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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
THE WOMAN WHO WORRIES.

How generally brooding eats into
the life's usefulness of American wo-
men, making impossible clear thought
and practical action when the need
comes, is little realized, says Anne
Shannon Monroe, in the Delineator
for June. Each woman who broods
so centers her mind on her own real
or fancied wrongs that she becomes
incapable of diagnosing her own case
and thus fails to see that she is mere
ly afflicted by a disease common to
women, and one that unfortunately,
she alone can cure. An outsider can
do nothing for the woman who broods
but awaken her to the terrible habit
in the thrall of which she is allowing
herself to go to mental ruin as surely
as though she were addicted to NOR
phine or opium. And to break this
terrible habit requires as much will
power and self discipline as to rid
oneself of the other evil.
Here is a psychological fact: Every
normal woman has, deep buried in her
nature, native current that can and
should control her life. She has
tendency in some one direction, which
can be made to lead her out of what
ever bog in which she may be mired.
The first thing, then, is to put your
finger on the natural bent of your ma
ture What do you love best? Where
are you happiest? What work is not
toll, but pleasure? All, how the tired
eyes brighten!
I wish to put down right here an
other psychological truth, as a sure
plank on which you must cross from
skeptfcfsm to belief: The first step to-
ward doing, be it so insignificant as to
seem to you hardly a step at all,
changes the whole condition of things
about you: a thousand forces begin
to work with you, where before they
were against you. You have gotten
with the current where before you
were against it; and though on the
surface failure may appear to follow
your efforts, you have in reality start
ed things going your way. Nothing
but your own self can now stop you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
A Little Bit of Long Ago.

They come together like the teeth of
a dog, do the frontiers of France and
Spain, and between the teeth is a bone
such a very small bone that one
wonders why it was not swallowed up
long ago-and the name of the bone is
Andorra. The whole area of this lone
ly little nation is something less than
half that of Greater New York; its en-
tire population does not equal that
of one of our great Office buildings.
For want of better name the geog-
raphers have called 1t a republic. but
the Andorrans part their allegiance
carefully in the middle as they do
their hair, dividing it (the allegiance.
not the hair] Between the pope and
the French president. If Tolstoi him
self had framed its government he
could not have built anything more af-
ter his own heart. The heads of fam
ilies-the patriarchs of scripture. YOU
know-elect represe ntatives, who sew
eral times each year saddle their mules
and go riding down to the 400 year old
parliament house, where it nestles
closely in the mountain valley of An
dora la Vieia, to make such few and
simple laws as the well being of their
pastoral constituents requires. So
slight are the expenses of government
in Andorra, for all told there are but
four salaried officials Ono place this,
for grafters), that a small poll tax on
goats and sheep amply meets them ALL
There is no army, even of the smallest
for who is there to fight? There are
no police, for the peasants do their
own policing. When I was in Andorra,
the prison there is but one-was used
as poultry house. There is no fire
department, for the houses are all of
stone. There is no Coinage, for the
people pay in kind. No postal system
is there. either. for when an Andorran
writes a letter. which rarely happens,
he fntrusts 1t to some accommodating
person who is going over the border
into France or Spain.-MetropoIita
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

that he would be prepared to shoot
next morning, but dropped to sleep
like lamb. He was looking puzzled
and doubtful next morning when the
doctor called. but he felt 1t his duty
to his record to bristle up and say:
AS soon as get out of this you
will get into jail!''
The doctor felt his pulse, made him
run out his tongue, renewed the ban
dages and whistled softly to himself.
Then he said:
See here. colonel. want to talk to
you"
''Pil have a judge talking to you in
a week or SOP
"All bluff! Drop it, Pm a young
doctor, but 1 mean to be an old one
some day. I'm not a beggar. I've got
the money to see me through. I've met
your daughter and am interested I
shall call here medically about three
times more, and then / shall call So
cially. If it's case of love. and be-
lieve it will be, shall become your
to roar. You can't beat destiny, and
this is destiny. You've got to have a
medical man in the family to guard
you against apoplexy, and 1 want
father-in-law who can tell me war
stories. That's all Keep quiet today
and no one need sit up with you TO-
night. Morning, colonel"
Three days later the colonel sat up N
bed and told the doctor a war story.
At the end of the week ne told him
two. At the end of three months, when
Miss Mamie sought her mother one day
and blushingly whispered a secret in
her ear, the mother held up her hands
and exclaimed:
Didn't tell you he was a wonderful
doctor the very first day he camel"
"And-and father?'' asked the girl.
''Oh, he won't roar. He's got all over
that. It'll be so nice to have you live
right along here with s.'-(Copyright-
ed, 1910, by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TF'rom the PhiladeIphia Record


An I for an 1 is the natural result of a
meeting between two cyclists.
1t sometimes happens that we can help
others by keeping out of their way.
Marriage is a partnership in which the
husband is very often the silent partner.
A man never knows what a sublime
idiot he can make of himself till he falls
in love.
A thing may be said to work like a
charm. but the trouble is that charms
don't work nowadays
When a man named John Smith Is ar
rested and gives his right name the police
never believe him.
It's one thing to get credit for our good
intentions and quite another thing to con-
vert them into cash.
It's a wonder that some of those pas
sionate poems couched in words that burn
don't set fire to the waste basket.
Wigg-"Young Saphedde talks like a
parrot" Wagg-sI suppose he does. He
never got any farther than the pre-parrot-
DRY school,
Blobbs-"Young Bjones is thoroughly
convinced that acting is his walk in life -
Slobbs-.'Well, he'll probably get all of it
he wants.
so you are really cowboy from Ari-
zona,'' exclaimed the romantic young wo-
man. Why. you are not a bit pic
turesque." Il am sorry replied the cow
boy, "but you see 1 have had very little
time to study UP the fiction in the maya
zines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
A Quaker Wedding.

Before God. and in the presence of
these friends, I, John Smith, take
thee, Jane Doe. to be my wife, and I
promise to be unto thee a loving and
faithful husband" That is what the
bridegroom says at a Quaker wedding.
as nearly at the writer who attended
one last week. can remember it. Then
the bride says the same thing, inter-
changing names and substituting
wife" for husband" After that thew
KISS and sign their names to a doc
ument, which is read before the meet
ing, and which all those present may
sign afterward. That's all, and it's
enough. The young people marry
themselves, taking the covenant with
out clergymans intervention, with
out even presiding officer to say,
I'VE have with us today" ETC. 1t is
a mighty valid marriage ceremony to
those who witness it, and there is a
sweet simplicity about it that gives it
charm and dignity no less than
priestly robes. stained glass, and
organ music could impart.-New
York Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
RECKLEss AUTOMOBuING.


IT came within an ace of being run
I'd had a gun in my pocket L would
have been tempted to shoot the fellow"
This was the remark a Topekan was
heard to make yesterday He followed
it with an explanation. 1t appears that
he was crossing Kansas avenue just
south of Eighth avenue. His attention
was attracted by something which
caused him to look to the left for an
instant. Fortunately he turned his
head in the other direction and found
that fast travelling automobile was
upon him. The driver of it had made
no effort with footing horn or any
thing else to make known his approach.
In fact his attention seemed to be d.
rected towards the crowd or some one
in it in front of the transfer station.
The only thing that saved the pedes-
trian from being run down was a quick
jump backwards and this jump brought
him within a few inches of street car
that had just pulled up to the corner.
1t is just such reckless automobiling
as this in the crowded city streets on
the part of many motorists which bring
them into such great disfavor with the
multitudes, and which make many of
the latter, like the gentleman quoted
above, wish for guns and other things
with which to make reprisals. It is
such recklessness on the part of few
utterly irresponsible motorists which
makes necessary, eventually, the adop-
ton by a community of rules and reg
ulations for the operation of motor cars
that are unnecessarily severe and more
or less of a hardship on the great ma
jority of automobilists who run their
cars with care and judgment.
One would be inclined to think that
no automobilist would be SO insensible
to his duties to the walking public, who
have at least a few rights to the
streets, as to bowl across the more
prominent of the street crossings at a
high rate of speed and without making
a signal of his approach of any sort.
One would think that the utmost care
with the slowest of driving would be
used by Automobiles when they ap-
proach such crossings as those at
Eighth and Kansas avenue which are
used by hundreds of pedestrians every
hour of the day. But automobilists
who take such precautions actually
seem to be the exception rather than
the rule.
Many persons, doubtless, have had
just as close calls to being run down
and injured as the man whose expert
ence is related above. Any one who
has the opportunity of watching the
automobiles rush by the crowded cor
ners near the transfer station knows
that many of them show not tho
slightest regard for the safety of the
people crossing the streets or making
their way to the street cars. 1t is only
the alertness of the pedestrians, and
not the care of the automobiles, which
prevent many serious accidents at this
point and at other street crossings in
the city. AS a matter of fact, the re-
verse should be the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.

TF'rom the Atchison Globe1
1t is funny sight to see an old man
try to run.
Don't let any one tell you a secret: A
secret takes up room and time
Here of late ladies are so improved
upon that they wake up laughing.
Every man thinks he has more than
his share of work, whereas what he
wants is less.
We are willing the preacher should read
any shorter.
Nine hours out of every ten man is
as unsatisfactory to his wife as the
weather is on a picnic day.
If woman is school teacher she can
create greater surprise by getting mar
ried than any one on earth.
It is every wife's opinion that her hus-
ban doesn't pay proper attention to the
children and the screen doors.
If any woman says she lives Bo-
hemian life, set it right down that she Is
mighty sloppy housekeeper.
There are all kinds of people in the
world, including the man who prefers
bakers bread to the home made variety
Ask that when death comes to you it
finds you In neither a hospital nor the
poor farm
Every woman is enough of a jeremiah
a medicine chest, lin case anything should
happen.
In their fight for the people, Circula-
ton and Advertising, the magazines are
succeeding: they are much more powerful
now than ever before.
Country children are taught to twice
refuse a nickel before finally taking it.
and saying thank you," but town chill
dren don't hold off that long.
1t Is. getting. so here of late that it is
will give after leaving this world than
what one will get in the next
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

If Little wanted Jack Jonnsons
mother to do the cooking, the rumoL
that Little is paying the freight Is
probably correct.
The Illinois Central claims that IT
was robbed of 100000 by some OF
its officers. The reduction OF frelgnI
rates and the 2-cent fare law has mace
notice the absence of even mere
bagatelle like $2,00O.000. Prior TO
goveSnment intervention, the stealing
may have been just as large, but IN
visible to the stockholders.
In the dispatch about the bloody up
rising of Mexican insurgents. it was
noted that the gunboat Zaragoza was
lying in the harbor. Judging by for
mer Mexican revolution scares, the
correspondents were not lying in the
harbor, but in nearly everything else.
1t is the opinion of this department
that the poets made some mighty good
starts. and then broke an aeroion
before turning the first stake. Work
ing on this theory, We have endeavored
to improve upon some of the classics,
taking the first lines, as written by the
poets. and drawing therefrom a few
sweetly solemn thoughts which said
poets overlooked. Owing to the re-
strictions of the pure food and eight
hour laws, these illusions will be
given the reader in homeopathic doses,
"a hours apart. Having passed these
good resolutions, we open the disturb
ance with the lead line of q passage
from the late Mr.. Moore's Light of
the Harem," to-wit:
ely to the desert, fly with me,
Climb on the rumble seat" said she;
But he failed to fit with the maiden
bold:
His heart was warm, but his feet were
cold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFron the Chicago

IF'rom the Chicago News.1
What we know about ourselves is most
ly off color.
No man has ever failed in business from
lack of advice.
Those on the inside of a deal can see
only the bright side.
And the way of the transgressor is
sometimes hard to beat.
Lots of people expect applause every
time they do their duty.
Isn't it about time to work up a little
Indignation against the ice trust?
Near-actors are all right in their way,
but give us the old-fashfoned country
hams.
You may as well do a little worrying
on your own account as to let your neigh
bors worry you.
Every man and woman earth has
some good quality, if you'll only take the
trouble to look for it.
1t takes the conceit out of man when
a pretty woman derides his strenuous eff
forts to do something that will please her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's pretty difficult to present a con-
vincing argument to those who are not
willing to be convinced.
X X y
Maybe there wouldn't be so much
kicking about the weather If it did not
invariably go to extremes.
y =
Fat people, as a general thing, are
only sensitive about their size in the
imagination of other folk.
X X X
Persons probably seldom practice
what they preach because they know
the advice they are so free to give to
others is not worth much.
X u
Anyhow this continued raining is a
great boon to the hubby who promised
WHEY to waite the flowers while she
was away. Or rather, it's great boon
to the flowers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
HIS BEST.

he did his best with all his might,
ne iapored on year after year,
And yet his world was seldom bright,
The sky he viewed was seldom clear:
ne gave the best he had to give
ana merely won the right to live
he chung to hope; with purpose grim
ne strove to win the worlds applause;
BUT rev men ever noticed him,
Or cared how dutiful he was:
Mith all the courage of the brave,
Inc best he had to give he gave
one day he learned to cease to care
For rich rewards or for applause;
ne ne, toned for love, and then and there
For love of what he did he strove,
AND straightway all his ventures throve
p; y, klser in the Chicago Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
HUNOR or THE DAY

comforts to which she has been accus-
at your house, and I'm certain that can
complain about the coffee, read the pa
and announce that I'll dine at the club
Toledo Blade.
The cook met at the polls her mistress.
Here, at all events, you've got nothing
on mel exclaimed the former slangfIy,
but with dignity. Except a hat, a wrap.
what else" retorted the latter somewhat
tartly- For there are conditions which
Puck.
The WorkermNo, lady, amt out o.
Convalescing? But from what? The
Worker--From ten pint O. beer and red
'eaded plumber.-Sketch.
"Aw-will you give this note to Miss
May de Sylphington, the-aw-pretty little
You know, who dances in the ballet?''
.That'n be all right, guynor: I ought to
PA, what's an optimist?" "A fellow
who believes that story the papers print
prices. Toledo Blade.
Mr.. Bjones has no social accomplish
ments. has hep 1.-The best variety He
can refuse to sing and stick to it,
Cleveland Leader.
splendid figure?'' Because she has prornA
ised to marry him, 1 guess. Houston
PoPst.
$50 you think change of scene would
Yes, replied the patient wife. Il think
we will locate elsewhere" Have you de-
e asa any gtns 50 rTsbe Yet that But the
got to do something. I'm reading the
sport page to see if we can't find SONS
town where the home team always wins
Washington Star.
Bobby said his mother, sit IN
fG1s chin here told eyy qSi apnd5sds q
know ma %se the qs its se eogRt
chewed this clam?'-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Let us not waste our time velled a.
Temperance lecturer. Let US not w.s4 te
our time in dealing with small saloons
friends. IAN right. boss chimed IN nay ay
you.'-Tit- Bits. Win
Gentleman Swho has just picked up a
you? Tramp-Why, guv'nor. Won 90 : 70
Ior yerset, I've got ole in me pocket 60
What a hideous creature. Jac,9 WI,
matra" oh, the deiieio 5nas ds-i from su-
place as those delightful rubhers same
1ol1t tir,on-tne ones you bought me Ia 80
,,as ICING 70 take summer boarders ia
fossei. I'VE DON'T ns neeG th Farmer cornss
!. IS good idea to have a lot q; ,o put
is as 70 share the mosquito bites lo sas
1o"eT lne average. Washington ST. d
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09
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
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, 1910-06-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press1

IFrom the New York PressJ
Money can always renew its leases on
friendship
Slow walks with girls make quick en-
gagements.
Blood isn't SO often thicker than water
when there's money in question.
Sermons don't seem so bad when only
the rest of the family have to go to hear
them.
If man puts a flower in a letter he
writes his wife she can believe he kissed
1t when she knows he didn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

Next to owning a mammoth oil
gusher, or a rich gold mine, about the
most profitable and easiest job extant
appears to be the management of a
prize-f1ghter. 1t appears that Mr..
Johnson's old manager, George Little
had a contract with him which called
for rs per cent of all the profits that
might accrue from the pugilist's activ-
tiles in the ring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

Reformers in China are demanding
the immediate establishment of a
parliament And it appears to be a.
Chinese custom for such reformers to
commit suicide by way of protest if
their demands for any change in
governmental affairs are not acceded
to by the throne. 1t is likely that
many a callous heart in other lands
than China would welcome the estab-
1ishment of such a custom in their
midst
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

The concessions secured by Presi-
dent Taft from the railroads in the
settlement of the differences between
them and the government over the
proposed increase in rates is about the
biggest victory that has yet been won
in the matter of railroad regulation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

There must be some mistake. One
or more of the city commissioners are
accused of playing politics. The COM
mission form of government has ever
been heralded as the one thing that
eliminates politics from the admins
tration of a city's affairs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

The way the merchants from over
Kansas have fiocked to Topeka in the
face of most unfavorable weather con-
ditions is all the testimony that is
needed of the great popularity of the
annual Merchants week in this city
All possible effort will be made to sub
sidize the weather man to do little
better in his line when the time for
this event rolls around next year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

That dispute now being argued be-
fore the Hague tribunal is character
lied as being International In view
of the fact that it grew out of the
Newfoundland fisheries treaties of
1918 1t would be more to the point
to refer to it as being of the inter-
minable sort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

Predictions of squalls were made
for yesterday by the weather man. If
those things which visited hereabouts
were squalls Topekans will be just as
much pleased if no more of them ever
come this WaY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

If second is made the motion will
be put to fine the Kansas City Star
slab of bacon on account of this
effort which appeared in it's editorial
columns recently: Among the other
bets that suffered when Zbyscko was
defeated in Chicago last week was the
alphabet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

Competing newspapers in almost
every city in the country appear to
carry their rivalry to the extent of
seldom if ever agreeing in their per-
centages showing the daily standing of
the ball teams in the various leagues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

A Chicago man is reported to have
lost $4,000 while travelling on a train
to New York. Inasmuch as he intend
ed to spend the money on a European
trip some people will be inclined to
look on his misfortune as a case of
retributive Justice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

party. And if the Democrats and a
few of their insurgent friends have
their way the grave of the G. o. P.
will be dug, filed and made ready
before long for the holding of final
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

Assuredly the regents of the Uni
versity of Michigan are not obsessed
with modesty. They would like Colonel
Roosevelt to take the presidency of
that institution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

A tablet concentrating the birth
place of the Republican party was I'M
yelled the other day near Jackson.
Mich, with appropriate ceremonies
which were participated in by Presi-
dent Taft and other notables of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

Mr.. Roosevelt explained to the lit
erati of London all about the "big
stick" This was much better than
giving them q whack with it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

Senator Ike Stephenson of Wiscon-
sin has presented President Taft with
a wellbred milk COW. A bread-and-
milk cow should be "a boon to any
family which evades the Sunday night
supper question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-09

Death-dealing earthquakes and vol
cano eruptions are becoming quite as
frequent in Italy as are mine disasters
in this country