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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28
EVENING CHIT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

1T is a terrible thing" a rather pIsin
little girl said TO me the other day ito
realize that no matter how long / live or
what do. can never be pretty 1 vyottI,t
make almost any sacrifice to be beauti-
iul would save up every penny 1 earn
II 1 might be lovely to look at in the
time L had left
You may say that is very strong taIb
Perhaps it is. And yet L sympathize with
mat girl Furthermore, I doubt II there
ives plain girl who has not been in
that mood some time other.
And | don't blame them. Beauty is a
"ohuertul possession, great power ana
continual source of pleasure. No Won
uer we all want it. But what puzzles me
Is why more of US, when we realize as
TINS girl did that can't have beauty
cont turn cur eyes toward some of tie
charTns which we can have and which are
quite rare enough to be precious
Not every girl can be beautiful. But
every girl can have a good carriage
Every girl can stand erect. Every girl
can sit gracefully with the end OF ber
spine against the back of the chair ana
her feet on the floor. Every girl can
walk without affectation, or undue hurry
lopsided body.
Not every girl can be beautiful but
every girl can have repose OF manner
She can rest the eyes OF those who look
at her by not fidgeting not moving rest
Iessly about, nor fussing perpet uaIIv with
do. %
Not every girl can be beautiful but
every girl can have a pleasing voice well
modulated and pitched low enough 10
avoid the ugly head tones that are so
common.
Not every girl can he beautiful. but
every girl can use correct grammar ana
fairly good English. She can. moreover.
make her speech a rare quantity bv
escheWing slang. Beauty unadorued Is
stu adorned the most. they say In re
spect to slang. language unadorned is
surely adorned the most
Not every girl be beautiful but
every girl can be neat and at least mod
erate1y well groomed.
Not every girl be beautiful but
every girl, if she Will give enough study
and thought to it can have becoming
clothes and a distinctive style. A woman
who always looked perfectly charming
was once congratulated by another wofn-
an on the pretty appearance she made.
and answered: I'm so glad you think so.
for you know I'm not clever or witty or
anything like that and / decided long ago
that the best I could do was to try To
look well all the time. I've put cool
deal of time and thought into ALI my
clothes. and I'm very glad that I've really
succeeded in giving pleasure that way
There is such thing as the fine art OF
being attractively dressed and it's not an
art to be despised either.
Every girl can't be beautiful but these
that have mentioned are just a few of
the charms she can have.
hope every girl will not turn up her
pug or Grecian nose at these charms
merely because they are within the
reach of everybody. I assure her that
she will not find that so many of her
mates have taken advantage Of their CD
portunities to make such charms in the
least commonplace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Now that the weather has broken
Tor the better what will the average
person find to talk about?
y
Most of the troubles with which folk
are worried are the result of excessive
ly active imaginatioDs.
4
Nor would it be at all surprising il
the ever-increasing popularity of the
oyster is due to it's proclivities for ST.
lence.
Man, poor man, has this much to
be thankful for so far this year. The
bills for spring millinery and other
feminine finery have been delayed at
least a month.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned tailor who, when sending a man
a new suit of clothes, always put in a
piece of cloth big enough to patch the
trousers when they needed It?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28
says UNCLE CIV

If you have never amounted to
much and are now up against the
stone wall of defeat, thank your
lucky starsi Perhaps it will make
you think. You may believe that
Fate is trying to knock you out, but
the chances are that she is trying to
hammer little sense into your
head. Most of US don't think any
more than we have to. Usually fore
sight is an unknown quantity until
it has been demonstrated to us that
it is a good deal more valuable than
bindSight. Hard knocks are the chief
inspiration of originality. As long
as we can travel the old road without
breaking a leg or going hungry, we
never try a new trail in the hope of
reaping the pioneers reward
Ask any successful man of your
acquaintance what he knows about
1.-The turning point" The chances
are ten to one he'll know exactly
what you mean, and tell you right off
hand that the turning point for him
was the bottom of the slough of des-
pond, and that he reached it at the
precise moment when he discovered
that there wasn't any ready made path
up the slippery sides of that mucky
gehenna-
Figuratively speaking it is the straw
that saves many man from drown
ing. You're never a real man until
you've reduced life to it's first princi-
and not the circumstances surrounding
you that makes you a success or a
failure. Then's when you begin to
think, and when you begin to think
opportunities stand out plainly as
bumps on logs. Also you begin to see
that the barriers between you and sue
cess are surmountable if you're des-
perate enough. The clear head that
comes with the calm courage of des-
peration-the vision to see and the I'M
caring hardihood to dare to accept the
one way out spell redemption. And
it's far better to fall into the vision
clearing slough of despond and climb
out to success than it is to jog COM
fortably along the high road of medi-
ocrity. If you're up against it, be
thankful and take ought.=CCopy
right, 1912, by W. z. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28
by THE WY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

! Had Hons. Rees and Young presum-
| ed to dictate to their districts
AGAINST the primary proposition
Hon Stubs holler would have scared
| the gulls from the cliffs of Newfound-
land; but as they refused to dictate
FOR said proposition, the holler was
| no less far reaching.
| The moral seems to be that anything
| is right If the Administration says Sd.
And one might further suspect that
had the primary in New York resulted
differently, it would have been put on
exhibition as an Example of Honest
Politics and Model for other states
to follow.
Running newspaper in Rock Island,
ILL.,, may not be remunerative, but they
get action. And the local reporters
who knock because of "nothin' dom .
might get a little relief from their
ennui by visiting that village.
1t is said that the late SHOWS viii
prevent farmers from sowing oats.
Perhaps they have the wrong kind of
seed, as the town "bloods" keep OH
sowing the wild kind regardless OF
weather conditions.
Gov Stubs has been put up fol
membership in the Ananias club by
Congressman ReeS, and at late hour
this afternoon Dave Leahy, the other
local member, had not blackbalIed him.
Hennery Allen will permit President
Taft to take Leavenworth county out
of the First district. This is not chari-
ty, as one might suspect; the Insur
gents would almost pay a bounty to
anyone who would take Leavenworth
county out of the First district.
If the angleworms are not all drown
ed or frozen, the householder with one
or more young sons may, by using di-
plomacy, get his garden plot spaded
in time for the spring planting.
We bought our dog tag three days
before the closing of the season, and
observed that the number was under
80 Now we wish we had saved TIL
money and bluffed it out like the other
$3.50 dog owners are doing.
Having read the Plat Form of Rob-
ert G. Ross, the Lexington, Neb., car
didate for president, we are fur him.
VIII he kindly send us name and de-
scription of his party, 50 that we may
grab off few duly gates fur him?
Mr.. Ross has but one thing in COM
mon with Col. Roosevelt He is a be-
lever in simplified spelling.
1t Is reported that nine out of ten
Boston women are either knock kneed
or bow legged. Far be it from us to
doubt the statement, but we are curious
to see the guy who gathered the statis-
tics.
The jokesmiths have lot to answer
for 1t is no more true that all fish
ermen are liars and booze fighters
than it is that all liars and booze
fighters are fishermen.
And the difference between a cook
and chef is about 20 bones per
week.
A man will promise a girl to share
all her troubles when he knows DANCED
well that he couldn't begin to wear one
of her shoes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28
VOW.

1 may never journey far.
may never climb to fame,
Never own a motor car
Or have man applaud my name.
I may never hoard up wealth
Or have laurel round my brow,
But SO long as have health
I'll be happy anyhow.
1 may never conquer men,
Never be a great success,
L may suffer now and then
Grief and genuine distress.
l may never live in style
Or a library endow
But I'll do my best to smile
And won't whimper, anyhow.
l may always have to bear
Heavy burdens on my way.
may always have a care
For my portion of the day.
/ may get the worst of it
In my toiling, but 1 vow,
/ shall laugh and sing a bit.
And won't whimper, anyhow.
Detroit Free Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Evidence is beginning to pile UP that
any kind of primary or any kind of
a convention system which fails to
select or pave the way for Roosevelt
delegates to the Chicago convention
is wholly defective and inefficient in
the eyes of the Roosevelt managers
Even in North Dakota, where the most
direct kind of a presidential preferen-
tiai primary was held, certain of the
Roosevelt enthusiasts insisted that the
great victory of LaFollette was unfsir
because of the general participation of
the Democrats in that primary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Apparently the famous Governor Bass
of New Hampshire, one of the sacred
seven of the nations chief executives,
who has been travelling around the
country telling the people their duty in
the political premises. hasn't a very
firm hold on his Republican brethren
at home. Colonel Roosevelt has deem
ed it necessary to arrange for a flying
trip to New Hampshire to campaign
in his own behalf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

If that operation which has been
performed at the Johns Hopkins hospi-
tai Baltimore, whereby a man mas been
provided with a new brain, proves 10
be successful. there ought to be a rush
on the part of many to have similar
operations performed on them. But
there probably won't be. Nearly every
body has the idea that his brain is
just about right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

And some of those champions of the
people who insist that the people eau
be depended upon to decide all ques-
tions rightly and in the best possible
way are now tossing out intimations
that the jury system is defective be-
cause the II jurors in the criminal
action against the packers brought in
a verdict Cf not guilty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Nor can you blame any of the pro-
perty owners in the city for any re-
luctance they may show at having the
proposed public market located on tine
street in front of their houses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

IL the primary in New York was not
of the kind where the people vote di-
rectly why did Colonel Roosevelt waste
a whole night in a whirlwind campaign
Of New York city urging the people 10
vote for delegates to the conventions
who would be friendly to his cause?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

And the politicians would do well to
make as much notoriety as they can
while the sun is shining in their direc-
ton. Before long the umpire will yell,
play Ball. Then the president-maA-
ers and their retinues will have to
divide the publicity honors with more
popular rivals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

How does it set with the Roosevelt
supporters, who have also clamored for
a tariff revision downward almost to
the point of free trade, to have The
American Economist the most in
sistent high tariff exponent in the land
whooping it UP for the colonel to the
extent Of its ability to make a noise?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Is Governor Stubs still of the opin-
ION that Mr.. Taft VIII be such dis
credited candidate by the date of the
Chicago convention that his name vii!
not even be presented to it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

If the members of the Topeka base
ball team fill out the wonderful pic
lures that are being painted of them,
they will be able to win the Western
League pennant in a romp. And if
the opportunity were presented they
could walk away with the next world 5
championship series
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Mrs. oliver Hazard Perry Belmon
has been nominated for the presidency
by Belva Lockwood. All that Mrs.
Belmont needs to land her the place is
seven or eight million votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28
DAFFYDH.S
BY U. NoALL.

If the U. s. sent some gunboats down
the st. Lawrence river would they
shoot the raDids?
0et him up-He's got a vote in this
ward.)
If a minstrel show went broke how
much would the olio?
(Who touches a hair of yon gray
head. dies like dog. March on he
piped)
If lard is fat is gasoline7
(Whats the good of being the early
bird if you don't like worms.J
Have you ever thought of any way to
keep your boys on the farm" Yes re-
piled MIR. Corntossel, quit raisin' crops
an turn the place over to rabbits an
partridges- Washington Star.
Magistrate-If I let you off this tins
will you promise me to take the pIedge2
Delighted Prisoner (eXcitedly)-Oi will
yer honor, an drink yer health,-Tit-B
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

The sincerity of President Taft for
an honest revision of the tariff down
ward on scientific lines is evidenced
again in his recent suggestion to con-
gress for a revision of the cotton
schedules
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Present indications are that the sup
ply of delegates to the Democratic and
Republican national conventions will be
far in excess of the demand for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Another brewer has left an estate
valued at $780, 600. Did any one ever
hear of chronic consumer of brewery
or distillery products leaving an estate
" orth as much as 80 cents?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

The Associated Press is one of the
very, very few associations which is
organized absolutely without any ex-
pectation, desire or ability to earn a
profit 1t buys news and many other
things, including the service of peo-
pie, news reporters and telegraph
operators, but never sells anything!
Perhaps that is the reason that it
never declares a dividend nor issues
a share of stock. If a big war comes
on, the expense of the Associated
Press increases, AMI the cost to each
member is increased in proportion to
the size of the city in which the paper
is published. In a general way. one
ing the assessment of a newspaper
receiving Associated Press reports is
a charge of say 40 or soc per thou
sand people. II the United States
CELSIUS gives the population of a city
at $4,000, a paper of that city would
pay on a basis of 40c per thousand,
S2o.OC per week; to this would be
added the cost of the operator and
other local expenses. To this is add
ed the fixed dues as stated above for
general expenses and a certain pro-
portion of the cost of the wires on
the entire circuit on which the mem
Der in question is located.
There is a strange thing about this
Associated Press. It has TO buy every
thing, and has nothing to sell! 1t
never sells news. II only distributes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

The Associated Press organization
is probably the most democratic one
in the world. 1t is purely partner
ship arrangement without any profit
in view, organized under the New
York law, but with the sole view to
the collection of the news at joint
expense and the distribution of it by
individual and joint expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Here is the organization which man
ages and conducts the worldwide news
service for the members, and the mem
bers only-the membership numbering
about 500, in round numbers APO even
ing papers and $50 morning papers.
An intelligent young man said yes
terday: DO you know that until I
read your description of it L never full
ly understood just what the Associa-
ted Press is.
Il had a fixed idea that it was a
monopoly and a vague idea that it was
controlled by the Western Union Tele-
graph company and ! thought that
Associated Press franchises came
high. / am thinking, for instance, of
starting an Associated Press evening
daily at junction City. 1 suppose it
would cost me a lot of money to get a
embership before / could begin to
report. But tell me about this; am
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

And one might further suspect that
had the primary in New York resulted
differently, it would have been put on
exhibition as an Example of Honest
Politics and a Model for other states
to follow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Had Hons. Rees and Young presunl-
ed to dictate to their districts
AGAINST the primary proposition,
Hon Stubbs' holler would have scared
the gulls from the cliffs of Newfound-
land; but as they refused to dictate
FOR said proposition, the holler was
no less far reaching
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Running a newspaper in Rock Island,
ILL.,. may not be remunerative, but they
get action. And the local reporters
who knock because of "nothin' dom .
might get little relief from their
ennui by visiting that village.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

The moral seems to be that anything
is right If the Administration says Sd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

It is said that the late SHOWS will
prevent farmers from sowing oats.
Perhaps they have the wrong kind of
seed, as the town "bloods' keep OH
sowing the wild kind regardless OF
weather conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Little "Old Bill White" of the EN-
poria Gazette, Matter
With Kansas-Wh has one vote
which counts just the same in the
Associated Press meetings, as the one
big vote of Big Don Seitz, the heavy
weight of the New York World.
The little fellows are stronger than
the big fellows in the Associated Press,
because there are more of them, just
like Lincoln's common people whom
the Lord loves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28

Gov Stubs has been put up fol
membership in the Ananias club by
congressman Rees, and at a late hour
TINS afternoon Dave Leahy, the other
local member, had not blackbaIIed him.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-15
EXPO DELEGATES
ARRIVB In CAPITAL
Here to Urge Passage of Bill Pro-
viding for Entertainment of
Foreign EnyoyS.

President c. G. Moore. Judge Curtis
II. Lindley. and Frederick J. V. Skin.
representatives OF the Panama exposi-
ton, arrived In Washington yesterday.
They win appear before the Senate Com
mittee on Industrial Expositions this
morning in support OF the bill TO provide
a Federal commission for entertainment
OF foreign delegates to the exposition.
The delegates met Senator Perkins and
Representatives Kahn, Hayes. Needham,
Knowland, and Stephens yesterday aft
ernoon. The other California Congress-
men were unable TO be present
The conference covered the bills rela-
tive to the commission, and plans to
have the government allow the EXPOSE
ton company use Of lands on the MILL
tary reservation at the Preside. Judge
Lindley will be spokesman at the hear
ing to-day, to which the Californis dele
cation in Congress has been invited
Senator Root. OF New York, chairman Of
the committee, will preside.
THE progress Of work on the expo
Eition has been entirely satisfactory" 7"
President Moore said last night I'VE are
ready to commence grading for founda-
tions. have every reason to believe
our business in Washington will pro-
ceed expeditiously and successfully"
The Washington herald., 1912-01-15
FRANCE HAS EYB
ON CANAL ZONE
M. CaSimir. .Perier, Son Of Former
President of France, Here to
Investigate Toll Question.

Claude Casimir-Perier, son OF a former
President Of France, who has been in this
country for three months, is registered
at the Shorehan. He will start in q few
days to visit the principal cities Of the
United States. He has been commits
stoned to investigate what effect the open
ing OF the Panama Canal will produce on
the trade Of France.
NJ. Casimir-Perier, whose father was
assassinated while President OF France,
will visit Galveston, New Orleans, Mo-
bile, San Diego, San Francisco, Tacoma,
Portland, Seattle. Vancouver. the Canal
Zone and the West Indies.
Whether France can operate through
the canal will depend, of course, upon the
canal tolls and the cost Of COAL he said
last night. IF there is a canal charge
OF, say, 81 q ton, 1 believe that q good
share of the foreign trade will be driven
away.
Il think II is of the utmost Importance
that this question OF tolls be settled at
once The opening OF the canal means
a development OF trade. and the steam
ship lines cannot build vessels to meet
this condition until they know the canal
charges and so can figure on the cost or
operation"
The Washington herald., 1912-01-15
GERMAN CONCERT
PHASES THRONG
Third Musicale Of Arion Gesang-
verein Attracts Large Crowd
and Is Artistic Success.

Last nights third musicale Of the Arion
Gesangverein attracted q large crowd to
the Arion clubhouse. and proved q highly
artistic success, every number on the
programme being given In accomplished
style. those contributing being literally
recognized by applause and the demand
for encores.
The programme, which was presented
under the leadership Of Prof. Karl Holer.
the musical director OF the Arion, con-
tanned the following numbers:
Choruses (a1 "Abschied'' CISirchD,
Ob) "wie's Daheim War" (by reduesD.
CWolgemuth). Arion Gesangverein; (s1
caprice. "Coouette" Cweber); Cb) march,
Troopers" CBacon). Nordica Banjo Club.
W. T. Holt, director: bass solo, ''HybrtaS
the Cretan" CEiliotD, Thomas \. Muir
ray; duet for flute and clarinet, 10.
Hear the Gentle Lark GaD, Edward S.
Bergh and August Voith: polka, West
Lawn" (Glynn), Nordica Banjo Club:
tenor solo, at Love Thee" CBuclx), Mel
Vile Hensey: cornet solo, Original Air
Varie" Dagnelies). William T. Davis;
quartet Ca) Waltz Song" (Parks). (b)
Good Night, Beloved (PinsutD, Schu-
bert Quartet and Messrs. Hensey, Nc
Nance, Murray, and Duggan.
The annual meeting OF the German
American Beneficial Association, which
took place yesterday at wassmann's Hail.
resulted In the election OF the following
officers: George F. Meyer. president;
Stephen Frank, vice president; John
Dietz, secretary; John N. Auth. treas
urer;: W. c. Buecker. Joe Neuland, and
NfkoIaus Wiegand, board OF trustees.
The Suabian Sick Benefit Association
met at WassmRnn's Hall last night, trans
acting routine business ana electing OIL
GERS for the coming year. They are Fritz
Hanold, president; ]. A. Schnerger, vice
president: Michael Dietz secretary, and
Hy. Xander, treasurer.
The Columbia Turnverein entertained
its members and friends at q convert At
the clubhouse last night.