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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

sharp, pointed questions regarding the
reputed find. The assayer nodded
approval of the samples of ore they
displayed.
where's Jimmy Alvin?" he asked
tersely.
The three looked at each other and
Clayton pointed a thumb in the d.
rection from which they had come.
alvin acted that mulish," complained
the young prospector in an injured
tone; he was just as near locating
the claim as the rest of us-but Just
because he didn't happen to scratch
pay dirt and we did, he won't touch
thing! He rode on with us to Horse
shoe Rock-and said he'd be along
later. We argued with him till he
came oni''
Hes right, boys said Purdy
gravely. You three made the strike
E-thats all square-and it belongs to
you. just guess Alvin's unlucky.
Maybe he'll strike next timei"
He says he's going back home and
settle down in the grocery business
alongside of his dad" remarked Mel
vim ruefully, and then as the three
lucky prospectorS moved reluctantly
away, he called back over his should
er and voiced the unspoken words of
his comrades: 81 hope Miss Bess is
well, Mr.. Purdy."
First rate. thank you," said Purdy,
watching them ride down the street with
brooding look in his eyes
He was still gazing when his daughter
white pony pounded around the side of
the house and on his back was Bess, her
face pale under Tapping hat.
Dinners all ready for you, father. I'll
Jim!'
She flew up the street and his eyes
foliowed the cloud of dust in her wake
| until horse and rider blurred into the
a satisfied smile. Il knew it was Jimmy
and he's the cream of a good lotr'
Later, at the assay office, John Purdy
| reported on the samples of ore that the
prospectorS had brought in
You're rich men-every one of YOU
boys. Here's my hand on it-you deserve
all of iti'' he said heartily.
I wish you could argue with Jim and
make him come in on this-there's no use
in him being poor" said Melvin
Jim Alvin's made luckier strike thar
any of you, boys" said Purdy coolly
He's the richest man in town this min.
How? when?" they demanded eager.
Look said Purdy pointing out of the
| window
| Coming down the street the heads OF
| their. ponies close together, and with the
all earthly considerations, were two
riders; one was Bess Purdy flushed and
| lovely under her Tapping hat, and the
other was Jim Alvin-the unlucky pro
spector.
| That's Jim's strike-pure gold" muir
| INJURED Purdy, without looking at the
| three young men.
| One by one, they stole away and sad
| died their horses and disappeared; anC
| there was not one who would not gladly
| have exchanged places with Jim Alvin
| at that moment.-(Copyright, 1910, by AS
| ISOLATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
tFrom the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
Hope is a tire that is not impervious
tc the pulsctures of reality.
The summer girl is on deck, and
there is a boom in hammocks.
The under dog frequently gets more
sympathy than is good for him.
No girls musical education Is com
plete until she learns when not to sing.
What man has done man can do. but
there are lots of things he shouldn't.
Somehow or other the unexpected
rever happens to those who are ex-
pecting 1t.
Mrs. Muggins-"Does your husband
keen a bottle of whisky in the house?"
Mrs. Buggins-"Never for more than
two days"
Sillic 1s-"A man changes his mind
about a great many things after he is
married. Cynicus-"Or mis- wife
changes it for him.
Have you anything that will cure
corns?" asked the customer in the drug
store. what seems to be the matter
with your cor1s?' asked the new clerk
Tomry-"Pop, what do we mean by
a well-read MANI" Tommy's Pop--"A
Nell-read man, my son, is one who
l<,.ows almost as much about subject
as we do
Wigwag-.'Gotrox gave me a cigar
today. He smokes the kind that cost
dollar" Mrs. Wigwag-I should
think he could afford better ones. Why
I paid $50 for the box 1 gave you last
Christmas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
Railroads, Social Side.

The attention which railway compan-
les are inclined to pay to the comfort
of the men in their employment is
shown in the plans of the Philadelphia
& Reading road for the erection of a
large Office building at Ninth and
Spring Garden streets. The building
will be five stories in height and will
cost $257, 0C0. The second or track
level floor will contain besides general
Offices. a large dining room and kitchen
ard an assembly and social hall for
the use OF the members OF the railroad
branch of the Young Mems Christian
Association identified with the road
One-half OF the third floor will be used
for dormitories, bath rooms, etc, for
the Christian Association members and
a major portion of the other half for
Offices for the general relief associa-
ton maintained for the benefit of the
les, one and one-half stories will be de-
voted directly to The personal needs
and comfort of employees.
Railroad managers in the eastern
states years ago were quick to see the
value of active cooperation in the So
cial life of their workers. The Young
Mems Christian Association stood for
social and spiritual betterment, and it
therefore was natural when that or
ganization proposed establishing
branches among railroad men that the
directors of the roads themselves gave
approval. Since then the railway
branches of the association have be-
come an established factor in railway
life. and they have done much to ele-
waite the moral tone of their members
and to provide places wherein railroad
workers could find both recreation AMI
opportunity for self-improvement.
The special heed paid to this branch
Of the service by the Philadelphia &
Reading in the construction of its new
Office building aptly illustrates the high
regard in which the wholesome meth
ods of the association has come to be
held by the men who direct the great
transportation systems of the day
T Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe


It is said of an Atchison woman that
she weeps as easily as a fountain pen
When a drunken man approaches,
run; don't stop to discuss temperance
with him.
Instead of saying. Keep still, my
heart" the advice should be given to
the tongue.
ct never knew but three or four per-
sons who were really literary, and they
bore me.'-Parson Irvine.
The books say man is ''masterful,'
but, in real life, women hand it to him
without sugar by saying he is "bossy."
Every time we hear that we should
love our enemies, it makes US mad; we
don't accept the doctrine. You don't;
no one does.
Being a wife must be tough: she al
ways has the consciousness that her
husband is willing to f1irt a little with
other women.
When woman appears in the back
yard with the bed Stats, and pours
boiling water over them. that is proof
that she is an entomologist.
It is dangerous to befriend a man; he
will gradually expect more and more
of you, and finally hate you because
you refuse his request to kill his
enemy.
when 1 was younger, 1 always had
Great Trouble on hand, but always
got rid of one before another arrived.
But lately 1 have two or three on hand
at the same time. Drake Watson.
Over in Topeka there is a hypnotized
woman on exhibition in a show win
dow: That's nothing, there is a hyno-
tized woman at every wedding, else
there wouldn't be any wedding.
When caller leaves the hostess must
say Come again" at least ten times:
One time less will not do. and if she
saws If tWent-- times she comes nearer
doing what the polite rules of society
demand of her.
A Jim Jeffries is whipped somewhere
every hour of the day. A man will get
the notion that the universe cannot
exist without him. He gets his head
terribly swollen with the idea, quits his
lob. and makes a failure in new town
with a new employer. So much of this
| goes on everywhere that it is a wonder
| men are not more modest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

This was some of the advice that
was given by the great David to his
son Solomon. 1t was passed on by the
latter to the people of Israel. whom
he ruled SO wisely and so we'll. The
world has changed a lot in many
things since the reign of Solomon. So
have its people. But this advice that
was good counsel for the people of SO
many centuries ago is just as good for
those of today. The persons who are
lacking in wisdom. no mere learning,
mind you, but wisdom, the quality Of
being wise, the having of knowledge
and a capacity to use it. the having
of discernment, of judgment, of discre-
ton and sagacity. make up that por
ton of humanity who wallow in sin
and crime, who offend against the laws
of God and man. and who come to no
good end.
Common sense in an uncommon de-
gree is what the world calls wisdom"
wrote Coleridge. That's a pretty good
definition of it. And while the high
est degree of education and learning
that it is possible for a man to ac-
quire is most desirable for everv one
to strive after. still 1t will not neces-
SdIllJ WlSQOII VIII II. AS a
matter of fact, many of the most
learned men in the history of the
world have been far from being the
wisest. The wisdom that counts is the
knowledge of life that is gained
through experience. or that is impart-
ed to you through the richer and ripper
experience of others. 1t results in the
development of a common sense, than
II
steering a safe course through the
world.
If it is acquired and intelligently
used it throws a searchlight on the
shams which abound on every hand
and exposes them. 1t discloses the
pitfalls which line the sides of every
pathway and which are often but
family covered up in the very center
of them. Few are the apparently per-
picking problems which crop out every
day that can not be solved by it. AS
suredly is it a quality that should be
cultivated. Naturally, it is easier for
some people to acquire wisdom than
it is for others. But the road to it is
open to every one who has a DISPOSE
ton to travel that way. Many peo-
pie are blessed with a large fund of
common sense and yet they fail to use
It, The time always comes however,
when they regret. and regret sorely,
that they did not follow their better
judgment
"Exalt her" said Solomon, in con-
tinuing his discussion of the desirable
ity of getting wisdom and understand
ing, land she shall promo thee; she
shall bring thee to honor when thou
dost embrace her She shall give to
thine head an ornament OF grace; a
crown of glory shall she deliver to
thee. When thou goest, thy steps shall
not be Strengthened; and when thou
FUNNIEST, thou shalt not stumble. Take
fast hold of instruction.; let her not
go: keep her. for she is thy Iife.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.l


The eavors you get for nothing are
often worth that much.
Women are like babies; they have to
crv for nearly everything they want.
isn't it better to be a chicken hearted
bachelor than a hen-pecked nusband2
Nearly every little man has a doctrine
that he believes the world will finally
accept.
Some men enjoy show only when
there IS Is minutes intermission be-
tween rile acts.
The heart of a coquette is like street
car inasmuch as there is always room
for one more
And many a man will go out of his
va.y to avoid saying good word in be-
half of his neighbcr.
After e woman has been married
hout a year she is willing to admit
rat her husband doesn't know it all.
When jealousy flies out of the window
IL usually takes love along if for no
other reason than to keep from get
tirg lonesome.
After the average man has reached
the three score and ten mark he can
sum his life up in these few words:
What a fool I've beeni"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
Philosophy of the Midget.

Being small is all right if one
can find agreeable work to do" said
the midget There are fewer incon-
veniences for us than one would think.
People in the hotels where we stay
often feel very sorry for us, because
the furniture is so out of proportion
to our size, but that does not bother
us at all. If the bed is too high. we
can always use chair with which to
climb up to it. A bureau drawer is
very useful for us, and it serves for
everything from an afternoon tea ia
BILE to platform on which to stand
for reaching things. 1t would be nice
to have furniture built to suit us, but
1 have never heard of a home so fur
rlished. You see, there never has been
an entire family of midgets. AS rule,
there is only one in each family, and
the children of midgets grow to full
size if they live. They usually die
when few days old. "-Harriet Quinn
by, in LeSlie'S-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The pen is only mightier than the
sword with the very few who are
capable of using it.
y X =
1t would take a poet with something
real in the way of vivid ina gination
to enthuse over June, 1910.
y y y
Occasionally, a man proposes mar
riage with the fond hope in his heart
that he will be turned down.
X y X
Being selected to serve on jury
these days is not necessarily an indi-
cation of high order of intelligence.
= 3 X
Frequently there is never any rivalry
between a father and a mother as to
which one of them their child takes
after in respect to looks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFrom the New York Fress.l

A loud voice goes a long ways IN
making some people think that back Of
it is a large brain.
If a woman doesn't look her best
when she studies herself in the mirror,
she knows it is lying.
A girl can imagine romance that is
more real to her than steak and fried
potatoes are to a man
A woman seems to think the pleas
anter she is to the postman the more
letters he ought to bring her.
A man seems to be able to get ahead
in the world much faster with good
manners than with good morals.
Some people are so anxious to be
fooled that if nobody else will do it to
them they will do it themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
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 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, 1910-06-11

has stayed on the ground day after
day in hopes that favorable weather
might come along and permit him to
fulfill his contract to a little more
than the letter and provide the people
of this vicinity with one of the sights
of the age. He is here yet and if con-
ditions get right he will make a num-
Der of flights before he leaves to keep
engagements in other cities. He has
broken one such engagement to stay
here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Ebert B. Gary, chairman of the
board of directors of the United States
Steel corporation, is out with a predic-
ton of a further increase in the cost
of living before long This would be
rather disquieting information if Mr..
Gary did not couple with it the pre-
diction that there is also going to be a
general increase in wages. Most of
the much battered consumers will
probably hope that the latter condition
of affairs will antedate the former by
a week or So
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
DIFFICULT PROBLEM.

Here is a difficult problem that is
worrying the wise heads at the State
university at Lawrence: If shark
with vertebAal bones one inch long can
open it's jaws sixteen inches, how big
was the mouth of the shark that had
vertebral bones four inches long? This
simple problem in proportion-which
turns out not to be so simple after all
is worrying the head of one of the as
sistants in the museum of the Univer-
sity of Kansas. A portion of the skele-
ton of an ancient shark was discov-
cred last summer by party from the
university who were collecting in the
chalk beds of Trego county. The verte-
braI bones of this specimen. supposed
to be 10000 years old, are four inches
long. The skull was not found, and the
question is whether the jaws can be
computed from the ratio to Is found
to exist between the size of the verte-
bra and the jaws of a shark recently
caught in the Gulf of Mexico. At any
rate, the Kansas shark had fairly ade-
uuate devouring facilities as was shown
by the number of gizzard stones of the
reptile, plesiosaurus, found with the
shark bones-evidences that he had
used these monsters for food-Atch-
ison Champion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

my suggestion would be that if any
body is depriving himself of needed
sleep over the situation in Kansas,
either agriculturally, politically or
spiritually, he is the victim of a grave
injustice, self-iniicted," remarks Sec
rotary Coburn of the Kansas depart
ment of agriculture. This is mighty
good material for many people to put
in their pipes and smoke of freely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

An innovation was made at the we'd
ding in London of Miss Drexel to Wis
count Maidstone which will be hailed
with glee, if if is generally adopted, by
the parents of the girls who are in
great demand to act as bridesmaids
Miss Drexers attendants did not wear
fancy and expensive hats. But, maybe
the bandeaus of marguerites with Ions
tulle wells which they wore instead cost
more than hats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Now comes the information that a
"bath tub trust" is about to be formed.
And it is said that a rise in retail
prices on tubs of between 20 and 80
per cent is contemplated by the pro-
motors of the new organization. That's
probably the only excuse for the
formation of the "trust"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Evidently the elements are doing
their best to produce a variegated as
sortment of floods in Kansas this year,
although these are things that Kan
sans would have been willing to miss
without feeling the slightest twinges
of disappointment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

The acme in stunts theatrical was
pulled off in New York the other night.
A man secured a box at one of the
play houses there, stood up in it. called
out to everybody present to look at
him, and then whipped out a revolver
from his pocket and shot himself in
the head
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Goodwin Smith. the Englishman by
birth. the Canadian by adoption, and a
forceful friend of the United States,
during his long and helpful career, is
dead. AS a master in handling the
English language, he was a writer
with few if any peers. And his his
tory of 1.-The United States and "The
United Kingdom" are among the most
interesting historical works in exist
ence. They will keep his memory green
as long as histories are read.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

minister's work of day by day is much
more than what he does in the pulpit
on the Sabbath. Most of US who seem
to think that the minister is sufficiently
paid would rebel if we were asked to
do the same amount of work for the
money. But very few clergymen are in
the ministry for what they can get out
of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Here's something else to worry
about. Experts told the delegates to
the sixty-first annual session of the
American Medical association that lep-
rosy is spreading to nearly every state
in the union
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Harvard's trio of oldest graduates,
whose aggregate age is 277 years, at
tribute their long life to habits form
ed in college. The New York World
insists that 1t was the Harvard of
1898. however. which deserves the
credit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
FRON OTHER PENS
NATURALIZATION OF HONDURAS.

NATURALIZATION OF HONDURAS.
One of the reasons why Central
America has been rent by war and
chaos for nearly a century has been
because of the ambition of each state
to secure control of Honduras, owing
to it's strategic position, and thus gain
the balance of power. Guatemala, sal
vador and Mic ragua have. each in its
turn, attempted this means of perpet-
uating their dominating position FOR
the time being, and each in turn has
failed The present deplorable condl-
ton of affairs in Nicaragua is directly
traceable to Zelaya's invasion OF Hon
duras in 1907 when he drove out Pre5i-
dent Manuel Bonilla and set up Davilla
in his stead In doing this he incurred
the i'll will of both Guatemala and Sal
vador which would long since have re-
yersed the order of things had they
not given faith to the Washington
convention.
There is little doubt that the depart
ment of state will ultimately suggest 20
the interested parties that conference
be held for the purpose of entering into
a convention providing for the com
plete and absolute naturalization of
Honduras, which the United States
itself might be disposed to guarantee
The United States could rely on the
earnest and immediate support 0f
President Estrada Cabrera, of Guate-
maIa. and President Figueroa. of Sal
vador. toward the accomplishment CT
this very direct and practical method
of eliminating an ever-present danger.
Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

The recently convicted Mr.. Stamey
has a cork leg. From his record, it
may be presumed that, had Mr.. Stamey
been provided with two cork legs he
would have been regular corker.
The fine points of the great American
game are violated daily in Washington.
Congressman Harrison called, President
Taft refused to "see" him. but did not
lay down his hand.
That peculiar kissing sound you
heard Saturday was Europe's sigh of
relief.
Harry Whitney Treat provided a real
treat for his guests in Seattle recently,
by treating them to stage hold-up.
Whats in a name?" asked Shake
speare. If a married woman's name,
probably all her husbands property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Unrequited love is given as the rea-
son for a recent murder and suicide in
Chicago And there never was a more
senseless cause for the taking of lives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Maybe, now just maybe, there is a
little relief in certain sections of the
Old World that the militant states
man editor-faunal naturalist has final
" started on his way home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Our idea of a cataclysm, says the
Columbus Journal, is when a man ex-
poets to go to the ball game and his
wife makes him go to a lawn-fete.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

curvature of the tail must here
after be considered one of the most
obscure and distressing diseases of
comets, thinks the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

In the modern pastorate there is
good deal of worldly business to DC
transacted, says the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger. The pastors occupation IS
not Just praying and preaching. The