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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
ADVERTISING Talks
BIZ WILLIAM c. FRpE1dAN

Mr.. Henry Reed. a young man with
tremendous faith in advertising, pur-
chased an interest in the Chattanooga
Steam laundry about seven years ago.
The laundry was not doing a great deal
of business. Mr.. Reed thought the way
to increase the business was by advertis-
ing. He was right.
He began by using full pages. and re-
peated them with such persisteucy that
many people thought he was plunging
recklessly. The people could not under
stand how a man could use page adver-
tisements to talk about a laundry, but
Mr.. Reed knew what he was doing.
The business increased enormously. 1t
grew SO fast that new building had to
be erected.
But success did not dampen his ardor
about advertising. (Some people. when
they succeed through advertising, thini.
that they can drop il or minimize il
soon they become successfully
Mr.. Reed never had that fallacy. He
kept on telling the public what his laun-
dry was doing through the advertising
columns. The result is that today he IS
operating eighteen wagons and two auto
mobiles and his plant is so well known
that on several occasions they have re-
ceived work from nearby cities
The laundry business developed another
business for Mr.. Reed. He put up a mod
ern dry cleaning plant and in inaugural
ing this business he relied upon his old
Observation-Disclosures did 1t in the
same impressive way that he did for the
laundry, using full pages and within six
months he was doing large proportion
of the dry cleaning business of Chatta-
MI. Reed is now reaching out Tor other
fields to conquer. and has just opened up
in Jacksonville, Fla, where he Will also
use large advertising copy.
There is a lesson in Mr.. Reeds success
for proprietors of laundries in other
cities. Why not profit by his experience,
gentlemen, and follow his example?
CTo be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
FROM OTHER PENS
AN INTEREsTING CAsE.

An interesting case has arisen at Wal
halla. It appears that a United States
o1tcer, having seized some corn whisky
which had been illicitly manufactured in
the mountains, proceeded to sell it in
WaIhalla. 1t seems that he did not sell
it to the dispensary. for Walhalla has
none, being dry county. He sold It to
an individual, to individuals, although
the law of South Carolina prohibits the
sale of strong liquor of any kind in
Walhalla- The United States officer has,
therefore, been arrested for breaking the
state law, and his trial is set for some
time in March
The courts have repeatedly decided that
states have the right to prohibit the sale
of liquor within their borders, though
it has been decided that citizens of any
state, be it wet or dry, have a right to
buy liquor from another state, in which
case interference with the shipment, be-
ing an interference with interstate COM
merce, will not be allowed. The distinc-
ton drawn is a very fine one-so fine
that most people are unable to follow the
reasoning a all. What will be the out
come? We do not know, but we feel pref
ty confident that no United States officer
will go to Jail for having followed in
structions from federal authorities, even
if in so doing he broke the laws of the
state in which he happened to be-
Charleston News and Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l


Every man knows better than he does.
If ignorance is bliss, why so many
diploma factories2
Poverty would seem easier If it WASH t
so long drawn out.
Many man is credited with things
that are not to his credit.
Some men commune with the spirits
and use a bartender as the medium.
And every mothers son of us expects
to strike it rich some day.
Any fool can please a woman, but it
takes a wise man to keep her pleased
A man doesn't appreciate common sense
in a woman unless he is married to her.
He is truly a devoted husband who
doesn't vince when his wife calls him pet
names in public
There may be nothing new under the
sun but almost any modern druggist can
give you something just as good
It's easier for a young man to write \
satisfactory love letter during courtship
than it is to write a satisfactory check
after marriage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

He talks about the Scriptures
In a tone of confidence
Till you think his store Of knowledge
Must be Wondrously immense;
and he'll quote a bit from Shakespeare
As SC many love to do,
TIL he gets you half believing
That he's really read them through.
He touches on the classics
In a very learned way,
or the worlds most helpful volumes
He viii have a lot to say;
And We cannot venture questions,
As we oft are tempted to,
Because we've frankly stated
That we never read them through.
OF a Presidential message
lie makes comment far from short;
He is there with criticisms
OF a most impressive sort
On each document that's offered.
But there is 'twfxt me and you,
A general suspicion
That he never reads them through.
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
oUAKER A1EDITATIoNs.

From the Philadelphia Record.I
Some people can be buried in thought
and still be shallow.
Even the aviator may have some diff
ficulty in keeping up appearances
Virtue is its own reward, and many a
man who sticks to the right gets left.
When a bank selects a runner it doesn't
always pick out fast young man.
Sometimes a man can utilize his mis-
takes as a by-product Of experience.
No man is a hopeless fool so long as
he hasn't been fooled the same way
twice.
Any politician will tell you that to make
clean sweep it Is first necessary to
raise the dust.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor does a man who keeps his nose
to the grindstone become very sharp.
X x =
It's already becoming burdensome
to many to keep up the diaries they
started a few days ago.
Too many people have the idea that
one good turn on their part deserves
not another but three or four.
X
Looking glasses would be more
popular if they were such iatterers
as are cameras in the hands of pro-
fessional photographers.
The average reader who comes
across an expression in French in a
magazine story at once jumps to the
conclusion that it's covering up some
thing naughty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Don't CAD and don't turn your head,
old fellow, to look at the woman next
you. The poor little cramped lives led
by some women give them an excuse
for gadding that neither you nor the
rest of the old buck gadabouts can
muster. The he-gadder is thirty-three
degrees worse than the She gadder
and the she-gadder is thirty-three de-
grees worse than useless.
The she-gadder may be the incubus
of the boudoir, but the he-gadder,
emitting reVerberating vacuities, is the
curse of the clubs and the pest of male
society. He and his noisy nothings
are always present when busy men re-
lax and seek diversion. Having moth
ing else to do, he succeeds in being
among those present when worth
while men fore-gather and his pitiable
ignorance, incompetence and inconse-
quence, thrust their unwelcome pres
ence in everywhere He is regarded
quite as much in sorrow as in anger
because of his homeless helplessness,
for the confirmed he-gadder is more
surely lost than the confirmed drunk
ard.
He spreads boredom as the housefly
spreads disease and his presence is no
more welcome. Having done nothing,
he has no ideas and. having no ideas.
he is a constant annoyance to those
who have. The cure for his state is
work; but since he recognizes no ne
cessities except those of food, clothing
and the Things IndI minister TO MS
colorless vices, and has the money to
meet such wants, he doesn't know
what is good for him.
If you happen to have means, and
don't have to work for the necessities.
of the body, go to work for the good of
your soul. He whose only occupation
is gadding is a loafer raised to the
nth power and is important only as
an encumbrance of the earth which
it is unlawful to remove.-Copyrigh
1912, by w. E. Williams.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
DAFFYDHS
By U NOALL.

Il 6 fellow stood on a homemade
stove would you say he was standing
on hii metal2
(Hand me the long whip, Watson
We Will beard the scoundrel in his
lair.l
III you saw a person leaning against
g piano would you say that he was
musically inclined2
(Put on tho sofs pedal. please.)
If setting of eggs weighs a pound,
what viii the hatchway2
6Throw out the life line. lads, he's
sinking.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
MISS EDMANDS WANTED
Presence of Isicheson's Fianccc mt the
Trial IL Desired.

Boston, Jan. district Attorney
Pelletier today confirmed report that
he is endeavoring to locate Miss Niloe
Edmands, to whom Rev. G. Y. r.
Richeson waa engaged. Mr.. Pelletier
said Mia Edmands had been absent
from her home for weeks and that he
has some evidence that she il in or
near New York.
The district attorney wishes Miss
Edmands presence at Richeson's trial
for the alleged murder of Avis Lin
nell. Reports are still current that
trial may be averted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
INDIANA FOR MARSHALL.
Taggart Wing of Democracy i'm Con-
troll of the Party.

Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. 4.-Entire
control OF the Indiana Democratic or
ganization passed into the hands of the
faction headed by Thos. Taggart ma
tional committeeman when the state
committee today elected Taggart's cam
didate for chairman, Bernard Korhly,
brother of Congressman Charles A.
Korbly. Leaders Of the Taggart dlvi-
sion announced the Indiana delegation
in the Democatic national convention
would be solid for governor r.. r. Mar
shall on the early ballots and for what
ever candidate to whom IL might be
swung if it was found he could not
VIM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
MIXING IN.

Set farmer anf = lawyer in conversa-
ton and the farf will agree that he
doesn't know anything about law and the
lawyer will agree that he doesn't know
anything about farming. So of any two
specialists. The banker by general per-
mission, attends to the banking rules. the
lawyer tic the legal code; the farmer to
the business of farming, etc.
Maybe that is wise lin theory" But
here is how it works: We have bank
panics; the rural population decreases;
and "the administration of the criminal
law in America has pretty nearly broken
down"
We are too much specialized. And re-
lief is coming from a mingling of ideas
and interests. For example:
Good roads and agricultural colleges
and experiment stations are the result
of laws promoted by lawyers and bankers
quite as much Cat leas) as by farmers.
And now farmers and bankers and all
other people find it necessary to simplify
the legal administrat ton of justice. The
lawyers have had free rein and they have
driven the whole thing into the mire.-
Kansas City Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR


From the New OK PTess-I
One higher education is trying to raise
the money to give it to the children
It's just a womans luck to have a big
thaw come when she gets her new furs-
The trouble with learning is it only
teaches you how much more there is to
learn.
le faster a man can go up in his own
opinion the faster he can come down in
everybody else's.
A man can whisper a thing a girl wants
to hear and she will get it a mile away,
but he can shout II, if she doesn't want
to, and she cant hear it In the same
room with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Dr. owen of Detroit is in a class by
himself in his enthusiasm over Sir
Francis Bacon Not only has DR..
Owen proof that is satisfactory to him
self that Bacon wrote the works more
generally credited to Shakespeare.
He also insists that Bacon invented an
airship, or least designed one Nor
would it be at all surprising if DR..
owen should soon announce that Ba-
con was the originator Of treating the
side-meat of hog in the manner that
turns it into the most delectable OF
foodstuffs. and that it was accordingly
named after him The fact that there
was bacon before Bacon's time would
have no terrors for DR.. owen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
RY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

That territory bounded on the west
/ by FIddler'S Green and on the east by
the River Styx has lost it's potency as
a scare" to Topeka people; it is re-
ported to be a place where the gas
pressure is reliable.
Prof. Dyche insists upon charging
the Tomcat with the destruction of
birds; IN fact, he feelingiy refers to
the Tomcat as the greatest enemy of
birds" But, although it is dangerous
to take issue with the mighty hunter,
we hereby do; holding that the female
OF the species is more deadly than the
cept for eating purposes. while Mrs.
Cat has to rustic provender for a large
family.
It is rather previous to suggest pun
lshment for the crooks who stole the
Y NJ c. A photograph before they
are caught, but it was a dirty trick,
and they should be locked in a tight
room with the thing and their hands
tied so they couldn't shut it off
Gift Pinchot says LaFoHette went
into 1t for the principle of the thing,
but it is widely suspected that he
would be willing to take anything else
of value that might result from the
action.
Playing safe, Hon. Sunny Flora, of
the weather department, forecasts
August, with possible rains in April,
May or some other month, followed
by recurrence of the cold spell some
time in the late fall or winter.
The humorist who tries to chisel
choke out of the report that a Pueblo
Mexican was stabbed in the chilli
joint should be cracked over the funny
bone.
In fact. it is nearly as bad as that
wheeze about the man who attempted
to commit suicide by shooting at the
home of his brother-in-law.''
After listening TO the report of the
reform speakers on the conduct of the
trusts we feel constrained to revamp
the old saw, towit: Mans inhuman-
ity to man makes countless thousands
more
Old Cap Tillotson, the goat in the
incubator baby case, has fat chance
to gather any executive clemency in
these parts. When out of jail, he lives
in Kansas City and votes in Missouri.
Well, anyway, what is the use of
wasting any portion of the short sup
ply of executive clemency on a non
producer?
Experiment has proven that the
quickest and easiest way to acquire
wife is to pass the word that you have
resolved to die an old batch A woman
will do blamed nearly anything to
prove to man that he isn't the master
of his own destiny.
Of course you complain that people
ask you a lot of fool questions; but
did it ever occur to you that maybe
they think that is the only kind you
could answer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Nordecai Brown, the famous base
ball pitcher, says he has quit the game.
A contract giving him a larger salary
would probably assure his return, and
this is more probable because he takes
the trouble to insist that his announce
ment Of quitting must not be construed
as the usual ''holdout'' talk generally
engaged in by star baseball players.
The three fingered wonder is only hui
nan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

A wonderful victory for capital and
labor Thirty-one thousand trade IN
ionists in Boston, engaged in eight dis
tinct industries. We're able to settle their
differences with their employers, which
resulted in an agreement for a general
increase in their wages without the ne
cessity of anything that resembled a
strike. Arbitration did the trick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
FUMIGATE THE JAIL.
County Prisoners Spend -Four Hours Ia
City Prison.

The county iail was fumigated today
and for more than four hours the "a
prisoners were held at the city prison:
They We're returned TO the county JAN
shortly after noon.
Sometime ago a case OF dlphtnerlh
was discovered in the jail IL was SAID
that the prisoner contracted the dis
ease in oklahoma before being
brought to Topeka. Fearing spread
of the disease, the Jail was fumigated-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
CUTS STEEL TARIFF.
House Ways and Means Committee
Agrees on a Bill.

Washington. Jan. "A bill making
general reduction OF from 30 TO 35 per
cent on all steel and iron duties OF the
present Payne-Aldrich tariff law was
agreed on by a house ways and means
subcommittee today. The bill would add
to the free list carpenters tools and otn-
G. articles Of ordinary use among con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
PHONE SAVES THEM.
Miners Shut fin by Explosion Nearly
Sunocatcd-

Pittsburg, Kan, Jan. A mine tele-
phone required by a state law recently
passed in Kansas. probably saved the
lives of J. K. Keer and William Martin.
shot firers, employed in a mine near
here today. The snen were cut off from
the entry shaft by a gas explosion
They telephoned their location TO the
top.
A rescue party found them both I'M
conscious. almost suffocated. Both were
carried out and revived
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Something worth while to combat the
evil of ''gun totin' - is to be found in
the bill introduced in congress by. Rep
resentative Sisson of Mississippi. The
measure provides for a heavy federal
tax on all deadly weapons and cart
ridges manufactured and sold anywhere
in the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Business was so poor in Wall street
during the past year that many men
who had operated there as brokers
were forced to get out in the hard and
cruel world and go to work for liv-
ing Nor need the Wall street deni-
zens expect anything very wonderful
in the way of business in the future.
The people. generally, have succeeded
IN getting onto their curves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Thus does civilization march on its
way in the wrong direction. The Rus
slams are wreaking vengeance on the
Persians by surnmariIy hanging them
in punches. and displaying the dead
bodies of the unfortunate victims of
their wrath in the public squares for
q day or So
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
loses HIS FOOTING
IaFoIIette sustains Fan at Morris,
Illinois

Norris. Ill. Jan. 4.-Senator LaFollette
showed himself recovered from MS az
tack of ptomaine but narrowly escaped
injury when he lost his footing ana iei
on his arrival from Joliet
He declared himself unhurt and spoke
briefly in the station waiting room e .
small audience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Senator LaFollette is surprised, so his
next friend. Clifford Pinchot, says, at
his strength with the people" as it
has been evidenced to him by the large
and demonstrative crowds that have
gathered to hear him speak in Ohio
and elsewhere. Mr.. Bryan, out of his
large experience, is in a position to
inform Mr.. LaFollette that the size and
the enthusiasm Of the crowds that flock
around a political speaker are abso-
1utely without Significance in indicat-
ing his political strength with them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Surely no strenuous objection will be
raised by any one TO the extension of
executive clemency TO Captain 9ilIot-
son for the small part he played in the
last kidnapping of Marian Bleakley, the
erstwhile Incubator baby There is
no good reason why this old man should
be made to play the role of goat in
this rather extraordinary affair No
charge of any kind was pressed against
the individual who engineered the kid
naping and furnished the money to
bring it about. She happened to be a
woman and one with considera BILE
means at her command.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Political Eoothsayers of the super
stitious variety are bound to see some
thing significant in Senator LaFollette
getting on a train out of Saginaw that
took him in an opposite direction from
The one he intended to go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

More prize fighting than ever is go
ling on in this country Notwithstanding
g&he predictions Of the prophets to the
Acontrary that the Johnson-Jeffries bout
rvould mark the demise Of the pugiIis-
sfic game here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Z That gamblers war in New York
city, which IS resulting in many muir
ders. may be a good thing for the town
If the gamblers are only careful enough
ste conflne their killings to their own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

In the eyes of a few strenuous souls,
ikIae president Of France has elected him
iself to the ranks of the mollycoddles.
He has Gene out in favor Of interna-
lE1onal arbitration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

That territory bounded on the west
by Fiddler's Green and on the east by
the River Styx has lost its potency as
a scare" to Topeka people; it is re-
ported to be a place where the gas
pressure is reliable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

It is rather previous to suggest pun
Ishment for the crooks who stole the
Y NJ c. A photograph before they
are caught. but it was a dirty trick,
and they should be locked in a tight
room with the thing and their hands
tied so they couldn't shut it off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04

Of course you complain that people
ask you a lot of fool questions; but
did it ever occur to you that maybe
they think that is the only kind you
could answer?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-05
$4,000 HEART BALM
FOR TILTED WOMAN
Miss sophia BlumenSeld Gets Verdict
In Breach of Promise Suit Against
Hiram l.. Sanger-Defendant Fails
to Appear i'm Court.

Chicago, Ill.-A jury before Judge
Cooper in the superior court awarded
damages of $4,000 to Miss Sophia
Blumenfeld, % years old. 5473 Ridge
wood court, in her breach of promise
suit against Hiram L.. Sanger.
Sanger. who Is a bottle supply
dealer at 1921 South State street, fail
ed to defend the suit and judgment
vas returned by default, the jury as
sessing the damages, after Miss
Blumenfeld related her story on the
stand. On October II, 1911. he pro-
posed and was accepted, Miss Blum
enfield declared.
Soon after their engagement he
announced that he would not marry
her, and then followed the suit for
damages of SIS 900, according to the
young The wedding was set
for November %, 1911.
According to Attorney julius Held
man, counsel for Miss B~lumenfeldr
Sanger. a widower n As years old,
had boosted prior to he bringing OF
Miss Blumenfeld's suit that he had
been engaged to three different wo-
men and did not intend to marry any
of them.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-05

fast when she heard muffled calls for
help coming as if from the cellar.
When she descended the cellar stairs
to investigate she discovered that dur-
ing the night the entire cellar of the
house had dropped into the mines,
leaving a hole about ten feet in di-
ameter and twelve feet deep.
At the bottom of the pit were two
miners, the lamps on their caps shin
ing like fireflies in the inky blackness
and it was their shouts that had
startled the woman.
Recovering from her ~momentary
fright, Mrs Jordan listened to what
the men were saying, and learned that
they could not reach the slope owing
to a ~cave-in, so were calling for a
ladder with which to climb to the
surface.
Mrs. Jordan borrowed a ladder and
lowered it into the mine. The men
assembled from the workings and af-
ter expressing their gratitude to Mrs.
Jordan, departed through her home
for the breaker, a mile distant.