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The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
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Says the Leavenworth Labor Chroni-
Gle: A man who gets what he wants in
this world is lucky; the man who gets
what he dosn't want is-just like all
the rest of US.
Horticultural note in the LaFountain
Banner: r. M. Gastineau has freak
OF an apple tree. The apple crop was
not over heavy this year, so the tree
is growing pumpkins. Some of the
fruit is becoming so weighty it has
to be propped to avoid breaking the
tree down.
A Crystal Plains woman who owns
a flock of $50 White Legkorn hens has
discovered that eggs are excellent am
mun1tion for keeping the wolf away
from the door. AS she has marketed
over 1000 eggs Stree the first of March,
1t will be noted that the wolf has been
scared clear out of the yard and half
way across the pasture.-Salina Jour
nal
Beck of the Holton Recorder, that the
farmers who loaf around town the
most and are most accessible to a
newspaper reporter are the ones who
give the most discouragirg reports of
the corn crops. Also, that the girls
who are dressed in the most 'clinging'
garments and who sport the highest
heeIed shoes are not the ones VINO get
the best husbands.
If there IS anything that tortures an
Sui'ol 4tloAS t'+S'H ely Iliiiaa VAaS Il 10 "
publish a $15 or $50 obituary notice
about some old, prominent citizen who
never had the manhood to take his
home paper. Editors frequently put in
such notices at the request of relatives
and friends, but it grinds them to
eulogize a man to the skies who was
too stingy to support his home paper.
A three line notice is all such fellows
deserve.-Spring Hill New Era.
"A town bachelor was so years old
last winter reports the Wellington
News. He has an older sister who
wished to conceal her age and when
the census man came along she gave
her brothers age as As and her own
just little higher. Now the city
wants the bachelor to pay poll tax. He
must either do 50 or let the world
know that his sister has been Judging.
He is still debating but the chances
are that the sister will have to own
1tn and save the nOneV.''
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

And always. after that, when you
heard the music that you had danced
to did 1t tear your very soul to bits and
play the tune on your heart strings?
Because if it did, Aunt Mollie, you
know how feel tonight" And then
she was gone.
The next day passed uneventfully
In the evening Miss Tremaine was
seeking her accustomed corner of the
piazza and feeling rather dismally that
with Elizabeth's spirits dropping all
the life had dropped out of the uni
verse, when a glad exclamation made
her turn.
Elizabeth was hurrying toward her.
her face happily alight. Beside her
strobe Roger Cary, ardently talking as
he walked, and behind them appar-
entity forgotten, came a tall. good
looking man whose eyes were eagerly
scanning Miss Tremaine as he ap-
preached her.
Aunt Moll.e!" cried Elizabeth, "I
telegraphed Roger to come back
couldn't go the rest of my life with
out him. oh, and this is his uncle, Mr.
Howard Dean"
Howard Dean! Miss Tremaine
steadied herself before she could meet
the earn lest eyes. Was this a dream of
the past? Floating out from the hotel
came the sweet strains of a waltz.
It's The Blue Danube Mollie,"
smiled Mr.. Dean. Don't YOU think
you could dance it with me again? p
Il believe I could" answered Miss
Tremaine, looking very pink and pref
". Are you coming, children p
Elizabeth shook her head.
Wen wait for Every Little Move
ment-' And, Aunt Mollie," she whis-
pered, her voice no longer strident but
sweet and womanly, I'm sorry 1 call
ed The Blue Danube a chestnut.
know better now. They never can be
chestnuts when you've danced them
with your Copyright, 1911,
by Associated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News I

IF'rom the Chicago News.1
A fat purse is a good thing to lean
on.
Some people are too good to be in
teresting.
The man who knows he's in the right
need not argue.
Office seeking seems to be a chronic
disease with some men.
Every man can be wrong, but not
every man may be president
It's easier for a dentist to fill an
aching void than long felt want.
No man can hope to be happily mar
ried unless he is good listener.
Whining children and women are bad
enough, but deliver US from whining
men.
If you can't have your own way you
can at least keep out Of other peoples
way.
In getting an education it is up to a
young man to learn to do things with
what he learns.
Every man hugs the delusion that
sooner or later ne viii invent some
thing that will make him rich.
There are more Ways than one Of
looking for trouble A Texas man ad-
vertised for his mother-in-law who
was missing.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
GOUGING PEOPLE.

Never deal with a man who wants
to gouge you. and when it comes to
electing a man to any office never vote
for one who possesses the gouging in
stinct. Some men have it and have 1T
prominently. 1t is mean trait. 1t is
as bad as cheating. Tt is cheating, and
no man should be trusted who will
do it.
The habit of fixing the highest
charge one thinks a business will bear
is a mean one, and when one finds that
out in a man, the best thing to do Is
to drop him and go to some one else.
That is often done in dealing with the
public: but whether there or anywhere
else, it is a mean, sneaking wrong to
gouge.
The only rule that is worthy of an
honest man is to charge for a thing
what it is worth-the real value of It.
Whenever a man, in the public service
at least, violates that rule and EFFORTS
from the people with an unjust price
he should be sued to recover, if for no
other purpose than to let the people
know who It is that is gouging them
Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many people measure others by
the mistakes they make.
X X X
A photographer has the privilege of
taking things without being arrested
for theft.
Fewer people would try to sing if
they could hear themselves as others
hear them
X
Cheerfulness is contagious, and If
you cannot spread some. you at least
ought to be able to catch little.
X " X
The ties of love are fine things ex-
cept when a woman thinks so much
of her husband she insists on picking
out his neckwear.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
HUAOR or THE DAY

Willis-Do you think a man should be.
allowed to hold the highest honor in the
United States more than four years?
Gillis-Sure thing. say. II a man can
top the league in batting for ten or ever
fifteen years, let him stay In the game
for the good Of the sport.-Puck.
"Shure Bedala and me won't be marry
ing this day. Ofve bruk the Engagement"
An fer phwy did ye do that2" .Bedads
terday '-Ldppincotts Magazine
How many men does he ernployg" He
Inn Ee tbs an ePo9sr rest " m e M1STSs on salary
thought he must be the boss. 1 just heard
him telling another man that he hadn't
taken a vacation In twelve years."-De-
troit Free Press.
"oh. arthur, do look at this hat: It's a
perfect poem" Yes, yes, but # doesn't
rhyme with my pocket just now
Fliegende Blatter.
Judge-Do you know the meaning Of the
oath, madam? The Witness (proudlyJ-
Your honori An me husband shippin' be-
fore tn mast these fifteen yearsi--Hir-
mingham Post.
Mike dn bed. to alarm clock as II goes
off)-I fooled yez that time. ! was not
aslape at ail.-Punch.
Are you interested in ornithoIogy, Mrs.
Wuffer?' Not at all now. although I
once did a pipe rack for my husband. -
Birmingham Age-Herald.
what are you looking so glum about.
old nan2" "Somebody stole Dawson's
umbrella" But should that worry your
1T was stolen from me. Boston Trans
cript
THAT was rough on Davis" "What7''
HE stepped on a piece OF orange peel.
fell, and was arrested for giving a street
performance without license. Ideas.
How'd you like to sign with me for
life's gamer" inquired the young man.
I'm agreeable" replied the girl. Where's
your ond2'-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal
Stranger-Have you a good hair tonic
you can recommend? Druggist (prohibi-
ton toWn)-Here Is something that ~
spoken Of very favorably by people who
have drank it.-Puck.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
FROM OTHER PENS
FooD QUEsTToN FIRsT.

Herr Bebel, the German Socialist
leader, addressing the Social Demo-
cratic congress at Jena, remarked that
the time was coming when the ques-
ton of the price of the necessaries of
life would be the cardinal one to an
enormous majority of the Germans.
It needs no prophet to foresee what
Herr Bebel predicts. The whole world
of humanity travels on its stomach.
Food is the first essential of life. More
or less food is a question that controls
the destinies of mankind. The food
question brought on the great French
revolution, and it is an ever present
question in all countries. We have it
in the United States in an active form
lust now but it can not become as
acute as in Europe, because we are
not dependent upon other nations for
our food supplies. Germany has to
import vast quantities. IF the foreign
supply should fail or the German har-
vests be destroyed, if the cost of war
should necessitate higher taxes on the
necessar aries of life, the result would be
a supreme crisis A population in
Europe would not sit down in stoical
calm and die of starvation like the
Hindoo Government may regulate
food prices when there is plenty and
make them reasonable. It can not
regulate famine prices. and it would
be swept away by a people hungering
for food and unable to get food
Newark Star.
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QUAKER NIEDTTATTONs.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
At least no man cen be stingy with
his happiness.
It isn't always the big men who do
the tallest lying.
It's hard to get along with people
who are always short.
Where one man takes TO drink a
dozen are willing TO be taken.
There's one thing a man seldom
tries to lie out OF. and that is a bed.
The game laws do not indicate any
closed season for Welsh rabbits.
The acrobat must be light on HIS
feet or he is apt TO light on his head.
There are sorre men we Couldn't
look up to, even II they should become
aviators-
Nell-"Mrs. Darhaway says she can't
bear to have her husband out OF her
sight" Beliefs he so very good
or so very bad7''
Tommy-"Pop. the moon Affects the
tide, doesn't ft2' Tommy's Pop--''Yee.
my son, ard judging from the actions
Of some young couples It also aflecta
the united"
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
WHAT MAN HAS DONE WITH

WHAT MAN HAS DON 4 WITH AkSI.
Living in America, one is far too in
clined to get the idea that bad taste
is = sort of American disease caused by
the width of the Atlantic ocean and our
lack of a long past. Not in the least.
Our taste is as good as that of any
modern people. Bad taste is the dis
ease of the age, and art is dying Of it
as surely in Europe as at home, writes
a contributor to Harpers Weekly.
Art, after all, was the beautiful ex-
preston of strange and beautiful per-
sonalities; and strange and beautiful
personalities grew up in quiet places,
where there was much leisure for
brooding and meditation; where there
was no herd education. and a man de-
veloped and emphasized his own per-
sonality. In those days men had time
to turn an idea over and over before
they embodied it. Perhaps they did
not voluntarily embody it at all; they
held still and went softly to let it grow.
poet even century ago did not
hesitate to devote sixty years to the
writing of his poem, as witness
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let
thy ways be tabIished.-Proverbs ~ : 26.
A familiar Interpretation of these
wise words is Took before you leap"
1t is an admonition that is ever being
given to people, especially the young
among them. But it is equally good
for young and old alike. If 1t were
not a great and forceful truth it would
have been consigned to a moFgue of
some sort long ago. It is one of the
truths given voice to by Solomon that
will live as long as the human race
endures. Its constant repetition, al
though it may become tiresome, can
not fail to accomplish good if atten-
ton is paid to it.
Much of the unhappiness that is
prevalent in this world, where mani
fold blessings abound, is due to Ill
considered steps that are taken: to.
hasty and ill-advised judgments that
are formed.
When matters of moment, or even
trivial affairs, come up for determine
ton, it is always of the utmost i'm
portance in the long run If they are
considered as to their most minute
details before a decision is made con-
cerning them. This would seemingly
be a simple lesson. It is one that has
an appealing force which is self evi-
dent, and a lesson that it would be
easy to learn. That it is too frequent
ly disregarded is plainly apparent on
all sides.
The American people are justly
noted for their alertness and their &C
tivity. This, in a measure, may ex-
plain why so many of them are always
getting into trouble for deciding mat
ters of great and even little importance
to themselves in a hasty and haphaz-
erd fashion They have developed this
injurious habit to a degree more mark
ed than have the people of any other
nation And the results are anything
but desirable in countless instances
Sober, sane and painstaking thought
is needed before any question is finally
determined. In the decision of the
everyday questions that are coming up,
involving as they do all the affairs in
the makeup of a complex life, care
should be taken by the persons making
them that they are established in all
ways to follow the paths decided upon
to an ultimate and successful conelu-
sion. If this were done in the deter
mination of all the questions which
confront an individual during the
course Of his life, there would be much
less misery of all sorts in the world.
Prompt decisions and judgments are
often needed in the exigencies of the
transactions of business in all walks
cf life. For the most part. though, the
questions which will make or mar the
happiness and contentment of an in
dividual, or a collection of them-and
but for the development and existence
of which the world would be sorry
places to live in-such questions need
not be passed upon until all the con-
ditions surrounding them can be can
vassed and looked into. If this be
done, the chances are great that the
decisions reached will be the best of
all concerned, and will prove to be of
immeasurable value.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

The Lawrence Gazette favors the
pawpaw as a. fruit; we hold that any
one who favors the pawpaw as
fruit, may be reasonably suspected Of
favoring checkers as an athletic sport
That Kansas newspaper men are
branded as such, was demonstrated at
the Bale Waggener picnic. Charley
Browne. of the Horton Headlight
Commercial. climbed over the rail OF
the speakers stand and drew bead
on President Taft with pocket
camera. A secret service man Whtrled
around and gave Charley a ''narsty
look" and his hand slid toward his
hip pocket. Then he took good slant
and grunted: Newspaper man"
Strange. isn't It? The gun man had
ALL
Chet Crawford. the Topeka man
who made England eat peanuts, was
home for brief visit, and announced
his intention Of returning to the Brit
ish Isles. Our idea OF a brave man Is
one who will voluntarily return to
place after feeding the inhabitants
thereof on peanuts.
The Peanut. as one might suspect.
is our favcrtte idea Of Nothing to Eat.
Pickpockets trimmed several guests
at the Bale Waggener picnic, but
who cares? The entertainment was
worth money, and Bale and his
gang wouldn't let any of the guests
spend it. Atchison refused to take Il.
and the piclSpockets may have needed
Sheriff Koon Beck Of Hutchinson
now says that he DIDN'T get a drink
in Topeka. But IT is his own fault.
Had he visited the bottoms district
between police raids, bribed a negro
loafer for so cents to put him next.
crawled down three or four dark al
leys and cellar stairway and ulti-
mately paid 35 cents for It. he might
have secured a nice, warm bottle Of
cheap beer.
The board of railroad commission
ers says that you may ride on a
freight train in Kansas. But who wants
to ride on a freight train in Kansas?
The passenger trains are fierce
enough to satisfy the ordinary crav-
ing for adventure.
Here's hoping someone leads Tlir-
key TO the chopping block. but we
care not whether II is ITALY or some
other power. Any country that VIII
lend its name to a misdemeanor such
as the Turkish cigarette. is entitled to
the Axe.
A Hutchinson man has sued a
Larned man for $4,000 because the
Larned man swiped his wife and fam
lly. II would be a good joke on the
Hutchinson man II the Larned man
should cancel the account by return
ing the wife and family.
Some argument has arisen since
Mr.. Tafts speech to the old soldiers
concerning his use OF the word "avo-
cation" We insist that II Is immater-
ial whether it means work or play
it is $3.75 word, and but slightly
shopworn.
The question now before the cigar
store forum is: where does Col. BooEe
intend to run his air ship2 He has
in the past. sold and given perfectly
good titles to about all Of the blue sky
Hep
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[F'rom the New York Press.I

II
First a man wants to make money
honestly then any way.
All men need to begin an argument
on a subject is to be entirely ignorant
about it.
A man can give his wife happy
life by being able to delude herself
about him.
Even a man who is too smart to in
vest his money wrong won't have sense
enough not to eat green fruit and get
the collie.
When a man bad a tip on a horse
that won and didn't bet on it, there's
no way to convince him that he wasn't t
cheated.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

This is also the season of the year
when big bear stories are coming from
the football camos that are likely to
turn out winning teams b. tile middle
Of The season. It is peculiar that such
practices are continued when few if
a1S people are fo.sed by them.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

Although the spring is the accepted
season for snake stories Kansas is able
to provide one of the fall variety that
as might be expected, is in a class by
itself A farmer and his family living
near BeIoit have been driven from
their home by black snakes which
have taken possession of it. Even the
killing of twenty Of them did not re-
duce their number to any material ex-
tent For an unusual story of any
kind it is unnecessary to go out of
Kansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

All honor to one Meyer, who has
5ust concluded a walk from New York
City to san Francisco. He actually
worked for three weeks in an Indian
apolis restaurant and again for seven
teen days at Cheyenne. while he was
making the trim
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

John D. Rockefeller went to work
on his first and only job some Sc
years ago. And the tremendous sue
cess he has achieved makes it certain
that he was neither away from home
nor asleep when opportunity knocked
IN his door
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

Mr.. Bryan received a tremendous
ovation at the national conservation
congress held in Kansas City, Mo. Nor
is it going beyond the fact to say that
Mr.. Bryan IS greatly admired by a
large number of his fellow citizens
Their admiration has never been of the
kind. though that would trust him
with the presidency of the nation.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

telegraph poles on the east side of
Kansas avenue were removed? They
effectually hide many of the white way
posts and their lights. And the city
commissioners ordered the removal of
these poles some time ago.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

Alone, the letter "r'' is less express
sive than one farther up in the alpha
bet Its vagaries, however, constitute
the one momentous fact in southern
speech. If we are to believe the Spring
field Republican, the difficulty extends
over the whole country. It has fears
that the international English spelling
reform conference in London will offer
no remedy. Yet it was with this letter
that Thackeray pointed a satire on the
cockney.
''R Hangeline! r lady ninei
Dost thou remember Jeames?''
Perhaps the conference could find ex-
amples of mismanagement to consider
even in England and send a much
needed solution by our representatives.
In some words, like "calm" and
palm many people do interpolate an
''r' in speech, and one has actually
heard in New England reference to
cantarter called THE Parms"-thus
our contemporary. Nor is it only those
who in speech add an ''r'' after final
vowel as in Marian or 'idear,' who
add one in spelling. Unless r. is felt
as a real sound the distinction is easily
lost in the written symbol, and even
those who spell the common words
quite correctly may go astray in the
spelling of proper names, like okla
homar.''-Columbi S. C., State.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

President Taft's answer to the fran
tic pleas of Wall Street for a little
succor is that the trusts must be good.
He rightly deplores the acts of some
politicians in waging a war on all cor
porations, including those of the good
VARIETY
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

Nor did the big crowd that heard
President Taft speak in Topeka have
to pay an admission of fifty cents per
capita with an extra grandstand
charge for the privilege. Still Hutch
inson needed some money to make
both ends of its great" fair meet.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

An order is to be issued soon pro-
vIding for the vaccination against
smallpox of all of the Topeka school
children. This is a wise preeaution,
but it is sure to kick up a rumpus
among those opposed to vaccination.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

Jack johnson has spent the S120, 900
that came to him as a result of his
fight with Jeffrizs little oyer a year
ago. He is in such sore financial
straits that ne has had to pawn his
automobiles. However, there are few
lemons without juice. Jack won't have
any trouble from now on in keeping
cnt of Jail for violating the speed
limits
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

New heat records for September in
these parts have been established.
Surely the weather purveyor has been
a veritable glutton for heat this year.
And some of the heat that is being
wasted nowadays would probably
come in handy a little later on
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
KANSAS COAAENT
THE WEAPON DAWSON Uses

THE WEAPON DAWSON USES.
It IS good deal quieter in that
quarter now because the campaign to
close the joints cf Cherokee county is
oelng conducted in the courts and
not IN the daily newspapers of the
state. And the joints are being closed,
not by Stubs and his army of in
Vaders' but by the attorney general
and the most effective weapon in Mr..
DaWsons hands is the Brewster law
PASSED by the last legislature This
law is the Republican substitute for a
recali measure introduced by the ad
ministratiOn.
The Brewster law is one of the best
statutes in Kansas. By it any official
Who falls to do his duty may be sus-
pended from Office and the removal
IS accomplished by due process of law
IN the supreme court. An honest Of
hclal who is doing his duty need have
no fear of being outsted- If his case
IS a just one, he need not fear the
fair and impartial decision of the su-
preme court. On the other hand. if
he is conniving with law breakers he
better beware
This statute. we say, is the Repub
lican substitute for the populistic ire
CALI law that Stubs and his follow
ing in the legislature tried to pass and
1a1led contrast the two measures.
ON the one hand we have the removal
CT an official dependent on local pub
lc sentiment which is governed not
only by the officers acts in regard to
enforcement of the law or the conduct
of his Office but by anything and every
thing tina. infiuen nee mems votes. A
mayor might by his appointments very
easily offend enough men, who voted
for him in the election, to accomplish
mis- recall, or a more popular candi-
date might be pitted against the Off
cial in the recall election or any one
of a number of methods known best to
practical politicians could be used to
defeat an off1ceholder who was hon
est and conscientious in the discharge
Of his duty.
On the other hand, the custer law
makes the removal Of an officer de-
pendent wholly on his conduct of the
cfI1cc-his honesty in office-aud the
removal is accomplished by judges
who weigh only the material and rele-