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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

her uncle's until last, but finally she
tore it open.
eff you are sure he is the right
man, dear child, am glad. But don't
make mistake; you seem 50 far away
from everything and everyone that
you are used to and know. Don't do
anything that you will regret later"
Eliza buried her head in one of Mrs.
Browns sofa cushions with a sob.
Don't do anything I'll regret" she
repeated. "Oh, how wicked, wicked
I've been" Then, suddenly Eliza
realized that what she as crying for
was that she and Mr.. Wilbur were
really not engaged.
Eliza heard a footstep by her side
and looked up into the grave eyes OF
Mr. Wilbur.
why. you poor little girl" he said
gently kneeling down and putting his
arms about her
Don't" cried Eliza. pulling herself
free. "Oh. you mustn't and she
rushed past him into the hall and up
to her room. Once there she locked
the door ad set to work to write a
confession.
II must tell you." she wrote. cal
though you will hate me when you
know. I can't explain why, but
wanted the folks at home to think me
engaged; and I wrote them that 1 was
engaged to-you. 1 found that I cared
and tnat you co, TOO dOn ASK
you to pardon me; and IS : shall new
er see you again, I shall never have
to know how much you despise me
for it. I am going home to tell them
that my engagement is broken"
The next day Eliza. pale and tired.
arrived Unexpectedly at the station at
Dayville.
Hello, Miss Morgan" said the sta
ton man, as he helped he with her
bags-he was baggagem5ster porter,
telegraph operator and ticket agent
all in one-"I certainly am glad to see
YOU. A queer message came over the
wire for you. Just going to send it
over to your aunt
Eliza took the yellow telegram and
read: Don't tell anyone it is broken.
Am coming on the next train to help
you mend it."
Anything valuable that's broken ?"
queried the man, curiously.
Eliza flushed and smiled. TITS the
most valuable thing I ever had" she
said slowly. But the cracks viii
never show after it's mended.' -
copyrighted 1911 by the Associated
Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago Newsl
The tired wheel likes a good road
bed.
A woman is always sure Of anything
she can't prove.
One way to face difficulties is to turn
your back on them
Even a h0mely woman looks good af-
ter you get used to her.
If the under dog started the fight he
is entitled to all he gets.
A wise man doesn't know as much
as the fool thinks he knows.
The silence Of an heiress is truly
golden when it gives consent.
The tail Of a mouse is one of the
conclusions a woman viii jump at.
Nothing makes a man appreciate the
good old winter time like an ice fam
inc.
= woman never does anything she
wants to unless her husband doesn't
want her to-
Most people seem to think that thew
are not getting all the happiness thew
are entitled to.
You can make more enemies for a
rival by praisng him than BY saving
mean things about him.
If every man loved his neighbor a.
no loves himself his Satanic maiesf~
would soon have to hunt another ion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
PROBLEMS AWAIT INVENTORS.

Silver is a metal that las its prob
lems writes Professor Robert Ken
needy Duncan of the University of Kan
sas in Harper's Magazine for August.
The tarnishability of silver, particular
~ to people who live in the smoke
enveloped cities of the present day. is
time and muscle consuming annoy
ance. 1t is not surprising. then, that
a prominent company manufacturing
silverware should inquire as to the pos
sibility Of adding small quantities Of
other elements to silver with the idea
of lessening or eliminating its tendency
to tarnish. So far as the writer is
aware, no work of any kind whatever
has been carried on with such an idea
in view. and it thus certainly offers op-
portunities of distinct promise.
1t is extraordinary, the diversity Of
demands made by manufacturers for
a really resistive enamel with which
to coat their wares. and equally ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
THE KAws HAVE ARRIVED.

That recent series of games between
the Lincoln and Topeka baseball teams
certainly showed the present high cali
Der of the Kaws, even if they did lose
two out of three Of them. The Lincoln
team occupies the second position in the
Western League race. And at the
present stage of the season it is gen
orally a fact that the team in second
position is playing little better ball
than the leading team, so strenuous
are it's efforts to get nearer first place.
At any rate it is playing just as good
ball as the Leading team.
Just before the Lincoln series the
Kaws split even in four games with
the league leaders. That was doing
good. And although they came out at
the short end in the division of the
series with Lincoln. they generally play
ed just as good ball, as an analysis
of the games in the series shows. Dur
ing the three games both teams made
only 10 runs and Topeka made of
them. Lircoln won its two games by
one run each, and the last, a Is inning
affair. was finally won by Topeka by
the same margin. In all Of the three
games the hits and the errors were
just about evened up between the two
teams.
This is surely a gratifying showing
for the Kaws. It certainly ought to
convince the Topeka fans that they
now have a team on the diamond that
measures up to the best Of Western
League standards. It's a team that is
going to do much better than finish in
next to last place when the season
ends, although it has a hard row to
hoe to climb much higher. But its
present percentage around 425 is far
from being a cellar percentage by any
means. 1t shows among other things
that the great majority of the teams
in the Western League are pretty
closely matched. The Eaws are enti-
tied to just as good. and a little better
encouragement, in the way of patron
age than the Topeka fans have been
giving them all season, even when they
were not doing very well. Topeka must
keep it's franchise in the Western
League at all hazards There is no
present danger now of losing it. And
if the team can be strengthened even
at this late date in the season the eff
forts Of the local management in this
direction should be untiring. With the
present excellent stan os pitchers and
other good material on the team to
work with. Topeka ought to have some
thing like a pennant winner in 1912.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
Spaghetti Gusts Reans.

Who hath done murder to the Bos-
ton BEAM
Boston is honey-comDed with res
taurants and eats persistently, earnest
Nv. and enthusiastically. The dish that
characterizes it's eating is spaghetti.
One Boston merchant imported
100000 cases of spaghetti in 1905.
Last year he imported over 10000
cases. This is something over 1900
tons. This year all records are ex-
pected to go by the board.
And this in the town where the bill
of fare is supposed to be beans, BEANS
beans, occasionally varied with the be-
loved cod, though the testimony of res
taurant men is that Boston eats no
more beans per capita than other
cities, while it holds the spaghetti
championship of the western hemis-
phere. The consumption of beans is
falling off yearly in contrast with the
gain made by spagh Boston dis
patch to the New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most of the "scrappy'' people are
merely that way in their talk.
Not a few folk will loudly cheer for
a proposition and then secretly work
against it.
Any number of persons are sure they
have missed their vocations in life, but
they haven't.
When a woman gets a new and fancy
sunshade, she'll display its beauties
even on a cloudy day.
Nor can men point with pride to the
fact that in the divorce courts four or
five women to one man get the DEGREES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
Horses Have walking Disease.

Scores of horses through the Walla
WaIIa valley have been stricken With
the dread walking disease" the cause
and cure of which are unknown. 1t
appeared three years ago in the same
locality, with grave results, and the
experts are in no better position to
handle it now than they were then.
The symptoms of the disease are a
strange desire on the part or the AMI
NAL to walk. Eagerly, even madly, they
will walk for hours, without food or
rest, and in the madness that precedes
death they walk into any obstruction
they meet.
The strangest part of the disease is
that the horses that are in the best OF
health are the ones that are stricken
first. They have the one desire, and
only one-to walk.-Walla Walla
CWash.) dispatch TO New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

~Old Rumsey always was pretty close
He and he always will be. Since he
was mixed up in that railroad accident he
invariably wants the street car conductor
to let him ride for cents on the ground
that his cork leg is lighter than a natural
one would be."-Chicago Record-Hera aid.
Would Go Through Air for Her.-They
were honeymooning at Niagara George
gazed at the tumbling, roaring waters,
would you go over the falls for me?''
Yes, darling" he told her, lin a balloon
Boston Transcript.
Nurse Girl-Oh, ma am, what shall do?
The twins have fallen down the weII
Fond Parent-Dear me; how annoying!
Just so into the Hbrary-very gently, so
as not to disturb Fido-and get the last
number of the Modern Mothers Maya
zine; 1t contains an article on How to
Bring Up Children. Town Topics.
Tell. me. sir. what was the most dan
gerous case you ever had?' young ply
stefan asked an aged German practitioner.
reply.-Wa shington Star
Wigg- Scribbler is always talking about
how he wooes the muse Wagg-Well, she
has pretty good grounds on which to sue
him for breach of promise.-Philadelphi
Record.
Nothing in TT regard conversation
as a gift" remarked the studious woman.
1T usually is replied Miss Cayenne. IF
people had to pay for it there would be
much less of Washington Star.
A Suggestion.-Old Richfellow desperate
ly)-If you refuse me what is there left
for me to do? Miss Pertleigh-W
read the other day about rich man who
made his will in favor of the woman who
refused him and then went out and hang
ed himself.-Exchange
Small Son (reading magazine advertise
ments)-Daddy, what does this guarantee
mean on automobiles? Daddy (who owns
one)-1t means, my son, that no matter
what goes wrong with the car, it's the
owners fault.-Judge.
why do you insist on that boys study
Ing music?' said the man with respect
for art You know he can't sing Yes
replied the patient father. Il know it.
And 1 want him to learn enough about
music to realize 1t for himself wash
ington Star.
I've given up telling my wife any
thing" $50 have mine. 1t simply goes
in at one ear and out at the other
THAT isn't the trouble with my wife. It
goes in at one ear and comes out at the
mouth. Boston Transcript
Teacher-Sammy. in the sentence, IT
have a book what is the case of the pro-
noun I? Sammy promptly)-Nominative
case. Teacher-Next boy, tell me in what
case to put the noun book" Next Boy
(thoughtfully)-Book
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


IfTOm INC NEW I OIA I oaa.I
A man is mighty smart to under
stand women, and a lot smarter to
know he doesn't.
A woman will forgive her husband
anything if he'll only pretend ne
doesn't deserve her.
A girl has to learn all over again to
f1irt with every man she meets, so as
to keep it exciting.
You can tell when a man has made
little money by how patronizing he is
to every body who hasn't.
There's nothing woman can be so
proud of her husband for as the way
he can read the financial column in
his paper just as if it had something
interesting In It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

IN HARVEST TIME. OF PLENTY.
Sun is just a-cIimbin' to the middle Of
the sky;
But don't you sigh, believers, when the
weather's flashin by
The fine an frosty season is always
DRAWN nigh
The harvest time of plenty is a-comin'i
Go singin through the summer-keep
weather in control;
Dodge the leapin nghtnin' an stand the
thunder'e s roll;
Pretty soon the glory will be shinin'
through your soul
The harvest time of plenty Is a-comin'l
Frank L. Stanton, In the Atlanta Con-
stitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

President Taft might as well bow to
the bitter inevitable. No other Repub-
lican with the possible exception of Col
oneI Roosevelt has a chance of being
elected president in 1912 except LaFol-
lette, that little giant of Wisconsin, 50
Dr. l. T. Allen, president of Aurora
college, Illinois, and an apparent phre-
nologist on the side. has issued the
necessary ultimatum in the premises.
Says DR.. Allen. who has thus leaped
into undying fame with one single
iump: "Cranial manifestations reveal
IsaFolette's immense ability, his self
esteem. tremendous endurance, and pa
triotism. Examination of his bumps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

Although the postoffice department is
now on self-supporting basis Post
master General Hitchcock is continuing
his campaign for an increase in the
rates on second class matter, and par
ticularly as it relates to the advertis-
ing portions of magazines. What's the
answer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

Anonymous subscriber wants in
formation:
"Oh. teIle us whye you stopped
thatte rotte
Anent Hinge Art and Camelot %
Whereat. we rise to answer, thus:
OF simple and monotonous
Effusions like the arthur" stuff
1t takes but few to make enough.
Zen Homer, (good old rummy dunn,
Who sang the tale of Ilium,
Would starve to death, in modern
times,
Unless he peddled modern rhymes.
The neighbors knock the photograph
That once produced a hearty laugh,
Because the owner never blew
cent for records that were NEWT
Mary McLane is on the job again.
and although she is older. no other
improvement is visible.
For gentlemen to drink liquor"
says JaWn Dawson, lis no violation
of the laws" Ladies will kindly take
note of this legal opinion, and STOP
IT.
Another reason women take to avi-
alton is that it is a legitimate excuse
for wearing trousers.
Calling a spade a spade in the Hays
City Free Press:
THB CHITAUQUA
A SUCCESS"
Mrs. Sharp number one has re-
turned to the bosom of her half
family at Pittsburg. Mr.. Sharp might
try high bridge over deep water, and
a stout sack ballasted with rocks. The
method has proven effective in some
instances.
The dispatches failed to give the
first words of the Joplin miner, who
was rescued after three days i'm
prisonment in a shaft, but the chances
favor the popular query: who's gon-
ma pitch tOday?"
AS we understand the situation
down at Hutchinson, the officials have
stopped hunting joints long enough to
take look around for the citizen who
tipped off the situation to the attor-
ney general.
Col. Jack Astor is to be married
again. Col. Jack will be remembered
as the rich gent who is about six di-
vorces behind in his social duties
The English youth who claims Nat
Goodwin for a parent, will, if he
makes good the claim. acquire not
only only papa, but the finest col
lection Of mammas to be had any
where.
Hep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
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OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
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subscribers of the State journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten cents a week or thirty cents a
month Cby mail only). Address
changed as often as desired. While
out Of town the State Journal Will be
70 you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
re Railroad company making materia
gains in gross and net earnings during
such fiscal year as the last one, when
business conditions were not of the
best, what viii this road be able to do
when a good business and bumper crop
year comes along in the near future?
And the Santa Fe is deserving of all
the prosperity that comes its way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

Nor does Congressman Victor Ber-
ger, the Wisconsin Socialist. recognize
the insurgents in congress as compos-
ing distinct political party. He has
introduced a bill providing for a COM
mission composed Of members of the
s'three parties in congress" to compile
data on the subject of old age pen
-w{orm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

Upton Sinclair has managed to get
On the limelight again after having
been in total eclipse for some little
time. But it was necessary for him to
get arrested in Delaware for playing
tennis on Sunday to accomplish his
nnrnnse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

A Virginian has just been sentenced
60 three years penal servitude for the
theft of no less than $4,000 from a
railroad company. Out here in Kan
sas a man gets greater punishment
than that for stealing an old plug of a
horse. And if the criminal records of
Virginia were at hand the betting
would be about 100 to 1 that several
Instances could be found where men
have been sent to prison for more
than three years for what would be
petty thefts in comparison with the one
INDUCED in BY this former railroad
man. The punishment does not al
ways ht the crime in this land of
Wanted equality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

And now the trusts which have been
organized in other countries. such as
the coffee and the steamship trusts,
abut which get in most of their fine
Fwork in the United States, are to be
swatted by the federal authorities
And, occasionally, you'll actually hear
the remarks that President Taft is
owned and controlled by the inter
essts'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

A significant paragraph in the Kan
sas City Star: Missouri may Outstrip
Kansas in the matter of building good
roads, but Kansas can point with pride
to the fact that it has adopted two
resolutions on the subject to every one
adopted in Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
FROM OTHER PENS
CARPE DIEM


Summer, in her smiling mood, now
rebukes US for the angry, heated
words which but recently expressed
inadequately the torments of high
temperature. This benignant dame.
who sings by day and gently huns by
night. is a fair Ceres pouring blessings
lavishly from her horn of plenty
We fear the mood will not endure
but nothing in that fear can make a
flaw in our enjoyment. Wild roses
days when the senses were too pros
trated in the unequal com bat with a
scOwling, angry Summer to enjoy
them. Even the thrushes were too
weary and i'll at ease to sing at even
ing, but the blanket of this hot Cis-
comfort is lifted, even If it be but for
a brief period 4Hit
It was a part OF Summers kindly
mood to bring her perfect days when
they might be followed by perfect
magnificent Queen of Sheba, would
come majestically out of the lake and
hold her levee in a glittering court of
stars.
The perfect days brings the smell Of
new cut hay warm in the sunshine
The young blue jays are meeting life
hazards in their first uncertain jumps
from tree limb to tree limb-perilous
acrobaticS and agonizing to Mr.. and
Mrs. Blue jay, thinking of the cat
PROVING III the Ldl grass underneath.
The sun, juStifiably content with his
days work, says a cherry good niG5=
as he lets his now good natured self
down to bed and gives a comforta BILE
land the benediction of his after glow
Carpe diem. 1t will not last.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
SPECIAL TRAINING FOR OFFICE.
The suggestion has been made that
government in the United States would
L
the policy of specially educating citi-
zens for cfficeholding which prevails in
Japan.
In that country. due to the initiative
of the mikado. there are examinations
for every office of the civil service of
the empire. So strict and far reaching
is the application of the system that
the appointment of incompetents
through favOritism is practically un-
known The imperial universities and
the government departments of educa-
ton have co-operated with the crown
in the matter, and the University of
Toxic has even special department
for the training of provincial projects
CT governors, where candidate for that
office receive special instruction of an
order to equip them for the administra-
ton of the various provinces into
which the Empire of the Rising Sun is
divided. On graduation they receive
the appointment of general secretaries
to the provincial government, and in
due course are promoted to governor
ships.
However much good it might do for
officials to be specially educated for
the duties of their positions, the Jap
anese plan would not work in the
United States. 1t smacks too much of
bureaucracy. Ever since General Jack
son, of Tennessee, was elevated to the
high office of the presidency by the
votes OF the common people there has
been a widespread confidence in the
ability of any American to fill any Of
flee to which the votes of his country
men may elect him-Milwaukee Wis
cOnsin
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show plainly he is the only man, with
the possible exception of Roosevelt,
who can cope with Woodrow Wilson
But at that, bumps are not always
what they seem. Not infrequently is
an apparent bump on a log anything
more stable than a little frog.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

Every man is worthy of his hire, but
it does not appear that the employees
of the steel trust get sufficient COM
pensation for their trick of twelve
hours a day for seven days in the week.
And the United States Steel corpora
ton has styled itself as a good trust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

The unexpected is always happening
and occasionally the expected comes
along. In the latter category is the
present uprising against the present
government of Cuba.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03

vail in Topeka. It is asserted that the
young men in Topeka of all ages and
OF the "assumedly better class" make
the drinking of intoxicants an exploit.