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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

| low stone coping. her hands clasped loose
" before her She was slender and dark
haired and CARRIED in loose Japanese
robe of some pale shimmerIng fabric that
seemed woven of the white moonlight
and the pale pink of the lotus blooms.
Russell could see her profile, for she, too,
was gazing in rapt delight at the phe-
nomenon of the Enclosing of the moon
lotus.
She had not seen him-she was entirely
oblivious of his presence.
Who was she? The spirit of the moon
lotus made visible for one magic hour
Russell looked at the pale-robed form and
then at the pink glory of the blossoms.
In the second that his attention was d.
verified she saw him and shrank back with
a startled exclamation and he knew that
she was flesh and blood and of his own
race Instantly he was upon his feet and
apologizing for frightening her.
1t was too beautiful to disturb by mere
words" he explained. THE Whites are
away this evening and told me of the
opening of the flowers; it is rare sight
Yes, indeed" she said in a soft, deep
voice that matched the dark beauty OF
her eyes and the creamy loneliness OF her
skin. 81 live next door to the Whites
and 1 have just returned from Toxic
thought the garden was deserted, and
could not resist coming over to see the
lotus blooms.
They tell me that there is legend
connected with the opening OF the moon
lotus
1t was on the tip of Russelrs tongue to
give utterance to this daring remark, but
at that moment the girl turned and her
foot slipped on the stone coping. She would
have fallen in among the lotus flowers IL
he had not caught her in his arms.
For an instant they looked in each 9TH
er's eyes, and in the brief interval each
one realized that the fate meted out TO
every maid and bachelor who looks upon
the unclosing of the moon lotus was
1912. by Associated
PreSS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08
DAFFYDuS
By u. NOALL.

OF course table has four legs, but
did you ever see one walk?
CAV, let's play drop the handker-
chiefly
If a crow doesn't roost why does a
rooster crow?
CTake your troubles of this sort to
Prof. Dyche.)
If Massachusetts, is a big factor in
a presidential election what figure
does Connecticut?
Cali aboard for the big fight, The
train on Track 2 leaves for Chicago
immediately
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Recol

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
The truth is pretty elastic, but don't try
to stretch it too far.
Many a man who gets to the top can't
stand the high altitude.
Some of us spend all our lives trying to
catch up with tomorrow.
Patience is a virtue, especially in the
people who have to wait for us when we
are late
It's a cinch that poor old Paul doesn't
get all that's coming to him from those
who rob Peter.
Perhaps the most satisfied people in the
world are those who are contented be-
cause they are too lazy. to kick.
Some people are so Quarrelsome that
half the time they are not on speaking
terms with their own consciences.
Mrs Muggins-"Mrs. Dashaway's hus-
band is ex-actor-" Mrs. Buggins-'I
always thought he was exacting.'
One of the hardest things in the world
for a married man to understand is why
a bachelor should need rest cure.
Nell-"Your friend the taxidermist seems
to tell some mighty tall stories.' Bell
Yes 1 always tell him he can't stuff
me-
Wigg-"Bjones boasts that he always
makes a. promise good Wagg-"YeG,
even though he may have to break it and
make it over again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08
AyHAwKER JoEs

The Carbonate Post has discovered
that coaxing is a science Oh whlcn
woman is a born master.
There are hundreds of busy men in
the world, says the Bucklin Banner,
who never yet did a lick of real nara
work.
Anna Carlson of the Lindsborg News
moves that the meanest- man-medai
be pinned on the breast Of that assessor
at Fredonia who assessed young
woman's engagement ring.
Owing to the pertinacfty she inherit
ed from Eve and the perspiracity she
acquires, a woman, says the Minneapo-
lis Messenger, does not need very much
brains to see through her husband.
1t occurs to the Holton Signal that
when the suggestion of the federal ag-
ricultural department to rid the coun-
try of the sparrows by Getting them
has been tried out, it will perhaps be
suggested that the surplus dog popu-
lation be thinned out in like manner.
the Pratt Union. There is nothing else
in the world that gets there with sucn
precision and despatch.
Conner Davies insists that if he IS
ever converted 'it will not be by q
preacher who can't spell the common
would hate to admit that man who
can't spell could show him anything,
even the way out of his sins. AS a
general proposition, any old newspaper
man loses confidence in a fellow when
he discovers that he spells jug with
a double g or fails to capitalize United
States.-Mankato Advocate.
Attention. Kansas editorsl Here is
a warning from the Neosho Falls Post:
-Four years ago our friend of the To-
ronto Republican was passing serenely
through life as Professor Kelley I'M
furnished and undefiled by contami-
nation with the outside world. Now it
is Editor Kelley and we serve notice
to the brotherhood that Editor Kelley
is catching on" He carried off our
office pencil. We wish to thank him
for his call and the pleasant hour he
gave us and for overlooking the office
towel which stood in the northwest
corner of the press room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08
ny THE WAY
By HARVEY RARsoNa.

From late dispatches one might
gather that the Salt River packet is
getting up steam, and is under orders
to leave the Chicago wharf Ere Long:
One might gather also, that SAID
packet will fly a capital Il" banner
from its jackstaff.
Democratic candidates should not
faint just because the name of Bryan
was cheered for ten minutes. They
have been YELLING for Bryan for
the past dozen years.
When a village storekeeper finds a
phony nickel in the days collection of
small change he feels certain that a
Large Gang of Desperate Counterfeit
ers is operating in that vicinity.
Eve didn't have to clean house, but
if she was like any other woman, it is
a safe bet that she did anyway.
After a careful perusal of the tes-
timony in the Linderholm damage
case, we find that the attorneys for
the defense didn't convict Linderholm
of anything worse than being a hu-
morist. To be sure, his joke about the
''wurst'' and the other one about the
for that matter, are nearly all of the
jokes.
A New York youth was forced by
his family to marry the hired girl, but
hired girls are SO DANCED hard to keep
that some people will go to any length
to retain a good one.
Instead of trying to find some new
way to make life burden to the
dog" says Hondo Murphy, the Anal
gamated Association of Knockers
should knock where the knock may
be a benefit, rather than an excuse
for profanity. Why not knock the
deadly hat pin? The poor wop boards
a street car. and leans against the
stern rail to inhale the fragrance of a
stogie. At the next corner woman
boards the car. AS soon as she gets
inside the gate the conductor grabs
the dinger; ding-ding, car starts with
a jump, woman falls against peace
full citizen and punctures him with her
hat pint The only time man is safe
is when a left handed woman boards
the car. Then the pin points the other
way, and the conductor, penned in
where he can't dodge, gets his There
is nothing can make man wish he
was thin as a cigarette paper like a
woman who boards a car with both
hands full, so that she. can't grab the
rail as the car starts. So, knocker,
why not knock the hat pin?''
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Lost Teeth: Gained sight.

Partly blind for five years, and to-
tally blind for the last seven months,
Edward Kennedy, 80 years old a
prominent farmer residing at Parker
town, Ohio, saw the light of day fol-
lowing the extraction of two teeth by
DIR. Nicholson.
The case is without a parallel in
dentistry. Mr.. Kennedy had been de-
clared beyond human aid by eye spe
ciaIists and had obtained a pension
from the blind relief fund. Doctors
gave the cause as paralysis of the op-
tic nerve. Accompanied by Fred.
Patch, Mr.. Kennedy came to DIR. Mich
olson office, suffcrin1- severe pain.
An examination showed that two teeth
an upper molar and a lower wisdom
tooth, were badly liberated, necessitat-
ing extraction. Hardly had the second
tooth been pulled when Mr.. Kennedy
exclaimed: II can see. I can see the
light. 1 can see the crack in the win
dow. 1 can see you"
Kennedy will go to Detroit to con-
suit an eye specialist.-New York Trib-
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1 1~ASS-~'
James III IS.
Although the words of the discerning
James, quoted above, indicate that 1t
is we'll nigh impossible for man TO
tame his tongue, they do not convey
anything like suggestion that he
should not strive to do so. And sucn
striving should be constant, for, as
James so pointedly says, the tongue Is
an unruIy evil that is full of deadly
poison.
Everybody's experiences, if they be
honestly reviewed, will substant1ate
these assertions. Everyone knows, CT
has pretty good idea of the amount
of misery that is caused in this world
bv the cruel words which fall so glibly
from sharp tongues. They are the
curse of men and women, the promot-
ers of much of the unhappiness among
them.
Most folk. when they get at all angry
OF provoked at each other, Immediate
" set their tongues busy saying mean
things. And it is really surprising, how
fluent a talker almost every person be-
comes when the opportunity is pre-
sented for saying disagreeabIe and even
tarcy about a choice of words or the
framing of expressions. They appear
to bubble forth without the slightest
effort They cut and wound with the
facility of a sharp blade of steel. But
the sore made by steel will speedily
Zeal and leave little or nothing in the
way of a scar. With the wounds made
by tongues. it is different. Sometimes,
they never heal. They keep gnawing
and gnawing away, aggravating the
original differences which prompted
them, until mountains are actually
made out of molehills; the friendships
of a lifetime are blasted, or the hap
piness of home is wrecked.
Nobody could get along very well
without his tongue. But everybody
could get along much better if he We're
considerably more careful as to the use
of his. The people with biting tongues
who are quick to put them in opera
ton, are never exceedingly popular.
They don't get along we'll at home. Nor
do they when they are away from home
end busy with their work. In fact,
they soon become little better than So
cial outcasts. just as they ought to be.
They miss the countless pleasures of
life that would be theirs if their socie
t. were congenial. They get the worst
of it all around, and they deserve ex-
aotly that kind of treatment. In mis-
Canterbury tales. the English poet,
Godfrey Chaucer, penned a couple OF
lines that it would be we'll for every in
dividual to keep in mind. They fol-
low:
THE firste vertue, some, if thou wilt
lerne.
Is to restreyne and kepen wei thy
tOnge"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News. ]

And a miss is often good for mile.
1t isn't always the fast young man who
gets there.
A woman believes what she wants to, a
man what he has to-
1t doesn't take a man long to tire OF
posing as good example.
AS soon as mans ambition is gratified
he hunts up larger one.
The more sympathy man generates
the less money he hands out
Trial marriages. Well, marriage al
wavs has been more or less of trial
Many farmers boy learns to SOW yviIc
oats without going to an agriculture
college
It's the easiest thing in the world for q
woman to fool man who tries to fool
her.
Sometimes a womans idea of economy
is to buy an automobile in order to save
car fare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

With most people, pleasant memo
ries are few and far between.
Everybody has two codes OF Nv
ing; one for himself and one for the
other fellow.
n n y
Any number of people are unaole 20
recognizes real happiness even when
they meet up with it.
e y
When love is a mans undo1ng great
emphasis is laid on the tact. Wheh
love is-a mans making nothing is
ever said about it,
Il X
The man who wants to find out just
what his reputation is can do SO by
becoming a candidate for some little
local office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

PAUL, THE FIRST CITY BOOSTER
according to Chancellor Elmer f.
brown of New York university, there
is nothing new in the modern move
ment to advertise municipalities In
recent address in Cincinnati Chan
cellor Brown called the attention of
ms audience to the fact that Paul of
Iarsus was the first live wire" in the
CITY publicity movement. When the
chancellor was asked to produce his
proofs he smiled confidently and
reached for a Bible on the speakers
table Then he explained: when
raul asked to be heard by the Chief
captain at Jerusalem, he said: 4 am
a man which am a Jew of Tarsus
a citizen of no mean city, The words
Won for him his hearing. and they
have reflected honor on the city of
rarsus through all the Christian cen
turtles Chancellor Brown then went
on to commend the present day spirit
OF self-criticism. He said in part:
we americans are ready to speak
with familiar reproach of the things
that lie nearest to us. On the whole
1t is wei THAT this disposition should
take It's course, for it guards US
against too easy compIacency. There
Is something wanting in any society
that cannot stand a fair amount of
criticism and even ridicule from those
who know it best. Let criticism, even
or the gargoyle-cartoon variety, have
It's way. Let it tap along our social
engineries till the cracks and hollow
places are revealed. But if our pa
triotism comes near enough home to
touch the immediate community in
which we dwell, we shall make the
main note of our speech concerning
the place of our abode a note of con-
fidence and hope and ride.'-Cha-
mute Tribune.
SPARE HOURS" THAT GLIDE.
In Albany, a few days ago, a man
who had been a telegraph operator
for 10 years committed suicide because
his wire" had been given to a young
er employee. The older man was as
signed to other work, the change being
made because his successor could OPP
crate a typewriter-somethf the old
er man had never learned to do. That
man had at least rs years in which to
learn to operate a typewriter. He
must have had many spare hours,
which he spent in some other manner.
A few of them would have sufficed
What opportunity are you overlooking
daily, you who read these lines for
the Improvement of yourself, for keep
ing yourself up to date in the march
of world progress? What are you do
ing, and what are you not doing. in
those invaluable spare hours" which
glide away every day ?-Wichita Bea-
con.
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HUAOR OF TIE Day

Alice-Did your cousin have good time
during her visit to Boston? Kate-I guess
So Mother and / took to our beds after
she left and she writes that she took
to her bed as soon as she got home
Boston Transcript.
Gibbs-I sang a song at the banquet last
night and everybody shouted: 'Fine,'
Dfbbs-Did any one mention how much
the fine should have been2-Boston Trans
cript.
Reggv DeswelIe (to his tailor)-
WEAKLY, think have been very patient
with you. 1 promised again and again
to pay you, but il you keep on bother
ing me I simply won't promise any
more.-Tiiegende Blaetter.
What are your ideas about reform p,
About the same as everybody's,'' replied
Senator Sorghum Il have a genera i -
preston that myself and my personal and
political friends are the only people who
do not need t."-Washington Star
Gum sr-I see in the papers thar
they are going to build a forty-story
hotel in New York. Buyer-You don't
sayi viii it pay? Gunner-Ah. that's
another story.-Columbus Dispatch.
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PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION. -

As freedom is the distinctive mark OF
a vigorous personality, I'll the processes
of education must be directed to Sc
cure this essential end, writes John
Grier fIibben, the new president CT
Princeton University, n the North
American Review for June. Therefore,
the ideal university education may be
described as consisting of two phases
phase in which every effort is di-
rected to the attainment of freedom,
and secondly, a progressive phase of
development in which the freedom
gained in the earlier stages finds for
itself varied pursuits and pleasures in
the fields of knowledge.
Hence it would seem essential that
in the early years of ones university
experience those studies should be pur-
sued which are peculiarly conducive to
the discipline and training of the mind
and eventually to the evolution of a
understanding and self-rea1izing will.
They deserve the name of liberal stu
dies so far as they may tend to free
the mind from the natural and artiff-
cial obstacles to its progressive devel-
opment.
One who is to maintain the health
and growth of his intellectual life must
come surely at some later period in
his development to delight in the tasks
of the intellect. To rejoice in the Ia
bors of the mind is not a prevailing
characteristic of the natural man. As
Aristotle has put it, All men naturally
desire knowledge, but not all men de-
sire the labor of learning" 1t often
happens, however, in intellectual dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day tn any address at the rate OF
ten cents a week or thirty cents
month (by nail only Address
changed as often as desired. While
ont OF town the State Journal VIII be
IN you like a daiIy letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, TO save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

tFrom the New York Press
Love letters take a lot more ink than
brains.
All a woman needs to believe gossip is
to know it isn't So
It's a stand-still race between a worn-
ans age and waist measurement.
Most people count the chicks not only
before they are Matched, but before the
eggs are laid
The more a man ought to be clerk the
bigger grievance he can have because he
isn't a railroad president.
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should not be, but he has a wise old
head just the same. And his declar-
alton is likely to be close to the facts
that Colonel Roosevelt is still shy loo
delegates to have a majority on the
first ballot. Nor does he think that the
colonel has the least possible chance
of making up such a deficiency in the
contests he has brought.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

That some women are hard to please
is again evidenced by the suicide of a
Massachusetts woman IS years old. She
became dissatisfied with life because
her son. who is well-to-do. thought IT
was time for her to quit doing a mans
work in his woodward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

Some of these "uplift'' societies are
essuredly possessed of peculiar ideas.
One of them in New York paid a youth
a dollar for each church service he at
tended, the idea being that he would
reform his obstreperous ways under
such influences. 1t is almost needless
to add that this young man went to
the bad at rapid rate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

If most of the multitude of errors
that arc alleged to be in the city di-
rectory merely concern the size and
prominence of the type used in the
printing of the names of various To-
pekans. they are surely not of a very
serious variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

Il may go to Chicago at the end of
this week. is the latest news on this
subject from Colonel Roosevelt. And
1t was to have been expected in view
of his previous emphatic announce
ment that he did not intend to go to
Chicago al all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

Why 80 to the Gulf of Mexico or the
bays along the California coast to
catch big fish? In the same day re-
Gently. a SO-poynd catfish was taken
from the Kaw near Topeka and one
weighing 1877 pounds was taken from
the Missouri river near the Hannibal
brid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08
FROM OTHER PENS

CUBAN WAR CLOUD DARKENS.
President Gomez must strike quick
ly, If he would strike at all. Where is
the over whelming force of federaIs he
declare was on the move against the
bold and enterprising bands of ma
rauderS who are burning and pillaging
the properties of foreigners, collecting
tribute. and ruthlessly Staying native
Cubans? Are the bootless efforts of
the cowardly rurales but an index to
the discipline and valor of the regu-
lars? Is the indifference and incom-
potency of the provincial authorities
the yardstick of the capacity to govern
that characterizes their superiors al
Havana? President Gomez is recruit
ing volunteers Ger the defense of Ha-
vana in lieu Of tine regiments with
drawn from duty and ordered to the
scene of disorder. But where are Cen
eral Morteagudo and his conquering
legions The best Information is that
they are resting up" from their sea
voyage preparatory to going in pur-
suit of he rebels. Suspicion is rife a
Santiago that the troops dare not pene-
trate the interior, and that, in fact, the
precautions taken by the government
are hopelessly inadequate to meet the
crisis. While this panicky description
or conditions may be overdrawn and
the ability of the government to fulfill
its promises unduly discredited, ii is
evident from the increased tension at
Wcshirgron and the unrelaxed prepa-
rations fer developments calling for
Intervention that a decided change for
the better must soon take place or the
work ,lf pacifcatio.- may be taken out
OF President Gomez's hanGs.-Wash-
ingtOn Post
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The state Journal II a member of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report of that great news or
eapizatiou for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
DOr2,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

One more proud boast of the Cali
fornians has been smashed to smith
Greens. They have been claiming this
long time that their native wines are
harmless. And one of their number
now makes serious announcement of
having caught an eight-legged fish
that barked like a dog
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

Wireless communication is soon to
be established between the New Jersey
coast and London. And if Melvin Van
imam, who proposes to sail across the
Atlantic in a dirigible balloon, is wise,
he will hitch his craft to the first wire
less message that is transmitted In
cidentally. if he does so. he will break
all the speed records for aircraft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

Who says the world is notN growing
better? All of New York C'ty's Off
Gals are now honest men. Mayor
Gaynor, who appointed them, says so
himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

Perhaps Italy feels the need of few
Carnegie libraries, or { hero fund Or
something of that sort. At any rate,
its king is about to confer the title of
count 6n the steel magnate who passes
these things out with such a lavish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

Champ Clark won the delegates-at-
large that were chosen by West Vir-
ginia's Democratic state convention.
But Mr. Bryan was the recipient of the
biggest cheer turned loose at this gath