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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
says UNCLE CAV

The man who is kept from his goal
by sneers is just a plain fool. Pre-
eminence in every sphere is greeted
by mingled cheers and sneers, and
gibes when he might catch the in
spring sound of laudation stays at
the foot of the ladder.
Moreover human experience is in
controvertible witness to the fact
that the only way to get rid of the
anvil chorus is to go forward. The
knockers hammer is the peculiar
property of little minds; he who
achieves leaves most of the little
minds behind.
The mental who seeks more con-
genial work is likely to be the butt
of the jokes of his associates. The
lawyer who would go step farther
and know something Of statecraft
couragement at the hands of his col
leagues. 1t is the instinct of limited
mentalities to restrict others to their
own level. 1t is the habit of minds
that aspire to help other aspirants.
Thus it happens that the first step in
the ladder is always the hardest. the
least supported by material aid or
neighborly sympathy:
As one rises in the scale of achieve
ment, one finds oneself surrounded
by men of larger understanding, and
it is an invariable rule that the
broad human sympathy which is our
chief inducement to excel increases
in direct proportion to our mental
powers. There are too many excep-
tions to this rule for the peace of
hind of the pessimist, but the rule
holds just the same.
If the disdainful filings of your un-I
ambitious associates wound you you
have too much manhood to give vic
tory to little minds. Move on-Ieave|
them behind. There are Fewer gnats
to sting, once you have placed your
foot upon the next rung. And at the
top gnats can no longer reach you. If
you fear sneers, climb. Sneers are
thickest at the bottom of the ladder
Copyright, 1912, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndfcate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Having fun is a good deal matter or
habit
Women are the real extemporaneous
speakers.
1t takes fat country to experience a
famine of box cars and laborers
A champion corn husker works hard
est for his Iaurels, such as they are.
In the matter of millinery there is the
case where a man pays and pays and
pays.
BY the time one crop is harvested, it IS
time to begin worrying about the winter
wheat again.
Ever hear a good housekeeper say what
she thinks of the way a janitor does kis
work?
A soldiers first duty is to obey orders,
but our standing army is comparatively
small.
You may know your business, but not
so well that some one won't show up TO
tell you how.
Plots are so much alike that one can
usually fathom the finish by reading the
first chapter.
A boys notion of a great triumph is to
bring home from school a problem his
parents can't solve.
An arctic explorers return excites Us
as little as any great achievement we can
think of this evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

Charles Dickens has resigned his
job as a mail carrier in Hill City.
Lots of things improve with age.
remarks the Elk City Sun, but a man
generally learns that the older he gets
the less he knows-or knows that he
knows.
''Oh, N.Y." signs the Federal cor
respondent of the Syracuse Journal,
Just think of the cold winter com1ng
on and no one can tell whether 1t Will
be bad or pleasant"
Editor Kellogg of the Englewood
Leader-Tribune thinks that those Mis-
souri, fellows that We're tried and con-
victed on a train for drinking in pub
lie were evidently "railroaded.'
Here's a queer combination of
names in one item that appeared re-
Gently in the Esbon Times: Miss Laura
Munks who has been teaching the
Yapp school in Odessa township re-
signed her position Wednesday.
A four-year-old girl of the Chesebro
neighborhoOd, according to the For
moso New Era, has found the silver
lining to the horse plague. If all or
our horses die" she said recently.
papa will have to buy an auto
Either the barber-shop customers
are few and far between at Cedar
Bluffs, or they refuse to talk much.
The Beaver Valley Booster reports:
Ed Lipsey ran over to the county seat
for a few moments chat with his
brother tonsorial artist.
AS hog killing time approaches
Mike is soliciting jobs of butchering
hogs on shares, reports the Elk Falls
Reflector. He always skins the hogs
and offers to take for his share just
the hide, two hams, a pair of should
ers, two slabs of side and half the back
bone from each hog. Mike is lib
eral cuSs to Mike.
Some writer lately said that every
-fa TO Of Z
millionaire, notes the Liberal News,
and it adds: IF that writer should
glance over the tax rolls of Seward
county, he would fail to find the al
legged millionaire in that locality.
However, millionaireS are not always
located by searching the tax rolls.
A bunch of mixed pickles in the
LeaVenworth Labor Chronicle and Re
submissionist: There is a love of glory,
And love Of pelf; But mans strongest
mystery, In every land and cline;
She spends a dollars worth of energy,
To save one little dime. Great
men look big-from distance, yet
The closer you come-The smaller
they get.
We have often thought of the time.
says Editor Runnels of the Scott City
Republican, or one of his daughters
who are co-editors with him in the
of that paper, when we
sent from the class room for criticiz-
ing the professors definition of a
SylIogis1n. The professor gave this as
an illustration of a syllogism. Major
premise-AlI men are liars. Minor
premise-This is a man hence, he is a
liar. Turning to me he asked for my
opinion as to the correctness of the
statement remarked that the fellow
who said that was a man hence he was
a liar but the professor couldn't see
it that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
QUAKER fluctuations.
[From the Philadelphia RECORD

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Nor can you tell from the length OF q
prayer how far it will reach.
The worst thing about an obstacle is
that it is always in the way.
Every cloud has silver lining, unless
you happen to be under one.
Wheelbarrows and some men, won't ac-
complish anything unless they are
pushed.
Even the most indolent of US are not
lazy to work on the sympathy of our
friends.
It isn't because she feels she has to
draw the line somewhere that a woman
pencils her eyebrows.
The things that make life worth living,
from the pessimist's point of view, are
the things we can't get.
Just because a young man makes
name for himself, don't jump to the con-
clusion that he isn't proud OF his an
ceStors.
Blobbs-"Gotrox is always talking
about his fortune. How did he make it,
anyhow" Slobbs-'fIp eggs. Blobbs-
well, perhaps that is something to crow
about
The Prodigal Son was eating husks. Il
am afraid I was born before my time,
he complained. I'm Battle Creek might
make fortune out of this stuff in the
breakfast food line
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
THE RocKING-HoRsE.

Riding, Ridingi
over the vast sand-desert where the
pyramid shadow lay on it
over the green oasis where the fans OF
the palm-tree sway on it.
BY the banks Of the mighty river. with,
great ships far away on it,
Riding, riding, riding-wooden the steed 7
beStrode,
But never again shall I ride as then an
endless, desert road.
Riding, Riding!
across the waving Pampas, with flowers
like golden spray on it.
Across the pine dark mountain NTH
antlered stays that stray on it
1hTough the rock-rifted canon, with the
- sunrise lights that play on it.
me nursery window was narrow. the
London street fog-black
But never again shall l ride as then IN
an endless boundless track
Riding, Riding!
My horse and I through the country lane.
the summer dust is grey on it,
by the little wood, the heath and tie
field, with the fading light of DAY
on it,
BY the village green in the quiet dusk
with the rising moons first ray
on it.
L ride ride, my shadow beside. where
the full moon shimmers and CLEANS,
But never again in the world of men sh4 II
ride to the land of dreams.
una Artevelde Taylor, in the Wesr
minister Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
EVENING CHIT
81 RurN CAAgERoN.

''And so Janet says she is perfectly
delighted because she has another
baby" said Molly, the little stenopra-
pher lady, land it's the third in four
years, and Jim can't be earning more
than $35 a week. That's perfectly Alb
surd; it must be pose.'
Molly" said the lady-who-always-
knows-somehow, looking UP from the
little garment which she was embroid-
ering for the said Janet's youngest, is
it a pose when you say that it is the
ambition of your life to be able to take
III every stray cat and dog that You
fnd?''
"Of course it isn't" said Molly in
6ignantly
"WelI," said the ady-who-always-
knows-somehow with an intonation
that made further explanation I'M
necessary.
st guess you're right as usual, big
sister," said Molly, answering the in
donation rather than the words. as we
learn to do with those we understand
and love.
And the lady who-always-knows-
somehow smiled like the sun coming
out from behind a cloud for she doesn't
like to have to differ with Molly.
Seems to me that the little stenogra-
pher lady's mistake is very common
enc.
To call any attitude with which you
&c not syTnpathize pose or affectation
Is one of the most common kinds of III
justice of which men and women are
guilty.
Long ago when someone insisted that
I was posing when I said should rath-
er enjoy being present at a terrible
earthquake or fire or volcano eruption
IL the thing had to happen anyway,
and if none of my friends or myself was
Eurt, 1 felt the injustice OF this attf-
tude and determined to avoid it.
And yet just the other day I caught
myself saying after an unsuccessful at
tempt to read Pepys' Famous Diary
People are always saying thew like
that book. don't believe il. I think
anyone who says he really enjoys read
ing that stuff is just pretending"
We don't all like the same things
That is a most fortunate provision of
nature as anyone who stops to think
will see. A world full of people with ex-
actly the same tastes would result m
many complications beside being rather
stupid. Why. then, should We be incred- |
Ilous even when we find someone dis |
playing a taste that is totally incom- |
prehensible to US?
If you are genuine in your likes AMI |
dislikes, you ought to believe that |
others are too If you are a poseur |
that may account for your suspect |
ing others of the same lack of genuine |
hess, but 1t certainly does not prove the |
suspicion.
To make allowance for tastes and |
rrejudices and points of view which |
you do not share is the sign Of a broad |
mind and spiritual culture. To call |
every taste you don't sympathize with, /
pose, is a sign of the opposite.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
HUAOR or THE D<Y

90. John, do you believe silence IL golden -
4 oon know. I've never seen any Of u
SINCE we were married. Houston Post
~, our son seems very clear-headed -
es' mes smart boy. Only ne mad a
mistake once He said, Father. now e.
IN time TO fall so we failed. ana rnade
g9o a. money from it. Only If we had wait
ca TIL tn next week we would have burr
ca outF'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
- have telephoned." said a sweet vosce
To see II the Senate is in session. 'Tbc
SeIsate, answered the attendant ole noe
IN session. This is Miss Smugg dauRhfer
OF Senator Smugg. VIII you see III fsfber
Is sleeping in his seat, and II So kindly
wake him up and send him homer
Louisvf lie Courier-Journal
Mr.. Dubb-Often when look up at the
stars in the armament / cannot helm
thinking how small. how Insignificanf 7
am Miss keen-Indeedi And is IL onfv
then that that thought strikes you NJ
Dubb2-BostOn Transcript.
Mariorie-We have acoIytes In OIL,
church. Little Mabel-Thats nothing: we
have 'lectricl lights in ours.-Boston
Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

and initiate They go beyond their
means in their desire to do the proper
things. They dress extravagantly,
live at rate that is beyond their
purses and keep their husbands noses
to the grindstone till the men fall or
fail
Extravagan is in the air 1t can
not be combated successfully until
there are new models. If a woman,
or a class of women, were to rise
strong and wise enough to love SIM
pie things and insist upon them, then
the aping sisterhood would do the
same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
RY TIE WY
BIZ HARVEY PARsoREa

Dispatch from Cettinje announces
that war has been declared between
Montenegro and Turkey. After one
lingering slant at the date line, we
feel that it would be hard to ind
anything more conducive to war.
In fact, it caused some of Sherman's
definition in the composing room. the
typos took several chances at the name
of that town where the war started,
and then slug 'steen set it "Shrdlusn-
rdlu.''
We hold that no one with stack
of war chips could find a better game
to set in-je than the game started at
Cettinje.
Another north-and-south railroad has
blown up with a loud, sharp report.
But instead of believing the official
report to the effect that this n. and s.
road was composed principally of pa
per and water, the rank and file Will
insist that them railrud intrusts don't
want no oppersition, an therfur got
thuh cussid guvmpnt to bust this yere
railrud.
Jimmy Thorp, hero of the Stock
holm Stadium, got his nose wet and
put on an exhibition. James is
peach at putting the shot, but there
are many 9O-pound dudes who can
beat him putting the bottle.
An Abilene lady learned to write at
the tender age of rs. Her recipe
would be appreciated by city editors
who are trying to train cub reporters
In a moment of weakness, the bull
gang stole the right of several thou
sands of Californians to vote. Had the
bull gang felt strong, they might have
stolen the milky way and peddled it
in short-quart bottles.
When a man wins a woman's heart,
she expects diamonds, but frequently
gets a club-or at most a stick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
POINTED PARTICIPATES.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

[From the Chicago News.l
A poor man seldom has reputation as
a CRATER.
When artists compete for a prize the
result is a draw.
The mother who acts as c.4aperon is a
matchmaker in disguise.
Some women are very easily pleased,
judging by what they marry.
A mans relations seldom bother him IL
he is poorer than they are
1t is easy for woman to lose faith in
a man who is to be trusted.
When a lawyer gets busy and works
with a will he is almost sure to break 1t.
When a man gets married he is never
quite sure whether his male friends envy
or pity him.
It's tough luck when a tailor has to en-
ter a suit in order to get his money for
one he has made.
When an old bachelor falls in love
there is usually widow not far away
who is anxious and willing to help him
out,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
RILEY's BIRTHDAY.

A movement is on foot, nationwide
in scope, to give fitting observance to
the birthday of James Whitcomb
Riley October and the week follow
ing. We are informed that this &C
casion will be observed by the schools,
libraries and literary societies
throughout the country, and that II
is hoped to make it the greatest ova-
ton ever rendered an American au-
thor. 1t can't be too great an ova-
ton to suit us. Far better an ova-
ton while this poet, so dear to the
hearts of the people whom he loves
and understands, is living, than only
nationwide mourning when he dies
He viii have that, but we hope IL
won't come for a long time. It is
good to learn from his publishers
that to-day Mr.. Riley is in excellent
health, his intellect is keen and his
heart is filled with love for his fell
low men," That last was hardly need
ed, for nobody who knows Rfley's
verses will doubt that that heart will
be filled with love for humanity so
long as it continues to beat. II Is a
pleasure to give publicity to the news
of this plan, and we hope that in Du-
Iuth, as elsewhere, the week Of Octo-
Der will be used by the schools, the
libraries and the literary clubs ana
societies to do honor to this peoples
poet whose boundless love for hu-
mainly is returned in anstinted meas
ure--Duluth Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
Tomtit a LampIighter.

There is generally some quite simple
explanation of a mystery-if it can
only be found out. The lampIightsr
at Greenford, near Ealing, has been
puzzled for some time past by find
ing one of the lamps lighted every
day, although he had duly turned II
down. He suspected not spooks, nut
mischievous boys, and so he prepared
on ambush. To his establishment. as
he watched, up went the light with
never boy in sight, and then he dis
covered that the unauthorized larnp-
lighter was a tomtit which had a nest
IN corner of the lamp, and in getting
into it was in the habit of hopping on
to the ring of the incandescent by
pass. Many years ago the writer of
this note remembers a spell of r1ys-
terry in the shape of the mysterious
ringing of bell at intervals during
the night. No human agency could l e
detected, and the mystery grew deep
err Possibly the Psychical Research
society might have been appealed TO
had not chance revealed the fact that
the ringing was caused by rat
which used the wire as a jumping
off place. Spooks are composed Of
very varied materials.-Westrnfn
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Among the exceedingly rare things
are useful wedding presents.
y
Most folk are more cheerful than
they actually have reason to be.
= y \
You needn't dilate on your accom-
plishments. Everybody is familiar
with them.
And the last word that women so
enjoy having is seldom of very much
importance.
A mans enthusiasm about anything
is generally measured by what there
is in it for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
FROM OTHER PENS

PAYING HIGH FOR A SURE THING.
The statement is made that approx
imately 100000 has so far been raised
to finance the Democratic campaign,
and of this S296O00 has already been
expended. With only $4,000 in the
treasury as a balance, the national
committee appeals to the country for
from $75O,e00 to 100000 more. II this
appeal ELECTS anything like a full re-
Spouse, and assuming that all the
money raised will be spent, ii will
cost a sum approaching a million and
a quarter of dollars to elect Hon.
Woodrow Wilson president of the
United States. And yet it was over a
month ago that Henry Waterson began
to offer to bet dinners that Governor
Wilson Will carry every state at the
November ELECTION, Nov on top or
that comes Hon. William Jennings
Bryan, great among the prophets, say
ing: II don't concede a single state
to either Taft or Roosevelt. Wilson
and Marshall will make a clean sweep
and will carry every state in the
Union" So, even emitting mention
of the multitude of lesser enthusiasts
who are claiming everything up hill
and down, we have sufficiently abund-
ant testimony that the Democrats have
a sure thing, copper fastened, double
clinched, cinched, signed, seal
ed and delivered. Regarded from that
point of view. isn't a million and a
quarter of dollars a trif1e heavy to
pay for the privilege of making as
surance surer? OF course, il they
weren't claiming everything and con-
ceding nothing, the capture of the
presidency may well be, in the language
Of hungry victors. whetting their teeth
for the spells, '4wuth it."-NeW Haven
Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09
DAEFYDuS
BY o. NOALL.

If a play was called 1.-The Marathon
Race" would it have a long run?
(Step out of the gutter, boy, and
let the water go by.)
When Officer Clancy calls on Mary
Ann, the cook, is that a police court ?
Dust bury me where I lied
If a potato is an Irish apple can you
tell me what an Indianapolis?
(And the best Wsv to eet ahead is
TO raise cabbage.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

Just think of a prominent Democrat
committing suicide these days when
such great hopes are warranted for a
long awaited victory in the national
political arena Yet that is just what
happened in Philadelphia the other
day. Still environment has a lot to do
with suiciding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

French society women at least, APP
pear to be growing more sensible
One of their newest customs is to
hold their dances in the afternoon.
Dinner ends the function and then the
guests can get home at a reasonable
hour. The French women hit upon
this plan because they awoke to a
realization of the fact that the usual
evening dances were denying them
their beauty sleep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

Nor was there any reason to expect
that Jim Thorpe, the greatest ath-
lete that the world has known, is
perfect in all particulars. So his re
cent bout with bottle of whisky
should be considered in the light of a
regrettabie incident and forgotten.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

big jack Zelig, one of the most
important witnesses in the case against
Lieutenant Becker for the murder of
Gambler Rosenthal, was murdered in
cold blood on the eve of the day
set for the beginning of the Becker
trial And if this murder was not
brought about at the instigation of
the New Workers who wish to pro-
tect Becker and themselves, it is a
most strange coincidence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

From the heartrending appeal that
William Allen White has made for
additional funds to press more vigor-
ously the Progressive campaign in
this state, it is apparent that the
wonderful enthusiasm here for the
Bull Moose ticket is not of the sort
that encourages the enthusers to open
up their pocketbooks with a gener-
ons hand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

With the arrest of H. Leone Mil
Ter, it's promoter, on a charge of using
the mails to defraud, it appears that the
Winnipeg, Salina & Gulf railroad. an
other of those north and south affairs
to run through central Kansas, is of
the bogus paper variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

ings with more or less scorn. But
Senator PETER lived to see many of
the political reforms he urged placed
in operation. He who laughs last
laughs best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

Why is it necessary for William
Allen White to cover Kansas with
Roosevelt literature, if the people of
the state are so unanimously in favor
of the cause of the Bull Moose, as
Mr.. White and his assistants have
oIoiroed9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

This much is a political certainty.
All of the candidates for Office will not
be as happy and welI-pleased as they
now are when November arrives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-09

So much misery has been occasioned
in Japan on account of the high cost
of living, which keeps ON increasing
all the time with leaps and bounds,
that there is actually much fear that
a revolution will result.