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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chieago News.l


A stitch at 9 may save two at 10.
Soon the early turkey will get it in the
neck.
It's bad sign to write your name on a
friends note
And occasionally man is married for
his first wffe's money.
What a man has doesn't count so much
as what he does with it.
Nearly every married man thinks he
proposed to his wife-but did hep
Some men are so skeptical that they
even refused to believe half they saw
Even a woman with a graceful carriage
prefers to ride in her own automobile.
1t is better for man to do a little kicking
than to deteriorate into a human football.
Perhaps a man has more temptations
than a woman because he knows just
where to look for them.
And a wise bachelor always hikes for
the tall timber when he hears a girl say
that she intends to be an old maid.
Many good woman who wouldn' t
think of using her religion as a cloak
stays away from church because she can't
afford a new coat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Most cheap people look the part.
If suit is compromised both litigants
win.
There are no good losers. although
some show 1t more than others.
Law schools should also teach their
graduates how to loaf cheerfully.
1t is mean man who isn't henpecked
a little at this time of the year.
Some men are so polite they can make
a reprimand sound like an apology.
Neither does it profiteth a man to
blame the bill collector for his own fool
ishness.
4ou may have observed that the hu-
man wreck doesn't delay liquor traffic
much.
A man has this advantage over a lodge:
most Of his good resolutions aren't pub
lished
be vice president or fourth class post
master.
Father has a right to know how much
he is going to Pay for his Christmas pres
ent
An optimist. however. isn't exactly the
one TO consult if on the trail of an ac-
curate estimate.
an earring is just as savage an orna-
ment as nose ring, although a trifle
more convenient
Outside the field of magazine fiction.
there are a number Of liars who don't
get paid for it.
Women don't amount to much as fight
ers. but when they begin to cry for the
ballot, they'll get it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
ADVER Using Talks

1t is not often that I have an oppor-
tunity to spend an evening at a concert or
at theatre-probably five times year.
Just now I am attending pretty regu-
larly Sunday night concerts, but even at
places of entertainment I cannot get
away from the advertising idea
The program at the Metropolitan Opera
House attracted me Programsare neces-
sary at entertainments. This particular
program was well printed on a good quail
ity of paper. 1t was. clean. The ink didn't
rub off 1t did not soil the gloves of the
ladies.
The advertisements in the program had
evidently been prepared with great care.
All of them left a pleasant impression on
the mind The character of the adver-
tisements appealed to me- Character ad-
Vertising is my hobby, if it is hobby to
wish to see artistic intelligent, convinc-
ing, honest advertisements.
[ noted, in looking over the program,
that all of the advertisements represented
houses of unquestioned business repute.
also noticed the following announcement
of the management:
''Our program is thing apart, an
achievement of distinction, because we
did not hesitate to make radical depart
ure from the beaten track.
eliminating altogether advertisements
of an Objectionable nature, we decided
to make it a veritable Blue Book of the
creme de la creme in the advertising
world, and only the best firms were in
Vited into columns We leave It to
YOU to decide if our selections in this
Who's Who of Commerce are the right
Is this modern idea of the kind of adj
vertising that shall be printed in news
papers in programs, in street cars, in
MAGAZINES in weeklies, on sign boards,
a fad or is it a necessary concession to
public opinion?
I don't think there is any doubt that
the public demands it, and what the
public wants it gets, sooner or later
(To be cOntinued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
RY THE WY
By HARVEY PARSONS

The Shooting Show Girls are hav-
ing some hard luck, just at present,
but they should cheer up, for their
futures are assured. BY putting on a
sister act, with denouement where
in they fire a lot of blank cartridges at
a supe wearing an |'old cove hat, and
follow with a song and dance, they
could demand headliner's position on
any vaudeville stage.
Three local roughnecks must face a
charge OF stealing 81 worth Of cram
berries, and we hereby file notice that
we will not be qualified as jurors in
their case We still hold that there
are not 81 worth (worth indicates value,
in the legal sense) of cranberries in the
world.
1t is a little late in the season to
do your christmas shopping early, but
fear not that the stock has been de-
pleted; it has been paved over a plenty
OF a surplus of dirty finger marks, the
Christmas stock is just about like it
was ten days ago-so go to it.
Morning Squash states. headlinefully,
that Missouri gent shot his wifes ira
Queer" "Traducern has been adopted
by the M. s., as we gather from the
story, as synonym for gentleman
friend"
The department of agriculture thinks
seriously of barring absinthe on the
grounds that it is deleterious to health.
We can offer no evidence under the
charge, but are willing to testify that
absinthe would prove a sure cure for
the booze habit if it were the only
alcoholic concoction on the market.
When Col Roosevelt arrived in Bos-
ton, he refused to talk to an audience
estimated at 5000. Go ahead and ex-
plain the phenomenon if you want to;
we refuse to make the attempt.
When you sec the Dodd Castor book
in store window, hesitate not because
of outward appearances Remember
that the decorations on the outside OF
a cocoanut are Very Poor, but are in
no way indicative Of the goods inside
the shell.
Naming the 20 greatest something's
has developed into popular indoor sport;
OURS; ACE to KING, inclusive-Q3)
SEVEN SUTHERLAND SISTERS-(O
Is and 30.
After seeing a ham actor doing the
Uncle Tom, swatted over the bean by
a ferocious Legree, we cannot help
feeling that it served him right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
.AYHAWKER JOTS

| Pointed out by the Norton County
! Champion: A chameleon takes on the
| color about it, but a glum man colors
the air blue about him.
Projected by the Lindsborg News
| Nitascope: a woman who has puck
er string in her mouth as rule also
| has a kink in her temper.
j After a boy passes sixteen he doesn't
care to attend taffy pulls, says the LIE
| Roy Reporter. But he likes taffy if
he lives to be 100
Verd Napier thinks that the man
who has time to make love to more
than one woman has too much spare
time and should spend some of it in
Jail
The Narysville Advocate-Dem ocrat
most biscuits is the one who has the
most to say about the kind his moth
er used to make"
This paper has been asked to give
its opinion of husband who deceives
his wife, says the Smith County Pho
neer, and it answers: We think he is
a mighty smart man.
The other day, says Mrs. Tom
Thompson in her interesting part of
the Howard Courant I heard of one
man who delights in carving. He is a
doctor and hopes some day to be
surgeon.
A financial note in the Norton
County News: The man who specu-
lates with the aim of getting some-
thing for nothing almost invariably
winds up with getting nothing for
something.
Noting that California has a law pro-
viding for individual drinking cups for
horses, the Phillips County Post adds:
We suppose the California jackasses
were left out of the law because it
would take too many cups.
Some excellent advice from Missouri
Bob, the East VerdigriS correspon-
dent of the Wilson County Citizen:
When a fellow becomes disheartened,
discouraged and things look so blue
that he becomes dissatisfied with his
surroundings he should look around
and he will find a good many people
worse off than he is. Don't be a pes
simist-
How much money would there be
with which to run this country if taxes
We're not compulsory, but every man
was left to pay what he considered
his fair share ?''=Jewell Republican.
Well, we have an idea the country
would soon be in the same fix as the
churches It would have to hold ba-
zaars and socials to pay running ex-
penses.-Lindsborg News.
An Atchison young man, says the
Weekly Globe, who is considered by
the girls to be quite good looking, !
his chin confessed lately that he was
not endowed by nature with this (to
the women) mark of beauty. He fell
down a flight of stairs with a scissors
in his hand, when he was three years /
old and received a cut on his chin |
which resulted in the much admired |
cleft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
Buuet in Throat Al Years.

At a meeting of the Confederate
veteran camp of New York at the
Hotel Astor. General Clarence r. Hat
ton gave vivid description of the
battle of Cedar Creek, where Sheri-
dams forces were momentarily re-
pulsed. and then informed his former
comrades that he had learned only last
week. after a surgical examination,
that the bullet he received in the ac-
ton was still in his throat.
General Hatton was a student at the
Virginia Military institute, Lexington,
va. at the beginning of the war, and
at the age of 5 was appointed adju-
taft general in Goddard's brigade His
forces were among those leading the
attack at the battle of Cedar Creek on
october 10, 1864, and he received
bullet wound in the throat: he was
laid UP in a hospital at Lewisburg UNI
til after Lees surrender, the follow
ing April.
Last week General Hatton was suf-
fering from what he thought was
throat trouble Upon examination the
bullet lodged in his neck for AZ years
was found to be the cause of his trou-
ble-NeW York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many invitations to make
speeches are extended to men who
can't
Nor does the man who is a brute
have any of the majestic earmarl1s of
q lion.
=
There doesn't seem to be any I'M
usual alarm among the bachelors over
the proximity of Leap Year.
= X
mans estimate of himself doesn't
gibe very well with the one made by
his friends and acquaintance.
x X
This has been an extremely uncom-
Portable winter in these parts so far
for the women with new sets of furs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press-l
The reason man expenses 60 up so
fast is his income stays down.
When a girl will call underclothes un-
derclothes with men around, she's too
good to be true.
A man recommends his butcher to a
friend with much more confidence than
he does his doctor.
The only creature on earth that can get
more tangled up than a calf with his rope
is a man with his lies
Even if anybody accidentally happened
to save a little money, Christmas or birth
day or something like that would come
along to burn it up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
PER.FEcTVON

The gods on high Olympus safe,
Bemoaning fallen mans estate
III save him ere it be too latet"
Cried Jupiter;
And then, as if defying fate,
He fashioned Her.
He took a bud from Juno's hair,
summer cloud, some vernal air,
And snow to form her bosom fair,
And stars for her eyes,
And zephyrs, and a touch of care
To make her wise.
He took the laughter of a child,
naiad's grace, spirit wild
Yet innocent, a voice as mild
As waters deep,
And Whatsoe' er was undefiled,
To have and keep
All things soever pure and good
By mortals known or understood.
All charms of healthful solitude
And social grace,
He mingled in divinest mood
To light her face.
He took the softness of the dove,
To make her gentle; looked above,
As if to catch the glamour of
Angelic art,
And then he breathed the breath of 10y
Into her heart
Willis Leonard Clanahan, in the Sma
Set.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

The annual card showing at a glance
the value of the agricultural products
and live stock of Kansas which has
been issued for 1911 by Secretary Co
burn. of the Kansas department of
agriculture. is worthy of a prominent
place with the many unusually attrac-
tive cards Of this sort that Mr. Coburn
has issued in the past. Its pictured
side tells the story of the possible re-
suits of farming in Kansas in a more
forceful fashion than would countless
words on the subject In the back
ground, hedged in by mammoth trees.
are the farm house. barns and sheds,
modern and adequate. In front of
them is a pasture filled with sleek
stock of all kinds In the foreground
is a wheat field with the harvested
wheat stacked up in a way to show
bumper yield. Standing in the center
of the wheat field is representation
Of a modern farmer. To his left is a
bushel basket filled with all kinds of
fruit and with piles of corn ana pota-
toes on either side. And to his right
is an up-to-date automobile of the
touring type This machine is well
named Prosperity The whole picture
demonstrates conclusiN ely that farming
in Kansas, the right kind of farming,
dends. not the least of which is glori-
GUS health and the happiness and con-
tentment which go with it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
HU1NOR or TIE DAY

Boy-Mr Quinn, can't I get OF this
afternoon? Ny grandmother Is dead Mr.
Quinnz-I don't see how with your small
salary you can afford to see so many bail
games. Boy-Thats right can't either.
] ought TO have more salary.-New York
Evening Mall.
What's the trouble with that prim<
donna?" asked the manager she used
to be very pleasant and considerable.
yes" replied the stage manager, but
she has gotten 80 she Believes All the
press agent writes about her. Washing
ton Star.
Judge" said the guilty man. y inherit
this felonious habit. ] can't resist 10. My
father was CRATER and my mother
photographer. / can't help taking things
Then take seven years at hard labor"
said the Judge, hndly.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The hunter, who had been mistaken Tor
a deer and shot, reused Up and beckoned
TO the hospital nurse. Understand" he
said, i don't care so much about being
killed, but it's being made game Of that
hurts my feelings Denver Republican.
Does your boy yosh' stand i,i at The head
Sornfsssei but he could Ia he wanfe5
to. If Josh took IL into his head to stand
at the head OF his class or anywhere else
II I'D take a whole football team to Dry
him loose. Washington Star.
How did that story pan out about the
man up in the Bronx who found the 80
hailstone on his back stoop this norrN
inR?'f asked the city editor. "Nothfnr b.,
It," replied the reporter. He discovered
IL wasn't hailstone after all. The fce
man left IL there Home Corn-
panion-
They say that lightning never qfrft..
twice in the same place" Doesn't 10
know woman who's been married To-
her money three times."-Detroit Free
Pre-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
KANSAS cOMAEET


HIS HEART STILL SINGS.
WINE II Is with pang OF sadness tlfEt
the public has read Of the failing health
or James Whdtcomb Riley. the peoples
poet, who has perhaps touched more
hearts that any four living American
more poetry. yet those who have felt the
charm Of his verse cannot but beEiad that
ne mas laid aside his pen before IN health
could amect the quality OF his melodies.
TOO often the voice that has charmed ar
the fullness OF youth loses some or its
beauty as age and III health come on anc
when the singer is unconscious OF this.
~ the last selections rather than the
more melodious harmonies OF earlier
days.
Thousands of readers would have en-
loyed reading a Christmas poem by the
man who held the secret Of Interpreting
the Christmas spirit in tones that set the
heart strings vibrating; but the poet VIII
De happily remembered by hundreds OF
verses that sing themselves into the hearts
OF the people everywhere and the memory
1nat may be sweeter than any poem that
could have been produced at this time,
AS age creeps upon the Hoosier poet
one can apply his own lines.
hearts. like fruit upon the stem
Ripen sweetest I contend
AS the frost falls over them"
10 himself Rileys place in the literature.
or everyday is secure: as a writer on
songs that touch the heart" ne has long
peen enshrined in the hearts OF American
readers; and thousands who know him
connection with the Christmas season and
know that his heart Is singing sweetly
sun although his hand has dropped the
pen--Salina Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
DAFFYDMS
By U. NoALL.

If it takes a yard of fur to make a
cats coat, how much is there in a
6Bow. WOW. WOW. I'm barking at
you.)
If a steer puts up a steak would the
Don't be afraid. girls, Jump in.
You'll only get your feet wet.)
When the tulips kiss does the crocus?
Pay no attention to him. He's a
nature faker-s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

burglar alarm wires. The evidences of
their method in overcoming this diff
Guilty lay before the eyes of the de-
tectives, for two boards covered a pair
Of wires, so near together that even
thin man would have had to squirm
very gently between them to avoid
contact with them Yet through this
hole the thieves had lowered them.
selves and got away with a quantity of
furs which, Mr.. Enerick said, could
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

A favorite game is now on the
boards at Washington that is common
at the beginning of all sessions of con-
gress. Most of the governmental de-
partm ents are vying with each other
to see which one can rake in the big
gest deficiency appropriation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

Like bolt of lightning out of a
clear sky comes the announcement
that the Lorimer investigation is near
ing an end Indications have been
good that the Lorimer investigation
was to be with US always. But per-
haps the conclusion of this investiga-
ton is merely the forerunner of an
other Lorimer investigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

A public holiday is to be declared
throughout all of India in honor of the
formal proclamation Of King George of
England as emperor of India. It is like
1y, however that millions of the natives
will go to bed hungry on that festive
occasion. just as they do on the other
1854 nights of each year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

There is nothing mean about Chi
cago- Having obtained the Republi-
can national convention it has put
out its hooks for the Democratic ma
tional convention. Why not Kansas
City for the Democratic convention?
That's pretty central location.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

Perhaps the business men of Yer
million, kan. had just finished paint
ing the town with an extra coat of red
when they assembled and passed reso-
lutions endorsing John D. Rockefeller
for the presidency of the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

There will be a big assemblage of
"colonels" in Topeka on December 2S
and %. The Kansas Auctioneers' as
ISOLATION is going to hold its annual
meeting then.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

With a reform league of some kind
meeting every week, this country
should be saved, thinks the Chicago
News, provided it needs saving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
FROM OTHER PENS



Unquestionably, union labor faces =
crisis Law and order are sure TO pre-
vail in this country. There is no hope OF
the success of an Industrial revolution
through violent means. The conviction
Of the McNamaras is merely proof that.
once aroused the American people Will
stamp out crime. and the incident Illus
trates the stupidity of defying the civin-
zation Of the country Criminals as the
McNamaras are they are greater fools.
But fierce hue and cry against organ
have the inevitable effect OF Gre
ating sympathy for -the small
criminally- minded minority IN the
small criminally-minded minority In tie
labor organizations. The efforts OF that
part Of the membership that believes iu
respecting law would be paralyzed. Indi-
should be prosecuted. Of course, when the
evidence against them IL substantial;
guilty associates of the McNamaras are
entitled 10 no immunity because the TWO
brothers have confessed. but there Is mo-
reason for starting general chase OF
union men and unions. There rs no rea-
son for the preaching Of a hysterical cru-n
sade.-Columbia, S. g, State.
PENSIONS FOR FEDERAL CLERKS.
The case of a government clerk who at
the age of SO has been reduced al his own
request from $500 position to one paying
81. 400 is referred TO as an example show
ing the need of a pension for superau-
nuated government employees. lt may OF
may not be. according to the viewpoint
from which It is inspected
Take IL from the standpoint OF the com
mon people. who have TO pay the taxes
from which the salary IS paid. IL r. per
fectly safe to say that the vast majority
of these get salaries paying much less
than 81 400 not TO speak OF $500. per year.
If a man earning in business employment
as much as 81 zoo or Sl.4p0 year does not
save enough 10 provide for his old aee
society says that II is his own fault IN
deed, society takes practically that atu-
tude concerning the much greater NUM-
Der OF people who earn as little as 500 OF
$500 per year.
A private employer who provides PEN
sions for employees Of long service Is act-
ing voluntarily. No doubt the govern
ment would make It's service vastly more
attractive il il would do the same There
Is plenty TO be said on that side. Never
theless the vast majority of the people
who have to pay for the government eN-
will hold that II II rs neces-
~ary to provide pensions for men VINO
have had such incomes for many years
1t should be done by holding back ana
investing a part of their pay for the
Durpose-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

And now the goose-bone weather
prophets. who predicted a hard winter,
aret getting precise and are insisting
that winter is not really supposed to
begin until December. 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

Nihilism does not prevail by that
name in this country. But there is as
much If not more criminal dynamiting
done here as in Russia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

There seems to be need of a law
which will prohibit the promiscuous
sale and possession of dynamite.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15

Presumably the starving hordes of
India have had to pay an extra 1.-THE
of taxes to provide the necessary funds
for the expense of the magnificent
Dunbar.
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AZ IMPoRTANT MArTER.


The plan proposed by President Taft to
prepare the appropriation bills in the form
OF budget and combine them all IN one
PHI Is one of the most important sugEes-
lions that has been made in national
politics Under the present arrangement
the committees OF congress put out these
measures one at time and nobody
Knows until congress adjourns Just what
the expense OF running the government
really amounts to. II the appropriations
We're all made at once there would be a
lot OF money saved from the avoidance OF
applications and the sneBking IN OF un-
necessary appropriations.
The efforts OF the president I'm the direc-
ton OF economy and system are entitled
10 much more consideration from the
public than they receive. 1t Is true that
such measures are not the kind that draw
applause from the grand stand. The peo-
pie are too apt to want fireworks and
gymnastics instead Of careful prudent
business. But no legislation is more Inn
portant and none affects the country
more directly than that which leads to an
honest accounting and understanding OF
the expense Of government and the saw
ing of the large sums that seem to be
wasted.-Hutchinson News.