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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
NEW YoRK's "GUNMEN.~

To the country the most amazing
and shocking feature of the revelations
which have come out of the metropolis
since the murder of the gambler, Ros-
enthal, who "squealed," is not the rotten
ness uncovered. 1t is not the police cor
ruption charged and apparently proved.
Those shameful conditions were fairly
well understood. They have not SEEM
ed out of keeping with what has been
known about New York But the coun-
try has learned in astonishment of the
existence of gangs of actual and poten-
tial murderers, familiar to the under
world and feared as men who could
be hired for the butchery of any one
hated by persons in authority or those
with plenty of money to pay for the
assassination of their enemies.
1t has not been generally known that
the largest city of the country tolera ted
the presence of bands of cutthroats who
killed for a price, or to placate some
public official as cruel and brutal as he
was false to this trust. The nation has
never been taught to believe that the
police were powerless, even IN 'rr Tam
many, to beat down and crush all vio-
lent and bloody law1essness
The need of reform in the chief center
of population. wealth. commerce and
industry in the New World is evident
ly greater than the most pessimistic
Americans have supposed. 1t goes
farther down toward the savagery
which it was thought had at least been
made less bold and bestzaI on Manhat-
tan Island than it is in the widest
towns of the newest states and the
crUGest mining camps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
PROFESSIONAL EvANGELIsTs.

The other day there was a national
convention of evangelists in Chicago.
The first thing they did-the prin-
cipal topic of their session. IN fact
was tbs, serious consideration of meth
DDS What they said and what they
intend to do, hereafter, will make
their work more agreeable to man
Find and far more profitable to them
IN saving souls.
Evangelical work doesn't count as
it should because of the smear of pro-
iessionalism across it. The early
evangelists were men called to their
work; white-souled. red-blooded fell
.ows who bore hardship, poverty, mis-
trust, the opposition of the Journalists
and the active hostility of the sinners.
But they made good in their own
lives and so in their work.
Some of these men still eXist-more
than the world takes heed of, for
their modest pleas are smothered in
the brass band din CT the professional
evengelists. These latter go into evan
gelism as a business. Some are reli-
gious grafters and virtually levy a poll
tax of so much a head on sinners tenn
poIarily stirred into a seeming con-
vicSion of their own misdoings By the
theatrical appeals made to them.
These professionals run their affairs
like a show. They are ress-agented
like three ring circus and when God
fearing and respectable elements of
the religious world, and men and
women outside the church who still
believe in the holiness end the dignity
of its work, make protest they delight
IN the fight
1t gives a chance to be more spec
tacular, more clamorois, more irrev-
erent in their braggert, ways A news
paper roast means many more dollars
in their pockets.
1t was against these professional
evangelists, as men and rs religious
workers and against their blasphem-
Gus ways, that the evangelists in ses-
sion in Chicago protested. One Lesti-
fed that when he entered the work
professional offered to teach him the
tricks of the trade. st have got 'em
all skinned a mile in taking an offer
ing was the would be tutors state
ment 1t was methods like this which
were denounced and the meeting can
not help doing good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
HEALTH FOR SALE.

One of the most interesting and i'm
portant papers presented before the
Fourth National Conservation con-
gress. which met last week in Indian
apolis, was written, not by a physi-
clan or a sanitarian, but by a business
man, Mr.. E. E. Rittenhouse of the
Equitable Life Assurance company
Mr.. Rittenhouse, in the opening para
graphs of this address, recognized the
crucial point in the present situation.
He said: 1T takes money to carry on
a great educational movement and it
takes money to conduct a public
health service. The war between pre-
ventable disease and death is there
fore a struggle between the dollar
and the death rate These words
should be placed before every citizen,
for his instruction and as a warming
With our present day knowledge of
disease, good health is a commodity
which can be bought. if our cities,
counties and states are willing to pay
the price. For $3.50 per capita per
year, any community can practically
Danish those diseases which we now
have the means of preventing and can
greatly reduce the number cf deaths
a
half per year! Not quite half a cent a
day to save life from destruction by
known causes! Three cents a week,
twelve and one-half cents Il month,
to protect each man, woman and child
from disease, which we know how to
prevent and which we know will exact
a toll of many lives during the next
year and all succeeding years until
proper preventive methods are in
auguratedi A pitiably small sum, one
thinks. Yet how much are our most
advanced commemorative spending
for this purpose? Pennsylvania heads
the list with As cents per capita, per
annum; Arkansas at the bottom, does
not spend a cent; New York spends
Ii cents; Massachusetts,, AZ cents;
Indiana, Is cents; and so on. In 1911,
fifty of the largest American cities
with a total preventable death list of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.]

[From the Chicago News.1
There are a. lot of family trees that
need spraying.
You'n never get to the front by follow
ing the crowd.
Singing songs of praise often scares the
wolf from the door.
He is a brave man who has never been
at war with his wife.
Some men enjoy poor health-probably
because they are physicians
A woman can't see the good of having
a secret if She can't tell II.
The way to get your expectations to
come out right is not to have any
The man who shutters has one advan-
tage; he never speaks before he thinks.
Only a girl in love with a poor man can
appreciate the folly of being rich.
Many a man who begins with an occas-
ional "snile'' allows it to develop into
perpetual grin.
Every man is the architect of his own
fortune and it's up to him to keep solid
with the building inspectors.
No doubt some clubs have all the COM
forts of a home, but a hove with all the
comforts of a club would prove more at
tractive to some men.
Some women are conceited enough to
think their husbands love them so much
that they can go around the house with
their hair off and their teeth out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
QUAKER fluctuations.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t doesn't pay to grow sadder without
growing wiser.
Many man has found himself undone
from trying to do others.
Lots of people waive their rights, but
pugilists also wave their lefts.
The mind is a storehouse, but it needn't
necessarily be a junk shop
The stingy man may be open to sus-
picion, in spite of the fact that he is
close.
Nell-'Mrs. Talkalot tells everything she
knows" Belle-"And a lot more besides"
When a woman makes a hairpin answer
as a buttonhook, she goes to extremes.
Sililcus-"Give me a synonym for repent
ance." Cynicus-'How would being found
out do?"
Listeners seldom hear good of them
selves" quoted the Wise Guy. ''Or any
body else added the Simple Mug.
The fellow who feels that he hasn't
friend in the world might just as well be
a baseball umpire or book agent.
There are times when, even to the poet,
a head of cabbage boiling in the pot has
a sweeter odor than bunch of violets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
THE HIRED GIRLS WAY.


The nights our hired girl stays home,
An don't expect her beau T. call,
She's jes' as nice as she can be,
An doesn't hustle round at all.
Sometimes she takes me on her knee
And tells me tales of pirates bold
That used t sail upon the sea
In search OF silver and of gold.
An she don't pack me off t. bed
AS soon as supper time is through.
Or tell me that I'm in her way
Becoz she's got her work t. do.
But in the kitchen can stay
An she jes' tells the finest things
OF soldiers fightin' every. day
An princes bold, an evil kings.
But when her beau is comm up
t. take her out t. see a show,
She makes us hustle through our tea
Sos she can get dressed up to go.
An you jes' orter see her frown
If Paw sits talking very long,
An you should hear her bang around
T. let him know he's doin' wrong.
An Nav don't dast t. say a word,
An Paw jes' swallers down his tea,
An then she grabs the dishes up,
An says she amt got s.me fer me-
You orter hear her rattle plates
An see her grab each dish and cup,
An wash 'em clean quick as that
The nights her beau is comm up.
She don't have time for stories then,
Or nothin' else I want t. do.
Paw says there is no stoppin her
When she is eager t git through.
An git hustled off t. bed,
An don't like it, not at all,
I can't see why she acts that way
Jes coz her beau is goin' t call.
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
gY THE ATCHIsOH GLOBE

It is so hard to find an eye witness
Most people who shoot off their mouths
have poor aim
Perhaps, if good advice cost more, more
of it would be used.
Sometimes a travelling man overeSu-
mates the value of a new story
A good example is sometimes so blamed
good it makes you quit trying.
If a girl has her society on firmly IT
works downtown as well as in draw
ing room.
One trouble is that the women who
could aid suffrage most aren't working
for 1t.
An auctioneer isn't paid or promoted
to colonel for giving bargains to the gea-
eral public.
Women after they win in their contest
for the privilege of voting, probably Will
take up football.
You may have observed that there are
several exceptions to the rule that tat
folks are good natured-
And the wicked who flee when no man
pursueth may pose as paragons of purity
when they find they aren't chased.
A mean man usually is convinced that
a number of good ones are that way be-
cause of lack of nerve or opportunity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
Czarina Is Happy Again.

She whom all Europe knew as the
Queen of Sorrows" has become the
Queen of Beauty again.
The czarina has recovered her health.
has emerged from her melancholy, has
shaken Off the nervous affection which
three years ago, if all reports were true,
threatened her mental balance If not her
life. Her figure, once depressed and thin
has regafned its plumpness. Her Cheeks
once wan and pale, again display the rud-
dy unge which is the heritage of the
Englsh-German royal family-she was
Princess Alice of Hesse, Queen Victoria s
granddaughter.
The French have called the czarina the
ivory empress" No longer is the desig-
look steadily out from under dark Iashes
her nose of exquisite delicacy, her high
pred mouth-her every feature bespeaks
anectonate womanHneSs, well as
patrician blood.
The czarina is herself again, because she
has ceased to worry; her fears for the
safety of her husband and their son, young
Alexis, the czarOvitch, are alIayed, for the
terrorists are quiescent.
As all the world knows the cars father
Alexander III, was foully assassinated ;
so was Grand Duke Sergius in Moscow in
1905, when he was governor general of
RuSsiaS old capital. The czarina's sister
Princess Elizabeth of Hesse married
Grand Duke Sergius; the sisters are of the
same sensitive disposition. The Grand
Duchess Elizabeth heard the fatal bomb
explode in the Moscow palace; she rushed
in to find her husbands mutilated body.
She withdrew from the world, and Is now
the abbess of the Convent of Martha and
Mary, of the Sisters of Mercy, in Moscow.
Such, too, is the czarina's temperament.
Always surrounded by guards, fearing
even that her husbands food was poison
ed, the czarina's tense nervous mechan-
ism was overstrafned: she was plunged
into melancholy.
1t goes without saying that every hui
man endeavor was made to cure her. The
greatest specialists on nervous affections
in all Europe were called to attend her;
she went to this Spa, to that Bad, to half
dozen summer resorts. She removed
from one to another palace, as her fancy
the season dictated.
Even the superhuman was invoked, for
the car delights In the mystic and the
marvellous. That weird priest, John Of
Kronstadt administered to her religious
~. Such charlatans as the French oc-
cultist, Philippe Landard, urged her to
invoke the mysterious, unearthly powers
Even a hypnotist threw her into sleep.
assured her she was the happiest woman
in the world, then awaked her-to find her
still one of the saddest.
Now, she is self-cured, simply because
she has ceased to worry. The rehabilita-
ton of ner health should at once warm
and cheer all women.-SpeciaI Gable to
The Washington Post.
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117,724, spent an average of 30 cents
per capita to prevent disease, and
S1.65 per capita to prevent fires. Ac-
cording to The Journal of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, if we could
have in every city as good a sanitary
service as we now have fire protec-
ton, many lives that are now need
lessly sacrificed could be saved. The
people can have such protection II
they want it and if they VIII pay for
it. Safety from disease can be OBJ
tanned just as we obtain s9fety from
fire and from thieves Health can be
secured If society will foot the bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
EVENING CHAT
BY RVTN CANERON,

There are several kinds of grown
up children in this world.
There's the kind that everybody
loves, the folks whose hearts have re-
fused to grow old with their body,
who have somehow miraculously
avoided the cynicism and disenchant-
ment which usually come with the
years. and have kept all the fine en-
tnusiasm and optimism of youth.
And there is the kind of people who
really have grown old but refuse to
admit it by their manners or their
clothes. Too often we laugh at them
when we really ought to pity them.
And then again, there is the kind of
grown up children, who, while they
youth, have still kept it's pettiness-
and as for these, well, to me, at least,
it's pretty hard to remember that
they aren't big enough to deserve dis
like.
In our neighborhood there is a per-
son with the outward semblance of a
man. People who see him on the
street or know him casually think he
deserves to be called one. People
who know him better usually come to
realize that he is simply a grown up
child of the least desirable class. Here
is little example of the tricks by
which he has earned this reputation.
In company with several other young
couples he and his wife used to play
cards two or three evenings every
week. One very lovely summer even
ing the rest OF the company IelC QlS-
inclined to card playing and voted for
a walk. He preferred the card play
ing and said so with all the imperi-
BUSINESS of a spoiled child The rest
Of the party naturally saw no reason
why they should all give in to please
one member, and pleasantly respond
ed that they would walk and he might
play cards if he preferred. So angry
was he at this refusal to yield to his
preference that he not only stayed at
home and played cards, but he actual
ly "got mad" and refused even to
speak to the offenders any more.
What do you think of that? He
saw them constantly, en- the street, at
social gatherings and at the restau-
rant they all frequented, but the
passed them by in stony silence. The
other day he found himself on the
women, and although she was quite
ready to say good morning and pass
the time of day, he hid behind his
paper and Rugged his mad" And
all because they wouldn't play what
he wanted tot
of one of her lovers? God made
him and, therefore, let him pass for
a man." That is a very expressive
description of some neople, isn't it?
Again, know a hostess of a board
ing house who says she has to be very
careful to have all her helpings ex-
actIy alike, because there are some of
her guests who would be much upset
If they thought anyone else was get
ting an ounce more of pudding or
or more plums in their sauce than
they.
To have grown up and lost all the
glor1es of childhood, and not to have
compensated ones self by getting rid
OF its pettiness and petulance surely
TINS Is one of the tragedies of life.
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HUNOR OF THE DRY

She proudly)-You got a family ,,,ha,
you married me. He (meekly)-Not All ~
-, my GEAR. You know your Aunt Maria
was oead--BaIumore American
Why did you let him kiss Won without
your making struggle?" 'rWeIi. mother
ne s TOO lazy TO put up a fight for q Irsss J
washington Herald.
me Actor-What is poetry Of rnotfon7
me me Foet-The kind that's always going
from editor to editor.-Womau's Home
Companion. NAOne
Knicker-IIow is q corporation TO dis
soIVeI Bocker-Very simple; It gets n al
Vorce from itself and resumes its maiden
names.-Judges Library
Patient-But. doctor, you are not asking
- Tor merely taking a cinder out of INV
eyer Specialization, no. My charge is Tor
removing foreign substance from the
cornea.-Boston Transcript.
"A young man should learn to do ono
thing well. This is an age of specfaiisfs
Is your son conforming to that ruler ssTn
a way. His speciality is rolling cigarettes
Your friend looks athletic. Is he a. run
ner?" Yes" Marathon NO. bani- :,
Baltimore American.
This betting business is an ethnoloStcsi
question" Ethical, you mean At sIoSst
mean chronological Isn't It a ouesfoT -
the races. Baltimore America.
Jollying the Native.-'I'm tired OF stick
ing to the farm" complained the co1nsr,-
youth, 1T is rather sticky" returned ~,
city boarder, gazing at the others shoes
why don't you get the old man to oav.
the farm aved!-Boston Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few pocketbooks are in need of anti
fat treatment.
y y
A friend in need is generally away
on a vacation.
X X
Most people are more skillful in pick
ing berries than they are in picking
winners.
X X y
How a horse must laugh when he
pulls a wagon by an automobile that
is stuck in the mud.
x
Not a few men are so easy they can
be fooled two and three times in the
same way. The widowers who marry
again, for instance.
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DAFFYDMS
BY U. NoALL.

If New York has quite a few girls
has New Orleans molasses?
(She may have lost her charm and
beauty but she still retains her girl
ish laughter. Ha hal Ha hal! Ha
haiiD
If you found an old shoe in the lane
would you call it an alley gaiter?
(Throw him out the window. He's
the boob that put the turn in turnips,l
When the Turks are defeated does
the Montenegro?
(And the professor will now sing
that pathetic little ballad, entitled,
Darling, I am growing whiskers.'')
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According to Uncle Abner.

There amt no way of tellin' just how
old a woman is and it's safer not to, any
how.
I always feel sort of suspicious-like of a
Teller who don't take the slightest interest
in either baseball or politics.
Amry Tibbs is gettin' to be quite dude.
He has got two shirts now-one on and
one in the laundry.
The main trouble is that, when Teller
is able to take a rest, he don't feel very
tired and when he is all tired out he mas
to keep right on saWin wood.
A Teller that uses pink note paper is
only another proof that nature makes
mistake once in awhile.
Lem Higgins is in a fine hole. He has
sold his farm and bought an oatmobile
and now he hasn't got enough money to
run it.
Hank Purdy has found place where he
kin sell dead flies for cents a pint and
he has been swatting every day since
May 1st. He has saved up seven dead
flies already and ought to get rich at 1t,
providin he makes money.
There two things in this world that
are entirely unnecessary and they are
pair of ear-muffs.
Postmaster Tibbitts says he hopes TART
is reelected and nobody kin blame him
so very much at that.
There is goin' to be a lot of simplified
spellin' in this country if the stenog-
raphers ever go a strike.
The only thing natural about the pres
ent campaign is that Debs is runnin'.
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Notwithstanding the fact that Tur-
key has met with reverses at the be-
ginning of her trouble with the Balkan
states. many military experts are of
the opinion that she will give a good
account of herself later on. And If
numbers count for anything these con-
tentions appear to be we'll founded.
Turkey has an army of approximately
1000, 900 men, while the combined military
strength of the small states 1eagued
against her is less than zoo, 900 men.
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by TIE WHY
ny HARVEY PARaoNA

The Woman Question cannot be To-
Gated, much less answered, in a para
are undoubtedly: Does my skirt
show?'' and Where were you last
night? ?"
1t may be, of course, that the season
has something to do with the recent
outbreak of cussed fools who have
tried to kill someone. Nuts ripen
rapidly in October.
1t is reported by game conservation
lists that the visible supply of elk is
in Jackson's Hole. And it is reported
by others that the Bull Moose are in
a bigger, deeper one.
Principal trouble with the Giants
seems to have been that they neglect
ed to knock Wood in the tenth.
When a man is requested to hold a
special session at home, it is usually
for the purpose of passing an appro-
priation bill.
Straw votes may be good stuff to
feed dark horses, but they are not
worth much for anything else.
The revolution in Mexico begins to
look like business now. One of the
Diaz boys has started out to see about
recovering a portion of the family
property
Schrank says he belongs to no po-
litical party. The chances are good
that none OF them will attempt to
prove him ALTAR on that statement.
The ball used in the last game OF
the series should be put in glass
case: 1t is undoubtedly the most ex-
pensive ball ever dropped. Snodgrass
dropped more in less time than any
speculator during recent years.
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE AOMENT
An Epitaph.
BY ROY K. MoULTON
(COntributed.)

(COntributed.)
Here lies a poor woman who always was
tired.
She lived in a house where the help was
not hired.
Her last words on earth were: Dear
friends, am going
To where there's no cooking, no washing
or sewing;
But everything there is exact to my
wishes,
For where they don't eat, there's 10
washing dishes.
I'll be where loud anthems will always
be ringing,
But having no voice, I'll get out of the
singing.
Don't mourn for me now. Don't mourn
for me, never,
I'm going to do nothing forever and
ever
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.J
Car fare is all woman needs for day
of shopping.
A woman can pray hardest to get rid of
a cold that makes her nose red.
1t scares any wife to think what If e
prince should fall in love with her.
The money that has run through the
taxi meter will never splurge again.
Nobody knows the road to heaven, bur
anybody can follow the one to the other
place with his eyes shut
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Here's another forceful sermon
against excessive indulgence in alco-
holic beverages. Some highwaymen
at Portland, Ore, would not take one
of their pals with them on one of
their sorties because he was intoxica-
ted. OF a truth, no one in these days
Of grace has any use for the man who
gets drunk
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successful in their war against Tur-
key the Christians in Macedonia will
pack up their goods and chattels and
move en- masse to more desirable
cline, if they know or which side their
bread is buttered.