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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

Did you ever pause in your enjoyment
of some wonderful novel or absorbing
short story to think to yourself what a
tremendous debt we all owe to the story
tellers?
The other evening I knew at 7 o'cIoci;
that was to receive some important
news at 10. "How can 1 ever wait these
three hours?" I said to myself; and the
first hour, during which 1 wandered about
the house and tried to occupy my mind
with household duties anu with CONVERSE
ton, the seconds seemed like minutes.
Finally sat down with a book; at first
L was restless and inattentive, but soon
the great master whose story was read
ing had laid hold on my mind; in a few
moments 1 had forgotten to watch the
clock, and in few moments more it was
quarter of ten, and my vigil was almost
at an end.
From how many cares, how much im-
patience, what sorrows and what anx-
ieties the great story tellers free us all /;
not indefinitely, of course, but for a
precious little while that makes us able
to go back and take up the burden Arrest.
Just think of the hours of tedious wait
ing for trains and appointments and all
the rest, which the story tellerS have be-
pulled in your life.
Think how absolutely uncomfortable your
days of convalescence from sickness
would have been without the story tellers.
Think of the periods of sorrow and anS-
iety into which the story tellers have
brought moments of blessed distraction.
I know a man who sat and read vora-
ciously all the morning long the day his be-
loved mother was to be buried, read even
people thought him heartless but I knew
he was far from that, and thought him
very wise to try to put his mind on some
thing that would keep it from going over
and over the thought Of his loss. I doubt
If he knew much of what he read. 1t sim
ply served to benumb him a little and for
that blessed numbnesS he had the story
teller to thank.
God bless the story teIlers.
ITO have done things worthy to be writ
ten," says of the greatest of them all,
with that wonderful nodesty that helps to
make him a beloved figure, rs a dignity
to which no man makes any approach
who has only written things worthy to be
read
1t is very daring for me to differ with
Sir Walter: Scott. and yet L must, for It
seems to me that in many cases he who
'has written things worthy to be read"
has conferred benefit on humanity more
enduring and more widespread than that
which comes from many great deeds.
God bless the story tellers. We could do
without many wiser and greater men
more easily than without them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

a great deal more about farming than
the neighbors about here, but I'm
making up my mind that 1 would be
hundreds of dollars better off this
year if I knew as much as the Is
year old boys of the neighborhood.
1t take me years to learn the things
that are second nature to Them
Did he fail? By no means. He
stuck to the farm, and is now success
full. He caught up in his knack of
doing things. Gradually he pulled
ahead of his neighbors. After a while
the art of doing things began to CO.
operate with the scientific truths he
had mastered, and money began to
come into his till, and recognition
from his neighbors as thu best farmer
of them all was no small part of his
reward.
Nov suppose that one of those old
farmers had been his father and the
owner of the farm. The strain of
progress would have been still more
to make his mistakes and suffer by
them, but Dad might have refused
him his freedom.
1.-THE man with a son who is a col
1ege graduate should let the young
man put his ideas into effect, even
though it seems to him that the new
methods are not so good as the old.
Thus he will relieve the strain of
progress. 1t is for the old to give
way to the young when it comes to
the new knowledge. The young may
not know the how so well, but they
have a better acquaintance with the
why. And in the long run the why is
most important
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

When the average man feels good he
feels foolish.
A man can always attract attention by
hurrying.
We should hate to devote a lifetime by
losing by narrow margin.
A good sport is one who feels the fight
was worth while after he is whipped.
1t is an unusual home where the CHI
dren don't feed better when there is
company.
To get out of the way of an active steam
roller, it is sometimes necessary to ride
on it.
Rafting the skeleton little, the defeat
ed candidate is no man to tell that the
best man won.
Neither does culture consist entirely IN
joining literary society devoted to bridge
whist
When a man is in theater box for the
first time he feels more conspicuous than
the show.
Another mans diary is quite an institu-
ton to prove you have no monopoly en-
the monotonouS life.
Doc Robinson: 'I prefer to board my
self. My last landlady crimped the edges
in her pies with her false teeth
Possibly the designs in derby hats might
be worse than they are this season; If so,
you may find it out next spring.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

guesSeS issued by the weather bureau,
it is safe to suspect that winter has
came" Judge Doster has filed away
his straw bonnet
An American widow,-rich one, Of
course,-had the choice of two evils. No,
Angelina, she didn't take arsenic
That's the great joke on her. She is in
France, and her choice was between a
moth-eaten prince and fiee-bitten
count She took what Mr.. Corbett took
at Carson City Is years ago.
St. Joseph butcher was bitten 40
times by five dogs According to old
titled to eight bites. As one who has to
purchase meat, we wonder if any one
of the five dogs was short-changed.
The woman who remains single, has
no one but herself to blame. There's
one born every minute
L. M. Wood, over his own signature,
refutes the libelous statement that a
recently published picture of him was
an effort on his part to fool the pee-pul
and make a hit with romantic school
girls. He candidIy admits that it was
his picture, but that it had been kept
on ice for about dozen years by
frugal newspaper.
turnips. The man has a commendable
idea of the fitness of things. In the
animal kingdom, the sheep is nearest
nothing at all, and as a vegetable, the
turnip is the nearest nothing. Mixing
the sheep and the turnip reminds this
department of the moth eaten gag:
''Nuthin' an nuthin' makes nuthin',
with nuthin' to carry"
Parachute jumper at Jacksonville.
Fla, fell in the cemetery. Hearse-hire
is higher than a cats back these days,
and the gent was justifiable in furnish
ing his own transportation and cutting
down the increased cost of dying.
Lot of newspaper men seem to like
our book. In fact, a few of them like
it so well they write highly compli-
mentary notices without even waiting
to see the free copy that is coming to
them. Pip Daniels says Gwendolyn has
COPIED the copy, but that he got look
at the autograph and feels competent
to write about stick of complimentary
review.
How-do, Georgei They tried to chisel
you out of it, but the chisel was dull.
Merrycrismus!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Don't acquire all your polish on your
shoes.
It takes two to make a quarrel. Where
there's will, there's a won't.
No, Maude, dear, the only capital let
ters are not those mailed in Washington
It sound like an Irish bull, but most men
cont know more tAan they do know.
When a fellow asks for girls hand lie
seems TO forget that she may develop cold
feet.
Be sure you are right. but don't jump to
the conclusion that everybody else is
wrong.
It's foolish to sit down and waste your
time thinking about all the time you have
wasted.
Not belonging to either the animal or
the vegetable kingdom, the spring of a
watch must be a mineral spring.
Sillicus-"'What do you consider the
greatest factor in producing insanity?"
CynicuS-"The lawyers for the defense
Facts are stubborn things" quoted tho
Wise Guy Yes. almost as stubborn as
the men who don't believe in them,'
added the Simple Mug.
Here's where I have the bulge on my
master, remarked the bird dog. Il can
go right through the underbrush without
getting any burrs on my pants"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
FROM OTHER PENS
MIR. HILLS WARMING.

James J. Hill, the Great Northern
railway magnate, is one of our most
frequent advisers in matters OF BUSH
ness and finance and other practical
things. He has had much experience
with life, and having attained wealth
and power by a long and difficult
struggle, feels competent, as indeed he
is, to give US advice on those phases
of economic questions that touch most
closely the life of the people. He it
was who told US that much of the high
cost of living was due to the cost of
high living. 1t has become our habit,
therefore, to listen when Mr.. Hill
speaks. He now issues a warning to
prepare during the present period of
prosperity for the lean years" that
are sure to come. And the best way to
meet the lean years is, in the opinion
of Mr.. Hill, to encourage agriculture.
He says: Seasons like the present are
only breathing spaces for rectifying
the errors of the past. The lean years
will come again. They will be leaner
than ever unless the lessons Of expert
ence are accepted. Men are behind
wasted in the city who are needed in
the country. We must recognize the
farm as the cornerstone of national
prosperity, and Of national character"
1t is not borrowing trouble" for Mr..
Hill to speak this way. He is not
predicting anything that is not posi-
as is the great railway leader, and can
not see just now that lean years" are
very near. But experience and his
tory teach us that they are practically
certain to come. Mr.. Hills opinion
that men are being wasted in the city
who are needed in the country doubt
less has some truth in it, for it is
not likely that the prices of farm prod
ucts would be so high to the con-
sumers Of the city If some of these
consumers turned producers. Mr.. Hill
says that intelligent agriculture alone
will increase yields and profits, keep
the soil unimpaired, reduce loan rates
and keep men on the farm. Men from
the city, with their business-like meth
DDS and their realization that the best
methods and materials are the cheap
est are the ones needed on the farm.
We should say that Mr.. Hill is right
in the statement that men are wasted
in the cities.-Rochester Union and
Advertiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many people expect more favors
than they are willing to extend.
=
Any number of folk have much bet
ter luck than they really deserve.
\
An easy way to make an enemy of
a man is to prove he's in the wrong.
NJ -
Nor does it necessarily follow that
the man who makes the most noise in
a community is it's most important and
influential citizen.
Playing host at a Thanksgiving
Day dinner wouldn't be so bad if the
next two or three days did not have
to be devoted to eating the remains of
the feast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
FAR BEHIND ON THE BUSY SEAS.

Never before was there so much
shipbiulding going on in the seaports
of the world. Never was the demand
for vessels so large. Never did the
great steamship lines put so much
money into new boats.
For the last two years it has SEEM
ed that the rate of expansion in the
merchant marine of the world must
socn glut the market for shipping, but
the needs Of shippers rise even faster
than the tonnage totals 1t appears to
be impossible to build too many steam
ers, most Of them of large size and
the most modern equipment.
One great German company is build
ing 10 ocean steamships with a total
tonnage calculated at about 270, 900
tons gross. Three huge liners for this
corporation will average about $4,000
tons apiece Another German COM
pany, also prominent in the transat-
lantic trade of the United States, has
ordered eleven steamers this year, and
their aggregate tonnage will be not
less than 100000 tons.
A third German steamship company
is building six vessels, of $4,000 tons
in all, and a fourth company has about
$4,000 tons of new ships built this year
or ordered. Another company, engag-
ed largely in Australian trade, has
eleven ships under way, with a total
of 111.O00 tons measurement.
But where do American ships come
in for share of this boom in inter-
national commerce on the high seas?
What have we to match the work the
British and the Germans are doing?
Where are the new American giants
of the oceans?
And what does the Wilson admins
tration intend to do about it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Lhicago News.1

IFrom the chicago News.J
It's surprising how fat fat woman is.
She is wise woman who laughs only
at the right time.
Occasionally a man is too patient to be
of any particular use.
Wall flowers are society girls who were
nipped in the bud.
he is a wise man who keeps his good
opinions of himself to himself
The more pains you take with your eat
ing the fewer you will have afterward
Yes Cordelia there were false prophets
centuries before the weather bureau was
established.
We know a lot of men who would "a
more successful if they would stay at
home and send their wives.
A blase man is one who can't be te1ut
ed because there are no new brands Of
temptation for him to yield to.
If a woman is anxious to see her hus-
band as other people see him she should
induce him to run for office. then read
the opposition papS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
HUNOR or THE DAY

What kind Of entertainment does our
friend. Mr.. Swelhed. prefer?'' s'I fbinl,
he manages to divert both himself and
his friends" replied Miss Cayenne nv
entertaining a remarkable opinion of him
self."-Washington Star.
Lady of the House Ito tramp)-Here ara
some very nice crusts 1 trimmed Off xvI,e,o
! was making sandwiches. Trar7r.- ~
thank We, mum; dey reminds me too u,1,c6
of de cause of me downfaIl-margins-
Boston Transcript.
mo use locking the stable dior as,o-
the horse is stolen" IT should think fhat
was the very time to lock it. They rnit.sf
tnSton Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
Revenge.

ITS all right, my dear; go ahead
and call me down."
ct will, and you deserve it. too"
That's right. Rub it into me now.
Have the last word if you want to.
Have the last hundred words, if you
like. but I'll get even with you"
"Oh, you will, eh?'
Eyes, you bet I will. I'll square
this little argument"
''And what, may I ask, are you go
ing to do?"
do? I'm going to vote against
giving you the ballot; that's what I'm
going to do"
And with a triumphant air he march
ed out of the house.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
THROUGH FAILURE TO SUCCESS

In the current issue of Farm and
F1reside Herbert Quick, the editor of
that periodical, writes an interesting
editorial showing how progress places
a great strain on people, He tells the
following story:
know a young maa who lived in
city until he had graduated from an
agricultural college. He worked on
farms in vacations. and he did every
thing that a city man can Go to learn
farming practically as well as theoret-
ically. But he had not had the adj
vantage the farm boy possesses of
driving a team year after year and
listening to the discussion of farm
problems about the hearth in the
farm home while child. He went on
a large farm as tenant. Three hun
dred acres of land to be plowed, put
into crops, tended and harvested. I
visited him about the first of July
of his first summer. Things looked
badly He had made a lot of mis-
takes that an old farmer would never
have made.
i thought said he when 1 talked
to him OF the situation, that knew
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Although Golfers Weekly Topped
from the support of Governor Wilson
to that OF Colonel Roosevelt during
the closing days of the recent presi-
Dental campaign, its leading editorial
in its current issue emphatically in
forms Governor Wilson that he will
be falling far short of his duty if he
does not appoint Louis Brandeis to
one of the two or three offices that
have to do with the enforcement of
the laws against monopoly. Golfers
is not specific, but presumably if Mr..
Wilson gave to Mr.. Brandeis the cab
met portfolio of attorney general, it
would be- satisfied
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
DAFFYDHS
BY U. NoALL.

When a man INDUCES in loud talk
isn't his discourse?
(Handle him gently. men! He was
a, mothers darling once.)
If person waxed enthusiastic
would you be smart enough to tell
what his excitement?
(Johnny! Please take your posi-
ton at the foot of the class.)
If a Yankee is Jovfal why was a
Pilgrim?
(You can't prove anything by me.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

TFrom the New York Press
Flattery can gain a persons ear when
it is deaf to reason.
What makes a girl willing to marry a
man is for him not to ask her.
No man ever had judgment enough to
know whether a woman's hat cost $50 or
SO cents.
When man sets out to get rich QUICK
he makes a chance for somebody else. to
get it.
A woman can feel very sure her shirt
waist is unbuttoned in the back If people
keep looking at her feet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Not that it matters much. of course.
but the balmy Sunday which the
weather bureau predicted for here
abouts was one of drizzling and heavy
rains and high, penetrating winds. The
sun did shine for a brief spell in the
afternoon, but by no stretch of the
imagination could the day have been
called balny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Among the poor excuses of the better
than-none variety is the one put for
ward by a California highwayman, who
attributes his downfall to the influence
of moving picture shows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
grave.

Germany continues to make a bid
for the leadership of the great uni
versal peace movement by making
provisions for an aerial navy that will
consist of a fleet of twenty of the
famous Zeppelin dirigible balloons.
Each one will be capable of carrying
and discharging a ton of explosives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Providing that Tchata1ja remains in
the hands of one of the Balkan allies, it
will be an appropriate place for the
next annual meeting of hay fever
victims
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

This scientific management propa-
ganda is assuredly spreading in every
direction. Some Chicago thieves have
kept an elaborate system of books
showing the details of their trade and
the division of the profits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

President-elect Wilson's choice of a
place to rest and ponder and plan ought
to be worth a bumper onion crop to the
Bermudas in free advertising.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Mr.. Hodges having been given the
certificate of election as governor of
Kansas, that leaves Mr.. Capper a trif1e
long on rather expensive experience of
the political variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Those embryo sea-dogs at Annapolis
are exceedingly competent to handle
themselves on land, as their repeated
football victories over the West Point
ers conclusively demonstrate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

A very merry Christmas for all ap-
pears to be in sight. Many records were
broken in various lines of trade during
the month of November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

At least 1t was a fitting coincidence
that the balloonist who recently fell two
thousand feet to his death in Florida
should land in a cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Uncle Joe Cannon, who is extremely
wise in matters political. is out with a
prediction that most of the Bull
Moosers will return to the Republican
fold. And It surely is the only avenue
to political success that is open to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

BALD Jack" Rose, the New York
gambler and informer, is going to write
q book. If that will keep him off the
vaudeville stage, let him go to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Many more men will probably hesi-
tate about taking up the joys and
burdens of the married state now that
a Denver woman has been granted ali
mony to the extent of $125. O00
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Now II Mr.. Carnegie should offer to
pension the ex-vfce presidents there
would be something in the proposal
worth considerin.;.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Just because Captain Bartlett, of
Peary expedition fame, is Of the opin-
ION that the aeroplane route is the
easiest one to the North Pole, this trip
is not likely to become a popular one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

Don't forget to buy Red Cross seals
70 stick on your Christmas packa ges
and presents. Every penny so invested
is a nail in the coffin which is being
built to consign tuberculosis to the
crave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

If cholera keeps the Bu1garians out
of Constantinople will the Turks count
on pestiIences as their allies, hence
forth, and always have a stock on
hand?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal II q member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
6atagrAph report of that great news or
mmn1S4tion fer the exclusive AFTERNOON
Publication I'm Topeka
The news As received I'm The state Jour"
mn1 building over wires Cor this sole DNar-
@0@e.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03
BY The WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Regardless of all statements and
guesses issued by the weather bureau,
it is safe to suspect that winter has
came" Judge Doster has filed away
his straw bonnet.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-10-25
PAYING FOR THE SPOONS

II 1t were not for the souvenir thief no hotel
manager would be gray.headed or bald. Their
lives would be one long dream Of bliss, broken
three times daily by a spasm of happiness when
they sell 35 cents worth of food for $1.25. But
the memento grabber ages him. I'VE tried to
make the waiter protect the silver" said one the
other day. And we found that after the waiter
worked for us a month he owed us money, be-
cause Of fines for stolen silver. That wouldn't
do. That same waiter would do his waiting else.
where-frst trying to break even with the estab.
lishment before leaving. And It is very unpleas.
ant to lock the doors Of a private dining room
until we audit the teaspoons"
So all hotel managers haze adopted a new
plan. The cost Of stealing silver is included in
the bill for the meal you take in the public din.
ing room. That is a matter OF average. When
you dine with a merry little p~arty--or several
merry little parties, as II sometimes happens-in
a private room, 1t is also included in the bill. Not
long ago the man who entertains out-oftown buy
es In a certain wholesale line ordered a private
dining room and a special dinner for a half dozen
guests. The hotel manager gave him a figure.
Tell your cook to spread himself on this din.
ner," said the prospective host, Iaughingly. MY
guests are all from the west"
Pardon me" said the manager, hurriedly. II
forgot an item, Your bill will be So more"
The host looked at the memorandum and found
an item marked spoons"
Much better to charge for the spoons In adj.
vance" said the hotel man, without a blush. THE
ladies' from out Of town all take 'em. So do the
ladies from in town. This way we're safe and
they're saved a sin"