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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Don't be deceived by this talk of
special privilege. 1t exists for the ordi-
nary man, for him who knows neither
the genius of hard work nor the in
domitable courage that doesn't recog-
nize a stone wall when it bumps into
one but for those who dare and those
who dream and, dreaming, do, there is
no special privilege save the privilege
of the competent and the ssuper-com-
petent of mankind.
No other kind of special privilege
ever ruled the world of strong men.
For the weak, the mediocre, the cow
ardly, there is always barrier of other
mems privileges and there always will
be. In olden days there was the spe-
cia1 privilege of birth, but strong,
though nameless, men went forth with
sword and spear and battlea0 and
founded noble lines and dynasties. The
ancestor of this family-proud lord was
a digger of bitches; the forefather &C
that powerful monarch, preaching the
divine right of kings, was a butcher.
Today, there is the vested interest
bogy, the money power bogy. the trust
bogy and hundred others to alright
and Cypress the souls of the timid
But this ironmaster was a poor tele-
graph operator, that way king the
son Of an impecunious minister, that
other oil magnate a penurious book
keeper at the age of thirty-men who
had the vision and the courage and the
strength-tl1e special privilege of hard
work and brains.
1t has been so frc-1 the beginning of
time. 1t will always be so regardless
of what laws we may write into the
statute books or all the canons of So
ciety. There is no divine right save
that of genius, which is hard work:
those who Copyright, 1912,
by w. E. Wi1liams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
EVENING CHAT
81 RUTH CAMERON.

The old question as to whether engaged
people should have anything to do with
any member Of the opposite sex other
than their fiances, has again come to the
surface in my correspondence.
Now I have done my best before to set
tie this matter out of my own wisdom,
and my settlement has evidently been un
satisfactory, SO this time I referred the
matter to the Council.
The authorman's wife was the first to
pass on the question. why, of course
not" she said promptly and decisiyely :
lit isn't the thing at ALL
Apparently, she thought that entirely set
tied the matter, for she looked cutie sur
prised when the man-who-thinks< began
to speak.
Said the-man-who-think meditative:y,
answer to question like that. That's a
thing each couple ought to settle for
themselves. 1t seems to me that the best
test for any engaged man or girl is to
put himself or herself in the others place
If girl wants to entertain one of her
old friends on an evening when him
self if she would be willing to have her
france take one of the girls he used to
like to the theater on a night when she
couldn't go with him. And If she honest
ly thinks she would be willing, why then
she should ask the same privilege"
Don't you think said the lady-who-
always-knows-someho gently that the
very best test would be to abide by the
others feelings If the other party has
the Sl1SnteSt feel1ng about a thing like
that, no matter how unreasonable the
feeling may seem to you. oughtn't you tn
give up, If you really love him? Jealousy
hurts terribly, you know, and it seems to
me that anyone who really cared would
give up a good deal rather than inflict it,
'I'll tell you what think said Molly.
the little stenographer lady, cit all de-
Ponds on how much you want to see 9TH
er people,
"Humphr' interrupted the -wants-to-be-
eynic, that's just like you, Molly. I say
that's the very last thing to go by
81 was going to say went on Molly
serenely, when I was interrupted, that
if you don't care anything about seeing
the person in question, you should see
him all you want. But If you do care,
you shouldn't see him at ALL
The wants to-be-cynic's expression re-
minded one of a sloop that has suddenly
tackled and lost the wind
1T reckon" said the -who-thinks,
that the only safe thing you can say,
Ruth is, 1T ali depends Of course. any
one ought to be square and kind about it,
and try to put himself in the other fell
lows place, but beyond that, it just de-
ponds on circumstances"
On the whole, I think that's pretty
good summing up of the case.
Don't you?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
FROM OTHER PENS
FOR WAR OR PEACE?

III WAX Ok REACE2
A controversy is waxing warm in The
departments at Washington over
whether the Panama canal zone shall
De dedicated to war or peace-for that
is what 1t amounts to. The war de-
partment wants the strip devoted IN
war; 1t doesn't want it settled nor
cultivated. It says that in case of war
the people would be in the way. The
agricultural departments wants the
strip for peace. It wants the land
parceded out to farmers and c1tItiva-
ted 1t wants peaceful citizens to he
come cultivarors of the soil, and food
produced upon the strip of land to feed
people. In fact, the AGRICULTURAL de-
partment has gone to the extent of do
ing little experimenting upon the zone
with view to ascertaining what crons
are best suited to cultivation thereon
we OF the less warlike stripe are like
~ 10 De in sympathy with the agricul-
turaI department. We do not believe
tnat II would serve any useful purpose
10 set aside strip of land six miles
wide and 4O miles long and allow IT 10
grow up In rank and worthless veee-
tatlon simply because at some future
time 1T would make a better dphfIin1
ground than If 1t should become a
splendid garden, supporting MANY hu-
man beings. We therefore trust that
the government will be found upon tina
SIDE OF peace. rather than upon the
SIDE or war. and that within a few
years we may be able to sit beneath
a comfortable porch Overlooking a
splendid farm, while watching the
great vessels pass to and from through
the canal We prefer visions of happv
little children. to distorted and man
gled corpses strewn about the earth
Joliet Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
QUAKER AfEDITATIoNs.
[From the PhiIadeInhia Renord l

@chA lhC LAlAAa0cApnld fleCOfQ.l
A maiden all for lawn-the grass widow.
Frogs legs on the menu constitute one
of the signs of spring.
The sins that pay no dividends are the
ones that shock the world.
Some people never enjoy good health
even when they have it
If it's the unexpected that always hap
pens, why should it be SO unexpected?
The man who shaves himself can't 70
blamed for getting mad, II the razor loses
its temper first.
You can't cut some people by ignoring
them completely. but the suburbanite dis
covers that he can't apply the same rule
to his lawn.
Harduppe-''HelloI Buggins; suppose
you can't lend me 80, can. your Bug
gins-"You are one Of the most accurai'.
supposers know.
He-"Why does a woman always look
under the bed for a man?" She-"Why
does a man always go out between the
acts to look for one?'
Mrs. Wiggwag-"And so you went to
Niagara Falls? Did you ever hear any
thing more impressive than the roar OF
the waterf' Mrs. Tightwad--Oniy the
roar my husband let out when he got mis-
hotel bill"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
LAYHAWKER JOTS

A lazy man will. take any kind of a
job he can't get, says the Usage City
Free Press.
News from Mt. Pleasant in the Man
kato Western Advocate is to the effect
that the apricots are taking their
jackets off,"
A. T. Random, of the Harrington Sun.
quotes bride Of that place as having
remarked: 1.-The sweets of married life
are not found in family jars
An observation on rain by the Con-
way Springs Star: Rain, rain, the love-
ly rain; how it plays pitter patter on
the window panes; and makes vegeta-
ton grow.
The Clyde Farmers Voice expresses
surprise that Uncle Tom and Little Eva
are still putting in an appearance in
Kansas. The Voice thought that they
had died and gone to Heaven long ago.
During the last week in one field a
lister has been at work planting corn,
reports the Lyons Republican, and in
been working hard to get the corn
shucked out before being run over by
the Lister.
Related by the Concordia Kansan:
A girl who had been attending a board
ing school came home for a visit, and
about the first thing she said to her
mother was this: why mother,
weigh 1Z0 POuIlOS SIIIppSQ LUZ SyH1s
The mother turned pale, and then gasp
ed, For goodness sake who is Jim?"
The following is credited by the Usage
City Free Press to the omnipresent
Elk: A Kansas editor has discover
ed a method to break up a setting hen.
He slips an alarm clock under her, and
when it starts it's clatter the hen makes
her f1uttering and cackling get away,
and never comes back. 1t is easy to
believe the alarm would have that eff
feet on a hen, for she has no hands
which to pick up the clock and fire it
out of the window.
An Irishman from the ould sod and
who for many years lived on a home
stead he had taken in Woodson county,
was a fine old Irishman but given to
profanity, tells the Toronto Republi-
can He was not bIasphemous. Pro-
family was simply portion of his voca-
One chill November morning
Mike went on an errand to the country
Methodist parsonage, a couple of miles
away. On his way he killed skunk
When he knocked at the parsonage
door he was invited to sit by at the
kitchen stove, the heater not yet be-
ing put up. And" Mike used to say
intelling it, land the preachers wolfe.
who was foine lady, began to sniff
an to snuff as the shtove warmed me
UP, an at last she says: 'Moike, We
ould divil we. what sort av parfumery
have yet got on yez, anyway? Ye
shmell loike dom'd skoonk!' .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
THE nusIMAN.

Over some he sprinkles gold,
Over some he sprinkles gray;
On his courser swift and bold
He is riding day by day.
Over some he sprinkles JOY,
over some he sprinkles care;
what is that you say, my boy,
He's already touched my hair?
Over some he sprinkles dust
OF the dreams of happy life
Over some he sprinkles trust
In the bloom beyond the strife.
Upannounced and unprecedented,
From mysterious places far
He has come all unaShamed,
And he makes us what we are.
Never think of him at all,
Never worry, never mind;
If this dust in silence fall.
Then he wishes to be kind.
And, indeed, tbs best for me
And. for you to never know
How he brings the dust of glee,
How he brings the dust Of woe.
Over some he sprinkles spring,
Over some he sprinkles fall;
In the end he'll surely bring
Dust of gray to crown us all.
Dust of dreams are in his pail,
Dust of love for those who fail,
Dust of hope for weary head;
Dust Of victory for the dead.
Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.
AS a general rule. the good aviator dies

AS a general rule. the good aviator dies
young.
A man must fish for fun instead OF fish
If he would really enjoy it.
Some snakes are harmless and useful,
but none of them look that way.
Loyalty is most admirable when 1t isE' t
paid for, that being the scarcest kind.
Much as we love flowers, it is our
theory that no man should wear two
boutonnieres at the same time.
man who brings a damage suit IS
never very cheap in his demands, al
though he may be in other respects.
Practice is necessary to produce music.
and this world has number of other
little drawbacks.
Living in city differs from small
town in this respect: one notices less diff
ference in the clothes folks wear on Sun
day.
Now that the vaudeville producers have
combined they may limit the output; the
trust idea has some good points
Fortunately it doesn't take young
man so long to bid goodbye to his
Hearts Desire after he marries her.
What has become of the old-fashioned
party who called skunk polecat?
Some backsliders get lot of practice
in their chosen line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

All parades would be bigger if there
was more room for more marchers in
the front ranks.
y y g.
Putting off things till the last min
ute is an excellent way not to get them
done properly.
< x \
There wouldn't be so many breach
of promise suits if there wasn't so
much love-letter writing.
The few handsome men in the world
are seriously handicapped because of
their knowledge of that fact.
x X
In the servant line, there is never
any scarcity in the supply of those
willing to be servants of the people"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
A Real Live Green Cat.

I've never seen a green cat,
never expect to see one;
But one thing I'm sure of,
I'd rather see than be one.
That's about the way one of the
good Old Mother Goose rhymes, which
was sung years ago. ran.
But-Columbus has a real, live
green cat, or, more properly speaking,
kitten, and still more properly, it's
only partly green feline. Best of all,
this freak of nature was ushered into
fresh air and the light of day March
IT, when most every one was wearing
the green.
This verdant kitten is the property
of Walter Owens, proprietor of a cafe.
It's mother is a common old alley cat,
black and white, with gray markings.
It's fatheri Well, who knows? The
kitten is mostly white, has gray mark
ings, but all of its legs and the tops
of its ears are a bright, real Irish
green. The reporter. who inspected
the kitten, failed to discover that any
deception had been practiced in dye
ing the kitten.
Owens has received several fancy
offers for his strange pet, one of them
coming from an East side cat fancier,
already the owner of nearly thirty diff
ferent varieties, who says she will give
$50 for 1t. Owens has named the curl
osity "Shamrock."-Ohio State Jour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
RY TIE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

One local candidate says he will not
tempt voters by issuing campaign
cigars, and even blind man can see
where he is right. Plenty will vote
against him anyway, without any sucn
temptation.
And for the Illinois man who kill
ed woman while she was playing the
piano. we desire to Withhold judgment
until further details disclose the name
of the selection she was playing at the
time.
Sundays tragedy in the police de-
partment will have its results. In day
or two the papers will get a letter from
Pro Bonus Publicus, which communica-
ton will read something like this: Last
Sunday morning a neighbours chickens
got into my garden, and 1 called the
police. 1t was Nearly Noon before an
officer answered the call. 1t is High
Time something was Did about the
way the police department disregards
the call of a citizen and a taxpayer
The man who was murdered last Sun
day, was working for about the same
wages received by an Office clerk who
is considered a good risk by an in
surance company. He was one of IL
men who are assigned the duty of
guarding the city of $4,000 during each
night. In a day or two, the little squad
of officers-most of them called back
from night duty, will walk slow be-
hind him for a few minutes, and then
hurry back to their posts. prepared TIC
do just what he did if the occasion
demands it.
The statement made by the American
Grocer that more beer than coffee had
been consumed during the past year,
may be true. but If it is, this depart
ment is guilty of getting some poor
wop's share of coffee.
The fulI-bearded man who smokes
cigarettes is almost as scarce as the
thin, elderly woman who keeps money
in her stocking.
When a reader finds the word "etaion''
in his paper, it is a waste of time to
hunt the dictionary. It is neither
new religion nor a breakfast food, but
merely an up-and- down combination of
the keys on a linotype machines mis-
print which occurs frequently. "Shrdlu'
is another word invented by the me-
chanical genius of the linotype.
Leisure is the time away from bust
ness which should be utilized in dig
cling dandelions.
The cook books give several methods
of utilizing stale bread, and anyone
of them is better than keeping chick |
ems
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
HVAOR or THE D<Y


Benham-We need a reform in our hank
lng system. Mrs. Benham-Yes; it's a
shame that wife can't overdraw her
husbands account.-Judge.
Uncle has made his will, hasn't hep
es; what's the next thing on the pro
gram? Why, to get him to consult a
number OF specialists. Life.
He-Tomorrow, darling, is our wedding
day. She-Yes, and it's bargain day al
Silkman's, too. Isn't 1t just too agRra-
vadng?-Boston TRANSCRIPT.
Fancy letting himself be run over by
cab in these days of automobiles ana
motor BUSES" Yes; he must be an
old-fashioned old cuss.'-PeIe MeIe.
Every cloud has a silver lining"
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes agreed The
Simple Mug, but unfortunately n talSes
other people to see it."-PhiIadeiphia Rec
ord. -
In the Park--One of the Public Ito the
keeper)-Here's a dog scratching up one
OF the flower beds. Keeper-That's All
right It's my dog.-Fliegende Blaetter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
10 MAKE SEA TRAVEL SAFER.

At conference of mayors of cities
in New York simple device-legisla-
tive, not mechanicalEfor making sea
travel much safer wa suggested and
was so well thought of that it was
urged for Immediate adoption by con-
gress. Senator McCumber has intro
duced a bill embodying this New York
plan and an identical bill is pending in
the house of representatives.
These bills are very brief. They pro-
vide only that hereafter no vessel Of
more than 5000 tons gross measure
ment shall be cleared with passengers
from any port in the United States un-
less there shall have been advertised
and printed on each ticket issued for
passage on the vessel the number OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NoALL.

If Heine owes me $40 does he owe
Maximillian?
eyes! That's Little Lovey. We ex-
pect him to be president of the United
States some day.
If this thing wishes for money and
that thing wishes for love what do you
suppose distinguished?
(AH that he asked was love, and her
Dad kicked him.
If pair of newly ironed trousers got
gloomy would it be a case of depressed
pants?
(Ohi 1t takes nine tailors to make a
man. Ira la. ira la, ira lad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

In making the assertion that the
Democrats are anxious for him to be
defeated for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination, because they fear they
would have no show against him in
the subsequent presidential campaign,
Colonel Roosevelt is probably not get
ting the information on which to base
such statement from the Democrats
AS a matter of fact, the Democrats are
firm in tAeiI belief that Colonel Rocse-
welt would be the Republican candi-
date easiest to defeat, and on the
third term issue alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

Those particularly interested in poll
tics should keep their weather eye on
the possibility of Governor Tom Mar
shall, of Indiana, emerging from the
Baltimore convention with the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination. Cover
nor Marshall will probably go into the
convention with no more than the 80
delegates from his own state. But he
is likely to loom up large as most
available timber to break the deadlock
which Is sure to develop after the first
ballot has been taken on the several
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

In all likelihood. there won't be as
much mud-slinging between the can
dldates OF the rival parties in the regu-
lar presidential campaign as there has
been in the campaigns of the candi-
dates in each of the big political par
ties for the presidential nominations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

TFrom the New York Press-1
The straightest face tells the crookedest
story.
You can be friends with most anybody
till you get really acquainted.
The reason a man likes stew at home is
he doesn't dare tell his wife he never
orders cheap dishes downtown.
As far as a woman can make out a
mans business consists of his coming
home and saying there's money in It.
There's more sense in never having any
money because you always spend than
in always having it because you never
spend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
Rruca Ismau haa the idea :

J. Bruce Ismay has the idea that he
was imposed upon by much of the
questioning directed at him in the in
vestigation of the Titanic disaster by
the senate committee. But he'll have
a much harder time in satisfactorily
answering the carefully prepared
questions that are to be put to all the
witnesses at the investigation of this
disaster that has been begun by the
British authorities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

Is there anything unusual in the fact
that Senator Smith, in charge of the
senate's investigation of the wreck of
the Titanic, cannot get on the track of
one of the important wireless messages
incident to the disaster? 1t is safe to
assume that many of the wireless mes
sages sent forth are like the fanciful
arrow that Longfellow shot into the
afr, which fell to earth he knew not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

Most folk probably had the idea that
link cuff buttons Were something rather
new in that line. having only -reen on
the market for a score of years or So
But along comes Chicago man telling
OF the loss of set of these buttons
that had been in his family for II gen.
erations, Or 81 years. This will be
great news for those who insist there is
nothing new under the sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

At Santa Monica, the other day,
Teddy Tetzlaff, a Californian, drove an
automobile at speed of 1850 miles
an hour. This is considerably better
than mile a minute, but it is still far
behind the speed that is attained by
some of the Topeka automobilists
when they get on a good piece of street
pavement. Or. at least, the Topeka
speedomaniacs appear to travel much
faster than a mile minute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

presidential candidates. New York's
ninety uninstructed delegates are to
vote as unit in the convention. They
will have a big say in breaking the
deadlock. And there is every reason to
believe that the New York Democratic
leaders think we'll of Tom Marshall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

It's an ill-wind, etc. Because of the
striking pressmen and stereotypers, the
Chicago newspapers have been forced
to reduce their usual mammoth edi-
lions to issues of four pages. And thus
they are saving big pile on their bills
for white paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

An unusual circumstance surround
ing the breaking of five worlds auto
mobile records at the Santa Monica
races is that nom of the necks of the
contestants were also broken. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

Despite the severe handicap of being
the son of a famous man, Bob Taft
continues to work his way up the lad
der Of collegiate fame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

IF the cyclones. tornadoes, floods and
other disasters continue coming to the
front, 1912 will go down in history with
a record Of unruliness on the part of
Mother Nature that will be unparalleled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

Professor ''Woodrun'' Wilson is be-
ginning to loom up as a sure t-also
ran" for the Democratic presidential
nomination. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

If the price of meat continues to go
up, there will be countless additions to
the ranks of the vegetariGns, perforce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-07

Geographically speaking. at least,
the solid south" is being considerably
cut up by the flood waters of the Mis-
sisSippi.