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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
SAYS UNCLE CAV

Most folks, love their religion well
enough to fight for it, if they have to
knock a hole in the Decalogue big
enough to let the Atlantic Ocean
through. In this country we believe
so much in the gospel of peace and
good will to men that we sometimes
get red in the face and shake our
fists at our neighbors who refuse to
take our views on doctrinal points
over in Turkey the faithful Moslems
are so much afraid that their all
powerful Allah can't convert the
world to Islamism that they help him
by going forth with sword and gun
to decrease the visible supply of Chris
tians.
In parts of Russia it is good mob
sport to hunt down a few scores OF
Jews in the name of Christ. First
and last this go earth has run red
with the blood of martyrs to faith,
the martydrom being inflicted by
pious persons upholding the sanctity
of some other creed. The real cause
of the Balkan war is the Turk
fanatical hatred of those not of his
religion, and those who know are
looking forward with fear and trem-
bling to the day when the Moham-
medans of Africa rise up to wipe out
the christian pigs The holy"
wars have been the most horrible in
history because the fanatic knows
neither mercy nor fair play.
last vestige of intolerance we might
with clear conscience condemn the
MoSlem. But the plain truth of the
matter is that few of us can keep our
tempers in a religious argument and
that the fires of fanaticism, inherited
from ancestry that burned witches
and heretics and slaughtered men OF
other faiths, are merely slumbering
in our blood. We have much to say
about legal rights to religious liberty,
but our Puritan forefathers no sooner
settled in America than they began
to prosecute Quakers and Congrega-
tionalists, and while we stop short OF
physical oppression, our moral atu-
tude is little superior.
The fault is rather moral than
religious one. We don't live up to
our theories in regard to religious
liberty. We may be able to mind our
own business in every other partic-
u1ar, but we simply can't keep our
fingers off the other mans concep-
ton of Deity We are willing that he
shall oppose us in politics, that he
shall differ with Us in scientific mat
tiers. that he shall eat what he wishes
and, with certain restrictions, read
what he likes, but when the most
ones religions involved, we itch to
make the selection for him. The fear
of the law keeps some of US from
throwing brickbats, but there are few
of us who don't make faces
One of these days theren be a
golden time when we are content to
let the other man settle his religious
problems with the aid of our preach
ing and advice and without coercion,
physical or moral. 1t may be that
in that day we shall do less quarrel
ing and more praying, though that
is a strictly religious question with
which the present subject has moth
ing to do. But the day has not yet
arrived, 1912, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Wornan's unwomanliness to woman
makes countless thousands mourn.
People with more money than brains
don't need many of the latter, any
how.
If you want to waste a lot of time
ask a man how his baby is getting on
Among the most miserable of men
is the active worker who tries to idle
through a week or two.
4
Merchants would probably like it bet
ter if many of their customers were as
prompt at paying up as they are at
paying down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

One of the most frequently misin-
terpreted words in the English Ian
guage is one with which three-quar-
ters of us have sad reason to be very
familiar.
And that word is economy.
Economy means thrift. 1t doesn't
mean parsimony: it doesn't mean
mean a short sighted and self defeat
ing policy of doing without those
things which can be most easily dis
pensed with, regardless of conse-
A neighbor of mine has pretty hard
work to make both ends meet. She
has three young children in her house
hold, and it is not possible for her to
leave home for an afternoon without
having someone to take her place.
Once in a while when the errands
which she cannot ask anyone else to
do have accumulated, she hires a
woman to stay with the children and
goes to town. She had just come back
from such trip the other evening
when I went over to call and found
her stretched out on the couch, pale
& evidently completely exhausted
Does it tire you so much to shop ~
I asked.
at isn't just the shopping" she
said but I walked all over town, I
had an errand at AS and one at RS"
(naming two points over a mile
apart), land walking tires me so.'
Why on earth didn't you take a
SdI dSkou III wonder. / actually
never thought of the economy (?) mo-
tive. 1t seemed too absurd.
Il thought 1t would be extravagant."
she said. Think of it! She was pay
ing woman for the time she was
using; she knows that if she over
draws her strength, as she often does,
che will have to pay a woman to help
her with the work; and yet she spent
lavtshly of both time and strength to
s4ve five cents.
Economy, economy, what extrava-
gances are committed in thy namei
Another woman in our neighborhood
frequently boasts of the infinitesimaI
sum on winch she contrives to feed her
family. She is always critfcising her
next door neighbours bountifuI board
as being fearfully extravaganza in view
of her husbands modest salary.
Her neighbor on being acquainted
with these charges retorted, "If she
VIII add the doctors bills she is al
ways paying for those sickly anaemic.
underfed children. to her household
piiIs, guess she will find that it costs
ner Just as much to live as it does me,
if not more"
Her neighbor was right Nor do the
d ctor's bills alone represent ali the
cost of this woman's economy She :
must also charge up against it the loss
OF EFFICIENCY which these children will
probably suffer later from their under
fed childhood.
False economy is as common as nov
erty. % Po'-
Real economy is as rare as brains
raise economy is a thankless task
Real economy is a fine art
winch do you practice?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
QUAKER M11DITATToNs

From the Philadelphia Record.1
cept office hunting. "a
One good turn makes man expect that
you are going to do him another
Diplomacy demands the sort of neDo,,,
mat admits Of discreet forgetfulness.
Many a girl who dreams of a chrrc.,
unceremoniously. H9iee
some men seem to have outlived thar
usefuiness, when as matter of fact the,
never had any. eiAeS
Wigwag-"A wife should be a rnar,.
helpmeet." Hardpppe-.That's rie,Lt nan ,
should help meet the bills' sho
Wigg-"Skinnum says he basn,+
lar he can call his own Wa1S ..r 9ot-
call his wife's." ne can
"A man is as old as he feels.' opo+e0
me "a Mise Guy. And a woman is as Old
as her photographs taken about X ola
ago. added the Simple Mug. 20 years
Blobos-"Fhe musical comedies L.,
seem 20 oe as good as they used ~. ~ SoH
, wone ,.si WY! Slobbs-''Maybe the cb...
nut phsnt has something to do vvitS ts Z Z
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
FROM OTHER PENS
CHINA SHOWS FIGHT.


China indicates her possession of a
will and backbone and a temper by
intimating that she will protect her
rights in Mongolia and expel Russia
1t may be that Russia is unwise
enough to challenge contest with the
unknown empire, just as she rushed
into battle with japan, but it is quite
as likely that she will be more eau
tious than in the former expedition
and will look the ground over very
carefully before engaging in struggle
with the huge new republic. 1t may
be found to the surprise of the world
that the Chinese have been developing
an army of recent years under foreign
leadership and that they are in po-
sition to put up such a fight as that
Russia will be crippled worse than
ever before she gets done with It.
Hardly anyone pretends that Russia
has the least right in Mongolia, but
that cuts no figure in the diplomacy
and general policy of the car, whether
the present one or any other. 1t is
Russia's policy to seek to absorb the
earth and its rival in that direction
is England. But in late years espe-
cially, the policy of England is just as
much directed toward the establish
ment of practically self-governing
states as it is to expanding the area
of the empire. Sympathies generally
will go out to China if she insists upon
her right and has the courage to
stand up and make fight for it. With
the question of ConstantinopIe coming
to the fore, Europe mobilizinE her
armies and every nation in that con-
tinent armed to the teeth, it seems
as If Russia would be wiser than to
undertake war with China. whose re-
sources in men are unlimited and
whose resources in military skill NAV
be found quite as staggering as those
OF Japan were not a decade ago.-Buf-
falo News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
THOUGHTS MAKE CHARACTER

To be religious let religious ideas and
images be entertained constantly in the
mind. To become brutal low and SEN
sual, keep letting such manufactures
show on your mental cinema. To make
money, think money. To be gener-
ally despised, cultivate self-despising
thoughts. And so on, writes DR.. Frank
Crane, in the Woman's World for De-
cember.
You can notice this in other people.
Every person is attended by his body
guard of thoughts, as a king is sur
rounded by his courtiers, or a general
by his staff. Observe your acquaint-
ances. Take Miss Aye, a sullen, sensi-
tive, sour girl, always looking for Of
tense; she has few friends because she
has few friend-thoughts; when she
enters the room you can almost hear
wasp-thoughts buzzine in her head.
Emma Bee, on the other hand, never
meets you but you feel the force of the
thoughts of cheer, fun, sympathy and
goodness flying about like butterflies in
her mind.
In the cold eye of that old curmud-
geon, Mr.. Gee. you read money
thoughts, trap-thoughts and grab
thoughts
In young Dee you can easily discern
the thoughts of dissipation and deviltry,
while thoughts and goodness
thoughts are just as plain in young
I Gee.
1t is not man or woman you are
meeting; it is a -thought-fiock.
J You yourself are but a thought
nucleus. Consequently there is moth
ing in this world you can learn that
will conduce more to your happiness
and power than how to choose and re-
ject thoughts, how to make some your
familiars and how to keep others out
side the door.
And let me tell you something deeper
yet; your thought goodness and your
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
KANSAS COAAEET
MUSIC IN AMERICA.

-
BEGINNING with our lack of a suitable
national anthem, good deal OF fault Is
found first and last, with American
music or the lack of it. Nor is there
so much evidence to be offered IN re-
buttaI Indeed much that passes for
music on this side, ragtime, popular
songs and the like, add further counts
to the Indictment. Besides, there is no
denying that most of our operas, proo-
ably all that are worth while, are I'M
ported, and spaghetti is popular dish
with the stars who put them on. some
of our composers havo gained limited
recognition abroaA, and certain singers
of ours hold their own with those from
foreign shores. There are even great
American bands, Usually containing
percentage OF foreign musicians, which
might bear comparison with the great
bands of Europe, but for the most paSt,
we stand convicted of musical snort
age when compared with Germany
Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia or
France. Probably the answer is tour1o
in the newness of the country; to a
great extent, at least, Americans are
occupied with more material matters
and advancement, and the best ana
much of the worst of our efforts ana
men have been devoted to big business
in it's diversified channels. Not that
captain of industry would have made
Wagner or Beethoven, had his efforts
been bent another way. Rather 1t -
that a pioneer people is not likely to
be as strong in the finer arts as in
sterner fields of endeavor; we have
drawn the doors rather than the dream
ers with the tide from Europe setting
this way. Perhaps later out of this
melting pot shall come composers and
performers in musical way which
shall make Europe marvel. and follow
the pace instead of set it. just as Amer
leans have already assumed leadership
in invention. In the achievement Of
great engineering feats, in agriculture.
railroading and athletics. And. in the
meantime, it should not be forgotten
that America plays important part
in the development of the worlds
musical talent; it plays this part by
paying the price of Caruso and Media
and others who get more than presi-
dents or potentates, in liberal patron
age of the best that comes this way,
not to mention much that isn't so good
Generally speaking, those who do not
appreciate good music have not heard
1t. and Americans are rather liberal
patrons with the price when opportun-
ity affords.-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

A Topeka preacher is going to quit
preaching to raise chickens. There are
twenty-one different slants from which
to gouge your own giggle out of this
news item, but each whee: should con-
tain some reference to the yellow legged
chicken.
The Sultan of Turkey wants to save
his honor. He will do well to save a
small portion of the gravy.
1t may be, of course, that they will
permit him to retrieve the giZzard, but
the chances that the only argument
over the wishbone will be between Bull
garia and Montenegro, are quoted at
Is to one.
The last of long series of locations
of Mary's original lamb, leaves Mary
with d large flock of antique mutton to
her credit. Locating Mary's lamb has
been a favorite pursuit of unoccupied
litterateurs for nearly 100 long, tedious
years.
The Prof. Dyche of California asserts
that each chicken hawk is worth $40.
For the chicken hawk we caught with a
steel trap on the end of tall pole 20
years ago, we will accept SIS. We got
So worth of satisfaction out of the cap
ture of the hawk that caught 81 worth
Oh perfectly GOOD gulnedS'
Turkeys, according to a market house
report, are cheaper than they were last
year. It is but one example of the
luck which has pursued US since Chez
ildhood. When turkeys are cheaper,
liver and other edible meats are higher.
Millionaires. called upon to lecture to
school boys. invariably open by stating
that the first thousand dollars is the
hardest to acquire. If a thousand was
hard to save when they started. what
chance has the youth of today. who can
buy a benzine wagon for 1855 fully
equipped?
1t was a Colorado gent who kept his
wife at home with an axe Only a
roughneck would use an axe. A perfect
gentleman would get the same results
with a hammer and a few nails. attach
ing said wife to the kitchen floor; and
a smart man would have negotiated the
same turn by burning her Sunday hat.
In our alleged book, We have at
tempted to meet all corners. It shades
from the light and frivolous,-note the
case of the pink d: osaurus who lived
MANY ages BETA us,-to the sad and pa
thetic,-peruse the deep thought and
pathos of certain translations from
ancient French fablesmiths. One spe-
c1al1St VINO read the original copy, WepC
for a solid week. It made him to gosh
dang sad to think that the writer of
such junk must be permitted to live
until Christmas, that he had some
trouble in getting over it.
And we note that Dodd CASTOR still
has few copies of ION Second
Thought on hand. So we ask: Whittier
are we drifting? With a chance to get
a good book for a dollar and book for
six bits, why leave that book-and-a-half
space in the book case vacant?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
HUNOR or THE Dry

What kind Of entertainment does our
friend Mr.. Swelhed, PREFER" IT think
he manages to divert both hin1seIf an1
his friends" replied Miss CAYENNE. Inv
entertaining a remarkable opinion Of him
self. Star.
Lady of House Ito tramp)-"Here are
some very nice crusts 1 trimmed on
when I was making sandwiches" Tramp
NO thank We, mum; dey reminds me
too much of de cause of me DOWNFALL
margins. Boston Transcript.
For Remembrance.-She-I beg your
pardon, but can't remember having met
You before He-Oh, yes. Last night at
the ball some one trod on your toe. That
was me.-F1iegende Blaetter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

can be set down as pure hapdoodle
and twaddle. If a sufficient number
of the legisIators-elect should prove so
morally deficient that they could be
made parties to such a move, it would
be their last performance in the KAN
sas political arena. Furthermore, the
people of the state would be justified
in branding them for what they would
be and insisting that they take up
their abode elsewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Andrew Carnegie has passed the
three score-and-ten mark by seven
years. and still has two or three hun
dred million dollars to give away so
that he won't die rich. But the gem
eral hope probably is that he will yet
enjoy many years in which to dispose
of his wealth, Andy tries so hard to
be such good old sport.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
DAFFYDHS
BY q. ToALL..

If Tyler toog his girl for a paddle
would he Tippecanoe?
(AIl 1 want for breakfast is a few
kind words and a grape-)
Is the exit in a theater like a ship
half way between America and Eng
land because it's a way out?
Dust bury me where lie.)
If the fiddler is out is his violin?
(Say. Amt you never been no place?)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Great should be the rejoicing. A
Pueblo woman. who went east for the
purpose, has establi ed the fact be-
yond peradventure that the nursery
rhyme concerning Mary and her lamb
is in no sense a nature-fake. 1t is
merely the chronicle of an actual oc-
currence near Sterling, Mass. some
9S years ago. Now watch the good
ship of state sail on with increased
stability .se--z-- -a-=sa. '
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Won't it be hard on some of the
Kansas legislators reelected to Office,
who used to run" things or have a
hand in it, when they appear on the
scene next winter and find themselves
in the minority? But think of all the
fun they can have tripping up the
newcomers in the parliamentary tricks
of the trade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Kansas women also have this adj
vantage. Few of them who dream of
fire are in danger of rushing in their
sleep out of seventh story windows
and to their deaths like one of their
unfortunate sisters did in New York
recently
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Once again are the prophets among
the Seven Day Adventists foretelling
the end of the world. This is almost
a yearly activity with them and if
they keep on with it ad infnitum. or
Whereabouts, there's a chance they may
hit the nail on the head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

When death struck down Senator
Rayner. of Maryland, it removed from
public life not only a big and inf1uen-
tial Democrat but also a most valuable
citizen. Isidor Rayner stood for JUS
tice in all things. And his wonderful
" large abilities were a tremendous
power for right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

are among the latest efforts of the
enterprising moving picture men. But
they're sure to fall far short of the
real thing, imagine watching a circus,
please, without the customary odors
around and about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

An expert in the department of ag-
riculture declares that the moulting
hen is responsible for the unusually
high price of eggs. Yet moulting is
nothing new to hens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

All this talk and these anonymous
communications suggesting a plan or
a plot to deny an election to the Uni
ted States senate to W. H. Thompson,
the Democratic candidate who was so
convincingly endorsed by the voters,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

A southern divine declares that pro-
family is the blight of the nation. Why
doesn't he go further back and say
something about automobiles that
won't go and political landslides?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Reports from Montana show that
the people there used the initiative
and the referendum at the recent cleo
ton in a most intelligent and discrimi-
mating manner. Nor did they indulge
in any radicalism of the dangerous
sort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Notwithstanding the fact that Bal
timore claims to be the home of the
oyster, physicians there have started
an anti-noise crusade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Will the fashionable set in this
country please take notice? Queen
Mary of England has already begun to
do her Christmas Lhopping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

The state Journal in q member Of the
Associated Press and resolves the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
gantE&f1on for the exclusive AFTERNOON
Rublica4tou In Topeka
The news IL received In The State jour"
nal budding over wires tor this sole pSzH.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Free trade is not favored in all
things by England. Chorus girls are
required by its theatrical managers to
sign contract not to marry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

A Columbia university professor says
that vacations are not necessary
Neither are some professors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Beef, evidently, is soaring also fl
England. An aviator has been f1ne'
there for running into a COW and kill
ing IT,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
TFrorn the New york Press.I

IFrom the New York Press-1
What makes a girl tell a secret is so
as to wonder how 1t got out
People who wouldn't hurt chicken will
murder human reputation
A comfort to a woman about losing all
her hair is how Young she Is for 1t to
happen to her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Oh joy! This years sauerkraut crop
is also OF the bumper variety. Trot
out your spare-ribs, Mr.. Butcher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

Sublime Porte doesn't feel that way
just at present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

The Sultan of Turkey wants to save
| his honor He will do well to save a
small portion Of the gravy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27
RY TIE WY
BY HARVEY PARsoHaA

A Topeka preacher is going to quit
preaching to raise chickens. There are
twenty-one different slants from which
to gouge your own giggle out of this
news item. but each whee: should con-
tain some reference to the yellow legged
chicken
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-27

1t may be, of course, that they will
permit him to retrieve the gizzard, but
the chances that the only argument
over the wishbone will be between Bull
garia and Montenegro, are quoted at
Is to one.