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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
A Chinese VIII

The most singular document among
the 10000 wills in the SuffOld regis
try has just been filed there after a
journey of $4,000 miles from China,
1t winds up the affairs Of the estate
of Lee Houe, a former Boston mer-
chant who was killed in a railway
accident while returning from a visit
to China
The will is inscribed on a sheet Of
yellow tinted rice paper feet long
and 2 feet wide. It consists of several
columns Of Chinese hieroglyphice an and q
bv the certificate of identity Of Lee
Houe,s wife and son, and d. a RECEIPT re- Il t
estate. Photographs of the wife and
son are pasted in the upper right hand
print of the widow used in lieu of sig
nature.
The Widows certificate was sworn
before Ii, acting magistrate of the
flaming district, who signs himself
as an official with brevet rank of
sub-perfect and privileged to wear
the single eyed peacock feather. =
Boston Dispatch to the New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
SAYS UNCLE CIV

Don't let good words spoken of the
undeserVing discourage you. 1t may
be your turn tomorrow, and unless
you are wiser than most OF your
neighbors, you'll believe every kind
thing said of you.
The sober truth is that most of us
are inclined to exaggerate in praise
rather than in blame If we speak
well of your undeserving acQua1nt-
ance and slight you, it is because you
have thus far failed to attract our
attention We are merely gratifying
our desire to speak we'll of others
upon the first available object. If you
don't believe it, leap into the lime
light and listen to the booster
The knocker is no rare bird, but
he is not nearly so numerous as the
booster. We like to give every man
who will so conduct himself as to per-
nit of it credit for stalwart virtues
and huge capabilities. We love adu-
lation, We seize upon some mighty poor
excuses to create them in our own
imaginations.
Don't complain because We invest
the other fellow with a halo which
YOU know fits unfamiIiarly upon his
head. Don't whine if we imagine this
coward to be a hero or that incom-
petent to be a genius. Get into the
game with your superior talents,
sounder Judgment and cleaner prin-
ciples and give US chance to lionize
you.
These are the rules of the game;
If you would win, quit your kicking
and take advantage of the popular
desire to worship something. If you
are the superior being you believe
yourself to be, we are your hand
servants. Make for yourself the shad-
ow Of a name and let the rest Of us
proclaim you a colossus. The world
is one big boosters club, into which
few knockers have edged thelf way
only to find themselves vastly un-
com Portable We've got to find an out
let for our optimistic instincts, and a
little wisdom will make demigod OF
YOU. And when 1t has. don't be mean
enough to kick because some less
worthy person is getting modicum OF
the praise that rises to the ears OF
the just and the unjust. The deifica-
ton costs you little and it is no con-
Germ of YOURS if we waste a little of
it upon the unworthy.-(Co Copyright,
1912 by W. E. WilliamsJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
GLOBE SIGHTS
81 THE ATc1nsoN oLoBE.


rFrom the Atchison Globel
A country mans idea OF hardship is Nv
ing in a flat
People forget so well that postponing the
trial helps a good deal
Some men are forgotten and others
are elected to the vice presidency.
An engaged men who IS henpecked,
ought to run while the track is good
Remorse so seldom gets busy until II
is in a position to advertise its work.
It is our observation that anyone who
has a fountain pen can find tault with
it.
Gum may be good for something. but II
is a blamed poor substitute for tobacco.
Possibly a bird hangs around all winter
because it is lazy instead OF patriotic.
"A man who takes care OF his wlfe's
gold fish is a mollycodole, says jude
johnson bravely-
So often, when a man gets enough
money his time becomes so preciousnhe
can't spend It.
Not all women have their rights but
fewer farmers expect their wives 10 90
the milking.
Many men are so liberal they had rather
give good advice than to keep IL Tor thfir
own
A girl who wears thin silk stockings this
kind of weather overestimates the general
interest In 'em.
Bad boys in a small town include hap-
tfsrnaI ceremonies I'm the creek In their
list OF sporting events.
Tt IS our theory that 81 takes indus
trious hens to relieve an egg famine;
nothing IN cold storage can do a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Vexations incident to cold weather
and no gas are soon forgotten.
y
Dodging responsibility never helped
a man far towards his goal.
X X X
What has become of the fash
toned man who used to get as mad
az a hornet?"
x r
A mans idea of the worth of his
services doesn't often coincide with
the size of his pay check.
Maybe the people are becoming gen
orally healthier because of the ex-
ercise forced upon them in having to
dodge automobi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
ADVERTISING TALKS
BY WILLIAM c. FRIEDMAN

Master BeryI Rubinstein-a young lad
who still wears short trousers-gave us
old chaps, who heard him play the plano
recently, severe wrench so far as our
own accomplishments or achievements
are concerned
Here's a younEster. just about TO pass
out of childhood into young manhood.
who must travel about six years yet be-
he attains full manhood-who has o.
ready accomplished more than most Of
us have who are thirty-five years older
than he.
What is the matter with us2 Why
haven't we done something worth while?
Is it lack OF MISUNDERSTANDING 10 one
thing long enough to win a triumph in
1t?
About this business OF advertising-do
we stick TO it as we should? DO we try
to master it2 Are we serious enough about
it? Don't we take too much for granted
Young Rubinstein has stuck TO ono
thing all of his young life. What Will no
accomplish years hence2
In advertising we do not harmonic as
should We strike too many discords.
When we strike sharp note some fellow
comes along and says we made mis-
take; we should have struck "a flat note.
Another fellow comes along and says
what good is a sharp or a flat note by
itself? He says you must harmonic tho
sharp. the flat and the natural notes to
get the right results. He Is right.
But il takes practice-lots OF ft-a per-
sistent stick-to-it-iveness TO make every
advertisement that one prepares har-
monize A false note is struck here and
there-that cant be helped during tho
practice stage-but after awhile each ad-
vertisement touches the same keys and
the result IS a continuous series OF ad b.
vertisements that harmonic In fact tell
ing, confidence building and result bring
ing.
CTo be continued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

she is very foolish to leave such things
here even if she does have a sort OF
double lock, don't your
Yes, but I suppose she trusts her
servants
Polly excused herself presently. She
wanted to run upstairs and ask about
Aunt Phoebe before dinner. she said
When she reached the landing she
heard a noise and went quickly down
again thinking that a log had fallen
from the fire and that she could help
Bob put it back in place
What she saw fairly paralyzed her.
For a woman she thought very quickly
and reached up to get a loaded pistol
that Aunt Phoebe always kept on a
high stand in the hall. Then she COW
cred the man where he knelt before the
famous cabinet slipping the jewelled
necklace in his pocket.
Hands up! I think" she said, coolly'
that 7 can shoot pretty straight To
think that you would steal from Aunt
Phoeber'
The man covered before the look in
her face. ITS all a joke" he whim-
pered just as the door bell rang.
When Polly heard James enter the
hall she spoke to him quietly, without
taking her eyes from the burglar.
Hurry up, James, and see who is
there Be careful. Then come here. T"
"Well, hello, James. How's Aunt
Phoebe? Tell her Bob's here" Polly
heard deep voice say. What the
devil does ills mean?"
Come and help me. have caught a
1t took very little time for Bob ana
James to replace the valuables and tie
their prisoner hand and foot. Then James
and a big burly fellow from the stables
stood guard over him in a locked room
until the Sheriff could arrive.
Polly was shaking before the fire when
Bob went back to her He handed her a
II can't hold it," sobbed Polly. Il am
scared to DEATH
After you have been so brave? Here,
III hold it. Drink it ALL"
But Polly's GOODNESS had disappeared.
IL cant, tell you Why, he could
about everything. Oh!'' walled Polly, II II
never get over this-never,"
Bob put his strong steady arms around
her and held the wine to her mouth.
Poor little girli' he said soothingly.
Brace up That was the bravest thing
| ever saw girl do. Nice scheme of that
thief's. One of the maids was a confed-
crate and she put him on to my coming
and Aunt Phoebe's headache. He is GER
tainly bold mad man admire you Tor
what you did, even If you don't like red
heads-'
Polly glanced up where the freight
showed on Bob's hair.
when, when I said that she STAN
mered. II didn't know it was such a
beautiful red
better, came into the room softly and
saw two figures before the dancing
flames. Polly's fair curls rested perilous-
~ near the auburn locks of her favorite.
This doesn't look exactly like hatred,
she declared.
'It isn't laughed Bob ITS a case
of old-fashioned love. Polly is going tc
marry me.
you watch her, Bob" cautioned Miss
Phoebe, Polly is marrying you for this
house"
That's all right" agreed Bob cheerful
~. Il don't care how, why or what her
reasons may be, just so she marries me. y
Polly helped Miss Phoebe to her big
chair. 1T had to be, Aunt Phoebe" she
whispered ''I am the spirit of your love
Bob is the spirit of his fathers. The mem
cries in this room just reached out and
drew our hearts together. Copyrighted
1912, by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rErnn Az Chicaeo News.1

TE'rOm the Chicago NeWs.I
Age and a small brother tell on girl.
Airships and tramps have no visible
means of support.
Many a man who is dead to the world
remains unburied.
There's a lot of blank verse in the life
of the average poet
A woman is the fairest creature on
earth-also the unfairest-
AS a matter of fact, most Of our trou-
bIes amount to very little.
The way of the transgressor is hard
even when paved with easy money.
AIRS fair in love in war and in trying
to dispose of a last years automobile.
It's difficult for man to get suit of
clothes to fit hin-if he doesn't have the
price.
There may be something in the theory
thar the angels are back of the stars
especially in the theatrical business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
JAYHAWKER JOTS

An observation by the Galena Re
n1blican: When a very rich man mar
RES a very poor girl, that's romance
When a very rich girl narries very
poor man, that's fiction.
At last we are on the scent, whispers
the Alma Enterprise A man died in
OlClai1oma last week and $4,000 was
found in his wooden leg. That is where
Conner Davies, editor of the Concordia
Kansan keeps his
Also. an extra session of the legis-.
lature should take up the matter OF
+1,a fierre iackrabbits depredating the
western part of our fair state. When
If comes to attacking many herds of
cattle. robbing hogs of their corn and
splitting in the face of inoffensive bull
DOES Something Should Be Done with
fine krabfits.-Torontc Republican,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

TF'rom the Chicago News.1
Isn't It surprising how little you knows
Some women are peculiar. and some
others are more so.
A nilkman may be as rich as his cream
and still not be wealthy.
One way to not please a woman r. %
let her do she pleases.
A self-made man nearly always makes
a play for a tailor made wife.
Many a girl falls TO select the right hua-
band because she is afraid OF being left.
ONLY a fool ever attempts TO convince a
man that he isn't clever as he thinks
he is.
Too often the man with the hoe gets
the worse of an encounter with the man
with the gold brick.
According to an old bachelor. real luck
in love consists in being able TO avoid
facing the parson.
Only a married man can fully apprec-
tate heaven il there are no wash days or
house clea ming seasons there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Things are not always as they are
painted. When Violet Buehler disap-
peared from home she was pictured as
an innocent little girl. and an heiress
of are. proportions. Naturally the
whole country was pretty much
wrought up as to her Whereabouts.
Now it develops that she has ever
been of Maynard tendencies and will
only become an heiress if a wealthy
uncle sees fit to leave her his fortune
when he dies Countless girls, just as
good and no worse than Violet. and
Just as near heiresses, disappear from
their homes every year. and the pub
lie never hears about them. nor takes
any concern in helping to find them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
DAFFYDLLS

If man owed you a dollar what
would the tomato2
Don't hit him with that. There s
nails in it,
If Vermont is mostly granite is Lake.
wood?
eureka. Here's oyster soup with
an oyster in IT'D
Via the University Daily Kansan: If
the University consumes sixty tons of
coal a day for heating purposes, how
much does Washburn?
(Now all together boys! Three
cheers and Tigeri)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Great and insistent has been the de-
nand for a long time for the punish
ment of the men higher up in
various untoward activities, and it
should be pressed with equal vigor in
respect to the gigantic dynamiting
eonspiracies in which the McNamaras
were concerned. No one is foolish
enough to believe that the large sums
of money these men needed to finance
their dastardly operations came from
the clouds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Governor Stubs seems to have made
something of a bad break in his sug-
gestion that the new inquisition he
has ordered against jaw E. House be
held before a friendly justice of the
peace. Governor Stubs and others
are urging the necessity of the recall
for judges because some of them have
a habit of being friendly to this or
that interest or cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.1
Optimism has one crop failure after an
other.
1t takes two to make a bargain. one OF
them usually skin.
A mother wants her children to ad-
mire their father, but not to emulate him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

If Senator Cummins follows the de-
sires of some of his friends in Iowa
and runs for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination, it is almost a fore
gone conclusion that he will run in
the same direction LaFollette did
the wrong one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Colonel Roosevelt is up to his old
tricks. He took a day off to rest up
recently and devoted ii to skiing
down the slopes Of Sycamore Hill. He
put over a fifty foot jump every few
minutes Information from the col
onel as to what he considers a busy
time would be interesting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Here's another contrast between the
way things are done in Russia and the
United States. In this country not
few men have been pardoned from
completing prison sentences because of
their ability to write poetry In Rus
STA they send poets to prison, as in the
case of n a. Morosoff, who is said to
be perfect genius Of a poet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Indications are that the justices of
the peace in Kansas will be overwork-
ed. w. S. Gearhart the state high
way commissioner. refused point blank
to divulge some information that Gov
nor Stubbs asked him for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Charges that New York is not pro-
gressive state will have to be amend
ed. A member of the legislature
there has just introduced a bill pro-
viding for nine-foot sheets on all
hotel beds. Where Kansas leads, they
all must eventually follow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

MAKE COUNTRY LIFE ATTRACTIVE.
This paper has often said that II was
unfair that the country neighborhoods
should have to go to the towns FOR
amusements. For instance, it is unfair
for the residents Of kanwalxa to have
to come TO Lawrence for entertainment.
1t is unfair FOR the young people when
they get together out there to be talking
about what is going on I'm Lawrence In
social way. Each community ought To
have its own entertainment with
hearty rivalry and neighorness between
country communities. Country life IS
great but IL must be made interesttnE.
We have often said that the school
house. the church and the farmers OF
ganization called by whatever name were
the true things that must be depended
upon to make country life interesting. u
,--ese organizations do their fun duty.
working together always. they can make
country life attractive that not only
will both the boys and girls want to stay
Lawrence Journal Grid
IT DOESN'T PAY TO BE TOUGH.
We have a few young men who seem
to think Il makes them manly and noble
TO make themselves appear tough. m you
are tough. people Will lind II out without
any effort on your part. II is just as
easy to be a gentleman and hold the re-
spect of the community In which you
live. Try it during 1912 and you Will
never change back--Mound Valley
herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

low that Banker Morse has been
freed from penal servitude, it would
not surprise many people if he fooled
the medical experts and recovered
his good health quickly and perman-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

There is one redeeming feature to
the squandering of 100000 in five
years by Harvard student 1t put
that much money in circulation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Kubelik may have music in his
soul. as his press agent says, but he
makes his money in large wads by
getting music out of his fiddle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Efforts of the shoe machinery trust
to make a settlement with the govern
ment that would stop the litigation
against it. may also be taken as a con-
fession of its guilt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

1t is to be hoped that the devotees
in these parts of an old fashioned
winter have had their fill Snow has
been on the ground in Kansas con-
tinuousIv for twenty-seven DAYS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
by THE WY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

We are suffering with 1umbago, or
som ething of the sort, that hurts like
Samhill when we laugh; therefore we
would consider it a personal favor if
Dave Leahy would refrain from writ
ing any more letters on the subject of
newspaper veracity'' until we are
over it.
But faint ripple remains to show
where Hon. Woodrow Wilson went
down. And if the elimination contin
ues at the same speed, a primary may
not be necessary.
Col. Roosevelt is now driving an
auto; although he is progressive, and
the auto has been a sure thing for
dozen years. this is his first benzine
to this time the Colonel has been
driving a band wagon and didn't need
q mere auto.
that bothers some politicians-it' the
handwriting some inquisitive investt-
gator finds on their private papers.
Your tour may be the other fellows
excursion; it all depends upon how
often you get to take a trip.
A f1nancier is one who understands
the art of using the little suckers as
bait to catch the big ones.
Alimony is a mans cash surrender
value.
Eskridge Star enquiries: What
will ground hog day bring forth %
The answer is easy: lot of bum
weather prophets. and, possibly, one
moth-ea ground hog.
New York coppers will be taught to
wrestIa and it may in time become
popular to turkey-trot a prisoner to
the station, instead of batting him to
sleep and calling the Maria.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Insanity is being slandered again
His friends say that Rev. Richeson IS
afflicted with the ''spasmodic" variety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

It is to be presumed that Senator
Bristow is still favoring the candidacy
of Mr. LaFOllette. even though he
hasn't been saying much on this score
recently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Million dollar fires are getting to be
an almost daily occurrence IN New
York citv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

But a faint ripple remains to show
where Hon woodrow Wilson went
down. And if the elimination contin-
ues at the same speed, a primary may
not be necessary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Mayor Billiard was mixing and ming
ling with the Democrats who gathered
from all parts of the stata in Topeka
yesterday Many of them had a kindly
word to say about our mayor and his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
CHATTER LXXIX.
(Polftical.)

Word comes today from Robert NJ
Buck, secretary of the LaFollette COM
nittee. that the senator will take his
presidential candidacy west, starting
early in March; that he will be heard
in the Dakotas, Iowa. Kansas. Ne
braska, and Oklahoma, The dispatch
says that the senator is said to be IS
peciany anxious to get his campaign
under way in Kansas. which he re-
CARDS as highly favorable to his candi-
dacy." This calls to mind the doubt
whether LaFollette has heard that
those high priests of insurgency. our
friends Governor Stubs and William
Allen White. have deserted LaFollette-
If the Wisconsin senator really regards
Kansas as highly favorable to his can
didacy, someone is apparently not ac-
quainting him with the latest develop
ments Indeed, there are some people
who 60 SO far as to say that Senator
Bristow is almost the only one left in
Kansas who is championing the cause
Of LaFollette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

Fear God, and keep his commandments:
for this is the whole duty of man. Ec-
clesiastes XII:13.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20

| 1t isn't the handwriting on the wall
that bothers some politicians-it the
handwriting some inquisitive investi-
gator finds on their private papers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-27

Washington, Dec. 26.-The charge
that "a real estate ring" exists in
Washington, made in a letter written
by former Postmaster General Rob
ert w. Wynne as president of the
First National Fire Insurance Co.
and a director of the Commercial Fire
Insurance Co., of the United States
and the suggestion that kinship u
Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire
dictated the selection of George Ing
ham as insurance superintendent ct
the district. enlivened today's open
ing session of the House District OF
Columbia's investigation of the office
of the office of superintendent of in
surance The affairs of the two in
surance companies and of the local
insurance firm of Tutle. Wightman *
Dudley, are under inquiry by the de-
partment.
Representative Johnson of Ken
lucky, chairman, and Representative
Redfeld and George of New York eX-
amined District Commissioners john