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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
PRAY. AND WORK HARD.

1t is mistake to suppose that
farming breeds optimists or pessimists
any more than any other business,
says the Kansas Industrialist. There
are men of both kinds in every walk
of life. Any man who is not wholly
colorless belongs to one or the other
classification. Any human being sub
jected to the sings and arrows of a
fortune that may be outrageous or
otherwise is reasonably certain to de-
lvelop into a cheerful, hopeful, ambi-
tious, energetic man, or gloomy, tact
turn, uncompanionable crouch before
he passes his fiftieth birthday anniver-
sary. Farming has no more to do with
this state of mind than it would have
if man jumped into a well-and not
so much, perhaps, when green bugs
are about.
Seriously, the trick of ascribing to
farming every peculiar mental condi-
ton is absurd. It is just such stuff
that has made nine-tenths of the farm
ers believe themselves martyrs. There
are pessimistic farmers. certainly, as
there are pessimistic carpenters. A
gloomy farmer is gloomy, in many
cases, because his food is not properly
assimilated; he believes rain will
never come, that bugs will get the
whole wheat crop, that prices are go
ing lower, and that the country gener-
Tally is run down at the heel. Another
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
LFrom the Chicapo Nar,. !,

IRON the Chicago News.I
Most girls like to have red ba;r 80
they haven't. ii IL
Sometimes the biggest blur is noda
by the smallest man.
He who seeks a wife without q fa,1+
VIII remain a bachelor.
Many a young man has snotIaa On
lilusion by marrying the girl.
Be stfngy and you'll not be nonn,ar
-out you VIII always have the mice
Give US the Injuries of life ans 80
can jolly somebody out of the nao u We
ties ene Hecessl-
Some one has said that love ord
poker are much alike-hofb 49,
games of bluff. oeihs
A new father handles a boh,,
carefully as a woman handles 90
cut glass dish. Q ne"
Six months after facing tbe r.-o,,
with ner, a man may thin!- he owes
his wife a grudge OWES
If girl dislikes to have a 1,o,,,
man kiss her, here's the answer. He
isn't the right one. no
Occasionally a man puts evarvt,;
ne has on his back for the nnrnasa aS
making bold front. %
the minute girl baby is born the
niotner begins to worry about what
KIND OF husband to select for her
NO doubt the average man thin1s h.
is merely trying to take his CIV, 80
wnen he attempts to grab the vbais
thing. "nois
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
NYHAWKER JOTS

1t occurs to the Lyons Republican
that extremes meet when the kitten
plays with its tail.
The Morrill, Weekly News rightly
character1zes someone who helped
himself at neighbours corn crib as
"a contemplate cur of a thief"
There must have been something of
a gasoline taste in the mouth of Beattie
on Monday morning. The Eagle of
that place reports: Beattie was full
of autos last Sunday.
1t may be all right advises the Mus
cotah Record, to take your wife into
your confidence regarding your bust
ness affairs, providing you are not
making too much money. She might
want new hat.
Something unique in the way of a
window display, which was found in
its town by the Cawker City Public
Record: Three links of sausage and
a goat met the gaze of the public in
Mayors window"
Who says fishing is not good in the
Delaware river? asks the Muscotah
Record, and as a silencer it adds: Last
night town boy set throw line with
nine hooks on it and this morning had
four fish which weighed seventeen
pounds
The call of Kansas, as illustrated by
the following item in the Cawker City
Public Record: Miss Gibson, who
came to Kansas intending not to like
it, has just returned from a trip back
to Missouri and glad that Kansas is
her home.
Another reason why the back to the
farm movement should be popular, as
advanced by the Muscotah Record. If
there is such a thing as nobility in
America it is that which follows the
pillow and turns up Gods good soil for
the maintenance of the people whom
He created.
An old skate of horse is never
sold for five dollars these days. But
there are in every community fellows
who have sold themselves for less,
writes Bert Walker in the Osborne
Farmer. Some have been known to
sell themselves for a dollar. This re-
fers to the fellows who Will work into
the confidence of a neighbor to the
extent of a few dollars and then re-
fuse to pay it. The man who owes
you three dollars and refuses to pay
the honest debt has sold himself for
exactly that amount. When you can
buy a fellow for three or four dollars
you have made a good bargain. Ask
any busin ess man and he will tell you
the same thing. The merchant who
gets rid of a deadbeat for three dol
lars pats himself on the back and
smiles. He has enjoyed a good days
business. The money deadbeat
makes by his methods pays interest
hundredfold to the other fellow. More
fellows reach a Down-and-Out address
by the deadbeat route than any other
way You can buy a ticket to the
Land of Failure any time for two or
three dollars. But after you get there
and want to come back you will find
that the rates are ALFRED high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
MRS. THORPEs- DISMISSAL.


Most Topekans are probably of the
opinion that the mayor and the two
commissioners, who have apparently
formed combination with him, have
made a serious mistake in dismissing
Mrs. Laura E. Thorpe from the position
of police matron.
She is a woman of unusual fitness for
this work. Her services have always
been of the highest order. In handling
cases of young girls who have gotten
into trouble, she has always shown a
rare discretion and wise discernment
which has been responsible for the do
ing of much good, which has turned
many girl into a better way. She
knows the unfortunate women of To-
peka's underworld like a book and is
able to do more with them than all the
rest of the police force put together.
Yet Mrs Thorpe, with all of this val
liable experience she has gained in
many years of untiring activities, is set
adr1ft by majority of the city COM
mission. Her successor may be an
estimable woman of much ability, but
IL is out of the question that she is as
well fitted for the work as is Mrs.
Thorpe. Efficiency in the administra-
Ton OF city affairs is what the city
commissioners insist they are striving
Tor And still they turn out of an I'M
portant position one of the most eff
1lclent city officers that Topeka has
ever had
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
THOSE PALNfAs ISLANDS.

MOI even ripple was caused in this
country by the two or three line dis
patch of the other day which told that
the master of vessel flying the flag
of Holland had taken possession of the
Palmas islands. This is little cluster
OF rather insignificant Islands on an ex-
tremity of the Philippines group. They
appear to be worthless for any purpose.
so worthless that the announcement of
their having been taken by the Dutch
brought word from Washington that
the United States government would
not offer word of protest, although its
title to these islands is just as good as
is its title to any of the islands in the
Philippines. The incident then seemed
to be closed and probably would have
been had not further advices come
from Holland that these islands had
been taken by mistake
But suppose the original dispatch OIL
the subject had been to the effect THAI
Japan had seized these apparently
worthless islands? 1t is not difficult TO
imagine how that news would have
been received here. The jingoes would
have thrown fits and double hand
springs as they shouted that Japan had
at last exposed it's hand against this
nation. From one end of the country
to the other, demands would have gona
up that war be declared at once against
Japan. Bills would have been presented
in congress asking for the construction
of several dozen battIeships of assort-
ed sizes. other bills would have gone
in demanding an increase in the size of
PryT<-
president would probably have been i'm
portuned to issue a call for a volunteer
army of a couple of million. Indeed
there would have been more excite
ment in this country than there was
when the first shots were fired at Fort
Sumter. And all because the mind Of
the public has been warped of late by
the irrepressible Hobsons of the land
into believing that Japan has been get
ting ready this long while to seize the
Philippines and the Pacific coast and
incidentally give Uncle Sam something
he has never received before, a good
sound beating.
1t was the Dutch, though, who took
possession of these islands, and that
made all the difference in the world.
There has never been any prospect of a
quarrel between the United States and
Holland. They have nothing to fight
about. The taking of worthless islands.
even if the Dutch had intended to keep
them, would not even have caused an
exchange of diplomatic notes. Had
Japan taken these island, even mad
vertently through a mistake on the part
of one of its naval officers, there would
have been a voluminous demand for
war without waiting for any possible
explanations. And still there would
have been no more reason for protest
ing against the Japanese possession OF
these islands than their possession by
the Hollanders. Nor has Japan and the
United States any more reason for
fighting over anything than has HoI
land and the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
THE GRAY GARnw


Here in this room she used to sit
where, by that window, stands her
chair;
Often her hands forgot to knit,
Intent upon the garden there
An old kind face, that kept its youth,
As flavor keeps a winter pear;
The soul Of Esther, heart of Ruth
Were hers, that helped her still to bear.
The garden, whispering through its
flowers,
Spoke TO her heart of many things
That helped her pass the twilight hours
With old, divine rememberings.
There she would wander like a ghost,
Or stand just where that white rose
swings,
And listen, for an hour almost,
The dusk go by on nighthawk wings.
No flowers were hers of gaudy hue,
Remindful of a different day;
The candytuft and feverfew
Helped her gray. dreams in some dim
way.
Nor was there any rich perfume,
Scarlet or gold, but all was gray,
Subdued of fragrance of bloom
That helped her quiet soul to pray.
The garden seemed to fill need,
Like some old love, acQuaintanceship,
Like that to whom she wished godspeed.
Who raised her fingers to his lip
And went, returning nevermore
From yonder narrow, far-off strip
OF azure sea and saffron shore,
Whence vanished, years ago, his ship.
Madison Cawein, in the New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
suddenly Illuminated, land you. Clio

ria"
Don't drop those water bottles
lshe cried. and fed back to the dining
postulating.
You won't let me be sentimental -
/. She caught her breath quick
~. Why should I let you be sem
''Because"-his words tumbIed over
each other-"until you said just now
that I could make any woman love
me. I didn't dream that would have
any chance with you. You seemed
so absorbed in other things-so far
above you-you are the only woman
my heart has ever knelt to, Gloria
You seemed so fine-so remote-and
the only times we have ever unbent
have been on such evenings as this,
when for a little while you have come
down to my human level, but other
wise you have always been a goddess
on pedestal. And 1 never thought
seemed preposterous that you should
care for a lazy fellow like me. So
when Marion Grifted into my life
you know how young and pretty she
Island I yearned for a home 1 Just
picked her out as the best could find
But do you think I would have looked
at any one else if I had thought that
you"
There could be no doubt of his
earnestness. His face was white, and
his voice broke as he rounded out his
little speech. Think of it" he said,
IF I had gone to Mexico tomorrow
and had missed you
She was very pale, but her eyes
We're like stars as across the table she
held out her hand to him. st know,
my dear" she said softly. "and that is
why I spoiled your trip to Mexico."-
Copyright, 1911, by Associated Liter
airy Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
Telephones make us all neighbors.
A money-maker can make it any
where.
If you don't know whether you will
or not, the chances are that you won't.
Try to live in such a manner that
you won't be a dead one till you die.
You are not all bad if only half bad,
but you require immediate fixing.
To a man on foot. every passing
motor car seems to be exceeding the
speed limits.
Arbitration isn't as bad as war, but
there are times when it seems to be a
good deal slower.
You ought to be able to make your
self comfortable without making 9TH
ers uncomfortable.
While a fat man may eat too much,
he is wise enough not to try to encase
the surplus in a corset.
A crank is pretty near necessary
around the average office to keep en-
ployees down to their work.
While there isn't much excitement,
there is frequently a good deal more
than the occasion demands
While we like considerable variety
in our reading, the farewell note of a
suicide never interests us much.
1t may be possible for ball player
to put up a good game without uni
form, but it never looks possible.
Unless you want to fight a man,
don't bother him unnecessarily when
he's busy; that's what he will feel like
doing.
Personally. we are willing to forgive
the railroads a good deal for their
ability to prolong the strawberry sea-
son.
Everyone believes that everyone else
is careless with watches, which is one
place that the universal opinion isn't
so far off.
Not all the fiction is submitted to the
magazine editors, a good many being
engaged in writing love letters to 9TH
er parties.
Mother sometimes puts up with a
good deal from Daughter because she
believes special privileges may favor an
early marriage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01

man, across the road, tilling the same
kind of soil, whistles while he plows
and huns a song, takes time for a
smoke at noon, and views the situation
through rose glasses.
A farmer is no better and no worse
than any other man in this busy
world. Look carefully over your own
experience of life, whether you be
mechanic, lawyer, college professor
especially the professor-or railroad
president. and you will discover that
m en- get about what is coming to them
If God wills it so and all the votes are
counted properly. In addition to this
you should remember the advice Of
the philosopher who said he prayed
and worked hard. And that is about
what everyone has to do in this world
farmer, merchant, or banker. If
you have made up your mind to look
only upon the dark side. to be eter-
nally in the dumps. why go ahead. No
one this side the pearly gates can help
YOU
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
QUAKER MEDrTATIoNs.
IFron the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.l
Many a young man is rather fast
about everything except settling his
bills.
In the bright lexicon of youth, in
rushing the can there is no such word
as can't.
The shoemaker isn't the only trades
man who expects his customers to
foot their bills.
It's all a matter of taste whether
you would rather have cold cut
from your best girl or roast
The only difference between self
esteem and conceit is the difference
between US and other people.
Many a woman complains that her
husband is getting close, when as a
matter OF fact she never lets him out
of her sight.
Blobbs-That blind girl says she is
%. She doesn't look it, does she
Slobbs-Of course not. How can a
blind girl look her age?
Hoax-Old Bjones has six sons, and
they all play poker together. Joax-
Well, sometimes 1 suppose it pays a
man to raise big family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
Changinr the CaIendar

Harold Jacoby, Rutherford profess
sor OF astronomy at Columbia Univer-
proposals of the reformers who would
revise the calendar so that a given
date shall always fall on the same day
of the week.
at would be of the greatest con-
venience in many ways. and there is
the objection" he added with smile,
sis vital one.
"Of course, If such a system were
adopted, a single calendar would serve
you for lifetime, and after few
years of practice with it, you would
would hardly need to refer to the
printed form. The day on which the
first of each month fell would soon
be unconsciously memorized, such as
your birthday and other anniversaries
would fix other points in the calendar
in your mind, so that you would hard
ly need a moments thought to tell on
what day the tenth of August would
fall or the date, say, of the third Sat
urday in November. 1t would always
be the same.
But here is the objection, it seems
to me. The first of the year is to be
your extra day as you must have if
you are to have a year Invisible by 81.
The plan provides that it shall not
count as a day of the week, or of the
month or of the quarter. but 1t is a
day, just the same, and il would mean
that the Sundays or the Saturdays on
either side would be eight days apart.
This would involve a violation of the
fourth commandment, and you would
find the churches against it. AS soon
as the clergy realizes that such a
change would mean such a violation,
you will hear their protests"
1t was this passage in Exodus that
Prof. JacOby referred:
Remember the Sabbath day. to keep
it holy. q 4e Rs+ SIS 50
six days shalt thou labor, and do all
thy work:
But the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt
not do any work, thou nor thy son,
nor thy daughter, thy manservant, thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle. nor the
stranger that is within thy gates
For in six days the Lord made heav-
en- and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is. and rested on the seventh
day: wherefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
This opposition of the churches
would be effective" Prof Jacoby said,
"for it would be organized opposition.
The Catholic church is the strongest
organization in the world. The Epis-
copal church would oppose it, and the
Methodist. Those of the Jewish faith
would oppose it, and the Mohamme-
dams would oppose it."
Prof. Jacoby said that there was
Just one way that the calendar could
be altered without bringing up this
insuperable difficulty. He suggested
making the year 1854 days, and letting
the surplus accumulate not indefinite
ly. for that would derange the seasons,
he said, and we would be having sum-
mer in December. Let the accumu-
lated surplus be wiped off at regular
periods by inserting an extra week in
the year, a sort of leap-year week.
"Of course, there would be some OBJ
iections there" he said. "It would
make a very long year. and the man
who was paid by the month or the
year would probably feel it acutely.
Then, too, there would probably be
disposition to make hullabaloo, holt
day of it, and We have too many of
those already."-New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
His Name Made Him Hoarse.

Justice Brady was hearing real
estate case in the supreme court when
a witness was called to the stand. An
attendant asked him for his name. The
witness, who is the general secretary
of the Polish Alliance, told it. The
stenographer and Justice Brady
strained their ears.
"Have you card?" asked the court.
The witness produced one. He was
suffering from a cold, and whispered
hoarsely, as. J. Czechowicz: I'm from
Chicago" The court took the card,
glanced at it, and then at the witness.
ct suppose you got that hoarseness
from trying to pronounce your own
name?" he remarked.
The witness smiled at the pleas
antry.-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Jumping at conclusions often results
in severe falls.
-
An old hat never looks good to the
woman who owns it.
n y
Burning ones bridges behind one is
not as easy as it sounds.
X
In friendly card games much of
the winnings are I. o. us which can
never be cashed.
= y
Among the unpopular people are
those who stare. You feel guilty of
something under their gaze whether
you are or not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01

May Be Getting Out.-certfe- Howe nv,
young brother getting on with your firm, ?
from the adornment of his appearance
he devotes to the neglect of his dutiesiS
London Opinion.
oh, joy. She has written letter saw
t ,hg she VII d, marry me-" ''Congratula-
tons: When" "Well-er-you see, her
| Ledger. ipiiia
II have declined marriage proposaIs
from five men," said the fair Widow
Have your" her friend asked "T didr,t
suppose your husband had been as heav
lly insured as that. Chicago Record
A New Jersey man named his twin sons
r.oosevelI ana Tart. A friend asked him
Famously, was the answer 'sTaff dios
steadily into his breakfast bowl vhiis
hooseveit yeils and pounds him over the
azine. Mag
II am glad said the conceited ass, II
makes 1t unanimous" observed one who
possessed reasoning powers.NChicapo
Record Herald. NiiiSaso
Mrs. Stoplate-Do YOU renoapoha, 49,.
we were children ana used to come and
play with you? Miss TersIeep-Yes-and
sONA never let YOU Sfav
than an hour. Those We're the bsnnv
daysi-Cleveland Leader oDpS
while yo,,'ra Sit ~ 10 you think about
fiebin,S 1904 1S. wal, when the
an when it's bad, thinkin' don't helm a.
any"-Scribner's Magazine. e'p II
isn't that your daughter at the nisno7,,
.S Shure an It is" And isn't that some
not. It's the same old piannv,,, v,s,,a ~
Statesman. AOAAeiS
mats q fine chauffeur of vo,,rs, T
cigar. and he wouldn't stop" 'sYou Jon;t
know the system. You should hat ga
you wanted to get two cigars. "-ToIedo
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.]

IFTOm the New IOTh Z I cSS.J
A farmer seems to think the Lord
ought to want to be in partnership
with him.
A man doesn't have to be taught
how to fall in love; he has to be taught
how to stay in love.
One woman out of a thousand
knows enough not to get married; still
she does it if she gets the chance
A man might save money by not
having any foolish extravagances, but 1t
would only be for the rest of the fam
lily who had.
The reason a woman can believe in
her husband is she knows SO much bet
ter than anybody else how much he
doesn't deserve it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-01

Says the Louisville Courier-JournaI:
France has just sold as junk for So
100000 naval vessels which a few
years ago cost $60,OO0.000 to build,
and the stronger maritime powers are
suffering even a larger proportion of
loss on account of war ships becoming
obsolete. If the civilized man of the
future is kind-hearted he will drop a
tear for our weakness rather than
laugh at our absurd wastefulness in
seeking to maintain modern arma-
rnentS