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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
THE UNKNOWN ROAD.

''The pleasures of the unknown road
are many and varied" writes Walter
! Prichard Eaton in an entertaining
article on Roads in the May Scrib-
ner. First among them, of course. is
the pleasure of the curve. 1 have
taken a curve in an automobile. Doubt
less 1t was a very beautiful curve, but
what 1 was aware of was a hoarse
honking, a lurch, the crunch of gravel,
the mutter of the owner about tire re-
pairs and these abominable country
roads, and then the renewed monotony
of watching a white ribbon rushing to
meet me- That is not the way to know
the pleasure Of the curve. AS you ap-
proach 1t on foot, you pause. You no
tice first, perhaps, the beauty of its
line, a living line swept on the green
canvas of the earth with one sure turn
of a giant v7rist. Then you notice
anew the wayside foliage, thrown into
prominence ahead because, on the
curve, you fcce it. There is every
shade of green, from blacklist fir to
brightest emerald. The hemlocks bank
their layers or rich, heavy shadow; be-
hind them rises a birch in virgin white
and fran, translucent green and be-
hind that a giant chestnut thrusts up
boldly against the blue sky. Perhaps
between is a glimpse Of the mountains
or a pasture ridge. Then you let your
eye follow the curve of the road once
more. 1t flows with it's beautiful line,
checkered with shadow, into the
woods. through the Gate of the Cedars.
And here the mystery allures once
more What lies beyond that curve ?
What vista awaits down the cool aisle
of the evergreens? How far and how
we'll will you fare? So then you re-
sumo your tramping, and, if your stride
Is good and YOU possess imagination,
as you swing around the curve you
can get the thrill of it, that peculiar
thrill of counteracting centrifugal
force, without resort to a motor car.
and without the sacrifice of those deli
cate beauties and quiet allurements of
the Bonded road"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

rFrom the Chicago News.1
Many a headstrong man is weak
minded
Flytime is responsible for good
many e1opeme nts.
Doesn't a chicken fight come under
the head of fowl play?
A man always tries to conceal his
vices under his virtues.
Woman is a thing Of beauty and an
expensive joy forever.
He's a poor house painter who is un-
able to put on a good front.
Make your own foot prints instead of
following in the other fellows.
Money Is about the only thing that
can get tight without taking a drink.
Some men seem to have a grudge
against themselves, and we don't blame
them.
We feel sorry for a man who hasn't
sense enough to make use of his good
judgment
Every time man makes a serious
mistake it lessons his confidence in
himself-and others.
VIII does a woman always hold a
screen door open when talking to some
one on the outside?
When you hear a woman say she de-
tests compliments it's a safe bet that
they do not come her way.
Don't spend half your time telling
what you are going to do and the other
half in explaining why you didn't
do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Spring has camel
Throw the winter f1anneIs in the
discard.
The sea of matrimony is naturally
governed by the tied
Book beer is about over, and the
crocus has croaked.
The average man doesn't envy a
dead one till he marries a widow.
Stupidity may not be a crime, but
the dull blade makes the ugliest cut.
1t is perhaps better to build air cas-
ties than to have no ambition at all.
Few of US ever even have an oppor-
tunity of looking a gift horse in the
mouth.
The women who write learned dis
sertatfons on how to live on IS a week
never have to do it.
The happiest woman in the world is
the woman who fiatters herself that
she has the best husband in the world.
kissing breeds microbes" remark
ed the wise Guy. Yes. and more
dangerous things than that" added the
Simple Mug.
Wigg-'Why do you suppose so
many people want to thrown them
selves over Niagara Falls?s Wagg-
81 dare say it's a natural consequence
after receiving their hotel bills
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

l.
Every man engaged in a lawsuit
claims he was forced into it.
The stepmother never lived who
was misrepresented and abused as
much as that word entertain
AS soon as a mans hat is taken
to his wife. How soon can we get
out of here ~
When people get fairly started in
worshiping a CRATER. their favorite
argument is that honest men who OPP
pose him are thieves.
Every time Lysander John Appleton
gets z mustard plaster on his chest, he
feels that he knows lust how that
Spartan boy felt when a fox ate at his
viIals.
Every girl should take lessons in
eloeution. The training makes their
voices carry at least five blocks far
Their when they call their children
home in the evening.
Subject of discussion at the next
meeting of the Lancaster Literary So
Tommy Scott, a 12-year-old boy died
last night; therefore, be it resolved
that Tommy would have suffered a
greater loss had his father died.
man was talking to friend re-
Gently about nothing much. and tried
to remember name. "Oh- what is
that mans name?" he said. 81 know
him as well as know anyone" Then
the friend said: You needn't mind
trying to remember the name; it's not
important We call that real kind
ness.
Americans love twaddle more than
any other people. A leader can excite
the French by appealing to their
cupidity; by promising them the privi-
lege of quitting the stores, and getting
groceries and clothes for nothing, but
the French are not easily fooled with
twaddIe. An American, however, loves
twaddle; a leader can make him cry
any time with twaddIe, and. while he
is blind with tears. and can't see. rob
him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
HUAOR OF THE Day

The ancient mariner told of shooting
the albatross. Were you photographed
in the act and did you save the bullet?''
asked the wedding guest. Sadly the old
New York Sun.
HE used to kiss me every time we
passed through the tunnel before our mar
reflections. And does he do so now?'
asked her bosom friend. mo; he takes q
drink. "-Tit-Bits.
IFS sp4i II eeossibIe? Yes She ASKED ms :,
she could have two spring hats this year
and without thinking I said Yes -
Washington Star.
Pleasant duty!" snorted the Chronic
Kicker. There's another ridiculous ex-
preston" Why sop demanded the man
really be pleasant If it's actually a duty.
Ca tholic STANDARD and Times.
Give and Tal1e.-'I never argue against
see snaik stickin his head out of a hole
1 bear of to one side and say that there
hole belongs TO that there snaik"
clock.-Harvard Lampoon.
A Business Conference.-The Junior
partner wants to see you right away, +" an
Rouneed td the 60okReeRs IT guess lis the
office boy. HE only wants to find out
what new players have been signed -
Washington Herald.
When Two or Three Are Gathered To-
is company ana
three is- Bella-Divorce.-New YqrF
Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
HYHAWKER JOTS

Advice from the Lincoln Repub-
lican: ITO avoid unkind criticism
Say nothing. be nothing, do nothing
A reasonable request from the An
see Halley's comet. will the ladies
kindly remove their hats?"
A query from the Lawrence Jour
nal: How can party of brass col
lars inspect a railroad while sleeping
over night in their special carp"
Charlie Blakesley says that man
who saw Harry Kemp. the hatless poet
of Lawrence, this week, thinks his
name ought to be Harry Unkempt.
The Neosho is evidently a larger
stream than most people thought. A
50-pound catfish was taken from it the
other day. At least. that is report
from Pittsburg.
The Lawrence World declares that
a reporter who makes good on coun-
try paper can usually make good In
the city. while a city broke reporter
often is not worth his salt in coun-
try town.
Old Bill Shiftless, relates the Os-
borne Farmer, as usual, lost 80 cents
the other day playing pitch. When he
went home he found that Mrs. Shift
less had paid 40 cents for a bottle of
dope to put in the water to make the
dirt come out of the clothes easier.
Good Lord, woman.v shouted Bill,
"you are the easiest mark in the
world. If L didn't watch you all the
time some agent would walk off with
our home.'
Some months ago when Sheffield
ingalls,, after a brilliant and fearless
course as newspaper editor at Atchi-
son, suddenly announced that he had
quit editing to take up the oil BUSH
ness, people thought it was queer.
Lately report has drifted out of Atchi-
son that a controlling portion of the
tripod on which Mr.. Ingalls, sat was
bought up and Jerked out by the man
whose knuckles Mr.. Ingalls, had been
rapping the hardest. 1t is predicted
that Mr.. ingalls, will be back in the
business before long, under
that will guarantee him
the privilege of saying what he
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
.1NsuRGENTs., TAKE NOTICE.

An excerpt from Colonel Roosevelt s
speech on Citizenship in a Republic, -
which he delivered at the Sorbonne.
Paris, ought to be thoroughly assimila-
ted ana digested by the Republican
insurgents at home here. the very
men who claim to admire the ex-presi-
dent and his methods and who have a
fond hope that he will lineup with
them when he again enters the public
arena in his native land. In nutshell,
the insurgents" or most of them are
individualists. They have an idea that
their way of doing business is the only
way, Notwithstanding the fact that they
are in a minority until they ally them
selves with members of the opposition
PARTY. Discussing the doctrinaire and
the individualist, Colonel Roosevelt
said;
I'VE car Just as little afford to fol-
low the dCctrinaires of an extreme in
dividualism as the doctrinaires of an
extreme socialism. Individual initial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25

tive, SO far from being discouraged,
should be stimulated; and yet we should
remember that, as society develops and
grows more complex, we continually
ind that things which once it was de-
s1rable to leave to individual initiative
can, under the changed conditions, be
performed with better results by COM
mon effort. 1t is quite impossible, and
equally undesirable, to draw in theory
a hard and fast line which shall always
divide the two sets of cases. This ey-
cry one who is not cursed with the
Pride of the closet philosopher will see,
about some of our commonest phe-
1omena. For instance, when people
hive on Isolated farms or in little ham,
let's, each house can be left to attend
to its own drainage and water supply;
but the mere multiplication of families
in a given area produces new problems
which, because they differ in size, are
found to differ not only in degree but
in kind from the old; and the questions
of drainage and water supply have to
be considered from the common stand
point 1t is not a. matter for abstract
dogmatizing to decide when this point
by practical experiment. Much of the
discussion about socialism and tndi-
viduahsm is entirely pointless, because
of failure to agree on Technology. 1t
is not good to be the slave of names
I am a strong individuahst by personal
habit, inheritance and conviction; but
it is mere matter of common sense
to recognize that the state, the COM
nlu1ity, the citizens acting together,
can do number of things better than
if they were left to individual action"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
MISS M,FIRfsEY AGATN.


Miss Flora McF1imsey. of whom you have
Has made one more Journey to Paris
And she has come back just as blithe as
Or so says her friend, Mrs. Harris:
And Flora no more her sad fate is be-
wailing-
She worries no whit DER the gown she
She loses no Sleep over boas and shawls,
NOR dresses for breakfast and dinners and
balls
Nor dresses for autoing, golfing ana SIGH,
Not rap does she worry DER basting or
OF all the fine buds that once caused her
For she's brought home hat that itself
is q show;
Tt is plain to be seen that this wondrous
Belong to the SWEETEST and vainest old
rooster
That scratched up the barnyard and
It's a Chantecier lid just as sure as
you're baWn."
whispers awed Mrs. Harris, in telling
''Rostand makes it hinself-yes. he does,
and he sends
1t to Mistress McF1imsey to wear over
She dons it tomorrow-provided it's
So Mistress McF1imsey is happy at last;
Contentment IS hers, as she sails proudly
With the king of the barnyard atop Of
Fen to long. trailing feathers and comb
He is dead-but he died in a cause that
So silence the sneer and the comment
For Flora McF1imsey of Madison Square
No longer complains that she's nothing
Arthur Chapman, in the Denver Repub-
lican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
HELPING IN THE GREAT FIGHT.

HELPING IN THE GREAT FIGHT.
A small but none the less effective
brochure has been issued by the Inter
national Typographical union on Its
Battle Against Tuberculosis" 1t is
being scattered broadcast throughout
the country, and will no doubt be of
material aid in the general conflict
against the great white plague. Among
other things, It is a compendium of the
simple and reasonable rules for living
which have been laid down by ex-
perts on consumption as being the es-
sential precautionary measures against
the development and spread of the
dread disease.
In addition to its Home and Tubep-
culosis Sanatorium at Colorado Springs,
this union, as it is most correctly
stated in the little pamphlet in ques-
ton, has been in the forefront of the
battle against tuberculosis which is
now being weged for the elimination
Of this curse on the white race.
Through the typographical Journal,
the official organ of the International
Typographical union, the membership
is advised each month OF the progress
that is being made in the prevention,
treatment and cure of tuberculosis,
and the editors are diIigent in search
ing for the latest and most approved
though on this subject. The Typo
graphical Journal reaches each one of
the fifty thousand members of the In
ternational Typographical union, and is |
thus an effective agent in the cam |
paign against tuberculosis.
Local unions of the International |
typographical union, o. which there |
are nearly seven hundred, are working
md
these committees aim to get before the
local members the great danger OF
working in filthy and poorly ventilated
rooms, and to also urge |
upon employers the necessity for re-
forms in this respect. Where employ
ers refuse to act, our local unions are
advised to instruct their tuberculosis
to go direct to the boards
of health and insist on action by these
official bureaus. AS a result, the phys
ical character of the composing rooms
is improving, and employers are real
izing that healthy workmen are good
business asset. This may be a selfish
view, but if selfishness will accomplish
the object sought, it will all rebound to
the benefit of the wage worker, in that
it will secure for him healthy, pleasant
and comfortable quarters in which to
earn his livelihood.
These benehcent activities of the
union might well be fol-
owed by all 3he other labor unions in
existence, and especially those whose
members have to pass their hours at
aard labor INDOORS Some other unions
nave taken up this work but it is not
being pressed by them as vigorously /
Is it, should be. 1t is movement in I
which all the labor unions should {
stand with their front feet on the firing
inc. Surely If the Typographical ,
lnion is able to accomplish much good !
n this direction, other unions can do '
he same thing. They ought to try, l
anyhow. And trying they will sue {
,eed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
The stomach Telescope.

The stomach telescope" or gas
troscope, invented at the London Hos
pital last year and described in this
column some four or five months ago,
has proved to be of the greatest value
in the diagnosis of stomach disorders
An eminent surgeon recently referred
in the highest terms to the advances
lately made at that hospital in the
early detection of diseases of the stom-
ach by means of this instrument,
which will in the immediate future
probably come to be part of the equip
ment of every up-to-date hospital.
The gastroscope now enables the ply
stefan or surgeon to actually see for
himself the exact condition of the
whole of the interior of the stomach
the slightest liberation, growth, or
other abnormality in the lining MEM
brane being thus readily observed. To
be able to do this is of the very great
est Importance in suspected cancer of
the stomach, where the only hope of
cure lies in the eradication of the can
cerous growth at the very earliest
moment. This means that the in
creased use of the gastroscope will in
the future save many lives that would
otherwise inevitably be lost through
that dfsease.-London Telegraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

AS a matter of fact, people with good
common sense are few and far between.
y n
When all is lost save honor it's hard
er than ever to meet the monthly bills.
X X X
Nobody ever has very much to say
about the skeletons in his family closet.
X e
Watching the comet will nowadays
be a convenient excuse for those men
who don't get home until morning.
y
Many individuals attend every ball
game who consider themselves far
more capable of running it than is the
umpire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
Famous MolIycoddIes.

G. Loves Dickinson, the Englishman
who has written sysposiums on Gull
ture, sad comments on American cow
boy crudity, and the immortality of
American journalism, as well as the
general insufficiency of Western civili-
zation as compared with that Of the
Orient, has recently given an instruc-
tive discourse on "Mollycoddles and
Red Bloods."
The red blood is the man of action,
the mollycoddle the man of the pale
cast of thought" Hamlet is a molly
coddle and Fortinbras red blood.
The greater number Of artists, poets,
and musicians are mollycoddles. Ben
venuto Cellini was an exception. He
was a terrible red blood, but, then he
was not so very much an artist. in
spite of the fact that he wrote one of
the best photographs in existence.
But his sculpture was uninspired.
Mollycoddles are despised by red
bloods, but red bloods are admired by
and laughing at mollycoddles, and end
by loving them too well. Mollycoddles
are subtle and insfdiou90 and just be-
cause they are not controlled by their
red blood. not having any. they OBJ
serve and study women. as they do
some other things. more painstakingly
than do the red bloods. and so. ulti-
mately please and fatter and sympa-
thize with women's natures in a way
that is impossible for red bloods to do.
An old definition of an artist COM
prises the quality Of weakened vi
tally. AS long as one is full of red
blood one does not so completely look
at things. In a crowd of boys there is
blood one does not SO completely look
on at the play of others He is the
m ollycoddle. He has not enough red
blood to join in the sport. but he can
admire the game from the outside.
The mollycoddle is often a critic.
Oliver HEREFORD once defined the critic
as the man who peeks through a hole
in the wall to see and admire the
frolics of the Graces and MUSES. dis
porting themselves in the beautiful
gardens. He is your true mollycoddle.
Most people are redbIoods. Some
are mixture of red bloods Some
coddle. There are few out-and-out
mollycoddles, and they are distrusted
and disliked by society. although there
voted to them. 1t would be terrible
thing, marking the near approach of
the last trumpet, if most people were
mollycoddles. But a few of them are
necessary. They act as recorders of
the meaning of life. They are the
Greek chorus. aloof from the drama.
comm enting upon it, explaining its
But they are always in dan
ger of being stamped out by the red
oloods, who hate the sight of them and
try to exterminate them by all the
means in their power.
That the mollycoddles are necessary
20 civilization is shown By their per-
in the fact of the most vigor-
JUS persecution. They cannot be sup
pressed. They subtly and palely en-
lure and insinuate their exasperating |
meaning into the irrational, vigorous
low of ltfe..-New York Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25

A lot of the old masters may be
fakes, but the news will create no
CONSERVATION in the last column OF
this page. The writer never expects
to be stung on the odd master" prop
oSition, as the offer of a painting at a
price within reach would remove the
necessity of an expert to prove it a
fake.
The joke about the dangers of can
ming cook is not always a joke. Re-
cent dispatch from New York states
that a boarding house mistress who
attempted to discharge her hash con-
cocter was beaten up with a rolling
pin. Moral: In divorcing the family
from the cook, the first thing to do IS
to call in the police.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
FRON OTHER PENS
CAPE TO CAIRO.

Only few years ago men still spoke
of Africa as the Dark Continent and
regarded Cecil Rhodes scheme of q
railroad from the Cape of Good Hope
to the shore of the Mediterranean as
visionary-at least. so far as the pres
ent age was concerned. Today that
gigantic railroad enterprise is within
measurable distance of completion
and there are actually discussions now
and then here and there. of the de-
STABILITY of paralleling it with a rival
line.
The road is now in complete oper-
alton for a distance of about 1900
miles from Cape Town. That means
that it has not merely traversed Cape
Colony and the Transvaal. but has
crossed the Congo border and has pen
etrated that Belgian colony for scores
of miles Moreover. the route has al
ready been surveyed hundreds of miles
further and work is being vigorously
pushed. Connections will soon be made
with the navigable part of the Congo
river, thus giving the northern end of
the road an outlet to the Atlantic as
we'll as to the Indian ocean at Beira
There is still long distance between
the point now reached in construction
and Khartum. but it is steadily being
reduced and will soon disappear.-New
York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press

IFrom the New York Press.1
Love letters are certificates of i'm
becility-
Mighty little comes of trying to do
too much.
Good fellows in the crowd are bad
providers in the family.
A big family can keep a. man out of
most other temptations.
The first thing a man gets over when
he marries a woman IS making love to
her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25

Secretary Ballinger has withdrawn
from entry some thirteen million acres
of coal lands in southwestern Mon
tana. Some one will be sure to bob
up with the suggestion that this action
was prompted because Mr.. Ballinger
had an idea that others than his
friends the interests might step in
and get title TO these lands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25

The credit system has been abolish
ed in the Vassar college restaurant,
and the girls will have to eat on the
pay-as-you-enter plan now, notes the
New York Herald and it adds: This
will deprive many a worthy chocolate
eclair of a good hOma''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25

Something in the way of logic from
the Boston Advertiser: We now have
the reason for the extra high price
of chickens at Chicago that the price
of eggs is so high. Next year we may,
therefore. expect a new rise in the
price of eggs. the cost of hens to lay
them being so high,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25

News from Washington indicates
that there is feeling in administra-
ton circles that the Ballinger-Pinchot
investigation should be fastened to a
close. This opinion has been pretty
general throughout the country for
soma time