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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-05

harmony in her own work to match his.
Prospective buyers came daily TO IN
spect the property, and as each one lett
celia heaved a sigh OF relief 1t had be-
gun to hurt her-this showing OF people
through the house that had become
part of her life. She wondered II the
landscape gardener felt the same Jealousy
sworn that she saw him turn away an
aristocratic couple who stopped at the
great entrance Celia exulted in her
heart and resolved to go down in person
and ask Tom Gaynor to come in ana
look at her work. He had not so mich
as cast a glance in her direction during
the long weeks of close proximity
AT least" thought Celia, The hasn't
while 1 was looking"
She approached her subject in a round
about way.
Il beg your pardon, Mr.. Gaynor-are
you busy2" She flushed slightly when
he smiled into her eyes. L have been
wondering for long time just what OBJ
lection people have to this beautiful house
hundreds have looked at it but none
of them buy.
The peculiar expression in Tom Gaynor s
eyes held Celia's attention
If you promise not to be angry 1 VIII
tell you why Gaynor's eyes were ser
ious, pleading. Celia caught her breath
sharply and something happy sang with
in her. Gaynor drew a step nearer ana
spoke in deep voice that told Celia
many things. Il bought the house the
day I saw you the train.
t.Oi'' gasped Celia, perhaps you won
like the inside Of
Il already more than like everything
in the house" Gaynor said
And Celia -(Copyrighted'
1912. by Associated Literary Press-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-05
SAYS UNCLE CIV

If you're in business only for the
money there is in it, get out. I don't
believe in the divine right of wealth
or the divine right of anything ex-
cept the healthy, happy, whistling
man. the woman who sings at her
work and the little child that makes
them whistle and sing. But if YOU
can't do the world a service in your
business, or at least believe that YOU
are doing it q service, your business
is slavery, and you'd better be q
pauper than a slave
Money Of itself never brought any
body but a miserly monomaniac hap
piness. The pursuit of money may
be exciting for a time, but the edge
of the excitement wears away and the
game is bitterness and gall. More
over, the mere pursuit of money is sell
dom successful. Occasionally clever
scoundrel arises, poses as business
man and reapS a fortune under false
pretenSes, but SOcietyS punishment
for him is swift and sure. There never
was a great permanent fortune, no
matter how badly tainted, that was
not predicated upon human service and
the accumulation of which did not
come about through some such service
And more especially is it true that
no man has ever accumulated and
kept a great fortune who did not do
his work largely for the works sake
ASK any big business man and he
will tell you that the successful bust
ness mans happiness is in his work
not entirely because 1t is prof1ta BILE
and not entirely for IL works sake,
but because of both considerations.
He will tell you. also that If he did
not love the work for its own sake
he would cease to be Interested in it
and thus drift down the ways of fail
ure
If you believe that Rockefeller built
Standard Oil or that Carnegie built
Steel for the mere love of the dollars,
you are not familiar with one of the
great laws of human nature Bust
ness, not the dollar, was the passion
of these financial giants. They loved
business for itself and found business
Copyright, 1912, by w. z. Will
liamS.)
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REGULATING THE LAWYERS

Sauce for the goose should assured
" be sauce for the gander, even if
it always isn't And SO there should
he veritabie football rush of publ
eists, economists, scientific manage
ment experts, statesmen, and large
re presentation of the commo herd.
to the support of the bill which has
be introduced by Representative
jackson, of this state It seeks to pre-
vent the payment of large attorney
fees in certain cases.
This is an era of public regulation
in this land of the free and home of
the brave. And the lawyers have been
doing most of the regulating The
charge is a common one that the law
yers predominant in most of the leg
legislative bodies of the land. Filis
being the case, it is the lawyers who
have been regulating, or attempting to
regulate all or most of the activities
which have made the United States
the most prosperous and progressive
of the civilized nations.
That the suggestion comes from one
of their distinguished lights that they
be regulated themselves seems emf
nentlv fitting. 1t also shows the mem
bers of the legal profession to be of
large caliber. They are willing to put
on the same shoe that has pinched
others There is nothing of selfish
ness in their makeup. Or at least it
is safe to assume these things in view
of move that Mr.. jackson has
made. He suggests that no part OF
the money proposed to be appropriated
/ in the ill pending in congress to set
tie southern Civil war claims against
the government shall be paid until the
/ claimant in each case files an aff1-
! davit in the proper court stating that
not more than 25 per cent Of the
money received on the claim is to be
paid as a fee to any attorney or at
torn1ys Mr.. Jackson is quite right
in his belief that it is not a good pol
lev on the part Of the government t
encourage the drumming up of claims
of this kind by attorneys He de-
serves the thanks OF such claimant:
for his efforts to protect them against
exor5itant attorney fees
some may have the temerity to say
thst a Is per cent fee is altogether
too large for attorneys. especially II
view of the fact that as legislator
thew have been trying to regulate rail
roads and other public service corpora
tons so that they Will only be able K
earn or per cent on their activities
But why indulge in comparisons tina
may be odious or odorous? Mr. Jack
son has started out in the right direc
ton. He opens up an avenue of larg'
PROPORTIONS Maybe this legislation o
his. if successful, will be the forerun
ner of national and state Legislation
that will regulate and limit the fee
of lawyers in all cases to REASONABLE
sizes And If the lawyers are regu
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me- nrTsTnER.

They wanted the prettiest china,
But they didn't ask for mine
Twas for the minister's party;
They wanted everything fine.
They wanted the incest silver
Mines sterling, every bit;
1t lies all yellow and tarn1shed,
For why should I brighten it?
They wanted the lightest biscuit
The hand and the heart of me aches,
When 1 think of my roomy oven,
And the wonderful way 1t bakes.
They wanted all the good people
That cut me most, like a knife
You see twas the minister's party
And I'm the saloonkeeper's wife
From behind the kitchen curtain
could see them laughing Say,
There are roads in this world lots harder
That their straight and narrow way
1 know how they hold me- But tell me-
Is it sinful to keep the vows
That I made that sweet June evening
AS I stood in my fathers house!
oh, we'll they're there and I'm here,
And it's no use to sit and whine
Still-they wanted the prethest chinas
And they didn't ask for mine
-Mella Russell McCallum, in the 4nde-
pendent.
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HUNOR or TIE Day

He-Pardon me, but I'm not Sir John
only Just plain Mr.. She-Oh, well. you
know, in these days when there are so
many new titles, 1 always give people
the benefit of the doubt--London Opin-
ion.
Knicker-Are you cutting down ex-
penses2 Bocker-Yes; am paying only
half the bills.-Puck-
wife-George, do you know that the
children need new shoes2 Husband-So
does the autoI The children will have to
waiti-Puck-
Peet-Can you give me tip on stocks?
Stretches; but in consideration Of our
long friendship, I wont.-Boston Trans
cript.
Wigg-Bjones is pretty hard to please,
isn't he? Wagg-A1rnost as hard to please
as a college graduate looking for his first
job.-Philadelphia Record.
kicking is bad policy. Behold the
mule. Kicking never gets him anywhere Z
That is exactly why the mule kicks"
'sEh?f' He doesn't want to get any
where -'-Birmingham Age-Herald.
"A poor shirwrecked sailori Were you
washed ashore2" no, mym; yer see,
I've on'y bin ashore three weeks Life
a merry Christmas. wombat- But
why are YOU srniling2'' THAT pestifer-
Gus boy of mine set steel trap for Santa
Claus. w ashington Herald
wedding anniversary kicker-I do. dis
tinctly- According to your present age
it occurred when you were years Old
Harper's Bazaar
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record. ]

lfrom the Philadelphia Record.1
There is nothing new under the sun,
not even trouble
The man who is afraid to think for
himself should get married.
1t isn't altogether matter of caste
that causes the aviator to look down on
the chauffeur.
Fame comes to the doctor who discovers
new diseases, not to the who cures
the old ones.
Wigg+s'D 'Auber says he is welded 70
his art" Wagg-'1 suppose that's the
reason he feels he can neglect it,
Many a man fails to hit the bulls eye
in the big shoot because he has wasted
all his ammunition in practice.
Some people pay pew rent with the idea
that it entities them to an admission
ticket to the big show hereafter.
Women as a rule, are more proud OF
their beauty than of their brains Incl
to be.
If you are going to do a favor for q
friends, don't pick out one with a poor
memory
How do we know the world is
round?" asked the teacher. Because
we know it isn't square replied the boy
who reads all the financial and political
news.
woman is always fond of talking
about the things she would do il she
were q man. while man contents him
self with telling what he wouldn't do II
he were q woman
TT may be true that time is money
says the Manayunk Philosopher. but
many a man will spend more time try
ing to pass a Canadian dime than IL
would take him to earn five dollars.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the chicago News.I

TFrom the Chicago News.I
Many a true word IS spoken by mis-
take.
It's difficult to discourage a girl who
cant sing
You are what you are only when no
one is looking.
Keep your troubles to yourself and they
will not expand.
Some people love to tell the truth-when
they think it viii hurt
No. Alonzo, a girl isn't necessarily an
angel because she is high flyer
Some men try to avoid paying as they
go because they don't expect to come
back
Platonic friendship ard perpetual mo-
ton are all right theoretically. but they
refuse to work.
Even if q man does know his own mind
be may rot have cause to be proud or
his acquaintance.
Occasionally a bachelor thinks he will
marry a certain girl until he discovers
that she thinks likewise also
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RY THE WY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

No use talking natural gas is one
OF the greatest of modern convenlences
piled with coal or wood and some
metal receptacle within which to in
cinerate the same-likewise full COM
plement of coal oil lamps or electric
globules. For heating in July and Aug
ust and lighting in the day time, there
is nothing like natural gas.
Natural gas is also a great and
safe power producer; it will turn the
pretty little wheels in a gas meter with
out injuring them in the least
The silent watches of the night are
followed by the far-fronl-silent alarm
clocks Of the early dawn.
Egg shortage item: slight revision Of
an old saw: Chickens come home 10
roost-only.
Never having met one. our opinion
of the grounding is similar to the opln-
ion of the agriculturist who visited
menagerie and met dromedary for the
first time.
Doc Crumbine is after headache rene
dies on the ground that they are dan
gerous. The excessive drinking of gas
oline is also said to be deleterious to
human health. Why not put ban on
gasoline?
All the world loves a winner-with
the exception, of course. of the one he
wins 1t from.
In high school physics they teach
that iron is a conductor of heat, but
the pupil who has to be shown may go
home, take a slant at the pure iron
gas stove and file an exception.
TIL theory that the automobile will
result in the passing Of the horse Is
a good theory. BUT one may observe
that although the mouse trap was IN
vented many years ago, there seems to
be no great shortage in the annual
pussy cat crop.
The advertising philenthropist casts
his bread upon the waters-but I
doesn't float very far on account OIL
the hook and line attached to each loaf.
When the ancient paragrapher wrote
1.-The mind of man runneth not to the
contrary the chances are he under
scored the word man so there would
be no mistake in his meaning.
woodrow Wilson may think he was
unlucky in his break with the maya
zines, but L.aFollette's troubles are
more serious. HE is in Dutch with the
newspapers.
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GLOBE SIGHTS
BIZ THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

A cruel joke is a Joke only to savages-
Some boys who claim to know more
than their fathers, can prove it.
Sometimes a barnyard bird can whip a
regular fighting cock. but not often.
1t is possible to rise above failure, but
success is apt to boost you higher
There aren't many exceptions to this
rule: When food is cheap, labor is.
There are several varieties of toothache.
and of course you always have the worst.
Some men have so much conceit it )
contagious and they can borrow money
it.
One cant expect as much excitement in
church all the time during a revival
A man is willing to see his opposition
do a little business if he has more than
he can handle.
If YOU must hit. hit hard. for a mushy
blow is pretty sure to encourage your
Hon. opponent
It also sets a man TO thinking some
when he sees his boyhood friends buying
spectacles-
Our government has 50 much spare
time that more mail should be sent to
the dead letter office
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Not so many people part with their
money easily enough to be set down
among the fools
Men never seem very backward about
Offering their seats in street cars to
young and attractive women
x y
People who are free at giving advice
are apt to get vexed if any is given
them in return
y
It doesn't take NewIyweds long 70
awake to q realization that they are
not the only people on earth.
Il
Christmas and Grounding day hav-
ing passed on their way it's up to the
women to begin to worry about their
hats and dresses for Easter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-05
EVENING CHAT

The other dav 7 heard young friend
Of mine using some rather coarse SLANG
This young person had previously con-
fided to me her intention OF cschewins an
slang. and trying TO speak better hnshsn'
in emulation OF a friend whom she great
" admired.
Naturally I reminded her of the con-
fidence and asked her what Barbara, the
much admired one. would think.
We'll guess she wouldn't mind
much" was the triumphant response.
for [ heard her say that very thing her
self. l. know her better now. and finn
she uses slang just like other people, so
I've quit trying to be so particular
What's good enough for her. is good
enough for me-
How did you feel the first time YOU
heard her use slangg" I inquired curl
ously.
The young person was thoughtful for a
moment. "Wel." she said finally, AZ
first 7 felt aWfully ioltcd and uisaupoiut-
cd And then afterwards I felt kind or
relieved and glad TO find she was human,
and / didn't have TO be perfect TO i've up
to her"
wonder il there is any one OF us VINO
hasn't been through an experience lke
that when some one whom we greatly al
mired proved himself or herself Just Ike
other folks"
First. of course came fine feeling of
isappointment. and then, alas. came the
If we had suddenly been relieved OF an
obligation towards higher living which
knowing him had laid upon US. by dis
covering the weakness or blemish in our
ideal.
IF he who Is 80 far above us can do
this or that" runs the tenor Of our sub
conscious commentary. What can be az
pected of us2f And at once we begin rs
struggle a little less valiantly, 70 ask a
little less Of ourselves. to hate weakness
and imperfecton little less passionateiy-
What greater preachment could there
be on the responsibility OF popularity and
prominence than this weak and unworthy
pleasure we feel in finding that even the
most popular people are Just like other
foiks?"
Nay more what greater commentary on
the tremendous responsibility Of all llv
ing among people. For who knows but
that you or 1, who do not count ourselves
popular or prominent at all, may be
idolized by some one who does not know
our weakness and inadequacy.
Who knows but that some unworthy
act on our part may be the token to such
a one that we are 'Just like other folks
and the signal 10 him 70 give up strug-
Cling so valiantly 10 be his best self.
1t seems to me that every temptation
that assatls even the least Of us. should
be fought, not only with the dctermina-
ton that comes from our desire to live
UP to our ideals. but from the realization
of the let-down we may be giving TO
someone who ideahzes US
And as for the popular folks. THOSE VINO
are always the cynosure and admiration
Of reighbOring eyes, those wnom IN
Vulnerable humble folks ideaiize.-truiy
the thought OF their responsibility is al
most terrible.
How. fin the name or common sense. can
anyone wish to be or try TO be popular
Despite the fact that being only human.
do.
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lated. why not the surgeons? Why not
the dentists. even if they have a pull?
Why not regulate the earning capa-
city of every one?
Cries of socialism are out of or
der. Remember if the Jackson plan
is followed and in all fields with
fear and favor to none, it will be on
a 20 per cent basis. as a starter. al
any rate. That's altogether too gen
erous to approach Socialistic ideals
And besides. in Socialism, the dram
man is entitled to as much as the law
yer. or the railroad president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-05
THosE HOUSE RuI.E..

Loud laughter is not out of place
When the Republican insurgents
made their memorable fight against the
rules of the house of representatives
two years ago. and obtained the neces-
sary assistance from the Democrats y
change these rules in a variety of ways,
there was much cheering on their part
Cannonism, that terror to free ana
untrammeled government, had been de-
horned. The house had finally been
restored to something like the repre-
sentative body that its creators had IN
tended it should be. Great were the
insurgents" Great. too. we're thei-
allies in righteousness, the Democrats.
At that time a few discerning people
in touch with and interested in the at
fairs political of the nation venture1
the suggestion that the Democrats han
joined with the insurgents" in this
fight on the rules merely for the pur-
pose of playing clever politics. 1t was
argued that they saw a chance through
changing the rules to put the Repub-
lean majority in hole. But these sug-
gestions were frowned at by the in
surgents." They called it little less
than treason to the cause of good gov
eminent to charge that the Democrats
had acted in anything but good faith
in the assault at the rules
One thing soon became certain The
fight that was put up on the rules so
discredited the Republican majority
that at the succeeding congressional
election. the people returned Demo
cratic majority to the house. Then
with blare of trumpets and q waving
of flags Speaker Clark announced his
adherence tc. that fine ''insurgent' doc
trine that the speaker should not have
the power to name the house commit
tees. This was delegated to the ways
and means committee of which that
astute politician Oscar W. Underwood.
of Alabama, was chosen chairman. And
It hasn't taken long for the people to
get wise to the fact that the 'czarlsm
Of conducting the house has merely been
shifted by the Democrats They re-
moved the mantle from the speaker
But they took good care to place 1t II
equally competent hands Only the
other day, the insurgents discovered
that their former allies, the Democrats
could apply gag rules with an efiicl-
ency that made similar efforts of the
old Republican machinery of the house
look amateurish-
But d harder blow was yet to fall.
reform rules that originated with the
insurgents" and which was adopted
with the aid of the Democrats, known
as the discharge calendar rule, was
ruthlesslv slaughtered. The Democrats
merely announced that they found il
..unworka bic It worked we'll enough
to hamper the Republican majority Il
the house two years ago. But that, as
1 pudx5ard T<,Dlinc would saw is another
story. The Democrats do not care e
be hampered in the same fashion
Hence the rule had to GO. So much
for the righteousness" of the attitude
Of the Democrats when they Joined tn;
Republican insurgents" in the crusade
against the house rules. It Is to be pre-
sumed that the Insurgents gnashed
their teeth while one of their pet hob
bies was being decapitated. Nor would
it have been inappropriate had some o
| them looked trif1e silly
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DAFFYDHS
BY U. NOALL.

When the fire bell rings does the
banana peel2
clothes horse-)
If Ben Hur came to town would
the beef-soup2
actor
If two people can pick fight what
can the toothpiclx?
one.)
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

TFron the New York Press
A price tag gets pinned to about every
thing, including mercy.
With most of them waste makes them
want to do it some more.
A girl never gets to know more than a
man till she marries him.
Being a smart aleck can get a person
into more trouble than being a Ounce.
The wav woman keeps free from sea-
sickness is to stay in her cabin and hide
1t from others.
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This IS fair enough. Colonel Roose-
welt believes in woman suffrage wher-
ever women want it. And if major
ity of the men of Kansas are disposed
TO be as fair, the women of this state
will have complete suffrage extended
to them. There seems to be little
doubt that the women of Kansas or a
great majority of them, desire the bal
l.
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Governor Stubs is amazed at the
spectacle of the secretary to the presi-
dent issuing a statement that Presi-
dent Taft is gaining political strength
and would be nominated and elected .
It's all right. though, for Governor
Stubbs' secretary. Mr.. Leahy, to issue
any old kind of a statement or letter
for the advancement of the interests
Of his chief
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The politicians, the prize-fighters. and
the baseball players are getting most
of the space in the newspapers these
days. No attention at all. or scarcely
~. is paid to the lives and the work
of the rank and file of humanity who
have their shoulders to the wheel and
are pushing the world onward and up
ward. That is. no attention is paid to
any of them unless he makes a little
mistake or cimmits an overt act Of
soma sort
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Arthur Capper finds it convenient
20 use the news columns Of his news
paper, the Topeka Daily Capital, to
announce that he is personally in ia
vor of the nomination of Theodore
Roosevelt as the Republican candidate
for president This leaves the Capital
free to continue editorially its sup
port of Senator LaFollette. Such an
authority in the premises as the Liter
airy Digest CLASHES the Capital as be-
ing among the newspapers which are
enthusiastic supporters of the little
giant of Wisconsin.
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Those attending the convention Of
hobos. at Cincinnati, are not real dyed
in-the-wool specimens of the genus,
tramp They think the government
should pension the unemployed. No
true hobo has any more use for money
than he has for work. A hobo Is never
happy unless he is broke That's what
makes him a hobo