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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

out of the door and back to his own
room.
AS for the girl. her face went for
ward on her arms and sobs, for which
she could not account, shook her from
head to foot.
And in a small town in the West
Emily Baker stepped into the tele-
graph office. There was a man at her
side and when she glanced into his
eyes she smiled. He was the one man.
The telegram she wrote out at his
dictation was: tom and 1 were mar
ried today. Please forgive me. Emily"
When Cargrave received the tele-
gram he was writing out a check for
one years rent for an apartment at
0099 West End avenue And even as he
signed that check, he sighed in relief.
This won't be the last check I'll write
for this apartment" he soliloquized. II
want a wife who is a -maker-a
girl who can make such home as that.
In fact" he admitted to himself, Il
want the woman who made that home.
It is fate and she is the one woman"
He called up Miss McCarty and told
her he was sending the check. But
after all it is not to be for my bride
this year. She has just been married
to another man. I'll write to you-if
may"
You may said sweet voice over
the wire.-(Copyright, 1912 by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
LAYHAWKER JOTS

Neither is it necessary, insists the
Oskaloosa Times, for red-blooded man
to show it principally in the end of his
nose.
Do you know why you are what you
are? is one of the perplexing questions
put out by the Munden Peoples Ad-
vocate.
Independent that the shop early cry
will probably be as generally disre-
garded as it has in former years.
Music-in-the-air item in the Rocks
County Record: It is in the air that a
good tuneful concert orchestra will soon
be grinding out music in Stockton.
Nobody could blame her for feeling
that way when Miss May Ticken was
elected treasurer of Pawnee county,
thinks the Wa-Keeney Western Kansas
World
Editor Calnan, of the Troy Chief,
thinks that William Allen White should
retire to Thunder Mountain and write
a book on ""The Rise and Fall of the
Bull Moose
Did you ever notice, asks the King
man Journal that nine-tenths of the
merely looking for somebody who will
agree with them.
Editor McKimson, of the Gray
County Beacon, is authority for the
statement that If you swat a fly now.
it will save you seventeen thousand
swats next spring.
There is a marked contrast, points
out the Washington Republican-Regis-
ter, in the time it takes a woman to
change her clothes and the time it takes
her to change her mind
T A Sabetha man, reports the Sabetha.
Herald, has made a solemn promise to
his wife that he expects to keep: That
he will not buy an automobile as long
as he occasionally takes a drink of
booze. Booze and gasoline don't mix
well.
Last year the cattle were all sold off
because of a scarcity of feed, says the
Hill City Republican. This fall the high
prices seem to be getting about all that
are left, Notwithstanding an abundance
of both corn and rough feed. If this
movement keeps up much longer, grow
ers and shippers will both be out of
business.
Rip Van Wrinkle, the Northwest cor
ner correspondent of the Hill City
Reveille New Era, doesn't miss much of
the news that develops in his vicinity.
Among his items in the current issue of
the paper is the following: Sam Kline's
hounds killed a lonesome coon and two
innocent skunks that were out for a
walk, one night recently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
GOOD ROADS.

Another conference of the good roads
enthusiasts in the state has just been
held. There was an excellent and rep
resentative attendance. Many interest
ing and instructive addresses were
made. And the cause was undoubtedly
helped on its way most materially
thereby. But the time for expounding
the theory of the efficacy and the need
of good roads belongs in the past. Only
the densely ignorant are not alive to
the advantages of improved highways
of the permanent variety; and fortu-
nately there are not many such in KAN
, sas. What is wanted now is action,
and action that is intelligently directed
This can only be provided by the state
assuming much more than a mere ad-
visory attitude in the premises.
Under present conditions there is a
wide variety of laws in the Kansas
statute books, and completely as
well, that authorize the improvement
and construction of highways. But
they are all of local scope. There Is
no doubt, either, but under these laws
much road improvement of one sort
or another has been brought about in
many sections of the state during the
past two or three years. But it is GER
tainly not of the kind that will event.
ually provide the state with anything
that approaches a serviceable system of
good roads.
Nor will such a system ever come
into existence until a legislature
awakes to the realization of the fact
that one of the states urgent needs is
an adequate state engineering depart
ment to develop such a system and SUI
pervise its construction. Furthermore,
and of essentially additional Importance
is the need for state aid in the build
ing of at least what might properly
be described as the trunk lines of such
a system.
Little if any progress has been made
in the building of real good roads in
any state in the union where this pro-
cedure has not been followed. And
Kansas certainly will not prove an ex-
ception to this rule. Roads that will
be of advantage to a whole common
wealth are no mere local matter, and
the sooner the state of Kansas realizes
this fact the better it will be for the
good roads movement here. and the
quicker it will take on definite proper
lions.
AS long as the improvement of all
the roads is left entirely in the hands
of county authorities, whose whims in
the matter of road building and expert
ments in that direction are likely to
change just as often as changes are
made in the personnel of the county
commissions, just so long will Kansas
be without even the prospects of a sys-
tenn of good roads worth while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
EVENING CHIT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

| One of the favorite themes of those
backward philosophers who seem to
take delight in thinking that the past
was far better than the present, and
that the world is steadily running down,
is to compare the young women of to-
day most unfavorably with their
mothers. One of the indictments
against the women of today is that so
many of them prefer professional or
business life to marriage.
Another is that even when they do
marry they seldom have as large fam
lilies as their mothers.
Still another is their eagerness for
higher education and for interests out
side the home.
Now as to whether all these things
are really bad, or as to whether they
are wholly the fault of those against
whom they are charged am not going
to argue. The point ] want to bring
out is thiS-why should the mothers be
praised and the daughters disparaged
when in nine cases out of ten the older
generation heartily approves of the at
titude of the new?
For it does. And in many cases the
mothers are even more strenuous about
it than their own daughters.
A young professional woman who has
made a great success in her work re-
Gently announced her engagement to a
young business man who is probably
making less money than she. She is
going to give up her work when they
are married, which will probably be in
a few months.
happened to be sitting with a group
of older women-that highly virtuous
last generation who are supposed to
represent the normal love of domesti-
city and the home-when they heard
the news.
Were they delighted to hear that this
woman was going to give up profess
sional career for the greater profession
of home-mak king?
On the contrary, almost without ex-
ception they figuratively threw up their
hands in horror.
ITO think of her giving up that SPLEEN
did salary
''And she had such fine prospects"
ct would certainly have expected
more of her."
Such were the comments that this
news brought forth.
Again in the matter of race suicide!
Surely you have noticed in your own
circle of acquaintanceS how often the
prospective grandmother is disturbed
instead of pleased when her daughter
promises her another grandchild.
Theoretically the older generation be-
lieved in large families; actually it
seems as if their own experience with
the hardships and broken health that
a baby every year or two meant, has
made them far more keen on small
families than their daughters. If the
truth were known, I think we should
find that again and again it is the
mother of the young married woman
who advises her most strongly against
immediate motherhood.
Perhaps after all there isn't such a
very wide gap between these two gen
erations of women, as some folks would
have US believe.
Perhaps after all they are both just
human beings with human desires for
happiness and a tendency to search for
1t in whatever happens to be the pres
ent path of least resistance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l


Go to a dentist for your tooth extracts.
Many good story is spoiled by sticking
to facts.
A promise is something you should keep
wnen you give 1T.
The will of the people has disheartened
many a candidate.
One way to hurt woman's feelings is
to tell her that she has none.
Much of the happiness in the world is
due to the fact that ignorance is bliss.
When the average man starts on tire
downward path he wants some silly wo-
man to accompany him.
Almost every married man wastes lot
of valuable time in explaining to his WIFE
Just how it happened.
A woman may not swallow all the conf
pliments men hand her, but she thinks
there Is merit in them just the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
ON THE SPUR
OF The AOMENT
The Regular Fellow.
BY ROY K. MOULTON,

The Regular Fellow.
The Regular Teller is one who kin
smile
When everything goes dead wrong;
Kin smile with a smile that's free
from all guile
And tinker up some sort of song.
The Regular Teller kin whistle a tune
When things seem to be breaking
bad,
He tries to be happy with what he
has got,
Forgetting what he might have had.
The Regular Teller don't talk all the
while,
Like rattlebrained feIIers all do.
BUT when he says something, just
make up your mind
It's something worth Hstenin' to.
The Regular Teller don't tell what
Or big things he's going to do soon.
he just goes and does 'em and keeps
his mouth shet.
His secrets he tells to the moon
The Regular Teller has no time to
And dig into other folks ground
For small village scandal he cares nor
He passes no gossip around.
me regular Teller speaks well of his
Or else he says nothing at all.
Ihere's no room for rubbish or Junk
in his mind,
NO room for the thoughts that are
small.
The Regular Teller does not Sian your
back, '"uI
And brag that he's always vour
friend; SOur
But when you're in trouble and othars
all quit, eiS
He'll stand by you, right to the ard
And Good One.
If all else falls
At any rate,
T. R. can get r
A vaudeville data.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
TEACH CHILDREN REVERENCE.

Once there was man who was asked
If he liked the white meat of turkey.
GIVE never tasted it," he said. when
I was young, it went to my parents.
Now that I'm old, my children take
it as a matter of course
This hypothetical person. who is so
plausible, however, that all the land
knows him, would rejoice at the talk
of William H. Maxwell, head of the
public schools in New York city. DR..
Maxwell is more than a pedagogue,
who, as Mayor Gaynor pointed out the
other day, used to be the slave who
conveyed the children to school and
had nothing to do with teaching them,
though modern twisting of the word
has made it stand for the educative
power itself. He studies conditions
as well as textbooks and he sees in
the attitude of the rising generation
a distinct menace to the land, on ac-
count of the lack of reverence among
children.
The family is first to blame for this
deplorable spirit, said DR.. Maxwell,
but the school is also highly response
bic. If the schools themselves did not
receive the respect which they deserv-
ed, it was the fault of the parents.
and he cited the case of an insurgent
boy whose father, a police officer Of
New York, had vituperated schools
and scholars in the hearing of the lad.
What other feeling could a child have
in such a home atmosphere?
And then he scored the schools for
exalting the pupils above their parents.
The teachers call upon the children to
do their best and demand that the
parents do their duty by their chill
dren by any and all sorts of sacrifices
to keep them in school. They are thus
officially subordinated to the child.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
THE LAST SLEEP.

THE LAST SLEEP.
Some shining April 1 shall be asleep
And over me the ancient joy shall pass;
shall not see young Spring dance down
the world
With ribbons Of green grass.
But I shall dream of all that have lost
Breath of the wind, immortal loneliness,
Wild beauty of the sunlight on the hills,
Now mine no less
Because slumber. Nay, but more than
mine,
be.
Only I ask, when the pink hawthorn
breaks,
That one shall think of me.
Charles Hanson Towne, in Harper's
Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many folk fail to do the right
thing by themselves.
X
AS a general rule, the man, who is
easily satisfied, hasn't much.
y
Any number of people with good
regulations scarcely deserve them
4
Dodging responsibilities is an ex-
ceIlent way to make them heavier.
= u
Every man will laugh readily at a
mighty poor joke, if he springs it him
self.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
DAFFYDHS
BY q. NOALL.

If the chicken is no good will the
egg-beater?
(Stop smoking, young man! You're
helping to back a trust.)
If you get shipwrecked just east Of
Panama, Hail Colombia.
Don't treat that guy harshly. He's
the boob that put the embers in De-
cember.)
Isn't it all right to insist that a
dogs tail is omething of a wag?
(How are you fixed for the winter,
anyhow y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
FROM OTHER PENS

STAINING THE MOVIN GPICTURE.
The bad sense of public taste which
seems inherent in some of the men inter-
eSted In the amusement enterprises was
shown recently when motion picture
managers attempted to arrange for pic
lures of the wedding of Jack Johnson tine
black pugilist, and Lucille Cameron. the
white girl he is accused of having alb
Quoted. The stencil of this disgracefuI
without Visualizing its pitiful sequel ia
the form of films. The very fact that
such move was made shows that GER
tam element in the motion picture bust
ness needs to be watched. 1t is however
no reflection on the business as whole
any more than theatrical performance
which ministers to a depraved taste is a
reflection on the theatrical business as a
whole. In enterprises that seek to arouse
public interest and that cater to the very
natural love of amusement there is a
strong likelihood that some men backing
them will try short cut to box receipts
by pandering to the basest In human ma
ture. The American public, far fro fol-
lowing this Johnson case with any de-
gree of interest, has been disguised with
the whole nauseating AFFAIR, and doub.-
less will be glad when the bruiser either
is acquitted or locked up for a term of
years. Even the sporting public never
very fond Of johnson, has ceased to have
any concern as to his fate, his repeated
escapades having eliminated him even
from pugiliSm.-Grand Rapids Press.
.
TEXAS BRAND OF JUSTICE.
The acQutttal of Sneed looks like piece
what seemed cold blood he murdered the
father of the young man who eloped with
his wife, and afterward murdered in hot
blood the young man himself. For the
latter offense he has not yet been tried
but trial would seem a farce after the
acquittal yesterday. The court practical
" instructed the jury to convict, and the
counsel for Sneed was at work on appeal
papers, yet the. jury, its mind obsessed
with some peculiar Texas idea of protect
ing the sanctity of the home, set the pris-
oner free. When they recovered from the
shock of surprise his counsel were fined
for disorderly antics in demonstration of
their joy. If it is no crime to kill tina
aged father of his wife's lover Texas
must be consistent. pronounce it a duty to
Kill the lover himself and turn Sneed
loose. But this idea of Texas justice will
not appeal to the sense of right of the
rest of the country.-St. Paul Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

If there was anything in a name it
would appear that Mrs. Ffxen of Chi
cago would be the woman to provide
the remedy. She declares that the
progress of her sex has been retarded
by the teachings of the Bible, which,
she insists, give man all the best of it.
However, Sister Fixen has probably
developed this opinion merely for the
purpose Of gaining a little notorietys
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFrom the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.J
The better new things are the more age
bemoans the disappearance of the old
ones.
A girl gets interested in man because
If he weren't the one it would be some
other.
The way a woman tells she Is expecting
bad news is she feels Like having a nice
cry anyhow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

Prospects for averting a war between
some of the major powers of Europe,
or a general one into which all of them
will be dragged, do not appear to be
exceedingly bright. Else the big bust
ness interests in several centers there
would not be taking out such an enor-
NOUS amount of expensive insurance
covering risks of war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

Apparently, the rnilitarism that pre-
walls in European nations is not as at
tractive as 1t once was with the COM
mon herd. During the past three
years in France no less than 10000
soldiers, or three full army corps,
have deserted their regiments. And
the percentage of assertions is in
craa sing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

There is this speck of consolation
for the Duke of the Abruzzi- He can
land prizes in other arenas than the
one concerned with matrimony. The
Academy of Sciences of France has
lust bestowed upon him the principal
geographical prize of the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

German scientists say that aeroplane
flights in high attitudes destroy tu-
berculosis germs. This apparently is
borne out by the fact that aviators,
when picked up, seem not to have been
killed bY tuberculosis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

Get am so glad to be returning to
America where 1 have so many good
friends" remarked Mime. Tetrazzini, as
she sailed from England recently. And
prominent among the good friends"
no doubt are the stacks of American
gold pieces she receives each time she
condescends to MARBLE a few songs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

Artist Bob Chanler says he doesn't
want to see Cavalier again. Nor can
any one blame him. The last time he
saw her she raised him and it cost him
SQn mo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

iBritain's militant suffragettes must
be in the throes of second childhood;
or else they are simply crazy. They are
causing much trouble and confusion in
London nowadays by turning in num-
erous false fire-alarms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

If the United States owned all the
railroads within its confines, operated
all of the coal mines, and conducted
several of the other big industries,
there wouldn't be sufficient number
of government jobs for Mr.. Wilson to
parcel out after March next to the
Democrats who think they are entitled
to recognition in this direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

Football is likely to gain a bit in the
favor of some of it's critics. Storer,
one of the Harvard stars on the grid
iron, has been chosen to lead the lit
erary team that has been given the
task of revising the college hymnal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

Coincident with the news of the Bull
Moose speechmaking in Chicago, came
a dispatch from Washington telling
that the government seismograph there
had registered several distinct shocks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

That Jack the Hugger," who is
working out in Topeka these evenings
is evidently a gentleman of discern
ment. He operates on the highways
and byways that are frequented by the
Washburn college girls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

Perhaps it is worthy of notice that
the ST. Louis pastor who calls this a
nation of professional liars obviously
includes himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12
KANSAS COAAENT
rvs GETTING TOO LATE.


T. just one week II will be too late
to shop early and then the mad rush
will begin in earnest. Already sonns
of the merchants are sitting back ruO-
bling their hands for their ChrlstInaS
stock has been moving and moNlns
fast. In one instance the Owner ~
the "shop" has just about sold ou1
all his best goods and while there are
many things left it is mostly tns
stock which he keeps all the year
around and not specialttes sucn as hS
introduces for the Christmas trade.
Another man has already quit ao-
vocating shop early although he does
insist upon customers doing 1t early
in the morning. Now while it is late
in the season to shop early there Is
always chance to do 1T early In the
day, SO when you can't do one thinS
one way there is always another way
to do it.
This shop early idea is not urged
so much by the merchants for their
own sake it is for their clerks.
There is nothing so tedious as to have
20 impatient customers swarming
around each clerk demanding to be
waited on ando to become insulted
when the clerk asks them to wait. For
the sake of those girls shop right now
for remember in a week it will be too
late to shop early.-Ottawa Republic.
The question which seems to have
attracted the most attention at the
governors conference, seems to have
been the proposition advanced by
President Taft to establish farmers
credit banks, and besides being the
subject of considerable elaboration
there, it as also taken up in later
conference at the White House between
the president and a number of the
governors. It received the most IA
Vorable consideration at the hands of
the governors, and stands now as one
of the most important subjects for fu-
ture legislation. While it is perhaps
out of the question to hope that ia
vorabie legislation may be enacted at
this session. yet it has already assumed
such proportions that its ultimate
adoption seems assured, and in that
case, President Taft in the closing days
of his administration will have been
responsible for one of the most prac-
teal and important constructive meas
ures advocated in recent years.-Clay
Center Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-12

It is not improbable that some of the
men who rock the boat in the summer
are preparing to wear cotton whiskers
at Christmas time.