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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
LAYHAWKER JOTS

A note of pessimism in the Eskridge
Tribune-Star: The fly just simply re-
fuses to be swatted out of existence.
Things have been Strengthened out at
Crooked Creek, Riley county, by the
good rains which have fallen there re-
Gently.
Lucky joint A Walnut Creek item
in the Randolph Enterprise says: The
Lutheran Ladies' Aid society met
Thursday afternoon at John Peter
sons.
An expert opinion from Miss Carlson
in her Lindsborg News: A hobble
skirt would be all right II it could be
placed over Woman's Whinas in place
of where it is worn.
Remember this, advises VIII Palm
er: Kansas is like some women. She
has her tantrums, but the man who
Overlooks her faults and stays with
her is prospered and comforted.
A little boy was about to be whip
ped by his mother. relafes Ed Howe.
It's all right to whip me-" he said.
but when 1 say enough. 1 want you
to stop That's the rule among the
boys
An effort to square itself with an
i1ate subscriber by the Clyde Farmers
says he went fishing, caught a minus
quantity Of fish, went swimming and
just had dandy time and we forgot to
mention it. We did miss him, we adj
init, but 1t neNer entered our 'nOggin'
that Mr.. Johnson, if you please, could
keep from joking long enough to let the
FISH bite. Charley keeps a joke in the
air all of the time.
Under heading Family Troubles, -
the Pratt Union reports the following !:
sunday evening trouble occurred at
the Professor Rybak home. Mrs. Rybalz
was found stretched upon the floor and
when resuscitated she said her hus-
band had struck her with an electric
fan and laid her out, then took the fan
and went to church to perform his
part in music. The professor says he
did nothing of the kind. but that it
was only one of Mrs. Rybak's tantrums
of which she is frequently guilty. She
left for the East Monday afternoon
supposed to not be a model wife"
Old Ed Howe is quite a philosopher
but he wabbles awfully sometimes.
His notion that every fellow should
make and save enough before he is
fifty to keep him all the rest of his
days, and that he should not try to
make money after that, is too raw to
keep this hot weather. l hold to the
opposite theory. No man should ever
quit work or quit making money
When fellow 'retires'' he might as
we'll consult an undertaken. He will
live longer, keep fresher and be hap
pier if he keeps everlastingly at it. If
he doesn't need the money there are
plenty who do, and there is no better
rcipe for happiness than making 9th
ers happy. Earn if for no other rea-
son than to help some worthy person
or some good cause-that's my doc
trine.-E. ". Hoch, in the Marion
Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
GOOD ROADs.

Residents and taxpayers Of Wakarusl
and vicinity appeared before the coun-
ty commissioners recently and urged
the construction of something real IN
the way of a good road between that
locality and Topeka. They suggested
that a rock road would just about fill
the bill. And while such road would
cost lot of money to build, it would
be an investment worth while. Before
many years have passed Shawnee
county should have at least two of the
best possible roads, running between
its borders. one east and west and the
other north and south. And the sooner
the work of building them is begin the
better.
An unusual amount of money has
been spent during the past year by the
Shawnee county commissioners-un-
usual in comparison with the sums
that have been expended in other years
in road Improvement and bridge
work. 1t has been money well spent.
and the commissioners are of a mind
to keep on going in this direction.
Therefore, they should give careful
consideration to the suggestion that
the construction of a rock road or two
be undertaken.
These roads are costly, as has already
been suggested, but they are worth the
money, if they are properly construct
ed. They are built for all time and
their up1eep is a minimum amount
Johnson county has five such pieces OF
road under construction. It is costing
Johnson county between $1,000 and SIS
900 a mile to build these roads, but
when they get them they will have
roads that amount to something.
In this connection it might be we'll to
state that while Kansas has a variety
OF adequate laws for the building of all
kinds of roads by local authorities, the
good road movement in the state is
handicapped by the lack of essential
legislation in one important particular.
And this legislation concerns the crea-
ton of a bona fide state engineers de-
partment which shall have general SUI
pervision in a way over the road i'm
provement in the state. With such a
department working with the necessary
authority, something like a. systematic
plan for improving the roads through
out the entire state could be developed.
II wouldn't then be d case of every
county for itself in this particular, with
Shawnee county, for instance. building
an expensive rock road to its borders
and then having it continued on with
some other kind of road in the con
tieuous counties. And the state should
spend some of it's money in paying a
share Of the actual cost of construction
of good roads that can be made of ire
mendous benefit to the people of the
entire state. This is done in other COM
monwealths, and especially in those
where great strides have been made in
the past few years in the matter of
building good roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
IN THE WORLD OF TRADE.

Germany and Frances squabble
over Morocco. with England watching
sharply from the side lines, has tend
ed to disturb the normal conditions in
the international financial world And
even though the possibility of actual
war between these powers is remote,
the worlds bankers are taking no
chances and there has been some re-
straint accordingly in business and
financial circles. especially abroad. 1t
has not been felt in this country so
much. and conditions here are in
creasingly favorable AS Henry Ciews,
the New York banker and broker,
writes in his current weekly financial
review:
The controlling factors f.om now
on Will be the developments of the
crops and the prospect of the money
situation. Rains have this week been
so general and beneficial that very lit
tie is now heard Of crop failure. even
in local sections. The cotton outlook
still favors a new record in volume of
production, a factor that has exercised
recently distinct degree of depression
of prices for the staple Wheat and
corn prices have also declined and
have in this way reflected the i'm
proved conditions in the grain fields.
In fact the general harvest outlook has
reached such a stage that he must in
deed be a pessfmist who viii fail to
recognize that we have before us an
other season of great agricultural
prosperity. namely. the ability of our
farming sections to buy the products
of our factories and thus produce a
revival in general business. Exports
of merchandise are continuing on q
highly satisfactory scale and are con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
QUAKER aIEDITATIoNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
They serve their own ends-hats
and shoes.
There isn't anything much tanner
than the social lion.
It's generally when a fellow gets
tight that he let's himself loose.
There is also a good bit of tact in
knowing just what not to do.
How can a man help feeling restless
when even his bills are unsettled?
Some men never succeed because
they are always afraid of doing more
than their share.
The man who refuses to hatter a
woman probably deserves all the con-
tempt she feels for him.
NeIl-'sDid she marry well ?" Belle
No: she says she had raging
headache all during the ceremony"
Hoax-"1dy wife says she has made
another man of me-" Joax-"HoW
does she like being another mans
wife7"
BIobbs-'Yes, he used to be a
bunco man" Slobbs-'sR Reformed
Ell % Blobbs-'sWell,- er-he's run
ming a summer hotel now"
Singleton=''Don't you think one
weeks vacation too short ?" Henpecklse
Not on your life. I always have to
take my wife with me-"
Wigg="How did you enjoy your
ocean voyage2 You know you expect
ed to be seasick." Wagg-"Well
things came up to my expectations"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
A BALLADE OF MIDSUMMER.

BAlLlADE Oh A1lDSONlAlELRs
The rose still comes within the clipt
parterre,
a boon to lovers: still the south winds
There Is a sense Of Iangour in the air:
Each hour that passes seems too sweet
Low croons the cuckoo where the or
Aswoon in dreams from morn to mellow
morn;
The wheat is golden meath a goId-blue
And hopes of harvest kindle in the corn.
The thrush at twilight weaves a silver
snare
of song that quavers till the moon is
high;
There Is an orient altar everywhere;
Each hour that passes seems too sweet
The shriii cicada sounds its sudden cry
In the hot bush. then leaves the silence
An amber ripple runs along the rye,
While hopes of harvest kindle in the
corn.
The mountains call US, stair on stately,
The gIades invite US; we are fain to fly.
Leaving behind the thralling bonds of
each hour that passes seems too sweet
to die)
ForgetfuI Of the web Of ashen ply
To toll whereat were weary mortals born.
Grasping the need the darker days deny.
How hopes of harvest kindle in the corn.
ENVOY.
Love. let US share its glamour, you and I.
Each passing hour that seems too sweet
to die!
Life is at floodtide, of no glory shorn,
When hopes of harvest kirdle in the corn.
Clinton Scollard in the July Columbian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01

stantly adding to our already large in
ternatiOnal trade balance.
our banks are beginning to expert
ence their usual annual demands for
funds to move the crops, but there is
no practical hardening of interest
charges and prospects certainly con-
tinue to favor the position that the
harvests will be financed this year
without any serious strain on money
rates and without the important liqui-
dalton of securities that such a strain
would entail. crop money Will IN
doubleday be very extensively released
before the demands of trade and in
dustry become insistent and our ability
to promptly call in balances from
abroad is a constant guarantee that
the money situation for a considerable
period ahead need not be considered
an adverse factor in the general stock
market"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News
It takes a brave barber to beard
lion in his den.
Things we want seldom please US
after we get them.
good bluff may be more effective
than the real thing.
As matter of fact few persons re-
side on Easy street.
It is easier to look thoughtful than
1t Is to deliver the thoughts.
Don't go out in a rowboat with a
man who says he is feeling rocky.
Why does man invarfabIx write ~,
own name when given a pen to try2
Be sure of Your ability as a hgbtar
before you attack a man who is Scare
proof.
No matter how large a girls bst
"a moonlight night. ps On
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
AUTOMATIC sELF-CoNTROL.

When the piano player first begins to
practice, he spends an enormous
amount of energy and mental force IN
thinking out every movement separate
" and using his will power in making
it: but a Paderewski, through many
years of practice, has made his move
ments so automatic that he can play
very complicated compositions and still
be thinking of something else His brain
and nerves have been so trained that
they make lightning movements with
scarcely thought or effort of the Will.
writes Orison SWEET Marden in Success
Magazine.
Character building is like piano play
ing
The art of all arts is so to trim the
mind that just as many as possible OF
the mental processes which are abso-
lutely necessary to our we'll being shall
he automatic. The great thing is to
establish right habits which will be ex-
ercised automatically.
It does not take very long to estab-
lished a right habit, and if it is encour-
aged. it will serve US a lifetime.
There are a few life habits which, if
formed early and established thorough
~. will change the whole career
1t the child is taught to do everything
to finish, to stamp superiority upon
everything before it goes out of his
hands. and to be truthful and indus
trious. his whole life afterwards will DC
powerfully Influenced without mueh
thought or effort of will power.
Strong characters usually form cary
habits which persist through life, and
which make living and efficiency COM
paratively easy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The man who tries to please every
body attempts the impossible.
If all persons had their own way
there'd be many more failures in life.
Diplomats are not the only indi-
viduals who seldom mean Just what
they say.
Most the old maids and old oach-
elors are that way because of their
selhshness.
Many women indulge in needless
worries that others of the fair sex are
trying to steal their husbands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
HUAOR or TIE DAY

Agent-There is the motor car you want.
You never have to crawl under 1t to put II
right. Customer-You didn't? Agent-If
mechanism the car instantly turns up
side down--New York Call.
II wonder what becomes of the little
girls who dig up the seeds they plant to
see if they are growing" ''They become
little women and keep opening the re-
lfrigerator to see If there is any ice LETT
''Jinx lied to me yesterday in order to
get off to go to the bali game. He said
you are mistaken. heard what he said
Then what was it?'' HE said he would
like to attend his mother-in-law's fu-
neral"-I1ouston Post.
New to the Ways of London Town.-1hs
New Manager Cfresh from Scotland, to
head clerk)-Ye did yerseP no harm rec
fine blow cot for tenpence ha'penny,
WI nice young lady to wait on me; an
dye know, I had the luck to find tive
pence on the table,-London Opinion.
A New Excuse Needed.-The Mistress
And, Mary, wen have that small piece
Of meat as well The New Maid
What cat? The New Maid (surprised)-
Oh, lawks! Amt there a cat?-Ths
Sketch.
Methuselah chuckIed. II remember q.
summer just like this 700 years ago. he
cried. Abashed, the others skunk away
New York Sun.
About All.-Bride-Were you very much
embarrassed, dear, when you proposed to
me? Hubby-Only about e2o, 900 love-
Variety Life.
Too Observation-Disclosures I.assie (whoss
laodie Is on top OF the bus)-You'u get my
fare above. Conductor-Sorry, miss, but I
can't wait till get there!-Everybody'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
An Indian EIone,nent.

The dark clouds of war are not with
out occasional rays of sunshine. When
the surrendered Indians were peace
fully camped along the valley of the
Yellowstone, there occurred one morn
ing a great commotion ir the camp of
the Ogalallas, and the Indians were
running in every direction anxiously
looking for their most Popular man,
the head warrior, Hump, who could
nowhere be found. He was, physical
ly, the finest type of the savage Indian
that have ever seen. He was only IS
years old, but his great activity and
superior courage had made him a
with excitement. They feared that
some harm had befallen hin. and came
up to my headquarters to learn if 1
could give them any information or
assistance. Finally, after fruitless
search, it was reported that the belle
of the neighboring Cheyenne camp was
also missing. She was quite noted
beauty and the pride of the tribe. The
relatives and friends therefore con-
cluded that these children of nature
had resolved to become companions
for life. No formal announcement or
license was required; no ceremony or
music; no tears or cheers. They had
quietly withdrawn from all their peo-
pie. Beside the crystal waters of the
Yellowstone through the forests and
fields, they wandered in blissful COM
partnership together After il was fully
decided that it was a romance that had
taken them away, their relatives i'm
m ediately began to make or gather
beautiful presents for them when they
should return. and after some weeks
they reappeared one morning before
sunrise as mysteriouslv as they had
departed.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles, IA
the Cosm opolitan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01

ByTl Williams. who is trying for a
license as an air pilot, struck COW
while sailing a biplane, and was hurled
to the ground by the shock. while the
machine was driven a distance of two
miles without a pilot
Williams was flying, when suddenly.
as he passed over the brow of a HILL he
came upon the COW, grazing peacefully.
Some part of the machine struck her,
knocking her several feet and turning
her over and over Williams tumbleG
from his seat. but was unhurt. The ma
chine was finally halted by a haystack.
When friends of Williams in an auto
mobile reached the machine the pro-
peller was still running.-Los Angeles
dispatch to the New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
SWAN in birthday CIothes,

Summer styles in municipal bathing
costumes were displayed when five
grimy kids. right off the city street.
jumped into the Bowling Green foun-
tain in their birthday suit. Companions
guarded their two-piece street costumes
while the bathers splashed around ana
dived for pennies that were thrown in
by some of the crowd of a thousand
or so that had assembled.
After the usual lapse of time the cry
Cops" was heard, and the swimmers
leaped from the fountain. The Garden
of Eden for a few moments had moth
ing on lower Broadway, for the kids
didn't wait for clothing. but tucked
into whatever sheltering doorways they
could ind. They were tracked by their
friends and made presentable.-NeW
York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR,
From the New York Press.I

from the New YORK Press
A short sermon makes a fat collec-
ton plate.
People who marry money pay heav-
Ter interest on it than if they bor-
rowed il.
It seems very queer the way a girl
will pick out her ears to get red from
being kissed on the mouth
A man with a big family learns even
how to think boils aren't the worst
things in the world to bear
Some parents aren't satisfied with
having a boy look like his father. but
want to give him an extra handicap OF
the same name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01

next train She said a youne man was
to meet her.
But I wasn't here
NO. Didn't make much difference
to her. though. She hired Elder
Speoner's horse and buggy and a boy
Adams place. Left word that you
needn't worry nor be in 3 hurry. Said
that you might linger alon- and see
the scenery"
But who was the girl I took
away" asked Adams.
name? / don't know Il myself, but
she's a high-fiyer from town on
visit to the Drayton's."
And the other young lady? What
sort was she?"
Another high-hyer. Say, young
man, If your name is Adams want
to congratulate you"
But J. don't SEE
''Oh, yes you do. The first high
flyer probably took you for a chauf-
feur, and she'll be mad about It, and
you weren't here to meet the second,
and she'll be madden yet. Things
mixed up! Got to be Strengthened out.
Apologies to be made. Two high
fiyers-one young man. Take the left
hand road this time"
From his mother and sister the son
and brother received two long and
e~-S ~SN0~-O @CN-AA CO. C~lSAA 80
with:
why, we wanted you and Lottie
Morton to meet, because-because-
and that old horse fell down and
pitched her cut of the buggy and
skinned her elbows, and now she'll
always be mad at you."
But mother and daughter were not
true prophets. After a day in bed
Miss Lottie got up to saw that nobody
was to blame, and Mr.. Booth Adams
felt himself forgiven. He had come
down for stay of two Gays, and he
remained two weeks. In fact, he was
SO interested in "home affairs that
when the other "high-fiyer'' sent him
a letter of apology he Just SKINNED
Through it. He had even forgotten
the station agent when he drove up tC
make inquiries about trains, having
| Miss Lottie with him:
yes, they've put on an early morn
| ing train,'' was the reply. 1--WE heard
all about that flyer at Drayton's
! but
But what?"
1T wouldn't interest you for cent
not noWi'
! And Mr.. Adams turned away with
out even calling him an impudeni
n.-(Copyrighted 1911 by the AS
ISOLATED Literary Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Fro1n the Atcllison Gle

IFrom the Atchison Globe.J
Politeness is called hypocrisy by rude
people.
A progressive is good asset. but
generally a POOR taxpayer.
Virtue is something more than lack
Of opportunity + devilInent
It's all right to make a big splurge,
but somebody must pay the bill
SO few people who insist on going
to the devil are willing to go alone.
People are all somewhat eowardly,
but the microbes in a kiss can't bluff
them.
Not SO many men lose good repu-
tatiCns, however, as throw them away.
Although drums are passe in the
army, the long roll continues prom
inent in politics.
Except wher addressed to the gov
ernor, Il beg your pardon" doesn
me IL q great deal.
Children can usually keep a woman
so busy that she won't feel called
upon to write a book.
If all of yo1r shirts are dirty, it's
probably your own neglect and not
the fault of the laundry.
So far as We are concerned, if pub
fishers wish to reduce expenses, they
needn't illustrate their novels
1t can at least be said Of the crouch
that he doesn't take up your time with
second hand stories.
Only two or three Of the delegates
to a political CT INVENTION are AS i'm
portant as they think they are
Young folks are apt to overestimate
the seriousness Of being snubbed- SO,
also, are older people.
One may accomplish a good deal by
getting busy on the job while await
ing the arrival Of opportunity.
Our notion of superlative patience is
that of the man who waits for the
magazines to read mis- baseball news.
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Full, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

subscrfbers OF the State journal
away from homo during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
@arh dav TO any address at the rate OF
cen cents a week or thirty cents a
month (by mail only)- Address
changed as often as desired. While
ont Of town the State Journal will be
TO you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
tFese short time subscriptions to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01

Twenty-seven divorces in Shawnee
county during the month of July and
only II marriages during the same per-
Tod. ISIS carcely a record that can be
looked on with pride. Rather does IL
emphasize again the deficiencies Of the
divorce laws Of Kansas. And also the
weakness Of the marriage laws. If the
latter were made more stringent there
undoubtedly would not be SO many di-
7rrrces
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YCrces

Attorney General Wickersham turn
ed searchlight OF large proportions
on the electrical trust and it is willing
to mend its ways without 2 fight in
the courts. And it wouldn't be surpris-
ing if many Of the other trusts began
to hunt cover. Still they will not be
brought to the right kind of time until
there is a federal law providing for
their cOntrl and regulation by an in
terstate Industrial commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01

Attention. proiibitory crusadersl A
detachment of u. S. soldiers from Fort
Riley motored to salina the other day
and got so much booze that they crea-
ted all kinds Of disturbances. Nor does
salina happen to be in either Crawford
or Cherokee counties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-01

TIE general arbitration treaties be
tween England and the United states
and France and the United States are
about ready for signature. The pro-
mitigation of such treaties between
England ard France, England and Ger
many and France and Germany would
appear to be more needed just now.