The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-31
CHAPTER TX.

CHAPTER TX
IBeing a continuation of the previous
chapters but along modified lines and
new incidents in the "Reminiscences OF
a Newspaper Man in Topeka.''l
Since the State Journal has been
running the famous Mutt and jeff. and
the wonderfully life-Iike and natural
cartoons by that celebrated artist, F.
Opper who by the way is drawing
his cartoons exclusively, in Topeka, for
the State Journal, there have been =
few minor uprisings in the family OF
the writer that have caused some little
diversion. For instance, the other
evening his better-half said to him:
Now l will tell you what l think Of
your old cartoons which 1 see you are
running every day, and especially on
Saturdays
well, what do you think Of them ~
"Why, that one at the top of the
seventeenth page in Saturdays paper
1 think is almost a perfect image of
YOU and shows just the way you con-
duct yourself sometimes in the pres
ence of your family
OF course, like any one naturally
would. with the writing of these i'm
portant chapters on his hands, ana
other chapters on his mind, for the
moment the writer could not recall just
what cartoons had appeared at the
top Of the seventeenth page of last
Saturdays double number: so he went
out TO the nursery and Iished out what
was left after the youngsters had cut
out about all there was left of his stuff
in the paper after the managing editor
had taken .'whack at it." to see
Just what particular reference his wife
was really making.
Would you believe it, There the
writer saw himself depicted in just such
an attitude, in fact a half a dozen at
titudes that he had, with chest thrown
out. assumed a few evenings before
when he and his wife were sitting
down near the telephone table, and
when our neighbours new little dog
Rover had just dropped in and curled
I'D near the chair, and began to make
himself at home. just as if he belong
ed at our house instead of at the ad-
Joining house on south at the corner
Of Eleventh and Topeka avenue, our
nearest neighbor's.
Yes, this editor at times makes
specially of the tariff question. He
has threshed it out until he almost
thought he knew a real tariff when
he saw it, except after Champ Clark
and Bob LaFollette hit it a few times;
also inserting on the sly a little steel
probe into the innocent bale of cotton
at the customs dock last summer, I'M
der discussion, and that too before
any committee, or any congressman
Whatever except the Wisconsin senator
and the speaker. had had "a look-in
a 1t.
So when the wife made the remark
that it would be 'just lovely to have
this matter OF exports and duty on for
eign goods, rate schedules and trade
balances explained" the writer was
right in his element. and started in to
give the real and unbiased history of
the customs collections. etc; but the
lady who constituted the audience.
seemed to take more interest in
tsRover, than she did in what her hus-
band was telling her.
Now what do you think of that.
Not to be suppressed. the lady audi
ence shouted as the standing candi-
date for commissioner of customs was
leaving the room, and with some feel
ing:
Il see you are working nights on
something headed Chapter XVI Have
you got your alleged "reminiscences
down to the sixteenth chapter already
and by the way, why don't you copy
right your "Reminiscences The first
thing you know somebody will be clip
ping out these articles from the paper
and beat you to the publication of the
book
II surely does take a woman to Dor
row trouble. Do you know I had never
thought of that copyright business be-
fore, and perhaps when the writer gets
time, and a little over his rush, and
few chapters ahead for emergencies,
in case he should be called out of
town, because he wants to run one
of the copyright. BY the way, 1 won
der who is a good copyright lawyer?
1 don't see any advertisements in the
paper that would guide me.
We notice that the Insurgents still
seem to be worried over what the
Sage of oyster Bay may do in con-
nection with national politics. Many
of our Kansas friends who have been
''insurging clear across the state slop-
ping over into Chicago and Wisconsin, |
seem to have a worried look of late, |
upon their hitherto happy faces. Gov
ernor Stubs does not hardly seem to |
know Just how he ought to jump, |
he ought to come out strong |
for LaFollette right now, or whether |
he ought to hold off and see if this !
Taft tide which seems to be setting in |
rather stiffly just now, may not If |