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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
COST OF LIVING NOT HIGH.

In the "Pilgrim's Scrip" in the No
vember American Magazine, a con-
tributor writes an analysis claiming
that the cost Of living has not gone up,
but that the standard of living has in
creased. To prove it, be writes as fol-
lows:
LAS a boy in the early '7o's. / re-
member going to the store for my
mother and paying nothing less than
S1.O0 per pound for tea Flour was 6
or cents per pound Sugar to 10
cents. Coffee 40 and As cents A
pair of high boots. such as I wore in
the winter. cost $3.50 or $500, and to
make them last they We're copper-toed
Ny father was a country parson with
never more than 1000 per annum.
I'm free lance, earning from $4,000
to $4,000 It's true, I'm no better off
than was my father. but the fault is
mine. not the cost of necessities pay
so cents a pound for tea. or 4 cents
for flour. to cents for sugar, 90 to
35 cents for coffee. $3.50 to $500 for
the boots without protectors. Then
why is it so? Simply this. I have all
tered the whole plan of living as com
pared with my fathers time. and in
stead of doing the thousand and one
things personally which my parents
did for themselves, i employ others to
dc them for me, and, Of course, have to
pay them. A dollar is not unit Of
gold. but unit of labor. Now, labor
is dear in this country because it is
scarce. and for no other reason. 'Tis
true, pay IS cents pound for steak,
but this is not due to a beef trust or
robber this or robber that, but be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
HUMOR or THE D.AY

while 7 have these Jewels" said Jim
son, exhibiting his diamonds proudly
III never want for bread"
Why can you make good bread out OF
paste?" asked Miss Jonsen, politely
Cleveland Leader.
Rural Auntic-My dear your mother
tells me you are going to get married.
Miss de Fad-Yes auntic; it's all the
style now.-NeW York Weekly.
Magistrate-Have you any visible means
Of support
Prisoner us, yer Wushup. (rO his wife,
a laundress) Hemmar stand up SOS the
court can see yer--Town and Country.
Uncle-Been visiting, ch2 Hang IT, there
oughtn't to be any poori
Kate-Oh. dear. Why. IL there were
no poor. half my pleasure I'm life would
be gone.-London Opinion.
How did il happen"
He was Just going to say good. old
fashioned winter but 1 hit him on the
discharged. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

Governor Stubs told the Shawnee
County Farmers institute the other
day that it was time a business rule
should be substituted for a political
machine rule. And what kind of a
rule, pray tell, has Governor stubbs
been giving Kansas for the past three
years? Until very recently the impress
sion had prevailed that Governor
Stubs. had done away with the old
political machine rule in Kansas. At
least such claims had been made But
the governor went over into the Sec
ond congressional district and sup
ported Guyer for congress and Guyer's
nomination was brought about by as
indefensible a piece of machine rule
as has ever been perpetrated in KAN
sas. It is time, indeed, that machine
rule was abolished in Kansas There
can be general agreement with the
governor on this proposition. 1t is
not going to be brought about, how
ever, by doing away with one brand of
machine rule and substituting another
kind Of machine rule in its place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Especially unfortunate is the tenn
peFate man who has a bright red nose.
X X
Intelligent persons are just as like
" to ask foolish questions as the other
kind.
Consistency may be wonderful
jewel. but it is not as popular with the
girls as are diamonds.
4
The punishment must be terrible
that awaits the individual who invent
ed surprise parties.
X * 4
What has become of the oId-fash-
toned youngster who did not speak
until he was spoken to?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
by THE WY
az HARvEY PARsoNs.

We viii soon have enough ex-candi-
dates bearing the insurgent brand to-
start a "Down-and-out' club
The Springfield, Ill, definition Of
trough" is bar" The place IN
other words, where they get their
shouts wet.
Garuso says he win not marry tbs
pOcket-Sized singer. Trentini, and she
says he Will. Caruso is a big stifi, and
she is a midget. but we viii bet on her
if she means it.
A zoo. O0O-year-old snake has been
blown out OF the rock at Kansas city.
Probably the same snake who attended
the blowout at which Adam and Eve
were guests.
American heiresses who purchase
foreign mobiles at a bargain. usually
draw a remnant or basement bargain
counter article
Every man. 1t is said. has his price
but it does not follow that he will ever
get it.
South America. where they change
flags oftener than they change shirts.
is no place to build up a successful
newspaper The editor can no more
than break into the good graces OF the
gang in charge before some other gang
gives him the razoo toward the front
Ter.
Advice to boys: Never strike a boy
smaller than yourself: he may in time
outgrow you. and have one OF those
Mean Dispositions.
When a woman has grief that
makes her forget to look in the glass
to see if her nose is red-WEI.I.. that is
Some Grief
1t is the foxy guy who admits that he
doesn't know how to carve "A fowl. The
carver mas TO deliver whatever the
other eaters prefer. and take what il
left for himself.
We object to the expression. Struck
by a cold wave A cold wave doesn't
strike yOu-it simply oozes into Won
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
DISCIPLINE on RAILROADS.

In England there appears to be decided
objection to permitting interference with
discipline by the railroad unions The
Railway Commission Of Inquiry, in d re-
port issued in London Friday, states
that 1.-The companies with their great re-
sponsibihties cannot and should not be ex-
pected to permit any interference by their
men on the subject of discipline and man
agement.'' This report is notable for its
common sense and it should inspire
American railroad managers to abolish
the too common practice of compromising
with employees disciplined for disobedience
of rules.
It is no secret that the spersistency of
grievance committees often secures miti-
cation of punishment when rules making
for the safety of trains are disregarded;
superintendent who impose penalties are
told by their superiors to reconsider their
action. and the result is a belief on the
part of employees that If negligence is dis
covered the committee will see that they
hold their positions. On such questions
as wages and hours it is proper enough to
hold conferences and make compromises
but for disobedience of rules devised for
the safety of the public there should be
no appeal from the decision of the super
intendent.-Pr Providence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
ILL-TIMED BRAVADo.

Henry Clay Beattie. jr., under SEN
tence to die in the electric chair No
vember "a, for the cold bIooded muir
der of his wife. is quoted by his bos-
ON friend as saying, I'll show them
how a man should die, if that's what
they are waiting for. The electric
chair? Bah, What's that? Nothing,
I tell you If the lever on the switch
board is near enough to me I'll turn
on the current myself"
If this is a correct report of Beat
ties utterances it will confirm in the
minds Of most persons the opinion
they formed Of the young mans char
acter from the testimony presented
at the trial. This piece of bravado
may appeal to the Imagination of the
class who makes a hero or a heroine
out OF sensational criminals, but to
the well regulated mind it must be
nauseating. If Beattfe committed the
dastardly and deliberate crime of
which he has been convicted he might
be expected to talk in just such cal
lous terms of his approaching execu-
ton. On the other hand, does any
one suppose that an innocent man,
facing an ignominious death on the
charge of foully numbering the one
he was pledged to hold nearest and
dearest, would be capable of such
mouthings 2-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

Kansas. are reported to be about &c
form a merger with a capitalization
OF 100000 And why not? The
Kansas antitrust law seems to be de-
cidedly of the dead letter variety.
About the only laws in the state that
are kept in active working order are
those relating to the enforcement of
prohibitory provision of the constitu-
ton These laws should be enforced.
It is true, but surely all the other
laws should not be neglected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

There are several other unredeemed
pledges in the last Republican state
platform. besides the one relating to
presidential primaries. No suggestions
are being made, however. that a special
session of the legislature should be
pledges. AS a matter of fact this presi-
dental primary proposition is being
harped on by the fast-dying ''insur-
gents" because it is about the only
straw left to them in their drowning
Etruggle to keep in the Iimelight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
REFLECTIONS or A BAcIrrro.

IRON the New York Press.1
what makes man want Ia he , .
husband Is not being married soOu
The poor initiate the rich ana -.
er the rich initiate the poor e sn, poor-
A woman has fair underestimate.
b be,i''es 'll her husband explains n ~
= ~ seems TO have bigger bor-o-
stripes. " "'oH mas OF prison
A girl seems to think her r,.,.
, inter- Il f rsIs be worse for her tbayn Jug
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

An effort is being made to bar news
paper men from the trial of the
Shady Bend men who are accused OF
the cowardiy act of tarring and feath-
ering Miss Chamberlin. It is argued
by those Interested that newspaper re-
ports of this trial win reflect on the
honor of the community. All of which
is quite right. And there can be no
disputing the fact that this commu-
nifty has considerable to be ashamed
~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
DAFFYDLLS
BY .. NOALL-

When Adam first saw Eve did he
Noah?
(Oncer! You're on my foot)
If man was in jail, could his face
breaksout?
osend for the warden. mutiny is
imminent.)
If opium dens are joints are Chi
nese?
6Give me your hand, Steve. for be-
lieve you're an honest man,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
CHAPTER Xxx.

| Having somewhat to do with the daily
/ feature colored page. which has proved a
/ sensation in the newspaper world. The To-
peka State Journal being the first and only
newspaper in America issuing q page IN
colOrs, red, blue and black, daily.
| Trial subscription rate, by mail only.
for one hundred days 81. Think Of it. Ii
H the paper contained nothing whatever but
4 the colored page it would surely be worth
1 one cent a copy if mailed. 1t costs YOU
| only half what the postage would be on a
/ letter to friend. We want your outside
| business It will help put Topeka prom
4 inently on the mapl
1t is a positive joy to work around
the State Journal office today, for here
is a letter which came Saturday from
the Murray Machinery company of
Kansas city, Mo. That concern has
been working under high pressure to
get out a machine to enable us to
handle the daily co1ored pages with
ease. This is what the letter said:
we don't know that we will get the
bi1-lading back tonight, but we had
to rush the machine out, consequently
the paint finish is a little rough, as It
did not get sufficient time to dry
The Santa Fe took special care to
get this machine out of Kansas City
Friday night. It was received early in
the morning and delivered to the State
Journal office.
Busy, willing hands set the machine
in place and at s o'clock Saturday night
it was running as smoothly as a mis-
sion clock thrown in with SIX months
subscription to some dailies; not this
one: no names named.
Much more machinery expensive but
necessary, has been ordered and is UNI
der construction for shipment within
thirty days.
The color plates on the last page of
this paper We're routed and finished
on this new machine. 1t meant a saw
ing Of many hours of tedious hand
work that has been necessary daily
since Novembe 9. the date colors We're
started-in a page every day
owing to the attention given in to-
days paper to the Dodge City conven- J
ton report by the state Journal, the
football edition of Saturday and the
quarter of a million dollars left in To-
peka by the fine body of 4,500 visiting
teachers last week this chapter has to
be curtailed More probably Tuesday. |
LChapter XXI tomorrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

With Captain Joe Waters on the
firing line it is likely that the Cope
Moore damage suit will result in a
trial that will be intensely interesting
from the drop of the flag to the finish.
The preliminary skirnishes between
Captain Waters and Bishop Moore
ought to make seats for the trial bring
q uranium
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

Judge Porterfeld, presiding at the
Hyde trial. is becoming impatient at
the lack of progress being made. The
general public has been of that mind
for many days now However, there
IS nothing making it mandatory for
the general public to take any interest
in this case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

Herr Won -Hollweg, Ger
znany's chancellor, has the right kind
of disposition for man in politics.
He expects no praise and fears no
blame for anything he does. Nor is
4here any doubt but his expectations
will be fully realized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRIGSS

New Mexico is getting off to a poor
start With a Democratic governor
and a Republican Legislature that are
sure to be at 1oggerheads and playing
politics all the time, not much con-
structive legislation for the new state
van be possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

cause Of the manner in which de-
mand my steak shall be handled and
handed to me before will receive and
pay for it. As a matter Of fact, I could
not have obtained such a steak at so
cents per pound fifteen years ago"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

VISITOR presume you would do very
differently now If you were at liberty.
my poor man
Second-Story San-Y essum- / kin see
now de mistakes made never orter
have climbed dat last porch till 1 cut de
telephone wires Yer cant trust a
boozin' lookout. mum--Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
KANSAS COMNENT
LICKIN' AND LARNIN'

In the great strides that have been made
IN matters educational in the last few
years, many of the former traditions of
the class room have gone glimmering to
make way for newer methods, and SO
thorough have been the changes that the
middle aged man, who attended school in
the days when sIckin and larnin went
hand in hand, would hardly recognize a
class room as having anything in common
with the school rooms they knew.
Yet occasionally something occurs to
snow that human nature has not greatly
changed and that the methods of the good
OLD days must, to a certain extent at least,
be followed by modern educators such
an instance was noted last week at Law
renee, under the shadow of Mount Dread,
When the reports for the first month OF
school showed that some forty pupils had
fractured the discipline sufficiently to
merit corporal punishment and the teach
ers took the Solomonic precaution against
spelling children.
With all the advancement that has been
made in school methods, with the greater
employment of moral suasion and other
denatured. punishments, there are times
when a little corporal punishment, admin
Istered by an athletic educator viii DO
more good than an hour of gentle admon-
ition. The main difference between the
new and old style teachers seems to be
that lic1ings now are tempered with Judg-
ment while in the old days they were the
one remedy for meanness, of whatever
sort or character.-Salina Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13
UTILIZING TURKEY.

Plow it, and plant potatoes. corn and
wheat 1t is the garden of the earth. That
stretch of acres, lying under a brilliant
sun, yet where drouth never bnghts, is
fairer than Italy. Northumberland, in
England New Hampshire, in America,
never saw such day, as all days are
along the blue Aegean, and to the Tar
mountains about Jerusalem.
But 800 years ago it was said, Where
the hoofs OF Mahomets horses strike the
grass never grows" Now drive out Ma
homet. Europe needs bread. Its crowded
poor come west to America; send them
east. Open a schoolhouse on every hill
top. Map the country with trolleys, pub
lish newspa pers.
Let Us. in that far part of the world,
open the Hebrew and Christian Bible IN
place of the Koran Did you ever read
the Koran? 1t tells the whole story of
the centuries Of a curse over so noble
portion of the globe The Turk never
laughs. He never plays ball His pleas
ures are the harem. Mahomet taught him
thus. He revels in cruelty and slaughter
It is high time to send him to public
school-New York Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

American heiresses who purchase
foreign mobiles at a bargain. usually
draw remnant or basement bargain
counter article.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

Every man. It is said. has his price.
but It does not follow that he will ever
get it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

Garuso says he will not marry tn
pocket-sized singer Trentini. and shl
says he will. Caruso is a big stin, ant
she is a midget. but we will bet on he
if she means it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

A zoo. 600 year-old snake has beer
blown out Of the rock AT Kansas city
Probably the same snake who attended
the blowout at which Adam and Eve
were guests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

We will soon have enough ex-canoi-
dates bearing the insurgent brand TO-
start a "Down-and-out" club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

1t is the foxy guy who admits that he
doesn't know how to carve "A fowl. The
carver has to deliver whatever the
other eaters prefer, and take what is
left for himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

When a woman has grief that
makes her forget to look in the glass
to see if her nose is red-WEI.L. that is
Some Grief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

CTo be eontinued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

Advice to boys: Never strike a bow
smaller than yourself: he may IN time
outgrow you. and have one OF those
Mean Dispositions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-13

The Springfield, ILL.,. definition OF
trough" is bar" The place in
other words, where they get their
shouts wet.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-12-27
Tho Sense 81 Smell.

1T is the upper part Of the nose that
SMELLS" said a perfumer. "The lining
there is very sensitive and brown in
color, not red, as in the lower nose
Men are more sensitive to odors than
women. Scientific tests have shown. l
believe. that, while many men can de-
tect the smell Of prussic acid even
when there is only one part Of the
acid to two million parts Of water.
the average woman fails to detect the
smell If there are less than ten parts Of
the acid. Though the white man is
much less sensitive to odors than the
savage, a prolonged stay in a part Of
the world where smells are few puts a
very fine edge on the sense Of smell.
DR.. hansen has declared that when
returning from the ice world to Franz
Josef Land he knew when he was ap-
preaching the assistant he had left
there by smelling his scented soap long
before he saw him. He could, too,
when approaching the hut have given
an inventory Of the stores there, as he
smelled everything it contained sepa-
rately and distinctly"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-12-27
He Was Cured.

A chap once consulted a famous
physician about his dyspepsia. The
patient was very deaf. The dialogue
between the physician and lie ran like
this:
what do you usually breakfast on?"
"Oh. no! At least two miles in the
morning and a motor ride after lunch"
"How many hours do you sleep?"
"Well. doctor. I was ffty-nine my
last birthday"
"Are you married?"
"Thirst."
With a gesture of impatience, the
physician turned and wrote out a sim.
pie remedy for dyspepsia. The pa
tient, as he departed, shouted in the
loud, harsh tones Of the very deaf:
doctor, al you cure deafness?"
The other shook his head in the neg
alive.
"Well." said the patient, you've
been very kind, and therefore I'm going
to make you a present Of this prescrip-
tion." He took a folded paper from
his pocket. 1T cured me."-New York
Tribune.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-12-27
Origin Of Foxes Book Of Martvrs.'

Origin Of Foxes "Book Of Martyrs"
Foxes Book of Martyrs was pub
lished in March. 1852, as the "Actes
and Monuments" Of the martyrs. a
title borrowed from an earlier book,
says the London Chronicle. The ia
nous volume might never have ap-
peared ut all but for the association Of
Foxe with the printer Day of Alders-
gate street. in whose business Foxe
took an active part. On the tomb
stone of Day in the church of Little
Bradley. Suffolk, the partnership is
thus immortalized:
He ct a Fox to wright how martyrs rune
BY death to lyfe; o ventured paynes
and health
To give them light; Daye spent in print
his wealth.
Even in those days the alien prob
lem troubled industry. for we find
Foxe appealing to Cecil to relax the
law and permit his friend Day to en-
gage more than four foreign printers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-12-27
Selling Papers on the Roof.

Not all enterprising newsboys are
in the United States. The small street
merchants Of Paris. when forbidden
to enter tramcars and omnibuses, got
over the difficulty in real Yankee fash
ion. 1t was easy, of course. to sell
papers through the windows to passen-
gers seated in the vehicles, but how
was it possible to reach would-be u.s.
toners perched on the seats provided
on the roof? A youth promptly solved
the problem. He procured a stick sew
en- or eight feet long, with wire clamps
fastened to the sides. Papers were
put in the clamps. On top Of the stick
there was a small cup with a hole
in the bottom. The hole was an i'm
portant part Of the apparatus. for it
reached all the way down, and through
it came the copper coins Of n or
two sous. according to the price of the
paper the patron selected when the
boy held up the stick.-Chicago Rec
ord Herald.