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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

The other day hard a man complain
ing very bitterly because a newspaper,
which had published an untrue story
about him on its first page, and had been
forced by him to retract, had buried the
retraction in a very obscure corner of one
of the inside pages. Probably less than
one in ten of the people who read the
original story, he pointed out, would see
the retraction.
Everyone who listened to his complaint
rallied with him against the injustice of
the newspaper. And yet. 1 doubt if there
was one among them who had not done
the same thing at one time or another.
Suppose you loan your best umbrella to
friend OF yours, telling him at the time
that you are particularly fond of it be-
cause it is the last present which your
father gave you. Your friend at first pro-
tests against taking it at ALL but finally
accepts it, assuring you upon his honor
that it shall come back to you the very
next day.
The umbrella does not return the next
day, nor for many days thereafter. When
B. comes up for discussion in a group of
your friends, you feel yourself justified
in telling the incident and making some
pretty strong animadversions on BIS
charact Just after this, 3. appears
bringing the umbrella, and explains, with
sincerity and contrition which leave
room for doubt of him, that he was called
out of town early the next morning on
most important business, that he turned
instructions to carry it to you personally,
that her little boy was take ill that day
ana taken DN nef TO an OuI-OI-tOWn nos
pital, that the umbrella was naturally
overlooked in the confusion, and that his
very first act returning to town was
to bring it to you.
OF course, you accept his explanations
with protestations that you knew some
thing unexpected must have happened.
that you felt sure your umbrella was
perfectly safe in his possessions, and
rather mpatibly-that you really
hadn't thought of the matter at all. And.
of course, you change your harsh
estimate of B. and thereafter make no
more animadVersions on his lack of court
esy when he chances to be discussed in
your presence. But tell me this-do you
told the story of the umbrella, and re-
peat to them BIS explanations, and
apologize for having judged him too hasti-
ly and ahrshly? I fear not very much |
suspect that you publish your retraction |
away down in some obscure corner of |
the inside pages of your conversation.
They say that if you give a lie q five |
minutes headstart the truth will hardly /
catch up with it in a hundred years. |
Probably this is because we seldom both |
er to tell the commonplace truth to so |
many people as the more picturesque lie. !
We all make mistakes in our estimates |
of people occasionally. We can't help /
that We all express to others our mis-
taken opinions once in a while. Being |
human I don't suppose we can help that. |
Rut if we truly want to be just and |
a love of the square deal' IS
to be a strong American char
can try to give our retrac
ton as wide publicity as our original
story, and if any way possible in the
same quarters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
ANTITHESIS.


One dwelt upon a mountain peak OF
though
And gazed upon the everlasting sky;
His soul was thronged with aspirations
high,
And all the lower world to him was
naught.
The other in the vale took up his lot;
He never knew the heights, nor weighed
the why
And wherefore of things. but the low
Hest cry
OF bird or beast, moved. and escaped him
not.
One seemed all intellect and one of heart:
Yet they who knew the dweller on the
heights,
knew that he sometimes went and sat
apart
Where his tired eyes could view the
valley lights;
While he who dwelt below would some
times start
And stare enraptured, through the star
filled nights.
Edgar Avery Marden, in the Boston
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

tousled. her white frock crushed and
Jack Wilton. in a hot rush of words,
tolc her everything that he had meant
70 tell her and a great deal more
He might have talked all night, had
not a voice of thunder interrupted
him.
Sir. what does this mean?"
In the door stood Mr.. Grantwood,
slarlng ominously, with Mrs. Grant
wood in curl papers and a blanket
trying very hard to see and not be
seen, and behind them Tommy Grant
wood, .grinning broadly. John Will
ton had seen Mr.. Grantwood in tow
erlng RACES, but never so angry as
TINS; he had seen Mrs. Grantwood
relaxing" in a rocking chair. but
never so limp as now. Still he did
not waver.
.Genevieve, come to your mother"
commanded Mrs. Grantwood.
Genevieve did not stir; she was ex-
periencing the first great thrill of
her ladylike life, and she chung to her
lover.
"sir!" cried Mr.. Grantwood. swell
ing with rage; but his wrathful tor
rent of words was cut short by
Thomas Vaudeville Grantwood, who
shouted:
''Say. pa. look at that rat!"
For Jack Wilton's cat had at last
cornered her prey and was bringing
it to her master for the customary
sons suggestion, looked.
Good gracious, Lily" he ex-
claimed, what a rat" And forget
ting his daughter he fell on his knees
by the cat. q
Mr. Brentwood" begged Jack
Wilton, pressing his girl to his heart.
Il love your daughter
Mr.. Grantwood was pressing the
cat to his heart. Jack" he replied
with conviction, shes the best ratter
81 know I am not worthy sighed
the young man, but I'll try to make
her happy"
She's hungry suggested Mr..
Grantwood, land she's much too fine
to eat rats Get her a chicken bone,
Tommy"
Give her to me-" urged Jack Will
ton, and the absent-minded Mr..
Grantwood realized at lost that he
was being asked for his daughters
eyes began to twinkle 'All right,
Jack" he answered, "Tll swap with
you. If you must have Genevieve, L
must have the cat. Now that's
bargain
A little later in the. evening Jack
Wilton was fastening home to tell
his Aunt Sallie the glad news. The
blood was still pounding unreason-
ably through his veins, and he
seemed to be walking on air, when
suddenly the words OF MS poem came
back to him, imbued with new and
wonderful meaning. He thought of
the time he had spent on that poem
his nights of agony, his early morn
ing Fittings in pursuit Of inspiration
from the rising sun. And it's queer"
he unused, for he was still of the
opinion that a newspaper man is
necessarily literary that it wasn't
the poem that won her after ALL but
my old mouser, Nelly!'-(Copyrigh
ed 1912 by Associated Literary
PresS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
ADHER Using Talks
BIZ WILLIAM C. FREEMAN

The following experpience which was
told me by general advertiser recently.
Veloping a business in communities, states
and territories. through the use OF the
Vertising columns of daily newspapers.
A firm doing high class speciality bus
mess has been impressed with the fire.
quent references in this column on the adj
visibility of centering advertising in
spots and developing business gradually
before trying to advertise nationally.
An investigation of the business was
made to see Just where the greatest num-
Der of sales had been made This investi-
cation proved that 4S1s per cent of the
entire output had been sold in the cities
of New York and Chicago.
This set the advertiser to thinking, and
he said to himself-"How can I increase
ly not by general publicity2"
So he asked me to go over the matter
with him, which ] did, and he has con-
cluded TO start an advertising campaign
in daily newspapers. strengthening his
business i'll these two communities where
there is such large center of population
and gradually reaching out to other com
munities through the same method-daily
newspa per advertising.
This will increase his business in COM
munities and states at a time, which is
the plan so often advocated by this col
umn.
If the average advertiser will only take
the trouble to analyze through his sales
just where his goods are be-
ing sold-where he is weak and where
he is strong. and then touch up the terri
tory with daily newspaper publicity. he
will find that the business will receive
impetus.
1t is far better for a manufacturer to
develop a profitable business in small
territory, than to try to cover the country
with a limited apprOpriation-then when
his business is established, in one terri
tory, take up another section and develop
that, and gradually get his goods distrib-
1ted throughout the whole country.
CTo be continued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
KANSAS COMAENT
THOSE HOUSE RULES.


You may recall the terrible fight made
TWO years ago on "old Joe" Cannon,
speaker of the house. 1t was talked
ABOUT around almost every fireside and
most OF the newspapers raved and sput-
Tered Certain 1nSurgent Republican,.
cause OF their opposition to Mr.. Cannon,
ana were invited to deliver addresses be-
iore Chautauquas- Most people honestly
pelleved that an important reform would
De accomplished if the rules of the house
were changed. and Mr.. Cannon removed
accomplished. finally, by a combination
or Republicans and Democrats. A few
rational men pointed out the fact that
Mr. cannon. as speaker, was the creature
or the house. and that the rules com
plalned of were necessary for the conduct
charged, and Hook Worm people believed.
that Mr. Cannon was the tool OF the ''in-
teTests, and that most of our ills were
que to the corrupt methods of "Old joe"
Inc excitement over old Joe Cannons
methods was widespread: no political
with equal enthusiasm. But now that It
IS all over, we discover that there IS moth
ing IN II. The Democrats. not then in
control of the house, assisted the insur-
gent Republicans in changing the rules.
6ut the Outlook, with which T. r. IS
now that they are in power. have shown
a Willingness to impede the legislative
freedom which two years ago they did so
much to secure And there you are
again: excitement for months with every
newspaper and politician screaming and
end. We must finally get over these
Hook Worm methods If we really hope
to accomplish results in public affairs.
E w Howe's Monthly Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.l
Better strong prejudice than weak
conviction.
It's difficult for man who is broke to
break into society.
Beginning a proper name with a small,
letter is capital offense.
The more a man expects the more he
will be surprised if he gets it,
Alimony is the cement that is some
times used to mend broken heart.
- woman may pray to get into heaven,
but she will fight to get into society.
It's easier for man to make money il
he isn't on speaking terms with his con-
science.
1t would save people a lot of trouble If
they could be born with their wisdom
teeth already cut.
The true optinist smiles when both
legs are amputated and rejoices that he
won't get chilblains.
Talent in the kitchen and a balance in
the bank should form combination for
generating domestic bliss.
Some women are hard to please. They
hardly get a wedding gown before they
begin to look up material for a divorce
suit.
When girls head is covered with a
golden halo instead of plain red hair II :
a sign the young man she is engaged TO
is describing 1T.
It's no easy task for a leap year girl TO
pick out a first class husband About
the best she can hope for is a chance to
pick over what remains on the bargain
counter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The better some humans are treated
the worse they reciprocate.
X X
People who are strong on expecta-
tions don't often realize many of
them.
= X
Sympathetic folk have a hard time
of it, there's such a big demand for
their tears.
Too many people try to regulate
their purses to their wants instead of
their wants to their purses.
y
Many of the wealthy wouldn't be
that way if they had been compelled
to rely on their own efforts to obtain
said riches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
GIVE THE BOYS A CHANCE.

Tn the bows reformatory at
Hutchinson are two hundred and
fifty youngsters whose good con-
duct since their confinement will en-
title them to paroles during the next
few months. In many cases 1t VIII
be possible to hasten their paroles
provided they can walk out of this
institution and into jobs of various
kinds for which they are fitted. Ac-
cording to Mr. Amrine. the superin-
tendent of this institution. these boys
are anxious to go to work. turtner-
more they want to get work on
farms or in the smaller towns where
there will not be so many tempta-
lions for them to fight against in
their struggles to get on in the
world along right lines
These boys are merely asking for
one more chance to make good. Are
the people of Kansas, who will soon
be in need of all kinds of help on
their farms and in their towns, going
to deny these lads the opportunity for
which they are asking? If they do,
there will have to be a revision of the
estimate of the fair mindedness of the
people of Kansas Their reputation
of always being willing to lend
hand to the worthy will go a-glirn
mering.
Only a few of the boys who get in
the clutches of the law and land in
the states reformatory are bad at
heart. are criminals by nature. 1t
doesn't take the authorities at this in
stitution long TO find out those among
the inmates who belong to this mea-
ger class. Such unfortunates are
never recommended for paroles or
work Most of the other boys who
reach the reformatory are just as
sound fundamentally as is the average
boy on the outside. They have made
a little slip of some sort in the out
set of their battle with life. The
law has demanded its penalty. Many
of these lads are really the victims of
circumstances and environment.
Their parents have not been alive to
their full duties. In not few in
stances. it is likely that their parents
have been devotees of the divorce
court In this way, and also through
the death of one or both of their par
ents, any number of these boys have
been thrown on their own resources
at a time when they needed the in
fluence of a good home and a train
ing in the schools. The only wonder
is that more boys who arc thus
handicapped, and their number is le-
gion. do not find their way to COR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
TFrom the Philadelphia Record.


The boardwalk's all along the shore,
but the suburbs run around the city
.'Fakem says he doesn't get what he de-
serves" mo but he ought to be glad of
it"
Though coal dealers are raising their
prices most persons admit they are all
right in their weigh
SAY. pop, what's a holding company
Il kinda forget, son. You might ask your
sister, though, after Cholly leaves to-
night"
BeIle-''What makes you say Jack is
making sure before he marries you:'
Delle-''He asked me last night how
many button dresses had
Slobbs-.-Since L got that talking ma
chine in my house I haven't had any
neace'' Blobbs-.I know how you feel
old man. I've been married ten years
myself
Held go 10 church oftener only there
is so much class distinction" She-"No.
there isn't No ones cares whether you
go in Iaces or in rags. Heal right;
let's CO." Shell can't. 1 haven't a
thing fit to wear
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rect1onary institutions. A large num-
Der of those who do get in the tolls
would not be there if there had been
anybody to go to court and speak a
good word for them when they were
arrested; if there had been anybody
to go to court and plead that they
be given another chance. But they
faced blind justice alone. No one
was on hand to take the responsible
ity for their good conduct if another
chance was given them. Necessarily
the state had to assume this respon-
sibility. The reformatory was the 'tnV
agent in the premises. There the
boys are shown the error of their
ways They are taught trades. There
are few of them who come out of the
institution that are not materially
better morally, mentally and physi-
cally than they were when they went
into it.
Mr.. Amrine says that two hundred
and fifty of these boys are ready for
another chance in the world. They
are eager to show their true worth.
They want work. The people of Kan
sas should have no trouble or hest
fancy in finding it for them. To
deny any kind of a boy another or
even a third chance is doing him a
grave injustice. How many boys who
get ahead in the world if their par
ents and their friends denied them
another chance?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
HUNOR OF THE DAY

wife-They called me shining mark
at the ball last night. Brutal Husband
That's because you forget TO powder your
nose.-Satin.
May 1 ask" inquired the interviewer
why you paint none but nudes Ger
tainly.' replies the painter. The styles
change SO rapidly in clothing that a pic
ture would be out of date almost before
the paint is dry."-Chicago Post.
when you make an engagement You
are always right on the minute keeping
it. aren't your Yes, 1 have lost a lot
of time that Way.'-Houston Post.
THAT man is very much in the public
eye" Yes" replied Senator Sorghum.
he is as irritating a cinder from a
locomotive. '-Washington Star.
Have you any auricular trouble Mrs
SMITH" 'Oh. dear. no, sir. Nothin' 40
serious as all that. I'm Just a little dees
that's all. Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

If Margaret AngIin showed her
s'Green Stockings would Robert Man
tel?
clark, Hark)) The dogs do barl1.)
If a buttercup is a flower what is
the raddish?
(Any vegetables today. lady? No?
Giddap Boneyl)
If the board-walks would the stone
step?
(woodman, spare yon tree. One of
my pals was hung on it'll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

Governor Stubbs and other leaders
of the Roosevelt cause are attempting
to make light of the crushing defeat
they sustained in North Dakota. Had
Roosevelt merely nos0d out in the
North Dakota primary the shouts they
would have uttered about the con-
vfncingness of that primary would
have Travelled to the moon and echoed
back again. But the defeat of Roose-
welt in North Dakota is absolutely
without any significance, or so they
say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press
Great lies from little fibbings grow
A woman's laugh is her most natural
disguise for a sigh.
There's no way you can be a bigger
fool to a man with a fad than to have a
different one of your own.
One cause of the high cost of living is
how the men folk have to rent houses big
enough to hold the women folks band
boxes.
A man be patience personified at
catching fish, but when it comes to dol
lars he wants to grab them right out OF
the air.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

1t appears that some of the Dem
ocra,ic leaders are not all anxious for
presidential preferential primaries
with a fair and free field to all can
didates. They are asking Champ
Clark to withdraw from the Demo-
cratic end of the presidential primary
about to be held in Nebraska on the
score that if he does not, Governor
Harmon might get. the Nebraska
Democratic delegation. They figure it
OUT that with Wilson and Clark both
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

J. Will Kelley, secretary of the Com
merciaI Club, has evolved an excellent
plan to boost Topeka goods He
would have gummed labels printed
bearing the inscription BUY Topeka.
Made Good He suggests that they
be attached to the suit cases of the
travelling men going out of Topeka.
and to all packages and business cor
respondence sent out of the town. And
all Topekans can also boost Topeka
made goods by buying them right at
home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

England and Germany are again
making faces at each other. Evidently
the Twentieth Century, which was
ushered in with so many prospects of
being marvellous era of peace and
prosperity. will go down in history as
the period of the greatest unrest that
the world has ever known
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

Friends of President Taft in Kansas
will welcome the advent of Henry
Allen as the manager of the Roosevelt
headquarters which have just been
established in this state. Mr.. Allen
was one of the strong men in the
prosecution of the Roosevelt campaign
in North Dakota
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

Owe 100000 workmen are idle in
England as a result of the big coal
strike there. The price of a strike of
such proportions is tremendous and
the brunt of it has to be borne by
those who can least afford it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

Under the rules and regulations of
the paragraphers' union, it is perfectly
permissible now for every member to
call attention TO the fact that winter
still liz ers in the lap of spring" And
lnnst of them nrob bly, will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

That s29.OOO.OOO which the standard
Oil company did not have to pay out
in the settlement of the famous fine
that Judge Kenesaw Mountain lands
assessed against it, has just been di-
vided among the stockholders of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

North Dakotans have again sustain
ed their regulations as excellent
marksmen. A tremendous majority
of them was able to put holes right
through the center of the hat that
Colonel Roosevelt tossed into the ring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

\ great public service will be rem
dered by both sides to the controversies
in the anthracite and bituminous coal
fields if they get together and avoid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

Nor has the present cold snap been
without it's advantages to this locality.
1t put a crimp. temporarily, at least,
in the tendencies of the Kaw to be-
come unrulY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

Sharpen UP the axes and see that
the shooting irons are in good working
order. The open season for spring
poets has arrived.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

Apparently. when the grounding
came out after his six additional
weeks of Information, he saw his shad-
tY again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

March came in like a lion all right
and the present indications are that
it is fixing up to go out like one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-22

If there isn't some let-up to the ac-
tivities in the prize ring in this coun-
try, it will soon be pressing baseball
hard for the honors of being the
premier national sport.