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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
.L6YHAWKER OTS

As Mack Gretchen puts it in his
Sedgwick Paragraph: The man who
won't shovel snow off his sidewalk
ought to have his nose rubbed in it.
AS bad as it is, remarks Brother
Brady in the Lawrence Journal
World, whisky was never known to
hurt anyone who did not tackle it
first.
Kansas papers are referring to the
dollar snow notes the Eureka Her
aid, and it thinks: That sounds better
than kansas again in the clutches of
a blizzard
One day of the week is in sad dis
tress at Harmony, Greenwood county.
The Madison Spirits correspondent at
that place reports: ''Mr. Elrod butch
cred Tuesday"
Now that Christmas is over, a lit
tie attention might be devoted to the
peach crop, thinks the Osawetomie
it first this year?
A political opinion in the Osborne
Farmer: The man who can invent a
collar button that won't roll under the
dresser when it is dropped can be
elected president in 1916
Although a Howard young woman
got an S0-acre farm for q Christmas
present, Tom Thompson hasn't heard
anybody making any gay remarks
about the size OF her stocking.
There was a young girl named Louise;
who sat on her best fellows knees.
The man for a joke, let her fall and
she brOke-her engagement. That's
all if you please.
A Herington man found party who
looked the part of a burglar in his
house. On demanding what the in
truder wanted, the latter said he was
looking for something to eat, and the
Harrington man put up his artillery
and Immediately fed him. This SEEM
ed to satisfy the bold, bad man. and
he left after expressing his APP
probation of the meal.-Junction City
Union.
An "old story to the Troy Chief:
A young widow went to select a mon
ument for her recently deceased hus-
band. After due consideration she
picked out a stone and ordered the
following inscription placed upon it:
My grief is more than 1 can bear"
The man who was to erect the monu-
ment was a little tardy in doing it and
the widow remarked before it was
done. This fact worried him, Is he
feared he might have to change the
wording of the inscription. So he called
upon the lady and told her that he was
now ready to do his work, and after
some hesitation asked her if she
wished to change the wording of the
inscription in any way. She politely
replied: mo just as I gave it, only
add at the end the word alone"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
THE TURN OF THE TIDE.

Slack water. and a night bereft of stars;
A bitter wind blows in from out the dark,
And go seward with the turning tide
The yellow lights that blink across the
night,
The fragrance Of salt marsh. the inces-
OF waves upon the rocks-these things
have been
Blood OF my blood bone of my bone since
The dear loved faces that have filled my
The voices I would know across the
world,
These viii remain. and one by one be
With those that vanish from the kindly
shore.
New lands, new faces. veal it may be-
But never again the old familiar greeting.
The hon1ely word, the honest smile that
The worn and furrowed face with hon-
ness.
Day after day sails vanish into silence,
And we who hnger wonder and are still
Then in the night the call. insistent, low,
Offering the heart nor JOY nor grief,
But keen-edged as a sword that shears
The treasure of the dear remembered
The rhythmic slap of halyards on the
mast
Sounds from the darkness, straining an
Choir chains
Speak of the currents setting to the sea,
And 1 go out forever with the tide.
Before-the unknown silent years. Be-
1nviolabie and crowned with morning
The secret. dreaming fairyland of Youth
Charles w. Kennedy. in the American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
People with a pull generally pull to-
gether.
No news Is good news. but the same
rule doesn't apply to luck.
Conscience isn't responsible for all the
towards in the world
A fellow can't be expected to hold hts
job II he can't even hold his tongue
The discretion that is the better part
of valor is sometimes merely lack or
nerve.
Peace at any price doesn't appeal 70 a
woman She wants It on the bargain
counter.
Some people won't believe heaven exists
until they get a souvenir post card from
there.
Where there's a will, there's way.
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes" assentcd
the Simple Mug, there's generally a
way out OF it,"
The cynical bachelor rises to remark
that man never realizes how many
faults he has till he gets wife to point
them out to him.
First Doctor-"Were you successful
with that operation on old TightvadY''
Second Doctor-''I don't know. i haven't
sent in my bill yet"
Blobbs-Guzzler says he can drink
whisky. or let It alone" Slobbs-"Per-
haps, but I notice he always shows a
preference for the former alternative"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMEHON.

Last Sunday at church there sat across
the aisle from me a broad shouidered'
clean, fine looking si1. footer,--a man OF
about twenty-five three years OF age
the kind OF young man you often see IN
college football team, but not so often IN
a church.
I believe that there Is an idea prevalent
among young men and boys that Il Is not
manly to go to church-that religion Ind
church going are things that should be
left to women and old men. and that
religious man is usually weak and in
effectual person.
Men and boys, let me tell you some
thing. 1 am ashamed to say that looked
again and again with great pleasure at
that young man. And 1 want to assure
you that I never saw anyone look so fine
and manly as he did, as he threw back
his head and lifted up his strong bags
voice in the hymns. or sat listening at
tentively to the sermon. or bowed has
head to receive the benediction-
Men think that a woman admires the
daredevil, irreligtous. skeptical. free
thinking type OF man. and dislikes the
church-goer-
1 suppose some women do. Just as to
| q few young girls, the half-grown youth
with cigarette or cigar lolling out OF his
mouth, seems more manly than the clean
smelling, fresh-looking boy who does not
stunt his growth by smoking prema-
turely.
But I believe that the right kind OF
woman is overjoyed to find man who
can add to qualities OF manilness and
/ strength, the even finer qualities Of a
sense of reverence and worship. and the
healthy humility that comes from recog-
milton of vastly greater power than
/ himself or his kind.
A young girl wrote to me the other
day
There are a great many boys in tho
world and i have liked all OF them L
have ever known. but when one finds n,
1 boy who isn't afraid to be a Christian, or
/ at least respects Christian principles, IL
makes a big difference. Last week 1 at
tended a vaudeville performance, and sit
/ ting next to me was a boy about seven
/ teen years old. a stranger to me. Part OF
one act was rather questionable in char
acter, but enough people laughed to make
the room pretty noisy. ! looked out OF
me, and he wasn't laughing. Before
had seen his face 1 hadn't thought So
much about the act, but then 1 wanted
to stand up and tell everybody there that
I hadn't laughed just then"
That shows the impression a man who
is not afraid to have respect for Chris
tian principles and to show IL makes
a girl. And I believe this girl expresses
the feelings of a great many girls and
women
The desire to appear to be even less re
ligious than we are. the tendency to feel
a strange shame over any emotion. AMI
to hide it just as deeply as we can. is a
queer but almost universal quirk OF the
American character.
But down in that deep where we keep
our finer selves I am sure that almost
all women admire as / do. q big manly
man who has a sense OF reverence and
afraid to show that he has. both by re-
ligious observance and in any other ways
open to him.
Am l not right2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

cans have been training just such a
man, and CoIouel Roosevelt suggested
MIN Roosevelt help to train this man.
He is making good If you really sit
down and carefully aEalyze what he
mas done and what he is doing. This
mans name is William Howard Taft.
Do you think that the colonel is go
ing to run against him? Does a faith
er reouciate his own child? even al
though the latter needs a little cor
recticn, and possible at times castiga-
ton? Taft has received castigation all
right, but he is making a splendid
president The State Journal would like
to debate this question with William
Allen White, and Governor Stubs, and
Senator Bristow. if they desire to en-
ter the lists and be fair and square in
their statements and admit the good
things Taft has done and is doing in
his great office today
If the Republicans really intend to
turn down President Taft they might
as well make up their minds they will
go into the campaign on the defensive;
that they are conceding big part of
the battle. If Taft can't win even
Roosevelt may not be able to. Roose-
welt has many enemies who would be
glad to knife him or break his pres
tige just as they chuckIed when
the Colonel emerged from the slim
son campaign in New York fourteen
then; they want him to rake out the
chestnuts now-some of them do.
[Chapter LXXII Tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
I'D YER TLSLNc Talks

A great many merchants feel that. un-
less they use big space in newspaper adj
vertising. it viii make very little impress
sion on the readers, and so, because they
cannot afford to use large space. they
don't use any. and depend upon circulars
to bring trade to their stores.
wonder If it has ever occurred to them
particularly those merchants located in
communities OF 10000 population or less
that they could run a full page advertise
ment in ali of the newspapers published
in their town for less than it would cost
them to mail letter to each family in
Take Albany, N Y, for instance, where
it is estimated there are 1900 families.
To send a letter to each Of these families
Counting only the cost of the two cent
stamp would cost $500
page advertisement in the four Al
Dany newspapers could be run three
tines for about the same amount or
Which is the better plan? Is there any
doubt which message would make the
better inpression-or gain the more fav-
orable attention?
The same thing can be done. at a cost
proportionate to population, in any town
in the United States.
But it is not necessary to take a page
advertisement to attract attention-to
run regularly in the home newspapers.
will bring customers to any store, and II
there is quality in the goods offered. IL
the price is right successful business
Newspaper advertising is the cheapest
and most direct methods of publicity that
can be used.
the home-it reaches the people when
they have the time to read, and II adver-
Using copy is written in manner which
appeals 10 them, they will read it. and
pretty soon they will respond to it.
CTo be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

An x-ray picture of many brain
would be a blank
x x y
One reason more people are not
braggarts is that they have nothing to
brag about.
K =
Any number of persons seem to get
unusual satisfaction by telling their
troubles to others.
Love on girls part is never so
blind as to be unable to appreciate
diamonds and other valuable gifts.
x X
The opinion held by the average
wife of her husband surely does not
warrant a belief that she will meet
him in heaven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
HUNOR or THE DIR

Have you ever written book2'' mo.
by GeOrgei that's gloriousi We want
you to join our club. There are only a
few Of US left Puck.
Little Willie-Pa, what's, a financfer,
PA financier. my son, is a man who IL
capable of inducing other memn to pile M
a fortune for him.-Chicago News
woman viii be famed as well as rnani''
she CALCULATED. she threw down the
book. Yes" responded old Cynicus FOR
untold ages."-Boston Commonwealth
Penam-Colonel Bloodyman's old war
traits still cling to him Nicks-Hovv 500
Penam-I dined with him last night and
he gave the waiter no quarter.-IIaraom
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
KANSAS COMNENT


cock in 1880 for saying in his letter of ac-
ceptance that the tariff is a local ques-
ton" If he meant that men are apt to
view it from the standpoint of their local
industries he was clearly right The Late
Senator Vest of Missouri was a ferocious
free trader-except in the matter of lead
own state. President Taft has very
neatly reminded the country that SEN
atOr LaFollette insisted on a compare
lively high duty for the benefit of Wis
consin's great paper industry. This atti-
tude of protested tariff reformers has al
ways been the chief obstacle to a gen
uine, scientific revision. Yet the real
test of broad craftsmanship is readiness
to do what one honestly believes good for
the nation as a whole. The next year or
two may give the tariff students some
remarkable surprises.-Abilene Reflector.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
by THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

In the Seventh district explanation
contest, the Judges can do no better
imam TO award first prize to Hon. Bill
| iy Morgan, late Of Paris and other for
eign parts. Some of the explanations
are exceedingly clever. and the great
catastrophe in the short grass region
IS charged to numerous causes; the
weather IS prominently mentioned in
many Of them, and coupled with the
lntlmauon that the Democrats were
web Footed, and got out over the snow
the polls; the fear of the ferocioHs
jack rabbit also received prominent
notice, but Billy Morgan ventured a.
guess that Martin was defeated be-
cause Medley got a larger number of
votes.
A New York man recently paid $27,-
800 for an old Bible, when he could
have purchased a brand new one, con-
tanning just as much religious matter,
Tor a dollar. Yet the man who tied
rock to his roll and tossed same from
the Brooklyn bridge would be held for
a lunacy commission.
Confessing crime seems to have de-
veloped into a contest, and a Chicago
crook seems to be leading by several
points When pinched for pocket
picking, he broke out with a severe
case of confession, and confessed to
all the crimes he had read of during
the past season.
Now that the presidential candidate
department is fully stocked, what
martyr will step forward and offer
himself as vice presidential goat?
The opponents of temperance who
are not particular about spelling
should find some comfort in a recent
report of letter drinking in France
Over there they drink it by the letter
and hectoleiter rather than by the
quart.
Missouri is to have a state song;
Missouri, as you may remember, al
ready has slogan, toWit: "Show Me-
and now all it needs is a yell. Mis-
souri, has raised several "hollers," but
they will not answer the purpose.
Water shortage in st. Louis has re-
suited in the closing of laundries and
breweries. OF course the beer eaters
can ship it in from Beerwaukee, but
the situation is tough on the other
class,-those who are afflicted with
the clean shirt habit.
In a recent chopping test, Roosevelt
chopped only two fifths more wood in
a given length of time than did his
son-in-law, Nick Longworth. This is
the first known contest in which Nick
ever came within looking distance of
the old man; when it comes to cutting
ice, T. r. has always beaten him by
ABDUL 30 per cent
That wife is not property is fire.
Quently demonstrated, but the most
impressive demonstration was given in
K. G. the other day when a man got
a year in jail for trying to collect rent
on one.
The new white hope who has been
discovered in Burlington, Wis, has
reach of "a inches. but it has been
demonstrated that it takes more than
a long reach to reach the belt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Cold cash always gets a warm recep-
ton.
But the busy musical director has
plenty of time
And one way to make slow horse fast
is not to feed him
A few men are born leaders, but most
of them are born followers.
He is wise man who can tell what a
woman thinks by what she says
The ties of wedlock are the kind a
mans wife buys for him at a fire sale.
The man who is behind with his rent
is naturally in an unsettled condition
After a girl has been married a year
she begins to look and act like her
mother.
dangerously ILL.,
Saleswonen in q glove store ought 10
make good as stepmothers They under
stand the art OF handling kids.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Manager Treleaven of the local gas
company casually remarks that peo-
pie who think nothing of burning 81
worth OF coal a day are likely to be-
come wrathy if their gas meter regis
ters so cents worth of gas day
against them. There is this difference.
though. under the conditions which
have been prevailing hereabouts- The
man who burns ST worth of coal a day
easily gets so cents worth of heat.
while SO cents worth Of gas is not pro-
dnctfve Of cents worth Of heat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
DAFFYDELy

IF Faust fell in love with The Bo-
hemian Girl would William Tel2
Jonesl Take your feet, off the cook
stove.)
If a pretty girl walked down Kansas
avenue would a potato masher?
(Silencei The band will now play
In the Good Old Summer Time.")
If a Great Smith auto weighs 2.400
pounds what does the Great White
Way?
(AEother, where are my ear-muffs2 2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

All Kansas will extend the hand of
welcome to Governor Woodrow Wilson
of New Jersey when he comes to To-
peka next month to be the guest of
honor at the big Democratic pow-wow
He is nonetheless a distinguished gen
tleman and worthy of honor being
paid him just because his campaign
ing for the Democratic presidential
nomination has taken on the SEM
blance of a wild goose chase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Secretary of War Stimson is well
within the truth when he insists that
much of this talk concerning the can
didacy of Colonel Roosevelt for the
presidency is fathered by a desire to
make trouble in the Republican party
and to bring about a split between the
colonel and President Taft. It's a good
bet, though. that such efforts Will be
unsuccessful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
FROM OTHER PENS
sELF-REsPECT AND MARRIAc

SELF RESPECT AND MARRIAGE.
A larfientable picture of dependent wo-
men lost to self-respect and scrambling
for a livelihood is presented by the array
of 500 women who responded to the adver-
tisement of a man at Grand Tunnel. near
Wilkes Barre, who offered himself his
home, bank account. horse and carriage
in return for a wife
Self-support and self-respect go togeth-
er. Marriage is honorable for all" but
it is disgraced by a clamorous thronS
ready to exchange themselves for a live
lihood and life spent with a man OF
whom nothing is known.
Marriage can never be happy except on
the even terms of mutual respect. This IS
Indispensable. Two divorces out of three
granted are sought by women, in many
cases because women do not find it pos
sible to maintain selfrespect and accept
the conditions many men try TO impose
in marriage.
The misfortune is that women are still
trained to look for dependence in mar
riage instead of independence, to treat
wedlock as leading to support given by
the men, when a matter of fact, in
practically all marriages. wife does
much for the support of the family as
the husband, and in many instances does
a great deal more.-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IRON the New york Press.l

HAoAH tlAe new AOAA ASS9-J
More names get in the newspapers on
account OF divorce cases than good deeds
It seems hard for some women to havs
faith in their husbands unless nobody else
has.
A man can telephone home and find his
wife is there. but she can telephone TO his
office and find he isn't.
Money that burns q hole in the pocket
OF most men seems to be double lining
for the pocket Of a certain kind of man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Nobody is applauding the weather
bureau very extensively for making a
batting average Of $50 on its predic-
lions during the past ten days It's
difficult for any one to become en-
thusiastic over predictions of zero and
below zero weather even when they
turn out to be correct
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Money never talked more effectively
than it did when Baltimore's repre-
sentative walked into the meeting of
the Democratic national committee
and pIanked down a certified check
for 100000 to guarantee the financ-
ing of the national convention at the
metropolis of Maryland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

It may be. as an expert in the prem
ises told the Kansas stockmen in con-
vention assembled. that not one farm
er in 500 in Kansas and Nebraska
knows how to hitch up. But you sell
dom hear of one not being able to get
to town and home again, regardless of
his defective hitching.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Topekans have responded nobly
with aid for the unfortunate poor
within the city's confines Let the
good work go on. 1t Will be some time
yet before there is the usual demand
for the many laborers who work on
outside Jobs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Chief Moore of the weather bureau
has issued statement showing that
80 per cent of the weather predictions
are right. notes the Detroit Free
Press. and it adds The 10 per cent
fail during the Sunday school picnic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

About the only thaw at all active
these days is Harry K. who is making
new plans to break out of New York's
asylum for insane criminals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Nor is it very encouraging to con-
template that February which is yet
in the distance, has occasionally
dished up some cold weather even
more intense than that which has just
visited these parts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Nor would it surprise many people if
Jim Flynn, now playing the role of
''the white hope" made sorry show
ing when he puts up his dukes with
Jack johnson. Already is he estab-
fishing a strong claim for the talking
Championship in the pugilistic arena.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Hostess-Why. Mr.. Smith. I've hardly
seen you all the evening" Now. I partic-
ularIy want you to come and hear a whist
ling solo by my husband. Smith (whOse
hearing is a little indistinct)-A whisky
and soda with your husband2 Well.
onai-Punoh-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Surely the st. Louisans are in bad
way. Not only are they in the throes
of a serious water famine. but be-
cause of this fact the breweries there
have found it necessary to stop max
Ing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Out in Oregon they're kicking on
the damage that has been done by a
''si1ver thaw." Any old kind of a
thaw would be Welcomed in kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Out n the undulating plains of
Sunny Kansas, they're beginning to
find railroad locomotives that have
been completely buried in the snow
for a week or ten DAYS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

Some things are not to be explained
Grand opera was a big financial sue
cess in Chicago last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11

This is too much. An Illinois mar
claims to have already seen the ''first
robin