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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.l
And a mans wife loves a cheerful
giver.
A man isn't necessarily square because
he Is co-nered.
1t looks as if it would be easy for other
people to be good.
The more a woman knows. the easier
it is for her not to tell it.
Some men are so small that even a
three for cigar is too big for them
The man who can talk without saying
anything is the one who shines in So
ciety.
woman's idea of light housekeeping
is when her husband helps her with the
work.
What woman likes about a novel is
the fact that it couldn't have happened
in real life.
But most people who do the right thing
at the right time earn a lot of money
they never get.
What kind of dope" do the artists use
who make pictures of plants and vegeta-
bles for the seed catalogues2
A girl usually thinks her voice har-
monies with the pianO-and the chances
are that the piano needs tuning.
In lodging their obligations some men
indulge in a continuous performance that
would seem to indicate they had discover
ed perpetual motion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Il don't see how I ever shall stand the
cold weathe-- actually had all the bed
clothes that I use in winter on my bed
enough!'
The speaker held out her hands TO the
open fire and shivered as Or IT were Jan
uary instead Of October.
That" said TIE lady-who-always-
every fall. You hear more complaining
of the cold weather in the first cold SNAP
Of the fall. than YOU do on the coolest
to 1t, think. When ! find myself Won
derlng in the fall how I'm going to stand
the cold, i always remind myself that Il
felt just that way last fan and that as
soon as got used TO the cold. I didn't
mind II q bit and even liked IT,"
How much getting used to a." does
nave to do with standing the cold wealth
e-,-and incidentally, many other things
When the first cold snap comes, those
OF Us who are not by nature cold wealth
er fiends. shiver in our boots and saw
something like the complaint quoted at
the beginning.
But by the time the real cold weather
has come we have forgotten an about our
ina bfhty to endure It. We just take Il as
a matter-of-fact or even enjoy IL once
we get used to it."
welcome conditions, how many difficult
situations. which at first we do not see
how we can endure, are likewise met
morphosed by the slow magic Of getting
used TO it,
"A year after was married my hus-
ful middle-aged woman. s.and much
against my viii, I moved a thousand
miles from my old home. It seemed 10
me at first that I simply couldn't stand
the change. I hated everything about
that new home. I hated the people and
the shops and the cars and every little
thing. But I've moved back to my orig
inal home now and can look back over
everything with an impartial eye, and /
must honestly say that the years I spent
in the home OF my adoption were the
happiest years OF my iife.''
Happiness often wears strange dis
guises at first and needs "getfIne tleed
to It" to tear off the mask
The lady who always knows-some-
how said When I find myself wonder
ing in the fall how I'm going to stand
the cold. I always remind myself that I
felt just that way last fall, and that "a,
soon as I got used to the cold i didn'tN
mind it q bit and even liked IT,"
1t seems to me that he has mastered
one Of the greatest lessons fn NE who
has learned. whenever he faces some
that seems uncomfortable 10 ro-
mind himself IN similar fashion how
bravely he learned to endure or even r.
like some other "unendurablo'' condffion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The average man worries a whole
lot about things that don't concern
him at all.
= x
An aviator goes up like a bird. but
a bird never falls with a thud like an
aviator.
x = X
Santa Claus ought to be unusually
active this year. There are five pay
days in December.
X X
Husbands are always blamed for
soon forgetting to kiss their wives, but
the number of wives who forget to
kiss their husbands is equally large.
x <
It's to be wondered If there is any
human in this latitude who hasn't re-
marked during the past week or so
that 1.-The frost is on the pumpkin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
HUMOR OF TIE DAY

Blobbs-This musical is a charity affair
for the benefit Of the poor.
Slobbs-I don't see just where the poor
Biobbs-well. they don't have to be pres
ent.-Philadelphia Record.
80 you are convinced that Bacon wrote
the Shakespearian plays2'
Il am" answered the British dramatist.
But Bacon was politician rather than
That's just the point only man
with a political pull could have produced
some Of those plays without trouble with
government censorship" - Washington
Star.
Alice in Wonderland said she could
easily believe six impossible things be-
But" cried the commuter, could you
believe you had plenty OF time to cat
breakfast and catch the 1862"
Family she protested that was too
much.-New York Sun.
Inquiring son-Paps. what is reason?
Fond Parent-Reason, my boy, IS that
which enables man TO determine what
is right
Instinct IS that which tells a woman
she is right, whether she is or not
London Spare Moments.
Giles-Take two letters from money. \
and one" viii be left. Miles-ls that
joke? Giles-Yes. Aiiles-Wen. I know
fellow who took money from two letters.
and it was no joke He got twelve months
in jail--Bystander-
Philanthropist-Er-I sent a poor starv-
ing devil down to you with a note this
morning to tell you to give him a meal
What's the bill2 Rung-Eighteen pence.
Philanthropist-W are the items2
Bung-Four beers and two cigars.-Syd-
ney Bulletin.
You say you are racing those aero
planists who are flying across the con-
tinent2" That's what I said" but how
does 1t happen that YOU are on foot2"
Il m walkin'. That's how II happens that
am far ahead OF them. Houston
Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

And while he is breeding spineless
thistles. Prof. Dyche should spend ms
rest nome, Is in figuring out spine
less catfish or boneless carp
Vain Horei We had hoped that the
Mrs. Vermilya case would pass Win
out any reference to the late Lucretia
Borgia. The Empory Gazette Went
step further IN referring to her a5
Mrs. Guinness number 2.
Maybe "Get-married-q quick Chester
did it cut down expenses. They DO
say as how them" eastern illustrators
charge big prices for their work. but
no artist lady would feel justified in
charging her husband as much as she
would a mere acquaintance.
Judge Porterheld, presiding in the
Hyde case. Will be a long time on me
job unless he with1raws some OF ms
specifications of what a juror should
be He canned one talesman because
he didn't have sense enough to act as
juror
Will some one who knows kindly in
form this department: how many
pretty girls does It take to make a
"bevy?" And. is there any other kind
of unit. which, multiplied by the,
proper number constitutes a "bevy ?"
1t is a good word and easy to spell.
and we may desire to use it at some
time; but first desire a definition.
University of Minnesota students
have formed La Toilette club, and ne
should take prompt steps to nip same
in the bud. His chances are not so
blamed good anyway, and if a gang OF
students try to incorporate his name
into a class yell. it viii fix him for
keeps.
DO without what you can't afford
may be good advice. but If all men fol-
lowed it during the winter. they would
either die from exposure or be pinched
for exposure.
The annual retirement of Buffalo
Bill was announced this week. Seems
to us Bill is retiring earlier than usual
this season.
one of the many assistant attorneys
general in Crawford county is named
Burr He has been sticking around in
that vicinity for some time and is irri-
tating the natives
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
DAFFYDHS
BY Z. NOALL.

IF the compass broke would West
Point?
II was seated one day in a giIded
cafe-1
You might squeeze out a candle
light, but you can't pintsch gas.
There's gold in them hills boys.
If Sir Walter Scott wrote the Lady
of the Lake what did William PENN
Easy with the whip, it's a hired
horse.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

This activity of President Taft and
his attorney general in prosecuting the
trusts is also delectable fruit for the
big lawyers. Each magnate made a
party to any of these suits needs the
services of one large legal luminary,
or more. TO look after his interests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

when Mr.. Kiene, the managing edl-
tor of the State Journal, desires to en-
gage another reporter, he does not
always bother the writer of these
"Reminiscences about it. He knows
what ought to be paid, and whether
the office needs, or does not need, an
other reporter. Furthermore, if a re-
porter leaves. he has full authority to
employ another one without inquiring
whether the proposed new reporter is
a relative of the editor or not. He
knows that the proprietor does not
care to put his own relatives on the
paper unless they are competent to
fill the positions and places in ques-
ton The main thing is competency
and reliability in every department.
IF Mr.. Oscar Wolf, the circulation
manager, wishes to engage another
carrier-and the way things look
right now, he will be obliged to en-
gage a number of additional carriers
he does not stop to inquire wheth-
er the carrier is a second cousin of
the proprietor, or to what church the
desired carrier belongs. He only
wants to know if the carrier is re
liable, of good character. and can fill
the BILL If he can, he is admitted
into the State Journal inner circle
of carriers. or newsboys, or travelling
men,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

President Bush seems to be the
right man in the right place at the
head Of the Missouri Pacific system.
That road is beginning to show gains
in its gross revenues, and during a
period when general business is not
particularly active.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
things are: Character. competency and


constancy."
And if the advertising manager,
Mr.. Charles Lagerstrom. desires to put
on a new solicitor, or one leaves him
suddenly he puts one on, and the pub
Usher of the paper may not know his
name, or know what salary he is to re-
ceive. But the advertising manager
knows in a general way what the needs
of the office are, and what the wishes
| of the proprietor are.
And so we might go on down
, through the various departments of
any successful newspaper office
Now are you satisfied, Mr.. Party of
the First Part?
Paul Block, $50 Fifth avenue. New
York City, who represents the Topeka
State journal advertising department
in New York and Chicago on a sal
aired basis. and who is considered one
of the biggest and best advertising ex-
perts in the country. under date of
Tuesday, October 81. writes as fol-
lows:
Il have been away and have only
| been back a short while. For the last
/ two nights L have been doing nothing
but reading the various chapters about
| Franc undt Ardur.'
although you did it all in a good
natured. polite and happy way want
to tell you that I never read any
thing that sounded better to me
nothing that sounded more sincere
and more to the point (even though
full of humor) than did your articles.
Let me hear further from you
about It, please. don't want to miss
a single chapter. I have read every
thing up to and including Saturdays
paper. October 2Sth. If anything ap-
peared after that, call my attention to
it, please. in case missed it.
Let me know also whether you are
still president of the Saturday Night
club"
Melville E. Stone. general manage
OF the Associated Press, in letter
written from New York City October
81, says:
would it be possible for you to
gather up a complete set containing
your 'ReIninisc ences,' or are you go
ing to put them in book form?
should like very much to have them
to read"
Mr.. Stone was last evening sent .
complete set of the chapters from I to
XXI inclusive. He was told that this
talk about printing "reminiscences of
a Newspaper Man in Topeka in book
form was a Joke: that the "Reminis-
cences'' in chapter form were merely
gossipy comments on current news,
sugar coated with a few real ''Reminis-
cences'' in the newspaper life of the
writer
N B. There has been so much ex-
element around the State Journal Of
flee today in getting out the paper,
the like of which was never printed in
America before, namely a page in col
ors every day, that the writer of these
"Reminiscences has been unable 10
get his story about the strike in the
old Emporia News composing, room
into type so it will have to go over until
Chapter XIII tomorrow.
LCoatinued in our next issue-l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

J. B. Chapman. the prominent Atchi-
son Democrat. clearly points out that
the newest political propaganda of Bill
White and Dick Hopkins. and presum-
ably of other so-called Republican
Insurgents in Kansas is plenty good
enough for any progressive Democrat
to stand on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Reports from New York are to the
effect that the Z. S. navy has demon
strated its wonderful ef1ciency-on
dress parade. At that, though. there
never has been a time since there was
a Z. S. navy that it has not been able
to meet any and all emergencies. either
on dress parade or in the line of battle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Nobody in Christendom has much
use for the Turks. Most people are
probably glad, though. to see the Ital-
fans get a few vigorous repulses. Italy
had no sufficient reason to provoke
tLis war, and is being rightly con-
demned on all sides for her hasty ac-
ton in so doing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Is a presidential primary in Kansas
a sufficient public need to warrant the
calling of an extra session of the legis-
lature to enact law so that one can
be held? Certainly not. The question
is purely a political one that is being
promulgated by faction in Kansas
that has had all the rest of its noisy
ammunition discounted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

One undying monument to the mem
ory Of the late Joseph Pulitzer will be
the school of journalism at Columbia
university which he established with
a gift of $1,000, 900 that his death
makes available
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Italy announces that she has been
victorious without exception in all the
battles with the Turks. both on sea
and on land-and including. presum-
ably. the battles against the Arabian
N-nrnan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
FROM OTHER PENS

TAKING THINGS AS THEY COME.
One need not be a fatalist to get good
for himself and others out of the habit
of taking things as they come. He need
not depreciate the efficiency of will in ac-
cepting results as he finds them and max
ing the best of them. It is not a matter
except in so far as the one grimly recog-
nizes facts accomplished to be unchange-
able and the other that one event acting
upon another determines results.
But the simpler philosophy is that after
a thing haSAhappened and has come to its
finality it is settled and no amount of
worrying wishing willing can change
it. The only alternative then is to leave
what is done and look ahead. If one lose
the first heat in the race of life he may
win the second and eventually the race if
he does not stop to repine over the pre-
liminary. Hating there to dwell and
dilate upon mishapS that amount of
lamenting can possibly retrieve he loses
what he might win by picking up courage
and going ahead.-Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Winter having arrived somewhat
prematurely and with rush like unto
a lion, it is reasonable to expect that it
will continue on its way like a lamb, or
else the sayings Of the soothsayers are
decisions and snares.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Safety and sanity on Halloween
seems to be more of a need with the
grown-ups than the youngsters. The
former are getting altogether too free
in the use of shot-guns on the latter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

one girl in the United States, at
least, seems to have played in pretty
good luck. on the day set for her
marriage to the Rev. Clarence V. IT.
Richeson. he was formally held on the
charge of numbering another woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Something in the nature of retribu-
tive justice: The California law ex-
empting physicians from jury duty
does not apply to dentists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Something must be wrong with the
" c. T. L. There was nothing like a
scrap over the election of officers at
its recent national convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
KANSAS COAAENT


AN EDUCATION'S VALUE.
If an uneducated man earns $3.50 day
Tor 800 days in year he does very well;
and If he keeps it up for forty years he
will earn S1.50x3O0x40 or $4,000. An edu-
Gated man is not generally paid by the
If you will strike an average of the earn
ings of edCl;l ed men, beginning with the
president of the United States, who earns
companies and of large railroad COM
panies, and run down the scale until you
come to the lower walks in point of earn
ings among educated men, you will adj
NIT that $1,000 is a low average for the
earnings of educated man. Subtract $1S,-
600 from $4,000, and the difference, or
$4,000. must represent the value OF a boys
time spent at school getting an educa-
uon.-Smtth County Pioneer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Colonel William F. Cody, who is
Buffalo Bill" to all the world, may
think that he has retired to private
life But when the Wild West show
band begins to tune up next year. he'll
begin to hunt for his saddle and spurs.
If ne don't he's an unusual human.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Kansas having been suddenly grip
ped by a cold wave, many of her in
habitants viii probably be forced into
distressing sessions with la grippe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

From the habitats of deer comes the
news that is usual to the fall season.
Hunters and others. mistaken for
deer, are being shot to death in their
tracks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

About the most pathetic atom of hui
manity on the earth's surface today is
the six-year-oId Emperor of China.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

Can anybody hear the dove of peace
doing any cooling these avs?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
JAYHAWKER JOTS

A slight reading of the fashion notes
leads the Hutchinson News to con-
cIude that this winter evening dresses
will be the same as bathing suits with
a little longer skirts and a little lower
tops.
1.-The best way I know to take a long
Journey and not get nowhere" said Bill
Sincaller sis to take the LeavenWorth
branch of the Union Pacific That is
the cheapest ocean roll 1 ever knew
-Vinland Vine.
Chestnut blondes are to be popular
this winter according to the fashion
journals, notes the Ottawa Herald.
and it adds The horsemen changed
the names of sorrelS to chestnuts
few wears ago Wonder If this viii Of
fend the women?
Reported by the Hiawatha World:
A lady who called at one of the dem
fist offices to get a tooth pulled was
asked if she wanted gas We'll, I
should say So" she replied. I don t
propose to sit here in the dark with
you or any other man.
The young folks are laughing at a
girl who is VIGOROUSLY bossed around
By her steady. She is afraid to do
anything or say anything for fear he
will object. She's simply stringing
him When she gets him strung, she'll
be the boss.=Howard Courant.
The new. IS corsets which encase
one to the knees are often responsible
for embarrassing their wearers, re-
ports Mrs. Moffet in the Cherryvale
Journal. The other day at card
party a fat lady dropped a card. She
made several Intellectual dives trying
to pick it up. Finally, with purple
face. she gasped out: will somebody
wearing a dollar corset kindly pick
up that card for me ~
@WFYT q rwwTr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
Or THE ASSOCIATED PRESs

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03

IF the pressman is obliged to en-
gage another assistant. he knows in a
general way what the proprietor
wishes and what the needs of the Of
flee are, and he knows the three
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
sIrFFRAGE And BEATTY.

There is no reason why the feminine ad-
vocate of womans rights should not be
good looking. At least, Mrs Oliver H.
P. Belmont, the proDonent of political
equality, appears to be of this way of
thinking. She means to prove that by
giene and the franchise may properly
travel hand and hand that pulchritude and
intelligence are not incompatible. and that
in an engrosSing enthusiasm for cause
one need not lose ones roseleaf, peach
bloom complexion.
of the 'senfranchisement'' of woman you'd
not be retarded by the dismissal of the
superstition that the sumragist, or suf-
frage, is inevitably sour-visaged and I'M
prepossessing. Good looks, however la
mentable the fact, have been patiently
persuasive in the conversion of suscep-
tible mankind, and a sympathetic hearing
has been given to Miss Inez Milholland, of
Vassar, as much for attractive person
atty as for the cogent substance of her
argument Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
QUAKER AIEDTTATIONs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record-]
The dead sure thing is often more dead
than sure
Truth often takes the form of things
we would rather not believe.
Lots of people live and learn the things
that are of no use to them.
People who continually find fault sell
dom find time for anything else.
A man makes a hit with a girl when he
tells her how much he misses her
Tell your troubles. and your friends
will see that you have plenty to tell.
The young man who is looking for an
opening might try the oyster business
If money talks it must be In silvery
tones. for we are told that silence is
golden
When the nervous man reaches the top
he is apt to look around Tor the lire
escapes-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
RY The WY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

And. while he is breeding spineless
thistles. Prof. Dyche should spend ms
rest nome, Is in figuring tut a spine
less catfish or homeless carp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-03
MONARCHY IN PORTUGAL.

It is an interesting story that comes
straint of the king trade by the two
claimants of the Portuguese throne. Dom
Miguel of Braganza, for many years
known as the banished pretender to the
throne, but now no more a pretender, from
the republican point of view, than the
king recently deposed, has been an agree
ment with Manuel. They are to combine
forces for restoration of monarchy; IL
the movement succeeds the people of
Portugal are to decide by election
which is to receive a large pension from
the new government.
On paper this looks like a highly in
genious plan. Both Dom Miguel and
Manuel have followers, some of whom
have money. There perhaps is secret
sympathy on the part of European roy
atty generally with the idea of restoring
monarchical government in Portugal. But
is there not a danger to the idea Of the
divine rulership of kings in the reported
ombination.-Chicago Record-Herald.