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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
.AYHAWKER JOTS

It occurs to the Kingnan Journal
that your real friend is the man who
knows all there is to know about you,
| and likes you just the same.
A Hutchinson stenographer, says the
News, claimed that it was Jesus who
was found in the bullrushes. The Of
flee manager asserted she was wrong
and put in claim for Shakespeare.
The irony of fate: A report from
Leayenworth, where Carrie Nation has
been taken to be treated for the sick
ness that threatened her life, says that
it may be necessary to give her alcohol
rubs.
This, from the Emporia Gazette,
won't burn very we'll in the pipes it
was made to fill: The country editor
who has to go to Topeka to find some
thing to write about usually publishes
a rotten paper.
A Leavenworth man, reports the
Post who thinks the legislators don't
earn their pay, is going to draft a bill
asking that legislative commission
be appointed to determine the plural CT
a tai1or's goose
Mankind is an awful knocker, con-
cludes the Ottawa Herald, because: For
on the streets was glum on account of
the cloudiness. And the other day
every one was frowning because the
sunlight was so bright.
The boosting of the "home town"
would be more fruitful if lot of the
boosters We're not old dodgers who
continue to boost vocally and freeze
onto their vacant property asking two
prices for it and thereby keeping out
good new homes and new business in
dustries. Every town has its hypocriti-
cal drawbacks.-Ottawa Herald.
Great excitement occurred down at
the Leavenworth union depot the other
day when a woman, surrounded by her
four children, was weeping bitterly, re-
ports the WORTHWHILE News. Whats
the matter?'' asked kind hearted wo-
man. "Oh," she sobbed, 1--WE came to
Missouri Pacific and were on the road
SO long that the 'younguns' have OUT
grown their clothes"
Frank I. Cobb, chief editorial writer
on the New York World, was born in
Kansas. He recently wrote an Atch-
ison man, says the Globe, as follows:
"I was born in the corner of Shawnee
county on the Wakarusa river. The
first town I ever saw was Topeka. 1
wish I could get the same thrill from
New York, or London, or Paris, or Ber-
lin now that got from Topeka thirty
five years ago when saw ten jars full
of striped stick candy in grocery win
dow, and other wealth beyond the
dream of avarice. I still love the state;
It has never gone so hopelessly crazy
stiu loved it. and sympathized with lis
incorrigible insurgent spirit. Yet I
doubt if any other people on the foot
stool of Gods green earth ever devised
so many wrong ways of doing the right
thing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

IF,rom the Atchison Globe.1
Too many private opinions are pub
licly expressed.
Your troubles are bigger to you
than to anybody else.
There are men who interpret 1t this
way: that the truth will never hurt
them if they never touch it.
Perhaps, also, there have been boys
who had all the pancakes or pie they
could eat at a single sitting.
Bill Bowen: Every woman believes
that every man, as we'll as every prize
fighter needs a. manager.
Postcard philosophy: No man has
monopoly on the supply of good
nature-wade in and help yourself.
There are various ways of killing
time, a number of which might be in
cluded under the general head of tor
ture.
The trouble with the Young Things
who want to marry is that they con-
suit their hearts more than their
heads.
If the average family were asked
to make sacrifice, it might go hard
with Father, if the invitation were
accepted.
You will observe, also, that the
promissory note isn't the only form
of promise that has to be renewed oc-
| casionally.
After the average man passes forty
he is too busy with the bread and but
ter question to engage in joshing or
scuffling.
When a woman acts finicky she says
! it is nervousness, but when a man
gets that way it's nearly, always called
meanness.
Occasionally the majority lines up
on the wrong side, as every man re-
marks when he happens to find him
self affiliating with the minority.
| Don't expect everything to be ex-
actly right; when the weather isn't
fit to work on the farm, the roads are
so bad it is hard to come to town.
| A man may find it hard to get a
substitute when he wants to take a
vacation, but If he jumps the job he
probably will live to see it filled all
right.
There are men who wouldn't mind
going to Jail a little while for violat-
| ing the speed limit, but would regard
stealing something to eat as a helm
| Gus crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

From the Chicago News.I
A soft answer is apt to encourage
the book agent.
Try doubling your own low nv baiv-
ing another's sorrow.
There's always room at the top
and still more at the bottom.
Some women would rather no mr.
happily married than happy spinsters.
When trust magnates fall out the
common people come into their own,
HOW a man .does swell up when his
opinion turns out better than yours!
When woman tells a man that he
her. eiefes
Never Judge a man by the big dia.
mond in his short front; he NAV Iavn
married an actress
Occasionally girl insists on goins
to college for one term SO that she can
boast of her college education
A scientist says the human race is
more than 100000 years old-vet
some specimens don't know enough vet
to close the door on a zero days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

If that anti-tights bill of Mr.. George
B. Cones of Meade county should hap
pen to be enacted into law, and Miss
Maude Adams should appear in Kansas
in the leading role of "Chantecler'' she
would have to wear skirts that fell al
least four inches below her patellas.
Just imagine, please, Miss Adams
dressed up like rooster with the addi-
ton of a skirt hanging down over the
patellas. If your imagination is not
strong enough, catch the chief mogul
of your hen house and dress it up with
a skirt of the Cones dimensions, or OF
any other length or shortness. That'Il
give Won an idea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

Hereafter if you want to character
ize a friend or an acquaintance as be-
ing ungrateful and do not care to use
that word just address him or her in
some fashion like this: You're an old
hippopotamus." According to Colonel
Roosevelt. who is quite as familiar
with men as he is with other beasts,
the hippos are like some persons in
that 1.-The kinder you treat them the
less they think of you" And the COL
oneFs experiences in the political cam
paigns in New York and elsewhere
must make him think that a large
number of hippos were masquerading
around in mems clothes when they
went to the polls to vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

[From the New York Press.l
A mans idea of giving the square
deal is to himself.
What women feel is more convincing
to them than what men know.
The baby learns things as fast as
its parents can tell whoppers about
them.
Truth is always in danger of sudden
death; superstition seems to be i'm
mortal.
The way for man to make an eve
ming pass quickly is for him not to
spend it home with his family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

That is a notable victory for Democ-.
racy and decent politics which has
been won by Governor woodrow Will
son of New Jersey in forcing Smith out
of the United States senatorial contest
in that state. If the New Jersey Dem
ocrats had sent Smith to the senate
and the New York Democrats should
do the same thing for Sheehan, the vic
tories of the Democratic party in the
last election would have been nullified
And 1t is now beginning to look as
though Sheehan would be forced out of
the New York contest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many an improper act is committed
under the cloak of reform.
The man who is looking for sine
cure will likely develop into hobo.
y
Telling the truth, and telling the
truth as one sees it are different prop
ositions.
X X
There is this to the credit of the
boxes of cigars that wives give their
husbands. They last long time.
x =
It is frequently the case that all the
walters in a restaurant are not con-
fined to those employed to pass
around the hash.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

Hayti and Santo Domingo have de-
cided not to fight and will submit their
differences to arbitration. The chances
are, though, that this is not an indica-
ton of these make-believe nations
reaching out to higher levels of civiliza-
ton. Rather is it more likely that
neither of the armies cared about get
ting their feet wet in crossing that
river which separated them and kept
them from mortal combat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
HUMoR or THE DAY

And That Set Him Thinking.-'I always
feel. after ! have spent an hour or two
Better a is ne ve ss good IT yo em to
ssg she ssgss Rf bsat hesitate to
satan-I have called you in to explain
this peculiar record. You are recorded
only sin n you have we committed ann nie curious T
many times. New ArrivaI-Weil. your
fat, and every time we passed a woman
who was the least bit plump, she would
TeHped as fat Nv e. dear sqa agayS
Too Close Now. Subbubs-I don't know
the Jenkinsons. citiman@W WI ' She used
to think pretty well of them. Subbubs-
next door to us.@catholic Standard DSsa ana I'd
Times.
to get out an unction.NEppincott tt U.s.
u, Up in ot the Airrwsrent you ever on
tna front Of aon for was only oa
Catholic Standard and fines lime ,'' '9'- n.y.
The, Landmark.-'"Ah" said the gray
ment room. this is the old place I
recognized yonder landmark at once"
aid inquired the bar
in a choking voice, II carved my initials
and the date on yonder bum. / see you
have Il still. Excuse an old mans tears
-Tit-Bits. -
A golf player who had been badly beaten
by his opponent explained to him that he
had been suffering all dag from neuritis
IT'S curious thing" replied his oppon-
emit, but I've never beaten a man in per-
feet health in my life.
Where He Made It.-"Hullo. Binks,''
ehie hea y9uye ses IN the
Made anything out of IT." asked ke WOE
bles; Yep. said Binks. Ten thou
sand dollars Ten thousand dollars in
the chicken business?'' demanded Wob-
bles. Nope. Out of it, said Bfnks.-
Harper's Weekly.
The late Mr.. Levy, of the London Daily
Telegraph. once asked Mr.. Sala if he ha5I
any objection to his copy being edited in
the office. MIR. Levy" he replied. IT am
IKE butcher I sell you much meat
to me it is matter of profound in<iiffer-
ence whether you serve 1t fried. boiled
a Useful Remedy.-LttIe 4-year-oId
Billy was visiting his neighbor, Jerry.
Jerry's mother asked with grave solicit
tude: Don't your mother give Won anv
thing for your cold, Billy?' Whereupon
Billy answered, feeling in all his Dochets
at once: Yes, ma'am; she gives ma q
clean handkerchief Lippincott's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

army and the navy of the United
States during the past ten years, yet
the military experts who have had
charge of directing the expenditure of
this colossal sum say that the country
is totally unprepared. especially as to
the Pacific coast, to repel invasion.
The idea will not down but these men
have proved themselves to be the in
competents of incompetents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

OF course, it is reasonable to assume
that Chauncey M. Depew must make a
few more speeches in the United States
senate to earn the senatorial pay he
has been receiving for the past twelve
years. 1t is difficult to figure out,
though, what it matters to him how the
United States senators of the future
are elected. He'll never be able to
''come back regardless of the method
which may be used, even if he were
permitted to decide just what it should
be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
FRON OFFER PENS
THE WORLDS GOLD SUPPLY.

A preliminary estimate of the
worlds production of gold in 1910,
made by the director of the mint, in
dicates a slight check in output. The
director is reported as predicting that
little further embarrassment will re-
suit from an oversupply Of gold. One
important cause of the steady rise in
prices and the arrangement of old val
ues has been the enormous expansion
in the last 1 s years in gold mining OPP
erations. The mines of South Africa
and Alaska have more than doubled
the annual accretion to the worlds
strong box. In 1895 the output from
all sources was 9,615,19O fine ounces
In 1909 it was 22.l37,321 ounces Since
1885 the annual product! has quadru-
pied, so that the world has been ex-
periencing the effects of a vast en-
largement of its money supply on the
prices of commodities and labor.
The process was upsetting, and
would have been doubly so If the great
nations had not wisely ceased to use
silver for coinage purposes. No regret
need be felt that a lull in production
is now promised. The upward swing
of prices has been excessive and time
is needed to readjust values. 1t would
be no misfortune if the annual gold
output should drop back to less than
of gold nowadays to go around.-New
York Tribune.
PURITAN SPIRIT REEVES.
We live in the twentieth century but
the Puritan spirit is not yet dead.
Forced to hide its diminished head
and to burrow underground, it sur
vived even the orgies of the period of
the Restoration, when England under
the merry monarch, became merry
England with vengeance and differ
ence. Transplanted to Massachusetts
soil, it f1ourished there with a vigor
and a tenacity of life in direct ratio
to the hardships endured by the early
settlers. It has since that time, and
in general for our good, served to
modify our outlook on life, our code
of laws. our very habits of thought.
1t was a fine old spirit, and. if it had
it's limitations and its drawbacks. it's
influence on the whole was for pro-
priety of conduct and cleanliness of
life
It crops out now and then. however,
in ways that clash with the broader
minded ness of our era For instance,
here we have a Winthrop lawmaker
introducing into the state legislature
of Massachusetts bill to restrain
women from wearing gowns with
sleeves .thatsado not come to the
wrists, with necks cut below the level
of the shoulders, and with skirts that
do not fall at least six inches below
the patelIa- Wrists and shoulders
every one understands. but why did
the Winthrop man say patella If he
meant knee-pan ?-Washingt Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

A national organization to be known
as the Republican Progressive league
has been formed by the congressional
sinsurgents" and a number of their
important friends throughout the coun-
try. Maybe this is the beginning of
that third" political party. Or per-
haps it is an indication that business
is a trife slack with the insurgents
these days and they feel they must be
doing something to keep the ball a.
roJIirO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
RAISING THE MAINE.

The work of raising the old battle
ship Maine, which has remained i'm
bedded in the mud of Havana barber
since the war with Spain-that is to
say. since the memorable night of Feb
ruary, 1898. when the ship was blown
up and SO large portion of her crew
perished, is progressing favorably.
Workmen and divers have been busy
for some time building a cofferdam
around the wreck, and when that part
of the work Is finished the serious task
of actually removing the bulk will fol-
low. There have always been a few
persons who doubted the theory of the
external explosion by means of mine
set off by the Spaniards,- holding that
the disaster was due to the explosion
of the ships forward magazine. The
raising of the ship should set at rest
all suc1. doubts and determine for all
time just what caused the disaster. If
it can be shown that the explosion was
not due to treachery there will be rea-
son for general satisfaction that stain
on international honor has been re-
noved.-Salina Evening Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
FooTBALL NOT SO BRUTAL.

A great deal is said about the bru
tally of football. but the records for
1910 show that automobiles killed 40
times as many people as football, hunt
ing ten times as many, motor cycling
and bicycling three times as many base
ball two times as many and awaiting
one and a half times as many. Isn't
it about time to put the soft pedal on
this howl against the great American
game?-Chanute Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
KANSAS C0NNENT

A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
II is more than likely that another
ehorI VIII De made at this session of
ne legislature to get resolution
tnrough both houses calling for vote
on the question of constitutional
convention. While it would be wild
prediction to say that such a resolu-
lion VIII pass, yet there are many of
the legislators who admit that one
should be held. At every session of
t tne ieglsaature number of resolu-
lions are introduced calling for
amendments to the constitution. and
Wnile only few of them ever pass. vet
the people vote on some amendment
or another at nearly every general
generally turn them dowr at the nofIs.
But nevertheless, there is general
Ieehhg That Kansas has outgroWn the
present constitution, which was
framed by handful of men and
d. by a very few more way back
IN porder day times. Like the char
ter OF a small town, whe- the town
grows into a great city its charter
needs changing to meet the changed
conditions
Every effort that has ever been
made to bring about a co, stitutional
convention has met vigorous opposi-
tion from the prohibition element of
lne state The temperance people
seem TO entertain a terrible fear that
-, VIII ildpp6H TO The present
prohibition law. It is an unjustifed
fear at that, for it is safe to say that
were the prohibition law resubmitted
It would carry in two-third5 or more
or all the counties in the state. The
members of the legislature realize
the strength of the temperance vote
and in the vernacuIar of the street
urchin, they've got the scare in
EN-" If the initiative and referen-
dunn law is adopted, which of course
Will require an amendment to the
constitution by a vote of the people,
II. IN measure, will take the place
or a constitutional convention as the
people then will be in a position to
initiate their own laws, but it will be
a roundabout way and will take a
long time to shape the constitution
so as to meet the present day needs.
From six to nine amendments to
the constitution will be introduced at
the present session of the legislature
and it is almost sure that at least
two Of them will be submitted to the
people at the next general election
How much better it would be to hold
constitutional convention revise
the constitution where revision is
needed and then submit the whole
thing at one time. It has been patch
ed and patched by amer dments al
most from its very Coffey-
vile Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
game.

Members of the Thaw family, despite
their millions, must be convinced by
this time that troubles never come
singly. One branch of it has just been
relieved of jewelry to the value of
1000. But that's too much jewelry
for any one family to have, anyhow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

After many millions of dollars have
been expended in providing for the
fertilization Of the Panama canal. it
would not be at all surprising if few
of the wise army officers formulated a
secret report which would tell the
country that the canal was absolutely
unprepared to resist any kind of an
attack. A couple of billion dollars has
been expended for the purposes of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

One of the subscribers of this paper
at Norway, Kan, refers to the present
activities in the state house as the
short skirt session of the legislature -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

Mrs. Sehenk seems to be assured of
getting her freedom. She wept before
the jury the other day. And men, mere
men, are as soft clay in a potter's hand
before a wonan's tears.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

Great news for the b1oodthirsty base
ball fans: The powers that be in the
national sport are thinking seriously of
adopting a rule which will provide that
two umpires shall officiate at each
game
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

ton of tuberculosis. both from The
national Office and from the head
quarters of the $50 anti-tuberculosis
associations which will cooperate in
the movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF 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, 1911-01-26

Up in the Air.-"Weren't you ever on a
motor carr" Yes. once" What make
was it?'' 81 don't know. I was only en-
the front of it for second or SO, and
it got away before could pick myself up"
Catholic Standard and Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

A golf player who had been badly beaten
by his opponent explained to him that he
had been suffering all day from neuritis
IT'S curious thing" replied his oppon-
ent but I've never beaten a man in per-
feet health in my Efe.''-Argonaut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

When love goes on a strike it's no use
to get out an Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26

Too Close Now. Subbubs-I don't know
anybody that my wife hates more than
the Jenkinsons. Cftiman-Why, she used
to think pretty well of them. Subbubs-
Yes, but that was before they moved in
next door to us.-Catholic Standard and
Times
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-09-08
Escaping the Drudgery.
Woman Tells How Household Work May &c Made
Less Unpleasant.

The old-time household duties also disappeared
to great extent Scrubbing longer
necessity. l found waxed floor with simple but
effective rugs, just practical in other parts
OF the house, says a writer in Success The next
step was to eliminate that second frghtful bug
bear Of MISUNDERSTANDING the pots and pans.
No dish OF kettle used in cooking allowed to
become cold before being washed with a
bination wire and bristle brush. The hand thus
came in contact only with the handle of the YES
sci, doing away with the most unpleasant part OF
dishwashing, while the immediate cleansing min
imized labor by preventing particles Of food from
drying and sticking TO the sides of the utens
Table tops Of glass and marble also helped to
reduce laborI n the kitchen These constant
ly kept spotless by the free of paper napkins
as ''wipe-up rags" The employment OF paper is
of the most valuable means of saving work.
Paper napkins when bought in quantities
cheap, they are absorbent easily handled and may
be quickly disposed OF.
Another of our schemes was to have all garbage
instantly dropped down tube from the sink to
an incinerator In the cellar, doing away with
that most unpleasant chemical combination of
mixture of nondescrpt scraps, SO unpleasant to
the senses of sight, smell and touch. We have
not yet reached Mrs. Rorer's ideal of minimum