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sting tho heart of friend like tue z. ael blow of d whiplash.
 Or
 You can write n message of meannes to one who should he dear to you and 1ll his. hours with bitterness or with sad- ness. or you can withhold the smile yo1 owe 10 your own and cloud the skies you should try 10 clear.
 Or
 You can slight the sunlight and breeze and flowers and birds and live like a stranger in your own world, or you can live without rest or relaxation from in- cessant labors and strain to the snap ping point the delicate threads of life.
 Or
 You can read that which is only fol the moment and fill .our mind witt mental trash or that which is viciou and fill your hours with moral filth. q you can push some fellow mortd whose feet have missed the way far ther down the road to ruin.
 The half hour Is yours. What will you do?
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By E(

His pictures bring big prices, and he never has to solicit orders. Some of his critics hail him as the coming great paint CT, and others say his eccentricities pulnt to insanity.
 These are the ''eccentricities:"
 He cares nothing about high society. Nothing attracts hfm except the com mon people whom he loves and finds in- terosting He finds them less spoiled. more natural.
 He stldies life with the veneer off down to the flesh, bones, sinews and blood Beneath, at the heart of things, he finds their disappointrnents. Joys, sor- rows. and puts them on canvas
 Moreover
 He had his studio above a stable among plain dwellings. When he celebrates the completion of a picture he does so by treating the entire neigrborhood 10 as much macaronl as they can eat The feast lasts for hours, and as the big party troops out of the banquet room they shout
 Long live Antonio Mancini"'
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TH1s is a true story with a moral.
 He owned a fine little farm im- ! proved with a good house and harms and sheds. near a railroad station. There were cows and pigs and chickens a-plenty.
 But he grew discontented.
 He wanted 10 go to the city, where the wheels go round and where the bright lights shine It was slow out there. The white clouds drlfted through the blue sky and the days were long and the chores seemed never done.
 And she2
 Secretly. she longed 10 look into the big windows of the stores and go shopping like eitv folk and to the theatre. And Inc children needed better advantages. So he sold the little farm for less than 1t was worth and made public sale of the stock and implements.
 They went to the city. He had noth- ing particular in view, but fancied his little capital would buy a small business that would afford them living, the means for education of the children and entertainment.
 The money dwipded rapidly.
 Rents were h4 4h, new clothes cost money and the cost of living was beyond all calculation. Hitherto their living ex- penses had not been considered as pay. of the farms revenues. 4 Living tout of a basket was diffes At After a good third of the purchase money was gone he fell into the tolls of a broker. who sold him a small bus mess that lasted but three months He had no experience in business and it was certain he would fail.
 They moved into cheaper quarters and he began a weary search for a job. The family clothes grew shabby. He was dis colra ged and she was fretful. There was friction. Tn short
 Poverty came in at the door and love Kew ont at the window.
 He finally found a job aS driver of 2 delivery wagon and the wages harels nrsyided food and shelter. The wife tooA in washing in order to clothe the chil dren so they might stay in school
 All this in one year
 The last time saw him was amazed AS prosperous young farmer he wa in robust health and looked the worif eouarelv in the face. Now he had thu ,neavre look of one who is poorly fed anf lives in a squalid tenement and tne all of one who, hopeless, drags himself t' his task.
 Trdid not ,seesthe wife.
 Throughout the English speaking wor'' the Tooth anniversary of the birth
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were participants during the Revolution. They parted on the following morning. Lafayette continuing his course toward Cahaba, the state capital and MT. Smith resuming his treadmll round of duty as secluded missionary to the Indians, They parted with the same demonstra- tions of affection with which they had met, and never again met each other in the flesh.
 With cheerful alacrity MT. Smith con tinued his work among the Indians, to which work he gave expansion in later years as the white population continued to multiply. He was of immense service to the government in adjusting the claims of the Indians and in pacfyng them in the acceptance of the inevitable lot finally meted out to them. As mediatorial agent Mr. Smith prevented much butch cry in those early days when the eXtnc- ton of the Indian was So seriously Ie- sired.
 With fame unsought and undcsired the
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tn. have been hurtful-and not what any of these divorced gentlemen stand for.
 What interests Us is wherein may We of democratic persuasion get benefit from the beligerency of this house so seriously divided against itself. This break. it scene to me, will more securely intrench the demoeratic party in tho good graees of the people, and it's yot- ing strength in November will be nightly reinforced. For q progressive republican today is more truly democrat than he is a republican of the old school; and democratic candidate of the poise and ealibre of Floor Leader Underwood would attract thousands of good republ
 can voters who are fully awakened to the folly of sticking to a ship that Is we'll
 nigh in process of dissolution-a ship that
 Is sans rudder and compass sans mas
 ter, sans hope for any fair and sure 1 haven for it's crew.
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side of the ex-President a sort of trag- edy-the sort that is best seen in the passing of leader, no matter how vul- garly or commonly that passing Is ac- oomplished
 It is as though a Caruso or a Scotti had quit his noble singing in T Pagli- acci' or Fl Traviata' and gone singing in cheap beer gardens as if some spiritual Forb Robertson had passed just now. lunging in drunken fashion with bell swung about his neck, an- nouncings every few steps that he would henceforth appear in light vaudeville for his souls sake-no more in large and masterful parts.
 Breaking from a party which in the past has believed in nothing if not in close formation, we have seen during the past week a republican party lead CT announcing himself, to all intents and purposes, a socialist of the deepest
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or no time to be lost in pursuit of will o'th wisps The judges are not at our threats yet there will he tune enough to dispose of any judicial hy- enas when we get some little unfinished business disposed of. viz: When we get a little cheaper bread; when all the peo- pie of these states may be able to thor oughly sweeten their coffee and tea win granulated sugar when we will have got the price of nourishing meats back in the teens again. Clearly We have no time to go on the devious and uncer- tain trail of new and curious gospels when party is in power today that allowed a trust to fix the price or it's products without regard to supply and demand, for IA years, and yet go un- punished, All of this play to the gal lery by MT. Roosevelt must go unheeded until the problem of the big criminal
 s disposed of.
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And the boy who willingly submits to be fussed over and made to pose as a sprig of aristrocacy probably has some thing the matter with him.
 Better see the doctor.
 If he submits unHillingly and has In him the making of man better take him down to the corner and leave him there in the midst of few active hus- tiers of his own size and age.
 He may come back whipped and cry ing. but demanding that he be dressed like other boys. Put plain togs on him and turn him loose again.
 He may come back whipped. but not crying. or he may come back dlsarranged, but victor. Anyway
 Boys will be boys not babies.
 When Sammy protests his hair ougn, to be cut short better send him to the barber shop Rome and Paris are asking. "1s the painter Antonio Mancini mad or only genius?
 Certainly he is genius.
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theories for a cornerstone, only the months can reveal.
 Lately the co1onel's speeches have been overfilled with appeals for popu- lar rule. and the old trite appeals that have been literally scattered from time to time in the Outlook-rehashes and variations of old dogmas that most sensible men in republics believe and that all school children clearly under stand after being once told-the while a democratic House majority has been concretely getting a tariff revised and shaped into laws. And just now mat party that Is doing its utmost to getthe food and drink and clothes of a people to somewhat lower cost will Indeed be more seriously regarded by voters in November than either the one at present in power or any that MT. Roose- velt may evolve through continual abuse of the ermine Just now there Is little
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ly as a trained dipplomat frum Mex ico, but when he once cums out in the open and hands you whats cumming you will see that he has been true to his Idols, and as cruel in purpose as a Yankee Indian. These peepul have followed Faults Gods for years, thousands of yeers, and have had there hands raised against the rest of the world, it would be strange if it did not take menny centuries of hard work to get it out of there systems. Don't try to travvel too fast with them, or trust them too far in the beginning, they air uneducated and not versed in moddern things, but they have the cunning of the Fox, and would Steal Delegates to the nasional conversion frum there Best Frend.
 We sincerely hope that the Repub- lick of China as guided by General
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4-flushing counterpart in this Land of the Free and Home of the third term to greeve himself to death.
 China has declared itself repub- lick, and is making history and Gen erals in evvery issue of the papers, Go to it, we say, and when you get good and reddy just remember your Cuzzens across the way who gave you such wallopping not so long ago, and if you want to fite mop up with them, and after you have trimmed each uther down to a Stand, you won't be such a Big Teller Peril as me and Hobsun think you is, and then per haps there mite be sum chanse of examining sum cents into your Beans. If we must have Uropean war, a mise little frollick between Jaypan and China would look good. Jaypan, cents she chased General Kuropatsky across Manchurier and yanked hair mat
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dye besides whom Herr Rebel is rather a conservative sort of chap; and yet withal distraught and madly clamor-
 ing for the republican party's choicest blessing. MT. Roosevelt must certain ly know the folly of believing In quick results from the 2. O. p.--must see that
 the administration Is as impressionable
 to new thought and openminded concern
 cern for the destinies of the republic,
 as an ingot of steel is to a shower of paper pellets.
 The ex-President cannot be called a clown. Obviously that stubborn, fight ing brain has matched sVme full-fledged political project which he means to
 work out against the time for the call of delegates at Chicago. Whether this
 new-ha tched scheme aims at the forma- tion of new party, with the recall of judges conservation of national re- sources and such distinctly socialistic
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What will be the end of his insurg- ence. and what will result from his nation wide canvass for delegates. we
 may not accurately approximate by
 using his New York failure as crite-
 rion to judge by. It may yet develop
 that he is not the misguided ass the country believes him to be-.
 At the moment the renomination of
 Mir. Taft seems assured; but it is not of the probability or improbability of this that we are interested. It is rather of the divorcement of Roosevelt, Lafol- lette, Pinchot and those larger leaders from the republican party. These men
 have outgrown the bounds of their party these men are infinitely larger than their party-assuredly Lafollette and Pinchot are,-and by their party
 mean the policies of the adminstra l ton, an administration whose policies lhave been so curiously conservative that
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r HE nation has been treated to
 some first-rate comedy the past
 week. Almost it might be call ed farce-comedy were it not that the performance of the chlef puhooh la" left him utterly spent, wlth searce strength te drag himself to the wings of the stage For indeed we may not rightly judge Colonel Roosevelt's s strength by his continued powers of vfiiificatipn nor yet his brave spirit by the number of words that issue from his lips
 For the Colonel had been a prince in his time--a player of large parts. Only in this ward-heeling, spellbinding, spiel iny of billingsgate which his defeat in the New York primaries last Tuesday has lately evoked, we see him in a new light It has too it's tragic as well as comic side There is in this vulgar
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xIsTUR EDDITUR:


 M Who was it? Sum Poet or uther like Longstreet, or Rock feller, sed that when it Cum to mys- terius ways and crooked deals, that the Heethen Chinee had evvery uther aspirent lashed to the mast. The land of the crossed eyed laundry ticket has been kinder Raising Up here of late. For steen thousands of yeers the Chinees Emperer has continued to Emp at the same old stand, and when one would pass out there was anuther rite reddy to cum to bat, and now we learn that this the oldest Dynasty in the world repudiates hereditery rites to rule and the Peepul announse for the Recall, so far as Kings and Elm perers air conserned and Republick is in order.
 China is Crate country entirely
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[ did not .seeA the wife.

Throughout the English speaking world the tooth anniversary of the birth or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The county commissioners spent yes
tcrday at Maple Hill.
\ hunting party for next week is
in process of formation at the court
house.
Seats for the Cook Ladies' Union,
which opens at the Majestic next week,
arc selling we'll.
If a green Christmas means a fat
graveyard Weather Maker Flora had
better get busy.
Today is the last day of school for
more than two weeks. The kids are
whooping it in glee.
Judge Z. r. Simon, who has been Ill
with pneumonia is reported to be re
covering slowly
!. Ross has returned from Oklahoma.
where he went after a prisoner for
Sheriff J. d Norton.
IT'S mighty hard for boys who. go
iunking' to stay honest said Probate
Judge Schoch today
The Office of the Commercial clnh
will be open next week, although the
cafe will be closed on account OF re
pairs.
This is the last day to pay taxes at
the courthouse. Hundreds OF taXpaE
ers will have to pay the additional
penalty
The hearing in the case of Belle
Hughes. charged with forging Il decd,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
Second Offense for Painter
Who Oyercharged County.
John Townsend Made $500 on
Court House Work.
COMMISSIONERS KNEW NOT
And There Is No Way to Get
Back the Money.
Another Chapter in Paint
Squabble This Afternoon.

When John Townsend today tried
to collect As cents an hour for the
men employed in helping repair the
residence section of the county jail
whom he paid 25 cents an hour, the
county commissioners were prepared
to resist the payment of the claim.
But they We're mt prepared for the
shock they received when he said that
he had used the same method of col
lection and payments on the work
done on the court house several
months ago. The job amounted to
between $500 and $500 and what the
county was overcharged is now only
guess work. With two men working
on the Jail the overcharge was nearly
$40 a week. The total amount in
volved was about 500. The former
the same ratio of overcharge was
used Townsend made the job fairly
paying one.
There was grief in store for Town
send when he presented his bill today
He objected to any cut, wanting to
collect ) cents an hour for the men
that he paid IS and 80 cents an hour.
This. he said, he was entitled to for
employed at cut rates objected, say
ing he was paid only 80 cents an hour
and Townsend hadn't furnished tools
for him to work with.
This caused Townsend to change
his excuse He wanted the extra
money then for having had the job in
charge, for getting the men and seeing
that they worked.
Why he said, cts the same kind
of a contract 7 worked on when I did
the work on the court house and you
paid me $500 or 5000 for that and
made no kick. You gave me the
money"
County Board DiCn't Know.
''Well the board didn't know what
kind of scheme you were working or
it wouldn't ha- paid you the money!
retorted Commissioner Simms. And
the other members of the board con-
Cured in the opinion
Then Townsend refused to settle
without consulting an attorney. Then
he said he would settle anyway the
commissioners wanted to, that they
didn't need to pay him anything
The board indicated that it would
allow him 10 per cent for being fore
man of the job but that there would be
no hold up or rake off on this job.
At late hour the matter was still
unsettled although indfca tions were
that Townsend would get 10 per cent
and A cents an hour for his own labor,
the men he hired to be paiC the price
for which they contracted to work for
him
Nothing was done regarding the over
charge. according to Townsend's ad-
mission. on the big job on the court
house. There isn't any doubt, accord
ing to the declaration made by Town
send that he grossly overcharged the
county for work done there and for
which he was paid between $500 and
$500. The amount wrongfully taken
from the county is not known and re-
covery might be difficult. If it is not
recovered the amount, whatever 1t
may be, will remain in the pockets OF
the painter who hired men for % and
80 cents an hour and charged the
county As cents an hour for their
services.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
Prompt and
Efficient Service
HAVE MORE ROOM
RemOdeling of Commercial
Club Quarters Begins.
Folding Partitions a Part of the
New Plan.

Next Monday the work of redecorating
and semodeling the Commercial club
rooms on the fifth floor of the Commerce
building will be begun For at least
week no noon hour meals will be served
club members.
The improvements include the combining
OF the present cafe with TIE pool and bill
lard room in making a banquet room
that will have seating capacity of tw"
hundred. The wallis of the east end of
the hallway will be torn out. Foldina
partitions Will be provided SO that the
portion of the big cafe room on the south
may be divided into committee rooms.
The pool and billiard tables will be
placed in the room which has been utilized
by to Topeka Ad club and the Topeka
Real Estate Dealers association for their
meetings. Tho former Organization has
a least for the time being deserted the
Commercial club, holding its meetings at
the hotels
The large parlor at the front of the suite
of rooms. as we'll a all the office rooms
will be redecorated.
Work of putting on a new tin roof TO
replace the old lcaky composition roof
has been completed.
The growth of the Commercial club
made it necessary to have more adequate
quarters. In fact on several occasions
recently it has been necessary for club
members to fall in line for their meals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

also has erected a hotel for Unmarried
men, a Workinginen's hotel and three
municipal homes fer servants, the lat
ter liz an effort to solve the Servant
problem"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20

was set today for Dec "a in the court
of Topeka.
Bradley Kennedy. of Beloit. aged 80
years and Mae Wane, of St. Louis.
aged rs were married by Probate Judge
Schoch today.
Rev. c. C. Fishback will speak at
the next meeting of the Topeka Min
isteria1 union, January 6, on The
Menace of Law"
The Munn-G Gordon case which is
being tried in Division No. of the
district court Will not be finished be
fore New Years.
Topeka merchants are preparing for
the biggest rush of the season tomor-
row Hundreds of out of town shop
pers will he in the city.
The county commissioners had lit
tie time for regular county business
today. They We're too busy hearing
kicks upon personal property taxes.
If the people of Oakland decide to
become part of Topeka and join the
capital city family before February l,
they can vote in the April city cleo
ton.
The Boy Scouts will hold meeting
at the Central Y. NJ G. A tonight to
listen TO an address by DR.. c. F,
Menninger on First Aid to the In
iured.'
The Rev. Robert Gordon will speak
IeA' 2uhudN eNehluS vi ne 'Aoiis "
the Heart" This will be one of a
series of brighten up sermons which
Mr.. Gordon is delivering.
The Ketcham case from Alta Vista,
wherein Eetcham is sued by a bank to
recover money loaned on a note will
be tried in the district court next week
on change of venue from Wabaunsee
county.
e. F. A Reinisch, superintendent of
parks expects to have labeled by next
spring one specimen of each variety of
tree or shrub in Central and Willow
parks. This will be of value to stud
cnts and others.
After the first of the year the man
agement of the Midwinter exposition
VIII begin to exploit the show. Fifty
thousand tickets have been ordered,
and this is an indication that large
crowds are expected to attend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
AGED WIDOW WEEDS.
prominent oman. 20 Years Old, Be-
comes Bride.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. Pot became
Known here last night that Mrs. Mary
7 sweet of this city, aged 20, and
WiIIiam p. kirkpatrick, aged 6S, OF
80 The bride who was a widow, is
tba sister of J. o. Davidson, receiver
81 the Orient and a prominent fnan-
cier. C. L. Davidson, former mayor
and at one time a candldate 1or gov
a-noI of Kansas, and Mrs. Samuel F.
Woolard, wife of a colonel in the ma
tionaI guard.
Mrs Sweet lives in a handsome
apartment in this city and is wealthy.
The Groom is a farmer Relatives
did not attend the wedding. which
was a quiet affair, at which the Rev.
Mr.. Woodward of Newton officiated.
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DR.. SHELDON is BACK.
Topeka Writer and Former Preacher
Returns From Pacific Coast.

DR.. Charles NJ Sheldon, the famous
Topeka ex-clergyman, and author of
''In His Steps," etc, arrived in Topeka
this afternoon from the Pacific coast
in a special Santa F'e car in which L.
NJ. Jones, superintendent of telegraph,
travelled.
In the last few months DIR. Sheldon
has been popular in his lecture work
in the west, having spoken to thous-
andS of persons. He will have a
message for the members of the Cen
trail Congregational C. urch and others
Sunday morning, and Sunday evening
he will read the third and fourth
chapters of his new book, "Of One
Blood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-20
MUNICIPAL SHOPS.
City Fathers Flats, Also to Fight Cost
of Living.

Washington, Dec. 20.-As check on
the y 'gh cost of living, the city
fathers of Budapest, Austria Hun
gary. not only have established munich
pal stores but also are engaged in
building and renting at low rates
houses and flats to the people. In
report received here today American
Vice Consul Mallet declares the move
ment is attended By great success, al
though he adds that in spite of these
paternaIistic efforts the living cost has
risen slightly. The shops run by the
city sell principally meats, poultry.
eggs. and butter and do a thriving
trade in horse flesh, which has become
a staple article OF food there In adj