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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.J


The best thing out-a conhagration.
It's a shame the way some people
forget to remember.
Some high ideals are as impracti-
cable as some airships.
Woman is apt to be the stronger
vessel in the courtship class.
Hard cash is so called because it is
hard to get along without it.
In putting his best foot forward
many a man has made a fool of him
self.
Wolves that come to our doors are
never disguised-so they cannot be
blessings.
A woman will gladly compromise if
her husband is willing to make all the
concessions.
Some men don't seem to realize the
difference between the simple life and
the silly life.
A wise girl is indispf sed when a
young man calls unexpectedly after
she has been eating onions.
There is nearly always some rule at
hand that will enable yoC to prove
anything you want to.
In the course of time a woman may
forget why she hates a man, but she
will continue to hate him just the
same.
After a woman gets on the shady
side of 80 she would rather a man
tell her how young she locks than how
pretty she Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
New Yorl1's First Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange had
it's beginning under a buttonwood tree
in front of what is now Nos. 68 and 20
Wall street, where a group of brokers
met three times a week and specialized
on crops and the importations of the
West India company. Later, in 1892,
daily meetings were held in the Tontine
coffee house, on the site of which-the
northwest corner of Wall and Water
streets-now stands the Tontine build
ing. 1t was only natural that stock
brokers should return to the curb
stones, especially since for many years
a considerable part of London's stock
transactions had been, even as today,
carried on in the coffee houses and on
the sidewalks of Change alley, forming
at all times an active and excited mar
ket-The Strand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
KANSAS COMAENT
HOW ADVERTISING HAS CHANGED

All the business men can recall a
form of advertising that was very pre-
valent about 10 to 20 years ago. Inc
loea was to fool reader against ms
Will to persue an advertisement II
was assumed that the reader was hos
tile to all advertising, and that the
only way TO get him to read 1t was TO
perpetrate a fraud. An advertisement
would start in like a news article. as
If II was some sensational or tragic
happening. With more or less ingenu-
ity the reader would be led on to the
advice to buy. QuackerjackS pills or
Cheatham's corsets.
The practical result was to anger
the reader at so childish a deception
and few goods were sold in that fash
ion. The big dry goods merchants
were the leaders in modern advertls-
ing. They were early with the dlscoV-
cry that the public does not have to be
cajoled, leased or defrauded in order
to get advertising read. They found
on the contrary that the public was
eagerly turning to the advertising 10
get its questions asked, that the man
who did not answer those questions was
sighted, and the man who did answer
them got the business.
The public does not turn to adver-
Using for wit, humor or monkey cap
ers. 1t simply asks merchant to tell
them about some Of his most attrac-
tive offerings, to describe them so
clearly that they can know just about
what they are and what they Will cost.
You no more need to work OFF
fraud on your readers to get them
to read that kind of advertising, than
the editor needs to play fool tricks OH
them to get them to read any other
good live news.
The department store men have built
up their great business by recognizing
that the public wants the news Of their
stores, and is governed in it's purchases
by the presentation of that news in
the advertising. They found out that
the store that does not advertise is as
much out of the game as the newspa-
pers that should print articles out of
the encyclopaedia on its first page
Atchison Champion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
HUNOR or THE DAY

Poverty is not crime. you know"
Say, If you had a wife and lived next
door to people who had larger income
than you had you'd change your mind
about that."-Chicago Record-HeraId.
Lady-And did you make your congre-
cation give up cannibalism? Missionary
(suppressing a grin-Not quite; but after
much trouble 1 persuaded them to use
knives and forks.-The Throne.
Uncle" said the traveller, who had
stopped at the farmhouse to water his
horse, my wife out there in the buggy
wants to know that that curious looking
structure is" That's a siIo,'' answered
the FARMER. Il keep enSilage in it." He
says" reported the traveller to his wife
few moments later, its an asylum and
he keeps a fellow named N. c. Lage in it.
I think he's lying, but I hope you're sat
isfied. Chicago Tribune.
''Why, Willie. what kept you so late?
Did you have to stay after school? I'm
afraid you have been naughty" mo,
ma am, amt never been naughty. Bobby
Jones was licked fer bein' naughty, an
1 stayed after school to hear him yell
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
''Jim doesn't think much of me.
guess" Eyes, he does, old man. Just the
other day he told me you were brick"
IN surprised" HE went further than
that. He said you were a regular geld
brick."-Toledo Blade.
''Why did you leave your last placer,
asked Mrs. Hiram Daily of the would-be
cook. 81 haven't left me lasht place" re-
piled the applicant. 81 haven't any lasht
place to lave I've been workin' for me-
self for the past year, an I can recon-
mend meself to yez very hoighly'-Bo
ton Transcript.
my son, remember this: marrying on
a salary has been the salvation Of many
a young man." 'I know, dad. But sup
pos yem wife should !ese her salary ~
Cleveland Leader.
''What has happened to Mr.. White, who
used to be such joker?" ''Well. he pro-
posed to his present wife as Joke. She
accepted him. and he has given up maxi
ing jokes ever Observation-Disclosures.
'T take lots of pleasure out of horses.
Ienjoy them more and more" Thought
you preferred an auto?" ct do. But It's
such bully sport seeing horses shy, rear,
run away, and all that sort of thing
Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
STIMULUS OF GARDENING.

I never knew that the pursuit of
horticulture, even in the most anna
flourish way, even, I might say, in a
purely abstract way, was a tremendous
stimulus to the cardinal virtues of
Faith, Hope and Charity, writes Eliza
beth Coolidge in the June Atlantic.
Pray how is one to put ones trust in
the seed-catalogues (Which ones
friends unanimously declare to be
mendacious); or to glow over pictures
and descriptions that ono knows to be
romance; or actually to write out
money-orders with hands trembling In
eagerness. money-orders for packets
and ounces and dozens and hundreds
without faith? Faith in man, faith
in nature, faith in seeds, and faith in
print? Hope, too. receives the same
vivifyiLg stimulus; and Charity, most
of all, is necessary II one would plan
a pretty garden; the charity that be-
lieveth all things and hopeth all things,
and must be ready to endure and for
give all things when Nature and the
Garden take things into their own con-
troll. Without charity for the nlisin-
forming guides I have consulted, and
still more charity for my own irwin
chile and happy credulity, I should not
dare to face the failures of next sum-
mer; but with charity. go gladly for
ward, feeling that to seek and learn
the truth about my own dear garden
will be to me precious soul-experi-
ence, even though the most conspicu-
GUS truths of all should prove to be the
mistakes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
A Corner in Rats,

DR.. Julian Ortiz, bacteriologist and
chemist, of this city. and husband of
Mrs. Alice Ortiz, daughter of Mrs.
Elizabeth B. du Pont, is buying all the
rats and mice he can get in Whining
ton. He is experimenting on the rod
ents in furtherance of theory that by
forcing chemicals through the skin he
can cure tuberculosis and other dis
eases, instead of giving medicine in
ternally.
DR.. Ortiz said that he would await
the result of further experim ents be-
fore announcing to the medical world
what he has discovered. He forces
chemicals through the skin by the use
of electricity. He is being aided by
DR.. Pierre Drouchard, who recently
arrived here from France.-Wilming
ton (Del.) dispatch to New York
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
MONOTONY

If all the people cherish
Were easily obtained;
II all the pests would perish,
And not an Ill remained:
If those We love would love US
And those we hate would die;
II clouds ne'er spread above US
To darken the blue sky;
If all the flies made honey
And gold filled every brick,
II all the leaves were money
That any one might pick;
II swindlers never stung US, al
And babies never cried, .
! wonder who among US = j
Would be quite satisfied? d
If life were only pleasure, -
With neither toll nor care;
If every hidden treasure ~
Were suddenly laid bare: -
If every girl could marry
A marquis or an earl
And every boy could carry
Away some others girl
Life still would be unpleasant,
And sadly day by day.
We'd sigh for what at present
We lightly throw away:
Joy soon would be a canker.
And none would think 1t strange
If each and all should banker
For trouble, for a change.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
Judge Remembered His Boyhood.

Robert Smith, a, of Long Island
City, found a friend in Chief Justice
Isaac Russell, when he was arraigned
in the children's court at Jamaica,
charged with having played ball in
Long Island City street
II was arrested for the same thing
once when 1 was a boy" Justice Rus
sell confided to the youthful offender.
The two talked for several minutes
about the joys of ballplaying, even in
a crowded street. and then Justice
Russell suspended sentence.
Say, the judges a good sport, ="
said the boy as he left the court room
smiling.-New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
GROWTH OF COMMERCE.

The great manufacturing nations,
the great producing nations. such as
Great Britain, Germany, France and
the United States combir ed, have not
more than one-sixth the population of
the globe, and it can be said with ap-
proximate accuracy that the other Ave-
sixths are to a very great degree their
customers. Fully one-half of the
worlds population are as yet only
fractionally supplied with articles nee
essary for civilized existence.
The 100000 of people to the
south of US on the American continent
when fully employed, as some day they
will be, in producing from their lands,
their forests and their mines, will
make our manufacturers wealthy
through their demands for what our
own industrial districts can output.
Commerce is pushing its way up
every great and small river of South
America, it is crossing the Andes over
a thousand trails, and where but one
railway across South America from
ocean to ocean now runs, within q
score of years there will be several
other lines from the Pacific to the
navigable waters of the great rivers of
the north and the center. The worlds
commerce of today, huge as it seems,
is small compared with that of the
future either in tonnage or in value
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

Those Mexicans are strong on novel
entertainments. 1t is alleged that
some of them arranged little blow
out Tor Madero, and substituted a
package of nitroglycerine for the con-
ventlonal key of suds. He missed a
nlgh old time by a narrow margin.
AS we understand 1t, the state house
stead of on the brass rail in the ro-
tunda.
You may think that the temperature
mas reached the highest point possible.
until you invade the vicinity of the
man VINO passes the score board when
II stands to 0 in the fourth for the
nome team, goes home happy and is
then advised by phone that the enemy
MADE whole ones in the fifth.
When sending a contribution to the
editor never add the postscript:
Look this over at your leisure" In
the bright lexicon of newspaper bust
ness. there is no such wore as 'leis-
ure."
If everyone said what he thought,
the blackened eye aid the painful linn
would be the rule, rather than the ex-
ception.
we will strike our stride before
IOh6, OOSSINe JACK HOLLAND, or the
st: Joe's. But the reporter probably
m1squoted him. He probably said it
we Will strike our umpire" etc.
The trade mark of the anti-tuber-
culos1s society is a double-cross, and If
the society succeeds in double-crossing
even one tubercle, it has earned all it
got from the public on tag day, with
vote of thanks thrown in for good
measure.
Doc Munyon's wife wants divorce
and alfmony. In other words she is
trying to make him take down that
finger long enough to insert it into his
pocket book.
That good old kidnapped by gypsies"
story is again on the menu card This
is one of the few whoppers for which
Dave Leahy cannot be held account
able 1t ante-dates him, and has been
making its appearance annually ever
since Vic Hugo wrote By order of
the King" Something now in early
summer lies by press correspondents
would be appreciated by the reading
public.
The charge that a Mr.. Scott, coIored,
was official city dog catcher, has been
taken out of the hands of the prose-
cution. 1t appears that Hon Stotts, of
the city commission, has furnished him
with hole-proof, double-reinforced
alibi
Hep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOI
CFrom the New

From the New York PresS.1
Rainbow chasers never seem to get
out of breath.
Votes for women will be all right if
they will still go on putting Il the shirt
studs for their husbands.
A girl can go from L 8 to 20 so fast
she has to make up for it by hardly
going any further for years afterward.
A man will swear he had a very
restless night if he walked up two min
utes before it was time for him to get
up.
The most extraordinary thing about
a woman is how she can seem to go on
finding a man interesting even after
she is married to him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Paying the fiddler is the easiest part
OF the dance for an awkward man.
4 y
Good things come slow, and es-
pecially when it comes to making a
reputation worth while.
y
People who are all smiles to the
world outside are generally first class
grouches at home.
y
If a garden produces a good crop OF
worms, that's all the fisherman in the
family cares about.
Some of the most worthless titles
have the largest monetary value in the
international matrimonial mart.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

One of the members of the alleged
food trust which is being proceeded
against in Kansas City remarked on
the witness stand the other day that
the men in that line of trade were not
in busin ess for their health. And from
the number of violations of the pure
food laws that are being prosecuted
these days it is apparent that dealers
in food products are not seriously con-
cerned about the health of the people
to whom they peddle their wares.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each dav to anv address at the rate OF
ten cents a week or thirty cents q
month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
ont OF town the State journal VIII DO
TO you like daily letter from nome.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

that date Business conditions are un-
doubtedly not any too favorable in sew
eral sections of the country just now,
but the depression can only be of a
temporary character. With enormous
crops assured for this season in every
neld OF agriculture, there is bound to
be large move forward in the BUSH
ness world when these crops find their
way to the market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

War has finally been declared by the
local police force on the automobilists
who violate the rules and regulations
affecting the operation Of motor-cars.
And it is to be sincerely hoped that it
will turn out to be something more
than a war of words.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
The Roman woman's Liberty.

Among ancient societies. the Roman
was probably that in which, at least
among the better classes, woman en-
joyed the greatest social liberty and
the greatest legal and economic auto
nomy. There she most nearly ap-
preached that condition of moral and
civil equality with man which makes
her his comrade, and not his slave,
that equality in which modern civili-
zation sees one of the supreme ends
of moral progress.-Prof. Ferrero, in
thA Century.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

One Of the kleptomaniacs has de-
cided to submit to surgical operation
for the purpose of trying to be cured
of the desire to take things that do
not belong to him, notes the Chicago
Record Herald, and 1t adds: Some
of the Wall street financiers will re-
gard it as a very dangerous expert
ment and pernicious precedent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

If Madero is able to pacihcate with
soft words the insurrecting gangs of
bandits who are looting the smaller
cities of Mexico and numbering indi-
viduals who stand in their way, he
will, indeed, prove himself to be a
great man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

1t beats all the chances women will
take. Mary Mannering, the actress,
has Just married a man from whom
another woman obtained a divorce on
a charge that he treated her with ex-
IRENE cruelty,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

It took strong-minded man. or an
other kind of the male creatures,
which it may be just as well not to
mention, to resist the opportunities of
the fair taggers who were out in force
last Saturday. 1t is gratifying to state,
however, that there were not many
men on the streets as the day waned
who were not wearing tags.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

1t doesn't pay to be too fastidcus.
Folk of that stamp are always getting
into hot water. One of their number
asked a Chicago bartender to wash his
hands before serving a drink. The
bartender gave him such beating
that he died.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

Correspondents for American news
papers In Mexico are doing their best
to impress upon their bosses the neces-
sity Of keeping them on such an inter-
esting vacation as they have been en-
joying of late with all expenses paid.
Thres or four times a day they are I'M
earthing plots to blow UP or assassinate
NTaHaro
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

Rebellious Arabs in Assyr have
CAPTURED Abba, the capital, and in
cidentally took as prisoners the gar
rison of 5000 Turks. If their bag
had only consisted of turkeys it would
have been more worth while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

Prospects are excellent for a bumper
cotton crop in the United States this
year. The acreage is At PEE cent larg-
err than it was last year and the con-
dition of the crop on May rs was S7.S
per cent as compared with 500 per
cent on the same day last year and
ao.0 Der cent, the ten year average on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

They are digging for the bones OF a
rhinoceros in one of the valleys OF
Kansas. But the fact must not be
lost sight of these bones had previous
ly been buried by a circus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

The thorn with the rose: The hot
weather of the past few days has been
great for the growing corn, but II was
q little hard on quite multitude VINO
haven't any corn growing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESs

The State journal is a member OF me
Associated Press and receives tne iuI Gay ia.
telegraph report os that great neWs OF
ganization for ths exclusive atperHOOn
publication IL Topeka. 49,
The news is received in The stare Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

First and second places in the To-
peka high school graduating class went
to girls. There is no particular reason
why the Topeka boys should be as po-
lite as all that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

A mob hanged another negro recent
" in Tennessee. And one of the popu-
lar songs of the day runs: I'm dear old
Tennessee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

AS we understand 1t, the state house
Janitors will hereafter rest at home, in
stead of on the brass rail in the ro-
tunda.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

Those Mexicans are strong on novel
entertainments. 1t is alleged that
some OF them arranged little blow
out Tor Madero, and substituted a
package of nitroglycerine for the con-
Vent1onal key of suds. He missed a
nlgh old time by a narrow margin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

Poverty is not a crime, you know"
Say, If you had wife and lived next
door to people who had a larger income
than you had you'd change your mind
about that."-Chicago Record-H Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

when sending a contribution to the
eoltor, never add the postscript:
Look this over at your leisure" In
the bright lexicon of newspaper bust
ness. there is no such worc as 'Ieis-
ure."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

Jim doesn't think much of me- i
guess" Eyes, he does, old man. Just the
other day he told me you were a brick. -
I'm surprised" HE went further than
that. He said you were a regular gold
brick. Toledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

MY son, remember this: marrying on
salary has been the salvation of many
a young man." az know, dad. But sup
pos YEN wife should !ese her salary ?''-
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

III everyone said what he thought,
the pIackened eye aid the painful limp
would be the rule, rather than the ex-
ception.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

Doc Munyon's wife wants divorce
and al1mony. In other words, she is
trying to make him take down that
finger long enough to insert it into his
pocket book.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

We will strike our stride before
long, observes Jack Holland, of the
st: Joe's. But the reporter probably
mlsquoted him. He probably said it
1--WE will strike our umpire" etc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-05

The trade mark of the anti-tuber-
culos1s society is a double-cross, and if
the society succeeds in double-crossing
even one tubercle, it has earned all it
got from the public on tag day, with
a vote of thanks thrown in for good
measure.