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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
AYHAWKER JOTS

A good way to avoid trouble, adj
vises the Newton Kansas-Republican,
is to refrain from making so much
chin music.
The Scottsville Advance reports
that the "old fashioned wouldbe bad
man who wears a snakeskin belt, was
in town last week.
Excellent advice from the Ottawa
Herald: But don't become so excited
over politics that you will allow the
backyard to fill up with tin cans and
the vacant lot with weeds.
Appearances are often deceptive, re-
mark Mack Gretchen, and he cites
this example,: No doubt the chigger
imagines that open work hosiery was
invented for his especial benefit.
Dick Tagraph. who provides a col
umn of "Dictagrams" for the Western
Kansas World, suggests that eff you
expect to carry water on both shout
ders, don't forget to wear your gum
coat"
AS the Cawker City Ledger observes:
A boy who will spend half a lay at
"the swimmin' hole" is always afraid
of getting wet when his mother wants
him to do an GRAND when a storm
cloud is approaching.
a Kansas City, Kansas. Judge has
decided that it is not a Enable offenSe
for a man to pull his wires nose. Thus
one by one the rights and privileges
of mere man are being secured for
him and confirmed by the tribunals of
justice.-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
POINTED
[From the Chicago News.J

lFIOIu ln0 SnICdSO VNOWS-l
~Eelpmates and m are not al
ways synonymous.
He who hesitates is lo-st-especially
when he is found out.
The germ of suspicion is often fatal to
the microbe of love. F.
Some men find it cheaper to stay mar
ried than to pay alimony.
Love may find the way-but it isn't al
ways able to pay the freight.
After they reach the age of 40 women
laugh only when they feel like it.
A political reformer is a politician who
doesn't stand in with the gang.
During her engagement a girl thinks life
is one continuous moving picture show.
A man isn't entitled to any credit for
overcoming temptation that doesn't tempt.
If a woman can find the style OF hat
she wants, she can always adjust her
head to. fit 1t.
A girl expects a man to think her hair
is naturally curly even when she KNOWS
that he knows it isn't.
The man who falls out of an a1rship
probably feels as badly hurt as the one
who is thrown out of the political oano
wagon.
Yes. Cordelia, a romantic man may pc
all to the good as a lovemaker, but ne
isn't in it with the matter-of-fact man as
a family supporter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

When a baby tumbles down and bumps
his head or his little nose, there are al
most as many ways of dealing with this
familiar catastrophe as there are differ
ent kinds of mothers. For instance, thora
is the mother who kisses the bruise, and
the mother who tries to distract he
baby's attention. and the mother who a.
tempts to instilI courage by telling baby
that he is a brave little boy, and how
glad mother is that he isn't going to cry.
All of these methods have their advant-
ages. But there is one method of dealing
with such happenings in which I can see
And that is the habit of blaming some
one or something for the mishap which
is possibly baby's misfortune. and posi-
bly, baby's fault. Naughty floori" says
the mother who adopts this policy. Baby
spank naughty floor for hitting baby's
head" And forthwith she slaps the floor
and urges the baby to do the same
Or If baby jumps about in big sisters
arms and loses his balance, the resulting
tumble is blamed, in baby's presence, to
big sister for letting baby fall.
Now perhaps you think / am making a
good deal of fuss over a very little thing
Well. maybe it is a little thing in itself,
but there is a very big principle. behind
it. The tendency to blame some one or
something for the unpleasant happening
which Is really our own fault or Just our
misfortune, is strong enough IN all OF us;
1t doesn't need any encouraging. And
the mother who teaches the baby to say
floor or naughty sister" is
encouraging this tendency.
A certain vigorous little baby who has
lust arrived at the ''spunky' age has a.
quired a trick of throwing herself back
on the floor, or in her mothers arms, or
wherever she happens to be. when she
doesn't like anything. At first her moth
er was constantly on guard to save baby
from the results of her own temper, bit
she soon decided that that was not the
best way. After that, when she knew the
baby could not do herself any serious
harm, she held back from interfering and
deliberately allowed the child to bump or
strike herself. Nor did she then say
naughty floor or naughty chair" On
the contrary, she told the baby tEat that
was what happened to babies when they
were naughty and flung themselves
about. Needless to say. baby soon learned
her lesson
The mother who says naughty floor" is
the mother who a few years later tells
how the little boy next door got her
Johnnie into mischief or how the little
girl across the street lei her little girl
into a scrape.
The tendency to blame all our failures
and troubles on other people. or on un-
comfortable conditions. is one OF the de3d-
Hest enemies to success. The only way to
grow and achieve is to build on our fail
IIres and mishaps, and how can we do
that If we won't acknowledge them? The
sooner a child learns the lesson of his own
responsibility for things that go wrong,
the better. And remember, the baby who
is old enough to comprehend naughty
floor is also old enough to understand
careless. baby"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCH1soN GLOBE

Some people have more hope h sense.
Not to need your friends is probably
the best way to keep them.
A reckless driver always feels LOT safer
than those who are riding with him.
Speaking of sinecures, an industrious
woman's hired girl often wonders what
she is paid for.
Experience is valuable. but, like other
commodities, it is possible to pay alto
gether too much for it,
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who tried to make safety pins do the
work of a pair of garters?
As a rule. the one who says he is as
good as anybody is egotistical enough to
think he Is somewhat better.
Why, we desire to ask, is the PhiladeI-
phia lawyer considered so much smarter
than other well known varieties?
81 have found a weeks vacation long
enough to explode the theory that it is
difficult for a busy man to learn to loaf"
.-Rufe Hoskins-
There are plenty of typewriter agents,
but there should be more t~ypewriters in
active service, accept it from the printers
and postoffice employees.
Ever since We can remember, boys have
been warned against going in swimming
in dog days, but none of them paid much
attention to the warning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
QUAKER
[From the Philadelphia Record.

[From the Philadelphia Record.I
Some persons can't even do nothing sue
cessfully.
The man who parades his virtues sell
dom needs a police guard to keen back
the admiring crowds.
Gfnk-"I don't know how il is, but tell
ing fish stories always makes me sleepy
Dink-"Yes, 1 noticed you were stretch
ing a lot"
Belle-"Maude has the worst lighting
system. Some nights the house is in dark
ness for hours" Delle-"That explafna
it. then. 1 have often wondered why she
had so many beaux-"
Mrs. N~ewlywed-'I want something to
please my husband. Can't you suggest a
model that Will make him smile every
time he looks at it?" Milliner-"Tm afraid
not, madam. We have sold all our Cheap
hats"
Perhaps he's never won the things the
world looks on as great. and perhaps he's
never done the things that shape the
moves of state, to most of us he is a king,
though wealth he can't amass. for he has
all that life can bring-a precious base
ball pass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
SUICIDAL.
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Keeping chickens is easy. The rub
comes in getting them to lay eggs.
X x x
Nor do so many of the folk of today
hanker much to live obscure lives.
n u
Soft love letters cost men hard cash
when they bob up in breach of promise
suits.
4
In all likelihood, the old songs woul
be more attractive If they were oftener
sung by good singers.
y n ft
Not a few people who fused a lot at
the weather last winter are now insist
ing that they like the cold variety best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

What a lot of irresponsible news
paper men were those reporting the
Republican national convention and it's
incidentsl The many stories they sent
out about Colonel Roosevelt being
keyed up to a high nervous tension
and indulging in frequent displays of
Feasibility were pure, ~unadulterated
lies, by George. The Colonel is au-
thority for the statement that if there
was a man at Chicago who was not
concerned or nervous at any stage of
the game, hat man was himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subsc1 ,bers of tho state Journal
away from homo during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address sf the rate OF
tan cents a week or thirty cents a
month (by rail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out of town the state journal VIII be
to You K n dnily letter fromh home.
Adyanre payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
OTHER BOLTS,

There was a bolt from the Republi-
can party in 1864, and some very earn
est and eloquent men took part in it;
they said that Abraham Lincoln was
no president for radicals to vote for.
being an unprogressive person who
made the Constitution his fetch, was
insensitive to human rights, meant
we'll enough perhaps in a feeble way
but was useless to the people. The
national ticket of those boilers of 1864
did not last until election day; it and
they were lost in the shuttle. There was
another and much more formidable bolt
from the Republican party in 1872; the
men who led off in it were not Pin
chots, Films and Heneys, but men OF
the political distinction Of Greeley
Sumner Trumbull and Schurz. For 9
time that bolt made many Republicans
n-ervous-good old Henry Wilson of
Massachusetts, among them. Everybody
knows how it came out.-Hartford
COurant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

New Yorker had occasion to phone
from, one suburb to another while visit
ing in a western city. Upon asking what
the charge was, he was told % cents.
scott, In New York you can call hell up
for 20 cents" Possibly coolly answered
the operator. Its in the city limits.
Laughter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
DAFFYDKLS
RY q. NoALL.

If Chicago is less han New York is
Baltimore?
(Oh, listen to the ~orfole!)
When the North side and the East
side have anF~aFgument with which
does the South side?
(AH such disputes should be re-
ferred. to Commissioner Stotts.)
Every watch has a pair of hands but
did you ever see them shake?
(Pass the green persimmons,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

II the men appointed to appraise
the property for the new Gas Side
park do not like their job and are
not disposed to attend to this matter
as expeditiously as possible, they
should resign and thereby make it
possible for the appointment of an
other board of appraisers hat will
lAf busy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

Colonel Roosevelt makes it plain
that the temporary committee named
to help him organize his new party is
in no sense the national committee of
that party. He says that each state
will select its own national commit
teeman for the new party. This doesn't
Jibe at all with Governor Stubs idea
Of the new party. Or perhaps. the
governor thinks that Mr.. Stanley, the
Kansas representative on the regular
Republican national committee is also
the Kansas national committeeman of
the new Roosevelt party. AS a matter
OF fact, Governor Stubs has put his
foot In it good and proper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
KANSAS COMAENT
THE PANAMA cANAI.

"a
colonel Goethals. buiIder of The
rSttaa canal. was at Harvard on
thursday and received an bonora nv
$50. II tnere is a man in the whole
SounIry VINO better deserves such a
dlstlnction We cannot recall his no-s
me great work has gone on onietIv
ana is still proceeding with a reason
aoIe degree of speed. IT has been
the eras snat Q before 1915 would
Oceans pc open to navigation, but the
man VINO IS at the head of the nro-
Ject says 1t will be opened June IA.
aSaS: Inat is a pretty definite state
rnent, and, made by a man who knows
n he is talking about. means q
great deal Before the work was
turned over to the engineering corns
lnere used to be conflicting statements
~ ing with great frequency. Now
very little is heard from the canal
zone but whatever is reported an
pears TO be authentic and highly en-
The enterprise is of s1ch
vast proportions that it may properly
ders of the world. To have made Of
the canal zone a strip of land that is
as healthy as a northern sanitary re-
sort Is OF itself a feat that demands
the necessity of overcome
ing the deleterious conditions that
were so fatal to his he might
nave seen the contamination of his
p years ago. But ii was left to
American planning to make the canal
zone habitable and the construction of
the canal possible, and the credit for
the accomplishment and the honor is
wholly American. When the work is
completed and the American people
realize h a splendid achievement It
II and the obligation the country IS
under to the man who has brought 1t
to such a conclusion, they will not
withhold from Colonel Goethals the
honors that will be so richly his due.
LYNN Item.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

All this talk about Colonel Roosevelt
and Colonel Bryan Joining hands in the
organization and leadership of a new
progressive party comes from people
who are "'balmy in the bean" as FL
bert Hubbard would say. Just imagine,
IL you please a successful comedy with
two leading ladies. The first perform
ance would degenerate into a hair
pulling match.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
TRANSGRESSION

1 meant to do my work today
But a brown bird sang in the apple-tree,
And q butterfly fitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.
And the wind went signing over the land,
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out it's shining hand
So what could I do but laugh and go:
Richard LIE Caffeine, in Harper's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal in a member of the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news Is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

Nor do the Kansas newspaper sup
porters of Governor Stubs show any
enthusiasm over his declarations that
the Republican party in Kansas is al
ready the Kansas wing of the new
Roosevelt party. In fact they are 81
lent as CLAIMS in their attitude towards
this new party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

q. A noise is being made by the Kaws
BIKE they are made up of the right
kind of material for a come back.
Generous patronage of the games will
greatly encourage them on their way.
Get out and root.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

MI. Bryan went down to defeat in
his fight against the selection of Mr..
Parker for the temporary chairman
ship of the Baltimore convention. But
political defeat is nothing new for M.
RrV3n-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

Remembering what Mr.. Bryan had
to say of the Democratic boilers in
1896, it is not conceivable that he will
bolt the Democratic convention of 1915
even if he does not have everything
his own way at it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.J

A woman can call ankles a good figure
cold feet have broken up more happy
homes than bad habits.
The way a girl wants to help mother Is
getting money out of father.
A man never wants to go home except
when he is on a visit to relatives.
It's just as easy to make people happv
as miserable. so most of us go around
looking for trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

OF course. it is never well to. brag
about the weather, but the fact will
not down that Kansas appears to be
slated for an ideal summer. With
the arrival of warm days, the nights
continue to be DELIGHTFULLY."- cool.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

It's fortunate for them that most
of the active Roosevelt enthusiasts
have large bank accounts. The many
pilgrimages they Will be ordered to
make to Oyster Bay this summer are
going to cost a lot of money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

to join in a third party movement? A
bolt at the proper time would havt
forced the issue. But having particips-
ted in all h subsequent proceedings OF
the convention, in what position now
is even Mr.. Roosevelt himself to make
his protest, ef~fective? There was but
one time to act. and that was h
Elihu Root was chosen temporary
chairman. The o election ac-
quiesced in, the rest followed in the
regular order.-Des Moines Register.
THINKS MAN HAS SHRUNK.
AS a militant publicist, fighting fail
ly within party lines, Colonel Roose-
welt has achieved as high distinction
as can come to N man. AS a disap-
pointed candidate for Office. boiling
the ticket of his party, he begins tc
dwindle Immediately and the finish oil
his performance in this character may
readily be foreseen.-Pittsburg Chroni-
Gle Telegraph.
BIDS GOOD-BY TO EX-PRESIDENT
We had confidently believed that
Mr.. Roosevelt, free from the tumult
and the shouting and eaSed of the
first pangs of disappointment, would
relieve his sincere and unselfsh sup
porters of the necessity of abandoning
him, and, failing to hear anything
which a quiet listener could possibly
construe as the voice of the people,
which a been given against him.
would consen to abide by the verdict
We were mistaken. He got together a
rump convention last night and was
proclaimed the candidate OF a third
party for the presidency. 1t was a
fatal mistake, and we share a general
feeling of profound regret that 1t now
becomes necessary for the first time to
part politically from the man who was
so long foremost among American citi-
zens.-New York Tribune.
THE EXCUSE NOT EXCUSABLE.
Purge the roll" has been the cry
of the colonel and his followers. 1t
has served their purpose to represent
that nan of the Taft delegates were
fraudulently seated in utter disregard
of the election returns. Some excuse
this was about the best that could be
devised.-Springfield Union.
AHEAD OF THE PROCESSION.
Those who were predicting that the
party organization as a vehicle of pub
lie opinion had ceased to exist find
themselves mistaken. Public opinion
in this country, the majority opinion,
cannot be driven faster than most of
the, passengers wan to go. Not "
erybody wants to ride in the TWEEN
tieth Century Limited of reform. That
is why Colonel Roosevelt has failed
as the engineer of the radical pro-
gressive- movement He had gotten
ahead of the procession, and even his
great personal popularity could not
the crowd to keep up with him..
Brooklyn Times.
BOLTING SUICIDAL.
Mr.. Roosevelt hears a good deal OF
bad advice and may be unduly fnfu-
eneed thereby, but among his loyal
and earnest supporters in the conven-
ton are men of sense and Soberness.
refuse to be p-ecipitated by
unreasoning emotion or blind passion
into a policy from which. If success
fully carried out, they can reasonably
no other result than to trans
fer the government of this country
into the hands of the Democrats and
subject the great Republican party to
humiliation and defeat.-Phi1adelphia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

Terrible as it was. the wreck of the
Titanic was not in vair. All of the
big passenger steamships are being
equipped with ~searchlights, some pow
erful enough to throw a light five miles
ahead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

In case you have failed to do so,
look up Tuesdays paper and read the
opening prayer that was delivered at
the Democratic national convention by
Cardinal Gibbons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
THE RECALL,

The way and the time to recall"
unfit or unworthy men from office is
to yank them back from office before
they get into office. The people have
their say at the primary election.
They have another say at the gen.
eral election. It is the people who
Should act wisely and periodically
and not permit any one to get into a
public Office unfit to occupy it. We
think that after a man has received
an endorsement from the voters of his
party at a primary election, and an
endorsement by the votes of the whole
citizenship at a general election that
such an endorsement from the people
should stand undisturbed for a rea-
sonable length of time unless some
criminal act has been committed.
Elections are expensive. They have a
disturbing tendency upon the general
welfare of the country.-Douglass
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

Oyster Bay gets on the map again
after a brief, but welcome retire
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27
by THE WY
gY HARVEY PARsoNA

HURRAW FER BRYAN!
BUT,-they handed him one,-sad to
relate.
Five hundred tweive,--five seventy
eight!
OF some ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dodd Castor, who said: '"They always
holler for Bryan,-and then vote for
the other fellow"
Add Bryan: But his refusal to draft
a platform before seeing the complex
ion of the candidate, is not a matter of
peeVishness, but one of logic. No sensi-
Die tailor cares to make a suit of
clothes and guarantee a fit before he
has measured the ultimate wearer.
AS ]. Ham Lewis Is not a native of
Baltimore, convention jokers will kind
ly refrain from referring to his pink
whiskers as a touch of local color"
Friend Arthur Capper is edging
back toward the trunk, but Hon.
Stubbs is still on the thin edge of a
frail limb.
A Chicago moi threw brickbats at a,
Chink who married a young girl.-a
further proof that our stand against
mob violence is justified. Showing
the same lack of intelligence which is
@oNAS vi OFOAy AAOOg ~ ne
bricks at the Chink instead of hang
ing the parent or guardian of the un-
fortunate girl.
Instead Of choosing between two
evils, the average man takes both.
Gertrude Atherton got three sticks
of perfectly good newSpape space by
smoking a cigarette in Chicago. Stubs
didn't get that much in a week, al
though he stood on a chair, horned
his way into a. convention and ,ex-
hausted every effort to reach the spot
light Moral: Stubs should have
smoked a cigarette.
In some places, when the milk isn't
good, hey can the milk, but up at the
Kansas Agricultural college, they COM
promise by canning the dairy commits
sioner.
Roosevelt's statement that he could
have nailed the nomination If he want
ed to, reminds Of the cheerful manner
in which a seven year old boy avs
"Oh, I could stand on muh head uf I
wanted tuh."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

HURRAW FER BRYAN!
BUT,-they handed him one,-sad to
relate,
Five hundred twelve.--five seventy
eight!