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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
FROM OTHER PENS
"SOuTHPAwS ..

Ordinary human beings. realizing
their inability to rise beyond the av-
erage OF human progress, have always
devoted much speculation to the causes
which produce the individual of tow
ering attainments and superhuman
acnlevements. Theories have never
agreed- one favorite, intended to be-
stir the ordinary man to put forth his
pest efforts in emulation of the SUPER
human, had it that genius was but the
capacity for taking infinite pains. An
other. akin to the fine old theologicaI
doctrine of predestination, averred that
the genius was born, not made Now
comes new one for consideration by
mere man and superman alike. II
maintains that the genius is born, not
made, but that he must be born with
q certain definite qualification-to wit
he must be born left-handed The
left-handed Individual or "south-paw.'
as ne is commonly called, is left-hand-
ed because his brain is different So.
at least, maintains the discoverer of
TINS class1f1cation of genius, who
mas gathered together a genius trust
under the title of THE Excellent or
der of the Knights and Ladies' Of
Ehud-" The difference in the brain,
ne argues, Is responsible for the fact
that the south-paws are a peculiar
people unto themselves and are ant
TO do the interesting or unusual things
go round" This discovery, when
science accepts it, is bound to have
stupendouS consequences. Hitherto
there has been no way of recognizing
genius Enthusiastically. In fact, some
geniuses have not been discovered un-
til long after their deaths. Some even
nave died from starvation unknown;
others, more hardy. have passed
through the starvation period into
long delayed grudglngly accorded re-
cognftion. All this will be changed.
The genius will be known and respect
ed in early childhood. He will be fos-
tered His individuality will be per-
m1tted to develop unhindered and un-
checked. His every utterance, every
act will be awaited with reverence.
Through him, not through any ideal
istic scheme of democracy or socialism.
must the future of the race be worked
out-an aristocracy of genius. of
"southpaw" rulers. II is a revolution
ary discovery, and like so many others
of the day, it will make progress
prompt and certain through direct
action" Therefore, all hail the
''southpaw!'-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
HUNOR or THE DAY

Don't you want to leave any foot
prints in the sands OF timer Il don't
know" replied Senator Sorghum ''There'G
so much sleuthdng going that a man
gets shy of a thumbprint. a footprint and
even of leave to print''-Washington Star.
The greater a man is the more difficult
he finds 1t to rest on his laureIs without
mussing them.-Puck.
Reeder-Is it true that 1T takes a genius
ask my wife about it when I go home
Puck
about that man?'' "Nothin' SO bad aa All
that. but he's big liar."-Baltirnore
American.
statesman leaves footprints on the
sands of time. politician nothing but
the frequent impression OF an ear to the
ground.-Puck-
II just love moving pictures" IAN
right Come up to the house and help
my wife, anyhow. Free Press.
who was that man here, Aunt Dinah.
VINO was asking all about the people in
the house?" He said he was de man
what comes to take our senses miss -
Baltimore American.
THAT man you sent to congress hasn,t
yet had chance to speak and show on
what he knows" ''GoshT' exclaimed
was 1ucky"-Washington Star.
Townley-Jones says that he's making
5000 year out OF the chicken business
Subbubs-I'H bet 1t is out of IT, He's moi
making that IN the chicken business
Boston Transcript
II should think some of these speech-
makers would get tired of hearing them
selves" said the proprietor Of the village
tics as it's anywhere else replied old Toe
Struthers. "A man don't mind listenirs 10
the worst noise a cornet kin make. pro-
vided he's the Teller that's doin' fha
Draeticin'. "-Washingto Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
SAYS UNCLE CAV

know of no sure means of eradicat-
ing a combative disposition and if 7
did I wouldn't tell it. would no more
take the love of fight out of the world
than would stop the rivers from flow
ing. The love of fight is nothing more
than an evidence OF surplus energy,
and instead of eradicating it, I'd har-
ness it. It's mighty poor piece of
horseflesh that won't kick up its heels,
give the hired man a chase around the
pasture and perhaps smash a vehicle
or two if it hasn't enough to do. It's
largely the same way with a man
set a fighter to work and work him
bat he wants in the course of his daily
argument with the task at hand.
The remedy for the gang spirit"
among boys is not to break that spirit,
but to give the little scrappers some
thing useful upon which to spend their
enthusiastic brain and Drawn. The
remedy for your own trouble is some
disposition to keep you so busy that
you have no time nor energy to waste
upon that which does not please you.
The man who fights artistic or in
dustrial problems all day long is usual
ly glad enough to welcome a few hours
of peaceful leisure at nigh. Put a
neighborhood busybody or a neighbor-
hood bully at work that calls for the
last ounce of strength ind you have
disposed of the nuisance. If you find
yourself inclined to play either role,
it's easy enough to apply the remedy.
All You have to do for that mean dis
position is to give your natural COM
bativeness healthy outlet. Hammer
on your own troubles and leave your
neighbors alone.-(Copyright, 1912, by
w. E. Williams)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

be his fault. Notwithstanding the fact
that it has always been the prerogative
of the national committee to name the
convention, the colonel has already Sc
lected the man for the job in the per-
son of Governor Hadley of Missouri.
Mr.. Hadley may possibly act as tenn
porary chairman of the boiling con-
vention which it seems that the Roose-
welt forces are preparing to hold in the
event that they are not in control OF
the regular convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most of the economical individuals
are inclined to be stingy.
y x
In any number of homes the piano is
more ornamental than useful.
=
What's become of the old-fashioned
Office that used to seek the man?
u
Many man is popular with both
men and women. This is seldom true
of a woman.
=
Not a few brides stretch the truth
a bit in the notes of thanks they send
out for wedding gifts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
DAFFYDHS
BY u. NoALL.

If you bought an adding machine
at a reduced price would you call the
thing a bargain counter?
John, deari Don't forget to water the
flowers while I'm away-)
If the building is made of stone l.
the wall paper.
(And Brown. the barber, will not
sing that popular ballad entitled:
Come Back With Your Hair On.')
If a man threw potatoes at you
would you let the pommes de terre
you?
ooh, how love the watch dogs hon.
est bark.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
PLAN TO TAKE A REST.

Don't give up your vacation this
summer because you do not have lot
of money to spend, rightly advises the
Kansas Industrialist, and it continues:
Some persons rush about trying to get
ready to take a vacation. And this is
wrong. If you are going, don't fuss
around buying a lot of new clothes.
Pack I'D what you have and start
Maybe you have laid away little
money that will provide for a small
part of your neutrality-suspicious. the car
fare-but you don't have sufficient
money for an expensive summer re-
sort. You can have just as good a time
and yet just spend that money for
car fare. and a little more for Incl
dentals These incidentals include a
little place half way up a mountain,
where you can rent tent or little
cabin for a very small amount. and
get a genuine rest.
Don't take any fussy, new clothes
with you. Wear old ones. For If a
man wears a disreputable old pair Of
overalls and battered straw hat, and
the woman part of the firm a last
years sailcr dress and an old blue
sunbonnet, the fish will bite better.
The cost for such a camping expedition
is small; and you can even get out Of
your own state and camp without
spending very much money.
Some girls last summer, had a jolly
time camping on the Chautauqua
grounds They combined mental and
physical rest, attended the meetings.
and had a good time in general. A
party of boys did the same thing. The
cost is a trifle-the tent right has to
be paid for, but the board is not very
much.
When you were little you used to
run when you saw a movers wagon
coming. You supposed it was a gyp-
sizes wagon, and that they were going
to get you. Then later you played you
were going on a long trip. The clothes
basket covered with an old shawl, with
barrel hoops for bows, made a COW
cred wagon. You put into it your best
doll and all the provision you could
set and dragged it along. You camped
at various places-the last one in bel
because you wore the bottom out of
the basket. Why not realize these
plays now. and take a genuine covered
wagon and go just as far as you can?
On a venture, you are perhaps one OK
those busy families who live on farm
and cannot leave very easily. But you
car pitch a tent over in the south
pasture down by the creek and just
run home long enough to feed he
chickens and milk the cows, but take
your meals over there. Or, if you cam
not leave for even that distance, y>u
have a back yard, haven't you? Put
up a tent and sleep and eat in it.
Nothing would help a farmers wife
more than to bundle up all her w,r-
ries and leave them for a few DAYS.
But this is not always practicable on
the farm.
Whatever you do to make a living,
choose something for your vacation
that will be a complete change and
isn't much work Get away from work
and worry and go back to your tasks
freshened in mind and strength
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News

LFrom the Chicago News-1
Cheap men and cheap automobiles make
the most noise
It takes man to exaggerate his love
for grand opera
Get the better of yourself before some
other fellow beats you to it
The man who sets a good example
breaches a sermon without words
The woman who marries a widower
may mourn his first wife's demise.
The good may die young, but the villain
is seldom caught until the last act.
Did it ever occur to you that now IS
the future you longed for several years
ago2
If a woman is unable to reform a man
during courtship she'll navar be able to
do il after marriage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29


but we fear it would Jim the press II
set In minion. You might try setting
it to music.
South Dakota hi- upon a good ad-
vertfsing scheme when it set the dele
gate primary down near the foot of
the list. The name of the state will
be printed several times each day for
a while. Formerly. South Dakota had
to stage a cyclone or prairie fire to
get in the headlines.
The earth may not be seventy mill
lion years old, as some scientists claim.
but any wop who tries to spade up a
back yard will. coneede that it is old
enough to be tough.
Some people are natural sales
men," said Hondo Murphy, as the
book agent took his name and mum Der
and dashed out after another victim.
THAT guy sells me a bundle of junk
1 don't want, can't afford and will
never read. 1t means a new section
for the bookcase and row with my
wife. 1t was easy enOugh-the way
he put that over. For mine, couldn't
go out on the street and sell So bills
for 1913 each. I know. In my youth
I took a whirl at the business. L was
scheduled to take orders from retail
dealers for a sure thing. I took just
one order before jumping the job.
That was from a moth-eaten old
chronic crouch, and the order was:
Get the -- out of here.
Approaches now the gladstone sea-
son when Topeka will number among
it's faults the sticky asphalts.
Hope costs nothing, and it is about
the only luxury many of us can af-
ford.
: The Memphis man who set a trap
gun and was the first to spring it, got
just what the Good Book promises
people Of this sort. Trap guns were
not in style when 1t was written, but
holes for others to fall into will take
the first tumble, applies to trap guns
as we'll as pits.
zone never knows until they pack
up to move, what an awful pile of
brio a brac, crockery and the like has
accumulated in the house." observed
Mrs. Rentyr this morning. why,
when we move, we take along at least
half a dozen family jars
President Gomez says his troops will
take no prisoners in their contest with
the colored insurgents. Gomez, being
a progressive, has adopted the Ten
nessee system Of handling the race
problem.
Most politicians sound their key
notes on the "bull' fiddle, but it ap-
pears that T. r. insists upon playing
the entire program on the same in
strument.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

TF'rom the New York Press
Some men get more tired lodging their
jobs than others doing theirs.
Up to 30 a girl wants to pick a man for
a husband; after that she is willing to ne
picked.
When a man proposes to girl and she
tells him to ask her father she means she
already has done it.
Life is mostly made up of owing money
YOU can't pay and of having owed to you
money you can't collect
sham hero thinks his picture in the
newspaper is more important than real
hero's monument in Central Park.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
TIE HOUSE. OF NIGHT.

All day about my spirits house
I mend the fires, and dust and sweep;
All day, as quiet as a mouse,
My thoughts lie, hidden and asleep.
But when the working hours are past,
And when I hope the day is dead,
And though the night is earned at last
They come and find me, in my bed.
They have pity, and they come,
They search my spirit through and
through,
And some are conscious, some are dumb,
But all are sorrow, all are you.
And oh, to be a child again,
A fair, white room untenanted. :.
Thoughts never blurred the windowpane,
Nor came and crouched beside my head.
". H. Friedlaender, in the Westminster
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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Advance payment is requested on
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bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

Some Of the baseball experts insiss
ed it was a fluke that the New York
Giants won the pennant in the Ma
tional League last year. But the way
this team, made up of practically the
same players who We're with it last
season, is playing this year would in
dictate that the baseball experts were
wrong again. as usual
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

is counting few ems that will
never be Matched. LaFollette will hang
onto his delegates until the bitter end.
The little giant of wisconsin has never
shown any liking for duplicity in poll
tics or anything else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

This is the open season for butter
milk However, this fact won't cause
any riotous enthusiasm among the
many who think such stuff is fit only
to be fed to the pigs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

EVELYN Nesbit Thaw appears to have
been a bit premature in the produce
ton of her son. The hearing on Har-
rvs sanity has been postponed from
June until next fall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

Midsummer heat having arrived III
May, it is possible that some dellgnt
full May weather will make an ap-
pearance in midsummer. That's the
Kansas way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

Patriot i as it exists in Mexico. In
order to get soldiers to put down the
revolution against the government, the
federal generals are hiring men to
fight at a dollar a day with the priyi-
lege of quitting the service at any time
at the end of a DAVIS work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

OF a truth. some men are difficult to
satisfy. Prominent in this category was
the volunteer fireman of Baltimore who
blew his brains out the other day be-
cause a disease of his eyes had lately
made it impossible to rum to fires
any longer. And he had only been
running to fires for three score, or
60 wears.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

President Taft has told Presider
G mez of Cuba that the United States
is not contemplating intervention. But
intervention will surely come If the
Cuban government is unable to sup
press the present negro ---r''Ition and
properly protect the lives and property
of American residents. And if it does
come it will be of the permanent va
riety
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

All that the new United States
Baseball League appears to need to
make it a great success is desirable
places for its teams to play, and suf-
ficient1y good ball players to draw large
enough crowds to support them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

Inasmuch as speed-crazy men were
responsible for the sinking Of the Til
tanic, it seems eminently fitting that
an inmate of a lunatic asylum should
produce plans for raising the wreck
from its grave, two miles below the
surface of the sea-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

Thus is another 'Inalienable right"
denied to the people of Massachusetts.
The manufacture and sale of the trick
cigars that explode have been prohibit
ted. Matters are certainly coming to
a pretty pass in this land of the free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
KANSAS COMMENT
REMEMBER THE RULE.

Selfshness and vanity. they say,
were the ruling passions of Rev. Clar-
ence Richeson, the Massachusetts,
murderer. Aren't those the passions
| which In degree rule many persons?
Take selfishness out and with it go
greed, arrogance and uncharity to
which vanity is the hand-maiden. All
the lower traits o. human character
are but the children of selfshness and
vanity nurses them, waits on them, de-.
velops them. There is no evil under
which man suffers but it can be traced
back to selfishness SeIhshness and
vanity come as naturally to every one
as to that Massachusetts murderer
and the great lesson for early child
hood, early manhood and for maturity
is the golden rule. Do we teach it?
Or do we teach that acquisition for
ones self means success? Richeson
possessed youth, talent and fine per-
sonality. Society did all ii could do to
develop his vanity and selfshness and
by them he was finally overpowered.
His record would be exactly duplicated
in thousands of cases under like cir
cumstances and environment. Prac-
tice and systematic development If per-
sisted in will positively pervert the
character in vast number of cases,
and Richeson'5 case is truly an object
lesson. Let us keep the golden rule
written plainly on our mental black
boards.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

Maryland has the opportunity to u
as well as Kansas did in passing out
justice to a number of men who gave
a woman a coat of tar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

There is this much relief in sight.
With the New Jersey primaries a thins
of the past, there will be lull in the
battling of the Republican presidential
candidates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

Champ Clarks houn' dawg had every
thing it's own way in Kentucky. No
one seems disposed nowadays to land
even a little kick on that critter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

This is, indeed, world of surprises
In the news of recent day was chron-
icled the drowning of professional
life-saver; and the killing of store
keeper in a trap he had set for burg
lars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

That New Jersey Republican, 50 years
old, ought to be permitted to vote twice
at all primaries and elections.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

Among the delegates that Colonel
Roosevelt's managers are certain their
candidate is sure Of are those that Mr.
LaFollette has in his possession. This
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
FOOL KILLER DE LUKE.


The fools have - great many things
in their favor nowadays. There is the
aeroplane which is a good killer and
is doing much to help in the noble
work undertaken few years ago by
the motor car whore it was left off by
the steam trains. 50 long as the aero
planes hold out the supply of fool kill
ers Will be good. For instance, the
minnesota man VIII bought an aero
plane of the Wright Brothers today
and was killed six minutes after he
started to manipulate 1t. He just sim
ply couldn't wait to be killed but after
Delng refused permission to take the
machine away by himself on account
OF a lack of experience he swiped the
Keys and took his machine out and
Killed himself with it. Promptness
was this mans watchword. His nat
ural right to kill himself might have
peen satisfied years ago but he chose
70 DO The spectacular and original
stunt or grabbing death by the Whts-
kers and teasing it until the lob was
done.-OttaWa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

If Colonel Roosevelt is not the whole
show at the Chicago convention it won
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
ny THE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARaoNa

Thanks for the parlor wheeze, Pip.
but we fear it would Jim the press If
! set in minion. You might try setting
it to music.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

The earth may not be seventy mill
lion years old, as some scientists claim.
but any wop who tries to spade up a
back yard will. coneede that it is old
enough to be tough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29

Most politicians sound their key
notes on the 'bull' fiddle, but it ap-
pears that T. r. insists upon playing
the entire program on the same in
strument.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-10-23
.LENox COLLEGE.

The first number Of the Nutshell
or this year is out. A. F. Aitchison
Is business manager and Archie
Vheeless editor-in-cheif, and they
viii he glad Of both new subscrip.
yons and renewals.
# Dr.. y. T. Reeve of the class of 81
viz on October Gath, be install
Il in the fourth Presbyterian church
81 Philadelphia. He has been pastor
# the church Of Basking Ridge, N.
I. ever since leaving the seminary,
about nine years ago.
Each of the literary societies have
enrolled a large number of new
.lembers-
verdon WEIGH, 'o9, was up from
onticello Friday.
Miss vina Erazelton OF Ryan, g
former student, was visiting friends
he last of the week.
Miss Florence Taylor, '06, is teach.
ing school at Oxford, Ohio.
A little son is born to Rev. and
drs. Oscar Brehens, 'Os, at Ana.
mosa.
.seanley Trevarthan, '0s, and Verdol
.yelch, %, were in Des Moines "a
Gently taking the final examination
TO admit them to the practice Of law
The former is a graduate Of Ann Ar
cor and the latter Of Yale.