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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-24

Some men prefer to marry widows
because they don't like anything anna
flourish.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-24

Some women hate to worry. but they
know It won't be done unless they
do it
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-24

A bore is just a bore. no matter what
he thinks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-24
THE ARGUS.

sY the J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-24

The money that they haven't got r.
what keeps some people In the straight
and narrow path.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-24

The man who doesn't pay running
expenses Is generally the man who Gre
ates the most
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-24

The winner knows a live oHicial IL
better than a dead candidate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-24

A good opportunity is one who In
sists upon belonging to you and none
other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Did it ever occur to you that there is
such thing as selfishness of obligation
think there is.
Yes, 1 would have given anything to
stay week longer but they wouldn't let
ME pay cent for my board, and 1 didn' I
feel right to, without. 1 know they want
10 be kind, but it really cut my vacation
in half"
The speaker was a Woodworking little
woman. She was persuaded to take a
rare and much needed breathing spell
lnlS summer. One week of this vacation
she spent with some friends who, al
though not much better off in worldly
goods than she, manage to have SUM
mer cottage.
The other week she spent at home he
cause these friends would not let her
contribute a little towards the expense
of the cottage.
So what was undoubtedly meant 1rindl.y
on the part of her friends, ended by
working a great deprivation to her.
from mistaken sense of kindness.
and how often it makes other people
them as in this case.
know girl who is very skillful at
gong little dinner and dance cards Her
trends OFTEN want to get her to do some
tnlng of the sort for them, but although
she always seems glad to do the work
she will never take any payment and so
they do not feel like asking her to help
then out The result il that they nav a
PROFESSIONAL much larger price. =
i,,st 1a asst sumner heard a woman say
Just the other day, L got little neighbor
of mine to take care of my cat while /
was away. OF course 1 paid for its food
ana when l came back L wanted to nav
the little girl for the care, but her mar
ents wouldn't let her take a cent. 7 fell
terrible and of course this summer I
couldn ask her again. 1t would have
Deen great convenience to me and
know the little girl would be glad to do
II ior sne loves cats, but what can YOU
DO? think people are so foolish thai
So do 1.
There are many times when gracious
acceptance of money for services rom
uered, even when the transaction is he
tween friends, is the highest courtes1-
And think those people who will NOT
accept such payment are selfish of obIi-
They want to keep the other marty,
eternaily under obligation. And since a.
everyone knows. being under too heatt,
oDlSaIon Is uncomfortable thar lie reaIf,,
d SeiIlSh state of mind.
~ course there are times when manila
DIer 70 pay Tor things merely out ~ no
iteness or sense of duty.
But l think such offers are easily 4t
cernible. are easily as
+ ar more often people want to nax, for
services rendered in order that the[r ma,
nos leel uncer uncomfortable obligation
an nIl m IN order that they may feel free to |
ASK ASK Tor these same services again some |
Surely in such cases the l1indest r,os,
t cpu1 eeous' most unselfish wav is to Ier |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

At one time he was very near and dear
TO me. When you were a baby-he
often held you in his arms"
You knew me?'' turned to Nor
gan.
yes" he came over and took her
hands in his II am your father,
Mercedes"
She chung to him. sobbing. But
mother said-you were dead
He was dead to me-" Mary told
her Il left him because he did not
love me. l, who would have died for
MIN, had no place in his life-I was
pushed aside for other Interests. That
what men do to women, Mercedes.
That's what men do to women,'
From out of the silence that follow
voice, sternly:
And what do women do to men J.?
You thought l cared only for my pro-
fession." he continued, heavily. shall
l tell you, then. what happened? My
love for you had been the handspring
OF my existence. When you left me
was broken man-today am a ruin
ed one. I have spent the years and
my fortune in searching for you Moth
ing else has mattered. MY income is a
mere pittance, my life tends toward
nothing. That is what a woman can
do to a man. Mary"
She stared at him as one who wakes
from dreadful dream. you cared
as much as that?''
At that moment she came into her
heritage of loving wifehood. She went
over to the man bowed in deem tlefec-
ton before her. You shall stay here
with me, Oliver" she said. II need
you, dear-you can help me with my
people, have longed so often for a
surgeon who could do the things that
you can dove can work together
Mary" he said. brokenly, and she
nj hi \
head pillowed on his breast, she talked
of the wonderful future which they
would spend together
And Gregory and the girl stole away
to the garden, with dinner forgotten,
everything forgotten, except the won
der of the love that never dies
Copyright, 1911, by Associated Liter
airy Press.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
QUAKER NIEDITATTONs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Some grass widows are old enough 20 be
hay widows
Many a man is Kept short through his
own shortcomings
You can drive pen to ink, but you can't
make 70 think
We don't often get show unless we
have the price Of admission.
There is a difference between hoping Tor
the best and really expecting 10.
Nature sometimes plays "A joke by plac-
ing laurel wreath on bald head
A man is known by the company he
keeps. and by the conversation ne hands
out.
Political economy may be all right. but
political hberality counts for more az cleo
ton time.
Many man with one foot in the grave
does enough kicking with the other 10
make Up for it,
Wigg-"Guzzler is one OF those fellows
who want the earth" Wagg-"And the
fuliness thereof"
Muggins-"Borrowen says he owes ,ot,
a grudge." Buggins-'I wish that was an
Borrowed owed me-"
Rollingstone Nomoss-''I sigh fer de land
wot flows wild milk an honey Thirrf,,
Thingumbob-''Me fer de land ,yof fio,-.
Wild beer an pretzels.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
SUNDAY LAWS vs.. REsr DAYS.

Sunday laws in the United States
were put on the statute books through
the efforts of churchmen, writes John
A. Fitch in The Survey. They are nc
mere rest-slay laws. these restrictions
that have come down in America from
| Colonial days. They are designed just
to protest the Sabbath from desecra-
ton. But where our fathers needed
a law to protect a religious institution,
We need a law to protect men. And
in a complex age we are vainly trying
to accomplish the latter through the
medium of the old Sunday laws The
Sunday laws have failed to meet the
test in a commercial age. And am
wondering how long the church is go
ing to remain duiescent. Long ago t
struck with vigor for legislation that
would protect the Sabbath, and got t.
And then, because the time changed.
the legislation failed. But after all
tine Sabbath was made for man..
Man is the more important. Will
not the church strike with vigor to-
day for legislation that will protect
man?
A law requiring one day of rest in
seven, regardless of which day it *.
for all workmen-absolutely demanding
that one rest-day with no loop holes II
necessity and charity''-would result
in two things. The industries necessar-
lily continuous would add one-seventh
to their working force, and let one
seventh CT their force by rotation rest
each day in the week. But it would
cost more to employ a larger working
force, and the industries not neces-
sarily continuous would close down
on Sundays. Thus the Sabbath would
be better protected than it is now.
thus men would be protected from the
necessity of working seven days 4
week in order to hold their jobs. A
man who has one day of rest a week,
whether of his own choice or by COM
pulsion, is a better worker, a better
citizen, and better man than one who
works every day, even if his rest-day
is not Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
.JAYHAWKER JOTS

Related by the Hiawatha World
How are your" asked the girl in the
hobble skirt of the girl with the pic
ture hat. I'm out of sight, said she
of the big hat. How are you % ooh,
I can't kick said the hobble skirt
girl.
A Humboldt youth, who just recent
~ broke into the dry goods business,
but who doesn't want his name men
toned, is rather new on some of the
dry goods terms. says the Herald. One
of the young ladies of 1.-THE Creek
which showed here last night stepped
into the store where he is employed
this morning and asked to see a
"dickey.' Pm sorry, ma'am, my
name is Tommy, and we have a Jim
nie on the other side, but I don't
know any Dickey,' was the reply.
An Ottawa man says he is going
to start something" this winter at
the first social function he attends
where there are an even number of
men and women, all of them husbands
and wives. He says he will start a
ballot by the men. at which they will
vote for the most popular woman
present. But he also claims to have
inside information that not every
woman will receive the vote that be-
longs to her and that would naturally
be supposed to be cast for her by her
husband Then. he fears, things will
happen.-Ottawa Herald.
social note IN the ClInarrOn JACK
sonian: Any one watching monkey
can readily imagine that one would be
capable of doing things to the furn-
ishings OF a house if left alone. That
is about what Luther's monkey did
the other day. During a hard wind
it's cage turned over and as no one
happened to be at home the monk
went into the house and began to play
havoc. He tore, the hands off the
clock. broke a nice piece of statuary,
gathered all the medicine bottles he
could find and emptied them on the
carpets, piled bric-a-brac on the floor
and, taking it all around, very pleas
ant time was had, and the guest de-
parted at a late hour voting that he
had had a most enjoyable time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
I'D HERTZSLNG Talks

The "Optimist" Of the PHILADELPHIA
North American, Mr.. l.. NJ. Hodges, sat a Il
a Iuncheon table with number OF friends
recently. and the subject OF character in
advertising was brought up and discussed
Mr.. Hodges related an experience that
he had in Philadelphia with a merchant
from whom he has bought many suits OF
clothes.
He called in the store some time ago and
the proprietor said to him.
II am closing out some suits here that
cost me at wholesale SIS. SIS and SIS "a suit
l am going to sell them at just exactly
what they cost me. There are some odds
and ends and odd sizes and broken lots
that do not want to carry over. Maybe
you can find a suit among these that viii
fit you and that YOU viii like"
/ looked around and got a suit that
fitted me and paid the wholesale price for
it. ] knew / was getting bargain be-
cause the man / dealt with was a roepon-
sible, absolutely reliable business man.
l said to him a the time.
Whenever you have anything Of this
papers and tell the facts In the same yvav
you told them to me, using identicaily the
same language
You bear good reputation. so your
advertising will be convincing You do
not have TO use formal phraseology In
your copy-all you need to do f. to talk
in your advertisements just as you talk
to customer. That kind Of copy is be-
nevable and very effective"
Then he turned to his friends and said
THAT is my idea Of character IN adver-
Using
The printed word Is merely the oral
word Of the man who conducts the busi-
ness. It reflects the character Of the man.
II il is sincere and straightforward. the
man is sincere and STRAIGHTFORWARD as a
rule. II 80 isn't sincere. the public win
soon find IL ont.
THE merchant who talks to his custom
ers as frankly and truthfully as he talks
to his wife and children builds business
that nobody can tear down. Customers
believe in and stick TO him. No other kind
Of advertising is worth while"
Don't you think that Mr.. Hodges Is
right2
(To be continued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
THE MRRoR.

Within a wondrous glass,
A wondrous magic mirror,
gaze and see my feat ures nobler shown
Than can dare to own
Oh, nobler, fairer, dearer,
Which inward graces brighten as they
paSsI
How beautiful, how strange
To note so wondrous gracesi
A queen might feel her scepter cheaply
sold
If she could thus behold
A glass wherein her face is
Beyond desire made fair by magic
change
Such mirrors no one buys,
But they may freely own them
Who rightly love, who gladly greet the
time.
All these will have sublime
Their souls and features shown them,
Nobly renewed within their children's
eyes.
Horace HALEY, in the Century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
GLOBE SIGHTS


lFrom the Atchison CsIobe1
I. - Joy RIDE may have its charms. but
1t isn't a joy forever. ms "u'
speaking of well known Yankee t,.,c,,s
there is the cranberry - '~'NS'
10 one should have grudge against a
Dapy' ana say 1t resembles it's kin. 8
~, Nelther should lecturer find fault with
the women for talking a good deaI win
Our notion is that snake charmers ba,,a
the ieast excuse for their occupaffon
one Is apt to speak of gossip as heinz,
OF FEMININE gender, but he needn't
The fact that it is easier TO agree .ta,,
argue mas fooled lot of candidafae
Among other little superstitfons }s tho
Dehe1 that the dollar mark is a good s,s--
About the time the historical societ., r.
gins TO nouce man, other people forget
A man with whiskers is apt to waste
more time on them than il Womb talso
him to shave. 'aAe
However, many men who can't rernar,-
Der names seem to be getting along quito
we'll eui'e
Except to the barkeepers. the Good rel
low isn't usually as good to people as his
title infers. - ms
Tramps are not the only ones who are
the worst case of it.
man who starts out by saying he win
make a short talk, so often fails to make
good his preface.
If a boy doesn't have chapped hands AZ
the proper season. he is apt to be a molly
coddle in other respects.
The people may not always be on the
right side, but 1t Is a large and dffficulf
task to convince them
We are also inclined to question the
theory that a somnambulist is SO much
more sure footed than mule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many a would be-vocalist could come
nearer filing the bill by substituting
for a fog-horn.
X X
Question for debate: Would so many
men fall asleep in church if something
else was on the program in place of
the sermon2
x
Girls seldom indulge in a serious
quilrrel with each other unless it IS
about a man. And. as a matter of
fact, no man is worth nghting over.
X
When a man is caught with his
watch rundown. he is likely to say.
Last night was the first time in five
years that I've forgotten to wind my
watch"
Some of the wise men are saying that
certain girls are making great prepar-
ations to take advantage of their Up
portunities when Leap Year rolls
around in the near future. Does any
one know of an authenticated instance
where a girl has proposed to a man,
either during a Leap Year, or any other
year?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
FROM OTHER PENS
BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION.

BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION.
Occasionally there still is heard an echo
of the old academic opposition to the
possession of the Philippine Islands by
this country. Usually it takes the form
of a slurring reference to benevolent as
sinilation." Yet there is strong prob
ability that in a short time this feeling
will disappear as did the popular dissat-
isfaction regarding the purchase OF
Alaska The United States is making
good before the world its declaration
that it's intentions toward the F'ilipinos
were benevolent. Today, in the Philip
pines, there are 100000 children in schools
operated under the American system. OF
these 600 are receiving instruction in
the industrial arts. This makes it GER
tingUishing language of the Islands. A
thousand miles of railroads have been
commenced and more than half COM
pleted.
Financially, the Philippines are costing
this country nothing aside from the ex-
pense of maintaining part of the army
there. The entire expense of the civil
government is being provided for by
tariffs and a system of revenue taxes.
And the intelligent FilipinOS realize the
great Improvement brought about in the
welfare of the people by the difference
between the revenue collected for this
purpose and the heavy taxes wrung from
them by the Spaniards, to be divided be-
tween grating officials and the royal
treasury in Madrid.
The future of the Filipinos undoubtedly
lies with themselves If, when they have
reached the stage of development where
they are capable of governing them
selves, they desire independence, there is
little doubt that they will obtain it
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
by THE WY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Boston scientist has discovered that
goats milk is an effective jag cure
but at that the cure will be hard 10
introduce. There Is small choice BE-
tween being full OF booze and fun OF
Bohunk cheese.
The brain OF the New York special
writer is. apparently, attached to the
underneath side of the liver. His view
is narrow, and the greenness of him
cannot be duplicated in depth of tone
by the greer est of country yokels. When
writing of western man, he seems to
feel that he must add some "b'gOsh"
stun to convince the reader that the
interview is genuine. Hon Dodd CASTOR
is the latest victim of the New York
humorist- The alleged interview which
has been making the rounds since the
scissorman clipped II from "a New York
sheet. describes Mr. CASTOR as a
B'gosher from B'goshville. Mr.. CASTOR
could, Of course. take the writer Of
that story out and loose him or sell
him a gold brick He could also edit
his alleged humor to advantage. or tell
him what to wear with Open-faccd
after-dark clothes. Maybe Mr. CASTOR
was playing horse with the New York
writer but the chances are that when
he called, the managing editor was our
and the cub on dog-watch constructed
the story with no foundation other than
Mr.. Gastons card.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


TFrom the Chicago News.l
A man always wins a fight-in his
mind.
It's awfully hard to sidetrack people
you don't like
But beautiful houses do not necessarily
make beautiful homes
It's easy for a man to admire his wife's
relations If she hasn't any
Talk not OF your charitable acts, but
let them speak for themselves.
Many a man saves money only to lose
it by lending 1t to some man who didn't
save any.
And it's easier for a woman to trust
her husband than it is to find g grocer
willing to do 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
DAEFYDMy
BY u. NOALL.

Yelling loudly into the mans ear, Nick
Chiles is reported to have said. if a man
is a pa is a pan a ma?
Tie lives around here some place. /
know his facet
Jumping UP he beloved loudly. II
Alaska is a territory, is real estate?''
law. Give i'm his hat. He lost his
wig.l
IN a husky voice he then whispered,
IF Hymie owes me SO does he owe
You hit the nerve. Ouch. DocI]
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHEDoR.

IF'rom the New York Press1
All a man seems to need to do a foolish
thing is to know better.
There's world OF hopes; there's q uni
verse of disappointments.
Some men are SO unlucky all the time
tnat they can get hoid OF any money,
1t takes only talent for woman to get
a man in love with her; 1t takes genius to
keep him thera-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

Afissourians have just dedicated a
cross-state highway of the good roads
order. Iowa has had one for some
time. There hasn't even been very
much talk of one in Kansas. In the
Sunfower state, the public officials
whose business it is to project and
promote such great and important pub
lie improvements, are too busy all the
time playing personal politics for the
contamination of their political ambi-
tons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

Now comes some testimony to the
effect that former Mayor Busse of
Chicago was responsible for the cleo
ton of Lorimer. At one time or an
other every prominent politician
among the Democrats and Republic
cans of Illinois has been accused of
having been responsible for the cleo
ton of LOrimer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

A dark horse" in the race for the
Democratic presidential nomination
seems to have been uncovered in the
person of Governor Simeon E. Bald
win of Connecticut. whose name, it is
said, will certainly be presented to the
national convention. There is no rea-
son to believe. though. that he will
run very fast or far, unless it be in
the wrong direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

George Won L. Meyer. secretary of
the navy. says that in another year the
United States viii have the finest navy
in the world And from the rebuffs
that the dove of universal peace is get
ting nowadays. it is likely that the
United States will need navy of that
sort before long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

Kansas pays her legislators SO a day
for a fifty-day session. A proposition
is before the New York voters to in
crease the salaries of their legislators
from $500 a year each to $4,000 for
assemblymen and $4,000 for senators.
Shane Oh Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

It's too bad any attention was paid
to Dave Leahy's foolish effusion that
Kansas wants no more people within
her confines Another spasm of end
less 1etter-writing on the part of Dave
is sure TO be the result. -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

The Manchu dynasty has thrown up
the sponge. 1t viii give the rebels the
complete constitutional government for
which they've been fighting. The ques-
ton now arises: VIII the Cinnamon
know how to manage nne2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

This being president Of the United
States assuredly has few drawbacks.
Because he has to lift his hat to the
admiring people so often, President
Taft has been compelled to purchase
Il new one. making three new hats for
him in less than that many months
With the ordinary plug citizen of this
wonderful country hat falls far short
of doing its full duty if it does not
wear for at least three years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

Dr. Loveland surely did not have
E<ansans in mind when he said that the
people of this land enjoyed too much
liberty. Or at least that would not
apply if all the laws of Kansas were
enforced to the letter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
A RuTHLEss WASTE.

1t costs seven hundred dollars to fire
one of our big battleship guns just once.
comfortable little home shot away
every time one of those guns is fired. A
college education 1aEzsoTne worthy young
person blown aspaS "a one blast A very
good library blIrnAdF up in the flash of a
gun. A year $ gospel to the heather ex-
ploded in second of time: How long, oh
how long, viii a Christian civilization
stand for this2-Baldwin Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01

For unadulterated bravery. the city
commissioners are in class by them
selves. They have declared a war on
the Topeka plumbers@those hereto
fore unmolested monarchs of all they
Sl1rvax-ad