratany occasions been told that he had
nisseo MS vocation, and should re-
. .uLn 10 the bosom of nature and the
| I,uing cultivator, he has never been
aole to make the trip Since he began
tt.,1mspaper work. all farmers look upon
i ias expressed desire to trust his farm
implements to the tender mercies Of
the renegade agriculturist.
ON 1ahv an nothing else of importancs
Word that LII Artha Johnsine has q
Dran new punch. They seem to think
enat this new punch has a lemon in It.
The Russians are rapidly talrang on
american ideas. A party of RueeiaYl
Eava4 students, desiring to haze q COM
,aue. TIED rope around his neck and
iert MIN in suspense.
Guthrie ,Oklahoma.s effort -, nrsvers
me removal Of the state capital in quite
aHtusinS-but we would not mention
lne Iact X We happened to be In
1uenrle- where 1t is taken seriously.
Aovices from Washington that Naval
contractor ]. It. Sweeney has myster-
aousiy disappeared. However. there
are other Sweeneys to whom we may
Oncials OF New York wireless teie-
graph company are in trouble-arrest
ana fraud order. Meanwhile the conn
pany is in the air
When we get time we will make q
colection of the pictures Of Mrs. Por-
Ter charlton. They will be filed in our
picture morEue under the head of ssher
| Infinite variety"
Having SO far escaped without per-
| with S
OUR DAILY CLASSIC.
The Flowers Name"-Robt. Brown
| ing.
Here's the garden she walked across:
LOOK at the wreck she LEFT behind:
onions and cabbage a total loss
Lettuce and radishes hard to find.
o. what would you do with a dame like
| that
| (She weighs ton, if she weighs an
| ounce
| Would you give her a diet of anti-fat
! Or throw her down just to see her
bounce?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
How Do You Take Your Defeat?

The way man takes his defeat is a
pretty good test of his caliber. The
strong man uses his failures for step
ping stones instead of stumbling
blocks.
I know a very successful young man
who has made it rule of his life to
use every misfortune that comes to
him as a point of departure for some
thing better. He has had losses and
which would have crushed
most men, but they only stiffen his res
olution. nerve him up for a new start.
They only make him more determined
to conquer the next time.-Success
Magazine,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the state Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate of ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month (by
mail onIy.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town the
State journal will be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Finger prints are assuredly great
things. Not only are they considered
well nigh infallible in the identffica-
ton of persons and are therefore most
valuable in the detection of criminals
They also work the other way in free
ing persons from the suspicion of be-
ing mixed up in a crime. That's how
the finger prints found on the window
of the house in Leavenworth where
Mrs. Schultz was murdered. have work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

There is congenial work a-plenty for
Colonel Roosevelt these days at
Ebensburg, Pa. where two lions, an
elephant, a leopard, a hyenaa, jag
uar and an ibex, escaped from cir
Gus, are running around loose and ter
rifying the natives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press-I

[From the New York PressI
An excursion when other people GO
on it becomes a tour when you do il
yourself.
The first time a man comes home
late it's q surprise to his wife; in tha
course of time for him to come early
is shock.
rather win a lottery ticket than
make twice as much working for il
The drst thing a man does when he
gets some money is to hurry up ara
spend 1t. SO he can have q grievance
against society for his not saving il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Topeka and Kansas now have an
aero club, but its members are not yet
possessed of any aeroplanes or dirigi-
bles. In other words it is something
like a mothers congress where most
of the stellar roles are taken by wo-
men who haven't any children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

One thing is certain If the political
letters which have been fitting htther
and yon in the state during the pri-
mary campaign are collected and pub
lished in a book. it will fall far short
Of getting a place among the six best
sellers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Leslie NJ. Shaw is authority for the
statement that the people of the south
know nothing about political condi-
lions. IN that cases''t remarks the Chi
cago Record Herald, 1.-THE people Of the
south ought to be reasonably happy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Our fellow criminal, D. CASTOR, en-
quires to know why on the ball park
line, outgoing loaded cars take the
siding for empties coming in. We view
with alarm the ignorance of D. G.
Since the invention of railroads, all ex-
periments along the line of running
two cars on the same track in oppo-
site directions, have proven impractical.
Hence, 1t has become a matter of Gus
tom for one of the cars or trains to
stand aside while the other is passing.
Advice to Richard: Don't tear down
your Frisco arena just yet. We may
DE able to arrange for a 20-round go
between yourself and Governor Gil
lett.
Judge John c. Pollock chose for the
scene of his summer vacation, q small
island in Lake Huron. The troubles
of the federal judge are liable to re-
call to his mind the words of the more
or-less poet:
20 for a lodge in some vast wilderness:
Some boundlcss contiguity of shade.''
And Governor Gillett has establish
ed his calibre beyond further doubt: It
is ..z2 short.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

If 1t is not impertinent to inquire,
how is the work progressing incident
to the raising of the Maine? Some peo-
pie are getting the idea that it is go
ing to be prolonged to a period equal to
the time it took congress to make the
appropriation for this purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

All hail to the wheat harvest which
has just begun in Kansas. It is GO
ing to take 10000 extra men to gather
in the sheaves. And a couple of
months ago the crop killers" were
delivering their miserable yells that
the Kansas wheat crop for 1910 was
going to be little better than an utter
failure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

According to a government report
the great majority of the operatives in
the southern cotton mills, men as well
as women and children, earn less than
81 a week. Surely the cost of living
cannot be as high in the south as it
is in other sections of the country If
It is these mill operatives must have
to worry along on a diet of corn pone
and ho-ninv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

If congress adjourns on June rs, it
will assuredly be a red-letter day for
those congressman who are seeking
denomination and who have had ac-
tive opponents in the field for several
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

II the Waters Pierce Oil company
gets as hard a rap in Oklahoma, where
& suit has been brought against it for
violating the antitrust laws Of the
state, as it did in Texas, the directors
of the concern will probably feel like
closing shop and quitting business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Now that the good, old summer
time has finally arrived the individ-
uals who were kicking the hardest
about its delay in coming are protest.
ing equally as hard against the heat
that is incident to it. Such is human
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Dave Leahy has concluded that
fighting windmills'' does not pay, but
he appears to be continuing to do his
part to keep the political windm1lls in
Kansas whirling around on their way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

The strenuous company 1t was
keeping probably accounts for the ar
rival of the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria
in New York harbor several hours
ahead of its schedule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

ed out so far. And maybe they'H re-
suit in the apprehension of the perpe-
traitor Of this most OUTRAGEOUS crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

The estate left by the late Lucky
Baldwin only inventories $1O,9So,S o1, &C
cording to the press dispatches. Kind
" notice the word only"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
RACK FROM CANADA.

Census enumerators have made the
discovery that many American farm
ers who sold out and went to Canada
are coming back to the United States
ard are resuming business in the west
where they left off when the Canadian
boomer captured them, After actual
trial they found conditions less allur-
ir 2 in the Dominion than they had ex-
uected. and decided that they could not,
for many years to come, if ever, offer
real Improvement over things as they
exist today south of the line.
This is not surprising, and, as the
enurnerators indicate, the return OF
Americans who went north will con-
tinue. The fact is that. without dis
pcragfng the Canada soil. its resources
and opportunities, there never was q
time nor country that offered greater
inducenent for working the land than
the present in the United States. Land
of every description ds available here
serniarid, requiring Irrigation. and the
deep, black soil that is neither sus-
oeptible to nor dependent on artificial
raeans of watering; and, more than
that, the system of irrigation. backed
by the government, is being pushed
with ample capital and energy so as
to place the reclaimed area within easy
reach Of men in most moderate cir
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Summer has formally arrived in Chi
cago. A heat prostration has been re-
corded there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
FROH OTHER PENS
JouRNAL1sM,s GOLDEN AGE.


President Taft's little disquisition on
journalism, with it's incidental refer
ences to newspapers and newspaper
men, was rather better than such
things commonly are; but, as usual, it
revealed in several particulars the in
ability of the outsider to understand
the combination of business, trade and
profession which to those inside of it
seems to have no mysteries at all. The
president repeated, for instance, the
long familiar statement that the news
paper of today differs from those of 20
or 80 or so years ago in that while
now the news receives most attention,
then it was the editorial utterances
that made value and reputation.
That is right enough, as mere mat
ter of uninterrupted observation, but as
basis for the conclusion drawn by the
president and SO often reached by other
people-that the editors OF today are
different from, inferior to and less IN
fluential than their predecessors in tho
golden age OF journalism-is without
anv foundation in fact. Newspapers
always printed all the news their re-
sources and their facilities enabled
them to get. The better and more pros
porous ones get more of 1t nowadays
because they can, and that is all there
Is to the much-lamented cnange.
The supposed superiority OF the old
time editorial articles is pure Illusion
with no foundation in fact, or none ex-
cept the one fact that when the news
supply was scanty the comment On II
attained q comparative Importance
which it now lacks.-New YORK Ilmes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

having nothing else of Importance
on nand, the press agents pass the
800 .nat LII Artha Johnsing has q
.h Al new punch. They seem to think
that this new punch has a lemon in IL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Mnen we set time we will make q
collection of the pictures of Mrs. Por-
Yer charlton. They will be filed in our
Infinite Variety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Officials of a New York xy,relaas +aiA-
graph company are in trouble-arrest
and fraud order. Meanwhile the COM
pany is in the air.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

me Russians are rapidly taking on
american ideas. A party of Russian
EaxaA students. desiring to haze . COM
left him in suspense. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18

Guthrie ,Oklahomass effort to prevent
me removal Of the state capital il quite
1InlusinS-Dut we would not mention
Guthrie where it is taken seriously.