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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
LAYHAWKER JOTS

If love is blind, thinks the Lincoln
Sentinel, then matrimony must be its
spectacles.
The Holton Signals idea of a hero is
man who viii eat his wife's goose
berry pie and say he likes it.
A Holton man, reports the Signal.
moves that DR.. Crumbine provide some
of the swatted fly.
It's bad enough to be poor but
brainy," admits Editor Martin of the
Scranton Gazette, but think of being
rich but brainless.''
What in certain circles passes for
high art is usually regarded by decent
people as very low morally, says Editor
Greason in his Miami Republican.
Gasaway. the Gas GuIch correspond
ent of the Wilson County Citizen sug-
gests an admirable way of preventing
young pullets from suffering during the
dry weather. I'VE eat EN- says Gas
away.
The Soldier correspondent Of the Hol-
ton Signal suggests that the only way
to solve the potato shortage problem is
to establish an airship line to the moon
and bring back the potatoes that We're
planted in the moon last spring.
"Salina Journal changed editors late
ly,' says the Lincoln Sentinel. I'VE
hope that the new editor will try and
He couldn't be. There isn't 4 fairer
newspaper man in the United States
than Paul A. Lovewell.
Charley Blakesley calls attention to
the fact that in the Garden City Tele-
grams contest Miss Margaret Van
Scholack leads with IA, 579, 500 votes, and
Miss Grace Tippin is second with T.
O935OO. ONE idea Of the tremendous
popularity of these two admirable IL
dies, continues Mr. Blakesley' may be
gained from the fact that William
Howard Taft's total vote in 1908 was
only 7,67S.90S
A solar plexus iab at the daily news
papers from the Valley Falls Farmers
Vindicator: The daily papers overlook
no important news item, no matter
when the event may occur, which no
doubt accounts for the half column re-
port of the meeting of Jeffries and
Johnston in 4 London lunch room and
the refusal of Jeff to bow 70 Jack
And yet these city editors with the
polished domes essay to make fun OF
the local scribe who records the fact
that BIZ Jones' brindle COW has twins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05

way to make this years fair the largest
and best agricultural exposition that
has ever been staged in Kansas. Con-
sentative expectations are that the
biggest crowd that has ever gathered
In Topeka will be here during fair
week. as it is also the occasion of the
Kansas Semi-Centennial celebration
and Topeka Homecoming week.
The state fair is entitled to such
patronage as it can get from this
crowd and from Topekans during that
period. No counter attraction should
be permitted to have q place in the
city that week, and especially one of the
proportions of the biggest circus on
the road. Such a circus would take in
gate money to the extent of between
$4,000 and $4,000. And the conten-
ton of the officials Of the state fair
that the bulk Of this money would
otherwise go for admissions and other
patronage at the state fair certainly
appears to be well founded.
Barnum & Bailey's circus, or any
other big show, is heartily welcome to
Topeka on any date except one that
properly belongs to the state fair. And
it can rest assured that it will be gen
erously patronized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
TROUBLE AHEAD.

Representative BurleSOn is quoted as
saying that no further efforts will be
made at this session of congress 10
push the cotton anti-futures bill, but
that something will be done at the first
regular session. He said that the cam
paign has not been dropped, or even
slackened, and added that while new
methods might be urged in the bill
which will be introduced next winter,
the object of the measure will be the
same os that of his bill and the
Scott measure.
This statement bears out what was
reported from Washington few days
ago, that all attempts to enact law
at this session would cease, and that
the men back of the movement would
turn their efforts along a new line
The report said that the house COM
mittee which is investigating the af-
fairs of the department OF Justice
would act in harmony with the house
agricultural committee, which fayorS
restrictive legislation.
If any members regarded the state
ments in the news dispatches from
Washington as uutrustworthy, Repre-
senta tive Burleson's ACKNOWLEDGING
that the campaign for restrictive legis-
lation is going on stronger than ever
should inspire them to action The
reforms which were recommended by
Commissioner Smith of the bureau of
corporations are entirely reasonable
and. # put in force by the New York
exchange, probably would avert ad-
verse egislation.-Bufalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
CIRCUS AND FAIR wEEK.

Topekans have ever been lovers Of a
circus. Next to a circus the thing they
like best is two circuses coming within
a few weeks of each other. Of late
years. through misguided patriotism CT
something else on the part of the city
officials in demanding excessive license
fees, not as many circuses have stop
ped in Topeka as formerly. Then
when these fees were reduced the rain
came along with unerring regularity
on circus days for the past two years.
But although the big circus is popu-
lar in Topeka, and one such is booked
to show here next week, no argument
can be presented as to the reasonable
ness of giving the mammoth and much
admired Barnum & Bailey show a
license to pitch its tents here during
the state fair week this fall or the
week INN ediately preceding it. That
would be the poorest kind of public
policy. It would be indefensible.
Topeka business men put up a large
sum of money to place this fair on an
adequate footing a year ago, when it
developed into such a fine success.
Shawnee county, by q vote of it's peo-
pie, has invested $4,000 this year in
improvements at the fair grounds,
which are going to help in a material
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

Iron the Philadelphia Record
Even the aviator isn't above criti-
cism.
A rafting of dry bones-Throwing
dice.
Low spirits often follow high
Some men never get religion till
they have tried everything else.
It's the cheap sport who is some
times most expensive to his friends.
1t is easier to get into trouble with
your eyes open than to find your way
To get the better of an argument
always make the other fellow hunt for
proof
The hardest task some young men
cut out for themselves is to live up I'd
their clothes.
1t is much easier to love your neigh
bors in the country than in the cit1
They are farther away.
Blobbs-"Bjones has a good head
on his shoulders" Slobs-"ZVa1iA
where would you expect him to hsvs
"A good memory is essential r. o
cess" observed the Wise Guv. s.-ves.
It enables man to remember what -
forget, added the Simple Mug. -
1 understand that bathing s,,i+- -.
nlgher this year, remarked the So, a.
mer Girl Yes" replied the cail Islrr
salesman, blushing; 'T believe ' tbsN,
nave gone up several inches.'s 'sS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
FRENCH POLITICS.

1t is always hard to understand
French politics. Here is the MONS
ministry overthrown on a question
which wouldn't get a consideration in
this country. The point at issue was
whether there was a commander-in-
chief Of the French army. The Monis
cabinet said there was no provision for
a COMMUNICATIVE chief and that the
army would be under the control of a
council. This aroused the contention
that such a command would be a fail
ure and that it was necessary to have
an Individual commander in-chief. The
French assembly discussed the ques-
ton, the newspapers were full Of it,
and finally vote was taken and the
ministry defeated Then it resigned
The new cabinet will be formed out
of the same parties as the old and
will not change a policy.
And that is French politics.-Hutch-
inson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05

back. He thought they were In the
suitcase
Where is hep" asked FL. happily.
They took him away as soon as we
reached Ricadino.'
Il am mighty glad to announce that
they have him safe up az San Quen-
TIM said Barrows heartily.
"A Marquis? Ny dear girl, little
Juan Risto was a waiter along the
lower California coast for years until
he got the raiding fever, probably
from an overdose of tips He has the
foreign manner to a T, hasn't he?
remember him well over at the san
Bernardino restaurant Leslie, m
surprised at your taste for nobility"
He laughed, and took her hand in
his. Flo pretended not to see, but
smiled wisely all by herself. All Leslie
said, was just this:
I'm sorry, Jack. but surely I got
even
you sure did. They say he will
travel with a crippled eaI the rest OF
his life, and a shoulder that won't
work right
He wanted something to remember
me by said Leslie, contentedly. And
he got it.''-(Copyright 1911, by the
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
FROM OTHER PENS
MEXICAN BOUNDARY SETTLED.


The Americans who walked up and
found themselves in Mexico as a re-
suit of the decision of the interna-
tional boundary commiss' on are not
the only people ever disappointed IN
that way There were those who ac-
uuired holdings in the Isle of Pines,
thinking that it would belong to the
United States instead of to Cuba. One
difference is discernible in the two
cases. The Isle of Pines never did
belong to the United States, though in
advertently it had been printed the
The soil on which the former Texans.
now in Mexico, are located was once
on the American side OF the river.
The Rio Grande, like the Missouri,
has a way of moving its BED. Usually
it is a very small stream in its upper
reaches. often quite dry, but twice
wear there are floods which burst the
banks and cause the channel to
change, roaming over any part of the
landscape which pleases it.
In the past Americans have always
claimed that when the river moved
south of its own volition they had
right to the territory on the north be-
cause. according to stipulation, the
center of the river bed is to be the
international boundary They have
not been quite so liberal when the
river started north. According to the
new decision. the United States loses
about four-fifths of all it claimed and
the former Americans on what is now
Mexican soil must either turn Nader
lists or move few rods to the north
Milwaukee Wisconsin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05

A CONVENTION AGE.

1t has been estimated that more
than sixty conventions of national.
sectional or state Importance meet in
this country every day, Sunday except
eo- IN the course of year, then,
something like 1900 of different con-
Ventlons OF more than 10 eal impor-
tance are held, bringing together mil
mons OF delegates and entailing the ex-
penolture OF many more millions of
dollars in money.
Ihe hgures furnish evidence of the
enormous development of the conven-
llon and association idea Whenever
there IS pretext for men or women
TO unite and organize societies, clubs
or associations, they do it No sooner
is local organization co1nplete in one
community than it seeks to formulate
similar organizations in other COM
munlties, extending itself until it is
state wide and then persisting until it
is nation wide. They form associations
Tor every possible purpose. The bust
ness organizations are as numerous as
the lines of business pursued, and
practically every one of them is ma
tionaI in scope
Big as it sounds to say that annually
more than $4,000 conventions of ma
tlonal or state Importance are held in
the United States, it is probably an
under-statement rather than an over
statement of the truth. This is indeed
an age of associations and conventions,
and out of it is growing an ever in
creasing community of interest and
the elimination of sectional differences.
Sterling Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05

Perhaps no haze Of circumstance
Can justify the thing he did;
No charity erase a stain
That cannot be forgot or hid
And yet, however he offend,
was ne not once your friend?
You look with sorrow on the deed,
You find him pitifully marred,
His honor seems a broken reed,
his gallant youth forever SCARED
The world cannot restore or mend,
And yet-he was your friend?
You. called him once your comrade true
As, happy lads. you laughed on life
Together playing, working. too,
You learned the thrill of wholesome
strife;
You swore to serve. leal friend for
friend
Until the story's end.
But that is altered-must be so.
Since he has failed to meet Ife's test!
And yet must he, unbothered, go
Where failure turks apart. confessed?
Can nothing help, no love defend
This man you called your friend2
Ali Give him now your loyal hand
To lead him from this utmost hell
This burning, baneful, barren land
Where only friendless failures DWELL
Give him your hand Despair shall end
For him who hath one friendi
Elizabeth Newport Hepburn, in the New
York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News
Often there's more fear than dan
ger.
Moreover, a faint bank account sell
dom wins a fair lady.
Most men are rated either above or
below their true value.
Many people are more cheerful
outwardly than they feel inside.
A ringleader is the first chap to
reach the girls home with a solitaire
If a man happens to be good look
ing he thinks that will carry him
through.
You can't tell what is going to
come out until the investigating COM
mittee gets through
The honeymoon is on the wane when
the bride stops telling things and be-
gins to ask questions.
It is all right TO make hay while the
sun shines, but it's lots nicer to make
love while the moon shines.
A woman hands herself a quantity
of disappointment If she thinks her
singing is going to keep her husband
at home every evening"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
The College Graduate.

1t may sometimes seem to these col
lege graduate youngsters, who soon
will be our men of responsibility ana
action, as they compare in the gray
headed years what they have done
with the large visions that came 10
them in these summer days OF what
they expect to do, as II they mad oone
little or nothing. But that will be the
same kind of distorted estimate then
as that which some of them are max
ing today, when the future looks TO
them like a field in which they can
take any position that pleases them
The future is always a big place when
you get to it, and the ways into it
are extraordinarily varied and OBJ
structed. Circumstances lays its COM
pelling hand upon the individual, and
he goes this way or that, he halts or
he pushes ahead, almost without the
possibility of doing otherwise Is MS
leadership as a man who stands with
out hitching on the cardinal points OF
a decent and honorable life thereby
impaired or frustrated? Not bit or
it. He counts just the same in such
life as this country happily possesses,
if he simply stands fast. like true
man, wherever he is and in whatever
he is able to do. That the crowd is
not watching him and shouting over
him is of no consequence whatever. In
many cases all that kind of popularity,
as it is called, may be a temptation
and an injury. The man who serves
this country best is the man who
takes the same steady and steadfast
course whether the crowd shouts over
him or not and who holds to this
course even when the crowd is shout
ing over him. The noise made about
a useful mans life has no more to DO
with the usefuln eSs of 1t than the fly
that buzzes on the cartwheel has to do
with the load that the cart carries.
Public applause does not make leader
ship. Public applause comes in after
ward; and, where public applause has
a perceptible influence on the leader
ship, with a sickening effect. The lead
ers of a coach and four prance a good
deal through the shady lanes and level
places, but when the coach reaches a
stiff hill or a steep descen- it is the
wheel horses that pull the coach to the
higher level or keep it from rushing
headlong over the precipice. The most
foolish ambition that a sour man can
secretly nurse is to be known or ap-
plauded; and the man who is sound
through and through does not nurse 1t,
in the sense of permitting his stead
fastness to be disturbed by i, although
Of course, he is gratified when others
recognize what he is doing as some
thing worth while.
Something worth whilei If a man
does this as he goes along through life
he has reached the summit. no matter
whether the world takes note of it or
not. Just now this land is filed with
things recommended as worth while,
but it is common experience that the
label does not always prove what the
package contains. There is no rule
on this subject-Hartford Courant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many folk wish for wealth with
out working for it.
What has become of the old-fashioned
boys and girls who were bashful?
4
The man who insists he'd rather be
poor and happy than rich and other
wise is generally posing.
It's not very often that an individ e
ual wakes up on a fine morning and
finds himself famous
Much of the talk would be more par
donable if the people indulging in it
only knew what they were talking
about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
TOPEKA AND THE SANTA FE.

Although the matter has been han
died extensively in the news columns,
perhaps a word or two will not be out
Of place here in respect to the devel-
opment of the Santa Fe plant and its
forces in Topeka during the past rail-
road fiscal year. It's by far the big
gest asset in one way that the capital
city of Kansas has, and it is growing
larger each year with leaps and
bounds. In the - months ending
June so, more than $50 employees
have been added to the clerical and
shop forces of the Santa Fe here. The
Santa Fe pay roll in Topeka amounts
to $3.50 a month or $3,1sO,O00
annually. Nor is the end yet. In the
very nature of things the shop plant
will be increased in size from year to
year. So will the clerical forces in the
general offices. This means a steady
growth for Topeka from this one
source alone.
But the fact that the Santa Fe has set
up such a wonderfully large establish
ment in Topeka is of much more i'm
portance to the town than the money
paid out here to Santa Fe employees
and which plays such a large part in
maintaining the prosperity of the city
and all of it's business enterprises. 1t
gives invaluable prestige to Topeka
throughout the entire country as
most desirable location for all kinds
of manufacturing plants.
It was suggested a few lines above
that the Santa Fe plants here were the
biggest asset lin a way of which To-
peka is possessed. Many folk are
probably of the opinion that the city
has no other asset to compare with it.
But it has. tt is the asset that was re-
sponsible for keeping the big Santa
Fe shops here and for their enlarge
ment and also for the enlargement Of
the general office building by the
erection of a magnificent ten-story
addition. That asset is to be found
in the fact that Topeka is free from
saloons and the resorts of vice that
they encourage; that the city is in
comparable as place for workers to
reside and bring up their families un-
der the best possible environment.
These facts have been recognized by
the discerning officials of the Santa
Fe. And because the Santa Fe has
done this, it will encourage other big
concerns that are looking for ideal
locations for their plants to do like
wise. Recently the Rock Island has
increased its clerical force here with
a large number of employees. The re-
moval of the Rock Island shops from
Horton to Topeka and their enlarge
ment is a possibility. 1t is also possible
that the Union Pacific will establish a
shop plant of considerable size here.
The people of Topeka owe a debt
of gratitude to the Santa Fe for point
ing the way in this particular, which
it will be difficult for them to repay
1t can only be repaid in one way and
that is by maintaining the standards
which have made Topeka such a ster-
ling city and raising them to even
higher levels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

From the AtchlSon GloDe-I
Most everyone is proud of his an
cestors, if they are dead
Every young man has brilliant
future. accept it from his mother.
what can be expected from the
likes of you" is the canned goods Of
argument.
Moonlight DISCUSSES a lot of blem-
ishes, but it has no softening influence
on a bad breath.
It also seems possible for a, man to
be a good mixer without being good
for anything else.
A feeling that you can't drive your
self to certain neglected work is a very
poor excuse.
That man who imagines he would do
so much better in a big city: why does
he delay mis- departure?
In this swatting campaign. it is also
a good idea to put on night shirt ana
go after the mosquitoes.
One has to do something more than
keep out of Jail if he would show
proper respect for his parents.
There never was such a thing as an
agreement on equal terms. Somebody
always gets the best of it.
And no bad road was ever made good
by the lie that it is bad roads that
make people leave the farms.
While the devil isn't supposed to
take a vacation. he probably keeps his
eye on a number of people who do
When a working girl marries a man
who makes less money than she does,
she should put him to washing dishes
In view of the fact that no one is
glad to see him. why is the man on a
motorcycle in such a hurry to get there.
Clothes don't make the man. but that
doesn't afford much consolation for the
civilian who loses the girl to a smooth
la1tanar n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-05
WHEN MAN GROWS OLD.

It is a law as old as the first nan,
that when 'old age comes over hiur,"
or begins to set its seal on his men
tai makeup, that the man turns to the
soil for rest and recreation. He wants
to make something grow; he wants to
smell the earth; he wants to do .iOme-
thing that encourages pleasant thoughts
of long ago. This too. whether he mas
pushed the pen, followed the sea or
Jockeyed with the professions for a liv-
ing. He wants to work in the garden;
trim trees or do something like that for
exercise and recreation; he wants to en-
courage pro-creation in all earthly
things. Maybe it is the opening strain
Of the benediction, to the solemn meas
ure of which he goes TO his long homr.
Working the soil and the increase
thereof, is the purest calling known 70
man; maybe it is instinct of the high
est and purest which turns his waning
activities soil-wards. It is this Unborn
desire to do better that prompted soma
old sport to write of two contrite old
men
King David and King Solomon
Led merry, merry lives;
And they had many, many lady friends
And many. many wives.
But when old age came over them,
With many, many qualms,
King Solomon wrote the Proverbs
King David wrote the Psalms"
Clay Center Times.