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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

essential, the company broke up short
~ after midnight.
Capt Aymer went out on the Veran-
da for final cigar before going up to
his room The first quarter of the
moon was rising above the distant
mountain. and the broad path that en-
circled the house lay revealed. the
captain was thinking somewhat bitter
| ly of what might have been If the fates
| had taken a kindlier hand in his af-
fairs, when suddenly there was enacted
a little scene that wrung his heart-so
poignant was his memory OF his first
and only love.
Kitty Gerriclx was tiptoeing cautious
| ly around the house with her back to-
ward him, silver hand-glass held be-
! fore her face, the skirts of her ultra
modern gown held above the dampness
/ of the path-twentieth century assur-
ance and practical common sense hand
in hand with ancient superstition
Coming softly behind her, taking her
| by surprise, was young Hazen- With
little sigh, he tossed away his cigar
and Capt Aymer stole into the house.
| The great hall was deserted and one
dim candle burned on a distant table
Standing near the stairway, with her
back toward him, was Grace Gerrick,
white hair before a looking glass that
hung over a table.
Capt. Aymer hesitated one instant
and then with several quick steps he
stood behind her and their eyes met in
the glass. and were held until Grace
turned the full glory of her loving
glance to him. "If 1 had only done
this years beforel" he sighed as their
| lips met.
| ut was my fault that you did not"
she cried softly. THAT is why stood
there-and waited for you to come in
Il wanted you to have your chance!
Kitty Gerrick and her lover looked
through the side lights of the front
door and saw the two beautiful white
heads so close together. Young
Hazens arm frightened about his
sweetheart.
] 81 shall never call it Jack o. Ian
tern night after this" breathed Kit
ty softly, as they entered the house
| Copyright. 1911 by Associated Liter
airy Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globs.l

A man with a kick doesn't often fail
to register.
Worrying won't pay your debts, or do
any other useful chores.
There isn't any immunity from trouble
in railroad ticket.
People pay the delivery drivers, all
right, but they can't boss them
Some men don't seem to have much to
do besides getting acquainted.
A young man isn't often so anxious to
leave home as he IS TO get back.
No merchant ever carried a stock large
enough to please some people.
No man can demonstrate that he is a
lion simply by roaring a good deal
Most of the prizes for correct orthog-
raphy aren't won by sign painters
While we are not always early to bed,
an eclipse of the moon isn't what is keep
ing US up.
Motorcycle racing is dangerous. but not
much so as a long suffering public
could desire.
Sometimes the authorities fear a lynch
ing when they should be public spirited
and favor it,
A man who has a faculty for getting
into trouble is also likely to impiicate his
friends, if possible.
One thing we have learned about base
ball is that it is never safe to yell in the
first inning
1t is natural for the victor to gloat a
good deal, and If he doesn't, he is ac-
cused of it just the same
Too many people believe they could get
away with 1t II they should steal as much
as a million dollars.
Were you, If IT'S a fair question. ever
acquainted with anyone whose children
were stolen by a gypsy2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31
REFLECTIONS on a BACHELOR

TF'rom the New York Press.I
What you ike about anybody is for him
to like you.
Nobody seems to need a pull to get the
job OF being poor.
It's easy to acquire friends-if you are
willing to pay the price.
The woman who se-,ses the cook may
have to make her owl sauces.
What makes a man want to win a EirI
is for her to want to win some other man.
The things that won't do you any harm,
all put together. don't count for nearly as
much as the one thing that will
A woman is afraid her husband will
catch cold II he doesn't wear his rubbers
in the rain and that II she does she'll look
like a fright.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

to conclusions; they jumped so far that
even the White House danced with glee
and received the Joys, when the word
was passed along that the colonel had
committed himself to Taft
Now, of course, the colonel never did
anything of the sort-and he quickly said
50: Zip. Hipii Zipill He doubtless
thought that having been president, and
having practically dictated the nomina-
ton of another president, that he was
entitled to sit on the fence awhile and
see some one else play the game
He was not roofing for either crowd,
but when the crowd picked the winner,
and If it should prove to be Taft, 1t could
be put down that there would be no more
consistent supporter of Taft than the
colonel himself
Sure. the colonel will support Taft, at
the election, and has intended to all
along, if Taft win the first heat against
LaFollette.
CONTINUED to chapter X, in tomorrow $
issue.]
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Success and hard work are almost
synonymous.
x <
1t takes much more cleverness to
make a dollar go far than fast.
X X y
Nor does much of the amateur
china painting come within the class
ification of art.
x x X
The school of experience has no use
for diplomas. No one ever has a
chance to graduate from it.
y <
As a matter of fact few people
would care to live their lives over
again. They've had TO swallow too
many bitter pills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31
DAFFYDHS
by q. NoALL.

Ben shibe, president OF the Athletics.
said, Boys. / know now why we had
such a cinch. The Athletics had a
Plank and the Giants couldn't Bender"
Quick Baker. the black bat.
Ben might have also written: III
they call Philadelphia the Unconscious
city what do they Colorado?"
Get your tickets for the concert
after the regular performance.
Ben is a bright boy for he -
said to have said slowly: Chicago Is
a bit wicked but gee whiz you ought
to hear Damascus"
Now-James Kelly-y0u stay after
school
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.

LF'ron the Chicago NeWs-l
The only way to feel good is to believe
that way.
A woman usually tells JOKE the way
she gets off car.
There's lots of money in gold mines
How much did you put in2
Many a sensible man seems duh be-
cause he lacks little fOolishness-
Trust magnates might be more popular
if they would monopolize misery.
1t takes a woman to marry one man
just TO get even with another man she
loves
Ever notice how easy it is for man
to get married who isn't able to support
a wife2
Too many children hate TO see their
parents spend their hard earned coin on
themselves
The self-made man is never finished
until some women gets busy and poIishes
off the rough edges.
Anyway. the average man is willing to
admit that other people have no right 70
opinions that differ from his.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Who is it bosses all the staff?
Who makes us swear and makes us laugh
Who's too intelligent by half?
The Office boy.
Who comes to work with shoes unchined
And when reminded, doesn't mind?
Who, when he's wanted, none can find2
The office boy.
Who, when on errands he must go,
Delays his start, walks very slow,
And sees the moving picture show?
The office boy
Who oft is told that he'll be fired?
Who, asked to work. Is very tired2
Who's by stenographers admired?
The office boy.
Who is it that's not fond of soap2
Who's seldom known to sulk or mope2
Who knows the latest baseball dope?
The office boy
Who whistles till we have fit?
Who has surprising strains Of grit2
Who's who or, otherwise, who's it2
The office boy.
Canadian Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

The trees are showing no signs OF
shame over their bare condition, I'M
less a streak OF yellow could be con-
strued as a blush.
Halloween has degenerated into q
night of non humorous cussedness; IL
used to be the season for practical
jokes. In days past, the youth OF q
neighborhood did then and there get
together and raise hob, and do seven
days hard work in three hours IL
was their playful custom to put a
boSsy-coW in the belfry of the school
house. and a farm wagon astride the
ridgepole of the highest barn in the
township. But stunts OF the sort re-
quire manual labor, and the modern
youth is averse to manual labor II
is much easier to tear down a fence
or a sign or set fire to an orphan
asylum. 1t is also matter Of no par
ticular physical effort to get 4 can
of red paint and write vile words on
the walls Of a building. In fact. the
real Halloween prank is a relic OF
a past generation. How many OF the
half-baked yaps who go out 20 COM
NIT depredations tonight would vote
to plant a transfer wagon on top Of
the Edison smokestack? Not onei A
stunt of the sort would require Effort.
Instead they will tip over small build
ings, tear up crossing plates, turn On
few false alarms for the fire de-
partment, smear a little paint and rob
a few refrigerators.
The line between ''pranks" and
vandalism" is drawn at different
points by different people. The stunt
that amuses one victim Will send an
other hot-foot to the police station
with a demand that the perpetrator
be sent to the penitentiary for life OF
shot at sunrise. Sometimes a victim
demands blood as a compensation Tor
a little exercise. In years agone, as
we remember it, a country youth
went accounting in his new cutter.
Farm hand, piping the stylish turnout,
carefully removed the belt Of sleigh
bells, drove the horse into a nice
warm barn, and then, starting from
the point near the house where the
horse had been tied, did noisy mara
thon down the road with the string
of sleighbells Country swain. decld-
en- away from anchorage and was run
ming away, ran a mile and half
through the snow without his over
shoes or OvercOat. The farm hand
could never understand why the
country lover desired to murder him.
His argument, to any one except the
victim, seemed plausible. Il ran
dang-sight fu'ther than he did" ex-
planned the joker. land besides, / was
handicapped j was carryin the sleigh
BELLS The moral is that a game
impulse is to shoot 80 cents worth Of
bird shot into the boy who causes IL
cents worth of inconvenience.
Indian Summer is due. but Indians
shrink from moisture and Miss Indian
Summer should not be expected to
carry an umbrella.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

In their next national campaign the
Democrats will have to get along
without posing as the only original
trust busters if they had a chance to
work at that game President Taft
and his attorney general have rather
cut the ground from under their feet
in this particular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

New York City is entertaining 20. 900
sailors from the q. S. warships gath
cred in the harbor there for the big
review. by President Taft And New
York City is licking its chops accord
ingly- On getting their shore-leave
each of these sailors is likely to have
several months pay in his pockets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

For many years Mr.. Bryan has been
gaining notoriety and fame by waging
a war Of words against trusts. and in
sisting that they should be busted.
Now that President Taft and his at
torney general are doing this very
thing in most successful fashion Mr..
Bryan's trust-busting magazine has
been emptied Of its ammunition AS a
substitute. though, he is promuIgating
a ridiculous charge that President Taft
packed the supreme court so that
the antitrust law would be dehorned
to the extent of preventing the Grim
inal punishment Of trust magnates.
Were this the case, which it is not, Mr..
Bryan could scarcely make any poll
teal capital out of his latest propa-
sxnda. Even If he should run for
president and get elected he couldn't
-.unpack'' this court, unless he could
institute successful impeachment pro-
ceedings against several of its justices,
whtch Is far from being likely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

How men change with the times
A few years ago ana it was impossible
almost to serve John d. Rockefeller
with the preliminary papers in any
kind of suit. Now he sends a trap
TO meet the process server at the gate
way to his place, welcomes him st the
house with open arms and invites him
to break bread
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

IN the death Of Joseph Pulitzer, the
United States loses wonderful news
paper editor and publisher and an
equally remarkable man. Although
stone blind for many years, he has per-
sonally directed the conduct of his
mammoth newspaper properties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Certain Kansas officials are rightly
proud over the number of bank rob-
bers who have been caught in the state
during the past few months and sent
TO the penitentiary. No Kansas Off
Gals, though, are giving any publicity
10 the uncaught and unpublished muir
derers who have operated in the state
during the past twelve months. No,
indeed. That would not be a record to
which anybody could point with pride.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

one OF the experts in the premises
declares that fully half of the women
in the United States are religionless,
or in other words, do not belong to
any church. This being the case, think
OF the number of men who are in the
same undesirable boat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

pecially derelict this year in not advis-
ing their readers to do their Christmas
shopping early. Christmas will be here
and gone in few short weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Topekans are going to nave to pay
more than million dollars in taxes
this year. That's a big sum of money,
but you don't hear much if any grumb-
ling over taxes in Topeka. This is due
to the fact that Topekans not only
have the money but they are also reas-
onabIy certain that they are getting a
dollars worth of return for every dol
lar they pay in taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Ellsworth people are demanding
that bloodhounds be used again in an
effort to run down the murderer of the
Snowman family If the people and
the officials of Ellsworth, and other
communities in Kansas as well. would
put real detective or two on such a
case, and put less stock in the sagacIty
Of bloodhounds as criminal catchers.
much better results would be obtained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

After having been steered on d trip
up salt Creek" by the Philadelphia
Athletics. Nugsy McGraw and his
Giants are going on a jaunt to Cuba.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

This is also the season of the year
when picking the winners in the foot
ball arena is q decidedly uncertain
practice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

That DR.. Cook was unable to come
back in Copenhagen only emphasizes
the fact that he was chump to try it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Now jackson seems to have lean
ings toward Cummins and might be
supposed to say: Now, fellow citi-
zens,'' addressing White and Stubbs
and Bristow, whats the matter with
Cummins? Isn't he all right?' and
continue in Jackson way like this
as he proselyted-"Yo can talk all
you please about Wilson and about La
Toilette. One is a college president,
neither wild nor woolly, and the other
is a man who seems to have small
bomb in his pompadour; at least that
is the way Wall street sizes him up.
But there's Cummins, he can bring
our following together. Maybe he can
get a few Taft men. A few months
ago we all thought he was going to be
for Taft, but he has switched since
and can now be safely counted as one
of us 'insurgents;' as against Taft and
any of his practical, progressive poll
cies. Now why not take Cummins as
he is.
isn't he the solution
No, he's the limit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Now there you have it. The insur-
gents of Kansas are all split up on
presidential possibilities. They can
not get together. They seemed to have
a sort of an idea that at the Chicago
conference the other day Colonel
Roosevelt might lead them out of the
troubled waters of the sea of politics
into which they were fast drifting,
without an anchor to windward-
This big quartette, constituting what
might be said the sinew and backbone
of Kansas insurgency is certainly in
hard lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Interests. He seemed to think it was
calamity that the moneyed men We're
not satisfied with Our President. He
also said that Taft had lost the west
and could not regain it. White is
little vague here also. We didn't
know that Taft had lost the west yet.
In fact. the west seems to have found
Taft lately and found him pretty near
ly all right. Out there in Spokane
they almost smothered him with kind
" attention and if Taft was lost in that
part of the west couple of weeks ago,
he must have been buried under
mountain of those wond erful Washing
ton roses which we of the central east
read about. But Taft will soon find
himself at the same old stand in Wash
ington, due there tomorrow. Here's
hoping our good president who has
been SO lily jostled will now settle
down for a while land for FOUR
YEARS MORE Why not!
Now. there is Senator Bristow. He
and White are hitched up together, but
one of these Kansas Insurgents
seems to be out and out for LaFol-
lette, while the other one is a. little
on the fence but with a strong lean
ing toward the Sage of Princeton"
Now there IS one more 1nsurSehI
that we haven't counted on yet today
He is the new representative. Jackson
from Greenwood, who beat Miller of
the Fourth district. so that where two
conservatives once stood, now we find
one '-insurgent" in their places, but
Jackson does not seem to be commit
ting himself quite clearly on the presi-
Dental situation. He has come out,
it is to be sure. pretty strongly for
Champ Clark, (see state Journal in
terview last weekly but may be ne
did that simply to curry favor with
the speaker; hoping to get something
better in the next congress than
mere junior membership on the Com
mittee on Ventilation, of the new and
revised congressional meeting place Tor
the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

The late Pulitzer was a German. but
he had a way Of making himself uu-
derstood in any language. Upon one
occasion, after failing to get results
in an oral argument or through his
editorial columns he slipped his op-
ponent a gentle reminder through the
barrel of a 41-calibre revolver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Indian Summer is due. but Indians
shrink from moisture and Miss Indian
Summer should not be expected to
carry an umbrella.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

The Topeka girl who was convicted
for stabbing her South Dakota hus-
bend with the family carving knife.
overlooked the only possible line OF de-
tense. She should have testified that
he refused to go to church With her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Statesmen and others had lately
gone forth to the little Long Island
village with hope in their faces, bus
alas. in returning the reporters noticed
that they came out with the Glooms
although they had gone in with the
joys.
Now. the Chicago conference is
over, and ex-President Roosevelt has
not yet broken his long and ominous
silence, nor told his good friends
among the insurgents whether he IS
going to come out for LaFollette, or
Cunmins or Wilson, or whether, way
down in the bottom of his heart, after
all. he is not for his Dear Friend
Will" that is, providing, of course
and essentially, that William Howard
captures the convention next summer.
Of course, it would be mighty in
teresting reading right now to know
just what Colonel Roosevelt is think
ing. and by the way, this reminds US.
On Thursday, October 18th, this writ
er wrote a fourth page heavyweight,
under the heading of Taft and Clark
and what do you think: a friend tells
us he sent a marked copy of that State
Journal to oyster Bay. and he had
marked the last end Of that editorial
Now, what do you think of that.
We wonder what the colonel will
think Maybe he viii think that we
sent him that editorial, fishing for one
of his autographs in return; but At
any rate. this friend of ours, that is,
he claims to be a friend of ours, may
have gotten us into the preserves OF
the colonel. What. we wonder will
writer now finds was the last end OF
that innocent editorial, which was
hurled upon an unsuspecting public IN
the Topeka State Journal of that Thurs
day evening, for 10 and behold, this is
the way the last part reads. The Lord
help US when the colonel sees it, if he
does see it, for here it is again. reprint
ed today for ready testimony in case
of another Ananias trial.
Now as to Roosevelt the colonel is ali
right, and dent you forget It. He is
nominated, but also, in all likelihood. ne
would be for some other Republican if
some other Republican be named, for the
colonel in his head IS Regular al
though in his heart he is sometimes an
'.Insurgent,' but for all practical pur
poses. like the licking of Democracy, he
is Regular" of the strictest and
straightest stripe.
Some time ago it was inconsiderately.
incautiously and fundamentally reported
that the colonel had said he would sup
port Taft: that is to say, it was given out
that he would help in the work toward
the nomination OF Taft
This consensus Of the colonels cold and
calculating position was thought to be
correct. because insurgent senators going
to Oyster Bay with the idea or INDUCING
him to come out for LaFo1lette or Cum
MINIS or some other insurgent received no
encouragement In fact, TREY came
away bowed down and dismantied; they
joined the gloons; they thought the cor
onel was against them he was nos
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31

Willie Allie White went clear to
Wisconsin TO assert that Taft would
not win. Were It not for the fact that
Ma1on Burget's guesses are sometimes
correct. we would like to refer to
Willie Allie as the "Malon BurRet OF
Empory." Burget's prophecies are
based upon lunches" while Whites
are based upon his own narrow per-
sonal views.
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RY THE WY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

The trees are showing no signs Of
shame over their bare condition, un-
less a streak OF yellow could be con-
strued as a blush.