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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rF-on the Atchison GIobe.l

from the AtchiSon Globe
Not all rich men are fat, as some
of the cartoonists seem to believe.
Probably no woman who ever got
alimony doubted that she earned it.
No soil is good enough to make mon
ey without considerable work.
Most young men overestimate the
fun a travelling man has on the road.
It is surprising how deliberately some
people can handle a rush order.
Women often say they are f1attered
when they don't feel that way about
it.
In looking around for a wrinkle
eradicator, you will learn that worry
doesn't do the work
Political platforms cave in so often
such an event is no longer regarded as
much of a tragedy.
Sometimes, when a farmer moves to
town to educate his children, they
learn too blamed much.
One should hurriedly get rid Of his
crouch if he feels it is going to take
a lawsuit to support it.
There are men who imagine they
are deceiving everyone when they are
only fooling themselves.
Neither should economy nor love of
adventure lead a man to get his face
shaved in a barber college,
Baseball players need a long rest
during the winter. and shouldn't be
allowed to dabble in vaudeville.
In the selection of country band uni
forms, much nerve and little judgment
are usually displayed.
You may have observed that the ho
tel clerk doesn't seem as polite as usual
when all the rooms are filled.
Many men remember how they earn
ed their first dollar, and most of them
think they worked hard for it.
A section hand may have his trou-
bIes. but he needn't worry much about
the airship taking his job away from
him.
A man who makes five dollars
shouldn't sulk because another makes
fifty. but people do lots of things they
shouldn't
Concrete is so versatile it is a won
der it hasn't been used to make fur
niture FOR nonees where there are plenty
of Children.
Barb wires. at times. manifests al
most as mean disposition as that
which characterizes a gasoline engine
or a country ticket agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

stood at the gate, wondering in which
direction she would walk, an auto
halted, young man raised his cap,
and Mr.. Fred Gleason sa1uted her
with
Miss Vale, have a goat here to re-
place the one I killed the other day.
Win you kindly look at him? He is
real angora and a great pet
The girl never raised her eyes. but
turned and entered the house as if Mr..
Fred Gleason did not exist.
On the evening of the second day
after, Mr. Vale came home from the
city to say:
Say, dear, the young man who
killed your goat has got me going. He
wants to make good and he is asking
me if you would accept of this or that.
Better take camel or giraffe and call
it square,
A week later the father telephoned
that he would bring friend to dinner,
and when he arrived the friend proved
to be the goat killer. The smile faded
from Miss Cherries face at once, but
the father laughed in his jovia1 way
and pinched he- cheek and said:
Mr. Gleason is here to provide
Plutarch with a grave stone and an
epitaph. There's just time to fix 1t up
between you before dinner and then
We can attend the funeral in a body"
Dinner was delayed half an hour by
the fixing up" but when the young
people came to the table at last both
were smiling, and it was while the two
were down in the grove, later on, at
the grave of the goat that dared an
auto the broker said to his wife:
wouldn't it be funny If the killing
of that old goat was foreordained so
as to provide us with a son-in-law be-
fore Cherrie gets to be an old maid ?"
.(Copyright, 1911, by Associated Lit
erary Press).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
.L&YHAWKER JOTy

The two business colleges at INDIE
pendence have consolidated
Wichita property owners refuse to
lease business houses to negroes
tSigournean'' and Entire Nous are
the names of two Winfield clubs.
E1Dorado will hold a three day
Kaff1r Corn Carnival, October Is. 10
and 20.
Nearly 1900 students have enrolled
for the fall term at the Kansas State
Agricultural college.
A theatrical company gave a per-
Torrance in Fleetwood on Sunday and
it cost the actors $2S each.
Miss Mary O'Leary. a woman farmer
near Thayer. has 100 acres of corn
which she says will yield fifty bushels
to the acre.
At Sedan recently Michael Summer
celebrated his ninety-second birthday
anniversary He is the oldest man in
Chautauqua county.
Miss Anna Carlson of the Lindsborg
News observes that people who try to
drown their troubles seem to think
that they are located in the stomach
All the same the loafers on the
street corners outnumber the idle
women who sit on their front porches
and gossip about Winfield
Courier.
The independence Tribune is OF the
opinion that there is a wave of crime
sweeping over the country. as there
are now about forty prisoners Ill the
county Jail down there.
As the joint agent of the Katy and
Santa Fe at Walnut, B. s. Carlos evil
IDENTIFY thought there ought to be a
Joint, but when he attempted to run
one the sheriff pulled him.
Lightning bit powder mill III Pitts
burg. Kan, and the resultant noise
made the people think that Special In
vestigator Trickett had alighted from
the train again.-Ottawa Herald.
Newton is to have a Booster day
and the school children will take part
in the parade in the morning and in
the afternoon they will enjoy free at
fractions and hear the bands play.
OF the 81 men arraigned in district
court at Independence at the beginning
of the October term of the district
court, not one was notwithstanding
to the statements they made to the
court.
If a majority of the women of Kan
sas really want the right to vote the
men folks of the state are almost sure
to be persuaded to favor the suffrage
amendment at the polls. A majority
of the women are nearly certain TO get
what they want from majority OF the
men.-Salina Union
lone of the freaks of the recent |
windstorm in Smith county," says the
Rocks County Record, was the return
of a cultivator to its rightful owner. |
It had been loaned to a neighbor more |
than a year previously, and though its
return had been repeatedly requested, /
possession was drifting into ownership |
when the twister came along and |
meted out justice by carefully dropping |
the implement into the yard of the |
rightfuI owner. unframed by the jour
ney.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

[Frona the Chicago News-1
No woman is as truthful as her
mirror.
The football hero will soon climb
back on the pedestal
It's a surprise party if everybody
there has a good time.
Occasionally a man proves his wis
dom by acting foolish.
An ounce of flattery is better than a
ton of tombstone obituary.
He is a wise man who never argues
with people he is fond of.
Life is but a fleeing show-yet it is
the best show a man has on earth.
1t is sometimes better to have loved
and lost than to be the other fellow.
Man wants but little here below, but
woman wants everything little be-
low cost.
And many a man doesn't owe a dollar
in the world because his acquaintance
know him too well.
A young widow looks upon her first
kiss from a bachelor as the beginning
but it usually indicates his finish.
If things We're reversed so that we
could all start at the top, it would only
be a matter of time until there would
be just as big a crowd at the bottom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
FROM OTHER PENS
suDDENNEss oF WAR-

The war is a startling and should be
an instructive and convincing remin-
der of the malign and unexpected pos
sibilities which necessarily Turk among
the tangled and Earring nations Of the
world. and of the profound wisdom of
holding aloof therefrom to the utmost
possible extent and of adopting every
practicable safeguard against being in
volved in the rivalries and animosities
of alien lands. We have already re-
marked upon the suddenness and unex-
pectedness of this war. Equally note
worthy is the possibility of it's almost
indefinite extension. AS our London
correspondent without exaggeration OBJ
serves, "Armageddon may come in the
course of a few months Turkey, weak
at sea, but mighty on land, may re-
taliate upon those who are cynicaliy
consenting, to her spoliation by invad-
ing Greece, which she claims to have
as good a right to do as Italy has to
invade Turkey. Would the powers en-
dure that? Austria, who set in Bosnia,
the example which Italy is following IN
Tripoli, may make her long conten-
plated rush toward Saloniki; and Bull
garia and Servia may grab at Mace
donia; and so on until, all Turkey hav-
ing been looted, the spoilers quarrel
among themselves over the spofls.-
New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

In an editorial dealing with the ap-
parent halt in industry the Washing
ton Post says:
With an enormous area of good
land, big crops, increasing population,
and freedom from domestic broiI or
foreign war, why shouldn't the country
go ahead? How long will Americans
hypnotic themselves with baseless
fears and foolish agitation? This is the
greatest, the richest, most favored
country under the armament, and all
that its people need to do is to quit be-
ing afraid of themselves and go ahead"
Why should there be a halt in indus
try and growth in the United States al
this time? Certainly there is no visit
Bile reason for slackening of activity
or sense of uneasiness. If the BUSH
ness world is worrying about adverse
legislation, let it reflect that there is a
Democratic house and a Republican
senate and president-an ideal condi-
ton for the maintenance of the status
quo. There will be a lot of talk, and
reformers will demand radical legisla-
ton, but the net output of laws is like
ly to be very small
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
QUAKER MEDTTATToNs-

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
It's really the under dog who is ON
his uppers.
A flow of profa nifty may be f1,,en@
but it can be damned
Even the fellow who has no end IN
view can see his finish.
Is It the navy that enables a nation
to paddle its own canoe?
Lots of people who are sure thew arc
right don't get ahead.
Some people imagine they can MAKE
us get up steam by pumping US full of
hot air. -
We might get the worst Of the deal
by swapping what we have for what
we want.
This is what you might call rabid
transit" remarked the village cut-uu
as a mad dog rushed by.
The minister always takes precedence
over the divorce lawyer, who politely
says After you, SIR
Blobbs-''That spiteful girl has an
idea she's a belle" Slobbs-"I don't
know about that, but do know she's a
knocler."
IT'S easy enough to make money"
remarked the philosopher. Yes. the
trouble is to pass it without getting
caught replied the counterfeiter-
The football season now is here,
We know full well.
The air is filled with words of cheer,
The collega yali-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
HU4OR or THE DAY

Il can't for the life Of me understand
why anybody should wish TO play chess"
It's a great gaue-perhaps the greatest
intellectual game there IS" Yes, but e.
affords no opportunity whatever for break
ing speed records. "-Chicago Record
Herald.
Now, gentlemen" said the stage man
ager at rehearsal, Il want you all to wear
your heavy overcoats to this scene.
1t is supposed to be an extremely chilly
night" I have no overccat, sir, replied
one Of the actors-then a bright thought
struck him; but could put on my heavy
underwear. "-Boston Transcript.
Too Much for Bill.-'I dunno how Bilrs
a-goin' to vote in this election" said the
campaign worker. i've hearn tell he's on
the fence" He WIZ thar" replied the
neighbor, but one O. the candidates let
fall a dollar on the of-side o. the fence.
and Bill got dizzy an fell oR.-Christian
Register.
Percy-Lend me five, old chap. and I'll
be everlasungly Indebted to you. Reggie
That's just what I'm afraid OF, old fell
low.-Pathfinder.
paw. what is a movable feast?'' IN
my case, Bobby. it's usually the one I
partake Of after starting on a trip across
the ocean 1t hardly ever stays put
Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
READ TIE BEATITuDEs.

If every man and woman of fair un-
Outstanding and open mind would read
every Sunday morning the fifth chap
ter of Matthew, which is the sermon on
the mount, containing the beatitudes,
this world would be happier than it is.
One need not stop to discuss the doc
trine Of it, but just let the sweet spirit
of it get into his life. as he let the view
of a fine landscape. or a glorious sun
set, or the heavens filled with stars,
get into his soul, and it will put him
in harmony with the all-pervading
truth that ruleth all things, and will
spread q vision before him that he
never saw before.
There is the best truth in the uni
verse; better than one will find in the
sciences, the arts, the philosophers, the
histories and a truth that one does not
have to struggle to get. but which
comes to him as freely as the light goes
into his eyes All he has to do is to
open his eyes, and there it is. If that
fair gospel would get into the hearts of
men, this world would be transformed
in it's culture, it's religion. it's politics.
it's social service. and the nine blessings
therein named would shed a radiance
over all human experience. Read it
every Sunday before breakfast. 1t will
take only five minutes--Ohio State
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


IFrom the New York Press.l
Girls only tell fbs about their suit
ors SO as not to have TO tell bigger Ones
A woman can make herself believe
her husbands politeness 70 her is de-
votion.
Sometimes a mans explaining prob
lens to the children doesn't muddle
them very much more about them.
You might Impress the joys OF heaven
On children by making them believe it's
all school in the other place
A woman has done big days shop
ping when she has spent a tenth as
much on 1t as on her car fare and
luncheon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
KANSAS COAAENT
AN INFORMANT REFORM.

Lately the Chicago Tribune hired a
doctor and put him to work where he
would do the most good. Not that
the paper was sick; far from it, 1t
was so prosperous it could afford to
hire DOCTOR and put him to writing
health hints on the editorial page. and
the matter therein set forth is more
important than ousting Lorimer, or
the rambllngs of royalty as set forth
by the Marquise de Fontenoy. This
doctor, while qualified NJ. D., is
smart enough to know that the less
medicine one takes the better off he
Is, and his space is largely devoted to
telling the gentle readers how to
dodge disease, and thereby save the
price of pills and physic and pain.
He has covered typhoid pretty thor
oughly, and told lot of simple facts
that most people know, but ignore too
OFTEN. Having attention called to them
every morning may help some of them
to get busy Now he is at work on
tuberculosi5, and if he induces a few
thousand people to keep their windows
open and breathe deeply. he is likely to
prevent a few hundred cases of a dis
ease which is much easier to prevent
than it is to cure Later, no doubt he
VIII tell of the other preventable dis
eases, and most of them are that and
how to sidestep them by simple pre-
cautions, most of which will make one
feel better besides making one bet
ter risk fer the life insurance COM
panies.
More of the big newspapers should
follow the Tribunes lead in this as in
other matters. Teaching the people
how to Keep healthy, and most of them
have something to learn in that line, is
more impc rtant than lowering the tar
If, sending the box score broadcast or
other vital issues. Rambling through
many papers and magazines in the
course of a days work, we find no ar
tlcles likely to be more helpful to the
race in generalstha these health hints
the Tribun is running. They are not
radical, nor the opinions of a faddist, |
but line of simple rules for health
borne out by science and common |
sense. Something along this line has
been attempted by the life insurance
companies. and there are magazines |
devoted wholly to health, but none is
so likely to reach the public as the |
newspapers which everybody reads
Atchison Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
A NORMAL WORID-

We hear more or less talk about
business stagnation. 1t isn't normal.
There never We're so many people
needing so many things as today, and
never was the world so well equipped
to serve the worlds needs.
We hear more or less complaint of
hunger in many lands. 1t isn't nor
NAL. The good old earth is rich enough
to give everybody a square meal
We hear talk, too, of social unrest
and possible political revolution. Now
that is normal. And it is healthfuI
too. This would be mighty poor, in
competent world if, when it has trou-
bles arising merely from the abnormal
adjustment of natural abundance, it
could nowhere command the genius to
set things straight.
Don't worry; don't lose faith. Just
take this comfort to your heart:
Everybody is of more consequence
than anybody. and. in the end, it is
everybody's interest that is going to
prevail.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
wooDEN SHOES IN AMERICA.

The daily consular trade reports is
sued by the bureau of manufactures of
the United States department of com
merce and labor contain much in
formation of an interesting and to
many doubtless of a valuable charac-
ter that can be obtained from no other
source.
AS an example take a recent report
from the American vice consul at
Amsterdam, which says:
"a shipment of 500 cases of wooden
shoes, containing several thousand
pairs, has just been forward ed from
this district to Grand Rapids, Mich.
this being the second large shipment
in the last few months"
1t is stated that the United States is
the best foreign customer of the Meth
erlands for this article of manufacture,
many hundreds of pairs of wooden
shoes being worn in Michigan. Iowa,
Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey. and
few other states. In fact, it is claim
ed that there is more wooden footgear
in Chicago, Grand Rapids, or Holland,
Mich, than in the city OF Amsterdam
Paterson, n. J., St. Louis, Mo, Lancas-
ter county. Nebraska. Marion county,
Iowa, and numerous other smaller set
Elements import large quantities of this
practical article of dress every year.
The wooden-shoe industry in the
Netherlands is generally decentralized,
logs being hewn out to the measure of
the customers feet in the village shoe
shop. The local price depends largely
upon the amount of lumber used and
the market price of the raw material.
There are, however, a few large fac
tories using modern woodworking ma
chinery and exporting most of their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
BREAKTNG CANR.

BREAkING CAMP.
The tepee poles come rafting down,
Where circling lodges grace the swale
And DER the prairie wide and brown
The shaggy ponies seek the trail
The Indian warriors breast the stream
Deep scorn for any ford have they;
One sees a brown arm, naked, CLEAN
AS the young leader points the way.
The shadows fill with motley crew
Their shrlII cries seem to echo yet
And outlined 'gainst the deepening blue
The Indians file in silhouette
And where the tepees stood the sound
OF ak is heard, and smoke wreaths
creep;
Upon the Indians camping ground,
The settler drives his homestakes deep.
Denver Republican
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

The following appeared recently in
the Kansas City Times: 1.-The dangers
of the recall are emphasized in Wichf-
ia, where the mayor and one commits
sioner were recalled Monday, and two
nights later there was a $15O.O00 fire.
in which one life was lost and two per-
sons were injured" And this leads the
Boston Globe to inquire:S (which one
of them set fire to it %
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10
A MORGAN DTCTuM.

1t was the hard-headed old father of
J. Pierpont Morgan who once said: TT
isn't safe to be a bear on the United
States very long, my SON. Quite nat
urally, therefore. does Pierpont OBJ
serve: II am not apprehensive as to
the business conditions. Physically the
ton is a psychological one" The great
"Jupiter's" declaration is absolutely
correct. The country is "all right and
it will remain SO. Nothing is inherently
the matter with our resources, produc-
tivity and wealth. And Morgan's clos
ing dictum is right, too, with some
slight amendment When the uncer-
tainties and abuses that create the
state of mind" are removed. business,
both big and little. will travel on seven
league boots.-Boston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

President Brown of the New York
Central as a result Of his study of agri-
culture in Europe recommends the
adoption here of the methods which in
England enable the farmers to pro
duce twice as much on an acre of land
as we do" The New York World looks
upon the suggestion as tending to 4
dangerous concentration of wealth in
the hands of the American farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

Figures on the first months use OF
fast freight service for the transporta-
ton of magazines indicate a saving in
the third contract district-the only one
in which the scheme is being tried-of
81, SOC, 900 a year The. cost of transpor-.
tation including carriage will be about
$500. 900, as compared with 81, 0O0, 900 I'M
der the old system. It is estimated
that the total saving for the entire
country would be between "a, 100000 and
SIS, 000. 600, considerably more than Mr.
Hitchcock's first estimates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

product. The principal countries TO
which they export, in the order of
their Importance, are the United States
and Canada, West Indies, Germany
and South Africa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

The boys of the Tacoma high school
have coveranted with one another in
writing not to cheat or rough-house
in their games. not to loiter in the
streets after school let's out, not to
litter the school grounds Or the
streets with paper. and not to smoke
in the school grounds, in the stadium
or on the street cars. This probably
will prove vastly more satisfactory in
results than would prohibitory rules
by the school board.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

A Washington correspondent says
suspicion that foreign spies have Turk
ed among the battleships and naval
stations has been strengthened to such
an extent in the last six months that
q feeling verging on alarm is expert
enced by high naval officials. Why
not let them Turk? The more they
see of them perhaps the less they will
care to come into contact with them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

A man was taken off the train in
New York who had neither speech nor
memory. and the Washington Post
suggests that he must have been one
Of these investigation committee wit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

A preacher in Des Moines declares
that the automobiles are emptying the
churches and the Register adds that
they are also filling the cemeteries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

Why save the Democratic party, in
quires the Baltimore American. Why,
70 provide a place for dissatisfied Re
publicans to go, if for no other reason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

It is announced that railway officials
In Chicago hav- placed a ban on high
heels worn at terminals. Does this
mean that they must be worn about
the Uaist2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

The steel trust should do a good
business in supplying armor plate fol
Turkeys ships of the desert"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-10

If the Duke of the Abruzzf succeed in
capturing the Turkish navy. he might
have another try at the Elkins girl
with better chance of success.