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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
DIsREPUTABIITY OF AUTHORS.

DISREPUTABILITY OF AUTHORS.
New ideas presuppose new ideals,
and large part of the disreputability
of authors derives from the fact that
their heart is not rooted in the com
mon conventions, writes a contributor
to the current issue of Harper's
Weekly One has but to look about
one today to understand why Shelleys
burning conviction that war or any
other form of cruelty was barbarous;
that perfect man must be free, tribe
less, and natien1ess; that patriotism
was a silly limitation of sympathy and
an offence to the. ideal of the universal
brotherhood of man-to know why he
was considered immoral and Eighty.
For in spite of all the peace congresses
and the lectures, and the scientific ex-
plantations and the arbitration tribu-
nails, the nations of the earth today
are still holding themselves ready for
war. Shelley died nearly 100 years
ago, and slowly, very slowly. humanity
is growing up to the ideals of the sera-
phic poet. The best of men are
ashamed today of war and rapine and
conquest; even average man looks
askance and wonders if all this is not q
relic of barbarism.
The quality that the great average
need above all else is heedfulness.
Surely the human mind is the chan
mel Of all high and divine matters, and
If the clamor of the pride of life and
the present is SO loud that the small
voice of the prophets upon the wind
of destiny cannot be heard-or heard
only to awaken resentment and ami
mosity-then ali spiritual and mental
growth is retarded. There is neither
virtue nor wisdom in proclaiming a
thing good and shutting the eyes to
secret evils. There is no sense in an
unreal optimism that turns away from
all the disease and distress of life to
pretend that the decorated and rec
titled presentment we commonly show
the world is reality. The only true
religion is to face facts and react upon
them generously and high indedly.
There is no goodness in merely pre-
tending that what is painful and hid
eous does not exist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09


plexity. Douglass got up hastily and
backed away. He did not want to lose
his carefully acquired grip and make
a fool of himself. That's why he was
leaving Thornybrook-to keep from
making a fool of himself. He fumbled
his hat and turned to the door.
'He can't. that's ALL" declared
Douglass, when his hand had closed
on the knob. TITS an impossibility,
Miss Anne. If you were in his place
you'd realize" He stopped; he was
confusing the other mans case with
his own.
Don't you want to know who the
girl is?" asked Miss Thornton, un-
steadily. She had risen and her I'm
gers We're intertwined.
why, yes" Douglass somehow felt
the name of that girl to be the most
important thing in the world. The
robins had ceased their billing and
cooling to listen. But he feared Miss
Anne's words would be drowned by
the humping of his heart.
"Its-it's-" Her voice died away.
And then it began again, broke and
went on to triumphant conclusion:
oh. Billy. you stupid. stupid boy!
lists Anne Thornton"
Douglass stared unbelievingly, saw
in her face what he had never dared
to hope to see and dropped his hat.
He rushed back.
The next moment she was in his
arms. half laughing and half crying
How I've longed to call you 'Billy'!"
she said.
"And how I've longed to call you
l-darlingi" said he (Copyrighteds
1911 by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

calendar Year Statements showing
the imports and exports of the United
States from 1900 to 1870" a publication
just issued by the bureau of statistics
of the department OF commerce and la
Dor, shows some interesting facts re-
garding the imports and exports of the
United States in the trade with foreign
countries. Among the curious things
shown is, for example, that fruits and
nuts imported into this great agricul-
tural country have doubled since 1900.
having grown from SIS, 900, 900 in value,
speaking in round terms, in the year
1900, to $39, 500, 600 in 1910. Fruit imports
alone increased from a little less than
S16,000,000 to practically SIG OOO, 900. Ban
anas form the largest item in the
group, being valued at a little less
than $6,000,0 900 in 1900, and over $12.OOO.-
600 in 1910.
Hides and skins also form a marked
increase in the importation of the term.
having increased from 307, ZOO, 900 pounds
in 1900. to SIS, OOO. 600 in 1909. the figures of
1910 being considerable less, 461, 900, GOO
pounds. The value of hides and skins
imported was in 1900, $50. SOC, 900. and i'll
1910, $s6,o00. 900. Goatskins form an i'm
portant factor in this, having been in
1900, SO, 00O,O 600 dollars in value, and in
1910, $27. OOO 600.
Sugar, of which the United States is
large producer but not yet sufficient
~ large to meet the requirements of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
WAsHBURN,s CANfPUs.

Professor Max Hagendorn's sugges-
ton that 1t will be grave mistake on
the part of the trustees of Washburn
college to sell a considerable strip off
the eastern edge Of the campus seems
to be decidedly pertinent. If a start
! IS once made in this direction there
| is no telling where the end will be.
Suppose some $4,000 should be real
lied from the sale of this land. The
next time the college might be a bit
pressed for money, the present board
of trustees would have slight qualms
about deciding to sell another portion
of the college grounds, for they are
quite extensive. 1t would be the
easiest possible way to obtain the
money needed, and once a precedent
in this particular had been established
there would be little heSitancy about
following it. Thus, it is possible that
the near future might see the college
despoiled of most Of it's valuable prop
erty that it would be well nigh i'm
possible to regain If any of it should
ever be needed.
And needed, some of it surely Will
be unless Washburn has reached the
extent of its development. Are the
trustees of the college of this mind?
If they think the institution has now
grown as large as it ever will, they
are of too pessimistic a turn of mind.
And any thoughts of this sort that
they may hold will have a tendency
to retard the colleges growth. But
they have no reason to hold such
thoughts. The development of Wash
burn has just begun. If it's affairs are
administered as they should be it is
destined to be one of the great higher
educational institutions in the central
west. And as it grows and develops
it will need more and more room all
the time. 1t has this room now, but it
won't have it long if this plan to sell
large piece of the campus goes
through, and other similar ones fol-
low in its wake, as they are almost
sure to do.
Few colleges in the entire country
have such a campus as Washburn now
has. A landscape gardener with lit
tie money at his disposal could turn
it into a veritable wonderland of nat
ura1 beauties. No doubt this has been
planned by the college authorities
when the opportunity is ripe. To cut
off any part of the campus would
spoil it's proportions, its possibilities.
Aside from other considerations,
however, this property was donated to
Washburn college for a site. 1t was
not given to be parceled out by trus-
tees of the future for the purpose of
making both the financial ends of the
institution meet. AS Professor Hagen
dorm says it is questionable. there
fore, If the trustees have the moral
right to dispose of any of this proper
tv. 1t would seem to be a grievous
error If they do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

her population, shows importations In
1900 of S,75O,0OO,OOO pounds. valued at
s91, $50 600, and in 1910, 4,250,0 900
pounds, valued at $114. 100000, these fig
ures being exclusive Of the sugar
brought from Hawaii and Porto Rico.
which amounted in 1910 to over 1,0oO.-
OOO. 600 pounds from Hawaii, valued at
$39. 500, 600; and 626. GOO, 900 pounds from
Porto Rico, valued at $26,5O0.00
Cotton, though the United States
produces practically three-fourths of
the worlds supply, shows importa-
lions in 1900 of 60,00O,o00 pounds,
valued at 5000, 900; and in 1910,
IS, 00o, 600 pounds, valued at 81. $780,
000 Live animals of all classes show
a value in 1900 of $4,350, 600, the
largest single item being the group cat
tie, and in 1910, total of $7,750,0O0, cat
tie still forming the largest single item,
nearly one-half of the total of the
group. Breadstuffs imported in 1900,
including under this term wheat, corn,
barley, oats. rye. rice, flour, etc.
amounted to $4,000. 600 in value, and in
1910, SIS, 25O, 900, the largest item in the
1910 figures being macaroni, nearly
SIS, ZOO, 600; rice, and rice flour and meal
81. $50, 600; wheat an l wheat flour near
ly $1,000, 600. Tobacco importations,
which in 1900 amounted to $4,000, 900 in
value, were in 1910 practically $780,
900, these figures being exclusive of
manufactures of tobacco, which
amounted il 1900 to $500, 900 in value.
and in 1910. little over $4,000. 900. Meat
and dairy products imported, which
20 arn
were in 1910, $11, 100000, the largest
items in this group being cheese, ~
million; and sausage castings, 81. mill
lion.
On the export side the figures show
a decline in the outward movement of
breadstuffs,- live stock and meats. but
large increases in the exports of man
ufactures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Actions speak louder than words. So
do actors.
The most brilliant people are not al
ways the ones who cast reflections.
If flowers and fruit have sex. 1t
stands to reason that a peach is al
ways feminine.
Too many men labor under the de-
fusion that red liquor is an antidote
for the blues.
Nell-"He said I was nice enough
to eat" Belle-"You're safe; he's
vegetarian
1t isn't necessary for a man to be
effeminate just because he is making
his maiden effort.
Blobbs-"Jack Dashaway says he Is
going to settle down and look for
wife" Slobbs-"Whose wife,"
Some men don't seem to realize
their own strength. Many a fellow
who is as strong as a bull is easily
cowed.
Teacher-"why were you not at
school yesterday" Willie-"It was
my birthday" Teacher-"But don't
stay home from school on my birth
day. Willie-''Well, I guess you've
got used to EN-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. !

lFTOn Ine AlcnlSOn GLOBE
Keep doing something: people are
going to kick anyway.
1t can at least be said for woman
that she doesn't use a. cane unless she
is lame
. A lot of people are convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence without going
into court.
A "demure little woman" is the
type which can usually be relied upon
to boss a man.
1t is about as safe to roast a wo-
mans church in her presence as to
slam her favorite poet.
1t is every mans private belief that
his wife wouldn't clean house so often
if she thought he enjoyed it.
Nearly every man has an excuse for
his plumbers, among which simplified
spelling is about the weakest.
A woman can give no greater proof
of her absolute trust in a man than by
holding nail while he drives it.
Don't try to judge a mans batting
average by the dope he gives out be-
fore the spring training trip begins.
. Orators would be more generally sat
isfactory if they would stop talking
when they run out Of something to say.
Once in a while you will find a wo-
man who gets in sly digs at the hus-
land by praising the good qualities Of
her son-in-law.
That is a bare possibility, however,
that you pay To- the cigar the mer
chant graciously donates when you
pay your bill.
Examination day in school is a bad
time to attempt to convince a boy that
he is. apt to have worse troubles in his
after life.
Very few women succeed in lifting
the mortgage from the Old Home by
learning to produce a, superior article
in -handpainted china.
We claim to be different from other
men in this respect: Fashions in wo-
mems clothes don't worry US any, if
the women are satisfied
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
TO THE MODERN GIRL.

There, little girl don't votei
you've been badgered and urged. know,
And the things they said
Nearly turned your head
And set your young heart aglow;
But it's hackneyed heresy they quote
There, little girl, don't vote,
Don't votei
There, little girl, don't vote!
lis fashion and fad, know,
And the mfIlionaires
With their subtle snares,
Are making you think it's SO;
But they are wrong, and time will show't-
There, little girl, don't vote,
Don't vote!
There, little girl, don't vote!
You have beautiful clothes, know
That blue marquisette,
With the band of Jet
Would make a most splendid show:
But, though you've a Russian sable coat
There, little girl, don't vote,
Don't votei
Carolyn Wells, in Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many people only dissipate to the
extent of staying up until midnight to
finish reading a novel
y y
It's pretty difficult for anybody to
keep up his interest in a game he is
unable to win at.
y =
Few baldheaded men will admit
they're sensitive about it, but they are
always careful to wear their hats on
all possible occasions.
x <
Also to the credit of automobiles,
1t may be said that they have made
the folk who are compelled to walk
along the streets more alert.
x X
Much sympathy is given to the "in-
Eocent bystanders'' for the trouble they
get in. but, as a matter of fact, most
of them are rubber-neckS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
JAYHAWKER JOTS

No man ever made a success of rails
ing chickens and children on another
mans yard, rightly says the Belle
Plaine News.
What is the matter with the city wa
ter? asks the Medicine Lodge Cresset.
1t is too thick to drink but not thick
enough to cultivate.
1t is the belief of the Douglass Tri-
bune that kansas needs fewer laws,
better laws, simpler laws and a better
observance of laws
A personal from Voda in the Trego
county Reporter: 1.-The knocker is still
with u.s." The same might be said of
every other locality in Kansas.
Some unusual things are about to be
Matched out in Butler county The
Douglass Tribune reports: District
court sets at ElDorado next Tues
day.
The Baldwin Cemetery association,
says the Ledger of that town, has been
On the bum for several years, but has
decided to become a live institution
from this time henceforth.
The automatically inclined in Kan
Sas have a fine chance for some excel
lent recreation in solving this problem
1c1ne Lodge CresSet: If one antitrust
law can produce a thousand trusts
What would now be the cost of living
if we had two antitrust laws?
Somebody ought to invent a question
mark to be used in talking. says the
Holton Signal. We always felt the need
of that kind Of an expression when we
use the titles of Judge Colonel and
the like. These titles have covered a
multitude of defects in cheap men. The
newspapers are full of Judges whose
opinions are confined to horse races
and whisky. and 'colonels'' whose war
record is confined to the fish pond and
the rabbit trail; the greater the sham
the easier it is to fool the people with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From the Chicago News. ]

tFTOm the chicago NeWS.I
Many a large hat coveres an empty
head.
One way to stop earache is to sell
the piano.
A one sided argument never gets
very strenuous.
Even a little trial is big one if
y-u have no Others.
The man who let's well enough alone
never gets very far ahead.
The breath of scandal is responsible
for much breezy conversation.
Some men. like some ROSTERS, are
always crowing-but what's the use?
You can often tell what a woman
really means by what she doesn't say.
On the other hand, charity some
times begins away from home and
ends before 1t gets there.
Yes, Alonzo, it is possible for a man
to have more money than brains and
still not be classed as taxpayer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
REFLECTIONS OF q BACHELOR

[From the New York Press1
Excuses go on crutches.
One way to get votes seems to be not
to deserve them
Philosophy quits when it's time to
erd thinking and begin to act.
The Lord let's everybody have a try
at this world, so everybody puts the
consequences UP to Him.
The man with a good appetite Is
more or less like a porker, but he
thinks it's because he has a good con-
science
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
HUAOR OF THE DAY

Does your husband smoke incessant-
ly?'' Worse than that: he smokes in
the parlor. American.
Ryker-Is he chip off the old
block? Stryker-No: he's a joker off
the old deck-Judge. >~'
MY wife is one woman in a thou
at the bargain counter."-Boston
Transcript
The Preacher-And does your hus-
band vote as he prays2 The Wife
Oh. yes; about once a year!-Yonkers
It's jes' about as hard to pick good
advice" said Uncle Eben. las it is to
do yoh own thinkin' in de first place.
Washington Star.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS what makes the
telegraph lines hum? Senior-I've
wired dad for dough, and I guess he's
talking back.-Chicago Journal.
Mrs Gnaggs-rn never forget the
night you proposed to me- You acted
like a perfect fool. Mr.. Gna4;gs-That
wasn't acting.-Philadelph Record.
why did 1 ever leave home and
mother?'' sobbed his wife. Chiefly be-
cause your family were too stingy to
take US in" he answered bitterly
Life.
'"Son, I hear you have Joined the Boy
Scout movement" Eyes, dad" "Well,
s'pose you scout ahead and see if your
mother it sitting up for me."-Pitts-
burg Post.
81 see your son has gone to work.
yep" How is he getting along?"
"Oh, fine. Anything in the way Of
a novelty. always appeals to him
washington Herald.
Does he inherit his fathers genius?''
mo. Only his fathers eccentricities of
genius. That is why we are giving
benefit for him."-Chicago Record Her
aid.
80 your Shakespeare club is a great
success?'' Yes. We have accumula-
ted enough fines for nonattendance to
take US all to a musical comedy
Washington Herald.
Londoner Ito Pat; seeing a football
game for the first time)-What do you
think of 1t, Pat? Pat-Begorra- it I'D
be Jewel of game if they only had
shticks!''-Punch.
THAT woman is a nature faker in her
dress" How so?" 'sShe calls 1t harmon
ious attire to wear a mouse-colored gown
with Angora furs."-Baltimore American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
KANSAS COMAENT
WALT MAsoNs CRIME.

rms offlce is in receipt of picture
OF the home of Walt Mason, Uncle
Walt, the famous poet of the Cotton
wood valley. whose home is at En-
porla. The postcard reveals beauti-
iuI ana spacious home, on which has
been spared no expense. 1t is fitted
with all modern improvements. It
was paid for on the installment plan
-tnree yards of poetry per week At
the rear Is shown the easy old fash
t1res after the heat of the day to sit
neneath his own vine and fig tree.
The front yard is full of giant elms,
Dig leafed plants, cement walks and
real grass. AT the corner stands Old
Dobb1n, the faithful family horse He
is hltched to new tangled high seat
ed chariot. such as are advertised in
the late family magazines. On the
front porch sits Mr.. Mason in charac-
terlstic pose. He is shown wearing
spacious white vest of the most mod
ern cut and design. This then, is his
crime. For years and years in KAN
sas 1t has been the vested right of
Dut one man in any country town to
wear a white vest. This sacred hon
or has always been accorded to the
towns leading banker. Shall the
robes Of the towns millionaire be
thrown over the shoulders of a mere
poet at this stage of the game? That.
too, when Emporia's millionaire has
always been rated as being worth
thirty-f1ve hundred dollars. We mis-
take much the temper of the pioneers
of Emporia If they stand for this bra
zen attempt at smashing cherished
tradition. Shades of Plumb. and Stot-
Ter and EskridgeI Mr.. Mason, of
course, has right of counsel. There
may be extenuating circumstances, but
blamed if it isn't going to take a
cuckoo of a lawyer to convince an
outraged populace. More anon.-Os-
borne Farmer.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT AGAINST IT.
There is nothing to the proposition to
allow a man to run for congress and
United States senator at one and the
same time. The Kansas spirit is against
pen. The fact that a congressman was
running for senator would force his re-
tirement as a candidate for reelection
to ongress.-Lawrence Journal-World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

The first effort of both branches OF
the present legislature to hold all night
sessions, and thereby keep up with leg
tslative fashions and presidents, was a
dismal failure. This is a legislative
activity for which there is no reason
able or good excuse. Most legislatures
though, seem to go on the theory that
they would not be doing their full duty
to their state unless they pulled off an
all-night session or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

Proabbly the sorriest man over the
resignation Of Mr.. Ballinger is Repre-
sentative James of Kentucky. He
had taken the trouble to prepare a set
Of impeachment proceedings against
the retiring secretary of the interior
which he was going to present to the
next congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

Just the moral effect of the presence
of 10000 United States troops along
the Mexican frontier ought to be suf-
ficient to put a quietus on that apology
for a revolution which has already
been in progress much longer than it
should have been.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

Champ Clark is vexed at certain Re
publican newspapers for intimating
that there is likely to be a split among
the Democrats in next congress. 1t
will be exceedingly remarkable,
though, If there isn't such split and
quite a wide one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

Walter L. Fisher, the new secretary
of the interior, evidently appreciates
what he is going up against. NOW the
merry war begins, suppose was his
greeting to the newspaper men who
finally located him in New York on
the day his appointment was an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

Some of the more ardent Prohibi-
tionists have probably snorted a good
deal over the shower of gold which
fell on Adolphus Busch and wife on
the occasion Of their f1ftieth wedding
anniversary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

Doesn't this call for interference from
Washington? Several American SOL
diers of fortune have been run out of
the Mexican rebel camps because they
have been adjudged to be worthless.
This is an insult that should be aveng-
ed. But the chances are they're worth
less all right. However, American hon.
or must be preserved at any cost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

Timothy Healy. a noted barrister Of
Ireland, told a court there recently
that American lawyers had induced
an insane Irishman to sign away the
larger part of a s25O,0Oo inheritance.
ImpoSsib1eI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

If the Mexican revolution only had
for it's object the changing Of the names
of most of the localities in that coun-
try, it would get such support from the
outside world that making it victorious
would be an easy task.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

1t was almost unnecessary for the
candidates for the mayoralty nomina-
ton to tell the Ad club that Topeka
is a wonderfully fine city. If 1T were
not, there surely would not be so
many gentlemen so anxious to serve
as its chief executive.