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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-11

that he at least was interested in her.
Indeed it was plain to all the young
people that Tom Mededith was inter-
ested, at least in a girl.
And to think you have been so near
my home Selma was saying.
IT have good reason to remember II,
Tom Mededith remarked. ut was while
playing golf on the links at your coun-
try club that lost one of my dearest
possessions-the amethyst seal that be-
lGnged to my grandfather. II was more
than a year ago and I gave. up the
seach for it only last summer. Some
one in your town must have found it
and kept it, he added bitterly.
Selma blushed and he wondered why
also he wondered that she could be
even more beautiful than she had been
five minutes before.
1t was not until the following day
that Selma decided to tell him. She
told him how she had advertised, how
she had tried in every way to find the
owner. She told him a part of what
Beth had said.
Grandfather always told me the seal
would bring me luck he told Selma
after a while "And I feel now. for the
first time, that it has"
Selma was tempted to ask him why,
but something whispered to her that At
would be safer to leave that question
unasked.
bottom of my trunk" she explained.
Keep it while we are here and give
it to me the night you, go way" Tom
Meredith told her.
Selma turned the subject. She talk
ed at random of everything but them
selves but every time she thought she
had this young Southerner in safe
and sane conversation about impersonal
| things he switched back to irrelevant
remarks about her hair her eyes, her
self in general.
It was not until the night she was
to leave for home. after having extend
ed her visit for more than ten days
that Selma let him say what he had
wanted to say ever since he met her.
And then she answered him as her
heart directed-to the effect that she
would some day have full right to use
the amethyst seal with the crest of
Meredith.-(Co 1912 by Nc
Cures Newspaper Syndicate.)
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GLOBE SIGHTS
aY THE ATCHIsOr9 GLOBE.

It is important to note that the safety
razor is also silent.
Don't let your dignity be Of the kind
that drives away trade.
If any manicurist is short of work IL
isn't for lack of raw material.
A boy can have a good time without
much needless noise If he is eating.
Cold storage is useful in many ways,
but not as an assistant to the helpful
hen.
A man who has all the confidence in
world should have something to go
with it.
A policeman is too apt to imagine his
authority is vested in his club instead of
the law.
We also disclaim any obligation to sit
up nights to admire the ancient poets
and authors.
Except that anyone can raise them, no
satisfactory excuse has ever been fur
nished for the turnip.
Another literary note we might suggest
is that it doesn't matter much to whom
a book is dedicated.
No man likes to gamble well enough to
find much satisfaction winning money
from his wife.
What has become of the old-fashione1
boy who used to go out and cut whips
Tor the teacher?
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SAYS UNCLE CAV

Keep the lid on your angry pas
sions. An ounce of diplomacy is
worth ton of pointless explosion. /
knew a good woman once who sus-
missives to a Titian-haired love pi-
rate. Instead of fleeing to the d.
vorce court or putting poison in his
coffee, she bought him a box of hand
hammered, deck1e-edged, italian note
paper. That put a stop to the infatu-
alton for the auburn-aureOled diVin-
lty. The old man couldn't write a
line to any one without thinking of
that $40 a pound specially mono
grammed note paper de luxe. What
his wife had really sent him was a
box of hand-hammered, deckle-edged
conscience.
The true diplomat doesn't lose his
temper, and for that reason he is al
ways able to appreciate the advan-
tage sof the soft answer that turneth
away wrath and maketh the victim
sick. Sometimes a subtle suggestion
is better than a fight, and a heap
more satisfying to the person of dis
cernment.
But if the affair comes to fight.
none will gainsay the advantage of a
clear head. The blow given in anger
was ever wild. The one that hits
home is lodged with deliberation.
Moreover, anger gives birth only to
the desire for revenge, and the desire
for revenge is neither creditable nor
sood energy, a paralyzer of muscles
and emotions, and in the end it bites
its possessor like an adder.
Life is too full of good things for
one 70 spend time trying to get even
with another. 1t is by no means in
keeping with the cheap, commonly
accepted notion of honor to permit
an injury to go unpunisned, but I had
r1ther know that my enemy is to go
scathe1ess than that I should spend
one precious hour needed for self i'm
provement in hunting him down.
This, provided he shows a disposition
t. close accounts and get out of the
way and stay. If he still is inclined
to cause trouble, he has good cause
to expect me to adopt measures that
will rid me of his annoying presence.
There will be no anger behind the
blow, but there will he the best judg-
ment I have of distance and of his
most vulnerable point. That, I take
it, is good busine -(Copyright, 1912,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
cate)
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QUAKER MEDrTATIoNs.

From the Philadelphia Record.l
People who have glass eyes shouldn't
give you stony stare.
There seems to be difference between
temper and temperament
No. Maud, dear; the bore doesn't neces-
sarily have a sharp tongue.
The fellow who takes a tumble to him
self must expect to get his bumps.
Virtue is its own reward. Mediocrity
can generally lend money to Genius.
Misery loves company, which is the
greatest instance of unrequited affection
on record.
Tell a secret to your friend and pretty
soon your friends friends will be telling
it, too.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to remark
that many man gets married because
he has a grudge against himself
Tommy-'-Mamma. what is economy"
Tommy's Mamma-"Economy, my son, is
what husband breaches and wife
Practices
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady"
quoted the Wise Guy. Which may be
lucky for faint heart in the end added
the Simple Mug.
Blobbs-''How do you suppose Dolittle
ever contracted nervous prostration:'
Slobbs-'I think he must have expended
too much energy lodging work"
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Black Diamonds

| Genuine black diamonds. although
considerably more valuable than the
for gems, having an appearance no
more attractive than a bit of stone
or fragment of coal, being dark gray,
| oroWnish, or black in color, and
opaque, without crystalline form.
They are somewhat harder than the
| crystal or gem diamond, being, in fact,
about the hardest substance known,
and are found in irregular pieces,
ranging in size from One-half to 500
| carats. The origin of the black dia-
mond is a subject on which science
remains silent. They are found in
but one spot on the eartb-an area
Of not over 225 miles square, in Bra
al. Here they are recovered from
the gravel and WaShings Of the river
beds. No fine specimens of the gem
diamond have ever been found in the
is the point over which science has
vainly puzzled-both black and white
or gem diamonds are simply pure
carbon, being of practically Identical
translucent and crystalline in form,
while the other is not: the black dia-
mond is harder, tougher. and not so
brittle, and there the difference ends
Practically the entire output of black
diamonds is used for tipping diamond
drills, the precious bits of carbon be-
ing set in pieces of soft steel or iron.
These diamond-pointed drills will cut
have eaten their way through the
hardest known rock down to a depth
OF 5000 feet. Ordinary gem dfa-
mOnds would be crushed under the
enormous pressure it is necessary to
put upon the drills when the bore has
gone to a great depth. No substance
is known which could DE used in
place cf the black diamonds for drill
points used in boring for mineral de-
posts, and should the supply become
exhausted, there would be no more
deep 5orings, as there were none be-
fore the black diamond was discov-
cred. The diamond drill is a decided
ly expensive tool, as it is usual to
place eight stones in each bit or drill
point, and fair sized stones of to
carats each, are more satisfactory
and economical in the long run than
small ones. As the carbon is worth
about $S5 per carat, a single drill
armed with stones of medium size
would cost in the neighborhood of
81, 500.-Harper's Weekly.
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FROM OTHER PENS
REvERsIoN TO THE STONE ACE

REVERSION TO THE STONE AGE.
Curiously interesting are London
criticisms oe the so-calIed futurfst
music of Arnold Schonberg 1t is
nothing uncommon to hear cursings
and wailinSs snd revilings and grinding
of teeth when a new composer with
new ideas preSumes to request a hear
ing from the publis. 1t was so with
Beethoven; it was so with Wagner: II
is still so with Claude De Busy and
ing from the public. 1t was so with
hosts of others, great and little. The
wonder is not that Schonberg is re-
viled but that his critics seem able to
provide good reasons for their condem-
naton. II Schonberg really represents
school-and he SO professes=he
seems fairly to justify the long ex-
pressed option of many modern critics
that the extravagances of Strauss-we
do not include this composers saner,
nobler wOrk-and the works of some
others of the modern school treubIe
on the border line of decadence, that
they touch the point where dissonance
discord and syncopated themes cease
to be artistic and approximate pande-
monium. Schonberg appears to have
tumbled completely over the line and
to have reverted to the primitive saw
agery from which only thousands OF
years of musical progress were able to
free the race He has gone back TO
the stupidity and crudity of the stone
age man, gone back even beyond the
African savagery of ragtime, to the
level of the Patagonian and Australian
bushman. IF the criticisms of Lon
don and Vienna are to be trusted,
Scnonberg's music might be paralleled
were a dozen risky kittens loose at the
same time on a dozen piano keyboards.
If this futuriSt music of Schonberg
were a prophecy of what the unknown
days possess for us, we would be in
clined to hold with those who say that
we are near the end of all art But
why worry as long as there are men like
De Busy, Wolff errari, Humperdinck.
Charpentier, Sibe1ius and the newer
Russians to guide US on the way OF
rogress.-Detroit Free Press.
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by TIE WAY
BY HARVEY PARso1s@

Just now the t. r. is taking ''offer-
ings." That is undoubtedly the proper
thing to do, after having taken all he
could that was not offered.
But the takings do not seem to be so
good as they were.
Nevertheless, it is much more polite
for the "gentlemanly agents to pass
among your with a sweet smile and Il
derby hat then was the former system,
when they passed through you with a
six shooter and bushel basket.
Application has been made for re-
ceivers for the gas company. No one
seems to care much who receives the
company, but a number of so-called
consumers would like to receive the gas.
The Chicago Interoash is still in the
straight column, although recently
sold. AS a rule, the purchase of Il
newspaper during the nervous end of 4
campaign means the spiking of an
enemy's gun.
A Missouri gent got years for TAX
to winner. What if the court had
sentenced him to live with all of them?
AS a rule, it's all right to take things
as they come, but it is safer to board d
moving train by the back platform
than by the cow-tosser.
couple of perfectly good toe nails for a
dimple.
Balkan states find Turkey a tough
proposition, but hope, by keeping it in
hot water long enough, to get results.
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GOOD AMERICAN MUSIC COMING

Reginald De Koven is practical
enough to be a pupil of Mr.. squeers.
Having learned, at least syrnboIically,
that "winder'' spells window he has
gone to work to clean it after the
approved Squeers formula. That is to
say, cutting out the parable. he be-
lieves that operettas should be written
in English because ne has written
successful ones that way himself.
What De Koven has done is moth
ing unique, he declares, for a land
which is so promising musically as this
country All that is necessary is to
make the demand and the supply will
follow, as a matter of course.
And that demand is here, he told
Boston reporter the other day. Let
the highbrows rave about grand
OPERA he went on blithely, but you
and I and the next man want to be
amused when we go to the theater;
we want something pleasant, even HUI
morous. You and know a little some
thing about music and we want to hear
good music well sung. Give us some
light opera, as artistically presented as
| even grand opera.
Here in this country are any num-
Der of composers who can write good
music and therefore should be given
| a chance to be heard. Give the sing
ers a chance, too, and they'll make
good in light opera. Not every girl
with voice who goes to Europe to
study can be a diva but she can sing
well. at that, and oftentimes can act.
Once we have a fair amount of light
| opera in English, some of these girls
will justify their European education. y
What Mr.. De Koven says is true and
timely. 1t is growing truer and more
. timely every day. The success of the
foreign operettas of the better class
The Merry Widow and THE Choco-
| late Soldier for example-has driven
away the tin-pan offerings of the must
cal play that once fiourished SO rank
ly, to the nations discredit. These
| have paved the way for the Ameri-
can composer and the American libret-
fist. The phenomenal success of De
Koven's own Robin Hood" shows
that and the composer, who backs his
own work, for he is a man of wealth,
has put European-trained voices into
/ his cast, thus backing up his own
idea.
There's a big chance for a man to
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HU1NOR or THE DIV

Mrs. Knicker-Why do you write home
for more money! Mrs. Bocker-If George
is having a good time he owes II TO me.
and if he isn't having a good time he has
saved it.-New York Sun
Cynicus-It is impossible for a woman
to keep a secret Henpeckke-I don't
know about that. My wife and were ell
gagged several weeks before she said any
thing to me about it.-London Opinion
What makes you think that Kurt is
marrying me for my money!"
well, he must have some reason
Fiegende Batter.
Baseball Captain-You shouldn't be so
hard on the boys. They played very we'll
The game was lost through just one error
Manager-Yes; 50 was Paradise.-Bost1n
Transcript.
What made Mr.. Chuggins buy an auto
mobile2' His wife persuaded him by
calling his attention to the economy or
having gasoline on hand to clean gloves
with "-Washington Star.
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Coin of 724.

While Ike Morris, vice president of
ging up his back yard garden recently
he unearthed a rare old coin of the
realm of Georgius Rex, issued in the
year 1924. He first believed that his
American penny. but when he washed
the mud from it's face and exhibited
it to his friends he was told that he
had made rich strike. Several old
coins issued during this reign are said
to be in existence, but none bear an
earlier date than 1924. The piece
was coined in copper, and the only
inscriptions are "Georgius Rex
1924" on one side and Britannia on
the reverse -AtIanta Constitution
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trouble to point out Governor VII
sons lack of good sense because he
rode in a locomotive cab while his
special train was bowling along at a
high rate of speed. Colonel Roosevelt
put on the same sort of a theatrical
performance in the northwest recent
ly. OF course, he went step fur
Their. He presided at the throttle IN
place of the engineer. Was there any
criticism from Bull Moose sources of
the coloneTs foolhardiness? No, in
deed! The king can do no wrong.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Almost everybodys memory is as
good as he wishes it to be.
X
People of the try-anything-on va
riety get stung with great regularity.
Nor is it always compliment TO
tell boy he is just like his father
*
Not a few dogs show their powers
of discernment by liking to ride IN
automobiles.
Few men fail to embrace an oppor-
tunity if it happens to be one of the
fair sex.
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THE Gypsy DAY.

The Gypsy Day and at play
Roamed gaily up and down,
Where the sun was strong and the grasses
long
And the leaves fell gold and brown.
And we sang and smiled where the wind
was wild
Till the last bird-song was still,
TIL the shadows gray, on their westward
way
Stole up and crossed the hill.
Then my Gypsy Day donned his cloak of
gray
And turned with footsteps slow,
With one backward glance as last red
lance
Kindled the west a-glow.
And he left me still on the dusky hill
Where October's camp-fires be,
And I'm hearing yet with a strange
regret
His loved voice calling me.
JUNE EDNA BELLMAN.
Winfield, Kan.
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TOPEKA's INDUSTRIAL BUREAU.

There seems to be general agree
ment among the business and profess
sional men of Topeka, who are in
terested, as all Topekans should be, in
| the development of the city as an in
dustrial center, that the plan which
has been proposed by ]. Will Kelley,
secretary of the Commercial club, and
| the promotion committee of the club,
of which G. S. Elliott is chairman, for
the extension of financial assistance
to industrial plants already located in
the city, or which may desire here
after to locate here, approaches the
ideal in most of it's essential particu-
lars. In the opinion of Mr.. Kelley and
the promotion committee it is the
safest and most serviceable plan that
has ever been tried out in any of the
manv wide-awake cities in the central
west that are working nights and days
in one way or another to increase
their Importance as manufacturing
and industrial centers. A plan similar
in all essential details has been tried
in Sioux City for considerably more
nan a year. And reports are that it
has worked there in admirable fash
ion.
Certainly the plan looks good on
-
it's details which has been circulated
among the members of the CONNER
cial club. Its basic principle is not
concerned with advancing the cash
subscribed or promised by contribu-
tors to the fund that will be necessary
for the conduct of the bureau as mere
investments in the stock of industrial
concerns to provide them with the
capital they may think they need. AL
though the bureau will have the pow
er to buy a limited quantity of the
preferred stock of such a concern if
such a move is deemed advisable.
Rather does the plan contemplate the
extension of such credit to industrial
concerns as they may need for their
proper conduct and development. This
therefore does not necess1tate that the
subscribers to the fund shall tie up a
large amount of their personal funds
by contributing them outright to the
Industrial bureau. They will merely
have to express a willingness to make
good the credit obtained by the bu-
reau up to a certain sum. And of the
amount thus signified by a subscriber,
he will have to contribute in cash only
10 per cent. This will provide the
sum needed by the bureau to begin
its operations.
Under such a plan, there will I'M
doubtedly be little trouble in getting
tho business men of Topeka to sub
scribe to a credit fund that will be
ample for the purposes of the Indus
trial bureau. Assuredly it is to their
advantage to increase the industrial
prominence of the city. This means
an increased population. "A increased
population means increased busine sS
in every line of trade, and for every
professional man in town as well.
So many stringent safeguards are
thrown about the operation of the
Industrial bureau, there Is small like
lihood that any of it's credit will be
extended to concerns that are not de-
serving and we'll able 10 meet the
financial obligations that they thus in
cur. The chances are that the plan
will be formally launched at a special
meeting of the Commercial club to be
held one week from tonight and great
things for Topeka's growth should be
the result
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DAFFYDuS
By q. NOALL.

If Baxter Springs to Columbus how
far can Oswego?
CYes, lady. The two forty-ffve train
leaves at a quarter of three.)
You've seen a great many young
sters but did you ever see an automo-
bile skid?
(String him up by the thumbsI He's
the boob that put the pick in pickle.)
If an ice cream soda shivers does
a milk shake?
Cup with the napkins, boys. Here
comes the soup.0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-11

Never before have such bountiful
cereal crops been raised in the United
States as those of this year. And yet
there are some pessimists who insist
that the return of activity and pros
perity in the world of trade is not
founded on a substantial basis. They
would have you think that a false
prosperity is being created for the ad-
vantahes that might accrue thereby
to the Republican party in the pres
emit political campaign.
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write as pretty a thing as the De
Koven work and there's even bet
ter business opening for the manager
who will give opera in English, as
the Boston Ideals did it quarter of
a century ago. The time is here;
where is the man? Does the voice OF
Henry w. Savage answering 'Here!
strike on our ears?
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sympathy should go out to the ex-
press companies in large chunks.
They are about to be put out of bust
ness by the reduction in their rates
which has been ordered by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. Or, so
thew saw
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Governor Wilson explains that he is
not trying to put Colonel Roosevelt
in hole. Nor are any outside efforts
IN this line necessary. Colonel Roose-
welt has been digging a hole for him
self ever since he broke his pledge
that he would never again be a can
didate for the presidency.
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Surely the baseball fans who have
been so fortunate as to get a peek at
the games played thus far in the
worlds championship series have re-
ceived full value for the money they've
expended, and then some.
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Los Angeles woman policeman"
says that female peace officers are
needed in Chicago to regulate the
vice conditions in that city. This
much is certain. They couldn't do
worse job at it than has been done
by the present Chicago police force
NJ man
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

TFrom the New York Press.1
A woman can make her hair curl even
when she hasn't any.
The only thing that can travel faster
than open news is close secret
If a man can't get rid of his money any
cher way he can marry.
When womans husband loses his job
she knows it's because the head of the
firm was Jealous of his great business
ability.
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How did they dare to do it? The
Judges of the supreme court of Mas
sachusetts have decided that the
100000 trust created by the will of
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the
Christian Science church, is null and
void
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Kansas is certainly short-sighted in
one particular. The way she lets her
valuable educators slip through her
fingers is a caution. E. T. Fairchild,
state superintendent of public in
struction. is the latest of this class
to accept an attractive call else
where. He has been appointed chan
cellor of the New Hampshire state
college