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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Without any irreverence, remarks the
Downs Times, the fruit men can fifty
| say, Let us spray"
If all dreams came true, the Alton
Empire thinks people would be careful
not to eat just before going to bed.
A high school note in the Alton EN-
pire: The game of marbles seems to
be the favorite on the school grounds
this week.
Empire, that the two little simple
words, they say introduce more
| trouble into the world and are re-
sponsible for more gossip, scandal ana
harm than any other two words in the
English language? It's the truth.
AS domestic science is progressing in
the Kinsley high school, according to
the Kinsley Mercury: The cooking
school girls are trying their luck in
making apple pies this week. 1t is SAID
their sponge cake fell so hard it knock
ed the bottom out of the cake tins so
the girls were forced to try pies for
awhile.
The editor of the Home Circle Column
of the Selden Independent Is an en-
thusiast on the power of love- as is
shown by the following paragraph
which appeared in that column the 9TH
er day: "a crust of bread, a pitcher Of
water, matched roof and love; there
is happiness Tor you WneIner the Ody
be rainy or shiny"
Either the editor of the Baxter
Springs News is inclined to be sarcastic
or else he has a peculiar idea as to what
constitutes fun. Listen to what he had
to say recently: Better. get out the
lawn mower and clean it up. Have it
sharpened, and when the grass gets
high enough to cut you can have lots
of fun pushing the lawn mower.
A pessimistic tone pervaded the news
notes from Sycamore in last weeks is
sue of the South Kansas Tribune, as
per examples: items scarce, so far as
we are concerned. Farming was
at a standstiIl last week. Pas
lures are still short because of chilly
winds and cool weather. So far
as We know the hooking bird has not
put in an appearance. Hay is
scarce
One the toughest pieces of hard luck
that has cropped up in Kansas in many
a day is told about by the Selden indie
pendent as follows: We know of
couple of ladies who went to the mil
linery store. Each purchased a new
hat and before they got home the wind
took those hats half mile across the
country. Maybe you think those ladies
We're not heartbrOken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
clark Assailed Cleveland

Champ Clark's campaign for the
Democratic nomination for president
in 1912 isn't to be permitted to pro-
gress smoothly if his opponents can dig
up anything in his record to prevent
it-and they think they can. The first
thing to be flashed on the Speaker-to-
in the house in which. in customary
C1arkonian English, he paid his re-
spects to the late Grover Cleveland.
1.-THE election of Grover Cleveland to
the presidency was the greatest calam-
Eity that has. happened to the human
race since the fall of Adam"
The remark is likely to set the
Cleveland admirers in the Democratic
ranks-and there are thousands of
them-by the ears.
There are good many similar exam
pies of Mr.. Clark's oratory in the Con-
gressional Record, and his presidential
boom will not have gone verv much
further before these are resurrected to
plague him.
It is no secret among Mr.. Clark s
friends that he is taking his presi-
Dental boom exceedingly serious; and
that he is counting upon the support of
William J. Bryan is believed by his
friends. In this connection an inter
esting story from Indiana has come to
town. This is that John w. Kern, of
Indiana, now has a presidential boom
of his own, and that it is looking
mighty good to the Bryan men,
Washington Dispatch to Philadelphia
TuoIIirer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17

more confirms this idea There are
wide divergences of opinion regarding
the manner in which the Oriental
tribes YS Asia, or Asiatic Europe. came
to find their way to America; but thers
is substantial agreement among all
serious authorities. including the sa-
wants Mexico, that the people found
i the country when Cortez and his
Spanish conquistadores burst into 1t.
with the name of Christ on their lips
and the lust Of gold and silver in their
hearts, were Oriental in their origin.
Not a trace of democratic customs or
instincts was found among the aborig-
inals of Mexico at the time of the Spap-
ish conquest in 1919, only a century be-
fore the Pilgrim Fathers landed on
Plymouth Rock. 1t must be remem-
bered that this was the state of the
peoples who. only three hundred years
Afterwards, set up a republic with a
constitution modelled on the constitu-
ton of the United States.
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Socialism in Milwaukee.

The hest that can be said for the
Socialist municipal government of
Milwaukee is that it still has the sup
port of the churches and of that ele-
ment in the population that likes to
have unselfish reformers in office. That
means that Mayor Seidel and Repre-
sentative Berger are still credited with
honest purposes, and that in the opin-
ion of observers at close range, their
results compare favorably with those
of the city governments that have pre-
ceded them. But they are having
abundant troubles. one of them being
that they cannot fulfill the anteelection
promise to provide work for the nnem-
ployed. The effort to do that is re-
ported to be a fiat failure though we
hear it said that that is partly because
the unemployed from other places
have crowded in on Milwaukee to test
the mayors abilities. - Harper's
Weekly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

rFrom the Chicago News.
mob may draw the line at lynch-
ing.
The cup that cheers is noisy piece
of crockery.
It's easy TO fill the public eye if you
have the dust"
The dog with the handsomest collar
seldom wins the fight.
Before giving a woman advice find
out the brand she prefers.
A full beard may enable a man to
keep out of some bad scrapes.
1t sometimes happens that a general
awakening follows a duh sermon
Even a pessimist is apt to be optim-
istic when he has something to sell.
Getting their fortunes told is but an
innocent way some women have of
gambling.
It's a wise NJ. d. who orders a pa
tient to refrain from eating the things
he doesn't like.
Some people are SO suspicious that
when they fail to get a letter they i'm
agine the postmaster is deceiving
them.
When a girls engagement is an
nounced she likes to believe that sew
eral of her gentlemen acquaintance
feel as though life had lost its charm
for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
THE CONsUMER,s DREAN

Inc ultimate consumer woke from a
pleasant sleep,
ana SAID That was a dandy dream
wish that it might keep;
dreamed that suddenly L found I did
not have to pay
FOR an necessities of life, from coal to
breakfast hay.
me iceman said: You've had short
weight for 10, these 20 years,
ana now III make 1t up to you-shed
not those sudden tears
MY grocer said the same to me, and he
who dealt in coal
insisted that he'd fill my bin, nor touch
my slender roll.
MY clothier said: The clothes you've
pought were just one-uuarter wool:
OF i've years now I'll clothe you free
your purse you need not pull:
MY snoeman swelled the chorus grand.
and said: IN sleep at ease
II You will take free shoes from ma
twill ease my conscience-pleaseI
me weeds smoked, the hats donned.
the neckties that I wore,
were gifts to make up for the tinoAs
that I'd been stung before:
Out tnen, alas! I came to earth and
round myself awake;
Iheres no ones conscience troubling
hlm-twas all a nature faker'
Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
CAUSES OF MEXICAN REVOLT.

AS to the underlying causes of the
Mexican insurrection James Creelman
writes in the North American Review
for April, in part as follows:
The real difficulty, and one which
even the sagacious and heroic master
of Chapultepec Castle has not dared TO
solve, lies in a national constitution
comforting the universal right to vote
upon the people, majority of whom
are racially untitled for self-goyern-
ment or democratic institutions.
No one who has studied the subject
enough to give his word any authority
will pretend that the more or less auto
cratic rule of President Diaz has not
been an open and continued violation of
the terms of the Mexican constitution.
Mexico is governed by a minority of
her citizens. Even President Diaz does
not make any hypocritical denial of
that The consent of the majority thus
far to this state of things can only be
inferred by a prolonged peace where all
before was war, confusion. bankruptcy,
lawlessness and degradation. The Bit
terest foe of the Mexican government
must confess that Porfirio Diaz has led
interrupted strife, poverty, brigandagc
and misery; that he has made one ma
ton of the Mexicans, enforcing peace,
protecting life and property, establish
ing public and private credit; giving
the republic a comparatively honorod
place among the nations of the world !;
promoting vast and useful public works,
and enriching the country greatly
through swiftly increasing industry and
commerce. But while Mexico has
grown rapidly and steadily in material
wealth. and her people have bean
drawn into habits of industry ami
peace. she has stood still politically; the
government has not ventured to fulfil
the guarantees of the constitution re-
garding popular suffrage, nor has any
statesman been bold enough to risk a
revolution by undertaking to change
the constitution so that it may fit the
capacities and conditions of the peo-
pie.
To understand the difficulty of the
political troubles of Mexico it is neces-
sary to realize that the prehistoric
Mexicans, whose descendants constitute
the vast majority of the nation today,
were tribes of Oriental. probably
T, Asiatic, origin. The evidence on this
point seems almost overwhelming. The
majestic ruins Of palaces, temples and
forts built by the ancient Mexicans
many centuries before Columbus first
| crossed the Atlantic ocean bear too
many, and too close, resemblances to
Old World architecture to be merely
| condolences. The prehistoric potteries
and scultpres. the carved jade orna-
ments-dug up in a land where nc
| jade is found in a state of nature
the heads faces and bodies OF
the people. their mental traits and
habits, and what is known of their
ancient customs and ceremonies al
point to the east as their re-
mote original home. Archaeological
! and clinical investigation more and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
QUAKER MEDrrATIoNs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Press.J
It's the first step that counts, in the
long run.
Any man can make a woman do ex-
actly as she pleases.
Some people, like some patriots, are
not as green as they look.
Many a man has been disappointed
in love because he thought the girl
had money.
It is quite natural that flies should
come with the opening of the baseball
season
When a young man is inclined to
be fast there is generally a woman
who sets the pace.
Many a young man with a brilliant
future has been dazzled long before he
caught Up with it.
Fresh people are good bit like
fresh paint. If you sit on them you
are apt to get the worst Of 1t.
There is some consolation in the
fact that even the suffragette hasn't
altogether outgrown ice cream soda
No, Maude, dear; the special police
men at railroad stations are not there
for the sole purpose of preventing peo-
pie from taking the trains.
Don't you wanter hire a Teller to
keep the tramps away, Missus?' asked
the boy. How can you keep the
tramps away?" demanded the Missus.
Easy enough" replied the boy. 81
kin eat up all the pie, an things wot's
left over
For three-quarters of an hour he
had been saying goodnight. The lamp
had burned low, and the moment
seemed propitious Would you scream
if I should kiss you?' he asked. Now,
George, you know very well 1 have
such cold can scarcely speak above
a whisper" she replied. Puzzle: What
did George do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
VOCATIONAL EpucAr1oN.

Mr.. Fairchild. the state superintend-
ent of public instruction, is quite right
in his criticism of the general tenden-
cies of the high schools Of Kansas.
They devote too much Of their efforts
and energies to the purely cultural side
of education This sort of education
has much to recommend it, and Mr..
Fairchild would not have it eliminated
from the curriculums of the high
schools. But he thinks that more Of
the vocational education should be
combined with it, so that high school
courses may be something Of profit to
the great bulk of the students who
take them, and who have not the OPP
portunities to finish their educational
careers in the colleges.
AS Mr.. Fairchild points out only
about per cent of all the graduates
of the high schools enter colleges, and
yet, for the most part, the courses in
the high schools have been arranged al
most solely to fit graduates with the re-
quirements for entrance to the higher
institutions of learning. This important
fact has been appreciated by the peo-
pie of Topeka for some time and it
was one OF the underlying causes for
the reorganization of the school board
which was effected by the voters of the
city some time ago, and which was
continued at the recent municipal cleo
ton.
Courses of education that will fit
high school graduates to learn trades
and enter businesses is really more es-
sential and will be of more benefit to
any community than the cultural
ofr,o To in he
high schools. AS Mr.. Fairchild so ably
points out. these are all right in their
place, but they should not be para
mount Vocational courses should be
given equal attention.
And another important point well
made by Mr.. Fairchild is that where
almost exclusive attention is devoted
to cultural education it tends to make
high school students snobbish. They
are being taught that it is better to
have culture than to know the things
that are serviceable in the ordinary
walks of life. Were they compelled to
give equal attention to vocational edu-
cation they would soon awake to a re-
alization that all kinds of work is hon
orable There would be no such thing
as class distinction among them either
in school or in after life.
No better act was passed by the leg
islature than the one appropriating
$25O, 900 a year to help pay for teachers
in the high schools who will devote
their time to teaching normal train
ing, domestic science, manual train
ing and agriculture. 1t means that
Kansas is taking a step in the ad-
vance, as usual, to inject something
worth while in the way of vocational
courses in it's high schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
HUNOR or THE DRY

Bluebeard explained the mystery ar
was the kitchen, and the cook killed Ali
my previous wives when they entered II -
Thus we see how Bluebeard was sIander
ed.-New York Sun.
THAT boy of yours must be pretty well
grown by this time" I'm his iunior
year at college," as he eyer inc1inel1
to be wild?" mo, they say he's the
steadiest southpaw the team has ever
had Herald.
Lawyer (annoyed)-Beter take vour casa
somewhere else. You are too thin-sSin-
ned for me. Cllient-Hardly paw to skin
me, eh?-Boston Transcript.
HE treats me like a fool,,' .eWhv T
didn't know he knew you"'-Toledo Blade.
I suppose you wouldn't believe" said
the manager, that it cost me SIS 600 to
raise the curtain on this show az do
replied the critic. I'm surprised that
they let you do it even for that price. -
''Why. Tommy" exclaimed the Sunday
school teacher, don't you say yoI,r nrsy
ers every night before you go to he'd 3,
mot any more" replied Tommy: II uster
when slept in a folding bed, though. -
Philadelphia Record.
Ethel-Grace asked George whetIer he
would love her any more If her hair were
some different color. Edith-And what
did George say? Ethel-why. he neraIv
asked her what other color she had =
Chicago Daily News.
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ten as they sped away in the big auto
mobile.
Barbara sat beside the driver and he
told her of the death Of Toddlekin' S
mother, his favorite sister, and of the
tragic drowning of the child's father a
year later, and so the little one was in
his care, and that of a nurse.
said.
But you have monev-everythin
IS easy, with plenty of money"
Money will not bring back mother
love and father-love to Toddlekins.''
Forgive me-" Barbara said quickly,
but lately it has seemed as If there
isn't anything worth thinking of but
money. Last year the peach crop fail
ed and that's our living, so had to
come home from school and help"
Life ought to be made easy for
you." he said.
Six weeks later he asked her to
She looked at him with startled
eyes.
"Oh, what must you think of me?
nave talked of my poverty, of my
need of money-but I never dreamed
of this
81 think of nothing but INV hap
piness."
ways feel that had been bought"
Ihen you don't love me?"
don't know. oh. please go away
and don't ask me-
After that Toddlexins came alone.
Barbara, plodding through the
dreary days, made up her mind to
many things.
Dad. I am going to see if 1 can't
nnd something to do" she announced
one morning. II am going to the city"
"Oh, girl"
She had told him of the love she
mad put out of her life so he asked
her for the last time: "You think you
couldn't marry him, grille ?''
on, must not, 1 must not
Ine next day she sought work in the
great town. She ate her dinner in
cheap restaurant, for she dreaded to
go to the poor room which she had
rented for week.
How am 1 going to stand it ?" was
her thought.
Somebody sat down opposite her,
but her eyes were so blurred with
tears that she did not see who it was.
Then some one said, "Oh. Babs, 1 have
found your
do you think I will let you drag
your life in such an existence?" he de-
manded later, as they walked through
the electric lighted streets. "You love
me, Babs. 1t was in your eyes when
you looked up and saw me-
There are no butts If YOU knew
was poor, Babs, If you knew that
marriage would mean struggle and
hardship and sorrow, would you say
mop
They dined later at wonderful and
exclusive hotel, and Babs' shabbiness
was relieved by the resplendence of a
large bunch of violets, and by a dia-
mond circlet on her third finger
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17

David Jayne Hill has resigned his
post as United States ambassador to
Germany for no apparent reason. Or
at least none was given in the cores
pondence on the subject which passed
between him and President Taft. 1t
will be remembered though that when
the appointment of Mr.. Hill to this
position was contemplated it was
urged that he was scarcely a suitable
man for such place because he did
not have the large independent for
tune that seems to be the requisite
qualification for men who represent
this nation at the courts of the i'm
portant powers. And it may barely
be possible that he has rot been able
to hold up his end of the entertaining
game at the German capital. AS far
as real ability and fitness. outside of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

People who can do Just as they
please are few and far between.
- y
Too many folk start out on a road
without knowing where it leads.
4
There is generally an unbridgeable
chasm between most hopes and their
realization.
= y
If girls faces were their fortunes
the great majority of the fair sex
would be dead broke.
y
AS a matter of fact, 1t is an exceed
ingly poor rule that will work in more
than one way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison Globe.1
There are more drag-alongs than
complete failures.
1t is probable that you will have to
make your opportunity.
Some men seek rest when what they
need is to go to work.
No joke is so good that you ought
to try to tell it over the telephone.
Those who get beat are the ones
who insist there is nothing in politics.
A travelling man who visits with the
help is never very strong with the pro-
prietor.
Just because you don't care for con-
sequences is no sign you can dodge
them.
Don't sing about the last rose of
summer, but think of the first and be
cheerful.
Considering that "to him that hath
shall be given" the under dog gets a
lot of consideration.
Another very common human frail-
ty is 20 be proud of things which
should cause shame.
When a prisoner gets out ON parole
he isn't satisfied; he thinks he is en-
titled to a pardon.
1t seems rather difficult for the
average man to remember girl and
anything else at the same time.
If a man lives in fear of being found
out, that is pretty apt to happen to
him before he gets through.
If this weather continues we are
not going to mind the fact that We
can't afford new ones for Easter.
A father may fuss about it. but he
rather enjoys being bossed around by
his children if they are good natured
about it.
You know so much, perhaps you
know of a renter who is satisfied with
the way his landlord keeps the house
in repair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-17

Surely is the Democratic house rep
resentatives making hay while the sun
shines. 1t has already passed a reso-
luton favoring the election of United
States senators by a direct vote; also
a bill providing for the publicity of
campaign contributions before cleo
tons. 1t has paved the way to dis
pose of the Canadian reciprocity bill
in the course of the next couple of
days. And only ten days of the special
session has passed. 1t used to be con-
sidered necessary for the house to take
at least three or four weeks to organ
ize and get ready for work at the be-
ginning of a session. This seems to be
the prevailing rule in state legisla-
lures. But the Democratic members
of the house of representatives have
shown that such delay and procras-
tination is unnecessary.