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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
I'D HERTL5LNG Talks
BY WILLIAM G. FREEMAN

Anent the story printed in this column
recently about young man who received
check from Rogers. Poet & co. for hat
which was thought TO be lost In transit
Mr. A. +. Sproui told me the other day
OF an incident that happened in a Boston
clothing store, where the firm had de-
cided to sell out a quantity Of overcoats
at reduced price
One of the statesmen. before bofnr- an
pfsed OF the reduced price. sold "a coat
70 a regular customer of the store at the
regular price The customer wore the
coat. A record Of the sale was made. of
course "a
This customer was surprised. three ds,.,
later, 10 receive "A check from the firm
Tor the difference between the regular
ana the reduced price, with a note OF ex-
Mr.. Sproul went on to say:
I think you will agree with mo thar "a
transaction OF this sort touches Just about
the upper limit Of probity in mercbandIe-
ing. All the more refreshing is n ~ -e.a,I
of thees things at a time when "A Tondo,,
clergyman is quoted as saying-'the sltr-
most scrupulous, and the strtiepie TO- 'e
Iootins tends to make men hard ina fhai~
dealings with their fellows '.'
Continuing, Mr.. Sproul said.
mo doubt there is an element ~ 4,..,
in what this London clergyman said 49,.
l., t .lll1l, we can take courage from the
knowledge that ii IS far less true En-.
formerly Mans inhumanitv ~ tau
makes countless thousands riorrr, LEI. ~
business rascaltty IS one phase OF This i.
humanity. but it is nonsense 10 s oll15 IN
1t can forever continue to be the ,,, Jip,,se
policy You do not think SO. leno,,,. ing ing
do l. !" ''"i nor
It Is my firm belief that good daa,
OF the TAX about business tricker,'' n
based on lack OF knowledge OF businass
slfewdness- People are apt 10 conf,1ss
the two words A man who is shrez,d n,
business need not necessarily he 5t ~. IN
est Shrewdness is buying ana seiiins-
to advantage. SeAihe
believe that 30 per cent Of the mar
chants intend to do the square tIf,,.i iS -
their customers If the larger ,,,-,-.s. ny
did not conduct their business In a s,,,,ss
way, there would be basis Ieft -
either confidence or credit 'e-1 Tor
The business trickster is GRADUALLY, h.,
Ing eliminated by the limeligbf ~ i,s., pc
publicity. oA honest
CTo be continued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

Rand for the last three years, but
never could get m enough nerve to
non the question. wanted Nettie a
whole heap more than / did that
blessed piece of land that 1 have an
option on
but how about the option 2" in
quired johnson. will Miss Rand put
up the money for that?''
Sure she will, and when / rake in
my fifty thousand we are going to get
married and go to Europe on our we'd
ding trip. You'll get a slice out of the
deal. old fellow, for that valuable sug-
gestion of yours. It was worth more
than the profit in the deal."-( Copy
right. 1911, by Associated Literary
Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An exceedingly rare combination is
dollars nd sense.
X
What has become of the old-fashioned
young man who used to shine his own
shoes?
x x
Almost everybody can be depended
upon to do the wrong thing in sudden
emergency.
Why doesn't some ragtirne enthusiast
compose for the Thanksgiving season
a Turkey Glide -
x X Z
A leaky pipe will put more nicotine
stains on a smokers fingers in one day
than cigarettes will in a couple of
months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
a SYCAMORE IN LATE AUTUMN.

Far out the half-striped boughs do sweep
FROM the tall pillar of the trunk
Ihat, at its top. would sentry keep
. er miles on miles of lowland, sunk
into autumn's dun-yellow wane-
But the great sycamore, though robbed
OF nigh all raiment, stands superb,
More loTdly than when summer throbbed
With fervent life in tree and herb,
And forests filled with birds refrain
The leaves and seed-gIobes, brown and dry
Take rich bronze tints when sunbeam
touched
Letting the chill breeze 'mongst them sigh
From northern hills cen now FROST
clutched,
And answering it with sharp, quaint
sounds
See how the notified limbs. up-coil-
Pythons TRANSPORTED, petrified-
And make for deep blue skies a foil,
Save when white clouds do by them glide
On voyages that have no boundi
William Struthers, in the Boston
Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
Hero is the other reference:

Here Is the QLneT reference
collection is made in certain quar-
tiers to the newly elected mayor OF
Philadelphia that he takes things
home and talk them over with ms
wife. 1t is claimed by his critics that
this is a form of petticOat govern
nlent Possibly this is true; it is also
true that, speaking rather broadly and
allowing for certain excruclatlng eX-
ceptions. petticoat government gener-
a1Iv is good eoVernm A successful
man generally is the product of coun-
ell His best friend should be his wife,
and generally she is his Wisest coHn-
selOr. \ lot of women are too silly TO
know or talk of serious things But,
generally speaking and again allowing
for notable exceptions, a fool man
generally has a fool wife, and a wise
man a wise wife. The wisdom of the
pair is mutually gained A man
should marry a woman for her COM
mon sense. If he has not sense
enough to do that at the beginning of
his life. if, in short, he marries a fool
she does, too.
Marriages should be partnerships
nothing more. nothing less. In
business, in religion, in politics, in
education, in every relation and vo-
cation of life, the wife and the hus-
band should stand as equals. wife
should know her husbands business;
if she hasn't enough sense to help
him, it indicates that at some import
ant crisis in his career he didn't have
sense enough to pick wise woman,
and picked merely a pretty one; he
did not have sense enough to know
that a wife picked for her beauty
alone wears out early. A man of the
highest type of intelligence, who is
not essentially a hog, will not pick a
wife for physical reasons; if he does,
he pays the penalty. For sooner or
later she knows he is q hog. and he
knows she is a fool-rather an un-
pleasant combination of useful infor-
nation.
In politics q woman has lots of
sense-if she has any at all. man
who takes his politics home, if he
gets any help at all. will get great
help And so. petticoat government,
silly, selfish women, who sometimes
get control over men by appealing to
their manifest weak2 esseS-so petit
coat government generally is good gov
eminent.
THE MAYOR of Philadelphia is wise
in taking his politics home to his wife.
The more nearly a marriage is a part
nership and not a miserable commercial
transaction between the sexes the bet
ter the parties tc the partnership are.
Gentlemen who object to women hav-
ing any souls may put this in their
pipes and smoke it,.
But why discuss these things when
an anxious public is breathlessly
Beattie and the Chamberlain cases?
To what depths of degradation did
wealthy Z. G. Clark and Jay Fitzwa-
ter, miIIers. and Watson Scranton,
miller's assistant, stoop at Shady
Bend to get year in jail. And Beat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
AVIATOR,s DISEASE.

Almost every occupation has it's
neurosis, and every new sport adds one
| to the long list. We have become ia
| miliar with the golfers wrist the
tennis elbow and the baseball
arm side by side with the writer's
cramp." Trades have their dangers
and develop new types of disease. The
air induces pathologic as well as ply
siologic effects. Disturbances in ply
siologic balance experienced at alti-
tudes were described by DaCosta under
the name of NAL des montagnes in the
fifteenth century; and the dangers OF
changes in atmospheric pressure were
made memorable by the eventful and
fatal balloon ascension of Tissandier
and his comrades from Paris in 1875.
The latest accession to the galaxy
of maladies is the NAL des amateurs,
says The Journal of the American
Medical Association in recent issue.
With aviation meets as a daily occur
renee with transcontinental flight
now an accomplished feat, and the
aeroplane in actual operation as an
engine of war; it is not surprising
that the medical aspects of this new
vocation should invite the attention of
the scientist. Professors Cruchet and
Moulinier of Bordeaux, have recorded
observations made at one of the large
French meets. An aeroplane flight
calls for continuous effort, both
physical and intellectual, under cOndi-
tons to which the human body is not
adjusted. An ascent to an altitude of
nine thousand feet is accomplished in
thirty to forty minutes and succeeded
by a return to earth within five to
seven minutes. To these speedy as
cents and almost dazzling descents,
forming the peculiar mechanical fea-
lures of certain types of flight, are
added the rapid changes in baromet-
ric pressure, the attendant modifica-
tons in the composition of the atmos-
phere, and the sudden alterations in
temperature (from IS F. on the
ground to AZ F. a nine thousand feet) |
"a combination of factors including
those to which all workers at high |
attitudes may be exposed
The data collected are. as yet, too |
scanty to permit of any elaborate dis |
cussion. Certain symptoms are of par
ticular interest During the ascents,
shortness of breath may be expert /
enced al relatively low attitudes, ac-
companied by rapid pulse. There |
may be mild buzzing in the ears. but /
aches are liable at an altitude of about |
$500 feet. The sensation of cold be-
comes intense. Irregularities in the !
muscular movements are also report |
the expression of the |
combined effects OF cold, accelerated |
heart beat, nervous tension, fatigue
and other factors.
AS in the case of mountain climb
ing, the altitude at which different |
individuals are attacked varies wide
ly. Cruchet and Moulinier add that
probably the extreme rapidity with !
which the aviator travels through a |
changing atmospheric environment /
contributes distress and even danger to
variations in atmospheric pressure
which divers, for example, would re-
gard as relatively slight. Some of the
symptoms noted in -caisson workers
find a counterpart in those reported
BY aViatOrs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
FROM OTHER PENS
FOR INJURED woRKMEN.

If a workman in a factory in Missouri
gets caught in a machine and loses an
arm, he may sue for damages, hiring a
lawyer on percentage basis. In the
course of years he may get verdict.
The money that finally comes to him is
only a fraction of the amount awarded.
Meanwhile the courts are clogged with
personal injury cases.
In the state of Washington Mr. J. A.
Harzfeld president of the public utilities
commission, points out, the injured work
man is a once paid a definite sum out of
a fund collected by the state. He needs
no lawyer. He gets all there is coming
to him and ne gets it without delay. That
is the result of the Washington Work.
mems Compensation Act, which was sign
ed last March.
Incidentally, it is refreshing to note the
opinion of the Washington Supreme
Court in sustaining the act after the New
York Court of Appeals had held a some
what similar law unconstitutional. The
opinion, written by Judge Fullerton, con-
siders the New York decision and says:
Notwithstanding the decision comes
from the highest court of the first state
in the Union and is supported by most per-
suasive argument we have not been able
to Yield our consent to the views there
taken. kansas City Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
DAFFYDuS
BY Q. NOALL.

If Colonel swope should come to life
would DR.. Hyde?
Qf you have tears to waste now is
the time to shed them.)
To arms, To arms! Said Percy as he
frightened up his corset
The water in my room won't run so
now I have to faucet,
Don't be hard on him, boys His
father was only a MANI
If an aviator bumped into a phono-
graph would he break the record?
Cheer up! The worst may yet be to
cone.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
HUNOR or THE Dry

she-There is one state at least WIZ.
h" Ti,atn San Ia 20 the bossing without tbs
pray2 she-The state OF matrir nat be,
Il suppose" said the fsco,,-
holder TO the plumbers assistant mouse
Deen sent TO repair the leak. ..,h nno has
forget to bring hnosf fba plumbers who aiwSsyyua
nave 70 spend an hour or SO s.oi-l,ol then
Tor It No. sir replied fb oanS back
fo u bri,1s man 7, always remembe,o honest
,I a !, you u, nave a Wonderful in.av,,..,
paid for on II the hetion magazines. an lion on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

A X U. professor says the gas will
ElVe out IN three years. OF course
the gas company will have nothing to
90 with it, but we suspect that the
r. ~ professors statement will slim
/ ulate the gas meters to a further eff
fort to break all speed regulations.
Women are now the equals of men
in California, but. Notwithstanding the
heroic efforts of the Suffragettes, they
are still mans superiors in Kansas.
Another Great Question has been
settled; a Mormon girl looks much like
any other girl
Visitors are forbidden to pass flow
ers to Mrs. Vermi1ya, but up to a late
hour this afternoon, no one had at
tempted to slip her a cauliflower.
out at oxford, Kansas. someone
robbed store and took nothing but
chewing gum. All the school girls
IN town are under suspicion.
And, if an arrest is made. the de-
tense will probably be Dementia
Girlia.
H. Clay Beattie closed with a con-
1esslon. He confessed that he was not
guilty. And by many soft-boiled simps
in this little world, it will be consid-
cred an absolute proof that he was
not guilty 1t is a popular-but oft
shattered theory that no one can lie
with hts last breath.
up after they are dead. Bum steers
furnished by spiritualistic controls
are offered in evidence.
Doc Hyde merely smiled when a
sparrow flew over his head, according
n hot 4ah zoo
Doc Hyde did not hop up, grab the
sparrow and eat it raw, is deeply sig
nlficant, and of priceless news value.
It's a big job to keep Hon. Bryan
out of the Top Heads A few years
ago it was Bryan on Silver or ''Brv-
an on Tariff or something like that
He was always ION, the job or
something else. Couple of days ago
the headline was Bryan on the
Rocks" SOmeday we may see ''Brvan
on Toast"
We see by the papers that Mr.. Cap
per is running strong for cover 'r
OF Kansas in Waterloo. Ia.
The decrease in the number of mar
riage licenses is probably traceable to
the Higher Education. Someone has
kicked the bottom out of
the one-time popular theory that two
has, no doubt, found a shelf in the
cannery adjacent to that occupied by
the one time popular theory that the
earth, in general formation, resembled
6 buckwheat cake.
Most any woman would like to have
her son become q preacher were it
not for the Well-known historic fact
that no preacher ever became presi-
dent of the United States.
OVERFLOW:
(The Daffydil Depart is full today.)
The brook may babble on its way
An Mr. Tennyson hath writ;
And, on the beach, the wavelets play,
But we must all admit
When duty calls. it never Shirks;
WE KNOW THE CITY WATER
Works.
(Tossus a blotter Clemetine, the
lower end of this colyum is All Wet)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press-l

TFrom the New YORK Press
Generally the morning after is pretty
late in the afternoon
A girl expecting a love letter always
suspects the postman of being a thief
The way the cook broiIs steak has most
to do with how much brains a man
thinks his wife has
Sensible men give their wives big al
lowa-ces so there win be that much more
to borrow from them.
A woman gets to understand a man and
he gets not to understand her by being
married to each other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

Senator Curtis is a pretty discrimin-
ating politician who is. pretty close to
the people. And he says that Kansas
is generally in accord with Taft. This
doesn't agree with Henry Aliens opin-
ion that there are only one or two
Taft men in Kansas. In fact, Henry
goes so far as to insist that there is
only one real Taft enthusiast in the
entire country. But then, Brother
Allen is also noted for being some
thing Of 8 joker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

Not SO many years ago and there
used to be something of d luII in base
ball CAB and gossip at this time. and
for the next two or three months. But
there seems to be almost as much
baseball news, outside of the stories
and scores of games, in the papers
nowadays as there is when the season
is at its height. In other words. base
ball is now a topic for continual dis
cussion the whole wear around
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

steers are now doing their best to
equal the record made by the COW that
Jumped over the moon. and from the
increasing prices that they are bring
ing in the livestock markets, the
chances are that beef will go even
higher than it did on that famous oc-
s-asiOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

What is sauce for the goose is surely
sauce for the gander. and if one of
Professor Dyche's wardens is guilty of
the charge that he violated the game
law. he should be prosecuted to the
limit. The same law is made for
everybody regardless of what some
DeODle thin,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

Italy controls all of the news out
lets from Tripoli- 1t is not strange
therefore, that the only Information
which comes from the Turko-Italian
war concerns Italian victories. But
isn't the final italian victory which
Will bring an end to the war being un-
reasonably delayed? In other words
the Turks are probably holding more
than their own in the fighting on land
that is in progress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

There ought to be big rush on the
hardware stores for shovels and hoes.
Professor Holden, of the Iowa agri-
cultural department, says that a half
a million dollars lies dormant in the
earth in almost every county in each
Of the states Of the union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

If every householder would just use
reasonable care in the keeping and
handling of matches. in seeing to it
that flues are properly constructed and
kept in free working order, and that
electric wiring and gas-piping is in
the condition that it should be. the in
eNeusable fire loss in this country.
which amounts to $500 minute
would soon be materially reduced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

a pretty figure and a big hat! That
is modern woman So said a promin-
ent Chicago clergyman the other day
And you notice that when one such
passes by most of the sober, serious
minded men do an uncommon lot of
r71bberi1r
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

When old men marry young girls
they are frequently characterized as
having robbed a cradle. But the Elem
ish actor of &c years who is about to
marry Sarah Bernhardt has reversed
this order and seems bent on robbing a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

That Canadian woman who attempt
ed to cure a brother-in-law from
smoking by putting strychnine in his
food succeeded 50 effectively that she
must spend the next five years in the
penitentiary for granddaughter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

Madero's troubles have begun in
earnest. He has found it necessary to
order an army of $4,000 men to the
northern Mexican frontier to cope with
the revolutionary outbreak which is
ff1reatanir.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PR1.SS

William Jennings Bryan has Just
gone through a real shipwreck with
caImness and fortitude But then he
has had considerable experience along
this line
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
CHATTER XXX.
More of the same sort-1


On the 18th day of November in
Chapter XIV in this issue, the writer
quoted William Allen White rather ex-
tensively in regard to the "diaboiic"
effect the Insurgents might have
upon their pure party machinery il
they buried their principles under a
coating of lust for office: that is to
say, not only forgot to a certain ex-
tert their own well thumbed principles,
but the general principles of right and
wrong, wherein one newspaper man
writes editorials not based upon facts;
charging the president with being weak
and worn and weary. when really he is
why and wonderfully we'll; when the
president was charged with being
lonely traveller when he was almost
smothered with attention; when a pres
ident was declared to be impossible.
when he is really the only one possible;
when writer woefulIy deceives. may
be unintentionally, but none the less
deceives, by publishing the most cruel
assertions as fact which were merely
fiction and worthy only of a place in
that sort OF literature and not at all
in editorials or fair politics or square
deal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

Apparently the charge against DR..
Hyde that he murdered Col Swope
is to be tried strictly on its merits this
time. without all sorts of extraneous
matter being injected into the case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

Dave Leahy should see to it that a
high wall is built around Kansas. A
Professor MCGEE estimates that the
population of the United States will ex-
coed billion by the year 219O.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

tie. the wife murderer, to sit in til
electric CHART!
LChapter XXI Tomorrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
JUSTICE ON A SLIDING SCALE.

An indianapolis judge has made public
announcement of the methods he intends
to employ in dealing with offenders under
the automobile statutes and regulations.
His most important innovation is that de-
vised to make the punishment for speed
ing fit the crime. For example, a man
caught running thirty-five miles an hour
will be fined S35 and costs, while one de-
tected in the act of going sixty miles
an hour will be relieved of $50 and costs,
to say nothing of the likelihood of a
prison sentence being thrown in for good
measure The judge makes public in ad-
vance his program, so that no one will be
surprised. He states that all classes will
be treated alike-except that the joy-rider
stands in a class by himself, being intrin-
sically a law-brealker the moment he be-
comes a joy-rider, and therefore deserv-
ing of some additional punitive considera-
ton.
Such a statement from a judge should
hearten the Indianapolis police who have
been endeaVOring to cope with the diff
cult automobile problem The magistrate
who goes record thus fully must, to
save his own face, live strictly up to the
specifications of his promises. The re-
suits should be highly beneficial.-C1eve-
land Plain Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

Why will ordinarily good men like
William Allen White continue to de-
ceive their hearers about so great Il
man as the President? 1t is said that
one VINO is wrong in little things will
be wrong in big things, but when
man is wrong in big things, what is
his classification?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

In the issue of the State Journal of
November 18th, this writer. in Chap
ter XIV, q. ". said that William
Allen Whites great desire was to be
postmaster general 1t enumerated
scores of other minor jobs which mi
nor insurgents wanted. not to mention
the United states senatorship Which
Governor Stubs wants. and in which
interest. and for other reasons, politi-
cal and personal. our esteemed Cover
nor has been "insurging," with seant
success of late, in the Second and Sew
enth districts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

women are now the equals of men
IN california, but, Notwithstanding the
heroic efforts of the Suffragettes, they
are still mans superiors in Kansas