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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
ToPEKA.s MANUFACTURERS.

Between the times for the varied
amusements and entertainments that
have been arranged for the visiting
Kansas merchants, II is to be hoped
that many. or all of them. will take tho
trouble 20 call at the business houses
and manufacturing establishments of
which this city has many and Of
which Topekans are so pardonably
proud.
Surprises are sure to be furnished to
the visitors if they make a general
inspection of Topeka's Industrial activ-
tiles. Topeka is a manufacturing CEN
ter of proportions that are scarcely
realized even at home or abroad.
There is scarcely an article COM
mon to trade, as well as many
unusual specialties, which are
not manufactured right here in the
capital city of Kansas. And the out
put of everything in this line compares
most favorably with any similar goods
manufactured in any other part of the
country. 1t stands to reason that this
is so. A good deal is heard these
days about trusts and combinations
that control the making and handling
OF most of the necessities of life, but
the fact of the matter is that there are
countless small manufacturing plants
scattered all over the United States
that make many of the things that
everybody uses which are wholly indie
pendent concerns. The competition is
keen among themsa And manufac-
turer who did not put out a product
that is equal to the best in that par
ticular line, would not be able to stay
in business long. He could not find
market for his wares and would
soon go broke.
None of the Topeka manufactures
have any trouble placing their pro-
ducts with the trade. All of the man
ufacturing establishments in the city
are growing in size and producing
more goods with each succeeding year.
This means that the Topeka manufac-
lures are as good as any of those with
which they have to compete. 1t means
that some of them are better or there
would not be an increasing demand for
them.
These things being the case it is
likely that many more Kansas mer-
chants would be more than pleased to
give more of their trade for various
things to home manufacturing con-
Germs If they were only aware of the
fact that the products they need ed
were actually made in Kansas and
made just as we'll as they are in other
parts of the nation. They can find this
| out by visiting those plants. And out
side of the Topeka manufacturing
plants, there are commission and all
kinds of jobbing, wholesale and retail
business houses in the city that are
able to cater to all the demands of
every variety Of trade. There is not a
one of them that won't be delighted to
show the visiting merchants around,
not with any idea of trying to sell
them wares. but just to show them
what Kansas and Topeka business men
and manufacturers are capable of do
I inc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. !

rum lII6 AlCnlSOu OtOOc
So many clever young athletes
never get any farther.
Listen to other peoples troubles If
you must. but forget your own.
Fair and warmer" although lit
tie ancient, never fails to come back.
Considering the market value of an
egg, the average hen does too much
cackling.
A man Tho is willing to make the
journey in an aeroplane, is too anx-
ious to get there.
The boy who traps skunks is one
Woodworking person who doesn't
get as much as he earns.
A politician can see politics in a
good many things where there isn't
anything of the kind.
Probably it never occurs to a bride
that she may have to polish her we'd
ding ring on wash board.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned school teacher who required
the pupils to learn Quotations?
The trouble with a man who has
quit smoking is this: He is always
talking about his strong will power.
1t is impossible to please every
body but there is a man in Atchison
who doesn't seem able to please any
body.
We once knew a man so proud of
his whiskers that he put perfume on
them. And they were red whiSkers at
that.
If a man doesn't say much about
it, it is easy for him to acquire a repu-
tation for deep and searching thought.
If nothing worried them more than
the bloodhounds, the bad men prob
ably would be a good deal worse than
they are.
If an artist shows you a picture you
don't like, is it politeness or lack of
nerve which keeps you from saying
J so?
Another liar, but of the cheerful
kind we all like, Is the fellow who
says the town has grown SO he can
hardly recognize it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
JAYHAWKER J0TS

Uncle 81 in the Ottawa Republic:
Stock in the weather market is keepin'
too blame close to par.
Miss Anna Carlson of the Lindsborg
News advises that there is mo danger
of an affinity getting a hand in the
game where husband and wife are
chums."
Speaking of engraving the Lords
Prayer on a pin head, the Indepen-
denee Evening Star says: Many a PIN
head has had the Lords Prayer en-
graved on his memory, and it did
precious little good
This is the time of year, says the
Leavenworth Post, when the hard
working newspaper man would like
to take a punch at the specialist who
declares that every. man owes it to
himself to take month or two in the
mountains.
A Winfield girl. who does clerical
work. relates the Courier, has found
out why the majority of men sign
their initials instead Of their given
name. She used to think that it was
more dignified, and grown-up, but 1t
isn't. It's just because they have such
outlandish front names
my dear" said a certain thin little
Harrington man to his wife the other
day, this paper says that there is a
woman over in Hope who goes out and
chops wood with. her husband every
morning" "WeI1. what of it?'' his wife
replied. Il think she cotTid do it if he
is as thin as you are 1 have often
thought Of using you to peel potatoes
with The thin man laid down his
paper with a sigh that sounded like
the squeak of a penny whistle.-Her-
ington Sun.
Editor Kelley of the Toronto Re-
publican was well able to handle the
jabs and jests at his eulogy on rhu-
barb pie, or the kind of it made by his
wife and his mother-in-law, which
were directed at his remarks by sew
eral of his brother editors in Kansas
But what has he to say to this
paragraph which was inserted in his
paper last week in the clever column
furnished by his wife? Said Mrs
Kelley: Nevertheless, I am begin
ming to see a light on the rhubarb
Question--light borne of experience. 1t
is. it must be. the only kind of pie an
editor can afford.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
Historic Lincoln letter.

Prof. Theodore W. Hunt, Princeton
'65, in recalling some stirring events
through which his class went during
the civil war, makes public a letter
which Abraham Lincoln wrote in ac-
ceptance of the honorary degree of
doctor of laws which the trustees con-
ferred on him in 1864. The letter fol-
lows:
washington, December q, 1864
ITO DR.. John Maclean.
MY dear Sir: / have the honor to
acknowledge the reception of your
note OF the goth of September, con-
veying the announcement that the
trustees of the College of New jersey
doctor of laws. The assurance con-
veyed by this high compliment that
the course of the government which /
represent has received the approval OF
a body of gentlemen of such character
and intelligence in this time of pub
lie trial is most gratifying to me.
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate
of the civilization on this continent is
involved in the issue of the contest.
Among the most gratifying of the
proofs of this conviction is the hearty
devotion everywhere exhibited by our
schools and colleges to the national
cause. I am most thankful IL my Ia
bors have seemed to conduce to the
preservation of those institutions under
which alone we can expect good gov
eminent, and in its train sound learn
ing and the progress Of The liberal
arts.
Il am sir, very truly, your obedi-
ent servant, A. LINCOLN"
Princeton dispatch to the New York
Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
QUAKER MEDTTATIoNs.
From the Philadelphia RECORD

from the Philadelphia Record.]
The most idle people in the world
are those who never find time to do
anything.
The member of a labor union
doesn't have to strike three times to
be declared out.
The fellow who borrcws trouble is
always looking for chance to pay
some of it back.
The greatest bench show in the
world is probably the United States
supreme court.
No man has such a big mouth that
he doesn't occasionally bite off more
than he can chew.
The farmer being the tiller of the
soil, the bunco man. naturally does his
steering with the tiller.
He-WilI you think of me when 1
am far away? She-Sure. The farther
away, the better.
Solomon said, Spare the rod and
spoil the child" but he didn't say it
till after he had grown up.
Many a man. realizing that he is
made of dust, fears that his name will
be Mud If he ever attempts to liQui-
date a debt.
Perhaps the only way effectually to
get rid of the effeminate young man
and the manly young woman is to
marry them off to each other.
Tonmy-"Pop, one o. the fei1ers
says I look like you. Tommy's Pop
And what did you say? Tommy
Gee! 1 couldn't say anything. He's a
good bit bigger than me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08

THE LIMOUSINE.
Life doesn't seem the same to US
Since father bought a limousine,
Our thoughts. our dreams, our talk-yez.
Are favored now with gasoline.
We realize what we in years
OF hmousineless life have lost.
What joy to see the neighbors stare
And know they're wondering what it
cost
On cushioned air we glide along
The tires haven't busted yet
With not a single thing to show
How deeply father is in debt,
We LOOK as rich as Carnegie,
And mas especially elate,
Although, OF course, she had to sign
The mortgage on pas real estate.
We go out riding every day,
And you can bet we cut dash,
Although We must admit we are
Extremely short Of ready cash.
What though. the sordid tradesmen wear
look that's not at all serene,
Our life is SO much broader now,
Since father bought limousine!
-Somervi1le Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
EARTH's WINDING SHEET.

AS dust was the beginning, so shall
1t be the end of all things earthly,
writes j. Gordon ogden in the June
Popular Mechanics Magazine. 1t is the
cosmic undertaken of the ages. and
silently, resistlessly, and eternally It
has performed its function. The
proudest monuments built by man, the
Sphinx, the Pyramids, the Colossus OF
Rhodes, the Garden of Babylon and the
glories of Grecian art, have either
crumbled to the dust whence they
sprang or have been buried deep in its
winding sheet So far as human
grandeur is concerned, even imperial
Caesar, dead and turned to clay. might
stop a hole to keep the wind away"
No one knows how many Londons or
Jerusalems there have been. Excava-
tions into the dust on which these
cities are built reveal the relics and re-
mains of former cities which once
flourished and were mighty, but were
finally entombed in the course of I'M
told centuries by the gradual but I'M
mense deposits of dust and debris.
When Macaulay's New Zealander shall
muse in profound melancholy upon the
shattered remains of London Bridge,
he will behold a vast battlefield, where
half-buried columns and desert sands
shall proclaim the final sovereignty OF
dust.
The mighty Himalayas. whose snowy
submits have as yet defied the foot of
man, are slowly crumbling into dust.
and the lofty peaks of the Andes are
splintering. fragment by fragment
until they too, shall become clods OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

From the Chicago News.]
The under dog welcomes interven-
ton.
A mouse thinks he is more impor-
tant than an elephant.
Many a man who has q lofty aim in
life is shy of ammunition.
A man who says he never made a
mistake is just an ordinary liar.
Most of us buy lot of experience
that we never can use and can't sell.
A woman may think a man Is a good
match even If he can't match a ribbon.
The way of the transgressor may not
seem hard If he can afford pneumatic
tires.
There are others besides the theatre
cal manager who spend a lot of money
to make a show.
A man has to make a lot of noise in
the world in order to convince peopIe
that he has brains
When all your neighbors speak well
OF you you may expect to hear a bar
Der speak well of a safety razor.
The difference between wash and
laundry" depends on whether a
woman does 1t at home or sends it
downtown
policeman who attends strictly To
his own business is apt to interfere
with the pleasure of a great MANY
other people.
The distressing thing about a brolxar
engagement is that the girl in the case
is expected to reIinquish her hold on
the solitaire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
FROM OTHER PENS
REFoRM1Ne NATURE.

The proposal to rob the bee of it's
sting Is revived by a professor in one
of our universities. 1t may be a good
thing for beekeepers, though they do
moi appear to be clamoriLg overheard
for the reform; but what about the
bee itself? That it needed a sting to
establish itself in business, S to speak.
is beyond question. Otherwise nature
would not have taken the trouble of
providing it with one.
The interest of the plan for the nom
apiarian lover of animal nature lies
rather in the possibilities it suggests in
other directions. A nOncrowing rooster
would be boon to the suburbanite
and the summer yacationer, especially
since NJ. Rostand has demonstrated
that the sun would rise none the less.
Nonchirping matutinaI birds are also
much to be desired. and screechless
night owls. BarkleSS seals would be
boon to visitors to the zoo with tender
eardrums; but, speaking of barks, the
varieties of dogs that least indulge in
that method of relieving the emotions
are prone to bite Indeed, bitelesS
dog is more to be desired than bark
less one. Miauling cats readily re-
spond to treatment with projectiles,
and need not detain US. They have
troubles of their own, anyhow, just
now. chiefly connected with their hos
pitality to microbes. A brayless dom
key can be improvised OH the nome Mt
by tying a weight to its tail.-Reform
ing Nature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
HUNOR or THE Day

Small Ones OnIy.-"But before we were
married you said that your happiness
would consist in fulfilling my smallest
wish" quite so, but you can't maintain
that a dress costing 500 francs is one of
your smallest wishes.'-Pele MeIe.
my uncle used to smoke his pipe and
blow smoke rings that would float across
the room and ring the door knob" MY
uncle" said the other liar, dreamily, fused
to blow some that would ring the door
belL"-Tid-Bits.
"Why did Mrs. Flimgilt insist on taking
Mr.. Slimnoddle for her second husband?"
Because of her superstitious fancy. She
noticed that she nearly, always won when
she met him at bridge party and con-
cluded he was mascot Washington
Star.
What are you taking your vacation
SO early for?" We'll, you see the base
ball team will be out of town for a month
ployees are looking after the business
while I'm away.'-Detroit Free Press.
Had Lived in a F1at.-Margfe Clearing
rumble of distant thunder)-They must
be cleaning house in heaven today, man.
ma. Mother-Why do you think So dear?
Margie-Cause hear the angels moving
the furniture around.-Boston Transcript.
Not Yet Ripe.-The Fair Purchaser
Your eggs are all very small today, Mr.
Jones. Mr.. Jones-Yes'm they are, but
I'm sure I don't know the reason. The
Fair Purchaser-Oh, expect you took
them out of the nests too soon.-The
Sketch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
CARDINAL GIBBONS JUBILEE.


One of the notable gatherings in the
history of the United States for an
equally notable occasion was at BaIti-
more, Nd. the other day. It was an
incident to the celebration of the TWEEN
ty-fifth anniversary Of the accession OF
Cardinal Gibbons to the nigh position
he holds in the church of Rome and the
hftieth anniversary of his entering the
priesthood of that church. President
Taft. ex-President Roosevelt, Chief JUS
tice White of the supreme court, Vice
President Sherman, Champ Clark,
speaker of the house of representa-
tives, and an unusually large number
of other men in high Office IN this
land were there to do him honor. L
was personal tribute to Cardinal Glib
bons' worth as a man and the undeni-
ably great services he has rendered
In the cause of humanity in America
and the world over.
The value of these services are inn
measurable. The work of James Glib
bons Is of the sort that cannot be reck-
oned. But it has been monumental
none the less. With voice and pen he
has ever championed the causes of the
people, Of all classes OF society. To
labor for right and justice in all things
has been the watchword of lbs life.
And his unusual gifts Of intellect. his
remarkable insight into human nature
and it's needs. has made this labor
tremendous force for the upiift of his
fellow men.
A prince of the Roman Catholic
church as he is, Carolina! Gibbons is
more of a prince among men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many more humans would be sure
enough heroes If talking would do the
trick.
Any number of people are treated
with far n.3re consider ation than they
deserve.
Some men are invited to Join fish
ing parties for no other purpose than
to row the boat
More to be pitied than censured: A
man who wakes up the neighbors by
beating carpets at 5 a. m.
y
As soon as man gets along in years
he thinks he could have developed
into an athletic champion of some
sort in his youth, had he only tried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
KANSAS COAAENT
ANOTHER VICTORY.


verify the way of the whisker is
hard. What with the BARRIERS busy
boosting trade and the safety razor
advertisements informing you that all
fact that a king runs to facial foliage
had hard time forwarding the fash
ion OF couture on the chin. To
which smooth shaver influences may
pc added ardent crusaders who be-
heVe whiskers carry germs and con-
ceal the true lines of countenance; al
so, others who go farther and insist
that whiskers breed populism and an
archy. Again and by larger major
1ty the way of the whisker is hard
and sore beset.
Let the bearded ones take notice:
another victory has been won for the
open countenance. The Rev. w. P.
Cromie, vicar of All Souls parish, Har-
lesden, wherever that is, announces
that the last moustache possessed by
any Of his curates has disappeared.
He has been working toward that end
In the quiet manner in which a preach
er can crusade among his flock. To
congress, 1t might be pointed out that
bald headed. But they can't help
that. and they sure could help the low
er hirsute pendants, and it has been
done.
II is claimed. and this may help
some OF the, statesmen to change their
whistles through whiskers cannot be
so clear and convincing as that which
leaves the lips unimpeded by under
nrush or trailing creeper. The great
est living orator doesn't wear 'em, If
Concrete evidence is needed, and the
harvest man in history demonstrated
bis forensic ability with a club.
AND. furthermore, the baseball sea-
son Is on. None of the big leaguers
wear EN-. Should not the fan go out
. 81 II
american game? He should, but il
isn't any cinch that he will unless he
feels like it.-Atchison Globe.
REAL CHARITY
The best way to extend charity to
persons who are in need is to give then
work Don't give any able bodied maj
penny or mouthfui unless he works
for it By this the man retains his
SelT-reSpect, and the profession of the
tramp is not encouraged. If a mar
needs help and is able to work and
don't you do it. But. instead give hin
work. Odd jobs can always be found
and set him at these. We do not ad
wise refusing to relieve hunger, but w,
do advise that it be done in a manne
that will not breed dependence in men
land. this country would soon cease t.
be the paradise for tramps that it ma;
been.-Muscotah Record.
WATER FROM WELLS.
We hear many remarks about tn
short grass country of Kansas, and it.
lack of moisture to produce crops
But where nature seems to fail il
| sending the rain, the bowels of tn,
| earth deliver it in abundance accord
! ing to asreport that comes from Mead
county. Wells for irrigation pur
| poses have been sunk and on one farm
over one million gallons per day hav,
been raised and the flow growinl
| stronger. This seems to have decide,
the future for the short grass coun
| try, and deep wells are to be SUM
| throughout that entire section of tn
state.-Councii Grove Guard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IRON the New York Prcss.I

lFrom the New York Prcss.l
AS long as a woman can hide where
she is stout she knows she isn't.
It's very clever of a girl the way she
has so many beaux she can count
more.
The more a man could learn by
studying a subject. the more he
thinks he knows about it without do
ing IL.
A girl gets SO good looking very time
she peeps in a mirror it's queer it
doesn't last long enough afterward
for other people to see.
If a man would work at some en-
ployment half as hard as he will try
ing to get a public office at a low sal
airy he could make. fair living.
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CORN BELT MOVING NORTH.

Farm statis.icians report that corn
will be one of North Dakota's heaviest
which practically every farmer will
raise from 20 to so acres. That is in
deed. an encouraging outlook. Expert
ence has demonstrated in the older set
tied states that the farmer who SENDS
his crops to market on the hoof makes
more money than his neighbor VINO
sticks to grain growing.
There no longer is any doubt ABOUT
the ability of North Dakotans to raise
good corn. The sort they raise is not
such as is produced in Iowa or Illinois,
but IL makes up in quality of food
value what it lacks in quantity, and
insures practically the same proht IN
the North Dakota stockman as IS 90
tained by his southern neighbor. MIN
nesota particularly is Interested IN the
success of the sister commonwealth
corn raising, because of the erect II
is likely to have on those in the nortn-
ern part of this state. And, rurther-
more, the extending of the corn oeit ut
into North Dakota will be an op1ecl
lesson to farmers further south, VINO
are looking for locations in Minnesota
and other northwestern states.-SI
Paul Dispatch.
OLD-TIME WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
This year the Women's association
of Coburg. GERMANY. celebrates the
ninetteth anniversary OF It's organlza
ton In 1921, at the instance of the
Coburg commission for lettering the
condition Of the poor" 15o women or
ganized the association
The object was "to help the poor.
especially widows and orphans. as Wen
as to train young girls IN All "i1eIy
work. a "handwork and industrial
school' was started at once, and has
been in successful operation all these
90 years. From time to time other IN
strumentalities for carrying on the
associations work have been organ
lied. including direct work of charity
in the way of furnishing food for the
poor. At the same time, by most
judicious system of light charges for
pupils, etc.. the association has done
much in the way of becoming self
supporting.-C Chicago Journal.
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Times are certainly changing in all
things. Umpire Sheridan, dean of the
judiciary in the American League, has
been presented with a gold medal by
the players IN that league. in honor
of his 20 years of service and as "a
token of esteem" Not so many years
ago hall players would probably have
refused to chip in for the purchase Of
anything for an umpire unless. perhaps,
It was a coffin.