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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

This is some of the excellent advice
that was given by the great apostle,
Paul, to his assistant Titus, whom he
had left in Crete to organize the work
there of spreading the gospel of Christ
In Paurs letter to Titus, written at the
time of the formers persecution by
Nero, are set forth in admirable fash
ion the virtues of domestic and social
life; and the duties of the pastoral
office. Not the least important of the
instructions thai Paul sets down for
Titus, and all other preachers and
teachers, is to be found in the words
ouoted above. Those were perilous
times for Christianity. and for the
progress of civilization. Sane thinking
and acting alone would steer the ship
of humanity from the shoals which
threatened to wreck it's Nat
urally, a man of Paurs marvellous
discernment saw the necessity OF urg-
ing the young men to be sober minded
For the young men of one day become
the burden bearers of the next.
And that same necessity exists to-
day throughout the world in general
and these United States in particular
If there was ever a time when
men should be sober minded that
time is now. This is especially true
of the young men. Problems of large
proportions that involve all of the vital
threads which make up life's fabric
are in the process of formation. The
Young men of today, who are helping
to bring them to a head, will have to
face their solution in the immediate
future.
Just at this period the forums and
the market-places are being invaded by
more thar the usual number of Wis
ionaries, who are expounding doctrines
and theories that sound good to the
ears; but which will not bear a close
scrutiny if it be applied. Men heated
with passion over wrongs, some real.
many imaginary and all magnifed, are
hoarsely shouting their remedies that
are more likely to kill han cur This
demagogue is talking here. Across the
way an anarchist is waving a flag
stained red with blood. There is turn
moil and confusion on every hand 1t
is charitable to believe that all or most
of the ~agitators who would better the
conditions surrounding humanity &C
cording to their own peculiar IDEAS,
are honest in their intentions. But the
very diametrical divergence of their
suggestions demonstrates ~conclusively
that all of them cannot be on the right
track. The exercise of cool, dispas-
sionate reason is needed on the part
of the rank and file of the people to
separate the wheat from the chafe.
To follow a fanatic is as dangerous as
to follow a fool.
Were Paul, with his God-given power.
alive today, he would be trudging from
one end of this land to the other
from one end of every country to its
other-exhorting the young men to be
sober minded. If they are not, Chaos
will soon be king. /
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
by THE WY
BY HARVEY PARsONA

Speaking of BOBBY prizes. four Chi
cago girls won husbands in a cinch
game.
Col. Hampton's magazine has broken
a handspring and stopped. Hampton's
has been running slow for a long time,
and needed winding very much.
Chicago scientists have reconstructed
ar animal whose estimated g is
too dad blamed old to defend himself,
they named him '~'Ophiacodon."
You can go cut to the big fight for
SIS railroad fare and 500 or $50 a seat.
but before investing, it might be
we'll to remember that one of the prin-
cipal promoters of the disturbance once
staged an alleged wrestling match IN
Topeka. The match, was between
Doc Roller and a big hunk of Bohunk
cheese called the pride of Persia"
or something like that, who was cap
tured in the wilds of the Kansas City
s~tockyards district. The promoter in
question managed both of the "wrest-
lers."
As a rule, the fast young man is
more of a pest than a thing of value,
but the fast young man who won the
Indianapolis race at the rate of 7SA
miles an hour, gets a good salary for
being fast
A chauffeur, as we understand it, is
a man who has sense enough to run
an auto and too much sense to WI
one.
Down in Panama, the government
prepares for an election by purchasing
a carload of machine guns and a ton
OF dynamite. In this country they mere
ly purchase a carload of votes.
Mr.. Hanley, of Indiana, is reported
to have called t. R. a "bungler,' but
as he is fully aware of the Colone1's
attempt to break in, he probably said
burglar" and the mistake was made
in transmission.
Uncle Jawn D. Rockefeller has been
telling an investigating committee
what he doesn't know about the oil
trust The only subject upon which
Jawn could be considered an
witness, is that of s-trangulated
currency. When it comes to choking
a dollar without leaving finger prints
on its neck, he is there like a mustard
plaster.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE

about the cheapest.
Your friend lacks tact, but your enemy
is a plain durn fool.
water is the only inducement g. real fish
fan needs to get busy.
Usually unofficial advices are as good as
the official, and quicker.
Probably the hardest looking Joint in
town is a skinny girls elbow.
One may learn by mistakes, but thew
shouldn't make up the whole curriculum.
No rule is absolutely infallible: an Atch-
ison big talker actually amounts to some
thing.
Neither is a woman growing old until
she begins to look around for Comfortable
shoes.
Criminals could lead a life of leisure if
they had nothing to do but get away from
bloodhounds.
Everyone derives some satisfaction from
the belief that his enemies are envious or
Jealous of him.
The difference between righteous fndig
nation and unwarranted anger depends a
good deal on who is mad.
Link Preston has a new excuse for loaf
ing. He says there isn't any use trying
to do anything until the Panama canal
opens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

why, oh, why aren't my parties ever
real successes like Gretchen's?" walled a
detected hostess the morning after she
had given a little function. Il work my
self most to death to have everything just
right and still 1 know people don't enjoy
themselves as they do at Gretchen's
house, and she never takes half the
trouble L do"
We all know that there are some homes
where we always seem to have a good
time, no matter how simple the fare or
how commonplace the entertainment pro-
vided, and others where we do not have
half the pleasure, even though the fare
may be sumptuous and the entertainment
most elaborate.
Now, why is it? What makes one
party be a success and another fall flat?
Well for one thing, L think this detected
hostess put her finger on her chief mis-
take when she said she worked herself
almost to death to make her party a sue
cess. Doubtless that was the very reason
why it was nearer a failure A spic ana
span house, an elaborate program and the
most delicious fare will not counterfeit
the depressing influence of a hostess who
tries vainly to hide her anxiety and her
WEAKNESS under a forced gaiety. Remem-
Der that you yourself are a part of your
entertainment The original idea of en-
pertaining, an idea which has been buried
under the claptrap we nave piled upon IL,
is that your guests come to see you. II
you can bring cordially and good cheer
and genuine gaiety to your guests, you
will go a long way towards making your
party a success. And you cannot do that
if your feet ache and your nerves are
frazzled and you are thoroughly weary
and dispirited because of your over
anxious efforts to have everything just so.
Again, don't forget that it's people that
make a good time infinitely more than
things. In other words, the prime re-
quisite of a jolly party is a ~congenial
crowd. Get a congenial crowd together;
just let them talk, and feed them nothing
but lemonade and cake, and they'll have
a better time than an u~ncongenial gath
ering fed with the most delicious fare and
offered the most elaborate entertainment.
Be sure to have at least one of those
folks who make things go" on your list.
Everybody has at least one or two sucI1
any cleverer or more popular than other
people, but they happen to have this gift.
Look over your list of guests to see if you
have invited one of these folks, and II
you haven't, get hold of one by hook or
Be sure to have some game to begin
ter how silly it is, so that it dissipates the
slight stiffness which even a crowd of
.congenial people are apt to feel, when
have been hidden to a formal gath
ering.
And that brings we to my last sugges-
ton. Don't have your party a formal
gathering. To my mnd, formality is the
to enjoyment, and 1 am de-
lighted to realize that the formal party of
the last decade is rapidly disappearing.
Eleventh-hour inspirations and telephone
are the order of Twentieth Cen
fury hospitality, and for my part 1 hope
the pendulum will never swing back in
the other direction. |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
HUAq0R or THE DRY

American Heiress-But, dear, II I accent
you every one will say you married ma
Tor my money. French Count-Don't Let
mat worry, you; you can pay my debts
f1rst and there won't be enough monsv
left to excite communicating.
isn't that Miss YawIer singing acres.
the way?" Yes. 1 wish she belonged to
a grand opera company" You surely
don't think she can sing? Not at ali
but grand opera companies never come
to this town."-Birmingham Age-HeraId.
Desk Sergeant-What did you put that
fortune teller out of business for?" Pc
lice Inspector-She's a humbug. 1 tried
to find out from her what had become Of
the diamond pin l lost the other day and
she gave me the wrong steer.-ChicaRo
tribune.
Queer Creature@Towne-The Nuritches
have a butler and he's a most Remarkable
one Browne-Why, I understood he was
the regulation English article. Towne-
Yes, but his name isn't James" and he
doesn't speak with a cockney accent
Catholic Standard and Times.
"Great sale, chr commented the adj
vance agent. Been a line in the lobby
for several hours" Same six peonIs
explained the man In the hoy
office Same people you saw an hour
ago.. The line is being held up bv =
lady who Is thinking of buying a seat
Washington Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
Blind Boy scouts.

Seems odd to talk of blind Boy
Scouts, but the sightless Scouts act
ually exist, and are making rapid pro
gress toward proficiency. They drill
at the Lighthouse, 118 East Fifty
ninth street, Manhattan, and are o
to appear in public in regular Scout
uniform. 1t is difficult to realize
when watching these boys at drill
tina they are blind. They go through
the exercises with all the confidence
and snap of boys who can see, and
seem little handicapped by the alb
sence of sight. They are learning to
tie knots by feeling the hands of a boy
who ties the knots to show them how
it is done. They have a means of
communication of their own by tap
ping wood in the Morse code, and
they march without any sign of CROP
ing by following the lead of a boy
who can see.
These blind boys come nearer to the
of Gen. Baden Powell, who
founded the Scouts, than n of the
for there can be no reproach
them that they are formed
for warlike purposes. These blind
Scouts are organized for the pur-
pose intended by the founder of the
build up boy character and
manly men of the boys Of to-
day.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
AN INvrrATIoN.

IN ~ FIIAIION-
Unless you come while still the world is
green,
A place of birds and the blue dreaming
In vain has all the singing summer been,
Unless you come and share 1t all with
me.
All! come. ere August flames its heart
away,
Ere, like a golden widow, autumn goes
Across the woodland sad with houghts
of Nay
An aster in her bosom for a rose.
Unless you come, who knows but you
and I,
Another year. may seek ourselves in
vain;
For flowers live on, yet each October die,
But human faces-do they bloom again?
Richard LIE Gallienne, in Harper's-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
POINTED r.
EFrom the chicago News.1

III OII1OU5U ANVWS.I
When a jury hangs justice is ~strangled.
Even the Oldest i%nhabitant has to bow f.
the will of the youngest.
A small boys idea of greatness is to
play baseball in a real uniform.
One of the saddest things we ever saw
a fat man trying to look cute.
The man who begins at the bottom OF
the ladder won't have so far to fall.
When you nail your flag to the top of
the pole don't forget to clinch the nails.
If a woman is color blind she is apt to
get more on one cheek than on the other.
If a man is unable to beat a woman in
an argument he can usually win his point
by flattering her.
The one thing a woman can't under
stand Is how a man can open a telegram
without getting nervous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

EFrom the New York P-ess.J
Education only seems to make a fool a
bigger one.
A mans idea of a vacation is without
his family.
Just to look at a hammock will make
some girls blush.
A girl will hardly ever be concefted
about anything except her beauty; a man
will be conceited about everything
When a man will go to church with his
wife without grumbling it makes her very
nervous over what gave him such a bad
conscience
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscl Ibers of the state Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten cents a week or thirty cents a
month (by nail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the State Ourna will be
to you like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Presumably a good many of the 49,
600 people who attended the big auto
mobile race at Indianapolis on Memo
rial Day, feel that they did not get
their moneys worth because there were
no exciting smashups or fatal acct
dents among the contestants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
DAFFYDLL.S
By q. NOALL.

If Niagara Falls will it lay Buffalo?
CWhen you are down in the mouth,
think of Jonah. He came out all
Is any man so choice Of his par
entage hat he will deny he had fore
fathers?
CWho said so, huh?)
And on what, pray tell. does the sun
set2
(Gawan. and mind yer own business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Maybe the fact that highballs are
going to cost 25 cents each at Balti-
more during the convention week is
responsible for the decision reached
by New York's Tammany raves to
put up at the Baltimore boarding
houses instead of at the hotels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

that the presence of Tom at the ma
t1cnaI convention in any capacity was
not desired. The love of peace won't
even have a roosting place at the Re-
publican national convention, and it
won't be accorded much more consid-
Grafton at the big Democratic pow
wow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

them better Americans in the first
place, and it will KEEP millions of good
dollars home each year, a large
part of which brings in moi the slightest
return to this credulous American tour
lists abroad who are the victims of the
countless avaricious natives there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

West Virginia has the honor of pos
sessing the worlds champion thief.
Serving a term in the states prison,
and acting as the shipping clerk of the
institution, he managed to steal $500
worth of the articles manufactured in
the prison. Wall street is the proper
field for a man with such unusual tai
ents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

The new China. under the leadership
of Yuan Shi Kai, is making a bid for
a prominent place in the universal
peace procession. He insists that the
yellow republic must have an army
at least as large and as strong as
Germany's, which happens to be the
biggest army in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Surely humanity wouldn't be able to
progress far were it not for the invas-
LEGATIONS of the scientists. One of them
has just discovered that a pound of
soap will make %, 344.O0 o bubbles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Most of the baseball experts were
agreed last fall after the worlds Sc
RES that Marquard of the New York
Giants, was an exploded phenom. But
Mugsby McGraw did not act on such
suggestions and release Marquard. And
Marquard has jus pitched his tenth
consecutive victory his early in the
present season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Swat all the dirt and refuse around
your premises and you won't have to
devote so much time to swatting she
flies later on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

In his efforts to bring about peace
between Colonel Roosevelt and Presi-
dent Taft, Andrew Carnegie seems to
have forgotten the fact that the colo
is a m in unusually high
standing of the ID Pacem society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

1t is never well to brag unless you
knock IN wood Inasmuch as that has
just been done, it may be safe to sug-
gest that present Indications are that
Kansas is going to enjoy the same kind
OF a summer it did four years ago,
when the weather conditions were Ce-
l%ightfully superior to anything that the
mountain summer resorts can produce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Another instance of the u~nreliabil:ty
os the weather is that it did not rain
in this section of the country, at any
rate, on Memorial Day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Miss June having arrived, the long
est day in the year will soon be here,
and then the time will have come to
do your Christmas shopping early.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Tom Watson lost HE fight for the
control of the Georgia Democratic
state convention. But he is going to
Baltimore as a delegate-at-Iarge from
that state, Notwithstanding the fact
that some of the big Democratic
leaders told their brethren in Georgia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Great news for the Socialists: John
d. Rockefeller's wealth is approaching
the billion mark. His income is only
$40 a minute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Patrons of the New York hotels
these days must need be excellent
walters to get something to eat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Doing the Grizzly Bear" appears to
be a favorite dance these days with all
the other teams in the Western League.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01

Sh-hl But there is every reason il
the world for a bunch that Manager
and his Kaws are about to "com'
hack"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
FROM OTHER PENS
IoUo IN

We have been expecting for some
time that some genius for making trou-
BILE would sooner or later invent solidi-
fed spirits. 1t is now declared that the
beer tablet has come, and it's sale is
duly advertised, especially in prohibit
ton territory. All that the wishful
usher has to do, according to the
claims of the inventor. is to buy a box
of pills and proceed to become his own
brewery. The trouble of which is,
from the point of view of the men who
would flood the country with beer tab
let's, that the government will be found
stepping in to apply the rules of the
internal revenue to the powdered as
well as the liquid intoxicant. 1t may
be argued with more speciousness than
success that there is no law to prevent
the mixing of a beer powder, which
may then be used as the basis of a
homemade beverage. In fact, the sys-
tenn is the same, and the laws against
illicit distilling and unregulated brew
ing would still seem to hold good. No
man may now make whisky or beer
against the general or local laws, ever
for his own use. To mix it up in the
water pitcher is, if it is possible, none
the less to manufacture it. If, how
ever, the invention shall result in maxi
ing it possible for the Individual with
a thirst to carry his barroom around
in his vest pocket, what is to become
of the great distilleries, the immense
breweries, all those business interests
which are the so-great concern of all
who protest against the fanaticism of
prohibition, or ever regulation, of the
traffic? What will the poor saloonist
do, when, instead of the costly plant
of mahogany and cut glass. the ecc-
nomical can take a jag with
the facility with which a by-gone age
took snuff.-Richmond Virginian.
A WORD FOR THE BOY SCOUTS.
The Boy Scouts of America are max.
themselves missionaries of a sane
of July and there are a few in
a position to exert a wider or more
healthy influence in bringing about
such a reform. They are a Jealous
band of workers to secure
the abolition of fireworks, f~irecrackers
and the deadly pistol. They are Civ
ing a new impulse to a movement that
has already gained a gratifying head
An increasingly large number Of
are adopting the new plan and
as a result, the casualties on
Day were last year less than a
third as many as they were three years
ago. This does lot look as though the
fear that the Boy Scouts were acouir-
ing the spirit of militarism and de-
was being Justified. On the
they seem to be raising and
refining the standards of their day and
seneration.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
KANSAS COMMENT
A COMMENCEMENT REFORM.

"A RETURN.
With the return of the graduation
season there is the usual protest
against the heavy expenses incurred
for graduating dresses and presents,
and this year it seems to be more pro-
nounced than ever. 1t is a protest
mencement of high school and college
should be one of the most pleasant
events in the school ear TIC witness
the young people who lave success
fully completed their school life en-
gage in the exercises attending
their graduation is enc of the pref
test sights imaginable. 1t is one in
which parents and friends, as well as
the participants, take pride and de-
light. Yet too often it is an occasion
for anxiety and heart burning be-
cause of the rivalry as to dress and
the heavy expense that rivalry causes.
Some graduates, or their parents or
both, think it an occasion to display
the dressmaker's art. 1t is a foolish
and expensive idea and, when carried
event. Simplicity in dress is far more
becoming for a lavish outlay is out
of keeping with the spirit of the oc-
caSion. Again audiences do not gath
er to gaze bewilderingly upon a variety
of expensive costumes, but to hear
and see the graduates and the attend
ant exercises. School boards and fac
ulties ought to put their veto upon
any attempt to incur expenses in grad
uation dress that cannot be easily met
by the poores parents of any gradu-
ate. And well-to-do parents ought to
set a good example by having their
children dressed in simple and mex
pensive attire. Simplicity in attire
under such circumstances is more fit
ting and more pleasing to the specta-
tors than satins, ringed fingers and
braceleted arms. - Norton County
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
e PAYS.

In every small town. there is a young
mar who has held a job with most
every concern in town. But he doesn't
hold them long, and, while the expert
nee he acquires may be worth some
thing, he is slated for trouble in d
competition to cash in for as much
as the youth who tackles something
and sticks to it. Perseverance proper
ly directed has often been known to
hang one on genius which generalizes.
trying to cover the whole scope of hui
man effort as it passes. A man who
sees all his opportunities in the dis
tance is apt to overlook something
worth while under his nose, or other
wise in close proximity. Go to the
bulldog, thou human experiment sta
ton, and learn the possibilities of win
ming by hanging on.-Atchison Globe.