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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-13

A progressive colt as we'll as the
crowd enjoyed the ice water on the
campus the Fourth, reports the Bald
win Ledger AS long az the people
didn't know the difference the water
tasted fine.
A classified advertisement in asst
weeks issue of the Canton Pilot:
Found-A small potato on the road be-
tween Roxbury and Canton OF the 18th.
Owner may have same by paying for
this notice and calling at W. ". With
ans jewelry store.
The Arkansas X-Rays Democrat
seems to be entirely too enthusiastic
over the Chautauqua which is soon
to be held in its town. Get a season
ticket. and go every day, it advises.
You'll like it all right, and you'll wish
it were to last all summer
An authoritative Wort from Mrs.
Globe: You may think this dry
weather has been hard on your BUSH
ness but what do you think about the
job of the mud wasp that we common
" call the "muddauber ?" Has anyone
noticed that it has become discouraged
and quit work?
Rural Route NO. out oe Lyons is
the right kind of one to travel. The
carrier on this route is also a re-
porter for the Lyons Republican but
his String for last week merely con-
sisted of the following: The patrons
on this route have been feeding the
carrier so heartily and sc heavily that
he has been unable to observe any
thing this week and no one has hand
ed in any items of news
I'VE understand" says the Baxter
Springs News, that the train going
through here at 6:1O Monday evening
was so loaded with barrels and cases
of something or other that some bag
gage which was to have been loaded
here had to be held over for another
train. That train goes to Oklahoma
baggage and express cars was loaded
at Joplin. What was it, do you
reckon?" Ice cream.
A pretty good story IS told on a
man over near Sylvia. Early in the
spring he began preparations for
building a barn. He ordered his
lumber bill from a house in the east,
and in April he got his foundation
ready so that he coul put M the barn
as soon as the lumber arrived. But
the lumber didn't get in on schedule
time, in fact it reached its destination
just a few days ago.-Staffcrd Courier.
Patronize home merchants.
Four little Eskridge boys were play
ing a game of ball in a back lot the
other day, reports the Fskridge Trib-
une-Star, when one of the boys
knocked the ball over into the yard of
a colored woman who was hanging
out some clothes to dry. The ball
brought up against a white table
cloth and not being overly clean, the
ball left its imprint on the cloth. The
running boys were met by a man.
Whats the matter? % asked the man;
why did you quit playing bal1?"
We've called the game on account
of darkness" shouted one of the boys
as he sped down the street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-13

I'VE dig and toll in the sweat of our
brows, and when We see the tares
sprirging up in the fields we sowed,
we hear men sometimes speak of the
unfit. says Jacob Riis as quoted in the
Survey. But who are the unfit? The
sIouching tramp, who. spent man at
so. having been damned into the in
dustrial tread min at I, will work TO
more, or the man who grew rich from
the child's labor? The woman without
hope, of no caste-or the employer who
underpaid her till she had to choose
the street to live?
WHO are the unfit? The raw Irish
man who gets drunk on his holiday,
and yet brings to the treasury in Wall
street his savings of a lifetime, when
the black panic is sweeping over the
land, saying simply: We saved it all
up in the 40 years we have been here,
for our old age, mother and I; but last
night she read out Of the paper 10
me that the country was in trouble
and needed money, and so I brought it
mere. He, or the man who coldly gam
bles to pile up his wealth in the neces-
saries of life, and makes living harder
for us alp The scrub-wounan who. with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchigon Globe. ]

[From the Atchison Globe.1
No man should marry woman big
enough to whip him.
Great as we Kansans are. some Of
US still believe in electric belts.
1t is an even break that you're TAX
ing life too easily to make money.
The first and last apples of a season
are a delusion and gold brick.
If a man hates to fight, he ought to
cultivate a taste for being imposed
upon.
tits possible to be a pretty good
sailor without wearing that kind of a
hat.
You great readers: every read a.
copy of a speech published in pam
phlet form?
Raise a boy on mush and milk, and
he isn't apt to count it a delicacy later
in life.
Whatever else he may be. the opti-
mist is no friend to the bull side of the
market.
Turning a grindstone is good exer-
else, but no boy wants to do his train
ing that way.
When a boy is doing the churning
is no time for him to grasp the idea
that time flies.
Never learn to like beer so we'll you
will want the biggest glass you can get
for a nickel.
People who don't walk enough like
to blame that failing on lack of time
instead of laziness.
There are two kinds of talking ma
chimes, but only one of them, the
photograph, can be stopped.
It is also quite likely there are q
number of prominent club men who
don't make a practice of going home
drunk.
If a robber can't select any larger
game than a country town postof1ice
he could make money easier by going
to work.
Americans have the world fooled e
good deal about the great pace al
which people in this land of the free
are said to labor.
1t seems to be difficult for a MAJ
who years a uniform to resist the
4 temptation of wearing it when he hal
his picture taken
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Even ignorance outgrows its cloak
now and then.
Few women are capable of suffering
in silence.
A thing isn't necessarily overdone
when it is done over.
And it's dihicuit for some girls to live
down their relations.
A bird in the hand doesn't cause the
early worm any worry.
There's no fun in loafing if you can't
bother some person who is busy.
Occasionally an ohiceholder loses out
because he dares to do his duty.
An expert is a man who can get his
own price for GUESSING at things
True love never let's him sit on a
hard chair while she holds down the
sofa.
yo,, can't attend to other peoples
business without neglecting your own
unless you are a lawyer
EVERY woman imagines she would
have a stylish figure if she could only
afford to dress as she would like to.
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QUAKER nIEDITATToNs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Any fellow is easy to get along with
who is never short.
Marriage is a tie that binds, provid-
ed it isn't slip knot.
Put yourself in his place" is the
motto of the officeseeker.
It's no trick at all to pick a winner.
He always looks SO happy.
The trouble about accepting favors
from some people is that they never let
you forget it.
Every cloud may have a silver lin
ing, but you have got to turn It inside
out to find it.
Some women grow old before they
know it. and some before they let any
body else know it.
The women are generally in the ma
jority at a summer resort; in fact, in
a hopeless majority.
It's all right to lay up your treas
ures in heaven, but it is just as well
to carry a little burglary insurance.
Guzzler-"Whatever else you NAV saw
Of me, I don't want the EARTH Wig
wag-"No, it's three-quarters water
Hoax-''Heres an article written nv
a scientist who says that insects have
emotions He claims he has frequently
seen a mosquito weep" Joax-'sXyeli
I've often seen a moth ball"
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empty hands and empty heart. gives
her babe to the potter's field and then
scrapes and saves the year, working
her fingers to the bone for the pittance
that shall ransom her child from the
trench and give it q grave of its own;
yet not orce but three times in the year
surrenders it all to some one in the
tenement who is poorer than she?'
Which is the UNIT: she or the women
who gives a Christmas party to her
lap-dOg, with her sisters and the little
ones starving all about in voorhees,
winter?
Let God judge. Let it be our task to
see to it that at least they shall know
better, that the environment shall be
cleansed of it's unrighteousness, SO that
our brothers shall have a chance. Then,
and not until then. can we with a clear
conscience leave the rest to Him.
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cHECKING THE PACE.

In all the time Americans have been
protesting against the high cost of liv-
ing they have been living exceedingly
well, and at times it has been ques-
tionabIe if the complaint was not high
living more than high cost. They con-
tinued to buy luxuries. at home and
abroad. They persisted in INDUCING
their appetites for fine wines from
choice European brands and for pre-
cious stones that came from an old
world center. Economists then began
to admonish the people against the
evils of extravaganza of this character.
Evidently they pleaded not in vain, or
has the tariff on luxuries got in its
work? At any rate, our people seem
to be beginning to economic in the
things that are not classed as actual
necessities.
From the department of commerce s
statistician comes the showing that n
the last II months we have cut our
imported diamond bill down about
S7,OOO,OOO and have whacked our for
eign champagne bill square in two.
In the last II months we imported
S3O5OO.OOO worth of diamonds, rs
compared with sS7.350,0O0 worth in
the IL months preceding, and $4,000
600 worth of champagne, as against
100000 worth before So we claim
to be checking the pace at all events.
O17o Rec
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FROM OTHER PENS

SOCIAL LIFE AS AN INFLUENCE
Social evils in the restricted sense
are little amenable to statute law.
Dueling could not be stopped by the
state until public opinion had been
revolutionized. Laws could not pre-
vent theft were not public a unit in
frowning on theft. Men still drink IL
quor in spite of prohibitOry laws If
public opinion in their community does
not force them to refrain from 1t.
The social life, society in its limited
sense, is a panacea for social evils
What society DEGREES is as the law of
the Modes and the Persians. Society
shows no mercy. Those who break
it's laws inevitably suffer, and have al
ways suffered. So great a man as
Caesar could conquer the Roman ma
terial world but the ostracism that he
suffered at the hands of Roman society
ranked in his heart to the bitter end.
More to Napoleon than the subsection
of Europe was his conquest of Euro
pean society, so far as he ever did con-
quer it.
If society should close its doors on
divorced persons there would no longer
be a divorce evil. 1t is because so
ciety has made divorce popular that
there is a divorce evil now. More can
be done in the drawing room and the
churches to prevent divorce than can
be done by legislatures. The place to
cure social immortality is in society,
and in society is the moral status of
people reflected. When society ceases
to regard divorce as som ething funny,
when it enforces the sanctity of the
marriage tie and refuses to recognize
anv violation of it, applicants for di-
vorce will dWindle to a paltry few
Charleston News anS Courier
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Indecisive ELECTIONS

A congressman representing the radi-
cal wing OF the Republican party made
the suggestion the other day, in the
course of conversation that there was
some talk of trying to throw the presi-
dental election of 1912 into the house
of representatives. He said it in the
most casual way, and when questioned
about it, admitted that he did not be-
heve it could be done; but the mere
fact that he suggested the possibility
illustrates the extreme trend of
thought of some of the progressives
at the national capital. If some of
the Republican radicals are seriously
considering such a thing, it is simply
an outgrowth of their bitterness to-
ward President Taft and his admins
tration, and an evidence OF the hope
less division which exists between
themselves and the bulk Of their
party.
There have been three occasions
in the history of this country when
the electoral college was not able to
choose a president. The constitution
provides that a president must have
majority of all the votes in the cleo
tora1 college. Twice the house of
representative has had to determine
by virtue of its constitutional author
lty. the result of an election. Once
an election was decided by a special
commission appointed fer that Single
occasion only. Each of these contests
developed great bitterness, and there
We're some who believed that they
seriously threatened the integrity of
the republic. They were brought
about by intense political struggles.
In 1900, the electoral college, then
in its infancy, was a real factor in the
election of presidents and vice presi-
| dents. Now it is only a board OF
registry In that year there were six
teen states and Is electors Five can
didates were in the field. AS the con-
stftution then stood, it provided that
the person receiving the greatest
number of votes in the electoral col
| lege should be president, and the per-
son receiving the next highest mum Der
| vice president. It was generally I'M
derstOod that Thomas Jefferson was to
| be elected president, but so great was
| the anxiety of the electors that Aaron
Burr should be vice president that
all those who voted for Jefferson also
voted for Burr. The result was 10
votes for each, and under the consti-
tuition the election went into the house
of representatives. When an election
goes to the house the votes are taken
| by states. and each state has one vote.
For seven days there was a deadlock,
during which 35 ballots were taken,
Jeerson having eight states and Burr
six, two being divided. On the thir-
! ty-sixth ballot there was a break to
Jefferson, which gave him ten states
and Burr four. two voting blank. This
was a majority of all the states and
| Jefferson was elected
But the situation had served to re-
veal defect in the electoral machin-
cry. and in 1904 the twelfth amend
ment to the constitution was adopted.
This provided that the president and
vice president should be voted for
parately-Washingto Correspon-
| dence BROOKLYN Eagle
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

And not a few people have a way
of looking insults.
All persons are very clever when 1t
comes to making explanations.
y
Other folk seem to worry more
about how the heat affects a fat man
than he does.
To hear many a man talk you'd
think that no one else in the whole
world amounted to anything.
It's a strange coincidence that all
girls reported missing from home are
styled as being pretty. Evidently the
homely girls are blessed with better
sense.
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DIAMOND Crazc in Wxoming.

The government bureau of mines
has announced that the formation OF
the Big Horn mountains, lying west of
Sheridan, is such that diamonds in
large quantities may be discovered in
that section, and as a result northern
Wyoming is infected with the diamond
fever.
Diamonds in the rough are not nu-
merous in the Big Horn towns and
the would-be diamond prospectors are
not sure what they are searching for
many of them having the idea that
when taken from the ground dia-
monds are ready for the setting.
The information that diamonds may
be found in the Big Horn came to
Sheridan in a letter from E. Gillette,
whose authority for the statement is
H N. barton. of the government bu-
reau of mines. This bureau, under
Mr.. Darton's supervision. has been en-
gagged in the study of the Big Horns,
especially as regards the '.bIaclC
dykes in those mountains.
1t has been determined that the
composition of these dykes is exactly
the same as that Of the black dykes
of South Africa In which the great
diamond mines of that country are
located. In South Africa these dyke s
come from far down in the earth, and
are like chimneys filled with clay
Similar formations are found in the
Big Horn mountains, but 1t remained
for the mine experts to make ex-
haustive analyses of the contents of
the dykes. The announcement that
diamonds may be found in the noun
tains followed the work of the bu-
reau.
Immediately after the information
was made public every old prospector
in the district prepared to go diamond
hunting.-S Sheridan (Wyo.) Dispatch
Ito New York Herald.
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thousand dollars. No. I'm not angry;
good night!''
Jerry, raging, went home to find
Uncle Toby, having dropped into town
unexpectedly. the center of his own
merry family circle.
In five minutes Uncle Toby the
wealthy. the courted and the masterfu1
was on his way to Collegeville, virtual
" prisoner in the custody of this
grim and silent young stranger.
Patience Ailene was alone on the
front porch of the boarding. house, a
forlorn little huddle which shrank
away at sight of them.
Now, SIR" grated Jerry, 81 brought
you here to say that your prejudice
against Miss Truesdale doesn't make
any difference. We're going to be mar
ried; and we don't need thet thousand
dollars
rs this true. Patienc, Ailene p"
asked Uncle Toby.
Patience Ailene did not seem to
mind the queerness of Jerry's mar
ply; but, Mr.. Brenton what did you
say to Jerry?''
What did say. Jerry?"
gu said you'd give me a thousand
dollars If I married anybody but Pa
thence Ailene.'
Correct. Anything else; any re-
Election on her?'
He took a hand of each my dear
young people" he said, ''your uncle
mas put one over as the boys say.
Ever since I began buying dolls for
PATIENCE Ailene and marbles for you,
Jerry, 1 determined she should be your
Wlfe. never mentioned one Of you to
the other. If you dreamed / wanted
you to marry, you'd have flown apart
Ihere, now, never mind thanking me.
must be going back. suppose the
last car goes pretty soon. I'll let you
walk that three miles aIone And
the thousand dollars shap be. five
thousand
They went with him to the gate,
clinging shyly to each others hands
starting sentences of apology and
gratitude that were never finished,
since they must stop to look into the
wonder and glory Of each others eyes,
And Uncle Toby smiled whimsicaIly
as he went away, yet sighed a little
TOO; for he knew he was already for
gotten.-( Copyright, 1911. by the AS
ISOLATED Literary Press
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the Ne

TF'rom the New York Press.I
A woman never gets so fat that she
can't thank heaven she isn't stout
A man takes devotion from his wife
in the matter of fact way she takes
trading stamps
It takes so much money to pay for
some peoples luxuries that they have
nothing left for the necessaries.
The reason a girls hair doesn't curl
naturally is she knows it does, but the
other girls won't admit it.
It's queer how man who has even
sense enough to keep out Of lawsuits
won't have enough to let other people
do all the family quarreling-
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Honors appear to be even in the
stubbs-Dawson scrap. Both gentlemen
are in the same relative position on the
matter in dispute as they were when
the controversy started. Prejudiced
admirers may insist that Governor
Stubs is ahead point or two because
l,o has written more letters than At
torney General Dawson. But this Is
not material advantage. Betting on
the outcome is a little quiet but the
original odds Of a potato against a side
of bacon still prevail.
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nonlE NEWS willie AwAY.

Subscribers of the state Journal
away from homo during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
eocb dav 10 anV address at the rate Of
ten cents a week or thirty cents n
month Cby mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
ont Of town the State Journal viii be
10 you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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It Is only fair to the people who
have their water supply metered that
all the water users in the city should
be treated to the same sauce. And
many people who are now on fiat rates,
and who do not go into law sprinkling
very extensively, viii find that their
bills under the meter system Will be
less each month than the fiat rates
they have been paying.
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a little sympathy and encourage
ment is what the Topeka baseball team
needs instead of so many knocks. The
most successful and highest class base
ball league that might be brought int
existence could not have all the teams
In first place or even in the first di-
vision. And 1t generally takes more
than one season in any league for am
team to develop into a winner.
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There's nothing so strange in the
fact that a couple of jointists in the
Shawnee county Jail refuse to work.
That's why most jointists and bootleg
gers are such. Work, just plain work,
has no charms for them. To make a
living easy is their aim in life even If
it does involve the chance of an oc-
casinnaI trim to iail
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Unconstitutional (annoyed):
Why do you want me to go with you?
You know I detest shopping. Wife:
Oh, you won't have to shop. dear.
You'll merely pay the bills.-Ex-
change.
You are in favor of a safe and
sane Fourth of July?'' YES" replied
Mr.. Growcher. I'VE ought to have
that kind of a day at least once a
year. Star.
ssWhy have you had those masks of
comedy and tragedy placed in your
hall?" why, I am an actor. you
know "Oh, 1 see. You have no
other way of letting the fact he
known. ''-Chicago Record-Herald.
Anent "The World in Roston. Mis-
sionary explaining to visitOr): Our
situation was so remote that for a.
whole year my wife never saw white
face but my own Sympathetic Young
Woman: oh. the poor thing!-Boston
Transcript.
i've been. sent downtown to buy
taboret. What's that?" Don't you
know? It's one of those things that
stand about shin-high in the dark
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Shakespeare was wrong in believ-
full of trials, you know."-Chicago
News.
NTeeker: This paper says that mud
baths will cure rheumatism. Seeker;
Nonsensel I've run for Office three or
four times. and it didn't do me bit
of good.-Chicago News.
your own baby. If you have one,'
advertised the enterprising photog-
rapher. "can be enlarged. tinted AMI
framed for 1915 per dozen. Metro
pofitan Magazine.
Mr.. Cleverton: You saw some old
ruins in England this summer, 1 sup
pose? Miss Struckett- Rich: Yes ana
one of them wanted to marry me-
Princeton Tiger.
She: Papa saw you going into .
saloon today, George. He: No, re
didn't. She: Why are you so certain?
He: I'd had to pay for another drink
if he had.-Truth.
Friend (sarcastically) Which one
of your many bad habits do you think
you could manage to give up? Easy
One (nettled): That of lending my
friends money.-Baltimor American.
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LITE.

LITE.
A little crying in the first hours
A little laughing in after years,
A little worry, a. little furry.
And then we sleep away our fears.
A little loving in the spring-time
A little GOODNESS in the fall,
A little gold-our tale is told
But it's worth it after all.
A little reaching up for goodness,
A little falling by the way,
A little striving, a little thriving,
And then comes close of day.
A little cropping in the darkness,
A little hoping in the light,
A little gain. a little pain,
And then our souls take flight.
ROB. NJ CAMPBELL
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rules and regulations Of the very best
society give a prominent place to such
activities. But perhaps it is just rs
well not to encourage the few remain
ing red men to emulate the ways of the
social elect among their white brethren